The Sun. — London, England, 1842-10-20 00:00:00

MEETING ofFEMALE CHARTISTS. A meeting of Female Chartists was held on Monday eve ning, in the National Charter Association Hall, Old Bailey, for the purpose of forming a " Female Chartist Association,' to co-operate with the. Male Association : and fur other objects connected with the interests of " The People's Charter." ‘ ,.Ott the moti on o f Mi ss SUSANNA INGE, seconded by Irk 'WYATT, Mr. Carey was ca ll e d t o th e c h a i r . , s After a suitable address from Mr. RIDLEY, in which uecommented on the present state of woman, and Pointed to the position which, according to his judg raent, she ought to occupy in society, elevating her lights to political aspirations. O. A ir t . COHEN expresse d t h e hi g h degree of satisfac n which he had received from Mr. Ridley's address, ° c ut , no s not help sayi ng th a t woman , in hi s (M r. lien's) opinion, would be more in her proper cha racter and station at home, where she was the pride an d Ornament of " the domestic hearth," than in the Political a rena. —(Sensation among the ladies.) He telcno si s g l i v.edged the high and useful talents of Miss i nt - Lmeau ; but he did not consider that nature She woman to partake of political rights. e was not, physically considered, intended for it. LI &Le had the highest respect for the cha -e .0 her, ta:, of worn* and sense of what was due to every point of c ons id era ti on ; b u t h e no T 4II Put it to the . mothers present, whether they did tno fuld themselves more happy in the peacefulness fot•:,:asefulness of the domestic hearth, than in coming (K ea n public and aspiring after political rights.— r, inur murs, interruptions, and cries of" Order.") to t h r ro *b 3 ALltos jun.,said that Mr. Cohen's object was , It‘ri the ladies, fro w`` cold water" on the meeting.—(Hear, hear and cries of No, no, from Mr. Cohen.) 81 10 `, 0 118s SUSANNAH INGE, Secretary to. the Association, d like to ask Mr. Cohen why he considered fled t e ,, ll „nnt qualified to vote, if they were quail regoi; " 11 public offices ?—(Hear, hear.) It did not "physical force" to vote.—(Applause.) '-$1( t . C °ll - 1 4N would, with all humility and respect, aspi re ‘ l ,_ Young lady what sort of office she would one 1 1: u fill ?— (Order, order.) If she would fill th e ' ." - a Would fill all ? He was not going to treat wouird6 with ridicule—(Hear, hear)—but he Coo l 8 a her to suppose herself in the House of (LaanTns, Member for a Parliamentary borough-- thg:ittrer)and that a young gentleman, " a lover," thro u a n : t . °use, were to try to influence her vote aet , e °",nis sway over her affections, how would she trti g h t W nether, in other words, she could resist, and artier.)not ll lose si g ht o f t h e pu bli c i nterests?—(Order, roai nta . l wished t o b e in order. He was for ri g h ts ~rnag the "s oc i a l r i g ht s " o f women. "P o li t i cal to, t., could such as he understo o d th a t mee ti ng t o asp i re 111snever, in his opinion, a tt a i n . (i nest s I\IARy A NNE WALKER was astonished at the by th,' ° ,. a Put by Mr. Cohen, and at the remarks made With gentleman.—(H ear, h ear. ) She repudiatedio p a indi gnation th e i ns i nuat i on, t h at if women were wololiament, any man, be he husband or be he lover, th e _ .clare be so b ase as to attempt to sway her from froilistrict line o f d uty.—(Hear, hear, cries of "Bravo" With th w e men, and m uc h app l ause. ) Sh e would treat m an „ k ni natily scorn, as a contemptible scoundrel, the u nduwould dare t o i n fl uence h er vote b y any f or and u nworthy means—(Cheers fr om th e men ) w a3 , he were b ase enongh to mislead . her in one el lee ' r "e, would in a no th er . —(H ear, hear, and renewed places in ) The ev en t s w hi c h were at that moment taking the N thth • sisters and brothers w ere or , where their N un cruelly and unjustly transported, or else a a ( Pa into dismal and pestiferous dungeons, for Loer cause than standing up for their rights, and I nandi n th etn g bread to appease their hunger, and save . lato,selves from dying of starvation in their native fro ere vere unfortunately of a nature to drag woman voiel he r retirem en t , an d call upon her to lift up her k en a g a inst such d ee d s . —(G rea t c h eer i ng f rom th e he ar ' , a nd cries o f " B ravo, Miss Walker," and Hear, from the ladies). As for Lord Abinr —(Hisses) re u nworthy unworthy the name of " man,' and unfit to - "ent the i nterests of e i ther man or woman. His er rishi the had said, that " the Chartis •ts wanted to get sely r : vv er into their hands to make all the laws them 140ah: She (Miss Mary Anne) flung back the ma falsehood She with all the scorn it merited.- 1 -ers prom the and Hear, hear, accompanied by a v i o men, d g ° l handkerchiefs, by the ladies.) The young y action t spokwithgreat warmth, and suited the e sosore-. „% s t ne, 'word, after passing some additional cen r 1) , - ; " Lordship, a nd t ouc hi ng on a var i e t y o f dea l eonnected with the objects of the meeting, : „ a Chartist in name and feeling ; t c ome '‘ "Pealed to her fellow countrywomen ever e IRA • 1.. "grat a ,. I n favour of the Charter, and, how .red b "latical h • to be dis a • y a n , 8 , t eir language, not . d th e , b ." 'mils of ridicule that might be pointed hear by them the encou he ho p e , th a t • giving . ar a lf it were only from the curiosity to nut and "moan speak, the young men would come time d spea k to t hem.—(Laughter, aPpla eln.—(Laughter, and long con- Walker r e amidst which Miss Mary Anne Al l .. e„ ! li med her seat.) to th hero"atta Apr, testimony e e %-/ARTILY bore historical ii,er ' c o - eh jnd patriotic deeds performed by women, c os ,_"e thanks of the meeting were proposed We e Ridley Lt. „ and seconded by Mrs. Windeler, to eal '°r his very excellent address. Thanks t o so u nonim y th e 4 sa Ate r , A "S I Y and enthusiastically accorded ths• en rnplim e •V'nne Walker, who, in acknowledging eir n ames t, called on the ladies present to enrol ing th eni favour of the National Charter, as trierous t h e a nd the gentlemen that the more o f e , e xPres s i on enrolment the more marked would be ner esti .of than to her, and the more worthy r neetin mation—t g ter ini ‘Loud cheers.) After which the nate& STATE OF TRADE. Ther e (I'l 'm n ' '.ie ltranchester Guardian.) the mar ket wlts material change in the aPP yesterda • reduction °I Prlees (I. Y , though perhaps the rance of lovv e , t I, l a s t Week S point) ea • inquiry tha n • ‘ wnic h have now very nearl reached the , both f used a little more T or y arn and goods. ever, cont . he market, are still dro op i n 'tines generally flat, and price t s how several (* O ar g . • we regret to learn, that b ea .es ha ve Dec o during the last few days, one Do re or less upon the trade of this tow at St:4: f t hese is that of a spinner and manufacturer - h4qga ,12,t; and another of a house in Glasgow en In the Canadian trade, and owing some money has bee tho ugh we believe the extent of the engagements l t , s n a good deal exaggerated. \iciinAt OCT. 17. ~,Th ~E FLANNEL MARKE T , MONDAY, _day at f ere nas been a brisk demand for flannels to -day, T, ormer prices, and many pieces have been soi r d s ar:le wool market still remains heavy, and the dealers r e ager to sell at the old prices. LITERATURE. EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. CLIII. London, Longman. 1842. Mr. Alison's " History of Europe," each suc cessive volume of which has attracted on its ap pearance the attention of the literary world in no ordinary degree, and which indeed has been more praised and blamed than any contemporary his torical work with which we are acquainted, forms the subject of the first article in the current Num ber of this Review. The criticism, on the whole, may be considered a favourable one—that ia to say, it does justice in a frank and cordial spirit to Mr. Alison 's undoubted excellencies—his un wearied research, his uniform minuteness, and general tone of impartiality; while it protests against his frequently vicious, slovenly, and tur gid style, and the erroneous conclusions at which he is but too apt to arrive from premises hastily laid down, and which, hasty as they are, call tur other deductions. The Reviewer justly re :harks that the most interesting " s a ubject of his history, next to the great Revolution which forms the ground-work of the whole, is un doubtedly the character of the extraordinary man who made that Revolution the instrument of his power;" and adds, "we have been much grat:fied by the calm and impartial spirit in which the historian discusses his general char acter.' The Reviewer then , goes on to speak of the intense interest which Napoleon's every move ment excited throughout the civilised world. "Wherever," he observes, "the great conqueror was engaged, the breathless attention of all Europe was fixed. Every citizen of every State felt his hopes or his fortunes raised or depressed by the event. The death of an English Minister was hastened by the battle ofMarengo ; the treaty of Tilsit was felt as an object of interest in the deserts of .Central Asia; the battle of Leipsic rousedor paralyzed every European from Cadiz to the North Cape." We have quoted this passage for the purpose of pointing out a singular error it contains. The " English Minister " alluded to was Pitt; but his death was not " hastened by the battle of Marengo," but by that of Auster litz, which was fought a few months previous to his demise, and destroyed the coalition against France, of which he was the chief originator, and which was the moving principle of his foreign policy. The Reviewer, after giving a very fair outline of Napoleon's character, says, "there is one scene in his career which no sophistry can palliate, which no imagination can elevate, which his most deVoted partisans can but endeavour to forget. We allude to the treacherous detention of the English families travelling in France in 1801." This was certainly an act of no ordinary injustice; but far worse, in our opinion, was Napoleon's heartless treatment of poor Toussaint, the negro Liberator of St. Do mingo, whom he first deceived by a show of kindness, and then caused to be secretly put to death by one of the most cruel and lin gering of all tortures, starvation. This wanton murder—the result of a paltry jealousy of a more magnanimous spirit than hinuelf—is, we con ceive, the great blot on Napoleon's escutcheon. In other deeds of aggression he may have shown himself vindictive—tyrannical--inexorable; but here be showed himself mean; and in speaking of celebrated public characters, we more easily forgive crimes prompted by passion or ambition, than those which have their origin in an innate littleness of nature. " The Life of Augustus Keppel," is a passable notice of the Memoirs of the Admiral of that name, who having been one of the staunchest Whigs of his day, is, of course warmly eulogized by his Whig Reviewer. In the notice of " Berryer's Auto-Biographical Recollections"occur several curious characteristic anecdotes of the manners of the old -regime in France, and of the tremendous popular outbreak which shattered the fabric of Absolutism to atoms. M. Berryer was then a young man, just rising into eminence as a lawyer, and his recollections of that terrible epoch are necessarily very vivid. " He attributes his professional success," says the Reviewer, " to his domestic happiness, and to a natural gaiety of disposition, fostered by the amenity and joyousness of the manners and habits which for the first thirty-four years of his life adorned his country. But now, he says, no one smiles in France; he finds himself between eighty and ninety too young for his associates, and is forced to repress a thousand sallies which the gravity of the times would riot tolerate." The altered character of the French —which has been often remarked on by Eng lish travellers—is easy to be accounted for, when one considers their present political condition, and the little chance they have of bettering it. Notwithstanding their struggles for years to obtain a strictly democratic form of government, they find themselves, at the end of half' a cen tury, little better off than they were at the com mencement of their struggle. True, they have got rid of that incubus, the feudal system; are no longer subject to the military despotism of Napoleon; and have shaken off the elder branch of the imbecile Bourbons; but for all this, Tyranny still keeps them in a state of re luctant vassalage; and in their vaunted King of the Barricades—for whom but twelve years since they poured out their blood like waterthey have found to their cost the bitterest enemy of that form of government which they so much covet, and which they have made so many un availing sacrifices to obtain. Reflections like these may well make a Frenchman serious, for they are a constant thorn in the side of his na tional vanity ! We quote from M. Berryer's Recollections a remarkable anecdote, which de rives additional interest from the insight it_ gives i us into the disorganis e d state of society n France towards the close of the Reign of Terror : " One of the most remarkable, and one of those Which throw most light upon the internal state of France, during the interval between the Reign of Terror and the Consulate, is a trial before the tribunal of Chartres, in which M. Berryer was only a s p ec tator. For some years previous to the trial, which appears to have taken place in theeyear 1795, a large tract of country, of which the forest of Orgeres, ex tending to within thirty miles of Chartres, is the cen tre, had been infested by bands of' ruffians, who, from their use of fire as an instrument of torture, acquired the name of Chauffeurs. They were accustomed to surround lonely farm-houses in numbers too large for resistance, bind the males, and force the females, by fire applied to the feet, to discover the property of the family. From the number of their outrages, the uni formity of their proceedings, and the skill with which they were conducted, it is inferred that they formed a large confederacy, acting on system, and obeying some central authority. But this was mere suspicion : common as the crime was, not one of the criminals was identified. One day, however, two gendarmes, as they crossed a portion of the forest, found a child about ten years old, the singularity of whose dress excited their curiosity. He asked for food, and was persuaded to accompany them to a neighbouring town. A good breakfast and a glass of wine obtained his confidence. He told them that he lived with his father and mother, and many other families, in a vast cavern in the forest. That a . great . many . __ men came there from time to time, bringing with them some times. plate and other v taken away, and sometimes the inhahitaats. It seemedP es h I e r s po , tv. w ci)si t o i which w ere athnad t theclothes head quarters of the Chanifeurs was now detected; but, iestead of attacking the cavern the those result who ( f which h would have been only the seizure of have been in it at th e ti me, and the alarm and and w eL mi ape g of t the other members of the confederacy, it was resolved to use the child as a means of arresting the out-door Sitlnlv?ilgst the-- se---"ngers by the Great b. Western was illiarn I) is r‘upri et , rumrnond Stewart, 4 04 er of Murphy Castle, Perthshire, gentleman Scotland, and Of tLe Of the most eccentric and remarkable_ terminated 11 , tpi,,N.e. It is only a few years since he personages 51 %41' 1 of seven years on both sides of the Rocky nuffai(74e, where he employed himself in hunting . the f erest . ',.'llcl boar, and other denizens . of the American Te r i t• le frequently encamped with the Indians. On ' l. Will' ' ' ''R M. this city, after his sojourn in the wilderness, k_ ably ;_ laea exhibited a number of curious and remar t. liztterestirig paintings, byexecuted .s 1 111 4 :: 4 :1 he was accompanied.. Hei able tal ent, manners, remarkable taste,,. William a m an an ar Of ist ve b ry y consi n de n r w - Nend s e „ n ot• We understand that Sr (as for Proceeding to his old haunts, and resuming bp est life..--A r euy York Paper. . 4 tt ' 4ll l or New J LYON.—Lieut.-General Sir , ilfttllhe4l-1011,Ii.C.13.AardsG.C.H., who had . the colonek.l 0 e 2 4th R e • • Sept. 1829, died at Brighton ,O prici. Sir since service, as Ensign 41 th e 2 ' s l;_. ~,,6ir James entered the b lent, a t cot, in 1793 ;he embarked with the regi ksetrtng duty as Marines, the same ar, and was a cti ons °II board the Marlborough in Lord_ Howe's , Ta ne ,ef the 27th and 28th of May and . the . Is en t of la the 1,79-1. Next year he served with his t regiment •I'l.ynleo2,l_'et Indies, and on Lord G. Lennox 's staff a I vlth c:",lal 177 and 1798. He went as A.D the iat tt rgir Charles Stuart to Minorca, in October of p h .. year He also served in Egypt, Spain, and . . or al 4 , ile commanded the 97th Foot at Vimiara, Il e saeia, Busaco, and at the first siege of Badajoz. I, °l the r.illenlly served in the army under the orde in Scam. -"la_ tinee Royal of Sweden, and on the staff b .. in, vvhere he cemmanded the Hanoverian_ ri . t ean di ' the sth division. In 1817 he served as Corn biedai't_g-General of the inland district. He wore a Atkvend clasp for Vimiera and Talavera. -.At 141eK3ATIL-•-CIJR.IOIIB EXPLOIT OP AR AT . I° Cl(...ll ° a n o e s, of the subterranean exhibitions at . Mat enterenstll .;(:) kill le a as the High Tor Grotto, it is the vetlrtig, wit:, e alrieghiteefdt candles on the sides at burning till the visitors , S eledl ev °l' \l'ednesdav week the guide, Mr. Wm. icavinkrt;,,.werit into the grotto with a gentleman, a r n e ,_ turn ,V:::_e_e,ll(.lles but-niag as usual, aril on . rat, waik 1 ; 4,- 04 i ' . 'd to meet a sedate-loo . king gie; . old c andle s K leisurely off with one of the burning b,,.,in; 48 Oh ill thes:fct of lighting. himself about his i under r‘ .1 "h being observed he quickly disappeared D er b y, 7 . edge rock takin, h's light with hm.— 1 ukti r cif ",,, , ._ + zo - ,•,. are( somext,vn.! Hale. -, ed ocea n riao4 ~ ti.En.EcTiox.