The Sun. — London, England, 1834-10-21 00:00:00

BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS. BRUSSELS, T. 18.—Mr. Alexander Gendebien has just returned to the Commission of the Iron Cross, the in signia sent to him as a member of the provisional Govern ment. This honourable deputy, in the letter which accom panies the returned insignia, declares that he refuses the Iron Cross, because he is of opinion that civic virtues do not require for their recompence such a distinction. The Minister of War having received from the King leave of absence for a fortnight, set out for Paris this morn- ing. We learn that Messrs. Von Meenen, President of the Court of Cassation, Plaisant Advocate General, in the same Court, Henry de Brouckere and Verhaegen are named pro fessors in the Free University. The entrance of the house pupils of the college of the Catholic University is fixed for the 29th of October and the following days. The installa tion of the University and the opening of the lectures of the faculties of Divinity, Philosophy and Sciences will be on the 4th of November. On the 16th six squadrons of the Ist regiment of Chas seurs arrived at Fermonde, on their way from Ghent to Malines. On the same day General Magnan arrived at Liege, where he will have his bead-quarters. EXCHANGE, HALF-PAST TWO, P.M.—NO business was done at the beginning of 'Change. The arrival of several couriers from Paris, made the speculators fearful of a great fluctuation in Spanish stock. It was not till nearly two o'clock, when it was believed that there was a decline (said to be from to per cent.) in the prices from Paris yes terday, that some bargains were made on the following terms :—Perpetuelles, 45 ; Cortes, 421 ; Coupons, 16i ; Guebhard, 28.—Brussels Papers, Oct. 19. The Dutch papers lately informed us that the Duke of Nassau had returned to Biberich. The Duke, it is true, returned long ago, but the plenipotentiaries of the Emperor of Austria, the Kings of Prussia and the Netherlands, have not returned to Biberich, to continue the negotiations for the cession of Luxemburg. The Luxemburg question, 'important to the House of Orange (not to Holland), and to the Collaterals of the House of Nassau, but still more important to the German Confederation, which is called on to cede a portion of ter ritory to a Revolution which it hates—this important ques tion seems to sleep. Every body asks what has been the result of the negotiations at Biberich ? The object of the consultation was to offer to the Duke a pecuniary in demnity : but this could not be given by Orange Nassau, till the Collaterals should have actually come to the exer cise of their rights in the Grand Duchy. According to the family compact the Collaterals cannot alienate claims upon Luxemburg, till they are transferred to another terri torial possession. Notwithstanding this, it is now affirmed that the Duke of Nassau has at length declared himself disposed to accept a pecuniary indemnity. With this result the Conferences at Biberich seem to have broken off. It will be evident to the impartial observer, that the willingness of the Duke of Nassau will scarcely induce the German Confederation to cede to Belgium a considerable part of Luxemburg, if the Duke of Nassau is to have an indemnity in Limburg ; but the German Confederation none at all, as King William notified to it. It may be further argued, that the time is past when the German Confederation and the Northern Powers in gene ral would hasten, for the sake of maintaining the peace of Europe, to cede to Belgium any, even a small, part of Ger many. We are rather inclined to affirm, that in conse quence of the French revolution, of the failure of the at tempts to revolutionize Germany, and to make Switzerland favourable to the French policy, the German Confedera tion is much strengthened, and that the Luxemburg ques tion closed in a manner suitable to the dignity of Germany. VIENNA Oc r. 10.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 99% ; Four per Cent. Ditto, 90i ; Bank Shares, I,26l.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 15. MILITARY INFLUENCE IN FRANCE. TIME that FRANCE has PASSED in WAR FROM the THIRTEENTH to the EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. In the fourteenth century, forty-three years of war : i. e. five of civil war, thirteen of war off the territory, twenty five of war on the territory, of France.—ln this period there were fourteen great battles,—among others, that of Cour trai, where the Flemish won four hundred pair of spurs from the French knights ; and that of Poictiers, where the King of France was taken prisoner. In the fifteenth century, seventy-one years of war : i. e. thirteen of civil war, forty-three of war on the territory, and fifteen of war carried out of the territory; of France.— In this period there were eleven great battles—Agincourt, Castillon, and Montlhery were among the number. I n tt.o Qixteentu -mar a e forty-four of war off the French territory, eight of war on the French territory, and thirty-three of civil and religious war.—ln this period there were twenty-seven great battles. In the seventeenth century, sixty-nine years of war : i. e. eleven of civil war, fifty-two of war carried off the French territory, and six of religious war.—ln this period there were thirty-nine grcat battles. In the eighteenth century, fifty-eight years of war : i. e. one of religious war, six of civil war, and fifty-one of war off the French territory. Thus in the space of five centuries we have Civil war Religious war On the French territory 76 years. Off the French territory Total During which time were fought one hundred and eighty. four great battles.