The Sun. — London, England, 1842-10-28 00:00:00

l IHE BRITISH WATCH AND CLOCK- I Jury that it was more severe than is warranted MAKING COMPANY. by the law, yet in scantiness of diet, hardness of By Royal Letters Patent. Capital, 250,0001., in 10,000 shares of 251. each. Deposits, 22. 10s. per Share. To be in- I labour, and wretchedness of lodging,- it seems c , . porated, and the responsibility of each ,Shareholder to be , not [more severe than falls to the lot of a large ) n ited to the amount of TR Isis USTEES. Shares• portion of the labourers of England. We ha v e His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, B ran don, and Chatelherault, it on testimony which has never been disputed, Frederick Mildred, Esq., and John Howell, Esq. that great numbers of them have been subsisting DIRECTORS. with their families on Cs., and even 4s. a w ee k. -Mr. Addison, of D e l a b ay - street , Civil Engineer. Itfr. Parwise, St. Martin's-lane, Charing-cross, Chronometer, Those who could find no employment, were re .- Watch, and Clock-maker. duced to dig up carrion or feed on nettles; and Earnshaw, of Holborn, Chronometer, Watch, and Clock maker. many lay down and kept themselves s till t o avo id 31r. Hewett, of King-street, Tower-hill, Chronometer-maker. the pains of hunger. Thousa n d s w h o cou ld get Vieyreo, of Pall-mall, Watch-maker. • With power to add to their number. work did not make sixpence a day by fourteen MANAGING DIRECTORS—Messrs. Barwise and Earnshaw. hours' continuous;labour. As to their dwellings, SUPERINTENDENT—Mr. Ingold. ...PANxles-11Iessrs. Masterrnan, Peters, Mildred, and Co. it is only necessary to remind the reader of the Nicholas-lane, Lombard -street. Sanitary Report lately published, numerous ex- GENTs.—Messrs. Frodsham and Son, of Gracechurch-- tracts from which have been inserted in our own rect, for the City of London; Messrs. H owe ll, J ames , an d 'n., R ege nt-street, Pall-mall, for the West-end of London ; and other journals, to satisfy him that the cells 3 , les , ,rs. Durand, M'Kenzie, and Co., Milk -street, Cheapside, in Northleach are not worse than the dwellings I 'e the United States of America; Augustus Hudley, Esq., 15, of the poor. r,,gmorton-street, for Portugal, Spain, and Italy ; William insep, Esq., 1,", Great Cumberland-place, Hyde-park ; for We have only to open the Report, and at . ilia, China, and Australia ; Seward Large, Esq., of Cork, every page we find phrases like these—" The ha t ..rchant, for the West Indies ; Messrs. Braggiotti, Navone, a d Co., of Pinners-hall, Broad-street, London, for Turkey. bitations of the poor are distinguished by a dis • 0, abo u t 100 Watchmakers as Agents for the various Conn- agreeable smell." " The houses are surrounded I es of the United Kingdom. with wide open drains, full of animal and veget ;::3CßETAßY—Richard Paddison, Esq., No. 1, Great James street, Bedford- row . able refuse." "In most of th e h ouses are f ever SOLICITORS—Messrs. Mullins and Paddison. and other diseases." " Eleven persons sleep in a The objects of this Company are threefold: First—To carry one room." " Fifty persons dwell on a ground to practic e cer t a i n va l ua bl e i nvent i ons, whereby the manu- I ctore of watches will be greatly improved, and whereby, at floor, which is neither boarded nor paved." t • same time, large pecuniary advantages will accrue.—Se- " The springs burst through the mud floors of ;itheTradec . thmantet thean noPwubbleicoabttahionmede fmwr with cottages." " The co t tages o f t h e poor are of' stet : and To cheaper supply watches the ai goad; and Thirdly, to g ain the foreign as well as the home a mud wall, situated close to dykes, where water arket. is in a state of stagnation." " One room is for a An examination of the different machines would satisfy any or e acquainted with the watchmaking-business, that there is a whole family, and several large families, occupy -1" ,itive certainty of obtaining a profit of not less than 30 per ing one room each, dwell under the same roof." et it. upon the capital to be employed by the Company, and a " sr .ong probability of a muc h l arger pro fit ; and, t t t h e same The windows are k ep t a i r - t i g h t b y stuff i ng t r e the wa t c h ma k ers w ill b e ena bl e d to retail watches at a old garments in them." " Amongst the inha s se-ter profit to themselves, and at a less price to the public bitants prevail diseases of an eidemic character." t . an is now p rac ti ca bl e . p For the opinions of the public Press on this subject, see the " Small-pox, scarlatina, or the typhus, is seldom '5 nes, Morning Chronicle, and Evening Sun of the 24th, the absent from the dwellings." " Most of the resi merver of the 3d, and the Standard of the 22d instant. deuces of the labourers are thickly inhabited, Applications for prospectuses, containin g further particulars, for Shares, may be made to any of the Directors; to the and many of them are damp, low, cold, smoky, tiopolitan or Provincial agents; or to the Secretary. and comfortless." " Whole families, comprising adult and infant children, sleep in one room." But it is needless to quote testimony to the fact that the labourers of England are most wretch edly lodged, and the examples we have given are all from different places and from rural dis• tricts. To know that the dietary labour and lodging of Northleach, which are so deservedly branded by a Jury, and by the Press, are not worse than the dietary labour and lodging of a great portion of the labouring classes, can only excite the most painful reflection. But Northleach seems singular in severity, and we will now show, from the Seventh Report of the Inspectors of Prisons, what makes the prisons of Scotland so attractive that more persons would willingly take up their abode in them than can be admitted. The first thing ex traordinary mentioned in the Report is as to LIBRARIES. " Many of the prisons," says the Report, " are now provided with libraries;" and the mode in which they are used is thus described : oe Aberdeen it is said most of the prisoners are anxious to have library books : " few of the prisoners had been in the habit of reading before coming to prison." At Hamilton " the library is found to be a very useful instrument to elevate the prisoners' minds. Many persons are sent to this prison for offences committed under the excitement of drinking (people engaged about the collieries) ; they have no rational means of employing their evenings (out of gaol), and a man of this description has lately been reading " Robinson Crusoe " in prison with much advantage. It is probably the first book of entertainment he ever read." At Glasgow, "read ing books of an entertaining kind does not diminish the zeal of the prisoners for reading of a serious cha racter." At Edinburgh, Miss Frazer says, " I liked reading aloud to the prisoners. They all enjoyed it un conunonly.Many a time have I kept perfect order amongst the class, consisting of about sixty, by the promise of reading to them in the afternoon. They were so fond of really interesting matter, that I have frequently read a book twice through at their request. The Governor gives it as his opinion that a prison library should " contain many entertaining works." While the industrious labourers have no amusement of an evening, while the Magistrates have shut up public walks, and almost put an end to sports, felons have books of entertain ment and amusement provided for them at the public expense, and lady governesses and teachers read to theirs. Instruction is " given to all the prisoners in the simplest and most direct form." In several instances " a good useful handwriting has been acquired in a period from two to six months." " The instruction is carried beyond reading and writing." Persons who are sent to prison are thus placed in a better situation for learning than many thousands of those who are not sent within the walls. One little girl says, " I was once in the House of Refuge. I learnt my letters there. My father came and took me away. I have learnt to hem and sew here. I like working, and I like to learn to read." `` They learn weaving, sewing, and other useful kinds of labour." All that is most commend able; but the