---- hen the storm• 0, . abroad ; to lash file sky ; when th“ wild tornado is by i nt w hf'n the ba‘on f of the ~,,lid eaeth is siviien • ernal th r ~" , . ~• , ' • 1 nlght , when t , , .04,:T.:1-1. the gloi . y am,. beauty.. fror,„o.._ he eyes ;.f' love are drihking the light . up rainere'444l:scs,eu,l,--at such l a ve moment, 0 let a sensitive Ulm ii , „....'w ‘, Row, in thunder, am I going to pay --9'y tc"nwr"v"-anterican Paper. i --- - - . - DA.T.II OF THE OWNER OF t HAYMARKET THEATRE. BEES WING. i Let the lovers of flip, whim, and drollery, be glad TO THE .E_DITOR OF THE SU.N. I —let all those who rejoice in a hearty laugh get their °IR' 1- am so rr y t o i n f orm you of the death I risible muscles into working order—Buckstone the of Mrrd e, the owner of Beeswing; he died at Mor- quaint— Bucksto ne th e i n imitable, has ret urne d Sunday s F u e d l ely o n n ta...afternoon, at half-past three, bei ngF from " the Stat es ," sa f e , soun d, and as whim truly. Ken on his road home.—ln haste,your s sical as ever, and last night made his rentree J. IV. at this the a t re , i n th e c h arac t er o f M r . H enry Sheffield, Tuesday Night. Dove. in his own laughable comedy of Married Life. His reception was most enthusiastic, cheer followed cheer for several minutes, and when something like silence had been restored, a call for one cheer more was heartily responded to—it was indeed a good one. - At the conclusion of the comedy Buckstone was again called for, and the enthusiastic cheering was again re newed. He seemed quite overcome with the hearti ness of his welcome home, and at length advanced to the front of the stage a n d addressed the audience as follows :—" Ladies and Gentlemen, I beg to return you my most heartfelt thanks for th e kind and grati fying manner in which you have received me this evening. It shows that although I have been some time absent, all recollection of me has not quite vanished from your memories. —(Cheers.) In the United' States I was every where received most warmly, and invariably treated in the kiiidest man ner—(Cheers)--and if anything can lessen the regret which we must all of us feel at parting from those who have used us kindly—(Cheers)—it is such a welcome as that with which you have honoured me this evening. —(Applause.) I have heard it said that there are many things which it is worth while to cross the Atlantic to see—l feel that there is one thing which it is worth while to have crossed it to hear, and that is , what I have heard this evening—a hearty English laugh.—(Loud applause.) Ladies and Gentlemen, I have again to express my gratitude to you for the kindness with which you have received me, and I hope there are many pleasant evenings in store for us at the little theatre in the Haymarket." At the conclusion of his address Mr. Buckstone withdrew amidst the most vociferous cheering. The comedy was admirably performed, and elicited many a hearty English laugh during its progress. Mark Leman's exquisite drama of Grand father Whitehead followed, and Alma Mater concluded the evening's amusement. brigands, one by one, and to reserve the cavern for ( the last. For this purpose, the child,• to whom we will give, by anticipation, the name of Fiqfin, which he FALMOUTH, MONDAY EVENING.—Iier Majesty's packet Penguin, Lieut. Leslie, arrived at this port afterwards acquired by the dexterity with which he played his part, was disguised by good clothes, and this morning. She left Rio de Janeiro Aug. 14, placed, under the care of a woman who acted Bahia 24, and Pernambuco Sept. 2. Passengers— . Don Ribeiro de Silva, Messrs, Vanlede, Fontaire, as his nurse, at the corners of the markets Isler, de Lavelet, and Mr. Tri s c o tt. O n freight, s`' the towns to which it was supposed that the brigands would resort to sell the plundered pro- (valued at 30,0001. Her Majesty's packet Swift, the perty. Whenever he saw a face with which he next packet, had not arrived at Rio. Th e s hip Mid hadl become familiar in the cavern, he gave a sign, dlesex, Captain Talbot, from Sydney, bound to London and the person indicated was arrested. At length with a cargo of oil and cotton, went on shore at For the number exceeded a hundred; descriptions of the mesa, 60 miles south of Pernambuco, on Tuesday, prisoners, and of the property found on them, were Aug. 30, and it is supposed she would become a total loss, as well as her cargo of cotton and oil, for want published; and evidence poured in from all sides. of proper protection against plunder. The passengers The trial lasted several days. Every morning the " accused, about 112 in number, were marched in a and crew were saved. Her Majesty's ship Winches• long column, guarded by a numerous escort, through ter, Rear-Admiral Percy, arrived at Madeira on June the streets of Chartres, to a church in the centre of 23, and at Rio July 27. She sailed again on Aug. 5 the town, which had been fitted up on this occasion for the Cape of Good Hope. The Penguin left at R as a court, and was large enough to exhibit them all Rio the Malabar, Alfred, Bittern, Viper, and Spider, to the witnesses and the jury. M. Berryer dwells on an American corvette and schooner, a Sardinian fri the horrors of the evidence, particularly on that of gate, with a Brazilian brig and schooner. Left at Bahi a , the daughters of an opulent proprietor, three sisters, the war steamer Growler. Reports from each of th e whose feet had been destroyed by fire, so that they Brazilian ports represent trade as exceedin g ly d u ll, i n . were forced to come on crutches into the Court. deed, that there was no business doing, and that the British merchants generally would willingly hu h appeared that the cavern, or rather the collection m of caverns, from whence Finfin had wan dered, wasediately withdraw from that empir e b u t f or out situated in the least accessible portion of the forest • standing claims, which then would be absolut e ly and formed out of the quarries which had furnished obliterated. the stone for the magnificent cathedral of ChartreF. Exchange quoted at Rio, among the English mer- Here a colony of malefactors, male and female, had chants,:at 24-.ld. to 25d. A hope, moreover , was en been founded, which recruited itself, partly by immi- tertained that as the late insurrectionary movements had been put down, and that the imperial troops had gration and partly by natural increase. Like the Indian asseciations of Thugs, it had a government, arrived at and taken possession of O uro P re t o , th e in laws, and police adapted to the frightful profession ternal traffic from Rio with the t wo i mpor t an t dis of its members. It had corresponding members, who tricts lately in a state of disaffection would soon be restored. It was believed that th e successes w hi c h indicated the dwellings most fit for attack, and an executive, which planned expeditions, and appointed attended the imperial anus would a ff ec t ma t er i a ll y th e the persons who were to effect them. The whole 112 strength of the Ministry and the p en di ng e l ec ti ons on were convicted. At a subsequent period, it would the part of the Government. The new electoral have been difficult to dispose of a body of crimin a l s body will assemble in January. Aff a i rs a t Ri o for whom death was the only appropriate sentence, Grande as by last accounts. The articles or prelimi and who would have been thought too numerous for naries of the young Emperor's marriage with the such a punishment ; but in 1795, and in France, men Neopolitan Princess are arrived, under c har g e of Don were accustomed to such scenes, and M. Berryer R. de Silva, an attache of the Brazilian embassy, who passes over their execution without remark. has likewise a portrait of the Emperor, to be conveyed " Taylor's Edwin the Fair" is a favourable cri- to Naples. ticism on a recently published dramatic poem, The official copy of the new treaty of commerce whose only defect is, that all its personages too between Great Britain and Monte Video is furnished closely resemble each other, and are too fond of by this arrival. talking like philosophers, instead of Ii ke men of th e RIO DE JANEIRO MERCANTILE REPORT. world. In this criticism, the Reviewer amuses During the month, from the 12th of July, the rates himself by speculating on what would be the of exchange maintained themselves with but little works that men of intellect would endeavour to alteration at 25d. till the close of that month, when preserve, in the event "of a literary deluge the pressure of money on the market caused it to de sweeping over the land, and consigning to the dine to 244 d., and still lower by id., at which rates abyss our whole poetical patrimony, and all the business has been doing to the sailing of the Penguin, treasures of verse accumulated in our own gene- though to a very limited extent. The transactions ration." A good judge of the imagination would, for this mail have not realised a fair average, and he thinks, be strongly inclined to walk off with principally 2*., but some has been done at 25d., and " Lord Lyttel ton's Monody !" This is absurd. We a shade higher. should as soon suspect him of an inclination STOCK.