The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. S)SOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince 11,0ert took their usua l early walk in the forenoon. co ,VtaYal Highness afterwards went out shooting in th:PacY with th e Ar c hduke Frederick of. Austria 'agh the of e preserves of the Great Park. The Princes re accompanied by the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl ppd h Je rsey, t ßaron Lebzeltern, Sir Edward Bowater, eHon.. Mr. Murray. The Royal 12 :1 ty had V'ect spirt, and returned to the Ctsile . to lunch. her Ifile - 1 4-.4 -I quis of Exeter arrived to-lay oa a visit to ."-La e lesty. $l7 Royal .Highness "Prince Albert honoured Mr. fallewenham with a sitting yesterday af.ernoon for a i l lenVi portrait. th e r Blajesty has a dinner party this evening at he castle. Th e company w ill, it i s ex p ec t e d, i nc l u d e p e r . Pt, oyal Hi g h ness th e D uc h ess o f K en t, hi s Im threiaLHightiess the Archduke Frederick of Austria, •alarquis of Exeter, Earl of Aberdeen, Earl f ie t van', Earl of Liverpool, Earl of Jersey, Baron tairreltern, Count Marinovich, Captain Koch:±l, Cap- Dumont, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Sir George G ua ',adY Couper, Colonel Elison (of the Foot k !a .,, r us), the Lord and Lady in Waiting, the two op`a of Honour, the Groom and the Equerry in hi.n g on her Majesty, and the Equerry, in Waiting la Royal Highness. d in Thy band o f th e F oo t G uar d s w ill a tt en d d ur i ng er, and her Majesty's private band will perform wie evening. o f i t k h e Mayor of Kingston, Canada, had an interview Lord - Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. ll o t 4 e Earl of Li nc ol n h a d a n int e r v iew with Sir b o uert Peel yesterday, at his . official residence, in ;Ping-street. vi e 7 4 . Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an inter- Doe'sterday with th e Chancellor o f he Exchequer, Pwning-street. int:leutenant-Colonel Gawler and Mr. Scotland had Piews yesterday with Lord Stanley, at the Co- Th 4141 offic e -. 11, Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most ell "eZo'able Privy Council sat yesterday in the Conn -411; Camber. The Lords present were Lord Camp of t Alr. J ust i ce E rs ki ne, Si r H . J enner F ust, J u d ge of till, Prerogative Court, and Dr. Lushington, Judge ),, r e Admiralty Court. p ra n Hill, Queen's Counsel, was heard on a petition rtp p t ng for an extension of Mr. Sirnister . s patent as wyable to stays. Ti l i tllesses were examined in support of the petition. solicit or -G enera l i a pp eare d f or the parties oppos -IAL extension of the patent. eir Lordchips adjourned the Court when the case y a . e Pkitioner was concluded. Is Patches from the Governor of Van Diemen's Were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. I THFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. 1) 11 e Cattle Sh ow o p ene d y es t er d a y m orn i ng , a t th e itt et alitlr l in Baker-street, Portman-square, and at- IP, e tas large a crowd as on any former occasion. ItioiLierleve, however, that as far as regards the W I VT of the animals, the show is not one of more Ct av erage merit. Earl Spencer and some others tty °li r principal graziers throughout the coun tsseem to have been less successful this u „ an usual; and some of the highest prizes have 41 k , 1i a warded to less known competitors. Still the 4 1 :, s is a remarkable one, and i s now one of the ken of the season. A host of country gentle larmers, and citizens, throng the rooms, ealcu- N t j , examining, gazing. They may talk of " agri tt3 i 4 44 1. 41 distress,' but here, at least, we have nothing eate it. Ae..lt h Wit 4 ed to the Cattle Show is another room filled we re ,unproved implements of husbandry; and we of t i l glad to find that to these much of the curiosity Le visitors was directed. The agriculturists of th e lnd seem at length to have become awakened to rov_ desirableness of effecting in their pursuits im t^l4,;rflentS corresponding with those which have Place in so many others. Sp „- ORTING INTELLIGENCE. bra`TING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY. tzlY . - 8 - .3- to 1 agst A British Yeoman, 18 to 1 agst etlou ) ur, 20 to 1 ags t M ura t, 40 t o 1 a gst . Progress tq i4O to 1 agst N ewcourt, 50 to 1 agst Aristides, So • -, 4 k a gst Napier , 5 to 1 agst Scott's lot, 15 to 1 agst S i r e atheote's. NE WMARKET (CHAMPION) COURSING L, • MEETING.—TUESDAY. 1 411 ..41) STA.Y..ES FOR PUPPIES.—Mr. Etwall's England's libbeat Mr. Finch's Gaper •; Captain Daintree:s :11 1 2 . beat Mr. A. Graham's Cough ; Mr. R. Bagge s h i`abeat Mr. Inskip's Jane ; Mr. R. Bagge's Tartar lea ~. Dobede's Datum ; Mr. Bennet's Mariner -Lard Glentworth's Landgrave,; Lord Strad- Mango beat Mr. Osborne's Victory ; Mr. ~4 1 %'- 4, :Ermist the First beat Mr. Teak's Tribute ; ,b,Z a berton'S Sylph beat Mr. Dunn's Prince ; Mr. 0..tt1-7,1t-buncan beat Lord Eglinton's Garnock ; - Mr. 4."'"atsv 11 Junior beat Mr. Dobede's Dulcken ; tr N ,%': Sniff (late Kate) beat Mr. Saberton's 11, 4 41 0 ”; Wyndham's Spanker beat Mr. Nash's Mr. - W. Etwell's Win-if-you-can beat Mr. 'loo k a-m iAlbmarle ; Mr. Inskip's Jet beat Mr. Bowles' 'we Lord Stradbroke's, Madeira beat Mr. Saberton's '; Mr. sash's Fly beat Lord Eglinton's S tag. r ALL-AGED STAKES.—Mr. A. Graham ' s The only Daughter beat Mr. Edward's Arsenic „, 4 tay,"l)an'S . Victoria beat Mr. A. Graham ' s o r i n , - -fne en Mr. Etwall's Willy-go-faster beat Mr. 1 1 t l p F s t!itai . l ; Mr. W. Etwall's Westwind ,3 's Defiance ; Mr. Bowler's busy 4 11 4 , Y ; beat 3°11 .m 1 . Bennett's Myrrha ; Mr. Gurney's I te t ,r4l be a t M r . Fy son ' s Fi ne s se ; Captain Damn ,_r - t , l Cnab beat Captain Wyndham's Whirlpool ; 111 n 'rYer's Selim beat Lord Stradbroke's ,lo ss Mag- ; . - Air. Mo o dy's Railroad beat Lord Eglinton's V0r,,"05e 2. • Mr. Caldwell 's Banner beat Mr. Fyson's ; Lord Stradbroke's Minerva beat Mr. Bryant's " ) ,41), Mr. Morant's Margaret beat Mr. Bowyer , -uti;,;"' s Sarah ; Mr. Inskip's Jewess beat Mr. 'Tale's el ocip e de Lord Eglinton's Lapwing beat Mr. Vipan's ~lr- WEDNESDAY. Agrippa beat Mr. Gillett's Ganymede ; 1 1`', t Ilr tley's Ajax beat Mr. Gillett's Gossip. 4- ies.—(Net commenced when our account left.) Ties for the Puppy Stakes.—Thorn beat Sylph ; ly fit'riar beat Sp an ke r ; E n gl a nd's Queen ran a bye 11 h -ra wn ; Margo beat Jet ; Ernest the First beat ;Duncan eat Sniff; Buruwell, junior, beat Tartar; ' i You-can beat Mariner. r, k PUGILISM. A MERICAN ,V/14 4 7 P101 1.—The long-pending match between l iar l'reeman, the " American Giant," and Wil (lay e rrs', the " Tipton Slasher," came off on Tues ,Nrt' SawEridgeworth, Herts, and to the great "atti —c ation of the "Fancy," terminated in a drawn ie after a gallant struggle of an hour and a-half, ()1 1 , 1 ,, e course of which seventy-five rounds were the darkness of the evening only preventing 4 44, -Il tinuance of the contest, one of the most extra sok:a7 in the annals of pugilism. This affair, for Li lle past, has been one of the principal topics lati;"\ e rsation in the sporting world, more particu it q?' . 41 fleng the patrons of the art of self-defence, and ha i l a s regarded by many, in a national point of view, the " 161 vmg• the honour of British boxers. Neither of the„.•° M batants are known to fame, and it was only 14.0":Rigantic proportions and herculean powers that tiiiight them into notice, and not from any particular 11te, 41 ,1 3 hs achi eve d i n th e pri z e rin g . The American Nvlerat Met by Caunt, the " Champion of England, Ivli' b 4 ; 3l-1 a " professional" tour in the United States, tiop', 4 is presumed, thinking it a profitable specula spa' ' 'taught him to this country, introduced him at the Po ri i n g soirees, and thus he became one of the great ex• tai - '4* "lions" of the day. In . appearance he is fiv e - : 1 , 1 3' a giant, standing within an inch of seven Weighing upwards of eighteen stone, less by it In t \ , - T_When he first arrived in the metropolis. As Power "e supposed he is possessed of great muscular e Ahl °lid it is reported that he has, when Ilte 1 -4 R his enormous strength , been fre - 4, ft nt-Y k tlown to raise fifteen hundred weight.s uccessful tour in the provinces with his with th ' Caunt, where they astonished the nati ves kie ves e science they displayed in setting to with the t ° t o Itl ld in other athletic exercises, they returned rout "n+ When the cognoscenti thought that if they $06,4 , a _pugilist at all near his weight and size, a not egtit might be the result, and in this they were 'ast e ,j' a PPointed, for the battle on Tuesday, while it iroa D .:" was one of the most severe that could be Itiq t ;, ln ed, both men receiving considerable punish aild it would be difficult to say which had the th e 6 . 