The Sun. — London, England, 1842-10-25 00:00:00

The-"prisoner I,?leaded guilty to the indictment, and hung calla I Up for judgment, Messrs. Clarkson An 1 Payne Fprayed a respite on the ground that the mother and siste:r of the prisoner had just arrived from Norfolk in the hope of furnishing him with the means of defence. The COMMO N SERGEANT had no objection to post pone his judgme:nt, hut at the same time he thought it but right to ztate that he had marked him for trans portation. The judgment was then postponed, with an intima tion from the Learned Judge, that the Court would not oppose a retraction of the recorded plea. PO LICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.—(THIS DAY.) Two little boys, apparently under 10 years of age, were charged mith picking pockets this morning upon - Ludgate -hill. The constable who had them in custody stated that he saw Brown, the elder of them, follow a gentleman into the yard of . the Belle Sauvage Inn, and on his re turn, while m arly opposite Run m dell and Bridges', take a pocket hmdkerchief and a small card case from his hinder pocizets. The individual robbed having got possession of the property taken from him, refused to appear to prosecute, as he alleged his time was too precious, and sLs the law was administered now he might - lose tb ree or four days at the 01(1 Bailey. The prisoner Brown had been several times before mlyieted. sum manly, but the other was unknown at Compter. The person robbed not appearing, the prisoners were ordered to be imprisoned for two months, with hard labour. BO W-ST REET.-(THIS DAY.) ~"1 61` nas Harris. Thomas liorner, William Warner, ".„?hn Gall ag h er , B arnar d Welch, James mes Mullet, John . ".„'Y' 27l , Stephen Bingha in , Wm. Fawcett, Wm. Elliott, 'Ai. Brown, and George Phillips were charged with sleeping under th e d ar k arc h es o f th e Ad e lphi. Officer 108 took them all into custody and proved the charge. The prisoners were then called upon for their de "lce, and by a singular coincidence they one and all Sere orpha ns , dependent upon hard-hearted fathers in-law, and had no place to sleep in, and no home to " to, and were therefore obliged to sleep in the streets. i The oflic er s t a t e d th a t com pl a i n t s were con ti nua ll y : ei ng made by th e inh a bitants of the nu i sance . Th e l' ar ish had indicted the place, but the indictment did ant stand. t hose not,known before were discharged, and or red to he conveyed to their several parishes. Three w e t wo re sen tenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, and In d to suchone month, those who were committed appear- " such pleased as those who w ere discharged. „ 311 ARYLEBONE.—(TAIS DAY.) Jaines Hughes, servant to Captain Probyn, 21, IF.Y an ston-square, stated that the prisoner came down area of hi s mas t er ' s h ouse o n pr e te nce o f begging. taw no one, and passed on to the boot-house, where 4,pieked up a set of blacking-brushes in a handker ef, and was moving off when caught by witness. Prisoner had nothing to say, and was committed. 161 in Co o k e , a pp aren tly a res p ec t a bl e wor ki ng - man , , 0 41placed at the bar on a charge of assault. William Davey, Li, Marylebone-lane, was in his yard last n i g ht, an d h ear d a man craw li ng a b ou t ; "en he asked hi m w h a t h e was d o i ng th ere , h e (p r i- O W er) hit hi m a v i o l ent bl ow on t h e eye , an d k noc k e d "n dow n . T he prisoner was a notor i ous character, thine annoyance of the neighbourhood. M• --v l qwurisori fined him 40s. C LERKEN WELL.—(THIS DAY.) Michael Brien was charged with desperately as- tilting his late employer, Joseph Leery, of 14, Queen- SS t, Islington. t half-past nine on Saturday evening complainant w i l ts walking quietly along High-street, Islington, w on the p r i soner rus h ed out of a doorway, and struck On a viole n t bl ow over t h e r i g h t temp l e, w hi c h f e ll e d him to the ground ; when on the ground he kicked 3 1 1_ 1111 on the for e h ea d, an d hi s eyes were i n a d rea df u l 'ate of inflam ma ti on s i nce . elnr• Comnz---Why did he treat you so brutally ? go fPlainant—l discharged him about two months or misconduct, and he then vowed he would have Iny life. hA C onstable came forward and said several persons ad witnessed the assault described. It was the most 8 4/ ,'age, and unprovoked they had ever seen. Co mplainant --I am in fear of my life of him. 4a Dint 21., d or one month's imprisonment and hard UNION-HALL.-(THIS DAY.) 44 11 Ascott was charged with causing the death of ~ ji,:ttl c,"-tei Willing, in a pugilistic encounter, at Cam pr„allPeared that the parties had a quarrel on the a day, during which the prisoner challenge t he d e - in s -, ceased to fight. The deceased, however, re-, wh" Q the challenge, and was about to walk away ..e n b hi / y, e was struck by his assailant, who knocked fr 'No- The deceased was in the act of rising teoTnisavoilltehre, w gro bo ut . V li when he was again attacked by the at him right and left, and he fell a state °li r til ,e earth. He lay there for some time in When n (4 ' h sensibility, and was conveyed home, deceasedde a- „ r g e e;l l being sent for, it was found that the Iv h• Was labouring under concussion of the brain, surgeonleh he died in the course of the night. The to if l b eing of opinion that the injury which led dur• de L a th of the deceased arose from a heavy fall in g the affair , the prisoner was remanded. "Ur,. havi; " h " " a l -STREET .—(THIS DAY.) " L a 4 Smith, a young thief, was charged with Mick Stolen on Friday last, from the house of Mr. desk,.' s ' a Surgeon, No. - 22, Old Burlington-street, a Othl43rtora2..e)ling case, a flute of the value of 121., and Mr. WV' s stated that at about eleven o'clock on safe ' s"Pri?i 3.gng he w en t ou t, l eav i ng th e s t o l en pro f:100f in his house, in a room on the ground left lit appeared that the servant girl also oth,, th e, nonse a few minutes after, to pass to t e Pro - f p s :de of the street to the baker's. She was im retit -n t enough not to shut the door after her ; she in the in the course of a few minutes. Witness, (A C° course of the day perceived that the desks and .i!,r,articles were missing. ch.,,,,s'an Saunders, a cabman stated that between pri sr 7, 4 and twelve o'clock on Friday last, the driv cam e to him at his stand, asking to be e ft n , to Smithfield. The prisoner was carry- IVi i ,„,‘, the time the two desks then produced. fiebi",,tney arrived at the top of West-street, Smith turned re prisoner went down the street. He ro- Arti,,, a gu, in, and ordered witness to drive him to Ittlee „:.`Y"ane, Ilishopsgate-street. From the appear lane futhe house to which they drove in Artillery the ;,.,"less suspected that the prisoner had stolen him - t ", l e,ics in his possession. Witness then drove A w the station -house where he was recognised as e , vn thief. th, Sergeant 120 saw the prisoner arrive at s by th""bon-lieus,. The cab had no doubt been hired ~ ser rnt e . Prisoner in order that he might escape the ob .rh ion of the police. tral eie ;Magistrate committed him for trial at the Cen v.,riniiniti Court. -- C Li lx , °Su—'..lllAL MARKETS—THIS DAY uf`tli, Gfitti*"--The market for British Plantation has . (ehiefl fi r The and about 700 hhds. were disposed of 11,h ill i to the refiners) at rather higher prices,. estab is. Zan advanc e of fully 6d. and in some istances nn th e last Friday week, more pa s r a t l i e cula s r 3 ly 6 - ehe -le bettersorts. At public . sts b and 58 chests whit rown and yellow Bahia, foritice Pernambuco, nearly all were taken in, the It A , rat 1 5s. to 18s. 6d. for low brown to good yel ,,,,_,,,(talirtlittehebla.tter at 19s. 6d. to 245. for very low to acti ons , ,being rather above the value. No trans-1 with the I ex er , • have taken place privately, . hi-trllliof about 100 chests, low and middling at zri ania, which have been sold (for export) tal lie ",,,'erage price of 21s. 3d., be ii th . e, extreme last „' ;Ile quantity of British Plantation landed 2 63 'ON at the East and West India Docks was, fo r u4 s. 41 tierces 4 barrels, and there were taken 8 b arr iltie consumption 1,572 hhds. 139 tierces la l e .. l s. The stock in the same places is 1.5,162hhd5. ,I 5 tierces 1,799 barrels. .u.tim ----T and w he quantity landed last week at the East w ere Nest India Docks was 169 puns 5 hhds. There arld, t alien for home consumption 185 puns 24 hhds, saill_LtPorted 386 puns 88 hhds. The stock in the T " Places is 1 3,882 puns 2,593 hhds. the ALLIIIV-----P. Y. Candle is firm. Fine Y. C. on e wt s pot has been sold as high as 48s. 9d. to 495. per 4118,1-si LiaitiotghrTdip of last year at 48s. 3d. The rate that to Christmas is 48s. 6d., and after ti tne r , cwt. The stock is rather larger than at this . - 4 ,t ast year. Town is at 51s. 6d. per cwt. not oi , j ' y ;Ile M ar k et is rather dull, and prices have Pl tov e( to any ext ent s i nce the public sales. ea . t.i is "a•—Butt er i s firmer, Bacon 3s. to 4s. per i, t.i" v er, and P or k in fair request. and Itr..---The sales have been going off less briskly, e expe c t ed to close this afternoon., ..............................._-_,.._. d ay aft,,ZN, OCT. 15.