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Just ready, in 3 Vols.. post Bvo., with numerous Illustrations by Leech. R ICHARD SAVAGE. A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE. By CHARLES WHITEHEAD. Author of " The Solitary," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. *.* To be bad at all the Libraries. MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW WORK. Just ready, in 2 vole . dewy two., A VISIT TO ITALY IN 1841. By Mrs. TROLLOPE, intbor of " Paris and the Parisians," " Vienna and the Austrians," "Domestic Manners of the Americans," Sce. Richard Bentley, New Burlingt3n-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, LEECH, AND CROWQUILL, The OCTOBER NUMBER, price Half-a-Crown, of BENT LEY'S MISCELLANY. CONTENTS • THE NORFOLK TRAGEDY, AN OLD ';ONG TO A NEW TUNE. Be THOMAS INGOLDSBY, Ese. In Praise of Porter. Vision of Charles XIL, by H. R. Addison. Illy Irish Client, the Bishop. A True Tale of Gray's Inn. A Campaign with the Christinos in 1338 and 1839, by Charles F. Fynes-Clinton. A Little Talk about Bartlemy Fair, past and present, by 16y Albert Smith. Striking Incident, by H. R. Addison. The Philosophy of Time, edited and illustrated by Alfred SECOND STAGE IN MR. LEDBURY'S GRAND TOUR. By ALBERT SMITH. The Little Morse ; an Equestrian Epigram. Richard Savage; a Romaine of Real Life. By Charles Whitehead. With an Illustration by Leech. The Boar Hunt. By H. R. Addison. Sudden Fear. A Maltese Ghost Story. By Richard Johns. The Forged Will. By Capt. Curling. HUNTING JOHN DORY. By GEORGE SOANE. With au Illustration by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Richard Bentley, New Berlington•street. EDITED BY THOMAS HOOD, ESQ. THE OCTOBER NUMBER OF COLI3URN'S N'EIV MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST, Contains the following articles:— More Hallahlsallo. Horse and Foot. Shakspere. The Season. Epigram on a late C a ttle -Show in Smithfield, and the Whis pering Gallery. By the Editor. Persons whom everybody has seem By Lamas Blanchard, Esq. No. 1. Persons who have " Got a Spirit." No. 2. Persons who ne ver have " enough of a good thing. Reminiscences of a Medical Student. No. 9. A Confession. The Fire Incumbents. By the Author of " Peter Prig,gins." No. 3 The Curate of Massburv. Contributions to a Fashionable Vocabulary. Philorneloyham n y. Barnabys to An - series. By Mrs. Trotlope. Chapters 25, 26, Ind 2.7. . Every-day Lying. rty Laman Blativiard, Esq. The. Sun's Eclipse, July Bth, 1842. By Horace Smith, Esq. On Settlements and Settlers. The Student of Louvain. By Elizabeth Youatt. Some Account of the Macaronick Poets of England and Scot laud. Chapter 2. St t Rides in an Author's Omnibus. Henry Colburti, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborowth-street. 12TH AUGUST, I°4ll. I_IIS MAJ ES l'Y the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, 'HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, AND HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA, Hiving AUTHOR IS D sod GUARANTEED beveral DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDEND*, by whieb, tit tga thy, are NO LOTTERIE3, LARGE FORTUNES tray be 313tained, HEINE. BROTHERS, at HAMBURGII, tIENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS tur the said t)lh'r ittli 11( )1S Fersot. de7iro; to purchase. In IN re:!eive. PREVIOUS e i v i ng , ri v order, the PROSPECTUS with full PARTI CI' LARS, uyon nddrt,sing, 'WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BR.OTREKS, at 1-IAMBUItOiI. F:vERF. GoVENT-GARDEN. TO-11011110W EVENING, OCT. 1, Will be pi odriced an English Version of Ilmisini's Grand O i n-ra of SEM DIA 31IDE. -- . 1 he Character of semiramide hilts tide kemble; Arsace, 41rs. Alfred Shaw (Boni tit,. principal 'Theatres in Italy. her first appearance on the ftri.-li3h Stage); Assuri Mr, Giubilei ; Orce, Mr. Leffler ; ldretto Mr. Travers ; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. Bland. After whieli, the Farce of DEAF AS A POST.—Capt. Tem?letoli, Mr. Cooper; 'Tristram Sappy, Mr. Harley ; Sally Maz4s. airy. Orr i' er ; Mrs. Plcmi•ley, Mrs. Tayleure. 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Iluuti,r A ; Abigail, Mist Terrey. 1.. eeneltide with THE PLEDGE OF LOVE ; OR, A SIS_ ER's Si At:101.10E: Chgracteri by Me.ra. ELcks, Neville, Smith, viniog, terivate L'hriteA urty tie tivi of Mr. J. Ker,clincr, at the t ua Vfcicu,. Willa euur NEWSPAPER STAMPS. tract from a Return , of the : Number of Newspaper Stamps, .at ..One Penny and One Halfpenny, issued to- the several Newspapers in England, Scotland, old Wales, from the Ist of April to 30th June, -- - - 1 umbcr A mount of of Advertisement Stamps. Duty. 42,000 94 1;3 0 Courier . G lobe 0 46,000 252 13 6 Standard ... SUN. 313,000 • 323 3' 6 Ait ,, ,iVC%TElt — A*l LONDON itRIDGE THIS DAY: Inn* 49 minutes after 9 I Evening ..... 33 minutes after 10. . •••••i •• • * 4 • h.; - -,tite,A. • •ivri, . s A llift io y f fzz :1, • / nie LONDON: FRED tY MORNING, SEI"rEMBEIZ 30, 1842. The election of Lord Mayor took place yes terday. Mr. T. Woon was excluded, and Mr. • Alderman HUMPHERY is Lord Mayor. Last year there was a fierce contest for the Mayoralty, and Mr. HARMER was rejected. In his case a poll was demanded, and the Livery returned his opponent. This year there has been no contest for the Mayoralty, but Mr. Alderman T. Woon, after being elected in Common Hall, has been set aside by the Aldermen. In both cases the Alderman .in rotation is set aside—in the one it is the act of the Livery, in the other that of the Aldermen. If the Livery should be displeased that their present decision is not con firmed, they must remember that, last year, they violated the principle of rotation, and alighted a gentleman by withholding an honour that was fairly his due. Although it was supposed that the Court of .Aldermen was not favourable to Mr. HARMER, it did not openly interfere in the election. The Churek,party opposed him, a part of the Press assailed him, and the Livery were induced to .reject him. This year the Court of Aldermen ..:• seernwto have decided the whole matter. There the charge Was Tude against Mr. Alderman T. ' 'Woou, there a full investigation was declined, • 'and by that Court, after the Livery had elected ' . him, was rejected. The cases, then, are essen ., titaly different, b ut betwixt them there is one similarity. Both individuals were rejected in consequence of whisperings against their characters. Mr. HARMER was rejected on account of the religious opinions of his paper : Mr. Alderman T. Wool) is cast cut on account of imputation s on his moral character ; at least we know no other reason, for his alleged want of wealth is an idle pretext. Both were below the standard ofCity p ur i ty, and not thought worthy to till the civic chair. On that ground those two gentlemen were kept out of the Mayoralty, and we may expect every succeeding year a more rigorous scrutiey into the life and conduct of every candidate for ti me Mayoralty. A kind of inquisition was brought to bear against Mr. HARMER; it is now brought to bear on Mr. Alderman T. WOOO, and will lie brought to bear on any other candidate fur the Mayoralty. A new criterion of civic worth is set up. That a man ha , served his fellow-citizens as Sheriff and Magistrate will ay..il him nothing, unless his private conduct he a- 6 reeable to the Purists. The election to the civic chair, to the great delight, we presume, of ail young Alder men, will henceforth be determined by an inqui• sition into private character. How the Lhrery may like the .':onduct of the Aldermen we pretend not to say.. The Court has, however, to some extent, usurped the tune- Lions of the Livery. It decided, heft, cre the elec . Lim ) , against Mr. Alderman T. Woc.D, and re- fused to concur in the vote of the Livery. It has taken the election into its own hands. We do not accuse it of party motives, fur