The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-30 00:00:00

EVENING SUN ter}—aid go to town in the morning, and return in the evening by the railways.—(Renewed laughter.) Mr. P. Rylands concluded by seconding the resolution. Mr. J. ACLAND, the well-known. \ecturcr of the Anti- Corn-law League, in a powerful arat eloquent speech, said he bitterly condemned the cundr.ct of the ii. - ei..,1-taxihg landocracy, and concluded amidst loud cheering. , Mr. G. W. HARDY, in a short. bat eloquent speech moved the adoption of a memorial to the' Quven. Mr. 7.ll`3lDumEs briefly seconded the resolution, which was carried without a dissentient, and the meeting quietly dispersed. SHOREHAM. OnMonday evening a highly respectable meeting took place at the Star Inn, Shoreham, fur the purpose of addressing her`Majesty on the present destitute con dition of the working and industrious classes. ThomAs GUILLAUME, Esq., the high constable, was called to the. Chair. . Mr. DAVIS proposed, and Mr. BRADLEY seconded, a resolution, that a petition, then read by him,, be pre smteito.her Majesty ; -through his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, which was carried unanimously. MITCHAM. A public meeting of the Mitcham Anti-Corn-law As sociation, and of the inhabitants in general in this vici nity, was held on Monday.evening, at the Nag's head Inn, Upper Mitcham, for the purpose of memorialising the Queen. The meeting, which was the largest ever held in Mitcham, after passing a vote of thanks to tho Chair man, separated. The address has already received nearly 1,000 signatures. BANBURY. An address to the Queen, agreed upon at a public meeting on Friday last, and numerously signed, has been forwarded to Lord Saye and Sele for presentation. IIEYWOOD. A memorial, praying the Queen not to prorogue Par liament, has been forwarded to the Home-office. MOSSLEY. A memOrial from the inhabitants of Mossley, in the county of Lancashire, with 1,074 signatures, praying the Queen not to prorogue Parliament, has been forwarded to Sir James Graham' for presentation to her Majesty. BACU P, LA N CAS LI IRE-. A public meeting was held here on Friday, Sept. 24, J. Earnshaw, Esq., in the Chair. Ahout 600 or 700 persons attended, and a memorial to her Majesty unani mously adopted. DUNDEE. We understan d that a requisition to the Provost, to call a meeting the electors to petition her Majesty not to prorogue Parliament, has been already signed by up wards of 160 of the leading merchants, mannfacturors, and shipowners. PORTLAND TOWN. An adjourned public meeting of the inhabitants of Portland Town and the neigh bourhood was held last evening, at the Crown, Henry-street, Portland-town, to consider the propriety of memorialising her Majesty not to prorogue Parliament. Mr. SIDNEY SMITH came forward and addressed the meeting. They (the Tories) were impatient to turn out the late Ministry, because they did not like the Budget, and now they had turned' round ani adopted the very Budget prepared by the late Chancel lor of the Exchequer; the only difference being that the present Chancellor of the Exchequer had borrowed five millions of money, with the addition of a promise that next February he would come prepared with a list of ad ditional taxes to be laid upon a people who were already burdened with taxes to an extent greater than they could bear.—(Hear.) There were no less than seven public meetings held in opposition to the Corn-laws in different parts of the metropolis on the previous evening. —(Loud cheers.) There were three that eight.—(Hear, hear.) The meetings on the subject had been three deep every evening during the preceding week, and notice d' of the same number of public meetings stood for almost every evening in the present week.—(Cheers.) Mr. Smith sat down amidst great applause. , A resolution to memorialise the Queen not to pro rogue Parliament till the Corn-laws were considered was unanimously adopted. A memorial was then read and agreed to, and signed by above a hundred of the inhabitants. PARISH OF LAMBETH. A numerous and highly respectable meeting of tho rate-payers took place last night at the York hotel, Waterloo-road, relative to the election of overseers, now going on, when the fact that this parish had not come forward in common with other metropolitan parishes, to present an address to her Majesty not to prorogue the Parliament until the Corn-law question had been dis cussed, was brought forward. The reason was stated to be the hostility of the present churchwardens and over seers ; and after some discussion, a committee of gentle men agreed that the signing of the requisition for a public meeting should be proceeded with. DEPTFORD. A densely-crowded meeting took place on Tuesday evening last, to hear a lecture from J. C. Symons, Esq., the author of " Arta and Artisans," on the Corn-laws, which afterwards formed itself into one of the inha bitants of Deptford, and a memorial to the Queen was proposed and carried nnanimously. HAMMERSMITH. A meeting was held at the Windsor Castle, on INfon day evening, for the organisation of the. Anti-Corn-law Association, proposed at the public meeting held on Wednesday last, at the Latymer school-room. The association was formed, and the meeting was adjourned till the following Monday, at eight o'clock. DISTRESS IN SPITALFIELDS. The following account of the distressed condition of the weavers in . gfiitaltields, Bethnal-green, &c., was drawn up by a gentleman well acquainted with that dis trict, and handed to Mr. Sidney Smith at the Shore dittli meeting on Monday night. We are assured that it may be relied on : STATS OF THE WEAVERS.—There are about 14,000 looms in Bethnal-green, Spitaltields, Shoreditch, &c. ; about 3,000 are quite out of work, and ,the 11.000 at work are only three-fourths of their time. employed, which causes great distress and privation among, those who are considered the respectable portion of the district. The average earnings when at work are about 7s. 6d. per week each loom ; from this is to be deducted , ts. 6d. per month, or Is. lid. per week, for expenses of twining in and twisting in, which leaves the miserable starving income of 65.4 d. per week. There are about 800 souls in the Bethnal-green poor house, and about 1,600 receiving out-door relief. There are hundreds without a bed to lie on, having parted with it for food. Cases are occurring every day that weavers are parting with their looms and tools to obtain food for their starving family—those being the only things left of any value that they can dispose of ; and when they are gone they are quite destitute—not a bed to lie on— not a chair to rest on, nor tools to work with. This is the heartbreaking situation of many hundreds of the useful industrious Spitalfields weavers. . Pawnbrokers and furniture-brokers are :o stocked with g eed s, they have great difficulty to find room to put them in th e ir warehouses. Three-fourths of the shopkeepers are insolvent—rents cannot be got in—to distrain is of no use. Ali that could be sold is gone for food. 11,000 looms employed, at 7s. 6d. per week, £4,125 3,000 do, • unemployed, do. do. 1,195 14,000 £5,250 ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. 'NDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Seventy-fifth time of Miss Vincent in the character of " Su san Hopley ;" third week of Wilks' successful drama of " Raf laelle, the Reprobate !" and first week of " The Flying Dutchman," with Childe's Phantasmagorical Representation of the Spectral Ship in full sail. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 30, The highly interesting and pathetic Domestic Drama, called SUSAN HOPLEY ; OR THE TRIALS AND VICISSI TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL. William Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, RAFFAELLE THE REPROBATE ; OR. THE SECRET MISSION, AND THE SIGNET RING. Raffaelle, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Count des Monte, Mr. Dale ; Gablin, Mr. Howard ; Pauline, Mrs. Lee. To conclude with THE FLYING DUTCHMAN ; OR THE PHANTOM SHlP.—Vanderdecken, Mr. Dale; Toby Varnish, Mr. Seaman ; Peter Von Bummel, Mr. Gardner ; Lestelle, Mrs. Lee ; Lucy, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 23.—Pit, I s.— Gallen, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes only, at. Half-past Eight. To. morrow, Susan 1-lopley, Raffaelle, and the flying Dutchmai COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The unpropitious state of the weedier has prevented her Majesty taking her usual drivo.iu the Park to-day. His Excellency the Count St. Aulaiie, M. do Monte zuma, the Earl of Lincoln, and the Earl of Aberdeen' left the Castle to-day. 3fr. George Edward Anson will have the honour of dining with her Majesty this evening. Le Consenter de Montezuma, m E h n is voy Extraordinary the Em- ,and Minister Plenipotentiary from Brasil returned to town yesterC i la a ir es f t r y om ;or Castle; after having been h onoured of the Queen, to. t a k e l eave, at w hich by an autheiree Aber deen, her Majesty's Secretary of the Earl of Affairs, attended. In the afte rnoon hi s for F e o v rei ,Li gn d visits at the residences of the lierabesrEaxoceflithnejltpoiai Family, to take leave. . 