—Front H. L. Bulwer's France. MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND. A person, named Pearson, a labouring man, at Randy land, near Brampton, has been committed to Carlisle gaol, charged with the murder of his wife. It appears that Pear son, in company with his wife, reached home on Monday night, the former being intoxicated. Some time after they entered into the house, the neighbours heard a great noise proceedirrs from the room they occupied. Pearson was using very violent language, and in a short time after blows were struck by the prisoner, and cries of " Murder !" heard. The neighbours interfered, but their attempts were frustrated by Pearson declaring he would serve them in the same way if they offered to speak to him. Compara tive quietness appears to have followed this, and it seems that the deceased had been preparing to go to bed when Pearson again attacked her with a stick. The neighbours were again aroused, and, on getting to the door, found the deceased outside of the house, quite naked, and in a pitiable state from the bruises she had received. She was then in vited into the house of one of the neighbours, to keep out of Pearson's way. She, however, declined doil , so, and again went into her own room. There she had not re mained long, as she was seen early in the morning, still quite naked, in a field about twenty yards from the house, by an individual from Brampton, who had occasion to pass along the road, and who heard Pearson telling her, in an Angry manner, to get up and go into the house. It appears she obeyed him, and with difficulty reached the bed, and in a short time she was found lying there dead, her body presenting a shocking spectacle from the brutal treatment sho had received. The principal wounds were on the head and neck, and from these the blood was flowing copiously, and had stained nearly every article in the room. Pear son, on the result of his conduct being communicated to him, betrayed the most hardened indifference ; and while the corps was being laid out, was engaged in drinking from a bottle of spirits he held in his hand. An inquest was held on Thursday, and a verdict of " Wilful Murder' brought in. in , The great improvements introduced the Forest of Dean by the making iron there, has given a stimulus to the neighbouring works, which will probably be felt on Thursday, when the Lydbrook ;yorks, on the confines of the Forest, are to abide the uncertain izte of the hammer. The re-action which has taken place in the iron trade during the last year, and the extraordinary and steady rise which has taken place, will surely be influential with our me ied men. It is conti guous to the rail-road, and in direct comuainication with the rivers Severn and Wye. A negociation is at present on the tapir between Messrs. Robert and Severini, the directors of the Italian Opera in Paris, and the assignees of Mr. Chambers, for the King's Theatre in London. The only question in dispute between the parties is, we understand, the extent of time for the dura tion of the lease. The assignees wish to limit it to one year, a term to which, with some appearance of justice, Messrs. Robert and Severini decidedly object as unreasonably short.— French Paper. THI WEATIIER.—As a proof of the extraordinary mildness of the season, it may be stated that a gentleman who resides in the Coburg-road, leading out of the Old Kent-road, dined on green peas, gathered from his garden so late as Sun day last, Oct. 19. This gentleman has pe, in full bl oom and pod, in an unsheltered part of his garden. as CAPTURE OF A HAWK. ---Yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock, the hawk, which for forty years has been the terror of the vicinity of St. Paul's Church-yard, in conse quence of its having destroyed smaller birds of all descriptions, fell from the dome of the cathedral opposite the front of the Crown coach-office, St. Paul's church-yard, in consequence of old age. Mr. Pope, the landlord, who is upwards of 60 years of age, and has been acquainted with the haunts of the hawk in the dome of the cathedral for the period above-mentioned, having recovered from his surprize, seized and secured the once-considered sacred bird, which is of full-growth, encaged, and placed it in one of his apartments, where ho intends exhi biting it to the public gratuitously. During the after part of the day the house was crowded to excess, to witness this un . . expected and desirable curiosity. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF STOCKS THI: Bank Stock_ 3 per Cent. Red. .9 0Y4 3 per Cent. Cons. 914 1 % 354 per Cent. 9 94 Ditto lied. .99 SR, 9% .... . .... ....._. New 5 per Cent - India Stock 264 y c , 4 _ ~.. Ditto Booth ........... .19 21 Pm. New 354 per Cent. lO O -99 Assented 99 4 per Cent. [ Di . enteci - Bank LongA nnuitics to expire Jan. 3, 1860 l7 1-10 Oct. 10, 1859 - Jan. 5, 1800.....„„ ........... - Jan. 5, 1880 - April 5, 1880 - Jan. 5, 1870 - South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS A►sttian Bonds lO4 Belgian Bonds 1014( Ditto Account lOll6 Brazilian Bonds 77 4 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1151... - Exch. Bills, £l,OOO "9 441 pra. Ditto 500 99 40 pm. Ditto Small Eg 40 pm. Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto ACcount Chillian Bones Ditto Account Columbian Bonds. Ditto Account — Columbian Bonds, 18.24 — Ditto Account ...21 54 IIA so% 1 Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds — Ditto Bonds, 1525 — Ditto Account — Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent 4l 4,0 N Ditto Account — Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THI Ditto Commercial — pm Ditto Advertised pm- Bank Stock for Account 223 India Stock for Account Consols for Account 914% THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, IPeruvian Bonds DIV° Account Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Nevi Bonds 83 2% Ditto Account —83% 2% 3 IN% Prussian Bonds — Ditto Bonds, 182-) — Russian Bonds, '1822 — • Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic — Spanish Bonds 51% 2% 3 2 1% 2 1 4 Ditto Account 54% 31,4 1% I 2% Ditto Bonds, 1833 — Ditto Account 52% 1% French, 5 per cent —f. —c. ----- 4 per cent. —f. — c. ---- 3 per cent. f. —c. -- Exchange —f. —c. Dutch, 2% per cent. 52% 4 % Ditto Account 52% Ditto, 5 per cent. II' 4 Ditto Account Albion Copper Mining Company Alliance Assurance Company DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. 10 11 3 DUTCH FUNDS—AMSTERDAM, OCT. 17. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. 525 to 5:1 1 ,4 Aniort Syndic, 4% per cent Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. to 76 Loan (1830) 5 per cent. Ditto (1F32 and 1813) 5 per cent. Exchange on London, one month Ditto, two months l2 12% Dutch Papers, Oct 18. PRUSSIAN FUNDS—BERLIN,: OcT. 13. St. Schuld. Sch. 4 per cent. 99% 99 Prussian English Loan, 1818, 5 per cent.... -- Ditto ........ 1522, 5 per cent.... -- Ditto Bonds lB3O, 4 per cent.... 95 *1( 9554 —Prussian State Gazette, Oct. 14. • HAMBURG, OCT. 14. —I3ORSEN HALLE.