The Sun. — London, England, 1842-09-29 00:00:00

GIV S s KING' ,argains, for g er Ste a k ' d sit 4 .01 01 ,01' 4 , 0 1$ 1 tY v eo o f : tens° t , P be bo ut 600 tte° 10 , boo s pas s c , - o rii hove SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY. Cesarewitch Stakes.-3 to 1 agst Flor,:nce-10 to 1 agst Ralph (0-10 to 1 agst Bellissima —ll to 1 agst Portrait-12 to 1 agst Arcanus (t)-14 to 1 agst Thistle Whipper (t)-14 to 1 agst Heelington (0. Derby, 1843.-11 to.l - agst A British Yeoman (t) —2,5 to 1 agst Cotherstone (t)-25 to 1 agst Philip (0-417 to 1 agst Winesour-35 to 1 agst Queen of Trumps c (t)- 40 to 1 agst Black Drop -16 to 1 agst Sir G. Heath ,sote's let 40-5 to 4 on Cotherstone agst Winesour. NEWMARKET,... -MONDAY NIGHT. The Hopeful Stakes of 40 sovs. each, h. ft., for two yrs .old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 51b, &c. Last half of Lb. M. Capt. Colquitt's Pickpocket ...............(B. Edwards) 1 buke of Rutland's fby Bizarre, out of Minx's dam 0 Mr. Ford's f Poison ..... 0 Lord Albemarle's Tacit; 4 Col. Peel's c by Slane, out of V u lt ure Lord Exeter's Iby Sultan or Revelle—Rhadamantha 6 2to I ugst Bizarre filly-4 to 1 agst Poison-4 to 1 'vst. P ickpocket —and 4to 1 agst Tilcho. Won cleverly by a length ; a dead heat For second. netting in the Evening.-7 to 1 agst Belissima (0-- 10 to 1 agst Portrait (t)-10 to 1 ,agst Blue Bonnet (t, and afterwards off)-12 to 1 agst 'Florence (t)-12 to 1. agst Ralph. Richmond Cup. —5 to 4, 11 to 8; and 6 to 4 laid on Sally agst Beeawing, not p. p. Entry for D. J. Plate.—Bridegraotn, Buffalo, and Everilda. handicap, D.M.—Rosalind, 3 yrs, Bst sib—Manta colt, 3 yrs, 6a 91b—Saros, 3 yrs, 7st 51b. The filly and b'aros having declared, the race is void. Match. —Lord Albemarle's Ralph receives from Mr. Payne's Johnny. (RECEIVED THIS MORNING.) ARRIVALS.—Le Duc de Richelieu, Duke. of Rutland, Marquis of Exeter, Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Marl S,ratibrolce ; Lords G. Bentinck, John Fitzroy, W. Poulett, Walpole, and Ipswich ; Sirs D. Baird and Shelley ; Hons. G. Anson, G. Fitzroy, H. and Mrs. I ° 4l s, General and Mrs. Grosvenor, Colonel and Lady Alice l'eel, Mr. and Mrs. Thornhill, Mr. and Mrs. Thornhill, junior ; Messrs. Irby, Gardnor, Ives, Hig gs, Payne, Newton, Newton,jun„ Greene, Stanley, Graham, Powell,Waddington, Towneley, Daintrec, *lec• The weather wretched, the attendance thin, and the sport moderate. As a commentary on . Mr. Osbaldeston's match, run this afternoon, a new one has been made for Mond a y i n Illy Hought on Meeting---Buffalo, Bst 71b, against The Devil among the Tailors (now a gelding), Bst ; 100 sows., h ft. T.Y.C. WEDNESDAY'S RACES. For the D. M. Handicap this afternoon only three Jaorso.s were named, Saros, Rosalind, and the Manta colt. 10.64 the first two having been scratched within the time t!escribed by t h e condit i ons, the race was void. The T. Y. C. Handicap did not fill, and Johnny havinc , paid forfeit to Ralph. a list that at one time looked like four rae , is at least, was reduced to a match, and a D. I. plate, with three entrances. The members seem to be reserv ing themselves and their horses for the Second October and Houghton Meetings, for which great things are promised. Of the two events decided this afternoon the followiug are the particulars : Match, 100, h ft. T. Y. C. Duke of Bedford's Magog, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (E. Edwards 0 Mr. Gre gory ' s U na, 4 yrs, Bst 71b ............. (Chapple)) 0 Even betting. A dead heat. 50/. for 3 yrs old, 7st 51b ; 4 yrs, Bst 81b ; 5 yrs, Bst 131 b ; 6 yrs, and aged, 9st. D. I. Mr. Rogers's Bridegroom, 3 yrs (Bartholomew) 1 Ur. Pettit's Everilda, 3 yrs .... 2 Won easy. Mr. Sadler's Testy arrived here on Tuesday for the Rutland Stakes ; Tyrolienne, the Rosalie colt, and the Pastille colt are scratched for it. CZSAREWITCH STAKES.-7 to 1 agst Bellissima, Bto 1 agst Portrait (t), 9 to 1 agst Blue Bonnet, and 10 to 1 agst Florence. DERRY.-25 to 1 agst Napier (t). A match for 1001., h ft, is made between Lord Albemarle's Tilcho, and Mr. Goodman's Bother'em, est 7lb each, T.Y.C., to run on Monday in the next /fleeting. nEIiTRICALS IN THE UNITED STATES. After losing sight of Mr. Braham and his amiable family for several days, we at last find them on the 26th ult.; he was at Detroit, and gave a concert that evening at the National Hotel, which was crowded. The Park Theatre has now been open two nights at reduced prices, and the experiment succeeds. The female department, with the exception of Mrs. Wheatley and Mrs. Vernon, is poor. The male cast for comedy is very strong—Burton, Browne, Pla eide Williams, Fisher, Barry, &c. ; s till we m i ss Ch L iPpendale. ' The Tremont has been newly decorated, and op3ns text Monday with the following company :—Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert, Mr. Chapman, Mr. Howard, Mr. John Green and lady, Mrs. Cramer, Miss Fanny Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Ayling, Mr. Leman, Mr. Corner as leader of the orchestra. Abbott having married Miss Buloid, both of them seem unable to appear on the stage, for they have made no engagement anywhere. z ' -It: is confidently stated that James Wallack is in "fhis city, or State, and that as soon as he shall have erfeeted an arrangement with his creditor s , h e w ill attiCir at the Park. the theatres are closed in New Orleans, and all tkrar , frh'the South. Th e S t. Ch ar l es and American ato be rebuilt s h ort l y. ,„; inneford is doing pretty well out West, and building a new t h eatre in Louisville. p Forest and Miss Clifton, who have been playing together a long time, with good success, are now playing a very brilliant and lucrative engagement at the Chatham, under the auspices of Thorne. Upon the whole, theatricals may now be said to be looking up a little ; and as Congress has adjourned, and the Tariff been passed, and the Treaty signed, we think, with a proper degree of enterprise and pru ,, dence, some of our managers may make money this ~ w inter.--Neui York Herald. If there is a delicate, deformed, or weak-minded ' child in a family, it is generally the favourite with its ' parents. This is a beautiful illustration of nature taking the part of the most helpless. INTIMIDATION.—A. solicitor of Devonport has ad. dressed a letter to the officers of the dockyard there to caution them that evidence having been furnished that many of the officers of the dock-yard have can vassed voters in the dock-yard, in order to influence ' their votes at the ensuing election of Councillors, that he will use every legitimate means to carry into effect ' the Admiralty order that was issued expressly to pre- ' vent this sort of intimidation, which seems, of course, ' to be chiefly exercised against the Liberal voters. Mignonette, Reseda Odorata, now naturalized to ' our climate, is a native of. Barbary. Many years since, it was introduced to the south of France, where it Was welcomed by the name of mignonette—little darling. This favourite plant, brought to England in 1 742, is noticed by Cowper in his " Task" ---" The sashes fronted with a range Of orange, myrtle, or the fragrant weed, The Frenchman's chilling." Sir Walter Scott was in error when he introduced it into his novel, " The Fortunes of Nigel," as decorat ug the London windows during the reign of James I. We have obtained the following particulars of the deplorable accident from the ferocity of a dog, of which, on Wednesday, we gave only a short notice. `The animal, which is of the mountain breed, belonged to Mlle. Annais Auber, of the Theatre Francais, who • kept it to guard her house at Louveciennes, between Versailles and St. Germain. He was always chained Up during the day, and was under the charge of a female servant, who, acting under advice, had been accustomed from time to time, during the late extreme heats, to throw pails of cold water over him, in order to keep him in health. This so enraged the animal against her, that, on Sunday last, having got loose, and finding his well intentioned tormentor alone at a remote part of the grounds, he sprang upon her, pulled her down, and tore her so dreadfully in the neck and head, that she expired before any assistance could reach her. Mlle. Annais immediately ordered the dog to be killed, and was so much affected by the catastrophe, that she has been seriously indisposed ever since: noax.