The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-23 00:00:00

EVENING' -$UN MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, LIV E CITY, TWELV E O ' CLOCK. RP OO I, COTTON MARKET, OCT. 22 . —Previous to the arrival of the Caledonia steam-ship, the market was hi a feverish state ; holders of American Cotton were offing ver on y sparingly, and at an a d vance of id. per lb. Friday's quotations. Subsequent to it they hare sup plied the demand better, and the extreme advance has not been maintained. We quote ordinary, middling, and fair q u alities *d per lb. higher,and extreme rates for good fair and good. Surat is rather worse to ,bus. Brazils and 'Egptians hare been stationary throughout the ' sl eek. Sea Islands are difficult to ,buy at last week's prices.' . There' have been taken on speculation 5,700 . American. I,,IVERPOOL 8/ TARE MARKET, O CT. 22.—T h e trans 114.e.tro"ited on,s at the S tock Exchange to-day have been very .. They se only .4netion, Half Shares,9'4 Liverpool,. and Manches the following :—Grand --ter, 1, •)L ; t; 1 , .„ . I k lliZt.:l.lcaarrB.reEt it has be STOCK en EXCILANGE, Ocr. 22.—The transaction i 3 I, d d 13- ."ham a B y flat to-dy . mil t ~ .maon an !rim 0 , Qua Our rters, 21.. . . . THE FIINDS. I ,Up to tho present time there has been but little busi t3th 'deuing. Consols are 873- • for Money, and 88** A•ce'Duut; Exchequer liills,.los. 12s. prem. „ Span s' Active Stock, 20.1 $.; - Portuguese Five per A.•eitt 0(1 1 •:, , • S " ' k ; Ditto. Threes, .17i 18. 3, PRICES OF BRAKES THIS DAY AT ONE. tlirr . It AILWAYS. n rninghan, Via Derli i Laii• Per Share. 43 utast Western . . y *** ' *****• 65 91446 4, `" Ditto Fifths ****************** 4 and uiaKto ... l; ***** . ***** . ****** bo 37 ii ... to 1 ' , ,t 1 6 .0 lind Birmingh.e; ************ ..... go 157 -n_ (11 'yid South \Vattern ...... 38/ 52 .., .. to allirs.diand-Contities ... ... I °° _ unto* Shires ................. 15 e kl oath Redeye and D0v e r......... .. .... **** 43 ~. COURSE over ......... 19 11 ba te - ..t.....0 P. 12 8 iGibraltar . ite.t t.!'llia ......... 12 5 Leghorn , ornate ... ... ...2 U 25 90 Antw erp . .. • 12 84 Genoa . Hamburg); .. ... ......... 12 7 Milan .... ... Alton* . ' ... A l•B• 13 14 Venice palls, 3 , 4 . . ..; . ....... . 13 144 Naples 39* Ditto,. a / si ght ••• 25 60 Palermo, per es 1184 ... months.... ... 25 85 Lisbon ' n &rsellle s .. 524 Erßow ........ ••• •25 90 Oporto 4524 _ d e .............. 25 90 Rio Janeiro 27 , I': ealeiktort on Maine... 150 i Bahia il l:bur g h, 3 u s .... 3 7i Buenos Ayres . - Vie nna.' ". ... ............ 7 New York, 21 days sight 4b4 T • • etree. 1. 3M. 956 Philadelphia rieste, ditte -. ........ ••• 958 ralcits OF BULLION, PER 7. Madrid Cu lla ..'. ............... 36 Portugal Gold Coin £3 17 itilbea: Isreelo4.. ............ ....36 §it.ille a .. ' ..... • ..... _36 New New Doubloons 0 0 4 0 10 0 Dollars... .......... 4 11 i PRI6i: ........... —36 !Silver in Bars g - SOP IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN , Irecent. Consols .. . ... 87 'Bank Stock OCT. 21. 17 1 ,!:!/,1 Half Stock .. :.. 96/ /Grand Canal Stock . . .... ... -7 hb:;!,l.ellueed' . ..... ... I Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... 841 4.,,,(ew 1830... ...... 96i ' R Ditto 4 per cent r r ueitt. Debs. ...... 89a !oyal Canal Stuck Each ONE . Ther e I, • .HALF-PAST a.... aS for t been b ut little business doing in the and 884 h H ee. Consols are now 871 for 'M one y, an e Account • Exchequerßills, Per e Qut i ll 12 prem. ; Three 96s 4.. .. Reduced, 861 87 ; Ditto Three-and-a -Half, larf,7l. ilPittlish Active Stock are now quoted at 20t ; Cnt - , tan , kinds, 51A- 51 52; Dutch Tvvo• and-a-Half per Th' hit ; Colombian, 184. S6„er.,„e, been rather more business doing in the ly‘' Alsrket. timingham and Derby are 48 ; Great a es i te . rn .; 74 75 ; -Ditto, New, 71. London and Brighton, West L ondon and Birmingham, 157 do., and South ' ,' . 1.11, '523 South Eastern and Dover, 19. Co nsols ' QUARTER TO TWO . 2(1 i. •, 8 7i 88; Ditto, Account, 88* 1 ; Spanish, TWO O'CLOCK. No alteration to notice, and very "little business doing. The . QUARTER TO THREE. ben operations in the produce markets recently h_ave lt:eet4.t.Plore liberal scale, and altogether better caleu 4i)oa a" ° Pe satisfaction to the sellers. There is still . a VI, feat'orexeiternent among the Tea brokers respecting face VI, i 4 rga . quantity of spurious leaf, a compound o f faced,eaves and - indigo, - which has recently been a N A; 'Y sold in the market.. Some of the brokers coin 'll that, tvh e „ . Mr. Bland should have taken the matter up, do e : . tit,lich more influential men might have C e r l l• Mr. Bland, however, is perfectly right. Like lu abus' sabiee, egg, he has been the first to act upon the it, ; and it is a disgrace to the trade that none of to-r`,llll,Pre influential members have done . it be evih "uo• This hint is intended only for those who . e tii " r ee a disposition to shirk • the matter and evade t ine -71:1'4,1 for we know that the majority of the retpee d l e bt . s wish to have this enormous evil reme trad d e v st spirit of exclusiveness and but close hy ete. Where * nothing is good but what is done et .;18i41 initiated person, or a . wealthy e member al k i e trade, is quite at variance with . th sentiments a nd resolves of the public. Let this inquiry beresumed, Ohl th at im diately or the Excise may prove less t h 1 7, e , - ' than have been. 0 t e aututeraters we tLi.n. , "YD'S S H IPPING —(THIS DAY), fr n ebON, OCT. 23.—Wind this d a y a t noon, S.W. s , esl:Ps - OCT. 22.--7A.M., Wind S.S.E. ; P.M., .S.W. fro, ureeze.—Arrd. Merchant, from Honduras. .Ar . rd. B air,„ l ti/o. itiVer, PaPlOon, for Fayal ; Ellen, Jamaica. 4. -'4 tn e X t d bound, the greater part of which have Hod -ni vvar It Nit bllek -,..4.3,„ ' • allehor'?4,TE, OCT. 2 2.—Arrd : Talma, for Caen, with ' With 1 u roken ; Ed ward, Christiansand , .fer Rochelle, li °BB of bowsprit and anchor and chain. Hero, for p alo, loss of bulwarks, and sails split. Arrr,l:34otPrit, OCT. 22.—Wind, E.N.E. to S.S.W— S f'„'tc.,latneg London, for New York; Rifleman, Lpn lYt' hi l ' 3 ° ll th * gees with loss of anchor and chain. Sailed A C st 4,' s ter, for New, York ; Cowan, Constantinople. 'qt. " -8' Ovr..2l.—Arrd. Wanderer, Hardy, Buenos tdrtileB. Tile wind, being easterly this morning . nearly te to t.6:Boetward bound sailed, but towards neon it e s t h b i a f a c c i . ~Is.4„,uuth, and the greater part of them have p 4tar L^o 1101/38, OCT. 2 2.—. Sailed Orynt . hia - , Africa; Alex.„(3u,„t!, Mauritius; Swan, New York; Cairo s teamer, . 1, - gurl a , 4 e OCT.B3klullt,.. 2 2.—Wind variable.. Sailed Pales ,. liii„tills, Sydney, New South Wales; Oscar, Malta. ‘.;hio-?1'01., Om 22 . —Sailed John, Boston; Plympton, C o-?1' Alecto, New York; Rienzi, Mess i na. . 1 , deIIPP; Ocr. 19. Sailed General ar khill,p Phi a- . . 1 4 4 * fro,l z/tl'66L, Om 22.—Wind S.—Arrd. the Ellerslie, ,50rtt,',.,t4103 Ayres. Sailed Reliance, for Bombay ; Pan 4ilein "Ylon,;•Bueno Mathilde Rio Janeiro ; Emma, ~:I z tte r: l ;, Coristina, B ' ahia . ; Wm. t Ackers, La Guayra ; ' 4.41 0' eta 'lse • I• n Packet Trinidad; Ann, Ja erillle,t; 'r ite iseY, Ba ' rb ' e l d l o a es ; James Calder, Havannah ; o t , cl dol l , , 1113 ; Shannon New Orleans ; Cambridge, . n•desd-' pylvatius:Jenkii;s, and Normandie, New York, `,CFl,ea;ct) Almeira. alPura vEuI"OOL, OCT. 22.—Grecian, supposed from zszCl4,ll,B° Jessie Logan, ditto, Quebec. . "'' l'' ' .°et. 21 .—Sil. Scotland, Jamaica ; Odessa, fork f c ,i, hit, 0,, IV "eitr s -`:r• 20.—Arrd. the Sir E. Pagent, London,. bi i „ .. i tY, Aik°.tith 'Wales ; Warwick, Nichols, St. Domingo; -lea _ th g arle, ,&111°11, Quebec, with loss of part of . deck d ' 3 Ce e li. e; II Quebec, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sailed il li ,Nn A la tt ' L n a rge, for Jamaica. . (Otop',,,,e'r• 20 .—Arrd. the Sterling-, Quebec. e. shif,',P liptiak-IcT. 20 .—Arrd. Diana, Cowan, Dalhousie. t° 2 1 , -aa , ( ,,, ,--, Willis, , Si, i s n, • , ~CT. 22 . —John iri , for Demerara, to 4 .1t 40 . 01, c. 21 . ers ty, i it s Oe.r. 22 . —The 'Sibyl, from Sunderlan d 46: 3 t illst ;" 1 4 1 , run foul of by the John, of Sunderland, 15ifiitriC1i ° 5 1 ` the Spurn, and received considerable da ttNoc,,,verY leaky ; she has received assistance. oi l i t i s a,st. fo-2;.,)•r. 20 . —The Louisa ; which sailed hence Viiiere on St,. Leone, put back to-day, .having been 41 4 t ny ir Johns Point, coast of Ireland. thi lll a_t 14ti',IjiCE'r' 21.—The Sophia, Richardson, loadine. ornn uds, was driven high upon the beach It .. Ait ho . g, and it it ex ected will become a wreck. 101 e, t 'llt, In • P tri t - 1 2b ii -I: oe NVlcur, OCT. 22.—Cledo n, . Ips .. - for,' t his „,,, , 9, , , and IVanderer of Bideford, got in con e h h ar lo st ,",', l lig,. and both drove on the shingles, th Oi I,"et"n •11 ' -° ° ol ll, the latter lost bulwarks ; Cledon t' llt e - °“• and brouelit into the roads, apparently . are 4ge. ItA ----- --------......... i .,. ._ \V 4i ,„" ekt,..-,:'LLWAY RETURNS. 7, s ted ; 4 , from the Railway Magazine the sums to ;47,s1,ee'ic the -Principal Railways of Great Britain d l'as:e-,:" • j he on the day of the month prefixe lttn.ker`parcels-re.trn it the money . receiv . ed for Weeki2e , carriages, horses, mails, and mer m . be • t iea • „ \T Miles Total. . 1 6 Il i : ''' 4r ne of Railway. Opened. £. s• d• il6 IlirriT,N,ham and Derby Junction, 384 1,285 16 9 i tlie,i t e lnarn and ClouCester ...... 525 2,018 19 11 1 butki,r and Birkeuhead ........... 15 l ? att a .,. ° and Arbroath ............. .. 161 257 10 1 1 1 04,-04 Counties ..................... 17i 815 5 0 ;9,91440: and .Ayr.. .. ............... 40 1,034 18 1 m,,q,_; fi ratr , „ , Paisley, and Greenock 224 • 759 18 2 ii;,,,eti,,txxonretion &Chester& Crewelo3l 9,174 3 2 hi%.", t 'i' ve th of England ............ 45 1,451 7 1 ! ja il and teirka ................ . .... 118 i 13,545 3 10 16 ‘ -. 9ie ester e 3'.... ... ............ ... 31 1,055 2 0 IG 1.,,,,er,00, :lid Preston Junction.. , 201 546 2 9 2 , 1 .0 4 4 L Slid Preston ......... 