The Sun. — London, England, 1842-09-10 00:00:00

can galip saints" Ivor' eessity, and tions o f the ...telv under' asey ites. UMMARY OF NEWS AND vutittc optatoit. " 11ho runs may read.' ling topic in he whole, of aortal 0 115 yria without of the other is," says l th e ' favourable es. By he r tually abcll yria even by same will' /0 9 , ....,' " F OREIGN. . 0 ,... a.ne affairs of the East continue to be a favourite 16Pic with the Paris Journals, particularly those of '''the Opposition. The National has an article in which ilit recommends that France should interfere on behalf 41101.-the Christians of Syria, but that it should do so ,lialone. Our Contemporary attempts to set up an argu .,,,inent,establishing the right of the French to this posi ..lttion., and takes 'no small pains to excite the nation ._, agamst its r u l eis f or having submitted to what the -t - "National chooses to call degradation and shame. It ILI is , not• very probable that the National will find many -osionverts to its mode of reasoning amongst persons sii,who have any desire to see the French Government ..‘„ observe good faith as regards the joint engagements ,etinto which it has entered for the pacification ofthe East. 0 'The Courne r Francais impro v e s u p on th e argu -linexit of th e N at i onal. It first assumes for France an I Q' exclusive right of intervention, which has never been l iielaiined, but which, if it had been claimed, is now an nisnulled by the treaty of July 15, to which France is a 0 ,party, and then proceeds to contend that the inter ,,tvention whi c h t h e Fi ve Powers may consider neces sary,.: w ill b e an outrage upon Turkish rights, whereas, . ';if 'attempted by France alone, it would be agreeable toAhose against whom it should be directed, and those when it would be intended to serve. This, we con fess, is a logic which we do not understand. tio? ofne of . the journals having stated that the p o p u l a - Syria am oun t e d to 2,800,000, of whom 800,000 were Christians, the populati on Quotidienne gives as positive the Christians at only 1,200,000, of whom 300,000 are 8 4 • The number of Jews is stated at from to 10,00 0. The Th '3loniteur publishes an order of the day of General llugeaud, reproving the conduct of the non commissioned officers of the 3d Battalion of Chasseurs, for having published in the Sentinelle de r Armee an aeCotint of the operations of that corps, in which their exploits' w ere strangely overrated, and condemning -al. Emery, the sergeant, who drew up the account, to two months' imprisonment in the fort of the Emperor, 1 and the others to fifteen days of the same penalty, and to be suspended from their functions during a month. The Presse announced on Tuesday that the rail road between Paris and Lille had been conceded to a company represented by Messrs. Millet and Henri, and mostl y composed of English capitalists, and that . the treaty had even been signed by the Minister of Public Works. The Moniteur of Wednesd a this state ment to be altogether incorrect. y declar es A pfivate letter from Frankfort of the Ist inst. states that the King of Hanover had followed the example of the ex-King of the Netherlands, and mar ; ' -tied, towards the close of last month, the widow of t.s President Beulwitz. His Majesty left, immediately s ' after the celebration of the marriage, for the Prussian ... cam tof manoeu vres . T e Chamber of Deputies of Baden adopted on , • the 2d a motion of M. Sander, who proposed that 2 • the Government should be invited to interfere with h': the Germanic Diet, in order to obtain a further ex it tension of the liberty of the press. • We learn from Vienna that the Emperor of Austria ';.' has made an advance of 200,000 florins (500,000 fr.) to the town of Steyer, towards repairing the losses occasioned by the late fire at that place. MONEY- TRADE —COMMERCE. t Manchest er a f ew more hands have returned to woArk, but thi s is more t h an balanced by fresh turn ants. At Stockport only one factory is at work, thwhich is protected by the military. At Ashton only ree small f ac t or i es are work i ng; and at the meet sgs held, a most determined spirit is manifested gainst returning to labour, except at the w ages o f 18 40. A mo b o f armed colliers yesterday (Friday) ppoceeded to stop the wor k s at W e d nes b ury, in Staf rashire,, nine of whom were captured by the yeo ,3llanry, and committed to gaol. fhe pits at Wrest nralnwich, Hillstop, and Oldbury, continue at work. ECCLESIASTICAL. Archdeacon Manning, in his Visitation charge just Pliblisbed,states that, 300 y ears ago , th e w h ole area . ' , 7 of tjia churehes, with a few slight exceptions, were th, :open and free to all, except such seats of which the :to prlNate and permanent use was assigned by the Bishop ~- t:- or t ajaoulty. He considers pews to be a great abuse. , - i , titro i„. LAW AND POLICE. ~,;1 _,,,,..ktobert Davis, alias Middleton, was charged at A1.e.;14i, , "slk-street with attempti ng t o ro b a number t, - 4 ,Z, 0040 Ow, Water-colou r E x hibiti on , in Suffolk ; . 'kiiiet,.,, T - • aiiimall, A. mitigated sentence of one „.: montla ikprisontnent was passed on him for " intent to eomtnif a felony." 4 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.. ' l•-, In addition_ to the monument t o be erected in • • Rtigby - ehapet to the late Dr. Arnold's memory, it is ,N•pposed to establish an Arnold scholarship, either at n '' hi Oxford 'to be enjoyed first by the Doctor's 413 , or , 'l44 c . ' ~and afterwards thrown open to general corn et!, , i ni Eltion i .., u " ?'" ' . - - - • SPORTING. • . -t i o r,'''' , At . Worcester, partridge-shooting affords plentiful . . " 6 Port, ! One Tarty on Earl Coventry's estate killed s ,„ .l9 i'braCe of birds with two guns ; and a gentleman "" `'killed 14 brace of birds and a leish of hares, in the neighbourhood of Peachley, after 12 o'clock. Other , 4 partie s i n t h e county met w i th similar success. ',we COURT — FASNIONABLE. 'LA t The Earl of Malmesbury has returned to Heron 54.. i: Court, Christchurch, from Dunford House. '. -1 ` The Count of Woronzow is now at Odessa, and will ' Pass the winter at St. Petersburgh. Lord Foley leaves town for Woburn Abbey early ' next week. The Pembroke family, it is said, have fixed an ex cursion to Moscow next summer. Sir Robert Price, Bart., has arrived atFoxley Hall, Herefordshire, from a tour. • - The Duke de Lanta has left Park-lane on a tour. The Marquis of Downshire has arrived in Hanover -square from a tour. • The Marquis of Salisbury and Lady Blanche tecil left town on Thursday upon a visit to the Duke ,of "Wellington at Walmer Castle. The Earl of Lonsdale has returned to Berkeley square from Slough. The E ar l o f Ch ester fi e ld , C o l one l A nson, an d L ord Forester, with their families, are expected to set off , . for Swit zer l an d ear l y i n October. MISCELLANEOUS. ' 4 . ! The woman Easter, upon the urgent representa n of memorialists who consider her innocent, will i t is said rece i ve f ree pardon, Sir James Graham having conferred with Mr. Justice Wightman, the presiding Judge at the trial. Some very excellent ornamental alterations have b een made in Guildhall, by the Clerk of the City Works, which greatly improve the interior of the Oifice. - , M. Gui zo t rema i ns at A uteu il , w h ere h e occup i es ' t h e house of the celebrated painter, Gerard. ' The L eom i nster mail ceases running on Saturday eihit,,,, l 'e L at, when it s p l ace w ill b e supp li e d b y a mail-cmail-cart.at 1.., ; _ -111 0 Ludl ow ma il , i t i s also expected, will discontinue 't s 4,:;,lna the 22d of November, being the last of the Wor- Wester race of four-horse mails. "0 14 ; Th , " floatin g i s l an d" on D erwen t l a k e h as d ur i ng sazpihe e last 40 ye ars appeare d upon t h e sur f ace o f t h e 1 4:: - *kte r 13 times. Its last appearance was in the ‘ begin t., hi ng of th e present mont h , w h en i t was o b served to ' ' he Ali,;., not quite so large as on former occasions. t'r- ' ~'‘,, Contest is likely to arise as to the appointment t:L ii . ;, ,. ii - kke tn lye ty: • t Deanery o . f Westminster, as a party is vacant out that it ought to be supplied by one l'zi., has rece i ve d hi s e d uca ti on a t t h at sc h oo l. D r. 1 ' Ir e la nd u was never at any public school whatever. . ' l 9-picking. is now general in Canterbury : the *4, er nP if t I r- • .. ip no so urge as expected, is generally of superior 11 34: I laaltty, N t it will i' °l l itain, and 11 ‘ / ,o the Ch rir it privile", e; l In to comb l t them. P oi Tefore, out e would{ P' s herefore, . co-operat i l naintaining se. And Y e the war t 11 6; and On 11)) 1 ntentedlY .11 importa.nei: vever, subi° SEPT. 7 ' I, Lowest ,orpe, Priee. 118 118 10... , 8 0, 1 79 90..•„2685 262 50.. 0 0 39 , 032 5 0 ••• / 48 045 ••• 6 '7/8, 775 ••• 103/ ••• job 105 ..• 68 53 102 29 22/ ••• qBl 291 lOT A 107 ••• 1031 1041 ••• 1 ,1!: 1 : 1 41 . 1 * Or A STAGE-COACH DRIVER.—On Thurs -arung Mr. Payne held an inquest, at the White art,, Giltspur- s t reet , on t h e b o d y o f G eorge Morley, lt ed forty- one. Andrew Satchell, landlord of the Sara inn's Head t ap, stated that the deceased had b een lodg l* there fur some days past. For many years he had rreef driver o f the Leeds and other coaches, but had 'att. . tb .