—The wags of the town have been highly amused during the last few days by a very capital "ax' played upon the worthy host of one of our prin cipal inns (Yarmouth). At the time the Queen Passed through the roads, mine host and his fair part ner displayed their loyalty by taking a boat and going off to greet her Majesty on her way towards the me tropolis. A few days after a letter was received, bearisig the Royal arms in the seal, and purport ing to he a communication from the Secretary of State for the Home department, expressive of the gra tification her Majesty felt at this display of the loyalty of this worthy pair, and offering, as a peculiar mark of Royal favour, to confer the honour of knighthood u p" mine . host. The letter being read to his lady she was in extacies at this mark of Royal condescension, at the same time expressing her opinion that so dignified a title was rath er t oo muc h f or h er spouse to accept, when a friend suggested that a much better plan might be adopted by bargaining with some gentleman in the county who might be desirous °f obtaining such an honour, and selling to him the ti tle, which her friend assured her the Queen would transfer to the favoured individual she might he P l eased t o nom i nate. 3,0001. was t h e sum named, and t he lady thought so substantial a benefit being more seful to p e o p l e i n b us i ness th an a titl e w ith out a for tioltw, was about to commission the gentleman forthwith c,,lntnence a treaty for the sale, when a junior mem r"f the family expressed her indignation of the the about to be made of the Royal savour, and thought ,J title s h ou ld b e accepted miller than so shameful a , eB hould be m a d e o f it. Wh e ther this eloquent ap rea',,of the young lady had its full influence or not we ere by no means prepared to say. Suffice it that o n Saturday the worthy host was congratulated in the market by a number of his friends, who, without 'waiting for the Royal letters patent, greeted him by the title peculiar to the rank of knighthood. Whether it is the intention of the party to apply to receive the honour we have not yet heard.--Ipswich .Express. THE NEW MAYORALTY. After the Sheriffs were sworn in, the Lord Mayor and Alderman, according to custom, returned to tile old Council Chamber, in )vhich the Cdiiit of Alder men is usually,held‘ Wise Where some expected a Court would meet arter.the ceremony just concluded. No Mere than nine Aldermen, however, having assembl e d (thirteen being the number necessary to constitute a Court), the subject of the ensuing Mayoralty, Which had excited a considerable sensatiod in the city, could not be formally inttoditeed: The Loeb AtAYOR having waited for some time, apparently in the hope or expectation of making a Court, called upon those Aldermen who were present to take their seats, as Alderman Thomas Wood was desirous of making some communication. Alderman TDOMAS WOOD then said, that, in con sequence of what had taken place in the Court of Alderman on the last day of meeting, he thought it to be his duty to request the Lord Mayor to convene a special Court on the subject which had upon that occasion occupied their attention. His Lordship hal, however, no doubt upon good advice, declined to call the special Court, but intimated to him that as a Court would probably be formed after the swearing in of the Sheriffs, he might then submit any state ment or proposition to his brethren, or answer any charges against him. Now he was present to answer any charge, or charges, that any person should think proper to urge against him. He had appeared at the last Court for the same purpose, and not one charge had he heard. He h a d a pp ea r e d in Court and called for an investigation into the whole of his conduct, and what had the Court done ? How did they an swer his earnest call for strict inquiry? Why by refusing to institute any inquiry at all. But though they would not grant that request, the spirit of mis representation received no check. No; one of his brother Aldermen rose and made a gross mis-state ment of what he (Alderman Thomas Wood) had said some years before, when a candi date for the office of City Solicitor, for he had never made any statement as to the amount of his property. That misrepresentation was, he felt con vinced, ascribable to some circumstances attending the contest for the Shrievalty, in which Alderman Johnson and he - were successful. With the same confidence he denied the truth of the charge that he had refused, in June last, to have an inquiry insti • tuted by the Court of Aldermen. He was ready at all times to answer any charge. But, in fact, all possible means of misrepresentation had been exer cised against him, and forged letters and documents were not wanting to give colour and point to the slanders which had been so mercilessly heaped upon his head. He would ask any of his brethren whether they could put their finger upon one tangible charge against him ? He defied them to show an atom of ground for accusing him. Why, then, should he meet from his brother Magistrates any hesitation as to the inquiry which he courted ? He appealed to them as brother Aldermen, as brethren in the Com mission of the Peace, as men and as Christians, and still they refused not only to assist him, but to do him the justice which he claimed at their hands. Alderman FAREDROTHER said he was sure the worthy Alderman would forgive him for taking the liberty to suggest a course which, in his opinion, un der the existing circumstances, it would be most ad visable to adopt, and which, if followed, would enable his worthy friend to show most effectually the ground lessness of the imputations against him, if they were without foundation. It was quite clear that several charges had been brought against Alderman Thomas Wood. It was equally clear that Alderman Thomas Wood had asked an investigation into his conduct touching these charges. Now, in his opinion, it would have been quite impossible for the Court of Aldermen, to whom Alderman Thomas Wood had addressed him self a few days ago, to go into an inquiry with any hope of coming to a satisfactory conclusion as to the truth and falsehood of these charges before the day of election of Lord Mayor. What then would the real friends of the Alderman advise him to do ? Why the judicious course must naturally strike every oue to be that Alderman Thomas Wood should take the best means of producing evidence in confirmation of the truth of his own denial of the veracity of the state ments made against him. By not taking the office of Lord Mayor for twelve months, Alderman Thomas Wood would not with the less grace enter upon it after having removed all the impressions made to his I disadvantage. On the contrary, he would, upon I showing that the accusations were false and slan derous and unjust in every respect,—he would be re ceived by his fellow-citizens with the sincere and hearty welcome which men were ever disposed to yield to the calumniated and oppressed. He declared most solemnly if he were in the situation of his friend Alderman Thomas 'Wood, tie would say to those around him, " Here am I accused, but although most unjustly accused, I will not allow myself to be put in office until I have shown satisfactorily that the charges against me are false." That would be the manner and I the spirit in which he would meet the imputations against his honour, and he knew by such a proceed ing he should not only check the current of libel, but, if the accusations were false, throw back upon the slanderers proportionate odium and abhorrence. Now he must declare that the matter of accusation was of such a nature as could not within a very limited time , be fully answered. One of the charges was that good coal had been exhibited, to the Alderman's knowledge, in Ireland, as the coal of the Talacre mine, which was wholly incapable of producing such coal itself. Now he certainly could not think that any man could be so great a fool as to subject himself to the contempt and ridicule which a deception of that kind would most inevitably excite ; still there it was in print, and the libel ought to be exposed before the election should fall upon him who was charged as principally concerned. He repeated the assurance, which he made in the kindest feeling, that Alderman Thomas Wood would raise instead of degrading his character, by retiring for the next twelve months, and avail himself of the opportunity of proving to the satisfaction of all that he was an oppressed and per secuted man. Alderman THOMAS WOOD thanked Alderman Fare brother for advice which he sincerely believed was well intended; but he felt that he had been harshly and unkindly treated by the Court. He had declared his readiness to answer every accusation, and he soli cited inquiry, and his brother Aldermen rejected his appeal. He knew that the statement alluded to by Al derman Farebrother was in print, and he had in his affidavit in the Queen's Bench, proved it to be a gross falsehood. The Queen's Bench was satisfied with his explanation, but the Court of Aldermen required other means of satisfaction. There were but two pits in the Talacre mine, and no coal had ever been produced except the coal from those pits. To the other charges he gave as plump and satisfactory a contradiction. They were most grossly and atrociously false, and he was left by his brother Aldermen to reap all the bene fit of these libellous aspersions, and denied their sym pathy, even after the Court f Queen's Bench were satisfied with his explanation. And he was asked to endure this for another year ! He did not seek the office of Lord Mayor for the mere gratification of vanity ; but he desired to know why, after having Ailed the other offices with honour and to the