—The Emperor set out yester .lesty', si l :"°4 to return to St. Petersburg out His Ma her, i broth er, the Grand Duke Michael, arrived c otnpa n at ni ght. The Princes of Warsaw, who ac -44.44 led the Emperor to Nova Georgiewisk, re who,e ,Yesteray to receive the Grand Duke, in ,s tate ~nonour the city was illuminated.—Prussian 1v: azette,2lst October. i 4 expected 'LNILit CAsTLt.—The Duk e o f W e lli ngton, i t sessin, as L ord Warden, will hold a harbour G r ,;:ls on Wednesday, the 11th of next month. His the met accompth pan by Lord Mahon, was present at of e T hanet harriers on Friday. PORT NATAL. , We have received Cape of Good hope papers to the 7th of August, brought by the Bidston, Captain Harmer, which reached Liverpool yesterday. This arrival communicates the official fact of the final ces sation of hostilities between her Majesty's troops and the insurgent Boers. The terms agreed upon, toge ther with other extracts from the Cape papers, will be read with interest. (From the South African Commercial Advertiser, Aug 6.) _ _ _ _ _ _ her Majesty's frigate Isis arrived in Simon's Bay on Sunday last, from Natal,. bringing back part of the troops under Lieut.-Colonel Clocte, commander of the late expedition, who immediately proceecded to head quarters. On Monday the troops marched from Simon's Town to Cape Town, and in the afternoon of Monday L the following " Government Notice" was issued for the satisfaction of her Majesty's loyal sub j eCt.3 : " His Excellency the Governor is pleased to direct the following information to be made publicly known : "Lieutenant- Colonel Cleete left Port Natal on the 21st ult., on board her Majesty's ship Isis, and arrived in Simon's Bay yesterday afternoon, accompanied by a portion of the troops sent to reinforce the detach- • ment under Captain Smith, and has reported to his Excellency the Governor the final cessation of hosti lities between her Majesty's troops and the insurgent Boers—no further hostile demonstration having been shown by them after the troops under Lieutenant- Colonel Cloete's orders were landed. " The emigrant farmers having made a solemn de claration of their submission to the Queen, having re leased the prisoners, whether soldiers or civilians— having given up the cannon captured, as well as those belonging to themselves, and having restored all pub lic as well as private property seized by them—the Lieutenant- Colonel, acting under the powers vested in him by the Governor, granted a general amnesty or free pardon to all persons who might have been en gaged in resistance to her Majesty's troops and au thority, with the exception of Joachim Prinslo, A. W. Pretormus, J. J. Burger, Michiel Van Breda, and Servaas Van Breda. "He further declared that all private property would be respected ; that the emigrant farmers should be allowed to return to their farms, with their guns and horses—that they should he defended from any attack by the Zoolahs—that the tenure of their lands should not be interfered with pending the determina tion and settlement of her Majesty's Government— that beyond the limits fixed for the military occupa tion, their existing administration and civil institu tions should not be interfered with till the pleasure of her Majesty should be made known—that the Caffers should not be molested in the occupation of the lands on which they were settled at the date of the arrival of her Majesty's troops—subject to such future ar rangements as may be made for general security by her Majesty ; and by a subsequent article appended to the condition of this surrender, the Lieutenant- Colonel, in consideration of Mr . W. Pretorious having co-operated in the final adjustment of the ar ticles of surrender, and of his personal humane con duct to the prisoners, and his general moderation, in cluded him in the amnesty which he had extended to all, with the exceptions above named. " Major D'Urban and a second detachment of the 25th were to leave Port Natal on or about the 25th ultimo, leaving Captain Smith in command of the post, with a force of 350 men. " By command of his Excellency the Governor, (Signed) "J. MOORE CRAIG, " Acting Secretary to the Government. " Colonial-office, Cape of Good Hope, Aug. 1, 1842." One thing we may point out, to satisfy, in some degree, the painful scorn and indignation universally felt at this disgraceful capitulation, namely, that the portion of it which recognises " the existing adminis tration and civil institutions" of the Boers is illegal. It is in direct contravention of an Act of Parliament made and provided expressly for the very case before us, of British subjects acting independently of the constituted authorities to the south of the 25th degree of latitude. This Act precludes all tampering with traitors or criminals of any sort, either by Lieutenant- Colonel Cloete, or Major-General Napier, or Lord Stanley, or the Queen herself. (From the Cape Frontier Times of Aug. 4.) The more we become acquainted with the courage, sufferings, and perseverance of Captain Smith and his handful of brave men, the more forcibly are we struck with the noble qualities which have been displayed. Every officer and every private soldier, as also the youth of Albany, who were with the camp as waggon drivers, &c., seem to have been actuated by one com mon feeling of devoted heroism ; nor do we doubt the statement we have heard, that rather than surrender, they would, after having held their position without relief to the very last extremity, have sallied forth, and either have forced their way through the be siegers, or else have fallen before the fort which they had so long and so manfully defended. Many particulars of this conflict are contained in the subjoined letter of our old friend Brown, which will he read with no small interest, conveyed as they are in a style graphic, terse, and pleasing in no ordi nary degree. This sensible and clever man will be brought by our publication of his correspondence more fully before the eye of his superiors, and we shall rejoice if it at all subserve his advancement. This letter is, in many respects, incomparably the best ac count of the proceedings which has yet appeared. The table which we publish of the number of killed, wounded, &c., is, as proportioned to the number of Captain Smith's detachment, unusually large. Gallant fellows ! The dead are mourned by their country men; the living have their admiration and sympathy ; and we trust will not go without more substantial reward. Of Colonel Cloete's doings little fresh has come to our knowledge. Every additional particular, how ever, corroborates the views of their character which we had previously formed, and leaves us utterly at a loss to what sources to ascribe a line of conduct, which strikes every one with astonishment, and calls forth universal blame. We have procured the following list of casualties amongst the British troops under the command of Captain Smith, from the commencement of hostilities with the Boers until the arrival of the Southampton. The list is not official, but we do not question its ac curacy. It does not of course include the soldiers shot by the Boers, when the landing was effected under Colonel Cloete Royal Artillery-1 officer, Lieut. Wyatt, 4 rank and file, killed ; 2 rank and file wounded. Royal Engineers-2 rank and file wounded. 27th Regiment-1 subaltern, Ensign Prior, 1 ser geant, 7 rank and file killed. Died of wounds-3 rank and file. Wounded-1 Captain, Lonsdale, 1 subaltern, Lieut. Tunnard, 2 sergeants, 32 rank and file. Taken prisoners-1 sergeant, 1 corporal, 13 privates. Cape Mounted Rifles-2 rank and file killed ; 2 ditto missing. 29 killed, 40 wounded, 15 prisoners, 2 missing.— Total 86. The reader will smile to hear, that shortly after the relief of the British camp, some of the officers who ' landed with Colcnel Cloete despatched a messenger to Captain Smith to request a bottle or two of his best sherry, and some officers' biscuit. Of course the re quest elicited much merriment amongst the half famished garrison, to the great surprise of the envoy, until an eclaircissement took place. British Settlement, Port Natal, July 3, 1842. Dear Friend and Comrades—l am happy to state, with the greatest satisfaction in the world, that 1 and the other two buglers still survive, after being snatched from the jaws of death. I must say that the troubles of this wicked world were nearly over with us all here ; but thanks be to the King of Heaven, he has brought us relief, before we should perish or fall into that dreadful enemy's hands, who would not have left a man of us alive, if they could get their ends accom plished; and I am happy to state that I had the plea sure to see the ruffians run, but not without taking our guns with them ; but, I hope, before long we shall soon have them back again. I received your letter and Relter's, for April, on the Ist of July, and I received your second letter for the 30th of May on the 2d of July. The reason of this was because all communication, both by land and sea, was entirely cut off from us by the enemy, during the siege and blockade. I