The Sun. — London, England, 1842-09-29 00:00:00

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GLOBE.—There is something gloriously one sided in the crusade against manufacturing pro duction, and the manifold evils which those who are not in the habit of seeing or thinking for themselves are taught to be inherent in that machine-aided form of industry, and to consti tute a distinction—and a discgracefal distinction— of that form from others. W e h a v e , fro t time to time, administered antid o t es t o thes e -sided representations. What a high s ain of impudence it is, to be sure, to talk about long hours or work, the labour of women and children, as peculiar to factories and as incidents to he got rid of, before manufac turers shall be suffered to buy bread with their products ! Every one of these incidents attend labour in the rural districts—every one of them, in the most aggravated forms, attend labour out of factories—the distinction of the factories is, that infant labour is restricted; by law, while, in every other employment, it is unrestricted. But what is truth to declaimers, some of whom could not earn notoriety, and others could not earn bread, by any labour but by daily lies? It shall be vain that we say and prove to them that the low-paid rural labourer works longer hours to make his pittance of monopolists' wages find him in Corn-laved bread than the cotton-factory operative can be made to work, under laws which restrict labour below eighteen years of age to 69 hours per week, and the labour of children (whom the law allows to be employed at all) to eight hours per day. It shall be vain that Churchmen, such as Archdeacon Hare, state that, in rural districts, the excessive employment of children precludes the imparting of public instruction to them. It shall be vain that all inquirers report the various fbrms of extra-factory labour far more engrossing the time of adults and the toil of chil dren, than any thing known in the great theatres of machine-aided manufactures. It shall be vain that the survivors of the old system of do mestic manufactures brino• testimony to the unre• mitting labours imposed on their childhood. All is in vain ; the trade of the philanthropy monger depends on finding or forging masses of victims of some Giant Raw-Head-and-Bloody- Bones, who " puts his hand in his breeches pocket like a crocodile," or calls, like the Giaour in Vathek, for more little children to immolate to the infernal powers. These quacks don't care to seek for sufferings, where there are no cotton lords to calumniate for them. They don't care to enter cottage-doors where the hand-loom or needle consume lives. They can make no sensa tion with single captives, after the manner of Sterne ; and above all, they can make none, where the simple dire necessity of toil, enforced by no master, admitting no direct contrast of wealth and poverty, giving colour to no invidious —to no slanderous sentimentalities—is the only phenomenon. For facts of that sort—facts not to be explained by any tyranny of' employers— demand some faculty for tracing general causes; and the art and mystery of philanthropy-mon °Try abhors tracing any such causes. ts . STANDARD.—We copy the following para graphs from the last number of the Church of England Quarterly Review with as much plea sure as we ever enjoyed in making an extract : " The Quarterly Review, just published, contains a document of some importance—a Conservative mani festo on the subject of Sir Robert Peel's financial measures. Of this manifesto the Times has said, that it ' whips to the best of its power the unhappy Sir Richard Vyvyan for his attempt at ' mutiny ; and panegyrises, rather too broadly forl our taste, the genius and measures of Sir Robert Peel.' Why the Times should apply the word ' unhappy ' to Sir Richard Vyvyan we know not; since if virtue, pa triotism, manly and noble political conduct, and true and unaffected religion, will render man happy, few can !9e less ' unhappy' than the gentleman in ques tion. We look on him as one of the ornaments of his country, and as one of the benefactors of mankind." "'That the panegyrics. of, the, Quarterly are too broad awl unguaided, We filly admit, especially as it I nOtoriou`s 'that; on many points of first - rate !nag . nitnde; ' the - conductors and supporters of that periodical •li've long differed with the Premier.. ;Extreme praise, like extreme censure, will , always injure the cause it is intended - to serve ; and when. the reviewer of Sir, klebarh 'l".-vyan's pamphlet talks . of that gentleman submYting to, a...! degrading thraldom,' he evinces an iknorance of the Character of the man of whom he - writes which is quite unpardonable. We have not, and cannot applaud the whole of the pamphlet of Sir Richard, but his motives are as pure as his conduct is manly." With the general tendency of the article of the Quarterly Review (not the Church of England Quarterly), here referred to, we must concur; for it does not employ an argument in vindica tion of Sir R. Peel's policy, in which we have not long anticipated it, as, indeed, we had the high honour of anticipatinc , the policy it se lf which those arguments are advanced' to justify. .411 that the Quarterly Review has done is to clothe our arguments in more eloquent lan. guage, and to confirm them by proofs drawn from official documents. We therefore cannot be expected to agree with those who think that the Quarterly Review has panegyrised the measures of Sir Robert Peel " too broadly." On the other hand, we must think, that the Minister who has had the courage to propose, and the ability to perfect, measures which, regarded in the abstract, we believed to be the best possible, cannot have too high praise. But that praise would certainly not be diminished in value, if it had been unaccompanied by the— must we call it so ?—disgusting attack upon Sir Richard Vyvyan, a man not inferior to the Pre mier hitnself in genius and accomplishments, and second to n o man li v i ng i n a ll t h e higher attri butes of a patriot and statesman, notwithstanding that the C onservative (1) Reviewer af f ects to ran k him below Lord Palmerston and Lord John Rus sell This line of u con I ct in the Quarterly Re view is not honourabledto it must, to the ext ent to which it shall succeed, Sir Robert Peel, and In ove greatly inju r i ous to the morality of politics in our age and country. , THE NEW TURKISH MINISTRY. In every part of the empire th e l ate Grand Vizier, Izzet, had laid a train, which was e verywhere to ex: plode, and be attended with difficulties an d perils for European and Christian interests. Never was Minister removed in more seasonable time. .. t ,......,..,... Notwithstanding the mediation of! Engl an d n Russia in the Turkish and Persian quarrel, the and Vizier continued to collect troops both at Erzeroum and Malatia. And our Alexandria letters assure us, that there were intentions of placing Ibrahim Paella at the head of an army, which was to invade Persia by way of Bagdad. Mehemet Ali had been declared Honorary to ohe Grand Vizier, which seemed preparative other more important measure, and in short there t is no knowing to what length the violence of has i be e n zzet e might earr es h te av d e . proceeded. His career, however, .The prime mover of the Ministerial revolution is Riza Dacha, Grand Marshal of the Court, and fa vourite. His close connection and friendship with the relatives of the Sultan known, and Halil Pacha and Achmed Fetha Dacha, is sister, are to have the einstarplacHesai married ' to his Highness's Seraskieri and Grand Admiral. being those of Pre sident of the Council is but temporaryit Haul's post of tr office will, it is supposed, be conferred upon The members of the new Administration are to be y not be remarkable for capacity. None of thi n wo men of compared with Izzet himself and Tahir— The activity of action, as the French would say. these spirits was, however, directed in danger us , paths. Under old Raouf, as our correspondent writes, the empire of diplomacy recommences.