The Sun. — London, England, 1842-09-22 00:00:00

WATER COMPAN!Es TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. take the opPortunity of directing your attention, and also thatof your readers, to some few facts connected with the supply of water to -a great' number of, the inhabitants of this part of the town, and other parts, by the Lambeth Water Company. In the early part of last week I received a notice from the aforesaid Company to the effect that, from and after Michaelmas Day next, the sum'Of four shillings per annum would be added to the present amount paid for water to the Lambeth Company. The present payment, I beg to mention, is 11.45. for an eight roomed house, making, 'with the pddition, 11. Bs. In an adjoining parish, for a house with the same number of rooms, of the same rent, but a diffe rence of only 21. in the rating, less than two years ago ouly 1/. was the demand, showing an in creas e in that time of nearly forty per cent. Sortie time sine the Vauxhall Company offered to supply water at a less sum than the Lambeth COrnpany, and even to find pipe from the main to the cistern for an agreement to have the water from them for three years, and a number of their customers availed theznselves of the reduc !lon ; but as regards myself; havingbeen supplied u y the Lambeth Company fbr ten years with good water, at a reasonable and fair price, I did riot think I should be acting fairly in leaving the old Company for the new. I mention this fact, because since that period there has been an un !lerstanding, entered into by the Lambeth, Vaux- and Southwark Water Companies, to supply water at the same price—thus making the old customers of the Lambeth Company the victims 91agreed monopoly. _ - • - Should not have troubled you, Mr. Editor, 1 2 this subject, but as it will affect the pockets tOtrie thousands, I think it necessary that the Mention of the public should be called to the VIA; in case it may be the intention of other tivotinter- C ompanies to resort to this unjust extic tax f or- the payment, I suppose, of the Income -120. per cent. C/t1 their shares, charging the public at least to pay three. JUSTIcE AND MERCY. To THE EDITOIZ: OF THE St.LV. philosophy of new.,y,ip.r,: . . rally and because it could not do otherwise, even if it would, exhibits the most wonderful display of antt.gonistic stru g gles of mind ever yet mani fested to the world. The wisdom, the wit, toe fully, the shrewdness, the cunning, the plausible ness' the truthfulness and the e rrors , t h e tl icz3 and fictions of the Senate, the Bar, the Cabinet, the Diplomacy, the Camp, the Church, &c., are laid open and commented upon with all the fresh ness and vigour of extemporaneous skill and effort. Trade and aaric}ilture in all their bear ings; the sciences and' the arts; the new inven tions and discoveries of the ingenions, the per severing, and the profound; the very accidents, the ordinary events and the most extraordinary of human life, or of whatever concerns it, are all here displayed in the philosophy of newspapers. It stoops to the lowest, it rises to the highest concernments of man. Never before did the world contemplate such a spectacle! All the wisdom as well as folly of the past are made to pass in review before us, and to be subservient to the well-being of the future. Your Correspon dent, " H. P.," has been a reader of The Sun too long not to know, that if in its leading • articles it erred at any time, it so erred in the highest company,-and under no inferior sanction. 02 Dugald Stewart's powers and character as a philosopher it is almost pragmatical at 'the pre sent day to pass an opinion; but it may be right and necessary to remark of many of our ablest men and profoundest reasoners, that in pursuing their usual paths of close, severe, and intricase reasoning, they have too often preferred - fur their guide expediency to justice; and that statesmen and other public characters have as often been but too prone to follow them in what is evil, and perversely to turn aside from them when they pursue the right way. All that " H. P." meant to imply was—that, to do justly at the present moment is the most simple plan, and certain way to future good. He has been. for upwards of fifty years an earnest observer of men as , well as reader of books, and he is thoroughly convinced that most of the mistakes which men make, and most of the evils which they inflict upon one_ another, arise from their I A HOUSEIIOLDER. St. John's, Lambeth, Sept. 21, 1842. PAROCHIAL ASSESSMENT ACT , TO ITOR O T HE EDF THE SUN. r 'llle-valuln th e early part of last year, 1841, a atioe reside. pursuancee 0 w as II d ftl parish in which I of " the Act 6th and 7th to rvo'ul• ce 'lL 9 ) passed 19th of August, 1836, • , - zt , d.e parochial assessments." ../n e x • • arhinine• the re-valuation, and comparing it wan the mussio ti:.f . 'on • • -Circulars issued by the Poor-law ners, containing instructions to carry twye provisions of the Parochial Assessment Act ro' operation , I felt persuaded that the re-valua as not made coriformably to law, and, as a h' e l - luence, that assessments made under it eced .be ille ga l , as well as partial and unequal. I r trvlon , ore, as a su ff erer, endeavoured to obtain a .'hereof, at the hands of the parishioners t l i t i the first place ; fitilin,g in this I appealed under e'6th clause of the said Act to the Justices at re e h ! t Y SeSS.;O O3, who, upon an examination of our I ng saw sufficient reason to quash the rate e a nist which the appeal was laid, the said 6th ase making " such decision (of the Justices) i hiding and conclusive upon the parties, unless b rti Pughed within fourteen days." No objection 1 . (1 914 made to this " decision" within the time ilinited or subsequently, I concluded, accord- A n giY, that I bad obtained the relief applied for. tp. c onclusions, were, however, erroneous, the . • 11 lig Was too good to be given up by the parties Interested and within a month another rate was fade upon p rec i se l y t h e same rentals. This was htlivvith approved by one Magistrate, whose R , „ rates were objected to in the notic e of app ea l, "11(1 s ubsequently by another gentleman residing t ,a. distance, these two Justices acting sep ara t e ly lUlthough :the usual custom,where two appr overs al'e. required, is that they act in each other's Presence), thus virtually rendering nugatory the d ecision": of their brethr en o f th e same b enc h 4trng e bench at petty sessions. To appeal again, and Perhaps go the same round, was useless; a jliiedy must be obtained elsewhere, or the in- Justice must be borne, and I therefore determined t 9 apply to the Poor-law Commissioners, as the contract for this valuation had been made under their authority, in pursuance of the powers ve sted in them by the before-mentioned l Act, Pa r ticularly the 3d clause; and it being stipu,ated 10 this Act, that the valuation to be made und er "'as to have no effect until their appro va l 1 1 , Tr,90f,. and they hating issued precise instruc `*shOW the same was to be made, I again con -9h4ga,tl-tev would at least see that their own in ' t ons 'were complied with before affixing ..elefficialzseat. Besides, I found no individual 111),Latc4 ewlitireetually with irregularities running tia)%. hee,whole parish ; if his own wrong was aritehde*he perhaps cast otherg where t h e Whole an :tindu upon e burden -/ was incorrect, den the Vt4anibJe of the Act quoted states fit is desir- Mile to establish an uniform md " • o e orating." I thought where there was reason to believe a ge ne error prevailed, was precisely the case by which the Legislature had in view to deal with establishing responsible public officers as the conservators of the law. On these grounds, after • fitid)ng a successful appeal to the Magistrates was ,no protection from a repetition of the wrong, I ad,dressed the Commissioners, givin o f g ex amp k s tite unequal op era ti on o f the valuation; in reply they state, " that my very careful and clear statement of the facts would show, sup posing- my figures to b e correct , that some general defect exists iii the valuation referred t o,'' but that the . only provision which the law had masse for correction "was the costly and tr oubles t ime one of appeal." This I bad already exkrienced was no remedy, and I rejoined by Btaying tiai y" general defect" never could, or ought have existed, if an examination had been 11 ) ade, before t h e i r approval had been given, and that the co.rrectness of my " figures" could be ascertained by means within their reach. Upon this the C omm i ss i oners gave me to understand 'feel at by their approval o l a va l uat i on " they only ure that the requirem en t s o f t h e Parochial b4tss' `'sStnent Act, and of their instructions, so far s respe c t s t h e f orm of the documents, have resp ects complied with." N ow , Si r, th i s is the point ' 0 Which I entreat your attention. How many Parishes may have been re-valued under the Act quoted, or how many of them may have a domi anant interest from which Guardians are chosen, n J ustices are attach e d, I h ave