condition of the industrious classes in receipt of 45., 65., or 7s. a-week wages does not enable them to provide that education for their children which is properly given in gaols. Let it not be said that there are great and good gentlemen and ladies who establish schools for the children of the poor; to accept that compels them to come under an obligation to those whom they probably dislike. They ought to be able by the fruits of their own honest industry to command a good education for their offspring. Connected with this subject the Report con tains a striking evidence of the falling off in the rewards of labour. "The amount," it says, "of clear earnings last year was little more than 21. per head, whereas four years ago the clear earnings were nearly Cl. per head, and seven years ago when trade was very good, the earnings were nearly 8/. per head, though the prisoners are more industrious at the present time than ever." Such was the falling off in the value of prison labour, and such, or something like it, must have been the falling off in the reward of labour exercised out of prisons. Need we wonder at the existence of distress. Clothing is of the cheapest and most desirable kind. It is either of homespun or moleskin. But at Stranraer " they are to have additional winter clothing." In Linlithgow " Guernsey frocks and flannel drawers are to be provided for the pri soners in winter," and " additional clothing is to be obtained for the female prisoners." To show how well they are to be attended to, we may re mark that it is said of Edinburgh, " there has been much irregularity in supplying clean stock ings to the female prisoners." All that indicates only due and proper care of the prisoners ; but how many thousand suffering, hardworking la bourers in England will have no additional cloth ing for the winter, and neither Guernsey frocks for themselves, nor flannels for their wives and little ones? All the prisons, instead of being built in low, flat, swampy places, surrounded with ditches filled with putrid matter, are pl aced in general on high and commanding, and certainly healthy, sites. The floors are carefully laid, not made of trodden earth, through which the springs force their way up. The buildings are carefully venti lated and warmed, and we find one gaol of which it is said that an ARNOTT'S stove was put up in every corridor, because there was no other convenient means of heating it. The poor will shiver in their dwellings with little or no firing. The prisoners have exercise and airing yards. Compared to the cottages and hovels of the in dustrious poor the gaols are as much superior in cleanliness, comfort, and warmth, as they are su perior in external appearance, and they are fre quently so grand that they lock more like palaces than gaols. Now we turn to the moral condition of th e pri soners, many of whom, we are told, are so well " aware of the moral advantages of their present position, that they often state voluntarily that their imprisonment has been a fortunate thing for them." " They leave the prison," it is said, "in a better state of mind and feeling than when they entered it." " Great care is taken to provide suitable situations for prisoners on their libera tion." The Governor of Glasgow prison, Mr. By t EBNER, a man who does honour to humanity, "h a s during the last th ree years advanced small sums of money to assist p ersons on their libera tion from prison to establish themselves; andout o f fifty cases there were only two instances in COPLAND'S MEDICAL DICTIONARY. On Friday neat, Nov. 4th, will be published, Part 8 of I R. COPLAND'S MEDICAL DICTIONARY. * -# A Sheet of Advertisements will be inserted. Advertisers are requested to send as soon as possible, and at .3t Tuesday next. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. W . NOVEL, BY THE AUTHOR OF " CON STANCE," "ANNE BOLEYN," &c. Now ready, in 3 vols. post &Ivo. V IDOWS AND WIDOWERS. A Novel. By Mrs. THOMSON, A tale of finely-sustained and highly-wrought effect. oughout the ability to construct and the skill and taste to n and finish, have kept pace with the higher offices of the ; and cultivation, experience, reflection, and imagina have produced incomparably the most polished, thnughtful, captivating of Mrs. Thomson's writings. It is, indeed, a . which must take its place in the highest rank of fictions .cure. —Literary Gazette. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. To be had at all the Libraries. If ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEO. CRUIKSILANK, LEECH, AND CROWQUILL, he NOVEMBER NUMBER, price Half-a-Crown., of ENT LEY'S MIS CELLA:NY. CONTENTS: LEDBURY'S ADVENTURES AT HOME AND ABROAD. By ALBERT SMITH. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY LEECH. hapter 111. Of the manner in which Mr. Ledbury was exa d by the Municipal Guard, and of his interview with the eet of Police. h..pter IV. Of the Quartier Latin, and of Mr. Le dbary's inns therein. C lapter V. Of the evening party given by Mr. Ledb my and Jed . Johnson to certain students and grisettes, at their:iooms in the Rue St. Jacques. The Haunted Mine, by R. B. Peake. The Life and Songs of Anacreon, by Barney Braila? An. Her First Visit Afloat, by the Author of " The Na• vat Sketch be &c. A C tmpaign with the Christinos in 1838 and 1839,. 'by Charles F. Fynes Clinton. The Dying Child. The Persian Spy, by J. B. Fraser, Esq. The Junior Barrister. 31a1; y Vengeance, by H. R. Addison. The Youth's Death, by Mrs. Howitt. A I - aitor's Doom, by H. R. Addison. Aid onumental Pic-nic. Balk J Literature of Ancient Greece, by Dr. W. C.. Taylor. Pad( y Carroll, the Piper, by Bryan O'Halloran, wi th an Blas— ts: :ion by George Cruikshank. The Plii!o.imphy of Fighting, Edited and Illustrated by Alfred Jwquill. Z i a .byT. J. Ouseley. Rich ir3 Savage, by Charles 'Whitehead. Plat rig a Newaub on the Musnud, by H. R. Addis/ft i. 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L THE DIVIDENDS PAYABLE WITHOU r ANY DEDUCTION WHATEVER: has' for the few Bonds which are still on sale, WI TROUT DE LAY, to HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURC 3 3o.nds are on sale NOW at £l3. Against the e id of this Mt nth the price will rise to £l4, and the Sale will ci es-s in the Ar days of November. ! hi:fie who remit £l5 BEFORE the 28th instant,, will re dti :e order for £2 upon our London Bankers, togcti ser with th. Bond. ro those ordering too late for being attended to, t their re sssi will be returned by first post. HEINE BROTHEL tS. , lA3IBURGH, October 4, 1842. -- • THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDIU 1. THIS EVENING, OCT. 28, ' , Add bo presented Shakspeare's Tragedy of MI tI.:IIETH. beth, Mr. Vandenhoff ; Macduff, Mr. Cha des Pitt ; Bent no, Mr. Cooper ; Laity Macbeth, Mrs. Salzber i< ; Hecate, Leffler; First Witch, Mr. Bartley; SeCond Vitch, Mr. M 3.(if;w3; Third Witch,Mr. Harley. _after which, the New Farce, called COUSIN Lf I. MBKIN. solire Mulberry, Mr. Bartley ; Captain Bantam, Walter y ; Doctor Lionel Lambkin, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. B an t am , M .; Cooper i • Rose Maynard, Mi ss L eo ; Dainty, Mrs • H um b y. To conclude with the Ballet Divertisseme n t of THE W')ODEN LEG. Characters by Mr. Gilbert, s Bailin, 31. ,ter and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and T. Ridg way, and ;t3 Jackson. Jeors open at Half-past Six, and the Performa? s :es corn •:.ee at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Pric a 3s. jd. ; and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d ; Pit 3s; -(ind Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of klr. Whit loo•-• , at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, wh( ao Season Ti .kets may be had.; Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ' • of M essrs. An- Alre..v 3, 167, New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bc fad-street; Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. 