24,0. Emerson Moment, M.P., Mr. Johnson , 211 P. Mr. M.P., with a deputation from the gan, nem - Gro vin- en d spirit-dealers of Ireland. had an inter'e t w f r ith the Cha ncellor of the Exchequer yesterday, on the subject of the Irish spirit licenses. deputation of Gentlemen connected with the island of Mauritius, consisting of Sir John R. Reid, Bart., Mr. S. Brownrigg, M.P., Mr. Reynolds, Mr. p asmote , Mr Scott, Mr. Arbuthnot, and Mr. Blythe; bad an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Earl of iSherdeen arrived in town yesterday, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Colonel Rushbrooke, Mr. Aglionby, and Mr. Hardy, Usti an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Downing-street. The Earl of Glengall had an interview yesterday with Lord Stanley at the Colonial-office. The Earl of Shelburne h arrived at Lansdowne themes from Bowood-park, as Wilts. Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassa dor, returned totows yesterday, fr om ' a visit to her Maj est y at Wind sor Castle. TORY OPIWIONS OF DELAY —1 am also asked, " If I approve of the delay, which has been pro- Posed by Robert Peel, for five or six months, befor e the stat e o f th e na ti on i s to be considered ?" Unhesi tatingly I answer, " No." Delays are always dangerous 'ebsE tinder oar present circumstances, will be ruin ous. The inconsistency of Sir Robert Peel's first pro claiming the national affairs to ha in is most ruinous con dition, and then demanding the immediate expulsion of those Who had mismanaged them, and his own call to office, before he wwld propose a remedy ; and DOW, when in offiee, refasifig to attempt any restoration of the national health until ho has received two quarters' pay, ashis_preecribing f ee, can meet with no defence from ate. It may, or may not, be considered good diplomatic generalship, by mere partisans ; that is a qiiestion to be settled between the two parties, and, as parties, I shall not Interfere with them. Far Robert was justified in keeping awe° while the Whigs retained office ; since then his silence appears to me to be indefensible,--Oastler's Fleet Papers. Mr. Freshfield has offered himself for the re presentation of the City of Hereford, upon the Conservative Interest, in the room of Mr. Hobhoose, who has accepted the stewsrdship of the Chiltern Rendre/4 1 4"pr, Paper. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Commercial Traveller, who writes from Fetter-lane, should favour us in confidence with his name. "A. B. C." Baptized and unbaptized can alike claim. WATER AT LONDON MaIDGE I'W-MORROW Morning 8 minutes after 2. Evening •'O minutes after .2. It ~ 17, .. • ,f. ,h,..,,,, 1.,....., . „..,.., ..u, „„ . • 1./ el.' I ° ' --**.`- 'c , 4 4 1-.. •;° ' CI: 1 ' ...!•,z ;,„, .....'F ....r cii . yi -.::, .. ' . • ' '.. 1 '. A . 4, ,•-•-c ' le . • - •• 00 THE NEW WORK ON CANADA. Now ready,ill2 vols. small Bvo., with :11ap and 15 Illustra• tions, Friel 21s. bound, THE CANADAS IN 1841. Pv Lieut.-Col. Sir RICHAftD BON IN YCASTLE. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlboria:gh-street. *,* To be had of all Booksellers. EDITED BY THOMAS HOOD, ESQ. Embellished with a strikiking Likeness of the late THEO DORE HOOK, Esq., and Two illustrations by P hiz. THE OCTOBER NUMBER OF COL lu E W MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST, Edited by THOMAS HOOD, Esq., Contains the following interesting Articles : Memoir of the late Theodore Hook, Esq., with a fine Portrait. A Tete-a-Tete with the New Editor. A Sketch off the Road, by Thomas Hood, Esq. Graduates and Under-Graduates; or, The Proctor's Note Book, by the Author of " Peter Prig ins."—No. 1. PHINEAS QUIDDY; Or, Sheer Industry. By John Poole, Esq., Author of "Paul Pry." With Two Illustrations by Phu. Chapter Vll.—Sheer Industry Prospers.—A Digression for the Benefit of Younger Sons.—A very Confidential Commu nication. Chapter Vlll.—lngenuousness versus Cunning. Chapter IX.--A Touching Incident.—Our Hero's Disinte rested Concern for a " Maiden all Forlorn."—A Magnificent Proposal Rejected. Chapter X.—The Reading of the Will. —A Job's Comforter. Fathers and Sons, Chapter XX., by Theodore Hook, Esq. A Tale of a Trumpet, by Thomas Hood. Esq. (concluded. ) A Visit to Gerbe, by the Hon. and Rev. Charles Bathurst. The Country Town, by Mrs. Gore. A Reminiscence of an Irish Squire. Foreign Sporting, by Nimrod. Memoirs of Madame Lafarge, written by Herself. Charles Chesterfield, the Youth of Genius, by Mrs. Trollope. The Suicide's Burial, &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. H IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, His MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, His MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDE'NDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain ing LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS TRIBU HONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions may receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to upon aL....- HEiNE BROTHERS. The NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains DI VIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO 5,000 400 1,500 200 1,000 150 800 120 And the NEXT PRUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £lO £l5 £44 £299 £1,770 11 18 72 640 9,600 13 22 145 740 Sterling. HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,0001., 18,0001., 9,000/, 5,0001., 3,600/., &c. &c. &c., to London ; 3,6001., 800/., and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to Dublin; 3,600/. to Beverley; 3,6002. to Halifax (Yorkshire); 1,2001. to Portleaven Harbour ; 9001., 7001. and 600/. to Li verpool ; 9001. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. to Hull ; 900/. and 600/. to Manchester ; 700/. to East Retford (Not tinghamshire); 600/. to Bideford ; 6001. to Cork ; 600/. to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the next Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland. Direct for Prospectus and Particulars, without delay, either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBUHGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. lig" Lubeck, Sept. 8, 1841.—Heine Brothers remit again this day several large Money Dividends to Great Britain. £llO £7O 100 60 90 50 80 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. U NDBR the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 30, Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled WHAT WILL THE WORLD SAY 7—Hon. Charles Nor wold, Mr. J. Vining ; Mr. Pye Hilary, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Warner, Mr. Bartley; Captain Scrope Tarradiddle,lMr, W. Farren ; Lady Norwold, Mrs. Glover ; Mar ian Mayley, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Miss De Vere, Miss Cooper ; Tattle, Mrs. Orger ; Mrs. Tarradiddle, Mrs. Humby. After which, the Farce entitled BROTHER BEN.— Commodore Catlass, Mr. Bartiey ; Benjamin Bowles, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mr. Shuffieton, Mr. Harley; Mrs. Cut lass, Miss Cooper , Dorothy. Mrs. Tayleure. To conclude with, the Ballet of Action, entitled HANS OF ICELAND.—Hans of Iceland, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Gill, Mr. J. H. Ridgway ; Frederick, Mr. Gilbert ; Oglypiglap, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Iceland Boy, Master Marshall ; Guth Stasen, Miss Ballin ; Iceland Girl, Miss Marshall. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxer, 7s. ; Second Price, 31. 