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

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.-Sir Robert Peel stands in pretty much the position of Master Blifil between Parson Thwachum and Philosopher Square. Those who remember Fielding's novel are aware that the young Peel of its pages alternately pro fessed himself indebted to the instructions of one or other of these worthies, according as the one or other was present, and, when both were present, held strict silence—a silence which each interpr-fed in the young Peel's favour and his own. The political Blifil , however, has a still harder part to play. He is continually confronted with the Parson and the Philosopher at once ; and is constrained to adapt his profes sions, as he can, to the simultaneous satisfaction of the furious orthodoxy of the one, and the " eternal fitness of things," 04 . the other. Be tween-the High Church and Horned Beast in terests, espoused by the Times and Post, and the Free Trade of the Westminster Review or Spec tator, he has a fine time of it. The Times representing Parson Thwachum, the Standard has now sunk to Parson Supple, and has lost all spirit to resist Maynooth grants, Irish National Education, or anything. Parson Thwachurn, however, bates not an inch of that zeal for episcopacy, and resolution to monopo lise education, which distinguish his novel prototype. All that was ever good in the boy Peel he declares to have come from him, and the pestilent lessons of Philosopher Square can result in nothing but putting him to the trouble of extirpating them from the mind of his pupil by the a posteriori logic of birch. Birch accord ingly, in the shape of very biting diatribes, the Times and the Post daily administer to our State Blifil, on High Church and Horned Beast inte rests. Then comes the Spectator weekly, and the Westminster quarterly, admonishing him of the Radical "rule of right," and " eternal fitness of things;" and vindicating, as they ma y , their shar e in the sippery pupil, who takesoccasion to slide out a free-trade or universal-education phrase or two, when the Parson's head happens to be turned t'other way for a moment. Pursuing the parallel, our Lord Johnny (as those who nibble at the leader of Opposition, indulging in an innocent' diminutive, think fit to style him) shall be Tom Jones. 6 , Finality" shall be any of that hero's frank scrapes our readers think proper. Black George is O'Connell; and " the Appropriation Principle" Molly Seagrim. The excellent All worthy, of course, is John Bull ; and Sophia Western—a Lady we name not in levity. The denouement will show whether plain or plausible dealing is ultimately to win the day. STANDARD. The Morning Chronicle has seized upon a. trifling and obvious misprint in our remarks on Colonel Fanc's letter, to fasten upon us a charge of inconsistency, for which there is no foundation in thct. It infers that, because the words " any pacific arrangethent," were substituted for " a pacific arrangement," we intended to suggest the ransom of the female prisoners in the hands of Akbar Khan—a course w I ich we have stigmatised as dishonourable. There are other "pacific arrangements" than that of purchasing these ladies like so many headof slaves from their captors. It has been asserted in the Indian papers—with what truth we cannot pre tend to judge—that on the withdrawal of the British forces from Affghanistan the prison ers of all descriptions will be given up; and if any such order have been really issued, it has, in all probability, been given with some such guarantee. At whatever national dishonour the female prisoners of Akbar Khan are released, however, short of purchasing them like slaves, it must be submitted to; but in pro portion to the amount of that disgrace will be the infatny of those who have left it, among other legacies of equal value, to their successors. What we did say on the day referred to by the Morning Chronicle was this :—" Suppose the British army occupying the whole soil of Affglianistan, and threatening to waste it with fire and sword, unless the British prisoners should be restored; the savage chief might, and probably would, smile at the threat, or even at its execution, and carry-..-his prey into the 'desert, waiting there some proposition personally advan tageous to himself." This entirely accords svith the message which Colonel Fane has anticipated from Akbar Khan in the event of the movement so strenuously recom mended by the Morning Chronicle. But he tells us that which we had not learned from auv other source, namely, that the Commander of the Forces, anticipating the consequences that might result from the presence of females with the army in such a campaign, had peremptorily forbidden them to join it. Who was it, ;then, that rendered this wise and humane injunction inoperative The " civil authorities,' with whom, in faCt, the whole of our disasters in that country - have originated. That which the expe riencf-,. of an old and intelligent officer like Sir Henry Pane clearly foresaw, was whollyimper vious to the prophetic vision of the " MONEY MARKET and CIT Y NE WS, FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 8 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex change of 25 35i-, and the exchange at Paris on Lon don at short being 25 54, it follows that gold is 0.88 per cent. dearer - in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgb, the price of gold is 433 per mark, which at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 9, and the exchange at Harnburgh on London at short being 13 10, it follows that gold is 0.46 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The Funds were a little flat in the early part of business, but they closed rather firmer, and at the price they opened. Loans of cash were made at three per cent. during the day, which is rather a higher rate than previously required. By the official returns published by the Customs the exports of the precious metals to foreign and co lonial parts for the week ending Thursday last, were as under :-- Silver coin to Rotterdam 6,000 oz. A small failure his occurred on the Corn Exchange, viz., that of Messrs. NV. Hills and Co., corn facto►:s. It is mentioned in the * City as of minor importance, though it serves as an additional instance of the losses by over-advances on corn, which have of late been so frequent. _ Among the plans which are mentioned in the City as likely to promote the importation of bullion into India, it is suggested that the Directors of the East India Company should suspend their tax of 4 per cent. upon coining. While this exists the Govern ment can make bullion yield them 4 per cent. more than the merchant ; and he cannot ship it so as to yield a remunerative exchange. The abolition of the tax, it is thought, could be easily effected without considerable change, as the Mint establishment is per manently employed and paid. There is no doubt that some remedy is wanted for the depreciation of cur rency in India, the warin China operating as an ad ditional cause to those already touched upon in pre venting. the influx of treasure into the country. PRICES OF, BREAD IN THE METROPOLIS.—The various prices at which bread is sold in the metropolis call loudly for some legislative enactment fixing the assize. The 41b. loaf of the best hiusehold bread is now selling in Tottenham-Court-road for sid,. in the Borough and Lambeth for 6id., in the Broadway, Blackfriars, and places adjacent, for 611., and in Oxford-street, Holborn, Drury-lane, Clare-market, and the Seven-dials, for 7d. and 71d. The full-price bakers charge from Bid. to 90.; that extortion exists somewhere is evident, and it is equally plain that neither the corn merchant nor the miller is in fault, else bread Could not be sold by one baker, at such a reduction, snore than another ; upon whom, then, does the blame rest ? SHOCKING - AccinENT.—Tuesday night about eight o'clock, as Mr. Onwhyn, news agent and publisher, of No. 4, Catherine -street, Strand, was proceeding homewards, and when within a few yards of his own door, his foot suddenly slipped, and he fell heavily into the road with his right leg bent under him. He wa s immediately raised by some passers by, who, however, found that he was unable to stand. A shutter was procured, and he was conveyed without lass of time to the Charing- cross Hospital, where it was found that he had sustained a compound fracture of the right leg. Mr. Onwhyn, who is upwards of 60 years of age, remains at the above Hospital in a state of great suffering. A few nights ago, says a letter from Lille, a pea sent, who had entered the garden of a gentleman at Lannov, for the purpose of stealing fruit, was fired at by tile gardener, who, when his victim nod fallen, cam,: up, and with the butt-endofhisgun dashedished his skull to pieces. The gardener has been arrested, and placed in prison at Lille. SERIOUS ACCIDRNT TO THE REV. MR. SIBTHORP. —On Monday morning the Rev. Gentleman was pro ceeding in a gig, accompanied and being driven by a servant of Sir Charles Tempest's, in order to meet the morning coach at Skipton, on his road homeward, when the animal, a very spirited one, took fright near Snaggill, and ran away at a furious sp eed. The Rev. G en tl eman and the servant were both thrown out with great violence upon the ground. Mr. Sibthorp had a cloak wrapped round him at the time, cnd was unfortunately pitched upon his head with such force as to lay the front part above the right eye (pen, and severely bruise th e shoulder. He was im mediately removed to the house of Mr. Marsden, surgeon; of Skipton, put to bed, by prompt at tention, was enabled to be renati*cl in a ca rr i age t o Broughton-hall, where he now lies. The servant d with a fewslight bruises.