no means of wirig ; but I app re h en d some six or seven Irlions are' raised annually by rates , to support t - whole machinery of which the Poor-law ,e ( n mission er s are the heads; and it may, per- ' l alls, be us e f u l f or some of your readers to ham nhtliat these heads only hold themselves respon ie for the correctness of the "form" by which kals enormous sum is collected. Let no Poor rate payer, therefore, conceive that a fi ne b oo k rite gold letters and a great seal, i s any autlie pY for th e correctness o f i ts contents. On the atrary, it will o p erate as an a d ditional bar to s Obtaining relief; if' he feels himself aggrieved, vi ng an official appearance to what may be ti ouglily incorrect, while to th e genera l statis -41 inquirer, and to the public in general, Ivqlnations so conducted must be worthless. am, Sir , • your obedient servant, 19, 1849.. A RATE-PAYER. practical neglect of the rule of " doing unto others as they would that others should do unto them." This sacred rule is justice and mercy united, and reduced to practice. Mercy, without an eye to justice, would be in danger of becom ing foolishness; and justice without mercy would be equally in danger of becoming cruelty. In human concerns justice should ever lean to mercy, and mercy to justice. In the super structure of hudian laws justice should ever be the architect, and in their application mercy should be the directing agent. Try the Corn laws by thi4 observation. Did justice construct them ? Does mercy apply them? Then is it just practically to rob millions in order to attempt to enrich thousands. Then is it merciful to pau perize, to starve, and to agonize the former, for the sake of multiplying the enjoyments and su perfluities of the latter. Try any of our other laws bearing upon the daily necessities of man, by the same observation. Is it just to compel the poor family of the working man, which would fain use that most salutary and nutritious article sugar, to pay eight-pence f or one poun d o f it which they might otherwise get for three half pence? Is it just to put a tax of two shillings and a penny upon a pound of tea, which a poor woman might otherwise get for seven-pence; or a tax of three shillings upon a pound of tobacco, which a poor man might otherwise get for ten pence? Bread is the staff of life to the working man, and he is made to pay sixpence for it, which he ought to have for threepence halfpenny ! Where are justice and mercy to be found in such doings ? Their absence is likely to bring ruin, as it has already brought untold calamity, upon the country. Though a landlord myself, whose scanty living depends entirely on land, I must acknowledge that we landlords are mainly re sponsible for many of the present calamities of the trading population, and that the Government of the country has most tearfully erred and strayed from the paths of justice and mercy in sacrificing the interests of the mercantile and trading to those of the agricultural portions of the community. H. P. I SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEW MARKET SECOND OCTOBER I\IEETING. 1842. Acceptances for the Cesarewitch Stakes—Mus, 9 yrs, Bst 81b—The Shadow, 6 yrs, Bst 71b—Dr. Cains, 5 yrs, Bst 71b--Roscius, 6 yrs, Bst 41b—Ralph, 4 yrs, Bst 41b-- Heslington, 4 yrs, Bst—Thistle , Whipper, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b —Clinker, 6 yrs, 7st 1 llb—Tatrburini, 6 yrs, 7st 101 b Una, 4 yrs, 7st 91b—Arnagill, 4 yrs, 7st 81b—Portrait, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Rhodanthe 5 vrs, 7st 61b—Lord Kel burne's colt, 4 yrs, 7st t lbj—Belissinia, aged, 7st 51b — Quo Minus, 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Florence, 4 yrs, 7st 21b— Buffalo, 4 yrs, 7st—Scalteen, 3 yrs, Est 111b—Vibration, 3 yrs, 6st 91b—Blue Bonnet. 3 yrs (including 101bs extra), 6st 91b—Courtesan colt, 4 yrs, Est 41b—Ma 3 yrs, 6st 31b—Dilbar, 3 yrs, Est 31b—Lucy Banks, 3 yrs, 6st 31b—Pbarold, 3 yrs, sst 131b—The Gleaner, 3 yro, sst 101b—Bizarre filly, 3 yrs, sst 81b—Arcanus, 3 yrs, sst 41b—Anspacb, 3 yrs, sst. HOUGII'I ON MEETING. 1842. 'Tlitt of the MANUFACTURING ( , ) , 1 ) '+:;Qh DISTRICTS. Acceptances for the Cambridgeshire Stakes—Charles the Twelfth, 6 yrs, lOst 21b—Vulcan, 5 yrs, 9st 31b- Flambeau, 6 yrs, Sst 131b—Dr. Caius, 5 yrs, Bst 10lb— The Shadow, 6 yrs, Bst 101b—Bob Peel, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b —Retriever, 6 yrs, Bst 101b—Ralph, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Mus, aged, Bst lb—Roscius, 6 yrs, Bst 5113 Garry Owen, 5 yrs, Bst 51b—Monceda, 6 yrs, Bst 21b—Eringo, 4 yrs, Bst 21b—Canwlino, 6 yrs, Bst 21b —Wee Willie, aged, 7st 121b—Revel, 4 yrs, 7st 121b—Galen, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b Una, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Belissitna, aged, ist 1011—Prince Caradoc, 4 yrs, 7st 91b—Clinker, 6 yrs, ist 91b—Knight of the Whistle, 4 yrs, 7st :lb—Rhodanthe, 5 yrs, 7st 71b —Ermengardis, 4 yrs, ist 71 b — Canadian, 3 yrs, 7st rib Forester; 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Cabrera. 3 yrs, 7st 71b—Bi1— lingliam, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—Quo Minus, 4) rs, 7st 51b—The Genius, 5 yrs, 7st 51b—Fireaway, 3 yrs, 7st 31b—Help mate, 6 yrs, 7st 31b—Policy, 3 yrs, 7st 31b—Lady Adult*, 3 yrs, 71b 11b—Florence, 4 yrs, 7st 11b—Melior, 3 yrs, 6st 121b—Master Thomas, 3 yrs, Est 121 b—Petulance colt, 3 yrs, 6st 121b--I-am-not-aware, aged, 6st 121 b Cecil, 4 yrs, • 6st 121b—Vibration, 3 yrs, Est 111 b Courtesan colt'4 yrs, 6st 101b—Nuncio, 3 yrs, 6st 91b— Lucy Banks, 3 yrs, Est 91b—Image, 4 yrs,. 6st 71b— Hawk (Irish), 3 yrs, 6st 71b—Recompense, 3 yrs, 6st 71b—Whistle Binkie, 3 yrs, Est 71b—The Gleaner (Rosh colt), 3 yrs, 6st 41b—Solomon, 3 yrs, 6st 21b—The Con queror, 3 yrs, Est 21b—Busk mare, 5 yrs, 6st—Topsail, 3 yrs, 6st—Endyinion, 3 yrs, sst 71b.—The rest de clared last night. SALE OF LORD WESTMINSTER'S STUD, BY MESSRS. TATTERSALL, AT EATON HALL FARM, ON TUESDAY. Morning Star, 32gs.— Launeelot, 500 gs.— Festival (covered by Pantaloon), 30gs—Honoria, 91gs—Brocade, 130gs.—Puff; 27gs.—Daphne,29gs.—Sultan mare, 27gs. —Alorea; 200gs.—Bevival, 115gs.—Polyxen, 65gs.— Sleight-of-Hand, 6 yrs, 200gs.—Van Amburgh, 4 yrs, 90gs—Satirist, 4 yrs, 255gs—Auckland, 3 yrs, 60gs.— Candahar, 3 yrs, 155gs.—William de Fortibus, 3 yrs, 155gs.—Sheffield, 3 yrs, 120gs.—Bona Fide, 3 yrs, 100 gs. —lrony, 3 yrs, 33gs.—c (yearling) by . Pantaloon, out of Festival, 31gs.—ch c (yearling) brother to Satirist, 140;5.--ch f (yearling) own sister to Cardinal Puff; 110 gs.—ch f (yearling) by Pantaloon, out of Honoria, 45gs.— colt foal by Pantaloon, out of Festival, 35gs.—colt foal own brother to Cardinal Puff, Sgs.— colt foal by Pan taloon out of Pasquinade, 32gs.—filly foal by Pantaloon, out of Shiraz,2sgs.—filly foal by Touchstone, out of Bro cade, 56gs. Yesterday being St. Matthew's day the Lord Mayor accompanied by the Sheriffs, Aldermen, and Go vernors of the Royal Hospital, attended Divine Ser vice at Christ Church, Newgate-street, where a sermon vas preached by the Rev. W. Harrison, M.A., who is one of the classical masters in the above insti tution, and domestic Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. Immediately after the termi nation of the service his Lordship proceeded to the Great Hall,where orations, upon the benefits derivable from the hospital, were delivered in Greek, Latin, English, and French, by the four senior scholars on the rota for entering Cambridge. They then recited eight poems on che following subjects :—Alexander at the tomb of Achilles, Saul at Eudon, the Birth of the Prince of Wales, Alfred the Great, the Power of Poetry, the Repeated Preservation of the Queen, and an elegaic ode upon the death of Nelson ; after which his Lordship expressed himself in the most complimentary manner to the several young gentlemen. There has just died at Paris a woman, aged 103 years, called Madame Langlai, who has left many children behind her, the youngest of whom is 78 years of age. These examples of longevity, quoted m several newspapers, do not approach the two Eng. iish centenaires, Thomas Parr and Henry Jenkins, one of whom lived to 152 years, the other to 169. There is also another in England, John Forester, of Cumberland, who died aged 138 years, leaving a daughter 104 years old. The abolition of slavery and dealing in slaves in the East and in the States of Barbary is being strenu ously promoted by the Consulates of Tunis, Tripoli, and other ports of the Levant. In order to second the en deavours of these gentlemen, Mr. Richardson, editor of the Malta Times, has formed at Malta an Abolitionist Society, which reckons already a great number of mern berS. Several meetings have been held, and at one, on the 24th ult., at Malta, the clergy were invited to concur in the praiseworthy object of the Society. Votes of thanks were agreed to the Bey of Tunis and the African Institution at Paris, and also an address to the Queen of . Enaland e • • -5 (From the Manchester Guardian.) The Chartist turn-out may now b e cons id e red as r t izely at an en d in this