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ebirb Wllition USING PRICES.) FUNDS. India Stock — pm Ditto Bonds .......« —pm Ditto Old Annuities — Ditto New Annuities `Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 49 pm II Ditto 5001._ .. 49 pm Ditto Small 5l pm !Bank Stock for Openg 'lndia Stock for Acct... Consols for Acct....... 93 i FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto 3sh Prussian, 5 per cent — Russian, 5 pes cent — Ditto, Metallic .... Spanish, 5 per cent...... 16i Ditto, Deferred.... . . French, 5 per cent. —f. ,—e. Exchange —f —c. French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, 2i per cent. 52-3- - :Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 102; SHARES. Bristol :.nd Exeter (70 paid) .. . ... .. 26h Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ... B 4 Western Railway (65 paid) — Ditto New Shares ( 50 paid) 5.9i London and Brighton (50 paid) 33 Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) ..... ... lO6 London and Blackwall ( paid) ...... ..... 7 London and Birmingham (90) Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 47i Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid ) ... ........ London and South Western (411 6s 10d pd) 58' South Eastern and Dover (50 paid).. . Ditto Scrip (10 paid) THE FUNDS-(CI BRITISH Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons 92i 3 per Cent. Red..... — New alt per Cent. lOl New 5 per Ceti, Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 — Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 ....... , FOREIG Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds — Buenos Ayres 6 per cent — t,hilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 3sa Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. 6i, SPIRIT of the PC:3 -. BLiU JO URN FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The Boundary Question is finally ar ranged. The Treaty, which lays down and settles the future boundaries between the respective territo ries of the two nations, with the correspondence be tween Lord Ashburton, the British Plenipotentiary, and Mr. Webster, the American Secretary of State, will supply materials for future discussion. "When questions which involve the pacific relations of two great nations are in issue, it becomes a duty to ex amine with care, and to pronounce with caution. The terms of the present Treaty require to be com pared with the original Treaty of 1783, and with the award of the King of the Netherlands in 1831, which the United States refused to adopt. Such an examination calls for more time and care than can be devoted to it immediately that the important State do cument, which at length settles the long-litigated ques tion, reaches England. That it will be thus tested, and its character and claims to public approval closely scanned, it would be superfluous for us to promise. That the Treaty should be published, in extenso, in the American journals, and before the British Ambas sador and Plenipotentiary had left the American shores, and an abstract of the correspondence respecting it be t ween the Ministers should be also thus exposed to public view and comment, may seem strange to us of the " Old Country ;" where men were wont to consider that such matters must be cautiously concealed from the public gaze, until the forms enjoined by State etiquette have been duly ob served, and the ceremonials of " ratification ' and " exchange " have taken place. Considering the anxiety with which the progress of the negotiation has been watched on this side of the Atlantic, and the speculations and oonflicting opinions which have been prevalent as to the terms of the treaty, we feel as sured that the communication of the positive stipula tions of the treaty will be thankfully received—possi bly, some may be of opinion that our American friends manage these matters better than those who are often so fettered by forms, that the public interest is occa sionally sacrificed to unmeaning ceremonials. The " affair of the Caroline" is also " settled ;" not, indeed, by treaty, but in a correspondence between the two high functionaries. We think the explanation and apology will scarcely satisfy the sense of national honour which had been imported by both countries into the disputes respecting it. The real questions in issue are most adroitly evaded. Just enough is said to salve over the wounds which the proceeding in flicted on the excited jealousies of both countries. We cannot, however, but think that there is far less of that stern grappling with the merits of the question than was expected by the British public. The evidence adduced on the trial of M'Leod was conclusive of the provocation supplied by the American "sympathisers ;" and as the Caroline was avowedly fitting out to afford aid and succour to the Canadian insurgents, her destruction, even within the American territory, was clearly justifiable by the recog nised principles of international law. The recurrence of the embarassment which the American Supreme Government encountered, and freely acknowledged, in connection with the arrest and trial of our coun tryman M'Leod, for his share in the destruction of the Caroline, ' through the exclusive and separate criminal jurisdiction claimed by the State of New York, has been provided against by an Act of Con gress. By the Remedial Justice Bill, the power of adjudicating in such cases is taken from the States' Courts, and committed to the Supreme Federal Crimi nal Jurisdiction. The " case of the Creole," and the " right of search" question, are referred to in the correspondence between Lord Ashburton and Mr. 'Webster, but can scarcely be said to have been " settled." " Right of search and impressment" pre sented difficulties more formidable in their abstract form than in their practical application. We think the manner in which they were proposed, discussed, and dismissed " for the present," creditable to the prudence and forbearance of both Ministers. The President's assent to the Tariff Bill is represented as having diffused considerable satisfaction, and in spired strong hopes of a revival of trade, and a return of long-postponed prosperity. The increased duties upon British manufactures imposed by the new Tariff, and the consequent further depression of our trade with America, we may justly charge on the suicidal policy which actuates our Government, and which will gradually, but certainly, divert manufactures and commerce, which constitute the life-blood of our nation, into other channels. STANDARD.—We have the pleasure to announce the happy accomplishment of Lord Ashburton's mis sion, in the ratification, by the American Senate, of the lately depending treaty ; adding the important instrument in full. The treaty was ratified by a majority of 30 (39 to 9). It is not easy to overrate the importance of this diplomatic achievement of the present Government. A rankling sore of more than half a century standing, which all the successive Administrations of that long period failed to heal, has been effectually cured--certainly without any compro mise of honour or of interest on our side, and with a degree of satisfaction to the Americans, which they have attested by the most enthusiastic compliments to the representative of England. In deed, the enthusiasm of good-will manifested by the Republicans as fully proves that they do not con sider themselves in the light of conquerors, but of an obliged party, as it proves their contentment with the terms they have obtained ; and let it be remembered, too, that this happy accom modation has been effected under circumstances of violent and recent irritation, and in plain contradiction of the prophecies of our Whig-Radical speakers and writers, that our differences with the United States could never be composed while we should maintain our system of laws protecting com merce and agriculture. The terms of the treaty will of course be criticised by those whose predictions it has b e li e d, and we think it better to wait for th e cr i t i c i sm before entering into the details of the subject. At present, however, we may assert, confidently, that the only objects for . which it Was wort h negot i a ti n g have been fully ob tained. The honour of the British empire has been asserted, and the safety of its North American pos sessions ensured, by securing a complete means of communication through all the provinces. Beyond these nothing was worth a me t's care, for what does England Want with a fewl° n thousand acres, more or less, of the des er t s of Mai n ? It is not, however, to be understood th a t a sing le acre to which we have a fair claim has been surren-dered- . the most that can be alleged is, that the British Government has not been extreme in urging c l a i ms confessedly doubtful. M URD ER:IN PHAN CE. The Court of Assizes for the Sarthe, held at Le Mans, was engaged on the 2d and 3d instant with a trial, which, from its lamentably interesting circum stances, attracted a crowded auditory. Th e criminals arraigned were a peasant girl, named Madeleine Le mounier, and the Cure of the parish of La Chapelle aux-Choux, named Romagne. The crime of which the girl stood accused was the murder of her own in fant, and that with which the Cure was charged was complicity in the murder, after an attempt made by him to procure abortion. The following are th e circumstance., of this shocking and disgusting affair, as disclosed by the indictment. On Feb. 12 last the prisoner and her mother went to Le Mans, and lodged at a public-house, where they asked to be recom mended t o a m id w if e, f or t h e pur p ose , as wasinferred, of obtaini ng a cert i f i cate t h at t h ey h a d d eposi t e d an infant at the Foundling Hospital of the town. Suspi cions of their morality being excited the Magistrates were informed, and an investigation took place. In the course of the inquiry M. Revery, a medical man, of Le Lude, deposed that the female prisoner had been with him on the 9th, to require a certificate that she was not with child, but having ascertained that she had been recently delivered, he refused to sign what she required. She stated that the child h ad b een sent to Le Mans . ; and on being asked who was the father, she declare(' thatit was M. Chollet, in whose service she