—There has been a good demand, and a to walk off with a brickbat ! " Madame De great deal of business doing, in consequence of which BRA ZILS. THE IN COME-TAX. Sevigne and her Contemporaries" is penned in a most attractive spirit—lively—gossipping—truth ful—and discriminating. The Reviewer tho roughly appreciates the idiosyncracy of this best of French letter-writers, who, equal to Horace Walpole in ease and grace and liveliness, is far superior to him in earnestness and sincerity of feeling. Both were Aristocrats, both were fa miliar with Courts; but the one was heartless, and often affected, the other uniformly simple and natural. Horace Walpole had ever the fear of criticism before his eyes, and made a point of studiously respecting the conventional pro prieties of style and sentiment; Madame De Sevigne, on the contrary, was under no such restraint, but unhesitatingly abandoned herself to all the impulses of a frank, social, and ardent nature. We admire the tact, polish, and well bred vivacity of the one; we love the truth, the cordiality, the bonhommie, and careless, laugh ing temperament of the other. In a word, Wal pole delights our understanding—Madame de Sevigne touches our heart. The former would have made a delightful acquaintance—the latter a devoted friend. Of the article entitled " The Late Session," we need here tak e no no ti ce , having already made it the subject of some com ments in The Sun. he price has risen from 69 upwards to 70. COFFEE.—New Crop.—This denomination, after some inconsiderable fluctuations, has ultimately been selling at 100 to 200 rs. higher than last months quo tations. Present price—Superior, from 3,500 to 3,700 per arroba ; first good, 3,150 to 3,300; and the lower qualities in proportion. At these rates there seemed a tendency of less inclination to purchase. The old crop ranges, almost without exception, under the fore-stated quotations. The arrivals from the country are still very moderate. Stock on hand is about 20,000 bags, but the greater part is composed of old low coffee. Sales this month, 40,000 bags ; shipments this month, 39,803 bags ; 29,853 were cleared for the British Channel. The reports re garding the deficiency of the new crop are confirmed from the planting districts to the extent of a decrease of at least one-third, as compared with the previous crop. It is, however, necessary to make a proper allowance for the exaggeration usual on such occa sions, though there appears to be little doubt that there really will be a considerable decrease. SUGAR.—The sales for the month amount to 700 cases • stock on hand 400 cases, including 300 case s arrived from Campos not inspected. The next ar rivals are expected to be already of the ne w crop . A greater allowance than usual has been made in the price of Bastidos. HIDES.—This article dull. Amount of sales 9,000 hides, and sold at 180 rs. to 190 rs. Stock on hand, 60,000. Among the passengers by the Montrose steamer, which left port this morning for Vigo, Oporto, Lis bon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, are Sir Charles Napier Mr. and Mrs. Dr.and f n am y i l l a y n , d, M A r ir ß . ü ß rr o o o w th s , a l‘ n ir d . family, Mr. Murphy, Sharp, Wancey, Mr. and Mrs. Giles, Mr. Forman, Mr. and Miss Pember, and General Villaboys (the late Governor at Cadiz). The Dee, West Indian steam-ship, had a great many passengers, and also started with the mails for Corunna, the Azores, the West India Windward and Leeward Islands, Mexico, &c. The London mails will leave this town on the 23d inst., at eight A.M., in continuation, and will be but 20 hours on the road to the metropolis. This ar rfole.iglnviallrrbilremls delivered. T he hereails ar rangement will be of the greate s t s ervic e in regard of the following day. a f t ro h m alf- L pas on t d fi on ve a r t . Meight THE NEW MARYLEBONE THEATRE. --- This new theatre, built on the site of the former licensed house, the accommodation of which, particularly of the boxes, was not such as to give general satisfaction, is a most substantial building, and for convenience and decoration is likely to rival the best of the minors. The audience part is of a broad horse-shoe form, measuring, from front of box to box, in the widest part, thirty-four feet, the same from front of centre box to the " float" lamps, and from them to the back of the stage, forty-seven i feet. The height of the proscenium is thirty-two, and the width twenty eight feet. The gallery will hold seven hundred, the boxes five hundred, and the pit eight hundred people, and every one will have a perfect view of the stage. The theatre has been built entirely under the direc tion of its enterprising proprietor, Mr. Loveridge, and he has evidently been determined that nothing shall be wanting to give satisfaction, and make the place worthy the patronage of its largely increasing neigh bourhood. The manager of the old house, Mr. Douglas, is to take the management of the new, and, with an efficient company, will, no doubt, make it a popular place of amusement in that quarter of London. In consequence of an application from the sub- Committee of the Wellington testimonial, the direc tors of the Royal Exchange have agreed to give a site in front of that building for the erection of the eques trian statue in honour of the Duke. We understand that the statue is expected to be finished, and in Glas gow by the Ist of May next, the birthday of the Noble D uke.— Glasgow Argus. The turkey fair of Aughrim took place on the 14th. This fair, following so soon after, is remarkable for improved prices over Ballinasloe ; but keeping pace with the general depression, there was a reduction of ss. on heifers, and 3s. 6d. on wethers—the same de scription of stock on our fair. This fair is celebrated for turkeys, which are brought in large quantities. V>y fine birds, and at this season of the year, plump and fit for the table, sell from 2s. 4d. to 3s. each. GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF POLYNESIA.—Among the thousands of islands which shoot up in the South Sea, some rise to a considerable elevation, and gene rally present a conical form. Many of them are basaltic, often containing in their centres wide tunnels or cavities, and, at other times, round lakes which might be taken for ancient craters. Although the occurrence of volcanic substances has not, on satis factory evidence, been every where ascertained, there has already been discovered a greater number of vol canoes than in any other part of the world. In the annals of early navigation these are sometimes men tioned as the most splendid appearances in nature; while, on other occasions, they are described with a feeling of unmingled horror. On one place near New Guinea, the flames and smoke rise calmly over a fruitful country : but on the northern verge of the Marians, dreadful torrents of black lava darken the shore. All the low islands seem to have for their base a reef of coral rocks generally disposed in a cir cular form. The middle space is commonly occupied by a sheet of water, on the margin of which the sand is mixed with pieces of broken coral and other marine productions. These facts have been employed by spe culative writers with the view of proving that all the islets must have originated in the labours of the dimi nutive insect already noticed, and been afterwards en larged and raised above the surface of the ocean by the accumulation of light substances drifted to them by the action of the waves. It is, however, very re markable, that among the islands so constituted, some are almost level with the sea, while others are elevated several hundred feet : though on the summits of these last aria found masses of coral perforated in the same manner with those found at the water's edge. Now, as the animalcules which raise these submarine habi tations cannot live above the level of the deep, it is manifest either that the Pacific has sunk to a-lower level, or that the several islands hare been raised by an expansive force acting from below. There can be no doubt that the latter agent ought to be assigned as the, true cause of the phenomenon.---Edinburgh Cabi net Library, No. XXXIII. Polynesia. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday an inquest was held at the Hero of *Waterloo Inn, Waterloo-read, Lambeth, before William Carter, Esq., the Coro ner for Surrey, on v ie w o f th e b o d y o f Collinson, aged 75 years. The deceased resided at No. 64 Cornwall-road, Lambeth. He had formerly been in good circumstances, but latterly was supported by his nephew. He was addicted to habitual intoxication, and between seven and eight o'clock on Saturday evening last he returned home, excessively drunk, and fell down stairs. From that time, although he had not sustained any apparent injury from the fall, he remained in a state of insensibility until his death, which took place on Sunday evening. Verdict— "'That the deceased died from apoplexy, occasioned by a fall he received while in a state of intoxication." BoY . KILLED BY. IfIS FATHER.