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LONDON LIBRARY ILLUSTRATED. 0 , MONDAY NEXT will be published, with four beautiful Illus trations by Armstrong, Part I. of irretHE LONDON LIBRARY, price Is., contain- Al- inc.): a Tale entitled EDWARD CLAVERING. By C. G. ROSENBERG, Esq., Author of "The Prince, Duke, and the Page." Edited by Lady Lytton Bulwer. Published by W. Thomas, 19, Catherine-street, Strand; and sold by W. Strange, Paternoster-row, and all boaksellers and newsmen. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., CAPTAIN MARRYAT'S NEW NOVEL, lIDIERCIV AL KEENE. " It gives us much pleasure to meet Captain Marryat on his own element, and still more to greet him there, in his old capacity as the best naval novelist of the day. His present novel is one of the true sailor kidney ; frank, easy, and off hand, in the level portions of the narrative ; forcible, spirited, and impressive, where the exigences of the action require it ; and natural, novel, and original every where. 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Against the end of this 111. nth the price will rise to XII, and the Sale will close in the first days of November. 'Those who remit £l5 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 first post. HEINE BROTHERS. HAMBURGH, October 4, 1842. THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING. OCT. 22, Will be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand Orra of SEMIRAMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide :.tics Adelaide Kemble; Arsaco, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from the principal Theatres in Italy ; Assur, Mr, Giubilei ; Mr. Leffler ; Idreno, Mr. Travers; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. Bland. After which, the New Farce, called COUSIN LAMBKIN. Squi - .-c Mulberry, Mr. Bartley; Captain Bantam, Mr. Walter Lacy; Doctor Lionel Lambkin, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Bantam, "Miss Cooper ; Rose Maynard, Miss Lee • Dainty, Mrs, Humbv. To cDnclucle with the Farce of DEAF AS A POST. Capt. Templeton, Mr. Cooper; Tristram Sappy, Mr. Harley ; 52,1113 , Maggs, Mrs. Orger ; Mrs. Plumpley, Mrs. Tayleure. 1 - :toors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes is., Second Price :is, ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. lid. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery ls. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to he taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-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 Band-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, OCT. 22, Will be presented a Drama, by Douglas Jerrold, Esq., en tit:ed THE HAZARD OF THE DIE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Maynard, H. Beverly, Wright, Paul Bedferd, Wilkinson, Mrs. H. Beverly, and Miss Chaplin. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. The Imp, Mr. Wieland ; Fleur-des-Champs, Mdme. Proche Giibilei; " The Frightful, Spiteful, Old Bachelor," Mrs. H. P. Grattan. To be followed by the Burletta of DOBSON and Co. To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, Mrs. 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. Continuation of the Nautical Dramas, in consequence of the immense overflows attracted by the heart-stirring acting of Mr. T. P. Cooke, the only acknowledged Sailer on the Stage. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 22, Will be acted Mr. Albert Smith's . new Drama, called BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with most decided success. Neville Audely, Mr. H. Hughes ; Hugh Laneret, Mr. N. T. Hicks ; • Herrick Evenden, Mr. J. Webster; Blanche lieriot, Mrs. R. Honner. _ _ After which, MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Harry Haliyard, Mr. T. P. Cooke; Joe Tiller, Mr. R. Hanner ; Mary Maybnd, Mrs. R. Honer. To conclude with OF AGE TO-MORROW, embracing the strength of the entire Comic Company. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from eleven to four. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. morning S minutes after 31 Evening 3 minutes after 3. ~ t•-, ' --;.-..'7-- , ,i , . 41. .R , ~..z... . i q. - ..,,,.,, 4 I. . Air 4 ef t fl •••3 "L* N' t grI N ,-.r. - , A. r . ... ). ..,-- : r , rt , -, : 31t i ja ,. -- -. iir,,tat‘• - - " . '- . • -- 30 - -,--- • 4.,0 ,fts, - ,,,,,i . - 2 4 ...L. - , ttitit .27-kilsll4 LONDON SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 22, 1842. We have long ago stated that Sir ROBERT PEEL'S policy had completely failed to revive our trade and restore our delapidated finances, and yesterday we found the Morning Herald echoing our opinion. The real difficulties of Sir Robert Peel's Govern ment (said our Contemporary) will be augmented rather than diminished in the ensuing session of Par liament, and that augmentation will be caused by the melancholy condition of the country. Despite an abundant harvest, incr ease d f ac ili t i es of import ing foreign produce, comparative abundance of money, as indicated by a low rate of interest, and general confidence in the men now in power, there is no material improvement in trade; and despite a small reduction in the cost of provisions, the condition of the labouring classes has become rather worse than it was twelve months ago. The deficiency exhibited by the last quarter's revenue in the Excise receipts cannot be argued or explained away ; the falling-off in the malt tax establishes as a fact that the means of the working people are smaller than they were, and that, deep as was their destitution in the summer of 1841, it has been severer in that of 184 0 . The last comfort which an English workman relinquishes is his beer, and yet it is very evident that he has been this year compelled to stint himself in his allowance of that beverage . It seems not improbable that, for the present at least, the limits of taxation have been reached. All this is true, after every resource has been tried. In spite of Queen's letters, and a general begging for the poor—in spite of Royal visits and new fashions, giving, as is supposed, a stimulus to trade, swelling it perhaps in one place and reducing it in another—in spite of ail the shabby tricks and subterfuges that could be devised to hide distress, if it could not be wiped away, the condition of the manufac turing districts continues as bad as ever. The Friends think it so bad, that they are now pro muting, as we learn by the Liverpool Mercury, charitable contributions to relieve it; and they are ende4vouring to do that imperfectly, and as a matter of supererogation, which the Government ought toperform perfectly, and as a matter of duty. Remembering the speeches of Sir R. PEEL and Mr. GLADSTONE, we conclude that they have failed, not from ignorance, for they know what is right, but from i ncapacity to give effect to Ano ther trouble, t oo , i s their own opinions. coming on Sir ROBERT PEEL :-- A gloom (says the Sherborne Journal) pe rva d es the agricultural interest as heavily as that by whi c h it was oppressed in the latter part of 1835. * Two years ago the farmer's stock might have been bee h n e estimated to be worth three thousand pounds, and would have had no difficulty in borrowing a thousand on its security. The value o: that stock is now re duceil by a third, or two thousand instead of three ; he must deduct the thousand which he owes, and then he will only have one thousand for himself instead of t:Nu, consequently he is only worth half as much as he was two years ago. This will at once account for the gloom which pervades the agricultural inte rest, and w hi c h has been very obvious' at all our re cent Caws' and markets. Our home tr;,de in 1835 propped up the prosperity of agriculture, although w h eat w a s because, were at very remune r atig other articles of pro duceis unable to g i ve such val n uagl ri e ee aid. By but now commerce By failing to rev i ve