The Sun. — London, England, 1842-09-10 00:00:00

HAMBURGii, 12TH AUGUST, 1842. HIS ESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, HIS MAJESTY the EMPEitOR of RUSSIA, AND HIS ItIAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA, Having A UTHORISED and G UA RAN'TEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, by which, though they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES may be obtained. H - EINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are Selling GENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS • for the said DISTRIBUTIONS. Persons desirous to purchase may re:eive. PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS with full PARTI CULARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. The Public is respectfully informed that Miss Adel•idelKemble being sufficiently recov• red than hor severe indisposition, THE THEATRE WILL OPEN THIS EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, when Will be performed Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison; Oroveso, Mr. Giubilei; Flavius, Mr. Binge; Norma, Miss Adelaide Kemble; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth; Clotilda, Miss ne. After which will be produced a New Comedy, in Two A ets, writ. ten by Douglas. Jerrold.'Esq., entitled GERTRUDE'S CHERRIES, OR WATERLOO IN 1835 —Willoughby, Mr. Bartley; Vincent, Or. W. Lacy ; Guibert, Mr. Diddeari Jack Halcyon, Mr. Har ey ; Crossbone, Mr. Meadows; Angelica, Aisle Cooper ; Mrs. Crossbone, Mrs. Huniby ; Gertrude. Mrs. W. Lacy. Doers open at half-past and the Performances begin at Seven. Drees Boxes 75.. Second l'rice 3s. 6,1 First and Second Circles 55.. Second Price *is. 6d. ; Pit ' Seeond Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whitlow, at the Box. (Mice. from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Prirate Boxes to be had at the Box.Otti e; of Mr. Andrews, DM New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond street; and of Mr. hams Pall Mall. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, Will be acted. Colley Grattan's Historical Play of BEN NAZIR, 'rl 1! .Art - A CEN.—Ben Nazir, Mr Butler (as acted by him at all the principal Theatres it) America); King Charles, Mr. H. Hughes; Eraerance, Mrs. H. Vining. After which, an New Petite Serio-Comic Drama, entitled THE WELCObIr. HOME.— nat Merton by Mr. R Monner. To be - followed by the Comie Extravaganza of ANGELS ANO LUClFERS.—Benjamin Brimstone, Mr. G. Wild; Sally Gingham Miss Terrey. To 'conclude with the langhable Entertainment called MY MAN TOM.—Ten Chat; Mr 0. Wild ; Mrs. Kate Moreton, Miss E. Ter reyr.who will sing.' Kate Kearney." Places and Private Soxes may be t ad of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Tex-Office, from Eleven till Four daily. THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. • A Great Hit—" Life in Dublin !" . M. Carter, the Lion King, and his highly trained animals of the De. sert will ap ear on MoAay next ,'• THIS ININ G, SEPTEMBER - 10. , The Performances wx commence with CLA R.l.—Characters by Messrs. Howard, Hain s, Oxbarry, Misses Melville, Holmes. and Isaa a, and Mrs. Gras by. After which, the Farce of WHERE SHALL I DINE P—Sponge,; Mr. Plowa d; Diggory, Mr. Oxberry ; Dorotnea Grumpy, Miss Melville, To conclude wl'h a Novel Burletta, written by Pierce Egan, Esq., Cull Of fun, frolie, and whim, called LIFE IN DUBlAN.—Corin_ • titian Tom, Mr. Wm. Howard; Jerry, Mr. J. T. Haines; Jemmy Green, Mr. Oxberry ; Logic, Mr. Hollingsworth ; Mrs. Green, Miss L. llfelvill ; Kate Brilliant, Miss rescott Watde ; Betsey Tasteful - mi. R. Isaacs; Rose Dasnall. Miss Beresford. < Boxes, 4s. Pit, Qs.— Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six ; commence at Seven; Half-price, a Quarter before Nine Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-officz ; „ aad of Messrs. Andrews, Mitchell, Sama, and Baily, at theit Libraries. • ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. ,First performirce of a new Fantasia, " Em Strauss von Handel !" The Girandola wilt commence this week at Half-past Eight. GRAND EVENING FETES, MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY, with the fo:lowiug matchless combination of uniq e attractions:—= The celebrated MENAGERIE, recently enriched by several Zoo. logical rarities. The stupendous TYPO R A MIC MODEL A L.FRESC 0 of ROME from the left bank of the Tiber. ,„. The PROMENADES M itSICALO3 by the unrivalled Bind of "Wind "Instruments, conducted by Mr. Godfrey including Seethe, ven's Sinfonia in C minor, the Grand Due Dove Vai " from Guillaume Tell " performed • y Handley and Prospere, a new se lectio.i of favourite morceaux from the works of Handel. and a va riety of'popular pieces. Atter thq..Concert the Illumination of St. Peter's, and the Giran dola of Sahrit.Angelo, with Southby's magnificent Pyrotechnic Spec- Extyliordinary Aquatic Fireworks n the Lake, and Superb Cascade of Admission to the whole of the Entertainments, One Shilling. Open at Ten ih the Morning.—Feeding at Five.—Concertat Half past Five.—Firewoiks at Half.plst Eight, ROYAL SURItEY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. THE LAST FLOWER SHOW OF THE SEASON, NEXT TUESDAY, SEPT 13. The COM NIITTEE of the ROYAL SOUTH LONDON FLORI CULTURAL SOCIETY have the honour to announce that the GRAND AUTUMNAL DAHLIA SHOW, and Miscellaneous Ex hibition of FLOWERS, FRUIT, and VEGETABLES, will take place on TUESDAY, SEPT. 13. SEVENTY-THREE GOLD and SILVER MEDALS_ will be awarded as Prizes. Two Gold and Twenty-one Silver Medals for Dahlias, stands of 12, 24, and 50 dissimilar blooms ; and Fifty other Prizes for Miscellaneous Plants, Asters, Hearts'-ease, Rose., Cut Flowers, British.grown Fruit, Pines, Grapes, Vegetables, Or chides, Specimen Plants, Seedlings, &c. Subjects for Exhibition must be in the Gardens before Ten o'clock, or they will positively be excluded, the great number of entries ren derirg it necessary peremptorily to enforce this rule. Prize Lists and Regulations for Exhibitors may be had at the Gar dens. or of the Honorary Secretary, It. H. Cunning. Esq. HUM W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. M Ailing.... 13 minutes after 51 Evening 35 minutes after 5. men. They may learn that, but it is impossible to see railroads, self-acting mules, and power looms without being convinced that the arts by which men can be fed and clothed, are for ever taking new forms—are for ever, as it were, in pro gress of development or creation, and can never be known beforehand by the law. Yet while it can neither feed nor clothe the people, while it knows nothing whatever of the means they have in store for clothing and feeding themselves, it pro hibits the exercise of their industry, the develop ment of their arts, and dooms them, as we now see, to poverty and discontent—to disease, fa mine, and death. • The extreme folly of its proceeding is made evident by the arguments which are put forth' to justify it. It is said that the people ought to feed themselves by means of the soil to which the law confines them. Agriculture is infinitely preferable to manufactureE , as a means of feeding and clothing the people, and therefore they must cultivate the ground. Now it is one fact that population is increasing rapidly; it is another fact that agriculture, in the progress of society, demands fewer and fewer hands. As knowledge and skill supply the place of strength, a conti nually decreasing proportion of the society is required to cultivate the ground. This process has been for centuries uninterrupted. Agri culture, therefore, however far it may be pushed, and the more skilfully and scientifically it is car ried out, the fewer hands it requires, can give . no employment, and no food—for those who grow it will only exchange it for something else—to an increasing population, and consequently no means by which that population can feed and clothe itself. It is hence not merely foolish, it ispalpably absurd, to attempt to limit an increas ing population to agriculture as the means of getting food and clothing. The reverse is the case with manufactures, In them new arts are continually called into existence, which require an ever-increasing po pulation. Steam-engines, gas, cotton-spinning, and weaving, railways, locomotive machines, and all the countless arts and contrivances which belong to what is called the manufacturing system, now feed and clothe more than half the population of England, that half being greater than the whole population which a century ago found food and clothing from agriculture and manufactures together. Agriculture now em ploys fewer people than formerly. On the one hand, therefore, agriculture, in its progress, re quires fewer and fewer people, while manufac tures, on the other, demand an ever-in creasing number, and will enable them to provide an abundance of food and clothing Re themselves. Now, the law which cannot feed and clothe the people, with folly unspeakable, with recklessness unparalleled—while it pretends to