The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-16 00:00:00

LONDON: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1841. On Monday last we inserted in our leading article the following paragraph : There is in Tamworth a graramar 'school, founded by Sir Robert's father, for the gratuitous education of the children of the inhabitants, so long as a Peel shall repre sent the borough; and I am credibly informed that the master (Savage by name, and, as it shonld seem, servile by nature) informed the boys a few days since that he h a d received a letter from the Prime Minister, ordering him to discharge the children o f a ll those who signed the petition The way being thus prepared, the Re lieving Officer and his colleagu es went roun d to the pa rents of the children to " inquzre if they h a d s i gned that important document. And th e pu b l i c may believe th a t some disclaimers were the consequences We then said " We will give no opini on on any part of the pa ra g ra p h, till we ar e assured, by the silence of the Ministerial Journals, that it is is.ttue." Five days have we waited; the para graph has been copied into a great number of Journals, both-metropolitan and provincial and it has not been contradicted. We assume, therefore, that it is true—that there exists at Tamworth a school in which gratuitous educa tion is given to children, so long as a PEEL shall represent the borow11; and tbe:present Prime Minister has excluded from its benefits the children of all those who signed 'the Tamworth Address to the QUEEN. Let us look at both these branches of the assertion. _ A school for the gratuitous education of chil dren, as l ong as a PEEL sits for Tamworth, is one Of the most injurious, . but at the same time most ,direct, pieces of bribery that ever fell under our notice, Sir Roctirr PEEL is indebted for his **at m this system of bribery. Looking forward wi th prudent calculation, the PEELS have insti tuted a scheme to bribe the electors of fair.- Worth in a l l time by the annual donation . schooling, which is money's worth, to return a PEEL for that on seat the borough. W e s h ou ld t hi n k t h at on a petition the House of C ommons ought to that t Pr emier for sy s t emat i c b r ib ery. If 1?e tol erated,. it will be a scandal to the House &Commons to punish a n y man for giving a few pou n d s for a score or two of votes to get into Parliament. The PEELS, by this piece of systematic bribery, have converted Tamworth into a family borough, of which they purchase the repreSentation by gratuitous education. The, example set by the PEELS 'seem's likely to be followed, if it receive the sanction of Patlia niellt* Vac _Western Luminary contained, a few • days ago, the - following paragraph : . . 71).6.RT:roura RErrgEsYNTA.TioN.—It is with pleasure that we aro eLabled to announce that the Conservative A7,sociation has received intelligem.e of the intention of J. Sorties, Esq., one of 'the largest merchants and ship- Owners in Loudon; to contest the representation of this borough in Parliament on the next opportunity. In addition to the building and fitting out a 600 ton ship here every year, he will employ a urge number of our young men; besides which, the great influx of trade in this port, con sequent on his shipping coming to it, cannot fail to be felt by every individual in.it. This is barefaced bribery. Mr. SONES an nounces that - he will, every year, build and equip . a ship at Dartmouth,, as a bribe to the . electors to return him for that place; and the shipowners may emulate Mr. SOMES, and other opulent cotton-spinners may emulate the PEELS; and so every borough may be brought, as the counties are already brought, under the domi nion of a few rich men. The rights and liberties of the people, so far as they are defined in Par liament, will thus be sold by the electors, and , bought by the rich, till the nation will be forced t , " repudiate, with the utmost contempt, the au thority of Parliament as as instrument of a nar row and selfish oligarchy. The Premier having established this system to bribe the electors of Tamworth, carries it out to .its due conclusion. - Not only must a PEEL re- present the place, but those who receive their gratuitous education must not differ in political Opinion from the Premier. For daring to re quest, believing as they do that the country is in great distress, that Parliament should not be prorogued, the Premier turns their children out of his school. We have long dreaded that the gentry wished to get the whole of the education or the people, only the more effectually to drill them into habits of slavery and servility. They pretend to be very charitable, and to act in a spirit of kindness towards the poor; hut here the real motive creeps out--we have seen it at other places and other schools—and that motive is to cast more nets round the poor, and make them more and more the slaves of the aristocracy and the parsons. Let it not be said that Sir ROBERT PEEL is too much of a gentleman to do such a thing. After Sir ROBERT PEEL has descended .to t garble the Reports of the Fever Hospital at Manchester, and after he has assumed office as the tool of the monopolists, the head of the Starvation Minis try, deliberately engaging in a plan to continue a great scheme of plunder—we consider him capable of any political meanness. Has not Lord STANLEY, who boasts far nobler blood and a holder mind than Sir R. PEEL, unblushingly used arguments, as a means of deluding the people, of which any gentleman ought to be ashamed; and why, therefore should any man hesitate to believe that such Ministers will use any kind of mean artifices which may serve their ends ? Neither Sir ROBERT PEEL nor the Ministerial press has denied the charge, though we have allowed them ample time, and the world has, therefore, a right to regard it as proved. What does it amount to ? That Sir R. PEEL, by gratuitous education, habitually and systematically bribes the electors of Tam worth ; and that the Prime Minister carries the System so far, that he excludes from his school the children of those parents who, on one parti.-. cular and very important point of national policy, happen to differ in opinion from him. It is a prevalent theory that strong men and rascally men are disposed to injure weak and honest men, and Government is established for the main purpose of protecting the latter against the former. All its other attributes are subor dinate to this leading principle. It is bound, above and before all things, to protect to the ut most of its power the persons and properties, the liberties and rights, of its subjects from every infringement and invasion. If, instead of per forming this duty, Government--meaning both the executive and legislative powers—becomes itself the instrument of invading their rights, if it violates their property and injures their per sons, it then becomes a .mere nuisance, to be abated as speedily as may be. - It is far more criminal than the criminals it undertakes to put down, for to their criminality it adds odious hypocrisy and scandalous breach of trust. It is degraded to the level of a bandit, who takes the traveller under his protection the more securely to rob him. On this account it seems to us that the instant it is admitted that the Corn-law plunders the people—that it. raises 'Tuts, and enriches the law-makers at the expense of the people, all other arguments are superfluous. In fact, the dignity of our cause is degraded by attempting, after the admi,sion, to argue it as a qu es ti on o f . expediency. Admitting the plunder, there can he no question of more or less, for whether a highway robber take only a sixpence from any victim, or a thousand pounds, his offence is the same. Admitting, too, that it be plunder, we cannot, without upsetting all ideas of morality, argue about its utility. Whoever heard of the utility of being plundered? We cannot even, without great danger, tolerate arguments on the subject, still less can we tolerate the plunderer endeavouring to prove that plunder is beneficial. For the landowning Legislature to plunder the property of the people is, as we have said, highly criminal, but for it to argue in favour of the wrong, is adding insult to injury. It treats the people as dolts as well as victims. A t the same time the evidence is overwhelm ing that the plunder, is like all other plunders, infinitely mischievous. It wastes much more than it transfers, and the booty obtained by Noble, Right Honourable, and Honourable lawgivers, does not amount to a tithe of the same abstracted from the people. Like war, too, it carries pestilence in its train, and dooms the plundered people to famine, disease, and death. We have so often pointed out its deleterious in fluence on the whole society that we hold it to be superfluous continually to produce evidence that its effects are of the most injurious and revolting character. But when we find our Tory Contemporaries labouring to prove, in spite of the urgent distress which prevails