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" THE MISER'S DAUGHTER" COMPLETE. On the 15th, in 3 vols. post Svo., TII E MISER'S DAUGHTER By WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH. Will Twenty Illustrations on Steel, by George Cruikshank. London : Cunningham and Mortimer, Adelaide-street, 'Wes' Strand. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. TII EARINA; C Z an HISTORICAL ROMANCE of the COURT OF RUSSIA. By MRS. HOFLAND. " A story of very considerable and continued interest to all, both young and old; we can safely recommend its perusal."— Litrary Gazette. " In this romance Mrs. Hofiand has presented a striking in,t-" nce of events of real life, competing in interest with the 'most imaginative conceptions of fiction. She has availed her if skilfully of the historic material for her work, and has itkirly emulated the touching pathos of Madame Cottin's ti Elizabe t h.' "—Morning Herald. I leziry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 13, Great Marlborough-street. COLBURN WELL PUBLISH during the present Month the following INTERESTING NEW WORKS:— LETTERS of MARY QUEEN of SCOTS, and Doeu mpn.s amrseeted with her Personal History, now just published, wi.h an IR4oductioo by AGNES STRICKLAND, Author of The I4ves of the Queens of England." 2 Vols. small Bvo., with Portrait:. s• ELF DringTlON; or, Hie HISTORY of KATHA RINE RANDOLPH. By the Author of ""The Only Daughter." Eiited by the Author of " The Subalf6rn." 3 vols. NARRATIVE of the EXPEDITION to CHINA, from the Commencement of the War to the Present Period, with Sketches of the manners and customs of that singular and his F erto almost unknown country. By Commander J. ELLIOT BINGHAM, EI.N. 2 vols. small tivo., with Illustrations. IV. The FIFTH VOLUME of MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIARY and LETTERS. V. The MARQUIS of LONDONDERRY'S LETTER tp LORD ASHLEY on the MINES and COLLIERIES Bvo. VI. NIMROD ABROAD. By C. J. APPERLEY, Esq. 2 v 01.., small Bvo. VII. Tue NABOB at HOME ; or, the Return to England. By the - Author of "Life in India." 3 vols. HAMBURGH, 12TH AUGUST, 1842. Is EMPEROR of MAJESTY AUSTRthIAe, HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, AND TITS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA, Hieing AUT HORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS- Ti BUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDEND S , by which, th they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES ma.. be obtained, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, ire' Selling 'GENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS for the said DISTRIBUTIONS. "arsons desirous to purchase may receive, PREVIOUS fouiving, any order, the PROSPECTUS with full PARTI- L IRS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, OCT. 5, Will be performed, LOVE'S SACRIFICE.—Matthew Milner, Mr. Vandenhoff; Paul Lafont, Mr. Cooper; Eugene dr Lorme, Mr. Charles Pitt; St. Lo, Mr. Walter Lacy; Jra i Ruse, Mr. Meadows; Margaret Aylmer, Miss Vanden hoff; Herminie de Vermont, Mrs. Walter Lacy; Manou, Mrs. Orger ; Jenny, Mrs. Hamby. .To conclude with the Grand Romantic Fairy Extravaganza, in two acts. entitled THE WHITE CAT.—Wunsuponatyme ( kin g of Neverminditsnamia), Mr. J. Bland ; Princes Para gon, Precious, and Placid (his three sons), Miss Poole, Miss Copper, and Miss Lee ; Jingo, Mr. Harley ; the White Cat, Min Marshall. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; Fir,t. and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s, Sceo-,id Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places fcr the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low. at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ; of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond-street ; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, OCT. 5, The Performance s w ill commence w i th the Yew Original M,1 , )-tiramatic Romance, called the OWL SISTERS; or, the HAUNTED ABBEY RUINS. Principal Characters by illessrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, H. Beverly, Craven, Wilkinson, 3lavnard, Frampton, Miss Faucit, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. H. Gratton. Alter which, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Characters by Ale,srs. Wright, 0. Smith, H. Beverly, Mrs. H. Beverly, Mrs. Cl. P. Grattan, and Miss Murray. To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ; Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. In consequence of the immense overflows, THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 5, «iti be acted Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with most decided success. Neville Audely, Mr. H. Hughes ; Hugh Laneret, Mr. N. T. Hicks; Herrick Evenden, Mr. J. Webster; Blanche fierier, Mrs. R. Honner. Art,r which, MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Ha: fy Hallyard, Mr. T. P. Cooke; Joe Tiller, Mr. R. Honner ; M-Iry Maybud, Mrs. R. Honner. To conclude with THE PLEDGE OF LOVE ; or, A SIS TER'S SACRIFICE, supported by Mr. N. T. Hicks, Mr. W. Smith, Mrs. Vining, Miss Terry, &c. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the &x-office, from eleven to four. ,I!GH W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. ify! mug 5 minutes after 2 1 Evening 21 minutes after 2. 4 -- ,ii-,,,p ) . „ ,•:, . ) - - Z i ti -Il': ) c - :fi ll ' l' ' ' ' . l l ',2lc i - ~-, C-- A° "SAM' '' • s .-,...' 4 4 le ... rtt ,s ult. LONDON: IVEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, 1842. Now that M. DE LA MARTINE has asserted that the world is becoming mechanical or manu -fitcturing, and insisted, in his poetical way, that statesmen must accept this as a part of society, seek to give it a soul, there can be little doubt but that the opinion will find general favour with our Tory journalists, as it has already found favour with more than one. For our Faris, feady as we have been to give currency to M. LA MARTINE'S oration, we had nothing to lea - At from him on this head, and have several tiraeF., and years ago, insisted, in this journal, that the L;rowtlt of manufactures was a natural and nee, ssary step in the progress of mankind. We haya pointed out the circumstance, namely--the en, m tof proportionably fewer hands to feed socir ty as the art of agriculture is improved—which cor ,peis men to be manufacturers, if they have nc th.: means to live without employment, and we Li; .ve briefly, as occasion served, alluded to som' of the moral effects—which we regard as alt~.gether beneficent—of the growth of mann factuves, and the increasing use of machinery. On this important question, therefore, we had notning to learn, and have learned nothing, from M. OE LA MARTINE, though we are glad of him as au auxiliary to impress on our readers the truth, that society is becoming, and must be come, mechanical or manufacturing. Buz this important truth is denied by the Tories, and not merely is the truth denied, but their tictions are dictated by a contrary opinion. Wit), an Arcadian simplicity, a remnant of the belief in a golden age, they insist that agricul ture, because it was earlier practised than manu factures, is a far more suitable employment for society; and, far from allowing individuals to distribute themselves as is most for their advan tage, in manufacturing or agricultural occupa tion;, they have insisted, and do insist, on forcing an undue number to engage in cultivating the soil, and in Preventing an increasing number from gaining a living by making and selling ma nufactures. If M. DE LA MARTINE and we are right, the statesmen who adopt the Tory princi ple, and try to extend agriculture and check the I growth of ma nu f actures by laws, are engaged in I resisting the natural and necessary progress of society, and are responsible, by their erring conduct, fbr much of the misery which exists. In Si: ROBERT PEEL'S imagination it may not be very poetical or picturesque to have the whole community crowded int o l arge towns conj. fleeted by railways, and he may think it worthy of a statesman to make laws on such a snarling view of what society may possibly become; but society has hitherto obtained, and will most pro bably in future obtain, the mere means of sub sistence by a decreasing quantity of labour,. and the