watch over the people, by impeding and pro hibiting the extension of manufactures, actually and cruelly prohibits the increasing people from feeding and clothing themselves. If our view be correct—strange as the deduction may ap pear, and recently as the law has been restored, as is said, to its supremacy—it follows that the law must, in one sense, be deposed before the increasing people can feed and clothe themselves, and before that great and ever-growing abun dance which all desire—the result of individual exertion—can revisit the land. So we answer the now all-important question—What is to be done for the people ? How are they to be fed and clothed? If the Times means by asserting that general rules are not to be the masters but the servants of man, that there are no general rules so sacred that man may not inquire into them, and show, if he can, their inutility, or their incorrectness. we do not differ from the Times. We think nothing which concerns human conduct is too abstruse for human investigation. If our Con temporary be disposed to justify certain states men or landowners, by demonstrating that the two general rules, "Thou shalt not steal," " Thou shalt not kill," are not applicable to the affairs of England, we do not object to his making the at tempt. What we object to is the implied admis sion that it general rule is correct, that the records of experience embodied in it are properly stated, and that yet men, in obedience to a mo mentary apprehension, or in order to gratify an unworthy caprice, may wilfully set it aside. The reasoning of the Times strikes, we affirm, at the root of all morality, and, therefore, we dis sent from it, and hold it up to public notice, and, we hope, to public censure. Our Contemporary applies his doctrine to one general rule, that the Legislature ought not to interfere between employers and the persons they employ. If that rule be not correct as to the cotton-spinners and coal-owners, it cannot be cor rect in other employments; and if the Legisla ture, or the Magistrates, may interfere with them to ensure the workmen ample wages,it may, according to PALEY'S doctrine, in the same manner and from the same motives interfere with all other trades. Let us apply the doctrine to the Times itself. At present, that journal has a numerous body of editors, reporters, correspondents, compositors, engine-men, agents, clerks, &c., &c., all of whom have been nourished and supported, " called into being" as reporters, editors, &c., by the success of the Times. Suppose that journal to dwindle down to the level of the late Courier, and drag on a scarcely lingering existence, instead of having every day three pages of advertisements, and 10,000 or 20,000 subscribers --according to the rule laid down by the . Times, that journal must continue to support all the persons it at present employs at the same rate of wages. If it turn them off or lower their salaries, as the master manufac turers have turned off their hands because they make no profit by employing them, they may, appeal against it to a benevolent and well meaning public, and find enlightened journalists to rail against it, and require the Legislature to compel the Times to support the army of report ers, editors, and correspondents it has called into being. We congratulate those gentlemen on having, according to the doctrine of the Times, a life-long lien on that journal, or on Mr. WALTER'S estate, liwho, whether he want them or not, must, on the doctrine of the Times, con tinue to pay and employ them. For our parts we maintain the general rule; we affirm that our Legislature wholly composed of the master class, and mainly elected by it, cannot with any show of justice, be called on to interfere with, or regulate wages. The CHARTER, at least, must become the law of the land, before it can have the semblance of justice to place the con trol of wages in the hands of the Legislature. What do the young ensigns, ship captains, top ping lawyers, and dandy noblemen who com pose it, know about wages, or the natural laws which regulate wages? How can it be expected that they should calmly and patiently consider all the claims of workmen, and all the variations which are continually taking place in their skill and occupations ? In Manchester the same rate of wages, as a man works with good or bad ma chinery, amply rewards him, or dooms him to starvation. An improvement in a loom enables one man to do the work of half a dozen ; by what rule can the Parliament apportion his reward ? Not only must the CHARTER be made the law before it can be just to place the regulation of wages in the hands of the Legislature, but that body must h e org anized in a totally different manne r before it could pretend to regulate the rate of wages with accuracy or fairness. It has occasionally tried its hand at this, and • what h as been the result? W e w ill quote a piinciples o f Political passag e h ere from Mr. MALTHUS'S work, Economy:— "Thestatuteoflabour - the King, f or t h e most unjust and impolitic venting th e pr i ce of was enacted in 1350, purpose of pre -1350, the 25th of labour front rising after the great pestilence." In the subsequent period of Edward lll's. reign, the labourer appears ab to have been much worse off. The statute of I said, enforced very years out of twencitLtsi:riin rigidly, notwithstanding a consider ,rers was . renewed, and, it is rn consider able rise in the price of , a s nd a n an average of the thir teen b which the prices of wheat are noticed, the 4 or d t I l ih s. 9d., which is about Is. 51-d. the bushel this price, if the wages of labou r had 2. peck.e At dition of the labourers would very not risen, the con dition miserable. He would not be able to purchase as ranch as half a peck of wheat by a day's labour." But we have just seen that a law was passed to prevent wages rising when corn rose, and 4 44 -4‘ Ak:. IPrArlik ka ' 4 I ' C 3 4 3: 00Arf. . I , ~.* ') C. bti in' 34 -' f. • - ':•• `‘'.. • - 1:45 1 1".„ .0. :'0 .-' - ' ' - . i‘'''', , ':"• ,-'I ,' ' ' ' - ' llW' ''' l' 1 Tht _Sun. LONDON : S ATI/MD.IY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1842. Now that the supremacy of the law is fully pestored, as we are assured by the Tories, the question recurs with more force than ever, what is to be done for the people The law will not feed and clothe them, nor provide them with fhel and lodging. The harvest is happily abundant, and there will be on the whole, in - eluding the quantity of food imported, a greater quantity this than last year. As yet, however, no impulse has been given to enterprise. There may be no great increase of employment, and thero may therefore be a deficiency in the means • of purchasing food ; but the comparative abundance will enable the Ministers, and the Parliament, and the public, to consider the question, what is to be done for the people under favourable auspices? It being quite clear that the law, however surpreme and powerful, can neither feed nor clothe the people ; equally clear that all the offi cers and servants of the State, including the all powerful soldiery and police, are fed and clothed by the industrious people ; and equally clear that the landlords live on the produce of other men's labour, and can provide nothing for them ; the question recurs with as great urgency as ever, notwithstanding the triumph of land lords, of the soldiery, and the law, how are the people to he amply fed, comfortably lodged, and warmly clothed ? The Corn-law will not effect this, the importation of cattle will not effect it, the alteration in the timber and coffee duties will not effect it. What will ? It requires no evidence to prove that at present a great number of the people are inadequately fed, very poorly clothed, and very unwhole somely lodged. It requires, too, no evidence to prove, that though badly fed, lodged, and clothed, they increase in number, competing with one another for what they can get, so that a still greater proportion of the whole society will become badly- clothed, lodged, and fed, and the whole be deteriorated, unless an abundance of food, clothing, and comfortable houses be provided. After all that can be said or written, to provide individuals and society with abund ance i s t he main end and object, not only of all legislation—for even the security, which penal . laws are supposed to guarantee, is chiefly valu able because it enables man to sow and reap in Peace—but of all human toils, including all the fine -arts and all trade ; and any legislation which, "it-our-present condition, does not contemplate •-•"` ensUring abundance as its great end, is at least 1.24 triihno• and t” unworthy the attention of a rational AOd -serious- man. As the law, . however, can wtherfeed nor clothe the people, what can ? S ature,- bounteous, harmonious Na ture, in iliekting the wants treats the means of gratifying A , them. She unites muscular power with appe tite ; 'in her system, the mouth which craves and the hand whiCh can supply So go together. provident is she, that she brings no human being into the world, as the rule, without preparing its . food in the bream of the mother fora certain time beforehand. Where the wants are, there - exists the power of supplying them, and conse quently it is the duty of every man to feed and clothe himself. As the rule, too, he does it; and • -no State has yet taken on itself the du t y o • f feeding and clothing its subjects. What the law, in all its supremacy, can not, individuals 49mi ,can do. They can feed and clothe themselves; 'AsastfAhey can procure abundance ; and all they re .. (Wire of the law, all which it can accomplish, ho vever powerful, subtle, and refined, is to pro tect individuals while they are feeding and clothing themselves, or performing some useful lahour for which they can obtain food a n d cZothiiig. - In fact, so to protnet individuals and give them • /security, is the prof:lssed object and end of all (1164 institutions ; but our law, far from keeping this object in view, far t':"om protecting people in their honest exertions to procure food and c10th .... ing for themselves, absolutely prohibits them from providing for themse.i.vele Like some great • camp of prowling Indians, hovering round the settlement of civilised mon, it henis them in.. .