The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-27 00:00:00

1 MORNING ST'N of _a rew Administration appeared, aliout to be rea lised, the sums paid-in exceeded those drawn out by 50,0 00/.—(Hear, hear.) I state the fact—l draw no inference from it, except that it constitutes an additional reason fur pausing before. we attempt t oo su dd en ly t o apply a reme d y for distress. up to the 11th of Septem ber the sums paid in had been 32,0001. and the sums drawn out 20,0001 It is true that a great proportion:of these deposit s are made, by the retail dealers, but it is gene rally admitted that their prosperity is a correct test of that of the working classes. The- handloom-weavers, who, for want of em ployment, are parading carts about Manchester, with placards, stating " that they are starving in a land of plenty," could not be depositors in Savings' Banks. Neither could - the workmen - and retail traders of Bolton and Stockport. They are, probably, chiefly tro be found amongst ser vants and small capitalists, little manufacturers, and a variety of persons who could find no bet ter employment for their funds than putting them into a Savings' Bank. We doubt whether that be an indication of prosperity or the re- ' . verse. When the little capitalist can .xtend his operations, and when the retail trader has a brisk and increasing demand, they do not place their funds in Savings . ' Banks; they employ them in their business, because that is then a more profitable investment. The increase of in vestments in the Savings' Banks, therefore, may be an index to the want of profitable employ- ment for capital, and to a stagnating trade, not to the increasing prosperity of the retail dealers and of the working classes. On this principle the explanation of the di minished deposits in June, and the increased de- Posits in August and September, may not be very flattering to the Right Honourable Ba , rotiet, nor very significant of the utility of his ' Government. In June there was yet a hope that the Corn-laws might be repealed or modi fied, and the little capitalists in the manufacturing districts kept their funds in their own hands, ex pecting to use them in new and profitable in vestments, arising from the extension of trade In August and September that hope was extin guished. The accession of the Right Hon. Ba ronet to office killed it outright, and convinced the people that nothing was to be done to relieve them—that trade was to remain hampered, and, therefore, they could make nothing more of their funds than the interest which is guaranteed to those who put money in the Savings' Banks. Were commerce prospering, and could men in busi ness make 10 or 15 per cent. on their money, they would not put it into the Savings' Bank at 3i or 4 lier cent. It is, therefore, because they cann o t make as high interest on their capital by employ ing it in trade in August, which they hoped to do in June, that they increase their deposits or divert their capital from active production yielding profits, to passive non-production yielding only interest. The accumulation of funds in Savings' Banks may, under this aspect, be rather an indication of increasing decay than of increa sing prosperity since the accession of the Tories to office. Looking at the returns quoted by Sir R. PEEL, in conjunction with the known state of the country, we are disposed to believe that such is a true interpretation of them. Be the interpretation, however, what it may, ,it is quite clear that, by Sir R. PEEL using those returns in the manner he did, he does not Credit the statements which have been made of the public distress. Of course, therefore, he be lieves that the Corn-laws cause no mischief. Lord STANLEY'S gre It argument in favour of them was, in fact, stolen or borrowed from Sir R. PEEL, and both assert that the evils the country now labour under are the result of over-produc tion and too large issues of paper money. They both, therefore, take precisely the same view of the present state of the country, and both are agreed as to not altering the Corn-laws. The only, or at least the chief difference, between them is, that Lord STANLEY, with the arrogance of a born Plunderer of his industrious fellow-creatures, bo ldly avows his opinions. while Sir R. PEEL, w ith some of the shuffling of the half inde pendent aristocracy-aping class from which h e 8 ) t tang, still seeks to k ee p on goo d t erms w i t h c ommercial and manufacturin g c l asses , an d we a nts bold ness to express hi s d eterm i nat i on to sustain the extorted rents of the landowners at all h azards. Th e Tories began their career of econ om y i n a n , a PPropriate manner on Friday. They voted ". a-year more as a retiring pension to a Vice- Chan cellor than was necessary, and they voted to re ward Lord ABINOER'S son for the very un justifiable conduct of his father. Our readers will recollect that in March, 1840, 11 Bil l was br oug ht into Parliament to abolish the Equity Jurisdiction of the Court of Exchequer. After that Bill was brought in, an office which Lo rd A.BINGER knew was to be abolished fell v acant, and he appointed his son to fill it. To m ake such an a pp o intment for the purpose of r t t aining an annuity for the occupant when the " was to be abolished, was, in a moral point of disl.onest. But it was made, and the corn- Pensation clause in the Bill did not except this ( , )l ee• On Friday evening, expressly with a view Prevent the honourable Mr. SCARLETT from receiving from 1,2001. to 1,400/. per year of the public money, for having been appointed by his father to an office which his father knew w as to be abolished, Mr. WARD moved to ex clude all those persons from the benefit of the co mpensation who were appointed to office after the Bill had been brought in. This reasonable a nd just proposition the Tories resisted, and they Were successful in carrying the clause so as to include Mr. Sea RLETT. That gentleman, there fore, whose father is already most munificently Paid by the country for his poor services, is to have from 1,200/. to 1,400/. a-year of the public money, for having previously received at the rate of 2,0001. a-year for about eighteen months for doing little or nothing. That is a specimen of the Mannerin which the Tories at this time are to economise the resources of the country, and re lieve the public of it s enormous b urdens. For our parts, we object to the whole system. Why should law officers be compensated for los ing.their situations when their services are no longer wanted, any more than merchants' clerks or hand-loom weavers? Why should a man be appointed to an office merely to entitle him to c om pensation ? When Lord BBOUGIIIAM ap pointed one of his brothers to at, office in the Court of Chancery, he did it conditionally, that he was to make no claim for compensation should that office be abolished. The same coarse was taken on other occasions, and it may be said to have lately become a rule that appointments now made should not entitle the holders to compensa tion should their offices be abolished. At any rate it is monstrous to appoint a man to an office after it is known that it is to be abolished, and t hen demand compensat i on. is The principle on which compensation is justified that a man accepts an office and gives up other ti t 4,14145, relying on that office being continued. l ',uen it i s k nown that the office is to be abo :ed, the reason for granting compensation a ppears A 1 4 • Lortl ttnisiGEn's conduct, theref o re, to n s _°t rejecting compensation. for his son, appears "'unworthy of his high station; his son's e° 110 1 : 1 _ 11et lI IIWOrthy of a man of honour and Rn "t Y ; and the conduct of the Legislature, in f' tnonin, such sorry behaviour, betrayed its ana "". did what lay in its power to degrade tweintorldise society. That is, however, what "(l er th e - expect from a Legislature which acts influence of Tory principles. Tlte • orderly/ and police, hitherto quiet, - , have un 41i!ane gu'ardians of the public pea-:e. has pre" fortunately. caught the mania body of vthailelctivtor sotne ti ,„ , in the metropolitan s acts, few outrageou 1 ; 1 e .! t ' at'd eOrnt *tt , d which I I n ) c a which .we ire city authorities e denounce with r us a t 1 to see the . lar iLi Stall!: Beveritv A slogn Sir of this new systetn of tyran ny. • came before 111-I.lt I'Allatz on Satnlay•W e need the case. It is very Viler, and will be found un der the head of Alansion.bonse. Th e inspector, b (whose nanye,%Tas not Inentioned), appears to " e not recite an old ciAndei; one of officious, 141eddling, '-'l-yrannical' class, who infest the those . . Bow-street district, And are more pleased in wreaking their vengeance on honest men for some hasty expret.sion or imaginary insult to their dignity, than in abating nuisances or cap:- turing egregious offenders. We are glad to see the working of the system begins to make an impression, and that it is exercised on the rich as well as the poor. Mr. WARD, the late Member for the City, had a taste of it. Sir PETER LAURIE and Mr. HOBLER begin to fear tbat they may, one night or other, be brought iuto the same predicament, and if Mr. DANIEL WHITTLE HARVEY allows this nameless Inspector to remain on the establishment a day longer, we fervently wish that he may be led through the City handeuffed,_ like the two innocent and faithful servants whom the Inspee-- tor subjected to this .ignominious and needless restraint. The short and characteristic remark of Mr. HOBLE R , we quo t e w ith p l easure. " No doubt," he said, " by-and-bye the police would do every thing they fancied to do, howeVer ty rannical it might be. The power given to them was enormous, and endrmously abused; and it would be certainly necessary for high authorities to interfere, to prevent respectable people from being