6d.; First and Second Circ'es, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. To-morrow, What Will the World Say? with Hans of Iceland KOYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Unparalleled success- of the Military Old English Equestrian Spectacle, " Blenheim," the Waterloo of the 18th Century. Overflowing Houses. THIS EVENING, SEPT. no, Will presented the successful Equestrian Spectacle, called THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM ; OR, THE HORSE OF THE DISINHERITED; introducing Mr. Ducrow's mag nificent Stud of Forty Horses, highlly-trained Palfreys, Fairy Parley:, Equestrian Troop, and Companies of both Theatres; embracing all the Military Exploits of the Great Duke of Marlborough, Grand Reviews, Battles, and Glorious Victories. After which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in the Largest Arena in the World, in which Madame Ducrow, Sig nor Hillier, the Great American Rider, the British Horseman, Signor Felix Carlo, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear. To conclude with THE HAUNTED WRECK. Ziig ;ult. LONDON: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1841. In- the debate in the Commons, on Monday evening, a most lugubrious picture was drawn of the state of the country. All parties agreed that the agricultural labourer is reduced to the lowest possible stage of poverty not to be actually a pauper, that the manufacturing labourers are little or no better, that thousands of them are in a state of semi -starvation, that distress is everywhere very great, that crimes are numerous, and that society is threatened with still more serious evils. Without indulging in the least exaggera tion, the state of society, as indicated in the wide-spread of Chartism, in the hostility which has been engendered between different classes in the attacks now made on the ruling powers, and in the general discontent and poverty, may be pronounced to be very alarming. The Tories, in Parliament and out of Parliament, bid the community remember that such was its condi tion when delivered into their hands, and the Whigs retort that the Tories are to blame, for they have in reality possessed the authority of Parliament, and would not allow those measures to be passed which would have remedied the public disasters, and relieved the distresses of the people. Between them we do not at this moment pretend to judge; we only insist on the fact that the country is, according to their united testimony, in a most deplorable condition, and we propose to direct public attention to a con sideration of greater importance than the squab bles of politicians. It is now twenty-six years since England, and almost all Europe, have enjoyed the blessings of profound peace. During that time no part of it has been exposed to any great natural disaster; neither hurricanes, volcanoes, nor floods, have devastated the earth, and disheartened industry by depriving it of its reward. During that time, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1841. too, the different Governments of Europe, no longer harrassed by strife amongst themselves, have bent all their energies to promote the wel fare of the community. In most States, where representative bodies did not before exist, they have been established, the great passion of the day appearing to be to promote the public wel fare by legislation. We have had here in Eng land Parliamentary Reform, Municipal Reform, and a variety of other reforms, : calculated to in crease the happiness of the people. We have had very extensive reform's in the law f and in prison discipline; we have had also tithes set tled, and the Poor-law altered ; education has been promoted, and civil government reformed; in short, the Legislature has for twenty-six years bestowed almost undivided attention on promoting the welfare of the people, and the result is the present condition of society. Such a connection between the great exer tions of the Legislature, and the inefficiency of the results, is calculated to excite a doubt whether legislation has answered its end. Most diligently have our senators toiled, and our news papers written, in favour of new laws, and the result is the present condition of England. The labour has been in vain, and in vain through ig norance. It is, for example, quite plain that the facts we yesterday stated in relation to-paper money—namely, that banking facilities supply the place of a bank-note circulation, and that the latter is slowly but surely becoming of compara tively little importance, have been unknown to our lawmakers, or they would never, with, a view to keep credit in check, have promoted the establishment of banks, and sought to regulate and control the issue of paper promises to pay. The Legislature has, in fact, defeated its own object. This is only the example, but from that we deduce the rule. Thus it has been ignorance in the Legislature, which has rendered itslabours for twenty-five years nearly or completely abor tive, and which has made it the source rather of mischief than of benefit to the community. It must not at the same time be concluded, that old laws are better than modern legislation, and that PEEL'S caution is better than Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S zeal. Except the Corn-law, which, in thorough ignorance of the progress of society, was first passed in 1815, and renewed and and altered in 1828, we know of no modern law which has muelt tended to increase the misery of the people. Reform Acts and remission of taxa tion have had no such tendency. The old laws, laying restriction on trade and heavy burdens on the people, are the causes of distress, and we must have legislation to abolish those old laws if the country is to be restored to prosperity. Legislation to abolish old laws we must have, but beyond that, till legislatOrs are much more sure of their ground than at present, they ought to proceed with the utmost care and caution. But, without entering into details, either as to the causes or remedies of the national distress, it is clear, from the present condition of the country, that 'since the peace legislation has been signally inefficient, and the inefficiency must have been caused by the ignorance or the malignancy of the Legislature. Such a :reflec tion should make the Members of both Houses cautious of their sayings and doings. One of the subjects debated of late in Parlia ment, which has probably failed to interest the people from a want of acquaintance with it, is that of having a naval officer in the Board of Ordnance. The reason of this is, that the Ord nance supplies arms to the navy as well as the army, and only a naval man can judge whether the arms supplied to the navy be well or ill adapted to the purpose. In one of the brief dis cussions which have taken place on the subject the peculiarity of gun-carriages on board ship was adverted to, and what can mere artillerymen know of the sort of gun-carriage required for' different vessels ? Nothing. Again, it has long been a subject of com plaint that the cutlasses supplied to our seamen were no better than Iron-hoops with a handle. This is quite true, and it has been a standing reproach to the Ordnance Department for nearly half a century. Similar remarks apply to the muskets supplied to the seamen, who are expected to defend their lives and gain honour for their country with instruments that would be a disgrace to the rude arts of Syria or Arabia. In fact, as Sir CHARLES NAPIER ob served, the English sailor is worse supplied with arms than the sailor on board MEHEMET Am's ships, and it may reasonably be expected, were a naval officer connected with the Board of Ord nance, that he would be able to remedy these glaring evils. To secure the appointment of one —which we regard as indispensable, and not as . some journals have ignorantly or malevolently misrepresented the matter, to place a naval officer at the head of the Board—was the object of Sir Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S recommendation. Every naval officer in Parliament concurred in the re commendation, and the Tories will probably ere long regret that they have not conciliated the navy, and promoted the good of the service by adopting it. In a discourse of Dr: ("MANNING'S, delivered in January last in the city of Boston, in the United States, we find some remarks on the ob ligation of a city to care for, and watch over, the health of its members, which we would gladly see adopted by the wealthy classes in the cities and larg►e towns of the United Kingdom. No thing can be truer than that a very large amount of the misery and crime which disgraces such cities as London, Dublin, and Edinburgh, would disappear were the wealthy and influential inha bitants seriously to undertake the improvement of the moral and physical condition of their neg lected, starving, erring brethren. But unhap pily a residence in cities, instead of bringing all classes into collision, has generally the effect of entirely separating them. In London, for ex ample, the rich and poor never meet but in the 'theatre, and even there the noise from the shil ling gallery is all that reaches the dress boxes. The (h.:to:nee of a single street will frequently carry a person from the excess of refinement to a state of barbarism, of which it is impossible to form an adequate conception. The most brutal ignorance, the most deplorable indigence, the most loath Some squalor and disease, the most reckless, low, and depraved ruffianism, is fre quently separated only by a few hundred yards from the gay abodes of accomplished elegance, and the satiety of super-abundant wealth; and yet the one knows nothing and cares nothing for the other. " There are travellers from Lon , don," says Dr. CHANNING, " who come to