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each, and himself in 8001.; Thomas B. Smith, two ,sureties in 2001. each, and himself in 400/. ; John Ellison, two sureties in 2001. each, and him eilf in 4001.; Samuel Parkes, two sureties in 1501. each, and himself in 300/. ; Thomas Rail pun, two sureties in 2001. each, and himself in 4301.; and William Scholefield two sureties in 1001. each; his own recognisance was not taken, he being gaily 20 years of age ; 48 hours' notice of bail was re quired in each case. Norman, Fletcher, Ramsden, *id Arthur, were then discharged ; and the Court awe at six o'clock, having sat eight hours. " THE MISER'S DAUGHTER" COMPLETE. On the 15th, in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE MISER'S hAUGHTER. By WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH. With Twenty Illustrations on Steel, by George Crnikshank. London : Cunningham and Mortimer, Adelaide-street, West strand. This day is published, 56 pp., Bvo., price ls. 6d.. MITE HISTORY and MYSTERY of the EX CHEQUER BILLS FORGERY EXAMINED. In * Letter to the Right Hon. HENRY GOUL BURN, Chan cellor of the Eschequer. " Conceived and executed in the spirit of the most astute wad experienced Old Bailey practitioner."—Times. " A forcibly written and earnest pamphlet, well calculated tvereate a lively interest in the City and country."—Morning Plerald. Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill ; and all Booksellers. CAPTAIN MARRYAT'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., IDERCIVAL KEENE. By the Author of " Peter Simple," R4c. Will add a conspicuous feather to the Gallant Captain's ttterary plume."—Literary Gazette. " Superior to any of the authur's more recent productions. 7iis ocean fights are described with great force and animation. "Ilion is as oin,h freshness about them as if Capt. Marryat had zkiver penned a naval novel before."—Observer. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great ISlarlborough-street. HAMBURGH, 12're AUGUST, 1842. MAJ ESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, AND HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA, "Saving A UT H °RISES/ an d GUARANTEED several DIS "RIBUTIONS of lIONEY DIVIDENDS, Ly which, they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES itay be obtained, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, e Selling GENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS for the said DISTRIBU LIONS. Persons desirous to purchase ;nayreT!ei;e:PREVIOUS ing any order, the PROSPECTUS with full PARTI ,' tiLARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a hne to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, OCT. 6, Will be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand Opera of SEMIRAMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide lby Miss Adelaide Kemble •' Arsace, Nlrs. Alfred Shaw (from *fie principal Theatres i n Italy, her third appearance on the Ni nt, , ,liah Stage) ; Assur, Mr, Giubilei ; Oroe, Mr. Leffler ; lreno, Mr. - Travers ; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. Bland. After which the Farce of THE IRISH TUTOR. Flail, 3.1 c. Meadows; Terry O'Rourke, Mr. G. Hodson, (his first 'appearance); Rosa, Miss Lee Mary, Mrs. Humby. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances corn izence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price :is. 6d. ; r;rst and Second Circles bs., Second Price '2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s, iacond Price 2s. ; Gallery ls. Tickets aria Places ftr the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit '?l,4w, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season 'tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An 4'ews, 167, New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ; se,d of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, OCT. 5, The Performances will commence with the New Original Xelo-dramatic Romance, called the OWL SISTERS; or, the HAUNTED ABBEY RUINS. Principal Characters by ;4essrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, H. Beverly, Craven, Wilkinson, I .4aynard, Frampton, Miss Faucit, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. P. Gratton. After which, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Chtracters by ; , !ffe s scs. Wright, 0. Smith, H. Beverly, Mrs. H. Beverly, ;Sirs. H. P. Gratton, and Miss Murray. To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ; l'orma, Mr. Paul Bedford; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past *tv, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. In con s equence of the immense overflows, THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 6, Will he acted Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called 74LANCHE HERIOT, which has met with most decided viccess. Neville Audely, Mr. H. Hughes ; Hugh Laneret, pr. N. T. Hicks; Herrick Evenden, Mr. J. Webster; Blanche isriet, Mrs. R. Honner. After which, MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. parry Hallyard, Mr. T. P. Cooke; Joe Tiller, Mr. R. Honner; Mary igavlyucl, Mrs. R. Honner. To conclude with THE PLEDGE OF LOVE ; or, A SISTER'S SACRIFICE, supported by Mr. N. T. Hicks, 4r. W. Smith, Mrs. Vining, Miss Terry, &c. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at fie Box-office, from eleven to four. NE WSPAPER STAMPS. tract from a Return of the Number of Newspaper Stamps, at One Penny and Ons Halfpenny, issued to the several Newspapers in England, Scotland, and Wale 4, from the Ist of April to 30th June, 1842, inelusive Nurnber Amount of of Advertisement Stamps. Duty. 42,000 £ 94 13 0 246,000 252 13 6 rmier........ UN. . 260,000 278 3 6 . 313,000 323 3 6 HIGH NV A.THII AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. , :4Arising...„. 48 minutes after 2 Evening .....-7 minutes after 3. • • 41111.--c•a.it'v tiix ;%nn, LONDON: THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 6, 1842. Under the pressure of affliction the Tories teem to hentaking great progress in useful know lidge. They have succeeded, it is true, in Par !Ament, but they have failed, as we long ago id, in the country. Their measures have not iven prosperity to the manufacturers, and they e exciting the discontent of the agriculturists. hey are beginning, therefore, to know them ; rives, and take a more correct measure than t t rmerly of their own wisdom. Their journals ; !e ing quite unable to explain the strange cir cumstances which alarm them by any ordinary lintsoning, are obliged to fall back on first prin c:ples, and, to exonerate Sir R. PEEL and his ;,•)licv, they condemn the whole system of so iety. For example, the Morning Post said yes- The truth is, that in our artificial state of society, tite abundance of a thing does not always make it tore accessible by the mass of the people, nor its O teapness increase the quantity of it which they can 4.onirnand. In this respect the arrangements of society i'minteract the natural order of things, and, therefore, lice proposition seems paradoxical which is really and tactically true. This is exactly what the Chartists say; ex trtly what the most ultra Democrats say, and ocactly what the whole body of the toiling and . s.i-req u it e d wor ki ng c l asses say. They contend that, in th e natura l or d er o f things, po wer be- Inlgs to the many; that those who produce the !Teeth of society should make laws for the and that productive industry should be 10. carded with plenty, and. only idleness be in s , antand,tiestitutio n . Because, as the Post states, ►:,is "natural order of things is counteracted by (political) arrangements of society," they /•3mand Universal Suffrage —the abatement of 4 . )e aristocracy, and an alteration in the right of roperty. Our Contemporary, then, must hence .rth be classed with those whom he sometimes igtnatises as Revolutionists. He asserts that natural order of things, which is necessarily most beneficial, is counteracted and per 4;;rted by political arrangements; and, did we su ppose that he used the words we have ,total, in ignorance of their import, we should once inumn the ultra Democrats that they found a convert and ally in the Tory .L'orniv Post. It is now universally admitted that the con ilUll of the working classes, moral and physical, :., the plagu e Spot of sw2letv. We have too ire- Slated cur opinion of the best means of :..;re!