The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-13 00:00:00

EVENING- SUN. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. This week's supplies of all descriptions of grain have been moderate. The weather being fine, tended to slacken the trade. Wheat hardly maintained the advance of Wednesday. Bark), Beans, and Pease as last reported. Oats firm, with a slow sale. Flour as last repertel London average--Wheat, 7,508 at 765. 9d. SMITHFIELD MARKET. The supply was middling, the demand nut very brisk, and a small reduction was submitted to in Beef; other articles as last quoted. Beasts, 712 ; Sheep and Lambs, 8,266 ; Pigs, 630; Calves, '213. Beef, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ; Mutton, 4s. to ss. ; Veal, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. ; Lamb, 4s. Bd. to bs. 4d. COLONIAL MARKET. A fair demand prevailed for most kinds of Produce, and prices were firm. The Home Trade, however, were the prin cipal operators. The imports were fair from most parts. The public *ales declared were not of much moment. TEA MARKET. The market was quiet, but holders were firm, and obtained fall rates ; for Company's Congou 2s. 7id. paid. '*ALLOW MARKET. Prices on the advance, and a fair demand existed, P.Y. Candle on the spot at 495. 9d. and 493. 6d. for delivery in last three months. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) IN THE MATTER OF WHITMORE. WELLS, AND CO. This day being appointed for receiving proofs under the fiat against the bankrupts, who carried on business as bankers in Lombard-street, the Court was thronged to excess by the creditors. A great number of debts, varying from thousands to a few pounds were admitted. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) HERTFORD RACES.—WEDNESDAY (CONCLUDED). The Manor Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 35 added. Once round and a distance. Mr. Drage's Sister to Glencoe, 3 yrs (Pettit) 1 1 Mr. Cassidy's Fame, 3 yrs Mr. Coleman's Carlos, 4 yrs 0 3 Mr. Starling's The Comptroller, 3 yrs 0 4 Several others started. The Cornfield Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 40 added. Heats, twice round and a distance. Mr. Sowerby's Plymgari, 3 yrs . . ..... (Pettit) 1 1 Mr. Booth's Colchicum, 4 yrs Mr. White's Susan, 5 yrs The Tallyho Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added, mile and a half, were won in two heats by Mr. Smith's b g. LEWES RACES.- THURSDAY. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas ; the New Course ; heats. Mr. Goodman's Orelia, 5 yr. walked over The Borough Members' Plate of 50/. ; mile and half heats, the last over the New Course ; two miles and a half. Mr. Goodman's Battledore, aged (Buckle) 0 1 1 Mr. Verrall's Maid of the Mill, 6 yrs .... 1 2 3 Mr. Clifton's Playfellow, 3 yrs Three others started. MARL OW RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Buckinghamshire Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared ; twice round and a distance. Mr. Samuel Scott's Windsor, 3 yrs walked over The Ladies' Purse of 30 sovK., and a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs, each, twice round, were won in two heats by Mr. - West's Abel, 5 yrs, beating George the Fourth, aged, s►nd Skyrocket, aged. The Galloway Stakes were won by Deception. THURSDAY. Sir W. Clayton's Silver Cup was won, in two beats, by Mr. Scott's Windsor ; the Galloway Race by Mr. Bloxhou's Deception,; and the Hurdle Race by Mr. Seffert's Valentine. PLYMOUTH AND DEVONPORT RACES. WEDNESDAY. The Ladies' Plate of 50/. ; heats once round. Mr. Taunton's Jewess, 4 yrs (Rogers) 1 1 Mr. J. Kingsland's Cerito, 5 yrs Mr. Bennett's Benedetta, 3 yrs 3 dr. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas ; heats 3 miles. ' Mr. Treen's Una, 3 yrs (Owner) 1 1 Mr. Scobell's Cracksman, 5 yrs Mr. Roe's Stickley, aged Mr. Kingsland's c by Hindostan, 3 yrs 1 The Lord High Steward's Plate of 5 0 /. ; mile heats. ',..:, Mr. Downes'llarmodioUs. 5 yrs (Rogers) 1 1 Mr. Taunton's Jewess, 4 yrs 3 2 Mr. Bennett's Benedetta, 3 yrs 2 dr The Chelsea Meadow Stakes of 2 sovs. each and 25 added, once round and a dis., were won in 3 heats by Mr. Xingsland's ch h by Rajah, beating two others. i , LEOMINSTER RACES.—WEDNESDAY. • The Ladies' Plate of 501. Two Miie Heats. Mr. Key's Fitzgambol, 3 yrs (Dodgson) 1 4 1 Mr. Samwell's The Knight, 5 yrs 0 1 2 Mr. Walter's Miss Winney, 3 yrs 2 2 3 Mr. Hughes' Sportsman, 4 yrs ' 0 3 dr Naamah, Barter, Cleanthe, and another started. The Hack Stakes were won by Mr. Pitts' Dinali, and the Handicap by Mr. Griffith's Tupsley, beating the linight, Muleiber, and two others. ____ TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. ST. LEGER.—A report that Coronation had been on the decline at Wolverhampton had some effect on the odds in the early part of the afternoon, 6 to 4 having been offered in two or three places ; his friends, how ever, " took heart," and at the close he was very steady Pt sto 4. The other favourites were backed for small aims, without undergoing any change from Monday's ( Notation. THE DERBY.-23 and 25 to 1 were laid against Wise acre, 25 to 1 against the Hester colt, 30 to 1 against William de Fortibus, and 50 to 1 to 501., a pony having previously been laid out at tell points less. A dull after noon finished as follows : ST. LEGER. 2 to 1 agst Scott's lot—taken 5 to 4 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Coronation--take G to 4 9 to 2 agst Lord Westminster's Van Amburgh—tkn 8 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Middleham—taken 10 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Tearaway—taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's The Squire—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Eringo—taken 25 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Lampoon—taken DERBY. 20 to 1 on the field 25 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wiseacre—taken 25 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Hester colt—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's William de Fortibus—tk n 33 to 1 agst Mr. Herbert's Nessus 40 to 1 agst Mr. Pettit's Espartero .50 to 1 agst Mr. Coombe's Criterion—taken The. Doncaster Cup this year will be of the value of 1001; only, and will be raised by subscribers of 10 sous. each, with 50 added by the Corporation. The weights are altered, and those who have laid 12 and 15 to 1 agst Ilyllus will have the worst of it, as he is entitled to 71 bs allowance as a maiden horse. LATE FIRE AT BLACKIIEATH. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF SIXTEEN PERSONS. The walls of the destroyed premises are standing, but their condition is exceedingly dangerous. The escape of Mr. Waller, with his wife and 11 children, was truly miraculous. He says he retired to bed with his family Shortly after eleven o'clock, leaving a female who had been engaged to make some dresses for his children at work i n one of the front rooms on the first floor. He had not been asleep more than two hours and a half, when he was aroused by a violent shriek of a female, and the cries ( - 11 " Fire, fire," on the heath ; and on jumping out Of bed found his room full of smoke. With out stopping to put on his clothes, he ran out of arriving the apartment, when, on at the first floor landing, he discovered the female above alluded to in a state of stupor, against the wainscoting in her night dress, which was on fire in several parts. Im mediately on her recovering, which was in a few seconds, she said, " 0 God, save yourself, the house is on fire, it is raging in my room," which he found to be the case , for on opening the door the flames burst forth and as cended the staircase. He instantly closed it, and pro veeded to awake his mother, who slept in a room adjoin ing- that on fire, and carried her out of the house on to the green facing the premises, where he left her in her alight dress, and returned to save his wife and children, Who were all asleep. It was with great difficulty that they could be got 'down stairs, in consequence of the heated smoke that 'its rushing up from the burning apartment, and almost Suffocating them. They were all in their bed-clothes, and were unable to save one particle of wearing apparel. About three minutes after the flames broke through the windows and ascended to the attics, where the servants were sleeping, and they not having made their appar *nee, it was feared they had perished from suffocation. Air. wailer, however, rushed up the staircase at the risk of his life, and, arriving at the top o f the house, found had Oe poor creatures screamiscreamingdreadfuliy. They io e ;:ed their doors and were unable to unfasten them, but were 2mmediately released as he burst the doors open. Very s . l , , ortly after the building became enveloped in flumes, an.: l its destruction followed with rapidity. It was cor.-ectly ascertained yesterday by the surveyors of the different. insurance-offices, that the fire originated in the room when' the female was at needlework, and i t is suspected by 3/Ir. Waller that she fell asleep, and her" candle set fire to her work on the table, and thence it communicated to the hangings of the bed. She, how ever, asserts such not to be the case. She says she left off work soon after the family had retired, and went to bed, and had been asleep long before she was awoke and found the place on fire. Sue is positive of having safely extinguished the candle before getting into bed. The only property saved ottt of Mr. Waller's residence were two caskets, one containing money, and the other jewellery of great value. Mr. Waller, who only re turned from Java, in the East Indies, with his family, a fortnight since, is a great sufferer, being wholly unin sured, h a ving lost almost all he possessed, besides an immense quantity of curiosities which he had bean up wards of 20 years collecting in India. AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.