—The market to-day displayed much firmness. Discount, 234 per cent. End of October. Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent 73 Anglo-Russian • 102 1 4 Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 1820 96 Ditto, ditto, 1831 9i Ditto, ditto, 1832 96 Certificates Polish Bonds 1313% Prussian Bonds, 1832 Austrian Bank Shares 1.70 Ditto Metalliques IOOX Ditto 4 per cent. Ditto 4 per Cent. (1834) Spanish 3 per Cents 27 Spanish Cortes (A. F. Haldimand and ,ons) Ditto 4 per Cent. 49 Dutch 23 4 per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents SAN Portuguese Regency —Hamburg Reporter, Oct. 14. MAILS. .....--. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due Arrived. Due. 0 America.... ..... 0 1 France 0 0 Liston ... ..... .... 0 0 Brazil 0 0 Guern. &Jersey 0 1 Malta 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg 1 0 Mexico ....... .... 0 0 Carthagena 0 1 Holland 0 0 Ostend 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Jamaica 0 1 Sweden I 0 Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.SIORROW. Morning .33 minutes after 4. I Evening 5l minutes after 4 in the recompence of married and unmarried labourers, that has rendered the poor of England, idle, reckless, and improvident. These are among the abuses, and these the consequences which it is the object of the Poor Law Amendment Act to remove. And can any reasonable man say they ought not to be removed ? But do they not say so in substance, who have cla moured, and continue to clamour, against this Bill, though they cover their vituperation with the cloak of commiseration for the poor? From the zeal and pertinacity with which this bill has been pursued in certain quarters, there can be no doubt that every in stance of suffering that has occurred has been brought into notice. It is impossible in any case, where a wrong course has been taken under an Act of Parliament, to return to a right one, without the infliction of hardship. But in a range of such extent as the abuses of the poor laws have taken, the wonder is that the cases of hardship promise to be so few. Dr. CHALMERS, however, by what he had done in the parish of St. John's in the city of Glasgow, containing a popu lation of 8,000 souls, chiefly of the working classes, had long ago shown with what ease, safety, and cer tainty the existing abuses of a compulsory system of provision for the poor could be eradicated, to the bene fit and improvement of the poor themselves, and what is meant to be accomplished by this bill had been already effected, or was in the course of being effected, in upwards of one hundred pa rishes in England. There can be no doubt, there fore, of the ultimate success of the measure, and of its ultimate benefit throughout England. Nevertheless, the Commissioners have an arduous task to perform. They have to encounter the prejudices and the love of power, of those who have not hitherto been inter fered with in the execution of the law, and are exposed to the malice of those who have heretofore furnished supplies to the wants of paupers, regardless of their well-being, but mindful of their own gains, mixed up with mistaken feelings of general charity in weak well-meaning persons. But every intelligent man and good subject, will readily afford them assistance. The difficulties will only be at the outset. After the sys tem is fairly launched, it will become like a machine of vast but simple power, that has only to be kept in order and in motion, to accomplish its work. HAMBURG, OCT. 15, 1834. lIEINE, BROTHERS, beg to inform the Pub lic, that the NINE LAST DAYS of DRAWING of the SIXTY-FOURTH GREAT LOTTERY will be the 3d, sth, 10th, 12th, 13th, 17th, 19th, 20th, and 24th of Next Month. The Wheels of these Nine Days contain 9,000 Tickets, and 1,200 Prizes of various amounts ; amongst which is the largest Capital PRIZE OF 150,000 MARKS. Tickets, warranted undrawn, are now Selling at 136 Marks Banco, or 101. Sterling, say Ten Pounds. Direct for Tickets to the above-named Contractors, HEINE, BROTHERS, in HAMBURG, who will attend to any order accompanied with remittances, reach ing them before the 31th inst. Their foreign customers are always furnished with any requisite information, if even not inquired for ; therefore those desirous to purchase have only to write a line or dering the Ticket or Tickets, inclosing the amount of 101. per Ticket in Bank Notes, Bank Post Bills, or any Bankers' Draft, and giving their full and plain direction. Those who favour them by purchasing may confidently rely upon the strictest secrecy as to their taking a chance or getting a prize, such being the undeviat ing rule of their old-established and most lucky office, which for more than Thirty Years stands unrivalled for the continual Sale of Grand Prizes, and that to a larger extent than any Lottery Office in the world. P. S.—lf, on receipt of any order, the Tickets should be cleared off, the money will be returned immediately, free of any expense whatever. There is no risk in sending Bank Notes, the Hamburg Mails being conveyed by capital Steamers. No letters from Great Britain to Hamburg are forwarded unless the postage be paid when the letter is put into the post, otherwise the letters remain at the Post-office. THE SUN IS NOW THE LARGEST DAILY PAPER IN LONDON. zh t se4it'n+ ~~ LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1834. An extraordinary express from Paris was received in the city this morning, bringing the following tele graphic despatch, dated Madrid, the 14th instant : The Finance Committee of the Chamber of Proceres brought up yesterday their report upon the foreign debt. It proposes the adoption of the project of law with the modifica tions which it underwent in the Chamber of Procuradores, but it states that it reserves to itself at the same time the right of requiring, under the form of a petition, the acknow ledgment of the Guebhard loan, as soon as circumstances will permit." _ _ _ BY the same express another telegraphic despatch from Bayonne, dated the 19th instant, was also received. The Bayonne despatch stated that on the 11th Zumalacarreguy was in the vici nity of Los Arcos with the greater part of his troops ; that Don CARLOS with the Junta was at St. Este van ; and that the insurgents had suffered a defeat at Villa Franca, and had failed in the late attack on Castile. The other accounts from Bayonne speak favourably of General MINA'S health, and the pro spects of an early termination of the present disas trous war in the Northern pi ovinces. PARIS, OCT. 19.