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" THE MISER'S DAUGHTER" COMPLETE. On the 15th, in 5 vols. post Svo. THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. By WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH. With 'Twenty Illustrations on Steel, by George Cruilushank. London : Cenningham and Mortimer , Adelaide-street, West Strand. This day is published, 56 pp., avo., price Is. 6d.. HISTORY and MYSTERY of the EX CHEQUER BILLS FORGERY EXAMINED. In a I.w!er to the eight Hon. HENRY GOULBURN, Chan cellor of the Exchequer. • Conceived said executed in the spirit of the most astute awl experienced Old lley practitioner." —Times. " A forcibly written nd earnest pamphlet, well calculated create a lively interest in the City raid country."—Morning Hesald. Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill; and all Booksellers. Now ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo., H E NABOB AT HOME; OR, THE RIIWURN '1;.0 ENGLAND. the Author of " LIFE IN INDIA." Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. _ - EWWORKYY THE AUTHOR OF " THE CHASE, THE TURF, AND THE ROAD." Just ready, in 2 vols., small Bvo.. 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A New Edition, with a New and Enlarged Supplement, containing the New Tariff, the New Corn-law (with an Article on the latter), and bringing down the information in the work to September, 1812. Tice New SUPPLEMENT, separately, ss. sewed. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. HAMBURGiI, 12TH AUGUST, 1842. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, AND HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, by which, th nigh they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES may be obtained. HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are Se lling GENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS for the said DISTRIBUTIONS. Perseus desirous te purchase may receive. PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTU S with full PARTI CULARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, OCT. 7, Auber's Grand Opera of FRA DIAVOLO ; or, the t.NN of TERRA Jiff A. Fra Diavolo, Mr. W. Harrison ; Lord Allca.sh, Mr. G. Homcastle; Lorenzo, Mr. Travers; Matteo, Mr. S. Smith ; Beppo, Mr. J. Bland; Giacomo. Mr. Giubilei ; Lady Allcash, Miss Peole ; Zerlina, Miss Rainforth. After which the Farce of THE IRISH TUTOR. Flail, Mr. Meadows; Terry O'Rourke, Mr. G. Hodson, (his first appearance); Rosa, Miss Lee; Mary, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with the Grand Romantic Fairy Extravaganza, in two acts, entitled THE WHITE CAT.— Wunsuponatyme (King of Neverminditsnamia), Mr. J. Bland ; Princes Para gon, Precious, and Placid (his three sons), Miss Poole, Miss Cooper, and Miss Lee ; Jingo, Mr. Harley ; the White Cat, Miss Marshall. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s, Secoeid Price 2s. ; Gallery ls. Tickets and Places f.r the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ; of Messrs. An. skews, lit, New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, OCT. 7, The Performances will commence with the New Original telo-dramape Romance, called the OWL SISTERS; or, o HAUNTED ABBEY RUINS. Principal Characters by Atessrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, H. Beverly, Craven, Wilkinson, Maynard, - Frampton, Miss Fancit, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. H. P. Grattan. After whieh, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Characters by Messrs. Wright, 0. Smith, H. Beverly, Mrs. H. Be verl y , Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Miss Murray. To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ; Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford; ldalgisa, Mr. Wright. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-put six, volumene* at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. In consequence of the immense overflows, THIS iLVENING, OCTOBER 7, Will be acted Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with most decided success. Neville Akiely, Mr. H. Hughes Hugh Laneret. Mr. N. T. Hicks; Herrick Evenden , Mr. J. Webster; Blanche Ideriet, Mrs. R. Honner. After which, MY POLL AND MY PAR' ER JOE. llarry Hallyard, Mr. T. P. Cooke; Joe Tiller, Mr. R. Bonner ; Mary Maybud, Mrs. R. Honner. To conclude with THE PLEDGE OF LOVE; or, A SISTER'S SACRIFICE, supported by Mr. N. T. Hicks, Mr. W. Smith, Mrs. Vining, Miss Terry, &c. Places and private Boxes to be bad of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from eleven to four. HIGH W ATltit AT LONDON T BRIDGE HIS DAY. Horning...... 27,minutes after 31 Evening 48 minutes after . ‘, 001., • _ 41 111Z3, -- TcAr- , ,24.21 - 410 . : 411.1 . 111 rr s•!:: irt i e ni LONDON: FRID LY MORNING. OCTOBER 7, 1842. It is a theory, confirmed by experience, that what depends on the will of one man may be capricious, and cannot be reduced to any general laws ; but what depends on the will of a multi tude is not capricious, and is regulated by such laws. What, for example, e.an appear more ca pricious than the liking and attachments of young men and women ? at least we of the male rex speak proverbially of the fickleness of young la dirs and yet the records of every country show that the number of marriages, in proportion to the population, is much the same one year with another. The same is true of births, which also depend on individual passion and caprice. Or where any remarkable deviation occurs, either in marriages or births, it may in general be traced to, and accounted for, by some peculiar external circumstance, such as abundant or scanty har vests, prosperous or decaying trade, which only serve to prove more completely how much the actions of the multitude, even when they appear tae roost capricious, are under the guidance of •.,Nonefol laws. The same fact is true of the tuber of letters posted. The number of or 'ars which any individual tradesman may re ceive, by post, or the number of letters which Inca of pleasure and corresponding friends and relatives may wr it e , seems a matter of what, is called chance, yet we learn, front authr,n tic documents, that the number of letters Vans- mined by the Post-office, year after year., is ex tre niely steady; a n d we have, in the 'treat in crease of letters which has taken place, in conse optence of Mr. Atm.'s improvement, a remark able illustration of this apparently capricious circumstance being subjected to kriown, and, to save extent, calculable laws. It. i s a genera l kct, therefore, co nfirmed by 'much exper i ence, that however capricious may b the actions of an individual, the actions of a great multitude of individuals are not capricious, but are regular, and are determined by general laws. This well-known truth is as applicable to poli tics, as to any other branch of moral science ; and the regular march of the representative Govern ment of Great Britain, controlled by a large portion of the population—and, we may say, sonsiCering- the influence of the Press, con trolled by the bulk of the population—as contrasted with the less regular march of the Governments of Prussia or Austria, which merely depend on a Monarch and a Mi nist or—and with the still less regular march of the Government of the self willed SULTAN, is an illustration the correctness of which every Englishman will admit. In spite, however, of this truth being applicable to all nations and people, at all times, and necessarily making the march of a democracy more regular and steady than the march of a monarchy, we theind