commerce and manufac tures, Sir R. PEEL has now plunged agriculture into deep distress, and he will have the ruined farmers to pacify and starvirg agricultural labourers to feed or to coerce, when he next meets the Parliament. Th e Ti mes, too, told us yesterday— Theyvhole system (of making the poor uncorafort. able) must be abandoned, or some day or other the entire social edifice will come tumbling about our ears. This coercive system, always un-Christian, is now absolutely unsafe. The poor must be treated rot like beasts of burden, but like fellow-creatures. Above all, the great body of the poor, who are can didates neither for the prison nor the workhouse, must be elevated above their present position and circumstances. Too often, now, are they driven into the ranks of the poachers, or the paupers, by the hard hearted indifference of those above them. Their cottages are demolished, their gardens taken from them, their harvest work is given to the Irish, even the gleaning of the fields is now denied them ; and yet, with lowered wages, and all parish aid taken away, they are told, " Ye are idle! ye are idle!!" And the farmer, the steward, the guardian, the Magis trate, all concur in one feeling—" We mustn't make things too comforkible." A great point is gained for the people, when we find one Tory journal showing that the Pre mier's measures are complete failures, and an other insisting on abolishing the Tory coercive system, admonishing the Government to treat the poor like fellow-creatures, or the entire social edifice will come tumbling about our ears. What the Times may understand by the words " fellow-creatures," we cannot positively say; but as the editors and writers in the Times are gen tlemen, one of them being a representative of the people, and the others, no do,ubt, electors, they must include, we presume, in .thely ideas of treating the poor like fellow-eretittOk4;l giving them all the rights and privileg e d idTh6h;belong to representatives and electors. Anything short of that will not be treating them like fellow creatures. The poor do not want charity, they want justice. " Chartism, Weekly Dispatches, and Corn-law lecturers," as the Times says, have carried them far beyond the notion that they can be served by being made dependent. They will not be contented unless they are treat ed quite as the fellows of the rest of the com munity, and receive political rights as a means ofguarding themselves against the re-construction of the present " unsafe and un-Christian coercive system." Sir R. PEEL'S difficulties, then, are only beginning. In addition to being under the necessity of adopting other measures, pressed on him by rivals or opponents for the improvement of commerce, he will have to make the body of the people comfortable, who are exasperated by privations, and taught, we believe, by his own organs, that the system they complain of is un- Christian ) unjust, and cannot last. Sir R. PEEL is somewhat familiar with. the process of eating his leek. To confess that he has for years supported a ruinous policy, and to propose that it be altered, is an old practice of his. He will have to repeat it on the meeting of Parliament. He will be obliged again to say,. we apprehend, with bitter and burning shame, "I was wrong; I bolstered up for years, with my opinion and my votes, a series of laws which have plunged all classes into distress, and almost brought the country to despair ; and being now convinced of that, nothing shall prevent me from acknowledging my error, and calling on Parlia ment to aid me in repairing the immense mis chief we have in common inflicted on the com munity." This time, however, it will not be a party triumph for the Whigs, who have been as much the enemies of free trade as he has—and his measures will go, we are sure, much beyond the measures they have ever devised; but lie will give a triumph to truth over error—to freedom over restriction—to the people over the aristo cracy—and to the natural laws which determine the progress of society over the craft of states men. If Sir R. PEEL and his party never felt shame before they will feel it, we believe, next session, when they will be obliged puYiely to acknowledge that the great and experienced practitioner is a very ignorant empiric. Reports are rife at Paris that negotiations are to be resumed for concluding a commercial treaty between England and France. We hear, too, of commercial treaties with other countries, and see in some journals supplications for the Government to negotiate such treaties. Such reports and supplications remind us that the late sagacious Mr. DEACON HuME, in his evidence before the Import Du ties Committee, gave a decided opinion against all such treaties. In substance he stated that he was averse to them, because they made our legislation dependent on that of other countries, and might compel our Legisla ture to continue or inflict an injustice on some portion of our own people. The famous METIIuEN treaty with Portugal, which secured for England a favourable market for her woollens, on condition that England levied a discriminating duty in favour of Portu guese wines, is an example of such a treaty. Whatever political considerations might have dictated it, though subsequent events proved them to be unsubstantial dreams, it is now quite plain, and is universally admitted, that it was, on the whole, very injurious to our trade, that it imposed an unjust impost on the drinkers of wine in England, for the benefit of the woollen manufacturers, and, raising the price of woollens somewhat, it did, in reality, levy a tax on all the consumers of woollens in England, to put it into the pockets of the master - manufacturers. That treaty really taxed one class of the people for the benefit of another, and was, in principle, as unjust an act of spolia tion as the Corn-laws. We are inclined to think that no commercial treaty can be concluded which will not have such eff ec t s , an d t h ere f ore ' the subject is worthy of more consideration than it receives. What is a commercial treaty ? A convention between two States, that each will allow the ships and goods of the other to enter its ports on the payment of certain duties, on condition that the other will allow its ships and goods the same privileges on the payment of certain other duties. It binds one State to levy duties to please an other. France, we will suppose, agrees that English bar-iron may be imported into France on the payment of twenty francs a ton, on condition that England admits French wines to be imported on the payment of a penny a gallon. As a re laxation of exorbitant duties previously levied in each country on the commodities of the other from a principle of spite or jealousy or retalia tion, such a treaty at first sight seems a most ex cellent measure, and we will not say, as a lessening of mischief, that it is not praiseworthy ; but there are some considerations which give it a different appearance. The mutual commerce that is to be thus fostered would take place to the mutual profit of the two countries without any treaty, or it would not. If it would, it needs no treaty other than a treaty of peace and mutual kindness, which, indeed, nations ought to observe towards one another, whether they have a treaty or not —and the commercial treaty can be of no use whatever. If that commerce would not take place, or not be continued, without the treaty, it follows that the reciprocal and discriminating duties by which it is encouraged are, to a certain extent, bounties on an unproductive trade—a trade which would not be carried on without those duties ; and the treaty, therefore, directs commerce into a comparatively unprofitable channel. All such treaties, therefore, are either unnecessary and useless, or opposed to the natu ral laws which regulate the production of wealth, and consequently mischievous. Let us, however, look at