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MORNING SUN THE NEW WORK ON CANADA. Now realy, in 2 vois, small tivo., with Map and 15 Blustra• tions, 21s. bound, THE CANADAS IN 1841. By Lieut.-Col. Si r RICHARD BONNYCASTLE. Henry Colburn, Publisher ' 13, Great Marlb oroug h- s t r e e t. * it * To be h a d of all Booksellers. EDITED BY THOMAS HOOD, ESQ. Embellished with a strikiking Likeness of the late THEO DORE HOOK, Esq., and Two lflustrations by P hiz. THE OCTOBER NUMBER OF' COL Ult N'S• W MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST, Edited by THOMAS HOOD. Esq., . Contains the following interesting Articles : Memoir of the late Theodore Hook, Esq., with a fine Portrait. A Tete-a-Tete with the New Editor. . A Sketch off the Road, by Thomas Hood, Esq. Graduates and Under-Graduates; or, The Proctor's Note Book, by the Author of " Peter l'riggins."—No. 1. PHINEAS QUIDDY; Or, Sheer Indus!ry. By John Pooh., Esq., Author of " Paul Pi y." With Two Illustrations by Phil. Chapter Vll.—Sheer Industry Prospers.—A Digression for the Benelit of Yotinger Sons.—A very Confidential Commu nication.. Chapter Vlll.—lngenuousness versus Cunning. Chapter IX.—A Touching Incident.—Our Here's Disinte rested Concern for a " Maiden all Forlorn. "—A Magnificent Proposal Rejected. ,Chapter X.—The Reading of the Will. —A Job's Comforter. Fathers and Sons, Chapter XX., by Theodore Hook, Esq. A Tale of a Trumpet, by Thomas Hood. Esq. (concluded.) A Vi,it to Gerbe, by the Hon. and Rev. Charles Bathurst. The Counts y Tue n, by Mrs. Gore. A Reminiscence of an Irish Squire. . Foreign Sporting, by Nimrod. Memoirs of Madame Lafarge, written by Herself. Charles Chesterfield, the Youth of Genius, by Mrs. Trollope. The Suicide's Burial, &c. &c. Henry Collsurn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 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HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,0001., 18 0001., 9,0001, 5,000/., 3,6001., &c. &c. &c., to London ; 3,600/., 800/., and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to Dub in ; 3,600/. to Beverley; 3,600/. to Halifax ( Yorkshire); 1,2001. to Portleaven Harbour ; 900/., 70.01. ami 600/. to Li verpool ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne • 9001 . to Hull ; 900/. and 600/. to Man c h es t er ; 70 0 / . to East Retford (Not tinghamshire); 600/. to Bideford ; 6001. to Cork ; 600/. to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the next Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland. Direct for Prospectus and Particulars, without delay, either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, 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 60 80 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 30, Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled WHAT WILL THE WORLD SAY?—Hon. Charles Nor wold, Mr. J. Vining; Mr. Pye Hilary, Mr. C. Mathews; Mr. Warner, Mr. Bartley ; Captain Scrope TarradidtiledMr. W. Farren ; Lady Norwold, Mrs. Glover; Marian Mayley, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Miss De Vere, Miss Cooper ; Tattle, Airs. Orger ; Mrs. Tarradiddle, Mrs. Humby. Alter which, the Farce entitled BROTHER BEN.— Commodore Cutlass, Mr. Bartley ; Benjamin Bowles, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mr. Shuffleton, Mr. Harley; Mrs. Cut lass, Miss Cooper , Dorothy. Mrs. Tayleure. To conclude with, the Ballet of Action, entitled HANS OF ICF.L A N.b.—Hans of Iceland, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Gill, Mr. 3. . H. Ri dgway s Frederick, Mr. Gilbert; Oglypiglap, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Iceland 11 -v. Master Marshall ; Guth St as e n , Mi ss Bailin; I ce l an d Girl, Miss-ilac,hall. Doors to le opened at hair-pas.. Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 75, Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circ'es, ss. ; Second Pr.., 9t. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 2!. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, fro m Ten till Four, where Season Ticlicts may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had so!ely of Air. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. To-morrow, What Will the World Say? with Hans of Iceland iiOYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Unparalleled success of the Military Old English Equestrian Spectacle, " Blenheim," the Waterloo of the 18th Century. Overflowing Houses. THIS EVENING. SEPT. 30, Will be presented the successful Equestrian Spectacle, called THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM ; OR, I'HE HORSE OF THE DISINHERITED ; introducing Mr. Ducrow'smag ndicent Stud of Forty Horses, !lightly-trained Palfreys, Fairy Pener, Equestrian Troop, and Companies of both Theatres; embracing: all the Military Exploits of the Great Duke of Marlborough, Grand Reviews, Battles, and Glorious Victories. After'which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in the Largest Arena in the World, in which Madame Ducrow, Sig nor Hillier, the Great American Rider, the British Horseman, Signor Felix Carlo, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear. To conclude with THE HAUNTED WRECK. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Seventy-fifth time of Miss Vincent in the character of " Su san HoPlc) , ;" third week of Wilks' successful drama of " Raf facile, the Reprobate !" and first week of " The Flying Dutchman," with Childe's Phantasmagorical Representation of the Spectral Ship in full sail. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 30, The highly interesting and pathetic Domestic Drama, called SUSAN HOPL EY ; OR THE TRIALS AND VICISSI TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL. William Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroin e of Domestic Drama. After which, RAFFAELLE THE REPROBATE; OR, THE SECRET MISSION, AND THE tIGNET RING. Raffaelle' Mr. E. F. Saville ; Count des Monte. Mr. Dale ; Gablin, Mr. Howard ; Pauline. Mrs. Lee. To conclude with THE FLYING DUTCHMAN; OR E PHANTOM SHlP.—Vanderdecken, Mr. Dale; Toby Varnish, Mr. Seaman ; Peter Von Bummel, Mr. Gardner ; Lestelk, Mrs. Lee ; Lucy, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, Is.— uallerl, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes I nlY, at Half-p as t Ei g ht. ‘„ 10. morrow, Susan Hopley, Raffaelle, and the Flying Dutchman THE RAILWAY SUIT, ANT) THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE NOW RE•PUBLISHED, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Aug. 30, 1841. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. mu rnmit.. ..1^ minutes after I. i Evening 53 minutes after 1. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Commercial Traveller, who writes from Fetter-lane, should favour us in confidence with his name. LONDON: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1841. In the Oebate in the Commons, on Monday evening, a most lugubrious picture was drawn of r the state of the country. All parties agreed that t he agricultural labourer is reduced to the lowest Possible stage of poverty not to be actually a Pauper, that the manufacturing labourers are li ttle or no better, that thousands of them are in a state of semi -starvation, that distress is every where ve tY great, that crimes are numerous, and that 11(le iety is thr ea t ene d w i th still more serious evil s. do Without indul g i ng i n t h e least exaggera -0) the state of society, as indicated in the Iv, as "le -spre a d o f Ch a r t i sm, in the hostility which h °. been engen d ered between different classes ;Indla th • e attacks now made on t h e ruling powers, in the general discontent and poverty, may .oe pronounced to be very alarming. Thi In Parli ament and _out of Parliament e Tor t es, , bid he eommunity remember th a t suc h was its condi tl°ll. when delivered into their hands, and the Whi gs retort that the Tories are to blame, for they have in reality possessed the authority of Parliament, and would not allow those measures tO . b e Passed which would have remedied the leis disasters, and relieved the distresses of ftlibe People. Between them we do not at this oment pretend to judge ; we only insist on the t act . that the country is:according to their united I %'e prop ose in a most deplorable condition, and of great ' . . propose to direct public attention to a con deration titer importance that' the squat:- bles of politicians. ~ It is now twenty-six years since England, and almost all Europ e , h a .