The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-04 00:00:00

MORNING SUN CHIN A. (From the Second Edition of the Times.) Although our courier from Marseilles, bearing the despatches which have reached that port by the o' - erland mail, has not yet arrived, we have been put in possession of the following intelli gence of a date a few days later than that of any authentic news from China, and which we do not feel justified in withholding from the public, al though a few hours will supply us with informa tion of a much later date, and with the fullest details : " By the Delhi, Captain Byron, arrived off Torbay, Cape of Good Hope papers have been received. These state that this vessel had touched. at Table-bay, and thence obtained a Canton Re gistei• of the 20th of April. The following► is the news as it appears in the Cape of Good Hope Shipping List of the 29th of June : " By Captain H. Byron, Jun., of the bark Delhi, arrived in Table Bay yesterday, from Singapore, we have been favoured with the pe rusal of a Canton Register, of the 20th of April last, containing the following : CIRCULAR TO HER MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS. " British Factory, Canton, April 16, 1841. " A satisfactory communication has 'this day been received from his Excellency Commissioner Yana, declaratory of the faithful intentions of his newly-arrived colleagues concerning the arrange ment concluded on the 20th ult. between his Ex cellency and the undersigned. "The Kwangchowfoo having also issued a pro clamation by desire of their Excellencies, in tended to re-assure the trading people, the Pleni potentiary has, for a like reason (with the con currence of the Government), made public the accompanying notice under his own seal. " CHARLES ELLIOT, " Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary " NOTICE. " British Factory,Canton, April 16. " Elliot, &c., learning that the industrious people of Canton are disturbed by constant ru mours of secret warlike preparations against this town and province upon the side of the British forces, clearly declares to all the people that these reports are false and mischievous. The Commissioner Yang, and the high officers of the province, acting with good faith and wisdom, have now opened - the trade, and while their Excellencies are fulfilling their sealed engage ments with Elliot, there will not be the least disturbance of the peace at Canton by the Bri tish forces. The high officers of the English na tion have already manifestly proved that they cherish the people of Canton, and if misfortunes befal the city and the whole trade of the pro vince, assuredly the evil will not be justly at tributable to them. " CHARLES ELLIOT." " understand that while the negotiations were still pending the trade was carried on, and the ships loading at Whampoa as formerly; freights for British ports 71. to 81. per ton. Teas had risen 30 per cent.; European goods very little in demand, and all transactions were made in cash owing to the unsettled state of affairs. " Previous to the Delhi's departure from Sin gapore, 27th of April, Sir Gordon Bremer had touched at Singapore in the Queen steamer, on his way, it was said, to Calcutta, for reinforce ments. The schooner Black Swan of this port was reported in the Canton Register of the 20th of April to be that day under despatch for Cal cutta." The following vessels were spoken by the Delhi:— Staines Castle (signalized) from Whampoa to to London, in - the Straits of Banca ; Herald, Watt, from Whampoa, to Leith, May 18th, in the Straits of Sunda; Chevalier, from Singapore to London, June 26, of Cape Algulhas. The Premier, Ware, from China, has arrived at St. Helena, with a cargo of tea, and sailed for London on the 16th of July. The Scotland, Cuaning,ham, sailed from China to the Clyde, was spoken with on the 20th of July in latitude 3 10 S., long. 17 30 W., with a cargo of tea. EXPRESS FROM PARIS FRANCE. The Paris papers of Wednesday continued to indulge in speculations on the advent of the Con servatives to power in this country. The Gazette de France states that the Belgian Commissioners had their first interview with the Ministers of Finance and Commerce on Wednes day. The plan for the Customs union between France and Belgium having been abandoned, the Commissioners merely demanded a reduction in The Corn market was rather dull in Paris on Wednesday, not more than 630 sacks of flour were sold, and the prices underwent no variation. The accounts of the harvest received from the northern departments continued to be satisfac tory. Purchases for the English market had been made at Bayonne and in Marseilles, wheat had fallen from If. 50c. to 2f. 50c., and accord ing to the quality of the grain, in consequence of the advices from England announcing the return of fine weather. The Moniteur Algerien announces the return of General Belghaud to Algiers on the 20th from the excursion to the Sakel, and the works in pro gress of construction near Belidah to protect the Mitidgo on that side. The Governor-General had published a decree prohibiting the export of wheat and wool from the province of Constantia. It was not true that Queen Christina had an intention of proceeding to Bayonne as was re ported. _ _ - The French Funds declined at first in conse quence of a report that the Moniteur of the 6th, would give notice of M. Humann's deter mination to bring out the loan in the course of October. PARIS, SEPT. 2, 1841.—Three per Cents., 77f. 23c. ; Spanish„‘2,l7i. SPAIN. Advices from Madrid of the 26th ult. state that M. Olozago, the Ambassador of Spain in Paris, was preparing to return to his post. Two hundred galley- slaves revolted near Valla dolid, and retired into the mountains. The Go vernment had not yet obtained the advance of 60,000,000 of reals. The Five per Cents. left off at 25 for cash, and at 261 at 60 days. GERMANY. The Queen of Greece arrived at Ems on the 27th ult., travelling under the title of Countess of MisElolonghi. Prince and Princess Metternich left Cologne on the 29th ult. on their return to Johannisberg. TURKEY. • A Constantinople Correspondent of the Au( .9.. burg Gazette writes, under date 11th ' , that Mehemet Ali having offered to abdi cate in favour of Ibrahim Pacha, on condition of being himself appointed Grand. Vizier, the Divan had held fre quent meetings to deliberate on the proposition, which was ultimately rejected. It was reported that Taliir Paella would be made Grand Vizier on his return from Candia. A fire broke out at Scutari, but was extin guished w ithout doing m uc h d amage. No new case of plague had occurred at C onstant i nople, but at Ezzeroum the malady was makin ,, exten sive ravages. On the 7th Colon e l INi ustapha Bey was ordered to proceed to Alexandria to re quire of Iphemet Ali the immediate disbanding of the Syrian soldiers, and to accompany them back to their country. SUDDEN DEATII OF E. J. SMYTHE, Esq.— We have to announce the melancholy and sudden death of E. J. Smythe, Esq., eldest son of Sir E. J. Smythe, Bart., of Acton Burnell Hall, in this county. On Satur day last, whilst riding with the respected Baronet and others after a buck in the park, he was suddenly seized with illness, and fell senseless from -his horse ; and so violent was the attack, that bofore surgical aid (Mr. John R. Durnell, of Pitchford, who lost no time in being on the spot) could reach Acton Burnell, life had fled. It is supposed that from exertion a ruptured vessel caused his death.—Sal T i an Journal. THE CROPS , --DUMFRIES, AUGUST 30. Warm sunny blinks occurred at intervals during the greater part of thelast week, accom;panied by stirring breezes that speedily dried the blade ; but on the other hand rain, more or less, fell every twenty-four hours. In Nithsdale, Annandale, and Galloway, a large breadth of grain, is tit for the sickle; and, but for the weary rain, which ever and anon baulks the hopes of the far mer, harvest would be general over the whole south of Scotland. Numerous sales of growing crops are re ported, at some of which luxuriant oats, not severely lodged, commanded 91., 10Z, and W. per acre. But these, of course, were top prices, and we believe from U. to Si. will be found much nearer the general ave rage. A field of wheat, about a mile from town, which at one time looked beautiful, became latterly so flat tened and rusted, that it was knocked down by public roup at 41. per acre—hardly more than the value of straw of that description standing erect in good condi tion.