satisfaction of his fellow-citizens, he was to be shut out from the Mayoralty? It had been said that he ought to set himself right with the public, to whom the representation had been made. Was he obliged to answer the slanderous assertions of a ca lumnious paper (he spoke not of the respectable newspapers with which the public were well ac quainted), the editor of which had been brought be • fore him in his magisterial character, and though mercifully treated, had proceeded to libel and traduce him in every possible way. Let those around him look at the condition in which he was placed. The Court of Aldermen had refused him investigation. They had refused to hear him. Was he to have his mouth closed at all times ? He was told there were grave and serious charges against him. He had heard one mentioned. Was there any other? He was ready to answer any charge—but it was useless to ask. Everything that could be done had been done to prevent him from doing justice to himself. He re • gretted to occupy the time of those he addressed, but the readiness, the anxiety he felt, would, he trusted, be his atonement. The subject dropped here. It is proper to state that neither Alderman Wils on , Alderman Brown, nor Alderman Copeland was present in the Guildhall during the day. The following letter was read by the Lord Mayor to his brethren : MY LORD MAYOR,—I am instructed by Mr. Al derman Lainson to forward to your Lordship my professional testimony of the impracticability of his attending the Common Hall on Thuniday next, when, according to custom, his name would, in rotation, be presented to his fellow-citizens as the junior candidate for the Civic Chair. Although I am happy to be able to give a very satisfactory report as to the Alderman's daily improve ment, yet, for the present, quietude and repose are essential to his ultimate recovery. Being thus unavoidably prevented a personal at tendance at Guildhall on Michaelmas day, he is de sirous that I should express to your Lordship his re quest not to be placed in nomination. I am, my Lord Mayor, Your Lordship's obedient humble servant, ALFRED MAYER RANDALL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. Sept. 27, 1842. SWEARING IN OF THE NEW SHERIFFS. Yesterday, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, the Sheriffs, and other City Officers, attended the hustings at Guildhall, for the purpose of performing the cere mony of swearing in the Sheriff's for the ensuing year, Mr. Alderman Hooper and Mr✓ Jeremiah Pinter. There were several persons in the hall during the performance of the ceremony. Buckstone and Mrs. Fitzwilliam are playing at the National Theatre in Boston. THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS:.' (From the Dennnport Independent) • Tile events of the past week, have shown to the Liberal electors of the borough of Devonport, that the approaching municipal elections have in them a more than ordinary degree of interest; that they are in fact pregnant with consequences of good or evil to the Liberal rouse, and consequently require an altilost excess of watchfulness, lest the pure stream of good be perverted by the noxious admixture of evil, and the long train of ills that follow in its wake. We have been accustomed to regard municipal elec tions as evidences of the respect and confidence placed in the private worth and integrity of individuals by their fellow burgesses, whose interests they have been called upon to protect, and to whose jealous care has been confided the improvement and welfare, morally, and socially, of the borough. It would e a waste of time and purpose, foreign to our intention, to endeavour to engender a belief that these elections have been conducted heretofore solely upon the principles of . general worth and use fulness, without reference to party bias. The Tories have, undisguisedly, we will do them that justice, avowed that the approaching contest is looked upon by them as essentially a struggle for political ascen dancy, and that their united power and influence would be brought to bear upon it—(a fact, by the bye, with which we were before well acquainted). They have dared us to the struggle, and the impo tence of their blind and futile efforts, will wreak itself upon their inevitable and mortifying discomfiture. But while we prognosticate the utter failure of our oppc nent's designs, let not our confidence lull into inert security the Liberal burgesses of this borough. We must be up and doing—we must by our activity and watchfulness defeat and overturn the machinations of our opponents—we must destroy the viper in its birth —we must preserve, untainted, the power we possess. The Tories will leave no stone unturned to gain their ends: already has a system of disgraceful coercion been resorted to—already has the corrupt and unmanly practice of intimidation reared its shameless front in our Government departments—already have the un derlings of office sought to merit the approving smiles of their superiors, obviously to their own advantage. The Tories have avowed their intention, and we have given them credit for the avowal, but we cannot give hem credit for an over excess of caution, or propriety in their present proceedings ; they seem, somehow or other, to lack their usual cunning in regard to public manifestation ; or, perhaps, they are less shamefaced—their modesty has not overcome them on this occasion. We, of course, do not allude to the barefaced attempt to deter the honest and indepen dent burgesses of Clowance Ward at the meeting on Wednesday; no one who was present at that meeting would presume to ascribe other than fair and honest motives to the presence of a Government partisan, and a paid one. We are not of that numerous class of individuals who assert that that gentleman was placed there by the Tories for the purpose of intimi dation ; we are loth to conceive our opponents so un worthy our indignation—we are desirous of meeting our enemies sturdily, but openly and honestly ; if we must fight, let the battle be one that will do credit to either party, whatever may be its results. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Devonport, Sept. 24. This town is in a very great stale of excitement, as to the coming municipal elections. A great and powerful effort is making, no stone will be left unturned, to gain a majority of Tories in our Town-council, heretofore Liberal. Coercion, among the poor voters in our Dockyard, is going on to a great extent. It so happens that most of the out-going members of the Council, on the Ist November next, are Liberals, and hence the struggle on the other side to replace them by Tories ; and if they do, we shall have for the first a Tory Mayor, and the Members' seats (Sir G. Grey and Mr. Tufnell), I fear, will be endangered. The following are the Liberals, contesting against the Tories :—Messrs. Byers, Burnet, W. J. Little, R. B. Oram, Condy, Palmer Jinkin, Rowland, Easton, and James, all staunch Liberals. EAST-INDIA HOUSE. COURT OF PROPRIETORS. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER, 29, 1(42. The Quarterly General Court of the Proprietors of East India Stock was held in the ,Court-room at the East India House, Leadenhall-street, yesterday morning at twelve o'clock Sir J. L. LUSIIINGTON, Bart., the Chairman of the Court of Directors in the Chair. _ The Secretary read the minutes of the last General Court. The ChAIRMAN then informed the Court that cer tain returns which had been ordered by . Parliament to be made were laid on the table, for the information of the Proprietors. These returns related to the Indian revenue. FRESH OUTBREAK York - and London.. (TREAT FIRE AT LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.—Yesterday morning it was thought that an effective check had been given to the progress of the flames, but at eleven o'clock last night the fire again broke out with renewed vigour, illu minating the whole of the river, the shipping, docks, and the Cheshire side of the water. lhe flames, it appears, last evening communicated to a stable , and before the horses could be released five of them were burnt to death. Ten or twelve pigs also shared the same horrible fate. The following are extracts from the different Liverpool papers published this morn ing relating to the fresh calamity : At a quarter to ten o'clock last night, our reporter returned from an inspection of the yet burning ruins of the great and calamitous fire which has just visited this town, when the few engines which were still pour ing water upon thoSe parts of the ruins where the the was burning with the greatest vigour. In about five minutes afterwards the fire-bell again sounded ; the rattles of the policemen were sprung in every direction ; a rumour flew quickly through the town that the fire had again broken out, and a confirmation of the report was quickly visible in the fimament, which was once more, redly illuminated. On hasten ing to the scene of the late terrible disaster we found that a fire had unexpectedly and suddenly broken out near the bottom of Crompton-street, within a short