Mr. Alder man HUMPHERY belongs to the same party as Mr. Alderman Woon. The former, indeed, seems to have no repugnance to oust his friend. A spirited man would have declined being the nominee of the Court of Alderman in opposition to the will of the Livery. In the eloquent address of M. DE LAMARTINE, which appeared in our Paper of Wednesday, there is an observation which, though not new, deserves now to be impressed on the public for the sake of its consequence. After describing the " universal monarchy of intellect, commerce, industry, and thought," as " nigh and certain," he said " the world is changing, and becomes more and more industrial and democratic. The one must follow the other." According, there- fire, to M. DE LAMARTINE—who 18 not by birth or opinion a democrat, but one of the aristocracy of France, professing ultra-Conservative opi nions—democracy is gaining ground in society, in consequence of the increase of industrial (by which we understand manufacturing) occupa tions, and bringing about, in conjunction with commerce, a universal monarchy of intellect and thought. _ In substance M. DE LAMARTINE agrees with M. DE TOQUEVILLE, another of the French aris tocracy, who has been at some pains to demon strate the Inevitable progress of the democracy, and to influence statesmen rather to guide than resist it. Both speak in accordance with facts which had previously been in terpreted and explained in the same sense by many English writers, particularly SMITH, who dwelt on the influence of commerce to raise up a middle class, and make the aristocracy barter their power for the indulgences which commerce supplies. The raising up of a middle class is a step towards democracy, and the general fact which is thus established by the concurrence of these writers—that commerce and industry are, in their nature, hostile to aristocracy, and carry in their train the ascendancy of democracy and the monarchy of intellect—teems at this time with much instruction. We have never argued the Corn-laws as a mere question of high and low prices, or as a contest between agriculture and manufactures ; we have always treated it as a question of power between the Few and the Many. The Corn-law, like the new Poor-law, was avowedly passed to preserve in the hands of their then possessors the estates of the aristocracy. It was intended, as Lord GREY avowed, when he said, in reference to it, that he would " stand by his order," and, as Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL naively confessed/ to secure the ascendancy of the landed gentry' Consistently with their avowals, we find their press continually overflowing with diatribes against in dustrial or manufacturing occupations, denounc ing the use of machinery, anathematizing our town population, and consigning, in their thoughts and wishes, half the democracy and their business to annihilation. The Corn-law, therefore, had and has a far more impor tant aim and scope than merely keeping up prices and rents ; it is intended to keep down democracy, at whatever cost to the industry, the commerce, and the peace of mankind. W hen we see, as we elsewhere notice, signs of a some what better spirit growing up amongst the landed gentry, we almost regret to refer to such a topic; hut the consequence made apparent by the writers we have referred to, that in endeavour ing- to keep down the democracy the Legislature keeps down industrial occupations, and cheeks the ascendancy of intellect and thought, is by far too serious for us to allow any considerations to guide our pen but those of truth and duty. It is such a novelty to find law-makers pro fessing themselves quite unable, like the Duke of ItuTLAND, to " form any judgment of the effects of the laws" they nevertheless ordain, teat we again refer to this expresssion of the Duke's; and, with a view to make such amiable modesty more general than at present amongst his class, we propose to point out sonic of the consequences of their legislative efforts to keep down the democracy. At present, both the agri cultural and manufacturing districts swarm with people earning from s. to 12s. a week, or in al inosithe lowest state of destitution. Whether they be influenced ~ by demagogues, or by the facts of their condition, at the same time that they are extremely poor, they are extremely discontented. The most ultra kind of political democracy is their creed, and they are nearly Chartists to a than. It is perfectly clear, there fore, that the aristocracy have completely failed to. put down, or keep in check, the democracy, though it is to be apprehended they have made it fierce, intractable, and dangerous.. At the same time, the conduct of the aristocracy has given just occasion for such severe comments, that, in spite of old associations, and the posses sion of means to dazzle the lower classes, they are, we believe, no longer loved, and no longer feared. In fact, their privileges and power are endangered ; while their wealth is lessened, from the necessity to maintain an ex pensive police, by the great number of poor and discontented there is in the land. But What would have been the moral conse quence of their having allowed industrial occu pations free scope? It is calculated that the mechanical power possessed byEngland is equal to perform the work of several hundred millions of human beings as they worked about a century ago. In other words, the productive power of the people of England has increased, within a century, thirty-fold. Machinery has come more and more to the aid of man, and has worked for him. An increasing proportion of the commu nity is in consequence enabled to live without any or without much personal and irksome toil. The more machinery supplies the place of manual labour, the greater will be the increase of the easy and opulent classes; and those who live without irksome toil will be comparatively numerous and powerful. So striking is this effect of machinery, that weknow some persons • who believe that it is calculated gradually to put an end to all mere labourers for wages, and convert all men into capitalists using, and living by the produce of, machinery. At present the owners of machinery or capitalists are amongst the most influential supporters of the aristocracy; and the more the use of ma chinery is extended, the more numerous will be the upper classes, and the more elevated the general level of society. Now, . in agriculture few machines are em ployed ; the proportion of manual labourers to the value produced is far greater in agricultural than in manufacturing labour ; and, by trying to prevent the increase of manu factures, and to promote the increase of agri culture, the law has tended to increase the num ber of agricultural labourers, and to lessen the amount of machinery and the number of machine owners. It has discouraged the growth of an opulent class, and has expressly encouraged the growth of destitute and ignorant men, who are now the most formidable opponents of the aris tocracy. To what extent machinery would have come into use, both in agriculture and manu factures, had there been a perfectly free trade in food, it is impossible to say ; but we feel assured that it would have been much more in use than at present, and that, though it might not, and Would not, have prevented the comparative de clension of the landowners, by raising up many to their level, it would have multiplied through out society the m'Adle and easy classes, lessened. the number of the destitute labourers, and re moved all fears of a violent change. The presenr fearful condition• of the working classes of Eng land is the cohs equen ee o f laws, of which, when. they w e r e Passed, , the law-makers, like the Duke of were wholly time effects but w unable to appreciate hiell we now know have, con trary to the intent' 1911, weakened and endangered the power of the • ' • dristocracv. It is to be