district—the resumption of and *our Alt Ashton-under-Lyne, : , talybridge, Hyde, Stockport, being now complete ; and the weavers 14 this town; who have shown great obstinacy in their herence to the strike, having yesterday- returned to _Their work, in such number 3 as showed that the gene eothbination amongst them was entirely broken Some few establishments both in the town and V the c ountry di str i cts are still at a stand ; but we 7 lieve- that, in all such cases, the absence of the v orkroen from their employment arises from some accidental cause, unconnected either with the original pound of the turn-out, or the demands winch subse qtlftitly sprung out of it. There is, however, a new turn-out at Bolto n , w hi c h ' 3 ught not t o be confounded with the political move nt which has just subsided. The Bolton spinners, er having been partially turned out by a body of rangers, resumed their work ; but, thinking that "tieY were entitled to an advance of wages, gave re- Nar notices to their employers that such advance l 'as required; and, the demand not being complied kith, the eater part of them left th e i r wor k l ast ' l liday night: Of course there is nothin g i n th e cha l'aeter of this turn-out to prevent the employers from en tertaining- the proposals of their workmen, or from the advance required, or any portion of it, pro ''Qe(Lthev find that the circumstances of the trade l 'e.such as t o j us tify th a t course . We fear, h owever, I t Will turn out that the demand has been premature, `and_ -that the-spinners will find their - masters wholly l'itnable.to comply with it. The entire f a il ure o f t h e Ch art i st turn - ou t o f th e B th or August, I;nd especially the return of the work- PecTle of Ashton and Stalybridge (who commenced 4 )10 their accustomed labour, will enable us to offer Innie• observati on S on th e or i gin of that s i ngu l ar ftcvement, which we have contemplated for some It-ntle past; but which for reasons hereafter to be ex- Plailied, we have thought proper to postpone until the Peace of the district was fully restored. We shall most likely advert to this subject on Saturday next. THE IN COME - TAX.—The ignoi.ance in matters of business of some of the persons who have been ap pointed assessors under this Act is positively ludi crous. A bookseller, on making his returns, observed to the assessor that advertisements would, of course, come under the " necessary expenses of bus i ness . " Certainly not," replied the worthy functionary, " I. do not see that a bookseller can employ his income better than in advertising." THE REGISTRATIONS. CITY OF LONDON. THE 'SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY M6RNIVG,' SEPT.EIVIBEit 22, 184, THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK. I RONCHI, THE `;ALA BRIAN TO THE EDITOiT OP THE SCIA. BAYONNE, SEPT. 15.-01 zili the SIR S I - • am requested by his Highness the Duke presence has, during thi s l ast sea scu,ln v ereil this of Brunswick to apprise you that the extract pub- ; locality interesting, one (the well - by you in your paper of.to-day, as if taken has just left who-reminds us in a mosrstriking man from the Lancaster Guardian, containing some state- mer of the secret history of the Spanish Court for the ments in which his Highness is made mention of, is last twelve or fourteen years. The history-, - ;of this wholly untrue and without foundation, an d wou ld person is most remarkable. His career is said tohave seem to have resulted from some malignant purpose. been one of romance. It is related in the following The editor of the paper first publishing the statement manner:— . . complained of, exposes himself obviously to the zus- Ronchi is a Calabrian by birth, and was originally picion of being aware of the falsehood thereof. .a dentist, but has exercised a variety of professions I trust, therefore, you will see the expediency of and callings, according as his necessities compelled or publishing a denial in accordance with this intimation. his tastes directed him. At an early period of his life His Highness has directed legal proceedings to be in- he left his native country, and proceeded to Tangiers, stituted against the promoters of the scandal. where he entered into the service of the Dey in the I am, sir, your obedient servant, capacity of a surgeon. Though not regularly brought Baron AUDL AN, Equerry to his Highness. up to the profession, and almost without education, he 38, Bryanstone-square, Sept. 20, 1842. yet contrived to establish - a reputation for himself in that country. By some means or other he attracted the favourable notice of the favourite Sultana, and, strange to say, he succeeded on one occasion in penetrating into the secret recesses of the harem. It is probable that this success rendered him more bold and less cautious. But in the East it is unsafe to trifle with such delicate matters, and Ronchi was one 1 , day found in the inner apartments of the palace, and alone with the favourite. With the quickuess of ap prehension, and the fertility of resource, which, on important emergencies, raise women far above the ruder sex, the moment she perceived they were discovered, she began to utter the most terrific screams, and, hiding her face in her hands, pre tended to suffer the most agonising pangs of tooth • ache. Ronchi at once understood her, and was not slow to act:upon the hint. He pulled out hi instruments, without which he never stirred abroad, and pretended to be so entirely occupied in pulling out her tooth, as not to perceive the approach of her legitimate lord. Notwithstanding the tor ture, of such an operati on , pa r t icularly-when there had been no previous disease, the beautiful creature insisted that the tooth should be extracted. Female ingenuity triumphed, and the Dey 'was baffled car de ceived ; and the credulous barbarian, though scan dalised at the violation of oriental etiquette, passed, over this illegitimate and unusual mode of rendering professional assistance, in consideration for the pain of the sufferer, and.the.relief afforded by the practitioner. But the presence Of mind displayed by the Christian was not equal to that of the fair infidel. In his trepi dation, caused by astonishment at the' courage and wit of his patient, and the perilous position in which he at that moment stood, he forgot, or was unable, to exer cise • his usual dexterity. In his impatient haste to bring the affair to a conclusion, he broke the tooth whilst making a desperate and awkward effort to extract it. On beholding the mouth of his Sultana thus disfi gured, the Dey could not control his fury. He ordered the affrighted dentist to be seized, and condemned him to suffer death by impalement the next morning. He was, it is said, even conducted to the stake, and pre parations were made for the execution, when a pardon was granted by the Dey, who had yielded to the soli citations of his favourite, of whom he was passionately fond. As may be supposed, this accident completely put an end to any further adventures amongst the mysterious recesses of the harem. He soon after married the widow of the Spanish Consul at Tangiers, and in a short time left the country and came to Madrid. Such is - one of the many stories, more or less romantic, which is related of the adventurous Calabrian. In the capital of Spain he commenced the business of a diamond merchant and broker, which he practised with immense success. After the marriage of Ferdinand with Maria Chris tina, he contrived to procure access to the Court, and by his insinuating manners succeeded in a short time in getting into the good graces of the young sntfo Christina he filled Madrid, Queen. He soon obtained great influen ce over h er , and was even employed in secret affairs o f conse quence. A collision taking place betwee n th e Nea politan and P or t uguese interests at Court, R onc hi was charged by th e Q ueen with watching all. the mov emen t s of the Infant a F ranc i s ca and the Princes s o f B e i ra , the present wif e o f Don Carlos. It wa s h e w h o N was employed t o purchase, as well as t o b e bearer of, th e nu ptial present to thedl Naples. He ac companiedand bride, hison the occasion o f t h e marriage of th e I n f ant DonSeba hstiaenr Royal withthe HoPfriginQhcnueeeess s o influence ptiring at Regency Court inereased rapidly after thi s event. an important office in the Finance Department, and was also named by her Director of the General Lot tery, two of the most lucrative employments in the kingdom, in the exercise of which he amassed a colos sal fortune. - Ronchi and the well-known Teresita, modiste to the Queen Regent, were the two persons who had the greatest influence over her, and, strange to say, theie two favourites shared the honour, as well , as the benefit s , o f t h e R oya l con fidence, with ou t any serious dispute between them. The daughter of Ronchi is married to the Marquis di Grimaldi, who condescended to unite his aristo cratic blood with that of the wealthy and powerful favourite. But Ronchi's day is past, he who would now expect to find in him the q u i c k ne ss of apprehen