The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-27 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT —(THIS DAY ) CASE OF BLAKESLEY. u Shortly after Mr. Serg ean t A ra bi n had taken his seat pon the Bench, at nine o'clock this morning, Robert Blakesley was placed at the bar for the purpose of plead ing to an indictment, charging him with the wilful murder of James Burdon; a second indictment charged the pri soner with the murder on the Coroner's Inquest. The prisoner who is a remarkably fine-looking young Man, seemed to pay great attention to the proceed ings. - His derneanotir . was firma, but without the slightest appearance o f l ev i ty, and he seemed per fectly aware of the aw f u l s i tuation in which he was placed. Ilis p ersonal appearance has improved greatly he since has b een i n custody. On being called- on to Plead lie, in a firm voice, pleaded—N o t G u il ty . One of th e Jurors applied to be excused from serving on th e tr i al of Blakesley, because he had been long in tioinatel acquainted with the prisoner's family. AIL 'ergeant A.RA131:4 said it was not probable that the prisoner would be tried to-day, but if he were the applicant should be excused. The prisoner was then re moved. At ten o ' c l ock Lord Abinger and Mr. Baron Gurney took their seats on the Bencli, when Blakesley was again Placed at the bar. Adr. PAYNE, on behalf of the prosecution in the case of Blakesley, said he understood that the prisoner was not at present prepared to go to trial. On behalf of the Prosecution he no obection to postponement ; and Perhaps their Lordshi would state the day which they would fi_ for the . Lordships Lord , the trial. 'ShABINGER---Let it stand for Friday. e prisoner Was then removed. hi gh°,B,T, prisoner and Philip Sampson were indicted for a T roube ry, attended with violence. of interest, was elearl • v the 3 , Proved lie ease ' w hich presented no features as the prisoners, and in the course for a trial it came out that it was considered dangerous w l; e a r P, person residing in the neighbourhood of the place Th'4euprisoners resided to give evidence against them. Lord AtiNcEn, in Y }la ving found them both Guilty, them said he considered tl passing e sentence on , to g i ve „ id le fact of its being dangerous for a pe rson thtir off,„„ en ce against them a great aggravat.ion for t life. - "0 Ind sentenced them to transportation f lirt, NEW COURT. agedissrs ~ t vD 1 mar y A nn S u llivan, , NGRATITUDE.— veil , o _' vo indicted f or steal i ng one pa i r of boots, one l perty e.erreticule, and other arti c l es , va l ue 31., the Po °I r homas Ror woo d . sheleannr Harwood, the prosecutor's wife, stated that street, in Company with her husband in Fa d rrilgd t o h said n a - t she l when the prisoner came up to them ai . l tha tad been turned out of doors by her mistress, and ,„ i t she should die if she was left in the streets all t - "t• The witness spoke to her husband, and they took met prisoner home with them out of charity. Th i i i s t t h o e o m t ill e h °II a Pri daY> and the prisoner remained with ta:_7!,..l2nday following, on which day she said she was tiii , ~,N for a new place. The witness went out at abo r u .. t z one ° clock, and on her return she found that the p i van e /li r : 43 gone, and with her a great number of things, the rated in the indictment. She gave information _to . fou,,Vi?e, and some of the things were subsequently the .with the prisoner. The witness had never known i pprisner before —she was a perfect stranger to ier, ts.seeilie tobffiatcer who took the prisoner into custody de ant ,he found her at No. 1, King-street, Dia ry atok lie he the prisoner's box, and finind the ,n property. The veil was upon her bonnet. The Jury at once found the prisoner guilty, and 85i4ci'll COMMON SERGEANT in sentencing the prisoner, than ~,e _ colild hardly conceive a worse case of larcelly , vo that of the prisoner ; she met with a kind-hearted 1, 01 41 4 an, who kept her for three days when she had no cn it e ' 3i 'd in return she robbed her. Under these ciF iii tances he could not think of allowing her to remain por ted country, The sentence was that she be trans /40r the term of seven years. tia , lain Puttoch aged 19, a respectable looking young 4e ;',. Pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with_ Ivi n l i ng 16 h andkerchiefs value 505., the property of 1 1 4,1 n P.addy and oth ers, hi s masters. to,t4l:llrisoner was sentenced to six months' impri- SUD b ii, — „ 4l t Y SESSIONS.—(T HIS DAY.) ttkoin? Noble an d C aroline Smith were indicted for bot t l e 6 ' 0 4 the 18th i nstant, a candlestick, a sheet, he:4: 0 11 11 d variou s o th er art i cles, the property of Mary Fr om en d To , , the evidence it appeared that the male prisoner e 01 1 ,h e , lodgings in the house of the prosecutor. 1 - 1 114, lb.-. the female along with him, representing that th e i'as his wife. They remained only six days, and on t t !ljpp 4 : l , l (l . l4( lY L enterino• the room she found it entirely gripped '-'oe gave information to the police, art of th e ers were taken into custody. The greater p and the Itl,nePtii7erty was found in the lodgings they had subse mr gone to. and e 1.3, - ; 1 •" 1 oRRY addressed the Jury for the prisoners,.. the z6O-llfp.Y endeavoured3to shift all the responsibil l 7 . l ) the iciq's of the male prisoner, cont h en e di t n r L s t a ' c a tion she ~1 113 acti n ad any guilty knowledge ( - , ca wit g, under the coercion of th )f e t male, and therefore tftgT 6 ll% l in l aw. a verdict of Guilty Ain. t Cry,, however, returned N t o ` 44 h prisoners, and the Chairman sentenced ;.,tte j e 8„13( months' imprisonment and hard labour, the 'Auiloortdue gaol at Brixton, and the other in that at . . • .Pll, W- STREET. -(THIS DAY.) lit thee''''Z'risnah, a respectable-looking man, was placed ‘'ioler,,b, bar, before Mr. JARDINE, on a charge of havi g it '.IY assaulted James Douglas, on yesterday even -1,,,,14..ti the Black Lion public -house, Vinegar-yard, !Ole , Th e - d i 'Y Bellill)Plainant, who it appeared gained his living h' 4 ,." - n t in the streets, stated, that to the •,, — g , at about nine o'clock, -he went to the and.h a f f ! 4 Public-house and called for a pint of half-_ int1.1)011 wil ich th it 1 ll° offered some ' paper for the payment of ti,, - ro om. on _ e prisoner, who had been drinking 1, 41 " struev,‘:l4tue forward,. and, .without any provoca sta.()teedkel out t4wlottofa h v ia i O t l e e e n t t h. The in the mouth, which he complainant further . 1/ ' °111 (1' dil f tt the prisoner offered him ten shillings if At,. 1,119' Prosecute the charge. ta ke th4tllr'lNE would recommend - the complainant to corli Llen shillings. Pa co inant---Ten shillings for two teeth— it is no , the Prison ne hmer stated that before he had struck the man pi l i ted lininself been struck, and the complainant had N ' l4 ' hY the nose. ' t 4 0 44 1e1 t vans better .un Dutch Sam 1 140 wnev th e e; the , known saidas yo g T)fr l got eredneer, on his being asked for payment, he the 'Gine Al Pets ° Paper, which the witness refused to take. .o , ai ballt tier then observed that the conduct of the com ae cotenant w as very unbecoming ; a dispute ensued, the . ruck 1111111'4nt pulled the prisoner twice by the Dops, and (lime, three or four times. The prisoner imme tittellstruck the complainant, who pulled out two teeth Oth b low, but no blood followed. ),,itnesear witnesses corroborated the evidence of this 4 , k r. j. t"llll,!ass'°Alittiut(l,lEiissaeidOlistilideart, ta kin g the circumstances of • 14 Nets a s he th h co nsideration, he should clisi j n a is a s tifi t e li d e i oug t the prisoner was perfectly 43 ne had done; and the Magistrate afterwards certificate to that effect. At tr.IION-11 ALL---(T young • a till,w,_ ion -hall this morning, • William Steyofi, s tur- RIS DAY. last a ~ C lay f " WaS fully committed for trial ori . 1 ort n i it f .1r g lor a robbery in the dwelling in the custody tits „_,?a , Qs, of llerne-hill, was brought. up with harged h,,,trike constable 97 of the 13 division, c house or of the I),,p_ng effected his escape from the lock-up place .eolirt, Union Hall. night of last )1,44(.1 -constable 13 97 said, in the course 4_ go to -I)4ekeed information which induced him of , 0.11 he ki lt , rane, Westminster, and in a room. IN custody. /1 1104 , i the prisoner in bed, and took him into ted how ho (143 tellll9ging the prisoner along he s t ta out he was ,se his escape, and just after ho go had under lit a vN by a constable, who asked what ho ` was , in t, ti ,in ? Re replied, 4,A dirty shirt," and Theluclu. z !Ice, permitted to deart. . Prisoner was then fully committed. Tlit ivi ------ -- THIS AR KETS—DAY. The / . CORN EXCHANGE. . • since Monday. Sem.e.,e have been few arrivals of Grain a and good quan tity o'iliia3" English Wheat appeared, ' and a good quan -1 met Sale at Monday's prices. Barley, i t t 44 5, anTVga Met sale at Monday: . 1) d b ers at Monday's s i . 1 4, hi t t theas, firm. Oats foun 3 Flour a money. a•Sireporter.l.'l factors demanded more The l‘litili\VGATE AND LEADENHALL. demand 44.1 34-4 l e3 Of , meat were rather large ; the 2s. 101:tilorld ratuer, foWer rates were accepted. Beef, Veal, 3s. Bd. to ~h. 8(18'4d. Alutton, 3s, 21. to 4s. 2 d . ; o_f Gibs. 4 , 11 kin d . ;an n, Pork 33. Gd. to ss. per stone . rices '',,° ch r,',,, °!.Poltr an' d Game dull of sale, but in p_ cr _ _ utill ocis° nits takYen place since Saturday last. .I,,b.gs sale at 4s. Gd. Gd. per 120. Th e COLONIAL MARKETS. and prietla w°,perra.tioas were fair for home consumption,.in their preee.4, (' *lll, but the shippers were cautious '443 ' TI - small from most parts. le imports were Prices We 2,,,, TEA MARKET. limited; and is. 10-el.