— This morning at ten o'clock, as Mr. Thompson, in com pany with Mr. Richardson, were passing through Wig- Inure-Street, they observed an elderly gentleman of in tlanendmit fortune, aged 84 year s, a Mr. Oldfiold, of No. 6 , ' Edgware-road, stagger and fall to the ground; they instantly raised the unfortunate man, procured a cab, and lost no time in taking him to his residence. Mr. Ileard, a surgeon of the neighbourhood, promptly at -tended ; but, before his arrival, the vital spark had fled. Ile nevi spoke from the time he was put into the cab up to the moment that he expired. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.--This morning, be tween eight and nine o'clock , Geor g e Rudland, aged twenty-five years, carman, in the employ of Mr. Sinnott, °f Clerkenwell, dust-contractor, was riding on the shafts of the cart be was driving along East Smithfield, when the horse suddenly took fright, and he was jerked 011 ; and one of the wheels passed over his thighs, causing a compound fracture of both. He was removed to St. Thomas's Hospital, and is not expected to survive. MEHEMET ALI. The following reply has been sent by Mehemet Ali to the address of the East India and China Association, published on the 19th ult.:— " The address of the members of the London East India and China Association having been 'submitted to his Highness Mehemet Ali, the undersigned has been instructed to inform them, that; his Highness fully appre ciates the sentiments which they have been pleased to evince towards himself and his future welfare ; and that what he has done in adv2ncement of the interests of humanity and of civilisation he is ready to continue, if God grant him life and assistance. 'His conduct during the events which have taken place is, meanwhile, sufficient to convince them that it is at times preferable to trust in 'the known character of individuals than to solicit or f.xact measures which are not in accordance with the institutions and usages of a country. When it is possible to arrive at an end, with the satisfaction of all , parties, it will always be advisable to intrust the executive power to whomsoever is in the most favourable position for act ing. His Highness believes that the members of the Association will participate in his sentiments, and is ex ceedingly grateful for their address. " The undersigned avails himself of this favourable opportunity to assure them of his highest esteem. " BOGHOS JOUSSOUFF." NEW ZEALAND. The latest New Zealand papers received, which are of the 24th of April, refer with some dissatisfaction to the apathy exhibited by the representative of her Ma jesty with respect to Port Nicholson, and the settlements already made are not so prosperous as interested parties 'would make us belieVe. The emigrants who had ar rived out there were not located with any advantage, and in some of the papers it is said that Governor Hobson had taken the best of the mechanics for his own employ ment. Altogether the feeling between those who have become proprietors of land out there, and who appear, in some manner to have influence, and the local Govern ment, is not such as would instil confidence as to the cor dial co-operation of these parties. At one of the settle ments called Wanganui the settlers, in the absence of better occupation, had relapsed into habits of idleness and debauchery, and to such an extent was this carried that the appointment of Magistrates was thought neces sary to repress it. It was a bad example to the natives, who had already commenced a system of depredation upon the shopkeepers, and even extended it to the gar dens of the settlers. To overawe the natives it was suggested that a short history of England should be translated and published, to show the resistless power 9 f the English, and what they had achieved in former time. It was reported that good coal had been disco vered at Evans's Bay, which, if it proved true, would, it is said, be of the utmost consequence to Port Nicholson; for the discovery would, if the article were good and abundant, make that place the head-quarters for steam navigation between New Zealand and Sydney, and the latter and the numerous islands to the west of New Zea land. Flour was 301. to 35/. per ton ; beef, Is. to ls. 3d. per lb. ; butter (Irish), is. 9d. to 2s. per lb.; ditto, fresh, ss. per lb. ; cheese, ls. 3d. to is. 10d. per lb. ; candles, 10d. to 3s. per lb. ; fowls, 10s. to 18s. per pair ; eggs, Gs. per dozen ; and ducks, ss. per pair. Now compare the high price of wages, as it is termed, with these prices :—mechanics, 21. 14s. to 31. Gs. per week ; la bourers, 1/. 10s. to 21. 2s. This gives a fine answer to the pretended advantages of emigration. SLAVE TRADE IN BRAZIL. The Delight packet brings advises from Rio de Janeiro of the 16th June. The barefaced effrontery with which the slave trade had recently been prosecuted off the coast of Brazil, in direct contravention of existing treaties, had induced the Government at Rio de Janeiro to take steps for checking the growing evil, and accord ingly they dispatched a sloop of war to cruise off the port of Ilho Grande. The commander, Lieutenant Reys, upon going ashore, was seized by the slave traders, sent to prison on a charge of piracy, and, under the iniquitous and shameful pretext of justice, removed in irons, like a felon, from gaol to gaol, being still in confinement at the date of our accounts. The proceeding did not end here, however, for the Bri tish brig of war Clio, on the 12th of May last, having made an unsuccessful attempt to capture a slaver on the coast north of Campos, by putting out two armed boats to pursue her, she was run agro und on the Ruma island, where the slaves were all landed, the British having been prevented from getting the vessel off, by the firing of two or three bodies of men who came to the assistance of the slaver's crew. This happened, as we have said, on the 12th, and on the 29th the Clio sent a boat on shore with the English pennant flying, and which landed two officers and 13 sailors. Under the pretence of being un provided with passports they were arrested and confined for several days, although known to belong to the brig of war cruising off the river; such was the influence of the atrocious slave traffickers in this part of the Bra zilian territory. It is stated that Lieutenant Reys was not likely to be liberated for some time, though his treatment was rather better. The Portuguese slave holders show a very determined front in this part of the world, and have succeeded, it seems, in exciting a bad feeling against the English ; for we are informed that the people are outrageous against the British navy, and that, besides several very unbecoming allusions made to our Government by both the leading parties in the Le gislature, a circular had been issued by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, ordering all foreigners to be repelled by force that might land armed on any part of the coast.. The news from Rio Grande is far from favourable. Joas Paulo, the Commander-in-Chief named by the An drada Ministry, a veritable Don Furioso Bombasto, who, about a year ago, threatened to destroy the whole British fleet from the tort at the entrance of the port, was, with all his army, about 7,000 men, in the worst possible plight at l'amirotin, without a single horse, and sur rounded by a host of rebels well mounted. In the last reports from him, via Monte Video, for the direct inter course with the coast was interrupted, he complained pi tifully of the cold weather and rain, and of the dysentery a mongst his army, owing to the entire want of flour Of any kind, and also of sufficient clothing. PUNISHMENT of CORN JOBBERS, (From the Cambridge Advertiser.) The following advertisement is copied from the Gen tleman's Magazine, for June, 1758 : . " Cambridge. " Whereas I, William Margetts, the younger, was, at the last assizes for the county of Cambridge, con victed upon an indictment for an attempt to raise the price of corn in Ely'market, upon the 24th day of Sep tember, 1757, by offering the sum of Gs. a bushel for wheat for which no more than ss. 9d. was demanded : And whereas on the earnest solicitation and request of myself and my friends, the prosecutor has been prevailed upon to forbear any further prosecution against me, on my submitting to make the following satisfaction, viz., on my paying the sum of 50/. to be distributed by the ministers and churchwardens of the several parishes in the said town of Ely, and the further sum of 501. to the poor inhabitants of the town of Cambridge, to be distri buted by the ministers and churchwardens of the several parishes in the said town, and the full costs of the prose cution; and upon me reading this acknowledgment of my offence publicly, and with a loud voice, in the presence of a ki.agistrate, constable, or other peace-officer of the said town of Ely, at the market-place there, between the hours o: twelve and one o'clock on a public market-day, and likewise subscribing and publishing the same in three of the evening papers printed in London, and in the Cambridge ,kurnal on four different days, and I have accordingly paid the said two sums of 501. and costs, and do hereby confess mys ,qlf to have been guilty of the said offence, and testify my . sincere and hearty sorrow in having committed a crime which, in its consequences, tended so much to increase the distress of the poor in the late calamitous scarcity. And I do hereby most humbly acknowledge the lenity of the p ros ecutor, and beg pardon of the public in g eneral, and of the town of Ely in particular. " This paper was read by me at the public market place at Ely, in the presence of Thaws Aungier, gen tleman, chief constable, on the 2d day of June, 1758, being a public market-day there, and is now, as a further proof of the just sense I have of the heinousness of my crime, subscribed and published by me, " WILLIAM MARGETTS. " Witness—JAMES DAY, "Under-Sheriff of Cumbridgeshire." EXTRAORDINARY FELONY AND ATTEMPT ED ARSON.