—rq been out of employment. About ten o'clock ;43'moining (Thursday) deceased was found in his bed ,_°°ol, suspended, by a rope round his neck, from the 4 aekd of the bedstead. He was immediately cut down, ;1,,d a surgeon was sent for, when it was discovered that t ‘i had been extinct several hours. The witness fur "r stated, that deceased was one of those unfortunate Persons who had been thrown out of employment in con tiquenee of steam-carriages having taken the place of aAtage-coaches For a long tim e past deceased had been al most in a state of destitution, and had latterly been wanted under gre a t d e p ress i on o f sp i r i ts. D ecease d w anted to go down into Lincol ns hi re t o see hi s re l at i ons , hki endeavour to get som e em pl oyment. M r. M ounta i n , 1 4 given th e poor fellow leave to go by one of his coaches iree of expense; but the driver, a man named Gamble, r e ef used to take deceased, telling him he did not want his ti °9 l PanY. Deceased appeared to be extremely hurt at -is, and cried bitterly while telling . several persons of •.ainble's behaviour to him. His mind seemed to have „ h ull most d rea df u ll y weakened by his recent misfor ' 1 r84,s and di sappointments. The Jury returned a ver , 'wet " Temporary insanity." to THE WOMAN EASTEL—We expressed a hope in 9.• . '' paper a fortnight since, that some'steps would be iErr. , - in .'o o :; 1 ) taken to ensure the attention of Sir James Graham to 13/ 0 ' 3"9 the Case e 6, 4 of this unfortunate woman (who was sentenced o tithe executed, at our last Assizes), and that we should Glass- have no fears for the result. Steps for this purpose, we .a re happy to say, w ere quickly taken, and the result, - o_r d j -41 2e n re-is no doubt will be that in a few days the woman mpo orP will be set at liberty. —Devizes Gazelte. men le P le d The following occurs in a Barbadoes paper just ar tl34,ers 1404:ived, being the excuse of the Editor to his readers for d r in. ( )opt pr o '7 not furnishing them with a leading article for the day:— ,ing t ql ) We.,"" have to soheit the indulgence of our readers this a ntaot e• a f ternoon , having been unable, irom domestic affliction, .whe Ole give ver, th e the usual attention to the getting up of our pa wo °AI We_ It will not, however, we hope, be found altogether ying r i t te 6 ;il ?elthout interest, and we shall endeavour in future num ; waft°, in bets to make amends for the present deficiencieS." id 0112 AT ON °. bare. 't0 4,91 ...... ...... tO 5 ...... to ...... t ...... POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL—(TIIIS DAY.) Two respectable looking young men, named. Henry Bulport and Francis Court, clerks, in the Money Or der-office, at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le- Grand, were placed before-Sir Geo. Carroll, charged by Mrs. Matilda Bowley, of No. 31, Draper-place, Burton-crescent, with having attempted to deprive her of two pounds under the circumstances detailed below. Mr. Clarkson attended for the complainant. She stated that she was a married woman, but her husband was at present in the hospital. She had money in the Savings' Bank, and a few days ago she drew some of it out. The money she received was all in sovereigns, and they were all of the present reign, except one which was a sovereign of the reign of William the Fourth. She went 'to the General Post-office in St. Martin's-le-Grand, to obtain a money order for 2/. She put down two of the new sovereigns, and a new shilling. The prisoner Bul port received the money, and took it back into the office as she supposed to weigh the sovereigns, In about four or five minutes he returned and said she had given him a light sovereign and a bad one, and he laid down a light sovereign of the reign of George IV. and a gilt medal. She denied at once that she had tendered these coins, and both prisoners said then she should be taken before Mr. Peacock. She was conveyed before Mr. Peacock, and he re marked to the prisonerßulport, "Why this is not the first affitir of the sort you have had." He would not entertain the charge, and complainant therefore sum moned the defendants to answer the charge. The Magistrate consulted with Mr. Clarkson, and the case was adjourned for the purpose of having the attendance of Mr. Peacock and the constable at the Post-office. BO W-STREET. --(THIS DAY.) William 21Ioncas was charged with stealing a watch value 205., from Edward O'Rooke. The complainant, about fifteen years of age, stated that he first knew the prisoner about a month ago; he represented himself to witness as a watchmaker, and prevailed on.him to let him have his watch to clean. Witness gave him the watch for that purpose, and he had not seen it since, except once when he evaded him. Yesterday he met him at a public-house in Soho, when he gave him into custody. The prisoner said he had given the watch to his brother to be cleaned. Mr. TWYFORD said he could not commit the pri soner for stealing the watch, but he could commit him for unlawfully disposing of it; he, therefore ordered him to pay 40s. for the misdemeanor, and 20s. the value of the watch, or in default go to prison for six - weeks.—The prisoner was removed in custody. James Samuel Brown, who was remanded from yesterday, for the attendance of the Postmaster of Caine, in order to complete the last two cases of forgery of Post-office orders against him, was this day again placed at the bar before Mr. Twyford ; and the postmaster having given evidence similar to that given by the other postmasters, as already detailed in our reports, the prisoner was fully committed to take his trial at the next Old Bailey Sessions, on four distinct charges of forgery. QUEEN SQUARE.—(THIS DAY. A tall, athletic-looking man, who stated his name to be Joseph Watson, was placed at the bar, on the charge of burglariously entering the house of Mr. Thomas Beck Walters, of No. 17, Victoria-road, Pimlico, and stealing therefrom a quantity of shawls. From the joint evidence of William Ham and police-constable 27 B, it appeared that the prisoner broke through a skylight at the back of the prose cutor's premises at five o'clock this morning, and having stolen the articles named, was about snaking his escape by the same way, when his foot slipped, and he fell to the ground, making such a noise as to awaken some of the clerks. An alarm was then given, and the policeman, after a sharp chase, suc ceeded in taking him into custody, after he threw the shawls into an area. When searched at the station house, a large stick, with an iron hook and spike at the top, which was capable of being used as a most deadly weapon, and a knife, were found upon him. The prisoner, who refused to say anything at pre sent, was fully committed on the charge of burglary, and the witnesses bound over to prosecute. 'LOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, SEPT. 10.—Wind this day at noon Westerly, heavy passing clouds, and drizzling rain at intervals. DEAL, SEPT. 9.—Wind S.W., strong breezes.—Arrd. from the River, Hendrik Hudson, for New York. FALMOUTH, SEPT. B.—Wind N. to W., fresh breezes and squally.—Arrd. Curlew,. M'Lea, Havannah, sailed July 19; Brenda, Tyrell, Port au Prince, left July 18, and proceeded for Antwerp. Arrd. off Robert Scour field, Moffatt, Moulmein, left March 10, St. Helena June 30, and St. Michael's 9th ult., and sailed for London. MARGATE, SEPT. 9.—The Mountaineer, Heaton, from Demerara, got on the Shingles Sand during the gale of the 7th inst., but came off with damage, and proceeded in tow of a steamer for the River. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 9 . — Wind . W. to W.S.W., strong and squally.—Arrd. British Queen steamer, Antwerp for New York. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Hartley, Bradford, Sierra Leone ; Charlotte, Andrews ; and Cos mopolite, Webber, Quebec. OFF THE START, SEPT. Guernsey for New South Wales. BUDE, SEPT. B.—A schooner laden with grain is lost on Sharp's Nose, about eight miles northward ; crew (except one) lost. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 9.—Wind S.W. to N.W., fresh.— Arrd. Blana, Callan, Calcutta; left the Cape June 4, and St. Helena July 12; Mary Pollock, Rye, 13omba3 ; Ayr shire, Moss, Calabar, left June , 10 ; Brain, Huntley, Bauer ; General Washingt on , Vi rg i n i a ; Adirondack, Hackstaff, New York ; William Botsford, St., John's, N.B. Arrd. off, Abbotsford, Quebec ; Ranger, —. The Alfred and James, from Lytham to Ireland, with coals, was driven ashore yesterday near Southport, and must discharge before she can be got off. SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. B. The Grand Turk steamer, bound to Havre, has put back with damage. .MILFORD, SEPT. S.—The Fair Hope, Rees, arrd. here from Aberavon, passed a smack ashore in Ramsay Sound, a schooner on the rocks on Skomer Island, and the mast and part of the hull of a smack, three miles N.E. of the North Bishop. _ _ _ MONVINSTON, SEPT. B.—The Caledonia, Peters, of Arbroa'h, is totally lost, near here, crew, except one, drowned. iiIIIDGEWATER, SEPT. 9.. 7 -The Auckland, from Glou cester to this port, is totally lost on the Gore Sands, all hands lost. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of Meat, Poultry, and Game being rather short the salesmen held for higher prices, which, in some cases, was obtained. Grouse, Is. to Is. 6d. and 25.; Geese, ss. 6d. to Gs.; Chickens, ls. 6d. to 35..; Fowls, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. ; Rableits, 9d. to ls. 6d. ; Pigeons, 9d. to ls. Eggs, 4s. 6d. to 6s. 6d. per 120. WHITECHAPEL MARKET. The trade was lively at better prices for everything, the supply from the country being less than the de mand. Beef, 2s. 4d. to 3s. 10d.; Mutton, 2s. to 4s. ; Veal, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d.; Pork, 2s. Bd. to 55.; Lamb, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 6d. Clover, 2/. 12s. to 51. 10s.; Hay, 2/. 10s. to 4/. 10s. ; Straw, 11. 12s. to 1/. 16s. TEA MARKET. The demand was good, and prices had an im proved tendency, with an indifferent supply at market. Sound common Congou, Is, 8/d. and Is. 9d. per lb. TALLOW MARKET. Prices firm, and a good business was transacted at 475. 6d. to. 48s. on the spot, and 48s. for delivery in last three months of the year. WAKEFIELD CORN DIARhEr. We had a large supply of Wheat, which met a good sale at Is. to 2s. per quarter advance. Barley nominal. Oats and Shelling fully as dear. Beans sold readily at former rates. No variation in ether articles. Wheat, Red, Essex and Kent —l. 451. to 551. fine 56 Norfolk and Suffolk --....-- Lin. and Cain • Yorkshire.......... —s. 50s. to b 2,. tine L 4 .--. White —s 56 .. to 58s. One 80 ..-- Foreign , s. s. to 441. tine 54, White —s. —s, to bor. nne 58 Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 24s. to 28s. tine 28 ............. Lincolnshire Yorkshire Weld .----. Foreigna to s fine Beans, New ...--. Old Oats, Potato —I to 201. fine 22 —..-.... Poland... —s —5 to 20s. fine 22. ---. Vriezland and Small ...... ............. —s. —s. to His. fine 20. --- 15.eal in g ....- IId to 12%d. per Stone Shelling 2 7.. to La, Od. per Loar Malt ....• Ts • 39l. tine 41s. per Ica.. Rapeseed ........... 0000000000 •••••••••••• .../ oil. VV. Os. £Bl. Os, . per Last SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO Mn. CARTER. --Another accident occurred to Mr. Carter, the rival of Van Am burgh, on Tuesday evening, which has incapacitated him from appearing on the succeeding nights at the English Opera House. In the piece called " The Lion King" Mr Carter had to encounter a lion and other animalscon fined in a cage. On Tuesday night, on Mr. Carter en tering the cage, the lord of the forest made a sudden spring, and before Mr. Carter had time to prevent him, seized him by the hand with his teeth. Mr. Carter, a!- though his hand was being severely lacerated by the animal, commenced striking him with all his might wil the butt end of a whip which he held in the other hand. The audience applauded most vociferously, little thinking that it was a combat in reality. Mr. Carter continued to deal heavy blows on the infuriated animal, who at the end took shelter in one corner of the cage. The scene was dropped, and Mr. Carter having bound a handkerchief round his hand, which was much lacerated, left the cage, the animal growling at him as he went out. He was attended to by Mr. Braine, a surgeon. This is the second time Mr. Carter has been bitten by the same animal within the last week. The lion has only been in Mr. Carter's possession about three months, and is between three and four years of age. OPERATION OF THE NEW TARIFF.--ID addition to several head of cattle brought yesterday - into Smith field-market from Hamburgh and Holland, and other ad jacent countries, were 22 oxen brought from Spain, for sale by Mr. Giblett, salesman, being the first introduced into an English market from that country. They were of a large size and 3f excellent quality, and excited great attention. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1842 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF TIIIS DAY. TIMES.—Let the very shadow of a principle be held more sacred than all the majesty of party. This has ever been our sentiment; and therefore, if there be really any principle to be upheld, any truth to be maintained, by either of the gentlemen who are now about to contest the representation of the University of Dublin, which i s impugned by its antagonist, then, though by no means blind to the evils of such a pro ceeding, we say, let it be fairly fought out. But if the contest arise either from any academical jealousy, or from any feeling arising from the general distribution of Government patronage, or with the view, as the phrase is, of giving Government a lesson, or, on the other hand, from a mere desire to exclude from the representation a troublesome section of supporters, or from mere motives of convenience, then we are de cidedly of opinion, that the sooner the matter is com promised by the retirement of both parties, the better. Whatever principles gentlemen may fancy they are maintaining by persisting in this affair, it is certain that, even if the thing do not really degenerate into a mere personal struggle, the parties engaged will have the credit, whether rightly or not, of having been actuated very considerably by merely personal motives. And he who, under these circumstances, shall magna nimously set the example of retiring, will, whether he has been the first in the field or the last, do more to preserve the character of the University than would any triumph which he . could gain. If any principle really worth the fighting for is at stake, of course the case is different. B u t i s t h ere any such principle in volved ? The education question is said to divide the parties. Does it really do so ? If Mr. Hamilton is prepared to support, on general and universally ap plied principles, the duty of extending a sound and a true religious education —and we have reason to be lieve that he is—while Mr. Smith, on the other hand, holds the necessity of entirely secularizing education —though we have no reason to believe that he does— if this, however, were indeed the case, then would the parties be at issue on a definite and a really important principle, and we, for our part, should wish Mr. Hamilton all success; but if the ques tion only involve the singl e fact of the Maynooth grant—a grant perhaps less indefensible on prin ciple than the Regzum donum, and equally sup ported by prescription—if this be the case, then the sooner one or both of the parties give in, the better. We think, on the one hand, that it is not well for the Government to persist, merely because it would be convenient to them to get the Solicitor- General into Parliament, to thrust their candidate on the College ; and on the other, that any mere pique, arising either from this circumstance or from the , prin ciples on which G overn ment p a t ronage has been ac- I corded, should not i n duce any candidate' unnecessarily. ' to thwart a Government which, after all, he would be returned, if at all, to support. If any great principle, such as that to which we have alluded, be involved, then let party considerations be waived ; but in lesser matters, it must be remembered, that party is the only instrument by which any principle, of whatever im portance, can be carried out. We are the last to advocate the sacrifsce of the end to the means—the " propter viiam, vivendi perdere causas," which would be involved in throwing over principle for party's sake ; but if the ties of party be unnecessarily weak ened and severed, where principle is not involved, that great weapon may chance to fail us when it is. POST.—The blindest of all men is he who is wil fully blind, and no one is so stubbornly proof against the influence of instruction and demonstration as the man who has previously determined to close his eyes against all facts, however palpable and co nv i nc i ng, which do not square with his stupid or selfish preju dices. All over the world, in high life and low—in dealings between nations and between individuals— we may find daily ill u strations of this p reva l ent f o ibl e of our n a t ure . Th e philosophic p ar t y, w h ereo f Messrs. Cobden and Villiers are the leading illumi nati, is not an exception to the rule. The diurnal ravings and nocturnal visions of this party seem to hinge on one favourite o bject, that of extending over the entire fa ce o f this fair land that s ore p l ague o f factory domination, . w hereby certain dist r i c t s o f i t are d Such a visitation would assure dl y cursed and bli g ht e be one of the most fearful scourges with which a nation, proud and thankless in its days of prosperity, could be chastised. But this consideration is little regarded by the reckless and avaricious men whose evil pas sions suggest to them the hope that, in a system ruin ous to the happiness of their country, they may find the means of furthering their own base . views a per sonal aggrandisement. Manufa . cturnig extension i s the one an d a ll- e ffi c i en t cure which, according to men like these, can h ea l the wounds that vex and ag it a t e our great national commun ity. They preach up the e xtension, because they propriety of manufacturing the infliction believe that it may enable them, by. masses, to heap up fresh grievous privations of the . . British ad ditions to the enormous riches which many of them prospect of have already accumulated. In the manufactures superseding those of all the world, t h ey