—Morning Chronicle. We regret to have to announce the premature de cease of Sir Michael O'Loghlen, Baronet, the Irish Master of the Rolls, which melancholy event took place last evening, about six o'clock, in George-street, Hanover-square. Sir Michael was appointed to his judicial office by the Liberals, about six years ago, and the Bench has never been occupied, in that country nor in England, by a man of more unimpeachable in tegrity, or brighter qualifications as a lawyer. From Cagliari, in Sardinia, we learn that the Saint Joseph, of 40 tons, Captain Peirin, which sailed from Marseilles on the 28th ult., with a cargo of flour, for Philippeville, was, at six in the morning of the Ist instant, when thirty miles from the island of St. Peter, thrown on her beam ends by a sudden squall, and the six persons on board, viz., the captain, his four sailors, and a passenger were thrown into the sea. They, however, caught by the gunwale, and, as the vessel was kept from going down by the mast and sail, were able to hold on till six in the evening, at which hour, when driven al mos t t o despair by the approach of night, they we re seen b y the Tripoli, of the Sardinian navy. From the violent state of the sea no boat could live, but Baron de Tochette, the captain, and his lieutenant, M. Rovero, determined not to abandon these unfortunate men, and at length succeeded in getting them on board the Tri poli, by means of buoys with ropes attached to them. INCONSISTENCY OF THE NON INTRUSIONISTS. While the clamo ur ra i se d b y th e N on -I n t rus i on i sts against the Queen for not attending the High Church of Edinburgh, is still ringing in our ears, and before we have ceased smiling at the arguments by which the 'Witness attempts to prove that her Majesty, although she is an Episcopalian, should take part in the Presbyterian form of worship, we found that same precious organ of Evangelical piety rating the King of Prussia soundly for doing what it wanted our Queen to do—countenancing the two forms of worship established in his kingdom. His Majesty, with his consort, attended divine worship in the Pro testant Church at Cologne in the morning, and laid the foundation stone of a Roman Catholic cathedral in the afternoon. On this the Witness remarks— "The King of Prussia is taking a somewhat strange plan for the display of his much•talked-of zeal on be half of the Gospel. . . That a professedly Protestant King —one, moreover, zealous in his pro fession of religion—should be guilty of the gross in consistency of laying the foundation of a Popish ca thedral, is a fact sufficiently strange, and as suffi ciently humiliating ; although, at the same time, if the confident assertions made as to his Majesty's con version to Puseyism were correct, we should not be so much astonished at his conduct." Why be astonished at all ? Is not the King of Prussia carrying out the principle so zealously con tended for by the TVitness and other godly papers, during her Majesty's stay in Scotland ? And, then, as to the reason for not being astonished. Will the Witness recollect that Queen Victoria employed a Puseyite chaplain at Dalkeith ?—and will he be pre pared for her Majesty's listening to the mass, should she pay a visit to Ireland ne x t y e a r ? When will our godly paper he honest or consistent ?—Aberdeen Herald. RESULT OF LORD ASHLEY'S LABOURS. •` Since your Lordship first took up this question, ten years ago, the toils and labours of the factories have been frightfully increased. In every branch of factory labour, even the most favoured, the increase in the intensity and severity of the toil has been 25 per cent., while in many instances the increase has been four-fold, and in some even more than that, and yet no effectual remedy has been applied to this canker at the very root of human existence."—Address of the Lancashire Short Time Central Committee to• the Right Hon. Lord Ashley. (EXTRACT OF LORD ASHLEY'S REPLY.) " The vast proportion of the evils which afflict and endanger this country is not ascribable to physical or commercial causes—these may have their in fluence ; but in the main the mischiefs are to be traced to a moral origin. Over a large surface of the industrious community man has been regarded as an animal, and that an animal not of the highest order' —his loftiest faculties, when not prostrate, are per verted ; his lowest over-taxed, and devoted exclusively to the manufacture of wealth. Women and children follow in the train of ceaseless toil and degrading occupation; and thus we have before us a multitude of feeble bodies and untaught minds, the perilous materials of present and future pauperism, of violence and infidelity." M. de La Martine and Lord Ashley seem both in clined to democracy, which promises soon to be the most fashionable resort and place of refuge for ardent minded Tories. DIFFERENT EFFECTS OF ARSENIC ON DIFFERENT PERSONS.—At the conclusion of an inquest held o n Tuesday, before Mr. Wakl e y, M.P., relative to the death of a party suspected to have been poisoned by arser.ic, or some other corrosive poison, the Hon. Gentleman observed how extraordinary it was that arsenic should have an entirely different action on two different subjects. Two persons shall take the same quantity of arsenic; on the one it shall act, just like an anodyne, soporifically, first producing somnolency, and finally ending in the sleep of death, without pain or struggle. In the other, after it has been taken into the stomach, it shall produce violent vomiting and extreme agony, which shall continue until d eat h takes place in the midst of the most excruciating tor ture. In the first instance, after death, dissection will show no internal ulceration ' • in the second it will pre sent marked appearances of the most violent inflam matory action. He was constantly struck with sur prise at seeing, in cases were the precise causes of death were surely known, the post mortem appearances' disagreeing in Coto from what they ought to be con-, sidering the cause of death. Medicatme4shon.lsl: l 6ear these facts in mind whyn they are ealled l pposi/to,give forensic evidence. FATAL LEAF .racos:, SUNDERLAND-BRIDGE ; 011 Friday evening John'Thompson a tailor, of Sunder land, in a drunken freak, declaredl that would that night rival Smith, the diver, by jumping off Sunder land-bridge, which rash act 'he performed. He was followed by a person who had heard him boast of his intention, who strove to persuade him not to do so, at the same time considering that Thompson was not sincere, and that he would not attempt it. In this, however, he was mistaken, as Thompson pulled off his coat, and ascended the railing on the bridge, while his companion and adviser was a short distance be hind him. Assistance was called for, but before it could be effective he jumped down from the bridge into the river, upwards of 100 feet. He was picked up by the police-boat and taken to a neighbouring public-house, and a surgeon sent for. It was found that he had reeeived such injuries from the fall as to leave no hope of his recovery. He died the same night.—Wyne Mercury. SUBSCRIPTION IN BEHALF OF THE SUFFERERS BY THE LATE FlRE.—After a calamity so extensive and fearful as that which has lately visited this town, the humane and compassionate will naturally turn their minds to the suffering's of those indigent individuals who have suddenly been rendered helpless, and of those families who have been bereaved by the casu alties which there occurred, as well as to the con dition of some whom the disaster may have deprived of all their little possessions. We know sufficient of our townsmen to be aware that they need no incite ment to urge them to step forward to the relief of human misery, under whatever aspect it may present itself. As it is certain that a subscription will be set afoot for this benevolent purpose, it is of importance that those who are usually the influential movers in designs of this character should commence their operations as speedily as possible. Instances of the suffering entailed by this calamitous event are suf ficiently numerous to call for prompt procedure, and, without going into detail we may mention the case of the young police-off ic e r , Hodgson, who was univer sally respected in his sphere, and seems to be as uni versally regretted. He was, we understand, almost the sole support of his parents and family.—Liverpool Courier. - - THE KING OF PRUSSIA.—We well venture to hope that the fears of the Prussian Je ars (that their King is about to adopt a policy adverse to the Jews) have been somewhat exaggerated, when we see such sen timents of toleration professed and solemnly recorded by that Monarch, on laying the foundation of a Roman Catholic Cathedral (?) at Cologne. In all charity, we commend so admirable an ex ample to the champions of the Anglican Church. We remember that this Prince was especially selected as sponsor t o th e P r i nce o f W a l es , th e f u tur e h ea d o f ithat Church ;--that its present ecclesiastical superiors have whose words are and • openly professed a uniformity of sentiment among our Gentgil policy with that of the distinguished orator, i e ven nei a g b h o h ve ar . s As we lov h e o r p s e o t f o pe he a a ce r no more damnato o' rydenunciations against the English Catholi c o f, and other analogous Churches ; and, inst ea d the Exeter-hall orator s de manding a repudiatioa of th e i r recen t f ratern i zat i on with the Prussian Church Church (a result by no means un build an altar t o a worship of its head ha v i ng h e l pe d t o proclaimed here as " ido latrous," or worse,) we commend to them a practice of the excellent principles promulgated at Cologne, by so " eminently Protestant" a monarch.