The Sun. — London, England, 1842-09-16 00:00:00

NEWSPAPER STAMPS. Extract from a Return of the Number of Newspaper Stamps, at One Penny and One Halfpenny, issued to the several _Newspapers in England, Scotland, and Wales, from the , Ist of April to 30th June, 1842, inclusive : Number Amount of of Advertisement Stamps. Duty. . 42,000 £94 13 0 246,000 252 13 6 260,000 278 3 6 Courier ... Globe Standard ...•• . • ..• • • SUN 313,000 323 3 THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Svo., aT H h CZ ARIN A; n HISTORICAL ROMANCE of the COURT OF RUSSIA. By MRS. HOFLAND. Colburn, Publisher, 13,, Great I%larlborough-street. Henn HAMBURG 3, 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, thou': they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES may g be obtained, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURG are Selling GENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS for the said IHSTRIBU HONS. Persons desirous to purchase env rcleive. PREVIOUS to eivine any order, the PROSPECTUS with full PA RTI CUL ARS, upon addressins, 'WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN . THIS EVENING SEPTEMBER 16, Will be repeated the New Play, in Five A.e.s, by the Auorthortloe of 'I he Provnet Of Bruges," called LOVE'S SACRAVICE; , RIVAL ME C ETA NTS.—Matthew Aylmer, Mr. Vandenhoff; Paul Lafont, Mr. Cooper; Eugene de Lorne, Mr C. Pitt; Sc , Mr. I.V. Lacy; Jean Pose, Mr. Meadows; Margaret Aylmer ; M Lo Van. iss denhoff; Herminie de-Vermont, Mrs W. Lacy ; Jenny, Mrs. Hum. by ; Manou, Mrs.. (tiger. After which will be repeated the New Comedy, in Two Acts, writ ten by Douglas Jerrold, &Ai., entitled GERTRUDE'S CHERRIES, OR WATERLOO IN 143.5. —Willoughby, Mr. Bartley; Vincent, Mr. W. Lacy; Guibert, Mr. Diddear; Jack Halcyon, Mr. Havel ; Croeshone, Mr. Meadows; Angelica Miss Cooper ; Mrs. Crossbone, Mrs. Humby ; Gertrude. Mrs. W. fairy. Doors open at half-past Six, and the Performances begin at Seven. Dress Boxes 75.. Second Price 3s. Gd ; First and Second Circles 55.. Second Price 2s. Gd. ; Pit 3a., Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets Anil Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whitlow, at the .Box- Office, from Ten till.Fonr, where Season Tickets may be had. Prirate Boxes. to be had at the Box-011i r. Andrews, 1t77. New Bond-street ; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond street; and of Mr. hams Pali Mall. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, . Will be performed Otway's Tragedy of VENICE PRESERVED. Pierre, Mr. Butler; Jaffier, Mr. Elton; Belvidere, Mrs. R. Winner. After which, a New Farce, in One Act. entitled OUR HOUSE ; or, LODGERS IN LONDON. To bejollowed by the celebrated BELL MELODISTA. To conclude with tt'e admired Drama of DARNLEY; or, the KING and the FREEBOOTER of the KEEP of CASTLE HILL. _Lord Darnley, Mr. Web,teri Will Elliot, Mr Heslop; Edwa rd Burnette, Mr. Walton ; Ellen Todd, Mrs. H. Hu g hes. Places and Private Saxes may be • ad of Mr. J . at the fox Office, from Eleven till Four daily. THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. N. Carter, the Lion King, and his wonderful trained animals, every evening. THIS EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16. ri CARTER, the Lion King, will appear in a New interesting Oriental Drama, written expreisly for him by Haines, F.sq.. cilled THE LION KING ; OR, THE BRUTE TAMER OF THE DE 4ERT.—Omer, the Lion Tamer, 31 Carter. After which will be repeated the popular New Drama, ealled ED DYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE.—Davie Grey, Mr. Howard; Ralph, Mr. Oxberry ; Sandy Armstrong. Mr. .1. T. Haines ; Black Bess, Miss Tyrrell; Fanny, Miss L. Melville. To conclude with a Novel Burletta, written by Pierce Egan. Esq., Hill of fun, frotle, and whim, called LIFE IN DUBLIN.—Cerin. titan Tom, Mr. Wm. Howard Jerry, Mr. J. T. Haines ; Jemmy Green, Mr. Oxberry ; .Logic Mr. Hollingiworth ; Mrs. Green, Miss L. Melvill, ; Kate Brilliant. ' Miss Prescott Warde ; Betsey Tasteful Miss R. Isaacs ; Rose Dasball. Miss Beresford. Boxes, 411. Pit, Gallery, Is. Doors even at Half-past Six ; commence at Seven ; Half-price, a Quarter before Nine Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box.office ; and of Messrs. Andrews, Mitchell, Stuns, and Baily, at their Libraries. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN S. GRAND EVENING FETES, on 310NDAYS, TNDAYS, and THURSDAYS, with the following matchless combination of uniq e attractions : The celebrated MENAGERIE, recently enriched by several Zoo. logical rarities. roe stupendous TYPO R A3IIC MODEL ALFRESCO of ROME from the left bank of the Tiber. 'I he PROMENADES MUSICALES by the unrivalled Band of Wind Instruments, conducted by Mr. Godfrey including Overture am! Marche Triomphale—Quadrilles. " Le Voleur," and " Prince of Wales' "—Pot Pourrs " Jocko," Fra Diavolo," " Melange de Danses," and "Dn Strauss von Handel"--A new selection from the woika of Handel—Grand Due " Dove Vai " from " Guillaume Tell" performed y Handley and Prospere— Glee " Mynheer van Dune,. '—Spanish Darc•N— And Grand fapal State March. After the Concert the Illumination of St. Peter's, and the Giran dole of Saint Angelo, with Southby's magnificent Pyrotechnic Spec tacles, Extraordinary Aquatic Fireworks on the Lake, and Superb Cascade of Fire. • Admission to the whole of the Entertainments, One Shilling. Open at Ten in the Morning.--Feeding at Five.—Concertat Half past Five.—Fireworks at Eight, HIGH. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Vorning...... 0 minutes after 0 I Evening 2 minutes after 0. LONDON: FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 16, 1842. - The friendly reception of Lord ASHBURTON by the Mayor and citizens of Boston, will sink deep into the hearts of the people of England. No matter what may be their political opinions, whether they are ultra-Tories or Chartists, they will not the leis participate in the Christian joy expressed by the citizens of Boston that Old England and her blooming daughter, North America, still regard each other with the affec tion suitable to such near relations. It was well and truly observed by the Mayor of Boston that whatever there is glorious in our history must redound to the honour of the United States. These States can therefore achieve no glory in a conflict with England ; and it truly delights Us to find that such a conviction appears to be gene ral among our Transatlantic neighbours. Never was there delivered a more truly noble welcome than that of the Mayor of Boston to Lord Asn- BURTON. "We welcome you, Sir, as the repre sentative of your country, and not yours only, but in a near sense our own; for so long as there is a tie to link a child to its parent, America will not forget that England is her mother. We partake in the honourable pride which must thrill through your bosom at the recol lection of her glorious history." No words could be spoken of a kindlier import than these. No words could be sp&cen better calculated to pre pare the public mind on both sides of the ttlan tic for entire oblivion with respect to past diffe rences. And truly the Mayor of Boston is quite right. The English and the Americans are the same people• —they are identical in language, in manners, in historical and literary recollections and, to a greater degree than either of them ima gine, in tastes, in feelings, and in social gym. Ratifies. We grant we differ u p on many points, but not upon more than are customary in the case of parents and children. Thus, the old are generally Tories, while t he y oung are, for the most part, downright Radicals. No young man of strong feelings, and really distinguished talents, ever was a Tory, and yet the invariable bias of old men is in that, direction. Now, it is upon this principle that we account for much of the ultra -Republicanism of the United States. There political institutions are in their infancy; and u l tra -Repu blican hence the ultra-ftept zeal manifested in their preservation. Thus there is really after all no difference between us which should beget iii feeling on either . side. Then let it be remembered that the more friendly the relations between us, the stron g er is the guarantee for the peace, prosperity, and happi ness of the whole world. We can hope to gain nothing, and may reasonably expect to lose ever ything, by war. Most sincerely therefore do sve trust that the amicable sentiments ex pressed by the Mayor of Boston will find a u echo in every bosom in the British empire. For ourselves, we respond to them with all our heart; and we trust that the citizens of London, Edi„. burgh, and Dublin will testify their sense of the noble address of the Mayor 'of Boston by bestowing upon him the freedom of the capitals of Queen VICTORIA'S dominions. The Town Council.Of Edinburgh is not the only one that has incurred ridicule'by the vapid move ments of her INIA . JEsTriti Scotland. It appears, from one account we have seen, that on arriving at the ancient and venerable burgh of Stirling, the Royal train was proceeding at such a rail road speed, that the Magistrates, with the High Constable and