one ( )four Contemporaries breaki ng out yes terday into a furious tirade against the uncer tainty of the regulations and policy of CioYertrment of We United States. Such ob- servations are undoubtedly contrary to all theory, and, we think, contrary to the facts. The occasion of the tirade is, the recent altera tions in the American tariff; but so far from that being capricious or unexpected, it was long fore seen and foretold ; and, moreover, since the year 1816, the legislation of the United States has tended continually in that direction. Our Corn-laws (says Mr. Goddard, in a letter to the Birmingham Advertiser) having cut off this market for flour, and our money-laws having drained the States of specie, the manufacturing interest there became extremely active and clamorous ; and through holding up to the community as an example the pro hibitory laws of England, and enlarging on the loss of the English market for flour, and by urging through every possible channel the advantages and necessity of creating a home market for produce, by foste rin g their own manufactures, succeeded in passing through Congress the tariff of 1816. Still further derange ment being experienced through the action of our money-laws in 1821, 22, and 23 , the still higher tariff of 1824 was enacted ; and again, .from the same cause, the high discriminatory tariff of 1828 was forced through Congress ; the manufacturing . interest during this whole period being increasing their efforts in writing, speaking, and in every possible way in inculcating their own intereste d notions, and in in stilling into men's minds their peculiar views. W bile our trade has been year a fteryear exposed to alterations in duties in Germany, Spain, and Portugal, it has not been exposed to any such al terations of duties in the United States. The only memorable fluctuation in the policy of the United States, in respect to commerce, that occurs to us, which may not be easily outdone by the conduct of almost every monarchy in Europe, and in al most every year, was first chartering and then dischartering, the great monied corporation of the United States Bank. But even that change in the policy of the American Government and people was not accomplished without a long and arduous struggle, which gave warning to all parties concerned, while in a European monarchy such a change would have been accomplished on the instant, without any warning whatever. Comparing the alteration of the United States tariff with the ordonnance for raising the duties on linen yarn in France, we affirm that the latter was sudden and capricious compared to the long discussed and foreseen American tariff. Our Contemporary, like many other persons, mistakes, we believe, the form for the substance. Because the Bank of England has only un dergone one legislative change, while the banks of the Federal States have undergone several, he infers that here all is stability, and there all fluc tuation. In fact, however, the conduct of the Bank of England, though more regular, from being influenced by a numerous Proprietary and a body of Directors, than it would have been had it been under the sole guidance of anindividual, has been extremely capricious, now pushing out its notes, offering a large loan to the United States Bank, and anon screwing down the circulation to the lowest possible level, as the gold flowed into or flowed out of its coffers, or as its own apparent interest dictated. In fact, the capricious conduct of the Bank of England, according to the opi nion of the best informed merchants, had no little influence both in causing the excessive speculation in the United States in 1834 and 1835, and in paralyzing trade there in 1838. While a change in a Ministry has endangered the peace of Europe, or re-established the friendly relations which self-will and smart dip lomatic impertinence had endangered, the people of England have through many years relied on the steady friendship and steady policy of the United States, and have felt that many successive changes in the Presidents and in their Cabinets could have, because the people were friendly, little or no influence on the peaceful relations between the two nations. Nay, when differences have arisen between the Cabinets of England and America, rational and philanthropic men in both countries have invariably looked to the good disposition of the great multitude in both, and to the binding commercial interests of the many, to preserve that peace which the self-will of their respective rulers might en danger. We know no monarchy of Europe—not even that of Austria, under the guidance of Prince METTERNICH—Of Whtell the policy, com mercial and other, is so steady and so evidently under the influence of general laws, like the number of letters transmitted through the Post office, as the democracy of the United States. This perhaps theoretical discussion has an important practical bearing. On account of the asserted unsteadiness in the policy of the United States, trade with that country is decried, and it is said to be " shameful to think that the com fort of our people should be left to rest on a foundation like this." Nearly all that is un stable in the commercial policy of the United States may be traced to our own money opera tions, and all that is hostile to our own laws. The comfort of our people, therefore, rests, as it ought and must rest, on no other foundation than their own conduct and their own laws, and it is in their power to-morrow, by abrogating our own scandalous legislation, to place the trade be tween the two countries on the simple, uninterrupted, but broad basis, of the mutual wants of the two people. One year with another, our people would re quire an equal, or rather ever-increasing, quan tity of meat, flour, cheese, and cotton to be brought from the United States and, one year with another, the Americans would require an equal, or gradually increasing, quantity of woollen garments, scythes, and cutlery from England. The quantities required would be in both countries quite as regular, and quite as definite, as the number of marriages and births. Both would depend on the bellies to be filled in one country, and on the backs to be clothed in the other; and over those great natural circumstances human laws and commercial treaties can have but little influence. Free trade would place the commerce of both countries under the na tural laws of trade, and would release it alike from the caprice of an American Congress or that of a British Parliament. Unfortunately for the country, those who know the least possible about the natural foundations of trade in the mu tual wants of different men, and the natural laws which regulate it, persist in disturbing it by their own crude and mischievous restrictions. The friends of the priesthood, disguised under the term Church, have formed a dogged determi nation to obtain and secure for them a com plete ascendancy over society. We are to have more &shops as well as more Churches and more Rectors. It is again proposed to revive the Con vocation, that the English priesthood may, like ',Tile Presbyterian priesthood in the General As sembly, provide for the independent government of the Church, and beard the secular authority. The Church Courts are to be restored in all the fullness of ecclesiastical dominion. Hints are thrown out that the appointment of Bishops must be taken out of the hands of the Ministers, and not placed, as originally, in the hands of the congre gations, but given to the priesthood. Then these ()Teat