1 . the roun d s. P erry, though much inferior to in hat in size and weight, is a fine, weliemade man, Ile tri ; t ',Rnt about six feet one or two, and weighing A dot g' like thirteen stone and a half. tresk!etalled account of the rounds would be unin tent t ing to the general reader, and we therefore con afrair°arselves with giving merely this sketch of the lat e ,• The reason that the men entered the ring so 4 teiat tl t he afternoon, was in consequence of rnagis -4411' interference, the pugilists and their seconds wh o p . disturbed by the appearance of a local Justice, bre a , ls e alitioned. them against the commission of a am `",,af th e peace in the county f or w hi ch h e acte d ; elt ps a a lcer the a ssem bl age h a d di sperse d, some ti me for a e ,', before another suitable spot could be selected, to and the consequence was that the men had ce rn " above an hour in the dark. Previous to the th e ZeJleement of the contest long odds were laid on vat ic Pnt, but as the struggle for supremacy ad issue%ile lost many supporters, the odds fell, and the ancl - 1 ,,,° 1 , t he fight was considered to be very doubtful ; u t e Ceo the umpires and referee put a stop , to the fsv ou not more than a single point was given in clay, P h e fthe Giant. The betting during the last few Af'i l d i a 3 been very brisk, and some thousands are t h 4 e , ng the result. The renewed fight, it is said, will • Place this day. 111 46 N ew Orleans Bullelin inserts plain obituary 4 prai e ... a_t a dollar per head, with an extra dollar for "ag the departed to the sides." LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, DEC. 7.—Wind this day at noon, S.E., moderate breeze, and hazy. DEAL, DEC. 6.—Wind W.N.W., moderate, and foggy.—Arrd. from the River, Agostina, for Laun ceston ; Bristol, Jamaica ; Islander, Barbadoes. `VIIITBY, Di 6.—The Lady Cuthbert, of this port, and the . I:ancis, or Sunderland, coal-laden, got on Whitey Rock t. 11:; morning. during a fog, but came off, and proceeded, The Richard, of South Shields, for Gibraltar, got on the Rock, s‘as assisted off, and has put back to Shields. SWANSEA, DEC. s.—Arrd. Circassian, Cubs. • MILFORD, DEC. s.—Sld. Woodstock, Calcutta. CLYDE, DEC. s.—Ski. Monkey, Jamaica. STRANRAER, DEC. s.—Portions of a wreck, a great number of stave., 2nd three casks of vinegar, marked. " Panter, Bristol," with P. on the seal, and numbered 8533, 3943, and 8270, have been picked up on this . coast. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 6.—The Cleostratus, of Glasgow, abandoned, was fallen in with 27th ult., in I. 40 lon. 17, by the Malvina, arrd. at Liverpool. Arrd. John Christian, Withycombe, China, left St. Helena Oct. 26 ; Wave, Scolly, Bombay ; Malvina, Burton, and David Grant, Menby, Valparaiso ; Robert Isaac, Sherman, Franconia, Crabtree, and Savannah, Leucorn, Potter, Charleston ; Sheffield, Allen, New York. Arrd. off port, Oakland, New rleans. Sld. Crown, Fletcher, Bombay ; .Joseph Albino, Hannah, Port Adelaide; Chimborazo, White, - Lima ; Columbus, Green, Pernambuco ; Mathew Pearce, Loney, La Guayra ' • Lamport, New Orleans : Susan, Savannah; Alice, Barbadoes ; Rochester, New York; John Troughton, Alexandria. ' CORK, DEC. 4.—Arrd. Albion, Vesey, Newfound land. Sid.' Ruth,' Liverpool. PALERMO.—Acrd. Redbreast, Wainwright, New port, in 15. days. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 6.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. her Majesty's ship Warspite; Cadii. Sld. Everetta, Sydney, New South NA ales ; Apollo and Lydford, Grenada ; Sussex, Jamaica; her Majesty's ship Pique, Bermuda. BRISTOL, DEC. 6.—Sid. Emma, Nevis; Feloya, Trinidad; Hornby, Barbadoes ; George, St. Vin cent's ; Leander, New Orleans ; Governor Harvey, Newfoundland. SHIELDS, DEC. 4.—Sld. Neptune, Bermuda. COWES, DEC. 6.—Sld. Ariadne, Krumes, Valpa raiso : Eusquezindheus, Surinam; Jason, De Mon , tier, Guadaloupe ; Vega St. Croix ; John Hardy, Jamaica, with the rest of the outward hound. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 6.—Wind variable and light.— Sld. Enmore, Port Phillip ; Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope Ruckers, St. Vincent's ; John Pirie and Com modore, Jamaica ; Alabama, Charleston ; and several others. FALMOUTH, Dllc.6.—Wind N.W., light breezes.— Sld. Iberia (steamer), Gibraltar. FIUME OCT. 27.—The Britannia, Higginson, arrived here 24th inst., whilst anchoring got in con tact with the Paradise, Robinson, and both sustained damage. Shg subsequently got clear of the latter, and went ashore on the Sand Bank, opposite the Palace of the Patriotic Society, and cut away her mast; cargo discharged. The vessel will be sold. CALCUTTA, OCT. 10.—The Madagascar, arrived here, struck near Mud Point, (supposed on a wreck) knocked a hole in her bottom, and had six feet water in ,her hold, but has been taken into dock without much damage to her cargo. PARIS, DEC. s.—The Jules Cmsar, Scottce (Nea politan) from Oran to Marseilles, grounded on the Island of Pendas, 29th ult., and went to pieces, crew saved. ARLES, Nov. 29.—The Fourbin, or Forbin, from Manus to Toulon, went ashore opposite Farainau light, near Vignole, yesterday crew (except one boy) drowned. , ST. MARTIN, ILE DE RE, DEC. I.—The Bon Pere, Begue, .which was ashore near here, has been got off, and into the harbour, after discharging her cargo. BORDEAUX, DEC. 2.—The Done de Dieu, from Libourne to Redon is wrecked on the Island of Oleron CAPT. GROVES' FLOATING BREAKWATER. DOVER, DEC. 6.—The experimental Floating Breakwater, constructed by Captain Groves, has been this day moored in Dover Bay, in seven fathoms water. It is au iron cylinder painted black, fifty feet long, eight feet in diameter, and riding about four feet out of the water, nearly a third of a mile from the Pier, bearing E.S.E. from the light on the South Pier. A spar, 20 feet high, with a red flag and a bell, will be attached to it. As the Breakwater now lies very much in the track of vessels running to or from the harbour, every! publicity should be given to its position. LOSS OF THE HENRY DAVIDSON. Extract of a letter inserted in the Bombay Times, from the Captain, dated " Singapore, Sept. 6. " Sir,—l take the liberty of forwarding you an ac count of the loss of the Henry Davidson, of Lon don, 600 tons burden, with cotton, from Bombay to. China. After leaving Singapore Roads, we pro ceeded, with Might winds, to the eastward. On the night of September 2 Battam Point was made, the weather very hazy. Pedra Branca was supposed to be about twenty miles distant. At two A.M., a loud rippling noise was heard at N.E., close to. The an chor was cleared, the lead hove, and the ship's head turned S.W. It suddenly became calm, and in an instant the ship drove on a. shelf of rocks under water. Ten minutes after, there was thirteen feet of water in the hold ; in half an hour the water was washing over the guns on the upper deck. Another anchor was let go, in the hope of keeping her on the reef. At four A.M., the sea washing over the gang ways, we took to the boats, and made for the James, anchored near us, with another vessel, bound through the Straits of Rhio, all of which had drifted twenty miles out of their supposed position, :and thus proving our misfortune to have been caused by an unusual current. At daylight we returned to the wreck, and were saving some sails and materials, when she swung off the reef, and, giving a heavy plunge, went down headforemost, and carried wiith her a large cutter filled with sails, and two seam en belonging to London." VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Catharina, Amsterdam to Batavia, sth ult., lat. 5 N., lon. 22 W.; Victoria, from Amsterdam, 6th, by the John Christian, arrived at Li verpOol. Duchess of Argyll, Clyde to New Zealand, July 22, lat. 1 N., lon. 23 W. ; Lord Lowther, Lon don to China, Aug. 23, lat. 35 S., lon. 35 E., by the Essex, arrived at Calcutta. Robert Fulton, from Macao, lat.lo N., lon. 109 E.; Hope, Macao to Sin gapore, Sept. 8, lat. 19 N., lon. 114 I T.., by the St. Lawrence, arrived at Macao. Agenor ia, Cape Town to Algoa, Oct. 9, off the Cape of Goo. 1 Hope, by the John Christian, arrived at Liverpoo 1. Isabella of Irvine, bound to Alexandria, 21st ult., !tat. 50, lon. 12, by the Trident, arrived in the Clyde. THE MONUMENT.—PERILOUS FEA.T.—Yesterday morning a crowd of persons were assembled in the neighbourhood of the Monument, their attention being drawn to a man standing on the summit, above the gilt part, which is intended to re:present flames. It appeared that some portion of the iror-lvork at the ball at the top required repair, an some workmen were sent up to do it, when one more venturesome than the rest got through the trap—door, and after shutting down the opening stood upright at the top, to the astonishment and fear of thee spectators, lest he should fall from the tremendous height. He re mained there for some minutes, and then descended in safety. To THE L ADIES.--The results of inlement weather are frequently subversive of comfort at id attraction to Ladies, by causing a naturally delicate skin to become rough and red, and frequently accompanied by chaps and chilblains. These innovations ar e successfully opposed in their progress, and thorotm.hly eradicated on their completion by the use of that inestimable production " Rowland's Kalydor," which possesses the most radical and purifying qualities for effectu , ally excluding and resisting, with a rapid energy truly astonishing, all disorders which disorganise the beauty of the countenance, and as inch using the fair ness and transparency of the skin exce eds all compe tition. [ADVERTISEMENT.] ASTHMA AND CONSUMPTION.