31 4,793 2 ? 2 ; .11.,nricion and ~I!rarningham ......... 1124 16,804 17 3 , 21 °d on an ',: -;1.cloall . ......... ... 34 7 . 11 14 2 19 1.. . t,,, sh,r-_,isa Bri ght0n...... ton ............... 404 2,239 19 7 21 , anci on a _ _7l„ln Branch 55 114 10 7 11!11.1„ te 4 , 101 , _"9 cro3don ,4, 1 ., d0r : 'IA reetiNvich ii, Ai r,eh_l.nd South Western ........ 64 5,311 IllatiolTer, Illiton, and Bury lO 597 10 I ps 1)1 14 4 eer and Ilirmingbarn....•• 290 11 1 Ife' A lid and ",..r and . Leeds ............ 671;111Orther-",n-ndtlee:r.l;s6l; I ( ti 6 .5 . rti, A`ll;!radil Easter ..n . •.. ....... ,t, no rth u n ' i t ( l . _ d ..... . ............ 41 7 i rest, e a I ,n • ••• ................. •Vlsle r . n a Wyre • .............. ork anii*••••• .... . North M id1a nd.......... 23 1,604 16 3 i'cil%ll4t4o//' -------- _ - 1 ..........,_ --- ffillTkiorpri:B , 1 -• sl. SHIP, THE VICTORY,- 4' "ra of '' , )cl• 2 , -) led, tin e di .• , --On Friday the wardroom trde r , ,gat. e 4 ~ sting-Lashed old ship on which Nelson Itt4n, _tlx q., "e, ti.une„rict ti, their new Cap ' tain,. W. W. He.n ,Arahl 1•th,,„,, •ri . ., and a party of friends, in cele ite,. !gar, : an,;-'aue'llant ntv.ersar3, of the glen' battle of ttlirck.,4e,,). ee!btiinony of their anxious wish to blet4ttitti,. ttiti,,Lat,,,re !le tions of that brilliant day. 41 14 4 3. ttret.l fro ~,„- , At. Ic euil . 111 the Canto n de St. Gall of 71, -- "irr,i,.. e.ted T.ta s plan, opprored by the Govern- Nab': ,4gultit 3 b i a majority of the Grand Council e t ' 4 r , all' S 7 , • Al • 13 aumo n t , ,e.eohven, . r n proposal to re g'ai.b4rX 71 c€Isiot l _•• • • , vrith power to make the ne -441% 843,-- S i ? 115 IrlOptetl b • .• -•- "4 .'. e_.,. ,•• _ Y 14 ' IllajOrlty Or 76 DISTRESS IN PA ISLE Y. MEETING-(THIS DAY). The Deputation now in town for the purpose . of repre senting to Government the present awfully distressed condition of the working population of Paisley, and soliciting aid for their support, called a public meeting to be held in the London Tavern this day. Soon after one o'clock, on the motion of A. HasTIE, Esq., M.P., Mr. Sheriff ROGERS was called to the Chair. In doing so he wished to explain why it was that he was placed-in that situation. The deputation from Paisley rightly considered that it was a tribute of respect due to that great city, that they should ask the Chief Magis trate to preside upon that occasion. They waited upon the Lord Mayor, who met them with that urbanity and kindness which always characterised him.—(Hear, hear.) He assigned sufficient reasons fur his inability to take the Chair, but h e h a d most kindly offered to head a subscription, should that meeting deem it prudent to enter into one. 'Other . Magistrates were applied to, but their engagereints prevented them from acceding to the request. He thought it necessary to state those facts in justice to himself, and to show that be had not been presumptuous in putting himself in the Chair. •He wished his official capacities were greater, but that was an occasion in which the abilities of the Chairman would not be called-into operation ; the subject, if clothed in a few brief_ words, would speak most feelingly to the hearts of all. The distress in Paisley and throughout the country was unfortunately too well known, and there fore required no description from him, that in Paisley ! distress existed in its most appalling form. The ex tension and improvements in our machinery had led to a vast extension of production, even beyond all cal culation. While the friction of our machinery was les sened there still remained the heavy friction of restriction of our laws.—(Cheers.) Our necessities cried " Pro duce, produce," while our restrictive policy answered, " Restrict, restrict." Our necessities and our restrictions had filled this country with goods, which other people were willing to take in exchange for the food which they could not consume— (Hear, hear, hear)—but in stepped our restrictive system, and prevented that interchange which would benefit both. The distress in Paisley was very groat, and it, was greatly aggravated in Scotland by the want of a Poor-law. That law in Scotland considered every Man who was able to work and did not, as a vagrant—it was never intended for such a state of things as now existed. The people of Paisley had nobly acted in the spirit of benevolence, and not in the spirit of the law, otherwise thousands must-hare been starved. He felt bound to say that the people of Paisley had shown that " their hands were open as day to melting charity." But now their local means were ex hausted, and they appealed to their fellow -countrymen in London to assist them. The Deputation looked to them for means to keep their fellow -townsmen from starvation, and he (Mr. Rogers) was sure they ws.uld not be denied. Our working population were the back-bone of the country—our whole social system depended upon their welfare, and he was sure the citizens of London, enlightened as they were, would net refuse to give that relief which was now claimed of them.— (Hoar, hear.) He would not detain them from hear ing the statements which the Deputation had to lay be fore them. That Deputation consisted of a high Divine of the establishment, of an eminent Clergyman of the secession Church—of one of that benevolent body the Society Of Friends, and one of the magistrates of Pais ley. Surely the distress which united those who entertained so dissimilar opinions must be of no common kind. Me would only observe, that he hoped the gentlemen who would address the meeting would refrain from introducing any topic which might tend to weaken the efforts of the Committee. He called upon Dr. Burns to address the meeting. Doctor BURNS said their excellent Chairman had stated, and stated correctly, that there was no Poor-law in Scotland, on the same principle as that in England. That statement was correct.. At the time the Poor law was made there was no idea of Scotland being a commercial or manufacturing country—it had no foot ing and could have had .no foundation. Hence the Poor-law was adapted to the then existing circumstances. These were totally changed, and now they felt the necessity of repairing what they felt to be a great deficiency. At the same time, even if they had the way clear for an assessment for the poor, it would not meet the difficulty. A large proportion, a great majority of their operative population, were in great dis tress. They were placed in a situation which should not be allowed to exist in a civilised country, and the idea of precipitating that respectable body, the operatives of Paisley, upon a poor fund would be revolting to their feelings and that of the de putation.— (Hear, hear.) They could not find their way to it without a lengthened legal process, and whatev er the Government might do i n th e way of an improved system, still it must be the result of a lengthened investi gation, and of the legal decision of competent Courts. It was necessary though to make an appeal to the bene volent feelings of the country for present relief. They had, however, a substitute for a legalized Poor-rate, and that had hitherto in a great measure borne them out. He recollected in 1825-6, when great dis tress existed, they raised from their own resources 10,0001. In 1837, when they last appealed to the benevolence of the people of London, they had raised from their own f un d s 7,00 a. They' 'had now raised 2,000/. ; and whence the falling off ? He stated these facts to show the meeting that there were causes in ope ration which had borne down not merely the status of the operatives, but the ability of the monied classes to give them relief. Greater efforts, he was aware, would yet be made, and he trusted they would not be wanting in that self-denial which the circumstances of the town might require. In the meantime they felt it imperiously necessary to make an appeal to the charity of the em pire, and especially to the charity of London, which had not failed them in times past. In 1837 they paid a visit to London, and they were grateful for what had then been done, which had helped them wonderfully. A month after that trade 110. revived, but it was clear that Paisley had not prospered, in the true sense of the word, during these four years. There had been four years of doubtful and suspended animation. Debts then contracted remained still unpaid, and pawns then obtained were still unredeemed. The situation of the working classes had seriously deteriorated. What had occurred in that town during the last three months ? Of eighty manufacturing houses, fifty had become bankrupt —two-thirds of their trade, many of them of old standing and highly respectable, were still willing, but unable, to afford relief, having become insolvent. The consequences were two-fold—a prodigi ous number of the working classes were thrown out of work, and the abilities of the master were greatly dete riorated. With regard to the number at present out of work, lie would give them the result of a most minute investigation made just before the deputation left Scot land. It had been made from actual survey by confiden tial Committees, specially appointed by the authorities and the Relief Committees. The number of loom-steads altogether in the town was 5,746, of which only 3,158 were employed at all; and lie begged to remind them that if they supposed all that were employed were able to obtain a comfortable subsistence, they would draw a most erroneous conclusion. The number of looms unem ployed was 1,717, and the number of shops without looms at all, was 871, because the possessors had been in most instances compelled to sell their looms and materials for subsistence. That proved, beyond question, the depth of the destitution, and it had been proved by the most exact calculation, that the ,number of persons devolving on p u bli c c h ar i ty, was little short of six thousand, men, women, and children.