•ovirag their physical condition, namely, es -41• llishing perfectly free trade, beginning with s.:e trade in food, to make it necessary for us to . -iter now inio that subiect. The hest of :i.4provitif.).: their moral condition is for us almost ;Lew subject. w hen we consider the age of whOm it is mcst requ:site to improve, and almost ►nstant want : or improvement for the • eurity of society, education, the fruit of can-only ripen into wisdom in another ge 44ration, seems hardly calculated to supply the sent and immediate want. For education' to available, it must mould the hearts of the to meek submission, to poverty, and to , when they see the few enjoying plenty, and endowed with power and authority; and no education, short of a complete Spartan drilling, or monastic suppression of all the pas sions, or a complete remodelling of man's heart and mind, is at all likely to answer that end. Experience, too, we are afraid, forbids us to hope much even in future from education. It is now upwards of thirty years since LANCASTER and BELL directed public attention to the sub ject, and though it has been imperfectly wrought out, it has ever since been kept in view ; and the moral condition of which we now complain, seems an unanswerable proof that education, at least at an early date, will not ensure the desired improvement. Whatever it may have effected in other countries in which a system of instruc tion has been in harmony with the institutions and condition of society through a long series of years, no system of teaching seems likely, as long as we have a political and free Press, ever to produce contentment in the depressed mul titude. In fact, the idea of attaining this object by education is ip. jo a great extent, given up ; and, through all ranks, from Lord Chief Justice TINDAL to the daily journals of all parties, the opinion is now entertained that the diffusion of" sound religious knowledge" amongst the people is the one thing needful. There is much difference of opinion as to the mode by which this may possibly be ac complished, but there seems to be none as to its being the most essential matter. Hence it becomes of great importance, considering the urgency of the demand to improve the moral condition of the people, to inquire whether the diffusion of " sound religious knowledge" amongst them is calculated to answer the ex pectations of those who advocate it, and to that inquiry the remainder of our remarks will be directed. It was well observed yesterday by a Morning Contemporary, that "when Missionary SMITH was tried in Demerara, the slave negroes who were called as witnesses could give little account of his preachings, but they all remembered his reading the chapters in Exodus that describe the liberation of the Israelitish slaves, and the venge ance on their Egyptian oppressors and task masters." The Bible has before now been made the text-book of freedom, and whether the stirring chapters of the Old Testament, or the chapters teaching love and mercy, and inculcating poverty and humbleness of heart, of the New be princi pally dwelt on, they seem little calculated to make the multitude reverence either the legisla tion of the landlords or the splendour of the hierarchy. In fact some of the most powerful arguments by which both have been lately as sailed, are taken from the two sacred books. Those who undertake the task of interpreting them may, perhaps, suppose that they can, as heretofore, shape them to their own particular purposes; but the same circumstance which pre vents education from being effectual amongst us as a system of drilling—namely, the existence of a free political Press—will equally prevent any body of clergymen from straining or perverting the Scriptures. The men they have to deal with can " read, and write, and understand ;" they,are as intellectual, perhaps even more intellectual, than those who would reform them, and can in no wise be deluded or deceived, except through the instrumentality of their own passions. On these grounds we doubt whether the diffusion of religious knowledge amongst the people would produce that moral arid political improvement which its advocates expect. To us, also, it seems contrary to experience to believe that men will, or can, be made religious by Act of Parliament. Whatever means the Legislature may employ, they must begin and end in taxation. It has no funds but what it derives from that source. It cannot send forth one missionary, or establish one zealous man in a spot, except by levying contributions on the people. Already taxation is a source of much discontent, and to connect religion in any way with more taxation, is about the fittest means we know to bring religion into disrepute. On this subject, probably, men are led astray by inferring that the same beneficial results would flow from the exertions of the State as from the exertions of individuals. Great things have been done—greatconversions of the heathen made, by missionaries, and it is hence supposed that similar effects might be produced at home by the Legislature extending the Church. Be tween the two, however, there is a great differ ence. The missionaries, at least in the first in stance, have been provided by other countries. Their resources have been, as Dr. CHA LMERS would say, ab extra. Church extension must be, so far as the people are concerned, ab intra. Missionaries have not only cost the people to be converted nothing, but in general, from being members of a more advanced society they have carried much useful knowledge amongst them. Church extension will be costly to the people, and the clergy belonging to the same society, without being in general further advanced in secular knowledge than the people they are to teach, will not be able to impart any valuable information to them, and they cannot produce the same effect here as missionaries have pro duced amongst ignorant savages. It is un doubtedly very pleasing to suppose that immorality and irreligion, and with them discontent ILIA unhappiness, can be ba nished from society by an Act of Par liament to promote Church extension; many good men, like Chief Justice TINDAL, have in dulged in the supposition, but when it is exa mined by the light of experience, it seems no better than one of those day dreams which occa sionally amuse the wise and the good, as well as the weak and the visionary. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—A report hay reached us, which we notice that it may be con tradicted or explained, that none of the persons on board the Trident received any gratuity whatever for their services. Even the stewardess, who was in close personal attendance on her Majesty, as an ex perienced female sailor, was not rewarded. If this statement be correct, we are sure that the omission to perform so grateful a duty on the part of her Ma jesty's purse-bearer, arises from some mistake, or perhaps the acknowledgment is only delayed to make it the more handsoma and the more acceptable. COURT CIRCULAR. WiNnsoß, WEDNEsmv.—Tbe Queen and Prince Albert enjoyed their early walk this morning in the Home Park and Slopes. The Prince of Wales and the princess Royal were taken airings twice to-day, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. I'rince Albert went out shooting, attended by Sir Edward Bowater, Colonel Arbuthnot, Hon. C. A. Murray, and Hon. Captain Duncombe, and returned to the Castle to lunch. This afternoon her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal High ness driving, attended by the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Hon. Miss Stanley, and Hon. Miss Ha milton, in a pony carriage and four, and the Equerries in Waiting on horseback. His Excellency Count St. Aulaire, Lord Ashbur ton, and the Earl of Aberdeen, took their departure from the Castle to-day. We are authorised to state that in future, between the months of October and March inclusive, the Eastern Terrace will be closed at sunset. The Bishop of London had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer y esterda y , at his official residence, in Downing-street, and also transacted busin ess a t the Foreign-office. His Lordship had an interview with Lord Stanley at the Colonial-office. L'aron de Moncorvo, the Portugue se Minister, transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign-office. A Deputation of the Croydon Railway Company had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Glad stone, yesterday, at the office of the Board or Trade. Mr. Plunkett, Attorney-General of New South Wales, had an interview with Lord Stanley yester day, at the Colonial-office. Mr. Hutton had also an int . einiew with his Lordship yesterday. Ihe Earl of Ab er d een arrived in town yesterday froma visit to her M a j esty , at Wi n d sor C as tl e . the Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town Yesterday from Ryde. SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS' SERMON.