statesman who thwarts or resists that benevo. volent and beneficial progress from some fancied superiority in agriculture, is the enemy of his specks. We hear much said now of the general peace of Europe, and we rejoice, day after day, that our columns contain none of the excitement of war ;' but it is somewhat Singular to find general distress and general discontent existing in con- ' junction with general peace. Is it, however, the fact that , there is peace in society, though there be peace betwixt nations? If our previous ob servations be correct, those_who frame our insti tution:, and govern society, may be said to be at war with its progress. Th e passages we quoted yesterday from the Times, " the movement of numb ors against wealth and rank," imply nothing less than a war of the multitude against the in. stitutions of society. How many persons may be lying in gaol awaiting the deliverance of the SpEc:al Commission we know not, but they are not fewer than half a thousand. In former times the journals attacked political parties and political leaders—they now assail classes, and assail them with fury. On the one hand the landlords, on the other the manufacturers, are described as oppressing the multitude. If we have no longer war betwixt nations, we have war betwixt classes; if we have not war abroad, we have fierce conflicts at home. We aim not at each other's lives, but at each other's prosperity; and, though death be not inflicted, destitution is. Men perish not amidst the inspiring sounds of the trumpet, but amidst the cheerless gloom of cold and creeping poverty. It is this kind of war betwixt institutions and the people, betwixt class and class, growing out of a traditionary and unjust partiality to ancient employments, and an antipathy to new occupations,which, in the midst of peace betwixt nations, is one of the main sources of general distress and general discontent. We know of no nostrum, for our parts, to cure this general disorder, but we rely principally on the spread of information, and the progress of accurate knowledge amongst our rulers, as well as amongst the people. One of the objections made by sentimental writers and sentimental statesmen to the pro gress of manufactures is, that they are un poetical. They destroy all the charms which these writers and statesmen ascribe to rural life. The undeviating rail, running betwixt high earthern walls, or passing through a hole in the earth called a tunnel, or running along on the top of high embankments, is merely dark, ter rific, and mechanical. As the clattering carriage whirls furiously along, frightening the graceful animals who are grazing peacefully in the velvet meadows which it intersects, it is the very anti podes of all that to youthful poets and poetesses is charming in the country ; and an opinion is formed which is not without its influence in the Legislature, that mechanical improvements are odious, soul-less things, which only deform the fair face of nature. We shall borrow, there fore, from a leading Tory publication, the florid, but certainly not the successful or the reasonable, defender of Sir R. PEEL'S policy, a few observa tions on railroads, to show that they are not without a poetry of their own. The Quarterly Reviewer says— Yet our age is not asleep. Great movements, va rious activities, are heard and seen on all sides. In the lowest department, that of mere mechanics, con sider what fifteen years have done. It was only in the autumn of 1830, following close on the French three memorable days of July, that the Duke of Wel lington opened the Manchester and Liverpool Rail road. The population of the busiest region on this earth were assembled round him, whom all acknow ledged as the greatest man in England, at the inau guration of a new physical power, then felt to double the strength and swiftness of human beings. While, among the myriads of gravely joyous faces, the new machines travelled at a speed matching that of eagles, the life of a great statesman shot off on a darker and more distant journey, and the thrill of fear and pain at his destruction gave the last human tragic touch to an event which would at any rate have retained for ever an historic importance. The death of Mr. llus kisson startled the fixed bosom of the veteran sol dier, and those who were near perceived a quiver of the lip, a movement of the eye, such as had hardly been caused by the most unlooked-for and dreadful chances of his mighty wars. To a calm observer the emotion of the whole multitude, great and small, might strangely have recalled far-distant ages, and the feelings with which ancient peoples held every great event as incomplete, wanting the blood of a vic tim—too often human—solemnly shed. In the most prosperous and peaceful of national triumphs the dark powers again claimed a share, and would not be for gotten. - Since then, about twelve years have passed, and behold what they have brought forth. Some seventy millions of money have been expended —more, at the lowest estimate, than four times as much as the Papacy was able to raise in a century and a half for the construction of its greatest monument, the costliest the world has ever seen. These seventy millions of pounds have been subscribed by private persons at their own choice in one small country, and have created nearly fifteen hundred miles of railroads —structures that surpass all pyramids and Cyclopean walls, and machines that would puzzle Archimedes, by which myriads of men are perpetually travelling like the heroes of fairy tales. It is probable that the roads of the Roman eawire, the work of many centuries, did not cost so much of human labour, and they certainly did not exhibit so much greatness of thought, as those that we have built in less than twenty years. In the state of society that has pro duced such results there may be, we know there is, enough torpor, even rottenness. But it cannot be, on the whole, an insignificant stage of human ex istence, one barren for imaginative eyes. From the Reviewer's remarks, of which the above is but a specimen, it is plain that he regards our present world, our workshops, and our exchanges, our tall chimneys and our straight rails, our busy marts and our crowded streets —teeming, as they do, with life, with tragic and with comic interest—instinct, as they are, with all the passions of man, to be full of poetry ; but the feeble and helpless complainers of an un poetical and unpicturesque world, are so dull that they cannot perceive it, and so little learned in the love of the passions that they cannot inter pret them. We quarrel not with their imbecility, but we protest against society being made to suffer because some of the most feeble-minded of our writers and statesmen are smitten with a vain desire of distinction, which they cannot gratify. They are unable to find out the poetry of the existing world, because it is not the poetry of their books; and, seeing nothing picturesque in the occupations of more tha n h a lf t h e commu- nity, would fain suppress them. As long as such foolishness was confined to the novels of the Minerva Press, no person thought it worthy of notice ; but when Tory writers, day after day, decry manufactures, on sentimental grounds, and when the Prime Minister appeals to the preju dices of sentimentalists against a town population, thatfoolishness becomes excessively mischievous, and it is time to direct leading articles against it The S especial Comtnission appointed for the trial of the northern rioters was opened at Sta4rd on Monday, on which occasion Sir Mello- LAS TINDAL, the Chief Justice, delivered a charge to the Grand Jury; which deserves praise for the general moderation of its tone, and the clear and distinct manner in which the law of the land is expounded, as it bears upon such riotous combi nations as took place last July in the manufac turing districts. His Lordship, after giving a brief, general outline of these illegal transac tions, whose origin he attributed to certain dis putes between the masters and men on the question of wages, proceeded to state the difference between legal and illegal combinations, observing, " that if the workmen of the several collieries and manufactories, who complained that the wages they received were inadequate to the value