--(Hear ' hear.) The numb er o f reta il s h ops s h ut up amounted to 100. This was a state of things calling for investigation, and such an investigation would doubtless take place, but he mentioned them as broad facts, proving the existence of deep distress. There were 4,200 persons receiving charity before he left Paisley, that number had since been increased by 1,400, so that distress was evidently making rapid progress. Now, how had the Committee proceeded to relieve the unemployed? to some they had given work, so far as they could get it, paying them at the rate of 9d. or a shilling a day—to some they gave provisions— to another class they made weekly allowances, varying from 2s. to 3s. a week. But all that was, given was not sufficient to support life. It was merely enough to keep soul and body together, and scarcely sufficient to do that. That was a state of things which ought not to ebn tinue, and they appealed to the patriotie benevolence of the country to remedy it.—(Cheers.) It was a fact, that all the unemployed were not receiving charity, and that was another reason why they should have a helping hand extended to them.—(Cheers.) That could be ex plained by the:fact that those who abstained from apply ing for relief were the most independent, spirited, and the most moral men, men beloved by all who knew them, who constituted the most valuable elements of society. These men, although suffering deeply, were of such an independent spirit that their feelings revolted from making, application to time Committee for charity. They revolted even from the comfort of the soup-kitchen. They were still making a desperate struggle to preserve their independence, and those were feelings which ought to be cherished. It was the duty of every one to stretch forth a helping hand to those people, and not ti suffer such a noble spirit of independence to be destroyed. He trusted that the time might again arrive, when these poor operatives would be enabled to enjoy, not only the neces saries, but some of the simple comforts of life. H e h a d thtit day received a letter from a brother clergyman, which stated that the distress was still increasing, that the manufacturers were suffering severely, that the number of unemployed hands, and the demand upon the charity funds hadbeetnimernttheinuir means i n n s cre hsd as ing, while, at the same o w f ri t t h e e r gr w e e e n te t o m n iser t y o be s f t o a re te b th e a en t the n r r e ip w p •a le s d ; pro T s h p e eet them, and referring to a former he letter which had to been published in the newspapers,state referredin theto that he had again visitedf in a m thate house there letter, and lter e two that, 0 . t n : h e t r a h addition t, shavings n t lr h aeo a nes t k , tfeadtnl eialaindeds. in one house, consisting of 17 persons, in the . ful state of destitution. The apartment occupl o ed b b e y d them was was damp and uncomfortable—they had n of upon, except some straw or some wood — they none of them possessed one inch of b were obliged to lie down in the same rags which . . they had wornt'during the day. The o p e ratives of Paisley had b een taught in the school of adversity, and lead learned to suffer without murmuring. They had shown no disposition to murmur or quarrel, or disturb the Peace—(Hear, hear, hear)—and men of all political and of all religious opinions had united to bear witness to the existence of the distress, and to devise means for its relief. He had b een 30 years a parochial minister, and had been in the habit of visiting the poor. The young p eo p le were desirous of education, but they had no means of affording it to th em. In 1837 they had established schools to give education to the young people, and had employed the operatives out of work to give them education—but now there was a young population growing up without education through the want of means to give them edneation. The pawnbroking shops were at a standstill. Formerly there was clothing takfuruituro-to ruse 13100eY upon, but now all that was gone—the clothing was ex hausted. There had been during the year a rage fu' emigration -450 persons had expressed themselves de sirous of emigrating, and had actually been oblieed to apply for charity to enable them to do sos That showed distress must be great. He was not an enemy 'to emigration, but he grieved to think that whilst coloniza tion must be er.couraged, that they should be compelled to encourage it at the expense of tearing up the feelings that ought to bind a man to his native land. Could their expatriated countrymen look back to their native country without having it forcibly pressed upon them that they did not leave that country willingly, for those that who should have supported them at home would not help them when at home, neither did they furnish them comfortably to leave it ; and as they looked back upon that countryjthe feeling could not be good—could not be friendly. Was it right, was it safe, that this feeling should be allowed to get existence in the breast of human beings ? No, when they feel themselves yielding help to these suffering people, still let them re member the moral lesson taught them, that whilst they provided for the temper of their wants, they raised in all their strength and beauty the feelings in those poor men's breasts which bound them to their homes, to the charities and noble institutions of the land of their fathers.—(Hear, hear.) There was a very interesting class of sufferers to whom he had not alluded, he. meant the females. The females—the depressed widows who were pining in solitary wretched ness, and who ought to be visited and visited again and again at their own homes, before they could take the guage of their wretchedness. Then there was a class of interesting • young females who were the constant attendants at their churches, and who filled the situation of servants, and who had been deprived of their original industrious means of living, and many of whom had devolved .upon charities. He (Dr. B.) hoped to see some means furnished from the ladies of London for this portion of the subject e and he had hoped to have seen many ladies present. It was probably not understood that ladies were expected to attend. He had hoped to. see them, for. he found in them a true feel ing of charity and of hope. He knew that there would be benevolent ladies in that great city who would be found to contribute to a fund, especially for the females of Paisley. He knew in 1837 such a fund was contributed by the ladies of the metropolis, as enabled them to raise a most effective charity, which enabled them not merely to deal out provisions, but to visit those poor females at their homes. He had stated the cause of depression. He had stated the result of their investigation into the existing distress of the people. They had been induced by this investigation to strive to obtain relief for that distress. He had stated the circum stances connected with the clothing, the education, and the state of their families. He should leave to his worthy friend,' Mr. Baird, to take up the subject which he (Dr. Burn) had not touched upon at all —he meant the state of disease. He would conclude by reminding them that the winter was approaching. All was dark—they saw darkness be coming darker. They were going into a deep and dreary tunnel, through which they must pass. He called on them to give him their help. Be that help little, or be it much, they thanked them for it all, and it would be gratefully received and carefully appropriated. That charity would return upon their own hearts a mute pleasing voice. He was sure that the kindness that had hitherto been shown to them in London would still be extended. He thanked them from his heart for what they had already done. Looking forward to the winter, he implored them to stretch forth their hands in order to distribute their charity. The opening speech devolved upon him in consequence of his being senior minister present, as well as having been the leader of the Deputation, and he had th oug h t it necessary to go as f u ll y as he had done into the sub ject in order to bring it before them, and he trusted successfully,—(Cheere.) The Rev. Mr. BAIRD said he had listened with very great pleasure to the remarks which they had heard made at the opening of the meeting by their excellent Chairman, and he had listened with equal pleasure to the remarks they had just heard from his excellent friend Dr. Burns, with whom he was connected in the year 1837 for the same subject. He should not touch upon anything that had gone before, although it were an easy matter. He would say that the statements of the distress had not been exaggerated.—(Hear.) He felt that it would be harrowing up the feelings 'of their hearts, were lie to lay before them the present state of the distress from his own observation. He had known of a poor man's wife virtuous and intelligent, who, in her confinement, possessed not a rag to cover her new born infant with, not so • much as a small por tion of meal to make a morsel of gruel —yet, so independent was she of spirit, that she would not ever name her circumstances to a female. He only mentioned this fact to give them a bird's-eye view of the distress that existed, and the independence of spi rit under it. About two years ago the people of Paisley had goods, and could go to the pawnbrokers', shops ; but now there was such a revul sion of the manufacturers, that the pawn brokers could not dispose of their pawns. They had raised for several months past subscriptions, and they had hoped not to have had the necessity of again appealing to the benevolence of London.