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LONDON : TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1842. --~- -- We do not now ask the question for the first time,l" How is England "—how are the masses in England, who are very generally discontented, " to be troverned But now, for the first time lately, a practical answer is given to the ques tion. The extensive political changes proposed by tliie Chartists, their design deliberately formed and deliberately carried into execution, of putting an end to an public meetings, of which they did not approve—a policy very nearly akin to that of the ultra-Tories at all times, and the late general insurrection in the north, directed less against the Government than against the middle classes, seem, we are afraid, to have thoroughly roused their apprehensions, and made them resolve, at whatever cost to themselves, to strengthen the Government, and enable it to domineer with a heavy and an iron hand. We note in the provin dal papers but one voice on the subject, or the objections to this course are made in so querulous and doubtful a tone, that it informs us, even better than an actual assertion, what is the present state of public feeling in the provinces. How long it may last, we cannot pretend to say; but throughout the middle classes generally there is now, we are afraid, a practical conviction, giv ing birth to active exertions, that the liberties of the people must be curtailed, and they must be rigidly and severely governed. In fact, the conduct of the people, as above alluded to, has supplied the pretext, if not the justification, of reviving and restoring ultra-Toryism, which, for the season, seems in the ascendant. The Secretary of State has given a warrant to every police-constable to suppress a public meet ing, and on that warrant men have already acted. Magistrates are preventing meetings of the most usual, and, for what we know—as we believe talk dissipates grief—of the most harmless character, and their conduct is generally approved of. The conference of the Complete Suffrage As. sociation at Birmingham, which had been summoned under Mr. STURCIE'S auspices for the 7th instant, has been put off sine die, " in consequence," it is said, " of the sup pression of public meetings by the authorities. A similar meeting has been prevented at Leeds, and we are told at various other towns, so that at present constitutional meetings are no more tolerated by the authorities than they were a few months ago by the Chartists. On the Ist instant Mr. VINCENT, who lately received a very large number of votes at Ipswich, to represent that borough, had engaged to deliver a lecture at Derby, " upon the present state of the country, and the necessity and safety of extending political political power to all classes of the people," when the Magistrates, we are told, by an address issued at Derby, " sent a posse of constabl es to the theatre, who, by sheer intimidation, induced the lessee to authorise them to eject the pe rsons then in possession, and the theatre was thus fi nally closed against them." The middle classes of the north have seen, or supposed, their pro perty to be in danger, and they have cheer fully enrolled themselves as special consta bles, and have united with the Magistrates in putting an end to all such meetings. For the present, therefore, the question is answered; the numerous and powerful middle classes seem re solved to have a strong and a coercive Govern ment. It may appear singular to the Tories, though we are not wholly unprepared for it; but the fltct is, that they will now find amongst the commercial and manufacturing capitalists, whom they have so vehemently abused, some of their staunchest and most eager supporters. We aye well aware that reasoning or argu nu,nts are thrown away, when urged on persons m ilder the influence of alarm. But there are s o , ne facts to which, even now, it may not be w h o lly out of place to allude. The sort of co ercive. Government which is growing up i n Enfrla has long been established on th e con tinent %±* Europe. There no public meetings are or can h 9 held ; there the Press generally h as ne i t h er e% . c$ to see, nor tongue to speak, but as the authorities command; there everything is regu lated,control led, and curbedby a police. We have no doubt that such a system can be, in the present temper of the governing classes, established here ; but it cannot be denied, that if it give security and peace on the Continent, which is very doubtful, it stifles enterprise, crushes energy, and makes man the complete slave of a very imperfect system of government. Hitherto it has been the cherished pride of Englishmen to have had more freedom, giving more energy, more enterprise, and more happiness, than the nations of' the Continent, and they must cast aside and forget this pride of their fathers before they can be happy under a system imported from the Continent. In no part of the Conti nent are there such great towns, and such masses of population, as in England ; in no place are there such heaps of property ; society there is yet, generally speaking, much more agricultural and poorer than with us, and the system which there preserves security, by crushing energy, will here inflict immense injury without giving security. We intreat the middle and the upper classes, who have been made wealthy and great, almost beyond imagination, by the present system, and who have enjoyed for many years a security, both in person and property, superior to any country in Europe, not hastily, and in a moment of appre hension, to put an end to that general freedom which is the basis of the general safety. No persons feel more than they an intense interest in the reputation and welfare of the country; and let them, therefore, before they encourage the arbitrary proceedings of Secretaries of State, Magistrates, and policemen, bethink them how surely they will destroy the reputation and wel fare of Britain by crushing, with a continental police system, the energies, though they be rude, and the enterprise of her people. Let them continue, like their sires, to "love the national roughness for the speed it gives." One of the reproaches cast on the factory sys tem, is that of destroying individuality. It makes man, it is said, the slave of machinery, and reduces all who are dependent on it to the same level uniformity. We are inclined to think that the great masses- which are generally con gregated about machinery, are more the cause of this than the manufacturing system. Indivi dual will and individual power gradually dwindle away and disappear, as population increases. To European perception, the individuality of the Chinese, who have little or no machinery, and no great manufacturing system, is as completely lost, owing to the influence of the immense mul titude on each, as the individuality of our manu facturing towns. The squatters, however, in the United States, the pioneers of civilisation, who - are left to their own passions and de vices, have in general, a strongly-marked individual character. In our opinion, therefore, the influence of a mass of population is by far the most powerful cause of that loss of individual characteristics which some persons continually complain of. What they ascribe to the factory system, is the natural and necessary result of the increase of population. There is another cause continually operating, and intended to operate, in the same directior.• It is the one object of all national institutions to lay down for all men the same rules of conduct. Under the law it is said all are equal, and all are supposed to have the same rights and privilege - . The law, then, so far as it can, introduces uni formity and destroys individuality, which is Whet sentimentalists complain of. The powers the State over individuals in this respect is well put by Dr. CHANNING in his last pamphlet, The Duty of Free States," Second Part. He says— A man's country is more thought of than his nature. Isis connexion with a particular community is more re spected than his connexion with God. His alliance with his race is reduced to a nullity by the affiance with the State. He must be ready to give up his race, to sacrifice ull its rights and interests, that the little spot where he was born may triumph or prosper. The history of nations is very much the history of the immolation of the individual to the country. His nationality stands out before all his other attributes. The nation repre sented by one or a few individuals has arrogated to itself the dignity of being the fountain of all his rights. It has made his religion fur him. Its will, called law, has taken place of all other laws. It has seized on the in dividual as its tool, and doomed him to live or die for its most; selfish purposes. The sacredness of the indi vidual is even vet so little understood that the freest country on earth is talking of war, because a local law, enslaving the individual, is not recognised by the