distance of the place where the great fire originated, and in close proximity to the extreme western point of its extension. The alarm in a few minutes called together some thousands of anxious and curious spectators. This fresh fire broke out at ten minutes to ten o'clock, in a marine-store in Crompton-street, and in a very brief space of time extended to a stable above and behind it, and to a cooper's yard also, at the back of it. As the premises were almost entirely composed of wood, and filled with light and cOmbustible mate rials, the flames increased with great rapidity, and for some time presented a somewhat alarming appearance. Immediately to the east of the stable in Crompton street there stands a range of low sheds ; on the west there is a single cottage, apparently used as an office of some description. At the rear of the stables, and approaching closely to the burning ruins of the late fire, there is another range of low buildings or sheds, and towards the west there are several outhouses ,vhich stand in the cooper's yard, and adjoin the Ro tunda public-house, from the top of which so many hundreds of persons have obtained a commanding view of the late conflagration. Last night a number of persons again thronged to the Rotunda, and some ap prehension was for a short time entertained lest that building and the adjoining property should now meet the fate which they had fortunately escaped before. The space covered by the marine-store, the stable, and the cooper's yard, is about thirty or forty square yards ; and in less than a quarter of an hour after the fire broke out the whole was one mass of flame. The wind was from the N.N.E., and though there was but a very gentle breeze, it gave the fire a tendency towards - the low erections adjoining the Rotunda, but at the same time carried it away from the one storied sheds or warehouses on the opposite or north side of Crompton-street, which were filled with cotton and other valuable property. Mr. Whitty had about three minutes before the fire broke out passed through Crompton-street, and had only got a short way up Formby-street, when he was overtaken by an officer, who gave him the surprising intelligence that another fire had broken out in Crompton-street. Alert and active as ever, notwithstanding all the fatigue he has recently undergone, Mr. Whitty has tened to the spot, and gave prompt directions for a couple of engines to be brought up. Though the orders. were executed with all possible dispatch, the engines could not be brought into play so as to save the places that were then burning ; but the water was poured upon the extremities of the yard, so as toprevent any extension of the fire. In fact, all that was in the interior of the space before described was of com paratively little value, and was speedily consumed, with the exception of a few articles which were taken from the cooper's yard. Several carts which stood in the stable-yard were either partially or wholly burnt, and we are sorry to say that of seven horses which were in the stable five were burnt to death. A poor donkey broke loose, and, though at the expense of a singeing of his coat, made his way through the flames into the street. Some fears were for a time entertained lest the ware houses on the north side of Crompton-street should take fire, and in order to prevent this, several persons recommended that an engine should be brought up to play upon them. Superintendent Leverett, however, who was on the spot, thought that an engine would be of very little use without water, and he therefore adopted the expedient of forming a small dam opposite to the marine store, so as to catch the overflow from the engines that were playing on the embers of the late fire higher up the street. The water thus accu mulated was thrown upon the heated woodwork of the sheds, and prevented ignition. The fire, especially in the marine-store, close to the isolated cottage to the west, burned with consider• able fury and obstinacy for above an hour ; but the two engines, having been got into good play, gradu ally contracted the circle of the flames, and by half past eleven o'clock the fire was completely subdued. The only places consumed were the marine -store, stable, and cooper's yard. It is not known how this fire originated. The marine -store, in which it com menced, was the point furthest removed from the burning piles of ruins left by the great fire, and by some it is therefore considered impossible that any flaming fragment or ember from the heap could have ignited the store; but we are more willing to believe that this was the case than to attribute this new dis aster, as some did, to wantonness or malice. The fire, we trust, is for the present qot under; and, but for the amazing rapidity with which it burst, we may say, amongst the wooden buildings destroyed, would have been arrested in a few minutes by the large and active force at present on the spot. We regret to say that five valuable horses belonging to Mr. Bushell are de stroyed. We saw, amidst the smoking ruins upon the site of the stabling, the carcases of two, charred to a cinder, and the bones perfectly white, in parts of which the skin and flesh had been stripped off. A donkey was the only tenant of the stabling which made its escape without assistance ; and, as it rushed through the gates of the yard into Crompton-street, with its. long ears all a-flame, and shaking its head, furnished a laughable exhibition contrasted with the horror of the remaining scene. The stench which we experienced, whilst seeing the remains of the four 7 footed tenants of the stable, was dreadful. A meeting of the fire-insurance agents has taken place with a view of assessing the amount of damage sustained, and it is also rumoured that it is in con templation to raise the rate of insurance in Liverpool. After " comparing notes " on the engagements of each office having liabilities in connexion with this destruc tive event, the following was reported as the result : Sun Globe Royal "Exchange ... • ....... ..... . 30,000 Phoenix.. . . . London Corporation . ... 30,000 Liverpool . . 25, 0 0 0 25,000 Imperial. Scottish Union. 20,000 West of England 20,000 Alliance v Atlas 1 12 07, , , 0E 00 Manchester Guardian.. Yorkshire . 3,600 N ich Union orwiL. 3,300 County 3 000 North British. London Union .. Total liabilities £350,000 S o me uncertainty, however, exists as to whether all the liabilities have been ascertained, the meeting h av i n g been called so soon after the conflagration. No doubt there would be much property uninsured ; so that tl-e result of the meeting tends to prove that the loss cannot be far under what we have stated. The amount of damage sustained, it is said, will exceed 700,0001. INQUEST ON THE THREE MEN KILLED. engine 7 house was built of bricks and wood. The roof was of wood, and the back was of wood. There was a sufficient brick wall around the boiler, as is the case with almost every engine, and then there was a wooden partition between the engine-house and the next yard. The furnace has an iron door, divided into two halves. It was not closed at night. If we had closed it, there would have been no draught, and the tire would have gone out. It was always left open at night. The engine -house is flagged. There were no chairs in the engine-house, nor any seats of any kind. There was not a joiner's bench in it. There was a bit of a board temporarily fastened to the wall, and to which the vice was made vast. We used it to lay our tools upon, but never as a seat. Inspector Murray—That is the bench of which I spoke. It might have been used for laying tools on, and also as a seat. John Coghlan, in continuation—l was roused out of bed on Friday morning, at about a quarter before three o'clock. The man whd knocked at the door in formed me that the yard was on fire. I first ran to my master's house, told ➢lr. Peniston, and then went to the yard. I found the whole of the building be longing to my master on fire, and other places besides. There were two buildings, one on each side, on fire. I have no idea where the fire originated. On Thurs day night I ordered the lads to fill up the slack, and they threw their spades, three in number, into the fire-hole. The spades were lying there the next day, and the handles were not at all burnt. IVe left no light of any description in the place. We would not be allowed to do that. We have a dark lantern, which was not lighted more than one night in twenty. We were very cautious about lights; for if it had been known that I had had a candle about the build ing, I should have been turned off. The beadle mentioned that he had in waiting an other witness, one of the boys in the employ of Mr. Peniston, who was also present when the place was locked up. He could corroborate the evidence of Coghlan. Mr. Curry remarked that he had no reata'i to doubt the truth of Coghlan's testimony, and that it was un necessary to call the lad. He added, " The fact which the last witness has mentioned about the spades is sufficient to convince me that the fire did not originate from