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Principal Characters by Meers. Lyon, 0. Smith, Maynard, H. Beverly, Wright, Paul Bedford, Wilkinson, Mrs. H. Beverly, and Miss Chaplin. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. The Imp, Mr. Wieland ; Fleur-des-Champs, Mdme. Proche Giubilei ; " The Frightful, Spiteful, Old Bachelor," Mrs. H. P. Grattan. To be followed by the Burletta of DOBSON and Co. To conclude with NORMA. Pollin, 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. Cantinuatton of the Nautical Dramas, in consequence of the immense overflows attracted by the heart•stirring acting of 3lr. T. P. Cooke, the only acknowledged Sailer on the Stage. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 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, Air. N. T. Hicks; Herrick Evenden, Mr. J. Webster; Blanche Berle, Mrs. R. }former. After which, BLACK EYED SUSAN, with the Original Cast. To conclude with OUR HOUSE; or, LODGINGS 1N LONDON, enibracing the entire strength of the Comic Company. Places and private Boxes I. be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, front eleven to four. W ATER AT LONDON BKIDGF: THIS DAY. , 7Grning 4l minutes after 1 Evening • • • 1" . "1.t.) 4 . 44 , , • k. 4 a , t _ f 49 4 , 1 1 , 1, • Slit' 4 1'Ll gt t: t; :‘-4L-4,---• .I§.o\ 4"q tarkaig r opg, „..IZ7P.O' rim ,-zull/4 LONDON WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 19, 1842. The notice that was taken by General Cass, and other persons high in authority in the United States, of the suggestion thrown out in The Sun, to embark an officer of the United States navy in each of our cruisers employed to suppress the slave trade, contributed, we have good reason to believe, to that arrangement which has been adopted in the treaty to carry on the right of search for the prevention of the slave trade, without violating the dignity of the United States. At the same time, we persist in our opinion that the arrange mentactually adopted is not so good as the one we recommended. By our plan, an American officer would always have been present whenever an American ship was brought to by an English man-of-war, and she WO LI d have been examined by an American authority. By the arrangement of the treaty, it will not be possible for an American ship of war to be• always in company with an English man-of-war; and either every American ship with which an English man-of-war, when alone, ialls in will be exposed to the same visitation ts before, or she will go unvisited, and we shall lave the mortifying conviction that our arma :lents are maintained, at a great expense of life nd treasure, for no good purpose, on the coast Africa. We must rely exclusively on Ame ' rican men-of-war stopping the slave traffic, when carried on by American ships, which we believe cannot, and will ' not, be stopped by them. What the " diplomatic device" was which pre vented even Lord ASHBURTON from adopting 'he safe, economic, and cheap method of insur- L 4 the visitation of every American vessel our cruisers might fall in with, which we recom- Licnded, we are not aware; but we presume that it was one of those old, nonsensical customs, derived from feudal times and misunderstood in ternational law, which are continually set up by politicians as barriers against the progress of rea b;:;ti and justice. Though our suggestion was not .Ilowed, and a much worse plan adopted, we ave still the satisfaction to believe that it was cf service and so believing, we shall now again plvert to the right of search to enforce the system of impressment, in the hope that we may contribute to put an end to that practice, and so remove another obstacle to the continu ance of peace between the two nations. Our allusion to the subject on Monday, found an eloquent echo in the Times of yesterday. Our Contemporary, some portion of wh ose re marks we extracted in another part of our jour nal, took some pains to point out the evils of our system of ithpressment, and of the right of search which grows out of it, and out of it alone. " Mr. Webster," says our Contemporary, " is certainly right in contending that the evils of the system of impressment, as practised by this country in former wars, are greatly enhanced when it is attempted to enforce its operations be yond. the natural limits of the territory and juris diction of E ng l an d and her dependenctes,!, The practice at . home has nothinc , what ever in its favour " for it is not (says the Times) any regular or indefeasible part of the law or constitution of this country power, exercised by a t an extraordinary v i r t ue of. impress warrants from - the Admi ralty, under a comrnissip,„-yebielithe Crown is, by long-established custoth, empowered - 14 the Mutiny Act to grant." We try it, however, by that great principle for which Kings are indebted for their power and 1 Governments fur their rights—the benefit of the nation; and we affirm, fearing no contradiction, that impressment is as injurious to the nation as it is unjust to the seamen. It drives the very men from the service who are most needed. In all times the seamen have, in consequence of impressment, shunned men-of-war. Formerly they fled in shoals to Holland, now they go to the United States, to avoid impressment. At the same time it impedes the rest of the population from going freely on the ocean. It invests men of-war and merchant ships with an atmosphere of horror, which does not properly belong to them. Sea-going is a glad and a healthy occu pation; it should be the delight of our maritime population; but the unjust decrees of most igno rant Admiralties have actually made it the bug bear of the people. The " press-gang" terrifies children, and mothers would rather breed up their boys to be starveling weavers than bold sailors. At the very moment when the services of our seamen are most wanted, impressment estranges their hearts from their country, and employs quite as many, or rather more, men to guard those whom it steals than it obtains. Its cost for guards, guard-ships, press-gangs, use less officers, &c., would man the navy over and over again. We say nothing of the many valu able lives and valuable ships it has sacrificed ; but without including them, and without includ ing the vast expense of one war which it has already provoked, we affirm that a more costly, as well as a more cruel contrivance, than that of impressment, never disgraced any country. All these, and a score more, noxious qualities, have been demonstrated over and over again ; and the Admiralty and the nation will be without the shadow of an excuse if they ever again practise, or allow to be practised, this most deplorable public crime. The Times entertains some si milar opinions : It rests entirely with the Executive Government for the time being to exert or to leave dormant that power ; for although the law, and ancient custom still more than law, have given a colour of right to this exercise of force on the personal services of a portion of the Queen's subjects, it cannot be doubted that no thing but the most imperious necessity would induce the Admiralty to revive a practice so adverse to the general principles of British liberty. * * * There is, we believe, a strong probability that in the event of a war no instructions for the impressment of British seamen found in American merchant ves sels will be issued to our cruisers. The right is doubtful, the inexpediency of such a practice certain ; nor can it be necessary for the British navy to recruit its forces by such means. It might, therefore, be pos sible to accede to a