The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-09 00:00:00

IVIORN IN G SUN ARRIVA I. OF THE GREAT WESTERN _-(EXPRESS FROM BRISTOL.) BRISTOL, FRIDAY. 'DEATH - OF LORD SYDEN HAM. :,.kontreal Papers received at New York on the 24th ult. announce the death of Lord Syden ham, :::.GovernOr-Genefal of the British North Americas► rrovlnces He had not recovered from the .i:.'Scygre, accident which he met with by the fall ..f.:tfrotn-his horse ; lock-jaw was brought on in con seqUenee, and he died at his residence in King ston on the 10th of September. The sudden and - lamentable event had caused universal sorrow in the provinees. The Court for the trial of, Mr. M'Leod was to open at Utica on the 27th September, and ''..the trial to commence on the Ist October. The - - n , r general belief was that he would be acquitted. id . Vbe Prince de Joinville arrived at New York on the 19th September, and was gladly welcomed 4 ‘ l : -by hisieountrymen as well as the Americans. A . t :IT b*, York raper gives the followin g account : .'' .-1 . ,iTh : e- 2rrival of Prince de J o i nv ill e, very pro perly induced' a meeting of his countrymen at Del monico's .on Tuesday evening, agreea bl y to a call ~. tr. Which : appeared in this paper. Resolutions, we un ,,,. dtiritaiid, were passed, expressive of a desire on the • g ., i p,,,:g : of the . meeting to pay their respects personally s ,fto ,the,:Prince,..and to ask his presence at a banquet they 'Proposed to offer him. These wishes, were of ~ , ,,,e ucfe,,communicated t o hi m, through the Consul of 15 , i r4uee,:whe yest er d ay transmitted the reply, announcing Ai.,,, at ; the Priuee would rece i ve a deputation from th e hostheting,.. and all his countrymen, on board La Belle Poure, and that a steamer would be ready to convey s .,..there,thither, from pier No. I, at one o'clock to-day. - . I The other news from that quarter are not of much importance. The United States Bank ',.. ;. Shares, or rather the shadows of Shares, had fal lea still lower. On the 25th they were down to 51 -I. The only extracts of importance are sub , joined.... ~ . The Great - Western left New York on the 25th, and reached Bristol this morning at seven, having .inacle'the passage i n t we l ve days and. ~ twelve, hours. She had rather a rough passage, She bringst.a.passengers, and New York papers to 'die ‘2sth; Ten days later than the last arrival. ~. K.Eront the New, : York Jou rna l of Commerce.) . TRIAL OF ALEXANDER APLEOD.—The Circuit Court and Court'of Oyer and Terminer, which is to try Alex ander M'Leod on an indictment for murder, alleged to have been committed at Schlosser, in this State, on the night of the 29th of December, 1837, commences its ses sion at Utica next Monday (Sept. 22). From a list of 48 jurors, 12 will be drawn for the trial of M'Leod. M`lienzie, in his Volunteer, says, "I never heard of one of them till now." He, however, expresses the opinion that M'Leod will be convicted. According to the l aws o f N ew York (says the Volun te,ir),, M'Leod,d, if convicted, cannot by the help of his British and Websterian friends, carry the matter into the federal courts at 'Washington, for if he was at Schlosser he came voluntarily into a sovereign State, committed murder, was not kidnapped, but voluntarily returned and was arrested, and is therefore in the same situation as if he being a native citizen were indicted in .the State. We are not among those, if any there are, who ex- Peet that this dispute will result in war,--yet there is 110 advantage in blinking the dangers which do in fact - exist, There are dangers, and they are serious ones. Alere is danger from this very case of M'Leod. ..lhere is dang e r f rom t h e Boundary Question. There mind '3t huger from th e genera l i rritation of the public tion , both i n thi s country and England. Neither na is in a mood to bear so much from the other as they were five years ago. Both are proud, self-confident, and self-willed. An unfortunate turn of events may P r ecipitate a war, contrary to the wishes and original i ntentions of the parties. There are many on both sides Cr' the Canada line, who will do their best to complicate )Paffairs, and render a pacific adjustment impossible. If Leod should be either acquitted, or, on being con lrieted, be immediately pardoned, we have no doubt the affair will pass off' in the fOrm of diplomacy ; but if he should be executed, of whi c h we b e li eve there is no pro ' bability; than lookout for bre a k ers . THE APLEOD TRIAL. 'This important trial will take place next week, and in consequence of . the illness of the Chief Justice, Nelson, Judge Gridley will preside. We also learn that there exists ne doubt among those who have examined all the - testimony, that he will be acquitted. Thus will end all difficulties in relation to M'Leod's apprehension and in dictment. -- (From the Journalof Commerce.) MR. Pox AND THE M‘LEOD AFFAIR. There is 'nothing in the late news from England that tocontradicts the intelligence received from Halifax, viz , it despatches were p re p ar i ng f or Mr. Fox of a nature bring the affair of M'Leod to a crisis. ° a the contrary, a ll th at h as pu b licly transpired goes •tooonfirin the supposition that the Briti s h G overnment i ntends t o hold the Government of the United States to the principles of national law as avowed °Y Mr. Webster, as all knowledge of the individual State of New York is disclaimed in the transaction. It i s Purely a national affair, and we have yet to learn Whethe r M r. Fox has received instructions to remain his Post, aw a iti ng t h e d ec i s i on o f a C i rcu i t Court of .. " 8 S tate, which, whatever may be its results in this in :idua.l case, leaves the principle undisposed o f, all main /It, the right of any P owe r t o ma k e i n di v id ua l s person responsible for public acts of duty, perf orme d un d er derorders of the national authorities of their country. If the British nation submits this case to the jurisdic hi% Of New Y ork, she must be prepared to permit the tn al t course to be applied to Sir Allen M'Nab, Cap fo_,Mrew, and the forty-five individuals who h it .77t his force in the attack upon the " Caro d'p,44' of whom, coming within American juris whirl'', may be seized and tried, a contingency ; t y happen any day; and thus we shonld yew dilemma, of Great Britain protesting -tirtznst the erecution of the sentence of a court whose j uris ii°ll s he had tacitly admitted in the case of M Leo(' ; tl:p.,consistenc:, to await the consequences of which, 14 ehster retains at his post. These are probably delicate negotiations" which have been going on k .Y. at Washingt. n , an d are most li ke l y still pending. label'in ltobe r t P eel, the present Prime Minister of Eng li his spee c h i n P arl i ament on the 27th August, esificantly intimated that there were matters under Lorlission, of a nature no yet to be promulgated, and that d Palmerston's cautirns replies to Mr. Roebuck 7e 7e an thing but full or satisfitctory." Englend desires the naintenance of peace, is un 'ttastionable ; we have yet to learn whether she will pur- Aft: it at leavesifi of a . principle, which for ever .a , ai wards the brave defenders liable to be ar thgle,d as felons before any foreign tribunal, for doing " l itY in Obedience to the orders of their superiors. fl iti.. Puo thi s pivot turns the whole affair. Men who re naiiVllitnige or the , pr o b a bili t i es o f Mr. Fox counte tou l ong or . protesting against a co urse w hi c h p l aces hi s the.above dilemma. 411,2,i'Oritish nation is arraigned, in the person of teiru ,; can she go through the ordeal of a criminal h 4 iirnu if convicted, sue for, or receive mercy at the 1,17ef the Governor of an individual State ? Ixot .ho truly desire the preservation of peace, will Xitervss upon her such an indignity as the trial of Mr. ITwottld in anyevent entail. °giand admits ate principle involved in the de ep nt trial of Itr. M‘Leod, the Pacha of Egypt, aft GOvernor o f one of his provi nces , may here- Ut a eyery: .officer of the Briti s h fl eet w hi ch Acre; and t r y and' han g th em as " murderers. " "fi e .*ltrkith Sultan, or any of his Pachas, may pursue measures to redres s th e " outrage " upon his -Llav(trino. Neither of . th ese h ost il e acts had the tei z :4` 4 : l Of. a formal declaration of war, and they were e. just as " illegal " as the a tt ac k u p on the OFFICIAL. • ,APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT. I:',l„•'";,_'gernon Sydney Robertson, Marshal for the Eastern •7et of Louisiana. Z i1.. 4 te_ O . bß . obb i n" s 'POSTMASTERS. ; at Lowell, Massachusetts. -ii7 444111 trun W. Hale, at N ew b uryport, Mass. C..Beardsly, at Auburn, New York. ~. bi ti .„ aktiv-...111 OF LORD SYDENHADL—The Montreal papers Yesterdayß morning contain the first ancnoeuunmcnes a-" Of death of Lord Sydenham, and their columns oce all dressed in deep mourning on the melancholy . deri zt3 „ j o e 'n• The journals of all parties concur in consi 4clieo.rtbe event as one deeply to be deplored. Xip x I , °Ea BOAT RUN DOWN IN THE SOUND from ISTatvir3/14'---The steamboat Belle on her passage fr tikci-o-re,o to New York on Thursday morning, about arte ry -- c „`,Z,eit, ran over a small sloop boat, and upon backing entiratZ to the boat no person was found in . her. - f Ile teoti Z. 31011 board were drowned. The voice of one ~..7Vlr4.treh,_44ard as the sail boat was passed over. tb kno t - C r: Walters, while having some altercation •"t the 7 th ~ Person in Juniatta county, Pennsylvania, 22ciiie,rion Th l . at ' i tilt, was stabbed in fourteen places by a .....