—Mr. North cote relates a story that a clergyman, a friend of Mr. Opie, declared to him that he Once delivered from the Joshua ß Si o r y alAe emy, ad Reynolds' discourses or as a sermon, with no ot h er alterations but in such words as made it pulpit lectures o t n o e the of ap plicable to morals instead of the fine arts. THE SLTN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1e42. NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAIL- WAY COMPANY. A Special General Meeting of the Proprietors of the above Company was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, yesterday, at one o'clock, for the purpose of considering the subject of disposing of 3 ; 136 forfeited shares, and also to authorise the Di rectors to borrow a sum of money not exceeding 155,110/.__ The Chair was taken by W. Marshall, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Board of Directors. Before proceeding to the business of the day, The CHAIRMAN desired the Secretary to read to the meeting the Report of the Committee appointed at the last General Meeting to conduct the negotia . Lions with Mr. Parker for the leasing the railway to certain parties represented by that gentleman. From the Report, it appeared that, at an early stage of the proceedings, the negotiations had been broken off, and had not since been renewed. After a lengthened discus- sion, which latterly assumed somewhat of an acri monious personal character, the Report was received. The CHAIRMAN said that this subject having been disposed of, it now became his duty to submit to the cothideration of the Proprietors a scheme for the dis posal of the forfeited shares, which they would either reject or adopt, as they might think best. He would put it to the meeting without further comment. It was a scheme for disposing of 3,136 forfeited shares of 501. each, upon which calls to the amount of 451. per share would be considered to have been paid, leav ing 51. per share to be called for. The shares to be sold pro rata among such of the Shareholders as might be willing to take the same at a discount of 5 per cent. upon each share, which plan would allot about one share to every three at present held by the Proprietors ; the sum of 51. per share, to be paid on the allotment, and a further sum of 51. to be paid on the Ist of March, 1843. The remaining 301. per share to be payable by half yearly instalments of 51. per share on the Ist of January and July in each year, until the whole was paid, the first of such instalments to be payable on the Ist of January, 1844, with power to the Directors to extend the period of payment, if money in the mean time should be 'raised by loans. The shares to remain as security to the Company until all the instalments were paid. In lieu of the dividends on these shares, the purchasers would be entitled to receive interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, and the whole amount for the time being paid up, the discount of Si. per share being considered as so much paid up ; the first payment of interest at the rate of Si. per share upon the amount then paid up would be made when the dividend was declared for the current half year. The holders to have the option at any time of declaring their intention to receive for the future, in lieu of interest at 5 per cent.• dividends payable after the same rate as other Shareholders. Should any Shareholder elect not to take the propor tion of shares to which they would be entitled under the arrangement, on or before the Ist day of Decem ber next, then such shares to be divided pro rata among such of the Shareholders as might be willing to take them, and so en until the whole number should be disposed of. Mr. VIZARD objected to the proposed scheme as being likely to depreciate the price of the old shares. He likewise wished to know the opinion of the Soli- citor as to the legality of it. Mr. MAYNARD considered that the shares having been offered for public sale, and not having been dis posed of, the original holders were barred from all further claim on them. It had been demonstrated by that fact that the Company had done all in their power to make the forfeited shares of value to the original owners, and that the shares were of no value to those who had forfeited them. Under these cir cumstances any further claim on the part of the ori ginal owners was barred, and the Corapany had a right to dispose of them in the way proposed. Mr. COSTS wished to know what reason there was for supposing that these shares would be all disposed of in the manner proposed ? Mr. Rosxim. thought there could be no doubt but that they would all be so disposed of, as the terms offered were so advantageous. The time was come when it was necessary to dispose of these forfeited shares in some manner. Mr. GURDEN highly approved of the proposal, and thought that no Proprietor, who consulted his own interest, would refuse to take his share. Mr. GILBERTSON thought that if the forfeited shares, which had weighed like an incubus on the undertaking, were disposed of, the price of shares would rise in the market, for the resources of the line had not as yet been nearly developed. Mr. VIZARD wished to know why they could not raise all the money by loan, instead of part by loan and part by the disposal of the forfeited shares ? The CHAIRMAN said that the disposal of the forfeited shares was part of the security offered for the loan. Mr. GURDEN had no doubt but that if the forfeited shares were disposed of, the loan would be raised with the greatest facility. The resolution, for the disp )sal of the forfeited shares, having been proposed and seconded, was then put and carried, Mr. Vizard being the only Proprietor who held up his hand against it. The CHAIRMAN said the next resolution was to the effect that the meeting should empower the Directors to take up at interest, upon loan notes or otherwise, the sum of 155,1101., upon the credit of the under taking. Mr. SMALE wished to know whether the amount asked for was not more money than was necessary for the purposes of the Company . ? The CHAIRMAN said certainly not. Mr. SHALE said his reason for asking the question was a desire not to give the Directors power over more money than was wanted, because he thought it must be apparent to every Proprietor that the Direc tors had not acted in every respect for the best inte rests of the Company. It was his wish to see some new blood infused into the Direction. Mr. BAGSRAWE thought Hon. Proprietors ought not to complain of the Directors, for they had, in fact, been the bankers of the Company up to the present moment, and would have to be for some time to come. Mr. LEVY wished to know whether the Directors were to have fixed salaries ; if they were, the Proprie tors ought to know the precise sum. Mr.WARD,M.P., said after what had passed to-day, and after the opinion they had heard expressed by some of the Proprietors, no member of the Board of Direc tors would condescend to accept a single sixpence. During the interregnum which would take place in the winding up of the affairs of the Directors, he trusted the Proprietors would adopt some measures to furnish themselves with new Directors, as he felt sure that the present ones would resign their trusts as soon as they could settle their affairs. He felt convinced some new blood should be infused in the Direction ; but, at the same time he thought they did not deserve so much blame as had been imputed to them. The Proprietors should consider that but for the course pursued by some of them of advanc ing money, the concern would have been in a very different state to what it was at present. He thought the best thing the Pro prietors could do was to elect a proper Direction, and the best thing the Directors could do would be to re sign their offic.