visit our Indians, but who leave at home a community as essentially barbarous as that which they seek, who, perhaps, have spent all tlteir lives in the midst of it, giving it no thotight. To these tra vellers a hovel in one of the suburbs which they have left would be as strange a place as the wig wam of our own forests. They know as little what thousands of their own city suffer, to what extremities thousands are reduced ) by what arts thou'sands live,'as they, know of the Modes of life of savage tribes. How much more useful lessons would they learn, and how much holier feelings would be awakened in them, were they to pene trate the dens of want, and woe, and crime, a few steps from their own door, than they would gain from exploring this new world." But of the tew who attempt the exploration of the haunts of the destitute, not one in ten is actuated by the only motives that could endear them to the poor, and obtain from them their confidence. They arc for the most part the female self-appointed apostles of some Tract Society, who see nothing but sin in rags, and who insult time sufferings, and chafe the temper, of starving wretches, by recommending to them the perusal of lying legends, concocted by some Evangelical Jesuit in - petticoats. For their many miseries they are to seek consolation in the fabricated record of the spiritual birth of " Sinful Sally," or " Dicky Brown the Sweep's Conversion," from the sin of two-pennyworth-of-gin potations before break fast. No wonder that the poor regard the in trusion of such Pharisees into their miserable dwellings as an insult to their poverty, and that they receive the i3roffefr6d tracts with an inward determination not to read a line of them. As for the authorised ministers of the Gospel in London, they certainly cannot be accused of insulting the wretched by any fanatical sym pathy for the sins or sufferings of the soul or body. They are to be met with in the large squares, the parks, ,and the fashionable pro menades, but never in the lanes, the alleys, and the courts, where want seeks a last asylum, and where squalid vice slums the noon-day con coutse of the affluent and the respectable. Po pulous , abodes of wretcliedness and crime, and suffering- and death could :be, pointed out in London; in which the footeal - Of the minister of the Gospel was never heard.within the memory of the present occupants. A salvationable soul in London must reside in a fine house in a respectable street, with a good larder and a full cellar upon the premises. The smell of good cheer is requisite to guide the priest even to tict: Igcr- - side of the dying. Mark with what different eyles the r. eloquent and bene volent CHANNING; looks upon the true greatness of a great city : It is a plain, truth, and yet how little understood, that the greatest thing in a city is Man himself. Ile is its end. We admire its palaces ; but the mechanic who builds them is greater than palaces. Human nature in• its lowest form, in the most abject child of want, is of more worth than all outward improvements. You talk of the prosperity of your city. I know but one true prosperity. Does, the human soul grow and prosper here ? Do not point. me to' your thronged streets. I ask, who throng them ? Is it' a low-minded, self-seek ing, gold-worshipping,"man-despising crowd, which I see rushing through them ? Do I meet in them, under the female form, the gaily-decked prostitute, or the idle, wasteful, aimless, profitless woman of fashion ? Do I meet the young man, 'Showing off his pretty per son as the perfection of nature's works, wasting his golden hours in dissipation and sloth, and bearing in his countenance,, and gaze the marks of a profligate. Do I meet a grasping multitude, seeking to thrive by concealments and frauds ? An anxious multitude, driven by fear of want to doubtful means of gain ? An unfeeling multitude, caring nothing for others, if they themselves prosper or enjoy ? In the neighbourhood of your comfortable or splendid dwellings, are there abodes of squalid misery, of reckless crime, of bestial intemperence, of half-famished child hood, of profaneness, of dissoluteness, of temptation for thoughtless youth ? And are these multiplying with your prosperity, and outstripping and neutralising the influence of truth and virtue ? Then your prosperity is a vain show. Its true use is to make a better people. The glory and happiness of a city consist not in the number, but the character of its population. Of all the fine arts in a city, the grandest is the art of forming no ble specimens of humanity. The costliest productions of our manufactures are cheap, compared with a wise and good humane being. A city which should practi cally adopt the principle, that man is worth more than wealth or show, would gain an impulse that would place it at the head of cities. A city in which men should be trained worthy of the name, would become the metropo lis of the earth. It is by corporate rather than by individual exertions that'the health, and morals, and com forts of the potir Of our great cities can ever be extensively , improved. The facilities of cheap locomotioro has destroyed the necessity for the old crowding of cities. An improved police and superior lighting renders courts, and alleys, and narrow lanes so many obstacles to cleanliness, ventilation, and traffic. The squares and courts of the 17th century were protections against rob bers by clustering people together. Now, in building squares, it is not robbers, but abundance of room, plenty of breathing space, that the architect is bound to care for, if he have in view the comfort and convenience of the future residents therein. Again, instead of sectarian dogmas and pious fictions, the visitors of the poor must consider in what way they can be usefully employed, and properly self-instruct ed. Instead of driving silly women out of their senses with ridiculous legends about the death bed conversions of imaginary men and women, those who interest' themselves in their welfare must teach them useful lessons in household economy ; convince them of their errors by ex ample rather than bY precept; and, by represent- lndin their owillives.the humility, and self-denial, and charity of sincere Christians, gradually win the least considerate to an admiration of the spirit and an observance of the precepts of the Gospel. As it is quite settled that no alteration is to be Made in the Poor-law, it seems ill-timed to dis cuss the subject in the press. That great desti tution prevails is unhappily certain ; but no per son dreams of charging that on the Poor-law. If relief have not been adequate to the wants of the people we are not sure that, under the old system, when they were more completely at the mercy of their masters than at present, that it :would not have been lesS. We are no advocates, :however, particularly in the present state of so ciety, for a harsh administration of thelaw ; but :we should much prefer a system of legislation of ;whiclrthe object should be to restore industry !independence and comfort, instead of providing 'for the wants of unoccupied pauperism. We )lave read many discussions in Parliament, and, except as that of Tuesday • evening might tend :to rouse in the Members feelings of humanity, and make them in general ashamed of oppres .sion, seldoM have we read one of less practical 'importance. For one thing it was -remarkable, ;which the upper classes may see with regret, and !the lower with something like malignant satisfac tion. Mr.- FEnnAND and others accused the mill ;owners of oppressing the people, while gentlemen of a different party retorted on the landlords. The people will conclude that they have now in ,their hands a certificate from each that the others are oppressors. Surely those gentlemen who provoke such exhibitions in Parliament can never have heard of the contest between labour and capital, and of the fierce hatred which is nourished against the aristocracy, or they would have been careful not to have put such powerful arms into the hands of those they have made their enemies. If discussion on the Poor-laws can only give birth to such criminations and re criminations, the sooner, for the upper classes, they are wholly suppressed the better. Madrid Journals of the 21st instant have been received. The Government had brought no fewer than four prosecutions against the Correo Nacional. Upon the only two tried the Journal obtained a verdict of acquittal. M. ON's, well known in England, has been appointed Ambas sador from Spain to the Court of London. The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all reached us. The Journal des Debats contains a remark able article, the puiport of which is that France will not reduce her navy. The fine speeches of Sir ROBERT PEEL have, therefore, been thrown away, as, notwithstanding his friendly assurances and the Treaty of the lath of July, France has really no confidence in the pacific .pledges of a Tory Government. The 'spirit of M. TRIERS, who arrived in Paris - on Monday evening, appears already to impart a warlike • tone to the leading Ministerial journals. The KING'S speech at the camp of Compiegne has excited considerable 'interest in Paris. 