- • profound peace. le enio ed the blessin6s of burin tha t Y time no part Las been exposed to of it angy oiczu io gre at natural disaster; neither hurricanes, v devestated the earth, nor floods, have and dis'l'leartened industry • by depriving it of its reward. During that time, too, the different Governments of Europe, no longer harrassed by strife amongst themselves, have bent all their energies to promote the wel fare of the community. In most States, where representative bodies did not before exist, they have been established, the great passion of the day appearing to be to promote the public wel fare by legislation. We have had here in Eng land Parliamentary Reform, Municipal Reform, and a variety of other reforms, calculated to in crease the happiness of the people. We have had very extensive reforms in the law, and in prison discipline; we have had also tithes set tled, and the Poor-law altered ; education has been promoted, and civil government reformed; in short, the Legislature has for twenty-six years beStowed almost undivided attention on promoting the welfare of the" people, and the result is the present condition of society.. Such a connection between the great exer tions of the Legislature, and the inefficiency-. of the results, is calculated to excite a doubt whether legislation has answered its end. Most diligently have our senators toiled, and our news papers written, in favour of new , laws, and the result is the present condition of England. The labour has been in vain, and in vain through ig norance. It is, for example, quite plain that the filets we yesterday stated in relation to paper money—namely, that banking facilities supply the place of a barik-note circulation, and that the latter is slowly but surely becoming of compara tively little importance, have been unknown to our lawmakers, or they would never, with a view to keep credit in check, have promoted the establishment of banks, and sought to regulate and control the issue of paper promises to pay. The Legislature has, in fact, defeated its own object. This is only the example, but from that we deduce the rule. Thus it has been ignorance in the Legislature, which has rendered its labours for twenty-five years nearly or completely abor tive, and which has made it the source rather of mischief than of benefit to the community. It must at the same time be concluded, that old laws are better than modern legislation, and that PEEL'S caution is better than Lod jour; RUSSEL'S zeal. Except the Corn-law, which, in thorough ignorance of the progress of society, was first passed in 1815, and renewed and and altered in 1828, we know of no modern law which has much tended to increase the misery of the people. Reform Acts and remission of taxa tion have had no such tendency. The old laws, laying restriction on trade and heavy burdens on the people, are the causes of distress, and we must have legislation to abolish those old laws if the country is - to be restored to prosperity. Legislation to abolish old laws we must have, but beyond that, till legislators are much more sure of their ground than at present, they ought to proceed with the utmost care and caution. But, without entering into details, either as to the causes or remedies of the national distress, it is clear, from the present condition of the country, that since the peace legislation has been signally inefficient, and the inefficiency must have been caused by the ignorance or the malignancy of the Legislature, such a reflec tion should make the Members of both Houses cautious of their sayings and doings. One of the subjects debated of late in Parlia ment, which has probably failed to interest the people from a want of acquaintance with it, is that of having a naval officer in the Board of Ordnance. The reason of this is, that the Ord nance supplies arms to the navy as well as the army, and only a naval man can judge whether the arms supplied to the navy be well or ill adapted to the purpose. In one of the brief dis euslons which have taken place on the subject the pecunhvity of gun-carriages on board ship was adverted to, and what can mere artillerymen know of the sort of gun-carriage required for different vessels ? Nothing. Again, it has long been a subject of com plaint that the cutlasses supplied to our seamen were no better than iron-hoops with a handle. This is quite true, and it has been a standing reproach to the Ordnance Department for nearly half a century. Similar remarks apply to the muskets supplied to the seamen, who are expected to defend their lives and gain honour for their country with instruments that would be a disgrace to the rude arts of Syria or Arabia. In fact, as Sir CHARLES NAPIER ob served, the English sailor is worse supplied with arms than the sailor on board MEHEMET Am's ships, and it may reasonably be expected, were a naval officer connected with the Board of Ord nance, that he would be able to remedy these glaring evils. To secure the appointment of one —which we regard as indispensable, and not as some journals have ignorantly or malevolently misrepresented the matter, to place a naval officer at the head of the Board—was the object of Sir Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S recommendation. Every naval officer in Parnament concurred in the re commendation, and the Tories will probably ere long regret that they have not conciliated the navy, and promoted the good of the service by adopting it. _....- In a discourse of Dr. CIANNING'S, delivered in January last in the city of Boston, in the United States, we find some remarks on the ob ligation of a city to care for, and watch over, the health of its members, which we would gladly see adopted by the wealthy classes in the cities and large towns of the United Kingdom. No thing can be truer than that a very large amount of the misery and crime which disgraces such cities as London, Dublin, and Edinburgh, would disappear were the wealthy and influential inha bitants seriously to undertake the improvement of the moral and physical condition of their neg lected, starving, erring brethren. But unhap pily a residence in cities, instead of bringing all classes into collision, has generally the effect of entirely separating them. In London, for ex ample, the rich and poor never meet but in the theatre, and even there the noise from the shil ling gallery is all that reaches the dress boxes. The distance of a single street will frequ:mtly carry a person from the excess of refinement to a state of barbarism, of which it is impossible to form an adequate conception. The most brutal ignorance, the most deplorable indigence, the most loathsome squalor and disease, the most reckless, low, and depraved ruffianism, is fre quently separated only by a few hundred yards from the gay abodes of accomplished elegance, and the satiety of super-abundant wealth ; and yet the one knows nothing and cares nothing f o r the other. " There are travellers from Lon don," says Dr. CHANNING, " who come to visit our Indians, but who leave at home a community as essentially barbarous as that which they seek, T , perhaps, have s p ent all their lives in the midst Nho of it, giving it no thought. To these tra vellers a hovel in one of the suburbs which they have left would be as strange a place as the wig wam of our own forests. They know as little what thousands of their own city suffer, to what extremities thousands y w a know r h e o du rfn c toi e ri dee „Inubsyoedf:ershlaoetfs. saolrinftess t o l f i . o s u a s v a a t g id e s tr li i v b e e , s. muchwould w were re theyio e r to fe e p l e i n n g e wouldbtieleaywlaelairenneadnidn thhoelmv Id a fewtr at e s t t e h p e s d fr e o n m s t o h f e a o n w t, o a d n o d o r,wtohea, andthan te y c r wo e u , gain fe from ‘rw who oa exploringtteol attempt tth e t h e i n exploration pl e o s ra v i t v i o o t o i d 0 .: But h o s f o t o h t e s of the destitute, not one in ten is actuated by poor, bythe only motives that could endear them to and obtain from them their confidence. They are for th e mos t p art t h e f ema l e self p apostles of some Tract Society, who see nothing but sin in rags, and who insult the sufferings, and chafe the temper, of starving wretches, by recommending to them the perusal of lying legends, concocted by some Evangelical Jesuit in petticoats. For their many miseries they are to seek consolation in the fabricated record of the spiritual birth of " Sinful Sally," or " Dicky Brown, the sweep's, Conversion," from the sin of two-pennyworth-of-gin potations before break fast. No wonder that the poor regard the in trusion of such Pharisees into their miserable dwellings as an insult to their poverty, and that 4 i eg *b,A)P ."." _..., •-• }, ‹.- 4.. ....-- ...; l k oc r -45 %3 - _l4r'---?.--2-'' , a ' 4111 ~ L l. , . -,-- , ; ~„'' ad .. 