of their services, had assembled them selves peaceably together for the purpose of determining upon the rate of wages or prices which the persons present at the meeting should require for their work, and had entered into an agreement amongst themselves for the fixing of such rate, they would have done no more than the law allows them. Unfortunately, however," his Lordship added, " those who were discontented did not stop here," but assumed the power of interfering with the right which others possessed, of exercising their own discre tion on the subject of their alleged grievances. " It is unnecessary to say," the Chief Justice went on to observe, " that a course of policy so utterly unreasonable in itself—so injurious to so ciety —so detrimental to the interests of trade— and so oppressive of the rights of the poor man —must be a gross and flagrant violation of the law, and is to be put down, when guilt is established, by a proper measure of punish ment." Upon this point there cannot be two opinions. Justice and common-sense alike re pudiate such oppressive combinations, as being as soc te ia n l ding injurious to—indee d, directly to impair —the system; andthe calm, equable, but emphatic manner in which they are denounced by his Lordship, will, we confi dently hope and believe, have a. far more whole some effect on the minds of those misguided men who took part in the late strikes, than if such warm and over-zealous language had been re- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, 1842. partineut, 'the Sub-Prefect of Dieprie, and the Mayor of Eu. The Duchess of MECKLENBURG SCHWERIN was to leave for St. Cloud on the morning of the Ist, and the KING, QUEEN, and rest of the Royal Family were to s have started in the evening, so as to reach St. Cloud early in the morning of Sunday. The Quotidienne states, that during the week ending the 29th ult. there were 611 oxen returned to their owners from the markets of &Tana and Poissy for want of buyers. " This fact," adds the Quotidienne, " is a striking proof of the de pressed state of the agricultural interests and of the excess of production over consumption." If this remark is founded on truth, we may soon expect to see French cattle in the English market. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. 'The market recovered from the dulness observ able in the morning, but still bargains were very few. Consols left off at 924 93 for Money, and 93 934 for the Account ; India Stock, 247 249 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 50 52 ; New, 49 51 premiuma. The closing prices of Foreign Securities were— Belgian, 1021 1034; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 514 521; the Five per Cents. 1004 ; Danish, 82 83 ; and Brazilian, 631 64, ex div. The Chilian Government are about to convert the arrears of interest upon their bonds into a stock bearing 3 per cent. interest, and for some of this latter 25 has been offered and refused. One part of the plan is to issue new bonds in lieu of those from which the coupons will have been detached, a course highly to be deprecated, inasmuch as it is not of the slightest utility, while it affords the greatest facility for fraud. There can be nothing more easy than to convert coupons, which should have been destroyed, into stock, and manufacture a few thousand extra bonds, and send both into the market, thus raising a new loan without publicity. Spain did this some years back, and doubtless intended it in the present year, had it not been for the vigilance of the press. It may be mentioned that Senor Calatrava is stated to be anxious to come to some arrangement in regard to the Treasury Bonds. The condition to which the finances of that country are reduced, may be inferred from the fact, that all those patient and ill-used creditors re quire to settle their claims is as nearly as possible 5,0001. each half year, and yet even this small sum has never yet been remitted, although the payments of one-half the principal, and a portion of the interest, were, by an Ambassadorial notice, advertised in 1837, to be paid off according to contract. The inquiry for all description of Shares continue]. to be good, but chiefly for Brighton. The condi tion of this Company, the probability of it offering very shortly the shortest route to Faris, thus natu rally increasing the traffic, and the present price of the shares, appears to have called public attention to the line ; the last price was 364 364. London and Bir mingham were 183 185 ; Birmingham and Glouces ter, 39 41; Great Western, 81 82 ; the Half shares, 59 591; North Midland, 56 58 ; the New shares, 271 284 ; South Eastern, 231 234 ; South Western, 57f 58; Eastern 81 81 ; Northern and Eastern, 35 36 ; Brighton, 6/ 7 per share. The Exchanges were all firm and more favourable for this country, especially on Paris. Amsterdam, 12 61, 12 61; Rotterdam, 12 61 ; Antwerp, 12 44 ; Hamburgh, 13 11, 13 111 ; Frankfort, 151 1514 ; Paris, 25f. 824 c., 25f. 874 c. ; Genoa, 25 90, 25 95 ; Marseilles, 25 85, 25 90 ; Leghorn, 30 30, 30 35 ; Vienna, 9 56, 9 561 ; Trieste, 95 1 7 e , rm 9 0 5:7 1 1 2 ; 0I M 1 a 2 d o ri i d : 364 364; Cadiz, 364 364 ; Naples, 401 ; Lisbon, 524 524 ; Oporto, 524 53 ; pa Messina, 1204. The quotations for the Bonds were—Colombian, 204 21/ ; Peruvian, 15 16 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 36 364; the Three per Cents., 214 214 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 164 164; the Three per Cents., 21 21+. The arrival of the Indian Mail is looked forward to with some anxiety. In October, 1841, it arrived in due course on the Bth, but, in consequence of the superior facilities now existing for its transmission, it is expected on Thursday. (From The Sun of Last Night.) But little has been done in the Funds this morning ; the Market has not exhibited quite the same firmness as it did at the close of business yesterday. N o altera tion can, however, be m i use n Faces beyond that of there being sellers rather than buyers. Consols are 924 93 for Money, and 93 934 for the Accoupt; New Three and-a-Half per Cents., 1004 1014 ; India Bonds, 37 39 ; Exchequer Bills have improved, the Old to 50 52, and the New to 49 51 prem. Foreign Securities are again better, and it would appear that more attention is now paid to th ese as in vestments. Dutch and Belgian have been the more sought after, the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. of th e former country being 52 5 24, the Five per Cents. 1004 ; and the latter, 1031. Mexican Bonds also are quoted higher, namely, 331 ex div. The opinion that the disputes between that country and Texas will be amicably settled gains ground, and it is known that the latter are extremely anxious to avail themselves of a treaty lately signed in London, for England to a rrange th e a ff a i rs w hi c h cause the present hostile , feeling. Brighton Railway Shares ha ve aga i n b een t h e principal feature in this market, and have been sold as high as 364, but some parties being anxious to realise their profit, and having appeared as sellers, they have receded to 361, a n d th e l oan notes 104. The other transactions have been—Eastern Counties, 84 ; Blackwall, 7 ; South Western, p 8 ; and Manches ter and Birmingham, 60; the whole of which are higher. More speculation has to be noticed to have taken place in the Bonds. Colombian are quoted at 21 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 36; the Three per Cents. 211 ; Spanish Five per Cents. 164, and the Three per Cents. 214. The number and amount of bills due to-day, we understand to be very large, but hitherto all has passed off well. It is satisfactory to st a t e , th at i n t h e present depressed state of business, the notaries complain greatly of want of employment. MANCHESTER STO9E. EXCHANGE, OCT. 3.—We have had a limited business to-day, and prices remain steady. Quotations as follow :—London and South Western, 574 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 214 to 224; North Midland, 564 to 574 ; New South Easterns, 12 to 124; Eastern Counties, New, 71. 19s. 2d CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock BRITISH FUNDS. (India Stock -- pm 3 per Cent. Red. ...•..•• Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons.— 921 Ditto Old Annuities ... 