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Nearly a cen obse4tainor, might since Back composed his immortal Pas- 4)l Nat7 w . 441sbedut Mendelsohn's devoted study of i ts_ ght still have reposed in undistinguished O rly i ii Y„anieng the large collection of musical M se / iri r,an. j.de L;e s piosrssneesisiionnEolfytphe Princess Amelia of S P S ;us I L.. t can scarcely be said to . have . I Vest r tn e ;," °r uled in its full glory, until the recent Festival at tl ie , .Ster Abbey, The second grand performance of E,,ltaateur Musical Festival was celebrated yesterday Ic'eij o il i t f We have already adverted to the first and second kd ° the programme in our notice of the . rehearsal, w e sh 11 It4 tak a now confine our attention to the third, which r riPos , .. e _! fr °ln the Israel in Egypt. This record of the kt iv i ii ji . 8 unrivalled talents was written in the year as B s_ h eats u Period At s , a ,..] he was struggling with pecuniary embarr he tor o b. uu ins health and spirits were sinking under t , a le a _ 'ors ) ' effect s of disease and anxiety. If we ,may 'l '''s an ° P i llion from a selection, limited to three t tll_ai g o sse eeasi s, at the c ommemoration. in 1784, this oratorio was on 1 1N a ,, 'I but lightly appreciated. The repeated p.er ‘ 444 , du • ' ee °I the Messiah, for the benefit of the Foundling i t 'eeas e , IL nng the lifetime of the composer, and since his t. with t h'°ogh . out tho country, has contributed to render *l4 e Publi c at once the most favourite and the most Egypta' 0 111 , t Handel s works. His attempt, in the Israel in : 41 t111; ;° P ° artray through the medium of musical sounds,. 'etes s ' flaginative portion of holy writ, was attended by ' %ti e e qual to its difficult The first part of the oratorio lia t4 "'ed from thePsalmist's y sublime description of the 1' 141 4 °I 4Ypt ; and the second from the hymn of ' e taor,:• sil ng by Moses and the children of Israel incom at ‘,1 04 f . .teti ou . 0 their miraculous deliverance. Last night's i 'Ntr, 1_ 4(141 1 the oratorio scarcely differed from the one at 0 1 %i R l i na°1 *, There can be no reasonable objec'ion . to the N I),,_reeitatives and songs, as the materials introduced_ 1,4,11447 confined to Handel ' s other published works, '°altlll,4aseript in the King's Library. Such a departure r t e sPit e . 'riginal affords the chorus-singers a seasonable . '''al th, 4l 'd also relieves the hearers by a natural transition t Pli eit - y s o u r bir ili,tY . of complicated vocal harmony, to . the LI ' 011168:' a pleasing air, or of unaccompanied recitative. is un ,' ; a ti d • too, hovvever, of a single chorus P . ardona iZtig til'eln,thifiseinisstance no less than seven were rejected ; y God —And I will exalt him—Who 111 )e a u 4 . 1 ; ,thee ?- 111 d Go Moses and the Children of Israel, 184 144 s Pecime a n n s of choral writing. The performance ilatatt,er,ed from the omission of the additional accompa '4ll4l,' °Y Mr. Kearns, which were first used at ,the t titi e i' and afterwardsat Hull and Birmingham. Some at I , l t el e i l/re l _sS a Pious horror at any emendation of the score 4 1 : c e - 11 4 (1 e - ;: itz r thp question has F be en en st s , et at rest by Mozart, and Hiller in Judas id e 2 6 (e u , , w , a nd Alexander ' s k o i; an harrn uo have assisted the . development of Handel's th ' 1 or e h miles, by employing . the res_ources of the ~ 4 14 , 1 estr a . -t a , seer . Handel himself impr t o h v e ed vi umn s t i h n e in es,oe- a nd , eof his day, by placing 1; 48 baria ° Y a free use of the bassoons. If the wind . and_ .41 41 d 1 1 ; v ' s had then existed in their present perfection, he 1 h el, Tiah e a dopted them • and we cannot doubt that . his ', L (1 "k1i6,4 1.. scored by Mozart, would . have received his c o atati nt , cliPProval. The Oratorio opens with a chorus, rhs ''`age, 4° t r„,u° miseries of the Israelites under Ph . a o s a n _ l a 4 d , the fugue is partly founded on a Gregorian b 1 ,,,a Iv r,l4"ounds with old church harmonies and progressions. d IC l3 ,,d u n i, - ; 8 ' 0 " Their cry came up unto God," . are well de- %b' 1 ,1 1 . 1 " e ascension of the bass voices from the Gto ' a u p the ill le tt, ' a the cantos continue the idea by taking t. 4 : th and sustaining its close on the upper A flat. In tli . "Ph o i r cl B ! ' They - loathed to drink," . . the absence of '' Ri • °i des was sensibl felt : the precision and certainty h_ty e IN, ‘e to h y • t e th 4 e romatic passages is beyond conception. H Y til e Word Ille , —an Almighty fiat immediate y succeeded :, t 1 ~,1 1P or flies and other insects,—is one of the ap 13;aotne'vse,solthe oratorio , and was admirably performed. Li 4 eon, " the PowerofDragonetti (and he did wonders) le viols;,l"eosate for tte want of the tromboni and cor d n e- Vigh'' s CO 72 sordini, in the modern score, assist in_ z . Itti - t thi :P e oi l 2 la goe , by a' mysterious and c h o e nti e n b u o e r d us b , u , buzz ift. th• 111 Was also overlooked. In the -laai4,_l6t darkness," Handel has displayed his intimate ii T t il t e ifitee with the sacred and Apocryphal writings. hve tike ar Nk of Wisdom describes this plague to . ~,i c,l, ' " l Pani a by )4 e la ' aill t _he words -of apparitions — ist an " Godexpression sent j:u v s i 1 - k'4 wh ; l'ag them." aY i 'N th the wanderings from . The unexpected . modulati t o h n e s th e l ,' who_ ,e chorus abounds, k t ats tit : it commences, the breaking up of the voices, With ~'10..„4 „ ,°1 an uninterrupted melody, and, finally, the ii the u fro m the chord of D minor to that of F sharp, Veri t ne xPect e d descent of the bass and th , e , close in ktrilt!eve:v_, describe the appalling realities of a thick - th e !ed tr°Pled with evil spirits; and the dismay of the 11 1 n N ees K4:Ptians. In the modern . score of this chorus, p ot s'ru rn Pianissimo, accompanied by the subdued roll of oon :, the darinetti in the chalumeau, the sustained t bi_ -: th e 1 . ,,'" first string of the cc//i, and the single burs I . 4 ‘liv ''tbeni, realize .the sublimity of horror. The re ttl) e.' ax ' a il , holzi lze Ttßht which succeeded this cho- The perfect • I lt i ao Pty - 'prig by Miss ' C. Novello. 1 , 0/ h er ',tweet_ , u scale, ascending to the upper C, yo ung _en manne r and finishedst le, are surprising in thgbt, ~, Performer. The death of y . The First-born of lot a clu i . 6 th e R ed of the Israelites, their . passage gi o 2l th e ~'. .' ect Sea, and the destruction of their oppres forcibly expressed. The tos, iviii:e.t,uerning waters, by wa nt of riz dast of thy . ar nostrils, e went off indifferently / .4iii r. H awki _ s s uffi c ient . rehearsal . The enemy said, was sung %I N. zi ng uni u with taste and . spirit. The last chorus, (1.,.' ( I , _ 0 the Lord, magnificent as it is, did not dis 4rial i t , segret at the omission of perhaps the most won lii'Z' Th e of of Handel's genius, And . the people . shall and'hf e,Pele.ct. adaptation .t of music to words "in the i - ` Str ain " renders imitation hopeless, t hat eB Ve s acl 2,clyFle sublimity ," Ik eks Zarl y fouir i a f t i :on n nd t in y' to desire. It is computed e g rsons were assembled on this n ' 44d testifier their a satisfaction P by repeated encores. GERMAN PAPERS. I b . "11, - ,„''.