The Sun. — London, England, 1842-11-10 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. - THIS EVENING. NOV. 10, Will be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand Opera of SEMIRAMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide by Miss Adelaide Kemble; Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from the principal Theatres in Italy) ; Assur, Mr. Giubilei ; Oroe, Mr. Leffler ; Idreno, Mr. Travers ; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. Bland. After which will be repeated a New, Original, Comic Drama, written by Mr. Mark Lemon, Author of '• The Ladies' Club," Ise., entitled THE TURF. Captain Flatooker, Mr. Walter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley; Gallop, Mr. Meadows ; Aaron Tret, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Culpepper, Mrs. Hamby ; Miss Warren, Miss Lee. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First and Second Circles 55., Secod Price :Is. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An drews, 167, New fttind-street ; Mr. Mitchell , Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Saris, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, NOV. 10, Will be repeated THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin cipal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly, Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, Miss Famit, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly. &c. After which, a New Comic Burletta, called AN'tONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand lilurletta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche Giubilei. To sonclade with DEEDS OF DREADFUL NOTE. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, NOV. 10, Will be presented an entirely New Nautical Drama, en titled THE UNION JACK ; or, the SAILOR and the SETTLER'S DAUGHTER, written expressly for Mr. T. P. Cooke, who will be supported by Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Smith, Heslop, Mrs. R. Honner, and the entire Company. New scenery and splendid nautical effects never before attempted. After which, THE TWO LOCKSMITHS. Burl, Mr. H. Hughe s • Ellen Murray, Mrs. H. Vining. To conclude with the Comic Drama of MILITARY TAC TICS ; or, THE LADY AND THE LANCER. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from eleven to four. HIGH w ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Horning...... 57 minutes after 6 I Evening 27 minutes after 7. shown on the one hand, and admitted, that the present condition of the country is alarming, that our institutions are imperfect, that our policy is defective, that our Ministers inflict evil on us ; and we have it shown, on the other, that those who make. institutions know little or no thing beforehand of what will be their effects. They labour completely in the dark. It is im possible that the clever men who write for these journals can be so stupid or so immoral as to put forth whole columns of falsehood; and when we find two opposite parties substantially agreeing that the present system is erroneous and mis chievous, and that those who make the laws can not tell what will be the effect of any proposed alteration, can we avoid concluding that the distrust of public men with which the people are reproached, is a prodigious step in political knowledge and political wisdom ? What the Post truly said of the Reform Act, is applicable to a great number of institutions, particularly to all institutions concerning trade. They were originally framed in ignorance of their effect, though society has adjusted it self with more or legs annoyance to the procrus tean bed. One of those who make the laws has honestly but unthinkingly said that he could not tell what would be the effect of enactments, to which he had given his assent, in terfering with the supply of food. The Duke of RUTLAND, who probably guides more votes in Parliament than his own, stated at the Waltham meeting, to encourage the farmers, that he did not know how the new laws would operate. Not know ! Is it true, as the Duke admitted; is it true, as the Post argued; is it true, as the Chronicle has shown, that men make laws putting trade in shackles, taking away the rights of free thought and free expression of opi nion, depriving some men of liberty and some of life, consigning some to servitude, and elevating others to dominion; taxing some, and dooming them to poverty, to enrich others, without knowing what will be the consequences of their acts ? That individual is held to be somewhat destitute of common sense who shapes his conduct, with out having some reasonable ground for antici pating the consequences which will flow from it; and shall it be said that statesmen are rational and wise who make laws affecting a whole nation in utter and complete ignorance, whether the results will be the weal or woe of mil- lions? Yet such is now the doctrine taught by journals of opposite parties, and well is it cal culated to annihilate all hope in the promises and acts of public men. If the community be almost plunged in despair, it is despair arising from knowledge that those in whom they have hitherto confided are unworthy of confidence. There is, however, a distinction to be drawn between results under our control, and those which are not. When we say under our con trol, we mean that man knows they will happen. When a watchmaker, for example, adjusts to gether all the separate parts of which a watch is composed, he knows to - a great nicety what will be the effects, and he may even tell, from his knowledge of the qualities of metal, nearly how long the instrument will last. The same is true of most of the common every-day acts of every artisan in fashioning matter to his purposes. Confining ourselves to the ends they mean to accomplish, and not assuming any ideal standard of perfect watches, shoes, and houses, to judge works of our artisans by, we are not accus. tomed to speak of their prod uctions as imperfect. On the contrary, we say of the best of them, they are perfect instruments. They answer all the purposes we intend them to answer. But the consequences and results of institu tions and laws are not under the control of man a the same degree, or we know not what will be their effects, as we know the effects of making a watch, a pair of shoes, or building a bridge. Hence the Post affirms that every "human sys te in," not being watches, shoes, or houses, "is imperfect," and speaks of it as " being fraught with practical inconvenience." Clearly these hu man institutions are imperfect, because those who make them have not the same knowledge of the elements with which they deal, as has the watch maker, the shoemaker, and the carpenter. They cannot foreknow the results of their own conduct to the same degree, though the mighty interests they deal with comprise the happiness or misery of all the millions, who make and use watches, shoes, and houses. In this point the rulers of society seem not to have profited by the lessons of the last few years like the people. They have not acquired a knowledge of their own ignorance, and their own real powerlessness over the course of society. Had they acquired that knowledge, they would probably have the mo desty to let society alone ; they might then con clude, as they do not make it as a watchmaker makes a watch, that it is part of the system of nature, net of man's will, and then they might perhaps doubt whether they were not endea vouring to subject a perfect system—it society be a part of nature—to imperfect institutions. But if they do not learn this, the people will and distrust in them and their professions must and will increase. We learn from the follow ing paragraph of the Leeds Mercury, to which we cannot give too much prominence, that the distress in that great seat of our woollen manufacture increases in stead of diminishing. We are afraid that similar results are to be met with in other ,places. The table of mortality, which we pub lished on Saturday, indicates something of the kind in the metropolis, and 'makes us agree with the Mercury, in saying, that we have a bad prospect for the winter:— - i'," l 7' ' : , ^' ,'„ •-• 1 . 7'1,, la , v - .` 1 `"" "4 , %.',,. .'-' ~„.-.