-"l'e the ,`4ereant named Bill Ruggles, who . came up ,7alteralovc first -named persons were quarrelling. Mr. 14 the ta - ,7 e tl- of his wounds some days after, and Ruggles deadltebe,r4-41,11tifile escaped, in"4,"wson, of Fouquer county, Va., was found be en e " that county on the 1 9 th inst., his head having ofildZbed an his brains beaten out, while in the act b een e „ „, Ili g at a d pring. The murder i believed to hve t o kri so T l It litted by a female slave that he was ca rr yi ng • .:sioltnA:`;l3h:t}:xer:osioic.—We learn from the Nashville gr7' - a SertOOS accident occurred at the residence , ,41t, I3uford, Esq., in Williamson county. Some Iti GE Rem, sent into the cellar to stop a leak in a bar ' nand', e l s t.7, and in searching for it the flame of the ' an ez i r 7"e* 11l an d with the spirit, and occasio_n . ed . ilk. *lion, which killed five of the negroes •, three died it. gw, ii,___ l'he o,„__-gure, isnd the other two lingered about a day. Alit ;fire -..onninicated .to the house, but was soon ex bY lencthering it with some green tobacco the. r 'LL' T lielikb c i iii it e !ll .. ises -44401eiut.. n uts, Of Comiecticut recently assembled IAI ' - ccm'etion,And nominated Francis Gillett, of di dittes 0_ -.4ldderl, Yale, jun., of Meriden, aft their fo r *l, tioYeritOr Ind Ltaut.-Goveraor of that State. .......-..,.,,,..,.. The same Convention passed a resolution that they e ould " respectfully take leave" to ask Mr. John Tyler, l'resident of the United States, to emancipate his slaves. We are not precisely in Mr. Tyler's secrets, but it is a settled opinion with us that he will not consider these gentry as having any constitutional right per se, to Make such a request. It appears by the following paragraph from the Louis ville Journal, that •the so-much-talked-of duel at the Weit, resulted in the death of one of the parties, who was shot in the back—a very appropriate " taking off" for a Judge who descends from the bench to settle a legal question with rifles and bowie knives. But, what can be said of the man who takes deliberate aim at an anta gonist with his back turned to him ? FATAL DUEL.—We mentioned, in our paper of Tues day, that a duel was to have taken place, on the 6th in stant, opposite Princeton, Mississippi, between Judge Tenny and Mr. Rowley, both of Louisiana ; weapons, rifles—distance, thirty steps. It took place according to arrangement, and Judge 'fenny was killed at the first fire. The parties, we understand, stood back to back, and the Judge, through mistake, wheeled too quick. Discovering his error, he was in the act of resuming his position wh en th e wor d was g i ven, an d he received his adversary's death-shot in the back. MURDER AT HEMPSTEAD HARBOUR.—The Brooklyn News says that on Thursday last the body of Jesse Ryerson, a boat builder, was picked up in Hempstead Harbour, with two stabs in the neck, apparently made with a large knife. There were also severe bruises on various parts of the body. The murderer has not been ascertained, and the whole matter is considered very mysterious. ' (Correspondence of the Courier and Enquirer.) PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. 23.—A CANTON VESSEL WRECKED.—lnformation reached this city between 12 and 1 o'elock to-day of the entire loss of the barque Florida, Captain Faucon, from Canton, for New York, with a full and valuable cargo of silk and teas. The barque sailed from Canton, on the 19th May, went ashore on the Brigantine Shoals, near Absecoin Beach, on yes terday about 10 o'clock, and it is thought that the vessel and cargo will be entirely lost. The ship Stephen Baldwin, from Liverpool, with a full cargo of assorted goods, is now coming up. She sailed from Liverpool on the 16th of last month. Sales at the Brokers' Board were to a limited amount only, with but little change in prices -2,500 dollars Pennsylvania s's, 1846, sold at 88 a 871-; 138 dollars ditto, 1864, at 784 ; 4 shares United States Bank at 6i ; Girard 231 . - a 24 i ; Camden and Amboy K. H. 80 a 82 ; United States Bank 61 a 6i- ; Vicksburg 4 a 42. The Southern mail is just in, bringing but little news as far as I can learn. ' A forgery or - Some $1,500 or $2,000, has been just discovered, as having been committed on one of our city banks in the form of marking checks " good." I have not learned the particulars. NEW ORLEANS.—There were twenty-eight deaths by yellow fever at New Orleans on the 11th. During the week ending on that day, the total number of deaths was 245, of which 164 were by yellow fever. SHlPWRECK.—Yesterday afternoon intelligence was received of the stranding at Barnegat of the bark Flo rida, belonging to New Bedford, coming from Canton. The news was communicated in the following letter : LOSS OF THE BRIG FLORIDA. Short Beach, Little Egg Harbour, Sept. 22, 1841. To Mr. James Bergen. Dear Si:--I hasten to inform you that the bark Florida, of New Bedford, from Canton, bound to New York —cargo tea, silks, rhubarb, and cassia—struck on Brigantine Shoals yesterday, and is now a wreck. The captain, crew, &c., were taken off by the schooner Batsh, Capt. Cranmer, and are now at my house. This morning the vessel is not to be seen ; her masts are down, and in all probability she has gone to pieces. I am just sending a vessel out to her, and am going to Bri gantine Beach to take charge of what may be stranded. The vessel is insured in New Bedford ; the cargo partly in China. I have not time to say more. Very respectfully, yours, S. WILLETS, Jun., Commissioner of Wrecks. BALTIMORE, SEPT. 23. By the brig William Prince, at this port, we have dates from Rio, to the 2d ult., which you will find in the paper sent with this. - The storm at the South did great injury to the Georgia Railroad, and at one place near Greensborough, the rain washed away the embankment, leaving a chasm 20 feet deep. On Thursday night, and before the injury to the road was known, the train of cars were run as usual, and on coming to this part, run off the track, and the locomotive and baggage car plunged down the chasm. A portrait painter, named Hayden, was riding in the baggage car, which was placed ahead of the locomotive. He was seriously injured by the fall, and also much scalded by the hot water from the engine. The engineer was also injured, but fortunately no other persons. There is nothing new in the western papers. COMMERCIAL NEWS. NEW YORK MARKETS, SEPT. 25. The transactions at the Board of Brokers were to con siderable extent to-day in Harlem, the sales of which reached about 3,300 shares, closed at pr 3 4, an im provement of 1 per cent., 400 Shares United States Bank sold, going as lew as 5 1-4, a decline of 1-2 per cent ; Farmer's Trust fell off 1-2 ; Mohawk 1-4; Delaware and Hudson improved 1-4 ; Canton Co. 1-4 ; Patterson 3-4. In State Stocks the transactions were very extensive. Indiana Bonds improved per cent., selling at 471, and Sterling at 48; State Five-and-Half sold at 90, and Illi nois Sixes at 44. Of monetary affairs in general the most remarkable feature is the present high rates of exchange, and consequent shipment of specie to England and France. The scarcity of good bills and the advance on the rates, proceeds probably from the absence of any mate rial export at this moment of our chief staple, and the cessation of remittances in stock or public securities, which, within a few months, have been always used in a greater or lesser degree, as a medium of remittance, or been the basis on which bills were drawn. At this moment the only drawer in the market, we presume, against stock, is the Bank of Commerce, which is selling on London at 9 3-4 per cent., probably against stock sent there, part of the one million taken of the United States. An unusual demand, too, is created by the increased importations of goods made in consequence of the ap proaching advance of the duties. No doubt however as soon as the cotton crop comes fully into the market, the supply of bills will be found sufficient to keep rates of exchange below par ; meantime the existing demand for specie creates no uneasiness, as our banks are amply supplied, and it rids them of a large dead capital. The exports of specie this week to Europe will probably reach one million of dollars, and there has besides been a considerable amount taken for Canton. The Bank, of course, tender gold for their notes when specie is required, and obtain fpor cent, premium for American Halves, at which rates they have parted with large amounts. No satisfactory offers having been made for the two millions loan advertised by the Secretary of the Treasury, we are informed the Treasurer of the United States is here endeavouring to dispose of it on more advantageous terms. We have reason to believe that no offers were made above par for a 6 per cent. stock. The case of M`Leod and the rumours which were put in circulation a short time since of a peremptory demand for his release being about to be made by the British Minister, have probably caused capi talists to be backward in investing in United State Stocks. Of State Stocks heavy sales are making, and at some what depressed rates. A better feeling is gaining ground ss regards Railroad Stocks—indeed, it is evident, such is the natural increase of business throughout the coun try, that where railroads have been undertaken with common prudence, it will require only time to make them highly productive. (Correspondence of the Courier and Enquirer.) PHILADELPHIA, SENT. 24. In articles of foreign produce, the most active for a day or two have been Sugar and Coffee; the former, which has been rather heavy for some weeks, has revived, and the sale of New Orleans and Porto Rico has nearly cleared the market at improved prices, and over 2,000 boxes Cuba Browns have also been taken for re fining, which has much reduced the stock. The tea mar ket is again all aback from the news by the unfortunate Florida. The sales of Coffee are large within a day or two, say 2,200 bags, principally Laguyra, with 5 or 600 Rio, at a shade improyement, to our Water-street gro cers. Broad Stuffs come down slowly, the low stage of the water keeping back supplies, the lowest price which 1 have heard of being 8.25 dol. and 6.31 dol. per barrel for export. Corn and Rye Meal are without change. Sales have been made of Southern Wheat at 133 cents., and Pennsylvania is about the same. Yellow Flat Corn firm at 70 cents, and White 68 cents per bushel. Flax Seed has advanced to $1,85, and in demand for crushing—and Oil has jumped up to /1 per gallon ! Oats 45i cents per bushel, Quercitron Bark has been active this week, and sales of 600 hogsheads have been made at 127, Coal vessels much wanted. GRAM—Sales during the week of 4,700 bushels Ge nesee Wheat at 150 e. for export to Bermuda, and 1,200 bushels Virginia for milling at 140 c, and yesterday 4,500 bushels New Genesee, for British Provmees, at 147 c. Northern Rye is in fair demand, 3,200 bushels sold, to go east, 76ic., and 1,500 bushels 751 the latter not de livered. Jersey Corn has declined, and sales are making at 74 a 74ic. measure. Northern 74 a 75c, No sales of Southern. Oats 48c. a 490. dull and abundant, The stock is of inferior quality. COTTON.