The Sun. — London, England, 1861-10-02 00:00:00

lIIR. SPURGEON ON THE , s GORILLA." --4 , -- Last night Mr. C. H. Spurgeon delivered a lec ture on the Gorilla," with the accessories of vocal music and dissolving views, in his great tabernacle, at Newington, to an audience which completely filled the whole building-, and must have numbered over 5,000 persons. The doors, although opened an hour before the time appointed for the lecture, were besieged by an immense crowd, who struggled hard to get the best places. The admission was by payment, vary ing from Gd. to is., and the proceeds, which must have amounted to a very considerable sum, were, it was announced, to be devoted to the Band of Hope Union, a society whose object is to promote total abstinence from spirituous liquors among children and young persons. An immense sheet of canvas was suspended over the dais in front of the pulpit for the dissolving views, which the prospectus said were painted by " first-rate artists expressly for the lecture," and had never before been exhibited." During the evening a choir of 500 children, accommodated in .thegallery behind the pulpit, sang a selection of sacred music which had a special application to the object of the society. It was intimated in the bills that M. Da Chaillu the celebrated African traveller, had promised to' lend a specimen of the gorilla for the occasion, and when half a dozen men brought some large object carefully wrapped up in drugget, and placed it upon a table near the lecturer's table, there was much laughter and cheers. Upon being uncovered it was found to be a veritable gorilla of formidable build, standing nearly upright, with a ferocious grin, showing the whole extent of its huge month and teeth, or rather fangs, and holding up its right arm in a menacing manner. The arrangements upon and near the platform were of the roughest kind, and no accommodation whatever was afforded to those who attended to report the proceedings. Mr. A. 11. Layard, M.P. for Southwark, and Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, pre sided, having M, Da Chaillu on his right. Mr. Spurgeon, upon entering, was greeted with some cherry, which, however, were indignantly sup presed by a large portion of the congregation, who seemed to think they were out of keeping with the place. The CHAIRMAN, who on rising was, however, cheered as cordially as if he were about to address an ordinary public meeting, said ho was at a loss to know why he found himself in the chair. It was surely not to introduce the rev. lecturer, who must be known to all or the greater part of them per sonally, and if not personally there were few throughout the length and breadth of the land, - whether rich or :iloor, high or low, to whom his name was not familiar. (Cheers.) It was not to introduce the interesting party on his right—(the gorilla). He would leave that to his rev, friend, who was better able to discharge the duties of the master of ceremonies. (Laughter.) Nor was it to keep order, as he had before been in that vast.build ing when it was filled, and when the rev. gentle man was listened to with perfect silence. He came there to listen, to be amused, and to be instructed ; and though he was slightly beyond his own pecu liar dominion, he could not refuse to take the chair on an occasion when he had an opportunity of meet ing so many of his friends, and showing how deeply he approved of the conduct of Mr. Spurgeon, who, amidst arduous labours and no common anxieties, found time to afford amusem nit and to promote cial intercourse among those who were in the habit of listening to him as a m:nister. (Cheers.) Having adverted to the object of the scciety on whose be half the lecture would be given, the chairman said, whether Mr. Spurgeon admitted that that interest ,ing creature (pointing to the gorilla) was their first cousin, and in the course of time the state of things might be reversed, and they might have a gorilla giving a lecture on Mr. Spurgeon, instead of Mr. Spurgeon delivering a lecture on the gorilla— (laughter) —or whether he discarded the relation ship, he would not venture to predict. This, how ever, he would venture to say, that that gorilla might have witnessed scenes of which they might be ashamed, and in which their nearer relations had taken a part. Englishmen had penetrated portions of Africa with a rum bottle in one hand and gold for buying slaves in the other. That fatal rum, with the accompanying habit of dimikenness, avhich seemed to be thought a peculiar qualification of the Anglo-Saxon race, did much to bring about miscrY and wretchedness and to exterminate tribes in that country. He trusted, however, that the time would come when the Anglo-Saxon would no longer bring the rum bottle to the land which the I gorilla inhabited. (Cheers.) Mr. SPURGEON, on presenting himself, was re ceived with most enthusiastic cheers. He said he had no notion that a fourth of those he saw would be present, and expressed his regret that so many had been turned away from the doors. Perhaps the first question he ought to answer was, why he lectured on the gorilla. He would give his reasons, and they, would judge whether they were proper ones or not. It was a growing opinion in his mind, that the human animal needed one sort of amuse ment or another, and that if you did not give him the right sort he would certainly seek the wrong. God so adapted man's nature that he should not only. attend to the necessities o.? existence, but seek for the enjoyment of pleasureF. 'lt was no use his constantly saying in the pulpit, " You must not go to the public-house or the theatre." rhe reply would be, " We want something of the sort, and if yOu do not' give us the right thing we will certainly take to the wrong." (Cheers.) Mr. Spurgeon then explained that, seeing the success which had atten ded his le,ctures in the schoolroo.n, he had readily complit d with the request to deliver this lecture, observing that his only object in life was to benefit his fellow creatures. The best way to elevate them was to preach the Gospel of Christ, but that did not prevent his using other mans besides. Lectures on scientific or other subjects, in which he was able to throw, out useful hints upon dress, cleanli ness, economy, and temperance, did pod service as well as preaching the Gospel. These were his reasons for giving the lecture, and if they were not satisfactory to his audience they were to him, and that was generally enough for him. (Laughter and cheers.) Now, was M. Du Chaillu's book on the gorilla true or not ? They saw M. Du Chaillu himself present, and when they looked at him they_would hardly think he was able to shoot a gorilla, or to bring home as many as 22. (Laughter.) But he (Mr. Spurgeon) believed he had done it. (Cheers.) He would enter into the question of the truth of his book as if he were ab s::" When he first read M. Du Chaillu's work he thought it Wa s a very wonderful book; but ho knew that Owl moo woLderful creatures, and he was not surprised at a Wonderful story. Since, however, the lecture had been a nx nn . ounc e d, lie h a d rece i ve d scores ' of letters from a friends who thought he would ruin hie aer a t ° believ e d th e s t or i es told about the gorill a . Tin i t her an impartial opinion u efere sat do wn t o f orm bi ate the result of hispon the investigationb b ook, and he would It was true ust look t that he was no great nat uralist, and opinions. on the subject th e 1 : 0r any learned y m Gray; but professor wen, and possibly to Mr. Gr a cer a . nip not to him. In the- Morning Adeertiser letters h a d „. j , ered attacking M. Du Chaillu. , Ij o kacw fir. Jame's °rant, the editor, and he did not think th at would allow any one to ho rerrroached in th at rowsplper needlessly, but aynistaken estimate was et r r. allay , lOuT)lic characters like Xt. Du Chaillu. eon) \Vila natuv4.lly inclined to t:lk ho was ahusril, as it was th 110 PT le of thr rim wenkr , r one, and to do 30 was the most courageous cfmrse. For the last two days he had read M. Du Chailtu's book, night and day, and the first question he put to himself was, " Is it not full of stories P" Alight there not be'in it a smattering of truth and a great deal of invention? He looked beck to the past, and he recollected that Bruce, the great Abya- Linian traveller, was thought to be an impostoti, though t th e y now k new that he spoke