„'"0 4- i .. .. = rA,s t p...C."4,01111k i . A.; , ''' )IF , ' 4 •4 1 1 1 , o c ' - ~,,, •l• • : - .IF•lot 7 " , o%•''' . .:' -.WOW! ' - '''a" r' ..• MR. GRANT'S NEW WORK, JOSEPH JE..NKINS ; or, Leaves from the Life of a Literary Man, in 3 vols., post Svo., by the Author of " Random Recollections of the Lords and Commons," " The Great Metropolis," &c. &c., IS NOW READY, And may be had at all Librariers and of all Booksellers. Saunders and Otley, Conduit -street. THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. LIELF-DEVOTION; OR, THE HISTORY OF KATHARINE RANDOLPH. Br the Authoress of " The Only Daughter." EDITEIYBY THE AUTHOR OF " THE SUBALTERN." " A perfect woman, nobly formed To warn, to comfort, to command; And yet a spirit still and bright, With something of an angel light." WORDSWORTH. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. COPLAND'S MEDICAL DICTIONARY. Published this day, Bvo., 4 s. 6 d. sewed , Part VIII. of ADICTIONARY of PRACTICAL MEDI CINE; comprising General Pathology, the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Morbid Structures, and the Disorders especially incidental to Climates, to the Sex, and to the diffe rent Epochs of Life, with numerous Prescriptions for the Medi cines recommended ; a Classification of Diseases, according to Pathological Principles ; a copious Bibliography, with Refe rences ; and an Appendix of improved Formulae ; the whole forming a Library of Pathology and Practical Medicine, and a Digest of Medical Literature. By JAMES COPLAND, M.D., F.R.S., &c. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. 8 200 MONEY DIVIDENDS will be divided on the 30th Instant, amongst EIGHT THOU SAND TWO HUNDRED SELECTED Bonds of the LOAN negotiated in the year 1820, and GUARANTEED by the GO VERNMENT and his Royal Highness the GRAND DUKE of BADEN. I Dividend 50,000 Florins 50,000 i Florns 1 do. 25,00 0 do. 1 do. 12,000 do. 1 de. 10,000 do. 1 do. 5,000 do. .. 8 do. 1,000 do. each 10 do. 500 do. each 10 do. 200 do. each 5 , )0 do. 110 do. each 22,000 do. 200 do. 105 do. each 967 do. 100 do. each 46,700 do. 7,300 do. 94 do. each 686,200 do. 8,200 Money Dividends, amounting to 892,900 Florins, or - £74,400 Sterling Money. 8,200 SELECTED Bonds, each of which is sure to obtain one of the above Dividends. Largest Dividend £4,166 13 4 Smallest Dividend £ 716 8 12 florins equal to £1 sterling, a trifle more or less, as per the day's exchange. ALL THE DIVIDENDS PAYABLE WITHOUT ANY DEDUCTION WHATEVER. Direct for the few Bonds which are still on sale, WITHOUT DELAY, to lIEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH. Bonds are on sale NOW at £l3. Against the end of this Month the price will rise to £l5, and the Sale will close before the end of this Alonth. Those who remit £l5 BEFORE the 15th instant, will re ceive an order for £2 upon our London Bankers, together with the Bond. To those ordering too late for being attended to, their re mittances will be returned by firstHEl post. NE BROTHERS. HAMBURGH, November 1, 1842. .§IIIT4 LONDON : THURSDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 10, 1842, Our Contemporary, the Chronicle, yesterday reminded the public of some resemblances be tween the condition of the country at present and under the Tory Government on the oth of November, 1830. If physically the condition of the people now is as bad as in 1830, and we are afraid it is 'much , worse, it is morally, in one respect, amazingly deteriorated. Then there was nothing like despair amongst them. Then they had a great party, abounding in popular leaders, to fall back upon, in soma of whom they placed the greatest confidence. Then the Whigs had not been in office for many years, and then the favourite panacea for every political disease had not been tried. The Parliament had not been reformed. The old boroughmongering Assembly existed with all its anomalies and absurdities, and then the public had great expectations from substituting the representation of masses of , population for the representation of Gatten and 1 Old Sarum. Then the community had robust hopes ; now the Whigs have been eleven years in office, the Parliament has been reformed for ten years, popular Ministers and popular mea sures have been tried, and the nation, without being relieved from physical sufferings, has had all its hopes cruelly blighted, till it borders on despair. It. has no longer any leaders whom it trusts, and themare no measures which it be lieves will bring healing on their wings. So far as politics are concerned, it is without a head, and without faith. The twelve years, however, have not passed without teaching impresssive lessons to both rulers and people. That the former have pro fited much by them we do not believe, for they still pursue, their old course. They still try to govern by deceit, and, that failing, they rely on force. They cling to old theories, and will not open their eyes to the facts which daily disprove them. flight or wrong they are determined to govern, as they suppose their predecessors did, in spite of the people (though that seems a mistake), and the last thing they consult is the opinion of the multitude. The people have at least learnt to mistrust them. We believe, too, that they have learnt that patience is a surer means of success than violence ; mobbing and outrages, from political causes, have becom e rare in the land. Self-education haik diffused many of its blessings over the masses, and their great distrust, for which we have mainly to thank, first the failure of the - Whigs, and now the failure of the Tories, is a symptom that the reign of po litical delusion draws to a close. It was for us a remarkable illustration of the progress of political knowledge to find the Chro nicle and the Post yesterday agreeing on a most important point. By i ts complaints of the present misrule of the Tori es , an d the present condition of the country, the Chronicle implies that the great measures of the Whigs have not answered the intention of their framers. The Post proved at considerable length that the principal of those measures, the Reform Act, had by no means rea lised the expectations of the people. Our Con temporary proved that it is amazingly easy to detect errors and, faults in institutions, but ex cessively difficult to ascertain the consequences of any great change in them. Thus we have it INCREASED DISTRESS IN LEEDS. We regret exceedingly to find that the condition of the working classes in this town is considerably worse now than it was in either of the years 1840 and 1841, bad as those years were. The most decisive proof of this fact is to be found in the following return of the amount of relief, given at the Leeds Workhouse, in the months of September and October of the years 1840, 1841, and 1842 respectively : AMOUNT OF RELIEF GIVEN AT THE LEEDS WORKHOUSE. 1840. 1841. 1842. September... £1,085 £1,198 £1,520 October* ... 1,523 1,796 2,139 £2,608 £2,994 £3,659 Thus it appears that the amount of relief paid in the two months of 1842 exceeded that paid in the corresponding two months of 1840 by 1,051/.—an increase of 40 per cent. on the amount paid in the year 1840 ! The following corroborative evidence was yesterday laid before us by a trustworthy person, who has made close personal inquiries of some of the principal stuff manufacturers in the East Ward of this town. He found that the amount of wages paid by three of the principal firms in the eight weeks following the Ist of September, in the three years, was as follows : WAGES PAID BY THREE FIRMS IN THE EAST WARD, IN EIGHT WEEKS OP SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1840, 1841, AND 1842. 1840. 1841. 