— Voice of Jacob. We understand that Edward 'Woodford, A.M. late Classical Master of the Edinburgh Southern Acade demy, has been unanimously appointed to the Rec torship of the Burgh and Parochial School of Jed burgh.--Scotch Paper. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1842. THE NEW MAYORALTY. After the Sheriffs were sworn in, the Lord Mayor and Alderman, according to custom, returned to the old Council Chamber, in which the Court of Alder men is usually held, and where some expected a Court would meet after the ceremony just concluded. No i more than nine Aldermen, however, having assembled I (thirteen being the number necessary to constitute a ' Court), the subject of the ensuing Mayoralty, which had excited a considerable sensation in the city, could not be formally introduced. The LORD MAYOR having waited for some time, apparently in the hope or expectation of making a Court, called upon those Aldermen who were present to take their seats, as Alderman Thomas Wood was desirous of making some communication. Alderman THOMAS WOOD then said, that, in con sequence of what had taken place in the Court of Alderman on the last day of meeting, he thought it to be his duty to request the Lord Mayor to convene a special Court on the subject which had upon that occasion occupied their attention. His Lordship had, however, no doubt upon good advice, declined to call the special Court, but intimated to him that as a Court would probably be formed after the swearing in of the Sheriffs, he might then submit any state ment or proposition to his brethren, or answer any charges against him. Now he was present to answer any charge, or charges, that any person should think proper to urge against him. He had appeared at the last Court for the same purpose, and not one charge had he heard. He had app e ared in Court and called for an investigation into the whole of his conduct, and what had the Court done ? How did they an swer his earnest call for strict inquiry? Why by refusing to institute any inquiry at all. But though they would not grant that request, the spirit of mis representation received no check. No; one of his brother Aldermen rose and made a gross misstate ment of what he (Alderman Thomas Wood) had said some years before, when a candi date for the office of City Solicitor, for he had never made any statement as to the amount of his property. That misrepresentation was, he felt con vinced, ascribable to some circumstances attending the contest for the Shrievalty, in which Alderman Johnson and he 'were successful. With the same confidence he denied the truth of the charge that he had refused, in June last, to have an inquiry insti • tuted by the Court of Aldermen. He was ready at all times to answer any charge. But, in fact, all possible means of misrepresentation had been exer cised against him, and forged letters and documents were not wanting to give colour and point to the slanders which had been so mercilessly heaped upon his head. He would ask any of his brethren whether they could put their finger upon one tangible charge against him ? He defied them to show an atom of ground for accusing him. Why, then, should he meet from his brother Magistrates any hesitation as to the inquiry which he courted ? He appealed to them as brother Aldermen, as brethren in the Com mission of the Peace, as men and as Christians, and still they refused not only to assist him, but to do him the justice which he claimed at their hands. Alderman FAREDROTHER said he was sure the worthy Alderman would forgive him for taking the liberty to suggest a course which, in his opinion, un der the existing circumstances, it would be most ad visable to adopt, and which, if followed, would enable his worthy friend to show most effectually the ground lessness of the imputations against him, if they were without foundation. It was quite clear that several charges had been brought against Alderman Thomas Wood. It was equally clear that Alderman Thomas Wood had asked an investigation into his conduct touching these charges. Now, in his opinion, it would have been quite impossible for the Court of Aldermen, to whom Alderman Thomas Wood had addressed him self a few days ago, to go into an inquiry with any hope of coming to a satisfactory conclusion as to the truth and falsehood of these charges before the day of election of Lord Mayor. What then would the real friends of the Alderman advise him to do ? Why the judicious course must naturally strike every oue to be that Alderman Thomas Wocd should take the best means of producing evidence in confirmation of the truth of his own denial of the veracity of the state ments made against him. By not taking the office of Lord Mayor for twelve months, Alderman Thomas Wood would not with the less grace enter upon it after having removed all the impressions made to his disadvantage. On the contrary, he would, upon showing that the accusations were false and slan derous and unjust in every respect,—he would be re ceived by his fellow-citizens with the sincere and hearty welcome which men were ever disposed to yield to the calumniated and oppressed. He declared most solemnly if he were in the situation of his friend Alderman Thomas Wood, he would say to those around him, "Here am I accused, but although most unjustly accused, I will not allow myself to be put in office until Ihave shown satisfactorily that the charges against me are false." That would be the manner and the spirit in which he would meet the imputations against his honour, and he knew by such a proceed ing he should not only check the current of libel, but, if the accusations were false, throw back upon the slanderers proportionate odium and abhorrence. Now he must declare that the matter of accusation was of such a nature as could not within a very limited time be fully answered. One of the charges was that good coal had been exhibited, to the Alderman's knowledge, in Ireland, as the coal of the Talacre mine, which was wholly incapable of producing such coal itself. Now he certainly could not think that any man could be so great a fool as to subject himself to the contempt and ridicule which a deception of that kind would most inevitably excite ; still there it was in print, and the libel ought to be exposed befor e th e election should fall upon him who was charged as principally concerned. He repeated the assurance, which he made in the kindest feeling, that Alderman Thomas Wood would raise instead of degrading his character, by retiring for the next twelve months, and avail himself of the opportunity of proving to the satisfaction of all that he was an oppressed and per secuted man. • Alderman THOMAS WOOD thanked Alderman Fare- Jarother for advice which he sincerely believed was 'Well intended; but he felt that' lie had ibeen • harshly and-unkindly treated by the Court. declared his readiness to answer every accusation, and he soli leWPM,quiry, and his brother Aldeimen 'rejected his appeal. He knew that the statement allnded td by Al derman Fprebrother was. in print, and he had in his affidavit in the Queen's Bench, proved it to be a gross falsehood. The Queen's Bench was satisfied with his explanation, but the Court of Aldermen required other means of satisfaction. There were but two pits in the Talacre mine, and no coal had ever been produced except the coal from those pits. To the other charges he gave as plump and satisfactory a contradiction. They were most grossly and atrociously false, and he was left by his brother Aldermen to reap all the bene fit of these libellous aspersions, and denied their sym pathy, even after the Court of Queen's Bench were satisfied with his explanation. And he was asked to endure this for another year ! He did not seek the office of Lord Mayor for the mere gratification of vanity • but he desired to know why, a ft er having filled the other offices with honour and to the satisfaction of his fellow-citizens, he was to be shut out from the Mayoralty? It had been said that he ought to set himself right with the public, t o whom the representation had been made. Was he obliged to answer the slanderous assertions of a ca lumnious paper (he spoke not of the respectable newspapers with which the public were well ac quainted), the editor of which had been brought be . fore him in his magisterial character, and though mercifully t rea t e d, h a d procee d e d t o libel and traduce him in every possible way. Let those around him look at the condition in which he was placed. The Court of Aldermen had refused him investigation. They had refused to hear him. Was he to have his