-s into the hands of the Proprietors. He believed that the benefits to be derived from the line had not been half exhausted ; but he thought, at the same time, that it would have been most unwise to have leased the concern. He hoped when they had a vigorous Direction the anticipations of Mr. Bid der would be fully realized. After the present meet ing, it would be for the Directors to make arrange ments for calling a Special Meeting, at which it would be the province of the Proprietors to make such changes as would be satisfactory to them. The resolution having been agreed to, and a vote of thanks passed to the Chairman and Directors, the meeting separated. ENGINEERING SCIENCE.—The tunnel on the line of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway will be three miles in length, upwards of 600 feet below the sur- face or summit of the hill at its greatest height, and in rock formation throughout its entire length. The works were projected and eonrienceiiP: wards of two years ago, under the direction of Charles Vignoles, Esq. Five shafts were opened, at about half a mile distant from each other, for the purpose of proving the formation, o f faci litating the driving of the drift-ways, and, ultimately, of ventilating the tunnel. Whilst these were in progress, the drift-ways were carried on from each side, or face of the mountain: the distance, or length, driven, on the eastern side, extending to nearly 1,000 yards, and from the next shaft 180 yards. The junction between these two portions of the drift-way was effected on the 17th September; and the levels, when checked, on a tie-bench, at the point of meeting, had varied but nine decimals, or one inch nearly, and the range was within less than two inches of being geometrically true. When it is considered that this has been attained whilst driving upwards of half a mile through hard rock formation, it must be admitted to be highly creditable to the parties engaged in directing it.—Dublin Evening Post. ROYAL SYMPATHY.—On the arrival of her Majesty at Scone Palace, a blnfire was lit up on the t o p o f Birnam-hill, so famed by Shakspeare, under the superintendence of Daniel Maclauchlan, and on his returning home by a near path about midnight, he missed his footing, and I'ol over a precipice of 200 feet high. Next morning he was found a breathing insensible mass. About the time that her Majesty was passing his house to joinin the festivities at Dunkeld the poor fellow died, his bedside surrounded by his wife and his infant family. The melancholy catastrophe was made known by an. English resident in Dunkeld to Sir Robert Peel; and we have the satisfaction of stating that her Majesty was graciously pleased to give the disconsolate family 30/. and Prince Albert 201. This relief has proved a great boon 'to the widow and her infant family. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. A most amusing two-act vaudeville comedy, en titled Follies of a Night, was produced-at this theatre last evening, in which Mr. Charles Mathews and his lady made their first appearance this season. They were both greeted most warmly by the audience on their appearance. The reception of Charles Mathews was enthusiastic in the extreme, and when the applause had somewhat subsided, and he began by saying " Wonders will never cease—A twelvemonth ago who would have thought it, and yet here I am ?" the cheering was renewed with greater enthusiasm than ever. These words are uttered by him in the character of Pierre Paillot, a youth who has come to Paris from Beauvais to seek his fortune, and the locality is the Opera House in Paris, where he i 3 in search of adventures at a masked ball. Here he meets his uncle, Dr. Druggendraft (Compton), physician to the household of the Duke de Chartres, who has been prevailed upon by the Duchess de Chartres (Madame Vestris), who is de sirous of seeing how people enjoy themselves out of the Palace, to accompany herself and Mademoiselle Duval (Miss Turpin), to whose hand the Doctor aspires, to this same masked ball. The Duke de Chartres (Mr. Hudson), who has secretly come up from his regiment at Compeigne to enjoy a night's recreation in Paris, also goes to the ball, and, seeing the Doctor with two ladies, gives chase. The Duchess, alarmed, flies, meets Pierre Paillot, requests him to protect her from insult, and sinks, faint from exhaustion. Honest Pierre bears her to his lodgings, and she has scarcely reco vered when the Duke enters seeking for shelter from the protection of the police. This contretemps gives rise to some curious scenes. The Lady, of course, keeps on her mask, and the Duke makes love to his own wife without knowing it. The Duchess, how ever, reaches home in safety, and after the Duke has been puzzled, and the Doctor, as he phrases it, com pletely paralysed, mutual explanations take place, and every one is made happy except the Doctor, who is most unceremoniously rejected by Mdlle. Duval in favour of Pierre Paillot. The piece is a most amusing one. Incident follows incident in rapid succession, so that the interest never flags. It was excellently performed. Madame Vestris, as the Duchess, acted with all her accustomed archness. Charles Mathews threw into the character of Pierre Paillot a sort of cunning sim plicity that told admirably ; while Compton acted the Doctor with a Listonian degree of stolidity that elicited roars of laughter. Mr. Hudson is a gentleman who is rapidly and de servedly rising in the public estimation. His Duc de Chartres last night was an excellent piece of act ing, full of life and vivacity, but polished and gentle manly withal. He was quite the courtier of the days of Louis XV. He possesses a good voice, and sang some couplets with such taste as to elicit the only encore of the night. The piece is a novelty in another respect. It is a genuine vaude ville, interspersed, not with songs, but with couplets, having reference to the action of the piece, and which are sung to popular and known airs, without being preceded by a symphony. At the fall of the curtain Madame Vestris and Charles Mathews were called (or, and again cordially welcomed, when the latter announced the piece for repetition with the unanimous concurrence of a crowded house. Mr. 'Judson was also called for and loudly applauded. TO MY WEE AULD WIFE. From the Freemason's Quarterly Review for October. My dear o!d dame ! the days are gone, When you and I were young ; When vou my wishes smiled upon, And I your praises sung ; When, hand in hand, we walked among Green Saltram's sunny glades, Or wandered, from the worldly throng, In Warleigh's woody shades ! Those days are gone, my dear old dame, — Those scenes no more we view ; Yet are our hopes our joys the same, Our love as warm and true ! And when the years that yet may be Are numbered with the past, se L pt i e fe n ' i s b l e a r t , e l st B4 thoughts will prove that we Are lovers to the last! J. LEE STEVENS. ON DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OF ASSURANCE. - Can Insurers get superior, equal, or less actual benefit, in a Bonus Society than fr om establishments on other principles ? Adduce the man, who, in 1817, insured at 30, for 1001. in the Equitable (here on l y specifically named as the leading type of the Bonus class)—the annual premium then and now 2/. 13s 6d. In 1840, what were his pros pects ? He had paid twenty-four times 2L 13s. 6d., i. e. 641. 45., improved at 4 per cent. interest to 1041. 10s. I Id., the amount virtually outlaid : and has still to pay yearly 21. 13s. 6d. Th us the Society have 104/. 10s. lid. in hand, and further derive from him 61. 17s. 2d annu ally (i. e. the 21. 13s. 6d. and 41. 3s. Bd. interest on sum saved). For these he is promised 1001. at death, and 22/ 10s. Bonus, made up of 21- per cent. per ann. from 1831 (the earliest time at which Insurers after 1816 be came entitled to any Bonus) ? to 1840, together 1221.108. with a prospectiv., 2i per cent. if he die before 1850. Modern rates, if taken in 1817 (as by the Asylum Company since 1842) without Bonus, would be, premium 21. 