in Glasgow, Paisley, Manchester, Bolton, and Stockport—precisely because they are plun dered both of employment and money—that our people are well off, we cannot help briefly adverting again to some evidence of the miseries which the Corn-law inflicts. We were yesterday reminded by the Herald, that " Mr. JACOB assured the Committee of the House of Commons which sat on the same sub ject, in 1833, that there must he at least two millions of the inhabitants of England whose Chief food is potatoes." Since that time the numbe r of persons whose chief food is potatoes ' has much increased, and when we add those in Ireland who live wholly on potatoes to those who live on them in England, th it is probable that 8,000,000 of who d ople A li ve chi e fly on ersst kind. nearly ai.e potatoes grea of t r n t t h d e ti t w u not get sufficient At present there ethrdothe Contemporaries gravely y ti e o t n, o :V i h r i) discuss otat oe s t , he al q id ues People of this country get more or l ess bread than those of other countries. Why,. millions of them do not get bread at all. They live on potatoes, and oatmeal. •At the same time the peo pie who are so wretchedly f ed are the most industriutts, the most skilf ' u., the most assiduous, pailis-taking, hard-worki ng people in the whole civilised world. The enormous wealth of the empire, which is all the d pro uce of their labour, and the great number of persons who live in ease and opulence, are proofs of their industry and skill. They are sought for in all other countries, and well paid when they go thither. To institute comparisons between their rewards and the rewards of other labourers is perfectly needless. The fact that our industri ous, skilful labourers do not get food enough, while those who make the laws take away their bread, and revel in extorted luxury, is not to be explained away by any sophistry, nor can the plundering law-makers be defended by any ra tional argument. Perhaps the reader will hardly be prepared to ''. .i'l *.‘ '"' "'" ' , le , 44 :: ..."` s N. .3._ • "1-4', .........,) •,"? ~,, + - 1 _ °l , - E - 4 ...5•._..< -., 4 " ...,),7 ' ,' ' .., cifitz*--,'. . Ali ''''''' 4 * , ~.- _,,, ---, ./,-...,--e , .....z.-7.--- i , ~ .1,1,„ I' ~, )• , en. 0 PPO t ", ~,,, •••.. , , , , &pi', ' V •o. t!b~tLL MORNING SUN ST: AMP RETUANS . Extract i`rom a ~turn of the - : - umber of Stamps issued to the several Newspapers in Eng land, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist day of April to the 30th day of Jenne, 1841, inclusive ; ordered by the House of Commons : Average Daily Circulation. SUN 311,000 Globe Standard Courier 48,000 A Retur❑ of the Amount of Advertisement Duty paid by each Newspaper from the sth of January to the sth of July, '1841: SUN Standard Clobe . Courier £673 17 6 389 10 0 582 9 0 ' 1 47 7 0 - NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL, CHARLES CHESTERFIELD; Or, The ADVENTURES OF A YOUTH OF GENIUS. In 3 vols., post Svo., with numerous Illustrations by 'lia. " One of Mrs. Trollope's nart amusing novels."—Herald. Henry Colburit, Publisher, 13, Great blarlhorough-street. fr k TIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of A.USTRIA, His IkIAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, Eis MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUAKANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS!, which (though they are NO LOTTF.R 1 ES) o'er many possibilities of obtain ing LARGE FOIITUN ES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS far the said DIS TRIBUTIONS. _ _ _ - - Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions may re:eive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS. upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT, AUSTRIAN DISTUIIIUTION contains DI VIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO 5,000 400 1,500 200 1,000 150 800 120 And the NEXT PRUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION contains r)IVIDENDS of £lO £l5 £44 X 29!) £1.770 11 18 72 640 9,600 13 22 145 740 Sterling. HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,000/., 18.0001., 9.000/, 5,0001., 3,600/., &c. &c. &e., to London ; 3,600/. 800/, and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3.6001. to Dub in ; 3,6001. to Beverley; 3,600/. to Halifax (Yorkshire); 1,2011. to Portleaven Harbour; 900/.. 700/. and tOOl. to Li verpool ; 900/. to .Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 9001. to Hull ; 900/. and 600/. to Manchester ; 700/. to East Retford (Not tinghamshire); 600/. to Bideford ; 6001. to Cork ; 6001. to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the next Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland. Direct for Prospectus and Particulars, t,ithout delay, either to HEINE BROTHERS, at kiAAIHURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. Par Lubeck, Sept. 8, 1841.—Heine Brothers remit again this day several large Money Dividends to Great Britain. £llO £7O 100 60 90 50 80 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. U VDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME YESTRI". EVENING, OCT. 16, Will be repeated, the New Comedy, entitled OLD MAIDS. Sir Philip Brilliant, Mr. Charles Mathews ; John Blount, Mr. Harley ; Thomas Blount, Mr. G. Vandenhoff ; Robert, 311.. Walter Lacy; Lady Blanche, Madame Vestris ; Lady Anne, Mrs. Nisbet ; Mistress Blount, Mrs. W. West ; Charlotte, Mrs. Hamby; Jane. Nliss Lee. After which, THE POOR SOLDIER.--Patrick, Mr. W. Harrlson ; Dermot. Mr. G. Horneastie ; Darby, Mr. Harley; FAt'rer Luke, Mr. Brovgham ; Bagatelle, Mr. Wigan ; a\orah, Miss Rai nforth ; Kathleen, Mrs. Walter Lacy. Doors to Ie opened at Iralf-past six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Roxef, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circus, 59. ; Second Price, tls. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 2;.; Galla:y Is. Ticket's and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Stralon Tice its may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had so'e!y of irlr. Andress, bookseller, I T7 . N ew rt,,,,,i_oreet. Oa Monday, Old Maids, with Fra Diavclo. iIOYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER TiIE MANACTENIENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND Mit. WILLIS JONES. Crowded Houses. " Blenheim " a greater hit than the " Bat tle of Waterloo." Splendid New Scenes in the Circle, and, by desire, the Poney Races One Week more. THIS EVENING, OCT. 1 ." Will be presented the auccessful Equestrian Spectacle, called THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM ; OR, I'HE HORSE OF THE DISINHERITED; introducingMr Ducrow'smag , - ntficent Stud of Forty Horses, highlly-trained Palfrev3, Fairy Peney', 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 SEVEN CLERKS. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. 'INDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALT)ISTON. Continued success of " Susan Ilopley !" Revival of " The Domino," awl of "31ad,liner and third week of The Flying Dutchman," with Childe's Phantasmagoriktal Representation of the Spectral Ship in full sad. THIS EVENING, OCT. IF, _ The highly interesting and pathetiC Domestic Drama, called SUSAN HOPLEY; OR THE TRIALS AND VICISSI TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL. William Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Susan floploy, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, MADELINE ; or. the WOODEN SrIOE MAKER and his WIFE, and th., POOL of the DROWNED. Peter Marcel, Mr. Gardner ; Pont de Gibaut, Mr. Paul ; Madeline. Miss Vincent. To conclude with TAP: FLYING DUTCHMAN; OR THE PHANTOM SHlP.—Vanderdecken, Mr. Dale ; Toby Varnish, Mr. Seaman ; Peter Von Bummel, Mr. Gardner ; Lesteile, Mrs. Lee; Lucy, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. THE. RAILWAY SUN, .AND TILE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, ALSO TIC E CHINA SUN. PRICE SIXPENCE EA.CIL Sun Office, Oct. 15, 1841. =MOH AIER AT,,,LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. ..:30 s i tvenuig ... 