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LONDON LIBRARY ILLUSTRATED. On MoN DAY NEXT will be published, with four beautiful Illus- trations by Armstrong , Part I. of rll HE LONDON LIBRARY, -B- inz a Tale entitled EDWARD CLAVERING. By C. G. ROSENBERG, Esq., Author of "The Prince, Duke, and the Page." Edited by Lady Lytton Bulwer. Published by W. Thomas, 19, Catherine-street, 3trand; and sold by Strange, Paternoster-row, and all booksellers and newsmen. Now ready at all the Librcries, in 3 vow., CAPTAIN MARRYAT'S NEW NOVEL, pE RC A L KEEN E. " It gives us much pleasure to meet Captain Marryat on his own element, and still more to greet hid - ► there, in his old capacity as tha best naval novelist of the day. His present novel is one of the true sailor kidney ; frank, easy, and off hand, in the level portions of the narrative ; forcible, spirited, and impressive, where the exigences of the action require it ; and natural, novel, and original every . where. The leading feature of the design is indicated in the title, ' Percivel Keene,' a shrewd, mischievous, devil-may-care contrast (and, there fore, a companion picture) to Peter Simple.' The idea is a happy one, and is happily worked out. The work is one suc cefsion of stirring incident and moving action, carried out by a series of characters, that in truth, force, and soirit have not been surpassed in any of the writer's works."—Naval and Mi litary Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborengh-street. FIGHT THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED MONEY DIVIDENDS will he divided in NEXT MONTH, amongst 8,200 SELECTED Bonds of the LOAN negotiated in the year 1820, andGUARANTEED by the GO VERNMENT and his Royal Highness the GRAND DUKE of BADEN. 1 Dividend 50,000 Florins 50,000 Florins 1 do. 25,000 " 25,000 " 1 do. 12,0(0 " 12,000 " 1 do. 10,000 " 1 do. 5,000 " .. 8 do. 1,000 " 8,000 " 10 do. 500 " 5,000 " 10 do. 200 " 2. X) do. 110 " :200 do. 105 " 467 do. 100 " 7,300 do. 91 " f,200 Money Dividends, amounting to 1392,900 Florins, cr £74,400 Sterling Money. B,ICO SELECTED Bonds, each - of which is sure to obtain one of the alx:ve Dividends. Largest Dividend £4,106 13 4 Smal:cst Dividend 7 lel 8 12 ii rips egnal to £l'sterling, a trifle more or less, as per the dav's exchange. - ALL THE DIVIDENDS PAYABLE WITHOUT ANY DEDUCTION WHATEVER. D,rcct for the fcx Bonds which are still on sale, WITHOUT DELAY, to I - ILINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH. • Bends are nn sale NOW at £l3. Against the end of this Month the price will ri:v to £l4, and the Sale will close in the first days of NOvember. Those who remit £1 5 nEFo RE the 28th instant, will re ceive an order for £2 upon our London Bankers, together with the Pont. To those ordering, too late for being attended to, their re mittances will be returned by first post. HEINE BROTHERS. HAM B UR GH, October 4, MI - - • - THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING. OCT. 22, Will be repeated the English Version of llossini's Grand Opera of SEMIRAMIDE. —The Character of Semiramide by Miss Adelaide.Kemhle ; Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from the principal Theatres in Italy ; Assur, Mr, ; ()roe, Mr. Leffler ; Idreno, Mr. Travers ; Shafte of Ninus, Mr. J. Bland. After which, the New Farce, called COUSIN LAMBKIN. Squi7, , Mulberry, Mr. Bartley; Captain Bantam, Mr. Walter Lacy; Doctor Lionel Lambkin. Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Bantam, 111;ss Cooper ' • nos. Maynard, Miss Lee • Paint . ; Mrs. Humby. To conclude with the Farce of DEAF AS A POST. Capt. Temileton, Mr. Cooper ;.Tristram Sappy, Mr. Harley ; Sally Maggs, Mrs. Urger ; Mrs. Phimpley, Mrs. Tayleure. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price :Js. 3d. ; First and Second Circles Zis., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets ansi Placce for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box.effice, front Ten till Feer, where Season Tickets may be hail. Private Boxes to be hail at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An drews, 167, New B o nd-strut ; Mr. Mitchell, Oldßotd-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPIII. THIS EVENING, OCT. 22, Will be presented a Drama, by Douglas Jerrold, Esq., en titled THE HAZARD OF TM, DIE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Maynard, H. Beverly, Wright, Paul Bedford. Wilkinson, Mrs. If. Beverly, and Miss Chaplin. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. The Imp, Mr. Wieland ; Fleur-des-Champs. Mdme. Proche Ginbilei ; " The Frightful, Spiteful, Old Bachelor," Mrs. H. P. Grattan. To be followed by the Burletta of DOBSON and Co. To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, Mrs. 11. P. Grattan ; Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. Boxes,, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DA VIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Contilluat;on of the Nautical Dramas, in consequence of the immense overflows attracted by the heart•stirring acting of Mr. T. P. Cooke, the only acknowledged Sailer on the Stage. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 22, Will be acted Mr. Albert gmith's new Drama, called BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with most decided success. Neville Audely, Mr. Fl• Hughes ; Hugh Laneret, Mr. N. T. Hicks; Herrick Erenden,Mr. J. Webster; Blanche Herist, Mrs. R. Hormel.. After which, MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Harry Hallyard, Mr. T. P. Cooke; Joit Tiller, Mr. R. Helmer; Mary Maybud, Mrs. IL _Bonner. TO conclude with OF AGE TO-MORROW, embracing the strength of the entire Comic Company. Places and private Boxes t• be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from eleven to four. HI(IU wiaza AT LONDON ',MIDGE THIS DAY. tlorniwg tK minutes after 3 2 Evanin3 ...... 5 minutes after 8, * LGP 43,-* • 'w , tf, , ..kka l / 4, 0 r . 4 .0.• I* 0 I) * " " Olt "211,114 LONDON SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 22, 1342. We have long ago stated that Sir ROBERT PEEL'S policy had completely failed to revive our trad4,and4'l+4tore our delapidated finances, and "'Yesterday - we found the Morning Herald echoing our opinion. The real difficulties of Sir Robert Peel's Govern ment (said our Contemporary) will be augmented rather than diminished in the ensuing session of Par liament, and that augmentation will be caused by the melancholy condition of th e coun t ry. Despite an abundant harvest, increased facilities of import ing foreign produce, comparative abundance of money, as indicated by a low rate of interest, and general confidence in the men now in power, there is no material improvement in trade ; and despite a small reduction in the cost of provisions, the condition of the labouring classes has become rather worse than it was twelve months ago. The deficiency exhibited by the last quarter's revenue in the Excise receipt s cannot be argued or e x pl a i ne d away; the falling-off in the malt tax establishes as a fact that the means of the working people are smaller than they were, and that, deep as was their destitution in the summer of 1841, it has-been severer in that of 1842. The last comfuit which an English workman relinquishes is his beer, and yet it is very evident that he has been this year compelled to stint himselfin his allowance of that beverage. It seems not improbable that, for the. present at least, the limits of taxation have been reached. All this is true, after every resource has been tried. In spite of Queen's letterS, and a general begging for the poor—in spite of Royal visits and new fashions, giving, as is supposed, a stimulus to.. trade, swelling it perhaps in one place and . reducing it in another—in spite of all the shabby tricks and subterfuges that could be devised to hide distress, if it could not be wiped away, the condition of the manufac turing districts continues as bad as ever. The Friends think it so bad, that they are now pro moting, as we learn by the Liverpool Hercary, charitable contributions to relieve it; and they are endeavouring, to do that imperfectly, and as a matter of supererogation, which the Government oughttopertorm perfectly, and asa matter of duty. Remembering the speeches of Sir R. PEEL and 112 r. GLADSTONE, we conclude that they have failed, not froM ignorance, for they know what is right, but from incapacity .to r-ive effect to their own opinions. Another trouble too is coming on Sir ROBE RT P EEL , , A tylooin (says the Sherbonie pervades the agricultural interest as heavily .uth at by which it was oppressed in the latter part of 1835. * T:lo years aq . o ththriner's sto c k m i ght have been e st'mated to be worth three thou san d pounds, a n d h e v ould have had no diffieulty in bpi amino. a tousand on its security.