-Will be published immediately, Observations on Traction, the new re medy, successfully introduced into - p:ractice by Mr. Cronin, for the cure of Consumpti on and Asthma. The following severe cases have b een successfully treated by Traction within the la: ;t few weeks :- - Mitchell, Esq., Cox and Greene wood's, Charing cross, asthma ; Mr. Gartland, 34, South Molton street, Oxford-street, asthma; Mr. M.-odic, 79, Long acre, asthma; Mr. Posford, Morning Advertiser of fice, Fleet-street, asthma ; Mr. Rob erts, 36, Great Marlborough-street, asthma ; Mr. Ahder, builder, 28, Lincoln's Inn-fields, asthma ; Mrs.. Blundell, Mr. Viner's, 92, High Holborn, asthma ; W. Gering, Mr. Smith's, 25, Strand, asthma ; Mr. Si ight, 14 and 20, Castle-street, Long-acre, asthma; Er. Edmonds, 16, Marchmont-street, asthma ; Mr. C. ' fishmon ger, 7 and 8, Hungerford-market, asthma; Mr. An derson, compositor at the Morning .E.ldvertiser office, Fleet street, incipient phthisis ; James Lamb, 14, Charles-street, Covent-garden, con sumption, with spitting of blood ; Joseph .fifoddaa 1, Pine Apple, Hungerford-market, consumption; lir liss J. Izod, Bohnam's, Church-street, Hackney, consumption ; Mrs. Young, 87, Dean-street, Soho-1 ;quare, consump tion ; Mr. Cartwright, Sloop and N avigation Office, Customs, consumption; Mr. C. 13iayter, 3, Earl street, Prospect -place, Hackney-rol td ; W. Jones, Mr. Yool's, • coal- m erch an t, Can non-row, West ininster ; Mr. Lambert, 13, Cambuyton-street, Fitz roy-square, consumption ; Mr. T. Needham, 72, Charlton-street, Somers-town, co nSumption ; Mr. Davies, Stamp-office, Somerset-hot ise, consumption; Mr. Sinclair, messenger, General . Post-office, con sumption ; Miss Goodwin, 3, Star -court, Chancery lane; William Chandler, firema: .at the Italian Opera House, consumption—Mr. C. may be con sulted from nine to one daily, A t :6, Craven-street, I Strand. TIIE SUN, LONDON, TITURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 'lBa LITERATURE. FACTS AND ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF A MORE FREQUENT DELIVERY OF THE GAOLS. By Lord WESTERN. Since 1819 Lord Western has been an advo cate for more frequent gaol •,deliveries, and by his instrumentttity the gentlemen of Essex were induced to hold '.heir sessions eight times in the year. • They have '.iootinued the laudable • practice to the present time, except discon tinuing one meeting, and in consequence they find their gaols less incurnbered. In the present pamphlet Lord Western has re-urged the arguments be brought forward in the House of Commons twenty-three years ago. We agree with him that a prisoner should he brought to trial as soon s possible after being committed ; but no quick trials, no clearing of gaols by an assize or session, can be of much advantage to the English populace, who are now exposed to be. committed summarily by the Ma ,gitrates fir the most trifling offences. Our whole system of criminal jurisprudence re quires revision, and it will never be placed on a right basis till philosophy has shed some light over the now dark field of punishment. The public at large must not confide this important matter to squires and lawyers. Our cri minal jurisprudence was originally, and still is, based on the idea of vengeance, which dictated torments for injuries • or insults. All the modern theories on the subject of punishment being intended to "protect society," " to reform the criminals," "to prevent crime," are merely excuses invented to defend the , system, after its origin was ascertained to be erroneous. and the practice could not be laid aside. We know no social subject so open to investigation, and so well worthy of engaging ,the highest talents, as the • nature of crime, and the best means of diminishing it. We are sure that the fOrmei is not clearly known, and the latter not even guessed. at. On Saturday night a woman living near the west end of Argyle-street, in a small one story house, heard a noise upon the roof, which she supposed to arise from the fighting of cats. Arming herself with an old reaping hook, she issued forth to read the riot act, and dislodge the disturbers of her midnight rest, ~Zhen she found, instead of a bevy of cats, a-fellow zealously but feloniously engaged in tirring the lead off the rigging, a quantity of which he had rolled together ready for carrying off, on the first favourable opportunity. The gudewife, noways daunted, made an attack upon the thief with her hook ; he at first showed signs of fight, but, judging that discretion was in this case the better part of valour, at last resolved on trusting to his heels rather than to his fists, and, leaping from the roof, made off as fast as the former could carry him, leaving the booty in the possession of his female antagonist.—Glasgow Argus. . . THE CHINA TRADE.--As one of many instances of the improvement of business in Glas g ow, a gen tleman informs us that when there on Tuesday, he saw one house, where little business had been done for months, close a single transaction of 10,0001. in power-loom goods for the China market; and these having still to go through the printing process at home will yet afford some work to Glasgow hands.— Ayr Advertiser. • ANTI-CORN-LAW AGITATION.—Tuesday a meet • ing took place of the City of London Young Men's Anti-Monopoly Association, at Hart's Temperance Hotel, Aldersgate-street, for the purpose of maturing steps for aiding the growing agitation against the Corn-laws ; Mr. P. A. Taylor, jun., in the chair. A spirited discussion ensued as to the best arrangements to be made for future operations. and it was settled that an address should be prepared to the young men of the City; that Messrs. Taylor, White; Collins, Underwood, and Lyon be a deputa tion to th , Second Sectional Meeting of the Metropo litan Association ; and that the Society ireet every evening for the enrolment of members. Other points of detail being settled the meeting adjourned. , Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest on Tucsiay.at the Ship Tavern, Hampstead, on the body of John Nicholson, Esq., aged 58, a gentleman of independent property, who committed suicide on Saturday. The Coroner said, there was no doubt he was insane at the time of the commission of 'the-act, and the Jury returned a verdict of "Temporary insanity." GREAT ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AT COLNE.--• NEARLY 3,000 PERSONS PRESENT.—The Rev. W. A. Bonner, of Bilston, - in Staffordshire ' delivered a lec ture on the Corn-laws, in the Cloth Hall, Colne, on Monday evenin g l as t, to a very large and attentive audience. On Tuesday morning the lecturer gave in structions to the ladies and gentlemen how to proceed with their cards to aid the funds of the League. They are going on with spirit and zeal ; and we doubt not but a much larger collection will be made for that body, to assist in enlightening the agriculturalist, than ever was made before. In Burnley, only ,six miles from Colne, they are' likely In - raise I,oool.—Leeds Times. We understand that in cenSequence of -Christmas day falling on a Sunday, the. customary Dock-yard holiday will be given on the following day.--Devon port Telegraph. STATE OF TRADE.—We are happy to find that the improved spirit observable among our merchants and manufacturers, after the receipt of the late welcome intelligence from the East, still continues to manifest itself. The yarn and goods markets remain firm at the advanced prices formerly quoted, thOugh, during the last few days, there has been less activity shown than at the end f the previous week. This lull is attributable to two causes ; purchasers have already, to a great extent, supplied their wants ; and parties en gaged in trade are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Indian mail, which is expected in a day or two, with accounts of the Calcutta and Bombay markets. There is a strong,feeling that prices will yet materially ad vance : the best proof of which, perhaps, is, that printers are willing to enter into contracts with the manufacturers for goods at the present prices; while the latter resolutely decline their offers. All the spinning works, not actually at a stand, are in full operation ; and the confidence entertained of some revival of our general trade appears to be as firm as formerly. Still the opinion is that the revival will 1 e a very gra dual one; and that . the advantages of our com merce with China must be slow in their development. As yet, the slight ,impulse given to the cotton trade has not extended to the population generally; a spark of hope has been lighted up—in some departments workmen are more busily employed—but the actual benefits derivable from an improved demand are as far away as ever from the mass of the people. It is but too plain that we shall yet have much cause for the exercise of patience, and that, while we certainly an ticipate good from what has recently occurred in the East, we shall, for a long period to come, have to mourn over scenes of misery and distress among our working population. Our neighbours in Paisley con shine in a most deplorable condition. The increase of unemployed last week amounted to 934—the total being 9,s6o—while the means of relief are entirely exhausted; the Relief Committee are considerably in debt, and the expected assessment of 3,0001. from the county does not promise to amount to more than 5001. — Glasgow Argus. We have heard from very good authority that Sir Alexander Grant, M.P. for Cambridge, Mr. Charles Ross, and Mr. William, alias Billy, Holmes were the unsuccessful applicants for the C;ommissionership of Excise, which has lately been given to a son of Mr. 