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Against the end of this month the price will rise to £l4, and the Sale will close in the iirst days of November. Those who remit LI b BEFORE the 28th instant, will re ceive an order for £2 upon our London Bankers, together with the Bond. To those ordering too late for being attended to, their re mittances will be returned by irstHEl post. NE BROTHERS. HAMBURGH, October 4, 1842. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, OCT. 26, Will be presented the Operatic Play of ROB ROY. Rash leigh Osbaldistone, Mr. C. Pitt; Francis Osbaldistone, Mr. W. Harrison ; Rob Roy ,‘PGregor Campbell, Mr. Cooper ; Dougal, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Diana Vernon, Miss Rainforth ; Helen M'Gregor, Mrs. Salsberg. Alter w h ich, Azber's Opera of FRA DIAVOLO ; or, the !TIN of TERRA ..;INA. Fre Dinvolo, Mr. W. Harrison; 4ord Allclsh, My. G. Horncastle; Lorenzo, Mr. Travers; Aatteo, Mr. S. Smith ; Beppo, Mr. J. Bland; Giacomo, Mr. ; Lady Allcash, Miss Poole ; Zerlina, Miss Rainforth. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes is., Second Price 3s. id. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the fox-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. : Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell;Oldl3or.d-street ; and of Mr. Same, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, OCT. 26,__ Will be presented THE MISER'S DAUGHTER, which has been for some time in preparation, and will be produced with New Scenery, Dresses, and Novel Effects, combining all the resources of the Theatre. The Piece dramatised from the popular Work of the same name, by Mr. Edward Stirling, b y per mission of the Author, W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq., who, in conjunction with George Cruikshank, Esq., will personally superintend the numerous Tableaux, &c., as illustrated in Ainsworth's Magazine." After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. The Imp, Mr. Wieland ; Fleur-des-Champs, Mdme. Proche Giubilei ; " The Frightful, Spiteful, Old Bachelor," Mrs. H. P. Grattan. To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, Ma. H. P. Grattan ; Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 26, VI ill be acted a New Drama, entitled ESTELLE DUSIAS, supported by the entire Company. After which, the Nautical Drama of POOR JACK; or, THE WIFE OF A SAILOR. Poor Jack, Mr. T. P. Cooke, whose performance attracts nightly overflows, Eleanor Mrs. H. Vining. To conclude with Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with most decided iuceeis. Neville Audely, Mr. H. Hughes ; Hugh Laneret, 41r.N. T. Hicks; Herrick Evenden, Mr. J. Webster; Blanche ri.eriot, Mrs. R. Homier. Places and private Bozes to be had of Mr. .1. Kerschner, at , the Boa -efface, from eleven to four. - • =T CiaIititIMPOODENIV. • “ A. lop on and 0* theft IatITY4O - !114/171a-: ... y:i E~ ki ta 2 v t; :141406/44 IMAM 41111 DAY.' ," 7 • crn n g se!ntits; : aftsr. 7 5.-VE7P.Oiiis wy....ls . lopstvilftet 111 - . . • . ~. . ' . , „ , • , . . ‘ '• . - , ~..,, ,•• . r_____., ___e• .....01, , . .. %,.•,; .1- M ~,...._ -- , - 7 s - 0 ir ,Nba. : 4 lo, '7 , ... ~,,,,,„',.• . ..,...00 -,, - - "t" . w ' ' ili oll3 -- "' 7: ' . ‘ • ...,-,...,.. . , _. , cubit ,it LONDON WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 26, 1542. Mr. DICKENS, in his recent work on the United States, speaks with disapprobation of the listrust which there prevails of public men, and the general seriousness, or want of gaiety of the people. Something may be said, we think, in praise of these qualities:; and in justice to the institutions with which they are supposed to be :onnected, we shall say what occurs to us. " The Americans," he says, "are by nature frank, brave, cordial ;" yet lie tells us there is " universal distrust," and gives this instance, which confines the remark—and, we believe, it is meant to be confined—to public men and public atrairs " You carry," says the stranger, "this jealousy and distrust into every transaction of public life. By repelling worthy men from your legislative assem blies, it has bred up a class of candidates for the ;utfrage, who in their every act disgrace your insti tutions and your people's choice. It has ren .l, red you so fickle and so given to change that your inconstancy has passed into a proverb, for you no .sooner set up an idol firmly than you are sure to pull it down and dash it into fragments ; and this, because directly you reward a benefactor or a public servant, you distrust him merely because he is rewarded, and immediately apply yourselves to find out either that you have been too bountiful in your acknowledgments, or he remiss in his deserts. Any man who attains a high place among you, from the President downwards, may date his downfal from that moment; for any printed lie that any notorious villain pens, although it militates directly against the character and conduct of a life, appeals at once to your distrust and is believed. You will strain at a gnat in the way of trustfulness and confidence, however fairly won and well deserved ; but you will swallow a whole caravan of camels, if they be laden with unworthy doubts and mean suspi cions. Is this well, think you, or likely to elevate the character of the governors or the governed among you ?" The answer is invariably the same : " There's free dom of opinion here, you know. Every man thinks for himself; and we are not to be easily over-reached. That's how our people come to be suspicious." If the experience of public men in America corresponds to our experience in Europe—and we believe it does--no more wholesome senti ment can exist than the deepest distrust. We speak less of the continual prostitution, by indi viduals in all ranks, of the public cause to their own private advancement, of intemperate pro fessions of patriotism as means of achieving power, of great promises made in opposition that are invariably forgotten i n office, of the familiarity of the hustings and the haughty re pulsion of Parliament, of the deep interest can didates take in every man's welfare, and of the neglect by representatives of every i nterest but their own, of encouragement to agitation out of office, and of meeting fellow agitators when in uffice with stripes, imprisonment, and perhaps sleuth—though all these circumstances are ex_ t‘'emely offensive, and warrant deep and unalterable distrust, we speak less of these almost every-day occurrences, which are, perhaps, less common in America than here, than of the blighted hopes which everywhere, in America and in Europe, flow from the promises and the actions of public men. We speak of no one party, but of all parties, and demagogues and despots are alike included in the term public men. They provoke revolu ri(m, promise freedom, and bestow on nations an iron and bloody despotism. They array the•'n -les against one famil y or one Sovereign on i - iCcount of some alleged abuses ; they trample on the ties of kindred, affection, and allegiance • - ley gain power, and then they use it in the ramie, or a more selfish, sordid ma nner, than King they deposed, or the iron despot who hag p r evicay duped a nation by its vanity, wag then enslaved it. They prom! .se mankind peace, and are perpetually enalJroiling them about the most worthless -.trifles. They proclaim prosperity and happiness as the consequence of obedience to their power, and from their decrees flow poverty, pauper ism, and strife, which all the untired energies of men, for ever struggling to better their con dition, and help one another, cannot ward off. They pretend to insure communities, by their ecclesiastical establishments, against vice, and by their criminal jurisprudence against crime, and vice and crime seem to increase very nearly in proportion to their establishments. They pre tend to protect trade and promote ingenuity, and their care stifles the former, alid prevents the latter. We cannot look at home or abroad, any day of our