The Sun. — London, England, 1842-11-24 00:00:00

niscV I:baton THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ........ 94A Ditto Bonds ....... 52 pm 3 per Cent. Cons-- . 947- Ditto Old Annuities ... - 3i per Cent. Red... 100 j, Ditto New Annuities... New 31 per Cent... ...... 101,i Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 58 pm New 5 per Cent... 124 Ditto 5001 58 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small .58 pm Jan. 1860 ... l2l Bank Stock for Acct. 267 Oct. 1859 Jan. Is6o — ,Consols for Opg. ...... 95i FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent. ... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, b per cent — Ditto, New Ditto 361 Brazilian Bonds... 66 Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. Russian, 5 pei cent — Chilian, 6 per cent. Ditto, Metallic ...... . Colombian,:6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent l7i Ditto, 1824 Ditto, Deferred.... . Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 79 !French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Danish, 3 per _cent — Exchange —f —c Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent 3li Dutch, 2i per cent s3i Ditto. 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 101 i Peruvian,lB2s,6 peret." SHARES. Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) Eastern Counties (23 paid) 9h Ditto New (—paid) ll Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) .... 81,. London and Brighton 050 paid) 35 London and Blackwall (- paid) .......•• 5& London and South Western (411 6s 10d pd) 604 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) 9 North Midland Railway (100) Paris and Rouen (20 paid) ••. • •—.. 23* South,Eastern and Dover (50 paid)......... Ditto Scrip (20 paid) LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 23. THE QUEEN V. THE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAIL QUEEN'S COLLEGE, GLASGOW. FOR THE EDUCATION OF LADIES. The unparalleled success of this spirited enterprise, and the sensation which the ceremonial of its opening (which we noticed on a former occasion) produced, afford the best proof of the estimation in which it is held, and of the void in female education which it has suddenly filled, in that great community. In the first fortnight of its existence it has enrolled about 100 pupils—a number which its prototype here re quired years to achieve. When we look at its pro gramme, we are equally struck with the comprehen siveness of the provision made for a liberal and gene rous female education, and with the number and talent of the teachers. Theology, literature, science, and the fine arts, are all answered for by professors who, in other seminaries in Glasgow, nave established the highest characters. One feature of this Institu tion is especially graceful—its harmony. Its pa tronesses are of all shades of religious and political connexion. Clergymen, both Churchmen and Dis senters, undertake its theological department ; which, with mueh propriety, is limited to Natural Theology, the evidences of Christianity, and ,sa cred history and geography, trusting the special religious instruction, in which sects disagree, to home and pastoral care; while its professors of the other branches mbet under its roof from all the rival seminaries of note in Glasgow. We find what we may call the philosophy of this achievement of our friends in the West, so concisely set forth in the short speech made by our townsman, Mr. Simpson, at the splendid meeting in the Assembly-rooms, on opening the " College," that we cannot do better than transfer it from the Argus to our own columns. Being called upon by the Lord Provost to address the meeting, as one of the strangers who had come from a distance— Mr. Simpson said, that on an occasion like the pre sent, he could not be satisfied with sending an apology for absence, but, when honoured with an invitation, at once resolved to attend.—(Cheers.) No doubt the noble railroad, which almost makes the two great cities one, offered him great facilities ; hut he sincerely said—so highly did he estimate the im portance of this meeting, :not merely to that great place, but to the country at large—that he would have walked to Glasgow for the sake of the privilege he at the moment enjoyed.— (Loud applause.) He had spoken from that same platform four years ago on the subject of the new education and its advantages, in the elementary way which its novelty then demanded ; but such had been its progress since, that, as one gentleman near him (Dr. Penny) had remarked, its topics have become common-places and truisms. That crowded hall was real evidence of this. That enlightened platform, the splendid assemblage before him, needed not to be told that the old education was a mockery—that the new contrasts with it as much as educating one—as the knowledge of the creation of God in its realities con trasts with words without meaning—as the formation of character, and the development of intelligence, honesty, and mercy, contrast with bad reading and worse writing. No adult present but has felt, in every relation of life, that that wide field for culture in man, his feelings, his impulses to action, has been left miserably barren • nay, worse, that these impulses have been miseducated, to the incalculable increase of human suffering. This misdirection begins early, for it often mars the future man in his nurse's rrms. We complain that men are sensual, while they are taught to be sensual by the abuse of fOod to selfish enjoyment, in the first months of their existence. We Complain that they are violent, often cruel, while they are taught to rage, to strike, to revenge, before they can walk, while violence and domineering are their daily lesson in their schools, and bettered by them as a practical instruction in their after years; till force and fear, and violence and blows, and sangui nary laws and wars, are considered by them as the essential moving powers of the moral world. How different the new education, which rules that the child should never hear an angry word, should never see an angry face, should never receive a blow, or be in structed to discover that such a thing is a possibi lity in nature. If they arc trained to be violent, men are also made deceitful, proud, vain, and selfish, by concealment, and competition, and emulative struggle, misnamed generous, but intensely selfish, and often incurably attaching to chaaacter through life. It is only those who appreciate the new educa tion, who know and feel how deeply the iron of the old entered into the soul of society, and how beauti fully the new is adapted to remove almost every complaint that renders life a life of wailing and woe. It would sweeten domestic intercourse—exchange household wrangling for " the music of kind voices, and the heaven of kind looks"—give to private life its " quiet majesty"—exalt and purify public relations — banish party for justice, self-seeking for benevolence, and all uncharitableness for brotherly love. We com plain of the servants of our house, and our business ; but we are only learning that their uneducated, mis educated, impulses render them the nuisances that an noy us. How and when is the counter process to be ap plied ? We are coming nearer to the object of the meet ing. When in this place four years ago, he (Mr. S ) had summed up the items of a sound education—moral, which rightly trains the feelings—intellectual, which opens up even the stores of science, and claimed that ' sum of education for all—he was asked, "What ! even for females ?" Yes, he answered, for females, even more imperatively than for men, seeing that, in educating wo mhn, you are educating the most important, because the earliest, of the educators of man. You are edu cating a teacher whose function and responsibility re duce the teachings of science and art to insignificance. —(Cheers.) The germ of the future man is in her trusted hands—the opening of his being—the first movements of his muscular frame—his first sensa tions—his first emotions—his first cognition of existing things. What may not, what ought not, woman to do for that education which forms character ?—nay, rather, he would ask, can that education to be realised without her agency? can, above all, that emotional religion, which cherishes the love of God in the heart, by an unceasing exposition of his goodness by her who first pointed the infant eye upwards to his throne, be implanted by any so well as a female hand ? Never-to-be-forgotten was the brief—in her own language, the mono syllabic—answer of Madame Campan to Napoleon, who asked her what she considered most necessary for the education of the French people? she re plied, Mothers !