completely over-ridden." Men in autho rity now begin to see that we only stated the truth when we described this new body of po lice as " the greatest curse that ever afflicted a free people." The petition of the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, presented in the House of Lords by Lord BROROHAM, on Monday night, is replete with statements so ex traordinary, and, we are inclined to think, to the bulk of our readers so incredible, that we have given it at length in another column. If these statements be correct—and we have no reason to suppose them exaggerated —we begin to-despair of the abolition of the Slave Trade during the lifetime of the present generation. An evil so deep-rooted, and so little under the control of public opinion, may be checked, but cannot be eradicated by Acts of Parliament. The invoca tion of penal statutes to abolish a crime in which it is proved that the wealthiest merchants parti cipate without scruple, and which they regard as a legal, and not as a moral offence, is, we are in clined to think, a somewhat useless proceedi ng . Besides, with the u t most d etestation of slavery, e , it cannot be expected that the British people will continue to tax themselves to an enormous extent to enable their agents to play the part of DOll QUIXOTES in all parts of the world in de fence of the coloured race. The white slaves of Lancashire and Renfrewshire have surely as strong claims to British sympathy as the black slaves occupying the banks of the Niger and the Gam bia. Not that we would countenance any dimi nution of a rational zeal on the part of the Bri tish Government to effect the abolition of the Slave Trade. Quite the contrary. But it is alto gether a different thing to persist. in a system which threatens to involve us in endless quarrels with other Powers—which operates injuriously upon ourown commerce —which costs the country a great annual outlay—and which Sir THOMAS FOWEL BUXTON himself admits, in his work on Slavery, has both increased the Slave Trade and aggravated its horrors within the last seven years. The national exchequer does not so over flow that the country can afford to throw away money; and even if it could, an argument foi thrift would be found in the fact that the reck less expenditure has only increased the evil which it was meant to eradicate. The complete abo lition of slavery is one of those great measures of human civilization which, to be perfect, must re ceive the concurrence of all existing Govern ments. While there is one nation ready to sell its subjects into slavery, and another ready to purchase them, there will be no want of dealers in human flesh whatever may be the colour of the skin. The great experiment of a single Power abolishing the Slave Trade by force has now been fairly tried, and the Anti-Slavery So ciety itself confesses, in its petition, that it has failed. More stringent measures may be taken against British subjects engaged in this inhuman traffic, but till the Governments in the interior of Africa are brought to co-operate with Great Britain in the good work of protecting the free dom of the coloured race, it will be in vain for us to waste our resources in attempts to give freedom to the world at the cannon's mouth. No measure of Reform ever succeeded which was not calculated to demonstrate that the line of duty was the true line of interest. When morality promotes self-interest it is easy to induce men to become moral. Now, in abo lishing the Slave Trade, it is not enough to tell the traffickers in human flesh that they are vio lating the laws of GOD and man, and that if we catch them we will punish them. To succeed we must convince them, or rather those who em ploy them, that the pursuit is not only wicked but unprofitable. When our own experiments in the West Indies shall have satisfied them that free labour is cheaper than slave labour, we shall have done more to abolish slavery than if we had spent a hundred millions in protecting, by our war vessels, the freedom of Africa's sable sons and daughters. The whole of the French Journals of Thursday have reached us. They bring no political news of any moment. The capital continued tranquil, nor was it ex pected that any fresh attempt would be made to disturb the public peace. At an early hour yesterday morning, a man attempted to de. stroy himself with a pistol on the Quai near the Hotel de Ville- He did not succeed, but was carried to the Hotel Dieu in a hopeless condition. The Sentinelle of Toulon states that some veins of iron have been recently discovered in Algeria, equal in richness to those of the Island of Elba. The locality is not mentioned. A circular from the Minister of the Interior directs the Pre fects of the departments to send in future any Protestant who may be condemned to imprisonment for civic offences to such central houses of detention as are situated in towns where Pro testant Consistories are established. M. Olozaga, Spanish Envoy Extraordinary awl Minister Plenipotentiary, has arrived in Paris, and has had a private audience of the King. The election of a Deputy for the 12th arrondissement of Paris took place yesterday. M. Boissel, having obtained 308 votes, was declared duly returned. His competitors, M. Pres chcs had 177, M. Panis 74, and M. Jube 24. The rise yesterday in the Three per Cents., which created much surprise on 'Change, was occasioned by the failure of M. Joubert a stock-broker, who for years has done an immensity of business, and ruled the price of Stocks. He had sold Three per Cents. to an enormous amount, which were obliged to be re-purchased. A failure also took plaee in the eaulisse, where, it was 'aid, 300.000 f. Rentes were re-purchased. _The suit of the Pr ocurcur du Roi against the Gazelle des Tr ibunaus for giving an account of a trial at Grenoble in twhileicchoNulr.rieDriddieaiirms•earse defendantplaintiffa (the ndthe la r l, c s sp o f f in e ib p l t e emb ed e it r o p r ro o - f hibitincr reports of tr i als for defamation), came on 3esterday be fore the ° Tribunal of Correctional Police. 'I he Tribunal, after bearing evidence, decided that as the suit at Grenobl e was not, strictly speakin g , f or defamation, but for the refusal of the editor to Insert a letter written by M. Didier in . vitidteatiqn of the memory of his father, which had_ been attacked by the Courrier de l' Isere, o th f ; sh a ee c p tiem wyri. cizoisatldthneoTrzette des Tribu, September edito t rs te oif t i l h 'h :Q s u n o it trd .a i! t s t si eediwcie France, against whom - Theslim .sr prosecu e, ina the re fore an u n d d d e c r i as theinz Gaze tte 0, ou o n f g y o ungm emn Brusselsm e n na dag at t v e e tions were brought, were also acquitted. Mechlin,es n t f h o e ur f o dn l 6, l 6 6 ‘t. s si r e, i : n .ii , J,i t . detailsOhne hotel. ,o te Tues dayi. of the suicide they ordered twribottles of wine 0 b s e r v tt a h : e, o e u t 1. r 4 lo n btheeserved in the garden, and soon after eight . two pistol_ the suic i de .. e,:e,ia. hti evening shots were heard, one immediately following the tOts of the servants of the, hotel rushed to the siiot, and , 'there disfi f gt o ir u e n d d . the young men bathed in their blood. One was still in his chair, the other had fallen over with the chair in which he had They were both dead, and horribly her , they were sitting stated that they The motive fur this deed is unknown, but it is said that a paper and that their c bill at the in n would their friends of it. Th e n woultrbe paid, as they had appr i sedthat their death might be made b b fo e ue l o nn n ds a jo e t n d t i ntt the e. a tahlevi respectable Prince is improved. By the ap plication as paperl ittle also l so e public o contained t a a s t n p e o d s possible." brleeY cs . t 13th. The situation of the constraint of the position has The latest accounts received from Kirchberg are dated the been much relieved , This time is rapidly approaching. plicatien of a new dressing the France is very good. the health of Henry of In other respects till the cure is complettne.wh T ic h h he mu , t remain for some days, No change is perceptible i nervous pains, his nights are calms—in N his featutea word, it is now per - s that have been per feetly clear that all the unfavourable repo rt s __he feels no more La Gazette published never had the slightest foundation. dc France. A letter from Grenoble, in the Reparateur de Ly the operations of the census were to commence on t he ons,sa 20th ys s t e h p at . teacher. The Government has made a great display of measures, somfe they pates. I'he Gazette d' Auvergne, of the 21st, says to repress attempts at resistance. The citadel is armed, da a s nd a t s h t e troops have been constantly at their posts for . A piece of cannon has even been placed at one ,: On Saturday g mont, after having removed all the stray and numerous morning, at six o'clock, the soldiers of ',the garrison of bCalrerri..- the c i a o d a es n .wh•ahil:hantdhienyohtialdereprelacetedea,irnetualrintehdetsotrteheetisrlebaadrrinagektso, and all the thoroughfares are again free. On the same day the Cathedral wasre-opened, and divine service performed as usual. .. Several arrests have taken place since the publication of our last number, some of them in the little towns in the neighbourhood. The number of persons arrested up to this day, is said to amount in all to 125.' The same journal has the following article :--- " A force of about nine h un d re d men was sent on Sunday, the 19th, about three o'clock in the morning, to the villages of Aubiere and Beaumont. When the inhabitants awoke they were astonished at this great display of military force: The object of which is said to have been some arrests, and the dis arming of the two villages. In fact, the inhabitants Were in vited by the Mayor to deliver up the arms of the National Guard, which was in general complied with. Only three or four persons were arrested, who, on the application of the Illayor, were released, except one belonging to Aubiere."