The Sun. — London, England, 1842-10-06 00:00:00

SYRIA. %TROUT, SEPT. 3.—From the many reports in circulation on the arrival of the French squadron, one conclusion was apparent, viz., that the whole country, both highland and lowland, would hail any change of Government that promised them relief with the greatest enthusiasm. The inhabitants are greatly dis satiqtied with the Government. No open acts of hos y have yet occurred, but the mountainous districts are slumbering like a volcano, that will break out with greater violence after a short cessation from eruptions. Omer Pacha is feared, but not liked, by Druse or Maronite, and this dispute between the great Powers and the Sultan respecting the placing I an Emir of the house of Shehab as Governor of the Lebanon in the stead of Omer Pacha, is looked upon as a circumstance that will eventually cause a renewal of disturbances in the mountains. The commerce of the country was never known to be in so stagnant a state. Stocks are large, and daily accumulate, but there is little or no demand— pric:3 are falling, and coins rising. Tr.: - selling in the interior is rendered unsafe, and eve:: riding a short distance from Bevrout is not un atte:l:led with danger. This is truly a lamentable picture of the state of the country. SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 5, 8 A.M.—The Royal Mail Stea:n-packet Company's ship, Dee, has just arrived with 60 passengers, and 500,000 dollars on freight. Wll; , n 140 miles off the Lizard (on the 27th ult.), the Dee encountered very boisterous weather, which compelled her to put in to Corunna ; her dates are— Havannah, Sept. 1; Nassau, Sept. 5 ; Bermuda, Sept. 11 ; and Fayal, Sept. 21. O:i Tuesday an inquest was held before Mr. Thos WU!:ley, at the Holland Arms Tavern, High-road, Kensington, on the body of Daniel. Sutton, sen., Esq., aged eighty-six years, whose death occurred on Friday last, under the following awfully sudden cir cuirsiances :—The deceased gentleman resided on Ear i's-terrace, Kensington. On Thursday last he drove out, and seemed as well as usual, and on the following (Friday) morning he got up at his usual hour, and partook of his breakfast, but shortly after wards he suddenly complained of indisposition, and before medical assistance could be procured the un fortunate gentleman was a corpse. Verdict, "Natural death." It is stated that the deceased gentleman died possessed of property amounting in value to nearly half a million sterling. We lately ment i oned that the Guildry of Dundee had resolved to confer the freedom of the Incorpora tion upon the Marquis of Breadalbane, as a public_ acknowled gement of the princely manner in which her Majesty and Prince Albert were entertained at Tay mouth Castle, to w by ° the circumsta nce of the present were further induced p bean born in that town. His in_ o o r nt ds t , and Lordship Marquis having to accept of the intended compliment, was pleased invited the Dean and other two members of the Guild Incorpo ration to dine and pass the night at Tayn on occasion of the presentati on , for ,iiiiicliiaouth particular Castle day last week was named. The fatality, however which seems to have attended mo s t burgh arrange, ments connected with the Royal visit, D undee has not I escapA; for the box in which the freedom was to be enclo:ed not arriving from Edinburgh so soon as pro raise:l, the Guild deputation did not leave for Tay mouth till the day subsequent to that appointed, when they had the mortification to be met at Dunkeld with the in:ormation that the Noble Marquis had left the Castln that morning- for some distance. and the pre sentation has therefore to be deferred sine die.—Perth Courie'r: LOVE AND INIADNEss.—The inhabitants of Breage have lately been entertained with a farce, somewhat like thlt of the maniac falling in love with the picture of g' - andmother, but which, on Thursday last, had very toady-ended in tragedy. A young man in the spr . ir.,; of life became desperately enamoured of the wrin :led visage of an old widow lady, whose only riches. Jere eight full-grown babes, and a pensioner cn th.i parish. His friends remonstrated in vain. It was a flame which nothing but death or the altar could quench ; and worst of all, the venerablecharmer herself unkind. Unable to endure his misery, the de spairing lover procured and swallowed a quantity of laudanum, in the presence of his friends, who bundled him into a cart, and drove hastily into Helston, where the stomach pump and proper remedies were applied with effect : but it was not until the victim, "crazed with hopeless love," had undergone a lengthened drill, followed by an immense concourse of boys, whose vo ciferations prevented sleep, that he was out of danger. A public whipping would have been a useful addition. —Cornwall Royal Gazette. This day is published, 56 op., Bvo., price Is. 6d., ITIHE HISTORY and IrIYSTERY of the EX -1 CHEQUER BILLS FORGERY EXAMINED. In a Letter to the Right Hon. HENRY GOULBURN, Chan cellor of the Exchequer. " Conceived and executed in the spirit of the most astute and experienced Old Bailey practitioner."—Times. • " A forcibly written and earnest pamphlet, well calculated te create a lively interest in the City and country."—Morning Herald Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill ; and all Booksellers. CAPTAIN MARRYAT'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., p ERCIYAL KEENE. By the Author of " Pets.r Simple," &c. " Will add a conspicuous feather to the Gallant Captain's literary plume."—Literary Gazette. " Superior to any of the author's more recent productions. His ocean tights are described with great force and animation. There is as much freshness about them as if Capt. Marryat had never penned a naval novel before."—Observer. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HAMBURGH, 12TH AUGUST, 1842. IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, AND HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA, Having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, by which, thsug,h they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES may be obtained, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMS URGH, are Selling GENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS for the said DISTRIBU !lONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive. PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS with full PARTI CULARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAAIBUROH. THE LEVANT MAIL. MALTA. _ Ir P " ' ach, and himself in 8001.; Thomas B. Smith, two sureties in 2001. each, and himself in 400/. ; John Ellison, two sureties in 2001. each, and him self in 400/. ; Samuel Parkes, two sureties in 1501. each, and himself in 300/. ; 'Thomas Rail ton, two sureties in 2001. each, and himself in 4001.; and William Scholefield two sureties in 100/. each ; his own recognisance was not taken, he being only 20 years of age ; 48 hours' notice of bail was re quired in each case. Norman, Fletcher, Ramsden, and Arthur, were then discharged ; and the Court rose at six o'clock, having sat eight hours. Our letters from Malta are up to the 23d inst. The principal topic of conversation there was the second Court-martial on Lieutenant Place. He was fully acquitted of the foul chares which had been trumped up against him, and Sir trancis Mason, in returning him his sword, assured him, in the name of every indi vidual member of the Court, that he was left without the slightest stain on his character. On returning to his own ship, the Queen, the Gal lant Commander-in-Chief (Sir E, W. C. R. Owen) received Lieut. Place on the poop—where all the offi cer s of the ship had been previously summoned—and afte: shaking him cordially by the hand, and making an appropriate speech, presented him with his corn mi3sion to the flag-ship, on board of which he had heretofore been a mere supernumerary or additional Lieutenant, a mode of proceeding which fully makes km: wn to the public in general the restoration of Lieutenant Place to that position in the service, from which, with such poignant feelings of regret to him self and his friends, he has been necessarily suspended pending the late proceedings, which have occupied a fortnight. Sir E. W. Owen, in promulgating a general order on this subject, concludes in the following words : " I congratulate the fleet on the discovery and expo sure of this neFarious donspiracy. The breasts of those who, for malicious purposes, could conceive and support on oath a project So calculated in ita conse quences to, degrade and vilify their object, and against wiz'.ch, when supported by'false testimony no man can be secure, must be indeed most infamous and diaboli ea 1, devoid alike of every feeling which can be caleu k.ted to teach reliance on the mercy of their God, or their duties to society. Those who have so acted in this instance must be cast out from amongst us, and their future disposal must be a subject for future con sideration." DISTRIBUTION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET.— The Ceylon, receiving ship, with the flag of Rear- Admiral Sir John Louis, Superintendent of Malta Dock-yard ; Savage, 10, Hecate and Phcenix war steamers, and the Alecto steam packet, at Malta; the Queen, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir E. W. C. It. Owen, Commander-in-Chief ; the Howe, 120, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir F. Mason, second in command; Impregnable, 104, Rodney, 92, Monarch, 84, Indus, 78, Scout, 18, Devastation and Geyser war steamers, and Locust steam tender, cruising in the channel of Malta; the Formidable, 84, Thunderer, 84, Belvidera, 38, Jaseur, 16, and Lizard steam tender, at Gibraltar ; the Snake, 16, at Tunis ; L'Aigle, 24, at Corfu ; and the Prometheus steam packet on her way from thence ; the Stromboli war steamer, at Constantinople ; the Magicienne, 24, at Smyrna; the Vanguard, 80, Cambridge, 78, and Cyclops steam frigate, at Alexandria ; the Vernon, 50, Inconstant, 36, and Vesuvius war steamers, on the coast; of Syria ; the Medea war steamer, at Alexan dra; the Polyphemus steam packet, on her way from Gibraltar; the Beacon surveying vessel, at Smyrna ; and the Magpie surveying vessel, at Suda, in Candia. MOVEMENTS SINCE SEPTEMBER 15.—The Poly phemus took her departure for Gibraltar with the in termediate mail for England on the 19th inst. Vice- Admiral Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, the Commander-in- Chief in the Mediterranean, in the Queen, with the Howe, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir F. Mason, second in command, Impregnable, Rodney, Monarch, and Indus, ships of the line, Scout, cor vette, war steamers Devastation and Geyser, and steam tender Locust, put to sea early yesterday morning, and remained in the offing until sunset, awaiting the return of the Devastation and Geyser war steamers, which were sent to make a trial of thr.ir speed round the island. They steered away for the westward about noon, and passing through the channel between Gozo and Cumino, ran round the island, making their appearance from the south-east, former at four, the latter about an hour after, giving the former the superiority over the latter of some 12 miles or more, in a race of 45 miles, done by the for mer in four hours ! Both vessels then stood away with the fleet, but it is generally rumoured the Gey ser will be despatched to the lonian islands to over haul the number of boats purporting to be under lonian flags which have no authorised papers, and of which she will, of course make lawful prize. The fleet intend, it is supposed, to cruise until the 26th ba tlve,tn Malta and Sicily, and then the Admiral will staad in and anchor or not, as the accounts from Alex andria may warrant. The Cambridge from the Le vant, and . the Thunderer from Gibraltar, are ordered to England, with the Vesuvius and Phcenix war stpa:ners ; the latter leaves to-morrow, carrying a mail. Mr. Hoare, mate of the Queen, will take pas sage in her. Lieutenant Rattray, additional of the Q4een, has been appointed to the Monarch ; Mr. Wilson, mate of the Queen, as acting Lieutenant of the Scout. THEA'T'RE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, OCT. 6, Will be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand Opera of SEMIRAMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide by Miss Adelaide Kemble •' Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from the principal Theatres in Italy, her third appearance on the English Stage) ; Assur, Mr, Giubilei ' • Oroe ' Mr. Leffler ; Idreno, Mr. Travers • Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. Bland. After which the Farce of THE IRISH TUTOR. Flail, Mr. Meadows; Terry O'Rourke. Mr. G. Hodson, (his first appearance); Rosa, Miss Lee; Mary, Mrs. Humby. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price :is. 6d. ; First and Second Circles os., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s, Second Price 2s. ; Gallery le. 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 9 • 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 Performances will commence with the New Original Melo-dramatic Romance, called the OWL SISTERS; or, the HAUNTED ABBEY RUINS. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, H. Beverly, Craven, Wilkinson, Maynard, Frampton, Miss Faucit, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. H. P. Gratton. After which, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Characters by Messrs. Wright, 0. Smith, H. Beverly, Mrs. H. Beverly, Mrs. H. P. Gratton, 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 6, Will 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 Lieriot, Mrs. R. Honner. After which, MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Harry Hallyard, Mr. T. P. Cooke ; Joe Tiller, Mr. R. Honner ; Mary Maybud, Mrs. R. Honner. To conclude with THE PLEDGE OF LOVE ; or, A SISTER'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 Box-office, from eleven to four. NEWSPAPER STAMPS. Extract from a Return of the Number of Newspaper Stamps, at One Penny and One Halfpenny, issued to the several Newspapers in England, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist of April to 30th June, 1342, inclusive : Number Amount of of Advertisement Stamps. Duty. Courier Globe Standard SUN HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. ilorning 4B minutes after 2 I Evening :7 minutes after 3. x ti , •,) N : • . • , • , (Al 411,P-t Cta ,'sun. LONDON: THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 6, 1842. OVERLAND MAIL. The Mall from India was to leave Bombay on the 27th of August. It will not be due in London until about the 10th instant, but the telegraphic announcement may be expected on the Bth. Under the pressure of affliction the Tories seem to be making great progress in useful know ledge. They have succeeded, it is true, in Par liament, but they have failed, as we long ago said, in the country. Their measures have not given prosperity to the manufacturers, and they are exciting the discontent of the agriculturists. They are beginning, therefore, to know them selves, and take a more correct measure than or merly of their own wisdom. Their journals being quite unable to explain the strange cir. cumstances which alarm them by any ordinary reasoning, are obliged to fall back on first prin ciples, and, to exonerate Sir R. PEEL and his policy, they condemn the whole system of so ciety. For example, the Morning Post said yes terday— The truth is, that in our artificial state of society, the abundance of a thing does not always make it more accessible by the mass of the people, nor its cheapness increase the quantity of it which they can command. In this respect the arrangements of society counteract the natural order of things, and, therefore, the proposition seems paradoxical which is really and practically true. This is exactly what the Chartists say ; ex actly what the most ultra Democrats say, and exactly what the whole