—Monday, a respectably clad female, appa rently from 25 to 27 years of age, named Isabella Madge, was placed at the bar of the Police Court, Liverpool, un der the following extraordinary charge, the circumstances of which were briefly introduced by Mr. Dowling :—lt appeared from the evidence that the prisoner, who is re spectably connected, was on her way to the United States, and had taken up her lodgings, pending the stay of the packet-ship by which she had taken her passage, at a Mr. Sumner's, Stewart. street. Two other females also lodged there, who slept in a separate bed, but in the same room. A few nights ago, while they were in bed, they smelt a suffocating smoke, and on rising saw the prisoner with her night-dress sparkling as if from the ignited materials in which lucifer-matches are dipped. They put out the fire, and, as she made some plausible ex cuse, they would have again gone to rest, but the smoke and smell of burning being still strong, they roused the landlady, and informed her they apprehended fire. She came into the room, threw up the window, and ex pressed a mistaken opinion that the smoke came from the outside. The smoke soon dispersed, and the matter subsided. Next day one of the females in the house missed a handkerchief, and complained of the circum stance to Mrs. Conolly, who had some connexion with the house. She (Mrs. C.) expressed surprise that it could not be found, and at last, on searching a chest of drawers in the room, missed a cloak, a dress, a remnant of cloth, and some other articles of her own. She a l so found two other handkerchiefs of her own partly burnt, and so placed as to form a sort of train to two packets of gunpowder, together of about four ounces weight, each in a separate drawer, which had happily not ignited, other wise the drawers would have been blown to pieces, and some of these present much in j ured or killed. The- pro perty missed, including the handkerehiefs and some other articles, were afterwards found, partly at a pawnbroker's and partly amongst the luggage which the prisoner had sent to the packet-ship. The articles were identified, as also the pri soner , as having pawned some of them. The prisoner also admitted to one of the witnesses that she had taken them, and that she had bought the powder and ignited the handkerchiefs extending to It. It would appear that she was not aware of the probable immediate danger or effects of the gunpowder, and that her object was to cover her delinquencies by setting fire to the • house. She was committed for trial on the felony only. The prisoner is from Wakefield. BRUSSELS, AUG. 11.—The average price of Wheat last week was 23f. 34c., and that of Rye 12f. 73c. IWheat is thus far exempt from import duty, that on Rye remains at 21f. 50c. for 1,000 kilogramm es. The t oxport duty on both is only 25c. for I,OQO kilogrammes. EASTERN COUNTIES RAH:WAY. The Half-yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders of the above Railway was holden yesterday, pursuant to notice, at the Station of the Company, Shoreditch. CHARLES BOSANQUET , Esq., in the Chair. The CHAIRMAN stated he had no intention of address ing the Proprietors at any length. This was the tenth meeting they had held, and lie was afraid he should be guilty of tautology if he at all enlarged upon the nature of the undertaking. Since the last meeting he was happy to inform the Proprietors that the whole of the contracts between this and Colchester were now let, and that the works were progressing with great rapidity, and there was no doubt that the line would be opened all the way to Colchester, fifty-two miles from London, in September of the ensuing year. Independently of other difficulties, this railway, though it traversed a rich and fertile coun try, though it passed through many towns of great agri cultural and manufacturing importance, had not met with much support from the owners of property through the country which it traversed; now, however, that a portion of the line (171 miles) had been opened, these gentlemen were coming round, and that favourable opi nion was now vouchsafed to this undertaking, which it so eminently deserved. There was only one other point to which he would allude ; the Directors had been charged with bringing forth deceptive accounts of the state of the line; they had taken an opportunity of denying this on their oaths before the public, and they now asserted on their honour, before this meeting, the correctnessof those accounts. On the etimate of Messrs. Braithwaite and Locke, the whole of the line from beginning to end, would be completed at an average expense of 45,0001. per mile; that expense included the London viaduct, which had been a very great expense. Owing to the large sum paid for the purchase of land, excluding the London viaduct, the average cost would be 34,000/. per mile; the whole cost of the line from beginning to end would be 2,300,0001. After this, let no man say money bad been extravagantly expended in this undertaking; there was not the slight est doubt that this railway would amply remunerate the shareholders for the expense and trouble they had under gone; it would redound to their credit and private good, and, as far as they were concerned, be one of the most lucrative proceedings of their lives.—(Loud cheers.) The Report was then read, from which it appeared, in addition to the statements of the Chairman, that there was now in the hands of the Treasurer a clear balance of 14,444/., affording a dividend of ss. per share; but that this dividend would net be'payable till after the next meeting in February. - W. LAURENCE HEYWORTH, Esq., moved the adop tion of the Report; he wished, however, to have no reserved fund; he would like to have the balance at once divided amongst the shareholders. He considered the formation of a reserved fund was but the keeping back of the money of the present, for the future shareholders. After some further discussion the Report was unani mously adopted. Mr. SWIFT proposed that the sum of 1001. be given by the Company for the promotion of religious instruc tion amongst the labourers on the line. Messrs. RA.THBONE, GIBBES, ESDAILE, and others, seconded the motion. Mr. LAURENCE HEYWORTH, Mr. COPELAND, and others, opposed it. A good deal of discussion ensued; and the motion was ultimately amended by the addition of " any proprietor objecting to this outlay, and giving notice to that effect within a month, shall be allowed to withdraw his portion of the amount;" which amendment was carried by a ma jority of one. MESMERISM BY DE LAFON TAINE. (THIRD NOTICE.) We yesterday attended, amongsi a company of be tween three and four hundred persons, consisting prin cipally of distinguished members of the medical profes sion, and the elite of that portion of the fashionable world which can afford to be in town in this season, at an exhibition of Mesmeric experiments, which, after more than three hours patient observance, was almost unanimously pronounced to be a failure. The Professor having totally failed to produce any result by which he could hope to satisfy the least sceptical of his visitors, readily assented to a proposition that the experiment should be renewed to-morrow (this day) at the same theatre, the Queen's Rooms, Hanover-square, and that all those who had subscribed on this occasion should be admitted without further payment. With this under standing the company separated, after a tedious and un interesting attendance of more than three hours. DUBLIN CITY REGISTRY. SATURDAY. Registered. Stand. Rejected. Liberals 2O ... 10 ... Tories 5 ... 1 ... 1 The Liberal claimants cases stand over on the most frivolous objections. Any case where a claimant appears to register out of a shop, although in many instances paying over 201., the agents for the Tories require the case to stand over to give them an opportunity- to dis prove the value ; yet,. in nine cases out of ten, they are obliged to admit the value, after having an opportunity of their hired valuators inspecting the premises. MONDAY. Registered. Stand. Rejected. Liberals 2O 2 . 3 Tories ... 2 ... 4 ... 1 Gross majority for Liberals, 83. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13. 1841. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDA Y. —The 72d Highlanders were reviewed by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, in the Home Park, as ea r ly as half-past seven o'clock this morning. This splendid Regiment went through their different movements in a first-rate manner. The Prince wore a Field-Marshal's uniform, and was attended by Colonel Wylde, Lord Alfred Paget, and the Hon. Major Keppel, in their respective uniforms. His Royal High ness and suite returned to the Castld at nine o'clock, after the review. The Queen and Prince Albert enjoyed their usual morning's walk afterwards: Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal has been taken an airing twice to-day. In the afternoon her Majesty rode out in a pony phaeton, the Prince driving, and the Royal suite, in cluding the Duchess of Bedford, the Countess of Erroll, Lady Ida Hay, Lady Caroline S. Cocks, Hon. Miss Ca vendish, Earl of Erroll,!. Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Wylde, and the Hon. Meijor Keppel, followed either in carriages or on horseback. The Duke of Bedford, the Marquis of Normanby, Viscounts Duncannon and Palmerston, Hon. E. J. Stan ley, and Mr. C.C. Greville, left the Castle this morning. The Earl of Morley arrived at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty. Colonel Arbuthnot and Major Hope, of the 72d High landers; Colonel and Mrs. I3ouverie, and Mr. George Edward Ansonovill have the honour of joining the Royal Dinner Circle this evening. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex did Mr. Hay ter the honour to sit to him yesterday in Stratford place, to be painted in the picture for her Majesty of the nuptial ceremony in the Chapel Royal. At the Privy Council on Wednesday afternoon held in Windsor Castle, the Hon. Edward John Stanley was, by command of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board. Colonel Chew, late Charge d'Affaires of the United States at St. Petersburgh, passed through London last week on his return home; and Benjamin Rush, Esq., who has been for several years Secretary of Legation from the States at this Court, and whose father, Richard Rush, Esq., is well remembered in this country as Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States, also left London on his return to America. Mr. Henry Berkeley and a Deputation from Bristol bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Marquis of Normanby returned to town yester day, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Earl of Shelburne returned to Lansdowne House on Wednesday evening, from Broadstairs. Despatches from the Governor of New South Wales were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. NEW STEAM COACH. Art, infinite in its inventions, often meets with serious difficulty in its endeavour to adapt them to the ends which it would wish, and is often compelled to call in the aid of subaltern means, to succeed in bringing the invention into any activity or efficient operation. Thus, great as was the invention of the steam-engine itself, yet, unaided by the subservient iron -tram, it was a use less and unmanageable invention ; the two appeared to be by necessity inseparably wedded, and so would many persons say who had not seen the exhibition of yesterday. Travelling like an ordinary carriage along the road, this vehicle, plann e d and invented by Mr. Squire, was announced to exhibit its powers along the Tottenham road. The only objects perceivable were an iron basket behind, filled with foundry coke, and in front a vessel plenished with water to supply the waste of the engine. The carriage had four rows of seats, and accommodated sixteen, the conductor included. Starting by a stop-watch, the engine with its party left the York and Albany Hotel, Regent's Park, at four o'clock, and proceeded steadily at its outset along the smooth plane of the Tottenham-road. Speed soon in creased from the mail-coach rate of ten miles an hour to that of sixteen. The noise usually attendant on these engines was, with the exception of the hiss of the escaping steam, scarcely audible, and after a pleasant progress for 13 minutes through a delightful country, it arrived at the Manor-house at Tottenham, having in that brief time completed a distance of four miles and a half. The most noticeable feature in the engine made itself apparent at this terminus, namely, the masterly command with which the engine was made to turn by the conductor, forming in this evolution an arc of a circle which comprehended not more than a length and a half of the engine itself ; the act managed, too, with as much ease and adroitness as an equestrain reins a steed. On returning, the velocity was somewhat diminished by the resistance of a strong wind, and the gradual ascent of the road ; but the actual retardation was so slight, as only to add a minute and a half to the time oc cupied in return, thus completing a distance of nine miles in less than twenty-eight minutes ; the speed of the engine, in fact, averages at the rate of from nineteen to twenty miles per hour. Its wear and tear will be but little troin the Tottenham-road, while the wheels, being horizontal and very broad, actually serve a s rollers to smooth the roads, instead of cutting them up, like the ordinary narrow carriage -wheels. It was curious to ob serve the peculiar distrustfulness of the horses along the road as the engine passed. The experiment altogether was very successful, but till we see how the machine works during the winter months, and on newly repaired roads, it would be premature to give any decided opinion as to its ultimate results. •On Wednesday night, about ten o'clock, a most murderous attack was made upon a policeman of the R division, named Taylor, by two soldiers of the 15th Regiment of Foot. It appears, from a statement THAMEs 'A/NKr/L.—Yesterday, at two o'clock, taken from the injured man, who lies in a most dan- P.M., Sir Isambard Brunel passed through the tunnel gerous state, his head and face being one entire muss an d asce nd e d i n t o th e s h a f t on the Middlesex side of the of cuts and bruises, that he w as on duty on the river. The small portion of the -distance, about twenty- Shooter's-hill road, about ten o'clock on Wedn e sday fi ve f eet , now i ncomp l ete, i s connecte d with the shaft on night, when he met two soldiers, whom he suspected of the Middlesex side of the river by a driftway, through being deserters. Upon que s tioning th em , th e y ran off which, at the end of the tunnel, Sir Isambard passed. and got into some corn-fields. Taylor followed them About an hour afterwards Mr. Hawes, M.P., and Mr. and overtook one, when a desperate scuffle ensued ; he Hutton, late M.P. for Dublin, accompanied by Mr. Ma drew his staff, but it was immediately seized, and one son, one of the assi s t ant eng i nee rs, also walked from of the soldiers swore they would kill him. He was then Rotherhithe through the tunnel and the driftway to seized by the collar and belt and thrown on the Wapping. Mr. Page, the acting e ngineer, was in the ground, and while in that helpless condition was most s h a ft, an d, w i t h t h e men, received Sir Isambard with loud brutally kicked on the face and head. lie called " Mur- cheers, who shortly addressed the men, thanking them der ;" when one of them gave him a kick in the face, at for their courage and perseverance. Thus the great the same time sa yin g , a There, you h____, y ou w ill not pro b lem of the practicability of forming a roadway under call again." The kick rendered him senseless, in the Thames, without interrupting the navigation, is prac which state he remained for some time, and when he tically solved. In a few months, it is expected that one recovered he, with the greatest difficulty, crawled to the of the archways will be open for foot passengers. high road, but was unable to go further. Shortly after THE NEW PIER AT CHELSEA.—The Iron a man came up, and upon Taylor telling him what had Steam-boat Company have taken the chain pier that 1 o ccurred, and seeing the dreadful manner in which h as b een erected by the Earl of Cadogan at Chelsea, he had been used, he procured assistance, and the 1-!)": : ' , wh i ch will be opened on the 26th inst. fortunate fellow was carried to Eltham, where has a, SHOCKING AND SINGULAR ACCIDENT.— immediately attended by Dr. Davenport; and Dr. Car-, m Yesterday . morning, as a man named Samuel Slapshaw, ~ in the se rv i ce o f M r. T urner , livery-stable of Blackheath, was also sent for, who pronounced ki to be very seriously injured, and in a dangeroussta. a helper state. Tay marked XV, was picked up on the spot where hat and staff were lost in the affray, but a soldier's and veterin ar y surgeon, R egen t- s t ree t, wa s in belt, Portland-place, exerc ising a h orse b e l ong i ng to a lady, scuffle took place. An inquiry has been made at theh he arrre the ach - and which had been sent to his employer's to be ex of the 15th, at Woolwich; it appears that the two soldiers amined previous to it s b e i ng di spose d o f, on arr i v ing alluded to are deserters. The following description of their nearly opposite Langh am Ch urc h , t h e an i ma l s t um bl e d, and falling on its knees, threw him forward, when catch persons has been forwarded to the different metropolitan ing him by the head and s h ou ld ers , it in that position police stations :—John Thomas, 5 feet 9 1 inches high, dragged him several feet, and then lying on its back, 22 years of age, sallow complexion, and dark hair ; had before he could be extricated, rolled repeatedly over him. on a shell jacket, and dark cloth trousers ; the other is naed Henry Marshall, 5 feet 11 inches high, 22 years On being picked up he was f oun d t o b e bleeding pro m fusel y from the head, and was moan i ng p it eous ly. He was immediately placed on a s h utter , an d conve yed to othfeagsaem, f e re a s s h th eo e m o p th le e x r. ion, and dark brown hair ; dressed the Ist the Middlesex Hospital, wh ere on exam ination it was JEWISH MARRlAGE.—Married , on list., at his residence in High-street, Sunderland , Mr. and head dreadfully contused, and that he had sustained Jacob Joseph, a highly respectable Israelite , to Miss serious internal injuries. Th e h orse , a very valuable Elizabeth Samuel, of Rotterdam. This marriage was one, was much disfigured, being severely cut on the solemnised according to the.rites and ceremonies of the knees, back, and other parts. Jews. The bride was led into the room closely veiled, KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—A quarterly elegantly dressed, supported by her mother and a female meeting of Governors and Subscribers was held yester frind, and led round the bridegroom under a canopy thrice, day in the Board-room of the Hospital. The number when the marriage service commenced, and was closed by of patients admitted within the l as t quarter has been the bridegroom putting en the bride's finger a ring, when 282, of wh0m,163 were males, and 119 females; of these, he declared that he took her to be his wife according to 266 were discharged cured, or partially relieved, and 16 the custom of the children of Israel, and also put in her had died. There are now 112 patients in the house, and hand the marriage contract written in Hebrew, and 1,959 out-patients. signed ; after which the bridegroom drank a little wine DREADFUL ACCIDENT TO T H E LADY OF l out of a glass, and when the bride had also partaken, he dashed the glass to the floor with great force, and COLONEL FLETCHEIL—On 'Th u rsday m orning, between ten and eleven ' o'clock, a dreadful accident occurred stamped with his feet on the fragments. We erarse,. an as- din Cumberland-street, Hyde-park, to the lady of Co the Hebrew language, and their antiquities an sured by some that were not only present, but understand customs, lone] Fletcher, residing in Berkeley-street, Bryan that the service was very impressive and highly interest- stone-square, which it is feared, will be attended with ing. About eighty persons were present, both Jews, ee- s, down to serious consequences. It appears that the unfortunate gantly dressed, and Gentiles, when they sat lady, in company with her three children and II nurse plentiful dinner. The graces were chanted in maid, were proceeding from their resid e nce to t a k e a and afterwards the seven blessings. Every attention was Hebrew, morning airing in Hyde Park. On arriving in Cumb er , given to such of the Gentiles as were present.