1 .. : , , • 0 5., a0 % ~~~ 1~ ~:d1L1'~s THE SUN, LONDON', PPErmsDAv, SEPTEIVIDER 30, they receive the proffered tracts with an inward determination not to read a line of them. As for the authorised ministers of the Gospel in London, they certainly cannot be accused of insulting the wretched by any fanatical sym pathy for the sins or sufferings of the soul or body. They are to be met with in the large squares, the parks, and the fashionable pro. menades, but never in the lanes, the alleys, and the courts, where want seeks a last asylum, and where squalid vice shuns the noon-day con course of the affluent and the respectable. Po pulous abodes of wretchedness and crime, and suffering and death, could be pointed out in London, in which the footfal of the minister of the Gospel was never heard within the memory of the present occupants. A salvationable soul in London must reside in a fine house in a respectable street, with a good larder and a full cellar upon the premises. Th e smell of good cheer is requisite to guide the priest even to the bed-side of the dying. Mark with what different eyes the eloquent and bene volent CHANNINa looks upon the true greatness of a great city : It is a plain truth, and yet hoW little understood, that the greatest thing in a city is Man himself. He is its end. We admire its palaces ; but the mechanic who builds them is greater than palaces. Human nature in its lowest form, in the most abject child of want, is of more worth than all outward improvements. You talk of the prosperity of your city. I know but one true prosperity. Does the human soul grow and prosper here ? Do not point me to your thronged streets. I ask, who throng them ? Is it a low-mindeJ; self-seek ing, gold-worshipping, man-despising crowd, which I see rushing through them ? Do I meet in them, under the female form, the gaily-decked prostitute, or the idle, wasteful, aimless, profitless woman of fashion ? Do I meet the young man, showing off his pretty per son as the perfection of nature's works, wasting his golden hours in dissipation and sloth, and bearing in his countenance and gaze the marks of a profligate. Do I meet a grasping multitude, seeking to thrive by concealments and frauds ? An anxious multitude, driven by fear of want to doubtful means of gain ? An unfeeling multitude, caring nothing for others, if they themselves prosper or enjoy ? In the neighbourhood of your comfortable or splendid dwellings, are there abodes of squalid misery, of reckless 'crime, of bestial intemperence, of half-famished child hood, of profaneness, of dissoluteness, of temptation for thoughtless youth ? And are these multiplying with your prosperity, and outstripping and neutralising the influence of truth and virtue ? Then your prosperity is a vain show. Its true use is to make a better people. The glory and happiness of a city consist not in the number, but the character of its population. Of all the fine arts in a city, the grandest is the art of forming no ble specimens of humanity. The costliest productions of our manufactures are cheap, compared with a wise and good humane being. A city which should practi cally adopt the principle, that man is worth more than wealth or show, would gain an impulse that would place it at the head of cities. A city in which men should be trained worthy of the name, would become the metropo lis of the earth. It. is by corporate rather than by individual exertions that the health, and morals, and com forts of the poor of our great cities can ever be extensively improved. The facilities of cheap locomotion has destroyed the necessity for the old crowding of cities. An improved police and superior lighting, renders courts, and alleys, and narrow lanes so many obstacles to cleanliness, ventilation, and traffic. The squares and courts of the 17th century were protections against rob bers by clustering people together. Now, in building squares, it is not robbers, but abundance of room, plenty of breathing space, that the architect is bound to care for, if he have in view the comfort and convenience of the future residents therein. Again, instead of sectarian dogmas and pious fictions, the visitors of the poor must consider in what way they can be usefully employed, and properly self-instruct- ed. instead of driving silly women out of their senses with ridiculous legends about the death bed conversions of imaginary men and women, those who interest themselves in their welfare must teach them useful lessons in household economy ; convince them of their errors by ex ample rather than by precept; and, by represent ing in their own lives the humility, and self-denial, and charity of sincere Christians, gradually win the least considerate to an admiration of the spirit and an observance of the precepts of the Gospel. As it is quite settled that no alteration is to be made in chi Poor law, it seeing ill-timed to dis cuss the subject in the press. That great desti tution prevails is unhappily certain; but no per son dreams of charging that on the Poor-law. If relief have not been adequate to the 'wants of the people we are not sure that, s under the old, system, when they were more Completely at the mercy of their masters than at present, that it would not have been less. We are no advocates, however, particularly in the present state of so ciety, for a harsh administration of the law; but we should much prefer a system of legislation of which the object should be to restore to industry independence and comfort, instead of providing for the wants of unoccupied pauperism. We have read many discussions in Parliament, and, except as that of Tuesday evening might tend to rouse in the Members feelingi of humanity, and make them in general ashamed of oppres sion, seldom have we read one of less practical importance. For one thing it was remarkable, which the upper classes may see with regret, and the lower with something like malignant satisfac tion. Mr. FERRAND and others accuse] the mill owners of oppressing the people, while gentlemen of a different party retorted on the landlords. The people will conclude that they have now in their hands a certificate from each that the others are oppressors. Surely those gentlemen who provoke such exhibitions in Parliament can never have heard of the contest between labour and capital, and of the fierce hatred which is nourished against the aristocracy, or they would have been careful not to have put such powerful arms into the hands of those they have made their enemies. If discussion on the Poor-laws can only give birth to such criminations and re criminations, the sooner, for the upper classes., they are wholly suppressed the better. The Paris Journals of Monday contain but little political news of any interest. Their in dignation against the Government, which they regard as bent upon the destruction of the free dom of the Press, engages their attention to the exclusion of nearly every other topic. The De bats and the Presse alone support the policy of the Cabinet, but yet with reservations which in dicate that they would rather certain stretches of power were not had recourse to by the Go vernment. The Presse repeats its former account of the decline of British influence in the East. In confirmation of its statements it quotes the fol lowing extract from a letter from Alexandria of the 7th inst. quoted by the Commerce :-- " You must not fancy that British influence is so powerful here as is imagined in Europe. The Pacha is fearful of the English ; he therefore does not act openly, but he loses no opportunity of using underhand means of showing hi s avers i on to them. In Syria they are not in an enviable situation. A red coat cannot show itself in the country without an escort of a hundred men. If the English penetrate into the mountain districts, they must lake off their uniforms, and declare themselves Catho lics. They lately attempted to take away from the Druses the arms they had themselves given to these mountaineers for the purpose of insurrection, but they did not succeed. " Mehemet Ali is deluding both Russia and England, because he first of all wishes to make .himself secure ; but he acknowledges that, in spite of her late conduct, Prance alone possesses his sympathies, and those of the people of Egypt and Syria. We shall not contest the statements of the French Journals upon this question. That ME HEMET Au should profess to fear the only Power that left him at the mercy of his enemies, when he trusted to her for support, is something snore than improbable. But if by such braggart, unfounded boasting as this, the self-love of the French people is at all gratified, we shall not be at the trouble of disquieting them. The following mysterious statement appears in the Temps. We mu s t say t h at we attach not the least importance to it. It appears to us a fiction, but if true the concealed persons were very likely thieves. In France treason assails Royalty at noon-day encircled by the national chivalry :_- "A few nights ago three persons got secretly into the little park of St. Cloud, and were proceeding by st6alth towards the palace, when they were seen by a sentinel, who cried out " Qui vive," to which they replied "Ronde de surveillance." The sentinel having desired them to advance, they did so, but no sooner were they close to him . than one of them attempted to take his musket from him, another writtii him on the side, and the third seized him by the thrkt, as if for the purpose of strangling him. In the strangle ofthe sentinel to extricate himself, the inudtet went , off, and his assailants, alarmed lest the report should l a i n; escape. Some t ua b t was at first enterta i ned as to the. truth of the stca-y told by the sentinel, but drops of assistance to the spot, made th e ir blood were f aunc , on his Cross-'belts, although he was not wounded, from vhich it is inferred that one of the assail ants had received a wound in the struggle, and his sides were found to beseverelv bruised by the blows which he had received. Fk stated that he could only distinguish the person of me of the assailants, who, he said, was respectably dres.qd." The folio win; extracts include all the miscel laneous news ia the French papers : A letter front Copenhagen, in the I.lambargh Gazette, states that two d?legates from the Anabaptists of Eng land have recen t:.