• - The value of that stack is now re duced by a third, or two thousand instead of three ;. he must deduot the thousand which he owes, rad then he will only have one thousand for himself instead of two, consequently - he is only worth half as much as he was two .years ag.,). This will at once account for th e gloom which- pervades the agricultural inte rest, and which has been very. obvious at all our re cent fairs and markets. Our home trade in 1835 propped •up the prosperity of agriculture, because, although wheat Was very 10, other articles of pro- . duce were at remunerating r:ices; but now commerce is unable t o g i ve such valuable By falling to revive commerce and manufac tures, Sir R. PEEL has now Plute7 farmers to acif ed agriculture into deep distr ess , and he will Pave th, ruined labourers to feed o 'pyr • t .ando' starving agricultural coerce, when be next meets the Parliament. The Times, too, .told us yesterday— The whole System - (of. making ie; -or .uacomfort- {•• Reports are are rife at Paris that negotiations 'are .o be resumed for concluding a commercial treaty between England and France. We hear, too, of commercial treaties with other countries, and see in some journals supplications for the Government to negotiate such treaties. Such reports and supplications remind u's that the late sagacious Mr. DEACON HUME, in his evidence before the Import Du ties Committee, gave a decided opinion against all such treaties. lii substance he stated that he was averse to them, because they made our legislation dependent on that of other countries, and might compel our Legisla ture to continue or inflict an injustice on some portion of our own people. The famous METHUEN treaty with Portugal, which secured for England a favourable market for her woollens, on condition that England levied a discriminating duty in favour of Portu guese wines, is an example of such a treaty. Whatever political considerations might have dictated it, though subsequent events proved them to be unsubstantial dreams, it is now quite plain, and is universally admitted, ' that it was, on the whole, very injurious to our trade, that it imposed an unjust impost on the drinkers of wine in England, for the benefit of the woollen manufacturers, and, raising the price of woollens somewhat, it did, in reality, levy a tax on all the consumers of woollens in England, to put it into the pockets of the master manufacturers. That treaty really taxed one class of the people for the benefit of another, and was, in principle, as unjust an act of spolia tion as the Corn-laws. 'W e are inclined to think that no commercial treaty can be concluded which will not have such effects, and therefore the subject is worthy of more consideration than it receives. What is a commercial treaty ? A convention between two States, that each will allow the ships and goods of the other to enter its ports on the payment of certain duties, on condition that the other will allow its ships and goods the same privileges on the payment of certain other duties. It binds one State to levy duties to please an other. France, we will suppose, epees that. English bar-iron may be imported into France on the payment of twenty francs a ton, on condition that England admits French wines to be imported on the payment of a penny a gallon. As a re laxation of exorbitant duties previously levied in each country on the commodities of the other from a principle of spite or jealousy or retalia tion, such a treaty at first sight seems a most ex cellent measure, and we will not say, as a lessening of mischief, that it is not praiseworthy; but there are some considerations which give it a different appearance. The mutual commerce that is to be thus fostered would take place to the mutual profit of the two countries Is ithout any treaty, or it would not. If it wou ld, i t needs po treaty other than a treaty of peace and mutual kindness, which, indeed, nations ought to observe towards one another, whether they have a treaty or not --and the commercial treaty can be of no use whatever. If that commerce would not take place, or not be continued, without the treaty, it follows that the reciprocal and discriminating duties by which it is encouraged are, to a certain extent, bounties on an unproductive trade--a trade which would not be carried on without those duties; and the treaty, theretbre, directs commerce into a comparatively unprofitable channel. All such treaties, therefcre, are either unnecessary and useless, or opposed to the natu ral laws which regulate the production of wealth, and consequently mischievous. Let us, howei , er,• look at them in relation to e subjects o f eac h State. The duties ou r G o . vernment agrees to levy on certain commodities, in consequence of a treaty with France, nil! be unfair and unjust to some portions of our people, or they will not. They will be such duties and taxes as the Government ought to levy for the wants of the State, or they will be of a different character. If they be just, fair, and proper, on Nvaat pretext can the Government refuse to levy them, when ha duty requir es i t to treat the people fairly and justly, and yet assent to levy them to please. the. wine-growers and the Go vernment of France? If they are otherwise, if they be unjust, unfair, and improper, will it not be scandalous i n the E'noish Government, a flagrant violation of its duties to its own subjects, i t n t of France? hem, because that serves the suppsed o te l e re It At present nearly one half of our revenue is levied on imported commodities. Although we cortdemdthe 'exorbitant duties levied on French able) must be abandoned, or some day or other the r•Wire social edifice *ill come tumbling about our ears. This coercive system, always un-Christian, is now absolutely unsafe. The poor must be treated not like beasts of burden, but like fellow-Creatures. Above all, the great body of the poor, who are can didates neither for the prison nor the workhouse, must be elevated above their present position and circumstances. Too often, now, are they driven into the ranks of the poachers, or the paupers, by the hard hearted indifference of those above them. Their cottages are demolished, their gardens taken from them, their harvest work is given to the Irish, even the gleaning of the fields is now denied them ; and yet, with lowered wages, and all parish aid taken away, they are told, " Ye are idle ! ye are idle !" And the farmer, the steward, the guardian, the Magis trate, all concur in one feeling—" We mustn't make things too comfortable." A great point is gained for the people, when we flud one Tory journal showing that the Pre mier's measures are complete failures, and an other insisting on abolishing the Tory coercive system, admonishing the Government to treat the poor like fellow-creatures, or the entire social edifice will conic tumbling about our ears. What the Times may understand by the words " fellow-creatures," we cannot positively say ; but as the editors and writers in the Times are gen tlemen, one of them being a representative of the people, and the others, no doubt, electors, they must include, we presume, in their ideas of treating the poor like fellow-creatures, giving them all the rights and privileges which belong to representatives and electors. Anything short of that will not be treating them like fellow creatures. The poor do not want charity, they want justice. " Chartism, fl eeklif Dispatches, and Corn-law lecturers," as the Times says, have carried them far beyond the notion that they can be served by being made dependent. They will not be contented unless they arc treat ed quite