nothing but h truth. Sc., again, with regard to Japan. The Dutch stories respecting that country, which were 'to be pure actions, had been v er ifi e d b y recent tr t y, vore not inci)rieeriBl.leri:llllet• narratives of M. D a Ch a ill n bte than the storieu related bygon e day„, Loeb now turned out be 'quite true. Well, he took up the hook and looked first at the pictures—children always did. (Laughter.)l After reading the letterpress, he said to himself that those pictures were the ruin of the book, because, although very well done, they were not cor rect. !laving pointed out various important and humorous discrepanceS between the illustrations and the printed matter, the lecturer said that if_the man was an impostor he would first have looked to his pictures, because such an individual would not have left a hole big enough for a mouse to have crept through. M. Du Chaffin could shoot &gorilla, but he was not a good draughtsman. He had got some one else to prepare the drawings, and he had done them the wrong way up. (Laughter.) Give an artist the beat instructions you could and he would still make a mistake. For instance, every single picture of the interior of that building was wrong. If men made blunders in sketching what they did see, was it any wonder that they should do so in drawing what they had not seen ? (Laughter.) No doubt M. Da Chaillu's sketches wereeonly taken in his head, and were not committed by him to paper. He could not control the artist any more than they could control the compositor, and make him set up the type correctly. If Mr. Murray, the publisher, would give him (Mr. Spurgeon) a handsome sum, he could show a respectable list of errors in the letterpress of the book. Many Fords were wrongly spelled, and altogether the work appeared to have been brought out in a hurry. Still, the pictures were unfortunate, although he admitted they were no proof against the merits or truth of the book: With regard to Mr. Walker's letter, all he could say was that there was nothing in it. That writer made M. Du Chaillu say what he did not say, and then he refuted him. (Laughter.) If nothing stronger than that could be brought against M.Du Chaillu, his .name would live and not - die, ant it would not be said that he had deceived the people. (Cheers.) But supposing M. Da Chaillu a rogue and - impostor, who only wished to write a book to make money by it, was it likely he would have been so great a fodl as to have begun his journey at a point where people would have been readily found to confute him, instead of confining it to remote districts where he could have been tracked by no one ? Besides, was it likely that any oae in his senses would sell his soul and his cha racter for the trumpery popularity of one year ? If the book" were an invention, it was the most wonderful one ever written. If De Foe wrote " Robinson Crusoe," it would take ten De Foes to write " Du Chailtu'sDiscoveriesin Africa." (Cheers.) Certainly, if it were a fiction, no other man pos sessed genius enough to compose such another work entirely out of his own head. The 22 gorillas he supposed were matters of fact, as well as the hun dreds of specimens of other animals and birds which M. Du Chaillu had brought over from Africa. He verily believed, in spite of all that had been said, that M. Du Chaillu's book was Matter of fact, and that the author was entitled to all praise as one of the greatest of modern discoverers—as one who had done more for science and for religion than most men of his time, if not than any man. (Cheers.) This was no new topic, because 600 years before the Christian era the discovery was mentioned of a great animal wonderfully resembling man. In 1836 the skin of a gorilla was deposited in the museum at Havre. Wilson, the missionary in the district of the Gamboon river, discovered in the hut of a native a great skull, which turned out to be that of a gorilla. At last a whole gorilla was brought to England, and under the inspection of Professor Owen and Mr. Bartlett, of the Crystal Palace, the barrel in which it was enclosed was opened, but the smell was so exceedingly bad that all ran away. (Laughter.) There was no chance of standing against the gorilla, he was so exceedingly offen sive; but Mr. Bartlett, feeling that so rare an ani mal should not be lost, had him taken to Norwood. No 6 - isr those of the inhabitants of Norwood whom he addressed remembered a bad smell in that neighbourhood in . 1858. (Laughte r .) It m i g ht possibly have been caused by the gorilla, who was placed in a great field at Norwood, as it was thought fresh air might do him good after havin been so long " cabined, cribbed, and confined." (Laughter.) This specimen was afterwards exhibited in the Crystal Palace, and was now in the British Museum. Then came the 22 gorillas which h a d b een b roug ht to this country by M. Du Chaillu. Now, what was the gorilla ? *He was an enormous ape, which claimed to approach nearer to man than any other creature. How near he approached he would leave them to judge. A claim to be considered their first i cousins had been put in on behalf of the chimpan; zee and other animals, but these were matters to be settled by learned scientific men. Dr. Darwin might also assert that his great grandfather's great grandfather's father was a guinea pig, or that he originally descended from an oyster, or something of that sort. (Laughter.) Now, he demurred to that, and he did so upon his own account. Many of his friends might choose to claim relationship to the oyster, and if any Chinese were present whose pigtails .were not cut off, they might claim to be related to guinea pigs; but for his own part he said (turning to the gorilla), "there is a great gulf be tween you and me, and neither can I.pass to yen, nor you to me." (Cheers.) There was the story of the man with the bad £5 note. He laid it down, and ran away from it as hard as ho could. He (Mr. Spurgeon) wished to run away as hard as he conic' from the gorilla, and to leave relationship oat of the question. (Laughter.) Still, after all, there was wonderful likeness, and it was most humiliating; but even if an exact fore sinti!e of man could be discovered, if it were destitute of a living soul, the difference between the two would be in finite. (Cheers.) The gorilla was enormously strong, and very courageous. M. Du Chaillu said he never saw the male gorilla run away, and that the males invariably threw their protection round the females. The worst gorillas were bachelor gorillas. (Laughter.) Ile hoped he addressed none of that class. (Continued laughter.) From this sub ject Mr. Spurgeon digressed to the softening in fluence of female society, and said that the best thing every bachelor could do was to take under his sheltering wing one who could give him more than he could give her. (Laughter.) With regard to the country inhabited by the gorilla, he said it was in habited by a great many tribes whose names he ' could not pretend to pronounce, as they could only be correctly given by a Welchman standing upon his head. (Laughter.) Many of them were great traders, but the rule among them appeared to be that " honesty was the worst policy." These people had a firm belief in witchcraft, which rendered their existence miserable, as they sus pected even their wives and children of evil arts with the intention of depriving them of health and life. The most diabolical cruelties were consequently practised, and if a man wanted to get rid of another he had only to say he was suspected of cruelty, and his life was forfeited. If any one in that meeting thought that it was unlucky to spill salt, to give a friend a pair of scissors, or to begin work on Friday, he would say to him, " Away with such ideas," as they were derogatory to God, and _only fit for heathens and brutes. (Cheers.) He next adverted to the subject of slavery, which he said was the most abject, iniquitous, infamous, and deviligh of all crimes, and that it was better that the hurricane of war should sweep away the pesti lence than that it should be suffered to destroy the souls of men any longer. (Cheers.) After thanking M. Du Chaillu for the great services ho had ren dered in paving the way for missionary efforts in Central Afr:ea, he concluded by re p ea ti ng t h at h e belie ve d i n trend which his di The dissol v i n,g the book an d in the man, and in the scoveries would do ih y