11142. Tht ad ni mi ;1$ tin a an not liter; WII Snip, IPre THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, OCT. 28, IsTill be presented THE MISER'S DAUOHTM R, which bee been for some time in preparation, and will be produced wit New Scenery, Dresses, and Novel Effects, coati .ning all the esources of the Theatre. The Piece dramatised. from the pol ilar Work of the same name, by . Mr. Edward Stiin4 , by per - van- ion of the Author, W. Harrison Ainsworth, ' Esq., who, in eon. unction with George Cruikshank, Esq., v; ill personally supt.rintend the numerous Tableaux, &c., as illustr aced in " A insworth's Mzine." ~After wlsieh, T HE DAUGHTER OF THE DA .:NUBE. nt. hiq's .Mr, Wieland ; Fleur-des-Champs, Mdme . Proche " The Frightful, Spiteful, Old Bachelor ," Mrs. 11,„ P. Cretan: - o conclude vitt NORMA. Pollio, Mrs. H. P. ( ;rattan ; lsre2 na, Mr. ?aul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. ''` h * Pits 2 s. ; Gallery, is. Doors open at hualf-past ”ommence at se ven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEAT RE.. THIS EVENING OCTOBER 28, 11 ill be acted a New Drama,'entitled ESTELLE Dua lAS, cup urted by the entire Co mm ,. fter which, the Nautical Tama of POOR JACK; or, WIFE OF A SAILOR. Poor Jack, Mr. T. P. Cooke, wh -• , e performance attracts nightly overflows. Eleanor .Mrs. ; conclude with Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called BLANCHE HERIOT, which has me t with most decid .pd Neville Audely, Mr. H. Hughes Hugh Ltheret, taE; N. T. Hicks; He rrick Evenden, Mr. J. Web s t er ; Blanche tier •,r, Mrs. R. Honner. PI ices and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. K erschner, at the lior•o ffi ee, from eleven f ou r. to I.ltitl. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Tms DAY - . - 1401 ' , 1g 3 minutes after 8 I Evening 43 minutes aPler ti. ase7__ , , 4 • 'fro , : _;., ' , -:=.' . , ~,, ,„ f 1.7 ._O . o. u , _ .. s .; , ~ . 4 ~, ,-,.i., ‘,. , - ' .-.. . ...., -.,....„ . .„.,. , . _.__ zit _,lnt LONDON FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28, T judge from the Seventh Report of the In gpec:ors of Prisons, which we yesterday men tion c!cl, the treatment of prisoners in Northlatch House of Correction is of unexampled severity, l a Cho Jgh we must infer from the verdict of the TILE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER: 2R, 1 R 42 which he lost a single penny." It seems that persons in power and authority look on the pri soners as having a claim on them, and they do that for them which is not done for independent and honest labourers. Mr. BREBNER has fifty voluntary prisoners in his gaol, not forty, as the Report incorrectly states—and " the num ber of applications has been much greater since trade became so bad." A married woman, who committed a trifling crime, that she might be sent to gaol, because she did not know how otherwise to get in, says, " this is a blessed place; I never knew there was such a place for a poor wretched woman, and if the Go vernor will let me, I will stay after my sentence is over." " The Governor is a blessed man," says another: " he is more like a father than a maister. lam determined to stay here after my sentence is over, if the maister will allow me." " I intend," says another, " to stay a voluntary prisoner, if Mr. BREBNER will let me, till times are better." "Itis a fact," says the Report of the Edinburgh Prison, " that the scant fare and poor accommodation of a prison is luxury itself compared to the wretchedness endured by many of them (juvenile offenders) when out of it. A poor child, not quite eight years old, had been committed to prison, accused of child stripping. I was hearing her repeat her lesson, and asked her if she wished for any thing? when she eagerly s yid, I wish my little brother was here ; and on being asked why, she replied, because he would get some porridge!" Can we need any further evidence that, morally and physically, a gaol is a better place than the homes of many of the industrious and honest poor ? We earnestly wish that those who have the management of our affairs would study this Re port, and in studying it, ask themselves " what. have we done for behoof of the toiling millions?" It may be gratifying to them perhaps to observe that a wonderful improvement has been made in prisons i❑ Scotland, which, from having been some of the worst, are now some of the best or dered of the empire; but can it be equally gra tifying to be convinced that as the condition of felons has improved, the condition of the work ing classes has grown worse ? Under their aus pices gaols have become comfortable, and homes desolate places. Vice is rewarded and honesty suffers. The felon is well taken care of; the toil. ing labourer starves. So pleasant is the account which Mr. HILL gives of the order in gaols—of the honesty which there grows up—of the at tachment which arises between a kindly Governor and those who never before knew what kindness was—that a feeling of regret stole through our mind as we read it that the whole society could not be placed in gaols and under prison discipline. Such a feel ing convinced us, however, that there must be something fundamentally wrong in society, when gaol life appears better than freedom, and when men, women, and children, must commit crimes to improve their condition. It can be no satis faction, at least it ought not to be, to those who have had the management of our affairs, to see this terrible result of legislation, which since 1815, has been exclusively and assiduously di rected to our internal economy. We rejoice to see that the farmers and land- lords are recovering their spirits. At the dinner of the East Sussex Agricultural Association at Lewes on Friday last, Mr. DARBY consoled his suffering and desponding constituents by such language as the following:— The fact was that an attempt was made to get up a panic in the country ; and the attempt had succeeded. If they looked at the newspaper reports, they should take care not to be cheated by them. Let them. look at the actual quantity of meat that was imported, and see how long it would last for London consumption. Let them also look to the differences in the prices, and then look to the consumption of the country. Look to the sales at Smithfield per week, and compare them with the true quantity of meat imported, and ask them selves what effect the importation could have. "Don't," said Mr. Darby, " be cheated out of your beasts." The chances, he thought, were that the importation of cattle would not increase. The panic was got up to enable dealers to buy cheap ; and he (Mr. D.) wrote down from London that if the farmers sold their beasts for a less price than what they were worth independently of the tariff, they were doing wrong. The number of beasts imported was 4,800 in the whole ; and this could not affect the prices to the extent of the fall. With respect to the salt beef, suppose it came in, it was quite as likely to affect the price of Dutch butter and cheese as beef.—(Hear, hear.) Till the cattle were imported in sufficient quantities to affect the prices, what he said was— " Don't, by your own acts, knock down the price for your own stock." He did not want meat up so high as last year ; because, whenever this took place, a re action was certain to follow. If the price did get up to ss. a stone, and foreign meat came in, and brought the price down to 4s. 6d., he did not object to the com petition. At the same meeting Mr. ELLMAN said• " His own feeling was, that if they could retain the present Corn-laws and Tariff, there was no thing to prevent them from going on well, pro vided they were fairly treated by their land lords, and were not frightened out of their senses." It is only necessary for them to re cover their wits, and inspire the landlords with a little virtue, to be a most successful race. They declare they are no longer afraid. Nay, some of them begin to invite competition ; and at one meeting it was declared that England would yet become an exporting country of agricultural, as of manufacturing produce. Wonderful, indeed, are the effects of the com petition to which the Tariff has exposed the landed interest. The fall of prices has made them think of what is likely to be their lot. They must struggle to live, and they are encou raging one another to renewed exertions. They are promising us improved breeds of cattle, great systems of under-draining, a better mode of let ting land, new crops, better tillage, and to culti vate