lives, and not feel, powerfully convinced that all the hopes held out to us, by much-promising public men, of obtaining peace, happiness, and virtue through their instrumen tality are continually deceived; and of such deception, distrust is the natural and warrantable consequence. We know that similar results have taken place in America. These individuals have professed a love for the public interest, to serve their private ends. There great promises are made by a Congress which are never fulfilled. There chartered banks, the cur rency, the custom-house—which is as full of frauds as our own the post-office convey ances, the whole proceedings of Congress, and the Government, contrast strongly and fatally for their character with the wonderful achiev ments of private enterprise, and necessarily cause a wholesome distrust of all those who confirm , ally promise what is, from some cause or other, never performed. Where there is " freedom of opinion," as in America, where " every man thinks for himself," where the mind is not edu cated into habitual confidence, but is free to re ceive the impression of facts, distrust arises. It scarcely exists in Germany, where institutions fail to accomplish what is promised in their name as much as they do in the United States, and where Princes have been repeatedly faithless to their pledged honour.; it is little known in France, where twice the people have been roused, in the name of liberty, to acquire, first an iron, and then a cold, calculating, sordid despotism; and it is never felt we believe, in Italy, where uninterrupted confidence in rulers is justified by -the most complete and abject debasement of the people. Far, therefore, from censuring the distrust of public men which prevails in America, we regard it as the natural consequence of freedom; as its surest safeguard, and the most certain means of securing its progress. In several parts of his work Mr. DICKENS notices the gravity of the American character. We think that also is connected with their freedom. They have a ()Teat work to perform, and they are sensible of it. The lazzaroni of Naples, the casino haunters of the other parts of Italy, are not otherwise than a gay and light hearted people. In France the Monarch and his Ministers take care of the nation, and the people are not wanting in mirth. They have long been renowned for the vivacity of their parties and the brilliancy of their wit, but those qua lities were not incompatible with committing some of the greatest atrocities that stain the annals of civilised Europe. The Germans are both cheerful and kindly. The English are accused by foreigners of the same quality that Mr. DICKENS discovers in the Americans. These two people take part in public affairs ; the others are almost excluded from all inter ference with them. Seriousness, then, seems connected with freedom—lightness and gaiety with Courts and despotism. Probably whenever men can freely reflect on their own beginning and their end, and where ever they come into contact—as many of the Americans yet do—with the almost unsoiled grandeur of nature, communing.with her mighty Streams, and. penetrating, through her little trodden-forests, solemnity-and :.earnestmiss must tie the *meet their m4ids. - The: Indians they IsaTediapisted'steteli SoletiManditiiariest People. 'The e. is"no reason with" ihain:4lii,,lieibg free. and having•no endowed plergi.to mock by. their lives, what. is taught ,hy - tliOr s ,warda„ they. should not firmly believe the, religion-they' profess.. To live in this world as if it were a passage 'to an other, where every step may lead to eternal plea sure or eternal pain, may well make men earnest and solemn. To live in it with such an idea of duty, and to see the society of which they are members a prey to many disorders, while they seem wholly without the excuses which ,we in Europe make for wretchedness and misery, and for which every man, as a participant in the po litical power of the State, may hold himself re sponsible, seems well calculated to make the Americans thoughtful and earnest. Mr. Dic- LENS assures us they are so, which is the result of their freedom, and a proof that, like true men, they feel the responsibility that is on them. We rather admire that trait in their character, and should not think the worse of our country men if amongst them there were more serious ness and less frivolity. But what happens here ? Take the conduct of the Ministers and the Par liament as a specimen. That great and unpa ralleled distress pervades the community is ad mitted on all hands. That property is threatened, or only to be preserved by strong coercion, is apparent. A social convulsion, alarming while it lasted, has taken place, and it would seem by the steps taken by the Government that the country is not secure against another. But, knowing all these things, and being respon sible for them, our light-hearted senators, and somewhat careless Ministers, have dispersed to shoot, and hunt, and feast, and enjoy them selves, as if no single speck of cloud darkened the sky of England. The head of all—the great Doctor himself—has, till within the last day or two, been tasting the delight of pheasant-shoot ing in the preserves of Tamworth. At the con duct of the Parliament, and at the conduct of the Ministers, the light-hearted people smile, and are gay ; and we should have brighter hopes for the future, if they were even graver, more serious, and solemn, than the Americans. It may be quoted as a singular specimen of the Tory mind, that the most sincere and conscien tious of the Tory journals has undertaken to de fend the sanguinary revengeful murders com mitted by our ancestors at the gallows, and calls for the suppression by force of the Anti-Corn law League. To be criminal, according to this doctrine, is to be deserving of death, and as, ac cording to the same party, all men are criminals, all men are deserving of death, a deduction which justifies mutual assassination. The progress of events, to which Tory Ministers and the Tory party are obliged to succumb, is confusing the Tory mind. It endeavoured to rule society on a theory which will work no longer, and now it is quite at a loss. In an agony of tear it demands the suppression of the Anti-Corn-law League, which is rendering its pet theory worthless, and it recommends capital punishments, as they were employed by our ancestors, to put down every petty crime. It is like a spoiled child, which is ready to break even its own doll—the present Constitution—to pieces, if it c annot have its own way. Society will not stop for the Tory theory ; the Tory mind will not go forward with society; and it has no alternative but to resort to the ar bitrary power and bloody executions of th e Eighth HARRY. If it have his malignity, it lacks his vigour. It is a waiting woman essaying to wear the armour and wield the axe of the bluff mon abrec trulyh. pitiable i c d o i u c l u a l o i u t s su in ec i e ts ed pra i t n ik c s r , u b s u hng but would by the pond erous weapons a f ter wh i ch it grasps. We are delighted to perceive from Mr. DON.. COMBE'S speech on Monday, at a meeting of the National Association, that the late discreditable Charges of Lord ABINGE R at Liverpool and Chester are not likely to be soon forgotten or forgiven. If no one else, observed the Hon. Member for Finsbury, would bring them under the consideration of Parliament, he would do so. that :alight h ave beext in fact, just This is manly and straight-forwa r d ; the course of Pr"eedulg ~_anticipated from a gentleman who, through evil and through good report, has ad hered unflinchingly to the popular cause, and supported it in the Senate with a zeal and ability that few have equalled, and none surpassed. Mr. COBDEN has also recorded his abhorrence of the obnoxious Charges in ques tion; many other Liberal Members are known to entertain similar strong opinions on the subject; and greatly indeed shall we be surprised and mortified, if a large majority of