—Bradford escape Observer. ROYAL MAIL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY. An adjourned meeting of the Proprietors of this Company was held at one o'clock yesterday, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. JOHN IRVINE, Esq., M.P., in the Chair. The minutes of the last proceeding, and the report of the Directors having been read, The CHAIRMAN pleaded his own inability, from in disposition, to address the meeting, and called upon the Deputy -Chairman Mr. Colbyn, to explain to them the views and wishes of the Directors. Mr. COLBYN, the Deputy Chairman, in a length ened address, went over the various items of the Re- ' port, and stated his conviction, and that of the Direc tors generally, that whatever might be the losses the Company had unfortunately already sus tained,4 they had no reason to despair of their future prospects. He trusted that no resolu tion so rash as an abandonment of their undertaking would be adopted. The Proprietors should re member that if they took such a course they could not calculate on receiving for the ca pital they had embarked in the purchase of vessels, and in other items of expenditure, a return at all equal to their original cost. If the under taking were given up, that property would be sold off at an immense loss.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. POYNDER, after expressing his confidence in the ultimate prosperity of the Company, moved the following resolution : "The Proprietors having taken into consideration the Report of the Directors laid before them at a gene ral meeting specially convened, and having heard the Chairman and Deputy Chairman on various points brought under their notice, beg to state that whilst they deeply regret the losses hitherto sustained by the Company, and the consequent disappointment to the Company, yet, confiding in the opinions expressed by the Directors in their Report, that the receipts from passsage moneys and freights, together with the 240,0001. which will continue to be received from Government, will be adequate for a dividend on the future operations of the Company, and which opinion was confirmed by the Chairman in his address to the Proprietors ; they do not think it expedient to advert further at this time Io those losses, but being fully impressed with the absolute necessity and great national importance of maintaining and upholding a steam-packet communication at this crisis with the British colonies in the West Indies, they deem it advisable to urge upon the Court of Directors to per severe in their endeavours to perfect and accomplish the great obj ects for which the Company was established. And they respectfully suggest to the Court to avail itself of the further assistance of such professional persons as are most experienced in the machinery and construction of vessels navigated by steam. " The Proprietors also trust, that in future the Di rectors will convene a public meeting of the Company once in every six months, and lay before them a report of their proceedings and statement of accounts, made up to the latest period. " And influenced by these considerations the Pro prietors now beg to assure the Directors of their earnest desire to co-operate with them in every laud able endeavour to advance the prosperity of the Com pany and the great national interests involved in its success" Mr. DAVID BARCLAY seconded the resolution. Mr. Ltuativs, who had moved the adjournment of the last meeting, moved a counter-resolution, to the following effect :—" That a Committee of seven, three to be a quorum, should be appointed to inquire into the present state of the affairs of the Company." He ,believed • that as those affairs were now managed, it was im-' possible to expect that the undertaking could be made to realise the expectations of its original projectors, or that it could be profitable to the shareholders. Sir FRANCIS AUSTIN seconded the amendment. The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN justified the conduct of the Directors on various particulars referred to by Mr. Liggins. Dr. BOWRING supported the resolution for an in quiry into the affairs of the Company. That was the only course which could put an end to interminable dissensions and discussions. It was but natural to ask for such an inquiry in the case of a Company which had commenced under such brilliant auspices, but whose affairs were now in such a deplorable condition. No one wished .to cast any stigma on the Chairman or the Directors perSonally; but he hoped they would feel it their duty to accede to a motion for an investigation into the affairs of the Company which had so unfortunately disappointed the expectations of the Proprietors. Mr. BaucLAy also supported the motion for in quiry. It was an honest and a fair motion ; and if it were not acceded to, he should bring forward another resolution to the effect that the Company should be broken up as soon as possible. Mr. COLES WORTH, a Director, said that the appoint ment of such a committee of inquiry as had been moved for, would be a suspension of that executive which now presided over their affairs.—(Hear, hear, No, no.) He contended that it would be equivalent to such a suspension, and that that would bring about the breaking up of the Company altogether, and that such a breaking up would cause an entire ioss of the capital embarked in the undertaking. Let them allow the present management to continue, and before six months the Directors would pledge them• selves to convene another meeting, to which they' Would fully explain the condition and prospects of the Company. Their position was not even now as desperate as many seemed to imagine. He believed that for the next six months they could work the concern at a profit. He was ready candidly to acknowledge that the Directors had been mistaken in their original estimates, both of the receipts and of the expenditure. —(Hear.) He admitted, too, that some of the servants they had employed had disappointed their expectations. But these errors in an undertaking so vast and to novel were not to be wondered at. The Directors were anxious to redeem the mistakes into which they had been betrayed; and he trusted that the Proprie tors would not now refuse them their confidence for the next six months. Several Proprietors, who seemed apprehensive that the appointment of a committee of inquiry would lead to a breaking up of the Company, spoke in favour of the original motion. In reply to a question from a PROPRIETOR, Mr. COLESWORTH stated that no call should be made on the Company before the next general meet ing, except the call of ten per cent. for expenses already incurred. The amendment of Mr. Liggins, for a committee of inquiry consisting of seven Proprietors, was then put, and 16 hands held up in its favour. The original resolution was next put, and the rest of the meeting, or about 70 Proprietors, held up their hands in support of it. The original resolution was then declared to be carried. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. THE THANKSGIVING PRAYER. The followin g is the Prayer of Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the great blessing which, in His mercy and goodness, He has vouchsafed to this nation, in the late abundant harvest, to be used at Morning and Evening Service, after the General Thanksgiving in all churches and chapels in England and Wales, and in the town of Ber wick-on-Tweed, on Sunday, the 2d of October next, as ordered by her Majesty in Council : " 0 God, through whose good Providence the earth yieldeth food for the sustenance of man, we offer unto Thee our hearty thanksgivings for Thy late mercy vouchsafed to us, in blessing the la bours of our husbandinen with plentiful increase, and preserving the fruits of the field for our use. Give us grace, we humbly beseech Thee, that whilst we receive Thy bounty with thankfulness, we may regard the blessing bestowed on us as a call to repentance, and turn from the evil of our ways. Remove front amongst us all causes of strife and contention; put an end to our un happy divisions; and grant that all conditions of men, impressed with the fear of Thy judgments, and trusting in Thy fatherly care, may faith fully serve Thee, in loyalty to their Sovereign, in obedience to the laws, in kindly affection one to another, and in dutiful resignation to Thy will; that so, under, the guidance of Thy Holy Spirit, we may pass through this world in peace and contentment, and finally by Thy mercy attain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." FATAL AND EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT. —On Monday an inquest was held at the G eorge an d Dragon, Blackheath-hill, before C. J. Carttar, Esq., on view of the body of William Noyes, aged 18, vho was in the employ of Mr. Carpenter, Steam Flour Mills, Greenwich. It appeared by th e evidence that on Friday afternoon he was at work in one of the upper rooms in the mill, and slipped through a trip-d oor , an d fell head first into a sack of meal. He was extri ca ted almost immediately, and taken to a surge on ' s , but he died in a few minute s, a q uantit y of the mea l h aving entered his l ungs an d c aused suffoca tion. death.'The Jury returned a verdict of "Accidental A CHILD SCALDED TO DEATIL—SINGULAR ACCI DENT.