The Sun. — London, England, 1834-09-30 00:00:00

THE AY.) field their in conse lecting to le 29th of deliver to ; been re- the firs t it be some o chial leir duties , there was le to take refusing the voters .y perso ns 1. IAY•) ook Pla ce itcs, Esq. 's in their ed in tine ,d Ilhdg e limentary the oaths 'awe that a nd the the do' lerella nt een go ne returned pAY) the Put- :Lp at the ,a, ai the' 0- y.lanet to upo n tb ith consi rc e, por ,„ i " ; the ci , ui , 0 ,1)!c" ,f t he 10 I d a cer : he ll' ' the P :f itO nt ;e t his t 'es s tat n e j en ee, ll ; . , w ith t"' had off' e to g's st Id be be no ,' , hear' l. ;embe r 0 C l( ' that the 3 Gcoell f Russ ia, ,ust 9, 55 „ o f oer c. he W ily reve ° : the sas' le t ti os fcr„ fun ,st reg. t o rou b ,enle”‘ 4 ,0 . 1 h 0 schi c . in er it to ls cia l 0 °":. 3 to Le P ri ` be tba t i• staF: t ie c ith lit `a• coil' r e Yes" f qtr 0 a re t he) ; se bet' itto e )fr , rs °f , obe tee: i , ily • •l t ) I L lfori g r der I cu te r, Lo P, bis r, Ent . a l s o 5 r ee• „ 11 1 Asr! ,b o, !s c i o TO ii t. )er tr kce° u " ) ( I S 'oti deba „ c e t Pi o ht• Cate Per ye ,assiv- a tha t to the 1•obt to ~ vir e sto' te couti- s in tbe frui ts ' fect ioot tnP an ' f. 00 0 ' i° near DNS ,,Ice th e be ee r e of Airs- in ed hil l '4' SHIPPING IN TELLIGENCE. -(THIS DAY.) (FRO Al VEAL, SEPT. 29.—Wind E. N. E.—Arrived for the river end sailed the Ross (ship), from the westwapd; and Harriet, om Quebec.PORTSMOUTH,I,_,. SEPT. 29. Wind E. S.E.—Arrived theiAb 7nn, Shuttleworth, from London f or M a d ras an d C a l cutta . i,143 4 0UTH, SEPT. 28.—Wi n d S. S.W. ttiouTH, S EPT. 28.—Wind S. to E. S.E.—Arrived the Miller,en, eo from Newan Orleans; Somerstshire, Ross, from:Jamaica; d President, De Ruyter, from Jacmel. Legho rn; SEPT. 27 . —Arrived the Lorina, M'Dowell, from M;q ll " ° ,,rn ; and. Ursula, Joblin, from London. Off port the Re-sti;triaNr,rl Honduras; and George, Cornforth, from London. itrroEm Tarragona. 28.—Arrived the San Josef, P ENz , s A NcE. SEPT. 28.—Arrived t h e A nne, D av i e, f rom S t. John 's New Brunswick. fv,l6atsToE, SEPT. 29.—A rr i ve d the Caledonia, Ainsworth, 1 . Ifingle 1) ic J o F° M; amaica. SEPT. 29 . —Arrived the Dahlia, Taylor, from Rio f,..LIVERpoot SEPT.B Arrrived the Margaret, Mortimer, "n 1 Quebec' • . tel_w_tevrbrEa,, a .nPSEPT . Mary 2 7. — A A n n r 27 . —Arrived r e o d n the Tobago. Hall y ards, Simpson, from V',l4aticE, SEPT• 2 7.—Arrived the Hope, Abbott, and ;lAertlilY Rubie, fr . om ondon. Lond on W ", SEPT. 97 . —Arrived the Albion, Stevens, from SR / pet, R ,Lns, SEPT. 29. Arrived the Jane, Hill er y, f rom St. " i rg, leaky, and much damaged. NeonN e l l:e Corricrall, wa s t o t a ll y wrec k e d on t h e I s l an d o f the 10th inst. ; crew saved. HE MARKETS (THIS DAY.) 11-1 Y MARKETS - At per Load of 36 Trusses Coar., h cUMBERLAND. £3 10 to £3 15 tiN.v Ni",:lov,Y,Triwland Meadow Flay 4 5 4 10 ************* 5 4 10 Fi t , 41,01,1 Ditto" ********************** 7. ************* ** ** *************** ... 4 4 15 5 0 (-,p,,eerp!and me.,i;;; 47.dlfi'Wg-;a; ' Hay 4 0 5 1 " at st kiay ******** 1 14 1 16 , 'aw• ********* t:1 Sto£l to : Wheat Straw , nar, I , SMITHFIELD Xi , 10 to £3 1 5 I,l\ly .I.le:Avvinmw.land Meadow Hay 4 5 4 Ir.) 4 c il Pisenefl.ol4 I ;i ri : .-- ........ Hay . 5 5 0 - lov, r Pt,'and Me, ........ . :;;CI . ****************** H 40 5 5 oa t ,r.!3' eXtra tine ' ‘ .•.,i 5.10 __..:-.C'enerallY* , -"' I 14 116 ..... .. •.t 1 10 t;.£l 14 ! Wheat Straw te':':',Vile4do Tr HUNGERFOTID. X 3 10 to £3 1: , 0 4 10 U 4 '4e410%, w 1., --a Y PilleNol°ld bit7ay V..... ..... £3 ..... • 4 5 g 5 5 Cloee-i'land Ale°a:io. ....... ... rßy e ........... fla - y .... :3 13 5 10 Q at ' s, ' „ ti :y . ........... • . 4 ."` ... .......... ... 1 16 1 14 ..... . ...... .