48 minutes slier 2. TILE STN., LONDON, SATURDAY, ,OCTQBER 0,, 1.7544!.., believe that the. iiacrilld quoted the pa sage we have borrowt.d. from it, to sliow that the a6icul turlsts have gone to decay, under the system. of protection, but it was so ; and Lie art'ck.whieh contained the passa.cie is so curious, when futtnd a pro-COrn-law Journal, that We must beg atten tion to some portions of it. The Morni:29 Herald yesterday said : Whilst we demand for British agriculture adequate protection against the inroads of unregulated importa tions of foreign grain, we disclaim any intention of en deavouring to • keep up fictitiously the present price of land, at the expense of the consumer, and to the destruc don of the capital of the farmer. The worst enemy to the landed interest is a landlord who wittingly lets a farm at a rent beyond is value, or who encourages the ruinous competition of the farmers by letting his land by auction, or to the highest bidder , simply because he oilers most money. The general inability of farmers to cultivate their land profitably is ultimately very . injurious to landlords ; it exhausts the land, it prevents improvements being made; it is a drag on the progress of agricultural knowledge; but worse than all, it creates a diversity of interests be tween them and their tenants. Good and solvent tenants are now rarely to be found ; and we could point out a system of management on the estates of one of the largest landowners in England, as giving a direct en couragement for the occupation of an insolvent and care less tenantry. It i,in vain to give protection to land, if the cultiva tors of the soil are to derive no benefit therefrom ; and it is, we 'fear, too certain that farmers have not derived the advantage that might have been antici -sated from the existing Corn-law. It was stated by com-eetent authority before a Committee of the House of on agriculture, in 1836, that "no -. less than half the average rent of the kingdom was paid out of capital instee.. 4 of profits." The decreasing wealth of the farmer operates in,7st injuriousl g.t y . on the labourer. nroteetinhemselves, as It is as idle to talk of tenants egulated,solely by it is to speak of factory wages lieino the suppy of the labour market. khedein.".nd fo.t;ieladntd. gives landlords as much power over tenants as .. mend for employment and the low price of food give t, to the cotton-spinner power over the factory workers. Should the landlords, as a body, continue to neglect this great duty, they will most assuredly create in their te nantry a body having antagonistic interests, and will ul timately- force those agriculturists who have preserved any portion of their capital to transfer it to the cultiva tion of wheat in Upper Canada, or to the breeding of sheep in the Australasian colonies. There is already in the north of England and in the south of Scotland, amongst the wealthiest and most intelligent of the youthful farmers, a strong desire to remove from a soil where high rents are rapidly consuming their capital ; and from the banks of the Tweed, a district, though rich and fertile, by no means over-peopled, there has already been a very considerable emigration of money, education, intelli gence, and labour. The decreasing prosperity of tenants has not, however been generally accompanied by a permanently improved state of things amongst landlords. The great practical vice of the present age is nowhere to be more easily ob served than among landowners. That vice is, that men of fixed incomes too generally lire beyond their means, and by speculations foreign to their habits endeavour to grasp at large fortunes by coups de main. The proprietors of small estates, handed down from generation to generation, with all their fine hereditary feelings and sympathy for the poor, are rapidly disappearing ; their possessions are bought "as an investment" by some cold-hearted millionaire. who purchases pro perties as he buys into the funds, merely that rent-days may come round with the same regularity as dividend days, and who envies in his age the local importance of those country gentlemen whom he has remembered from his youth. Nor has this evil confined itself to small landed proprietors ; it is equally destroying the moral influence, the lofty independence, and the means of dif fusing around them happiness, of too many of the lords of thousands of acres, whose patrimonial, inherited, or acquired possessions, apparently bestowed on them—to use Dr, Johnson's memorable expression—" wealth beyond the bounds of human avarice." The insolvetcy and embarrassment of some of the highest in honours, the largest in landed properties, and the most active in politics of the present day, are as notorious as they are criminal. We can conceive no sight more contemptible, no influence more demoralising, than a man of hereditary rank, of extensive possessions, and of great political in fluence, ruined or involved by his own extravagance. Who may be meant by this last paragraph we know not; but it draws a Noble Duke to the life now -in the ..Administration, and heretofore the idol of the Jferald, as he still is of farmers. We, however, car?. less for the individual de scriptions than the general statement; and here we have the Herald asseri:.'w; that, in spite of the Corn-laws, which are notorioolY ruining the manufacturers, the landlords are going to decay and becoming insolvent, properties are cha.7g in g hands, rents are too high, the farmers are getting impoverished and anxious to emigrate, and the labourers in agriculture are reduced to live chiefly on potatoes. All these matters are not new to us, we have frequently stated theta ; but when we find them in tt pro-Corn-law journal, we ask if it be possible to require further evi dence that the plunder committed by the Corn laws is, like all plunder, equally injurious both to the - plunderer and the plundered ? That result illustrates and confirms old experience, but wc did not need it, and it is a disgrace to the people that they need it, to make them rouse as one man, and put down, with indignation, the robbery committed by the landowning Legis la cure. The whole of.the Paris Journals of Wednes day have reached us: In the Moniteur of. that day we find the following news from Spain:— the- foilowing different version in the Ga:ette - de France Wediiegday NEWS FIZONE SPAIN.. Tlie news of the cheek Sustained on the 7th at Madrid by the partisans of Queen Christina, and of the violent measures adopted .by Espartero in consequence of this oven:, reached Paris at the same time that notice was given from London of tha counsels addressed from Downing-street to the Regent, to induce him to push matteri if necessary, so tarns to declare :war against France, and to deliver lettors of marque, as the only means that would prevent England from intervening in directly. This news has checked the ardour of the Guizot Ca= binet, and orders have been given to the confidants and to the official journal to disavow all participation in the enterprise of Queen Christina. The iminediate -depar ture of M. Salvandy is going to.be -announced. &Ids . - factory explanations will be . given to M. Olozaga.,- Lastly, in expectation of what events may produce, a complete retreat is to be made as decently as possible. It is now perceived what an enormous fault, was com mitted in refusing to enter into formal engagements respecting the marriage of the eldest son of Don Carlos to the young Princess Isabella. It was wished to play a cunning game, and to have the support of the Spanish Carlist party, without giving any pledge. Consequently that party remains indifferent in the struggle, and neu tralizes all the efforts of the Christinos. The marriage of Isabelle- to the eldest son of the Infant Don Francis de Paulo, which was on the point of being concluded, with the consent of Espartero, seems likewise not to meet the views of our Government, for Don Francis de Paulo, who was going to Madrid, has just been invited by the authorities at Bayonne to turn back, and has been forbidden to pass the frontier. What then are the projects of Queen Christina re specting her daughter ? Has she entered into en gagements in favour of the Duke d'Aumale? and is this the real obstacle which opposes the re-establishment of peace and legitimacy in Spain? What other news from Spain we have received will be found in another part of The Sua. Ex cept this intelligence we find little of importance int lie veilt s Paris noJournals. attention v e extract xt - i 0 inEventhe presence the news of sfromne 4 frica excitesh stirring the following filmy' the Moniteur Algerien, of the 6th instant : " The corps destined to revictual Milianah left Bliihth ‘e at five in the morning cf the 27 th ult. , under the com mand of General Baraquay d'Hilliers , escorting the largest convoy that have ever been sent out in Africa. It was composed of nearly 4,300 horses or mules, and about 900 head of oxen. In the plain of the Mitidjah the expedition saw no more than about 100 Hadjoutes,who observed its progress without seeming to he in the least disturbed. While passing the Chaba el Ketta, about 200 KahyleS fired upon the rear guard, and put several men hors clecomhat. On the 29th the convoy crossed the Col du Gentas. About 2,000 Arab horsemen appeared on the left flank of the column, but contented themselves with observ ing our march. At night-fall the bivouac was taken up near the Marabalit of Sidi Abdel Bader. The next day, hav ing deposited its enormous charge at Milianah, the ex pedition started again early in the morning, and repassed the Goutas on October Ist. The rear-guard was again attacked by 500 or 600 Arabs, but the superiority of our arms, and the judicious employment of our artillery, oc casioned them considerable loss. We on this day had about 15 men put hors de Combat. The corps bivouacked at Oued Adelia and Oued el Ger, and protected by two lateral columns, charged to secure the march by taking possession of the heights, entered