lived. M. Revery told her that he could not be lieve her, as M. Chollet was 78 years old, an d s h e then avowed to him that Romagne was the father, but would give 300 fr. to have the fact kept secret. M. Revery pretended to listen to this overture, and told her to go and get him 150 f., and if the child had not been ill-treated, he would say nothing about the matter. On the next day she brought him 125 f., and on the 11th Romagne brought the remaining 25 f. himself, affirming that the child had been chris tened, and sent to Le Mans. Revery then gave the certificate required. Suspicions after wards arose in his mind that all was not right, and these being strengthened by subsequent in terviews with both prisoners, he returned the money he had received. Romagne was thereupon informed against and arrested. In her previous examinations, Madeleine Lemounier, after having repeatedly preva ricated and contradicted herself, confessed to the ma ' gistrate, as she had done to M.Revery,that Romagne was the father of the child ; adding, that when her pregnancy became known to him, he gave her drugs to procure abortion, naming the chemists from whom he had procured them, and also had bled her at least twenty times with a lancet, besides applying leeches to her. She further stated, that her intimacy with the Cure had subsisted for four years. On being in terrogated as to the fate of her child, she declared that after it was born, in the night of February 4th, Romagne took it away, and in an hour brought it back to her dead ; that it remained concealed in a box for three weeks, and then he carried it away, saying he would bury it in the cemetery. But on this point she made so many various depositions, that it was impossible to come at the truth. Romagne, in his examinations, positively denied all that she had al leged against him, and accounted for his transaction with M. Revery, by his anxiety to save Madeleine Lemounier from exposure and shame. The act of accusation having been read, the President proceeded to the interrogation of the prisoners. The female, in her replies, confirmed the,charges.'against Romagne as to the administration of drugs, the repeated bleedings to pro % cure abortion, the taking away the child, and bring ing it back when dead. The male prisoner denied all that was charged against him, declared that he had never had any improper connexion with the girl—and, striking the bar at which he was standing with great violence, exclaimed, " I pray God to strike me dead if I lie." The female, being asked if she had been in the habit of confessing to the Cure, replied, that she went to the confessional only for the purpose of talk. ing with him ; and that he had requested her to meet him there, as it would give the public an idea that she was attentive to her religious duties. The Cure having made a sign of denegation, the girl exclaimed, in a tone of deep feeling, " Yes, what I say is true— you corrupted and ruined me; but you would deny even God, if he were to come down from heaven. I was a poor innocent country girl, until I was se duced and corrupted by you." Several witnesses were called, some of whom substantiated the facts as to the attempt to procure abortion, but there was no direct evidence of the murder of the child. The painful emotion produced by the details of this affair was more than once lost in the amusement created by the way in which some of the witnesses gave their evidence. Chollet, the old man, seventy eight years of age, with whom the female prisoner lived as ser vant, and whom she had in the first instance declared to be the father of her child, on being asked whether such a thing had not been said, replied, " Ma foi nenni mon bon Monsieur, do not you think I am too old ?" When asked where the girl slept, he said, " Alone in a room, separated from mine by a corridor —no, not alone, for now I recollect she had the cow with her for company." A woman named Leruy, a pretended fortune-teller by cards, said Lemounier had consulted her, and that, having cut her cards, she replied ;that she (Lemounier) had placed herself "dans de mauvais draps." Pichard, a fisherman, being questioned as to the appearance of Romagne at a certain place, said he recollected the circumstance very well, for he had made a present to the Cure at the time of two barbel, " which were by no means small, one weighing a pound, and the other three quarters of a pound, because when presents are made they should always be worth receiving." The Pre sident, having summed up the evidence, the jury re tired, and, after a short deliberation, returned a ver dict of guilty against both prisoners, of an attempt to procure abortion. The Court sentenced Romagne to five years' imprisonment, and Lemounier to two years of the same penalty. A non-commissioned officer in the recruiting ser vice, named Durand, stationed at Mont de-Marsan, in . _ the Landes, having last week received a blow in the street, from a comrade with whom he had lived upon terms of close friendship, gave him a challenge to fight a duel, appointing the meeting for the following morning. Du rand went to the rendezvous, but his adversary did not make his appearance. On returning to the barracks, Durand found that the soldier had been put under arrest for four days, and at once went to their captain, and, having stated to him the gross insult he had received, asked permission for his adversary to come out. The officer, however, refused to comply with his request. Du rand felt himself so disgraced by being obliged to re main with the stain upon his honour unavenged, that he went to his room, and shot himself with the pistol he had intended to level against his adversary. An affair of love and jealousy is said to have been the cause of quarrel Durand was so much esteemed in his regiment that his officers attended his funeral, and expressed over his rave their regret at his loss. THE ROBBERY AT LADY LISLE ' S, AT MILL BROOR.—The butler at Lady Lisle's, whose name is Barnes, having made himself very officious in rebuking the policeman for allowing a suspicious person to pass him on the night of the robbery, and the police inspector being satisfied that the robbery was effected by some person well acquainted with Lady Lisle's premises, the butler was at length suspected of being the thief ; and some portion of the stolen plate having been found in a place which confirmed the suspicions against the butler, Barnes was accordingly apprehended and lodged in gaol on Tuesday night. He repeatedly expressed his sur prise and anger at the policeman on duty on the night of the burglary, for saying that he could not swear to the suspicious person whom he saw proceeding from Lady Lisle's. Being compelled, however, to put on his macin tosh, the policeman declared himself prepared to swear that he (the butler) was the suspicious person he saw leave Lady Lisle's gate. Lady Lisle has not yet ascer tained the amount of property stolen from her, but it must have been immense. The butler has been in the service of her Ladyship a great number of years, ar.d was a servant in whom she placed the greatest confidence. A complete Roman dwelling, apparently belonging to a family in the middle ranks of life, has just been ex cavated in the Loges Wood, near Chateau-Gaillard, by the Abbe Cocket. The flooring, pillars, ornamented ceiling, &c., are in a perfect state of preservation. RHODE IsLAND.—William Dean, alias Bill Dean, alias General Dean, alias the one-armed man," who figured so largely at the attack on the arsenal, at the Chepachet camp, and in the examinations of the pri soners, was arrested at Providence yesterday morning, having arrived the night before. Soon after his arrest he was taken before a Magistrate for examination; wit nesses swore to his presence in the affair of May 18th, where lie applied a match to one of the cannons, and he was committed for trial. At Chapachet he officiated as a sort of adjutant-general, drill -master, fugleman, &c. LORD DENMAN AND THE POOR MATCHMAN.--OD Saturday, Lord Denman passed through this town, ac companied by his son, for his seat at Stoney Middleton. On his Lordship's carriage stopping in front of a fish monger's shop in Fargate, a tall, venerable-looking ar tizan of the town approached with a small basket in his hand, and lifting his hand to his hat, his Lordship in quired what he had for sale ? He then unwrapped a clean white cloth, and exposed to the noble passenger a small stock of matches. Immediately afterwards the vehicle was driven off ; and a bystander going up to the old man, put the significant question to him, " What's he gi'en thee ? " "Nothin g ," was the ready reply. The other, however, assured him h e h a d seen something : fall into the basket, and on its being again opened, to their surprise a sovereign was found amongst the humble wares. The carriage driving away, the old man lifting up his arms and uttering blessings on his unknowx bene factor, and the gathering knot of people to inquire into the " why and the wherefore thereof," altogether af forded the elements of a picture worthy of a first-rate pencil.—Shejfield Iris. The Nantes journals relate that in the afternoon of Thursday last, as six men were engaged in digging the foundation of a house, at the corner of the Rue d'Argente, the earth fell in and buried four of them. The autho rities, the military, and other assistance, were immedi ately at work for their release. Two of them were very shortly got out alive and without any fractures, though severely bruised ; a third was next found dead from suffocation ; but in consequence of the earth giving way repeatedly in the operation, it took four hours to reach and disinter the fourth. Thi s o p era ti on requ i re d the more time, as the poor fellow was laid with his arms fastened behind his back, in such a position that he could make no effort to help hi mse lf. H e was , how ever, taken out alive, though severely bruised. All the three survivors were carried to the hospital, where they are likely to recover in a very short time. MANCIIESTER.