The Sun. — London, England, 1831-10-25 00:00:00

THE FETCHAM MURDERS. The horror that was created in the neighbour hood of Leatherhead, in October, 1826, in conse quence of the barbarous murders of an old cottager named John Akehurst, and of his housekeeper, Elizabeth Haines, has within the last few days in a great degree revived under circumstances which it is hoped will lead to the development of that most mysterious and inhuman piece of butchery. It was announced in a Brighton Paper a few days ago, that the party had been discovered who had committed the murders. Upon making inquiries upon the spot we find that no person is at present in custody charged with the murders ; but the strongest sus picion exists agaiast certain parties who were taken into custody on suspicion of committing the murders soon after their perpetration. The murders were committed on the night of the 12th of October, 1826, and were discovered by a young man, the son of one Bennett, who lived in a cottage about 150 yards from Akehurst's, about half-past six o'clock next morning. It was supposed that old Mr. Akehurst had a considerable sum of money in his possession at the time, he having stated several years before to the Bennetts that he had 100 guineas in the house, and that he had made his will, leav ing his property to his grand-daughter Mary Ayres. At the time of the murder a man named Musk, a nephew of Bennett's, lived in Bennett's cottage, and though the murder was not discovered till half past six o'clock in the morning at Fetcham, this in dividual, Musk (who with Bennett had risen early that morning and gone out from home), actually gave information of the murder having been com mitted, at a village called Westbookham, several miles from Fetcham, before the hour of six o'clock. Shortly after the murders were committed, Gross rnith, an officer of Union•ball, who always suspected Bennett and his nephew Musk had committed the deed, took Bennett into custody, and used every means in his power to apprehend Musk, but to this hour the police have not been able to trace where Musk has secluded himself. Bennett was dis charged, after being detained a short time, for want of evidence. Shortly before the 12th of October last, Bennett and his wife were taken ill of fever, and whilst labouring under strong nervous in itation and delirium, it was reported that one of them had used some expressions which re vived in the minds of the neighbours those suspicions which they had entertained against the family of Bennett immediately after the murder.— Dr. Baker, of Leatherhead, attended the Bennetts, and found that they were labouring under great mental as well as bodily disease. The Rev. Mr. Bolland (the brother of Mr. Baron Bolland), the Rector of Fetcham, visited the Bennetts, and being a Magistrate he interrogated the parties. As the matter has been taken up by other Magistrates, and as the Union-hall officers are exerting themselves to obtain further evidence, it would be improper to say trit,re at present, especially as there is so strong a feeling existing to the prejudice of the suspected parties in the minds of the inhabitants of Leather head, Feltham, and the vicinity. It will be recollected that Mary Ayres, the grand daughter of old Akehurst (who had cohabited with a man called " Cobbler \Vili"), was in custody in Horemonger-lane gaol for some time on suspicion of being a participator in the murders, but there was no evidence of her guilt, and the unfortunate woman having been incarcerated in a damp dungeon, she caught a severe cold, which put a period to her existence soon after her liberation from prison, THE REV. E. IRVING AND THE UNKNOWN TONGUE. In consequence of the strange scene which took place at the Scotch Church, in Regent-square, on Sunday se'nnight, an unusually numerous congrega tion assembled there on Sunday morning last, in the expectation, no doubt, that similar proceed ings would again take place. In this, however, the auditors were disappointed, as no tongue more re markable than that of the Rev. Mr. Irving himself was heard. Twice, indeed, during the Rev. Gen tleman's prayer, the congregation were startled by a voice which was understood to proceed from the female endowed with the gift of tongues, but the noise was unaccompanied by any attempt to articu late words or syllables, and appeared to be nothing more than a kind of suppressed hysterical cry, Pre vious to the usual service of the morning, Mr. Irving remarked that he had something to say on vthat had occurred in that Church on a former oc cason ; and as this may be considered to be a kind of confession of faith on the subject of the tongues, the Mowing brief sketch may not be uninterest ing commenced by observing, that manifesta tions otthe Spirit in the gifts of prophecy arid of tongueshad been the subject of historical record during tie first three centuries, but from that pe riod, upto the present time, they had ceased to be the subjct of historical record. It had, how ever, bee the opinion of himself and of others, that tiles. manifestations might be renewed, and accordingl3they had prayed the Lord to restore them, and it had &last pleased him to do so. He had raised up among to brethren persons who do so speak the tongues amprophesies—men of God—holy persons —whom IF(Mr. Irving) knew to be faithful in the Mai here, alluding to pei sons who on last Lord's day broke,silence, he warned his congrega tion, in order that, if such a thing occurred again, they might know it was no brawling in the Church, but the voice of the Spirit speaking in the tongues. Th e communication of the Spirit on that occasion, when interpreted, was, " Why will ye flee from the voice of the Lord ? The Lord is with you ; if you flee now, where will ye flee on the day of judgment ?" " I say," proceeded Mr. Irving, " it is not - man that did this ; it is the Great Head of the Church that has thrust it upon us, and he now waits to see whether we will receive it. Give me liberty to ex pound the word of the Lord; give not ear to the opinion of the world ; and we shall indeed receive the gifts of the holy Spirit. The tokens we have already received (and to which I myself have been a reverent listener for the last six months) afford ample evidence of what we may expect." He had already preached the approach of the Millenium ; the day of judgment and the Lord's coming were at hand ; and those persons who spoke not from their own minds, but from the inspiration