them in relation to the subjects of each State. The duties our Go vernment a 2 - r-Ts to levy on certain commodities, in consequence of a treaty with France, will be unfair arid unjust to some portions of our people, or they will not. They will be such duties and taxes as the Government ought to levy for the wants of the State, or they will be of a different character. If they be just, fair, and proper, on what pretext can the Government refuse to levy them, when its duty requires it to treat the people fairly and justly, and yet assent to l evy them to please the wine-growers and the Go vernment of France? If they are otherwise, if they be unjust, unfair, and improper, will it not be scandalous in the English Government, a flagrant violation of its duties to its own subjects, to levy them, because that serves the supposed interest of France? At present nearly one half of our revenue is levied on m imported comodities. .Altliough we condemn the exorbitant duti es l evied on French wines and brandies, and believe that both the health and morality of our people would be im proved by allowing the wines of France free access into this country; yet it cannot be denied that as long as such an enormous revenue is levied by the Customs, that wines and brandies are as appropriate articles to tax as almost any that are imported. If the duties on them be not fairly and justly apportioned to other commodi ties, let them be fairly adjusted; but the bulk of the community would have great reason to com plain if duties were lowered on wines, which are the luxuries of the rich, while they are maintained in all their rigour on the bread, the cotton, and the sugar, which go to feed and clothe the poor. For the sake, therefore, of forcing a sale of a little more linen-yarn and bar-iron in France, to the exclusive benefit nearly of master iron and woollen manufactu rers, it will not be just to relieve wine drinkers from their fair share of taxation, and continue the heavy burdens on the food and clothing of the bulk of the labourers. This is only an illustration, but the reasoning extends to every article on which it may be pro posed to alter the duties, in order to meet the views of France. Either those duties are now fairly levied, and it would be scandalous to alter them, and inflict an injustice, however trifling, on some portion 9f our people, to promote a trade with France, not to their exclusive - advantage,— or they are unfairly levied, and it is equally scandalous in the Government not to act justly towards its own people till doing that shall plea sure France. There are, perhaps, some yet higher conside rations connected with the subject. There used to be amongst our statesmen—and Conservative statesmen, in particular, rather gloried in it—an idea of duty. They had, or professed to have, a great respect for the duties of their station, and expressed 13 strong determination to perform their duties to their country. We hope that that idea has not been extinguished, and that amongst them there are yet some who will shut out views of temporary, and ill-to-calculate expediency, and resolve to do what their duty to their country demands. What is that duty in relation to commercial - treaties? Is it to make our laws dependent on those of an other State ? Is it to ask France whether we may levy a shilling or two more or less on the wine which our own people drink ? Is it to ask Brazils or the United States what tax we may levy on sugar, or cotton, or tobacco ? We affirm that it is not; but commercial treaties, of necessity, make our legislation contingent and dependent on the assent of foreign countries; and commercial treaties, therefore, strike at the independence of the State. Conservative states men have been willing to starve their country men—nay, they have starved a great number— in order to preserve, according to their fashion, the presumed independence of the country, and they will not, we are sure, be ready to bind their own idol with the chains of a commercial treaty. We agree, therefore, with Mr. DEACON HUME in condemning, commercial treaties. We say with him, " Levy such Customs' duties as you require for the State, with a due regard to the interest of your own people ; study that as your primary, or rather sole, ob ject ; do to your own people what fiirness and justice require ; protect all honest commerce, but bind not yourselves down by commercial treaties to a line of conduct which must be unjust to some portion of your own subjects in order to please another State." We are quite aware that such opinions do not accord with the wishes of the manufacturing in terest. Some of its journals are rather urgent for the Government to negotiate new commercial treaties. That such treaties might for the pre sent promote the prosperity of the woollen ma nufacturers and linen yarn spinners we will not deny, but it would be at the expense of the rest of the community. We are not now to learn that_the manufacturers are no more to be impli citly relied on than the landlords, when they would determine the policy of the nation by what they suppose would promote their advantage. The protecting policy, in fact, which they so justly rue and so loudly deplore, which is ruining them now that it is applied to the pro duce of land, is, in truth, the policy of the mann ' facturers, and was made the policy of the State by their reiterated demands. Protection. is the ricketty bantling of what is called the commer cial system. To call for protection, let us tell the manufacturers, implies dependence, and at once places that commerce, which ought to be free, with which Government ought not to in terfere, under the hoof of patronising, restrict ing, and spoliating statesmen. Some of the Paris journals are hostile to a commercial treaty with England, and we confess a similar hostility to a commercial treaty with France, for the reasons we have assigned, which are totally dif ferent from those of jealousy and hatred, which, we regret to see, continue to animate our Paris brethren. It will be seen, from the news received by the Hamburg!' mail, that great rejoicings took place at Warsaw, on the arrival of the Em peror NICHOLAS at the capital of the ancient kingdom of Poland'. The city was illuminated for three successive nights, in honour of the Sovereign who had battered it to pieces, who had sent to Siberia hundreds of the bravest sons of Poland, and who, in defiance of the Treaty of Vienna, is adopting measures for making that country an integral portion of the Russian empire. Any condition is prefer able to that of brave men and beautiful women who are compelled to conceal sentiments dearest to their hearts, and worship their de stroyer. We should have thought that the Em- PEROR would have spared that gallant nation this last humiliation, and not insisted on a mockery which degrades both the actor and the sufferers. But Poland cannot be kept down. She has the sympathies of every civilized State, and the day will yet come when she will avenge herself on 'those who fomented her domestic quarrels, who encouraged the father to fight against the son, and, in the general confusion, made the country their prey. Prussia and Aus tria seem not at all satisfied with their share of the plunder; and Russia will find, at no distant period, that PROVIDENCE will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, and require an atonement for deeds that excite alike the indig nation of Heathens and Christians. The excellent speech delivered by Mr. Ser ,DoAtiMTS,hutrh:daCyh,adiormesahnimogf r t e l a ie t h lN o i n i o d u d r l , e a s n ex d g s e e a s t o n A s will be read with delight by all who take a deep interest in the intellectual improvement of the lower in g t c ll e (l a s u s e e s s ii n T h Nl e , h L i r g n a e N d re rs e Gentleman,t() his rienmvairekws--, threw off the trammels which too generally re strain legal authorities