reckon on the probability of wealth flowing eroni every nation into their own cofferswealth n o t t o be the p roduce shared with the miserable m illions by of whose labour it is to be attracted to our shores, but to be hoarded by the moncpolist, or lavish e d b y him in such pursuits of pl easure as the wantonness of vulgar opulence may dictate. Any such speculations as that of England becomi n g the spinner and ham merer for every nation en the face of the globe are visionary—they are no better than insane, and spring, like many pernicious follies, from the diseased fancy of over-eager selfishness. We have, on divers occa sions, by plain unvarnished appeals to facts , s hown the madness of supp os i ng that other countries would be consenting parties to a system w hich would be inju rious to them and to us. They would not object to our scourging our own people, but would decline the favour for them se l ves. " Free trade " i s a principle not recognised by , a single nation of any noticeable consequence. It is rejected and repud iated b y all. Let us adopt it to-morrow, and foreigners will the more closely hug themselves within the impregnable bulwarks of " protection," and so be in a more secure position to reap any advantages offered to them by our isolated folly. P CHRONICLE. --s ar be it from us to undervalue the national. Church of Scotland. It i s a national Church in the true sense of the word. There. is no country in the world —not one—in which the people and the Church are so completely id • entified as, in Scotland. The clergy ef the Church of England are identified with its aristoc rac y ; but the Church of Scotland is the Church o f the people. The Reforma tion in England was the work of the King, and its ob ject was to transfer to the King the power formerly possessed by the Pope. The Reformation in Scot land was effected in spite of the Government by the people, and people and clergy have always made com mon cause. It is remarked by an eminent foreign historian that the Scotch Church is the only one in which the clergy laboured in good earnest to raise the intellectual character of the people. They laboured, and laboured with success. The gentry of Scotland are, if anything, lower bred than the gentry of England. But that Englishman must be strangely blinded by national partiality, who will not at once admit that the commonalty of Scotland rank morally and intellectually higher than the com monalty of England, We might say, than the com monalty of any other country. It is truly observed by Thierry, the historian of the Norman Conquest, that the Scotch are the only nation in Europe, among whom the love of letters is universal, who love lite rature for its own sake. After this acknowledgment, what we have to add will, we trust, be taken in good part by our Scotch brethren. Their attachment to their own Church is accompanied with a bigotry— frequently of a most offensive s ninure. They h ave many reasons for •attachment to their own Church ; but they seem incapable of comprehending that other nations may also be attached to their own Churches. Several of the Scotch papers published since the intention of the Royal visit was made known, breathe a spirit worthy of the meridian of Spain in its wor s t days. We imagine we hear John Knox reasoning most logically in favour of nutting Catholics to death, having first assumed the identity of Catholics and Idolators. Everything Scotch —their Church, their mode of observing the Sabbath, are not only the very best possible, but they will absolutely tolerate nothing that differs from them. Let us take as a specimen the Witness of Wednesday last. Would our readers be lieve that that organ of the party which lays claim to more than ordinary attachment to the Presbyterian Church, is quite furious against the advisers of her Majesty, because they did not compel her to violate her own conscience on Sunday last. The question whether the Scottish Episcopal Church be or be not a handful of the nation, is nothing to the purpose. The Episcopal Church is not a handful, but the majority of the people of England; and though the Irish and Scotch Presbyterian Churches be now_ united, st ill thei are a minority as compared with the Church es o f E ng l an d and Ireland. Her Majesty, however, is not a • Majesty's Pres byterian but an Episcopalian , and it is j us t as un reasonable to insist on her attending Divine service in a Presbyterian church as it would be in her Majesty were she, in imitation of her predecessors James and Charles, to insist on all the Scotch desert ing the confession of faith, treating their ministers as intruders, and adopting the ritual o f the Church of England, which they consider as no b e tt er th an a mass-book. Her Majesty is the head of the English Church ; but she is neither head nor member of the Scotch Church. Her Majesty's Commissioner is merely present at the General Assembly ; he has neither voice nor vote in it. The confession of faith makes the homage of the Presbyterian quite indepen dent of the religion of the Sovereign, for it lays down expressly that subjects owe allegiance even to an idolatrous Sovereign. There is, therefore, no obliga tion on the Sovereign of these realm s to do more than acknowledge the legal ex istence of, and aff or d protec tion to, the S co t c h "National Church. • HERALD.—According to a report (which we copy from the Kentish Observer of Thursday last), it appears that t*o comedians; named James Pitijames WESTERN MEETING AT AYR-THURSDAY, MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—The new plan - 6 , .sforking the West India steam-packets seems to be generally approved in the City, although the merchants naturally wait to see the practical result of the system before they utter a decisive opinion. The original plan embraced with out doubt, too extensive a range in combining North America and Mexico by steam communication twice each month, and including almost every place of con sideration. The route by steam executed is 680,000 miles, besides about 60,000 miles by sailing vessels. The intricacy of this plan, the extent of the service, and the extreme speed required, together with the minute regard to time that was demanded, rondered the performance almost impracticable, and occa sioned those irregularities of which the public made so frequent and so just complaint. Indeed, it seemed as if the movement of the vessels was cal culated like that of the wheels of some nicely con structed machine, and that no allowance was made for those innumerable casualties which are con stantly in the way of many a, plan that looks plausible enough on paper. The Company at the same time found the expense 'of sailing and steaming over this lengthened course far greater than they had estimated. From many parts of the line the income was very small, and utterly inadequate to carry out the whole route. The Directors therefore modified their original plan, and the plan so modified is the one which has been accepted by the Govern ment, and which will come into operation on the Ist (pt . October. The particulars have been already pretty fully described under this head, but there is one ad vantage which we have not yet touched upon— namely, that - while the service is rendered, as is to be I hoped, manageable, no additional grant of public money is required, the policy 'of the Company being to suit their revenue by diminishing the length of their course. So important a reduction of expen diture is thus effected, that th e s t eam i ng is only 390,0001. instead of 680,0001. per annum, while the sailing is 40,0001. instead of 60,000/. Their remune ration from Government remains the same as before —namely, 240,0001. per annum. From the inspec tion of the log-books of former voyages, one fact has been ascertained, which greatly tends to inspire the confidence of the public in the present undertaking— namely, that even under the former scheme the ves sels all worked well, and that the frequent failures were caused solely by the deficiencies in the plan itself. SUN.—At the close of business Consols were, 92i 93 for Money, and 93 93* sellers for the Account ; India Stock, 249 251 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New .49 51 premium. The prices of Foreign Securities were, Belgian, 1 102 103 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 524 ; 1 the Five per Cents., 1021 1021 ; Danish, 83f 84? ; and Brazilian, 66 67. 