suppose you require a statement of what happened since my last letter from Natal, but this I hope you or any of the boys won't expect from me, as it would be impossible for me to send the whole of what happened, and I think it much better to leave it to the testimony of the Graham's Town journals, as it would take up three or four quires of paper, and I' can tell you that I am not in a very fit state to write at present, but I hope in the Lord I will soon recover again. I mean to mention a few particulars of what happened after our arrival here. For some time the Boers were very peaceable, but at last they com menced to steal our cattle, and to take our herds pri soners. The Captain sent to them for the cattle, but they would not send them hack. We were after get ting our two 18-pounders mounted, one at the camp, and the other at the point, where our provisions and stores were, and a detachment of 15 men, four gun ners, one officer, a sergeant, and two corporals were left there to protect them. The Boers were seen on the morning of the 23d May in very large parties, on all sides of the wood, showing themselves to our camp now and again ; but the Captain opened cur guns on them from the camp. The 18-pounder made great openings among them, and put them to disperse for that day. The next day, being the Queen's birthday, the Captain intended to fire 21 guns, and hoist the union jack in front of our camp, but towards even ing the Captain held a consultation among the offi cers to attack the Dutch camp, and one hundred men were warned to be ready, and two field pieces and the h ow i tzer were placed in a strong b oa t t o proceed up t h e channel right under the i r camp , to throw in shell s . eleven o'clock, the night.% g clear and bright, The,rAnen left our camp at and arrived close to ein- • e eremy s camp at one o clock. The moment the enemy perceived them in front of their camp, they fired such a dreadful volley of mus ketry on our men, that it made a great many inter vals through the ranks. Our men commenced a file firing, and kept it up very, well; the guns and rock ets kept playing into them on all sides, and the how itzer from the boat sending well-directed shells into the camp; but notwithstanding all this, the enemy' kept a heavy fire up, their number was so great; they were cutting off our men very fast, and it was very little wonder, for they had ten times our number. After about an hour's engagement, the enemy's fire began to slacken very much, and the Captain intended to charge them, but when he saw he had so few to charge, he declined, and thought proper to retire home to the camp. You must understand, that where thp action was fought was close to the sea, and it being a spring tide, our men were up to their waists in the water, and as soon as a man was wounded, he fell into the sea, and was drowned, for no person could offer any assistance at the time, for the enemy came in close pursuit after us; we left our dead there in like man ner. The most of the artillery was swept from the guns; out of eighteen gunners, there were twelve cut away, killed, and wounded. The officer of the ar ... tillery received a shower of balls in the body (three in the head and four in the body). He was in the act of firing the gun at the time. The gun oxen were all shot away, and it was impossible for the men to swim and draw the guns, as the tide was so full in. Many of our men fell victims to a watery grave, pe- rishing in the water. We had not long arrived home at the camp, when the enemy made a dreadful charge on the camp on all sides, but they were repulsed with great loss. You may say, mrboys, this was one of the most horrible nights ever I witnessed in my life : from ten o'clock until clear daylight in the morning. On this night's action the killed and missing were -17 and one officer ; wounded 24, one captain, one subaltern. The next day the enemy brought up our dead : they could only find 12, and the artillery officer. We buried them in a large pit convenient to the camp. The other five men must have been driven out with the tide ; so I intend to finish with the affair of Congella, or the 'Dutch camp ; and I m us t say it was an unfortunate thing for our guns to fall into the enemy's hands, besides a great number of small arms and ammunition ; but I assure you it could not be helped, for you may easily. know our situation. The number of the enemy killed on this night is estimated to be 130, and 70 wounded. There were 90 killed belonging to them in one kraal, by a shell from the howitzer. The Boers now seeing that our guns were already in their hands that were left be hind previous to the action at Congella, and so many of our small detachment cut off, they thought proper to cut off all communication by land, and the next thing they had in view was to engage the point, and capture all our provisions. Accordingly on the 26th morning they engaged the point, and, after an hour's engagement, they captured it, but not with out losing a great number of men. Our small detach ment, as I mentioned before, did their endeavour to keep it, but they were soon overpowered. There were only one sergeant, two corporals, and lo men, and four gunners. The artillery fought well, until two of them were killed, and two wounded. The two that were wounded spiked the gun before the enemy came up to them, but when they saw the gun already spiked, they drew their knives, and ripped them from the bottom of the belly to the throat. They took all the rest prisoners. There were only one corporal and one private wounded, but the four artillery were killed. Now they had us completely blockaded by sea and land. They also went on board of the two vessels that were lying in the harbour, and took about thirty Englishmen prisoners, and bound them in irons, with a strong guard over each vessel. It happened very fortunate, that the officer belonging to this small detachment was up at the camp on duty, or else he would have been taken prisoner also. The Dutch Chief sent many letters to the Captain, entreating him to quit the camp, under the following circum stances :—To pay the sum of 10,0001. to the Dutch Republic, to pay the damage done on them, and, further, to give up all our arms, only twelve stand, that he would allow to each vessel to guard us down to Cape Town. He wanted to send us in the two vessels that were lying in the harbour, but this proposal only made our Captain smile, and he sent . him back word he never would do any such thing. This made the impetuous chief bluster out with great execrations, and said he would starve us to death and burn our camp, The cap tain knowing now they had three guns of ours in their possession, knew very well they would soon visit our camp, and blockade us, and keep us from getting any provisions or water; as the water was pretty far dis tant from the camp, he ordered the engineer officer to make entrenchment s a ll roun d the inside of the camp, and build a breastwork up against the front of the waggons, the way it would save the men from the enemy's shot. At this time they had the whole of our cattle captured, with the exception of 24 head, and we had, very unfortunately, only one waggon load of bis cuit up from the point before it was taken. On the night of the 30th of May the enemy made all prepa ration for besieging our camp, and on the next morn ing, being the 31st, they commenced a dreadful can nonading on our camp. They had their guns point ing in every direction towards the camp, namely, one 18 pounder, two 6-pounders, one 12-pounder, two 4-pounders—total, six guns. I forgot to mention, that they had some handicraft among them that unspiked the 18-pounder and a 12-pounder that be longed to them, which was spiked by us when we came here first. They fired 160 rounds from their guns, besides showers of musketry the first day ; but, thanks be to God, they did very little harm—only smashed the sides of the waggons. We had only two guns—one 18-pounder and howitzer—and they were kept going the whole day at the enemy. The 18- pounder dismounted one of the 6-pounders the first day, and the howitzer killed a great number of the enemy with her shell. The enemy now dug entrench ments at the distance of one hundred yards from our camp, all round, for their small arms, and to save themselves from the fire of our camp. Here now I may mention that we were no longer inhabitants of the earth, but of the under world, living in subterra neous caves, or caverns, or sepulchral tombs. Our situation now was surely miserable, and we could get no water, only running in danger of being cut to pieces going for it outside of the camp, by the enemy's fire, for that was the only time they kept up a strong fire. On the third morning of the siege the enemy sent us a flag of truce to our camp for the purpose to send our women and children, sick and wounded, on board of the vessels in the harbour, and that they would be taken good care of; but this was only policy of them to find out how many were disabled, that they might make an attack on our camp. None of the women would go, only Mrs. Lonsdale, and the captain would not admit of any of the sick