The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-08 00:00:00

MORNING SUN IrEWSPAPER STAMP RETURNS. Extract from a Return of the Number of Stamps issued to the several Newspapers in Eng land, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist day of April to the 30th day of June, 1841, inclusive ; ordered by the House of Commons : ATerage Daily Circulation. SUN 311,000 Globe Standard 250,000 Courier 48,000 A Return of the Amount of Advertisemen Duty paid by each Newspaper from the oth o January to the sth of July, 1841: — SUN Standard Globe Courier i:673 17 6 589 10 0 58:2 9 0 247 7 0 NEW WORK EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, ESQ. On Saturday next, Oat. 9, in 3 vols. post aro., THE PARISH CLERK A NOVEL. EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, ESQ. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Alarlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. U , !DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIfit. THIS EVENING, OCT. 8, Will be repeated, Colley Cibbtr's Comedy of SHE WOULD AND SHE WOULD NOT. —Don Manuel, Mr. W. Farren ; Don Philip, Mr. Cooper ; am Octavio, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Trapanti, Mr. Harley; Ilyppolyta, Mrs. Nisbet; ; Flora, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Rosara, Miss Cooper ; Viletta. Mrs. Orger. After which, the Farce entitled BROTHER BEN.— Commodore Cutlass, Mr. Bartiey ; Benjamin Bowles, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mr. Shuffieton, Mr. Harley; Mrs. Cut lass. Miss Cooper , Dorothy. Mrs. Taylenre. To conclude with, the Ballet of Action, entitled HANS OF ICELAND.—Hans of Iceland, Mr. W. 11. Payne ; Gill, Mr J. 11. Ridgway; Frederick, Mr. Gilbert; Oglypiglsp, Mr. I'. Ridgway ; Iceland Boy, Master Marshall ; Guth Staten, Miss Bailin ; Iceland Girl, Miss 3larshall. Doors te to evened at half-past Sit—the performances to clmmence at Seven. Dress Boles, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. t3d. ; FirSt and Seconc Circ'es, ts. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price 2. , .; Gallery Is. Ticket's and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four. where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Daces to be had solely or a.ir. Andres, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. To-morrow, She Would and She Would Not, with Animal Magnetism, and Hans of Iceland. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER 'nit: AIANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Crowded Homes. " Blenheim " a greftter hit than the " Pat tie of Waterloo." pletriid New Scenes in the Circle, and, by desire, the Poney Races One Week more. rills EVENING. OCT. 8, Will be presented the iuccessful Equestrian Spectacle, called THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM ; OR, IHE HORSE OF THE DISINHERITED; introducingMr Ducrow'striag nifi,ent Stud of Forty Ilnrses, Palfres, Fairy Polley% Equeatrian Troop, and Companies of both Theatres; pm:at-acing all the Military Exploits of the Great Duke of Marlborough, Grand ilcviews, 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. 'JNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALDISTON Thirteenth week of " Susan Boplev !" Revival of the Mimi. cal Romance a" Madeline !" anti second week of " The Fly. ing Dutchman," with Childe's Phantasmagorical Represent& tioa of the Spectral Ship in full sail. THIS EVENING, OCT. 8, 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. Sarille ; Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which. MADELINE ; or. the WOODEN SHOE MAKER and his WIFE, and the FOOL of the DROVe NED. Peter Marcel. Mr. Gardner ; Pont de Gibaut, Mr. Paul ; Madeline, Miss Vincent. 're conclude with THE FLYING DUTCHMAN ; OR THE PH ANTOM SHlP.—Vanderdecken, Mr. Dale ; 'Toby Varnish, Mr. Seaman ; Peter Von Bummel, Mr. Gardner ; Lestefle, Mrs. Lee ; Lucy, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, N.—Pit, s.— , 6d. Half-price to the Boxes anti, at Half-past Eight. To. morrow, Susan Hopley, Madeline, and the Flying Dutchman THE RAILWAY SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Sept. 30, 1841. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 44 mlnutos aftar 6. 1 Evening 17 minutes after 7. • , • • 0. au 4 16,.." 7 ,ea , "4. 7., •-• 1 41 13. . ." 1. rbt UIT. LONDON: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1841. The Parliament stands prorogued till Novem ber 11th. The Ministry have refused to allow that body to consider and redress the injuries it inflicts on the public. Be it so. It does not, therefore, follow that those injuries are not to be redressed. The nation is not without help be cause Dr. PEEL, after having taken his fee, will not prescribe. Constitutionally and legally the Parliament is the offspring of the people's choice, and intended to do the bidding of their sovereign will, and the power which constitutes a Parliament can be neither legally, constitu tionally, nor physically incapable of redressing its own wrongs because the instrument it has chosen for t7ie purpose refuses to perform its duties. The people are not to starve because it suits the convenience of Sir R. PEEL to pro rogue the Parliament. 'We, however, are glad it is dismissed, as that will convince the people they must rely on their own resources. The Speech with which her MAJESTY'S Mi nister prorogued the Parliament is before the public. According to the custom of those who will have their own way, it gives no other reason for proroguing Parliament than " that it appears advisable to her Majesty ;" poor lady! she never was consulted about it; her masters wish to get rid of the annoyance of receiving petitions and remonstrances, therefore to prorogue the Par liament appears advisable to them, and there fore it is prorogued. It seems hardly worth while solemnly to tell the two Houses that a new Ministry has been formed, which is the substance of one-fourth of the Speech, when that has been known these t h r ee weeks; but Royal Speeches generally con sist only of such nothings solemnly uttered. How different is the meaning language used by the American President. Every sentence he writes is necessary and useful. Evil counsellors lately beguiled him to give a half consent to a Bill establishing a fiscal agent, or a national bank disguised under another name, contrary to his own views of what the Cuiz ,, Litution prescribes. He discovered his mistake before it was too late, and, giving his reasons at length for his conduct, he vetoed the Bill. He proved by hi s up right conduct t h a t his office and his power were not fictions, or mummeries, esta blished to enable a faction to lord it over the mil lions, but realities and truths, whether his powers were wrongly or rightly exercised. When we contrast the Speech of her iIiAJESTY'S Ministers at this important phesis of the condition of Eng land with President TveEn's Message to Con gress, we blush to think that Englishmen should now allow themselves to be mocked and fooled by empty fictions., After the Ministers had thanked the House of Commons for the supplies which the Ministers and their men voted, those Ministers tell us that Parliament will have to equalise the public in come and expenditure, which is another circum stance almost as well known as that PEEL iS in office. They use the following language :— The measures which it will be expedient to adopt for the purpose of equalising the Public Income and the Annual Expenditure, and other im ortant objects con nected with the Trade and Comme r rce of the country, after the will necessarily occupy your att ent i on a t an early period Recess. What would COBBMTT, were he alive, say to this paragraph ? Are trade and commerce dif ferent and distinct thi ngs? Certainly not ; and the word " man.ufacturee should -h ave b een used for one of the unnecessary words. - 14re-tinderl.and the first half of the paragraph, `:buifthe second half puzzles us. Is it meant . ibitt iiieasutes for " equalising '7 other objects _ connected with trade, &c., will occupy the at tention of Parliament, or that objects connected with trade, besides the measures for equalising the income and expenditure, will occupy the attention of Parliament ? If the latter be, as we presume, the meaning which her MAJESTY'S Mas ters wished to convey to the Parliament, why did they say, and other objects connected with trade, &c., as if the measures for equalising the public income and expenditure