the Guildry, would have been passed without notice but for her MAJESTY catch ing a glance of their official robes and calling out to the drivers to stop. At Linlithgow the most lu dicrous scene of all took place. The Magistrates and Council were waiting at the western entrance to present an-address to her MAJESTY, and also to confer the iCeedom . of the Royal Burgh on Prince ALBERT, but the carriages were driven at such a rate that they passed the civic b o ds;. iothe thirty yards before her MAJFSTY observed them. The provost, like " JAMIE FoinEfisT ; " gave • 1:10 aUI 4,4 1 Vlk.st , ,114 • ;V' rl_rtg chase, but unfortunately, when he got within a few paces of the QUEEN, the crowd pressed upon him and his worshipful colleagues, and, like a violent flood, carried them far beyond the Roya carriage. The Provost tried to push his way against the current, but in vain; the crowd became every moment more dense, the Chief Magistrate gave up the attempt in despair, and putting the address in his pocket, gazed not in silent astonish ment at her MAJESTY, as she drove of and left the ceremony unperformed. This evinces gross mismanagement. These honest burghers had made great preparations for the occasion, erected triumphal arches, prepared loyal addresses, and were anxious to have at least one good view of the QUEEN in their lifetime, yet, from the fault of some party, were utterly disappointed and ap parently treated with contempt. This may af ford the Edinburgh Magistrates the consolation of having companions in affliction, but it will not create additional respect for Royalty, nor give these simple-minded people a high idea of the manners and usages of the upper classes. THE TRIAL AND SENTENCE OF THOMAS MUIR FOR SEDITION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I have read with much interest the extracts:' of " A. M." from the trial of Thomas Muir, as lately published in the Scotsman, who was transported to Botany Bay for agitating a Reform of the British Parliament ; and although these extracts are taken from Creeche'.i edition of the trial, the publisher for the party then in power, they cannot, I am sure, be read without exciting the strongest feelings of indig nation at the gross perversion of law and justice they exhibit. It seems strange that there should be individuals of the present day still ready to advocate the Tory prin ciples then inculcated, and that it should be urged against the memory of men who were sacrificed for advocating a cause now admitted to have been a just and necessary one, that they suffered under the law as it then existed. Tyranny exercised under the cloak and colour of law, is the greatest of all tyrannies, and under this species of persecution, many religious and political martyrs, whose blood stained our native land, were sacrificed. That Mr. Muir and his fellow-sufferers, to whose memory the proposed testimony is to be offered, were men of high talent, and of the purest character in private life, are facts well established ; but, as it seems unknown, or at least notacknowledged by those who oppose a site being granted for the purpose wanted, I. will (like A. M.) furnish you with a few extracts from Yarliamentary proceedings in my pos session, and collected at the time, that may tend to put the facts beyond dispute. In the House of Commons, on 27th January, 1794, the question as to the legality , of the sentences against Muir and others, were transiently alluded to by the late Lord Commissioner of the Jury Court, then Mr. Adam, upon giving . notice of his intention of intro ducing a Bill to assimilate the criminal law of Eng • land and Scotland upon certain points ; and Mr. Fox and Mr. Dundas took a part in the discussion, wherein allusion was made by Mr. Fox to the general opinion of these sentences being illegal, when Mr. M. Angelo Taylor begged leave to inform the House—" That he was in Edinburgh the day after the sentence of trans portation was pronounced against Mr. Muir ; that he conversed with several gentlemen versed in the laws I of that country, who informed him the sentence was in every respect illegal, the authority of one of them (the Hon. Henry Erskine) he would depend upon as soon as that of any gentleman on the other side of the House, who had declared in such strong terms the sentence to be legal; and of his opinion, Mr. Taylor declared himself to be."—(See Caledonian Mercury of Ist Feb. 1794.) In the House of Lords, Earl Stanhope moved, upon 31st January, 1794, an humble address to his Ma jesty to stay proceedings against Mr. Muir, who had been condemned to exile, till the particulars were in quired into ; and in the course of his speech he cha racterised the proceedings of the Court against Mr. Muir "to be of the most extraordinary, and, in his mind, of the most unjustifiable nature that ever came before a court of justice." The Earl of Lauderdale warmly expressed a similar opinion, and was "not surprised that the nation should look with disgust at the oppressive and illegal pro ceedings of the High Court of Justiciary with regard to these unfortunate sufferers." (See Caledonian Mercury of 6th Feb. 1794.) The late Mr. Sheridan presented a petition to the House of Commons on 24th Feb. 1794. on the part of the Rev. Fysche Palmer, complaining of an illegal judgment of the Court of Justiciary of Scotland, and during the discussion that followed, Mr. Fox gave it "as his most decided opinion that the sentences of Messrs. Muir and Palmar were illegal and abhorrent to every principle of justice that actuates the mind of man." " The sentence," said Mr. Sheridan (of Muir and Palmer), " I affirm in every respect to have been the most hostile to the principles of the Constitution, and in its nature the most unjust, illegal, and oppressive —it is such a sentence that if it had taken place in England, I should not have been surprised that the country had risen up in arms to oppose it ; and as little should I have been surprised if the attempt to introduce the law on which this sentence is founded into the country, should have cost the head of that Minister who should have dared so grossly to insult the principles of the British Constitution."—(See Mercury of Ist March, 1794.) During a renewed debate in the House of Com mons, upon 10th March 1794, Mr. Fox said, that "in examining the trials he could never believe they were accurately stated until he heard the Lord Advocate avow the same doctrines which had been attributed to him—doctrines, which made his blood run chill with horror ; they must infuse sensations into the breast of any man who retained his love for liberty or the bles sings of social life." Mr. Grey (now Earl Grey) said, the sentences in question would have been a disgrace to the tribunals of this country in the worst periods of our history ; and he could not conceive how the Right Hon. Gen tleman could possibly reconcile to his own mind the idea of executing these sentences, since these unfortu nate gentlemen had stolen every word of their sedi tion from what had formerly been stated by the Right Hon. Gentleman himself (Mr. Pitt) at the Thatched house, when he was an advocate for a Parliamentary reform. He said he was not sure that those unfortu nate gentleman had not got into their present distress in consequence of what he had brought forward on the subject of a Parliamentary reform. They had done no more than •every Member of Parliament had done who was afriend to that Reform."—(See Mercury of 17th March, 1794.) The following letter from the late Lord Holland to Mr. Hume, M.P., shows the opinion which he entertained of the treatment of these early Parlia mentary Reformers : " South-street, March 7th, 1837. "DEAR send you my subscription to the Monuments intended to be erected to the memory of five persons who were the victims of an iniquitous sentence in Scotland, in 1793 and 1794. I do so because it seems to me an unexceptionable method and a fit opportunity of recording the disgust and abhorrence which I have always felt at those pro ceedings, and at the 'expediency of transporting men among common felons for political offences,' which, as Mr. Fox justly observed, was then for the first time invented. " If such perversion of law, or such harsh and vin dictive exercise of its powers, must remain—and 1 fear they must—a stain upon our annals, it is surely right that the feelings of indignation they excited in well-regulated minds, and which have been copfirmed by deliberate reflection, should also be perpetuated. Such I conceive to be the object, such I hope will be the effect, of the Monuments you propose, and I therefore feel a pleasure in offering my contributio to the plan. " The moment seems fortunately chosen ; the Legis lature is actually employed on this very day in re pealing the barbarous punishment for leasing-making which was so harshly inflicted on these unfortunate men ; and the country is every day enjoying, in the labours of Parliament, and the improvement of its laws, the benefit of that Reform which they were persecuted for recommending and promoting.