---Le commerce. BOURSE—P Atlas, THURSDAY, SEPT. 23. tlrst Highest Lowest • -- • -- • Last Price Price. Pric.. Price r:ench 5 per Cent=. ex. die 114 50 ;14 60 1.4 50 ... 114 60 .1 per rents li7 50 ... 4)7 50 53 97 50 3 per Cent 5....... 79 10 920 ... 79 /0 ... 79 15 lanA of erance Lattitte !lank 5,0ia1(. Spares 50737 50 _5067 50 Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 ;.er t.ent.:., 1840 IC4% ... 104% ... 104% 104%. 3 per Cents 7l 90 ... 71 90 ... 71 00 ... 71 Dutch 2 per Cents. ..14,44bit , t1 ACLIVe V2% .. ... Neapniiiatr.':a lO5 25 —. 105 35 25 —. .05 30 Roman ••• HALLWAY sHA ItEh. Versailles. L.R 0 .1 ; - 210 ... 210 lt. is 320 ortenot itraitturg to Batt .shares red 249 g2O ... 480 ... 240 .. 268 .75 210 ... 320 320 4t44: 4 80 .. 240 .. 240 EX PRESS FROM PARIS We have news from Paris of Friday's date, The payment of the arrears due to the French Legion his been agreed upon between Colonel Galant and the Spanish Government. The Infant 1)on Francisco de Paul has received his passport, and will leave for Spain in three weeks. The editor of theNationul, for a libel upon his Majesty, has been acquitted. This has produced much sensation in high quarters here, and is consider,ed a great triumph for the disorderly. FLANDERS AND, DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 23.—A salute of twenty-one guns has announced the fetes of the eleventh anniversary of the Four Days. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 24.—The King left St. Cloud yes terday morning. He passed the night at Amiens, and will reach Courtray to-day about four o'clock. A spe cial train will be ready to receive him and bring him in the evening to the capital. On -Saturday there will be a grand dinner at Court on the occasion of the arrival of the Duchess of Kent. Orders have been received at the Palace immediately to. prepare her apartments. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg, his Majesty's elder bro ther, who is now at Paris with his (laughter, the Duchess of Nemours, is expected very shortly at Brussels. A letter from Luxembourg says :—" The news that King William 11. his refused to ratify the treaty ,incor porating the Grand Duchy with Germany arrived here on Saturday evening, and carried universal joy. Every body was glad that the King had been made to under stand the true situation and the wishes of the country. Addresses have been sent by all the Commercial Councils of the Grand Duchy to his Majesty to thank him for the firmness he has shown on this occasion, and to ask a commercial arrangement with Belgium. The King, in fact, appears to be much inclined to this, for in announcing to the Commission his refusal of the ratifica tion he gives them to understand that the Belgian Go vernment had made overtures to him, and that he hoped the Grand Duchy would find a vent for its manufactures lon that side. A brillian reception is preparing at Lux ' embourg for the Commissioners. The Addresses above-mentioned were sent to the Hague on Monday last. The merchants of Luxembourg ask merely an assimilation to the Belgian tariff of Cus toms. The inhabitants of the Belgian portion of the Luxembourg are equally rejoiced at this circumstance. There, as well as in the Grand Duchy, the inhabitants are sensible that the rupture of the negotiations with Germany was a step towards the commercial fusion of the two countries, which have so much need of each other. BATAVIA, Are. 30.—We learn from Amborna that on the Ist of November last year there was an earthquake at Gelelo, which destroyed all the brick buildings. From the 3d to the 15th of September the shocks returned with increasing violence. They seemed to have no connexion with the mountain of Tunale. TRIEST, SEPT. 14.—The French steamer Acheron arrived to-day from Athens and Corfu, with AL Pisca tory, the French Deputy, returning from his mission to Greece. DUTCH FUND3.—Afl3ritirnan, San. 21. ill one .. 1.111:s. Actual Debt, 2% Per Cent 51% 52 Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Amert Syndic. 4% per cent 92 92% Ditto, ditto 3% percent . :6 Commercial Company, 4,4 per cent 154% 155% Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... 101% 11)2 Loan 1837, 5 per cent... .» ..........»....».» 97% 98 Exchange on London, drie month l2 07% Two isionths II 97% Hamburgh, One month 35 75 Two months 35 51 Dutch Papers, Sept. 25. BELGIAN 4 UNDS—Bausans, Sem 23 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent . .... . ..... 51 Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cvnt••• •••••••••••••• 101% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per C ent...... .... 3 per CenL ..... Thirty.seven 102 fs_ —(1q40) Loan of City, P . :32, 4 per Cent 90% Society iit Coniravree, 4 %per Cent 93% Bank ofßilgium, 5 per Cent.... ...... National Society . ' Exchange on London (shot t) —Brussels Papers, Sept. 24. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vms.a, Sum 16 fire per Cents. Idetalliques - 1( 6% Four per Cents. 9834 Three per Cents. ..... ....... ..... ....... ..... 75 Bank Shang ... ...... ................ ............ ......... J 574 ...Allgenzeine &Using. Sept. 21 MONEY and COM VIERCIAL NEWS (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 24. —There has been an improved demand for Cotton throughout the week, but holders have supplied it freely ; prices have not changed since this day week. Brazils and Egypts are stationary at our last quotations. Surats also. Sea Island continue to be in good demand, and sell at last quotations. There has been taken for exportation 3,300 American and 200 Surat, a.nd on speculation 2.500 American and 100 Surat. The sales this day amount to 4,000 bales, all to the trade. The average consumption per week, t a k en f rom t hi s market:— 1840 23,296 Bales. 1841 19,872 Total of all descriptions turned over on speculation up to this date: —lB4O 182,350 Bales. Do. 1841 Increase, 1840... 27,840 Bales. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, SEPT. 24. The transae lions at the Stock Exchange, this day are thus reported:— Great Western, 201. Share, 7i ; Liverpool and Manchester, 198 ; London and Birmingham, 155; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 2l 1 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 54 ; Ditto, New Shares, ; Lon don and South Western, 504 ; Manchester and Leeds, 551. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 24. The market continues quiet. Our transactions arc :—Mancliester and Leeds, 57 ; Ditto, Halves, 24 ; Ditto, New Quarters, 15s. prem. ; Hull and Selby, 391-; Manchester and Salford Banks, 91. LEEDS, SEPT. 24.—The woollen trade of this district still continues active, but the clothiers still complain that they are unable to obtain such prices as will yield them an adequate re muneration for their outlay and labour. The principal busi ness doing is for the domestic fall trade, and though some of the drapers have purchased sparingly, there has been for some time past a fair business doing in the warehouses. Money is very scarce in the Stock Exchange, and as much as 6 per cent. has been paid upon the deposit of Consols for short periods. This is in consequence of so much cash being paid in tenders for the funding. The scarcity is not, how ever, expected to last over Tuesday, as all over the required amount sent in will be returned. There is no business doing whatever in the Stock Exchange. Consols are 894 u for Money, and 89i g for Account; Ex chequer Bills, 15 17; Spanish Active Stock, 218 ; Portu guese Five rer Cents., 30, 1 ,-; Do. Threes, 18i. There has been no business doing in the Stock Exchange, and prices remain the same as at the opening. Consols, 894 % Money, and 90i I for the Account. Ex ci.equer Bills, ; 15 17 ; India Bonds, I prem. Spanish Active Stock, 214 ; Dutch Five per Cents., 10.2 ; Ditto Two-and-a Half per Cents., 516. There has been rather more busimss doing in the Share Market at the following quotations :—Great Western, 77; Ditto, Fifths, 73 ; London and Brighton, 443; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 21%; Ditto, New, 24 23 ; South Western, 50i, ; Midland Counties, 743 ; North Mid lard, New, 32%. The Produce markets this week have worn the same heavy appearance. and neither the importers nor merchants have any reason to be satisfied with the prices obtained. The tenders for the conversion, it is generally supposed, are already completed, but officially the greatest secrecy is observed. Consols, Account, 8913; Spanish, 213 k. Not the least appearance of business. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ••• • ' India Stock ........... .... 3 per Cent Red — 'Ditto 80nd5, ,,, , , ,,, 1 pni 3 per Cent Cons 891 Ditto Old Annuiti es ... Ditto New Annuiti es. .. 3 N t Iv p er 3 e per nt Centßed .. 98i Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2td 16 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto to 5°0115 pm 5ma11...... 18 Jan. I Long Annuities to t _ xpire Oct 1859 --I, Bank Stock f or 0 pg .... !India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. — Consols for Acct B9i FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgrrin, 5 per cent — :Ditto, New Ditto. — Brazilian 80nd5.... — Prussian, 5 per cent. ... Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic — Colombian, 6 p er cent. .. Span ish, l 6 per cent • 21, 3 Ditto, 1624 Ditto, Deferred . . Danish, 3 per c en t — French, 5 per cent. --f. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — I Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625. , Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 51 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. 