—Edinburgh Courant. An artist in New York, says the lthchanic, painted an imitation of a bottle of spruce beer so natu rally, that the cork flew out before he could paint the string to fasten it. " Whose brush are you cleaning your teeth with, Bill ?" " It's yours, I expect, but I shan't hurt it." " Well, be sure you put it back where you got it, for I "cleaned my toe-nails with it yesterday, and I want to clean them agin." NEW ROMANCE OF SPORTING. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo., THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN ; Or, THE FIELD AND THE FOREST. A NOVEL. By JOHN MILLS, Esq. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW ROMANCE BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE PRAIRIE," " THE PATHFINDER," &c. On Monday next, the 6th instant, in 3 vale. post Bvo., THE DEER-SLAYER. A ROMANCE. By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING BONDS for the said DI STrtIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions ma , 7 re!eive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PROS- Pk.CTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH OUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMRURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO £l2O XBO 5,000 400 110 70 1,500 200 100 60 1,000 100 90 50 800 150 The largest Dividend of the Distribution of Ist March last, TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS, was remitted to London and vicinity by HEINE BROTHERS, Rho remitted, daring a few years, 22 large Money Dividends, from 600/. and upwards unto 25,000/., besides many Dividends of smaller amounts to England, Ireland, and Scotland. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. The Public is respectfully informed that this Theatre will be RE-OPENED ON MONDAY, SEPT. 6, when will be performed Shakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.— f heseus, Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. Harley ; Flute, Mr. Oxberry ; Snout, Mr. Mea dows ; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews • Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame Vestris ; Titania , W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. After which, Sheridan's Dramatic Piece of THE CRITIC. Sir Fretful Plagiary, Mr. W. Farren • Puff, Mr. C. Mathews; Sneer, Mr. Cooper ; Don Ferolo Whiskerandos, Mr. Harley ; Sir Walter Raleigh, Mr. Meadows; Tilburina, Mrs. Orger. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second L ircles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may lit had upon application. Private Boit,. to be had sorely of Mr. 'Andre ws, bookseller, 67. New Bond-street- On Tuesday, The Rivals, with Beauty and the Beast. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER rriE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Overflows to the Grand Equestrian Fete s 7 Last week of Mazeppa. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 4, Will be acted Lord Byron's Spectacle, called MA ZEPPA ; OR, tHE WILD HORSE OF THE DESERT ; introducing Mr. Duerow's Magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, highlly-trained Palfreys, Fairy Powys, Equestrian Troop, and Companies of both Theatres. After which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in the Largest Arena in the World, in which Madame Dicrow, Sig nor Hillier, the Great American Rider, the British Horseman, Signor Felix Carlo, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear. To conclude with, TURPIN'S RIDE TO YORK, intro ducing Mr. Ducrow's Hanoverian Black Charger, and the entire Stud. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. " Deeds and Doings of the Dark House I" with its astonishing scenic effects and startling situations, will continue to be played every evening, with the new and successful drama of " Sweet Poll of Horselydown." THIS EV ENING, SEPT. 4, The New and highly-successful Drama of DEEDS and DO INGS of the DARK 11/OUSE ; or, SIMPLE BESS of BIL LINGSGATE !—Bradburn, Mr. Dale ; Charles Elford, Mr. Seaman ; Davey Dubbs, Mr. Gardner ; Hoppy Bob, Mr. Paul ; Ann, Mrs. W. West ; Simple Bess, Mrs. G. Lee. After which, THE SCARLET MANTLE.—ArnoId, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Ernest, Mr. Dale ; Dyrke, Mr. Cullen ; Cor nelius, Mr. Gardner ; Agnes, Mrs. W. West. To conclude with SWEET POLL of HORSELYDOWN, in which Messrs. James, Seaman Paul, Williams, Gardner, Cullen, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Howard, &c. &c. will perform. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, Is.—Gallerl, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 34 minutes after 3 I Evening 48 minutes after 3. 12 u act 7 M. ~ 41 4. 41 '` • • - - , a_o , • 0 a .0 a ' • Thie LONDON: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1841. We are not aware of the reason which the Globe, has when it enters into a somewhat elabo rate criticism of our opinions, for refusing to name the Sun. Such silence is hardly fair to other journals, tbr it may perchance happen that other Radical colleagues of the Globe may get the dis credit of saying those unpleasant truths of the MELBOURNE Ministry which are found only in the columns of The Sun. In our journal of Tuesday last, in speaking of the Whig Ministry, we endeavoured to distin guish between their conduct as Ministers of the Crown and as chiefs of a party, and while we de fended them as we generally have defended their conduct as Ministers of the Crown, we did not and could not defend their conduct as chiefs of a party continually struggling for ascendancy against another great party of the State. While we cheerfully admitted that as Ministers of the Crown they had deserved, in comparison with other Ministries, the public approbation, we contended that as chiefs of a party they had failed in their duty to that party. We said that " they wanted an efficient, ambitious, and vigorous party chief. Lord MELBOURNE'S sincerity and good nature unfitted him for the office." The Globe says Lord MELBOURNE will receive this censure as a compliment. We meant it neither as a censure nor as a compli ment, but the statement of a fact. Sincerity and good-nature, says the Globe, are, after all, not so entirely at a discount as to have lost all application. But they require in a statesman to be under the guidance of discretion. Lord MELBOURNE was perfectly sincere--that is, he expressed the opinion which h e h onest l y entertained at the moment when he denounced those who wished all protection to be removed from agriculture as madmen; but the mischief which that unhappy, though sincere phrase, has done to the party and the cause of which Lord MELBOURNE was the leader, is in calculable. Lord MELBOURNE was perfectly sincere, we have no doubt, when he praised the purity of the Corn-law making Lords, and emphatically disclaimed the opinions of the anti-Corn-law press, and the Manchester Conference ; but by so doing he gave an arm into the hands of his opponents to wound his own best supporters and friends. The Noble Lord wanted, in these cases, and a hundred others we might quote, discretion to guide his sincerity ; and though he did the public ser vice no harm by his somewhat foolish outbreaks of sincerity, he inflicted great injury on his party Again, " . Lord JortN RUSSELL," says the Globe; " has been unavoidably resolute, to say what he thought on the great fundamental principles of policy and of the Constitution." " Those who have strong opinions," it is added " will utter them." And we question whether their utterance can hurt the good cause in the long run. Of course not the cause to which the opinions are favourable ; but when Lord J. RUSSELL, being the leader of the movement party in the House of Commons, ad vocates finality. he utters a strong opinion in favour of Toryism, and separates, by a word, nearly half the great party from him, which he ought to have bound together by all politic means, if he wished to preserve in his hands the Governnmet of the country. So, in respect to Mr. WAKLEY, the instance we quoted before. Lord J. RUSSELL felt, no doubt, very strongly, a sentiment of contempt for Mr. WAKLEY, when he spoke of him as a metropolitan demagogue ; but it is evident, from the last speech of the Hon. Member for Finsbury, that he never for got nor forgave the sneer, and he retorted it, - with tenfold interest, on the Noble Lord, mak ing both the Noble Lord and his measures look contemptible in the eyes of the Radicals, whom Mr. W ARLEY can influence, and who were numbered amongst the supporters of the Whigs. it might be very magnanimous in Lord JOHN RUSSELL to despise the Hon. Mem ber for