—The President of the Court of Peers has just written to the peers to inform them that the report of the criminal process now in the course of investigation before the Court, will probably be ready to be presented to it in the middle of the month of November next, and to invite them, in consequence, to be at Paris at that time. The peers will be subsequently informed of the precise day of the first sitting.—Afoniteur. Notwithstanding the repeated assertions of the legitimist journals, and the details contained in their letters, it is now certain that the news of the taking of Bilboa by Don Car los, is nothing but a fable. We have seen letters from that town of the 7th and 10th, which make no mention of an at tack, or even of the approach of the insurgents. The cholera was decreasing rapidly at Bilboa, but it made great ravages in the Carlist bands. The Journal du Commerce thinks that the news of a re monstrance from the Queen to the Procuradores is very improbable, as the late votes of the Chamber have almost all been approved of by the Ministry. Besides, nothing of the kind is known at Paris, where the courier ought to have arrived by this time. A telegraphic despatch announces that the Prince de Joinville landed at Brest on Saturday, returning from his voyage to the Azores. He immediately set out for Paris. Count Pozzo di Borgo is to give, on the 20th of this month, a fete which will equal in magnificence the late gala at Fontainbleau. Prince Gallitzin, Aid-de-Camp to the Emperor Nicholas, was present on Sunday at the last review of the camp at St. Omer.—Messager, Oct. 19. In our Queen-square Police Report our readers will find another exemplification of the wisdom and benig nity of the anti-chimney-sweep Act, by which hun dreds of the poorer classes are thrown out of employ, and turned adrift, as vagabonds, upon town, for no other reason that we can see, than that their cry of " Sweep" is obnoxious to the delicate auriculars of the privileged c'.asses. We subjoin an extract from this Report, which points out in more forcible terms than any we can use, the surpassing merits of the Act in question : " Charles Millard stated that about 9 o'clock in the morning he heard the defendant crying " sweep" in Holywell-street. " Mr. GREGORIE—Are you a house-holder? " Sweep—Bless you, I've only got von room, and that's full of my kids, almost starved to death ever since this Hact of Par liament came up. " Mr. GREGORIE said in this case he should only fine the de fendant 6d. and 2s. costs." Now this half-a-crown, be it observed—serious, as it may appear to a poor chimney-sweep, whose voca tion at the best of times is precarious—is but a miti gated penalty : how then must it press upon him when the whole is levied ? The report proceeds as follows : " Sweep—l can't pay a fardin ;my kids are all starving at home for bread, and " Sveep" we must cry or starve, and so there is an end on't. " The defendant was told that if it was not paid in a week, a distress warrant would be issued. " Sweep—So it may for vot I cares. I knows nothing of the Hact, but I knows I've a right to cry sveep when I likes for my living." It is evident that this poor climber knows nothing of the true science of Government`, or he would not venture to come to a conclusion which has only com mon-sense and common humanity to recommend it. What matters it, whether a distress be put into his .house—his last blanket be torn from under him—and he himself and his whole family be driven out to die like dogs in the streets—provided his betters cease to be annoyed by his vulgar dissonance ? Let him live; but if he can only live by boring the ears of the gen teel, then let him starve—and the sooner the better. So argues the spirit of an Act passed in the second Session of a Reformed Parliament ! In the predica ment to which they are now reduced, with nothing but the prospect of starvation before them, we would seri ously exhort the chimney-sweeps to learn so to modu late their voices as to produce an agreeable harmony by their Cry. If they could only contrive to shake and quaver, like a Donzelli, upon the word " Sweep," we have no doubt that they might cry on to all eter nity ; for the genteel are partial to melody, and will go great lengths in befriending its professors. But what well-instructed ear that has been entranced by the Siren sounds of some first-rate opera singer, can listen, without the profoundest sense of annoyance, to a shrill, dissonant Cry, which resembles nothing so much as an east wind whistling through a key-hole ? Let the chimney-sweeps, then, be advised by us, and reform their Cry altogether. By so doing, they may possibly contrive to extricate themselves from their present dilemma ; for the Act is only levelled against " Sweep," because the Cry is a nuisance, which it will, of course, cease to be, the instant it can be proved to be musical, for, Heaven knows ! music is anything but a nuisance in this most refined and scientific of countries. The conduct of the Middlesex magistrates in re fusing a license to several of the minor theatres within and around the metropolis, is ill calculated to impress the public with any very high opinion of the wisdom or the impartiality of that Worshipful Brotherhood. Their Worships, with a gravity of look, and a sense of their own importance which would excite a smile, were it not coupled, like all otherabuses at the bench, with injury to the poor, and mischief to the community, have at last thought proper to denounce dancing, and singing, and fiddling, and piping, as abominations, which no person can witness, without risking the happiness of a future state, who does not drive a carriage, and keep a box at one or other of the two great theatres. The Middlesex Magistrates have in truth forgotten themselves of late. They are not content with performing the functions assigned them,:unless they can show the world how much it owes them for not over whelming it with the terrors with which they are invested. It is pleasant to exercise power—the wish to exercise it, is one of the most natural that finds a place in the human breast ; and in no way is the exer cise of power so obviously manifested, as