° --,stainecl, but the demand was cash. I'ablic sale w as the value of Company's Congou, to wo,,_ are declared for next Friday, amounting uu packages. Th e de r-VALLOW MARKET. barely ,!_llllPort demand has been dull, and former rates 9 _. ur doi:-(1' -P- Y. Candle 475. on the spot, and 465. d ery up to the end of the year. Il n SPIRIT MARKET. ili,(l,3t.ni dull of s wards, 410 , and rices oa the decline. Leew. . t firin. ength, is . . loci Pii nd% steady, and the mar ke ritish Corn Spir't r l a os 3 ld., cash. Til t , -7----—......._ !-!-----_--------- sta t „ th 11OODS IN EssEx.—The Essex pap l e a r s s t Weoc 17'4 Inueh damage was done on that . co as w t which efr,,tpk,',Y the inundation caused by the high tide Al the' au destruction on the banks of the Thames. th e 4._ 4ea-Walis at West Thurrock and Battles-bridg e land to a great 4 overflowed the walls and inundated the.., was iit(* (r(teni. At Southend a boat in full A a k) i rig of 4r,0 Zasover the road near the Castle Inon.tons l of the cargo vv,:roeoa,laden, got on shore, and 5 r . d to get her moat no.rtill"nged to be thrown oveiboa r. 6 . k • Chan col4rs • niol it v) w. b Druce, one of the new Vic.e- ~..13__ et,11(11, ilp'll take his seat in conjunction with Vice-Ui u Ti lt , „_ Igrana on Tuesday next, the first day twoof term.of the cc.?o„ltZtveCnnornatsswiolli itnhaellipornbsebnp6,ornsitminnna until the NrT4 l, llis:ioners of Woods and Forests make some . more e allot anent arrangement. Tho building to which w_ fields, it3rsterday, as being erected in Lincoln's Inn or te r ror 3 i‘;'t the leeenintodation of the new Courts ou ... ~„ LEV ANT MAIL. -----....C.,....-„-- We have received Malta papers to the 15th inst., and advices from Constantinople to the 10th, Smyrna 9th, and Alexandrier 6 th. The following naval intelligence is taken from the Malta Chronicle, 15th inst. : " The Indus ship of the line arrived from Syracuse this morning, and the Acheron steamer from Constan tinople (in five days), bringing Lord and Lady Ponsonby, family, and suite. The Iberia contract steamer from the lonian Islands and Patras arrived last night. On the 13th inst., the Tunisine Government steamer Ben Ayed arrived with despatches for the Consul of that Government. and took her departure again on the same afternoon. She is supposed to have run foul of the Tuscan brig Santa Filomena, as this vessel at about 11 o'clock at night, when 5 miles off the island of Gozo, was run into by a steamer steering north-east, which occasioned her considerable damage. The Scout sailed for the Le vant on the 14th inst., and it is rumoured that the Van guard will be despatched next week to the Smyrna sta tion, where several French ships of war have arrived from Toulon. The Tyno leaves for England this even ing. The Vernon, 50, sailed from Corfu for the Southern Islands on the 29th ult., and returned to Corfu on the sth inst., she was still lying there on the loth. — The Stromboli steam-frigate left our port this morning for the Levant." _ _ . _ ....._......... Extract of a letter from Corfu, 11th inst., in the Malta Tunes : " The yachts Therese (Earl of Desert, Mr. Wells, and Captain Kinderley, 97 Regiment), and Harriet (Lord Viscount Ranelagh and sisters), have arrived here from Constantinople, and took pratique on flu; 9th instant. The Vernon is in port, the Weazle is at Zante. Our worthy Governor is quite well. His Excellency takes his ride every evening, and enjoys good health. The 42d Regiment will embark for Cephalonia on Saturday to relieve the sth Regiment." The Malta Times, 15th inst., says : " The Lord Viscount and Lady Ponsonby arrived here this morning in the Acheron steamer. Ms Lord ship will perform quarantine at Malta. Ills Excellency Reschid Pacha, Ottoman Minister at the Court of the Tuileries, having relinquished his design of going to Paris via Vienna, arrived here this morning in the French steamer Leonidas, where he will perform quarantine." The Constantinople news in the Oriental Observer is as follows : " Lord Ponsonby had his audience of leave of the Sul tan on the 28th September, and was received with the greatest possible distinction. The next day Abdul Ghanni Aga, chief Eunuch of the Valide Sultan (his Highness's mother), was sent to Therapia, with the pre sents for Lady Ponsonby, which consisted of a necklace, bracelets, earrings, and a ceinture, all richly mounted in pearls and brilliants whose value is stated to be 1,400 purses, or about seven thousand pounds sterling. The bearer of this splendid present was rewarded by her La dyship with a handsome snuff-box, and to his interpreter was given a sum of money. Presents were also sent the same day, by an officer of the Sultan's household, to the Baroness Sturmer, lady of the Austrian Internuncio nor will the embassies of the other Allied Powers be forgotten. A magnificent snuff-box is being prepared for M. Titoff, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, and a piece of jewellery for his lady. Count Keenigsmark, the Prussian Minister, will receive the portrait of the Sultan mounted in brilliants, and his Countess a costly bracelet. The Frank merchants on the 28th waited upon the Grand Vizier, to complain of the abuses with respect to the Kaimes, or Government paper money. Some of them spoke out boldly, declaring the evils of the system lately pursued for the benefit of certain individuals, to the detriment of the public. The Vizier assured the commercial body that the matter should be looked into, and on the strength of his promise already has the discount of Kaimes declined frsm 8 per cent. to 4 to 5 per cent. We understand that the merchants in tend to follow up the affair, and we should not be surprised to see the paper soon at a mere nominal discount. The Armenian dispute has become a seri ous affair. On the 29th the Patriarch was deposed, and a dozen of the complaining parties were sent into exile. An order was then issued for the election by the Arme nians of a new Patriarch, and the two Bishops, Asfa dour and Matteos, being - named as eligible, the Sultan has been pleased to appoint the former, who on Friday last received his investiture and appropriate decoration at the Porte. A proclamation, addressed to the heads of the Armenians, was at the same time sent, anuouncing the cause of the punishment of the individuals exiled, and enjoining submission to the commands of the Govern ment. The whole is an affair among the Armenians themselves, who are divided into two parties, composed of the rich class on one hand, and the middling class on the other. The latter, nothing daunted, appear determined to carry their point, and they have since twice presented petitions to the Sultan, who has directed the Supremo Council to sift the affair thoroughly, and render justice to:whom it is due. On the 29th also his Excellency Reschid Pacha had his audience of the Sultan. The same day his Highness gave audience to Said Pacha and Sami Paella, who received their decorations of rank on the occasion. On Friday they visited the Sublime Porte, to take leave of the Ministers, and on Saturday, embarking on board the steamer Nile, set out on their return to Egypt, accompanied by Tefviq Bey, First Se cretary of the Sultan, who is the bearer of a letter from his Highness addressed to Mehemet Ali Pacha, expres sing his great satisfaction at the reiterated proofs given by his distinguished vassal of loyalty and obedience. Thus the visit to Constantinople of the son of the Pacha of Egypt and his homme de confiance has, from the be ginning to the end, been marked by attentions of the most delicate nature, and it is to be hoped that the Pacha will not fail to appreciate the favours heaped upon him. His very rhinoceros has been cared for, and is splendidly lodged in an outhouse attached to the imperial palace. On Thursday the Sultan held a Rikkiab (levee), which was attended by all the Ministers and high functionaries, entitled to admission to the presence. This was on the double occasion of the removal of his Highness to his winter palace, and of the full moon preceding the fast of Ramazan. In the evening the mosques were all illuminated, on account of the latter event, which is observed as a Mussulman festival of solemnity. Count Keenigsmark has his audience of the Sultan to day, and on the Bth he will proceed homeward via the Danube. On Saturday last it rained heavily, and an unfortunate accident happened at the Sweetwaters. A party of artillerymen were passing through the valley, when the bridge was swe - pt away by the torrent, and a Prussian engineer officer in the Turkish service was drowned. All the functionaries of the Porte have quitted their country residences, and are now in town for the season. Yesterday the British steamer Cyclops arrived here with the Emir Beshir, for whose accommo dation a most spacious residence had been previously provided at Arnaoutkuoy. The aged Prince will, donbt less, receive all suitable attention here. .It is expected that the Cyclops, after renewing her supply of coal, will return to Malta. One of the Smyrna papers states that Mr. Bankhead would be presented to the Sultan by Lord Ponsonby at his audience. This is incorrect, and would have been contrary to etiquette. Mr. Bankhead will re main here as Minister, and consequently will be entitled to a separate audience after assuming his functions. Had he been merely a Charge d'Affaires, then his Ambassador would have been called upon to present him." A correspondent of the Malta Times writes from Con tantinople : The affair of the Esnafs and the American bankers has become serious. The Porte has exiled some of the former. The Porte had sent a Colonel Hasmi to Tripoli to arrange the affairs of that regency." Tho Malta Chronicle has the'following from