ecclesiastical functionaries, much multi plied, placed each at the head of his Court, which they will use more effectually than the pulpit, P fielding the power of the whole clerical corpo ration, will, it is expected, be a complete match for the State, somewhat jealous of them, and will regain for the priesthood all the power they pos sessed in the dark ages. Only they, we are told, can deal with Chartism ; only they can counteract the effects of education; only they can offerany re. sistance to the " false principles" which threaten to disable the State; and they only can make the people virtuous. The State is to be taught that there is no safety for it but under the wing of the priesthood, and it is to be at once coaxed and bullied into making them supreme over all. That such designs are entertained, we are not at all surprised. We should, on the contrary, be surprised if they were not, as all political par ties conspire to assert that the services of the priesthood are essenti a l t o t h e well- b e i ng o f so ciety. Their determination to obtain a complete supremacy is the practical logical conclusion from the opinion that they cannot be dispensed w i t h. It being asserted and believed that they a re necessary to man's salvation, to which all other things are inconceivable trifles, they act only consistently with th at opinion in - claim ing supremacy over all otherpowers. Either we must deny their great utility, or we must prepare to submit to their sway. There is no alternative, and no middle course. When such inordinate pretensions are put forth on the part of the priesthood, it becomes us to examine their claims. Fortunately fur the public, even those who make the most ex travagant demands in favour of our own clergy, will join with us in saying that the Ro mish priesthood of Italy, Spain, France, and Ireland, are undeserving of confidence, and could well be dispensed with. The condition of those countries will bear out the opinion. Far from being at present the messengers of peace and good-will to men, the Presbyterian priesthood are sowing dissension in the land, and, by their example, exciting that re6istance to the legal authorities for which the Chartists are punished. The priesthood of the Church of England, it is admitted by their friends, were frozen down to " the accidental formulte" of two hundred years ago, and stood still while society was expanding around them, making no efforts to keep pace with its growth. Nay, they even expelled from amongst them men burning with zeal, full of activity and self-denial, able to move the hearts of thousands, and suffered them to lead into schism half the people. Now we arc required to believe that the priest hood, suddenly awakened to the loss of that power they have allowed to slip out of their hands, and ambitious only of imposing on the senses of mankind, and of regaining dominion over them by cunning and hypocritical contri vances, pretended purity, fasts, and vigils, are the only possible instruments for securing order, morality, and happiness in this world, as well as leading the way to salvation hereafter. Whatever the priesthood might have been during the dark ages, when they possessed all ) the knowledge which had been preserved of an cient Greece and Rome, when they were the most civilized order of men, and were far advanced in morality beyond the rude tribes that swarmed over Europe—at present they are not, either in knowledge, morality, or civilisation, superior to other men, and cannot be the sources of improvement. During the last two centuries they have not been, and we have, therefore, no reason whatever to believe that they can now again become, the leaders in civilization. Trade which unites foreign nations in friendly bonds, does not need to be, and is not, heralded by the priesthood. Division of labour, which makes men mutually dependent, mutually civil, and mutually forbearing, is not advanced by their instrumentality. The knowledge of the natural laws which regulate the course of society, and of the laws which determine the well-being of individuals on earth, which is indispensable to in creasing civilization, is rather retarded than pro moted by the priesthood, who treat such know ledge as vain and insufficient. To political free dom, which is essential to human happiness, they are opposed. They dread and resist the expansion of the popular mind. Far from being in any part of Europe at present the leaders of civilization, we find them everywhere resisting its progress, and everywhere endeavouring to hold back mankind to the knowledge of dark and barbarous ages. We boldly deny, therefore, the vast utility ascribed to the .priesthood; we deny that they are essential to civilization ; and we caution those who hold contrary opinions, that the priesthood mean to build up for themselves on their opinions, if they can, a great and en during power over the hearts and minds of their fellow-creatures. We see from the Edinburgh papers that Mr. Adam Black, the respectable publisher and bookseller, has given in his resignation as a Member of the Town Council. He contested the election for the office of Lord Provost last year, and lost it only by one or two votes. The papers do not furnish us with any reason for this desertion of his municipal duties. Is the whole body so bigoted and corrupt that an honest man cannot associate with them? LEICESTER-SQUARE LITERARY and SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION. Dr. Truman delivered a lecture at this Institution yesterday evening, upon the Chemistry of Animal Food. The Learned Lecturer opened his discourse by an explanatory account of the different elements of which animal food is composed, and spoke of their respective qualities in sequent order. Fibrine first attracted his attention. Chiefly obtained from the muscles of animals, it took upon itself all colours, ac cording to the creature of which it formed part. The bouilli of France was its best representative, as a sub stance in the mass, in which the original meat was deprived of its gelatine ; fibrine was also to be found in the papaw tree. Albumen, the most nutri tious of substances, existed in oysters to a great extent, and in its raw and uncoagulated state, per mitted dozens of them to be eaten with impunity : its coagulated state in the stewed oyster tended to a very different effect. Gelatine had its wholesome applications in a culinary point of view, with a variety of other uses. Osmozome was another substance, deriving its name from the Greek words, smell, and ?wp.oc, broth : its peculiarity consisted in giving that taste best designated by the expression, " savoury." Game and the unctuous flesh of grown animals had a remarkable share of it, as also the common mushroom. Mucus was the first formed and most primary of animal substances. Dr. Truman, after thus analysing the chemical substances of food, proceeded synthetically to enumerate the animals in which these were found in their compound form, as used for food and substance of nutrition by the people of various countries. The habits of various nations in this respect furnished a curious diversity of gastronomical tastes and epi curcanisms. As an instance of food eaten in its un mature and unsolidified state, the blind traveller Holman stated that at Fernando Po, a couple of lambs, grown to no more than six inches long, were served up to him by order of the King. Galen reports of swine, that their flesh possesses no less than fifty flavours, and is greatly assimilant in kind to human flesh. Du Chatelain