1842. No. 1 2 3 £1,821 £1,680 £919 Here it appears that the wages paid in 1842 were only about one-half of the wages paid in 1840 ! Four other firms declared that they had this year paid one-third less wages in the months of September and October than in the corresponding months of 1841. In the same ward three flax mills have been closed, the owner of one of which, however, has opened a mill in another part of the town. It must be understood that the reduced amount of wages paid does not pro ceed from a lowered rate of wages, but entirely from the diminished quantity of work done. These facts afford us a sad prospect for the winter. * The month of October, in each of the three years, contained five pay-days. Protestant bigotry has, it seems, taken the alarm at th e Bi s h op o f London's ate Charge. We are not at all surprised at this, for it was a timid, time-serving affair—Puseyite in one pas sage, Anti-Puseyite in the next, enunciating no decided opinions on important matters, but dwelling chiefly on trivialities about which, as being wholly unconnected with relizion, no really religious man cares two straws. At a meeting of a Protestant Association, held in the thus ciues a ti l o l u n d : t t , o I t t h e is t a m a e, d J i s e g s r u a i c ti e - B r itish School - room at Hackney, on Monday last, Chairman the most illiterate H o d ge cou ld ctoalthCelciairlgueraiin. The have produced from the bible something more rHE STN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 10, 1842 applicable at this critical juncture. The Bishop Ought.. to have known better. The Protestant Association would stand no mock-modest non sense. They looked with suspicion on his Lord ship's tacit approval of tapers, and the wearing of black gowns in the church. Five years ago he compromised the honour of the Apostolic Church by extending the right hand of fellow ship to the Methodists, and now he was anxious to scrape acquaintance with the Puseyites." See what it is to be a timid, vacillating time-server! By oscillat ing like a pendulum between High Church and Low Church, and adhering steadily to neither, the Bishop of LONDON has alarmed all the bigots of the Establishment, while at the same time he has failed to win the confidence of the Moderates. High Church swears he is a Methodist; Low Church denounces him for a Puseyite ; and the Moderate party say that he is too cunning, too much of an expediency monger, to be trusted more than is absolutely necessary. " Any man," continued the Chairman, "no matter even if he be a Bishop, who was anxious to be wedded to Puseyism, ought to be hunted out of the Church, with a cry of stop thief!' " This is a bright conception, and how diverting in the execution ! Imagine the sleek, pursy Bishop of LONDON scuttling out of the Church as fast as his legs can carry him, and a pack of furious Pluralists in full cry at his heels, following scent with all the zeal and acumen of fox-hounds ! By rousing the bigots of Protestantism, and putting them to a man on the qui vice, the ghostly Prelate has done more harm to the temporal interests of the Establishment than he will be able to repair during his life-time. He has shown the world that Mother Church is so torn and weakened with schisms and divisions, that she is compelled, through one of her chief dignitaries, to tempo rise and coquet with her enemies, instead of opposing a bold front to them. The Assistant Poor-law Commissioners have at last made an official report respecting the condi tion and education of the pauper children in the extensive parish of St. Pancras. It extends to great length, but, with the exception of a few points, possesses no general interest. After ex pressing theirregret that the Directors had notpre vented all attempts, open or covert, at prosely tism, and announcing their determination to suffer no subsequent interference on the part of any party whatever, for the purpose of undermining the religious belief of the children, they furnish some curious statistical accounts in reference to religious instruction, if such an absurd system as that hitherto practised can deserve the name. It appears that while all the children attend one morning and one evening service eighty, at tend two morning services immediately succeed ing each other, and twenty-four are present at two morning and two evening services. All are engaged in religious services five hours during the Sunday; twenty-four are engaged for six hours and a-half, and none can be said to have more than two hours' relaxation, exclusive of meal hours, while twenty-four have only an hour and a-half! Now, if it had been the intention of the Directors, and Chaplain, and teachers to make the sacred "day of rest," and religious duties, utterly hateful to the youthful mind, they could not have devised a more effectual plan. Children thus harrassed by endless repetitions, and deprived of cheerful recreation during the whole of Sunday, must look forward to that day with fear and trembling. But the annoyance to which they are subjected, is the least part of the evil. They acquire little or no religious know ledge, but they acquire a dislike to churches, and sermons, and Sundays ; and when they grow up, and are left to the bent of their own inclinations, can any one wonder that they pre fer the ale-house to the parish church, or that they cast off all respect for parsons, and treat with contempt religious rites and ceremonies? This is the great and crying sin of our Sabbath worshippers in the North, who would make a day set apart for joy and gladness a day of gloom and sorrow, and thereby destroy one of the strongest incitements to the performance of religious duties. We rejoice, therefbre, that this important subject has been taken up by the Commissioners, and we quote with pleasure their concluding remarks, which will not be lost on the parish authorities :—" We feel persuaded that it is only necessary that the attention of the Directors of the poor should be called to these circumstances, to ensure the im mediate suspension of a practice so calculated to establish in the minds of the children associa tions of the worst tendency in reference to this ' day of rest,' and of cheerful religious service." Very few years have elapsed since it was the 1, practice, and perhaps it is yet the practice to some extent, in Edinburgh, to obtain much of the water for the supply of the houses from public pumps, around which a large group or long strings of barefooted maidens might be seen struggling for an early turn, or patiently wait ing till others were served, before they could obtain water for the family breakfast. In Paris it is yet the custom for men to carry water from the public fountains into the houses—at least the custom, which a few years ago was universal, is not yet extinct, and the water carriers formed a remarkable portion of the population of that -Nqw theie are two of the most refined cities of, the old world. Both are remarkable for thegreat literary and scientific attainments of their inhabitants, but in both were the houses to a - recent period supplied with water as we have described. Latterly it has been conducted into some houses both in Paris and Edinburgh as in London, and great were the exertions in both cities before it could be achieved, and great was the rejoicing when it was done. In Paris the Seine gave every facility for this purpose—in Edinburgh great difficulties were to be overcome. But what has been done at Paris and Edin burgh after ages of civilization and refinement, has been accomplished almost at once, and in perfection, at New York. -We published yester day in The Sun a brief notice of the ceremony observed in solemnly introducing the waters of the Croton into the city, and of the works neces sary to conduct it thither. By channels, sy hp ill n t os, hill,aq e t d h u o c c t s r , o c t a o r o r i i e s d c a o c o r d o o s e s t r e i d v e a r s d , i a s l o t d o fcreo of 45 miles into New York. The whole expense has been $9,000,000. The annual charge is esti ' mated at $600,000, and for this 75,000,000 gallons of water are conveyed, or three hogsheads for every inhabitant. London is supplied with 34,000,000 g-all on s for an annual sum of $1,380,000, and Paris is supplied with only 4,000,000 gallons, or two quarts for each inhabitant, for $750, 000. In Paris few houses have water conducted to their upper parts. In New York the water rises to the top of the highest houses. "The turning of a cock fills the tubs and culinary vessels of the kitchen in a moment, and almost as soon the 50- hogshead boilers of a steamboat." Looking at all its results, it perhaps deserve the praise of being one of the most useful undertakings of the kind that are recorded in the annals of the world. In our judgment the gigantic achievement does great honour to New