mouth closed at all times ? He was told there were grave and serious charges against him. He had heard one mentioned. Was there any other ? He was ready to answer any charge —but it was useless to ask. Everything that could be done had been done to prevent him from doing justice to himself. He re. gretted to occupy the time of those he addressed, but the readiness, the anxiety he felt, would, he trusted, be his atonement. The subject dropped here. It is proper to state that neither Alderman - Wilson, Alderman Brown, nor Alderman Copeland was present in the Guildhall during the day. The following letter was read by the Lord Mayor to his brethren : MY LORD MAYoR,—I am instructed by Mr. Al derman Lainson to forward to your Lordship my professional testimony of the impracticability of his attending the Common Hall on Thursday next, when, according to custom, his name would, in rotation, be presented to his fellow-citizens as the junior candidate for the Civic Chair. Although I am happy to be able to give a very satisfactory report as to the Alderman's daily improve ment, yet, for the present, quietude and repose are essential to his ultimate recovery. Being thus unavoidably prevented a personal at tendance at Guildhall on Michaelmas day, he is de sirous that I should express to your Lordship his re quest not to be placed in nomination. I am, my Lord Mayor, Your Lordship's obedient humble servant, ALFRED MAYER RANDALL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. t. 27, 1842. Sep . SWEARING IN OF THE NEW SHERIFFS. Yesterday, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, th e Sheriffs, and other City Officers, attended the hustings at Guildhall, for the purpose of performing the cere mony of swearing in the Sheriffs for the ensuing zear, Mr. Alderman Hooper and Mr. Jeremiah Pillter. There were several persons in the hall during the prformance of the ceremony. Buckstone and Mrs. Fitzwilliam are playing at the National Theatre in Boston, THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. (From the Devonport Independent.) The events of the past week, have shown to the Liberal electors of the borough of Devonport, that the approaching municipal elections have in them a more than ordinary degree of interest; that they are in fact pregnant with consequences of good or evil to the Liberal cause, and consequently repire an almost excess of watchfulness, lest the pure stream of good be perverted by the noxious admixture of evil, and the long train of ills that follow in its wake. We have been accustomed to regard municipal elec tions as evidences of the respect and confidence placed in the private worth and integrity of individuals by their fellow burgesses, whose interests they have been called upon to protect, and to whose jealous care has been confided the improvement and welfare, morally, and socially, of the borough. It would be a waste of time and purpose, foreign to our intention, to endeavour to engender a belief that these elections have been conducted heretofore solely upon the principles of general worth and use fulness, without reference to party bias. The Tories have, undisguisedly, we will do them that justice, avowed that the approaching contest is looked upon by them as essentially a struggle for political ascen dancy, and that their united power and influence would be brought to bear upon it—(a fact, by the bye, with which we were before well acquainted). They have dared us to the struggle, and the impo tence of their blind and futile efforts, will wreak itself upon their inevitable and mortifying discomfiture. But while we prognosticate the utter failure of our oppo nent's designs, let not our confidence lull into inert security the Liberal burgesses of this borough. We must be up and doing—we must by our activity and watchfulness defeat and overturn the machinations of our opponents—we must destroy the viper in its birth —we must preserve, untainted, the power we possess. The Tories will leave no stone unturned to gain their ends : already has a system of disgraceful coercion been resorted to—already has the corrupt and unmanly practice of intimidation reared its shameless front in our. Government departments—already have the un derlings of office sought to merit the approving smiles of their superiors, obviously to their own advantage. The Tories have avowed their intention, and we have given them credit for the avowal, but we cannot give hem credit for an over excess of caution, or propriety in their 'present proceedings ; they seem, somehow or other, to lack their usual cunning in regard to public manifestation ; or, perhaps, they are less shamefaced—their modesty has not overcome them on this occasicn. We, of course, do not allude to the barefaced attempt to deter the honest and indepen dent burgesses of Clowance Ward at the meeting on Wednesday ; no one who was present at that meeting would presume to ascribe other than fair and honest motives to the presence of a Government partisan, and a paid one. We are not of that numerous class of individuals who assert that that gentleman was placed there by the Tories for the purpose of intimi dation ; we are loth to conceive our opponents so un worthy our indignation—we are clesiYous of meeting our enemies sturdily, but openly and honestly ; if we must fight, let the battle be one that will do credit to either party, whatever may be its results. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Devonport, Kept. 24. This town is in a very great state of excitement, as to the coming municipal elections. A great_and powerful effort is making, no stone will be left unturned, to gain a majority of Tories in our Town-council, heretofore Liberal. Coercion, among the poor voters in. our Dockyard, is going on to a great extent. It so happens that most of the out-going menibers of the Council, on the Ist November next, are Liberals, and hence the struggle on the other side to replace them by Tories ; and if they do, we shall have for the first a Tory Mayor, and the Members' seats (Sir G. Grey and Mr. Tufnell), I fear, will be endangered. The following are the Liberals, contest;ng against the Tories :—M e ssrs. Byers, Burnet, W. J. Little, R. B. Oram, Condy, Palmer, Jinkin, Rowland, Easton, and James, all staunch Liberals. LIVERPOOL FIRES. The subjoined paper furnishes an account of all those dreadful calamities, in the shape of conflaga tions, which, since Liverpool has risen into importance as a town, have devastated it at different times. One of the earliest fires in this great commercial town we find to have been in the year 1770, when the gaol was set on fire by one James Donovan, who was capitally convicted for the same. The next fire on record is that of the Liverpool Exchange, which took place on Sunday morning, the 20th of January, in the year 1795. This building, the noblest building of the kind, without exception, of any in the kingdom was discovered early to be on fire, and the inside of it was entirely destroyed in less than two hours. With the greatest difficulty the town records, regalia, mace, sword, &c., were pre served. Amongst others matters destroyed, in addi tion to one life, were two fine paintings, executed by Martin, and presented by him to the Corporotion ; they were " The Murder of Macduff's family," and " Cleopatra arming Anthony." The present Exchange was built by Messrs. Etherington and Grindrod, in about three years and a half; the stone was laid on the 30th of June, 1803. It is a magnificent building, and the cost of erection was upwards of 100,0001. The destruction by fire of the first warehouse, or large cotton factory, occurred on the 17th of Sep tember, in 1796 ; it belonged to a Mr. Hervey, in the Cheapside, Liverpool, and is supposed to have been occasioned by the friction of one of the wheels of the cotton machines. All its valuable contents were consumed. In the lower part of the warehouse were 31,000 measures of wheat, belonging to Messrs. Cor lie, Gladstone, and Co., which, with a large quantity of hides, rum, brandy, and other spirits, were, entirely destroyed. During the fire, the front part of the warehouse fell into the street, directly upon one of the fire-engines then working, which occasioned a scene of horror impossible to be described. Three men were crushed to pieces on the spot ; ten more were carried to the infirmary in a dreadful state, two of whom died immediately, and several others were subsequently found among the ruins. In the February of 1797, an extensive fire entirely consumed the warehouse of Mr. Walton, near the Old Dock, Liverpool, with the whole of its contents, consisting of a large quantity of manufactured cotton goods, in two hours. The greatest fire in this town, with the exception of that which has ju s t s pread such dismay throughout Liverpool, was