the stove." Inspector Murray—When I went in, the fire was confined to the engine-house. I did not see anything of the spades. They might have been there though 1 did not see them. The CORONER—Have you any idea, Mr. Peniston, how this fire originated ? Mr. Peniston—Not at all. I feel confident that it could not have originated in my yard. I feel very sorry, for lam a sufferer very much by it. I had not a farthing of my property in sured. I have examined all over, and there was no thing at the end of the yard that could have ignited. The CORONER—It is now a question for you, gentlemen of the Jury, whether we should adjourn this inquest for further evidence as to the origin of the fire, or not. Mr. Peniston—l should be very glad if any gentle man would come and examine my premises, to see whether there is any proof of the fire having origi nated there. The boiler is all good. The CORONER—Do you think, gentlemen, there is any occasion to adjourn, in order that we may have further evidence as to the origin of the fire ? Or, supposing that the premises were maliciously set on fire, would that have any effect on the verdict you would return ? I have not any doubt on my own mind; but some persons have doubts, though they lean to my way of thinking. We are of opinion that that though the place was maliciously set on fire, and these parties were killed in assisting to extin guish it, the only verdict could be accidental death. I have put the point to one or two, and they think that there is something in it; and, as this was such a melancholy event, and involved such a loss of property, (with which, however, you have nothing to do), as well as of life, I think that it would be better to adjourn for further information as to the origin of the fire. I sent a note to Mr. Shuttleworth, and he has returned me an answer, stating, that the point to which I have alluded involves a very im portant question, and one he should not wish to decide upon in a hurry. I should not myself hesitate to give my opinion on the law of the case,- but it will no doubt be more satisfactory to the public to have the case sifted as thoroughly as we can do so. What witnesses can you get, beadle ? Beadle—There are several police-officers whom I can get, and the man who first saw the fire. He can, perhaps, throw some light upon the origin. Then there is Mrs. Isaac's man. He was in his mistress's place the last, though alone. Mrs. Isaac was present, and stated that she could give no evidence which would at all tend to elucidate the origin of the fire. She added, "My place is an oil and colour store, and we have a boiler in it; but the last fire we had on the premises, and the last light, either candle, match, or anything else, was on Tuesday, when a small fire was lighted to heat some water." The Beadle—There is some tar scattered about the yard, and that is thought rather curious, as tar was more likely to burn than run about. A Juryman—lt is quite necessary, I think, that further evidence should be heard, if only for the sake of these two parties here, Mr. Peniston and Mrs. Isaac, who are blamed about the town. The Jury thought it was very desirable that further evidence as to the origin of the fire should be obtained, and agreed to adjourn. The CORONER remarked, " Suppose the premises had been maliciously set on fire, would it alter the verdict or not ? I have no doubt about it; but as one great legal authority holds a different opinion, I shall accede to the wish of the Jury, and adjourn the inquest." The inquiry was accordingly adjourned. THE BLESSINGS OF NEW DISCO VERIES IN ART AND SCIENCE. The following beautiful address was delivered on the 111th of September, by M. Lamartine, at the meet ing of the Academy of Macon, of which this eloquent speaker is resident. It is in reply to some remarks made by M. Lacretelle, respecting the injury done to certain interests by modern discoveries and chiefly the changes caused by machinery and steam : " Gentlemen,—l intend to answer, in the name of that body I have the honour to represent, those 'inge nious arguments upon the dangers of industry which he has advanced. "In listening to his spiritual and eloquent critique on the industrial system, I could not forget that Jean Jacques Rousseau once sustained, with equal elo quence said ingenuity, a thesis on the inutility and danger of human learning. The paradox has past — the immortal writer rests ; and France having ap plauded the sublime attacks on the base of her glory, has advanced with a firmer and a more rapid step in the paths of science and of genius, where Europe is dragged behind her. Thus shall we do to-morrow, after protestations as eloquent against industry. Our rail-roads will be continued, our mechanical powers increased. I can believe that a mind preserving all the freshness of its poetry in the maturity of its reason bewails the loss of a more pastoral civilization, and ac • cuses our engines of soiling the azure heaven with their black smoke, or our railways of having depoet ised the sweeping undulation of nature's youth. But the severe and lofty reason of the statesman cannot associate itself with dreams like this ; and finds a truer poetry in the feverish action of the industrial world, which makes fire, air, and water, living slaves of man —than in the idleness of ignorance, or that contempla tive repose which refuses to multiply the work of God by the toil of man. • " You have quoted, Sir, the great modern English poet to support your opinion. Chance condemns you by the mouth of your own authority. You have not read. all Lord Byron, or you would have found this very question answered against you in the notes to his immortal pilgrimage of Childe Harold.' They once asked that illustrious writer which he considered most poetic—science or nature ? He pointed to the ocean. I, in turn, ask you,' said he, which is most poetic—that ocean, void, bare, deserted, crossed only by the savage in his frail canoe, or covered with ves sels, shadowy with the cloud of their canvas, carrying in them thousands of disciplibed men, and curbing the subjugated waves by the powerful and hidden power of their helm ?' Was not asking thus, to answer? " You aecuse machines ; they are the artificial hands of the labourer. All natural things are machines for man as soon as he can think. No animal invents a machine ; in this is its weakness. Man does, and in this is his force. They attest his perfectibility. Blaspheme not creation by accusing industry. Corrupted and crafty civilization has not made man industrious, but God.—(Applause.) • " You say that England outrages the universe to force its markets. I neither excuse nor accuse Eng land. History listens not to the accusation of one people against another. Yet may I assert that a wide difference exists in the conquests made by the indus trial principal—however violent or unjust they be_ and those consummated by a brute and military sys tem. Where conquering Rome trod, she lefctonasduemsererfs. What have Tyre Carthage, and England left ?—colo nies, people, civilization, new groupings and producers. Unjust as the Chinese war —the opium war—may be, if we raise our tho ug ht s to the p hilosophic height of historic reason, is no compensa tion to be found ? Who knows but the first shot fired by a Chinese merchant vessel which commenced the Chinese war, hath burst asunder theLorltianliscedo,f n a new wo rld ? Who knows but that it h communion, four hundred millions of active men with Europe? "To prove how cautious we should be in predict ing, consequences, even from the most trifling facts, I will mention three facts, yet provid en ti a l ones, at t h e com ,, m h en l c 7 e 6 m B, e l n b t e o l f i e t v h e i , s ti a l g e y e for the fir s t ti me , b rou ght and to- - a a Ge fe n w era pac o k f ag in e d s ia„ of tea, as curiosity, t o th e Governor in furnishing its enm day entire fleet s are employe . d Germany ! Switzerlancl7ption to England, Russia , two worl* &c., the mighty exchange of (From the Liverpool Times.) ORIGIN OF THE FIRE.