ears y e t to come, an d receimed hisviewmsevaret atmhiednstelxohuidhairepdl,auansed. Mr. Spurgeon gave amusing descriptions of each, which k ep t the vast congregation in a continual titter, The CHAIRMsAaNi,d Mr. Spurgeon, i t n h a p t r o n P o o li s i o n n g e s a t - v h e e t a o r tocfdthanks to man could fail to sy mpath i se with his denunciatiOn. o f slavery, observing that Lord Palmerston, the present Prime Minister, had done as much as any -man after Clarkson, Wilberforce, and Brougham, to abolish that abominable traffic. In reference to the attacks upon M. Du Cha,illu's book, he said that what he stated in its pages he believed to be sub stantially true. (Cheers.) M. Du CHAILLtI, in seconding the proposition, was most cordially received. Ho said Mr. Spur. geon had been his friend that night, and he appre ciated his friendship the more because he (M. Du Chaillu) had so many er: eraieS.4 - lier - thnnked him for his strictures'upon his book, and he could only say that if he travelled again he would try and do better. He had levned a great deal of wisdom during the last five or six months, and he would put it in practice in his next travels. (Laughter.) Ho was happy that night to have learnt more about Africa than he knew himself, and he was grateful to Mr. Spurgeon for having shown his faults, as ho had done so in so good a spirit. The motion was agreed to, and Mr. Spurgeon having returned thanks, the proceedings termi- nated. TilE SUN, CONDO v' , WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2 1861. THE THAMES EMBANKMENT. A correspondence has recently passed between Mr. Cowper, the First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings, and Mr. Thwaites, Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, touching a claim advanced by the latter body to initiate and carry out the great engineering work of embanking the Thames. At a previous interview Mr. Cowper had stated to Mr. Thwaites that he byno means desired to take the construction of the work out of the hands of the Metropolitan Board, but that there were many questions involved which rendered it the duty of Government to legislate in the matter. There were, for example, certain Crown rights, which might involve controversies between diffe rent departments, and which admitted of more facile adjustment by the Administration than by any other parties. Again, that a private member would experience much difficulty in carrying a measure of such magnitude through the House of Commons, which, unless promoted by themselves, Ministers did not feel it incumbent on them to sup port. That, for these and other reasons, her Ma i jesty'sGovernment were of opinion that they should take the necessary steps for complying with the Standing Orders by preparing and depositing plans and serving notices. Mr. Thwaites urged the claims of his board to initiate as well as to carry out this important work, there being no precedent for any interference on the part of her Majesty's Govern ment in the case of a local operation, executed by a local authority, and defrayed wholly by local taxation ; although he felt sure the Board would have no desire t 3 enter into any unseemly con troversy with the Government, but ho was most anxious, while defending what they conceived to be a public right, to do all within their power, consistently with the dis charge of their duty to their constituents, to pro mote this great undertaking. Mr. Cowper explained that the course it was intended to pursue was in no way opposed to, or, in his opinion, calculated to infringe, the Board's rights ; that he would prepare a bill for carrying out the plan recommended in the report of the Royal Commission, and would take all the steps prescribed by the Standing Orders; that the bill would empower the Board to execute the works and authorise the Treasury to pay over to them the fund in course of accumulation from the coal dues, to defray the cost of the embankment ; that powers would be given to the Board to open a line of street from Blackfriars-bridgo to the Man sion -house, the cost of which he suggested might be defrayed out of the 4d. dues, at present appli cable to improvements within the city of London. That bill would, of course, be referred to a Select Committee, and would be supported by the Govern ment in its passage through the house; after which, should it succeed in obtaining legislative sanction, the whole further conduct of the matter would be confided to the Metropolitan Board of Works, the Government having no desire to retain any control or exercise any veto upon their acts, Meapwhile, if they wished the insertion of clauses, he was willing to receive `and consider whatever suggestions they might be desirous of offering. Mr. Thwaites referred to the amendment introduced into the Coal and. Wine Duties Continuance Bill, on the motion of Sir H. Willoughby, whereby the new account was to be opened in the name of the Treasury instead of the Metropolitan Board, and requested an assurance that the Government in tended to make such provision in the new bill as should insure the execution of the work to the Board. Mr. Cowper, in reply, assured him that the clear intentions of the Government were to carry a measure giving fall powers to the Board, and that on his part every effort would be made in support of that intention ; but that it would be impossible to say what it might be necessary to do in the case of opposition to any particular clauses. Mr. Thwaites reported, substan tially in the above terms, the conversation between Mr. Cowper and himself to the Metropolitan Board, and then; on their authority, addressed a letter, on the 10th of August, to the First Commissioner, in which he stated thit "the Board, while anxious Ito defend what they believe to be their- rights, weir° too deeply impressed with the importance of the subject and the difficulties surrounding it to wish in any way to increase them by raising controver sial questions, and at once adopted the suggestion I submitted to them, to suspend the instructions they had already given the . engineer for the prepa ration of drawings and documents required to coin ply with the Standing Orders, feeling that, after the assurance you had enabled me to convey to them of the intention of her Majesty's Government to assume all legislative responsibility, any present action on their part would necessarily be either antagonistic or superfluous." To that communication C3wper replied follows ' - " Office of Works, Aug. 15. " Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th inst., informing me of the com munication you had made to the Board over which you preside with respect to the views I had the honour of expressing to you at our interview. Of course those views are subject to modification when the time comes for the preparation of the Bill an l {l, for consulting other members of the Government as to its provisions; but I think it right now to make a few observations with a view of preventing miS understanding as to an expression which recurs in your letter. " You speak of your Board being anxious to defend what they conceive to be their rights, and as I am one of the last men who would wish to in fringe, even inadvertently, any of their rights, I am anxious to ascertain what those rights can be. " In considering whether the Metropolitan Board of Works possess any:right to construct an embank ment of the Thames out of the funds accruing from the coal duties, I am mot by the following circum stances; " 1. The Metropolitan Board has no right or authority, except that which it derives from the Act of 1855 and subsequent Acts ; and the Act which crnpowered it. to raise ratcsgave it no autho rity over the coal and wine duties. ;‘ 2. These duties are levied, not by them, but by the corporation of London. " 3. "These duties arc not received by them, but by the corporation and. by ber Majesty's Treasury. / " 4. The area over which the coal duties are levied is larger than that which is represented by the Metropolitan Board. " 5. The application of these duties to metropoli tan improvements has• been intrusted to the corpo ration and to my predecessors in office. "6. The foreshore and bed of the Thames are under the, juri diction of the Board of Conservancy. " As, therefore, 3 - onr board has no w no power over the coal and wine dutiep, and no power over the fore shore of the Thames except in