£1 14 ..... ' II IF! wheat Straw . te „, 4t :ector: l espee en a c ve e idti in from yg C L n , i ntelli.. `-'2VIAL MARKETS.—(T . H IS DAY.) Jamaica having been received of a favourable the conduct of the Negro population, it has for Purchasing to abate, and the late advance in dvliver' Produce is not expected to be upheld. The amount for Coff ee i es la s t ,-eo Was 2,000 hogsheads. The quotations o f s kid , ai a ti r e . ste a d 3 , good middling Jamaica is from 1025.. to _ 0. 7 !I ' ll 9 dl ing from' 95 to 955 . 6d. per cwt. ; low middling D i It Ni 84s. 6d. t 0 86'3 • s 6d . . per cwt. East India Coffees are also „ Th,',sTino variati'on has occurred in Foreign Coffees. thi s here has not been much done in Mauritius and . ForeignSugars she hts i ' 11 4,Z . ; but soma sales are to take place during day.the nil_ I L s' , he market is not so brisk as it was. Above 500 p on 691c,0v5,71% d.elivered last week, principally ed fo T r r h in o ad me ad c . per in pretty fair request; fine r fii,„ e wt. l'? is ns a u t m fit ti s. to . N. f n . ---- The market is rather brisk at from 10s. to 12s. 6d. per T tA -r o of' white Rengals. heats, .'rhe deliveries last week were as follows :---1,154 quart e ef pt,:36 half -chests and 269 large chests. Aggregate of all T d he ,k ion '' °f Te as, 94 5 ' 541 lbs. This delivery is very large. Set is very firm ' ts A' c" ----- Cassia . •is • SSly/neat Ligma in demand at advanced prices, as well i tt '"to• j i4s 4 i.let i -s s Th ere is a good demand for Italian Raw Silks, but the kjEli a and exceedingly bare of these sorts, owing to the short cro s p. 4 Lx,; el lina Silks are chiefly consumed by the manufacturer . ~'"val b ei " The deliveries continue small; further considerable s n 'ili :gi B 4l .g...!'tPected with reduced prices. The quotation this wol-,011 ? 0 . 6d. cwt. Per lb 15 In more er demand, an d p urc h ases h ave been made at a dvance on the quotation of this day week. te ttt lii It "al Highness the Duke of Sussex, after :Ston4lep„ft3ta Hampshire, remained only two days at Ken he ` the . ,""Ace, and then set off on a visit to Mr. Wildman, Ltndleat , of that gentleman, in Northamptonshire, where l itt he - en renain s• 'The Koyal Duke enjoys ex . cellent hea th, - , u ti -Inplaint in his eyes progresses as satisfactorily as his s t could • wigh ill far - • :00aptes:itmaaslacieuis of Lansdowne arrived yesterday fore the Lansdown -,-, e-house, Berkeley-square, from Bowood. a OO , I l u d : si t Countess Howe returned yesterday b L ord Vi -, `Lear Atherstone, in Warwickshire. .ro a ,di a Ile /1( c l: „ p riday P m a o l r m ni e n rs g. ton arrived at his seat at terl'4l4Popteti.eseteiel %lg.' m is reported again to be ii , i , daughter :tr2r-he L at ladi rn wish to be who love their yi . rds. Queen of the French, is expected to visit her 1 . Drussels in a few months. the-L/I°Z Vernon has given the command of his yacht, tenant :Pin, to Mr. M'Cleverty, who L2 e.e - - 9ra ph °' the watch of the Castor - Hampshirefrigate. T 1 Lo r d 0 11tri to S ta ir was resolved to be present at the dinner zoi lv . Earl Grey in Edinburgh., and . at grea t personal titoe.„ellienee left London, and arrived in the North .‘ just in At Lord s the dinner. Stair returned to town the day after see I. ' William Long Wellesley's eldest son will be of 0 4 Se N o the 15th of next month, when he will be put in pos 11' 1 t ,„ 4(4 fiftee n thousand per annum. The last Mrs. Welles " hear is dead. ftdilltihtli.t Flahaut and the Viscountess Keith . remained f'e giv en for the express purpose of joining in the grand ', ll ,Rt - , e 2 1 , to E-rl Grey . Lady Keith was in the gallery dur ige g as h- unmet., " seated v ery ): near the Countess Grey, with whom_ 'kly 1 , ie frequent conversation. Count Flahaut and his x 'aye now departed for Paris. be ot r ri P 1.1 k1,:l 'eaumont, M.P. for the county of Northum qri' h as recently been confined . to his room, in the house ei s en r o a nd agent, Mr. Donkin, the banker, at Newcastle. t4,41.111, 2 11 ?. w covered. Mr. Beaumont's visit to the North was NC°4'lQ le i " t ile purpose of examining the progress of his valu tnines in Northumberland and Durham. His lady 14/ 14i13 ' ar e staying at Ramsgate for the benefit of sea-bathing. Honourable the I.