—There is little change, since our last, in the state of affairs in this district, except that the partial resumption of employment at Stalybridge, to which we then adverted, is now thoroughly established ; and the greater portion of the factories a: Clossop, Tint wistle, and other places to the south-east of Stalybridge, have also resumed. At Ashton, Hyde, and Stockport, little has yet bcen done in this way ; und at Man ehester, the factories remain in precisely the same saittuation as on F r id ay l ast ; t h e s pi n ners being steadily to ivsh.o!k, but the weavers generally refusing to return slightest con' eir employment without an advance. In several cases, .we believe they have offered to come . is, provided a th n e x y iou h s ad to g th,. etchselron be made .; their leaders . e , beinc , asianeed so n m ot ethin g like a victory. In this, own credit by showing that large millowners steadily however, they are tion not to give any advaynea adhering g y t t o o s th u;c ir ez t d i ; ter a o ll lin tl a le_ the appearance of being exteoarot ec.il f w h ag y e t s h i e vh r l o c t h oo m a ig p h roo t h e a ed ve . ings of the 9th of Au g edsv n ume co t n h s e e i r qu e e m n p tl l y o • y r m eq e u n i t ri b n e g . that the workpeople shall Guardia n , can be even fore any proposal for an enter tained.—Manchester Lord and Lady F rudhoe lro d o u fa 4. ri their brief stay at Sion, have given numerous ottheir kindness and th lib e rality, and their departu re for a e ah north has caused a universal feeling of regret in th e r eec national of Isleworth. They have presented to the trustees of the ted schools a clock for the turret of th e newly.r school house in Isleworth-square, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1842. THE VETO QUESTION. REPORT OF TILE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE VETO READ BY MR. J. Q. ADAMS. The Select Committee, to whom was referred the Message of the President of the United States re turning to this House the Act which originated in it, " to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes," with his objections to it, with instructions to report thereon to the House, have attended to that service, and respectfully report: The Message is the last of a series of executive measures the result of which has been to defeat and nullify the whole action of the Legislative authority of this - Union, upon the most important interests of the nation. At the accession of the late President Harrison, by election of the people, to the executive chair, the fi nances, the revenue, and the credit of the country, were found in a condition so greatl t y disordered and languishing, that the first act of his administration was to call a special session of Congress to provide a remedy for the distempered state of the great body politic. It was even then a disease of no sudden oc currence, and of no ordinary malignity. Four years before, the immediate predecessor of General Harri son had been constrained to resort to the same expe dient, a special session of Congress, the result of which had only proved the first of a succession of palliatives, purchasing momentary relief at the ex pense of deeper seated disease and aggravated symp toms, growing daily more intense through the whole four years of that Administration. It had expended, from year to year from eight to ten millions beyond its income, absorbingin that period nearly ten millions pledged for deposits with the States, eight millions of stock in the Bank of the United States, from five to six millions of trust funds, and as much Treasury notes ; and was sinking under the weight of its own improvidence and incompetency. The sentence of a sufferin6 people had commanded a change in the administration, and the contempora neous elections throughout the Union had placed in both Houses of Congress majorities, the natural ex ponents of the principles which it was the will of the people should be substituted in the administration of their government, instead of those which had brought the country to a condition of such wretched ness and shame. There was perfect harmony of prin ciple between the chosen President of the people and this majority, thus constituted in both Houses of Congress ; and the first act of his Administration was to call a special session of Congress for their deli beration and action upon the measures indispensably necessary for relief to the public distress, and to re - trieve the prosperity of the great community of the nation. On the 31st day of May, 1841, within three months after the inauguration of President Harrison, the Con gress assembled at his call. But the reins of the exe cutive car were already in other hands. By an in scrutable decree of Providence the chief of the people's choice, in harmony with whose principles the majorities of both Houses had been constituted, was laid low in death. The President who had called the meeting of the Congress was no longer the President when the Congress met. A successor to the office had assumed the title, with totally different principles, though professing the same at the time of his election, which, far from harmonizing, like those of his imme diate predecessor, with the majority of both Houses of Congress, were soon disclosed in diametrical oppo sition to them. The first development of this new, and most un fortunate, condition of the General Government, was manifested by the failure, once and again, of the first great measure intended by Congress to restore the credit of the country, by the establishment of a Na tional Bank—a failure caused exclusively by the ope ration of the veto power by the President. An anxious desire to accommodate the action of Congress to the opinions and wishes of Mr. Tyler had led to modifi cations of the first Bill for the establishment of a Na tional Bank, presented to him for his approval, widely differing from the opinions entertained of their ex pediency by the majority of both Houses of Congress, but which failed to obtain that approval for the sake •f which they had been reluctantly adopted. A second attempt ensued, under a sense of the indispensable necessity of a fiscal corporation to the revenues and credit of the nation, to prepare an Act, to which an , informal intercourse and communication between a Member of the House, charged with the duty of pre paring the Bill, and the President of the United States himself, might secure by compliance with his opinions a pledge in advance of his approval of the Bill, when it should be presented to him. That pledge was obtained. The Bill was presented to him in the very terms which he had prescribed as neces sary to obtain his sanction, and it met the same fate with its predecessor ; and it is remarkable that the reasons assigned for the refusal to approve the second Bill are in direct and immediate conflict with those which hadbeen assigned for the refusal to sign the first. Thus the measure, first among those deemed by the Legislature of the Union indispensably necessary for the salvation of its highest interests, and for the restoration of its credit, its honour, its prosperity, was prostrated, defeated, annulled, by the weak and wa vering obstinacy of one man, accidentally, and not by the will of the people, invested with that terrible power, as if prophetically described by one of his own chosen ministers, at this day, as the right to deprive the people of self-government." By the assiduous and unremitting labours of the Committees of both Houses, charged with the duties of providing for the necessities of the revenue, and for the great manufacturing interest of the Northern, Central, and Western States, which must be so deeply affected by any adjustment of a tariff, to raise ex clusively a revenue adequate to the necessary expenses of the Government from duties on imports, a Tariff Bill believed to be nearly, if not wholly, sufficient for the purpose, was elaborated and amply discussed through a long series of weeks in both branches of the Legislature. Not only was this most conciliatory measure contemptuously rejected, but, in total disre gard of the avowed opinions of his own Secretary of the Treasury, concurring with those, nearly unani mous, of all the most eminent lawyers of the land, in solitary reliance upon the hesitating opinion of the Attorney-General, he has undertaken not only to levy taxes to the amount of millions upon the people, but to prescribe regulations for its collection, and for ascertaining the value of imported merchandise, which the law had in express terms, reserved for the legis lative action of Congress. And now, to crown this system of continual and unrelenting exercise of executive legislation by the alternate gross abuse of constitutional power and bold assumption of powers never vested in him by any law, we come to the Veto Message referred by the House to this Committee. The Committee submit to the House their unhesi tating opinion that the appropriation of any part of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands to the or dinary- annual expenditure would be only the effectual and irretrievable giving away of that great and ines timable inheritance of the American people. That, if once the growing and inexhaustible fund shall be doomed to form the whole or any part of the ways and means for the annual estimates of the receipts and expenditures of the National Government, the people may bid farewell, a long farewell, to every hope of ever receiving a dollar's useful improvement from the gift of God to them, thus cruelly and perfidiously wrested from their hands. Nineteen of the States of this Union, in the ardent, perhaps, in some cases; inconsiderately ardent, pur suit of this improvement of their own condition, have become involved, some of them heavily involved, in debt. The greatest portion of this debt has been contracted for the accomplishment of stupendous works, to expedite and facilitate the intercourse of travel and of trade between the remotest extremes of greatteredoublinged saving es I 1, t emp of ft b e i to c i nt sehw, millionse a oov r ffa m l i vao n ebo( u), labour, from and ed. ywoefloa It is works to ssp ent expense se e ea a xyt thiss h a tl g ia g t era th o individual citizens of the Union, enjoying the benefit of these public works, more than repays, in every single year, the whole cost of th e i r construction. But, while these immense benefits have been thus secured to the people, as a community of individuals, the States which