as the felloivs of the rest of the com munity, and receive political rights as a means ofguarding themselves against the re-construction of the present "unsafe and un-Christian coercive system." Sir R. PEEL'S difficulties, then, are only beginning. In addition to being under the necessity of adopting other measures, pressed on him by rivals or opponents for the improvement of commerce, he will have to make the body of the people comfortable, who are exasperated by privations, and taught, we believe, by his own organs, that the system they complain of is tins Christian, unjust, and cannot last. Sir R. PEEL is somewhat familiar with the process of eating his leek. To confess that he has for years supported a ruinous policy, and to propose that it be altered, is an old practice of his. He will have to repeat it on the meeting of Parliament. He will be obliged again to say, we apprehend, with bitter and burning shame, " I was wrong; I holstered up for years, with my opinion and my votes, a series of laws which have plunged all classes into distress, and almost brought the country to despair ; and being now convinced of that, nothing shall prevent me from acknowledging my error, and calling en Parlia ment to aid me iii repairing the immense mis chief we have in common inflicted on the com munity." This time, however, it will not be a party triumph fin the Whigs, who have been as much the enemies of free trade as he has—and his measures will go, we are sure, much beyond the measures they have ever devised; but he will give a triumph to truth over error—to freedom over restriction—to the people over the aristo eracy—and to the natural laws which determine the progress of society over the craft of states men. If Sir R. PEEL and his party never felt shame before they will feel it, we believe, next session, when they will be obliged publicly to acknowledge that the great and experienced practitioner is a very ignorant empiric. It Will be seen, from the news received by the Hamburgh mail, that great rejoicings took place at Warsaw, on the arrival of the Em peror NICHOLAS at the capital of the ancient kingdom of Poland. The city was illuminated for three successive nights, in honour of the Sovereign who had battered it to pieces, who had sent to Siberia hundreds of the bravest sons of Poland, and who, in defiance of the Trraty of Vienna, is adopting measures for making that country an integral portion of the Russian empire. Any condition is prefer able to that of brave men and beautiful women who are compelled to conceal sentiments dearest to their hearts, and worship their de stroyer. We should have thought that the EH. , PEROR would have spared that gallant nation this last humiliation, and not insisted on a mockery which degrades both the actor and the sufferers. But Poland cannot be kept down. She has the sympathies of every civilized State, and the day will yet come when she will avenge herself on those who fomented her domestic quarrels, who encouraged the father to fight against the son, and, in the general confusion, made the country their prey. Prussia and Aus tria seem not at all satisfied with their share of the plunder; and Russia will find, at no distant period, that PROVIDENCE will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, and require an atonement for deeds that excite alike the indig nation of Heathens and Christians. ------- COURT CIRCULAR. WiNusou, FRIDAY. —The Earl of 'Wilton and the Earl of Aberdeen took their departure from the Castle yesterday, and Captain Francis Seymour left to-day. This morning her Majesty and her Illustrious 'Con sort eu!oyed their accustomed early walk in the Home Park and Slopes. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken their usual airings to day, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing, attended by the Royal suite, including the Countess of Dunmore, Hon. Georgiana Stanley, and the llon. Clementine Hamilton. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at tended by Lady Charlotte Dundas and Sir George Couper, Bart., will join the Royal circle at the Castle at dinner, this evening. Her. Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester is honouring Lord and Lady Wharneliffe with a visit, at their seat, Wortley Hall, Yorkshire. The Lord Chancellor ari;ved in town yesterday morning, from Brighton. Count Reventlow, the Danish Minister, transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign -office. Baron de Nieumann transacted business on Thurs day, at the Office of the Board of Trade. ERRATUM.--In our notice yesterday of Dr. Ryan's lecture at the Polytechnic institution, for " the at traction of cohesion has, in a great measure, been occasioned by the expansive power of heat," reLd "orercome." Pnrcz or BREAM—Government, it is said, con template a measure for securing a uniform stated price of bread ; and it is certain that the Inspectors of Cc rn Returns, in their various localities, have been making inquiries as to its price, in consequence of orders issued from the Excise and Board of Trade Offices, requiring " an account of the price of the quartern loaf (or the four-pound, as the case may be), and of fine fk during the week to which the last return applies."— Stamford Mercury. wines and brandies, and believe that both the health and morality of our people would be im proved by allowing the wines of France free access into this country; yet it cannot be denied that as long as such an enormous revenue is levied by the Customs, that wines and brandies are as appropriate articles to tax as almost any that are imported. If the duties on them be not fairly and justly app6rtiOned to other commodi ties, let them be fairly adjusted ; but the bulk of the community would have great reason to com plain if duties were lowered on wines, which are the luxuries of the rich, while they are maintained in all their rigour on the bread, the cotton, and the sugar, which go to feed and clothe the pour. For the sake, therefore, of forcing a sale of a little more linen-yarn and bar-iron in France, to the exclusive benefit nearly of master iron and woollen manufactu rers, it will not be just to relieve wine drinkers from their fair share of taxation, and continue the heavy burdens on the food and clothing of the bulk of the labourers. This is only an illustration, but the reasoning extends to every article on which it may be pro posed to alter the duties, in order to meet the views of France. Either those duties are now fairly levied, and it would be scandalous to alter them, and inflict an injustice, however trifling, on some portion ()four people, to promote a trade with France, not to their exclusive advantage,— or they are unfitirly levied, and it is equally scandalous in the Government not to act justly towards its own people till doing that shall plea. sure France. There are, perhaps, sonic: yet higher conside rations connected with the subject. There used to be amongst our statesmen—and Conservative statesmen, in particular, rather gloried in it—an idea of duty. They had, or professed, to have, a great respect for the duties of their station, and expressed n strong determination to perform their duties to their country. We hope that that idea has not been extinguished, and that amongst them there are yet some who will shut out views of tealporary, and ill-to-calculate expediency, and resolve to do what their duty to their country demands. What is that. duty in relation to commercial treaties? Is it to make our laws dependent on those of an other State ? Is it to ask France whether we may levy a shilling or two more or less on the wine which our own people drink? Is it to ask Brazils or the United States what tax we may levy on sugar, or cotton, or tobacco ? We affirm that it is not; but commercial treaties, of necessity, make our legislation contingent and dependent on the assent of foreign countries; and commercial treaties, therefore, strike at the independence of the State. Conservative states men have been willing to starve their country men —nay, they have starved a great number— in order to preserve, according to their fashion, the presumed independence of the country, and they will not, we are sure, be ready to bind their