The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-25 00:00:00

EVENING SUN THOS. WOOD, Secretary rrHE ORIENTAL and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCt, LOAN, ANNUITY, and REVER SIONARY COMPANY. CAPITAL—ONE :MILLION In 10,000 Shares of 1001. each. Deposit, 2/. per Share. To be empowered by Act of Parliament, and the responsibility limited by discharged Settlement. The increments and decrements of mortality in India are now already as wel known as those of the Mother-Country, ascertained as the latter have been by Babbage and Morgan's Equitable Experience, and the Carlisle and Goverment Annuity Tables. Some Offices have made East Indian risks a secondary feature of their business, but the vastly and continually increas ing connexion with the East, demands that a primary institu tion should be formed. It is also expedient and desirable that a great Assurance and Annuity Office for India should be identified with the interests of the people of this country located there, who in a variety of contingencies require the protecting and fostering influence of a great mercantile institution. It is proposed that a proportion of the profits, not exce tiding one-tenth, shall annually, at the discretion of the Dire ctors, be appropriated to cases of sudden bereavement, and form the nucleus of a benevolent fund, which under judicious manage ment would be eminently useful. An English Office, with Agencies in the three Presidencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, ready to pay all policies and annuities contracted in this country, is the chief object now sought to be attained. United with this special object the Oriental Office will em brace all who wish to effect insurances en lives, to sell rever sions, to purchase annuities, or to contract loans upon proper security, which general business will add in the infancy of the Establishment to its profits and its permanent prosperity. Tables of Life Assurance and Annuities, by an eminent Ma thematician and Actuary, founded upon the experience of In dian lives is the different Presidencies, and certain data., fur- 1 nished from cfficial sources, are in the course of preparation, and, after undergoing the examination of the Board of )Direc tors, will be adopted and acted upon, according to the s everal circumstances of each case. Other Tables for General Business are now ready, most de pending, like many modern Offices, upon chance or luck fur present success, with a certainty of final failure from their inhe rent unsoundness, but based upon the principles that have guided the Offices of longest standing and the greatest res pee. tability. . '1 he purchase of Reversions or contingent remainders, and the granting of Annuities to persons about to reside im the East, will form leading features of the Establishment, at id the latter will be governed by the known decrements of mo.rtality in the different localities. The names of the Directors and Officers will be advi irtised when the list is completed. Further information may be had by applying to HENRY JACKSON, Solicitor, 13, St. Helen's-place, London. THE STANDARD NOVELS. To be published with the Magazines on the 30th instant, in a neatly-bound pocket volume, embellished with Engravings, rice 68 ~ ILBERT GURNEY By THEODORE HOOK, Esq., Author of " Jack Brag," " The Parson's Daughter," &e. Forming the NEW VOLUME of THE STANDARD NOVELS AND RONIANCIES, `Which also comprise the following, among many other cele brated Work. of Fiction, each complete in one pocket 'volume, embellished with Engravings, price 6s.:— J. FENIMORE COOPER.—The Pilot, The Spy, The Water-Witch, The Red Rover, The Last of the iU 'hicans, The Pioneers, The Prairie, Lionel Lincoln, The Bo rderers, The Bravo, The Headsman, Heidenmauer, Precaution . G. P. R. JAMES.—Darnley, Do L'Orme, Philip A) agustns, Henry Masterton. TIrIEODORE HOOK.—The Parson's Daughter, Max. well, Jack Brag. Aliss AUSTEN—Sense and Sensibility, Emma, 111 ansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (hi 1 vol_), Pride and Prejudice. MORlER.—Hajji Baba, Haiji Baba in Eng land, Zohrab. Sir E. L. BULWER.—Eugene Aram, Paul Clifford, The Last Days of Pompeii. Captain MARRYA T.—Peter Simple, Jacob Faithful, Japhet in Search of a Father, King's Own, Mr. Milchhipman Easy, Newton F ors t er , Th e P ac h a o f many Tales. Miss JANE PORTER.—Thaddeus of Warsaw, The Scot tish Chiefs, The Pastor's Fireside. MAK WELL.—Stories of Waterloo, My Life, the- Bivouac. Mrs. TROLLOPE.—Vicar uf Wrexhill, Widow Barnaby. Mrs. GORE.—Mothers and Daughtets, the :Soldier of Lyons. MARRIAGE. By the Author of " The Inheri ca nce," and " Destiny." INHERITANCE. DESTINY. I . * * Any of which may be had separately. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.. To be had also of all Book3ellers THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARi;E N. U VDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME 'i:ittTßlS. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 25, Will be produced a New Comedy, in Five Acts , entitled WHAT WILL THE WORLD SAY?—Hon. Chi ales Nor wold, Mr. J. Vining ; Mr. Pye Hilary, Mr. I►lathevvs ; Mr. Warner, Mr. Bartley ; Captain Scrope Tarr. adi,ddle,plr. W. Farren ; Lady Norwold, 31rs. Glover ; Mar ian. Mayley, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Miss Dc `here, Miss Cooper ; Tat .le, Mrs. Orger ; Mrs. 'farradiddle, Mrs. Ilumby. To conclude with Auber's Opera of FRA DIAN 'OLO.— The .Alzrquis San Carlo (Fra Diavolo), Mr. W. :Harrison ; Lord Ailcash, Mr. G. Horncastle ; Lorenzo, Mr. Clement White ; Lady Alleash, Miss Grant; Zetlina, Miss Rainforth. Doors to le opened at hair-past Six—the perft rmances to ommence at Seven. Dress Bozos, 7s. ; Second Pr ice, 3s. 6d.; First and Secono Circ es, ss. ; Second Price, is. 6d . ; Pit, 35.; Seconal Price. 2,.; Gallery Is. Ticke and pi aces 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 13oxes to be had solely of Air. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. To-morrow, a Now Comedy, entitled What Will? the World Say? with Fra Diavolo. iSOYAL UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR.. D,! VD3GE AND MR. WILLIS TONES. productiOn of the Novel Military Old English Equesi • Spec tacle, the Waterloo of the 18th Century, with est :•laandn ar yßaces in. I the Circle. effects, and powerful auxiliary aid. Pony THIS EVENING. SEPT. '25. Will be acted the long-promised Equestrian Spects de, called THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM ; OR, I'HE HORSE OF THE DISINHERITED; introducing Mr. Duo . ow's mag Peneys, Eques trian Troop, nificent Stud of Fort y Horses, hi g hll y - trained Pali? evs Fair and Co mpan i es of boy Theatres); embracing all the Alilitary Exploit s of the Grint Duke of Marlborough, Grand Reviews, Battles, and Glori Ate Victories. After which, NE W SCENES IN TH E CI :KC LE, in th e Largest Arena in the World, in which M a d ame TN crow, Sig- D orHillier, the Great American Rider, the Brit ill Horseman, conclude with, A Signor Felix Carlo , an d the First Artistes in Euro / ,e will appear. DAY AFTER THE FAIR. o ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE .. UNDER THE DIRECT ION OF MR. OSBA LDISTON. ~ Re -appearance of Miss Vincent,Hopley , after her severe : indi s p os i t i on, which shy : has al rea d y in the character of " Susan performed sixty succes sive nights. SEPT. 25, THIS EVENI NG, The highly i n t er esting an d p athet i c Domestic Dr sma, ea.llect F TRIALS A. JD VICISSI SUSAN HOPLEY; OR 1.- I—E William De an, Mr. E. TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL. F. Saville ; Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent, the ad ;nowledi ;ed Heroine of Domestic Drama. .TE ; OR. Mitt- which, RAFFAELLE THE REP ROBA , IGNE:T RiIVG. THE SECRET MISSION, AND T—f -T —F. l' Raffaell e' Thde Mr. E. F. S av ill e ; C oun t des Monte, Mr. ; (=Win, Mr. Howard ; Pauline, Mrs. Lee. To conclude with, in Three Acts, THE LIFE arid DE. VIII of JAMES DAWSON; or, the REBEL of 1745.—J aura Dawson, M r . E . F. SavilleSaville ; Lambourne, Mr. Dale ; Cb arl es Edward, Mr. .Seaman ; Sim, Mr. Gardner ; Kate Mot lon, Mrs. Lee ; "Saila), Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, 13 .—u-eller}, 6d. Half-price to the Be rxes only, at Half -pant Eight. To. morrow, Susan Hopley, Ftaffaelle and James Dawson • ..s_•_. _- _'.-._••__!..._•...,..