relates that in his days, dogs and cats were eaten at Paris as they now are in China : indeed, Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander affirm that dog's flesh is the sweetest imaginable. At Rome, camel's heels were the choicest tit-bit for an epicure's tooth. Whales' tongues ranked among the delicacies feasted on in the middle century by Europeans. The Caffre eats his lion for food, and the traveller Bruce among them ate his lion-steak with gusto. A Rio Ja neiro friend, the Lecturer stated, had informed him that in that country an ordinary dish was a monkey pie ; in this, the head of the ape was left to appear above the crust for ornament, in the style of the feet in our pigeon-pies. The turkey, it appears, which is about to adorn our Christmas tables, was first eaten in France in 1579, at a royal marriage, though brought over some fifty years earlier by the Jesuits ; it is a native of America or West India, from which originates its French name of Dindon, or d'hule don, " the gift of India." Among reptiles, continued the Lecturer, the class consumed wa s no t numerous : th e nutritious turtle was l.oh redr there d h c e bo chief.cos t lessne was h ß a .asrnesoduuffiirnctiteeheneft for. r e m s a e uh r t v u e s of Jamaica, they Steam-boat traffic, as it increases, t will l e adntdr greatlythee n trenchermen. foaler tn en f multi ply the supply of this commodity. Of other reptiles, the rasa escidenta of France was mentioned. Touch ing upon fish as food, Dr. Truman remar k e d th a t it was, from its specific nature, not calculated to fill out the solid parts of the body., Owing to this fact, jockeys wishing to reduce their weight antecedent to a race, fed upon it. The old Greeks consid ere d it t o be food productive of effeminacy ; the Romans at first disdained it, till they alit upon one Ash which, from its rarity and deliciousness, they called " the brain of Jupiter ;" and at a later age the Senate was called together expressly to consider of the dressing of a turbot. Dr. Franklin originally had a great antipathy to eating cod fish. He considered it cruel to eat that which was inoffensive and harmless of nature. One day, upon this ground, the frying-pan was disencumbered of one thitt had been put upon ithe fire for his ccenacular repast. The cook, however, happened to open it while the Doctor still lingered down stairs. In its stomach appeared half-a-dozen smaller types of itself. " Ho, ho !" said the famed experimentalist, " if you eat each other, I see no harm in eating you." From that day the Doctor's scruples vanished, and he ate of the Newfoundland bouncers as heartily as any one. The talented Lecturer concluded his remarks with some excellent strictures upon milk, and expatiated upon the generality of cannibalism among most abo riginal nations. The audience was crowded and attentive ; and the curious disquisitions of the Lecturer received frequent awards of applause. In addition, we observed with pleasure that the reading-rooms of this admirable and long-established institution are fully attended, and the excellent advantages which its extensive library, lec ture-rooms, and classes for languages present, are participated in by numerous members both of the City and West-end. The Lord Chancellor arrived in town on Wednes day. his Lordship left his residence in George-street yesterday afternoon, for Turville Park, Buckingham shire. COURT CIRCULAR. Wispson, THURSDAY. — The Queen and Prince Albert walked for some time this morning on the Terrace of the Castle and in the Home Park. In the afternoon her Majesty rode out in a car riage and four, attended by the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Lady in Waiting, and the Hon. Miss Stanley and Hon. Miss Hamilton, Maids of Honour in Waiting. His Royal Highness Prince—filbert was . on horseback, attended by Lord Rivers, and the Equer ries in Waiting. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was taken an airing to-day. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe - Weimar, arrived on Wednesday evening at Marl borough House, the residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, from Manchester. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. The Postmaster-General and the Hon. Edward Stewart, Deputy Chairman of the Customs, had in terviews yesterday with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, in Downing-street. Sir John and Lady Shelley are on a visit to Shrub lands, the seat of Sir Wm. Middleton, Bart. REFUSAL TO PERMIT THE IM PORTATION OF CATTLE. (From the Guernsey Star of Monday, Oct. 3.) COURT OF CHIEF PLEAS, GUERNSEY, OCT. 3. The Assembly of Chief Pleas was held this day, his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, who has a de liberating voice, but no vote at the meeting, was pre sent during the whole of the sitting. The Court hav ing, at a meeting of the Royal Court on the 24th of September, heard counsel on the petition presented by the town Douzaine, praying for the repeal of several ordinances, some of them restraining, and one of them prohibiting, the importation into this island (Guern sey) of cows and heifers from France, passed the fol lowing ordinances :- 1 "1. That no foreign—therefore no English—bull ' shall be imported without the permission of the Court, under pain of a fine of 100 limes tournois, and con fication of the animal. _ "2. That all foreign female calves, heifers, and cows, imported into the island, shall be marked with the letter F on the left shoulder and right thigh, by being branded with a hot iron. " 3. That on the arrival of such cattle to the island information thereof shall be given to the harbour master before they are allowed to quit the quay, un der a penalty of 30 livres tournois, and that they shall there be branded under his direction, the importer paying 10d. per head for the cost of the operation. 4. That such cattle shall be slaughtered within six months of their importation, under a penalty of 100 livres tournois. - " 5. That all calves born of foreign cows in the island, shall be slaughtered within two months of their birth." Our time will not permit us to notice at any length the proceedings of the Court of Chief Pleas in this, but we shall do so in our next, especially in regard to the splendid piece of legislation which they have per formed in regard to foreign cows. We mast satisfy ourselves at present with asimplbag that the Act which they have passed will satisfrto one, and must either exist as a dead letter, or be speedily and uncondition ally repealed. One thing, however, we cannot allow to pass without a word of reprobation. The Act directs that foreign cows, landed in this island, shall be branded. Now, this is an operation which inflicts great pain upon an animal, and which ought not to be for one instant tolerated. Some years ago the Court forbade the practice of bleeding calves and oxen, be cause it was cruel, andyet, by their present ordinance, they give their sanction to a much more painful prac tice. Let the members of the Court consult their own feelings, and then declare to which they would most object—to suffer a moderate bleeding, or to be branded with a red-hot iron. LONDON AND WESTMINSTER REVIEW. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sru,—May I, by your kind permission, correct in your columns some mistakes respecting my connection with the London and 'Westminster Review, which appear in the Number just pub lished of the Westminster .Review' The following is the erroneous statement : " The Review was subsequently. purchased by Sir William Molesworth, a nd united to the Lon don Review, conducted by Mr. John Mill, and assisted by Mr. J. Robertson, as literary editor." Short as this sentence is its mistakes are seve ral. I never was in any way concerned in the management of the _London Review. At the union of the London and Westminster Renkws I was not connected with either, except as a contributor of a single article to the former. Sir William Molesworth was only the proprietor of a single Number during my editorship. When I had the honour of conducting the London and Westminster Review the distinction made by Mr. Bentham between what he characteristically called—the half consecrated to morals, and the half left for literary insignificances between the political part and flowery part, was not kept up.,l I became sole editor of the London and West- minter Review in Februayy, 1837, and continued in this relation to it until it was placed in the hands of its present p r oprietor and editor , in April, 1840. - With the exception of the Number for July, 1837, the proprietor, during the whole period of my editorship, was Mr. John Mill. ThiS statement is necessary to prevent merits, faults, opinions, and objects, not mine, from being ascribed to me. M y successor is making laudable efforts to abolish the anonymous in criticism, not the least of the evils of which is that it is every no w and then destroyed on 'nig* taken information, and literary men are saddled with positions, productions, and responsibilities not their own. I have the honour to be, Sir, your's, obediently, JOHN ROBERTSON. I Reform Club, Oct. 6, 1842. EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SVICIDII. -- On Tuesday morning last, about five o'clock, as a gentle. man who is living in the house of Mr. Ross, an officer in the Customs, of No. 6, York-street West, Com mercial-road, was standing at the window of his bed room, he was surprised at seeing a man rush along the garden and precipitate himself head foremost into a large water-butt. The gentleman instantly ran down and endeavoured to extricate him, but finding it impossible to effect it without assistance, the man's feet only being above water, he called Mr. Ross, and after some time they succeeded in getting him out. He was insensible; but a surgeon having been sent for; he was at length sufficiently revived to admit of his being carried home. It appears that he is the son of a green-grocer, named Freeman, living at No. 76, Whitehorse-street, Stepney. He is 25 years of age, and has lately been much addicted to drink. On the night previous to the attempt on his life he was so much excited that it was not deemed prudent to leave him alone, and his father and mother were in the room with him on Tuesday morning when he rushed past them out of the house, and made the attempt as above stated. He must have climed over two high walls in order to reach Mr. Ross's garden. On reco vering from the effects of his immersion, lie was found to be in a state of madness, and was removed to Rat cliffe workhouse, where he now lies. LEWES.--DETERMINED SUICIDE.—An inquest was held on Wednesday at the Snow Drop (a house so called in consequence of its being the site of an ava lanche, attended with loss of several lives five years ago), before - Mr. Gell, Coroner for East Sussex, on the body of Samuel Hillman, bargemaster and collec tor of tolls in . the Ouse Lower Navigation. From the evidence adduced, it appeared that about eleven o'clock on Monday morning the deceased was found hanging in a stable occupied by Mr. Cooter, in the Cliff Chalk Pit, and on the body being cut down, his throat was discovered to have been severely cut, but not sufficiently toNestroy life. -It would appear that, finding the first attempt at self-destruction ineffectual, he carefully fastened the stable-door by means of a rope, and then suspended himself over the door by means of a handkerchief fastened to a nail. When cut down deceased was quite dead. It further appeared in evidence that the deceased had of late been very melancholy, owing - to his inability to balance his accounts as collector to the Ouse Navigation Com pany. The Jury returned a verdict, that " Deceased destroyed himself while insane." Deceased, who is of a highly respectable family, has left a wife (who is dangerously ill) and ten children to deplore his end. A letter from Vienna of the 20th ult. says:—" The municipality of our capital - has just completed an establishment unique in its kind in Germany, or per haps in the world—a swimming school for the winter. The premises of this useful institution are composed of a room of red marble, 1631 feet long and 46 wide, covered with a vaulted roof of glass supported by 18 cast-iron columns with composite capitals. In the middle of the room is the basin, 122 feet long and 40 wide, lined with earthenware, behind which are pipes for conveying steam, in order to k€ep the water at a certain temperature. Round the room are two rows of closets for dressing, heated, as well as the room itself, by hot air. Twelve huge lustres for gas, sus pended from the roof, give light to the place until eleven o'clock at night." THE PRIVATE TERRACE AT WINDSOR CASTLE.— The public, for the future, will be admitted upon the eastern terrace at Windsor Castle, which is opposite to the private apartments of the Sovereign , on the after noons of every Saturday an d Sunday, from two o'clock until sunset. This new regulation will take effect from Saturday next, and will be continued through out the winter. The north terrace, which is open to the public daily, is also closed at sunset. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 7, 1842. Published this day, price ls. 6d. by the circumstances of the case. What is there T IIE ORAL LAW and its DF EENDERS. 4/ disgraceful" in people being strongly affected Review. By A SCRIPT URALIST. by an irresistible appeal made to their sense of Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-row. I justice and compassion ? We look upon Mr. ADOLPHUS' impassioned retort as one of the happiest and most effective ever delivered in a Court of Law ; its appeal is direct to the heart; and he must have been more or less than man who could have heard it unmoved. And yet we are gravely and oracularly told that all those who were affected by its truth, and force, and pathos, acted disgracefully in ailovcing feelings so creditable to their nature to escape them, and deserved to be punished severely as offenders against the awful etiquette of a Police Court! Surely this is being punctilious over much ! Police Courts are often in roars of laughter when some absurd drunken frolic of an - Irishman, or a Captain SNooKs, is brought under the cognizance of justice, and no Magistrate ever dreams of reprehending such levity, but on the contrary, enjoys the joke quite as much as the spectators--especially if he happen to be a Lord Mayor or an Alderman, in which case Ile is sure to be a wag. Why, then, should the momentary interruption occasioned by an involuntary out burst of serious natural emotion be so vehemently objected to by the Marylebone Magistrate ? This is a question to which, we apprehend, no rational answer can be made. PHE EDINBURGH REVIEW,No.CLIII., ill be published on THURSDAY NEXT, the 13th inst. CONTIANTS. 1. ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE. v. THE HON. AND REV. MR. KEPPEL'S LIFE OF ADMIRAL LORD KEPPEL. 3. TAYLOR'S EDWIN THE FAIR. 4. BERRYER'S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL RECOLLECTIONS. 5. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA-ITS CONSTITUTION AND DEPARTMENTS. 6. MADAME DE SEVIGNE AND HER CONTEMPORARIES. 7. THE NEW UNIVERSAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. S. THE LATE SESSION OF PARLIAMENT. London : Longman, Brown, :and Co. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black 14..?4 1 / 4 "1) 14^' 24°1'4,13 *trontrMbittott (SUN OFFICE Thrce o' Clock. We regard the news brought by the Overland Mail, though meagre, as, on the whole, favourable. They come, be it remembered, not direct from the Indian ,Government or English correspon dents, but through a French medium, which, from mistake or design, has generally given an incorrect and unfavourable view of the state of affairs in our Eistern empire. According to the previous telegraphic despatch, " sickness and want of provisions were decimating the army" in Affghanistan, and discontent among the troops was at its height, all which statements were utterly devoid of truth; and we are, therefore, warranted in attaching little importance to the modified ac count that " sickness still prevails among the different divisions of the army," as well as to the assertion that more men bad been lost in taking possession of a small place like Chapoo than in any other affair with the Chinese. One fact, however, appears certain, that the army west of the Indus had been ordered to march on Caubul in opposition to the opinion and direct instruc tions of the Governor-General of India. When Lord ELLE4BOROUGH was appointed to the office which he now holds we had great mis givings as to his judgment, spirit, and general qualifications for such an impor tant trust, and the orders issued by him for the recal of the army •certainly justified the worst suspicions. He is an eloquent speaker, and may possibly have been a useful man of business when under the guidance and con trol of an able chief ; but as regards moral courage under difficulties, grand conceptions, energy, and dignified appearance a mat ter of some importance in the East—few 1 men would give him any credit for being pre eminent. Had he been allowed to follow the bent of bib timid mind the English army would have been for ever disgraced, our vast possessions in India seriously endan gered, and the treacherous barbarian, who had murdered unoffending women and helpless soldiers in thousands, been exalted to the highest honours. It is fortunate, therefore, that there are men in the Cabinet of a different stamp, who have some regard for the honour of their country, and some sympathy for the sufferings and shame of British soldiers. We do not take into account the absolute justice or the expe diency of the war. It may have been necessary for the safety of our Eastern empire ; or not ; we look simply to the fact that a truce was entered into, arms and ammunition were given up, and a solemn engagement made that our troops should pass through the country unmolested. The awful result it is needless to recount. Inde- At the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Notting hamshire Agricultural Association, which took place on Tuesday last, Mr. GALLY KNIGHT ob served that the " exhibition of stock had been so excellent as to allay all . fears of the quality and breed of our animals being excelled by neighbouring or other nations." We hope this remark which, as coming from a decided Tory, is of more than ordinary moment—will tend to reconcile the agriculturists to the Tariff, and convince them that their doubts of its safe and salutary operation are in a great measure unfounded. For our own part, we cannot express our joy at hearing that a free born British bullock will still maintain its superiority over one born and educated 'iii Holland or Belgium, for our rump- I steaks and sirloins have long been, like our Constitution, the " envy and wonder of surrounding nations," and it would be a grievous shock to our patriotism, were our acknowledged excellence in this respect ever to be surpassed by foreigners. At the same agri cultural - meeting, Mr. NORTON—who, we believe, is also a Tory—made some ob servations on the late changes in the Corn-law, which evince a moderation and even liberality of sentiment strikingly at variance with the opinions of those who assert that agri culture is on its last legs, having been brought to that lamentable state of decrepitude by the in judicious nostrums of the Tamworth Doctor. A report was current at Madrid, on the 28th that Government had received important news from Valencia, which city had been threatened for sometime with serious disturbances. It was even asserted that an insurrection had taken place, and that the insurgents had insisted that the QUEEN'S majority should be fixed at 18 years of age. The Peninsular of the 28th ult. publishes a letter from Algesiras, stating that on the 17th ult. a British officer, belonging to the Admiral's ship, presented himself at the port of St. Philip with two boats filled with troops, and ordered the commander of the Spanish guard-ship to withdraw. One of the Spanish officers imme diately landed and apprised the commander of the troops of the line, who immediately assem bled his men, and marched them to the sea shore: The English officer then asked whether he was on the Spanish territory, and on being answered in the affirmative, he withdrew with out further explanation. Private letters from Madrid state, that on the' day appointed to receive tenders for the new loan of 40,000,000 of reals, no offers had been received by the Minister of Finance. On the Madrid Bourse, on the 28th ult. 1,800,000 reals were sold in the Three per Cents. at 211 at GO days. The Five per Cents. were done at 26 for cash, and 251 26 261 1 9-16 at 60 days, with prime and 11 coupons due ; 21i. cash with 3 coupons. pendent, however, of the disgrace, every one but Lord ELLENBOROUGH must be aware of the unfavourable impression such a retreat from that country would have made on the petty Princes and people of India, and we are therefore bound in self-defence to recover our position, and con vince our enemies that England cannot be be- trayed or insulted with impunity. For the safety of the unfortunate prisoners we are as anxious as their nearest friends, but no one can success fully contend that surrendering every point of honour, and yielding to every demand made by a treacherous foe, are the only means of effecting their release. The prisoners themselves, if we may judge of the magnanimous conduct of Lady SALE, would be the very last to sanction such ignoble proceedings. The Paris papers of Wednesday contain un favourable news from the seat of war in Africa lt appears that General CH A NGARNIER, a highly distinguished officer, had marched to the western frontiers of the . province of Oran, and invaded the territory of some tribes which had not yet been visited by French troops, where he expe rienced a most vigorous resistance from their warlike population. The Arabs fought during two days with a courage amounting to heroism and are supposed (no doubt correctly) to have sustained ~considerable loss. In ttiese conflicts the Frenclecoti ess to have had 150 men killed, and wounded, including six officers killed, and amongst others Lieutenant SEBASTIAN', nephew of Marshal Count SEBASTIAN'. Our eloquent Contemporary, the Morning .Herald, has evidently been taking lessons lately in description of GEORGE ROBINS ; and to do him justice, he bids fair with a little practise to surpass his illustrious master. We hope GEORGE will not be jealous, but really if he do not look well