whole earth. But the nation is not everything. The station is r.ot the fountain of right. Our first duties are not to our country. Our first allegiance is not due to its laws. We belong first to God, and next to our race. We say not whether such a complete mastery of the State over individuals be right or not, but we agree with Dr. CHANNING, that it is a fact, and that one object always kept in view by the State is to reduce all individual will into submis sion to its will. We say further, that this opera tion of the State on its subjectsis a very powerful cause for that loss of individuality against which Tory writers, when the factory system is in question, inveigh very bitterly. At the same time they are the strongest advocates for reducing every individual to implicit submission to the will of the State. In these two cases they are, we think, extremely inconsistent. They labour to destroy individuality, and they complain that it is destroyed. If they have nothing worse to allege against the factory system than that it de stroys individuality, the factory system will not be worse than any other system, and certainly not worse than the State. There is, in truth, no great reason to praise the perfect individuality of a backwoodsman, or the complete dependence of a cockney or a Manchester weaver on a sys tem, for both are obviously the consequences of the peculiar circumstances of each, and are the natural and necessary results, in one case of iso lation, and in the other, of living with a great multitude. THE NEW TARIFF.—Some curiosity has been ex cited in Winchester during the past week by an announce ment from the public crier that Amercan pork was selling at 41d. per pound. We have seen some of the meat selling at that price at Mr. Parmiter's shop, and from its appearance should pronounce it good and wholesome food. In colour it is, of course, darker than the young pork salted here, but it is thin in the rind, fat, and smells very sweet. If the tariff will pro duce plenty of such meat at such a price, it will be indeed a much greater benefit than we anticipated, and prove what the farmers assert, that Peel is the greatest enemy the farmers ever had, and that they were com pletely humbugged by the Tories at the last election, The only drawback upon the American pork, is that it is coarse and cut up in a most unscientific manner. We think a little time will remove both these objections, and we most heartily rejoice that the principles of free trade have at length so far prevailed that good and wholesome meat is now placed within the reach of the poor man at a price which will enable him to occasionally tastet was before a luxury known to him by name only.— Hants Independent. Capel Hanbury Leigh, Esq., Lord-Lieutenant of the county, accompanied by Colonel Sir M. Creegh, of the 11th Regiment, visited the Tredegar Iron Works on Monday last, for the purpose of inquiring as to the state of the place and neighbourhood, and finding all quiet, and that the men had returned to their works, orders were given that the company of soldiers stationed there should return to Newport. We are happy to find that the whole of the men around the hills have returned to their work. About 5 0 of the leaders have been dis charged from Cyfarthfa w orks ; amon g st the number is Miles, a ringleader of strike rs. Thin g s be g in to wear a cheerin g aspect all round the district, and we are in hopes of a speedy and favourable turn in the works.— Mcmmouthshire Merlin. The Moniteur de la Propriete states, that in conse quence of the high price of forage, a vast number of cattle hive been very lately sent up to the neighbour hood of Paris, to be sold to the butchers and slaughtered. the breeders not being able to afford feeding them any longer. In July, 1841, the number of oxen arrived at Paris amounted to 10,008, whilst, during the same showing difference epresentnceoi. 2,608, There the is numberereh has b e 1: 11 25 n 0 1 2d, dimi nution 6, i ith t a l ee tl nc o eo n eu i no n tfr t: t i l e t be tpitrtni increased o nas f ueg b dm u g te enn i a l t e lai r tt s ii m ee t n cattle s Par is, en tinopcofnrosem price may be fea7ed, p al er t s l o te ns st w ock becomes hoseneeessittnre necessities d will notmmore in pel the the them a t n o d s s en o d f it to market. The Augsburgh Gazette states that the inquiry respecting the associations of students at Gottingen, has terminated. Tha chief offenders have been sentenced to twelve days' imprisonment, and the rest, amounting to more than 100, to six. WA have reason to believe that the Queen and her Royal Consort, Prince Albert, have most graciously sig nified their intention to visit Ireland during the ensuing summer or autumn.—Dublin Packet, TO BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS. INTERESTING NEW WORKS, Just published b y COLBURNs 13, Great Marlborough-street. LORD LONDONDERRY'S STEAM VOYAGE to CONSTANTINOPLE, by the RHINE and the DANUBE, in 1840-41. 2 yob. dye., with Illustrations. RUSSIA and the RUSSIANS in 1842. By J. G. KOHL. 2 T 61., with Illustrations, les. 6d. bound. The FIFTH VOLUME of MISS STRICKLAND'S lIVES of the QIJEENS of ENGLAND, comprising the Lives of Queen Katherine Parr and Queen Mary. NEWFOUNDLAND in 1842. By Lieut.-Colonel Sir RICHARD BONNYCASTLE. 2 vol.'. small Byo., with a valuable Map, and other Illustrations, 21s. bound. V. Mr. VIGNE'S TRAVELS in if..ASHMERE and the COUNTRIES ADJOINING the MOUNTAIN COURSE of the INDUS, with Observations on the late and now pass ing Events in Affghanistan. 2 vols. Bvo., with a valuable Map, and other Illustrations. HAMBURGH, 12TH AUGUST, 1842. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, AND HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA, Haying AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, by which, though they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES may be obtained, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are Selling GENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS for the said DISTItIBU rioNs. . _ Persons desirous to purchase may receive. PREVIOUS tioliying any order, the PROSPECTUS with full PARTI CULARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. r -- = THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. The Public is respectfully informed that this Theatre will OPEN FOR THE SEASON ON SATURDAY NEXT, SEPTEMBER 10, when Will be performed Bollini's Opera of NORM A.—Pollio, Mr. W, Barri ; Oroveso, Mr. Giubilei; Flavius, Mr. Binge; Norma, Miss Adelaide Kemble; Adalgisa, Miss Itainforth; Clotilda, Miss Lane. After wtuch win be produced a New Comedy, in Two Aets, writ. en by Douglas Jerrold,'Esq., entitled GERTRUDE'S CHERRIES, OR WATERLOO IN 1835. —Willoughby, Mr. Bartley; Vincent, Mr. W. Lecy ; Guibert, Mr. Diddear; Jack Halcyon, Mr. Har ey ; resstione, Mr. Meadows; Angelica, bliss Cooper; Mrs. Crossbone, Airs. Huoihy ; Gertrude. Mrs. W. Lacy_. Doers open aitalf.past Six, and the Performances begin at Seven. Dress Eoxes is., Second Price 3s. 6d , First and Second Circles Beixind Price YIS. titt.; Pit its, Sceond Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whitlow, at the Box_ Office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the - Box..Ofti e; of Mr. Andrews, Ur. :New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond street; and of Mr. Sams. Pali Mall. • _ - DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, win be acted Colley Grattan's Historical Play of BEN NAZIR, THE iA It k CEN.—Ben Nazir, 111 r Butler (as acted bv him at all the principal Thaatres iv America) ; Ling Charles, Mr. H. Hughes; }Ant ranee, Mrs. 11 . Vining. After whioh. an New Petite Sotio-Comic Drama, entitled THE WELCOME HOME.— ..at Merton by Mr. K Honner. To be followed by THE ARTFUL DO tAiE.—Domosthenes Dodge, Mr. G. Wild. To conclude with the laughable Entertainment called MY 'MAN TOM.—Turn Chatr, t(r G. wild ; Mrs. Kate Moreton, Mks E. Ter. , who will sing •. Kate Kearney." Placeg and Private coxes may be ad of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the hex OlPce. from Eleven till Four daily. THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. FIRST NIGHT OF THE NEW SEASON. Two Vow Pieces ! M. Carter, the Lion King, and his highly trained i.niinals of the Desert ! I ! THIS EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6. Will be per orme.l the Barletta of MY FELLOW CLERK Tataisi. Mr. W. Howard; Victim, Mr. Oxberry; Fanny (with Songs), Miss Ho'me«, Aztec which, M CARTER, the Lien Ki"g, will appear in a new Oriental Mama, writte' ex, re,ly for him by I.'l. Hines, Esc., called rHE LION KING; t it,'THE rituTE TAML ft De THE Dr: • PA:T.—Omer, the Lion Tamer. M Carter. To conclude wi h a vovel Burletta, svri ten by Pierce Egai. Esq., full of fun, frolie, and whim, called L FE IN DUBLlN.—Corin thian Tom, Mr. Wan. Howard ; .'errs, Mr. ? 1. T. Haines ; Jemmy green, 'hr. Oxiierry ; Logic, Mr. Holfing worth; Mrs. ureeii, Miss 1.. Mel Jill ; Kate hrilliant, Miss ream'ott W. de ; Betsey Tasteful Miss R. Isaacs; Boss I)as , all. Miss Berusford. Bpx.es, 411. Pit, Gallery, Is. 