that which occurred on the 14th of September, in the vear 1802. On the night of that day, the whole of the noble and extensive warehouses fronting St. George's Dock, justly the pride of the inhabitants, and the admiration of strangers, fell a prey to the flames. The range of buildings from Water-lane to Brunswick-street, with the correspond ing storebeu!es called France's, were, after eight hour's burning, a prodigious mass of ruins. The estimated damage of the property destroyed was—in warehouses 44,5001., grain 120,000/., sugar 60,000/., coffee 8,500/., cotton 30,000/., sundries 60,0001. — making in the whole a total loss of 323,000/. The fire was occasioned, as far as it could be traced, to the falling of a snuff of candle among shavings in a por ter vault. It continued burning for three months. About two-thirds only of the loss was insured. On the night of the 21st of September, 1805, a large warehouse in Lower Sparling-street was totally consumed. The upper rooms were filled with cotton, corn, &c., the whole of which, with other property to the estimated amount of 30,000/., was totally destroyed. The last fire which ranks next in destructive effect took place on the 14th of January, in 1833. It broke out in a paint-store on the New Quay, Liverpool, and the materiats of oil, turpentine, tar, &c., among which it originated, soon caused it to spread to the large warehouses on the south and east. These were filled with merchandise of the most valuable descrip tion, principally in cotton, grain, oil, and naval stores. Fed as it was with immense masses of the most combustible kind, it raged with quick destruc tion along Lancelot's Key, spread into Oldhall-street, Union-street, and the New Quay. The front of the warehouses in Lancelot's Quay fell forward : one man was killed : Colonel Jordan, the inspecting officer, had both his legs broken by the falling rums, and one of them had immediately to be amputated. Property to the amount of 198,000/. was destroyed, of which 150,000/. was insured. The damage separately estimated was, in warehouses, of which there were fourteen burnt, 28,000/. ; of dwelling houses, of which there were nine destroyed, 2,000/., and in merchandise 168,000/ So intense was the heat from the burning pile, that the ships in the Prince's Dock were only preserved by incessantly wetting their sails and rigging, while flakes of fire were constantly threatening them with conflagration. The present fire, it will be perceived, is the very largest of any recorded. Even at this moment the destruction of property may not be completed, so as to allow us to fix the enormous total of loss. The smouldering embers have ignited and destroyed fresh property, until half a million was estimated as the damage. THEATRICALS IN THE UNITED STATES. After losing sight of Mr. Braham and his amiable family for several days, we at last find them on the 26th ult.; he was at Detroit, and gave a concert that evening at the National 1:lotel, which was crowded. The Park Theatre has now been open two nights at reduced prices, and the experiment succeeds. The female department, with the exception of Mrs. Wheatley and Mrs. Vernon, is poor. The male cast for comedy is very strong—Burton, Browne, Pla cide, Williams, Fisher, Barry, &c. ; still we miss Chippendale. The Tremont has been newly decorated, and opens next Monday with the following company :—Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert, Mr. Chapman, Mr. Howard, Mr. John Green and lady, Mrs. Cramer, Miss Fanny Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Ayling, Mr. Leman, Mr. Comer as leader of the orchestra. Abbott having married Miss Buloid, both of Meth seeth unable to: appear on the stage, for they have made irio engagement anywhere. It is confidently stated that James Wallack is in thimity, oe :State, and that as soon as he shall have effected an ;arrangement with his creditors, he will appear at the Park. All the theatres are closed in New Orleans, and all through the South. The St: Charles and American are to be rebuilt shortly. . . . _ Dinneford is doing Pretty well out West, and pur poses building a new theatre in Louisville. Forest and Miss Clifton, who have been playing together a long time, with good success, are now playing a very brilliant and lucrative engagement at the Chatham, under the auspices of Thorne. _ _ Upon the whole, theatricals may now be said to be looking up a little ; and as Congress has adjourned, and the Tariff been passed, and the Treaty signed, we think, with a proper degree of enterprise and pru dence, some of our managers may make money this winter.—. New York Herald. Mignonette, Reseda Odorata, now naturalized to ) our climate, is a native of Barbary. Many years since, it was introduced to the south of France, where it was welcomed by the name of mignonette—little darling. This favourite plant, brought to England in 1742, is noticed by Cowper in his Task" : " The sashes fronted with a range Of orange, myrtle, or the fragrant weed, The Frenchman's bailing," Sir Walter Scott was in error when he introduced it into his novel,. " The Fortunes of Nigel ; " its deeorat; ng the London windows during the reign of James I. HOAX.—The wags of the town have been highly amused during the last few days by a -Very Capital hoax, played upon the worthy hog of One ot our prin cipal inns (Yarmouth). At the time the Queen passed through the roads, mine host and his fair part ner displayed their loyalty by taking a boat Mid going off to greet her Maitsty on her way towards the the , tropolis. A few days after a letter was received, bearing the Royal arms in the !tat, and purport ing to be a communieatiai from the Secretary of State for the Home department ; expressive Of tie gra tification her Majes:47 felt at thins ditplay of the loyalty of this worthy ?Ali', and cffering, as a peculiar mark of Royal ; s avour, to confer the honour of knighthood upon mine host. The letter being read, to his lady she was in extacies at this Mark of Rival condescension, at the taint Cale Okplitgilk ber opinion that so dignified a titit Was rather too much for her spouse to accept, when a friend stigosted qtat ii inueh better plan might he adpt by bargaining with some gentleman in the county who might he desirous of obtaining such an honour, and selling, to him ttie title, which her friend assured her the Would transfer to the favoured indiVidual she might be pleased to nominate. 3,000/. was the sum named, and the lady thought so substantial a benefit being more useful to people in business than h title without a for tune, was about to commission the gentleman forthwith to commence a treaty for the sale, when a junior mem ber of the family expressed her indignation of the use about to be made of the Royal favour, and thought the title should be accepted rather than so shameful a use should be made of it. Whether this eloquent ap peal:of the young lady had its full influence or not we are by no means prepared to say. Suffice it that on Saturday the worthy host was congratulated in the market by a number of his friends, who, without waiting for the Royal letters patent, greeted him by the title peculiar to the rank of knighthood. Whether it is the intention of the party to apply to receive the honour we have not yet heard.—lpswich Express. The Russian Minister of Public Instruction, ac cording to a letter of the 13th instant, from Warsaw, ,inserted in the Post Amp Gazette. of Frankfort, is preparing new laws for Poland, which are to establish a censorship, to give a new vs,t4.n2 of public edur , , a ti on with additional courses or ciamination, and as to cle-• illeatary instruction at Lowiez. '" A NEW NAVY FOR SPAIN. About three weeks since a Commission was formed by order of the Spanish Government to inquire into the utility of a project submitted on the part of a British Company by Mr. Henry Misley, for the pur pose of rendering available to the State, for the re construction of its navy, the valuable oak timber of the magnificent Royal forests of Santander, Galicia, &c. The Commission has not yet reported progress, but the Ministerial paper, La Iberia, took up the subject in its leading article in a way which shows that there remains little to be done towards the com pletion of the project but to deprecate the national jealousy at the concession of such valuable materials to the hands of foreigners. As the subject is one which promises to be not only of considerable impor tance to Spanish, but also to British maritime inte rests, I shall present your readers with a brief out line of the proposal submitted to the Spanish Govern ment "for the re-building, equipment, and mainte nance of the Spanish navy." To this extent the Company offer to furnish the Government for an indefinite number of years with all the materials