25., sum paid 501. Bs, improved to WI Is. 6d., yielding inte rest 31. ss. Bd., and the 21. 25., together Si. 7s. Bd., for 1001. at death. —Now to contrast : • ---- PAYMENTS. On Old System, he has vir tually paid £lo4 10 11 On Modern B2 1 6 Difference £22 9 5 Cash in hand. EVENTUAL RECEIPT. On Old System, at death, with future Bonus no ticed below _ _ On - loaern lOO 0 0 Difference £22 10 0 payable at death. Thus on Old System, the higher premiu:n yields 221. 10s. more at death, but on the Modern 221. 9s. sd. present cash in hand, which should purchase at the Equitable's printed prices 40/. 13s. 7d. Bonus, instead of 22/. 10s., a difference fully equal to expectations dependent on a life now aged fifty-three, surviving decennial peri. ds, and on other circumstances. Thus as to past, Old has no ad vantage over Modern System ; whereas, for future, the difference between 21. 13s. 6d. and 21. 2s. is a clear an nual saving in favour of Modern. Other ages would give similar results, and of course with extended effect on larger sums. A Policy before 1817 would be at a period when fluctuation in the value of mosey afforded means of investment which it %sould be sheer speculation to expect to recur—and a more recent Insurance might have no Bonus. It is notorious that the Equitable has afforded the greatest actual and comparative Bonuses of which the system is capable. It may seem unanswerable, that if Proprietary Com panies make a profit, Mutual Assurers without Proprie tary must have such profit returned to themselves. This can never be the case—every sound Society . v , ill have a collected fund, to counteract specific contingencies in deaths. Proprietors furnish this by forming a capital ; and the premiums necessary for deaths and expenses are increased to yield interest to Propri2tors for the use of such capital. But in a Mutual Society, no capital being present, high premiums must be charged to provide a " Reserved Fund," and of course this can only be founded on such part of the high premium as deaths and expenses do not consume, consequently the Assured can never have all the savings returned, because a portion must be held back to sustain the reserved fund, and this portion as above shown exceeds in practice what a just Proprietary need require as profit on subscribed capital. In brief the assured pay to a sound Proprietary excess to yield mere interest : in Mutual Associations a capital itself has to be created and sustained from - time to time by excess of premium. It is clear therefore that more must be retained from the assured to form and sus tain a reserved fund, than Proprietors need exact as in terest for a capital already furnished. The above, more in detail, may be had at the ASYLUM OFFICE on inquiring for Paper on " Bonus Systems." ASYLUM LIFE OFFICE, GEO. FARREN, 70, Cornhill, London. Resident Director. LOVE AND MADNESS. —The inhabitants of Breage have lately been entertained with a farce, somewhat like that of the maniac falling in love with the picture of his grandmother, but which, on Thursday last, had very nearly ended in tragedy. A young man in the spring of life became desperately *namoured of the wrinkled visage of an old widow lady, whose only riches were eight full-grown babes, and a pensioner on the parish. his friends remonstrated in vain. It was a flame which nothing but death or the altar could quench ' • and worst of all, the venerable charmer herself unkind. Unable to endure his misery , the de spairing love r p rocure d and swallowed a quantity of laudanum, in the presence of his friends, who bundled him into a cart, and drove hastily into Helston, where the stomach pump and proper remedies were applied with effect : but it was not until the victim, "crazed with hopeless love," had undergone a lengthened drill, followed by an immense concourse of boys, whose vo ciferations prevented sleep, that he was out of danger. A public whipping would have been a useful addition. Cornwall Royal Gazette. On Tuesday an inquest was held before Mr. Thos Wakley, at the Holland Arms Tavern, High-road, Kensington, on the body of Daniel Sutton, sen., Esq., aged eighty-six years, whose death occurred on Friday last, under the following awfully sudden cir cumstances :—The deceased gentleman resided on Earl's-terrace, Kensington. On Thursday last he drove out, and seemed as well as usual, and on the following (Friday) morning he got up at his usual hour, and partook of his breakfast , but s hortl y after wards he suddenly complained of indisposition, and before medical assistance could be procured the un fortunate 'gentleman was a corpse. Verdict, "Natural death." It is stated that the deceased gentleman died possessed of property amounting in value to nearly half a million sterling. This day is publithed, ENVIRONS OF LONDON. By JOHN FISHER MURRAY. Western Division, comprising Chelsea, Richmond, Twicken ham, Hampton Court, Windsor, &c., Complete in one vol., royal Bvo., price 175., handsomely bound in cloth, with Four Maps, and upwards of 100 Wood Engravings by distinguished artists from original drawings, by W. L. Leitch, and others. W. Blackwood and Sons, 45, George-street, Edinburgh, and 22., Pall-mall, London. ~~ f {(~ ~ ~ .~- ~: Ir- ~- ~ ~~.' ttou:D tttin SUN OFFICE Three o'Cluch. At a meeting of the English Shareholders in the Paris and Rouen Railway, held at Liverpool last week, the Chairman made the following re marks :—" The Directors in Paris and the Eng lish Directors had worked together for two years, and although the English Directors had origin• ally had reserved to them the power of voting by proxy on all points on which they differed from their French colleagues, they had never had occasion to put that forth, so harmonious had the two bodies worked together." In the Report we also find a paragraph of a similar de scription in these words:—" We can safely affirm that among the 8,000 men now employed, nothing has ever occurred beyond slight dis putes, which it is almost impossible to prevent among so vast a body of men." When we con trast noble conduct like this with the inflamma tory and abusive language of writers in French newspapers, we almost imagine that these writers, and the French Directors and workmen, are people of different nations, and have no feel ings in common. According to the former, everything England does is bad—she insults France by her haughty claims, rejoices in crippling her trade and commerce, and, in fact, appears to have ❑o other object in view but to grasp at power and dominion only for the pur pose of humbling and weakening her neighbour. While we are assisting her in one of the greatest and most useful works ever undertaken in that country, and embarking our capital for the com pletion•of a--line which will soon unite the most commercial port of France with the capital, and thereby increase the trade and resources of both, we are absurdly accused of wishing to ruin her. ' This shows great want of judgment, want of common sense, and of that courtesy which two neighbouring nations owe to one another, and writers who can indulge in such strains are the very worst enemies of their country. Eng land rejoices in the prosperity of France. She wishes to encourage trade and friendly communications, as tending alike to the preserva tion of peace and the best interests of mankind. Could we have given a stronger proof of these feelings than in supporting this national under taking, even at a time of great political embar rassment, and when no man could tell if peace would continue for six months? The good understanding which prevails between the French and English Directors, however, shows that the people of France do not in general participate in the warlike sentiments of certain writers, and affords strong grrounds for antici pating harmony and peace. It sets a noble ex ample also, to other countries, an example of vyeing with each other i❑ carrying out a great work with more harmony and expedition than perhaps ever was exhibited on similar occa sions, by even men of the same language and country. It was commenced only two years ago; every part of the works will be completed within the original estimate ; and, we trust, in a short time to have the satisfaction of announcing its opening to the public. The accounts from Madrid are to the 27th ult. The Government hoped to