154 Ditto, 5 per cent 102 1 SHARES Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 55 Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto Fifth (4 paid) Gosport Ju nc ti on Ra ............. ilw y (50pd) ....... -a a Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid)... ......... London and Birmingham (90)..,,....... ... /57 Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) •.. 21i Ditto ls, ew Shares ( 2 paid) .. ............ 23 London and South Western .................. iioi Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ..... . 741 North Midland Railway (100 paid) ......... Ditto New Shares (40 paid) ........ ... 32k On Thursday,shortly after thre e o'clUek, the Select Committee of the Hou se o f L ords, appointed on Mon day last, " to consider and report upon the plan submitted by the architect of the new Houses of Parliament, end for render ing them fire-proof," assembled, with a view of carrying this object into effect. The following are the Peers constituting the Select Committee :—The Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor, Lord President, Lord Privy Seal, Duke of Nor folk, Duke of Richmond, Duke of Wellington, Duke of Suther land, Marquis of Lansdowne, Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Chamberlain, Earl of Shaftesbury, Earl of Radnor, Earl of Bar , owby, Earl de Grey, Earl of Ripon, Viscount Hawarden, Viscount Gordon, Bishop of London, Lord Willoughby d' Ere,bv, Lord Lowther, Lord Melbourne, Lord Colchester, Lord Penshurst, Lord Brougham and Vaux, Lotd Duricaunon, Lord Cottenhani, and Lord Sudeley. TP, gr'N, I ON DON, MON'DAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1841 THE TEMPORARY CLOSING OF LoNDoN iiRiDGE. It has been determined by the Corporation of the City of London, that London-bridge shall be for a Erne shut up, to the purpose of being repaved, very numerous and heavy c imp'aints having been' inade of the ruts and dangeroui inden tations, more particularly on the tiztiuthwark.'side of fhe struc ture. A difference of opinion having existed bet weenthe lead iog corporators as to the sort of pavement which it would be ad visable to lay down, oceaSioried, it is said,, the delay,. but that difference is now at an end, and ihe 13ridge-IlauFe Estates Committee have root ived directions- to proeeed with the work. The subject had been, some time ago, 'referred to a Committee, who were to take into consideration what sized stone 'should be us-d, and in what form the storms should be used in.paring so important an avenue to the metropolis. They called some sur veyors of eminence before them. Mr. Montague, the Clerk of the City Works. and Mr. Kelsey, the Surveyor to the Corn missioners of Sewers. .Mr. Cadogan, surveyor of pavements of the parish of St. Clement Danes, wi. hin the city and :ibeity of Westminster. and Mr. Seace, surveyor.of the pavements of the parish of St. Ma• ryleborie, and M r . J o h n Newman, surveyor to the Commis stoners for pavin g th e eastern division of the borough of South is ark, gave opi n i ons . ' Upon the re commen d ation of these professir nal men, the report was ulti mate l y agreed to in the following re solution :—"That London -bridge should be repaved with stones of Aberdeen granite, not exceeding three inches in width, to be laid in parallel lines; and that it should be referred to the Bridc-house Estates Committee to carry such resolution into effect, being etopoivered to draw such additional sums of mo ney as may . be necessary." The Corporation-were, no doubt, induced to come to the resolution above mentioned in opposition to. the recommenda tion of the Committee, by the tact that Blackfriars-bridge, which is acknowledged to be the finest piece of pavement about the metropolis, is pav e d accor di ng to t h e princip l e o f three-inch width s an d parallel lines. It is expected that the Commissioners of Southwark-bridge will throw open that avenue to the traffic of London during he. period the immense thoroughfare, London-bridge, must remain elm ed. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. The Newmarket First October Meeting commences to-mor row, and will terminate on Thur,day ; it is Holy to be a pro pitious opening to the October campaign, the Stakes, Plat, s, and Matches promising an average of six races each day. The Buckenham Stakes looks like a certainty for Colonel Peel with the Hester colt, although two of LO: d Exeter's, and the same number of Lord G. lientinek's, are in training. The Grand Duke Michael rests beiween Colonel Peel's Cameleon, Mr. Thornhill's Eringo, and the Duke of Bedford's two, Oakley and John of Ghaunt ; but the field is likely to be good, as Abydos, Scarf, Cesarevritch, and Pentia are here. Wahab is expected, anti the Stake is all the money. The liolieful has a smaller ep.try than usual, and beyond the Rosalie colt (carrying 31bs extra) has nothing with any claim to notice as a public runner. The St. Leger will be run for on Wednesday ; all, we believe, are in training for it except Jack Sheppard, and Thistle Whipper, and it may be looked for as a tolerably open race. For the Rutland Stakes every horse engaged is in train ing. The best pub.ic performers are Passion and the Rosalie colt, but a penalty of ilbs. extra on the filly, and of albs. on the colt, and the fact that not one of the others is engaged in the Hopeful, will no doubt have an effect on the field. All the match horses are in training. LIVERPOOL RACES. The KnowsleyStakes of 30 sous. each, with 50 added. One mile. Cul. Crawford's br fby Languar Mermaid...( Francis) 1 Sir. Jaques's Playfellow Sir C. Monek's b c by Languar, d by Filho... 3 • Mr. W. Thompson na b r c Fl am i ngo Won easy. The Heaton Park Stakes of 20 says. each, h ft, and 100 added. Once round and a distance. Col. Crawford's Ermengardii, 3 yrs (Francis) Mr. Mostyn's Prince Caradoc, :3 yrs 2 The following were tint placed :—Sir R.- W. Billkeley!s Spring-heeled Jack, 4 yrs ; Mr. Painter's Ernest. the First, • S yrs ; Lord G. Bentinck's Naworth, 4 yrs; Mr. Bell's La Sage Femme, 5 yrs; L or d St an l ey ' s C ornuto, 4 yrs; an d Si r C. - Monck's Garland.—Won cleverly. The Meggerine Castle Stakes of 5 sovs. each, With 50 added. From the Bridge-turn in. Mr. Graydon's Miss Ileathco:e, 4 yrs (Conolly) I Sir R. W. 13ulkeley's Spring-beer(' Jack, 4 yrs • 2 Mr. J. Osborne's Hope, 2 yrs Mr. Dawson's The Biddy, 2 yrs Mr. Clarke's f by The Male, out of Mary, 2 yrs Sir. Jones' sister to Broadwath, 3 yrs Mr. Buckley's Gilbert, 3 yrs Won easy. The Option Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, and 30 added. Mile and a quarter. Mr. Wilkins' Clem o' the Cleugh,:s yrs (Noble) 4 1 1 Sir. Bele's La Sage Femme, 5 yrs Mr. Buckley's cby Laurel—Shoehorn, 3 yrs Mr. Worthington's Northenden,6 yrs 3 0 0 BECCLES RACES—Tx unsnw The Town Stakes 'of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added, second saves his stake, two miles, were won in two heats, by Mr. iiignold's Camilla, 5 yrs, beating Mr. Smith's Daniel, Mr. Oswald's Mount Eagle, and Mr. Gould's Cavalbo. The Cocked Hat Stakes were won in two heats, by Mr. Woodcock's Luther ; and the Whoo Whoop Stakes, by Mr. Gould's Cavalho. PERTH RACES.—THURSDAY. Sweepstakes of 5 sore. each, and 30 added. Two miles. Mr. Ramsay's The Doctor, aged Mr. Sandiland's Moleskin, 4 yrs Sweepstakes . of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added. Heats, once round and a distance. Lord Glenlyon's Confusion, aged... (Maj.. Campbell) 2 1 I Mr. H. Johnstone's The Retur n ed, age d Mr. T. Aloncricfrs Erin-Go .Brah, aged The Perth Hunt Plate of 501. 2 miles. Hon. J. Sandiland's Moleskin, aged (Wetherall) 1 Mr. Redfern's Slashing Harry, aged Mr. G. Dawson's Littl Bundle, 3 yrs The following were not placed :—Mr. Stewart's Win-if, ycu-can, :ged ; Mr. Sanders nd Isla, aged ; Mr. Thomp son's 'The Diver, 5 yrs, and Lord Glenlyou's Hotspur, 4 yrs. TROTTING MATCH ON SUNBURY COMMON. Notwithstanding the very unfavourable state of the 34 eather on Friday a lsrge number of well. mounte d horseme n and first rate sporting gentlemen, in various equipages, assenibled on, Sunbury Common, impelled by the announcement that two first-rate matches would take place. They were,liowever, in this respect doomed to be disappoints(' ; for althoughi..the bill of fare had announe ( d a t wo - m il e match in h arness between Mr. Gill's Silvertail and Mr. B ur k e ' s Lady Hampton,and a second race between Mr. Gill's Confidence and Mr. Burke's Doctor, the latter only took place, the former being deferred until three o'clock on Saturday. 'The (muse of this postpone ment was that the contest between Confidence and the Doctor was first started, and terminated so near dark, that the leading sporting gentlemen present very judiciously recom mended that it should be put off until Saturday. The match which we are about to detail was for 501. a side, to trot two miles ; the owner of the well-know n and celebrated horse Con fidence, once the property of Louis Bonaparte, and subsequently of the Duke of Go r d on , g i v i ng t h e Doctor of Burke, of trotting celebrity, two minutes in the two miles. Large sums depended upon the issue, the betting being nearly even, Confidence having slightly the choice. The ground selected was two miles from the Staines-gate, to the top of Sunbury dane, the distance right out at once without a turn. Confidence first came out to do the distance, a bright bay horse standing 15 hands, and in every respect beautifully symmetrical. He was driven by his owner, Mr. Gill, and without a break performed the two miles in five minutes thirty-nine seconds. A trifling dispute arose among the time-keepers in consequence of the watches differing a few seconds, but it was ultimately deter mined not to have exceeded the time we have above given, in deed by some of the watct es on the ground it was declared to be eight or nine seconds less. This having been disposed of. Mr. Burke drove the Doctor, a grey horse, standing 121 i hands, and went off at a beautiful rate, never broke, and occu pied eight minutes, twelve seconds, in the performance of the two miles, thus losing the match by thirty-three seconds. Con fidence has thus achieved another victory. The arrangements were then made for the match on Saturday. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FRom OUR OWN cortaEsrownENT.l ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. SEPT. 18.—Heron cutter, Capt. W. B. Ponsonby, from Gibraltar, to be repaired, left Captain Porisenby at Gibraltar, 17 days passage ; Ariel achooner, Almon Hill, Esq., from Jer sey, came into harbo - ur to lay up. .>o.—Jack O'Lantern schooner, Eirl of Orkney, from Lon don and Boulogne; Xarifa schooner, Earl of Wilton, from Cher bourg and Southampton; Gossamer cutter, R. W. Gaussen, Esq., from Beaumaris and Plymouth. 24.—Kestrel yawl, Commodor e E ar l o f Y ar b oroug h , from Devonport and Dartmouth, SAILINGS. • SErr. 19.—Gem schooner, Marquis of Ormond, for Dublin and other ports. :H.—Witch cutter, Henry Oglander, Esq., to the wes t war d on a cruise ; Brilliant scho oner , G. H. Ackers, Esq., for Sou thampton, left for the season. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. Schooners—Janette, Hawk, Xarira, Ariel,Gitana, Mischief, Flower of Yarrow, Wanderer, Jack O'Lantern. Cutters—Ariel, Nautilus, Reindeer, Forest Fly, Phoebe,, Aurora, Cynthia, Amaz on , Sapphire, Heron, Flower of Yar. tow, Gossamer, Will-o'-the- Wisp, Fanny. Yawls—Kestrel, Breeze. This town was sever known to be so full of company. The following houses have been taken ti.is week :—Oak-hill House, Claremont House, the l'avilion, Birmingham House, 4th Cottage, the 7th Cottage, No. 1, Bath-buildings, Prospect House, Cannon Cottage, and No. 1, Castle Terrace, as well as a great number of smaller houses. RELEASE OF MR. BRONTERRE This Chartist leader was released from Lancaster gaol on Friday. A deputation of Chartists received him as he left the prison, and it is intended by his admirers to give hint a similar wel come to that with which they honoured Mr.. O'Connor. To• day he will enter Manchester, accompanied by Mr. O'Connor. The Chartists of Manchester are making great preparations for the event, and on the evening of the same day those two Chartist chiefs will be entertained at a pu b l i c that place. ir t ee ,l i e n e. the Queen's Theatre, Liverpool, by the Chaxti s t s o f h CORN-LAws.—Amongst the other meetings in the metropolis which have been convened, Sir James Duke, the Alderman of the Ward of Fal-riogdeo Without, has called at the expressing t u ri n r o it i s iin i i n o h n a s b u it p a o n n ts th t e u New Court, Old Bailey, this . day. s FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE ,IN Suss'x.— l I s ,: t n a bt , i o p r t of Early on Tuesday morning last are broke out at a farm in the occupation of Mr. Phillips, at Mayfield, S tivsex, Mr. Phil lips was awoke by seeing ene of his barns, which had been re ccutiv filled with wheat, in a . hlaze. An alarm bei ng given, a number of labourers were soon on the spot, an d rendered every assist :nee. Expresses were sent to Lewes and the neigh bouring towns for the engines; but the labourers succeeded in confining the fire to the barn, and extinguishing ' it before their arrival. On examining the ruins, a horrible sight pre sented itself, a woman and two children having slept in the barn, the latter were found burnt to a cinder, and the poor woman dreadfully burnt, and in a state of insensibility. On Thursday an inquest was held on, the bodies of the children, before F. FL Cell, Esq., the Coroner for East Sussex, when it appeared from the evidence that the, poor woman, who was On the road to the hop-grounds, for the purpose of hop-pick ing, had applied to the farmer for permission to sleep in the barn, which he granted, when the poor creature, who ap. peared much fatigued, with her two children, who were about the ages of three and five years, retired to rest, and they were found in the morning as above described. Th e on l y way the fire could be accounted for was by the heating of the wheat. After a lengthened investigation, the jury returned a verdict of " Accidentally burnt to death." The poor woman, who has been bereft of her children and her little stock of clothes, is so severely injured that it is not expected she will recover. MONMOUTH ELECTION.—The re-election of Lord Granville Somerset, for Monmouth, on his appoint ment to the Chancellorship of the michy Of 'Lancaster, took place on Friday IvithoutopPAtion; , S LIM ib OF PEN'S _ _ a AND r;T' L iutittr 41ffitOn. " TV/to runs may read." FOREIGN. As we anticipated, .the attempt to assassinate Lord Howick is seized upon by a portion of the F_ Press to ridicule th e super i or Ch r i st i an morality claimed by the Tory Journals for the people of England. The Sleek even goes the length of saying. that Louis Phi lippe is not in as much danger from the Communists as Queen Victoria is from the Tories. The Bradshaw Canterbury festival, where the Queen was called a se cond Jezabel, and the attempt to assassinate the Queen in the Green Park supply materials for the castigation of Tory hypocrisy, of which French writers ably avail thmselves. • The Temps has the following account of the disclo sures made by the assassin Quenisset:—" Quenisset, after ret” , tcting his first hasty confession, maintained for a while a dogged abnegation, but soon agqin made revelations that were most complete and circumstantial, and on the strength of which several arrests were made. According to his depositions, there bas a plot formed for assassinat ing all the members of the Royal Family, wherever they could be met with. The Duke of Orleans was principally doomed to the blows of the conspirators, be cause his death would lead to a Regency, and regencies are always favourable for revolutions or other disturb ances. In order to execute this design, some conspira tors were to go to the camp at Co . mpeigne ; but the arri val of the 17th regiment, and a report that the Ring and all the Princes were to go out to meet the Duke d'Aumale, made them think that fortune had placed a readier opportunity within their reach, which they ought not to let slip. The assassins consequently went to the Place de la Bastille, where they could have more confi dence, front the crowd assembled, which would cover the 'attempt, and afford them facilities for escaping after it was made. Eight members of a society now known to exist had sworn to fire at the same time as Quenisset, but he alone kept his oath.. They had all made solemn pledges not to betray each other, but Quenisset, by the cowardice of his accomplices in not joining him in the act, and thereby breaking their engagement with hint, conceived himself released , gfrom his obligation towards them, and made these disclimtres." The Courrier Francais has an article in answer to the statements of the Presse on the eastern question. Accord- to the Courrier England, and not France, is the great gainer by the treaty of the r3th of July. The vintage is most abundant in Spain tins year. The farmers know not what to do with last years stock which they have not yet disposed of. The long pending dispute between the Courts of Ber lin and Rome is amicably settled. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Herald takes Mr. Ward to task for having moved—by way of amendment to the clause-pro posing to grant compensation to Master Scarlett for the extinction of his office—that "no compensation should be awarded to and• officers appointed to their situations subsequently to March, 1841." "For the great abettors and maintainers. of a defunct Ministry," observes our Contemporary, " the last stages of , whose existence Were distinguished by a species of financial misma nagement and incompetency which carried on their annual deficiencies of income from . one year to ano ther on a scale of geometrical progression—an in creasing series of diminishing quantities, as it were, —these cheese-paring reforms are signal efforts, indeed, to check the downward career of our public revenue! Modest hundreds to counterpoise the dead weight of la vished tens, and scores, and hundreds of thousands of pounds whirled away by Whig-Radical Ministers in Whig-Radical schemes, till the deficiency, which was four or five years ago little more than half a million, in these five years has. become a deficit of more than seven millions!"—When the Tories, for mere Opposition pur poses, advocated economical principles, then the Herald discovered that' economy was the first duty of all Go vernments ; now that the Reformers advocate it, our Contemporary discovers that it is mere humbug, and speaks of it contemptuously, as a species of " cheese paring ".Reform. Such is the consistency and straight forwardness of Tory journals! The Times, returning again to the Poor-law question, expresses its satisfaction "at the promptness with which Sir R. Peel has caused an inquiry to be made into the mal administration of the Poor-law at Bolton, and our hope that be will direct a similar investigation into the extra ordinary statement of Mr. Sharman Crawford concern ing the condition of the poor in Rochdale. We mean the statement that in that town there are now 136 persons living on 6d. per week, 290 on lod., 508 on is., 855 on Is. 6d., and 1,500 on Is. 10d. per week.' We are as much at a loss to understond how these exact statistics can be obtained, as how life can be supported on such in credible paltry sums ; and we think it a matter of im portance to ascertain whether this assertion, and others like it, are true. If they are, they amount to a demon stration that the poor of this country are willing to starve, and do starve, by thousands, rather than avail themselves of Poor-law relief when encumbered with the, work house test." • In reference to Lord Stanley's extract from M. Du vergier de Hauranne's Revue des Deux Mondes, in his recent North Lancashire speech, the Chronicle remarks as follows ;---" If the Tories are a pack of apostates, how comes Lord Stanley in their ranks ? Is that a -place for an honest man? They are the same people, holding the same 'opinions, and seeking the same ob jects, now that he systematically co• operates with them that they were when he systematically opposed them. He cannot damage them, without damaging himself. And yet . he cannot acquit them without condemning himself. It is a miserable predicament, notwithstand ing the testimony of M. Duvergier de Hauranne." Are the Whigs the apostates then ? Why, no ; for this most providential witness, this, M. Duvergkr de Ilauranne, comes very distinctly to their exculpation. He deposes to the opinions of the Whigs being the same in 1826 that they are now. He then told Lord Stanley that his friends the Whigs seemed to have different views on this question of Church property."