own idol with the chains of a commercial treaty. We agree, therefore, with Mr. DEACON HUME in condemning commercial treaties. We say with him, "Levy such Customs' duties as you require for the State, with a due regard to the interest of your own people ; study that as your primary, or rather sole, ob ject ; do to your own people what ftirness and justice require; protect all honest commerce, bu bind not yourselves-down by commercial treatie to a line of conduct which must be unjust to some portion of your own subjects in order to please another State." ' We are quite aware that such opinions do not accord with the wishes of the manufacturing in terest. Some of its journals are rather urgent for the Government to negotiate new commercial ( treaties. That such treaties might for the pre sent promote the prosperity of the woollen ma nufacturers and linen yarn spinners we will not deny, but it would be at the expense of the rest of the community. We are not now to learn that the manufacturers are no more to be impli citly relied on than the landlords, when they would determine the policy of the nation by what they suppose would promote their advantage. The protecting policy, in fact, which ' they so justly rue and so loudly deplore, which is ruining them now that it is applied to the pro duce of land, is, in truth, the policy of the manu facturers, and was made the policy of she State by their reiterated demands. Protection is the ricketty bantliniof what is called the commer cial system. To call for protection, let us tell the manufacturers, implies dependence, and at once places that commerce, which ought to be free, with which Government ought not to in terfere, under the hoof of patronising, restrict ing, and spoliating statesmen. Some of the Paris journals arc hostile to a commercial treaty with _England, and we confess a similar hostility to a commercial treaty with France, for the reasons we have assigned, whiCh are totally dif ferent from those of jealousy and hatred, which, we regret to see, continue to animate our Paris brethren. r DA_Y EVENING, OCTOBER 22. 1842. ; BOILERS OF WAR STEAMERS. ( PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—A highly interesting ex periment was tried on board the Excellent gunnery ship, Captain Sir 'Thomas Hastings, a few .days ago, to test the efficacy of the boilers in steam ships of war. One of the greatest difficulties to surmount, in order to render the steam navy of greater efficiency in ac tion, is to afford adequate protection to the boilers against the shot of the enemy, as a ball perforating them would at once place the vessel hors de combat. With the view of affinsiing this protection to their boilers, several war steamers have been fitted up with extra defences, at the parts where the boilers are fixed. These defences consist of fifteen plates or layers of:metal, each three-eighths of an inch thick. The object of the experiment on board the Excel. lent was to ascertain what resistance these defences 0 boilers would offer to a cannonade at point blank dis . tance, which is 400 yards. An iron target was pre pared, mare exactly of the material which constitutes the protection of a boiler of a steamer, and placed at the distance of 400 yards from the ship, from whit/ .guns of different calibre were fired at it. Admiral Sir Edward Codrington and Parker, and great number of naval officers, including those from the Austrian frigate, were present to wit ness the experiment. The first shot that was fired was an eight-inch hollow shot, and was projected from a sixty-eight pounder medium gun. It struck the bull's eye, or centre of the target, and indenting it to the depth of about five inches, rebounded there from, and was split into several pieces by the concus. sion. The second shot was a solid 32-pounder, and was fired from a gun of nine feet six inches ; it struck the edge of the target, glanced off; and was split into two pieces. The third shot hit the cen:rc of the tar get, where it lodged, having penetrated several plates. The fourth shot struck the third, and sent it clear through all parts of the iron, 'splitting it into num berless pieces, which v ere found on the off side of the wooden stage on which the target,was fixed. .The fifth and sixth shots went through the perforation made by the third and fourth. About ten other shots were fired, all striking the target in various parts, and completely destroying it. The result of this experi ment has shown how totally inadeqnate are the pre • sent defences of the boilers of war steamers to protect them from the aisaults of the enemy, where a precision of fire has been attained. It has also shown, what is much more satisfactory, the high state of perfection which the gunnery practice has been brought to by those studying it on board the Excellent, thus prac tically proving the utility of this admirable institu tion, from xhich gunnery officers and seamen are supplied to the fleet. All officers now are obliged to undergo a strict examination in gunnery before the , can pass for Lieutenants. DE ATH of the LORD ADVOCATE (From the Caledonian Ofereury.) We sincerely regret to announce, that the nigh! Hon. Sir William Rae, Bart., expired yesterday after noon at St. Catharine's, his country seat, in the vici nity of this city. Fcr a considerable time past hi health had been rapidly declining, and we need scarcely add; that the numerous cares and anxieties incidental to his high and important office visibly preyed on his debilitated constitution and aged frame. Sir William, who was called to the bar as far back as the year 1791, wasaschoolfPllow and contemporary of Sir Walter Scott, who ever entertained a high regard for him, as frequently. appears from his recorded sen timents. In 1819, and when Sheriff of Midlothian, Sir W. Rae was promoted to the office of Lord Advo cate, on the elevation of the present Lord Meadowbanli to the bench. He held this office until the accession 6 the Grey Ministry in 1830, and was afterwards re-ap pointed in 1834, and continued during the brief officia; tenure of Sir R. Peel. During the intervals in hi: official career the -Right Hon. Baronet remained in Parliament, and was the acknowledged adviser 6 the Opposition on all matters relating to Scotland. Perhaps no individual ever held this office so long, seeing it is the key to the official patronage of Scot land, .and the occupant of which is, of course, entitled in due time to secure an honourable promotion for himself. Sir William might have on various occasion;• claimed a seat on the bench, but he very honourabl3 declined the judicial office, on the ground that he did not consider himself sufficiently qualified as a prac tising lawyer. Ile was, however, allowed by all, in cluding his political opponents, to be most assiduous in his official duties, and many remain to bear testi mony to the efficient services he rendered in local matters. It may be considered almost certain that Mr. D. M'Neill, the present Solicitor-General, wil; be immediately appointed Lord-Advocate, and it is highly probable that he will also become candidate for the representation of Buteshire. Mr. Adam Ander son, late Sheriff of Perthshire, it is expected, will succeed Mr. M'Neill as Solicitor-General. SPORTING. The Houghton (hay and corn, as it is termed by the trainers), or last meeting this season, commences on Monday, and will not terminate until Saturday ; in fact, we may look forward to some five-and-thirty races during the week. The Pony Handicap, on Monday, always fills. The field will be small for th e Criterion. Cotherstone will be the favourite, and, ap parent's-, has only to contend with Canton (winner of the Chesterfield), Testy, the Macremma filly, the Yaxley colt (in the same stable), and'Bother'em. Fifty-four accepted for the Cambridgeshire Stakes, twelve of which have already declared forfeit. I think about one and twenty may he expected to run. 