—(Loud cheers.) Write this on the door-posts of this new seminary ; bind it, as on their frontleta, on the memory and the heart of every pupil that treads its threshold, and its opening in Glasgow will be well entitled to be held one of the most important epochs of Glasgow's history. After some remarks upon the musical enthusiasm which Mr. Mainzer was exciting in Edinburgh, which he will not fail to rouse in Glasgow .when he visits it, as he will at no distant time do—and were he here, said Mr. Simpson, he would, by the extraordinary power he possesses, make every one in that room sing, in cluding the Lord Provost himself—(A laugh)— whether they would or no—Mr. Simpson concluded by congratulating Glasgow on the opening of the Queen's College ; and added that, with its High School, Collegiate School, 'Western Academy, Trades' School, and Queen's College, no place in the empire possessed a richer provision of means for an en lightened, liberal, and generous educationfor the the middle clieses. A na ti ona l plan alone will extend blessing to the entire population.—Scotsman. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TUE EVENING PAPERS OF TIIIS DAY. GLOBE.—Sir Robert Peel, having inherited from his Tory prototype, the " immortal Pitt," the desperate I expedient of that most inquisitorial and oppressive of all modes of taxation—an Income-tax, will probably cling to it with the tenacity of Castlereagh, even after the necessity which was appealed to as its only has ceased. The Income-tax of Pitt was a war tax. At the time of its imposition it was so described ; and its author, in the most explicit terms, declared in Parliament that no circumstance but a war, in which England was defending her very existence as a na tion could justify any 20inister in proposing such a means of revenue. . The termination of the war was not productive of a disposition of the then Tory Go vernment to repeal the Income-tax. Another, and yet another, year of that prolific source of revenue, to fureish a profligate Ministry with means to supply the cormorants of corruption, was pleaded* for. Lord Castlereagh's still-remembered ebullition of vexation against the people's " ignorant impatience of taxa tion," was uttered on the occasion of hosts of petitions being presented for the removal of that tax, in fulfil ment of the pledge given by the Minister that it should be taken off upon the return • of peace. The " ignorant impatience" of the nation prevailed over the Government, which was defeated in 1816 in its attempt to continue the obnoxious tax. Well do we remember the demonstrations of general joy on receipt of the intelligence, which was expressed to the most distant parts of the kingdom. The ringing of the church bells, and the blazing of bonfires lit on the most elevated spots, manifested the public feeling. It seemed as though an incubus had been removed from the national energies—a fiscal inquisition and instrument of public torture broken up by the force of public opinion acting upon the Legislature. In his financial statement made to the house of Commons on March 11 last, Sir Robert Peel, like Mr. Pitt, rested his defence for proposing an Income-tax on the dire necessity which compelled him to meet the deficiencies in the national revenue, and the pro spective expenses of the India and China wars, by this extraordinary and, except absolutely necessary, inde fensible expedient. The peroration of that oratorical display consists of a high-flown panegyric upon the patriotism shown by our fathers in submitting to the tax when proposed by Mr. Pitt, in 1798, "when the prospects of the country were most gloomy ;" and an exhortation to the present genera tion to show themselves worthy of their fa thers, by submitting to an Income-tax to meet the deficiencies, and provide for an anticipated in creased expenditure, now. We have again and again showed the utter absurdity of comparison be tween the circumstances of the country in the former and in the present periods of its history. Admitting that Mr. Pitt was justified in having re course to such a mode of raising an immense revenue, every argument he employed condemns the uncalled for imitation of the course he pursued. If there was really no necessity for this bold experiment upon the endurance of Englishmen, then is Sir R. Peel con demned for having made it. The termination of the wars in China and Affghanistan, and the four millions and a half to be paid by the former, plainly prove that the infliction of the tax, and the annoyances which accompany its collection, were gratuitous. We shall return to this subject. STANDARD.—The Leaguers say that they have collected 4,0001. This they may easily pretend when they have, by their own confession, already in hand 85,0001., at least, of which' they can render no account. Or looking to the proceedings. of the League meeting\ at which the sum of 4,0001. is said to have been subscribed, it will be seen that the subscri bers are the principal managers of the League, who affect to contribute—one his 2001., another his 1001., a third his 501. Now it is the easiest thing in the world for these gentlemen, who have 85,0001. in a bag, if they have not privately appro priated it, or applied it to the use of the late insurrec tion, which it. would be uncharitable to suppose—it would he the easiest thing in the world, we say, for these worthy persons, having 85,0001. of the former subscriptfOn in a bag—it may be under the table— to put their hands into that bag, and take out very munificent subscriptions, which would not cost themselves a farthing, but would serve admir ably the uses of the " decoy duck.' It is strange, and not a little suspicious, that not one word has been whispered about the missing 85,000/., though many weeks have passed since we humbly suggested that some account of that large sum ought to be rendered. We know that our modest inquiry has reached some of the great men of the League, for the king of the conspiracy denounced our interrogatory in the public room s o f Manchester c'as " cursed Tory lie of the Standard." NoW, if there be a lie in the case, it is not the lie of the Standard, but the lie of the League, and mor e par ticularly the lie of the individual, who made th e un civil imputation upon us ?—the League ; and they and he say that they have received 100,0001. already, and that their funds are exhausted, while they can show only so much value given as at the most extravagant rate would not amount to 15,000/. How, then, do we lie in saying that the managers of the League ought to have in hand 85,0001. ? And why do they limit their contradic tions to such viva voce generalities as cannot be regularly reported, and could mean nothing if they were reported ? We think that we are putting the most favourable construction upon their conduct in saving that they are using the 85,000/. as a flight of decoy ducks, or it may be as making a parade of greater affluence and liberality than they can honestly boast—just as we sometimes see half a dozen men re present an army, by marches before and counter marches behind the scenes of a theatre. If the Leaguers, whose reputation is rather rank as it is, would not be thought worse of even than they are, they will publish an account—an account—an ac count. to consequence of the late glorious intelligence from the East, it is reported that her Majesty will leave Walmer Castle for town in a few days, for the Purpose of h o ldi ng a P r i vy C ounc il a t B uc ki ng h am alace. WAY COMPANY. The defendants in this case had been indicted for a nuisance in blocking up the public highway from Huddersfield to Bradford by the erection of their railway. The Jury returned a verdict of guilty. Application had been made for a new trial, which had been refused. Various unsuccessful attempts had been made to compromise the case, which had proved abortive, and the judgment of the Court was applied for this morning. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, for the Company, stated that they were willing to adopt any suggestion the Court would throw - out that they could adopt in con formity with the provisions of the law. It had been suggested that a bridge might be thrown across, but no bridge could be thrown across without a greater ascent than allowed by law. Mr. Justice CoLurunGE—Could not the railway cross the road at a level ? The SOLICIT( R-GENERAL said that in such case they would have to pull down the railway, and re build it ; besides, they could not do that without the interference of the Lords of Council to empower them so to do, and the Lords of the Council were not authorised to interfere , _ except where the public safety was concerned, which was not the case in the pre sent instance. No injury had been done to any one ; the Company had merely diverted the highway. They must submit to the judgment of the Court, but lie hardly thought the Court would give judgment for the prostration of the railway. In the first place, he doubted their power to do so, as it was a public high way; and, in the next place, he submitted the great public inconvenience which must ensue from the blocking up of a railway which.. was now open, and used daily for the conveyance of letters and passengers. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE-It is you who force us to give judgment, because you refuse to do anything. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the Company had always been willing- to adopt any course that might be suggested, if it were not contrary to the provisions of the Act of Parliament. Several affidavits were then put in and read. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that the Company were perfectly willing to abide by the decision of the Surveyor of Railways appointed by the Crown. He had lßfore made that proposition, and he now re newed it. General Pasley, who had, on the applica tion of the Company, gone down to survey the road, had given it as his opinion that it would be highly dangerous to cross the road at a level. Whatever the Company could do they would do. Any course the Court should say they ought to adopt they would adopt. If the Court suggested that a bridge should be thrown across the railway, as suggested by Gene ral fasley, the Company would do so, although they could not make it of the inclination required by the Act of Parliament, and would truat to the Court to protect them from any indictment which might be preferred against them for acting in accordance with the suggestions of the Court. Mr. BAINES followed on the same side. The ATTOANEY-GENERAL on the part of the prose cution said that the Railway Company had endea voured to take as much and to give as little as, under the provisions of their Act of Parliament, they thought they could do. They had actually spent more in the course of this expensive litigation than would have built all three of the bridges, any one of which, it was contended would have been sufficient to comply with the finding of the Jury; but unfortunately some persons were fonder of protracting litigation than of bringing matters of this nature to a close. If any sane and honest person had pointed out this to the Railway Company at the time, this litigation would have been brought to a conclusion long ago. Lord DENMAN suggested the matter should be left to the decision of General Pasley. . . The ATTORNEY-GENERAL could not consent to anything which would have the effect of disturbing the verdict and re-trying the question. Mr. Justice Com:RlDGE—Assuming the verdict to be correct, and that the Company have not done all that is necessary, would you object to leave it to Ge neral Pasley to decide what should be done, assuming that something must be done—judgment to be re spited until General Pasley shall have reported, and the defendants to pay costs ? The Solicitor-General drew up the terms in which _ _ he proposed the reference should be made, to which, however the Attorney-General objected, on the ground that it would be giving General Pasley the power of re-trying the question—of tinkering the nuisance instead of abating it. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was perfectly willing that anything should be done that General Pasley should direct. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE-But suppose he should direct nothing to be done, do you mean to say that you are to do nothing ? The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—Certainly, my Lord. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—That would be giving him the power of re-trying the case. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL could not consent to anything that would lead to a mere tinkering the nuisance. It must be assumed that all had not been done, and no mere alteration of the diversion would be sufficient. Mr. Sergeant ATCIIERLY and Mr. ADDISON fol lowed on the same side. Lord DENMAN said that it was important that the Court should consider the question, and the judgment had better be postponed for a few days. There was another indictment for a nuisance in obstructing the same public highway, about fifty yards further, to which the defendants pleaded guilty. In this case, Mr. ADDISON proposed to respite the judgment, and leave the matter entirely to the decision of General Pasley, on payment of the costs. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL assented to the proposi tion, on the understanding that the question of costs • should be left to the discretion of the Master. HAZELDINE V. GROVE. E THE TEN IieIISTER HOURS BILL.—Ai A NIGHT.—The approaching sessi on of Parliament'Tuz SDA is T not to be passed over without the factory operatives of this district, distressed as they are, m a ki ng another attempt to emancipate their children from the slavery to which they have too long been subjected b y b e i ng worked from an early hour in the morning until a late hour at night, by which they are deprived of a ll means of acquiring either a domestic or moral edu cation. Yesterday evening a very numerous meet ing of the Lancashire Central Short-time Committee was held at the house of Mr. Thomas Wilkinson, Red Lion Inn, London-road, at which it was agreed again to appeal to Parliament through their friend and champion, Lord Ashley. Amongst other things it was resolved to print 1,000 copies of their address, presented to Lord Ashley in the latter end of September, together with his Lordship's reply on that occasion. It was stated to the Committee that there was every prospect of something being done during the forthcoming session of Parliament to abridge the hours of labour in cotton and other fac tories. It was also stated that Lord Ashley was very sanguine as to the success of his measure, provided he was supported by the Short-time Committees of Lan cashire and Yorkshire. The Committee, which was attended by most of the most active of its members in former struggles, entered warmly upon the prosecu tion of the good work, and have resolved to leave no means untried to forward the emancipation of the children of their fellow-workmen. DINNER TO GENERAL MORISON, FOR CLACK MANNAN AND limitoss.—On Thursday last, the Liberal Committee of the Western District of the United Counties, and friends, entertained the Gallant General to a sumptuous dinner, in Stark's Hotel, Alloa, previous 't o l eav i ng th e county for his Parliamentary duties. Robert Bald, Esq., mining engineer, very ably filled the Chair, and J. M'Nellan, Esq., of Scotsgi r th, ac t e d as croupier. The party was one where united sentiment, social delight, and unmingled harmony, prevailed; and which must have been highly gratifying to the General to witness in the town of his birth, after so very long an absence in India.—Correspondent of the Scotsman. It was currently rumoured last night that the Go vernment, which so feelingly sympathises with Sir Hudson Lowe, is about to appoint the Hon. Henry Sutton, M.P. for this borough a Commissioner of Ex cise. This will, of course, render him ineligible for Parliament; and we understand an eminent Conser vative barrister (we do not allude to Mr. Naylor) will offer himself to the electors.— Cambridge Advertiser. We haue seen an anonymous letter, addressed to Thomas Sewers, Esq., bearing the Liverpool post mark, enclosing 51. for the relief of the unemployed tradesmen and labourers of the city of Edinburgh. The writer designates these suffering individuals as his countrymen ; and it would bs well if other Scots men at a distance, who have the means in their power, would follow this benevolent example, in order to assist in relieving the prevailing distress, which is particulfirly severe at the present inclement season.