-Mr. Baker held an inquest on Tuesday at the Gunmakers' Arms, Bow-common-lane, Stepney, on the body of Charles Honeyball, aged six months. Susannah Snare said that on the morning of Sunday last sh e was with the parents of deceased, at their lodgings in Regent-street, Mile-end. Wit ness was at the table, while the deceased sat in a small chair by the fire. Witness heard a sudden scream, and when she looked towards the fire, saw that the deceased was overturned on the fender, and that the s calding water from a tea-kettle was pouring down u pon its head, neck, and s h oulders. The ,teceased great pain from th e scalds lintillts 'aeath, which place the next ev en i ng . Verdiet—Acci dsuenfferd tal e took death. LAW INTELLIGEN CE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 28. IN RE ROBERT WINSLAY. The defendant was described as a surveyor and engineer. He was also the inventor and part patentee with a person named Denny, in a new mode of con structing locomotives on rail and tram ways. The amount of debts and liabilities which appeared in his schedule was 4,0001. It was also stated that a number of promissory notes of the insolvent's were in cirula tion, by which further liabilities would be incurred upon the estate, to the amount of between 1,500/. and 2,0001. The available assets were said to be about 1,3001. at present realised; and that there was a like lihood of about 4001. being realised from the estate of a person named Brompton, who had likewise been declared insolvent. After the proof of a few debts, which involved no points of general interest, the hearing was adjourned for a month. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Sept. 28. The Court was occupied the entire day in hearing applications for bail, few of which were marked by the slightest general interest. Since the last sitting the enormous number of 44 town and 24 country cases had accumulated. IN RE THE REV. WILLIAM DE LA POER BERESFORD. The insolvent, who was described as incumbent of the living of Inniscarra, in the county of Cork, ap plied to be liberated upon bail until the day appointed for his final hearing. The case excited considerable interest from the fact of his being so closely allied to the present Primate of Ireland and the Waterford fa mily, in consequence of which the Court was crowded during the hearing. The following abstract of the official statements in his schedule comprises all the facts likely to interest the public generally. The amount of debts was stated to be, in the aggregate, 10,0181. 2s. 4d., of which 1,650/. were described as without considera tion ; debts mere than once entered in the schedule, 650/. ; and the debts for which consideration was re ceived were entered at 7,7181. Upon the opposite sheet was the short item, " No debts owing to me." After the debtor and credit account, came a state ment in the schedule of the causes of his insolvency, by which it appeared, that during the period inter vening between the years 1832 and 1838, he had been engaged in continued litigation to recover the tithes of his living at Inniscarra, the annual income of which was 7501. a year, from the parishioners, whereby enormous law costs were accumulated, and also that he had borrowed large sums of money, upon which he had to pay very high discount and interest. The Solicitor on behalf of the detaining creditors said it was understood to be the insolvent's intention to proceed to Ireland after being bailed, and as he owed debts to a large amount there he thus might evade the claims of his English creditors. The insolvent said there were several matters con nected with legacies, which he expected from his grandfather's property, which was held under trus tees, which might require his presence in IDeltmd,_but he should not leave this country without the permis sion of hi 3 English creditors. . The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER said, if the in solvent would pledge himself as a clergyman and a gentleman not to leave England he thought bail might be accepittwith safety to the interests of the creditors. ' _ _ _ • The reverend .insolvent 'wing made the required promise, bail was allowed to justify, after which he was liberated: .14 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. re (YESTERDAY.) GUILDHALL. Robert Sneull, a boy of sixteen ears of age, wbo is well known at several of the police offices, was charged with attempting to steal three coats, which were hanging at the door of a shop in Fleet-street. The case was one of ordinary occurrence, and was fully proved against the prisoner, upon which he was, committed to Newgate to take his trial. He was, taken back to the cell in order to be conveyed to New gate in the afternoon. Shortly afterwards he was brought into I Court again, and the gaoler stated that since he left the Court he had. broken down the plastering in the cell, and h a d made a hole •in the wall nearly as large as .his body. Had he been left another . quartor of an tour he would have succeeded, in escaping out. of the.cell as the laths of the wall were 'broken through. The gaoler stated that the boy had often been there before, and had fre quently attempted to escape. The MAGISTRATE ordered the boy's legs and arms to be tied, and in this manner he was conveyed from the office to Newgate, laughing and apparently highly enjoying the fun. THE SUN, LONDON ) THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 29, 1842. BO IV-SRTEET. Peter Dowling, charged with embezzling various sums of money which he had received on account of the proprietor of the Weekly Chronicle newspaper, in whose service he was at the time employed as collect ing clerk, was this day placed at the bar before Mr. Twyford, for further examination. The following additional evidence was taken : J. Reid, clerk to Messrs. Davies and Co., the tallow chandlers of St. Martin's-lane, proved the payment, on the 26th July, 1841, of 11. 10s. to the prisoner, on account of the Weekly Chronicle, and produced a receipt for the same in the prisoner's handwriting. Mr. Wm. Smith, tailor, of 367, High Holborn, proved the payment on the 4th of July of 3/. 17s. to the prisoner, on account of the Weekly Chronicle. Mr flatlet, ivory turner, proved the payment of 2/. 1 Os. on the 23d October, 1841, to the prisoner, on the same account. Four other charges were also proved against the prisoner. John Phillip Cranty, publisher of the Weekly Chronicle, said .t was the duty of the prisoner to pay over all such monies once a week to the witness. None of the sums spoken to by the preceding wit nesses as having been paid by them to the prisoner on account of the Weekly Chronicle, had been paid over in full by the prisoner to the witness. Most of them had not been paid at all, though in one or two instances, part of the sums proved to have been paid to the prisoner, had been handed over to witness. Mr. TWYFORD said more cases were not necessary, and at once committed the prisoner for trial. MARLBOROUGH-ST_REE7'. Thomas Woolen an Irish labourer, was charged with committing 4, most brutal and unprovoked as sault, and grievously injuring William Smith, a youth in a very delicate state of health, between ten and eleven years of age, the son of highly respectable parents,. residing in Gerrard-street, Soho-square. It appeared that about five o'clock yesterday afternoon, Master Smith, who is now confined to his bed from the effects of the prisoner's violence, was returning home from school, when in passing along Windmill-street, Haymarket, he, as the rain was coming down very fast, st'od up for shelter •under the gateway of a timber-yard, where the prisoner works, and had re mained there but a minute or two, when the prisoner came behind him, and struck him unawares over the head a blow of tremendous force with a piece of heavy thick rope, twisted and doubled together. The boy instantaneously fell on the pavement as if shot, and directly afterwards went into a