The Sun. — London, England, 1842-11-22 00:00:00

--- M )1 :t E Y and - CO MAI Eft (.1-A Thy CiT YY, O N D AY EVENING. se n the Engii:l Stocks noticed in our Even rasei Edition has been fully suKorted, but the specu th r . 3 are rather disposed to await the confirmation of exe, intelligence received by way of Paris; ere they Con so l s their operations for a further improvement. ;' ,l 'msols f or i mme di ate trans f er an d Thursday brought Ina_ 9 4# to 943, ci cs i ng a t 94i. Exchequer Bills re -2e.6. .at (as. ,to ,78s. premium, andlralia Bonds at ,53 : Iveminm.. East India. Stock improved to 2631 2 C'I• Bank Stock was dull at 169 k; New Three -oa-111th' per Cents. brought 101-3 to 1011 ; Re tueed, 100 3 101 ; and the Three per Cents-, 933 o e ln the Foreign market business continued active as f t gards the Spanish and Mexican investments.. The f ? t rrler clos e d at th e extre m e (1: cline of the day, 18 to t `' b ' 'be Five Te, ', r Cents., and '2 for the Threes, white e letter a , :varieed to 33-4 and ti 33, in consequence of 'Port that important ad vices by the Clyde packet ve readied our Government in refere nce to media tio bctween the hostile republics. Portuguese New at 2 Per Cents. were at 373, and the Three per Cents. 23 11razl Stock touched 654, but left off at 65f. olo at ‘,„..”, our' was steady at 21 4 1 - to 21* ; Buenos Ayres 4.ri - 4) 23 ; RusEiw. at 113* ; and Dutch Two-and if her Cents. at , 52-7,- to 54 S hares res did not Particiate in the improvement in st „ but the transfers were not on an extended a ` a ,", , being this afternoon in the Bristol and Exeter ‘3.4-' discount, the. Manchester and Leeds at 13, (1 4111 Eastern at 261, and the Scrip 1 discount. Kreat Western, New, were 11,1,., Eastern Counties, e w, were mid Northern end Eastern Scrip 3* to dr en 'ium. Loi3don 'Joint Stock Bank Shares were tr l;, Provincial ef Ireland, 17* ; and Union of Aus uoi New, 21 premium. (From The Sun of Last Night.) f r " highly important intelligence received to •day exclusion luta engrossed attention in the City, to the t 0.,. of almost every other topic. The large t rlunt of the indernity, more than sufficient to cover t terium losses and-the ex Fences of the war, is expected i i ,e_ a ve most impOrtant effect upon the markets for 1 1 manufactures in the East, as the merchants who ~,11 ` 4l * such heavy less - es upon the opium seized, th i graduallv .receive back the full amount , and have o %RaPital again at command; while the open in g of or two ports in China will furnish fresh outlets 4 'l track. The Cotton and Manchester gocds markets are Nlecterf to feel a beneficial influence from the , 1 / 4 1-'", and the - large public sales of Tea (60,000 i t a „ 4, ;ges), which were to have commenced this morn of°,',lt'av‘i been postponed till Monday next, to allow in the merchants receiving, their letters, and consider 41the probable effect which the altered position of 'tars may have upon prices. b e ' te counts from the Cape of Good Hop e of Septem ber noti c e the C on tinuance of the gale almost up that date, the sea having been heavier in Table Bay ever before'known, owing to the p revalence a I A winds during the previous fortnight. T here o re 23 vesse l s riding in the bay at the time , only 18 a b w hich were left,when it subsided. The John B a g - Pairfield, add lieftirm, which were wrecked, Gi bad been condemned ; and the Henry Hoyle and 'ha, east on shore, remained to be examined. The e ws were providentially saved. The commerce of al Ica Bay was wily flourishing. Buenos Ayres en the 25th September, great h i- J ,, ° ; e ings were going on, in consequence of the ar ri-a` of Admiral Mown after his victories in the river Parana. There were 45 vessels in port, ten of r r .tich were British. A good subscription had been b iced for the benefit of the sufferers by the Ham burgh fire fire. In manufactured commodities, the stocks which were decreasing, more business had been 7 , c le, and th e h o ld e r s were asking higher prices gene .4l4Yi although sales of drilling and lustring for the g t ul k nter ,demand had be en made on very low terms. e i l l s _ e 'iraPsactiens in freights had been limited , but the "P -6 ; t63( i . were expected to improve. Exchange 2 15-16 d. ..,,xhAe htrge Amsterdamt the' funds were firm on Friday. 3 , 5.1 f sale of Java sugar had gone off at 21 3 f. to The 4 • •Belgian fisheries are reported to have been very successful this year. Th e C otton M ar k et a t Li ver p oo l was dull on Sa turday. Sales 3,000 bales. in Railway Share s a fair business was done, at good prices. The intelligence from China makes a- good deal of star in the Stock Market, and the British Securities have been strongly confirmed in their upward ten -2 de eY, although some parties affect to consider the ,ws AS of a somewhat dou btful or hi g h-drawn '' , ' e uaracter because no dates are given. The ( fi k° l )abilit ' y, however, seems to be,. that the .ve 'r'r party will begin to close their accounts do its to be prepared for the settlement on Thursday, -;27 l lieh will be so decidedly against them. The Go 10(L'rriment brokers have this morning laid out 5,3001. -e,.: lt Mae Reduced Three per Cent. A nnuities at 933 ; " 111 . - 3,000/. in the Long Annuities at 12 7-16. Con . Vs have 4 risen to I per cent., being 94 1 to 94 3 f or .. " 4 9' and Account. Exchequer Bills are 56 to 58 Pp a i to re ; East India Stock has advanced from 2611 ITT pGL a t d 2.63-i. Bank Stock is dull at 169* ; altd.p ih ree-and-a-Half per Cents. brin g 1013 to 101 3 , - 4 -6, ticed 1004 t o 101 ; Three per Cent. Annuities le h touched 94. ( effoct of the news froth Barcelona has been to , -b a depression in Spanish S tock, the Active avin g declined from 181 to 18f,- and 18, " ( I • t he22 l Ihree7per-Cents.; from 23* to 223 and at Portuguese Converted Bon ds are dull fr on Ti , and the Three per Cents. at 23. The accounts Lisbon are still of an unsettled tenour, Tr" in regard to politics and finances , thou g h the peasUry paper i ssue d had been offered for by the bl a h lik • Ate:.:ican Bonds are f i rmer at 33 to 33*; Co-lorn -65-311 fire quiet at 211, and Brazilian have impr oved to 4 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have ran g ed fr Tn 5 R 2 ai ht b) . a 5 v %I . arcs there have been a few purchases I.oeariv the previous rates. Eastern Counties are 4 Edinburgh and Glasgow, 2 ; Brighton 14-a ; North Midland, 39 to 38, and South Eastern , 27, dis count. Great Western are 18Ito 19 ; Brighton Loan, 1 at 'd South Western 18k, premium. Col onial Bank, are e 7 i discount, and National Provincial of Eng land, 4 - r emi um. 11 „ICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN , NOV. 18. Three p er C ent . C onso l s ....... Ihree an d a H a lf S toc k Three and a Half Steck, New ................. .. bZL NcHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, NOV. 19. k e Only business done here to-day has been a lot of Qflehester and Birmingham at 193 per share. CLOSING 'PRICES. Bank stock ~ BRITISH FUNDS. lt9i India Stock . 264 pm Per c ent. Red, ....... 046 Ditto Bonds .... 53 pm ,Per Cent. C0n5..... 9-11 Ditto Old Annuities ... 3 N D o Per Cent. 1ted.........1Ni Ditto New Annuities... IN? aP ;13i1 ear per Cent... ...... It)14 Ex Ditto. Rills, 1,000/500/... 2d. . 58 pm 58 pm L.: Cen , — .. g ..Annuiti es to expire Ditto Small ~.,?3 1• 1860 ... . 12k Bank Stock for Acct. , - , et. 18 5 ,, ....... . India Stock for Acct... o .... ... Jac. 1.60 123 Consols for Acct. &car' FOREIGN FUNDS. to . an , 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. P a n , 5 Per cent Ditto, New Ditto 37i _Brazilian Bonds— 651 Prussian, 5 per cent.... 113 Col( . i ' ' l l iil7 " an :l .6 yres6 per cent. 23 Russian, 5 pet cent — b . l Lusti l ; e 6 r p e e e r n e t ent... -- Ditto, Metallic ...... . 18k itto, 1824 Spanish, A per cent .216- Ditto, Deferred.... . V,, i . Euatai,Lßonda, 6 per cent 79 French, 5 per cent.llBf. 50e. • •", 3 Per • t ' — Exchange...... .. . Greek 18' - en . il:' Gre ek , 11 ' -`=), 5 per cent. French, 3 percent. —f. —c. ~,, ! ,, :bxican, 5 per cent 33i- Dutch, 26 per cent. 53k 5...t: 1 ., t ° 6 ~.,„.v._ . per cent. 1t437 Ditto. 5 per cent. .. ...101i ntivian 18 1- 6 t , ... 7 g ... per C_. --- SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ... ..., .• 44 4 eastern Counties (23 paid)... ••••••.•••••••... A Ditto New (—paid) ...... ... .................. 10# Litt() Dehebtures ( paid) ..... rdinhurgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... ... _ 8 4 3 7i Great Western, (6 5 paid ) ... .. . ''' ............ 616 Ditto New Shares (50 pa id) . ............ __. London i B 'ol ton (50 paid) .. ............ , 351 t, an ri r , i ...... ... , lot Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) d 60 g Lond on and South 'Western (4116 s lOtip ) Manch ester an d L e eds (70 paid ) ............ 68i North ern and Eastern (45 1 ,4, "/ ............ 8 i Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) ........................ 62 North Midland Railway (( 00 ) .............. . 