Constan tinople, Bth inst.:— •° Early on the morning of the 6th inst., several rather severe shocks of earthquakes were felt here (of rather unusual occurrence), and attended with considerable damage and loss of life. Several houses have been thrown down and several persons killed, and a great number of houses much damaged, and a wall at Seraski's Palace thrown down. The shocks were felt on board the Cyclops, and the first one actually pitched a person out of his cot—it was accompanied by a loud report, like the rolling of a number of casks overhead on deck."i The Oriental Observer of Smyrna of the 9th inst., says— " The French brig of war Alcibiade, in pursuance of orders received from Admiral de La Susse, got under weigh on Wednesday last to proceed to Vonrlah, where sho was to await the arrival of the Admiral from Beyrout.:After performing quarantine, the French ships of the line In flexible and band Petri will come into our reads, Ac counts have just reached from Foglieri, of a sad disaster, which will be severely felt. A person, indulging himself by smoking in tho open air, threw the ashes from his pipe still unextinguished, in consequence of which the dry grass took fire, which, extending rapidly, eventually consumed 8,000 olive trees: As a great part of the oil shipped from Smyrna comes from Foglieri, this acci dent, if not exaggerated, will cause ruin to fall on many whose whole resources were derived from the production of their olive-trees." Extract of a letter from Alexandria, Gth instant, in the Malta Chronicle : " Most of the Consuls-General are about leaving for Cairo ' • Colonel Barnett will t a k e hi s d eparture to-mor row. It is thought that Mehemet Ali will proceed to Upper Egypt, in order to avoid unpalatable discussions on the subject of commercial affairs." The subjoined letter from Beyrout, 2d instant, is in the Malta Times : " The Inconstant frigate left a week ago for Malta, having on board a younger brother of the present Chief of the Druses, who is going to England to pursue his education in one of the Universities. There also em barked a Jesuit, who has been kicking up a dust here. The position of the English officers and troops are the same, and there is no appearance of their evacuating this country, but there is a rumour of this taking place. We have no disturbances—all is quiet. The ships of war are nearly free from fevers. On the 24th ult. there ar rived h ere Ad m i ra l L a Susse, with the ships of the line Inflexible and Santi Petri, and the frigate Calypso. They r'mained here till the 28th, and left for Smyrna. The influence of the English is not so groat as it was On the capture of the cities of this coast. This arises from re ligious squabbles, and the protection which the British Government gives to the Roman Catholics of Syria, its intention being in this way to counteract the French here and their religious agents." The following from Tunis is in the Malta Times : " The Ottoman steamer, Bentied, which arrived here On the morning of the 13th i nstant , was p u t at the dis posal of Sir Thomas Reade by his highness the Bey, to fetch his despatches from Malta. Our private corres pondence of the 11th instant mentions that the French squadron, consisting of the Neptune (bearing the flag of Commodore Leray), the Hercule the Trident a nd the Diademe, had rece i ved orders to return to France. The only remaining French ships before Tunis were the brig Palinure, and the steamer Phaeton. The British ships of the line, the R evenge and the Ganges, were in Porto Farino, about 40 miles f rom t h e c i ty of Tunis, taking i n water. It was said that they were about to return to Malta." THE EX-QUEEN REGENT AND THE ACT UAL REGENT OF SPAIN. The Journal des eb publishes the following docu ments as official : • LETTER ADDRESSED TO lIER MAJESTY THE QUEEN DONNA MARIA CHRISTINA DE BOURBON BY DON SA LUSTIANO DE OLOZAGA, DATED PARIS, OCT. 12, 1841. " Madam—l have just seen in the Afonitenr a de spatch from the French Charge d'Affaires at Madrid, transmitted by the telegraph from Bayonne, according to which it would appear that a rebel army had endea voured by force of arms to obtain possession of the per sons of her Majesty Queen Isabella IL and her Royal Highness the Infanta, Donna Maria. Louisa, and that the attempt had reached so far that the rebels fought even in the palace against the faithful troops, and that the hal berdiers themselves, who were on guard about the Queen's person, had been obliged to interfere in the con test. Your Majesty's heart must have been profoundly afflicted when you were apprised of the danger to which your august daughters were exposed, when you consider ed the spectacle which the palace of the Kings of Spain presented at that terrible moment—a palace which had been religiously respected, even when under the most critical circumstances the enemies of libQrty com- promised the cause of the constitutional monarchy. Under the reign of your Majesty's husband, the Royal Guard, which had revolted, was shamefully defeated by the National Guard at Madrid and the troops of the line, and although, when defeated, it took refuge in the palace, where the centre of the conspiracy was esta blished, the feeling of respect was more powerful with the conquerors than the desire of crowning their tri umph, and they halted at sight of the royal residence— an admirable example which probably stands alone in the history of revolutions—an example which your Majesty (if you were not present) may learn accu 7 rately from one of those who were witnesses at least of the danger to which the Spanish Constitution was ex posed on that day. But your Majesty yourself ob served that, during the six years which the war excited by Don Carlos's partisans lasted, the latter never made a similar attempt. The reason is, that the present rebels have not the same pretence as the Carlists, nor a principle, even a false one, to proclaim, and those who have commenced by treason, can only maintain them selves by violence. _ " If anything could increase the profound regret which such an act, together with the rebellion which has broken out in some parts of Navarre and the Basque provinces, will produce throughout Spain, it is the fact of the rebels making use of your Majesty's name, and that those who placed the Queen's life in peril style themselves the defenders of her mothers, Before yester day, when I handed your Majesty the last letters written to you by your august daughters, I could not avoid respectfully requiring from your Majesty, that in order to regulate my conduct And the ulterior decision of my Government, you would deign to acquaint me whether General O'Donnell, who styles himself Viceroy of Na varre, and the others who in the Basque provinces repre sent themselves as the agents of your Majesty and the Lieutenants of a Regency which does not exist, had, in fact, received from your Majesty an appointment, an order, or an authority to do so ; and your Majesty deigned to reply that it was false that you had appointed O'Donnell, that you had not given him nor any other person any authority to do so; that you could not do so, as you yourself have none, and that whatever they did was on their own account. "I carefully collected and faithfully transmitted to the Government your Majesty's words. But, after having seen that at the same time that your Majesty declared what the rebels advanced to be false the latter continued to assume your Royal name, and particularly after havin4 read the communication made by the French Charge d'Affaires, I believed that your Majesty could no longer suffer your name to serve as a flag for those who, by profaning the immunity of the Palace, placed the Queen and the Infanta's life in danger ; and that it became my duty, without prejudice to other duties I have to fulfil, to represent a to your Majesty, that if on this occasion, and when so unheard of an attempt was committed, your Majesty did not address a declaration to the Spanish nation, to show the fraud of those who, by attributing to your Majesty a design of recovering the Regency, assume your name to destroy by force of arms the legitimate Government, your Majesty's silence could only bear one interpretation, according to which the connexions .hitherto existing between your Majesty and the Spanish nation would manifestly change. " As I am about to forms ay': a despatch to Spain to morrow, I could, at the same time, transmit any mani festation which your Majesty might deign to consider suitable to the occasion. I have the honour to inform your Majesty that the messenger will, for this purpose, wait until the latest hour of the night. " In renewing to your Majesty the most sincere ex pression of pro'ound regret which the late attempt has caused me, inasmuch as it might have compromised the precious existence of your Majesty's august daughters, " I have the honour to be, &e., " Minister Plenipotentiary of the Queen of Spain, " SALUSTIANO DE OLOZAGA." COPY OF THE DESPATCH WHICH, BY ORDER OF THE QUEEN, HER SECRETARY ADDRESSED TO DON SALUS TIANO DE OLOZAGA THE 15TH OF OCTOBER. " The Queen Donna Maria Christina de Bourbon commands me to tell your Lordship that she does not think proper to reply to your strange communication of the 12th of this month, in which the facts were mis stated, and her Majesty's words falsified. " May God prot ec t y our L or d s hi p many years, " JOSE DEL CASTILLO Y A - VI:NSA." REPLY OF DON SALUSTIANO OLOZAGA, DATED THE 17TH Or OCTOBER, TO TIIE PRECEDING DESPATCH. "At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of yesterday I received a letter from your Lordship, dated the 15th instant, in which, by order of the Queen Donna Maria Christina de Bourbon, your Lordship has the kindness to tell