'The betting on this race only commenced on Monday. Last year many thousarlda were wagered ere the Cesarewitch had been run four and twenty hours. The book-makers, however, need not be alarmed. Whenever Scott has one great favourite, and the Day party another, the money comes freely int 9 the mar ket ; end, if I mistake not, on this occasion two or three more will be backed for money. I presume no body will deny that two or three others will be backed pretty handsomely, out. To judge by the betting, generally a desperate correct criterion, we should infer that (as in 1841) the leading horses in the Cesarewitch have no very great chance of winning the Cambridgeshire, and it is wonderful what a difference distance does make. The Busk filly, with four stone on her back, would have had no cliance in the' long race, or about as much as Magog. Mona, last year, turned loose, was nearly distanced in the short race. When this handicap first appeared I spoke of its excellence ; the more I look at if, the more confirmed am I in that opinion. Was the Audley-end Course the distance, I should have an eye on I-am-not-awa re ; when this horse happens to be the favourite the noise in the ring is something terrible from a happy method of pronounc ing those word s a tt a in e d by one of its leading mem bers, whose lungs are equally the admiration and envy of the crowd. Ralph should run well, and is safe to heat Garry Owen this distance; but I fancy Bellissima will beat every horse that carries as much or more weight than herself. Proceeding down the list then, I' see Cabrera the tep weight among the three-year olds ; the public back him ; I cannot see why Florence is not to beat him; it must take a pretty good.three-yea r - o ld t o g i ve h er t h e year and filbs. Lady Adela showed amazing speed at Goodwood ; she beat Garry Owen, receiving 241b5., and Misdeal giving 51bs. : Misdeal on the following day won the Racing Stakes in a canter. There arc several quite unknowns among the light weights. Lucy Banks has, in her best day, done sufficient to have no contemptible chance. Topsail must be very fresh. Hawk and Recompense ! what are these, and where do they come from ? The conqueror has twice this 'year been backed in earnest —at Bath he was beat a long way —at Warwick he tumbled head over heels over the ropes. It is a good plan not to be against horses that have ever in their lives been expected to do a great thing. Broadwath, however, was an ex pensive horse to follow : said to have been purchased by Mr. Meiklam for three thousand guineas (more likely fiddlesticks !) He was first favourite for the Liverpool Cup at 6 to 4, taken freely : I have no re collection of his ever winning a .50/. plate. 'Whistle Binkie has been beating the winner of the Great York shire Handicap very easy, in Scotland. It looks well for Cabrera that they back him in preference. Vulcan, the winner last year, is overweighted : Roscius, the winner the year before, carries but Bst. 'slb. Dawson has four entered, but if I was to want One of these to win, that particular one would be doubtless locked up safe, and another started in the same beautiful condition that Blue Bonnet looked in for the Cesarewitch. At tentively reading the above remarks, if any one can, name the winner he i s a sharper fellow than' your correspond e nt,' w h o cou ld be happy With each of a -1 half-dozen were five of them miles away. It is un doubtedly a splendid handicap. Murat and Testy will probably compromise the race on Thursday. 'This would not happen had Lord Exeter on ly a h ac k entered. Some gentleinen was bold eno ug h l ast week to bet 2 to 1 against all the two-year-old s th at ran in the plate for the Nursery Stakes.. This wou ld h ave succeeded last year, but I should be d ec id e dl y a taker of those odds. for the race . on Friday. By th e b ye, if this stake be divided into I two classes, thi s w ill b e rather an awkward wager. I The "Scott's l e t" quest i on seems likely to be set tled in the fair and equitable manner I proposed on Monday. So long as the great men . agree to those conditions, the little men have not nor do they re quire, a voice i n th e matt e r. , it'laaceveinryWgreaethaetrliiy9sPrZe7ngelCltalies'n'anifir ul n o c b e observe to e t a t k h e a no next season. JUDEX. October 22. Mr. Mainzer has received a requisition from Edin burgh, inviting him thither to expound his system for teaching musi c to ere poor. Th e requ i s iti on , w hi c h is headed by the signature of Sir Henry Bishop, was forwarded to Mr. Mainzer by Sir James Forrest, the Lord Provost of the city. WARSAW, OCT. 11.—The Emperor of Russia ar rived here the day before yesterday.—Przusian State Gazette. OST, on the Evening of Saturday, the' 15th inst., 'between St. Mary-le-Strand, and Charing-cross, a Plain SILVER SNUFF. BOX, with the owner's name, ;lace of resi dence at full length,'and 1810 engraved inside of the lid. Who ever will restore it to Mr. Emans, Edinburgh Castle Tavern, Strand, will receive ONE POUND REWARD. Pawnbro kers, &e., are requested to stop it, if offered for pawn or sale. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. COMPANY. Notice is hereby given, that the ADJOURNED GE. NERAL MEETING of this COMPANY will take place et the Shorerlitch Station, London, on FaIDAY, tho 28th of October instant, at One o'Clock precisely, for the general disr patch of business. HENRY BOSANQUET, Chairman. THEODORE W. RATHBONE, Deputy Chairman. Offices, Shoreditch Station, Oct. 21, 1842. N.B. The proposed visit of inspection by the Proprietors on the 27th inst. is unavoidably postponed. y. p . t_p AitAtAe 44,,M 4 * al 4*etonblibition greater reverence , for puiJlic functionaries, or a better opinion of that Constitution by which they consider themselves oppressed. If we are to believe the poets, music humanises the mind and even tames the brute creation; and the Ma gistrates of Middlesex might therefore have tried the experiment at least for one year, to see what mould be its effects on the moral-force Chartists. The Madrid mail of the 13th brings nothinc , of importance from the capital or the provinces of Spain in the way of news, and the specula dons of the journals are destitute of interest. The Three per Cents. were done at 21i at 60 days, and Five per Cents. at 27 27 1 1 , 27 at 60 days. The remarkable letter of Lord ABERDEEN, addressed to the Lords of the Admiralty, rela tive to the slave trade, furnishes an ample topic for discussion in the Paris papers of Thursday. In that letter it was admitted, on the authority of the Advocate-General, that the proceedings at Gal iinas Rio Cestos, and Sea-bar were not strictly justifiable, and that the instructions given to her MAJESTY'S naval officers could not with perfect legality be' carried into effect. His Lordship submitted also um the consideration of the Ad miralty, whether it might not be -proper to caution our naval officers respecting . the manner in which they acted on their instructions for blockading the mouth of of a river; lest the duty confided to them in suppressing the slav e t ra d e m i ght be .confounded with the very different one of the actual blockade. The writers in these journals generally express satisfaction with this document, while at the same time they adduce it as a confirmation of their assertions, that the right of search had not been executed according to the law and eight of nations. No doubt they are justified in drawing such inferences from the letter, and Lord ABER DEEN, on finding that our cruisers had received defective or illegal instructions, did no more than his duty in redressing the grievance, and taking precautions against its r e c urrence . It must, at the same time, be remarked, that the points re ferred to by his Lordship do not bear directly upon the great question—the right of search but the French writers, nevertheless, take ad- ) vantage of the circumstance, and consider the admissions made by the British Minister as very good reasons for abrogating the treaties of 1831 and 1833. " Officers," says the Commerce, • who are so little competent to understand the instructions given to • them 'or the repression of the .slaVe trade along the coast Of Africa, and who have been guilty of acts of pillage and destruction, which cannot be considered as sanctioned by the - laws of nations,' ought not to complain of being calumniated, when we charge them with Wanting moderation in. the exercise of .the right of search. By a strange coincidence it is at this moment, when