'Terries. Poor Sir Alexander, done out of the Chairmanship of Committees, rejected in his applica tion for a Commissionership of Excise, will now per haps ' think his exertions in the Tory cause amply repaid by an appointment to an inferior office in the House of Commons, for which at the present moment we believe there is a vacancy.—Cambridge Advertiser. THE INCOME-TAX ACT.—On Wednesday last the sittings in this division under the Property and In• come Tax Act terminated, John Mills, Esq., was in the chair, and four cases adjourned from a previous sitting were finally disposed of; and we regret to add that an inhabitant of the adjoining parish of Hove brought upon himself a fine of 201. and treble duty, for hav ing, in the opinion of the Commissioners made a frau dulent concealment and undue return of income. We had hoped that the publicity which we gave to a preceding case of this disgraceful character would have operated as a beacon to deter others from imitation. At the termination of the proceedings the following .gratifying resolution was unanimously passed by the Commissioners :—" That the Commis sioners, with much gratification, take this opportunity of expressing their approbation of the manner in which the officers have carried into effect the Act of Parliament relating to Property and Income-Tax, which they helive has not only been highly satisfac tory to them, but also to the inhabitants of the bo rough."—Brighton Guardian. RURAL POLICE.—A memorial has been presented to the Magistrates assembled at the County Police office, in Kidderminster, signed by the churchwardens and overseers of all the agricultural parishes situate within the division of Kidderminster, in the hundred of Lower Halsford, in the county of Worcester, praying that such measures as they may deem most effectual for ridding the rate-payers of the heavy ex penses .of the police force may be adopted prior to the Epiphany sessions. A special meeting of all the Magistrates acting within the division has been called, -for the purpose of taking the memorial into considera tion ; and, meantime, it was ordered that a copy of the memorial be laid before the Committee appointed at Michaelmas quarter sessions to report generally on the subject of a county constabulary, with special re ference to the Parish Constables' Act. A letter from Vienne (Isere) states that, on Wed nesday evening, one of the statues remaining on the summit of the spires of the ancient cathedral fell down with such violence, as to drive deep into the ground a flag-stone lately fixed. Two persons were close to the spot at the moment, but neither was struck. SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 28.—The publication of an extra ordinary supplement to the Madrid Gazette to-day at noon, giving a detailed account of proceedings in Barcelona down to the 24th instant, has completely removed from the public mind any doubts which might have still been entertained of the winding up of the insurrectionary drama in that city. The in telligence conveyed through the same channel has also dissipated the fear of disturbances spreading in the rest of the province of Catalopi4. The official documents containing this news are highly satisfac tory. They consist, as they appear in the supplement of the Gazette, of a narrative extracted from the com munications of General Van Halen to the Minister of War, General Rodil, now with the Regent at , Sara gossa; and of the notes, dispatches, and verbal nego tiations which have passed between General Van Ha len, the provincial deputation, and the Junta in Barcelona. From the former we learn that Gen. Van Halen, having received no reply to his demand of the previous day, marched from head-quarters at San Felice de Llobregat to Sarria, establishing a line from this point to the Fort of Montjuich, on the morning of the 24th inst. An officer was then dispatched to Barcelona to acquaint. the provincial deputation that the hour for attacking the town had expired, and that if he did not immediately hear from them he would commence firing on the town. This had the desired effect, and in a short_ time five or six individuals of the provincial deputation, accompanied by as many others of the respectable inhabitants of the town, ar rived at the head-quarters of the General. While this deputation was explaining to him the state of parties in the town, the change of opinion, which had taken place, and the few obstacles which now remained to prevent an accommodation, a dispatch arrived from the commanding officer of the troops who had been made prisoners, stating that the Junta had consented to allow them to join head-quarters, but without their arms. To this communication General Van Halen replied that the prisoners detained in the city should be permitted to march out to join him, with their arms, and in complete military order. Two of the deputation now returned to the city to inform the Junta and the people of their interview with General Van Halen, and to prevail upon them to yield uncon ditionally to his demands. The other individuals of the deputation stopped with General Van Haien, in proof of the confidence they placed in him. Their companions, the Commissioners, bad not started Jong, when the regiments of AlinanSa, Saboya i and Zatnora, successively arrived at head-quartergi and were united to the rest of the troops. On the following morning of the 25th, Van Helen was to return to Sanz to re new negotiations, and, as was then, expected,. to enter the city on that day. The deputation which waited upon him said that, the only difficulties_ now in the way of the re-establishment of order, were about 3,000 or 4,000 ruffians, who kept the better part of the popula tion in terror of their lives. They also stated that, during the two preceding days, nearly one-half of the population of the city had fled, partly for fear of these ruffians, and partly for fear of the town being bom barded. The affair my, therefore, be looked upon as all but terminated. The Regent remained at Sara gossa on the 25th. The National Guard and inhabi tants had addressed him, offering him their suppert i and condemning in the strongest manner the insur rection of Barcelona. All quiet herd. Provinces tranquil.—Fives Actives to-day, 264 cash. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Nov. 29.—The re-assembling of the Cortes has, by a Royal Decree of the 21st instant, been put off to the 28th December. The reason assigned by the official journal for this step is, that the Go vernment will not be able before that time to have in perfect readiness certain very important financial measures which it has to submit to the deliberation of the Cortes. The Government has been victorious in all the pro vincial elections, and the three Ministers of the Crown who were unproided with seats iu the Cham ber of Deputies have now consequently been returned. So far. therefore, everything goes on swimmingly for Costa Cr.bral. Five months have nearly .elapsed since the:date of the treaty, in which it was agreed that a convention for the mutual reduction of . import duties, between Great Britain and Portugal, should be concluded within three months, and yet we are as far as ever from the settlement of that point. By evading the obligation of entering into the arrangementproposed by England, the Government certainly .henefit the few and paltry manufacturing .establishments, upon the importance of which they lay so 'much stress ; but they at the same time withhold from the far more extensive wine-growing, .and other agrieUltural in terests of their country, the immense advantages held out to them by us. The reduction of the duties on our manufactures, to an ad valorem rate varying from 20 to 25 per cent. would make this country a storehouSe for the supply of all Spain with Englieh cottons and other goods, while the favour afforded in return, to Portuguese wines, brandies, and other produce; would give an immense impulse to its agricultural industry, and consequently to its general advancernent in wealth. A merchant of this city very recently sent a sample of Portuguese brandy to England, where its quality having been tested, it was declared to be su perior to Spanish, and but. little inferior to Cognac. Of this one article alone a very considerable expor tation might be made to the British dominions, and in its preparation a vent would be