'His MAJESTY'S assurance. that . the troops would have less to do for the present against foreign enemies .than the factious - at home, was well calculated to create distruSt among a large body in Paris. The Opposition journals still attack the Minis terial circulars in the most unmeasured terms. We doubt whether the KING, supported as he is by the army alone, will be able to carry out the threats of the Ministry against the Press. The Gi orna l e d e ll e Due Sicilie gives an account of disturban ces h av i ng broken out at Aquila, in the ;' Abruzzo , on the Bth instant, while the troops were called to Naples to assist at the fete of the Pie di Grotta. According to this official Journal, a body of labourers, after having attacked Colonel Tanfani, commandant of the province, while returning from the country with his orderly officer, and killed them, entered the town and • fired on a detachinnt of gendarmes and chasseurs, who had assemble& at the first alarin. The latter yeturned the fire, and killed four of theinsurgents. 1- ,The rest re tired into the neighbouring country, whiih for a time was thrown into a state of agitation. Troops were imme diately marched out in every direction, but the result of their operations is not mentioned. The Com merce g i ves tho following details of the voyage of the Iphi gen i e f r i ga te, recently arrived at Toulon from the island of B our b on: —" This frigate was despatched for the island on the 27th of December, with 400 men of the 3d regiment of Marines. Shewas about nine months on her passa ge ou t an d in, during which she lost 23 sol diers and 14 o f h er o wn crew. Capitaine de Corvette Espanet, who was second in command, died after a shOrt illness. She had sprung a leak, and it was necessary to keep 12 men at the pumps, working night and day. She is in want of repair, and must be hove down. The Courrier Franfais gives a letter from Tripoli, in Barbary, dated 25th ult., stating that the Turkish troops, after having spread misery and desolation in the province of Gorian, were preparing to re-enter Tripoli. Forty Arab chiefs who had submitted were retained as hostages in a fortress, and a large quantity of arms taken from the Arabs of the province had arrived at Tripoli. The letter adds that the crops have failed, and that the duty of 40 per cent. upon the corn brought to market was ruinous to the population. Unless, says the writer, the Porte wishes to prevent the Arabs or Gorian from 'dying of hunger, it will change the present Governor. , The Frankfort Journal states that Prince . Paul Ester hazy will be probably replaced, for the present, as Aus trian Ambassador at London, by Baron Neumann: The Emperor and Empress of Austria arrived at Selicenbrunn on the .20th inst., from their tour in Styria and Upper Austria. The Com)nerce says, " We hate received accounts from Bologna of the 18th inStant. According to certain ru mours in circulation, the late arrests in the Roman. States were 'Conneeted . with a society called the Fereli nandine. 'rile Pope, after having remained three days :at Loretto, left on the 14th for Ancona, arrived there on the same day, and remained till the 18th. Both at Loretto and Ancona there were illuminations, fireworks, &e., in honour of his visit. The Pope has signified his intention of visiting Bologna next year. There is no talk of an amnesty. The Univers states that a college, or school, for the inhabitants of Beyrout, has been opened in that town by the Jesuits, and that more than 140 young Syrians attend it. _ While the King of Prussia was at the Camp in Leig nitz, Silesia, there were presented to him an old soldier, 105 years of age (who had served under Frederick the Great), and his son aged 70. The celebrated sculptor Thorswalden returned to Rome on the 12th inst. He was received with great honour by all the artists of Rome, and the Academy of St. Luke sent a deputation to compliment him. The Sentinelk des Pyrenees states, that some priests arrested at Toledo, 45 in. number, for refusing to obey the authority of the Government, by adhering to the orders of the „Pope, have been tried 'for the 'offence, and sentenced to a residence of nine months, and separately, at a distance of at least 12 leagues from Toledo, but with the power of evading this sentence by paying each 1,000 reals to the public treasury. The Constitutionnel states that whilst the arrests were going on at Chauriat, near Clermont, a peasant who had compromised himself in the riots blew out his brains with a pistol. " Great and numerous difficulties," the Moniteur Pa risien states, " are said to have arisen to hinder the nego tiations between France and Belgium, for a commercial treaty." The Bayonne Journals announce the arrival there, on Thursday, of the Count de Parsent, and add that it is expected Don Francisco de Paulo will shortly follow on his way to Madrid. A letter from Constantinople, Bth inst., in the Augs burg Gazette, informs us that the schismatic Armenians had presented a petition to the Sultan, complaining of various acts of oppression on the part of their Patriarch, and demanding his removal from that post. The peti tion, after much delay, which nearly produced a revolt, has been crowned with success, the Patriarch having been de prived of his office. The Patriarch of Antioch arrived at Constantinople on the 4th inst., as did also the second son of.the Emir Beschir. From Malta, letters had been received announcing the cessation of the plague at Tre bisonde, but it continued, to ravage the Pachalics of Bag dad and.Mousul. Fifty persons died daily at Erzerourn. Tux. HAGUE, SEPT. 21.—The First Chamber of the States-General, in its sitting to-day, gave its assent to the first project of law for the anticipated conversion of the Deferred into Active Debt ; and second, to that for the redemption of debt for the year 1841. On the other hand, the First Chamber has respectfully requested his Majesty the King to take into further consideration that containing instructions for the General Chamber of Accounts. BOURSE--PARIS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 28. , Sleet Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents. ex. di,. 114 40 ... 114 49 ... 114 35 114 40 434 per Cents lO5 so ... 105 50 ... 105 50 105 50 4 per Cents 97 40 ... 97 40 95 97 25 3 per Cents... 7B 95 78 95 .7890 .. '7B 90 dank of France 2320 : 4 ..3320 ...3517 50 ...3317 50 &Mate ?Sank 5,000 f. Shares 1.080 ...5080 ...SOSO ...5083 -vietan Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. per Cents., 1840 104% ... 104 ... 104% 194% ipanish Active ....»......» 12% ... 22% ... 22% ... /2% Passive ...... 514 ••• 5 ••• 5 New Defer red .. 10 'lO ... 10 ... 10 Neapolitan ........................ 105 10 ... 105.10 ... /15 105 103% ... 104 • ... 10536 ... 103( _ _ 11 - AfiWA . sH,ti RES._ 205 2 08 25 ... 205 205 14 Re 000.1110•••••• ssss 310 310 ..• 310 ••• 310 Rouen •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 450' ••• 450 450 ••• 450 Orleans • ...... ••• •••••••••••••• 477 SC •110 477 50 600 477 50 ... 477 50 Montpellier to Cette .....».. 220 220 ... 220 ... 220 StrasUurgtoßale,sharear• 236 25 ... 237 50 ... 235 237 50 AUSTRIAN FUNl3B.—.ViaNsa.s SEPT. 18 Five per Cents. Metalliques • 10694 Four per Cents. ...........».» Three per Cents. Dank Shares 1568 ZeilUng, Sept. 23 THE NEW MINISTRY. The First Lord of the Treasury and Lady Peel ar rived at their residence, 'Whitehall-place, this morning, from Windsor Castle. Sir Robert Peel transacted business at his office in Downing-street this day. • Sir Charles Bagot, G.C.8., the newly appointed Go vernor of Canada and its dependencies, whose appoint ment was officially announced in Tuesday's Gazette, will leave England to take upon himself the duties of his new office on the 10th of October. Lady Bagot, who is a daughter, of Lord Maryborough and niece of his Grace. the Duke of Wellington, will not at present accompany him. A paragraph appeared in The Sun of this morning, stating that Lord Stanley would preside at the Liverpool Agricultural Meeting held this day. The person alluded to is Baron Stanley, of Aldersley, and not the Right Hon. the Secretary for the - Colonies who is in town, and transacted business in towning-street this morning. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 29.—The busi ness done in the Cotton Market' to-day is to a moderate extent, the sales amounting to 4,000 bales, of which ex porters have taken. 