of the Lord, were sent forth to announce the event to mankind, and to bid them prepare. " I hope,". said Mr. Irving, " that God will raise up many of them : nay, lam sure he will." The Rev. Gentle man concluded by observing, that he had not broken al) , canon of the Church ; that he had merely stood up in his place as a Minister to _advocate the truth: and that lie was quite ready to deal with the diili cultie• of any individual, in public or in private. After these preliminary observations, Mr. Irving proceeded with his sermon, taking his text from Joel, c. " And it shall come to pass after wards, that r will pour out my Spirit oti all flesh, and your sons and daughters shall prophesy ; your old men shall dream dreams ; your young men shall see visions." This prophesy, lie said, lied not been fulfilled in our times, because we had not sought it; and we had not sought it, because we had been taught that it was a kind of blasphemy to seek it. He then went on to illustrate the various points of his doctrine ; but the explanation which we have already given precludes the necessity of following him through the whole of his sermon. In t h e course of the morning, Mr. Irving stated that no person with whose spiritual qualifications he was not well acquaint e d, w ould be allowed to display the gift of tongues before the congregation,.—Aforn - Pape,T. NEW BANKRUPTCY JUDGES.—It has been stated, on some authority, that Mr. Baron BAYLEY would be the new Chief Judge in Bankruptcy. We know this to be incorrect. It was neither offered to him, nor would he have accepted it. It has, we believe, been offered to Mr. PoLLocir, but declined. The following gentlemen w ill certainly be included in the new arrangements :—Mr. Serjeant PELL, Mr. C. F. WILLIAM S, Mr. T. ERSKINE, FONSLAINUE,Iind Mr. FA!4,--"Lepal Observer. STATE Or Wr'illlN. (EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER.) MADRID, Ot'T. 14. The news of the unfortunate surrender of Warsaw to the troops of the Northern Autocrat, and the horrible massacres at Lisbon on the 10th and 24th ult., of the un happy victims of Miguel's blood-thirsty revenge, and the daily expectation of others, has created a feeling of horror and excitement in the breast of every lover of liberty which cannot he described, to think that such a monster exists. We were in the greatest consternation—the ex ultation of the Apostolics was beyond measure ; one would have imagined, from the outward delight they evinced, that they had gained a glorious victory. It was the general conversation on the Prado and in the cafés ; the police were on the alert, and several arrests have taken place, both here and in other parts. Madrid presents the most dreary appearance ; Ministers seem frightened out of their lives since the peremptory declaration of the French Ambassador, that should Don Pedro make an attempt to restore the usurped Crown of Portugal to the legitimate young Queen, Donna Maria, and Spain pretend to inter fere in any way by supporting the despot, that moment is war declared by France against us. The Austrian Am bassador, however, endeavours, if he can, to make 'Mi nisters believe that France and England are so allied to their non-intervention system, and so desirous to maintain peace at any price, that should Ferdinand interpose on be h elf of his beloved nephew, they would look upon it in the same callous manner as they did the sacrificing of the brave and heroic Poles to the tyranny of Russia, and that by so doing he would gain the favour of the Holy Alliance. The merciless tiger, no doubt, does in his heart wish to become one of their holy fraternity, but he is afaid the Austrian missionary is playing the part of Ju das—to tempt, and then deceive. The present state of the finances is most deplorable, the royal coffers are nearly empty—distress reigns throughout the coun try, and the Minister tries every stratagem to keep rap his credit, and provide for the extravagances of his Royal Master. As to honour any foreign loans, he considers a national debt of that description a mere farce, and will pay it when the Virgin Mary may think proper to render us wore prosperous. Such are the expressions adopted in that part of the Budget for this year. What is certain is that Ferdinand begins to feel that he is not so firm upon the throne as his flattering courtiers wish to make him believe, and the continual solicitations of his nephew fr o m Lisbon to assist him by force of arms, in case of an attack, creates the greatest anxiety to him, as the proud and ambitious Princess de Beira does all in her power to induce him to support the usurper ; but he knows too well that our army is in that wretched and deplorable state, and ia arrears of pay, that he could not rely upon it. How ever, a force of fifteen to twenty thousand men is being concentrated on the frontiers,as on cuerpo de observacion, it being the interest of one tyrant to support that of another, and no doubt he will to his utmost. Should an expedi tion, well equipped, and having good officers, make a de • ,cent on the coast of Portugal, and march on to Lisbon and proclaim the young Queen and the Constitution, the tyrant worrld be overthrown, and be obliged to seek re fuge here in the Escurial, or some other Palace, where he might assist his ingenious uncle in making embroidered petticoats for the Virgin Mary. Now is the time for Don Pedro to strike or never, and restore his daughter's rights, as the feeling against him in Portugal is at its highest crisis, and none but the Priests and a set of mer cenary wretches in a his pay (principally liberated felons and the dregs of the people) are his supporters, notwithstand ing the fine reports of his trumpeter the Gaceta de Lisboa, as all the respectable part of society execrate the monster ; but a still tongue is often a wise head, for his locusts infest the whole of Lisbon ; the least word uttered s treason, anti away to a dungeon where thousands are now lingering ; but this dreadful reign of terror cannot last long—el tiempe rendra—when liberty must triumph. Orders have been issued by our Government, to the dif ferent Captain-Generals, immediately to increase the army by 20 to 30,000 men, and proceed towards the frontiers, 'is Ferdinand dreads, that should an expedition succeed in Portugal, a reaction will take place in Spain in favour of a liberal Constitution, and free institutions. He well knows that the brave and patriotic Mina is watching the favourable