regard to their espc ioilt bncinesq, the main drain:l:lT, I cannot understand how the introduction of a bill to confer upon them suck powers could be treated as an aggression upon their rights. I do not see any force in the argument that because such a work woad-have to be autho rised in a provincial town by a local Act, promoted by local commissioners or by the corporation, a simi lar course should be followed in respect of the metropolis. " In every civilised country the metropolis re ceives aid, protection, and co-operation from the national Government which is not extended to other towns ; and I aun sure that Londoners cannot wish that their town should in this respect cease to be treated as a metropolis, and be reduced to the level of a proviaciat town, ,g I am on prinelp!O an advocate for extending more fully and satisfactorily in the metropolis the action of municipal representative institutions, and the Bill which I propose to introduce yiiklybave a tencigney 'to promote that object, mad itM quite sure that it will not in any respect infringe a right nowhpossessed&c., by the Metropolitan Board of Works. —I " J. Thwaites, Esq. " W. COWPER." In a subsequent letter to me. Thwaitcs, dated the 20th of Sept., Mr. Cowper states he considers the proposed bill should be one to empower the Metro• politan Board of Works to make such purchases of property and to execute such works as- may be ne cessary for an embankment, with a roadway upon it, from Westminster to Blackfriars bridge, and for a new street thence to the Mansion-house, in accord ance with the plan recommended by the Royal Commission, and out of the fund provided for that purpose out of the proceeds of the coal dues by the Act of last session. No control or interference with the Metropolitan Board of Works will be created by the bill in regard to the powers conferred upon them by its provisions. He adds that, inasmuch as the foreshore to be reclaimed from the river is vested in the Crown, or the Board of Coriservancy, and the surplus land along the shore may be required for 'public improvements, or for a public promenade, or as sites for public buildings, he thinks it should be so vested as to secure for Parliament a control over its future desiination ; and he believes the best course would be to vest it in the Commissioners of Works and Public Buildings, on behalf of the Crown and the public, and to provide that the proceeds of the sale of such surplus land shall be paid into the Embankment and Metropolitan Improvement Fund, from which the purchase was made. This, he states, should apply only to surplus land on the shore of the river not required for works on the roadway, and should not apply to surplus land obtained in making the street from Blackfriars-bridge to the Mansion-house. The correspondence has since been referred to the maw Drainage — uommittee or the Metropolitan Board for consideration as to the course to be pur sued, and there the matter rests for the present, (From as Times.) If we desired to give Continental statesmen a correct idea of what Englishmen understand by "self-government," we could hardly find a better illustration than is contained in the correspon dence between Mr. Cowper and Mr. Thwaites— ono representing the Administration and the other the Metropolitan Board of Works. It has been decided at last to embank the Thames, and thus at one and the same time to facilitate the execu tion of the main drainage scheme, save the Strand and Fleet-street from a permanent blockade, and relieve our thoroughfares of some of the traffic which is now choking them. This resolution having been* adopted, it becomes necessary to provide authority and instruments for carrying out the work. The instruments are at hand in the mem bers and officers of the Metropolitan Board ; but the Metropolitan Board has no authority in the matter. The funds applicable to the undertaking are levied and received, not by the Board, but by certain ether departments, and are raised from districts over whi c h th e Board has no jurisdiction. Tho shore of the Thames along which the Embank ment is to be carried is under a Board independent of the Board of Works; and, besides all this, there are many conflicting claims which Mr. Thwaites and his colleagues would find it exceeding difficult to satisfy. So, as the Board of Works could neither enter upon the ground nor touch a sixpence of the money provided for the enterprise, the First Com missioner proposed to bring in a bill under Govern ment sanction, and invest the Board with a Parlia mentary authority for proceeding in the business. It is hard to conceive any proposition more natural. Parliament alone can confer the powers required, and Parliament can seldom be moved to good pur pose except with the support of the Government. Mr. Cowper, in short, offered to provide Mr. Thwaites in the most efficient and expeditious manner, with the very authority which he needed, and without which he could not stir a step. Little, however, did the Minister think of the " rights" which he was vio lating, or the resentment with which his overtures would be received. The Metropolitan Board rose in arms, like a corporation in defence of its charter. The liberties of the subject had been attacked; " self-governmenVhadreccived a severe blow; sen tralisation had been insidiously promoted, and the citizens of London ought to stand up for their pri vileges. How such a view of the case could pos sibly be taken it would puzzle most people to com prehend ; in fact, we doubt if the subject could be made intelligible to any but Englsh,readers. But it is a fact, nevertheless, that Mr. Thwaites fought stoutly against the Ministerial proposition. and only yielded in the extremity of responsibility, and then against his will. The right" claimed by the Metropolitan Board was the right of initiation. Of course, they wanted powers ; and, of course, application must be made to Parliament before those powers could be ob tained. But what - had Mr. Cowper to do with that ? The Board could apply to Parliament itself, and intended to do so. The Board's engineers had been making designs; the Board's surveyors had prepared drawings; the Board was goinc , to comply with the Standing Orders o f th e House ; the Board's agents would draw the bill, and the Board's bill would be duly introduced. Why should the Board be interfered with ? What business had a Minister to meddle with the matter What was to • coine of it if Englishmen could not manage their own Parliamentary affairs without Government in tervention,? Hero was a purely " local" under taking, d i o fg.o, r by o b© l executed ocal " local" authority, and taxation ; how could the inter. t pa t ference of Government be justified in•an operation like that ? The First Commissioner replied to these expostulations with considerable effect. He re minded the Protesting chairman that this B oar d light" to construct - th e embank seeing that the wor k was to b e exe hmaed rentaatl layll n o " cuted on ground which they could not touch, and with money which was beyond their reach. He admitted that they could go to Parliament themselves, but gently hinted that they mi g h t fail to carry a measure of no common magnitude, a good many debatabl e p o i n t s , l 's Government should d ec id e o a i n n n d less her osr n in p ti v o l r l t l i Aajy n n i g g e t s i t iem. further stated that Government mi g ht, p er h a p s , their support t o a bill, pre dheeerline Majesty'sta give pre pared without their assent, and that in any case, as the bill must ultimately owe its success to the Ministry, it would be better that the Ministry should introduce it. There was work to be done which Mr. Thwaites would find it very hard to do. No hands but those of Governthent could deal with the knotty questions which were sure to arise, and the Metropolitan Board would find it best to accept the intervention of the Ministry, and take the powers which would, be given them. When the requisite powers had been granted, Government would leave the work in their hands without further inter ference. It will be seen from the statement in another column that Mr. Thwaites did not yield even to these reasonable representations _without a saving protest as to the " rights " which the Board was " anxious to defend ;" but what these rights are it would puzzle anybody to discover. There is nothing really 64 local" about