s i on , the acute intellect, and the mind fertile in resources, of other days, would be disappointed. He is rapidly falling into dotage, and seems affected with more than the garrulity of age. Mr. M‘Christie, the Revising Barrister, took his seat in the Court yesterday morning at ten o'clock. Tne Court proceeded to receive the lists of the liverymen from the various Companies. No objection was taken to the lists of Apothecaries or Armourers and Braziers. Mr. Marr, who appeared on behalf of the Conserva tive Association of the City, said that he had objec tions to make to various names on the list of bakers. It had been found that improper addresses were at tached to many of these names, some of the parties having removed, others having died, and others again never having resided in the premises mentioned. A fruitful source of fraud , and personation was thus opened, to which all parties should be anxious to put an end. The first name he should object to was that of Richard Allen, who appeared in the list as a resi dent in Mount Etna• place, but, on inquiry, it was found That no such person lived there. This case was ordered to stand over till Saturday, in order to give the party time to appear in defence of his claim. Some other cases were heard, but they possessed no interest. ‘tvhoOtilld'abiledi7n3:lol/..1a:. ALL SAINTS' INFANT S UNDAY - --- C t T o o::: n wa ll s lo v n e d n ay ed l building, near thetAND o ...,CROOLS, 'SLING.. a very neat and commodious end a f s of Southampton-street, Pen sided, and which was fa o t l t • e s n c d h e o d ols bo fo th r nthuemeursoeusolyf and children of the poor o respectably. It A fi . this district. A meeting was held on the occasion, at 570/. had been raised , gs-uP which H. Pownall, Esq., p re _ a tt s il s i tated that the total expense of the anlnvesual6eoxopLenosfes7hhiochwesvuemr, J. u l t - I t a a r , nb snadn! the The e . Islington, and this was (so far th as e s o were ul s , only a nd and only school for the poor ever poorest n re n s u t al of subscriptions t le nine districts t p r i r o e t s s en o t f Wilson, observed, that the of e district comprised 6,400 parish, hereeek eed knew) the itttißev.n first .. Bishop e ho ß p e o v f minister of the chapel of. ease, also remarked thatn t Rev. late Vicar, the present used l toft the late Bell Isle (within this district), the Kaffraria Islington. The Rev. Mr. Child, in a neat address,° Congratulated the meeting on having, by completing the building, arrived at " the end of the beginning,"g and urged them to follow up their good and hallod effort. "It is in paro chial schools," said the eßeverend Gentleman, " that the battle of the Church is now to be fought." At the close of the meeting , the Vicar announced, that 201. had been contributed 1 towards the deficiency of 311 . those on the platform ; and, as he supposed the company would not lik e to be limited to making up the remaining 101., their contributions beyond that sum would go towards the annual expenses. The a mount collected eventually reached 251., enabling the school to open clear of debt. BURNING OF A VESSE L AT SEA.—The following commun i c ation was recei ve d ;Yesterday at Lloyd's : Havre September B.—Captaa Garton, master of the brig Prosperite, which arrived at this port yesterday from Marseilles, reports that on Monday, the 22d of last month, when in lat. 39 7 long. 12 57 west, he observed at a distance of som e ' ten or twelve miles a great mass of smoke; he i n - ir , to wards it, for the purpose of led istelY bor e down ° ascertaining the cause, when it proved to be a vessel fire. It appeared to be an English schooner, about 2 00 tons burden, an d laden with cork. . The masts were consum ed and h a d fallen overboard, and she Was water's edge.. 1-149, remained burningne r apidly to th e vessel for a considerable time, . and sent the unfortunate gent several of the crew up aloft tts discover, if possible, the ship's boat, none and those belonging to her,. but could be seen. At seven o'clock in the evening be, voyage. The ship,was.still burning, and the flame s were distinctly .seemfor hours afterwards. Her name could not be ascertained, in consequ'e- nce of the dense smoke with which she Was surround ed The fishing in Lochfuniduring th e present week has been of a m very reunerativelinelt and the fish ermen 4. admit, that so far as the season: , Ii present it hay both in quantity and quality, been the most s uccessful they , experienced for twenty years. — Scotch P a p er. have During the week, from the 9 th to thPer. e 15th inst. in clusively, the number of passengers between France and England who embarked frorn and l an d e d a t Boulogne was 1,291. At Calais the number during the same period was 526. A P • OsER FOR THE TURN-OUTS.---AVL Lan cashire turn-outs came to Slaithwaite, ''en t h e 1 ac costed an old fellow thus—" I ne'er saw , rich a soft set as you are here, you dare do nought." he, " nay. We have just cut one of your ‘S oft I" replied off, and given it into his hand to take home set his head Correspondent of the Liverpool Courier. with hint." — Correspondent of forgery of rather nature has just been discovered at Liver an extensive linquent is John D. Barnsley, late a de Pit°()l. The de able office contiguous to Castle-street. 1 in a respect filled up a blank cheque for 2401., forged s eems he had of one of the firm, and took it to the . 8r the signature Eugland, where it was cashed. He sent anch Bank of another similar for g ery to the bank fur SOO/. ; but being u nsuccessful in this in s t ance , h e immediately' decamped, and has not yet been taken. 201. reward has been .offered f' or hensto _ n.—Manch e ster Guardian. or his appre hension.—Manchester ACCOUNT Or SCOTLAN D . A the national work, the "New Statistical copy of Account of Scotland, containing the count ies n ow completed, and splendidly bound in ten Tolu xe s, having b een transmitted from the Society for the Sons and . nat %liters o f th e Clergy to the Bail of Aberdeen, for r P esontation to the Queen, her Majesty's . . gracious acceptance has signi fied to the publishers, in the follosling , been munication from_ e his Lordship :--" Dalkeith, Sept. 14 orn ti rnen,___l have had the honour of ! 1842.__Gen. laying before the Queen the copy of the ' New Statistical Scotland,' whi c h had forwarded youhere for Account c,f tion to her M ajesty. The Queen has been pleasedpresenta to re cmeive this useful and important work, a andel to express to ou her Majesty's ni lam corn . satisfaction and ae knewledgments —I am, Gentlemen, your most obe dient servant.—(Signed) d A Black wood," gne ) A BERDEEN.- _M es s rs, THE DISTURBED DISTRICTS. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The town is particularly quiet this morning to all appearance. The turn -outs are, however, meeting in various places, and the great subject of discourse amongst them is the death of Lyons, who, they continue to declare, was "mur dered by the hired assassins of the Anti-Corn-law Magistrates." In many of their speeches delivered this morning they referred to the Anti-Corn-law processions which have taken place from time to time headed by Magistrates, and declaim in no measured terms against the Magistrates for what they call "their most unjustifi a bl e mo d e o f d ea li ng ou t p u bli c justice." The police were again on duty this morn ing, with orders to patrol the mill district. Their re ports are generally favourable as to the hands resum ing work:, although in some mills the number of workers has been reduced. On the whole, however, the numbers of those at work are increased this morning. Joseph Lyons being the first person who came to an untimely end in consequence of the riots in Man chester and its immediate vicinity, the funeral created very great excitement amongst the turn-outs, not only in this town, but throughout the district. In accordance with previous arrangements, which were unknown to the police, about two o'clock in the afternoon great numbers of turn-outs began to arrive from most of the towns within Bor 10 miles of Manchester. The first of these processions which attracted the notice of the police was one from Bury (nine miles from Man chester), consisting of about 200 persons, including a large proportion of females, most of whom were decently dressed. On the head of this procession reaching the end of Piccadilly, on its way to the place where the corpse was lying, they were met by a strong body of the police, under the command of Mr. Beswick and Sir Charles Shaw, with whom was Mr. Maude, the Stipendiary Magistrate. Th e p o li ce formed themselves into a line across the street, and refused to allow any person whatever to pass. The progress of the procession thus interrupted, they divided themselves into sections, and by passing along back streets succeeded in reaching their intended destination, as had several thousands from various other quarters. The police then, by the.directions of Mr. Maude, cleared the streets, and formed themselves into lines across the street on each side of the house where the body was laid. Every