from following the dic tates of justice and common sense, exposed the absurdity of retaining on the statute-book ancient laws made for a different race of men, and strongly urged on our legislators the duty and the necessity of providing for the large masses of the intellec tual inhabitants rational and moral edification and amusement. We have often had occasion to animadvert on the absurd laws made with the avowed purpose of preserving order arid encou raging morality among the numerous classes that frequent public houses, but which in reality have the contrary effect, which irritate the peo ple by needless restrictions, and by such dissimi lar enactments for diffurent places, not only cre ate dissatisfaction, but turn these very laws into contempt. What is good for London is good for Leeds and Manchester. A change of locality does not alter the great principles of religion and morality. If it is a sin to remain in a public house on a Saturday night after twelve o'clock in the metropolis, it must be a sin also at York and Durham; and the " collective wisdom" incu great blame by not extending the Sabbatarian law over the whole country. The Home Secre tary said he saw no harm in a poor man eating a crust of bread and cheese with a glass of ale on a Sunday morning in Cumberland, while Mr. BEN JAMIN HAWES and others of the same school, consider it a grievous orence in Middlesex, and THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 22, 1842. have accordingly enacted severe penalties against those publicans and sinners who are guilty ofsuch enormities. At Reigate, and other places within acertain distance ofLo'ndoa, a man cannot have music and dancing in his house withottt a license, while in large towns beyond that limit, dancing and singing are considered very harmless amusements. Some of our wise legislators occa sionally advert to the laws and customs of other countries in no very respectful terms, but if they would look at home, and compare the anomalies, and contradictions, and absurdities which per vade our code of laws, they would find little cause for congratulation. Every man tries his hand at law-making, official personages con sider the subject generally not worth their notice, and the consequence is, that we have a string or enactments as different from one another as light is from darkness. It is high time that this preposterous system should be stopped, that the people should be governed as rational beings, and be induced to obey the law—not from fear, but. from a convic tion of its justice, consistency, and mercy. Were our municipal laws adapted to the age, we should hear of fcwer convictions at police offices, and not one instance in ten that now occur of resistance to its authority. The people are making rapid progress in moral and intellectual improvement, and require other restraints, and also other amusement::, than those fitted for a barbarous and enslaved peasantry. In confirmation of these filets we have great pleasure in quoting the words of Mr. Sergeant ADAMS derived much delight in having witnessed the vast multi tudes that flocked to the Musard Concerts at the theatres. The crowds I saw there saw filled me with wonder, but not more so than their excellent conduct, the admirable results of educa tion. Let theta (our legislators) now that they had removed the blinkers from the eyes of man kind, take care that they were provided with such food in the shape of entertainment and pro fitable amusements, that the day might never arrive when that intended to be a blessing to the people—namely, their education and enlighten ment—should lead to evil results." The Hanoverian Gazette of the 14th contains the formal consent of the KING to the marriage of Prince GEORGE with the Princess of SAXE ALTENBURG, in conformity with the laws which regulate the conditions under which the reigning members of the BRUNSWICK-LUNEBURG family may marry. The Frankfort Journal of the 17th instant, states that the authorities at Berlin had dis covered a secret association amongst the students in the University of that city, which, although it was not of a political character, was unautho rised, and consequently illegal. The Academical Senate had condemned two members of the as sociation to expulsion, and the others were se verely reprifflanded. The Augsburg Gazette of the 15th inst. states that on the 2Sth ult. the representatives of the Five Powers had a conference at Constantinople, which lasted several hours, and at which th e affairs of Servia and Syr:a were discussed. Th e change of Government in Servia having taken place without the consent of any European Power, and being merely the result of the enter prising spirit of IzzET PACH A, the five represen tatives resolved that they would defend Prince TrixcHAEL's rights before the Divan, and oppose by • all the means in their power Wfcztcn's party. The Ambassadors were likewise agreed as to the Syrian question, but their accord was purely negative. It was even feared that should it become necessary to adopt a definitive resolu tion a difference of opinion would arise amongst them. The intelligence from Madrid is to the 12th instant, when an extraordinary Cabinet Council was held under the Presidency of the REGENT. The deliberations were long and animated, and were said to have exclusively turned on financial matters. M. CALATRAVA entered into a full exposé of the s ituation of his depart men t ; an d completely satisfied his colleagues th a t, if hi s endeavours to improve it and to raise s u ppli es had been unsuccessful, no blame should be im puted to his administration. The Three per Cents. were done at 20i for cash, and 21 at 60 days; and the Five per C en t s . at 26! for cash, and 27 at 60 days. The debt bearing no interest sold for 5 2142 :.tt 60 days. Most of the Paris journals re ce i ve d con tain articles on the great topics of the day—the negotiations for a commercial treaty with Bel gium, and the reported attempt to revive the ne gotiations with England on the same subject; but they contain no new information, nor any symp toms of a return to common sense. The National cannotEeven without betrayi ng ev id en t proo f s insanity, n allude to a commerc i a l treaty with of England may be se en f rom a l ong art i c l e l as GUIZOT and th e E ng li s h, w hi c h co.. - e iu d against e s in M these words :.-.." Let the Government commen ce negotiations with G ermany an d Sar dinia; let it try to abolish the Custom-house barriers between France and Belgium; nothing can be better. But with England, we again re peat it, no! We have not forgotten what our imprudent alliances wilds that felon Government have at various periods cost us. In every instance we have left behind something of either our wealth or our power. We have had enough of these fatal experiments, and we have no desire to recommence them." The Moniteur Parisien, on the other hand, states that commercial negotiations were now pending between Great Brit a in, Belgium, Sar dinia, and the German Customs' Union, and France. The Journal des Debuts devotes two columns to the affairs of Canada, and with satisiliction looks forward to the violent separation of that colony from the mother country. "It is impos sible," says that Journal, " not to foresee that at a future period not remote, a contest will take place between Great Britain and her American colonies, similar to that which terminated in the emancipation of the provinces, now the United States—a contest which has already commenced in the Legislature, and which will no doubt ter minate on the field of battle. This emancipa tion, now inevitable, will not be determined, we believe, by any foreign influence. It will vege tate, increase, and explode of itself, by the mere force of circumstances, like a fruit which ripens slowly and is detached from the tree by the slightest agitation. By a singular change of fortune the men who