to his laurels, he will stand a fair chance of having them filched from him, and being thrown into total eclipse by the superior effulgence of our Contemporary's graphic genius. But not only does the Herald exhibit descriptive powers of the highest and rarest order, but he exhibits also a genius for the un grammatical, which, if properly cultivated, may entitle him to claim equal renown with the late lamented SIMPSON of Vauxhall—that lofty and daring violator of the petty, vulgar niceties and proprieties of Syntax. Here is a speci men of our Contemporary's anti-syntactical peculiarities, which it would be difficult to equal, and scarcely possible to surpass : " The oldest individual living cannot remember such a long duration of seasonable, and the most beautiful and invigorating autumnal weather as the present, it being chilly and misty in the mornings, until the glorious orb of day comes forth in his strength and magnificence, dispelling the hoary dews till he hastens on the noon of day,rife with resplendency, warmth, and beauty ; and having passed the southern hemisphere, and travelled some stages towards the gorgeous west, his power subsides, the air becomes chill, yet clear and bracing, evening draws her sable cur tain round, and dark and dewy night succeeds." What a glorious confusion reigns throughout this impressive description ! What a happy in congruity of images! What an exquisite infeli city of epithets ! Metaphors—no matter how harmless and unoffending—are subjected to the cruellest compound fractures, and poor Pais- CIAN'S head is broken in the very first sentence. Again we say, look to your laurels, GEORGE, or the Herald, with its fine imaginative comparison of the sun to a stage-coach passenger " travel ling some stages towards the gorgeous west,' , will assuredly tear them from your brows, 'and leave your scalp as bald as a turnip ! The Courrier Francais publishes the follow ing account, dated Algiers, September 25, of the affair : ‘: General Changarnier's column, 2,500 strong, had arrived in the aghalick of Onaz, between Milianah and Mascara, when the Arabs and Kabyles of that district, re-inforced probably by the troops of the Emir, at tacked them with extraordinary fury. The combats succeeded each other so ',rapidly, that for two whole days they were fighting with swords and bayonets, or within pistol- shot. Our column could not be shaken, but it obtained no result of any importance. The troops behaved admirably, but the balls did not spare them, and we had one hundred men either killed or wounded. Whether it was that the officers exposed themselves too much, or that they were particularly aimed at by the enemy, it is certain that the number of them who were killed or wounded is out of all proportion with that of the private sol diers. The loss of the enemy has been considerable, but ours has been very important, for MM. Moran gies and Magagnos, who have fallen, were two of the bravest and most experienced officers in the army of Africa. It is probable that a new expedition from General Changarnier's column, the garrisons of Mill ana and Medeah, and the column of D'Arbouville, will be sent into the country of the Braz." The Ilioniteur Parisien accounts for this cala-. mitous affair in a different manner, and repre sents the loss of the French as less important : " General Changarnier," says that journal, " was attacked suddenly by forces very superior in number to his own, and we have to deplore a pretty consider able loss,', including several officers, amongst whom are mentioned the following :—M. Laplanche,: of the staff, attached to the Zouaves, and M. Sebastiani and M. Maquards, of the same corps, and M. Denantes, of the Ist regiment of African Chasseurs." The 2floniteur Parisien does not give the de tails 'or even the date of this affair, but it must have taken place on the 19th ult., as the death of Lieutenant SEBASTIANI is stated by the Mar seilles journals to have taken pl►ce on that day. In his march to Tekedempt, from Mostaganem, the French General D'ARBOUYILLE likewise met with unexpected and determined resistance, and was obliged to fall back, with the loss of 9 killed and 6 wounded. An incident occurred yesterday at the Mary lehone Police-office, during the investigation of the strange case of ALICE Lows, who was charged with having robbed Lord FRANKFORT, with whom she cohabited, of articles of jewellery to a large amount, which is well worthy of notice, exhibiting, as it does, magisterial cant— and where is solemn, ultra-dignified cant more in vogue than among our Police Magistrates ? in a very edifying and characteristic light. Mr. ADOLPHUS having subjected the noble com plainant to a cross-examination, the evident ob ject of which was to show that his judgment was at times not quite so unclouded as it might be, Mr. CLARKSON interfered, apprehensive that his Lordship's sensibilities might receive too severe a shock, if his Learned Friend's questions were continued in so searching a spirit. The rest of the 'incident we give in the words of the Reporter : Mr. Clarkson here made some observations relative to the painful situation in which his Lordship was placed by the line of cross-examination which had been adopted, when he was interrupted by Mr. Adolphus, who said with much emphasis—And don't you think the poor gill standing now at the bar feels her situation equally paiVul, if not more so A number of persons here simultaneously cried, " Bravo," and, by the clapping of hands and stamping their feet on the floor, caused an interruption of some moments to the proceedings. The worthy Magistrate spoke with a proper degree of warmth with respect to the highly improper and in decorous ebullition of feeling which had been evinced, and stated, that in the event of a similar disgraceful scene being enacted, the parties so offending would, I if pointed out to him, be severely dealt with. This virtuous indignation on the part of the Magistrate seems to .us to be utterly uncalled-for The province of Tlemecen was perfectly tran quil. In that of Constantina there had been sonic fighting, in the direction of Setif and Bugia. General SYLLEGTJ having left the for mer place to levy contributions among the neigh bouring tribes, came up with a large body of Kabyles, whom he attacked and dispersed, with the loss of 100 of their number killed, and many wounded, having had himself 55 men put hors de combat. At. Bugia, the Arabs made a desperate attack upon the French advanced posts, but after a fruitless attempt to carry some of the blockhouses they retreated, leaving, ' stated, 100 men dead on the field. The division which was to march to the East, under the com mand of the Governor-General, had been or dered to rendezvous in advance of the Maison Carree on the 29th ult. It was to consist of nine battalions of infantry, 400 cavalry, two sec tions of mountain artillery, and two of rampart guns, and a detachment of engineers. The column was to take provisions for twenty days, and to bring with it 500 oxen. This news produced a very unpleasant im pression on the public mind in Paris on Wed. nesday. The Commerce seems to anticipate another coup (fetal from ALM LERS for the purpose of restor , - ing that gentleman to office. " The commerciat union between France and Belgium," it.says, , exclusively, solely, and absolutely for the bener.i fit of Belgium. This fact is well-known and ad.l- 1 4 !nutted, but it is added that these ' sacrifices. f i will be compensated for by political advantages.