—An inquest was held yester day (Monday) before P. F. Curry, Esq., Coroner, touching the death of John Martin, Luke Smith, and James Bell, the three men who, as has been previously mentioned, were killed by the falling of a wall, and whose bodies are lying at the Northern Hospital. The witnesses examined were Edward Knight, warehouse-keeper; Samuel Tack, police-officer ; Hugh Falkner, labourer ; Joseph Massey, inspector of po lice ; Michael Martin, labourer; Mr. Harris, surgeon of the Northern Hospital. But the most interesting portion of the evidence which had reference to the origin of the fire was given by the servants of Mr. Peniston, the bone merchant, in whose premises, it is said, the fire originated, and was to the following effect : John Coghlan examined—l am the engineer at Mr. Peniston's, in Crompton-street, and have been in the employ of Mr. Peniston for the last three years. I have the' charge of the engine, have to look after the fires, to lock up the place at night, and 1 have charge of everything in the yard. The last time that I locked up the gates on Thursday night last was at ten minutes to ten. Before leaving the place I drew the red fire out of the stove, as usual, and filled up the bars with slack, in order that we might have a small fire ready for use on the following morning. Sometimes when I have slacked the fire, it has been completely burnt out when I went next morning ; but generally there was a little fire in the stove. I have followed the practice of slacking the fire for • the last four months. The engine was set up with brickwork. The smoke was carried off through a flue which went under ground, the whole breadth of the yard. The " Another fact is this. Forty years since they ;pre sented a cotton plant to the Egyptian Paella, and ;poi N one-half of the Meditteranean narigati9K heats the --- cotton of the Nile into Europe. This is nothirtgl___ ? - His eyes are opened by his new wealth to i;Aiti?tal wisdom, and he has suddenly bethought him ill - id - Nil: . Isthmus of Suez, so long forgotten by trade ; is` the ' shortest road to India. He is about to open the rat , between the two Continents. - --- " Again, a last fact. Fifty years since an Engl:l4 it 'To machinist discovered the incalculable force of exPati sion possessed by the compressed vapour of boilins• water. The steam-engine was invented. " What results, gentlemen, from these three coin cident industrial facts, occurring in the same age ? A second creation of the geographical, political, moral, and commercial world. The extremes of the earth have approached ; languages, races, interests, religions have been blended together. The result for all hu manity has been an increase of force and unity that; God alone could compute. In short, these result in a certain and perhapa nigh future, the realization of that chimera of all conquerors and of all creeds—universal monarchy; but at the time universal monarchy, the inonarchy ofintellect, commerce, industry, and thonOt. " Industries are the degrees of rising civilisation. th3 l. l r :t i tt l 1 1.y 3 or know o ti u r d c a o r is e nup t ocihaci complaints t i ts . curse, thought hoctnh only ys c k fja , :s. a tf i s i r d . i te ni.; d 3u, ei t: t destroy them? atm ol a tili s rd 3 ea , p o ge u en, are, all Independently (n i )f s tthirisk s‘kv consideredwhat tfoi s . srecrtiihnoebu,s trutha. n .S it is " a . dangerous thing to sport with the truth. From such e err n or scoffing ° o i ffi n: i g t that the world is changing, and becomes more and more industrial and democratic. The one must low the other. Well, shall we deny the facts for aye —shall we abstain froni resolving those two g rand and difficult problems which Providence itself kith placed before us? No; in place of stopping our work men, and destroying our machines, let us accept and triumph over the difficulties of our epoch. 'The great successes of civilisation are born convulsive efforts. The world becomes industrial. Give industry a soul which shall nullify its great vice—the hardness of heart begotten in nations who make wealth their idol. " You hive pronounced, in conclusion, a word fir the language of religion destined also to become a po litical term, `charity. chat word is also ours g be lieve me. I call to witness all my honourable leagues in the Council-General of the Departtnent they know that our sessions are filled with the sole we are not of f io t i i i i g a h t timofplasacsaisbtliengscthhoeolwoofrkeicnognocmlaisssts wses; h ‘ o v casth so ciety c th i e e t3 p r o s o h r on fr i d on c l r t u h s e h i . r c l o ‘ m ye m a i r m e io w n e , l l as iesecL aware how, at an other epoch, materialism produced this leg islative ego tism. We have our faith by which we reg ulate our actions—we hold that society ought to act, heat , and vivify—that there is no legitimate source of wealth which is productive of any unmerited misery—ill a word, that policy should be led by science, and admi nistration in the same path along which religion is conducted by virtue; that is to say, to the relief of all that can be relieved, to the regulation of all that can be regulated—in short, to the general equilibrium of all the great industries. " We do not deny that there are great obstacles— we meet with them every day in our deliberations. Did I not fear to abuse the attention with which you have already heard me, and which must now be nearly exhausted, I would glance rapidly over those ob stacles.—(Go on, go on.) " Well, then, the difficulties to which I allude are these : " Public wealth has three inflexible absolute laws. Labour, liberty for labour, and competition. Every man should labour; it is a law of nature, a law of spirit as well as matter. Every man should labour freely without any other restraint upon his power of working and producing than competition with those who labour and produce as he does. This is the law; if it be violated we become arbitrary and oppressive ; obstacles are raised up against one man for another's profit, or a maximum of labour and production is established which not only impoverishes and ruins the State, but which throws a chain on the most incontestible of the rights of man—the right of living by the sweat of his brow. I know that there are some whose opinions advance forward with rapid strides ; who hold that a forced organisation of labour should be established, and a partition of the public money, without regard to conditions. The secrets of futurity lie hid in the bosom of time—but in the present state of our knowledge we believe that liberty is still synonomous with justice--that to sup pose the possibility of a forced arbitrary organisation of labour is to dream of the resurrection of the Indian castes, instead of the ascendant equality of the modern world, and the tyranny of labour, instead of its inde pendence, and retribution, by the accomplishment of its work. But we must not hide from ourselves that com petition alone is insufficient—competition is egotism abandoned to itself—it acts with the blind brute force of fatality—it crushes and tramples on all around it. ' Let the whole world fall to ruin provided that Ibe enriched.' This is its motto—can this he the device of a well-organised, moral, and, above all, Chris tian society. No; when competition has annihilat , :d industry, and wrenched the last penny, the last crust of bread, from the hands of the labourer without etn ployment, society cannot turn round upon him and say, die of hunger.' The last word—the last reason, which a well organised society could utter, could never be death—the last words of society are life, that is to say, labour and bread. That is the bourne at which we must inevitably arrive; it is there that we are turned by the most wholesome study of political economy, and by those inspirations of the human heart which precede and complete every science, and which one of our colleagues has so well defined in those sublime words, To love is to have knowledge.' " Yes, the science of political economy is confined — law is austere and severe, and competition is without pity ; but then, is there nothing beyond science, com petitions, systems, and wri tten laws? Beyond this lies a whole world--a moral world ; there is hod, with his laws not written, but interpreted and expounded y philosophers and religious men, in which we find cot rection and compensation for our imperfect laws, as all must be imperfect that is written by the hand of man. Yes, therein do we find inspirations immea surably superior to those of bartering avarice, or of a purely human policy. Without such inspirations there is no society that will not sink under the weight of its own vices, egotism, inequalities, and miseries. The equilibrium which is ever and anon thrust aside by cupidity may be restored by care and courage. " There is a ceaseless struggle between charity and cupidity. And for what do we ask ? That political society should not stand. by passively gazing on the struggle that is going on between industry, wealth, and labour ; that it should interpose, not by pushing itself arbitrarily between the manufacturer and his workmen—between the consumer and the producer —but that it should interpose, with all the power which it possesses, to afford asssistanee wherever there exists a necessity for its helping hand; to shower down a temporary supply of funds wherever there be a congregation of the working classes out of employ ment ; in a word, let it be as a visible, enlightened, active Providence, shedding its healing balm upon the sufferings of the population ; let it strive to imitate that invisible Providence which is sometimes hidden from the sight of the unfortunate, in order to endow society with the glory and honour of supplying its place for a moment.