31 per Cent. Red... Ditto New Annuities... New 34 per Cent... lOO4 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 50 pm New 5 per Cen' — Ditto 5001...... 51 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1860 ... Bank Stock for Acct. Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 l2 7-16 Consols for Acct....... 93 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent. ... --- Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 1034 Ditto, New Ditto 364 Brazilian Bonds... — Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. 22 Russian, 5 pei cent — Chilian, 6 per cent. — Ditto, Metallic ...... . Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent l6l Ditto, 1424 2l Ditt o , Deferred.... ... Cuba B onds , 6 per cent BO Frenc h, 5 per cent. —l. —e. Danish, 3 per rent — Exchange —f —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent 334 Dutch, 24 per cent. 52 Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 100 i Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd... 39 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ... . Si Ditto New Shares ( paid) ... .... 81 is 8d Great Western, (65 paid) ..... B2 London and Brighton (50 paid) 364 ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) ... ..... ... 101 London and Birmingham (90) .— --•— Ditto Quarter Shares (25paid) 4B Ditto Thirds (32 paid) London and South W es t e rn (4116 s 10d pd) 574 Manchester and Bi rm i ng h a m (40 paid)...... 211 Midland Countie s R a il way (100 paid) North Midland Railway (100) Ditto Half Shares (40 paid) Paris and Rouen (18 paid) ... 201 South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)... 231 Ditto Scrip (15 paid) ... 121 York and North Midland (50 paid) .... ..... 90 COURSE OF EXCHAN GE—( YESTERDAY. 1 Amsterdam CF. 12 94 Gibraltar 46 Ditto, at sight ......... 12 61 Leghorn •.. .... 30 40 Rotterdam .........2 U. 12 10 Genoa Antwerp l2 74 Milan Hamburgh M.B. 13 141 Venice 47 Alton ......... 13 15 Naples 4O Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 70 Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 m0nth5......... 25 95 Lisbon 52 Marseilles Bourdeaur 26 0 Rio Janeiro Frankfort on Mai ne ...1514 Bahia Petersburgh, 3 Us. ... 364 Buenos Ayres ...... Berlin. . ...... 7 New York, 21 days sight 464 Vienna, effac. 11. 3M. 959 Philadelphia 4e Trieste, ditto ........ ... 10 PRICES OF lummox, PER. OL. Madrid Cadiz Bilbao Barcelona Seville ... 36 ,Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 11i The Chancellor of the Exchequer returns to town to-day from the Isle of Wight. Lord Stanley leaves town to-morrow for Knows ' ley Park, Lancashire, on a visit to his father, the Earl of Derby. Tint REV. MR. CURLING AND CAPTAIN STEVENS.— A Correspondent, who accompanies his communication with his name, writes to us respecting a case, reported in The Sun of Friday last, under the head of Union-hall, in which it was stated that the Rev. Gentleman had as serted that" Captain Stevens had made an improper use of his name, by stating that he (Mr. Curling) was about to preach a sermon in aid of the Royal Swimming So ciety"—a society founded by the latter. Our Correspon dent states and affirms that the promise was made, and that the Rev. Gentleman has forfeited his faithful pledge in that respect. As regards the usefulness of the Society in question, we are given to understand that Captain Stevens has taught 7,352 persons to swim since its foun- dation, and has himself saved se veral lives. 1 in a firm, equable, and considerate manner; and that no erroneous system of Terrorism will be adopted, which, like exquisite cunning, always overshoots the mark, re-acts injuriously on the Government which sanctions it, and aggravates the very evils which it was intended to remove. We cannot close these hasty observations without alluding to the sermon preached before the Judges, by the Rev. Mr. COLDWELL, previous to the opening of the Commission; wherein, alluding to the riots, lie traced them exclusively to the " deism and infidelity that were widely spreading through the land," adding, " that the men engaged in them, first set aside the Bible, then brought into disrepute the Church, and de clared open hostility against its ministers." This is sad clerical cant. The riots in question had nothing on earth to do with the Church or the parsons. They were altogether a belly af fair—the result of mingled ignorance and desti- tution. As for the Rev. Gentleman's statement that those who took part in them were Deists and Infidel:, we firmly believe—and we make the remark in no disrespectful spirit—that the majority of them were quite as good Christians as himself, though they were not perhaps so well paid for their Christianity. We occasionally give brief reports of the pro ceedings and decisions of the Revising Barristers in the Registration Courts, while at the same time we are aware that no intelligence in a news paper, not excepting even the long speeches made in favour of a Repeal of the Union, is read with so little interest. The individuals who claim votes, and a few of their friends, may take some interest in the business, but as regards the public in general, it is a matter of perfect indifference whether a Whig or a Tory name is struck off or retained. At the first revi sion of the Voters' Lists, after the passing of the Reform Bill, these Courts were crowded with anxious expectants for electoral privi leges, and the papers were filled with long details of objections made against different par ties, while, at present, half a column is con sidered ample space, even in journals which have room enough, and to spare, for recording the re sults. This is certainly a remarkable change in the political feelings of the people within the brief space of eight or nine years, and it may, therefore, be interesting to inquire into the cause. It cannot be attributed to a general apathy regarding constitutional rights, for at no period did such a general conviction prevail as at the present time, that the people are not represented in Parliament, and that re forms must be introduced into both Houses for depriving the aristocracy of their monopoly of , power, and protecting the great body of the people against the abuses of class legislation. The apathy must, therefore, arise from some well-grounded conviction that all the valuable provisions of the Reform Bill have been set aside, and that it is useless to trust to a charter which has been found so completely in operative. Bribery is carried on to a greater extent than ever, there are still small rotten boroughs in abundance, and in large towns canvassing, accompanied with promises and threats, never exhibited such unusual vigour as during the last election. It is painful to witness such a change, but it is still more painful to know that this apathy may be traced to the political conduct of certain parties in whom the people at one time placed confidence, Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S " finality" speech, the ejection of Lord BROUGHAM and Lord DURHAM from the Cabinet, and the infusion of others in their place of all but Tory principles, have alienated the people from what has been called Liberal go vernment, and made them look out for other and more faithful leaders. But the task appears all but hopeless, for if even as large a number of honest Reformers were returned to Parliament as the present state of the suffrage would admit, what could they do against the Tories with the finality man at their back? Are we to wonder, therefore, that the Sturgites and the Chartists, and other political parties, should be driven to the necessity of devising some scheme for the abatement of these evils, and that, in despair of finding a sufficient remedy by ordinary means, they should go much farther than many of the middle classes consider prudent or practicable ? Such demonstrations, however, are marked symp toms of the defective state of society, and require the immediate and careful attention of our rulers, We have news from Madrid up to the 25th of fast month. The C'orresponsal publishes a notice of the Director of the Bank of San Fernando, an nouncing to the shareholders that they are en titled, for the present year, to a dividend of 4 per cent., which will be paid to them after