Finsbury, but to express that sentiment was most injurious to the party of which Lord JOHN RUSSELL was the head in the House of Commons. We are ready to repeat, therefore, calmly and deliberately, our charge against the Whig Mi nisters, that as chiefs of a party they either mis understood or neglected their duty to that party. The result is that the party has dwindled away, and they are turned out. Never in the whole course of his existence did Sir ROBERT PEEL insult the meanest member of his party in the way that Lord JOHN RUSSELL insulted Mr. WAKLEY, and never did Sir ROBERT PEEL de nounce the opinions of his followers and sup porters, and praise those of his opponents, as did Lord MELBOURNE. Such conduct on their part is not inconsistent with the most righteous and wise administration of public affairs, but it was ruinous to the party of which they were at the he ad. The Globe thinks such sincere speaking will not injure the good cause in the long run. We know not what good cause it means. Is the Whig cause not the good cause ? It has injured that past immediate cure. We think progressive re form and the repeal of the Corn-laws the good cause, and no person can doubt whether that cause has been injured by the conduct and language we have adverted to. If Lord MEL BOURNE and Lord JOHN RUSSELL were not sin cere, as the Globe implies, when they placed themselves at the head of the movement party—if they were always for finality, and no further reform—we mitt affirm that their sincerity in now and then uttering a strong opinion does not equal their practical insincerity. They placed themselves at the head of the movement party, while in essential matters they were not different from the Tories. And now let us say a word to the Globe itself. We believe with that journal that sincerity is not at a discount in this country, and therefore we believe that its occasional mode of mocking at all great interests, particularly at the working classes for their political aspirations, has not served the Whigs. It has made the working classes say again and again, what dif ference is there between this brutal persiflage and that of the Tory journals, and what better, therefore, are the Whigs, who tolerate and en courage it, than the Tories? After the avowed aad determined neglect of party by the Whigs, we know nothing that has injured them with one class of the public more than the misdi rected wit of such journals as the Globe. The advent of the Tories to office like, the ac cession of a new Sovereign, seems to fill nearly all parties but their immediate opponents with hope. Like every such change, its effects cannot be known; at the same time great evils are suf fered, and therefore from it great good is ex pected. Even the grimmest of the grim Radi cals in the House of Commons, such as Messrs. WOOD, WAKLEY, and ROEBUCK, look smilingly on the new and portly Premier, and promise him in the name of their universal suffrage-seeking, bread-tax-abolition-demanding constituents, a fair trial. A fair trial, not at the Old Bailey, but for the exercise of their skill in the public streets of a band of pickpockets. While this de lusion lasts, though we believe it will be very short, it seems to -be in vain to say ought against the Ministers. Daily do we incur re proaches for not joining somewhat in the general joy, and expressing something like adhesion to, and confidence in, the Tories. Some Ministry, it is supposed, is indispensible ; the Whigs deceived us, and therefore now let us turn with hope and love to the Tories. We can not give in to that doctrine. We admit the ne cessity of a Ministry; but we cannot for one mo ment be contented with a Tory Ministry, nor i t g flint it can co n f er b e - Before we can hope anything from such a Go vernment we must forget the conduct of the Tory faction for more than half a century. We must forget, too, how they have now obtained power, and for what purposes they hold it. We must forget that the men who compose it-- KNATCHBULL, BUCKINGHAM, GOULBURN, HAR BINGE, PEEL, STANLEY, GRAHAM—are one and all the representatives, not of men, but of prin ciples, and they stand up before the community the avowed advocates of hypocrisy, fraud, and terror, as the means of governing mankind. Because the Whigs have done wrong, have de-. ceived our hypes, have fatally convinced us that we erred in trusting them so much, are we at once to worship the incarnation of all those principles we condemn them for approaching? If, indeed, the faults and offences of the Whigs should have swept all respect for political principles out of the public mind, as if there were no right nor wrong but what is made by Whig and Tories, their Administration will turn out infinitely more calamitous for the coun try than could be supposed. But whatever may be the feelings of gentlemen in Parliament we are sure that such is not the case in the empire, and whatever may be the momentary feeling a sturdy love of honesty and rectitude, a sturdy. love of principle, and a steady conviction of its invincibility, will make the people hope nothing from the Tories, and use all just and reasonable means to throw off a Government which is esta blished to maintain an odious monopoly. It is impossible to look at the list of the Tory Ministry, composed of BUCKINGHAM, KNATCH BULL, and the renegades STANLEY and GRAHAM, without instinctively concluding that such a Ministry is intended to work mischief. They are elderly men, hardened in the way of Tory ism, or young men who have expressed extreme Tory opinions. Messrs. ROEBUCK and WARD may hope for living birds from addled eggs, for a healthy offspring from a worn out and withered nymph of the streets; but let them not hope to obtain public benefits from a Tory Government, founded on an avowed and lawless desire to plunder and oppress the people. We see no reason whatever for giving such a Government a fair trial, and we are astonished that the re presentatives of Sheffield and Bath can for one moment think it possible that their constituents will approve of their looking with the least de gree of favour on the Starvation Ministry. The Gazette and the Court Circular both an nounce officially the formation of the new Mi nistry, and our readers will find them in another part of The Sun. Several of the chiefs yesterday transacted business at their offices and fairly launched the Tory ship. Whither she is to steer and what port she is destined to reach cannot yet be known. Her pilot has not told us his inten tions; but it is customary tojudge of the probable voyage of a vessel by her fittings and her crew. We, therefore, have no manner of doubt as to the buccaneering cruise for which the Tory ship is prepared, but we apprehend her crew are likely to quarrel amongst themselves, and that the trade wind of public opinion will drive her out of her intended course. In plain terms, the Ministry is composed of anti-free-traders, and the demand for free trade is so strong in the country, that Sir ROBERT PEEL, however resolute he may be, will palter in his career. Then the BUCKING HAMS and KNATCIIBULLS will forsake him, and he must coalesce with the Whigs, or retire to that private life which he will, we have no doubt, so well become. The article which we have copied from the Times, relative to Lord COTTENHAM, is very cre ditable to that journal. What is said of the Noble and Learned Lord is not one word more favourable than he deserves. There never was a Judge in the Court of Chancery who gave more satisfaction to all Classes, or who more rigidly and Unostentatiously performed his duty. If the Tories do not regret the change, the suitors most probably will, and all reasonable men will find SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1841. in the displacement of so eminent a Judge, a strong additional reason fur separating the judi cial from the political functions of the LORD CHANCELLOR. It is a disgrace to our customs and institutions that the first Judge of the land should be treated as a political partizan, and changed with every temporary victory of rival factions. Thus Lord LYNDHURST, says the Times, has been thrice placed on the Woolsack, which means only that the faction of which he is a devoted par than has been thrice in office. Since he was first placed on. the Woolsack, fourteen years have elapsed, and four times within that period hp the Chief Judge in Equity been changed on the victory of one political party or the other. At this moment there are three LORD CHAN CELLORS alive—two pensioned, and one on the Woolsack. The system is