avenue leading to the house was completely blockaded by the police and special constables, and it was then ordered that the friends only of the deceased should be allowed to follow him to the chapel -yard. After some delay, occasioned by the interference of the officers, the corpse was brought out, and the friends of the unfortunate man having been formed into procession, the police surrounded the body and the funeral procession on all sides, and thus they moved along the streets until they came to Mr. Scholefield's chapel-yard, Every-street. On the ar rival of the police at the gates of the chapel-yard, Mr. Scholefield refused to admit them ; but by previous arrangement the chapel-yard was crowded by the mob, as were also the walls, by the permission of Mr. Scholefield. Th e p o li ce , however, kept the street clear in front of the yard to the no little annoyance of Mr. Scholefield, who on one occasion attempted to drive the officers; but he was told by Sir Charles Shaw, that if he interfered with the police he would order him to be taken into custody. The police remained on the spot until all was over, and were every now and then assailed with groans and hisses by the mob. Whilst the attention of the authorities was directed to the funeral procession of Lyons, a detachment of the rioters proceeded to Mr. Thompson's power-loom factory in Mill-street, and almost in the twinkling of an eye demolished the windows and turned out the hands that were at work. Information of this outrage was instantly conveyed to the police, but on their ar rival all was as quiet as if nothing had happened. The whole of the windows and frames of the first story were completely demolished, and a great number of the windows on the second and third stories were also broken. Shortly after the engine was again set to work, and a great portion of the hands resumed their employment. Having satiated their vengeance on Mr. Thompson's mill, a party of them went off in the direction of Oxford-road, and again attacked Messrs. S. and H. Marsland's mill in Chester-street. Fortu nately the police arrived in time to prevent further mischief than the breaking of a few windows. On the appearance of the police the rioters fled in all di rections, and one only of the ringleaders, whose name is Daniel, was apprehended. Ile will he brought up for examination this day at the Borough Court. ADJOURNED SESSIONS, NEW BAILEY. (Before J. F. FOSTER, Esq., Chairman, and JOSEPH LEEsE, Esq.) MONDAY.—Owing to the unusually heavy calendar at the last Salford Hundred Sessions, occasioned by the number of persons apprehended and left for trial during the outrages committed during the last six weeks, the Magistrates, after havin g b een occu pi e d in both Courts for more than a fortnight, were obliged to adjourn the proceedings until to-day, to meet the convenience of the gentlemen of the bar, who were engaged in cases to be tried at the Preston ses sions. This morning the Court met at ten o'clock, and proceeded with the trials of the rioters. Edmund Lyons was the first prisoner placed at the bar. He was indicted 'for riot at Messrs. Birley's mill, on Wednesday, the 11th of August, and he was further charged with assaulting the police in the exe cution of their duty on the same day. The Jury found the prisoner guilty. Sentence deferred. John Berry and Betty Kershaw were next placed in the dock, charged with unlawfully assembling to gether, with other persons, at Bury, in this county, on the 18th of August , and , in company with a large mob, proceeded to Messrs. John Hoyle and Sons' mill, situate at Mossfield, where, by threats and inti midation, they forced the workpeople to leave off their lawful avocations. These facts having been esta blished by evidence, the prisoners were found guilty. Sentence deferred. Henry and Joseph Hibbert and Benjamin Birten shaw, were then brought up, indicted for riot at Droylsden, in this county, on the 12th ult. The Jury found them guilty. The llibberts were sen tenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard la bour, and Birtenshaw to two months. Barnard 11.1'Vay was found guilty of riot and as sault at Messrs. James Kennedy and Sons' mills, Ancoats-street, Manchester, on the 23d ult. I n hi s case the sentence was also deferred. Several other rioters were disposed of during the day, but the charges against them were not of an aggravated character, and their sentences were of course not severe. The Court rose about six o'clock. The accounts from Bolton this morning are very unfavourable. The notice to quit, which expired on Saturday night, has been pretty generally put into practice. There are at present 28 mills standing, and only four in full employment. The four at work are those of Mr. Hardcastle, Mr. Towlinson, Mr. Knowles, and another. The hands of these four are under notice, and it is thought they will leave off work at the end of the week. The town is quiet this morning. The accounts from Ashton and Stalvbridge are of a more favourable character—there the whole of the mills are either wholly or partially at work, and the towns are in a state of perfect quietness. At Stocky ort and Hyde the hands are nearly all at work, and as far as these towns are concerned the turn-out is at an end. PRE;TO T N - , -- MONDAY EVENING.—In the course of last week a writ came down from the Lord Chancellor, addressed to the 'Clerk of the Crown for the Duchy of Lancaster, R. W. Hopkins, Esq., whose office is in this town, ordering a gaol delivery for Oct. 1, at Lan caster. The writ was forwarded to T. R. IV. F rance, Esq., the High Sheriff, who issued summonses for about 100 Jurymen, addressed to various p ar t s o f t h e county. There are .112 prisoners, committed from various parts of the county to' Kirkdal e G ao l, b es id es nine who are out on bail, but as it is not stated in the writ a <`general gaol delivery," it i s not k nown whe ther those who stand committed, .far trial at the dif ferent quarter sessions will be incl u d e d i n th e Com 'mission. On this subject th e d ec i s i on o f th e t h ree Judges named in the Commission, Lord Ahinger, Baron Alderson, and Baron Rolfe, will be received at the Sheriff's office to-morrow. The prisoners in the gaol at Salford, from Manchester and the surrounding neighbourhood, are very numerous ; but in Preston House of Correction there are only five, and in Lan caster but two, committed on charges connected with the late riots. There will be two Courts open. On Friday two of the rioters in the late tumultuous proceedings in this town, on the 12th August, were apprehended by Joseph Dearden, the town beadle, and committed for trial by the Magistrates at the Town Hall. Along with several others who are well known, and for whose apprehension warrants have for some time been issued, they had kept out of the way until the restoration of tranquillity emboldened them to return into the town. One of these, Thos. Norris, was charged before John Barstow, Esq., axone of the leaders in An attack committed by a great crowd of persons at the mills of Messrs. Germaine, Petty, and Co., at Leighton, where they conducted themselves with great violence and disorder, and caused the mill to be stopped. The hands having left work the crowd dispersed. Thomas Pedder, the other prisoner, was charged with having, on the same day, attacked the factory of Messrs. Horrocks, in Canal-street, and having led the mob up the stairs, where he behaved with a considerable degree of violence. Along with the other prisoner he was committed to the House of Correction. The three unhappy individuals who were wounded by the fire of the soldiers on the s ame day still remain in the House of Correction, en during considerable suffering. One of these, a steam loom weaver, 21 years of age, who was shot through the cap of the knee, had his leg amputatedimme diately, about six inches above; another, Bryan Hutchings, a shoemaker, was wounded in the side, the bullet still remaining in the body; and the third, aged 21, s shot through the wrist. It will be some time before they can leave this benevolent in s tit u ti on, tut, in consequence of their sufferings, the Recorder bp kindly informed them that, although the two I former were r ecogn i se d as amongst t h e most active leaders o f th e mo b on t h e l ate f i ltal occasion, their prosecution will not be proceeded with. In addition 1 to Lancaster and M ercer , th e i n divid ua l s who died in this establishment, these are the only ones amongst the wounded who were taken there ; the two other unhappy men died at their own homes, where also many of the othe r woun d e d were conveyed, whose number is not estimated, but the same forbearance is shown to them as with those at present in the House of Recovery. The spirit of Chartism and insurrection is entirely broken in the town. in connection with the new military arrangements for the northern districts, Preston is to become the future northern depot of a large body of troops. There have hitherto been no barracks in the town, and the troops now here, consisting of about 130 Rifles, are quartered in temporary