all England like the Lothians. If a little competition have already had such a beneficial influence, what would be the effect of extending it? For our parts, we have long been of opinion, and have more than once said, that were trade free, England would export considerable quan tities of agricultural produce; but to dream of becoming an exporting country while a law is maintained to keep prices here higher than abroad—to enhance the cost of agricultural pro duce—to raise rent and lower profit—is a most absurd dream. Abolish the Corn-law, grow corn cheap in England, and the skill of English farmers will, we have no doubt, defy the world. line n u e of ebdrsgi policyeht h which prospectsh accessioni c h f the or i leis o n c g 0 of country, then P t r • T yR Thronesasnt d h ai holds pi eu out rl furnishes an example which cannot fail to excite the envy, and perhaps the fear, of the adjoining States. He has been the most active agent in forming the German Commercial League, which, if we may judge from the enthusiasm it created among many millionsspeaking the same languaae will be followed by important p o li t i ca l results, and raise up in time a powerful confederacy, able and willing to defend their rights against all aggres. sors. The merciful disposition he is known to entertain towards Poland has not only increased his authority in that country, but among his own subjects, and all civilized States. This ge nerous and noble conduct has been followed by a liberal line of policy within his own dominions, in summoning yearly the States-Gemmel to deliberate on questions submitted to them by the KING'S Ministers. Though the questions for discussion will be left to the Government, and the decisions of the Chambers may either be adopted or rejected by the SOVEREIGN, it cannot be denied that he has made a most important concession to public opinion, arid commenced a system which may lead at length to the fulfilment of all the pro mises made by his father. In fact these Provincial States form at present, to a certain extent, a Parlia ment for determining what are the wants most ge nerally felt in the country, discussing subjects of trade, commerce, and the general interests of the different provinces; and, above all, for conveying advice to the Executive on great admi.iistrative questions. In the paternal speech addressed to them by the KING, through his Mi nister, at the opening of the sessions on the 19th, there is much to admire; and we re commend it to to the especial attention of our Legislators, who pass laws only for certain class. ber of horses from Tarsus, which were conveyed by two frigates to Alexandria, and were intended for the same destination. An extraordinary robbery was committed at Alex andria on the 28th ult. The palace of OSMAN PACII A, the Commander of the Viceroy's guards, was entered by some thieves, who stole the General's decoration, his sabre, and 10,000 piastres. The delinquents had not been disco vered. The French engineer MANGLL had re ported to the Viceroy that the plan of canalizing the Nile was much more practicable than he at first expected. It was the Paella's intention to have sluices fixed at Rosetta and Damietta to prevent the water of the sea flowing into the Nile. A sluice was likewise intended to be made at Atfe, where the canal of Malimoudieli communicates with the Nile, by which means boats might proceed from Alexandria to Cairo directly. The French steamer Cameleon ar rived at Alexandria on the 4th inst., having on board 109 pilgrims from Algeria on their way to Mecca. This act of policy on the part of the French Government had created a deep impres sion on the -Mussulmans of Alexandria. A new bank had been formed at Alexandria, under the title of ISMALUN, VALENSIN, and Co., with a ca pital of 65,000 dollars. The Smyrna papers of the 9th inst. state, that the Austrian frigate Venere, bearing Admiral BANDEIRA'S flag, arrived at Smyrna, from Syria, on the 4th inst., and the British corvette Ma gicienne returned to Vourla, from a short cruise along the adjoining coast, on the Bth. M. CLE MENT BOULANGER, a French painter, who accom panied M. TEXIER in his exploration of the ruins of Magnesia, died of an attack of brain fever on the 28th ult. The English steamer Iberia, be longing to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, touched at Smyrna on the 4th, coming from Constantinople. She had on board a valuable cargo, and no less than 260 cases of silk. Advices from Athens of the 10th inst. an nounce the return of the KING and QUEEN on the 9th, from a short tour through the Islands. Rumours of a change in the Cabinet were afloat, but were not considered well-founded. Two new journals had made their appearance at Patras. In their first number, they called upon the KING to fulfil the promise he made on his ac cession to the throne, to give a Constitution to Greece, and on the protecting Powers, but par ticularly England, to insist on the accomplish ment of a pledge which they had guaranteed. The Iberia steamer reached Athens on the 6th, and proceeded the same day on her voyage to Malta. Madrid papers and letters of the 17th and 18th have been received. The Eco del Comercio of the former date publishes a long reply to the necrological article on DIEGO LEON, contained in the Herald° of the 16th. It likewise expresses deep sympathy for the fate of " that brave offi cer," but with this difference, that it considers his condemnation perfectly legal, and then calls on the vanquished of September to sacrifice their rancour and resentment on the altar of the country, and to rally round the throne of IsA BELLA II.—" a course which would more speed ily promote the reconciliation of all Spaniards than angry and futile recriminations." It appears that the Financial embarrassments of the Captain-General of Catalonia become greater every day, and that dispatches pour into Madrid, requiring the Government to transmit funds. Two Cabinet Councils have been held on this grave affair, but they have produced no sa tisfactory result. The Infant Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA and his family were very popular in Saragossa. On the 14th a serenade was given to the Prince by the chasseurs of the first battalion of militia, one of whom sang verses to the tune of the Jota Ara gonesa, in which each stanza was concluded by these words :—" Count upon our swords; should any one attempt to sow disunion among us, come to Saragossa, brave Intitnt of SPAIN." On the 17th the Three per Cents. were done at 21i at 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 26k, 27, 27 1 1 I, at 60 days. The debt bearing no interest sold for 5 946, at 60 days; and on the following day the Five per Cent.. were done at 26 7-16 fior cash, and 27 at 60 days. The Paris papers contain little political news of importance. The intended review of several re giments by th e K ING on M on d ay was p u t o ff, as of the journal s , is alleged, on account of the ba d weat h er ; a de greerarely displayed for soldiers, even in campaign. On this subject the Presse makes the following remarks : Having, however, for some reason or other re called the order that the troops should hold themselves in readiness to be reviewed, the King sent for the corps of officers to the Tuileries, and received them in the Salle des Marechaux. His Majesty, surrounded by the Dukes de Nemours and Alontpensier, his aides de-camp, and several general officers, expressed his regret that the unfavourable state of the weathershould have deprived him of the pleasure of seeing the troops. His Majesty then distributed, with his own hand, the decorations granted to the different officers and sub officers of the 39th and 65th of the line, which regi ments are about to change their garrison, together with some officers and non -commissioned officers of the Municipal G uard and the gen d ar merie de la S e i ne. The King enj o y s and superior offi cers had the h onour to dine with hi s Majesty." most excellent health. The general the Comma n d-i n-Chief of The appoi n t ment of General JACQUE3IINOT to the Paris National Guard, is loudl y condemne d b y t he Opposition ft, interests, without the slightest regard for the ge- !journals. The