be able to settle the affair of the forty millions . of reals. Senor SA LAMANCA, who is said to be CHRISTINA'S agent. had arrived at Madrid, from London, and was stated to be a bidder for the quicksilver mines of Almaden, which were to be put up for public competition on the 27th. General VAN HALEN'S circular was still the subject of much comment, nor was it known what course the Government intended to put sue. All accounts, however, agree in stating that if such a, measure is put in force, it will bring the troops and the - Ayuntarnientos into frequent collision. The Madrid Gazette declares that all the re ports which have circulated by the Memorial Bordelais, respecting certain financial projects, which must entail a national s bankruptcy in Spain, are wholly destitute of foundation. How is the Government to prevent vague and incre dible stories from being rumoured about, when the Treasury is pennYless, and the employes and the army are crying out to be paid? The Three per Cents. were done at 211, at sixty days; and the Five per Cents. at 2515, for cash; 261 and 271, with half premium, at sixty days. The debt bearing no interest sold at 51 for cash. The Paris papers of Tuesday bring no in telligence of political importance. The National has another article on the treaties for the right of search, from which the following, is an ex tract :—" According to the treaties of 1831 and 1833 British cruisers cannot exercise that right, un less they be provided with a warrant, delivered by the French Government, and which is renewable every year. The continuance or immediate abro gation of the right of visitation will accordingly depend on the will of the French Government. M. GUIZOT may very legally and very loyally cancel from this moment, if he thinks fit, tho4e deplorable conventions, or prolong, during another year, their disastrous effects." The writer then contends, that by signing the Asti ' BURTON Treaty, England has explicitly admitted that the right of search was not absolutely neces sary for the repression of the slave trade, conse quently the original cause of the mutual, en gagements has disappeared, and " with it must disappear our engagements themselves." The following are extracts from the Provincial papers : The Journal du Havre gives the following narrative of a remarkable act of audacity, committed by a slaver in the roadstead at Congo. She lay-to for several days in presence of the English brig Rolla, each watching the other carefully. At length, deter mined to risk all, the slave-ship, in open day, sent her boats on shore, and brought off a number of blacks, who were kept in readiness for her, and, having stowed them in her hold prepared for sailing. In the mean time the British brig had been observing her proceed ings, and at length sent off her boats to make the search and seizure ; but as they approached the slaver she unmasked her guns, and, levelling them at the assailants, fired, and killed fourteen men. During the confusion the unexpected resistance occasioned, the slaver slipped her cable, and got clear away, before the Rolla could be made ready to follow her. The Sud of Marseilles of the Ist says :—" Yes terday, as General Tiburce Sebastiani was inspecting the troops of the garrison of this place, his coun • tenance was observed suddenly to change on the re ceipt of a letter from Algiers. It was the announce ment of the death of his nephew, Lieut. Sebastiani, the son of the elder brother of the General, M. Ange Sebastiani. The Lieutenant, who, although only twenty-four years of age, had greatly distinguished himself in his military career, was killed by the ball of an Arab, on the 19th ult. Although mortally wounded, he had strength enough to detach the cross of honour from his breast, and to cut off a lock of his hair, telling his friend, Lieut. Aigremont, who was at his side, to send them to his mother. Immediately afterwards he breathed his last. "The average price of wheat throughout France at the close of September was 20f. 25c. per hectolitre, which is an advance of 74c., as compared with the average price at the latter end of August. "The Captain of the Anna, merchantman, lately arrived at Nantes, reported that on his departure from Bourbon an extraordinary expedition, composed of five vessels of war, had sailed for Madagascar, with several companies of artillery and troops of the line on board, for the purpose of subduing a tribe which had taken prisoner the Queen of the country adjoining Noss-Bay. BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 118 65... 118 65... 118 60... 118 60 .• Four per Cents 101 25... 101 25 .. 101 25... 101 25 3 per Cents 80 05... 80 06... 79 85... 79 90 Bank of France 3257 5!)...3260 ...3257 50.. 3260 Lathtte Bank I,ooof 1037 50 ..1037 50...1037 50...1037 50 5,0001 5045 ...5045 —.5045 ...5045 - Belgian Fives lO4l .., 104% ... 104% ... 104 k , 1840 105% ... lObi ... 105% ... 105 i Threes 7l 10... 71 10... 71 10... 71 10 Spanish Active ...... New Deferred si ... 9i ... 9 s ••• 9 Portuguese Fives 29i ... 294 ... 29i . 29 Neapolitan lO7 50... 107 50... 107 50... 107 50 Roman ... 105% ... 1053. ... 105 i ... 103% RAILWAY SHARES, St. Germain ... 830 ... no ... 830 ... 830 Versailles, R.B ... 253 75... 253 75... 252 50... 252 50 L.B lOO ... 100 ... 98 75... 98 75 Rouen Orleans. 5BO ... 581 25... 580 ... 581 25 Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 75... 202 50... 203 75 DUTCH FUN O%—AMSTERDAM, OCT. 3 woney. Bins. Actual Deb , '2% per Cent 52% -- ,Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. • Amort Syndic,4g per cent 95 1- , 5% D.tto, ditto, 3% per cent 'i7 Commercial Company, 4% per cent l3,n, 33% Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cant. l 9'A 99A Exchange on London, One month l'2 2n Two months Hamburgh, One month 35 8, s Two months 33 tBh, Dutch Papers, Oct. 3 BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, Gcr.3 - Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , — Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent ... 9l ----- Three per Cent —•— ".Ihlrty.seven Milli us, ditto ---- ----- ; MO) 102% Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent 92 Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent 96 Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 75% National Society . Exchang: on London (short) ....... - -Brussels Papers, Oct. 3. A.Ubl'ltl,- , N I. U t•DS.—VIENNA, SEPT. 24 Five per Cents. Metalliques - leo% Four per Cents, t , hree per Cents . Bank Shan s Allgemeine Zeilung, S pt 29. PRUSSIAN .12 UNDS.—BEauri, San. 29. Ifils. Money St. Scbuld Sch., 4 per cent. Prussian English 80nc1,,1630, , per cent. I S Exchange on London - Prussian State Gazelle, Sept 3O. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO TIIREE. The markets, generally, have been very . heavy, but certainly not owing to sales, since the business during the day has been exceedingly small. Consols are 92} for Isioney, and 93 for the Account; New Three and-a-Half per Cents., 1008 101 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 50 52 ; New, 51 prem. Transactions in Foreign Securities have been con pied to Dutch d't the prices of yesterday; the Two and-a-Half per Cents., 524 52f, and the Five per Cents., 1004. The quotation for Mexican Bonds, which advanced to 334, has since given way to 33, in consequence of some sales which have been effected. The Share Market has been more brisk. The anxiety of some parties to secure their profit, consequent upon the late rise in Brighton shares, has caused a re action in the price, and consequently they have re ceded from 364 to 358 36. London and Birmingham have been sold at 183 ; Great Western, Half Shares, 60; South Western, 58 ; South Eastern and Dover, Scrip, 124 ; Eastern Counties, New, 101. ls. Bd. ; Blackwell, 64 ; York and North Midland, 90 ; and Edinburgh and Glasgow, 46. The Bonds quoted to-day are—Portuguese Five per Cents., 364; and Spanish Five per Cents., 204, each of which is below the rates of last evening. The intelligence from the West Indies, received by the Dee, is extremely favourable. The crop had all been gathered, and though some of it had been de stroyed in consequence of the want of labour, yet the quantity of sugar had far exceeded previous anticipa tions, in fact so much so, that there had