—l am, Sir, with great regard, your obedient and obliged, (Signed) " VASSAL HO LLAND. " Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., &c." From these excerpts may be gathered the opinions of the most eminent contemporaries of Mr. Muir and his associates as to the conduct for which they suf fered ; but of all these sufferers Muir was the greatest. He was sent from his native country into exile for reasons which the majority of his countrymen, even of that day, not only considered inadequate, but as one of the best features of his chgacter. In token of the justice of that opinion, A the fact that a select number of his intelligent and independent countrymen and friends in the United States, at their joint ex pense, sent a vessel to rescue him from the ignominy and suffering of his situation, which was done ; but, unfortunately the ship was lost upon the Spanish shores of America, and he was sent a prisoner to Spain. In the passage the Spanish vessel was taken by an English ship of war, and Muir, who happened to be upon deck during the engagement, was severely wounded, and landed in Spain with the wounded pri soners ; and, upon that fact being made known in Paris, he was sent for, and carried to that capital, as a martyr in de cause of freedom, where he was treated with great care and attention till he died. He thus became a complete martyr to the cause of Reform ; and the persecutions that were intended to destroy the cause, only made it more conspicuous, and ultimately triumphant.—l am, &c.; W. M., AN OLD REFOAMER. Edinburgh, Sept. 3, 1842. The House of Representatives at Washington might have better consulted its own dignity, and the respect due to the chief of the Executive Fe deral Government, than by appointing a Select Committee to inquire into a Report upon the . al _ leged abuse of the veto power by Presiden TvLEn. That the First Magistrate of agrea Republic should reject in a - period of fifteen months four Bills of the utmost importance which had passed the House of Representatives and Sena;, was rather provoking but English read ers are not to suppose, that in doing so, the Pre sident acted as absolutely as a British Sovereign would do in rejecting Bills passed by the two Houses of Parliament. Here the rejection of a Bill by the Sovereign is absolute—no explanation can be demanded, no redress bad, nor any miti gation of the evil which it might occasion ob tained. Besides, the Sovereign being constitu tionally incapable of doing wrong, Ministers could only be held responsible. But in the United States the PRESIDENT is as responsible to the laws, and as open to impeachment, as the meanest citizen. He can veto no Bill without stating his reasons for doing so in a message to both Houses, and if these reasons are judged foolish, frivolous, or unsatisfactory, the vetoed Bill becomes a law-by being re-passed by a ma jority of two-thh:ds of the Members of the Senate and House of Representatives. Under these circumstances we condemn in toto the appoint ment of the Select Committee upon the veto question ; and we still more condemn the intem perate Report drawn up its Chairman, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, of which the substance appeared in yesterday's Sun. The more scurrilous por tions of that document we carefully excluded from our columns; and yet enough was given to show that the Committee were far removed from that equanimity of temper essential to the form ing of an impartial judgment. After the expla nation which we have given above of the real working of the Constitution of the United States with respect to the veto power, one is almost tempted to smile at such exaggerated language in the Report as the following :—" The power of the present Congress to enact laws essential to the welfare of the people,hasbeen struckwith apoplexy by the executive hand. Submission to the. PRESI DENT'S will is the only condition upon which he will permit them to act." Overlooking, as too trifling for notice, a bad metaphor from the pen of an ex-President, have we not shown that two thirds of the Congress, unanimously agreeing, can laugh to scorn the whole power of the veto ? In fact, the PRESIDENT can do nothing to im pede legislation on the part of Congress, pro vided he is even in so respectable a minority as that of one-third. The appointment of the Com mittee, and the publication of its Report, will not tend to popularise American institutions in Eu rope. For our own part, wishing well to the Americans, and particularly to Joni.; QUINCY ADAMS, on account of the excellent services which he has rendered to the slavery abolition cause in the Northern States, we deeply re gret that any such Report should have ap peared. If JoHN TYLER is President by ac cident, the blame rests not with him, but with the framers of the Constitution—the great fathers of American independence. If he has taken an unpopular, he has also taken a bold and manly course. He has truckled to no party, and,in opposin g the Sale of Lands Dis tribution Bill, he stated clearly that his object Was to provide a fund sacred to the discharge of th e public debt. He was moreover the first to propose to Congress the reduction of the prerogatives and powers of the President; so that he had authorised a similar course to that recommended by the Committee without thus covering with obloquy the Presidential office. CENTENARY OF THE GLASGOW LETTER FOUNDRY. —— _ At the present moment, when such general agi tation pervades the labouring population throughout the country, it is pleasing to have to record an instance where masters and workmen are found associated to gether in mutual good will. On Saturday last. at Two Waters, Herts. Mr. Wilson, of the firm of Alexander Wilson and Sons, letter-founders, Great New-street, London, gave an excellent dinner to the men in their em ploy, to celebrate the centenary of their establishment. After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts, " The health of the Messrs. Wilson," and " Prosperity to the Glasgow Letter Foundry," were proposed and drunk with the ut most enthusiasm. Several excellent speeches were made by the workmen, and the evening was spent with the greatest hilarity. On the Monday following the boys counected with the establishment w e re regale d simi lar hearty cheer.—Times. [We cordially bear our own testimony to the senti ments so well expressed above, as to the beneficial results accruing to the employer and the employed from a good, straightforward, and reciprocal under standing. And we do this the mere readily from having had the satisfaction of dealing with the highly respectable house of Alex. Wilson and Sons, for a long series of years, during which the beauty and finish of their types have contributed greatly to the useful ness, clearness, and even the ornamept, of the varied printing of The Sun. We should like to see a thousand such firms celebrating the centenary of their own prosperity, and the comfort of those whom they employ on the various arts of this improving age.—En. Sun.; EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE Yesterday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, much alarm was caused amongst the persons assem- bled in Billingsgate market, by a man being seen standing on the parapet of the house No. 4, occupied by Mr. Rous, a fish-salesman, in an extensive way of business, making gestures, as if he meditated throwing himself off, and in a second or two after wards he precipitated himself head foremost from the immense height, between 80 and 90 feet from the street. The man, as he fell, turned over once or twice, and came down on his back on a linen blind, of very strong texture, in front of the warehouse. It was supported by a strong piece of timber, upheld by stout iron supporters, fixed in iron clamps, but sucti was the impetus of his descent, that the blind was torn into ribbons, the timber; beam snapped completely asunder, and the iron work bent up in a most curious manner. This check, however, so effectually broke the force of his fall, that he came into contact with the foot pavement with not more violence than if he had fallen only a couple of feet. On being raised up, to the great astonishment of the persons around him, he had not apparently sustained any injury, and was quite sensible. Mr. Rous, who at that instant rushed out of his house to ascertain what had occurred, im mediately recognised the person in question to be a friend of his, who has been staying since Tuesday last sit his house on a visit. His name, it appears, is Wm. Dunnett ; he is about 25 y ears of age, and an agri culturist, residing with his parents at Clo p ton, near Ipswich. No cause is known that could induce him to attempt se lf-d es truction, nor we re his intellects in wayany affee previously, ted.TheY and had breakfasted toget her but a short time Mr. Dunnett then proceed e d on to t h e roo f to smo ke a cigar and take a view of th e r i ver. parapet round the roof is about four f ee t big' The h. The young C man was ultimately removed to St. Thomas's Hospital and, as far as the surgical examination was proceeded with on his ad mission, no fracture as discovered, nor even an vtab rasion, however slight, fa the skin ; it however soon became apparent that Ie of had sas h ta im in , ed an so d m h e e in be ja c r a y m o e f the head, as his speech failed delirious, arisins, most probably, ' from concussion of the brain, or injury of the spine. He remains at pre sent in a very uncertain state. -The steam-ship Antwerpen, Captain Jackson, arrived from Antwerp, yesterday, at St. Katharine's Wharf, 'rower. A thick fog prevailed during the early part of the morning, but the passage was, notwithstanding, made within 19 hours. _ The General Steam Navigation Company's mail packet Giraffe, Captain It. Stranack arrived yesterday at the Brunswick wharf, Blackwell, and landed her pas sengers and mail twenty-three hours after they had em barked at Rotterdam. She made the outward run in the like short time. The Nant:,s journals relate that in the afternoon of Thursday last, as six men were engaged in digging the foundation of a house, at the corner of the Rue d'Argente, the earth fell in and buried four of them. The autho rities, the military, and other assistance, were immedi ately at work for their release. Two of them were very shortly got out alive and without any fractures, though severely bruised ; a third was next found dead from suffocation ; but in consequence of the earth giving way repeatedly in the operation, it took four hours to reach and disinter the fourth. This operation required the more time, as the poor fellow was laid with his arms fastened behind his back, in such a position that he could make no effort to help himself. Ho was,-how ever, taken out alive, though severely bruised. All the three survivors were carried to the hospital, where they are likely to 'recover in a Tory short time. A few days since, while party of gentlemen, friends of the Duke of Buckie,,ahal,i,l, were out shooting with his Grace, H. Humphreys, T l he' 3„ escape was for of Buckingham, shot Captain Dewes accidentally. for tunate, great part of the contents of gun were received iii the pockets of Ij. Humphreys' , of Buckingham, shoot the •cingham, ex int; jacket. Mr. Stone, surgeon tracted a considerable number of the shot from Mr. Dewes' person; one was found near the gentleman's eye. THE SUN, LONDON, _FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1842. ~Y NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL. • NORWICH, SEPT: 13.—The preparations for this festival, which commenced on Tuesday, have been on a most extensive seal', and not less judicious than liberal. The entire vocal and instrumental band con sists of four hundred performers ! The choral band is composed of 268 voices, divided into 80 trebles, 50 altos, 64 tenors, and 74 basses ; proportions which are found to be excellent, balancing admirably the weight 'of each of the four parts of which choral harmony is made up. The instrumental orchestra contains 115 performers; 44 violins, equally divided into first and second ; 20 violas and 10 violoncellos, also equally divided ; and five double basses. The wind and brass instruments are all doubled, there being four in place of two of each, and six trombones instead of three. The principal vocal performers are Madame Caradori Allan, Miss Rainforth, Miss Hawes, and Signora Pacini; Messrs. Hobbs, Phillips, Balfe, Bradbury, Young, Walton, and Rubini. The leader of the band is Mr. F. Cramer, the organist is Mr. Turle, and the conductor is Professor Taylor. All the performances, both morning and evening, are in the same place, St. Andrew's Hall, a structure at once spacious, beauti ful, and venerable for its antiquity. It is singularly well fitted for occasions of this nature, and its capa bilities have been judiciously turned to account in the disposition of the orchestra. The organ, in place of coming forward, as in most other places, and cutting the performers into two divisions, a great part of whom can neither see nor Near each other, is com pletely behind the orchestra, so that the whole host of performers, choristers, and instrumentalists, form one united body, all animated by the same impulse, and all acted upon by the slightest movement of the con ductor. Yesterday and to-day the general rehearsals took place, of which there are always two at Norwich ins stead of only one, as every where else. This is an advantage gained at the expense of the performance, which in other towns takes place on the Tuesday morning, and the pecuniary proceeds of the festival must thereby be to that extent lessened. But at Norwich there are not only the two general re hearsals, but the new works are put into a course of study and preparation for months before the festival. Above two hundred of the chorus-singers are people of this town and neighbourhood, who form a choral society, and, in the course of their regular meetings, occupy themselves in practising thie forthcoming novelties. The instrumental band consists almost entirely of London performers ; and they, in the course of the summer, have been repeatedly assembled in the Hanover=square Rooms, along with the prin cipal vocalists, fOr the purpose of studying and re hearsing Spohr's new oratorio, and the'new version of the oratorio of Samson. TUESDAY EVENING.—The concert this evening was well attended. The patron's gallery was graced by a numerous body of the nobility and gentry of this part of the country, among whom were—the Bishop of Norwich and Mrs. Stanley, the Marquis of Northampton and the Hon. Miss Compton, Lord and Lady Colborne, Lord Ebrington, Major. and Lady E. Wathen, Sir John B o ileau, Bart.; Sir William B. Proctor, Bart. ; Sir William Foster, Sir James and Lady Flower, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Irby and family, Lady Foulkes and family, Mrs. E. bacon, Daniel Gurney, Esq.; E. Wodehouse, Esq., M.P. The concert opened with the pastorale symphony of Beethoven, and the magnificent band played it to per fection. This was followed by " God s ave the Q ueen, " our national anthem, sung and played by the whole orchestra, and in the usual extraordinary style, at once an evidence of our standard of musical taste, and John Bull's determination to exercise his high privi lege of the liberty of doing what he will in the ex pression of his loyalty and fealty to his Lady Sove reign the Queen. The attractive solos' of the vocal music were those sang by Rubini, Madame Caradori Allan, and Miss Rainforth. Rubini, in his two song from the Pirata of Bellini and the Briganti of Mercadante, was enthusiastically applauded, and com pelled to repeat them. The singing of Rubini is the new school, resulting from the style of Bellini, who added the surprising charm of a warm, voluptuous, and yet melan choly expression to that school of music which was originally the invention of the lively and versatile Rossini. Curioni, Donzelli, and the great tenors be fore Rubini, were elegant, and facile vocalists, but passionate they could not be, si nce Rossini is without that feeling. Bellini has cr eated the style, and the style gives Europe a Rubini. Miss Raiforth was also warmly encored. Mr. Phillips substituted The "Angel of Life" for a song of Dibdm's. Mr. Hobbs sang a national song of his own composition, and Miss Hawes sang twice a song also of her com position. Mr. Balfe sang very finely a song from the Sonnambula of Bellini, and from L' Banana in Algiera. The instrumental per formances were the overture to Anacreon, by Cheru bini, and, a concerto composed and played by the ve teran Lindley, who, at its termination, was greeted, with, deserved acclamations. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14.—The selection for this morning's performance commenced with the least known, and yet the best of Handers Coronation An thems, "My heart is inditing." The verses, " King's daughters," and " Upon t h y ri g h t hand," are in Han del's happiest style of part writing ; and the.conclud ing chorus, " Kings shall be thy nursing fathers," has all his fire and anim ation. Wh y is th e compara tively vulgar and po sitively hacknied " Zadock the priest," always preferred to this Coronation Anthem ? Miss Hawes sang an excellent song by Ciampi (a con temporary of Handel) with tast e and expression , an d Mr. Young was equ ally successful in the very pleasing romanza from Mehul's Jose p h. Then came Purcell's glorious anthem, t a festival for i! () give thanks," which we heard he first time in our lives. Our Eng lish Orpheus has certainly experienced but scurvy treatment from the hands of festival conductors. Are they afraid to grapple with him, or why are sacred compositions, so abundant in all the attributes of genius and the resources of learning, habitually neglected ? Handers anthem, we have said, is in his happiest style, but measured against that of Purcell, it is like a trans lation compared with an original. The quartet, " Remember me, 0 Lord , " is one of the most expres sive and touching appeals that mus i c h as ev er con veyed, and it lost none of its beauty in the hands of the Westminster choir, who sang it. A portion of the Stabat Mater of Rossini followed, and the act ter minated with the last chorus from the Dettingen Te Deum. The remainder of the morning was devoted