2311 par i` and Rouen (20 paid) .. ............. *" 230 South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)•" ...... Ditto Scrip (20 paid) ................... . . :,y 'ftr , at , Letters fr om P cr i s announce that the new Post .of• : flee treaty between France and England had been signed, as well as a treaty for regulating the cod ;,, , Tun fish eries of th:l two countries. EFEECT OF THE INCOME-TAX ON SEUVANTS. , dt. :•.: . " - It w as Sr Robert Peel's boast, that his Incom e-tax -thi.. 'would not affect the wcrliing classes. He w as told at 1 0 ~, the tier,, th a t- it was exceedingly unwise to indulge 145 e;;r 6 : hi s ;'," i h ope , inasmuch as the v ery moment the he and middle classes began to ti. el its pawl), they 01 would s.. heme and plan how to throw it upon those 01i,, ben eat h the .m. This is the season of the rear in which * what a:e'ealled " the statutes" are held in most quar ters. ' The statutes," be it known to those of our roaders to whom the phrase is new, are a kind of fair at which all the servants, men and women, of the dis trict assemble to be engaged for the ensuing year. At all such meetings, we see by the country papers, -3. and we are informed by correspondents on whom we ) ' 4l(l ' -. can d , 14 e - %; '' ;), -ePend, there has been a mo-.t tearful, we may '13.1%' - '% _."'-'", in the present state and circumstances of the 'rut , - .: "untry, a most appalling, failing dr in time number of • 3l"' f"rining Fervants either ervaged ' r re - '"lv"g' l. Fro "' i ~; t , , , 7 , 7- , c!-.• ..11 ,•,,.'_ rtl,„ " ;lie iif termined, or compelled, to do as much o both in-door , and out- dour work as they can themselves, in orde r t o meet the new demands of Tory taxation. Of course,, 01 these unhired servants will be obliged to seek work . as ngricult a ural labourers, wl-,ose wages will be forc ed , . . . e • • • ,t; 4. ion brought upon them. -.;, Itit uneasy and discontented feeling iii tue rural diStricts.—Liver . pool Albion. • S`'. t I `~ .. i ) 0 THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO WALMER CASTLE. WALmER, SUNDAY.—Yesterday the unsettled state of the weather prevented - her Majesty from-taking her accustomed walking exercise. His Royal Highness Prince Albert walked out on the beach for a short time. Sir J. Clarke arrived at the Castle in the morning. This morning. her Westy walked out with his Royal. Highness Prince Albert on the beach upwards of two hours. Her Majesty and the Prince, after walking as far as Deal, returned by the sea-side to King's Down and back to the Castle. The Princess Royal was taken an airing. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al bert attended Divine service this morning, 'N IliCh was performed in the Castle by the Rev. Mr. Lane, rector of Deal. Lord Charles Wellesley, Viscount Sydney, Col. Wylde, and most of the suite were prezent. There Will be no addition to the Royal dinner party this evening. Viseount Sydney takes his departure on Tuesday next. The inhabitants of Ramsgate, Sandwich, and other places of interest in this neighbourhood, have been anxiously expecting the honour of a visit from her Majesty, and, consequently, have been in a state of preparation for several days past to give the Queen and his Royal Highness a welcome reception. So much, however, depends on the fineness of the weather, that no day can' be positively named when her Ma jesty will honour her loyal subjects in these parts with a visit. It is expected that the Prince will accompany Capt. Bullock in the Fearless surveying steamer to Rams gate; and, should the Weather take a favourable chance, there is a great probability of her Majesty going to this port by the same conveyance. To-morrow, at nine o'clock in the morning , t h e Thunderer will dress ship—at noon fire a Royal salute and man yards—in the evening illuminate, by light ing each port. Mr. Brockman's fox hounds will throw off on Wed nesday next near the Telegraph, Tilmanstone, about ' five miles distant from Walmer, for the convenience of Prince Albert, should his Royal Highness wish to hunt on that day. BANQUET AT ASHBURNHAM HOUSE. On Saturday evening his Excellency, the Russian Minister, and Baroness Brunow, had the honour of receiving his Imperial Highness the Archduke Frede rick of Austria at a sumptuous banquet at the Russian Embassy. The entertainment was of the most recherche character, and the other arrangements were on a scale of splendour every way becoming the visit of his Imperial Highness. The fine band of the Coldstream Guards was stationed at the bottom of the grand staircase, and on the arrival of the Archduke he was received by the band playing the Austrian national anthem. Captain Fitzroy, R.N., and his Excellency Baron Nieumann, the Austrian Minister, accompanied his Imperial Highness. Covers were laid for twenty-six, and in addition to the Arch duke, his Excellency Baron Nieumann, and Captain Fitzroy, there were their Excellencies Prince Castel cicala, Baron de Cetto, Baron Moncorvo, Marquis de Lisboa and M. Dedel, Count Revel, Lord Fitzgerald, Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, Baron Koller, Baron Lebzeltern, Baron. Brenner, M. de Lomonossoff and Colonel Baron Lebzeltern, Major Captain Dumont, Count Karoyli, and Chevalier' Krechel, aides-de-camp to his Imperial Highness ; N. de Bery, M. Kondriaff shy, and M. de Benkhausen. In the course of the banquet the health of the Emperor and the Imperial family of Austria was proposed by the noble host, and the Emperor and Empress of Russia were proposed by the Archduke Frederick, the military hand salut ing the former toast with the national anthem of Austria, and the latter with the Russian air. Baroness Brunnow, in the latter part of the evening, opened her salons for the reception of a select party, when among the visitors were his Excellency the French Ambassador and Countess de Sainte Aulaire, his Ex cellency the Turkish Ambassador, the Duke de Guiche, the Comte Auguste de Grammont, his Ex cellency the Danish Minister and Countess Reventlow, his Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, his Excellency the American Minis ter and Mrs. and Miss Everett, his Excellency Count Kielmansegge, the Swedish Charge d'Affaires and Baroness Rehausen, Countess of Jersey, Marquis Pained, Lord Lowther, Admiral Sir George Cock burn, Mr. W. E. Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. and Miss Goulburn, Baron de Brockdorff, Lord and Lady Colchester, Count Rosen, .Viscount Ossulton, Mr. Parnther, Count . Louis de Noailles, Marchioness de Lisboa, Lady Wheatley and the Misses Wheatley, &c. His Imperial Highness retired about half-past eleven. FATAL ACCIDENT AT BLENHEIM. — The following account of this unfortunate affair is sent us by a Cor respondent :—" On Thursday morning I was going through the park, when I heard the report of a gun, and passing through Coombe Lodge was told that Eliott, the park and gamekeeper, had shot a young woman. It appears that Eliott was shooting at a doe, and this poor girl was wooding at a distance of 554 yards ; the keeper missed the doe, but unfortunately shot the poor girl through the chest; it was purely accidental, and Eliott is a great deal distressed at the occurrence. The poor girl, whose name, I believe is Oldacres, was conveyed to the George public-house at Hamborough, and a Coroner's inquest was to sit yesterday morning. It is a curious circumstance that this poor girl's brother was killed about twelve months since on the railroad." Since we received the above, we have obtained the particulars of the inquest which was held yesterday before James Westhall, Esq., Coroner for the county, from which it appears that when the melancholy accident took place, the keeper was near the High Lodge, shooting deer with a rifle, and that the poor girl, who is only 13 years of age, was picking up wood near spring Lock-gate, a dis tance of 554 yards, 330 of which are very thickly in terspersed with trees, which prevented the keeper see ing the deceased, when she was struck by a ball, which entered hor left breast, and caused irstant death. It appeared, on examination, that the ball must have glanced off some hard substance. Some men passing at the time, attracted by the screams of children, picked her up, but found she was quite dead. After a long and patient investigation, the Jury returned a verdict of " Homicide by -misad venture," accompanied by an expression of their opinion, that the keeper had not used due caution when shooting in the park at the time of picking up wood; it being stated that the Duke of Marlborough had given positive orders that no deer shall be shot on what are called "woodinz days." We are pleased to hear that the Duke and Duchess on hearing of the sad accident, sent over to the family, and did what they could to alleviate their misery by liberally admi nistering aid.—Oxford Herald. HENLEY BANK.