body of the toiling and ill-requited working classes say. They contend that, in the natural order of things, power be longs to the many; that those who produce the wealth of society should make laws for the whole, and that productive industry should be rewarded with plenty, and only idleness be in want and destitution. Because, as the Post states, this "natural order of things is counteracted by the (political) arrangements of society," they demand Universal Suffrage —the abatement of the aristocracy, and an alteration in the right of property. Our Contemporary, then, must hence forth be classed with those whom he sometimes stigmatises as Revolutionists. He asserts that the natural order of things, which is necessarily the most beneficial, is counteracted and per verted by political arrangements; and, did we not suppose that he used the words we have quoted, in ignorance of their import, we should at once inform the ultra Democrats that they had found a convert and ally in the Tory Morning Post. It is now universally admitted that the con dition of the working classes, moral and physical, is the plague spot of society. We have too Ire- . quently stated our op i n i on o f t h e b est means o f improving their physical condition, namely, es tablishing perfectly free trade, beginning with ' the trade in food, to make it necessary for us to enter now into that subject. The best means of mproving their moral condition is for us almost a new subject. When we co ns id er t h e age of those whom it is most requisite to improve, and the almost instant want of improvement for the security of society, education, the fruit of which can only ripen into wisdom in another ge neration, seems hardly calculated to supply the present and immediate want. For education to be available, it must mould the h earts of the millions to meek submission, to poverty, and to lowliness, when they see the few en j oying plenty, and endowed with power and authority; and no education, short of a complete Spartan drilling, or monastic suppression of all the pas sions, or a complete remodelling of man's heart and mind, is at all likely to answer that end. Experience, too, we are afraid, forbids us to hope much even in future from education. It is now upwards of thirty years since LANCASTER and BELL directed public attention to the sub ject, and though it has been imperfectly wrought out, it has ever since been kept in view ; and the moral condition of which we now complain, seems an unanswerable proof that education, at least at an early date, will not ensure the desired improvement. Whatever it may have effected in other countries in which a system of instruc tion has been in harmony with the institutions and condition of society through a long series of years, no system of teaching seems likely, as long as we have a political and free Press, ever to produce contentment in the depressed mul titude. In fact, the idea of attaining this object by education is, to a great extent, given up ; and, through all ranks, from Lord Chief Justice TINDAL to the daily journals of all parties, the opinion is now entertained that the diffusion of" sound religious knowledge" amongst the people is the one thing needful. There is much difference of opinion as to the mode by which this may possih:y be ac complished, but there seems to be none as to its being the most essential matter. Hence it becomes of great importance, considering the urgency of the demand to improve the moral condition of the people, to inquire whether the diffusion of " sound religious knowledge" amongst them is calculated to answer the ex pectations of those who advocate it, and to that inquiry the remainder of our remarks will be directed. It was well observed yesterday by a Morning Contemporary, that " when Missionary SMITH was tried in Detnerara, the slave negroes who were called as witnesses could give little account of his preachings, but they all remembered his reading the chapters in Exodus that describe the liberation of the Israelitish slaves, and the venge ance on their Egyptian oppressors and task masters" The Bible has before now been made the text-book of freedom, and whether the stirring chapters of the Old Testament, or the chapters teaching love and mercy, and inculcating poverty and humbleness of heart, of the New be princi pally dwelt on, they seem little calculated to make the multitude reverence either the legisla tion of the landlords or the splendour of the hierarchy. In fact some of the most powerful arguments by which both have been lately as sailed, are taken from the two sacred books. Those who undertake the task of interpreting them may, perhaps, suppose that they can, as heretofore, shape them to their own particular purposes; but the same circumstance which pre vents education from being effectual amongst us as a system of drilling—namely, the existence of a free political Press—will equally prevent any body of clergymen from straining or perverting the Scriptures. The men they have to deal with can " read, and write, and understand ;" they,are as intellectual, perhaps even more intellectual, than those who would reform them, and can in no wise be deluded or deceived, except through the instrumentality of their own passions. On these grounds we doubt whether the diffusion of religious knowledge amongst the people would produce that moral and political improvement which its advocates expect. To us, also, it seems contrary to experience to believe that men will, or can, be made religious by Act of Parliament. Whatever means the Legislature may employ, they must begin and end in taxation. It has no funds but what it derives from that source. It cannot send forth one missionary, or establish one zealous man in a spot, except by levying contributions on the .people. Already taxation is a source of much discontent, and to connect religion in any way with more taxation, is about the fittest means we know to bring religion into disrepute. On this subject, probably, men are led astray by inferring that the same beneficial results would flow from the exertions of the State as from the exertions of individuals. Great things have been done—great conversions of the heathen made, by missionaries, and it is hence supposed that similar effects might be produced at home by the Legislature extending the Church. Be tween the two, however, there is a great differ ence. The missionaries, at least in the first in stance, have been provided by other countries. Their resources have been, as Dr. CAA LMERS would say, ab extra. Church extension must be, so far as the people are concerned, ab intra. Missionaries have not only cost the people to be converted nothing, but in general, from being members of a more advanced society they have carried much useful knowledge amongst then). Church extension will be icostly to the people, and the clergy belonging to the same society, without being in general further advanced in secular knowledge than the people they are to teach, will not be able to impart any valuable information to them, and they cannot produce the same effect here as missionaries have pro duced amongst ignorant savages. It is un doubtedly very pleasing to suppose that immorality and irreligion, and with them discontent and unhappiness, can be ba nished from society by an Act of Par liament to promote Church extension; many good men, like Chief Justice TINDAL, have in dulged in the supposition, but when it is exa mined by the light of experience, it seems no better than one of those day dreams which occa sionally amuse the wise and the good, as well as the weak and the visionary. We regret to learn, from the Paris papers, that a very angry feeling- prevails, relative to the long disputed question of the right of search, and that violent attacks are made on the English Government and the commanders of English vessels for the rude manner in which, they state, French vessels are visited by our cruizers. The affair between the Cygnet and the Eagle, of which we gave