at present compose the Executive Council of Canada were almost all proscribed in the year 1837 as rebels. M. LA FONTAINE, the acknowledged head of the French party, and a notary, M. GIROUA RD, who is now a member of the Executive Council, were pro claimed, and 500 British pounds sterling were offered for their apprehension. For our part, we are happy to see the French party at length take that position i n t h e Government which the jea lousy and fea rs o f t h e English party had until now refused them. :We arc not carried away by any illusion. Th e i nte rest which the destiny of a populatio n , issue of our common country, in spires, can o n l y at pres ent be an interest of re membrance; b ut we ca nnot see without sym pathy this energet i c an d persevering resistance of the manners, and religion of our I. an e , o.warre ancient coloni s t s to t h e abserbing action of th e i r new metropolit an ." The Mo n it eur con tains a Royal ordonnance, dated St. Cloud, Oct. 16, granti n g a supplemen tary credit of 330,000 f. (14,0 001 .) to the Mi n ister for Foreign Affairs to meet the outlay of extra ordinary missions and unforeseen expenses. The Prince de JOINVILLE and the Due d'Au- MALE arrived at Brest on the 1:51h. The King of the FRENCH on Myynday last went on horseback to inspect the detached fort at Mont Valerien. The Toulonnais of the 16th instant states, that the expedition under General BUGEAUD, which left the Maison Carree on the 30th ult,, scathed the Oued Soufflah on the sth instant, without firing a shot. There some resist ance was offered, and Colonel LEBLOND, of the 48th Regiment, with three other officers, who accompanied him in a reconnais- sauce, were shot by a few Arabs, concealed be hind bushes. The exasperated French soldiers immediately rushed in pursuit of the Arabs, whom they soon overtook, and brought prisoners to General BUGEAUD, by whom they were inter rogated. They told the latter that they had mis taken the Colonel for him, or otherwise they should have spared his life. They confessed hav ing been selected to execute the coup de main, because they were good marksmen, and they only regretted having failed in their purpose. Twelve of the wounded in that affair, and amongst others a surgeon and forty men, unable from ill ness to follow the column, arrived at Algiers on the 10th. The country around that city, was tranquil, and the roads to Medeah and Milianah perfectly secure. We find tlre ►ollowing account of the progres gressive increase of the steam navigation of the Rhine, in the Moniteur:— In 1816 was started the first steamboat on the Rhine, running between Rotterdam and Cologne. After a lapse of twenty-three years, there were 39 of these conveyances between Basle and the sea, and this number is annually increasing. The companies rival each other in zeal and attention. The two Prusso- Rhenish establishments, however, have made the most rapid progress in improvement. The Cologne Company commenced on the Ist of May, 1827, with one boat only, betwe en Cologne and Mentz, on the Bth of June following, it had two, and, in 1837, it possessed 9—viz., one of 118-horse power, one of 85, two of 80, one of 75, three of 70, and one of 50 horse-power. In the same year, this company had three departures from and as many arrivals at Cologne, and a regular communication with Stras .bourg. In the following year, the number of boats was increased to eleven ; in 1839, to fourteen ; in 1840, to fifteen ; and, in 1841, to twenty, passing. be tween . Cologne and Strasbourg. In 1838, the Co logne Company made an association with that running boats between Basle and Strasbourg, which had two of 30 . borse-power each. From this period, the passage between Basle and Cologne has been; made in forty- , hours, twenty-nine of which only are spent on board the boats. Shortly afterwards another Company , launched two boats, which performed the same dis tance in much less time. The second Prusso•Rhe nish Company, which had been formed by capital ists of Mentz and Dusseldorf, commenced running, in 1838, with five magnificent boats. Once a week one of these goes down to Rotterdam. In 1838, they conveyed no more than 84,000 passengers, and 60,000 metrical quintals of merchandise ; which, in 1840, ' increased to 152,000 passengers, and 90,000 quintals of merchandise. This was nothing to what was done by the Cologne Company ; for, whereas, in 1827, its transports amounted to 18,000 passengers, and 26,000 quintals of goods ; in 1833 it had 100,000 passengers, and 106,000 quintals on freight ; and, in 1840, the number of passengers exceeded 460,000, and the goods on freight 130,000 quintals ; and, in 1841, these figures increased to 680,000 pas sengers, and 300,000 quintals. The Company which has just been formed at Basle, and which has made a con nection with the Mentz and Dusseldorf Company, will give a fresh impulse to steam navigation on the Upper Rhine. The Netherlands Company (Maatschappy), established at Rotterdam, has traversed between that city and Cologne ever since 1837, with eleven boats of from 50 to 120-horse power. They run daily; but one boat a week is exclusively employed in con veying merchandise. The navigation of the Rhine is carried on to London by boats from Rotterdam, and they make this passage with suc h regu l ar it y and ra pidity, that they insure a great number of passengers, and large quantities of merchandise on freight. BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 118 93 118 90... 118 80... 118 80 3 per Cents 80 10... 80 10... 79 95... 79 95 Bank of France 3280 —.3280 ...3280 .. 3280 Laffitto Bank 5,000 f 5070 ...5070 ...5070 ...5070 Belgian Bank BO5 ... 805 ... 805 805 Belgian Fives 1840 1043 ... 1041 ... 104 i ... 1041 Dutch 24 per Cents 54 ... b 3 ... 53i ... 53* Spanish Active. ...... 214 ... 214 ... 214 ... 214 Passive Portuguese Fives 32 ... 32 ... 31i i ... 32 Neapolitan... lOB 30... 108 40... 108 30... 108 30 Roman RAILWAY SHARES, St. Germain 847 50... 647 50... 847 50... 847 50 Versailles, R. ... 258 75... 258 75... 258 75... 258 79 L.B 9B 75... 98 75... 93 75... 98 75 Rouen Orleans.... - 587 50... s'" ••• Ail 75 Strasburg to Bale 207 50... 208 75... 207 50... 208 75 THE HEALTH OP HER MAJESTY.—We have very high authority for announcing the important and highly gratifying fact that our Most Gracious Sove reign is in that delicate and interesting situation, the intimation of which cannot fail to be received with the most heartfelt interest by every loyal subject in the dominions of her Majesty. Sir James Clark, one of the physicians in ordinary to the Queen, has paid frequent visits to her Majesty, of late, at Windsor Castle. Her Majesty has not taken any equestrian exercise for some time past.—Herald. Sir C. Nugent has passed a good night, and is more comfortable this morning. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Earl of Wilton and the Earl of Aberdeen took their departure from the Castle yesterday, and Captain Francis Seymour left to-day. This morning her Majesty and her Illustrious Con sort en;oyed their accustomed early walk in the Home Park and Slopes. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken their usual airings to day, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing; attended by the Royal suite, including the Countess of Dunmore, Hon. Georgiana Stanley, and the Hon. Clementina Hamilton. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at tended by Lady Charlotte Dundas and Sir George Couper, Bart., will join the Royal circle at the Castle at dinner, this evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester is honouring Lord and Lady Wharncliffe with a visit, at their seat, Wortley Hall, Yorkshire. The Lord Chancellor arrived in town yesterday morning, from Brighton. Count Reventlow, the Danish Minister, transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign-office. Baron de Nieurnann transacted business on Thurs day, at the Office of the Board of Trade. MARRIAGE OF HER ROYALIiIGIINESS THE pßlN crss AUGUSTA OF CAMBRIDGE.