—Nort h ern land-place, she accidently trod on a bean-shell, slipped, and fell heavily on the back of her head on the foot pave- Times. merit, where for some seconds she remained insen s ibl e . FALKIRK TRYST.—The August, or first Tryst , With assistance Mrs. F. was carried into a gentleman's for 1841, took place at Stenhousemuir upon Tuesday house. Surgical assistance was procured, when it was last. It is supposed that from 18,000 to 20,000 black ascertained that she had sustained a slight concussion on cattle were upon the ground. The weather, in the morn the brain. After partly recovering she was removed ing, was unfavourable for the appearance of stock, but to her residence. To add to the calamity the unfortu ' sales commenced briskly for heavy cattle in good condi nate lady is within a very short period of her confin emen t. Lion. The first lot, consisting of sixty - one fine beasts, H was sold by Mr. Fawn. They were of the Angusshire CHEAP FOOD AND IGH WAGES. —The breed, and brought ill, per head. The next lot was 2U following extracts from a letter, received by a gentle small three-year-olds from near Perth, which were !01(10 man in Longton, near Preston, from his brother, who is for 51. per head. The best lot in the market was eight sojourning in Onandago county, State of New York, polled stots from Methven, Fifeshire, bought by Messrs. North America, will show that cheap provisions and Laing and Thompson, Glasgow, 46 stone tron, at 23 high wages may co-exist :—" As respects America, it 10s. Mr. Mitchell, Mearns, sold a very fine lot of 30 at is the home of the poor hard-working man : he is sure to 12/. 10s. to Mr. M‘Gill, Edinburgh. The second lot was raise himself here. Meat is very cheap. You may buy sold by Mr. Walter Finlay to Mr. Brown, Glasgow, con- beef and pork from three to five cents, per lb. Other sisting of 40, at 201. per head. A great number of small flesh meat is cheaper, and flour is about half the Eng \Vest and North Highlands were sold at from 31. 10s. to lish price. Look at this, and then look at a man 51. each. A splendid show of horses was at the Tryst,getting fully three times the wages he can in Longton. A but sales appeared, during the day, very dull. Draught • man that wishes to settle in life, and to render horses brought from 101. to 20/. ; and a great number America. himself,. by his own industry, independent of the world, were unsold. Mr. Munroe, of Inverary, had a lot of the country that I would is recomme n d 1 • iim to about 60 fine Highland ponies, from two to five years old, go to. . . A Farm labour is very pl ent if u l h ere i n which met with a ready market at from 3/. to 5L 10s. the summer-time. smart man may get 15 dollars, or The state of the poor in this city, we regret to more than three English pounds, per month, with bed and board. I was taken for asmart f 11 myself state, is more gloomy than ever. What with short worke owone night by a farmer that Wa3 riding past in hi s waggon. He of and the increasing price of bread, we hardly know how some of our operatives keep " life and soul" together ; fered me 14 or 15 dollars per month, if I wou ld go and yet many . of them were so infatuated as to vote for home with him, and almost pulled me into hi s waggon. the man who is pledged to advocate a tax upon their Oh I how I wished the honest industrious men i n Eng "— bread. Poor fellows, they will soon learn by bitter ex- land had such a chance 1 What will the a d vocates o f perience the fallacy of the Tory doctrine that dear bread monopol say to this ? makes high wages, or, what is synonymous, plenty of On Sunday se'nnight the various list of voters work.- Worcestershire Chronicle. were placed on the church and chapel doors in this la at, SINGULAR LIGHTNING. — On Saturday . a , borough. The freemens list. exhibited 64 names, t h e about four o'clock, no lightning having been seen before reeholders' 109, and the occupiers 325, being a d ecrease of nine in the freeholders, an increase of one in the free or after, at Shefford, a single flash struck a tree in Mr. men, and two in the occupiers' Johnson's field, and broke the branches off, throwing lists,— W orcesters hi re Chronicle. them to a great distance. Some premises fifty yards off were found to be full of' smoke, but no damage was dis- N isi RULES OF THE BAR.—In One of the cases at Preus at Gloucester Assizes, covered.—Bedford Mercury. only one counsel was NAME ?"—A watchmaker " WHAT S IN •A . engaged on the .side of the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, who was on the other side, objected and jeweller, living in Clerkenwe ,11 whose name is on the part i of the bar, as a point of privilege, that in every defended Onions, has a workman in his employ named Sweetopv e. '. case there should be a junior counsel employed as well as On the shutters of a house in Duke -street, Li n' a leader. This being coincided in by the bar generally, coin's Inn-fields, is a paper fixed, on which is written, the case was stopped for a moment till the attorney for " Laity—no body hear. the plaintiff banded A brief to a second counsel, MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—The prices of the English StoCks have not materially fluctuated to-day, but the very changeable state of the weather continues to hare an unfavourable influence over the markets in general. The demand foe money at the Stock Exchange is not at all extensive, but in the discount world it is said to be increasing, and to such an extent that for lodgments the brokers allow the rate of 4 per cent. It does not, however, follow that there is any great embarrassment in the commercial circles, and, from all that can be learned, it is more a temporary demand than otherwise. • ADERTISER.—Besides the Germans, the Dutch also begin to have well-founded apprehensions respecting the probable effect of a Union, or Commercial League, be tween Belgium and France. Experience doubtless justi.; fies these fears, for we all know that the patromge and alliance of a great power with a small one must be granted by the former for the ulterior object of its own benefit or aggrandizement. In the present in stance we may take it for granted that the object contemplated is purely commercial, that it has ..no political tendency, and yet allowing even this, which is fur more than examination will justify, we still per , ceive, in the contemplated league, much that is likely to affect the trade of, this country, as well as that of 'the Con tinent. • The - French require an extension of the market foi: the produce of their Colonial possessions. The Bel gians want an opening in these colonies for their manu factures. By a union it is supposed these objects can be obtained, and such stipulations be made at the same time as to satisfy all parties. We do not ourselves augur from such an alliance all the splendid advantages repre sented as being likely to accrue from it, but we see clearly. that it will be another link in the chain of exclusion and monopoly, of which this country has hitherto held up so long a proportion. With Prussia and its German allies on the one hand, France and its " little adopted" on the other, the United States and its threatened tariff ap proaching, and the Brazils perhaps not far behind, it must be owned that we have a highly favourable prospect for the extension of our foreign trade, by retaining our venerated and admirable code of fiscal faws. CHRONICLE.—The recent meeting of the share holders of the Marylebone Bank shows that there is much room for improvement in the system of Joint-Stock Banks in England, not only in regard to the management itself; for the safety of the shareholders, but in regard to the available capital for the safety of the public. Had the Marylebone Bank been a bank of issue, it is plain enough that the noteholders must have been exposed to risk, for the liabilities amounted to 30,0001., while the immediate assets were only 11,000/. ; and it seems doubtful whether the other means outstanding will ultimately cover the de ficiency of 19,0001. Men of standing and reputation should never have allowed their names to appear as direc tors in such a paltry concern. The conduct of the di rectors exposes them to the charge of great ladies and neglect. The account of Hannay, the managing director, could not have been overdrawn to the extent of one farthing if they had exercised due vigilance ; much less could the over drafts have been of long standing, and to the amount of 16,0001. The interests of the shareholders have been very grossly abused in this case, and may be, and have been equally neglected in the same way in other Joint-Stock Banks. Much of the same species of mallersation appears in the affairs of the Marylebone Bank, as were lately brought to light in those of the Bank of the United States, although of far less amount and of lesser moral impropriety in the former than in the latter case. In the case of the Bank of the United States, the Directors and executive officers loaned the money of the Bank for their own use, and repaid the amount by State Stocks at par, which they picked up in the Stock Market at heavy discounts to suit their purposes. In the case of the Marylebone Bank, Mr. Hannay had entire and uncontrolled authority to do just as he pleased with the funds, and it is stated by a Contemporary that each director had an allowance of a large number of shares, with liberty to sell them if at a premium, and on the express understanding that the Bank was to redeem them at par in the event of a con trary movement. The directors had thus a snug thing of it, if the shares rose to a premium, and were free from all loss, whatever might be their value in the market. This is most objectionable practice, and ought to attract the attention of Parliament to the de fective state of the laws relating to joint stock banking. The unlimited confidence placed in the managing director, in the case of the Marylebone Bank, points out the inefficiency a general board of directors, and the expediency of appointing a special committee of directors, in all Joint-stock Banks, who should be al lowed a fair remuneration, and give their sole time and attention to the affairs of their employers. It is impos sible that gentlemen who come to the Board-room only for an hour or two once or twice a week, can have that knowledge of the business of the Bank to which they be long which is necessary to enable them to keep the machinery in safe and wholesome action, and to main tain a proper superintendence and check upon the con duct of the executive officers. While they only attend these weekly meetings in the Board-room, they merely give their voice on the business that may be brought before them, which is prepared by, and must depend upon, the will and disposition of the paid officers of the Bank. These are often most able, trustworthy, and in telligent men, but they are not always so, as the cases of the Marylebone Bank, and that of the Bank of the United States awl others, prove most clearly. To pre vent a recurrence of such exposures as have taken place in these institutions, a standing committee of directors should attend daily and apply their sole time and at tention to the management. HERALD.