(l:(lll,etra,,,:deder,ervsatcaanndt by the the Right -t Ainnoull has been pleased to present the Rev. Robert o '11i; l'n'eacher of the gospel, to the church and parish of the death of the Rev. Charles Stewart. Plt li . e Chevalier D del (the Netherlands Minister f or ' lt h"qt a J Princess ..,o,tiftoL., and Count Fersen and cot te ` ° wa on Sunday morning by the Batavier steamer . m ar , 0 1 ' P • - I, 4 llki k i forrttlie,ric_k and Lady Foulke are leaving Lowes -•.e k,ontinent, where they are expected to make a 4111 seieurn. 4 'NeedAar iris 41 11 (1 s and 'Marchioness of . Lansdowne have f l' l .-41R t4en'nueh company at Bowood during the last week. `"4,1"11ofn official have been Lord Auckland (on his return L 4 011 4 eI4I tour of inspection in the Firebrand steamer,) . . el zilltussell, Lord King, Mr. Moore, (the poet) M 1% S i 411 -r. a nd Mrs. Lister, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, and the t . p e Y B Mith. e t t a • 141 )1: t4 ry ne,is Burdett became acquainted with the ex- Nt,,q a to,,,tue Admiralty about two years ago at the dinner ; 'l4 ff. ' 4t °4 -'.,', on friend. The worthy Baronet was so muell , Il b - N e , ''itu the voluble wit, and various conversation of t t4 : l l4 f t e r ct Ph°alirt,ie_al antagonist, that they have ever since been 4 N,4 1 .a theu°aY together. The . ex-Secretary is just rc / re, ~.,aeat of Sir Francis . Burdett . at Draycot, in tot,ilA I\4"gere he has been shooting partridges. / 1 4 4 44 ria r°ll gha tll tn nte was present at.. the dinner . given to l' °i d f .et 'vo . 2 at Aberdeen, and intended likewise r to viee h a ai o e f -art n •re ad - Par t in the celebration of the great se tit i -r eY, i alki Political associate for full half a century, the ..,, 4. th e n Pgliah , fh I' 4* u . rgh, but t4 e rn e k: ari °Poll s of the North by severe indisposition... 'll '4l .llle st ° L f Errol went to Scotland, it is said . at A lkIN tC) Ft King, purposely to be present at the dinner ,ita L i toi i i i f,-reY I ndnbugh; His Lordship is now e -41*Pil'eils 'elißl Iresidence r in Richmond-park, which t e. t o L . ix . ll t ell l 4 ..IN,T L ' l rn by his Majesty soon after the Noble Earl's eitP N I t ' 11 . - --P • • having been taxed with , 0 Perf orm agamm, vic e . 't.' afid, nr la at a concert for the relief of the poor at 4 11 ; e f e >" Bi7 s sed the following letter to the Journal des Ithat th Q lliet o , i ,----tile extraordinary method adopted by your )• e'er co in Bl to induce me to give a concert for th F e or be m n o e r fi e t Zil44 d rel ItsP m e to reply to this attack. th.-.,teiselt_ealt();:itllrs have given no - concert in d F l ra a n m ce a ; b m on y t dew tct)lle , e k.ielies re have the greatest rest, tir. l l e ett;Nite 1 reY native place, where I a s n hallremain all the have given two r4t of i n sit ItY re-establishment. Jourth i , t d ° aria 8 fOr the benefit of the poor. I ‘in_ o h as the ot t hat y ti l g that I should have pleasure in s •-...N 1 1 _ 3 0 will ,4. IC °L ° p,,.. , ~ give place to these lines in your giving e s a t i t m h third e ? thole,o vouit ntANINI. a h4 e : 1- VI s 1 T - --Willian . i Beukeljzoon, I, h,, rt of wri.tter, h is • tharj,h,e,,,TiZlng h errlame' Be d ukelings first taught the Dutch or, as a ' native of Bier Uliet, b ar it h il - „, y • 4: 14 , Was gu s ;ie a d ri in w l a 3 s o7. When the Emperor rell,:lo4lAe,; I n was the Low Countries, he made a journey Tr i lierti °I Hungary to view the tomb of this first qi!