opportunity to restore to Spain those liberties that be so valiantly fought for during the Peninsula war, which placed him on his throne, and which he so basely recompensed by executing the heroic Riego, and driving into exile a man who was the main cause of establishing bins on a throne that he has blackened and degraded, and which he has proved himself totally unworthy of; but his vile promises gave trome hope that a monarch could not be so base as to break such holy engagements. The result, however, was the inquisition, executions, and banishment, as soon as he was restored, until the revolu tion drove the tyrant to concede to the formation of a Cortes. The revolution of 1822 must have proved to the despot what the men were whom he had so persecuted, and had it not been fir the generous Mina, his head would have been of long before he left Madrid or Seville for Cadiz, when it was discovered what a treacherous monstar he was, and the intrigues he was carrying on with the fallen Bourbon dynasty of France, and the entry of the French troops under the command of the Duke of Angou leme into Spain, in 1823, to support his despotic deeds. How did the Conetitutionalists act towards him after all this; did they imprison bins ? did they make him undergo any aofferings ? No, they treated him as a sovereign, when he teas io their power at Cadiz, allowed to fly his kite at the top of the Custom-house, and make as many petticoats for the Virgin Nary as her ladyship might wish to put on in the course of a year; but what was the reward they met with ? He took as oath to grant a Constitution and a free pardon to all those who might have taken a part in the revolution, if they would allow him to leave Cadiz They believed him, but as soon as he arrived on the op posite aide of the Bay, at Puerto Santa Maria, he entered into a treaty with the Duke of Angouleme, (the hero of the Trocadero) rion-fulfilling all he solemnly promised, Cadiz was given up to the French, and executions, im prisontnents, and exile weleemed his return to Madrid. Such is the tyrant we have now upeo the throne, and who is daily having victims immolated to his revenge. Let not those party jealousies exist amongst true pats;cts,—be united in the same noble cause, and let no mercenary am bition frustrate their valiant endeavours. What was it that caused the unsuccessful attempt of the brave Mina in 1830, to restore freedom to Spain c shortly after the glorious revolution in France, which made Feadinand to tremble ? It was the jealousy of Valdez and others, who wished to become supreme chiefs themselves, for which they were ill-qualified, that created a disunion among the troops and a party feeling, the result was a defeat, whieh the French authorities took advantage of as soon as they re-passed the frontiers, by disarming them and dispersing them in the different departments, instead of which had they sacrificed a little amour-propre, success would have crowned their noble endeavours with such a leader at their head. Mina is a man ;Ow will ever reward deserving merit,be it in the soldier, or in the officer, but a chief there must be,—then Spaniards and patriots the time is near approach ing when your arms will again be called for, in the defence of your tyrannised country, be united and firm, confide in a tried and brave soldier who has the interest of his coun try at hear, and your patriotic erections will be crowned with success, for liberty must ultimately triumph over des potism, from the arctic to the antarctic point of the globe, then nil desperundunz. T. S. P. S.—A pretended amnesty has been decreed ; let my brave fellow-countryinett beware of the treacherous snare that i. laid for them, it is only a deiu‘ion, for Ferdinand never will pardon—every thing that is lifieral creates horror to him. He exee.“tes in his heart the present Government of France, and is privaiely encouraging the foolish attempta of the fallen dynasty, by allowing the partizans of the Ex- King Charles X. to form themselves ozi this side our fron ties, and the priests hare declared that in cas2 invasion Portugal or of France should take place, they will fn.rn;-.;' funds. • Wleic.—A general meeting of the Free holders, Heritors, Justices of the Peace, and Commis sioners of Supply of the county of Caithness, was held at Wick, on Tuesday last, at which an address to the KING was unaniu;ously adopted, imploring his 1/A,rasxv to exert the Royal prerogative, so as quickly to restore unanimity among the three branches of the Legislature, and enable his Mini,ters to establish the whole unadulterated Reform Bill as the settled law of the land. A meeting of the Magistrates, Councillors, burgesses, feuars, and other in habitants of the Royal burgh of Wick and the suburbs, was held at Wick, on Monday, for a similar purpose, when an address to the same effect was resolved upon, and for warded by the Chairman, the chief residing Magistrate, to Earl GOWER, to be presented to his MAJESTY.—Scots. man. MEANING OF THE WORD BOROUGH a oNQER.—The following dialogue took place between Captain Youxe and a stone-mason at Itly, who is a free holder :—Captain Y.—May I hope to have the honour of your vote ? Freeholder.—No, Sir ; you are not one of my stamp. What do you mean? what objections have you to me ?—You are a boroughmonger. Ido not be lieve you know what a boroughmonger means, nor a fish monger either.— Yes, I do ; a fishmonger is a man who sells fish, and a borougkorionger is a man who would sell his country if PRACTICES QF THE PETTY STATES OF GERMANY TO PREVENT, THE PROGRESS OF REFORM. (BY AN EYE-WITNESS.) No sooner was the Revolution of July accomplished, tha❑ the inhabitants of the small city of Mannheim, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, began to evince their sympathy by rising in a body and breaking the windows of those persons known to have been the opposers of their liberties during the reign of the late Grand Duke Lewis. Among the rest who suffered by such proceedings was the Jew banker Ladenburg ; he had been known to have furnished largely to Lewis at an enormous interest, the payment of which sums was generally accomplished by ad ditional taxation on salt and other productions, sold by the Government to the subjects of Baden. Of course he was not spared, and the windows of his house the next morn ing presented the same appearance as those do in the Duke of Wellington's house, at Hyde Park-corner. The consternation of the police can hardly