--The preliminaries for the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta of Cambridge (the eldest daughter of her Ma ,esty's illustrious uncle) have been finally arranged, and the nuptial ceremony will take place at no very distant period. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at Windsor on Wednesday last, for the purpose of communicating this interesting fact to her Majesty. The future husband of the Princess is his Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, the eldest son of the reigning Duke, George V. The Queen's Royal and illustrious uncle, after partaking of luncheon with her Majesty, left Windsor Castle in the afternoon for Kew. It is expected that the ceremony will take place on the Continent. The bridegroom elect was born on the 17th of October, 1819, consequently his Royal High ness has just entered his twenty-fourth year. The Princess Augusta of Cambridge is in her twenty fir3t year. MEDAL OF SIR I. M. BRUNEL.--The completion of that truly great and national work, the Thames Tun nel, has just been appropriately commemorated by the striking of a medal of its ingenious and indefatigable projector, Sir I. M. Brunel, executed by W. J. Tay. lor, from a design by Warrington. The profile of this eminent engineer is given in high relief, and, with a finished and delicate accuracy of detail, exhibits all those characteristics of deep thought, accurate observation, and indomitable perseverance, by which alone an undertaking of this novelty, magnitude, and danger could have been success fully accomplished. n hilst the arts are too habitually prostituted in the commemoration of achievements hostile to the peace of mankind and the dictates of humanity, let us, as good citizens of the world, grate fully hail this one happy effort of their resources, in honour of a work of great domestic usefulness, the memory and merit of which must endure as long as the river flows which it undermines. The obverse of the medal has the inscription. " Sir 'SAU DI:IIT MARE BRUNEL, P.R.S. ;" and the reverse, " 'Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping, 1,200 feet. Commenced January, 1826, progressed 600 feet January, 1828 ; 180,0001. subscribed by pro prietors ; recommenced 1836 by Parliamentary grant, 270,000/. ; and completed 1842." PRICE or B READ. — Government, it is said, con template a measure for securing a uniform stated price of bread ;and it is cert a i n th a t t h e I nspectors of Corn Returns, in their various localities, have been making inquiries as to its price, in consequence of orders issued from the Excise and Board of Trade Offices, requiring "an account of the price of the quartern loaf (or the four-pound, as the case may be), and of fine flour, during the week to which the last return applies."— Stamford Mercury. RAILWAY TRArrsc.—The dulness of business, and the scarcity of monay, have recently greatly dimi nished the number of passengers even on the best railways, and have reduced the trains on the poorer lines to little better than a' beggarly account clf empty boxes. The attempts made to remedy this, by in creasing the amount of fares, have proved failures in every case that we have heard of. Two stopping places for the second class trains are about to be aban doned on the Liverpool and Manehester Railway, namely, those at Flow Moss and Lamb's Cottage, both on Chat Moss.—Liverpool Paper. r F .: Vi e S e E3l - 11S Ukt rl .7,11 AND Ptlllol/. " Who runs may read.' rOILEIGN. A report prevails at Paris, that the King's sister, Madame Adelaide has lately given 1,500,000 f. for a fine estate in Britanny, called Carheil, and has pre sented it to her nephew, the Prince de Joinville. The Frankfort Journal of the 17th inst. states that a shock of earthquake, accompanied with much noise, was felt on the evening of the lath at Coblentz. The shock extended to the neighbourhood of Nieuwied. On the 12th inst. a fire broke out at Schnoctheim, in Wurtemberg, which in a short time consumed four teen houses. The King of the French held a Council of Ministers on Tuesday at St. Cloud. M. Pa,rot, Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of ranee to the United States, has left Paris for Washington. He is the bearer of books and maps, sent by the Chamber of Deputies, and the War and Marine departments, to the American Houses of Le gislature and public establishments, in exchange for those which M. Alexandre Vattemare had received. In the season of 1840-1841, the produce of silk in the Lombardo-Venetian country became doubled. It is calculated that nine-tenths of this produce is ex ported. England takes annually about 500,0001b 5 . France imports annually from Lombardy and Sardi nia, upon an average, about 1,400,0001b5. The convention between Prussia and Russia, for the giving up of deserters, has been prolonged for another year. The Moniteur Parisien says—" It is asserted that, independently of the Convention with Belgium, which is in preparation, commercial negotiations have been opened with England, Sardinia, and the German Cus toms' Union." The Prince de Joinville and the Due d'Aumale ar rived at Brest on the 15th inst. The Minister of Public Works arrived at Lyons on the 15th inst. • Accounts from Leipsic state that during the last week of September the business of the fair was ex tremely active. Upwards of 10,000 foreign dealers had arrived, but it was difficult to calculate the full number of buyers. The total number of strangers at Leipsic was estimated at between 80,000 and 90,000. PUBLIC OPINION. The Post says, in allusion to the collection of the Income-tax—" We feel it a duty which we owe to the Government, as well as to the . public, to remon strate onoe more against the annoying stupidity with which the preliminary measures of the Income-tax are carried into effect. It was generally understood, both from the character of the Government, and some remarks which fell from the Prime Minister in pro posing the tax, that pains would be taken to collect it' with as much fairness and as little annoyance as pos sible. Instead of this, we find, in the process of ob taining the preliminary returns, the most stupid ob stinacy, and the most unmitigated tax-gathering effrontery. Surely it is enough if the Treasury ob tains the tax, without letting loose stupid people to worry her Majest's subjects, merely that this taxing man or that taxing-man may increase his importance, or swell his paltry gains. We are really surprised that the Government does not cause greater attention to be paid to these details ; for undoubtedly the tax, which is severe enough, whatever way it may be col lected, will become utterly odious and detestable if aggravated by the stupid selfishness of the inferior people concerned in its collection.". In reference to the present destitute condition of the majority of the working-classes, the Herald re marks as follows :—" The destitution and misery of the working classes can no more be removed by a Poor-law than could London be supplied with water from the basin in St. James's Park ; permanently increased parochial rates would in truth only augment the paralysis under which the country staggers ; there is much in the New Poor-law that requires amendment, and many alterations and improvements might easily be introduced into it to render it more consonant with constitutional usage, and to deprive it of u-anecessary severity and wanton cruelty. But we must look beyond such a minor matter of muni cipal administration to get at a remedy for present and future distress ; and the most satisfactory an nouncement that such a remedy has been found and applied will be,—diminished poor -rates and decreased attention to poor-laws. It is just as monstrous to suppose that prosperity and tranquillity can be re stored through