necessary for the construction and arming of seven ships of war, including steamers, per annum ; receiving in exchange a proportionate num ber of oak trees, which the Government are to furnish at the usual selling prices of the part of the country where they are situated. The Company only proposes to cut two or three per cent per annum of the trees marked fit for the purpose by a Government engineer, so that copsewood may arise, and to plant nur series for their replacement, beginning in the splendid forests of Liebana, in Santander, where some of the oldest and largest oaks in the world are to be found. They offer to erect saw-mills, railroads, common roads, canals, slips, stores, founderies, &c., to be given up to the Govern ment, on a valuation, at the conclusion of the con tract ; engaging also to allow 5 per cent. per annum additional on the value of the timber taken, till the first year's price be doubled ; and further to allow of 'the cost' of the iron mate -I.the' equipment of the vessels, 2 i4is per fabricated Vateerdan forntttn until tht cost the manufactured metal , be breught dOwn to 3 per cent.. They propose to obtain the ; other material, of construction, provision,- and ammunjAqii it} Spun 1, by public contract, and to de liver an.account of. the same to the Government, as well as the wages of shipwrights, labourers, soldiers, and sailors employed, at the actual cost, and a-half per cent. commission thereon. They will establish, on account of the Government, wherever it may please, a manufactory of na va l s t eam - eng i nes ; f urn i s h the oyal docks and workshops with the newest models and most approved machinery; and instruct the pupils whom the Government may wish to em ploy in the maritime steam service. During the first and second years, the Company will furnish the Royal arsenals with sufficient timber to provide mate rials for construction in future years ; and at the same time engage to furnish 14 vessels of war (in fulfilment of the strict terms of the contract), to be fitted up in British ports. They demand the exclusive right of cutting in the Royal forests; also of cutting timber fit for ship-building in forests appertaining to the pueblos of Spain—paying, of course, according to valuation ; to be guaranteed and protected in all things by the State, which shall furnish soldiers to the Company for all de fensive purposes. The Company offer to employ these troops in their productive work, and pay, feed, and clothe them, while so occupied ; guarantees to be ex changed ; accounts to be settled once a year, and all misunderstanding to be arranged by arbitration. Such is the project for raising Spain once more to the rank of a naval Power in Europe. It is already taken up and warmly defended against the narrow envious spirit of Espanotisme, which would crash it as a " foreign invention," and if the matters of " the guarantees" can be satisfactorily arranged, we may expect to see t Spain again in possession of an Armada on the waters . The royal oak woo d s in Galicia, which furnished the unfortunate " Invincible," in the days of Philip 11., are now inaccessible only for want of a road, and this the Government has not resources to make l In fact, without the help of foreigners the oaks of Spain might rot from age to age on their mountains. In the forest of Liebana alone, it is stated that from 22 to 24 millions of cubic feet of soak fit for ship building exist. In the Sierras a Segura alone 48 millions are reckoned on ; and throughout Spain it is calculated that there are fully 200 millions of cubic feet suitable for naval purposes. The Bishop o f L on( l on i s at present in Edi n b urg h , and in company wit,'n the Rev. Mr. Buchanan of the High Church. the Rev M . r.Bennie, of Lady Yester' s , and the Rev. M r , Sinclair, l ate o f St. P au l' s (Episco pal) Chapel ; h as - been visiting several public institu tions. His I.eirdship preached in St. Paul's Chapel, York-place., on Sunday forenoon, and in the afternoon in St. Jol-, n ' s Chapel, Princes -street. Duri' J g the di nner g i ve n by the King of Prussia, at Brahl, after th e gran d review, his Majesty pro pos-A five toast s . Th e fi rs t was to the Kings of Wur temburg and the Netherlands, to which the King of IVurtemburg replied. The second was to the House of Austria, whose representative at the feast, the Arch duke John, replied by a few words, intimating a wish that there should beno longer any distinction between Austrian and Prussian, but that there should he only one German people, united and grand and firm as their mountains. The third toast was the Prince and other high personages present; the fourth to the foreign of. ficers, and the fifth to the Prussian army. BONAPARTE'S BR O THER A TRUE PROPHET. —Of all Napoleon's r e l a ti ons, hi s brother Lucien pr ove d hi m. self the most determined opposer of his views and plans. One'dav, while they were disputing warmly on some subject, Lucien drew out his watch, and :dashing it violently on the ground, addressed to his brother these remarkable words : —" You will destroy yourself, as I have destroyed that watch ; anti the time will come, when your family will not know where to shelter their heads. --R app's Memoirs. SERVIA. FRANKFORT SEPT. 22.—The German Papers give the following Official documents respecting the recent revolt in Servia. Prince Michael, the representative of Servian independence, and thus hateful to its ene mies on both sides of the water, is thrown overboard by the republican faction, and the Turks with great tact have availed themselves of the moment to coun tenance the establishment of a Provisional Govern ment, based upon no treaty, in lieu of the heredi tary right of government granted to Milosch and his family by the Hatti Scheriff of 1831. That this has been done without ulterior views, let those believe who will. That the Servians will never submit with out a struggle to the Turkish yoke, everybody who knows them is convinced of. The moment is, therefore, come when it must be shown whether the other Powers of Europe take any interest in their af fairs, or whether they are, when the right moment comes, to look solely to that empire which has all along professed to be their only friend, and which on more than one occasion has proved itself such. An appeal will doubtless be made by Prince Michael to his subjects, who, if on coming to reason they find they have been sacrificed to a wretched intrigue, will need some aid under the present complication of cir cumstances to set ,matters right once more. This aid at present need be, and can only be, tendered in a diplomatic form, and, if timely, will pre vent much ultimate bloodshed, and the destruc tion of another valuable Sclavonic nation. If the Circassian defenders of the Turkish Marches are given up as being neither Christians nor Europeans, the. Servians have a double claim on the western Powers, and some attention ought to be paid to the fact that the French and British Consuls have acted simultaneously, and have shown that they put their trust in Austria. There can be little doubt that these gentlemen have taken the right view of the case. Letters by to-day's post confirm the arrest of a Russian, under suspicious circumstances, calling him self Prince Wassaewitsh. PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY THE PRO VISIONAL GOVERNMENT AT BEL- GRADE, SEPT. 9. " It was known to the people that many abuses had been committed by the late Government; against which the Sublime Porte protested, and respecting which the Senate often, verbally and in writing, remonstrated with the Prince ; but, as he paid no attention to either, the Porte despatched once more the Councillor of State, the noble Shekib Effendi, to Belgrade, to inquire into the matter. When this became known to the people, it desired to rise in a mass and come hither, in order to lay its complaints before him and the Prince, to which end those persons were summoned who were well known and enjoyed the confidence of the people, in order to serve as leaders. The people began to as semble, with the intent to come hither, and when the Prince heard of this be assembled troops to oppose them. It came to a battle ; and when the Prince was convinced that he could not prevent the people from coming he fled to Semlin, and took with him some chiefs and ministers, leaving the land without a head. In order that the country be not longer kept without a head and a Government, the Pri mates of the people here present have, by common consent, organized a Provisional Government by the deed annexed (A), which has received the approba tion and sanction f the representatives of his High ness the Sultan, his Excellency Kiamil Pacha, and his Excellency Shekib Effendi, in the deed marked B. The Provisional Government will, in