'Doors 4vell st balf.past Six; continence at Seven; Half-price, a Quarter before Nine Prioee Boxes B. be had of Mr. Gri:gati, at the Private Box-office ; and of Meoii S. Andrews; Mitchell, Sams, and Baily, at then Libraries. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Fiat j,erforrn c • of . a r4v.• Fantaf..l:s "ET Straus; von Handel !" ll'.ritadola will commence this week t t Half- past Eight. mt. , . ND EVENING FETES, MONDAY, TUESDA", and 'HU RS!) AY, with the flowing matchles, cambination of uniq e attractions: — The celet.pated MENAGERIE, recently enriched by several Zoo kg'Ati! rxritie, 'l%. stniienAt,us *I ITO RA 31 I C MODEL A L.FRESCO of ROME frolic tt left trit,k of the 'fiber. 't he Pit")MENI A DES AI iJSICALgS hy the unriv,lled C,nd of Wind Ir.trunient . con 4 uctel by Mr. Godfrey including !teethe yen's Sintbilia iu C minor, the t;rand Due " Day, Val " from uillaitme Tell " pt rfostned y Handley and Prospere, a new se lectio of favoirri.e moiceaux from the wotks of Handel. and a va riety of popular pi,ees Atter th the Illuralnationcl St. Peter'e, and the Giran stola of Saint Angelo, with Southby's magnificent Pyrotechnic Spec- Extr ordinary Aquatic kirewo:ks n the Lake, and Superb CAW,.1,1 of Mire. Adc&,,'ini to the whole of the Eulertainments, One Shilling. Open at Ten in :he moining.—Feetinig at Five.—Concert at Half rut Five.—Fireworks at Halt-pst Eight, - !ti A r Dog Brz.IDGETHIS DAY. Rlornm2 32 minutes after ; Evening minutes after 2. ' o ft ••••••., - • / • 411 • 4 0' 1. 4.. N 0 f ' 4 0 •K.• • 1, ”1.; , „ . rtt _sun. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1E42. COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal gighness the Duke of Cambridge left Bagshot Park, the residence of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, yesterday, for his resi dence at Kew. The President of the Board of Control had an in. terview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial. office. Dispatches from the Governor of British Guiana were received yesterday at the Colonial-offiee. Lord and Lady Hamilton Chichester have left Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, for Belfast, Ireland. ii . t - 4,,_i. 4 ...2, - , - ,_,%.„ 4 - tur ig, ;.f.:4,;.', , ,,...JAP,4. ---1‘,4"14 motive of discord, nor any symptoms whatever that could give cause for the belief of this harmony being interrupted. The Spanish forces which ap proached the frontier had no other object in view than the active persecution of the bandits in that quarter, and which gave much alarm to the inhabitants; and at present these forces have no other object in view than the prevention of smuggling carried on there to a large extent. We repeat, therefore, with confidence, that between the two Governments there reigna the most complete harmony." " The well known, and for some years the principal newspaper in Spain, the Eco del Comercio, has passed into new hands. The proprietor, M. Paz Garcia, and the chief editors, MM. Miguel Ayllon and Fuente Andres, took leave:of their readers and subscribers in an article published in that paper of the 27th ult." We cannot put our Gallic Contemporaries in good humour with us. The war organs appear now as much displeased to hear that an English and French fleet are amicably cruising off the coast of Syria as they were two years ago at the friendly junction of the British and Russian squadrons. Nothing will do for them but to obtain satisfaction for the past, and se curity for the future. Satisfaction is not the most amicable word in the vocabulary of JOHN BULL ; and the offer of security for the fu ture would imply an admission of weakness on the part of France anything but flattering to the vanity of our neighbours across the Channel. The Courrier Francais contends that a state of isolation is not irksome to France, and that she ought to be in no hurry to make up matters with her quondam be trothed JonN Burz, who deserted her for the caresses of the Northern Bear. The French Ambassador at Constantinople has told the world quite a different story. Without the concurrence of England he found it impossible to promise any protection to the Catholic inhabitants of Syria. As very few of the Christian population of the Lebanon are Greeks, Russia refused I to unite with France in any plan for obtaining pro tection for them from the Porte. The EMPEROR saw, doubtless, that it would appear as ridiculous as inconsistent and unjust, to persecute the Roman Ca tholics in Poland, and to protect them in Syria. United, the moral power of England and France in Syria, is felt to be greater than the physical power of France if maintaining a policy of isolation. For the first time we find it announced in one of the French Journals, that the Duchess of ORLEANS had been very ill, but that she is now better. Pri vate letters before stated that she was so ill that the departure of the Royal Family for Eu was postponed for some days in consequence, but the Press pre served a rigid silence upon the subject. Not a word is said as to her feelings with respect to the settlement of the Regency question. That she might have been led to think of her own ap pointment as Regent is hardly possible, seeing the suddenness with which the KING adopted his resolu tion ; and the probability had crossed the mind of the late Duke of ORLEANS, who endeavoured to pro vide against it; probably from reflecting that a Princess openly professing the Protestant religion could not safely be left to sway the destinies of the French nation ; for, since her marriage with the late Duke, the Duchess of ORLEANS has manifested no disposition to conform to the forms of the Church of Rome. The Berlin correspondents of the Paris journals allude to the numerous reports still afloat of the dis covery of a conspiracy in Russia, for the purpose of murdering the EMPEROR. For the purpose, no doubt, of showing that their Majesties of RUSSIA and PRUSSIA are on the best terms, measures have been adopted for increasing the commercial intercourse between them, as will be seen by a reference to our Foreign Summary. " It appears (says a Journal) that since the death of her husband the Princess Helen is kept in a sort of seclusion. Too much contact between the Princess and political characters, is not desired, either at Neuilly or Eu. Princess Helen i 3 not seriously ill, but has been much indisposed for some months. Her constitution was already very weak before her mar riage, and the Princess has long suffered from a com plaint, which obliges her to observe a very strict regimen. It was for this disorder that Princess Helen went to Plombieres for the benefit of the waters, from which she expected much relief. Since the sudden death of her husband, the most melancholy sensations have constantly agitated her, and must have had an influence on her preceding disorder. We are assured that Princess Helen feels her self excessively isolated at the Court of Louis Philip, and that the presence of the Dowager Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the education of her children are her only consolation for so many dis pelled illusions and concentrated affections." We find the following in the Ministerial journals : " Her. Royal Highness the Duchess of Orleans, who has been indisposed for some days, is much better. " The health of the Count de 'Paris, the Prince Royal, continues to be excellent. " The apartments in the Pavillon de Flere, in the Tuileries, are preparing for the winter, for the Duchess of Orleans, and the Princes, her sons. It is known that her Royal Highness will not again re side in the Pavillon Alarsan, where sad recollections would continually revive her grief."—Commerce. DEATH OF MRS. SOTER.—We deeply regret to an' nounce the sudden and unexpected death of Mrs. Soyer, the wife of Mr. Soyer, of the Reform Club, and one of the most distinguished female artists of the day. Mr. Soyer had accompanied the Duke of Saxe Coburg- Gotha to Belgium for a few days, and was unfortunately absent when his wife, who was near her confinement, was prematurely seized with the pains of child-birth, and expired in a few hours, Her style of paint ing was g rea tl y a d m i re d b y th e b es tj u dges of art ; and her country, has lost her at the moment it was beginning to appreciate the origina lity of her genius. Some of her pictures were highly prized by the King and Queen of the Belgians, and the other members of the Saxe Coburg, family when in this country. Though only in the thirty-second year of her age, Mrs. Soyer has left behind her upwards of five hundred paintings—enough surely to sanctify her memory. Her funeral will take place to morrow at Kensall-green Cemetery. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The advance which took place yesterday in the prices of funds, has been fully maintained to-day, al though jobbers have considerably curtailed their ope rations—Consols are 924 934 for Money, and 934 934 for the Account. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 1014; India Stock, 249 250; Exchequer Bills Old, 51 53; New, 49 51 prem. Business in Foreign Securities has been limited, but prices are firm. The transactions have been chiefly in Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 524; the New Five per Cent. Loan at 1004 ; and the Danish at 834. A further rise has to be noted in the quotation for Mexican Bonds, which has been as high as 354, with the prospect of going still higher. The purchases in Shares have been but small, and consist of London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 454; South Western, 591 ; Brighton, 334; Great North of England, 844 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 49. Time bargains have been made in Portuguese Five per Cents. at 35 ; Spanish Five per Cent. Bonds, 164, and the Three per Cent. Stock, 214. The deficiency in the income of Portugal according to the budget just presented to the Cortes, is far greater than had been anticipated, and has caused much disinclination to deal in the bonds. As is usual with all these countries, the interest upon the foreign debt is the last thing to be cared for, and it would appear that the creditors have but a small chance of obtaining any portion of their claims. The Finance Minister of Spain is also, it is said, en deavouring to raise money on the mortgage of the reversion of the Almaden mines, which some years since were appropriated to pay off the bond holders ; yet in the face of these facts it is being endeavoured to persuade the public into the purchase of these documents, in the expectation that they will be paid. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 49 to Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths London ant' Brighton Ditto Loan Notes London and Blackwall London and Birmingham 90 — to Ditto Shares London and South Western .. 41% 594 to Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares JOINT TOCK BANKS. London and Westminster . .. 20 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. s.—We cannot report any improvement in our Market. Man chester and Birmingham, 23 to 24 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 484 to 484; Ditto Quarters, 54 to 51 ; Manchester and Leeds, 73 to 75 ; Ditto Quarters, 4 to 44; Bristol and Exeter, 444 to 444 ; Manchester and _Salford Banks, 104 to 104; Manchester Assur ance, 94 to 94. GROUSE SHOOTING.—The Duke of Cleveland, Lord William Powlet, Lord Bateman, and Sir Benjamin Hall, are enjoying the sport of grouse shooting on his Grace's famous umir in Aberdeenshire. In the first ten days they bagged 997 k brace, besides hares, of which his Grace killed 333 brace, and Sir 13, nal 398 brace, ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. A new zoological dramatic sketch (we copy the designation from the bills) called The Lion King, was produced at this theatre last evening, for the express purpose of introducing the extraordinary performances of Mr. Carter, with his beautiful collection of lions, tigers, panthers, and other wild animals. We always thought the performances of Van Amburgh most ex traordinary, but his performances are certainly sur passed by those of Mr. Carter. In his first scene, Mr. Carter is discovered in a reclining attitude on an elevated platform. The scene represents a forest, and Mr. Carter personates a sleeping Arab. A tiger springs upon him they roll together over the platform, and, when on the stage, after an apparently desperate struggle, he overcomes the tiger, places a collar round the animal's neck, attaches a cord to it, forces the tiger under a tub, and pulls his tail out of the bung hole, thus realizing one of the illustrations to Bay ley's facetious " Tale of a Tub." He then leads on a young lion, knocks the tub over, seizes the tiger by the cord attached to the collar, and leads the two animals several times round the stage. The docility of these two animals is quite astonishing. They jumped upon Carter, fawned upon him, and played with him as a pet dog plays with his master ; they seemed quite to enter into the spirit of the per formance, and acted their parts admirably. In the concluding scene Carter enters a cage, in which are a number of lions, tigers, and panthers. He plays with them, makes them jump over his whip, climb the bars of the cage, jump on his shoulders, lie down with him, roll over him, and when he leaves the cage leads out the young lion with him to the front of the stage, where the lion is bound with garlands by two young ladies, who each hold one end of this chain of flowers, forming a tableaux on which the curtain falls. At the conclu sion of the piece Carter was loudly called for, and made his appearance, leading the young lion, the other hero of the night, to share in the applause. Thi Lion King was followed by a musical bur letta from the pen of Pierce Egan, entitled Life in Dublin. The dramatis person& of this piece are our old friends, Tom, Jerry, and Logic, who have migrated to Dublin in search of fun, frolic, mirth, whim, and adventure. The Dublin adventures ace to the full as entertaining as were their London ones, and as the piece has had a run of three seasons in Dublin, we conclude that it presents a faithful pic ture of life on the banks of the Liffey. The scenery is excellent, and the Diorama, representing the voyage to Dublin, is a beautiful work of art. We have, more over, a real pony race and a fancy ball, rivalling in splendour the masqued ball in Gustavus. With such appliances, it is no wonder that the piece was de cidedly successful, and we doubt not but that the present attractive performances will draw crowded houses every evening. WHAT IS A NEWSPAPER? This is a question, though apparently simple, which cannot be answered in a moment. The query might be propounded a hundred times, and be replied to as often, with as many different meanings, and yet with perfect accuracy. A newspaper is a mirror which reflects intelligence from all quarters of the globe, as the first four letters of its name denote—N EW S— (north, east, west, south). There is not an event which does not, sooner or later, make its way, through a variety of secret channels, to this reservoir of public information. From the great occurrences of the wide world, to the little incidents of private life, we are made acquainted, by this notorious "tell-tale," of what is passing in the earth ; and nothing can be more interesting, or exciting to our curiosity, than a newspaper just published from the press. It is laid upon the breakfast-table in a folded form; and while we open its damp sheet, we are moved with a prying, eager, and anxious anticipation, to which nothing but the newspaper itself can afford satisfaction. There is something innate with our very nature, which craves so for information, that such a source of comniunica tion as a public journal, becomes an object of un equalled interest ; and history, biography, romance, poetry, or any other species of literature, is almost in variably set aside, when this great literary informant makes its entree. On opening it we find it to be a cabinet of curiosities, in almost kaleidoscope variety. So diversified, in fact, that unless our mind is fixed on one particular feature, we become bewildered with its diversity, and are as much perplexed in making a se lection as a child while culling the blossoms of a va riegated flower garden. " Among its printed columns may be traced A paragraph for each peculiar taste." Whilst we are disposed to philosophy, divinity, poli tics, or what not, we are sure to be accommodated with some " tit-bit," according to our fancy, and seldom is it that a newspaper reader lays down the " broad sheet" without some gratifications. A news paper (viewing it in another light) is an universal critic on society. "Whatever is produced is brought under the inspection of this eagle-eyed scrutator. Books, music, machinery, and indeed everything else, natural or artificial, are made the objects of comment by this great commentator ' • and it is often an useful sieve in separating the 66 chaff from the wheat"—the good from the " good for nothing." Nor is there a man living (whatever his pretensions)—who does not flinch and cringe beneath the castigating stripes of a newspaper critique. A newspaper is often a spot of ground on which talent and genius spring up and blossom ;_ and, but for this fruitful soil—this culti. vated bed— " Full many a flower were born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air." A newspaper (in another character) is the mighty ex poser and corrector of public abuses and offences. Like the fumed Argus, its eyes are ever on the watch ; and few errors or delinquencies can escape their con stant vigilance. But to represent a public journal in all its phases, would be an interminable task. What, then, must be the nature of the operations by which it is produced ! What diversity of gift—what won