an account yesterday, has re vived all their hostility to the conventions of 1831 and 1833, which- is not a little heightened also by the contrast drawn between the posi tion of France in this respect, and that of the United States. We are not surprised at the bitter and abusive language adopted by the Constitutionnel, knowing the character of the man who directs the politics of that journal ; but there are others equally violent, and little doubt exists that, but for a certain influence, time whole par, e lrtiroi p eknn e iicsn s it ya n a,n o t Na t v e toth x hu el c ed e tE p r tani displayi n gls g l ai sc e t even ne, i t sam l a i s those ede aeserc friendly srr ( bin ev ode ncannot see the see anything peculiarly offensive in the manner in which the Englishman performed his duty. He was on a coast where the slavesustpraedeeis carried on to a frightful extent, a n d, ti ng something wrong from the appearance of the vessel, he fired a shot to bring her to, and on this being disregarded a second shot was fired. We believe this is the usual mode adopted on similar occasions, and if the right of search is to be ex ercised at all the French have little cause for complaint; but seeing the jealousy with which our interference is viewed by the two Chambers, and by nearly the whole nation, it may be a question whether the best interests of humanity are not more endangered by the observance than the breach of these conventions. The slave-trade . is a disgrace to humanity, and nations that encourage it, have no claims to be ranked among civilized nations; but if the traffic cannot be di minished, much less abolished, without constant heart•burnings and collisions, which may endan ger the peace of two powerful countries, we may pay too high a price even for this great object of our wishes. To carry the plan into effect the voluntary and cordial co-operation of England and France is necessary. At present there is no co-operation whatever, as French vessels do not capture one slaver for fifty taken by the English, and to continue this system it is evident will neither tend to effect its purpose nor restore a good feeling between the two countries. If France reject conventions into which she voluntarily entered in behalf of huma nity, let the blame and the disgrace rest with her, but let not the peace of the world be en dangered by any mad attempt on the part of England to compel her to do her duty. We trust, therefore, that new negotiations will be entered into on this important question, and measures be adopted for removing all thase causes of jealousy and suspicion of this country, which evidently have made a strong impression on the minds of the French people. In this man ner there might be some hope of abating the evil, while at the present day it exists to as great an extent as formerly, and never can be put down unless both parties job, willingly in the sacred cause. It is exceedingly amusing to observe the per plexity and embarrassment that has of late beset the Tory journals, which this time last year were the unhesitating, thick-and-thin supporters of Sir ROBERT PEEL and his Cabinet. Fain would they still continue their unqualified support of him and his ; but they know not how to do it with a due regard to their own consistency, and the prejudices and predilections of their readers; and this imparts to their manner a reserve—an awkwardness—a hesitation—that sits as gro tesquely and ludicrously upon thorn as a cocked hat would upon a cow. Like the weathercock, they are constantly chang ing. Now they adopt a blustering, inde pendent tone; now they are melted almost to tears at thought of the sad straits to which they are reduced. One day they muster up brass enough to give their equivocal friend, Sir ROBERT PEEL, an encouraging pat on the back ; the next, they assume an air of dignified reserve— of injured innocence—and shake their thick heads at him, as though he were past all hope of amend ment. But of all the Tory organs, the Post is un questionably the most perplexed and discontented. The Times now and then gives out a low, threa tening growl, indicative of a sort of half-formed intention to spring out upon the Premier and rend him to atoms; and the frequent bray of the _Herald is by no means one denoting satisfaction at his course of policy; but the Post is uniformly sulky and desponding-, and, like RACIIAEL weep ing for her children, " refused' to be comforted." The " Lamentations" of JEREMIAH are touching enough, but those of our Contemporary are of a still more affecting- character. He is in hysterics at least six days in the week ; and the respite that he obtains on the Sunday, only seems to deepen his melancholy on the Monday. This morning his frame of mind is peculiarly distress ing and cor.,vulsive. He has made the alarming discovery flat the Agriculturists are at length brought to the verge of ruin ; that they are at theirwits' ends—no great distance to travel—with apprehension ; and that they have no more chance of redeeming their fortunes, than Sir R. PEEL has of screwing an Income-tax out of a Tipperary bog-trotter. Mark the tone of our convulsed Contemporary !—" There is one fea ture by which all the agricultural Meetings are distinguished—it is fear! Symptoms are already exhibiting themselves, and these symptoms go in every instance to the discouragement of any ra tional hope that farming profits can maintain themselves against the working of the new law !') Encouraging language this from a Tory journal which, no longer ago than last February, was among the foremost to cry up the PEEL Ministry as a godsend; and to assure the agricul tural party that they would find in the Premier a steady, zealous, and affectionate friend, W:10 would have far too much re spect for 2..sses of home-growth, to reduce the duty on colonial ones; and who would never allow a free-born British bullock to come into undignifik. competition with a Dutch or Flemish one ! It was slid of FALSTAFF, that he was not only witty himself, but the cause of wit in others. Parodying this remark, we may say of our Contemporary, that lie is not only afflicted Mniself, but the cause of affliction in others, fol one of his correspondents writes from Liverpool in this dejected strain :—" All my in quiries leaf to the conviction that the mischiefs of the Tar: fl are only as yet in the infancy of their developan M . : The farmers' friends may hold forth to tl. em on the superior flavour of English hams ani' bacon; but facts are stubborn things, aid the fact at this moment is, that A xi,erican salt provisions are fast propertionate ;minim: in the supply of This part of the kingdom. The bonded wai+houses here are literally crammed with AmerD:an beef and pork, which, on the re diketion or tl,e duty, will all be thrown into the market." .41as,- for the pig monopoly of the A griculturis:s! JOHN BULL will now be able to get his ham And bacon cheaper than he has yet done ; there will be an awful fall, too, in the price of his buttock of beef; and the farmer's and grazier's vocation is at an end! Heaven only knows—reiterates the Post from day to day__ what will be the result of this appalling state of things: and then he goes on .to insinuate all sorts of horrors, the slightest of which are enough to make a nervous man's hair stand on end ! For our own part ; we entertain none of our Contempo rary's misgivings, even as regards the interests of the agricult;trists; but hold firm to the convic tion. that the more free trade is encouraged, the better it will be for all classes of the community. We have received accounts from Malta by the Levant Mail up to the ::..)4th ult. We learn from them that a. Court-martial, which had been sitting for some days on certain charges of a peculiar nature brought against Lieut. LIONEL PLACE, of her Majesty's ship Queen, had closed its proceedings by the honourable acquittal of the prisoner, at whose own request the Court martial bad been held. The fleet had sailed out on a cruise, and was