consequence of this act, and in all things, proceed in conformity with the Ustay.' By the present proclamation, therefore, all the temporal and clerical authorities and the whole people of Servia are acquainted that from this day all matters relating to the Government are to be transacted with the President, Chevalier Abraham Petroniewicz, and Colonel Chevalier Thomas Vuczicz Periczicz ; everybody is warned in future to obey implicitly this Provisional Government in all State matters, as all authorities and branches of the public service are desired to address them selves to the same, that it may be respected as the legal power ad interim. The Provisional Government seizes this opportunity to recoMmend to all authori ties and to the people to watch over the maintenance of tranquillity, peace, and order in the land. " Chevalier ABRAHAM PETRONIEWICZ, President of the newly-organized Provisional Government. " Colonel Chevalier THOMAS VUCZICZ PE RICZICZ. " Belgrade, Sept. 9." (A.) "TO THEIR EXCELLENCIES KIAMIL PACHA, GOVERNOR OF BELGRADE, AND THE COMMISSARY OF THE SUB LIME PORTE, SHEKIB EFFENDI. "Under the present circumstances, when this prin cipality is without a Government, because the Prince, with some of the members of his Senate and the Mi nisters, has left his country and his people, who wished to approach him with written petitions, and has gone over to the Austrian territories, the under signed chiefs here present, desiring that the country and public business may not be abandoned in the manner they now are, and that the public tranquillity, which has been disturbed, may be restored, have re solved by common consent, and in the name of the whole people here assembled, to create a PrJvisional Government, to consist of the undersigned, and which shall conduct all the branches of the Government. All acts proceeding from this Provisional authority, shall be signed by. Abraham Petroniewicz, as President, and by Thomas Vuczicz Periczicz, as leader of the people, and respected by all the constituted authorities, the public officers, and the whole people. " In bringing this resolution to the knowledge of your Excellencies, as the representatives of his High ness our most gracious Sultan, the obedient under signed beg for your approbation, that they may the more speedily proceed to assume the government and to the dispatch of business. " ABRAHAM PETRONIEWICZ, formerly Represen tative and Councillor. " THOMAS VUCZICZ PERICZICZ, Councillor and Colonel. " ALEXANDEit SIMICZ, formerly Finance Mi nister-and Colonel. " PAUL STANICZICZ, Minister of the Finances. " .I.lmos am SDRAWKOWICZ, Senator and Colonel. " S. SymoNEwicz, Senator and Lieut.-Colonel. " JANIKIN GYURICH, Senator and Lieut.-Colonel. " STANK.° JURICZICZ, Senator and Major. " S. IVANOWICZ. " J. WELKowicz. " Belgrade, Aug. 27 (Sept. 8) „ (B.) " IVe, the undersigned Commissioners of the ü blime Porte, here present, to whom the chiefs above named have submitted their resolution, signed and sealed by them, for our approval, because the people of Servia is subject to the Sublime Porte, whose con stant wish is, that this people shall enjoy legal order, tranquillity, peace, and security, and in order that pub lic business may be carried on without interruption, and convinced, from the rights granted by the Sultan to his people, that such a demand is deserving of being granted by the Porte ; considering, too, the necessity of the speedy erection of a Provisional Go vernment, do consent that such a Government be composed of the primates of the people here named. We therefore proclaim that all authorities, and the Servian people, have to acknowledge this Provisional Government, and to obey the orders issued by it, and signed by Abraham Petroniewicz and Thomas Vuc zicz Periczicz. On the 4th Shaban, in the year 1258. " MEHMED KIAMIL, Governor of the Fortress of Belgrade. " MEIDIED SHEKIB, Imperial Speciql Commissary for Servia." tAtitkillEolNAßY DEER.—We understand that J. Mackentle, Esq., of Cromertie, who is at present enjoying thq pleasures of his forest at Rhidorroch, killed on Vriday *telt the most extraordinary deer perhaps ever seen in this country. The fat oil his rump, over a surface of tell inches, was 2i inches deep ; and, on an average, was one inch deep over the whole of his liaelt and sides, as far as the neck. No animal of the deer hind, in a forest, was eve: seen in such condition: This omp . forester had also a very find head, eleven points, and royal on both sides, although by no means a very large liortio-- Wiek Paper. After the ultimate defeat of Don Carlos, so many Spanish prieSt9 Viol* refuge in France that it became impesgiblefor theth All id be supplied with sufficient maintenance. Consequently, the French hierarchy ha§ been obliged to have recourse to foreign assistance. The cure Mind de Grendebrith was commissioned to make a collection in Germany. lie first applied to the lying Of Bavaria, who at once subscribed 1,000 florins iumseir, ti id at:lOU:wised a collection to be made in the several dioceses of his dominions, which pro doCecti , i..34:..sty's donation, 36,570 f, which have been custritUteq: A THIEF CAITGLIT IN HIS OWN 1411,11::-'". A short time ago Mr; Purves o . a baker in Dunbar, having; a faVotirite hro4d bl s ehiciteng4 began to lose one after another till they had alitlbM WM, disappeared. Determined to be at the root of the ttiatter i he Used every means in his power to detect the thief. In spite of his vigilance the thiiriber of his favourites continued to diminish, some of them at too, when it wits inipoSsible that thiy human being could he guilty of the A i mee. T/i put an end to all doubt, Mr. Purves himself took his turn at the watch, and had not been long there when he discovered his game cock in mortal combat with some intruder. He im mediately ran to his assistance, and found his anta gonist was a large hawk, who no doubt had returned for his usual prey. The cock by this time had pierced him with his spur, so that he was easily secured, and is now a prisoner in the possession of Mr. Purves.— Edinburgh Witness. COD VISHERY.—The cod fishing is far short of an Avera ge one; • as well as the ling, tusk, and saith e ; and, worse than this, the demand is very limited, as well as the Nice. What is on hafid is of most supe fi:.:r quality. Holders of these fish, are, however, in expectation of higher prices soon.—John o' Groot Journal s • LAW INTELLIGENCE• INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, ' s 'eP t ' 2 r i B ;g The Court was o ccu pi e d th e entire day in h ead" applications for b a il, f ew o f w hi c h were wars-N.4 the slightest gener a l i n t eres t. Since the lost try the enormous number of 44 town and 24 " till cases had accumulated. IN RE THE REV. WILLIAM DE LA POER RE ll " 2°ll t The insolvent, who was described as incurabenop, the living of Inniscarra, in the county of Co rk ! nte d pa pot 3bie plied to be liberated upon bail until the day for his final hearing. The case excited consid i e, r j to interest from the fact of his being so closely a r l 7o, the present Primate of Ireland and the W r at eri°r roily, in consequence of which the Court was erov,u during the hearing. nts is The following abstract of th e official stat ewe t his schedule comprises all th e fa c ts likely t° inte w re ; the public generally. The amount of d eb of of stated to be, in the aggre g at e , 10,018 L 2 . 3 * - • c ierr which 1,650!. were de s c r ib e d as w ithout een,siedule, tion ; debts mere than once entered in the se°,,, 6501. ; and the debts for which consideration wno'site ceived were entered at 7,7181. Upon the ° , 1 :50! sheet was the short item, " No debts owing 1-- 4 t After the debtor and credit account, came ment in the schedule of the ca use s of his ins a ` v l - ter by which it appeared, that d ur i ng the peri °4:l l , l lo vening between the years 1832 a nd 183 8, . e t he been engaged in continued litigation to recovetcorne tithes of his living at Inniscarra, the annual of which was 7501. year, from the par is ',l - and whereby enormous law cost s w ere ac curnulet eu ' u pos also that he had borrowed large sums of nannet: re st which he had to pay very high discount and in‘ e e ditor s The Solicitor on behalf of the detaining cr t p ri ties said it was understood to be the insolvent's in, -- , 5 1 1 e to proceed tolreland after being bailed, an ;0 owed debts to a large amount there he thus evade the claims of his English creditors. 