`: Now, Ave maintain that the sole political.,!,!; advantages which could compensate for the daft gers of a commercial union would be a complete. union between the tr.° countries." "M. THIERS,' . it. asserts elsewhere, "is a party to this scheme, and it is thought by his partisans that the mo ment is favourable for opening this ne fir breach." We have received the Smyrna papers of the 19th instant. The Journal de Sinyrne of that day an nounces the arrival of Admiral La Susse, in the Inflexible, the Grenadier corvette, the brig La Fleche, and the Santi Petri, from Ourlac. The British corvettes, Beacon and . Magicienne, and the Medea frigate had also arrived. A letter from Alexandria, Sept. 10th, says:— " The Vanguard and Cambridge arrived. at Bey rout, and left instantly, (after communicating with the Cyclops) it is said for Candia. Prohably: the next troubles will be with Greece. The 'Egyptian fleet is still out of port, though in sight almost every day.—Le Constitutionnel. BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 118 75... 118 80... 118 70... 118 75 3 per Cents 80 ... 80 05... 79 90... 79 90 Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5045 ...5045 —.5045 ...5045 Belgian Fives 1840, ex dividend lO3 ... 1031 ... 103 ... 103% Threes 7l ... 71 10... 71 ... '7l 10' Spanish Active 21% ... 22 ... 21% ... 22 Passive ... 3 ... 3k Old Deferred 3% ... ... 3% ... Portuguese Fives Neapolitan lO7 60... 107 75... 107 60... 107 7 5 Roman RAILWAY SHARES_ St. Germain B3O ... 830 ... 830 830 • Versailles, R. B 255 ... 255 ... 255 ... 255 • L.B 9B 75... 98 75... 98 75... 98 75 Rouen Orleans. 578 75... 578 75... 578 75.... 578 75 Strt sburg to Bale 205 ... 205 ... 205 ... 205 OVERLAND MAIL INDIA AND CHINA, ..„ We have received the following telegrams - . :?'' phic dispatch, in anticipation of the anxiously.. expected Overland Mail from India. It arrived in Paris on Wednesday, and was immediaiebt published. folo' „ l: I , The dates are from Calcutta the lath, frovVvot Bombay the 27th of August, and from Macs 4 0 113 t the 7th of June. •t! . Of . 0 The dispatch is as follows : -'• ,41 1) 0 " MALTA, SEPT. 30. .: -) '" fl " The Oriental arrived this morning, bringing , ' I ,, ' I the following intelligence, extracted from th e .0 . Overland Mail : . . " Brigadier Monteith had gained several sue- ' ~ 1 cesses at Pesh Bolak, and in the Valley of Shur- ~ s warree. " Satisfactory intelligence bad been received .• from Lady Sale and the other prisoners. " Colonel Palmer (the late Commandant at Ghuznee) was dead. " General Pollock remained in the same po' sition. " It was reported that General Nott had re' ceived orders to march forward on the 29th of July, and it was expected that he would be before Caubul on the 6th of September. . • " Sutler Jung had surrendered himself to the British forces at Candahar, and Colonel Wyele r had destroyed several forts at the distance of 80 miles north of that place. " Sickness continued to prevail in the differen t divisions of the army. " From China, the last accounts are from Ati" cao, and are dated June the 7th. " Our forces had taken possession of Chape° , ' and in so doing had suffered more loss than ill any previous engagement in China. Very jul" portant news from that country is expected by the next mail." Chapoo is a fine harbour, about fifty mile s (I. north of Ningpo, lying on the other side of the bay of Hangtchou, and is considered the great emporium for vessels engaged in the Japan trade. It has been occupied, no doubt, with a viet to further operations, embracing Nankeett asd : other large cities in that populous and # 11 :: district. It is only forty-five miles from fra l4 ; tchou, where the Grand C ana l t erm inates, an': owing to its position and trade, is conside red place of much importance. ,;1 CHINA, INDIA, AN AFFGHANISTAN• 00 0 0014 (From the Times.) J.(l Our dispatches in anticipation of the Ma il frau India have arrived, bringing ] intelligence fro, ', I I Bombay to the 28th from Calcutta to th e 131 u ~},:tt of August, and from China to the 6th of June. , 4 The most remarkable fact mentioned the letter of our correspondent, is the de cision taken by the Governor-General td° send forward the troops from Candahar an s Jellalabad to Caubul. This decision aPP e l f , to have been adopted immediately on til" receipt of dispatches, which reached India by .04 the mail that left England on the sth of Jalle c i Notwithstanding the efforts of two preju dice journals, one of Calcutta and the other of 1 3 ° 1 r bay, by even unwarranted statements to lead public opinion as to the mean s ° 5 carrying forward the campaign, and 1 ; 1 ` to the advantages which such a pro cee ` l ir i ing WAS calculated to produce, this de e , 1 ,: , sion of the British Government appear s ffla have given general satisfaction. There had Pre viously existed throughout India a strong feel ,d ofdissatisfaction, to which some of the journals " 1; afforded a decided vent. That discontent w ° ' its origin from the presumed apathy cf t he e --`!;; new Governor-General, who, having 0 ,1, months back taken himself away from u t cutta, seemed in his comparatively retire t retreat at Allahabad to have resolved V I % I cif the troops should be left to inaction fit Candahar, and to suffer a variety of misery Jellalabad. The soldiers expressed their eager ness to be led against the enemy, and in Pa, ct „'; . cular against the murderer Akbar Khan "*„ 44 the order for the onward movement had b ee' delayed by Lord Ellenborough. The e fforo the Government had, however, in the inte r : l ,l i been actively directed to supply the troops every requisite. The force at Candahar, tit l ";., General Nott, was so well furnished with c 3 y riage cattle as to be able in July to move in ° be direction. The spirit of those troops maY iwo learned from the following anecdote :—t - te that General was told that he should eva c— bv Affghanistan, he is said to have inquired r which route, whether by Quetta backwar ds, -i‘ to Caubul forwards?" of The Candahar army having, on the 30th July, received the welcome notice for a o l i ° ; 4 1: ,g ment, was ordered to form into two (-P . .," J' i( si4ons : the one under General England to P t ' ceed (towards Quetta, and the other 1111 " t, „i General Nott to move to the " ° % l ward. These two divisions are thus c ? 0 '; posed : under General England, tile 1 3011°- ' troops, which are coming towards the In a l , ° .; viz.—Cooper's troop of Horse Artillery, B 011°e „ 0 3 battery (six-pounders), detachment of P°' Horse ; two Ressalahs, Christie's Horse Bombay Native Infantry ; Company's I I 4 ight Battalion; Ist, 2d, and sth late fle i 'j n , Irregular Infantry. Under General NoltP Bengal troops, 'with her Majesty's regit ° l -4 9g about to gather fresh laurels, viz.—L es ,:;, c t o troop of Horse Artillery, Anderson's °'"l,,;“ ,s ditto, Blood's nine-pounder battery, der° ,011 tnant of Bengal and Madras Rappers, a d 13° 1 ,fr bay Cavalry, Haldane and Christie's Horseyi Majesty's 40th and 41st Regiments, rot “ i 0 38th, 42d, and 43d Regiments of Benga l -' 3 O- i " c ll ,l Ibfantry, 3d or Craigie's Irregular InfantrY• latter division has taken the battering train, fact indicates a disposition not to spare th e A go % ghan fortresses, and especially Ghtanee no Claubul. The abandonment of Candahar see „ to be decided on, for a general des truction tird ghns, ammunition, and small arms, whi ch c i (l ai re not be conveniently removed, was sta ted to '' t h e 4ken place. Among other arrangements, distribution of warm clothing to the gal . :! • ;1 ,1 r;~~ ,~: (.10 /