— The neighbour hood of Feeney, near Dungyvan, was much alarmed last week by a report that Michael Devine had, by unmerciful treatment, caused the death of his son, a fine boy, about twelve years of age. Shortly after the death of the boy a report reached the County Coroner, D. Bailey, Esq., and James Stevenson, Esq., J. P., Ashpark, who held an i nquest on the body. It appeared that the father of the de ceased had, for a length of time, been in the habit of beating him and the other members of the family in the most inhuman manner, and that to escape his violence they bad frequently to seek refuge in some of the neighbouring houses. He had lately so brutally abused the deceased; that he was forced to go to the house of a man named M'lllheney, where he lingered for a few days, and afterwards died. The Coroner committed the unhappy man (who, it is said, is labouring under insanity) to gaol, to await his I r ig tit to owing assizes.--Beffost Whig. CORONER'S INQUEST. HORRIBLE DEPRAVITY. Tuesday, at 12 o'clock, an inquiry was ;instituted before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Crown Tavern, Edgeware-road, on view of the body o f Elizabeth Bell Woodroffe, aged 32, wh o comm i tte d su i c ide by taking poison, under the cir c umstances s ubjoined : Mr. Richard Keene, surgeon and chemist, No. 17, Crawford-street, Bryanston square, deposed to being called, and having found the d ecease d lyi n g in bed, her extremities quite cold, and she evidently in a dying state. She had been vomiting very much, and was almost if beyondshehad t th ak e en Power o f speec h. Witness asked . poi son, to wh i c h s h e ma d e no reply ; but on his ,again putting the question and whether iin t was arsenic, she by a movement of her sulphate , head signified in the affirmative. Wit n ess then ad ministered to her two scruples ofof zinc • but she never rallied, anddiedin less than 20minutes. He had since made a post mortem examination of the body, and found the whole internal surface of the mpatches, indicating that shest hadstomach c h takendiscoloured arsenic, N t ‘ h . h ircehd, by subsequently using tests, he had proved beyond doubt to be the fact; the arsenic he had ascertained to have been purchased at his shop by the deceased. William Woodroffe stated that the deceased was his wife. On Saturday morning last she placed a cup out of which she had been drinking on the table, and throwing down a piece of paper, said, "There, that's poison. I have done it." Witness saidyou are always up to some of your tricks, and taking up the paper, threw it ~,into the fire. About half an hour hour afterwards she began vomiting, when witness fetched her half a quartern of gin, part of which she only drank. Subsequently getting worse, Mr. Keene was sent for, shortly after whose arrival she died. Sarah Blanchard (who cohabited with the husband under the same roof) corroborated this statement. A respectable -looking mechanic here stepped for - ward, and stated to the Jury that he was acquainted forof vet, so respectable fa ne years, and had all of w h om with th e with her up to the hm w a i i d t i y h a. the f sa thaeil yil deceased, aodof beel eleven vn e w nr a h ca o hr r w i li de a dr s e n z Abou t two years ago her husband, who was a zinc - plate t e i x in ce e p o ti f on he o r f d o e n a e thS w w l e o r w e d as ea l d iv . ing worker, deserted h , fu w r further assista nce . assista nce . Sh e destitute. She had e r leaving , since h celived er i n Yorkshire ontlie bounty of her family and friends, who at length, being wearied out w ith h e r then importunities, sough t refused after she at l eng th found living as described. She was at fi rs t repu l sed, but refusing to quit the place without him, an o ff e r was made to her to lodge with them , to whi c h t ru ly revolting proposition she was induced, throu g h f e ar her h h u e s r b a a n n y d of actual starvation of herself' and child, to accede. Since then she had been subjected to constant ill usage from her husband, for protection against whom she had more than once applied to a Magistrate ; and while he and the female Blanchard occupied the bed, she had been forced to submit to lie on a piece of old carpet on the floor. Mr. WAxinz remarked that the case was one which disclosed facts of a disgraceful and immoral nature, and one which could not have been supposed to exist in the present enlightened age. The Jury, however, had only met for the purpose of inquiring into the cause of the death of the deceased ; and although the conduct of cert a in parties might have led her t o com mit self-murder, such parties were not answerable there for the manner in which they had acted. The Jury, after some consultation, returned a ver dict, "That the deceased had destroyed herself while in a state of temporary insanity," at the same tim e expressing their opinion that she was driven to the commission of the crime by the base and cruel treat ment of her husband William Woodroffe. On the husband of the deceased making hi s ap pearance in the street after the inquiry he was greeted with the groans and hisses of about 100 women, who had assembled round the house, and who would, had it not been for the protection afforded him by the police, have proceeded to the infliction of personal chastisement The Poet, James Montgomery , and the Rev. Peter Latrobe have come over to this country as a deputa tion from the Moravian Church. A debt of 6,0001. has been incurred by the Society, chiefly in keeping up their missions in the Wrest Indies ; and they have been compelled to throw themselves on the benevo lence of the Christian public, of all religious per suasions, to enable them to discharge this debt. Three thousand pounds have been alread7 subscribed in England, and a b ou t one thousand in the West In dies. Dublin ,Evening Mail. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNINV-; OCTOBER 20, 1842. NEW INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE MODE OF CLAIMING EXEMPTION. _ . In consequence of the great number of doubts and difficulties that have presented themselves as to the proper interpretation and meaning of the clauses of exemption in this Act, the followingadditional instruc tions have been drawn up by her Majesty's Commis sioners, 'and will be delivered to the assessors of every district. The following is an official copy : " 1. Every person claiming to be entitled to exemp tion must, within the time limited for delivering in the lists (or within such further time as the Commis sioners for general purposes in the district shall allow) deliver to the assessor a notice of his claim for exemp tion, together with a declaration setting forth therein all the particular sources whence the income of such claimant shall arise, with the amount from each source, and also every sum of annual interest, or other annual payment reserved or charged thereon, whereby the income may be diminished, and also every sum charged against every other person on account of the duty, or which he may have deducted or retained under the authority of the Act out of any payment to which he may be or become liable. "2. Every person chargeable by assessment, or by deduction from any rent, annuity, or other annual payment, who shall prove that the annual amount of his income is less than 1501., is entitled to exemption from duties, and to repayment of all deductions on account thereof, except so much of such duties as he may be entitled to charge against any other persons, or to deduct out of any payment to which lie may be liable. Thus, if a person owns land of 1501. annual value, and receives that sum in rent, and his tenant is assessed on that sum on his behalf, then his income is 150/. ; but if he allows land-tax out of that sum amounting to 201., then is his income 1301., on which sum his tenant would be assessed on his behalf. The same may be said of any other deduction allowed by the Act. But if such person has paid out of his rent 201. for repairs, which is not allowed as a deduction under the Act, his income still remains 150/. So, if a person pays an annuity, interest of money, or other annual payment out of his rent, then is his income re duced by that sum. If he pays annual interest to the amount of 201., his income is 1301.; and if he pays the land-tax of 201., then his income would be 110/. But his income will not be reduced by the payment of any sum from which he is not entitled to deduct the duty. "3. The annual value of lands'or tenements is to be estimated according to the rules contained in schedules A and B. The income arising from ownership is to be understood to be the rent at which the same are let at rack-rent, if fixed, by agreement, within seven years preceding the year of assessment; but if not let at rack-rent, then at the rack-rent at which the same are worth to be let by the year, subject to the deduc tions to be authorised by the Act. _ _ _ "4. Every person separately assessed, or having a separate interest in the profits assessed, may claim an exemption. "5. So co-partners, joint-trustees, or tenants in common of the profits of any property whatever, hav ing declared their respective shares, in order to a se• parate assessment. " 6. So joint-tenants, or tenants of land in partner ship, being in the actual and joint occupation thereof; and entitled to the