—(Applause.) " And will the means ever be discovered for realis ing this desirable object, which has been lately in volved with such hopeful earnestness by the illustrious has philosopher to whom 1 now reply. I'or my part I have no doubt upon the su b j ect. Society failednever to invent aught t hat was necessary for ts wel fare or _support. Genius is not the grand disco verer and inventor in the ranks of society. This grand inventor is love; genius is but a faculty, whereas the lore of !nail is on impassioned virtue, and for our honour or e xcuse let it be said that this passion for the improveulent of any c l ass of human s,dispassionately application oof the the present It is to this passion that we owe the invention age. th an e d pranciples beings is the characteristic passion of morally of so much that posterity will appreciate better than we could have done. It was this passion that invented t l h t e ev a o u lti c o io n ii of the fraternity of' men, drawn from the an d philosophy, and introduced into l• • Scriptures, ethoensL;'reerieide!i tion—it Was this passion which po 'heal borrowedlegisla from reli gion, that sublime word " equality," and which will shortly, I hope, borrow from th e same sour ce th a t s till su llimer word, the union of all classes. Ah ! the present age, which h as be which all philosophers should bless, has made rapid strides in political science. This science was wont of only, yore to look upwards but now it descends to look downwards. Of yore, it founded upon rational upon force it alone, and now founds them upon rational grounds, and, abov e all, o n that religious reason which is not the problematic product of science but which the ministers of divine l • law, those stepping-stones between God and mankind, received and inculcated with the very dogmas of their faith. " Let us separate with these hopes, and in accept ing the democratic conditions of society; let us each, in our own sphere, labour fur their improvement. You members of this academy, which shows the human mind in all its brilliant and solid phases—you who light up the road of thought—reflect, meditate, and create science. We men of application and . ad ministration, we will make laws and regulations— and you, pious men, ministers of alms and human virtues, lend us, for the consummation of our itn- Perfect laws, those two powers you which alone ses s, and without which no society can hold its ground _charity on high and resignation here below. • CHEAPNESS OF FRUIT.—The quantity of fruit in our market on Saturday was very great, and the prices at which every description of it was sold, were aston ishingly low, apples being . sold for lid., per gal. , some instances lower ; Keswick codlings were 5 `.. )1d the .evening at Id. per gallon, other fruit in pr o p o r tion, '" Leicsstershire Mercury. and iinn A NEW NAVY FOR SPAIN. About three weeks since a Commission was formed by order of the Spanish Government to inquire into the utility of a project submitted on the part of a British Company by Mr. Henry Misley, for the pur pose of rendering available to the State, for the re construction of its navy, the valuable oak timber of the magnificent Royal forests of Santander, Galicia, &c. The Commission has not yet reported progress, but the Ministerial paper La Iberia, took up the subject in its leading article in a way which shows that there remains little to be done towards the com pletion of the project but to - deprecate the national jealousy at the concession of such valuable materials to the hands of foreigners. As the subject is one which promises to he not only of considerable impor tance to Spanish, but also to British maritime inte rests, I shall present your readers with a brief out line of the proposal submitted to the Spanish Govern ment " for the re-building, equipment, and mainte nance of the Spanish navy." To this extent the Company offer to furnish the Government for an indefinite number of years with all the materials necessary for the construction and arming of seven ships of war, including steamers, per annum.; receiving in exchange a proportionate num ber of oak trees, which the Government are to f u rni s h at the usual selling prices of the part of the country where they are situated. The Company only proposes to cut two or three per cent per annum of the trees marked fit for the purpose by a Government engineer, so that copsewood may arise, and to plant nur series for their replacement, beginning in the splendid forests of Liebana, in Santander, where some of the oldest and largest oaks in the world are to be found. They offer to erect saw-mills, railroads, common roads, canals, slips, stores, founderies, &c., to he given up to the Govern ment, on a valuation, at the conclusion of the con tract ; engaging also to allow 5 per cent. per annum additional on the value of the timber taken, till the first year's price be doubled ; and further to allow of 2 per cent. per annum on the cost of the iron mate rials fabricated for the equipment of the vessels, until the cost of the manufactured metal be brought down to 3 per cent. They propose to obtain the other materials of constructimi, provision, and ammunition in Spain, by public contract, and to de liver an account of the same to the Government, as well as the wages of shipwrights, labourers, soldiers, and sailors employed, at the actual cost, and a-half per cent. commission thereon. They mill establish, on account of the Government, wherever it may please, a manufactory of naval steam-engines ; furnish the oyal docks and workshops with the newest models and most approved machinery ; and instruct the pupils whom the Government may wish to em ploy in the maritime steam service. During the first and second years, the Company will furnish the Royal arsenals with sufficient timber to provide mate rials for construction in futureyears ; and at the same time engage to furnish 14 vessel.s of war (in fulfilment of the strict terms of the contract), to be fitted up in British ports. They demand the exclusive right of cutting in the Royal forests ; also of cutting timber fit for ship-building in forests appertaining to the pueblos of Spain—paying, of course, according to valuation ; to 1 be guaranteed and protected in all things by the State, which shall furnish soldiers to the Company for all de fensive purposes. The Company offer to employ these troops in their productive work, and pay, feed, and clothe them, while so occupied ; guarantees to be ex changed ; accounts to be settled once a year, and ail misunderstanding to be arranged by arbitration. Such is the project for raising Spain once more to the rank of a naval Power in Europe. It is already taken up and warmly defended against the narrow envious spirit of _Espanotisme, which would crash it as a " foreign invention," and if the matters of " the guarantees" can be satisfactorily arranged, we may expect to see Spain again in possession of an Armada on the waters. The royal oak woods in Galicia, which furnished the unfortunate " Invincible," in the days of Philip 11., are now inaccessible only for want of a road, and this the Government has not resources to make ! In fact, without the help of foreigners the oaks of Spain might rot from age to age on their mountains. In the forest of Liebana alone, it is stated that from 22 to 24 millions of cubic feet of oak fit for ship building exist. In the Sierras de Segurd alone 48 millions are reckoned on ; and throughout Spain it is calculated that there are fully 200 millions of cubic feet suitable for naval purposes. The Bishop of London is at present in Edinburgh, and in company with the Rev. M. Buchanan of the High Church, the Rev. Mr. Bennie, of Lady Yester's, and the Rev. Mr. Sinclair, late of St. P au l' s (Episco pal) Chapel, has been visiting several public institu tions. His Lordship preached in St. Paul's Chapel, York-place, on Sunday forenoon, and in the afternoon in St. John's Chapel, Princes-street. During the dinner given by the King of Prussia at Bruhl, after the grand review, his Majesty pro posed five toasts. The first was to the Kings of Wur temburg and the Netherlands, to which the King of Wurtemburg replied. The second was to the House of Austria, whose representative at the feast, the Arch duke John, replied by a few words, intimating a wish that there should be no longer any distinction between Austrian and Prussian, but that there should be only one German people, united and grand and firm as their mountains. The third toast was the Prince and other high personages present; the fourth to the foreign of ficers, and the fifth to the Prussian army. BONAPARTE'S BROTHER A TRUE PROPHET. -Of all Napoleon's relations, his brother Lucien proved him self the most determined opposer of his views a n d plans. One day, while they were disputing warmly on some subject, Lucien drew out his watch, and dashing it violently on the ground, addressed to his brother these remarkable words :—" You will destroy yourself, as I have destroyed that watch ; and the time will conic, when your family will not know where to shelter their heals."