ill. Guizot, in order to defend that right, repelled the accusations adduced against the British . navy, that Lord Aberdeen confirmed the jus tice of our coniplaints in his letter to the Lords Coin -missioners of the Admiralty. M. de St. Aulaire may boldly present himself to Lord Aberdeen • and, witl the letter of his L or d s hi p in his hands, demand the abrogation of the treaties of 1831 and 1833." " The British Government," . says the Courrier Francais, " appears to feel that her honour engages her to disavow the acts - of barbarity and pillage com mitted by her cruisers at Galling and at Rio Sestos. We now ask all those who have read Lord Aberdeen's letter, whether the Minister ought to have confined the effects of his displeasure to a sort ofpublic censure of the acts which he points out to the attention of the: Admiralty? Is this a sufficient reparation for such excesses ? We are aware that the Minister who drew up those homicidal inAructions quitted office with Lord Palmerston and that he is no longer res p ons ibl e ,, except to public opinion ; but does • not Great Britain owe an indemnity to the people who have suffered ? and is not this conclusion wanted to Lord .Aberdeen's letter? A great nation, when it 11 outraged, huma u-4Y: ought not to be satisfied with making a public SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloelt. A petition was presented to the Middlesex Magistrates on Thursday from certain Chartists, praying fur a dancing and music license for a building in Holborn, belonging to what is called " The National Association of the United King lom, for Promoting the Political and Social Itn provement of the Poor," and, after counsel had Teen heard fur and against the application, the Acense was refused•by a large majority, only four bands being held up in its - favour. We are at a loss to discover any good reason for the course adopted by the Magistrates on this occasion, especially after tile liberal speech made by their Chairman, and the manner in which he pointed out the expediency of provid ing moral edification and amusement fur the people. That speech, according to the report, was loudly cheered from : all parts of the Court, yet in a very brief space after this cheer ing had subsided they declared that to one class it least, and that rather a numerous one, such amusements shall be denied. The petitioners, too, lid not belong to that violent sect called " Phy sical Force men," but to another which has se parated from the general body, and which pro poses to aecomplish its objects by peaceful means, by mental, physical, moral, and political instruction, and by•healthful and rational recrea tions, which may serve to cheer the working glasses after the toils of the day. Singing is 3onsidered by many a very rational amusement, and Sir ROBERT PEEL has such a high opinion of its moral tendency that he intends to propose a public grant of money for its encouragement. Dancing also is considered rational exercise—at least it is practised by many rational people, and, though its moral effects may not be so conspi •uoas, it is patronised by Ahnack's, by the Nobles, and the highest ladies of the land, and, indeed, with a few exceptions, by the whole com munity, from the kilted. Scotsman, whO rejoices in the " Highland fling," to the QUEEN herself.. fhe petititmers, therefore, cannot be charged with asking permission to carry on illegal or im moral practices ; nor would the license for which :hey prayed enable them to give more effect to loctrines which may not be suited to :he taste of the Middlesex Magistrates and the Vestry of the united parishes of Sf. Giles and St. Cileorge. If the lessons they teach are danger-, pis and illegal, let the place be shut up at once, et the leaders be tried for their offences, and the public be convinced that they are in the hvrong; but let not public functionaries, entrusted with great powers, exercise them with partiality, and grant permission for harmless amusements lo one class of her MAJESTY'S subjects, whilst it is refused to another. These remarks are sug gested without any reference to the political tenets of the part!es, but from a sense of justice, and a conviction that these useless annoyances And unreasonable antipathies only frustrate their object. Does not the very fact, that these men are not treated like others, tend to confirm them in one of the fundamental doctrines of the Charter, that they are not faithfully represented in Parliament? Arid would not a license - fbr inch a place have rather taught those peo ple respect for the Magisterial bench, and put them on their good conduct, in order that they might confidently apply tbr its renewal? Bat when they find them selves a marked sect, • and are refitsed privileges granted to the frequenters of Exeter-hall and other places, not remarkable either for the moderation or the charity displayed at the meetings, they cannot be expected to entertain SUEII MARV OF NE-'S confession of her faults. -Repentance supposes exp7a tiou. In polities,.asin mirality, no one is freed from the obligation of repah in; a wrong which they have admitted. The dignify of Great Britain appears to us interested that her Government ahould efface, with out delay, the trace of the violence committed upc.n the coast of Africa by her cruisers, ,withcut which the nation which boastS of having conquered the do main of the ocean may well be placed upon a line with the miserable pirates who male a trade of skim. ming the seas." The opinion of the Constitutiwznel is thus ex pressed : " The Minister of Foreign Affairs, into whose Hands fall the energetic remonstrances of the Govern ments whose rights the English navy so grossly violate, does not hesitate to condemn certain acts of the cruisers, and has called upon the Lords of the Ad miralty to take measures for preventing a repetition of them. This is the first step in the path of candour and good faith, and we cannot too strongly encourage the British Ministry to persevere in pursuing it." The Quotidienne says— "We highly approve of this letter, and the spirit by which it was dictated ; and if it be true that he French journals have had anything to do in producing it, we congratulate them cn their success ; but this return of England to a snore just and honourable con duct will not change the terms of the question so far as it regards France. The right of search is con demned, justly condemned, by the unanimous opinion of all parties. Jt is now no longer a question between France and England, but between the people and the Government." The National, of course, exults in the publi cation of the document, and seizes the opportu nity for making the most violent attacks on M. GUIZOT and the English nation. The ordonnance opening a supplementary credit of 300,000 f. to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for extraordinary jmissions, is objected to by the Opposition journals on the ground that the sum already voted by the Chambers was sufficiently large, and also because they charged M. GUIZOT with inventing missions to reward his immediate partisans and disarm his political opponents. M. DE RIBEAUPIERRE, one of the most dis tinguished Russian diplomatists, and former Ambassador in Berlin, had arrived at Paris. .JunELI/kr, who has been successively Governor of Senegal, Cayenne, and Guatlitloupc, had been appointed member of the Board of Admiralty. According to the Commerce, SIMOIT DEUTZ, who betrayed the Duchess of BERRY into the hands of the police, is to be conveyed to Aus tralia, where the French Government will pro vide him with means of existence. BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. First 'Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 118 90... 118 90... 118 90... 118 90 4% per Cents. 106 60... 106 60... 106 60... 106 60 Four per Cents. 102 ... 102 .. 102 102 3 per Cents 80 ... 80 15... 80 ... 80 15 Bank of France 3270 ...3275 ...8270 .. 3275 Laffitto Bank 5,000 f 5072 50...5072 50...5072 50...5072 50 I,ooof 1045 ..1035 —.1045 ...1045 Belgian Bank BO5 ... 805 ... 805 ... 805 Belgian Fives ..... 103 103 ... 103 ... 103 1840. 1041 ... 1041 ... 1041 ... 1041 Spanish Active 22i ... 221 ... 22 ... 22 Portuguese Fives 32 ... 32% ... 32 ... 