derful instruments of art—and what astonishing faci lity must be called forth to its accomplishment ! Were it a vulgar detail of casualties, collected and commu nicated in a loose and imperfect style, we might re gard it as an object of less astonishment ; but when we know it to be a source of almost ad . infinitum intel ligence—presented in a correct and interesting form of literature, we can scarcely be persuaded that so vast a project is the accomplishment of four-and twenty hours. THE LATE MARQUIS OE HERTFORD. — The per sonal property of the late Marquis of Hertford has been sworn under 700,000 L, the duty on which will amount to 10,0001. It is stated, on the best authority, that the report of the executors being about to commence a civil action against Suisse is totally without foundation. It was at one time thought that a dispute would arise with respect to the property left by some of the codicils, in consequence of their being without a date ; but all has been amicably arranged. The executors are allowed by law 12 months from the death of the late Marquis to pay all or any of the respective beguests to the several per sons therein named ; but whether they will avail them selves of such a privilege in the case of Suisse is not at present known. It is said that he intends leaving a power of attorney in this country to receive the amount, and that he intends shortly leaving England to join his wife. We have it from good authority, although we cannot actually vouch for the fact, that the recent prose cution of Suisse was not with the consent or wish of the present Marquis of Hertford, and that many extraordi nary facts in reference to this singular case were kept from the public eye.—Britanoia. Yesterday evening an accident occurred to a fine lad, named Joshua Wardell, ten years of age, whose pa rents reside at No. 20,1Roupell-street, Cornwall -road. It appears that the lad had been sent on an errand by his mother to the Borough Market, and, whilst crossing the road in Park-street, he was run over by a cab. The driver, who had previously called to the lad to get out of the way, and who exhibited the greatest regret at the occurrence, immediately stopped his horse, and the child being placed in the cab, was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital. The wheels had passed over his neck and head, and considerable doubts are entertained of his ultimate recovery. This is the sixth case of accident (three of which have terminated fatally) in the family of the lad, and three of them having been run over by vehicles. A man, 22 years of age, named Wattrelot, who acted as assistant to his father-in-law, a farmer, named Foutry, at Carvin-Epinoy, was tried before the Court of Assizes of the Pas-de-Calais, on the 25th ult., for the murder by poison of his father-in-law, mother-in-law, and sister-in-law, the motive for his crime having been to become more speedily in possession . of the property, which at their death would belong to him in right of his wifr. The father-in-law was murdered by mixing ar senic in his soup, and six days afterwards the murderer adopted the same course with the two female victims. Ile was found guilty by the jury, but (to the astonish ment of the Court) with extenuating circumstances. The was, consequently, sentenced to imprisonment for life, with bard labour and exposure in the pillory. A letter from Alexandria, 22d tilt, in the Sema phore of Marseilles, says—" It was supposed that the Pacha had renounced the intention of sending out his fleet, but the contrary appears to be the case, for, dur ing the lava two days, the ships have been taking in provisions, and Said Pacha has been sent for by his father. This sudden determination has given rise to va rious conjectures. Some say that the fleet is about to be sent on a secret mission ; while others assert that it is to join the squadron of Admiral de la Susse. There is reason to believe, h owev er, that the Egyptian fle e t will not pro cee d t o any distance front the coast, and that the chief object in sending it out is for exercise and manoeuvres." *EtottblZbition SFIN OFFICE Three o'Clock. The combinations of workmen to raise wages in Lancashire and other manufacturing districts, is the subject of a leading article in the Herald of this morning. As the Herald is one of the advocates of the Corn-law Monopoly, which produced the late strike by enhancing the price of bread, our readers may be curious to hear by what line of argument our Contemporary seeks to convict the operatives of all the folly and guilt which those who administer the laws now charge them with. Hear, then, what the Herald says upon the subject : " Can they [the working classes] suppose for one instant that capital, unless it has perfect freedom and independence of action. will continuo to sojourn amongst them ? The spirit of capital is the most ethereal spirit that ever visited this every-day world of ours. Attempt to lay a hand upon it, and it vanishes from the haunt which has ceased to afford it security, and will seek safety in some ob scure retreat, if it cannot find some other spot where the blessing of its presence would be better appreciated. To attempt to coerce it by such a confederacy as we have adverted to would be to chase it away with rods of iron ? Is this what the misguided men want ? Do they suppose that they will fare more sumptuously when they have exiled or destroyed the capital which has actually called them into existence ? Do they imagine that their labour could be so profitably employed without the assistance and direction of capital ? If they sup ply half the markets of the world with the works of their hands, it is capital alone which enables them to command their monopoly. it is capital alone which, by combining the ingenuity of one with the industry of another, the fancy of the designer with the manual dexterity of the weaver, ena bl es th e m to enjoy all the benefits of co-operation. Capital in relation to labour is the belly to the members ; and would any man strike himself in the stomach to cure a spasm or a heartburn ?" Instead of the " working classes" read " landlords and legislators " in the first sentence of the above ex tract, and what an excellent exposure have we here of the wickedness of Parliamentary meddling with tariffs, sliding scales, and other impediments to the free investment of capital ! If capital be " the most ethereal spirit that ever visited this every day world of ours" —if it elude any attempt to touch it by vanishing from the haunt where it before appeared, wherefore do Tory statesmen seek to fetter it by a system of artificial starvation ? Any mischief done by the turn- out of workmen is but temporary ; but not so the operation of laws for keeping up the price of food, which have the double effect of making bread dear, and closing the bread-producing markets of the world against the products of capital. The arguments of the Herald are arguments in favour of a free trade—a trade as unfettered by human legislation and the coercive con-. trol of combined workmen or capitalists as the winds that waft the condor to the peaks of the Andes, or the waves that roll over the wide surface of the Atlantic. Now, this is the doctrine of The Sun: To the Legislature we say, leave capital and labour to make their own bargains and adjust their own differences. As they do not fix a price upon their products, let them procure food wheresoever and as cheaply as they can. They will be sure to make the home grower the first offer, and that is enough for him, seeing that they seek not to compel him to consume all their wares at arbitrary prices. But the temptation to rob the capitalist and the operative is too strong for the landlords' sense of honesty. The logic which is ex pected to convince the working men makes no im pression upon them—and hence the Corn-laws, and the sugar duties, and the timber duties, and the cheese and butter duties, and the fresh and salt, quick and dead beef, mutton, pork, and all descriptions of meat duties ! What a set of plunderers of the poor—what a horde of de stroyers of capital, must not the Tory members of the Legislature appear in the eyes of our venerable Con temporary the Herald! The inhabitants of Derby have lately had a speci men of the new s ystem adopted by the Tories for the uppression of public discussion, and preventing the people from assembling and stating their grievances. On Wednesday notices were stuck on the walls that a lec ture would be given in the theatre on the following evening " upon the state of the country, and the ne cessity and safety of extending political power to all classes of the people." In order to prevent this a certain number of the Magistrates held a secret meeting, sent for the lessor of the theatre, and, by some means or other, in duced him to break his engagement with those who had obtained his permission to meet in that building. The lessor, however, who does not appear to be a man of much firmness, again