me that her Majesty . does not think proper to reply to my strange communication of the 12th of this month, in which the facts are misstated, and her Majesty's words falsified. " These latter words. Which neither your Lordship nor any other person has a right to address to me, would justify me in using similar language. But my education would not permit me to do so, and my duty as a public character requires that I should at this moment dismiss every personal feeling. " Confining myself, therefore, merely to my functions as 111 inister Plenipotentiary of her Majesty Queen. Isabella 11., I wish to tell your Lordship that I am will ing to communicate to the Government of the Queen any resolution of her august mother which your Lord ship may wish to transmit to me, and that I shall con sider everything stated in my former communica tion as accurate until what is regarded as inaccurate is pointed out to me. If there should be any inaccuracy therein, notwithstanding the care with which I endea voured to retain and promptly commit to writing the few and serious words I had just heard, I am positive that it cannot be in the substantial matter, and I am disposed with respect to the remainder to admit any variation which may be pointed out. My position is not equivo cal, and far from being obliged to elude any contradic tion, and to appeal to studied phrases to conceal the truth, I anxiously seek it. The Spanish Government, so desirous to ascertain the fact, will tell whether I have found it or not by her Majesty's silence. " Your Lordship, when writing to me as Private Se cretary of her Majesty, omits, either designedly or through forgetfulness, to mention my official character as the representative of the Spanish Government; and although Ido not wish, for that reason, to term your Lordship's communication strange, I hope that if you have to address me again it will not be under that form, inasmuch as it is not possible for me, under existing cir cumstances, to continue a correspondence with any one who would not explicitly acknowledge in the person of its Envoys the legitimate constitutional government of his Highness the Regent of the kingdOm during the mi nority of the Queen Donna Isabella IL " Stay God preserve your Lordship many years. " The Minister Plenipotentiary of Spain, " Paris. Oct. 17. " SALUSTIANO DE OLOGAZA. " To his Lordship Don Jose del Castillo y Ayensa, Private Secretary of her Majesty Queen Ma ria Chistina de Bourbon." ANSWER RETURNED IN THE NAME OF THE QUEEN TO THE PRECEDING DESPATCH, BY THE SECRETARY OF HER MAJESTY, AND DATED THE 24TH OF OCTOBER. " The strange and disrespectful language of the com munimtion which your Lordship addressed to the Queen on the 12th instant, and the inconsiderate intention which it evinced of entrapping her Majesty, to the detriment of her exalted dignity and honour, have obliged her Majesty to defeat such ambuscade in the simple and se vere manner which she has been pleased to pre scribe. The terms, no less strange than disrespectful, towards hz.r Majesty of the letter which your Lordship addressed to me on the 17th, might' also dispense her Majesty from returning any reply to your Lordship, if, in presence of the obstinate perseverance of your Lordship, consideration of a superior mind did not in duce her Majesty to break silence with a view to pro claim her real sentiments, give vent to her profound in dignation, and defeat the object of the refined, and at the same time barbarous persecution, directed against her by her enemies. " The Queen neither advised nor created the sad events which have again afflicted our unhappy country, while the tears and blood which, during seven consecu tive years, were shed in the Peninsula were still flowing. A stranger to all the passions engendered by political discords, her Majesty supported with courage and re signation the anguish which she has had to endure from the day when she lost sight of the two august orphans so dear to her heart. Deploring, as she does, the error and infatuation of men who requited by insult and by the basest ingratitude those benefits which they had re ceived from her generous hand, and reconciled to lead a sad but tranquil existence in a foreign land, her Majesty has invariably followed the pacific, noble, and safe co urs e which she has laid out f or herself under those painful circumstances. No, her Majesty has neither advised nor excited civil war, and it was not possible for her to do so after declaring in a recent public document the consolation which she felt at having been the constant promoter of peace. It is elsewhere we must seek the causes of the new collision which has broken out in Spain. " Those causes are to be found in the attempts of Bar celona and Valencia ; in the vicious origin of the Go vernment constituted in Madrid, the work of ~the revolu tion of September ; in the usurpation of Royal authority, in the illegality and unruly injustice of the measures of Government in numerous and flagrant infractions of the constitution and the laws ; in its imprudent and scanda lous obstinacy in violating the faith pledged at Bergara, and trampling under foot the ancient awl venerable faeros of the generous Basques and Navarrese ; in the violent and iniquitous usurpation of the Queen's right to the guardianship of her illustrious daughters, a usur pation which loyal Spaniards viewed with stupor equalled only by their profound grief, because they witnessed on this and several other occasions the contempt entertained for divine and human laws ; and because they saw the honour and dignity of the mother of their sovereign seri ously offended. In this uninterrupted series of violent attempts against all that was most worthy of respect and most sacred in the nation, against the holy religion which it pro f esses , and against the eorenion father of the faith- ^ 4 ' EVF,NIN (.1 SUN THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, !841. • ful—all those acts of iniquity, oppression, and political insanity which - h ave scandalized the world—the Chris the principal, th e rea l cause, the efficient cause, iian. world,--and cruelly exasper a t e d the nation, behold of the last insurrection, whi c h t h e excess of so In4 n T evils had rendered inevit a bl e. " But, as if th e R evo l utionists in 'their implacable fury were not satisfi e d . w i t h having wrested from the hands of her Majesty, fi rs t t h e Regency of the kingdom, and then the guardianship of her Illustrious daughters-as-if their rage was not yet satiated by the Atitinate and cruel per secutionSwith which they have 'poisoned, for the last year, the existence of her Majesty, they now perfidiously seek to cover her with opprobrium. After having plunged her in misfortune the Revolutionists are striving to extort from her lips an iniquitotiS condemnation of those who, in resisting the mo s t o dious tyranny,. have confidently invoked her august name. In their blind delirium they aspire to nothing less than to obtain from her Majesty the sanction of all the acts aad all the scan dals of the Government of Madrid, which rekindled in Spain extinct discords, and they wish, moreover, that her Majesty should lay the responsibility of this new confla gration to the noble defenders of the laws indignantly outraged. Their frenzy prompts them to call on her Majesty to avow herself indirectly the accomplice of those who have the shameful impudence of calumniating, by charging them with regicidal projects, the men who have courageously taken arms to d e li ver august an d helpless orpans from the hardest bondage. " ller Majesty would cover herself with shame if she were to accept so ignominious 'a position. She will never sully her name by so black a stain. -The Queen, as great in misfortune as she was in proiperity, may nobly submit to suffer the most poignant trials of adver sity, but will never consent to enter into a compromise regarding questions which affect her honour, such as that of disowning generous Spaniards at a moment when they have sealed with their blood their unshakeable loy alty to the throne. Such are the intimate sentiments which the Queen entertains at the bottom of her heart, and such is the mature judgment which she bears on the last events of Spain. Her Majesty directs me expressly to make this known to your Lordship in her l'O•yal 'name, in answer to your despatch of the 17th, in order that your Lordship may communicate it to the Government which has accre dited you to the Court of Prance, it being well under stood that her Majesty will immediately publish the cor respondence, since your Lordship presumes so lightly to inculcate the intentions of her Majesty, even in the prudent and inoffensive silence which she has hitherto observed. The Queen desires me to repeat to your Lordship what ler Majesty wrote herself on the Ist of June last to the Duke of Victory, respecting the guar dianship. Her Majesty, after stating that she was not accountable for the circumstances which afflicted Spain, that the situation of the kingdom was not her work, that the responsibility of the evils that might follow should not fall upon her, added these words:-- ....... "'You - may be certain that cowardly considerations will never induce me to sanction what my reason, my rights, and my convictions reprove, nor accept what is repugnant to my conscience, and my duties condemn.' This manifestation, equally applicable,, and which her Majesty applies to the present case, ranst_eonvitice your Lordship that it wou ld b e vain to attempt, by vexatious menaces or calumny, to deter her Majesty from the scru pulous accomplishment of all her duties towards God, towards her august daughters, and towards the Spanish nation. " Her Majesty desires I at the same time