strong fit. A respectable female named Davey, residing opposite, and who had witnessed the prisoner's brutality, ran over to the boy's assistance, and endeavoured to lift him up, but his struggles preventing her, she entreated the pri soner to assist her, but he only laughed at her, and on her telling him that he. had killed the child, he made use of grossly obscene language, threatening to serve her in • the same manner, and menacing to strike her over the head with the rope. Some gentlemen passing by interfered, and at last the prisoner was taken into custody by the police. In the interim, the boy was carried, in an insensible state, to a surgeon's, and was found to have sustained a severe blow on the top of the head, which had caused considerable extravasa.tion of blood under the scalp, and also an extensive injury of the spine, he was ulti mately removed to his parents' home. Mr. lIARDWICK—The prisoner may think himself fortunate that he does not stand at that bar charged with murder. The assault is one of the worst kind ever brought before me. I shall therefore impose such a penalty as will make him remember not again to lift his hand with violence against a child in such a manner as he has done. I fine him the highest penalty I can, viz., 51., and in default he will go to gaol for two months to hard labour. MARYLEBONE.. Isaac Beslett and William Bigdodd, were charged with uttering false coin. George Digby, barman at the Prince of Wales public house, Hampstead-road, stated that the pri soners came into his master's house and called for a quartern of gin, for which they tendered a shilling. He refused it as bad, and they then left the house. He followed them to the Crown and Sceptre, where they offered the same shilling ; they were then given in charge. No one appeared from the Crown and Sceptre, and Mr. Rawlinson, in consideration of its being their first offence, let them off with an admonition. Henry Lovell, a young lad, was charged by his brother with felony. The evidence brought forward proved him a most incorrigible thief, and as every means had been used to reclaim him without effect, Mr. Rawlinson was obliged to commit him for trial. UNION-HALL. James Malden and William Kelly, two boys, who hawk small books about town, were charged with entering the house of Mrs. Caroline Banks, in Mason street, Kent-road, and stealing a basket of silver spoons and forks, worth 151. John Brown, a lad, stated that on the 'preceding afternoon, just as it was getting dusk, he saw the prisoners running up Mason-street, and heard the ogling of plate as they went along. Suspecting that they had been committing some robbery v he-gave information to a policeman, who stopped the prisoners, and a basket containing the above articles was found in their possession. It was subsequently ascertained the prisoners went down the area steps of the com plainant's house, and throwing up the window, one of them got - - into the kitchen and stole the basket of plate, while his companion waitedoutside to receive it. The prisoners were committed. Two other boys were charged with committing a similar robbery in the house of a gentleman residing in Clapham Park, and were also committed. THE AMERICAN TARIFF. The Moniteur publishes an article in which the writer contends that " the productions of France are treated in the new American tariff with greater favour than those of other countries, thanks to the modifica tions introduced into the Bill by the Senate. In the original project the silks of all countries were to be subject to a duty of' from 40 to 45 per cent. ad valo rem. In the tariff now in force the duty ad valorem is replaced by a specific duty of $23- per pound weight, a change highly favourable to French silks, on account of their being lighter and of greater value than the other silks imported into the United States. French winces were at first to be made liable to a duty of 20c. per gallon ; by the new tariff they will only pay 6c. and 7ic., that is, less than was stipulated in the Convention of 1832. Cotton goods of French manufacture are likewise t enjoy an indirect advan tage. The nominal duty laid on that article is 30 per cent., but it amounts in reality, in certain cases, to 100 per cent., whilst it invariably remains fixed at the first rate for the fine Indiennes, .which constitute the most considerable portion of the export of French cotton goods to the Amerkan Union." The Presse says--" The new American tariff, which was thought to be indefinitely adjourned in consequence of divisions in the legislative body, ap pears to have caused a grave perturbation in our prin cipal commercial towns. The Bordeaux papers, amongst others, have already noticed the disastrous effects which this recurrence to the prohibitive regime has produced. An American vessel, the Sea, was taking her cargo on board in the harbour, and on re ceipt of the new tariff the merchant had his goods landed again, preferring to pay the penalty of half the freight he was subject to by his articles of agree ment. The Sea will quit Bordeaux in ballast, and will be followed by the other vessels in the harbour, 10,000 or 12,000 tons of merchandise which were to be taken to the United States will, therefore, remain in store ; and similar facts are taking place at present in our other commercial towns; and most probably in all other countries which are affected by the enact ments of the American Bill. A double evil will result from this. In the first place, the countries of Europe, which were accustomed to send their natural or fabricated products to the United States, will be affected by a crisis more or less in tense ; and, next, the United States themselves will undergo the reaction of the evil which they will have caused. If in a few points only the conduct of the Bordeaux merchants be imitated, the quantity of im ports to America.will diminish considerably, and the customs' duties, calculated after a more elevated tariff, but on a much smaller quantity of goods, will remain, most probably, below the figure which they have hi therto reached. The measure adopted to supply the deficit of the American Treasury will, therefore, be inefficacious, and their financial situation, in place of improving, will become worse. Thus, by a just re turn, the abuse of the fiscal and prohibitive system al ways falls back on those who try to seek safety in it." The Debats has , the following :—" The new tariff adopted by the American Congress, after so many ter giversations, and to which President Tyler has given the sanction which he had previously refused, will affe l ot,The commercial relations of the United States ~iwtti :all Europe. It certainly will limit interchanges. `Ms not only fiscal, the only character it ought to have assumed to be consistent with the federal com pact—it is also protective. With regard to iron, and cottQ linen and thread, it is so in a high degree. The. duties upon ' ccttonnades are nominally 30 per :Ont.; but, according to the manner in which they are to be assessed, they will, for common or medium cottonnades, be in fact still greater. On our beauti ful Indiennes they will not be leas than 30 per cent. The duties on woollen cloths are also considerable, and will be prejudicial to the English manufactures. These duties were partly occasioned by a desire to fa vour the manufacturers of cottonnades, cloths, and iron goods,in the .north; The spinners and weavers of New England having coalesced with the iron masters of Pennsylvania, this object was pertina ciously pursued, and is now attained. The interests of France, however, have, in the new tariff, been more considered than those of England. Instead of the feeling of hostility against us that some per sons have believed to exist in the Union, there remains at bottom the old attachment which took root on the establishment of the independence of Americ a . Admitting for a moment that relief to the federal finances was all that was required to restore order, stability, and prosperity to the States, let us ask, can it be expected that under the new tariff the public re ceipts will bring into the Treasury at Washington a sum of from 30,000,00 0 to 32,000,000 dollars, of which it is in want? According to the American journals, the best judges on the other side of the Atlantic do not anticipate any such result. Such members of the Congress as are imbued with democratic prejudices have not dared to come to the only resolution which can be efficacious, that of laying a heavy duty on the three articles which are of most general consumption in America—we mean tea, coffee, and sugar. The first two articles are now, as previous to the tariff, en tirely exempt from duty, and the third only subject to such a charge as is necessary to protect the sugar manufactories of Louisiana. Nothing can be more easy than to draw from these articles customs' duties to the amount of from 50,000,000 f. to 75,000,000 f. The people of America are sufficiently rich to bear such a tax without injury to their fortunes. They, however, have not as much wisdom as wealth. They canno t overcome their political passions as easily as they overcome natural obstacl es . M a y Heaven grant that the cruel warnings of adver s ity ma y not be neces sary to bring America back to her senses." The Ministerial evening journal, the Messager, in an article on the new American tariff, after alluding to the duties on. French arti c le s , s ays On the whole, if we consider the necessity that existed for the Federal Government to augment the Customs' duties (almost the only source of revenue), in order to meet the public exigencies, we have no reason to be dissatisfied with the charges upon our products. The active solicitude of the King's Govern nment, ably seconded by the judicious negotiations of the French Minister at Washington, has ordained results which insure for them in the markets of the United States an advantageous and permanent sale." LLOYD'S SEIIP PING. LONDON, SEPT. 28. Wind this day at noon, northerly, fresh breezes, fine clear weather. SHEERNESS, SEPT. 27.