oaths were administered to him in neral good of the great community. " Un- 1 the KING'S closet on Sunday in the usual form. doubtedly," said the KING, " there will be ex- It would seem from a long article which the pressed in this assembly various opinions, and, National publishes against the system of military as occurs amongst men, they will be defended expeditionz pursued by General BUGEAUD in forcibly; but thatvery factisnecessaryinorder that Algeria, that the French were beginning to tire it may be well ascertained what is required of that expensive toy. for the general good. But when contrary "We are far from demanding," says the National, opinions, arising from the parti cu l a r i n t eres t s o f "that France s h ou ld a b an d on h er conquests in the each province, or f rom th e diff eren t manner i n north of Africa : b u t i nasmuc h as we apprec i ate its which the subject is l o ok e d a t, s h a ll b e arraye d importance, we consider it the more neces sar y t o p o i n t against each other, l e t it a l wa y s b e cons id ere d a out the situation of affair s th ere , an d th e expenses t h at attend the occupation of Algeria under the present brotherly competition, maintained with a view Government. With respect to the preservation of the to the well-being of Prussia, which is in common troops employed there, the following fact will serve to dear to all—let the friendly conflict always take illustrate the system :—There exist at the moment we place with a conviction that you are assembled are writing 24,000 sick in the military hospitals of Africa. G enera l B uge aud, in his last ex p e diti on here as member s o f th e same p o li t i ca l b o d y, and the faithful su bj ec t s o f t h e same Ki ng. " ags t iin , s . t tb ßen Salem, had great difficulty in collecting, o 80,000 men under his command, column The prudence displ a y e d b y t h e K ING i n t h us of 3,000 or 4,000 convalescent combatants, and even preparing his people for a representative govern- to form this small force he was obliged to form one ment, also deserves great praise, and forms a battalion of sappers, engineers, and artill er y men . most remarkable con t ras t t o t h at o f some ot h er - Wi t hi n t h e last twelve years Africa has consumed rulers, who make Constitutions in a few days, 70,000 of our troops, the least part of whom fell and jump at once fr om d es p ot i sm to t h e oppo - under the balls of the Arab s : th e rema i n d er di ed site extreme. If a s i m il ar pl an h a d b een under the influence of the burning sun, the frosty adopted in Sicily, N a pl es , an d ot h er I ta li an nights, and the p es til en ti a l mars h es o f Algeria. States, the jealousy o f th e d es potic Governments These are, we conf ess , enemies difficult to combat but it would. ha ve b een certa i n l y very possible to of Austria and Russia would not have been have rendered their effects less fatal by adopting a roused, and advances might have been made in more rational system of war. It may be said that legislation and in general improvements, which the troops which incurred those chances in the moun could not fail to hav e th e b es t e ff ec t s on th e con - tains of the Atl as h ave a t l east acqu i red experience in dition of the people. E ver y f r i en d o f lib er ty the art of war, and so become a n e l emen t o f f orce f or and good governme n t, th ere f ore , mus t re j o i ce France. No doubt good soldi ers an d exce ll en t o ffi cers are formed in Af r i ca , b u t t h e f o ll ow i ng fact will at the change which has taken place prove that the army, notwithstanding the kepys with in Prussia, not on account of that king- which some regiments are adorned, is not much re dom only, but for its effects on the cruited by the warriors of Africa. Last year, out of sovereigns and pe o pl e o f th e surroun di ng 10,000 sick which l e ft h os pit a l s i n Al ger i a, 2,000 only States. If the syst em wor k we ll, i t cannot could rejoin their reg i me nts. Those fact s are no t t o long be confined to one ki ng d om , b u t mus t ex be found in th e bulletins destined to o bt a i n th e s t a ff of Field-Marshal or the epaul e tt es o f G enera l f or t h e tend to Austria and even Russia, carrying with favourites at the Tuileries ; but it is necessary that it the blessings of civilization, and attaching the the French nation should be informed of these details, people to their rulers by the most effective of all in order to know the value and the expense of the bands—those of esteem, gratitude, and love. system pursued for the last 12 years." The Paris papers publish the address of the [ General on taking the command of the National Guards, in which he expresses his regret at Marshal GERARD'S retirement, and declares his determination to follow in his fbotsteps, calling . fur the co-operation of his comrades to support . the glorious revolution of 1830, and reminding , the citizen soldiers that he had requested Gene ral CARBONEL to act as chief of the Staff, as that officer had been in the same situation under General LAFAYETTE in 1830. "It would appear," says the Revue de Paris," that the political difficulties which have arisen between us and England are not drawing to a close. We were too hasty in thinking that England had definitively given up all hope of our ratifying the treaty of 1841, and in announcing that, the protocol being finally closed, the other Powers had recognised that France was no longer a party to the treaty. Matters, however, are not so far advanced. Lord Cowley, on his return from London a few days ago, is said to have declared, in the name of his Government, that the protocol was still con sidered open, and to have demanded if it were true that the French Government intended to suffer the Conventions of 1831 and 1833 to fall into disuse. The warrants delivered by France to British cruisers, are only available until February 1843. The English Cabinet, it seems, cannot conceive that France should refuse to execute the treaty of 1833: Thus matters rest. Ministers seem well convinced that the ratification of the treaty of 1841 is impossible, and we are sure that they have no intention of ratifying , it, but they have not yet considered themselves justi fied in making a categorical declaration respecting the Conventions of 1831 and 1833." The Semaphore de Marseilles of the 21st inst. states that the fourteen Arabian horses sent as a present to the KING of the FRENCH by the PACIIA of EGYPT were landed from the. Nile steamer on the preceding day. They are described as re markably fine horses, and as having suffered very little by the passage. The National states, that commercial failures in Paris are increasing with alarming rapidity. Within the first twenty days of the present month, thirty-seven bankruptcies have been de clared by the Tribunal de Commerce. The Administration of Customs had published the returns of the imports into France during the month of September last, from which it appears that the quantity of colonial sugar imported amounted to 10,80%167 kilogrammes; foreign sugar to 3,023,008 ; coffee, 2,039,548 ; raw cotton, 4,181,573 ; olive oil, 3,802,243; wool, 2,257,000; coal, 43,6 . 98,539; cast iron, 1,801,916; copper, 1,115,680; indigo, 246,193; hempen and flaxen thread, 289,055; linen, 234,753, &c. It was reported on the Bourse on Tuesday that 12. ALTAROCHE, editor of the Charivari, had been killed that morning in a duel with a Captain on the Staff of the National Guard, who chal lenged him in consequence of an article in that paper reflecting upon the choice of General JACQUEMINOT for the command of the Paris National Guard, but private accounts state that the report is entirely without foundation. The Moniteur contains a Royal ordinance, authorising the Orleans Railroad Company to raise a loan of 10,000,000 f. for the completion of the works. Private correspondence from Alexandria, dated the oth inst., announces the return of the Egyp tian fleet to that port on the 29th ult., after a cruise of 27 days. On the following day the Ad miral, SAID PACIIA, proceeded into Lower Egypt to inspect his villages there. IBRAHIM PACHA had previously gone in the same direc tion, but MEHEMET ALI remained at Alexandria to celebrate the month of the Ramazan, a period of fasting and prayer. The Pacha had disposed of 10,000 ardebs of wheat, and a like quantity of beans, to M. ROSETTI. The disease amongst the oxen had caused dreadful losses, 84,000 of those animals having perished throughout Egypt. The Pacha had in consequence been obliged to send three regiments of artillery, with their horses, to his farms, in order to assist in tilling the ground. He had likewise imported a num- BOURSE—PARIS, TCESDAY, OCTOBER 25. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 118 80... 118 80... 118 70... 1,18 70 41 , per Cents. 106 60... 106 60... 106 60... 106 60 Four per Cents. 101 25... 101 '25 .. 101 25... 101 25 3 per Cents 80 5... 80 10... 80 ... 80 5 Bank of France 3270 ...3275 ...3270 .. 3275 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1055 ..1055 ...10a5 —.1055 5,000 f 5085 —.5085 —.5080 ...5060 Belgian Fives lO3 ... 103 ... 103 ... 103 1840 lo4* ... 104* ... 104* ... 104* Portuguese Fives 321 ... 321 ... 824 ... 324 Neapolitan... lOB 45... 108 45... 108 45... 108 45 Roman RAILWAY SHARES Versailles, R. 13 ...... 265 ... 265 ... 260 ... 260 L.B lO5 ... 105 ... 95 96 25 Rouen Orleans. 585 ... 585 ... 58.5 ... 585 Strasburg to Bale 207 56,.. 207 50... 207 50... 207 b 0 The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel arrived in town yesterday morning from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Right Hon. Baronet left town in the afternoon for his seat in Staffordshire, to receive her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, who is expected to honour Sir Robert and Lady Peel with a visit at Drayton Manor. INDISPOSITION OF VISCOUNT MELBOURNE.-011 Wednesday letters were received at the Reform Club, from Brocket Hall, Hefts, from which we learn that the Noble Viscount had nearly recovered from his indis position. We understand it was on Sunday morning when his Lordship was attacked by symptoms which caused considerable alarm to Lord and Lady Beau vale, who were staying with Viscount Melbourne at the time, and an express was immediately dispatched to Viscountess Palmerston, the Noble Viscount's sis ter, to apprise her of his Lordship's illness. The messenger arrived at Viscount Palmerston's mansion, on Carlton-terrace, late on Sunday a ft ernoon , an d both Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston being in town, they instantly departed for Brocket. Dr. Hol land, the Noble Viscount's medical attendant, was also sent for, and likewise waited upon his Lordship with the least possible delay. On Monday his Lord ship was exceedingly unwell, but has since continued to improve, and we are happy to hear is now fast ap proaching a state of convalescence. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston and Lord and Lady Beauvale are still staying at Brocket. HEALTH OF LORD MELBOURNE.--Last night, on an inquiry at the house of the Noble Lord, in South street, Grosvenor-square, the following bulletin was obtained of the improved state of health of his Lordship : " His Lordship has passed a very favourable night, and is doing as well as can be expected under the late severe attack." Several carriages belonging to noble individuals were in the neighbourhood, and for several hours previous a great many families had left their cards at the town residence of the Noble Viscount. , THE LATE MARQUIS WRLLESLEY.—The attach went of Lord Wellesley to Eton was of so ardent a nature, that, when in the course of conversation it was suggested that a public funeral in Westminster Abbey should crown a life spent, as his had been, in the service of his country, he expressed a decided pre ference to have his remains placed in Eton College Chapel. Shortly afterwards he wrote the following lines :—" Lord Wellesley wishes to be interred in the chapel of Eton College, with the following lines en graved on his tomb : " Fortune; rerumque vagis exercitus undis In gremium redeo serus, Etona, tuum : Magna sequi, et summm mirari culmina fame, Et purum antiqur lucis adire jubar, Auspice te, didici Puer, atque in limine vita Ingenuas verse laudis amare vias. Si qua meum vitae decursu gloria nomen Auxerit, aut si quis nobilitaret honos, Muneris, Alma, tui est : altrix da terra sepulerum, Supremam lacrymam da 1 memoremque mei 1 " Kingston House, Jan. 5, 1842. 14 w. ,, What periodical paper has the greatest circulati on ? —The income-tax paper.--,Punch. SUMMARY tF NEWSi AND ottiott 1-ptitton. " IVho runs nzay read.' FOREIGN. The Levant mail has arrived with letters and papers of late dates. The intelligence, which will be found elsewhere, is not important. Barcelona advices of the 18th state that a dreadful storm on the coast of Valencia and Catalonia had caused considerable ravages. The police at Paris have seized on several copies of a pamphlet, published by Laine, the bookseller in the Passage Verot-Dodat, entitled "Lord Guizot, Alinis tre de l'Etranger en France." The same work was seized at some other booksellers, where a second pamphlet was on sale, entitled " Les Ministres sur la Sellette,ou les Dix Commandemens," with this motto— " Saint Angleterre adoreras, Guizot l'ordonne expressement." The fourteen horses sent by the Pacha of Egypt as a present t o th e Ki ng o f the French, were landed on the 19th at Marseilles. They are remarkably fine animals. We learn by a letter from Copenhagen that a new system of recruitment for the army is under discus sion by the Danish Ministry. It is said, that in future, instead of making peasants, as at present, exclusively liable to military service, the obligation will be im posed on all classes. According to the proposed plan, there are to be three branches of the army, viz., the regular troops, whose period of service will be four years, and two classes of militia, one of eight, and the other of four, years' service. The Courrier du Havre says :—" A cabin boy on board the Recherche, the natural son of a Count, has just received information that his father had died, after having acknowledged him, and bequeathed to him a fortune of 20,000 f. a year." The number of suicides is shown to be on the in crease in all the capitals of the Continent. The Emperor of Russia left Warsaw on the 14th inst. for St. Petershurgh. On the same evening, the Grand Duke Michael, brother of the Emperor, arrived at Warsaw. It appears that new negotiations are about to be opened between Russia and the Papal Government. A letter from Rome, 13th inst., announces the arrival in that city of Captain Gregorieff from St. Peters burgh, with important despatches. The Senate of Hamburgh has invited M. C. Motz, the Consul of Bremen at Bordeaux, to perorin the functions of Consul ffillamburgh, ad interim, in con sequence of M. Meyer having ceased to be Consul- General of the Senate in that city. M. Berryer, who was to have set out for Germany, is detained at Angerville, by the serious indisposition I of his son. MONEY-TRADE-CODTIV/EUCE. The anniversary meeting of the proprietors of the Isle of Thanet steam-vessels, shipowners, &c., was held at that pl ace a t th e b eg i nn i ng of the week. About 80 gentlemen sat down to dinner, and it was stated that the Company possessed above 40 large ships, containing above 25,000 tons, exceeding thereby even the Government steam-vessel establishment. ECCLESEJISTICAM. The Bishop of Exeter has announced that he shall require from all candidates for holy orders, who have been educated at the University of OxfOrd, the certifi cates from the two new Professors of Sacred Literatui e, so soon as the new statute shall be in full activity. Similar demands will, of course, be made from candi dates from the University of Cambridge. AGRICULTURAL. On Wednesday last the Duke of Richmond dined about 200 of his tenantry, in his new hall at Huntly. His Grace in future will hold an annual show of cattle at Gordon Castle, and give premiums to the extent of 1001. per annum, for improvements in the breed of cattle, and in agriculture, by his tenants. NAVAL AND MILITARY. A valuable American vessel, named Le Havre. was totally destroyed by fire on Thursday week, while lying off Bordeaux. She was of 600 tons burthen, and laden with silks and merchandise, for