}' presented a petition to the King of Denmark, Who had been' arrested in his doniinitnA. The solieithg. the libe rat i on o f t wo o f t h e i r.com - King replied that they should be immediately set at liberty, if they could give a formal promise to abstain from all acts affecting public worship, until it should be legally decided wi.hin what limits they might enjoy the liberty of exercising their religion. The imprisoned parties replied that their consciences would not allow them to submit to ,such a stipulation ; and so they re main in confinement.. • • Extract of a letter from Beyrout, 29th ult., in the Semaphore of Marsti:le3:—" Some Protestant Ministers, having obtained a few proselytes, had proposed to build a church at Chawnifat, a village to the north-east of Beyrout, but the tnglish :Consul has diverted thorn from their purpose, as -.being likely to call down the anathemas of the Patriarch, not only on the Protestants, but on the English in general. There has just be en de c i ded a su i t between the nephew of • the _Emir Be c hi r , now at M alta and the three sons of the Emir You ssu f , o f w hi ch the following is the foundation. When the old Etnir Bechir, 35 years ago, treacherously seized the three unhappy brothers, put out their eyes, and cut out their tongues, he divided their domains between his own three sons and his ne phew. Since the publication of the hatti-scheriff, and the loss of power of the old Emir, the three victims of his barbarity have reclaimed their property. The ne phew refused to restore his share of the spoil, on the ground that the claimants were precluded of their right by lapse of time, but out. Cadi has given proof of his justice by decreeing an entire r est i tut i on to t h e r i ghtful owners. The following railroad accident is related by the Me morial Bordela is to have taken place on Tuesday last':— " The branch leading front time Bordeaux and Teste road to St. Medard had not been closed, through neligence, and the fivo o'clock train consequently deviated into it, and came in contact with four waggons, two of which were laden 'vial earth. The shock wits so violent, that these last two were broken into frag ments, and the others thrown upwards of 300 yards along the rails. Through a wonderful piece of good fortune, not a single passenger was hurt, 'and the men on the engine escaped as by a miracle. Signals being made, another locomotive was bro ug h t an d d rew t h e train back into the right line, and then on as far as Gazinet. however, the axletree of the tender broke, and the whole of the passengers were obliged to pass the night on the road, and did not reach Teste till five o'clock the next morning. The same fate befel those who tee: their departure from 'reste for Bordeaux at the saute hour, and who did not arrive at their desti nation till seven in thenorning." Three days ago, the body of a gardener, named Theu nis, was found on the railway near A ntwerp , w i t h t h e head actually severed from it. An Antwerp journal states that there is every reason to believe that the man had placed himself across the rails in order that he might thus put an end to' his existence. This is the second instance of such a suicide. On the night of the 28th ult., during the voyage of the Tanerede French steamer.from Constantinople to Smyrna, a seamen, who was entrusted in the Sea of Marmora with two bundles of despatches for the shore, fell into the sea as he was getting into the boat, and every attempt to save him was for a long time fruitless. At length, however, when all hope was nearly at an end, they heard a voice exclaim "Fear nothing, I am safe," and sending a boat to the spot from which the voice pro ceeded, the poor fellow was found with his arms out of water grasping the despatches, of which notwithstand ing his danger he had kept fast hold. The Memorial de Rouen gives the following from Bar neville, in the Eure:—" A young female, apparently at her ease as to fortune, and who had evidently been t ecus towed to superior society, some time ago fixed her resi dence at Barneville, where she continued to live in a state of seclusion, having for her companion only a female ser vant, who did not, however, sleep in the house. Re cently, this lady, whose name was Mademoiselle V---, lost the key of the 'outer doer of her house, and had an other one made. Shortly afterwards, on returning home in the evening, she heard a noise in her bed room, and having called in the neighbours, and Made a search, a young man. of Barneville, was found concealed in a chest. His answers to the _questions which were put to him left no•doubt that his object was theft, but Mdlle.V— entreated, from considerations for his aged mother, that he might not be prosecuted. He was arrested, however, and when called upon formally to defend himself, he had the infamy to declare that he was a lover of the female, in whose house he had been found, and that she herself had given him the key of the outer door, in order that he might enter. Mdlle. V—, on hearing how she had been calumniated, was so much affixted, that taking ene of the loaded pistols, which she kept by her as a security against housebreak ing, she put its point to her breast and fired. She died a few hours afterwards in great suffering." The following horrible murder was'committed a few days ago at lturtrel, in the Vancluse, by a farm servant, nameeMontjalard, aged 20, on the person of a female servant named Saignon, aged 25, who was in a state of pregnancy by the murderer. In order to conceal the connection between them, and avoid the consequences, the murderer induced his victim during the night to leave the house where they lived and' walk with him. Having arrived near a deep well, he threw her in. The poor girl in falling caught at the branch of a tree which was hanging in the well, as low as the surface of the water, and entreated mercy. The ruffian hows:%*r t crew an enormous stone at her, in hope of fot cirig 1 sr to let go her hold, but as the stone missed her he left his vic tim for a time to go and fetch his gun, and on his return, finding that she was still clinging to the branch, he pre tended to take pity on her, and gave her his hand to raise her out of the well. She had no sooner, however, got out than he struck her v i o l ent l y on t h e ad with the butt end of his gum, and repeated the blows until he had crushed her scull. The murderer returned home tran quilly, but was soon after arrested, when he confessed his crime, and related these horrible details. A disgusting scene was witnessed at Toulouse a few days since. Two women of the lowest class had a quarrel, arid set to fighting in the street ; when one of them, who was pregnant, receiv e d a ki c k f rom th e o th er which caused her death the day following. Extract of a letter from Constantinople, Ist inst.:— " Said Bey is still treated with great consideration by the Government, and it is affirmed that his suit for the hand of the young Sultana Adiieh, who is only eleven years old, has been favourably received. Preparations are making for sonic grand ceremony. Large purchases of silks and furs have been effected for the Sultan's harem. We shall not therefore be surprised if, in a short time, an intimate alliance between the Sultan and Me hemet Ali is formed." The frigate La Forte, of GO guns, which has been twelve years on the stocks at Cherbourg, was launched a few days ago. The Gazette &Auvergne says :—" On Saturday last the soldiers it garrison at Clermont, after rmioving the barricades which they had erected in their defence at the Place d'Espagne, the Poterne, and all the streets leading to the Hotel-de-Ville, returned to their barracks, and the free passage of the streets was again restored. On the same day the Cathedi al was re-opened, and public worship recommenced. Some more arrests have been made at Clermont, and some of the small towna in its neighbourhood: The total number of arrests is 125." - The Correctional Tribunal of Paris was yesterday oc cupied with the trial of eighteen more of the men arrested during the recent disturbances in the Faubourg St. An toine. Acquin, a hair-dresser, was sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment, and a fine of 100 francs. All the rest received judgments of from three months down to five days' confinement, exce,at an Englishman, named Hewett, who excused himself on th e ground that being a foreigner, and not acquainted with the laws and cus toms of the country, he did not know that the rolling of the drum meant that the crowd should disperse, and, upon this plea got off with only twenty-four hours' in careration. • One man only Was