York, though Mr. STEPHENS modestly said it had only followed ancient Rome at a respectable distance. If the modern republican city falls behind the ancient one, it certainly far surpasses all the Royal capitals, save one, which is also a commercial city of modern Europe. It is very gratifying also to read, that this great work has been con structed without one dollar being lost or dis honestly applied. It is equally creditable, therefore, to the genius and the morality of the Americans. It pains us to reflect that a work so worthy of universal commendation, should not have attracted the smallest notice or approba tion from a late much honoured visitor to the United States. The Madrid journals of the 31st ult., have ar rived, but contain little news. • El Corresponsal of the 31st ult. states, that a sanguinary contest had taken- place near Bonillo, between some Custom-house officers and a band of robbers. No details, however, are given. The Three per Cents. were done on the Madrid Bourse on the 31st ult. at 211 cash, and 211 at 60 days ; the Fives at 26, BO days ; the Treasury floating debt at 43i, at 60 days. The Paris papers are still occupied with the proceedings of the Delegates from different parts of France, which possess little interest for the English reader. Some few towns have exhibited a very different spirit, from that displayed by the monopolists of the north. The merchants and wine proprietors of Bourdeaux have ad dressed a letter to the Minister of Foreign Af fairs, disavowing all connection with the Dele gates, and at the same time approving of a com mercial union with Belgium. The Chamber of Commerce at Lyons have followed the example, but we fear without the slightest chance of mak ing an impression on their selfish opponents. The Courrier Francais gives the ibllovving ac count of the reception of the deputation of the manufacturers from Louviers, by the KING : His Majesty, after receiving the deputation very graciously, pointed out the irregularity of their pro ceeding, stating that he would refer to the Minister of Commerce the memorial which was presented to him against a customs' union with Belgium. In the conversation which ensued, he gave them to under stand that the lines of the French customs must be carried to the frontiers of the Netherlands, or Prus sian custom-house officers would be seen on the French frontiers. The deputation afterwards proceeded to the Ministers of Commerce, of the Interior, of War, and of Foreign Affairs. They found the two last but little disposed in favour of their demands ; but MM. Duchatel and Cunin-Gridaine appeared to think with them, and to prefer the extension of the Zollverein to that of the French customs. Among the members of the deputation were MM. F. Jourdain and Bibbon, and M. H. Passy, a deputy of the department of the Eure. The news from China and Affghanistan also afford matter for observation on the policy and aggressive spirit of ,the English in the East, and the more violent of the journals find consolation for the razzias of the French in Africa, by con trasting thee with some excesses committed by the British force near Jellalabad. We find the following on this subject in the Courrier Fran cais : The military excursion across the mountains and defiles of Affghanistan may be a consolation to Bri tish pride, but the power of the kingdom will gain no thing by it. Men will say to each other, that Great Britain has attempted the conquest of Affghanistan with immense means, in order to gratify an am bition still more gigantic ; that she had to contend with only half-savage tribes, disunited and badly armed, without cannon, without cavalry, without organisation; that she undertook this enterprise for the purpo , ,e of disputing with Russia the advance posts of the dominion in Asia, and that, after a barren occupation and overwhelming reverses, she was obliged to order an evacuation of the coun try. This is a great, an irreparable check ; but this is not all, for the English will leave in Affghanistan a detested name. The inclination. of their troops to waste and pillage has been marked during the war by the most abominable excesses. The former intelligence from Affghanistan stated that a body of troops sent from Jellalabad had burnt the Affghan villages, mur dered the men, violated the women, and that the greatest insubordination prevailed amongstthe soldiers of General Pollock. The Bombay journals, which are now before us, announce that the same troops have cut down the vines and felled the fruit trees, and that it will take the Affghans twenty years' labour to repair the disasters of this invasion. And the London journals will speak to us of excesses committed in Algeria, where our soldiers at least open roads, plant trees, till the fields, and protect the peaceable cultivators, keeping their arms for the marauders who infest the country ! The comparison, of course, cannot fail to be in favour of England, which mani fests her civilisation to barbarous nations only by the power which she displays in the means of destruction! The English, to indemnify themselves for the loss of men, money, and influence which they have just sus tained in Affghanistan ,;will probably seize on the Pun jaub, as they have seized on Scinde, in consequence of the intestine divisions afflicting that country since the death of Runjeet-Sing. This will be a rich cap ture, and will again be an instance of the right of the strongest, of which the conquest and administration of India by the English have so many examples. The speedy invasion of the Punjaub was not looked on at Bombay as a matter of doubt ; it could not be for any other purpose that the Governor-General had assem bled an army o f rese rve on the Sutledge, and another on the Scinde. Sing bequeathed to isuchhis the legacy which Ru n j ee t country ! The National, in adverting to the dispatches) draws the conclusion that the operations of the English in China are only proofs of the despe rate state of distress in our manufacturing dis tricts. "It appears," says that journal, " that the British armies in Affghanistan have com mitted frightful ravages, in order, no doubt, to leave there a souvenir of English progress. In China the position of the British force does not appear to have changed since the last dispatches. On the part of the invaders, it is always the same thirst for pillage, the same rage for destruction On the side of the Chinese, passive energy is op posed to invasion. The policy of the British was to excite revolutions in its favour through out the Celestial Empire, but, as yet, this policy has completely failed. It is probable that the English wiil persevere in their unjust ag gression, and that they will conclude by destroying with bomb shells the immense city in which the Emperor of China resides. But it is more than doubtful that they can ever establish themselves there. These events, it is true, affect us in appearance only indirectly, but it is not less worthy of interest to follow the British Govern ment in its march—a Government which would sacrifice the whole world for the sake of profit. What is now passing in China is not only at the same time a curious indication of the almost des perate state of distress to which England is re duced, but likewise affords,,,a usefuL: lesson for those who would:be tempted to allow themselves to be caught by the pretended philanthropy of our neighbours. 7t BOURSE—PAM, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 119 10... 119 10... 119 ... 119 412 per Cents 106 ... 106 ... 106 ... 106 Four per Cents 101 70... 101 70 .. 101 70... 101 70 3 per Cents 89 35... 90 35... 80 30... 80 35 Bank of France 3272 50...3280 ...3272 50.. 3280 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1052 50 ..1052 50...1052 50...1052 50 Belgian Fives 104 1031 ... 1031 ... 103* 1840 1 04 4 ... 1044 ... 1044 ... 104* Dutch 24 per Cents 83* 531 ... 531 831 Spanish Active 224 ... 224 ... 224 ... 22/1 Passive 4 ... 4 Neapolitan... lOB 90... 108 90... 108 90... 108 90 Roman RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain 862 50._ 865 ... 862 50... 865 Versailles, R.B 265 265 ... 265 ... 265 LB ... 96 25... 96 25... 95 ... 95 Rouen Orleans. Strasburg to Bale 206 25... 