„-_,............... -_,___ -, ap. al I .......... ......,..._.......,...: _ A dreadf u l accident happened near Eiege I aSt week. It appears that the railway station is three miles fr ei a the town, and that the usual conveyance is an omnibus twei it Y feet high. In consequen ce of the shameful overloadi ai ),* of one of these vehicles, there being from twenty-five to thiet, passenger=, besides an unusual proportion of luggage, tb; gigantic vehicle was completely renverse in descending the hil one mile from i's destination. There were twelve peTSOni wounded, but the most severely injured was an English lady, the lion. Mrs. Ives, who received a wound in the bead, aas whose courier is likely to be a cripple for life. A French gem tleman had his leg broken. An action has been common cot I against the proprietors, and the damages laid at 20,000 Ira' 3cs. • Belgian Journal. CURIOUS PHENOMENON.In the evenin g 1 ' Saturday weak a most curious though natural phenoir enon was witnessed for some time in the neighbourhood of E i r ton, which nearly coincide toith the descr iptiorn near Newark, given by travellers of the celebrated mge so often rre , t with. , m the Arabian end African deserts. It presented the 2 w ear- i i ince of a vast flood of water, the_ tops of the hedger ~ tr ees, r &e., being seen above it, and, !that was more remarks tile s the shadows of them seemed distinctly thrown on the m ist as upon real water. his rarely if ever witnessed in this country. —Lincoln Gazette. TA ONDON and BRIGHTON RAILWAY. ALTERATION of TRAINS. This RAILWAY is now OPENED THROUGHOUT from London to Brighton for the conveyance of Passengers, Parcels; Private Carriages, and Horses. DOWN TRAINS FROM LONDON DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAYS. Mixed Train, calling at all the Stations, at 4 past 9, A.M. Mixed Train, calling at First Class Stations, at 4 past 10, A. m. Mixed Train, calling at all the Statioas, at 4- past 1, P. M. Mixed Train, calling at all the Stations, at 4 past 2, P. M. Mixed Train, calling at First Class Stations, at -2 past 3, P at. Mixed Train, calling at First Class Stations, at 4 past 4, P.M. Mixed Train to Croydon only at 7 r.sr. SUNDAY TRAINS DOWN FRO3I LONDON. Mixed Trains at 8 A.M., past 10 A.M., and 7P. - 31. ; and a Mixed Train to Croydon only at 10 P.M. UP TRAINS FROM BRIGHTON DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAYS. Mixed Train, calling at all the Stations, at past 6, A. Si. Express Train, calling at Croydon only, at past 8, A. M. Mixed Train, calling at First Class Stations, at 3- past 10, A.M. Mixed Train, calling at all the Stations, at 4. past 11, A.M. Mixed Train, calling at First Class Stations, at past 2, P. M. Mixed Train. (Ailing- at all the Stations, at 4, P. M. Mixed Train from Croydon only, at 3 past 2 P. M. SUNDAY TRAINS UP FROM BRIGHTON. Mixed Trains at past 7, A.m. at 4, P. M., and at 7, P.M. And an Up Train Mixed, from Croydon only at 7 A.M. The Mixed Trains, which stop at all the Station, perform the journey in two hours and a half, the otlor Trains in two hours, and the Express Train in an hour and three-quarters. Fares to and from London and Brightor ;—First-class car riages, 14s. 6d , Second Class, 9s. 6d. ; Children in Second class, 6s. 6d. Fares to Croydon :—First-class, 2s. ; Second-class, ls. 6d. N.B. No passengers wig: be conveyed from London to New cress, or sew-cross to London. The Express Train will stop at Croydon only. 'I he mixed trains only will consist of first and second-class carriages, and will stop at every station on the line. Children under ten years of age in first-class carriages will be charged second-class fare. No charge made for infants in arms. Bills containing all particular. rs to the conveyance of car riages, horses, dogs, luggage, and parcels, together with infor mation as to omnibuses, post-horses, Sic., may be had on appli• cation at the Offices of the Company, 10, Angel-court, Throg rnorton-street ; or at the following booking-offices :—Griffin's, and Green Man and Still, Oxford-street ; Hatchett's, Picca dilly ; 41, Regent-circus ; Spread Eagle, ditto ; Golden cross, Charing-cross ; George and Blue Boar, Holborn ; and Old Bull, Holborn ; White Horse, Fetter-lane , Cross Keys, Wood -street; and the. Spread Eagle, Gracechurch-street ; also at thu Termini, London-bridge, and Brighton ; and all the stations on the line. By Order, Sept. 24, 1841. ? 1 , . .st • Zhe LONDON: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1841. In the Times of Wednesday there was an ela-. borate article to prove that fluctuations in the currency, not the Corn-laws, are the real cause of the existing depression of trade. The article concluded by saying, " our statement is so plain that a child may understand it, and so undeni able that no one will attempt to refute it." We might not, perhaps, have undertaken the task had not our Contemporary yesterday boasted that Lord STANLEY and he quite agree as to the real causes of the existing depression. But Lord STANLEY only imitated Sir ROBERT PEEL, and having stolen one of the Right Hon. Baronet's mannekins, he decorated it after his own glib fashion, in order to beguile the Lancashire free holders. The Times, Lord STANLEY, and Sir ROBERT PEEL, in fact, agree in ascribing the depression to the fluctuations . in the currency, and we are stimulated to notice the unrefutable article of the Times by the expectation of bring ing sonic discredit on the theory of the Baronet and the Lord by exposing the errors of the jour nalist. Passing over a quantity of the usual vitupe ration of our Contemporary, we come to his first statement of a fact : " We need go no further back than 1818," says the Times. "In that year the Bank of England, encouraged by successive reprieves, had launched oust as if the day of reckoning would never arrive. "We spec k from memory, but we believe that its issues were nalrly 30,000,0001. The consequences were, abundance of imney, high prices, eager speculation, plenty of employntcnt, and all the other concomitants of prosperity.' " Now, what are the facts as to tive issue of the Bank of England in 1818, and previous years, and what was the prosperity of that and. the following year? According to Mr. MAcumLocn's Dic tionary, the issues of the Bank of England were as follows : In August 1818, 26,602,837/.; in February, 28,279,043/.; in August, 1817, 30,0'99,9081.; in February, 27,058,578/. ; in Atz,gust, 1816, 27,075,854/. ; and in February, 25480,000/. It 'as not, therefore, in 1819 that the Bank launched out, for in that year its issues had decreased very nearly 2,000,0001.,. and did not equal the issues of 1816. That is false state ment the first. Yesterday the Times seems to have become aware of its error, but instead of con tradicting it, and so refuting the unrefutable a r tide it had built on a gross blunder, it merely said that in 1818 the circulation of the Bank. of England was 27,220,0001., thus convicting itself of an error of nearly one-tenth of the yr:hole circula tion of the Bank, a sum more th:a..n. equivalent to the average of those fluctuation s from which the Times says all our commercial e , wils flow. Passing from 1818, the Times of z. Wednesday went on to say— "The next year, in 1819, saw a sudden. change. The Act for the resumption of cash payments pa sued; the Bank received notice to pay all its notes in gold wi t4sin three years, and it immediately began to contract its is ;sues. General distress instantly ensued. The chief seat sof trade were first affected ; hence the failures of that i rear in London and the other great towns, and the riots: at Manchester and divers other places." Subsequent, then, to 1815, acct' l ding to the Times, when the Bank launched out.. there were abundance of money, high prices, ea ger specula tion, plenty of employment, and a 11 the other concomitants of " prosperity," and yi et before the end of the following year all this w:t s completely changed, and great distress and :riots ensued. This is a very short period for suci a change ; but before a public journalist makes :such a state ment, he is bound to consult some a.ther records than those of his own memory and :itnagination. The Manchester riot took place on I the 16th of August, 1819, or in less than a pear after the commencement of the great prosy erity arising from the Bank launching forth i. a 1818. On November 29th of that year, Mr. BENNET pre sented a petition from Mancheste 2r, which set forth " that great distress had lo ug prevailed in Manchester and its neighbourho ;" so that the great prosperity of the short period which intervened between the Bank launching out in 1818, and the riot of 1819—the cla: ;turbance of which prosperity is said to have be !n the cause of the riot--is a piece of invention Oil the part of the Times. But the whole paragraph displays iintense igno rance in the leading Journal. The c Lange which took place in 1819, so far as the A.-2:t for the re sumption of cash payment is concerm•ed, was the very reverse from that described Li the Times. The Bank of England, by the Act of 1818, the last Act for restraining cash pay ments before 1819, was bound to resume cash payments on the sth of .J uly; 1820, and the Act of 1819, which the Times aescribes as causing the Bank, by obliging it to pai.y its notes in gold to restrict its issues, was not to accelerate but postpone that period. It is entitled "An Act to continue the restrictions cot stained in several Acts on payments in cash by - the Bank of England until the Ist of May, 1823," Thus its effect was to put off the resumption of c as h payments from July 5, 1820, at which period they were previously ordered to take place, to May 1, 1823. * Moreover, the Bank of England was under an obligation to pay certain of its outstanding notes of an earlier date than 1617 in the year 1819, and the Parliament no sooner met in that year than the merchants of London petitioned to have the Bank released from that obligation. Ac cordingly, the first act of the Committee of Seuresy, which sat in 1819, on Bank affairs, was to recommend that an Act should * See Second Report on the State of the Bank, in TLl.ns4 rd, vol. 40, p. 152, and p. 1,567, for the tide of the Act. See also Lord Holland's Speech, p. 1,295. be passed to restrain the Bank from paying these rt.-)tc , s in gold. A Bill `7" fiirth Witil 1 - 2 in and l at once through all its stages. Thus, in the early part of 1819, the Bank of England was relieved from an obligation immediately to pay its notes in gold, while the Times asserts that it was the creation of such an obligation in 1819 which was the cause of the Bank curtailing its issues, which curtailment of issues, according to the Times, was the cause of all the distress which prevailed in the next few subsequent years. This is a gross mistake. The reader will, perhaps, suppose that we have pointed out errors enough in one short paragraph, but they are more numerous than the words. Instead of prosperity prevailing in 1818, as the Times asserts, Mr. TooxE says (and his authority is better than that of the Times), " That numerous and extensive failures began in the latter part of that year "—on the heels of the Bank launching out—" and con tinued, more or less, through the early part of 1819," &c.