„' h l i t Tk;il 1, 4 '. --Mirror. k e se a r d - : e i tite re .: ll Ati n Ivr ; ~-----iviONDAY EVENING.—Con c lio,,Nng -` .s EVENlNG.—Con directed to the state of the tea trade at I°l46"l ig ^ 4l4l ;et til .! n ear approach of extensive supplies for t b e do iv , t . r0,,, s. ander a free trade. The arrivals by oo th n . oasts 1 e rles of IttaPore, are expected to be offered s . i?, ' ' 154 ; o f t i e l as laat week were as follow :—of quarter tea an aggr egat e chest s , 133 ; and of large chests, 29 ; delivery of 945,541 pounds' weight ~i . ,A. o , ch th,-Qop ITiai l of •,-. ;n ki s iP the T ilir . rrederick Prince of Wales (father ,. : 1 41 8t at i: i S Of 1,, 111 _ a), Was so annoyed by the fine-ladyisms ot liti o : dea t h 1 ", lir, whom he had occasionally to drive out, that I,2"she iclltTethed 300/ • to his son, on the express ' never marry a maid of honour !" COURT CIRCULAR. Summonses were issued yesterday to all the Cabinet Minis ters in town to attend a Privy Council at St. James's Palace to-morrow. Mr. Secretary Rice had an interview yesterday with Vis. count Melbourne at the Treasury. Sir Charles Pepys had an interview yesterday with the Lord Chancellor. Lord John Russell left town yesterday morning for Pans. hanger, Herts, the residence of the Earl and Countess Cowper. Despatches from the Governors of Jamaica British Guiana, Honduras, Mauritius, and the Bahamas, were received yester• day at the Colonial-office. The Lord Chancellor, Lord John Russell, and a select party, dined with Lord Holland, at Holland-house, Kensing: ton, on Sunday evening. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Earl and Countess of Lichfield, at Newmarket, from the Earl of Wilton's seat, Heaton House, Lancashire • the Earl and Countess of Belfast, at 011 ows h aw P ar k, S urrey, the Isle of Wight ; Sir Charles Laxton, Bart., at the Bruns wick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Clifton ; Lady Powlett, at Hitchcock's St. George's Hotel, Albemarle -street, from Dover; Mr. and Mrs. Magee, at the Burlington Hotel, from America; Mr. and Mrs. Colhoun, at ditto, from ditto • Colonel Anger stein, at Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, from a tour ; Mr. and Lady Augusta Baring, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's street, from Marlborough ; Captain and Mrs. Hughes, in Grosvenor-street, from Leamington ; W. J. Lewis, Esq., at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Dublin. DEPARTURES Lord Feversham, from Arlington -street, for Duncombe Park, Yorkshire; Viscount and Viscountess Sidmouth, for Swanwich ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry and suite, from Wynyard House, near Durham, for Mount Stewart, county Down ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Godolphin Orborne, - from Eaton-place ' for Bognor ; Lord and L a dy D u nsane, on a tour ; Sir J. Franks, from Brook-street, for ditto ; Mrs. Fitzherbert, from Sydney -street, Park-lane, for the Brighton Steyne ; Lady Lucy Vaughan, from Bruton-street, on a visit to the Earl of Lisburne, at his seat in Wales ; Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, for Sudbourne-hall. Suffolk ; Sir James Riddell, Bart., from Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, for Sussex ; Wm. Abbot, Esq., from Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street,"for his seat, Warn ford Park, Herts ; Captain Price, from ditto, for 'Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. Farrer, from Batt's Hotel, Dover -street, for Paris ; Lady C. Morris and Miss Purse, from ditto, on a tour; T. and E. Munro, Esqrs., from ditto ; Wm. Boyd, Esq., from ditto, for Paris ; the Earl of Onslow, from the Pultency Hotel, Albemarle-street, for his scat in Surrey ; J. Newbold, Esq., from ditto, for