206 25... 206 25... 206 25 We noticed a paragraph in the Times of Tuesday respecting the Globe and Sun, but as it appeared to be put forth to injure the Herald and Chronicle we did not consider it deserving of any remark. As it has been adverted to, however, by other Journals, and among others by the Post, we may state, that we were indebted to that paper for the greater portion of the Indian intelligence ; and that we preferred it on account of its excellent arrangements and co pious details. We were also indebted to the Times, but that journal cannot justly complain that we omitted to notice the fact. We quote from it libe rally, and generally acknowledge the authority, though there may be occasional omissions, but we do not follow the example of certain journalists who not only appropri a t e ar ti c l e s from The Sun, but give the merit of them to some favourite rival. The G METROPOLITA N IMPROVEMENTS.-- ,OMMlS sioners of Woods and Forests have given notice that it is their intention to apply to Parliament early next session for an Act e mpowering them to widen and improve that part of the c arriage-road and side-foot way of Piccadilly, in the parish of St. George's, Hanover-square, which lies between Bolton-street, on the east, and Park-lane, on the west, and to take and use for that purpose (by her Majesty's permission) so much of the Green-park, in the parish of St. Martin's in-the-Fields, as will make it of a uniform width of seventy feet; it is likewise intended by the said Act to sever that portion of the Green-park so used from the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and annex it to that of St. George's, Hanover-square, so that after the carriage and footway shall be levelled and paved by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, they shall be henceforth maintained and kept in repair by the parish of St. George's, Hanover-square. Some months ago, an old Peninsula and Waterloo officer applied to Lord Hill for an ensigncy for his son without purch ase . The candidates name was placed on the crowded list at the Horse Guards, with a promise of early notice. On the Duke suc ceeding Lord Hill, hi s Grace's old follower again applied through an influential channel. The pithy but gratifying answer was, "The Duke has anticipated your wishes.' The lucky candidate will be gazetted to an old and distinguished corps on the Indian station in a few days. Here is a proof that " the Duke" has not forgotten hi., old followers. , —Limerick Chronicle. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Publtt tittOtt• " Who runs may read.' VOREIGN. The Paris papers give lengthened extracts from the dispatches brought by the Overland Mail, and make severe comments, as might be expected, on Bri tish, operations in China and Affghanistaw. Two articles on this subject will be found among the fo reign intelligence. The cold at Paris has for some days been very in tense. At midnight on Saturday the thermometer marked 29 deg Fahrenheit ; at six o'clock on Sunday morning 23 F., and at noon 3O F. The citizens of Bordeaux and the Chamber of Com merce of Lyons have sent a petition in favour of the Commercial Union of Belgium. The King of the Belgians arrived at Brussels on .Thursday evening from Paris, and immediately pro ceeded to the Palace of Lacken. It appears that his Majesty was not accompanied by the Queen, but that she was to leave Paris a few days after him. The Sultan, who will be twenty years of age nex April, has now eight children—two Sultans and six Sultanas—the eldest (a son) being two years old, and the youngest (a daughter) not a month. One of the Sultan's ladies gave birth to a daughter on the even ing- of the 18th, an event, writes cur correspondent, "now of weekly occurrence." The Frankfort papers of the sth announce that the Austrian Government had given its Consul at Bel grade orders to quit that town immediately, in order to remove from the " usurping Government" all hopes of being recognised by Austria. A letter from Constantinople, dated the 19th ult., announces that Ibrahim Pacha was hourly expected at Constantinople, in company with the ex- Capudan Pacha (Ahmed), whose pardon had been obtained through the intercession of Mehemq,Ali. The Austrian Government has made a treaty with the Swiss Executive s for the quick and daily convey ance of letters from Milan by the St. Gothard to Zu rich and Basle. Austria hopes, especially when the railroad is finished between Venice and Milan, that this will be the quickest road from the east to England. PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicle says :—" Amongst many differences, there are some remarkable points of similarity in the condition of the country at the present time, and its state during this month of November twelve years ago. We were then, as now, under a Peel and Wel lington Administration. Then it was just going out, and now it has just come in. Then it had recently emancipated the Roman Catholics,• as now it has modified the Corn-laws and the tariff. At that time, as at this, a hankering was manifested after a plot or conspiracy ; O'Connell serving the turn on that, as O'Connor on the present occasion. At both periods we find great alarm about mobs and mul titudes. And it is a like unlikeness that power was then lost by the party by sticking to its one Anti-Reform principle, and power has just now been gained for the party by the utter disregard of all principle whatever. One of the dissimilarities is, that if the Duke of Wellington does not dine at the Guild hall to-day, it is not from the apprehension of being mobbed. The multitude are not so addicted to mob bing as they were before the domination of Toryism had been interrupted. The peaceful and successful Reform agitation did something towards teaching them better manners. Practical freedom of the Press and of speech during eleven years of Whig govern ment has helped on. civilisation. A much severer distress is• less likely to explode in abusive violence. The multitude has learned to endure and forbear ; and this blessing we owe to Whig government, and the mental progress of the lower classes since 1830." We quote the following from the Times :—" We pub. lished yesterday the report of Lord Ellenborough's Finance Committee, and the letter in which the Go vernor-General acknowledges the value of their ser vices. We doubt not that their ' zeal, industry, and ability,' merit the compliment which he has thought their due. At the same time, it is almost a necessary consequence of this early publication of such results as have been already attained, that the report itself is very fat' from giving any evidence of the labour which has been expended upon it. The, mere words of the report are of little worth or interest. It professes little beyond roughly stating the difficulties which have prevented the Committee from accomplishing more than they have done, and the mode by which they have arrived at the result which they at present put forward as a kind of basis for future investigations. That result does not at present reach beyond Bergal and the North western provinces, and comprises only a classified tabular comparison of the public expendi ture under the item of contingencies' during the years 1830, 1831, and with that of 1840-41—a com parison which certainly presents a tolerably startling aspect. The total of these contingencies was in 1831 about 37 lacs of rupees ; in 1841 they have risen to upwards of 108 lacs. From this indeed is to be de ducted an amount of 31 lacs, expended on account of the wars in Caubul and China. But, even after this deduction, there remains an increase of upwards of 100 per cent. in the last ten years to be accounted for. That itun of the public expenditure which, in 1831, amounted to about 370,0001., has risen in 1841 to about 770,0001. This certainly is no promising opening for the investigation, and calls very loudly for that elucidation which it will, doubtless, receive. We hope that the inquiry will be pursued with the dtt3rmination with which it has been set on foot." MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Business was slack this afternoon in meet of the British Securities, but prices were generally main tained. 