to tho performance of Haydn s Creation. The performance was, on the whole, the most satis factory first place, to every character single representative, and an w e was ever g h iv e e a n rd a . In th e efficient one. We had not two Gabriels and three Raphaels, but one. Madame Caradori Allan was the Gabriel, Hobbs the Uriel, and Phillips the Raphael ; the parts of Adam and Eve being sustained by Balfe and Miss Rainforth. The dramatic character of the oratio was thus properly preserved. Again, the time of many portions of the work was correctly taken — that is, if we allow those who played and sang Crea tion under Haydn to be arbiters. The haste in which the oratorio was at first produced in this country, and the want of any accurate standard of time in the German score, led to the adoption of many errors, which custom and precedent have retained ; these, for the first time, we have heard corrected. The per fect performance of every principal vocal part con tributed its share to the result we have mentioned. Madame Caradori Allan, though evidently indisposed, sang with her accustomed taste and a perfect know ledge of her business ; the duets of Adam and Eve were finished specimens of singing; but the most ad mirable and the most polished specimen of the vocal art was Hobbs's "In native worth." The hall was more numerously filled than on any preceding first morning's performance. The great attraction of the Festival is,to-morrow morning, when an immense attendance is anticipated. In th i s remote corner persons are congregated from all parts of the kingdom, and we have conversed with p rofessors of eminence who have m h ro e r r m A a l i t i t e j c o y est3itshdeoTinhitnec Fallio o ns e in forfoorgie:Ztor distant parts of i hear the first per _ Alton Towers, Towers, the noble seat of the Earl of Shrews bury, is at the present time the scene of great festivi ties ; his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, accom panied by the Duchess of Inverness, arrived on Friday last, and has remained ever since, to enjoy this princely mans ion, and visit the delightful and romantic scenery for which this neighbourhood is so remarkable. Among the numerous compa ny NA ho have had the honour of meeting his Royal highness, may be mentioned— Prince and Princess Doria Pamphili, Lord and Lady Dormer, Sir Charles and MiSs Tempest, General and Madame d'Haine, Hon. M r ., Mrs., and Miss Bertie Percy, &c. We are happy to add that his Royal High ness is in the enjoyment of excellent health. ORIGIN OF TUE TERM YANKEE.—The current American term, y„kee, was a cant or favourite word with one Jonathan Hastings, a settler at Cambridge, North America, about the year 1713. The inventor used it to express excellency. For instance, a " Yankee good horse," or " Yankee cider," mean an excellent hors e and excellent cider. The students of a neighbouring. college were accustomed to hire horses of Jonathan; their inter course with him, and his use of the word on all occa sions, led them to adopt it, and they gave him the name -of " Yankee Jonathan." It was dispersed by the colle gians throughout New England, until it became a settled term of reproach to all New Englanders, and eventually to all North Americans. His Excellency Earl De Grey and suite, Colonel Barnard and family, and Sir F. Palgrave, arrived in London yesterday, by the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Wilberforce, Capt. J. Stranack, from Antwerp. TRADE or HULL.—There is an evident improve .nent in the shipping and general business of this port, but still there arc a large number of British bottoms in the dooks which have as yet had no employment since last back end, or having made one voyage, are already laid up for the 'next winter. Mr. SERGEANT NIURPIIIi, I‘l.l".—Our senior re _presentative, Mr. Sergeant Murphy,. arrived this day in 1 Cork, by the Dublin mail. The Hon. and Learned Gen tleman seems little the worse of his Parliamentary and professional labours.—Cork Examiner. was required, in order to effect a "point of union." for the opposing interests of the States, the Debuts proceeds thus :—" It is in fact this want of unity which is the weak side of the Prussian monarchy. The different provinces which compose the kingdom have naturally divergent tendencies, and sometimes even opposite ones. The interests of Rhenan and Catholic Prussia, for instance, are not the same as those of the Eastern and Protestant part of the king dom. In this respeot, therefore, the creation of a Committee of the States, in place of being a step towards a representative Government, would rather have the effect of strengthening the Royal autho rity. The mode in which the Committee is formed certainly serves to correct that tendency to a lo calisation of interests which is almost inherent in the elective system ; but as the Committee is to exercise the functions of deliberating, without pos sessing the right of voting, it is nothing else than a more ready instrument of government in the King's hands. This is the only point of view in which the establishment of a Central Committee of the States can possess a political character. By itself, it is no thing else than an administrative measure, for it is not invested with any legislative faculty, being simply and purely a consulting body, charged at most with the task of shaping out laws, whilst the power of de ciding on the carrying them into execution rests ex clusively in the hands of the King. This discretionary power of the King is not in conformity with our ideas ; but that does not prove that it may not be very wisely placed. We prefer, for our own parts, the constitutional system, such as we ourselves pos sess ; but as far as forms of Government are con cerned, what is truth on this side of the Rhine, may be error beyond it. It is with Constitutions, in fact, as with certain plants, which only grow in a soil pro perly preparedqo receive them. Now it would be unjust to deny that, under this uncontrolled exercise of the Royal authority, Prussia has not made very considerable progress towards liberal institutions during the last 25 years. In 1806, the career of re form commenced by the abolition of serfs and feudal service, as well as by the suppression of the privileges of the'nobility. In 1808, came the regulation estab lishing municipal liberties on the basis of election, and allowing the government of towns by the burgesses. Then followed in succession the liberty of trades, the admission of burgesses to the rank of officers, and to high civil employments, and the democratic organisa tion of the Landwehr." The Debats attributes all those changes to the liberal ideas which spread themselves through Europe at the time of the French Revolution. The German Sove reigns, it says, held out to their subjects hopes of com plete emancipation, in order to induce them to stand firmly against foreign invasion; but when once the danger had blown over, they made every effort to re press the impetus which they had themselves given to democratic ideas. It then says,—" The Constitutions promised by the Act of Confederation were extorted from the Sovereigns with the utmost difficulty, and the late King of Prussia, for his part, never executed the solemn engagement which he had made, to insti tute States- General. Something was indeed ceded from time to time, but the establishment of a general represqntation of the kingdom was indefinitely ad journed, and the present King does not appear more disposed to grant it than his predecessor. But with the exception of this breach of faith, Prussia has no reason to complain of the use made of the discretionary power placed in the King's hands, for she is one of the best administered States in Europe, and it has been asserted truly enough, that the maxim of the Prussian Government appears to be, ''All for the people, but nothing by the people.' " The Moniteur Algerien says nothing of the arrival of Colonel Scott in the roads of Algiers, and our Minis terial journals of the South are equally reserved. A letter on the subject, communicated to the Ga zette du Midi, has the following passage : " Nothing is talked of here but the landing of an English Consul, who arrived on board a merchant man, and of his detention on board the vessel stationed here, on account of a position, which is mysterious and rather irregular. However, this arrest, made quite recently, and without the knowledge of M. Guizot, lasted only a few hours, thanks to Mr. St. John, the English Consul-General, who has not ap plied for the exequatur of Louis Philip. The Consul, with the haughtiness with which you are acquainted, came, and had the Consul released by his own autho rity. It is presumed that the Colonel is going to Abd-el-Kader, and that he came to Algiers only to see the air of the country."--Commeree, 14th. • BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14. First Highest Lowest Last. Price. Price. Price. Price French Fives (ex div.) 118 80... 118 90... 118 80... 118 85 3 per Cents 80 25... 80 25... 80 20... 80 25 Bank of France 3260 ...3262 50...3260 .. 3262 50 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1035 ..1035 ...1035 ...1035 Belgian Bank 7BO ... 