—(Hear, hear.) For three months back they had been compelled to feed upwards of 3,000 souls from day to day. Now they had 5,000 to feed, and many other thousands had not yet come in, who must soon follow. They knew that the unem ployed would be doubled, nay, trebled, during the ap proaching winter. It was not the present' amount of suffering which led them to claim the sympathy of the citizens of London ; it was the alarming prospects that were before them. They had the certainty that for three months there would be no employment. for the people. They knew that to be a certainty, be cause of the peculiar nature of the trade of the town. It was a fancy trade ; the goods that were to be sold in the spring were made in the preceding winter, but as the manufacturers did not see any prospect of a market; they of course refused to produce goods. Others did so, but their manufacturers could not do so, for if the goods were not sold at the time they were made for, they were mere rubbish ; they were useless, and would ruin an y one h av i ng anyth i ng to do with them, because the fashion had gone by. The con sequence was, that in place of the manufacturers engag ing hands every one who came in with a finished web was immediately discharged. In their own neighbourhood they had made great efforts to meet • the urgency of the emergency, but as there was no hope of any revival of trade —as, on the contrary, those hopes had been dashed to the ground —as the blaCk cloud was deepening and dark ening into tenfold horror—therefore- it was that they claimed their sympathy and support. Unless the hand of benevolence was stretched out from other quer , * ters, the people .must perish of hunger and dis ease. These were the circumstances in which they were placed ; their prospects were most alarming in reference to disease. There had been some misunderstanding upon that point. He did not say that the town of Paisley was in a state of disease. On the contrary, it never was more healthy. There never were fewer typhus cases in the hospital. They had contrived to get their people over to that period of the year, but in what a state were the constitutional energies of the people. They had been fed so as to reduce them to such a state as to lay them. open to disease, and to unfit them for bearing the rigours of the coming winter. The Rev. Gentleman detailed the number of fever cases in the hospital from 1832 to the present time, from which it appeared, that in 1840 the cases during the last two months exceeded those of any of the previous years, and that arose from the want of sufficient food to enable them to withstand the rigours of winter. So it was now, and therefore the claim they made upon the citizens of London, What was their position now ? They were in health, but the people were like spectres ; their trade was not revived, and they had not even the prospect of that em ployment which would give a cheering and beneficial excitement to their frames. Winter was now setting in, and theirs would, in all:human probability, be one of extreme suffering, connected with the appalling ravages of disease and death. In making their present appeal, they made it with perfect confidence to the benevolence and the wealth of London. Tie was aware there were many other localities in distress as well as their own, but they knew that they might state their case to the British Government, and to the benevolence of the people of London, as well us others.. They were of Scot land, but London was not less their metropolis than that of the people of England. He recollected well when they had. last visited London, a fine sentiment which had been uttered by the Chairman of the Relief Committee, and a gentleman who had filled the office of Lord Mayor of their city. He said, " Gentle men, we have more pleasure in giving you this than you can have in receiving it, and we do it not with the less joy and gratification that 3 ou are of Scotland."— (Cheers) Scotland ! Why London is the metropolis of 'the empire. We know of no such distinctions as Eng lishmen and Scotchmen. These ancient lines of distine tion are obliterated —ours is not a paper union, but a union of fact. London is the metropolis--London is the heart, and it must send its influence to the remotest part of the empire.--e(Cheers.) • Captain ATCHERLY wished to krow whether there were any allotments of the poor lands in the neighbour hood of Paisley? Nottingham was in the same position. He was shocked to see that at a meeting in which Scot land alone was interested, none of the five of the largest Scotch landed proprietors were present. He meant the Marquis of Abercorn, the Duke of Argyle, Mr. Houl ston, the greatest coal and cotton proprietor in the coun try, the Earl of Glasgow, and Mr. Speirs. Paisley was one of the thirteen canonries, and had large revenues for the use .of the poor, but they were diverted from their proper channel.—(Cries of " Order, order.") They must all fill back upon their position as cultiva tors of the soil—the soil fed their bellies. and to that they must go. He would not go into the subject further, but to-morrow he shotdd address some thousands in the Re gent's Park on the subject. Lord KINNARD considered the subjects which had been alluded to by the last speaker as too extensive to be entered on at the present meeting. Their present object was to feed those who were starving.—(Hear, hear.) Nothing that he could say would increase the effect of what had fallen from those Rev. Gentlemen who had so ably addressed the meeting, and he was sure that .those speeches must excite the deep sympathy of all who either heard or read them.—(Cheers.) He agreed with the Chairman in the • gratification "which he had expressed, in seeing. the members of the Established Church of Scotland joining • hand-in -hand with• the ministers of other denominations, and sparing neither pains, nor time, nor trouble to provide the means of ministering to the relief, of their starving fellow ceuntrymen.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") It,. : Was an example which he hoped to see followed' by-. the Clergy of the Established Church of England.—(Loud cheers.) It was a proper position for a Christi an m i n i ster to oc copy,(Cheers.). He was gratified, as a Scotchman, to See the call of Paisley so respectably responded t o b y tb of London, and more particularly was he gr e litS i e tY d ' : : bY the kinduese of the...b.bgtitl ineon. A letter from Sir Harcourt Lees to the Editor of the Dublin Evening Facket is published in that paper of Tuesday, relative to his predictions of the conspiracy in Paris to kill the French Princes, in which he says : " I have no hesitation in declaring that, several months before the late atrocious attempt was made by a vile assassin on the Royal. Prince?, I hid the honour of addressing a letter to his Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours (as I stated in a letter published in the Evening Packet), in which I informed him of the origin and nature, with the ultimate object, of the demoniac conspiracy existing in France, in close communication with a similar one in Great Britain .and Ireland ; and I charged his Royal Highness to inform his enlightened and magnanimous father and his family t 3 be careful and vigilant, for that attempts were intended to be made os their lives ; that I had my information from a quar ter that never once had deceived mt , , and from the same mysterious source that had given Me notice of the in tended assassination of our own young and innocent Sovereign, by the miscreant Oitford, seven days before the shot was fired at our venerated Queen. Early in the present year I had a long interview with the.Un der-Secietiry of State, M. Maillac, at the Home office in Paris, ,during which I explained to that able Minister the nature of and.the secret machinery, with the ex tended'ramifications in and out of France, of the plot, and laid before him some of the important documents, which he requested I would permit him to show Louis LeoMplied with. Thi s a bl e Philippe, which, of course, man was not long in acting un fay itAtlnation, for within forty-eight hours afterwards the police had secured a committee of villains; sitting in council, with their books and papers ; and, for the important service I had ren dered (as he was pleased to say) the King and the Go vernment, M. Maillac conveyed to me hi s Majesty ' s grateful thanks. the - " My own impression is, that h death o f t h e entire of fLoui of our sPhiliPPe' s own fam S family is contempl a t e d , and also the destruction overeign—the expected con sequence being a revolution in both countries. S uc h was the substance of the awful information I received from my secret correspondent on the 4th o f June, 1840, and which I gave immediate intelligence o f to an to the Edit or but whiehotofortunat e l y , was unat his ki n d ness at e te x n a d lt e e d d te p . ersonage, gaged with M. et that a l t 4 the l v eL t r a ye k n e cdr eitni this cta o in p pa p re o ir ie r or t d u al : i yw t y hde o ene f p e l o s ne was e sae y s one engaged as he seemed to have better and Maillac in endeavouring to ,save:the life of the French Monarch and his family. I took the liberty of request ing he would not publish any arrests that might be made connected i m n or P e a r r a is p j id u e st on t t h i e n n ental intelligence than any other journal Though in England, and I have hopes of-being able to arrest, by gras p of your faithful friend, privacy, a desperate vil'ain, that I suspected was at the moment e in e P ff a cti r r is, e a f nd th w e bei tn l is ln e e a w nt iv o as xf d e e r e d p . ly . did not then succeed, I dent% even ;yet, de-p a i r of meet kg with him, and if I should be 60 fortunate, he wia hardly escape from the HAR.COIJRT LEES." ~. Marshal Gerard was received yesfeiday by Louis person -8 usually -' Philippe;' and We hare been assured by well inf orme d, th a t subsequently to his au di ence a Cou p cil of Mi n i sters w a s h e ld, the Marshal ha v i ng _ announced to the . King his determination not, to resume the command of the Na Tonal Guard. , TO - day,..the . Duke of Orleans' to endeavour t.? comiue d , his re was sent to the Marshal, solution. Our readerBwillx:e6ollect th it ye ; _ .: ~ Was the first who - prommuced iha.iiiiii . " . htiiit' ra r zu .: zr ', ;. SI nee i the re- • volution Of 'fitly; - antl4hWit r ii ‘, 1 1 .4).4 uts of . . , . ViolenCee'";Gaiate-ilartintiej. „ J I Y v ^ THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1841 seating to preside - over ' the meeting.