declaration to this effect, and to renounce a practice which it is not intended to revive. But, as we have already said, the evils of impress ment are not confined to this particular application of it ; and it can scarcely be doubted that the most fitting and dignified mode of removing the apprehen sions entertained on the subject by certain foreign Powers, would be to adopt some general measure for the entire abolition of arbitrary impressment both at home abroad. We are persuaded that it would con duce to the dignity of the country, the security of a large and useful class of men, as well as the mainte nance of amicable relations with foreign countries, if it was distinctly intimated that the levies of seamen for her Majesty's ships will ever hereafter be con ducted on settled principles, and not assisted by vio lence or fraud. It not being intended—it being, as we believe, impossible—again to call this practice into opera tion, we agree with the Times, " that a declara tion" to this effect ought to be made. We agree with it in saying that "it would conduce to the dignity of the country and the security of a large and useful class of men, if it was distinctly inti mated that the levies of seamen will ever here after be conducted on settled principles, and not assisted by violence and fraud." We go further; we say that a solemn repudiation on the part of the Government of any right, or any claim, to seize the seamen to serve on board men-of-war, is due to them; we say that such a solemn repu diation of a scandalous injustice would be of great public advantage—that it would restore both our mercantile and our Royal marine to that estima tion they ought to hold in the minds of the com mon people—that it would secure the services of a greater number and a better description of per sons for our ships, as well as improve tl►e mo rality of all the sea-going classes, by removing one great injustice from amongst them which vitiates them all; and time same disclaimer which would be an act of justice to the seamen -could remove for ever one cause of contention with the United States. We join with the Times in call ing for a public and au thorised declaration against the revival of impressment. The whole practice rests on a false basis. It assumes that man is made for government, and not government for man. It claims, therefore, for the Government a property in the limbs and lives of seamen, and asserts that whenever the Government requires their services it may ap propriate them. Do not let us, however, deceive ourselves by an abstract term ; the word Go vernment means, ut one time, a great feudatory, surrounded by lesser feudatories ; at another time, it means a King; again, it means a mock Sovereign, whose power is usurped by a selfish, money-loving aristocracy; and this doctrine of the State, or Government, having a right to the services of the seamen, is nothing more than the assertion that the seamen are the personal slaves of these great feudatories, of Kings, or of venal aristocracies. The practice of impressment and its asserted consequence, the right of the Govern ment to seize a British seaman whenever it wants his services, and wherever he may be found—as on board American ships, for which we have waged war with time United States—is a deduction from the ancient, and, in most cases, obsolete condition of personal slavery, and ought to be solemnly condemned by all free men, as they condemn the negro slavery of the United States. The legal assertion that a man cannot throw off his allegiance to the Sovereign or Government under whom he was born, on which some persons justify the right of searching American vessels for British sea men, is a deduction front the same con dition, and is continually and practically contra dicted. The State makes no claim on the ser vices of the thousands of its natural born sub jects, except they be seamen, who seek their fortunes in other States; it is glad to get rid of them; and the legal dictum that a man can not throw off his allegiance, is equally false in fact, and unjustifiable in theory. Men establish Government for their benefit, and whenever it ceases to answer that purpose, they may leave it or dismiss it. The contrary doctrine sets up as an idol the work of man's hands, and superstitiously calls on him, most derogatorily, to bow down before the golden image "he himself has fashioned." We must say, for the credit of the county con stituencies and their representatives, that they are making the best of what they consider their bad bargain. They assert that PEEL has betrayed them, but they rejoin the Whigs bad made a great alteration unavoidable. He has, contrary to his pledges, lowered their protection, but they console themselves by saying he has put a stop to frauds in the averages, and ruined the specu lators in grain. So said Sir JORN TYRELL at the meeting of the Hincktbrd Agricultural Club, on Friday last, where the would-be witty Baronet endeavoured, as well as he could, to defend both himself and Sir R. PEEL. His most effectual means was by diverting attention from Sir Ro- BERT to the Whigs and the Anti-Corn-law League. He raised two enormous giants, which seemed quite terrific to the Essex farmers, and then he and they were glad of the aid of Sir ROBERT on any terms to slay them. He did not like the Corn-law, and he did not like the Tariff; but then the Duke of WELLINGTON supported PEEL, and he would never " give his countenance to a Governmentwhich was not of a friendly cha racter to the agriculturists." Like the other county Members, Sir JOHN TYRELL supports Sir ROBERT PEEL because he cannot help himself; and if Sir ROBERT does not carry out the principles he has advocated of buying at the cheap est: market, it will be his own fault, for, do what he may, the county Members will not oppose - hi m; Sir JOHN'S de scription amusing and fl attering to his agri of foreign cattle and-Sheep, must have been highlycultural hearers, and therefore we copy it : I know it is a fact that some of tho% who have im ported cattle have lost by them. I know that an in dividual lost SOl. on the importation of 40 oxen ; and a gentleman of contrary politics to myself told me, in -corning down by the railroad the other day, that he went into Smithfield market, and the salesman de clared to him that the loss on the foreign beasts he had sold was 2/. per head. I have had a letter from my brother-in-law, who is at Ramsgate, and he de clares that they had fears on the Corn-law, but none on the Tariff, for the Tariff would only lower meat a halfpenny per lb. I know what the victualling of Lord Ashburton's ship was at New York ; and I know what the price of American meat is, and my fears are on that part of it. I appeal to the agri culturists, and I think they will do me the justice to say there was no man who was a grazier for the last four or five years, who had made any profit. You all cried out that nothing could be worse. I know it from experience—l know that my friend on my right declared that nothing on earth should induce him to give the price for bullocks that he had done ; but I am going to Brentwood fair to-morrow morning to buy bullocks, and we know the Scotchrnan says, that "doming" Sir R. Peel is necessary to buying bullocks well.—(Cheers and laughter.) Then as to fo reign sheep; those who have seen foreign sheep hung up know that they more resemble a dead dog than anything else, and in many instances you could hold up the sheep to the candle, and read the news paper without its in the slightest degree hindering the light.