—OnIy a moderate business has been done in this article during the past week, and without change in prices. The sales of the week are 1,800 bales Upland and Florida at 7c a 10c ; 1,000 Mobile at 8c a lle ; and 500 New Orleans at 74c a lie. AsnEs.—There has been a further advance in Pots since our last, but owing to very light receipts sales have been limited. About 200 barrels have been taken for shipment at 6 a 6 : 1 cents. Holders now demand higher rates. Pearls have also advanced ; sales to the extent of 450 barrels have been made at 51 a 6 cents per pound. Some sales are reported at $6,12 1 1. NEW YORK MONEY 11IARKET, SETT. 24- RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. $B,OOO St a t e Fi ve - an d- a -H a lf per C en t. 3,000 Indiana Sterling .. .s 30 ds 471- 7,000 Ditto do .. OOOOO 1,000 Indiana Bonds ....... 47 10 0 Shares U n it e d S tates B an k 20 Ditto Mechanics Bank 25 Ditto Delaware and Hudson bn. week 1041 50 Ditto Farmer's Trust s3o ds 48 5 Ditto Vicksburg 4 10 Ditto New York Gas 30 Ditto ditto 25 Ditto Canton Co. . 2 8 Ditto B oston and Pro r. 50 Ditto Paterson.... 5O 5 0 Ditto H ar l em ... 25 Ditto St onington slO 16i opening 2Si 25 Ditto M o h aw k R.R. '6O 600 Exchange on Philadelphia . ••• •• 10,000 Ilinois 6's of 187 0 .. . 97 96 3,000 Ditto do .......... 44 .... . . ... b6O daps 44 SALES AT THE SECOND ROARD. 260 Ditto Harlem Railroad. .................... - 3 days l7i 2 1 000 Inclia4 . 4 Bonds ......... . . ...... A HEAVY FORGERY. - - The .Neu; Orleans Bulletin ' of the Bth says :—" Intel ligence has been received here that an individual calling himself Jelin P. Caldwell had forged a letter of credit for twenty-five thousand dollars, from the house of Maunsel White and Co. of this city, upon the bank ing house of Brown, Brothers, and Co., in New York, which latter firm is a branch of the English firm of that name in Liverpool. Caldwell is supposed to be the Englishman who forged certificates of deposits to a large' amount upon several banks of this city last winter." The Bee stutes that the letter of credit was sent from. Georg etown, IA C., based on a consignment of LOH .bales of cotton, it was paid. ANOTHER ACCOUNT.—TWO great , forgeries havejust been perpetrated on houses here by a process somewhat like that by which so large sums were obtained some months ago. In this case, one of the frauds practised on the great house of Brown Brothers and Co., and the other on the agents of Fletcher, Alexander, and Co., of England, each for about p 5,000. (From the Elmira Republican.) FOUR PERSONS BURNT TO ASHES !-IVO have been furnished with the following details of a late horrible catastrophe. The house of Sylvester S: H. Brown, on South Creek, about eight miles from this place, was consumed by fire on the 11th instant, at about eleven o'clock at night, and four persons, viz., two suns of Mr. Brown, one aged 7 and the other 5 years—Thomas Smith, aged 50 years, and a daughter of Ezekiel Campbell, aged 11 years. The persons burnt, we are informed, slept up stairs, while Mr. Brown and his wife and a babe, who slept below, barely escaped, without saving anything whatever but their night clothes. Mr. Smith was a stone mason, formerly from Smithville, Chenango co. The fire caught from a stove shanty, joining the house, very probably near the staircase, which prevented a descent of the per sons up stairs—we must suppose there was no upper window large enough to admit of jumping through. All the furies of faction are now turned loose at once. We are to have a long and violent political struggle—breaking up of the old parties— and old friendships. There is a distinct object in this strife. The Claymen have hoisted the banner of the Bank—they fight for a Bank and nothing else. The state of things at the approaching session of Congress, will be extraordinary and exciting. The severance of old political friends will create a fearful war of words—and, probably, the Bowie knife will be brought in in aid of the argument. That is the opinion deliberately given in the late debate in the House on the last week's riot, by Mr. Warren, of Georgia, and other respectiable Members. The Abolition question, which must be met at the opening of Congress, and is the first thing to come up, will add much to the general excite ment and confusion.—New Yorh Inquirer. YELLOW FEVER AT NEW ORLEANS.—The yellow fever, we regret to state, continues to incr ease a t N ew Orleans. The papers of the 10th announce 35 deaths by yellow fever on the preceding day, and those of the 11th, 25 deaths by the fever, making 60 deaths in two days. LATER FROM MONTE VIDEO.—By the brig Buenos Ayres, Captain Lake, via Pernambuco, we have reports from Monte Video to July 25th. The market was glutted with flour. No freights of any description were offered. The Buenos Ayrean fleet of six sail, under Commo dore Brown, lay at anchor off the harbour of Monte Video, within gun-shot of the Monte Videan fleet under Commodore Coe. It was reported and universally believed that a me diation had arrived by the British Packet, which had been offered by England, and had been accepted by the Governor of Monte Video, and had proceeded to Buenos Ayres. Should this mediation be accepted by Rosas, it was thought business would improve. Should it not be accepted, a battle would immediately take place between the two fleets. REPORT of the GREAT WESTERN, J. HOSKINS, Commander, sailed from New York on the 25th of Sep tember, arrived at Bristol Bth October. Sept. 27.-11, A.M. Exchanged colours with the Ame rican ship Osceola, lat 40. 35., lon. 60. 34. Running eastward. Oct. 7.-3 A.M. Forty miles west of Cape Clear, saw a steam-ship (supposed to be the Columbia) to the south ward, ran towards her, and burned a blue light. SHIP'S PROCEEDINGS. Sept. 25.-1 45,. Passed the Battery. Strong breeze, heavy squalls and rain. Fresh breezes and fine weather. South-easterly, westerly. 26.—Strong breezes and fine weather. Fresh breezes and cloudy. W.S.W. 27.—Strong breezes and fine weather. Fresh breezes and squally. North-westerly. 28.—Moderate and fine weather. Light breezes and fine. North, north-easterly. 29.—Light breezes and fine weather. Fresh breezes and clear. Variable, westerly. 30.—Moderate breezes and dark haze, with showers. Fresh breezes and dark haze, with rain. South-westerly, westerly. Oct. I. -Light airs and thick fog. Increases to strong breezes and squally, rain and lightning. Variable. South-westerly. 2.—Fresh gales and cloudy, high westerly seas. Strong squalls and showers. Westerly. 3.—Fresh gales and squally. Heavy seas and rain. Westerly. 4.—Fresh gales and heavy squalls. Moderated to fresh breezes and cloudy. High seas. W.S.W., Variable. s.—Light variable winds, dark cloudy weather, with rain. Fresh breezes, and heavy westerly swells. Va riable, north-easterly. 6.—Strong winds and squally, westerly swells, rain and lightning. Northerly. 7.—Squally dark weather. Midnight, took a pilot. N.N. W. B.—Fresh breezes and hazy. At 7, anchored at King Road. North-westerly. This passage was made in 12 days 12 hours. , LIST OF PASSENGERS.—Captain C. Stuart, Louis Mo rum, Louis Celleusa, Alfred Large, James Pattison, G. Guynet, P. Palmein, E. Dureni, E. H. Palmer and ser vant, Mr. and Mrs. Tanner, Mr. Sinat, John H. Davis, Mr. Hughes, H. T. Jenkins, Thomas Richardson, Linley Haines, Mr. M'Gregor, J. P. Montans, A. L. Montans, J. N. Bradley, E. T. Randulph, J. A. Delano, T. Bishop, I). H. Durano, A. S. Petrie, S. Petrie, Arthur Hirst, A. S. Riley, Mr. Millis, Thomas Forster, E. Stainer, A. Scheitlin, W. Burnby, F. W. Coolidge, Mr. Laughlin, Mr. Ballin, H. P, Hulbut, C. D. Hazin, F. Tomes, B. B. Atterbury, Mr. Atkinson. HALIFAX, SEPT. 16, 1841.