authorised them have contracted a burden of liabilities heavier than they are able to bear. They need the assistance of a friendly and powerful hand, and where should they find it but in the sympathies of the National Government ? in their fidelity to the trust committed to their charge in this immense and almost boundless domain ? The application of the proceeds of the public lands to alle viate the burden of these debts pressing upon the peo pleof almost all the States, is, if not the only, the most unexceptionable mode of extending the mighty arm of the Union to relieve the people of the States from the pressure of the burden bearing upon them—a relief consisting only of the distribution among them of their own property—a relief furnishing them the means of paying to the United States themselves no inconsiderable portion of the debts due from the States to them ; so that by one and the same opera tion the people of the States will be relieved from the intolerable pressure of their debt, and the common Treasury- of the Union will receive back in payment of debt no small part of the same sums allotted to the States as their respective portions of the distributions. The Committee regret that the shortness of the time which they have allowed themselves for the pre paration of this Report, constrains them to pass over numerous other considerations amounting to the clearest demonstration that the distribution among the States of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands will be infinitely more conducive to the ends of justice and to the relief of the people from their em barrassments, than the devotion of the same funds to , be swallowed up in the insatiate gulph of the ordinary . annual expenses of the Federal Government—to perish in the using like the nine millions of the fourth instalment promised in the States, the seven or eight millions of stock in the Bank of the United States, • and the five or six millions of Indian trust and Navy pension funds, all sunk, during the Van Buren Ad ministration, without leaving a wreck behind. They perceive that the whole legislative power of the Union has been for the last fifteen months, with, regard to the action of Congress upon measures of vital importance, in a state of suspended animation, strangled by the five times repeated stricture of the executive cord. They observe that, under these un exampled obstructions to the exercise of their high and legitimate duties, they have hitherto preserved the most respectful forbearance towards the execu tive chief; that while lie has, time after time, an nulled by the mere act of his will their commission from the people to enact laws for the common wel fare, they have forborne even the expression of their resentment for these multiplied insults and injuries; they believed they had a high destiny to fulfil by ad ministering to the people in the form of law remedies for the sufferings which they had too long endured. The will of one man has frustrated all their labours, and prostrated all th e ir p owers . Th e ma j or ity of the Committee believe that the case has occurred in the annals of our Union, contemplated by the founders of the Constitution by the grant to the House of Representatives of the power to impeach the President of the United States; but they are aware that the resort to that expedient might, in the present condition of public affairs, prove abortive. They see that the irreconcilable difference of opinion and of ac tion between the Legislative and Executive Depart ments of the Government is but sympathetic with the same discordant views and feelings among the people. To them alone the final issue of the struggle must be left. The power of the present Congress to enact laws essential to the welfare of the people has been struck with apoplexy by the executive hand. Submission to his will is the only condition upon which he will permit them to act. For the enactment of a measure earnestly recommended by himself he forbids their ac- tion unless coupled with a condition, declared by him self to be on a subject so totally different, that he will not suffer them to be coupled in the same law. With that condition Congress cannot comply. In this state of things he has assumed, as the Commit tee fully believe, the exercise of the whole legislative power to himself, and is levying millions of money upon the people without any authority of law. But the final decision of this question depends neither upon legislative nor executive, but upon judi cial authority; nor can the final decision of the Su preme Court upon it be pronounced before the close of the present session. In the mean time, the abu sive exercise of the constitutional power of the Pre sident to arrest the action of the Congress, upon mea sures vital to the welfare of the people, has wrought conviction upon the minds of a majority of the Com mittee, that the veto power itself must be restrained and modified by an amendment of the Constitution itself, a resolution for which they accordingly here with respectfully report. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. TATIMAN SMITH. JOHN fit. BOTTS. JAMES COOPER. F. GRANGER. H. S. 14 %NE. K. RATNER. JEREMIAH MORROW. THOS. J. CAMPBELL. J. A. PEARCE. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring therein—That the following amendment of the Con stitution of the United States, in the seventh section of the first article, he recommended to the Legisla tures of the several States, which on the adoption of the same, by three-fourths of the said Legislatures, shall become part and parcel of the Constitution. Instead of the words " two-thirds" twice repeated in the second paragraph of the said seventh section, substitute, in both cases, the words, " a majority of the whole number." missioners traced the line in the most north-western point of the Lake of the Woods,—thence along the said line to the said most north-west point, being in latitude 49 deg. 23 min. 55 sec. north, and in longi tude 95 deg. 14 min. 38 sec. west from the observatory at Greenwich ; thence, according to existing treaties, due south to its intersection with the 49th parallel of north Jettitude, and along the parallel to the Rocky Moun tains. It being understood that all the water communi cations and all the usual portage along the lines from Lake Superior to the Lake of the Woods, and also Grand Portage, from the shore of Lake Superior to the Pigeon River, as now actually used, shall be free and open to the use of the citizens and subjects of both countries. ARTICLE lII.—In order to promote the interests and encourage the industry of all the inhabitants of the coun tries watered by the river St. John and its tributaries, whether living within the state of Maine or the province of New Brunswick, it is weed that where, by the provisions of the present treaty, the river St. John is declared to be the line of boundary, the navigation of said river shall be free and open to both parties, and shall in no way be obstructed by either ; that all the produce of the forest, in logs, lumber, timber, boards, staves, or shingles, or of agriculture not being manufactured, grown on any of those parts of the State of Maine watered by the river St. John, or by its tributaries, of which fact reasonable evidence shall, if required, be produced, shall have free access into and through the said river and its said tributaries, having their source within the state of Maine, to and from the seaport at the mouth of the said river St. John, and to and to and round the falls of the said river, either by boats, rafts, or other conveyance ; that when within the province of New Brunswick, the said produce shall be dealt with as if it were the produce of said province ; that, in like manner, the inhabitants of the territory of the Upper St. John determined by this treaty to belong to her Britannic Majesty,'shall have free access to and through the river for their produce, in those parts where the said river runs wholly through the State of Maine ; provided always, that this agreement shall give no right to either party to interfere with any regulations not in consistent with the terms of this treaty, which the Governments, respectively, of Maine or of New Brunswick may make respecting the navigation of the said river, when both banks thereof shall belong to the same party. ARTICLE IV.—All grants of land heretofore made by either party, within the limits of the territory which by this treaty falls within the dominions of the other party, shall be held valid, ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession under such grants, to the same extent as if such territory had by this treaty fallen within the do minions of the party by whom such grants were made ; and all equitable possessory claims, arising from a pos session and improvement of any lot or parcel of land by the person actually in possession, or by those under whom such person claims, for more than six years before the date of such treaty, shall, in like manner, be deemed valid, and be confirmed and quieted by a release to the person entitled thereto, of the title to such let or parcel of land, so described as best to include the improvements made thereon ; and in all other respects the two con tracting parties agree to deal upon the most liberal prin ciples of equity with the settlers actually dwelling on the territory falling to them respectively, which has heretofore been in dispute between them. ARTICLE V.