found for the worst qualities of wines, with which, hitherto, the grower has never known what to do; so much so, that in abundant vintages they are often thrown away, as not being worth the expense of new casks to hold them. Notwithstanding these considerations, of the force of which the Portuguese themselves seem perfectly sensible, the proposal lately sent to Lord Aberdeen by this Government, as its ultimatum, was of a nature, if not to put an end' to all further nego tiation, at 'least to show that it would be of very little use to continue it. A pretty sort of reciprocity indeed, it would be for us to admit, at greatly reduced duties, all that the Portuguese can send us, while they 'exclude many of our principal articles of commerce, such as silks, coarse woollens, and other goods too numerous to specify. On the 25th instant her Majesty's steam-vessel Dee, having on board two Companies of artillerymen, under the command of Captain Griffin, IRA., bound for Bar badoes, was forced by stress of weather to put into this port. The weather has been tromendous on this coast, a furious gale from S.W. having been blowing almost without intermission for the last week till yes terday, when it abated considerably. The Royal Tar packet steamer, with the mail from Falmouth, only came in yesterday morning; an d the Montrose, by which I am now writing, did not arrive till the after noon ; so that the mail for England, which ought to have gone yesterday, can only go to-day. There exists, at the present moment, a most serious misunderstanding betwixt the Government and the Nuncio, Signor Cappacini, the Pope having positively refused to confirm the appointment of certain Bishops who, it appears, have fallen with ou t the pale of the good graces of his Holiness. It is expected that Sig nor Cappacini will shortly take his departure from this, which will be the precursor of a rupture of the good feeling which has hitherto subsisted between the two Powers: been held here of some of S t e h v e e r anal most t ee t N i ‘ n e g a s l o h ly a ve o l f at t e i l i y e nobility, landowners,. farmers, and Merchants, for the purpose,of forming an association for the promotion of the culture of the grape and exportation of the wines of the provinces of Estramadura. The different opinions, projects,.projects,.&c., of this associatiop, are to be discussed by a com mittee composed of seven memberS, and a petition for the grant of a new company is to be laid before the, Chambers immediately they open. The first subscription of the British' residents in Madeira for the victims of the late inundation amounted to 1,200 milreis (about 3001.) The "Na tional subscription," as might have been anticipated, is goin g ;and the F unc h a l papers a r e asthe indiffere nce o f their ll o f o n c o v i n e p r l y ai s n l o t swl of coun trymen as of gratitude towards the subjects of that kingdom, which, according to the honest' and high minded National, seeks to rob Portugal through the tariff convention. The lower classes in Madeira as sert, that on the 28th of October a legion of little devils entered. the sea around the island. SYRIA. BEYROUT, Nov. 7.--Syriais at length delivered of Mustapha Pacha, who has left the affairs in a state of confusion which it is impossible adequately to describe. When he arrived in Syria he found the hatred which the Druses and the Maronites reciprocally entertained for each other, so great as to have. extinguished all animosity towards the Turks. The result of his ten months' mission has been to create such a degree of animosity against the Turks as has almost extin guished the reciprocal hatred which the Druses and INiaronites entertained of each other. Aluxtapha Pacha's venality was unbounded, a cata logue of his acts under this head would fatigue your readers ; I may, however, instance the distribution of the Iltizams of the Jerusalem and Jaffa district, for hich he received donceurs to the amount of 1,200 purses, or between 5,0001. and 6,0001. sterling. Da mascus was too valuable a district to be omitted. Not long ago he sent Rifaut Bey, his muhardar, or seal keeper, to Ahmed Paella to saythat hewould shut his eyes to his speculations if he would allow him to go " snacks ' in the "exploitation" of the Pachalic. The late DTuefrtke,rdoparpo(s;eedntea his arra n gement, l of Syria, an unusually honest b u t w i t h out success . Ahmed racha went to Bevrout on the pretext of taking leave of Mustapha racha, but in reality to settle their private (alas ! too public) accounts. When Mr. WoOd, our able Consul at Damascus, a short time ago found out that a fraud had been practised on the Sultan in the Gaza district, to the amount of 30,0001. sterling, MustaphaPacha engaged to quash all inquiry on coolly receivingfrom Sheikh Said Mus tapha of Gaza 17 capital horses. - • Ibrahim Pacha conquered Syria by the sword, and he ruled it by the sword, without an attempt to conciliate public opinion; his despotism was charac terised by blunt honesty and straightforward un bending rigour. The morality of the Turkish Go vernment is far inferior. The Druseg continue to irr ercept the high road between Beyrout and Damascus. A Russian and a Prussian nobleman, who came from Constantinople, applied a few days ago for an escort to go to Damas cus, but were plainly told by the local authorities of Beyrout that by taking 'Turkish soldiers the danger of travelling would be increased ; indeed, on Monday, the 31st ult., 40 of the best irregular cavalry attempted to force their way through, but got back in a miser able plight to Beyrout—those who were not killed were plundered. Ahmed Pacha arrived at Damascus from Beyrout on the 4th inst., having first spread the report that he intended to go by way of St. Jean d'Acre, and then, taking the opposite direction ar rived at Damascus, after making a considerable detour to the northward, escorted by 400 men. There are two ways of governing Syria— either by brute force, or by honesty and common sense ; but with the Syrians, semi-barbarous as they are, fraudulent expedients, concocted by a com mander-in-chief who never encounters any fire or smoke but that of his own chibouque, can only suc ceed for a brief period. It will cost the Turks much trouble to get out of the scrape this time. The Druses are too much com mitted to recede, nor have they any confidence in the offers of pardon made by the Government. Sheik Hussein Suleyman and Harind-el-Begh, the Mutuali chiefs of the mountain district between Sidon and Acre, received a friendly invitation to go to Beyrout, but they are too old birds to be caught by chaff. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE • VERSAILLES RAILROAD. (From Galignani's Messenger.) The important trial arising out of the awful railway accident on the Bth of May last, and which, in fact, is a grand inquest taken on the causes and consequences of this lamentable event, commenced on the 22d ult., and was continued de die indiem, with the lapse only of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday last, to enable the Judges of the Correctional Tribunal to take a judicial view of the spot on which it happened, until Saturday last. The Chambre de Conseil having, after mature consideration of the previous examinations, declared that there were no grounds for including the Council of Administration of the Company of the Paris and Ver-ailles Railroad (Left Bank) in the prosecution, decided that M. Jules Bourgeois, Administrateur De legue ; M. Bordet, Provisional Director; M. Henri, Chief of the Paris Station; AL Bricogne, Civil En gineer, Directeur du Materiel; M. Lamoninare, Chief of the Station at Versailles ; and M. Alilhau, Inspector of the Service, should be arraigned as guilty of hothicide through imprudence. The act of ac: sation or indictment, gave a full and minute recapitulation of all the disastrous circumstances attending the accident, enumerat ing the persons who became its victims, either by loss of life or severe mutilation. Of these, six were found dead in a condition to be immediately recognised. Ten were afterwards identified upon more minute exa mination ; and twenty-one, though so entirely burnt and disfigured as not to be recognised, were afterwards identified by certain objects belonging to them found among the ashes and fragments, and from their having been known to be among the passengers; and two more bodies were found dead, but in such a state as to defy recognition. In addition to these thirty-nine sufferers, fourteen more died subsequently, either in different hospitals, or at their own houses, making the total loss of life amount to fifty-three. To these must be added one more, whose death was made known to the Court during the trial. The number mutilated either by the flames or by the crushed fragments of the carriages amounted to 109. In this last category, we must notice the dreadful case of a M. Apiau, who appeared on the trial as a party claiming damages. This gentleman and his two sons were together in the train. The eldest son was burnt to death, and irrecognisable ; AI. Apiau was so severely injured in his lower limbs that