—Sailed this morning the French frigate La Belle Poule and sloop of war Cas sand, for New York. Much bustle has been excited here by the arrival of the Prince de Joinville—his movements have created subjects of conversation among all classes ; nevertheless the citizens would not combine in a body sufficiently numerous or liberal to honour him by any tangible demonstration of their respect for his person and gratification at his presence among them. A splendid ball and supper were given by the garrison and navy officers on Tuesday evening in the Province Build ing ; the Council Chamber was fitted for a dancing room, and the banquet was prepared in the Assembly room. No little offence has been taken by many in habitants at the exclusiveness of the military, who in vited scarcely any civilians except ladies. Such a pro cedure savours of a studied insult, it is thought, because it is generally considered highly indelicate for a female to participate in a feast with military " gallants," un less the company is so mixed and qualified by the pre sence of relatives and friends of the other sex as to pre clude the possibility of slander arising from such an as sociation.—Boston Paper. A PRACTICAL MISTAKE.—The late Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Ewing, has been in the city for some days past, a lodger at the Astor House, where he has re ceived the calls. of many friends. Among the rest on one day last week, were two Committees, who waited together on the ex-Secretary. He rose on their entrance, and the Chairmen in succession addressed him in a manner befitting the occasion. When they had finished Mr. Ewing, instead of making a formal reply, said con cisely, " That will do, clear," and waving his hand ap propriately the Committee retired, discussing whether their reception had been such as they had reason to ex pect. They had not proceeded far in the hall before they met an acquaintance walking with a gentleman, whom he introduced to the Committees as the Hon. Mr. Ewing. This put a new face on affairs, on returning to the room it turned out that the gentleman who had re ceived the honours of the Committees was not exactly in his right mind, and had happened during Mr. Ew ing's absence to step in and occupy his chair.—New York Paper, MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS, The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered in the week ending Out, 1d,',1541," The Table is issued front the Offte of the Registror.General Weekly Total. Average CAUSES OF DEATH. Epidemic, Endemic, an d C on t ag i ous Di seases. 157 1838.290440 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l7O 151 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Heart and Bloodvessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 9O 60 Diseases of the Kiclrioys, he. Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus,. &c, 9 Diseases of the Joints , Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, tic Diseases of Uncertain Seat. Old Age, or Natural Decay. 59 71 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 32 25 Causes not specified ......... 9 8 Deaths from all causes BB3 - Average Weekly Death 5......,,. .. 926 Deaths in the Average Weekly Week. Deaths, 1438-9-40 Western Districts •• • 127 ...... 139 North Districts 11111 MO 163 Central Distriets„..„...., 165 190 East Districts. ... . til4 „„.. 211 South Districts ~., ..... •f f 220 223 - T0ta1......... 883 926 ' are he City of Lon -32 districts herein mentioned, which inc...L t ' . .sties of don with and without the walls, the City and ,„._, It is stated that under the term Metropolis comprised the St. Luke (Chelsea ),al ley), St. Mary-le,bow, Camber •',ell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as HammersmithSt.llfar enumerated in 1831, was 1 ,594,890. The weekly average ' for 18,38, 183% and 1840, was obtained by dividing the deaths in d F i u n l g h t s o m n: the three Y„,ear 6 by 156. 4 EMTEKATLIRE IN THE WEEKS ENnINp Highest Sept. 25. Oct. 2. . 7 0 3 67 0 ' Lowest . 6l 49 Daily Mean .... .... . .... b 9 General Itegister (Mice, Qat 7., DM. THE SUN.' 'LONDON, SATURDAItr,fOCTOBER 9, 1841. BRIGHTON RAILWAY. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT;) BRIGHTON, FRIDAY. A small part at the end of the Patcham tunnel fell in yesterday forenoon, and delayed the travelling a little. Fortunately it is near the main road, and the omnibusses of the Company were at hand to carry passengers and luggage to Brighton . It rained here • for the last two days alinost in cessantly, but now the weather is clearing up. The end of the tunnel is being actively repaired, and will be finished to-night. The disruption is attributed to the wet weather. The swell drivers of the coaches — almost on the point of extinction—are now chuckling over the adage "Its a bad wind that blows nobody good"—but their days are numbered, notwithstanding. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sra,—ln reference to tho reports regarding this rail road, I am desired by the Directors to state that the in terruption yesterday at the entrance of the Patch= Tunnel, was caused by the falling of a quantity of chalk, which has been removed, and the trains are running to day as usual. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS WOOD, Secretary to the London and Brighton Railway Company. October 8. BRIGHTON RA ILWAY. —Yesterday the trains ran ldbepeerneca so deprecated. rife. The Suc use ise otfem four wheeled throughout this li ne , and the punctuality of their arrival i cannot h y as severely best reply to th e many exaggerated statements with wheeled eng i nes upon this line, as upon many others, was a fatal error, but th e ready adoption of t h e six wheeled engines the moment their safety was proved to the Directors, and the placing at once a luggage carriage between the engine and the carriage, may be taken as an assurance that the m anagement is most sensitively alive to, and is ready to use every means that may tend to, the , safety of the public. Th e Di rectors have like Wise g i ve n orders to the engine -drive rs t o average the i r t i me upon the line, and this regulation ensures additional safety, while it does not increase the gross time employed be tween London and Brighton. Professor Barlow, the Government Inspector, is now making a survey of the line, and his report will be made known in course of a day or so. It would seem, from the appearance of the train of yesterday, that the accident of Saturday has in no perceptible degree diminished the contiience of the public. BRIGHTON, THURSDAY.—This afternoon this town, which had so recently been thrown into alarm by the late fatal occurrence on this line, was thrown into great consternation by a report that Patcham tunnel had fallen in. The non-arrival of the first train from London, by which the London morning papers are brought down, caused the most frightful and exaggerated statements to be circulated. Immediately on the news being spread a number of carriages proceeded to the spot, and the Directors and officers, accompanied by a large body of labourers, went down the line to render assistance. The following particulars are collected from the place. Pat chain tunnel is rather better than a quarter of a mile in length, cut under a plantation belonging to Major Paine's mansion, about four miles from Brighton and two from Clayton tunnel (the longest one on the line.) It appears that the mail train, which left Brighton at a quarter before eleven, passed through in safety, no appearance of danger then existing. The time for the next train to leave Brigton was a quarter before twelve, when, most fortunately, before its arrival some of the labourers employed on the spot, perceiving the Brighton end of the tunnel in a tottering state, they immediately raised an alarm, and caused the proper sig nals to he hoisted at each end to prevent the trains ap proaching. A great portion fell in at the exact time the first train would have been in. Messengers were de spatched to Brighton and the Hassock-gate station to inform them of the calamity. On the arrival , of the first down train from London a dreadful scene presented itself, from the alarm of the passengers through the remem brance of the recent fatal occurrence, as the train was stopped just after emerging from Clayton-tunnel, and numbers of people had congregated on the spot. In the meantime the Directors had caused several flys, post chaises, &c., to proceed to Patcham to bring the passen gers on to Brighton, and vans, &c., for the luggage, where the passengers arrived about a quarter past two, two hours after the appointed time. On their arrival the most affecting scenes took place between some of them who had friends awaiting for them, as the general report was that another fatal accident had taken place. It is said, at Patcham, that the tottering state of the tunnel was noticed by some parties early in the morn ing, and yet they neglected to give notice. It is a for tunate circumstance that it did not take place during the passing of a train. It is hoped that a very searchingin quiry will take place into the circumstance, as so many persons' lives are placed in daily jeoparday. The trains now stop at Patcham, and the first down train from Lon don took up the passengers to London, who were con veyed from Brighton in post-chaises and flys. It is a well-known fact that this tunnel has been watched, and yet Sir Frederick Smith declared the London and Brigh ton Railway the safest and best constructed. A Govern ment messenger was in the first train from London, having come down to examine the spot where the last accident occurred. FATAL ACCIDENT. DOVER, OCT. 7.