—Whereas, in the course of the contro versy respecting the disputed territory on the north eastern boundary, some moneys have been received by the authorities of her Britannic Majesty's province of New Brunswick, with the intention of preventing depre dations on the forests of the said territory, which moneys were carried to a fund called the " Disputed Territory Fund," the proceeds whereof it was agreed should be hereafter paid over to the parties interested, in the proportions to be determined by a final settle ment of boundaries. It is hereby agreed that a cor rect account of all receipts and payments on the said fund, shall be delivered to the Government of the United States, within six months after the ratifica tion of this treaty ; and the proportions of the amount due thereon to the States of Maine and Massachusetts, and any bonds and securities apper taining thereto, shall be paid and delivered over to the Government of the United States ; and the Govern ment of the United States agree to receive for the use of, and pay over to the States of Maine and Mas sachusetts their respective portions of said fund ; and farther to pay and satisfy said States, respectively, for all claims for expenses incurred by them in protecting the said heretofore disputed territory, and making a survey thereof in 1838 ; the Government of the U n it e d S tates agreeing with the States of Maine and Massachusetts to pay them the further sum of three hundred thousand dollars, in equal moieties, on account of their assent to 'the line of boundary described in this treaty, and in con sideration of the equivalent received therefor from the Government of her Britannic Majesty. ARTICLE is furthermore understood and agreed, that for the purpose of running and tracing those parts of the line between the source of the St. Croix and the St. Lawrence river, which will require to be run and ascertained, and for marking the residue of said line by proper monuments on the land, two Commis sioners shall be appointed, one by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and one by her Britannic Majesty ; and the said Commissioners shall meet at Bangor, in the State of Maine,' on the first day of May next, or as soon thereafter as may be, and shall proceed to mark the line above described, from the source of the St. Croix to the River St. John ; and shall trace on proper marks the dividing line along said river, and along the River' St. Francis, to the outlet of the Lake Pohenaga mook ; and from the outlet of said lake they shall ascer tain, fix, and mark, by durable monuments upon the land, the line described in the first article of this treaty ; and the said Commissioners shall make to each of their respective Governments a joint report, or declaration, under their hands and seals, designating such line of boundary, and shall accompany said report or declara tion with maps certified by them to be true maps of the new boundary. ARTICLE VII.--It is further agreed that the channels in the River St. Lawrence, on both sides of the Long Sault Islands, and of Barnhart Island ; the channels in the River Detroit, on both sides of the island of Bois Blanc, and between that island and both the Ameri can and anadian shores ; and all the several channels and passages between the various islands lying near the junction of the river St. Clair, with the lake of that name, shall be equally free and operi to the ships, vessels, and boats of both parties. ArtricLEVIII.- - The parties mutually stipulate that each shall prepare, equip, and maintain in service,on the coast of Africa, a sufficient and adequate squadron or naval force of vessels, of suitable numbers and description, to carry in all not less than eighty guns, toj enforce, separately and respectively, the laws, rights and obligations of each of the two countries, for the suppression of the slave trade ; the said squadrons to be independent of each other, but the two Governments stipulating, neverthe less, to give such orders to the officers commanding their respective forces as shall enable them most effectually to act in concert and co-operation, upon mutual consul tation, as exigencies may arise, for the attainment of the true object of this article ; copies of all such orders to be communicated by each Government to the other re spectively. ARTICLE IX.—Whereas, notwithstanding all efforts which may be made on the coast of Africa for suppress ing the slave trade, the facilities for carrying on that traffic, and avoiding the vigilance of cruisers by the frau dulent use of flags and other means, are so treat, and the temptation for pursuing it, while a market can be found for slaves, so strong, that the desired result may be long delayed, unless all markets be shut against the purchase of African negrocs ; the parties to this treaty agree that, they will unite in all becoming representations and re monstrances, with any and all powers within whose do minions such markets are allowed to exist ; and that they will urge upon all such powers the propriety and duty of closing such markets at once and for ever. ARTICLE X.—lt is agreed that the United States and her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their ministers, officers, or authorities, re spectively made, deliver up to justice all persons, who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged papers, com mitted within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum, or shall be found, within the territories of the other : provided, that this shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality, as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed: and the respective judges and other magistrates of the two Governments shall have power, jurisdiction, and authority, upon complaint made under oath, to issue a warrant for the apprehension of the fugitive or person so charged, that he may be brought before such judges or other magistrates, re spectively, to the end that the evidence of criminality , may be heard and considered ; and if, on such hear ing, the evidence be deemed sufficient to sustain the charge, it shall be the duty of the examining judge or magistrate to certify the' same to the proper executive authority, that a warrant may issue for the surrender of such fugitive. The expense of such apprehension and delivery shall be borne and defrayed by the party who makes the requisition, and receives the fugitive. ARTICLE Xl.—The eighth article of this treaty shall be in force for five years from the date of the ratification, and afterwards until one or the other party shall signify a wish to terminate it. The tenth article shall continue in force until one or the other party shall signify its wish to terminate it, and no longer. ARTICLE Xll.—The present treaty shall be duly rati• fled, and the mutual exchange of ratifications shall take place in London; within six months from the date hereof, or earlier if possible. . In faith whereof, we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed this treaty, and have hereunto affixed our seals. Done in duplicate at Washington, the ninth day of August, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. ASHBURTON [sEAL.] DANIEL WEBSTER, (SEAL.) The correspondeace is upon the subjects -Ist. Of the interference of the Colonial Authorities of the British West India Islands with American merchant vessels driven by stress of weather, or carried by vio• lence, into the ports of the colonies. 2d. On the subject of the Caroline—and 3d. On the subject of impressment--but except that a sort of apology and plea of necessity is made for the burning of the Caroline, with an expression of regard for the sacredness of our neutral rights—nothing is settled upon these points; and the President is understood to de clare in his message accompanying the treaty, that he does not,deem it necessary t© urge the consideration of those matters farther. MR. RICHARD FARRELL.—D ied on Thursday night, at his residence on the Quay, in the 70th year of his age, Mr. Richard Farrell, for many years proprietor of the Waterford Mirror newspaper. Mr. Farrell was ori ginally intended for the Church, and received his educa tion at Louvain.— Waterford Chronicle, THE LATE DR. MAGINN. (From the Examiner.) The late Dr. Maginn, we are sorry to hear, has left a wife, a son, and two daughters, utterly unpro vided for. Surely, if ever there was a case in which the gift of a small pension from Government would receive the sanction and grateful acknowledgment of men of all parties, this is that case. It would be but a decent tribute to great wit, admitted learning, many and various talents, and some generous qualities— however sadly misused, according to our ways of thinking, these may all have been. We believe Sir Robert Peel to be above mere narrow party views in a case of this kind, or we would remind him of Dr. Maginn's services to those who placed him in power. They were faithful, unswerving, and zealous to the last. (From Mr. Oastler's Fleet Papers.) Again the mournful, deep-toned knell of death smites upon my ear, and tells me that another friend of mine is numbered with the dead. Yes, my kind friend IVlaginn is gone ! The talented, learned, and facetious Dr. Mag inn, is, alas no more. His spirit has quitted its prison -house of clay, and winged its flight into the regions of an eternal world ! Had I not been sent to this place in all probability I should never have known that justly celebrated man. His brilliant genius and sparkling wit had often en livened my prison hours, and afforded me a rich in tellectual repast : his deep store of learning rendered him a most delightful and instructive companion ; and his peculiar facility of communicating that know ledge to others which he so eminently possessed gave a zest to his " chatterings" (his own expression) which enjoyment could alone appreciate. Often have I been fascinated by the power of his imagination while attending to his verbal reveries. It was as though the richest streams of book knowledge were shedding their luxuriant droppings on the listen ing ear from the lips of thoughtfulness and deep ex perience. _ On such occasions the stores of ages were served out by him for my instruction and amusement in tones so winning and attractive that the time has often gone ere I was aware that one-half the rapid moments had sped their hasty course. His quickness of perception—the concentration and clearness of his ideas—his acuteness of thought--his wonderful memory—his rich and apt quotations—his ready and lively wit, united with a beauty and even juvenile simplicity of language, charmed me into an enthusiastic admiration of the man. I shall not soon forget the pleasures which I have derived from his society —never, the sage lessons which he taught. me. Dr. Maginn's polities were in unison with my own. They were all of the Saxon school. Such talents, united with Such principles, I have rarely, if ever, found. But he is gone--.I shall hear his voice no more; his form is vanished from my view. No more will the splendour of his genius shed forth its reful gent rays within ray cell —vet the remembrance of the past is sweet and refreshing ; and it is a conso lation to know that I was sometimes a comfort to poor Magian. The Doctor's death is a public loss ; and as such it ought to be regarded by every scholar and by every patriot. But our sympathies are also urgently re quired on behalf of his disconsolate widow and father less children, who are left entirely unprovided for. It is a melancholy truth, that Dr. Maginn's last days were rendered doubly afflictive by the hard hand of pressing want ! And will the Tories, whose cham pion ha was, pay no tribute to his worth ? Can they, whose cause he so long and so ably advocated, disre gard the claims of his bereaved family, whose only hope and support he was, and by whose death they are plunged into a state of painful destitution ? It would be a reproach to the Tory party to suppose them capable of such indifference and neglect towards the widow and orphans of one who, during his life time, so constantly and so ably defended their consti tutional principles. Sir Robert Peel is known to be the patron of science and literature—he cannot withhold a tribute to such talent as Magian's. All men of learning and genius will honour them selves by aiding those who ar e l e ft th e i r p ens i oners . Let then the State, and the State's best friends, with out a moment's delay, do that which humanity and justice urge on them now, and take immediate care that the family of Magi= shall know no want. During his lifetime I urged him to allow me to make a public appeal on his behalf. I wished to raise a fund to enable him to try a warmer climate— his pride forbade me. That I was some comfort to my friend is a consola tion to me—that I may be of service to his family is now my hope. Where is the man, of any party, who would grudge if the Stat e should provide for the bereaved of Magian ? iThe Doctor died on the 20th of August, 1842, and hiS remains were buried in the churchyard of Walton upon-Thames. THE BOUNDARY TREATY. To settle and define the Boundaries between the territo ries of the United States and the possessions of her Britannic Majesty in North America, for the final suppression of the African slave trade, and for the giving up of criminals, fugitives from justice, in cer tain cases : Whereas, certain portions of the line of boundary be tween the United States of America and the British do minions in North America, described in the second ar ticle of the treaty of peace of 1783, have not yet been ascertained and determined, notwithstanding the repeated attempts which have bean heretofore made for that pur pose, and whereas it is now thought to be for the inte rest of both parties, that, avoiding farther discussion of their respective rights, arising in this respect under the said treaty, they should agree on a conventional line in said portions of the said boundary, such as may be con venient to both parties, with such equivalents and com pensations as are deemed just and reasonable : And whereas, by the treaty concluded at Ghent, on the 24th day of December, 1814, between the United States and. his Britannic Majesty a n article was a gree d to an d in serted of the following tenor, viz. : " Art. 10. Whereas the traffic in slaves is irrecon cilable with the principles of humanity and justice ; and whereas, both his Majesty and the Unit e d St a t es are de sirous of continuing their efforts to promote its entire abolition, it is hereby agreed that both the contracting parties shall use their best endeavours to accomplish so desirable an object:" And whereas, notwithstanding the laws which have at various times been passed by the two Governments, and the efforts made to suppre ss it, th at criminal traffic is still prosecuted and carried on ; And whereas the United States o f America and h er M a j esty t h e Q ueen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, are determined that , so far as may be in th e i r p ower , it shall be effectually abolished ; And whereas, it is found expedient for the better administration of justice and the prevention of crime within the terri tories and jurisdiction of the two parties respectively, that persons committing the crimes hereinafter enume rated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered np ; the United States of America and her Britannic Majesty having resolved to treat on these several 1 subjects, have for that purpose appointed their respec tive Plenipotentiaries to negotiate and conclude a treaty, that is to say, the P res id ent o f t h e U n i te d States has, on his part, furnished with full powers, Da niel Webster, Secretary of State of the United States, and her Majesty the Queen of th e U n i te d Ki ng d om of Great Britain and Ireland, has on her part appointed the Right Honourable Alexander Lord Ashburton, a Peer of the said United Kingdom, a Member of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, and her Majesty's Mi nister Plenipotentiary on a special mi ss i on t o th e U n it e d States ; who, after a reciprocal commun i cat i on o f t h e i r respective full powers, have agreed to and signed the fol lowing articles : ARTICLE I.—lt is hereby agreed and declared that the line of boundary shall be as follows : Beginning at the monument at the source of the river St. Croix, as designated and agreed to by the Commis sioners under the sth article in the treaty of 1794, be tween the Government of the United States and Great Britain ; thence north, following the exploring line run and marked by the surveyors of the two Governments in the years 1817 and 1818, under the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent, to its intersection with the river St. John, and to the middle of the channel thereof ; thence, up to the middle of the main channel of said river St. John, to , the mouth of the river St. Francis ; thence, up the middle of the channel of the said river St. Francis, and of the lakes through which it flows, to the outlet of the Lake Pohenagamook ; thence, south westerly, in a straight line to a point on the north-west branch of the river St. John, which point shall be ten miles distant from the main branch of the St- John, in a straight line, and in the nearest direction ; but if the said point shall be found to be less than seven miles from the nearest point or summit, or crest of the high lands that divide those rivers which empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the river St. John, to a point seven miles in a straight line from the said summit or crest ; thence, in a straight line, in a course about south eight degrees west, to the point where the parallel of latitude of 46 deg. 25 mm. north, intersects the south-west branch of the St. John ; thence, southerly by the said branch to tbo source thereof in the highlands at the Metjarmette portage ; thence down along the said highlands which divide the waters which empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the head of Ball's stream ; thence, down the middle of said stream till the line thus run intersects the old line of boundary surveyed and marked by Valentine Collins previous to the year 1774, as the 45th degree of north latitude, and which has been known and understood to be the line of actual division between the states of New York and Vermont on one side, and the British province of Canada on the other ; and from said point of intersection, west along the said dividing line as hereto fore known and understood, to the Iroquois, or St. Law rence River. ARTICLE IL—Tt -- is moreover agreed, that, from the place where the joint Commissioners terminated their labours, under the sixth article of the treaty of Ghent, to wit :—At a point in the Neebrik Channel, near Muddy Lake, the line shall run into and along the ship channel, between St. Joseph and St. Tammany Islands, to the division of the channel at or near the head of St. Jo seph's Island ; thence turning eastwardly and north wardly, around the lower end of St. George's or Sugar Island, and following the middle of the channel which divides St. George's from St. Joseph's Island • thence, up the east Neebrik channel, nearest to St. George's Island, through the middle of Lake George ; thence west of Jona's Island, into St. Mary's River, to a point in the middle of that river, about one mile above St. George 's or Sugar Island, so as to appropriate and assign the sa i d island to t h e U n i te d St a t es ; thence adopting the line traced on the maps by the Commissioners, through the river St. Mary and Lake Superior, to a point north of Ile Royal in said lake, one hundred yards to the north and east of Ile Chapeau, which last-mentioned island lies near the north-eastern point of Ile Royal, where the line marked by the Com missioners terminate s ; and from the last-mentioned point, south-westerly, through the middle of the sound between Ile Royal and the north-western main land, to the Mouth of Pigeon River, an d at the said river to, and through, the north an d south Fowl Lakes, to the Lakes of the height of land, between Lake Superior and the Lake of the Woods ; thence along the water communication to L a k e s a i se quinaga, and through that lake • thence t o an d t h ro ugh Cypress Lake, L ac du Bois Blanc, Lac la Croix, Little Vermillion Lake, and, Lake Namecan, and through the several smaller lakes, straits, or streams, connnecting the lakes here mentioned, to that point in Lac la Pluie, nr Rainy Lake, at the Chandlers Falls, from which the Com. FRENCH AFRICA. A dispatch was received by the Government on Saturday from the 3 overnor-General of Algeria, dated Algiers, 27th ult., and enclosing a report from Chef de Bataillon du Courthial, the Commandant of Bugia,.giving an account of an affair with the Ka byles, : near that place. The dispatch of General Bugeaud communicates no other information than the fact of his having heard from General Negrier, who had arrived at Algiers from Bugia, that the loss of the Kabyles was even greater than that stated by M. du Courthial. The report is dated Bugia, August 26. After announcing that the M ara b ou t Si-Kerdoud had assembled the chiefs of several tribes in the market place of Oulad-ou-Cabas, and preached to them with great vehemence, promising success in an attack upon Bugia on the 25th, the report says :—" On the morn ing of the 25th, at five o'clock, signals were made from all the blockhouses of the presence of the enemy and shortly afterwards several of the block houses opened a sharp fire of infantry. I had for some days past expressly recommended to the ar tillery to fire only grape shot in the first in stance, and that only when the enemy should be with in . a distance of about 250 metres, reserving the shot and shells for his retreat. The infantry had also been ordered to reserve their fire until the enemy should be close at hand. These orders were punctually ob served. At the moment when the Mzaias came down frOm their mountains, and attacked our blockhouse, i hordes of horsemen and foot debouched from the Col of the Elisis or from the elbow of the river, and moved in all directions, placing themselves in ambuscade in the ravines, the brush-wood, and along the coast, near the blockhouse Soloman and the crenelated These two posts, however, which were in the com mand of officers of tried bravery, did not, in corn ' pliance with my orders, open their fire until the enemy was within half-gun shot. This silent but firm demeanour, no doubt, awed the assailants, for the corps, which were led by officers richly clothed and mounted on most active horses, moved on to wards the Foss blockhouse, which had been hotly attacked by those who came from the top of the plain of Mzaias. The firing at this point commenced at nine o'clock, and was kept up with vigour for several hours. I then saw that the moment for striking a decisive blow was arrived. I consequently ordered a mountain howitzer with 60 infantry and 4,000 cartridges to be sent down to this point. Lieu tenant Carpentier, who had the command of the artil lery at this place, a brave and intelligent officer, re solved to take the direction of the operation, although he had been four days ill of the fever. The detach ment marched at a quarter before 10 o'clock, the crenelated building and the Rapatel blockhouse send ing their shot upon the Kabyles, who endea voured to impede the march of the detachment. A severe engagement thereupon took place at the very gate of the blockhouse, but the artillery of the crene lated building, and the Clausel and Rapatel block houses showered grape shot and balls upon the enemy, with such effect that he was compelled to abandon his attack upon the Foss blockhouse, and retreat in double quick time to the plain. In a few minutes, the whole of these hordes, so threatening in their aspect, dis persed as by enchantment, and by half-past eleven o'clock, there was an end of the affair. The enemy cannot have lost less than 100 men in killed and wounded. We had only four wounded, one of whom was Lieutenant Carpentier, who received a ball through the calf of his leg. The assailing force may be estimated at 5,000 foot and 600 horse. The Foss blockhouse was attacked by between 800 and 900 men, and the assault. lasted three hours. The King, having been informed that a seaman of Havre, named Moue, had invented a check for stopping horses when running away, ordered his private secretary, a few days ago, to write to the inventor the following letter :—" Th King is aware that, from a sentiment which he approves, you are engaged in an invention of great utility. You must have incurred some expense, for which at least his Majesty wishes to idemnify you, until your invention shall have received the sanction of trial and experience. With this intent, and as a mark of the interest his Majesty takes in your endeavours, he has destined for you a sum of 3001 r., for which I have the honour to send you an order on the receiver of Ha vre."— Galigani. THE SHEFFIELD TRADE STILL DECLINING.--Not withstanding the empty boastings of some speculatists about revivals in trade, we feel compelled to state the awful fact that not only are the wages in several branches of the Sheffield trade rapidly decreasing, but that most respectable manufacturers continue to reduce the number of their workmen. The number of decent, nay respect able men sweeping the streets, affords daily one of the most heart-rending sights—a complete damper to all our old English feelings of national pride ; and when we are to arrive at the worst, God only knows. Sometime ago we thought the zero of public suffering had been reached, but the thermometer still descends. A precious state of things, this, in a world teeming with plenty 1— Sh e ff ie ld Iris. -- The favourite steamer, Bruges, Captain M a i n , landed her passengers at St. Katherine's Wharf, To wer , on Tuesday evening last, within 12 hours after leaving Ostend. Lord Crewe, lion. Mr. Carleton, Si r J ames Back, Captain Greville, &c., arrived by her. LLOYD'S SHIPPING., 01144, , ....-....-. . ~ NOTICES TO MARINERS. The following are posted at'Lloyd's:- - :i IMPROVEMENT OF CROINBURG LIGHT. if Hydrographic-office, Admiralty, Sept. 7, 1842.,._ During the nec essar y arrang e ments f or t h e i n iprarei ment of the Light of C ron b urg C ast l e, i n t h e Course!, this month, the old light in the Tower will be rento/T and a temporary fixed li g ht. i n t h e O uter G a llery 1 "- appear at the same elevation. RUSSIAN LIGHTS TN THE WHITE SEA' -, .4 GISHGINSK LIGHT. • . ' • A Lighthouse ha s b een esta bli s h e d on t h e n orth'! . extreme of Gishginsk Island, in the entrance of the,,';, .. of Onega, in l a tit u d e 62 d eg . 1 2 m i n. 17 sec. N., an(t.,`',ll 36 deg. 51 min. 36 sec. E. It will show a fixed 1 ° - ) 0 ? 148 feet above the s e a , an d v i s ibl e f rom a ll par ts 4..: . horizon distant 17 miles. ,0; 01 MORSHOVSK LIGHT. A Lighthouse has be en , established at the north , ,A, extreme of Morshovsk Island, in the entrance of the'w of Mezin, in latitude 66 deg. 45 min. 40 sec. N., and l' lr ' gitude 42 deg. 29 min. E. I t w ill s h ow a f i xe d li g ht" t , feet above the sea, visibl e a t t h e di stance o f e i g h tee n Ol ir i 1. from N. N. W. three quarter s W. ( westwar d) to •S:CT:It':I4. ORLOVSK LIGHT. ,fie A Lighthouse has been established at Cape ()14 iv , .; the coast of L a pl an d. i n l at . 6 7 d eg. • 11 min. 30 S..te• p l'; and long 41 deg. 22 min. 15 sec . E . I t w i ll show a i i hre - : light, 232 feet a b o v e th e sea , v i s ibl e f rom N. by Wl7O quarters W. (round by E.) t o S ou l t at t h e di stan ce °' miles. The above lighthous es w ill b e li g h te d on the Vt.'), of this month. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.-Dochfour, Bristol to Q ue ; bec, Bth instant, lat. 49, lon. 11, by the Maris . /3 ,:.k' arrived at Cork. Ed war d Thorne, Clyde to. Nevi i'' t , 19th ult., lat. 42, l on . 37 ; Walmsley, Sierra Le °r . le wst London, 24th, l a t. 43, l on . 28, an d supp li ed with proos-4, and water, by the Roscoe, arrived at Maryport. Ge a ci l l . Algiers to Chepstow, B t h i ns t ant , l at. 48, l on. 10, by, IF, Seabird, arrived off Falmouth. John Knox, 23d u tii , lat. 38, lon. 12, by th e C aro li ne, arr i ved at Falnito, Selby, Demerar a t o Newfoundland; Bth ult., lat. 2 5, ' 4 5, 59 ; Elizabeth, Sier ra Leone to L on d on, 23d, lat. 40; I ° n " r e by the Codrington, arrived off Dover. William, di)°, mouth, sth inst., off Li s b on ; P ar i s b ro, Belfast, DI. rara, lat. 45, lon. 13, by t h e El eanor, arrived. 11 , t 1, meriek ; Emerald, b oun d to Q ue b e c , 24th inst., 01 do Paul's ; Ceres, of Sunderland, 31st, lat. 49, lon. 18, b.l e , Eliza, arrived in th e Clyd e ; Rd . R eynolds, from iitcc' fort, Ist ult., off the Birdslsland ; Reaper, Poole to Qe e _,"• o ff 30th ult., lat. 46, lon. 43, b y t h e S pray, arrive" 40 Dover. Zealous, of D ar t mout h , f or Newfoundland, l'„.; ult., lat. 46, lon. 51 ; C aro li ne, L ondon to Quebec,: 2;,, ult., lat. 46, lon. 46, by the Jane Avery, arrived off A. 1(1 ' 4 9, Jane Lowden, Liverpool, to Mi ram i c hi, s t h i nst ., 1&t ,0, lon. 13, by the North Bents, arrived at Cow e s. .A. 11)1 4 Cork to quebec, out 40 d a y s , o ff C ape R ay ; -20,,r,,,- Liverpool to Newfou n dl an d, lat. 46, lon. 42, by the t' t2 mopolite, arrived at Plymouth. Archimedes, Lond° ll ei l Newfoundland, lat. 47, l on . 32, b y the Grange, srr'lo in the River. Stamper, Dublin to Quebec, 19th .ult., '4G, lon. 46 ; Nerio, bound to Newfoundland, 22d ," 0 , lat. 46, lon. 42, by the Moseley, arrived in the P g ,, t ii Her Majesty's ship Agincourt, Rio Janeiro to China, 13a, July, lat. 31 S. lon. 32 W. ; Prince Albert, from ) ,`,., a r l, ritius, 31st ult., lat. 43, lon. 28 ; , Bolina of , Bideni ll , bound to Quebec, Bth inst., lat. 50, lon. 8, by the A' Patterson, arrived in the River. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. mil Arrivals.-Wallace, Main, from Bombay, off Liverpr7o sailed May 21, St. Helena, Aug. 1 ; Mary, Bios, the South Seas, in the Downs, sailed from Tir o Mauritius, June 4 ; W. an d M. Brown, Banton, I Ve Bengal, in the Downs, sailed April 10 ; Cambril: Brown, from Bombay, in the Downs, sailed April 2 0 1, Perseverance. Corkhill, from Singapore, off Liverr sailed March 27, Anjer, April 20. St. Helena, July 9 ' 1 6, Arrivals at Rio Janeiro.-Minerva; Sampson, JolY, ~; from New Zealand ; Cadmus, Smith, 18, from wh_,. 211 . 1 , 0 11, Caleb Angus, Pool, 21, from Port Adelaide ; L' n ,. o - is Allen, 22, from the Cape ; Trial, Day, 29, `,. 011 ) Plymouth to Sydney ; General Kyd, Onslow, 30, i f do, London to Madras; Delaware, 31, from Sandwich 1 518/) t he Departures from Rio.-Eliza, Scott, July 24, to Cape ; Ocean, Ward, Aug. 1, to Sydney. f• A ' Arrival at Nelson, New Z ea l an d.-M art h a, Riagir from Liverpool and Wellington. 1114 Arrivals at Valparaiso.-A r k wr i g h t , D am b r ill,, ; 17, from Sydney ; Cheerf u l, P a t r i c k, 2 3 , f rom SYdr ie ' l rl 0 Lady Amherst, Bushel, 28th, from whaling Durham, Cabel, 29th, irons San Antonio. O, Departure from Valp ara i so .-J ess i e, Bruce, ,10.-11.7 to Arica. jai' Departures f rom T a bl e B ay .-A m i ty, Warner, 7, to Algoa Bay ; H enry Hoyle Griffiths, 7th, to Al ''• Bay ; Olinda, C r i c kmay, to Sydney. • fre° Arrival at Lisb on .-Will- o '- the-Wisp, Hig liatt Liverpool, and sailed, Sept. 3, to China. • ~ , RKETS. iItKET. last market.day, 125. a °id Walls End Morrison .....M•• i il is a Waits End Pemberton ....• it) Walls End Stewart's ....... .. w 0 Walls End Cassop ...... ....." 