—Tooke on Prices, vol. 2, page 77. Then the distress of 1819, which the Times ascribes to the Act for the resumption of Cash Payments, took place before that Act was passed in June, which, at the same time, was an Act for postponing, not accelerating, those payments. " Gradually," the Times proceeded to say, "the depression spread over the country. In 1820 and 1821, it reached the agriculturists. The year 1822 resounded with their complaints. At last, in 1823, the Government was in duced to relax in its resolve, and the Small Note Bill passed." Would not any one believe from this that the depression of 1819, which caused the riot at Manchester, as the Times says, continued in the towns as well as in the country? But what was the fact? . In the year 1822, the Bank of Eng land's circulation was less than 18,000,0001., and lower than at any period between 1818 and 1825. At the commencement of that year, however, this was the language of the KING'S Speech : " I have the greatest pleasure in acquainting you that a considerable improvement has taken place in the course of the last year in the commerce and manufactures of the United Kingdom, and I can now state them to be, in their important branches, in a very flourishing condition." We will not now attempt to point out the causes of the agricultural distress in 1822 and 1823, for that would extend our observations too much ; we content ourselves with reminding the Times that at present the dispute concerns manufactur ing and not agricultural distress, that great ma nufacturing prosperity was combined in 1822 with a much limited Bank circulation. That single fact overthrows the whole theory of the Times. We might proceed through the " unrefutable" article, and show that every paragraph abounds in errors, blunders, and mis-statements, such as we have exposed, but this sample of the sack of rubbish which the Times seeks to palm off on the public as genuine wholesome food will suffice. What is the real cause of commercial prospe rity and depression has certainly not been pointed out off-hand so clearly that a child may understand it by the Times, nor will that journal, in its new-born zeal ftir the bread-tax and the bread-taxers, persuade the manufacturing and mercantile community that the paper money dealers are the persons who doom them to want and death. Even if they were, the manufac turers have as good reason to demand the re moval of that cause from the hand of the Legis- 'ature, and as good reason to condemn it for not mmediately taking means at least to inquire into the cause of their distress, as if the Corn-law were at the bottom of the mischief. Till the Times adopted Sir ROBERT PEEL'S nostrum, and endeavoured on Wednesday to direct public indignation from the landowners to the paper-money dealers, we considered that journal as not having wholly passed over to the side of the bread-taxers. But tired apparently of not fully sharing the landlords' favours, and envious of the more successful Herald and Post, which are appropriate organs of the starvation party, it offered itself on Wednesday, armed and provisioned, ready to make war at its own charge, to do battle against the com merce of England. It starts as the willing guerilla of PEEL and the landowners. It puts on the livery- of the Starvation Ministry, and takes on itself the ignominious task of bolstering up those laws it has heretofore so zealously de nounced. Following the direction of Peel, it un dertakes to hunt Anti-Corn-law agitation to death for the service of its new masters. If it succeed no better on other occasions than on Wednesday it will only maim and bruize itself, gratifying the clodpoles it now serves, but it will not injure e cause of Corn-law abolition. In the House of Commons last night Sir J. EASTHOPE put himself very unnecessarily for ward as the advocate of aristocratic extravagance. The question was the retiring annuity of the VICE-CHANCELLOR. It was proposed that this should be 3,5001. Mr. EWART moved that it he 3,000/., which, as Mr. WAKLEY properly said, is 1,0001. too much ; 2,000/. a year would be ample. We know not how an elderly gen tleman can rationally and decently spend more. But neither this sum, nor even the large sum of 3,0001., equalled Sir J. EASTHOPE'S magnificent notions of the manner in which the Judges should be paid. He condemned the proposed reduction as paltry economy. Precisely such votes as that given, we presume, by Sir J. EAST HOPE, and such reasons as he urged, extending through every branch of the public service, at one time augmenting the pay of Judges, at an other increasing the salaries of officers of every description, civil and military, are the sources of the vast expenditure in the aggregate which falls so heavily on the national industry, and cripples the resources of the people. Though we like free trade as well as Sir J. EASTHOPE, we like economy also in managing public affairs. Sir J.EA STHOPE represents a constituency which suffers at this moment much distress, and as long as gentlemen ridicule economy as paltry that distress will never receive relief from the Legislature. Does not Sir J. EASTHOPE see that by voting salaries and pensions on the aristo cratic scale, he fosters in the aristocracy that desire for large incomes, which imposes the Corn-law on the community? Is he not con vinced, too, that by taking a single farthing more from the people by taxes than is abso lutely necessary, he commits a gross injustice ? What he stigmatizes as paltry economy is com mon honesty, and we are m►staken in the suf fering and energetic electors of Leicester if they do not convince Sir J. EASTHOPE that if he hope to represent them in future he must be as care ful of the public money as he is of his own. One of the most numerous and respectable meetings ever held at Glasgow, assembled there "on Wednesday, and unanimously agreed to me morialise her MAJESTY not to prorogue Parlia ment till the distress of the country had been inquired into. We shall give an abridged report of the proceedings when we can find room. Mr• OSWALD, the Member for Glasgow, was in the Chair, having gone down from London to attend the meeting. Two clergymen addressed the assembly in eloquent and forcible speeches, while all who spoke deprecated in the strongest lan guage, the neglecting to relieve the people as pregnant with the greatest danger. A far greater .:umber of persons would have collected had ,here been room, for many hundreds went away because they could not be accommodated. We some time ago expressed a hope that Glasgow .night surpass Manchester, and if it has not it has at least equalled it on this occasion, and has. given, in conjunction with its English sister, a heavy blow and great discouragement to mono poly and starvation. The whole of the French Journals of Thursday have all reached us. They bring no political news of any moment. The capital continued tranquil, nor was it ex pected that any fresh attempt would be made to disturb the public peace. At an early hour yesterday wrming, a man attempted to de. stroy himself with a pistol on the Quai near the Hotel de Ville_ He did not succeed, but was carried to the Hotel Dieu in a hopeless condition. The Sentinelk of Toulon states that some veins of iron EIIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, His MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, 3IAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUAKANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, 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 PIONS. 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 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., 18,000 L, 9,0001, 5,0001., 8,600/., &c. &c. &c., to London ; 3,6001., 8001., and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,600/. to Dub.in ; 3,600/. to Beverley; 3,600/. to Halifax (Yorkshire); 1,2001 to Portleaven Harbour ; 900/.. 7001. and 600!. to Li verpool ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. to Hull ; 900!. and 6001. to Manchester ; 700/. to East Retford (Not tinghamshire); 600/. to Bideford ; 600/. to Cork ; 6001. 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 HAMBUtIGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. 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, TO CORRESPONDENTS. 66 W. H. M." should state the fact to the Government District Collector, who, no doubt, will furnish the necessary infor mation. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORRO W rnme 57 minutes after 10 1 Evening 3 1 minutes after 11. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1841. have been recently discovered in Algeria, equal in richness to those of the Island of Elba. The locality is not mentioned. A cin_ular f:orn the MinitPr c.f l 7 3 :- f?,:ts of the ucpartinenis to ornd in tutee any i': may be condemned to imprisonment for civic offences to such central houses of detention as are situated in towns where Pro testant Consistories are established. M. Olozaga, Spanish Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, has arrived in Paris, and has had a private audience of the King. The election of a Deputy for the 12th arrondissement of Paris took place yesterday. M. Boissel, having obtained 308 votes, was declared duly returned. His competitors, M. Pres chez had 177, M. Penis 74, and M. Julie 24. The rise yesterday in the Three per Cents., which created much surprise on 'Change, was occasioned by the failure of M. Joubert, a stock-broker, who for years has done an immensity of business, and ruled the price of Stocks. He had sold Three per Cents. to an enormous amount, which were obliged to be re-purchased. A failure also took place in the coulisse, where, it was mid, 300,000 f. Rentes were re-purchased. The suit of the Procureur du Roi against the Gazette des Tribunaux for giving an account of a trial at Grenoble in which M. Didiar was plaintiff and the responsible editor of the Courrier de l' Isere defendant (the laws of September pro hibiting reports of trials for defamation ), came on yesterday be fore the Tribunal of Correctional Police. The Tribunal, after hearing evidence, decided that as the suit at Grenoble was not, strictly speaking, for defamation, but for the refusal of the editor to insert a letter written by M. Didier in vindication of the memory of his father, which had been attacked by the Courrier de l' Isere, the action agtinst the Gazette des Tram naux under the law of September could not lie. The suit was therefore dismissed. The responsible editors of the Quotidi. erne and Gazette de France, against whom similar prosecu tions were brought, were also acquitted. The Observateur of Brussels gives the following details o the suicide of the two young men at Mechlin, noticed on Tues day :—" The two young men had been four days at the hotel. In the evening of the suicide they ordered two bottles of wine to be served in the garden, and soon after eight two pistol shots w ere heard, one immediately following the other. One of the servants of the hotel rushed to the spot, and there found the young men bathed in their blood. One was still in his chair, the other had fallen over with the chair in which lie had been sitting. They were both dead, and horribly disfigured. The motive for this deed is unknown, but it is said that a paper found on the table where they were sitting stated that they belonged to a respectable family, and that their bill at the inn would be paid, as they had apprised their friends of it. The paper also contained a request that their death might be made as little public as possible." The latest accounts received from Kirchberg are dated the 13th. The situation of the Prince is improved. By the ap. plication of a new dressing the constraint of the position has been much relieved, in which he must remain for some days, till the cure is complete. This time is rapidly approaching. In other respects the health of Henry of France is very good. No change is perceptible in his features—he feels no more nervous pains, his nights are calms—in a word, it is now per fectly clear that all the unfavourable reports that have been published never had the slightest foundation.—La Gazette de France. A letter from Grenoble, in the Reparateztr de Lyons, says that the operations of the census were to commence on the 20th Sep • tember. The Government has made a great display of measures, to repress attempts at resistance. The citadel is armed, and the troops have been constantly at their posts for some days past. A piece of cannon has even been placed at one of the gates. The Gazette d' Auvergne, of the 21st, says—' On Saturday morning, at six o'clock, the soldiers of (the garrison of Cler mont, after having removed all the stray and numerous barri cades which they had erected in all the streets leading to the To,s'n-hail, and in other places, returned to their barracks, and all the thoroughfares are again free. On the same day the Cathedral was re-opened, and divine service performed as usual. " Several arrests have taken place since the publication of our last number, some of them in the little towns in the neighbourhood. " The number of parsons arrested up to this day, is said to amount in all to 125." The same journal has the following article : " A force of about nine hundred men was sent on Sunday, the 19th, about three o'clock in the morning, to the villages of Aubiere and Beaumont. When the inhabitants awoke they were astonished at this great display of military force. The object of which is said to have been some arrests, and the dis arming of the two villages. In fact, the inhabitants were in vited by the Mayor to deliver up the arms of the National Guard, which was in general complied with. Only three or four persons were arrested, who, on the application of the Mayor, were released, except one belonging to Aubiere."—Le Commerce. ‘• An army of juvenile marauders," says the Droit, " ap pears to have invaded the environs of Paris, stealing whatever comes within their reach, fruit and vegetables, ripe and un ripe, wood, agricultural instruments, &c. The gardes-chain petres have already arrested many, and yesterday the gendarmes brought into Paris, from Boulogne, a large squad of these young depredators, caught in the act of stripping an orchard. Part were found plucking the fruit, and throwing it over the wall to their associates outside, who were busily employed in putting it into sacks." The King of Prussia, the Princes, and the Court, have ar rived at Breslau, in Silesia, where a magnificent fete has been given to the Royal visitors. The Queen of Prussia has left Berlin for Ermannsdorff. M. and Mme. Thiers passed through Cologne on the 17th inst., and Verviers, in Belgium, on the 18th, on their return to France. The Cologne Gazette says that M. Thiers was painfully affected on learning, while at Coblentz, the attempt against the Royal Dukes. - A search was made by the police on Monday, in the lodge of a portress, in the Rue de Charonne, and many arms and much ammunition was seized. The woman was arrested, and has been committed for trial. A melancholy accident occurred yesterday afternoon at St. Cloud, where, while a detachment of cuirassiers were bathing their horses in the river above the bridge, one of the animals got out of its depth, and sunk with its rider. Both man and horse were drowned. A letter from Brest says :—" Since the Ist instant fifteen vessels, of fi om 250 to 300 tons burthen, have entered this port, with masts and other timber, for the dockyard. The ships were English, Russian, Prussian, Hanoverian, and Nor wegian." . _ _ A violent dysentery has broken out among the troops in gar rison at Dieppe, and several men have died of it. The tusks of a fossil elephant of enormous size were found, a few days since, in digging a well near Valenciennes. They have been placed in the museum of that town. Extensive ameliorations are, it is said, about to be made in the pavement of the Place du Carrousel, the Place du Louvre and de l'Oratoire, the interior of the Louvre, and the Quays du Louvre, des Tuelleries, Voltaire, and Malaquais. The Place du Carrousel (the state of which has so long been a disgrace to the city, and the sufferenc e o f even t h e present untidy, irregular, condition of which, in front of a Royal re sidence, is to us inconceonivafbol), r e com is to pl be lighted etingthe uth improvement tigas. P Pre parations t p h ar e at s in i o d: are a ll ey g s °i o n i c" the great Avenue de Neuilly all the way to the bridge of Neuilly. If the money thrown away on the fortifications could only be spent in improving the streets of the capital, Paris would become, in reality, what it has so long boasted to be, one of the finest cities in the world. The Journal de l' Arrondissement du .Havre says .—" A contract has just been made with an English Company for re covering the cargo of the Telemaque, wrecked off Quillebeu, in 1790. The Company has engaged to spend, at least, 100,000 francs in the entleavour before it is given up. We do not know what information as to the real value of the cargo in the sunken ship the Company may have, but it would hardly have bound itself to expend so large a sum unless it was certain of a greater profit than could be produced by the timber with which the Telemaque was said to have been laden. " The whole line of railroad between Strasburgh and Bale, says a Alulhausen letter, " was ripened on Sunday. At nin e iu the morning the Alinister of Public Works, the Prefect of the Bas Rhin, the other authorities, and a great number of persons invited by the Company, assembled at the Kcenigs hoffen station, Strasburgh, and immediately started for this place, where it arrived at half-past eleven. The scene was very en livening. The train was decorated with garlands and ;lags, and the way was crowded with people cheering it as it passed rapidly along. It then continued on its course to Bale, whence as yet we have no account." 110 URSE—Yantis, THURSDAY, SEPT. 23. f irst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price french 5 per Centt. ex. div. 114 50 ... il4 60 ... 114 50 ... 114 60 . _ ... _ __ ... ... _ .... .. ... _ i per Cents O5O .„ 117 50 ... ii 7 50 ... . in 50 3 per Cents... 79 10 79 20 ... 19 10 ... 79 15 flank of erance Lattitte Rank 5,0V01. t..ares 5037 50 ...507 50 .4042 50 ... ...small Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per CCM-, 184 U 104% ... 104% ... 104% ... 104% 3 per Cents 7l 90 ... 71 90 ... 71 90 ... 71 1,0 Dutch 23 per Cents. 5 2 14 ... 52% ... 52% ... 52i, 50...2.11 Active 12% ... V. 2,,, ... Y 2% ... 12 ;j Neapolitan lO5 25 ... 105 35 ... v'ls 25 ... 105 30 Roman .... 103% ... 103% ... 103% ... 103% mAILWAY sHAREa. Versailles, ... 2OB 75 ... 210 R. B 320 220 ... 320 320 Orleans .. 4BO ... 480 ,80 480 Strasburg to Balt ,sh area red. 240 ... 240 ... 240 240 EX PRESS FROM PARIS. We have news from Paris of yesterday's date, The payment of the arrears due to the French Legion has been agreed upon between Colonel Galant and the Spanish Government. The Infant Don Francisco de Paul has received his passport, and will leave for Spain in three weeks. The editor of the National, Aim a libel upon his Majesty, has been acquitted. This has produced much sensation in high quarters here, and is considered a great triumph for the disorderly. e e aadt he : r e e gte broke s n k l d e gi ALARMING FIR E IN THE STRAND.