be described : declaration followed declaration, and the D rector of the town (M. Wundt) was every night, during a whole week, obliged to occupy the guard-house for the purpose of receiving and committing prisoners, and such was their number that i❑ a small town of 15,000 souls the prisons were so crowded that four and five persons were compelled to sleep in one bed. Notwithstanding these rigourous proceedings the cries of "es lebe der freihe it !" (Long live liberty I) still continued, and nothing but the presence of the Grand Duke Leopold, and the promises made in his name, could restore public order. The pri soners, that is thosebelonging to Mannheim, were liberated until judgment should be pronounced against them, and the only victims of this popular movement were a few pour mechanics, whose sole crime was that of having the misfortune of being employed in the town during the troubles. These for the most part were journeymen car penters, bricklayers, smiths, &c. ; retaining these poor men made the object of the police visible to every body, for by so doing they wished, and did in a manner make it appear that the disturbances were only caused by a few stran gers, no doubt urged to that purpose by some dis contented persons indebted to the Jews, and endeavour ing to cancel their obligations by destroying their cre ditors. Folks laughed and shrugged their shoulders at this statement, well knowing it not to be the case. In the meantime the poor innocent fellows, thus arrested and imprisoned, were treated with the greatest inhumanity. No one was allowed to visit them in their dungeons, not even a solicitor, and after a long and cruel incarceration of nearly four months, their judgment was declared to them, (fur they never appeared to defend themselves, nor had they a Counsel,) when two or three were sentenced to two months', and the others to one month's imprisonment. One of the employers of these ill-treated young men de clared to me, that two of them bad never left the house where they resided during the whole time of the disturb ances, but that he dared not declare it to the bailiff, be cause two of the police had sworn to their identity, as having observed them in the mob throwing stones at the windows in Ladenburg's (the Jew banker's) house : and that should he declare to the contrary, he should only get himself into prison for his pains, and perhaps be con demned, as a liar, to be bastinadoed. Yet, notwith standing these rigorous and despotic measure.; to stifle the cry for Reform and a Constitution, the Grand Duke wisely enough thought proper to grant greater liberty than before to the press, which in every country is considered with just reason to be the bulwark of the public rights and liberties, for to date from those riots the Carlsruher Zeitung as sumed a more important and interesting character. The editor, although devoted to the Court, was obliged to give insertion to articles, which, three months before, would have been considered downright treason. Carlsruhe, the capital, was not less agitated, and the Director of the Police, in order to quell the movement, commanded the soldiers to make a charge against the assembled populace. The dragoons, however, instead of obeying the order, put spurs to their horses, and charged home to their bar racks, leaving the Director to fight his way as well as he could. However, the good-natured inhabitants contented themselves with dragging him from his horse, rolling him in the dirt, divesting him of his sign of dignity (a cocked hat), and dismissing him d'entbli!e from his place to invest another with both th it and his office, which strange pro ceeding the Grand Duke thought proper to sanction by a Royal ordonnance. I cannot omit giving you an account of one of the examinations of a man arrested at Mann heim during the disturbances. I had it from his own mouth after his liberation. It will serve to show how necessary Reform is in a country where even the rights of men are trampled under foot : EXAMINATION. Bailiff—What is your name? Prisoner—Frank Halbert. Where do you come from ?—Rostock, in the Duchy of Nleeklenburgh-Schwerin. What are you by trade ?—A journeyman carpenter. How long have you been in Mannheim ?—Fiftee■ months. In whose employtneut are you ?—ln M. What do you earn weekly ?—Four florins. Where were you the first, second, and third evenings of the riots ?—ln my own house. That is false, you were foremost among those busy breaking the windows in Landenburg'e house, why did you do that ?—I declare before God I was in bed and asleep while that was going forward, as my master can certify. Take care what you say—l know to the contrary ; and if you persist in denying the truth, you will subject yourself to the bastinado to bring it out of you, therefore I caution you to confess all, it is the only way to abridge your captivity, for this obstinacy will do you no good; besides, we have witnesses who declare to have seen you there; you know yourself they were sworn before you ? Yes, Sir, but I do not know what they said, because during their deposition I was led from the room, but only let me be confronted with them and I will be bound to make them out liars.—That will not be allowed. But cannot I have permission to see my wife, because she will he able to bring forward witnesses to prove my innocence ?—No. My master then 2—No. But you will certainly let me write to them or see a solicitor 2—Neither. How, then, will it be possible for me to prove my inno cence if I am deprived of the means of doing it ?---ms's ist ihrer sache—that is your concern. The unfortunate man was reconducted to his dungeon, where he remained four months without seeing wife or friend, and obliged to put up with the unwholesome food distributed to the prisoners, no food from his own house being allowed to enter the prison. So much for the laws of a country where despotism reigns. A conference of the Ministers of the five Great Powers was held at the Foreign-office this after noon. The conference was not over when our Paper went to Press. Despatches were brought to the Foreign office from our Arnbislidor at Paris. . . Despatches were received at the Colonial office from the Lieutenant- Governor of Malta, Major-Ge neral Hon. Sir Faxn. PoNsoNov. Lord FITZROY SOMERSET held a Levee at the Horse Guards this forenoon, which was numerously attended by General Officers. Sir WALTER SCOTT arrived at Guildford on Sunday, and after taking breakfast at the White Hart ins, proceeded on his journey to Portsmouth. We presume, by the rapidity of his movements, that the ship in which Sir WALTER proceeds to the Mediterranean is about to sail.