—On Saturday a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. J. D. and T. Lydall, proprietors of the Henley Bank, was held at the Town-hall. J. Dixon, Esq., Mayor, was called to the Chair. He entered into a full detail of the banking concerns of the firm, and the causes of their suspending payment. He said that their London agent having refused to pay their notes yesterday week, in consequence of a party who was indebted to the bank having neglected to lodge with the agent a certain sum of money that he had promised to pay in, they were obliged to sus pend payments. Ile, however, assured the large body of creditors present, that there were full assets to pay 20s. in the pound sterling, and that Messrs. Lydall deeply regretted the inconvenience that arose to many persons from the interruption that took place. The assets of the bank were overdrawn accounts, 8,4551. 16s. Bills due, 2,7851. Os. 3d. Bills coming due, 3,194/. 17s. 7d. Cash in the hands of Messrs. Parker and Co., 1,5001. Cash at Messrs. Grote's bank, 401. Cash in the Henley Bank, 401. Total, 16,0151. 13s. 10d. The liabilities were as follow :—Due to creditors, 9,6401. ss. Bd. Notes in circulation, 4,8951. Due to Messrs. Grote's bank, 7,6161., for which freehold property was held as security to the amount of 995/. per annum • and there was a further incumbrance of 2,0001. on that freehold. Messrs. Grote held good bills to the amount of 5,5001. From this statement, observed Mr. Dixon, without touching the freehold, there were Lona ,fide assets to pay 20s. in the pound sterling; and the freehold pro perty was estimated at the value of 30,000/.—(Hear.) In conclusion, he lauded the Messrs. Lydall for their integrity, and Called upon Mr. Parker to explain how the liabilities of the bank would be paid. Mr. Parker expressed his conviction that the assets, independently of the freehold property, were amply sufficient to pay off all the liabilities of the bank. The proposi tion he had to. make to the creditors was to pay 10s. on the 19th of next month, ss. in the following Feb ruary, and the last ss. before La_dy-day. Alessri. Mallett, W plomstead, Campion, Shelton, Hunt, and others, expressed themselves perfectly satisfied, and it was unanimously resolved that the creditors had every confidence in the solvency of the Messrs. Lydall, and expressed their willingness to accede to the proposition of Mr. Parker. EXTENSIVE HIGHWAY R OB BERY.- - Informat i on has been received in the metropolitan police district that cattle-dealer,. oofn St.W e m dn a e r s y da s y , about two miles from Tiverton by three men, who robbed him of Cnoigrnhwt alrbtN3vairs.sTto.pjpoednes, up wards of 500/. in s overeigns and notes of the Bank of England, Stanley and Co., and the East Cornwall Bank of Messrs. Foster, Cooke, and Co. Two of the robbers wore short smock frocks, and appeared to be stout men about five 'eet eight inches high. The other man was short and wore a dark-coloured jacket. A reward of 501. has been offered for their apprehension. KENDAL TRADE.—The demand for goods in several branches of the trade of this town, is fair. We believe thatthere are not many orders on hand. Dealers, in the present day, require their orders fulfilled much sooner than formerly. But at present, in woollens, linseys, and hosiery, a good many goo d s a re making. We wish the demand may continue.--Kendaqiercury. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEAIBER 22; 184.2. COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Alecklenhurgh Strelitz has retUrried to the resi dence of the Duke of C6.nihridge at Kew - from a visit. Mr. De. , an, Chairman of the Customs, had an inter view With the Earl of Eipon yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. The Committee of Customs' Inquiry had a meeting yesterday at Gwydyr House, Whitehall. The meeting was held at twelve o'clock. Thefe were present — Lord Granville Somerset, Right Hon. W. E. Glad stone, Mr. Bingham Baring, Mr. Pringle, &c. Lord Lowther, Postmaster-General, had an inter view yesterday with the Earl of Ripon at the Board of Trade. , . . Dispatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yesterday from the seat of Lord iladdo at St. Leenard's•hill, near Windsor. Lord Melgund has left Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave street, fur Ninto Castle, Scotland. CO VENT GARDEN THEATRE , The sudden indisposition of Miss Adelaide Kemble Yesterday porniog, was the cause of the theatre being closed at night, and at the hour of three in the afternoon, the following notice was posted on the walls of the theatre : " Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, Monday, Nov. 21, 1842, two o'clock. The Public is respectfully informed, that in consequence of the sudden indisposition 'of Miss Adelaide Kemble, the theatre is unavoidably closed this evening." The following • certificate has been received from Miss Kemble's physician : " Dover-street, Piccadilly, " Monday, Nov. 21, 1842. " Sir,—l have visited Miss Kemple this afternOon, and consider her incapable of undertaking her profes sional duties this evening. " JAMES ARTHUR WILSON, M.D. " To the Manager of Covent-Garden Theatre." COLONIAL ESTABLISHMENTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-I am sorry to observe that excellent Re former, Mr. Gisborne, after describing at Derby in a masterly style, those most degraded of human beings Conservative operatives, condemn ing the retention of Malta, Gibraltar, and our other dependencies. That our colonies are ren dered subservient to our aristocracy, and conse quently made less useful to the nation at large than they otherwise would be, cannot be denied; but which of our institutions is not? Are there more abuses, numerous and abominable as they unquestionably are, in the colonies, than in the army, navy, church, law, or even in the mo narchy itself; and would Mr. Gisborne destroy all, or any of these? I think with Sir Robert Peel, that Our colonies. are 'invaluable, and it would be desirable to treat them as integra parts of the British empire. Let us have free trade with them,as Sir Robert wishes us to have, and we shall soon have it with all the world. I am not like Lord llowick and many of the Whigs, who would not have corn and provisions at low rates frdm Canada, because they cannot have them from Europe on the same conditions. Let us take what we can get. If we are not to have a free trade:hi' corn and provisions, it is de sirable to favour Canada, as an inducement for our surplus population to go there instead of se parating themselves from the British Crown. In his differential duties Sir Robert Peel has shown himself to be a statesman, and if he wereproperly backed by the middle and working-classes, I be lieve he would not scruple • to reduce the power of the aristocracy; for a clear-sighted man like him must see, , thacnothing• sl port of the destruc tion of class k ,7 .ititi:tiOn- f r - Aisave this country. Free trade may . :!Of math, ut it will be insuffi cient of itself t0 1 iV.,.i61 td prosperity; there fore, do not let US deceive ourselves. The aris tocracy must bear their share of the public bur thens; they must pay the land-tax in an honest manner; they 'must subject their estates to the legacy-tax like the tradesman's hard-earned pro perty; they must have an equitable income-tax (if it he necessary to have one at all), which will make a distinction in the rate on incomes from realized property and from trades and profes sions. It has come to this, that our aristocracy must either let us have honest legislation or lose their estates, and lam glad of it. Sir Robert is without gratitude, and having sacrificed the most rabid of his followers (who, by-the-bye, ought to have suspected him after the slippery trick he played the Church bigots on the Ca tholic question), he doubtless will not spare the aristocracy, who placed him in office to serve them as a tool to retain their unjust privileges for them. I have great confidence in him, for he - has the good sense to feel that nothing but ho nest legislation, disagreeable as it is to himself pet sonally, will extricate the country from the • . deranged state into winch has been brought by a long course ofmisrule.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, '• • A REFORMER. Hull, Nov. ID, 1842. THE CONVOCATION. , Copy of a note addressed to the Chairman : The Reporters of the Edinburgh Evening Courant, Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh Advertiser, and Ob server newspapers, not having received tickets of ad mission to the Convocation, beg respectfully to re quest the Chairman of the meeting to Inform them if they can be admitted, for the purpose of furnishing to their respective journals a Report of the pro ceedings. Edinburgh, 17th Nov., 1842. GENTLEMEN, — The Chairman of the meeting has the honour of informing you that it is private. — Aberdeen Herald. LLOYD'S SHIPPING_ LONDON, Nov. 21.—Wind thist day , at noon, N. to N.E., fresh breeze, and fine clear weath:r. - Nov. 20.—Wind N.E., moderate..—Arrd. Fairlie, India; Vulcan ofiDtrudee ; Louisa of Boston; Emily (brig), Uraguay ; sloop Medora of Halifax. • Ski. Sussex; John. Pirie ; John Handy; John Pink, Morebeaud ; Mina, Jamaica; Industry, Trinidad; Ruckers, St. Vincent's ; Lydford, Jamaica; Enmore, Port Phillip; . Phoebe, New Zealand; Anne, Tobago; Isabella, Brown, Barbadoes ; Nia gara, Boston ; .Donald, Demerara; Brazil packet, St. Thomas's ; Elizabek. Cape' of Good Hope; -Media tor, New fork; Uvcretta, Sydney; John Graham, Ceylon ; and all the outward hound. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 19.—Wind SM; fresh breeze, N.N.E. 'to E_—Arrd. h^r Majesty's• ship Dolphin, Africa, left Ascension 14th ult. • Sovereign and Nau tilus (transports), Quebec. §lll. her Majesty's ship Curacao, eastward. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 19.—The Forest, from Portland to Havannah was fallen in with 11th ult., waterlogged and the crew taken off by the Alice Jane, arrived here from Laguna, which experienced a hurricane Bth ult., in lat. 32, lon. 74, and was thrown on her beam en.ds. B.AiusEy, • Ism , : OF • MAN, • Nov. 1.9.—A piece of wreck, marked Royal Albert, in gilt letters, was washed ashore 9th instant, and yesterday rimming some hatches, apparently belonging to a large flat, came ashore near here. HULL, Nov. 19.—The Manchester, Armstrong, from St. Petersburgh to hull, was stranded 9th inst. on the coast of Norway, crew saved. LIVERPOOL, No v. . 19.—Wind ,W.S.W., fresh. 20. E.S.E., light. Arrd. Aden, Ponsonby, Singapore; Tigris, Al' G ill, Calcutta, sailed from St. Helena September 9 6 ; Universe, Ritchie, Bombay, left Cape of Good Hope Sept. 14; Huddersfield, Young, Bonny, sailed August 21, Fernando Po 25 • Royal Archer, Scott, and Broad Axe, M'Coy,Bahla ; Alice Jane, Laguna, sld. Sept. 11 ; Virginia, Eaton, Charleston ; Severn, Driscoll, St. John's, Now Brunswick ; New York packet, Downing, Bombay. Arrd. oft; Thomas Miller, Per nambuco; Evergreen, St:John's, New Brunswick. Sid. Columbia packet, Boston ; Dryad, Singapore ; Forester, Monte Video ; Bland, Calcutta; Antonio, Rio Janeiro; Agnes, St. Thomas; Ulveston, New Orleans; Vanguard, Sierra Leone. KINGSTOWN, Nov. 19.—Arrd. Astrea, Quebec. NEWRY, Nov. 16.—Arrd. Tagus,Bathurst. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 20.—Arid. - Rainbow, Que bec • Liverpool packet, with Mediterranean .mails. Orr MARGATE, Nov. 19.—Twenty-ninth May, Bieuveau, Valparaiso; Artemis, Goulburn, Moulmein. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 20.—Ski. Vernon, Madeira. Arrd off—lndian, English, Calcutta. FALMOUTH, Nov. 19.—Wind S. S. W. to W., fresh gales. 20, fresh breeze.—Arrd. John George, and lda, Thompson, Calcutta, sld. from St. Helena, 2d ult. GUERNSEY, Nov. 18.—Arrd. Hero, Rio Janeiro. BELFAST, Nov. 17.—Sid. J. T. Dobree, Demerara. CORK, Nov. 17.—S1d. Xarifa, Barbadoes. JERSEY, Nov. 17.—Sld. Hebe, Hazard, and Des landes, SHIELDS, Nov. 17.—Arrd. Harvest Home, Thom son, Miramichi. Sld. Henriette, Rio Janeiro ; Norma, Sierra Leone. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, Nov. 18.—M. Dujardin, one of the negotiators of the treaty with Holland, has returned from the Hague. On occasion of this treaty, the two Belgian Pleni potentiaries received from King William, General Prisse the order of the Oak or Crown of the first class, and M. Dujardin that of Commander of the order of the Netherlands' Lion. The Independant adds, that the first class of this latter order has been given to two of our Ministers, namely, M. Nothomb and Count de Briey. A letter from Amsterdam says, we are sincerely glad of the distinctions conferred by our King on some Belgian functionaries, and by the Ring of the Belgians on some Dutch functionaries. This is the first time that orders of Knighthood of one country have been conferred on subjects of the other, and it is, therefore, considered as a s i g n of friendshi p and g ood neighbourhood. The persons accused of favouring the escape of Gencral Vandersmissen appeared before the Tribunal yesterday. M. Van Latham declared that he had no knowledge of the plans of h is fellow- p risoner, but he confessed having said that not hin g was more easy than to escape from the Petits C annes. With res p ect to Ernest Vandersmissen, his Counsel insi s t e d on th e duties of filial affection, and observed that on the escape Lavaletteo to fi , Vi ac . coun g questioned, de clared horses. that A he s fo:his father's t.T his he y w o if u e n a g nd rn d a a n u , daughter had not been called of f hat he was orders, and only obeyed him when be ordered the theof the s same e manner. wasT hseensteennteeendc to was ignorant sfi i iegxtnehmoseor months' h si 'tribunal h f u,e t n O h 1 t i c i e lo b nw e fa j e n ss reasons stehcia t the keepers present and assisted, and that if another similar occa sion should occur, he should think it his duty to act in a nd the two sons, of prison should be acquitted, except oanned, w'hcon demned Madame Vandeismissen whom only Ernest, 'is in Belgium, to twenty-four hours' imprisonment; and a fine of sixteen francs. . —...4...........--- RAORDINALLY."--A •.1110St deter- GIN DRINKING EXT Oundle, in- this co c u os n t ty, mined. act of felony and drunkenness occurred at which has nearly characters residing Nightingale, Johnl i V .l.l but should he survive, one of the depredators his life, the smell of gin again it is imagined he will never re lish Allen, contrived to again as long as be exists. The following are the g - during the past week, and a two gallon bottl filled and Tibbitts, brewers, e p n a t r e. particulars c t u h l a e r 3 s ,ar :--Fourd,oi, m well-known easr s. sm iSmith the above town, named John ortle, James Coles, and Samuel The bottle was then saedc.rineiteeddwiituh gin, i h i) : Oundle, and to steal there fromawphoicfh:eidplhaocpsed, on a waggon to be conveyed with other articles to Thurning early on Friday morning, the 11th instant. named Fox was entrusted dis patched to convey it to a the evening of the s lo e in adjoining, W t h h e e r es secret, and remained an d till day, when a fifth person hovel house. There the five assembled, and in the absence of of a corkscrew the top fonrea a r g t l h as e s. union work the bottle was knocked off , and a half pint pot substituted sat and regaled themselves till they finished the two gallons. Wortley was in such a beastly state of in toxication that he could scarcely hovel. walk they left ot be conveyed home, and lest he should lead to their detection, although some of the others could dit c h contiguous to the ,him in a for the Oundle division Ovel. Here he was disco vered by Mr. Ambridge, the s u perintendent of police Darker and another of , and with the assistance of the force he was wheeled to the Bridewell in a harro w , cer tain whether he was liein Mr. Watson,r dead, and on medical a id being procured, ' surgeon, instantly applied the stomach-pu mp n e ot h er pr i soners were night,ap prehendedneat gin were ejected. he Confessed to the whole of the and the following morn ing (Saturday) , including Fox, who was taken into the same cus t o dy also as an acces sory. After the appre h ens i on of Nightingale , exceptioncir cumstances the debilitated state of Wortley the case was FeMaDded. PARIS RAILROADS, -_ Th e Herald. gineers, under the direction -e Commerce says, " En for laying a continuous railroad completely en of the Minister of Public Works, have formed a plan circl ng It is to run at a certain distance from the continuous wall, and form I Paris . of in the whole an extent 40,000,000 metres. The cost is estimated at 12,000 000 f. at the least. Its ob ject is to establish a direct between all the railroads,v' thi an d rapid communication which sooner or later will The diverge from the capital. e e plan, it appears, is to be x submitted to an immediate examination so that an application may be made to the arn Chambers during the next session for a grant to earry it into execution." The lifoniteur Parmien; in alle to this statement, observes, "We think the above l" is an error. This plan, which was long sinc e p r oposed as a private spe culation, is not comprised by the Minister of Public Works in the railroad plans under the consideration of the Government"- We have heard it rumoured that a woman, who died this week at Bri min g ton, fore death made the horrid confession that her be husband, who about 14 years ago was found one morning.eved to have with his throat cut from ear to ear , and wa s believed com mitted suicide, ca me by his death by her hands, and that she placed him, after the tion in which he was found. he went to live with anot her man. D shortly after the t erbysh •re Chron. CHURCII-RATE REFUSED.—Airn eeting of the parish ioners; called by the Churchwardens, was held in the Vestry, parish of All Saints , cn Xhursday, Nov. 17, 1842, for the purpose o f laying a Church-rate, when a proposal for a sixpenny rate was negatived by amendment, only thre e hands being held up for the motion, out of a cr owded ves try,—Leicestershire Mercury. Several large failures are 0 rel?rted t o have taken place here during t he last few days, and it is believed figure that others, who pr esentl y as great men, are so deeply involved that it will be hard for them to keep up.—Dundee Herald. HUNG FOR Fu x.