the Ist of October. The following is an extract from a private letter:— " The commercial treaty with Great Britain is again beginning to be talked of, and it is even asserted in some political and diplomatic circles, that the pro ject has been actually discussed between the Regent, his secretary (General Linage), a Spanish statesman, supposed to be M. Gonzales, and Mr. Aston, our Minister. The last correction was said to have been given to it so far back as the 20th of August. It is thought th at the Government will present it to the Cortes, tog ether with the projected treaties with Bel gium and Holland, and that whilst the discussion is proceeding Zurbano will be kept in Catalonia to over awe the o otton spinners and manufacturers of Bar celona. NC. Cortina, aware of the conclusion of this t ni throughonly with h the r '' Fi C a o r r l t i e a s m , e i n s t aconcertingfriends, treaty, a n d of the pl ans o f G overnment f or carry i ng is en with t measures,but ev secret societies of Barcelona, to procure their failure." We !ave receivediall the— Paris papers, but with t the exception of a supposed insult offered to the Fi .ench flag, they contain little news. It appears t hat the British brig Cygnet, employed for the prevention of the slave -trade on the African toast, had fired with ball, ahead of a French vef sel called L'Aigle, to bring her to,and as the rapt min paid no attention to this, a second shot was fu •ed, and two Englishmen boarded her, when, fink Ling all was right, the vessel was al lowed to depart. While the mutual right of search cons .inues, we really - cannot see any part of this procee' Eng of which the French commander has a right to complain. His protest, and Ithe reply of Ca.lptain WILSON, the commander of the Cygnet, will be found in another part of the paper. The Journal des Debats states that M. PAGEOT had been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary, and charge d to fill, ad interim, the post of Minis ter of Fran ce at Washington, in the absence of M. DE BAC'OURT. The Illo:21teur Parisien announces that the King of PatTsstA received most graciously the authorities of the French town of Pontarlier, on his passage al; the Saut du Doubs, on the 28th ult. His MAJESTY expressed deep concern in speak ing to the Saab-Prefect at the painful loss sus ' tained by France in the person of the Duke of ORLEANS, a ad inquired with the greatest interest after the h ealth of the Duchess of ORLEANS, whose rare qualities, he said, had left the most honourable anal flattering impression in Germany. Accounts fi •om Eu of the 30th ult. state that the KING, Qv EEN, and Royal Family walked on that day from the Chateau to Hotel Dieu to visit the sick. Th( it MAJESTIES were received at the gate . of the he )spital by the Prefect of the De- sorted to, as the Judges of the land were not un frequently in the habit of using in the ultra-Tory days of PITT, SIDMOUTH, and CASTLEREAGH, when the great object of Government—in such cases of riot and sedition as the present—seemed to be, less to administer impartial justice, than to ensure the conviction of troublesome and ob noxious opponents. His Lordship wound up his succinct, lucid, and temperate charge, by some appropriate remarks on edu cation, the diffusion of which generally among the working-classes was, he said, the only effec tual method of rendering them good men and good citizens, and of counteracting the attempts of designing political incendiaries to undermine their principles, and array them in hostility to the established institutions of the country. From the spirit that pervaded his Lordship's charge, we feel satisfied that the law will Le administered—as it always ought to be, but, alas! not as it always has been— SUMMARY OF NEWS AND I,l,etbitc Q: ptittott. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The French packet-boat Phare, whiclfieft Algiers on the 21st of September, thirty-six hours later th an the ordinary ma il, arrived at Toulon on the 26th. By this conveyance we learn that General Bugeaud had departed in haste for the province of Constantine, hav ing ascertained that Zidi-Zerdout had attacked Setif, at the head of 4,000 or 5,000 Kabyles. The Flittas, and other tribes about Medeah and Miliana have also resumed arms. The lower Atlas, however, is peaceable. - M. de Rifleman, the Delegate of Monte Video, has just addressed a petition to the Minister of Marine, requesting that the crew of the Leopoldina 'Rosa shall be put on their trial. The shipwreck of that vessel, which cost the lives of 204 persons, is known to have been caused by the refusal of the crew to obey the orders of the captain. A subscription has been commenced by the King and Royal Family of France, to alleviate the losses sustained through the late storm by the inhabitants of Fecamp, Yport, and Etretat. Much snow has fallen within these few days on the Pyrenees. - Twelve new Consuls are about to be nominated by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs for Europe, the East, and America. The tenth sitting of the Scientific Congress of France was opened, on the 28th inst., at Strasburg, about 600 being present. Otho, King of Greece, it is stated, had a fall from his horse a day or two since, but escaped with some slight contusions. IVZONZY — TRADE—OOIVMEILCE. The works of the Bristol and Exeter Railway are about to be proceeded with actively, the staff of the engineering department having arrived in Exeter. The line has been trenched out at the Red Cow, and in the course of a short time there will be several hands permanently fixed on the work. NAVAL &ND IVIILITART. The fortifications of Gibraltar, by order of Govern ment, are to be repaired by convicts, under guard. A considerable number will soon be embarked at Gravesend. LAW AND POLICE. Monday, James Weston, a lad about 14 years of age, appeared at Wandsworth police-office, on the charge of throwing a s t one on the South-Western railway, at Wimbledon. The highest penalty would have been imposed, but that he had the character of a hard-working boy, and was the support of his mother. He was fined 10s. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. At the Newcastle Musical Festival the Messiah was performed on Saturday morning. The Duke of Cambridge and the Marquis and Marchioness of Lon donderry were present, and afterwards appeared at the Grand Dress Ball, among 600 other individuals in ti ncy ccstu:ne. THEILTRICAL. Gretry's opera of Richard Coeur de Lion, with addi tional orchestral accompaniments by Adolph Adam, is in rehearsal at Covent-garden Theatre. SPORTING. Prince Albert visited the game preserves at Windsor on Monday, and after being in the field above three hours, brought down twenty-four brace of pheasants, four brace of partridges, with a leash of hares, and a couple of rabbits. COURT-PASHIONAELE. The Earl and Countess of Harrington and their youthful daughter, Lady Jane Stanhope, have arrived at Pembroke HOUS 3, from Elvaston•Hall, Derbyshire, for the winter. Lord and Lady Montague have left Ditton Park, Becks, for Leam;ngton Spa. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter receive a select party at Burle'gh House, near Stamford, during the week. The Prince and Princess of Capua, will leave Ha nover Lodge, Regent's Park, for the south of Europe shortly. Prince and Princess Kannitz left town on Sunday for Rotterdam and the Rhine. Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister, has returned to Ashburnham House, from Drayton Manor. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond are expected to leave Scotland this month for Goodwood. The Earl of Ripon left town yesterday for Nocton , Lincolnshire. MISCELLANEOUS. There are at present in Haslar Lunatic Asvluin, about 160 patients, under the charge Hof Dr. Jame 3 Anderson. A parliamentary paper states that since its establishment in 1818, 116 commissioned, and 70 other officers, together with 503 seamen, marines, and Greenwich pensioners, had been admitted. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, OCT. 4.—Wind this day at noon, mode rate breeze from N. to N.E., and fine, clear weather. DELL, OCT. 3.—Wind N.E., fresh breeze.—Sld. Sophia, John, Bombay ; Cybele, Griffiths, Quebec ; Cawlon, Penton, Sierra Leone ; Duchess of Northum berland, Scott, Hobart Town ; Arab, Dalgarno, South Australia ; Horwood, Gales, Algoa Bay. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 3.—E.N.E.—SId. Wanderer, Voss, Calcutta; Duke of Argyle, Bristow, Madras. PLYMOUTR, OCT. 3.—Wind E.N.E., strong.-- Arrd. Soca, Nissen, New York. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 3,—Wind E., light.—Arrd. Gre cian, Lamgon, Havannah ; Thompson, Gardiner, Bar letta. Sld. Swan, Blanchard, Matanzas; Rockall, Higgin, New Orleans; Kara, Skirling, Genoa. RAMSGATE, Ocr. 3.—The Josine Wilhelmina, Re goort, from Grangemouth to Dordt, which put in here 30th ult., leaky, is discharging. SHEERNESS, OCT. 2.—The brig Monica, of Roches ter, grounded yesterday on the Cant Edge, but re ceived no damage. ALDBOROUGH,: OCT. 2.—A vessel's keel and kel son, a trysail, mast, and several deals have washed on shore. MUMBLES, SEPT. 30.—S1d. Enchantress, Foster, Cuba; Alderman Pirie, Penrose, ditto. The Abeona, Gace, on shore on the beach, has got off, and pro ceeded to Gloucester. CoRK, OCT. I.—Arrd. Lancashire Witch, Cum ming, Monte Video. SUNDERLAND, OCT. 2.—Sld. Freyer, Rio Janeiro. CROOKHAVEN, SEPT. 30.—Arrd. Gentoo, Calcutta. VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Hendrik Hudson, Lon don to New York, 28th ult., lat. 47, lon. 18, by the Gentoo, Dodds, arrived at Crookhaven. Rienzi, Clark, Newcastle to New York, Aug. 18, lat. .54, Ton. 27, by the Stag, Pearson, arrived at Boston. Empire, Torrey, Newcastle to New York, Aug. 9, lat. 58, lon. 18 ; Ambassador, Mearns, Clyde to New York, 22d, lat. 50, lon. 31, by the Carthage, Knapp, arrived at Boston. Kensington, Richmond to Trieste, Aug. 27, lat. 39, lon. 41, by the Italy, Snow, arrived at New York. Princess Marianne, Batavia to Am- sterdam, lat. 34, lon. 30 ; Baobad, Martin, Sumatra to Marseilles, 13th ult., lat. 38, lon. 22; Auguste Antoinette, Bourbon to Marseilles, same day, by the Gara, Raqusin, arrived at Gibraltar. Abbotsford, bound to St. Peter's Island, lat. 47, Ton. 56, by the St. Nicholas, Morgan, arrived at Quebec. Moscow, Wenberg, Cadiz to Boston, Aug. 14, off St. Mary's Island; Shnrandoah, Liverpool to Philadelphia, 9th ult., lat. 42, lon. 63, by the Jacob Perkins, arrived at Boston. Birkenhead, Liverpool to St. Andrew's, sth ult., lat. 46, lon. 60, by the Scotland, Robinson, ar rived at New York, Earl of Clare, London to Cal cutta, June 26, lat. 29 S., lon. 44 E.; Pomona, New port (Wales) to St:Thomas's, Aug. 25, Tat. 30, lon. 49 W., by the Janette, Steele, arrived at New York. Christian, Glasgow to Trinidad, 19th ult., let. 36, lon. 20, by the Victor, Gorham, arrived at Gibraltar. Joseph Perkins, Cadiz to Boston, 7th ult., lat 40, by the Ganges, Leach, arrived at New York. Black Prince, Liverpool to Lima, Aug. 8, lat. 10 N., lon. 27, by the Aurora, Martinolich, arrived at Gibraltar. Flora, Veale, Newfoundland to Valencia, 18th ult., off Cape St. Vincent, by the Montague, Dibben, ar rived at Gibraltar. THE LATE MADAME SOTER.—The appearance of a very beautiful engraving of the picture of " The Jew Lemon-sellers" reminds us of the loss which art has sustained in the death of Madame Soyer. This gifted lady, better known, perhaps, as Miss Emma Jones, has been snatched away in the midst of a career, the opening success of which fully justified the most flattering anticipations of her numerous friends. Some of Madame Soyer's pictures exhibited here were the subjects of very general admiration, and such of our readers as visited the last exhibition at Paris (where Madame Soyer was even more popular than in England) will recal with pleasure her picture, after Murillo, of " The Two Israelites," which received so much praise from the French critics. The devotion of Madame Soyer to the art which she so much adorned by her talents, is illustrated as much in the number as in the excellence of her works, which form the basis of a lasting and honourable fame. Although but 29 years of age when she died, she had already painted no less than 403 pictures. Many of them are in the pos session of the most distinguished collectors in this country. BERLIN, SEPT. 24.—There is no confirmation of the report that was spread a few days ago, that the Emperor of Russia intended to pay a visit to our Court next month, but Colonel Pathaud, Aide-de- Camp to the Grand Duke Michael, arrived here yes terday, and since then it is said that the Grand Duke will soon pass through Berlin. ST. PETERSBERGII, SEPT. 20.—We continue to enjoy very fine and mild autumnal weather. Ac counts from several parts of the empire, especially the western government, say that the harvest is extremely good. In the western government the crops of buck wheat, flax, hemp, and potatoes, are most abundant. The crop of hay, in consequence of the rains in June and July, is more scanty than last year. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.-1-11S Excellency Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, arrived to-day at the Castle, on a visit to the Quee n . Lord Ashburton and the Earl of Aberdeen also ar rived on a visit to her Majesty. In the morning the Queen and Prince Albert en joyed their usual walk in the Slopes and:Home Park. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken an airing. Lord Rivers, the Hon. Capt. Duncombe, Mr. Geo. Edward Anson, and the Hon. C. A. Murray, had an excellent run this forenoon, in the neighbourhood of Datchet, with his Royal Highness's harriers. This afternoon her Majesty rode out in a pony phaeton and four, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton.. The Prince of Wales and his attendants were in the next carriage. The Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Hon. 'Miss Stanley, and the Hon. Miss Hamilton followed in another pony carriage. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the Gen tlemen of the Court were on horseback. The Royal party rode into the Great Park. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Dowager Lady Lytt e l ton, H on. William Henry Lyttelton, and Miss Lavine Lyttelton, will join the Royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and suite left Marlborough House soon after ten o'clock yesterday morning in several carriages and four, for the ter• minus of the South Western Railway at Vauxhall. Her Majes was attended by L a d y F rances C l i nton, Lady in Waiting; Hon. Miss Mitchell, Maid of Honour in Waiting; Earl Howe, Lord Chamberlain; Earl of Denbigh, Master of the Horse ; Sir Andrew Barnard, Clerk Marshal; and the Rev. John Ryle Wood, Chaplain. Soon a:ter her arrival at the Railway station, her Majesty, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of her suite and her household, took her departure, by a special train, for the seat of Lord De Mauley, Cantord House, near Wimborne, Dorset. Sir James Graham transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of the Mauritius. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET OCTOBER MEETING. The following horses arrived at Newmarket for the ensuing meetings :—Lord Chesterfield's Dilbar ; Lord Chesterfield's Rhodanthe ; Lord Maidstone's The Caster, 2 yrs ; Colonel Anson's Napier, 2 yrs ; Major Yar burgh's Heslington ; Mr. Bowes's Cotherstone, 2 yrs ; Mr. Bowes's The Ladye of Silverkeld Well ; Mr. Bowes's The Lass of Louton ; Mr. G. Clark's Ameine, 2 yrs ; Mr. Eddison's Prince of Wales, 2 yrs ; Mr. Watt's Pine Apple, by Yaxley, 2 yrs. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING, 1842. Duke of Bedford's John O'Gaunt, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b, agst Captain Price's Retriever, 6 yrs, Bst ; the last three miles of B.C. 200 h ft. CRAVEN MEETING, 1843.— WEDNESDAY. Lord Stradbroke's b c by Alpheus, out of Marpessa, agst Captain Daintree's Brother to African, Bst 21b each. T.Y.C. 100 h ft. ASCOT HEATH, WEDNESDAY, 1845. The Great Ascot Produce Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for 3 yrs old colts, Bst 71b; fillies and geldings, Bst 21b; with 200 added from the fund ; the second to save his stakes. Once round, from the Winning Post. Lord Albemarle's Zadio. 