The Sun. — London, England, 1842-11-18 00:00:00

Sir [A. u•e and xast up ;on' ;T er, l i nt wail t he 1011 , , sse l 10e odi. the ye; all' 70 Lltl e id olf 914 0 , 4 , 41' .., ~:,. birth. He served early in France, and afterwards joined the Mexicans in their revolutions against ' slain, and served with success in several campaigns. ( lc is very hostile agdinst Texas, having . been made prisoner by General Houston while bearing a flag of "'nee from General Filiciola, who commanded the Mexican army in the campaign of 1e36, after the 13,‘4! capture of Santa Anna. General Wail is able and NIL, experienced, a good disciplinarian, and has good troops, w hi ch he has drilled in person. Samuel Hou ston is an imbecile, and will be no match for him in the field. That is my opinion. I know them both ; however we shall soon see the result of the invasion. A brig sailed fr om th ere a f ew d a ys since for Vera Cruz with 2,000 barrels of coal for the Mexican war steamers, and in all probability the Mexican fleet will attack Galvest on by, sea in a very short time. That do ne, and a good army of 7,000 to 8,000 men marching from the West, unless the Texians make a grand rally an d ga i n some d ec i s i ve a d van t age , their country is lost, for they have not the means to sustain an efficient army in the field for any length of time, r d they cannot ex p ec t ass i s t an ce from the United 41es—our people h ave l os t and suffered too much to be induced to aid them any more under such an ineffi eie.at Government as they have at present. ~,,r•S• A sch ooner h as just arr i ve d f rom Galveston brin gs newspapers of 10th. The Mexicans had .4 311. :int advan ce d f arther. S t. A nton i o an d A us ti n a re a"Ztihurneda PPea. The • d to be very confident to ba r ; defend the re country. I hope they of may their not abilit be y dis 3/i!, a PPObited. `l% The Neptune steamer arrived this morning from New York via Charleston and. Havannah. She made laif. ttheCity run from th e l atter p l ace i n s i x ty h o urs from city ° . 414 A. (From the New York Herald, Oct. 31.) 'WelO hav e h a d nothing new f rom t hi s par t o f the rorld si nce the arrival of the Henrietta at N ew Or 40‘f ea rls, whose news to the Bth of October we published ' l.l OiA a f ew (lays since. The sec on d general invasion o f T exas b y th e Mexi ON, • army will be a very serious affair before the are dri ven out of Texas. Al rea d y 100 Texians Aj av e e ,been killed, and a b o ut double that number of z ' e ana•- Yet there has been no engagement be di een the hostile forces on this occasion that could be rnf• shes. Ili ficl by the name of a fight—nothing but skir 'ol,B;ine - Thy have had the effect, however, of keep- Mexicans in check. But when the remainder e Mexican forces, amounting probably to 15,000 kid en ' e nter Texas in three divisions, as they will do, b ara rle powerf u l fl ee t o f M ex ico blockades and born v - h a ti le Ports of T exas , the " lone star" republic will 2 very tough work of it. That she will ultimately triumph over the Mex Z ils Nye do not for a moment doubt ; but to do this ue, M ust have assistance, in some :live, from the provisi ons, Stat es . If not men, s h e cer t a i n ly must have ("visions, arms, and munitions of war. We very eil r %e it doubt w h et h er t h ere can b e f oun d fighting men Mexico in Texas to b ea t b ac k the large force which sham eful is about t o b r i ng aga i n st her. And the thatneful manner in which the recent volunteers from United States have been treated by the authori ln Texas, renders it very doubtful whether she ,n, l have much more assistance in that way. Never- Teless, if -matters were to grow desperate, and the h . e t i ans were to be driven this side the Brazos, we think k r HaPs that numbers of gallant spirits would rush in Whichrerom the Southern and South-Western States ; in co event the Mexicans would be driven out of the rtrY in three weeks, with great slaughter. 4.11 n, media the m ean ti me our G overnmen t h as offered to IC! Gte betw een th e two coun t r i es , and we think (s ssGreat Britai n oug h t a l so to o ff er h er se rvices for the ni e 01) b._ Ject. Almonte, the Mexican Ambassador, has cc° presented to the President. .ONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, OCT. 31. if The feeling at the Stock Board was a little a better, . r )34ll ing. Prices generally rose under very s ma l l e s. Ohio Six es o f 1866 r ose 1 per cent. ; Mo hawkr , i ; Harlem, I. Whig the Bill- mar k e t f or th e packet, the mails for ,"'eh clos e t o -d ay, there h as b een a f a i r d e mand, with e°lllmensurate supply, though not a large one. The ratesl close, however, at a rise on the average sales. 5 s i e Mater proportion of sterling were sold at 1 a i _• _Per cent. Paris, 15 4 . 71 ; Amsterdam 38* a 38*. 4 4i di) wer rates are confidentially anticipated. _ Treasury rili.A: r t i : B are quoted 1a I per cent.; H al f Dollars,_* ai; 141 4„ ; l ean Gold, I a 1 ; Mexican Dollars, 1 ; 2.l Mob m ile Th. - ,,,,° L us, 13 al4 discount ; New Orleans, 11 a , pre . :grind great feature of the Money-markets of t h e 4 : fr i — " vin d now, is the abundance of money in all countries, b ott g indisp u t a ble evidence that affairs have touched h a m• At all the great centres of business specie p ccumulated in great abundance. New York, ans, and London, are each possessed of unusual 4 an, 4lll° " t s• This is seen in the following table of t h e hunt of specie held by the. Banks of England and ''\ - .. "ra noe, and an approximation to that held by the , 4 1k e w York Banks, based upon their condition in ! ti. ° gust last : - 1 1' ., 1 E AND CIRCULATION OF THE BANKS OF ENG . "..ND, PRANCE L AND NEW YORK, TOGETHER WITH ''-1 Yiia M ARKET 1 311 RATE OF INTEREST IN EACH CITY. ~ ~ Bank of Bank of Bank of Ci r England. France. New York. seClctl.lation, '£99,570,000 £42, 157 , 981 $ 6,000,000 r e, 49,080,000 43,125,000 5,500,000 Exce ss Paper, £50,490,000 I,"Le _•:. Specie, _ 967,019 of Specie, mter es t 2+ cent. 3 per cent. 5 per cent. o f T th il . i s is the ;tate p o . faffairs which has succeeded one P m ' greatest money pressures that ever overtook the ° 1 .,,, - , lner eial world. The immediate causes of that t em s ure grew out of the extension of the credit sys 81,—m of England, by which she lent to other nations 18 - 3: S O large that the bullion of the Bank fell from th t o to time she 37 nearly "35,000,000 dol. In all r e l t "me she was under no necessity to purchase fo tr corn,. and her large imports of produce from the man ed lt States were paid for by the export of her ivufactures. Her real difficulties did not ar she° "til, through the failure of her harvest, illneYti cwouasntriebs , lig a e n d d, to buy corn of hard mo . - consequently, to pay for h !.t nati o /Ird money. During the past year by a com . i (~,, II of c ircumstances she has been enabled to in -•,ase the . iniPort e quantity of her bullion in the face of large f large Cour s°f grain. At this crisis, however, her int.er tor. se with the United States has undergone an im artnt change. The United States has becom e e h a r eott el o Inoney country with a prohibitive tariff, a n d h e r as d idn an d Produce now stand in relation to England . must wheat wheat of Europe in years of scarcity. t lizueriaieie.d e had, and it to be had must be paid for in . This is the channel through which the accu Faris sPecie and the plenteousness of money l in ti on •; an d London.is to find its vent. The accumu a ' ullesetins-e,oea.lAnderheYork is already in motion to New Or drain from England is about to com et This moveme n t o f spec i e w ill s t ar t t ra de, but in the -year, ',i In p ut , e th ere i s no demand for money for business vvh T s " , and sto c k s f rom var i ou s causes are al most ° Y t Deg e le There i ed. and There s some littl e d eman d for New York State 41_ °r P or ation Stocks for investment, but genera ll y l er e is • br on 1 l ittle doing. In Ohio the recent election has S tate loan, Into new .loan Power the pasty favourable to a at 10 per cent. interest. This has affected iteeir st R .L.,„" l `s, and in New York State there are appre- Pl: — " s of a. similar result at the election which takes c e on the B th inst. 4i; 1-p AT THE STOCK EXCHA NGE. , O 2 Ohio 6'5,1860 370 icentucky 6's, 1871 ....... I' 4/0 City 102+ 7's, 1852 ... ......... , MO Illinois 6's, 1870 ..... aol ths Utica & Schen •••• 91 ' 10 Auburn & Roch'r ... ......... • 11 Canto n 321 11 ' 5 As Mohawk .. ........... ly„, ' 50 Harlem , . ......... • 38 Syracuse & Utica ............ Alth • STATE OF TRADE. f i S done, "gn but a small amount of business gen erall y " ‘ ut yet the movements of the materials for . a immenserge business are great. Produce arrives f i n e x ; quantities, and finds its way abroad to fa i r -:,1, . 1 1 "'t. The packets get full outward freights . 