expected to return in a few days. The Madrid mail of the 26th has brought the papers of that date, together with the usual cor respondence. General VAN H ALEN has published a circular, which has caused much sensation in the capital. as it is equivalent to a declaration that the Go vernment is not in a position to meet the ex penses necessary for the maintenance of the army in Catalonia. General VAN HA LEN has ordered the Colonels.of the different corps to exact from the Ayuntamientos of their cantonments a daily sum of 11 or 12 cuartos for each soldier, and of six reals for each officer, up to the rank of cap tain inclusively. It is somewhat difficult to un derstand in what way the Captain-General of Catalonia is authorised to levy upon the respec tive municipalities of his province, without having the sanction of the Government to enforce such a measure. The Three pe'r Cents. were done at 21f at 60 days, and the Five per Cents at 26k for cash, and 26 9-16, and 27.5-16 I, with prem., at 60 days. We have received all the Paris papers. The KING, QUEEN, and Royal Family, arrived at St. Cloud from Eu on Sunday morning at ten o'clock. His MAJESTY, who appeared to enjoy good health, presided at a Council of Ministers shortly afterwards. Thenon-arrival of the India mail at Marseilles on Sunday caused some surprise, as the Levant mail arrived at ten o'clock of the preceding day, thus proving that in the Mediterranean no ob stacle existed. The affair between the Cygnet and the Eagle affords the Paris papers another opportunity of dis cussing the question relative to the right of search, The writers in general describe the proceeding of Lieut. WILSON . , the Commander of the English vessel, as a wanton and unjustifiable act. The Constitutionnel sees in it the commencement of a plot for driving the French from the west coast of Africa altogether. The Courrier takes for granted the burning of villages, pillage of habi tations, and firing at canoes, attributed to the English by the French captain, and adds that all these abominable acts were merely for the pur pose of disquieting French commerce ! It appears from the Journal des Davis that no contractor can be found to execute any portion of the line of railroad to the Belgian frontier. It also admits that the French Government engi neers are so imperious, and so difficult to please. that all the contractors for the fortifications have failed instead of gaining anything; and it winds up by saying, that since no contractor can be found, the French Government must set about the execution of the line itself. The letters and journals of the south of France are filled with accounts of the inundations of the rivers of Provence, Dauphine, Bresse, and Viva. rais. Italy appears likewise to have been visited with similar calamities; and on the 20th ult. a frightful hurricane was experienced at Rome, which damaged a number of houses, and felled many trees in the vicinity. The deputation ordered by the presiding Court of Switzerland (the Vorort) to go to Neufchatel to com pliment the King of Prussia, has returned to Berne. The deputation is extremely gratified at the reception it met with at Neufchatel. The King spoke to them in the most friendly terms, and among other things said that his affection was not confined to the canton of Neufchatel, and that he felt the same sentiments towards the rest of Switzerland.—Helvetie. The same journal (the Helvetie) says Mr. Yichann, our Charge d'Affaires at Paris, lately had a conference with M. Guizot, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in which he stated to him the complaint of the Vorort, concerning the violation of our territory, committed by French gensdarmes in disguise, who came to arrest, near Vairmont, in the canton of Berne, a citizen of Soleure, who has enlisted in the French service. M. Guizot answered, that if the facts were such as they were stated to him, the French Go vernment would hasten to do justice to the complaint of the Federal authority. The Vorort requires that Talzmann, the deserter, shall be brought back to the place from which he was taken, and that satisfaction shall be given for this flagrant violation of our terri tory.—Le Commerce. BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3. • First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 118 85... 118 85... 118 0... 11$ 65 Four per Cents 101 25... 101 25 .. 101 25... 101 25 3 per Cents 80 10... 80 15... 80 05... 80 05 Bank of France 3250 ...3250 ...3250 .. 3250 Laffitte Bank 1,0001 1037 50 —1037 50...1037 50...1037 50 Belgian Fives 104; ... 104; ... 104; ... 104; 1840 105; ... 105; ... 105; ... 105; Spanish Active 22,4 ... 22; ... 22; ... 22; Passive Portuguese Fives 29; ... 29 ... 29; ... 29; Neapolitan... • 107 40... 107 40... 107 40... 107 40 Romaa RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R.B ...... 253 75... 253 75... 253 75... 253 75 L.B 9B 75... 98 75... 98 75... 98 75 Rouen Orleans. 5BO ... 581 25... 580 ... 581 25 Strasburg to Bale 205 ... 205 ... 202 50... 203 75 DUTCH . FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, OCT. S. Money. Bills. Actual Dab , 23{ per Cent 52% Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. ........ ........... Amon Syndic, 434 per cent 95 953{ Date, ditto, 834 per cont... ..... ......“ Commercial Company, 4,4 per cent ...... and 1837) 5 pe r . cent. lOO% 100% Loan 1837 , 5 per cent. . ••••••••••••• Ve% 99%, Exchange on London, One month ..... Two months Hanaburgh, One month 35 91% Two months 35 68)k Dutch Papers, Oct. 3. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausms, Ocr.3 : Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , ..— Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 9l Three per Cent........... Thirty-seven Millions, ditto --- ---- (1840) 102% Loan of City, 1802, Four per Cent 92 Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent B6 Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent National Society Exchange on London (short) . ....... ...... - -Brussels Papers, Oct 3. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Sem 24 Five per Cents. Metalliques • Four per Cents. loog Three per Cents... 7:} 6 Bank Shares I•••••••••• ...... 1630 "Illgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 29. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Sam 29. Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. Prussian English Bond,, 1830, i per cent l3B Exchange on London 6 23pi Prussian State Gazette, Sept. 30 Mr. Wyld has published a little elegant map, ex hibiting a sketch of the North-eastern Boundary be tween our North American provinces and the United states as settled by the treaty of August 9, 1842. It will be found extremely useful in explaining the points so long at issue, and throw some light also on the interesting coerespondence between Lord Ash burton and Mr. Webster. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yesterday from his residence at Ityde, Isle of Wight. Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, is expected to return to the residence of the embassy, in Manchester-square, this day, from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.---The Queen and Prince Albert enjoyed their early walk this morning in the Home Park and Slopes. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken airings twice to-day, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. Prince Albert went :out shooting, attei,.-1.--,d by f; Edward Bowater, Colonel Arbuthnot, Hon. C. A. Murray, and Hon. Captain Duncombe, and returned to the Castle to lunch. This afternoon her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal High ness driving, attended by the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Hon. Miss Stanley, and Hon. Miss Ha milton, in a pony carriage and four, and the Equerries in Waiting on horseback. His Excellency Count St. Aulaire, Lord Ashbur ton, and the Earl of Aberdeen, took their departure from the Castle to-day. We are authorised to state that in future, between the months of October and March inclusive, the Eastern Terrace will be closed at sunset. The Bishop of London had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence, in Downing-street, and also transacted business at the Foreign-office. His Lordship had an interview with Lord Stanley at the Colonial-office. Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign-office. A Deputation of the Croydon Railway Company had an interview with the Right Hon. W. E. Glad stone, yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Plunkett, Attorney-General of New South Wales, had an interview with Lord Stanley yester day, at the Colonial-office. Mr. Hutton had also an interview with his Lordship yesterday. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yesterday from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yesterday from Ryde. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, OCT. 4.—Wind this day at noon, N. to N.E., fresh. MARGATE, OCT. 4.—Sixteen casks of Palm oil and 193 staves have be2n brought in here from the wreck of the Susan. RAMSGATE, OCT. 4.—Arrd. Rose, Deal, for the North, with loss of bowsprit. DEAL, OCT. 4.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Arrd. Elvina, Edmondsen, Pernambuco; Margery, Quebec; Hiram, Richmond, for Rotterdam. Sid. Dorothea, Berbice ; Apprentice, New Orleans ; Euphonia, Newfoundland. HARWICH, OCT. 4.—Arrd. Undaunted, London for Newcastle, with damage, having been in contact with a steamer in the Swin. I PORTSMOUTH, ' OCT. E.N.E.—SIy. Dar Madeira. PLYMOUTR, OCT. 4.—Wind E.N.E., strong gales.— Arrd. Amazon, Pecket, Quebec. FALMOUTH, OCT. 3.—Wind, E.N.E., strong breezes and squally.—Arrd. Albion, Martin Aux Cayes, sld. Aug. 11. Sld. Forth ( s .), W es t Indies ; Liverpool (s.), Gibraltar. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 4.—Sld. Minstrel Boy, and Francis Barclay, Lima ; Trinculo, Valparaiso; Kate, Rio ; Capricorn, Barbadoes ; Rothschild, St. Tho mas; Harry. Bell, Jamaica; Britannia (s.), Halifax; Dash, Newfoundland. The Warrior, hence to Riga, was run foul of in the river last night by a steamer, and has put back with loss of bowsprit, cutwater, and leaky. OFF Coax.—Roscoe Hulleson, New York. CLYDE, OCT. 8.--Sid. Janet, Antigua. The Cos sack, from Malta, which got ashore on the 25th ult., on Scam Laggan, has been got off, and towed in here by a steamer. SHIELDS, OCT. 2.—Sld. Competition, Rio. VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL—John Herman, Hamburgh to Santos, July 30, lat. 12 S., lon. 29 - W.; Sarah Crisp, London to the Cape, out 29 days, lat. 8 N., lon. 25 W., by the Lusitania. Kilblain, bound to Calcutta, 23d ult., lat. 48, lon. 9, by the Argonaut, arrived off Plymouth. GREENLAND FISHERY.—The Chieftain, from Davis' Straits, has arrived at Kirkaldy with 17 whalers and three bottle-nose fish, about 120 tons of oil. SOUTH SEA FISHERY.—The Rolano, Leconazet, was lying at Ankaroo (New Zealand), previous to May 8, with 290 barrels and one fish. ROYAL SYMPATHY.—On the arrival of her Majesty at Scone Palace, a bonfire was lit up on the top of Birnam-hill, so famed by Shakspeare, under the superintendence of Daniel Maclauchlan, and on his returning home by a near path about midnight, he missed his :footing, and fell over a precipice of 200 feet high. Next morning he was found a breathing insensible mass. About the time that her Majesty was passing his house to join in the festivities at Dunkeld the poor fellow died, his bedside surrounded by his wife and his infant family. The melancholy catastrophe was made known by an English resident in Dunkeld to Sir Robert Peel; and we have the satisfaction of stating that her Majesty was graciously pleased to gi ve th e di sconso l ate fam i ly 30 1 . and Prince Albert 20/. This relief has proved a great boon to the widow and her infant family. SiliViEfiAßY OF :.EINS AND tit)lir 1 4% pintoat. " Who runs may read.' FOREIGN. The Royal family of France arrived at Saint-Cloud on Sunday morning, at ten o'clock, having left Eu on Saturday evening, at half-past seven. The King and Queen of Prussia arrived at Carlsruhe on the 30th ult., and immediately paid a visit to the Grand Duke. Their Majesties left Carlsruhe on the following day. The Journal de Frankfort states that as soon as the Emperor of Russia received the news of the fire at Kusan, he determined to leave St. Petersburgh for that city. The Vienna Papers mention another fire. On the 19th ult., the village of Kirchberg was almost entirely burnt to the ground. According to accounts from General Lamorciere, Abd-el-Kader was still in the environs of Tekedempta with 1,200 to 1,500 troops, and a population of 7,000 to 8,000 persons who followed him. General d'Ar bouville, on the contrary, stated that Abd-el-Kader had plunged in the Desert to the south-west, and General Bineau imagines that this is the true account. Mr. Southern, Secretary to the British Legation at Lisbon, has arrived at Madrid, and it is rumoured that he is charged with a secret mission. A letter from Madrid says—" Mr. John O'Shea, nephew of the opulent banker, has left for London, it is said, with the object of making arrangements either for advancing two millions sterling to the Spanish Government, or of letting the contract for the quick silver mines of Almaden." A Madrid letter says—" The question which occupies the Cabinet is the speedy meeting of the Cortes. It appears certain that this convo cation will take place towards the month of November. M. Cortina, the leader of the Op• position, is trying to organize again the coalition which overthrew the Gonzales Cabinet. On the other hand, the Ministerial Deputies hold frequent meetings at M. Cordero's, to come to an understanding on the most important questions that are to be discussed dur ing the approaching session. Of these the most grave is the Cotton Bill, which will probable give rise to very animated discussions. A letter from Vienna, 18th ult., states that the town of Gross-Kanischa, in Hungary, was much damaged by four shocks of an earthquake on the 9th ult. The Catholic chapel, the Protestant church, and the Synagogue, the Hotel-de-Ville, and several other buildings, were much injured. Two houses which stood alone fell down, and buried in their ruins ten persons. Of these, six were taken out alive, though much bruised ; the others were dead. The whole damage is estimated at 150,000 florins (15,0001.) The Memorial de Rouen attributes the abundant introduction of coals which took place before the month of August to the desire of the English specu lators to escape the duty levied in England on the exportation of this combustible. It appears that the glut of the market, as it was easy to anticipate, has caused a fall extensive enough to exceed the amount of the export duty, and has consequently disappointed the expectations of the exporters. runzxc OPXNION. The Times thus comments on Chief Justice Tindal's charge at Stafford :—" The majesty of the English law has not often been more worthily sustained than in the temperate and dignified charge of the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas to the Grand Jury at Stafford. Interposing to punish, the law of England yet remembers that true obedience cannot be matter of compulsion, and while arraying herself in her terrors against the evil-doer, she yet fails not to re mind us that the prevalence of sound principle and strict conscientiousness is the real basis upon which she looks to found her authority : the basis upon which she hopes to see established the peace and pros perity of society. The law of England is a terror only to the wicked—to the honest, the poor, and the oppressed, she has ever professed herself a de fence and a refuge. The law respecteth order,'— and—' the law favoureth life and liberty. And ac cordingly it is held that while a breach of the Queen's peace is an offence most contrary to the genius of our laws ; an offence of the greatest magnitude ; still the right, or duty, on the part of the