—The last Tennessee Review states that the Grand Jury of c am hell county, Ten nessee,' has found a true bill against George Smith, John H. Todd, Loft Duke, James Loft in Leroy Brown, for the murder of Pearce , a nd t John Miller. They bad all got into slave belonging to l a drunken spree, and under the influe nce of 1; quo 1 . enticed the negro into a loft, and hung him for fun, intending to cut him down in a momen t or two before life should be extinct. Their drunken frolic wa carried too far— the negro died, and a similar death, or a long and s painful imprisonmen t, awaits th e __perpetrators of the act. Like niany other frolics 0 f the same kind, it costs dear in the en PORTUGAL. LISBON, Nov. 14.—Affairs here are i"ar from being in a satisfactory state. There is dang er f tom two sides : the old revolutionary party is at work, and on the other hand it would not surprise me ware a body of troops to march to the Palace and denia nd the dis missal of M. Dietz. An incendiary paper, written in an-out-and-out revolutionary spirit, I'AS been pub lished under the name of " Letters fro m Gracchus to Tullia," in which the Court is rer ainded, among other things, that " from the Necessi , Jades Palace to the Caes de Tojo (the place of execution) it is a straight line," and the destruction of Royalty alto gether is counselled, as being both expensive and useless. The ravings of the revolutionary party would, however, be merely contemptible in so Mo narchical a country as Portugal, were it not for the dissatisfaction that exists among a large portion of the garrison here, who have become, in a great measure, alienated from the Court by the conduct it has unfor tunately pursued since the late restoration. M. Dietz, is a very honest man, and sincerely attached to the Royal family, and the late reforms Irt has effected in the interior of the Palace have beer, very useful, but still he is disliked by all parties, r.nd has no friends : the Opposition papers are glad to seize hold of the recent proclamation against him , and to attribute it to the " Cabralistas," in order to aid the intrigue against Costa Cabral at Court, but no one says a word in favour of Dietz. The affairs in contest with the Pope are very likely to bring the Court here into trouble; there is no party which could make a tolerable show in the Cortes that would not oppose the encroachments which Romish policy is ever trying to make, where ever it has room enough in the beginning to thrust in the end of the wedge. Whether it be Costa Cabral, or R. F. Magalhaes, or So. da Bandeira, there is no one that will give way to the demands of M. Ca paccina, while the Court, it is said, is mightily afraid of coming to a rupture with him, and would go a great way towards sacrificing the rights of the Crown and the Church rather than do so. M. Dietz is sup posed to support these views, which find little echo in Portugal except among some old women of both sexes, and others who hope to convert the schism that results from Capaccini's doings into apolitical engine in favour of Don Miguel, or some other scheme of the kind. With respect to the tariff question, there are reports here that the English Government has rejected the last offers of Portugal ; but no communication has yet been made on the subject, and that instead of eithe7 at once accepting or rejecting their proposaL, it is much more likely that some further propositkri will be made by our Government to that of Portugal, whose last proposition must be considered as unsa tlsfactory ; and it will then remain with the latter to purchase the very considerable advantages oflbred by our Government in exchange for reductions on our manufactures, or to keep things for the present as they are. A small loan has, it is reported, been. negotiated in England, in order to work out the system of Exche quer bills! The efforts of the moneyed corporations who are opposed to these papers, assisted by the op position papers, who, of course, decry any plan which gives resources to the Government, arellirected to prevent the circulation of these bills, which it is re presented will never be paid, &c. Now, the Board of Public Credit, it is decreed, is to discount them, if required ; and it was necessary to raise funds for the purpose, which it appears has been done in London to the amount of 200,0001. The effects of the late flood here have been iingu lar enough. At Collares the devastating effects were very great; and at Celleiros, on the MATra road from Cintra, many vineyards were destroyed. The Island of Madeira was visited with a similar: infliction to- wards the end of the last month, ar.d the damage at Funchal alone is estimated by the Civil Government at 500 contos of reis, or above 100,0001. A woman and two children were drowned. The American brig Creole went aground in the gale and was lost but the crew were saved; the English schooner Wave was lost, crew saved ; the Portuguese vessel Novo Beijinho went aground, and three of the crew were drowned; and the English brig Dart also was driven ashore, but all the crew were saved ; the Sardinian polacca Gloria was lost with all her crew. There had been heavy rains for some time, and, on the 24th, a deluge bf rain came on with a heavy gale of wind, and torrents of water rushed down from the mountains, carrying large masses of stone along with them, and great part of the town of Funchal was overflowed. The inhabitants in the streets of Balcoes and Santa Maria had to save themselves in boats, getting out by the windows. In the neighbouring streets some houses fell down, and many were greatly injured. Wine stores and shops were destroyed, and the neighbouring vineyards completely ruined. The water rose to the height of twelve feet in the Pra9a do Pelourinho, where . two wine stores and many pipes of vine were lost; and. the same occurred in many other districts, according to the official report of the civil Governor. A large piano was washed out of the drawing room of Senhor Monteiro, carried over a passage and a garden, and deposited in one of the rooms of the municipal Chamber. The water rose to the height of seven feet and a half in Mr. Short ridge's wine stores. The Recolucao says that the city, situate under neath the mountains, is watered by three rivers, which descend from the heights, and which by five P.M. had overflowed their banks, destroying every thing before them, and that more than 200 houses were thrown down or completely ruined ; the pintas were reduced to a bare rock, and most of the year's vintage, which was in the stores where the inundation reached, was entirely lost. The English steamer Dee arrived safe with fifty-two passengers, on the 24th. It was in a gale on the 26th that the other vessels went ashore. The French Princes returned from their tour on Thursday last, and the Due d'Aumale left in the Asmodie steam-frigate yesterday, for Gibraltar and Algiers. The Prince de Joinville, remains here at present, with the Belle Poule and other vessels. The long pending case of " Shortridge v. Manoel Jose d'Oliveira," has been decided in the Court of Relacao here, in Mr. Shortridge's favour. The sentence annuls all that had previously been done in the case, which M. Jose d'Oliveira must now, if he chooses to go on with it, commence again de novo. Senhor Jose da Silva Cabral is about to prosecute the Nacional, for the assertion that he was the author of the proclamation against AL Dietz, in which, not withstanding his protests to the contrary, the National appears still to persist. News have been received from Goa of the arrival there of the new Governor-General Conde das Antas, who had issued a proclamation to the inhabitants on taking possession of the government, dated from the Palace at Pangein, 19th September last, congratula ting them on the state of tranquillity in which he finds them, and announcing his determination to observe strict economy, and direct all his attention to repair their finances, which are in a most disastrous state. The Customs of Lisbon and Oporto, and the Sete Casaeof Lisbon, brought in 367 contos of reis in the last month, or near 90,0001. THE NIGER EXPEDITION. Extract from a letter dated Cape Coast Castle, Sept. 26, 1842 : " The Wilberforce, you will recollect, was here in March last, at which time Captain W. Allen was pre paring to re-ascend the Niger, to look ufter the Model Farm' people, and if possible to do something to retrieve the fame of the expedition. He proceeded hence . to Fernando Po, to fit out the Soudan, to ac company him. While he was still lying there the Kite steamer arrived with orders from Government that only one vessel was to go up the river, and that she was only to have on board four or five white men at. Most. Her only object in going up was to be the bringing back the people left at the farm. On receiving these orders Captain Allen and most of his officers and crew went on board the Rite for a passage to England. The other Commissioner (Cook) went home by the Golden Spring. The Wil• berforce, under charge of her present commander (Lieutenant Webb), proceeded up the river, and found the Model Farm a very perfect model of disorganisation. The blacks who had been left at it, having plenty of cowries (a species of India shell used as money) and goods, voted themselves to be inde pendent country gentlemen, and managed to get hold of a lot of natives, whom they very coolly made slaves of, and whom they compelled to work on the fares, each gentleman being provided with a cat, or slay ,, - driver's whip, the better to enforce obedience. The model farmer himself (Carr, brother of the Chiet Justice of Sierra Leone) has never been heard of, and had, as it afterwards appeared, been killed somewhere near the mouth of the river. The Wilberforce brought away farm impleme nts, people and all, and those of the latter belonging to this place are now being discharged here. The steamer got on a rock in the river, where she remained five days, and came ddvn with a hole in her bottom, which now compels her to go home. So much for the last speech and dying words of the far - fame d Ni g er ex p edition. A more)ltii4inanaged piece of business from beginning to enV - Cis net, I will venture to say, to be found re corded in any history." Sits),DEN : D E ATHS OF TWO GREENWICH PEN.. SIONERS.