such a work as the Embank ment of the Thames, if by that term is meant an undertaking in which only a limited interest, is taken by a small community. London is something more than a town in the county of Middlesex. It -is the metropolis of the British empire ; while, as to the area from which the funds for the work are to be raised,, that is certainly extensive enough to justify more than local superintendence. The truth is that the Beard had no "rights" in the matter, and it had just as little power. It could not have moved a step without the aid of that very agency which it was anxious to repudiate. Except with the sanction and support of Government, it could never have carried its measure through the house, and it was preposterous to expect that Government should find all the power while the Board exercised all the discretion. There was hardly a departMent of the State which might not have had its say in such a business as the Board would be undertaking, and Government alone could deal effectually with controversies like those. If Mr. Thwaites had secured the "initiation" of the affair, he would have wanted the First Commissioner always at his elbow, and convenience and.prepriety alike suggested that authority and responsibility should_ go hand in hand. As the work must be done through the Go vernment, it was better it should be done by it. We must now touch upon another point, and suggest to Mr. Thwaites that it would be imprudent in him to count upon much support or sympathy from the community of metropolitan ratepayers. His board is by no means a corporation that wo are inclined to stand up for. We are not at all anxious to see his authority increased or his powers extended. The agency of the Board maybebeneticially exerted, but it is not agreeably felt. It is perceptible mostly in enormous rates and oppressive taxation. We suppose the main drainage scheme will be actually completed some day or other, but at present we know little of it beyond its cost. The Metropolitan Board is certainly not popular enough to fiold its own against all rival authorities, and we would far rather see it under some salutary control than , eon firmed in a deepot le au thority over our thorough fares and purses. The best thing Mr. Thwaites and his colleagues can do is to attend to the work which they have already in hand. They have not made such progress with the drainage of London as to establish their title to all such business for the future, and if_they are to execrate the Embankment we hope it will be under conditions of wholesome restraint. Of one thing we are certain, and that is, if the First Commissioner can introduce economy and expedition into the general administration of the Board he will find few Londoners objecting to his interference. Such intervention will be all the better for us, and we shall not be in the least degree terrified by any talk about centralisation. The long and short of the matter is that the business is actu ally in the hands of Government, and Mr. Thwaites could only get hold of it by Mr. Cowper's permission. The Board could not move without Parliament, and Parliament could not be moved without Govern ment support. Government is willing to give its support and provide the authority which is -neces sary for the action of Mr. Thwaitcs and his col leagues. In return it will acquire a command over the draught of the bill, and we trust that in exer cising this power it will consult rather the interests of the public than the pretensions of the Metropoli tan Board. DA N GER TO FOREIGNERS IN MEXICO. The following facts are taken from the .News Letter, issued from the office of the Mexican Ex traordinary, of August 28 : On the 3d of this month the stage coach from Pachuca arrived hero with one victim stretched dead and another in great agony—the spark of lifo gradullly waning. The former was a beautiful young Englishwoman of four-and•- twenty summers, and the other a Frenchman of about forty years of age. Both of these unfortunate people were on a trip of pleasure to this city, and both have fallen victims of the general anarchy of the times and the well-grown hatred to foreigners. The facts of the case are these :—The diligence from 'Pachuca on the 3d was exclusively occupied by foreigners —Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chawner, M. J. Delaporte, and two Germans. Messrs. Chawner and Delaporte had with them pistols, and Mr. Chawner, fearing robbers, advised his wife that in case of an attack she was to throw herself on the flior of the coach. Nothing happened to disturb the journey until the diligence had passed Ozunabilla. A sjiort distance this side of that post eight robbers suddenly came up, and, without using any of their usual menaces, fired into the coach. Mrs. Chawner, who was in the act of following the instructions of her husband, received one of the balls in her back, and fell wounded on the knees of her husband. Another ball struck M. Delaporte in the breast. Mr. Chawner, with his bleeding and dying wife on his knees, extricated his pistol and fired one shot, which brought down one of the cowardly assassins. The cries of his wife, that called for his attention, prevented him firing again; and M. Delaporte was too much stunned by his wound to offer any resistance. The robbers, nevertheless, fired soma thing like a dozen shots more, but fortunately without doing further damage, and then abandoned their murderous at tack. Mrs. Chawner expired some two hours before the diligence arrived in this city, and M. Delaporte on the morning of the sth, and both are now gathered with the numerous population of the dead at San Fernando. This new cold-blooded butchery would be sufficiently horrifying could it be accounted for in any common manner—that resistance had been offered, that the pas sengers had dared to oppose themselves to one of the hal lowed usages of the country, or that they had even re fused or offered to refuse to obey the oiders of a few of Mexico's peculiar population. Nothing of the sort can be urged in extenuation of this most foul and cowardly as sassination. We have heard it stated that the passengers fired first; but this is a falsehood emanating from persons as base as the assassins themselves. Wo have taken the trouble to investigate as fully as has been possible the facts, and for the present can only answer for the exactness of those wo have before stated. A confession, or further developments at a later day, may prove our present convic tion, that this is another manifestation of the general hatred entertained for foreigners by a considerable organised party in Mexico, and we cannot but repeat our well grounded fears; that if foreign governments do not change their mode of protecting their subjects and citizens, foreign life will be the sport of high-road and street assassins. The Government have imposed a property tax of one per cent. on all persons living in the district of Mexico, em bracing, we hear, foreigners who have applied for advice to her Majesty's Minister, who, in a letter dated August 23, has recommended them only to pay it on compulsion and under protest. This was the same advice given in October, 1858, to Mr. Worrell, by Mr. Otway, who was in conse quence expelled from the republic at 12 hours' notice. But this gentleman has hitherto bad no redress; the indemnity awarded him has not been paid. Other foreigners have in a like manner suffered, and notwithstanding an able report on timed loans was sent to Lord John Russell over a year ago, and obtained the assurances that the Btitish Govern ment would exact redress for these infringements of the treaty, nothing has been done, and this indifference has made bold the Mexican authorities to enforce new acts of oppression. We learn with great satifaction that a number of our fellow-countrymen, resident in this city and Vera Cruz, have raised a subscription for the purpose of presenting a suitable tribute of gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Legrand for their kind attention to Captain W. C. Aldham, of H.M.S. Valorous, during his lengthened stay in their house after the wound he received from the cowardly assassins who so wantonly attacked him in the diligence. This considerate act, whilst it will show to Mr. and Mrs. Legrand the warm hearts of our fellow-countrymen, will be another proof of the high esteem in which Captain Aldhant is held by all who