4 on Saturday, sale of 378 hhds as follows, too k p lace s• - ,, wa s taken trdaY, at the Phenix-room—for cash. The w hole_ L 1,,, trad e. ; - 50hhds for export, and the rest to the I C, m a Particulars as follow, all Kentucky :- 4 1 ' at ~r ' ed, Mrs. Mary Clark ; 1 hbd merchantable , %41 I , "i cents. R. Walker. A. Gibson, W. T., D. L'o4 _ 1; 11 hhds d o at 6 cts. G . D . ; 42 hhd s d o a t 31: 2 i, average 4+; 9 hhds unmer, at 34 a 3-4-, ay. 21 hh ds L.. 37 hhds mer. at 6 a 24, ay. $4,44 ; , h h ' ln ds unm. at 31 a 2*, ay. $3,08. Diamond 8., 30 Ili] 3,t ` s mer. at 6 a 2i, ay. $4,44 ;10 hhds unm. at 'l4 11- a ' a 2 1 , D.hhds mer. at 4 a 3i, 'Tt o . el v • 3 i ;23 hhds until. at 3 a 3i, ay. pm. Diamond faq l ,-,,, 27 hhds mer. at 3 1 a 3*, ay. 2+ ; 37 hhds unm. at ; piat ..., 4; 2 de. at 3. li. 30 hhds mer. at 3* a 2*, ay. 41 . 1 `,1 , ; 12 lihds unm. at 3* a 2*, cv. $2,85. Diamond ,N l, 3 U ; 31 hhds mer. at 31. a 3, ay. 31; 35 unmer., at . 'go n,. It , 3, ar• $3,03. hlat ii , tin' AVAL STORES.—SaIes of North Country Turpen -060.i ,e r e at $2,75— 0 f T ar a t $1,38 a 50. S ou th ern eotti Npiliatsell at 37 a3B cts. °lsiy,„' 6 Qtrs.-1,400 ga ll s. E ng li s h Li nsee d so ld a t 94 c . eid i _ 75 mos• 1,000 b r l s. Wh a l e Oil so ld a t 3qc. Olive at 4 i 1 ',lR' ' haskat 8 0 cts. c Marseilles in ca salad at $3,50, 'e. 'Vt., - p R bli so ,„ ovisioNs.—New Beef arrives freely ; sales at Ili w `. ,25 to $730 for mess, and $3,25 to $3,50 for JP,rf.l: n ! p ri me- Pork , remains with a fair demand. Lard, goon Western, 7 to 7:k eta. ; Ham in pickle, 41 to 41 8 per lb. ; smoked, ii to 61 cts. ; Smoked Beef, 8 to 1 cts.; do. in pickle, 4 cts. i.. ts yr COTTON TRADE. 11,,,, ~- ne state of the market s i n a ll th e ports has had a 0 . no wnward tegkeney. At New O r l ean s there has been r a t good dem an d f or t h e E nglish and French mar k ets, out the low state of the exclutuges renders it almost $500,000 impossible to operate. The principal transactions are made in specie, and the holders of that medium make purchases almost on the same terms. This state of the currency at the head of the market for produce operating with the great abundance of the new crop, causes the general decline in prices. CORN TRADE. There has been only a fair demand for broadstuffs since our last report. We notice no material altera tion in prices in this market. Supplies are to a fair extent, having reached to upwards of 850,000 barrels for the season. This only includes that received down the North River. We have had an aggregate supply this year of one million barrels. Extensive sales of wheat - were making in Buffalo on the 26th, at 63 cents. Best brands of flour $3,50, although inferior miscellaneous samples have been sold as low as $3,00. Corn is out of request at 34 cents. Oats 15 cents on the 28th. A cargo of 5,000 bushels wheat from Monroe was afloat, which was contracted for to arrive, but the purchaser failed to meet his engagement. It will probably bring 67 cents. An advance of freights on the canal have thrown corn out of the market. There was one cargo afloat, but no offers to purchase. The best samples of wheat were offered freely in Cleveland, on the 26th, at 60 cents, at which some sales were made. There was no particular price for flour, holders being unwilling to accede to rates cor responding with the New York market-31 would be given. We do not believe that the average price all over the country, will reach four dollars a barrel. We be lieve that it is certainly one shilling under that point. ATLANTIC STEAM SHIPS AGAIN.—OR authority, we now inform the public, that the terminus of the Columbia, Caledonia, Acadia, and Britannia, hereto fore known as the Cunard steamers, is to be changed from Boston to this city. It is stated that the pioneer of the line will make her appearance in our beautiful bay early next spring. This important change is no more than what we expected. It is plain to the meanest capacity that this city is far superior as a terminus, for a line of steamers like the above, than Boston, or any other seaport on the American coast. This alteration in the route of these steam-ships will, of course, be strongly opposed by the Bostonians. One of their papers has already come out with an ar ticle denying a great many facts set forth by us, and asserting to the truth of a great many falsehoods set forth by themselves.—New York Herald. DAY or JUDGMENT.—Joe Miller, the prophet, the grandson of Joe Miller, the jester, opens his budget to-morrow at Newark, to prove that the day of judg ment takes place the 23d of April next, and no post ponement on account of the weather. THE SHIPPING INTERESTS. —Why do not the de pressed shipping interest in New - York, including ship-holders, shipowners, sailors, and stevedores, call a public meeting to consider what are the causes of the decay in their business ? QUICK PASSAGES.—Three ships arrived yesterday in remarkably short passages from Europe : the Ville de Lyon, Captain Stoddard, and Angelique, Cap tain Brewer, in twenty-one days, and the Westmin ster, Captain Atwood, in nineteen days. Where are the steam-ships? Our packet-ships are taking the steam out of their boilers. FORGERY IN BOSTON.—Forgeries of cheques and notes are again getting to be most alarmingly fre quent. We have had three or four in this city within a week. In Pennsylvania recently, two or three fe male forgers have been detected ; and in Boston they are beginning the same game. Oliver W. Blake was arrested in Boston, Thursday afternoon last, for forging the name of Wm. Whiting to a cheque on the Merchants' Bank for 700 dollars. FIRST FRUITS OF THE TREATY.—The Bangor Whig states that a number of the citizens of Maine are making preparations to engage in the lumber business on the Aroostook and Fish Rivers, this win ter. This movement is attributable to the free navi gation of the St. John's River, secured by the recent treaty between Great Britain and this country. THEATRICALS IN THE UNITED STATES, Braham and his son are on their way to New York. after a most successful tour through Upper and Lower Canada. They will probably pass the winter in the Havannah and the British West India Islands. Several singers are in New York. Mr. and Mrs. Seguin, Mrs. Bailey, Mrs. Knight, &c., all appear at the Park in the new musical drama of Moses in Egypt, accompanied by nearly one hundred choristers. Mr. and Mrs. Hoskins and Billy Williams also appear in it. Celeste has returned to the Bowery to play a fare well engagement. Neither her sister nor daughter will return to Europe with her ; Celeste leaves New York on the 18th of November for England, where she will resume her engagement at the Haymarket. In Philadelphia, Forrest is playing Jack Cade, but does not draw very well. Richings, Miss Ayres, &c., are at the Chesnut. Hackett is doing nothing. Hill is lecturing all over New England, and holds forth somewhere every night except Sundays. DUTCH MAIL. TIIE HAGUE, Nov. 15.—Accounts from Arnheim mention that the Rhine is so low that the navigation of the river meets with obstacles, which are very pre judicial to commerce. There are places among others, one near Arnheim, where a vessel with only one third of its usual cargo can with difficulty pass. Every day it is necessary to have recourse to trans shipments, which are exceedingly troublesome and cause great delay. ST. PETERSBURGH, NOV. 4.—On the proposal of M. Alfesovsky, Mayor of the city of St. Petersburgh, the merchants here subscribed the sum of fifteen thousand silver rubles for the benefit of the sufferers by the fire at Kasan, which has been sent free of ex pense to that city. The Northern Bee announces that a very impor tant improvement has just been introduced at St. Petersburgh in the manufacture of lamp gas. This improvement consists in simplying the apparatus, by means of which this manufacture, which was a very complex and dangerous operation, is rendered so simple that a man of ordinary understanding may learn it in six hours. It is not necessary to compress the gas, nor is there any steam-engine required to manufacture it. The work of four men on the new plan is equal to that of forty on the old one—lastly, the quantity of lime necessary to purify the gas is very inconsiderable. Exchange on London, Nov. 4, at three months' date, 37 21-32d.--Journal de St. Petersbourg. DUTCH PUNT)'.—AMSTERDA M, Nov. 15. Money. PiPs. Actual Dett. 2% per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Amin t Svndic,4% per cent.... ............ Ditto, ditto, 8% per cent 77 77.,‘ Commercial Company, 4!4 per cent.— Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 19% 10J Exchange on London, One month l2 20 Two months Hamburgh, One month 35 87X Two months 35 e6S Dutch Papers, Nov. 16. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, Nov. 15. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent, S3X Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. lO3 Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent ... 02% Three per Cent. ..... ---Thlrty-seven Milli ns, ditto _____----- (1840) 104% Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. 