--011 Saturday two inquests were held at Greenwich, on view of the bodies of Thomas Stevens, aged 74, and Job Heatly, aged 84, who died sud denly in the hospital on Thursday evening. The surgeon deposed that both the deceased had died of npoplexy, Stevens being seized whilst in bed, and dying almost instantaneously; and Heatly, as he was going down the steps fell head foremost to the bottom, and died very shortly afterwards. 'Verdicts of Na tural death were returned. PRICE OF BUTCHER'S MEAT.—Boiled beef com manded eightpence the largeplate, and there were so me small transactions at sixpence. Mutton in pies (sinking the offal) was to be had rather sparingly, at twopence the patty; but there was a decided mixture of inferior animals.--Punch AYRSHIRE COLLIERS' STRIKE. (From the Ayr Advertiser of Thursday.) ONE MAN STABBED AND TEN OTHERS SEVERELY BEATEN. A further outrage has taken place, attended with the most lamentable results. Last night, about seven o'clock, an attack was made on a number of the new workers in a house in Foundry-lane, ancY the whole of them have been severely . maltreated, and one of them has been stabbed in the left' thigh, besides having his arm broken, and other severe lacerated w;,unds on the head. It appears from what we could glean upon the si ot, from the information of one of the watchmen usually sta tioned there, that about seven o'clock, Crawford,!the watchman, came from %Thitletts, as an escort to the men above alluded to, some of whom were strangers, and had not commenced work. They were shown into one of the empty houses, and Crawford proceeded to procure them firing; but the instant he left the house, he was surrounded by a body Of men who had their hats slouched Aer their faces, their coats but toned up to their throats, and were otherwise dis guised. They numbered two hundred, and had managed to elude the vigilance of a guard are* with guns, by concealing themselves in Lockhart's field adjacent, till, the moment of the general assault. They compelled Crawford to stand, and one of the party presented. .a pistol at him, threatening at the same time that "if he did not stand still it would be worse for him." This man then took his station beside the ad jacemt wall, and kept the pistol presented at him ; mean tir.ie about 20 proceeded immediately towards the house in which the strangers had been placed, the others taking their stations round it. In about a minute or . so afterwards, Crawford heard a cry of murder from the house, and made an instinctive motion to run for ward, when his guard instantly advanced, and again presenting his weapon, threatened him to stir at the peril of his life. He was thus kept at bay while the bloody assault was being committed, and several times heard cries of murder from the assailed, and shouts, oaths, and execrations from the assailants. He also heard what he supposed a pistol fired off. After being kept in this manner for a few minutes, a rush was madr:, into the fields by the party who remained outside the house as a guard, and Crawford, taking advantage of the commotion, made off and effected his .ascape. Before reaching the highway, which is 'about four hundred yards from the houses, met a boy running towards him, who had been at , tracted by the shrieks of murder, whom he sent back to alarm the yeomanry, while he ran with all speed to 11 7 hitletts to apprise the manager of the works, and others, of the outrage. Meanwhile the yeomanry sent out by Colonel Crawford appeared on the ground, but all was quiet. Subjoined is the sub stance of a statement made to us last night by two of the men who were assaulted, and who, on the de parture of their assailants, ran across the fiields to wards the Ayr road—along which they came under the pretence of being travellers—to get a doctor for the poor fellows whom they had left, as they supposed, murdered. These men on escaping across the bridge were taken to Ayr Police-office, and after having had their bruises dressed, were furnished with beds by the Magistrates. They stated that immediately after going into the house, about a dozen men entered, va rously armed, some bearing heavy bludgeons, others bearing bars of iron, and such other lethal weapons, with which, without saying anything but, " Now, you , we'll have at ye now," they commenced an indiscriminate attack on the strangers, whom they belaboured so severely on the heads and bodies; - - that the blood literally spouted from them in streams. By the time medical assistance arrived, some time had elapsed, Drs. Whiteside, Gibson, Sloan, and Craig, were in attendance, and gave the necessary assistance. We went to the spot as soon as the rumour reached us ; and by the time we arrived — half-past ten o'clock—the medical gentlemen had nearly finished dressing the wounded. One man, whom we saw in the hands of the doctors, had his head cut across in several directions—the wounds appearing to be deep, and some of them extending across the scalp. Another—Dawson—was dressed, and was lying among some straw in a fainting state; at intervals groaning heavily. The two individuals most severely injured are Peter Burns, who, besides bruises, has a stab in his thigh about two inches deep, supposed to be by a bayonet, pitchfork, or other such weapon, and is in a dangerous state ; and John Dawson, who is also badly wounded. 'The others who have sustained cuts, blows, and bruises, are Robert Liddell, William Clark, Charles Donelly, Michael Bradley, Bernard Boyle, William Blair, James Wallace, and Thomas Reid. The only one of the unfortunate party who altogether escaped was James Divine, who happened to have gone out for a drink of water. Through out the night and this morning the yeomanry and police were diligent in attempting to discover the guilty parties. Lieutenant Boswell and a detachment of the Yeomanry last night pursued to Maybole five suspected men, who were reported to have taken that road shortly after the outrage, but were not success ful in capturing them. In all, six individuals have been apprehended and lodged in prison this morning, and farther arrests are being made. The Yeomanry have received reinforcements—the additional officers being Capt. Hunter, of Hunterstone, and Lieutenant Warner, of Ardeer. There are about 140 men at present engaged at work in Mr. Gordon's pits, the most of whom are new hands; and as men ;continue to pour in daily, the prospects of the success of " the strike" diminish. lIMMOUSE AND Co.'s BANKRUPTCY.—The total debts now proved against the joint estates of Messrs. Ifobhouse and Company, the late Bath bankers, amount to 248,6791. 13s. Bd. ; and the total assets realised by the a,signees for the benefit of the creditors amount to 39,743/. 14s. 3d. The creditors of two of the partners have received 20s. in the pound; and those of the remaining partner have received 9s. Two divi dends of ss. and 2s. in the pound to all creditors of the bank have also been declared; and a sum remains in hand for a third dividend, but that will be very small. A DUEL IN FRANCE.--The Correctional Tribunal of Corbeil was engaged on Friday in the trial of M. Granier de Cassagnac for wounding M. Lacrosse, in the duel between them, the affa; , - having been referred to by the Court of Cassation, in deciding on the appeal made by M. Granier de Cassagnac, on the ground that accusations founded on duelling were not within the jurisdiction of Correctional Tribunals. but amen able only to Courts of Assize. The tribunal was crowded, and many ladies were present. When M. Granier de Cassagnac had answered the usual interro gatories, M. Lacrosse and M. Lechevallier, chief editor of the Globe, were called as witnesses, but neither of them appeared. The Procureur du R oi thereu p on read a letter from M. Lacrosse, stating that, being of necessity detained at Brest, it was impossible for him to attend, and M. Granier de Cassagnac informed the Court that M. Lechevallier did not appear, be cause he had been assured that the jurisdiction of the tribunal would be again objected to, and the merits of the case would not be entered upon ; therefore his at tendance would be nnnecessary. The other formal documents being read, M. Bachiere, as counsel for M. Granier de Cassagnac, and that gentleman himself, again argued against the jurisdiction of the tribunal, which, however, overruled their objections. Upon this, M. Granier de Cassagnac made default, and AN as condemned to pay a fine of 100 f. an d th e costs. The Court excused M. Lacrosse for his non-attendance, but ordered M. Lechevallier to pay a penalty of 10f. A SPECIMEN OF THE TWENTY-FOtlt THOUS AND SUMMARY PUN ISHMENTS INFLICTED ENGLAND.