the valley of Oued el Ger, and bivouacked on the Bou Roumi, at the en trance of the plain. The parallel columns had serious en gagements with the enemy, and killed and wounded 20 cf our men. On the 3d, the column arrived and encamped under Blidah. This expedition of seven days was attended, perhaps, with greater difficulties than any tbrmerone. The excessive heat, the constant scarcity of water, the length of several forced marches, gave the troops a new opportunity of showing their energy, their devotion and resignation. The partial engagements with the horsemen and Kabyles cost us thirteen men killed, including a captain, and 43 wounded, two of whom were officers. The losses of the enemy were, however, much snore considerable. It is to be observed that, in spite of the incessant difficulties and continual want of water, nearly all the convoy was con ducted .safe to Mihianah, and deposited 220,000 rations of every kind." The same journal states that General Gueswiller had visited Berdj-Medjana with his column, 1,800 strong, and penetrated to the distance of 18 leagues in the chain of mountains which divides the province of Tittery from that of Algiers. He did not meet with resistance on any point, and returned to Setif on the 20th September, aft:r an absence of 12 days. His object was to reconnoitre a country not hitherto visited, and he has discovered a means of communication between Constantine, Algiers, and Medeah, preferable to that of the El Biban (Iron Gates). . The Journal du Luzentbourgh publishes the following intelligence : "We hear that his Majesty the King, Grand Duke, has appointed Messrs. Lafontaine, Baron Blockhausen, and the Piscatore, Commissioners for negociatine• ' a Treaty of Commerce with Belgium. His Majesty has like -wise signed a Decree, establishing at Luxembourgh der of Commerce, consisting of 25 Members, for a Chinn the City , arm t he Grand Duchy." On the iuth inigtant the steamer Elbeuvien, No. 2, which plies between and Elbeuf, took fire when Pone. Fortunately the Ville near the meadows o f S t Li , d'Elbenf packet being near, the Y nasengers were able to remove on board that vessel. addressed a -talents, The Director-General of the Customs ham circular to the Directors of Customs in the depa.. announcing that in future webbing made of cotton a.. caoutchouc may be imported in the same way as other objects of caoutchouc mixed with other materials, and which are admitted on payment of a duty of 200 f. to 212 f. 50c. the 100 kilogrammes. A large and well-organised band of thieves and swindlers have been detected at Angers, Nantes, and other towns in the west of France. Many of them have been arrested, and the police are on the traces of others. Quantities of jewels of considerable value are said to have been stolen, and merchandise to a great amount obtained by fraud. One of the gang is said to have carried on the system by pretending to be a courier at tached to the mail between Nantes and Bordeaux. He is supposed to have been one of the chiefs. Another , of the confederates is said to be a member of a respectable family in one of the principal towns of the west. The Correctional Tribunal of Lyons bast just con demned to four months' imprisonment a priest attached to the Hotel Dieu in that city, for abstracting ornaments of various kinds from tombs in the cemetery of Loyasse. He was possessed, it appears, of a mania for making a collection of vases and similar articles. During the last month the consumption of Paris was 4,812 oxen, 1,781 cows, 5,868 calves, and 33,812 sheep, being a diminution of 626 oxen and 2,816 sheep as com pared with September, 1840. "The difference," says the Commerce, " which is equivalent to 350,000 kilogrammes of meat, is attributable entirely to the high prices re quired by the dealers." On Monday evening a well-dressed young man en tered a ready-made linen-warehouse in the Passage des Panoramas, and, taking a seat, desired the owner of it, who is a female, to quit it immediately, saying that it belonged to him. On her expressing her astonish ment at his conduct, he said he saw she wanted money to induce her to quit, and threw down a handful of five francs pieces, adding that he had millions, and could give her more money than she could carry. Some of the neighbours having entered the shop for the purpose of expelling him, he told them that he had hundreds of millions, which were given to him by the Emperor, who had sent him to take possession of the shop, and carry it on in his name. There being no doubt as to his in sanity, the Commissary of Police was sent for, and he was placed at his disposal, with a view to his being restored to his family, or placed in an asylum. A few days ago, says the Cour; icr du Midi, M. de Saint-Paul, Avocet- General of Montpellier, who was at Milhau canvassing the electors as a candidate to replace M. Nougaret in the Chamber of Deputies, finding him self suddenly attacked by a violent head-ache, resolved .upon a little country excursion in the hope of dissipating it, and after writing for his wife that he was unwell, but hoped the excursion would• zelieve him, .set out for that purpose. On the following day the conductor of the • diligence from Milhau to Montpellier, whilst crossing a bridge over the Tarn, saw the body of a man lying at the fo - Ot of a sloping-hank, and, on proceeding to examine it, found • that it was M. de Saint-Paul, and that he was quite dead. • It is supposed that he had been suddenly at tacked with giddiness and aneurism of the heart, had fal len off the bank, and, no assistance being at hand, had soon ceased to exist. We.find the following extraordinary, and, as it ap- Teens to us, incredible statement, ins letter from Al giers of the Ist instant, published by the Sentinello of `Toulon :—"A lady of Algiers, who some time ago buried one of her children, recently obtained permission from the municipal a u th or ities to have the grave and coffin opened, for th e p ur p os e of placing in the latter a still born infant. The coffin was found to be entirely empty, and an inquiry being set on foot as to the cause of the disappearance of the remains of the first child, it was ascertained that the grave-digger, who is the owner of an immense number of pigs, and who supplies most of the .pork-butchers of Algiers, fed his pigs with the corpses which he buried. In his house were large quan tities of human flesh chopped up, and, on examining the graves in the cemetery, every coffin was found empty. A discov er y was a l so ma d e , in the house of the grave digger, of jewellery to the value of ab ou t fift y thousand francs, whi c h h a d b ee n buried with the bodies. The :r.itninal is arreste d, and the prosecution is going on ; eut, what a d rea df u l re fl e ction it is for many persons to think that they may have been eating pork fed with the flesh of their own relatives. The use of pork has been interdicted for some time, and all the grave-digger's pigs have, by order of the Procureur , GenerJ, been killed and instantly buried." BOURSE--PARIS, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 13. irepch 5 Ter c, etE prat Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price LAIF. to :1.0,1: i s ,i t ti v i : i t 10 10 ... 106 10 ... MI 10 ... 106 10 ...... - I% per Ci.et s 4 a,. I. IS 5U ..„ 98 50 ... 418 1,0 ... 18 50 3 per Cents. 79 40 . :9 45 ... 79 35 ... 79 45 lank 0; r ~,,,,,, ..... ************* ... i szs ...2345 ...:335 —3345 il . t.t.. e ss x th . a. d rr i ,o v .: . ti ii. l; . ; 505 8; . ...... 5011, 1 ;;i 1 :4 4 505 8 0 9 .. .......; 0G, 1 3 1 2 4 , 55 : 1 1 .. ....... 5100 1 :63 1; 5t 7 03 i I.elgian 5 per Cents. 5 ' re , Cent4,, 18,0 Dutch 2).2 per Cents. . 52 ... :) 2 ••• f l 2 ... 52 . 3,idnise "'cave 40% =;l% ... 'V% ... A 4 Passive__ * 5 ... 5 ... 5 .., 5% Portugueses per c e ; ** **** ******* 26% ... t•aptnit.tri ..............• lo s t i) ,„ 104 80 ... 1'1:4 60 ... ,e 4 ga R'marl ................... ••• ;04 104 ... 104 .. HA k , Ul, WA S' 11 Versaillcs,, 8.. ... 3".8 .? K . 7i ,„, C,B 75 ... 318 75 .„3(8 73 , ... . L....., ". ... . . '2 Nouen ... ...... . ............. tnle,iii.. .. Stmsburgtoßalrshares red 2:d 25 ... 236 25 ... 23'3 25 ... 236 25 BILUIAN u NDs—BaussuLd , 0cr.13. Actual Debt 2'j per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per an : ;• • i iiiion4, 4 pt. ter' t;ent. , rty •2 ve& . , ofz v. 1 ;ILI, per Cult. .. ... : 3 :14 Cnvem,rec, 1 3 iiatik et Belgium, S per ;.7 ? , lationa 13,:clety • ' Exchani; an Lont'oo, hot t) Hrussels Papers, Oat. 13. ALLiTill A N FUN US,--VIENNA. OcT. r lye per Costs. Metalliqucs Four per Cents. Three p Cents. Wale shares . ....... 1:;;.