100 American, and 100 Surat. ' LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, SEPT. 29.—Grand Junc tions, Half Shares, 99; Great Western, 76; Great North of England, 63 ; London and Brighton, 44k. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 29.—We have had little doing to-day in , Shares. • Prices generally remain firm.• London - and Birmingham, 156 ' • Man chester and Birmingham, 21 London and South Western, 51 ; Manchester and Leeds, New Quarters, 15s. prem. No intelligence of the steam-ship Britannia up to the present time. There are no later arrivals to-day frnm any quarter. Consols opened at 89i- for Money, and 891 I for the Account. Exchequer Bills, 12 14 pren3. The Brazilian Dividends are advertised to-day, in con sequence of which the Bonds have advanced to 65 67. Spanish Active Stock opened firm at 221 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 301 t•, and the Threes 181 1. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. • Per Share. London and Brighton London and Greenwich (New)... 20 London and South Western HALF-PAST ONE. The advestisement of the payment of the Brazilian dividends, duo to-morrow, has given • much satisfaction in the City. The non•appearance of that notice at an earlier period is said to have had its orig in in the recent change of the Brazilian EmbasSy. The transfer of full powers by the retiring Minister to the Chevalier de Lisboa was only completed on Wednesday, by the ex change of their respective credentials at tho Foreign office. There is still the same degree of inactivity in both the English and Foreign Stock Markets that has pre vailed for several days. • Consols for Money are•new quoted-at 89 89i, and for the Account, 89k ; Exchequer Bills, 11 13 premiuni ; Spanish Active Stock, 221 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 301 ; Brazilian Stock, 65 67 ; Dutch Five per Cents., 1011 102. In the Share Market scarcely a bargain has been done. London and Brighton Railway Shares are 44 ; and London and South Western, 511. -TWO O'CLOCK. .. Consols, Money, 88f, 89; do. Account, 89f1; Spanish, 221 Nothing doing. QUARTER TO THREE. A good deal of controversy has been going on in the City during the last few days on 'aecount of the non-ap pearance of any advertisement respecting the payment of the dividends on the Brazilian Foreign loan. The change of Ministry .at Rio de Janeiro has led to the recal of the A.mbassador here, M. Mon tezuma. His successor is,, however, in this cOun try, but . until M. Montezuma , could take formal leave. of her Majesty the new-Envoy, • it, is.said, was unable to take upon himself any diplomatic act; and he alone haiing the necessary funds and authority i for paying the dividends, Montezuma could `riot well advertise it. At all events, however,' the public , ' should - have had some intimation Of thesepeculiar cireutnstatices, by which the credit of the Brazilian Goierranent wouldueier have been called int6"questiod. • - • r• • • CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 'lndia' Stock ....246 3 per Cent Red ... Ditto - Bonds 3 per Cent Cons 88& Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red — Ditto New Annuities... New si r per Cent 9Bk Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 13 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001... l3 pry Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small. ...14 en Jan. 1860 — tank Stock for 0pg.... Oce 1859 llndia Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. Consols for Acct B9i FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 p er cen t.... Portuguese , 5 per cent. EoOsm, s_per cent — !Ditto, New Ditto 3O tdo, Brazilian Jnds. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent R ussian , per cent . Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic ." Colombian, 6 p er cen t... Spa n i s h, 'S per cent 22i Ditto, 1824 Ditto Deferred — Danish, 3 per c e n t Bok French, s'per cent. —f. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — 'Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cen t.... 25* French, 3 percent —f. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. IDutch, 2i per cent. ... 511 Peruvian, 182.5, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent 102 SHARES Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 57 . Great Western Railway (65' paid)'..... . ..... 76} Ditto New Shares (50 paid 54 London and Brighton (50 paid) 45 London and Birmingham (90) ......... 157 Ditto Thirds (32 paid) London and Greenwich Railway (20' pd) Ditto New Shares (20 paid) ..... .. 17 London and South Western' - 51 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ... 7 4 South Eastern and Dover (38 paid)... 144 York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 76 SUMMARY OF NEWS AN D VtibUr Oti ptton. " Who runs may lead." FOREIGN. . The Journal des Debats of Tuesday has a long article, assuring us that France has no intention of disarming any of the twenty .sail of the line which she has now in commission. Notwithstanding our vast Indian empire, and our numerous colonies in every part of the world, France contends for the right of keeping a navy afloat equal to ours. This is surely not over-pacific, consider ing the burst of joy with which the Debats hailed the accession of the Tories to office. What would the Debats think of our pacific intentions were we to propose rivaling France in the strength of our army ? And have we not about the same claims to become a great military power that France has to become a naval . one ? The King of the French held a grand review at Cora- - peigne on Sunday, at which he delivered to the Colonels of the 22d, 23d, 34th, and 25th Regiments of Light In-. fantry ; to the Colonels of the 68th, '69th, 70th; 71st, 72d, 73d, 74th, and 75th of the line ; to the Colonels of the 7th, Bth, and 9th Hussars; and to the Colonel of the 13th Chasseurs, their respective colours. The troops then took the oath of allegiance proposed to them by Marshal Soult, and the King addressed them in a speech which will be given in another part of The Sun. The ceremony was altogether very imposing. Great differences have arisen between the French and Belgian Commissioners upon the Tariff question. A letter from Badajos of the 18th, states that the Mi guelite brigands were defeated at Anonches, in Portugal, about four leagues from the Spanish frontier, on, the 16th, by some detachments of the Royal" troops.' There were between 90 and 100 in the gang, of whom 40 were killed on the spot, and 38 taken and shot in less than an hour after their capture. The ex-Regent of Spain has written to the Madrid Government for her pension, as the widow of Ferdinand the Seventh. Maria Christina is one of the riehest in dividuals in Europe, and yet she pleads poverty to the very Government against which she protested in July last! Serious disturbances took place near Naples on the Bth instant. A Colonel and his orderly officer were killed by some labourers. The troops were called out and ordered to fire upon the people, when four persons were shot dead and many wounded. The rioters fled to the mountains. The King of the Belgians, accompanied by the Queen, the Duchess of Kent, and the fashionables at Brussels, assisted on Monday at laying the first stone of a branch railway, connecting the southern, northern, eastern, and western lines which intersect Belgium. Several addresses were presented to his Majesty on this occasion, to which he very handsomely replied by giving most of the par ties concerned an excellent dinner. There is nothing like feeding loyalty. PARLIAMENTARY. The Lords did not meet yesterday. In the Commons a number of petitions were presented against the Corn-laws, and complaining of great distress. Mr. Wakley again referred to Mr. Warner's inven. tion, without obtaining any further information than that the present Board of Ordnance knew nothing of it. Colonel Fox, as if ashamed for the Ordnance, ex plained that the old muskets with which the navy bad been supplied were now partially replaced by better weapons. Several Bills were forwarded a stage. Mr. Wakley again sought a further explanation 01 some of Mr. Ward's observations, but did not obtain it. The House adjourned soon after Five o'Clock. PUBLIC OPINION. From the style in which, in the following passage, the Morniug Herald speaks of Lord Palmerston, it is evident that the Tories consider him a formidable mem ber of Opposition :—" The loss of office and of pay seem to have galled Lerd Palmerston more than any of his late colleagues ; and so they may, for in truth the Noble Lord so loves place, that for more than thirty years he has rarely been out of it, and never long. Lord Palmerston has been throughout life " a sworded Switzer;" to him the " best of causes has been the best of pay ; he has never " vexed his