- as its - prey, .and keeps them from expanding: hit° the neighbouring fields, which invite their . itricluStry. Of the arts by q Melt man can be clothed and fed, it is necessarily more ignorant ~ ..than; ar e . the Indians of the skill of civilised THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1842. such laws would be again passed if the master class in Parliament was entrusted with the power of regulating wages. But they cannot be entrusted to keep them up without also placing in their hands the power to beat them down. In 1682, under the influence of laws re gulating wages, the labourer could hardly .com mand as much as three-quarters of a peck of wheat. Without referring to more-details, by which it appears that the labourer has always been kept by law on the verge of starvation, ,we shall content ourselves with quoting Mr. MAL-. Tuus's opinion as to the effect of a psuedo bene volent attempt to regulate wages. Speaking of the fall in the value of money which took place between 1793 and 1814, he says-- " I am strongly of opinion, that if the price of labour had not been kept down by artificial.means, it would have risen higher in proportion than the average price of corn ; and the opinion is fairly borne out by facts." " It is known that in many counties, and in the southern parts of England, wages in 1810 and 1811 were unnatu rally kept down to 125., 10s., 95., and even is. 6d., by the baneful system of regularly maintaining the chil dren of the poor out of the rates. It may be fairly con cluded, if this system had not prevailed, the wages of labour would have risen higher than the price of wheat." For the interest of the labourers, therefore, whether the Legislature pass statutes, or Magi strates make orders, there must 'be' nd interfe rence with wages. It would be impossible to prevent self-interest turning the interference to its own advantage. The right to interfere must add to the power of the Legislature over the workman, and make him more than ever a slave. As to the masters, and as to society, one con sideration will suffice .to show the injuriousness of departing from the general rule. It would be a palpable and forced spoliation of the property of the masters. We take it for granted that the occupations of the masters, which enrich them, are beneficial to society. The masters en gage in those occupations for the sake of pro fit; to despoil the masters would destroy their profit, and would put an end to their occu pations. Labourers, masters, and society at large, therefore, would all be grievously injured by not observing the general rule not to inter fere between masters and workmen. The only way in which they can fairly divide betwixt them the produce of their united labour is by free competition, or what is called the higgling of the market. Competition must, however, be completely and thoroughly free. Two principles now divide society—free competition and minute regulation ; as the former is established, each individual will find his wages determined by the markets of the world; as the latter triumphs, the Legislature will reward him sedan ses ceuvres. THE. GREAT AUCTIONEER. (From,Bentley's Miscellany for September.) The following amusing portraiture will afford some entertainment -to our readers---it is so intelligently written that it can leave no doubt about the original :-- At the head of the list of auctioneers of the pre sent. day stands a gentleman of such high endow ments and unquestionable superiority in his vocation, that I hardly dare presume to attempt his portraiture. He -is a grand remove above the general caste of his order. in his person is concentrated all the aristo cracy -of his calling. He is in the Auction Mart what Rothschild used to be on 'Change, or what Da niel:Lambert would have been at Guildhall, had he been a member of the City Corporation, a triton among the -minnows, a perfect leviathan, or, as the geologists would have it, a perfect iguanadon. He stands alone —not only in the box, but in the eye pf the world, and of his pigmy•brethren of the hammer. The appearance of this gentleman in public is heralded by the advertisement for several months in the prinCi pal newspapers of a programme of his approaching sales, which presents as fair a specimen as pen could supply .of the plausive :and alluring powers, by the exercise of which his great professional eminence is been achieved. These effusions are unlike anything which ancient or modern literature affords, or rather, they combine the perfections of both, and in the mix ture of perspicuity, luxuriance, and refinement, which pervade them, as compositions they may be said to be without a parallel. He has the happy faculty of in-._ ~vesting• a -genteel residence with supernatural en chantments, and of transporting his readers, all in the way of business, into the regions of fairy land where splendour and beauty strive for the mastery. And he does it without drawing an invention for a fact, or presuming to enter one item in his catalogue which an inspection of the estate does not justify. His effects are wrought by -the sheer art of colouring. Where an ordinary auctioneer would give. a descrip-: tion of a site, he will give a history of a site, and gar nish it with a train of pleasing and romantic associa tions. He exhausts the pictorial beauties of hi 3 scene and " then imagines new." The vegetable world he endues with spirituality, and will give the ivy credit for ingenuity, as well as devotion to the domain that cherishes it, in the grace and order with which it en twines itself round the walls. Rocks he inspires with symmetry, and embryo chalybeates are incubated by his magic touch. Pomp and retirement are offered in equal perfection; here the tournaments of ancient days might be transcended, and yet Zimmerman have ' found inspiration for his muse. The thought that suggests itself to the mind on perusing these things is, how can the man knock down so many paradises ? Is he a destroying angel in disguise-? or is it " Cain's jawbone," he wieldeth in his left hand, miscalling it a hammer ? On the day appointed, and within five or ten mi nutes after the hour fixed for business, he is announced by the ringing of a bell, a cluster of eager-looking persons in the lobby are seen wending towards the auction-room, headed by a tall, hale-looking man, about fifty years of age, holding some papers in his hand, and talking (without looking at any one as he moves) in a loud nasal tone and peremptory manner. He ascends the pulpit, and takes his seat, where he is seen more at leisure. On the occasion when I had the pleasure of seeing him he was dressed in a pea green frock coat and velvet collar, white trousers and shoes, a buff waistcoat, and o. bright blue stock, sur mounted by an ample pair of gills, and aphysiognomy to which only M. Claudet, when the sun, as the auctioneer is fond of saying , "is pleased to shine upon us," could do full justice — a head not over burthoned with hair, a forehead of ample develop ment, a rough weather-beaten complexion, and a pair of dark destructive -looking eyes, quick in motion•and various in expression, by nature wrathful, often watchful, playful if need be, and , where the interests and o of hi f s u p n r . inc r i fe al lo d o e k m s sparklin g c ompound of the sportsman,d it, with merriment the comedian, and the sea captain, possessing con siderable patronage, and of an iron constitution. A glass of water is brought up and placed beside him, slightly coloured. He arranges his papers, and, rubbing his glasses, surveys his congregation, recog nisinghere and there one , and h o nouring each with agen: f thetleinflection no means amounting t o a sm il e , of the head, and a slight contrac tionunless