—(Laughter.) Then as to meat. The lash may have touched you in many points, but it is like the lad who was driving a bad horse—his master was going to hit him over the ears, but he said " don't do that—don't hit him over the ears—save the ears for the gravel."—(Laughter.) Feeling, as I conscien tiously do, that the Government is a friendly Govern ment, and desirous of doing the best it can for the in terests of agriculture, I believe that the alteration of the Corn-laws has not diminished or injured your in terests. As the alteration of the Corn-laws has not injured the agriculturists, and as Sir ROBERT PEEL says that alteration is a great advantage to the rest of the community, he may be inclined, under Sir Jowl TYRELL'S assurance, to confer still greater advantages on it, by putting an end to the Corn-law. The confidence of the agricul turists, and the demands of the manufacturers, constitute together a persuasive power, which no Minister can irell resist. He is sure of the farmers' friends, and if he can gain the manufac turer:, he may reign for life. LITERATURE. EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. CUM. London, Longman, 1842. Mr. Alison's " History of Europe," each suc cessive volume of which has attracted on its ap pearance the attention of the literary world in no ordinary degree, and which indeed has been more praised and blamed than any contemporary his torical work with which we are acquainted, forms the subject of the first article in the current Num ber of this Review. The criticism, on the whole, may be considered a favourable one—that is to say, it does justice in a frank and cordial spirit to Mr. Alison's undoubted excellencies—his un wearied research, his uniform minuteness, and general tone of impartiality; while it protests against his frequently vicious, slovenly, and tut-- gid style, and the erroneous conclusions at which he is but too apt to arrive from premises hastily laid down, and which, hasty as they are, call for other deductions. The Reviewer justly re marks that the most interesting "subject of his history, next to the great Revolution which forms the ground-work of the whole, is un doubtedly the character of the extraordinary man who made that Revolution the instrument of his power ;" and adds, "we have been much gratified by the calm and impartial spirit in which the historian discusses his general char acter." The Reviewer then goes on to speak of the intense interest which Napoleon's every move ment excited throughout the civilised world. " W herever," he observes, "the great conqueror engaged, the breathless attention of all Europe was fixed. Every citizen of every State felt his hopes or his fortunes raised or depressed by the event. The death of an English Minister was hastened by the battle of Marengo; the treaty of Tilsit was telt as an object of interest in the deserts of Central Asia; the battle of Leipsic roused or paralyzed every European from Cadiz to the North Cape." We have quoted this passage for the purpose of pointing out a singular error it contains. The "English Minister" alluded to was Pitt; but his death was not "hastened by the battle of Marengo," but by that of Auster litz, which was fought a few months previous to his demise, and destroyed the coalition against France, of which he was the chief originator, and which was the moving principle of his foreign policy. The Reviewer, after giving a very fail outline of N apoleuu's character, says, "there is one scene in his career which no sophistry can palliate, which no imagination can elevate, which his most devoted partisans can but endeavour to forget. We allude to the treacherous detention of the English families travelling in France in 1801." This was certainly an act of no ordinary. injustice; but far worse, in our opinion, was Napoleon's heartless treatment of poor Toussaint, the negro Liberator of St. Do mingo, whom he first deceived by a show of kindness, and then caused to be secretly put to death by one of the most cruel and lin gering of all tortures, starvation. This wanton murder—the result of a paltry jealousy of a more magnanimous spirit than himself—is, we con ceive, the great blot on Napoleon's escutcheon. In other deeds of aggression he may have shown himself vindictive—tyrannical—inexorable; bur here he showed himself mean; and in speaking of celebrated public characters, we more easily forgive crimes prompted by passion or ambition, than those which have their origin in an innate littleness of nature. " The Lite of Augustus Keppel," is a passable notice of the Memoirs of the Admiral of that name, who having been one of the staunchest Whigs of his day, is, of course warmly eulogized by his Whig Reviewer. In the notice of "Berryer's Auto-Biographical Recollections" occu r several curious characteristic anecdotes of the manners of the old regime in France, and of the tremendous popular outbreak which shattered the fabric of Absolutism to atoms. M. Berryer was then a young man, just rising into eminence as a lawyer, and his recollections of that terrible epoch are necessarily very vivid. " He attributes his professional success," says the Reviewer, " to his domestic happiness, and to a natural gaiety of disposition, fostered by the amenity and joyousness of the manners and habits which for the first thirty-four years of his life adorned his country. But now, he says, no one smiles in France; lie finds himself between eighty and ninety too young for his associates, and is forced to repress a thousand sallies which the gravity of the times would not. tolerate." The altered character of the French —which has been often remarked on by Eng lish travellers—is easy to be accounted for, when one considers their present political condition, and the little chance they have of bettering it. Notwithstanding their struggles for years to obtain a strictly democratic tbrm of government, they find themselves, at the end of half a cen tury, little better off than they were at the com mencement of their struggle. True, they have got rid of that incubus, the feudal system; are no longer subject to the military despotism branch o ltuh f cianTNapoleon vassalage aa e of the ; ahyl ea sgtaiei imbecile dbakenla keeps diel pve in shaken snßtt iohi Bourbons of imi.br olvi f the elder vaunted ; but 11 tes f dt a ti e( of fg re luctant l f the Barricades—for whom but twelve years since they poured out th e i r bl oo d like water—they have found to their cost the bitterest enemy of that form of government which they so much covet, and which they have made so many un availing sacrifices to obtain. Reflections like these may well make a Frenchman serious, for they are a constant thorn in the side of his na tional vanity ! We quote from M. Berryer's Recollections a remarkable anecdote, which de rives additional interest from the insight it gives us into the disorganised state of society in France towards the close of the Reign of Terror:— " One of the most remarkable, and one of those which throw most light upon the internal state of France, during the interval between the Reign of Terror and the Consulate, is a trial before the tribunal of Chartres, in which M. Berryer was only a spec tator. For some years previous to the trial, which appears to have taken place in the year 1795, a large tract of country, of which the forest of Orgeres, ex tending to within thirty miles of Chartres, is the cen tre, had been infested by bands of ruffians, who, from their use of fire as an instrument of torture, acquired the name of Chauffeurs. They were accustomed to surround lonely farm-houses in numbers too large for resistance, bind the males, and force the females, by fire applied to the feet, to discover the property of the family. From the number of their outrages, the uni formity of their proceedings, and the skill w ith w hi c h they were conducted, it is inferred that they formed a large confederacy, acting on system, and o b ey i ng some central authority. But this was.mere suspicion: common as the crime was, not one of the criminals was identified. One day, however, two gendarmes, as they crossed a portion of the forest, found a child about ten years old, the singularity of whose dress excited their curiosity. He asked for food, and was persuaded to accompany them to a neighbouring town. A good breakfast and a glass of wine obtained his confidence. He told them that he lived with his father and mother, and many other families, in a vast cavern in the forest. That a great many men came there from time to time, bringing With them some. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY , EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1942, times plate and other valuables, which were afterwards taken away, and sometimes provisions and clothes for the inhabitants. It seemed probable that the head quarters of the Chauffeurs was now detected ; but, instead of attacking the cavern, the result of which would have been only the seizure of those who might have been in it at the time, and the alarm and escape of the other members of the confederacy, it was resolved to use the child as a means of arresting the out-door brigands, one by one, and to reserve the cavern for the last. For this purpose, the child, to whom we will give, by anticipation, the name of Fiqfin, which he afterwards acquired by the dexterity with which he played his part, was disguised by good clothes, and placed, under the care of a woman who acted as his nurse, at the corners of the markets of the towns to which it was supposed that the brigands would resort to sell the plundered pro prety. Whenever he saw a face with which he had become familiar in the cavern, he gave a sign, and the person indicated was arrested. At length the number exceeded a hundred ; descriptions of the prisoners, and of the property found on them, were published ; and evidence poured in from all sides. The trial lasted several days. Every morning the accused, about 112 in number, were marched in a long column, guarded by a numerous escort, through the streets of Chartres, to a church in the centre of the town, which had been fitted up on this occasion as a court, and was large enough to exhibit them all to the witnesses and the jury. M. Berryer dwells on the horrors of the evidence, particularly on that of the daughters of an opulent proprietor, three sisters, whose feet had been destroyed by fire, so that they were forced to come on crutches into the Court. It appeared that the cavern, or rather the collection of caverns, from whence Finfin had wandered, was situated in the least accessible portion of the forest ; and formed out of the quarries which had furnished the stone for the magnificent cathedral of Chartres. Here a colony of malefactors, male and female, had been founded, which recruited itself, partly by immi gration and partly by natural increase. Like the Indian associations of Thugs, it had a government, laws, and police, adapted to the frightful profession of its members. It had corresponding members, who indicated the dwellings most fit for attack, and an executive, which planned expeditions, and appointed the persons who were to effect them. The whole 112 , were convicted. At a subsequent period, it would have been difficult to dispose of a body of criminals for whom death was the only appropriate sentence, and who would have been thought too numerous for such a punishment ; but in 1795, and in France, men were accustomed to such scenes, and M. Berryer passes over their execution without remark. " Taylor's Edwin the Fair" is a favourable cri ticism on a recently published dramatic poem, whose only defect is, that all its personages too closely resemble each other, and are too fond of talking like philosophers, instead ofli ke men of the world. In this criticism, the Reviewer amuses himself by speculating on what would be the works that men of intellect would endeavour to preserve, in the event " of a literary deluge sweeping over the land, and consigning to the abyss our whole poetical patrimony, and all the treasures of verse accumulated in our own gene ration." A good judge of the imagination would, he thinks, be strongly inclined to walk off with " Lord Lytteltori's Monody !" This isabsurd. We should as soon suspect him of an inclination to walk off with a brickbat! " Madame De Sevigne and her Contemporaries" is penned in a most attractive spirit—lively—gossipping—truth ful—and discriminating. The Reviewer tho roughly appreciates the idiosyncracy of this best of French letter-writers, who, equal to Horace Walpole in ease and grace and liveliness, is far superior to him in earnestness and sincerity of feeling. Both were Aristocrats, both were fa miliar with Courts; but the one was heartless, and often affected, the other uniformly simple and natural. Horace Walpole had ever the fear of criticism before his eyes, and made a point of studiously respecting the conventional pro prieties of style and sentiment; Madame De Sevigne, on the contrary, was under no such restraint, but unhesitatingly abandoned herself to all the impulses of a frank, social, and ardtrit nature. We admire the tact, polish, and well bred vivacity of the one; we love the truth, the cordiality, the bonhommie, and careless, laugh ing temperament of the other. In a word, Wal pole delights our u nderstanding—Madame de Sevigne touches our heart. The former would have made a delightful acquaintance—the latter a devoted friend. Of the article entitled " The Late Session," we need here take no notice, having already made it the subject of some com ments in The Sun. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAT.—Fier Majesty and her Illus trious Consort enjoyed their usual walk this morning in the Home Park. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken airings both in the morning and after noon, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Royal, and attended by the Countess of Dunmore and the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, rode out in a pony car riage, the Maids of Honour following in another carriage. His Royal Highness Prince Albert was on horseback, attended by the two Equ e rri es i n W a iti ng . • His Excellency .Prince Esterhazy and Sir Henry Wheatley, took their leave this morning. Her lioyal Highness the Duchess of Kent (who we are happy to say is quite well), takes daily airi ngs an d walks in the vicinity. This evening her ..Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and Lady Charlotte Dundas, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Lord and Lady Haddo, Sir William Free mantle, and Sir Charles Rowley, will have the honour of joining the Royal Dinner Circle at the Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, honoured the performance at Covent-garden Theatre, on Monday evening, with their presence. Baron de Nieumann transacted business, yester day, at the Office of the Secretary of State for Fo reign Affairs. Prince Esterhuy, the Austriam Ambassador, re turned to town yesterday, from a visit to her Maje3ty at Windsor Castle. JOINT-STOCK BANKING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—having perused with — considerable interest the proceedings of the annual meeting of Proprietors of the Bank of Manchester, held on Friday last, I beg to trouble you with a few observations. _Nothing could be less surprssing than that such an announcement of disaster and loss of property should elicit the strongest expressions of disapprobation to wards those individuals in whom the a dministration of the affairs of so important an institution reposed ; but, allow me to suggest, whether on taking a more searching view of the subject, the cause of this, and other similar catastrophes, may not be found more deeply seated ; to be, in fact, rather the error of sys tem than the effect of unsoundness, a want ofinte grity in individuals, many of whom have been well intentioned persons, unfortunately for themselves, placed officially at the head of such affairs in adverse times. This Bank, if I am rightly informed, was one of the first northern banks of magnitude, which com menced operations about the period when the manu facturing prosperity of its district was at its zenith, and consequently adopted a system which had in former and more prosperous' times led other private banking establishments to fame and fortune. But as the current of pro s p e rity turned, every reflecting mind must percei ve it would inevitably be fraught with that ruin whi c h h as , in fact, marked the career of this and similar Joint-stock Banks of a more re cent date. These establishments have commenced by issuing a certain number of shares, on which an amount of capital has been s ubscribed, sufficient in it self, under a judicious system, to command ample means and credit for all its legitimate banking pur poses—the fulleA security to its Depositors and re muneration to its Proprietors. But mark its progress —it is apparent that the infatuation of some of these last has led them to take upon themselves heavy re sponsibility, for the sake of making such a moderate rate of interest as mig a l , i n vestment in their own trade ht after all, be only reasonably looked for from an equ or calling; but it i s now e vident that this single ob ject has not been the only inducement to embark in such undertakings. To return to the system. It has in each case com menced in error by the lure of advancing to Proprie tors half the value of their shares, thus neutralizing one moiety of the amount of the subscribed capital, before they are supposed to enter upon their legi timate operations. In addition to this, it has been customary to grant on each current account an open overdrawn advance equal to ten per cent. on the amount of the gross annual return with the Bank. Assuming, thereore, a holder of 200 shares of 101. each, to open an account and make a return with the Bank of 50,000/. per annum, he at once becomes in stead of a shareholder supplying the Bank with capi tal to the extent of 2,0001., a recipient from it to the amount of 6,0001., in most cases without either re presentation or security, subject indeed to repay ment, if good times, successful trading, and probity, permit. Can it then, Sir, be a matter of surprise, that dur ing a peri o d f almost unparalleled depreciation and commercial difficulty, such as the past seven years have exhibited, such disastrous results should have sprung out of so fallacious a system, and that without imputing either want of' capacity or of integrity to the individuals placed at the head of such establish.. ments ?—I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, - AN OBSERVER. London, Oct. 18, 1842.: ‘N.'igke7 41' *tronla r-4°bttton SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch. A woful apathy seems to prevail in Downing street respecting the Chinese war. Ten days ago all the London journals published full de tails of the capture of Chapo, and by this time the news has been spread over the continent of Europe, while the official account, containing some interesting facts, appears in the Garotte only last evening. Did the festivities at Dray ton prevent the Prim;; Minister and Lord ABER DEEN from reading the dispatches, or were they stowed away in the Oriental steamer, and fur gotten till she reached England ? Whatever may be the cause of this unaccountable delay, the public, and especially the families of tl►e brave men engaged in this contest, have great cause of complaint, in being left so long without an official announcement of the events, and obliged to collect what accounts they can from news papers and correspondents. Some of the facts mentioned in Sir HUGH Govan's dispatch possess great interest, both as regards the city of Chapo, the surrounding country, and the character of the singular people with whom we are now engaged in war. It appears that every male adult of the Tartar race is a soldier, as in every house occu pied by them two or three muskets, with a quantity of swords, bows, and arrows, were found. This privilege, however, is confined to the Mantchoo Tartars, as the arms for the Chinese, the conquered race, are piled up in arsenals and fortresses. From this may be in ferred the distrust with which the Tartar dynasty view the great bulk of the population, and also the facility with which they might be roused against their masters. Another remarkable feature in this contest was exhibited while the English officers were reconnoitering the place. Though the heights commanding the town and the suburbs were crowned with Chinese soldiers, and the twosmall steamers used in this operation were within gun-shot, they were suffered to pass and repass without a shot being fired at them. This incident forms a strong argument for prj secuting the war with vigour, in order to bring the dispute to a successful issue before these simple and unwarlike people acquire tl►e knowledge of European tactics. If it is suffered to drag on at this slow rate, so suited to the taste of our rulers, our army in a few years will find opponents of a different character, and the British Government will not obtain reason able terms, which are now within their reach, without vast expense and loss of life. We must give them credit, however, for one proof of wis dom and humanity—namely, the instructions communicated to the commanding officers to protect the... Chinese people of every class and grade, and war only with the Government and the military forces. This has already produced great effects on the inhabitants of Ningpo, and other places. The handful of men that peace ably occupied that town for many months, eva cuated it in the most satisfactory manner, " leaving," says Sir MGR Goun, " I trust, among the inhabitants of that part of the Che kiang province a deep feeling of respect and gra titude for the orderly and forbearing conduct of the British soldiers." We know not that we ever read or heard of a more ridiculous farce than that which was enacted yesterday at the Middlesex Sessions, be fore Mr. Sergeant ADAMS and a full Bench of sapient, awful-looking Magistrates. It seems that a young urchin named SHANNON, who has hardly yet escaped from his leading-strings, was induced some days since, at the instigation of the DEVIL, to make free with a twopenny pie, and, not content with this fiendish act of atrocity, to transfer the abstracted dainty to that receptacle for stolen goods, his mouth, with a rapidity and recklessness which shows how complete was the ascendancy which the Evil One had acquired over him ! To aggravate the enormity of his crime, the abandoned male factor actually attempted to make free with a second pie, but, fortunately for the ends of jus tice, lie was detected before he could accom plish his " diabolical" intentions; and the result of this providential