changed his opinion, and con sidering that a moral-force lecture could do no harm, renewed the engagement a second time. The acting Magistrates, on learning this attempt to defeat their purposes, sent a body of police, who, according to an address of the Municipal Electors to the Civic Authorities, by " sheer intimidatio n ," i n d uce d the lessor to authorise them to eject the persons then in possession, and the theatre was finally closed. Now, had there been any reasonable apprehension that violent language would be used, or any attempt made to excite the hearers to commit a breach of the peace, such precautions could not be blamed ; but when it is known that the Lecturer is a man of peaceable habits, that he condemns in the strongest manner every act of violence, that the party to which he belongs have separated themselves from the physical-force men, and trust for political changes more to education and moral improvement than to any schemes for amending institutions, however defective, we can attribute this conduct of the Magistrates only to a determination on their part to prevent free discussion, and keep down Englishmen by the military and police. Such a system is entiely opposed to the spirit of the Con stitution. The people of this country have long con sidered the right of petition one of their most sacred privileges; even in the worst times, for the last cen tury and a half, they have exercised it; and it will, therefore, berather a hazardous attempt, in these days of national improvement, to reduce the people to a condition against which they often rebelled even in barbarous ages. If they are not allowed to meet, how can they consider their grievances, draw up petitions for redress ? The one is intimately connected with the other, and it therefore becomes the duty of free subjects to resist this encroachment on political rights, and join with the Municipal Electors of Derby in using all lawful and peaceful means to resist at once such a dangerous innovation. The address is drawn up with moderation and firmness, and aptly points out, in the f o ll o wing words, what will, to a certainty, be the resu l t They (the Magis trates) may be assured that a stoppage of the lawful expression of public opinion will ultimately induce its unlawful expression in some way far stronger and when free discussi on — t h e g reat safety-valve of Experience has ever shown that more dangerous. society—is put down, the pent-up feelings of the multitude will gradually increase in intensity, until they find vent in some dreadful outburst of popular indignation." The Madrid Journals received this morning are of the 28th ult. Want of money continued to cripple the operations of the Government. The Gazette of that date announced the opening of a new loan of forty millions of reals payable on the produce of the Almaden quicksilver mines. after the expiration of the Itoritscumn contract. This is something like cooking the hare before catching it—a process de precated by the thrifty Mrs. GLAss. A report having prevailed in the Spanish capital that the Govern ments of Spain and P ortuga l were on bad terms, the , following article app eare d in the lbernia Madrid paper of the 28th ult. " The journals of M a d r id as well as some foreign Newspapers, have been occupied for some days back in remarking upon the state of our relations with the neighbouring kingdom of Portugal. Groundingtheir calculations upon pre m i ses w hich explain themselves, the writers in these p apers have proceeded to assert, that there was a complete misunderstanding between the Governments of the two countries, which might lead to actual hostilities. So far from this being the case, we can affirm, without fear of contradiction, that the Spanish and Portuguese Governments are in that state of harmonious relation which the proximity of the two countries requires ; that neither upon one side nor upon the other is there the slightest SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Pnbltt Op inton. " Who runs may read." "FOREIGN. Our French French news continues to be of an uninteresting nature. From an article in the Courrier Francais we gather that the war-party . does not approve of the appearance of the English and French squadrons off the coasts of Syria. " The Syrian expedition," says M. Odilon Barrot's organ, " is a concession to England, and an act of hostility against Russia, and in this double point of view we regard it as a blunder. The coalition of France and England against Russia had some value , before the scandalous treason of the 15th of July. England made use of Russia against France in 1840, and she now wants to make use of France against Russia in 1842. We will not subscribe to this arrangement, for eur isolation is not an impediment, and we prefer to remain alone, rather than return to a concert where the first part is not left to us." The Constitutionnel calls upon the French Govern ment to settle the Portendic question one way or the other. An inquiry ought to be instituted. If the English," it says, are right in their demands for an indemnity, the amount ought to be fixed according to the real value of the ships seized and their cargoes, and not according to the profits which might have been made by the shippers. The indemnity was due only to the ships captured before the notification of the blockade, but none is due to those seized after this notification. An inquiry would put a stop to the English abuse on this subject." The Journal des Debats states that M. Guizot me ditates a journey to Geneva, where he expects to meet by chance the King of Prussia, who is to arrive at Neufchatel on the 23d inst. . The Court of Cassation annull3d, on the 3d inst., the decision of the Royal Court of Paris, which con demned the editors of the Temps to 20,000 francs fine, for an informality in the publication of that Journal. The Madrid Gazette of the 28th ult. publishes a notice of the Director-General of. the Treasury, ad vertising for proposals for a loan of 40,000,000 reals, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the quicksilver mines of Almaden. The bidders are invited to send in their proposals within thirty days, those 40,000,000 to be payable in specie and by monthly instalments, the first of which within the eight days following the signature of the contract. The General Direction of the Treasury would deliver to the contractors draughts on the cashier of the national Treasury, which would be payable out of the first proceeds of the, quicksilver mines, immediately after the 16,500,000 reals stilldue thereon shall have been discharged. 'We have received Lisbon news to the-29th ult., brought by the Montrose steamer. The budget of ways and means, and financial proposals of Baron Tojal, empowering the Government to issue bills on the decima and assessed taxes, were before the Cham ber, and had been disputed with such obstinacy that it was thought it would bring about a Ministerial crisis. The first article had, however, passed by a majority of three to one. The estimates fbr the year showed a deficit of 1,500 contos. The affair of the slaver Gloria, which entered under the Portuguese flag, and had, since it was injudiciously given up by the Portuguese Government, got Spanish papers and hoisted the Spanish flag—seems likely to be a serious cause of quarrel between Spain and Por tugal. The proofs the Portuguese Government have obtained of the illegal character and designs of this vessel, and the defective grounds on which she was given up, have led them to issue a " Portaria," de claratory of their intention of resuming possession ; but the owner threatened resistance, and hoisted his flag, and the Spanish Minister menaced war if vio lence were used or the flag insulted. Letters from Berlin of the 28th ult. mention that the King and Queen of Prussia would not be back in their capital before the Ist of October. The marriage of the Prince Royal of Bavaria with the Princess Mary of Prussia is to be celebrated on the 4th October. The Russian Finance Minister has issued an ukase, amounting to a reciprocity navigation treaty between Prussian and Russian shipping, Prussian vessels to enjoy in Russian and Finnish ports the same favour as Russian vessels, the coasting trade from one Russian port to another excepted. Two more Custom-houses are established at Koretingen and Neustadt, in addi tion to the one already existing at Gorschdovvsk. Three more points of transit are moreover established. Passports for three days are to be delivered gratis to such Russians as wish to pass the frontier for trade. Markets on the frontiers are to be 'established for agricultural produce and for . certain manufactured articles. The duty on many of them is to be dimi nished. This is evidently the price paid by the Russian Government for the renewal of the Cartel Convention. PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicle thus animadverts on the outrages committed by the police at Kennington, fourteen days