—On referring to the annual report of the treasury department at Washington, as laid before Con gress, on the banking concerns of the Union, it must excite no little astonishment to find how the insolvent banks contrive to "rub on" in the midst of difficulties, disasters and disgraces of all sorts, with rag dollar paper everywhere depreciated, and at large discounts, with deposits and specie decreasing, with capitals cut clown in most cases, or entirely squandered, that is, where any were ever started with in hard cash, yet with rag dollar circulation again on the increase. The New York and Boston specie paying banks are not of course included within this category of fraudulentjoint stock bank traders. The returns embrace a view of the business affairs of the banks of the Union sepa rately and in the aggregate, although it is stated they are not to be depended upon as entirely satisfactory, from the loose manner in which prepared, and ac counts kept by the banks themselves. They comprise 830 banks and branches, of which the monstrous num ber of 400 are in a state of suspension, never, it was believed, to resume. It appears from returns made up to January, 1841, that the aggregate deposits in these banks fell from 127,300.000 dollars in 1837 to 72,800,000 in 1841, or about 43 per cent., whilst the circulation was reduced less than 17 per cent., and the discounts and loans about 19 per cent. ; the specie between the same two extreme points having decreased nearly 8 per cent. It will be observed however that circulation was on the in crease in 1841 as compared with 1840 by nearly 18,000,000 dollars. It is clearly impossible, with such notorious bank corruption and mismanagement, to guess yet, with any approximate approach to precision, when the end of monetary and commercial embarrassment may be anticipated in the United States. A decree has been issued by the Government of Peru prohibiting any vessel touching at the smaller ports of the republic under very heavy penalties. This decree will bear with great hardship upon whalers and other ships which may have been in the practice of calling at the harbours most convenient for procuring fresh provi sions. It was to come into operation on the Ist of Fe bruary last, and inflicts the penalty of 1,000 dollars upon the captain of any vessel, whether national or foreign, if it touch at any of the minor ports or coves on the coast, the vessel to be liable whether owned by the cap tain or others. If, moreover, it be proved that any per son, goods, or letters, have been landed from the vessel at any port at which she may have thus touched, contrary to the law, the vessel will be confiscated, and the cap tain in addition will become liable to a criminal prosecu tion. penalties under this decree being so heavy, and the term " minor ports and coves" so vague, the principal places ought surely to be enumerated, or a fruitful field of endless litigation and annoyance is opened. SUN.—The English Securities were again to. day with- Out that feature of buoyancy which distinguished them a week or two, back. Nevertheless, .they did not give way, fewer sales having been effected. Consols realized 89* to 891 forpresent transfer, and 89* to for the Account. Exchequer Bills were 14s. to 16s. premium ; and East India Bonds, 6s. to Bs. premium ; Bank Stock was at 167* to 168, and East India Stock at 248. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 98* to 4, and the Three per Cents. 89* to Reduced Three-and-a-Ralf per Cents. were 984 to Most of the Foreign Stocks were to be had upon easy terms. Active Spanish Bonds were 19- to ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. were 30 to 294 ; the Three per Cents. 178 ; Mexican 24, and Dutch Five per Cents. 1021. All the Railway Shares exhibited a downward tendency. Great Western 'were 158 to l 4 ; the New 6to 6i pre mium ; the Fifths at 4 3 1 to 4i ; the Birmingham, 70 to 69 ; the Greenwich Scrip ; and the South Western at 13* to 12k premium ; Brighton were 7to 7-*; Blackwall 10, Croydon 1 s ; South Eastern 21 ; North Midland 364- ; Bristol and Exeter 29i ; and Eastern Counties 151 discount. Union Bank of Australia Shares were 5:1 premium. Lord Portman gave a dinner at Bryanston, on the 3d of August, to his tenantry, and on that occasion entered into a statement of his views upon the Corn laws. He stated, that having often told them that he considered a fixed duty would give sufficient protection to the agriculturists, and would be less injurious to all the other interests in the empire than the sliding scale, inasmuch as corn might become an article of regular commerce, he need only tell them that every year's experience since 1823 (when first he was obliged, as 31. P. for Dorset, to form an opinion) confirmed his belief in the correctness of that opinion. Adverting, however, to the recent elections, he' thought it. was hopeless to attempt at present to enact an absolute fixed ; d u and, therefore, he would cons en t to some such r palliative as he had for several years contemplated, as an improvement of the existing law, and as a mode of testing the probable consequence of an absolute fixed duty. Hi s plan of palliation is to enact, that when wheat is under 40s. the duty should be 20s. per quarter ; when above 725. should be 2s. 6d., and when between 40s. and 725. should be 10s. But as a necessary part of any new law, ho would amend the law relating to taking the averages, on the plan proposed by him in the House of Commons in 1828. He would omit London, Liver pool, Wakefield, and all towns not returning 5,000 quar ters in the year, from the average towns, and extend the period of six weeks to three months. He thought the present a peculiarly f avoura bl e t i me for adjusting t h e Corn-law squabbles, because there is no glut of vorn anywhere in the world to overwhelm the market iu an unusual manner. LITERATURE. AMENITIES OF LITERATURE.-3 Vols. Moron, London, 1841. Mr. D'lsraeli, to whose practised pen we are indebted for these volumes, is one of the neatest and most entertaining writers of the day. The - department he Inis chosen is not a very extensive Or important one, but he has brought to it all the resources of a skilful and accomplished mind. His manner is unithrinly attractive; and in the easy, unembarrassed flow of his style, may not unaptly be. compared to Hume. He departed, however, from his usual cool and healthy judg ment, when, in one of his earliest and best works, he drew his illustration of the literary character from Rousseau, who, if not quite mad, was in a state closely approaching to madnesS, and can never, therefore, be justly put forth as a sample of the fraternity. In his present vo lumes, Mr. D'lsraeli exhibitsinuch of that amus ing power of gossip and light narrative which so delighted us in his former works. His " Ame nities of Literature " has a sort of family like nes to his " Curiosities," with this exception, that they have more unity of design, and are more fully charged with information. From few of the opinions broached in them do we find cause to dissent, but among these few is the following, which is pronounced on Henry the Eighth : " The passions of his own times secured his popu larity even to his latter days. Youthful, with all its vigorous and generous temper, and not inferior in the majesty of his intellect any more than in that of his person; learned in his cioset, yet enterprising in action, this sovereign im pressed his own commanding character on, the nation." We doubt much the generosity of Henry's nature, of which Mr. D'lsraeli here speaks. Hume, indeed; praises his Magnani mity, but he adduces no proof of it; and Tytler, a sounder authority, most distinctly states—un less our memory greatly deceives us—that he never had anything generous or noble about him. He was showy, extravagant, and even good-natured, so long as youth and health lasted, but nothing more. In later days, he degenerated into one of the most cruel, vindic tive, sensual despots, that England had ever known. As for his popularity, the frequent conspiracies that occurred towards the -close of his life, prove that it could not have been very great ; and, so far from his impressing " a com manding character" on the nation, never was a Parliament so abject, so sycophan tic, as dur ing the latter portion of his reign. His learning cannot be denied. Erasmus bears testimony to his classical and other acquirements; but it was rather reading he possessed, than an en larged and majestic intellect. Our author's spe culations on the private character of the Earl of Leicester the haughty favourite of Queen • Elizabeth—are as just as they are in ; and not less happy is he in his sketch of Hooker, of whom he justly says, " he is the first vernacu lar writer whose classical pen harmonized a numerous prose. While his earnest eloquence, freed from all scholastic pedantry, assumed a style stately in its structure, - his gentle spirit sometimes flows into natural humour, lovely in the freshness of its simplicity." In closing our short noticeof these pleasant volumes, we should not omit to mention that they are introduced by a brief preface, wherein the author touchingly alludes to his own deprivation of sight, and the affectionate solicitude of his son in preparing the manuscript for the press. DISCOVERY OF A. HOUSE UNDER GROUND. NEWBLISS, AUGUST 3, 1841.