appr e h e d n ed that the aristocracy, in spite of this experience, Nvill persist in their ehdeavourstochecktheprogressoftndus try,in the vain hope of checking the progress • of democracy. Theywill attempt, also, to keep intellect in sub mission. They act in general f• loin precedent, i and all precedents must, from the progress'of so ciety, be drawn from times less skilful and less enlightened than the present. The vast deve lopment of human power by means of ma chinery, to which we have adverted, is of modern date ; and hence it must happen, without any evil intention on the part of the Legislator, but merely from following precedents, that his laws will be hostile to the progress of manufacturing industry. This view leads to the conclusion that those persons who, like Sir R. PEEL, have risen from the bosom of commerce and then be come the partisans of aristocracy—the followers of precedents which were laid down, and of opinions which were formed before machinery came much into use—must, even unwillingly, and perhaps without knowledge, in supporting the aristocracy, act in hostility to the spe cies of industry which was the source of their own and their families' greatness. Commerce or manufactures and democracy going together, ac cording to M. DE LAMARTINE, it is impossible to direct any blows at democracy, as Sir R. PEEL does on behalf of the aristocracy, without also aiming at commerce and manufactures. Yet Sir R. PEEL, inconsistently, still Professes to ho nour manufactures. We have heard it stated that the long-established and wealthy firm of Baring, Brothers, and Co., have returned their profits to the Income-tax Commission ers, on the average of the last three years, at less than 1501., and that they have requested the proper autho rities to send clerks to examine their books and ascertain the correctness of the returns. This strange circumstance is attributed to their dealings with some of the repudiating states of America. It cannot, how ever, affect the stability of the house, for some of the partners are known to be the richest merchants in the world, but there are thousands of reputed rich firms in this country which could not afford to make such a return. 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 in his fifty-third year, and 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 integrity, or brighter qualifications as a lawyer. He was born in the year 1789, and married in 1817. • He has left a family of several children. His disease was abscess of the heart. LITERATURE. EDRIC THE FORRESTER. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1842. By T. CROSS. A Historical Play, in Five Acts. Pell and Wood. London This is a singular production, considering the daily occupation of the author, and the educa tion which one in his rank of life may be sup posed to have received. We understand he has been the driver of a stage coach between London and Cambridge for many years, and during his leisure moments, influenced no doubt by classic inspirations derived from the latter place, has contrived to write a very respectable historical drama. The language is correct and ex pressive, and reminds us of some of the descriptions of country scenes in " Thom son's Seasons." If the work itself were equal to the dedication, it might with safety be pronounced the finest production of the present day. Dedications in general are formal, flatter ing-, and pompous effusions, put forth to obtain some favour or some distinction, from the hi4. , her classes; but this forms a noble exception. It is addressed not to a sovereign or a lord, or a pa tron, but to one of his own family and rank, and expresses in beautiful and affectionate language the purest and the best feelings of the human heart. It is addressed to a sister, and runs thus : " To one who Along the cool sequestered vale of life Has kept the noiseless tenonr of her way. To one who, in affluence and adversity,, has felt, and cherished, and practised those virtues that exalt the mind and betoken the true Christian : to her, whose pilgrimage ha.; been marked with sympathising- sorrows, soothing the cares, and smoothing the path through this vale of tears ; watching with meek and humble piety the departure of congenial spirits ; to her, the earliest. object of his alivction and esteem ; to Maria, this small but sincere tribute is oft red by HER BROTHER. Cambridge, Aug. 18, 1842. .The see - ie is laid principally in Shrewsbury and partly in Wales, and exhibits events which oc curred eight hundred years ago, comprising the history of one of the most powerful of the Anglo- Saxon nobles who survived thebattle of Hastings. The hero of the piece inherited vast possessions on the banks of the Severn, and being of a bold and patriotic spirit, and ardently attached to the memory of the unfortunate Harold, he rose in open rebellion against the new dynasty, carried on the contest for years. but in the latter end of the reign of the Conqueror was subdued by Ralph de Mortimer, and dispossessed of all his estates. The play, we understand, is to be performed at the Cambridge Theatre next week, and, from the subscription list, we see it is patronised by some of the lead ing men of the University—among others, by Dr. Lee, the Regius Professor of Hebrew, and by Dr. Peacock, Dean of Norwich, late Fellow of Trinity College. The following extract will give a favourable specimen of the production. The scene is pictured from life, and probably the: description was suggested by the delightful change which every traveller on the top of a coach feels at the rising of the sun, and which our four-in-hand poet had ll witnessed times out of number How lovely 'tis to hail the morning's prime, To witness Nature casting off the robe Of darkness that involved the world around ; To scent sweet smelling odours from her lap ; To feel the fresh'nir,g gale ; to mark the steps With which she gradually unfolds the day. The chirping tenants of the thorny brake, Uncertain yet of light, unnestling slow, At still short intervals their notes prepare. The cock, at one shrill sound, proclaims that he Has felt the influence of returning day. The listless herd, now rising from the mead Witt► outstretch'd limbs shake off the pearly dew, And bellow forth glad welcome to the morn. The distant tinkling of the leading ram, Purveyor to the flock, bleat following bleat In infinite succession, cheer the light. And now the world which, some few minutes back, Seem'd lost in solitude, once more revives From deathlike silence, starting into life. COURT CIRCULAR. Wnipsoa, TiruasDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early walk this morning in the Home Park and Slopes. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal. accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were taken art airing in the fore noon. Again in the afternoon the Prince and Prin cess, were taken out, attended by her Ladyship. The Earl of Lincoln and the Hon. Miss Paget took their departure from the Castle this morning. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas, will join the Royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening. The Hon. Miss Hamilton arrived to-day at the Castle, to succeed the Hon. Miss Paget as one of the Maids of Honour in Waiting on her Majesty. His Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburg Strelitz arrived in town yesterday, and visited the National Gallery. The Keeper attended his Serene Highness, during his inspection of the collection of pi c t ures . Th e P r i nce a f terwar d s visited his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, at his residence in St. James's Palace. Mr. Mayers, agent for Barbadoes, had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, transacted business yesterday at the oreign-office. Dispatches were sent off last evening, from the Colonial-office, for the Governor of the Gambia, and also for the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. ST. LUTCIS PARISH.