— County Chronicle. A New York Paper says—The Superinten dent of the Auburn State Prison states in his report, " I have under my care about 450 male prisopers and nine fe ait),;:, and I would cheerfully undertake the care of an ad ditional 450 ;;.'en to be rid of the nine women ! " What a savage! As it is deemed indispensably necessary, that there should be a general, and as great 41 cleansing of the metropolis as possible, as a precaution against rt visit of the cholera morbus, the parish officers and others should make a report of the state of the different parishes, and those places particularly where the typhus fever prevailed during the sumhaer, These low lodging-houses, where mendicants and vagrants, covered with filth, are huddled together in such numbers, that they are scarcely ,Ible to move, are the nurseries of disease, and are alone sufficient to breed a pes tilence. Attention should also be directed to all those quar ters where the Jews principally reside, as being filthy i n the extreme, for it is well known that in the ravages of the cholera on the Continent, it first settled in places inhabited by Jews, and others, who paid no attention to cleanliness. We regret to find that the diabolical crime of incendiarism has recently been perpetrated in this neigh boorbood. On Saturday night last, two cow-she:4s, the property of Mr. EDWARD BARNES, of Tirley, were wil fully set on fire anal completely destroyed. It was only by dint of great exertions that other properly adjoining was saved from the same fate. A reward of 50/. has been of fered for the apprehension and conviction of the wicked perpetrators, and we sincereiy h ope t h ey may meet w i t h that condign punishment which they so richly deserve.-- Glorte,etler Journal. WARSAW, OCT. 18.—His Majesty the Emperor and King has appointed General Rautenstrauch to he a Mein her of the Provisional Government of the kingdom of Poland. Generals Prince Gallitzin, Suchozanet, Techitecherin, Lewandowski, and Kryffzoff have arrived in this capital. Baron Morenheim has returned from Cracow. Of the Polish army Generals Zoltowsky, Kolaczkowski, and Muhlberg have arrived here. The Russian General* and officers of different ranks, who were in Wohlberg, Czintochan, and afterwards in Miechow have all returned to their regiments. It is said that the funds belonging to the bank of Po land, which were carried away from Warsaw on the 7th ult., will be brought back nearly entire. THE CHOLERA AT BERLIN. New Cases. Recoveries. Deaths. Oct. 15, 35 6 21 There remain 173. For some days past the disorder has been increasing, there having been 156 new cases in five days, so that though there have been 36 recoveries and 92 deaths at the same time, the number remaining is increased by 28. Total since the commencement 1,406 cases, 343 reco veries, and 890 de 'the. VIENNA, OCT. B.—ln consequence of the occupation of Cracow by the Russian troops, negociatiens are on fent which have led to a frequent exchange of couriers with Warsaw. Some mercantile houses say they have news that Field-Marshal Paskewitsch, besides the title of Prince, is to have for life the great estate of Pulawy, belonging to Prince Ceartoryski. This news certainly needs confirmation. Those who are acquainted with the generous moderation of the Emperor Nicholas, who promised entire pardon to the pri soners implicated in the Polish revolution, will not think it likely that the penalty of confiscation will be applied against Prince Czartoryski to the injury of his unfortunate heirs. Undoubtedly, Field-Marshal Paskewitsch may ex pect some recompence besides his elevation to the rank of Prince, which requires an expenditure to i allich his actual fortune is inadequate. But the Russian Crown has means enough to reward his great services without violating Po lish private property. The weather here is very fine and heathy, which gives us hopes that the cholera will disappear in a few weeks, as it seems to be already much milder. It is expected that the Emperor will leave Schonbrunn about the middle of this month, and return to the Palace in the city. The accounts from Greece are more favourable for Capo d'lstria: he is powerfully supported in the suppression of the insurrection by the three Admirals of the Allied Powers, and the leader of the revolt will probably be soon given up to justice, to be punished according to the laws. Great as were the services of Miaulis during the war of independence, he is now highly criminal, and has lost all claim to the gratitude of his country, by the scandalous destruction of the Greek fleet, being the greatest injury he could have done to the rising state. It is probable he will be wholly excluded from pardon, even should such ene mies of the President, as Mavrocordato and others, be treated with clemency, AUSTRIAN FUNDS. 0ct0ber....... 10th. Five per Cents... S 1 !L 82 81 Four per Cent... 74% 74 1 Bank Shares...... 1,040 1,037 FRANKFORT, OCT 17.—The cholera, ascending the Danube, has already reached Wels. MEDITERRANEAN. We have another very quick arrival from the Medi terranean to-day by the Hermes steam-packet, which left Malta on the 6th inst., and Gibraltar on the 15th. The news of the cholera having broken out in Alexan dria had occasioned great alarm at Malta, and the strictest precautions were immediately adopted by the Board of Health. No vessel coming from places where the disease existed, or having on board any person affected with it. are to be admitted in any port of the British possessions in that neighbourhood. The last news from Alexandria was of the 25th, being four days later than the date of the 'etters which brought the intelligence of the cholera hav ing reached that place. The disease was not at that pe riod making the rapid progress which had been antici pated. The Medical Gazette of the sth instant states, that by official advices from Tunis of the 17th of Sep tember, a vessel had arrived off Sfax in 24 days from Alexandria, having on board 90 passengers (late pilgrims to Mecca), of whom four died of the cholera during the voyage. Na communication was suffered Nbe held with this vessel, although 25 of the passengers were natives of Sfax, and she was ordered to Leghorn by the Bey of Tunis. Sir Robert Gordon, late British Ambassador at Con stantinople, arrived