barracks, in a factory in Water-street, in addition to another detachment who are doing duty on the turrets of the gaol. A site of 254- acres on Pulwood Moor, and in the cen t re o f the former race course, has been secured by Government for the erection of barracks capable of containing 2,000 troops. An active correspondence has lately been carried on with the Board of Ordnance, and it is daily expected that contracts for estimates will be ad vertised. The spot has been selected by Captain Bur rows, Barrack Master at Blackburn, and Capt. Ruther ford, Engineer to theßoard of Ordnance at Manchester, and many plans and estimates have been sent up to London for the approval of the Government. The circumsta nces w hi c h h ave di ctate d t h is c h oice . over the place proposed for enlarging the barracks at Blackburn, in order to make that the northern depot for troops, appears to be the facility of their transport by railroad to the south, and to Ireland and Scotland through the new port of Fleetwood. The inhabitants of Preston and Blackburn have both taken up the matter very warmly, and in the latter town a site of land was offered gratuitously for the erection of bar racks. The matter has, however, finally been set at rest by Government having acknowledged the supe rior advantages of this town. This decision was conie to chiefly from the opinion of the Duke of Welling ton, who gave his approbation to Preston, in prefer , ence to any other place which had beet' pointed ou in the northern district SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM TUE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—One of our Contemporaries has at .ast opened its fire upon the new American treaty, and as it has done us the honour to quote with approbation one part of our judgment con cerning that treaty, we need hardly say the most unfavourable, we think ourselves bound to re peat our conviction that, on the whole, the ter mination of the affiiir is one for which we have to be grateful to the Government. We agree with him that the treaty gives us less than we were entitled to; and we add, that we have little satisfaction in concessions to an adversary who has conducted the controversy with so little frankness and generosity as the people of the United States. But the question is not one of feeling, but ofpolicy. The question is—have we, or have we not, reason to rejoice that the open questions are finally settled between the two countries, even with some sacrifice of what we consider our eqUitable rights? Now, first, there are several assumptions in the article we allude to which could not be very well insisted on in discussion with the American Government. The construction there put upon one of the King of Holland's decisions (respecting streams falling into the Bays of Fundy and Chaleurs) is denied, and we think with plausibility, by the Ameri cans; nor can we maintain with our Contempo rary, that the commission of Colonel Mudge and Mr. Featherstonehaugh has "proved by actual observation and survey, that the features of the country along the line claimed by us agree en tirely with the words of the treaty of 1783." That the line claimed by the Americans does not so agree is clear enough, but that our own literally and " entirely" does, is still a more difficult thesis to maintain. The boundary line is one which, it will be remem bered, is slightly more favourable than that pro posed by the King of the Netherlands, and the road " from the St. Francis to Quebec," which our Contemporary describes as so highly unpro tected for about 60 miles, is separated from the American frontier by about 30 miles of country (including that range of hills along which the Americans wished to draw their boundary line), and of which a strip of apparently some 10 or lo miles in width has been gained by Lord Ash burton's negotiation over and above what the de cision of the King of the Netherlands would have awarded us. On the subject of the free navigation of St. John's we have already ex pressed our opinion. We are ready to confess, too, that we regret the cession of the Madawasca settlers. But are these disadvantages to be set against the settlement, once for all, of the ever menacing boundary quarrel? Here we are met by the answer that we might have settled it in our own way; that " no country was ever less prepared or less inclined fbr aggressive war than the United States;" and that whatever hap pened, war at least they would not have hazarded. Perhaps not. But that is not the question. Would they have settled the dispute on any other terms? This is the real point of the matter. Would they not have interposed delays—would not Maine have been refrac tory, and the Federal Government lukewarm ? Would not the independence of the individual State and the inability of the Government to act without its concurrence, have been again played off upon us ? And would not the question have been thus adjourned till the next occasion when' Grreat Britain appeared to have her hands full ? I America is perfectly aware that every year's de lay is in her favour. Every year increases that force which the growing provinces of Maine and Massachusets are prepared to pour, nay, have long been pouring, upon the disputed territory. Every year consolidates by fresh facility of com munication and density of population the body of the Northern States into a mass available for supporting with effect the pretensions of their countrymen. This growing power is ever on the spot—it is by no sacrifice of labour or money that it keeps itself in preparation for the contest. That is its natural position—a position in which without effort it is daily strengthening itself. But year after year does not facilitate the concentra tion of the British forces on New Brunswick or Lower Canada. The population of our North American colonies is told by thousands, where those of the United States count their millions. It is only by the onerous presence of a large and disciplined force that we can keep our selves prepared for untoward emergencies ; it is pretty plain, then, which party is most in terested in clearing off such controversies as these. The United States feel this acutely enough, and, we need hardly say. are not likely to give up their advantage for nothing. They lost nothing by open questions; we did; and we had to expect that we should be made to pay for closing it. But there is always an alternative. We might have threatened, we might have de clared war upon the United States, if they re fused to accept an equitable arrangement at once, dictated, we presume, by ourselves, of a question which has puzzled the two nations for fifty years. Few, probably, will advocate this mode of deal ing with the question ; least of all, perhaps, the partisans of a Mi n i stry who tell us that all :our late distress is because we impede the natural trade between England and the United States. But in case any such partisan should be suffi ciently determined to support that mode ofjn ducing a speedy settlement, we will remind him how the matter stood. In 1828, after much ne gotiation, the Tory Government agreed with the United States to refer the matter to the arbitration of the King of the Netherlands. In 1831, under a Whig eovernment, that Monarch gave his decision, awarding to the British a frontier, as we have said, somewhat less advan tageous than that secured by Lord Ashburton's treaty. This decision the English Whig Go vernment, in the words of our Contemporary, " signified their readiness to accept." For two years Lord Grey's Government pressed the United States to acquiesce in this arrangement ; but in vain, and in 1833 the Royal decision stood rejected by both parties. There was no talk then of enforcing by war the authority of the King of the Netherlands—no disposition to assert our whole rights at once, when it became clear that. the Americans would not " split the di ff erence." It would be rather bold of a Whig advocate to maintain that these ten 3 ears had precisely suf ficed to exhaust the permissable degree of p a _ tience, and that the Conservatives were bound, to resort at once t o t h e tre mendouswar to obtain that whi c h Whigs b a d shown could not b e o b tained by o coming e x i office,n p t e o dient o the peaceful means. Such, as we view it, is the case for Lord Ashburton 's concessions. A d spec y set tlement was necessary. It Was more necessary for us than for the Americans—an d th ey knew it was. By war, accordingly, or by _sacrifice, the settlement must have b een purchased. The first expedient was neither justified by called for by honour. Least could the ne cessity of such a decisive measure be urged by the supporters of a Government which had been already ten years (the period of their existence) fumbling about the matter. Concession re mained. That it is concession are -aware. Wliether any part of it could , we have been avoided, it would be difficult, Wit • h out an accurate know ledge of American politics, to pronounce. But that it has been less than the value of that, we hope, lasting quiet which it has purchased, we entertain no manner of question. PERALD.