extremely bad, and the public will now be made painfully aware of it by the removal of so excellent a Judge as Lord COTTENHAM, whatever may be the talents and acquirements of the man who supplies his place. Lord COTTENHAM was never distinguished by any outrageous political sentiments. His suc cessor was, in his younger days, more than aWhig, and in his latter days is more than a Tory. It is one of the unhappy auguries of this fatal Administration that its first law officer, its great Judge, is the declared and hated enemy of eight millions of his fellow-subjects. We know not whether Lord COTTENHAM Will not in the end be more regretted as a politician, even than as a Judge. We have just received from an authentic source in Syria a distressing account of the de plorable misgovernment of that country by the Turkish authorities. ;Notwithstanding the pro mulgation of the Hatti Scheriff the Christians are everywhere subjected to insults and annoy ances unknown while Syria was under the iron yoke of MEHEMET ALT. In a letter from a distinguished British officer at Bey rout we find it stated that even in that town —in the presence of the British flag—all persons in the streets were to rise on the approach of a Turkish Captain, and not to presume to sit down before he had passed, with other tyrannical and capricious regulations of a like descrip tion. " The Turks," writes this gallant officer, " have all of a sudden made demands on the people which greatly frightened everybody. They demanded a tariff of 12 per cent. upon every article, so that if a mountaineer has but one orb of silk he is to pay upon selling it 12 per cent., and then the articles he purchases in return must pay 12 per cent., so that, in reality, he pays 24 per cent. This amounts nearly to one-fourth of the people's property, which is to be thus taken from them every year. The PACHA has likewise, with the con currence of the Council of the Mustashan, de manded the tribute money from the Christians, viz. 60 piastres and upwards each, according to his or her rank. He next demanded a tenth of their property. Next the Weregie, or poll-tax —the impost whose exaction caused the Syrians to revolt against the Egyptians. From Le banon, oppressed by war exactions, he de manded a sum in purses equal to 20,0001. ster ling. These demands are made without even the power to enforce them, and in the teeth of the most solemn promises that the hard battle which the people fought for the SULTAN would obtain for them the mildest treatment. Moreover, these demands are made by the Turks when the minds of the Syrians are unsettled, and when French, Russian, and Egyptian emissaries are going about in crowds, stimulating the people to throw off the yoke of the brutal Turks. The Christians, too, are badly treated by NAJIB PACHA. at Da mascus. He forbade them to wear white garments, and otherwise so oppressed and haras sed them, that they mourned the departure of IBRAHIM PACHA, tyrant as he was. Such op pression failed not to excite general indignation. The people every where were ready to revolt, • .t.ne the. Pact-- not io govern thefii, and but for the British officers, who in some sort compelled the Pacha to forego the more odious of his claims, the Turks would have been again driven out of Syria. But as the Pacha insisted upon being made personally acquainted with the state of public feeling in Lebanon, a meeting of Emirs, Sheiks, Bishops, and other chiefs, took place at Ain Anoob, a vil lage about three hours' journey from Beyrout. About 800 mountain chiefs attended. The Emir BESCIIIR proposed to the meeting, in the name of the Government, the adoption of a tariff of 12 per cent. on silk, oil, and tobacco, and also over and above this an annual payment equal to 20,0001—one-half to defray the ex penses of the Government, the other to pass into the Imperial Treasury at Constantinople. After six days spent in deliberating the chiefs declared that the people were not able to pay 12 per cent. tariff ; that they could not pay the SULTAN more than about 7,0001. annually, but that they were willing to serve their country free of expense; and that 1,0001. per annum was a sum sufficient to defray the charges of the Government. Syria had no need of so many Pachas, nor could the country afford to pay the salaries of the many useless officers quartered upon it by the Porte. The meeting, in conclu sion, declared that the chiefs would peti tion the SULTAN respecting these grievances, and if redress was refused they would im plore the interference of the Great Powers on their behalf. Every body now looks to what the Porte will do, and if an un favourable answer be returned the people will redress their wrongs by force." Another letter from an officer travelling in the southern dis tricts of Syria, states that the Turks there have neither money, industry, nor activity of any kind. They depend for subsistence on what they can plunder from the Christians and Jews. They are as proud, as idle, and as inso lently tyrannical as their ancestors were when they first overran the Greek empire. Such are the accounts given by the most intelligent British officers of high rank and unimpeachable integrity of the state of Syria. They speak for themselves. Nevertheless, we shall take an early opportunity of making such comments upon them as we find suggested in other valuable documents received from the same quarter. The Paris Journals of Wednesday have all reached us, but yesterday's express from Paris enabled us to anticipate much of their contents. The following extracts are not, however, without some interest:— (From the Toulonnaise of the 29th August.) " A steamer is to fetch Vice-Admiral Bauden and his family. It is since said that the steamers Veloce and Camelion will bring back the new Maritime Prefect, wbo is expected in the beginning of September. " The squadron, it is said, will not go far, because several ships of the line, for instance the Friedland, have not clothing for the sailors. The Diademe of the line, which has not gone to sea with the squadron, is to un dergo some repairs in the roads. "At the monient of our going to press, the steamer which is to bring the mail from Africa has not arrived. We do not know to what cause this extraordinary delay is owing ; the weather is very fine, and the only reason which we can account for the non-arrival of the packet is, that it has been detained at Algiers for the public service. It is very impatiently expected, and will pro bably arrive this evening, or in the course of to-morrow. The Sentinelle de la Marine of the 29th thinks that the delay of the packet is doubtlessly occasioned by the gale, which must have prevailed two days on the coast of Africa. The same journal says that the general in spection of the squadron by Admiral Hugon, commenced at the llyeres islands on the 28th. A letter from Madrid of the 24th observes that the withdrawing of the Bill for the cession of the islands of Annabon and Fernando I'o to England, coincides with the evacuation of the Isle del Rey at Mahon by our Government. It now remains to be seen whether the English will evacuate the establishment they have founded on Fernando Po, as we have evacuated ours at Mahon.—Le Commerce. The King of Saxony, during his stay at Munich, be stowed the Cross of the Order of Merit on Dr. Herrmann, the distinguished political economist, and chief of the sta tistical bureau. The President of the Second Chamber in Baden, Pro fessor Duttlinger, died at Friburg, on the 24th instant. M. Duttlinger was one of the oldest and firmest advo cates of reform, and the cause of liberty in Germany loses in him one of its most respected and most active advocates. The llamburgh Papers state that the Supreme Tri- bunal of Hanover has at length pronounced its judgment on the Members of the Municipality of the capital, who were put on their trial two years ago, for an act of oppo sition to the new Constitution. M. Rumann, head of the Municipality, has been sentenced to two months' impri sonment, or to 400 crowns' fine ; two other Members to five weeks, or 250 crowns ; a Municipal Judge to four weeks and a half, or 225 crowns ; the Municipal Secre tary and another Member to four weeks, or 200 crowns, and the Assessor, with six Senators, to two weeks, or 100 crowns, the commutation being at the rate of 50 crowns (about 250 fr.) a-week. The Brussels Independent states that the liabilities of the house of Geymuller at Vienna are now known to amount to 12 or 13 millions of florins, being upwards of thirty millions of francs. • The Observateur