„ , OCT. 22.—We learn by letters from Venice t t iti' ° lig . uel had arrived there on the 18th, in the ti W as T ,' no t e d has alighted at a hotel on the Great Canal.. dera.. e ti le known whether he,would remain any consi 1 4 1l e t 4t V enice, or to what place he intended to go. i Nt.... q1 5 Om 25.—The papers of Berne cont . i o n u u r e he t y ! 1 1 41 4 ev il arilltistahnessajne tone respecting the affair of the i Government's 'r h „' , R f o , biciA out do not say a word of the 0 1 , "s th e 'Len the meetings and sent away the refractory. of Papery Probably hope to avoid the storm, and . preserve, ' , at least, dignity and independence, in the sense th r:,-1,.t°1-ious protest. til e:. ii, Its rr of St. Gallen goes, if possible, still fur , jour n t declamations, and yet confesses at the same time ttiieeYinen have been sent away ti 4. t il )e • But then this was by no means fril i doneer Berne e n and account St . ti e°4lPlaint made,. and the indirect disturbance of t ' ti " -I ti a l iti l i e t ,,Y. i Heaven forbid ! The police of Berne r tl seto " have done it merely for their h ri a v vin ate . 'ts cement without any reference whatever t e o w t a he p t4 eetio as - urich Gazette. 011 ~ (From the Aar of Oct. e 3.) "4 e 'ePrt that • • le. 111 4 1 I T. is in generalcircula a t s ion rr o e f si a din no g te ca o n f t t o h n e , , tti a to let, with respect to Berne, v 'N„ require confirmation. . ion' aPers of Berne have given it, though . with . some Tli ' but nothing official is known respecting 1 1._ . in. eU - th e of Be Vaal Swiss Gazette thinks that the Govern -1 . -u errie will escape with the mere fright. Whether_ . :I•Kit-11P07.11 Lilsidtvned into iti... d is d ,_ ,. _ e . or not, . tch how all are eagerly wa . it has at least shown haw Switz parties, and rtr a r : Ibbrnent of confusion, in order to advance their t tle ti- tnterests. Not only are the Liberals acting against are ItZ t i i e.„ aos . and the friends of . the Juste Milieu against eas io 41 ; but one canton against another, so that there Zl it i 1,11 political parties as cantons. s tll til e e 4 w°lll € l gladly see Berne humbled, and th ß e e f rn . e n l d o s ok o s f " le j, De° Ple of Zurich hardly half Swiss ; t t i f , lt t b e e ( l e i sp ni u li t ic es u re. roach the the Radicals with being the r . le eau: th ei d th e ae lviet oreign countries, b and with having pr . 1).. 1 : jourtl'n/ence with then?, y their arrogant abuse in i he vi e , .. by their harbouring political adventurers an eery p 4,4 Idt ton of the rights of nations.. Thetoßmacliakcealesoonn_ 7. l 4t 4 i i t :in_47 c r e P ito lain h of the too great readiness N ol o to the national out treacherydtowtishhe tchoautnternyearneadehdemgrena-tt len tt Zithoo t 4opal honou!, an th o r c o to e tomayab decision,el increase, asee without Patricians, ioorder reflectingthat howmatters d o m u a tb y ttfh a uel di t , eo e s!ilt would tries on, f ,„ . _ o g o.s. their adversaries, rejoice olen .t .i n a oun their 411148:11°t18 8311 " ians ' ar l e as a tl s y' vi thi n •goi3" frome confusion, and turn their eyes to foreignc of til e alii; 1311 t evenif em thoeurldesvtotruartnio,nthoefythe old order Noi t i l ftY to maintain thatit. should the return, have su w c a h u a l b d il n i o ty t f ri r ey Illt a ffa ir s governed better froml y Bls to 1830,and not su `'erue, rs t° eorne into the situation in which they now . _ ezillei► which, under these circumstances, thinks itself "Iv bro ug ht t ° „ , preserve the nationality of Switzerland, has . a-latijeo°-gnt things to such a pass, that not only the patri eare. ilns,..4°alt s, but even the radical papers of the other can 'l.7% 4; 'nstanee, the Republican, in its last number,laTo „r t ''Ph ee; at i t will entirely sink in public estimation ; and the . resil„, uient, act in s%r se 'es will be true, if Berne does not enter on a different °f the m ' ari d, inst d c' 1. L it - e _ ea while of thoug h tlessly following the impulse Ni l lB the ri ht a dignified and . le cr ga t l at m es a . nne o r, f s of the neighbouring s fo- e .' l ° tr ot h a g r attacks on tkirnip Powers' _ e si.ich bold anddeclarations re eo ° if i t thej7._last note to the Presiding Canton coil what c i te % f roal es necessary voluntarhy orby 1 compulsion, to the nem- Without doing they ex resep any . good, _ e repeat `without of foreign countries, and produc '0 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NO VEMBER 4, 1834. THE TEA TRADE ARRIVALS ANDTCH DEPARTURES AT THE SCO WHARFS. Nov. 3, 6 P. m.—Though several additional losses and disas• ters at sea continue to be received through various channels, the ravages of the late storm are now, it is to be hoped, nearly fully ascertained. We formerly mentioned that the smack Eagle of Peterhead, Captain Stewart, the property of been the Peterhead and Lon d o n new Shipp in g Company, had driven on shore whilst on her passage from London to Peter head with a valuable cargo of merchandise, near Bridlington Quay, during the late very tempestuous weather, and that on the casualty being made known in the metropolis, C. R. Col man, Esq. the active agent at Downe's Wharf, had proceeded to Bridlington by the mail, there personally to superintend, and to give his best advice and attention in the emergency of the case. Mr. Colman, on his arrival at Bridlington, on on Wednesday night, found the Eagle on shore, embedded in about three feet of sand and clay, and the gale raging with unabated violence from N.N. W. The preservation of the smack being dependant on being early floated off, excavations were made with all practicable speed, when, contrary to ex-. pectation, it was discovered that the principal damage the Eagle had sustained was a plank near the heel, which was broken. It was immediately repaired, and on they urn of tide a steam-towing-vessel (a class now in general use, which had been employed in taking a dismasted brig into Sunderland, was engaged by Mr. Colman to bring the Eagle from her un seemly resting place. In this the steam-tug succeeded, and towed the Eagle into the harbour. The cargo, valued at up wards of 2,0001., and nearly all uninsured, had been previously landed with very little damage, and has since been shipped on board the ship London, Captain R. Martin, for its destina tion. The Eagle's repairs not being extensive, she was ex pected to be able to proceed to Peterhead yssterdaY or to-day. The report of a Berwick smack having been ashore on the gun-fleet, on the 29th ultimo, supposed to have been down ward bound, is happily destitute of truth. HORE'S WHARF, Nov. 3.—Arrived at four p.m. the Dun dee, Perth, and London Shipping Company's fine with an Sovereign, Captain William Simmers, from Dundee, wi extensive cargo of merchandize, principally consisting of ma nufactured linens in bales, for mercantile houses in the City. No sailings.—Advice— The Arbroath and London Shipping Company's smack Defiance, Captain James Mill, sailed from Arbroath, for London, on Thursday the 30th ultimo. DOWNE'S WHARF, Nov. 3.