—An under-ground house was discovered last week near the old road leading from Newbliss to Monaghan, and about three miles from the latter town, and from its perfect state of preservation formed a most curious relic of antiquity. A man who lately got possession of the farm upon which it is situated, went to remove an unsightly hillock in a small meadow close to his house. This little field had been reclaimed a few years ago, after the turf had been cut off it, and from it to the small lake of Keshlin (about three hundred yards below it) was, in the memory of an old man living near it, one continued heath moor, with sever a l spades' depth of turf under it ; and he had seen seven spits of turf cut off the hillock which formed the roof of the house. The outer wall is forty-six feet by about sixteen. Outside the entrance is a semicircular court-yard, the base of the wall surrounding it, as well as that of all the other walls, is composed of large rough stones, some of them several tons weight, standing on their ends, something like those of Stonehenge. The entrance divided the semicircular wall into two equal segments, and was formed with two larger stones than the others, sufficiently apart to admit a man with ease. Inside the entrance was an oval apart ment, about twelve feet by eight, which was arched over from within about four feet of the base. The arch was composed of fiat stones of different sizes, so carefully selected and fitted (though there was not a cut stone in the whole building), that the point of a penknife could scarcely be inserted between them. Each stone pro jected about a quarter of an inch from the underneath one, until they met at the top of the roof, which was about six feet from the ground. Opposite the entrance, at the other end of this room, was a similar entrance into a lobby, which led straight to the other extremity of the building, and off which were six other apart ments, all square, and built and roofed in the same manner as the first oval one. The two standing stones forming the entrance from this latter room into the cor- I ridor, stood somewhat narrower than those of the prin cipal entrance, and were rubbed and worn on one par ticular part, as it were from the weapons of the in habitants returning from their hunting or plunder ing excursions. The whole of the . floor inside was flagged with slabs of the same stone, and the outside of the roof covered with the same material, which is , the most remarkable circumstance connected with it, as the nearest freestone quarry is on Carronmore mountain, in Fermanagh, about twenty miles from this place, and the stone there does not cleave into slabs, and is of quite a different grain, the former exactly resembling the Scotch sand-stone found along the Clyde. Some maintain that this antique piece of architecture must be antideluvian ; but the circumstance of the interior having been found perfectly clean, with the exception of the juice of the bog-stuff' covering it having tri c kl e d down the walls (and this black appearance may have been caaused by the effect of smoke, although there was no other indication of fire having been used inside), it may be concluded, from the number of what are called in the south of Ireland " follagh feeah," (deer fire), that this edifice ha 3 been the abode of hunters, and that the turf-mould was first excavated in order to build it, and then laid back again for the purpose of concealment. Many of his neighbours say that the owner of the ground, who has dug up part of the house, found some great curiosities in it ; but he himself denies it, with the exception of a round slab of sand stone, with some cha racters scratched upon it, and one of his children let it fall and broke it. —Dublin Evening Mail. THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE. On Wednesday morning, a letter from the Rev. Mr. Hodgson, a clergyman of the Established Church, re commending a union of the Wesleyans with the Church, was brought before the Conference, and gave rise to a long and interesting discussion, Among the speakers was Dr. Bunting, who took occasion to observe, in re ference to one portion of the letter stating that those of the Wesleyan ministers who had passed the Presidential Chair should be made Bishops—that no pow er whatever should ever induce or compel him to be made a Bishop. He had received a great number of communications on the subject of the union of the Methodists with the Church ; and h e was induced to believe that many persons attributed to him a power and an influence which he did not possess. Why those communications were addressed so pre-eminently to him, he could not conceive; but the fact was, that he had received two letters from Mem hers of Parliament, thanki ng hi m f or their elections; though he .did not know th ose gentlemen, had h a d no p gno ran revious t, c before ommun they ication themselves with them, and was totally i i nformed hi m , t h at they had been elected at a ll, bers in quest i on was a Tory, and the other was a One of the M e m- Whi g . H e ment i one d t h at to show what a mistaken notion some people had of his influence and ance in connection with the Wesleyan body. In the import course of discussion, it was stated that no official cor respondence could be entered into with Mr. Hodgson, as he could . have no power or authority to make any proposition that would be regarded b .' Church at y the large as authoritative. It was, however, r esolved that a reply bo sent t o hi m, thanking him for his kind mo tives in writing th e letter and expressing a desire that a greater unanimity of feeling may obtain among all religious denominations. This discussion occupied the r greater portion of the forenoon. At five in the . afte o -_ noon the Conference re-assembled for the ordination o f the young men who were admitted to the ni u b b u l s ic r3 l ' v . ere f whom there are between 30 and 40. The public On admitted, and the chapel was filled to of the Stationing Thursday\ afternoon, in consequence commence its delibera- Committee being required to 'more than about an tions, the genera body did not sit Robert Newton, the hour. In the evening, the Rev.o the newly-ordained ex - President, delivered a charge The Service was Ministers, in Oldham-street Chapel.he congregation was very open to the public, and . t of the silk gown, the Con numerous. On the question no preacher shall wear it ferenec has decided that from the Conference ; and without express permissio n direction of the Committee, adrai- Dr. Bunting, by the Rev. W. Bunting and the Rev. nistered a reproo f to the for having appeared in the gown Mr. Waddy, of lll:lis the Conference was occupied in in the pulpit. Yesterday stations o f the various ministers for the ensu ing the may mention, for the amusement of our ing year. that We Mrs. Martin, a lecturer on Socialism, titUt ' readers, a L onference to discuss certtgu iiipi- s in a challenge to herth. views ; but we ha* lv. --ed - state connection with did not aceopt the l , ",it t . ' ion. We that the Conference bas not r‘-' a a that the Conference curnea any answer believe to the letter font the Committee of Arrangement for th e •prapOS ell conference 0! ministers on the Corn-laws. _ . . —Manchester Guardian. For vtrettg past during the gloomy weather, mauy . persons have complained of difficulty in their re splrAtion and of being otherwise effected. Medical men of experience attribute the cause to the want of a due portion of oxygen gas in the atmosphere, and the air not being properly rarified, occasioned by the absence t sunshine for many days. EVENING STJN. PETITION TO THE QUEEN The Petition to her Majesty, publish e d in The . Sun on. the 3d inst, was forwarded to the Marquis of Nor-. manby to be presented to her Majesty. The day before, yesterday the Noble Marquis caused the following infor— mation to be conveyed to the Chairman of the - petitioners:, " Whitehall, - Aug. 11; 1841. " Sir,—l am directed by the Marquis of Nornfanby to inform you that he has not failed to lay before the Queen. the Petition of the Merchants, Manufacturers, Traders,. and others, agreed to at a public meeting, held at the. King's Arms Tavern, Philip-lane, Wood-street, in. the. City of London, on the 31st of July.—l am, Sir, your' obedient servant, ' "S. M. PHILLIPI'S. " To John Foreman, Esq., Commercial wharf, Old SWati4ane:" 1 THE REV. HUGH M'NELLE AND THE - CORN-LAWS. , . We copy the f o ll o Wi n o. sensible observations f rom X pamphlet recently issu e d' by a working man, in reply to. Mr. M'Neile's late effusion at the Liverpool Ampitheatre, on the subject of the Corn-laws :--" But, fellow-work men, if it be so glorious a thing to be ' independent 0t.7 foreigners,' how comes it that we are to be indvendent: 'for bread alone ? Why not for tea, coffee, sugar, rice,. spices, cotton, silk, in short for everything ? We nev ce• hear the men who now talk so loudly of independence* endeavouring to persuade us to have such a " love . for English dried leaves, for instance, as to refuses tea, merely that we may be ' independent of fo reigners.' How does this happen ? I can think of but: one reason—they have no interest in endete.ouring.