which she was insured only in part. The crew have been ar rested on suspicion of having wilfully caused the calamity. LAW AND POIZCIE. The following verdict on the Northleach case was returned by the Jury on Tuesday—" That Charles Beale died of consumption, brought on and aggravated by his treatment in Northleach prison," z eco npanied with their unanimous vote of disar probat'on upon the Governor, surgeon, and under turnkey of the prison. It is understood that the Jury intend forwarding a memorial to Sir J. Graham res pecting Northleach gaol and other prisons in the courity. On Wednesday James Powell, vmployed by a linen draper in Noble-street, was charged with stealing upwards of 60 linen-shirts, and three other persons with receiving part of the property. The prisoners were committed for trial. An inquest, on Saturday, was held eat Epsom, on the lady of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bart., who died on Friday last from being frightfully burned. The Jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death." LITERARY 'IND SCXENTIIne. Victor Hugo, the French poet, has purch•ised the hotel in the Place Royale, formerly the habitation of the celebrated Marion Delornie. THE LEVANT MAIL. We have received papers and letters from tte Fa st by the Le v a n t ma il, w hi c h arr i ve d yes t er day. The dates are—Constantinople the 7th inst., Smyrna the 9th, Alexandria the 6th, and Malta the 15th. The state of affairs in Syria gave rise to a new con ference of the Ambassadors, which was held at Thei° l4- dere on the 29th ult. On the Same day a"Cabinet Council was held at the Porte to deliberate on the same subject. The results of those conferences had not transpired; but it was believed that no definitive arrangement would take place until the Five Powers had returned a reply to the last note forwarded to them by the Ottoman Government. Private accounts, however, state, that Riza whom Sir St ra tf or d C ann i ng e x pected to find mor' favourable to his views than Izzet Pacha, had been 1 0 inflexible on the Syrian question as his predecessor, and as little inclined to be influenced by the repree senta lions of the British Ambassador. All the con cession the representatives of the Allied Powers bad been able to obtain from the Divan was, t h a t the hatti-scheriff pl ac i ng th e D ruses an d th e Slaripu it fl under the jurisdi c ti on o f a T ur ki s h governor s hod not be issued f or th e p resent. Th e Porte had not yet expressed any opinion on the late revolt% in Servia, nor had the representatives of the European Powers made any proposition t° they Turkish Goverment on the subjeet, as' were waiting instructions from their r 0 e Vi tive Courts. It wa s b e li eve d th at t h e Russian An nister would not act with the other AmbassadO le id this question, as the Cabinet of St. Petersbur - geh.; l disapproved of the conduct pursued by the Eil,t, t Consul-General at Belgrade ; nor was it belieVeaZ e the Russian Government looked with a ftiv° ° e ,'-'6 O eye on the family of Obrenowitsch, because P. l ' i, c ; r Milosch had courted the protection of Au.stria; . 1 1 ;4 could Prince Michael have adopted a course Pt, displeasing to the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh thaii; have taken refuge on the Austrian rather than on se Russian territory. ntil The Sultan removed, on th e 29th, f rom his co s t t e residence of Tcheragan to his winter palace. All high functionaries of the Porte had followed t°(','' ample of the Sultan. On the 30th M. de Boutenieff, the Russian E 116 .' waited on Sarim Effendi, the Minister for F° re ft l. Affairs, and on th e 3d i nst. was•admitted to. B 7 ll i3if, dience of the Sult an . O n t h e same day M. de ":"..,:olt the former Minister Plenipotentiary of Russia, s ta i r leave of his Highn ess , an d l e f t i n a Russian st ea, . - for Odessa. Chekib Effendi returned to Constantinople Ott i 29th ult., accompa n i e d b y the Servian- deP ltati d which had been sent t o su b m it to t h e approbag" n ; the Porte the electio n o f th e new P r i nce chose Jj the people to replace Prince Michael. Chekib Ef elj obtained a private au di ence o f th e S u l tan on the-44''0dt The Egyptian steamer Boulak arrived on the 0. from Alexandria, having on board Sami Pacha, voy Extraordinary of Mehemet Ali, whose return to caused a lively sensation in the Turkish capital. I t h was, however, supposed to have been intrusted 'olio no other mission than that of thanking the Sunn is( ' the name of Mehemet Ali f or th e high honour he it y conferred upon him by el eva ti ng him t o the dig , l 3 l 0, of Grand Vizier, and o f i m pl or i ng aga i n the pard the his Highness in favour of Ahmed Ferzi Pachet. ex-Capitan Pacha and c omman d er o f th e Imperia l 4th, The least of the Ramaz an commence d on tii ° _ 4 o. at 8 o'clock in the evening, by the sudden tion of all the mosques of Constantinople. f the Fund Effendi, the l as t Ch arge d'Affaires 0 t he Porte in London, arrived at Constantinople 0° 4th in the French steamer Eurotas. e re bat The news from Persi a con ti nue d t o b e pacim -i to . the neighbourhood of th e f ron ti ers i n b o th cou p was infested by robbers, who rendered the roa d t.lit secure for travelling, and impeded the corvin e -* e relations. a i s ierk On the 3d the Tahiri B a h r i, and two other st e left Constantinople for, it was supposed, 13 110 where they were g oi ng t o t a k e on b oar d the Aiv , a; agie. troops, whose pre sence i n S yr i a h a d b e en th e eatse ion of frequent c o mpl a i n t s on th e par t o fits TURKEY. - t4O CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 7.—Chekib resie - i b t Ottoman Commission er , accompan i e d by - 1 Go' Servian notable, who is to represent the new, lot vernment here, came up by the Danube steartle's at week! The que s ti on , there is no doubt, oce o lV r te; this moment the ser i ous a tt ent i on o f the cone though the negotiations of M. Boutenieff are , r • ed ducted with such secresv, th a t littl e h as yet trs° sl3 c - e'f. ! with respect to them. This much, however, tain, that the affair has opened a very wide le y ana,s discussion and recrimination between Til i n' v hiche. Russia, and that the mask of friendship unaera;stroa the hitter has for some years prosecuted her__ .`" nt a rt4i' tive policy, may, in the sharp conflict of argliT c e p interests about to ensue, be once more cast as' " to te, : playing the hostile front of the old and W e - the enemy of the Othman race. Should the P9r te ,i res ill iet• e s adjustment of this aff a i r ma k e any determ ined / 4 0 , ance to the views . of , the Russian Cabine t e l ipio e: Boutenieff, it is said, h as i nstruc tions to the offensive, and demand expla na tions withl to certain Trpje c t s which Hussein Pacha o f _ egad is accused4efihavingformed last year, with the ri n vance of the orte, for the invasion of Se rv t:i s ich overthrow of 'its late Government, proofs of projects are sa id t o ex i s t i n documents interc at that time by Prince Michael. In reply t ° t hat egs charges th e P or t e w ill, i n a ll p ro b a bility, all only such measures, if they were ever meditated, w ere meant in self-defence, since it had positively f o e tamed that the Prince had fomented, by every 1 7, t he in his power, if he was not himself the a udios 1 3 0. rebellion, which had broken out at that time le d ep garia. The fact is, that the Porte, as it w° l l ic h it pear, has at this moment in its hands papers, w' r t he has received from Voutchish, the Genera ° ' d a ll Servians, and which not only establish beY o° doubt the Prince's participation in th ese rne ats turbances, but also that of the R us sian Gover n h o l e , which, indeed, suggested an d i ns tigated the ' ochi ee The Porte, if hard pressed, w ill un doubtedly P r ..,bst these documents, and it remains to be seen isi, effect such a retort will have on the Russ ian t he nister. It. is to be feared that, however elesN o r r i g io mischief may he traced in its source an d kno ve to Russia herself, s h e w ill b e ver y s low to a c i o ns ledge herself in the wrong. In similar discus•• et ellY with the Turkish Government, she has ge° a nd discovered an indifference as to right and wronglcer a blindness as to caus e an d e ffect, which lea ve wolf tainly no parallel, exc e pt i n the apologue of the lie and the lamb. B u t s h e w ill, in this instance, ho w ho entirely allowed to h a ve h e r own way. Alist r ! has long had an eye upon her machinations Sultan ropean Turkey, will undoubtedly protect the ;lots; in the maintenance an d exerc i se o f his just d hoed and England, whose p o li c y i s Conservative an be , on honourable prin c ipl es , w ill a l so se e, and, if,.