profits in shares, and personally labouring therein, or managing , the same. " 7. So partners carrying on trade, or exercising any profession together, and entitled to the profits thereon in shares, and personally acting therein, in such cases of separate assessments only. " 8. So a guardian, trustee, or agent on account of others, may claim on behalf of such others, either where satisfactory proof is given that such others can not attend in person, or in cases where they may be assessed for others, as acting in the character of guar dian, &c., to a person under incapacity. " 9. Every claim is to be made to the Commissioners of the district where the claimant shall reside, except where the whole of his income shall arise from any employment, the duties whereon are cognizable by the Commissioners of a department of office, or from a pension, in which case he may claim to the Commis- shiners of the department. " 10. Every person entitled to claim exemption must sign the notice to that effect contained in the forms left him by the assessor. If the income of the claimant should arise from an 3r other source than those described in the forms left him, he should signify the same to the assessor, specifying from what sources his income is derived. " 11. Schedule for exemption (particulars of income from whatever source derived). " 12. In all cases claims for exemption are to be examined by the surveyor of the district, and if he shall not object thereto within 4 10 days after the same have been transmitted to the Commissioners, or within such further time as they, on just cause, shall allow him to make such objection, the Commissioners are authorised to allow such objection. " 13. If the surveyor is satisfied that a party is wholly exempt he will sign a certificate to that effect, and lay the claim before the Commissioners at their next meeting, upon which the Commissioners will discharge the assessment, and if it shall appear that any property is assessed in any other district the Commissioners will certify to the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, at the head office, the allowance of the exemption, upon which the last-mentioned Com missioners will direct the assessment in such other district to be discharged. " 14. In case the surveyor shall see cause to object to any claim for exemption, he is to certify such ob jection and the grounds thereof to the Commissioners of the district, when the merits of the claims are to be heard and determined upon appeal by the party before them, under and subject to the rules, regulations, and penalties under the Act. " 15. Upon proof that any person whose claim for exemption has been allowed has been charged to, and has paid, the duties by way of deduction from any rent, annuity, or other annual payment from which a deduction is authorised to be made, or that such per son has been assessed and has paid the duty in respect of any annuity, &c., payable out of the public revenue, the Commissioners will certify what shall have been so, proved to the Commissioners, at the head office for Stamps and Taxes ; whereupon the last-mentioned Commissioners will issue the necessary order for re- payment. " The order for repayment will be directed to the officer for receipt, or the collector of the duties, or to a distributor or sub-distributor of stamps of the dis trict or parish in which the claimant shall reside ; and a notification thereof will at the same time be for- warded to the party from the head-office, in order that he may know when and where to apply for such repayment. AMERICAN LAW COURTS AND LAWYERS.—TO an Englishman, accustomed to the paraphernalia of Westminster Hall, an American court of law is as odd a sight as, I suppose an English court of law would be to an American. Except in the Supreme Court at Washington (where the judges wear a plain black robe), there is no such thing as a wig or gown connected with the administration of justice. The gentlemen of the bar, being barristers and attorneys too (for there is no division of those functions, as in England), are no more removed from their clients than attorneys in our Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors are from theirs. The jury are quite at home, and make themselves as comfortable as circumstances will permit. The witness is so little elevated above, or put aloof from, the crowd in the court, that a stranger entering during a pause in the proceedings would find it difficult to pick him out from the rest. And if it chanced to be a criminal trial, his eyes, in nine cases out of ten, would wander to the dock in search of the prisoner in va in ; for that gentleman would most likely be loung ing among the most distinguished ornaments of the egal profession, whispering suggestions in his counsel's ear, or making a toothpick out of an old quill with his pen-knife. I could not but notice these differ ences, when I visited the Courts at Boston. I was much surprised at first, too, to observe that the counsel who interrogated the witness under examination at the time did so sitting. But seeing that lie was also occu pied in writing down the answers, and remembering that he was alone and had no ' junior,' I quickly consoled myself with the reflection that law was not quite so expensive an article here as at home ; and that the absence of sundry formalities which we regard as in dispensable, had doubtless a very favourable influence upon the bill of cost. In every Court, ample and commodious provision is made for the accommodation of the citizens. This is the case all through America. In every public institution, the right of the people to attend, and to have an interest in the proceedings, is most fully and distinctly recognised. There are no grim door-keepers to dole out their tardy civility by the sixpenny-worth ; nor is there, I sincerely believe, any insolence of office of any kind. Nothing national is exhibited for money, and no public officer is a show man. We have begun of late years to imitate this good example. I hope we shall continue to do so ; and that in the fulness of time even deans and chap ters may be convertecL—Dickens' Notes on America. THE GUADALOUPE IRON WAR-STEAMER _Many of our readers will remember this beautiful iron war steamer, built by Mr. John Laird, of North Birken head, for the Mexican Government. She was manned by an English crew an.d engineers, and commanded by Lieutenant Charlewood , R.N . On arriving at Vera Cruz she, with the old City of Dublin steamer, formed the leading vessels in an e xpedition consisting of 2,000 men against Yuczttan, which had thrown off the Mexican yoke, and so Republic on its t uP as mainly owing to the own account. The expedit ion, N % 'as completely successful. efficiency ,of the steamers, , r navy, and the whole Yucatan was deprived of hk and of Mexico. Iron coast placed under the comm steam-vessels of war are thus ph:Ying as conspicuous a part in the naval wars of t h e we , st e r n as th ey are i n tibOn of the cistern seas.—Liverp,,'ol Albion. „ P ICTURE -DEALING AT ROME. (From a French Paper.) The Rota, supreme court of the Pontifical States for both civil and ecclesiastical affairs, has just pro nounced a sentence by which it consecrates a strange principle as to the selling of pictures. It has caused a great sensation among the picture-dealers of Rome. On the 15th of November, 1836, Prince Simi rium made a public sale of several pictures, then in the gallery of the Odescalchi Palace. Among others, there was one of them in such a state of dilapidation that the subject could scarcely be distinguished. This picture was bought for fifteen Roman crowns by M. Vallatti, a picture-dealer, living at Rome. The same day he made known to the public that he had just acquired a picture, represent ing the Magdalen, by Correggio, which surpassed in beauty that of the same master in the Dresden Mu seum, and which was bought for the sum of 15,000 sequins, He stuck up bills also, announcing that this masterpiece might be seen the following day at his house, as he was then occupied in cleaning and putting a new frame to it. On the 18th of September, just as M. Vallatti's house was full of admirers, contemplating this picture, and which connoisseurs thought a real Correggio, two cursori (bailiffs) entered and seized the picture, at the request of Prince Simirium, alleging for motive that this picture had been bought at a vile price by M. Vallatti, although he knew it to be a Correggio of considerable value. The Tribunal of Commerce, where this affair was judged, M. Vallatti being a merchant, declared the sale of the picture good, condemning the prosecutor to pay all expenses. This judgment was confirmed in the Court of Segratura, by appeal, with the exception of the payment of the expenses. Prince Simirium appealed against this decision to the Roman Rota, which has pronounced the following sentence : " If a precious painting is discovered underneath a painting, which covered the former so as to conceal it entirely, it is to remain the property of the pur chaser, particularly if he has gone to the trouble to clean it. If, on the contrary, in spite of the bad state of a picture, it reveals its great value, it must remain the property of him who sold it. The latter is the present case." INTOXICATION.