were also objects connected with trade ? As the sentence stands, the meaning is, that " measures for equalising the public income and expenditure, and for equalising other objects connected with trade, &c., will occupy your attention," which is as sheer nonsense as ever a Minister penned, and that is saying a great deal. The Ministers meant to be vague, and they have made themselves fools. They should have been more brief, and they would have been equally vague, without being ungrammati cal. They ought to have substituted for the words, "and other important objects connected with the trade and commerce of the country," the words, "with the state of trade.' The whole would then read thus, "The measures which it will be expedient to adopt fur the purpose of equalising the public income and the annual ex penditure, with the state of trade, will ne cessarily occupy your attention at an early period after the recess." Supposing the meaning of the sentence to be that sonie of the laws interfering with trade are to be taken into consideration, in conjunction with measures for equalising the revenue and the expenditure, we can only conclude that the Tories have al ready resolved to adopt the very course they turned out the Whigs for proposing. The Speech expresses " deep concern at the distress which has prevailed in the manufactur ing districts for a considerable period," implying that it does not now prevail; and it promises, not to take measures to relieve it, but to pre vent the recurrence of that distress. To• the thous rid complaints, then, which have been poured, and are still pouring, in from the ma nufiicturing districts of now-prevailing distress, the Speech of her MAJESTY'S Ministers gives a solemn and positive contradiction. The Mi nisters do not believe the representa tions of the people , they believe that the statements of present distress are all fudge; and their "deep concern" is for the distress which has prevailed during the Whig Administration, and which has disappeared since the Tories took office. s;ir ROBERT PEEL and his friends rely on those proofs which he and we have adduced, that the mortality was greater in tie terrible years 1838 and 1839, than in 1841. In those years the Whigs, in conjunction with the Tories, obsti nately refused to relieve us by repealing the Corn-laws, or by altering them; and now they are told from the Throne, by their quondam allies in resisting our claims for relief, that dis tress existed in their Administration, and the public knows they took no means to remedy it. The " deep concern" which Sir ROBERT PEEL feigns for the distress which pre vailed under the Whig Administration will not cover his head with grey hair, nor plant a furrow in his cheek. We happened to see him, as he passed through the lobby of the House of Commons yesterday, and a more smiling, jocund-looking gentleman, for a man deeply concerned for the distress of a nation, it is impossible to behold. It is quite plain, from his speeches in Parliament, as well as from his gait and countenance, that he is in exuberant spirits, while he speaks of his " deep concern." In fact, he has become the wit of the House. NERO fiddled while Rome was burning—Sir R. PEEL jokes while the people are starving. Nay, he seems to joke because they are starving, and he uses their distresses to imply a severe sarcasm against the Whigs. He may glorify himself by a comparison with them, but there is some thing in the world besides Whigs and Tories, arid mankind will not see in the faults of one set of statesmen proofs of the merits of others. Some of our friends expect a large and generous policy from him—we do not. He is a great actor, but not a great man. He can manage the House of Com mons—he does not comprehend the nation. He is a mere political machine, which is wound up, and therefore goes by the square. As the ser vant is not greater than the master, as a machine is not superior to its maker, so cannot Sir Ro- BERT PEEL surpass the RICIIMONDS who have made him, and his policy will be no other than what they dictate. On Saturday we noticed in our Parliamentary Summary the language used by Lord WHARN-• CLIFFE in attacking the Marquis of NORMANBY for not supporting the Mansfield Magistrates in particular, and the Magistrates generally, in all their actions. A closer examination of the de bate on that occasion leads us to think that it is worthy of being again brought under the notice of our readers. In the month of August, 1839, a Mr. TJNWIN, a Magistrate, of whom we shall say as little evil as possible, as he has now to reckon with the GREAT JUDGE, but who was described by the Marquis of NORMANDY as a gentleman who loved to execute the law himself, and would rather take a poacher himself than commit the duty to other hands—Mr. UNWIN com municated to the - Magistrates that he had certain information that in many houses arms were concealed for treasonable purposes. The information was derived from a man named EPHRAIM SILLS, who was not produced on the trial, lest, as wasisaid, he might prejudice Mr. UNWIN'S case, and who was described by one witness as unworthy of belief. The Magis trates to whom the information was given on oath doubted whether they had the power to search houses for arms, but Mr. UNWIN issued a warrant to search the houses of several persons in Mansfield for arms. He went himself to execute the warrants, and searched, amongst other houses, the house of Mr. BROYAN, but found no arms. He searched, at the same time, for other things. He appears to have ransacked Mr. BROYAN'S daughter's bureau, as well as other places, for papers, and finding some, he is said to have exclaimed, " These are what I wanted;" and he seized some letters from Mr. PITKEITH LEY, and an address from the General Conven tion.wrapped round a stocking. thisviola tion of his " castle," as a poor Englishman's house is figuratively called, Mr. BROYAN brought an action against Mr. Usrwisr, and notwithstand ing the protection which the law throws round Magistrates, and the impediments it places in the way of correcting them, and notwithstand ing the known leaning of all the Judges to favour men in authority, a verdict, with nominal da mages, passed against Mr. UNWIN. Such is a brief outline of the facts of the case, and we cannot see how the Home Secretary was called on in any way to interfere, or suspend the due course o f l aw , i n order to protectp . ir. UNWIN. But the excuse made by Mr. UNWIN for his too much zeal was, that Lord J. RUSSELL had issued a circular letter on May 7, 1839, to the Magistrates, directing their attention to the fact that the people were arming, and pointing out the means of seizing the arms. The Judge, Lord DENMAN, said that the circular did not justify Mr. UNWIN'S conduct; but it is obvio us t h at the terror of the people, felt by the Home Secretary, and the zeal he displayed, gave a fillip to the terror and the zeal of Mr. t r xwix, and made him overstep the bounds of law. Dreadful was the alarm throughout the land then on account of the Chartists, and intern p-rate the exertions of all the ministers of th law, from the police at Birmingham to Mr. UNWIN at Mansfield. Such results, when Chartism was dying out, should teach Home Secretaries that even their zeal may outrun dis cretion, and work fearfully through the zeal of their too willing understrappers. The Marquis of NORMANDY did not see in Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S circular a defence of Mr. UNWIN'S conduct, and when applied to he re fused to allow the Home-office to undertake Mr. UNWIN'S defence. For not undertaking' that defence, the Noble Marquis was exposed to the attack of the Duke of POIZTLAND, and the vituperation of Lord WHARNCIFFE, the Pre sident of the Council. What the former might have said is lost to the world, because the Noble Duke appears to be not much of an orator, but the latter went the length of reproaching the Marquis of NORMANDY with having been in fluenced in his conduct by the same sort of feeling which he had manifested in Ireland— a disposition against the country gentlemen and Magistrates, for whom the President ofthe Council claimed almost complete impunity. In fact, the language of the Tory Minister, as reported in the Times, is the circumstance which makes us refer fo this case. After scolding the Marquis of NOR MANBY for not being as arbitrary and ill-disposed towards the people as the Tories—after making it out that the Home