-(f,oud cheers.) He would : not go into any:long db_cussion, but he was afraid th a t th e description which had been given of the suffering s of the p eop l e of Pa i sley might, with few exception s , a pply equally to the in habitants of every manufacturing towns.-(Hear.) He had long res id ed in the neighbourhood ofa manu facturing town, an d was perhaps almost the only person Occupying the Station he did who was connected with manufactures, r and' he felt convinced from his own ,knowledge of the state of manufac tures, that the present, depression of trade was not of a temporary nature.--(Hear, hear.) - It had gone on increasing ever since 1837. It had not been occasioned, as • had been stated, by over speculation,. pr by the, conduct of the joint-stock banks. He. would allow that in 1830 there had been some over speculation,,-and that Iniglit have occasioned a part of the depression felt in 1837. But now, when they saw some of the oldest and most respectable houses of business failing—when . they, saw old firms, in consequence of the loss of their capital, pbliged to close their establishments —when they saw numbers Willing to work, but unable to find employment; —he must say that it was not to over-speculation that the distress could be attri buted, but to the laws of the country, which prevented the labourer from disposin g of the produce of his labour to the best advant age.—(Cheers.) He was a landowner, and possessed both rich and poor lands, and even if he were to expe r i ence loss, that ought not to prevent his supporting a - repeal of those laws. He believed the farmers would not lose, and that the idea of losa to them, for a repeal of those laws was merely a bugbear held up by short-sighted persons, in charac terizing whom he wou ld not make use of the term which they Served to hav e appl i ed to them. The Noble Lord then proposed the first resolution as follows "That beyond question there exists 'in Paisley and its ...neighbourhood di stress of a most appalling nature among,, the ,working population ; and that from ac 'counts received by the deputation since they left Scotland, that distress is greatly on the increase : Eeveral hundreds .having -.come upon the Relief fund, in addition to • upwards of 4,000 previously upon it; and these receiving a:Most miserably inadequate supply of the merest necessaries-of "life ; and that there is reason to apprehend a large "increase of the privations of the operatives during the severity of the approaching winter." .1)r. St.trcn then rose and was proceeding t o ma k e some remarks in. defence of the Corn-laws, and to state his intention -to , propose an amendment on the subject, when he was called to order by the Rev. Mr. PRENDERGAST, and after a short discussion, in which Capt. Aelicrley supported pr. Sleigh, it was de cided he wits out of circler; and his amendment was with drawn. The original motion having been seconded by Mr. Stephenson, was put and carried unanimously. . Mr. JOHNSON in proposing the second resolution— " That the local resources are altogether inadequate to meet a distress so deep and general, that, in point of fact, these resources are already exhausted, and that therefore an appeal to the publicinLon(ma that n he d els where has become a bsolutely necessary"—said, had known Paisley twenty years, and could state from his own knowledge that , the distress was was not confined to the operatives, but had reached the manufacturers themselves, and that those who lied re lieved the operatives in 1837 were now in no con dition to do so, but were nearly as badly off as their workmen. The operatives of Paisley had great claims on the citizens of London, f or they were .the manufacturers, of fabrics, from the sale of which many most respectable and,,ivealthy houses in London had derived a large profit and, if he did not mistake, the citizens of London .would not be backward in "holding out a helping hand to those who were in need. Such was the distreasin Paisley that some of those per sons, who a few" years ago could have retired with a com petency, were now in the greatest distress; and in one case it had led to the lossnQcason, and indeed no one knew the depth of the . Misery,and distress that was expe rienced before the parties woUldmake any public admission of it. He trusted the meeting would throw the shield of their protection over tho4' starving and industrions people, and prevent them carrying their talents and resources to another country ; because if they escaped utter desti tution and death, they had no other alternative than to emigrate to some other part of the world. Mr. CARLISLE, as a native of Paisley, seconded the re solution. He believed the distress was not at all-exag gerated. He had seen many of these unfortunate men himself who had walked all the way from Paisley to London, and who were literally in a state of the most utter destitution as regarded food and clothing. The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then read a list. of the subscriptions that had 'been received since the meeting had commenced which included Sir Robert Peel " Sir James Graham Lord Rinnaird lO 0 0 . . Miss Kinnaird - ' • ' • ,fIS • • 5 0 ~ 0 A. Moak, Esq., M.P. (In addition to 1001. previously given) Alexander Rogers, (Chairman) . 25 0' 0 P, M. Stewart, M.P.', ...., 25 0 0 (In addition to 251., previously given.) C. Tennent and Co: ' ' ' J. lAPV - iear, Esq Lord James Stewart John Rankins, Esq. 10 0 0 Carlisle, Pitman, and Co.. 2O 0 0 W. Stevenson, Esq 25 0 0 . Rev. J. Prendergast - - - Mr. HASTIE moved the following resolution : " That the following gentlemen be appointed a Com mittee (with power to add to their number) for soliciting subscriptions in and about London ; and that with this view they shall immediately print and circu late a short statement of the case drawn up by. the Deputation, and that the Committee shall hold their first meeting at the rising of this meeting." • Thereafter it is moved, " That the thanks of the meet ing be given to M r . Sh er iff Rogers, for his able, impar tial, and Courteous c on d uct i n the cha i r. " Mr. P. STE WART , M.P., secon d e d the motion. Ho had studiously k e p t a l oof ,from the proceedings of the Deputation, 'manse the st a t emen t h e . had made in his place in Parliament had b een „ cons id ere d as much ex- - aggerated ; yet, in fact, it eras even understated. He was most anxious to .lighten the, distress' of all, and would do what was in his power, in his place in Parlia ment,•to find out and obviate the causes of that distress., On the motion of Dr. BURNS, the names of . Mr. Hastie and Mr. Stewart were added, and the motion was passed. Mr. HENDERSON moved, and Bailie MURRAY seconded, a motion of thanks to the Chairman, which was passed with .acclamation. The CHAIRMAN shortly returned thanks, and the meeting separated. SIR HARCOURT LEES AGAIN. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) MALTON RACES—THURSDAY. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, and 20 added. Mile and a half heats. Mr. Hadfield's Pheon, 3 yrs (Marson) 1 1 Mr. Bell's Mary O'More, 3 yrs 2 2 Mr. Catton's Candidate, 3 yrs 4 3 Mr. Simpson's Aggressor, 3 yrs 3 4 The Innkeepers' Purse of 15 sovs, and a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs each, two miles, were won in two heats by Mr. Milners' br fby Falcon, dby Y. Phantom, 4 yrs, (Marson) beating Mr. Metcalfe's Donna Maria, 3 yrs, and two others. The Hurdle Race Stakes of 2sovs each, and 10 a dd e d, two miles, were won in two heats by Mr. Simpson'sAg gravator, beating the Romp and Prince Albert. NEWPORT PAGNEL STEEPLE CHASE ENTRY. Selim, Lazzsroni, Oak Stick, The Bride, George Reins, Croxby, LOttery, Gal-lad, Goblin, Charity, Ze thus, Perfection, White Stockings, Sam Weller, Luck's all, Merchant; Little Combermere, Nottingham, Wild Irish Girl, Coronation, Little Tommy, Anonymous, Danebury, Festival, Dr. Faustus, Consul, The Romp, Mischief, Peter Simple, Triumph, and Roderick Random. COURSING. A RDROSS A N CLUB, OCT. 14 AND 15.—The Cup was won by Mr. Pollok's Mary Gray ; the Tyro Stake by Dr. Brown's Vulcan ; and the Eglinton Stake by Major Mackay's Colonel. LYME PARK, OCT. 14 AND 15.—The All-aged Cup was won by Mr. Eden's Emerald ; and the Puppy Cup by Mr. Eden's Edhamby. HOLY WELL HUNT, OCT. 20.—The Stakes were won by Mr. Mostyn's Celeste. ETTRICK FOREST, OCT. 12.—The Collar was won by MIS. Walker's Whisker, and the Sweepstakes by Mr. Lockhart's Ruble. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.-40 to 20 agst Melody c, 100 to 8 agst The Young-'un, 10 to 1 agst Compensation, and 12 to 1 agst Broadwath. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Essex Union hounds meet on Saturday, at Hazeleigh Hall—half-past ten. East Essex hounds, Tuesday, at Balmer; Thursday, at Panfield; Saturday, at Moor Gardens--half-past ten. Lord Duck's bounds, Tuesday, at Southerup ; Thurs day, at Crud well ; Saturday, at Swindon—half-past ten. Mr. Farquharson's hounds, Monday, at Hook Park ; Tuesday, at Armswell ; Wednesday, at Dogberry turn pike—eleven. - Mr. Drax's hounds, Monday, at Sturminster, Newton bridge ; Wednesday, at Mudford-bridge ; Friday, at Henstridge Ash Inn. Middleton harriers, Monday, atLower Pertwood Farm; Friday, at Bowles' Barrow—eleven. Mr. Long's harriers, Monday, at Gore Cross Farm ; Friday, at Keevil—eleven. M. H., Monday, at Qulliford Tree ; Wednesday, at Stinsford Cross ; Friday, at Longbredy Gate—eleven. York and Ainsty hounds, Monday, at Shire's Bar ; Tuesday, at Red House; Thursday, at Markington; Sa turday, at Naburn—half-past ten. Eddlethorpe hounds, Monday, at Birdsall House ; Wednesday, at Westow ; Friday, at Seampston Bridge —half-past ten. Earl of Harewood's hounds, Monday, at Spacey House ; Wednesday, at Colingham Bar ; Friday, at Wighill Village—half -past ten. • GREAT ROWING MATCH. The long-expected match between Newel and Double dee, and Phelps and George Campbell, took place yes terday, and was a very beautiful contest throughout. These men are all well-known first-raters. Newel is con sidered on all hands, or at any rate by competent judges, as the next best man on the river to Charles Campbell, the champion of the Thames, and his partner, Double dee, has signalised hi mse lf as a fi ne powerful oarsman ; and, as far as size could go, this pair certainly had the advantage over their an t agon i sts. Ph elps has, for many years, ben a great public favourite, and his partner, G. Campbell, was the winner of the sovereigns given by the Iron Steam-boat Company. Both are exceedingly game men, but Campbell is an exceedingly little man. The match was for 40Z, the distance being from Westminster to Putney. Betting was brisk at five and six to four on Newel and his partner, but the takers were equal, and as the time for the start approached, the odds fell slightly. At half-past four the men appeared at the starting-place, Newel and D ou bl e d ee i n M r. Wallace ' s, and their opponents in Mr. Crockford's boats. Newel won' the choice of station,"and went to the pier on the Middlesex side. In the one wherry Newel had the la bour forward, and in the other Campbell was similarly disposed. The signal was given, and they were fitr. It was a very swift start, the lead being taken by Campbell and his partner. All parties laid down well to -their work, and Campbell's boat went almost a length in ad vance, but could not maintain it.. Newel slashed up, and off the Horseferry they were oar and oar. A most de termined struggle followed; in which, after rowing a few yards, Newel and his partner took the lead, and first passed through Vauxhall-bridge a length ahead. The strength of the men throughout the next reach appeared unabated, and they arrived at Battersea in much the same position as at Vauxhall. So slight was the diffe rence as they gained Wandsworth Meadows that a stroke would have changed the fortune of .the day ; but Newel Continued to lead, and he and his,partmer won,the match by about five seconds only. Considering the time of year the match was well attended. -1- ROTII'S CALCULATING MA- CHINES. We have seen these machines in operation, and the results more than equalled' the expectations which we had formed of them. There are two machines ; one of which, by far the simp'est and least expensive, performs addition and subtraction only; by the other, any pro blem in multiplication and division can be accurately solved. The results are unerringly accurate in both cases. As the interior of the apparatus is not shown by the patentee, we can only describe the external forms of the machines, and state the effects produced. 'The adding and subtracting apparatus is about one foot long, three inches wide, and one inch deep. On the top are several small dial plates movable en their centres, on which dials figures are engraved. There is a small aper ture at the upper part of each dial, made in the metal plate which covers the top, through which other figures, engraved on a white ground, are seen. As the dial's are moved round, these figures, which must be en graved on small rollers, also move, and at the end of. the .operation' show the amount of the sums added or sub tracted. In a sum of addition, consisting of many rows of figures, the operator, almost as fast as the figures are called, brings them to the top of the different dials, which indicate units,tens, hundreds, &c., and at the conclusion of the operation the figures which remain express the SUM of the whole. In subtraction, the dials are turned in the reverse direction, after a small slide has been drawn out ; the figures in like manner show the result. The wonderful operation of this machine is shown most strikingly when the fraction of a pound is subtracted from ameven number. For example, when one halfpenny is subtracted from 1,0001. all the figures change simulta neously, and exhibit the amount of 9991. 19s. The multiplying and dividing apparatus is much more complicated than the simple addition and subtraction machine. It would be impossible, unless at great length, to give an intelligible description of its mode of opera tion, but it was shown to be no less certain, stnd in the working nearly as simple as the former. This machine is circular ; it is about one foot in diameter and nearly three inches deep. Its disc contains numbers of small dials with apertures, similar , to those of the smaller ap paratus ; and in the centre there is a handle for the operator to turn. As the handle is turned the figures in the different small apertures are seen moving, and after all the figures of the multiplier have been worked separately, the product is exhibited by figures in. an outer circle of the disc. The great use of these machines is the certainty •f the calculations. Expert accountants may possiblygo through the operations .as quick, but some error may be committed which requires the repe tition of the pro . cess. They will serve, therefore, as a useful check in making out complicated accounts. We believe the inventor is about to take out a patent for the invention on an improved scale. INCENDIARY FIRES. BIRMINGHAM, FRlDAY , — lnformation was received last evening, at the Birmingham Fire-office, thnt the work of incendiarism had commenced at Stratford-on-Avon, and a considerable sensation was caused by rumours in refer ence to it. The following bill has been issued by the Fire-office Company : ." ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD. •:" BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 22; 1841.---:Whereas, on Wed nesday morning last, some evil-disposed persons set fire to the farm premises of Mr. Ralph Smith, at Radbro o k, near Stratford-on-Avon, th e Di rectors of the Birming ham Fire-office hereby offer a reward of 1001. t. any person or persons who shall give such information as will lead to the apprehension and conviction of the offender or offenders. " By order of the Court of Directors, " JOHN SIMMONS, Secretary." On Monday last the house of Richard Harvey, of Cas e Cary, was wilfully set on fire, and the whole, with its contents, completely destroyed. A notorious character, from the neighbourhood of Yeovil, who was seen near the spot on the same day, is suspected of being concerned in the diabolical transaction, and it is hoped that the guilty parties will be speedily brought to justice.— Ifilts Independent. It is at all times a melancholy task in having to relate the destruction of property by fire, and much more so when caused wilfully, as there cannot be a doubt but the one which we here narrate was. Early last Tuesday even ing one of the corn-stacks of John Clarke, Esq., a tenant of his Grace the Duke of Portland, and who resides at Kirkby, in Nottinghamshire, was observed to be taking fire ; .it progressed, communicated the destructive ele ment to adjoining stacks, and there being a smart, keen wind, the whole of the capacious and well-filled yard, containing thirty corn and hay stacks, was (exc e p t i ng two of hay) entirely consumed. The fire gained such power that it bade defiance to engines, firemen, and every ether aid. The house and premises providentially escaped, although great fears were entertained for their safety. The injury done is supposed to be 'over 3,0001.; happily . the stacks were •• partly insured.--Doncaster Gazette A few nights since, an alarming fire 'took place on the farm of Air. Duke, at Cantwick, near Little Hampton. By the assistance of the labourers it was.confined to a wheat rick, where it first broke out. Suspicion fell on a labourer named Sim mends that he had iniiliciOuSl Y set it on . fire, Mr. Duke having had some trifling dispute with him. Simmends was t a k en i nto custody- and has since confessed to committing the diaboli ca l act. • Not one acre.Anit; of every ten under grain in the West of Ireland bas as•yet b een cut down—and the .almost constant rains ,give a. dismal .foreboding of dis 4resYlii that part of "the cowatry for th e eg isui p g whiter. WatiVoy i g Chronicle, UNITED STATES. PHILADELPHIA, OCT. I.—The mail for the Boston steamer to Liverpool had not quitted this city an hour, before a gentleman called whose friend had that moment arrived direct from Utica, which town he left on Tuesday night. As the Liverpool packet from this port is now getting under way, I avail myself of a few moments to give you the pith of his conversation. He was on his way home from Ohio, and intended to come through Pennsylvania, but hearing so much of the M‘Leod case, he thought he would stop a day or two at Utica, and possess himself of the exciting news. He fancied that that town would preseht a scene of interest and anxiety, without parallel in the Union for many years, especially as t h e account of the secret "Hun ters .odges," and of armed men had been so vividly coloured. Imagine his surprise, then, to find very little excitement, indeed not more than occurs on ordinary trials for murder in Philadelphia, and the great masses of the population attending to their business as usual. True, something like a stir existed in the immediate vicinity of the Court, and at the hotels where the prin eipal witnesses, reporters for the Press, Mackenzie, Sutherland, 'Teller, newsruongers and panic -makers were sojourning. The evidence,' it was generally understood, would be very contradictory, especially as some of the witnesses on both sides were said to be witho u t c h aracter. Still the prevailing sentiment among the moderate and reflecting was, that M‘Leod would be able to prove an alibi. My' friend asked him " did you hear much of the pa triots ?" " No," he replied. " I heard little or nothing about them; there are such, however, and they have secret lodges. In short, much of the excitement that prevails in the large cities on the subject, and many of the alarming rumours that are circulated, gathering in magnitude as they - go, like a rolling snowball, are little better than humbug." I quote the 'very words of the gentleman alluded to, who is one of our most respectable citizens, and a mem ber of the Society of Friends. Most of the proceedings of the Patriots are doubtless a profound secret—but, founding an opinion on the infor mation of the citizen just arrived here from Utica, I am convinced their numbers are much smaller than has bsien represented: Still they must be considerable, and the danger must be, or must have been imminent, as the Pre sident of the I.W.ted States, acting from official informa tion, issued his Proclamation on the subject, and de spatched troops to the frontier to k ee p th e peace. The fi : ontier and M‘Leed excitement has had a de ' pressing influence on the Money Markets, from the im pression that so generally prevails of the intentions of the so-called "Patriots ' to embroil England and the United States in difficulties, if not war. Letters from Savannah, Georgia, say that the United States Govern ment declines giving permission for a depot for the new British mail steamers at Cockspur, in the South, on the ground that they would probably injure the American trading vessels in taking passengers and letters.