-4 ....411gertekie Z ..., eitung. Oct. 10. -; . . _ The Queettig to hate Much' wished that her accofielielheiittniklitiake place at Windsor ; put the many inconveniences which would at 7 tend This arrangement forbid . it. Her Majesty is said to hate perthissiou from her physicians to remain here until Wednesday next, which it is tholight . she will: do; in the Castle, however, every day next weekisi spoken of as the day of her departure. fortown. MONEY- and COMMERCIAL NEWS. THURSDAY EVENING. There was some Weakness again in the English Market, but it lasted only for a short time: Money being very scarce was the chief cause of this, for, after all, the American news by the Havre packet adds very little to our previous- inforMation. Consuls for imme diate transfer realised 878 to 881, and for Account 888 to 1. Exchequer Bills were lls. to 13s. premium, and India Bonds ls. premium. Bank Stock ranged from 164 to 165 ; the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 98 to 971; and the Three per Cent. Annuities 867 to 871. The news from Madrid is still considered favourable to Espartertia ascendancy. Active Spanish Bonds touched 201, and closed at 20i ; and Portuemese New Five per Cents. ranged from 304- to 298 ; the Three per Cents. were at 181. The agents for the Mexican Re public have issued a notice, to the effect that the amount of - the dividend certificates paid in Mexico, forms nearly a provision for the next dividends. The Bonds here are steady at 241 to 1 ; Colombian Stock is dull at 19 to 19+ ; and Brazilian at 551 to 54. Russian Bonds are 1121 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents: 51 to 511. In Shares there was a trifling decline as respects Brighton, but Great Western were better, .and the others steady. Brighton declineetWAO , t discount, .and closed only at 10 discount. '" GretiOtekern were 10 to 101 premium ; the New 4 prerniiiitt'V 'and the. South Western 121 premium. Croydon 'Share's . were 1, and North Midland 34 discount. British North American Bank Shares were 6 dis Count, and London Joint Stock 21 premium. The Foreign Exchanges had a slight tendency to ad vance again, but • bills on all places were fully as high. Paris, 25f. 721 c. t0•75c.-; Amsterdam, 12 41 to 5 ; Ant werp, 12 31 to 4 ; Hamburgh,•l3 101 to 111 ; Frank fort,l49B to 1 ; and Trieste, 9 54 to 55. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 14.—The sales of cotton to-day, comprised 5,000 bales of all kinds. Exporters have been wholly inactive, and speculators have taken 400 bags. There is no change in prices. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, OCT. 14.—Grand Junc tion, Half Shares, 961 ; London and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 521; Ditto New Shares, 23 ; Midland Counties, New 14 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE ' OCT. 14.—We have no improvement to note in our Market ; the sales are— Midland Counties, 70 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 19+ ; Sheffield and Manchester, 2.21 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 15s. prem. ; North Midland, Thirds, 9/. There are no later arrivals to-day from any quarter. All parties are now looking forward with great anxiety for the arrival of the Caledonia steam-ship with the news from the United States. Should she not have been detained at Boston we may expect to hear of her in the course of the day. The English and Foreign Securities are gradually recovering, and the market has a much firmer appear ance. Consols are now 8881 for Money, and 881 1 for Account ; Exchequer Bills, 11 13 premium, which is an advance upon yesterday's prices. _ _ Spanish Actii'e Stock, Nrhich closed last night at 19321, have advanced to 20* I. Portuguese Five per Cents. are 291 301 ; Ditto Three per Cents., 183. Consols have been since the opening quoted at 87* for Money, btu; have since recovered to 88*, and for the Account they are 88it 3 ; Exchequer Bills, 1 ls. 13s. ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 86i ; Three-and-a-Half ditto, 96',1 T 3 ; Bank Stock, 1643 165 ; India Bonds, ls. prem. There is but little business doing in theForeiom Seen rides, the brokers being busily engaged in making np their account.. One defaulter has been declared, but we understand it is not to a heavy amount. _ _ _ _ . - Consols, 88* ; ditto November, 88k ; Mexican, 24+ 4 ; Spanish, 201 f. The Share Market remains flat, with but little business )ing, and Brighton, 39i ; Great North of England, 63. No intelligence of the Caledonia steam-ship. The accounts from Belgium show that the Govern ment there is not insensible to the importance of at tending to the distresses where they exist, or to the ap plications for inquiry when made by its manufacturing interests, a Commission having been appointed to inquire into the state of the Linen trade, so important to Bel gium, and the result of its labours being the publication of a Report containing 1,000 pages quarto, in which some admirable suggestions are said to be contained for the amelioration of the evils complained of. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH. BAYONNE, OCT. 11, 3 P.M. THE GENERAL COMMANDING THE TWEN. TIETH DIVISION TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. No further news from Madrid. The ordinary mails are still due. Pampeluna and Biibao were on the 9th, in the same state. (Interrupted by the night.) The Moniteur Farisien states that public tran quillity was not disturbed on the 9th inst. at Madrid. Numerous arrests were made, by order of the Government, of persons sus pected of . having participated in the outbreak of the 7th. As the Madrid mail did not arrive ;n Paris on Wednesday, it was supposed that it was stopped by the insurgents. A courier, who left Madrid on the sth with despatches from the Regent to the Ambassadors at the Courts of France and England, safely crossed the frontier. The Gazette de France accuses the French Government of suppressing the most important part of the news from Spain. According to that Journal the movement at Madrid was a much more serious affair than is represented by the Government papers. It affirms that eighty per sous were arrested, and eight shot by order of the REGENT, two of whom were Lieutenant- Generals. We do not credit this statement. No executions had taken place up to the 9th, although it is evident from ESPARTERO'S procla mation, inserted in another part of The Sun, that severe examples will be made of those who made an attack upon the Palace. The attempted insurrection in Madrid was commenced at half-past eight o'clock on the 7th inst. The leaders of it were Generals Don DIEGO LEON, and CONCHA, who had seduced a battalion of the Priocessa Regiment, and who ex- - pected with their assistance to carry off the young QUEEN and her sister. ESPARTERO, who had received intimation of the object of the con- • spirators, doubled the guards, and was him self with the QUEEN when the first shot was fired. The soldiers on duty at the Palace nobly .performed their duty. They fimght well, keep ing the conspirators in check till the arrival of re-inforcements. During the engagement, which lasted for an hour, the rain fell in torrents, and as, on the first sound of the firing the shops were all closed, the streets would have been in utter darkness, had not the inha bitants illuminated their houses. When Generals LEON and CONCHA found that they were getting the worst of it, and were in danger of being taken, they fled, at the head of about 40 horsemen, in the direction of the Basques. Brigadier NORZA QUERAY was taken with arms in his bands, and will doubtless be shot. The troops remained under arms all night, and ou the following morning were reviewed, with a body of the National Guards, by the REGENT, in the presence of the young QUEEN, whom they saluted with shouts of loyalty. The Commerce positively asserts that Queen CHRISTINA has concluded a match between the young Queen ISABELLA and the eldest son of I D l.o o tn n C Apßa Paris. If this be the case, it Nviii ac count PHILIPPE'S consenting to the banishment of the ex-Regent's advisers presentthrow I n intriguing Spanish G King 'of the FRENCH looks to thefoo for the s pl e a c c o i i n ld. gon T e he ot::ohtivown sons on the throne of in, as the husband •of ISABELLA the Queen is now eleven years to of the laws ofnd when thirteen will; according husband fur herself.SPain, have a right of choosing a - Up•in this subject we find CLOSING PIatCES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 165 India Stock. ... 3 per Cent Red. 86 , 71 Ditto Bonds 1 pr 3 per Cent Cons BB Ditto Old Annuities ... 3} per Cent Red 963 Ditto New Annuities... '` ' New 31 per Cent 9B Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 13 pm ,' ' - 5 per Cent 125 ' Ditto 5001........ 13 pm New . • -itiestoexpire I Ditto Small. ...12 pm Long Ann- .... 12 5-16 Bank Stock for Acct... Jan. 1860 ~ 2 i ,India Stock for Acct.... Oct 1859 Jan. 1860. FOitEIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. .... Belgian, 5 per cent — , Dltt4o, New Ditto 3O Brazilian 80nd5.... 55 ,Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent ...., ,Russian, 5 per cent ll2} Chilian, 6 per cent nitto, Nletallie ,_ 5 Colombian, 6 per cent... Span...‘h, per cent 2Ol Ditto, 1824. 