where he recognises a c apitalist or a distin guished intime , when, sportive as a kitten, genial as mine host of the tavern, and yet with something of caus ticity in his humour, he cries to him to "come into Court," leaving no escape for the capitalist, who obeys the injunction and advances within whisper- s h o t o f his tutelary friend, for there's more between them than meets the cursory ear, and the capitalist is not one of the loungers. He then, still seated, call s upon thecler f k or ttohere tae d dio th us e ne ' s ‘ s co o n f di t t h io nt ns ee o r f ern S: o d ny, e," apolo gisingwhich he owns to be "flat and unprofitable,'!' -:indeed h e avows that, with Shakspeare, he may exclaim, " they would be more honoured in the breach than the ob servance;" asseverating viva voce, that if ever lines were applicable, those lines of the great bard were ipplicable to the reading of " conditions of sale ;" but to which, however,-he patiently,listens, with his eye-glasses over his nose, and 'a copy.of the "unpro fitable"" flat " before him. Inter ruptions begin to arise. Gentlemen with ready money w ill ask questions. It is uflnil avail for the auctioneer to tell them that , the title is unquestioned, documentnow lying that the Lord Chancellor has confirmed its validity in a Court of Equ it y , and th at , as far as that point goes, omnoer mi g hta 0 oneself happy ab ou t it, an d without sleep, and " End the heartache, And the thousand natural car es th a t flesh is heir to,"— he " mus t be satisfied," and catechises the advocate accordingly:—the catechumen looks condescension, and meets his inquiries with promptitude and effect. I understand there are few that venture to ask ques tions of this gentlemen who ever take much by their motion ; for if they elicit, as they often do, infor m mation favourable to the seller, so much the better for him; and if the colloquy have the opposite ten dency, such is his ready versatility, that he can an ticipate a thrust with the needle's point, or chaff his adversary into hopeless silence. He now stands up, and commences his exordium. This is surpassing,. The beauties of nature are here eclipsed by the flowers of eloquence, and the figures of rhetoric eas t into the shade by the nameless air with which he utters his enlogium on the house and grounds about to be knocked down to the highest bidder. I had been attracted to the scene by a perusal of his printed lucubrations, and now, in the presence of the master-spirit from which they had emanated, felt thankful that the property was so far beyond - ray poor means of investment, as to leave me [sighing to fear from the wiles of the arch - tempter before me. In his oral address he rejects all formali ties of diction, throws aside the restraint of conti nuity, and speaks with a racy energy truly irresisti ble. He unites the acumen of the pleader, the esprit of the wit, and the fascination of the improvisatore— makes his hits and points like a great actor, and works them up with the aid of his potent physiognomy, his equally potent action, and his hammer. He states the valuation, and contends that it is too low—and dilates upon the brightening prospects of agriculture under the blessed effects of Sir ltobert Peel's new measure, which he states to be perfect, and contents him self with simply predicting, upon his honour as a gentleman, that it must work incalculable good for the interests of all classes, and conse quently of every class in particular. Upon his de scending more into detail I was struck by the felicity with which he dwelt on the exquisite adaptation of the land then under sale for the purpose of fattening bullocks (it was the day on which he sold the large estates of Montagu Parker, late M.P. for South De vonshire, and the land at Paington is famed for fattening Cattle). He was remarkably impressive here. There was a depth of conviction, a force, and a meaning in his enunciation of his belief in.the land's capacity to fatten bullocks, which showed how completely he had thrown himself into his case ; and the man must have been no other th an an habitual sceptic who could have sat and heard those words from his lips, and have har boured even a lurking doubt that bullocks of any ex traction, or of whatever previous habits of indul ssence both could, and were the choice given them [amid have gorged themselves to repletion on the nu tritious pasture in praise of which he made this power ful appeal. The bidding is at its height, and he throws in a little episode about the chalybeate which " only wanted encouragement, and Harrowgate and Leamington would have to hide their diminished heads." fie takes a sip of the coloured water. A meek man in the centre begs to know why the timber was .not mentioned in the catalogue? The auctioneer affects incredulity, but finds, on inspection, that the impor tant article in question has been omitted. He ma k es the acknowledgment; but, instead of apologising for the oversight, retaliates upon his inquisitor for his pre sumption, by telling him plainly he is now expected without equivocation to become the fortunate pos sessor. The auction advances, and with every new offer he finds fresh matter for.. dissertation. He alludes to the contiguity of the railroad, and com ments with infinite force upon the luxury of coming up to town, a distance of 100 miles, and going home to an e ight o'clock dinner every day, which our poor forefathers could never have believed to be possible ; an d a lthough this topic of wonder ment, and the concomitant sneer at the past genera tion for only discos-cring - principles of science and leaving to posterity the superior credit of their appli cation, is somewhat threadbare, in his hands it loses all its monotony, and positively smacks of originality. In proclaiming, also, the proximity of a church, ho prettily confessed his faith in- the utility of churches in general, the convenience of having them near ono's residence, and the value of a religious reputation in the long run to respectable members of society. He half promises a seat in Parliament at the small ex pense of a princely hospitality, and on the same terms wholly promises the acquaintance of the solicitor ofi th e place, wh o h a ppens to be 'then at h;s -elbow, and Jll whose heart, integrity,:and cellar he pronounces an encomium that might have suffused with blushes any other cheeks than those of a solicitor. There is a pause, and he pretends to bring the affair to a close. " Going, going —his left hand rising as he bends e. vn wards till his chin almost touches the " conditiors or sale," lips clenched and eyebrows expanded as at the verge of an impending crisis. A modest-looking gentleman enters, and all eyes are turned upon him by a cry from the auctioneer, that if he wants a seat in Parliament, now is his time. "Dv you guarantee the seat ?" drily interrogates a wag, no ways interested in the sale. " Certainly, Sir," is the reply, "if you will condescend to buy the estate. To be or not to be ?as one of our great poets has said "—" Gay, in The Beggar's Opera," again interpolates the daring wag, ambitious of fairly measuring wits with so distin guished a humorist. A burst of laughter gives the auctioneer breathing-time for adducing the name of his author, and he then turns upon his victim with a volley of merciless raillery, which annihilates his courage and his fancy at a blow. Other interruptions occur, which he encounters with the same bold front as before, and adding, that nothing pleases him more than to he asked questions, as he knows they are al ways the prelude to a fresh bid, he traverses his ground again, and sums up with a declaration that the spot defies description—that it is fit for a little em peror—that there is a richness and a grandeur, to gether with a quietude and a repose about it, which, in all his experience, which had been considerable, he had never seen equalled—that if it has a fault, it is that an expenditure of money in improvements on the little paradise were an utter impossibility ; and in fine, that his Grace the Duke of Wellington himself might be proud to make the place his residence. Gifted and incomparable disposer of lands, tene ments, and hereditaments ! Under sway of thy omni potent art the very sense is quickened, the fancy warmed, and the credulity of the most obdurate bidder invoked, as by the spirit of a sorcerer. Thy extem poraneous rhetoric is not strained ; like the quality of mercy it is twice blessed, " it blesses him that sells and him that buys,"— " It is mightiest in the mightiest, And becomes the Great Auctioneer Even better than his advertisements!" It is now time to close; it is clear, from the countenances in his immediate vicinity, that the highest expectations have been realised ; all are satis fied, the property is appreciated, and the auctioneer threatens to knock it down. He gives warning that in one moment, in one solitary moment, the sacrifice must be made.' He places his hammer to his heart, and vows he feels that he is making a sacrifice. It annoys him=he declares that it annoys him, and his face assumes the look of a man stung by a musquito. This most matchless thing of the kind—a place fit for a little emperor—and a house that will last till the end of the world, to be given away—" it offends him to the soul." As he gets pathetic the nasal twang is more palpable. He is now trying the chance of an extra hundred. He says that as it is the doom of man sometimes to be disappointed, so has he often in the course of his " long experience" felt the pangs of re gret, hut never to the extent to which he is agitated now. He confes.ses at the full pitch of his lungs that " there is a reluctance in this arm to do its duty"—it upbraidS him—it won't let him—a smile steals through his tear—a titter commences—he reins up, becomes ferocious, indignant, disgusted ; roars " shame" upon the sacrilege, and then _knocks the lot down with a polite bow to the purchaser—and a draught of the coloured water is the cliMax. HAMBURGH. MAIL. WARSAW, AUG: 21.