—No arrivals or departures, and no advices. CARRON WHARF, Nov. 3. Arrived at 2 aan• the schooner Totness, Captain John Bence, from Exmouth, with a general cargo.—No sailings or advices. MILLER'S WHARF, NOV. 3.—Arrived at 3 p.m. the Edin burgh and London Shipping Company's smack Favourite, Captain James Dickson, from Leith, with an extensive cargo, principally consisting of whisky and Edinburgh ales.—No sailings. Advices—The Aberdeen and London Shipping Company's smack Regent, Captain Leslie Lawson, arrived at Aberdeen on the Ist instant. The Edinburgh and London Shipping Company's smacks Pilot, Captain George Howie, and the Earl of Hopetoun, Captain David Miller, were in Bridlington Bay, on the 26th ultimo, all well. LEITII AND GLASGOW WHARF, Nov. 3.—Arrived at 3 p.m. the steam-ship Royal Adelaide, Commander James Mill, from Leith, with a considerable number of passengers and a most extensive cargo, which included 112 puncheons of whisky and a great quantity of celebrated Edinburgh ales. West of Scotland manufactured goods formed no inconsiderable part of her cargo. This excellent steam-ship sailed from Leith on Saturday, about half-past 2 p.m., thus having made the pas sage, in rather disadvantageous weather, in 48i hours.—No sailings or advices. LEITH AND BERWICK WHARF, Nov. 3.---No arrivals or de• partures, and no advices. red I Mr. Culling Charles Smith arrived at the residence of the Marquis of Worcester, in Park-place, on Saturday, from a tour. NEW VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY.—We are requested to state that the " Narrative of the Voyage of his Majesty's ship Chanticleer, made in the years 1829, 30, and 31, under the Command of the late Captain Henry Foster, R. N. F. R. 5.," and undertaken by order of the British Government, will be published on Saturday next, the Bth inst., by Mr. Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to his Majesty. Mr. Daniel O'Connell has published in an Irish paper a most shuffling denial of the charge which we brought against him respecting O'Gorman Mahon. We shall not condescend to notice this new instance of O'Connell's brazen indifference to truth, further than to declare that his denial is a falsehood, and that he in his heart well knows it to be stwh.— Observer. LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE COURIER, UPON THE SUBJECT OF THE TEA DUTIES. By JOHN TRAVERS. Second Edition, with Additions. Wilson, Royal Exchange. When an end was put to the East India Company's monopoly of the trade with China, it followed as a ne cessary consequence, that an alteration shouldbe made in the mode of levying the duty on tea. Under the old system the tea was sold by public auction, and the duty, being ad valorem, was levied without any diffi culty, and without reference to the name or distinction affixed to the articles sold, by which it was in no way affected. It was regulated entirely by the price ob tained at the sale, to which price it always bore an exact proportion, or rather stood in the relation of per fact equality, for whatever the price was, such, to a farthing, was the duty. So arbitrary and indefinite, indeed, were these names and distinctions, and so little regarded as indications of quality, that it was by no means uncommon for the inferior denomination to ex ceed the superior in price ; Bohea, for instance, often selling dearer, and consequently paying a higher duty, than Congou, and Congou than Souchong. This is a fact which it is material to keep in view, for it is to the disregard of it, that we may attribute the blundering legislation which has produced the war now raging between the Government and the tea trade, and which, if a timely remedy be not applied, is likely, we fear, to produce consequences of a much more serious nature. With a system of free trade (there being no means of ascertaining prices) the mode of taxation which we have described, and which was well adapted to a mo nopoly, was manifestly incompatible. It was equally manifest that a substitute was to be found only in one or other of the two following plans. Either the same duty must be raid on all descriptions of tea, or a dif ferent duty on different descriptions. The former is designated, in the tea controversy, the fixed duty, the latter the scale of duties. Which of these plans is the best ? This was the question which the Government had to decide ; and when the extent to which it in volves the interests of the revenue and the comforts of the public is considered, we shall not be accused of exaggotating its importance, when we say that they ought not to have decided it without resortin g to every accessible source of information, for the guidance of their judgment. So far from following this course, dictated alike by the magnitude of the interests at stake, and their own want of experience, they seem to have entertained a morbid apprehension, lest any glim mering of practical light should break in to disturb their theoretic dreams. They eschewed, most scrupu lously, all communication with the tea trade; brought a bill into the House of Commons without giving them notice of their intention; and passed the bill through the House in the space of five days; thus setting an exam ple of fair dealing to the trade, by commencing their new system with a smuggling transaction. And after all, the provisions of the Act, instead of being in ac cordance with the principle of taxation avowed by its promoters, and advocated by their partizans, are totally irreconcileable with that principle. The manufacturer of the Bill, finding, no doubt, when he came to work up his materials, that they were rather untractable, set about hatching a new scheme, and by one of those efforts of sagacity which mark a first-rate genius, struck out a plan of his own, which will procure him a passport to fame, if not a statue in Leaden Hall, or a diploma from the Board of Trade. Embarrassed, as well he might be, with the onerous task assigned him of apportioning the duty to the mul titudinous and undistinguishable grades, scents, fla vors, and denominations of tea, he attempted to jump over the difficulty, by dividing all teas into three classes with a different duty on each ; overlooking the unimportant considerations that his classes were as un distinguishable as the subordinate varieties of which they were composed, and that until he had drawn a marked and palpable line of distinction between them, he was, to all practical intents and purposes, as far as ever from his point. He was, in truth, farther than ever from his point, for by a n enviable ha pp iness of ingenuity, he contrived to miss all the advanta g es, and to combine all the disad vanta g es, both of the fixed duty and the scale of duties. Some suspicion of this result seems to have found its wa y into the mind of the Chancellor of the Exchequ er. The noble Lord ap pears to have had some misgivi n g s as to the working of this newly-invented machinery ; for in the course of a few months after the passing of the Act, he moved in the House of Commons for a select committee to enquire into 'the expediency of substituting a f ixe