— Scotnizan. The sum allowed to thu unemployed poor of Gree nock is only id. a day—barely enough to keep life to gether, EFFECTS OF Cm:num—The almond, with its rough coriaceous husk, has been changed by long culture into the peach, with its beautiful, soft, and delicious pulp ; the acid sloe, into the luscious plain; and the harsh, bitter crab, into the golden pippin. At tention to nutrition has produced quite as marked changes in the pear, cherry, and other fruit trees;. many of which have not only been altered in their qualities and appearance, but even in their habits. Celery, so agreeable to most palates, is a modification of the apium gra.veoleus, the taste of which is so acrid and bitter that :t cannot be eaten. Our cauliflowers and cabbages, which weigh many pounds, are largely developed coleworts, that gro w wild on the seashore, and do not . weigh more than half an ounce eac h . Th e rose has been produ ce d b y cultivation from the com mon wild briar. Many plants may be modified with advantage by . suppressing the growth of one part, which causes increased development of other parts. — Dr. Trueman on Food. TITLIPOMANIA.—The sum of 6401. has been lately (riven for the bulb of a new tuli p , cal led the "Citadel of Antwerp.' THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1842. The Court took time to consider its judgment. DUNN V. COMBE. This was an actor brought by Mr. Dunn, whose name has been rezently so much before the public, as the suitor of Aiss Burdett, against Mr. Boyce Combe, the police Magistrate, before whom he had been brought, on 4 bench warrant issued by the Court of Middlesex Qualer Sessions, ordering him to enter into• -recognisance: to keep the peace, and who on that warrant d committed him to prison in default of his ente:ing into such sureties. He had subsequently, been brought up to this Court by habeas eorpto,,and discharged on the ground of the insuffi ciency of the art;el?s of the peace exhibited against him. The case hae, been tried at Hertford before Mr. Baron Alderson, fad the Jury had returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with a farthing damages. Mr. Dunn had sisbn-qtu,ntly obtained a rule nisi for a new trial on the F uund of insufficiency of damages. Mr. .:130IGER This day showed cause against the rule, and The Conwr havitg heard Mr. Dunn at great length in the support of it, ordered the rule to be discharged. servant brought a note up to him, requesting him to be in attendance at the spot at eight o'clock, in case his professional assistance should be required. He ac cordingly went there, not knowing who the parties were, and on his way called upon Mr. Brock and took him with him as an assistant. The letter which Mr. Guthrie had received was then handed to Mr. Clive, who having perused it re turned it. It is understood that it bore no signature. Mr. CLIVE said he could not understand the matter. One of the defendants had said that the affair would soon have been finished, and another said it was over. Mr. M'Donogh explained that the time appointed had gone by two hours, and the other party had not 'come. vv Wm. Allen tlicn deposed that he was ranger of Wormholt Scrubs. About eight o'clock, or a little after, he saw four gentlemen enter the Scrubs. One of them went and sat on the top of the Atmospheric Railway, from whence he could see all over the Scrubs, and the other three stood underneath. Presently af terwards two cabs came up, and the driver of one of them asked him for the Vale. Believing the object of the parties to be a duel, he instantly ran through his garden, and across the fields to Brook-green, and gave information to the police. Mr. CLIVE then said he did not know what the cause of the intended duel was, but as the same cause might arise again, he felt it his duty to hold them to bail in a heavy amount. Mr. M‘Dermott begged to assure the worthy Ma gistrate that it was impossible that the same cause could occur again. Mr. CLIVE replied, that not being sure of that, he should require Mr. MDermott and Mr. M'Donogh to enter each of them into a recognizance of 5001., and two sureties each in the sum of 2501. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (TESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A young man named Henry Stanbridge, who has been several times examined, was brought up to be committed under the charge contained in the follow ing evidence. Mr. Bozon appeared as solicitor for the prosecutor, and Mr. Wontner attended on the part of the prisoner. Mr. W. G. Dodds, an ale and porter merchant, at Howford-buildings, Fenchurch-street, stated that he was not the owner cf three butts of sherry which were mentioned in a delivery order handed to him, but he was in treaty for the purchase of them with Messrs. Long and Edward; wine brokers, and, from what they said, he expected to have had possession of the warrants for the wines in two days. He gave the de fendant the delivery order, for which he received from the defendant the sum of 12/., leaving a balance due to witness, in the transaction, of ten shillings. Wit ness at the same time told the defendant that he had not possession of the warrants, and that he was not sure the numbers he had put down in the delivery order were correct. Mr. A. Rayner, of 29, Park-place, Liverpool-road, Islington, the prosecutor in this case, stated that he had known the defendant for some time. On the 31st of August the defendant called on him at 69, Old Broad-street, and showed him the delivery order in question, which purported to be an order on the St. Katherine Docks, signed W. G. Dodds, to deliver to the defendant three butts of sherry, and requested him to advance the sum of 601. The de fendant also produced a sample bottle of sherry as an average sample of the wine he had purchased of Mr. Dodds, and said he should want the money for a month. Witness offered to let him have 641. for a month for the payment of 701. at the end of that time, a proposal which was accepted, and the most positive promise of punctuality was made, the de fendant declaring that as he had purchased the wines for his brother, and should reap considerable profit from them, he should be well able to pay the debt. Witness believed, from these representations, that the defendant had bought and paid for these wines, and that they were then at the St. Katherine's Dock, in consequence of which belief he was induced to part with his money to the defendant, who indorsed the delivery order with his name. Two or three days afterwards witness, in consequence of what was intrusted to him, told the defendant he had heard it was not a proper way of doing business to take, delivery orders instead of warrants, and he should therefore prefer the possession of the warrants themselves to which the delivery orders re ferred. He replied that there was not the least cause for alarm, that he would go to the Docks in a day or two and get the warrants, and that the mere act of lodging the delivery orders would be sufficient autho rity for the giving up of the warrants whenever wit ness thoughtproper. That assurance gave complete satisfaction to witness. A day or two afterwards the defendant called upon witness, and said he could not get the warrants until the return of Messrs. Long and Edwards' traveller, who had them, from the country, that evening or next morning. The defendant again called, and said the traveller had not returned, and the warrants could not, therefore, be had. Witness, suspicious of unfair play, and after expostulating with the defendant, accompanied him to the office of Mr. Dcdds, who said, upon being asked whether witness could have the warrants in exchange for the delivery order, " No, he was sorry that he had not received them from Long and }Awards, but that witness should have them as soon as he received them." Wit ness and the defendant then came away, the former threatening to proceed in a different way if he did not receive the warrants. On the same afternoon, the defendant and another person called upon witness, and the latter delivered him a letter, signed W. G. Dodds, with two wine warrants, which both said they believed were of greater value than those belonging to the delivery-order first deposited with him. Previously to that, the defendant had brought to him a wine warrant, which he stated was one of those mentioned in the delivery order, at the same time stating that he should have the other two war rants mentioned in the delivery order next day. On receiving the three wine warrants witness found they were for two butts and a half, and, therefore, a hogshead short of the quantity agreed on, and upon complaining, received the warrant for the remainder. At the end of the month, when the defendant was to have repaid the money, no money was to be had from' him, and witness, upon saying that he should apply to Long and Edwards, the defendant said, "How do you know that the wines were bought of Long and Edwards ?" and when witness replied, " You told me so," the defendant observed, " That only shows what a flat you must have been to believe me," and then walked off. Mr. H. J. V. Long, of the firm of Long and Ed wards, wine and spirit brokers, of 65, Mark-lane, stated, that about the beginning of September Mr. Dodds applied to him to purchase certain wine war rants relating to three hogsheads of sherry marked 0 by the ship Mona. Witness had had possession of the warrants which had been placed in his hands for sale, but not being able to effect a sale at the price them, he had returned them to the on t party rn whom he had received them. Witness informed Dodds of the fact, but of fered to get them for him, and subsequently ob tained one of the warrants referred to, and delivered it to him. A delay occurred with respect to the other two, and they were not delivered, as Mr. Dodds sub sequently declined having them. Mr. Dodds paid witness for the warrant 3/. 