6 and Tisiphon e —C o l one l Anson's c by J erc d, out of Marchesina (31bs)—Lord G Bentinck's f by Bay Middleton, out of Camarine's dam ; cby Bay Middleton, out of Crucifix (31bs) ; and c by Bay Middleton, out of Plenary (31bs)—Duke of Bed ford's c by Liverpool, out of Sneaker ; and c by Caesar, out of Misnomer (3lbs)—Mr. Bristow's f by Carew, out of Mary (31bs)—Mr. Combe's f (dead) by Glaucus, out of Octave—Lord Eglinton's c by Voltaire, out of Rectitude—Mr. P. Kelly's b c (dead), by Sir Hercules, out of Vignette—Mr. Phillimore's f by Liverpool, out of Adeline—Mr. Wreford's c by Camel, out of Monimia ; fby Camel out of Margellina; f by Sultan Junior, out of Victoria (31bs) ; and fby Liverpool, out of Westeriy (31bs)—Lord Westminster's f by Camel, out of Sarcasm; c by Camel out of Banter ; c by Touchstone, out oi Decoy ; f by Touchstone, out of Laura ; f by Touch stone, out of Languish ; and f by Pantaloon, out ot Retort (3lbs). EFFECTS OF THE IMPORTATION OF CATTLE,—The agriculturists are still making a wild outcry on ac count of the introduction of foreign cattle. But every ox pays a duty of 20s. According to the Mark-lane Express, good oxen are purchased at Hamburgh at Si. 10s. a head, so that the present duty is about 12 per cent. on the value of the article. That seems to us a large protection. If it be not enough for the agriculturists, and they suffer much from the removal of the prohibition, what, let us ask then, was the amount of the injury inflicted on the consumers by the old regulations ? The more noise they make on this subject the more will they enhance in the public mind the importance of what has been gained, and exagge rate the amount of the injury previously inflicted on the consumers. Lord Brougham is very fond of greyhound coursing; and a few days ago, when his Lordship was recreating himself in this healthy sport, he accidentally stepped upon a large loose stone and sprained one of his ancles. We are glad to learn. however, that the lameness occasioned thereby has left him. The cherishedAuackery of the hour, seems to be the trying to persuade us, that millers and bakers are making dear bread. And if we had had such fools within our borders as plagued our fathers of fifty years ago, we should have had a mob set on to sup port " the altar and the throne" by breaking open mills and scattering flour into ditches, as was my luck to see about the enlightened period alluded to.— Letter from Colonel Thompson. A FORTUNATE RENCONTRE._The Journal du Pas de Calais gives the following relation :—About eleven o'clock on Wednesday evening, as the Calais estafette mail was coming down the hill from Beauvais at its usual pace, it came in contact with a cart, which was overturned by the shock, and all who were in it were thrown out. A child had its face very much torn, and one man had a leg and another an arm broken. At the cries of those sufferers the inhabitants of the neighbouring houses came out, and were so violent against the courier that he was on the point of taking his pistols in his own defence, when a post carriage came up with two gentlemen, to whom the courier appealed for protection. They both alighted, and, by their judicious interference, appeased the enraged people until the proper magistrate could be sent for. He having come, and made an investigation, the cou rier was allowed to proceed on his journey. As he was resuming his seat, one of the bystanders, to his utter astonishment, informed him that the gentlemen who had so effectually interposed in his behalf were no less personages than the Prince de Joinville and one of his Aides-de-camp, on their way to Eu.—Ga lignani. THE UTILITY OF A REGULATING GOVERNMENT.— You have seen it stated in the journals, thas the tube of the artesian well is at length finished, and that the water now flows clear from the orifice. This desirable result has been obtained merely by causing the water to rise to a greater height from the mouth of the well before it discharges itself than it did before. At the orifice it is still muddy and sandy. The tube is now of great strength, the municipality having several months ago voted an additional sum of 60,000 f. for a tube which would resist the pressure of the sides of the well. It appears, however, that more than a month elapsed before the formalities of the ap probation of the Government to this grant could be terminated, and in the meantime the sides' of the well continued to fall in, and to form a thick mass at the bot tom which can never be removed. In vain was this result predicted. The Government authorities would not move out of their regular jog trot. This is only one of an immense number of inconveniencesaris ing from the necessity o f h av i ng every municipal grant confirmed by the Ministry. It seems rather hard that municipalities cannot dispose of their own funds as they please, and it was one of the proposed reforms of the Revolution of 1830, that this harass ing and prejudicial control should no longer be ex ercised; but, like many other promised reforms, it is still unaccomplished. Under the existing system, a town cannot make a new street, or a new market, or even appoint a manager to its theatre, without first obtaining the consent of the Minister, and months sometimes elapse before this can be had. The worst Minister in this way that France ever had was M. Thiers. For want of his signature, many public im provements were delayed four, five, and even s i x mon ths.—Letter f rom Paris. KIEW, SEPT. 4.—Since the beginning of July a great body of troops have been assembled, which are now encamped near the city. Kiew is full of officers of all ranks, whose presence greatly animates our social circles, and brings much profit to our citizen s . The imperial equipage has already arrived from St. Petersburgh. We expect Field Marshal Prince Pas kewitch as 'Commander-in-Chief of the whole army. Prussian State Gazette. Tuesday morning, a police-officer from Hull, aided by one of our Edinburgh criminal officers, succeeded in apprehending, in Portobello, a young man, accused of having embezzled 1,2001., the property of a bank: ing company connected with Yorkshire.—Edinburg h Observer. SCHLOSS'S SPEECH OP THE KING or PRUSSIA.— The important and patriotic speech delivered by the King of Prussia on the late occasion of laying the foun dation stone of the Cathedral of Cologne, has been con sidered by Mr. Schloss worthy of being preserved in some shapo more lasting than its ephemeral announce ment by the daily press, and he has accordingly had it printed both in German and English, and in a neat and ornamented style, fitted for general circulation. It i s bordered in pink, on good paper, and the produce of its sale is to be devoted to the benefit of the building fund of the Cathedral. TEE LATE CROPPING CASE AT DOVER.—Mac donald, the turnkey of the Dover . borough gaol, tendered his resignation last week, whioti the Justices accepted, and.they tvillprocged to fill up the vacancy on Friday next: LITERATURE. THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW- No. 7 5 . We have already quoted an excellent pars.- graph from this number as a reply to the Qufi r : terly Revi ew . B es id es the postcript, from w hic h that was quoted, the number contains an vanest and useful article on the outbreak in the mane' facturing districts. - These are its political felt' tures, and both are to our taste beautiful, because they are good and true. In the lighter branches of literature it contains favourable notices of the poems of Alfred Tennyson, and of the sterling worth and writings of the late Robert Nichol. Madame Sand's new novel of " Horace" is rector mended by a few graceful words. and pleas" in g quotations. In a f a i r l y wr i tten ar ticle, without all the causticity the subject invites and requires, th e errors and abuses of E n glish criticism, which are no credit to our literary ch , racter, are justly exposed. But the gem of the; Number fin-amusement is the " Philosophy °L Punch," illustrated by the cuts of that poPt l. lar periodical. We congratulate the editor 0n his justice and discernment in making 1 . 