1 The quotation for Mexican was 351 34. In the Share Market London and Birmingham Railway Shares were 178 180; Birmingham and Gloucester, 42 44 ; Great Western, 82 83 ; the half Shares, 594 60; South Western, 58+ 591; North Midland, 56 58; the New Shares, 27 28 ; both ex div.; South Eastern and Dover, 22 221 ; Eastern Counties, 8+ 81 ; Northern and Eastern, 374- 38+ ex div. ; Blackwall, 7 74 ; and Brighton, 33 33+ per share. The alterations in the rates of exchange were not materially altered, but were generally firmer—Am sterdam, 12 6, 12 6+ ; Rotterdam, 12 6+ ; Antwerp, 12 4+, 124+ ; Hamburgh, 1311 i ; Frankfort,lso4 151; Paris, 25f. 75c., 25f. 80c.; Vienna, 9 551, 9 56+; Lisbon, 521 521; Madrid, 36:1 361; and Cadiz, 37 ; all at three months. The quotations of the Bonds were--Colombian, 208 21 4; Peruvian, 154 164; • Portuguese Five per Cents., 35 354 ; the Three per Cents., 20i 211 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 161 164; and the Three per Cents., 214 214. The intelligence from Mexico, as stated this morn ing, does not add any particular feature to the former arrival. Hitherto the Mexicans have shown every disposition to adhere to their engagements, and by the present packet the promised allotment of the Custom-house revenues have been received on account of the dividends, amounting to 18,000 dollars, smaller, it is true, than former remittances, but more than could have been expected in the disturbed state of the country, had it not been intended to keep faith. In connexion with this, letters from Buenos Ayres to the 19th June have come to hand. The same de gree of animosity existed between the rival chiefs of that place and Monte Video. In order to prosecute the war a forced loan was about to be made to which all would be equally obliged to contribute, and from what has already occurred, years may elapse before the dispute may be terminated. Rosas himself is sea ted anything but firmly in the presidential chair. Here again British commerce suffers most seriously. Independently of the loans to these countries, the trade carried on between them and us involves a large amount, and chiefly on our capital; so that, in fact, the whole of these people are carrying pn their wars, tri fling as they are, with English money. Not one of them has power sufficient to strike a decisive blow among themselves, but a long series of petty annoy ances ruins our commerce. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY. 1 Amsterdam ' CF. 12 9 Gibraltar .. .. 46 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .2 U. 12 94 Genoa Antwerp Hamburgh M. B. 13 15 Yesi.co-..... ............ ... 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65 Palermo, per oz 1194 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 233 Frankfort on Maine—. 1514 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 364 Buenos Ayres ...... Berlin. Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M 959 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto lO PRICES OF BULLION, PER QT. Madrid Cadiz 364 Portugal Geld C0in...3 17 5 Bilbao 36 New Doubloons OO 0 Barcelona Seville ... ....... _ _ _ _ Silver in Bars... . ..... 0 4 14 ORANGEMEN DESCRIBED Dr Q OF TIMM" SELVES.—We know not whether it is necessary to allude to the complaint that Lord Eliot admits Roman Catholics —and especially one very dangerous Roman Catholic, Mr. Anthony Blake—to his confidence. It may be as it is stated, but what is Lord Eliot to do ? If Ptotsgant noblemen and gentlemen will not approach hire, c.wept , tousle ptaces for themselves or dependrots, 4nti to grumble that they have not had enough; is hp' not necessarily thrown Upon the intimacy of Roman Catholics, who have no p re _ tom! for being so importunate.S . tandard. EXTRAORDINARY RADISII.-40All WaS gathered the other day out of a gardeti bpliKatug to Mr. P. Daw son, malt s t er , Ashboyng, of the unusual le ngt h of 20 inches, nine in circumference, and weighing two p oun d s 4Pcl titrefi quarters. —Derby Reporter, and Edward Gladstone, were, about ten days since, brought bef ore th e a f oresa id Magistrates on two charges ; one , o f assau lti ng a cer tai n Frederick Fox Cooper, which was summarily disposed of by the in fliction of a slight fine, and the other of threatening the life of the same Mr. Cooper, for which the accused were required to find two sureties in 201. each to keep the peace for two months, and in default were committed. We have no fault to find with the com mittal of these blo o dthi rs ty come di ans , w hose "kill ing," however, would, we apprehend, have been "no murd er "—f or th e l aw w hi c h _ i mposes impri sonment in default of bail is imperative. Our business lies with the treat men t w hi c h th e come di ans experienced for the three or four hours during which, while waiting for promised bail, they were consigned to the tender mercies of the gaoler and turnkey of the Dover prison. These worthies, who seem as well skilled as Abhorson in the " mystery" of their craft, turned those few hours to excellent ac count. They not only threatened the unhappy come dians with " oakum picking," "bread and water," and a " public whipping," but, before they had had them a quarter of an hour in their custody, they ac tually inflicted upon them the degradation of " crop ping." that is, cutting their hair short, " after the fashion of common felons." Having assimilated the appearance of these unfortunate persons to that of the common felons of the prison, " they were then placed amongst the debtors, and ordered not to speak." Next in order came the threats :—" They must pick oakum or go without their dinner ;" " they must be placed on bread and water ;" "if they did not conform to the rules of the prison they would be publicly whipped!" Pretty rules these, and right mercifully enforced ! What part of the world are we speaking of? Surely of no place in England —of no town within 70 miles of the metropolis— within the reach of civilisatiiih.and the Home Secre tary ! These occurrences took place on board of some slave ship or in some remote dungeon in Russia ? Not a bit of it. The serious drama in which the two comedians played the principal parts was enacted in the gaol of Dover, and, as it afterwards appeared, with the full approbation and concurrence of the wor shipful bench of Magistrates, wto r when the case was fully gone into before' 'them, " after well weighing the evidence, came to the conclusion that the Governor of the gaol was perfectly justified in ordering the hair of the prisoners to be cut off; and, therefore they dismissed the case." Weighing the evidence, yes, but not in equal scales. In the one there were two poor comedians, light of heart, light of tongue, perchance, of course, not rich, and very possibly friendless ; in the other were the bolts and shackles of Dover gaol, the impos ing weight of prison discipline and prison authority, the burly officials,—the gaoler (whom they style) " Governor ") mind his obedient turnkey—and that tendency to put all " players" beyond the pale of the law as " vagabonds" which has influenced the bench ever since the days when one' Will Shakspeare in curred the anger of a foolish country Justice—the type of the Dover Magistrates. We trust that Sir James Graham will come to the conclusion of dismissing these Magistrates from the office which they disgrace. He will be " perfectly justified" in doing so by the unanimous voice of the people. The Free Handicap of 100 sors. each, h ft, with 20 added. Once round, and a distance. Lord Eglinton's Patroness, 3 yrs. 1 Mr. Alexander's Archer, 4 yrs 2 Sir J. Boswell's Cable, 3 yrs 3 Mr. Maitland's Clem-o'-the-Cleugh, 6 yrs 4 Mr. Alexander's Little Go, aged . 5 The Two-yrs-old Stake f 25 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 50 added. Three quarters of a mile. Mr. Alexander's Benbow Lord Eglinton's Egidia Mr. Ramsay's Hesseltine Plate of 50/. Mile and half heats. Mr. Ramsay's Recorder, 6 yrs Lord Eglinton's Patroness, 3 yrs MORPETII RACES.—Tuurtsnes. The Gentlemen's Purse of 501. Two miles. Mr. Clarke's Maid of Auckland, 3 yrs . Mr. Orde's Queen Bee, 5 yrs Capt. Poet's Ada, 5 yrs Mr. Crawford's Royal Charlie, 3 yrs 5 4 4 Mr. Hepple's Lady Flora, 4 yrs The Hunters' Stakes of 5 save. each, with 25 added, two miles and a half, were won by Mr. Crawford's Cen turion, aged, beating two others. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs., and 25 added. Heats, a mile and a half. Mr. Hepple's Lady Flora, 4 yrs Mr. Crawford's Cantata, aged 1 2 3 Mr. Hutchinson's Maria Monk SWANSEA RACES.—THURSDAY. The Glamorganshire Stakes of 10 says. each, with 25 added. Two. miles. Mr. Parr's Zara, 4 yrs Mr. Gouch's Greenfinch, 5 yrs Mr. Parr's Rough Robin, 5 yrs 3 The Hack Stakes were won by Sergeant Bother'em. The Welter Stakes were walked over for by Zarah. PRESTON GUILD RACES. —(CONCLUDED.) FRIDAY. The Borough Members' Purse of SOL, added to a Sweep stakes of 10 sovs. each. Three quarters of a mile. Mr. Price's Marion, 3 yrs ' (Cartwright) 1 Mr. Cook's What, 2 yrs Mr. King's Atalanta, 3 yrs Mr. Edmondstone's The Nun, 3- yrs The Guild Cup of 100 sovs., added to a Handicap of 10 goys. each. Two miles. Mr. Bower's Collins, 4 yrs (Stagg) 1 Mr. Hornby's Champagne, 5 yrs Mr. Meiklam's Wee Willie, aged BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY. ST. LEGER.-5 to 2 agst Attila-9 to 1 agst Cabrera (0-10 to 1 agst Policy-12 to 1 agst Ballinkeele-12 to 1 agst Fireaway-12 to 1 agst Seahorse-16 to 1 agst Agreeable c-14 to 1 agst Eboracum-20 to 1 agst Rosalind-40 to 1 agst Cattonite (0-40 to 1 agst Pal ladium (t)-40 to 1 agst Scalteen-25 to 1 agst Scott's lot, bar Attila. 1 1 ... 2 dr DONCASTER RACES. — Arrivals—Cabrera, c out of Solace, Agreeable c, Fireaway, Rover, Eboracum, Sea horse, Pharmacopoeia, Rosalind, Ballinkeele, Policy, Palladium, Scalteen, Priscilla Tomboy, Marion, Fire brand, Edmund, Cattonite, Auckland, Welfare, Charles XII., William de Fortibus, Misi Stilton, Little Wonder, Iliona, Monimia c, Camelino, Retriever, Beeswing, Satirist, Maria Day, Irony, Pharold, Yorkshire Lady, British Yeoman, and several others. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums re ceived on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer chandize : Week of Miles Total. y. . Name Railwa ended Opened , d, Sept. 3 Birmingham & Derby Junct. 48 . 1,365 5 9 2 Birmingham and Gloucester.:. 55 1,847 7 10 Aug. 27 Brandling Junction 25 881 12 6 Sept. 2 Chester and Birkenhead .. 4 Dundee and Arbroath ... ..... 161 250 8 0 3 Edinburgh and Glasgow 4 Eastern Counties 3 Glasgow and Ayr 40 .1,160 17 3 3 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 221 962 15 2 3 Grand Junet., Chester &Crewe 113 7,807 0 4 3 Great North of England 45 1,349 9 1 4 Great Western Hayle ......... ... 16 11 3 Hull and Selby Lancaster & Preston Junction 20a 2 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,493 7 8 3 London and Bi rm ingham ll2i . 16,151 11 4 8 London and Blackwall .... .. 3 London and Brighten Ditto Shoreh am Branch - 6 London and Croydon ' ' 10f 361 710 8 London and Greenwich 3l 793 3 8 4 London and South Western ... Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 . ... Manchester & Birmingham 3 Manchester and Leeds 3 Midland Counti es ... 3 Newcastle and Carlisle ...... 1 Newcastle and North Shields 7 400 9 1 4 Northern and Eastern 3 North Midland 4 22i 724 4 ,485 7 5 .. North Unio n - 3 Preston and Wyre l9i 318 12 7 3 Sheffield and .111anchester 7 ..171 17 5 8 South Eastern 3 Taff Vale 4 Ulster 24 425 19 11 3 York and North Midland 2B 2,188 310 THE QUEEN'S EMBARKATION FOR SCOTLAND. The following is a copy of the official report of the Lord Mayor on the subject of her Majesty's embarka tion for Scotland " The Lord Mayor has the honour to report to the Court of Aldermen that , her Majesty the Queen having been pleased to signify her intention to visit her domi nions in Scotland, and to proceed thither by water, some time in the course of the month of August last, his Lordship felt it to be his duty, as Conservator of the river Thames, to attend her Majesty upon her embarkation, and to esco r t h er throughout his juris diction, in like manner as was done in the Mayoralty of the late Mr. Alderman Magnay, in the year 1824, when his Majesty King George the Fourth went to and returned from Scotland ; and in the Mayoralty of Mr. Alderman Farebrother, in the year.lB34, when her Majesty Queen Adelaide proceeded to the Continent upon a visit to her relatives, and upon her return. " The Lord Mayor consequently proceeded to make the requisite arrangements, and applied to the Right lion. Sir James Graham, her Majesty's prin cipal Secretary of State for the Home Department, and to the Right Hon. Sir John Barrow, one of the Secretaries-to the Admiralty, r es p ec tf u ll y request i ng to be informed (as lie was anxious to pay all due re spect to her Majesty) of the time and place from which it would please her Majesty to embark, that he might be in attendance upon her Majesty, and accom pany her throughout his jurisdiction. " That in addition to a reply from Sir John Bar row, transmitting a letter from Mr. Drummond, Secretary to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, his Lordship received a letter from Sir James Graham, stating that he had laid the Lord Mayor's letter before the Queen, and had received her Majesty'scommands to inform his Lordship that the time of her Majesty's departure for Scotland was not definitively fixed : that her Majesty would embark from the Royal Dock yard at Woolwich ; and that it was her pleasure that all ceremonies connected with the conservancy of the river Thames should be dispensed with on the occasion. " His Lordship, therefore, gave directions to Capt. Fisher, the Superintending Harbour-master of the Port of London, to be in attendance at Woolwich, with the officers and boats of the harbour service, on the day of her Majesty's embarkation, and to afford every facility in his power for the same." We alluded last week to the probable retirement of Mr. John Leadbetter from the Chairmanship of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company, in conse quence of his views on the subject of Sunday travelling. We have since learned that on Thursday week Mr. Leadbetter was requested to attend the first meeting of the Board after the general meeting, it being im perative under the new Act then to elect all the officers of the Company. Before proceeding to the busi ness of the day, Mr. Leadbetter required a pledge from the Board that the question of Sunday travelling should be considered an open question, and with this pledge he would act as Director, or as their Chairman, if elected. The question having been decided by so large a majority in February, even of resi dent Scotch proprietors, and in August, with out a division, no such pledge could be given, not even that the question would ever again be entertained, on which Mr. Leadbetter resigned his office, and retired from, the Board. Mr. John Learmonth, of Edin burgh, was then elected Chairman ; and Mr. John George Hamilton, Deputy-Chairman ; and an in fluential individual is to be proposed at the next meeting (a resident of Glasgow) to fill up the vacancy. 'WEI are glad to find that the majority of the Directors have been so firth in a matter where any symp tom of yielding would have been turned to the account of the Agnewites. Notwithstanding Mr. Cadell's inti mation that he will bring forward the question at the next meeting, the anti-Sunday travelling agitation may be looked upon as at an end. It is high time that it were. —Railway yT iN inzes. MARRIAGE HIGH LIFE.—OH Thursday, the Bth instant, at the parish church of Freshwater, Isle of Wight, by the Rev. J. F. Isaacson, the rector, the Hon. Francis Grosvenor Hood, Captain and Lieut.-Colonel in the Grenadier Regiment of Guards, and brother of the Viscount Hood, to Elizabeth Jane, second daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Eden Hamond, Bart., and K.C.8., of Norton Lodge, Freshwater. THE AR DlY.—The Board of Ordnance have been pleased to notice " the field train department" in their order to the officers of artillery for the income tax ; but they were forgotten by the Board in the naval and will tary inquiry, and neglected in the Ordnance regulation of the 10th April, 1841. The public ought to know these acts of injustice to men who have served their country twenty years in the late war. ENIGMA.--What word is that in the English lan guage, and in common use, which will describe a person or thing as not to be found in any place, and yet, without any other alteration than a separation of the syllable, will correctly describe him as being present at the same moment ?—Morning Post. Answer.—Nowhere : Now here. . BRITISH AND PORTUGUESE COMMISSION. (From last night's Gazette.) MINUTE OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE . BRITISH AND PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENTS, FOR THE ISSUE AND PAYMENT OF THE .TITULOS OF THE 44 MIXED DRITISII AND PORTUGUESE COMMISSION." Preamble.—The labours of the Mixed British and Portuguese Commission having advanced sufficiently to enable the Commissioners to form an estimate of the probable amount which will be required for the payment of the whole of the " Titulos " to be issued in conformity with the awards of the Commission, and a large number of the awards having been prepared, the undersigned, her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and her Most Faithful Ma jesty's Minister at this Court, have agreed to direct the Commissioners to issue " Titulos " to the claimants, in accordance with Article 6 of the Minute of Instruc tions signed on the 13th of November, 1840, and they have agreed upon the following articles, containing regulations for the issue and payment of the above mentioned " Titulos :" Art. 1. The undersigned having been informed, that according to an estimate made by the Commis sioners, the sum of 162,5001. is the probable amount which her Most Faithful Majesty's Government will be called upon to provide for the payment of the " Titulos" to be issued bi the " Mixed British and Portuguese Com m i ss i on ,' and for the payment of the interest which will accrue thereon, until the amount specified in each "Titulo" shall be paid; it is hereby agreed, that her Most Faithful Majesty's Minister at this Court shall deliver to her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, thirteen bills drawn by the Portuguese Minister of Finance upon the Portuguese Treasury, in favour of her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for the sum of 12,5001. sterling, each; and when those bills are delivered, the Commissioners will take the necessary steps for the delivery of the " Titulos" in the manner hereinafter stated. Art. 2. The first of the above-mentioned thirteen bills shall be made payable on the Ist of October next, the second on the Ist of April, 1843, and the re maining eleven bills shall be made payable in succes sion, each bill being payable six months after the preceding one. The payment of an instalment of the claims shall commence so soon as each of the said bills shall be paid, and a day will be fixed, after which the payment of each instalment will Cease. Art. 3. The Commissioners shall deliver to each claimant in whose favour a final award shall have been issued, or to his representative or heir, a " Titulo," for the amount so awarded, and the Commissioners shall