- to mislead us on this matter. If, however, the land owners of :this country derived a large income from. drying, and selling at an 'extravagant prim, the. leaves. of the trees on their estates, and it were proposed for the first time to have a free trade to China, we. should. have as great an outcry as we now hear against a free. trade in corn ; many a hireling lawyer, acid ' hypocri tical parsons' in abundance, would stand forth with brazen: front to tell us that such trade would reduce our wages,. and bring ruin on the country ; and, I am s‘prry to say,. many a solemn fool would be found among us ready to and applaud them. Cultivate a love for every thing English, says Mr. M'Neile. Depend sot on foreign countries for supplies. Well, then, my friends, if this , principle be good for any thing, let it not. be con fined to , corn. Let it be carried out, and extended to evez y thing.. Let us destroy our ships, and make corn fields. of iour docks. Let us hold no commuiration with ' on,:er Strangers.' Let us be even wlne than the Chinee, and prevent any ' foreign ' vessels fro m coming net is our shores. Yea more, we must bv,nish all ' alien: ;' from our land. We must have no ' barbarian" hypo - critical parsons ' fro m th e s i s t er i s l an d . Mr. 21'Neile e must no longer be permitted to live on 6 English oxen, and sheep, and hogs, and poultry ;' but must be sent, like an Irish goose, to feed and cackle on the bogs of Ireland ; or, if he like it better, and the nations of bears and lions have no antipathies to ' foreigners,' be can try , his favourite experiment of civilizing thein by persuading them to pay him a tax upon their food.. Fellow-workmen, oh I is it not a melancholy spectacle to behold a man who has sworn that he is ' moved by the Holy .Ghost,' to teach, among other things, the universal brotherhood of man—that God has made of one blood ALL nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth ; is it not a melancholy spectacle to beho. Icl such a man striving to perpetuate the foolish prejudice S of rude and barbarous ages ; endeavouring to foster an - tipathies between man and man, and to excite mutua. I jealousies and distrusts between members of the same e great family, merely because they speak a different •' tongue, and are separated by a sheet of water ? I, although a poor ignorant working man, with no educa tion save what I h ave b een a bl e to p i ck up for myself ; and, moreover, not having the advantage of bein„.,o. %spe cially ' moved by th e Hol y Gh ost, ' should be trtret'ly ashamed of exhibiting this extreme narrowness of mind, this wretched poverty mid contractedness of soul. The great Creator having bestowed different capabilities on. different countries, it must surely be most advantageous for each nation to devote its enemies to what can be produced at the least cost, and exchange its commodities freely with the world." VEGETABLES AND HERBS KNOWN IN ENGLAND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE THIRTEENTH' CEN TURY.—It cannot fail to be remarked, in perusing the roll, that very few esculent plants are mentioned. Dried pens and beans; parsley, fennel, onions, green peas, and new beans are the only species named. rot herbs, of which the names are not specified, but which served eleven days, cost sixpence. If any either. - vegetables were in general use at the time, they. were ; , perhaps, comprised wider the term " potagitun."' There is, however, much uncertainty upon the silbject of the cultivation of vegetables, in this country, c l ,ur ing the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Cress,es, endive, lettuce, beets, parsnips, carrots, cabbage, lee) ; s, and cardoons were grown in France durin g t h e reign Charlemagne ; butit is doubtful whether, many of thes varieties had penetrated into England at. nn early perio ( t. The most skilful horticulturists of the middle ages wer a ecclesiastics, and it is possible that in the gardens of mo - nasteries many vegetables were rearedyihich were not i t common use among the laity. Even Li the fifteenth cen• - tury, the general produce, of the English kit c h en gar d en t was contemptible when compared with that of the Low Countries, France, and Italy. Gilbert Rymer can enu- • merate only, besides a few wild and forgotten sorts, cab- • bage, lettuce, spinach, beet-root, trefoir,__hugles, borne, • celery, purslane, fennel, smallage, thyme, hyssop, par- - sley, mint, a species of turnip, and small white onions . According to him, all those plants were b o il e d w i t h meat - He observes also, that some were eaten raw, in spring ary , summer, with olive oil and spices, but questions the ?T o priety of the custom. This is, perhaps, the earliest. 310 - tiee extant of the use of salads in England.— Mann( I Household Expen ses of Englund in th e Thirteenth tur3 '- SHA KER I SAL—Mr. Carter, a ren onricivi shaker, visited this place a few weeks since, am', gwve Y w, or three lectures on Shakerism, and sung some twee 1, f songs, danced, exposed Miller's theory, ani.:l did serer •t other things for the amusement of the audience. T Shakers' creed is a very curious one. They believe one God, and two persons in the Godhead_male a nd female, or father and mother. —called Power and Wisdo m. They believe that Adam 'was the father of the old crc a tion, and Eve was the mother, both being created aft er the image of God ; and that Christ is the father of the ni creation, and Ann Lee the mother, and that them a lenium commenced with the appearance of Ai isa. Lee on earth. They believe in the immortality or animals, as well as of men. They say that John sa sr horses in the world of spirits, as recorded in Revelatioi They believe that all the ugly and venomous animals nt earth are symbolical of the evil spirits that inhabit t' be lower regions of the invisible world, and that all t' be beautiful creatures, Such as birds with gorgeous plumat ;e t are symbolical of the good spirits in the mansions of bliss. They believe that the souls of Shakers, in tht trances and visions, really visit the heavenly world. T lancet has been applied to them, and their flesh has bet ni scarified, while in this state, without producing a part i••• cle of blood. One person who visited the land of spin - . ts• in a trance, saw all the patriarchs and kings of olds. ; , time ; saw King David travelling, and Solomon t ri snow white horse ;_ saw Christ an d all the upeztl Newburyport Watchtower. CARLYLE, HALLAM, AND SlDNrey —I may say that we have scaled the ladde r of evenimsr, e f- - tertainments here, going to a ma gn if icent concert a f t ro L-- n1 a six ii ° : o ease; k afamilythe t tea e a up to this home -like hour was at Car) fie's. H e i s living in* the suburbs of London, near t } '.e . Thames ;my impr es sion is in rather an humble 4- ,vay; but when y o ur eye filled with a grand and beatetiful temple, you do not t Ake the dimensions of surrouniting objects; and if any r 3au. " 11 be independent of them, you might expect Ca.rlyl4 rto be. His head would throw a p h reno logist into ecstac ies. It looks lik e t h e " torge of thought" it is; and his e yes o have a preternatural brilliane. He reminded me eobfsmt ex's Lockha r t sa id to me, speaking of the size head, that he " had brains to fill h a lf a d oz en mr ha ts be ." . Carlyle has as strong a Scotch accent as . C ot . t n i a o t n ur h al as ky t , h a e n p d ict a u s ref r cr e enes from Germanism, as his own. Ibis manner is simple, natural, and kindly. His .. convt infusion of Gel mart s of his writings,. and flow as mountain streams are free f rom any ac quaintance with secluded part of Scotland. They ha dno living wife in a most Soil. Ile gave us en interesting c w ou a n s t wfiirstit went seine miles . noseecotinomaupnoiscta-toiffioncewiinththtehehNoNp-oerlodf, abet ter ai hp oi neighbours, selneotile i n timation that the world was going on. One day , s i tra to to them, a young American, and . A l e , seemed el." The spoke of him as if •th, h a d never lost their first impression of his celestia 1 nil tare. Carlyle had met Mr. Webster, and expre. So d ;rm: carne angy talk English, and be as familiar as the native s w it h tht r h our ous surprise that a men from over the sea s h e w, English constitution and laws, " With all that priest or jurist saith, Of modes of law, or modes of faith." _ _ wanted blowing on to lighten them up. A n d, b .. the way He said Webster's eyes were like dull furnace-, that onlyr it is quite interesting to perceive that our great country - man has made a sensation here, whe re i t is all but as chi ficult to make one as to make a mark on the ocean. The T have given him the sobriquet of the "Great Western, and they seem particularly struck with his appearanc A gentleman said to me, " His eyes open, and open, at id open, and you think they will never stop openin g ." i x; A a painter was heard to e xc l a i m , on seeing him, " *ha t.* head ! what eyes ! what a mouth ! and, my God !wl t aX colouring !" We had a very amusing evening at. d r . Hallam's, whom (thanks to F., as thanks to her for best privileges in London) I have had the great v x ,ieo.. ;tire of seeing two or th ree t i mes. But this kind of seen r ist so brief and imperfect that it amounts to little more . ;hart seeing the pictures of these great people. Jr. Hal la= has a very pleasing countenance, and a 7- ,„ t goo d -hum moured and playful manner. I quite "o-, sage of the " Middle Ages." He rexe . .mded me of but his simplicity is more genuine •. '.iot at all that o '?the great man trying to play child. uu quite forget, the freedom and ease of the social ^7'. .cost he was the hero in armour, We met Si Alley Smith' at his hous€ the best known all the wi mad, that he is eve' ! the `.s of the civilized world. The company 7ras small ;he was i' the vein, which is 1 ike s svagir being in voice, and we saw him, I believe, t o ad— nntage. His wit ,- ,fas not, as I expected, a success? on of brilliant explosioAsbut a sparkling stream onow,no,. like when he is at home, and i' the vein too ; and like him, also, he seemed to enjoy his own fun, a nd tco have fattened on it. He expressed unqualified ad mira— tion of Dickens, and said that 10,000 of each nun: ber oE Nicholas Nickleby was sold. There was a youn r mam present, who, being flushed with some recent li terary success, ventured to throw himself into the arena a gains; the old lion-king, and to a lover of such sport, it would have been pleasant to see how he crackled him up, fiesh, bones, and all.—Miss Sedgwick's Letters. UPTON._-A DIFF ERENCE.--Not very long ago there wer e t wenty-six coaches running h Worcester and the Blue Bell gate, near this toss tht2 whole of which are now off the road.— Worcesi 'Arsh;rel Chronick.