d duty on tea instead of the present scale of duties. Now use no when it is considered that this m otion was a virtual condemnation of the precipit ate haste—to harsher term—with which the measure was passed, we cannot sufficiently admire the candour of the noble Lord. We cannot help thinking, however, that even his candour, proverbial as it is, would have shrunk from the trial, had he foreseen the evidence that was to be pro duced before the committee. It is impossible to look at that evidence without being struck with the immense prepon derance in favour of the'fixed duty. In fact the wh o le of that which can be held of any value is on that side. In the Government scale there is nothing, or what i s so near to nothing—to abstract and absolute levity— that it cannot be considered an appreciable quantity. As the scale-of-duty plan is based entirely on the assumption that the various kinds of tea are easily dis dinguishable from each other, the determination of this point naturally became an object of main importance with the committee, the question at issue hinging upon it. Now let us cast a glance at the evidence. Mr. Reeves states that the various denominations of tea run into one another by such imperceptible gradations, that he cannot distinguish between the contiguous sorts —that he cannot, for example, draw the line between the higher degrees of Congou and the lower degrees of Souchong, nor between the higher degrees of Bohea and the lower degrees of Congou ;—that so inter changeable were these contiguous sorts, that the select committee at Canton used to christen the same tea Souchong or Campoi (names now belonging to diffe rent classes), just as there happened to be a demand from home for the one or the other name ; and that Bohea is for the most part nothing but adulterated Congou. The evidence of Mr. Hunt and Mr. Good hall is equally decisive with that of Mr. Reeves, as to the impossibility of drawing a practical distinction be tween the various grades of tea ; and Mr. Goodhall thinks that even if it were possible to draw such a dis tinction, justice could not be done to the revenue and to the merchant, with a scale of duties, without turning the tea out of every chest imported, and examining it throughout,—a process not very easy in itself, when applied to half a million of chests, and, we should think, not much calculated to improve either the ap pearance or the flavour of the herb. But who, it may be asked, are these gentlemen ? What is the value of their testimony ? Are they spe culative or practical men? Mr. Reeves was appren ticed to a tea-broker in 1789; appointed inspector of tea, in London, to the East India Company, in 1808 ; and, in 1812, promoted to be their Inspector in China, where he remained till 1831. Mr. Hunt was ap pointed to the tea department of the East India Com pany in 1804 ; succeeded Mr. Reeves as the London Inspector in 1812, and continues to hold that office. Mr. Goodhall has been in the Company's se rvice since 1783, and has been their tea-warehouse -keeper for the last 12 years. Now, if skill in practical matters be acquired by Turn we now to the evidence on the other side. The witnesses are Messrs. Ellis, Crawfurd (not the city Member,) Bates, Davies, and Wybrow. The first two of these gentlemen having never been in trade, and having only a theoretical acquaintance with tea (excepting always the knowledge acquired at the tea-table) are, if not entirely passed_ over, pru dently kept in the back-ground by the economists who advocate a scale of duties. We may, therefore, safely take it for granted that there is not much weight in their evidence. That of Mr. Bates we think important, inasmuch as that gentleman, being enlisted on the side of the scale-of-duty system, and a large importer under it, is compelled to acknowledge that some of the Congous and Boheas are debateable teas. Mr. B. seems to have a pretty considerable portion of originality in his views, and if his acuteness in discriminatiag the different qualities of Tea bear any portion to his power of discriminating moral actions, we should, without hesitation, pronounce him nearly equal to Mr. Wybrow in all the great requisites for the office of inspector. Mr. B. states that "in his opinion no individual, who valued his reputation, would think of attempting any such fraud on the re venue as to introduce one kind of Tea for another, but that," he adds with great naivete, " if the Congou imported were so like Bohea that it could not be dis tinguished from Bohea, he saw no fraud in passing it as Bohea." This is certainly an exquisite morceau, whether it is contemplated in reference to logic, to morals, or to his Majesty's exchequer. The next witness is Mr. Davies, aci devant militaire, who, though he has been brought up to no trade, and has been only five years a retail dealer in a small way, has acquired so great a superiority over all other men in distinguishing Teas, that he can, he says, tell the difference between Congou and Bohea " blindfolded." This, we imagine, will be deemed, by our readers, quite sufficient as a sample of Mr. D's evidence ; but we are tempted to add that he states his decided convic tion that he, (the said Davies) is perfectly competent to discharge the duties of an inspector, should he be appointed to that office. We cannot, of course, sup pose that this witness has an eye to such an appoint ment ; but if a discriminating Government should confer upon him so appropriate a reward, we would advise him to assume a new title, as " blindfolded Inspector" sounds something like a contradiction in terms. He may say, indeed, that no change of title is called for on that account, for the mighty goddess, who presides over Inspectors and. their proceedings, is represented with a bandage over her eyes, though she is, at the same time, trimming her balance with the most fastidious scrupulosity—an operation which, one would suppose, requires (if any does) the exertion of the visual faculty, the want of which faculty cannot be supplied by the functions of the nasal or palatal organs, however splendidly developed. Last; though not least, comes the redoubtable Mr. Wybrow, who states that till within the last fifteen months he had paid no attention to the examination of Teas, and could hardly distinguish the flavour of one Tea from that of another. He, however, set to work, and by dint of grinding and cramming, made such proficiency in his studies, that he was able to astonish the Committee. How ?