know him. A very respectable and worthy English workman, named Mathews, - was set upon a few nights since in the Calle de la Providencia by two persons well dressed, and who were at first suspected by Mathews to have been gentlemen. They made several attempts to kill their intended and'did in fact deal him several severe blows, and no doubt thought they had accomplished their purpose. Mr. Mathew, however, managed to escape, and we hear is now entirely out of danger. We learn from persons lately arrived from the Pacific coast that a considerable emigration from California is now pouring into the States of Sonora and Sinaloa. In the latter State, and on the confines of Chihuahua, rich gold placers have been discovered, and miners are . doing well. The discoveries already made have induced several persons to return to California for their families and friends, and it is expected that larde numbers of emigrants will pour into Sinaloa. and Chihuahua in the next few months. If the re ports we have . be correct —and we consider they aro well founded—the gold discoveries on the West Coast of Mexico aro likely to surpass those Jf California and Australia. If so we shall soon have the corresponding revolution hero, and Mazatlan will become the second, if not the first port on the West Coast of America. It is stated in a journal of Ciudad Victoria that the metals now being extracted from the mine of Revillagigedo, near that city, yield from six to eight ounc?s of puro rilver per carga of 12 arrobas, and that as much as 25 ounces have been taken from some of the metals. The mine can be easily worked, but want of capital embarrasses operations, and little is doing with a mine that might produce an enormous amoant of silver every year. Want of security is the great drawback 'to every good enterprise in the country at the present time. With a foreign intervention capital would not bo wanting to work many rich mines that aro now abandoned in different parts of the country. On the night of the 11th, early in the evening, a French man was assaulted by an assassin in the First San Fran cisco. The assassin struck a fearful blow with a long poniard aphis intended vietim, but the Frenchman warded the first blow with his umbrella, which was cut nearly through the stock. A second blow left a considerable wound in the wrist of the assailed, who then made his escape. The night was dark and rainy at the time, and it was imp'.ssible to tell whether the assassin was alone or accompanied by others. It is-needless to add that no arrests were made. Isidro Diaz, ex-Minister of Mirarnoa and accompliace in the robbery of the British Legation, for which crime ho has been for some time undergoing trial, has been declared innocent ! Perhaps this trang incident may lead to an idea of how other judgments have been obtained. A party of brigands have been for some time plying their trade within the walls of this city by robbing the diligence for the interior. The other morning an ambuscade was set for them and resulted in a skirmish, in which one of the passengers was wounded and a sleeping watchman killed. No harm was done to the actual combatants. The Padre Celostino, a Spanish friar, who has distin guished himself in the last few months, as chief of a small party of cut-throats and robbers in and about the Valley, has been arrested in this city. The probabilities are he will be pardoned, through the venality of some judge and the indifference of the Government. The custom houso of Vera Cruz is reported to be filled at present with foreign merchandise, and for the accommoda tion of the importations, now on the sea, new storehouses must be taken. The want of demand in the interior, the insecurity of thp - road 3, the late extra impost of 15 per cent , and the scarcity of money in the port to pay*the duties, are the causes of this anomalous state of affairs. Tho Indians near Ixmiquilpan have raised the cry of " Death to the Whites," and a few days ago entered that town and mur dered some 20 persons. The ingests have induced them to believe that the whites aro opposed to their religion. Tho t)wn of Atotonilco el Grande, near Pachuca, has been burned by one of the clergy bands. Tlie bands of Galvan and Castillo lately sacked the post on the Cuernavaca road, known as the Guarda. They robbed the people down to their clothing, and shot one unfortunate person because he could not give them a sum of money. M. Paul Dairo, a French man, was assassitialed a few days ago between this and Cuernavaca. A drscus, , i,ai is going on in the Apers about the establishment of a dictatorship. According to the past chromic changes of govern ment in Mexico, it • is about time for us to have another trial of this style of government. The prefect of Yautepec, Don J. M. Lara, has been assassi nated by the Plateachs, a party of bandits who ignore all political distinctions and rob Without any.mask. The ex tensive property of Mr. Pradel, an American citizen, sita• 1 / 4 ated near the Llano de Salazar, and comprising a glass fao. tory, a distillery, a brewery, and several other iAtilotriai establishments, has beet'burned by one of the politic a l' bands. Olavarria, a S pan i s :q clergy chief, h as b een t a k en 4 and shot, On the night of the 4th a shot was fir e d a t th e French minister, M. de Saligny, Nvhicli came near doing serious injury. The object of this aft, ek is not }mown, and many rumours are afloat. Some say it ,is another demon stration of the general hatred for foreigners. Others think the attack was for some personal reasen. THE MURDER A 7 BIRIVIIVGIIIV. THE INQUEST. BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY. This evening an inquest was held on the body of the unfortunate woman,. Anne Walker, who was murdered on Sunday last by John Thompson, with whom she had cohabited. The inquiry took place before J. B. Davies, Esq., at the Hope and I.'l.nchor, Coleshill-street. The prisoner was present. The first witness examined was Sarah Berris,ford, who deposed that she was a single woman, living in Tanter-street, and several young women lodges,' with her. Deceased was a married woman, and had three children ; but having parted from her hus band she had lately lived as housekeeper to the prisoner Thompson, at Sutton Coldfield. On Satur day night last deceased asked her (witness) if they, meaning herself and prisoner, could have a bed, as it was too late for them to go to Sutton. After hesi tating some time she consented. The following day deceased and prisoner went out twice for a walk together. The second time the deceased returned at three o'clock alone, and asked witness if sho might go and lie down for half an hour, and she appeared rather the worse for liquor. Deceased then went up to bed, and in a few minutes after the prisoner en tered the house and said, " Wh ere ' s A nn e ?" Wit ness replied that she had gone to lie down—uyon which the prisoner walked out of the house, but returned in five minutes, and went u p t o th e bed room in which deceased was lying. Witness, in a quarter of an hour 'afterwards, had occasion to go upstairs, and when she went into the room occupied by the deceased and the prisoner she saw the latter on his knees rubbing deceased's arms, which had been hurt by a fall. Prisoner said to deceased, in a kindly tone, " Will you go home, Anne ?" when she replied; " No, I won't yet." Witness then left:the room and went down stairs, but, hearing a scream, she returned again, and saw deceased lying on her back, bleeding, and heard her say " I said I would go with him" two or three times. The prisoner was standing about a yard off with a knife in his hand, and it was covered with blood, and he said, several times, " I have done it." Witness then ran down stairs crying " Murder," and went to look for a policeman, and, having found one, she went for a doctor. The deceased was pregnant at the time of her death. The prisoner, on being asked if he had any ques tion to put, said, " No; but she has said a good deal that is true, besides a good deal that is not true." Elizabeth Green said she lived in the house be longing to the last witness, and on Sunday after noon last was sitting in the kitchen when she heard a noise upstairs. She went up a few steps and met Sarah Berrisford coming down, exclaiming " Good God ! the man is killing the woman." Witness went up into the room from which the noise and screams came, and