he has had the left leg amputated, and his younger son was so fright fully disfigured in the face, that it has lost all traces of the human countenance, and, although only eighteen years, of age, he can never be seen in society. He also made a most painfully affecting appeal to the Tribunal for the restoration of the body of his eldest son, which, he said, the Company had buried obscurely at Meudon, and would not tell him where it was. In fact, the distresses of this sufferer seemed to have almost shaken his reason. The Court sympathised with the heart-stricken man, and said all in its power to console him, but, of course, could not in any way meet this part of his complaint, as his son was unquestionably among those whom it was impossible to identify. The points•of accusation insisted upon by the prosecution were—the insufficiency of the number of engines for the service of the road, so as not to allow time enough between their respective journeys to be properly in spected and repaired, when requiring repair; the un fitness of the four-wheel engine, the Matthew Mur ray; the want of judgment and prudence in placing it before the Eclair, a six-wheel engine of much greater force; and lastly, the imprudence of running the train with too great velocity, whereby the accident was caused. To enter upon the evidence and arguments in support arid in .defence of these several charges, would lead us far beyond our limits, nor, indeed, would they be interesting to the much greater portion of our readers, as they consisted, in part, of technical details and conflicting opinions of scientific men. On the question of the fitness of the Matthew Murray, the testimony, was so various and so contradictory, that we conceive it is extremely difficult for any one, who has no actual acquaintance with that engine itself, to come to any conclusion. It certainly ap peared from the evidence that its peculiarities required a skilful conductor, but it was declared that, with such conductor, it was an effective machine. On the sub ject of the opinion of George, who guided it on the Bth of May, and who was among those who lost their lives on that day, who also is acknowledged by every one to have been both skilful and zealous in the ser vice, the evidence was very contradictory. Some Witnesses deposed that he had frequently denounced it as incompetent and dangerous, and others de claring that it was a favourite with him, and that he took great pride and pleasure in guiding it. The charge of want of skill and judgment in placing the weaker engine before the more powerful one was rebutted. This was proved by men of experience to be the universal practice, and the suggestion that the strongest engine must over-run the weakest was shown to he false and unfounded, as the swiftness did not depend upon power of traction, and further that if the stronger machine, by drawing with greater force, took the weight t,f the train, the weaker, by being thus relieved would go the faster, and thus keep out of the way of the other, and could not be overtaken by it. The last charge, that of the trait being urged to an inordinate degree of velocity, was, like the others, a subject of strongly conflicting opinion. Many witnesses, as well from among the persons who were passengers as from others who ob served it from the road-side when passing Sevres and Meudon immediately before the accident, tes tified that the train was Mien moving with a degree of rapidity that excited in their mind the most witnesses, however, affirmed serious alarms. Opposing that the train was not going at any greater rate than it usually ran when going direct, that is to say, without having to stop'at the intermediate , sta tions, as was the case in the 'present instance; and others deposed that a much greater velocity is con stantly kept up on many railroads without increase of danger. Upon the whole of the evidence it should seem that this deplorable disaster was occasioned by the breaking of the axle-tree of the hind wheels of the Matthew Murray, but the cause of this breakage could not be accounted for, and most certainly did not arise from her being over-run by the Eclair. What the impressions made on the minds of the Judges were remains yet to be known '•• for on the conclusion of the trial on Saturday, th e President announced that the Court would take time till Saturday next to con sider its judgment. EFFECTS OF TILE INCOME-TAX.—At. a recent meeting of the Board of Guardians, the guardian for Lostock, who is not of the school of Diogenes, appeared in an exceedingly ill humour, its ebulli tions continually bubbling into all the business of the Board. The Chairman, an Income-tax Commissioner, at length said —"I think, Mr. Saw must have been before the Income-tax Commis sioners."--" Why ?" said Mr. Shaw.—" Because," re plied the Chairman, " you are so cross." The Chair man often speaks of the beauties of the new Poor law ; to put people out of temper appears to be one of the beauties of the Income-tax.—Bolton Free Press. FOOT RACE.— On Tuesday afternoon, between three and four o'clocks a most amusing race took place on Porchester-terrace, between Mr. William Bushell, the worthy host of the " Carpenter's Arms," Adam street, West, and a young man 'yclept "The Running Butcher." Considerable interest was excited among the licensed victuallers, as, in addition to a very con siderable sum, a dinner and wine was also dependant upon the result of the match. The latter compe titor was to run backwards a distance of one hundred yards in the same time that the other did the same distance in the usual manner; and notwithstanding this great advantage, bets were very even, the youth and lightness of the first being opposed to the age and obesity of the last. At the word, both went off in good style, the butcher getting over the ground at a rattling pace, and Mr. Bushell making 'very. strong play to keep up with him. .The pace was killing, how ever, and after getting , over about half th e distance, Boniface gave in, alleging as a reason, a great com motion in his inward man in consequence of the un wonted exercise. The different parties then adjourned, and the evening was passed in the most harmonious I manner. GOVERNMENT AND THE . SCOT- TISH POOR-LAW. (From the Glasgow Courier.) The follon;ng correspondence is of importance, as it possesses more than a local interest : " COPY OF A LETTER FROM MR. WALLACE TO SIR R. PEEL, DART., DATED KELLY, Nov 17, 1842. " Mr. Wallace presents his compliments to Sir Robert Peel, and begs to request his early and par , ticular attention to a memorial sent herewith from the unemployed in the town of Greenock to Sir R. Peel ; also a letter from Provost Baine, the Chief' Magistrate of Greenock, to Mr. Wallace, on the matters set forth in the memorial; and by the same post by which these will be sent, Mr. Wallace sends a copy of the Greenock Advertiser, in which Sir Robert Peel will find an account of the proceedings which took place at a public meeting of this county on the 10th of this month ; in which Sir Robert Peel will see the resolUtions which were come to respect ing an assessment for the relief of the unemployed, and also for an application to the Executive Govern ment for a grant of public money, and an issue of clothing for them and their families. " Mr. 'Wallace would fr-ther request Robert Peel's .special attention to the 'application of the un employed in Greenock for work instead of money, by causing to be built and furnished, in the excellent dockyard 'and foundries which abound in that town, steam-ships with steam-engines for the navy or for any other Government purpose. Mr. Wallace takes leave to say that, were this suggestion to be gone into, it would be the immediate happy means of getting all the trades, and many of the unemployed labourers, in the town of Greenock to work ; and, therefore, he most earnestly implores Sir Robert Peel to submit 'this proposal to her Majesty's Ministers, as one means, if not the only mans, of giving employment, which eventually.would not be attended with any pei.via neat outlay or loss to the country. " Mr. Wallace takes this opportunity of thanking Sir R. Peel for the reply be made so proMptly to a late communication, and begs earnestly an answer to this and the enclosed memorial, at his earliest con venience." The following letter from Sir Robert Peel, in reply, to a Memorial from the Unemployed of Greenock, soliciting aid from Government, has been received by Mr. Wallace, of Kelly, M.P.:— " COPY OF A I ETTER FROM SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART., TO MR. WALLACE, DATED DRAYTON MANOR, FAZE LEY, NOV. 22. " I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th of. November, transmitting to me a letter, from Provost Baine, the Chkef l'Allgistrate of Greenocl:, and a Memorial addressed to me by the unemioyed in the town of Greenock. "As this memorial has been forwarded by you, I request that you wall have the goodness to infoisn the memorialists that it has been duly received by me. " That the state of the law in bcotland in respect to the relief of the destitute has attracted the