the Whig, and the whole of the Radical, section in the House of Commons, do not read such a lesson to his Lordship as shall effec tually sicken him of delivering one-sided political homilies from the judgment-seat. Doubtless, Lord ABINGER—Iike other small men who are apt to assess their talents and influ ence at too high a valuation—thought that by formally recording his protest against Chartism, he would be crippling its energies, and putting it, as it were, without the pale of respectability; but if such were his notions, never was man more mistaken; he has shown by his Charges, not that the Chartists are reckless anarchists, but that he is a wilful Ignoramus; not that they are contemptible in point of num bers and ability, but that he is a bigoted alarmist. We by no means hold with all the six points of the Charter, which is, we think, in many respects unsuited to the wants of the pre sent day ; but this we will say, that we have seen nothing in the document that in the slightest de gree justifies Lord ABINGER'B declaration, that it strikes at the root of the monarchy, and advocates a spoliation of property. But were it even otherwise, and as anarchical in its charac ter as it is simply impracticable, still, his Lord ship is not the man to extinguish it. It requires a Hercules to crush a Hydra. But to return to Mr. DUNCOMBE. Alluding to the conduct of the MELBOURNE Ministry, the Hon. Member for Finsbury observed, " Much blame is due, and justly due, to them. They were told, when in the zenith of their power, that they were not then making the most of their time, but that the reform which they had effected, was incomplete. They heeded not the warning, but talked of finality, and hung on the skirts of the Court, instead of supporting them selves on the strong arms of the People." There is but t©o much truth in these remarks. The tilrh:go, without absolutely arraying them selves against the People, yet neglected, when they had the power, to befriend them; and the consequences of this neglecthavebeen, first their own irretrievable defeat; and secondly, the acces sion to office of a set of men whom circumstances have armed with all but despotic power, and whom it is necessary to watch with the utmost vigilance, inasmuch as they are by no means re markable for their Liberal tendencies. If it had not been for Whig supineness, we should not now, among other blessings, have been saddled with a Tory Income-tax, and a locust-plague of tax-gatherers, a thousand times worse than all the Plagues of Egypt put together. The news foom Port Natal, of which we gave an abstract yesterday, will be found detailed at length in The Sun of this day, and will be read with lively interest. The intelligence in general is very satisfactory, though we have to regret the loss of many lives in this unfortunate affair with the Boers. Without including the sol diers shot when the landing was effected under Colonel CLOETE, there have been twenty-five killed and forty wounded, making a total, including prisoners and those miss ing, of eighty-six. The emigrant farm ers, however, seem now reconciled to their fate, and are making atonement for their rash attempt by unqualified submission. They have released all the prisoners, whether soldiers or civilians, given up all the captured cannon, and restored all public and private property which they had seized. This is highly characteristic of these simple and honest people, and we re joice to find that this conduct is met with be coming kindness and forgiveness by the Go vernor at the Cape. He has granted a general amnesty, including their leader PRETORIOUS, with the exception of five persons who had taken an active part in resisting the British troops—promised to defend them against the natives, and assured them that their lands shall not be interfered with till the determination of her MAJESTY'S Government is made known. That, we trust, will be equally liberal and humane. These people have many claims on the sympathy of our Colonial rulers. They left the Cape settlement owing, as it is well known, to their dissatisfaction with the laws and institutions of that colony, and occupied the territory where they are now located under the firm conviction that it did not belong to the British Government. If they had any doubts on the subject, wa s it _ _ _ _ . likely that they would have given up their lands. and removed, at great expense, to a distant settlement where they might be again sub jected to the same treatment from which they had fled ? The disappointment felt when they found themselves still under British dominion excited them to madness, and forced them into an unequal and hopeless contest with this country. They have suffered the penalty, and it now remains for our Government to do them justice, make the amnesty complete, and allow them to retain their existing administration and civil institutions. Accounts from Lisbon, brought by the Liver. pool steamer, which arrived at Falmouth on Mon day, state that Lord HOWARD DR WALDEN had had interviews with the Duke of PALMZELA and Senhor GOMES DE CASTRO upon the Tariff ques tion, and another meeting was expected soon to take place between the Commissioners. The Treasury bills on the Decima were expected shortly to come out; they were to be drawn for a year, and to bear interest at 74 per cent. per annum. The issue to be under the charge of the Board of Public Credit. It appears from a list of the paid up amount and selling price of the shares in the banks of Lisbon and Oporto, steam-boat, omnibus, insur ance, fisheries, and other companies, that those of the Bank of Lisbon are at 175 dollars pre mium, and the Fideledade are at 15 per cent. premium. The Oporto Bank shares are a trifle below par; all the other companies are at a con siderable discount, and some, such as the fishery and earthenware companies, are at merely a no minal price. Great complaints were made of the proceed ings of M. CAPACCTNI, as tending to excite schism and disobedience to the constitutional bishops and clergy. The French Princes were daily expected at Lisbon from Brest. y i edf r b i r s papers sever of al u h 0 --- ur nda s y b -, ywhichthe e bboaisdtebnreoeus delayed Paris weatherin the Channel, have been received, and, as might have been expected, some of them express great indignation at the article in the Journal des Debats on Lord ABERDEEN'S letter. The Commerce and the National are quite furious on the subject, and seem quite at a loss to con ceive how a Frenchman can defend, or even palliate, the conduct of the British Government. " The Journal des Debits," says the Commerce, "is the Ministerial journal, and the Ministry have received from public opinion the title which they deserve, the Ministry of foreigners. No one there fore can be surprised at finding this morning in the columns of that Ministerial paper, an article which some might imagine was drawn up by an English writer. ‘Vlienever France has any af fair to settle with foreigners the Journal des Debats is sure to place foreigners in the right; it reserves all its solicitude for foreigners, and to them it addresses all its praise and congratula tions. It is, in fact, the journal of 1814 and 1815." The same journals express great dissatisfaction at the appointment of General JACQUEMINOT to the command of the National Guards. As for the appointment of General Sebastiani, it is not yet inserted in the Moniteur, but it seems not to be doubtful. On this subject the Siecle has the fol lowing remarks :—" The nomination of General Ti burce Sebastiani to the command of the military di vision of Paris, in the room of General Pageot, is cer- WA. By way of kuleauaiircation, &meal Pte . has THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1Q42. been offered the place of one of the King's Aides-de- Camp, doubtless that which is vacant by the d ea th o f M. Alexandre Laborde. Gen. Pageot not having at first received this offer with much eagerness, which IL Guizot had under taken to induce him to accept, the latter said to him —"Don't you know, General, that Marshal Villars was one of the aides-de-camp of Louis XIV. ?" We do not know what General Pageot answered ; but he might have reminded M. Guizot that Lous XIV. had Ministers rather more jealous of the honour of the country than his Majesty Louis Philippe's Ministers, who in times of reverse, as well as of the most bril liant events, made all Europe respect the honour and the name of France. It is reported that the Due d'Aumale, when he returns from Africa, will be appointed to the command in chief of the National Guards of the department of the Seine, and that General Jacqueminot will be only second in command. The Tartare, which has arrived at Toulon, has brought news from Algiers of the 15th. Still the Ministry has not yet published any report of General Bugeaud.