acquitted. The Rouen journals give an account of an accident which happened, a few days ago, to the steamboat Union, No. 1. She had left La Bouille, in the evening. with upwards of 400 passengers, many of them return ing from the fair of Bourg Achard, and h a d arr i ve d oft' f)fo covered with smoke and flame, water and Dieppedalle, when the boiler exploded, and all wer e s steam. The alarm and confusion on board was na turally great, but, fortunately, a number o f b oats came off from the shore, and took about 200 in, though with great difficulty and delay, on account of the dark , waited th e ar ness, and most of the people being females. T wo men jumped into the from the cabin, and one woman, i n h er terror, thnnv, herself from the deck,, but th e y were all saved. The steamer being thus lightened, an d t h e flames o f e sgoender, the Union later, and, on coming up, took the disabled v esse l i n tow, the rest, 2 wwhitichhthleefterLea Boothe a n h our w and brought her safe up to Rouen. It appears that no one received any injury beyond some slight contus i ons. " About a hundred workmen," says the Moniteur Pari sien, " left Paris on Wednesday for Havre to embark in the Caroline for Brazil, with the intention of establishing a phalansterian 'colony in the country. A second and more numerous emigration of workmen of this society is, it is added, to take place in a few months." The same journal informs us that the Abbey of Citeaux, with all its dependencies in the department of the Cote-d'Or, has just been purchased by Mr. Young for the purpose of converting it into a phalanstere upon the principles ofFourier. TIIE HAGUE, SEPT. 21.—The First Ch am b er of the States-General, in its sitting to-dab gave its assent to the first project of law for the anticipated conversion of the Deferred into Active Debt ; and second, to that for the redemption of debt for the year 184 1. On the other hand, the First Chamber has respectfully r equeste d hi s Majesty the King to take into further consid erat i on t h at containing instructions for the General Chamber of BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, Fja.. r. 27 . Furst Highest Lowest Last re . Price. French 5 per Cent,. ex. die. 1 P l4 ic Price 4 655 ... 119 „. 114 5 Prieso ... 114 10 • 4N, per Cents ...... lO5 50 ... 105 50 ... 105 50 .. 105 50 4 per Cents 97 50 ... 97 50 ... ir , 50 .. in 50 3 per Cents... 79 •-• 79 ••• 78 10 ' 79 Bank of erance Lattitte hank 1.0001. Share,: 102 A ...1r25 ...1025 '"76 2.5 Belgian Bank I Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 - pert:ems., 1840 104; ... 104; ... 1043 ... 1043 St•anish Active t2% ... 92% Passive 5141 —5% ... 5% .. .... 5% Neapoiit.tn Homan 10.55 ... 103% ... 10334 ... 103% RAILWAY stiAREs. :t 6,, , n-i, ... 725 Versailles, 1,.T. 211,3 25 ... 206 25 ... 205 .. 205 1-1.. B 3OB 15 ... 310 ... SOS 75 ... 310 Rouen ........ ..... ........ Urleani; .. 478 75 ... 478 75 ... 477 50 .„. 477 50 DUTCH FUNDS.—AminuatoAm, SEPT 27. None. Mils. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent .)itto, ditto 5 per cent. ..... "........... lOO% 101 A mart Svndic,43 percent 91% 981 Ditto, ditto, 33 per cent 76% Commercial Company, 414 per cent IS3X 154% Ditto (1635 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97% 98 Exchange on London, One month l2 0734 Two months ..... Hamburgh, One month 35 75 Two months 93 5J Dutch Papers, Sept. 2 0 4. AUSTRIAN FUNDS...-VIESNA, SEPT. IS nve per Coots. Meta:Mites ' .. 106% .0'431r per Cent 5..."...... ..... .......... ............ , .. 1,83 'l . !nee p:r Cents. Bank Shares 11.6.9 ....illtgenteme Zeiturtg. Sept. 23 . , SUMMARY OF NEWS AND b t t eptntott. " Who runs may read." ronx:xaN. The Constilutiound, the Courriir Francais, the Can• coerce, the Siecl2,theGazeyedeFrance, the Quojidienne, the France and the Jou/4mldu Peuple of Monday condemn the circulars of the Minister of Justice in terms as energetic as those employed in their respective columns of Sunday. They contend that the Government aims it nothing less than the destruction of the freedom of the press, and the virtual abolition of the right of Parliamentary petition. The war between the Government and the press is now of the most deadly nature. Thay may be said ►with one accord to hurl defiance at the Crown and Cabinet. The Memorial Bordelais has the following article rela tive to the reported marriage between the.young Queen of Spain and the second son of the Infante Don Francisco de Paula, alluded to in The Sun of yesterday :—" We are informed that the Whig Cabinet, before it retired, made overtures in the name of her Britannic Majesty in support of a proposed alliance between the Duke of Cadiz, son of Don Francisco de Paula, and Queen Isa bella 11. This Prince was born in 1822. England, in taking the lead on this question, wished no 'doubt to defeat the projects fur a union with the eldest son of Don Carlos, or a Prince of the. House of Orleans, and to Batter the pride of the Spaniards by giving them a king of their own countrymen, ov e r whom at the same time England would re tain political influence."—This paragraph is caused by the statement of M. Hoyos having been sent from Ma drid on a mission to the Infante. With regard to this mission, a Madrid letter of the 18th instant says:—" It appears certain that the object of M. Hoyos' journey to Bordeaux is to make a verbal communication to Don Francisco de Paula of the resolution adopted by our Government ►with regard to him, and to make arrange ments with his Royal Highness for his return to Spain." Another letter of the 19th assigns a matrimonial object, such as is indicated by our Contemporary, to this mission. The Marseilles journals state, that on the 22d instant that town was completely inundated by a deluge of rain. A horse and cart were carried down one of the streets. The lightning nearly destroyed the Church of the Pet& tentf% • The Moniteur gives the following account of the arrival of the King of the French at the Palace of Compeigne. It will be seen that nothing is left untried to make the King appear a favourite with the army :—" On the morning of the King's arrival, when his Majesty's ap proach was announced, all the troops of the second divi sion, or the Orleans Camp, appeared on the road with - out arms, but with torches in their hands,'the druins beating a salute, the bands playing; and the men shouting Vice le Roi t This reception greatly affected his Majesty. The Dukes d'Aumale and de Mont• pensier, the Russian Ambassador, the Neapolitan Am bas:zador, with the Duchess de Serra Capriola and their daughter, the Netherlands Minister, his Excellency Ge neral Cass, with Mrs. and Miss Cass, Mr. Bulwer, Bri tish Charge d'Affaires, Lord and Lady Mahon, Marshal Molitor, the Minister of the Marine, the Duke and Duchess Decazes, and General Pajol, arrived at the Pa lace in the course of Saturday. The King gave a grand dinner to 100 guests. At eight in the evening the Royal party adjourned to the theatre of the palace, to witness the representation given by the company of the Opera Comique." Thc; i'resse has a second article, endeavouring to show that the English no longer possess any influence in Turkey, Syria, and Egypt. The Courrier Francais, or the _National, or both, will pick up the gauntlet thrown down by the Presse. For our own part we are content with the state of things in the East, so far as regards British influence, if they be only left in the condition Lord Aberdeen found them on taking possession of the Foreign office. PARX.3.A.IVIENTART. The Lords did not meet yesterday. in the Commons a number of petitions were presented against the Corn-laws, and complaining of great distress. Mr. Wakley again referred to Mi. Warner's inveni tion, without obtaining any further inform a ti on th rL that the present Boa r d - of Ordnance knew nothing of it. Colonel Fox, as if ashamed for the Ordnance, ex plained that the old muskets with which the navy had been supplied were now partially replaced by better Weapons._ Several -Bills were forwarded a stage. Mr. Wakley again sought a further explanation a so:ne of Mr. Ward's observations, but did not obtain it. The House adjourned soon after Five o'Clock. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Herald praises in exaggerated terms what, it is pleased to call, " the forbearance and good sense" of the landed interest, observing :—" It is highly to the honour of the landed interest that, after the un measured and coarse imputations which their support of the Corn-laws has drawn down upon them at public meetings in manufacturing towns, their own forbearance, and good sense, and a just appreciation of the danger of loosely accusing of unworthy motives an i n t eres t of such immense and extensive influence as the manufacturing masters and mill-owners—have mani fested themselves in a remarkable degree of for bearance and even of good feeling. Every lover of his country will pray for the continuance of such friendly relations' between two such pillars of the State.',"— It is easy to talk of the " forbearance and good sense" of the land-holders, when they have everything their own way; and as for "friendly relations," of course they will always be ready enough to cultivate such " relations" with the manufacturing interest, when, like Irish reci procity, the advantage is all on their own side. But wait till the land-holders are imperatively called on to relax the present despotic Corn-law system, and then see how far their "forbearance" towards the manufacturing interest will extend ! The Times, after quoting some remarks on the present dissatisfied and distressed state of the country from a Liberal Journal of yesterday, goes on to say :—" Let it be observed, that this is a description, in a Whig Journal, of England as left by the Whigs, after their having had the management of its affairs fur a period of ten years. This is the state to which they have re duced her ! They have brought the machine of Go vernment to a standstill, and now hand the country over to their successors, by their own showing, with a bankrupt Exchequer and a population on the brink of insurrection ! 'Let it ever be borne in mind that this is a Whig's own confession of the lamentable predica- ment in which the nation had been involved by the blundering and mismanagement of his own party."— Has our Contemporary no recollection of the state to which the Tories had reduced the country when they left office in 1830? Has he forgotten the blazing hay ricks and farin-yards; the all but general insurrection of the peasantry in the agricultural districts; and the alarm so generally prevalent in the metropolis, as well as the provinces, that the King was actually recommended not to expose himself to th perils of a carriage-drive into the city of London ? Though the country be certainly just now in a state of great distress, yet that distress is nothing to what it was when the Tories quitted the helm. There is no Swing abroad now to carry dismay to the hearts of the Barings; though as this monster was ex clusively of Tory creation, it is not improbable that, under their fostering patronage, he may -agaii. appear, like the Devil, in flame and smoke. _ _ The Morning Advertiser contains an article on the subject of the progress of Puseyism, which, if we may rely on the following, passage, would seem to be endea vouring to insinuate itself into Scotland :-:—" As the first step towards their contemplated incursion into Scotland, tine Puseyites are now busily engaged in raising funds for the erection and endowment of an episcopal university in Perth. The Perthshire Advertiser, we observe, hints a doubt as to the accuracy of the fact. There is no ground for the doubt. With regard to the success of the scheme in Scotland, that is another matter. Scotland is not the soil for Puseyism. The intended Perth university may breed as many clerical Puseyites as it please ; but the projectors of the scheme reckon without their host when they calculate on being able to find a resting-place for its foul spawn on the other side of the Tweed. Episcopacy of any kind will never flourish in Scotland ; the genius of the Gospel and the memory of the . Covenanters equally forbid it." _ _ _ The following is from an article in the Chronicle, on the subject of th e T or y s y s t e m of tactics;,—" The late Ministry conceded to the suffering people, suffering by no failure of theirs, a bold (but to themselves suicidal) effort at relief. The present Ministry declares no effort to be necessary, and postpones any inquiry ab ou t th e matter, that Members may go a-shooting. This is the plain difference between the two Governments. Accord.. ing to the Tories we ought to be contented, thankful, and hopeful. Our troubles will all blow over. We are rich enough to plunge a few millions deeper into debt. The loaf is 10d. here, while it is. only 51d. in Paris ; but there is cash in the savings' banks, and why should we dream of mitigating the bread-tax till the deposits are drawn out ? No occasion for hurry. Honourable gentlemen have just got into the receipt of official salaries, after not having touched public cash for ten long years ; and if we ask how they intend to earn it, there is surely some consolation in being told that till . next year they will think f ur the money. Of what is really their own condition, the people themselves aro the best judges. Those who neither feel, see, hear, nor read of any considerable public distress, or reason to apprehend it, will of course applaud Sir Robert Peel for his present system of post ponement. Though even they may think lie would have been an honester man had his conversion to procrastina tion been somewhat earlier. For those who think dif ferently the course is plain. They see a progressive evil at work in commercial restrictions, the ravages of which cann o t t oo soon be arrested." The Post says Such. leadership as the Opposition *al boast of in the House of Commons, seems to be left in the hands of Lord Palmerston. We do not think he shows much fitness for the post. He is well enough for a light skirmisher, but, for many reasons, incompe tent to the weightier matters of debate. The men tion of one of these reasons will be sufficient. No one feels that Lord Palmerston is in earnest. Lord John has, or had, his little tricks, which were any thing but creditable to a man in his • position ; but still there was in general an impression that he felt the im portance of this or that course of policy,.and was really concerned beyond the mere strife of • the hour in what he contended for or opposed. This gave a weight to what he said, which is wholly wanting when Lord Palmerston speaks. A few may smile at the smart things of the ex- Foreign Secretary (though most of them are but old spangles . brushed up to look almost as good ac new); but no 0110 confides—no one attaches importance to the views he throws out." The Cambridge Advertiser gives the following cha racter of the Tory Premier :—" The whole public life of Sir Robert Peel demonstrates that his country is nothing to him. He is not ambitious to serve her, but to gratify his own vanity. Egotism is the ruling prin ciple of his mind. He has no object in view to ennoble the petty and paltry means by which he tries to im pose upon the world. Through all his doubling and turnings, self, predominating self, peeps out. All his stratagems have but one end, to gain applause ; be would sacrifice the most patriotic measure ever proposed to obtain a few cheers from an audience." From thC following passage, it seems that the DuUin Pilot has no hope of redress from a Tory Government:— " Peel's policy is still postponement—postponement of relief to England—postponement of persecution to Ire land—and the English will be lucky if they are as sure of relief as Ireland is of persecution." The Tyne Mercury observes of the present Minis try :—" Our opinion is, that they will not agree in any considerable haste—that even five months' delay will not produce any agreement—that Sir Robert's time for con sideration, and for maturing his plans, actually means time to mix oil and vinegar, to make ropeS of sand, to cause carriages to run smoothly and circularly upon squaie wheels, to make misers liberal after a life of hoarding,. to make rivers flow up hill, to compound es sence of sunshine, and to perfect the patent of forming timber out of sawdust. Sir Robert's consideration, and the maturing of his plans, consist in arranging the dis cordant elements by which he is surrounded, but when will that be effected ? Not as long as those elements are together." • M ONEY - TRAXIM-COMMERCE At a Special General Meeting of the British Iron Com. pany, held on Tuesday at the London Tavern, it appeared that the uninterrupted action of the works would un doubtedly produce success, and an ultimate profit of 38,0001. The accounts were ordered to be ready, and a meeting to be held to audit them on or before the 20th of November. The question respecting the dissolution of the Company will also come under discussion at the next meeting. AGRICITIATUMILL. A. farmer in Huntingdon has in his possession a bean grown this season, the height of which is about seven feet. It hay. four stems, on which are 155 pods, the number of beans in which is estimated at about 400. NAVAL AND MILITARY. Admiral Sir Philip H. Ihu•ham, the only surviving officer who was saved at the sinkinc , of the Royal George at Spithead, in 1782, has given 1001. towards the pro posed monument to be erected at Ryde, in memory of the crew who perished. LAW AND POLICE. A number of American sailors were taken before the sitting Magistrate at Thames -street police-office, on Tues day, charged with outrageous assaults upon a woman and a British sailor. They were all remanded ex cept one, who was discharged. At Guildhall, a man of the name of M'Donnell, who keeps a book and print shop in Long-lane, was com mitted by Alderman Humphery, to the House of Cor rection, fir one month, for exposing in his shop-window five indecent pamphlets. The information was laid by the Society for the Suppression of Vice under the Va grant Act, passed in the first year of the present reign. At the Brentford Petty Sessions on Tuesday William Fuller, a tailor, about fifty years of age, having a wooden leg, was committed to Newgate for having stolen and stabbed a horse belonging to Mr. Rocklin; of Ealing. Numerous horses and cattle have recently been stolen from the neighbourhood of Ilanwell, and stabbed and afterwards sold to the slaughterers. XIi.ECTIONEEILING. The Right lion. henry Corry was re-elected on ,Tuesday week for the county Tyrone. COURT—rIISRIONABLE. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford returned to Wo burn Abbey on Friday last. The Marquis of Lansdowne left town on Tuesday for Bowood. The Earl of Radnor arrived in Grosvenor-street on Sat urday. The Marquis of Waterford arrived in Waterford from Bristol on Saturday. THEATRICAL. The English Opera House will open with promenade concerts, a la Musard, this evening. MISCELLANEOUS. Yesterday, the festival of St. Michael and all the Holy Angels, commonly called Michaelmas Day, has long been dedicated to the election of the. governors of towns and-cities, the civil guardians of the peace of men, be cause at the feast of angels, according to the old opinion of tutelary spirits, they are thought to have the particu tar charge of certain bodies of men, or districts of coun try. Yesterday the Lord Mayor of London was elected for the year ensuing. A numerous and respectable party (amounting, as was said, to 180 persons) left Nine Elms station in seven car riages on Monday morning at seven, reached Southamp ton at nine (seventy-seven miles from London), embarked on board the Grand Turk stea►ner, and having per- A)rmed the circumnavigation of the Isle of Wright, a circuit of seventy-six miles, in seven hours and a half, returned to Southampton, stopped at Winchester for some time to visit its antiquities, and arrivecein London about ten in the evening, having thus performed a jour ney of 230 miles in about fifteen hours. The report of the death of M. Laporte is confirmed. He died of apoplexy at Corbeil, near Paris, on Saturday morning at five minutes to one. The band of Drury-lane took a blonefit last evening. They have been great sufferers by the deficiency of sa lary, and we trust their appeal to the public will not be without effect. --- COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY. —The unpropitious state of the weather has prevented her Majesty taking her usual drive in the Park to-day. his Excellency the Count St. Aulaire, M. de Monte zuma, the Earl of Lincoln, and the Earl of Aberdeen left the Castle to-day. Mr. George Edward Anson will have the honour of dining with her Majesty this evening. C-- .;onseiller de Montezuma, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Majesty the Em peror of Brazil, returned to town yesterday from Wind sor Castle, after having been honoured by an audience of the Queen, to take leave, at which the Earl of Aber deen, her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, attended. In the afternoon his Excellency paid visits at the , residences of the Members of the Royal Family, to take leave. Mr. EmerSon Tennent, M.P., Mr. Johnson, M.P., Mr. Grogan, M.P., with a deputation from the vint ners and spirit-dealers of Ireland, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, on the subject of the Irish spirit licenses. A deputation•of Gentlemen connected with the island of Mauritius, consisting of Sir John R. Reid, Bart., M.P., Mr. S. Brownrigg, M.P., Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Pasniore, Mr. Scott, M r . A r b u th no t, and Mr. Blythe, had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yesterday, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Colonel Rushbrooke, Mr. Aglionby, and Mr. Hardy, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Downing -street. The Earl of Glengall had an interview yesterday With Lord Stanley at the Colonial-office. The Earl of Shelburne has arrived at Lansdowne house, from Bowood-park, Wilts. Cuunt St. Aulaire, the French A m b assador, returned to town yesterd a y, f rom a visit to her Majesty at Wind sor Castle. SAD OCCURRENCE.—An agonising circum stance, which has placed in jeopardy the life of a fine boy, took place near Bishop's C ast l e, on Wednesday. The infant son of Mr. G. nhoilei, of that place, had gone into a mea dow in the neighbourhood nut-gathering, when he was sud denly assailed by a sow, which pulled him down, and before he could rescue himself, Lad torn and lacerated his flesh in a fearful manner. The little fellow contrived to raise himself, and tan off, when he was again seized by the brute in attempt ing to scramble over a gate, his clothes torn from his body, and his face and thighs severely lacerated. Fortunately his screams were heard in time for assistance to arrive to save him from I eing eaten piece -meal by the ravenous brute ; but he is so dreadfully injured as to give slight hopes of recovery.—fie reArd Tinies. VAUXHALL GARDENS.—The public have been already informed that this celebrated place of amuse ment has been sold by auction, under an order of the Court of Review, for the benefit of the creditors of the estate of Messrs. Gye and Hughes. An opinion was very generally entertained that the new proprietor, Mr. Foster, would devote at least a portion of the very am , pie site he has acquired a right over to public amuse ment;; upon a mare /Milted scale. It is his intention, however, when the bargain is finally completed, whichrea for must be in December, to lay down the building ground, which for that purpose"l'Nlifolll:d_eeartrivoepl ditional value, should the Commissioners o Con of the tun Improvements be induced to allot any Pn Cf i two new Parliamentary grant towards the formation lines of street from Vauxhall to the of which a very confident expectation is fixtures of the Mr. Foster had the option of takingthe orchestra, the ro .ll'n7etslitsrueinnsteterrt-ariZ: Gardens—such as the pt ro tunda, a s: e t?: the tthaeavtarleu,atthioenfi;r2enb;toii having , iies have directed the whole the assignees of Gye and Ilu!„ lailnlegryd,ectlllieneldtadlioainntesmo: to be sold. Loves TgLEGRAP H. If a gentleman wants the first finger of the l e ft handa wie ' i l f ie h7h a o rs a ng ring ca sdl l ie wears it on the seco n d fin gere r T intends to be m on the third ; and on the f our th if h e n wried. When' a lady is not en gaged, N.e engaged, she wears ahocp_o.r if married, on diamond ono her fitirisirtdfi ; n and finger; if engaged, on the second , on the fourth if she intends to die a maid. The last is seen about once in an ages MORNING SUN MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING The Market for the Public Securities wore rather a more buoyant appearance to-day, and there was a mode rate business doing. Consols got up to 89 and 89k for immediate transfer, and to 89k and 891 for Account. Exchequer Bills were still rather heavy at 12s. to 14s. premium, and in India Bonds there were no bargains. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 981 to 4. India Stock was a t 2 46 k to 247. The Foreign Market did not fluctuate much, the chief business being the settlement of the Half-monthly Ac count. Active Spanish Stock was at 224 to 4 ; Portu guese New at 30k ; the Three per Cents. at 184 ; Rus sian 1124 to and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 514 toe. The few bargains effected in the Share Market were in some instances at a turn in favour of the sellers. Great Western were 11 to 12 ; the New, 34 to 4i ; the South Western 12 ; and the York and North •Midland, New, 10 premiu m . B r i g h ton were 5k to 4: 4 1 ; Blackw a ll 15-4 ; and North Midland, New, 8 discount. Colonial Ban!: Shares were 5+ ; Provincial Bail of Irelaad 16 to 17, and Union Bank of Australia 54 premium. (From The Sun of last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 28.—The Lusi ness dune in the Cotton Market to-day is to a moderate extent, the sales amounting to 3,000 bales, all of which are taken by the trade. LIVERPOOL SIIARE MARKET, SEPT. 28.—The only business doing in the Share Market to-day has been in Grand Junctions; the Half Shares have been been done at 98+. and the Quarter, 261. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 28.—We have no material alteration in the Share Market. The following are our transactions :--London and Birmin , , ham, 1551 ; Do., New Thirds, 221 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 21:1 21i ; Manchester and Leeds, New Quarters, 14s. prem. ; Stockport Bank, 24. Consols opened at 88i 89 for Money,,and 89k f for the Account. Exchequer Bills, 12 14 prem. Brazilian Banks have declined full three per cent:, in cons( quence of the advertisement not appearing for the payment of the dividends on the 17th October. The Stock is now quoted at 63 5 • Spanish Active Stock, 22+1 ; Portuguese Five per dents., 301; Ditto, Three per Cents., 181. By the official returns published by the Customs, the export of the precious metals to foreign and colonial parts icr the week ending Thursday last was as uni:ler --- - _ Ounces. Silver coin to Hamburgh Silver coin to Rotterdam 15,000 Silver coin to Mauritius Silver bars to 'lambi'''.