Secretary should support the Magistracy both in Ireland and England, whatever freaks of oppression they might be guilty of, the Lord President of the Cou;;cil came to the conclusion that the Magistrate: should, in some cases, be exempt from the con trol of the law. These are the words reported to have been used by the Lord President of the Council, one of the guardians of our rights, and one of the paid protectors of the people : " For his part, he was clearly of opinion that in some cases (such as that, of course, of break ing into a poor man's house and taking away his papers without any authority) Magistrates could not discharge their duties if they were to be confined with undeviating precision to the strict letter of the law." Oh, no ; where Chartists and democrats are concerned, where persons combine together to get rid of landlords' tyranny, to throw off a Bread-tax, or recover from their grasp the repre sentation of the people, these Magistrates are to be licensed; they are not to be confined by the law ; they are to act on their zeal, however exu berant; on their suspicions, however false and exaggerated; and on their personal caprice ur personal spite, however unworthy. Whatever the County Magistracy may do to poachers and Chartists, they are to be defended; and when they trespass on the law, which is made as much as possible to suit their convenience and serve their purpose, kest then the law, which in all other cases is to be rigidly adhered to and strictly enforced, is to be relaxed or suspended, that their conduct, however brutal, may go scot free. That, we know, is the general practice, and that is now time doctrine openly broached by the Tory Lord President of the Council, one of the highest tribunals, and he one of the highest Judges, of the land. But such practices and such doctrines have already brought contempt and hatred on the law of England, and have made its Legislators and its Magistrates a bye-word amongst the na tions. But the cream of the practised and meditated injustice is - yet to come. After this Magistrate had most scandalously violated a poor man's dwelling, and behaved in a way which would have disgraced even a policeman in Ireland— after the law, when appealed to, had so vindi cated Mr. BROYAN, as to condemn the unjust Magistrate in costs, his Grace the Duke of PORTLAND submitted a motion to the House of Peers for an address to her MAJESTY that she would order Mr. UNWIN'S expenses to be paid out of the public treasury, for that was the ob ject of the Noble Duke, though the words are, " take Mr. 13 - NwlN's case into gracious conside ration." The motion was indeed informal, and, as Lord WHARNCLIFFE said, dangerous to the stability of the Government, and therefore it was withdrawn; but let the reader just consider to what all this must come, if one Peer maintains that a Magistrate is to be upheld who violates the law, and another, when he has by accident fallen under its lightest visitation, pro poses to reimburse him, and perhaps reward him out of the public purse. One JOSEPH BROYAN, as the Duke of PORTLAND contemptuously styled the victim of Mr. UN WIN'S unscrupulous zeal, representing under that designation, however, all the labouring classes, is to have his house broken into, his every drawer ransacked, his things strewed about, the privacy of his dwelling and his family violated, and JOSEPH BROYAN is to pay by the taxes all the expenses to which the oppressor is put. Such proceedings are mon strous, and if the Peers and gentlemen of Eng land think that they are not observed by and known to the people, and have not their due effect on their minds, they are grievously mis taken. The lower classes, we beg to assure the Duke of PORTLAND, Lord WHARNCLIFFE, and the whole tribe of Tory law-makers and Magis trates, do actua►ly bleed when they are pricked, do feel and will resent injuries whenever they have the power. Their minds have now gathered in " one drop of time" centuries of wrong; long nursed indignation is intensely concentrated and compressed ; and how soon a fearful explosion may take place no man can tell. The war-cry against England is evidently about to be renewed in the French Journals. Those last received scarcely deign to conceal that in keeping up her naval armaments France has no other object than to pick a quarrel with us. Unfortunately for the repose of the world some of our Tory Contemporaries are playing the game of the French war faction. The Times, which, under its new management, appears to sail before every wind that blows without either chart or compass, has recently indulged in a series of bigotted and altogether most unjust attacks upon the moral and religious character of the French people, which we are not sur prised to find are producing immense mischief in Paris. Whoever may be the writer of these articles, we can tell him that he has incurred a fearful moral responsibity. The French people will not suffer themselves to be branded with the vilest epithets with impunity, nor will a vindication of their moral worth be confined to an attack on Printing-house-square. But to meet the question on the writer's own narrow, polemical ground,—ls it by insulting the moral and religious feelings of the French that the writer in the Times hopes to make them better Christians and better citizens? Does he expect then) to become devout Christians because he denouncesthem as a nation of infidelsand atheists? Does he hope to make them better subjects by gravely asserting that they are only to be go verned by the sheer applicatiati of brute force-? Or does he himself really believe that in a country where an army of half a million of men can be kept in subjection by an appeal to the sentiment of individual honour, a Government might not exercise the most extensive sway with out recourse to the repressive laws so vainly had recourse to by Louis PHILIPPE ? If he does s:)berly believe this, he cannot too soon abandon his attempts to influence public opinion against the French. He is but indifferently qua lified to treat of questions which require so much delicacy in the handling as the state of moral and religious feeling among a people so sensitive to everything like insult or abuse as our Gallic neighbours. Independently of Tory provocations, we are not altogether surprised at the sudden change in the tone of the more moderate Paris Jour nals. M. TRIERS is now returned from Ger many, and having nothing at present to do, may be expected to etr.ploy- himself in reviving the old outcry against England. The Germans treated him so handsomely that he cannot make up his mind to the shamelessness of abusing them ; and so he attacks us without mercy. The provincial riots, occasioned by the expense to which M.THIERS put the country, have not di minished his influence with the editorsof the Paris press, a.nda noisy anti-English faction in the Cham bers. One thing only about the mattersurprises us, and that is, that M. THIERS, who never before adhered so long to one opinion, has not by this time become a partizan of the British alliance. But for the opposition he met with, and the loss of power and place which he incurred, we are quite sure that he would by this time have been ready to sacrifice every ship in commission to the slightest wish of Lord ABERDEEN, or whoso. THE SUN, LON.DON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1841. ever else,;might fill the place of Foreign Secre tary—Lord PALMERSTON not excepted. But his misunderstanding with England has degenerated into a personal quarrel. The British Government deigned not to regard his bluster as the voice of the French people. He was treated less as a Minister than as an individual in the struggle political charlatanism was exposed to the in dignation of Europe, and hence, we presame, the depth of his continued resentment. M. TRIERS hates us not on public but on private grounds. He cannot pardon us his political extinction, nor do we much wonder at it. But why should the French Press submit to be made the tool of M. MIER Why should it echo insults dictated by the wounded self-love of an incompetent states man, or rather of a disappointed political adven turer? Are two great nations to cut. each other's throats to appease the vengeance ofan individual who has already attained an eminence so dispro portioned to his talents and his public services ? If so, the reign of justice and common sense has not yet commenced in the world. The Overland