--The reform in the Post-office which has long been announced in the kingdom of Poland, has now taken place, and this department, like all the branches of the administration, is regulated more on Russian principles. Hitherto there was only one rate of postage for the whole kingdom, without regard to the distance, the first from 5 to 100 werst3; the second, from 100 to 200 wersts ; and the third from 200 to 700 wersts ; besides ten per cent. for the roads. The carriage for parcels is likewise regulated according to the distance. ALTONBURG, AUG. 29.—The Crown Prince of Hanover is expected here ; but it is said that his mar riage with our amiable Princess Mary will not take place till January or February next year. The Es tates of the Duchy in the Assembly last week voted a portion of 30,000 dollars to the bride. CHRISTIANA, AUG. 20.—The King gave his sanc tion on the 20th, to the penal code voted by the Storthing. There is a general report that his Majesty will shortly arrive here to close the Storthing in person. CHEMNITZ, SEPT. I.—(From the Leipsic Gazette.) —We have just received the melancholy intelligence that the town of Sayda was this morning burnt to the ground, with the exception of 20 houses. A re port states that Tetschen is in flames, and several hun dred acres of forest. They affirm at Dresden that they clearly saw the fire in the forest.—Hamburgh Papers, Sept. 6. HANOVER, SEPT. 2.—lt is said, that on the mar riage of the Crown Prince, at the beginning of next year, an amnesty for political offences will be pub lished. M. Hupedon, who has been to London to settle the long agitated question of the toll at Stage and Brunshausen, has returned to Hanover, the diffi• culties, it is said, having, been arranged to the satisfac tion of all parties concerned. WARSAW, AUG. 30.—0 a the 20th of this month the town of Ciechanow was destroyed by fire ; 114 houses, and 24 of the large establishments, are re duced to ashes ; 300 families have lost every thing The value of the furniture, &c., destroyed is a million of Polish florins (1G7,000 . rix dollars). The harvest is over in almost the whole kingdom: it is very abundant ; oats less so than other kinds of grain. We have not yet had any very oppressive heat. —Prussian State Gazette, Sept. 4. DUTCH FUNDS.—Amsvcap.tm, SEPT. 6. Money. Ring. Actual Debt, c.% per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Amen Svndic,4% per cent .. 9414 144 ii D.tto, ditto, 3% per cent 77% 77N Commercial Company, 4' percent Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 19% 10) Exchange on London, One month l2 2t2,4 Two months Hamburgh, One month 35 81% Twomonths ...... Dutch Papers, Sept. 7. AIISTRI A N FUN I.IS.VIENNA, Am 30. Five per Cents. Metalliques - l, 8 7, Four per Cents Three per Cents Bank Shares .... .11•••• • Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 3. HAMBURGH BORSEg HALLE, SEPT. 6 Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1655 1651 Anglo-Russian Loan lP9'4 1094 Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 103% 10314 Inscription, let series iro _ Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series 94 97% Ditto in Certificates 9734 97 , i , New 4 per Cent. (1840) 89% 59% Dutch Actual Debt, 2 34 per Cent. ......... Ditto I) per Cent. - Polish Bonds. New 'rickets Anglo-Danish Lom, 3 per Cent. _ Spanish, New 5 p •r Cents..... lB EXCHANGES ON LONDOiv. HA 11 BURGU, Sner. 6 —l3 9N, Two months 13 8, RIGA, Apo —Three Mouths, 3fs. VIENNA. A UG. 10.—Three months. 9.4134. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, SEPT. 3. Bills. Money St. Sehuld Sch., 4 per cent. ..... —.. 104 1.1% Prussian English Bond-,1830, per cent. lO2k Exchange on London ._...... ...... 6 Prussian State Gazette, Sept. 4. COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex left his residence in Kensington Palace yesterday morning for Alton Towers, Staffordshire, to honour the Earl of Shrewsbury with a visit. His Excellency M. Dedel has returned to town from a visit to Lord Montagu, at Beaulieu, near Southampton. Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, and the Hon. Edward Stewart, Deputy-Chairman, had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. at his official residence in Downing-street. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Co•• lonial• office, for the Governor of New Zealand. Dispatches from the Governor of Ceylon, and also from the Governor of Be rmu d a , were received yes terday at the Colonial-office. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Royal infants at the Castle yesterday. Col. Wylde and Baron Stockmar had the honour of dining with her Royal Highness at Frogmore Lodge in the evening. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal both enjoy excellent health, and have been taken airings daily except yesterday, when they were prevented by the continuance of rain. The Princess Royal rides upon her little Shetland pony in the Home Park, and the Prince of Wales is taken out by his attendants at the same time. Again in the afternoon their Royal Highnesses are taken a carriage drive in the Great Park, the Dowager - Lady Lyftelton attending on all occasions. On Thursday night the housekeeper of Mr. Kerner, the tobacconist of St. .Tames'-street, put an end to her existence by drowning herself in the water-butt. It will be recollected that an examination took place be fore the Magistrates of Marlborough-street. respecting the conduct of Mr. Kerner, who.. has suddenly absented himself from this country on account of an alleged fraud in some bill transactions ' • and it is said that the poor woman had been reduced to a state of despondency, oc casioned by her master having made away with her little property. _ • MANSLAUGHTER AT ARMLEY.—On Friday an in quest was held at the house of Mr. John Richardson, at Armley, near Leeds, before John Blackburn, Esq., coro ner, on view of the body of John Myers, 24 years of age, who was killed on Sunday morning. Three men named Thomas Briggs, James Briggs, and James Guy, were in custody on suspicion ; and it appeared from the evidence that they and the deceased had quarrelled on coming home from a public house, soon after which the deceased was found dead on the road. The Jury returned a ver,- dict of manslaughter against the three prisoners, and ex pressed an opinion that the crime was of a very . aggra vated character.' —Doncaster Gazette. The Rev. A. S. Thelwall, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, has been appointed to the ministry of Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury, vacant by the nomination of the Rev. Henry Hughes to the rectory•of the new church in Gordon-square.. GEORGE THOMPSON. THE. CELEBRATED ANTI-CORN-LAW LECTURF.R, AND LATE CANDIDATE FOR SOUTHAMPTON. Perhaps, with the exception of Mendizabal, the ex- Prime Minister of Spain, there are few men of the present day who have so rapidly and deservedly risen from a state of insignificence and indigence to that of affluence and fame, as the above distinguished indivi dual. When I first became acquainted with Mr. Thompson, little more than thirteen years ago, he lived at a stay-maker's shop, in Cloth-fair, \Vest Smithfield, London, and well do I recollect being applied to by, one of the fair occupants of the establish ment to obtain Mr. Thompson a situation in an at torney's office, at eighteen shillings per week. He subsequently' opened' a very small coffee-shop, in Ray-street,'Clerkenwell and it was whilst residing . in that watch-making and political parish, that Mr. Thompson's extraordinary talents first deve loped themselves. The Clerkenwellites have long been notorious for their violent party spirit, and I have frequently been as much amused and edified by their vestry discussions, as I have by the more serious and important debate 3 in the House of Commons. Mr. W. H. Bodkin, the Old Bailey barrister, and now the Tory M.P. for Rochester, was originally a furniture broker in the parish, end made his first