'There is some talk of the Bank of England reducing its rate of interest from 4 to 3 per cent., but we can hardly affirm that there is any foundation for it, inasmuch as money is too cheap already. The Bank, however, must necessarily suffer by its high cbarge. Consols realised 94 to 94*, both for money and time, and Exchequer Bills 595. to 61s. prem. Bank Stock rose to 172 and 173, and India Stock was steady at 258. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 1011 to 1018; the Old Three-and. a- Half per Cents., 1001 ; and the Reduced, 1001 to 1004. The Three per Cent. Annuities were 931 to 931. The additional transactions in the Foreign Market were of a very limited character, and did not establish any variation of interest in the current rates. Spa nish Actives were 18 to 18*, and the Three per Cents. 22 to 22*, being about previous quotations. Mexican receded a little, being 33i to 33* • Buenos Ayres were at 21i ; and these were the only South American investments dealt in. Portuguese New Fives were good at 381; the Old at 58 ; and the Converted at 33. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were 52* ; and the New Five per Cents., 981. In addition to the bargains noticed in our Share report this morning, we have to record the following as comprising the afternoon's business :—Great West ern, New, 12 ; Birmingham Thirds, 28* ; Paris and Rouen, 21 ; and South Western, 181 prem. Birming ham and Gloucester 59 ; Midland Counties, 344- ; and South Eastern Scrip, 2i discount. (From The Sun of Last Night.) In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday the sales .were 3,000 bales at previous quotations. Railway Shares were quiet, and without any material alteration. Accounts from St. Etienne state that the Silk-trade was improving, and that orders had been received from Germany, France, England, and even from the United States, so that the manufacturers were in better spirits. The expose of the affairs of the Bank of Manchester has excited much attention in the City, such a la mentable exhibit being indeed very seldom 'witnessed. The loss of 800,0001. in so short a period shows the entire rottenness, and the gross partiality, of the sys tem upon which the business of the concern was con ducted, and imperatively demands,, s was represented by one of the Shareholders, the payment of the de ficiency out of the pockets of the Directors. Legally, there can be no.question, the whole of the Shareholders are liable, and almost deserve their loss for not having more effectually controlled the actions of the managers they themselves elected. The fact is, however, that the annual or half-yearly meetings of the Proprietors in Joint Stock Companies are too often a mere matter of form, and the few questions asked are either over ruled by the close corporation which directs the affairs of the Company, or so vaguely answered as to leave the Proprietors as much in the dark as ever. It is evident that the only check upon Directory de linquencies is for the Proprietors to search narrowly into the accounts, which for this purpose ought to be always ready some time prior to the periodical meet ings. As to the talk of confidence in the Directors, &c., this is a convenient cloak for all manner of ras calities, and argues poorly for any concern. This famous plea was made in the case of the Bank of Manchester, and what has been the result, but the ruin of the whole establishment ? It is positively disgusting to witness such a perversion'of yhat should be a benefit to the whole community-41nt-stock banking. The Commercial Markets are rather dull, and the public sales very limited. By private contract we hear, however, that there has within the last few days been an increased amount of business transacted. A further small purchase has been made by the Government brokers, on account of the Savings' Banks. The quantity of Stock taken, however, did not exceed, we are informed, 5,0001. Again, we have to notice a further rise in Bank stock. The reasons assigned by, us for this rapid improvement in this Stock, we believe to be correct. There were puichases this morning at 173 for money, and at 174 for time. At the present moment, the prices are 1 per cent. lower. The Three-and-a-Half per Cents. continue to fall, while the Three per Cents. are looking up. The current price of the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. now is 1001 -, and of the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1011 *. The New Five per Cents., the interest upon which is guaranteed until 1875, have risen to 25 per cent. above par. Consols for Money have been quoted only at 94 and 94*; and for the Account precisely the same values have ruled to-day. Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities were firm at 931 but Exchequer Bills have receded from 61 to 59 premium. The market for Mexican Stock has not been quite so firm this morning; the prices having receded to 331. For the Spanish and Fortuguese Bonds there has been but a limited demand. Spanish Consols have been quoted to-day at 18 ; the Three per Cents. are flat at 22 ; Old Portuguese may be given at 58 ; the New Bonds at 381, and the Converted at 33. There is no alteration worth notice in the other Foreign Securities. The Share Market has been pretty firm to-day : London and Birmingham Railway Shares have again been sold at 92 premium ; the New Shares at 2711 premium ; the Great Western at 25 premium ; the New Shares at 11* 1 premium ; the Fifths do. at 4 premium ; the London and Brighton at 13* discount; the Loan Notes at 8 premium ; the South- Western at 181 premium ; the Paris and Rouen at 21 . premium ; the North Midland at 37 discount ; and the York and North Midland at 41i premium. The British North American Bank Shares were at 61 discount. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov.'B.—There is no improvement to note in our market. The prices are Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 281; Man chester and Birmingham, 191 to 19*; Sheffield and Manchester, 30 to 30/ ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 451 to 461 ; Union Bank of Manchester, 6*. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Rank Stock .173 3 per Cent. Red. ....,... 93i 3 per Cent. Cons.. 3i per Cent. New 3i per Cent... loli New 5 per Cell: 125 Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 ...... 124 Oct. 1859 Jan. Is6o l2 11-161 Austrian, 5 per cent. Belgian, 6 per ilrazilian Ronda... Buenos Ayres 6,per 21A chitian, 6 percent. • Colombian, 6 per cent —; bit to, 1824 Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 79 Danish, 3 per :ent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 33A Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian,lB2s,6 perct. India Stock 258 pm Ditto Bonds .... pm Ditto Old Annuities ... Ditto New Annuities... Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 59 pm Ditto 5001...... 59 pm Ditto Small ...... 59 pm Bank Stock for Acct. 173 India Stock for Acct... ; ; Consols for Acct. ...... 94 Y FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. 58 itto, New Ditto 3Bi Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 pet cent — Ditto, Metallic . .... Spanish, 5 per cent.,.... lit Ditto, Deferred . French, 5 per cent —f. —e. Exchange French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, 24 per cent. s2i Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 100 i SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 41 Ditto New Shares (17A paid) Eastern Counties (23 paid) . Ditto New (—paid) Ditto Debentures ( paid) Great Western, (65 paid) I)it.to New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) . London and Brighton (50 paid) 36A Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) .. ...... London and Blackwall ( paid) London and Birmingham (90) Ditto Thirds (32 paid) Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 59i London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ...) 10 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) North Midland Railway (100) . 63 Paris and Rouen (20 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid). Ditto Scrip (20 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ARGYLL HOUSE.