—The contested election of a Vestry Clerk fort. Luke's parish was brought to a close yesterday afternoon. The candidates were, AL-. Wm. Humphreys son of Mr. Humphreys the solici tor ; and Mr. John Parsons, son of Capt. John Par sons, R.N., and junior partner in the legal firm of Messrs. Burchell and Co. The numbers at the close of the poll were stated to be—for Parsons, 530; Humphreys, 295 ; majority, 235. The salary, which had previously been 4001., has been increased to 5001., and bonds for the faithful discharge of the duties taken to the amount of 3,0001., being 1,0001. more than the sureties given on the . part of the late Clerk, Joseph Burton, who absconded some time since with 3,0001. and upwards of the parish money, and is now sup posed to be in America. That person had contrived to unite in himself the previously distinct offices of Vestry Clerk and Cleric to the Trustees, after some default in the office of the latter, and thus, with an addition to his salary, he acquired a greater facility of effecting his extensive forgeri , !s, which it is clear had . been fbr a considerable time contemplated by him for ' in furnishing to the bankers the list of Trustees em powered to draw upon them after Easter, he intro duced three fictitious names, and made use of these names only in drawing his forged cheques. The two clerkshirs are to be again separated. The earl of Fingal and other fashionables arrived here, yesterday morning, by the Antwerp Company's steam -ship Antwerpen, Captain Jackson. The pas sage to the St. Katharine Wharf, Tower, was made in twenty hours, notwithstanding the gale of wind during the night. ADELPHI THEATRE. It was with a feeling of melancholy that we entered the Adelphi Theatre last evening. Recollections of bye-gone times, " when all was merry as a marriage bell," and of those who made those times pass so merrily, came thronging back upon us. We thought of Terry, of Mathews, of John Reeve, of Yates. Poor Fred. Yates—twelve months ago we saw him upon that very stage, delighting and delighted—and now, with him the last act of the tragi-comedy of life is over, he has made his final exit—the curtain has fallen. Alas ! poor Yates ! We could have better spared a better man. Mr. Gladstone, the present manager, has very judiciously retained all the old favourites of the Adelphi company, and has added to its strength by securing the very efficient services of Miss Faucit and Miss Murray. The piece chosen for the opening was a new melo• dramatic romance in three acts, from the pen of Mr. Fitzball, entitled the Owl Sisters, or the Haunted Abbey Ruins. The Owl Sisters being certain Nuns who, having, with their Abbess, been more addicted during their lifetime to pampering than to mortifying their appetites, were by St Mark, on St. Mark's night, transformed into owls, the Ab bess herself being condemned to live on as an old decrepid miserable beldame. Once a year, however, on the anniversary of their transformation, the ruined abbey is restored to its pristine state of splendour— the owls become for one hour beautiful Nuns—the Abbess resumes her youth—their paramours are re vivified, and for one hour they renew their unholy orgies. This scene of the revival of the nuns is the grand scene of the piece, and was excellently well executed, as far as the getting up was concerned. " But," exclaims the reader, if he be an old play goer, " surely I have seen something very like that before ?" To be sure you have, Sir, in Robert the Devil; but that is nothing to the authors of the Fitz ball school, who not content with " adapting," as they modestly call it, every good situation in every other play, generally contrive to make it ridiculous in the adaptation ; and such is the case in the present instance. In the original, there is something sublime in the idea of the sheeted spectres of the Nuns arising from their graves, but Mr.Fitzball has j ust stepped across to the ridiculous, and by the. introduction of divers strange-looking figures, with goggle eyes and flap ping wings, which do duty for owls, has rendered his incantation scene richly farcical. This annual exhi bition has, it appears, taken place every St. Mark's night for a hundred and fifty years, but as the Ab bess, who, during the other three hundred and sixty four days and twenty-three hours of the year passes off as Bess of the Woods, tak s care frequently to in form us, during the course of the piece, " When the last of the race of Evelyn Hall, The last of the Glenburns his bride doth call, Then the doomed Abbess shall burst her thrall;" which consummation, after a due course of melo dramatic adventures takes place at the end of the third act, and it was hard to say who was the most delighted—the lovers that they were unite I—the Ab bess that she was dying, or the audience that the piece was over. This piece in its construction and its dia logue is below even the usual average of articles of the Fitzball manufacture. Nothing but the powerful acting of Miss Faucit, as the Abbess, and of Lyon, as Michael, an old .mendicant, who knows her secret, could have possibly saved the piece, and as it was, its announcement for repetition was not received without loud marks of disapprobation. The comic parts of the piece devolved upon H. Beverley, Wilkinson.. and Mrs. IL P. Grattan. To Mrs. Grattan the highest praise is due for the manner in which . she per formed the part of Maud, an innkeeper's daughter. She exerted herself to the utmost'— put the audience into thorough good-humour whenever she appeared, and kept them so as long as she was on the stage—s2ng three songs most exquisitely, and gave one, the " Frightful, spiteful old bachelor''' with such admirable humour, and such excellent taste, that it was honoured most deservedly with a double encore. The scenery was splendid, and the getting up of the piece admirable. Everything that could be done for this melodrama, either by the manager or the actors, has been done, and the author has nothing to com plain of on that score. After " God save the Queen" had been sung by the whole company, the farce of The Rifle Brigade was performed, in which Wright, 0. Smith, H. 3 y and his lady, and Miss Mur ray kept the l, I nce continually on the titter, and Norma followed, with " Glorious Paul" as the heroine. The house was crowded. RAILWAY Tr. AFFIL. -- A Shareholder in many Rail ways accounts for the diminution in Railway receipts during the months of June, July, August, and Sep tember this year, as compared with the corresponding months of last year, by the fact of a general election and a double session of Parliament. One Railway car ried 37,000 passengers, paid for by contending parties —all honest, corrupt, or corruptible. THE QUEEN'S VISIT.--A paragraph has bee n going the round of the papers (originating, we believe, with a northern contemporary), estimating the expenses of her Majesty's reception by the Marquis of Breadalbane at 60,0001., or some such sum. We have the best authority for giving this absurd statement the most unqualified contradiction. The writer of the paragraph acquainted with the subject as s rent-roll and other family tnin withheessGlasgowtth. appears eatrhnd t saoNpoll Another po e beefl ereuucw: uniforms thif a ifoich qmiy at tdiaihseie ne n statement o has statedwhich ble i ‘ w ahr i i lbi total gehhea lnda i n n mrd c aeodsgruert resumed a c ner t d(a of 200 men were equipped on the occasion of the Royal visit. We have express authority to say that this statement is utterly unfounded, and that every man of the Highland guard was presented with his entire equipment, joined with a recommendation that he should preserve it as a memorial of the late splendid occasion, and be in readiness to turn out again should another such opportunity occur.