Mail from India has arrived, bringing most important news from Canton o. the 19th of June, from Macao of the 20th, from Calcutta of the 7th of August, and from Bombay of the Ist of September. The British troops under the command of General Sir HUGH GOUGH and Sir HUMPHREY Li FLEMING SEN HOUSE, .naving, in a series of brilliant at tacks, from the 21st to the 27th of May, destroyed all the fortifications round Canton, that city capitulated. General Sir HuGil GOUGH calculates the loss of the Chi..ese in the different attacks at 1,000 killed and 3,001, wounded. The loss on the British side was 13 killed and 112 wounded, including several highly distinguished officers. By the terms of the capitulation, the Chinese Commissioners, with all the troops except the natives of the province of Quanc;tong, agreed to withdraw sixty miles from the city ; to pay for the use of the British Crown in consideration of sparing the city, and independently of the opium claim, six millioss of dollars within one week, of which five millions have been paid; to abstain from fortifying any place on the river before the final adjus:- ment of the opium question; to satisfy within one week all demands fur the plunder of the fitctories, and the destruction of the Span ish brig Bilbaino in 1839. On the partial per formance of these terms by the Chinese, Cap- VIM ELLIOT (whose successor, Sir H. POTTIN GER, had unfortunately nut arrived in China), agreed to withdraw, and actually withdrew all the British forces outside the Bocca Tigris— thus neutralizing and destroying the whole of the most desirable results of the expedition! How keenly must the gallant officers and men who saw themselves within an hour of a victory which would have brought the EMPEROR upon his knees, and eventually spared the effusion of rivers of blood,felt the degradation ofyielding obedience to a man so utterly incompetent to fill the office of a Plenipotentiary as Captain ELLIOT ! " Whatever might be my sentiments," writes the gallant General Sir H. GOUGH to Lord AUCKLAND, " my duty was to acquiesce ; the attack, which was to have commenced within forty-five minutes, was counter manded, and the feelings of the Chinese were spared. Of the policy of the measure Ido not consider myself a competent judge ; but I say feelings,' as I would have been responsible that Canton should be equally spared, with the exception of its defences, and that not a soldier should have entered the town further than the fortified heights within its walls." The Gallant Officer here indicates the proper course, and one which, had it been adopted, would have at once settled the opium question. Sir H. POTTINGER, the new Plenipotontiary, was expected to reach Hong Kong in August. According to a report of the instructions given to him by Lord PALMERSTON, he is to demand fifteen millions of dollars for the seized opium, the whole of the expenses of the war, and the Hong debts. The cost of the opium is to be paid at once, the remainder in instalments within five years, with the interest thereon at the rate of 5 per cent. He is to negotiate with no Mandarin who does not hold plenary powers from the Emperor; to insist upon having a British Envoy at Pekin, with the right of holding direct communication with the Emperor in person ; to demand the opening of a trade at all the prin cipal ports in the Chinese seas, with the right of Great Britain to purchase land and build a factory in each ; and, finally, to make known to the Emperor, that England will per manently occupy Hong Kong, for the pro tection of her trade. Had Sir H. POTTINGER, on arriving in China, found Canton garrisoned by British troops, the work of negot i at i on would be very short, and Captain ELLIOT might have left the country with some degree of credit. But unfortunately all that might have been accomplished will have to be begun over again. Nor is it possible to comprehend what object Captain ELLIOT could have in taking Canton and then restoring it to the Chinese, since it appears that he had no intention of so much as Mooting the opium question. Of the general news brought by this mail, we have not space here for any details, which will be found at length in another part of The Sun. We deeply deplore the loss which the naval service has sustained in the death of Sir H. LE FLEMING SENHOUSE. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND 9pubitt 14: pinion, " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. Canton was taken by the British forces on the 27th of May. The details are too interesting to be abridged, and we therefore•refer the reader to the official accounts given at length in The Sun. The intelligence from the Continent is destitute of in terest, with the exception of the following from the Paris paper, the illessager—to which we attach little credit:— " The Captain-General O'Donnell, at the head of two battalions of Navarre, has taken the citadel of Pain peluna. This coup de wain has been effected in the name of the Queen Regent Christina." Upon this news being known in Paris, the Spanish Funds fell about on:: per cent. IVIONET-i7ZII.I3Yr-COTIZIWEACE. The Ballinasloe October fair commenced on Monday, and promises to be a favourable one for the graziers. Prices are considerably higher than they were last year. ,CODr==3ICL&X. Further meetings to memoralise the Queen on the pre tent distress, and petitioning against the prorogation of Parliament i have been held at the Ward of Fe.rringdon within, Brea&street Ward. and Sunderland, since our last, and fifteen additional addresses from couLties, bo roughs, and .Parishes, forwarded by Sir J. Graham to the Queen. L•sazoTzoNsizarwo. Andover is assuming all the bustle of an election con test. Lord William Paget or Lord Huntingtower comes f'orw'ard on the Reform side. Mr. Henry B. Coles is the Conservative candidate. Lord Somerton, son of the Earl of Normington, was elected for the borough of Wilton on Wednesday, un opposed. PINE ARTS. A farther part of the discoveries in the Chapter House Record-office, Westminster, consists of a pavement, con cealed under the present wooden floor, composed of an cient Norman tiles, which are figured with gold, burnt in brick. Th e patterns o f t h e fi g ur e s are beautiful and various. acturcviervnaz. Prince Albert has become a British farmer, as the stock and crops on the Norfolk and Flemish farms, Windsor Great Park, formerly occupied by King Wil liam IV., have been valued to his Highness from the Crown by Government order. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The Acheron, British steam- packet, was still lying at Constantinople, or. the 14th instant, awaiting Lord Pon ' sonby, who had been unable to embark in consequence the serious illness of Lady Ponsonby. LAW AND POLICIL On Tuesday James Smith, a private in the Scotch Greys, now qt.artered at Brighton, was brought before the Lewes Magistrates, charged with robbing Elizabeth Dickens, wife of the head gamekeeper of Lord Chiches ter, and remanded for a week, with au intimation that he would then be committed for trial. The driver of the omnibus No. 2,461, was brought to Quiien-square on Weckesday, charged with galloping through Knightsbridge on Sunday evening ; and on the case being proved, the Magistrate suspended defendant's license, and took his badge away for two months. Mr. Vandenhoff is engaged at Covent Garden, where he will shortly make hisappearance in Sheridan Knowles's new play. gtss Adelaide Kemble's performances at Covent Gar den Theatre will not commence until the latter end of November, when we learn on good authority that Mr. R. Hughes, the leader, who lately made so creditable a debut as Count Almaviva, in the performance of the Operatic Society at the Lyceum, will sustain the lass part in the Italian operas to be produced. Negotiations are on foot with a talented violinist to supply the respon sible seat thus about to be vacated in the orchestra. COUR , T-PASIZIONABLE. No day has yet beQn fixed for the remoral of the Court from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace. The statement that the Court would come to town to• morrow is incorrect. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland will leave London for Dublin on Tuesday or Wednesday next. The Earl of Radnor arrived in Grosvenor-street, on Tuesday, from Longford Castle, Wilts. DZISCELLAMEOUS. A Bedford paper mentions, as an tuicommon fact, that on Sunday last "a jack-daw flew in at the parish church at Newport Pagnell, (luring divine service, and listened to the sermon with the most edifying decorum." A jack-daw at church may be an "uncommon " sight, but. A. jack-claw" in the House • - of Commons is by no means " uncommon," for they may be seen there perched by dozens on the back-seats of the Treasury Bench The Brentfurd Gas • Company have undertaken to light the roads between London and Isleworth fur one week at their own risk. Mr. O'Connell h,-.ld a, repeal meeting at Dublin on Tuesday. at which 80,000 persons were present, and out of which number he stated that nine-tenths were tee totallers. We regret to have to record the death of the Chim panzee, who expired last week at his residence in the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park. This must be a zreat loss to the Tories, for we understand that they intend‘d bringing him into Parliament, where he would have made a much more etfective speaker than the Hon. and Gallant Member for Lincoln. A Belgian Journal says. "A woman of Oreya, aged forty, and who had never befure had a child, has just ben hrnucrht to bed of three daughters." This is mak ing up for lost time. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDson, TIIIIRSDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albers rook their usual early ride this morning in a pon) phaeton. His ii.oyal Highness Prince Albert afterwards passed iome time shooting at the Flemish Etrrn, attended by 7mlonel Rouverie. T Nrl cowper, Sir Frederick ,Stovin, and the Hon. C. A. Murray. _ In the afternoon her .►majesty and Prince Albert left i i a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, accom panied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and utended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Countess de Grey, and Countess Cowper ; Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. litis7. Anson, Earl De Grey, Lord Byron, and Sir Fre derick Stovin in other carriages ; and •by Lord Charles Wellesley, Colonel Bouverie, and Earl Cowper, on horse back. The Royal Cortege passed through the Long Walk into the Great Park and Forest Drives. iris Excellency Sir Charles Bagot took his departure this morning for town. Earl Jermyn arrived at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty. Uolonel and Mrs. Arbuthnot will have the honour of joining the Royal Dinner Party at the Castle this evening. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal has been taken an airing. _ kaZinet Council was held at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. It was attended . by Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chan cellor, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Haddincrh ton, Earl of Ripon, Sir H enr y H ar di nge , an d Si r Ed ward linatchbull. Lord Ellenborough subsequently joined his colleagues, The Council sat two hours. The Bishop of London and Sir Edward Su,gden had interviews with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Lord Fitzgerald had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Downing street, yesterday. Baron 13runow, the Russian Minister, and Count Bille Brahe, the Danish Charge d'Affaires, transacted busi ness yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Moore, from West Australia, had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonic'--office. d ONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. Teas have recovered from the serious and unnecessary .12pre - ssion of yesterday—viz., Company's Congou from Is. Bd. to is. 10d. and ls. 103-d.: at one time to-day 2s. was asked; but the market is agitated and unsettled, and the latest bargains on 'Change this afternoon were Is. 11d. to ls. Hid. per lb. cash. After exhibiting a marked appearance of buoyancy early in the day, the Money Market became tight this afternoon, and there was a reaction in prices to nearly the extent gained yesterday. Consols for Money were quoted 89 to 898 in the morning, and 888 to 89 at the close of business. For Account the range was from 894 to 89. Exchequer Bills were at 13s. to 15s. premium, and the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at a rise to 90a and 90i. The Speech of her Majesty on the Prorogation of Par liament, had no effect on prices. There were several causes operating to depress prices in the Foreign Market. Among others the news from Mexico and Spain. The Stock of the former touched 26 for Account. Spanish fell from 22i to 21i, the closing price this afternoon-- Brazil-Staok wnc, heAvy ac 62. Portuguese Stock was flat at 31 to 301 ; Belgian was dull at 1021 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 51 to 51;1. The feature in the Share Market was a further decline in Brighton, which went as low as 9 discount. Great Western were 1 ; the New 4f. Gosport Junction, 2; York and North Midland, 29 ; and South Western, 12i premium. Bristol and Exeter were 32, and North Mid. land 34 discount. Provincial Bank of Ireland Shares were 16 premium. _ (From The Sun of Last Nie;ht.) LIVERPOOL CorroN MARKET, OCT. 6.—The Market to day has been less animated, the sales not amounting to more than 4,000 bales, consisting principally of American descrip tions at 54 to 6. A few bales have been taken for export. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET , OCT. 6.—The transac tions at the Stock Exchange this day are, Eastern Counties, 71i; Ditto, Debentures, 7i ex div. ; Chester and Crewe, 48,i; Liverpool and Manchester, Half Shares, 92; London and Birmingham, 321. Shares 52i ; Paris and Rouen, Bi. MANCHESTER STOCK ' EXCHANGE, OCT, 6.—Our market still continues dull, and business very limited. London and Birmingham, 158 159; Ditto, New 321. shares, 23 231; Lon don and South Western, 50i i; Manchester and Leeds, 56 58; Ditto Quarters, 15s. 16s. prem. ; Manchester and Bir mingham, 211. 6s. 3d. ; Bank of Manchester, 5. Ber Majesty's packet Penguin has arrived at Falmouth with the Mexican mail. She has bruught on freight nearly 900,000 dollars; 36,000 of which, it is stated, is to pay the dividends. The English Stock Market opened firm this morning. Consols are 89k Money, and ti9 l / 13 for the Account; Exche quer Bills, 13 15. . . . Spanish Active Stock has further declined to 22g *, in con sequence of the report from Paris that General O'Donnell had made an attempt on Pampeluna. In conseqmence of the morev having come over to pay the Mexican Dividends, the Stock has advanced to 25* 4. Colombian Bonds are 20 a ; Brazilian, 58 60 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 31* ; Ditto Three per Cents., 18/ 19i. There has been a good business doing again to-day in the Tea market, and Company's Congous, which closed last night at Is. 9d., advanced this morning to 25., but have since re ceded to Is. 104 d. Consols are still quoted at 89S for Money, and 89A for the Account; Exchequer Bills, 13 15 prem. Spanish Active Stock continues depressed ' • the price is now 22g *; Mexican Bonds are firm at 25i; Colombian, 201; Dutch Two•and-a-Half per Cents., 51g. No business of any moment to notice in the Share Market. London and Brighton Shares remain flat at 42* a ; Great Western, New, 54*; ditto, Fifths, 71 ; London and South Western, 514 ; Bristol and Exeter, 28. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, OCT. 5. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 97i ;Grand Canal Stock ... Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... Ditto New 1830... 974 1 Ditto 4 per cent — 3* per Cent. Debs. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. India Stock ... ... Ditto Bonds pm Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 1,000/....20 13 pa) Ditto 5001.... l6 pnz Ditto Small. . l6 pm Bank Stock for Opg India Stock for Acct Consols for Acct 894 I FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent 47 Ditto, New Ditto 304 Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent 112% Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent 2lB Ditto, Deferred French, .5 per cent. —f. --c. Exchange f. c, French, 3 percent —f. —c Dutch, 2% per cent. iDitto, 5 per cent.......... 99i SHARES Bristol and Exeter (60 paid)............. . 28 Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid 54% Ditto Fifth (4 paid) Gosport Junction Railway (50 pd) London and lirighton (50 paid) 4l London and South Western London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 1 3% North Midland Railway (100 paid) York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 79 Rink Stock 3 per Cent Red 3 per Cent Cons B9b 3i per Cent Red — New 34 per Cent 9B} New 5 per Cent Long Annuities to expiro Jan. 1860 Oct 1859. Jan. 1860. FOREIG Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent o2i Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 207 Chilian, b per cant—. Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent Greek, 18 - 45, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 — Peruvian, 182.3, 6 per ct BRIGHTON, OCT. 6.—The weather here is quite horrific—storm and rain ringing the changes in doleful harmony. There are not ten people to be seen from ono end of Brighton to the other. All the rest have gone off to London or some worse place. Nov and then the sun looks out in mockery to see what the natives are about, and as they are gaping on the look- out for new comers, presently down canes a squall of showers from all points of the compass, warning them to keep a better look-out next time. Last week lodgings were Hp 200 per cent.—now you may get them for nothing. It is a regular surnmcrset. " Brighton now is out of town, None in Brighton tarries"— So blow high or blow low, to-morrow I go, By coach or by railroad from Brighton. We are happy to hear that Goldsmith, the driver of the four-wheel locomotive which ran off the railway on Saturday, is nearly recovered. He was in Brighton yesterday, and was able to walk a consider able distance. Jackson, the driver of the six-wheeled engine, is quite recovered. We are informed that the only injury done to the latter engine was the loss of one of the front buffer springs, and part of the handrails.,--7. Brighton Gazette. MORNING SU N COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH' Anew farce was produced at this theatre last evening, • It we experienced inconvenience and delay in the entitled Caught Napping. We shall refrain from any part of last week by the irregular arrival of the steam' attempt at a desc r ipti on o f th e pl o t, for two .very cogent packets from Enland owing to the tempestuous weather, compen reasons. that the ,piece is defunct ; and, Sc- that inconvenience and dela was amply lo cata eondly, our utter i na bility-:t o • Att u• ave l. the plot, which itted, fur on Saturday, by the' kindness Ad was , moat incongruous- and • inexplicable. Disap- Tapper, who arrives here by the Atalanta in ti "; probation was manifested by :the audience at an morning, from Southampton, by plabing .77 _ Sun o early period of the piece,' and soon became gene- Friday evening in our hands ! What ! say some, early . ral. Mr. Cooper came forwa,rd, and said, " Ladies good people, now could you get The: Sits , and Gentlemen, this farce is tIM production of one who is only published on Friday at three o'clock in .the has freqxenly labo ure d, an d suc ce ss f u ll y , i n your serv i ce . a f ternoon i n London, by half-past seven o'clock on Nevertheless. it is not th e w i s h o f t h e manageme nt to .Saturday morning, after the lapse of only sixteen hours inflict on your patien ce an y pi ece contrary to y our an d a half The question deserves a decisive B"wer: wish - es ; and if, •at the conc l us i on o f th e present one, on account of the activi t y o f a ll t h e par ties concern ed your verdict - should b e aga i ns t i t , I p l e d ge myself it and also to show whatever may be done by diligence 11111 i shall be withdrawn." Thi s announcement somew h at ' persever i ng act i v i ty, aided by. the power of steam 1, abated the disapprob a ti on o f th e au di ence ; b ut t h e cur - t h e accommo d at i on of railroads. Well, no w to oar p ut ` - tain fell shortly aft erwar d s am id st very genera l di sap - pose. I t i s well. known th a t M r . Tapper is Yeryn ct . iyc h : probation. The ho use was very crow d e d . an d very, dili gent i n whatever he undertakes ; and s ing to give his friends additional proof to that effect, he called at The Sun office, in the Strand, Londe on Friday morning, and asked the spirited Pl . ! prie:or of that paper whether he could not oure h . e con trive to let him have a half dozen copies of his j of that day, to take over with him to Guernsey, by t train which left at half-past three o'clock for Southatap tan. The proprietor of The Sun promised to do h is ut most to gratify the applicant ; and, a s the sequel.lv , show, he did not disappoint Mr. Tupper's ex P " t "°n k for as soon as the -required number of copies Vi ere struck off and packed, a messenger on horseback was dispatenus la with them, who fortunately iie reached the ter ml . of the railway just in time to deliver his ,an. posit into Mr. Tupper's hands ; and by that placed that gentleman in circumstances to ides tify his friends in Guernsey a nd Jersey, l ' es on conferring on him the pleasure of being the first Per na]. that ever brought a Lond o n F r id a y e vening's Jou r on Saturday morning, at an e a rly h o ur in (3nernse. We tender our best thanks to Mr. Tupper, for his s P i °l : o tsneous act of kindness in remembering us, and 5 15 , ( 1 , the proprietor of The Sun, who did on th:s; as w e __ l „ i ii - a on several occasions, manifest a disposition to cnni4;o - the earliest intelligence to the public, which, "_ zi . successfully accomplished by placing the London ' iv nary in the hands of Guernsey men, in the; itieret7_, short space of. sixteen hours and a half, after it " issued from the London press !—Guernsey Comet. MESMERISM. We yesterday attended the exhibition of M. Lafon taine, and we were sorry to observe that the Professor was left entirely dependant upon the manifestations of Mesmeric power which he could produce. upon the one patient. It is discreditable to those persons who profess Aesinerism that they withhold their patients from the exhibition of this stranger, by whose means a thorough and public investigation of the whole subject might be brought about. We, who have written so much upon the subject, have a right to complain of those pro fessional men who cowardly withhold their names, whilst their consciences are satisfied. The writer of these observations has known Dr. Elliot son for more than twenty years. In the whole course of this tun,: he has observed of Dr. Elliotson only that he is a man of invariable truth, and in all the cases which have come under the cognizance of the reporter, there was nothing more conspicuous than Dr. Elliotson's integrity. It would be quite idle to compare the mere exhibitor Lafontaine with the philosophic experimentalist—such is Elliotson. But for those who wish to investigate for tlicrn , elvec, it is enough to know that the power of mes merizing is in the hands of every one, and that every one can prove by domestic ex.eriment whether th e L ance t or Dr. Elliotson comes nearer to the truth. WE HAVE MADE A STICK TO HEAT OURSELVES. — Every office which the Whigs created to promote their own views, or secure their own power, is now filled by their opponents, and will, so far as influence can go, strengthen the Government of the Tories. For ex ample, it was yesterday staled, " ller Majesty has ap pointed Lord Wharncliffe (Lord President of the Coun cil), the Right Hen. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., the Duke of .Buckingham, the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, Lord Stanley, Lord Granville Somerset, and Sir James Graham, Bart., to be Members of the Committee on the subject of education." Here, then, is all the education of the country, so far as that can be controlled by Go vernment, now thrown into the hands of the - Tories Lord Wharncliffe will insist on men being bred up with a nroper reverence for country squires. Sir R. Peel will take care that only a one-sided knowledge of statistics shall be taught, which shall regard as superior to the Gos pel whatever the Tory Prime Minister may assert. The Duke of Buckingham will be zealous that the principle of contentment in that state of life in which it has pleased God to call you, or the landlords to place you, though it be to starve on 6s. a week, be assiduously in culcated. Mr. Goulburn will see that no boy shall get beyond common arithmetic, lest the blunders of the finan cier might become too apparent. Lord Stanley will have no teacher who is not an ardent defender of all the immunities of the Church. Lord Granville Somerset will take care that reverence L - o the house of Beaufort be inculcated at school, as it will never be learnt is the world. The Knight of Netherby will slyly insinuate that a lore of consistency and of truth is not necessary for those who expect to rise in the world, and he will tolerate no teacher who advocates straight and upright. walking. In this Board there is no Catholic—no liberal Mr. Wyse. What fools were those Liberals and those Whigs to extend the power of the Government, and enable it to encompass the whole community with a net, in order to place its draw• string in the hands of the Tories. The Whigs and the Liberals have placed educa tion under the control of the Tories and the priests. That, however, we presume, has the approbation of Mr. Ewart, and those gentlemen of his way of thinking who are anxious to make our Government as extensive old as mischievous as that of France. ---=------ ----- GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWO . Traffic returns fur the week ending Oct. 4, 18 41 : Passengers Merchandise 413 / 6 4 1,457 14 6 D. O'BRIEN, Secretai•?'