—The Chronicle's question, " how comes Lord Stanley in the ranks of the Tories ?" is easily answered. He is there, because he is most at home among them. Like clings to like. They are apostates ; so is he, They care nothing for character; he is equally regardless of it. They put on the mask of liberality in order to further the purposes of 'party ; and he can adopt the same disguise with equal readiness and facility. The Post says :—" Nothing can be more malignant or untrue than the repeated declaratior.s of the organs of the late Ministry, that the present Government displays indifference to the distress existing in the manufacturing districts. It may he that, in the opinion of Whig-Radical partisans, there can be no evidence of sympathy with the people's distress except i n t h e discussion of the Corn laws. But this is a very foolish opinion. At best it is but an opinion • and it is rather t oo muc h to a tt ac k a Govern ment for indifference to the condition of the poor merely because its ifiode of showing sympathy is rather more practical than that of talking about the Corn-laws."— If the present Government be not " indifferent " to the . distresses of the people, how comes it that it allows the session to expire, and five long dreary months to elapse, before it proposes to take those distresses into considera tion? Can starvation afford to wait? The Government, by its conduct, says "yes;" and shows its solicitude for the interests of the country, by postponing all remedial measures till the sporting. season and the Christmas revelries are all at an end. , Then, when they have had their full swing of pleasure, the Tories will condescend, by way - of relief, to inquire into the distresses of the people—but not till then. The following is from the West Briton :—" Between the late and the present Ministry there is this important distinction—that whatever measures of liberality were proposed by the first, they were unable to carry—while the second have it in their power to effectuate whatever measures a generous spirit of legislation may prompt. That any such spirit will prevail in their councils we fear there is but little hope, but should they at any time be influenced by it, the benefit is certain. They ,have it in their power •to conciliate a vast amount of angry and insulted feeling by devising some plan of extinguish ingChurcli-rates,' 'The Leicester Mercury thus comments on Sir IL Peel's dilatory course"of policy Five months ! Sir Robert Peel. Death ! Five other months' endurance of hunger and cold and wretchedness ! Why, Sir ! men, strong menl full of hope !—men in whom the rich and ruby stream steals joyously through their veins DIE OF HUNGER in half a month ! Either the people have lost their Courage, or poverty has brought about a careless ness—that is absolutely fearful. A million of men, wo men, and children of all grades I—suffering unheard of hardships are to wait till February, 1842." The Brighton Guardian makes the following remarks in allusion to the New Poor-law Bill :—" The majority of the Commissioners of Somerset House arc Tories, as are most of the Poor-law Assistant Commissioners. It never ought, therefore. to have been treated as a party question ; and the Tories will find, before the year is out, that their inconsiderate charges against the late Ad ministration on this - score will recoil with fearful violence on their own heads." We. find the following in the Leeds Mercury :—" The fact is simply this—the Cabinet is decidedly and tho roughly a Pro-Corn-law Cabinet; and Sir Robert Peel, whose commercial principles would make him favourable to a free trade in corn, is made by his political views and connexions the great buttress of monopoly." MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. At Hull the imports of foreign fruit are very large. Many hundred casks of fruit have arrived by steam from Hamburg and Rotterdam, and arc already dispatched to the great consuming districts of West Yorkshire and Lan cashire. AGRICULTURAL. A factor at Wisbeach writes, that the wheat has there been secured in good shipping condition ; some is very dry, but that carried in on two wet days is in very bad order. He also calculates that the crop will fall short of an average by eight or ten bushels an acre. LAW AND POLICE. Mr. Harvey, the City Police Commissioner, had an interview on Friday with the Secretary of the Howe De partment on the subject of the Government offering a reward for the apprehension of the murderer of Mr. Burden, which we understand was at once acceded to. A man of the name of Baldsthorp, a coach spring maker, was committed at Worship -street to take his trial for indecently assaulting a young woman, the wife of a man formerly in his employ. At Marylebone Police-office a man of the name of Harris, a higgler, was fined 40s. with costs, for assault ing a toll-collector at the Pine Apple. gate, Edgeware-road. EX.ZCTIONEER.XNG. At Ripon Sir George Cockburn has come forward as a candidate, on Sir Edward Sugden's vacation of the seat, by the acceptance of the Chancellorship of Ireland. On the North Riding revision Of Yorkshire, Montague Wilson, Esq. was struck off the list, on the ground that in the overseer's paper lie was described, as a "gen tleman.'?. The Hon. Capt. Gordon, one of the new Lords of the Admiralty, was re-elected for Aberdeen on Tuesday. SPORTXNG. A swimming race for a handsome prize, given by the Universal Swimming Company, will take place at the _National Baths, Westminster-road, this evening. Prom the list of persons who have taken out game certificates, there are upwards of 90 " reverends" who in tend to " shoot and kill" in various parts of Yorkshire. TZIEJITILICAL. A grand new Ballet Pantomime under the title a " Trans of Iceland," is about to be brought out at Covent Garden. C OUR T -rassiorrAnzE. The Marchioness of Westmeath has left town for Lowther Castle. MISCELLANEOUS. The Countess of Pembroke, sister to Sir Philip Sydney, and the fuirest star of Elizabeth's Court, died in 1621, at her house in Aldersgate-street, London, on the 25th day of this month. She composed part of the, ." Arcadia" with her brother, and translated the Psalms into metre. Ben Jonson's beautiful epitaph upon this illustrious lady is well known. Saturday was the anniversary of the death of the famous Greek Professor Porson, who died in 1808. Donegal was visited on Sunday last by a dreadful thunder-storm, such as was never witnessed by the oldest inhabitant. Mr. Villiers paired off on Friday evening with Mr. Miles on both clauses of the Administration of Justice Bill. On Wednesday next Tallis's celebrated service will be performed, both in the morning and afternoon, at West minster Abbey. Talks was a celebrated musician, who was born in 1520, and died in 1585. A noble specimen of the antelope trite arrived in the river a few days since, as a present from the Paths of Egypt to Alderman Harmer. The animal has been since removed to Ingress Abbey, the Alderman's seat, near Gravesend. London Bridge is to be repaved with stones of Aber deen granite, not exceeding three inches in width, and laid in parallel lines. The bridgei in consequence, will be closed for a short time. This mode of pavement was adopted at Blackfriars Bridge when it was repaired, and has been completely successful. Owing to great distress and want of employment for operatives, the poor rates in Bradford will amount at present to 15s. in the pound on rack rent. The Advertiser says—" Horace Twiss, on being told that the workmen en:ployed at the new Houses of Parliament struck last week, declared that he would follow their example unless Bob raised his wages."—Sir Robert Peel will never think of raising the wages of such an inefficient political journeyman as Horace Twiss. By the bye, it may not be generally known that, about five and twenty years ago, this gentleman's tr age dy o f the Carib Chief was played as a comedy at Drury-lane, where it deservedly excited as much laughter as Mr. Peter Borthwick's performance of Othello at the Surrey. An inquest was held last week at Brill, in Bucking hamshire, on the body of a child who died from the in cautious use of an opiate.—We have not yet heard that any one has died from the " incautious use " of Sir J. Graham's pamphlet on the Corn-laws, though we are in daily expectation of hearing of such a calamity. A Correspondent in the Morning Post, in some re marks on our Contemporary's "Proposed Order of Poetry," asserts that " poetry is, to a certain degree in spiration."