194 Ditto, DeL"red •• 10 it Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. Greek, 18:45, 5 per cent — ;Exchange ... , —f• —c• Mexican, 5 per cent.... 241 !French, 3 per cent. ---f. C Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 4 per cent. ... 51 Peruyian,lB2s, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent ... 99J SHARES Great North of England Railway (90 paid) 63 Great Western Railway (65 paid) 75 Ditto New Shares (50 paid ... 54 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) 4O London and South Western Ditto Tenths (2} paid) London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 321 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) North Midland Railway (100 paid) Ditto Thirds (10 paid) York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 78 COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 7i Gibraltar Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...... ...2 U l2 8 Genoa . 25 60 Antwerp l2 7 Milan Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz llB/ Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 27' Frankfort on Maine... 150 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37i Buenos Ayres Berlin-- . _ Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 955 Philadelphia - Trieste, ditto 9 57 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid _ . . Cadiz Bilboa Barcelona Seville ... 36 Silver in Bars 0 0 0 i • 8 q t l . 0 .: ~..„4 k tiV , V.,..,fq ., • i vol ,:-. fl „f.'s' r. '"'. o *'' .;.'' 1i ' 4 24k .. ta • It"' , '; - . 1 ki ''.'.l P: f! • fa Yi . '''' ' .V . ' to AND tttlitt ‘l,9tutzl“. " Who runs may read." roz.ExaN. The King of the French was presiding at a Cabinet •Coancil•when the news arrived of the suppression • of the attempted insurrection at Madrid. M. Duchatel, Who is opposed to the intrigues of the Kin: for the restoration . of Christina, proposed that M. Salvandy should at once stout as Ambassador. to Madrid, and by his presence' satisfy Spain that France was not disposed to sanction attacks upon the established Government. The King and some Members of the Cabinet, including M. Guizot, opposed this, but M. Duchatel insisted that a delay would be regarded by Europe as hostile to Spain, and would inevitably lead to a serious misunderstanding with England. , The Ring yielded with difficulty, but finally gave directions that M. Salvandy should at once proceed to the Spanish capital. Tfie Spanish ; Ambassador at Paris demanded the re moval fro:n that capital of MM. Toreno, Martinez de la Rosa, :and. Zea Bermudez, who compose Queen Chris tina's Coundil. This demand the French Government has complied with, and on Wednesday it was intimated to these gentlemen that they could no longer be suffered to remain in P4iS. A few days ago:Auvergne was subjected for 48 hours to a violent storm, of wind and rain. Many houses were unroofed, and trees torn up by the roots. 'The Dore and other streams have overflowed their banks. Great da mage has been done to the vineyards at Clermont, and in some parts the roads are rendered impassable. The country of Arles, in Provence, is suffering dread fully from the stagnant waters left by the late inunda tions. Intermittent fevers are raging in parts where they have not been known for ten years. The plain of the Crau is suffering so severely and extensively that it is said there is scarcely a man to be found capable of Work ing. In the hospital at Arles there have been 200 fever cases at a time. Even the wards built in 1835 'to receive cholera patients, are filled, the beds of convalescents. being immediately occupied by fresh subjects. • The Temps states that the number of persons incul pated by Quenisset, as his accomplices in the attempt against the Royal Duke, is eight, as already stated, and that ten individuals arc now in custody. Numerous ar rests have been made at Lyons, of persons supposed to be implicated in this affair. It is not expected,that the preliminary inquiries can be terminated before the end of next month. The St. Etienne papers state that some persons have been arrested in that town on . charges of being affiliated to secret political societies at Lyons. The Courrier de Lyon says that documents of some importance have been seized et the p!ace of meeting of the individuals belong ing to the secret society called the Char bonnerie Re formee. The Commerce asserts positively that. Christina and Don Carlos have decided upon a union between Queen Isabella and Don Carlos's eldest son, and that the fact is incontrovertible. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times has a leading article on the subject of bri bery at elections, in which, after endeavouring to prove that it cannot be stopped by an Extension of the Suf frage, our contemporary proceeds to observe :—" A word or two upon the other plan of prevention, by in fliction of penalty. Did those who talk of penalties as a Means of prevention ever hear of the working of the re venue laws upon other kinds of contraband traffic ? Do they know that the strongest prohibitions on the export ation of the precious metals have been constantly braved for a profit of an eighth per cent. ? Do they know what penalties the smuggler has hazarded when brandy, or tea, .or tobacco has been at a high duty ? Do they know what risks the slave-trader is at this hour content to run, not only of his property, but of his person ? And even if there were not this actual experience of analogy, does not common sense itself apprize them, that where the poor man has that to bestow which the rich man is desirous to obtain, there, in spite of all the threats in the world, money will be the medium of the transfer? Neither, then, by multiplying suffrages, nor by imposing pecuniary or personal penalties, will you ever stop the practice of bribery. The only proceeding in the nature of a penalty which could be expected to produce the slightest advantage, would be the forfeiture of the abuSed franchise for the remainder of the voter's life."—The Times here takes the Tory view of the ques tion, especially as regards the extension of the suffrage, which there can be no doubt would greatly increase the difficulties of bribery by multiplying the number of elec tors to be bribed. And even supposing that this increase was among the poorer classes, who would be satisfied with a small bribe: still, more money would require to be expended than a candidate would like to give. Ex tend the suffrage, and conjointly with that extension give the Ballot, and you will have done all that can be done, to diminish the bribery and corruption now so generally complained of, yet so generally practised. The following observations are from the Herald . " The aristocracy of England, to be respected, must be full ' of moral and religious truth—both understood and practised.' We gladly confess that the majority are void of offence, that they are unobtrusively charitable, personally decorous, and externally pious ; but they are cold and reserved, and they contide not in the people ; they seek not their easily -acquired confidence ; they do not place themselves in their ' , aural position, and direct public opinion ; and above all, they do not disassociate themselves from those who are discreditable to their grd,_ , r. The people see the aristJeracy too much through their vices, too little through their virtues ; they ima gine themselves on one side of a gulf, and the nobles on another ; they fancy they are feared, and their intui tively generous feelings are turned by neglect to gall. The tempter interposes in the form of a Whig, a politi cal dissenter, a Radical, a Socialist, or a Chartist ; and the people are taught to hate those whom they are dis posed to love and admire. The fault is not in the people ; they will rely on some influence—evil if it be not good. It is in the aristocracy, who disregard and fail to cherish the most natural of all connections—that between the highest and lowest of mankind."