essay as a public speaker in St. James's Church, Clerkenwell. It so happened that Mr. Thompson, on one occasion, accidentally attended a meeting of rate-payers, and after having attentively listened to the speeches of the then great orators of , the parish, viz., Messrs. Tindall,, Pascal!, Gregory, Hewitt, Lieutenant-Colonel, Cseist, &c., he ventured to open his mouth, and most effectually castigated and silenced the clique. This necessarily aroused the ire of the parish authorities, and Mr. Thompson was by their tyranny—fortunately for himself and the world —driven from the locality, and compelled to seek his livelihood by the adoption of sonie other profession. I remember meeting with the, now celebrated, lec turer, and his young wife, - in Middleton-street, wheri they were themselves, for the sake 'of economy, ac tually carrying a portion of their household furniture. Thompson may well say " tempera mutantur et nos rautamur in illis." It so happened, that shortly after his retirement from the coffee-dispensing business, the society for the abolition of slavery re quired the assistance of certain lecturers, and under the advice of Lord Brougham, Mr. Thompson was most judiciously selected ; his heart-stirring appeals, for the purpose of effecting the object of his engage ment, must be fresh in the recollection of many of the readers of this sketch. He has been for the last few years employed by the' Anti-Corn-law League, and he is unquestionably one of the most powerful and ar gumentative speakers in favour of those principles of free-trade. Mr. Thompson must now be about forty years of age, is above the middle height, with an in telligent countenance ; a bold, fluent, and correct speaker, although self-educated, and is always tho roughly conversant with his subjects. In private life he is a most amiable unassuming man, and is univer sally. esteemed. It is somewhat singular that Mr. H. C. H. Justins, the talented gentleman who was employed to advocate the continuance of slavery, and who has recently been engaged to deliver lectures in favour of the Corn-laws, was, and I believe still is, a most intimate acquaintance of Mr. Thompson.—Li verpool Mercury. PRESTON GUILD. PRESTON, THURSDAY EVENING.—The fourth day of the carnival commenced this morning under less fa vourable auspices than the preceding ditys. The morning was very wet, and retarded much of the en thusiasm which would otherwise have prevailed. The first entertainment this morning was the grand mis cellaneous concert and performance of music at St. Wilfred's Catholic chapel, at which the Earl of Shrews bury, with his daughter, the Princess Doria Pamphili, Lord Petre, and most of the elite of the aristocracy in this part of country, were present. Amongst the performers were Signor Rubini, Signor Negri, Mdlle. Ostergaard, &c. ; and, amongst other performances, were several selections from the celebrated Stabat Mater of Rossini. These are • chiefly to be repeated in the performances at the concert in the theatre to night. Amongst the company also was the Duke of Brunswick, with a numerous suite. The Guild 'Mayoress gave a public breakfast this morning, at ten o'clock, at the temporary Guildhall, at the Corn-Exchange. Nearly one thousand per sons, including the most fashionable of the surround ing district, were present. The band of the 60th Rifles, from Manchester, was in attendance, and per formed some of the most admired mo lern airs. The Guild Mayor and Mayoress presided, supported by halberdiers, and all the pomp of former magnificence. The principal toasts given were—" The Queen," "The Duke of Lancaster," and " The Lancaster 'Witches," who had for some centuries kept up the attraction to the Guild. After the dejeuner, dancing commenced, and continued to a late hour in the afternoon. The Preston Guild races were held in the afternoon, under very auspicious circumstances. The stewards ware, R, Townley Parker, Esq., the late Member for the borough ; J. N. Farrington, Esq. ; J. Meiklam, Esq.; and W. Standish Standish, Esq. The clerk of the course was Mr. Orton, of York. One excellent arrangement on the course was the entire prohibition, by the authorities, of every de scription of gaming. Notwithstanding the inaus piciousness of the day, at least thirty thousand per sons were congregated, in addition to those who were also assembled to view the regatta from the romantic sides of the Ribble. IVOOD PAVING OF THE STRAND..—Thursday evening the committee of paving for the parish of St. Mary-le- Strand decided to pave with wood that part of the Strand from Somerset House on the south side of the church, to the boundary of the parish next St. Clement Danes ; the alteration from stone paving to wood will add much to the comfort of individuals attending divine service in the parochial church, as from the increased number of vehicles traversing that immense thoroughfare, it has fre quently been the case that the minister has been scarcely heard. The following is the produce of the large pea, grown, by Mr. W. Robson, of Tickhill, mentioned in one of our preceding numbers-564 peas ; and the small one 372 ; together 936—weighing lib. 6 oz. Two pods were lost supposed to have contained six peas each.—Den caster Gazette. The Cavaliers during the Protectorate of Cromwell were wont to put a crumb of bread in their glass, and, ; before they drank it off, with cautious ambiguity exclaim " God send this Crumb well down !" TO BE HAD AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. NEW AND POPULAR NOVELS, Jug published by MR. COLBURN, 13, Great Marlborough-street. PERCIVAL KEENE. 1;y Capt. MARRYAT, Author of " Peter Simple," &c. 3 vols. MASANIELLO : an Historical Romance. Edited by HORACE SMITH, Esq. 3 vols. The CZARINA : an Historical Romance of the Court of Rtissia. By Mrs. HOFLAND. 3 vols. (On the I.inh of September.) The IkIANCEUVRING MOTHER. By the Authoress of " The History of a Flirt." 3 vols. V. The NABOB at HOME ; or, the Return to England. By the Author of "Life in India." 3 vols. (Just ready.) Tt c_Ths. ; 4 r-et nb tt ftn SUN OFFICE Three o'Cluch. By the Bland, which left the Cape of Good Hope on the 30th of June, and arrived at Liverpool yesterday, the following intelligence has reached us : "On Saturday evening, the 27th of June, an anonymous dispatch was received in Cape Town from Port Natal, via Graham's Town, stating that Captain SMITH'S party had been cut off to a man, and that the Boers had taken possession of the two schooners then lying in the Bay with stores, &c., viz.—the Mazeppa and Louisa, and some fears were apprehended for the Couch, then on her way with a small number of troops from Port Elizabeth. "Her MAJESTY'S ship Isis sailed from Simon's Bay the 28th June for Port Natal, and report said that the Fly and Bramble were to follow immediately. " A person who was supercargo of a Dutch schooner in Natal, some time ago, supposed to have been instigating the Boers to rebellion, is now in prison in Cape Town." It will be seen that this unpleasant intelligence rests on no official or even sufficient authority. At the same time the circumstances in which Captain SMITH'S party was placed render it, we regret to say, only too probable. We learn from the Derby Reporter, that a deputation frem six hundred of the municipal electors had an interview with the Mayor and Magistrates of that borough on Wednesday, rela tive to the suppression of Mr. VINCENT'S lecture in the theatre, and are happy to state that the proceedings which took place at the meeting are highly creditable to both parties. The electors,who, from som: cause or another, were prevented from assemblinz in the theatre, naturally supposed that the police would not have pulled down the hand-bills, expelled them from the theatre, and committed some other acts of rather a strong character, without the sanction of the civic authorities ; and with becoming spirit, therefore, resolved to ascertain from the Magistrates themselves the real merits of the case. The interview was willingly granted, and an ample explanation given by Mr. D. Fox, for the rest of the body. This explanation a reve rend gentleman, who spoke for the dePtitation, considered satisfactory, and, before taking leave, said (addressing the Mayor), " I have now, there fore, only to thank you, and the .Magistrates ge nerally, for your cordial acquiescence in our wish for this interview, and for the.liberal and courteous manner in which we have been re ceived." Now, without any Wish to blame any party, we think the • misunderstanding might have been avoided altogether, had not the individual Magistrate alluded to in the address at the very outset refused to_hear any explana tion whatever. He could have stated then what was fully brought out at the interview, that the handbills had been pulled down without their knowledge, that they had no wish to interfere with the lawful and legitimate exercise of the privilege of free discussion;'attd . that they had merely informed the lessee of the theatre that by letting