—Rapp's Memoirs. AFFGHAN WAR. The CHAIRMAN then stated that tl.e Court had been made special for the pu r p ose of considering a motion, of which an Hon. Proprietor had given notice, relating to the expenses of the Aftkhan war. He therefore called on that Proprietor to move. Mr. SALOMON'S begged to postpone the motion of which he had given notice, relative to the expenses of the Afghan war, until the next General Court. THE RAJA OF SATTARA. Mr. LEWIS then rose for the purpose of postponing the motion of which he had given notice, relative to the case of the Raja of Sattara. He was induced to postpone this motion until the next General Court on account of the absence of several of those friends by whom he had hitherto been supported, but who would be there on some future occasion. NOTICES OF MOTION. ADJOURNMENT. The HoN. PROPRIETOR then gave notice that the next General Court h e s h ou ld move a resolution to the effect, that it is not competent to any Pro prietor, after a notice of motion has been read, to move an adjournment of th e C our t b e f ore s uch motion has been moved and seconded;. that such a practice is objectionable in principle and subversive of the con stitution and best interests of the Court of Proprietors. EMPLOYMENT OF NATIVES IN INDIA. The Hos. PROPRIETOR also gave notice, on behalf of Mr. Sullivan ' that he would move a r e solution at the next General Court, to the effect that it is advis able to substitute to a greater extent than at present the services of natives of India, instead of Europeans, in the civil service in India; that such a measure is called for by justice and sound policy ; and that the Court of Directors be requested to recommend to the different Governors in India to appoint native Indians to all offices which they are competent to fill. Mr. MARRIOTT said, that he hoped when the Pro prietors gave notices of motion, for the future they would bring them forward, and not postpone them on account of the absence of certain persons who were in the habit of supporting them. He (Mr. M.) had come down fully prepared to go into the Sattara case, and to justify and defend the proceedings of the three Commissioners, and he would go into the question at once. The CHAIRMAN reminded the Proprietor that there was no question before the Court. lie therefore moved that the Court do adjourn. The question of adjournment was put and carried, and the Court adjourned accordingly. LIVERPOOL FIRES. The subjoined paper furnishes an account of all those dreadful calamities, in the shape of conflagra tions, which, since Liverpool has risen into importance as a town, have devastated it at different times. One of the earliest fires in this great commercial town we find to have been in the year 1770, when the gaol was set on fire by one James Donovan, who was capitally convicted for the same. The next fire on record is that of t h e Liverpool Exchange, which took place on Sunday morning, the 20th of January, in the year 1795. This building, the noblest building of the kind, without exception, of any in the kingdom was discovered early to be on fire, and the inside of it was entirely destroyed in less than two hours. With the greatest difficulty the town records, regalia, mace, sword, &c., were pre served. Amongst others matters destroyed, in addi tion to one life, were two fine paintings, executed by Martin, and presented by him to the Corporotion ; they were " The Murder of Macduff's family," and " Cleopatra arming Anthony." T he p resent E xchange was built by Messrs. Etherington and Grindrod, in about three years and a half; the st one was laid on the 30th of June, 1803. It is a magnificent building, and the cost of erection was upwards of 100,0001. The destruction by fire of the first warehouse, or large cotton factor*, occurred on the 17th of Sep tember, in 1796 ; it belonged to a Mr. Hervey, in the Cheapside, Liverpool, and is supposed to have been occasioned by th e f r i c tion of one of the wheels of the cotton machi nes . All its valuable c onten ts were c3ol7osouommede.asulrnes of wheat,thelowerTetioonfgtihng to Messrs. Cor e warehouse w e r e rie, Gladstone, and Co., which, wit h a lar g e q uantit y of hides, rum, brandy, and other spirits, were entirely destroyed. During the fire, the front part of the warehouse fell into the street, directly upon one of the fire-engines then working, which occasioned a scene of horror impossible to be described. Three men were crushed to pieces on the spot; ten more were carried to the infirmary in a dreadful state, two of whom died immediately, and several others were subsequently found among the ruins. In the February of 1797, an extensive fire entirely consumed the warehouse o f M r . Walton, near the Old Dock, Liverpool, with the whole of its contents, consisting of a large quantity of manufactured cotton goods, in two hours. The greatest fire in this town, with the exception of that which has just spread such dismay throughout Liverpool, was that which occurred on the 14th of September, in the year 1802. On the night of that day, the whole of the noble and extensive warehouses fronting St. George's Dock, justly the pride of the inhabitants, and the admiration of strangers, fell a prey to the flames. The range of buildings from Water-lane to Brunswick-street, with the correspond ing storehouses called France's, were, a fter eight hour's burning, a prodi g i ous mass of ruins. The estimated damage of the property destroyed was—in warehouses 44,5001., grain 120,0001., sugar 60,0001., coffee 8,5001., cotton 30,000/, sundries 60,000/. — making in the whole a total loss . of 323,000/. The fire was occasioned, as far as it could be traced, to the falling of a snuff of candle among shavings in a por ter vault. It continued burning for three months. About two-thirds only of the loss was insured. On the night of the 21st of September, 1805, a large warehouse in Lower Sparling-street was totally consumed. The upper rooms were filled with cotton, corn, &c., the whole of which, with other property to the estimated amount of 30,0001., was totally destroyed. The last fire which ranks next in destructive effect took place on the 14th of January, in 1833. It broke out in a paint-store on the New Quay, Liverpool, and the materials of oil, turpentine, tar, &c., among which it originated, soon caused it to spread to the large warehouses on the south and east. These were filled with merchandise of the most valuable descrip tion, principally in cotton ' gra in, oil, and naval 1 stores. Fed as it was with immense masses of the most combustible kind, it raged with quick destruc tion along Lancelot's Key , Union-street, and the ew Quay. The front of the spread into Oldhall - street, warehouses in Lancelot's Quay f e ll forward : one man was killed : Colonel Jordan, the inspecting officer, had both his legs broken by the falling ruins, and one of them had immediately to be amputated. Property to the amount of 198,0001. was destroyed, of which l50„000/. was insured. The damage separately estimated was, in warehouses, of which there were fourteen 28,0001. ; of dwelling: oen burnt, 168,0001 houses, of which there Were nine de s troyed, 2,000/., and in merchandise ur So intense was the heat from the burning pile, that th e ships in the Prince's Dock were only preserved by incessantly wetting their sails and rigging, while flakes of fire were constantly threatening them with conflagration. The presentre corded. fire, i t 6 1;:n largest destruction of propertY may not be completed, so as to allow us to fix the enormous total of loss. The smouldering em b ers hare ignited a n d destroyed fresh property, until half a mil lion was estimated as the damage. , THE KING OF P RU SSIA. —W e well abouttllat the o fears adop t o of tphoeuyPcrussian Jeivs venture to hope (that th e i r King is adverse to th e Jews) h ave been somewhat exagge ra ted , when w e see suc h sen timents of toleration professed and solemnly recorded by that Monarch, on laying the foundation of a 0\ Roman Catholic Cathedral k. 1 at Cologne. In all charity, we commend so admirable an ex ampleuniformity of sentiment remember to t the that th is champions pri I Church. We was especially selected as ecclesiastical superiors sponsor to the Prince of Wales, the future head of above. As lovers of peace that Church ;--that its p o i rc f ees the en tee Anglicanei have openly professed a and policy with that of the distinguished orator, whose words are. given among our Gentile n eighbours, we hope to h e ar no more danmatory denu nci at ions against the English Catholics, and other analogous Churches ; and, instead of the Exeter-hall orators de manding a repudiation of their recent fraternization with the ,( Prussiancx, c l i a result h -y no means un likely, in co nsequence' of it s head having helped to build an altar to a worship proclaimed here as " ido latrous," or worse,) we commend to them a practice of the excellent principles promulgated at Cologne, bi so" eminently Protestant" a monarch.--Voice of Jacob. _ _ The Russian Minister of Public Instruction, ac cording to a letter of the 13th instant, from Warsaw, inserted in the. Post Amp Gazette of Frankfort, is preparing new laws for Poland, which are to establish a censorship, to give a new system of public education with additional courses of examination, and as to ele mentary instruction at Loez• , _ ,, 1. 1 ..; ;\s \