—LaSt th o a e oi n m tb dsN i eo s e rowv s . eh o 7da f o 11 c reached Slr. imprudentlyaWn d . . t night between eight an d n i ne o'clock, an alarming a n d A. b lt a d Gpe e epe s d t ne r da u tri e c us s t high, ht r ° as n e n r o t d, the r e e h t s s d d e o i p n j p g wn r he breastsummer, joists, and flooring in the first floor, where the flames made rapid ascendancy. Immediately that the fire was discovered the fire-engines and men from Chandos-street fire station were sent for, and it being so near, were fortunately promptly on the spot, and by the great exertions of the firemen, aster a considerable time, succeeded in extinguishing it, but not before extensive damage to the valuable stock and premises had been sustained. FUNERAL OF CAPTAIN CONROY.-011 Wed nesday the remains of Captain Conroy, late of the Coldstream Guards, who died of pulmonary consumption at Wisbaden, where he had proceeded in the hope of recovering his health, were interred in the churchyard of Plumstead, about a mile to the eastward of Woolwich. Sir John Conroy and two of his sons from Kensington attended the funeral. The deceased offi cer was the second son of Sir John Conroy, and his remains were forwarded by Frankfort-on-the -Maine fur interment at Plumstead, where a handsome tablet will be erected to his memory. FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE IN SUSSEX.— Early on Tuesday morning last a fire broke out at a farm in the occupation of Mr. Phillips, at Mayfield, Sussex. Mr. Phil lips was awoke by seeing bne of his barns, which had been re cently filled with wheat, in a blaze. An alarm being given, a number of labourers were soon on the spot, and rendered every assistance. Expresses were sent to Lewes and the neigh bouring towns for the engines ; but the labourers succeeded in confining the fire to the barn, and extinguishing it before their arrival. On examining the ruins, a horrible sight pre sented itself, a woman an d two children having slept in the barn, the latter were found burnt to a cinder, and the poor woman dreadfully burnt, and in a state of insensibility. On Thursday ass inquest Was held on the bodies of the children, before F. H. Gell, R the Coroner for East Sussex, when it appeared from the evid ence th a t the poor woman, ho was on the road to the hop -grounds, for the purpose of hop-pick ing, had applied to the farmer for permission to sleep in the bans, which he granted, when the poor creature, who ap. peared much fatigued, with her two children, who were about the ages of three and five years, retired to rect . , and they were found in the morning as above described. The only way the fire could be accounted for was by the heating of the wheat. After a lengthened investigation, the jury returned a verdict of Accidentally burnt to death." The poor woman, who has been bereft of her children and her little stock of clothes, is so severely injured that it is not expected she matey. fl v 9 rm.! rtk 54. p !- , R (7.1 !& .p •A 1! ,ar .11 • i 9 Aj. bi" 1: t ti, AND übite aptuton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. As we anticipated, the attempt to assassinate Lord Howiek is seized upon by a portion of the French P re s s to ridicule the sup e ri o r Christian morality claimed by the Tory Journals for the people of hngland. The Siecle even goes the length of saying. that Louis Phi lippe is not in as much danger from the Communists as Queen Victoria is from the Tories. The Bradshaw Canterbury festival, where the Queen was called a se cond Jezabel, and the attempt to assassinate the Queen in the Green Park supply materials for the castigation of Tory hypocrisy, of which French writers ably avail themselves. The Temps has the following account of the disclo sures made by the assassin Quenisset:—" Quenisset, after retracting his first hasty confession, maintained for a while a dogged abnegation, but soon again made revelations that were most complete and circumstantial, and on the strength of which several arrests were made. According to his depositions, there vas a plot formed for assassinat ing all the members of the Royal Family, wherever they could be met with. The Duke of Orleans was principally doomed to the blows of the conspirators, be cause his death would lead to a Regency, and regencies are always favourable for revolutions or other disturb ances. In order to execute this design, some conspira tors were to go to the camp at Compeigne ; but the arri val of the 17th regiment, and a report that the King and all the Princes were to go out to meet the Duke d'Aumale, made them think that fortune had placed a readier opportunity within their reach, which they ought not to let slip. The assassins consequently went to the Place de la Bastille, where they could have more confi dence, from the crowd assembled, which would cover the attempt, and afford them facilities for escaping after it was made. Eight members of a society now known to exist had sworn to fire at the same time as Quenisset, but he alone kept his oath. They had all made solemn pledges not to betray each other, but Quenisset, by the cowardice of his accomplices in not joining him in the act, and thereby breaking their engagement with him, conceived himself released from his obligation towards them, and made these disclosures." The Courrier Francais has an article in answer to the statements of the Presse on the eastern question. Accord ing to the Courrier England, and not France, is the great gainer by the treaty of the 13th of July. The vintage is most abundant in Spain this year. The farmers know not what to do with last year's stock which they have not yet disposed of. The long pending dispute between the Courts of Ber lin and Rome is amicably settled. PARLIAMENTARY. A new writ was issued for East Retford, the Hon. A. Duncombe having accepted the office of a Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is on Monday to move a resolution about Exchequer Bills. Mr. V. Harcourt again referred to the quantity of wheat grown in Russia, as if the Hon. Gentleman had a cornphobia, and was haunted with the idea of the people getting too much corn, and getting it too cheap. The Admiralty, it appears, by what fell from Mr. Sidney Herbert, have resolved to fully man all sea-going ships. We think they are right. In the Report of the Retiring Annuity to the Vice- Chancellor, Colonel Sibthorp objected to the amount, and Mr. Ewart moved that it be reduced from 3,5001. to 3,0001., but the amendment was lost on a division by 150 to 56. The Report was received. In Committee on the Administration of Justice Bill the clause giving compensation to the Hon. Mr. Scarlett was resisted by Mr. Ward and other Members, but on a division it was carried by 140 to 81 ; so the country has to give an annuity to another of Lord Abinger's sons. What has this young man or his father done for the pub lic, that the public should nourish him to the end of his life ? The Bill, after this scandalous waste of the suf fering people's money, was passed through the Committee. Mr. P. M. Stewart, on Sir George Clerk moving that the House resolve itself into a Committee of Supply, made a statement of the great distress which prevails at Pais ley, declaring that the funds of the Friendly Societies were gone, and the operatives had no alternative but pauperism. The Hon. Gentleman made an eloquent and feeling speech, declaring that if the Parliament were to be prorogued without doing something for the people, prosperity would be at an end. Mr. Gibson supported similar views in an able manner, dwelling on the poor pay of agricultural labourers, the limited field of employment for them, and pointing at foreign trade as endless in its demands. Some other good speeches were made, and then the House went into a Committee of Supply, when it dis cussed the constitution of the Ordnance Board, and the quality of muskets, with Mr. Warner's invention to blow up by wholesale, voted away the public money, and then adjourned. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Herald takes Mr. Ward to task for having moved—by way of amendment to the clause pro posing to grant compensation to Master Scarlett for the extinction of his office —that "no compensation should be awarded to any officers appointed to their situations subsequently . to March, 1841." " For the great abettors and maintainers of a defunct Ministry," observes our Contemporary, " the last stages of whose existence were distinguished by a species of financial misma nagement and incompetency which carried on their annual deficiencies of income from one year to ano ther on a scale of geometrical progression—an in creasing series of diminishing quantities, as it were, —these cheese-paring reforms are signal efforts, indeed, to check the downward career of cur public revenue! Modest hundreds to counterpoise the dead weight of la iislied tens, and scores, and hundreds of thousands of pounds whirled away by Whig-Radical Ministers in Whig-Radical schemes, till the deficiency, which was four or five years ago little more than half a million, in these five years has become a deficit of more than seven millions!"