—This may have been the case formerly, but in nine out of ten instances, modern poetry is nothing more than wind—the result of an empty stomach acting on an addled brain. There is in the possession of Mr. J. Fitze, sadler, of Exeter, a candle, which was taken up from the Royal George, off Spithead; it is in good preservation, after being under water fifty-eight years. The barometer has been very low for some days, and is still declining. On Friday night and and Saturday morning we had very heavy falls of rain, with gusts of wind, announcing the commencement of the equinoctial gales. RITAXOTTUS OP THE DAY. Lord Stanley stated at Lancaster, that in one year a single Russian province sent down thirty-eight million quarters of wheat to St. retersburgh, and a corres pondent of a morning paper, not to be outdone. by his Lordship, asserts with equal title to belief, that the whole of this enormous quantity was shipped for Eng land, but never more was heard of. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert, and the Royal Household, attended Divine Service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The vene rable Archdeacon WilberfUrce officiated as his Royal Highness's Chaplain, and preached a sermon from the 14th verse of the 7th chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke. Yesterday her Majesty and the Prince enjoyed their usual Morning ride, and the Princess Royal was taken her accustomed airing. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert went out in a pony phaeton, his R vat Highness driving, attended by the Royal Suite. His Excellency Chekib Ettendi and Secretary left the Castle, as did also the Earl of Aberdeen. The Rev. Archdeacon Wilberforce arrived on a visit to her Majesty. The Hon. and Rev. R. B. and Mrs. Stopford and Sir James Clark, who arrived in the course of the afternoon, had the honour-of dining with her Majesty yesterday evening. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Jones, arrived in town on Saturday, from his residence at Kew. His Royal Highness returned to Kew in the afternoon. The Earl of Aberdeen returned to town on Saturday, from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle. Viscount Sandon and. Sir Duncan 11.1`Dougal had in terviews with Lord Stanley on Saturday, at the Colonial office. His Excellency Chekib Effendi, the Turkish Arnim sador, arrived in town on Saturday, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Sir Robert Peel gave a grand dinner on Saturday, at his residence in Whitehall-gardens, to a party of the Foreign Ministers, including M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister; Mr. Stevenson, the American Minister, Count Pollon, the Sardinian Minister, Baron do Moncorvo, the Portu guese Minister, Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister, Count Keilmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister, M. de Hugel, the Wurtemberg Minister, M. Tricoupi, the Grecian Minister, Baron de Nieumann, on a special mission from Austria, Chevalier Bunsen, on a special mission from Prussia, Count Bille Brahe, Danish Charge d'Affaires, and the Baron de Bourquency. There were present to meet their Excellencies the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Aberdeen, and the Right Hon. Sir Charles Bagot. Lady Peel . had afterwards an even ing party, which was numerously attended by the No bility and Gentry, and also by the Members of the Fo reign Corps Diplomatique. DeSpatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of the Mauritius. The Right Hon. F. D. T. and the Lady Arabella Baring arrived in town on Saturday morning from the Continent. In the afternoon the Right Hon. Gentle man and Lady Arabella left town for Stratton Park, Hants. LITERATURE. COUNT CLERMONT. A Tragedy. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1841. In this volume we have, besides " Count Cler mont," another tragedy, entitled " Caius To ranius," and several miscellaneous poems, which we must co - ifess we prefer to the tragedies, for there is more nature and simplicity about them,. and certainly more true poetic sensibility. There are one or two impressive scenes in " Count Clermont;" but, as a whole, the play is far from being well constructed ; the action, too, is lan guid in places, and the chief personages seem more disposed to sayings than doings. Mr. Bell, the author, is, we fear, but _indifferently fur nished with the dramatic faculty ; as a poet, however, his talents are far above mediocrity, and we may say of his translations from Horace that they are among the be s t we h ave seen. , CANADIAN SCENERY: Part XIX. Virtue, London, 1841. The letter-press portion of thi s work is very poorly *written, but the p icto rial illustratio ns are invariably good; and in the p resent Part, which contains upwards of four, there i s a View on the Banks of the Ottawa River, which is as cheerful andpicturesque as could b e desired, and reminds us of a sketch we have s een of the lower portion of the Lake of Windermere. CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. Part I Moxon, London, 1841. To criticise a work lik e the " Curiosities of Literature," which h as been nearly half a cen tury before the public, and gone through up wards of eleven editions, would be a mere waste of time ; we shall therefore content ourselves with the expression of a hope that the present monthly republication of the work in Parts may be successful, for it deserves to be so, being brought out with great taste, and in a very con venient form. c U A3 N IB I tu V riG E E, U s SLI T. T 2S Y , 1 1 8 N 4L T — E Hy L ac L int i h G K E im N .au C , E Es . q., Scholar of King's College, in this University, was yesterday admitted Fellow of that Society. Rev. John Stock, M.A., of St. Joht's College, in this fieh, Ex University, lsse, has been pref er r e d to the Vicarage of Finching void by the death of the Rev. J. Westerman ; patron, John Stock, Esq. Rev. Joseph Ditcher, M.A., late of Queen's College, in this University, Official of the Archdeacon of Wells, late Principal Surrogate of the Diocese, and Judge of the Consis torial Episcopal Court of the Diocese of Bath and Wells, has been preferred to the Vicarage of South Brent, Somersetshire; patron the Archdeacon of 'Wells. Rev. Olmius E. Morgan, 8.A., of Trinity College, in this University, has been appointed Domestic Chaplain to the Countess of Carhampton. The Earl of Gainsborough has appointed the Rev. John Finley, M.A., of Trinity College, in this University, and Vicar of Studley, Warwickshire, one of his Lordship's Chaplains , Among the new and accepte d pieces in the hands, of Mr. Maeready, we understand is one of great into. rest, written by Mr. James Haynes, so well known as a dra, matist. 7 :54 , ?.14effr.14 ,,,, ORNING SU N I COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. , I Decidedly the best comedy that has been brought out of late years, was produced on Saturday.evening at this theatre, under the title of What Will the World Say t It is from the prolific pen of Mr. Mark Lemon, who, having long been favourably known to the publi c as a wr i ter o f smart and. pleasant farces, has in the present instance taken a higher flight, and produced a regular five act comedy. And n comedy it is, in the proper meaning of the word—not a mere five act farce, usurping a title to whieli it - is has no legitimate right. The progress of the piece is as• follows :—Mr. Pye .Hilary (Mr. Charles Mathews), a young barrister, has seen Marian Mayley (Mrs. Walter Lacer) at the opera, and fallen desperately injove with her. lie takes advantage of the night being we to voluntc.er his services to procure a coach for her self and her guardian Mr. Warner (Mr. Bentley), and by this means discovers her residence, and learns that she is an orphan and heiress. He opens a communication with Tattle (Mrs. Orgcr), her maid, and is waiting in the park for Tattle, when he is joined by Captain Scrope Tarradiddle ('Mr. W. Farren), one of those non descripts who are to be met with in all public places • where no charge is made for admission, and a ho, although they are acquainted with everybody, are known to nobody. He tries to shake off Tarradidche, but cannot ; and, therefore, has nothing left for it but to make him his confislant. Tarradiddle, on hearing that the lady in question is an heiress, volunteers his services, and they are shortly afterwards joined by Tattle, From her they learn that her mistress has determined never to marry any one but a nobleman ; and Tarradiddle, like a Prime Minister, immediately raises Hilary to the Peerag e , by adtiressing him as m y L or d, to Tattles great delight, and to Hilary's great annoyance. Tattle proposes that Hilary should take lodgings opposite to Warner's resi dence, and undertakes to bring Marian's pet canary over to hint, and to say to her that it has escaped, when he can restore-it in person, an d th us get an introduction to the family. This plan is agreed to, when they are in terrupted in their conference by the arrival of Mr. War ner and Marian Mayley. Tattle runs off, leasing the gen tlemen, who take seats on the opposite side of the walk. Warner determines also to take a seat, to the great an noyance of Marian, who has perceived Hilary, and fancies ' he will imagine that she is anxious to throw herself in his way. At the same time, it is evident that she likes him, and is burning with curiosity to know who he is. Warner, who also has re cognized him, is desirous of speaking to him, but is re strained by Marian, while Tarradiddle, whois for open ing the attack upon Warner and his ward at once, is in his turn restrained by Hilary, so that the meeting passes off with merely an interchange of bows between Tarra diddle and Warner. Warner having seen his ward home, proceeds to his counting -house in the city, where he learns from Grub (Mr. Granby), his man of business, that Lady Norwold (Mrs. Glover) has applied for an ad vance of money upon certain articles of jewellery, among which is a bracelet, that Warner has long desired to get into his possession. The advance of course is made. Her ladyship, a personification of fashionable extrava gance, is the second wife:of Lord Norwold (Mr. Diddear), whose son, Qharles Norwold (Mr. J. Vining), has mar ried clandestinely a young lady whom he introduces into his father's family under the name of Miss de Vere, as governess to the younger children. The marriage is discovered, and they are both instantly expelled the house. In the meanwhile, Hilary has taken lodgings opposite Warner's, and .Tarradiddle, whom he cannot shake off, has circulated throughout the neighbourhoods repot t that he is a Lord in disguise. Tattle, who is his earnest advocate with Marian assures him that s uc h i s t h e case, and Hilary and Tarrididdle call with the bride. Warner'returns while they are in the drawing-room with Marian; and Tarradiddle, as usual, announces himself to Warner, and introduces Hilary as his friend. Warner, as soon as he hears his name, politely bows them out of the house, sends Marian to her room, telling her that he knows Tarradiddle to be little better than a swindler, and, disinisses Tattle, whose intrigues he laascliacevered. To ad.! to his perplexities, -he receives a letter, inform ing him that his sister, who was living in Paris, and to whose care he had entrusted his only daughter, had marrit d, and left his daughter under the care of her mil liner, whose house, however, his daughter had inurse diatef7.