take a receipt for the same in duplicate. And, notwithstanding the arrangement contemplated in the 31st article of the " General Rules," signed on the 22d of June, 1841, the Commissioners are directed to make the said " Titulos " payable to the claimant or to "bearer," in order to obviate the necessity of inves tigating and demanding proofs of the validity of sig natures, at each time when the documents are pre sented for payment. Art. 4. The time at which each " Titulo" is to be paid shall be stated therein. And in conformity with the Gth article of the " Minute of Instructions," and with the 31st article of the " General Rules," each " Titulo " shall contain a statement of the interest which the total amount therein specified is to bear, until such amount shall be paid ; and such interest shall be paid half-yearly, at each period fixed for the payment of instalments. payment of All awards upon claims for " prize money" shall be provided for in distinct and separate " Titu los," the amount of which shall be paid in full, at the time fixed for the payment of the last instalment. Art. G. If any holder of a " Titulo" should neglect to present the same during the period announced for the payment of each instalment, the amount due thereon will not be paid until the period next ensuing; and the holder will not be entitled to receive interest upon such "Titulo" for the time thus intervening. Art. 7: If, before the closing of th e Commission, should turn out that the sums awarded to the claimants should exceed the sum of 162,500/., the Portuguese Government will, on receiving information to that effect, give another bill for the amount required, pay able at the same date as the thirteenth of the bills mentioned in Article 2. And if, on the other hand, the total sum awarded should prove to be less than the sum estimated, the British Goverment will cancel such thirteenth or final bill, on receiving from the Portu guese Government, in exchange for the bill so can celled, another bill for the exact amount required, and made payable at the same time. Art. 8. At the conclusion of the payments, the "Titulos" shall be cancelled; and the "Titulos" so cancelled shall be delivered to the Portuguese Go vernment in acquittance of the claims of British sub- jects who served in the Portuguese army and navy during the late war for the liberation of Portugal ; but the said acquittance shall not extend to claims on ac count of pensions, for the regular payment of which suitable permanent provision shall be made by the Portuguese Government, so soon as the Commissioners shall make known to the Portugpese Government the total amount of such pensions. Art. 9. The Commissioners are hereby authorised to make, from time to time, such further rules and regulations as they may deem requisite, for the pro tection of the Portuguese Government from fraud, and for the guidance of the claimants ; and they will take care to exact from the agents' of absent parties good and sufficient security for the due performance of the trusts undertaken by those agents. (Signed) ABERDEEN. TORRE DE MORCOItVO. Foreign-office, Aug. 26, 1842. Office of the Mixed British and Portuguese Com missioners, 94, Mount- street, Grosvenor-square, Sept. 8, 1842. The Commissioners of the Mixed British and Por tuguese Commission, in virtue of the authority vested in them by Article 9 of the " Minute of the Agree ment for the issue and payment of Titulos," signed on the 26th day of August, 1842, by her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and her Most Faithful Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at this Court, empowering the said Commissioners to form such further rules and regulations as they may deem requisite for the protection of the Portuguese Government from fraud, and for the guidance of the claimants ; and further to exact from the agents of absent parties good and sufficient security for the due performance of the trusts undertaken by those agents —hereby give notice, that the following rules and re gulations, in reference to agents and claimants, will henceforth be acted upon :- 1. No person shall be recognised, or permitted to act as an agent before the Commission, unless he shall have previously applied for and obtained a license from the Commissioners for that purpose. Before this license is granted, each agent shall enter into a bond, with two sufficient securities, to be severally and jointly bound to her Majesty, her heirs and successors, in the penalty of five hundred pounds, with the condition that such agent shall duly account to all persons for whom, or for whose use any Titulos or moneys, on account of awards, s 11 come into his hands. 2. If at any time after the grant of a license to an agent, any claimant shall satisfactorily prove that any such licensed agent has abused the trust reposed in him by not duly accounting for Titulos or moneys re ceived by him on behalf of such claimant ; and if it shall appear that any licensed agent has practised any fraud or imposition on any claimant or claimants, or upon the Commission, the Commis s i oners w ill, b y writing unde r th e i r hand to be delivered to such agent, or to be left at his last or most usual place of abode, or where his agency may be carried on, revoke ' the license granted. 3. If any claimant shall revoke the appointment l of a licensed agent, who shall have given security to the Commission for the proper discharge of his trust, such claimant shall not be permitted to appoint another agent, but will be required to act for himself, unless, when the period arrives for issuing the Titulo or Titulos upon the award, it can be satisfactorily proved to the Commission that the claimant is wholly unable to attend in parson, in consequence of great distance, or other adequate cause, on the validity aid force of which the Commissioners reserve to them selves the power of deciding. In the event of the Commissioners deeming it ne cessary to permit the appointment of a second agent, such appointment must be made by a formal aid stamped power of attorney. 4. Any person not desiring to act as an agent to the claimants generally, but applying to act on be half of a single claimant under a power of attorney, filled up aeoording to Form N o . 3, annexed to the Genera' Rules, signed on the 92d of June, 1841, shall not be permitted to act unless it can be satisfactorily proved to the Commissioners that the claimant s wholly unable to attend in person. If It shall be *proved that the claimant is un a bl e to attend in person, the Commissioners will requ i re his agent to provide such sedceuermitiensecasesstahre Commis sionersy, binding each ease my him duly to account wit eut fl•aud or delay to th e claimant, for whom or fc.r whose use any Titulos or !none? , paid thereon shall come into hi s h ands. sfeed) H. C. SIRR ;A. T. VALDEZ.. Joint-Secretaries. EXTRAORDINARY t.ARCIJNISTANct.,.--yesttrdav an inquest was held before C. J. Cartistr, sq at the White Hart Tavern, Greenwich, cm view of the tiody of a man who was found in, the river, off the Isle of Dogs. From th e dresa of the deceased, it was presumed tht he had I:tem a *toward on, board a foreign could be adduced as to h; yessel, but no s e vidence .4 uute or connections. It was stated that on the body being found, an undertaker and his assistant went dOWA the river, and placed the body in mid were bringing it up to Greenwi c h i n a boat, "Alen the boat caPsizod, and the two gentlemen in black were immersed in the water, and were in great danger, but were, after much difficulty, rescu e d by so me water men, put Qg to their a ssistance. T he co ffi n, with the body Pt the deceased in it, floated - some distance down the river before it could be again picked up. The Jury returned a Verdict of " Found drowned." GE FtMAN Y. COLOGNE, SEPT. s . —Yesterday was the great day I here. Of the promised kin gs on l y one was presen t ; the King of Wurtemberg did not arrive, and his Hanoverian Majesty was detained by illness ; thus accident having removed all occasion for amusingcom parisons, favoured the serious aim of the assembly. At an early hour the avenues to the cathedral were crowded, and the opendspaces in its vicinity scarcely sufficed to hold the curious, who, however, were not to be tempted to ascend scaffoldings at a dear price, which had no strong guarantees for their solidity, and which looked down with empty seats upon the crowd congregated beneath. The day chosen for the ceremony being Sunday, it was . quite in order that the King should first at tend the service at the Protestant church. It was, of course, equally in order that high mass should he performed on that day in the cathedral. At both services . the King and Queen were presert. After church the Royal party proceeded to the spot on the south side of the aisle which had been prepared for the laying of the first stone, when the King, on proceed ing to perform the ceremony, addressed a speech of some length to the assembled multitude, in which the leading theme related to the wishes, political and re ligious, of the Germanic States. illustrating by his. torical allusions the advantages which other countries had drawn at various periods from the disunion pre vailing in Germany, he glanced slailfully at a recent attempt to do the