to go, and said he would nail the flag to the mast-head before he should ever give them the satisfaction of surrendering. Our provisions now were getting very scarce, and the enenc y shot most of the lbw cattle 'we had in the kraal to keep us from living, if possible. All the oxen we had now left alive were killed immediately to make biltong' of, lest the enemy should destroy any more of us. The enemy still kept up a formidable fire every day on the camp—upwards of 100 rounds every day. We were living now on six ounces of biscuit-dust and a half a pound of biltong. Our coffee and sugar were all out in like manner. This only kept the human frame from failing; and this was not all ; after the biltong was all out we were obliged to feast on horseflesh. This was very disgusting at first, but hunger obliged us to make use of it. I now wish to make a remark, that we should never frown when the Lord sends us good food to make us happy, as it is often the case men frown at bad meat and bread ; but if they were in our situation, they would be glad to eat any kind of bread or meat before they would eat horseflesh that was putrified, or blue moulded dust, but we were very glad to make use of it. To finish the siege, and not dwell longer upon it, the enemy kept their guns going for sixteen days on our camp, and then brought them down to fortify the point against the reinforcement that was coming up, for they were well aware that King made his escape, and that he would discover all. Although ; the guns were taken away, they still kept us in, by their small arms. The captain now determined to level some of the intrench ments belonging to the enemy, in the dark of the night, and out went twenty men and two officers. They went on their hands and feet until they came on top of the enemy. They were all asleep, only the sentry, who fired and shot Mr. Prior in the heart. This alarmed all the rest, and such a dreadful car nage never was heard tell of before. our men fired and charged them with bayonets, and muzzle to muzzle; the Dutch shouted for mercy, but of course they got none. They drew their hunting knives, and scarified a great number of our men ; but they only killed two and the officer, and our men killed every one in the intrenchments, in number about thirty six, and then returned to the camp. If they waited much longer, the whole of the enemy would have cut them all to pieces ; but they were in good time here. We remained until the reinforcement arrived. * * The grenadier company arrived here on the 24th of June, on board a merchant schooner, but she had to boat about the harbour until the arrival of the frigate. On the 25th the frigate came in sight, and fired two guns and three rockets as a signal to us, which was answered by us with one gun and one rocket, to let them know we were in distress, and where we lay. On the morning of the 26th, being Sunday, all pre parations were made to effect a landing. The frigate formed a flotilla of gun-boats, each boat bearing a howitzer placed in her front for throwing shells ; all the other boats were laden with troops. At one o'clock the troops set off from the different vessels under the frigate's fire; the gun-boats led the van, and it was very handsome to see all the boats sailing up the chan r el, each having its standard waving in the stern. The enemy now comm3riced 'a strong lire on the boats from their guns and small arms, but without much ef feet. - The frigate now opened a formidable fire on the enemy from her forecastle and poop, broadsides from her 68-pounders; the boats also kept up a dreadful fire, pitching shells every moment. The frigate's heaYy fire made such openings in the woods among the enemy that they were soon conspicuous to the troops, who kept up a heavy fire of small arms on them. The shells from the boats inrept'the enemy from their guns. The haughty r e b e l s were now seen to fall. All on a sudden, after an half-hour's engage ment, the out-laws made to the country, bringing the guns with them. Our 18-pounder kept up a heavy fire on them as they passed the woods going to the country. The troops having now possession of the harbour, they hauled down th e D u t c h J ac k, an d hoisted the Union. The troops now made their ap pearance through the woods towards our camp, and took 12 rebels prisoners. All the rest fled. Oh, Hea vens ! what a joyful sight to see we were once more inhabitants of the upper world. No tongue can de scribe or no pen can write the joy we met in meeting the Grenadier Company and the 25th Re giment here. We gave three hearty cheers that rent the air and drowned the noise of the cannon. The next day Colonel Cloete marched up the troops :o the Dutch village, and plundered it all over. We were only allowed to partake of eatables, but not to meddle with anything else. But some made well of it. We took meal, flour, bread, tobacco, coffee, sugar, butter, cheese, tea, rice, brandy, wines, pigs, and every kind of poultry, rind cooking utensils. I have now the satisfaction to feast on their sumptuous food for the long starvation they gave me. The enemy is making fortifications up the country at their town, lest the troops should follow them. All the troops here are kept busy every day making fortifications round our camp, and at the point or harbour. We expect to follow the Boers up the country in a few days. There are about seven hundred men 'here now, with the 25th and ours. They are mounting all the fresh guns the frigate brought up to proceed up the country with a strong force of men. The Carers are burning and destroying all their small villages, and putting every one of the enemy to death they come across, and bringing us dozens of cattle every day. All our sick and wounded are on board a ship to forward to Cape Town, and there are a great number of them. All the waggons that were damaged are taken to pieces and put on board a ship to go to Algoa Bay to be sold by auction. Captain Lonsdale, with family, is on board to join head-quarters. I am sorry to mention to you that your old friend Cartey dropped dead in the intrenchments on the morning of the 16th. PORTUGAL. FALMOUTH, OCT. 24.--By the. Liverpool steamer, arrived last night with the Peninsular mails, the ac companying dispatches were received. Her dates of leaving are, from Gibraltar the 13th, Cadiz the 14th, Lisbon the 17th, and from Oporto and Vigo the 18th instant. LISBON, OCT. 17.—Up to the present moment there has not been any announcement either of the settlement, or even of the progress made, on the ar rangement of the new tariff. This important subject, so highly interesting to every one, is the topic of general conversation ; for while the suspense occa sioned by the protracted delay of this negotiation con tinues, no speculations of any kind will be entered into, and commerce will consequently remain at a stand still. The Government has issued orders "to make prepa rations for the electioneering in those parishes of the provinces where vacancies have occurred, or where the former elections have been annulled, or where the de cease of the electors have been the cause of the inter ruption. The day fixed upon for the purpose is the 6th of November next, and the 20th of the same month for that of the twenty Deputies, who are still wanting to complete the number which constitutes the Parlia ment. Economy being now the order of the day (and, perhaps, better late than never), the police force of Vienna and Braga have been dissolved, the cavalry and infantry of these extinct corps having been incor porated into other - reigiments ; similar dispositions will be adopted in other parts of the country. A list of all the employes in the several custom-houses of the kingdom has been published, and a new organiza tion entered into of the same. A Committee has also been formed to take into consideration salutary mea sures for the better administration of justice, an d an other for the formation of a;p_tospectus of a p ermanent law for the levying and receiving of the decima a n d other taxes. In Oporto several persons have been arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the coining of false money and manufacture of paper, with the forged Government stamp, which was discovered through secret information given to the police, in a small h ouse , fitted up with all necessary machinery and ut ens il s for the pu r p ose . A l arge quantity of amalgamat e d raw metal was found, together with a good deal of base coin, ready for circulation. The authorities are, of course, on the alert, and the trial of the parties is to take place in a few days; in this country the pun ishment for this offence is death. On the 6th inst., in the same city, the first stone was laid, with the usual formalities, for the erection of the new Commercial Exchange, the funds for the purpose having been raised by voluntary contributions of the wealthy mer chants there. Preparations are making, in the Royal Palace, for the reception of his Royal Highness Prince Joinville, who is expected here on his way to Rio Janeiro. The Royal Family all enjoy perfect health. Every thing is tranquil, the late revolutionary movements up the country having been completely quelled. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FRONI THE MORNING PAPERS Of THIS DAY. CITY, MONDAY EVENING. TIMES.—As the subject of "repudiation " begins to be discussed with fresh earnestness among the creditors of America, as well as among the citizens of that country, a letter from General Hamilton to Mr. Calhoun, which has been published in the Ame rican papers, may possess some interest. As there is much in this letter of which we entirely disapprove, referring to the "United States' Bank, we confine ourselves to a brief notice of General Hamilton's re marks on " repudiation." The present degraded situa tion of his country he seems to feel acutely, and while he observes that with all the abundance of money in London, the Commissioners of the United States could not get money at 10 per cent. in this country, he is perfectly aware that the distrust is not in the resources of the United States, but in the principles of has l been abl e no negot i ate a l oan at 3i per rcent., he comparatively insignificant t own while the vast c ountry o f t h e U n i te d S tates of t i lie a p oe bmu p i would not be able to effect one at treble the interest. Denmark, Belgium, Holland, without a prospect of being able to pay off the' principal of her debt, could all come into the markei as borrowers, and yet that market is completely turned against United States' securities. It is in vain, he says, for America to pro fess that she does not want European capital, when an agent has been sent out for her " daily bread." The object of the letter is to exhort Mr. Calhoun to do something towards restoring the credit of his country by introducing a uniform currency. This part of it we decline noticing in detail, our only object being to show the feeling against " repudiation" which is springing up among the honest men both of the in debted and the crediting country. POST.—The destruction of the caisson lately formed on the Goodwin Sands by Mr. W. Bush, and the loss of life which attended the event, are a subject of much regret to the commercial body. Great be nefit to the public, especially the shipping and trading interest, had been anticipated from Mr. Bush's inge nious contrivance ; and the circumstance that it should have been run foul of and annihilated by that for the protection of which it was invented, namely, a ship in distress,. is rather an aggravation of the disappoint thent felt at the unfortunate issue of Mr. Bush's ac- enatlof efficiency. The merits instanc e of what may be tive and persevering exertions in bringing his under ntafktihneg wto ork, taesquaisipterapeotii genius and science to attained nbieetsn b f by e application nature, are in n way touched by the calamity just communicated' from Deal regarding the embryo "Light of All Nations." The caisson has, it seems, totally disappeared. It is stated on good commercial authority that the Marquis de Lavalette, the nobleman who recently married Madame Welles, the widow of the opulent American banker, and merchant at Paris, is coming to England partly on an excursion of pleasure, but more particularly on a mission a some kind from M. negotiation on the the Ch ance ll or o f t h e On Saturday that it ctioenty search question t o c conduct c so much before the pub wa C s H b ß y O nn N i l n C ea L n E s .— bn l p l rn. r e ba st b a l t e ed Exchequer may find himself in a situation to carry out a conversion of the Reduced Three-and-a-llalf per Cent. Annuities and of the New Three-and-a- Half per Cent. Annuities. amounting together to 212,503,002/. Th e special ground on which we expressed that sentiment Was the abundance of money, worth only two per cent. en commercial paper, and the Absence of demand for commercial in vestment. This dulness of trade forces money into the public funds, and the lowness of individual credit creates a forced and fictitious enhancement of public credit. IVe must remind the monied interests, and particularly the Stock Exchange, that Sir Robert Peel alluded, in the course of last session, to the pos. sibility of being able - to effect a financial operation of great importance, whereby a considerable reduction would be effected in the annual charge of the public debt. He made that statement in allusion to the price of Consols at that period, (April, 1842), as an evidence of the confidence reposed in his Govern ment. ' When the chiefs of the Administration pointed with triumph to the prices of the funds as an index to the confidence reposed in the present Go vernment, Commis were at 91. They are now 935 to more than 2.4 per cent. higher than in April last; but that forms no sure test of public feeling in favour of or against the present Cabinet. It is, in fact, a proof of the prevalence and inveterate permanency of that national distress which Sirß. Peel first denied alto gether, and, when driven to admit, he only retre a t e d from his first denial to fall back upon the allegation that it was partial and evanescent, and would speedily disappear. That distress, however, continues, and has been permanent, instead of yielding to his mea sures. There is no revival of trade, and money re mains a drug in too few hands, who cannot find eli gible investment for it. There is no demand for it to embark in commercial or manufacturing enterprise, and thus the absence of activity in trade necessarily creates a demand for stock, and Consols form the only safe means by which reasonable interest can be ob tained by capitalists. The immediate aspect of things gives no reason to suppose that any general revival can be looked for before 1843. The late failures in the corn trade still hang heavy on the market, and a dead weight from that source creates a distrust in Lombard-street which it will take a long time to overcome. Letters received from Paris this morning mention the suspension of payment of three houses at Mar seilles connected with the corn trade, namely, Messrs. Archias and Co., Messrs. A. Guizot and Co., and Messrs. Rey Brothers. Nor are these all. We fear that the roll of misfortune originating from that source is not yet complete. A loss of 1,200,0001., which fell upon the Corn market here znd abroad by the recent speculations in Mark-lane, cannot be wound up in a hurry ; and some time yet must elapse before all the ramifications and extent of the mischief can be ascertained. SUN.—The English Stock Market continued up to the close to be rather in favour of the buyer, the differ ence however, as compared with Saturday being barely 3 per cent. since, for to-morrow the transfers were at 93a to 93i, and for time at 93 buyers. After so material an advance in prices recently it could not but be expected that some party should come forward, being tempted to sell. Exchequer Bills at 21' were 58 premium; Now Three-and•a- Half per Cents, ranged from 1014 to 1013 ; and the Three per Cent. Annuities brought 92a to 93. In the Foreign Market there was more activity to day, and prices were subject to greater fluctuation than on ony single day for some time past. Portu guese Stock declined, the New Five per Cents. to 381, and the Converted to 321, the Three per Cents. however, not being lower than 231. The speculation so far has for the present received a check, and whether it will be continued for the rise or the fall remains to be seen. The Spanish Five per Cents., owing to the accounts from "Madrid being considered more favourable, improved to 163 and the Three per Cents. to Colombian was quiet at 203, and Mexican at 32+. French Three per Cents. brought 80 25, and the Dutch Two-and-a-llalf per Cents. improved to 52;1 and 523. At Amsterdam on Friday the market was brisk, and prices were buoyant. The Railway Shares appeared to be more saleable, and the principal lines were taken at about 13 dis. for Brighton, at 18 premium for Great Western, and at 163 premium for South 'Western. FESTIVAL TO MR. T. 'S. DUN COMBE, M.P. Last night a festival was given at the Hall of the National Association, in Holborn, to Mr. Duncombe, M.P. for the borough of Finsbury, the object being to testify to that Honourable Gentleman the esteem felt for him by his constituents, and their appreciation of his exertions in the House of Commons on behalf of the labouring classes. The hall was well filled by an extremely respectable company of ladies and gen tlemen, and tea having been served, the business of the evening was commenced. Colonel Thompson took the Chair, and was sup ported by a large body of gentlemen. We noticed on the platform Mr. T. S. Duncombe, Mr. P. T. Thompson (the son of the Chairman), Dr. Epps, Dr. Black, Mr. Hodgkin, Mr. Lormon, Mr. Parry, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Hetherington, &c. _ The CHAIRMAN opened the business of the evening. He said that the meeting had assembled at no ordi nary time, nor on any ordinary occasion. Many were looking to the proceedings of that evening with in terest, and he trusted that their assemblage would tend to promote the great object of political reform which they had in view ; that they' should go on, fearing nothing ;—intending no ill to any, but deter mined not to give up one atom of that which they eonsidered to be their rights, and which it was their duty to endeavour to obtain.