780 ... 780 ... 780 Belgian Fives lO4l 1041 ... 1041 ... 1041 Spanish Active .. 214 ... 22* ... 211 ... 22* R oman RAILWAY. SHARES:. " Versailles, R.B ... 250 ... 252 50... 250 ... 251 25 . Rouen Orleans.... 582 50... 582 50... 580 ... 580 Strasburg to Bale 2lO ... 210 ... 208 75... 208 75 EXPRESS FROM PARIS PARIS, SEPT.IS.—The papers to-day are with out interest, but the Levant mail has arrived with Constantinople letters of the 27th," Alexan dria news of the 26th, and Malta news of the sth. There was every assurance of a termination of the Persian and Turkish differences, in despite of rumours of engagements. The Porte awaits the return of Selim Bey to fulfil the promises made by it to Lord Ponsonby respecting Syria. Some fears were entertained of outbreaks , in Thessaly and on the side of Servia. The Porte has collected troops iu both quarters, by way of precaution. . The salt monopoly is to be done away with. Izzet still holds his ground, and may now con tinue to do. so. No progress has been made with the Grecian treaty Christides opposing everything that Mavrocordato has a hand in. The Paella's fleet had come out of the harbour of Alexandria. there was a rumour of Egytian troops going to El Arish, but it was little crc- dited. Madrid letters of the Bth mention the deter mination of Senor Calatrava to resist the de mands of the contractors. It was a holiday at the Bourse. MONE Y and' COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The money market has been in the most inactive condition to-day, with scarcely a transaction to note. Consols remain at 92i buyers for Money, and 93 for the Account, with rather more firmness than at the close of business yesterday afternoon ; New Three and-a-Half per Cents., 101* ; India Stock, 250 251; India Bonds, 36 38 ; xchequer Bills, 51 prem. In Foreign Securities the price of Brazilian Bonds has advanced to 68 ; Dutch are also a shade higher, the Five per Cents. being 100 k, and the Three per Cents. 52i 521. i The quotation for Mexican s again lower,being3s,i. Beyond a purchase in Great Western at 82 , and the H a lf-shares at 591, but a shade higher than yes terday, there . has been no business in the Share Market. The Bonds quoted to-day are—Colombian, 20 ; Spanish Five per Cents, 16i ; the Three per Cents, 20i for Money, and 21* for the Account. A letter from a highly intelligent gentleman, re sident in Texas, furnishes some valuable information as to the present condition of that country. Presi dent Houston, at the same time that he is fully pre pared to resist aggression from Mexico, is quite as anxious to preserve peace, being fully convinced, as he has stated,. that tranquillity will prove the only way by which the independence and prosperity of the republic can be maintained. The convention entered into between them, for England to act as a mediator, has already had its effect, and although it could not be acted upon until ratified and exchanged, which was done in June last, the principles upon which it is based were well known long since, and therefore but few obstacles will oppose its successful execution. And it may be noticed, upon very high authority, that our own Government wi!l not lose any opportunity for the preservation of the independence of Texas, upon the ground of its importance politically, and the necessity that such should be the case. It is further stated that com mercial prospects are improving, and that the crops would, it was expected, be much more abundant than had been hitherto known. PRICES OF SHARES TS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid HI . Per Share. Great Western Ditto New ...... ......... 50 - JOINT TOCK BANKS. Union of London lO . 9i to MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT l4.—The character of our Market to-day is dull :—Dublin and Drogheda, 164 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 221 to 24 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 31 to 311 ; South Eastern and Dover, 22 to 221 ; Ditto Scrip, 6il to 64; South Lancashire Bank, 61. 6s. - 6d. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 15.—Nr o improvement has taken place to-day in our Market : —Liverpool and Manchester, 180 to 181 ; London and Birmingham, 182 to 183 ; Ditto Thirds, 60 to 60k ; Ditto Quarters, 47* to 48 ; Eastern Counties, 81 to 84 ; Manchester and Leeds, 72 to 74; Ditto Quarters, 4* to 44. . _ Mr. M'Christie, the Revising Barrister appointed by the Lord Chief Juitice to revise the lists of voters for the City of London, will open his Court for that purpose at Guildhall en Tuesday next, the 20th instant. §Attt, `g - tronnitition SUN OFFICE Three o'Cleek. Three members of the House of Represen tatives at Washington have addressed a letter to • the PRESIDENT of the United States, praying his Excellency to solicit from the British Govern ment the liberation of upwards of a hundred American citizens, now suffering inVan Diemen's Land the penalties of joining in the rebellion in Canada. To this letter the Secretary of State has returned an answer to the effect that the PRESIDENT will lose no time in complying there with, and that Mr. WEBSTER would himself urge Lord ASHBURTON to press the subject upon the consideration of the British Government. Such an appeal we sincerely trust will not be made in vain. The honour and independence of the British Government has been sufliCiently vindicated by the transportation of these prisoners to a British penal colony. For the purposes of example no good can be gained by a further prolongation of their punishment ; whereas their liberation at the present moment will be appre ciated as a national compliment by every State in the Union. We can afford to spare a few rogues, and not be thought a jot too merciful either. By all means, therefore, let them be given up as soon as their liberation is prayed for by the Federal Government. Should they find their way back to the neighbourhood of Navy Island they will be in no humour for join ing another invading expedition. On the con trary, their experience of the unpleasant conse quences of rebellion will be profitably taught to • their quondam sympathising associates. A Correspondent justly complains of the ati noyance inflicted on the public, and the injury done to religion by the ranting preachers that on Sundays infest every open space around the me tropolis. They consist chiefly of young men who " disfigure their faces," quote Scripture in coherently; and shout to the utmost pitch of their voices, like Bedlainites, causing not a little alarm to timid women, and great offence to sober Christians. There is another class, however, of a different character, whose object is evidently mischievous. They are generally persons of doubtful morality, and professed infidels, who seem anxious to unsettle the minds of the young by encouraging disputation on religious subjects, and casting ridicule on everything sacred. Some of these lie under the suspicion of collecting crowds, in order to afford their associates an opportunity of committing robberies, and the public should therefore be on their guard when the dispute runs high, as that is the moment chosen for effecting their purpose. If two or three of these schemers were sent to the treadmill for a month, they perhaps would not come out of prison better men, but to a cer tainty the neighbourhood of the metropolis would be greatly improved by their absence. As for the youngaspirants to theological fame, they should be handed over to their friends for the first offence, and duly warned that by pursuing such a course they will find themselves one day either in Bed lam or the Penitentiary. If this field-preach ing by laymen is to be suffered at all it should be placed under proper regulations, and no one allowed to " hold forth" from a tub or a truck, or any of the different ready-made pulpits in use, without a license from a Magistrate, granted on the attestation of respectable householders as to . , character and soundness of mind. A Leeds paper contains an excellent article on the ignorance of the upper classes, in the course of which it observes :—" We do not mean to say that the upper classes are ignorant of their alphabet. Many of them, we believe, are what are called learned men. They are acquainted with the dead languages, and dabble in philosophy and meta physics at Oxford and Cambridge. But so far as the heart and soul are concerned, we believe the upper classes are just as little educated, take them all in all, as the working classes, whom they denominate the ignorant lower orders." These animadversions are as just as they are severe, as every one must acknowledge, who is in the slightest degree acquainted with the system pursued at our fashionable public schools. At these institutions the useful branches of knowledge are almost uniformly sacrificed to the ornamental ones ; little or no atten tion is paid to the modern languages, to arithmetic, politics—we use the word in its more enlarged sense—history, finance, or those various arts and sciences which bear upon the great busi ness of life ; Greek and Latin