—Chro. nicle's Correspondent. THE SUSSEX SHIPOWNERS SOCIETY. . _ At a meeting of this Society, held at Brighton on the 16th, the following memorial was unanimously agreed to. By the time Parliament meets, Sir Robert Peel will find tho bread-taxers his only supporters:— " TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE PRESIDENT OF TH2 BOARD OF TRADE. " The memorial agreed to at a meeting of the ship owners, merchants, mariners, and others of th e p or t s o f Shoreham and Ne w h aven , held at Shoreham, the 16th day of October, 1841, " That your Memorialists beg leave to call the atten tion of your Honourable Board to the very depressed and ruinous state of the Baltic and coasting mercantile ma rine arisinc , from enormou s i m p osts l ev i ed i n the shape of dues, and also from the great increase of foreign ves sels now employed in our Baltic trade, amounting nearly to two-thirds of the whole number (except steamers) so employed. a That this has arisen from the fact that Baltic ships can be built, manned, victualled, and sailed, at nearly one-half the cost of lilritish ships. The tax alone on the building materials for 100 tons of shipping amounts to 5001., independently of the tax on labour and freightage of the materials to this country. " That the unequal exaction of the Sound dues levied on grain imported from some of the Baltic ports amounts to 60 per cent. more if in British than foreign privileged vessels. " Your memorialists,therefore, pray that your Honour able Board will be pleased to take these circumstances into your most serious. consideration, and afford the shipping interest that speedy relief and protection to which it is justly entitled." LITERATURE. OUTLINES OF BOTANY. Palmer, London, 1841. In this little volume we have the substance of six elementary Lectures on Botany which were delivered by the author, a gentleman named Graham, at the Royal Polytechnic Institution. We have glanced our eye over the Lectures, and have been much struck with the skill and ingenuity with which Mr. Graham has contrived to sim plify, and render intelligible to the most ordi nary capacity, the general principles of the science. Those who desire to obtain a correct idea of the outlines of botany cannot do better than study this useful and unpretending volume with attention. KNIGHT'S STORE OF KNOWLEDGE. Knight, London, 1841. The present Part of this Miscellany contains two .Essays—one, on the National Debt and Funded System ' • and the other on th e Mi neral Kingdom. Both are written in a very pains taking spirit, and with an obvious endeavour, on the part of the author, to render these subjects as little abstruse and as attractive as possible, in which he has, to a certain extent, succeeded. COURT CIRCULAR. liar Majesty and Prince Albert walked yesterday, both in the forenoon and afternoon, in the garden of Buckingham Palace. His - Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Col. Bouverie, rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon. His Royal Highness visited the Duchess of Kent at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's. The Duke of Cambridge visited his Royal Highness Prince Albert, yesterday. The Royal dinner party, last evening, at Buckingham Palace, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Earl of Liverpool, Baron Stockmar, and Sir George Couper. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, attended by Lady Caroline Legge, arrived at Gloucester House, at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Birsted Lodge, near Bognor, Sussex, the residence of the Earl and Countess of 5.1ay0. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has re turned to his residence at Kew, from Birstead Lodge, near Bognor. His Royal Highness arrived in town at one o'clock yesterday, attended by Major Stephens, and paid visits in the course of the afternoon to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence llouse, St. James's, to the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House, and to his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal at. Marlborough House. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens, re turned to Kew in the evening. A Deputation from Paisley and the County of Ren frew, consisting of the Rev. Mr. Baird, Ballie Murray, and Councillor Henderson, to represent the case of the unemployed operatives, had an interview with Sir James Graham, at the Home-office, yesterday. . The Lord President, yesterday, visited the Central 'School of the National Society. The Duke and Duchess of Buceleuch left town, yes terday afternoon for Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries. Captain Canfield, of the United States army, was married yesterday at Trinity Church, Portland-place, to Miss Mary Cass, daughter of his Excellency General Cass, Minister of the United States at Paris. Amongst the company present were his Excellency, Mr. Steven son, Mrs. Stevenson, Colonel Todd, United States Mi nister to St. Petersburgh, &c. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Viscount Acheson, atthe Brunswick Hotel, Jer myn-street ; Samuel Sanders, Esq., at ditto ; Trott, Esq., and Mrs. Jeffers and family, at the Sackville 11 0. tel, from India ; Lieutenant and. Mrs. Scott and family, at ditto, from' Cardigan ; Mr. and Mrs. Monsel, at ditto, from Dublin ; the Bev. J. Preston, at ditto, from War wickshire. DEPARTURES. Sir Edward L. Bulwer, Bart., from Pall-mall, for Earl Cowper's, Pansaiiger ; Mr. and the Misses Elton, from the Sackville Hotel, for Southampton ; ._Trott, Esq., from ditto, for Scotland ; M r. and Mrs. Smith and fa- Di lly, from ditto, for the Continent ; Charles Morgan, Esq., from ditto, on a tour ; General Acland, from ditto, for Carlisle ; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lacey, from ditto, lor the Continent ; Mr. and Mrs. Price and family, from ditto, for the Isle of Wight ; Lieutenant-General Lord Aylmer, from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Batcherker Park, Salop ; Sir 'William Lawson, Bart., from ditto, f or B russels; Edward Hussey, Esq., and lady, from the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyri-street, on a tour ; Lieutenant-Colonel Knox, from ditto, on a tour ; Hon. Captain Homes Purves, from ditto, on a tour. The Hon. CHANGES. G. W. Fitzwilliam, M.P., and Mr. Algernon Wedehou se , f rom a visit to the Earl of Lonsdalee at Lowther Castl e , f or Wentworth House, Yorkshire, seat of Earl Fi tzw i lliam ; Lord and Lady "thiamVae h e - Powlett, f rom L owther Castle, for Newton House, York shire, on a vi s it to t h e Duke Ind Duchess of Cl eve land. • THE NA VY.—We - havegood reason to . believe that the French Government has resolved immediately to mithdraw six sail of the line from the Mediterranean, and to lay them up at Brest. We cannot doubt that her Majesty's Government will adopt corresponding mea sures, and will reduce to at least an equal extent the amount of naval force in the Mediterranean. -27 i nes. The General Steam Navigation Company's magnificent steam-ship, the Wilberforce, arrived at her moorings this morning at half-past eight from Ostend, having .performed her passage in the short space of twelve. hours and a half. She, broUght upwards of sixty passengers. During the past week, the wind blowing stro ng to the south-west, a great many vessels haveagiainclir taken le shelter in Ramsgate harbou r, so th at there isno a wq t u h i e te r sitbiyn, by no the wheyore cosh. a fleet, amounting to nearly 200— among then a o vessel vv•hich running g d i n g t r o ea h t e d r a s m te a r g n e , _woffl falling i D ch u n so e ov n v : r e Dungeness two of the crew were drowned, sion..-Xent Herald EVENING SU It is Frederick, second son of Sir Robert Peel, who, as we stated last week, has entered Trinity College, in this University : he has already obtained high distinc tion as a classical scholar at Harrow. His elder brother, Robert, has entered Christ Church, Oxford, where Sir Robert Peel himself acquired the eminent honour of a double first class. On Thursday, the Rev. Henry Snow, M.A., of St. John's College, in this University, was instituted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the Vicarage of Sherborne cum Windrush, in the county of Glou cester, vacant by the cession of the Rev. George Dand ridge ; patron, the Right Hon. Lord Sherborne. The Rev. Thomas Cooper Browne, M.A., of Trinity College, in this University, has been licensed by the Lord Archbishop of York, to the church recently erected at Darnall, in the parish of Sheffield, on the nomina tion of the Trustees. THE RECENT SNOW-STORM. In addition to the. violent anow•storm— a singular phenomenon at so early a part of - the year—which took place at the burning down of the Derby Town-hall, the provincial papers from the country, show its spread and general effect in the country. On Tuesday morning, the hills in the neighbourhood of . Addingham were capped with snow, and on Thursday a heavy fall of snow covered the ground.-'--Leeds Mercury. There was a heavy fall of snow last night in the coun try, some miles from this city, and the Dublin moun tains are covered with snow.