d'Avesnes mentions the suicide of a person of that town, by cutting his throat with a razor. He had previously been seen by his wife with a pistol, and dreading, as they were on bad terms, that he in tended to shoot her, she sought her safety in flight. He left a letter in which he announced that he had really intended to murder his wife and .his son, and it appears that this was fully his intention, for a few clays before his suicide, a little-brass cannon was found on the bed of his child placed so as to kill it, and which had been fired, but without effect. It appears that the mind of the unfortunate man had been much affected by the calumnies of a servant whom he had turned out of doors. " At Aspelaer, near Alost," says the Constitutionntl, " there is now living a family of four persons whose united ages amount to 357 years. Three brothers in it are of 93, 90, and 86 years respectively, and a sister is 88. The youngest brother is postman of the district, and often walks five or six leagues. The father of this race of Methusalems (lied at 99." A letter from Florence, 22d ult., says :—" Prepara tions are making here for the third meeting of Italian savans. This scientific congress is likely to be still more numerous and brilliant than those of Pisa and Turin, the Governments of Rome and Naples having re moved the prohibition to the visit of the professors of those states. Several learned foreigners are expected, and we also hope to see those distinguished men Orioli and Libri, one of whom is in Greece and the other in Paris. The congress will open on the 15th of Septem ber, with a grand mass at the church of Santa-Croce, after which, the members of the congress will meet in the great hall of the Palazzo Vecchio. The opening speech will be made by the Marquis de Ridolfi, the Pre sident, and immediately afterwards, the Presidents and Secretaries of the different sections will be chosen. The Grand Ducal government is doing everything in its power to promote the object of the congress. The library, museum, &c. of the Ricardi Palace (formerly the Medicis) and all the public establishments, will be opened to the members. Several fetes will be given during the congress." The evening before last, as the servant of a money changer, named Guiteau, on the Quai Pelletier, was putting up the shutters, an enormous stone was hurled against the window, and completely stove it in, while a hand was put through the window and seized a bowl of gold. Mme. Guiteau, who was in the shop alone, hurried to the door and called out " Thieves but all around the entr,ance were too much engaged in picking up some pieces of money which had been scattered about, to at tend to her cries. The rogues had collected a tolerably good booty, when two sergens-ele-ville came up and stopped further depredation. Fortunately the driver of a fiacre on a stand near the spot marked two men as the chiefs of the attempt, pursued them, and succeeded in securing one who held in his hand a cap, into which he had emptied the bowl from the window, with 2,000 francs. This fellow, who gave his name as Felix Bandier, is not more than nineteen years of age. His confederate, Beau vais, who as well as himself was employed as shopman at a wine-dealer's, has since been taken, and proves to be about the same age. They are both committed for trial. The changer's total loss will not exceed 300 fr. The fete of St. Cloud commences next Sunday, and will last three weeks. On each Sunday the Grandes Eaux will play, and the Royal Manufactory of Porcelaine at Sevres will be opened to the public. We understand that the " light-fingered gentry" made a plentiful harvest at Versailles and SL Germain on Sun day lasi. It is generally asserted the depredations have been princirally by a party of the English swell mob, now on a protlssional trip to Paris. The police, how ever, are on the itiei 4 . but they candidly acknowledge •, British supremacy in th:s branch, the French pickpocket being a mere barbarian in ,'dill as compared with the ac complished artistes from tke otho side of La Manche. Two aged persons at Granges, In the Haute Saone, have met with a melancholy Lath. One of them, a fe male, who was 78, had been drinking brandy f!eely, and, having approached the hearth, set fire to her clothe. 7,. and rushed screaming into another room, where her husban,7 l ; who was paralytic, was sitting in an arm-chair, wrapped up in a counterpane. The old man was not only unable to render any assistance to his wife, but also to prevent the fire communicating to his own clothes. Before as sistance arrived the wife was quite dead, and the old man died almost immediately afterwards. The exhibition of the works of students of the Ecole des Beaux Arts (landscapes) will take place in that in stitution on this and the two following days from ten to four. During the last month the Paris Savings' Bank re ceived 3,400,340 A. C.,m.- - z4;zat nepositors, - onvi. Q. 194 were new, and paid 2,346,000 fr. out. The wheat harvest is now all got in round Paris. The crops of various kinds still on the ground are stated to be in unusually good condition. The official table of the prices of-wheat in the French markets, made up to the end of last month, show the ,„ g mec to nave been 21tr. 47c. per hectolitre in those of Mulhausen and Strasburg, and the lowest 17fr. 14c. in those of St. Lo, Paimpol, Quimper, Hennebon, and Nantes. The autumn meeting of the Paris races in the Champ de Mars will commence on Sunday, the 19th instant, when the two special prizes will be run for. On Thurs day, the 23d, the principal prize for horses four years old and upwards, and the royal prize, will be contended for; and on Sunday, the 26th, the principal prize for three year olds and the grand royal prize. According to a new regulation by the Minister of the Interior, the run ning for the principal prize for four year olds and up wards will be confined to one course of four kilometres, instead of three heats of the same distance. BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 1. I hat Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price , Price sena 5 per Cents ll6 50 Ild 50 1.6 40 ... 116 40 4 per Cents 99 70 ." 99 70 ... 99 70 ... 99 70 3 per Cents. ex. div 77 35 77 3.5 ... 77 20 77 20 *Sank of France x. 32 5 Latfitte Bank I,ooof. Shares 1025 ...1e25 ...1020 5,0001. Shares 5095 '95 „,5095 _5093 ifelgian Bank 5 per Cents. 3 per Cents ....... 71 25 71 25 71 25 ... 71 25 New Loan lO4 If 4 .. 104 104 ipanish Active 2l 21% ... 21 1 14 21% Passive ... 5 ... 5 7eapolitan lO4 60 ... 104 60 ... /54 5) fn4 L 0 Roman lO3 ... 103 ... 103 ... 103 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles. L.B 213 75 ... 213 75 ... 212 LO ... 212 50 R. B 335 ....°»35 ... 3.35 ... 335 Montpellier to Cette l.o ... 220 ... 210 ... Strasuure to Bale, shares red. 240 ... 240 ... 238 75 .. 238 7 ITELOIAN_P U NDS—Batmenr, SEPT. 1. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Hothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ......... llll Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 93 3 per Cent. — .Thirty.seyen--_, 7l X (184,0) lOl Loan of City, 1C32, 4 per Cent. ........ _ _ . . Society ef CoMmerce, - 4 %per Cent 93N Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ........ National Seciety . ••••••••••••••• .... Exchange on London &holt) _Brussels Papers, Sept. 1. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Visrina, Aua. 21. live per Cents. Metalliques boar per Cent 5....... ....... . ...... ........... Three Nr Cents. Bank shares ... 1590 —4llgeninne Zeitung, Aug. 29 HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Auo. 31. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. •611 ••••••• 000000 II•••• 0000000 ••••• ... 107 Bank Shares l6lO Anglo-Russian Loan lOl4 108% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series lO2 10156 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series 9814 98 Ditto in Certificates Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 86% 66 . Dutch tctual Debt, 2% pe. Cent LO34 50% Ditto 5 per Cent.... — - Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cer. 75% 75% Netwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per C. 01.... ., 11 , 2% 102 1 4 Spanish, New 5 per Cents. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, Atm. 31.-13 654.—Tw0 months, 13 4 3 4 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bzumus, Auo. 'A Mils. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 46 per cent. 10434 104 Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102 101) 2 Exchange on London, three months 6 18.