should tell your Lordship, that the present writing contains the exact and faithful meaning, the true signification of what her Majesty said to your Lordship the last time your Lordship had the honour of being admitted into her Royal presence. • The Queen declares not only that the expressions which your Lordship has made her use have not been pronounced as reported ty your Lordship, but that those which your Lordship has ascribed to her could only be produced by the fallacious memory of your Lord- Ship, who supposed her Majesty to have expressed ideas and words which she did not utter. "Filially, I must inform your Lordship, by express order of the Queen, that the present co mmun i ca ti on i s the last that I sh a ll address to you in the name of her Majesty. " God preserve your Lordship many years, "JOSE DEL CASTILIO Y AYENSA. "Paris, Oct. 24, 1841." PROTEST OF THE FRINGE OF MANTUA. We have been requested to publish the following copy of a Protest sent to Prince Metternich, President of the Court of Chancellery of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, ezc. " I, Prince Alexandre de Gonzaga di Mantova, Prince of the Roman Empire, Prince of Castiglione, I)uc di Salfcrino, Marquis di Modotc, Bte.' lineal descendant of the Sovereign Princes, of Gonzaga di Mantova, pay alle giance to his Majesty the Emperor Ferdinand of Austria; but, although I contbrm to the sentence of the Diet of Ratisbon, pronounced in 1708 against the'lasi Sovereign Prince Ferdinando Carlo de Gonzago, Due di Mantova et di Montferrat, &c., I protest against the legality of the agreement by which Prince Luigi di Gonzaga, who w as b orn a t V en i ce in 1745, and died at "Vienna 10th of September, 1819, renounced the principality of Castiglione, the Duchy of Salferino, and the Marquisate of Mcdote, in favour of the Empress Maria Theresa, for the annual sum of ten thousand florins. " 1. Because hereditary possessions cannot be ceded under any condition, without the consent of the next nearest heirs. "2. Because Prince Luigi di Gonzaga knew perfectly well that the lineal descendants of his great grandfather Prince Ferdinand VI. de Gonzaga, Prince di Casti glione, were still living in Spain, and that consequently the concurrence of the younger branch of the Prince de Gonzaga di Vescovado in this.affhir was illegal ; and "3. Because the marriage of the grandfather of Prince Luigi with Anna Anguissala was declared null, and by this fact alone the rights of Prince Luigi to dis pose of these possessions were inadmissable. " My fathe - r, Prince Guiseppeltigi, born at Madrid, was completely ignorant of the existence' of the agreement between Prince Luigi de Gonzaga, his cousin, and the Empress ; and - by the death of my father in 1818, as well as of Prince Luigi in 1819, I became the head of the family, andJ I demand, as lineal descendant of the Princes di Castiglione to be reinstated in my possessions of Castiglione, Sal ferino, and Medote, arid to have my claims examined by the next Diet of Sovereigns which may be held, or by . Congress; also th a t hi s M a j esty t h e E mperor o f Aus tria, whose justic e i s we ll known, would be pleased to accept my allegian c e, an d d e i gn to con fi rm me, as my ancestors, in the hereditary privileges of the Princes of Castiglione, &c. "I renew my written declaration to the Minister of Police at Vienna, dated the 13th May, 1837, against the person who forged my signature to a paper stating my decision not to again enter Austria. I protest that I have never either road or seen that paper, and that I could not have attached my signature to such an act of stupidity at a moment when family affairs required my presence at Vienna. " These protests are signed and sealed by me, " PRINCE ALEXANDER DE GONZAGA, &c. " Done at Baden-Baden, Oct. 12, 1841." HAMBURGH MAIL: WARsAw, OCT. 12.---By a decision of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, dated the 15th of last month, it is ordered, that from and after the Ist of January, 1842, the Mint at Warsaw shall make . use of the Russian weight in the weighing of gold, silver, and copper. The Russian silver ruble is to be taken as the . standard for all coins circulating in the kingdom. The Warsaw Mint is directed to coin gold pieces by the name of half Imperials of the value of five rubles, and silver coins of the value of rubles, half rubles, and 25, 20, 10, and 5 copecs, and all conformably to a prescribed model. - From the same day all the accounts of the Government and the local authorities, and likewise those- lietWilen private persons, are to be kept in Russian silver rubles, copecs, and half copecs. The accounts of the Polish banks re lative to the loan in 1841 are to be kept in florins, as hitherto. But in all the new coupons which may be is sued in subsequent years, the value is to be stated both in florins and silver rubles. All stamped paper to be used in the kin,gdoin, is to have the Imperial lines both in the water-mark and the stamp. The words describing the price, as we ll as th e wor d s i n water-mark, are to be in the Russian and Polish lan guages. The prices of the stamped paper are to be ex pressed in rubles and copecs. Cards and almanacks are to have a stamp like that of stamped paper. By an Ukase of the same date the Polish Bank is to issue Bank-notes of 1,5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 silver rubles. for which preparations are making. The value of these notes is to be expressed in print, both in figures and in words, in the Russian and Polish languages, and on the back, likewise in figures and in words, in the German, French and English languages. POLISH FRONTIERS, OCT. 13.—1 t is said that Prince Paskewitsch will shortly go to Bcrlin in order to an munce there the intended changes in the kingdom of Poland. It is likewise said that the Prince twill go to St. Petersburgh and make a long stay there.—Hamburgh Paper, Oct. 22. MALTA, OCT. s.—Letters from Trebisond of the . 16th of last month say that an insurrection has broken out in Georgia against the Russian authorities. The insur gents, it is said, by way of a sequel, burnt the quaran tine establishment Akheslika (probably' Achalzich). EFFECTS OF A SUCCESSFUL LAW -SUIT, Mr. Carter, Coroner for Surrey, held'-an inquest on Tuesday morning at the Fox, Castle-street, Southwark bridge-road, on the body of Mr. H. Frankhum, hatter, aged thirty-one. Mr. G. Almond said deceased waa his e h brother-in-law, a hat manufacturer, of N os . 9 and 10, Castle-lane. Witness saw deceased la s k„ a li ve, together with his wife, at their residence on Saturd ay even i ng last, and befor e parted, eeyasedand witness. Next morning, altercati on t oo k a wi s t l n ig about two o'clock, witness, who lived ne x t d oor, was place between deceased alarmed by hearing his sister, Mrs. Frankhum, scream ing, and crying out that her husband had hanged himself in the factory. Witness instantly proceeded thither, and there, on the floor, he saw deceased lying,d ea d , and over him, fastened to a beam, a piece of kope, from which deceased's wife had just extricated him. Mrs: Frankhum was induced to enter the factory, in consequence of de ceased having delayed going to bed. B the Coroner— Deceased had had a law-suit lately, but though he gained it, the expense entailed was so great, that hd'derived no advantage from his success. His c ircumstances were much embarrassed, and his conduct, which latterly had been very strange, witness attributed to losses in busi ness, and the expense attendant on the law-suit. Mr. lleyton, a solicitor, who called on Friday last on de ceased, to examine his accounts, and try and arrange with his creditors, found deceased at intervals so melan choly, that he considered him of , unsound mind. Ver dict —Temporary insanity. • The Reformers of Blackburn 'have achieved a gai n i n th e Borou g h Registration Court of 78 ne* votes. DUBLIN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. - - - TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. OCT. 27, 1841. SlR,—Although the enclosed letter of my friend was private, and not by him intended for publication, I can not deprive myself of the pleasure of sending it to you. I have the honour to remain, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant, THOMAS STEELE, O'Connell's Head Pacificator of Ireland. Corn Exchange-Rooms, nukes, 94101. ELECTION DAY OF OUR FIRST REFOR,BIPDc.MWAT COUNCIL. f • This has been, indeed, a glorious day for Irefailti. The Liberator returned Aldermen for two wards, and the great majority of the wards won by overwhelming majorities. Here is the triumphant result : LIBERALS. SOUTH. *James's Ward 4 George Roe, Alderman *Catherine 4 Alderman not yet known, supposed Sir J. Power *Audoen . 