—Le Commerce, Oct. 23. We have a letter from Algiers, of the 15th, which says Since the departure of the last mail we have no news of the column under the command of the Governor-General. • There is every reason to sup pose that it has entered the province of Constantine., but we have nothing certain on the subject. The greatest tranquility continues to prevail in the Mitidja, and the Arab and French markets are very well supplied." The Echo de la Frontlere, under the head of Valen ciennes Oct. 22, has the following passage : " The Chamber of Commerce of the Department of the North have resolved to send delegates to Paris to represent to the Government the injury 15 hich would result to he several manufactures of our country from the projected Customs' union with Belgium. They have applied to the Chamber of ValencienneS - to know whether it is intended to imitate them. If we are rightly informed, the Chamber of Commerce has re solved not to send delegates, but to go in a body to Paris to support their opinions to the utmost of their power. M. de Marngoval, deputy of Valenciennes, will, it is said, be requested to present to the Minister the members of our Chamber of Commerce, who will be joined by some of the chief manufacturers of our district." The Mmiteur of the 23d has no official part.—Le Constitutionnel, Oct. 23. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Owing to the unpropitious state of the weather throughout the day, the Royal party at the Castle have not enjoyed their usual rides and drives. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Prin cesses Augusta, and Mary of Cambridge, ana, Lis Royal,Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Meck lenburgh Strelitz, have arrived on a visit to her Ma jesty, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt and Baron Knesebeck. The Marquis of Exeter and the Earl of Dunmore have arrived at the Castle on a visit to the Queen. Viscount Hawarden has arrived, and has suc ceeded Lord Byron as the Lord in Waiting on the Queen, and Admiral Sir Robert Otway has suc ceeded General the Hon. Sir William Lunirey as the Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. The Queen had a dinner party this evening. Covers were laid for twenty-three. The party con sisted of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and. Duchess of Cambridge, her Royal highness the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, his Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, the Earl and Countess of Dunmore, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Baroness Ahlefeldt, lion. Georgiana Stanley, Hon. Clementina Hamilton, Hon. Mrs. Anson, Marquis of Exeter, Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Viscount Hawarden, Hon. C. A. Murray, Admiral Sir Robert Otway, Colonel Arbuthnot, Sir Edward Bowater, and Dr. Prcetorius. Mr. R. Deighton had the honour this morning of submitting yto his Royal Highness Prince Albert a model of the Ducal residence of Cobourg, of which his Royal Highness was pleased to express great ad miration. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, attended by Barones Ahlefeldt, and Baron Knesebeck, left their residence at Kew, yesterday, on a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interwiew with the Chancellor of the Exche quer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing. street: His Royal Hi g h nes s the Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburgh Swat s l e ft Kew yesterday for Wi n d. aor Castle, on a visit to the Queen. Sir James Graham arrived in town Yesterday from his seat at Netherby, Cumberland. The Postmaster-General had an interview yester day with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Down ing -street. The Earl of Ripon has returned to his seatNocton, Lincolnshire, from Studely Park. Lady Munro has arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Bel grave-street, from Scotland. LLOYD'S SHIPPING, -- - - - - LONDON, OCT. 25.—Wind this day at noon, southerly, light breeze, with rain at intervals. DEAL, OCT. 24. —Wind N.N.W., fresh.--A cr d. Queen, Cousens, Ceylon; Apprentice, Caden head, Mauritius; Duke o' Roxburgh, Collard, South America ; Bonne Mer , Peele, Berbice ; Jame s 1 M'Queen, M'Coll, St. I itts ; D'Auvergne, Forbes, 0: Honduras ; Coronet, Bute, St. John's, New Bruns wick ; Lady Nepeau, and Ma r i ner , Q ue b ec; I sa b ella, Geale, Demerara ; Trio, Hall, New Ross ; Pilgrim, Lindstrom, Havannah ; Cairo, Sydney ; Numa, Van Diemen's Land • Fairfield and W. G. A n d erson, Quebec ; Duke of Wellington and Cleveland barques. OFF DOVER, OCT. 03,—Lord Stanley, Quebec. 24. Progress, Schmidt, Rio, for Antwerp JAurelia, Ames, Miramichi. OFF THE WIGHT, OCT. 2 1.—Sarah Barry, Quebec. OFF MARGATE, OCT. 2 4.—Orion, Quebec. SHEERNESS, OCT. 2 4.—Arid. Sarah Burrows, Quebec. RAMSGATE, OCT. 24.—The Ann and Elizabeth, from Hamburgh to Liverpool, has put in here with 1053 of foretopmast, &c. COWES, OCT. 24.—Arrd. Thomas Naylor, Fast ing, Havannah; Union, London, f or N ew Zealand; Spartan, ditto, for Jamaica. FALMOUTH, OCT. 24.—Wind N.W. to N., strong gales with violent squalls.—Arrd. Liverpool packet, with Mediterranean mails, Palmy ra , Cousens, Gam bia, short of provisions, and crew s i c k. Museum', OCT. 23.—The A s t rea , arr i v ed here from Quebec, is very leaky ; has lost sails, sprung bowsprit, and received other damage. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 24.—Wind N., fresh.—Arrd. Magnolia, Johnson, St. Lucia, sailed Aug. 8 ; Swa tara, New Orleans; St. Andrew, Quebec. SHIELDS, OCT. 22.--Sid. Columbia, Aden. SWANSEA, OCT. 22.--Acrd. Castor, Jack, Cuba. CLYDE, OCT. 22.—Sid. Lavinia and Scotch Lass, Newfoundland; Constellation, Calcutta; Active, De merara. GALWAY, OCT. 19.—And. M. Jane, St. John's, New Brunswick. CoRK, OCT. 22.—S1d. Celia, Large, Trinidad. JERSEY, OCT.I7.—SId. Andes, Brazils. LLAISELLT, OCT. 22.—Irrd. Tagus and George, Quebec, MUMBLES, OCT. 21.—S1d. Cubenia, Cuba. WATERFORD, OCT. 21.—Arrd. John Bell, Quebec. OFF PORTLAND, OCT. 21.—Arrd. Arminia, Otto, Havannah, for Hamburgh ; Gustav Wasa, Nordwall, Rio for Gottenburg. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 24.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. off, Johan George, Geerken, New York for Bremen ; Jane Lockhart, Demerara. STANGATE CREEK, OCT. 24.--Arai. John Brown, Rugless, Calcutta. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 24.—Wind N.N.W., fresh.— Sid. Margaret Hardy, Al g oa Bay. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—(From a Correspon dent.) —There seems to be a very general opinion at the West End of the town, that Parliament will as semble for the dispatch of business early in January. Of course nothing definite can be known until after the next Privy Council, which will be held at Wind sor Castle on Wednesday, the 2d of Nov. His Belgian Majesty's brig of war Comte de Flan dres, from Ostend, is at Ramsgate, repairing the damages she sustained in the gale of Saturday, while lying at Deal. She is to proceed on a voyage round the world. We are happy to state that the Right Hon. the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Glad stone, has quite recovered from the effects of his re cent severe accident at Hawarden Castle, but he is still obliged to carry his left arm in a sling, having, as already stated, had the misfortune to suffer ampu tation of the fore-finger of that hand.