10s., the warrant being liable for the expenses, and the value of the sutn to which the warrant referred being from 71. to 81. The two other warrants were each about the same value. Mr. Wontner 'contended that there was no case against his client, who had been out upon bail during the whole of the proceedings. The defendant was committed for trial. KENSINGTON. Yesterday four gentlemen, who were described in the police-sheet as Charles Guthrie, surgeon, No. 4, Berkeley-street, Berkeley-square ; Lawrence Brock, surgeon, No. 28, Bury-street, St. James's ; Frederick M'Donogh, No. 16, Great Marylehone-street, Port land-place ; and Michael Rodolph Ill‘Dermott, No. 57, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, were brought before Mr. G. Clive, the sitting Magistrate (with whom was Mr. T. Paynter), charged by Inspector Morgan, T division, " with being on Wormholt Scrubs, in the parish of Hammersmith, for some un lawful purpose, and supposed to fight a duel." Inspector Morgan stated, that while on duty at the s tation-house, Brook-green, Hammersmith, about half- past eight o'clock that morning, he received infor mation that a duel was on the point of being fought on Wormholt Scrubs, Shepherd's Bush, and he imme diately despatched Sergeants Kelly and Bevan, with a number of constables, to the spot to prevent it, and take the parties into custody. Thomas Kelly, T 8, deposed, that, in accordance with the directions of his Inspector, he went that morning, between eight and nine o'clock, to the Scrubs, with Sergeant Bevan and others. On enter ing the Scrbs he saw two cabs standing there, in one of which was the defendant Brock, and the other was empty. H e a ft erwar d s saw t wo or three per sons upon the embankment of the Atmospheric Railway, which runs on the east side of the Scrubs. Two of the persons were the defendants, M'Donogh and Guthrie. Witness then went on to the em bankment, accompanied by constable Bristow, T, 109, and inquired of M‘Donogh what he was doingsthere, who replied that he was a Director of the Railway Company. Witness, however, believing from the mo tions of the party that they contemplated fighting a due], took Mr. NlSDonogh into custody. Witness afterwards found a, key, which Mr. M'Donogh told him at the station-house belonged to a case of pistols which was in one of the cabs. Henry Bevan, T 3, deposed to taking the defen dnMr. M`D ermott, into custody. In a cab which Saergteant Kelly t o ld him Mr. APDermott had got out of, he found the mahogany pistol-case now pro duced. On opening it afterwards in the station-house, witness found i n i t t w o duelling-pistols, &c. (The pist o l s were t h en shown to the Magistrates.) Bristow, fendants, M essrs. G ut h r i e and Brock, into custody, T 90, deposed to taking the other two de and, finding on them a variety of surgical instruments, lint, and oth er d ress i ngs , &e. Mr. Csavt then asked Mr. M‘Donogh if he wished to make any the police aga i nst h i m an d his friends ? Mr. MDon 4 observations relative to the evidence of ogh replied that what the police had stated was quite correct. The affair was over. Mr. I l PDermott said if the police had been only ten minute s l ater, t h e a ffair would have been ove r , and all parties returned home. Mr. Guthrie said all he knew of the affair was that about three o ' c l oc k th a t morning he heard a knock a t the door of hi s residence, and as be was dressing, his The defendant in this care was Mr. Grove, the Greenwich Police Magistrate, who had held the plain tiff to bail for perjury, alleged to have been committed by him in giving evidence before defendant in a case of complaint against a pawnbroker. The Grand Jury at the Central Criminal Court threw out the bill, and the plaintiff brought an action against defendant for false imprisonment, which was tried before Mr. Baron Alderson at the Assizes for the county of Kent, when the plaintiff had been nonsuited, on the ground that the plaintiff had not given the notice of action required by the 53d section of the 2d and 3d Victoria, cap. 51, and that the venue had been laid in Kent instead of in Middlesex, as required by the Act. A rule nisi to set aside the nonsuit had been granted, on the ground, that as the Magistrate had no juris diction in cases of perjury, he was not entitled to any notice at all ; and that, as he was not acting under the Metropolitan Police Act in committing plaintiff, he had received all the notice required by the Act of 20 George 11. and 10 George IV. Mr. THESIGER now appeared to show cause against the rule, and contended that Magistrates had juris diction in cases of perjury, and quoted several autho rities in support of his argument. If that was the case, then the defendant was acting under the provi sions of the Metropolitan Police Act, was entitled to the notice required, and the non-suit was perfectly right. Mr. BODKIN followed on the same side. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in support of the rule said that the action had been brought for a false im prisonment on two occasions, one when he was first committed, until he should give bail to come up before the Magistrate on the 6th August, and the second for a false imprisonment on the 6th August. On the first occasion, there had been nu charge made against the plaintiff, no witne sses h a d b een ca ll e d , an d th e Magis tratedany chargetakenupon ba h N i , i i i i l l s g elf to remand the plaintiff without had If, under t u a n th d ha e a r bte t a h st o h s ce e e o rp . " r cm Court os u u, rtth s t e ll .e l o c u e cl s do , plaintiffl e h lha e e a n vhe have vdei made sb ee a he g hanr a a g e i dnn appliedosdt h h ii doubt him. There was nothing in the Metropolitan Police Act giving the Magistrate jurisdiction •, he had none; he Gould not have been acting under the provisions of the Act, and, therefore, he was not entitled to notice. No Metropolitan Magistrate who was •fit for his office could have imagined that he was acting under the Metropolitan Police Act in committing a person against whom no charge was made for further exami nation. This was a most extraordinary power for a Magistrate to assume. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE — The entry of the pro ceedings in the books of the Police Court is, that there was a holding of Hazeldine to bail on complaint that he had been guilty of perjury. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL apprehended that the Magistrate could not legalise his acts by making such an entry in his books. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Do you assume that in every case it is necessary a formal complaint should be made before a Magistrate. The Solacti GENER AL apprehended it was neces sary. _ Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Suppose a Magistrate sees a person picking a pocket in Court, he may surely order that person into custody ? Lord DENMAN—The Magistrate may make the complaint himself. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that in this case no charge had been made, no witnesses had been exa mined in the presence of the prisoner; but, because the Magistrate thought be had been guilty of perjury, the Magistrate had committed him. He denied that Jus tices of the Peace had jurisdiction in cases of perjury, and that therefore the notice required by 2 and 3 Vic toria was not essential in the present case. The point was whether the action ought to have been brought under the statute 2d and 3d Victoria, or under the statutes of Geo. 11. He contended that the plaintiff was right in bringing this action under the statutes of Geo. 11., that the nonsuit was wrong, and that the rule for a new trial must be made absolute. Mr. PLATT followed on the same side. The worthy MAGISTRATE then inquired of Inspec tor Morgan if there were other parties concerned in the affair ? Morgan replied that there were, but they were not in custody. Mr. CLIVE asked if he had reason to believe that either Mr. M'Donogh, or Mr. M‘Dermott were principals or seconds? Morgan said Mr. M‘Dermott was principal, and Mr. M'Donogh was his second. Mr. CLIVE, having further asked if Inspector Mor gan was acquainted. with the names of the other par ties, who replied in the negative, directed him to apply for warrants against them immediately on his ascertaining who they were. Messrs. Guthrie and Brock were then discharged, and the other two defendants having entered into the required sureties, the whole party left the Court. It was stated by some person in the Court that the quarrel occurred on Monday night at the Sabloniere Hotel, Leicester-square, when blows passed. A fair lady was stated to have been the cause. SUGDEN v. BLACKBURNE. A considerable sensation was excited in the Hall of the Courts on Saturday, by the strong and uncourteous terms in which the Chancellor commented upon a de sion pronounced by the Master of the Rolls in an ap peal from his Honour's judgment, brought before his Lordship. The case was briefly this :—The plaintiff (Walsh) filed a possessory bill, praying for an injunc tion against the defendant (M‘Kenna) and others, to restrain them from plying certain ferries on the River Liffey. The Master of the Rolls has granted the ap plication for the injunction, with costs. In the progress of the discussion the Chancellor is reported to have used the following strong expressions : LORD CHANCELLOR—" You put in your bill a title upon which you never could sustain an injunction; nor can I collect anything from your bill which would authorise the Court to interfere in the way you re quire. It is the most naked bill I have seen ; I don't know that I ever saw such a pleading. You cannot (said his Lordship, addressing the counsel for the plain tiff) ask me to maintain your case and support this in junction, in any thing you did not bring forward your self. Indeed, the case is presented to the Court in a most extraordinary manner. I must repeat that I cannot see how this injunction can be supported. If I were to allow this order to stand, the defendant would be without remedy."—Dublin Evening Mail. MORE CONCESSIONS to CANADA. To the great advantage which the Canadians will derive from the modification of the Corn-law we re ferred in our last, and now we have to call public at• tention to one equally, if not more serviceable to them, with regard to the Provision-laws. About the former there may be as yet some doubt, but such cannot be the case with reference to the latter, as the following Treasury order will show : " Office of Committee of Privy Council of Trade. " The . Lords of the Committee of Privy Council of Trade have had under their consideration the Report of the Commissioners of Customs, dated 29th ult., re lative to the duty on hams smoked and dried Canada, from salted pork imported from the United States—and I am directed to acquaint you, for the information of the Commissioners of the Customs, that upon considering the whole of the circumstances before them in this case, my Lords are of opinion that the hams in question ought to be admitted at the duty of 3s. 6d. per cwt. (Signed) "J. MACGREGOR. " Whitehall, Oct. 31, 1842." All that it will be necessary for us to say with re ference to this order, is, that it will throw another trade into the hands of the Canadians for a time, as 4s. 6d. per cwt. in the duty will be saved by importing this cured meat from Canada instead of from the United States, and this sum will be more than cicinbly safficient to counterbalance the additional expense of freight.—Pilot. " How ARE THE CHINESE TO PAT ?"—The Chi nese Government have given England their " promise to pay" 21,000,000 dollars as the price of peace be tween this country and the Celestial Empire. The question now comes, and will be asked by many, " How are they to pay?" The Government of that immense empire have been represented for years past as very hard pressed for means to satisfy the ordinary calls upon their exchequer. They will, consequently, be extraordinarily "hard pressed" to liquidate in the course of three years this extra ordinary and recent addition to their debts of 21,000,000 dollars. The Government of so vast a country must necessarily be an expensive affair, swarming as it does with its hundreds of millions. Du Halde apparently, however, without the means of exact correctness, calculated the total expenses per annum of the Imperial Government at about 200,000,000 -taels, or considerably above 50,000,000/. sterling, of which only 10,000,000 reached Pekin, the rest being expended in the management and regulation of the various and tremendous provinces of the empire. The sources from which these sums are derived are— a land•tax, for, which the landowners, and not the tenants, are held responsible ; a tax on salt, which is a Government monopoly ; taxes on imports and ex ports ; taxes on the transit of goods within the empire ; and certain revenues derived from tea and alum, which are likewise monopolies to a limited extent. Ginseng is another monopoly of the Emperor, tickets or permits being given to those employed in the col lection of that root, and severe penalties being enacted against all who presume to gather it without the license. Several mines of metals likewise afford a revenue ; and there is a river in Yun-nan, called Kin-shae, or " the golden-sanded," some portion of the produce of which is paid to Government. In the Pekin Gazette of October 11, 1833, there appeared an article that showed how much the serious attention of the Chinese authorities had been turned to some mode of increasing its regular income for the pay ment of the ordinary expenses of Government. This article was the result of deliberations between the several supreme boards and that particular one that has the especial charge of the revenue. They had formed a committee of ways and means upon the subject, with the view to increase the income for cur rent expenses, because during the last years the outlay had exceeded the receipts by more than 30,000,000 of taels. An expedient was afterwards adopted of raising money by selling the rank of kin-jin, which qualifies for public employment, and, by the funda mental law of tne country, should be attainable by no other means than those of learning and talent. "The present Government (says Mr. Davis) of the country is evidently hard pressed for means, and would be distressed by any unusual draught on its resources." This 21,000,000 of dollars may be considered rather an "unusual draught," and the interesting question remains to be answered, " How are the Chinese to pay ?" WIGAN.—About dusk on the evening of Friday last, a very extraordinary and lamentable accide n t befel Mr. Henry Latham, agent of the Wigan Sav ings' Bank, which has been attended with fatal conse quences. - We understand that the unfortunate de ceased, having been engaged in some business which he usually transacted on a market day, had drank rather too freely, and had wandered through the gates (which are generally open) under the Commercial Hall, and traversed the long bottom room (probahly 100 feet long) of the right wing of the buildings, at the top of which is a door way about three feet from the ground floor. He had passed through this door-way, and thence fallen head long into a stream of hot-water, which flows down a passage about four feet wide, from Tennant's mill, in which he was found after a lapse, it is supposed, of ten minutes, in a state of utter insensibility. Although the hot water flowing at this particular place is never known to be more than three inches deep, the de ceased's legs and arms, and almost the whole of his body, were most dreadfully scalded ; showing that his body had obstructed the stream, and thereby the water accumulated and flowed over his person, his head only escaping. He expired on the following evening in great pain.