—The Canopia (coal laden), from the North, for London, got on the Nore Sand last night, but was assisted off after throwing part of cargo overboard, and brought in here leaky. DEAL, SEPT. 27.—Wind N.E., strong breeze.— Arrd. Ankathor, Aonesen, Port au Prince ; Gertrude, Haeslop, Rio, for Bremen ; Copernicus, Haeslop, New Bedford, for Bremen ; Hirondelle, Fife, St. Thomas, for Hamburgh. RAMSGATE, SEPT. 27.—Sld. Chieftain, Jamaica. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 26.—Wind N.E. to E.N.E., fresh breeze.—Sld. Royal Tar (steamer), Vigo. OFF Coax., SEPT. 25.—Elizabeth Bentley, Craig, St. John's, New Brunswick. OFF THE WIGHT, SEPT. 35._Audacia, New York, for Amsterdam. STRANRAER, SEPT. 26.—The Cossack, from Malta to Glasgow, got on Scaur Laggan yesterday morn ing, and was abandoned by some of the crew, but was afterwards got off with loss of rudder-case, rudder unshipped, and six feet water in hold, and brought round to Dally Bay, and has been beached ; the cargo is being discharged. • LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 27.—Wind E. moderate.—Arrd. Charlotte, Lyon, July.l6 ; Elizab e th, P oo l, Rio Grande, sailed July Africa Africa, sailed from Fernando Po 19 ;Priscilla, Taylor, Paraiba, sailed Aug. 24 ; Lydia, Hartley, Anti gua; Al e xander, Leeds, Virginia; Henry Bliss, Q ue b ec . Sld. Orion, 'Trinidad. SHIELDS, SEPT. 26.—The Delight, Cull, f r o m Ramsgate, in taking the bar, last night, got on the rocks ; but came off at high water, with little damage. RAMSGATE, SEPT. 27.—it has blown hard all day, and a very heavy sea, has prevented any boat proceeding to the wreck of the Susan, on the sands. VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Augusta, Newcastle to Con stantinople, 25th ult , lat. 38, lon. 3 E ; Rambler, Liver pool to Beyrout, 22d instant, lat , 47, lon. 8, by the Cale donia, arrived a t Falmouth. marco Polo, Monte Video to Antwerp, 24th u lt., lat. 9 N, lon. 31 W , by the Doro thea Wilhelmina arrived at Falmouth. Her Majesty's ship Dolphin, Lagos to Ascension, July 31, on the Equator ; Superb:Newfoundland to Cadiz, 14th instant, lat. 43, lon. 20 . France, Cadiz to New York, sth, lat. 36, lon. 30, by the Charlotte, arrived at Liverpool. Douglas ' bound to Boston, 20 th instant, lat. 49, lon. 12 ; George Home whaler, with about 500 barrels, off the Marquisato Islands, by the Kingsdown, arrived in the River. We understand that Edward Woodford, A.M. late Classical Master of the Edin bur g h Southern Acade demy, has been unanitnouslv appointed to the Rec torship of the Burgh and Parochial School of Jed burgh.—Scotch Paper. ANOTHER SUICIDVI FROM LONDON BRIDGE.—On Monday morning, a bout half - past one o'clock, a young woman, who appeared to ,be about twenty-five years of age, mounted the parapet from one of the herself recesses ie o rs nt f ovheielor into thertleasts river. Sheideof.Lond went- brdge l and rolled down immediately, and no .more was seen of her. The people on the bridge called out loudly that a woman had thrown herself into the water, and directly after wards Mr. Isbester, an inspector of the Thames Po lice, and Bolas and4iill, Fiver constaMes, , •rowed to the spot in a police galley, and threw out the drags and grappling irons, but could not find the body. INCONSISTENCY OF THE NON TRUSIONISTS. While the clamour raised by the Non-Intrusionists against the Queen for not attending the High Church of Edinburgh, is still ringing in our ears, and before we have ceased smiling at the arguments by which the Witness attempts to prove that her Majesty, although she is an Episcopalian, should take part in the Presbyterian form of worship, we found that same precious organ of Evangelical piety rating the King of Prussia soundly for doing what it wanted our Queen to do—countenancing the two forms of worship established in hls kingdom. His Majesty, with his consort, attended divine worship , in the Pro testant Church at Cologne in the morning, and laid the foundation stone of a Roman Catholic cathedral in the afternoon. On this the Witness remarks— " The King of Prussia is taking a somewhat strange plan for the display of his much.talked-of zeal on be half of the Gospel. . . That a professedly Protestant King—one, moreover, zealous in his pro fession of religion—should be guilty of the gross in consistency of laying the foundation of a Popish ca thedral, is a fact sufficiently strange, and as suffi ciently humiliating ; although, at the same time, if the confident assertions made as to his Majesty's con version to Puseyism were correct, we should not be so much astonished at his conduct." Why be astonished at all ? • Ls not the King of Prussia carrying out the principle so zealously con tended for by the Witness and other godly papers, during her Majesty's stay in Scotland? And, then, as to the reason for not being astonished. Will the Witness recollect that Queen Victoria employed a Puseyite chaplain at Dallieith ?—and will he be pre pared for her Majesty's listening to the mass, should she pay a visit to Ireland next year? When will our godly .paper be honest or consistent ?—Aberdeen Herald. • RESULT OF LORI) ASHLEY'S LABOURS. Since your Lordship first took up this question, ten 3..ars ago, the toils and labours of the factories have been frightfully increased. In every branch of factory labour, even the most favoured, the increase in the intensity ,and severity of the toil has been 25 per cent., while in many instances the increase has been four-fold, and in some even more than that, and yet HO effectual remedy has been applied to this canker at the very root of human existence."—Address of the Lancashire Short Time Central Committee to the Right Hon. Lord Ashley. (EXTRACT OF LORD ASHLEY ' S REPLY.) " The vast proportion of the evils which afflict and endanger this country is not ascribable to physical or commercial causes—these may have their in fluence ; but in the main the mischiefs are to he traced to a moral origin. Over a large surface of the industrious community man has been regarded as an animal, and ' that an animal not of the highest order' —his loftiest faculties, when not prostrate, are per verted ; his lowest over-taxed, and devoted exclusively to the manufacture of wealth. Women and children follow in the train of ceaseless toil and degrading occupation; and thus we have before us a multitude of feeble bodies and untaught minds, the perilous materials of present and future pauperism, of violence and infidelity." M. de La Martine and Lord Ashley seem both in clined to democracy, which promises soon to be the most fashionable resort and place of refuge for ardent minded Tories. DORCHESTER. DORCHESTER TO WIT.—It is ;with much pleasure that we announce the occurrence of an event in this borough, which may eventually tend to emancipate it from the thraldom in which it has so long been held. A few days ago an election took place for a Town- Councillor, in the place of the late Robert Bower, Esq., when the burgesses nobly exercised their fran chise, by electing the man of their own choice to the post of honour, in opposition to the individual selected by the stewards of the influential patrons of the bo rough and the Tory Town-council. The successful candidate was Mr. John Wood, an old inhabitant, and a respectable victualler ; and we have no doubt his conduct in his new capacity will serve to justify the conduct of his friends in selecting him to fill the vacant office. We are gratified in being able to state that a party of sixty : individuals - assembled at the houSe of 'Mine Host, on Monday last, 'to celebrate this auspicious event. An abundant and elegant spread was made on the occasion, of which Mr. Wood was respectfully solicited to partake. The feast was honourable alike to the new Councillor and his nume rous supporters ; and we hail the occurrence as a fa vourable symptom of strength and independence in the burgesses of Dorchester. We hear that arrange ments are making to secure the election of four good men and true to the Council in November next. The means of rescuing the borough from its degraded condition are in the hands of the electors, and we trust they will not fail to use them fearlessly and faithfully. DIFFERENT EFFECTS OF ARSENIC ON DIFFERENT PERSONS.