pauperism, as it was in Lord Brougham to predicate in 1834 that diminished poor-rates could improve the morals or stimulate the industry of the working classes. Yet must something be attempted to relieve the distress of the industrial population— to improve their sanitary condition—to re-excite their patriotism—to teach them sound morality—and, above all, to Christianise them." The Times observes, in a leading article on the subject of the workhouse system in Gloucestershire : —" As a Coroner's inquest on the last victim of the Northleach prison -system has not yet pronounced its verdict, we shall abstain from any remarks on that particular case which might even be imagined capable of exercising an influence over the expected decision ; but on the Gloucestershire notions of a proper prison discipline, as exhibited in the course of the discussions at the recent Quarter Sessions, we may be allowed to say a few words. We regret, then, on the whole, the tone and spirit displayed by the Gloucestershire Magistrates throughout that discussion. We should have hoped to have found among a body of English country gentlemen, a prevalent feeling of shame and indignation at the disclosures recently made We could hardly have imagined that among a large body of men of opulence and education, many of whom also were of the clerical profession, no one' would be found to disclaim with earnestness all cognisance of, and participation in, such a state of things as has been brought to light. Instead of which, all is de fence and extenuation, with no slight share of attempted concealment, diversified only by a frothy speech from a Mr. Bathurst, the drift of which is altogether undis coverable, but the motive for making which, appa rently, was a valorous resolve to proclaim to the 'vessel world, his, Mr. Bathurst's, firm determination not to be afraid of the Times.' Well, Mr. Bathurst has now declared publicly that he is not afraid.' He is welcome to any satisfaction he can derive from this piece of bravery. But we beg to remind him that the real question is, not whether he is afraid of the Times,' but whetner there is nothing to snake him afraid of his own reflections ? Can he—can the other Magistrates who cheered his demand of Who's afraid ? '—really so far stifle the voice of conscience, as to persuade themselves that in all the several cases which have been brought forward, there was nothing to regret—nothing involving them in the guilt of pas sive participation, at least, in acts of cruelty, shorten ing human life ? If so, then all we can say is, that the practical Christianity of Gloucestershire must be at a very low ebb." The following is from the Chronicle :—" The in sanity of those who advised the late strike in the ma nufacturing districts cannot be more forcibly illus trated, than by the present state of the labour market in Manchester, notwithstanding the strike. The apprehension is generally entertained that before Christmas it will be necessary to reduce the time of the workmen. Would that Manchester were the only place where labour is in excess. The Messrs. Marshall, who employ several thousands at Leeds, and about seven hundred at Shrew s b ury , have reduced their time at both these places to five days a week in stead of full time, in consequence of the French tariff. All the other flax spinners of Leeds have made the same reduction ; and in Dundee, and the other towns of the east of Scotland, and in the north of Ireland, the same course will no doubt be adopted. Lord Abinger leaves a market for manufactured goods altogether out of his sublime consideration, when he makes wages to depend on the price of food. How, in the name of goodness, can employers pay more than the prices they obtain for their goods will allow them to pay, without going into the Ga zette? The handloom weaver receives here exactly the wages which are paid to handloom weavers on the Continent ; for his employer sustains a competition in every market with the continental employer. In vain would the 800 ,000 souls who depend on handloom weaving in this country appeal to the employers for higher wages, on the ground that food in England costs so much more than on the Continent. The em ployers, no doubt, feel for the poor creatures ; but more they cannot pay without ruining themselves. The Tory aristocracy, by keeping up artificially the price of food in this country, and rendering it impos sible for our manufacturers to obtain return cargoes, have afforded every encouragement to the esta blishment of manufactures abroad; and now foreign Governments retaliate on us for our restrictive laws, by hostile tariffs, which add frightfully to the distress of the country at this particular time." MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. The ship America, has returned, after an absence of 26 minths, from the Pacific, with tho immense cargo of 4,700 barrels of oil, 4nd 45,000 pounds of whalebone. VU3EILIC ZMPROVEIVIENTS. The Lords of the Treasury have granted a loan of 3,7501. for the formation of two new roads in Kerry. At the village of Gheel, in Belgium, there is a colony of not less than 700 lunatics, who are treated on so admirable a system, that they live and labour with the inhabitants, and are employed in all ki n d s o f agriculture and manufactures. Me origin of this colony dates back to tAp 6th eentury. The Hanwell lunatic gystem isi Lotidon approaches to this, and the gencral adoption of these plans in Engl an d ree d scarcely be advised, _ _ STATISTICS& The main annual mortality of females i various PMts of the metropolis in th e two years and a half ending December, 1839, shows by comparison that while at Hackney the deaths were as 1 in 57, they were in Camberwell, 1 in 65 ; i n I s li ng t on , 1 i n 50; Lambeth, 1 in 47 ; Kennington, well, 1 in 38 ; G reenw i c h, 1 i n 38 ; Southwark, I ill 33 ; Whitechapel, 1 i n 28. NAVAL &ND IVIXLITAILT. The late Sir J ames Lyon was born in a trans. port returning f rom America after the b a ttle of killed. Bunker's Hill, w h ere hi s ga ll an t f a ther Was He entered lin 4s ; Clerken the army in 1793, as an ensign in th e 25th foot. LAW AND POLICE. Edward John Stephenson, alias John Williams/ was on Thursday committed, at Lambeth -street, on three charges of conspiring with another to obtf i l goods under false pretences ' and also with -.uttering forged bill of ex c h an g e f or 69/. . At Union-hall on Thursday, Edward clerk in the Custom-house, was charged with int it marrying with Ma r y A nn B us h, hi s former vv.to, f Eliza, being still .a li ve . H e was or d ere d to enter In his own recogni z a nces , in the, sum of 2001., to $ P Pea to answer the charge on that, day week. LITERARY 4 N 7 43 SCIENTrrIC. do. Walter Hawkins, Esg . . has a third time e.n v , s voured to obtain f o r th e London Electrical Society live rspecimen of th e gymnotus, b u t has fal l " the animal not surviving the voyage. . Ales' The private correspondence of the late SP . r i a nd ander Burnes reached England by the last Pl„), 0 mail, and will be published with a 3 much dishw possible. counT---7°..asHicm.anx.E. foto The Duke of D evons hi re returns to town Chatsorth next week. „, 4 v JAIl e The Duke and Duchess of L e i ns t e r and T.b.