9B Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent. 86 Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent National Society . Exchange on London (short) . - -Brussels Papers, Nov. 15. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov. 7. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. lOOl4 Three per Cents ..•.. ....... ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.••• 77 41 Bank Shares ... . , ........... .....„...... ....... Allgemeine Zeitung, Nov.l. HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, Nov. le. Bills. Money. HO Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares lO4O Anglo-Russian Loan lOB% 108% Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 103% 103 Inscription, Ist series lO3 Russian S per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series S7V g —. Ditto in Certificates in New 4 per Cent. (1840) 87% 81% Dutch Actual Debt, v% per CenL ......... Ditto 5 per Cent. - Polish Bonds ... New Tickets MR -- Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. Bl 8'13( Spanish, New 5p T Cents. —. lB . PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bsaurs, Nov. 12. Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. 1033(, 1(3% Prussian English Bond , , 1630, percent 12% 11% Exchange on London — 6 23% Prussian State Gazette, Nov. 12. LivEurooL, Nov. 16.—Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.F., arrived her e last ni g ht from Dublin, in order to be present at the annual dinner of the Catholic Benevolent Association this evening, it being an nounced that he will take the chair. To-morrow evening he will address the Repealers at the Music Hall, and on Friday will take part in the proceedings of the " Free Trad e Festival," to be held in the Royal Amphitheatre, on which occasion the attendqnce is expected to be from 4,000 to 5,000. THE ARTS.—Another martyr to the enthusiasm they inspire has just fallen in Italy—John Harper, architect, of York, and Honorary Secretary to the branch Government School of Design there, and one of its most active and zealous promoters; he started from England on the sth of June, on a tour to Swit zerland, Italy, and Sicily. After visitin g Verona, Vicenza, and Venice, making numerous drawings by the way, he went to Florence, and passed a few weeks in sketching in the country between Florence and Rome, Terni and its falls, Narni, and the picturesque subjects he met with on that route; he arrived in Rome on the 3d of September; he was soon after seized by the ma l ar i a f ever , f ro m which, though i n danger, he partially recovered; but, urged on by an ardour of purpose, which his then weakened frame hissea from ma a d C y i , v a i t n a d Vheecdciheida at;i afters arrival,n the 34th a N r a o;g e h s on vo t y h a e g l e B th could not support, h e p resse d f orwa rd to Naples by his , year of his age, O e aggravated teber, in less than two days THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1842. LOSS OF THE RELIANCE (EAST INDIA.MAN.) Extract of a letter received at Lloyd's, from their agent at Boulogne, under date Nov. 5 : Sir—We beg to inform you that by advices re ceived this:morning from the coast, there are now about 2,050 cases of tea saved, but . all more or less damaged. " We are Sir, yours obediently, " A. ADAMS and CO. " To William bobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's." Some further and interesting particulars of the loss of this vessel were brought yesterday by the Com mercial Steam Navigation Company's ship Emerald, Captain Wingfield, which left Boulogne at ten o'clock on Wednesday night, and arrived at London-bridge at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, after a boisterous passage, occupying 16 hoiirs. The account given by Dixon, the carpenter, to Mr. Thomas Edmond, the engineer of the Emerald, from whom the reporter re eeived it, is, that the Reliance, as already stated, struck about two o'clock on Saturday morning. He remained on board till four o'clock, the sea breaking right over during the whole of that time, and washing many of the crew overboard. About four o'clock the ship parted from stem to stern, one-half of the vessel falling over to seaward. This portion of the vessel was immediately thrown back into its former position by the surge, crushing to death several of the crew who had fallen into the chasm, and others, who were clinging to the sides. He describes, as being most vividly in his recollection, the fate of a poor fellow who was thus jammed literally to death, his head re maining above the deck, while his mutilated remains were suspended below. The carpenter states that at the moment she parted, he threw off his jacket, jumped into the sea, and seized a spar, which the current was hurrying towards the' shore. Dixon, who has received several severe contusions about the head, from coming into contact with the rocks—describes a most heart rending incident which occurred just before he reached the land. A youth, who had fast hold of a plank, which was floating within a few paces of himself, became so much exhausted that he could hold on no longer. At this moment Dixon felt the sand with his feet, and called to his fellow-sufferer—but the boy was worn out—lie had'only strength enough to 'say " I can't, I can't," and immediately sunk. The car penter cannot tell what number of passengers were on board, but describes as one, an elderly gentleman between 60 and 70years of age, who had been wounded in India. Tuesday, wereu bodiesle'shaeabyr,o albrought of idl t buriedi n t C o ap ß t a ion i u n itohg G en r e e c e e n fmr oeand from cemetery Aytiheoerf litchiefm n place aaoct on on Wednesday. The brother of the former, who left England for Boulogne on the first intimation of the wreck, was present, and superintended the arrange ments of the funeral, which was attended by many very respectable persons. Captain Green, when his body was picked up, had on his pilot coat, and was lashed to a plank. The mate, when found, wore a life-preserver, but the air was exhausted. The body of one of the crew, a boy, was picked up on Monday at Boulogne, eighteen miles distant, whither the cur rent had carried it; and the sea there is stated to be literally covered with tea at flood-tide. The carpenter was to have come home in the Eme rald yesterday, but he has, at the desire of the Con sul, been left behind, to identify any other bodies that may come ashore. The Emerald has brought over a large case of let ters from India, which drifted .ashore shortly after the wreck. They were claimed by Mr. Hamilton, the British Consul, on the part of her Majesty, and forwarded by the above vessel to the Postmaster- General. The case was entire, and the letters, on examination, proved to be uninjured, except by sand and water. Many of them were delivered at a late hour last evening. Another case, bearing a label, " Down's Muster-book —Quarterly Victualling Ac count," and directed to the Admiralty, also recovered, arrived at the same time, and was forwarded to its destination by the Secretary, Mr. Bleaden. GRAY'S INN, Nov. 16.--. The undermentioned gen tlemen were this day called to the degree of barrister at-law by the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, viz., James William Freshfield, Esq., Christopher Good, Esq., and Frederick Cosens, Esq. WRECK OF A CONVICT SUM-We have elsewhere given some account of t he wreck of t he Waterloo, convict ship, off the Cape of Good Hope, in her pas sage out ; and have inserted a list of the names of the convicts drowned. It will be seen, that the two first are apparently, those of James Thelvvell and James Skerratt, who were convi cted at the assizes at Liver pool,gold b in March hl t as o t iv , loeforrsob. un b cliffes, Brooks, and Co.,ing the Blackburn coa c h of a portmanteau, containing a large sum in notes and bankers, of this town. We ha ve reason to believe, that several others of the convi cts lost ar e from this neighbourhood.—M anches t er Guardian. The Rev. Thomas Robinson, NA., Lord Almo ner's Professor of Arabic in the University of Cam bridge, and late Archdeacon of Aladras, has been elected Morning Preache r of the Foundling Hospital. THE LORD MAYO R ' S B ANQUE T .—The speeches were of the usual descripti on . Th e leaders of each party in politics, who, as a matter of bus iness, call each other scoundrels all th roug h the Parlia mentar y ses sion, were full of protestati on s of mutual friendship. Lord Stanley declar e d L or d John*Russell to be a very worthy fellow ; and Lord John Russell declared, over the Lord Mayor's champagne, that he had a very sincere private esteem for the very man whom he is always publicly stigmatising as the m ost dishonest and despicable of char ac t ers. This sort of thing was kept up until a late h our , t h e ne w Lord Mayor mak ing a complinientary speech about the o ld, and th e old puffing the n ew ; w hi le eac h thought himself what is commonly call e d an i n fi n itely superior card to the other.