— There is much truth in the Herald's remark about the " cold and reserved" character of the aristocracy. They are in the habit of keeping far too aloof from the people, as if they were a superior order of humanity—fashioned of precious porcelain, instead of mere clay. The worst of it is, that this haughty exclusiveness does not stop with them, for the - infection of their example spreads ; And every aspiring adventurer who has scraped together a little money, hastens to separate himself from the class from which he sprung ; affects an aristocratic hauteur; and copies as closely as he can, the cold reserve of those above him, and into whose society it is the darling ob ject of his ambition to intrude himself. Thus by degrees —for the process is slow but sure—society becomes split into three distinct classes— the aristocratic, the would be-aristocratic, and the democratic—the twb first of whom combine their energies to oppress and trample on the last. Half the evils of society—which, by the bye, no legislation can reach—arise out of these jealous dif%, ferences ! The Morning Chronicle gives the following distressing account of several recent heavy failures in the West of Scotland :—" We .regret to learn by letters from Glas gow that there have been within a short period three commercial failures in that city. . The first, on Saturday week, was a commission-house connected with North America. Liabilities estimated at 40,0001. The cause assigned was the want of remittances by the Britannia. A considerable portion of this sum is due to that de voted town Paisley. The second was a calico-printing concern, on Saturday last—not in extensive business. The third, and most important, took place on Monday last. It was in the shipping and commission business, and the liabilities are estimated at from 40,000/. to 60,004 The failure was unexpected, and the cause as signed is over-investment in West India produce. A Correspondent informs us that these failures had thrown an additional gloom over this commercial city ; and as there is no sign of improvement, the future prospect, particularly that for the next two months, is anything but cheering.' "—And While these ominous failures are taking place at Paisley and elsewhere—for the distress is by no means confined to the West of .Scotland—what are Ministers. doing—those Ministers who came into office for the ex press purpose of remedying the grievances of the coun try ? The answer is ready. • They are endeavouring to shut their eyes to the truth of things, and-to persuade themselves that there is no distress, at least none so severe as to demand their attention ! Day after day, hour after hour, increases the amount of suffering under which the people are labouring ; and all we hear of their; Tory rulers is, that some are shooting, others hunting, and others idling away their time at watering places ! Well, the time of reckoning is at hand ; and our ultra-aristocratic Cabinet may regret, when too late, their infatuated policy in playing fait and loose with the best interests of the people. The Post observes—" A Contemporary has said, with no less truth than point, that, in their late position as a Government party, the Whigs could not afford to be honest.' Ihe illustration given of this theory is the fact that the Whig Ministers sometimes abandoned their own measures—measures which they knew to be just, and necessary for the remedy ofproved abuses—because they found that some of their followers had an interest in the abuses, and these followers they could not afford to disoblige. This' is very true, but the observation that in their late position the Whigs could not afford to be honest admits of still wider application, and of more important application, beeattae the change in their posi tion opens a prospect of a great change for the better. They now can aflbrd to be honest, and we hope they may avail themselves of the opportunity for consulting their own honour, and the country's advantage, is presented by the present state of affairs. If the Whigs, when in office, could not afford to be honest, how much less could the Tories afford to be so, when deprived of the emoluments of place ? But no yet accused Toryism of integrity, thinkingnether in,m o a r n ee outo r f office. In the one case, it wits re markable for nothing but its innate genius for jobbing ; in the other, for its 'faetions and unprincipled opposition. As for our Contemporary's eapression of a hope that the Whigs will now be honest, he means th a t they can only manifest a sense of honesty by ceasing to ass sit; i d) an _ tagonist party to Ministers, and sanctioning all their mea sures, no matter how absurd, or bow short of the mark they may be. The.following is from the Dublin Pilot:—" The hum bug of conciliation is abandoned, and Orangeism is once more in the ascendant. The principles of the Irish Go vernment are now openly avowed. The appointment of Mr. Brewster would of itself have been more than suffi cient exposure of the falsity and hypocrisy of their de elarations ; but the dismissal of Mr. Cahill has made assurance doubly sure.' The one was promoted be cause he is a Protestant and a violent Conservative; the other has been dismissed because he is a Catholic and a Liberal." The Wilts Independent has the following remarks on COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked on the Terrace of the Castle this morning; and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also took walking exercise, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas. Bis Royal Highness Prince. Albert. attended by Lord Charles Wellesley, Right Hon. G. L. Dawson Darner, Hon. Captain Hood, }ion. C. A. Murray, Captain Francis Seymour, and Mr. G. E. Anson, afterwards rode on horseback to the Great Park, where the party had a run with the beau-les. Her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort left the Castle for an airing in a pony phwton in the afternoon, his Royal Highness driving, attended by the Dowa!rer Lady Lyttelton, Hon. Matilda Paget, Hon. Harriet Anson, the Marquis of Or monde, and the Hon. Captain Hood, occupying pony carriages, and Lord Charles 'Wellesley (the Clerk Marshal) and colonel Bouverie (Equerry to the Prince) on horseback. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and the Right Hon. G. L. Dawson Darner took their de parture from the Castle to-day. Mrs.. Bouverie arid Mr. George Edward Anson le:11 have the honour of io:ning the Royal Circle at the Castle at dinner this evening. It is now expected that her Majesty and Suite will leave on Wednesday next. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch arrived at ther residence in Whitehall-gardens yester day, 'from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor The Right Hon. Sir Charles Bagot, G.C.8., Governor-General of Canada, left town yester day morning, for Portsmouth, to embark in the-Styx steam-frigate, for Canada. Mr. Hastie had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at his official residence in Downing -street. • Sir Henry Hardinge left town yesterday. Viscount Melbourne left town yesterday on a visit to the Earl and Countess Cowper, at their seat Pansanger, Herts.. . Mr. Richard Potter, M.A., Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, well known to men of science as an origimd investigator and experimentalist, has received the appointment ofPrOfessor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at,Wo niversity College, London,. in the place of Professor Sylvester. BRUSSELS, OCT. 13.—Yesterday the King received the deputation of the Society for the Encou ragement of the Linen Manufacture, and that for the Encouragement of the Cotton Manufacture. MORNING SUN .h.. ---- -- ---- Sir Robert Peel :—" Of all ;the dishonest, evasive, and = 1 :11111,i1:2. - expedient* that eve: were resorted. to by' ar l i k r t ( t w ow c . iin ..L . 1 . , -t u l t - : .,i t i l: l :: . w:t H iti e ::;. l , ; itt i: i oli n :! o S- - c o x f cu S s ir e N l- 11 ' I l i ' t e ,, t: le whatever s f. tit r e T il t ic t what .i a a s t much renled n i o e conduct, he has never left the political arena, and ho and a , 5 The truth is, he knows not what to do ;, ambition urge(' ws to o f t a l p ie pi s ) tto of the country, p.m on to seek the post he has attained; and 1 111 ° -P e. tenCies have enabled him to reach it." . ; I,' 4 The herby ' . . Leporter observes of the Royal SPq c- '--- , ,othing; " The . Peel-speeeh says something, and ineans---0 us ~..;: will in Februar, The people are assured that ball such itrtr: e l t t % shill appear, after mature' consideration, be .. e her to prevent the recurrence- -of distress, will-te,„‘--° Majesty's • sanction—=as if' deep,clieart-reildiq ig,res: Was not now stalking, throughout the lengthitila lieendt' of the land I Nero fiddled while Rome wAS • hurnThg - 7 - ; Peel and his followers will dine though the people st-- 11 " ' PiCONEY — TILIIIVE—C 0 Inn" SIZCZ pd They Liverpool West Indi a St ea m Company are,l-qi by Government-to spare no e x pense or exertion - iP "151 ing the fleet of ;fine steam frig a tes, which are to car,l% the .naails. Seven of the largest of these v es ' els 'd very far advanced, and the wh o l e sixteen must be rel. Y' according to contract, on the Ist of January. AGllrcuraluvium. A great deal of corn still remains unhoused in ttWe and the rains have greatly damaged the crops ; niense importations, however, of foreign grain at Giou:' ter have kept the markets down. STATISTICS. - T a ra From the census of the city of Chester it ¢po6; there are of inhabited houses 4,800 ; building, 291 ; females within the city,,10,667 ; 101 wa 12,708 ; total, 2.3,375. The population in 15,052 ; in 1831, 21,363. antY co According to official statement there ;ire 5,3 71 K 4 go magistrates in England and Wales. Of these 1,3 J clerical, and 4,017 laymen. d St' The large parishes of St. Andrew's, Holborn,,7%os. George the Martyr, by the census of 1821, have ! q r . 's; uniuhabited; lation of 41,728. The proportion of burials i'O' l lyer. 20 per cent., would be 2,086 annually, and in The burial grounds are as follow :.