—Liverpool Mercury. Sir Harvey Bruce has addressed the electors of Coleraine. FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, a dreadful and fatal accident occurred at Nicholson's Wharf, Lower Thame3-street, to a lad named James Williams, 13 years of age, employed at the wharf. It appears that he was at work in the third floor of the lofty range of warehouses, and whilst in the act of giving some directions from the loophole to the men below, he overbalanced himself, and fell upon the pavement from a height of between 50 and 60 feet. He was immediately picked up by the workmen, and conveyed by Mr. Nicholson in a coach to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he expired in a few minutes after his admission. He had been about twelve months on the premises, and repeatedly cautioned by the foreman and others to be careful Low he apps the doorway of the lat. SUMMARY OF NEC AND Pubitc ~:ptuton. " Who runs may read.' PONLEIGN. The obsequies of M. le Comte Laborde took place at Paris, on Sunday. The deceased, in addition to other writings, was author of the " Picturesque and Historical Voyal in Spain." He was one of the first to send in his resignation on the formation of the Polignac Ministry. Addresses were pronounced on the occasion by M. le Comte Bougnot and General Rumigny. Joseph Bonaparte is said to have removed the difficulties which lay in the way of the testamentary gifts of his uncle, the Cardinal Fesch, regarding his legacies to Corsica, by presenting a donation equiva lent to them, to his native town. Among them is a statue of the First Consul, and of the numerous pic tures of the rich gallery, bequeathed to him by the Cardinal, he has given 100 to Bastia, 50 to the village of Corte, where he was born, and 150 to different communes of the department. The Council-General of Corsica have forwarded an address to the French Government, praying for a grant of public money to complete a monument in that country to the Emperor Napoleon. The National, in adverting to the affairs of Canada, says—" There never was a better opportunity than the present for the French Canadians to assert their independence, and separate themselves for ever from the English." The vines at Beaujolais answer their culture in so prolific a manner, that they are likely to attract more labour than the manufactures of the place. Several Belgian engineers are said to have been named Chevaliers of the Legion of Honour, on the occasion of the approaching inauguration of the rail road of Quievrain to Valenciennes. Accounts from Switzerland state that the Judge Advocate. General, Sir John Nicholl, i 3 seriously in disposed in that country. MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. A meeting of the creditors of the Tweed Bank took place on Wednesday last at Berwick, when composi tions for the larger debts were entered into, and finally for the smaller. The Tweed fisheries closed on Saturday last ; the season has been, on the whole, productive. PUBLIC IMPRO'fiEDIENTS. The buildings in Farringdon-street will be com menced in the ensuing spring. There will be 27 on the west, and 22 on the east side ; the leases are granted by the City for 61 years. ELk:CTIONEERING. Sir William Rae, it is reported, will be succeeded in the representation of Buteshfre by the Hon. Archi bald Wortley, third son of Lord Wharncliffe, and not by Mr. Duncan ➢='Neill as stated. NAVAL AND MILITARY. A number of officers of the Royal Artillery as• sembled in the Woolwich marshes on Monday to wit ness experiments with a new description of brass gun, invented by Captain Grant of that corps. It saves in metal and powder greatly, and the result of six rounds fired showed it to be admirably adapted for field service. _ _ LAW AND POLICE. Police constable, Joseph Pitman, K 391, was on Monday charged at Lambeth -street, with assaulting Miss Julia Briggs, the daughter of a dyer, residing in the East India-road, Poplar. The Magistrate remarked that he bad disgraced himself as a man, and gave him the severest penalty he could record, of a month's im prisonment in the House of Correction, with hard labour. John Smith was charged at Thames-street with a marine burglary, in breaking into the cabin of the schooner Ellen, with the intention of stealing watches and wearing-apparel. He was committed for trial Alfred Stringle and Francis Hawes were charged at Guildhall with stealing 281bs. of dyed silk from Mr. Gourdain, in Milton-street. The prisoners were re manded till Thursday. FINE ARTS. Bailey's statue to Vice-Admiral Sir Pulteney Mal colm has been placed in St. Paul's Cathedral. Its cost was 1,0001. Mr. Campbell, the sculptor, has had the execution of the statue to the late Duke of Gordon confided to him, and has paid a visit to Aberdeen to select the granite. C OURT-PASIZIONABLE The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland left Dun robin Castle on Wednesday last, for Trentham Hall, Staffordshire. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are entertaining a select party of friends at Ala wick Castle. The Earl of March and Lord William Lennox are expected in town this week from Gordon Castle, Scotland. The Earl and Countess of Binnoul arrived at Hampden House, Green-street, last week, from Dupp lin Castle. -The Countess Dowager of Pembroke arrived at Wilton House, Salisbury, on Wednesday last, from Savanaeh Lodge. Sir R. Peel arrived in town on Monday from Drayton Manor, and in the afternoon left for Windsor Castle. Mr. Whitfield, the botanist, leftKnowsley Park last week, on a fresh mission to the coast of Africa. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town on Monday from the Isle of Wight. MISCELLANEOUS. The Privy Council, originally intended to be held to-day, has been postponed to the 2d of November. The annual festival of the " Blues," or gentlemen educated at Christ's Hospital, took place on Monday, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on the oc casion of the birth-day of King Edward VI., their founder. A storm at Rome has thrown down Tasso's oak and the Colonna pine. At the City Registration Court on Monday the name of the Lord Mayor was expunged from the list. Tnic LONG VACATION.—On Monday the long va cation ceased. The offices of the several Courts re• sumed business. Declarations are now filed and de livered, as well as rules given to plead. These mattera are the precursors to bringing men to the payment of their debts, to failure, or a prison. There is a cessa tion in all pleadings rem the 10th of August to the 24th of October, which is denominated in the profes sion the "long vacation," though term does not com mence until the 2d of November. PENSIONERS.—We are le-I to understand that it is the intention of the Government to place all able bodied pensioners, who are willing to assist the civil authorities, under drill at stated intervals; and that arms and accoutrements for 200 of these aged veterans are shortly expected at the barracks in Birmingham. This is as it ought to be : a force like this upon the spot is worth ten times a greater one at the distance of 40 miles. Birmingham Advertiser. COLCHESTER FAIR.—For the last twenty years there has not been so little business transacted as at this fair on Thursday. Out of 8,500 sheep and lambs penned, no more than about 1,500 changed hands, and the sales effected were a t suc h pr i ces t h at the dealers sustained a considerable loss. Several dealers left the field without even an offer for their sheep. There were about 5,000 beasts exhibited, and a great portion of them of very good quality, but scarcely any buyers could be found, although the prices asked were full 30 per cent. lower than last year for fresh beasts, but a greater reduction took place in lean stock. In the horse fair the same de pression existed.