-At the conclusion of an inquest held on Tuesday, before Mr. Wakley, M.P., relative to the death of a party suspected to have been poisoned by arsenic, or some other corrosive poison, the Hon. Gentleman observed how extraordinary it was that arsenic should have an entirely different action on two different subjects. Two persons shall take the same quantity of arsenic ; on the one it shall act, just like an anodyne, soporifically, first producing somnolency, and finally ending in the sleep of death, without pain or struggle. In the other, after it has been taken into the stomach, it shall produce violent vomiting and extreme agony, which shall continue until death takes place in the midst of the most excruciating tor ture. In the first instance, after death, dissection will show no internal ulceration ; in the second it will pre sent marked appearances of the most violent inflam matory.action. He was constantly struck with sur prise at seeing, in cases were the precise causes of death were surely known, the post mortem appearances disagreeing in toto from what they ought to be con sidering the cause of death. Medical men should bear these facts in mind when they are called upon to give forensic evidence. FATAL LEAP FROM SUNDERLAND-BRIDGE.-011 Friday evening John Thompson, a tailor, of Sunder land, in a drunken freak, declared that he would that night rival Smith, the diver, by jumping off Sunder land-bridge, which rash act he performed. He was followed by a person who had heard him boast of his intention, who strove to persuade him not to do so, at the same time considering that Thompson was not sincere, and that he would not attempt it. In this, however, he was mistaken, as Thompson pulled off his coat, and ascended the railing on the bridge, while his companion and adviser was a short distance be hind him. Assistance was called for, but before it could be effective he jumped down from the bridge into the river, upwards of 100 feet. He was picked up by the police-boat and taken to a neighbouring public-house, and a surgeon sent for. It was found that he had received such injuries from the fall as to leave no hope of his recovery. He died the same night.—Fyne Mercury. The Victoria steamer is performing her last trip between Bordeaux and Southampton. She has been running all the summer at an enormous loss. Her crew consists of - 40 hands, and she has been perform ing a voyage to and fro once a fortnight. To make her trips pay, she ought to carry each voyage 100 tons of cargo and between 40 and 50 passengers ; and she has never had on board during one voyage more than 40 tons of cargo, nor more than 20 passengers. The question is now decided that Bordeaux and Southampton is not a profitable station for steam na vigation. Bordeaux is a port anciently connected with Southampton, and a few years ago two sailing fessels regularly traded between the two ports. Both vhose vessels were wrecked, and the intercourse ceased tor several years. SUBSCRIPTION IN BEHALF OF THE SUFFERERS BY THE LATE FlRE.—After a calamity so extensive and fearful as that which has lately visited this town, the humane and compassionate will naturally turn their minds to the sufferings of those indigent individuals who have suddenly been rendered helpless, and of those families who have been bereaved by the casu alties which there occurred, as well as to the con dition of some whom the disaster may have deprived of all their little possessions. We know sufficient of our townsmen to be aware that they need no incite ment to urge them to step forward to the relief of human misery, under whatever aspect it may present itself. As it is certain that a subscription will be set afoot for this benevolent purpose, it is of importance that those who are usually the influential movers in designs of this character should commence their operations as speedily as possible. Instances of the suffering entailed by this calamitous event are suf ficiently numerous to call for prompt procedure, and, without going into detail we may mention the case of the young police-officer, Hodgson, who was univer sally respected in his sphere, and seems to be as uni versally regretted. He was, we understand, almost the sole support of his parents and fatnily. —Liverpool Courier. DOVER JUSTICES.--Our Justices have received a long letter from the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the subject of the late "hair-crop • ping" case, in which he desires that his " marked dis approbation of the jailer's conduct in that affair should be conveyed to him by the Justices." This unplea sant task was yesterday (Friday) performed by the visiting Magistrates reading Sir James Graham's let ter to the jailer. We cannot conceive a greater hu miliation than it must have been to the Justices to be made the medium of communicating to the jailer this censure of conduct which, in their gravity and wis dom, they had so recently fully approved ; and what a farce the jailer must have thought it, that he should now have a sentence of condemnation read to him by the Magistrates; some of whoa so-lately declared him fully justiflable.—Dover Chronicle. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ADMIRALTY ,ORDER. The following paragraph has gone the round of the Daily Papers : " COMMISSIONING TEN MEINT-or-IN'AR.—S lIE E It- NESS, SATURDAY, SEPT. 24.—Three first-rate, three second-rate, and four third-rate men-of-war are or dered to be brought forward at this yard, ready for commissioning. India and China are reported as being the destination of some of them." The truth of this matter is said to be as follows : Some months ago the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty ordered estimates to be prepared for them at the principal dockyards, showing the expense of putting a number of ships of the line in such a state of repair and forwardness as to be available for imme diate commissioning, should circumstances make it necessary that a larger naval force should be employed in active service, or should the ships on foreign stations require to be relieved, or want such repairs as can be done only in our English dockyards. Their Lordships, having obtained the estimates from the authorities, have it, we believe, in contemplation, although nothing has yet been definitively settled, to do away with the system of having what is foolishly called " demonstration ships," and to bring forward in lieu of them ten ships of the line at each of the three principal ports, viz., Sheerness, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, to be denominated " advanced ships of the ordinary." It is understood that these ships are always to be kept in such a state of readiness for com missioning and proceeding to sea, as regards their hulls, that they shall neither require docking nor caulking, nor any work to he performed on hoard them, on being ordered for service, except to adapt the ports to the guns, and to take down any tempo rary ordinary fittings, such as shipkeepers' cabins, or dinary galleries, &c. To meet this intention the ships selected for advanced ships will be regularly docked in turn from time to time, to have their bot toms properly cleaned, &c., as necessary, so that they may be in such a state as to proceed to sea, when ordered, without risk of waiting to be docked for either a year or two. Should these intentions of the Board of Admiralty be ultimately acted upon, of which there is little doubt, a bona fide force of thirty sail of the line, the majority comprised of new ships, will always be ready for service on any emergency. This force not being commissioned will be no additional expense to the country, and the constant overhauling that the ships will have, in their turn will preserve them from that decay which many fine ships in ordinary have hereto fore suffered; and in the long run will amply com pensate for the small amount that is required to be expended upon them to keep .them in a proper effi cient state ; while the inestimable advantage will be gained of having such an imposing fleet ready equipped for sea in the space of ten days or a fortnight. Letters from Plymouth state that the St. George, 120; Royal William, 120; Royal Adelaide, 110; Albion, 90; Canopus, 80; and the Clarence, Bombay. Foudroyant, Wellesley, and Impregnable, line-of battle ships, are likely to be brought forward there as " demonstration ships." (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) PORTSMOUTII TUESDAY.