- - d v t, to Fitzgerald, on leaving Carlton-house-terrace , . ‘ v , e o Woburn Abbey, and from thence, on a visit 'pa r k,. Earl and Countess of Harrington, at Derbyshire. Soy' The Earl of Chesterfield leaves town f° l. "- market to-day. -got- The Earl and Countess Grosvenor leilves, `nest combe House, Shaftesbury, about the end °L month, for Eaton Hall. _rt.; din The Earl and Countess of Arran have "^--‘ Elverton ‘• Dublin from Arran Lodge, county Wexford. „for The Countess P ou l e tt h as l e f t Grosvenor-sclua" Raby Castle. for the Count Esterhazy h as l e ft Ch an d os House Continent. W° l4 ' Lord Morpeth arrived in Grosvenor-place on nesday. Lord Foley arri ve d i n Grosvenor-square o n nesday from a t our . e er . Sir Robert Pe e l an d Si r J ames G ra ham. 6 ' r petted in town th e b eg i nn i ng o f the wee k. t ° Lord and Lady P ru dh oe return nex t we e Stanwick Park from Alnwick Castle. "atxscELLANEotro. Afjest)? It is said that th ere i s no d ou b t t h a t her - ,: i1 71 1 ) e will visit Bright on on th e I st of Noven' b m %rrio u alterations are p rocee di ng rap idl y. Dr. B e i - t he o r on Wednesday to give instructions respecting tilation. spy aia new The Earl of D en bi g h i s erect i ng a sr- I/ mansion in Belgrave-square. t ilt At the meeting of the Bedfordshire Ag r i del Society, held thi s week, T. A. Green, Esq• 6 1;:d s ta :, the vast quantiti es o f l an d near B ed f or d in o it of cultivation. M r . Willi am Bennett. attrihu the insecurity' felt by the tenant, w ho had i ja ii npr°' rantee for the outl a y o f hi s cap i ta l an d skill'am °l9; tected by a lease. Mr. Bennett then qu oted u: servation made to him by John, the late j 3 fas Bedford :—" Mr. Bennett, I think the 6 111 e deed, approaching when there must be some, and , ; r : te natit', material alteration in th e l a w o f l an dlord ars. o e 9 ? The new Royal Stables and Ridinr i nes ° Windsor have just been completed from the de s i er the the late Sir Jeffrey Wyatville, at somewhat nn Parliamentary grant of 70,0001. LLOYD'S SHIPPING• fresh _____—.......—. loon, LONDON, OCT. 21.—Wind this day at 1 1 1 northerly breeze, fine clear weather. e 4 DEAL,- OCT. 19.—Wi n d S.W.—Arrd. T.Y ll , l , y etie c. ney ; Clifton, Singap ore ; P ac t o l us , Lloyd, ' a t °' Sld. Union, Todd, N ew Z ea l an d , an d greater f"- the outward bound. .IS-' A A . PORTSMOUTH, O CT . 20.—Wi n d W N to W. to ---, et Arrd. her M a j es t y ' s steamer V o l ca no, 1, 0 .n0r . Ski. St. George, Norie, New South Wales.lsabella, Geale,merara. s strong e s. brezesand FALMOUTH, squally.—Off OCT.oaly.--0I 19.--ff pWorintpd N. to SWANSEA, O CT . 19.—Arrd . la C ri o b in °r m °017rei ' ePP :' Content, Reid, Quebec. at ni 00" • LIVERPOOL, OCT. 20.—Wi n d va riable a n Mac rate.—Arrd. Gentoo, Dodd, Calcutta;Le_f 3l :Csib el l lean, Demerara; Agnes, H u t c h en ,- rw - 7 10 5 ' Sailed Cordeli a , M a d ras ; Wilt on Woo d ' Monte Video. SHIELDS, Ocr. 18.—Arrd. Naney,' izF tou • Saphire, Hall, Quebec. • IsP n , CORK OCT. 18.—Arrd Lightning, 3 ".. r i e ' 13r0 1 1 Video ; ' Woodstock, Taber , St. John's, .L'''iT ti ' rg ero l 3 : N 'i vi h c e k o . clos O ia ff , r ence; , i pe a r t t n t ß he ive l;:a s li . a L nt a , w Sewel i l l u ne rv,, John's ; Lamport, Quebec. SALCOMBE, OCT. 18....-.4off port the F-4 11, , n Launceston ; H arr i et, V alpa i a i„ ; C orona t t' chardson, Quebe c ; St ep h ani, Flor, New Itr""crit#4 BRIDGEWATER, OCT. 1 B.—Arni. British Quebec. fro 0 LIVERPOOL, OCT. 20.—The Jane Augos,' a i r air, Quebec, which was aground in the river Y e ,. s l c , , came off on the flood, and wa s b row{ ht into ar en , SHIELDS, OCT. 19.—The Orient, of Abe r 4, 011 taking the bar thi s morning, got ou the Herd • 0 was assisted off, and proceeded up the river , 00 11 „ The British Queen, arrived. at Bridgewa:te!,a, r o d v '''„ on the Bth inst., in lat. 50, lon. 11, the Donfoinic,e,r, v Jamaica to London, short of provisions and vi• 0 10. of the crew dead, and supplied her with pre vi s f l ou g if VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.----Sarrifiel, Sca rb°v, Sydney, sth ult.; lat. 13, lon. 24 W.; Ji.•Pe'rrifii to to Falmouth ; Dale Park and Harriet, ~t h i 9.1; London, and Libra, Oporto to London, I .,`; ali " PO, by her Majesty's brig Ranger, arrived at -L i I etc er a Platoff, Calcutta to London, 6th inst. ; Da` e ' o l oft, h , pool to New Orleans; Naples Packet, Li elo x LI Naples,lsth, by the Marlborough,arrived ofr Li , Puella, Liverpool to Trieste 6th i - ost, off A gl' it J Ehe Vincent, by the Breeze, arrived off Falmouth' Bristol to Jamaica, 10th inst., lon. 8 Pactolus, arrived in the Downs. KentuckY , ifrbe t to Boston, 21st ult., by the Enfield, arrived Or ;of Transport, No. 26, 22d ult., lat. 48, lon. 23 li a i British Que en , arr i ve d a t B r idg e wa t e r. ~93 , .„ : 011P rd, from Cork, out 33 d a y s , off the Banks of Arc, land, by the Woodstock, arrived at Cork. 1,4 from Aritwerp, lat. 53, lon. 4, Ilith inst., bY " T ri i 10 5 0 steamer, arrived at Hull. Peihin, Clyde u l ,-, -u „ 3 ,,t e c ost, 12th ult., lat. 44, lon. 53; England , ' 4 '4 41 of Liverpool, 10th i ns t., l on . 1 2 ; Chi e ftain , of a s'r from Quebec, 16th ult., l a t. 46, l o n. 48, V th arrived at Cork. Barque Carib, 12th irist., ] t ptV" 12; Woodstock, 14th, b y t h e J u bil e e, arrives ar .1.11 ERRATUM.—In our notice yesterday' ofD r ; 'h e lecture at the Polytechnic Institution, • for re b e ol traction of coh es i on h as , in a great met t ,: l at , " r e's occasioned by th e expans i ve po wer of " e Op " overcome." We re SERIOUS DISTURBANCE IN MINI- - ho Saturday ev en i ng , w hil e two o f t h e soldier_esv ~i 1 50 off duty w ere return i ng to their bill e t for t h e n they got entangled with a knot of trades lo"s. o••• 0 a manner, that it u l t i mate l y c ame to . t li d soldiers had no c h ance w i t h fifty or S il k it ; 1 40 ruffians, and the less so that they wer e t he G' ofif their cups. Th e officers, who reside in a pt bi Inn, seeing th e mob mallrefe.lng their nie' eso t Je 3 : 0 0 rushed down to their rescue, but wer e occ o aid the mob with groans and hisses, and d outi to v eto with stones. The guard was then turne, of the street, which they speedily- did, and - 0 01 retired to the inn. A short while after e t . , ;: ry r ows , 12cted in greater numbers, and showed „oat thc tion to riot. They broke several of the inn ¢o to° ' id ler and might have proceeded to extremities, 11 Sheriff lu,kily arrived and read the the s tree which a piquet of the 42d patrolled. elf . 5 - Sunday morning. ed 11 holr SLEEP - SEEKERS.—MaeIIiSh often coaxed 0, A fie a t o -6 s o l z e eenp timesb 3 , re , p e a a n t d i nga gentleman, somcil l i c n nowo ( 'hi. the ,t" fiN i ford, has learned to fall asleep at Will, 1 1 ;4 ..1% her eyes in one direction for a few minutes. ke t ill th e having son : ibn k ag n n o d N t r h . s r e u i a r b s soporl to have fo e lady hhaeirr efoo whont combed eda often ndi srteomaaulin2snyaw.pflae:_avel itohl Philips, the poet, delighted, when a boy, ; office performed for hours together; o 0 0 0 1 1 ) ,,, Vossius was so critica:ity curious le r "l ie r that he preferred its performance or ° t 'ing He liked to have it done by barbers _ c o o n persons skilled in prosody, so that their s Pe sze , to , _° 1 : 0 movements might imitate iambics, trochee ! o ber t,r! ec t great delight. In these cases, reverie the epee, sleep was produced ; but in other instanf'o,,:ii is that of a simple narcotic. Thus, Si', by °Rd the architect was regularly put to sg. , eP _ d combed' 015 the hair at the back of his head cot e of wirithNtohßemPaoulms o E f E t L h . e — h o ai n l d food j il t . itO the largest, if not the largest, eels e` •° ` stet °5 in Tly was captured at inchyra. Tins_ ee 7 joc i k e t it species weighs 36ilbs., measuras pa r i4o • 0 , length, and 20 inches in girth the .s tn': rtr hull` d to lied with the flowing of the tide, t S — at N ur e c d ta i y cal in it P so s erille landed behind a mud bank, where a _ to f o rged enjoy itself by floundering a bout,, :jog F,toPeted likelihood of its return to the river 50 , 5 com et ,d i ed the ebbing of the tide. Several it, wfl' i ble, fltornoon tbe with the river police, who had observesinvos,oo4 upon the beach until they 531Ve`'e'ipllsticit vet' when they immediately attacked „tble io , other weapons, and, a ft e r consic l .era„: , e nt ti vd , o f came this great giant of his ` visitedbV c i r d if' Perth, where he hts since b' pn people at Mr. Bu'st's yard, a curt'. V. tergate•