% —Prussian Stale Gazette, Aug. 21) DEADLY EFFCTS OF PASSION.-A very shocking occurrence took place in Lisburn, on Tuesday evening last. A man named Wm. Boomer, a blacksmith, and his son, a fine young lad, about 17 years of age, had some angry words in the forge, where both worked, when, in a moment of irritation, the former seized a small bar of nail-rod iron and struck the boy so severely on the lower part of the chest that the instrument, passed obliquely in the direction of the lungs, and caused death in a few minutes. Doctor Wethered and seve ral other medical gentlemen were immediately on the spot, but at once pronounced the case as hope less. The unfortunate man was generally very in offensive, and, till within the last few years, was one of the most industrious individuals in the neighbour hood; latterly, however, he had been sadly addicted to in temperance, that fruitful source of Ireland's misery ; and this tragic occurrence is only one of the many which arise, either directly or otherwise, from that demoralising indul gence. An investigation into the above affair took place on Wednesday, before Thomas J. Smyth and R. Crawford, Esqrs., local magistrates, the result of which was the wretched man's being sent to Carrickfergus gaol, to abide his trial at the pring Assizes.—Edinburgh Courier TA UNTON.--k I RE.—On Thursday morning a fire, involving the destruction of property amounting to at least 2,0001., broke out on the premises of Mr. Bur nell, organ builder, South-street. The cause of the calamity is not known, but there is reason for suspicion as respects some base incendiary. It appears that at three o'clock, A.M. somebody was seen with a lighted candle in the field in which is situated Mr. Burnell's workshop, and about an hour and a half afterwards the inhabitants of the neighbourhood were aroused by the cry of fire. Great exertion was used to subdue the flames, but we regret to state that four organs, a bassoon, harp, and several other musical instruments, together with a lathe which cost 95/., and some valuable tools, were entirely destroyed. The fact of none of the pro perty being insured cannot but excite sympathy for the sufferer ; and it is hoped that_every means will be used for obtaining satisfaction on what now remains a mystery. A western gentleman has recently invented a new sort of matches, which take fire at a wink ; they are called ophthalmic magnetic matches. A western editor, in speaking of vegetable won ders, says he heard the other day of a young lady whose lips were so sweet that she dare not go into the garden for fear of bees. suzi pi-1]? ki qit NEwS a AND ibitt Optivion. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. News from China of the 20th of April will be found in another part of The Sun. A circular addressed by Captain Elliot to her Majesty's subjects in China, dated from the British Factory - at Canton, announces the open ing of the trade, and that no hostilites would take place at Canton, as the Chinese authorities were acting with the greatest good faith. From Paris we have news of yesterday's date. The accounts of the state of the harvest are very favourable. A letter from Constantinople of the 11th. ult. states that Mehemet Ali had offered to resign the Pachalic of Egypt to his son, if appointed Grand Vizier by the Sultan. The Divan was deliberating upon this proposition. PAELIaIIIVIENTAILY. Viscount Powerscourt and Viscount Sydney are both mentioned as Lords in Waiting to the Queen. Mr. Edward Drummond has been appointed by Sir R. Peel his Private Secretary. Yesterday evening another dispatch was forwarded by the Right Hon. Premier to her Majesty at Claremont. An express was sent yesterday to Sir Edward Sugden, at Thames Ditton, Surrey. Mr. O'Connell, as soon as he arrives in Dublin, is ex pected to hold an immediate meeting of the Irish Re formers, to propose a series of resolutions declaratory of the course to be pursued in the new Parliament. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Post, speculating on the household ap pointments, says :—" With respect to the high offices of her Majesty's household we are enabled positively to assert that no definitive arrangement has yet been made. In this department the p ersona l w i s h es o f h er M a j es ty will be, as they ought to be, paramount to every other consideration."—The Tory tone is very much lowered now, to what it was when the faction last grasped at power some five or six years ago. Then, nothing would suit their high notions of authority, but her Ma jesty's consenting to discard all her old friends, whether she were averse to the sacrifice or not ; now " her per sonal wishes are to be paramount to every other consi deration ! " Having failed in their attempt to bully Royalty, the Tories, with the cringing instinct of all bullies, have at length discovered, that the . best thing they can do is to lower their pretensions, and practise the soothing system. And yet their leader makes a boast of his independence—he who—to say nothing of this fresh proof of sycophantic servility—cannot stir a step without hearin; the chains of the landowners con stantly clanging at his heels 1 In another article the Post has the following remarks : —"ln the whole history of self-deception of party there never has occurred anything more preposterous than the notion of the Whigs that their policy must be adopted by the country, and that even its opponents are emulous of becoming its advocates. No man who raves in Bedlam could commit greater outrages upon sense, coherence, and probability than this. The country has been dis tinctly appealed to upon this Whig policy ; it has given its decided vote of disapprobation ; and while the con sequences of that vote are ringing from one end of Europe to the other, the Whigs say that their policy must be adopted by the country, and will probably be adopted by the Conservative leaders !!"—Why, the leading Tories themselves do not dare, boldly and decidedly, to impugn the Whig policy ! They carp at it indeed, and nibble at it ; but this is the very utmost they dare do. Will Sir Robert Peel, with Lord Ripon in his Cabinet, venture openly to set his face against free trade ? Will he have the assurance to declare that there shall be no alteration in the Corn-laws ; that our commercial system shall not be carefully considered, with a view to its improvement ? Certainly not ; he has at least cunning enough to see the suicidal folly of making such decided declarations ; and so far, therefore, indi rectly acknowledges that the spirit of Whig policy is sound, though some of its details may be erroneous. His opposition to this policy has been a shabby trick— a mere feint—throughout—every way characteristic of the man who has played a false part throughout life ; who is neither Whig nor Tory—" neither fish, flesh, nor good herring"—but an obsequious waiter on the Chapter of Accidents. The Advertiser thus describes the New Ministry "It is a Ministry of apostates. Its leading members— its Ripons, its Stanleys, and its Grahams—are one an d all renegades of the rankest kind. Nor would the sobri ouet of the renegade Cabinet be an inappropriate name j a y %Thich to baptize this coalition medley."—And yet it is from it Cabinet thus constituted that the Tory organs tell us the country is to expect the greatest benefits ! " Can any good come out of Nazareth ?" Can Ireland hope any thing from Arms-Bill and Registration-Bill Stanley ? Or Reform from apostate Graham, or wishy washy Ripon ? Will Aberdeen, the avowed disciple of Metternich, enlarge and elevate the character of our foreign policy or the Duke of Buckingham lend his support to a judicious alteration in the Corn-laws ? The bare idea of such suppositions is absurd ! It is comfort i,.s, t. ...Slant th a t th e cause o f pu bli c mora li ty —on which the Times has lately been laying great stress —will gain considerably by the acces sion to office of Lord Lyndhurst, who, having no conscience of his own to look after, will have more time to look after that of her Majesty! The Times loudly insists on the necessity of ruling Ireland with a high hand. We subjoin our Contempo rary's remarks on this subject :—" With the strength which a Conservative G l overninent will possess in both Houses of the Legislature, we are persuaded that it will not hesitate to put in force the law already existing against sedition; or, if that be insufficient, to call upon Parliament for such further enactments as shall effec tually stop the inflammatory harangues of the mischief mongers. This is a prevention worth a whole bureau of violent remedies ex post facto. The waters willnot flow pure till you stop the miscreants who poison the springs. '— Here is a tough morselfor the Tamworth quack doctor to digest at his leisure. But willhe take the hint thus adroitly thrown out by the Times? Will he dare to put down liberty of speech in Ireland, under the Jesuitical pre tence that it is sedition ? 