discovery—for providential it certainly must have been —was, that two formid able indictments were brought against him, duly setting forth the particulars of his guilt, with that eloquent and captivating minuteness for which the law is so remarkable. He was, in conrc quence, introduced yesterday to the special notice of Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, when the pro secutrix having given her evidence, witnesses were called to character, and two or three Irish labourers bore triumphant testimony to the un sullied purity of the prisoner's morals, by observing that he " could run of an errand as well as any boy in the three kingdoms !" Of course, there was no disproving such conclu sive reasoning as this, and young SHANNON was accordingly acquitted, while those who advised the prosecution and drew up the indictments, were left with nothing to console them, but the very unsatisfying reflection, that virtue is i!s own reward. Seriously speaking—though the affair is hardly worth treating seriously—the Jury acted perfectly right in returning a verdict of Not Guilty, for the case was one which should never have been brought before them; and the uncontrollable laughter of the whole Court during the investigation, proved that it was looked. on as quite a burlesque of jus tice. Equally judicious was the Learned Ser geant's refusal to allow the expenses of two in dictments for " such a trumpery case ;" had he acted otherwise, and countenanced, instead of ridiculing, the proceedings, the breed of SHAN NONS would have multiplied with marvellous rapidity, and the Bars of our different Courts of Justice would have been crowded with precocious pie-stealers. The Madiid Gazette of the 10th contains a decree of the REGENT, extending the benefit of the amnesty of the 30th of November, 1840, to the Carlists, subalterns and privates, still con. fined in the presidios, who were not included in the Convention of Bergara. All the Moderado Journals loudly complained that the Christino exiles should be excluded from this act of mercy, and declared that a mea-. sure betraying the rancour and ambition of the present rulers of the country was little calculated to consolidate their power. The Augsburgh Gazette of the 13th instant states that the Turkish post had just arrived in that city from Constantinople, bringing letters to the 28th ult., announcing that the PORTE had published a hatti-scheriff, in which, without having taken into consideration the representa tions of the European Powers, it establishes an administration for the Maronites and Druses purely Turkish. It is added that an ultimatum had been forwarded to Persia. No news had been received from Servia. The Three per Cents. were done at 211 at 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 261 1 1-16 Ibr cash, and 27 261 1 1 at 60 days. The debt bearing no interest sold for 5 11-16 at 60 days. The Paris papers of Monday are chiefly occu pied with the proposed commercial union be tween Belgium and France. In adverting to commercial treaties in general the Siecle makes the following judicious remarks, which apply to other countries : " A Customs union between France and Belgium has always appeared to us to answer a political interest of the first order. Gammercial associations bring about a complete fusion of tendencies and ideas. Two people, between whom no barrier is placed to the free interchange of their productions, find themselves so Tilled to each other that their political unity need not be written.in treaties. Let those who deny this powerful influence of positive interest cast their eyes on Germany, and they will be compelled to acknow ledge that the Customs Union has operated a great political revolution, which has changed an incomplete mass of incongruous elements into an imposing and energetic ensemble. The German Customs Union has effected a power ful change in the political position of Europe. It has placed unity where there was formerly division, and strength where there was wealiness ; it has opened a new era to the confederations of people, united by similar ideas, institutions, and interests. " We cannot understand why so much alarm should be felt at the idea of the competition of Belgium in our markets. Our soil is not less rich than that of Belgium, and our national industry will not yield to them the palm ; and, therefore, the dangers which are anticipated are mere illusions." The Presse endeavours to show that the Ger man Zollverein cares little about Belgium; that it looks with contempt on so small a market, and can very well do without Belgian iron ; whilst its own woollen and linen manufactures undersell those of Belgium. If so, the Zollverein, if it has less to hope from a commercial union with Belgium, has also less to fear. The National mentions a report that Count MOLE and M. THIERS were about to enter the Cabinet. "We do not guarantee this news," says the National, " although it is more than probable. M. TIIIERS has boasted that he could arrange the negotiations pending with Belgium, and induce the Chambers to agree to a commer cial treaty with England. It is not impossible that M. THIERS may again resume office by means of plausible speeches on those subjects; but what is certain is, that if M. Txlr•.rzs enters the Cabinet by the door of commercial treaties, he will make much noise, and in the end will not satisfy the commercial interests of France better than be defended her honour in the unfortunate Eastern affairs." Accounts have been received from Algiers, dated the 10th inst. The column, commanded by the Governor-General, was advancing rapidly through the country. On its passage it had razed to the ground a fort belonging to the cx- Kalifa BEN SALEM. • On the 6th inst. the column was at the Oued-Soulllah, towards Bordj-el- Garroubi. On the preceding day the rear-guard was followed by BEN SALE A, with some cavalry and Kabvles. After some firing on the part of the assailants, the French troops assumed the oGnsive, and put the enemy to flight. In this affair the French bad only one soldier killed, and 11 wounded, but unfortunately Colonel LE BLOND, of the 48th Regiment of the Line, was killed by two balls fired from a bush while he was reconnoitring the ground. Some sensation was caused at the Paris races on Sunday, by a ma►► (name unknown) ascending an eminence and blowing out his brains with a pistol, in the sight of thousands of spectators. BOURSE—PARTS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 118 90... 118 95... 118 91►... 118 90 4 1 ,E per Cents. 106 60...:06 60... 106 60... 106 60 Four per Cents. 102 ... 102 .. 102 ... 102 3 per'Cents 80 10... 80 20... 80 10... 80 lb Bank of France 3270 ...3270 ...3270 .. 3270 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1050 —lO5O —.1050 ...1050 Belgian Bank 797 50... 800 ... 797 50... 800 Belgian Fives lO3 103 ... 103 ... 103 1840 lO4l ... 10411- ... 1041 ... 104 i Dutch 24 per Cents 531 ... 531 ... 521 ... 531 Spanish Active ... 21i ... 21i ... 21i ... 21i Passive 3k 3k 3k 3k Neapolitan Roman RAILWAY SHARES St. Germain B4O ... F4l 25... 840 ... 841 25 Versailles, R.B ...... 258 75... 258 75... 253 75... 258 75 L•R 97 50... 97 50... 97 50... 97 50 Rouen Orleans. 585 585 ... 585 ... 585 Strasburg to Bale 207 50... 208 75... 207 50... 