—Essex Herald. HEREFORD OCTOBER FAIR.—We do not remember to have ever witnessed so large a number of Hereford cattle in this city, with so few inferior animals among them, as we witnessed on Thursday last—nearly every street was crowded with the most splendid description of stock. Nevertheless, we hear on all hands that it was one of the worst fairs that has been held in Here ford for the last twenty years. In the morning the breeders endeavoured to stop the ebbing of the tide of reduction by holding out for price, but it was soon found that this object could not be gained; therefore, the farmers necessarily gave way, and a large number of cattle exchanged hands, but at a reduction of full 25 per cent. upon the prices of last year.—Hereford Times. THE IRON TRADE.—The October series of iron masters' quarterly meetings are just ended. The business done has been comparatively trifling, and the future prospects of the trade are disheartening in the extreme. The demand created by the stop page of the works is supplied, and the orders now issued will only be for such quantities as are re quired for immediate use; what this will be may be inferred from the fact that the chain and trace trade is nearly at a stand still, while the demand for nails is daily decreasing.—Staffordshire Examiner A VEGETABLE COMPASS.—A correspondent has sent to the editors of the National Intellizeneer a dry • pressed specimen of the Polar Plant of the western prairies. It is a species of fern, which generally attains the height of from ten to sixteen inches, with one large flat leaf, whose plane always points to the north and south. The specimen was plucked from the prairies near Fort Gibson, west of Arkansas. It is spread profusely in l arge b e d s over all the western prairies, from the far north-west to the far south west. It has been seen in the prairies of Wisconsin and other regions east of the Mississippi. It is never found in the forests, or, in other words, out of the prairies. It has been well known to the hunters and trappers of the west, and to the officers of dragoons ; but it is believed that its existence has never (at least extensively) been made known to the world. Its plane is always in the plane of the meridian, when not disturbed by high winds or other external causes The indications are always most accurate in the valleys, where the bed s a re sheltered from the wi n d s , and where the traveller finds them arranged in parallel positions, faithfully pointing out the direction of the meridian. The leaf is symmetrical, and thus there is nothing in its indications to distinguish the north from the loutb...4\roto York Observer. V and iat 'Ai )1 t.. - IA,I AI. S. CITY, lUESDAY EVENING. The Stock Market closed this afternoon about the same as it had opened in the morning, not being quite so buoyant as towards mid-day. Consols for Money were d 34 sellers, and for Account 93i. buyers; Exchequer Bills touched 59 prem. ; India Stock was firm at 253. The Bank broker took 10,0001. stock for the Savings' Banks. Spanish Bonds advanced to 171, but yet no clue to the cause beyond a rumour about the Almaden mines. Portuguese 01(1 Fives were done at 58 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. improved to 52:1. Shares were quiet, but firm. The Exchanges were a shade better on Antwerp, viz. 12 .5+ to 52 ; barely so high on Amsterdam, 12 6i; without alteration on Hamburgh, 13 118 to 12; and also on Paris, which was 25 872 to 922. The Indigo sales closed this afternoon. They have gone off well. _ _ A failure in the fruit trade was hinted at on 'Change, (From The Sun of Last Night.) Mauritius Papers, to the 25th June, still dwell upon the all-absorbing question of immigration, and state that the Government had a very large surplus revenue at its disposal, which it was bound to appro priate to the benefit of the colonists rather than keep ing it locked up. The duties on spirits had ,wielded a large sum, and it was calculated that 50,000 labourers might be introduced into the island in the space of five years, for an expenditure of 1,500,000 dollars. In reference to the unfortunate destruction of the caisson, which had been so successfully placed upon the Goodwin Sands, we have much pleasure in stating that accounts received in town this morning announce the saving of the crew belonging to the vessel which struck upon the iron foundation of Mr. Bush's caisson. In the Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday there was again a more cheerful appearance, and the sales were 4,000 bales at firmer prices. There was also rather a better inquiry for Railway Shares, and except the Eastern Counties, prices were generally well maintained. This line was at 94. Edinburgh and Glasgow New were 4i ; Great Western New, 60i ; Brighton, 36f ; and South- Nastarn, The exposure of the frauds at the meeting of the coffee trade yesterday has excited much attention in the City, and the pilfering carried on some how or other is considered to demand an early remedy. It must not, however, for a moment be supposed that the deficiency in weight after leaving the Dock warehouses is confined to the article of coffee, since we have it from the best au thority that goods of various descriptions shipped to the Continent or received here, are constantly arriving short of the quantity specified in the invoices. In the simple article of silk handkerchiefs a party assures us, that although every possible precaution is taken by marking the weight, &c., looses have constantly occurred, one case having arrived at Hamburgh recently short of seven pieces. It is to be remarked, too, that such losses have frequently occurred where the goods never went into the duck warehouses at 'all, and that although repeated search has been made throughout the vessels, no clue has yet been been ob tained to the discovery of the mode in which they were abstracted. At Uamburgh discoveries have been made, how ever, of regular depots for stolen colonial produce, and it is, perhaps, not going too far to assert, that something of the kind exists here also. One merchant in the fur trade recently found a bale short of its proper contents, though stowed away in his own warehouse., arid the deficiency must there fore have arisen, one would imagine, by some collu sion with the revenue officers. There is a strong feeling upon the subject, and it is hoped that the Augean stable of corruption will be cleansed, and that some influential parties will be stir themselves, for the purpose of convening a gene ral meeting, to take similar steps to those adopted by the coffee trade. The exchange comes over steady from Ham burgh at 13 Bi, and the price of gold at 434. In addition to the failures at Marseilles, we are advised of tw o small ones, not in the Corn trade, we believe, at Altona; but we only refer to these to show that the smaller and steadier dealers of the Continent, like those in England, are affected by the pressure of the times. Business in the stock Markets has been rather brisk to-day, and prices have fully recovered the par tial depression of Saturday, owing in part, no doubt, to the purchases said to be on account of the Savings' banks, but still more to the superabundance of unemployed capital in the general discount market, and which to-day commands only 2 per cent. By an error yesterday's Consols were made to .bear the quotations which should have stood opposite - the Reduced Three per Cents. To-day - the Consols for present transfer are 931 to 93i, and for the Ac count, 931 to 93i ; Exchequer Bills are firm at 665: to 58s. premium Liast India Bonds are at 485. - to 60s. premium the New Three-and-a-Half per - Cents. again realise. 