-The Tyne, 28, Prince Regent, 120, Edinburgh, 72, President, 50, Conway, 28, and Athol troop ship, are in dock for repair; the artificers are taken oft' from the whole of them, with the exception of the President, for the purpose of building the new ships and the bringing forward 10 line-of-battle ships into an advanced state, so that in case of their being required on an emergency, they would be ready to receive men without waiting for the dockyard, and being incommoded by the artificers working while the ships are fitting. These advanced ships are not in future to be called demonstration ships, as at present, but ships in an advanced state of ordinary. The like number are to be brought for ward at Sheerness and Plymouth, so that if there he a change of the French Ministers, and the war party should be in power, we shall at any rate be ready with ships to meet them, and in a little time men with hearts of oak would, no doubt, be found to man them. Three of these ships, the Vanguard, 80, Vengeance, 84, and Powerful, 84, are already in hand. The Powerful was the ship Charley Napier commanded while performing his feats on the coast of Syria. The Athol troop-ship was built from the timber grown on the Duke of Athol's estate (Scotch larch) : she is now upwards of 20 years old, and is ordered to be repaired with similar material, and she will then, no doubt, run 10 years longer, proving the durability of the larch timber. The Orestes, Captain the Hon. Carnegie, M.P., went out of the 'basin into the harbour on the 23d inst., and the Powerful brought in. The Frolic, 16, constructed on the plan of Commander Hendry, is fitting in the basin, and the Samarang, 28. On the two slips that have been repaired the Albert, 90, and the Royal Frederick, 110, are in frame : the Albert is a similar ship to the Albion, that was launched at PlymOuth a few weeks since. The Eurydice, 26, a frigate on the plan of Admiral Elliot, who commanded the fleet at China, is progressing fast to completion : it is supposed she will be launched next May. • A great deal of timber has of late been received, among which is some very fine Italian timber, which is thought much of, from its beautiful curvature, for the purposes cf ship building. THE CAUBITL PRISONERS. The following letter has been addressed to the Editor of a Morning Contemporary : • Dublin, Sept. 23. SlR,—The;.Morning Chronicle, and other news papers in the service and pay of the late Government, have been endeavouring to prove the cruelty and lack of honour on the part of the Government, and also of the British troops, hampered in Affghanistan, in not advancing (without means of transport) to the rescue of our unhappy countrymen and ladies now in the hands of Akbar Khan and the other Affghan sirdars. It will, perhaps, be as well to' state, on the very best authority, that, on the first advance of the Bri tish army into Affghanistan, the most peremptory or ders were issued by the late Commander-in-Chief, jorbidding ladies, or women of any description, to oin the troops in active service in the field. As long as the Commander-in-Chief, General Sir Henry Fane, was with the army this order was pro bably obeyed; but long before he quitted India ladies and multitudes of women hastened to Caubul and other places then in our possession, released from all military obligations by civil authority. They arc all prisoners, and it will be seen that these very unfortunates will be the means of further dis grace and dishonour to the British arms. It will he the women that would alone prevent any advance on our part (even supposing that our troops were perfectly equipped for a forward movement on Caubul.) Akbar Khan, at the first intimation of a move on his capital, will send in such a message as this : " Move at your peril : I have hitherto treated your ladies and prisoners kindly, but the first move towards Caubul I shall consider myself released from all obli gations towards them and you." I believe such a message (and such an one will most assuredly be sent) would even puzzle the writer . of the Indian articles in the Morning Chronicle. Let the writer only inquire what treatment Chris tian ladies and women might undergo in the hands of furious and bigoted Mahometans ; if he did, he would learn that which might in common charity (leaving the defence of Whig policy aside) deter him from urging measures which would only lead to outrages upon our unhappy women a hundred times worse than death itself. lIENRY PANE, Lieutenant-Colonel, Aide-de-Camp to the late Commander in-Chief in India. LORD LvivEnocu.—We are glad to notice the gal lant and veteran Lord Lynedoch—who hurried from the Continent on learning the contemplated Royal visit to Scotland, but who was unfortunately prevented from paying his respects personally to her Majesty by a sudden attack of indisposition—driving through the town the other day, looking hale and hearty, and ap parently quite recovered from the illness that denied to him the pleasure of welcoming the Sovereign in the manner that his Lordship so anxiously desired. Although more than ninety winters have passed over Lord Lynedoch, the spirit that shone so bravely out in " the gallant Graham," in the stirring years of his military life, has defied the assaults of age, and is strong and fresh as ever.— Perth raper. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH.-1. esterday afternoon, Mr. Baker, the,Coroner for the Eastern Division of Middlesex, received information through Mr. Hart, the summoning officer of Spitalfield's district, that a man, named William Curtis, who resided at No. 4, Fashion-street, Brick-lane, Whitechapel, had come by his death under the following extraordinary cir cumstances :—The deceased professed himself to be a strict observer of the "total abstinence system," and was an active member of one of the branch" societies. He was by trade a carpenter, awl in the employ of - Mr. Downsey, an extensive bedstead manufacturer in Flower and Deane-streets, Spitalfields. On Monday evening Mr. Downsey gave a supper at the Queen's Head public-house, in Fashion-street, to his workmen. The deceased, who was known to have an enormous appetite, was remarked to eat very heartily. Directly after supper, as he did not drink any spirituous liquors, he withdrew and went to his home, where he shortly afterwards became exceedingly ill, and at length the attendance of Mr. Hart, of Union-street, Spitalfields, surgeon, was obliged to be procured. He continued in great agony throughout the night, and on Tuesday morning, between nine and ten o'clock (Mr. Bart having remained with him the whole of the time), he expired. Mr. Hart has since opened the body, and found that death was caused by the stomach having actually burst to the extent of be tween three or four inches from the over-quantity of f o od taken into it. The Coroner issued his warrant for - holding an in guest on the., body this, day. 'l'he deceased was 33 years of age, and has left a widow and four children. THE MARKETS.—(YESTERDA Y) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of English Grain since Monday were There, small, and of Foreign Wheat considerable. was scarcely anything, doing in the Wheat trade, r .„ 111 ," other Corn meta slow sale at Monday's prices. millers have reduced Flour 2s. per sack. NEIVGATE AND LEADENIIALL . There was a very good show of Meat of all descrip. tions at our market. Beef, 2s. 10d. to 3s. Bd. ; ton, 2s. 10d. to 3s. 10d.; Lamb, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 8 ,4 „•9 Veal, 3s. to 4s. 4d.; Pork, 2s. Bd. to 45. Bd. 1' Poultry and Game no advance was realised. Hares' 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d.; Geese, ss. to 6s. 6d. ; Grouse, is. to Is. 6d.; Ducks, 2s. to 2s. Gd.; Partridges, Is. to 25.; Chickens, ls. Gd. to 2s. 6d. ; Pigeons, 9d. to Is. bits, Bd. to Is. each • Eggs, 4s. 6d. to 6s. 6d. pe r 120. COLONIAL MARKET. The parcels of produce offered at auction were large, hut the demand proved dull, at rather losge. rates. The imports were heavy. TEA MARKET. The demand was limited, for all sorts of Tea, 1194 rather lower rates were accepted. Very large p arce were announced for auction. TALLOW MARKET. Prices were firm for Russian Tallow, and a g °°Cl demand existed. P. Y. Candle on the spot fe tched 485., and for delivery in last three months, 48s. 3d. per cwt. _ _ . SPIRIT MARKET. Rum was dull of sale. Brandy firm, and in g, °° `, l request. Corn Spirits in request at 9s. Bd. per g9" ° cash. COAL. MARKET. Ships arrived since last maritet.day, 37. 9 Walls End Helton ............ ,9110 Walls End Lambton 0 Walls End Morrison i s # Wald; End Pemberton a' . 2 1 0 Walls End Stewa is , Walls En , l Casson ............. 6 Walls End Heugh Hall '" .21 9 6 Walls End,Kelloe ............. .i) 6 Walls End Adelaide ......... Walls End Bowburn ......... .; 0 Walls; End Brown's Deaner! ; 9 6 Walls End Quarrin g , ton is 9 Walls End Seymour fees••• 19 ii Walls End South Durham 1 0 3 Wal a E d 'I ee4 ............ 0 Walls End West Tees. ... . 1$ Cowpen 9 Cannel Coal .................. Ti Hartley ..... I Howard's West Netherton A: Chester Main ... 19 0 Hastings Hartley lO 0 Hutt's Tan field ........ 