—Punch. INDIA NEWS.—O n IVigram was Wednesdayunanimously appointed unanimou s l y a Court the o fDirectors Company's Ser geant Spankie. MILITARY ovEm Coldstream Guards,the room of the lat p Mr. Al ENTs.—Six companies of the arrived in our barracks on Mon day last per rail from Gosport, where they had pre viously landed from are now on their way Canada. Two more companies home in the Pique transport , join and are expected to those wholesenolv herewill beiri amsohvoerd to the metropolis or its dt time. Opinion is divided as ' to the probability of their remaining here, and it • probable that when the two remaining companies arrive d b a at il ta y l ._ ion H o u f m t p he sh l ir 2 e th in are still The second still here, but expect to leave Canova was specially summoned to Paris in order to his being consulted by Napoleon on his gigantic the streets of Paris to regularity carried project of reducing_ giving them convenient breadth, and e. ri , g , h l t v l h i a n t es, da and you advise ?" asked the Emperor. "'that you leave it Emperoro made no reply, dismissed as it is, or throw it all down," said Canova. The him, and followed his THE REF ORHATM N n suggestion.,, , IN E NGLAND.- It is well amid the toleration o f eyes and consider the con dition modern times, that we should sometimes cast back lived when bigotry was rampant dinititohneoflatnhdose, and d at fire and sword into the meanest huts, as well as into w the proudest palace. It is scarcely possible to _think no-a-days of a humble by th e Ch r i s tian perishingfires of Smithfield for a dif ference in opinion with a prelate on religious matters ; but in the time of Mary lowliness of condition or humbleness of demeanour could save what was then th r e termed a heretic from far-searching scrutiny of Bonner. The fearful dangers to which every indivi dual was exposed to in his time are exquisitely illus trated by the fortunes of Ann et Palmer, in the ro mance of " Midsummer Eve," who is, however, but the centre of a group of ch aracters delineated with equal and uncommon powers of n and the whole are interwoven introiginality and pathos, a narrative which, for its interest in perusal, and the moral effect pro duced by the whole work, is a masterpiece of modern Literature. THE STORY OF THE EAR L or CHESTERFIELD. — A certain Count Bathyany, i -t seems certain Eleanor Suter, and purchased took a fancy to annuity of 3001. a year. The lady rchased her for an month, for the " protec,tion," asjt quitted himafter a man. The disappointed Count, now called, of another that the deed involved an ~ immoral becoming aware and that deeds founded on such Oral consideration," flops" are void at law, brings an unmoral considera tions" those whom he had constitutedaction in Chancery annuity, t 3 restrain them from proceeding trustees of her the deed at law, and to declare it invalid. ceeding to enforce even if they have been lucky enough Our readers, full report of this offensive Case to overlook the divined that foremost in this creditable will have already transaction — first among this woman's formal a able nd recognised trus tees, among the parties to , a nd authorit a t ive abettors of, this bargain, s t o od the name of an English peer — Lord Chesterfield. And this , as w e have said, hard upon the phenomena o f Lord ii until) to g wer' s bank ruptcy, Lord Frankfort's prosecution, and Lord Hert ford's will.— Times. MORTALITY IN ENGL IiND AND w . v ALES.—As corn quarter of the four p recedi ng of deaths in the same years, 1838, 1839, increase in the past been ras a h o y. ; s t a ted, p 1 quarteraBr4e o d , S. a i on t f h d tnhloemafewer g e e i t. ei n m u in m s be an r 2,474 deaths, the average for those four years havin g Le en 36,55, while the GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week ending N ov . 12, 3 de , a ,o th 6 s ,. i_n 3thieedpiascatiqruaimrt e e s y . have 1842 Passengers ... ......... •• • ....... ..., £754 7 6 Merchandise ........................... 579 3 0 £1,333 10 6 Corresponding week lest ye ar ...tl,lBB 9 9 Darlington, NoY. 1 6 . W. %/BRIEN, Secretary. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO WALMER CASTLE: WALmER, lirnivEsDAf..--:Yosterday the weather was so boisterous and wet that her Majesty and the Prince were enabled only to enjoy a short walk on the beach at Deal early in the morning. Captain Pring, of the Thunderer, and Captain R. Jenkinson, from Dover Castle, had the honour of joining the Royal dinner party in the evening. This morning, at a quarter before ten o'clock, her Majesty walked with his Royal Highness on the beach to Kingsdown, which is a neat little fishing village, about a mile from the Castle. His Royal Highness asked several questions of the old weather beaten fishermen who had just landed from herring fishing. Her. Majesty and the Prince afterwards passed by the Coast Guard station, and inspected the old sea-wall on the top of the cliff, and returned to the Castle by Mrs. Herridge's - hut on the.beach. In the afternoon, shortly before three. o'clock, her Majesty and his Royal Highness .again walked out in the neighbourhood of the Castle for a short time. The weather, both to-day and yesterday, has been too severe for the Royal infants to leave the Castle. Her Majesty's 18-gun sloop, , Captain Warren, from the East Indies, came into the Downs in the night, and anchored off Walmer Castle ; at half past seven o'clock she saluted her Majesty, and shortly before nine o'clock weighed anchor, and proceeded to the northward. • To-morrow, if the weather proves fine, her Majesty and the Prince will visit Sandwich. Lady Portman takes her departure to-morrow. Covers for the Royal dinner party this evening will be laid for thirteen, the only additions to the Royal suite being Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. Her Majesty will leave Walmer for Brighton, ac cording to the present arrangement, on the 22d inst. EXTRAORDINARY DISCO VERY AND REMARKABLE FRAUD. Considerable sensation has been created in town during the last few days, in consequence of the disco very of a piece of villany and fraud, which, we rejoice to say, is but of rare occurrence in a commercial city. Our readers will recollect, that between three and four years ago, one of the tellers of a bank in town, on balancing up the transactions of the day, found himself minus a sum of upwards of one thousand pounds. The occurrence, at the time, gave rise to a good 'deal of speculation, as it was evident to the parties who were acquainted with the teller, and from the good character he possessed, that he must have given the money in mistake to some one, when making payments in the course of business. No one, in fact, had the most distant thought that he was guilty of making away with it. The question then was, who had got the money, and notwithstanding that every means were used, no trace could be had, and after a time the search was abandoned as hopeless. The consequence was, that the sureties had to pay up the sum missing to the bank, and the matter may be said to have been forgotten till about the middle of last week, when, as we are informed, two individuals who formerly ear • ried on business together in Glasgow, but who are at present bankrupts, having been drinking with some friends, had a dispute, which becom ing violent, both parties retorted on each other in the most abusive manner, and ultimately it came out that they, or one of them, in course of business with the bank referred to, had, by a mistake on the part of the teller, got upwards of 1,0001. more than belonged to them ; that, in fact, they had got the sum which the teller found himself deficient of. This occurrence was instantly communi cated to the bank, and immediate steps were taken to apprehend the parties referred to. One of them was secured on the following day, but the other has since left town. It is thought, however, from the clue that has been got of his movements, that he is by this time in the custody of one of our most active criminal officers, who has been dispatched in pursuit of him. At present, and for obvious reasons, we decline giving names, and the addi tional particulars with which we have been furnished. The parties said to be guilty were well known in the business which they followed, and in the community generally. the subject has excited the most lively interest in com mercial circles, verifying, as it is likely to do, the old English adage, " When rogues cast out, honest men get their own." We heartily congratulate the young man connected with the bank and his friends upon the discovery, even though not one farthing ofthe money shouldever be recovered.--Glasgow Chronicle. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSA LL'S-YESTERDAY. THE DERRY.