321 Neapolitan .. l OB 30... 108 30... 108.25... 108 25 Roman RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain . .. 847 50... E 47 50... 845 ... 845 Versailles, L.B lOO 100 ... ipo ... 103 Rouen Orleans.... 5BB 75... 588 75... 587 50... 588 75 Strasburg to Bale 2OB 75... 208 75... 207 50... 207 50 A strange story has reached us, of so painful and delicate a nature, that it is with extreme reluctance that we allude to it at all ; but as the matter in volves royal and public, as well as private considerations, we should consider that we had failed in our duty to the public were we to preserve total silence on the s u b jec t. Th e "mishap,' we are informed, relates .to one of the most noble families in England, and the other party involved is of a still higher rank. The Queen, we understand, has been appealed to, as the circumstances of the case impera tively demand that the injury should be atoned for by a speedy marriage. The father of the "irre sistible " is said to be on this point inexorable. But we must refrain, in the present stage of the proceed ings, from saying more on so delicate a subject, in volving, as it does, consequences so important, social, political, and royal.—The British Queen of this day. A supplement to the London Gazette has been pub lished this day., containing an account of the investi ture of the King of Saxony with the order of the Garter, which will appear in a Third Edition. AMERICAN NEWS. EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL SATURDAY MORNING, THREE O'CLOCK. We have received New York Papers of the Ist. inst., by the packet ship South America, Captain Bailey, after a very rapid pas sage of twenty days. The new is one day later than that received by the Acadia, and possesses no feature of any interest to the English .reader. The following report of the Money Market we copy from the New York Herald:— "The Stock Market offers no new features. Sales are very sma►l, and prices generally worse. Mohawk fell 1 per cent., Stonington Harlemi, Kentucky State 6's rose 4. There has been a good business doing for_ the packet in sterling bills, and rates are fair at 8 to • 81 per cent. The general features of the Money Market re main nearly the same. The banks of Virginia have returned to specie payments now some, two weeks since, the rates rule as low as is healthy. On the sea board and gull, Alabama is now the only point of sw pension, and there it is a matter much more dif ficult to deal with than at any other point. CORN TRADE.—The market is very quiet— never more so. Flour falls a little every week, and grain follows suit, although not quite so rapidly. The very best brands of Canal can now be purchased, at 4,50 dols. a barrel, and other kinds in proportion. It. is now ascertained that the average price throughout the Union is a little below 4,00 do's. a barrel. LATER FROM CANADA. The British Government has refused its consent to change the legislative capital of Canada from King ston to Toronto and Quebec, four years alternately, as had been requested. The great expenses caused this refusal. A dispatch to this effect from Lord Stanley, of 18th Nov., 1841, was laid before the Pro vincial Parliament on the 26th inst. It is generally supposed that a general amnesty will he authorised by the Canadian Government to wards all those who were banished during the retie. lion, with the exception of old Papineau, LLOYD' S SHIPPIN G--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT. 22.—Wind this day at. noon, light south westerly breeze and drizzling rain. DEAL, OCT. 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Dominica, Robinson, and Dale Park, Jamaica; Jane Grey, Car ter, Virginia; Jane, Skidmore, Gambia ; Jessie, Mit chell; Westward. Sailed all the outward bound. COWES, OCT. 21.—Arrd. Melette, Pernambuco. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 20.—Wind N.E.—Sld King William, Hobart Town. Arrd. off Africanus, Africa: OFF DARTMOUTH, ()CT. 20 .—Cairo, Wardle, Sydney, New South Wale s ; G eneral Brock, Court land, Sierra Leone. POOLE, OCT. 20.—Arrd. Amphitrite, Quebec. FALMOUTH, OCT. 20.—'Wind N. to N.W,, strong breezes and squally.—Arrd. Jane, Constance, War. lace, N.S. Orr MARGATE, OCT. 21.—Ann Milne, Callao ; Harriet, Thom, Jamaica. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 21 .--Wi nd N.E.—Arrd. H.M S. Resistance, Quebec, sailed Ist. inst. - Arrd. off Prince Rupert, Herd, H u d son ' s B ay, sailed Sept. 15. The Mary, Richard s , from London to Bedhampton, got ashore on Bembridge Ledge 3•esterday morning, but came off at high water, with assistance, apparently without damage. BERWICK , OCT. 20.—The schooner Betsy Ann Dees, Stevens, from Shields to Dundee, got on the rocks at Eyemouth, in a gale on th© 18th inst., and has become a total wreck ; crew saved, with part of materials. Orr CAPE CLEAR, OCT. 16.—Charles Napier, St. Andrew's. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 21.—Wind N.N.E., moderate. —Arrd. Jane Anderson, Bombay ; Lydia, Petrie, Bahia; Cora, Miller, Paraiba ; Edgeombe, Braith , . wait, Panama. Sld. Malcolm, Singapore ; Unicorn, Gambia; Airey, Rio, One of the most admirable features in the character of American society is this—that men never boast of their riches, and never disguise their poverty; but they talk of both as of any other matter fit for public conversation. No man shuns another because he is poor; no man is preferred to another because he is rich. In hundreds and hundreds of instances, men not worth a shilling have been chosen by the people and entrusted with 11 - I , ,ir ) . - iL;•1•1 - 9 anelint - Prost , , in ic ferenee to men who rid . tik, i p own carr i ages, Cobbett. u'Ve. i4vir • • AND Vutur opinion. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. Lord Cowley was received last Tuesday night by the King of the French, on his Excellency's re l jn il from London. The Due de Grammont, formerly the flue de , Quiche, was two days ago attacked by apoplexy' d e - The Moniteur Parisien says :—" It has b een cided, in a Grand C ounc il, held in the Palace of, the, _ Regent of Spain, that, acc or ding to the spirit of t,,,,nda Constitution, the civil majority cannot be sopara„l'Ze from the politi ca l ma j or ity. The majority :or Queen, therefore, cannot be declared for two years , "" she is only 12 years of age." The Turkish Governor of Larissa has had a num ber - of Greek and Ottoman subjects arrested on sus picion of a plot against the State. The adhesion of the Belgian Government propositions of Holland con ce r n i n g the financial'llless; 4.h te tion has just been concluded. It appears the Cabinet of Brussel s h a s purchased for the all the property of the King and ex-King in l3elgiutrie 'l3 Amongst the estates are th e domain of•Tervueren: e ',louse in the Place Royale, and the Palace °' 1 Prince of Orange on the Boul e vards. Tee, The Moniteur has Royal Ordonnances of the r, t completing the personnel of the Algiers Royal Cbu ' u . but complaints are made by the journals that no red _ , far jurisdiction has been .form e d for COll5 tenting t o the where General Negrier's sway is described in ; . most arbitrary and oppressive. the be A fatal duel took place at Clausenng, • d Tyrol, on the 4th inst., between. Count Teleki . an a e Count Bethlen, arising from som e . expressions •0 12 use of by the former. Count Teleasy fell dead, a ll Count Bethlen is not expected to survive. Th e conds have been arrested. Two unfortunate peasants, con x icted of bev in il g o sheltered in their houses severa l o f I:he brigands , e infested the neighbourhood - of Vick,. were shot oni 12th at Gerona, by order of General Zurbano. T: ethers guilty of the sam e o ffe nce , are awaiting the fate at the same place. 