saw the deceased lying on her back on the floor, and the prisoner kneeling over her passing a knife across her throat several times. There were no other persons in theroom but Thomp son and deceased. She had not heard any quarrel ling between them during the time they were in tha house. She saw the prisoner enter the house and go upstairs the last time, and he did not appear to be drunk. She (witness) slept in the next bed to prisoner and deceased on Saturday night, but heard no altercation between them. William Carless deposed that he was passing along Stafford-street on Sunday afternoon last when he heard a cry of murder proceeding from a house in Tanter-street. Ile went to the place, when two young women directed him upstairs. He went up to the bedroom where he saw the prisoner standing and the deceased' lying on the floor bleeding. Wit ness said to the man " What have you done this for," at the same time mitching hold of him by the coat. Prisoner replied " I have done it," and then handed him a pocket-knife stained with blood. A police-officer then entered the room, and took the prisoner into custody. Could not say whether de ceased was alive or dead at the time. Other evidence having been given, the jury, after deliberating an hour, returned a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner. THE BILSTON MURDER. EXAMINATION OF THE ACCUSED. Yesterday the five men who have been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in this murder were brought up at the Bilston Petty Sessions, be fore the Rev. IL S. Fletcher and Mr. J. N. Bag nall. Their names are 'William-Jones, alias Mul ligan, Thomas Lilley, Tho mas J u k es , S amue l Bill s , and Ezekiah Webb. None of them are more than 25 years of age. They have all been under the ban of the police, and Jones was sentenced to four years' transportation for a burglary in Bilston about seven years ago. He has been home about three years, but in Bilston only about a fortnight. There is no doubt about his being the man who was convicted on that occasion under the name of Mul lighan, and that he is an Irishman from the county Mayo. Lilley is of a slender but wiry frame, has red hair, and has a black eye. This is the man who describes himself as a hawker, of Birmingham. Ever since his arrest he has expressed much indig nation at being in custody, and yesterday he mani fested much violence of temper While in the dock. He entered the court smiling, and in the dock cracked jokes, and looked round to the general audience in the court for approbation. The police have reason to believe that he has been in the Royal Artillery, from which corps it is thought to be not unlikely that he has deserted. The other prisoners seemed somewhat more impressed with the gravity of their position. The men are all of low stature; and do not look older than they have represented themselves to be. Bills was defended by a barrister. Majoi• M'Knight, the deputy chief constable of Staffordshire; informed the bench when the case was called on that he pro p osed only to show that Jones had been apprehended with property in his possession. belonging to the murdered man, and teat the other prisoners were in company with him on the night of the murder. Lilley, in an impertinent tone, said that he wished his case to be gone on with, for he could show that he had nothing to do with the offence, and, although he was informed that he would probably be re manded with the rest, continued to interrupt the magistrates. _ _ Niice-constable Ilirrison then deposed to seeing three men walking along the high road from Daisey Bank. Jones was one of the three, and was walk ing behind the other two. One of the three, but not Jones, had some clothes across his arm. He attempted to arrest them, and they ran off, the man who was carrying the clothes throwing them down. He knew one of the other men. After following them a short distance ho returned to the spot where the things were thrown down, accompanied by another officer. After removing the clothes to a place of safety they watched the spot. Presently Jones returned, and he and the other officer arrested him, and with some difficulty got him to the station. The clothes were new from a clothier's shop, and there was also a coat that had been worn, and had a pair of gloves in the pocket. All these had been identified as the 'property of the deceased. Jones also had in his pockets Bs. sd. and a set of studs that it could be shown had not long ago been sold to the deceased. When ho asked Jones }how he could account for the studs ho said lie did not know. Jones, who hail before frequently interrupted the witness by impugning his accuracy, remarked, " You are a liar ; I never spoke to you about them." The landlord of the' King's Arms Hotel deposed that he could identify all the prisoners but Webb as being• in his spirit shop up to within a few mi nutes of 12 on Saturday night. When he attempted to put them out one who was not present made a violent threat to murder him. Miss Lewis also identified Webb. Mr. Claydon (Bills's barrister) asked to be allowed to tender evidence showing that Bills, on leaving the King's Arms, went home, and remained there till he was arrested. The Magistrates remarked that an opportunity for calling this evidence would bo afforded after the remand, but at present there was sufficient evidence to justify a remand, and they could not therefore receive it. The prisoners were then formally remanded, and the police were about to remove them from the dock, when Lilley shouted out, " Hold hard; take your time ; here, what am I to be sent back for P I want •to produce. my witness." Then addressing himself to one of the policemen, he said, " Here, you give me that waistcoat you took from me." The officer had to take him forcibly from the dock, and as ho was being removed down stairs he struck at one of the officers, and made a desperate effort to escape. Jones also stoutly resisted, but he was in the clutches of Major M`Knighf., w h ere he was held as in a vice. The effort of the men to escape created grcat ex citement in the court. They were evidently despe rate fellows. ®TJIE EASTERN FISHERIES.—The herring fishe;/ is now, being actively prosecuted off the eastern coast. Two or triree 'boats have come into Yarmouth with about eight lastS of their owncatcb, but rec en t h eavy weather at sea has caused some boats to seek harbours nearer the fishing grounds than Yarmouth. Prices have ranged from .Cl,O to £25 per lest, according to quality. Soree of the long shore beats have landed at Yarmouth several thousand ash, which, itaw xcalitoecl 60e t 9 78, per 100, DREADFUL .MURDER AT NEWCASTLE- ON- TYNE. Mr. Frater, the collector of income tax for the borough of Newcastle-on-Tyne, was murdered as he was proceeding to his office in Blackot-street, yesterday morning. The facts of the case arc as follows: Just as he was going into his office a man ran up to him with a long bright knife in his hand, and before he could escape or take any precautions what ever for his safety, the assassin thrust the weapon with great violence into his face. The blade touched the right cheek near the mouth, then, slanting off fc om the bone, plunged into the neck, where it s evered the jugular vein. The victim of this diA bolic,ll deed did not seem at first to comprehend the fatal "nature of his injuries. IL) walked upstairs to his roory, when he suddenly exclaimed, "I fear I'm done for,' and fell , upon the floor, and in a few minutes expired. Medical attendance was at once sought for, but life was quite extinct, a great quan tity of blood having flowed from the frightful wounds inflicted upon the neck. The murderer, George Clark, 45 years of age, a cabinet-maker, was secured. The knife with which the fatal deed was committcd was found on his person. It is a common table knife, but it has re cently been ground down to a very sharp point ; it is also rather jagged at the sides. Upon being seized Clark exclaimed, " Ile sold me off, and now I'll be tried for murder ;" and a few minutes after wards he said, " This will be a grand business for the penny papers." On inquiry we find that some three months ago a seizure had been made upon Clark' s p rem i ses , under Mr. Fratee.i direction, for a dog tax, which. he would not pay. He seems ever since to have cherished a feeling of deadly revenge against the deceased. The murderer, a middle-aged man, meanly dressed, avd of sullen appeaxarce, was subsequintly ex mined at the police-court. He did not seem to be excited. His hand was still stained with blood. On the application of Mr. Sabbage the presiding magistrates remanded the prisoner for a week. When arrested he wits searched, and a document relating to the seizure of his goods, above referred to, was found upon him. There seems to be no grounds for susp,lcting the sanity of the prisoner. _FROM TILE (4,4ZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. 