—Offers of 8f to 1 on the field, and to take 20 to 1 about Murat, and 22 to 1 about Winesour, but no bet laid ; the attendance thinner than usual, owing, we presume, to the Newport Pagnel Steeple Chase. NEWPORT PAGNEL STEEPLE CHASE. YESTERDAY. Handicap of 25 sovs. each, 15ft, with 100 sovs. added by the town of Newport ' • the winner to pay 25 sovs. to wards the expenses. Four miles. (30 Subs.) Baron Rothschild's Consul, list 71b ...(Mr. Oldacre) 1 Lord E. Russell's Lather, Ilst 101 b. (Mr. Ball) 2 Mr. Tilbury's Goblin, 1 Ist 51b Mr. W. Jenkins's Lycurgus, 12st 61b 0 Mr. King's Vanguard, 12st 41b Mr. Elmore's Harrow Boy, Ilst 71b Mr. R. Hunter's Bucephalus, list 71b Mr. W. Sadler's Spangle, I Ist 51b 0 Mr. R. Ekins's Duenna, list 51b 0 . . Mr. A. M'Donogh's Vanguard, list 31b Mr. Holman's The Page, list 31b 0 Mr. Anderson's The Negro, lOst 121 b NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING. • WEDNESDAY. THE ALLINGTON HILL STAKES.—Mr. Dobede's Dul cken beat Mr. Gillett's Gipsey Queen ; Mr. Vipan's Velure beat Mr. Nash's Cobweb ; Mr. Saberton's Sweetbriar beat Mr. Moody's Robinia ; Mr. Tyson's Fly beat Mr. Batt's Ce!este ; Mr. Nash's Charlottie beat Mr. Gillett's Gibside Fairy ; Mr. Inskip's Jewess beat Mr. Edward's Acrostic ; Mr. Dobede's Datura beat Mr. Bryant's Emma; Mr. Gillett's Gayless ran a bye. THE CUP.—Mr. King's Railroad beat Mr. Saberton's Sinclair ; Mr. Finch's Go-to beat Mr. Thorp's Nettle field ; Mr. Edward's Arctic beat Mr. Moody's Racoon ; Mr. Fyson's Florence beat Mr. Gillett's Ganymede ; Captain Daintree's Knab beat Mr. Saberton's Slyboota ; Mr. Dobede's Defiance beat Mr. Bryant's Ephraim Mr. Inskip's Ibrahim beat Mr. Vipan's Victor ; Mr. Bagge's Thorn beat Lord Glentivorth's Linkboy. THE CHIPPENRAM STAKES.—Mr. Vipan's Velocipede beat Mr. King's Revenge ; Mr. Fyson's Freeman beat Lord Glentworth's Lightfoot ; Mr. Finch's Gaper beat Mr. Saberton's Singular ; Mr. Edward's Albemarle beat Mr. Dobcde's Duncan ; Mr. Dobede's Damian beat Mr. Nash's Charley Boy ; Lord Glentworth's Locust beat Mr. Bryant's Eringo ; Capt. Daintree's Khan beat Mr. Inskip's Ilia ; Capt. Daintree's Kimber beat Mr. Edward's All-round-my-hat ; Mr. Saberton's Simoom beat Mr. Finch's Gamester. THE PORT STAKES.—Lord Glentworth's Leger beat Mr. Gillett's Y. Queen ; Capt. Daintree's Kremlin beat Mr. Fyson's Fireaway ; Mr. Inskip's Illa beat Mr. Saberton's Swap ; Mr. Vipan's Victoria beat Mr. Dobede's Dauntless ; Mr. Finch's Gossip beat Mr. Edward's A B C ; Mr. King's Ruinforth beat Mr. Bryant's E 0 ; Mr. Finch's Ghita beat Captain Dain tree's Kim-up ; Mr. Dobede's Douglas beat Mr. Fyson's Foremost. ASHDOWN PARK MEETING—(CoNTirtura).) WEDNESDAY. THE Cur.—Mr. Bennett's Brahmin beat Mr. Brad ley's Barclay. FIRST TlES.—Brahmin beat Amazon ; Eton Boy beat Lovely ; Kalmia beat Spitfire ; Laura beat Biorn. DERBY.—FIRST . TlES.—Knight of the Garter beat Ernest ' • The First Bay Leaf beat Whip-poor - Will. THE OAKS.—Mr. Bowles's Lady of Lyons beat Mr. Kersham's Kelpie ; Mr. Etwall's Ermengardis beat Capt. Wyndham's Wrazie. FIRST CLASS WEYLAND.—Capt. Wyndham's Whirl pool beat Mr. Bowles's Ben More ; Mr. W. Etwall's Willy-go-faster, beat Mr. Lawrence's Lucy. SECOND CLASS WEYLAND.—Mr.Lawrence's The Law yer beat Mr. Morant's The Shrew; Mr. Kershaw's Kep pell beat Captain Wyndham's Wellington. THE CRAVEN ALL-AGED,—Mr. Goddard's Goodluck beat Mr. Vickers's Velocipede ; Mr. Kershaw's Kirk ham beat Mr. Goddard's Gridiron ; Mr. Bowles's Bird of Paradise beat Mr. Etwall's World's-end ; Mr. Brad ley's Blue-bell beat Mr. Lawrence's Lambourn. PUPPY CRAVEN.—Mr. Lawrence's Leda beat Mr. Ker shaw's kidnapper ; Mr. Etwall's Evens and Odds, beat Mr. Vickers's Waverly. We stated, last week, that the Mayor had kindly extended the hours when all passengers could apply for their permits, that is, that they could be now ob tained from one to four, every day that the boats sail, as also for one hour previous to the departure of each boat, and we observed that every father and mother would gratefully remember the attention to their comforts that prompted such measures. We were not then, however, aware of the most important benefit attending the new regulations, or we should have written in far more energetic terms of praise, and in doing so, we feel we should have been only expressing the sentiments of every English man upon the important addition of .comfort which has been extended to all travellers. We allude to the permission all now possess of embarking, whenever the boat sails between eleven at night and five in the morning, on board the steamers any time between ten and eleven o'clock, with their families, and quietly turning in for the night. Thus will be avoided the inconvenience and discomfort of waking up children at 12, 1,2, and 3 o'clock in the morning, dressing them, and tramping the streets and the port in the dark to l - ive to wait for half an hour or more at the permit-office, with all its disagreeables, to finally embark too late to again go to bed and too early for children, who are a plague for therest of the voyage ; all this can be now avoided, the children and servants can go aboard at ten, quietly lay themselves to rest, and most likely not awake till beyond the in fluence of the sea. It should be remembered that when once on board they cannot again return on shore. For these changes in the laws of the local police, we are indebted to the Mayor ; again, in the name of every Englishman, we return him our thanks.--Boulagne Gazette. LI TERA TUBE, SCENERY and ANTIQUITIES of IRELAND. Virtue, London, 1842. This cleverly illustrated work has now reached its Eighteenth Part, and exhibits not the slightest falling off, whether in the number or quality of its embellishments. We have here not less than four of them, of which the most striking is the wild, romantic sketch entitled " A Pattern in Connemara." CANADIAN SCENERY Virtue, London, 1842. The present Part, which is the Twenty-ninth, contains several interesting illustrations of the peculiarities of Canadian scenery; and among them is a sketch—" The First Settlement' which represents a party of settlers just com mencing their log-hut in the depths of an im mense forest, some of whose stateliest trees are falling under the vigorous blow of the axe. In the foreground are seen a father and his chil dren standing near a gypsy sort of fire, gazing complacently on a fine deer, which the former has just brought down with his rifle, of course for the day's meal. This picture realises one of Galt's best and most truthful descriptions in " Lawrie Todd." The letter-press portion of the work is mere dull, inanimate common-place. NOTES OF A TOUR IN THE MANUFAC- T U RING DISTI?ICT S. Duncan, London, 1842. The spirit displayed throughout these "Notes" is a temperate, and—so far as we can form a judgment—an impartial one. The author, Dr. Taylor, bad no previous impressions or preju dices to confirm or get rid of, so viewed matters with a cool, dispassionate eye. The result of his observations is, on the whole, favourable to the manufacturing system ; and of the factories, he says, that they are certainly not evil in them selves, but may be so ill conducted as to produce much evil. In the course of his work, the Doctor bears the following testimony to the efficient ser vices of the Anti-Corn-law League. He is al luding, we should premise, to the period of the riots, some two or three months since:— " I am as persuaded, as I am of my own existence, that the Anti-Corn-law League at this moment alone preserves the public peace in the north of England. Were its members to suspend their operations, or dissolve their body, declaring we have done all that we could do, and we must now abandon our efforts in sheer despair,' there would instantly be a break up of the body politic, society would resolve itself into its original elements, and no man could predict the consequences." We suspect there is some little heightening of colour here, for we cannot possibly imagine, even at the critical period of the riots, to which Dr. Taylor refers, the body politic breaking up, like polar ice, with a crash of thunder, and society resolving itself into "its original elements "—that is to say, into the state in which it exists among the Ashantees or Hot tentots—merely because the Anti Corn-law League may choose to dissolve their Association ! That the dissolution of such a body would be at tended with injurious effects, we are quite wil ling to admit; but the social system is not so easily shattered—does not so readily revert to the patriarchal condition, when our savage an cestors were tattooed like New Zealanders, wore painted hides, lived in caves, and browsed on thistles! Society, like a cat, takes a deal of killing, and it is not the disruption of one, or even of a dozen, Anti-Corn-law Leagues, that would occasion its overthrow- JOSEPH JENKINS, or LEAVES from the LIFE of a LITERARY MAN, by the Author of " Random Recollections," " The Great Metropolis." 6fc., 3 vols., post Bvo.