--By the e St. Holborn, acre; in Gray's Inn-lane, 3A - , 0e [ 4 7!, 1 i a re a. George the Martyr, about 2 acres--to(Y ' ether , Divide 2,086 by 7 it gives 298 p e r acre for the uPI:I se . but if you allow f for th e b ur i a l s i n ce meteries -84 % . f burials, burial r f cri o n m i d .183A21 inclusive,ipl3.ing where, it gives 224 bodies annually for every e ar s n qs, is4o,t,s 2,016 bodies spread over • I •• 1-greto 1 every acre of balm 9 years ! NAVAL AND blaramaltlr• c via Rear-Admiral Sir Edward King,' K.C.8., ‘ce l ", the Janeiro on the 26th of August, preparing to sail. ) - e ctea 224 by 9, for nine LT jo s Rio de la Plata. Rear-Admiral Thomas was e ,: t wber• in the Brazils from England about the end ofSeP" -- = LAW AND POl.suxi. opt' At the Uxbridge Petty S ess io ns .an'Thurstle);,,ocile• Brew, formerly of the Scots Greys;-now of the t he sex Militia, was held to bail for publishing a letter The Windsor Express tending to a breach of the Penue',4sleP charge was preferred at the instance of /ir.,l e fee' proprietor of an academy in U x b r id g e, whom the to 10 dant alleged had published a pamphlet imputi n g . want of decency and civility towards the c orps. „,,,ege Mr. Laverty, who had been fi ne d Si. some tuL e t to at Marlborough-street, for alleged improper ce,,c un p aal a female in Regent-street, p resen t e d himself 011 1 ' 1 ,10 before Mr. Hardwick, and made disclosures wiufoto. to the belief that the charge had not the slio c llt e ' t n gtl' dation. Steps are to be t a k en t o i n vestigate ta rs s i lar affair. tleac i t At Queen square the landlord of the Seg., s one e Knightsbridge, appeared o n a sum mons at th e I ,.' h per' of an Inspector of th e nam e o f M ora n, charged witbouse• mitting persons of bad char ac ter to meerin hi s was Mr. Clarkson, who was engaged for the defendau l 4 he about to call witnesses, when Mr. Gregor ic stli r t hat would save him the trouble, as it did not aPP e ' l ne ctor any case was made out, and the conduct of the s ap' in taking the landlord int o custody- wou ld be the ject of inquiry before a superior Court. COURT—r.ASIIZONAIMZ. rive Her Royal Highness th e D uc h ess of Gloucesterio the on Thursday at Bersted Lod re, Bognor, on a vis it to Earl and Countess Mayo. ID „,t,„ d for The Duke of Wellington left town 3: en el Walmer Castle. Colonel The Dowager Duchess • of Roxburgh an` O'Reilly left town last week for the Continent;,,: - circle Lord and Lady R o lle h ave enter t a i n ed a se"l Th e at Stevenston, near Torringt on , d ur i n g the w t e. (loP venerable Lord completes his ninetieth yettilws, Lord Stanley still connues indisposed.' Lord and Lady Palme ti rston left Carlton- 110 01 yesterday for Ireland. MISCELLANEOUS. f AY" o This is the anniv e r sar y o f t h e death berbe' eiusko in 1817. Thi s grea t est o f Poland" d his breathed his last at S o l euru i n S w it z erland, " wale' mains are entombed in the Cathedral of Cracow. his companions in arms, Poniatowski and Sohiesl e' Pall-mall, inal were he the of tntiquceufrnironuis t t ur a e p oLi t T iy h u rsd"Y' of the hnng l in i g rr ' orri o o f i t i l v ie g Medici Palace at Florence, and a n ancient oo largest dimensions of its time, in a frame, by Gibbons, elaborately carved. lo st 6 ,1 , A Conservative Festival took place truesn 'ter an Notting in L°ndv; ham, the ladies n it l) g ian l s i d a ,silme.aesi,id.eof i cte onnilor presented nt i iibtic,ee so plentiful which withan‘ occasion m ag n r s . e f as it was ..once . onieago, o ap sent into the interi or by th e ra il roa d s. T : Gent of • lll7l%Tourts or THE DAI. jell Lord Vcsey Fitzgerald is to be the new' Pre— the Board of Control. re" : There is a report that Sir Joh t i O we n, 31.1 -, • broke, is appointed a Commissioner of Excise , salary of 1,2001. per annum. BRIGHTON RA.ILWAY. Directors It must indeed be 'gratifying to the 9 „, 4 :aoi d to find that after all the slanderous and accusations which have been brought Ogsin st a nd tY - 0 that at length the sober truth is made,manifest! etor• t malicious attempts of a body of coach proPiirectori' injure the interests of the public and of the ,41Y .r is now so generally seen through, and to trt probated. The following is from a ContemP ° " r7 bs f " The late accident on the Brighton-Rsiloiloo!leti drawn- forth so many letters of censure on ti' e d t he ° ment of that concern, that it is to' bb•h ° P ° is Yin maxim of' " hearing both sides" will , ba - kePt the roe Tile principal charges are three ; first; thot e o f foo r i o was not in proper order ; secondly, the . us to ° l b wheel( d engines ; thirdly, using two engine F. so l , train. The answer to the first is, that Si x ' . r oute lo (appointed by Government for that servi °l d re port e r inspected the whole line before the opening , I le a its e e . not simply its fitness, but actually , 0 % . .t0 „ Iv t he f_ t traordinary goodness. To • . the second ques t , l f ee att s °, ply is, that the engines with four wheels are "' so d use onaeveral other railways, the 1,00 6 °. 1 , 0 of t o migham amongst thew; and that ., tliese , eng.., u b o ros. b o Brighton• Company were from Mr. littrYi " 00 1 is ; r 0 for the London and Birmingham C p ci ui P i n dsr u :.;„l s t rop i r l op o o e iii ' cu i; supeeint,ndent of locomotive power o n 't u i 0 re a d? t o the third charge a matter-of-fact re namely, that two engines are reg one train on the Great Western, the L iv i iketvi se 4te s Manchester, and other lines. It .ought be , eato oo o be recollected that on the 'Brighton t „ 0. were / both in front, whereas On the °t l b i e otwi tlistil td' is put behind the (rain Occasionally.'" boy 3 'O a r e iog the sanction of the old railways es a to t he off the Brighton Direct ors instantly bowed both to hi commendation of th e C oron er's Jury i n , oti odh u p thereby sustaining a f oss of s ome thousan". (Brown having six of these f o u r - w he e led engin es , st iaa ° t he useless. Tney hate a l so a d o pted the sugbeaelr t° v i s e anonymous writer,-to place 'a luggage' car ot her d o g r eti -engine, and, no doubt,' will g ladly It,' a ny likely to promote the•saf e ty of the pUbile• ... to pe% 40 spread so industriously that- the Pateltatoi:corigoa fallen in was malicious, because, being ao-ne_j• stir the truth might have been ascertained:l7.7o t ee let first. The stage-coach peep!", perhaps, 0;100", all for this and other false rumours. In* v e O r by me say that the best guarantee the pohlie_ b os a tei ine d jo railway improvements is the certain loss • t those Companies whenever any disaster ..c ...ife eg, of the recent case of the Brighton, I ,oot. ths l i ti e least, have been lost to its esrchiqueiYhe° d the six engines and the heavy expense s cause accidents. ;g ale a i n,,ter r vo r meesnowiomear o * oft Yesterday at noon her Maje a s n t . Y;: tio st te. , e a d ,.nd t oe c ir ile ; i r ju c t : Styx, Captain Vidal commander, Monday, but which has been delaved at Woolwich, with the suite and domestl%,', Imoll'' Bagot, the new Governor. General of Caosuror who will be joined by his Excellency as fin sa ow, , tts Just after the vespol had got her stento i. ;l t fr abreast of the Watermen's Landing Pier, • b oat Perclif4 dockyard, rowed by one man and cont ainirl •i• nelloog, belonging to the household of Sir C. n a g: ai ve 010 1 his coachman, and a quantity of leggsg e of ° e vil"' side the Styx, but owing to. the unskilful ne ss . sta r tti o in charge of the boat it was rowed under 111 _ 6 an o o" gangway ladder, with which it came in c °ll a rt‘eillge th e people were thrown into the river, the be er r , w ow i ro ; filled up to• her thwarts with water. Th o e tbe suil e t bell steamer soon rendered every assistance t _ e _ an d o o p . some of them scrambled on to the laid, r ise n b oi otic clung to the ropes flung t owa rds them , an b'eavY, upon deck. The coachman, a tall a nd red Icarrietti:soo who had a good deal of clothing . on, was te , 101 ,, rp pg distance by the tide, and was giver' "P ret t d 4 tl ftl John Berry, a Woolwich watertnan, 101° s .0 6 1'0 I hr. tiefeSctyatxnewlulepnwt-iiitehdhlemkYjatirsiti a b s " t Pi gi r r eu° ; f re ll o i i on putting his arm down seized him hr croo , • the_ o hol head, and dragged him above water. -r__ Ore 61_00 weight of the coachman Berry could do no al a , it , v ri o film up by his garments, which galc_,, w ht f Places, until uPlwr ps§i§twe 4rOYPI? Ai;so, into the waterman s boat app?" 4 1 00 hi , ,fe.., of water came off his stomach, and after he seemed to recover, The ship's, boat; T ook ntli sailors, came up directly afterwards, aPti , .‘ ve d the V. man on board the Styx, where he reeowbe r est ii , tendon from the surgeon . and ,others. servants experienced no other inconvenrcitf,,gage The mersion in the water, and the whttle of W1 0 1' 6 _ 4 4101 boat, although owing wct, was got safely loon do' e _ ti eb; ink roanc an e u r w r e h n o c r e o w w as e d the b o t a o t , the a u s r t i Woolwich that the coachman iig N i v fl a ult s ir i vii.lce favourably. "renc.: o l? r iro io , /, r 4%, •uI Ig .ly 101 fo r 1.14