'WHITE HALL, SEPT. 28. The Queolk has been pleased to present the llcy. Matthew Rodger to the church and parish of Shettleston, in the Presbytery of Glasgow, vacant by the death of the Rev. John M‘Ritchie Leckie. FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 28. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John S. Prettyman. as Consul at Glasgow for the United States of America. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. Her Majesty's Commissioners hereby give notice, that no furtherapplications for space can be entertained. WAR-OFFICE PALL-MALL, Our. 1. Royal Artillery--Captain and Brevet Major Richard O'Connell to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet Colonel Sir G. R. Barker, K.C.8., deceased ; Second Captain Lawrence A. B radshaw to be Captain, vice O'Connell ; Second Captain an d Brevet Major Shadwell Morley Grylls, from the Superm imerary List, to be Second Captain, vice Bradshaw; Vet trinary Surgeo n H enr y D ums f or d has been permitted to resign his commission. CHAPLAIN'S D EPARTMENT.—ChapIain of the Third Class, the Rev. Edward J. Rogers, to be Chaplain of the Second Class. Tlae Rev. R. G. Coclrington to be Chaplaia of the Fourth Class. ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 26. Corps of Royal Marines—Capt. and Brevet-Major Charles Ogilvy Hamley to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Spalding, to retired full-pay; First Lieut. John Cobb to be Cap tain, vice Hamley, promoted; Second Liewt. 'Wm. Rolt Triscott to be First Lieutenant, vice Cobb, promoted. BANKRUPTS. Charles Harris, ironmonger, Stratford-le-Bow, Essex, to surrender, Oct. 11, at two, and Nov. 8, at ono, at tho Court of Bi mkruptcy. John Em triton, leather seller ' Salisbury, Wilts, Oct. 12, at half-past eleven, and Nov. 13, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. William Si )ertcer and Benjamin Spencer, stage carriage proprietors, Bury, Lancashire, Oct. 16 and Nov. 13, at twelve, at the Alanehester District Court. James Worra'l, licensed victualler, Briersill Head, Lan cashire, Oct. 15 and Nov. 5, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.. _ `William Butterfield and James Butterfield, earthen ware manufaetw •ers, Tunstall, Staffordshire, Oct. 14 and Nov. 6, at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy. Thomas Leavek ;ley ail Henry Leavesley, silk dyers, Covenry, Oct. 11 ctid :Nov. 7, at eleven, at the Binning ham District Court. Richard Bradley, broker, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Oct. 16 and Nov, 11, at e (oven, at the Birmingham District Court. _ _ _ Thomas Goldsmith, baker Norwich, Oct. 12, at twelve, and Nov. 14, at eleven, at th.g Court of Bankruptcy. William Robinson, grocer,. Bradford, Oct. 18 and Nov. 11, at eleven, at the Leeds Dist, iet Court. Jesse Fridlington, farmer, 1 Cortharnpton, Oct. 12, at eleven, and Nov. 14, at half-pa,it twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. _ _ Thorrias Lord, cotton spinner, Todmorden, Lancashire, Oct. 11 ad Nov. 1, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. SCOTCH BANKT, William King, victualler, Kilmarn% , ek. William Inglis, cabinet maker, Elgia. James Esplin, wright and cabinet ix - Laker, Forfar. COUNTRY 1A RI NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYN3?.--SEPT. 30. — At this corn market there was a middling show of which met a tolerable demand, prices declining- is to 2s on the previous week—white making 56s to 655, red 48s to 575. Tho demand for barley was firm, and about same in value. Oats were in small show, with a slow sale, from 24s to 30s per 24 stone. Borns met with a firm sale, foul 44s to 50s per qr. BRISTOL—OcT, 1. At our market to-day there was a tAin attendance of millers, but a limited business was done, and prices were is lower than last Tuesday. In all spring corn we have no alteration to report. LEEDS—Oerr. 1. The reported arrivals of grain are good. We have had a rather slow business to-day, and both old and new wheat was offered at a decline of is upon last week's currQncies, Barley declined is to 2s. Other articles unchanged. MELTON MOWBRAY-SEpT. 31. There was a good show of wheat to-day, which sold readily at the prices of last week, with a fair attendance. Barley a middling show, and late rates supported. For oats quoCttions were steady. Prices :—White wheat, 42s Od to 60s Od ; red, 52s Od to 51s per 36 stone ; beans firm, at 40s to 50s for old; new sorts, —s per 38 st. ; barley, 38s to 40s for malting, and 29s to 33s per qr. for grinding; oats, 25s to 28s Od per 24 stone. NORWICH CATTLE. The show of stiTireCatil(Tie:daiconsitTtT,Cl of an excellent supply of Scots, Devons, Alio - it'll - orris, and Irish. A large attendants of buyers, but prices in favour of purchasers. Shots, 4s to 4s 6cl ; shorthorns, 3s Gd to 4s 6d Irish, 3s Od to 3s 6d; Devons, 3s 6d to 48 (estimated weight when fat). • Fat beasts a small show and sales firm, at 8s Od to 8s Gd per 141 b. Sheep—There was a middling supply of sheep in the pens and a fair sale, _ _ _ Fat sheep, 8s Od to 8s Gd per stone; prime, 9s Od , with out a clearance. Pigs—A fair supply. Store pigs, 15s to 20s ; fat pork, 7s Gd to.Ss Od per stone. At the Hammersmith Police-court, yesterday, the sharp against the Moulvie of the King of Oude, for assaulting his wife, was withdrawn, and the cross complaint against the wife, for detaining valuable papers : belonging to her husband, was adjourned till Friday. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Pills.—The Body's Bulwark.—Nine-tentlis of the maladies afflicting adults depend on a disordered state of the stomach. Holloway's pills correct the first symptoms of indigestion by acting healthily on the gastric juice, and wholesomely exciting the liver. They dispel flatulency in incipient indigestion, and ovorcotnq the heat, distention, and pain attending more advanced or neglected cases. These pills invigorate and soon restore the'dyspeptic from the great and sudden de pression of strength always accompanying stomachic dis orders or bilious derangement. They beget cheerfulness, vigour, and happiness. In rectifying disorders of the digestive apparatus these pills prove themselves the promptest prevent:ve of disease. They raise a bulwark against all approaching maladies, and• preserve freshness, health, and life. BIRTHS. GAY.—On the Ist inst., at Finsbury-place S., Mrs. Gay, of a son. u,ownf Scott, c O a n p t a tll on e f 2 GL 9 tia t h laar, u df 11 - lit a N :. O. I : Z .o o t e ka House,daughter. S Sheerness, the Ecovr.—On the I s t lust., at 17, St. James's-place, the lady Mr. WING.--On the 30th ult., at Bath the wife of Richard Wing, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. MUN RO — CARRITTHERS.—On the 30th - ult., at Kensing ton, Alex. - Munro, Esq., of Upper Belgravia-place, to M ary , daughter of It. Carruthers; Esq., Inverness. rAL MER—VAN,UTTART.—On the Ist inst., at Si. George's, Hanover-square, George Palmer, Esq., the eldest son of Lieut.-:Colonel Palrutr, of Nazing-park, Essex, to Emily Eden, eldest daughter of W. Vansittart, Esq., M.P. DEATHS. BUCE,TIAM.—On the 27th ult., at Hill-street, Peckham, J. Buckman, Esq., aged 75. DEANE.—On the Ist inst., at Cheltenham, John Deane Esq., aged 71. Dou),TE.—On the 28th tit., Edward Donne, Esq., of 6, Craven-hill, Hyde-park, and Woodlands, near Battle, Sussex, aged 83. GRAY.—On the Ist inst., at Langridge, Nazing, Essex, Mr. John Gray, aged 78. at Sot House, Aberdeenshire, HAY—OnEli Elizabeth, wife ofi3feoth ult., Lieutenant- General the Lord James Hay. HAWKE,—On the 30th ult., at Portland-place, Lower Clap. ton, John Hawke, Eeq , aged 78. SARGENSON.—On thO 29th ult., at 5, Colonnade, Pall-mall, W. S. Sarg ~ enson, Es 1 aged 62. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TflE SUN Office, No. 112,Strand 4 in the Precinbt of the Savoy, in the Count, of Aliadleeex Wednesday, 000/?ct 2? 1501. e ~ t