• Dcrlington, Oct. 29. - a il To-day, for the first time, the London day g ill will be despatched at the usual hour by the Railroad, em - , 0 00 be received by the eleven o'clock down train arriving her e co e after one ; so that the afternoon delivery will take place :„, t e three hours earli4r than heretofore. The only inconvero-of resulting from this change will b e the d e l a y i n the deliveri ti n Wi stern letters, now brought by the Southampton tna„d' or , next morning, instead of the same a ft ernoon .— Brrghton diem, Wednesday. We. ACCIDENT TO SIR TFIONIAS regret to hear that Sir Thomas Wilde was thrown fr°"' t he horse on Saturday mcrning last, when taring a ride so . neighbourhood of his c o untry sea t, near S ou th ga te, Art he ,Re lie was rendered nearly inse ns ibl e by th e concu ssion ; are glad to hear that his medical attendants, after a c are& not amination, have reported that the Learned Gentleman h as experienced any serious inquiry. hal l On Wednesday afternoon th e b o di es of Mar s 2v , I.nd I ie:d, two of th e men kill e d on th e B r i g hton lte h " vt i' e .. were interred at the exp ense o f th e C om p a ny. Ile to mains of Watson an d P a l mer h ave b een brough t London. ,h er ii e STRANRAER—We are sorry to say that th is new too much reason to fear that the sloop Maria, of Ry place, belonging to Mr. Hugh Itl•Culloch, merchant here, lost in the gale of Tuesday, th e 2l s t ult. The Strand was stopped up again on W eo ednes asY t • in consequence of a portio n o f th e ex p er i men t a l wood pav e ., ro t o reeently laid down proving a failure. Something else b be tried. These continual experiment s in the leading thole( fares are becoming a nuisanc e . B u t th e g reatest nuisa.o,cfair all is that adjoining the Globe n e ws p a per office, which WI the to continue for six months longer. The Chancellor cl eb Duchy of Lancaster is g reatly t o bl ame i n allowing su. t bs thoroughfare to r em a i n a l mos t i m p assa bl e f o r nine To" while the whole work might have been done in nine week t, 50 , 'We understand tt•at the picture by John 70, Eyck, which was included in the late exhibition of the Bri e , Institution, has just been purchased from Colonel Halt i . t° oo l is - prietor, for the National Gallery. This remarkable pic' ho - re . considered the only genuine work of John van Eva , t " ; of puted discoverer of oil painting, in this country. It coes'sh the portraits of a lady and gentleman standing at full leng t : co NEW ENTRANCE TO HYDE PARK.:.- , A- 11 ° t Lb, was posted on Wednesday on the doors of St. Margaret's Ch it 'l a Westm'nster, in which it is stated that certain prerci! e9 .., be Knightsbridge, nearly opposite to Wilt on - p l ace , ar_ e _,;aea pulled down, by order of the C omm i ss i oners o f Weu"'" ote Forests, for •the purpose of forming a new entrance Hyde Park. Dr. Locock is at present sojourning at Balh lor the benefit of the waters. OFFlCE.—within the FRAUDS IN THE POST OFFICB.--- • mi s last three weeks, we have been informed some ser"; frauds have been committed in the Post-office at or Edinburgh, by the breaking open of letters cont all g i b l e bills or bank drafts, and the abstraction thereof. , 4 4a Post. office authorities, it is stated, are making ti ltf investigation into the matter, and we trust tllO agi party or parties will be discovered. Ines Mr. 13;11, of Lincoln's Inn-fields, a nd legal Hodgson, of Regent -square, both members of th 'street, profession, appeared i n custo d y yesterday .13°W-- before Mr. Twyfurd and M r . Jardine, on a ehargre p s ferred against Mr. C oncannen , t h e partner of Mr- Hodgson, of having provoked a breach of the peace' the cease of the quarrel did not transpire, but one of t he fiery combatants, Mr. Sill, was bound over to keeP.o peace, having provided as his securities Mr. Sheri, to Knowles and Mr. R. H. Hor ne . No notice appear ed have been taken of the other gentleman. A dinner, to celebrate the birth-day of t oe venerable Lord Rolle, will take place at Exmou th o o the 18th instant, on which day the Noble Lord a t the great age of 91. TueS' FATAL COAL-PIT EXPLOSION. —On - day morning between the hours of six and seven e' el _ °c ..o as the pitmen employed at the Neville Hill Colliery,7o., Leeds, were commencing their work, a tremend ous plosion of fire-damp took place, whereby one of the r ay , was killed on the spot, and two others, a man and were seriously injured.— York Courant. ch The Phare, of Cherbourg, states that a Fil o . lugger, the Esperance, with a cargo of wine fre!! T iy . deaux to Rotten, was nearly run over and sun,' ost large vessel, name unknown, on the night' of ti le g re,,: ult., in the British Channel. She suffered great da' ° . and was obliged to put into Cherbourg. f tl O . EDINBURGH, FEB. 6.—At the meeting ° his Town Council yesterday, Baillie Thomson declare(' ex' astonishment that he had not, ere this, heard scane_ocil pression of indignation from certain members of C_ofaiti at the neglect of the interests of our University' lyttoettt fested by the present Government in their aPP i r , n m eel' of the Rev. Dr. M‘.Leod to the Deanery of the id o e i Royal, vacant by the recent death of Dr. Bryc e '. . 00 of were not quite so backward in declaring their oPol i oeti the conduct of the late Government when they *PP: e ' . Mr. Bennie to a similar situation. Though asstlei . g 10: him that the appointment was com pl e ted they 5 ` . ..00.0 sis:ed upon remonstrating with the Governmen t . .."thef it, if hot with any hope of success, at least I",ter• declared, for the vindication of their own cheTtote If then, they thought it necessary to reni°. u st ipel against the appointment of Mr. Bennie, cc :V I s one equally required that they should adopt th e ) : Dfr'• course on the present occasion. —(Hear, hea r io - ' and Dunbar said he would candidly a d m it, that if t pointment had been made as Bailie Thans°l2.ooo stated, it WaS one which he could not con sider g lies creditable to the prese n t G overnment . At W t o lcief time, however, he b e li eve d t h at Si r R.. P ee l. in 1- „bicP the api o'nunent, was not aware of the elai l°s 4 ho t : ° the Council had upon th a t f un d, or h e would 11- to an ) ' made it. After some further discussion it wa r l o ibi. mou'ly to age; •d, on the 1. • of the Dean of ` - s J a yne' remit to the tullege Committee to transmit to Grp deuce Graham, Home Secretary, a copy of the corresP°%otvo that passed between Lord Norm anby and th D ; g ivel Council, as to the emoluments o f a deanery be'iv. s ity to arrofssor of Bill:cal Criticism in the U v ni Ye '- Edinburgh. intro. „ - The Bude light is now it seems to op 7 du!ed into our streets instead of gas, at least ~ c u e 0 places. There is already one arranged at the 11 :7 st reet; the crossing in Pall-mall, at the end of Reg e ,„ ll oti ntil l ' heretofore lighted by three large lamps, s tir — the handsome column. he° In LEITH.