at Malta on 19th of September, in his Majesty's ship Actwon, and sailed again on the 23d in the same frig ite for England. The 85th Regiment is or dered home from Malta, in his Majesty's ships Kent and Madagascar. The papers received from Gibraltar by the Hermes mention the arrival there of the new Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Wm. Houstoun, and contain a copy of the compli mentary address presented to him on that occasion by the members of the Exchange Committee of Gibraltar. The Hermes touched at Cadiz on her way home, and has brought from thence letters of the 16th instant. Another Royal decree had been promulgated about the freedom of the port of Cadiz, respecting which the Go vernment has adopted several contradictory decisions since the time when that freedom had been first granted. It now appears by the decree above alluded to, that the free • dom of the port of Cadiz is to continue only for one year longer, and is to cease on the 18th of September, 1832. Gibraltar is therefore likely to regain the advantages it lost when Cadiz was first declared a free port. THE ABOMINABLE PRESS. A WORD OF REBUKE TO THE EDI TORS OFNEIVSPAPERS,INDEFENCE OF THE REV. EDWARD IRVING. (Extracted from the Pulpit, No. 466, now printing, from a Sermon by the Rev. N. Armstrong, preached at St. Ann's, Blackfriars, Friday evening, October 21, 1831.) " The saint's third earnest, now that he shall possess the rest that remaineth for the people of God, is power. Our inheritance shall be dominion over the cre ation; we shall rule angels; we shall tread under foot the lion, the adder, the serpent; and we shall rule the earth. In this way God's people shall have an earnest in power. They have power from the Holy Spirit over themselves, over men around them, over the spirits above them, and over the creation in which they live. And if we had faith now to exercise th it power, I believe that the gifts of the Spirit which have been claimed—and I believe in my soul truly claimed—by some insulted and outraged servants of God in the present day, that these gifts would not be spoken against in the manner they are. You would not have in a Christian land—in the metropolis of a Christian country, such a blasphemy as has gone out from the pub lic newspapers for the last two or three days. The public newspapers, and the editors of these newspapers—the men who preside at the well head of the devil's stream of pol lution—the men who preside at the head of the machinery which is ripening men for the judgments of God—the men who preside at the head of these newspapers, which are drawing away the minds of men from God, and instilling into the minds and the affection a hatred with respect to God—they would not have come forth with their blas phemy as they have come forth ; for they would have known that a feeling prevailed in a Christian land that would have beaten back, that would have repelled, as the rock repels the buffeting of the waters—would have re pelled these blasphemies, and bound them as a diadem of infamy, around the brow of those who dared to con trive and to send forth such blasphemies against the Spirit of the living God, and against the servants of the living God." It is sufficiently known to every one who has the leas. attention to the character of the struggle in Paris during the three " glorious" drys, that it was the manufacturing population—the inhabitants of the fau b labouring i,a(ip)(es sses is general,—..who compose I the ° e u e brave s classes u ho resi s t e d th e R oya l Gu a rds, t ,a . nd drove away the Bountross. Tney were, indeed, countenanced and su pported, stimu lated and [motel:W(l, by the great body of the people, with out whose aid or approbation they could have done no thing; but they were nearly the sole persons who ex posed their lives in a street warfare. The nation, through the medium of the Government and the Chambers, very early expressed its gratitude to the assertors of its rights by pecuniary succours to these who required them, and by honorary distinctions to those who wore above the necessity of receiving such aid. It is surprising to End how little taken from the purse of the nation could satisfy all the demands; of the revolutionary oufft•rers. The number of the wounded, to be provided for by the Go vernment, amounted to 492, and their pensions to 24 , 4 300 francs, or about 10,0001. The number of dead, who left widows, children, or relatives, to be supported by the p u blic, amounted to 522, and the demand on the Trea stay, thence accruing, to 354,000, or about 15 , 0 001. In. eluding other charges, which we need not enumerate, the whole burdens imposed on the country for the benefit of those who fought the battle of the revolution, and suffered in the cause, do not amount to 30,000/,..... Times, PRICKS OT THE STOCKS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. Sl!i t AiN 3per Cent. Cons. ... to24i 2 36% 3% per Cent 8 9% SN Ditto Red B9 IA 9 87i New 3%per Cent. 90 V 6 3 per Cent. Ann. 1726 .... - 4 per Cent. 1826 9s3l Bank Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 1860 - Oct. 10, 1859 - Jan. 5, 1860 - Jan. 5, 1880 - April 5, 1880 - Jan. 5, 1870 - eRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds 43 2% Eue los Ayres Bonds Chilian Bonds ... Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1824 11!<, Danish 63' Greek Bonds Ditto, 18'25 Guatimala Mexican Bonds 1825 DAY AT ONI O'CLOCK. Now 5 per Cent — India Stock Ditto Bonds 2 dig. South Sea Stock Old Annuities — Nem Ditto ............ ..•••..•• 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 Ex. Bills, Xl,OOO 8 9 7 pm. Ditto .... ........500 '3 0 pm Ditto Small 9 10 pm. Ditto Commercial pm. Ditto Advertised — pm. Bank for Opening India for Account — Cons. for Nov. 2I ...SI: !,',! 2 i T p i r i eeur i au s sp osvi D ia ni ai w t: r nßo w ol T dn d o s )r r O'CLOCK. Portuguese Bonds — Ditto, New — Russian ..................98}y 7i 8 Spanish, 16131 — , -- 18'23 — French Rentes, sp. c. —t —r. =Exchange —f. —c. 3 per cent, Exchange —f. —c. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O ' CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Bolanes Mining Co English Mining Company 123 221,i HAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 0 Hamburg 2 O Brazil 0 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Carthagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon I O Flanders 0 0 Malta.... 0 1 France 0 0 Sweden O Guernse, &Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ... 