after all the mischief had been done :—" The conduct of the police on Kennington-common was unneces sarily harsh, and, in some cases, individuals passing by accident along the road, or standing at their doors, were ill-used. It might be proper to disperse the meeting at Kennington-common, but there was no thing, in the circumstances of that meeting to call for the display of harshness on the part of the police. We received, at the time, numerous communications on the subject from respectable individuals, who gave their addresses, complaining of the police ; but we did not wish to add to the irritation. In this perhaps we were wrong. The police seem to have been em boldened by the impunity their conduct at Kenning ton-common has experienced, and the transactions disclosed at Clerkenwell on Saturday are really more like what we should expect at Petersburgh than in the metropolis of England. A stop must be put to this, or the utility of the police force will certainly be impaired. They must be protected in the execution of their duty • but the brutal treatment of females can never be tamely contemplated by Englishmen. The Post has the following remarks on the manner in which the Cathedral service is performed at West minster Abbey. The existing vacancy of the Deanery of Westminster affords an opportunity for making some improvements which would be very gra tifying to the public, and we trust the opportu n it y will not be n e glected. We should think that every sound Churchman must desire that in so magnificent a church as that of Westminster, the cathedral service should lack none of the solemnity, the grandeur, and the beauty, which may belong to it, but which has not of late years belonged to the ordinary services in Westminster. We believe there are very few cathe drals in England in which the Sunday services are not generally more solemn and more beautiful than they are in Westminster Abbey. To a casual visitor it really seems that the grand object in the Abbey is to get the business over as quickly as possible, and to get away. We do not think this can be from any want of ability on the part of the singers, for they sing feel ingly enough at other places, nor from any impa tience on the part of the organist, for he is noted as a true lover of good music. But in order that such an establishment as that of Westminster Cathedral should work well it must be presided over by some one whose heart is in the matter, and who will work with earnestness as well as with intelligence to make the most of the means and opportunities at his disposal. We earnestly hope, therefore, that in the selection of the new Dean, care will be taken that he be a man of cathedral sentiment, so to speak —a man who will take an honest pride in the perfect per formance of cathedral services, and who will desire to promote the glory of God by the careful manage ment of those endowments—too scanty though they be—which the cathedral still inherits from the piety of our ancestors. The Herald thus alludes to the present state of par ties in this country :—" Some time ago when foreign affairs were spoken of Englishmen laughed —now every man recognises them to be of importance ; either Englismen did not know what was of import ance then, or mistake what is so now. Now that they are admitted to be important, when the necessity is urged of studying them, one of two answe rs i s g i ven . The Tory says, The Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel must understand these matters. and why should I attend to them ?' The Liberal replies, What use is there in my attending to them until we have a full, fair, and free representation ?' To the first we answer, If Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington understand foreign affairs, would they have become important ?' To the second we reply, If you had a full, fair, and free representation it would be but a representation of the ignorance which you confess. One-half of the English nation is ruled by respect for names, whilst, being ignorant of affairs, it has no means by which to judge of men. The other half is running. after vain theories of government, when, not understanding its affairs, it can have no more comprehension of what government ought to be than its antagonists can have of what statesmen are. Nations only sink when each man is deteriorated, and the evidence of their decay is to he found in the existence of faction- 7 faction indi cates the corruption of the heart, as party does of the intelligence.' All must be in error when all are di vided, and there is no longer a country where citizens hate each other." MONEY—TIZADE—COWIIVIERCE. At •Manchester there was a partial turn-out of dyers on Monday morning, demanding an advance of wages, but nothing occurred to disturb' the general peace. Placards still appear on the walls of the town, which continue to exhibit an ill feeling between the masters and men. Stockport was a little excited on Monday : an at tempt was made to stop one mill, and six or seven persons taken into custody. The glove-makers of Somersetslure gave a public dinner last week to Mr. Thomas Ensar, at Mi'borne' Port, where they presented him with a tea equipage of silver, in return for the services he had rendered the glove•trade in general. ECCLESIASTICAL. At Worcester the question of a uhurch-rate was agitated last Thursday, when, on being brought to the poll, the numbers were—for the rate 102 ; for ad journment, and against the rate, 108; majority against the rate, 6. ELECTIONEERING. At Belfast a petition has been lodged against the returns of Mr. Emerson Tennent and Mr. D. R. Ross ; it prays that an opportunity may be afforded of establishing the charges by evidence, in order that Lord Chichester may be seated instead of one of the present Members, and the election of the other be declared void. PVBLXO INEFILO' A memorial has been presented to the Commis sioners of Sewers for the City of London, praying that Old Broad-street may be paved with wood. N.A.V.A.T. AND IVIEZMITANT. Two of the Commissionerships of the Royal Mili tary College are vacant by the deaths of Lord Ed ward Somerset, and Lord Vivian, G.C.B. New barracks are to be erected in Ashton and Bury, 'by order of the Ordnance Department : the outlay at each place is specified at about 5,0001. Pensions of 801. a year have been conferred by Government on each of the four daughters of the late Colonel Dennie of the 13th Foot, who was killed at Jellalabad, where he commanded the sortie. LAW AND POLICE. ____ Cappur, a Chartist blacksmith, was examined at Newcastle on Saturday, before the Magistrates, charged with uttering seditious language in Stafford shire on various occasions, and finally committed for trial. James Howell, a gentleman residing at No. 60, Stanhope-street, Mornington-crescent, was yesterday charged at the Marylebone-office for having thrown, certain pieces of wood on the line of the London and Birmingham Railway, by which proceeding the lives of the public were endangered. He was fined the full penalty of 101., which was paid. The final examination of John Holland, of Wjr- . combe, Bucks, was fixed for hearing yesterday, in . the Bankruptcy Court, but the assignees not being satis fied, further hearing was adjourned to the 27th inst. The balapce-sheet shows the liabilities of the bankrupt to be about 12,0001., and his assets are estimated at 1,0001. John Henry Morgan and Isaac Morgan, his father, were brought up for re-examination yesterday at Worship-street, on the charge of various forgeries on the Bloomsbury branch of the London and West minster Bank. Other charges have arisen, which have to be produced against them, and they were both re manded for another week. LITERARY AND SCIENTXPIC. Professor Kane, while lecturing at Liverpool, and illustrating the oliphiant gas , i n h a l e d a quantity of which gradually changed his countenance as he lec tured, and he finally swooned away. No danger, however, is apprehended. - Dr. Lund has lately explored nearly 200 pits in Rio Janeiro, and has collected in them among the mammalia 115 species, though only 88 species now inhabit those regions. The human bones found are petrified, and intersected with particles of iron, and the discoverer considers them, from the peculiar con figuration of the skulls, to have belonged to a very ancient Brazil population, existing at least 3,000 years ago. SPORTXMG. The Marquis of Waterford has removed his splen did hunting-stud to Rockwell, where he will enjoy the sport of the ensuing season. COURT-i'IISUIONABLE. Count and Countess Esterhazy are visiting their re latives, the Prince and Princess Leichtenstein,, at Dover. The Solicitor-General left London on Saturday for Ostend. The Duke of Rutland is much indisposed at Lon.; shaw Lodge. The Earl of Grosvenor will pass the autumn at Motcombe Park, Dorset. Lord Melbourne has returned to Brocket Hall. Lord Chichester has left town for Belfast. The Earl of Pembroke left town last week on a Continental tour. Lord Kinnaird has arrived at Rossie Priory, Perth shire, from a tour. Ilis Highness the Duke of Cambridge left Bagshot Mirk yesterday for Kew. .