head" for pleas of right; office has been the polar star by which he has steered his political course, and his compass has been his own individual interests. Party never had such strong claims on him as his own advancement ; and though at last he had all that he sought—" King—Glamis—Cawdor — all!" yet "he played most foully" for them. Lord Palmer ston is now an ex-Minister who has not one political friend ; in whom no living soul has the least confidence; who is equally incapable of bestowing confidence on any one ; whose abilities, official skill, and extensive know ledge on matters little studied in England, are his only recommendations to any party; and to the ignorant Whigs they were irresistible." The Chronicle remarks, in an article suggested by the approaching prorogation of Parliament :—" Is Parlia ment to be prorogued without any expression of defer ence to the opinion and the anxious expectation of a large portion of the people of the United Kingdom ? Sir Robert Peel is not asked to do what he so much abhors—to pledge himself to details. He is not asked to declare what it is he specially means to do ; he is not asked to pledge himself to a five shilling duty, or an eight shilling duty, or a ten shilling duty. He is not even to pledge his Cabinet to any definite change what ever. All that is at present required is, that, in de ference to the loudly expressed opinion of a large portion 'of the nation, he should enter on an exami nation of the matter of which they complain ; that he should make inquiry into their allegations ; that he should give a fair and fitting opportunity to the Le gislature to inquire whether or no this Corn-law is really the mischievous enactment that it is affirmed to be; and also to consider what fair and fitting remedy may be provided for the mischief. The request is a reasonable one. It requires no deep consideration in order to comply with it; and in complying with it Sir Robert Peel would merely fulfil the moral and social duties which devolve on him as the head of the Govern ment of the country. But if Parliament is to be pro rogued without any indication that the Corn-law is to be taken into consideration, a deliberate insult will be given, and a cruel wrong will be done to a large portion of the people of the empire."—What cares Sir Robert Peel for inflicting " a cruel wrong " on the p e ople, backed, as he is, by an unscrupulous majority of ninety one? He has the power now; and that power he will exercise after his own fashion, and at his own good time, heedless whether' the country approves of his measures or no. . The Advertiser thus comments on the tricky conduct of the Tory Ministry, in determining to renew the powers of the Poor-law Commissioners for a term with out restrictions :—" So the powers of the Poor-law Com missioners are to be renewed for a term, without restric tion of any kind, Sir Robert Peel most resolutely re fusing to permit any meddling with the details of the subject, until after he shall have had time to ponder over it in all its branches, and to make up his mind whether any, and if so, what, alterations may be deemed expedient in the law. Never was there a more disgraceful piece of legislative business—disgraceful as many of the proceedings of the Legislature have been—than this, 1- lative to the continuance of the Poor-law Commission by the Conservative House of Commons. Base and unfeeling, as all the world knew the Tories to be, few imagined them to have been so steeped in dishonour and degradation as their treachery upon the Poor-law question now proves them to be. It is notorious, that in at least six cases out of ten in which the Conservatives distanced the other party at the recent elections, they did so by the course they took with reference to the New Poor-law, which they held up as abominable, diabolical, and damnable,' while they characterized the official pro ceedings of the Commissioners as the tyrannical govern ment of the three devil kings of Somerset House.'' The Morning Post is by no means so positive on the merits of the Corn-laws as it was a few days since. After writing a host of heavy leading articles, to prove their intrinsic excellence, our Contemporary now con tents himself with the expression of a modest doubt on the subject. The Corn-laws may be right, or they may be wrong ; he is not quite certain which. We quote his remarks on this point :—" There can be no greater mistake, and where it is not a mistake, no more malevo lent calumny than that of certain brawlers. who say that the present Ministerial party do not care whether there is enough of food for the people or not, and only concern themselves about high prices for their own advan tage. Be the Corn-laws right or wrong, they are maintained from a belief that the whole body of the' people derive benefit from them, and more espe cially that class which depends upon manual labour for subsistence. So long as the Corn-laws continue the 'labourers of this country must be employed in raising food for this country's' consumption. Were the Corn law s ou re r p m ea a l n ed nia a e n tu d re w s ere fo o r ur fo s r u e p i p g l n y o e b o ta rn i , ned by exchang ingnot men would be the chief sources of mounerhsinuepPlyanodf food, and the men who are now em pl o yed in providing the supply would have no one to hire them, and consequently, languish in the utmost distress u ntil they died." would, The Worcester Chronicle is of opinion that no reme dial measures of value are to be hoped for from the pre could seht Government, observing—" Would, that . feel ourselves justified in holding out thepalteatsasintvgehaenrtiecni-- pation that something like justice wou ld Butderedwitoth a t n h o e p l p v r e e i r ht d opfeoapine lzhainTghlyrai,Vlamsintiasotrlealti,ona. Ripon, a Knatchbull, and a Grahame of as theto ham against , in the scale landed aristocracy, who can so hope indulge in the deceitful visionlar interests will preponderate ? that l ;, o h w e m s c n a l e e h of m the ore pliokpeuly will it kick the beam. The Dublin Evening Post observes, in an article sug gested by Lord Shrewsbury's pamphlet :—" To what do • • do the professio ns made on t he part of this Ministry amount ? That they will adopt the very system of even handed justice and impartiality in the Government of Ireland for which the Whigs had been daily and hourly slandered and denounced—that, in fact, the Tories are determined to reject the very means by which they tricked and cheated themselves into power. Is not this a true :picture ?—Lord Shrewsbury, if he reflect, would be the last to question its accuracy. MONEY-TRADE - COMMERCE. A fair share of business is doing in the cloth halls at Leeds. The Halifax market is steady. At Bradford, the wool market continues good. On the opening of the Strasburgh Railroad last Sun day a grand dinner was given at Mulhausen. One in scription on the walls of the dining-room, ran thus :-- "In 1500 the journey from Mulhausen to Strasburgh occupied eight days ; in 1600, six days ; in 1700, four days ; in 1800, two days ; in 1841, two hours." conimmucxax. REFORM. The great public meeting at Leeds, reported in an other part of The Sun, held on Monday last in the Cloth EVENING SUN Hall yard, was attended by 5.000 persons, and the only opposition experienced was from a few Chartists. AGRICULTURAL. The stems of the crops of corn about the East Itibeeclifign are, in many instances, higher than they hav e d known for years. A crop of beans at Driffield average in the stems from 7to 8 - feet in height, one seedling bean of which produced 70 pods. trir The crops about Mallow, in Ireland, are frig••,ht ravaged by the rains. In Dundalk, alsO, th e bad e3t and high winds have done much damage to the e n corn stoolied in the fields. NAVAL AND MILITANIT . and Captain Blackwood, with the Scylla, sloop of w ar 'A e Bramble, cutter,is about to survey Torres Straits an' whole south face of New Guinea.the The effective strength of the army in Irelands n and 15th of the present month was in total 15,294, ra file. LAW AND POLICE. p ion, In in action brought in the Sheriffs' Co urt, Lo were to recover for work done, the plaintiff's cbarg es de d 7s• refused as exorbitant, inasmuch as one item Cha r b - , e on' for a " prophet's head." The Learned •Counse' gO O tended, on the score of prophets' heads, that 0 0 to 1 E _ Is. m ore presented to the Jury was not worth ore 5- per hour for its use to the defendant. A pawnbroker, on the information of cora°, for former, was fined 20s. and costs at Queen-scluarrop. exacting more than the interest allowed by law. .months 9'l peered that certain articles had been pledged two to° o l for Bs., and, on being redeemed, the shopman del/3ore Bs. 3k1., which we believe is about one halfpenoY than is allowed by the Act. One hundred pounds have been