4 John Kcshan, Alderman *Patrick 4 Alderman not yet known Castle 4 Cors. Egan, Mclennan *College 4 James Rooney, Alderman NORTH. Custom-house 4 Alderman not yet known *Post-office 4 P. Purcell, Ald. !! faugb! *Linen-ball 4 Liberator, Alderman, *Four-Courts 4 Liberator, Alderman *Paul 4 Pat. Gardiner, Alderman The Liberals won those marked * by large majorities. In the Four-Courts wards the Liberator had 189, Shendon next to him, 134. The highest Tory, 19. The rascals contested every ward except ames's. In the Linen-hall the Liberator, had 369 John O'Neill next to him 366 Grace 363 Allienna 362 This is as nearly as we can ascertain the numbers, for the voting is done by papers, and not viva voce, as at Parliamentary elections. In some of the close wards, Andrew's, Merrion, and Castle, there was filthy splitting of Catholics with the Tories, and renegadism and hiding. Still we are safe— gloriously safe. Tom Atkins has more merit than ahy other man ; he was sure of the Aldermanship in Four- Courts ward, the safest in Dublin ; and learning that the Liberator was likely to be annoyed in the Linen-hall ward, and doubtful of the Aldermanship, he came to me last Tuesday night, at tan o'clock, and would not be con tent till I went up with him to the Liberator, and re signed it into his hands. You never saw devils so dumb founded as the Tories, when they found they could not vent their malice upon the Liberator, by putting him out of the Aldermanship in Linen-hall ward. We don't yet know how Andrew's ward has turned out, nor Merrion, but it is confidently said we have An drews by about eight majority. Natty Callaghan will certainly be the Alderman there ; so at all events we have one, and in Merrion. they say we have one ; this would make us 46 out of 60 in the Council, or nearly 31 to 1, and 40 liepealers ! Nine times nine times nine cheers for the Lord Mayor, the New Council, and Repeal ! (From the Pilot of Monday.) The election for Town Councillors commenced this morning at nine o'clock and terminated at four. The following is the result of the day's proceedings : CATHEntNE's WARD.—J. Kennedy, Esq., presided as assessor in this ward. Liberal Candidates—Sir John Power, Bart., J. Moran, James Fagan, and John O'Neill, Esqrs. Tory Candidates—Messrs. Purser, James's-gate ;0. Winans, Bridge-street ; Geoghegan, Francis-street; and Hoy, of New-row.—The Liberals were returned. AUDOEN'SWARD.-J. J. Murphy, Esq., Q.C., presided. Liberal Candidates—John Keshan, John Busby, Ed. ward Reynolds, and Timothy O'Brien, Esqrs. Tory Candidates—Thomas Halahan, Mount Pleasant avenue ; Francis Falkner, Grafton-street ; and Robert Barrett, Lower Bridge -street.—Liberals returned. JAMES'S WARD.-Mr. Collin presided. Liberal Candidates Messrs. George Roe, Gavin, Tuite, and Shannon. Those gentlemen were returned. PAUL'S - WARD.-Mr. Lynch presided. Liberal Candidates—Patrick Gardner, J. Bury, JameE Tallon, and James Burke, Esqrs. Tory Candidates—Richard Price, Joseph Long, and Samuel Allen Daly, Esqrs.—Liberals returned. PATRICK'S WARD. Liberal Candidates Michael Walsh, John L. Arabin, Luko Butler, and Barry E. Lawless, Esqrs. Tory andidates—Messrs. Monson, Fry, Peacock, and Hayes. —Li berals returned. GEORGE'S WARD.—Mr. Brooke presided in this ward. Tory Candidates—lsaac Butt, William Swan, Edward Hudson, and George Thorp. Liberal Candidates—Jas. Naughton, JohnO'Brien, and C. Pallas.—The Tories returned Mr. Butt as alderman. LINEN-HALL WARD.—Daniel O'Connell, alderman ; J. O'Neill, Richard Grace, and John Inienna—all Liberals. COLLEGE WARD.—James Roone, alderman ; John Barlow, Pearson,_ and C. APLoghlin—all Liberals. CASTLE WARD.—Messrs. Egan (Alderman) Fogarty, Tagart, and Fitzpatrick—all Liberals. CUSTOII-110USE WARD.—Messrs. Robert M'Clelland (Alderman),Dr. Kirwan, Torrens M'Cullagh, and Robert ITKenna—all Liberals. ANb nEw's WARD.—Niessrs. Byrne, Callaghan, Rey nolds, and Laurence Malone—all Liberals. POST-OFFICE WARD.—Peter Purcell (Alderman), J. Campbell, Michael Staunton, and John Clarke—all Liberals. STEPHEN'S WARD.—Tory Candidates—Messrs. Boyce, Mackey, Thompson, and Bourne. MERRION WARD.—Tory Candidates—Messrs. ICinna ban Guinness, and Sir E. B urroug h s (T or i es ). Lib era l —Thomas R. Symes. COURT CIRCULAR. The Earl of Morton and the Hon. Captain Duncombe have succeeded the Marquis of Or monde and Captain the Hon. A. Nelson Hood, as the Lord and Groom in Waiting on her Ma jesty: - - - His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday morning, from his re sidence at Kew. His Royal Highness visited the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester-house. and in the evening returned to Kew, attended by Colonel Jones. Lord Stanley attended at the Colonial-office yesterday for the first time since his recent at tack of gout. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Grey had an interview with his Lordship. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE NAVAL FORCES OF BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND AMERICA. GREAT BRITAIN. Seamen in the Royal Navy Boys 9OOO Marines 9,,000 Total Royal N av y . 34,000 167,000 Merchant seamen Total Sailors . Fishermen, &e. 201,000 150,000 351,000 18,000 7,000 FRANCE. Seamen of the Inscription . Equipages de Ligno , Total Royal Navy 25,000 Seamen of the Inscription employed in Commerce . 27,000 Total Sailors Inscription over age, above 50 years B,OOO Fishermen, &c. 23,000 Navy Sailors • Mereliaut Sailors AMERICA. 6,000 61,000 Naval Population Fishermen, Sze. 83,000 67,000 not known. • NEW STEAM-BOAT PIER ON THE ESSEX COAST.—The delay and danger experienced, owing to the crowded state of the Thames from Greenwich to London Bridge, have long suggested the expediency of providing some convenient place of landing for passen gers by the large steamers more especially. With a view to remedy this admitted inconvenience, a steam boat pier and landing wharf are now in progress of erec tion at the village of Grays Thurrock, on the Essex side of the river, situated between Tilbury Fort and Fur fleet, and within a short distance of the Blackwall and Eastern Counties line of railway, to both of which it is intended there shall be suitable modes of conveyance at all times. The project has been taken up by a com pany of shareholders, who are for the most part con nected with the county of Essex ; and although a pri vate speculation, it is likely to prove ono of great pub lic utility. The pier, which is nearly finished, is 400 feet long, and 8 feet wide. From the indentation of the coast at this point it offers no obstruction to the navigation of the river, and is approachable with perfect safety at low water, even by vessels of heavy burden. It is built on piles, 20 feet apart, to which the pathway is united by substantial woodwork, the whole bound together by strong iron knees and girders. At the extreme points, or pier -head, there are two places for landing. approached by flights of stairs, the platform here extending a distance of GO feet trans versely. There are also two hoys, or lobbies, the one 280, the other 140 feet from the shore, both of which are to be covered over and furnished with benches. At the land entrance a neat toll-house has been erected, con taining waiting-rooms on either side of the roadway and a spacious saloon attached, for the accommodation of passengers. The village of Grays, which is contiguous to the pier, will be approached by an ornamentdroad, now in progress of formation. Without the appearance of heaviness, the whole structure seems substantial, and affords promise of great durability. The pier was de signed. by Mr. Penrin, an architect of Colchester. Mr. Lomax, of Queen -square, civil engineer, is the contractor. From the forward state of the works, it is expected that the whole will be completed by January next, when the pier will be opened to the public. POST HASTE, IN THE O LDEN T IME. I n a letter written by the Earl of Essex, about the year 1597, to the Lord High Admiral at Plymouth, which is still preserved, there are added to the words " hast, hast, bast for lyfe !" the expressive symb o l o f a gallows prepared with a halter, which could not be well misunderstood by the meat illiterate Mercuries. EXPERIMENTAL TRIP WITH . THE GEYSER STEAM-FRIGATE, itl/27 WOOLWICH, OCT. 26.—This elegantly-constructedvessel, of l ,060 tons burden, built at Sheerness this season from a design of Sir William Symonds, and one of the five vessels of the same class and mould fitted by Messrs. John and Samuel Seaward and Capel, of Limehouse, arrived opposite Woolwich Dockyard at eleven o'clock this forenoon, when Captain Boyes and Lieutenant Browne, and Mr. Ewart, master engineer of the dps)liyAed, and several gentlemen went on board. l'he'Geys - er,,,44lt...being commissioned, was manned by . strterftltfLowt ind thirty of the crew of the Devas , lotion, and amongst others the following naval officers and gentteefia aceomphanied her from Limehouse : Captaiiis Piied, Joiles," Johnson, Otway, Plunket, Sir P. Daniell, Burton, and Stopford ; Captain Northcotte and Mr. Green, the eminent shipowners; Mr. Mason, of the Marine Department, East India House ; and a number of scientific gentlemen. On leaving W oo l w i c h t h e vessel ' proceeded down the river in fine styli-, the tide being in her favour ; and when opposite the marked ground at Long Reach the full steam-power was applied, and she accomplished on the average ten and a half miles per hour, equal to eleven, if she had been coppered. The engines are substan tially constructed, and appeared to work with the greatest ease at the rate of twenty and a quarter strokes per minute, and are of 140-horse power each, upon the same principle as those introduced in the Gorgon. These engines effect a saving in weight of one-fourth over the ordinary beam.engines, and a third in space. The engine -room is only fifty feet long, within which space she has nine furnaces for her boilers, her engines, and storeroom for three hundred tons, or fifteen days' consumption of fuel ut her full power. There is accommodation on her troop-deck for three hundred soldiers, with their officers, baggage, and equipments, besides complete accommodation for her own officers cod crew. When ready for sea her armament will consist of two ten-inch guns for carrying hollow shot of 981bs. weight, and four eight-inch guns carrying carry ing 68-pound shot. _ . The experiment made to-day was highly satisfactory, and everything went off on board as well as could be expected, until her return opposite Erith, when a Scotch brig, the Glasgow packet, of Glasgow, in coming down 'the river with ate tide, with apparently only one person on deck, notwithstanding the repeated warnings of the pilot, who endeavoured, as much as possible, to avoid her, came across the bow of the Geyser, drove off the keeper, and let 'go the anchor, bringing both vessels to a standstill. The Scotch br;g was terribly shattered, and had all her sails torn, and the ropes on one side nearly all broken, and one of the planks of the Geyser appeared so much injured that it is probable it will have to be replaced. The Scotch brig, on being extricated, cast anchor near to where the accident occurred, and the Geyser proceeded to Woolwich, where she has been moored, and will proceed to Sheerness in a few days, to be coppered and made ready for sea. Messrs. Seaward and Co. entertained their guests to a cold collation on their return up the river. Captain Boyes, of the Vixen, already appointed, and several other naval officers, who expect to be appointed to vessels on the same construction, and fitted by the same engineers, appeared to take a more than ordinary interest in the experiment. It is satisfactory to know that although the Styx, fitted out with great haste to receive on board the Go vernor-General of Canada, encountered the late gales in the English Channel, she worked beautifully, and ac complished her voyage when scarcely any other vessel could remain at sea. DREADFUL OCCURRENCE IN THE CHAR. TER-HousE.