—When the Tories, for mere Opposition pur poses, advocated economical principles, then the Herald discovered that economy was the first duty of all Go vernments ; now that the Reformers advocate it, our Contemporary discovers that it is mere humbug, and speaks of it contemptuously, as a species of " cheese paring " Reform. Such is the consistency and straight forwardness of Tory journals! The Times, returning again to the Poor-law question, expresses its satisfaction "at the promptness with which Sir IL Peel has caused an inquiry to be made into the mal administration of the Poor-law at Bolton, and our hope that he will direct a similar investigation into the extra ordinary statement of Mr. Sharman Crawford concern ing the condition of the poor in Rochdale. We mean the statement that in that town there are now 136 persons living on 6d. per week, 290 on 10d., 508 on Is., 855 en Is. 6d., and 1,500 on Is. 10d. per week.' We are as much at a loss to understood how these exact statistics can be obtained, as how life can be supported on such in credible paltry sums ; and we think it a matter of im portance to ascertain whether this assertion, and others like it, are true. If they are, they amount to a demon stration that the poor of this country are willing to starve, and do starve, by thousands, rather than avail themselves of Poor-law relief when encumbbred with the work house test." In reference to Lord Stanley's extract from M. Du vergier de Hauranne's Revue des Deus Mondes, in his recent North Lancashire speech, the Chronicle remarks as follows ::---" If the Tories are a pack of apostates, how comes Lord Stanley in their ranks ? Is that a place for an honest man? They are the same people, holding the same opinions, and seeking the same ob jects, now that he systematically co•operates with them that they were when he systematically opposed them. He cannot damage them, without damaging himself. And yet he cannot acquit them without condemning himself. It is a miserable predicament, notwithstand ing the testimony of M. Duvergier de Hauranne." Are the Whigs the apostates then ? Why, no ; for this most providential witness, this, M. Duvergier de Hauranne, comes very distinctly to their exculpation. He deposes to the opinions of the Whigs being the same in 1826 that they are now. He then told Lord Stanley that his friends the Whigs seemed to have different views on this question of Church property."—The Chronicle's • question, " how comes Lord Stanley in the ranks of the Tories ?" is easily answered. He is there, because he is most at home among them. Like clings to like. They are apostates ; so is he. They care nothing for character ; he is equally regardless of it. They put on the mask of liberality hi order to further the purposes of party ; and he can adopt the same disguise with equal readiness and facility. The Post says :—" Nothing can be more malignant or untrue than the repeated declarations of the organs of the late Ministry, that the present Government displays indifference to the distress existing in the manufacturing districts. It may he that, in the opinion of Whig-Radical partisans, there can be no evidence of sympathy with the people's distress except in the discussion of the Corn laws. But this is a very foolish opinion. At best it is but an opinion ; and it is rather too much to attack a Govern ment for indifference to the condition of the poor merely because its mode of showing sympathy is rather more practical than that of talking about the Corn-laws."— If the present Government be not " indifferent" to the distresses of the people, how comes it that it allows the session to expire, and five long dreary months to elapse, before it proposes to take those distresses into considera tion? Can starvation afford to wait? The Government. by its conduct, says "yes;" and shows its solicitude for the interests of the country, by postponing all remedial measures till the sporting season and the Christmas revelries are all at an end. Then, when they have had their full swing of pleasure, the Tories will condescend, , by way of relief, to i nqu i re i nto the distresses of the people—but not till then. The following is from the West Briton . •—" Between the late and the p resent Mi n i stry there is this i distinction—th a t w h atever measures of liberalitynlportant were proposed by the first, they were unable to carry —while the second have it in their power to effectuate whatever measures a generous spirit of legislation may pro.mpt. That any suc h sp i r i t will prevail in their councils we fear there is but little hope, but should they at any time be influenced by it, the benefit is certain. They have it in their power to conciliate a vast amount of angry and insult e d feeling by devising seine plan ofextinguish ing Chur c h- rates. The Leicester Mercury thus comments on Sir R. Peel's dilatory course of policy :—" Five months ! Sir Robert Peel. Death ! Five other months'\‘i end s i i i r ra , n i ce of hunger and cold and wretchedness I men ! full of hope I —men hi whom .thre.enr,ichstrcaz ruby stream steals joyously through - their veins li ' DIE OF HUNGER in half a month I Either the lost their courage, or poverty has brought a p b c o o u p t e a 'caa'r.eeless ness—that is absolutely fearful, A million of men, wo- men, and children of all grades !—suffering unheard of hardships are to wait till February. 18,12," following rem;; :11 allthiou 'to" tho New Poor-law Bill :—" The majority of the Commissioners of Somerset House are Tories, as are most of the Poor-law Assistant Commissioners. It never ought, therefore, to have been treated as a party question ; and the Tories will find, before the year is out, that their inconsiderate charges against the late Ad ministration on this score will recoil with fearful violence on their own heads." d , ,roil We find the following in the Leeds Mercury :—" The fact is simply this—the Cabinet is decidedly and tho roughly a Pro-Corn-law Cabinet; and Sir Robert Peel, whose commercial principles would make him favourable to a free trade in corn, is made by hi s p o liti ca l v i ews an d connexions the great buttress of monopoly." TVZONET-TRADE-001111:V/ERCE. At Hull the imports of foreign fruit are very large. Many hundred casks of fruit have arrived by steam from Hamburg and Rotterdam, and are already dispatched to the great consuming districts of West Yorkshire and Lan cashire. AGILICCULTUP.,.&L. A factor at Wisbeach writes, that the wheat has there been secured in good shipping condition ; some is very dry, but that carried in on two wet days is in very bad order. He also calculates that the crop will fall short ot• an average by eight or ten bushels an acre. LAW AND POLICE. Mr. Harvey, the City Police Commissioner, had an interview yesterday with the Secretary of the Home De• partment on the subject of the Government offering a reward for the apprehension of the murderer of Mr. Burdon, which we understand was at once acceded to. A man of the name of Baldsthorp; a coach spring maker, was committed at Worship-street to take his trial for indecently assaulting a young woman, the wife of a man formerly in his employ. At Marylebone Police-office a man of the name of Harris, a higgler, was fined 40s. with costs, for assault ing a toll-collector at the Pine Apple-gate, Edgeware-road. EX.2I4CPITONEERING. At Ripon Sir George Cockburn has come forward as a candidate, on Sir Edward Sugden's vacation of the seat, by the acceptance of the Chancellorship of Ireland. On the North Riding revision of Yorkshire, Montague Wilson, Esq. was struck off the list, on the ground that in the overseer's paper he was described as a "gen tleman." The Hon. Capt. Gordon, one of the new Lords of the Admiralty, was re-elected for Aberdeen on Tuesday. SPORTING. A swimming race for u handsome prize, given by the Universal Swimming Company, will take place at the National Baths, Westminster-road, on Monday evening. From the list of persons who have taken out game certificates, there are upwards of 90 " reverends" who in tend to " shoot and kill" in various parts of Yorkshire. THEATIZICAL. A grand new Ballet Pantomime under the title of " Hans of Iceland," is about to be brought out at Covent Garden. COURT-PiLSHIONABLE. The Queen Dowager arrived at Belton House, the seat of the Earl of Brownlow, on Friday last, and left it yes terday for Belvoir Castle, where it is expected that her Majesty will remain till Monday. The Marchioness of Westmeath has left town for Lowther Castle. MISCELLANEOUS. The Countess of Pembroke, sister to Sir Philip Sydney, and the fairest star of Elizabeth's Court, died in 1621, at her house in Aldersgate-street, London, on the 25th day of this month. She .composed part of the " Arcadia" with her brother, and translated the Psalms into metre. Ben Jonson's beautiful epitaph upon this illustrious lady is well known. To-day is the anniversary of the death of the famous Greek Professor Porson, who died in 1808. Donegal was visited on Sunday last by a dreadful thunder-storm, such as was never witnessed by the oldest inhabitant. Mr. Villiers paired off last evening with Mr. Miles on both clauses of the Administration of Justice Bill. On Wednesday next Tullis 7 s celebrated service will be performed, both in the morning and afternoon, at West minster Abbey. Tanis was a celebrated musician, who was born in 1520, and died in 1585. A noble specimen of the antelope trite arrived in the river a few days since, as a present from the Pacha of Egypt to Alderman Harmer. The animal has been since removed to Ingress Abbey, the Alderman's seat, near Gravesend. London Bridge is to be repaved with stones of Aber deen granite, not exceeding three inches in width, and laid in parallel lines. The bridge, in consequence, will be closed for a short time. This mode of pavement was adopted at Blackfriars Bridge when it was repaired, and has been completely successful. Owing to great distress and want of employment for operatives, the poor rates in Bradford will amount at rresent to 15s. in the pound on rack rent. The Advertiser says—" Horace Twiss, on being told that the workmen employed at the new Houses of Parliament struck last week, declared that he would follow their example unless Bob raised his wages."