13 I' New . I:in held Moor l3 6 Old Tanfleld Ord's liedheagh l4 Pontop indsor l5 Ravensworth West Hartley ►5 Sidney's Hartley Tanfleld Moor West Hartley West V% ylam l5 t. Walls End Bro n's Walls End Hedley IS I 1./ally End Hilda. Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killingworth IS • 3 Walls End Todd's Bensham 13 6 Walls End Wharuclitre l9 0 W. E. Btaddyll'stiettun IRISH MAR OUBLIN MARKET NOTE for KETS. r. 0. ,he Wcck ending S E e 1 From To • 4,544 Wheat,perbarreNt i1tme...... 19 U 30 6 io 14 15:1 Here .. .... l6 stole 9(I 15 0 oig 254 Harley '6 atone lO 3 14 9 4 9 0 5,359 Ist '4 stone 8 9 14 0 y . Floor, per cwt. .. 1 4 e.o.m , it 0 ;‘, i 616 Oatmeal— 8 stone 8 6 13 6 a " Sold to Bakers only. is 4$ 9,145 Cwt. n0ur................ ..... Average price of Wheat and Flour 46. 8d per sack ~ 04 Receipts of Flour. 9,861 1 F i iriui ty :6 ........ from 1 1 7 4 5 , .. Ot o l . to o 2 ,1 r.. r d . Gales of Do. 12,033 Tnird..... " ... — . from 95. Oti. to Po PRICE OV Baran. „ Quartern Loaf .........N 1 Nall Vuattern .....4%.• CORK RKETS.—.Sept. 21 Wheat (prr 204)18 • OJ. tb25i. MA lid.iliats (per 14st.. . 61.91. 101 1 ei g i Barley (per 16st.) 9 8 12 0 11.14)..r (per cwt .. . 6 0 Oatmeal (per cwt.)... ... 8.. Od to 11. s 01 ~ Veer, 6d. to 4,l—Mutton, 5d tn64l.—Veal, 4id to v Pork, 4d. to sd.- —Fresh Rutter, 11d. re ...,t per Ili. . PRICE OF BUFFER. ,,dri To the Merchants. To the t : c n io 79. • •..•..............• ......... to 66 58 ...... —.......• • ...' .41 59 ................ 40 .."... re, .. ••• • • ....... First Quality... ........ ..... Second Third Fourth ....... •••••• ••••••• Filth ~.,.,» ., Sixth CLON NELL AI it RK EPS.— pt. 21t Per 1. wt. s. d. dl. .1. s . d. ;2 1 New Butter 9B oto 1.9 0 Hider iraw) .......... ~, ic 4ii ° Oatmea , ... — 0 14 6 IsaconP i s... 44 4, ° Rendered Lard 0 52 / tleadB 444 , 4 _ 44444 , . 4 .2 E '' ...a .1"13 Bag_ z. 0 Flour, Second 0 40 ' ll' tour, fr..ror ~.. ," ..0 —Household...— 0 38 01— F0urtn5.,....16 ° 0 Per Barrel. 15 —0 I Bade, ... lO 0 ... 13 0 Cult , ...........« .... .... ° KILKENNY MARK EIS. tcp W',eat s perbarrel)2B, Od. to 335.11e1. Beef ' .ler 11' . ....„. oi. Od. Barry 12 0 19 0 Alutten ........ 4 , 0 5 0 vats 14 0 15 I. Porh ........ 444 ,„„ n 4 0 f Flour (Eer bag) 25 0 1,9 0 Ve.' ....... 4 .. 4 . 0 6 j 0 Butter(percwt.) (1 0 98 0 eresP Butter.... 0 0 01 ° Bacon Pigs 45 (I 46 0 Salt Ditto ...... 444 0 6 , 0 Ccals 1 0 1 2 totatoes iper at.) 1' 9 141 aspeseell, 2O 0 Bere CORNWALL MARKETS. (Caleßlated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. Barley. J ° ' ...... ..„ 1 /r t i " s. d. to r. d. s. d. to s. d. s. 4 . ``) % , o 0 . 0 Truro --. 0 6 )0 0 3 8 -- 9el.tene St. Austell —.. 70— 0 39- 4 ° , .-- o 0 71) 0 3 8 ~ --- 0 Bodmin 0 74 0 4 4!-- `,', ••• 0 Liskeard — 0 7 6 0 3 6 " --- 0 Launceston ..; — 0 7Ft • 0 3 8 --* .-. 0 Cainclford 6 6. 7 4 3 d 3 4 2 `‘; ....• Penzance - v HAMBUR ( 4 MARKETS. 1 0 GRAIN. 15.0 to ll Wneat, Marks 294 to 38 4 , Barley, Mecklenburg , ' e l, to j Magdeburg - Magdeburgh..• !,, t to Anhalt, white 312 to 39 3 1 ----- Holstein ........ ;F 4 to 1.' 5 0 --- red - Oderbruck ...... t, 4 to 1 ,0 -- Brunswick 29t to 334 Oats, Eider .............•• .4 4 to l'., -- Mecklenburg 2;:8 to 3 0 -- Mecklenburg ••• 1 4 to ITI ---- Polish 313 to 408 -- Holstein ............ LT; to % ---- Holstein - Upland ............ . 1 ,1 0 ro , oi Rye, Mecklenburg -- Marks 240 to 214 Beans 1r ;1 to oil 519 -- Elbing and Ko- guek Wheat 51 , 4 ra 0 0 nigsblirg -- Pomeranian --Anti ut COTTON. ,o 6 Carolina and Tennessee 71400 9% Mar:nham (.leorgia, Ist suit 7% 7% Madras 4 s ' .1"A 2d 6 14 614 Surati . ...... . .............. :11 6 3d and '4th COFFEE. ..... 3% to .•,, 5t w+, 9% to 14 Domingo . ............. 4 °: el' Batavia 44 byi Lo Guayra..- ......... 4v mg Sumatra — Porto rtico. ................ ::;1 Rio 4 I liavannah .................. Bahia 2% A Ci I SM.; A It.—(With 8% Discount.) 0 6% Havannah, - White s ,ato 76 Bahia, White ............... s's I 4 Brown 111 5% Brown ............... filo, White Brown . 5 2.% 7 14 Pernambuco, I,l3Vrhoiwten .....4 3 54 Manila. Brow 7 n, 4% to 44( AS bort A THIEF CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP. --"A' ' , v 0 time ago Mr. Purves, 'a baker in Dunbar, a fter favourite brood of chickens, began to lose one rea, another till they had almost wholly disaPlietisecl Determined to he at the root of the matter, e, "jti every means in his power to detect the thiel:,ritea spite of his vigilance the number of his fav°" too, continued to diminish, some of them at times , oo ld when it was impossible that any human being, c ou bt, he guilty of the offence. To put an end to ail,' A tli Mr. Purves himself took his turn at the watch , l e had not been long there when he discovered his, 8 a cock in mortal combat with some intruder. • "-cot, In ediately ran to his assistance, and found his "rod gonist was a large hawk, who no doubt had retarcej for his usual prey. The cock by this time had p ie An d him with his spur, so that he was easily seawa l l is now a prisoner in the possession of-Mr. rrve' Edinburgh Witness. THE MARCH OF INTELLECT.—" You be go I) 0 04 ba'ant 'ee, zur," said Brooks, the other day , to a no,. person who was about to visit Wales. " Yes , Br A ter , was the reply. " You do go by staim, on the ,c-a don't 'ee ?" "Yes." "Well, now, I n ever see s staimer, but do they swem like other ,steep Oa " Swi:n ! no ; they go along upon wheels., the); wheels, wheels, aye ? So I've heard; mortal big whe els ; must have to touch the bottom of the sea,f I. set should very much like to see a staimer." -- "' °/1-,," Gazette. Copy of a communication addressed to 3, 1e5 „ 5 0 11 4; Rowland and Son, No. 20, Hatton-garden, London: -- - u e 'i o o l ; men,—Being called upon to attend a lady, who had had , 4 101 plaint in her head about a year before, anf, in c onsequen,"; sr lost nearly all her hair I I found very ' few hairs rernsien t setq those just like down, with no appearance of any frer felt She stated her desire to use your Macassar Oil, b ut ed' could not conscientiously recommend any thing for its ve,eta , te as I considered it too far gone. She, however, detertow"-00$ try one bottle, which was used in about a month, and 01° n/ el to my shop for another, stating her hair to be much irriPr;,ifieg she has now used eight bottles in as many montbst"; Abe which time I have frequently pointed it, and have 11° , 6 ; pleasure to inform yon, that it is quite thick and long S c is so much pleased with the change, that she say s the e_ k % r ab is nothing, and she will never be without it. If you tlliioset statement of facts worth publishing, you are at liberty t!teri and remain yours respectfully, Joint LICKLEY, Middle-street, Ripon, April 19,1842. 77------- —=-------- B MTH S. 0 1° 1 In Regency-square, Brighton, the wife of Captain 0 Preston, R.N., of a son, still born. 0 1 On the 22d inst. , at Swana fiel d , near Alnwick, tl,e- o ~ Prideaux Selby, ~ f a sn. Af On the 23d inst E ., sq in o Old Burlington-street, the 13-' Of VW. Allen, Esq„ of a daughter. he tW , On the 25th inst. , at Cadsden Cottage, near 1 11,- .° of Buckinghamshire, the lady of Captain George Jo hnst'' daughter. f a st' °P.( On the 26th inst., in York -terrace, Mrs. R. Bray, °- e E On the 26th inst., the lady of Samuel Wreford• O d xfor-uare, Hyde-ark, of a daughter. On the 26th inst., a t Hampstead, Mrs. Sanger, of lt se :l l ' . ar On the 26th inst., at Leyton, Essex, Mrs. GorB- • t quera3, of a son. i Cog" On the 26th inst., at Camden-road Villas, Nal' of a son. prin ce, On the 26th inst., at Brighton, the lady of Alexand er C , Esq., of Lincoln's Inn-fields, of a daughter. W s ' On the 27th inst., in King's-road, Bedford-roW , Lever, of a daughter. 0 4., MARRIED. On the 27th inst., at Wargrave, Berks, John Walt er ' V4' t of .Exeter College, Oxford, eldest son of John of Bear-Wood, Berks, ALP to E mily Frances, eld est -A P. , • re ter of Major Court, Esq., of Castlemans, Berks. nirhog On the 27th inst., at St. Mary's, Newington, Surrey , h' o f Ikr Bacon, Esq., of Reading, to Elizabeth, third daugMer Agar, Esq., of Hackney. • ...------ ---- l DIED. ,AOl , On the 19th inst., at Stoney Stratford, Eleanor, wl7. the lat.. W. Ratcliffe, Esq , a Wolverton, Bucks • agat e Jones' On the 20th inst.. Rebecca, the wife of Nr. Edw lion of Compton -terrace, Islington. Alg er On the 21st inst., in Well-street, Hackney, Frampton, Esq., M.D., aged 77. aged 83. On the 23d inst., at Richmond. Mrs. Ellerker, " 1 0 10 ' On the 23d inst., at Six-mile Bottom, nea r ' e. Cambridgeshire, Mr. Charles Wedge, aged 96. .„f a pt 0° Walter:toe, On the 25th inst.. at 13Iackheath-park, Henly, thei of Mr. James Smith. • on; On the 26th inst., at Re ens square, Brlghtalbt• Martha, fifth daughter of the late Kilpin Warner, Camberwell green. ~. gee / . On the 27th inst., at Barnes, Johnl • _----;, 0 ( ---- --- ----- TO C l' ( " 7 1 8 London ; Printed and Published by MURDP It „ ail I, I No: 112, Strand, at The Suri"Office, No. w2,,„ .- 7 - 1 34 4 . the County of Middlesex, Thursday, September wvi