are the only stpdies in request ; and provided a lad has distin guished himself at school and college by his nice ac quaintance with the metres of the choruses of the Greek dramatists, by his facility in manufacturing hexameters and pentameters, and writing Latin themes on the death of BRUTUS, and so forth, he is considered every way qualified to play the part of legislator. What though he be as ignorant as a horse of the legal institutions of his country, and know no thing more of ccmmerce, than that it is a certain some thing that fills the breeches pockets of John Bull—is he not a dab at longs and shorts ; can he not throw off, at a moment's notice, an Alcaic or a Sapphic stanza ; and prove, in indif ferent Latin prose, that TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS was no better than he should have been ? and thus accomplished, can it be doubted that he is the very man to legislate safely for the people ? It is really high time that this absurd system of educa- tion should be put an end to ; and the upper classf , , taught that something more is necessary to constitute a statesman, than just a mere showy knowledge of the classics. It would not be amiss, indeed, if those among them who have already reached the years of discretion, were all to be put to school again ; and competent masters appointed to teach her MAJESTY'S Cabinet—more especially Lord STANLEY—the rudi ments of a useful, practical education. We find no news of interest in the French journals of Wednesday, the whole of which we have received. The Debats and the National have articles on the German Commercial Union —a subject which has recently obtained much attention in France. We quote the following extract from the article in the National:— " The German Customs' Union possesses a very small extent of sea coast—from Stralsund to the Vis tula. All this space belongs to Prussia, and it is only through it that the goods of the Union can arrive directly at the sea. The Cabinet of Berlin has made extraordinary efforts to concentrate in this narrow space all the foreign trade in the Union. Ports have been deepened, canals and roads opened, and the course of several rivers turned and improved. By the Cologne railroad, which passes through Westphalia, the capital will be put in communication with the Rhine; on the east, another line proceeds towards Saxony, by Magdeburg and Halle, and will unite her with the centre of Germany; and, on the north, a railroad is to proceed to Stettin, which will carry to the Baltic all the commerce proceeding from Berlin. But, notwithstanding her energetic efforts, Prussia feels that complete success is rendered impossible by the very nature of circumstances, for would it not be in fact sovereignly absurd that, in order to be ex ported by the sea, the produce of the east, the south east, and the centre of Germany should be obliged to go r•und by the Baltic, and submit to the fiscal burdens of the Sound ? On this account Prussia has long sought to open, for her own com merce and that of her allies, a more considerable issue by the Baltic, and another issue by the North Sea. Hitherto she has failed, for Hamburgh,', Mecklemburgh, and the German part of Denmark which touch the sea, and to whom this position as sures great advantages, have refused to allow them selves to be hemmed in by the Union. Not being able to obtain her ends directly, Prussia proceeds by other means, and proposes a railroad at their common expense, expecting that, when this line shall have been cut, the south-west of Mecklemberg, the southern extremity of Holstein, and have united Hambuegh to Berlin, these three Powers will not be able to main tain their neutrality. The complete accession of these States may, therefore, be looked on as a matter of certainty before long, mid Prussia will then have perfectly attained the object which she has pursued with so much energy and sagacity." The Debats contains some remarks on the late or donnance of the King of Prussia for convoking the Committee of the Provincial States, which is not devoid of interest. After quoting the passage of the ordonnance which declares that the - present measure II if, .1 OF NE S " t'' ;,. t a ~iiiin• ii.,'' ____ . ~..._ . ~- ~F T i'!"r'i' l ' IIP . FOR.E.T.GN. The King of the French will return from Eu to . , . St. Cloud this week. After staying a few days at St ,1 1 ' Cloud, his Majesty will go to Fontainebleau. ' 4 The King and Queen of the Belgians, who, it. is . -'l' A said, are likewise to go to Fontainebleau, are expected • • ,i -irli '''g at St. Cloud about the 20th of September. • -ftill:, Marshal Soult and M. Guizot returned to Paris on le Tuesday from the Chateau d'Eu. In the afternoon ,:1 fie .. l of that day Lord Cowley had a conference of nearly, i of 0 ~loi- A l - 4 0 4 " an hour with the Minister for Foreign Affairs.. The Prince Royal of Sweden, as we learn from tl,e.,,im to, ~j Stockholm Gazette of the Ist, was, early in August, „ ta il., when at the palace of Tullgarn, attacked with a vio - ,-,,,,fia ito lent cold, which, by the 23d, increased into a rhen-, fi 14' 1 ° 4 matic fever. This, however, had very much subsided, It 14, but left a considerable swelling of the right foot. 1 4 From Hermanstadt, in Transylvania, a correspon dent writes, on the 30th ult., to the Agram Gazette, 1/ 0 1 that the people of Transylvania are in a state of great " A to. exultation, the States having come to the following- - ,;' , :t resolutions :-1. Every inhabitant has a right to take , o n . part in public affairs ; 2:- All persons are allowed to ..1,f',1 acquire and hold landed property ; 3 . All persons '.',•,r are at liberty to dispose of the fruits of their own in • O9 i,4 dustry ;4. The punishment of the bastinado shall not , 4 in future be applied to owners of landed property. I , ,Fi g The Castellano of Madrid states: that the Govern ment had received by express dispatches from Lisbon, ' 4 l which indicated that the relations existing. between '..10, 01 the two Cabinets were not so friendly as described by ..i0 , the official journals. The British Minister in Portu- ~ _ ,'s , gal was charged by the Madrid paper with fomenting 401 dissension between the two Governments. • ,111# - Letters from Texas state that a campaign is Audio- '-oro rised by the President into the Mexican territory 449 across the Rio Grande, to enter upon which 1,300 -c # or. men are to be raised. The news of an embarkation : , ~ 1 `of troops from Vera Cruz is confirmed. Every vessel . in that port has been seized for that purpose by the . 1 oi. Government, and 7,000 men are to be put on board ; ' I ,;, : iv but whether their destination be Yucatan or Texas is uncertain. . ~. runxac OPINION. • 110 The Chronicle. contains the following observations „ 'lsl4ll on the subject of the American Tariff Bill : -L- " A Ta - . ,4il td riff Bill, which must be considered a temporary one, ~ tlttil has at length been agreed to by the President and 4:1'4! Congress of the United States, after one of the most ~, ~g desperate party struggles that ever occurred in that , ~ ' , 1,, country. This Act imposes high duties upon imports, :i-' and is very nearly a return to the restrictions of /832, but it must be regarded, as we have said, as a tempo- i ill nary measure. It has been passed for the purpose of ,1 recruiting the finances of the Federal Government, and in fact to save its . credit. The public treasury would have been unable, in the present year, to meet its engagements under the low duties, which came into operation on the 30th of June last ; and even; those duties, from the incompleteness of the Act of 1833, were collected in a manner of which the legs- ; lity was contested; and was certainly doubtful. The Tariff Act is a remedy for this pressing and almost i desperate exigency. The American correspondent of a Tory journal has very truly said, ' The great ques-, tion, shall. there be a permanent protective tariff? is yet unsettled.' . It' will' be . settled, as far as any s uch-, question can; by the elections for the next Congress.; which is to meet about fifteen months hence ; and upon those elections we hold it to be beyond alldmilit ' that the policy of England in the interim may e'er'. cise a considerable influence. This subject has the closest bearing on the condition of the people of this country, and it cannot be too frequently dwelt upon.. It is important to 'bear in , mind, that it the object of the late Tariff Act had been exclusively the protee-'.: tion of American manufactures, there is every reason '.'r to believe it would not haVe been adopted. 7 ,rhe Ile . ' cessity which ultimately carried it arose from the state of the revenue." 