—On Saturday last Mr. Francis, a brother in the Charter-house, who had just returned from a visit of some weeks at a brother's at Peckham, having been left alone in his room by the nurse, threw himself from the window, which was on the two pair. He was picked up in a deplorable condition, and conveyed to his room, where he died two hours after. On being asked by the nurse how it happened, he replied that the devil prompted him to throw himself from the window, and never left him till he did it. This is the second or third accident that has occurred at this place. The measurements made by Mr. Thomas Catley of this town (Brighton), by his rain guage at his cot tage on the Hastings' hill, of the quantity of rain fallen from the 22A of September to the 21st of October, both inclusive, being a period of thirty days, during which period it rained every day except two, was 11:1- inches and three parts. This shows a considerable quantity above any corresponding period for a number of years. The nearest approach to it was the year 1830, when from the 24th of October to the 21st of November, it rained every day excepting eight, when the derth of rain was 44 inches and three parts. In 1839, the 30 days of Sep tember were all wet excepting six, and then the quan tity of rain was 6 inches, and nineteen parts.—Brighton Guardian. MUSIC A CURE FOR MADNESS.—Accounts have recently appeared in various French papers of the attempt to appeal to the imperfect sympathies and scat tored associations of the patients, at the Auxerre Asylum for the insane, through the medium of music, as a substi tute for violence and restraint. The patients are in structed, successfully, in the theory and practice of music, and seventeen of them, under this delightful and mild discipline, are said to have been cured, and to have been returned, since the end of last year, to their fami lies, in the full re-possession of all their intellectual faculties. FINE FOR REFUSING AN OATH• — At Nor wich City Sessions, which commenced on Tuesday before the Recorder, Isaac Jermy, Esq., the Grand Jury were about being sworn, when Mr. Macro, woollen-draper, London-street, presented a letter to the Court addressed to the Recorder. The Town Clerk read the letter, by which it appeared that Mr. Macro did not think it right tottake the oath required by a Grand Juryman, and his objection was, that he read in the Bible, " Swear not at all." " Above all things, swear not, but let your yea be yea, and nay nay ;" and that if he kissed the book con taining those sentences, his conscience would dictate that he was doing wrong. The Recorder told Mr. Macro that he considered his scripttire annotations totally misapplied, and that if he persisted in refusing to be sworn, he must be fined. Mr. Macro, however, would be neither convinced nor threatened into swearing ; he was consequently fined 501. COMPOSITION OF THE ATMOSPHERE.—EX• periments have lately been made simultaneously at Path, Berne, and Faulhorn, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the proportions of oxygen and nitrogen were the same at all these places. The main result is that, out of 10,000 parts of air at Paris, there were 2,304 parts of oxygen; at Faulhorn, 2,297 ; and at Berne 2,295. As the proportions at one of these places are found to differ much more than the mean of the three places differs, the con clusion is, that the constitution of the air is the same at all places, and of course it must be a chemical compound LETTER-CARRYING.--During the past week the Tribunal has had before it a case of some importance to the Steam Companies. One of the stokers of the Commercial Company, was found by a douanier with some letters upon him for a commercial house in the town. A process was the result, and although the Com pany had dismissed the man, and proved that they had previously refused to carry letters for the firm from Lon don to Boulogne, still the Court condemned them to pay 150 f. fine and the expenses. A process, we understand, will soon come before the Court, o f th e C om pany against the firm, for damages for employing one of their ser vants to commit an illegal act.---Boulogne Gazette. FATHER CAHILL, OF BORRIS, HELD TO BAIL FOR A MISDEMEANOR.—On Tuesday last the Rev. John Cahill, Roman Catholic Curate of Borris, was held to bail by order of the Attorney-General, to stand his trial at the next assizes. He is charged with having headed a mob on the 28th of June last, and with forcibly carrying away certain freeholders, the tenants of the Earl of Courtown and Lord Downes, while on their way. to Carlow. The event has excited great inte rest. His securities wore Mr. Michael Rooney, of Bur. ren-street, and J. Kavanagh, of Graig-ue.—Carlo' Sen tinel. THE MA NUMOTIVE.—A self-propelled chaise called by this name, the property and invention of Mr. A. G. Guinness, the Civil Engineer of Dublin, has been running through our streets, to the great astonishment and amusement of the inhabitants and visitors ' In appearance it resembles 'an ordinary Bath re chair, with the exception that the wheels a with lv ownhdieerci i f t u higher than the body. Underneath the seat i s a yvaec in which the machinery is hidden. Its power s o f ve . loc i ty appear to be lesaw very with great iitt iins; North -street theuotr tfthahet the mostt s l t iy reet on Frid a y p r t I y totconnected turn. d We own the street into. Ca -s. Castle-squar e , an d madeliapro e ran evening. thence curvetted into East -street at a most tremendous ; pace, and with the most perfect ease doubt, if its powers can be made and we ha ve lit t l e a acclivi ties as they are upon n ear l y level sroads,available on will speedily be at a discou Brighton Guardian. nt.— th a t ra il roa d s A deputation f rom t h e work employment at th e New II men who left th e ir present visiting th e towns in houses of Parlia men t a r e a t t Meet ings have already b een held inns neighbourhood. Shields, and one i s anno Sunderl an d an d S ou th (Monday ).—T yne Mer u c n u ced for Newcastl e thi s even ingSTEEPLE CHASE EXTRry. AORDINARY.--AS Mr. Marshall, of the Belle V e u Royal Hotel, Marine-parade, Aberystwith, and a f • riend, Webb, Esq., from Here ford, were returning in a gig from the Hafod Arms hotel the afternoon o f S un d a y last, when about one hundred yards from the south turnpike-gate, a portion of the harness gave way, which caused the horse to start forward, h b • spirited one. e . being a young and Mr. Marshall perceiving the danger (the gate being closed at the time), requested Mr. ebb to sit firm and place his feet well forward, expecting the horse would stop' suddenly before the closed gate ; but as they approached the gate, Mr. Marshall, perceiving it was the horse's intention to make a leap, he boldly and fear lessly gave him the reins, and took all chances, when, surprising to relate, the horse made boldly for the gate (being about five feet six inches in height,)broke it asunder in the centre, and horse; gig, and all passed through, and continued at racing speed for about three quarters of a mile, when Mr. Marshall succeeded in pull ing up, safe and sound, within a few hundred yards of Aberystwith. It appears the only fear Mr. Marshall had, after breaking through the gate, was the soundness of the reins, but they remained firm ; and by that, and Mr. Marshall's presence of mind, the party was saved roin almost inevitable destruction.— Welshman. The Lord-Chancellor, immediately upon his re turn from Turville-park yesterday, repaired to Bucking ham Palace, and was honoured with a lo n g interview by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, EVENING SUN LITERATURE. THE MIRZA. 