—by his knowledge of Tea ? No, but by the production of a certificate of qualifi cation as an Inspector, V the present law were carried into Oct. So much for Mr. Wybrow's qualifications ; a word as to his position. If a man be asked his opinion concerning the com parative merits of two plans ; and if, by the adoption of No. One, he expect to get a snug comfortable place for life, —by the adoption of No. Two, nothing; we may, without imputing to him more than the average rate of that amour propre by which all men are more or less influenced, prognosticate pretty accurately how he will decide. Accordingly, Mr. Wybrow, following what may be called an instinctive impulse, gives it in favour of No. One. Mr. W.'s hopes have been rea lized ; he has been appointed Inspector, and has made his debut in his new office with some little eclat. The first case which occurred for the exercise of his official perspicacity, was this :—A small parcel of tea was im ported from the Continent as Souchong, which Mr. w. pronounced to be Bohea ; but being enlightened by the broker, he afterwards declared it was neither Souchong nor Bohea, but Congou. This was blunder the first. The next occasion which called forth a display of Mr. W.'s discriminative faculties, was when the first importation from the East arrived in London —an occasion of no small interest to the Tea Trade, and one that could not fail to put a new Inspector on his mettle. A quantity of tea was passed by Mr. W. as Bohea—brought to public sale us such—and there pronounced by the unanimous voice of tea-dealers- and tea-brokers (including the broker who was commis sioned to sell the article), NOT TO BE TEA AT ALL. This was blunder the second. Since this memorable occurrence, a second importation has taken place— and a second public sale—and spurious stuff passed by Inspector Wybrow as Bohea, has been a second time withdrawn, the selling broker again joining in the verdict of the Tea Trade, THAT IT DID NOT CON TAIN A SINGLE LEAF OF TEA. This was blunder the third, though we fear it will not be the last ; and now, we think Mr. Wybrow's capabilities are pretty well disposed of. He must himself, by this time, be beginning to suspect that although cramming may be very conducive to the improvement of turkies, there are other bipeds whose digestive organs it does not new difficulties. They excite a notion that the most dangerous centre of revolution is in Berne, while in fact there is nothing so very dangerous there, and, properly speaking, the whole cause of those political extravagancies is to be sought in a certain liberal, not so ill meant, humour and weakness. VIENNA, OCT. 24.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 99k ; Four per Cent., 91k; Bank Shares, I,26o.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 29. MuNicii, OCT. 25.—Experiments have been made by the Royal Artillery here with the new battery of cannon made of Bavarian iron, which have not been satisfactory. Two heavy six-pounders have already burst, and were shat tered into several pieces, so that the iron seems not to be sufficiently tough. Such precautions were taken that no body was hurt. The Political Gazette of Munich contradicts the report that Count Soporta is going to Greece as Master of the King's Household. He has received from King Otha au invitation to resume the post of Aid-de-Camp, which he formerly held, as soon as his health should be restored, and with the consent of the King of Bavaria he will go to Greece in that capacity.—Frankibrt Papers, Oct. 29. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS *DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, OCT. 3.—Wind S. W., moderate. Arrived from the river, and remain, with the outward bound already re ported. The Lord Goderich and the Waterloo made their Nos. at noon,—" All well." The Lord Goderich, Dawling, for Grenada ; Juno, Cooke, for Jamaica; Ada, Simpson, for Jamaica; G over nor M‘Lean, Freebody, for Sierra L eone,— and the Oscar, Falcon for Genoa. Arrived and remain, the D o ve, Giles, from St. Petersburgh , for Newry ,em the Egbertus, Isklok, from Christiansand, for Rochelle. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Wind E. N. E. to W. S. W. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 2.—Wind S. S. W. Arrived off port, the Swallow, Phillips for Palermo. FALMOUTH, Nov. 2.—Wind S. W. with light breezes. GLOUCESTER, Nov. 2.—Arrived the Henrietta, Glassen, from Memel. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 2.—Arrived the Durham, Spencely, from Odessa ; Lapwing, Osborne, Smyrna ; Good Hope, Skin ner, Naples ; Suitor, Donaldson, Faro ; Caledonia, Craig, Oporto. Off port, the Globe, Main, Baker. CLYDE, Nov. I.—Arrived the Robertson, Neill, and Science, M‘Lellan, from Quebec. CORK, Nov. I.—Arrived the Olivia, Wilson, Gibraltar. DROGHEDA, Nov. I.—Airived off port the Medway, Pal lister, from Quebec. NEWRY, Nov. I.—Arrived the Quintin, Leitch, and Tar bolton, Anderson, from Quebe c ; and Sophia, Twaddle, from London. A BER DEEN, Nov. I.—Arrived the Dee, Gamblin, from Davis' Straits. H U LL, Nov. I.—Arrived the Equity, Hewson, Harriet, Boston, and Lord Lynedoch, Tosh, from Riga. WHITSTABLE, Nov. 3.—About 900 cheeses, 18 sack of mustard-seed, a quantity of cast iron, and a small quany of earthenware, have been landed here from a vessel sunk i ti n t Sea Reach, supposed to be the Mary Ann. QUEBEC, OCT. 4.—The Annandale, Anderson, from Dublin, when beating up off Crane Island on Tuesday, was run into by the brig Cousins, and received considerable damage. EAST INDIA. The Georgiana, from China, has arrived at Liverpool, sailed on the 25th April, and from St. Helena on the 6th of September. Arrivals at the Cape—The Lord Hobart, from St. Helena, and Robart, from Rio, on the 20th July. Departures from the Cape—The Swallow, for Hobart-town, and his Majesty's ship Isis, for St. Helena, on the 27th July ; the Mary, for Swan River, on the 31st. Arrivals at St. Helena—The Moira, from Canton and the Cape, on the 27th of August, and sailed on the 28th for Hali fax ; the Mosambique, from whaling, on the 28th ; the Pa lambam, from Bombay and the Cape, on the 29th, and sailed on the 30th for London ; the Lord Hobart, from the Cape, on the 30th ; the Parsee, from Calcutta, on the Ist of Septem ber, and sailed on the 2d, for London ; the Fame, from New South South Wales, on the 2d, and sailed on the 6th, for London. Departures from St. Helena—The Maria, for the Cape, on the 26th August; the Coromandel, from London to Madras, off the Cape. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE, Nov. 3. The Attwood, from Antwerp ; Ramona, from Rotterdam ; Mersey, from Oporto ; Active, from Dunkirk ; Johannes, from Memel ; Escape, from Dunkirk ; Louisa, from Malaga ; Mentor, from Memel; Nautilus, from Quebec; Haabet, from Gottenburgh ; Jonge Jacobs, from Ostend ; Helena, from Memel ; Mauchita, from St. Petersburgh ; Naples packet, from Naples ; Flora, from Sundswald; Gipsy, from Jersey ; Kidleys, from Quebec ; Abraham, Flora, and Honitors packet, from Guernsey; Mary, from Alexandretta ; Die Twe Sod skende, from Nykesburg ; Cousin, from Smyrna ; Albion, from Leghorn ; Mary Eliza, from Havannah ; Percy, from Honduras ; Goldfinch, from Oporto ; Friends, from Harlingen. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, Nov. 3. The Posthumous, for Demerara; Andromeda, for Rio ' Janeiro ; Trois Freres, for Brussels • Countess of Elgin, for Bruges and Ghent ; William and Alfred, for Antigua ; Meteor, for St. Mary's, River Gambia ; Harriott, for Sierra Leone; Gazzalee, for Smyrna; Happy Return, for Antwerp; Atalanta, for Terceira and Fayall ; Pearl, for St. Michael's ; Lucy, for Malta and Alexandria ; London Merchant, for Rotterdam. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, Nov. 3. The Tulloch Castle, for Jamaica ; Ann Mondell, for Demerara ; Kingston, for Antigua ; Ann, for Jamaica ; Alarm, for Smyrna; Sir Charles M'Carthy, for the Cape of Good Hope; Herman the President, for New York; Eliza, for Leghorn. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, Nov. 3. The Petit St. Piere, for Gravelines ; Dorp Castmeer, for Worcum ; Anegtte Kerstene, for the Baltic ; Rorbet Quayle, for Brussels ; Charles Pines, fot St. Kitt's Vestal, for Opoorto. long experience, we think it would not be easy to find men more competent to decide the question proposed to them. And we think afso that if unblemished in tegrity, the absence of all prejudice—of all bias—of all personal motives and consequences—give weight to testimony, it must be no ordinary testimony that out weighs theirs. Yet they declare that they cannot draw those distinctions between teas, which are neces sary to establish a scede of duties ; and that such scale will lead to endless frauds and evasions. To the same effect is the testimony of the principal tea-dealers and tea brokers in London, as well as that of Sir George Staunton, a Member of the Committee, who as Pre sident or Member of the Select Committee of the British Factory at Canton, had for two years direct charge of the tea investment for England, and who has been officially connected with the Tea-Trade during a great part of his life. _ be inflicted on the revenue, the public, and the Tea ' Trade ? Merely to support a theory, plausible enough, it may be admitted, but totally inapplicable in the present case. All commodities, it is said, ought to be taxed according to their value ;—granted—what then? Does it follow that the various qualities of the same commodity must be taxed according to their value ? Is there an idiot who can barely count ten upon his fingers, who does not see the absurdity of such a scheme ? But your thorough-going doctrinaire is the greatest of all idiots. Mount him upon a principle and he rides it to death—never can you convince him that a theory may be quite unobjectionable, and yet quite incapable of being reduced to practice. If any proof of this were wanted, it is abundantly furnished in the very act by which this notable scheme has been made the law of the land, the sapient framer of which, in his attempt to achieve impossibilities, has given as fine a specimen of bungling as heart could wish. Dividing his teas into three classes, he is still encumbered with his own objection to a fixed duty, viz.—that articles of different value are rated alike; for in each of his classes there are some teas twice as valuable as others. He fixes the lowest duty at ls. 6d. per lb., the second at 2s. 2d., and the highest at 3s. ; and he puts the highest duty on four or five sorts that belong to the second class, and on one sort that actually belongs to the lowest class—this, no doubt, is meant as a boon to the poor. But if the different qualities of tea are to be differently taxed, why should not other articles be treated in the same way ? Is there any peculiarity in tea that renders its various shades more distinguishable than those of other commodities? Quite the reverse. Or is it because tea is a thing of such insignificant CO • . 4 s r 7 ,----.,,. ,441::;-,:4-, t * i- \--- ' N 404 ,14 30 . t .I=nty 4,- 14 6 ed The Right Hon. Edward Ellice arrivt morning. Mr. E. had a long interview bourne. In the afternoon the Right Hon. view the ruins of the Houses of Parliament, an,_ business at the Council-office. Mr. Rolfe, M.P., Viscount Duncannon, and Sir John Hobhouse, had interviews yesterday with Viscount Melbourne, at the Treasury. Mr. Secretary Rice has left town for Sunning-hill, Tun-. bridge. Sir Edward Codrington transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Lord Chancellor visited Viscount Melbourne on Sunday. Viscount Palmerston entertained a select party at dinner on Sunday evening, at his residence in Great Stanhope-street. DRURY-LANE. suit so well. The pernicious consequences which must result from such a law, so administered, it is not difficult to foresee. The conscientious importer, seeing his ca pital at the mercy of an Inspector, in whose judgment he can have no confidence, and who, by a slight mis take, may subject his good Bohea to the Congou duty, or his good Congou to the Souchong duty, will be in duced to import only such qualities as there is the least chance of mistaking, that is, the lowest qualities of each class ; and the fraudulent importer will do much the same thing, though with a different view. He will have his low Souchong imported as good Congou, and his low Congou as good Bohea, trusting to the well-known dexterity of the Chinese packer, and the ignorance of the Inspector. If he escape detection, he has the advantage of Bd. or 10d. per lb. on his importation over the fair trader ; and if he is found out, he pays no penalty, and is still on a par with his neighbour. In this case the revenue is defrauded, and the fair dealer undersold and driven out of the trade : and in both cases the tendency is to encourage the importa tion of low teas. And for what is all this mischief to importance, that it is considered a fit subject for a new fangled experiment? We say new-fangled, for we have not been able to discover that this mode of taxation has been applied to other commodities—to sugar, coffee, drugs, wines, spices, &c., in each of which commodities (as in all others) there is a good, a bad, and an indifferent sort, each sort being again split into more minute sub-divisions. Why then has not a scale of duties been applied to these articles ? For this plain reason, the thing was impracticable—there was no taxometer by which their intermingling gradations could be measured. And can we won der that it should be equally impossible to draw a practical distinction between the various sorts of tea, when we find (as we do from Mr. Reeve's evidence) that they are all the produce of the same identical shrub ? " 'When the pickings begin," says Mr. R., " which is about the month of May, it (the tea tree) will then be in full leaf, and nearly ready to shoot out again with the young shoots. The first shoot on the bud coming out, covered with hair, then forms the the fine flowery Pekoe. Should it have a few days more growth, the hair begins to fall off, the leaf expands, and then it becomes the black-leaved Pekoe. In this tree, of course, there are some young shoots which have more fleshy and finer leaves ; they would make the Souchong. The next best leaves would make the Campoi, and the next the Congou, and the refuse _leaves would make the Folkien Bohea. Generally speaking, that may be considered as the way in which the tea would be made. This, however, relates only to the tea farmers. The tea farmers pick the leaves in this way, give them a sufficient rough drying, and carry them to the market, where they are met by the tea manqficturers, much in the same way as the dairy farmers are Met here by the cheese and butter factors. The manufacturers knowing the kinds of tea that will best suit their own manufacture, purchase from the persons growing it the