not been suf ficient vessels to bring it away before the Ist of Au gust. This abundance had created more activity in commercial affairs, though they are represented gene rally to be far from a healthy condition, the number of persons who had lately availed themselves of the Insolvent Act bearing out this view. The labourers had, during the season, worked well anti cheerfully, and are said to be gradually becoming convinced of the advantage to be derived from a good understanding with their employers. Although several free Africans had arrived at Ja maica, still more would be required if cultivation were to be extended next season, as it is intended it shall be. It would appear that the colonists having taken alarm at' the intention of admitting foreign sugars for consumption in this country, and from the great increase in the quantity from British India, had arrived at the determination to exert themselves in order that these islands shall again be able to reach their former exports. The accounts from Demerara are also more cheering, but still very unfavourable. It would seem that dissensions among the inhabitants themselves are causing quite as much mischief as the refusal of the negroes to work, and who are strengthened in their proceedings by the pernicious example of their e.nployers. From Mexico the intelligence is of no great im portance, neither does it add any new feature to that last received. The invasion of Texas had apparently been laid aside for an expedition against Campeachy, but this, from all accounts, is not likely to prove suc cessful. The opinion that Santa Anna is seeking the supreme power, is, to a certain degree, confirmed by the arbitrary exercise of that with which he is at present invested, and, in consequence, he had lost some portion of the confidence of the civilians, whom it was thought he was sacrificing to increase hip position with the army, on which, it is said, he chiefly relied to aid his projects. Trade was gradually, but slowly, reviving, and great exptctatione were formed that a further and snore decided improvement would shortly take place. PR ICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exeter 7O ..... 45k to 46 Eastern Counties Ditto New 6l. 613'. Bd. ..... 101. Is. Bd. Great Western Ditto New London am' Brighton ... .. 50 Ditto Loan Notes .London and Madman London and Birmingham 90 lB 3 London and South Western .. 41% ..... 58 to South Eastern aad Dover 6O - to Ditto 5crip,,,,~ ,, ,,,, _ York and IsLoth Midland M) - Ditto New Shares.... MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. s.—We have had a very heavy market, with a downward ten dency. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 46i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 211 22 ; London and Brighton, 361 361 ; London and South Western, 571 584. LLOYD'S SHIP PIN 6—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT. 6. Wind this day at noon, N. to N.E., light, rine clear weather. DEAL, OCT. s.—Wlnd inoderate.—Sld. Cru sader and IV arblingtoa, Gibraltar. OFF DUNGENESS, OCT. 2.—Victoria, Amsterdam, for Batavia. ILFRACOMBE, OCT. s.—The Regina, Bavis, from Exeter to .Newport (in ballast), sank about three miles N.E. of the Nas Point, after being in contact with the Rose steamer, of Bristol ; crew saved. PLYMOUTH, Oc.T. s.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. off, Prins Van Orange, 1)e Boer, Batavia, for Rotterdam. FALmouTH, OcT. 4.—Wind E. to N.E., fresh breezes. —Acrd. Edward Ilayes, Penning, Lima, sailed June 17. Sld. Abdul Misib, Bahia. LIVERPOOL, OCT. s.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Arrd. Cestus, Gallilee, Quebec. Sid. Isabella , Calcutta; Ann, Rio rande; Belvidere, Charleston; General Washing ton, Baltimore; Surprise, N ewfoundland. OFF SALCOMBE, OCT. 2.—Amethyst, Quebec. OFF TUE START, OCT. s.—Gudefroy, Behn, Havannah, for Hamburgh. NEWPORT, OCT. 4.—Sld Sumatra, St. Thomas. CLYDE, OCT. 2.—Sld. Brilliant, Jamaica ; and New Orleans Courier, Berbice. SHIELDS, OCT. I.—Sld. Oberlin, New York ; Clau dius, Boston ; Ibzaid, America. SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. s.—Arrd. Dee steamer, West Indies, left Havannah Ist ult., Nassau sth, Bermuda 11th, and Fayal 21st, with 479,000 dollars. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. • (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) - YORKSHIRE UNION HUNT CLUB MEETING. WEDNESDAY. The Tally-ho Stakes of 5 sovs. each, p.p., for all ages, 13st. The winner to be sold fur 20CI, and the last to pay the second horse's stake. One mile. (7 Subs). Mr. 11. S. Thompson's Honesty, aged (Owner) 1 Mr. E. Reynard nd Kirby, 5 yrs 2 Mr. G. tl. Reynard ad Zarita, aged Even on Honesty. Won by two lengths. The Gold Cup, given by the Club, added to a Sweep stakes of IG says. each. Two miles. (8 Subs.) Colonel Thompson's Nelson, 4 yrs, list 21b..(Owner) 1 Mr. Reynard's Infidel, 5 yrs, llst 21b Mr. 11. S. Thompson's Haidee, aged, 12st 3 2tol on Nelson. Won easy, by two lengths. The Champagne Plate, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each. Mile and three quarter. (9 subs.) Mr. Bell's Thirsk, 4 yrs (Col. Thompson) 1 Mr. Bell's Man Friday, 4 yrs 2 Mr. W. H. O. Powlett's Bobadil, aged Lord Milton's b by Medora, out of Gipsy, 4 yra 6t04 on Thirsk, and 3tol on the Man Friday. Won easy by three lengths. MARKET RASEN RACES,—MoNDAY. The Subscription Purse was won in two heats by Mr. Duke's Coronation, beating Mr. Hargrave's Tickle-me- Dick and Mr. Davy's Lottery. The Town Purse was won by Mr. Davy's Lottery, beating Mr. W. Davy's Van Tromp and Mr. Penning ton's Beeswing. The Hurdle Stakes were won, after a fine race, by Mr. Bawlinson's m Wicked, beating Mr. Kirwan's Diana and Mr. North's Violet. The Back Stakes were won by Mr. Hntchinson's Toby ; and the Sweepstakes by Mr. Davy's Romp. THE NEW BANKRUPT COMMISSIONERS•--The fol lowing is understood to be a correct list of the new Bankrupt Commissioners. It is said their Honours will rreet the other Commissioners on Monday, the 10th instant, to take into consideration certain rules to be adopted in practice of the several Courts over which they will preside :—Mr. Seigeant Stephens, Alr. David Pollock, Mr. Horace Twigs, Mr. Shepherd, _Mr. Wray, Air. Kenyon Parker, Mr. Henry Revell Reynolds, jun., and Mr. Charles Phillips. The number to be appointed is said to be ten. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND t) tip Ur OP int° IL " Who runs may read." It appears, from a statement which has just been published by the Minister of Public Works, that of the sum of 68,930,000 f. voted by the Chamber of De puties since the year 1837 for the repair and improve ment of the various seaports in France, there had been expended up, to the 31st December, 1841, thelsum of 36,303,995 f. The works, in many of the ports are entirely terminated, and in others they are proceeding with great activity. Lablache, the eminent singer, is said to be clan' gerous ill at Paris, of inflammation of the chest. It is rumoured, by a letter from Berlin, that the Emperor of Russia was to arrive there in October. A dim'nution of the Sound dues is in contempla tion at Berlin, and there is also some idea of establish ing a steam communication -between Prussia and the United States. Prince Albert of Prussia, according to the Cow' merce, is on his way to Rio Janeiro , for the purrse, as rumour states, of soliciting in marriage the sister of Don Pedro. None of the Russian papers (to the 24th ult. inclu sive) say a syllable about the great fire at Kasan. The Emperor had arrived at Moscow on the 14th. Count Nesselrode. the Minister for Foreign Affairs, le had ft: St. Petersburg") on a journey . to Germany. Durin t°g his absence, the business of the Foreign-office was be conducted by Count Woronzoff-Danhkoff. Prince Michael Stourdza, Regent of Moldavia, ft ° had been sojourning for a short time at Brussels, la that city on Saturday last, on his retuin to JassY e, ' The Independunt of Brussels states th at tho Pelle during his short stay, made purchases of fueAltur e ', carpets, clocks, &c., to the amount of m ore than f°°'' hundred thousand francs. The Marseilles journals of the Ist state that Lied: tenant Sebastiani, nephew of the Marshal and General Tiburce Sebastiani, has been killed in Africa by 513 Arab shot. He fell at the head of his company. 