—Dublin Evening Post. The weather during the past week. has been nearly as .unfavourable as it could be for the farmers, and we fear that whatever corn is still in the fields, it has been seriously injured. The glass has - been remarkably low on some days, and the rain has fallen very frequently and in largo quantities, while the wind has been un usually high and piercing. On Wednesday night espe cially, there was quite a s t orm , a tt en d e d by 'lightning, in this neighbourhood ; between six and seven in the even ing the rain fell in torrents, which were repeated at intervals through the night. Thursday was changeable, and in the morning a considerable fall of snow took place.—Leeds Mercury. WINTER.—We have had, during the week, some de cided premonitions of the near approach of winter. To say nothing of the disrobing of the trees by the bluster ing winds, the moors in the direction of Bradfield appeared powdered with snow on Thursday morning ; and during Wednesday night the frost was sufficiently intense to form ice, of considerable thickness, in, and about the town, the fields being at da wn w hi te w i th snow.— Sh effi eliMercury. • This morning (Friday) the barometer had risen to nearly 30 (fair) with a white frost, and sharp drying air. —Norfolk Chronicle of to-day. Yesterday we had a fall of snow in this town, and the hills around were covered with it.—ShrewsburyChrenick SERIOUS Loss.—A man named Denham at tended at Union Hall yesterday, for the purpose of giving information of his having lost the sum of 1601. in Bank notes a few days ago in the neighbourhood of the Court. It appeared that the applicant, on going along the Southwark-bridge-road, dropped a roll of notes, amounting to the above sum, and which he had received a sh'ort time previously for the sale of a business in which he was engaged near the Town-hall. In the course of a short time after the notes 'were dropped they were picked up by a lad of weak intellect in the service of Mr. Frankum, the hatter, of the Southwark bridge-road. The boy, on finding the money, and not knowing the value of the notes, took them to his master's h w o a w reh h o e u h s ad ean fo d u e nd xhi t b h i e t m. ed them to of the tothem w en or a k t m w e o n rk , , o s n aying see ing the notes entreated the finder to " whack" them, and the hint was no sooner thrown out than the boy began to distribute the money, giving a 201. note to one, a 101. to another, and so on, until he only l e f t himself with one IN. note out of the whole sum. The persons to whom the money was thus divided desired the boy not to split" on any account, butsthe circumstance having got wind, and Mr. Frankum being made acquainted with the f ac t s , gave information at the station-house in South tslhvu aec division,l ew c e-odbrre workmen d d bm g ei nei e nn - rg r e o t c a oa 0 ( p i v. whom r irh Upon isonemgd outfhp ewSW upwards ad g ots e n a eoh n yfa t d 6 11 ohal hada. v d e ib l a l ecoct , nn e ou f tegirt.s t ved h , e M however, still two 50/. tb n he o ee t e nr s ot m lrla i oc s e s f nngtoooteutsht the of wf or thek men, numl; b er, ut which i as certained th at the boy t has since been have not, as yet whose possessi on found. itooisso o are enf coal.ue r n ht d eaai nvt heavers hau l t l t a ßt d haet e yl k x s h wi t o b e hran i r d le s above describ e d. Th ere are however, We can affirm that the reginients employed on the fortifications of Paris execute, with rep . ugnance , these fati gu i ng works. They especially complain of t h e little they are paid. They 1% ork ten hours, and get u t‘ l ' ie sous for it. A soldier of the 17th Light assured u s s_l_ had got but four sous for a week's work. Anoth vas by not brokenworth more out at than .,Aion dier asked aloud. if _the .day's labour of a declare can The soldir i rs g " great reluctance at the citadel, which . a a i n t tl l vro ale s ri o e ti n s. . or never be of use against either I.'rus a s_ h ii work as badly "..Never fear," said a soldier, " we bes not supplied by as we are paid ; and if want of zeal be finished in sixty numbers, the fortifications won't c itadel of Mount years." Bet the works of the imm ensean, the wall has been English. Serious disniaco,,navtrio,nt ..hitash Valerian continue nevertheless ; sea l taken in, and will cumference of the mountainnldvill powder-magazines. The contain arsenals, barracks, and been the first commenced. - ds Paris have commenced on a most colossal be l ramparts towar ds The whole cir cumference form one 0 Mont Valerian will It commands all the west) f f the most formidable citadels in the world. Seine, and all communication Preis, will command., trmandy. Parisians may estimate, of tho capital with elnna, the use to be made of animated by the ideas of the ' g overnment citadels by a ts. _ Commerce. Journaldes I)6" assured that M. Salvandv complains bit- W e are attitude assumed by our -111inisterial Press, terly of the by the Journal des Debats, towards the after the example of ramp and particularly by The glaring contradiction existing b S e p t T ee isi :, G h o instructions given to: the Ambassador, and 'don as Ambassador expectant quite intolerable. ' render A • his pos ition . the language held by the journals of the Ministry L e nitimatist . journal . asserts, it is true,that M.Salvandy has received no instructions, at least in writing, but this Jour- Sn:] is misinformed. The unfavourabl e s i tuation made forM. lvandy. would cease if he were speedily to depart for ' Spain. But as our M inisterial pap ers have led all Europe to suppose that the French Government had encouraged and fomented the insurrection, the presence of our Ambassador at the other side of the Pyrenees might excite, either in the revolt ed provin ces , or in Ma- • drid, expectations or distrusts which would add to the difficulties his mission would have already bad to encounter. Thus, the force of circumstances retards a departure : which the common interest of both nations ought rather to hasten.—Constitutionne/ . .. . On Friday afternoon, one of the workers of the Shaves Water Cotton Spinning -Mill entered an unoccu pied flat of the building. He discovered s little girl re volving with the wheels connected with the works. The girl was instantly rescued from her perilous situation, and, strange to say that although she is supposed to have been whirling round f or t wo hours, the only damage she sustained was a sev ere fracture of the leg. She was taken to the infirmary, where, we are glad to hear, she is; doing wane.. GreeitoA ObierVen • - S „ UNIVERSITY INTELLI r l3 CE - - W ;÷ OXFORD, OCT. OCT. 21 . —This day a Con egatien was - holden for granti ng degrees, &c., when I were conferred • f Masters of Art s . —R ev. J. Sandford, of BillidiMaiti College ; Rev. R. Lamb, St. John's College.; Rev. C. H. Adamson, Lincoln Callege ; Rev. W. Collins, Exeter College ; W. H. Stevens, Worcester College ; C. 0 Kenyon, Christ Church. Bachelors of Arts.—W. H. Smith, of Exeter Col lege ; G. F. S. Powell, Wadham College. The Camden Professor of Ancient History will begin a course of lectures on Tuesday, the 26th instant, at one o'clock, on Athens, in the time of Socrates, and continue them on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. The Reader in Experimental Philosophy will commence a course of lectures.on mechanic; on Monday, the 25th, at one o'clock, and continue them on Mondays, Wednes days, and Fridays. The Regius Professor of Medicine will begin his next course of lectures on anatomy and physiology, on Mon day, the 25th inst., at two o'clock.. CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 23.—At a COngregation on Wednes day last the following degrees were conferred:— Honorary Master of, Arts.—Lord Somerton, Trinity College. • Doctor of Physic.--Walter Davis Williams, Corpus Christi College. Masters of Arts.--Thomas Wood, St: John's College; Michael :Biggs, Pembroke College; Samuel F. Mont gomery, Corpus Christi College. Bachelors of Arts.—Henry William. Sherer, Trinity College; Vesey Germaine Hine, Trinity college; Joseph. Raw, Queen's College; Cavendish Hervey Foster, Mag dalene College. At the same Congregation the following were admitted ad cundem :—John Charnock, M.A., Lincoln College, Oxford; Francis Curtis, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford. Her Majesty the Queen has been pleased to confer the valuable appointment of Master of Trinity College, va cant by the resignation of the Rev. Chriitopher Words worth, D.D., upon the Rey. Willi a m Wh ewe ll, 8.D ., late Fellow and Tutor of that College, and Professor of Casuistry in this University. The first meeting of the Philosophi c S oc i e t y i s an nounced for Saturday, November 6. The three ,other meetings for the Term "will take place on the Mondays, November 15 and 29, and December 13. The Woodwardian Professor will commence his lec tures on Friday, the 29th of October, and be continued six days in each week to the end of the Term, A twelve o'clock, in the Lecture Room, under the new wing of the Public Library. The following gentlemen have been elected Scholars of St. John's Colle4e, in this University : By Mr. Criek.--Harris, Holmes, E. Allen, Handfield, IL Allen, Hobson, Sergeant, Hadfield, Edman, Spurrier, and Hawarth. By Mr. Hymers.—T. Taylor, Body,Parkington,Erett, W. B. Smith, Cherriman, T. D. S. Smith, Cox, and Brame. The Masters of Eton have presented the Rev. G. Selwyn, of St. JOhn's College, in this University, the re cently consecrated Bishop of New Zraland, with a gift of books, of the value of 901., as a testimony of their:it spect and esteem. The Rev. William Bailey, MLA., of Trinity College, in this University, has been presented to the vicarage of Ulting, Essex, void by the cession of the Rev. J. Lupton ; patron, R. Nicholson, Esq., value 125/. Mr. Richard Potter, M.A., Fellow of Queen's College, in this University, well known to men of science as an original investigator and experimentalist, has received the appointment of Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College, London, in the place of Professor Sylvester. Mr. Potter was sixth Wrangler in 1838.