134/ deserving publication the object of an extensive notice, recommendi ng i t , i f possible, to a still wider circle of rea d ers. O f articles of a serious an d miscellaneous character, there is a dull notice( ) ; Mr. Bailey' s attempted L refutation of Berkeley' s Theory of Vision, a more useful article on th: " Constitution, T ra d e, an d Fi re of Hamburev and an ambi t i ous l o f ty fli g h t on what the Rev i ew et t calls the " Scienc e o f Hi story. " This is the gr e: t novelty, and crack article of the Review. makes the English public acquainted with an obscure Italian writer, named Vico, who had th e great merit, in the beginning of the 18th centuill of forestalling all the philosophical writers and i thinkers ab o ut hi story o f the last half centuryfal ofshowing in a book, which he called the Scient; Nuova"—New Science—that there is a history of man very different from th e recor d o f the !P..), serable intrigues of courts an d di plomatists, w hi l consists in tracing th e necessary changes a n growth of Society. Thi s hi story, wh i ch has bee o latterly called t h e N atural History °I Man in Time, t o di st i ngu i sh it from his ntiortii. history in Space, whi c h can b e, and is written () him as of other animals —while they, from tl y i dergoing no p ercept ibl e change, except perhaPd in location, have no natural history iivtime, what is true of them now is wholly true of th e "/ from the very beginning. The Natural History t ) Man in Time th e R eviewer rather erroneously styles the Science of Hi story . W e doubt whe tnet there can be such a sc i ence , except i n the sell6e4f knowing what histories have been written; O a history, or the writi ng o f hi story, i s an art,Bll. between art and science there is a wide and OE damental difference, w hi c h oug h t never tn, r lost sight of by writers at all desirous of I).gr e l correct. Not, however, to enter into a lengthen. criticism co ncern i ng a ver b al but important:Pis tinction, we rec ommen d t h e art i cle to thosela° look to history for information. It displays 01 11 , 0 , siderable reading and researc h, i t i s well pu,,t gether, and brings in a popular manner an liP01.: portant branch of k now l e d ge b e f ore the ptes The details we ha ve entere d i nto of the conteP of the Revi ew ma k e i t unnecessary to add that the Number is a good one , an d d oes cre di t botl to the taste and industry of the conductor. BLACKWOOD'S STANDARD NOVELS. Blackwood, London and Edinburgh, 1842. We have here, lyi ng bethre us on our table, four volumes of this popular collection of nioder ri works of fiction, e ac h o f w h ose volumes cont ains a distint tale —namely, Pen Owen, Valerian Cyril Thornton, a n d T om C r i ng l e ' s Log . these tales are well worthy of the honour of r e ; publication, the l ast e spec i a ll y , which when it originally appeared in Blackwood's Magaz ine d some years ago, acquired a speedier all, more extensive popul ar ity t h an any ser ies Y' papers that had ever been produced in that p e g riodical. By a pre f atory not i ce to -`` T° o Cringle's Log" we learn that the author 0 .., Michael Scott, that he w a s b orn i n GlasgoWl.!; 1789, and in 1806 sa il e d f or J ama i ca, where Pi remained for f ou r y ears i n t h e manageme nt; various estates, and th en j o i ne d a uiereanit, house in Kingston. Ultimately lie se ttled: Scotland Scotland in 1822, a n d i n t h e year 1829, a dd r esser. to the late Mr. Black woo d some f ragments untie' the pseudonym of Tom Cringle, which that 64 :1 cerning judge of literary talent at bike prediel . would be popular. He accordingly urged .ffl , ii A Scott to continue them i n a ser i es o f coaneat. articles, which he did, and the result wasO,7 the publisher's pr e di c ti on was ver ified,P4-" fullest extent. The author died in .the.s l c 4 r 1835, and preserved his incognito so effet l .o_,,f 4 "that even Mr. Bla c kw oo d died withOut,icuqo 4 ',... i except by report from other sourCes, name." Next in interest to Tom CriziklOteff, ventures, is Mr. Lockh ar t' s story of " Val.err a .,l which is written with uncommon spirit anoir quence, and rivets the reader's attentio4,,Ol a , -- though the incidents refer to such a reg - period as the reign of the Roman Emperor in which a professed novel-reader can scarcely supposed to take the slightest interest. Ti volumes are all neatly got up, are cleverly.el" nellished, and very reasonable in point of pilee.. ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEW'. Little, London, 1842. This is a weekly journal; it is got 11P td and. entertaining care and skill, an d i s so var ious 0%. entertaining in its matter, that few readers but must find in it somethi ng t o su i t t h e i r taste' Not a few of it s or i g i na l prose art i cles, which•Pr: devoted to the topics o f th e d ay , di sp l a y ruour, reasoning, and a quick faculty of observg:,. tion ; while of its poetry, it is enough to say tht - generally speaking, it is f ar super i or to nary run of poeti c wares . B ut t h e most rem ark , , and popul ar f eature i n t h e " London N e WP is the excellence and var i ety o f i ts illustrationtl.. i those which represent th e Q ueen ' s Visit to S c ot , land are among the ch o i cest spec i mens o f woo d engraving we have see n f or many a day. As s specimen of its humor ous versification, we q uote the following lines on th e l ate " Doncaster St• Leger race" : A race! a race! at r a pid pace , And Doncaster is n ow th e p l ace, Upon the best of courses . he For Doncaster their speed men spur, It will make many a donkey stir, •,„ E'en let alone the horses ! • Oh! many a man ere this day - week, Although no ditcher's fate he'd seek, ' Will wish he'd been a hedger! And through our brain a thought will range, That there'll be an uncommon change In cash books, through this Ledger! The man who looks you thro' and thro', With "I'm as good a man as you"— A flash, bold, slang, dead-setter • / Will drop his c h ops , an d mutter, "Pish, As good as you !—I only wish I'd never been a better!" The horses start ;—Where's Rosalind? There's Seahorse . I —such seahorse you'll find As proves at sea on few decks ! The Post calls Rosalind a host, But Rosalind's not near the post ! And what becomes of Judex Where's Attila ?—what nowhere found! The odds are veering round and round; How hard a prophet's fate is! " Oh, Attila, thy heels ar e li g ht ! ; ''` r `` -o ' But, being fairly out of sight, ` ' '"`'''' l •, Why what becom es o f Fa tes? • Where is the Queen Vict or i a ? where!!,nni-A 1.1),1 Why, in the Highlands, taking,air. t . i, a .ed Ha! then a million on it! „„ r' ;o0 If she's in any Scottish pla ce , The little mare that wins the race.,,! 0 11 . o il Is sure to be Blue B on n et! irf , Al - 1° boo Ay! there she is! the mare h as won '"l'ild.9"d.jiltl4 For Scotland and Lord E g li nton A triumph for the North. , Most,gallantly she cantered in, Jul 71' And thought it Policy to win As first, instead of Forth! ~ ! .1i01:; (1 9 4 1. ' oi o' ll ;11' They say her jockey, by the bye, 'l9 T. • `a., 0 4 C' • t: 41 r Is nothing but a living Lye • rs . And not a soul can doubt it. But we affirm, upon our word, 4t , That no lie ever yet was heard, With so much truth about it. Now, brother Proph e t s , m i n d your eye, While we propound this prophecy, And wisdom sure begins it. • , We here predict of the next race, The horse that has the foremost place, Will be the horse that wins it ! 9 10 • - 9 VICTORIA THEATRE.—A new play, with the eor : li i p t i terative title of Grace Gray; or Temptation, Truth, at ) .44 Treachery, was produced at this theatre on Monday•,s"" 6 l-1 principal characters of which are well performed by Am; :di Saville, and Miss Vincent as the heroine. Grace is a servant girl, a personage whose life and advetittu,ml if we may judge from the frequency with which the cli meter is pr e se n t e d, seems peculiarly to interest the r quenters of the Victoria. Grace Gray dreams eftu errors into which she is likely t o f a ll , and thus leeru.,7 m , : avoid them, her dream bein g th e su bj ect of the Pw" ' 1 The entertainments wound up with another new dram entitled Donzella's l Oath ; or the Bride of To-morrow. is a translation from a French vaudeville and very • amusing. A Spanish peasant girl, who had sworn to execute vengeance on the invaders of her country, s alt • the life of a French Colonel w h o i s i n her power, en". received into the bosom of the grande armee. It was ex" cessively well received by a very crowd e d house. Lord William Vane Poulett has purchased Down" ham-hall, Suffolk, a seat of the law Earl of Shawn' —Essex Herald.