33 minutes after 5. I Even►ng... 2 minutea after 6. NEW CHARTERED COLONY IN AUSTRALIA. NEXT SPECTATOR (for the Week ending 29th October) will contain a minute ACCOUNT of the NEW COLONY, with Engraven Charts of the Situation, and reports from persons who have visited the spot; together with an explanation of the Views of the Company which is engaged in founding the Colony, under the auspices of his Majesty's Government. Orders received by all Booksellers and Newsmen in Town and Country. The SPECTATOR'S ANATOMY of the PEERAGE will be published on the sth November. rv i.• et,if;Ae. - LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1831. Reform meetings, as usual, are in active pro gress throughout the country. The great county of Stafford meets this day, those of Hants and Cornwall to-morrow. As for the city and borough meetings, they are so numerous that we actually have not space to insert a twentieth part of them. Nevertheless the Incurables still cry out that a reaction has taken place ; that the people are becoming daily more indifferent to Re form. The fools ! The country is more resolved on it than ever, and more unanimous —if that be possible—than in its detestation of the recent conduct of the Episcopal Bench.— Let but the Bill be rejected a second time ; let but the slightest doubt of its full and perfect triumph be apparent ; and those who now de claim so virulently against it, will be the very first to repent their rashness. The people have set their hearts upon it ; they have meditated on it by day ; they have dreamed of it by night ; it has been the one engrossing subject of contem plation amongst them for a twelvemonth past; and if they be now disappointed, we would not guarantee the public tranquillity from one day to another. But though the triumph of Reform is cer tain, it will not even yet be won without a struggle. The Boroughmongers are at their old work again, with as much activity as ever, and with energy rendered more desperate by opposition• A squad of moderate Reformers is in the field, headed by a certain Nobleman, who has just discovered that some concessions must be made to the people. Against the machinations of this fraternity the country cannot be too often put on its guard. They are hollow—subtle—Jesui tical,—and like false lights, are hung out only to allure. These bit-by-bit Reformers will grant every thing that is of no worth, and withhold all that is really valuable. They may, per haps, consent to enfranchise 'Manchester and Birmingham, but they will reject schedules A and B. They will make some alteration in the present mode of conducting town and county elections, but they will have nothing to do with the ten-pound franchise. And yet this is the very main prop of Earl GREY'S Bill, deprived of which it must infallibly tumble to pieces! But England, Ireland, and Scotland, will not be thus deceived. They will insist on a mea sure of Reform fully as efficient as the last, or they will take the question into their own hands. We yesterday published the twenty-four ar ticles which form what the Conference of London has been pleased to call the final arrangement of the Belgian question, together with the note ad dressed by the Conference to the Belgic Pleni potentiary, M. VAN DE WEYER, inviting him to sign the same on behalf of his Government. M. VAN DE WEYER conceiving the articles to exceed his intentions, as well as the baois of the preliminaries upon which he had been negociating, left, London for Brussels upon the receipt of this communication, and on the 20th instant the ar ticles were submitted to the Belgic Chamber of Representatives, which appears to have received them with much surprise and agitation, but had not commenced the discussion of them at the period from which our latest intelligence dates. The Minister for Foreign Affairs (M. DE MEU LENAERE) appears to have entered into long explanations of the proceedings of the Confe rence. Whether those explanations will by sa tisfactory to the Chamber remains to be seen ; but it is manifest that the decision either to ac cept or reject the articles, will be one of very great moment to the peace of Europe. At pre sent, the acceptance by Belgium is certainly more than doubtful, and, in fact, when we sider the discontent with the all mighty assump tions of the Conference that have some time prevailed there, all indications are rather against the probability of its taking place. In regard to Holland, we have as yet n 9 certain information of her disposition, but it is not anticipated tly" there can he any grounds of objection on her pal l ' Whatever the result may be—and howeve r strongly the Belgians may be influenced b): 3 sense of their own weakness, and of the necessity of humbling themselves before the Allies for the sake of peace and protection—it is not easy t° see the justice of sending back half of the illha; bitants of Luxemburg, and a portion of those e' Limburg, under the yoke they have shaken elf' to say nothing of saddling a new and petty Stat e ( with so heavy a charge as 800,0001. a -year °, debt, besides the reimbursement to Holland ei her expellees since November last. Luxemburg established its independence, de facto, jus t V , I much as any other portion of Belgium, and I ' s l included:within the limits of the new State men' tioned in the Constitution which King LEopoLV, has sworn to observe. It is highly probable therefore, that b o th th e B e l g i c Ch am b ers , 0 ' the KING, m a y conce i ve th ey h ave no authorit) 11 to consent to the di smem b erment o f t h e na tiona'i territory, and will feel themselves compelled t° withhold their assent to the proposed treaty' Should such be the case, the probabilities of th e preservation of the peace of Europe become f 3l less than they have been for the last twelvemont h ' for the French nation, would, without question/ force its Government into assisting the I3elgla n° against any efforts of the other Great Powers t° enforce the articles by h os tiliti es . O ur love ° ( peace is, we hope, not less strong than it ough t to be, but, we cannot help saying, the Belgia ns have been dealt with rather on the maxim that their affairs must be settled in some way or other—no matter to the Conference how 10 5 : tisfactorily to Belgium--than on the princle that justice should be done at all hazards, how' ever inconsiderable in importance might be t h i e f interests which the Conf erence t oo k