—(Hear.) There might be those who had conducted themselves illegally—he was not there to apologise for them, but he maintained that it was not because some went beyond the true limits to which their exertions in the cause of freedom should be confined, that all should be persecuted. — (Hear, hear.) The Gallant Colonel concluded by proposing " The people —may they speedily possess their political rigl►ts, in order to remedy their social wrongs."—The sentiment was received with loud cheers. Dr. Errs came forward to propose the second re solution or toast. It was as follows :—" May the Queen remove from her councils and offices or state all those who restrict and misapply our country's re sources, and call to her aid those only who will ex tend to the people the full measure of their rights." having borne testimony to the unceasing exertions of Mr. Duncombe, the guest of the evening, in the cause of the people, he proceeded to say that the resolution which he had to propose recommended itself strongly to the attention of the meeting. He believed that the present Government bad been placed in its present disgraceful position by the still more disgraceful con sequences of the proceedings of the late Ministry— 1 (Cheers, and cries of " No")—for he believed that the Administration of Lord Melbourne had done all in their power to prevent the people from obtaining their rights.—(Renewed cries of " No," and cheers.) lie believed that Sir Robert Peel's Government had done more for the people than that which preceded it, and however unwilling they might be to give it support, they must pause before they utterly condemned it.—(Cheers.) They were not the men, it was true, to whom they could give un bounded confidence, and they must look to the result of their exertions to secure Ministers more in accord ance with their views. —(Hear, hear.) The honoured guest of the evening (Mr. Duncombe) was, he thought, a great thorn in the side of the Government. —(Cheers.) He might be a polished thorn, but the wounds which he inflicted were, therefore, the sharper. —(Hear, hear.) If they wished to realise the results which the resolution proposed they should gain, it was such representatives as Mr. Duncombe whom they should return to serve in Parliament; and if all boroughs would adopt the course which they had taken, he was convinced that through the exertions of such men they would not be long before they ob tained the rights which they now upheld.—(Cheers.) They had amongst them one who was in every way deserving a seat in the Commons House of Parlia ment, and, should they have the opportunity, he had no doubt that they would return their worthy Chair man, the author of the Corn-law Catechism. Mr. HoDwus spoke in support of the resolution. He said that it embodied a sentiment to which it re quired little from him to fix their attention ; and he was only afraid that, in endeavouring to carry it out, they should have to look very far before they could find statesmen who should be able and willing to carry the wish which was expressed into effect. — (Hear. hear.) So far as his own observation taught him, all those who had been entrusted with political power were men more interested in securing , their own aggrandisement and that of their friends, and in promoting their own views, than in contributing to the promotion of the public pros perity—(Hear, hear)—and before they could hope to have better statesmen, he believed that they must improve the educational system of the community at large.—(Hear.) Before they :could hope to secure their rights they must learn to know what they were. It was, therefore, with much pleasure that he saw in stitutions such as those which were rising throughout the country, the great object of which was the pro. motion of political knowledge amongst the people. When the people knew what their rights were, they would not be long before they attained them.— (Hear, hear.) The resolution was received with loud applause. The CHAIRMAN said that he had now come to the most grateful part of the evening's celebration, which was to speak on the immediate cause of their assem blage.—(Cheers.) They had met together to do honour to a man who had represented the community to which they belonged in Parliament with integrity, with courage, and with energy.—(Loud cheers.) Other constituencies might meet together, and might have a lively consciousness of future favours, or a recollection of past gifts—of feasts, or more solid re muneration for support, but in this case there was nothing of the kind. In this instance they had met to do honour to a man, merely because he had served them faithfully and honestly.—(Cheers.) There was no scene of fashion or of greatness to which his honour able friend might not aspire; but he had taken a more liberal course—he had faithfully served his country men in their battles for freedom.—(Cheers.) It would would be going over that which they all knew, unnecessarily, if he attempted to give them a history of all the occasions on which their respected representative had served them in Parliament.—(Loud cheers.) When, he would ask, was the popular cause unserved when he was present ?—(Hear, hear.) When was it that a man who suffered oppression did not receive his support when he possessed the power to exert himself on his behalf ?—(Hear, hear.) His Hon. Friend was an aristocrat by birth—he looked like one— (Hear, and a laugh)—but he had shown them that that was no reason whf those of lowly birth should not receive his cordialcomfort and support.—(Cheers.) ,He (Col. Thompson) would not rest longer, on his good deeds, but he would bring forward Mr. Dun combe—an honest man and a brave; and he called upon them all—men and women too—for Mr. Don 7 eombe was a gallant gentleman—(Loud cheers)-40 give him such a reception as in their hearts they thought he deserved.—(Loud cheers.) The Chair man concluded by proposing the following resolution; —" Our invited guest, T. S. Duncombe, Esq., a le gislator regardless of party or faction, who, having espoused just principles, has honestly stood forward in Parliament the advocate of his oppressed and suf fering countrymen. May he continue to pursue the same manly, Just, and prudent course, till the rights of the millions are won, and their wrongs redressed." Mr. DUNCOMDE having presented himself at the front of the platform, was received with loud and long continued cheering. He said—The high and distin guished compliment which you have this evening been pleased to pay to the humble parliamentary services of the individual who has now the honour of addressing you, calls for the utterance of grateful sentiments which I very much fear lam not able to express, at all events in that style of language which your kind ness demands, and my own feelings lead me to em ploy.—(Cheers.) I have often heard it said that popular favour and public esteem are, after all, but transitory and capricious ; and that those whom it pleaseth the people to honour to-day, they turn their hacks on to-morrow ; but I believe such to be a libel on the people.—(Hear, hear.) It will be invariably found that, whenever the people have withdrawn their confidence from a public man, such conduct has been justified, and the desertion has been merited by the man having, for his own private purposes, and for personal objects, given up the cause of the people.—(Cheers.) At all events, I can say, that since I have had the honour of a seat in Parlia ment, public confidence and popular esteem have uni formly been my lot; and I believe that so long as I persevere in that course which I marked out for my self on my first entrance into public life, that esteem and that confidence will not be denied me.—(Hear, hear.) I must confess that lam proud to stand here beholden to no Minister for protection—indebted to no Court for its favour—(Cheers)—conscious that though I have not merited your kindness this even ing, I have never done anything to forfeit your con fidence and esteem.—(Cheers.) It is impossible for any one to look at the present state of political feel ing in this country, and of political parties in this country, without some feeling of shame and of re g ret: I know that much of it is to he attributed t o thedis appointment which has been occasioned to the people by the inefficiency of the measure of Reform, carried in 1832—an inefficiency which has been proved by the facility with which the present Tory Government has forced itself into a power, which they seem to glory in exercising over the few remaining rights and privileges of the people.