—Manchester Guardian. THE UNEMPLOYED. —We grieve to say that the number of the unemployed is still rising. Last week it was 7,0 90 , this week it is 7,372; showing an in- Advertiser of Saturday. crease of 350.—Paisley PURCELL For the just appreciation of the poetry of Purcell's music, we must look to posthumous praise, a kind of late generosity, a sort of tardy justice, which even malice renders to the illustrious dead when they are as insensible to applause or censure as they were once indifferent. Dr. Burney observes that, "if a parallel were to be drawn between Purcell and Ray popular composer of a different country, reasons might be as signed for supposing him superior to any other great and favourite contemporary musician in Europe. ' However, although in his own country he was not in his own lifetime at the pinnacle of all English musicians, a traditionary anecdote (with which the writer of this article was made acquainted in Italy,) will sufficiently show that his fame had spread to the Continent, and procured him the most extravagant admiration on the part of one whose opinion was " worth a whole theatre of others ! " Corelli, having seen some of Purcell's trios in the possession of an English nobleman then travelling through Italy, was so struck by them, that he conceived the romantic idea of visiting their author in his native land (a journey by nomeans so facile or pleasant en route in those days), where he unfor tunately arrived three days after the death of our Orpheus. Single-hearted and single-minded in the ob;ect of his journey, Corelli exclaimed, " Henry Purcell dead ! then I have no further business in this land ;" and, turning on his heel, departed for his home. Many compositions have been ascribed after his death to Purcell (for instance, " Mad Tom," of which celebrated seem the chief and best portions were in existence before he was born); while, on the other hand, it is to be feared that he has been defrauded of many others which bear internal evidence of his mas terly hand. Notwithstanding all that has been said in favour of Locke's pretensions to the music in Macbeth, the suspicion that Purcell had more than a little to do with it is still strong and supportable. But this is not a place for a controversy o► the kind. Henry Pur cell was born in 1658, and died in 1695 ; conse quently was about thirty-seven years of age, a term of existence which has, to a curious extent, awaited many a glorious genius. Purcell excels all other mu sicians (not even excepting his mighty follower, Han del) in the rigid application of his music to the sense of the words; for which reason we regret to see his Te Deum laid aside for even the grand Dettingen. In the passage, " Holy, holy," &c., nothing can surpass the devotional grandeur and simplicity of his treat ment of the sublime words. He was buried in 'West minster Abbey, where a monument was raised to his memory. _ _ _ The following humorous rebus, in Latin rhymes, was written in praise of Purcell, by a person named Tomlinson, and an English version of it, set to music in the old p9pular catch style, by a composer of the name of Lenton We subjoin the original and translation : Galli marita, par tritico seges, Prcenomen est ejus, dat chromatii leges ; Intrat cognomen blunditiis cati, Exit eremi in cedibus stati ; Expertum effectum omnes admirentur ; Quid merent poette ? ut bene calcentur. A mate to a cock, and corn tall as wheat, Is his Christian name, who in music's complete ; His surname begins with the grace of a cat, And concludes with the house of a hermit ; note that. His skill and performance each auditor wins, But the poet deserves a good kick on the shins ! This last line is severe, and evidently points ht some individual poet ; and in candour we must say that, if by this passage an allusion be made to " glorious John," it is perfectly just; for King Arthur, with its chivalrous and romantic subject, has been scurvily treated by Dryden.—lllustrated News. INTERESTING VISIT OF H. M. S. CURACOA, TO PITCAIRN'S ISLAND, EMIO, &c. On the 10th July, 1841, the Curacoa took her de parture from Valparaiso, to visit the St. Leo Islands, and after touching at Callao, proceeded direct to Pit cairn's Island, which she reached on the 18th Aug. The inhabitants of this island have increased in num ber to 114, the oldest person on the island being the wife of Christian, the chief of the mutineers, and the last survivor of those Otaheitians who sailed in the Bounty from Otaheite to Pitcairn's Island, and he perfectly recollects the landing of Captain Cook at Otaheite. On the 29th of August the Curacoa pro ceeded to the adjacent island of Emio, where the Queen and her principal chiefs were residing A few days after she returned the Captain's visit, accompa nied by her husband the King, and the young Prince and Princesses. After her Majesty had walked ,round the decks, she was conducted to the Captain's cabin, where a sumptuous en tertainment had been provided for her. What ap peared to strike her fancy most was the appearance of the marines and of the marine drummer, with whose able performance she was so pleased, that she re quested as a particular favour that he might be al lowed to play during the time of dinner, and any re laxation from his labours was immediately followed by an exclamation from her Majesty in the Otaheitian tongue of " More drum, more drum." Pomare; the Queen, is a very large and tall woman, of appa rently thirty years of age, and has a pleasing and good humoured countenance : her husband, the King, appears to be younger. From Emio, the Curacoa proceeded to the Sandwich Islands, anchoring in Ka rakakoa Bay, in the Island of Whyke, on the 24th of September. It was here that that celebrated but unfortunate circumnavigator Cook lost his life, and the only monument which marks the spot on which he fell is the stump of an old cocoa-nut tree, with a sheet of copper nailed on it some years ago by her Majesty's ship Imogene. A large party of the officers visited the famous volcano of Kirawea. The Curacoa stayed at Honolulu until the 14th October, when she sailed for Monterey, on the coast of Upper California; previous, however, to her departure, Captain Jones was honoured by a visit from the King, who had been absent at an adjoining Island. During the greater part of the time of the Curacoa's' stay he came on board without pomp or parade of any sort, in a large double war canoe, attended merely by his secretary and the governor of the town and fort. He was dressed in a kind of half military blue surtout coat, uniform cap, and is a man of apparently thirty-five years of age. The Governor is the same who accompanied the late unfortunate King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands to England, and who returned with their bodies in her Majesty's ship Blonde to Oahee. He is a man of a shrewd and inquisitive mind, and of a superior address to even the King himself. On the sth of November the Curacoa arrived at Monterey, a small settlement under the Governor of Mexico. The object of her visit to this so little frequented port was to inquire into the nature of certain grievances sustained by some of the English settlers, in having been imprisoned by the Mexican authorities under the plea of attempting a rebellion in the country. Some of the officers enjoyed themselves much during their stay, in bear, deer, and duck shooting, with which kind of game this fine coun try abounds. Several of the English and Scotch settlers, proud to see a vessel of war of their own country in this out-of-the-way corner of the world, were not slow in offering their best accommodations to the Captain and officers of the ship, and the Mexican authorities went so far as to get up a ball on the occasion ; and in the hastily decorated ball-room were to be seen various mottoes, complimentary to the English nation. On the 16th November, the Curacoa sailed for San Blas, in Mexico ; and from that time to the end of May follow ing was employed on the Mexican Coast, receiving on board treasure destined for England, to the amount of 1,900,000 dollars, with which she sailed from Sarrßlas for England on the 3d of June, encountering on the night of the 9th a tremendous hurricane of wind, which caused her the loss of a complete suit of sails, blown from the bolt ropes. On the 28th July she arrived at Valparaiso, having been absent more than twelve months on her interesting trip, and having re victualed sailed for Rio on the 6th August, from which she sailed on her homeward, voyage on the 21st September, and anchored at Spithead on Wed nesday last, the 16th inst.