in oppressing others with impunity. The beggar beats his dog to display the greatness of his dominion, and the tinker apes the sway of the monarch by ruling his donkey with " a rod of iron." The Middlesex Magistrates are very fond of displaying a similar pride of dominion. No doubt it was as delicious as a feast to them to disappoint the It is a remarkable circumstance, and we pray at tention to it, that the cases which have been reported of suffering, under the Poor Law Amendment Bill, clearly demonstrate the soundness of the principle upon which it has proceeded. They are cases of individuals wishing to escape from the work-house, or desiring not to be sent to it ; thereby evincing the effi cacy of the means adopted for the accomplishment of its purpos e , namely—to induce the poor of England to have recourse to their own industry, and not to depend upon parish pay for their support, by preventing the payment of wages, rent, or taxes, out of the rates ; and by discontinuing allowances for children, which, con trary to the course of things, has created a difference TIM SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOEER 21, 1534. hopes and ruin the prospects of the lessees and actors who, a few days since, applied to them for permission to strew an occasional rose in the thorny paths of the poor, hardworking artisan. The people of Kensington, Mile-end, Portman Market, and the Strand, might have been left to choose themselves whether or not they would patronize theatres in their vicinity, without being reminded that there was a power in Clerkenwell-green to whose nod they must bow— before whose wisdom _they must stand self-condemned of ignorance and immorality. The application for the license for the Kent Theatre at Kensington was signed by the Duchess of KENT and Sir JOHN CON ROY, but their Worships were not in a mood to yield a tittle of their prerogative, and the application was spurned as a matter of course. Mr. RAYNER, of the Strand Theatre, did all he could to move the flinty bosoms of the Magistracy, representing to them, that if denied a license, he must be utterly ruined, as his whole fortune was embarked in the doomed speculation ; but he pleaded in vain—his judges were inexorable, and handed au innocent enterprising man over to de struction with as much indifference as they would have committed a thief to Newgate. But such oppression of the poor shall not pass uncensured,—nor such stretches of power to interfere with the amusements of the industrious classes escape exposure. We have not space to-day to devote to the subject, but we will resume it the very first opportunity. PRIVY COUNCIL-(THIS DAY.) The Privy Council resumed their sittings this morning. Many witnesses have been examined, and the general opi nion is that the fire arose from accident, with partial neg lect. The doors are closed, so that strangers are excluded. It is supposed that they will continue their sittings until to morrow. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—ln one of your late numbers you make honourable mention of a work, edited (it is there said) by Colonel Napier, our historian of the war in the Peninsula. Per haps you may think it worth while to correct this mistake. The publication in question (the Governess, by Mrs. Na pier), is edited by Colonel Charles James Napier, (brother or cousin of the famous historian), himself author of a very remarkable book, on the lonian Islands, which, to my mind, sufficiently manifests itself the work of one who, if he had been appointed to the situation held by Sir Frederic Adam, (so unfortunately for the public benefit and for his own fame,) would have made the happiness of the whole lonian people. A worshipper of The Sun in its present splendour, H. Devonport, Oct. 13, 1834. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. By the New York papers to the 3d October, received at the North and South American Coffee-house this morning, we have an account of the following dreadful shipwreck. Extract of a letter from Pictou, dated 11th September : " We have just received accounts of the loss of the ship Sybelle, of Liverpool, from Cromarty, for Quebec, with 316 emigrants, all of whom perished. Six of the crew saved themselves in the boat, four of whom arrived here this morning." Montreal papers to the 27th September, and Quebec to the 24th September, received at the above Coffee-house, state—" We are sorry to find, by the papers from Halifax, that the cholera makes fearful ravages in that city. Between the sth and 10th September, the 96th Regiment had been seriously attacked, 16 persons having been sent to the hospital on the first named day. The 83d had not suf fered materially, and the Rifle Brigade, which had suffered at the commencement had resumed its health. Arrange ments were making to encamp the two former regiments." The Quebec papers are void of interest. By the Firefly, from the Mediterranean, we have ac counts from Corfu of the 29th of September; from Patras of the 30th of September, from Malta of the 3d inst., and from Gibraltar of the 11th. It appears that the accounts from Greece continue to be unfavourable. The conspiracies have been put an end to, and the rebels completely defeated, with the loss of 150 men killed. King Otho had been at Athens, and decided that town should be his future seat of Government. The English fleet con tinued at Vourla. No news from Cadiz. The express from Paris, this morning, is of little import. It neither brings Madrid news, or domestic ; and for several days past, the French Government have not published any telegraphic dispatches from Bayonne respecting the war in Spain, which proves that the Queen's troops are on the stand-still, and will not commence offensive operations before the arrival of General Mina. The report of the taking of Bilboa by the Carlists sti requires confirmation. THE FUNDS. It is reported that late yesterday afternoon, the City Capitalist received an express from Madrid of the 12th instant—it was too late for speculation at that hour of the day—but, in the course of this morning, we shall ascertain by the operations in Spanish, whether it is favourable or unfavourable to the Cortes Bondholders, as well as to the taking of the Spanish Loan.. Spanish opened at 54i s ; Portuguese, 83i I. Consols, which left off yesterday at 91i opened at 911 for the Account. There is little doing in the Market at present. HALF-PAST ONE. Letters have been received this morning from St. Mary's, Jamaica, to 2d Sept. The negroes were all quiet, but doing little work. Not a single cask of sugar had been made in that parish up to the 25th Aug. Accounts from Demerara of the same date, state that the negroes were very refractory on many of the estates, and several of them have been severely punished. All was quiet at Berbice on the 29th Aug. The express from Madrid, with the information that the Committee of the House of Peers had adopted the Project of the Law of the Procuradores on the foreign debt, caused some sensation in the City, in consequence of which Spanish receded from 544 to 51, since which a re-action has taken place, and at present it is at 52 to 52i ; Portu guese 83. _ . Consols 91i to I for the Account. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for the Account, 91i to i. The elder member of the ducal family of Berken feld, William, Duke of Bavaria, has just ceded his domains at Banz, in the Upper Palatinate, and his appanage of 225,000 florins, to his grandson, Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, brother in-law of the King. He has reserved for his own use 1,800 florins. The extraordinary beauty of Lord Palmerston's equipage attracted great notice the other day on his visit to Windsor. A company is just established in France, at the head of which are two Peers, Messieurs De Nicolai and Rcederer, and several other moneyed men, whose object is to establish a rail-road between Paris and Orleans. The road will pass through Essonne and Etampes. N EW MAGISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS.---Mr. Benett, of Worship-street, succeeds Serjeant Sellon at Hatton garden; and a Mr. Grove, who has occasionally assisted Sir Frederick Roe at Bow-street, is appointed the new Magistrate to replace Mr. Benett. CHIT-CHAT AT NAPLES.—The King of Naples has issued a decree to prevent his subjects from wearing beards. The Count Camaldoli's second son has been detected in some conspiracy, and after having been confined a short time in pri son was banished. The Marquis of Solza, known in Naples as the Chevalier Charles Picolellis, has obtained this title through the kindness of the Marquis of Hertford to Lady Strachan, by the purchase of the estate of Solza, near Avellino. After repeated refusals the King of Naples has at last been persuaded to allow the title to go with the estate. The last accounts from India state that Lord Ben tinck had entirely recovered his late illness, and was as actively engaged in business as ever. THE ANNUALS THE JUVENILE FORGET-ME-NOT. EDITED Rl' MRS. S. C. HALL. Ackermann, Strand, London. Complain and grumble, and look as Werter-faced as we may, the world is rapidly progressing onwards in its love of the elegant, the beautiful, and the good. The most faultless efforts of art, the most pleasing productions of genius, are now brought forward, not to enrich the cabinets of the curious, and to delight the eye of the travelled connoisseur ; no, but fix the attention, form the taste, and feed the glowing fancy of the juvenile satchel-bearer. Look at this beautiful Christmas pre sent for good children--examine its sweet embellish ments—and read its lovely little stories and pretty verses—and then tell us whether, a century ago, the most polished Court in Europe could bestow such a present on its youthful sovereign. We have here no hobgoblin tales of terror—no grim stalking ghosts wrapped in bloody winding sheets, with eyes of fire, and breath of blue flame—no Raw-heads and Bloody- Bones ready to snatch away naughty Masters and cry ing Misses—no old women in the shape of cats of any colour—no Ogresses lying behind hedges, or watch ing among the trees in the avenue to eat little boys who go a birds'-nesting without leave—none of all these sources of nursery affliction—these perverters of the opening imagination of the young, dreaming enthusiast. " The Juvenile Forget-Me- Not" is full, —brimful of the prettiest little gems imaginable, and the sentiments throughout are such as angels might be presumed to inculcate, were they to change places with our nursery maids and governesses in the guardianship of confiding infancy. The designs of the engravings are beautiful, and some of them are very well executed. The arch expression in the face of the youngest of the " Little Sisters" is finely contrasted with the more sober and demure look of the " youthful Mentor," who begins to imitate papa in looking very grave, while she tries to prepare her light hearted little playmate for his coming. The three cherub children that embellish the Title-page are models of lovely innocence ; and all the others are such as to do credit to the good taste and genuine feeling of the editors. Mrs. Hall has been fortunate in the list of her contributors, for we have here the names of some of the most agree able and instructive writers of the day, vying with each other in strewing roses in the primrose path of boy hood. Of these we shall merely mention the names Mary Howitt, Felicia Hemans, Laman Blanchard, 'the author of " Corn Law Rhymes," Miss Pardoe, Mrs. Hoffland, the Rev. R. Walsh, L.L.D., and the Rev. C. Williams. Dr. Johnson, in his life of Dr. Watts, somewhere says, that the mental greatness of that accomplished scholar and profound Divine was never so beautifully exhibited as in his composition of songs for children. We are precisely of the Doctor's opinion, and therefore beg to assure the writers whose names we have mentioned above, that we never thought so highly of them as when we saw their names appended as contributors to the "Juvenile For get-me-not." THE AMULET. EDITED BY S. C. HUE. Wesley, Strand, London. Most of the contributors to " The Amulet" are the writers, whose names we have mentioned in the notice of " The Juvenile Forget-Me-Not." The additional ones include the Countess of Blessington, Barry Corn wall, Miss Mitford, Mrs. Gore, the Ettrick Shepherd, and John Banim, all names well known and deservedly respected by the lovers of English literature. The tales and verses are very beautiful, and most of the en gravings possess merit of a high order. The best are " The Mother's Hope," by C. R. Leslie, engraved by Rolls ; "The Lace-maker," by Inskipp, engraved by L. Stocks ; " The Festa of Madonna Dei