subject, of discussing and representing his grievances, of pointing out what is wrong for amendm en t an d alteration, and that in no spirit of discontent or insubordination, but in an honest desire for the public welfare—is one which is inviolably to be defended and observed. This has ever been the language of the common law of Eng land ; this has ever been the language held by her authorised ministers and exponents—the Justices of the upper and lower Bench, and of the Exchequer ; the antistites legum,'—as they have been calledofold; —and this is the language which is held by them to this day." The Post says - :—" We liitve - bcsu - looking evettlie reports forwarded to us of agricultural meetings' in various parts of the country. They all breathe' th 6 spirit which we have ever looked for from the land holders and farmers of England—that of a firm deter mination to stand by the great national object of Bri tish cultivation, be what may the expenditure of time, of skill, and of pecuniary outlay. • This is what we expected. This is what our long experience, of the character of our agriculturists had led us to expect. But this we cannot conceal from ourselVes, and it would be superficial hypocrisy to attempt to conceal it from our readers, that alarm, that doubt, and dread (we will not call it panic), is at the present moment the prevalent feeling with the agricultural commu nity. We see resolutions entered into—we see farmers and landowners resolving to maintain each other's interests—to avoid all steps appr:oaching to a discontinuance of labouring employment, or to a re duction of the wages now paid to workpeople. But this we cannot conceal from ourselves, that those who adopt these resolutions know that they do so at a disadvantage. They seem well aware of new embar rassments—new obstacles—in the way of a fair remu neration." We take the following from the Herald :—The ignorance of the Times is amusing and almost uni versal; it is alike displayed in reference to agricul tural associations, musical festivals, and the condition of the West Indies. Our Contemporary is violent in its opposition to the admission of foreign sugar ; yet it objects to any reasonable and facile mode of extend ing the production of British Colonial sugar ; it grunts over the economical results of the Emancipation Act, yet it won't listen to the only certain means of re medying the evils produced thereby; it has ex pfessed its opinions on migration to the West Indies, and nothing under heaven will induce it to budge from them, however monstrous and absurd, one inch. The Timesa dmits that thereis a species of monopoly of labour' in the Westlndies—that the 'negro lives idly three days a week, and dictates his own terms for the rest ; that large tracts of land have gone out of cultivation for want of the requisite supply of labour ;' that there has been a serious and ruinous injury to the planter; and that the achievement of these results has cost the country twenty millions sterling; yet does this sapient journal reject the application of that agency which would destroy the monopoly of labour.' which would prevent negro idleness and dictation, which would restore land thrown out of cultivation to the hoe and the plough, and bring into production virgin soil, which would prevent the ruin, and restore the prosperity of the planter, and which would render the purchase of emancipation one of the most remu nerative investments ever made by a nation. What would the Times do with the West Indies ? Would it condemn those possessions to instantaneous ruin by giving the people of England slave-grown sugar ? Or has it resolved to sentence them to the slow pro cess of painless extinction by keeping up the existing monopoly of labour ?' " The following allusions to Chief Justice Tin dal's charge on the opening of the Stafford Special Commission are from the Chronicle In the re marks we recently made on the case of the prisoners about to be tried by the Special Commission, it was our misfortune to offend the taste of a Contemporary Journal ; but this calamity is in some degree compen sated by finding that we have, unintentionally, anti cipated some of the positions l a id d own i n the able charge of Chief Justice Tindal to the Grand Jury. His Lordship stronsly affirms the legal right of the workpeople to combine, and by cessation from labour induce, if possibl e , th e i r emp l oyers to forego the reduction of wages, or the enforcement of ob noxious regulations, of which they complained. The offences that followed are put in the light in which we have endeavoured to place them—that of criminal adjuncts or accidents of an original purpose, which in itself was neither criminal norillegal. And this is, were peat, a peculiarity in the late disturbances that ought to be constantly borne in mind in dealing with those . w . ho have thereby subjected themselves to the inquiries and decisions of a judicial tribunal. His Lordship represents it as no part of the province of himself and his brethren on the bench to enter into the merits of the dispute between the masters and the men, or to suggest remedies or preventions for the evils thence arising. Of any such discussion he speaks as better fitted for a legislative assembly than for the members of this tribunal, to whom the only duty allotted is that of declaring the law as it stands at present.' At the conclusion of his address, however, his Lordship relaxes this restriction, and suggests that ' the dif fusion of sound religious knowledge, in which there can be no excess,' amongst the labouring classes, is the best security f o r their orderly behaviour, and for the peace and safety of the community. To the wisdom of this suggestion we readily subscribe. It has been often repeated, and is generally assented to. Yet it still remains merely a suggestion, and so, we fear, it is at present likely to remain. For there is the great practical question to be solved, of how the popular messes are to be made religious." O NEY — TIL.A.DE—COMMERCE. The convocation at Stuttgadt of the delegates of the Germanic Customs' Union has broken up. The attempts to raise the import duties on some of the most important British export articles have failed, and these rates consequently remain unaltered for at least three years to come. These rates chiefly affect our large exports of cotton twists, and iron exported from Scotland. At Brough-hill fair in Westmoreland, thQ business done has been good. The same may be said of Pen rith fair in Cumberland, Bamptun fair, and Egre mont fair. LAW AND POLICE. Five of the Ashton Chartists, with Mr. George Southam, a millowner, were committed on Tuesday to take their trials at the Special Commission, for the part taken at meetings in August. Eleven of the Stockport rioters, among whom was Taylor, the shoemaker Chartist, were committed on Monday, after examination, to the Chester Assizes for trial. Barnard Garvin and Mary, his wife, were brought up at Alarylebone on Tuesday for final examination on the charge of having cruelly treated their eldest daughter, starving her, &c. They were both com mitted for trial. James Flukes, Isaac Patch, a n d Eli za b e th Con stable were on Tuesday charged at Union Hall, with forcibly entering the premises of Mrs. Black will, in Westniorland-place, Camberwell, and removing her furniture and effects. The hearing was postponed, and bail for the appearance of the prisoners accepted. On Tuesday, William John Dives, an officer's ser vant in the Royal Marines, and Mary Cri s p, were charged at Woolwich, th e former with stealing, and the latter with receiving, a 51. note, ring, watch, &c., belonging to Lieutenant Webb, of the Royal Marines. They were remanded. THEAT =CAL. A version of Alma is in preparation at the Adelphi Theatre. Madame Giubilei, of her Majesty's Theatre, is to sustain the principal character. SPOnTING. The great - match for 5001. a side, between the cut ters Corsair, 84 tons, J. Congreve, Esq., and Talis man, 87 tons, J. Meiklam, Esq., commenced on Thursday, when the vessels started from Yarmouth to go round ~he Eddystone Light-houge and back. On Saturday morning at half-past six they returned, the Corsair winning by four minutes and six seconds; the distance, 226 miles, was performed in 39 hours and a half. C OURT - VASITIONIMLE. Prince Labaroff arrived at iklivart's Hotel oil Tues day, from Germany. There will be a series of splendid fetes at Ravens worth Castle at the close of the present week, in cele bration of the coming of age of Mr. Henry George Liddell. The Earl of Mornington leaves Deal Castle to morning, for Saville-row, toattend the obsequies of his deceased brother the Marquis Wellesley. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne landed at Dover on Tuesday, from Boulogne. The Marquis of Hertford has returned to Dor chester House, Park-lane. The Earl and Countess of Essex left Cashiobury Park on Tuesday, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's, at Redbourne Hall, Lincolnshire. Earl Compton arrived in Piccadilly on 'Monday, from the Continent. Viscount Powerscourt has arrived in town from Powerscourt Castle, County Wicklow. The Hon. and Rev. Dr. Gerald Valerian Wellesley is staying at Apsley House, during his sojourn in town. Miss Burdett Coutts and Miss Meredith arrived in Stratton -street on Saturday, from Harrogate. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. A most amusing two-act vaudeville comedy, en titled Follies of a Night, was produced at this theatre last evening, in which Mr. Charles Mathews and his lady made their first appearance this season. They were both greeted most warmly by the audience on their appearance. The .reception of Charles Mathews was enthusiastic in the extreme, and • 'when the applause had somewhat subsided, and he began by saying " Wonders will never cease—A • twelvemonth ago who would have thought it, and yet here lam ?" the cheering was renewed with greater 'enthusiasm than ever. TheE,e words are uttered by him in the character of Pierre Paillot, a youth who has come to Paris from Beauvais to seek his fortune, and the locality is the Opera House in Paris, where he is in search of adventures at a masked ball. Here he meets his uncle, Dr. Druggendraft (Compton), physician to the household of the Duke de Chartres, who has been prevailed upon by the Duchess de Chartres (Madame Vestris), who is de sirous of seeing how people enjoy themselves out of the Palace, to accompany herself and Mademoiselle Duval (Miss Turpin), to whose hand the Doctor aspires, to this same masked ball. The Duke de Chartres (Mr. liud , ,.:en), who has secretly come up from his regiment ; at Compeigne to enjoy a night's recreation inParia,2 also goes to the ball, and, seeing g ives "chase. The Duchess, alarmed, flies, meets Pierre Paillot, requests bin to .protect her hem insult, and sinks, faint froth. exhaustion. Htinest Pierre bears h e r to his lodgings, and she has scarcely reco theDtt.ze -enters peekin g f or shelter from tvleiC(Pdrowh9i eet l i . on of tie rise:to s eine curl ,its p s o c l e i n ce e , s. , c L on a t d re y tem o i f s course,The keeps on .her mask, and the Duke• makes love to his own wife without knowing- it. The Duchess, hew ""ever, reaches home in safety, and after the Duke has been puzzled, and the Doctor, as he phrases it, com pletely paralysed, mutual explanations take place, and every one is made happyexcept the Doctor, who is most unceremoniously rejected by Mdlle. Duval in favour of Pierre Paillot. The piece is a moi;t amusing one. Incident follows incident in rapid succession, so that the interest never flags. It was excellently performed. Madame Vestris, as the Duchess; a....ted with all her accustomed archness. Charles Mal - iew:, threw into the character of Pierre Paillot a soi: of cunning sim plicity that told admirably ; while Compton acted the Doctor with a Li stonian degree of stolidity that elicited roars. of laughter. Mr. Hudson is a gentleman 10io is rapidly and de servedly rising in the public esti! nation. His Due de Chartres last night was an excedent piece of act ing, full of life and vivacity, but p olished and gentle manly withal. He was quite the courtier of the days of Louis XV. He possesses a good voice, and sang some couplets with such taste a s to elicit the only encore of the night. The piece is a novelty in another respect. It is ra genuine vaude ville, interspersed, not with songs, but with couplets, having reference to the action of the piece, and which are sung to popular and known airs, without being preceded by a symphony. At the fall of the curtain Malame Vestris and Charles Matthews were called for, and again cordially welcomed,. when the latter announced the piece for repetition v. pith the unanimous concurrence of a crowded house. Mr. Hudson was also called for and loudly applauded. • TO MY WEE AULD WIFE. (From the Freemason's Quarterly Rev ;ew for October.) My dear old dame ! the days are gone, When you and I were young- When you my wishes smiled upon, And I your praises sung ; When, hand in hand, we walked among Green Saltram's sunny glades, Or wandered, from the wo r ldl y throng, In Warleigh's woody shades ! Those days are gone. my dear ol.d dame, — Those scenes no more we vielv ; Yet are our hopes our joys the same, Our love as warm and. true ! And when the years that yet may be Are numbered with the past, Life's latest thoughts will prove the It we Are lovers to the last! J. LEE 'STEVENS. September, 1842. ENGINEERING SCIENCE.—The tunnel on the line of the Sheffield and Manchester Rails vay will be three miles in length, upwards of 600 fec ,t below the sur face or summit of the hill at its grer,test height, and in rock formation throughout its entire length. The works were projected and commenced up wards of two years ago, under th e direction of Charles Vignoles, Esq. Five shaf is were opened, at about half a mile distant fi •om each other, for the purpose of proving the fe rmation, of faci litating the driving of the drift- way s, and, ultimately, of ventilating the tunnel. AVI dist these were in progress, the drift-ways were carried on from each side, or face of the mountain..: the distance, or length, driven, on the eastern side, fmtending to nearly 1,000 yards, and from the next sh: ift 180 yards. The junction between these two portioi is of the drift-way was effected on the 17th Septeml Jer; and the levels, when checked, on a tie-bench, at t he point of meeting, had varied but nine decimals, or o ne inch nearly, and the range was within less than two inches of being geometrically true. When it is coi.lsidered that this has been attained whilst driving uLpsi •ards of half a mil through hard rock formation, it mt ist be admitted t ba highly creditable to the parties en gaged in directing it. Dublin Evening Post. TUB TARIFF AND CORN - LA. 1913 .—The contracts which have been recently taken for the. supply of, meat, flour, and other provisions, to the v,:rious pa r'shes r.nd unions of the metrop ills, for the ensuing six months, have been considers Ihly lower in price than has been given for some yea rs past.. In the pa rish of St. Mary, Lambeth, the co otract for the supply of meat was sd. the stone of 81b s: wider that of the former period, and the price for the se ck of flour was ss. less per sack. The contract was for the supply of 260 stone per week for the in-c?oor ar . id out-door poor, and for 30 sacks of flour a week_ The effect will make a difference of about 1401. fin the meat, and about 1951. in the flour; and, tali .in r into considera tion other provisions, the sav i ng win be about 4001 for the six months to the parish. 1 THE MISER'S DAUGHTER" COMPLETE. On the 15th, in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. By WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH. With Twenty Illustrations on Steel, by George Cruikshank. London : Cunningham and Mortimer, Adelaide-street, West Strand. HE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, 1842. , 1" M