—Last evening an inquest was held at the Star Inn, before G. T. Thompson, Esq., the Borough Coroner, on the body of a flyman, named John Denne, who came by his death under the following circum stances :—Thomas Kidner being sworn said—l am a coachman residing at Deal. On Tuesday afternoon I drove my coach to Dover, and as it rained very hard I went into the ostlery belonging to the City of Antwerp stables. About five o'clock a gentleman, whom I after wards ascertained to be Mr. Potter, of Shepherd's-well, rode up in a gig, and gave George Cook, the under ostler, a gun, saying he was to keep it till Mr. Coleman, surgeon, came for it. Mr. Potter did not say it was loaded, and Cook set it down in a corner of the room. I remained sitting in the ostlery with several others till half-past six o'clock, when Mr. Huntley, the proprietor of the stables, came in and took the gun up. Samuel Forth, another ostler in the stables, then stepped up to Mr. Huntley and took the gun from that gentleman's hands, and began to point it at different objects; when he said, " look out, old Tom," meaning the deceased, " I shall shoot you presently." Upon this Denne, who was sitting beside me, put his head behind my shoulder, and said to Forth, " Don't act the fool, Sam; you know I have a great horror of fire-arms; you'll shoot some one presently." Forth then came up, and put the muzzle against my ribs, close to the head of the decased, and pulled the trigger of the gun two or three times. He then put the butt end against me, and afterward pres en t e d th e muzz l e aga in. Just at this time a servant of the Rev. Mr. Farbrace, of Ey thorne, came in, and warned Forth not to play with the gun, saying that it might be of bad consequence, even if it were not loaded. The decaased then got up, and ran out of the room, when one present said, " Put a percus sion cap on, and frighten old Jack." Mr. Huntley im mediately went and got a cap, and while he was gone Forth tried the barrel with the ramrod two separate times, saying, " I know the gun is not loaded, for I have tried it before." All present felt perfectly satisfied the gun was not loaded, from the fact that the ramrod was even with the muzzle of the gun, and the ringing noise it made when it, apparently, reached the bottom of the barrel. We always allow the end of the ramrod to be about three fingers above the muzzle of the gun when it is loaded. By this time Mr. Huntley came back, and gave Forth a cap, and while the latter was putting it upon the nipple deceased looked in at the window, which being observed by the company present, Forth said, "Now, look out, old chap ; I'll frighten you presently," and immediately went out, while I followed after. He held the gun close up under his right arm, with the muzzle pointing a little upwards, till he ar rived near where deceased stood, when he pulled the trigger, and the gun went off Denne immediately fell to the ground. Forth immediately went to lift him up, but finding the blood flowing copiously from him he exclaimed, " Oh God, the gun was loaded, and I hare indeed killed the man ! What shall Ido ! Do, pray, kill me ; I'll cut my throat ! " and he was about doing the fatal deed, when I interfered, and took him away. The Jury consulted for about half an hour, when they returned a verdict of Accidental Death, and levying a deodand of 31. upon the gun. Deceased has left a widow and three small children to lament their loss. NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—The Com mittee officially appointed "to take into consideration e w nt i , t , h , b t a h v e e, r a e t bu l i e l n d g in t g h, o ei f ici t t h e e d suneffiwei the promotion of the fine. Bali in . this country, in c o o f n i n ,a ec rli ti a o m n dence to justify it in adopting a nd reCernmending that measures should be taken without delay, to encourage - the fine arts, by employing them in thede orations in the new Houses of the Legislature, and which are now in course of erection. Mr. Barry, the architect, having been requested to inform the_Conarnittee, the superficies of the different portions of the buildings which could be appropriated to painting, an d also the number of positions or places in which sculpture could with advantage be placed, has stated those to be as follow —ln St. Stephen's ball, 3,000 feet; Royal gallery, 2,140; the Queen's robing-room, 1,168; lower corridors, fronting the river, 5,072; upper corridors, fronting the river, 5,672; House of Lords, 1,800; House of Commons,. 1,260 ; in the corridors from the central 5a100n,1,325; conference hall, 1,340; in the lobbies of the House of Lords, 1,036 ; the lobby of the House of Commons, 1,260; in th e Corn _ mittee rooms, 25,350 ; besides numerous other less im portant portions of the building.—Total, 49,823 feet. In Westminster Hall, the superfices capable of being de voted to this purpose is 6,160 feet; but Mr. Barr y con sidered it to be absolutely requisite that the roof of this buildingshould a to admitb ‘o` f a i e a r c increased e d " in t an t , so present lantern not being adequate for that purpose. The paintings to be either in fresco or oil, as in the Houses of Parliament, and the designs to be taken from the most prominent features in British history. BIRMINGHAM AS IT Is.—At a meeting of the Birmingham Anti-Corn-law Association last week, Mr. Sansum, house-agent and collector of rents, gave an appalling picture of the distress in the town. He said he weekly visited the dwellings of between six and seven hundred families, and he could declare i n t h e solemn manner , that anything equal to the he daily beheld could not be conceived. 'van men applied to him to mark - "wed, in order t o pre ^f the Court , mob. wretehednesa During the last week bc • their furniture for the rent thvy vent them from being seized by this of Requests for food. He called at one house for I,—, And the poor woman said, ‘i Iteo, my dear Sir what declare I h ave not h a d more to b u y c an I pay ? L oo k at t h ese two fo o o h d ild fo r r en t „ heill and my self than 15d. during the last fortnight.'ir e (g r . Sansum) knew not what to do with these poor people. Within the last six weeks he g ate away more motley than he received. DEATH OF DR. FRANCIA, DICTATOR OF PARAGUAY. Dr. Francia, the author, and up to within the last few weeks, the inflexible upholder of the non intercourse policy of Paraguay, has, by his death, ' removed the only obstacle to free trade upon the river Parana,and other parts of the rich kingdom of Paraguay. A Contemporary has already noticed this fact, and laments that the news of his death had not arrived in England before Lord Palmerston had lost the power, through the change of Ministry, to have promoted by comprehensive schemes, the trade and commerce of thesa now emanci pated parts. This singular man now rests in the quiet and stillness of the grave, having been tottering on its verge for the last three years, • Before his time the chief of the South American republics, who, under the name of Presi dents, had more than the power of kings, succeeded each other with less than the brief sovereignty of Lord Mayors of London. Francia was the first who had the skill to fix himself steadfastly in power, and to retain it against all other men in the State. Death, however, with a stronger arm, has at last dis possessed even him. Francia's early history is that of a scholar and a gentle man. His father, as alleged by himself, was a French man, but generally believed to be a Portuguese, who emigrated first to Brazil, and ultimately settled in Paraguay. Here he married a Creole, by whom he had a pretty large family. Jose Gaspar was his heir, and was born in 1758. He was originally intended for the church, and he received the rudiments of his education at one of the conventual schools of Assumption. Thence lie was removed to the University of Cordova de Tucuman. Having no taste, however, for theology, he turned at college to jurisprudence, and took his degree of Doctor in the Faculty of Law with great eclat. Returning to Assumption, which he afterwards left, he entered his profession, and, as an acute and eloquent iawyer, he soon stood alone. His fearless integrity gained him the respect of all parties. He never would defend an unjust cause, and ever took the part of the poor and the weak against the rich and the strong. But his manners were generally, and especially to his countrymen, distant and haughty ; his studies were in cessant, and general society he shunned. He never mar ried ; his illicit intrigues were low ; he had no friends ; he looked with cold contempt on every one around him, and thus gradually grew into that austerity of habit and inflexibility of character which so strongly marked his career in after life. Francia was cruel, heartlessly cruel. Many years be fore he became a public man he quarrelled with his father, though it is believed - the latter was in the wrong. They spoke not for years : at length the father was laid on his death-bed, and desired to be at peace with his son. He conceived his soul to be endangered by remaining at en mity with his first-born. Francia stubbornly refused, and the old man died raving. From the Paraguayan bar, Francia, by voice of the Congress, was raised to the Consulship jointly with Yegros, a mere legislative simpleton. During this time he paid particular attention to the military troops of the city. He then rode about in gloomy silence, attended by a few of his Quarteleros, and seldom returned the salutation of those he met. At sunset he came back in the same taciturn way. His progress to final supremacy furnishes an amusing , picture of South American simplicity, managed by a dex terous use of means, which is the exact counterpart of Napoleon's memorable scene in the Chamber of " the Five Hundred." Francia's joint Consulship with Yegros had fulfilled its legal time, Anew Congress was now to be called, and Francia summoned not leis than a thousand representatives. Not one-half of these legislators could read or write, but they could make a Dictator, and he wanted no more. At nine of the morning, on the 3d October, 1814, the Congress met. The proposal was made to appoint him to the Dictatorship. This was met by a counter-proposal to re-appoint him to office, but with the aid of a Congress to help him under the weight of power. Francia by no means relished the amendment ; he was fully prepared to undertake all—for the good of his country. He sent a strong body of troops to surround the church as "a guard of honour for Congress." The Doctor's hint was somewhat plain ; besides, it now was five hours since they had tasted a morsel, and dinner waited—patriotism was severely tried. The glitter of the bayonet and the pangs of hunger were too strong for the republican stoics of Paraguay. At this moment a partizan of the Doctor stood up : " Gentlemen," he exclaimed, " why should we waste our time here ? The Carai (Lord) Francia wishes to be absolute ; he ought to be absolute ; and I say," striking the tabe with his whole force, " he shall be abso- lute." Every man arose and saddled his beast, and took his way to his own home. Thus become Dictator, Francia grew austere, and ve hemently proud. The message beforetime had been, as delivered to any one by his body-guard, " Suplica el Senor Consul que se vaya V. a casa del Gobierno."