it for any other purposes than those specified in the license, he would render himself liable to a penalty of 1001. This communication certainly was not imperaove on the part.of the authorities, as meetings are often held in theatres for other purposes/ than dramatic or musical performances, without the infliction of penalties; but it is only justice to say that their interference was an act of kindness towards the 'proprietor. An information. would probably have been laid against him by some parties who cannot see " the necessity and safety of extend ing political power to all classes," and the full penalty would have been enforced. This interview has also been of use in another respect, as it will not a little mortify those Tory journalists who justified, the Magis trates of Derby for conduct which they disown, and who would re-establish a system of coercion and tyranny fatal to the most valuable rights and privileges of the people. They disown all such doctrines, as may be learned from the following liberal sentiments expressed by Mr. Fox:— " As far as the law directed them, he was sure the Magistrates for this borough would discharge their duty ; and he could also say on behalf of himself and brother Magistrates, that the constitutional privileges of the people would not be improperly interfered with by them. They had no desire to stretch the law ; and while on the one hand they would never shrink from their duty as Magistrates in vindicating the law, they would, on the other hand, consider it beyond their duty to interfere with the legitimate exercise of free discussion. He repeated, that in what had taken place the Magistrates did not intend to stop the meeting, and that they had been actuated by no unkindly feeling." The progress of Puseyisni, which has alarmed so many of the Bishops, brings spiritual comfort and heavenly joy to the Bishop of SALISBURY. That Right Reverend Father in GOD rejoices at the Catholic appearance which his diocese is as suming, owing to the avidity with which his clergy have adopted the doctrines of Dr. PUSEY and Mr. NEWMAN. In a Charge just delivered by him to the Clergy of the Eastern Division of his diocese, at Marlborough, his Lordship said:— Three years ago he expressed a hope that, whatever contrariety of opinion might exist as to this great theological movement, it would nevertheless tend, in its result, to illustrate the truth; and confirm the prin ciples of the Church ; nor had he yet seen sufficient reason to change his sentiments. Believing this, and that the holy and learned men with whom this movement originated had no object in view but to bring forward truths that had fallen into comparative neglect, he could not but regret the harsh treatment they had met with from their opponents. He could not refuse to ac knowledge that they had raised a higher standard of ministerial character, through the Apostles, to our Lord himself; they had pointed out the obligations of a more orderly observance of the laws and regulations of the Church—had successfully taught the nature and constitution of the Church, where lax notions were before far too prevalent—had restored to the sacra ments their due measure of spiritual influence as the channels of grace, where, in many cases, they were considered mere signs and symbols—and they had warned men not to rest contented with any measure of zeal, but to go on, encouraged by the blessing of their Master, in a constant course of devotion and self-denial. This is as flattering to Dr. PUSEY as that very learned Divine could desire. The Bishop had previously borne the following testimony to the influence of Puseyite principles upon the reli gious practices of the clergy and people of his dioCese In many of the churches the more important holy days, appointed by the Rubric, were reveren tially observed ; and in others, the services for the saints' days carefully solemnised; a practice 'bat he trusted would, ere long, be universal. On some of these points he had abstained from giving any opi nion, wishing rather that attention to them should be the spontaneous act of the clergy than the effect of any suggestion of his. He rejoiced that the Church was calling out an increased amount of religious ser vices, and was learning to value ,mor e hi g hl y h er privileges. True, these were forms, and they might lie separated from the spirit which was necessary to animate them, in which case the " Sabbath lost its savour ; " but where they were observed with a be coming dependence upon the Divine guidance, they became the savour of life unto-life. • The plain English of all this is, that the clergy of Salisbury, with their Bishbp at their head, are posting- to Rome as fast as they can OW Saints' days observances will bring saints" Ivor" ship in their train as an inevitable necessity, an d thus, by little and little, the foundations or tl'° Church of England wilt be compl , tely uudt'r" mined. This is the real aim of the Puseyites. The Eastern question is the leading topic in the French journals of Thursday, the whole of which we havereceived. The National ckil ls for the intervention of France in Syria without the concurrence of England or any of the other Great Powers. " The present crisis," saystil e Republican organ, " is particularly favotikab le fur acting, and acting by ourselves. By he r hypocrisy in 1840 England has virtually andi" cated the right of interfering in Syria even .hY simple representations. It is the .same with Austria. She participated in the criminalxi° - hence of England, and she now experiencekth e _ . same moral impossibilities. France alo-de mains; and she, in the midst of all the wealile 6s of her Government, has never gone so fai.,o t ° imagine that every thing was to be sacrificedlo r i the maintenance of the pretended integrity. an d problematical independence of the Ottotoul Empire. When she abandoned MEHEMET AIM she did not give up the cause of the Syrians. The tradition of ages presents to the eyes of the i Christians of the Libanus the country ° PHILIPPE AUGUSTUS and of BUONAPARTE their natural protectress. This tradition sti ° exists, and it is the name of France that is is' yoked by the unfortunate victims of OA IO PACHA'S satellites. The Government cennUt be deaf to this cry, nor refuse to do for Syria.fdl i the restoration has done for the Greeks." belongs to France to exercise the same 'rote tion over the Christian population§ .. of'Syri, ai , Russia extends over the principalities of ,t'i; Danube. France is entitled to this, .and violence committed against her Subjects affe' her a fitting occasion. In demanding the Pe,,` . sonal reparation which is her dee, s h e cats si b demand guarantees fbr the future. Our grie ; antes and those of Syria spring from the sol li o source, and Turkey owes themboth a comiilL reparation. It is the duty of the French vernment to obtain it, and to regain by .t b , events which now present themselves the pof' tion it has lost." This logic may do in France, but it will ' ll6l l serve in England. It was Great Britain, and 11° France, thL O t in 1840 guaranteed to the Chrit , tians of Syria the enjoyment of their privileg g :l nor can she shake off the obligation to coul til the Porte, if necessary, to resPect.them. 1 01 •single interference of France is, therefore, o.llt the question. She could not, if she woulcb eat independently of England; and, therefore, 13 , 4 Government acts most wisely in co-Oper. Btl cordially with us. To talk of maintaieig o, policy of isolation is sheer nonsense. ftedl c , rather than concur with England, the war J . 44 tion in France, with 111.,TinERs and 00 1 1 d BARROT at their head, would contentedly , 3 r : i Wleaffai : thpic with lutlie Opposit hlitr:recomme: , 4rlof , the Chri slitio.ne... Out 19 pnentiestabli ..gion, and t a l against its VNutional cln Atilt not very 1 - oioonverts to i • who have an observe good into which it e C oy , .. The our ‘. . i*tit of the . ' ° ''tkoluSiv e rig 9ftelai tne d , b ut .4 . 10,1111 ed by thi ~ ,party, and tl 1 liention whit . nary will be f if 'attempted to those agait whom it wou fess, is a logi -4 :)e of . th( ._ . tio n of Syria Were Christie _ PnpulatiO n a t ehristiat is .. , 8 to 10,000. The lr .i....onit Gene r al 13 48 ., commissioned ~, • ~ issioned for having ` • • • 1 )11 al. ra:cCoiint Of•t h tiploits"--w ere - ' M. Emery, tl or , two monthes i ~. and the other: .., to be suspend : - • The Presse road between company repr and mostly cc -the treaty had Public Works this statement A pfivate • states that tht • example ofthr ~...'' ' .,i,t a . liP o fte h reci ti e ch i h 'i e d . th t i oen st e w op t l a c v : s e ß on le e b c Camp 6r. mana v The Chain' 9 the 2d a moti ' : the Governme: the Germanic ~ _tension of the ;:. We learn fr has made an a n eeasiOned by • • • P407)71 . • work, but this . ° lns. At Ste. prated three small fac l ags held a a gainst return 1840 : A !'• A. mob Proceeded to st f ardshira, _ nine l u xury, and co ur ftwich, Hill Archdeacon published, state - • of : the. : churehe: f• : •,. pen and free t PriNgfiPld Pqr. ~•. : M1.4..AC44Y-. ~ :- 1 -, ,i ..