1011 to 10E ; the Three per Cent. An nuities are 921 to 931; Bank Stock is 1651 to 1661; and India Stook, 253. The Foreign Market has again a tendency to be come more lively, but the speculation in Spanish Bonds is less active, though the Five per Cents. main ain the advance to 16-;-, and the Three per Cents. to 21k. The accounts from Lisbon are not of a very decided character, one way or the other ; the Portuguese Bonds are dull, the New Five per Cents. at 38k, and the Converted at 32 to 32k. Mexican Stock is at 324, and Brazilian at 641. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 524 to 52i. Peruvian Stock has been in speculative request at 1t to 16i. Not much business has been done in the Railway Shares, which are, however, at steady quotations. Eastern Counties bring 14f to 14f discount; Great Western, 181 premium ; and London and Birmilig. ham, 93 premium ; Brighton are 134, and Greenwich Preference 1i discount. London and Westminster Bank Shares are 24 to 24 prem. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 24.—There is very little doing, and the market looks heavy. The only sales quoted are—Manchester and Leeds, Old Shares, at 654, and Half Shares at 274 ; Man chester, Bolton, and Bury, 494 per share. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUN Hank Stuck 3 per Cent. Red. 93 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. C0n5......... 934 , Ditto Old Annuities 3i per Cent. Red... 101 1 Ditto New Annuities — New 3/ 1 per Cent... ...... 1011 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 59 pm N , t‘v 5 per Cen' Ditto 5001...... 59 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 59 pm Jan. 1860 . . .... 12 5-16 Bank Stock fur Acct. Oct. 1859 Jan. 1;60 l2l Consols tor Acct....... 934 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... .Portuguese, 5 per cent. 58 Belgian, 5 per cent lO4 Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds.. Buenos Ayres6 percent — :Russian, 5 pet cent . Unlian, 6 per cent. — ;Ditto, Colombian, 6 per cent — ;Spanish, 5 per cent..,.. 111 Ditto, 1824 Ditto, Deferred.... Cuba Bonds, F per cent 791 French, 5 per cent..—f. —c. Danish, 3 per ent i Exchange —.l —c Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. ;French, 3 per cent —f. %lexican, 5 per cent..... 321 .Dutch, 21 per cent.....,. 524 Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 jllitto. 5 net f_Tnt. . 1001 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. 154_ I_ _ SHARES. Eastern Counties (23 pail) ... Sit Great Western, (65 paid) I titto New Shares (50 paid London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham (90) . ... . . 182 London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4dlid) ati Ditto Preference, or Privilege l7 London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 56/ London and Croydon Railway ( Trunk) ...) gi Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares 115 paid) l5/ South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 221 Ditto Scrip (15 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) ... Ditto New Shares (20 paid) 37i COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDAY. Amsterdam CF.I2 9 I Gibraltar . ..... Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...... ...2 U. 12 „9i Genoa Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 V en i ce 47 . Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 75 P a l ermo, per as l2O Ditto, 3 months 26 5 Lisbon 54 Marseilles ,Oporto 52/ Bourdeaux 26 10 IRio Janeiro Frankfort on Maine ...152 ! B ahia Petersburgh, 3 Us. ... 37 ' Buenos Ayres Berlin , New York,2l days sight 4.b Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 2 - Philadelphia Trieste, ditto Madrid Cadiz Bilbao 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona Seville HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE. Ocr. 21. Bins. Money 110 Austrian 6 per Ceuta. — Rank Shares . Anglo. Russian Loan 10;) Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 034 inscription, lat series 1 3 -- Russian a per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates 97Y4 97 1 4 New 4 per Cent. (1840) .. 87 i, 4N, Dutch kctual Debt, -54 per Cent. ... ...... ...... 5144 51 Ditto 5 per Cent. Polish Bonds New Tickets Anglo-Danish Loan ' 3 per Cent. Spanish, New 5 p r Cents. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMM/16ff, Oar. 21 —l3 10, Two months I IN PETERSBURCI, OCT IL—Three months, 37% pence. NIGH. OCT 14 —Three Mouths, 311%. , STOCIIIOLM, Ocr. 4 • Seventy-five ilays, 12 1L 198% PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-BERLIN, OCT. 20. Bi.ls. Money St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. Prussian English Bond., 1630, per cent. 12i 1 2 Exchange on London Prussian State Gazette, Oct. 21. MONMOUTII:—MLD GEESE.•-•A flock of wild geese were seen at liadnock on M on d ay last, flying in a southerly direction. ) , Ve believe it to be a very unusual circumstance at this per io d o f t h e year. Snow M I at Monmouth and its neighbourhood on IVednes day evening.—Hereford Tuna. ECTION OF ALDERMAN FOl4 BROAD-STREET WARD. A meeting was held yesterday, at the North and :ea South American Coffee-house, of the friends 'of Sheriff Pilcher, for the purpose of taking mniures for putting him in nomination as Alderman fofy i oT Broad-street Ward, and securing his eleotioo, Mr. Pilcher, the Under-sheriff, attended for buv: brother. JAMES CLIFT, Esq., took the Chair, and in doing ' 1 !? so said that the C omm itt ee h a d prev i ous ly met, aim understanding that a requisition had been , got u 9 - in favour of Mr. Musgrove, and that it had . been signed by upwards of 120 of the most re spectable inhabitants of the Ward, the Committee had I: come to a resolution of advising Mr. Pilcher to retire. . The Ward contained but about 200 inhabitants, and had it been known that Mr Pilcher intended to come forward, many who signed the requisition to Mr., Musgrove would not have done so. It would het..'i - therefore, prudent to advise Mr. Pilcher not to e9 0 7 , -:', p ; 9l . test the Ward, whi c h wou ld en t a il cons iderable pense upon it. An ad ver ti semen t h a d been PreP ired ,, v 6 ig ig to be inserted in the l ea di ng p a p ers , w hi c h be w° ll 7,jia J r. gl read. _•• (The advertiseme n t w a s th en rea d, f or w hich see Ir tegr sl , advertising columns.) • left' Mr. Under-Sheriff PacuEn said, that, as the Old Bailey last night, a gentleman of conSidet`;' influence in the Ward called upon him_,:and.-LLT . stated that he was not aware that Mr. rilehPk'lr'Ly, ? .. tended to come forward. Had it been known geatZ , „ b it ; rally, in all probability there would not have heen_.,..',o many signatures to the requisition to Mr. Musgrowl';, ;43 but as Mr. Sheriff Pilcher found that a large preP,l..'. 4au tion of the Ward was pl e d ge d t o M r . M us grove, - Pr' , would 'exceedingly regret anything that. might 0,,,1L L 1 t e ,,* hostile feelings in-the Ward, by offering hinieir7R l os that occasion —(Hear, hear)—knowing the resPeCt'' - vt, ability of Mr. Musgrove, and, with deference . ttr i ,?4,f a inhabitants of the Ward, he should not do O. -01 respect to the question of residence, he thiieght : _ , lM l ';`. l lo would have been no objection to Mr. PilcheVq/;, l , lj ac returned, as he resided within a stone's throW 4 4 ,1 1 '7m City, and was most intimat e ly conn ected with- 14. 7p s okot (Hear.) Mr. Sheriff Pilcheewould be most hapPsr;t sc i-4 41 ", any future occasion, to devote himself to-the of the citizens of London.—(Cheers) 4 , The CHAIRMAN siiid th a t th e q u es ti on o f residencr, was as much in favour of Mr. Pitcher as Mr. Ws" grove, as Mr. Pitcher was a Director of the Arm Insurance Office. „ • A deputation was then f o r me d, w h o wa ited-let Mr. Musgrove, and on their return, Mr. Sheriff r" cher having arrived, Mr. WHA.RTON communicated to him the resolutinil come to by the Committee, and stated that they i t been very courteously received by Mr. Musgrove, 1;11 from the honourable and uprialit manner in rtll. • Mr. Sheriff Filcher had acted, c 'he had gained' — " persons who were his opponents over to his side.. e Mr. Sheriff FILCHER said he approved of 5/1 , 0 1 Committee had done, and thanked them for their in his behalf. Mr. Musgrove will therefore be the new Aldern'A n i • the vacancy having, as our readers will be aware, bc gill _ caused by the death of Sir John Cowan, Bart. - Mr. Sheriff FILCHER said he should put hil u forward the first vacancy that should occur. • The meeting then separated. .