208 75 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Penguin packet, arrived with the Brazilian mail, furnishes advices of August 15th from Rio de Janeiro ; July 29, from Monte Video ; and July 15, from Buenos Ayres. The state of trade in all these quarters appears to he very bad, and in the Brazils especially the greatest difficulty was experi enced in obtaining a settlement of accounts with the natives. The British merchants, therefore, were not disposed to do business, and the exchange had been clown to 241, though last quoted 251. The Six per Cent. Stock was 69 to 70. The Coffee crop will be deficient. The South American Republics continued wretch edly embroiled. Bolivia was on bad terms with Buenos Ayres, Chili was expected to make war, Uriguay is likely to be driven by the tacit assump tion of Roses for sovereignty over it, to the asser tion of its independence, and the Oriental State is waxing stronger to resist its enemies. The Spa nish and Portuguese journals from South Ame rica are filled with the details of massacres, bloodshed, and outrage. Only 12,000 bales of cotton were sold at Liverpool yesterday; and in Railway Shares there waa a mode rate business doing at former rates. There are but limited sales of produce to-day, but Indigo is higher, having been taken on speculation. In the Funds there is only a moderate business doing, and prices are supported. Consols are 93i to 933. for present transfer, and 93i for time; Exchequer Bills are 555. to 575. premium ; and India Bonds 465. to 48s. premium ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 1001 to 104 ; and the Three per Cent. Annuities 92 to 924 ; Bank Stock is 165 to 166. Foreign Stocks are neglected. Spanish Actives, however, have improved, to 16i and 164-, ; and the Three per Cents. are steady, at 21 / i.. Colombian Bonds are 20j, and Portuguese New, 38. The Con verted Stock brings 31i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52i. Railway Shares are generally inactive, Great Western being 171- premium, but Brighton have been brisk at 13.1 to 13i discount. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto Fifths London vu Brighton London and Blackwall . . North Midland Ditto Third. 2ll. 13s. 4d. 19ii to fork and N irth Midland iO Ditto New Shares. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 18.—We have had rather more business transacted to-day, at generally lower prices. —Manchester and Birming ham, 194-; Manchester and Leeds, Half-shares, 29i; Ditto Quarter shares, 3 15-16; Midland Counties, Cl; Dublin and Drogheda, 16i ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10} and 10k. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT. 19.—Wind this day at noon, N. to N. iV., fresh breeze, fine weather. DEAL, OCT. 18.—Wind S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Ethelred, Jamaica; Ocean, for Gefle, with loss of figure-head, &c., having been in contact, on the 29th ult., off the Start ; Charles Ferdinand, Wittmer, Ha vannah, for Bremen. MARGATE, OCT. 18.—One cask of spirits of tur pentine, and two crates of bottles, have been brought in to-day, from the wreck of the Susan. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 18.—Wind W.S.W. to W.— The Poland, in leaving the harbour for Sunderland, took the ground, but is expected off at high water. COWES, OCT. 18.—Arrd. Pilgrim, Lindstrom, Ha vannah. DARTMOUTH, OCT. 17.—Sld. Drulius, Calcutta. FALMOUTH, OCT. 17.—Wind variable and light.— Arrd. Penguin packet, Rio Janeiro, sailed August 14, Bahia 27, Pernambuco 2d ult., with 30,0001. in gold on freight. Arrd. off, Apollo, Sturge, Baltimore for Bremen. Sld. Dee steamer, West Indies ; her Ma jesty's steamer Alban, on a cruize. GUERNSEY, OCT. 14.—S1d. Crescent, Barbadoes. SWANSEA, OCT. 17.—Arrd. Ayo, Valparaiso. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 18.—Wind variable and light. —Arrd. Valparaiso, Lima; Rival, Brown, Nassau; Cairo, New Orleans; T oro linta, Smith, New York; Rienza, Coulter, Miramichi ; Lord Seaton, John Welker, an&Highlander, Quebec ; Warren, Cromp ton, Africa, sailed from Fernando Po, Aug. 3. Arrd. ofr Glasgow, St. John's, New Brunswick. CLYDE, OCT. 17.—Arrd. Tay, St. John's, N. B. DUBLIN, OCT. 16.—Arrd. Phcenix, Sangster, St. John's, New Brunswick. CORK, OCT. 16.—Arrd. Reliance, Hall, Bombay ; Mulgrave, Wells, and Hope, Nestor, Honduras. OFF CROOKHAVEN, OCT. 14.—Enfield, Tampico, 164 days ; Canning, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Swatara, Davis, New Orleans, out 65 days. SHIELDS ' OCT. 17.—S1d. Renown, Valparaiso; 17th May, Pernambuco. SUNDERLAND, OCT. 18.—Arrd. Fero, and Matthew and Ann, Miramichi. WHITBY ' OCT. 18.—The Nedro, Gray, of and from Sunderland, got on Whitby Rock last night, but was assisted off, and reached the pier hi a s•nking state. The Economy, of and from Blyth, was run down this morning by a large light brig, crew saved. DEAL, PREVIOUS TO OCT. 17.—Arrived Lesinoria, Geaken, Trinidad for Bremen; Katherine, Jackson, Rotterdam, for Baltimore. OFF PORTLAND, OCT. 16.—Arrd. Carrs, Jamaica. Orr TORBAY, OCT. 14.—Plicenix, Newcastle, Rio. FALMOUTH, OCT. 17.—The Middlesex, Talbot, from Sydney, New .South Wales, to London, with cotton and oil, went on shore forty miles south of Pernambuco, Aug. 30—crew and passengers saved, the ship and cargo lost. M. GEORGE Tflomrsorr.—We understand that George Thompson, Esq., the eloquent lecturer, is to accompany Baboo Dwarkanauth Tagore to India, and that he will take his departure in a few weeks.— Tyne Mercury. SUMMARY OF NEW; AND VUbtte 9ptnton. " Who runs may read." , ;11 FOREIGN. ,N;aft A letter from Athens, 30th ult., says :—" Th e ,so King and Queen Ee* out to-day on a visit to some o . : }o:7lbi el t, the islands of the Archipelago. They will be absentj ten or twelve days. Letters from Constantinople of the 28th ult.,' an. 000 3 nounce that the Porte, in spite of the representation s „loci of the European Powers, has established a purely wiz Turkish Government over the Maronites and DruSes. An ultimatum had been sent to Persia." . A new Governor is about to be sent out to tkilyrk French colony of Cayenne. bar Ab-del-Kader, who a":short time ago was in so tlo/ tical a position that he was wandering on the borders of the desert with only 50 followers, has now 800 cavalry and 2,000 infantry under his command. Baron Nagel, the Minister of the Netherlands, bad a private audience of the King yesterday, to deliver to , his Majesty a letter from his Sovereign, announcing the marriage of his daughter, the Princess Sophia , with the hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weima r Eisenach. bag „, A small mosque is about to be erected in the Qusr - , ~iaa tier Beaujon, for the use of the Mahometans residing in Paris. „10 . 11 During the week, from the 7th to the 13th ins!',, i f of inclusively, the number of passengers between France,ao and England, who embarked and landed at Boulognivicr was 1,239. At Calais the number during the , arp„f.r period was 537. Jsfit On the sth of this month the English fleet was sti r cruising between Malta and Sicily. Rio de Janeiro papers to the 17th August had been received at Pernambuco, previous to the sailing, of the a packet. Everything there was going on well. Senhe f .;j8 r,eato Manoel, one of the rebel chiefs from E l ” Grande, had arrived at Rio, having made his sublni_ sion. The elections at Pernambuco have terminat e ': in favour of the present Government, and as far a' they had proceeded at Bahia they were equally so. Certain of the Paris journals remarkable for their hostility to England, appear willing at present to su nA r ' port a commercial treaty with this cou n try, bas e d upon a concession in favour of the wine-growing ', i n ' terest. The Constitutionncl, however, seems to COf Sider that the concessions should be all on one si e ' yi) and modestly proposes that it should be a treatiLl ,J 9,1 which the chief manufactures of France shall netL„r 1:4 injured, and that agriculture shall draw from it serl,°r,,goil advantages. 