—(llear, hear.) We are now reaping the fruits of that change of Government. Much blame is due, and justly due, to the Whigs for their conduct. They were told, when they were in the zenith of their power, that they were not then snaking the best of their time—that the re form which had been effected was ,incomplete, and that it was their duty to render it at once a complete and useful measure. They heeded not the warning which was given to them; but they talked of finality, and hung on the skirts of the Court, instead of sup porting themselves on the strong arms of the people. —(Hear, hear.) And what was the consequence? Corruption and intimidation were brought to bear against them, and at the eleventh hour they brought forward measures which were good, perhaps, but which came too late. They called on the people for aid—upon the people whom they had neglected; but amidst the universal corruption and intimidation used at the last general election, their cries were unheeded in the hour of need. They fell ; and I am sorry to be almost compelled to say they deserved the fall— (Cheers)—unpitied and despised by all.—(Cheers.) Well, then, I say, we are now bitterly reaping the fruits of their misconduct in the popular cause.—(Cries of "Hear, hear.") I ask you to look at the last session of Parliament—take it with re gard to any party. There never was a session so dis creditable to the Tories, so inglorious to the Whigs, and I may say so unsatisfactory to the people. I was looking this morning at the return of the number of hours during- which Parliament sat in the course of the last session, and I find that, from February to August, they sat 1,008 hours, and 125 of those hours were after midnight. Now, what did we do during those hours ? They were passed in crimination and recrimination, between this agriculturist and that manufacturer—between High Church and Low Church, between my Lord John This and Sir Robert That— (Cheers)—my Lord John reproaching Sir Robert, and saying, " You are not satisfied with turning us out, but you take our measures."—(Cheers.) And what are those measures, now they have taken them ? —(Hear.) We have got a trumpery Corn Bill, a delu sive Tariff, and we have got an inquisitorial Income-tax. —(Cheers.) These are the great measures which Sir Robert Peel required five months to ponder upon, before he proclaimed them to the world—(llear, hear, hear.) But then, what was done with regard to the people ? Did we not, night after night, make representations to the Go vernment, and to the House which calls it self the representative of the people,. that the people of this country were starving—were dying by hundreds in the manufacturing districts, and that it was necessary to afford them some relief, or at all I events to institute some inquiry into their condition, and the causes of that conditi o n? Every inquiry was resisted. We told them that if they persisted in this course, they would drive the people to desperation— that the working and industrious classes were not prepared to starve and to die in ditches—that they ought not and would not submit so to terminate their existence. They heeded not this warning —they prorogued Parliament, and the moment the Queen had closed our doors, she was compelled to go home and sign a proclamation calling on the Magistracy,, and calling out the military, to put down the people, because as Parliament would not help them, they threatened to help themselves. Some of these people said, "we had better die at the point of the bayonet or on the scaffold, than be famished and die in ditches."—(Hear, hear, hear.) Many thousands were out of employment, and those who were em ployed worked from sunrise to sunset; they were over worked, but they were under paid, and they could not get that which the working classes were quite right to demand—a fair day's wages for a fair day's work.—(Cheers.) All the outbreak and insur rection which occurred has been attributed to various causes. Every one tries to shift it from his own shoulders. One day it is the result of Chartism ; an other it is produced by the Anti-Corn-law League. I believe, however, that neither was to blame. Dis tress is not the offspring of Chartism or of the Anti- Corn-law League • but Chartism is the offspring of the oppression of the poor—the Anti-Corn-law sseague is the offspring of a base and sordid monopoly ; but ' as Chartism is the offspring of the oppression of the poor, the poor have a right to demand that they at least should have that voice and that power in the-Le gislature that they may obtain some relief.—(Hear, hear.) Well, then, what is the result ? What is the conduct of Government with regard to this insurrec tion ? The police and the military are put in mo tion. The-Magistrates, whom Sir James Graham—. the renegade Graham !—had been so active in ap pointing during the previous winter, were let loose for the purpose of committing the unfortunate of fenders. Ido not mean to say that there were not many of them guilty of criminal acts, but when you look to their condition—their impoverished and starving condition—l say that some allowance ought to have been made for the misdeeds in which they were unfor tunately engaged.—(Hear, bear.) To he sure we have hail a Judge sent down to try these men, stating from the judgment -seat that the distresses of the people were vastly exaggerated. —(" Shame.") I want to know how they can possibly he exaggerated. —(Cheers.) It showed either great ignorance or great indifference on the part of the Judge to make that assertion.—(Hear, hear.) How, I ask, could their distresses be exaggerated, when we know that hundreds of thousands of human beings inhabiting the manufacturing districts, were glad to appropriate, aye, even carrion, if they could find it !—that many ofthem were glad to cull the nettles from the fields, and to put them into hot water, to make something like broth ! Their houses were without furniture— their hearths without fuel—their bodies without rai ment—and vet these are the persons vs ith reference to whom my Lord Abinger—(Cries of " Shame ") —has thought proper to say from the judgment-seat at Liverpool, that, so far as he was a judge—and a pretty judge he is—their distresses were greatly ex aggerated.—(Hear, hear.) Men not mixing with society, or with the people, might possibly make such a blunder ; but Lord Abinger appeared not only as a judge, but he assumed the characters . of a politician and a legislator, and as such it is im possible that he could be ignorant of the sad and lamentable distresses of the poor -in the ot satisfied i manufacturing districts.—(Cheers.) N with this, however, he makes a mostindecent and unconstitutional charge to the Grand Jury. He de scribes those of whom he speaks as "a kind of men called Chartists"—(Cheers, hisses, and cries of " lle was a Jacobin") —and he says that this kind of men classes,pose of voting possess n o pro , at th e elec tionspdee r s t i r y e , that should the h s a v l o v r k g e for Members of Parliament, and, in point of fact, that they should have a voice :0:1k:1:sal:tie i f i o a r ve sthoseseen who have property.—(Hear, hear.) from what tNhoatw,thtehabtodi: o tl fl e t e h l e m c rg h e ar w t . i h s i t e s h in he E m ng a l k a e n s d . is far more numerous than eiether Lordersof Abinger ur y m the Government, or manleierueptpheart classes really imagine.—(Dear, hear.) Ibe the opinion in favour of the document called the Charter is gaining strength in th is ca eng foprurbelficortmninidn. —(Cheers.) Every party s(me particular branch o f the laa l v l. and as each finds tbe impracticability of carrying out ' its views,they l ecome convinced of th e necessity of a change, by the ( ffect of which the House of Commons shall be en tirely remodelled.— though he (Cheer,) Lord Abinger, how ever,may not have possessed the same personal acquaintance with the extent of the powers of the Chartists which I possess, .must have recollected the petitions which have been presented to Parliament in the course of last year, and the present year.. He must have recollected the petition of last year, signed by 1,300,000 persons ; and .that of the present year bearing the signatures ofthree millions and a-half; and yet he has the assurance and impudence, I must. say, to say that there are "a kindof inen called Chartists," who wish to subvert the aristocracy, to divide pro perty, and to overthrow the .nionarchy.—(Cheers.) I have looked at the Charter again and again ; but I can find nothing in it which would sanction an inter ference with the rights of the aristocracy—(Cheers)— nor could I find a line which indicates a desire to overthrow the monarchy.—(Cheers.) What the people ask is, not that they should have the exclusive right of legislating, but an equal share in the legisla tion of the country—that their liberties should be equally protected with those of .my Lord Abinger (Cheers)—and that the Government of the country should be placed upon a broad, _popular, and secure basis.—(llear, hear.) Well, indeed, may my Lord Abinger wish that the people .should have no greater power in the House of Commons than they now possess, for if recently they had possessed that power which they claim, the House as,, it would have been constituted would not have sanctioned that which is now called the " Scarlett • job," and the House of Commons thus con:tituted would have no hesitation in addressing the Crown for the removal from the judgment seat of any Judge who had sodisgraced that high position as Lord Abinger has done in this in stance.