1 , The celebrated poet Louis Tieck has been ste ac " with apoplexy at Potsdam. Prince Michael, the deposed Governor of Serct has sent delegates to Vienna and St. Petersburgb , well as to Constantinople, to implore assistance spins his revolted subjects. „., The King and Queen of Prussia , w ith their 306 arrived on the 30th inst., at Frankfort, from Darmstadt: Count Arnim, the Prussian Ambassador, arrived Paris on Tuesday, from Neufchatel , t o which city he had accompanied his Majesty the King of Prusst The French Levant packet, and the English packe" with the Indian mail, had not arrived at Marseilles °° the Ist, when the mail for Paris left. PUBLIC OPINIOM. The Times makes the following comments .0° the present position of the Church of England n s "We see daily, and we rejoice to See, sier of increasing power, and increasing cepsclUstive ness :of power, in the Church of England. do not speak of temporal or political, but of 11 10 ' 1 4 power—increased ability and willingness on the P. of the Church and her rulers to carry out and to (W" charge to their legitimate extent the duties of sPi ri. tual g overnment and spiritual guidance which are el 3; tided to her. Not only is she labouring ever y wh o ,r: with a zeal and success which would have been ri`i, culed as impossibilities a few years ago, to suppbr_ her own unaided resources the wants of that vast if tion of the people who are destitute of the means 5 instruction and the oppOrtunities of worship, blit i .po new life is gradually developing itself in her ow °,.. ward organic system, of which the importance r'.a.b not be over-estimated. Politically speaking abut/9th it would be the worst sort of affectation to deal sit, this subject as if we regarded it from a mere l y P i pe tical point of view), it is of incalculable i m porta° et at the present moment that the Church should ill, with vigour, energy, and union. She is the " an Q c power in the State which can deal with Chartism, o th, counteract the evil effect of those bastard, truct despising, pride-fostering systems of " educat io with which the liberalism of the present day slitt; poses that the lower orders can be made virr ° ,,dy But for her, the State, which seems to h ave alreicise lost the power of offering resistance to these principles, might soon be disabled from making Zo) effectual opposition to their consequeeces. though she may be aided by the State toprovide h er' self, more speedily than she otherwise could, w, to the outward appliances necessary to give due, effeeleo her influence, all this will be of little avail, un d she bring a spirit to the work which the State m° needs to receive, but can never give." We quote the following observations from he Post :—" If our memory serve us faithfully , tha t Morning Post was the first English journal t ha t warned the manufacturers of this country of :eci-s -was brewing on the other side of the A tlantiel; f r ont tion tion to the duties on wrought goods exporteu England to the United States. It was not our fault;o. if folks at home were not prepared for the su dden j o f crease of duties which has followed the Mr. Clay's Compromise Act ; for, over and over a g s o; we have been at pains to lay:before the pu.blic , rue, state of facts as regarded the respective pO;., tions of the protective and the anti-protective ie. ties in the States. We did not deny that the Tr ot traders were numerous and influential, but we ; that their opponents wtre not by any . Means weos and a careful examination of the financial ernbarr43, expirationio ments of the Republic led us to the confident exPeliwe tion that, on the whole, the balance of influ would, for the present at least, incline decisl towards the opinions of the latter. Th e bloWePer come—it was not averted by the prodigious neoioo "Sions made by Great Britain in favour of ATeraiisli produce. Under the new scale of duties, - ` - ''%oas manufactures, if we are to credit the represent° toe, of' many persons connected with the American trade, is will be virtually excluded. This view, we bellebs tt ' t 0 much exaggerated. But no doubt can existt,tor serious check will be experienced by our manwr a-ttoa ers, and that the export trade in hardware, r goods, &c., will be much cramped and injured= AO' The Chronicle, alluding to the Form of r f, h lt hss giving for the late abundant harvest, says „d bf been discovered of late that churches are clesec.„°`;;thet parish meetings and by musical festivals. politics nor art are deemed religious enough ”iitics' sanctity of the buildings : and yet the love of roeut' liberty, and its assertion, though on the lowest . 0 to provided by the Constitution, may lay some c lal Ancl e the rank of a moral and religious principle' A , ei the sublime compositions of Handel and 1 1 ' 1 Y - 0;e 0 Spohr and Mendelssohn, have something i n „ o re' that tends to raise the soul towards the great °"„tioa of its being The fastidiousness that finds desecrsoll' here, surely should not tolerate the dirtiness o r the ith iic ness that eliminates the item of cheapness froma Pose' thanksgiving for the harvest. If not for its f..ap quent cheapness, what is there, in a plentiful cloolll corn, for which the great body of the people Sot. be be thankful ? If the' cheapness do not resultL - fcr not expected and intended to result, why tball",,pre vidence at all ? Why attempt the shabby ne' - ,sed , mise of cheapness omitted with thankfulness of °, and thus send devotion into the Creator's Pr es t ceo r halting between the feelings of the monop oll , s h " the w and the suffering many, and worshipping ",-,.icif voice of Jacob and the hands of Esau ? These compromises are characteristic of the man W it 0 0 ,1 holds the reins of political authority, but•we„-,-,oll' want the spirit of Peel in the prayers of the tn,7 The Advertiser says :—" If the Whigs thin"iil gaining Some• portion of public , favour, in a tu ; ' the policy of their rivals, why do they not do sObei in gitimate grounds, and to some noble, disinteres', th° tent ? But the question is, how have tl: i e J pro; effrontery to denounce the sliding scale, Bch ,1013 pcsing nothing better themselves than an B °' c / I ° h If they were sincere in their battling for fre ed owl com merce, what would they have to do yee a duty on corn at all ? If Sir Roberti, sa) ( has played off the landlords, we can e r , d , h nt r i it is so much to his credit with the C manidssiwoin, th th e e w a h g i r g ic s u l l v t o u u ri l s d ts n ; but have b by i t a h y e e i d r t ii .3e l i of, the hands of the country, but really into t`'„ . the landlords. The fact, however, is, th e *ants not the 'arts' of the tariff, as, after the reT no' of the Chronicle, they are perhaps to be et A lle the open fraud of the sliding scale. In go— t o f t the nation is sick of the artifices and intrigu es , l o o ,, her several enemies, be they Peelites, Whigs, " camel'° and-out-Conservatives : they are entirely the ter e!' this—they mean nothing beyond their own in o f One may endeavour to accomplish the poi° to e(li ft il i ambition by one means, another through other but the grand goal of these several factions is I ry be 4 .- -it is self here self ther self everywhere. r .le rtrii” part of Sir Robert Peel's poiicy is assuredlY hil o‘° which is, in fact, the only part, as he hinise li which keeps him in office. MONEY— TRAM E—C OMM Zit °-‘;'ortlierli A special meeting of the Proprietors of the - L ie f ) 0 1 ; and Eastern Railway was held yesterday at t l f o r don Tavern, when resolutions were passed 00.0' disposal of 3,136 foreited shares, and also for au ing the Drectors to borrow 155,000/. ECCLESIA .S.l ICA L agbl The Wesleyans in the metropolis, and nodal? England, make a general fast to-morrow ho els• and prayers are to be offered up in all their e a l B u tenth ckin g h annual.ani Association ploughin g lt°) 0 AGRICULTURAL. L o a f ee :il e ens 5t,0 1 t 5 118 South Th e acre field, at Langley, on Wednesday. rjz amount of 1301. were afterwards distributed. , NAVAL /IND MILITARY. dcatill Zv i „ j ot The late Rear-Admiral Butterfield , . de i e ; took place recently at Portsmouth, was 11 " . 0 of the Buffalo in the Dogger Bank action Liote and in the Nonsuch in Rodney's action ; bva' took plat. !