--We find the following paragraph YEAR IN THOUSAND SUMMARY ar ley's Bristol Journ a l o f S a t ur d a y last :- 7P A servant named Mary Morgan, was brought before the Cheltenham Magistrates for running away from lam service. She had been hired at Cirencester 'mop' •for a year certain on lith October, and went away two days after. Her excuse was, that she did not like ' the ways of the house." Why ?' said the Magis trate's clerk. After some coyness, and because I Mori t like such ways,' came out 'because I had to go through the man's bedroom to my room !' Very con trary to our expectation, Mr. Ballinger said, 'This is a common thing! in farmhouses,' and the girl was gent to Northleach gaol for 14 days." Viewing the girl's fault in its worst aspect, supposing she quitted the house from some indefinable feeling of dislike, from caprice, because "she did not like its ways," how enormously disproportioned is the penalty to the error. Recent disclosures haveitaught us that a fort night's confinement in Northleach gaol may involve a large amount of personal suffering. But, in the case of this poor girl, the physical pain she may suffer will most likely prove the lightest part of her sentence. Her imprisonment may be her ruin. Who will em ploy a female just released from gaol, where she must have associated with the most depraved and abandoned characters ? Her good name is lost for ever, and witkit her means of subsistence. Fourteen days' im prisonment in the worst gaol in the kingdom Ia a sen tence so utterly disproportioned to the trivial charge Made against her, that we trust the case will not be suffered to pass over without inquiry. —Britannia. The Treasury Commission of Inquiry into the mode and expense of collecting the public revenue of the country, having Lord Granville Somerset at its head, is about to take into its consideration the late disclo sures of malversation in the Customs' Department of London. It will meet to - day at Gwydyr House, White hall, and has already requested the attendance of two officers of the Customs, who are deeply implicated in the frauds, and ten gentlemen who are no longer in the service, they having undergone the severest punish ment which the censure of the Board could inflict. MONROE EDWARDS.-The rascality of this accom pplarisahleledl.scoounndTreul Tuesday to was discovered it b e ene sa thatnd withoutbe had cheated his lawyer, John W. Edmonds, by exhibiting to him a forged ex le e tt e e t r of credit on a house at New rnti p ig Orleans. of the State prison by forging a ch n r e o lt e to k. hear that he has got out Seward.--ao pardon from Governor THE SLAVE-TRADE TREATII %S. There is something very incomprehensible .iti the bustle in which the French press.: have taken 27j) a notion, which they have almost niagnified into r :re port, that there is a disposition in the English G. 1- vernment to release their nation fr om the obligatioii of the slave-trade treaties of 1831 and 1833. Into ' these arrangements the French Government entered with forwardness and cordiality —1 t was one of the first, if not the first, to suggest thug desirabkness of a further treaty, embracing all the great Powers of Europe, and somewhat enlarging the powers mutu ally given by former stipulations for the repression of that trsffie. All went on in the Jnost aniicabe and satisfactoi7 way. The only question was, who should be most zealous in the good work, until the :supposed affront offered by the Treaty of July at once :int an end to the hearty good feeling which- before existed, and set every Frenchman . thinking how he can hest avenge or retaliate the slight. America suggests an oc casion, by refusing to be party toany such arrangement as France had eonsentedto. The American Minister ; . n Paris writes a pamphlet to abuse England and defend slavery ; and the whole French nation—all at least w meddle in politics lose no time in beginning, like a population of wild cats, to howl and shriek forth. their wrath against Great Britain, which had deceived, .),Triftio Ministry who had betrayed, them in sanc tioning aft act of generosity, and in exacting from its rni,T, an instant f:dsification of all the pledges by which, not only in tile sight of, but first and at the ut, all continent:a Towers, they had distinctly and unreservedly bound thezaselves. Thanks to pre vious treaties, the breach of faith is as inoperative as it is disgraceful, and the French find themselves in the position of a mob, which, having with great fury and enthusiasm, and labour, and menlee, burst open a stout oak door, find nothing but a. stouter is on-hate inside, and are reduced, as before, to stand " with their noses in the air," wishing that the porter would come with his keys. In such a disconcerted position, it is 'vighly natural that ary wag should receive ready .cre dence who professes to hear a jingle inside, and the French public appear to be a no less easy prcv to any idler who will put up a cry that Lord Aberdeeit is going to concede the slave-trade treaties, At pm ! sent they are in full cry on the subject, and that on -rounds (if any) almost inconceivable to a plain • Englishman who is in the habit of reasoning. First, me treaty—the actual concluded treaty—'will cer tainly be repealed, because England claims no right to enforce the same provisions on America, who ,has - ...onsistently and from the beginning rejected them; .text, because Lord Aberdeen has written to Lord. liaddington that British sailors have been exceeding "heir powers on part of the coast of Africa ; and by this tune, we suppose, there is some third, and equally logical reason, afloat. Now, we, know how reports are got up in private life; we know the swift growth of positiveness of which a statement is capable that is fathered by a hearty wish. The short but rapid stages by which, 3 lie travels are certainly not long in raising it from the very lowest degree of conjecture to the highest degree of certainty—from " I shouldn't be much sur prised if," to " I know from the best authority that the Bank will stop payment' to-morrow." But still, with all our experience of human gullibility, it does astonish us that a whole nation of newspapers—even some of the Ministerial and Conservative ones, whn know better—should conspire to fly off upon a notion which not one of them at any time has had any the smallest reason to suppose in any degree founded on fact—a notion which is simply the preposterous crea tion of their own brains—an idea standing on no thing, which they have embraced merely because it iris presented itself, or because some random conjec ture has pitched it, forth " for want of thought," as an idle pot-boy tosses his cap into the air. And, now before these people can be made to understand what absurdity they have been talking, they will have talked it so long as to fancy they have gained a kind of vested right in their fancy, and will think themselves ill-treated by the discovery of the unchanged matter of fact. It is necessary, therefore, to go on repeating, lest our silence, however temporary, should be taken for assent—that there is not the smallest possibility of a relinquishment by England of the old basis of 1831 ind 1833. We have the best reason to know that such a proposal would not be entertained for one mo ment by our present Government, and we will ven ture a prediction, that in spite of the :manifestations the French Ministerialist papers, no French Mi nister who really wishes a good understanding be tween the two countries will venture to risk it by so. insulting a result. For to what would it amount ? what principle must the request be made ? It is; scarce pretended (much less shown), at least by the French Government, that the arrangement is in any legree unseasonable or inconvenient. A few abuses may have occurred and will be restrained ; but the treaty, on the whole, has now had about years' trial, and, we say fearlessly, has 'peen found to work with fairness. We should be asked to annul this solemn engagement, entered upon gravely and with deliberation between two powerful countries, for an honourable purpose, and with results considered for at least nine years to be most unobjectionable, in submission to a mere childish whim, for it is no more, of a certain part of the French nation.; nay, more, we