—Portsmouth Herald. THESIMPLON.—The D e b a t s co n t a ins a letter from a municipal - councillor of Montpellier, pointing out the present dangerous state of the route of the Sim plon :—"I look on this magnificent work," says the writer, " as one of the greatest that has emanated from the conception of man, and which has not a little contributed to render illustrious a reign fruitful in great events. Whilst the northern declivity of the road of the Simplon is in a perfezt state of preserva tion, the southern part, from its entrance into the States of the King of Sardinia, is in such a state of ruin that if a speedy remedy be not applied, it will be impracticable for any kind of carriage, and will not be without danger for even beasts of burden. Ido not write to you on mere report. What Istate I beheld myself, having crossed that part of the Alps in the early part of September. Both before arriving at Isolha, and at the other side of that place, the torrents have burst the dikes, swept away a part of the road, and it was at the risk of a hundred times dashing my carriage to pieces from making long circuits on the side of the mountain, through rocks and stones, that I could ar rive at Domo d'Osola. The repairs necessary for the purpose of rendering the road passable would at pre sent he comparatively trifling, but there is every rea son to fear that the autumnal rains and the melting of the snows will so much aggravate the evil, that the Government will hesitate at the expense that will be then required, and that this magnificent road will be come absolutely impracticable, to the great prejudice of commerce, and of those travellers who admire noble works It is asked how it happens that the Sardinian Government, whose roads are so fine, and which executes such admirable works at the passage of the Bochetta—in fact, a direct communication be tween Genoa and Turin, should abandon to the devas lations of the torrents which descend from the Sirop ton, a road not long since so excellent." LLOYD'S SH7PPING. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals at Mauritius—William Bar ber, Man thorpe, Aug. 22d, from London ; Neponset, Rowell, 24th, from Sumatra ; Samson, Browne, 30th, from the Cape; New Express, Hewitt, 31st, from Ascen- Rion ; Rachel, Harnon, 30th, from Marseilles ; Ram bler, Hutchinson, Sept. 1, from Bordeaux ; Lady M'Naghten, Doutty, Sept. 2, from Calc utta ; Ex mouth, Cook, 3d, from Calcutta ; Vanguard, Gar wood, 4th, from Calcutta ; Arabella, Jackson, sth, from London ; Faith, Mattison, 6th, from Diego; Garcia, Leon, Bonnet, and Concurrent, from Bour bon to Calcutta; Nautilus, Thomas, 10tb, from London. Departures from Mauritius—Levan t Packet, Batto, Sept. 8, to Bourbon ; Mary, Wakeh am, 3d, to Sey chelles ; Catherine Hall, 4th, to Madras; Zenobia, Sutherland, 6th, to , Batavia ; Allerton, Chatterton,oon to Liverpool; Agnes Ewing, Reed , 6th ; Bth ßang Luminy, 7th, to Marseilles ; Briton , Davidson, to London. Arrivals at Madras—H.M.S. Siren , Sept. 24, from Bombay ; Neptune, Ferris, 25th ; Ocean Que en, Van Zuilecom, 26th, from London ; Princess Royal, 29th, from Moulmein; General Kyd, Oct. 4, from Londo Departure from Madras—Sering,apatatn, Hopkins' Oct. '2, for Calcutta. Arrival at Bombay—William Bryson, M`Lean , Oct. 2, from Mauritius. Departures from Bombay—London, Johnstone, Oct. 4 ; Oriental, sth, to China. don, Arrivals at Kedgeree, Bengal—Viscount Sand Sept. 21, from London ; Seppings , from Hobart Town ; Albatros, from Bombay ; Mary Ridley, 23d, from London ; Argyll, 26th, from Gree nock ; Vo" guard, Walker, 28th, from Cette; Trident, from Bourbon; Phantom, Miller, from Launceston, So gapore, and Penang; Monarch, from Bombay. Arrival at Sourabaya—Ann, WAlpine;from Chins, and it was expected would be condemned. Arrival at Batavia—Chusan, from China to London. STATE OF TRAME• ::: .. (From the Manchester Guardian of theyesterdaq. , . MANCHESTER.— The accounts of the settlement ° _ dispute with China, which reached this town th e ou r . day evening, causedconsiderable excitemen t mount of bu sh . ket yesterday ; and, though no great a for most ness was done, higher prices were obtain ed kinds of manufactured goods, and for se ule d i the of yarn suitable for the eastern markets. indee , . 1 so ex din _i, stocks of both goods and yarn are now work.i_uro. lo w, and the manufacturers are so generally to order, that anmaterial increase of demand is ee hn effect IV° the market. to produce adecidedly favourable e market. N 1 21 ; in ma ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARxrr, 31oNDA4, - ° ' nei —There has been very little change in the fl been market for some weeks past ; the demand 1135 Plea quite equal to that of former weeks, and the n obtained about the same. The wool market hot dull, and prices stationary. _ THE LATE EARTHQUAICE CAPE HAY TIEN. were The newspaper accounts of the earthquak e n ot but little, if any, exaggerated. There is literlli. the a whole tenantable house left in the place; and; rths 9,000 or 12,000 inhabitants not less than three-,ea is are beneath the ruins. Here and ther e a r°°!,l : or s occupied in the old town, but most of t he survl live in a little valley called the Passette , running nor rallel to the town, in huts having neither windows, and most of them inferior to the arers rst ce °ll „ t ; houses on our farms. Of suffering, however, _lex the among the sick, there is little, as vegetable feeubna. chief absolute necessary of life, is cheap al 3 c l a - dant; that is, it may be had for the gathennfc; And of grief I saw none. The people aPPe,a r44l _ l , be be as gay and cheerful as if no misfortune en",.. 0 fallen them. Ido not consider this indifferen' it to sat. characteristic of the people. I believe generally the case where a calamity is ta ive v r aff Every man sees that his neighbour is as I'7:fa. as himself. No eye is directed with esPe e 'i n a. 25 pathy to him • and he soon finds that vo"-ibis, superfluous and " won't pay." And not will up but, in the excitement consequent to the breakl i ttic, of all conventional arrangements, civil and dots all w all external restraint is removed, and each In comes as bad as he dares. Licentiousness bas_,l6:ar increased, since the earthquake. Almost eve' ) at appeared to drink largely of gin, taffa, or other spirit, and many a man "of standing" keeP s a c : o ofe bine openly, who has not taken the trouble te,rbu his wife from the ruins, and give her a decen" ore- Marriage, however, has never been a favottrito_Ara mony on the island. Some two or three h' ee dail couples were married during the panic which ° lee e ver the earthquake ; but this is now over. Did ? remark that intense fear created intense 'l v a ll Within a few minutes after the first shock, 'I all the the survivors were raging for water, and fea s t th O f fountains in the place but one were buried,, ried, gling over this was described to me as like that' brutes in similar circumstances. Many l'e,r ea h r ;ried instances are related of tenacity of life in tu e f th e alive. I was told by an English merchant, °De° g irl a iittie most respectable men in the place, that after the or was taken out of the ruins alive nine day s earthquake. She was asked if as she w hungr y °r thirsty. She said no. If she was in any, ri 3 u o i sbe the bruise, &e. She said no—she felt very vial;' / ) died the next day. A young man who haa the sent at Port-au-Prince returned seven daYs ,paibere earthquake. He inquired after the varieus„ /13 ,," e at to of Ibis family. Nobody had seen them. 12 , e re . otber work among the ruins of his house, found e."' an d be and sister dead, but took his father out aliv e ' Cape is living now. It will be many years before_..nue, Haytien regains its former mercantile inerer;va- No movement has yet been made towards I ta na store tion. There is little money, no credit , and plaea houses, consequently only a retail trade in at present.—Nantucket Inqu' er zr • —We are r ojSheer, In e NOVEL BY THR AUTAOR or ' F u tt,liciy; NEW ' 8v Paul . Pry," " Little Pedlingto n2 , l s ze . filer d q o u s e t s r t y e , d ,, tobystajtoehtnhaptoolei:Trisgeo.sar osl i n 3 vols;,P ro t libraries. Marlborough-street, . , i s Mr. d c o this u r d n a y h a . b s y alsior. Colburn, of all tile and may now be had at d th e following popular works of fictioni:ll—stlP. S Club, by M. H H. 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