3 Vole . Bent ley, London, 1841. IJ isa collection oL e Easternbeen ch T ie h fl e y cM Persian,irza' sup p osed to h residing toldstor stories, the author, whil e h e was in the country, by the Mirza, or favourite poet of the Shah. The most entertaining of these stories is the one en titled " The Foolish Husband and the Virtuous Wife," which relates the adventur esaL a beautiful girl who is married to a rich fool of Ispahan, and is over-persuaded by him to allow herself to be seen by the Shah, on whom she makes just the favourable impression that her conceited and unprincipled husband had calculated on. The virtuous Fatmeh, however—such is the young lady's name resolutely refuses l en di ng an ear to the Shah's dishonourable proposals; and, with some difficulty, she succeeds in mak ing her , escape from Ispahan, in company with her brother Ali, who assists her in her flight. The eunuchs and chief officers of the Court of course pursue the fiiir fugitive with ail possible dispatch ; and after a variety of wander ings they trace her to the mountain cave of a rob ber chief; with whom she and her. brother have taken refuge. On the Shah's being informed of this, he sets out for the cavern in question at the head of a well-appointed body-guard, and corn mences a desperate assault on the robber's strong mountain fastness. After one or two fierce at-. tacks, which were as fiercely repulsed, the royal troops succeed in capturing the robber chieftain, who, when asked by the Shah what he had done with the LadyFatineh, replies, that she is hidden in the cave, w h ere h owever s h e w ill never be dis covered, as she is under the express guardianship of the goblins and spirits who infest the spot. This answer does not satisfy the enraged . monarch, and accordingly .he resolves to search himself for the runaway, and at the head of his body guard enters the cave, which is of vast dimensions, and] branches off into a hundred labyrinthine turns and windings. To his infinite surprise and disappointment, however, his search is altogether unavailing; no female—nothing even that bears the semblance of the human formis visible; and he is just about to pursue his way back, when, by the red glimmer of the torches which his at tendants carry in their hands, he perceives, in a small nook or recess, something that looks like a woman. He hastens joyfully towards it, but on coming close to the figure, finds that it is a statue of stone, and is awfully per suaded by the captive robber, and his own offi cers, who are an2libus to get back to the enijoy ments of a Court-life at Ispahan, that this is the Lady Fatmeli, who . has been thus petrified into stone by the fairy spirits of the cavern, at her own special request, as she was anxious to escape the degradation of the royal harem. The' story concludes with an allusion to the second successful flight of the lady and her brother, and their safe arrival at Bassora. We have here given merely the lead ing outlines of the tale ; but may add that seve ral of the characters introduced—especially Kaka Pembeh, the Shah's favourite jester—are spi ritedly and naturally drawn, and that a vein of comic humour, of the quietest and archest sort, pervades the narrative, and forms its principal recommendation. INSURRECTION IN SPAIN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sea—Will you permit me to throw out for your consideration and that of the public generally, a sug gestion connected with the present unnatural insurrec tion in that unhappy and afflicted country Spain, one, which I have delayed doing under the confident ex pectation that your daily powerful remarks on this sub ject, as well as those of your Contemporaries, would have stimulated others to have anticipated this appeal, and whose greater abilities and influence might have ensured it iet cordial and enthusiastic reception which so humble an individual as myself has no pretensino to attempt to realize. In taking a review of the convul sive state into which that country has been plunged for these sis. or sevca years, no one can however slightly versed in Spanish history, to have his liveliest sympathies deeply enlisted in her behalf ; his disgust and shame awakened at the hollow and jesuitical treat ment experienced from one of her Quadruple Allies, whilst his feelings must frequently be shocked at the too numerous instances of tEc sanguinary atrocities committed on all sides. Other points, scarcely less in importance, must equally arrest the most earnest attention and create the deepest anxiety. The difficulties and dangers attendant on the modification of the Spanish Constitution into its pre sent tolerably practical form ; the struggles and con tentions connected with the Regency ; and the morn than Herculean labours involved in contending with the financial exigencies of the country—while justice compels me to say, were being encountered with an ability rewarded with all reasonable success—which greatly redounds to the credit and honour of the Duke of Victoria and his coadjutors of the present Adminis tration. Scarcely, then, is this beautiful country freed from these fatal intestine convulsions, and flee spirit of reconciliation rapidly extending itself amongst the late belligerents, whilst the people generally are animated with a determined and patriotic resolution to make every personal sacrifice in order to develop° the latent resources of their country, inclining the mind rather to the favourable and charitable conclusion that the mis deeds of the past will serve as a beacon and a guarantee against misfortunes fur the future, when a foul and unnatural attempt is made to rekindle the revolutionary torch from one end of the kingdom to the other, based on motives, and supported by parties, that the pen almost revolts with horror to record. A, mother seeking the recovery of her lost power, the gratification of a disappointed ambition, not only at the imminent risk of a daughter's throne, but of her chil dren's lives—prompted and encouraged by a set of as piring, daring, and unpatriotic intriguers and adven turers—and countenanced, aided, and excited by one of the most intriguing Sovereigns in the whole universe, whom no plots, however sanguinary and frightful —no warning, however providential —can direct from his un principled course in upholding the most atrocious mea sures, for the purpose of realising his political calcula tions. How frightful, how humiliating is it, to witness human nature so degraded, so brutalised ! A mother insensible to every tie of maternity, her fallibility made the instrument of the present unnatural conflict, by some of the most exalted personages of Spain ; whilst a Monarch of one of the finest and most highly civilised kingdoms in the universe, unblushingly profits by her failings to work out his political ends. What would have been the feelings of that unhappy woman, or even the desperate Royal supporter, had the late struggle for the abduction of the infant Queen and her sister from the Palace at Madrid, terminated by their corpses being placed before her e y es , i n h er f atal and uneasy abode at Paris. And wa s t hi s f r i g h tfu l catastrophe an impossibility ? The showers of bullets which pierced into and through the doors of the bed and dressing-rooms of the youthful Queen and her sisterls therewill baesfrtiernesdp,onhdowtoe%t,heris doubt.dear— how- ever exalted, whom the late Queaeaper sßegen t onag e ,now w cherishes and loves, for the support and sympathy evinced towards her, that, had _herchildren been killed,. havevheubrme ea l a o n loved she would not loathe with a horror a thousand times t d i e oo e nm p , e a r nt t e h w aconalluisdsheeofeWhilst this unhappy d?weareadiddehlairvieousacwqiutihreadfflaien instantaneous cha • in the • l indignation champion which must necessarily have been simultaneously ex pressed throughout Europe. Is it, then, too late, or the less necessary, because the affliction has been i.st pro videntially averted, whilst the crime still exists, t hat Europe should not, now express the horror and disgust with which it la.:s viewed this outrage on humanity- 1 . I am not without the Lox, nay, the confi d ent hope, Sir, that, from the prompt, energetic,, ri,sds unequivocal manner in which the publicwcpz Las generally - have stigmatized these atrocities as well capitall their authors, that it will not be long e.rodiscv penses the town in Europe which cultivates and nature, will noble and generous sympathies of . hum to evince their abhorrence of the violence committed civilized community is so those ties by which the whole Inthisdemon. safely and sacredly linked together. ie . . and satisfaction to strati= it would be source of pridehad the distinguished me to reflect upon, if London. this cause of humanity, honour of leading the van in ce, _ that there is no mer chant, I feel thoroughly conv re in an or tradesman, nob!eman chant, banker, professional bis reat and influential metro polis,or private gentleman, of t . g h t ct eg csconsolation, as who would not der iv e bead his pillow in after t ars, in the re flectionhe lays his on b ted, by his attendance at a that he had contri u London,where • public meeting in the City of a, the just indignation of the British people was ex and virtuous d at the present unnatural and _atrocious praseinsur rection in Spain , to create in favour of that country t h e influential moral supp ort which should speedily lead to its prompt and effectual termination, whereby is guarantee would also be granted to Europe, that the cause of humanity and civilization could not b • e exposed to a similar outrage without drawing u upon the offenders the universal execration of mankind. I have the honour to be, Sir, yours, very CHARLES faithfully, COCHRANE. 26, Da onshire-place, Friday Oct, 22, 1841. - 7!" 7 LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAYe— If the sum of money expended in making the London and Birmingham Railway was turned into pence, which 14 ; he inches otr,. wide the placed in a line, one leanugdth of that line would be 31,915 miles, or considerably more than alb circumfer ence of the earth. The average weight. of a waggon of measure o uhing goods on the London and Birmingham Railway, is 3.42 tons, and the ratio of good s up to goods down, may be taken, till the Directurs ch oose to give the shareholders better, - information, at 5382 to 506. The fare of soldiers on the London and Birminghamßailway is ld. per mile, or 9s. 4d. f or the whole distance, and their baggage 3d.. per ton p er m i le, or 28s. for the whole dis , tance.--liadway Journal.