Fiori," by Uwins, engraved by Sangster ; and " The Widow," by J. Webster," engraved by Finden. " The Lily by East lake," engraved by Rolls, which forms the frontispiece, is roughly executed, and has an appearance of hard ness that takes away from what is really beautiful in the fine, open, and impressive countenance that looks at you with such solemn earnestness. Much of this must proceed from carelessness, for we are often struck with the difference in point of excellence between two engravings by the same artist, and often between two parts of the same engraving. We know that it may be often impossible for an artist to execute all himself, but he can remedy what is defective in the work of an apprentice, and he is neither just to the public, nor to his own reputation if lie neglect so to do. The tales and verses which enrich the Amulet pos sess merit of a high order. The Editor has done his part to render this gem as attractive as possible, and we trust his efforts will be crowned with success. There is much taste and great judgment manifested in the contents and arrangement of the present volume of the " Amulet." LITERATURE. TEA TRADE. LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE COURIER, UPON THE SUBJECT OE THE TEA MITI ES. -BY JOHN TRA VERS. Second Edition, with Additions. Wilson, Royal Exchange. When an end was put to the East India Company's monopoly of the trade with China, it followed as a ne cessary consequence, that an alteration should be made in the mode of levying the duty on tea. Under the old system the tea was sold by public auction, and the duty, being ad valorem, was levied without any diffi culty, and without reference to the name or distinction affixed to the articles sold, by which it was in no way affected. It was regulated entirely by the price ob tained at the sale, to which price it always bore an exact proportion, or rather stood in the relation of per fect equality, for whatever the price was, such, to a farthing, was the duty. So arbitrary and indefinite, indeed, were those names and distinctions, and so little regarded as indications of quality, that it was by no means uncommon for the inferior denomination to ex ceed the superior in price ; Bohea, for instance, often selling dearer, and consequently paying a higher duty, than Congou, and Congou than Souchong. This is a fact which it is material to keep in view, for it is to the disregard of it that we may attribute the blundering legislation which has produced the war now raging between the Government and the tea trade, and which, if a timely remedy be not applied, is likely, we fear, to produce consequences of a much more serious nature. With a system of free trade (there being no means of ascertaining prices) the mode of taxation which we have described, and which was well adapted to a mo nopoly, was manifestly incompatible. It was equally manifest that a substitute was to be found only in one or other of the two following plans : Either the same duty must be laid on all descriptions of tea, or a dif ferent duty on different descriptions. The former is designated, in the tea controversy, the fixed duty, the latter the scale of duties. Which of these plans is the best ? This was the question which the Government had to decide ; and when the extent to which it in volves the interests of the revenue and the comforts of the public is considered, we shall not be accused of exaggerating its importance, when we say that they ought not to have decided it without resorting to every accessible source of information, for the guidance of their judgment. So far from following this course, dictated alike by the magnitude of the interests at stake, and their own want of experience, they seem to have entertained a morbid apprehension, lest any mering of practical light should break in to disturb their theoretic dreams. They eschewed most scrupo' lously all communication with the tea trade, brought a bill into the House of Comm Ons without giving them no tice of their intention, and passed the bill through the House in the space of five days ; thus setting an cor a : ple of fair dealing to the trade, by commencing their new system with a smuggling transaction. And aft er all, the provisions of the Act, instead of being in .ac cordance with the principle of t a xation, avowed by 1,0 promoters, and advocated by th e i r partizans, are t otally irreconcileable with that principle. LETTERS TO A MOTHER ON EDUCATIOS. By the Rev. J. J. DENHAM. Wood and Son, 1834. , (I " Difficile est proprie communia dicere amongst these common, yet difficult topics, educe° seems to be ona of the most difficult. The good inters't tions of our author it would be impossible to d e ' b t ' nor can we in justice deny him a fair portion of en tal but he certainly wants the art of telling dry facts ple, e : santly. A book to be useful, must, we presume, read read ; and we cannot even guess at any class of r eaders who are likely to wade through this goodly duod ecimo ' in which nothing is advanced that is new, and in which the old gains no interest whatever from the inciae of its narration. To all this the author would P ro, Itably reply in the words of his preface, that — OP ° They were most truly written extempore, both as to t t he and style. It will only be necessary to state these fact s t° „a$ considerate reader, to bespeak his allowance for their nu tne ' imperfections. hc Now, of all excuses, this is about the worst that e s ' t offered for a defective work. What matters it to thl oil public how a book was written, wh e ther standing o t one foot or on two, with a crow-quill or with o ne re Bramah's patents ? All that the readers c ' t i lie about, or have a right to care about, Place real, intrinsic worth of the book that is r a bv before them ; if good, its merit will not be lessened of the fact of its having been penned at little expen se a t labour ; and if bad, it is no satisfaction to be told t for it was written in a hurry, and was never intend ed publication. AIVES AND PORTRAITS OF THE rEO BRATED WOMEN OF ALL COUNTRIt''' PART IV. BY THE DUCHESS OF ABILINTES. London : Bull and Churton. 