4 , T . cos' The insolvent said there were several inet r ,' e ", n g netted with legacies, which he expected - If ° , - tros' grandfather's property, which was held unt e 'd,bil t tees, which might require his presence in Ire' n ,vois' he should not leave this country without the P sion of his English creditors. if 118°' The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER said, t , solvent would pledge himself as a clergym an -v gentleman not to leave England he ihnuk t o ftb e might he accepted with safety to the interests - creditors. aui rej The reverend insolvent h av i ng ma d e the r ,o l l' e promise bail was allo we d t o j us tif y , after /I' was liberated. THE MARKETS. i . COAL. MARKET. Ships arrived since last marks a. oair't - fi Chester Main -- 14) 0 - . 1 A V 1 Walls End flett o n ... ....... . it `alls End Lanibtnn 00 .... 9 "' ,) Hastings Hartley ..... ... 10 0 Walls End Morrison ..... .. '. fiutt's fanfieldcon ••• ''' 9 ...... 13 t WM.& End Pemher ..... "0 6 New Tan field Moor Old Tanticld Ord's' ltedheugh l4 t Walls End Heugh 114 . 6 .... ••• Pontop Windsor l5 Ii Walls Encl,Kelloe ..... ...... i i ~ Ravensworth West Hartley 15 1 Walls End Adelaide ••• .„,. , 9 I! Sidney's Hartley ....... Tanfield Moor l9 0 Walls End Brown's 1)°•', - ~ 9 • ing to 1 West Hart1ey......... West Vi ylam l5 i. Walls End Seymour 4 1 0 0 ''„ Walls End Brown's .. ...,• j 6 o i , Walls End Hedley .... IS 0 VVal sE. d Tee • ..... ...• .5 6 Walls End Hilda lB 3 Walls End West Tees ... ~,. , 5 Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killingworth Walls End Todd's Bensham 13 6 Cannel Coal ............... .....op,. ; 1 6 6 Walls End Wharncliffe l9 0 Hartley .................. fe'rt W. E. Braddyll'sHetton KETS. ssr Of . __ ,he Week ending p_,l e i From I To,. t 1 . 7, I't 4,544 Wheat,perbarrellti stone.... 19 0 3 0 u l ' 111 153 Here 254 iariey 5,359 Ost s 34 stone.... 8 9 14 0 • - 1 Flour, per cwt , t-ls.ime - 0 ° JO 616 0atmea1.....--......... 8 stone 8 6 13 6 114 Sold to Bakers only. 0 19 9,146 Cwt. ri0ur.......... .. .. .. ~........, 6 0 21 a 01 Average price o f W heat and Flour 46. &I pc_ .r 1„, 91 0 .0 4 • Funs from 17s. 00 . . 0 15 1 0 4 Feces is of Flour, 9,881 ) s , , ****"••••" fr om J 4 5. Od. •O. Bales of Do. 12,033 11ni ( ;d5 " ......... - : rote 94 Ø. to Pawl or BREAD. A d. Qttarterr Loat %. j Halt guartern ....''• 0 , 0 9 ' CORK 51 A R KETS......Sept. 21. PO" - 9 . 1 ' 1 9 Wheat (per 28 5 t.)18, Od. to 2.5). 0(1.1 oats (per list. . 63 '0 Barley (per 16st.) 9 8 12 0 aloi.r (per cwt .... 6 Oatmeal per cwt.) ' 8 .Od to 11 3 0 ',,, gd Beef; 6d. to (W.—Mutton, sd. med. —Veal, 4,0 ; 0) , Pork, 4d. to 51.--Freah Buttes, Ild. w ---d Pe r lof To th e PRICE OF POTTER. • Co o 1 1 ' To the Merchants. First Quality... .. 79 1 . ...... ....... .....•••••'''. ... (4 Strand ... 75 ~..........•,....-... . . a. Third . 43( • 49 ~1 se,- ..... ... .... sI o . .. . /1 Fourth ..... ~ Fifth .... w• Sixth 4O .... e.,...••• ........... ,i , CLON 511..:LL M AIIKETS.—Iept % I. 0 Per Cwt, d.' 4 4 o S. d. e. d. '• (;, 14 , 46 0 14 JW Butter .........98 oto 99 0 Hide: praw)......... , 1 9 ' , Oatmeal — 0 14 6 8zc01iP:g5............ 44 , 1 . Rendered Lard 0 52 a Heads ..............•••... .„99 ; Per kzi„„ 0 . , Fl aur, Second - 0 40 '1 f tour, 1 Norcls-.........r‘ .H - I, 0 0 —Household -- 0 38 01-- F0urtn.5........' j 9 Per Barrel.o , :3apeseod- ...... 2O 0 -.0 1 Barney .......„ l6 0 u: ere l3 0 ' C.Vtle ........•••• ..." 04 KILKENY . wl . Ocl ,eat,psr barrel)2Bs.to 33s N A. I. Beet '3er 11-, ..... Of. 6 * 4 " Or t ., i ii atloy 12 0 19 0 Ma:tti;ri „ " ..,„,„.... 0 5 , f tats 14 0 15 I' Pork .„............. 0 g ,; 0 Erlour (per bag) 25 0 "60 0 Veal ..........t.... ..- 2 0 6 11' Butter(pet cwt.) 0 0 98 0 r rest , Buttes •-••• a . 6', u v Bacon rigs 45 0 46 0 Salt Oitte ..;,..•.'; y 9 • Coals 1 0 1- 2 Potatoes &et 1." Air - j IRISH MAR DUBLIN MARKET NOTE for • _ CORNWALL MARKET:!; O ' • (Calculated at •24 gallons to the bush."' - , " Wheat. Barl-v, 1 0 ' , s. d. to F. d. $ d. t:s. d• F. tiff, o ' 1 ; Truro — 0 610 0 38' 0 ° .., c , vielitene — - 7 0 0 3 0 , 0 -- - 0 St. Austell... — 0 710 0 3 8 . Bodinin 0 7 4 -- 0 44' O v Liskeard — ..' 0 0 7 6 0 3 6 '" 0 ~ 0 Launceston Camelford 6 6 7 4 3 1 9 - , ..., 0 Penzance i C 8 7 8 0 4. 0 HAMBURa MARKETS. 1 0 OrtAIN. 06 ' t ' 51 1 Wheat. Marks 2 94 to 284; Barley, Meeklennurgli ill o lt ---; Magdeburg - Magdeburgn''' .15 13 c o in Anhalt, wnite 312 to 393 --- Holstein •••••"' 0 `,1 7 5 --- red 282 to Ne 4 --- OderbruCk ****** Ili ;, r e -- Brunswick 291 to 334 Oats, Eider ............. " 140 i t , 1 -- Mecklenburg 258 to 3 0 Mecklenburg '" TO 0 1 0 4 ------ Polish 313 to 408 -- Holstein ............. tsis .V d .. .........., 11 Olstein - Upland ........... .0, r 7, Rye, Mecklenburg -- Marks 240 to 284 Beans ........................ O il t A . -- Elbing and Ko. :Suck Wheat ...... ......,' • bin ~ 1,, nigsburg l9O to 215 ltaneseed,Hanover ••• l is . o r ...--- Pomeranian, : -40 to 279 Malt A.....e...%. ..... c,lti ' , Anlmt curroN. . 54 * Carolina and Tennessee 7 1 / 4 to 9% Marrnham ....... .. ....... 4% I Georgia, Ist sort 7% 7% Madras.... ................. ~ , a 1......, .. . .... 3tl and 4th COFFEE. , 3% Nuoch 9x 014 Domingo ................•• 4 Batavia Sumatra — Porto Rico .............. ...! 0 itio 2% 4% Havannah ................ *, Bahia 2% 4Y6 I d e SUL; A LL.—(With 8% Discount.) ... Havatinah, White 5 l / 4to 7i, Banta, White ........ ... at, Brown 1% b 4 Brown ..............• ;pi Ilio, Brow White 5 71/4Pernambuco, Brow ' Wh ite n %A s . 2 % Manilla. Brow .. ._. I. 4% to 4ii f 11° °11 '' EXTI2AORDINARY DEATlL—Yesterday a f ter, of Mr. Baker, the Coroner for the Eastern ?nig", Middlesex, received information through DO: oot," the summoning officer of Spitalfield's man, named William riutio resided 0 t d Fashion-street,ite. - 'techapel, I ' s fr a by his death upder f la& • o.' 44. g extraordirPto° V ' cumstances .e'rease rofeszed hinnseu,-011. strict observer of e' 'total abstinence system,': an active 111 E mber of one of the branch societlesi, was by trade a carpenter, end in the employ ° ,.er Downsey, an extensive bedstead manufac t A ti i pa% Flower and Deane-streets, Spitalfields. 0 0 ,-i ° ,o o evening Mr. Downsey gave a supper at the "14,00; Head public -house, in Fashion- street, to his W,, ° 01 . - 0 3° , 11 1 , - The deceased, who was known to have an e f j'ree'd' i appetite, 7 was remarked to eat very heartily% -- ir l itu' 9 l , o " after slipper, as lie did not drink any 8 P . 1 ., - e re vt liquors, h.: withdrew and went to his home , N y '' . ol (i shortly afterwards became exceedingly il, l ' n - s tre e ,i; length the attendance of Mr. Hart, of Un' e ,; ( l - , Spitalfields, surgeon, was obliged to ' be proeT`ht, continued in great agony throughout the 14 - o ' o l oc- i on Tuesday morning, between nine and te r; h - ole 'Mr. Hart having remained ,with him the ` N- peP" he expired. Mr. Hart has sin co C) 171 the tii:. l e), 6 3 b o dy, and found that death was cause d o f If stomach having actually burst to the ex tent tit/ a t tween three or fo,ur inches from the over-1. 11 : A r 11 ,, 11 6 food taken into it. The Coroner issa2d 11 1 5 ; for holding an inquest on the body l thise it ,a3.1:04° deceased was 33 years of age, and - has and four children. .. ------- 0 1 BIRTHS. die '* 1 On the 22d inst., at Braxfield House, New Ltuark' . sbo 11. of Charles Walker, Esq., of a son. t ' l4l On the 24th inst., the lady of the Rev. J. Cor bet t 13 0 of Cheltenham, of a son. th e On the 25th inst., at All Cannings Rector y , Will"' J .br P of T. Plumptre Methuen, of a ro 1; if n. IN On the 26th inst., at Bedford, the ecf Captainyl. of a daughter. sir ,. 1 On the 26th inst., at Sarn-fawr, Cdamorganshire, Wilkins, of a son. --- , MARRIED. so li i ' On the 20th inst., at Carmarthen, R. E. Jone., EAII . • ''' :: . 7. of that town, to Caroline Mary, second d.ughter ° to Webb, Esq., of the same place. ff 4. ' e ly An the ~." E tin ' 7 th inst., at Lewes, P. A. T a ylor, i' o f ilf ° dementia, loot ter of the late John Doughty, 'q' dish, IVorfoik. - „ 'P.:D. On tile Ist of June, en ward 1,.. %char d flar‘-- art, ~ - ' 4 '' - ' 'he Zenobia, on 11 ,.,, JsP°:4hireci from Calcutta to England, Ensign .. i. India floOte,,10: son of J. J, Harcoert, Esq., late of the PA. On the 19th of July last, at sea, on board - •-uce, ° way, from Bombay to Lawton, Francis John 1 ). Georg e of the late Lieutenant F. Jackson, R.N. 4 t lig ' On the 18th inst., at Biggar -park, Lanarkshire' Gillespie, Esq., aged 70. t.. relic"' A On the 23d inst., at Haverstock-hill. Elixabet', jagY late Lieutenant-Colonel Watts, aged 66. . i sio o ) e On the 26th inst., Charles Robert Streatfeti.: d e* son of the Lord Bishop of Tasmania, aged 5. „e, '• On the 27th, at Hammersmith, Mr. Richard On the 27th inst., at Romsey, Hants, Mr. jor',,„ . o erf •he Ladi 7a oe. On the 17th inst., at Uxbridge, Matthew s'" , • surgeon, aged 81. -- - of Luudou ; Printed ,a-.. i u.,,.,i,ed by MURDO " str ao 0., No. 112, Strand, at The Sun. O ffi ce , No. 2 '29, 11 4 0 the County of Middlesex, Thursday, Septerabor i ,~ M l