—On Thursday last an iron-lifter at Dundyvan, of the name of John Black, undertook, for a trifling wager, to swallow a mutchkin of whisky without taking it from his head. A previous allow ance had quickened his appetite for the undertaking, and, all things being ready, John swallowed the mortal dose, and one glass more! when he hied his way home from Coatbridge to Dundyvan in a state of utter stupefaction; and, though one of the most hardy and powerful men at the work, the poisonous potation wrought so rapidly on his constitution that in less than four hours from swallowing the draught he was found a lifeless corpse, leaving a hapless wife and numerous family to lament his intemperate and mur derous folly.—Glasgow Chronicle. Mn. WOOLLEY AND MISS BRYERS.—MT. Woolley and Miss Bryers, whose case has recently excited so much notoriety, are both natives of the city of Ches ter. Mr. Woolley was brought up at the Bluecoat School, and was afterwards apprenticed to Mr. I3er rington, a cabinet-maker, in Chester. The father of Miss Bryers was a watchmaker, and kept a shop in Eastgate-row, where he carried on a very good busi ness for many years.—Liverpool Standard. PRINTERS' ALMSHOUSES FUND.—We understand that as soon as the Committee for carrying into effect the building of a number of almshouses for the recep tion of infirm and decayed letter-press printers, shall have raised the sum of 2,0001., the Worshipful Com pany of Stationers have kindly promised to give them a site of ground for the above praiseworthy object. THE PAUPER TENANTRY..--.The plan of remitting rents appears to b e i n p rogress. Exempli gratia : " The Right Hon. Lord Prudhoe has directed, with his characteristic generosity, that 10 per cent. should be returned to his Prudhoe tenants on their half-years' rents, being the same reduction as was allowed to the Stanwick tenants on the event of his Lordship's mar riage." The poor tenants cannot pay what they have contracted to pay under the landlord's law, which cheats them out of their independence, and so the land lords generously remit a portion, and so keep them in slavish dependence. They are thus reminded, too, of this part of their duty to themselves and their class by the Morning Post :—"We regret very much to learn from our Ballinasloe correspondent, that while the oc cupiers of land in the province of Connaught are thrown into the utmost embarrassment by the fall in the price of cattle, the lords and gentlemen who own the land are pressing with great rigour upon the occu piers for the full amount of their stipulated rent. Such conduct as this we could not justly describe without using the very strongest terms of indignation." It will be wrong, therefore, for landlords to exact the rent which the tenant has covenanted to pay. Now, let the reader see the reason assigned for this, and ask himself whether the argument applied to legisla tion snaking things cheap by law, does not apply, pro tanto, to their making them dear, and expecting pros perity. "What! (sa_ys the Post) shall Noblemen and gentlemen sit in the Legislature, and consent to mea sures for the reduction of price—and shall they then turn round upon the victims of that cheapness and en deavour to exact from them the uttermost farthing ? Persons who can do this deserve to be degraded from their position of noblemen and gentlemen. We trust that we will hear of nothing of this kind in England. The landowners of England know that they stand in the position of co-partners with the occupiers. If they have chosen to consent to yheapening measures in the Legislature, they will be equally ready to con sent to cheapening the rent of land. They will not expect that whatever the occupier may receive they shall still receive the same. They will not take away the source of rent, or a part of it, and yet expect the same return as before. If Irish landlords have been guilty of such conduct, we trust they will be left alone in their infamy." It is decreed, therefore, that rents must be remitted, and the tenantry kept in an in debted and degraded condition. AMERICAN COTTON CROPS.—We subjoin a few re marks upon the aspect of the American cotton crop at the last dates : they are taken from the letter of a gentleman at New Orleans, dated the 13th of Sep tember, and received by the Acadia steamer. Not be ing a holder of' cotton in England, he may be sup posed to give an impartial report :—" Since my last date to you, there has been very considerable damage to the growing crop from worms, rust, and rains. It is sufficient to take off a large amount of the excess which was anticipatedover and above an average crop, yet not sufficient to cause any apprehension of a fall beneath one. Both the worms and rust have done very serious injury where they occurred, yet their operations are too partial to do any general damage. The rains have done more extensive injury and, as they continue much more frequent than is desir able, may lay the foundation of a very extensive in jury at our first frost. Much yet depends upon the condition of the growing cotton at that date ; when well matured the damage is but partial, but when found in full vigour and the frost a heavy one, the injury done may be very great. The market has opened very early with us, and the demand is very good for the French and our eastern market. Prices ranged from from 7i to 9i cents."—Licerpoel Albion. A WEALTHY BEGGAR.—Friday last, at the Guild hall, Bath, a miserable-looking object, named Thomas Burt, was charged with being found begging in the Upper Borough Walls. On his being searched at the station-house, about 771. were discovered, in sove reigns and silver, concealed in a girdle that he wore round his waist. He was committed for fourteen days' hard labour to the House of Correction, and the expenses of his maintenance in prison were ordered to be defrayed out of his " private purse. It was mentioned that this man has money in the Shaftes bury bank to the amount of 1,2001., besides an income of Bs. per week. If this fellow be a fair specimen of cadgering, it must be a profitable profession. THE POLITICAL VICTIMS.—A public meeting of the middle and working classes was held last evening at the Hall of Science, Blackfriars-road, to take into consideration the best means of defending and sup porting the political victims. The Chair was taken by Mr. Dron. Messrs. Blockmore, Ranleigh, and huffy Ridley, addressed the meeting in support of its object, after which Mr. G. F. Pardon rose to address the meeting. He (Mr. Pardon) would not say that which was likely to hurt would excuse him in accusing the _Cones,, the feelings of any body of men ; but , the . meeting ofall them that the time working-classes. He need not tell others, as the most cruel persecutors of the English y of their com was come when they should shake off l those enemies of all that was conducive th to at th th e mon country. Upon was come when . it they were all agreed ; but of Reform, time e tandard Ihieehmarvoeudldthettelliltathraelmly.trtt atdhe.thtei to proceed in the noble cause, and show to its enemies that in the . face of persecution they were determined be the consequences even more fatal than the p resent. _(Cheers.) Several resolutions were carried and the m eeting separated.solNpLui THE ,SWINDLING BANKS.— The f armers h ave b ee n stuck 50,000 dollars in the shinpl as t ers of y the Lyons Bank, Wayne county. What will b e t h e n ext shave ? What bank will next tur n out a cheat `) Do, ye banks, come one by one, and ou can ch ea t f ar more quietly and successfully. There is no room for the financiers in the State Prison. The devil is certainly becoming a gentleman, and an h ones t man in these latter (lays. He is a m an of property—at least in fire and brimstone, an d h e will not take the benefit of the Act. —New York Herald of Oct. 1. THE INCOME-TAX O N Hoes. —W e h ave very sin care satisfaction in informing our readers that the an since indul ged in, t an ticipation we sometime that the extra charge on hop lands, where a farm contains more than ten acres in the hundred, would not be insisted on, has been realised, and that Government have orders to the proper officers to that effect. —Maidstone Journal. given SIX HOSTILE TARIFFS WITHIN TEN MON THS. (From the Leeds Mercury.) At no period of our history, except during the ascendancy of Napoleon, has such an alarming succession of blows been struck by foreign Go vernments at the commercial prosperity of Eng land as since the entrance of Sir Robert Peel upon office. We do not say that it has been owing to the inattention of our own Government, though in another article we show that Ministers are very ill supplied with commercial intelli gence by their agents, but we state the simple fact, that within the last ten months no less than Six Hostile Tariff's have been published by other countries: and it is possible that the year may not conclude without adding a seventh. We state these facts for no party purpose whatever, but with a view of calling the serious attention of Government, of Parliament, and of the country to the events themselves, and to the considera tions they suggest as to the future commercial policy of England. First, we shall enumerate the hostile tariffs that have been passed, with their respective dates, and add the briefest possible explanation of their bearing on English commerce. 