serious at tention of her Majesty's Government, end that mea sures are now in progress for instituting a full and comprehensive inqe iry into that iniportant subject, with a I, iew to the amendment of the existing law. " That I deeply regret to hear of the distress end privations under which the memorialists end their families are suffering; but that I hare not authority, and do not consider that it would be consistent with my duty, to advance money from the public funds for the relief of that distress. " That I feel a strong confidence that there is an alternative, in reference to the state of distress, other than that which the memorialists contemplate ; namely, that the sympathy and kind feelings of those who are possessed of property will, by voluntary con tributions, supply any defect which there, may be in the ox;sting law in respect, to the assessment of pro perty, and will provide relief in cases wherein it may be absolutely necessary to afford it. " This confidence, which I should feel on generil grounds, from my respect for the character of the peo ple of Scotland, is strengthened by the resolutions of a pub l ie meeting to which you coil my attention, in re ference to a voluntary assessment of propeity for the relief of the destitute. " That I will transmit to the Lords Coirmissioners of the Admiralty that p?rt of the memorial which prays for the transfer to the port of Greenock of a portion of the work which maybe required for the public service, in the building and equipping of steam vesels, or any other description of shiprig. "This is a question which must be in a 4 ; :eat mea sure decided by considerations of public'ecoooinv, pint of the comparative cost to the public of executing the works referred to at Greenock, or other places. " I have the honour to be, &c., " ROBERT PEEL." Major Uniacke, of the Royal Ill2rines, who was killed at Ching-Kiang- foo, whilst gallantly leading the Marines of the Cornwallia agamst the walls of the city, formerly resided at Stonehouse. Major Uniack . e Was a gallant and distinguished officer. He wes in the general action with the combined fleets-of France and Spain July 23d, 1805. The Spanish ship of the Pie, l Firm e, having struck, he boarded and took poisession of her with forty Marines, having charge of several hundred prisoners. He was pre sent at the siege of Cadiz, and the expedition to Ma laga, and was in the Sea Horse when she captured a French frigate. He was at the capture of Alex andria, and in all the affa;rs on the Potomac, as well as at Baltimore and New Orleans, where he was se verely wounded in the knee-joint; at the capture of the flotill_a with Captain Lockyer, in the barge of the Sea Horse, when every individual on board was killed • or wounded. He was reworded by a sword from the Patriotic Fund.' He had been repeatedly engaged in the Chinese expedition, and led his men to the walls ith undaunted' courage. He has left an amiable and accompliShed widow, and . a young and talented daughter, to lament their loss. —Devonport Telegraph. GIIUZNE*Pnizu IpoLs.—Some of the papers men tion the bringing away the celebrated gates of Ghuznee by General Nott, as if it were the General's own idea carried into effect ; but we are informed that it was one of Lord Ellenborough's instructions to him to bring them back. to India, whence, as many of our readers lulow, they were taken upwards of eight hundred years since, by Alahmood the First, on his return from his twelfth and last invasion of the Hindoo land. All our home " Overland " readers may not be aware that they were taken from the famous Brahmin temple of • Sumnat, in Guzerat, of which Malnamod having broken up a huge Idol, notwithstanding that its priests offered him several crones of rupees (or millions sterling) to forego his iconoclastic design, discovered in its belly such store of diamonds, pearls, rubies, and other. pre cious stones, that the sum offered as ransom was a mere nothing in the comparison—a regulerßelly-God that ! What the particular purpose of the GoveFor- General is, in having the gates brought back, we do not yet well know, but it is probably to send them to •England as curiosities end mementos, for he cannot design to bestow them on any Hindoo temple of the present day (he would raise a loud religious outcry if he did), but it may be intended as a political mark of our late triumph in Central Asia, and one which will exalt the British name in libido° estimation, fOr depriving the Mussulmans of such a trophy of their conquest over the follOwers of Brahma. Mahmood's mace also, with which he s t ruc k off the Idol's nose, is being brought away from its placein the mosque at Ghuznee at which the gates were fixed.—Englishman, Oct. 13. QUALIFICATIONS OF A MISSIONARY TO TILE SOUTH SEA IsLANDEas.—The object of missionary exertion in Polynesia is unquestionably important, and no means, separated from religion, seem adequate to the accomplishment of it. Simple - instruction in letters and the arts will not suffice. The iriiid must be reused and - alarmed by revelations which respect the eternal state of roan; the savage must be made to feel that the eye of heaven is. upon him; and that there is a powerful hand ever stretched out to punish or to protect. To effect these ends, the learned and refined are not the best qualified, for there is a delicacy of feeling induced by literary habits, which shrinks from the familiar description and bold remonstrances indispensable to the success of the missionary. An illiterate artisan, if animated with zeal, and not igno rant of the first truths of his. religion, is, for breaking up the ground of pagan superstition, an instrument better suited than the brightest ornament of a univer sity, or the most eloquent expounder of doctrine in the city pulpit. Such men as went forth in the Duff act as pioneers; they prepare the way for the advance of a more regular force ; they .cut out a path in the wild thicket or morass by whicl their successors may proceed to complete the work begun with so much labour; they sow the seed, with an unskilful hand perhaps, and on ground little cultivated, but whence, at no 'distant day,. a crop will spring to enrich and beautify the whole land. The missionary in due time is followed by the churchman, who systematizes the elements which the other has created. Like a wise master-builder, the latter polishes the materials, al ready in some degree prepared to his hand, and erects with them an orderly edifice, complete in all its parts, and having for its foundation the lively stones of an apostolical priesthood, qualified to offer the oblation of a spiritual sacrifice. We must look to the next ge neration for the full effects of the exertions made i n the present. - The warmest advocates of South Sea missions are most ready to acknowledge that the work is still imperfect ; that much evil is yet to be cor rected, and all that is good still needs improvement. But it must not thence be denied, that a great benefit has been conferred, in which the Christian and phi lanthropist may rejoice. The leaven of the gospel, indeed, has not hitherto leavened the whole population, so that many are still found who profess not to believe in it, and amongst those who do, numbers are Christians only in name, and by their conduct fre quently dishonour their calling. Who that is at all acquainted with the progress of, our holy faith in past ages, could expect it to be otherwise ? The directors of missions are not such enthusiasts as to look for miracles.--Edinburgh Cabinet Library, No. 111. Polynesia. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Ap inquiry took place before Mr. W. Carter, the Coroner for East Surrey, in the last four days, at a - place called the Badger's-hole, in the parish of Addington, on the body of a young woman named Charlotte Steer, the wife of a labouring- man, named • Robert Steer, at whose cottage the inquest was held, . her death, it was alleged, having taken from vio lence. The inquest was held at the instance of the Magis cr; tes of the district, who thought it right, from the rumours that were abroad upon the subject, that a -- public inquiry should take place. Inspector Collier. of the -P division, was present to watch the proceed ings, which it will, be seen from the evidence exhibited the most disgusting depravity. Clara Steer deposed that she was the deceased's daughter, and that the cottage was occupied by her father and her grand mother. Her mother her been ill for several weeks, and on the day she died she had got up for a short time and then went to bed again. Her grandmother was drunk, and was swearing and making a noise, and the deceased told her to be quiet, and then laid clown as if to go to sleep. In the morning her mother appeared very ill, and her grandmOther took some food in a cup and put it into he r mother's mouth with a teaspoon, hut she was unable to swallow, and it came out of her mouth again. Upon. this the grandmother said it was only her sulky temper, and she lifted her up and shook her, and then forced some of the food down her throat with the spoon. After this the deceased moaned a good deal, and the next morning when she got up she found that her mother was dead. A neighbour of the de ceased gave similar testimony, and said that she saw the grandmother forcing some food down the de ceased's throat while she appeared in a dying state, remarking at the' same time that if she did not give her something the people would say she had starved' her. Robert Steer, the husband of the deceased, said that on the day in question he went out to work, and did not return home until near twice o'clock at night, and he immediately went to his wi:e, and , found her in bed, very ill, and the grandmother was lying by her side, very drunk. He asked the deceased how she was, and she shook her head, but• made no answer. The next morning he discovered ' that his wife had died- in the night. Tile surgeon who examined the deceased said that he had opened her throat, but he did not discover any appearance of violence or injury having been inflicted upon it, and upon opening the head he found the brain to be in such a diseased state as to account satisfactorily for her death. Ile did not discover any marks of vio lence upon her person, and had no reason to believe that she came by her death from any other than nai' turd! causes. The Jury accordingly, after a strict inquiry, returned a verdict to that effe2t. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Payne held an inquest in the .Queen's Prison upon view of the body of Edward Esmy Hall, aged 46, one of the inmates. From the evidence it appeared that the deceast.d had been ad mitted to the prison in March, 1841, and had not since made any effort to pass the Insolvent Court. He had been coachman to a gentlemar, wimse caaghter he married, and since his imprisonmcnt had been sup ported wholly by her from an annuity of above 3001., which was allowed her. Deceased drank a great deal, and,. having been suffering from some chronic disease, - he was attacked . on Thursday last with delis mum tre mens, which merged into fever, and be. died on Monday. The Jury, after briefly consulting,-returned a verdict of " Natural death. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Baker held an inquest at The Town of Ramsgate, High-street, Wapping, on the body of Joseph Butler, aged 34, a tide-waiter at the London Docks. The deceased, on Wednesday night, about nine o'clock, while leaving a vessel at, the quay in the above docks, slipped and fell over board. A , ,sistance was immediately upon the spot, and every means used to find him, but, owing to the darkness, it was more than half an hour before he was brought to the surface, when life - was extinct. Verdict—Accidental death. An inquest was taken the same evening, before the same Coroner, at the Shakspeare's Head, Shakspeare's walk, Shadwell, on the body of John Levy, aged 19. It was proved in evidence that the deceased, who was cook of the City of Limerick, Dublin steam-vessel, went ashore a month ago to see a friend, with 'whom he got rather intoxicated. On his return, and while endeavouring to climb up the side of the Royal Ade laide steamer, which lay close to the wharf, he missed his hold and fell into the - river; the tide, which was running very strong at the time, bore him away, and • the body was not discovered till Sunday last. Vrr diet—" Accidentally drowned." Seicinn.—An adjourned inquest upon the body of William Blythe was resumed before Mr. Iliggs, at the Blue PoSts, Bennet-street, St. James's. The de waged had been porter in the employment of Messrs. More.. and Illingworth, surgeons, Arlington-street, and had been found dead in his becl-roorn, adjoining the laboratory, upon Sunday morning last. A phial, 'which had contained corrosive sublimate, having been discovered in the same place, it was thought necessary to have a post mortem examination male, when the surgeons report fully certified that deceased had taken . poi.ion, a considerable quantity of it, in an undecom posed state, having been found iu his stomach. Ver dict—" Died by taking poison, he being at the time in a state of temporary insanity." • THE BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED . MURDER' NEAR NEWCASTLE.— Miss Robinson has fully identified one of the . p: rties, who has been apprehended. The pri soner Bell, who is a tall man, held the candle while the blow was inflicted on Miss Robinson by his com panion, whose face was partly concealed behind the 'bed-curtain. Miss Robinson has no doubt whatever of Bell being one. of the men. She knows hint by his eyes, and by his mouth, and by his whiskers, which were not, it seems, so much blackened as the rest of his - fice, . Miss Robinson was much agitated on being introduced to the prisoners, who were re- Mande(' (as we have already stated), and there seems no doubt but they will be fully committed for trial. In regard to the pocket-handkerchiefs found on Miss Robinson's stairhead, there seems every probability of the police being able to show that they were in the possession of the prisoners on the Saturday night preceding the burglary. Miss Robinson states that the lesser man, supposed to be Riddle, but to whose identity Miss Robinson cannot speak positively, from her not having had so complete a view of his face, had a knife or dagger in one hand, and the iron pinch, with which the blow was inflicted, in the other; so that it is quite clear that the parties were prepared to commit murder, if necessary, to secure their object, and thro utgh at l t h M e ifsos Robinson's fortunate circumstance life vas ofsaved the so ry entirelyant girl having been aroused. The greatest credit is due to Mr. Rudd, . the Superintendent of the Gateshead police, for thejudicious manner in which he has con ducted the cue, which at one time appeared almost hopeless. WANT or ROADS IN CnusA.—Compared with the grand system of water-communication, land-carriage is little regarded ; and Mr. Barrow believes, that in the whole extent of the empire there is hardly a road that can be considered better than a footpath. The value of the ground, the scarcity of cattle for waggons, the almost exclusive use of chairs and litters for the convenience of travellers, and of coolies or porters for the transfer of goods, render any greater breadth unnecessary. They contrive, i ie:d, to employ in these narrow tracks a very peculiar species of conveyance. To loaded wheelbarrows they attach a sail, which, when the wind is favourable, materially aids their pro gress; and whole fleets of these vehich,s mss, be seen moving along. Milton even alludes to the plains— Of Serirana where Chlrieses drive With sails and . wind their cany wagons light. After all, where . a road does become actually neces . the axeline leading; sary to connect anY of their p oints of inter course, the inhabitants spar e neither cost nor la bour f in iii,loalliciiitigheiteacpoinglk;oteitsFitrtexisalautplo t magnifi cent and commodious. The surface is perfectly level ; and the middle part, for the breadth of twenty feet, is , paved with flags of gra ni t e. ' A gain , the road over the mountains of Tche - kiang, though it be 'narrow, je, co vered witir fine gravel front the neighbo ur i n r, hill s , and kept quite smooth. In the lofty barrier of Cluang - - titlie summitng, as of h has: already teA i ci f i he hi n gm observed,ouil ta a leasbeen great part of t n exca vated in order to facilitate the passage.—Liverpool Courier. ImronT AN T LEGACY.--We copy the following in telligence from the Birminkkam Journal:—The Rev. Dr.Vaeinan, on his return front Rome, was made the bearer of a handsome crucifix, blessed by the Pope, and sent as a mark of special regard to - John Hardman, Esq., sen., of Handsworth. This present Was accompanied with a document, of . which the fol lowing is given as a translation—we have not seen the original:—" The undersigned, Secretary of the Hell Council for the propagation of the Christian name, having, in an audience granted Aug. 28, 1842, laid be fore his Holiness Pope Gregory XVI., the numerous and splendid benefactions with which J. Hardman, Esq., has enriched the Catholic Church in the central district of England, the Holy Father has graciously impacted to him and hiS relations and connexions, to the third and fourth degree inclusively, a plenary in dulgence at the hour of death, to be gained by de youth: invoicing the most holy name of Jesus men tally, if he cannot orally. To Mr. Hardman also is imparted a plenary indulgence, as often as he shall piously and devoutly receive the sacrament of penance and the holy eucharist. His Holiness has also directed that this formal document of these privileges be stowed on Mr. Hardman should be transmitted to England as a public testimonial of the peculiar good will and gratitude of the holy see towards an indivi dual of distinguished merit.—J. A. EDEssos. Given at Rome from the office of the Sacred Congregation of the. Propaganda," DESTRUCTION or. Fisll.---The slaughter of salmon fidi in the Teviot and its tributarie.i.. has been. and is, still Carried on.• to a disgraceful extent, .hundreds of fish being - taken daily, and that. without the smallest I hindrance being offered..