offered IV f o r the meat, and a second hundred by other parties, to apprehension of the Eskdaleside murderer , v lll° this hour undiscoVered. In the Insolvent Debtors' Court yesterdays Si r W ig . C s; - - . ison, Boyd, who has been eleven months in 61 IV brought up for further examination. He Was ° P P-s stre et ' Mr. Hall, silversmith and pawnbroker, o ffilp ob' Marylebone, on the ground that he had iniproP e id tbit, tamed goods to the value of 301. The Court b e ins nclo the debt had been fraudulently incurred, and re- a the insolvent to the Fleet prison. n At Guildhall, a genteel looking young rontptirts brought before the Alderman, charged with 14 ,, te r - e d b et to drown and poison herself. A policeman s i ec " 01 49 / from drowning, and a chemist was equallykin d° 1 Icreo her from death by poison, having sold ber tartar for arsenic. ELECTIONEERING. be Lor y Mr. Pringle, on his appointment as one of t r ,sx of the Treasury, was re-elected for Selkirk on ha last, without opposition. of t ' e j office The Hon. Colonel Darner, on his accept3lice,.elect of Comptroller of the Household, vvas,, r ; for Portarlington, on Monday last, unoprgls' Altamont retired. LITERARY AND SCIENTOICeritiOet The Italian Scientific Congress, after ina u gtor statue to " starry Galileo," commenced its sl """ Florence on the 16th instant, with about 700 sOleetia It was announced at the Manchester Chartist %04 11 on Monday that Bronterre O'Brien was abou t t 0 j sq Chartist Newspaper, mad hoped that body 117°°1 port it. TREALTRIC.A.L. af a s ' Last night Woolcroft's well-known play of e6 e iote Dumb was revived at the Haymarket. Madan" appeared as Julio, the hero of the piece. The Adelphi season commences on Monday 01. an extraordinary piece of diablerie and witchcra tbe Two new five-act plays by Sheridan Knowles Stet e author of London Assurance, are in forior towards representaion at Covent Garden. SPORTING. otw'A rOn Tuesday last, a solitary snipe, weighing eig e — the P, was shot near York. A fine specimen, also, °Vol), Honey-Buzzard was shot at Lansdown, •"" Saturday. ANGLING. D r " ; The angling season in the noted trout streams 5 oil field, Yorkshire, closes this day. In the becks b s , King's Mill and the Bridge, the trout have bee°, bi f Ol e merous, that myriads of them have been remoiret 10° keeper to the waters at Wansford. One angler , 1 • 9 weeks, took 1641b5. weight of trout. COITILT—PASHIONABLZ. 010,1; Prince Albert will go to Claremont for a clflYCer sant shooting on the Ist, and return to Wincis°- the same evening. The Dike and Duchess of Buccleuch and 0 0 , 0 0 ... ,) , " main at Dalkeith House until the end of neldtli," when their Graces come to Montague House 1111 her Majesty's accouchement. C ep Bbd° The Duke of Devonshire has arrived at vea l lo l ' he intends residing until the Earl and Countess°' vile join him from Paris. The Dowager Marchioness of Conyngbara is the autumn at Bifrons, her seat, near C a nterberY* rd fi fru" The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yeste bo' a Visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. AP I 11 The Count de Heventlow has been apPeinte-y0 sador from the Court of Denmark to that of P -1 . Count de Munch Bellinghan -en, President °ober' Germanic Diet, has left Frank fort s for Vienil e 0 31 " Prince Metternich is expected to be present 3 ,„ t rrin c : riage of the Archduchess Adelaide with P'„ l lsce Royal of Sardinia. This ceremony is to take h i e JO% the palace of Schcenbrunn early in October. 1: ", / 0I tb d'Oreglio, Sardinian Ambassador Extraordin ar y 1 occasion, has already arrived at Vienna. ust tcl ivozimANzolys. b Alderman Pine was yesterday elected e to „ te bil Mayor for the ensuing year. "He had little 10;c10°' he said, " forty years ago, when he came 111)t°high a poor lad from the banks of the Tweed, that 5° ;, honour awaited him." )t On this day, in 1723, William Hutton, the ( I ° ,,. i s t "'"4 torian of Birmingham, was born. He was the flthPo opened a circulating library in Birmingham' the d r of who opened a regular paper warehouse ther'i 01 3 ; ,t first who introduced the barrow with two r which many h u ndr e d s are now employed. ft" o the age of 9 9 . A commission is now holding, by autkell j qncl faneness, f, Bishop of Chester, into charges of intoxication preferred by his parishioners, again st - Robert Barton, rector of Heysham. A tremendous hurricane occurred e arli o aci which did great damage in the metrore li li s a , 39 pst suburbs, especially in the neighbourhood et ' f, 'l r. and Highgate. rd ," •° A destructive`fire on Friday last, at 1 30131 . 0 511t 'ef ° cestershire, consumed two cottages, and t he foo , one—a woman named Wait and her two Ou r- 4 burnt to death. a ti° ll On Thursday last the charter of the Corrrtbe Wexford expired, and yesterday ( Wednesday) the '- teJ tions of the Mayor would cease. Wexford Yis'spiobrk English Corporation in Ireland, and the C cit - Aylmer de Valence its first Mayor. - r „ On Tuesday last, at Dublin, the Rig ht f o r 0' Edward Sugden was sworn in Lord Chancel ct0:1), land at the Privy Council, Chief Justice 1 3 1; 115 v ing. It is understood that the Lord Chanee""" , o t pointed his son, Henry Sugden, his secretary. 00:1.0 At Manchester on Monday last, Feargu s , be addressed large groups in a temperate sp ece lp er th°o o dressed in a fustian jacket and trousers, in ord 50 of might appear as much as possible to be tt people." r, THE MARKETS-THIS COLONIAL MARKET. I so° The market was dull, but prices were stead,' ' l ' des ; the public sales were light. b 0 TEA iIARKET. Prices were steady. The market was quiet, f a il 11 ' 1' purchases were made. Company's Co P P '` ..-ce ugou cash. ~,,.g * 1.• br e WHITECHAPEL HAY MARr""_., -- 4;r th e d eo' v a . nd to the 6l m . The : supply was middling, the demand geeur:in re,q t - or Clover, qualities , 1/. 13s. to 1/. 18s. rd iu li e n a g do an w d o H rdi ay n , era sotortszo. 0. 1 - 55; ; ..,,t p ,tY METAL MARKET. , ,ices ar e °- The demand dull for all sorts of Metals, so u decline. Spelter, 31/. 15s. to 321. per ton. Selle r s TALLOW MARKET. rt d. , . The market'dull, and prices were barely deliver,' , of P.Y. Candle at 48s. on the spot and for deliver,' ~, A lto LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS Y S i r`" —.......______ iv to LONDON, SEPT. 30.—Wind this day at noon, " A : pi OFF MARGATE, SEPT. 29.—Reliance , Case, ''° ~ is r e / nando Po. • . or BAMSGATE, SEPT. 29.—Arrived the Elizabetbotoo mouth, for London, sprung a leak in the utnr h 0 'A I and filled. _ fa l ' o t DEAL SFPT: 29.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived i" f Slie ll ' 0 from Valparaiso. Arrived from the river the, -- J bl° l i,e Bombay, and not oil the 23d, as rep orted. It PT of hard throughout the day, during w hi ch severs:.tit 130 outward bound drove, but e , brought up aga l / anchors. 7, P.M., ` more mode rat e. 0 fre LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 29. --Wind _ _ er y ~,fl 3 Arrived the Wilson, S ind W.S.W., '.; CP ~,ff! lanp, from Buenos AYr e 4 3 1 ,, , d cook, late Poag, Maracaibo, sailed 3d ult. ; 'flaiell,",ol Whiteside, Jamaica, sailed 15th ult., and e%tlio„? gales of wind from all points of the comPO s t i „ c l',lo' fortnight ; Miracle, Lad Milton,and Mary t un ' y St. - , 0 0 0 1 , ,T il 5 6 1 311 , Senegal; Bradshaw Quebec; El.iii i, lo e , Smyrna. Sailed the Agnes, ' Ewing,for 4" el ' 1 ,. ? South Wales. Arrived off the Paragon. •t "° V Cii ' JERSEY, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the Harriet, -1- 1 o ft, Constantinople. woe BRISTOL, SEPT. 29.:—A ' dthe William 0 29.-Arrived , fro Roberts, from Jamaica. rwri et DUBLIN, SEPT. 28.—Arrived the Pomona , ' ' Y ,,,r Quebee. 1 . 0 0, LEITH, SEPT. 28.—Arrived the William Tu , Ce: can, from Leghorn. ,_... ow- 3 , e - SHIELDS, SEPT. 27.—Sailed the Joni. - 0 . 1 ' + 11, V' A Wilkin, for Buenos Ayres • ; Elizabeth Atkin s° T ut o r William, Malta; Earl of Durham, Calcutta. ilisstg ~, the Prosperous,. for London, with loss a te r 00' sails split. • fool v ~ JERSEY, SEPT. 27.—The Charming M . _olly, ir sea, was wrecked in the Bay on the 25th insf - r i s WV GREENOCK, SEPT. 28.—The William lla ba 4 Wild sailed hence the 6th last. for Havannah, put , " s pe, 0 leaky, having bore up on the 17th, when abotusic. wo west of Ireland, having encountered as wall g Aes I Hum., SEPT. 29.—1 t has blown r ong 1P• 4 , S.S.E. to S.S.W. for the last thirty-Si, h o uff to • i ir, l3o l PORTSDIOUTH, SEPT. 29.—Wind, S.S.W. ,; 100,ipi very squally.—The Ontario, for New Y - nr" A blel; sailed as reported on the 27th. It commencroptiOpii a heavy gale last night at eight o'elock, 0 ,. n ootit all night, and this morning it moderated to still blows fresh. THE RAILWAY SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Sept. 30, 1841;