1834. ht i t il We have received the Fourth Part of this debtP o f work, containing the lives and portraits of Christil u it 4 , Sweden, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Mari e be toinette, and Mary of Medicis. No lady s houl d e .g without it. It is a work which does its 0 1 ir much credit, and which cannot fail to delight a ll or , struct its readers. Madame d'Abrantes is, 1004 rather too severe upon th e b r illi an t b u t half stisl ii ' e ti Christina of Sweden, and does not seem to have f ° l f i ' or a proper estimate of her chara c t er , or ma de due antes for the extraordinary education she re cei rit e But we can forgive the ami a bl e an d talented eig for not dwelling too long upon so unfeminine 3 ple as the bold and fiery Queen of the North. In lier „ v oo moir of the unhappy Marie A n t o i ne tte she i s i ilet more congenial ground, and he r h ear t w arms "' it The subject, and there we will hasten to meet her' of sad details of the melancholy hi s t or y o f the Q ue . e v i l ac i. Louis XVI. have long been familiar to us, bu t w ith d'Abrantes has narrated each mournful incide et o lty so much grace, and thrown such charms of e° if we over the well-known story, that it seemed to us aS it were reading it f or th e fi rs t ti me ; we f e lt as ni tic iroa wn terest in the development of th e pl o t, an d wer e c ' on as irresistibly by it, as eve r we were by the fs s , d i e tions of romance. This memoir is undoubtedl)ore best written in the book, and after its perusal ' le i , tIO led to exclaim, and not for the fi rs t time, I° l , o lo beautiful and hapless Mad ame Roland,—" 0 ., thi holy liberty I what crimes h ave b een comm itted 11- rac er name I But it is vain t o ex p ect t h at beauty g and innocence, powerful as they usually are, e' in . a / cessfully stem or escape the torrent of revoluti , 0 16 strength to decide, and wisdo m t o avo id, these nr- 0 requisites for going u n h arme d th roug h so s t° c o th. period, and Louis the Sixteenth was deficient in 51;0 The following passages, f rom th e Life of C"r" had of Sweden, are amusing enough— we w ish roYilitYA' f t er , never been guilty of anti cs more di sas trous. ow abdicating the Crown of Sweden, she remain' 11 0 ' months in France, on her way to Italy' ril l demoiselle d'Orleans, during he r res id e nce lg otw eagerly sought the young Queen's acquaintal he r having taken her on ce t o th e pl ay , s h e descr% be behaviour there in the following terms : " During the performance she spoke very loud, passages which pleased her, and not unfrequently m r 1e6 5 la of oaths. She leaned over her chair, and threwl either side, sometim es even over the a ' rms of her ch :l . short, she put h erse lf i nto postures w hi c h I h a d ne .e O l0 -e. executed before, sav e by J o d e l et or T r i ve li n , the 19 banks." esl) The following i s th e d escr i pt i on o f her 1- " ei appearance when retiring to rest : ooe e r " I found Christina in bed (says Mademoiselle) bene'oo the rooms usually occupied by my female attendan ts ;pd n ip I sleep at Montargis. On e so lit ar y can dl e was ben ilaP the table. Instead of a night-cap, Christina had tied round her head, and not a s i ng l e h a i r was to Iv ' her head had been shaved a short time previously.., lc; o f close bed-gown, without a c o ll ar , an d f as t en ed lar vi sy °°‘ bow of red riband. The sh ee t s reac h e d on ly ba' $ the bed, and over them was thrown an old green eirtristill Notwithstanding all these eccentricities , ti o l d was a clever and able woman, and her intellect, ° che f of too masculine a stamp, was much in aavluce. port is age and country. I n conc l us i on , we wisli th the success which it so abundantly m erits. det er ; PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.-it„.i: 14°,55.f0 mined to prorogue P ar li ament on Th urs d a y nel;bich and 6 Committee-rooms of the House of Lord s ' the escaped injury from the late conflagration. At ers , The Duke of Newcastle and his ( 13 t e s, te s9 Ladies Clinton, have left Hafod, their seat in ' ;-- „ c i co u pa n ,io rived on Sunday se'nnight on a visit to the Earl e ,:i c h e c- o cal; of Lincoln, at Ashton Hall, near Lancaster, 00 w A ' iii errYloto t TN l v i b e ees b t e um ll eo s rke o el f abna t d h s, e parish church rang a long rian,,,`" left berlae a si n n d ce then ee f t o o r c t i h u e mb l e a r ke p s ar o k f . recove;leo ,! The Duke of Northumberland has so t t he from his recent illness as to be able to be prese ll „, h t u a r sclsi ' a lgO wick Sessions print which took place we r f e rrif Above 300 of theipal inhabitants of the e otl 2. r i 0' ;A O present,rvai Lord with and L the Duchess R tb a o v f e env Northumberl and crr ke Oss a u the Georiana Grey, Hon. Colonel Grey, IVlrs. , goo. I Brand g lings, Sir Charles Dalbiac, Miss Dalb' ae ' Liddell, Matthe w B e ll, E sq ., M. P., ea' sta r THE EARL OF DERBY.—We lame lt ;n it that an express arrived yesterday from Knowsley r:rdship.,4o cashire, stating—" Wh en you receive this , his who be no more r--The Earl and Countess of 'Wilton , co e on a visit to the Stanley family, left the h ouse ana ,c e of the venerable Peer having lost his hea rin g e ec h' fr ° of 6ce' a fit of apoplexy. Exchequer- per; Lord Brougham arrived at th for the adjoining the House of Lords, yestc.rday morning: . ch thc os pose of making inquiries as tz, the m anner . in : d m the ra a t' originated. Among gentlemen who visited the 0.17 the morning were sir C. Grant and several mem ber liament. Mr. and Mrs. Fairlie, the son and daugol.so. A young man who was en tbat * g of Sir C. Manners Sutton, likewise visited brninthe prep aged g t Or chequer tallies has, it appears, acknowledged „, •tto es_ must have originated in the flues. . Several i u divid us brought back during the morn in g• by different f s lii°lli whose houses they had been deposited. ce, able party are still at their romantic cottagbe.satGtrua c Rothiemurchus. On Monday se'nnight i or• panied by his son, Lord Alexander Russell b. and The Duke and Duchess of Bedford and ~ 9 ; Lord Fordwich, eldest son of Earl cowy lo o p , to said, to be Under Secretary of State for Foreign,`,;ar: the room of Sir George Shee. We understand th Landseer, arrived at Inverness from Dunro in Cas e d:: is, it Head, and Mr. Gulstone of Coventry, are to be ivy C o mmissioners ~. seiilournduerntihteedPosorerLvai: Club Act. ocov , to The are r jr,, apart m ents at the Carlton Hotel, Regent-street; e“ repair of their house. 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