—The Earl of Aberdeen, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, gave a Cabinet dinner on Tuesday. It was the rst Cabinet dinner given by the Members of the Government since last winter, previous to the assembling of Parliament, for it is a fact, that so engaged were the members of the Admi nistration throughout the last session with public busi ness, that those customary dinners were wholly dis pensed with. There were present last evening the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Wharn cliffe, Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, Earl of Ripon, Right Hon. Henry Goul burn, Earl of Haddington, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart., and Lord Lyndhurst. ACCIDENT TO LORD LONDONDERRY.—A corre spondent writes as follows :—" The Marquis of Lon donderry, when following the fox-hounds on Monday last, fell from his horse at Two-mile Houses near Stockton-on-Tees, and broke his right arm. His Lord ship was immediately conveyed to IVynyard Park, where he received surgical assistance." We believe that we may state with certainty that Mr. Alfred Dowling will be immediately raised to the dignity of a Sergeant-at-Law. There are, we understand, a number of applications for the coif by gentleman of the different law courts ; but nothing is decided with respect to them. TIIE INDIAN PRISONERS.—A correspondent of the Post states that the English prisoners taken by the Affghans, including the ladies, concerning w h om so much anxiety has been felt, have been removed by Akbar Khan to Bameen, seventy miles to the north west of Caubul. The removal, it is said, has been a consequence of the advancement of the British forces upon Caubul. I IA public meeting took place in Nottingham on Tuesday, to petition the Home Secretary for a, mitiga tion of the sentences of imprisonment passed on the 26 men found guilty on an alleged riot at the last Quarter Sessions, and to collect a subscription to support their dependent families. Resolutions to carry out both these objects were adopted unani mously. OPENING OF THE BELGIAN CHAMBERS. BRUSSELS, TUESDAY, HALF-PAST TWO O'CLOCK. — The King of the Belgians has just delivered his speech in the Chamber. of. Representatives. The following" are the main topics • The recent loan, the King says, was advantageously contracted, attesting the credit of the nation ; the law on Elementary Instruction is everywhere well— received. He announces the satisfactory conclu- ,; sion of the negotiation with the Cabinet of the: Hague; and says all the difficulties relative to the separation of the two countries have been resolved ; the two Powers have signed a Con vention of internal Navigation. A proposed con-7 vention with Spain has been negotiated, but must be approved of by the Chamber; new enactments and special powers, necessary on account of the coming railway communications with France and'Germany; Luxemburgh has received with gratitude the com pensation awarded her ; Limburgh, " a victim °f diplomatic necessities," is in expection of a law w hich will realise one of the boons of the last session; st a law to be proposed for factory children; new Ways and Means will be required by the financial state of the country; the Army is devoted to the present order of things; the Chamber is requested to persevere in the course pursued by it during the last session. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, under the command ofColonelThe ci " ton, and the second Regiment of Life -Guards, conl" manded by Colonel Reid, marched into the Little rack this morning, and fired a feu de joie in honour of the birthday of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wale s. The regiments afterwards marched in review or der. The Queen and .Prince Albert enjoyed their u su a l walk in the Home Park this morning, and aga in ' " 40 4 the afternoon took pedestrian exercise. , j , 4 14 Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci left the Castle t i °` I ,1 mornin ~4,11 A ~41 g. - 1 Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent p al visit this morning of congratulation to her Majest,i and Prince Albert, on the natal day of the Princ e • Wales, and remained to lunch. Her Royal ness - and Lady Charlotte Dundas will join the PI dinner circle at the Castle this evening. The I.° lowing have also been honoured with invitations I Lord and Lady Haddo, Major-General Wemyssi Mr. Anson. • , The Earl and Countess Bruce took their departure from the Castle on Saturday. Many of the tradespeople of the town have nated their houses this evening in honour of the auspicious event of the Prince of Wales's birthday. Her Majesty, and her Illustrious Consort and s u n' are expected to leave here to-morrow (ThursdaP,. morning, at about half-past seven o'clock, for %Ni ne ' Castle. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent rove° at Frogmore during the absence of the Court frail Windsor. • The Duke of Wellington left his residence, APs le i House, yesterday morning, for Dover. Baron 13runow, the Russian Minister, transac ted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Earl of Lincoln Chief Commissioner of h e e Woods and Forests, had an interview with Sir Peel yesterday, at his official residence in Dow ning , ~ • ' street. Sir James Graham and other Cabinet ginieet •• f ,) , ' ters had also interviews with the Right Hon. Barßar on .l r ,, s yesterday. ra ~1 ,)4/'' . Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-Gen!f 4, to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the - -elti ',, i o ,' tional Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor. 1e , 1 99, the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence l'. i,,0 , ' ~ .0 I 1 Downing-street. ~ ~, ' , ~,,i, , 11 Sir Henry Hardinge has left town. 41 1 l ' ' •, ............. ,1 , . , ' THE ILLUMINATIONS. s ' I Many, persons expected that the illuminati,oe it bea t . t• ,' would be on an extensive scale last evening, the first anniversary of the, birth of the Prince ° • .0' Wales, but they were disappointed. The very si l ts t ' ?l, ''; did not appear so well lighted as usual, and the ° „ j , e to 11°1 1 ' turned out wet, which caused many sight-seek er • , ‘I, turn in. Pall-mall contained but one solitary in u ; s ; 0 '4 1 . 1 ! nation—that of the Reform Club House. Ar e°D° ''i : '; 49 0- the principal were— ith r.% The Haymarket Theatre—An imperial croval• * !tg ,i,zol the letters P. W. in gas. eV. ,fyi United Service Club--A splendid scroll ie. n .' en .'' ('',/ with Prince ofWales'Feathers, and motto, "IchP l ; ,i' l°. f . • . •at 11 , Carlton Hotel—Large star. .4"' A " - / 29 Crockford's—Scroll in gas. t-eirel ls4 4 f Messrs. Williams and Hatton, of Regan- w ith 0 1 1 Oxford-street, hoisted a splendid blue satin fleg , _ i tr , , :-.; the arms of the Prince in the centre, bearing - ''''''._...o 4 7, l i scription in Welsh, which may be translated thus 4 ~,,,i) '" " T h e h e be l oveddory ofP l a ' P' ) Adelphi Theatre—A beautiful * p gas. i! .. Prince ancient t B th r e i t l og l n r as e r l ,t s ,e h r i s s tA b l e r rn , l7, These were almost the only illuminations. in ~•, f. . ,olt i MR. MACAULAY and the WHIGS' - , • L•l': TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. r 4 Le Sut,—As one in the habit of daily perusing Y ° , l : ' f ' l.l independent paper, I am rather surprised to see , °c ¢ , sionally, some very ill-natured remarks on Mr Al'if caulay, so very different from your usual course 41 conduct, that I confess I cannot comprehend it• .0 can hardly suppose that a private grudge can opeZ ave on your feelings regarding that gentleman. 1 " f a noticed Mr. Macaulay's conduct, as a p u blic men , to many years, and I think him a great benefactor ite the cause of public liberty. Surely it is poo r , sP te, to accuse a man of refined ideas and cultivated o"'_,.; with paying attention to and loving polite lit erate t° in my mind such pursuits are - highly creditable the Mr. Macaulay, and contrast most favourably yt... 4th , doings of such gentlemen as Lords Hertford, Vt . ' .