-11 The English Funds continue steady, with but little business doing. In tl • Foreign Market there is also but little doing, The Share Market presents no alteration, and there is scarcely a bargain doing. Markets have a more healthy appearance, and money easier. The accounts from the manufacturing districts are ex ceedingly unfavourable with respect to the condi tion of the industrial population, which is the more to be regretted as the foreign exchanges begin to look bet ter, and sonic revival of business is thought to have taken place here. The only inference to be drawn from it seems to be, that the system is radically bad, and that no temporary derangement causes the existing distress.: CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bulk Stock — India Stock ...... ...... —.247 3 per Cent Red ... Ditto Bonds 3 per C'eut Cons B9 Ditto Old Annuities ... -- 3i per Cent lied.. New 34 per Cent 9Bi Ex. Bills, I,hoo/....2id 14 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/... Long Annuities to expi re Ditto Small. . Jar.. 1860 ... 12 11-16 Bank Stock for 0pg.... Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Acct.... Jan 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per c en t ;Ditto, New Ditto 3oi Brazilian 80nd5.... — Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent [ Russian, 5 per cent ll2l Chilian, 6 per cent...... ,Ditto, Nletallic ColomLian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 9.2i Ditto, 1 824. .. Ditto, Deferred ... llk Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent.ll4f. 50c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 percent —f. -- c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1525, Dutch, 21 per cent. ... 51i Peruvian, 1525, 6 per ct. 'Ditto, 5 per cent 10:2 SHARES Great Western Railway (65 paid) ..... •••••• 77 Ditto New Shares (50 p a id s4i London and Brighton (50 paid)... 45 London and 131aekwall Railway (25 paid) Sc London and South Western North Midland R a il way (1 00 aid) a Ditto New Shares (40 paid) ........... 32 York and North Midl an d R a il way (st) raid Ditto New Shares (15 paid) BLAKESLEY THE MURP,EREII.. Yest , id 9, morning a rep or t was c i rel d ated throughcut thelei g hbourhood of Eastcheap, that Yiakesley the mur derer of Mr. Barden, had expired in Newgate during Tuesday night, but on ingtury at the proper quarter it appeared that the report was least premature, though, from hit altered and evAcioled appearance as well as general health, it is not expected by some in attendance on hint that ha can survive till the day of his trial. As the prisoner with others will have to attend the chapel next Sunday to hear the service, many applications have been made for admission by the curious to see the unfor tunate man, but the civic authorities have resolved to admit only those belonging to the gaol. Mrs. Blakesley is fast recovering from her wounds. The course of the river Cann on the west side of this town, has been diverted by the Eastern Counties Hail way Company, and the old channel bein g rendered dry, work men are engaged in excavatin g tl.erein for the piers for the viaduct to be erected over the river. When completed the liver will resume its original course.—Essen. Herald. Ex CRAORDINARY CASE.—Tuesday night an inquest was held before Mr. Baiter , Coroner, and a J ury, at the resid e n ce o f W m. Clark Boyd, Esq., Upper Homerton, near Ha c k ne y Ch urc h , on t h e b ody of Win. Boyd. aged 13 years. It appeared in evidence that the deceased was the son of a widow lady, who resided with her family in Cie mansion where the inquest was held. On Saturday afternoon, between the hours of three and four o'clock, the deceased visited his brothers and sisters in the nursery, and about an hour afterwards he was discovered in his bed-room harging by the neck to a leather strap, Made fast to one of the window-shut ters. His younger brother, who first saw him,. gave an alarm, and his mother and a female servant im mediately cut him down—he was quite dead. The strap bcionged to the deceased, and he had used it for some time to fasten his school-books, and it was buckled round his neck. His feet were off the ground, and from the, examination of the room, made by the Co roner and Jury, it was apparent that the boy must have raised himself to the level of the handle of the window shutte. , which was considerably above his head, by standing upon the washing-stand. Several witnesses were , xamined as to the boy's state of mind, and ill asks stated that he was very lively and cheerful. He was in the habit of amusing himself and school-fellows by draw ing sketches of persons hanging and drowning, and writ ing upon them " save me. yo-o-u -yo," and several of those sketches were exhibited by a gentleman, one of the Jury, who said they were presented to his son by the deceased. The Jury returned a verdict, " That William Boyd was found dead and suspended by a strap buck),ed round his neck—that his death was caused by hi% fis of apparclitly, and it is the strong impression of air ; minds of the .Jurors that his death was caused by himself acci dentally." • THE POTATOE CROP.--The diswase in this very valuable and important crop, which we, mentioned last week, is quite general in the Soul,h of Lancashire, and in 'consequence of it the price of potatoes is becoming very high both a. Manchester. and Liverpool, It; many of the 'fined looking el ops, two-thirds of the tubers are rotting, and the rest are yery watery and bad. In open and well-drained lands the damage is much less than in heavy soils. We have ascer tained that the disease exists in the neighbourhood of Liver pool, Manchester, Warringt on , an d Ormskirk, and also.in th e. county of Carlow, Ireland. We fear that it will soon prove to be universal. —Liverpool Times. We regret to state that the trade ' n the which for a few weeks was nearly stationary, is 601 n °! for assistance from the relief fund, decline. Last week there were a number of additions, ap plicants„;,,, o f PaisleTt greater number dependent upon it than at any ferme:" . PA er of the depression. From Jelinstone, Kilbarclan: d There are at placer, the accounts are equally unfavourable. : i A pressing present. about 1001. expanded weekly in Paisley. ,; but NW application has been made for Government assistane the assist- R. Peel has transmitted a letter declining to giv e some required.— Glasyow Argus. I am RN() TORY OPINIONS OF DELAY .c . h .--- has been pro asked, "If I approve of the delay, which has 7.. 1 ?" Unit esi • which has state of the nation is to be alwaysconareida dangerous posed by Sir Robert Peel, fur five or tatingly I answer, " No." Delajm'sstances, wiil be ruin ous. before —delay, under our present eirrelutobert Peel's first pro. ous. The inconsistency of Si claiming th e na ti ona l affairs to be in a most ruinous eon, ie immediate expulsion' bitten, and then demanding them, f of and his own cal): to tho.;e who had mismanaged office, before he wou ld propose a remedy ; and now, restoration of the to attempt any when in office, refusit i t i g e • i has received two quart'ers' pay, national health anti. call meet with no deff_mee from as Isis prescribing fe e , ailot,, be considered goof!, diplomatic Inc. It may, or 1 m in er ) e . partisans ; that is a lineation to be gener'ihsh,iPl b e t ween the two parties, and, as wales, I shall not settled '-'e'we-l- Sir Robert was Jr.stified in keeping interfere'witb. them. Whigs retained °ince ; since then his while the be indefensible.-0 k ' la Silence appears to me to ast r * Fleet Pa el : , Or THE PO LICE INTO CORO NERS'N CounTs.—Yesterday afternoon an i nquest was hold be fore Mr. Carttar, at th e Willi am the Fourth, Dept r„ r d, upon the body of John Whitehorn, abed 75, who died suddenly on Monday last. The Jury %mint returned from viewing the body, the Coroner observing a ' .. sern-eant of the H division in the • • polict. . .„, room, inquired if h e was a witness. Sergeant--I am not, Sir. Coroner— Then why are you in attendance ? Sergeant --I have come, 31r, to watch the proceedings, and know the result, by order of my inspector. Coroner —You had better leave the room, and you can afterwards learn the verdict. The sergeant then walked out. Taylor, the beadle of St- Nieholas, Deptford, said he had been requested by the police to give them information of every inquest that was to be held, and he wished to know if it was the Coroner's orders that he should do so? The Coroner said he would give no instructions as to that, but with reference to the police being sent to watch the proceedi ng s of himself an d juries, he would n ever allow, adding that he might just as well send Isis officer to the Police Court to take notice of What was done there. The inquiry t hen proceeded , when it appeared, from the evidence of Mr. Edwa• ..d Downing, surgeon, and a witness named Burney, V ant the deceased had died su dd enly on Monday last, and the Jury returned a verdict of -" Died from natural CAI' .ses."