—"The Consul begs that you will go to the Government House." Now that he had become Dictator it was "Maeda el Supremo que pase V. a verlo."—" The Supreme orders that you go and see him." Instances of Francia's despotism soon followed. On occasion of the installation of the Junta in Paraguay, which superseded the authority of Spain, the question was agitated by the first citizens whether the Govern- lent of the country should be carried on in the name of 'erdinand VII. Francia, whose mind was made up that it should not, entered the hall of deliberation a . t the warmest period of debate. Walking up to the table, and taking his place beside several Government functionaries, he calmly laid a pair of loaded pistols before him, and said, " These are the arguments which I bring against the supremacy of Fernando Septimo." Francia's word was now irrevocable as the laws of Mede or Persian. Soloaga, a large shipmaster, was or dered overnight to select some planks for a Government job. Soloaga delayed it till the morning. The Dictator came early, and found the wood not picked out. " Senor Excellentissimo," began the man in excuse—but Francia stamped his foot and sternly added—" Leave the Re public within four-and-twenty hours"—and in twenty four hours Soloaga left wife, children, work, and pro perty, and was on his way to Corrientes, never to return. Another instance :—Carisimo was thrown into prison and irons, because the gutter in front of his house was a little out of repair, as the Dictator passed. Old Cari simo was corpulent, and the irons he wore pressed into his flesh. Iris wife besought Francia with tears, as she reported the fact. " Then, said he, "let him purchase larger ones for himself "—and his wretched wife had to order new fetters for her husband, by paying two thou sand dollars into Francia's treasury. Dr. Francia's usual appearance, by one who personally saw him, was generally in a suit of black, with a large scarlet capote, or cloak, thrown over his shoulders. He customarily wore on his shoes large golden buckles, and at the knees of his breeches the same. His countenance was dark, and his black eyes very penetrating; while his jet hair, combed back from a bold forehead, and hanging in natural ringlets over his shoulders, gave him a digni- lied and striking air. In October, 1817, the Dictatorship to which he had been elected for three years, expired, and he was by the same means of Congress, though with much less difficulty than on the former occasion, elected Dictator for life, or " Dictador Perpetuo." Francia's learning in later years, was chiefly confined to the French language—a rare acquisition in Paraguay —Euclid's Elements, equation, and the mode of handling a theodolite. But he was most proud to be known as an algebraist and astronomer. He was, it is true, but a short way inducted into these sciences, but it was suffi cient in Paraguay to verify the Spanish proverb, that " En-tierra de los ciegos, el tuerto es rey."—" In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King." An attempt was made on the day of Good Friday, 1820, to assassinate Francia, by some Paraguayan citi zens, obnoxious to his Government, but one of the con- chained revealed the plot, and his colleagues wer e chained and imprisoned. _ _ The town of Assumption, which was irregular and very ill-built, was greatly improved by the Doctor in his later years. He laid it out in spacious squares; the nar row streets were made wide, lanes abolished, and the whole to be so formed as to allow of free ventilation, and healthy cleanliness :—this work he himself superintended. The Dictator's cottage was situated in a peaceful val ley in Ytapua, built in a most neat and unpretending style, and surrounded by a beautiful country. Here he lived in the closest seclusion. His library was a confined room, with a very small window, and so shaded by the roof of the corridor, as to make the light as sombre as it could be rendered. His library itself consisted of about 300 volumes, the more ponderous of which were on law. There was neither carpet nor mat on the brick floor; an earthern jar for water stood in one corner on a tripod, and his horse-furniture in another. This man, appointed Dictator, has held it till released from the pains of supremacy by the great release which settles all questions of human power. He was it daring, stern, vigorous being. For nearly thirty years neither war nor massacre has disturbed the provinces under his rule, while Buenos Ayres, within its sight, has been the seat of perpetual revolution, and the vast and noble pro vinces of the north depopulated by massacre and faction. The destruction of M. Bonpland's colony at Cande laria., and his imperative and absolute treatment of all such as came politically in his way are the chief stains upon his character. Beyond this he was a high and talented man, and thus it was that Paraguay was ruled. One strong mind—one bold-headed individual, by an in tense application of his powers, changed, radically changed, the character of the whole community within a few years. Like the potter he pressed them one and all to his own shape, and cast them into whatever mould he chose to take them up. CANINE FEROCITY.—Mr. G. Eaton, farmer, of Castle Donington, having had considerable damage done to some sheep skins, which were left out to dry in the night, let loose a greyhound for their protection. The following night, when the offender (a large half famished cart dog) made his appearance, the greyhound pounced upon him, and worried him dead in an instant, and would have pulled him limb from limb in a f ew seconds, had not he been dragged away.—Doncaster Gazette. FLOOD IN THE DON.—The rain which fell during the night of Monday last was extremely heavy, The river began to rise on the following afternoon with great rapidity until Wednesday morning; and it was at one time feared that all the ground skirting each bank of the stream would be overflown to a considerable extent. This, however, was not the case, although in some loca lities the water covered a large breadth of ground. Since the time just mentioned the water has gradually subsided. —Doncaster Gazette. LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—In —, eunence of the late accident, the Brighton Railway d e t e rmined to discontinue the use of four • nlace a luggage box immediateb T 7 ntil these luggagei)72,3 )3aardhavo . - -vs to , place a se wheel eogines, ana ix , . - ,, .11 no one se after the engine and tender, - are ready orders have been lolled tu v ,,, could class carriage next tfa the flkrille,lll w 0.... oto be allowed W *let „ _ • RADICAL REFORM. The following is the petition for Radical Reform, &c. from the Cobbett Club, which was presented on Thurs day to the House of Commons by Mr. T. Duncombe, who did everything that the very stringent rules of the House would allow to bring the matter contained in it plainly and clearly before the Members. At any rate its cirulation through the Press will place some very important facts before the country, and will, in that quarter at least, have a very beneficial effect To the Honourable the Commons of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. The Petition of the Cobbett Club of London, unani mously agreed to, at a meeting of that body, on the Ist day of September, 1841. Humbly showeth, 1. That your petiti oners , i n th e i r great anx i ety to see a restoration of the fr ee d om , t h e greatness, an d the power of this country, so that it may again take its proper station amongst the nations of the earth ; and, knowing that this can be effected only by the people having re stored to them the power of exercising their ancient constitutional rights, have frequently petitioned former Parliaments to grant Universal Suffrage, Annual Par liaments, and Voting by Ballot. And they are daily receiving fresh evidence of the necessity for these things, the granting of which would have rendered it wholly unnecessary for them now to trespass upon your atten tion, and occupy the public time ; a great deal of which has been (as it appears to your petitioners) hitherto spent, not in matters calculated to benefit the people, but in party squabbles, having for their object the turn ing out of one set of men, whom the Queen had se lected to be her servants in the Executive, and the putting another set of men in their place ; not because the Queen had no confidence in those her servants ; but, because your Honourable House, forsooth, a se parate branch of the Legislature, had not confidence in them ! Thus leaving it almost doubtful, whether the Ministers are the servants of the Crown, or whe ther they are the servants of the House of Commons ! 