particular kinds that they want ; those they take home, and they mix so much of this kind and so much of the other as will make the tea up to the quality they are accustomed to make each par ticular chop." Can any one wonder, we say, after reading this account of the way in which tea, naturally one and indivisible, is artificially manufactured and chopped into teas, that there should be some little difficulty in fixing the boundaries of the various sorts ? There is one argument, as •it is called, advanced against afixed duty, to which we cannot help briefly ad verting. It is monstrously unjust, say certain parties, to make the lower classes of the community pay the same tax on their Bohea as the higher classes pay on the finer qualities used by them. This is a bit of clap trap cant truly edifying ; and those who sport it se cretly chuckle at the simplicity of the gulls who are caught by it. The lower classes, we are quite sure, are not such gulls. They are too old birds to be caught with such chaff. The deceit is too obvious—the contrivance too clumsy. Mr. Travers, at page 13 of his excellent pamphlet, has given a table of the importations of tea for the last seven years, from which it appears that the real Bohea imported during that period constitutes less than a twentieth part of the whole, and even when the Congou, with which it is avowedly mixed, is taken into the account, it does not exceed one eleventh part of the importations. This is a fact, and we apprehend rather too obstinate a one to be pushed aside by a mere assertion, however impudently advanced. We may also refer to an admirable letter from Sir G. Staunton to the Chairman of the Committee, (which, by the way, seems not to have been communicated to the Members in due time,) in which he thus expresses himself ;—" The only plausible argument I have heard in its (the scale of duties) favour, is the giving the poor man cheap tea ; but this expectation is evidently fallacious. It is evident, on a mere inspection of the proportions in which Bohea, Congou, and Souchong are imported, that the poor man's tea (the poor being so much more numerous than the rich) must chiefly consist of Con gou, the tea to which it is proposed to affix the medium rate of duty. This medium rate must, therefore, govern the price of the poor man's tea." Now the medium rate under the scale of duties —that rate which is laid upon the poor man's tea, is 2s. 2d. per pound ; Mr. Travers would lower this duty, and fix one rate of 2s. on all teas. If, then, the advocates of the scale system can show that it is better for the poor man to pay 2s. 2d. than 25., we shall allow that they are the friends of the poor. And here we may remark that we hope to see this new-born zeal in behalf of the poor display itself not merely in words, but in a substantial alleviation of such burdens as the malt tax, the corn tax, the sugar tax, and the 600 per cent tax on tobacco, an article used exclusively by the poor. With respect to the motives imputed to the Tea Trade in their opposition to the scale of duties, we need not say more than that if the Trade had been fraudulently disposed, they would have hailed the Go vernment plan as a god-send, and combated a fixed duty tooth and nail. Their conduct, therefore, reflects great honour upon them, and we doubt not will be duly appreciated by the public. Here we must stop, at least for the present. Those who wish to see this interesting subject ably discussed in all its bearings and details must consult Mr. Travers' unanswered and unanswerable pamphlet, which we are glad to see has already reached a second edition, and which we strongly recommend to the attention of the public, regretting that the length to which we have extended this article precludes us from giving such extracts as might convey an adequate idea of the ad mirable skill and effect, with which the author brings his formidable battery of facts and arguments to bear upon the unfortunate scale of duties. :unnel. The Hon. Randal Plunket, only brother of Lord Dunsany, died on Thursday night at his seat, Ballybride, near Bray, in the county of Dublin. The Winter's Tale was gone through here last night, and certainly never did decoration, or any of the aids of the same class so essential to the effect of a full play, render less assist ance. Of all the plays which have possession of the stage, this is, perhaps, the one which is the most difficult to perform with anything like just effect. The fable is so - wild, so hard of belief, and the action is necessarily so abrupt, so hurried, that no intellect short of the genius of Shakspeare couldhave clothed it with any of the attractions of an acting drama ; and yet, his wondrons efforts being duly seconded, the very difficulties be come beauties, and the exhibition is triumphant. All this was felt to its fullest extent by John Kemble ; and when he dis tributed the characters, he attached as much importance to the efficient personation of Dion, Cleomenes, or of Phocion, as he did to that of Leontes or of Hermione. Very different was the case last night. Mr. Matthews was cast into Polixenes, and most miserably did he mumble it ; and Mr. Diddear, Mr. Bartley, and Mr. King were extremely unsatisfac tory as Camillo, Antigonus, and Florizel. Mr. Vandenhoff appeared as Leontes, but, surrounded as he generally was, both as to acting and to management, it was no wonder that he oc casionally played with little effect, if not with carelessness. His two best scenes were the first and last. They were both powerful ; and the latter in particular contained some fine touches, which drew forth warm applause. Mrs. Sloman, as Hermione, played the trial scene with admirable discretion and good tone of feeling. As Autolgcus Mr. Harley was amusing, but when most succecsful he strongly reminded us of the in comparable Munden. Mr. Webster was a tolerable Clown, and there all praise must end; for, although Miss Taylor was Perdita, it is not a character to which her abilities or her style are suited. The audience was not more numerous than might have easily been anticipated. We are authorised to state that there is no truth in the report, copied from the Morning Chronicle of Saturday, that Lord Althorp was about to marry Lady Clinton. The Earl and Countess of Jersey are expected to visit Lord Forester in Shropshire previous to going for the %% - inter to Brighton. Viscount Melbourne will entertain his colleagues in office at dinner during the season at his residence in South street, it not being, we believe, his Lordship's present inten tion to remove to Earl Grey's late official residence in Down- ing-street. The Earl of Minto left Mr. Abercrornby, only son of the Right Hon. the M aster of the Mint, as Chargé d'Af faires at the Court of Berlin, until the arrival of his successor, Sir George Shee, who takes his departure for the Continent this week. The Earl and Countess of Orkney, and two of their sons, have left his Lordship's seat at Taplow, for Naples, where they purpose to remain two or three years. His Lordship's brother, the Hon. Captain Fitzmaurice, and other branches of the family, have sailed in the Jack o'Lantern schooner, to join the Noble Earl at Naples. The Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot is about to retire altogether from the gay world. Mr. A. has given directions for the sale of his splendid mansion in Carlton-gardens, of which he has held a Crown lease since he was First Commis sioner of Woods and Forests. The Right Hon. Gentleman has been on a visit to his relatives, the Fanes of Tolbeck, and is now the guest of Lord Westmoreland, at Apthorpe, North amptonshire. • The Hon. 