`" fort, &c., &c. Yours, AN OLD ADMIR E ' [We willingly insert our " Admirer's" l ette e r : albeit it is not favourable to ourselves. We must t ; ist company it, however, with a positive assert i°ll , n o' we bear no grudge to Mr. Macaulay : we Io n " no 1 . thing of him but as a public man, and there is i re. writer of the day whose talents we more O l io . But as apublic man, who, on account of his talentlllio; been raised to one of the highest stations, we ‘ t oig• Mr. Macaulay, with the other leaders of the ' h iic• party, is much wanting in his duty to the P t ) re A The nation is in great di ffi culties, and has there right to expect that those whom it honours and i i s , s 0 ling , to follow, should zealously devote themse'stbe, 1 its service. It has a double right to expect OP," Whigs, who contributed to plunge it into culties, should exert them to extricate it. W. e for , sure Mr. Macaulay in common with the W r lng s e ies neglecting their duty. They are amusing theer es to with literary trifles, instead of exerting therose' v bO. rebuild the now scattered party of discreeto of thorough Reformers. They want all the h° l l, 3 o' • leadership without the trouble. That kind ofcondue eh 3 3 not succeed. When a score nearly ofclever men , su 111 r. Colonel Thompson, Mr. Sturge Mr. Cobde e l t ing Vincent, and Mr. Feargus O'Connor, are P t u he as' every possible engine into operation to gail l for th° those tier cendancy for their opinions and their poll*, 0 , th e Whigs to lie idle, or to divert their attention rr ° ye ll pressing public affairs of the country to tbe ye p to doubtful matters of early Roman history, 01. ,: l ose c clearing up some obscure points in the past , I '.. 1: j art tions of our country, is utterly to ruin the''' but Moreover, it is to risk the success of g,re' d 'W ° thorough Reform, and precipitate a revoltitl eli. Vl° censured Mr. Macaulay out of love, meanintion of could, to pique him into a due and proper ex . , n 'itif*" his great talents for the benefit of the cOI ED. Sun.] .. a ~ , 1 : 14 N 0 ov Y . 9 1) . 2 w S in H d I so P ut P he l r N l : fr . esh br _aese• : .. 11 DEAL, esm No , r l t No in o s N ter, and cloudy. 1.(1. , v. N B eW —W Z r e in a d lan N d ' Just l 9 moderate's'a:cfill S oe ll , • ' • (1 100; Diana, Bombay; Superb, Rio Janiero • ,'„, --- o otio "'; Castle, Jamaica ; Gibraltar, Dominica; 11;"7, - l ib.' ' Demerara ; Helen, Tobago ; British Queen; "l:•- -- FALMOUTH, Nov. B.—Wind N N.E., In uue---te. Sid. Tagus packet, Gibraltar. • United L i'Eß S P t ° a ° t States, , Nov. Bri t t o B n . , ca , Entaw, New York ‘ - v :- • - N IV e i n d York.S.l. , Jamaica • Royal Arrd. off, Hon - eAa. .., CLYDE, Nov. 7.—Sld Rebecca; Port Phillip. ~..,,,, t' HULL, Nov. B.—The Gertha, B reekwold, "" ...., I ° 4ll ' Altona to this port, was driven ashore on the n , ~• inst. at Mablethor . • . r) good c ° ~' dition, pe ; cargo discharging 1 wa s•••• , ( and the vessel expected off, should the ~;,:: ther moderate. in J tr ' l • CROOKHAYEN, Nov. s.—The Essex, fro m , __,,.,,,,, maica to London has been brought in here ito:filic,,.. having been fallen in with 30th ult. i .n lat. 4 6 9 10 , :_. :it' ', abandoned, rudder gone, &c., with five feet want_ii', AlbeiSifedh.,tisdr;ses.ll: ,: her hold, by the Pauline Houghton, Tait, fromly* ritius to London, which vessel put on board the forme r " . ~,, her chief-mate and part of crew. The following- has been posted at Lloyd's ;1; 15 4,.. Hydrographic Office, Admiraq, Ne v • AvSO NOTICE TO MARINERS. —GUI OF C H: LIGHT (NORTHERN ENTR,A.N 0.10E):00.8- The following has been rec eived by her I‘ l Government : a CO St is The Commissioners of Lighthouses of /s.ov last a „ have given notice, that on the 29th of JT.',: of the lighthouse was established on the western in iat. 4 6 northern entrance of the Gut of Causo ipi The • Nv • deg. 42 min. N., and lon. 61 deg. 27 nun. the sh °re ' tower, painted white, stands 120 yards from levee of and exhibits a fixed light 115 feet above the _la t he the sea. It may be seen from the greater 5 1 ' a s Pliretnilt.- • Bay of St. George and the shores of CaPe , s o der far as Port Hood. There is good anchoragu the lighthouse with the wind off the land.ia soicet Died, lately, at Ruinney Ironworks, • A.-'_ , arat aged 108. She was the mother, grandmother _i; ,10&,,,, grandmother, and great-great-grandnwther Q+ children. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The late Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Hussey, who died on Sunday last in Huntingdonshire, ably distin guished himself at the capture of Port-au-Prince, rendered considerable service at the passage of the Dardanelles in 1807, and commanded the Montague at the reduction of St. Maura in 1813. He served as Sheriff of Huntingdonshire in 1839, and was subse quently Deputy-Lieutenant for the county. LAW AND POLICE. William Appleton, Edward Carrington, and James Nicholls, were charged at Union Hall with commit ing a highway robbery, attended with violence, and were committed. 2VIEZIXCAL. At the meeting of the British Medical Association, held on Tuesday in Cockspur-street, it was resolved that the medical practitioners throughout the kingdom should unite into one general representative body, with an uniform and equal system of admission and education; and. that Committees should be formed to carry this purpose into effect. Sir James Graham's proposed measure on this subject was condemnek'd insufficient. SPORTING. Another large draught from the Earl of Chester field's stock was sold on Monday at Tattersall's. Several race-horses, hunters, and steeple-chasers, brought from 100 to 150 guineas. COUR.T-WASHIONA.BLE. The Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Inverness arrived on Thursday last on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Zetland, from Auckland Castle, Durham. His Imperial Highness, the Archduke Frederick of Austria visited Cheltenham on Friday last. - The Duchess of Buccleuch remains at Dalkeith Palace, during the Duke's absence in town on official business. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset have been re ceiving a select circle at Stover House, near Totnes. The Duke of Leeds left Mar Lodge, in the High lands, last week for Kelso. The Marquis of Londonderry has returned to Wyn yard Park, from Scotland. The Earl of Lonsdale still remains in town in im proved health. The Earl and Countess of Glengall are expected to leave Caher Castle, Tipperary, on the 15th instant, for town. The Countess of Jersey has left town for Middleton Park, near Bicester. _ _ Earl and Countess Cadogan made a brief sojourn at Paris, on their route to Italy. Lord Plunket left town on Saturday for his seat, Old Connaught, Wicklow. MISCELLANEOUS. The last meeting of the Commissioners under the bankruptcy of Messrs. Wigney, took place at Brigh ton on Wednesday, when some remaining debts were proved. A spy was convicted at Tipperary at the last Quarter Sessions for robbing the police, to whom he was in the habit of giving information, of a gun. He was convicted of the felony, and the barrister, in sen tencing him to transportation made some just obser vations on the prisoner's calling, which, he said, was not more dangerous to the innocent victims he might have ensnared, than to justice, of which he was a most unworthy ally. ESCAPE or A LUNATlC.—Tuesday morning, about seven o'clock, as police constable Henry Allen, E 59, was on his beat in Rathbone-place, Tottenham-court road, he found a female, aged about 18, seated in her night clothes on the step of a street door, and hav ing a pillow under her head which was resting against the door. O n questioning her, she told the constable an extraordinary story about having been attacked by a wolf, or some other wild beast, in a place which she spoke of as " the castle" at Black burn, and said that her family were people of immense property, and that it had cost a great deal of money to save her life. The police constable being imme• diately convinced of her insanity, conveyed her in a cab to St. Pancras workhouse, where she will be pro perly taken care of until her friends or relatives come forward to own her. _ _ The Hon. Albani Drummond Willoughby, only son of the Lord Great Chamberlain, coes of age on the 25th of next month, Christmas-day, - when the event will be celebrated at Grimsthorpe Castle, where Lord and Lady Willoughby and family have arrived from town - ,__