—Saunders and ()thy. After a season of unusual dullness in the liter ary world, publishers pow begin to give " note of preparation," and among the earliest candi dates for public favour, as a caterer to our winter evenings' entertainment, we have here the amus ing author of " Random Recollections," with three gossipping volumes, on a theme differing, from any which he has formerly essayed. Hi therto he has been for the most part known to the reading public as a lively and pleasant chro nicler of the habits, physical peculiarities, and intellectual qualifications of our " Mitst potent, grave, and reverend Signiors ;" and as a rain bling excavator and explorer of the Lights and Shades of Metropolitan Life. But on the present occasion he comes before us in the capacity of a biographer and illustrator of a literary adven turer. This unquestionably is an interesting sub jeat, and, properly treated, ought also to be an in structive one. Our own notions as to how this matter might be most profitably discussed, differ considerably from those of our author; but not to intrude them at present on the attention of our readers, we cannot but allow that in the work before us, according to his view of the subject, he exhibits in no ordiary degree those good qualities of shrewd observation and humorous incident ac companied,. we must add, with a due proportion of garrulous prolixity, by which he acquired his early popularity. It cannot be said that there is much of the " romance of real life" in the history of " Joseph Jenkins," who, notwithstanding his own high estimate of himself, is, after all, but an ordinary enough mortal, and his career all too common in our every-day world. Nor is there any thing very extraordinary in some of the specimens given of the stuffof which "Joseph's" literary con tributions were made up. There is neither plot, nor well connected story, nor any gilded halo of romance, to excite the sentimental sympathies of the ordinary novel reader. In truth, it is not a novel, in the usual acceptation of that term; the author's intention appears to have been alto gether different from producing a work of that kind. " Joseph Jenkins" is a raw youth from the "north countrie," who leaves his home from necessity, and the force of circumstances, to try his fortune in that line of life, which is graphi cally termed " living on one's wits." His first essay is in the character of epic poet, when, big with the expectation of fame, and, what he values as much, profit, he publishes an "epic" on the " universe," which, alas ! a dull, ungrateful public, will neither purchase nor appreciate; we are not favoured with any specimens of this work of unappreciated genius, hut are much inclined to think, from other circumstances in his history, that the decision come to was the right one. After this adventurous flight, it is rather humili ating to see our hero reduced to the hard, labo rious, and very prosaic occupation of " a gentle man of the press"—a writer of all work for newspapers and magazines. The scenes in which Joseph is necessitated to mix, and the places he must visit in the performance of the duties of his new vocation, along with various lucubrations and disquisitions on the state of literary criticism, Magazine and Review writing, &c., compose in a great measure the bulk of the volumes. These materials appear at first sight slender and meagre enough, yet does the author display such tact and ingenuity in piecing the various incidents to gether, with such humour and drollery in the descriptions, that we do not hesitate to say the perusal of them will afford pleasure and amuse ment. The author indeed purports, and evi dences, a higher object than that of af fording mere amusement to his readers— he hopes his story may also be found to " point a moral." The principles and morals of Mr. Jenkins are certainly rather wavering and unstable, and his subsequent chequered career renders them lax enough, while the dis astrous consequences which follow, and the miserable shifts to which he is obliged to resort for the purpose of " keeping up appearances," are palpable and evident. Still although the moral be plain, we questi on w h et h er the public may eonsider the work, as, in that view , having the best title to consideration • however, matter admits of easy adjustment to all classes of readers—those who read for amusement can not miss the moral lesson, and vice versa. Some of those passages which pleased us most we had marked for extraction, such •as the laughable affair of the -" rival hatters," " contested elections," &c., and borne curious particulars about Burns and Dr. Hornbook, which the author says have never before been published, and which certainly we do not remember one having met with—but our limits do not permit, and we must refer our readers to the work itself. ' We regret to perceive that the styl . e of this writer does not exhibit any . syrpßtom of improve ment—the work before us is disfigured in acon siderable degree by much of that negligent ' " slip-shod" manner w hich was visible in several • of his former works. It is true there are certain points of style which may be as much peculiar to a man as the features of his own face; but • these are very far removed from careless habits of composition, which, with the bestowal of a little time and attention, might be entirely re moved. The book is beautifully printed. BANQUET AT APSLEY Housz.—On Wednesday his Imperial Highness the Archduke Frederick of Austria was sumptuously entertained by the Duke of Wel lington. The Archduke was attended by Captain Fitzroy, R.N., and Baron Lebzeltern and his Excel lency Baron Nieuman, the Austrian Minister, ac companied his Imperial Highness. Covers were laid for twenty-four, and among the guests present to meet the illustrious guest of the Noble and Gallant Duke wore his Excellency Baron Brunow, his Ex cellency Count St. Aulaire, his Excellency M. Dedel, his Exellency Mr. Everett, his Excellency Baron de A b er his Excellency Prince Castelcicala, Earl of •Aberdeen Lord Fitzroy' Somerset, Sir John Mac donald, Sir Willoughby Gordon, M r . Addi ng to n , his Excellency Count Pollen, &e. THE INCOME-TAX. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. seems that the imposition of the odious and inquisitorial Income-tax is not enough without add ing to its burthen and offence injurious consequences, from the i m p er f ect i ons i n the Act of Parliament, in regard to the deduction or retention of that tax from small ground-rents. Now, Si r , a lth oug h the mean, fastidious, or oppres s i ve l an dl or d may avail himself of this deficiency in the Act, who could have expected that the o ffice of that G overnment w hi ch has imposed this iniquitous tax, for such I consider the Duchy of Lancaster to be, should act in the way it has done towards their tenants? I hold a house of that Duchy under a long term, paying a ground-rent of 201. per annum. At their audit on the 3d instant I went to pay the half-year's rent, and from which I claimed a deduction of 70 pence (53. 10d.) for Income-tax, when I was told that the auditors had determined not to allow any such deduction, unless it were proved to them that that tax had been paid. The house was many years since underlet at 601. per annum, and when I received the 30/. for the half-year due to me at Michaelmas last, I, without the least hesitation, allowed my tenant the 30 sevenpences, and took only of him 291.25. 6d. This rent belongs to an annuitant for life. I therefore retained 91. 14s. 2d. for the Duchy, and paid the 191.85. 4d., the balance to the amount, so that in fact I have only the 91. 14s. 2d. for the Duchy. However, this explanation was of no avail, for nothing less than the 101. in full tale would they receive, and as I had not that sum in hand, the half-year's rent is unpaid to the Duchy. My tenant underlet at a further rent, and his tenant, it appear 3, has done so also. It is impossible for me to produce any voucher for the payment of this abominable tax. But surely, Sir, this is something like adding insult to injury. Can there, for one moment, be any doubt but that an Income or Property-tax must be paid to the extent of the ground-rent? Then, why this an noyance and perplexity of accounts ? Suppose I pay the 101., when and how am Ito get it from the Duchy ? Am Ito dance attendance upon them for this paltry 55.10 d.; and how am I to satisfy their tender scepticism that the tax is paid? Must I pro duce all the sub-tenants, from first to last, to remove their scruples ? Suppose, Sir, it were the last half year of the tenantcy, and they were paid the whole rent, what then is to be done ? I hope you will insert this at your earliest conve nience, and that some one of your legal readers will oblige me and many others with the real construction of the Act, and whether we have any, and what, re medy.—l am, Sir, your constant reader, K. Y. Strand, Nov. 10, 1842. .TIIE NAVAL CLUB.