'William Ashley, the newly-appointed Treasurer to her Majesty, is now, and has been for eighteen months, resident at Naples for the improvement of his lady's health. The Hon. Gentleman will return to England early in the ensuing year, when he will enter on the joint duties of Vice-Chamberlain and Treasurer to the Queen. The Earl of Eldon left his seat, Encombe, Dorset shire, the beginning of last week, for the purpose of spending his 90th birth-day with his brother, Lord Stowell, at the latter's scat, Early Court, near Reading. The Earl of Minto is again spoken of as the succes sor of Lord William Bentinck in the Government of India. His Lordship and family are at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square. Sir T. Metcalfe, the new Governor- General, pro tern., on the coming away of the Noble Lord, now holding the high appointment, was late Resident at Hydrabad, and his family have for many years held high office in the East. His father, the late Sir Thomas, a Director of the East India Com pany, and his brother, the late Sir Theophilus, was President of the Select Committee at Canton. Mr. Aston (nephew to the Marquis of Hertford), Secretary of Legation at Paris, arrived last evening at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, with despatches from Earl Gran ville. The Hon. Charles Ashburnham, Attaché, performs the functions of Mr. Aston during his absence from the French capital. On Monday, the 3d instant, a General Assembly of the Academicians was held at the Royal Academy of Arts in Somerset House, when Mr. Frederick Richard Lee was elected an Associate of that Institution. Government, we understand, have agreed to grant to Mr. Brunel, a sum of 250,0001., bearing an interest of three and a half per cent., for the completion of the Thames Married, on Saturday, November the Ist, at Mary lebone Church, by the Rev. Mr. Burgess, Sydney Cosby, Esq., of Stradbally Hall, Queen's County, Ireland, to Emily, eldest daughter of Robert Ashworth, Esq. There were pre sent, Colonel and Mrs. Ashworth, Lord and Lady Mary borough, Sir Charles and Lady Coote, Lord Crofton, Colonel and Mr. Henry White, Colonel and Mrs. Fremantle, Hubert De Burgh, Esq., Thomas Cosby, Esq., &c. After the cere mony the happy couple set off on a tour. EARL OF RADNOR.—His Lordship is to be removed shortly in a bed carriage to Lady Elizabeth Harcourt's, at Nuneham, near Oxford. It has been indeed a narrow escape, and would have been greatly lamented, for his Lord ship does an infinity of good on his various and extensive pro perties. We are sorry to hear the Countess of Radnor's health has suffered by her unremitting kindness and attention to her Lord. The eldest son, Viscount Folkestone, is travell ing with a tutor in Italy since he left college ; the other son has just entered at Trinity College, Cambridge. His Lord ship has taken with great eagerness to hunting in Berkshire, when he is not employed in political and county business, which hitherto has been his occupation. COWES, Nov. I.—The only members of the squadron now here are Algernon Fleming, Charles Olive, and Spenser de Horsey, Esqrs. Charles Smith, Esq. left the Club-house yesterday, for France. The Xariffa brig is ar rived from Portsmouth. The Earl of Wilton is now the owner, who intends rigging her as a schooner. ll' DE, Nov. I.—The rising importance of Ryde as a place of winter residence is most strongly evinced by the fact of most of the lodging-houses being engaged for the winter months. Our noble visitors, their Graces the Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's, are still sojourning at Westfield House ; LordWilloug,:hby occupies Buckingham Cottage; and the Lord Templeton is at the Manor House. GLASGOW, OCT. 31.—Lord Durham, I am sorry t) inform you, has been so ill since the dinner, that it was found necessary in the course of yesterday to call in a medical gentleman. He was by no means well when he arrived here on Wednesday, and in the latter part of the day, before he went to the dinner, he felt himself compelled to go for a short time to bed. I observed that he had a jaded and fatigued look when he entered the Justiciary Hall in the morning, although he was then only commencing the round of exciting duties which preceded the entertainment. I believe the forms in the presentation of the addresses were shortened as much as possible, but the anxiety of his Lordship to give ex pression to his feelings, on meeting with such a flattering re ception from the Magistracy and people of Glasgow, led him to make greater exertions than was prudent in his delicate state of health. lam happy to state that, in answer to in quiries which I made at a late hour to-night, Lord Durham is better, and it is hoped that in a day or two at farthest he will b 3 perfectly recovered.—Morning Paper. The great subject of speculation in the city to-day, (Monday) has been, by whom and in what manner the new Spanish loan is likely to be taken ; and it appears, that how ever unpromising the prospect may be, coalitions to make offers for it are even here in a course of formation. It also appears that the inducements to take the lead on this occasion, in point of certain pecuniary profit, are of no ordinary nature. The contractors for the first Spanish loan under the new sys tem are not only, it seems, to receive a commission on the amount of the loan itself, but also on the whole of the stock of the foreign loans now in existence, and which is to be con verted into another stock of one uniform description. In the shape of mere bonus, therefore, the contractors have an imme diate profit in view of not less than 300,0001. or 400,0001., and much more if the public come in freely as subscribers. The Spanish Finance Minister has therefore made his calculation well, and insured, if not brilliant success, at least a footing for his first great operation, as many wealthy combinations will be formed all over Europe with such a tempting bait in view to engage in it, without too nicely considering whether the state of Spain justifies this mark of confidence. It is right, how ever, that the public should know this, and take their measures accordingly. The party invited here to bid for the Spanish loan is numerous and with considerable command of capital, but is without the support of names of the very first class in the city. No time is to be lost, as the biddings are to take place in Madrid on the 20th instant, That there must be some great change in the financial policy of the Spanish Govern ment before the contract can be a popular one in this niarket, is, however, quite evident—Morning Paper. ■