• MISCELLANEOUS. '' Government has offered a reward of 1001.. far tt e.o. apprehension of Dr. A.PDouall, the Ch ar ti s t l ec t urer , who, it is said, has since been arrested. .. MURDER AT QUA—DRING, NEAR S PALD IN G, LIN COLN SRI RE. (mom A CORRESPONDENT.) On Friday m orn i ng last the inhabitants or this ,41- a lage were thrown into a state of alarm by the report that Miss Mary Spencer was murdered. The parti' culars are as follow :—Mary Spencer kept a day-schoel in Quadring, and resided in a small cottage left by her father, consisting of two rooms on the ground floor, the smaller room being her sleeping-room, and. 0 the other one the school-room. Three children went as usual on Friday-morning at nine o'clock to the ' 1 deceased's house, and on opening the door saw her lying across a form in the school-room, dressed only in her night-clothes, and a quantity of blood upon the floor ; they immediately ran away in ter ror , an d to ld a neighbour what they had seen . The person on going to the spot saw Mary Spencer lying across a form as described. On Mr. Morris, surgeon, of Gosbertow, being called in, he found a wound from the right ear, under the throat, to the chest, about nine inches in length. and dividing the carotid artery, and pronounced that she must have bled to death. On. examining the house, it appeared that a back window adjoining the bed had been broken open, and that the murderer had made an entrance. It is supposed that the deceased. in attempting to escape, got near the street door, but was pulled back by the monster, and stabbed as de scribed. It is supposed that he was alarmed and then 4' made off. A man named Wm. Howett, a labourer, f . was apprehended on Friday night on suspicion, under the following singular circumstances. On the day of the discovery Mr. Loughland, a land surveyor, whilst measuring some land, met a neighbour, and talking about this tragical event, a labourer (the father of Howett), who was sitting by taking son3e refreshment and listening to the conversation, ex claimed, " I wonder w h at Bill' s been up to , he was out all night, and came h ome all over bloOd." Mr- Loughland immediately informed a constable at Dor nington, who took Howett into custody. The inquest was held at the Red Cow Inn, at Quadri ng , on Satur day, and was adj ourne d till Thursday next. No doubt is entertained as to the guilt of the prisoner. We hear that a clasp-knife was found upon. him wit blood upon it ; he is deaf and dumb, though quite sane, and about 26 years of age. Th e d eceased was 41 years of age, and much respected. ~= DEVO.N PORT. PROM. A CORRESPONDENT.. MONDAY.--The following Lords of the Admiralty, accompanied by the Hon. Sidney Herb( i (SecretarY) arrived here on Saturday night on an official visit to J., the Dockyard :—The Earl of Haddii ng t on Sir G. Cockburn, and Ad m i ra l Si r G. Seymour. A salute of 19 guns was fired at an early hour on Sunday's, morning. Durin g th e f orenoon their Lordships visited'',; a part of the g roun d s o f M ount Edgecumbe towards—*: the sea, where the ocean has made some inroads on the land, in consequence it is said of the Breakwater causing a current to set in on that part of the coast with destructive force; the Earl of Mount Edge' cumbe has applied to the Admiralty for some protec" tive means of defending his beautiful domain against the gradual destruction that must otherwise ensue. Their. Lordships attended divine service, in the Dock yard Chapel in the afternoon, and in the evening-en tertained the officers in commission and the heads of departments at dinner. They have visited the Dockyard this morning, which presents a busy scene from the preparations for the launch of the Albion, $ fine vessel of 98 guns, an event of no small import ance in the port. The formal inspection and muster of the men in the yard, takes place to-morrow, when the Albion will be launched at five in the afternoon. The official levee of the Earl of Haddington for com missioned officers is fixed for Wednesday next. LLOYD'S SHIPPING —(THIS DAY.) LONDON, SEPT. 6 . —Wind this day, W.S. W., frill. DEAL, SEPT. s.—Arrd. llontrose, Peter, Catta, with loss of f ore and top masts, left the Cape June 13; Underwood, St. Kitts; Courier, Westward. BRIGHTON, SEPT. 5. Arrd. Arii Ceylon, sail e d M arc h 26 na, Rogers , , Cape June g 15. pp P ' ORTSMOUTH SEPT. s . —Wind S. to S.S.E.-,._Arrda off, Lady o f the Lake, Launceston, sailed April 9. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 4.—Wind variable and light.-- Arrd. Montrose steamer, Gibraltar, left 25th Vit., Cadis 26th, Lisbon 29th, Oporto and Vigo 31st. OFF THE WIGHT, SEPT. 3.--411111 a •MbIICII, Spittle, Buenos Ayres, for Bremen, BRISTOL, SEPT. 4 .—Arrd. St. George, St. Vincent's. OFF ST. ANN'S HEAD, SEPT. 4 .—Eliza Ann, Quebec. • ' SWANSEA, SEPT. 4.—Arrd. IVlairley, Quebec. CORK, SEPT. 3.—Sd. Richcbucto, Quebec. SIIIELDS, SEPT. 2.—Ara Xenophon, Quebec. OFF' WIIITEHAVEN, SEPT. 4.—British Quer,n, Ken nedy, Antigua. LIVERPOOL, Su r. 5.--Wind Southerly, yr xiable and light.—Arrd. Coaxer, Ridley, Calcutta ; 7n Dependence, Quebec. Sld. Matilda, Cape ; Swift, Ceylon ; Circassian, Valpar a i so ; D er b y and Ivoßio Antigua. SEPT. 3.—Sld. Perthshire, St. John's, N. B. ABERDEEN, SEPT. 3.—Sld. Pacific, Qu e .bee. It affords us the greatest satisfaction to be enabled to announce that her Majesty has been most graciously pleased to appoint General Sir Hobert Thomr.s Wilson to be Governor of, and Major-General upon Vat; staff at , Gibraltar, in succession to Sir Alexander Woodford, whose term of service has expired, LAW BANE The bank] hardware mc street. A proof ul bankrupt, an amounting t The ultimate to be ackjourn Several otl tion, making amount of eh IN THE Messrs. % were chosen The bankri man in Isling Upon corn point was rai: spect to the ri alleged to lir bankrupt was rate estates, vi PO G L u I IcL Person tithe rl l li soorhnge e e t o h A fes f o s a t y in ;ern: comp] i ee m ilne n i et t sy h .o: Victuallers' SI in the ernp_lo lo a tGhee t e he itY L: h ve Mr. lbhh b oy.. Re %en Secretgry, Mr. a few days. 1 he Was Mr. Smith, the statement ( tioh, as the mo presence. ---; Sir 6 Eouom that Et respeeta fraud for two Mistake on the dismiss the ells CLERK' Richard Sau on a charge of assaulting Majl General Boa place, deposed night ' the defers a holiday for th the servant mig la the meantirr ladder of the, an entering the rc So you have after the ladder abusive languag refused, and wh the room, defen coat and threw Proaching him -way. The prison - went for a police The prisoner, at the time, and master's service, te mpted to push Mr. ComnE and unwarranta statement he vi Id to the ut m( fine of 51., or two The fine was THE MAI C( There was a fa: full,• rates _were was small, but sc been announced. West India 575. ti Standard lumps 7' The biddings nearly the whole were sold at full r ksl •• T The market wa: wards ; sellers of and'the same for o WHITE There was a ma a good demand ; t request, and fully nary a fair trade. V. 10s. - to 4j 10 U. 12s. to IL 14s. M ONTHLY STATE ' • THE Week endinglA Week ending A Week ending N Increase since letters • Increase since letters • SUR Mr. Butler max turn from Ames the character of'] Grattan's tragedy written expressly we mistake not, ui As might be expo( terrific bursts of Kean was so pre-( produced at a tim( of his powers, Col doubt have becom tram. The tragk Kean had f a ll en "i Ma last return fi duced at Drury- Powers were so e) Physical energy su while at the same that he could not Nrt. Und er the tbeen expected, th ad the man li ne e failure on II highest terms c F rom that time, nu sent, the tragedy 0 bevel. been perfor i ng• Durin g his kr. Butler revived became popular ( kid the audien( ‘ l ,4eisi on of the i 'le ch arac t er I°Pinent of whici made subservient, The Saracen has a Principled cunning h te rrific e nergy o f eharacter Mr. But ! je lls, which to a I( es le---cc to ti , to split the ears 4, ~ne er once o Pwas "not too t the word." Il s sioned without jght have been e ziever was actor r Were applauses rr, has been adnairahl: and the cos t umes "ew drama of J Performances con( in which George sit roar. The h CORONER'S INQI 44 - 4 - I sTI AGED NINET cleven o'clock, an i Coburg Arms publi talzbeth, before SU lige rre a, y 7 , y o e n a r v s e N l v v h o n unday morning I parts of the n ec 11 e. The evidenc ,co mmitted th e ac t I Dem bedridden, al uffeeted by the in Years. Verdict—" LOULOGNE HAI IritiVely settled that dyed yards farther twelve feet water v tours of the clay a l ueneed is One quest Our English reader W e, but th e poets - e a head by steam as d emonstrat es .— , B ot In his early glo] as Water grnel. Hi o ur race, and that r e ferment. F a t n ut aldand Is lands they t are nu SALM ON 'AT quantity of salmon Pert, Pernbrokeshir for the last ten yea Per pound.— Welsh.