—Though we have reason to believe that the table-talk of the " Naval Club" in New Bond-street is more amusing, in virtue of its piquant and stirring anecdotes of the service, than the gossip of any other Club extant, we doubt if it can compete either in richness and variety of material, or in liveliness of style, with that of Mr. Barker's ("The Old Sailor's") " Naval Club," just published. The inexhaustible fund of naval anecdote possessed by this writer, and his hearty and happy mode of putting it forth, render him perhaps the most entertaining of all our naval yarn-spinners. There is no end to his old stories and characteristic traits of that most sin gular and unmatchable specimen of humanity—the British sailor—whom he hits off with equal force and drollery, whether afloat or on shore, whether thrashing the foes of his country on the deck of a first rate, or fighting his battles o er again in his snug berth at Greenwich, or wherever else he may chance to be laid up for life. He is equally at home, too, with every grade of the profession, from the poorest Jack in the service to the highest Admiral in the Fleet. Even a late Royal sailor himself does not escape his anecdotical and story-telling propensities. SUDDEN DEATH IN THE STREET.—As police. con stable 136 M was proceeding along Union-street, Borough, about half-past nine on Wednesday night, his attention was called to an old gentleman, who fell down at the corner of Lawnsend-court. He found him in a state of insensibility, and, with assistance, conveyed him to the station-house in the Southwark Bridge-road. Mr. Odling, the surgeon, was instantly in attendance, and pronounced him quite dead. The name of deceased was John Chisholm, aged 74, who carried on the business of a jeweller, at No. 3, Herbert's-buildings, Webber-street. He had been out that afternoon with Mr. Crawcour, of Windsor place, who left S him in perfect health about eight o'clock, in Long-lane, Bermondsey. PROPOSED RAILWAYS.—A survey is now in pro gress for the construction of a line of railway to pass through the towns of Greenwich, Woolwich, Graves end, and Rochester, terminating at the town of Maid stone. Surveys have lately been made for a line of railway from Oxford, to join the Great Western at Wallingford ; also for a branch line to join the Ayles bury railway—thus opening a direct communication between Oxford and London. Tiix PRICE OF WEEAT.—From the present time till after Christmas some rise in the price of grain may be expected to continue, as the only supplies of wheat which the farmer may have to bring to market must be grain that was housed at harvest, and lies in the barn now, for that which is in the stack cannot be in a fit condition for the miller till the frost declares its drying power ; therefore the rise which has taken place in the price of wheat may be expected to con tinue till the period we have pointed out. There is a vast quantity of duty paid on foreign wheat in the warehouses at the seaports, and which will be let P I . 0 the country as the markets afford a profit to the importers of it. Therefore the fernier must not hesitate in bringing his grain to market, for should he hold back till the stacked wheat is ready for the miller, he 'may make up his mind to take less money for his produce than he might have had during the first two months of winter. In thus giving warning to the farmer of the variation that may be expected in the prices of wheat, we trust that he will compare his own obser vations with ours, and act on them, if he finds that his experience corroborates our opinion. —Bucks Gaz. On Wednesday last, as they were lowering into the Water Witch a carriage belonging to Lord Pem broke, the chain broke and the carriage tumbled into the harbour. This is the second time within six weeks that a similar breaking of the chlin has taken place ; on the former occasion the carriage fell upon the deck of the vessel, fortunately there was no person underneath it. Is this chain to be taken as a specimen of French iron-chains and French manu facture ? and to support such rubbish the Chamber of Commerce will have to pay for Lord Pembroke's carriage, for certainly they cannot shirk it, as they insist upon landing and embarking carriages, and charge pretty well for it.—Boulogne Gazette. ANOTORIOUS GANG OF SWINDLERS.-At yesterday, two men, named Homer and Moore, were placed at the bar before Sir Peter Laurie, charged with being concerned with a man named Clark, who is at present at large, with defrauding several tradesmen of property to the amount of seve ral hundred pounds. The Justice-room was crowded with persons who have been duped. In each case a reference was given to a person said to be named Hamer, who turns out to be a man of straw. Sir Peter said he was determined to do all in his power to break up the notorious gangs of swindlers with which London at present abounded. The prisoners were again remanded. FARMERS.—The Corn d -laws have got up your rents, - l e e re a as bil e i d ty y t o o ur pu ta re x h e as s, e a o n you d hr e . pii r v od ed uc y e. our T cu h s e t y om are erso de stroying our trade , your prosperity de pends. You have been deceived by them. By a total repeal, you might again have a fair start, which would be much better than bit-and-bit alterations, which keep you constantly in suspense. By this change Rents would come down. 2. Poor's rates would be greatly reduced. 3. Tithe charge would also be lower. 4. Markets would be much more steady. .5. Full one-third less of money would stock a farm. 6. Losses in cattle and other losses would be less severe. 7. One monopoly destroyed, others would follow, and you would not only g e t chea p seed and cheap food,; but also cheap sugar and coffee for yourselves and families. 8. Your sons and dependents might then embark in trade, which would very much lessen the competition for farms. For your own in terests, then, you ought to agitate and petition for repeal.—From Livesey's Illustrated Anti-Corn-law Almauack. MUNIFICENT BENEVOLENCE.--WE are informed by the gentleman who was the almoner, that the late Jonathan Backhouse, Esq., of Darlington, during the whole of last winter supported and relieved weekly not less than 60 destitute families in that town, at his own expense, besides giving meal, or coals, or cash to others, according as their necessities required.— York Courant. rapidly improving. O ne example 113;ris o ils f i i n ts so b n e ' n e e r fi e c s i p a e l et e s ffects is familiar to most English persons who know Paris. A street, called the Rue du Dauphin, runs from the Rue St. Ro nore, the church of St. R oc h e, to the Rue re, de nearlynivohis street was, u n til l ately, not ii. facing fifteen feet wide, a circumstance which enabled him, by whose decree it was long afterwards widened, to pave the way to that pinnacle on which he stood for many years, for it was up this s t reet that " the Sec were approa c hi ng en masse to attack the Tuile ie tion,' in 1797, having bee n d e f eated on the Pont Royal, where al, the Convention was sitting, when Napoleon, who had been only twelve hours previously entrusted with the military command of Paris, opened upon them a fire of grape, which, no t w i t h standing the im pediments offered by the bodies of thousands of the un happy wretches, made those marks on the wall of the church of St. Roche, yet visible, though filled up, by order of King Louis Philippe, with the utmost ni cety and art. Th e operation ofNapoleon's wide street decree is nowh ere more striking than in this Rue du Dauphin, which is now of the regulated width (af fording space j. mints), all th e h ouses being, moreover , in adirect line. for thre e carr i age s abreast with pave- TELEGRAPHS IN ENGLAND AND ON THE CONTINENT. It has long been a subject of great complaint among the merchants in the City, Liverpool, Bristol, Glas gow, and Hull, that in a great commercial country like Great Britain there should not be a regu l ar line of telegraphs at the different outports, so that the arri va l of vessels may be immediately communicat e d to the Board of Admiralty and at Lloyd's. For some tim e past the Lords of the Admiralty have had the gr an d project in contemplation of establishing semaphores from Portsmouth to Plymouth, Falmouth, and the Land's End; as it very often happens that ships can not make the British Channel, and are obliged to run up the Bristol or the St. George's Channel for safety, and their arrival off the coast is not known to the merchants until they have put into port. A Govern.. ment survey is now being made, under the direction of experienced eng i neers, to carry t h e l i ne on to the Lands End, and to fix the points mast eligible for the erection of telegraphs, a report of which will be laid before Parliament when it assembles in February next. At present the deficiency is felt daily by the Admiralty Board, as there is but one line, and that only to Portsmouth. The stations are to be as follow :-Ist, At the Board of Admiralty, White hall ; 2d, Chelsea Hospital ; 3d, Putney ; 4th, Kingston-upon-Thames; sth, Esher; 6th, Cob ham ; 7th, Guildford ; Bth, Godalming ; 9th, Haslemere ; 10th, Midhurst ; 11th, Beacon-hill ; 12th, Compton-down ; lath, Portsdown-hill, and 14th, Portsmouth ; the whole of which are under command of Lieutenants of the Royal Navy. Intelli gence and orders for the sailing of of wa r f rom Portsmouth can be thus communicated by the Admi ralty, and vice versa, in three minutes and a half from one end of the line to the other, should the weather be clear. As soon as the signal is made, it is instantly answered by the next one, and so on; until it has gone the whole line, when another is made, till the whole communication is dispatched from the chief office to the officer in command, who communicates it to the Admiral on the station. The contemplated line to the Land's End will pass through Truro, Falmouth, and Plymouth, Gosport and Portsmouth ;• thereby em bracing the whole of the English Channel. A dis patch, from one end to the other, is expected to be made in nine or ten minutes, the distance being rather better than 290 miles. It is also in contemplation to establish a line from Holyhead, Pembroke, Bristol, and Liverpool. The only Ene at present to Dover and the Downs is by Watson's telegraph, at Lon don -bridge, but not through the Admiralty, who are indebted to this for their intelligence of ar rivals of ships of war in the Downs. A line to Hull and Harwich is much wanted. On the Continent telegraphs have been established for the last eighty years, but particularly in France, to whom we are indebted for the invention. The French Government have lines of communica tion' from every port and large town through ou t the - kingdom. From Calais, Dunkerque, Boulogne, Dieppe, Havre, Caen, Brest, Nantes, Rochefort, La Rochelle, L'Orient, Bordeaux, Bayonne, in the north and west • Perpignan, Marseilles, Toulon, A n tib es , &c., in the Mediterranean ; Montpellier, Aix, Gre noble, Avignon, Lyons, Dijon, on to Paris, Metz, and all the fortified towns on the borders of Ger many, Lille, Valenciennes, Douai, Cambrai, and th e frontiers of Belgium ; so that in case of emeutes, or the advance of any foreign power, the arrival of vessels, &c., the circumstance is immediately communicate& to the Admiralty at 'Paris, which is daily made acquainted with whatever is stir ring from one end of the country to the other. In Algeria, the French have also established a regularline of telegraphs from Algiers to Bona, all along the coast to Constantine, and through the interior, i n case of a sudden attack by the Arabs under Abd-el.Kader. In Spain there is a line of telegraphs from Cadiz, Puerta Santa Maria, Seville, to Madrid ; from Algesi ras, opposite Gibraltar, Malaga,Carthagena, Barcelona, in the Mediterranean, Corunna, Vigo, Bilboa, &c., in the north-west Biscaya, along the frontiers of France to Catalonia, and the principal towns to the capital; the same in Portugal, Belgium, Holland, Prussia, Russia, and Austria ; there are lines from one end to the other, from Trieste and Venice, in the Adriatic, t o Vienna and the Baltic. England is the only country where telegraphs are scarcely used. Should the plan of the Board of Admiralty be carried into effect, it will prove highly beneficial to the merchants for early intelligence, and to the shipping for assistance. AMERICAN WHEAT. After asserting that there is no law at present by which American grown wheat, transhipped from Canada, can be refused admission into British ports as Canadian produce, and that it is necessary, on that account, to tax American wheat before it is mixed with the wheat of Canada, otherwise American wheat would be admitted without any protective duty, the Spectator says : ' The confusion has originated, probably, in the fact that Lord Stanley, in the dispatch, which is dated the 2d of March, speaks of a measure as belonging to ' the future, which now belongs to the past—the new Corn Importation Act. He points out to the Cana dians the merits of that Bill (now the existing law), but apologises for its not going further with the reduc tion of duties in their favour, for the reasons already oeex:npattro b et t ri v e ds: e h specified. In March last, Lord Stanley described as about to be done in future that which has been done; but people think that that still remains to be done ; and so they confound it with what really is still a matter of fu turity—the unknown further 7-eduction, which, as Lord Stanley promised the Canadians, is to follow their adop tion of his hint. He did not ask them to impose a duty on American wheat as a gratuitous favour to this country, but to transfer to their frontier the duty which they wished taken off in their favour at our frontier; they have done so, and it follows that an equivalent reduction is to be made in the duty at our frontier. Such is the plain interpretation of Lord Stanley's words; and it is entirely in the spirit of Sir Robert Peel's promise, that Canada should be the quotationCanadian(ilisya f:prt aoaysnt n f 4d r ba3 o e, n tf ithttrxhiieaneeenrdaj;ehdpfe treated as 'an integral part of the empire'—' an English county.'" American wheat, it seems, is now admissible , then, t n Aho , eenif, according dutyre o,r,miA merican annta thence equivalent :oh uuc t o e eiravt t tfa h orel as Canndian wheat at our frontier ; and after sth July, 1843, will pay a duty of 3s. per quarter on iwouepircthnpt when, Afterpvre ductionioartcsaJn wi l lau of 3s. per quarter at the Canadian frontier, and at our frontier a maximum duty of 2s. per quarter while the price is-below 555., or what is equivalent to a fixed duty in all of ss. per quarter. This is quite evident from the Spectator's own words; and yet, in another part of the same article, he sneers at the idea of any new enactment on the subject, the expectation of which he attributes to an " admired confusion of facts," which, he says, confound " what already is the law with what is con templated by the Canadians and the Imperial Govern ment." The Spectator says that "an equivalent re duction" for the duty imposed at the Canadian fron tieri, "isto be made in the duty at o u r frontier." t e cannot conceive how that reduc tion can be effected without a new enactment. Th e Canadians tpnhed forward their Bill to give L o r d Stanley they will pre pare that new enactment , an d assuredly h ex pect to hear that it is introduced into the H ouse of Commons at the very earliest period of the ensuing session. Lord Stanley's dispatch is quite explicit. It alludes to the present Corn Impo rtation Act as " the Bill now before Parliament, whereby a duty of five shillings i s leviable only while the price is below iiss., and at 58s. that the falls to Is. only." His Lordship adds that he cannot t a o ce t :a h r e di e n x g t l e y n • r t el o y f propose " further reductions " in the absence of the tax which the Canadian Parliament . have since imposed on American wheat agreeably to his suggestions, and in existing duties levied on Canadian produc e consideration w., ni be of withdrawnN'hichth e , 3 , , in British ports nearly free admission." Lord Stanleyfree or " thimble-rig" the Canadian Parliament. may try to Spectator speak from authority, there lament. If the doubt that some sleight-of•hard. in be little tion ; but he will have difficulty work . is in contempla evidence afforded by his dispatch in getting over the last. A further blow must. of the 2d of March friends" by the Peel Cabinetbe given to the " farmers' Parlia ment, or a most foul and. next . session of com pact committed against the indefensible breach of the Canadas. people and Parliament of NEW SOUTII WALES.—A brutal attack with fire arms had be en made by a party of Europeans upon a number o f aborigines, whom they bad surprised sleeping district. Th ree f ema l es an d a c hild h a d b een mur in a tea-tree scrub, in the Portland Bay , dered, and a fourth female wounded. The Govern ment Gazette offers a reward of 1001., or, in the case of a convict, a free pardon and passage to England, for the detection of the offenders.—Liverpool courier. COLLIERS' STRlKE.—Yesterday afternoon a party of nearly sixty new hands arrived by the railway to Glasgow, to join the works of Mr. Gordon. On their way out to Whitletts they were assailed by a mob, and several of them were more or less injured. An exp • ress having arrived for the Yeomanry, they pro ceeded, under the command of W. Hamilton, Esq. , Braehead, and J. D. Boswell, E sq ., of Garallan, after receiving a due supply of ball cartridge, with the utmost dispatch, to the scene of tumult. The Sheriff- Substitute, who was speedily on the spot, read the Riot Act, and soon afterwards the crowd dispersed- There are now, we understand, upwards of 100 hands at work in the pits, and more are hourly exected.— that one of the watchmen placed as a Since the above was written, we have been informed Gordon occupants of some cottages belonging to IN-IF. night. The Opposite Black House, was fired upon lastlant or ba I luckily did not take effect; and the assal out.—Ayr assai lants, We learn, are likely to be traced Observerof TuesdaT• protection to tn