—Scotsman. The late Walter Blackney, Esq., died in embar rassed circumstances, originating, we believe, in his untoward connection with the politics and representa tion of this county, his fortune being small, and his family very numerous. He was returned to Parlia ment in 1832 (on the retirement, or rather flight, to Portugal of Sir John Milley Doyle), after a severe contest, and he continued in Parliament, with Mr. Wallace, until 1835, when both retired to make room for the late N. A. Vigors, Esq., and Mr. A. Raphael. Mr. Blackney has left a widow and a large family to deplore his loss. We believe considerable property devolves to the Marquis of Ormonde by the death of this gentleman, who was the last life in some im portant leases. In the county of Carlow his death will create a change also, as his property there was held during his own life, which now passes away after a lapse of nearly a century, to Lord Kenmare, H. G. Morgan, Esq., county Wexford, and the Messrs. Newton, of the county of Carlow. The Radical re gistry will suffer by his death.—Carlow Sentinel. ERRONEOUS OPINIONS TOUCHING THE SUDDEN DEATHS OF CHILDREN.--At an inquest held yester day by Mr. Wakley, M.P., on the body of a child that had died suddenly, he made the following obser vations to the jury :—lt was extremely erroneous to suppose that children who were found dead had been overlaid, or otherwise suffocated by their mothers. Nature had so well provided for the preservation of the most helpless of her offspring, that a child over laid or placed in bed in a suffocating position would, for self-preservation sake struggle, and scream so violently as in most .cases to wake not only the mother or nurse, but the other inmates of the house. The generality of eases like the present were instances of sudden death, and not of any s ort of suffocation. hue of, the s kin showed that it had The pale not been suffocated ; but that was not by any means an infallible test, for lately he had held an inquest on two • lads of the same age, who died froara, the same cause—viz., imbibing foul air whilst asleep on the top of a lime-kiln. The skin of one of them was'as- white as the paper before him, a proof of natural death ; the skin of the other was of a deep vermillion colour, and the features were bloated, proofs of death from suffocation. He would also observe, that in the cases of the sudden deaths of illegitimate children, whose mothers received no sums for maintenance from the fathers (and it was so in the present instance), jurors were too prone to entertain suspicions that the mothers had acted unnaturally. Such suspicions ought not to be entertained, unless cruelty and ill-treatment were proved, for it every day happened that children, those of the rich and most affluent, were found dead in their cradles, whilst asleep on mattresses, where they could not possibly be over laid or suffocated, and in the midst of play the infant heirs to large possessions had the hand of death sup denly placed upon them. It was wrong to suppose, that because poor frail woman often became the vic tim of seduction, the sin she thereby committed stifled in her bosom the natural love of offspring all th e fe male creation happily possess. It did not do so, and it was very doubtful whether illegitimate or legitimate children were the most beloved of their mothers. PLEASURE E XCUR SION ON THE G REA T WESTERN RAILWAY. Yesterday morning a special train, which ' was a curiosity from its leng th and fre ig ht of pas sengers, arrived from Bristol at the Paddington station of the Great Western Railway, propelled by two powerful engines, a nd containing between 700 atle sights of the great naetropolis. The pass Michaelmas-d ay among : and 800 of the inhabitants of Bristol and ifs vicinit y , who had availed themselv es of the o pp ortunit y fu nished by the Directors of the railwa y , of makin g a trip at one half the usual luresdfdrtii:ind s, London, and gee. Set:. Paddington terminus at train left B r i s t o l at 7 A. M., and arrived atthe their ia a quarter to twelve, half an hour beyond the usual time, the delay being caused b y the hi g h win d which prevailed, and the loss of tim e occasioned b y t he train stopping t o t a k e u p an additiona l numbe r of passen- Fers, at th e B a th, ch:ppenliam , and Swindo n stations. _the parties, w h o were incum bered with little in the shape of luggage, bey ond a few g oodl y geese for I. presentation among their friends, will leave town, on their return to Bristol again, by a special train at five this evening. Published this day, price Half-a-Crown, /PIM OCTOBER NUMBER OF AINS -1 WORTH'S MAGAZINE, containing, Chapters VI, VII., VIII.; IX., and X., of THE MISER'S DAUGHTER, by the EDITOR, with two illustrations by Groxtax Cuttlx sm.,. wt. Chapters IV. and V. of Windsor Castle, by the Editor, with an illustration on steel, by Tony Johannot, and seven engravings on wood, designed by W. Alfred Delamette. Also contributions by Nimrod, J. Barrow, John Oxenford, R. B. Peak. Miss Costello, Margaret Scott, Laman Blanchard, W. F. Ainsworth, J. A. Heraud, Captain Medwin, Charles Moutray, Charles Honey, Charles Oilier, &c., &c., &c. London : Cunningham and Mortimer, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar- square. : •••••••-•^lt *tronb ,ibtttott SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock. The Church Extension party is making great literary exertions, preparatory to a demand on Parliament for funds to extend the Church. It is arranging all its forces, drawing up all the arguments that can be mustered in its favour, counting all its friends, and, after showing its whole moral and physical strength, it appeals earnestly and threateningly to the PREMIER. He is told that the Church moralises the State ; that it is the soul of all goodness in society; his own opinions of the necessity of the State pro viding religious instruction for the whole people are not forgotten, and he is emphatically told that unless he wish both to break up his own Administration, and demoralise the people, he must, as one of the first measures of next Parliament, propose a large grant to build more churches and pay more parsons. At any rate it is plain that the next onslaught of the Conservatives on the national purse—for which they live and breathe —is to be made from the portals of the Church, with the clergy for leaders. The time seems favourable for the attainment of their object. Great evils exist in society, the origin and cure of which are not exactly known, but the clergy dogmatically and positively assert —and in general they are believed—that their teaching is the only, and that it is a certain, re medy. Church Extension is already favoured by a large portion of well-meaning persons as a cure for our present social disorders, and it is very likely that the disputes and discrepancies of opinion amongst those who recommend worldly remedies will cause many other well meaning, but not strong-minded, persons to swallow with indifference and submission, if they have no lively fitith in its effects, the dose prescribed by the Church Extensionists. There cannot be, we are afraid, any resistance on the part of Sir ROBERT PEEL, on account of the insufficiency of the national resources. The Income-tax which the clergy have powerfully helped to recommend to the trader, Kirmer, and manufacturer, will yield a large surplus, which can be no better employed, according to the estimation of the Extensionists, than in show ing gratitude to the GREAT GIVER by pro viding tin• an increased number of His ministers. In addition to the Income-tax, also, will Sir R. PEEL not obtain a great sum from cattle imported, and has he not got most unexpectedly a full n•tillion sterling 'from the bread of the people ? His Corn-law, in conjunction with the early harvest, has been productive of revenue, if of nothing else. Tu carry on war, or to build palaces with the