1/ 0 0 0 ?! M. Raffo, the Secretary to the Bey Of Tunoli , t m arrived at Marseilles on an important mission ter bat' French Court. It is affirmed in one of the papers that this mission is relative to the interli ti se.o able question about Tunis, which is always on "„ f point of being decided, and to which the Ottot o 7,l` Porte continually returns with extraordinary obstin ite ;; MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE. .4A The shipping employed in the timber trade betwee th o .'" Liverpool and the North American colonies, and w •-t) timber also in the same proportion, is expected to s" ° o a decrease of nearly two-thirds before the terminatl° of the winter. A party who has visited Cranborne, in Part et" , during the last week, describes the parish as conta ini l ,44-1 inhabitants, chiefly farm-labourers, an d , si n d l dependent on agriculture. Wages are at presel".4 a week, but that allowance is frequently reduced, present all talk of a reduction. At these low wages Cranhe, r t ia has a redundancy of labourers, and many can no employment. Large quantities of timber have, within these fes.- 0 V days been taken out of bond at Leith, by rees?„ fl the new tariff, which came into operation last • . l u ° oo ,ri day. Timber formerly paying 10s. per load, j 5 cleared at Is. ifl ECCLESIASTICAL. The Bishop of Jerusalem has been twice attso,esis with fever, and his lady and household more o,r severely, since their arrival in th© Holy Land. are now staying in an old convent, about two from Jerusalem, for change of air. ^ MEDICAL. The new Queen's Hospital at Birmingham Dn s „.. c s,j. recognised by the College of Surgeons, and K r ''" Albert has accepted the office of President. LAW AND POLICE. • be' jr l No less than 57 petitions from various pat" East Sussex were presented at the Quarter Ses; the,.; at Lewes, held yesterday, for the abolition o' A 0 rural police force. The new Parish Consta bles is considered a sufficient protection. 11 es' Eleven men were -brought up at Union terday, charged for refusing to break stones an i ,bee:' wood for four hours each, in return for A r w l o g-• lodging and breakfast provided them in the r i sl . „. e day* ton workhouse. They were committed for i° l4- , each to the House of Correction. f the t d e i r v d is a i y on ;vi w th as a cdhaarrignegd street a t the rob lV b la e g ,, lebo an n a e James Andrews, formerly a policeruali - n a f fi c ' ,yea" -r mitted for trial. i,; LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. the,,, The poet Louis Tieck has been nominated by King of Prussia to the post of scenic director d Grand Opera of the capital. Coma.T—F.IISIIZONABLE. id; The Earl arid Countess of Desart have been en lei" a taming a select circle at Desart Castle. The Earl and Countess of Lichfield are expect ed 16' winter at Naples. • too The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield are aul dli t g o the numerous English fashionables who In winter at Rome. Lord Kelburne, M.P., left the Clarendon H otel'. yesterday for the north. Lord and Lady Ponsonby have deferred their _e ic ° . /3.' 7uTlyecolir templated visit to Brighton until the ensuing we r e , li ke Lord and Lady Mahon have been visiting the 11 of Wellington during the past week at IValnier UafaiJ The Earl and Countess of Cawdor have arrive' a visit to the Earl and Countess of Harewood. The Lord Great Chamberlain and Lady D'Eresby have arrived on a visit to the Duchess of Buccleuch at Dalkeith Palace, 3'74 Drummond Castle. Wel ° Lady Mary Leslie has taken a suite of ap art at the Norfolk Hotel, rihton. 14 ,1 ° 4 Lord and Lady Evel ß yn g are staying on a Balborne House, Fifeshire. MISCELLANEOUS. Count Rossi, the husband of Mdlle. Sontag ,- gri t ( to be named Minister Plenipotentiary from the .;r of Sardinia to the Prussian Court. A meeting of the members of the „,- 13 , ,bot Church Association was held yesterday in for the purpose of taking leave of Sir Culleng Smith, prior to his departure for the Continent. the Thomas Platt, Esq., whose death took place ° n o w Bth inst., and whose professional practice for_ Ws than sixty years has been of the highest ord7 , admitted an attorney on the 26th of May, 1 7 0 60 was successively principal clerk to Lords 111. pr. Kenyon, and Ellenborough, Chief Justices °scroll land. He was engaged, am ong the literarf e f !WO his life, in sharing part i n th e publication Of off Gram Sibthoqiana, a work which has 111 '.--:" reached ten folio volumes of great beauty. .._ . SPORTING INTELLIGEi CS ....;C ( G RE A C T EI m V A E N D e T H H E I s S TE D R A . II os r. 4 I% t - ( •;jf against c A B mEinTii Marion. sz Bi T itaDl BETTING ok(E nts MO4TYN MILE.-6 to 4 offered on Collins► gin tiollel agatW il i of freely), ea g er l y ( S ) t, T ) , A 10 1( 1 E 0t STARES.-6 : 1 6 1 aags t g O st l t yit a j g g :or rtjoh.T(0:11611(.3:ii.;:i:onij:10: agst Billingham Lass (t), 14 to 1 agst Ls% r es ter, P" to 1 agst Cabrera (t freely), 14 to 1 agst ° r-s 16 to 1 agst Una. io tioe DERBY, 1843.-13 to' 1 agst Mr. Bowes' ir ul t „ 1 ag, t , (t), 17 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's lot (s) , l' i,T o tlii'''' Col. Peel's lot (t), 7 to Tagst Scot's lot (t). backed singly.. ~1G• • 0S HOLYWELL COURSING MEET-L.' r, coo e a • ;MONDAY OCT. 17.—The Talacre Stakes et . ,' 6 0 0 4 ? each (16 subs.), were won by. Mr. Rober's Nifeui e ' (in the deciding course) Sir P. Mostyn's Celeste. ...-- „,, Ort ea l MARQUIS WELLESLEY AND LORD /3'- t e r4 ,105 , One of the most pleasing results of a love °,' - ers oeP literature is the suppression, as it were, of all, P ay , tile and political animosity towards those wlio Kaye i n : the sarn e ca ta se st o e f . the A A . 13r0 niaetexaLnioprldelovfoitiehsiise)Tay be ado- ug ham. The one the bosom friend andanadri°iirtuadfliiiioree: o o f f M m r i ...P F it o t x ;: theL Lord e i3 r reoquugailllaymv‘l'veadsdeftroeqttihe_enodtpb,l.;.,ittbuct at Kingston House, where his bust was t ot' Pia, c _ e ‘ Ny: Noble resident immediately opposite to tl,;t is Dor Pitt. On the death of the only daughter of one co te: ship, in her 18th year, whose life had been °" . . n d eve r ,' nual illness, borne with great resigr!atior,e it.`equest.et; with a cheerful and gay temper of mind, he t''„ an epitaph from Lord Wellesley, wh° co 4: , in Lew following beautiful lines, which we g i ve bat and English, from his Lordship's pen : -- . ta g ob° ~ Blanda anima e cunis, heu ! longo e xerct .5 Inter maternal, heu I leery Quas rise lenire too jucunda solcbas, ~ Et Levis, et proprii viz inemor ipsa Lett' ! I, Pete etelestes, übi nulls est curs, ree,ssu' .., • Et tibi sit nullo mista dolore qui" ! • t yea a rbes " Do , ,mcd to long suffering from your e alon e Amidst your parents' grief and pain,_,l. te ars, Cheerful and gay, you smiled to south their And in their agonies forgot your 0 masque Pat , Go, gentle spirit ; and among the blest' , 0 4 o d l a d ie a n Vollf i r t • A trees 'We 'r( reg g re i t ef t a o nd s ' t p a a te in standing between the chapel at Meg, _gr ou t d mad e and the President's lodgings, fell to tne a ttell i P are week. It has again been raised, and r 1 fi n t e h t a er t na th i er. l - 5 ril l to preserve the venerable occupant 0 . P ni f Its ugh than 100 years' standing, by lopPl ut we fr i for d i,ranches and supporting the trunk .in i . ....-Ox fear that the attempt will prove ineffe w Herald. elw..,1111)y; rest. I to] b e 811, D TI bu Co th ( we 4 cot ha, t I I I