• left, and had entered into the service of . Lady Norco :.!d, as govern ess to h er c hi ldren, under tie name of Mis de Verc. On his way to his Lordship' s house he meets Hilary, who stops him, and insists upon his listen ing to his explanations ; and when Warner refuses to hear him, and mentions the name of Tarradiddle, he ex plains that all he knows of that worthy is, that, having met him at the Rainbow, Tarradiddle has stuck to him ever since like the Old Man of the Sea. Warner still appears incredulous, but promises to make inquiries ; and then knocks at Lord Norwold's door, which is opened by Nibble (Mr. Brindal), who grossly insults him. Hilary, however, interferes, chastises Nibble into civi lity, and elicits from him all he knows of the fugitives. At length he discovers that they have taken refuge in a n obscure lodging in the neighbourhood of Regent's park. Hilary proceeds thither, and, on asking to see the landlord of the house, is introduced to Tarradiddle, who, wrapped up in a ragged dressing-gown, - is discovered lying on a wretched sofa, while his wife is ironing. Although a vain and foolish man, Tarradiddle has not a bad heart, and having discovered that his lodgers are in distress, he not only does not press them for their rent, tut lie asks them to dine with him out of charity when he happens to have a dinner. This kindness makes his 'pence with Warner, who apologises to him for his suspicions, which hid arisen from certain bill transac tions i:t which Tarradiddle had been engaged. Hilary is of (N. urse introduced at Warner's as the accepted lover of Marian, and Warner, sending for Lady Nor wo ld, forces her to bec ome the advo c at e of . Youn g N orwo ld . and his wife, by threatening to sell her jewel s . Lor;.l Norwurld is also scut 'for by h er , an d b eing s hover, the bracelet, for th e possession of which 'Warner lysil been so anxious, is asked if he remembers having in' his youth occasioned the ex p u l s i on o f his elder brot)ser .from his Sather's house, on the unjust charge of having Purloined it. Struck with remorse, he ack ur;vdedges his guilt, and promi ses t o rece i ve his sou and daughter-i n as the pri ce o f hi s secret hr:ol,--:-. kept, when Warner °., elder b rot h er, w h o was annouuces that he is du) supposed t o h ave died :II India, b u t at t h e same time declarcs his intentio7, of remaining W arner st ill , leaving fashion rank - to his broth er . Th e young couple, of and ed into favour ; Hil ary an d Marian are married;course, are rs ce h. and all ends happily. It will be perceived from 'ne above account that this comedy has a double plot, but the two plots are so artistically dovetailed together, and in their. developments seem so mutually to depend upon each .other, that the feeling of unity, so essential to the harmony of a play as a whole, is not in the least disturbed. The dialogue throughout sparklei with wit, and reminds one of the palmy days of Sherkan. The cast was exceedingly strong. Charles Mathews as Hilary, and Farren as Tarradiddle, acted well up to each other ; not a point was lost, and the scene in which Hilary finds Tarradiddle at home, was first rate—the buoyant, triumphant, rat tling, smart, yet gos • -tempered jee r i ng of Hilary, con trasteti admirably Tarradiddle's h a lf s h amefaced, half impudent, eff. 'o escape from wh at h e evidently felt to b e a most ittinoying situ a ti on . T attle was just the character to suit Mrs. Orger, and she made the most of it ; while Mrs. Glover acted Lady Norwold, as she does ( verything, in the most finished style of art. What little there was to do in Marian was well per formed by Mrs. Walter Lacey, while Miss Cooper, in the character .of 'Miss de Vere, was exquisitely pa thetic. This) oung lady is one of the most promising actresses of the day, and bids fair to attain to a high rank in her profession. Bartley made an excellent Mr. Warner, and Brindal, as Nibble, was the very beau ideal of a flunky. The scenery was beautiful, and the deco rations and appointments, as they always are at this house, elegant, tasteful, and costly, The applause at. Hope l \re elLngrw the fall of the cur t a i n was loud and long-continued, in the midst of w hi c h F arren announced the piece Sim will l ul g a i t v e e M u r s . Mark lie many every 1 evening his next eessveek. more such com e dies. es ' and N ___ ,.,..1., •••••••........ m1b 'O EL for SC fo HEME, viduals A Company o f pr i vate i n di imitate i ce , • :a rmed r the purpose o f ma ki ng a composition to to sirate on at any time of the year. It was in tended to talc , : the Horse Bazaar, in Baker -street, being the largest st2 . ac e at present offering, to make a sort of Alpine scenery with artificial ice ponds here and there to skate on ; but at length a place opposite the Yorkshire Stingo has been: fixed on. So earnest are the parties in the affair, that we un derstand a young l a d y is making a model of this intended Ely sium, assisted by a celebrated artist. The Skating Club : we have been informed, have see n the plan and very muc h . ap prove i,f i t, and intend to patronise it.—B i ailtra, MaS,anne MAGIs' MP. GROVE, THE GREENWICH used by TRATE.—In consequence of the insulting esPrem_i_wiLaring a this gentleman towards the people of Ireland, on bearing a ye ago, charge against a 3oung man from that country some t h e Dr. Drury (who was present, and resented.th e el h ar e ~everally fa ther of the young man committed at the le,Howe Depart ment, a petition to the Secretary h We are re , - DA. Tiiii, NEW WORK ON CANA .. The Canad as , ill quested to state that the new work ent i t led ment, praying for an inquiry into Mr. for th e • C I Sir Richard nycastle, in 2 rms• s. price 21s. bound, is 1841," by Lieut.- o . illustreti"--ci ierlboroePla small evo., with map and 15 ~ of „reat It _.. published this day by Mr. C?li!,, I : ook „g ers MT. Colb 9ll ndy, illustrative, street, .nd may now be had of T on ' ,i n Norma . . has also just published " El l': o f that interesting Province 's conduct. of the Society, the Scenery, _ ._ a The World in Miniatera," Frederic Shoberl, Esq., h Forget-me-Not,author of tic., in two vols. small fivo,„; editor of " The 21s. bound. ACCIDENT. —On . foleross, A ' n . fient Travellrrs; .elifed by f°re p"oon of France, from the Joni-nil DREADFUL r l i i d fe a! c'eelrered at Iran 11 . Dundy all I e n t h at, in the process of . finis , .g the rail. Glasgow. It aPr e A nu Gla , gow Railway, a eirc t ,. , ar saw is em for the Edinburg hu Dose of cutting off the roe in the neighbourhoo!l l3 :sf gh ends, which in front of this ma ployed great ve ()city. 1 in question, Mr. revolves with - contractor for fi nishing the rails , and Mr. M'Kenzie, Clark, the contra a distre f: s r in t g he ac p cn o t i l ol a , tte . the manager. i n motion, when ttsid iron it was plate that guides chine n tate - lar saw, unfortunately gave. way, on which the saw he eii cu . t • , s iel with tremendous fo , ce and striking Mr. Clark sprung for% . of the works, were standiv g nearly clove his tsull in t wo. The on the forehead, unfortu natedied instantaneously. Mr. M`Kenz' • man ze received a severe blow o ne the breast amid. aim, whereby several of his ribs were fracted; but we ;tre happy to learn that he is now considered out of danger. One of the workmen, who was. standing by at the time of the accident, was fortunate enough to escape with a few slitllt bruises.-- Glasgow Paper. DEATH OX AN OLD POLICE OFFICER.--- nd:efrNdTwoinThthlOoesnsdao:e . . On Saturday . 1 . ohn Others, who for P OLICE OFFICER...,. ears has been offine-kellier at Worship-street Police Court, died, übout six o'clock, at the Police Court, Worship -street, after a pro tracted illness of several weeks. He Was suffering from a aomplakt in the chest, for which, a few weeks ago. by per mission of the Magistrates, he resided a short time at the sea side. Pe was appointed to the 'situation through th e interest of Lord Siclmouth, in whose family he was a confidential do mestic. He was much respected, and was in his tixty-seventh year. Mr. Hartshorn, at the White Lion Inn, Sandi. acre, ha, a large pig of 120 stone weight oc more, 141 b. to the atone, he will match against sal pig in Engl an d, or will match e him against the her by large pig, and give him twenty stone, f,r any sum he thinks proper.—Nottiligham Review. S