'Will he refuse her equal jus tice with England, and then gag her if she venture on remonstrance or agitation ? Not so, Sir Robert Peel is the very last man to play a bold, uncompromising game. He is as timid in the.wrong, as lie is tame in the right; and without venturing on the bold step of absolutely coercing Ireland, will keep her in a constant state of fret and worry. The Herald says, in reference to the Duke of Wel lington's refusal to accept office The conduct of the Duke of Wellington in the formation of the Conserva tive Cabinet has been quite characteristic of his noble nature. His Grace's colleagues pressed on him the ac ceptance of the Presidency of the Council or the Foreign office. The Noble Duke, offering to the new Adminis tration all his personal assistance, and willing to under take the labours of leading in the House of Lords, felt that his bodily strength and somewhat precarious health might render his performance of official duties less regu lar and complete than his own high standard of perform ance dictated, and therefore determined not to assume the duties of any office in which he might disappoint his own feelings, or delay in the slightest manner public business. Thus in every action of the Duke of Welling ton's life does a sense of duty to the country predominate." —Ls it not somewhat curious that the most influential, sagacious, and straightforward man among the Tories, declines having anything to do with them, except as a volunteer ?It cannot be from age or infirmity—for the Tory organs themselves assure us that he was never better in his life; and if he be equal to the difficult task of defending Sir Robert Peel's policy in the House of Lords, the duties of Office—and we presume lie was of fered his choice of places —cannot press very heavily on him. The Chronicle remarks as follows on Sir Robert Peel's late attack on O'Connell : " This was the sort of oppor tunity which Peel seized for a kick at O'Connell. Reply or retort there could be none. He had him safe, and his own phalanx was marshalled at his back. The laughter, the shout, the yell, were all, as he knew, awaiting his signal. He knew it was no matter what be said, so that it was but vituperative ; its inherent pertinence or power would be superfluous. The power and perti nence were in the strength of three hundred pair of Tory lungs. And so he laid it on, like a big bully of a boy, with all the school round him, upon an opponent who cannot then return blow for blow. The Tory Journals which praise this external, seeming,. and cowardly tri umph, have yet a latent consciousness of its character." The Kent Herald gives the following character of the defunct Cabinet :—" We have no desire to write the epi taph of the Whig Ministry. Too oftenrtoo bitterly, have they deceived the hopes of the Reforrners--to o succes - fully have they opposed the reform movement which at one time, and but for their opposition, had the power to establish the ascendancy o f the popular interest. The Whigs, with a bias occasionally towards Liberal principles disqualify themselves by their aristocratic fastidiousness for the possession of office ; they are best fitted for oppo sition where they suggest and press upon the Tories more liberal measures than they h a ve the courage to propose, or the means of carrying, while themselves are Ministers." The Dublin Pilot thus speaks of O'Connell's late speech in P ar li ament : "If we wanted evidence of its power, we need not read the speech—we see it in the fury it created in the chief of the faction against which it was chiefly directed. There was something comfort able and consoling in seeing how it made Peel foam with rage. What an eulogiuin on the orator to find a man, usually as cold as if chiselled from an iceberg-- schooled and practised in systematic hypocrisy—driven from his imperturbability—to make a bad attempt at the fish woman." We quote the following from the Chelmsford Chro nicle :—•` Th..; Right lion. Baronet has now the ball at his feet. He is essentially the corner -stone of his party. His great talents, his unwearied caution, his moderation, and the faith, as we have said, of the people in his libe ral principles, have enabled him to raise and conduct that party to a position to which no other political man of the day could have led them ; and having accom lished this, he will do injustice to himself, and an in justice to the country, if he suffers his own free opinion to be cramped, and his improvements circumscribed, by men of less enlarged and less enlightened minds." zotrz sr — Tit.a.nr.--cONZ2VIERCE, The dismal state of trade experienced in most of the manufacturing towns and districts, meets with an excep tion at Rawi , 2lc. All hands are employed, the demand for various articles great, and business seems to be ex tending. The present price in London for the best or full priced" bread, is elevenpence the four-pound loaf, which is fivepence dearer at the present minute than the same weight of bread in Paris. This at the distance of not more than thirty hours' post from London. MORN/ __ AGRXCULTurtAz. The Wheat harvest is now all got in round Paris. Tha crops of various kinds still on the ground are stated to be in unusually good condition. NAVAL AND ILEXIATALIZY. Great bustle prevails at the dockyard, Sheerness. bringing ships forward for commission. Her Majesty ? * ship Waterloo of 120 guns, as also the Dido, were Q Wednesday taken into the fitting basin. ELECTIONEEIUNG. Mr. O'Connell having decided on sitting for Cork, a requisition signed by upwards of 600, including all the, Liberal gentry and 501. freeholders of the county, hes. been addressed to Mr. Corbally, the late Member f 0 Meath, calling on him to stand for this county. SPORTING. The cricket match between Nottingham and Kent WO played last week at Nottingham. The Kentish inea were eventually the winnPrs by a majority of twenty' two runs. TX EATILICAL. Vauxhall Gardens, celebrated for more than a center/ and a half, closed its doors last evening for ever. The sale, by order of the Court of Review, takes place oil Thursday next. At the Theatre Royal Dublin, Grisi and ,Lablache played in Norma on Tuesday. The audience Was veil brilliant, and among the distinguished visitors were Moore, the poet, and Prince George'd Cambridge. COURT—FASHIONABLE. The Archbishop of York has arrived at Bishopthorraf his seat in Yorkshire, and gives public dinners there the 14th; 21st, and 28th instant. • The Earl of Harewood has quite recovered from his recent indisposition, and leaves Hanover-square nett week for his seat at Leeds. The Countess of Jersey and Lady Villiers leave town on Monday for the seat of. Viscount and Viscountes s Dungannon, in Denbighshire, where' a large - circle wil l assemble during the festivities at Wynnstay. Lord and Lady John Russell leave town this day fo r Woburn Abbey. Sir Robert Tier Porter sailed last Wednesday in the Jupiter steamer, to pass the winter at St. Petersburg. Lady Seymour and her infant son are going on v eil favourably. The Queen Dowager goes to Belton House, Lincolir. shire, for a week on the 17th instant. The Duchess of Gloucester is also expected there on the same day. MISCELLANEOUS. From Leucate, the Lover's Leap, now known- as St" Mauro, there have leaped to cure themselveS of the pr a sion oilove, with Sappho at their head, 124 males aa, 126 females. Of these 51 males and 61 females wet' cured, and 110 drowned. Mr. Cockburn, of the *Western Circuit, has just bee appointed Queen's Counsel, by the Lord Chancellor. Upwards of 100 workmen are now engaged in malti* the alterations in the Home Park, 'Windsor ; a la portion of the park, to the extent of several hundred ya in length, has been severed in two by s deep cutting' which will divert the old foot-path, leading fra ° Windsor to Datchet. Three thousand pounds are to h a expended on these alterations. A meteoric stone lately fell in Tennessee, the Orin 4l l weight of which was 2,0001b5. From a brilliant step polish on some parts of the mass, it was supposed at firs' to be silver. It has since been divided into fragment s ,' and one man asks 1,500 dollars for a piece, which more than it would be worth at pure silver. At a meeting of the Zoological Society, held yeste r ; day afternoon in Pall-mall, the Report stated that th number of visitors to the Gardens in July was 21, 619 from whom 8421. I Is. had been received,- and in Al r gust, 17,333, from whom 665/. ls.. had been receir ei Among the presents made to the Society were sever rare species of monkeys from the Duke of Northurnb er , land and other donors. The valuable possession of Or e " chimpanzees was also referred to. cir The Times gives the following striking instance of Robert Peel's magnanimity on his return from Wincls„, on Tuesday?