—Sir Robert Peel will never think of raising the wages of such an inefficient political journeyman as Horace Twiss. By the bye, it may not be generally known that, about five and twenty years ago, this gentleman's tragedy of the Carib Chief was played as a comedy at Drury-lane, where it deservedly excited as much laughter as Mr. Peter Borthwick's performance of Othello at the Surrey. An inquest was held last week at Brill, in Bucking hamshire, on the body of a child who died from the in cautious use of an opiate.—We have not yet heard that any one has died from the " incautious use " of Sir J. Graham's pamphlet on the Corn-laws, though we are in daily expectation of hearing of such a calamity. A Correspondent in the Morning Post, in some re marks on our Contemporary's "Proposed Order of Poetry," asserts that " poetry is, to a certain degree in spiration."—This may have been the case formerly, but in nine out of ten instances, modern poetry is nothing more than wind—the result of an empty stomach acting on an addled brain. There is in the possession of Mr. J. Fitze, sadler, of Exeter, a candle, which was taken up from the Royal George, off Shithead; it is in good preservation, after being under water fifty-eight years. The barometer has been very low for some days, and is still declining. Last night and this morning we had very heavy falls of rain, with gusts of wind, suddenly announcing the commencement of the equinoctial gales. RUMOURS OF THE DAT. Lord Stanley stated at Lancaster , that il; one year a single Russian province sent down thirty-eight million quarters of wheat to St. Petersburg'', and a corres pondent of a morning paper, not to be outdone by his Lordship, asserts with equal title to belief, that the whole of this enormous quantity was shipped for Eng land, but never more was heard of. LLO YD'S S H IPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, SEPT. 25.—Wind this day at noon, S. to S.W. OFF DOVER, SEPT. 24.—Midas, Heir, Bombay ; William Loveal, Davidson, South Seas and Sydney; Forrager, Thomp son, Callao. DEAL, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the Elizabeth, from Jamaica ; Bencoolen, Calcutta ; Forager, Mauritius ; Planet, Barclay, Jamaica ; Andrew Scott, westward. Arrive,' from the Riser, Intrepid, for Calcutta ; Chieftain, ditto. BRISTOL, SEPT. 24.—Sailed the Emerald, for the Cape of Good Hope. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the Assam,M'Alpine, from Calcutta ; Barbadian, Jamaica ; Clydesdale, St. Ande. o. Sailed the Thomas Fielden, Valparaiso; Plymouth, Havannah ; Elvina, Porto Rico ; Lady Seaton, Charleston ; Palmyra, Smyrna. Arrived off, the Crown, from Bombay ; Elizabeth, Buckham, Valparaiso; Elizabeth Durham, River Plata; Avon, Honduras. OFF DARTMOUTH, SEPT. 23.—Alexander Barclay, Norton, from New Zealand; Dauntless, Shields fiir Odessa. Put hack the Waterlily, for Cadiz. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 24.—Wind S. S. W.—Arrived the Copy, from London for Sierra Leone. Sailed the Tulloch Castle, for London. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 23.—Wind S.W. to S.S.W., strong breezes.—Arrived the Simon, Glover, from Port-au-Prince for Hamburgh. OFF EASTBOURNE, SEPT. 24.—Mary Ridgway, Hawks, from Sydney, New South Wales. YARMOUTH, SEPT. 23.—The Eliza and Ann, and the Two Brothers, both from Newcastl e , h ave b een i n contact, an d re ceived damage ; Jean Felix, Sunderland for Nantes, leaky, having been on the Cross Sands. OFF ROMNEY, SEPT. 24.—Doggerbanks, Smith, Batavia. ST. lvss, SEPT. 23.—The Margaret, from Liverpool to Messina, has put in here with loss of stanchions, jibboom, and galley stove. KIREWALD, SEPT. 18.—The Mangarton, Hughes, from St. Petersburgh, struck on the Island of Copenshay yesterday, and immediately sunk—crew saved. Tfluiiso, SEPT. 21.—The William, from Stockholm to Brazil, is on shore in the Pentland Frith, and likely to become a wreck. Haawretr, SEPT. 24.—The Prince of Wales, from to London, has b een ass i sted i nto this port with six feet water in her hold, a n d p ar t o f cargo thrown overboard. The Active' from Dantzi c t o L on d on, was assisted in here this morning leaky, and with ru dd er b roken, and 300 quarters wheat thrown overboard, havi ng b een on the Gunfleet Sand. Shields On Thursday, tefthe of ne t w h H Mon day Committee consider and shortly after three plantthheree o c , . the architect ' lock the submitted by d H r o e u p s o e r o t f Lords, appointed on Mon ouses of Parliament, and for render ing them fire-proof," assembled, with a vie w of carrying this object into effect. The following are the Peers constituting the Select Committee :---The Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor, Lord President, Lord Pr iv y Seal, Duke of Nor folk, D u k e of Richmond, Duke of Wellington, Duke of Suther land, Marquis of Lansdowne, Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Chamberlain, Earl of Shaftesbury, Earl of Radnor, Earl of Harrowby, Earl de Grey, Earl of Ri p on, Viscount Elawarden, Viscount Gordon, Bishop of London, Lord Willoughby d' Ere.bv, Lord Lowther, Lord Melbourne, Lord Colchester, Lord P ens hurst, Lord Brougham and Vaux, Lord Duncannou, Lot d Cottenham, and Lord Sudeley. On Wednesday morning immense quantities of trawl-fish were brought in by our boats, and the the town was literally glutted with them—fine soles and plaice were re tailed so low as 4d. per lb. An unusual quantity of cod-fish, of a small but. delizate description, were sold at about 2s. a score. Our fishery appears to be in full employ, and in a very prosperous state , t he tine weather bein g g reatl y in their fav our. ' —Brighton Herald. DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A LADY OF PROPERTY.—Yesterday forenoon, at eleven o'clock, a lady of the name of Marsh all, who resided at No. 18, Pritchard -road, Kingsland, and who , in c o ns e q u ence of being liablete raised, when • sional aberrations of mind, was under restraint, left her home unperceived,aet was sseen b andy several flung persons, hersei f a intond an the alarmßegent's Canal. was the drags were immediately employed to extricate the unfortu nate woman. She was speedily taken out when the avail. and conveyed to th e a. The deceased Sir Walter Scott public - house,usual means to resus c itate life were resorted to, but without was 58 years of age. EVENING S ! I MONEY and (7031 IdERCIAL NES"• GI TI; T E 0' t" L 0 CK; Livcatroor. COTTON MAass.r, Ss.rT. 24. There been an imroved demand for Cotton throughout the,sieet: but holders ha.e supplied it freely ; prices have not chang 6 i since this day week. Brazils and Egypts are stationary our last quotations. Surats also. Sea Island contir,ue to in good demand, and sell at last quotations. There hai c; taken for exportation 3,300 American and 200 Surat, antl,, speculation 2,500 American and 100 Surat. The sales tn. day amount to 4,000 bales, all to the trade. The average consumption per week, taken from this market' 1840 93,296 Bales. 1841 19,872 -- Total of all descriptions turned over on speculation up to date:-1840 162,350 Bales. Do. 1841 Increase, 1840... 27,840 Oaks. The trano. er c LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, SEPT. 2t -- tions at the Stock Exchange, this day ar e thus reported." Great Western, 201. Share, ; Liverpool and Ma nchest,. 198 ; London and Birmingham, 155; Ditto, Quarter Share,. 21i ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 52/ ; Ditto, New Shares, 22i1; don and South Western, 50 ; Manchester and Leeds, -5 *,4 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 24.--The bu continues quiet. Our transactions are :—Nianchestetr r" Leeds, 57 ; Ditto, Halves, 23i; Ditto, New Qua rtet; prem.; Hull and Selby, 39i ; Manchester and Salforditai*, LSEDS, SEPT. 24.—The woollen trade of this di strict continues active, but the clothiers still complain that Sate unable unable to obtain such prices as will yield them an ittlequat:u; muneration for their outlay and labour. The princ i P l m eut ness doing is for the domestic fall trade, and thoug h s °7 - 041 1 the drapers have purchased sparingly, there has been for , time past a fair business doing in the warehowes. THE FUNDS. oil Money is very scarce in the Stock Exchange, ands I s fir as 6 per cent. has been paid upon the depobit of Cu be rg short periods. This is in consequence of so much cash 10," paid in tenders for the funding. The scarcity is n ot e ' a ired ever, expected to last over Tuesday, as all over the r a amount sent in will be returned. There is no business doing whatever in the Stock EXC h n. Consols are 89* i for Money, and 89i i for Aceounti,oro, chequer Bills, 15 17 ; S pan i s h A ctive S toc k, 21i .4 ; guese Five ner Cents., 30}; Do. Threes. 18 i. .., nsg. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY. Al ''. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Sha re ' Great Western ...... to Ditto Fifths - London and Brighton to London and Birmingham .. 90 Ditto * Shares „ -- . 3 Ditto New ...,.. London and South Western 3Bi 5(4... -• to 741 Midland Counties - North Midland, (New) COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERD A .iti , Amsterdam CF.I2 7 IGibraltar .. 3 . 4: . i . i . ............................... ...,,, Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 76. Genoa ... .............•••' .1 Antwerp l2 6i Mil an ..................... .iv Hamburgh M.B. 13 13 IVenice .......... ..••• . 3 91 Alton& Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 50 ,Palermo, per az ......... io. Ditto, 3 months 25 75 Lisbon .............. ... .... 5 0 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 85 'Rio Janeiro .............. 14 . Frankfort on Maine... 149* Bahia ..................... 7! Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37i Buenos Ayres ......... : A Berlin 7 New York, 21days sig h 46 Vienna, effee. fl. 3M. 950 iPkadelphia ...... ......... --0, Trieste, ditto Madrid ... 36i iPortugal Gold Coin .t° , 1 9 Cadiz Bilboa Barcelona NewN cw Foreign i2oo lul G a rb sol Doubloons .a .. r a .. ...... . to t: Seville There has been no bu s i ness doing HA in L t F he -PAS e I7I:I:4I6 and prices remain the same as at the opening. Pt' Consols, 89} % Money, and 90fr for the Account• Ac oe cLequer Bills, 15 17 ; I n di a B on d s , 1 prem . ; Spanish Eu ths Stock, 214 ; Dutch Five p er C ents ., 102 7 3- ; Ditto "rw e— Half per Cents., 51i. SP" There has been rather more business doing in the 71; Market at the following quotations : Great Wes tern, 4 Ditto, Fifths, 7,4 ; London and Brighton, 447;_ Lnot i gg ; Birmingham Quarte r Sh ares , 21% • Ditto, New, _ 2. Lesicl' South Western, 5N ; Midland Counties, 744; o rb . lard, New, 32%. QUARTER TO TXR hoof The Produce markets this week have worn the 13e 11 appearance, and neither the importers nor merchants he' reason to be satisfied with the prices obtained. e or The tenders for the conversion, it is generally suprned• already completed, but o ffi cially th e greatest secre cy is e ul ' e- • Consols, Account, 8917 ; Spanish, 214 Not the least appearance of business. THE MARKETS-THIS NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. A fl oat , There was a good show of town an d country killeL, --,. t h e but trade was dull in consequence of the u nse t t l e d s tate w i a s y weather, and prices the same as quoted on Weclnel io o last. At the close of the market a good ,P° r er e ~, remained unsold. Of Game and Poultry the supplies " large, demand heavy, and prices were as follows ; ; to 7s. 6d. ; Hares, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 61. ; Grouse, 3s. to 3 1 .,„ ; ,; Partridges, 3s. to ss. per brace; Rabbits, 12s. is 18s. per," o - 0, Pigeons, 4s. to 7s. per dozen; Chickens, 2s. to 85. • Z. / 2s. 6d. to ss. ; Turkeys, 4s. to 6s. ; Ducks, 2s. to 25. ba Eggs, 4s. to 7s 6d. per 120. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. as lar ge. vi The supply of Meadow Hay, Clover, and Straw, t the The demand was middling. No alteration to notice exce , Fi o acl article of Straw, for which a reduction of at least 4 s se was submitted to :-Clover, first quality, from a to r to 41. " cond, Q to 41. 18s. ; Meadow Hay, first qua-l'ty4iBs. 15s. ; Second, 21. to 31. 18s. ; Straw, 1/ 14s. to 1d at 01 ~ d was sold The Meat trade was exceedingly good, - " I A ' nes early hour. The supply was but small of country killed f;-*". and double the quantity could easily have been dispos ; Beef, 3s. to 4s. 2d.; Mutton, 3s. to 4s. 4d.; Veal, 4s. tu Pork, 4s. to ss. 6d. ; Lamb, 4s. 4d. to sa. 2d. A s s ! The market was in a TEA quiet state for Tea, and Lew rut i f were made of any kind ; but holders are firm, and 1 °,.; tion took place i n p r i ces . C ompany ' s Congou Is. ‘, Large public sales are declared for next week. • TALLOW MARKET. There was but a moderate demand for Russian Tallow'cere prices have a downward tendency ; on the spot there large sellers at 48s. for P. Y. C an dl e . Th ere h a ve been " arrivals from Russia this week. WOOL . A Foreg ° A fair demand ha; prevailed MAßKET for both English a n d o pec s " Wool, and pri ces were fi rm; th e mar k e t s w ore fibli and prices had an upward tendency. CRIMINAL COURT-THIS - OLD COURT. (Be'ore the RECORDER.) OP' 11 Henry James, George James, Thomas King, r 1 11 William Revitt, Charles Cook, and William Leg bib Watermen, were severally indicted for having on l 'oettr, August last wilfully overturned a boat, and thereby a c i. ar lar , ing to drown Henry Hipkins, another waterman , it.oo oer boat race eon the river Thames, near Horsleydol fin. count charged the prisoners with an assault. tion , y pd Mr. CiIA3IBERS conducted the case for the r/rosec u ors. Mr. C. JONES and Mr. CHARNOCR defended the prix f o f Au, Henry Hipkins, the prosecutor, stated that an the sth johe gust last, a boat was put up by the inhabitar its of S t. e ster% Horsleydown, to be rowed for b watermen, r o l d he was and as one of the competitors. '['here were to be five heats , m os t. a witness was about to start for the fifth or gr and heat, a• man of the name of Bradford, when Flenry James, nneaan stn prisoners, sa id, " S o h e l p me G o d , if youn .g Hipkins a f ()°f' • the boat he sh a ll no t." All t h e d e f en d ant s were 01 , rhe , oared boat, which was " backing" Bradford l's boat. tior slo• ness and Bradford rowe d scu ll scull down to Give down, where they fouled. Henry James the a called " t ' Th e l was'," and th e y a ll came up aiong-ide of the witnosioclP said if y ou can w i n you must have a swim for it. B ra soil three boat s ' lengths ahead of the witness. As witness w a c l tt sit ahead agai n o f Bradford, Henry James car me up to his , b e waf i f turned it right over , an d t h e w i tness was • t h row n into t" 1 /1•;# under the boat. J ames put hi s h and i nto t he wa ter and d a. r i e i d f as witness from und er t h e b oat. Witness co . ul d no t swig': - ;, 0 1 r N very much exhausted. H e was ta k en i iHm e and di d cover for seven days. did zit) Cross-examined—Whe n h e was turne d over his bo at c lefon jjl touch Bradford's. N ever sa id b efore th is d ay that the„Solm dants said "if he could win he must has e a swim for bef ebP months ago witness ran foul of a boat ire the Thames , C or one r a boy was drowned. It was purely an accident. Th e . wager, acquitted witness of all blame. It is is it in a watermo w oe • to foul or upset a boat, but the press ent was not a wager. test Henry Loder, anoth er waterma'n corroborated t " l ze mony. On cro ss - exam i nat i on hey said, that if t" Is/4c , incurred for medicine and attendance had b h e a en e be e 1 by the defendants this prosecution would not ---v for .' %'' proceeded with. He expected no remuneration totit evidence that day. The prosecut or was his in-law, and he merely came a s a w i tness f or him ou t - 0.11; ship. Never had a bet on the resin ts, of the boat-raa o e r , and had no interest in the race turth er than a spectir , was in the boat which was backing H ipkins's boat. Re-examined—Saw one of the tie fendants lay hol"_00. kind's boat and turn it over. This he could positivel l:_ t b l ot' i?swater, and tr ed ill' eP o and afterwards he was taken cutcu the ing — H P i p e k r r i i n d s g , e e a p o w s a e t d e rm that an h ' e w s h a was ili t h o ught he was dead. hen we went —to press. Th e trial was not concluded w prk7ingt:onatthteurnb UNIVERSITY NTELLIGENCE; CA3IIMIDGE, SM. 25, 1841. Hyacinth Kirwan, h of King's College , i n this U ni v ersity, was yes tem s e ar, admitted Fellow of that Society. R ev . John Stock, M.A., of St„. John's College. in ` University , h as been p referred to the Vicarage of F inch fi e ld, Essex, void by the death of the Rev. J. Westeroo! patron, John Stock, Esq. Rev. Joseph Ditcher, M. A., late of Queen's Collegel a gi this University, Official of the Archdeacon of Well' , Principal Surrogate of the Diocese, and Judge of the C° n- Ov tonal Ephcopal Court of the Di ocese o f I 3ath and Wells' ire; been preferred to the Vicarage of South Brent, Somersetsb patron the Archdeacon of Wells. ; 03 0 Rev. Olmius E. Morgan, B. A' , of Trinity College , . 3 ' l t he University, has been appointed Domestic Chaplain to Countess of Carbampton. bit; The Earl of Gainsborough has appointed the Re v *lO O Finley, M.A., of T r i n i ty C o ll ege, in this University, to Vicar of Studley, W arw i c k s hi re, one of his Lordsh i p ' s Chap il U no ß n !T ab l n N ut G fnCturFo,S.nek7 the e TEf a t i - n afternoon, :on Suffolk str t B I burst with -.ee , oroug i, a tremendous exp. -,„ s forcing up the stones of the street, and throwing them T e u ov , consid-rable distance. The water was thrown up to 4 ,iti1..; ; siderable height above the tops of the houses. Pi° t :" ibis'. " „ ~. t d i standing a great number of persons were pass.' ' 8 a ere, ~ il time no one received any injury; several, hoviever, 100 0: i . i drenched with the water. Fortunately the pipe h ad ,. hat , 4 laid in the centre of the street, or much damage En aa. ' 1 ''') PvreaP:r.:TipleiSnt:Ciord!,:ealt .... .' resulteci to the houses. UN t 4. -- -" . ' "'s ' SURREY AGRICULTURAL Ar6F,cOCIAT I- is t he .= , ,,e he twelfth annual meeting of this Assc,ciation, wh ich of A ' ', , l' parent of a l the others established in th e county of surre l i tigh ., ~ : ; j smilar character, took place on Friday at Epsom. Th e p 6 0 0 Of.'., :': 1 ;1' ing-mat ch to , dc place at Ashstead, upon. land in the oecor,_A for:vt' Mr. David Maydwell, and about fo.ty ploughs conte r, t ht . ,,,0 the prizes. The Hon. Colonel F. '4l. Howard presided.no.u,: dinner, and distributed the prizes a,warded by the Associati:od upwards of thirty labourers, for i.ong service and good c Zeit! in the employment of their resreetive masters. Some had been arly fifty years in rine service. . TriSlitr l .' At the late election at Shaftsbory, all • u th , made his appearance, and happening to say somethiogialilrei crowd to the Candidates, ore of the Tory party i' c „ 10 1 fiom the hustings, '° C.li Paddy! now go to the Devil.' , ` or much obliged to your honour,' was Paddy's reply, “ father are the first gentleman that has invited me tc4 your I. house, since my arrival in England." F lo 1()% ) 0- - ecti th - ' • " ;;;" L e ,,. Pelt ? , .00 imas ~ Pict ' rj Alit + of their GC U noon as that 1 revt, oo . r to f THE RAILWAY SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE NOW RE-PUBLISHED, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Aug. 30, 1841.