111 The following is from the Times :—" We hail , as serious and permanent: boon to this country and th ' o United States, the . termination of Lord Ashburto nS mission to America, furnishing, as it has, done, i'' • ~ peaceful settlement of a variety of questions—soq ' '' immediately menacing; and all ministering an ever - , o ', ready occasion, of mischief at any time when the ~', British and American Governments found themselve4•(,'",, hostilely disposed. . The -questions waiting' soluti ol. o, were those respecting the disputed boundary, the slave:PL . , trade, the Creole, the Caroline, the arre st of M`liec► r''', and the rights of impressment and visitatio n at sea-7'41P•4:91,c,, pretty formidable` catalogue. The five first li()Y4.. Ashburton 'has disposed of. The last he has omitt ' and perhaps wisely, as 'unmanageable." . • The Post remarks, in an article on the subject the late turn-out among the Staffordshire colliers :-4• l ' '', "We are assured that the colliers of the Stafford':', / shire district, though a superstitious and iinPr ° , l-iclen t .',. °‘ race, are loyal, kind, and peaceable ; and, tuoub 5 1 , f , 1 they have in a moment of excitement and oksUffer il lkth i yielded to the .guidance of the unprincipled itin7,oll: rants called Chartist's; they already see the C ‘ lit' 0; they ,have committed, and are anxious to return r; '''' habits of industry and subordination. It is, he l , ~. ever, a general opinion that the great competitio 0 in the iron tratle, and the eager desire toprod a .„ c ii iron very . cheap, has ' led to efforts for the reduct,l% of the price of labour, which are inconsistent ivit i : be fair consideration for the humble comforts .of working clasi."' • , , L.&W AND POLICE, Winterbottom, Smith, and Fry, three of the rioteil concerned in the riotous attack on Mr. Shepley by •' at Glossop, and who were shot at and wounded . a l . him in defence, have' been fully committed for q v ' a . at the next Chester assizes, . for rioting and begin'' ~ to demolish the premises. • James Sweeney, an intelligent Irishman, C° 111 0 i. plained yesterday' at the -Thames Police-office , having been forced against his will on board the A j .. —.. .. .__ 1 fiogg e e : AND iLlttbltc Optitton. " Who runs may read.' rican ship Suffolk, from New Orleans, and IL_ for not doing duty, which he did, considering hini,, se j to be illegally kidnapped. The Magistrate rennarsZ,, that his case did not come under the protection of the British laws, but told him, for his consolatio n, that 11 could obtain redress if he went back to America. _ A ' A Commission of Lunacy, reported in another Pr i ; 4 of The Sun, was yesterday held at the Gray's 31 ' 0 Coffee-house, on Major Campbell, for many , yea rs s cavalry-officer in India. His prevalent notion w ll- 0 , that he was acted upon by galvanic wires. Ile found of unsound mind since Dec. 23, 1841. MITEILARY AND SCIENTXMC. The scholars of Christ Church will deliver tbei,r. customary orations and poems before the Lord Ala.):°,; Aldermen, and Sheriffs, on Wednesday next, be l " St. Matthew's day. • THEATRICAL. Mrs. Nisbett performs to-night, for the last tin't,6 but one, at the Haymarket in the Rivals, assisted b.ll Farren, Mrs. Glover, and Webster. On Mondsci new comedy is to appear, the scene of which is 111 at Oxford. . . p' A mansion . is abou S tPORTbe to e r ec ted, and a large 1111 t ing establishment formed, by Baron Lionel de Itat.l.t child at Leighton, Bedfordshire, where he has J w purchased a large estate. The eldest son of Sir James Graham, attended .131 e, a deer-stalker, brought down a fine stag with C a 11 , on 'Tuesday, at upwards of ninety yards. el°,,r`th Lowther's son also shot a fine red - deer on the 2',t. ult. on the deer-preserves at Martindale Fells, 11 moreland. COURT-FASHIONABLE. The Earl and Countess of Morley have arrived Salham, near Plymouth. v ect His Excellency, Earl de Grey a nd suite, Atli in London yesterday from Antwerp. n• hte Their Highnesses, Prince and Princess Leie— ' stein and suite, have arrived at Cheltenham. • s t rke Marquis of Anglesea is protracting his stal n o Marvern, where he takes a great deal of exercise, , horse and foot. the The Lord Chancellor of Ireland is .passing autumn at Boyle Farm. Alton-Towers, the seat- of the Earl of Shrew s ,, b ' t ,?;e ', is at present the scene Of great festivity. The the of Sussex and the Duchess of Inverness, an" the Prince and Princess Doria Pamphili are amo n g guests. MISCELLANEOUS. f The Hon. and ReV. Geo. 1)e La Poer Be re ' , - 13til Provost of the Cathedral of Tuam, died on the '- insDr.t., n his 67th year. 4 ill ° ins Dr. Thompson, of Smith County, Tenessee , 113 : - vented a cannon which may be fired fifty times -11' b t be, , , many seconds. The load s succeed each other Y to ---( 1 4 revolution of a cylinder. The invention is sa id t°- q. 2 successful. - _ of STATE OF TRADE AT PAISLEY.—The. Vl' 100' our manufacturers, for the lust eight or ten day s ' be" been less cheering than they were for several we` t ree' fore. The anticipations of an active London `l.:/cd; during the present month, have not yet been 10'600 and, though hope still flatters a little, the expec tii n tbo,, are becoming rather less sanguine. • There is, u ti iit‘c • part of the trade, rather a reluctance to a ce° stocks ; and the effect of this is that several to have discharged a few hands, and show a disposit'`Wioce contract rather than to extend their operations- it tl the above was written, a correspondent sta tes pp ol) words "weavers are wanted" were yesterday P at. f• • a warehouse-door in Causeyside.—Paisley Acleertilsiog One day last week, as the artillery wer e exerc, in the Polygon of Rennes, in firing their guns nt a young man named Courtel was cut in two by :lt o a • as it rose in its rebound. This occurre d from hai is place, imprudence, in foolishly exposing his person where there was a possibility of his being slroci‘i,(lo( th e usual .precautions had been taken, the si g nil t4 having been duly placed in the park and where th e b o , wa s placed, and the roll of the drum being I,)egt vn each discharge, _ di.nronal ..7r.a.,,,,,..,....e. IA I] THE The ha, as a merchant in up to the 'month tensive wine an agent, carrying This day hetri and final exatnir sander appeared of Liverpool, 'AI to oppose the ktde that the per.son i Mr. Robert s , an square, upon a bi rupt in layout- of siding in Liverpc rupt va•ions sum several mining sl handed into Cour Mr. Atoberts' prt elain a of Mr. Sca fter the exan creglitors, th e f u Nrovetr,ber. SURREY ~l kliefore Mr. Pu 3 fary Ann Snit 131. Thoma s Iluritc Wolfinger defend The prosecutor h am, and, bein g i day to Gravesend board of which Black. They bet up to London, refreshing potatie Blac ks house in ( - with the prisoner, mourned to the I ibourhood, where ] count, put her hal money in questio] but the prosecute] next day, and the On his croiS-exan more than "three occurrence' 'took to Union Hall to was desired to 11 toxicated. He m manner that the quitted the, prism convict on such to The prisoner ha to go at large . on 1 surrendered this d PoLICIT Gij ILDI Mary _Flinn an( bar before Sir Pet 4 into the house of alley, Fleet -street, tity of wearing ap The p rosecutor turned home abo and on proceed the prisoner tiler lyin g on the table. been taken out of about their busine: great quantity of together. with vat olen out of the pustion to the p o li ce, c ustody. sir Among other e who„ w,as sh a nd she saw the pi Pr is o ner told h er tl wad cut her thrc Sir 1). LAURIE When a witness s whole of the ,parti 1.(3 0m the nig Meth 1.(30m sir p.' LAURIE and SO I shall disco BO W-STII A man gamed / c ountrytnan's me( a pocket iiair'o9rni in a cell 'of tire sta Policeman F 'l] which tlic two im respectivelY Ileeke( [strike a iticifer ma' Were confined, hi plac e , and on goin, 'with a light search. Was drunk and asli Saw witness he dro The prisoner, ir. his pipe, and a spa] Which he was tryil Mr. TWYFORD s the prisoner and fi APCai.thy Was seven days' itnprisc ous in Llncoln's Ii MARYLEJ DARING RURGLJ and two others, we nesday last, with Christopher who Wharf, Paddi ng t o ev idence, discharge having been given h eaded, and brougl Mr. Christopher th ey drinki ng t ill Loey left, an d h e c hgot up a t half bar parlour doo of Cigars, and two Peeted the prisoner formation to the 1)4 Poli ce - consta b le he saw the prisoner w ith some cigars, I then took no parti Went to Mr. Chri Pattern of one of tl to the coffee-shop, before the fire. The handkerch When the prisoner I MPORTAN CA PE by au arrival advices h Town, of July 7, spatclies from P: Gor ernorovliich, or the safety of d er his eoinrrian they expected to nrrival or reinfoi lieentitits pr e viol 4011 baying be( last gise lingua ,777, (HE( DONC AS Th e Three Year-ol f ord Ch esterfield ' s The Two Years,ol 8t 71b ; fillies, E 1,1 htr 131akelock's A Lord Westminster' Clarli's Era, b: cThe following a 1 % Walker's Merl i pede, out of Bi r d A lp j\ lt• tri stow ' s . Cooke's Trull 4litlaleton, out o f I I, Betting -6 to 5 'lll.---and 20 to r to the distan ce , wf T it very tine struggli i le Cup of 300 a yr:i, 7st ; 4 yrs 9st 21b ; mares Miles and 2 furl T O rde's B eesw i V. joh ostone ' s C 'lr• Godman' s T Colonel Ams(m.s / to 4 on B eesw , b e to 1 asst Attila. T o (3;6-coigne St olds, E Col. AnAor LICEt• , tier Maj esty ' s I Vulie of Rutland': I,llko of Richmon Collins' Isaac tveepstakes of b to Tuve I? Jackson'. Ni Robbins'B P!,( ' 11 . 1 % Rstworth's CI -Ol The C u p kdie of Rutland r. Packe od Ch RO AfF4 The Romford Werniack'a Patch rily6 Pickwick;