should' be cane& upon to make this sacrifice in deference to a fancy which has fur its direct and avowed object the frus tration of our suppo, - od policy, and the humiliation of )nr nation, and whiich, if true to itself, would take iome other equally - ridiculous and more inconvenient Shape, the moment it appeared, as it would do, that their victory did not in the most remote degree affect our strength or prosperity. To recede would be a ')umiliating desertion of a generous cause; but it would also be an act of utter and inexcusable folly if lone with the notion of pacifying France. One word with reference to a different subject, ,while we are still upon foreign politics. A Whig Contemporary, who not so inconceivably tries to affect .1 certain degree of belief in these French dreams, has picked up a set of analogous legends concerning our relations with Turkey. Sir Stratford Canning, it informs us, has lost all influence at the Porte—has, on one occasion, nearly carried his point by a menace, but has been compelled by a reprimand from the Foreign-office to draw in his horns, and play the humble servant again. All this comes on the simple, unsupported authority, of an anonymous writer in the Morning Chronicle. We meet these assertions in their own way. We take upon ourselves to declare broadly and confidently, that they are simply untrue. Sir S. Canning is happily in full possession of all that influence which is due to a representative of Great Britain. His advice is followed, his friendship courted by Prince and Ministers. He has had no occasion to resort to menace. He has had no reprimand, by con sequence, for such a resort. He has acquitted his important task with ability, and to the satisfaction of those to whom he is responsible; though he may not have trodden in the footsteps of his reckless and shortsighted pree.eceesor. The truth of the matter is this !—The Whigs wrested Syria from the hands of the only man, rebel as he was, wl - o has ever kept it in order. To do so, they armed every robber in the country, and encou raged him in a warfare (the only one which circum stances allowed) murderous and irregular. They disorganise the country, they destroy the force which could and did keep it in order, and they re-deliver it, 'armed and unruly, to the worst of tyrannies—to the tyranny which is terrified at once b, its opponents and its ministers, and i s e q uall y fearful ofexerdrc:sitnhge leniency towards the one or discipline tu t w f a A b e c a r i a t a s s o fr t u h i e t r :. T s y heirra mustpolicy p pay s y for now the s be Hindoitan has done for t h ose of Ghuznee ; and the a uthors of the evil are anxiously casting about for fr i i n u n n i : i p g h s oo come means of laying at t he door of their successors the obvious and necessary result of their own infatua tion. This is the long and short of the attack on Sir Stratford Canning.—Times. The Earl of Eglinton, with Mr. Campbell (of Sad del), and Mr. Fair lie, durin g the p ast week had two fme were bagged. days' excellent sho otin g on his Lordshi p 's p reserves at Aucochnasnast.nrAdlaoyre, atth a t n he 2 ub 3O x he r ad o idge Pettyl' Session s , t wo men, named George Potter and Wm. Cooper, were r l i i e ar e I g n e a n of . having i ap peared comm itted for trial by Sir W. S. Wiseman, B ar t , committed Magistrates,maittedneahvioofientssauTt on o n a c a p o that on Sunday week Rigarlsford, T 170, , duty n at `Vest Drayton, thest spot„wherheearbein tur b while a n o c e n found a gr t e h a e tw o prisoners dis turbance, i s. prisoners and another (not in custody.), the latter lying on the ground in pretended drunkenness. The constable, knowing them to be bad characters, told them to go home • quietly, but at the same instant the one on the ground sprang up and struck the officer on the head with some instrument, and inflicted a frightful cut over the right eye. His arms were then pinioned from behind by one of the prisoners, and the other two beat him until he was insensible. Rigarlsford was afterwards found weltering in blood, and was conveyed to a neighbouring surgeon's, where his wounds were dressed and he was taken home. Subsequently the prisoners were apprehended, but the third had escaped. One of the prisoners was convicted last year of a violent assault on the same constable, and was fined 51. On Sunday last, William Lees, a water-keeper, was murdered in the parish of Artrea, near Cough, in the county of Antrim. The deceased attempted to prevent three men from fishing for salmon in the Ballinderry river, when they set upon him and beat him severely, fracturing his skull, from the effects cf which he died on Tuesday evening. The murderers have succeeded in escaping from the country. It is said that the peasantry have nearly destroyed all the Isalmon and trout in the principal rivers leading into Lough Neagh by killing them during the spawning Iseason, and that they look upon the interference of I the water-bailiffs as the illegal employment of arbi trary power, and accordingly entertain bitter feelings ) of hostility towards th eme —bilk Tort 'Per' SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. - TATTERSALL'S.—YES TERM/. Of fifteen or twenty Derby horses mentioned yester day, three or four were backed to a considerable amount; this lot comprehended Murat, Winesour, Mahomet, and the Brocard colt ; the Progress colt and Aristides had friends, but at prices that do not bespeak an improve ment. Jamal, who is quoted at 50 to 1 (layers), is re ported to have changed his qua rters from St. Alban's to Ascot Heath. DERBY. 5 to 1 agst Scott's lot 12 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lot 14 to I agst Sir G.'Heathcote's lot—t. and aft. offered Si- to 1 agst Mr. Blakelock's A British Yeoman 19 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Murat—taken 22 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Winesour—taken freely 13 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Progress c—t. and aft. off. 30 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton'S Aristides—t. and aft. off, 40 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Napier 40 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Sirikol—taken and afterwards offered 45 to 1 agst Mr. Griffith's Newcourt—taken 50 to I agst Sir G. Heathcote's Amorino 50 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Jamal 50 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Dumpling taken and afterwards offered 50 to 1 asst Duke of Grafton's Oxygen colt 2000 to 30 agst Lord Verulam's Brocard colt—taken 1000 to 15 agst Major Yarburgh's Mahomet—t. freely 2000 to 20 agst Count Bathyan i y's Fox—taken 1000 to 10 agst Lord Chesterfield's Prize-fighter—t. 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Bell's Black Drop—taken 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Rogers's Syren—taken 1000 even between Cotherstone and Napier—taken 600 to 100 agst A British Yeoman and Winesour —t. 500 even between Napier and Parthian—taken , 500 even between the Birdlime and the Queen of Trumps colts OAKS. 25 to 1 agst Mr. Livesy's Testatrix—t. and aft. off. 25 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Laura filly—taken. HUNTING, APPOINTMENTS. Col. G. Wyndham's hds., Wed., Fitzhall ; Fri., Bell's Hut-10:V. Sir M.V. Ridlcy's lids., Wed., Wylam Hall; Fri., Mason Dunnington; Sat., Stanton Village--10i. Prudhoe and Derwent, Wed., Tues., Fugar Bar ; Fri., Barlow-10. Hayden hds., Wed., Ilarsondale Cleugh ; Sat., Midge Nook-9. Staley hds., Wed., Greenland ; Sat., Sinnel Wood-9. Newsham Park, harrs., Tues., Wortlana ; Fri., Cheatham. Lieut.-Col. Tlildyard's harrs., Wed., Broadwood Bridge ; Fri.. Wheatcroft-10. Lord Elcho's hds., Wed., Fairnie Castle-10i ; Thy., Marclin3ont ; Sat., Belmont-11. Mr. Wyndham's hds., Tues., French Horn-101. Yarnbro' harrs., Wed., Coombe Gate ; Fri., Lodge, Bolton. Mr. Farquharson's hds., Tues., Castle Hill ; Thurs., Buckland Wood ; Fri., Holywell Turnpike Gate. Carmarthen hds., Tues., Kennel ; Fri., Llandeveilog. Tivyside hds.. Thurs., Pontcymion Bridge. Mr. Child's hds., Tues., Great Varga.ror ; Fri., Ma borbier. Lord Portman's hds., Thurs., Milton Abbey, Pond Head. N. F. H., Tues., Denny Bridge ; Sat., Earldom's Turnpike Gate-11. Bournemouth harrs., Tues., St. Leonard's Bridge; Sat'. Moordown Farm--101. Tythericy harrs., Wed., Houghton Lodge ; Fri., New ton Stacey. Horsley hds., Fri., Farnley Mount-10-i. Odiham burs., Thurs., Greywell-101. Mr. Dennett's harrs„ Thurs., Beaulieu Heath ; Fri., ! Mr. Morant's Coverts-10i. Mr. Morgan's Ms., Thurs., Llaniumney Lodge ; Sat , I Clippa Park— , 114 • Cowbridge harrs., Thurs., St. Mary Church-101. Instructions have been received at the Custom House of this port, to permit the export, duty free, of coal in our own and foreign reciprocity vessels, to Malta, Gibraltar, and Heligoland. — Newcastle Journal. SHARKS.—Within the last ten days no fewer than eight sharks were taken on the great lines, by the crew of one of the Footdee fishing boats. Tfklargest measured five feet in length.—Aberdeen herald, ~11I ` ! I