-" As the Right Hon. Baronet quitted o." s town he became more thoughtful, until aroused froth reflections by observing, as he came within view of t' ) ; Slough station, that the train by which h e w as d e sirot, of returning was in motion. It is said th a t grea t Inn are often affected by trifling circumsta nces , b u t, Wi s.- ever Sir Robert may have felt at the di sappo i ntme nt ' h a e , betrayed not the slightest irritati on , b u t, coo ll y d es cen itig from his carriage, supplied hi mse lf w ith t i c kets f ° the next train, and walked a b ou t."—Wh o can fail to recognise in this impressive incident the magna li c ,b mous intellect born to regenerate an empire? Thog' t he was too late for the 'Windsor train, and knew well thl' e the safety of Great B r it a i n d e p en d e d on hi s i m media te return to London, y e t Si r R o b ert P ee l was so f a r fro, o being overwhelmed by his sense of such an awful r ; sponsibility, th a t h e coo ll y d escen d e d f rom hi s carriaFth; bought a ticket for the n ext tra i n , an d then cool}' walked about until it was time to start ! Wh a t log equanimity is here ! What a truly philosophic resigli tion to circumstances ! Little minds would have storla o f and stamped with vexation ; but the majestic intellect be the Right Hon. Baronet at once convinced him of the expediency of taking things coolly ! He yielded to circumstances which he could not controul, just as ! t i; Bishop of Exeter did, when he resigned—though a broken-heart--the fat Rectory of Stanhope ! tolla To-day i s th e ann i versary o f t h e d eat h of '-,10,1 Home, author of th e trage d y o f D oug l as, who in 1808. A short time previous to his death he had `", - , e pleasure of seeing Mrs. Sidd ons perform 'hiS 'Lady "- dolph. His grey hair and ven era bl e appearance, as sat in one of tha stage-boxes, was very noticeable. Rumour's Or THE DAY. It is stated that Miss Stopford, daughter of Sir 11 ; bert Stopford, will be united, on the 19t1 4 instant±,d. Lord Henry Russell, late of the 74 gun-ship Vangoi" BRIGHTON RAILWAY. This magnificent undertaking is very nearly c° 111 ; pleted, and will be opened throughout in a few days , th e great delight and accommodation of the publ i _ e j : co ; who are put to freque n t a nnoyance by some o f t h e proprietors. On e o f th ese p eo pl e , a M r . C a p ps , or Capti° in renders himself p ar ti cu l ar ly o b nox i ous by his conduct the booking-office, sometimes keeping passengers long that the time is up for the departure of the cod before they c an ge t th e i r ti c k ets ; on ot h er occasions 'l3, tually refusing the money because the time is er although two hours are allowed by the Directors to ripe form a journey of only thirteen and a half miles ! in . disappointm en t th us crea t e d exc i tes very j us t jo , dignation ; and is, of course, injurious to the ; ht terests of the Rail wa y C om p a ny w h o pay heav' e l t for the use of th ese coac h es , amount i ng per 'leo!! to about tw e l ve h un d re d poun d s — a sum wh i c h 0 , be saved immediately the line is opened to Brigh i° o. This circumstan ce o p erates no d ou b t on the feeling e:‘ bited by Mr. Captious, who is indifferent 3b " ,° 3 - the Railway, in the forl orn h ope t h at t h ose who are "to appointed may go by one of his three-legged coache s town in something less than seven hours. Notwithstanding the time t a k en to perform the jour ne l. to Hayward's Heath by the coac h es, passengers are 0 , 1 : veyed to London by th e ra il way i n l ess than four 110 0 1;' 0 and when the line is opened, th e w h o l e distance win d 't travelled in about two hours ! Indeed, we understan is in contemplation to h ave one tra i n perform the jour°o-0, in about an hour and a-half from London to Brigh t l i c , This will be a wond er f u l accommo d at i on to the VI"04 especially to those w h ose t i me i s li m i te d . A Peibe can go down and enjoy the sea breezes or o r bracing air of the Downs for about eight tine nine hours, and b e b ac k to L on d on i n t h e t l i ve now occupied travelling on the dusty road ! have before impressed on the Directors the expech e be f of making the far e s as mo d erate as poss ib le, an d • may depend on a large return. In this ens e we proper liberality will prove its own reward. 0 , have now travelled on the lin e re p eate dl y, an d, c from personal observati on , b es t ow our unqualif i ed Isligeir on the management. Everything is admirablf,,,,, pointed—always excepti ng M r. C aptious and tc e' ill and when the wh o l e li ne opens, London fly to Brighton, t o en j oy the splendid et; 4' °i tions of that fi rs t o f water i ng places. 111 1 e' P tempest prevails from the south-west, i e s tsaeacce°: the Brighton p resen t s a scene magnificently sublin - 7 00 mountain wave rolli ng onwar d i n a ll i ts stormy t ort It will be w or th a " J ew ' s eye " to go d own and be re' such a spectacle for one hour. The I'ol4 n duced miles—nearly a direct line. about two miles by the railway , being only THE NEW ROUTE TO INDIA ly THE co P HRATES.—The Commerce publishes some private to res pondence, dated Aleppo, June 10, 18 41, wh i c h st il ' ha d that the English steamboats, Nimrod and Nitocris , ' o f a rrived at Beles, on the E up h rates, after a navigation ot sixteen days, and a distance of 375 leagues. Lieutel lil Campbell, who com man d e d the expedition, had W er oe tamed that both th e Ti gr i s and Euphrates are nav i gle for large vessels, an d that those rivers present a lit! passage to the British possessions i n I n di a . "pomace, .D stolen from M. Lascaris, at Alexandria, in the year I° continues the wr i ter, " contained important inf°llTe tion colle c t e d b y this gentleman,' who wasfesu spatched b y t h e Emperor Napoleon to explore 3 the potamia and the Euphrates, in order to ascertai n t he possibility o f discovering a passage to India by riff Orontes. The British Ministry determined to Ye ti is' those plans. Colonel Chesney was deputed on this 11 ' e cl sion in the year 1835. Great Britain then ascertsos, that the Orontes, which falls into the Mediterranceb.) was navigable as far as Latakia (the ancient Ant i° ou tb That the ancient harbour of Seluccia, situate at thenl at 0 of this river, could be rendered an excellent harbo_v a r d to small expense. That it was easy to make a ro ad s, Aleppo, and thence to the Euphrates through the "all„l -and that the distance, 45 leagues, could .be casii3l, nor versed. A coal bed was discovered at the foot of Mount his o f rus, 10 leagues from Tarsus. Near this coal bed, wh ic _ l iae, considerable extent, has been discovered an iron :stir which gives 60 per cent. of metal. These mines . 211- w r t te b r y c ro u n i a n t d e s e d t bytt the ek journey woods o m f a g y re b a e t T m al a u d e e . fro l i ' n h e j3° e les, " Liverpool in 34 days—viz., from Bombay to 1 3 e to thFily thattitq,.ll Liverpool, 15 days. The letter concludes by sta r....b to days ; "from Beles to Alexandrette, 3 days : there is no doubt but that in a few years the Eno' an d monopolize the trade of Bagdad, Bassora, Aleppo' • all Mesopotamia. • It is pleasant enough to consider the eh llnge a S s that a linen rag undergoes by passing through v ari° to hands. the finest pieces of Holland, when W °rli , he t a tters, assume a new whiten ess more b eau tiful than th e first condition, and often retu rn i n t h e s h a pe of Ic l o' ,, t ta . to their native country. A lady'S chemise m ay be morphosed into a billet-doux, and c om e into her P °ss- r s, sion a second time. A towel, or napkin, worn to tat te it ,.. may be taken from a dunghill and conv e rted into a v a n ki able piece of furniture in a Prince's cabinet. Manuscript. THE RAILWAY SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE NOW RE-PUBLISHED, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Aug. 30, 1841.