1 Some disturbances ha ve t a k en pl ace at Barce ° in consequence of the manu f acture o f cigars .2 closed by an order from Madri. by which of 700 women were thrown out .If bread. A ment of military has since restores I order. • • the On the proposition of th e KI n g o f Prus snl e'ehat Committee of the Provincial St a t e s h av e decidt' t s the sums obtained by a reduction i n the taxes be applied to the construction of rall'roads..Th a to nution in the taxes amounted for t b e present Y e 7 1,500,000 thalers (208,0001.) that The Basle Gazette, of the 17th in st., infortes a ee. the Government of Argau has j u st adopted conlin,'reiti cial reprisals against the Governtnen t of Baden• c Gra nd Act 15, wine, beer, and flour comi n g f r om the it. Duchy will not be allowed to enter, e rcept on tra l v PUBLIC OPENZOI Cos' IVe quote the following remarks . respecting „We servative Tavern-keepers frcm the C d i e . beg to call the attention of our re aders to the are tresses of a very meritorious chess of persons wil°, er t to be added to the long list oF suiTerel ss by . Sir -1 1 °% 8 Peel's accession to office. We mean the Conservetirs tavern-keepers. Our table is crow ded with letters from these unhappy men in every pa r t of the emP ee ' complaining that, far from profiting by the acce s i S l eo of their party to power, that event se( OIS to have u e ct , the signal for the immediate and total . discontinua:o of those Conservative dinners which used to be i ll at this time of year. Many of our Corresponn en rea i suggest that such a sudden abandon= not of the eL i T .r efficient means by which the party was., kept toge tn ` the e must prove injurious to the party—perhaps t o • sacred cause of Conservatism. ;el' mom and strenuous in asserting that it rious to the Conservative snnkeeper ; and sv" ft ,',' ; t a i l s they say, is the use of Co;sservatism, if it isn uphold the Conservative innkeepers ?' " e eican The Times remarks, in ari aeSicle on the A- 1 .. 1 oe newspaper Press :—" M. de Tocqueville, Car •3- and in general an instructive, reportor upon 1 1 0 7, lc' and people he the New World, ace °ants tbr the. ° i v e 4 barous state of i7eriodical literature, t olereted net i h e' in the ruder distr.:et:3 but in New Y ork, and even o f, , 9 the most refined of e arv:r;7lls., ell the American societies, tha t , to Boston, by a theory of which the logic-, seems to, tk elh eiol be strangely inverted. He and otlu Fre ne , i'r oa ..,.o"o who went odt, as the Reviewer has it, with n 0 4 e 7...0° lish disposition to carp and cavil,' but " with theifts,„,,a suasion that of all forms of Government the ReP, en e e ..!n t can is best fitted to develope the political indenen 0 and happiness of Mankind, have returned to t?; ap . (and with this conclusion the ele viewer Ilimse, l oe• pears wonderfiilly content), th at the Americauvio, stitutions are good, but that the people are not.' will, be we strongly believe that the very reve rse w oo d found to be the.truth—tbat the people enough, but that the institutions are not; 11 " d w • e 1091:ing. scarcely conceive how the writer, ACCreditlllg valuation of his French witnesses, and them for their freedom from English bias shouldhve missed the very obvious, suspicion that their sacrific e of American character, in favour of American instita" tions, was the result of the Republican prepossessio ns which he avows that those witnesses carried wi th them. They took out a certain sat of opinions, bas - upon no experience of populous 'ration,', but whi ch would be good found they were determined at all times to justitY. Arri vinl ; in America, and finding there, instead of ' a develop! ment of independence and happiness,' a st; t 1 e of where private character is insecure—wh eve P o p' 4 13 -r. licentiousness is at an enormous premium- where, t flatteries and the despotic powers so de. stru ct i ve virtue even in an individual sovereign, arel avisAe d interested sycophants upon a Sovereign ha 3• l nBg ° b bi le lions of heads—and where, of course, acc insiaer a • proportion of that bloated mob must exhibit ; the edr ruption thus inoculated into their constitut ns—the Doctrinaires of French democracy, instead o f confess' . , t flo r 4 ,` ing that their theory is swamped by the ex pt , stick to it with a vanity which, like Greek fire • n 3 ;;;,4 1 even under water, and u - steuggle to save the d es i~:', l / wretched. credit by ",;imputing an innate trowel tu"' to a whole people. ' The following is from the Post:—" We per bout' 0 ./ agree with all Sir John Tyrell se forcibly Mr Ge j 6 4 3j g.1 the dishonest char ac t er o f th e p o licy of the Jai e vernment. We agree with him that nothing co eld more base than for that Government to hold hiL n- g: 4 from certai n measures w hil e they had power) hen i - r 4 O) then to launch them forth upon the popular tides their power of carrying them was gone. But ev. not agree in the opinion .which seems now to be h d by country members, though not openly expr esso , that because these measures were dishonestly launc h ed *) by the Whigs, it became necessar;s for the Conserva: tives to carry them to a certain exttnt, and to adopt to a certain extent the principles 0 ... e opinions uP°n which these measures were founded. it seems as though some mysterious cans We repeat that ...41 to be revealed to the public—for holding this opini° ° ' ; I d hail been imparted to country gentleme v , and gl i is verned their . pclitical conduct. Sir Jo. l * , n e.--not prop . , 1 : 0 7? Ti to speaks of hi s .in t erv i ews w i t h the Adnainisti •aLt-°,n he A obtain certain mo difi cat i ons o f t h e Corn-law, "t.. ee n and his friend s were una bl e to e ff ect what theescl‘_: s ,;b - t, - and were thus in an awkward position. go' Sir John, you must have been, supposing t."'"A ' to . ;s•% vote with the Mini s t er was t h e fi rst o bj ec t, n o support your own views the second. But we lel reason why an ind e p en d en t country gen tl em an 5 1 's u p .- 01 ' not have said that he was under the necessity of porting his views of what was best for the coup oat •rer' and he must do so h owever h e was pa i ne d in ing from the Minister." The Herald says :—" The Mar • quis of Lon. dCI h , r. , has, just add resse d a pr i nte d l etter to L or d -4 5 -/ i I to open his eyes' on the subject of the 3S-ini' s a t . ;0 1 .' s ei Collieries Act, an d th e N o bl e ocu li st ' s mo de of c°u "4-00) ing organs of Leislative vision has at all eveo ts ;n t : merit of novelty.' Some men attempt to corry— t , their opponents of error by a resort to argunleut, others by an appeal to the heart : some endeavour' 1.. 1 , 11. 1 shame antagonists into truth, others to ridicule a L en ~ s out of false views ; so me h ave recourse t o irony ' 241 4e ' I es P :-13 to persuasion ; few, a very few think that abu se .Isl ' I 1 hard words are the most successful implements nf c an version,—Lord Londond err y appears to be of this 5 e .O • lect minority. The lo ca lit y of controversialists 0" - k ;0 employ such literary w eapons we h a d suppose i have been much more confined than Lord 3 Lon• b` 7' derry's epistle to Lord Ashley indicates it to Mere imputations ofignorance, mis-statement , puerility, fraud, and misrepresentation, we tr••• thought were practices 'only in the most eastern gin . en ters of this huge metropolis • extrennes, however . its tl to to meet in these matters as others, and well as „ a `ancient and fish-like' style of convincing a Pt — rs a be, • =nue the vernacular i n anguage t. ' 'unifier to es lo denizen of 1 arksfaue. Bitter invective, une . er, urn' Id tricl insinuation, unwarrantable imputations, and ta' re „ e h t 'l l vu gar denunciations, are the instruments with 1v Lord Londonderry 'flatters' himself he pie • The een • Ashley' s ' eyes. '" lvz°lllB7 TRADE—COMMZECO• t • cattle-fai rs h e ld d ur i ng the pas t week at es over, Lancaster, Mansfield, and Worksop ha ve b eras fairly attended. .At Mansfield the business done • % • very trifling, an d at D ev i zes excess i ve ly dull. J. minster fair was the fullest seen for many years. NAVAL AND MILITARY. A letter from one of the privates of the 41st re ment has been received, dated the 7th of S e p t. !: in whi c h th e writer asserts that there has bee n fighting of late,' but that they were in daily exPt tatien of receiving orders to advance towards Caul). LAW AND POLICE. Charles Gustavus Chamberlain, City policeman 61 was charged yesterday at Guildhall, with having e torted, by colour of his office, from fruit-women are omnibus-drivers, eundry small fees of a pen ll 4. in3 l twopence. The prisoner was pommitted to the . (:) ‘P of Correction. 1t - f s 12i/ th( tui to I the 111