u pon lts e to arrange. It should a lso b e es p ec i a lly n°te tb that the Great Powers, as ar bit ra t ors , appear to have exceeded the basis of th e i r arbitration, so r fir as concerns th e i r awar d u p on th e limits the two countries. If the Conference have the s might to enforce its d e ci s i on , it by n o ille 3n d follows th a t it h as a l so t h e r i g ht. B u t o'h e ' j might and ri g ht come i n t o con t ac t, w e O r hardly rem ar k th at th e wea k er i s sure t o g° to the wall. The new Reform Bill will, it is understood' take the census of 1831 instead of 1821 for t be criterion of population, whi c h w ill ma ke a & fiv e rence in both schedules A and B. The cilaq cannot be objected to, now th a t the censuf g complete, as it will make the Bill agree 1 11 ° / exactly with the principle of population it P ro. lesses to recognize. The following are extracts from Dutch 'We il received this day. They contain no news deser s ' ing of comment. By the Austiian Observer sve learn that the cholera still continues on the de' dine at Vienna : the TIIE HAG U & OCT. 20.—His Royal Highrusa Hisde i Majesty ckis has her conferred Prince of Ora nge se t ou t l as t n i g ht f or the arm rey. Punts e ni th orders of g l ;Teat number of officers. A letter from Breda, of the 19th, say usual activity is o bserved in th e ar my, and that repo rts war are in circulation. Numbers o f B e l g i an d eser t ers arrive daily ; whom are some offic,rs, and many deserters from N{)r t sl Brabant have returned to take advantage of the 1 1 4.,, pardon. The deserters say that great discontent pre'l' in the Belgian army, and that there have b een so me di 6 ' rurbances in the camp at Diest. It is confirmed that a document of t h e C on f e rence e t K e that ; d re on tlia ; London has been received here; it i s sa id t o b e dated I s9t Saturday, and to have been received here on INIOndell• (Here follows some reports respecting the cont 4°- of the proposed treaty of peace.) The first Chamber of the States• General has its 9 4614 on the 18th. Vrtt Count J. F. V. Hogerdorp, member of the Chamber, died at the Hague on the 11 th inst. ALA ". - SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES-GENE SITTING OF OCT. 21. A message from Isis Majesty was read, announcing that ::, he had selected from the three candidates proposed v NI. \Tin Arch Van Wyck to be President of the Chan t during the present Session. The new President having taken the chair addr e°4l he the Assembly in an appropriate speech, after whic h 4 1 stated that he had received a letter from the Secreto t ki, State, informing him that the King hail ordered the t he 'sister of Finance to repair to the Chamb er on Friday' 21st, to propose on the part of his Majesty various P t pe sects of law. His Excellency being introduced t o he usual form, explained in a very long discourse the PI 3 had followed in snaking out the Budget, both for the oty penditure and the revenue for the ensuing year. Il e ill servtd that, after the defection of the Belgians, s e ' O l O . oranches of the public expenditure must remain near l y t he diminished, and would fall on Holland alone—such Marine, War, Foreign Affairs, and some others. d ht would render the most rigid economy necessary, a° io assured the Assembly that it should be attended t° every branch of the service. The 111 . -utts '- , sts of 1 - - a dered t° .tae -mutes on the projects of LW were orde printed. A Committee was appointed to draw up an 5t1 , 1 05 answer to the King's speech on opening the sessioo• 4 WARSAW, Our. 12.—The fortress of Alodlin ha d ° 4t f,r some time invested by Gem Golowin, when „,0 aa d Lodochowski the Governor, having heard that the G r , th Duke Alichael would shortly arrive in the neighbla,"„sd signified hi s wi s h t o ma k e hi s su b m i ss i on t o t he u'd le Duke in person. Whereupon Gen. Golowin sent O r f e' his Imperial Highness, who immediately on his br. ceived Count Lodochowski, and summoned hint to o e the garrison of Modlin to lay down their arms 5 4 ' e d it' the fortress, and to deliver it up to the Imperial Ir° llol This was accordingly done. On the 9th October ele , ef e Holt garrison, 6,200 strung left the fortress, in whic hn found 82 cannon and seven mortars. " The war," adds the rep .rt, " may be conside r tre .a wholly ended. Zamosc alone still holds out, but that f0r,,,,e situated at the extremity of the kingdom has no intlu'td, whatever on the country, and is besides so closely in fei that its surrender may be speedily expected." r ..„ 4 1 AMSTERDAM, Actual Debt, 2% per cent Aniort Syndic, 4% per cent 6339:!! t° o 11 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. VIENNA, Ocr. I6.—We hav e received otter l o* the terruption, two numbers of the Courier of Greete,ob official journal published at Egina. They are of flie r' d o. of August, and 3d Sept., an I contain some intere sti ! cements, relative to the events at Poros, (the bur n ! P ; of the Greek fleet by Ali lulls, &c.), a nd a proclat o3"° t iore a the President, Count Caro d'lstria, to the Gret .ll 't so 0 1 Napoli, August, and convoking the National Car Argos, on the 20th Sept. this year. at d irect Accounts from Bucharest of the 14th ult. say, news frem Constantinople, said to come from an au` source, had been received there, announcing that 3 the tion had broken out in the Turkish capital. We can ff . inure positively assert this report to be unfounde tl y, have received n e ws from C ons t a ntinople direct, 01 9o ry 16, which, instead of speaking of a revolution at con of tinople, announces energetic measures, in co nsequlj o ge which, the f requen t fi rts w hi c h h a d caused so much ,! pot for some weeks, have ceased. The report of the breal" l4 oo of a revolution appears to have originated rather . which fail e d, as s i m ila r reports syerp pr i viously in cir tion at Con s t a ntinople itself tO LER A. New Cases. Recoveries. Deaths. Oct 10 73 52 45 79 62 46 14 51 44 :36 6 6 i s inenceme nt,. Z cases, 2,157 ; recoveries, 902 ; deaths, ' u n r o b ' s v . o n T ly ota 2 l B4 since vc oi f!: the T c l it e y n , uanindbe2rlrBeminaitnliinegsuibs )reign A . - A R. rcil Lord I. PA st] T( , t 'ttp, " t ttb v lA 1) 4 , ity Cpl e b e , 4 40 You te i ,„ kc ( b, q ' s St ag , "t Pi t B ir, t Pr tt 4ie e e , in t 1 1)% f " i tab 1 1 , ti rj- th Q t f‘ 4 gt Ihtha theellil ,;,„, 1 1 , 1(il tl 4 e h uk h rc it t t N ll Yt: t Of „Iv, 4°11; od e ti ck u t e b 6 ,a,;:rt