2. That, your petitioners have always understood, that the Three Estates of this Realm have separate and distinct duties and privileges, which the Constitution has plainly defined for them ; and, that, beyond the limits thus defined, neither the one nor the other has the power of passing ; and this not merely to secure the harmonious working of the whole, but to ensure to the people the benefit of the separate and independent working of each Estate. 3. That, amongst those duties and privileges, your petitioners believe that the Crown, that is to say, the Highest Estate, has the prero gative of selecting its own servants, or Ministers, who are to be those whom the Crown wills to be of its Privy Council ; who are, therefore, "a noble, honour able, and reverend assembly," whose duty it is to " advise the Crown to the best of their cunning and discretion." The prerogative of the Crown, in choosing this body of men, cannot be interfered with by either House of Parliament," or it must cease to be a prero gative. All writers upon the Constitution, declare, that, " Parliament ought not to deal, to judge, or to meddle with, any prerogative of the Crown ;" that they can "increase the prerogative of the Executive, but they cannot invest themselves with it : they have it not in their power to command its motions ; they can only unbind its hands :" that Privy Councillors are made by the Sovereign's nomination only, and that the will of the Sovereign is their sole constituent : that " the dissolution of the Privy Council depends upon the plea sure of the Sovereign, and that he may, whenever he thinks proper, discharge any particular member, or the whole of them, and appoint others ; and that the Con stitution has provided a remedy at law, either by im peachment or by criminal information, for their delin quencies : that " neither House of Parliament has a right to animadvert upon the Sovereign, nor have any jurisdiction over him in civil matters, as that would be to destroy one of the constituent parts of the Sovereign power ;" that is to say, would be a lopping off of one third part of the Constitution at a blow, sinking the in dependence of the Crown, and making it a mere tool in the hands of the other two parties, who may strip it of all remaining power, and leave it as an useless and de spicable bauble. 4. That your petitioilers, believing that these opinions are in unison with our ancient Constitution, cannot avoid stating them to your Honourable House ; and they beg also to be permitted to make another statement, which they take from the " Act of Limitation of the Crown ;" it is this, " that no person who holds any office, or place of profit, under the King, or who is receiving a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons ;" and which, although your petitioners are not ignorant of the adroitness with which it is evaded, is a most wise, just, and wholesome law, which they hope soon to see rigidly reinforced. 5. That the consideration of these things has brought to your petitioners' recollection, a long list of most grievous innovations upon the Constitution of our fore fathers; each of which has been an abridgement of the liberties of the great body of the people of these realms, and the effect of the whole, united, has been to leave the main part of the people with scarcely more political rights than are possessed by the people of Algiers, of Egypt, or of Turkey. 6. That the first and greatest of these innovations, may it please your Honourable House, is the one from whence all the others have flowed ; namely, the with holding from the mass of the people their ancient right of suffrage. This your petitioners believe to be the great master-evil that has produced consequences most fatal to the well-being of the people, of which every man must be convinced, when be reflects that from this source alone has been produced— The dividing the Church and Abbey lands amongst the aristocracy, and compelling the people to maintain the poor, instead of their being main tained out of the tithes and revenues of the Church ; The throwing the Church-rates upon the people, in stead of causing the Churches to be repaired and maintained out of the fruits of the livings ; The appropriating the property of the Guilds and Fraternities, and Charitable Bequests, amongst the aristocracy and their dependents ; The uniting of parishes, and amalgamating the pro duce of the livings, and giving them to one man, instead of permitting each parish to have its sepa rate priest ; The giving a plurality of votes, at a vestry, to rich men, and thus destroying the weight of the vote of the poor man ; The inventing and introducing the cunning and in quisitorial Excise system, in[order that the taxes should be taken from the people in a manner that they cannot resist, any more than they can resist the robber who has his hands in their pockets, after having first blindfolded and bound them ; The establishing, first triennial, and then septennial Parliaments ; which, down to the period of any thing-but-" glorious Revolution of 1688" had been annual ; The taking from the Crown its landed estates, and dividing them amongst the aristocracy, and making the Sovereign a sort of pensioner, to be maintained out of the taxes raised upon the people ; The leaving, in innumerable cases, the convicting and punishing of persons at the discretion of men who are appointed by, and removable at, the pleasure of the Minister of the day ; The trying, and imprisoning of men without trial, by jury, for simple trespass, in treading on corn-fields ; and protecting rich men from such law, when, with horses and dogs, they sport upon these same corn fields. The compelling men to leave their aged parents, their wives, and their children, and to come forth in de fence of the country ; to submit to military dis cipline, and punishment for disobedience of orders, and to risk their lives in its service, whilst they are refused the right of voting at elections, on the ground that they have no stake in the country ; The delegating to three men, who are called " Poor law Commissioners," the power of making laws to bind the people of this country ! a circumstance, the existence of which is almost sufficient to make the dry bones of our brave and free forefathers to rattle in their graves, from shame and indignation at the tameness and baseness of their degenerate SOW. 7. These constitute a mass of grievous innovations on the liberty of the people, may it please y our Hon. House, the smallest of which wou ld never have existed if the people had not been robbed of the power of re turning Members to their own House of Parliament ; which power they had exercised for so m and the. continuance of th e possession of which aay wo uld agea have prevented grasping the hand s o f power from many other things unjustly, amo ngs t w hi c h are the Arm y, the Navy, the Col on i es , t h e Diplomatic Affairs, the Col leges, yea, everything, to which are attached great heaps of money, is enclosed in this unrelenting grasp ; and this same power, now, by means of the " New Poor-law" (which was passed " to bring the people of England, by degrees, to live upon a coarser sort of food"), hopes to grasp some twenty, or thirty, millions more a-year, out of the wages of the labouring part of the people—from that part of the people, who are, at this time, in such of state of poverty, that the agonizing cries for bread, o millions of them, are piercing our ears and harrowing our hearts, and exciting in our minds grief and shame, and a burning and inexpressible rage, when we reflect on the causes of such sufferings ; and, more espe cially, when we find that, although these sufferings were long ago foretold, nothing was done to prevent them ; and, now that they present themselves in such fearful array before us, we are sickened to the soul at the almost total absence or thefa efforts to rem e dy them, or of any sympath y fe sufferers, being evinced by those who have t h e power to relieve them. s w e an th t a o t f lacownfite ,itwiointheresetthaehryefmoreerepwraasytetheaft t y h o e u p r u H hl o ie - , nou B r . ab Y le na H r o P us e e t d ti e m n e ce in ” hu her p e r r ot Majesty's able di s s c e u r s y s a i o n n t s a w b l u l tc cause be put in force which will remove her Majesty's ser vants from the occupying of seats, and voting in your Honourable House ; and, also, that you will set about re moving those grievances which they have, in this MORNING SUN their petition, feebly set forth ; and that, the' think, can be effectually done, only by your Honourable House taking into your honest consideration the thou- sands of petitions for a Radical Reform of your Ho nourable House, which have been signed by millions of the unrepresented people of this nation. And your petitioners will ever pray. (Signed by order of the meeting ), JA MES WILKINSON, Chairman, GEORGE ROGERS, Treasurer. B. TILLY, Hon. Sec. HALF YEARLY MEETING OF THE CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAIL WAY DIRECTORS. (PROM OUR OWN CORRECIPONDENT.) LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, OCT. 7. A numerous and highly respectable meeting of the Proprietors in the Chester and Birkenhead Railway • was held at the Clarendon-rooms in this town, at •12 o'clock to-day, for the purpose of receiving a report • and statement of the general accounts from the opening of the line, and transacting other important business. The Chair was occupied:by HENRY DIXON, Esq., the. President of the Board of Directors. The meeting lasted for upwards of an ho ur an d th ree