—If Lord John Russell is not to resume next session his congenial position as leader ,of the Opposition, who is? The reason* which will remove the Noble Lord from the chieftaincy of faction are equally potent to r.s• strain the succession of Lord PalmerSton or at y of his late colleagues thereto. The fact is, th:t the members of the defunct Administration wl still have seats in the House of Commons con• stitute the rump only of the Opposition forcei s , and for the first time in the history of party e have the Opposition led by men whose on y claim to its confidence is that they have been Ministers of the Crown—responsible advisers of the Sovereign, who were driven from office 11(... cause their continuance therein was almost un versally% felt to be dangerous to property an gocd order. It is not surely sufficient that diet e is coincidence of view between the majority of a party and its leader on minor questions of pub is interest? Unanimity of opinion on the sugar duties, the timber duties, or the Corn-law---ca the latter there is perfect discord betwe*a Messrs. Cobden, Villiers, Bowling, and 140 , 34 S John Russell and Palmerston—cannot surely b 3 the basis of a political combination such as a,t Opposition ought to present? Agreement o a the subject of free trade and disagreement ea atlnied ipiirsefdoilcalonwieezrist sitanndw.hic T h he L s o e r n d tim Jo e l n u tst Res .t tia t the fur more i mportant question of the suffrage, as Noble Lord are as wide as the poles are amuck r from those of three-fourths of the free con . panions who have hitherto fbught under 11 * banner. How long, then, is a compact allure P. so monstrously immoral as this to continue ?---n a lli a nce which requires a greater sacrifice of pel sonal convictions, and of larger moral respoas - .. bilities, than the most insane advocate of pat combination can justify or excuse. An end must have, and that shortly, it either Lord J o h n or the Radicals have one drop of sincerity I t their bodies. The success of free-trade prin ciples under the leadership of the Noble Lord would only be the removal of obstacles to this attainment of those ulterior objects of his sup • porters which he has 30 frequently declared 1 3 a never will assist in reaching. Defeat on ecouc.. mical questions, under the guidance of Lo .d John, will only increase the demands of his fig. lowers for an extension of the suffrage, as a mean s of achieving the application of those commercii views which they. and their chief entertain i t Common. Thus does Lord John Russell, whethe r successful or unsuccessful, as the head of the Op • position, advance—so tar as his own party is con • cerned—the repeal of the Reform Bill and thet extension of the suffrage, which he is so veh.e-• mently, and, if words are binding, so irretriev. ably pledged to oppose. POST.—Weexpressed our satisfaction two days* ago on the reception which the treaty conclude-0i by Lord Ashburton with the United States Go vernment had experienced in this country. Upa to the moment at which we wrote we had heard of nothing but expressions of satisfaction on thi termination, upon fair and honourable terms, of disputes which placed, during their existence, ha continual hazard the amity of two great nation;,, whose hostility would be a calamity to both, and a calamity not to themselves only, but to whole civilised world. It seems that we wer.: premature in congratulating our readers on the* suppression of party feeling upon this occasioa. Yet we had allowed three days to the Oppositio press to take its ground, and it had taken none. It seldom happens that the journals devoted nie the interests of a political party, when they have a good or even a plausible reason for attacking. their opponents, require so much time to find ix out. We, therefore, cannot blame ourselves foe having arrived too quickly at the conclusion-- improbable as it was—that the treaty wills% America was not to be made the occa sion' for the display of party spirit. &Oil less can we blame the Chronicle tin the spirit of party, as displayed at last in it. 4 columns, required to be nurtured and stimulated for no less than three days before it was in a con dition to show. The fault was natural on bssut sides. Whence our Contemporary derived hiss tardy inspiration we do not presume to guest . But whether he resorted to the Pantheon or this firmament—to Cupid or to Ursa Jig jor—he plainly had recourse to a fallacious oracle. great fault of the treaty concluded by Lord Ash,. burton, according to the Whig oracle is, that it b i three Objects, the boundary line, the suppression.. of the slave trade, and the mutual surrender ci•! criminals are comprehended in one act, instead of b eing accomplished by three separate con.- ventions. And why is this a fault? Becaut the American Senate would equally have et... cepted ach of the three separate conventiom, and England might have driven a tighter bar gain by dealing with each subject apart front the rest. We collect from this merely tha Lord Palmerston, had he attempted to settl the disputes with America at all, would have - niggled in the manner which thsl Chronicle so strenuously advocates—would hav,s given occasion to three debates in the America.s Senate instead of one--and would have multi-. plied, in a ratio far greater than three to one, th.: chances of complete failure in his attempt t 4. settle all existing disputes. But our Contempu. rary endeavours to show that the Senate of tls. United States would have been sure to ratif‘• three separate treaties as easily as the one whi c i a it has ratified, upon the ground that each of the: three arrang ements of the present treaty, sep:..- rately consiered, is adverse to the interests of Great Britain, and favourable to those of dues American Union. And, first, with respect to Om boundary line : the Chronicle, through thre.: weary columns, labours to prove that the int/ . rests of England have been betrayed, and the .t everything claimed by the United States hat been conceded. We will not travel with Gait Contemporary through the intricacies of his g;t o • graphical argument. It i s enoug h f or us to per!. ceive that the guides for whose assistance he had the condescension to wait no less than three davit have led him into a dilemma from which he will not extricate himself very easily. Three days of cogitation and consultation might surely ha eta sufficed, if not to secure clearness and accurs.ii of statement, at least to avoid manifest and 'pal pable incoherency. We may think it w artht while to discuss with the Chronicle the new - line: of boundary, when it has made up its own mind whether this line is a matter of natim.al or merely of provincial importance on the other side of thm Atlantic. CHRONICLE,--We are informed - that at treaty is upon the point of being concluded ;witJt Hanover, by which the Stade duties are to b.: increased. In the speech which Lord Palm er ston delivered at the close of the session, he stated his apprehension that the Tory Govern ment would make some such concession to Kin Ernest. The supposition was repudiated at th time as being too discreditable to Sir Robei t Peel's Ministry. But old p r edilections, i t seems, are too strong, and the Tory Gc ... vernment is about to lery a tax upon British commerce and British shipping—to re ward the King of Hanover for the old services o f the Duke of Cumberland. East, west, north, : A na south, it is the same story. In India, in Tieces„, in America, in Spain, in Africa, in. the interest s , Hanover, ti;,, ; same systematic abandonment of the same sca n d a l o us indifference to the charact t x ceofinit inofuntoilltie.r. of this country. Upon many of our commoditie i, upon raw cotton, for instance, we understand din duty is to be doubled. Something like a liundri ,i I ni .or e the Ca n mercantile thousand pounds a year, it is estimated, is to 7 t , e , King of Hanover. We trust that by callimg levied by the attention to this subject in titne, new treatyput tli ‘‘..e may be f 7 tunute enough to upon its guard in sufficient time to prevent th a perpetration of this flagrant wr(ng That it is a t doubt. rese nt intended, the re i s . ) w efear, no room t a d GLOBE.—The more closely the treaty negvo. tinted by Lord Ashburton • with the American ( gi n. vernment is e xam i ned, cause for dissatisfac;tioat with the terms on wl ' ncli it has been conclude, I, at least so far as the people of England are co , )- cerned, will appear. Although among the fit st to express an opinion that British interests h )1 not been suilleien I t y protected by the noblern RA to whose keepi ng they ley were entrusted, we 3c.. cliaed to comma ourselves to a precipitate je.dt,..• meat i a n matter involving consequences sa iln• portant as the maintenance of pacific rellitiu is between two great nations. For the " care a t d caution" we felt it a duty to exercise, we we) e taunted by a Contemporary ; who assert( d the positive excellence of the treaty, and eul, p.. gized the wisdom of the functionary by wh am. Re on the part of the British Government, it hi A been negotiated to a conclusion. In the interi ni between the first perusal of the treaty and tl: a application of the taunt, we " car e f u ll y " e: .