produce of a tax on food, might be unseemly, but the end of .building a church might hallow the means,.and the. greater the sacrifice of the people, the more sweetly might smell the incense of new churches, and the • prayers of a much enlarged hierarchy. In the present temper of the public, and in the present flourishing condition of the revenue, we think it not unlikely that the Church Extensionisis will succeed. And why should they not? The clergy arc: generally spoken of as indispensable to society ; they are generally idolised ; and we can scarcely conceive any thing,which they may demand, as es sential to the performance of their duty, which those who idolise them must not be ready to grant. We think that they may succeed, and we express our fears, to put those on their guard who, differing from the Extensionists, feel bound to resist them. Their exertions must be met by corresponding exertions—not to sub 7 stitute something else for Church Exten Sion, be it eatication, or new sanitary re gulations, or a sharper police, but to dis prove the asserted usefulness of the Church Extension, and to establish the insolent arrogance of those who, after much experience of the in efficiency of the Church, urge her claims now as if she had never been tried and found wanting. We have, in fact, already too much Church, and too much of the priesthood, and to add to their wealth, power, and numbers, by taking a single sixpence by taxes from the industrious classes, would only hasten and embitter the quarrels which are impending over the State. Flogging in the Royal Navy, and other cruel ties inflicted on our seamen, often for the most venial offences, have long been a reproach to the country. The system was a disgrace to humanity, ai.d, like all other acts of injustice, recoiled upon the oppressors. Some of the best of our sailors fled to the United States, and either engaged in the merchant service, or enlisted in the navy to fight against their own countrymen. Since the public voice, and the Press, began to denounce the cruel and wretched policy of our rulers, the evil has been greatly abated, personal punishment is inflicted with less severity, and greaterattention is paid to the health and comfort of the men. It appears, however, by recent trials and convic tions before the Magistrates, thatithe Royal Navy is mot the only department where these brutal exhibitions take place, and that similar atrocities, not sanctioned by law, or any investigation by the officers, are constantly committed on board ships engaged in the merchant service. Not a week passes without several charges of this kind being brought before the Magistrate at Thames street Police-court, and, disgraceful and inhuman as flogging is, that mode of punishment is even surpassed by the violent and barbarous con duct of petty officers and captains of ships. They generally inflict punishment when in a passion, strike their victims with some dangerous weapon, the first generally they can lay their hands on, and in many instances the unfortunate sufferers die in consequence before they reach their native country. Some legislative enactment 1 is required to put an end to this system of 1 tyranny. The law as it exists certainly provides some remedy, but unfortunately the Judges look upon the authority claimed by commanders of vessels with such respect, and impress upon Juries the danzers of disobeying orders, however harsh and unwarrantable, that a lenient verdict is often returned, and a still more lenient punishment is inflicted by the Judge. Two remarkable instances of this bias have lately occurred. A respectable tradesman, who was convicted of some trifling assault on a policeman, if assault it could be called, when he was not the aggressor, was sen tenced to work for twelve mouths on the tread mill; while the captain of a vessel, who had com mitted cruelties which led to the death of one of his men, was sentenced to six months' imprison ment and hard labour. This is an absolute per version ofj.tstice in favour of a particular class. If deeds of this kind were punished as they deserve, banishment for life, or for a cer tain number of years, would soon put an end to the system. It has reached such a pitch that even the Police-Magistrates cry out against it, and seem to consider the law insufficient to protect the weaker party. On hearing two charges made by sailors against a mate and a commander yesterday, Mr. BAL LANTINE made the following remarks, which we trust will attract the attention of the Govern- ine t lie heard of these things almost daily, and the tyranny and cruelty of those encrusted with a little power on board ship, and who did not know how to - use it, either drove seamen to make resistance, which was mutiny, or else to leave the ship and forfeit their wages. If the law was not sufficient to protect sea men and boys from such outrages as these s other and more stringent laws would be passed, for public feel ing would not allow such harshness to be exercised on board merchant vessels. The defendant had no right to strike the boy at all ; if he had misconducted himself a complaint should have been made to the captain, who might, if circumstances demanded it, and, after due inquiry, have ordered proper and tem perate chastisement. The Paris Papers of Wednesday had not ar rived at the time our paper was put to press. DUTCH FUNDS.—Areszeenix, Sere. 26. Monet. Bills. Actual Deb ,2% per Cent 51% 52 1 i, Ditto, ditto 5 per cent ........... Amon Syndic,4% per cent 93% 14% Ditto, ditto, 8% per cent 76% 76N Commercial Company, 4% per cent l3d% 37% Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. ...... .. ........ Exchange on London, One month l2 20 Two months ..... Hamburgh, One month 35 93% Two months ...... Dutch Papers, Sept. 28. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Seri. 19, Five per Cents. Metalliques. . 11 1 9% Four per Cents. Mit Three per Cents Bank Shares ••••••••••• ...... 1630 411gemeine Zeitung, Sept. 23. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO TIIREE. There was scarcely an alteration in the funds to day, either in price or the extent of business. Con sols are 924 924 for Money, and 93 for the Ac count. New Three-and-a-Half per, Cents., 100; 1004 ; India Stock 249 250 ; India Bonds, 36 ; Exche quer Bills, Old, 49 51; New, 48 50 prem. In Foreign Securities transactions have been small, although this is the half-monthly settlement ; time bargains in these bonds, as well as in shares, being now unknown. Dutch Bonds have been sold a shade lower; the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 514 ; and the Five per Cents., 1024. The quotation , for Mexican is not quite so good, being 35 354. The Shares which have changed hands to-day have been—London and Birmingham, Quarters, 474 47 4; Great Western, 82 ; Fifths, 74 74 ; South Western, 574 58 ; South Eastern Scrip, 12 ; Eastern Counties, 84 ; Brighton, 344 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 21 ; and Edinburgh arid Glasgow, 464. This being the day for arranging speculative ope rations in the Bonds, some alteration has taken place in the quotations for Spanish, the Five per Cents. being 154 ; and the Three per Cents., 204. Buenos Ayres are quoted 204 also. The most important feature in the produce market has been the commencement of the large sales of tea. The quantity to be brought forward extends to up wards of 25,000 packages ; and as far as the sales have proceeded, they have gone off more favourably than was expected. PR ICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. ffrmingham and Derby Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 464 to Great Western Ditto Fifths London ant' Brighton .. . 50 Ditto 1 Shares London and South Western ... 41% 574 to 58 London and Croydon ( Trunk)... 134 lO Manchester and Birmingham 40 South Eastern and Dover... 