quarters, and, when contrasted with sume of the former meetings of this Company, was remarkable for the unanimity of business like manner in which its proceedings were conducted. The report, which extended to considerable length, was read by Mr. Mallaby, the Company's solicitor. The accounts which commenced on the day the railway was opened, the 21st of Oct. 1840, and were brought down to the 30th of June, 1841, showed a surplus of upwards of 5,0001 The average rate of fare upon the line was lid. per passenger per mile—less by a halfpenny, and in some instances a penny, than that charged upon other lines in this country. The extreme lowness of the fares, and the expenditure incurred in conveying passengers across the river Mersey to and from Liverpool, were considered as the chief causes of the com parative smallness of the profits ; and the Direc tors desired to call the attention of the Proprietors to the latter subject, in the hope of their being able to abolish such an incubus. They also conceived it would be, desirable to have a tunnel formed at the Birkenhead station, to communicate with the water-side, and thus do away with the expenses of omnibuses for the convey ance of passengers thither. They thought it right not to make any dividend on the surplus at present for reasons of a cogent nature, which would more particularly appear from the statement of the ac counts, but to pay a dividend at the next half -yearly meeting ; and this they hoped would be the last sacrifice which the Proprietors would have to make, on account of the undertaking. The Directors had taken into consideration the propriety of dispensing with the services of their paid Treasurer, but they had not, as yet, come to any resolution, on the subject ; they had, moreover, turned their atten tion to the details of the several departments of the ex penditure, with a view to their diminution, It was with feelings of gratitude that the Directors informed the Proprietors, that although the passenger traffic had in creased upon the line, no accident had occurred to any one, nor had there been any injury experienced by the carriages, although the rate of travelling was equal to that on any other line in the kingdom. Mr. J. MOLYNE&UX moved the adoption of the Report. Mr. E. GERARD seconded it, and it was carried unanimously. _ _ Mr. JACKSON, of Birkenhead, then made a proposi tion to the Company to pay the sums of 24,3501. for tie ferry between Liverpool and Woodside, and 5,7001. for a new steamboat they had purchased, and to grant the right in perpetuity to the Company to convey railway passen gers from Mankstown-ferry to Liverpool. The proposition, which appeared fair and reasonable, caused considerahle discussion, and the Proprietors em powered the Directors to enter into a negociation, with view to its being effected. The meeting then separated. VICE-ADMIRAL SIR EDWARD 0 WEN, K.C.8., G.C.H., COMMANDER-IN CHIEF IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. So important a command as that of the Mediter ranean Fleet having been transferred into new hands, it is but reasonable that Englishmen who are beyond the pale of naval circles should desire to be somewhat acquainted with the officer to whom it is entrusted. Sir Edward Owen is the son of the deceased Captain Owen, R.N., who lost an arm in the service of his country. He was educated at Chelsea, and became a Lieutenant in 1793. Five years after he was advanced to the rank of Post-Captain. His first appointment of importance was to the Immortalite frigate, about May, 1802 ; and soon after the renewal of the war, we find that ship, in company with the Jalouse and Cruiser sloops of war, driving le Commode, and I'lnabordable, a French brig and schooner, each mounting 4 guns, on shore near Cape Blanc Nez, where they were taken possession of by the boats of the squadron, under a heavy fire from the enemy's batteries. In 1803, Dieppe and St. Valery en Caux were bom barded by a small force under Captain Owen's orders, and considerable damage, it was supposed, was done to those towns. From this period Captain Owen kept the French coast in a continual state of alarm ; and l'lmmortalite was well known to the inhabitants for the daring man ner in which, in spite of banks and batteries, she ap proached their shores. The character she had gained along the French coast was indeed very high, and Count Dumas bore testimony to her bravery. "'Le Capitaine Owen," he sayF, in his Precis des Evene mens,' " Commandant la regate l'lmmortalite, fit ad mirer son audace et sa perseverance sous le feu des bat teries de la rade." In the month of July, 1804, Captain Owen pur sued a number of large , brigs and luggers on the Bou logne coast, caused many of them to founder and others to be stranded ; and the French account adniits that upwards of 400 soldiers went down in these ves sels, and many others perished. The. weather was at the time severe, and the French writers ascribed their losses entirely to the storms. Napoleon, from the heights of Boulogne was himself a spectator of the scene, apd.it we are to credit the French writers, evinced much Sen sibility on the occasion. He, no doubt, was taught a lesson by the disaster, seeing that the weather, as well as the British cruisers, might foil his attempt. to invade Great Britain. Boulogne being then the head-quarters of the French armament, the British squadron carefully cruised about that place, and while the main body usually lay at anchor out ten miles N.W. of the port, a division of five or six vessels, commanded by Captain Owen, generally cruised just out of the range of the enemy's shells. During the month of August, great bustle prevailed in the road of Boulogne, Napoleon being there at this time in his barge, attended by his two Generals and Admiral Bruix. Captain Owen, with the squadron under his orders, was, during this period, engaged in several sharp skirmishes with the French batteries, in one of which the Immortalite was twice struck by shot in the hull, and had four men wounded. On the 23d of October following, Captain Owen, standing off Cape Grisnez, gave chase to three praams, seven brigs, and a fifteen luggers, and kept up a running fight till the falling tide obliged him to haul off, with the loss of one man slain, and a lieutenant of the Banc de Leine and ten men wounded, three of whom died soon after. Captain Owen, in his letter to the Rear-Admi ral, says—" From the manner in which our grape-shot covered the enemy's vessels, their loss in men must have been very great. I never saw guns pointed bet ter, or so coolly." Early in the ensuing year the Im mortalite captured El Entrepreda Corune, a Spanish privateer, of 14 guns and 66 men ; and on the 18th of July, 1805, Captain Owen had a most severe encoun ter with a part of the Boulogne flotilla, by which the enemy's loss in shipping and men was very great. On this occasion the Immortalite had her foremast, main topmast, spanker-boom, and three boats shot through ; her rigging and sails much cut, her hull struck in seve ral places, two carronades disabled ; 4 men killed and 12 wounded, several of them severely. During the summer of 1806, hostilities against Bou logne were suspended ; but, on the Bth of October, the Earl of Lauderdale being then known to have quitted Paris re infecto, Commodore Owen immediately seized the opportunity of making trial of Mr. (subsequently Sir. \V.) Co ngr e ve ' s roc k ets, w hi c h h a d b een j ust in vented, and created much excitement. a 1 o fi g r t n s e Accordingly C ommo d ore O wen s t oo d for 13u Bay, and no t w i t h s t an di ng t h e f au ltiness apprenticeship, h a r g ed i nay a n a o t hourle s t a h n a d n 1:1100 about rocketsn:f piwerenat.n a eise d t oihsne c town appeared on fire ; while such was the the batteries. shore that not a shot was returned f e ro r m u . n rability of The efficiency of the weapon, and th e The fire Boulogne were sufficiently ascertains.ny vessels in blazed from two A.I. till the evea c longs'iderable range of the harbour were destroyed, or re the ruins of eight of which ff t e he Commodore's broad Clyde, the vessel in which storehouses,diseerno from burnt, u r t n h t e buildings, apparently barrack s, pennant was then fly Being almost in sight of our own withthe flying communications shores, and the This is by far the most memorable and most distin arnbGianilanutnOinffitecrerru'spete4dretrh.e papers. guished portion of t day eg with accountsof d almost every were filled and attacks on the French gun-boats and encounters The public attention was almost concen denrognagehde batteries. the hero of the hour. His withcotn mthaendeendemy • 5 wtreatewdeolln remember,Beulogne, and the Gallant Corunaodore was, un daunted bravery was the continual theme of applause. The daring of the Immortalite and Commodore Owen filled the whole community, from the Deal boatme n to the Aberdeen burgher, with wonder and admiration. The advantage of his deeds to the country has been called in question. Not a few lives were sacrificed, and no inconsiderable expense incurred. At the same time the French flotilla was kept in cheek,eoNjanncded,Napo leonif fbe was continually and practically n ever entertained the idea of invading England —that the enterprise would be one of imminent danger and great loss. Commodore Owen was, however, highly applauded by the country ; his services were, on this particular occasion, of gre a t va l ue ; but we may be permitted to doubt, wheth er t h e kind of insens ibl e courage for which he was distinguished, be of the high est order even of naval talents, Commodore Owen appears to have been engaged in no other memorable matter till the mouth of August,