—(Loud cheers.) I hare no - doubt thatthe charge delivered by him is well received, that it is greatly admired and highly approved of by his brother renegade, Sir James Graham—(Cheers)—but when Parliament does meet it is impossible that this charge, if made—and I am, of course, pre suming that the charge is correctly reported in the public newspapers, and I have not heard the nc curacy of the report doubted--.-but I say that it is impossible that this charge, - whether in the words' or in the spirit in which it is reported, can pasS unno ticed in the House of CoMmons. It is impossible that Parliament can permit a .charge, dangerous to• the liberties of the people, to pass uncensured and nnnoticed—(Cheers)—and I can only say, that if no other inilividual calls the attention of the House to the subject on its meeting, I. feel: that I should basely • betray the trust reposed in me, • hot only by my Own constituency, but by the working classes, if I did not call the attention of the House to it.—(Loud cheers.) Such at all events is the lamentable position in which public affairs now stand—in ‘Vhich that -question, which is the question of questions, I mean the fran chise, stands before the public. It stands before tha . public thus—that if a ma n call hi mse lf a Ch ar ti s t he is to he condemned from - the judgment seat : hbut it rests with the people how long this state vf things shall continue.—(H ear , .h ear .) ]lush , depend on the energy, prudence, forbearance, but, above all, the cordial union of all classes. Let us have no more quarrelling, and quibbling about names.—(Hear, hear.) Let us meet the 'foe openly. I say that the question of the . day.is the fran c hi se , an d until that is settled it is in vain, constituted as the House of Commons is, to look for any other reforms. --(Cheers.) I know the woikihg classes have much to hear—they have much to-exasperate them,but still, with union and energy, they must not despair. lam well aware that it is possible fOrihe Government,• be hind the back of Parliament,:tO strain the law—to confer upon their police new powers—to appoint hosts of Magistrates to commit-40. hire traitors. to betray, and spies to deceive the unwary.' They may also find .pliant Juries to convict, and they may retain corrupt political partisans as Judges to condeme ; but if the people are true to themselves—if they will but stand within the four corners of the law—Sir James Graham and the whole of his renegade , . crew may yet find united people who are too strong for them.—(Cheers.) It is said that the " darkest houris nearest the dawn." And, so it is ; there is that elasticity about British freedom that on all past occasions, when darkpesi has most prevailed, it has always emerged from it with increased splendour and renown.—(Great cheering.) I know that you Will not surrender any portion of those privileges which belong_ to you, and which the Government seek to take away., If there is anything to which, above all other things, you are entitled, it is the right' to hold public meet ings; when that is taken away, be sure despotisM is in the ascendant. But I know the million would be prepared, in the words addressed to Sir R. Walpole, " to die the last of British freemen, rather than live the first of British slaves."—(Cheers.) I fear that, amidst the wrongs under which this country is suffer ing, I have wandered too far from the compliment which you have honoured me by paying me.— (Cheers.) Believe me that your kindness this evening will be remembered to the last botir of my existence ; and if any reliance can be placed on the word of man, as you have .been pleased to approve of the course which I have taken, and as by continuing in , that course I shall continue to merit your approbation, -I beg to assure you, that so long as it shall please God to give me health and strength, - I will never swerve from that course.—(Cheering.) llonoured with your approbation, encouraged by your honest and disinte rested cheers, no exertion shall be spared on my part until, in the words of the first: resolution, the just rights of the million are \Van - and their manifold wrongs redressed.—(lmmense cheering.) following resolutions were- proposed and • se conded respectively by Mr. - Hetherington, Mr. Thompson, and Mr. Cleave ; ap!-1 by Mr. Parry and Mr. Thomas : "May Reformers of all shades . of opinion speedily perceive the necessity for cordiality and union in fa your of the People's Charter—a measure framed to con fer equal political rights, with Out which there are no hopes of ever obtaining equal political justice." " May inquiry in pursuit of - :truth be freed from all legal trammels ; may the Press be unshackled from its restrictions; may despotic judges he deposed, and unjust Magistrates be depriced of their arbitrary power; and may every obstacle to the purifying in fluences of knowledge be speedily removed." The meeting then broke up at a late- hour. Earl Spencer and the Hon. -Captain and )Irs. Fre derick Spencer and family, are passing the autumn at, Althorp-park, where a select family circle will shortly assemble. ACCIDENT ON THE BIRMINGHAM BAlLWAT.—Yes terday morning the down-traill, which leaves Lon don for Birmingham at six o'clock, met with an accident within a short distance of the Leigh ton station, in consequence of its coming in con tact with a bull that had jumped over the hedge, and was crossing the line. 'Three , carriages were thrown off the rails by the concussion, but fortunately the passengers escaped without the slightest injury. The legs of the poor beast were cut completely off, and the animal was otherwise' so - severely injured that he died almost instantaneously. In consequence of the occurrence the up-train wai delayed for more than an hour and a quarter, as well as the trains which left London. tell(-11llet3t:Ioultv M W O es n tm S i a n t s u te rd r, ay ti N a va v s i dburie William .i i - i S . L. r A e l g a o r n g . a e, ret E 's sq., Church, late Police Magistrate of Queen-sqore-office, to which he was appointed from the Western Circuit, coming from Christchurch, Oxford. - WS loss will be deepi y felt by the objects of miserriwho crowd the po lice-offices of this city;_ whilSt he judged in public, he gave in private. The prior In his own neigh bourhood will long remember bim as the fearless visitor of the sick, tbr, whilst others fled in the fearful season of the cholera. thii excellent man was seen at the bedside of the dying, cheering them, relieving them, and praying with them. Mr. Gregoric has left a widow and four - young children ; to her in affliction may be some consolation the,universal and deep re gretar y high-minded, and gentle . Baronet, whose death was announced in our obituary Tii t t e i ll'i l t :A a x 'f't i r S t l i n 'is .1: COWAN, BART.—The late Perth, by Mary yesterday, was born Mardi 18, .1774, and lolna . soen., quently in his GBth year. Ile married, Aug.l2:F2l,.lBslOir, a descendant Of . 1;S J I% ' . '(11): 1 11 :" ) , Int l 'si c ):11 , ;v o ' th I O' ‘ll:.f"aii third r‘l o s.a.i f fug ' ll: S: h:l t .t i n: r iir l itt i e n C'Ct g firlo ,7 ('a:ll- I, : ai : i n i (li s l : i 'f O it ns n 4lC t tl f .A o lfl ii i : uth ' i, n , e d e c d i , ty a , b al o . n u t , vi t , l a. i t e s fi s il l e rs t p i l l t e ll ic air in 18 % 1 . 7-13 - • r i GOVernrim'ent are in treaty e t 3 ie i l la ; re tre l e : i nG period 2 ua nno lb : d o a t e . f:Coro:l°:itleate:r.nnta understand I n a t j th e h s aa t t y ' o s c e :1. s i 0 with the Earl of 1-laddington for .the surrender of his which our readers are aware ` e improvements finished,on the rights as keeper over the Ring's Park, Edinburgh, alte rations, which NN'lten o 3 to the ancient ' .., _Palace of trolled power over this ggarr: grounds, d i I: aanlHldOosttbeurneo 'nl demesne, e im sn i e m , r 7 a ep: e r i a v t ao - ec to t bable that her Holyrood, as it is not impro. tant period, and the Palace will be in other respects -Majesty may revisit Scotland at nadia made fit for h 6. Majesty's reception and residence. THE LONG VAcAnos.—Yesterday the loch; va cation ceased. The offices of the several Courts re sumed business. Declarations are now filed and de livered, as well as rules given to plead. These matters are the precursors to bringing men to the payment of their debts, to failure, or a prison. There is a cessa tion in all pleadings from the 10th of August to the 24th of October, which is denominated in the profes sion the` "long vacation," . though term does not com mence until the 2d of November. nu: NEW MAYOR OF MAICHESTER.-11 rumour is correct. and no doubt it is, Alexander Kay and James Kershaw, Esqrs., will be put in nomination for the office of Mayor . for the. borough of Man cheater for the ensuing year. The probability is that the i la h t e te v‘ rge ork n i t n le g m e r as N s v e i e i sa are-B opt purchasing g r e i e n P g r a s n ss d slaughtering sheep for their own use, and thus eat their mutton at a comparatively low priee.—Doneas ter Chronicle. . . SLITIIER LANDSHIRE.-Pr Praechat to Ben INA all the t h oun t a i ns are thicklycoated with vf."" .boss-ahire Advertiser. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1842