same on the part of a neighbouring_ Power; b u t w hi c h attempt, he congratulated himself and them, was decisively foiled by the display of una nimity which G ermany under arms put forth. " This day," continued the Royal orator, "is destined to record a display of unity not less important. It will record,. for those who doubt the fact, that, although various shades of doctrine and opinion may divide us, yet that Christendom is not disunited—that it forms one great and indomitable whole. In sign of this conviction the representatives of all confessions and of every German land were there, and each felt that he derived.strength from the consistency that he lent to the general fabric." The King was interrupted here by loud acclama tions, and when they had subsided added, " The sen timents I have uttered have met with the heartfelt applause of a city like yours ; let us give the ancient word once more—' Cologne for ever' (Alai' Colin)," At this the shouts were redoubled. . The Archbishop's coadjutor advanced, gave his b e . nediction, and addressed the people, but his speech was not as distinctly audible as that of the King. After this the architect of the building, a man generally esteemed, but who had been much fatigued with the care of providing the accommodation for the numerous guests, spoke in his turn. He alluded to the discernment of the fate King, which led him to patronise this national work, which he, however l e ft un fi n i s h e d to his heir. Th e heir had accepted the obliga tion of carrying out his father's intentions, in token of which, the labours at the cathedral were to be in creased. As he spoke, the old crane at the top of the half-finished tower, so well known to travellers, was set slowly in motion, and a h uge stone was raised to the summit, in token of the promised continuation of the edifice. The assembly then broke up, and the company invited, soon after one o'clock, met in an im mense tent, a present from the Emperor of Russia, in which upwards of 400 covers were laid. The banquet passed off gaily, and in the evening the company ap peared at the theatre. The King and Queen have left for the castle of Bruhl, near Bonne, where they will stay until the two camps unite and perform their manoeuvres. In the evening the town was illumi nated, and the Rhine front produced a rare and bril liant effect on the water. ANOTHER AMERIt'AN DIVER. (From the Surulerland Times of Friday.) An American seaman, named Michael Smith, aged 23, proposed to leap from the east side of Sunderland Bridge, into the river, on Wednesday last. His in tention was announced by hand-bills on the previous evening, and at the time fixed (four o'clock) hundreds of persons assembled to witness this daring and novel exploit. Smith, learning that the officers of police would be on the alert, to prevent him accomplishing his object, changed his dress, to evade detection, and proceeded across by the ferry-boat to the north side, which caused a little delay. On arriving at the centre of the bridge he instantly mounted the railing, and was preparing to throw himself off, when he was seized by the police, who dragged to the station... house, to the great disappointment of the spectators. Yesterday (Thursday) he was brought before the Magistrates, on the charge of obstructing the tho roughfare. The case was stated by Sergeant Paxton; and Superintendent Brown remarked that th e man had been previously cautioned. Smith, in defence, said that he was a shipwrecked mari ner, and belonged to New York : he wPs an expe rienced diver, and had no other intention in perform ing the feat than to raise a little money, in order that he might be enabled to fit himself out for sea. The Mayor told him that he had no busineis to obstruct the footpath ; if he would jump off the bridge, people Into, go to see him, and the police had acted perfectly tight in taking him into custody. Sergeant Paxtoo here stated that Smith told the officers he would do it in spite of them and the Magistrates, and that he at tempted to excite the mob in his favour. Smith de nied this charge, and said he only told the people that it was not his fault they were disappointed. He then intimated to the Bench that he would , yet, leap off the bridge, providing he could get their order. This, however, was refused, and the Mayor told him that, as a foreigner, the Bench were inclined to deal le niently, and discharged him on paying costs_ ; but that the polic e would k ee p a s t r i c t eye upon him, and if he disobeyed their injunctions, he would be taken up and bound over to keep the peace. We were glad to find that no costs were exacted, and the unfortunate mariner left the Court. 'TIE ACTUAL LEAP. About six o'clock in the evening of the same day, determined not to be diverted from his purpose, Smith went privately on to the bridge, and dispatched his companions to apprise certain parties, who had be friended him, of his determination to leap; several were, however, disappointed, having, before they ar rived, perched himself on the summit of the lamp. frame, from whence, waving his sap gallantly he sprang into the r i ver W ear—a height of upwards of 110 feet! On reaching the water he struck out, and swam " like a sea-bird," to a keel or badgerom whence he saluted the spectators on theand. on the heights, in the style of a true Jack Tar, which was immediately returned by a round of hearty cheers from the astonished multitude. It is almost unneces- sary to inform our distant readers (for there are few but must have heard of the far-famed iron bridge at Sunderland) that it is so constructed that large ves sels of 400 tons sail underneath it without striking their masts. • Nearly two years ago a man visited the town, and announced his intention of performing ate same feat. Immense crowds were attracted to the F,pot, but when the hour for this display of courage mad skill arrived, he was non est inventus, to the mortification and chagrin of the spectators. It was, therefore, left for Smith to do what no man ever did before ; and what, very probably, no other man will dare to attempt again. Smith is an active, brave, jolly-hearted fellow, short-made, and about twenty-three years of a ge . H a h as frequ ent l y l eaped from th e hi g h est yar d s and masts o f s hips into , the sea ; and, in several instances, has been instrum ental saving th e li ves o f hi s f e llowmea a t great peril. The poor-fello w , w h o h as proved - that thepublic his object not to impose on th e credulity o f promised to repeat the act publicly, if not aga • in pre vented by the authorities. we do think that the police, or the Magistrates, have been guilty of a reaching the shore yesterda a fter And we must here remark that great stretch of authority in their conduct to that,. having achieved littl e poor fellow. On less tha n him, who Cheerfully pre a miracle, a number when the s o e f li p t e e o d p i l i e im ga i t , h i e th red trifi r i o n i g in s d urns of nionom police i m mediately interfered and dragged him off to a reason that he was as - we think, little less than a t2l be e station- h ouse, subterfuge; and we do not see that the Magistrates had A ny more right to prevent the man leaping from the bridge, than they would have to Mr. Green, or any other aeronaut, , performi n p g the revent more dangerous feat o f ascending in a balloon. Certain of the police appear lately to have been taking special pains to make themselves unpopular. We trust the superintendent and inspectors will curb their imper-. tinence, and not allow them to exceed their duty ir, the slightest degree. A .TTEMP T TO MURDER A TRADESMAN'S SON IN tOLBORN.—The following daring and murderous attack was made on the son of Mr. William Howell, china and glass warehouseman, of Holborn Hill, a boy of 11 years old :—Last night, about 1 o'clock, he was minding the, shop, when a young man entered with a mug in his hand and asked him to drink a drop of beer, which he did, a small quantity, not liking i ; the man then left the shop, and went across th e roa d, an d j o i ne d anot h er man. Ms sister having providentially returned (not having left him alone more than 10 minutes) when he fell down in the shop among the goods, but got up . again and went to the door, when he became violently sick aid insensible. The policeman on the heat carrie:i him home to Mr. Howell's house in Stonecutter -street, when he and others thought the boy dead. Mr. the surgeon, imme diately came, who eonsidere6 th e b oy in a d angerous state, and administered remedies to bring off his stomach what he had taken, and he, remained insensible for two or three hours. He is novi out of danger, but the doctor has no doubt that laudenum was given to the boy, andt had he not been sick wlJen his sister returned, he would have been a corpse, the object of the party no doubt. being to rob th e s h r,p. BAD PUN CTI3 / TION AND SPELLING.- - d poor woman at Shoreham, 'whose husband was going to sea, handed threugh the clerk, to the parson, this public prayer :-- a A man ',ping to see, hi s w if e desirt's the prayers of this con ,way, read t o th e ears o f hi s fl oc k, " A m an going to sew e'regation." The parson, pointing it in :;is own_ Ms wife, desires the prayers of this congregv.tion," sad set them all in a titter.