• BouLoGNE, OCT. 22.—(From a Corresponden t).. . ' •' The following is a re t urn of the passengers who hal: 1 ' passed between France and England by Boulogne a ll • , : '' Calais for the week ending the 20th of Oct. :- --13° .t . • `',''',: logne-1,292 passengers, 6 horses, and 17 passengers'' ~ Calais-437 passengers and 11 carriages. Am on g ' , ;„ 1 .! those who arrived at Boulogne were Lord Cow* • - i ; the Countess of Leicester, the Countess of Tanker' '' : 1-i ville, Viscount St. Vincent, and Mr. Jardine, the k°'', . ,1 lice Magistrate. f6O "':' CHURCH or SCOTLAND.—The " affairs 0- _-, : ' 0 Church " are really in a queer condition at preen The various provincial Synods, which have ree e lt been holding their half-yearly meetings in differs , ....T parts of the kingdom, have, in every case where 3 11) ;, . jority of members was on the Non-Intrusion side+ i f. ~ resolutions or some other way, expressed their d e tern. vii ~ nation not to yield to the domination which the Ci ta , 1 ~,,, Courts, as they allege, are attempting to exercise °: - ti ~i# ilt, the Ecclesiastical. Attlie sometime, it is very aPP, r r e i l i i:,: r .0; from the speeches delivered at these Synods, all ',1701 . ; the tone of the Non-Intrusion press, that the para,b ) in greatly discouraged, and that numerous indivic' ; ; I JI A e ,j among the clergy are very much afraid that the rila re 7. o l A e f it; 1 tenance of their consistency, combined with I lle t iedji ,'„a tention of their livings, will not be an easy "Iti, , - ,,„did On the other hand, the Moderate party seem t° ;P51.1 , high feather and not one whit disposed to' 44:4117 1K 1 0.1 6 E ' ter rns with their opponents. If the feelinge,g4S l o l tsl a poses of this-party are to be inferred .frord tnir al' . it vie! of its adherents in the Synod of Aberdeen* 1TL. 75- . -- 0 lio, t r expect an immediate rebellion of i'the ini0.,0 3 .' ja 01 ),4 ximAheseodsr:demerweabdhtle:osfhhEttaaigititinsott symbolised o Assembly,tnh e r in eifw i t i n ii if t e y t ' entediy : oseto A in2ol: ? .tr i erre i o - oli iii :,, i 0 a .. ; 84 c :3t of Strathbogie, by retaining their names of the Synod, but they have declared in s 0 , 11111 ; 1 0 - ,til, words that they will not act upon that den. ... ' rebellion could be more flat, avowed, add daring''• Glasgow Chronicle. THE TARIFF IN SHEMELD.—On Friday and S a .' turday la s t there was considerable excitement 111 Fargate in consequence of Mr. Challenger havi n g exhibited for sale a large quantity of cured Am; rican beef and pork, which he quickly sold at fr ° , 3d. to 4-id. per pound. We tasted some of the P er "; yesterday, an d h ave no h es it a ti on i n pronouncing 1 really good. There was no mistake as to the quali tl We wish our wor ki ng p o p u l a ti on h a d plenty of it. a In th e course o f S a t ur d a y some o f th e butchers, it opposition, ticketed their meat from 31d. to 4td• P e PerhaPs pound; but what we saw looked scraggy. it was of "foreign growth," starved on the passag e ' instead of killed before starting.—Sheffield Iris. c 40 EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—The following nov el :j,,. occurred on Thursdajr, at the sessions of Ratlike i county Limerick :—Edmond Roche and Catherine._ ~, Roche were called by the Clerk of the Peace to tail. their trial for larceny of butter. On being a rraig'neu o i , it was found that they were both dumb ; the Cler k , the Peace then (according to law) impannelled a jury • .:- to try if they were mute by the visitation of GD 3l , ue , otherwise. The jury found that they were so by 7. visitation of God. It was then requisite to have 41 1 , interpreter who could swear that he understood the signs of the mutes, and that the mutes understor: him ; but the Crown not being aware of the circur, stances were unprepared with an official, and the t i rili .. th is ,J . ,' was postponed to next session. A case such as not remembered to have occurred before in the coun t y of Limerick. Jonas Studdurt, Esq., of Atl an ti c Lodge, I(ii : e e e t• captured an enormous shark, on th e western coaona, Clare, on Saturday. It was w ith g reat peril 1 : 10 . amid terrible difficulties that he and his men.; a t seeped in bringing the animal safe to shore. .t . ): for once procured a car, an d f orwar d e d it to Kiirli s ' tr Limerick, to he pr e p are d, an d d e p os ited in the 1." seuin of the Philosophical and Literary Society' . 02 . THE FRENCH AND TIE CHINESE.--The fOIIONI rs letter from Macao, written by a French merc hanv ed published by se v er a l o f a h e French journals. It he Hof as long back as June 10:—" You have perhaps, "a th the interview of the Commander of the C A °. Erigone r• f the high fun c ti on a r i es o f th e Vi ca - ro yaltY ° trig. . - t al. It was the Chinese who asked for the n iee o lical A letter of sever a l p ages , fill e d w ith hYPerb f the praises of the divin e qua liti es o f the Emperor ° an d Celestial Empire and the bravery of his soldiers' l o signed by the Viceroy of Canton, by the T i l t r ao of, Comm'ssi(ner, who is said to be the near re l 3, c i v il -the Emperor, and by three or four other his . l, of and military functionaries, was brought by ~''r rn; of mandarins, escorted by soldiers clad in linli ° te re' various colours. The crew of the French frigat e ; ceived the Chinese deputation with all the h°l o t he the officer in full uniform introduced them int o the council-chamber, where they were receiveo,T o pi- Captain. Our countrymen did the honours 0 ' ... R e t hat tality with a cordiality, frankness, and defere l '..., the called forth the most flattering compliments &ono§ mandarins. Two interviews took place some o ,";',. after, in a little pleasure house of the Goirer. r To tuated most delightfully a few leagues inland of the Viceroy was aided by the great dignitaries,Thinese province. There was on th e p a rt of the I j u b.tion much of that gravity and dipl o matic disc i F renc h in which they excel, and, on th e side of th e inter a curiosity and keenness, which ave to the se views a piquant origin a lity. Th e Viceroy enterraent, the strangest idea s res p ec ti ng our co untry, it n ame of g —w e d riches, armies, navy, manu f actures , Sze• T he ci also 3 Napoleon was n o t un k nown to him. He "a b e itos' knowledge that h e was a great warrior, bu t The glued him t o b e a hero of the fabulous ag e ., a ,"___ a o- Viceroy endeavoured to prove to Captain Cecin' as ex . body can say with what view—that China y ' ru iaed lando and that the Eglish a Ma bil can lies Canton Macao. It is true n that -- tabii ,hed lost mu c h s i nce t h e English have y eiSlavL m tig o 011: themsel ves a t H ong -K ong , where t centrated all th e i r comm ercial operations.. .50„ g ht, - filing has never been so active, opium 15 ever oind for by the Chi nese w ith mor e eagerness than t English goods sell readily. Macao is alml..,,r u s e in r e v ci e by this illicit commerce, but this town will til i f lat eh, i for some time as a mart for the Portuguehie, - 1- ' r American, and French merchants, althoug Hong-Kong. On the second interview the e a to ha ve aware that they cannot compete with the ,E ll 7 l l , eijrs i a hs e ° s o-7 and French separated exceedingly well plea C s ecilla °lc made each other's acquaintance. Captain 0 , twi ce seeded in giving the Viceroy a high opinionavi_- Th e . and her. Sovereign, of her people and 1 , 60 „, of Viceroy did not yield to the pressing solicits t oss the Captain to visit the Erigone. This d istrust .i n ie, P. l. pone r fo . ' ;7 to be - ~-, - • come we': Confucius forbids them be looked on in this people as a natural $ .7.1 -' rO/1 with Awn._ .-.:: : , .- ....,, ~- a sentence of Con% 0 0 1 .e QJ ofv,; ; 1 9e