-.... ainined the treaty, and "cautiously" compar 4. the boundary between the two countries, as s€ 1.,, tied by it, with the line laid down by the Coin 'definition v /as k, m i s sioners whose boundary • 1,3 corporated in the treaty of peace betw• en . the United States and Great B r i ta i n i n 17' ' .13 We nex t compared it with the aw a rd of the , King % . Llf the Netherlands of 183 1. T he result of bot h t h lie: methods of testin g t h e merits of the reently co;:c:uded trtaty, v i ewe d i n its bearin g ups a British interests, is the same. We pronounce it an utter failure—a surrender to America ,if advantages for which an ' equivalent is in Vii a looked for in the treaty itself, and in any c"" lateral act of her Legislature and Govern - me et. The boundary prescribed, and the path assign ed between our dependencies of New 'Brut fr. wick and Lower Canada, is the lea , A C( IX WESTMINSTER. The parish of St. Clement Danes was commenced yesterday; and in this parish the Liberals made 6 claims and 97 objections—the Tories also made 2 claims and 74 objections. iIIARYLEBONE. The revision of the list of voters for this borough was resumed yesterday by Mr. Alfred Austin. In the case of a burgess who was objecteel to by the Conservatives, on the ground that he had not been continuously in occupation of the house for which he claiined, the same having been six month 3 in the pos session of the assignees and officers of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, the Barrister decided in favour of the insolvent's vote. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) There was a quiet market yesterday, both for goods and yarn ; and, in the absence of any brisk demand, prices showed some tendency to recede. The real state of the market, however, cannot be ascertained until the general resumption of employment, and the production of a full supply of goods, shall have brought forward the orders which have been suspended on account of the turn• out. 110CHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY , SEPT. 19.--We have had a very brisk demand f o r flannels to-day, and pieces have been eagerly bought up; but the manufacturers have not yet been able to obtain a decided advance in price. The wool market continues in much the same state it has been for some Mondays past. The dealers are very willing to sell at former prices, and the manufacturers buy very sparingly. FATAL PRIZE FIGHT. Salisbury was on Monday last disgraced by a prize fight, in which a young man, 18 years of age, named James Lenton, fell a victim to his adversary, a per son about his own age, named Joseph Coombs. It appears that a sp.rit of rivalry has for some time been manifested in both the combatants, who were first cousins, and both of them by trade cordwainers, and. Monday was fixed upon for a trial of prowess. Ac cordingly a wager was laid, and the parties, having calmly selected their . seconds and bottle holders, proceeded to a field near Lobcome-gate, about a mile on the London-road, where they were prohibited by the owner of the field from exhibiting their brute like passions. Nothing disconc er t e d, however, they repaired to a meadow some quarter of a mile nearer the city, but also within the precincts of the borough, and commenced fighting. The combat lasted nearly an hour, with half-minute intervals between the rounds; but before many had been fought the de ceased was beaten " stone blind." In order, how ever, that this mischance should not interrupt the exhibition his eyes were lanced, and he continued to fight until nature became entirely exhausted, and he was heard to say that he would give in. At this time he was ghastly pale, and trem bled from head to foot, but being over-per suaded to have one round more, he stood up for that purpose, and while Coombs was again putting him self in a fighting attitude the deceased fell, to rise no more. At this period, although life was evidently all but extinct, the conquering party drew the stakes and almost immediately repaired to their rendezvous, leaving the deceased upon the field. There he was allowed to remain about a quarter of an hour, and was then removed on a hurdle to the Salisbury In firmary, but before the poor fellow reached the insti tution death put an end to his sufferings. The Ma gistrates immediately ordered the police to apprehend the parties concerned, and one of the seconds, named Read, is already in custody, and as the others are known we trust that every one will be punished. We regret to add that upwards of 200 persons wit nessed this revolting transaction. BEQUESTS.—We hear that the lately deceased Miss W egg, of Upper Brook-street, has be queathed to the British Lying-in Hospital, in Brown low-street, Long-acre 1,0001., free of legacy duty. Also that the lately deceased Francis Perry Stubbs, Esq., of Hyde Park-place, has bequeathed to it 2501., free of duty ; and that, in addition to these, a rever sionary bequest .of upwards of 1,0001.,, to which the hospital was entitled, has recently fallen in. STRATHBOGIE.—The Sacrament at Cairney was dispensed on Sabbath last, by Mr. Cowie, the parish minister, to a very crowded, attentive, and pious congre gation. The number of communicants exceeded that of last year ; among whom there were fifteen for the first time. These are really cheering symptoms, and show how well attached the people nre to their ministers, not withstanding the persecution and tyranny to which they have been subjected by an unscrupulous and despotic priesthood in the very bosom of the Church of Scotland. —Edinburgh Observer. SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—A bout half-past eight o'clock on Thursday night, Henry Mayne, a child two years old, whose father is a respectable master baker, and resides at 7, Chichester-place, Gray's Inn-road, at tempted to swallow a halfpenny, which stuck in his throat, and he was seized with violent convulsions, and became black in the face. It fortunately happened that 11r. Liston, the eminent surgeon, was passing as Mrs. Mayne was rushing into the street with the child in her arms, and he, after many attempts, at length succeeded in extracting the halfpenny from the child's throat. STAGE-COACH DUTIES.—By an Act of the last ses • sion of Parliament, which is to come into force on Saturday week, the Ist of October, the stage-coach duty, per mile, is reduced one-half—via., from 3d. to lid. The fraudulent system of sweating gold coin is, it seems, becoming adopted in other countries as well as in England. 'The money-changers in Paris have lately observed that many pieces of 20f. and 40f., of fered• to them to be changed are below their standard weight. A very serious .accident happened on board her Majesty's steatner Pladk Eagle, which' formed part of the Royal squadron; on its way to Scotland. When the steamer arrived, off the Cocket Islands, on the Northumbrian coast, and while towing the Royal yacht ahead of the Shearwater, she was eased for a short time for the purpose of lubricating the engines, and, being set in motion too suddenly again, the tow-rope broke, and nearly forced overboard Mr. John Allen, the pilot, of London, who was standing close to the bollards abaft the paddle-box, to which the rope was attached. The pilot, however, escaped drowning, but at the expense of his legs ; the rope flew round them when it snapped, and broke both his legs, lacerating them in a dreadful manner. Her Grace the Duchess of Norfolk, who was on board, no sooner heard of the accident than she came upon deck, and felt particularly interested for the unfor tunate pilot, and directed that every possible atten tion should be paid to him. A surgeon who was on board rendered-him all the assistance in his power, and upon the arrival of the squadron at Leith, Mr. Allen was taken ashore, and was conveyed by Mr. Nathaniel Knight, of Rotherhithe, the pilot of the Lightning steamer, to the infirmary at Edinburgh, where he *till remains. The last accounts of Mr. Allen are that he is doing well, but it is not possible he will ever recover the use of his legs again. M r . Allen is an old and skilful pilot, and has been con ducting ships up and down the river Thames, and along the coast, for 35 years. He is now upwards of 60 years of age, and it is understood that. in conse quence of his advanced years, and the serious accident he has met with in the i',4,ueen's service, which must for ever incapacitate him from acting as a pilot agai n , a liberal pension will be granted by her Majesty's Go vernment. The Duchess of Norfolk inquired daily after Mr. Allen during her stay in Scotland, and has interested herself very warmly in his behalf. During the • past wee:. the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Strangfor.:, and Mr. ArbutLnot have beer, amongst the visitors t', th 4 Duke of Wellington, at Walmer. Prince Esterhazy dined there twice. The Marchioness of Douro remains at Walser. Her Lady ship has recovered from her illness. e c