( -, ~ • z -sa ‘1 , 4 1 0,6,4aV, ,-, ..A t t i llv§ath, - * )40. Al* sVeet -rail .- 4 • .. 111 - nicrnth's . iinpriS( to tonitnif a fel c - : LITEI . itt ' addition_ I'l- 11,64brehalie . . 1 i i7oposed to est kbpr ßughy or Oifo fKlits . and nalf, ~ after 104etition. A :::., .rr The e \ 10 Earlic .neighbourhood s te oft ,t 7: sport One •pa ''i •19 i brace of bir '4 k illed • 12i brace -r • t,.,: •_ . .4151 0 1: o fluuTLsaairhorrrteree, Lord F o le y nomrmeli Robert ta sy t Can Pi h 1 141::: , ~ ~ I. .1: • ,a 1 w ate r pa rti e s ,.,,.,en irartit,; n o tsvh- t., og jse,n. itiavuosl,lrn• aenA3diatov knd4neel Menthes quite tOaee itnawnmhtoteyefemshi Desosefeaa. oosel 11 '. l '. . The Count of •t , pass the winter '•,l next'week. The Pembrok e • - , urston .to Mose , Herefordshire, f :-• : The Duke de '.• , The Marquis c: . , , The Marquis I:;t,t...,_i.:t;t.s,:,,.,,,.:i.,,, . : .:,t CeC ebent.L_ ° W4. ' t.t Fore s t er meieuo°n t he ne xt, . ireiell'Tsl cater 6g i rlittel.:nh h, h ea l a: rt.amooemeeeeel Ludlow ou felPresiding madec :1;: t in very 2teeihe t w ith gt jdhzloioeou which m ‘ fo ° entvi its fht n isgr rnhGN eeee a pse o s: t , The E ar l o f ] Switzerland l Eahtrdwho had ithe ksloviepafpldod°tp(3( it of ThemoriE -t is said receii having conferred et ~ The ~ floating Y ri t d o ,a,asnev( w h o hold ou Zr , has receiver : • • 11 ° 11s P taa iking 11C : .:11. it irteliiiti,aYn..Saittseui tri e v ening blipi ntdegsegPenurFl-r:tt r ~ not so lax •,,,, . • -...= ,''' : . ' • . :li .4 1 n :hn i : k e ee r ' t : a . t h ere me ; on 4 o . s:cute e tnrehgidon f eetf o go r t nhbs( s tearel o rd%ta, r i Is, t i , tl :• latel- abed enl i a : f d yd r s c i v a v bs - e pe r e t of a n P n ou t s x l 4.,orty-one. 1.4 i.,, di s a t u , i tt eff g te e rif e n o gac h e unders. almost in a state Wanted to go dos' il'itllld endeavour tc ‘ thi s, a lne a l PO b aaf l n e n . )e , ' d s , : T b pe e e e r D h ni n l e a sed p e v e o i e; ( I : s k keu mo t drear rol a . v ~.,..,- ' TILE WOM AZ , t' , l 4 :4 } Ottr paper a fortr. i 4 74taken to ensure I the If , " ttr be executed, a have no fears for n0t : 7 ,...,0? 1,,,,:"7'.:, Will. it v r e -c e i s s h e a n o v o e r d t t o o h i u i b , 1 IC ) ..,_ haPPY t° say UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT AT LivErtr—, . 00 ~i • , . , b e set at li b( LIFE LOST.—On Thursday morning, between el,, 1 4 _i , The followi ng twelve o'clock, as a boat attending upon ,be - . I v.ed, being the i York packet-ship Virginian, which arrived iv, the" - bon 7 . not furnishing th that morning, was in the act of brining te a 0 ashore, she unfortunately came in ,eontact herb 0 afternoon, havinl small steamer proceedin g down the, river, : do tli f 0 to giv e t h e usual save themselves from being crust ie d, two 0. , 0 0 0 ,11, per. It will not, leaped overboard ; one succee di,d i n l a ying ) :I, I OV %ithout i nterest, rope, and was saved. ; but the, other was low', irtl Lets to ma k e am , drowned, having, it is sur,posed, received I Q° which caused immediate death. the Libanus in flames. . e There is no political news of much impnro n,l 0 in the French Journals. We, however, soiiw,iol extracts from them : The Bulletin des Lois publishes an oardilv isel ,$ granting a supplementary credit of 20 millic° s francs for the expenses of the army of /*ice. ;,.' ,sli , -J We have received the following letter from-Pr e i in Bombay, dated Aug. 23 :—" The English o , l ' V great noise about certain sums which they affirr t V be due to them from the Regency of Tripoli, an d se Government of Great Britain lets them clamour,as cause it intends to take advantage of the delis'' fi its subjects, in order to obtain a footing at Beir i r: f t the time of th e G ree k i nsurrect ib n, tlin Stiit h ol quired reinforcements and money of iii? , g5,.,0t -' States ; Algiers, an d T un i s f urn i s h e d.#fict:oo." r ill war; the Governor of Tripoli, who helit lics tl ant l lo, from the Porte itself, acted on this "occasion as. were independent, for the title or - rad i i -2 6r to' gency was nearly hereditary in the . fiallA L , S s_.; 0 1 manh, and he furnished ships, some hundred ,er,'"' sor 600,000 piastres. In order to do 'thi:l l ,7 0 1 tracted loans ; the English residents lent in iinSrad Paella to combat the Greeks, *horn • tbe'Englis i ' vernment protected ; they thinight their had good investm en t ; i n th e fi rs t i ns t ance they c) from them goodwill and commercial privilegl;fiti "The event not h av i ng answered their exP e 3 - -7 ; they have been claiming- in ve4for these fifteen Yo the payment of the sums whichtley lent. '..1:11e, s fsso l answers that he is not personally bou n d ; the toc,-011 of Tripoli declaring that he isnot a ns werabl e fo r)fi e iseu of his predecessors. The Porte has now detect th e to offer to the creditors of Tripoli the cession. _,,,e estates of the Caramanli. As land is of no varse 3 the Regency of Tripoli, the creditors refused 0 4 rd e r us ment in kind; but the English Government, b' the pretaxt of watching over the' interests of i ts ,„ : , si' jects, is going to indemnify the merchants 1 " 0 ,0 31 vanced the money, and to take for itself the irn 00 possessions of the Caramanli. It will distribute r among Maltese cultivators, of whom it will I v c oo' colony in the heart of the Regency. Then, 0.0 fo r nect this colony with Malta, it will erect a fort ' s oil; Gulf of Bengari, and in which it will soon pla ce se cannon. Most of the encroachments of 0 0 have a similar origin."—Courrier Francais. BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 7 ' II First Highest Lowest Fri Price. Price. Priee. 19 French Fives (ex div.) 118 10... 118 25... 118 10.•. ' , 91 3 per Cents 79 90... 80 5... 79 9 0 .** 20 Bank of France 3262 50...3262 50...3262 50.. 3 0 0 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1032 50 ..1032 50...1032 5 0 .••00 5,000 f 5045 ...5045 -.5045 -1/S, Belgian Bank 775 ... 775 ... 775 .0' 01 Belgian Fives 103% ... 103% ... 103% ••• 105 1840 lO5 ... 105 ... 105 ..• 0 Dutch 2% per Cents 53 ... 53 ... 53 ••• IA Fives, 1840 lO2 .. 102 ... 102 ..• glj, Spanish Active ...... Portuguese Fives 29% ... 294 ... 291 •••• jO l ,, Neapolitan lO7 10... 107 10... 107 ••• I P Roman RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, LB 95 ... 95 ... 95 ••• 050 R.B ' Rouen Orleans. Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 7 5... 12 6 0 .•• e l l MONEY and COMMERCIAL lio ~ CITY, QUARTER TO TAP' The Bankers' Circular, published to-day, alsie " The state of money is remarkable, and, in the 10 4 of low value and superabundance of gold, in the, 5 , will soon, we think, get into an unprecedente cl i d 0 if it be not so already. The Bank has ,t r isl!, renovate by advancing sums of money to naiß and Canal Companies, but confidence in ts 0 0 affairs does not materially revive, and consesiPevolj so far no additional amount of bills are seen , l ll ii, 4 l Winn. After all the tampering with this. Its , matter, we are apprehensive of having to W r itiO, holders of floating money seeking public setle, and shrinking from private. The leading bill- 10- e f 1, have this week dropped the rata of deposit-1 0 V, 2 per cent., and there are instances where they.;oo; to some of their old customers to elbow any i, oi o whatever. We have no recollection of this ' I , ,„ been ever before done." i l albr , s la n o At the Stock Exchange business continuas-'.. 1 0 6° { though the values of English Securities maintain ti ott former firmness. Consols for Money are 1,, 92k 93, and for the Account, 93i; India 13orol, 36 37 ; and Exchequer Bills, (the 1,000 1 . 61 53 prem. In Foreign Securities hardly a b arga in 113 5 to do entered into ; there is not the least disposition efi r . l. business, and the cons equence i s , th e mar k e t i sfl ; deserted. Spanish Th ree p er C en t s. are q uot e s ti to 21i ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 351; Bra do to 67i ; Dutch Two-a n d- a -H a lf per C en t s ., a 9 ' Mexico, 36 to 361. Railway Shar es are fl a t, w ith f ew dealings° Wei' burgh and Glasgow are quoted at 481 to 49; litNorth of England, 60 ; G reat W es t ern, 83; 131 . 1 .,,, g 0 1 7 , 1 ; 33 to 33/ ; South W es t ern , 59 ; N or the' - r , Eastern, 38/ ; and South Eastern and DO' o to 22/. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT 42 R A ILWAY9. Paid. Per Share. .4,91 Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 49 ...... t° Ditto New • Great North of England ........100 Great West e r n - London ant Brighton .. 50 London and South Western ... 41% Northern and Eastern South Eastern and Dover Ditto Scrip .... 10 JOINT TOCK BANKS. g 19 /i Colonial 25 AIANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. market is again flat. Manchester and Birin l :3 l 4 23i ; Manchester and Leeds, 72} ; Ditto Halve `; • , Ditto Quarters, 4-I; Edinburgh and Glas ex div. ; Ditto Quarters, 51. SUM