1. The Russian TariA is:sued inNovember,lB4l ; by which the duty o n worste d or woollen goods, and mixed worsted and cotton, was raised from one silver rouble per lb. to one silver rouble and 75 copecks (that is, from 3s. Gel. to Gs. 2d. per lb. English) : the new duty is from 200 to 300 per cent. ad valorem ; printed goods are prohibited. The King of Prussia, during his late visit to St. Petersburgh, induced the Emperor to issue a more favourable ukase fur the products of Prussia. 2. The Portuguese Tariff,bearing date:the 12th December, 1841 ; by which the duties on Eng lish woollens were raised from 360 reis per lb. to 600 reis per lb. The latter is equal to an ad valorem duty of 45 per cent. on the average quali ties of cloth sent to Portugal. Before 1837, (in which year the tariff was raised), the duties were only about 10 per cent ad valorem (though nomi nally 15 per cent. A favourable tariff is now in course of negotiation. 8. The Fetneh Tariff, bearing date the 26th June, 1842; by which the duties on Ertglishlinen yarns and linens were doubled, and made almost entirely prohibitory—this being by far our largest branch of export to France. 4. The Belgian Taro", issued in July, 1842; by which the duty on English linens and linen yarns was raised to the same prohibitory rate as the French duty, in obedience to the dictation of France, and with a view of preventing the smug gling of English linens and yarns into that country through Belgium. 5. The United States Tar ? ff, bearing date August, 1842; by whi c h th e • duty on woollens was raised from 20 to 40 per cent. ad valorem, on worsted goods from 20 to 30 per cent., and on cotton goods the duty was made nominally 30 per cent., but on some kinds of goods it is in reality from 100 to 200 per cent. ad valorem, and on many kinds of cottons, woollens, and other goods the duty will be prohibitory. 6. The German League Tariff; passed Sep tember, 1842; by which the duty on one of the largest branches of our exports, namely worsted goods, figured or printed, is raised from 30 dollars to 50 dollars per cwt., so as to be in many cases prohibitory; and by which the duty on quin caillerie, or hardware, is increased probably 50 dollars per cwt. And it is not impossible that next month the Brazilian Tariff may be raised very greatly— the Brazilian Government having given notice to that effect ; but we hope this severe blow will be averted by the concessions which Mr. Ellis, the special minister lately sent out to Brazil, is em powered to make on the sugar duties. Thus within a few months a great part of the civilized world has declared commercial war against us !—Russia, Portugal, France, Belgium, the United States, and the Great German League, including Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtem burg, and several smaller States ! And it is not certain that Brazil may not soon be added to the number. Such an unparalleled succession of untoward. events is indeed menacing to our manufactures and foreign commerce, and demands the anxious attention of the Government. It is proper to observe on this remarkable series of hostile tariffs, that they bear no evidence of coifederary against us. The only exception is, in regard to France and Belgium, where the feebler power obeys the orders of the stronger. Russia, France, Belgium, the United States, Germany, and even in some degree Portugal, have been influenced by a desire to protect their own manufactures. The United States and Portugal have been additionally moved by the hope of relieving their financial embarrassments, though the plan has certainly not succeeded is Portugal, and is not likely to succeed in America. Brazil acts in a spirit of retaliation for the pro hibitory duties imposed in this country on her sugars. RATutu UNCOMMON.—Two females have been committed to the Ruthin gaol during the present week on charges somewhat unusual, at least against the softer sex, viz., Amelia House, charged on the oath of John Roberts with feloniously firing a pistol at him, at Wrexham, with intent to do him some griev ous bodily harm ; also, Jane Williams, committed on the oath of Roben Owen, for having stolen a mare in the parish of Lantisilio, on the 7th instant, the pro perty of the said Robert Owen.—Caniarvon Herald. THE FINE ARTS.—We have this week been much gratified with the sight and examination of a number of beautiful drawings made at Drummond Castle, during the visit of her Majesty and her illustrious consort, Prince Albert, by Mr. Jacob Thompson, of Lowther, an artist of high standing. Although the newspapers have described in vivid colours the mag nificent gardens and grounds of this princely domain," yet we find great difficulty in finding language ade quately to convey a correct idea of the terraces, statues, and classical character of this fairy land. Among the most picturesque and beautiful of the sketches are three from which pictures will be painted for the Duchess of Buccleuch. One of the views which will be painted for her Grace, we believe, was selected by Lord Aberdeen, a nobleman of the most refined taste. Another, embracing exten s i ve v i ews of the Castle and g roun d s is for Lord Carrington ; but the gem of the collection is the old court yard, with the Queen reviewing the Highlanders, from which a picture will be painted for Lord Willoughby D'Eresby. Among other things brought from Scotland by Mr. Thompson, are the head and antlers of the red deer shot by Prince Albert in the forest of Glenartney, and this stag, we believe, was the only one shot by his Royal Highness. We feel confident that Mr. Thomp son will ably execute the important tasks committed to his charge, for he is an artist who, of late, has risen to an exalted position in his profession. We wish him every success.—Scotch Paper. ST. SAVIOUR'S, SOUTHWARK.—GRAND ORGAN PERFORMANCE.—On Tuesday a very numerous audi tory attended the above church to hear the perform ance of Mrs. W. H. Cope on the lately re-erected and enlarged organ, presented by Messrs. Barclay, Ferkins, and Co., to the parish. The selection on the occasion, and taste of the fair the highest credit on the judgment reflected the the best ancient and modernfind fault t po sy s i e t rs h performer; though we might vocal, and, consequently, adop tion of a few pieces essentiallyl. 'the g ia r p a s u , d be eu e r n of too much was played ed 11 of learning, is ineffec " Kyrie," by Leo, thong u that could pos sibly NgraVelinfidttedandtcootinhpelelchiu.nfslatrrumpoevin-et.rs oTfhtehceeloerigzanat— major, ancient e ti h v r e oi t n o a m tic t e r d n t e o a r r e s nevertheless, it was well given by Mrs. harmony ; , lis t h ha t t h h e a s v i e m , p p e le i and precision in E flat • expected from a female performer. T 1 sibly be • le grand chorus and fugue, by our countryman, Si. Wesley, had , C r o it p h e. all ß t ac he h's fo f rc ure , a mple j u stice done to its various comp l ex i ties and simple beauties , e • as had also the diapason movement of Mendelsohn. The performance appropriately closed w ith " God save the Queen," arranged by Bink, with hi s customary display of th e various powers of his favourite instrument. Altogether the • selection gave great satisfaction, and the thanks of parish of St. Saviour, Southwark are eminently due to Messrs. Barclay andeo. for • their munificence. ARRIVAL OF LORD AN D LADY PRUDHOE AT meetingALN of Mr. L. Hindmarsh chairman was held on Wednes day ni g ht i n the Town-hall, when a congratulatory address was drawn up to be presented to Lord and Lady Prudhoe. The Percy tenantry, to the number of nearly 500, met them at Hampath-bank, near Newton-on-the-Moor, and escorted them to the Castle, where they arrived at half-past twelve on Thursday. —Tyne Mercury. An official communication was received at Dublin Castle on Thursday, intimating to his Excellency the Earl de Grey, that the Order of the Garter, vacant by the demise of the Marquis Wellesley, had been gra ciously conferred upon his Excellency by her Majesty, as a distinguished mark of her Majesty's approval of the Noble Earl's Government of Ireland. THE SEASON. —As a proof of the extreme mildness of the present season, a bunch of out-door grapes was forwarded to us yesterday from Ilailsham, being the second crop produced from the same vine. In this town also there are several vines exhibiting second b l oom in the open air. The lilacs, in some situations in our neighbourhood, have also put forth second blossoms.—Sussex Advertiser. The absence of sleep cannot be long sustained- Damien slept on the rack ; Luke in his iron crown ; and a battalio n o f infantry have been known to slum ber during a march ! Muleteers frequently sleep on their mules, post-boys on their horses, and seamen "on the high and giddy mast." t