°Boote enforce, fair play b e t ween th e di spu t a nts. 31 ; to be nieff may find that, with all his skill, little is ern e Gov done with the cards h e h as t o pl a y, a nd his ()o iled, ment discover that M. Tit o ff who has been r, IEI 4O. could not have mad e more o f th e g ame than ' o i l er Be this as it may, the latter diplomatist, it i s d, a nd sally admitted, is at this moment under a clouet. has incurred the serious displeasure of his Cob h : o o l 4f Semi Pacha has, since his arrival from Ale had several secret conferences with the Tdriq 010 nisters. Mehemet Ali could not have a n inie hos grs; and persevering agent than this man, who d dually wormed himself into the confidence all . „ og ee . graces of the Turkish Ministers, while the I of his master is every day on the increase. SYRIA. 00 114 ' Banton., SEPT. 27.—Things here are v po quiet, although the flame of discontent ha s means subsided. WI we Since the Albanians have been let loose on_ no ir are in constant dread. Their depredations ar., pity rous, and extend to all parts of the country. - 1- "..a hig kia the Russian Consul was violently assaniir dragoman all but killed, and his house robbel so, yon On the roads, wherever you see an Alh a l te d. 111- are in danger either of being robbed or assa L t l ,, A 01 1 our own town three churches have been sae''' . A convent robbed. A few days ago the lady of the British,_ejsllsos"; while walking under the protection of her J . , 4 o ung . (cavass), was insulted, and even struck by %l e d his Turk, upon whom the Janissary immediately ag e hat whip. Complaint was made to the authortt.i%' the owing to the absence of the Consul at Tripoli the Vesuvius, nothing satisfactory was resolved o Consul returned late last night. the au' - Great difficulty seems to exist in bringing, autho ferent Sheiks to their allegiance to the Turkis" issue d, rities. A pro.darnation has been recentl y heal calling on the people, under the threat o.te Eoiit punishment, to beware of the attempts n to_ e l e se a l Abdallah of Gazir, and several other She?kts,t a disturbance among the people, they having to appear on the summons made to them. COIIIT, OTCTIELI6I3NyitAheN---artl'ajlANofT)her 3 -fi l 'i, e _ 51 c , f 0 1 ! i A s n h g. d i Howe,p n i t ) i e r e a n l towed Sir F. dent at that place that ' the Howe, with the flaw s ° ' Corfu we learn from a corroP of i A n la b s y on th , earcir,ie‘y•esder stetahniee2r6.thTuhlti; s h rb a t i et._ Ap , Company with the fleet under Sir E. Owen, accompanied by the above-named steamer, P 3 ri. De or s C o p e Passaro,. on the 23d. On the passage, which st,fered to have been a quick one, the Geyser slg•i: °blitzed to extinguish her fires in consequence ° I b leak from one of the mud holes of the boiler, wh ic circumstance caused a delay of some hours. van , On the arrival of the Howe she fou nd the „ guard, Cambridge, and L'Aigle, the two former to"'I, sailing orders for Malta. f Rear-Admiral Mason, on landing , w as the garrison with 11 guns. The Lor d High Co missioner, Sir Stewart N'Kenzie, ha d proceed r England a few days previously, via Tr ieste. out , The Vanguard, after visiting Su da, neY t,, Athens, Syra, Besika, and other place s of a:teres , - arrived here on the 22d, en route to Ma lta.- saluted COURT -- rAsirsomantin. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort returned to Beaufort House on Wedne s d a y from Newma r k e t. The Duke and Duches s o f Sutherland were to ar rive at Wishaw House, Lanarkshire, on Wednesday, from Dunrobin Castle. The Marquis de Lavalette arrived in Park-crescent on Wednesday, from Paris. The Countess Brownlow leaves Belgrave-square, in few days, for Canford House, Dorset. The Earl of Liverpool arrived at Fife House on Tuesday last, from Butted-park. The Earl and Countess of Harrington are at pre sent staying in town. Viscount and Lady Margaret Marsham are passing the autumn at the Moat, Maidstone. Viscount Sandon has taken Mr. Lawrence Peel's mansion, Kemp Town, B r i g ht on, f or t h e season. Lord Granville Somerset arrived in town on Wed nesday, from Troy House, Monmouth. Lady Beresford left Boulogne for Par is last week. The Baron Talleyrand arrived in Beikeley-square on Wednesday, from a tour. ISCELLANEOUS. M. Cerfberr, t he Frenc h Consul at Gi‘pe Town, St. Domingo, died on his passage from New York to, Havre, from the injuries received by the falling of a house during the late earthquake at Hayti. Upwards of 120 of the most influential firms of Cheapside have petitioned the Sewer Commissioners for a wood pavement throughout that pa.rt of the City. Lord Francis Egerton has purchased Burford Hall, formerly the property of the late Admiral Sir Thomas Williams. A boat, containing eight persons, carae in collision with the Waterman steamer, No. 6, or. Tuesday, off Bermondsey, and by great exertions were rescued rom the water, into which they were overturned. The Company has since compensated them. HANOVER SQUARE . ROOMS. A series of subscription concerts for the present season commenced here on Wednesday night. Their arrangement is on a liberal scale, and the terms of admission to them singularly moderate. The instru mental band mustered, under the direction of F. Cramer and Willy, a force approaching very close upon that of the Philharmonic, and including a large portion of the artists from that body, and the orchestra of the Italian Opera. They executed on this occasion Beethoven's Pastoral Sinfonia, and the Overture to Wiliam Tell, in admirable style, besides supporting the choral portions of the vocal pieces. The pro gramme for the night was inordin, itelv crowded. The names connected with it were those of Mrs. Alfred Shaw, Miss Birch, Miss Bassano, Miss Rainforth ; Mr. Phillips, Mr. Manvers, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Young, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. J. Parry. The company was numerous and elegy nt. The con cert commenced with Grand Sinfoni a (pastorale), Beethoven, which was followed by the National An - them, finely given by the voca li sts. O ne of the morceaus of the evening was a grand concerto, pianoforte by Madame Dulcken, with full orchestral accompaniments. Mrs. Alfred Shaw was in fine voice, an d sang a pretty cavatina from Gli Arabi; she likewise took part in a duet with Miss Birch. The chief of of the programme consisted in the performances of the band and chorus ; as examples, we ma:r cite Handel's grand double chorus from Israel in JEopt," He gave them Hailstones ;" Storace's septet and chorus, " Hear, 0 hear, the simple story ;" and the overture to Guillaume Tell. The concert as; a whole, went off brilliantly. There can be do doubt that these sub scription concerts will attract large and fashionable audiences. MINING OPERATIONS AT CLUTHA M.—Towards the conclusion of the day, and after our reporter had left the engine-ground on Tuesday last, one of the mines which did not ignite during the operations in the middle of the day, owing to a slight defect in the priming, was exploded, and produce( 1 a crater measur ing 40 feet in width. This explosio n has proved that 2001bs. of gunpowder fired in one mass is capable of producing a greater effect than the same quantity of powder divided into two charges, all though fired sunul. taneously. BIRD TRAP EXTRAORDINARY.— 4JpOll the arrival of the Elk engine at Nine Elms, on Tuesday night, with the six o'clock train from Southampton, a lark I was found in the ash-pan (within Si]: inches of the fire-bars), which had received no fura ter injury from this novel species of bird -trap than the singeing of a few tail feathers. It is now in the pc ssession of the engine-driver, and appears quite lively..