5O Ditto Scrip • l5 • l 2 MANCHESTER STOCK EkaHANGE, 'SEPT. 29. We cannot report any improvement in prices to-day. Lancaster and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 184; Manchester and Bi rm i ng h am , 214 22 ; M anc h e ster and Leeds, 704 71 ' • ditto Halves, 304 4; South East ern, 224 23; ditto Scrip, 114 4. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent. Portuguese, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto 354 Brazilian Bonds... — Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres 6 per cent 204 Russian, 5 pea cent Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic ...... . .... -- Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent...... 151 Ditto, 1824 2O; Ditto, Deferred.... Cuba Bonds , 6 per cent 80 French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Danish, 3 per cent Exchange Greek, 1825, 5 per cent French, 3 per cent —f. —e. Mexican, 5 per cent..... 35 Dutch, 24 per cent 5ll Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per cent. ... 1024 Peruvian, 1825,6 per et. 164 SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd... 37 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ..... 83 Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) 46 Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) • •• London and Brighton (50 paid) 354 London and Birmingham (90) Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 474 London and Greenwichßailway......lss 4d lid) 5 London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 58 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ...) 10 Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)...• 22 Midlind Counties Railway (100 paid) North Midland Railway (100) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 234 Ditto Scrip (15 paid) York and North Mao* (JO paid) ••••• Ditto New Shares (20 paid) 36i SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED TIIIS DAY.) RICHMOND RACES.-WEDNESDAY. The Wright Stakes of 5 sovs. each, p.p. From the Grey in. Mr. N. G. Lambert's Nutwith (Wetherell) 1 Hon. T. 0. Powlett's Wee Pet 2 Col. Cradock's Peggy 3 Mr. R. M. Jaques's Semiseria The following also started but were not placed :—Mr. D. Cooke's Trueboy ; Mr. T. Hedley's fby Physician ; Mr. G. Wade's Inheritress ; Mr. M. Field's Ravens worth; Earl Zetland'e Sir Abstrupus; and Sir C. Monck's f by Liverpool, out of Twinkle. The Gold Cup Stakes of 10 Guineas each. Once round and a dis. Hon. W. Colborne na Alice Hawthorn (Heseltine) 1 Col. Cradock's Sally, 3 yrs 2 Mr. Maxwell's Maid of Auckland, 3 yrs 3 Mr. G. Stapleton's Playfellow, 3 yrs. 4 The Members' Plate of 701., the second to receive 101. from the winner. Heats, two miles. Mr. Laucester's Betty Baylock, 4 yrs Mr. Smith's Candide, 3 yrs 1 2 2 Mr. Johnson's fby Voltaire, 3 yrs 2 3 dr Mr. Hutchinson's Sally Rudd, 3 yrs 4 4 dr • WALSALL RACES.—THURSDAY. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added. Heats once round and a distance. Mr. Fowler's Sunflower, 4 yrs (Marlow) 4 3 0 1 1 Captain Crofton's Muleteer, 5 yrs 1 4 0 4 3 Mr. Parrock's Jolly Boy, 4 yrs Mr. E. Peel's Palemon, 4 yrs 3 2 3 2 dr Mr. Greaves' Isabella, 6 yrs Mr. E. Davis' Brewood, 4 yrs 2 dr The Hurdle Race was won by Mr. Boycott's Doning ton, the first Cavalry Race by Mr. Proffitt, and the second by Mr. Wallace. ..... . ___ SANDBACII RACES- TUESDAY. The Somerford Park Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., and 5 ft, only if declared ; 25 sovs. added. Thrice round and a distance. Mr. Graydon's Helpmate, 6 yrs (Kennedy) 1 Mr. Bradley's Rancour, 4 yrs 2 The Pottery Stakes of 5 sots. each, h ft ; 15 added. Twice round and a distance. Mr. Skerratt's Hudibras, 4 yrs (Marlow) 1 Mr. Jones' Emperor, 4 yrs The Bechton Stakes of 10 soy's. each, h ft, with 20 added, for 3 yrs, lOst ; 4 yrs, list 21b ; 5 yrs, list 101 b ; 6 yrs and aged, 12st. Winners extra. Heats, twice round and a distance. Mr. Hollinshead's Spangle, aged (Owner) 1 1 Mr. Place's b g Defence, aged Mr. James's in by Falcon, aged 0 2 Mr. Mostyn's Protege, aged White Stockings, 6 yrs, and Kate Nickleby, aged, were not placed. WEDNESDAY. The Tradesmen's Plato (Handicap), by subscription of 10 sovs. each, h ft, and only 3 if declared, with 50 added. Twice round and a distance. Mr. Raworth's Chance, 5 yrs (Bradley) 1 Mr. Skerratt's Lydia, 4 yrs Mr. King's Atalanta, 3 yrs Mr. Langley's Rancour, 4 yrs 4 The Wide-Awake Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 15 added. Weights, &c., as for the Bechton Stakes. Mr. Hollinshead's Spangle. aged (Owner) 1 1 Mr. Hay's Kate Nickleby, aged Mr. Dawson's mby Falcon, 5 yrs 3 .2 The Liberal Stakes were won by Mr. Livesley nd Bedalian ; the Hack Stakes were also won by the same horse, in three heats, being Emperor, White Stockings, and several others. BREWOOD RACES—MONDAY. The Ladies' Purse of 151., was won by Mr. Booth's Negro ; the Chillington Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added, were won by Mr. Arthur's The Star; and the Hurdle race by Mr. Saunders's Newcastle, 4 yrs. TUESDAY. The Hack race was won by Mr. Turner's Lawyer, and the Pony race by Mr. Green's Gipsey Queen. Lord G. Bentinck is struck out of all his October en ga„aenxents at Newmarket. It was reported in town this morning (Friday) that Canadian died on Thursday night. How grand a subject for historical fiction is that of the memorable career of Richard Savage ! Bad his parentage been less remarkable than it was (and this alone 'was a romance), his subsequent life and actions and strange vicissitudes were sufficient to furnish out a story more powerful and more various in effect than can be found in the record of any other human being. " Born," says Dr. Johnson, " with a legal claim to 'A honour and to affluence, he was, in two month s , gitimated by Parliament. and disowned by hi s mother, doomed to poverty and obscurity, and t u nc h e d upon the ocean of life, only that he migl-.c b e swal lowed by its quicksands,, or dashed upon , lts rocks." By an audacious falsehood on the put of his mother he was defrauded of a handsome pro-vision for life.; and the same unnatural parent en o .eavoured to have him forcibly and secretly conveyed to the -American plantations, where he would have become a hopeless slave ! Surely these and a hundred otb:r circum stances equally startling, render the history of aichard Savage one more than ordinarily fitted to the pur poses of the novelist ; and no one could have turned them to better account than Mr. Charles Whitehead, a writer who " sways the moods of passion e'en as he lists." SUMMARY OF NEWS AND 40 tit) I t 4) tit to it. i! " Who runs may read.' MONEY—TRADE—COMMERC °. x;eir Stourbridge fai r , f ormer l y one of the most e sive in Engla n d, an d occupying an extent of gl t i l , of nearly a mile i n length, by half a mile m breado was opened on Monday last : it is now only a s ba of what it once was. L llus cer ' An Anti-Corn..la w mee ti ng was held at Tooting on Wed nes d a y, a t w hi c h Dr. 1-41 ) P s ; „ 1 t iog trated his address with a num b er of diagrams , Pf' c ii r ect out geographically that the Corn-laws were n'. 11 to variance with the law s o f na t ure , and in opPs i r o pd' the will of the Creat o r. M r . Sid ne y Smith it ' s dressed the meeting. briage' The result of the great hop fair at Robe rt s; ;spt unfavourable in East Sussex, was favourable ;so bad a fair remembeotal red. to th e The t number of live cattle import ed in ports of London and Hull during septen ibert an d been 3,062 head of cattle, 570 s heep and Itin 3bsl - 311 swine. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS' hav e le / The Commission ers o f W oo d s an d Forests 1!10, the kitchen-garden and or c hard o f Kensingto n erec ted for building villas and cottages. No proper t y on the site is to be of less value than 80 01 . ° r some of the houses will be worth 2,000/. fr °° A new street is contempl a ted to be op en Notting-hill to High-street, Kensington. ECCLESIASTICAL. re° The foundation-stone of th e f ou rth of ten o,l'lol which are to be erected in the b o rough of Biril i f n 3Vor was laid on Wednesday last by the Bishop ° tester : it was dedicated to St. Stephen. f 0 NAVAL AND MlLl'var• ; The residences of the Military Knights 0 1 c i s ite. j sor, on the lower foundation, were on Tnor d3 Y per u ` by the Earl of Lincoln (the Chief C o mmiss i , ° bitez Woods and Forests), with the Governmen t s 'f re d and the Clerk of the Works. They were rePi l bec oroe the Crown about 40 years ago, but have sinc e o r l e so dilapidated as to need entire restoration building. LAW AND POLICE. tig e testerday Wm. Dell was charged at (Pe el with having fraudulently obtained goods fir, -- t i ber of tradesmen, by representing hirnseh J$ tleman's butler, sent by his master. He 51' 4 , manded for a week. f 3 1 c 5 .,% James Unwin, porter, in the employ Of and Co., linen-drapers in Leicester. 10, $ was finally examined for robbing his emP l° „, ) itto l Marlborough-street yesterday, an d fully co" .. - 140 15: Thomas Taylor, a lodging-house keeper in_ ter( lsl' lydown, was summoned a t U n i o n-ball, Y 9 :01 charged with having smuggled brandy, dials, and tobacco, on his premises. Th e of P 37 penalty of 501. was inflicted, and in default ° . 'tient committed for s i x mon th s t o Kingston it LITERARY AND SCIETSTTID IC a t Berlioz is said to b e com p os i ng a n ew Opera # llf COITIZT-TA.SRIONABZ 3 C" OP' The Duke and Duche s s o f S u therland r e " j Dunrobin Castle till the middle of October , e '" pass the Winter at Trentham - Half. n The Cavendish family arri ve a t Burlingte on Monday next. sielgr' lce The Marquis of Tavistock has r e turned to - r jefP e square. The Marquis and Marchion ess o f Westinin' te A town next week to pass the winter in Ches hire ifor The Earl of Lonsdale is in treaty w i t h the • of Ailsa for the villa at I s l ewor th for a tern' . Ds rlv The Earl of Ilche s t er re t urne d to town - the week from Woburn Abbey. of e i; The Duke of Graft on ' s h ea lth con tinues fav;, e i The Prince of Mecklenburg_ St r eliti e rr town yesterday, and visited th e National G al a n Mr. and Mrs. Paul and Mi ss B e auclerk " a vi' turned to Ivy Cottage, Parson's-green, fr °lll to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle. :MISCELLANEOUS• k co l ," The section of Chartists at Birmingham , "" ti foi ° ,',.. l the name of the " National Complete Suffrege.olP relit' CIO have published their manifesto, inviting formers of all shades of opinion to a " -:" ti°ll3 ference "in that town, in December nest. 1101j 5 ", The income-tax,- accordi ng t o sev eral In i 'Z r forcing many p ersons t o qu it large house s i" and more economical positions. _ f op , LAW INTELLIG_EI‘ Af' ) PALACE COURT.—(THIS -) PLEATING V. MAILLARD• e 5 This was an action brought to rec over 1 " 51. ss. for work and labour performed. ,i i tltr t y It appeared that the plai n tiff i s a literary $10d) residing in Seymour-place, Euston-squar e 'r defendant is a barrister, who has lately pu b , t o e work upon Texas. This action was br°,, 115 ,/„ A W cover the amounotzennbaympaetgbdeesipnioafti.hnieettiff,tdeercroa,:irairiot,;:i tionrevision o f abouto f th e a work d Te A x . ia g n en la tl n e gza u ge. from the Morning- ,:gric'alle• a witness, and stated, that he conTit eciss on fit claimed a fair and reasonable remune“: t il,,' services of the plaintiff in the revision of !• ; ,,w te lail 9 The Jury returned a verdict for the al 110 " - uTs A~(,) a INSOLVENT COURT—(Tx-- IN RE JANE MACKLIN. .I, e a bi The insolvent in this case was descrijoortt° schedule as a laundress, and appeared ill e s. ito discharged under rather peculiar circumstongl It appeared from the evidence, which ne, e , , a gei VPled l i of entire day, that an. old lady named Go?..bnl' years, was possessed of a large estate in tile pr.P;to of Oxford, which she sold to a person c alled 0 0, 1 ) ,If cross, residing in Oxford, who su b s equent a Mr. King. This latter person also trat r tel l s , interest in it to another, and several tillu„ - e ace being located upon the estate, the consel" y interminable litigation. olciiyot .the aav,llo, Mr. Murray, barrister, of Lincoln's Tu n ; atPa posed that he was nephew of Mrs. Godboln,o he was sure she was unfit to mane # her o i 4 be `;,l at the time the sale was made to T w ycross' e b subject to a peculiar mon oman i a , an d had a ll of law, that he considered she would resir property under a threat of legal proceedil l g:ii The insolvent was in possession, of a s '; t 4tolfr et on the estate, and Tywcross having t e -i Caw f olu action against her and several others nl roof , c d Queen's Bench, she left the key in the t berP e walked into the house next door, when ati e " took possession of the one she left. agIV Mr. WOODROFFE addressed the Court 1-- t to tion of remand, and M r . C oo k e being alY3ti on behalf of the insolvent, Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDS said he d i mined on discharging her. a ie o The insolvent, w h o a pp eare d a poor 1311 they ignorant woman, unconscious of her pos l .t i°° ' A the Court. POLICE INTELL'IGI° ,), GU ILDHALL.—(TH is Dr, gi d P fe) Margaret Farrell, a tall, ele ant -look i t c ll lef' about 22 years of age, was plac s d at the, , with attempting to destroy hei,.seltf by tu r- ‘ / I. filt self from Blackfriars'-bridge.. 11: 1 1 A policeman, who was on duty last nig. 43 - r isl," friars-bridge, stated, that he saw-the pris°' or t`' up and dOwn the bridge appare l , r ay in a ' 7 ° , 6 ,0 1 11 3 er' state. He watched her, and o f he r g ot e ' Ai e til get over the bridge, but h e came - o p a nd pre'f 0'" The prisoner in her defence said—Si r h i $ P e deY the Blackfriars-road three mon th s ago, I ' l 7 sit...,f( l i' with whom I have been livii lg. Ab° l.l " ago he left me, since whi c h I L ave b ee n in 0- ve ; at ° peri l tressed state, and yesterd a y I - was tarneu rof lodgings. I had nowh ere t o go to., or to P o" in. What was Itodo ? must ,either cll .° v er i or go upon the streets. That, sir , I will 1 1 $ l9 9 help me heaven, and if I'go from, this bar ,35' mediately do the same thing again. (lila il l The MAGISTRATE in qu i re d if' she had 1 1 n e l, l is cra t° The prisoner, weepi ng, sa i d that h er ftitil apr li o Palace New-road, Westminst( :r. She ha an d t° j him, but she was turned froi n the hous e ' sr go and live as she had done b efore. darer The MAGISTRATE remand .ed her for tW° filth gave directions to the Cleri t o a pply t° the the girl respecting his daughter. ttc, 3 os U, 0';,A1 3 ! APPREHENSION, OF MR. FEARG.„*" Cj NOR AND Nat BAIRSTONV; TIST LECTURER. r a nd ft ° This morn ;rig Mr. Feargus 0' Coln w s tedlc ° V Bairston, were brought up, having been arr e rc spe ma to ...eo j, Governm ent warrant, for certain inflalu which * nave lately been delivered by those r e ." Tl i t, examination was strictly private, being present except the parties and tit' vor P o o, the Chief Magistrate, Mr. Hall,, and 3 ) - :`"first l 00, GChief Clerk. The prisoners were talatierit).,lac'. ardener's-lane station-house, but sub.se ., q t to ol‘ ill' were taken in custody to Bow-street•l Ni !:ote , P ut tlf, on the examination we are nimble t o 4 . jea strictest secresy was observed by the Pe r :} , ere Pv 0 i0 11 ; office. We learned that the yrisoner s oV l i a t, bail, but whether 'to appear at subseq u e e re itO t tion, or to appear at the sessia s, we tlikr o gi' . ascertain, but it was generall 3 - unders; -4.° , t he were held to hail, to appear a gain bo° l.- jo' s .e trates at this office. orn Mr. O'Connor was apprehended this tit we i j a s' coffee-shop, and the warrant was issu i ec l at rr o- d since learned, for seditious words sP, ° ''' e ibe ? 1; chester on the occasion of a meeting w r ili ot• of erecting a monument to th late Mr-