5,4 6 Walls End Caradoe . ._,...••••••• 19 Walls End Heugh Hall.•••• iil 0 IWalls End Kelloe . ...... s••••• )9 6 Walls End Adelaide .. ••••1; 0 9 Walls End Brown's Deanmi l$ 6 I 1).„," Walls Find Coundon igr t 5 6 Walls End l South „." .. 1 5 i Walls End Tees H e- ' . 1 ,, 0 Wal, a El, d 1 ec, ,' .......... 19. 0 \Nana En d west rie tton .... i f Walls End wt.t Tees ......... ~ 6 Cl:ickmannan ................... ''. . .. THE M. COAL M Ships arrived since d. Buddle's West Hartley l5 0 Car's Hartley :l5 6 Hastings Hartley ...... 15 0 Holywill Main l7 6 Nelson's West Hartley l5 0 New Tanfield Moor l3 6 Old Tan field l3 6 1 Ord's Itedheugh l3 6j Townley... West IA ylam l5 61 Walls End Killingwotth is 0 1 Wails End N. hu 17 er Walls End Belmont WE. Braddyll's Hinton Walls End East Hetton 18 3 WallslEnd Hetton 2,1 0 Walls End Lambton l9 9 . .KETS. ...;f v i , 4, i _ the Week ending 99 1,4gic , , From To 0 0, 1 4,544 Wheat,perbarreNi stone.... 19 0 30 6 j o Iv , 153 Bere .._. l6 stone 9ll 15 0 g 1 1,,r 1 254 Barley 5,339 Oats l4 ston• 8 9 I 14 0 Flour, per cwt tistoile...... 0 0 i o 1 616 Oatmeal 8 stone 8 6 13 6 ' 4 ' Sold to Bakers only. 1 9 9,146 Cwt. Flour. ..... ... .. ... ......" 6 0 21 0 if Average price of Wheat and Flour 46 8d per sack ~ pi - Receipts of Flour, 9,861 1 to ~1 10 s F e i e r3 6 t u s . t. 5........... from 1 i4. 73.. Od od. to 2A 0 Sales of Do. 12,033 Third ' s :,..—.. jom ni 85. Od. to 1 "" , P/tteX Or BREAD. Quartern Loat .........04.1 Half Quattern .....454 0 . CORK M ALIKETS.-Bept. 10. , AL od' ' :} s— A Wheat ( per 20s»)183 oil.to2si.Od.ltlats (per 14st. „ 6 5 .9 i, ( O 1 19 v , Barley (per 16st.) 9 8 12 0 fkloer (per cwt ...6 0 ' Oatmeal (pe d.— r cwt.)............ B>. Od to 113. 0.1 ~, . Beef, Gd. to 6 ; Mutton, sd. tn 6d.—Ve a l, 4id to 2 ' j Pork, 4d. to sd.—Fresh Rutter , lid, to ....d per lb. . Pima OF BUTTER. COOn To the Merchants. T o the /o . tlf ..,, ••••••••••••• ..... ••••• First Quality... A Sacend 75 .....•••••••••••••••••••• ....... ~ 6 third " 5 7 6 ...fa••••••.••••.• ../m• • 9 Fourth 58 ' 4 -••••••••••••••••be•.i....... 41 I, ! Fifth ....... 50 ••••••••••••••••.• ..... •••••• „ii Sixth .... 40 ....,„ ...... ...... o" 0,0 N MELL MA RKETS.,...Fept. 10 Per Cwt. I. 4 s. d. I I . d . , 94 e IRISH MAR °ORLIN MARKET NOTE for i. d. 4ew Butter 93 oto 99 6 Hides (raw)..........; Per ~.4 ) " ill 4 Oatmeal 0 14 6 8ac0nfig5..",,,,„....44 v ..., ° '. Rendered Lard —052 0 Heads .................28 l 0 1 0 0 26 Fleur, Second O4O . 1 IFlo ßat uraturda.........-. ... , —Household...— 0 38 0I -- Fourths...lS 0 , ... . Per Barrel. lw * ' aapeseod...... ........ 20 0 0 I Barley .............16 0 Bere l3 0 i (~ve la ••••••••••••••.1111..... ...' KILKENNY MARKETS. , (1d Wheat .per barrel)2Bs. Od.te 335. NI. Beef 'per 1h....... 0.. Od• tC r 8 • Harley 12 0 19 U Muttcrt ........... 0 5 0 1 tats 14 0 15 ll Pork . ...... .. if 0 I ' Flour (rer bag) 25 0 ls 9 0 Veal •,,..,...,...,,,._ 0 6 1 0 Butter(percwt.) 0 0 98 0 erest Bunter .... 0 0 01 0 Bacon Pigs 45 0 46 0 Salt Ditto 6 ........., 0 6 Coals 1 0 1 2 P o t a t oes ‘ per it./ 0 9 u CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at '24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. Barl e y. i (........... 11. d. to a. d. s. d. t. + a. d. 1:. d. L. ? ~, j r Truro — 0 610 0 3 8 0 • Lielitene St. Austell ...... , — 0 71 ) 0 3 8 0 -, 1(% , / Bodnun 0 7 4 0 44 0 .„, ~0 Liskeard 0 76 0 3 6 -- 0 ....0. 1 ,d1 Launceston - 0 '3B 0 , r,,(0 4 / Camelford 6 6 7 4 3 u 3 4 2 6 ...„.4 .1, Penzance - 0 - ' ''i!! t A__ ...___ . ci"' , MRS. ITOFLAND'S NEW HISTORICAL ROM.. " 1444 , " THE CZARINA."—We are requested to state . i t . ll : ',; . ,,y 4 " The Czarina," a historical romance of' the Court :" Russia, by Mrs. Hofland, in 3 vols. post 8vo.; is Pd.. • ici lished this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborelf" . l street, and may now be had at all the libraries. - ut iy Colburn has also just published the following Relfi: - ,4 works of fiction :-1. " Percival Keene," by car7gf,i4.l Marryat, author of " Pet er Si m pl e ," 3c.. 3 vole. 7 ' " Masaniello, an Historical Romance," edited . by 1 10 ,, b Smith, Esq., 3 vols. 3. " The Mance uvr i ng Mother, •• 4 the Authoress of “ The History of a Flirt. 3 vols. 4% ' - r 4, :1 4. " The School for Wives," by the Authoress-,,,i4;_ • . ;' *Jf " Temptation," 3 vols. The Dowager Lady Holland has returned to W WI? ' '::i.: from Brocket Hall, Hants. , o di ---.' BIRTH-----_—_ , _ ~ , S. ~.. ,; , ialr • On the 11th inst., the lady o f M a j or R. H. Futh eringP" L• - I i Kingsbridge House, near Southampton, of a son. ' i f On the 12th inst., Mrs. W. Smyth Forsaith, of a son. 0 .; On the 13th inst., at Champi on - grove, Camberwell, 01 ' '•," of Peter Le Meve oster, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a'sottets. On the 14th inst., Mrs. Charles H. Olney, Henriette. 4 ._., Covent-garden, o f a son. . On the 14th inst., Mrs. Edward Ray, of Dulwich. al ° il. i' ' On the 29th u lt., at W esthorpe, Southwell, the ;ady go, —j tain Kenny, of her Majesty's 73d Regiment, of a2f........„.. ,- MARRIED. On the 10th u lt., at S t. Pancras Edmond G eo rge ..A' i gi Esq., to I sa b e ll a, second daughter of la so the late W. Wallace , e a r ... •", On the 13th i nst., at St. Mary's, Itykesten-square! t r ab' rick D eacon , E sq., of Bridgewater, to n%,therine, third "" h ; s ot ter of th e R ev . W . H . Charlton, M.A., Vicar of Felrnieg" anzl Curate of St. Mary's. per d On the 13th i nst ., t h e H on. and "Rev. Charle s Georg°, a , ' : r , ceval, to F rances A gnes, second daughter of the late K am' ' ''',,, Trevelyan, Archdeacon of Tannv., n , IV ''' On the 13th i nst ., at the V .They Church, Tewkesbue% , o s, , Trew, Esq., o f Woburn-place, ftussell.square, to Rose Su w " . ; eldest daughter of Thor:as Vernon, Esq., of Tewkasber j .' ‘ s ~: DIED. On the Bth Inst., in Blandford-square, Mary widow of the ',ate Colonel Clarke. C. of the Bengal L 'i c On the loth i nst., at Greenwich, Ai r. John Calton, le the Old Cheshire Cheese, Wine-office -court, Fleet-stree t ; On the 11 tit inst., Sarah A n n, th e on l y/ d aug h te r 0' Edward Gowers, of Chadwell, near Grays, Essex. . On the 12th inst., at Gately Hall. Norfolk, Rosahno ~r Rose, only child of William Henry Rose, ' Esq., of Madrast lit o On the 12th inst., at Clifton, tAarlotte, youngest daug t l of William Hussey, Esq. vr istollf On the 12th inst., at Langto . a-place, Vassal-road, •-• Mr. E. B. E. Gainsford, solicitor, late of Cheapside. ,„ On the 13th inst., at K ens i ngton, Maria, widow of Li.'" Michael Francis Finucane, Esq., and only surviving P le ;I the late Mrs. Elizabeth Gordon. W~ r dfy , On the 13th inst., Mary Ann, the wife of John Holborn-hill. - London : Printed and T. - iublished by AIORDO ,° No. 112, Strand, at Th e Sun Office, No. 112, " tr ;i34g. the County of illidiV.esex, Th urs d a y, S ep t em b e r 15t • DI 'AN TEe DII the LOA% to be secu three, five, Interest r annum. The Ten is preferred Alanches OYA -ILL PA.? A .10 UST 2( The CO STEAM-F FIRST GI will be hel, &Clock prei n - :eive a R, None but -t In the C mpany's fo NOM TM CAPE of ( TI Us, (-3EI . . The PED GATION Start from Si E; ;ht, A.M. fm • recomm tiz,e to have ?or freigh may; or at am ?ton ; ant TO 1 LOUP, RUE M e HOT of this agree l'os , 7— office, ti art . 3teellent A great va roc nt and Sit , 1 erpo ns w i, mac every con filer thari am ,unt char-, °.'' No Co trr-.llers will d ittns of C ol ticuLtrly guar( 1 . S HE L WOR PA t' EN M out ents, Tab anal Work, ss and durability obtrined elsiew Tlie Public 110' 1M S, col T to Trade Bloc Seal Esher-str Ploase to be positkn. the ( Estahlishment ILVER• T. cox Corn-hill, Lot auk it;the pric Coriiez. Dishes, for engraving t Fin Strongly r o% Extra S vers Fo ut E xtra St Cc Ve r a N• a The eo ffitey form extra any lart of Gre understo INC. to obtain Pay turavagant obtained from • Estal lishment, YAAL Pri World at the ui et erY respect, a entatat'it; from th'ose who who tllke tmlim Pztet:sive establi! 144 41. f a ct uring to /L a4 kl. lie is ena o f the markets, si ° 0 4.. -f immense ea3 h:eonsiderabl one System in sel ever cirered to t 1 him p ith their c, bene6 of his cap Roods always on Tate s yle and fas Propr .etor partic of Ira stcoats, the en ha.id, ready n best possible m that he is the lar being man ufsetui L List e first , Extra Imperial d. fact ured Superfine Frock silk fa Extra Imperial ma nufactured Thenew -Water-p a real l uxury pervi ous to rail dust, o f a sh: 'Un ique. made - N% With silk, f or... :s fin i fir,es Handsome Toline from ............ Fi rmed Satin in 1-1411 and Figured ai itYle, 4.544 Cassimere .. . Fashionable Wool] Bspies!rian Doeski principle of e zactnied to spte,t 411ack Cassirner au p r fine ClothC „,„ T unic, Vest, an , J a outh's D resses, a ae t, V es t, an As ene Shooti ng are pa rti cu l arly r 8b pa og Coats, Inaaut .ctured in t laateriAls, and at t le pock ets, fro Pt constantly or possible Inanmer. ?ter' dekcriptio A pa mphlet, col apy lication. ,_lartt rich Establisl Mane, ter, Xristoi, 42, Wine- Obs PANTECIINETI To s:IIPPERS, Co liVlhTpiesofC h_vg Patrona7.,,e •Juchess of Kent: No%) to by tl seders incident to SIGHT REST AN By the mast aim k id Its vinde o f a p p „ "' L4:l c ures hav e b e( se, yet certain b 4dOce the suff er %% it Livetmed it. its elol hoo use. t Oc Their late ists, lilt, late, the Pre" Ilerbietous Compo pfaea" in ret --‘q. G. J. Gutl Pevae io Letter, Whi' ttal bless la se a te Abernethim ] Ituttallt 'ltye Snuff, N L b ' Vade ticnonies, of t respeetabili ext raordin try Foreign Snul Ift t • Oiliest feel great ease, and the u CI 3 mar truly val Y e ll*, and nati 11:neatae.rietafinor.):t:e SuNaVnyall:b.bitt:,htetrofof belie Ishoul haN tthe ich,d reeomm d enC rel4 ed a 'l3. 4d. ~,."4k.enist, who knob zees my extrao rc 2 ea li to g of our life— r otti the use of your Plu may ma k e 'oe kson and ma n y o f titterers to this gel ktiowu Nottingha ar ~Zitt Aug. 1841. she wajkaliwyzt in Lfreed frolii humour, itly I am enabl e sfr sos, and confine kft. h ~d Your Eye Snui Not Cingh aro .._Observe. the, Cat arid the only . ,rhis p4oriferoug., at Bd., l s . yb Vie. prop r i e Vl ee• bury; and can A, liberal all 1% Ve;.l(lbig of o"inis 1 4 thidpe4 -to gel 11,.141t's ici . ever el s::ortest notic y e. .