—Mr. John Thomson, corn-er c ,, o ts Leith, who was compelled t o s uspend his PSn u sine. s : 1832, as a consequence of those vicissitudes "4 s to which all mercantile men are exposed, h a s an d 11 0 "; these few days called his old creditors tog l od e , paid them down their several claims, unliquid 3te . c d, "11 his insolvency. Mr. Thomson, it is to be obser t rie , an previously in possession of a regular legal diseha oc ca; his conduct, so honourable to him on the r ese him 9 sion, is represented by all who are knotvn il3, his in' being only one Itmong innum era ble instances 0 herent sterling integrity. g av e The vale. of Count Kielmanseme , tine j a cre w iti j verian Ambassador, was seated in the same c a 3 i r t r d :scal )e , o the two deceased servants of Dr. Carpe • I t: dens e ° with a slight bruise of the hand. Count lite tte, was staying a t th e Albi on H ote l . —B r ighton G a ze THE LATE ATTEMPTED ,t MURD ER to li r A L B AN ' S. --- FURTHEIt PARTICULA C expectations of the medical men, the girl Pearc e wo l t ia ti s• likely to recover from the effects of her sev? r e w ith° She lies several times taken gruel and m edic': in stan p coughing, and if she continues to do so, aid. . 1 4 o f bet - as good a chance to recover as poor Mackiei he is intended by the Magistrates, tvl :he event pe strong enough, to take her examination on I m i,d ttil Y i 01 0 1 a The prisoner has not spoken since his con!._ i t s eo nfi h e e ontrareyeire than what has been absolutely necessary. w hen _" s t in the town gaol until his final commitmeente the ne_ ti will be removed to Hertford to take his trial Assizes. He seems to be of a morose dj . s e p sie " ep , " possesses a most ominous countenance. 1 1 and appears to relish his food. t . The General Steam Navigation urisbrea 2l Steam-ship Rainbow, Captain Fife, nec°J;tPvverP passage from London Bridge Wharf to ; sto ck' iae r hours. Among her passengers were pll &c. She left .Antife;t'i A rry again at A f 0 returnap. Captain n :on Wednesday afternoon, an irbf ine 2e2Lohr.:ct,rdsg. e lodgedla' o cl 'l3 l e a r , n i dragepespp:Voa appeal against the J • demning s,ooclf. him to four months' imprisonmegt.."_‘ , ' - ' tion iN G T /: hasp TO RICHARD COBDEN, M.P. MY DEAR COBDEN—In The Sun of yesterday, I ob serve a letter from thyself, also one from our mutual friend Sydney Smith, both addressed to me. in which you plead " not guilty," on behalf of the Anti-Corn-law League, to the charge of having relaxed from their ef fortd in pressing the total and immediate abolition of the Corn and Provision Laws. I asked for this explicit and public declaration, as much for the satisfaction of others as myself, and if, by going into court, before an upright Judge, and an impartial jury, I could convict a majority of the League of a dereliction of principle in what has passed, even from their own organ, 1 have no disposition to do so, as I can make great allowance for the strong temptation to which many of them were latterly ex posed ; and lam willing to accept your explanation, especially with a guarantee for the faithfulness of the League in future, from two such able and leading mem bers of it. The money which I conditionally promised shall, therefore, be paid on application. Although " some Association, whose object is, by peaceable and Christian to a.‘oh a representation of the people, as the golden rule of Doing to others as we would they should do unto us,' entitles thorn to claim," should afterwards prove a case in equity against me for asimi lar amount. If the conclusion of my letter conveyed the impression that I despaired of the people obtaining justice, it was not so intended ; fur I believe that, with the blessing of Providence on their united and peaceful efforts there is a greater probability of it than there ever was, and there are no doubtful indications that the conduct pursued by the supporters of monopoly is rapidly ac, elerating the period; but whether the abolition of the Corn-laws, and the redress of their othe r h eav y griev ances, will be effected through the representatives of the present constituency, remains a problem yet to be solved, and upon this point I am not prepared to retract the opi nion I gave in my last letter.—Very respectfully, JOS. STURGE. Birmingham, 10th month, 6th, 1841. NoTE.---Perhaps I ought to have addressed both this and my former letters to our friend J. B. Smith, as Chairman of the League, but I understand he is now on the Continent. Lord Howard dc Walden is coming home in con sequence of the sudden demise of his brother, the Hon. Mr. Ellis, who lately died of the yellow fever at Jamaica. The Lyons journals give a lamentable report of the effects of a violent storm which visited that city in the night of Saturday last. The day had been threaten ing, and, at 10 at night, the tempest burst, and continued to rage till one, when it abated for about an hour ; after which it seemed to have gained additional strength, and the thunder, lightning, hail, and rain continued till the morning. Considerable damage was done on the river, and several barges were driven against the Pont de Tilsit ; one was struck by lightning. The Rhone and Saone were much swollen, and fears of a new inundation were entertained. A woman, who imprudently went out during the storm, was carried down by the torrent, formed by the rain in the streets, to the Quai Saint Vin cent, and would have been drowned but for prompt as sistance. The Journal du Havre notices that some pas sengers, who arrived at Liverpool in the last steam packet from Halifax, left Liverpool on Friday morning, at three o'clock, by railroad for London, whence they proceeded by the same conveyance to Southampton, where they embarked in the steam-packet, and arrived at Havre b' 8 o'clock on Saturday morning, having thus travelled a distance,of 140 leagues, or about 350 miles, in 29 hours, including their stoppages at London and Southampton. The same journal remarks that persons leaving New York on the 15th of the month, have found themselves in the morning of the 29th at Paris, having within 14 days traversed 1,100 leagues by sea, and 190 leagues, or 475 miles by land. _ _ A setter - from Odessa, in the Frankfurter Jour nal, in announcing the celebration of the anniversary of the first foundation of the town, says, "It was first created in 1793 by Souvaroff, who then merely esta blished a line of fortifications along the bank of the Dneister, little thinking that within fifty years a pros perous Russian city would ("TOW upon the spot. Ad miral Ribas, who in 1814 built the first houses at Odessa, had no other object than to afford an asylum to the Greeks, and a harbour for vessels. Odessa has at length surpassed all the hopes of the Duke de Richelieu." A few days ago," says a Belgian paper, " died at Brussels, in the prime of life, M. Vandevyre, an en graver, who has obtained eminence in his profession. A short time before his death he was subjected to a physi cal phenomenon, of which there are few, if any, previous instances in the annals of the medical science. In con sequence of a frightful dream, the whole of the hair of his head and body fell off, and disappeared almost in stantaneously." The Augsburgh Gazette says, We learn from Alexandria, of the 7th ult., that since Mehemet Ali has resolved on making considerable reductions among the officers of his army, not only a large number of officers have resigned, but 300 officers have been dis banded, and sent into the provinces to fill civil situations. Achmed Pacha Menikly, one of the most devoted .gene rals of the Viceroy, has suddenly resolved to quit the service. The Russian Consul- General has been now a month in Alexandria, without having been received by the Pacha This delay has created many surmises. It appears that the Prussian Government, in order to save the cost of a Consul-General in Egypt, will leave the post vacant." MADAME LAFARGE AND THE LADIES OF ENGLAND.—Madame Lafarge's account of her own life, which is just published in English, is singularly enough addressed to " the Ladies of England ;" and so far as reading the appeal goes, it will certainly not be made in vain. Modern times have never witnessed a more strange and terrible romance than the life of this extraordinary woman ; and whether we believe her guilty or innocent of the fearful crime for which she is suffering a penalty worse than death, her own account of the scenes and events in question must be read with a degree of painfully intense interest that no mere fiction ever had the power to create. Of all the " causes Cekbres," even of France, hers is at once the most mysterious and the most exciting ; and it w ill certa i nly command as much attention and curiosity among our c hildren's children as it has done among ourselves. There can be little doubt, too, that her own detail of the transactions which have made her the most conspicuous person in Europe during the last two years, will greatly , increase the already large number of persons who believe in her innocence.