Margate; George Swayne, Esq., from ditto, for Ramsgate ; Mr. and Mrs. P oe l, f rom Fenton's Hotel, St. James's -street, for Germany ; John Leslie, Esq., from ditto, for Powis, Aberdeen ; Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, from Grosvenor street, for their seat in Norfolk. From Cowes, Isle of Wight —General Johnstone, Earl of Ilchester, Earl of Cavan, Vice- Admiral Sir Graham Hamond, Lord and Lady Corry, Sir Peter Halkett, Captains Pechell, Corry, Lyon, Saunders, G. W. Heneage, Esq., J. Congreve, Esq., A. Corbett, Esq. THEATRES. ENGLISH OPERA. After the Opera of the :Mountain Sylph, a new Musical Farce was produced, entitled My Grandfather. The plot is simple and rests upon one point, which is, however, a good one. Sir Granville Peer (Mr. Tilbury, a new actor) is ex tremely anxious to bring about a match between his grandson, Mr. Percival Paer (Wrench), and Mary Mandeville (Mrs. Waylett), and the young people are very well disposed to gra tify him, except that Mr. Paer, who is a general admirer of the ladies, is reluctant to transfer his admiration from the whole sex to a single specimen. A Mrs. Gayton (Miss No vello), a widow of course, who is herself a coquette, puts the Baronet and the inamorata upon a plan for arousing the tardy passion of the lover. Sir Granville announces to the latter that he is about to be married, and, having invited him to the wedding, presents him to his grandmother, who is no other than his own Mary Mandeville. He is distracted, and, after having been well tormented, is undeceived, and the real mar riage ensues, at the same time with that of a Mr. Lanzbton (Mr. T. Miller) with the widow, and the usual match between the servants (Oxberry and Miss Somerville). This portion of the piece is pleasant enough, if it were but worked glibly off, without being delayed by a considerable admixture of dulness, which might very easily be cut out. The music is by Mr. T. A. Lee ; and there are several pretty songs, a sweet duet, and quartette very deserving of popularity. ADELPHI. This establishment opened for the season last night. The ,nterior of the house has been repaired, and the " stage in creased to double its former extent," affording, of course, in creased facilities for the display of those scenic effects for which this Theatre has been long celebrated. The first no velty of the evening was " A Ballet Operatic Romantic Spec tacle of Diablerie," entitled The Black Hand, or the Dervise and the Peri. The following is an outline of the plot, as well as we could collect it amidst the noise and interruptions con sequent upon an incessant clapping of trap-doors, mysterious disappearances, and equally marvellous appearances. Azola, a Penn (Mrs. Yates), has incurred the displeasure of Soleila ( Miss Daly), the spirit of the golden city, and other Penis of no less influence in the celestial regions, by being wicked enough to continue her love for a mortal, to whom, in her for mer state of existence, she had been contracted. The nu merous virtues of this saintly personage, Sadak, the Dervise of Mount Caucasus (Mr. Hemming), have rendered him pe culiarly obnoxious to Eblis, the King of Demons (Mr. 0. Smith), and his numerous families, by whom he has been sub jected to a long course of persecution. The sentence of the offending Peri is, that she shall return to earth, " half mortal, super-human," and that in this mermaid-like state of existence she shall become the slave of Eblis,and be by him employed in tempting the unfortunate Dervise to his destruction. She is ac cordingly expelled from the bright realms of paradise(where con stancy would appear to be little appreciated) and the temptations of the Dervise commence. Occupied in his rude dwelling in offering up prayers to Alla, and in feeding the sacred fire which perpetually burns upon his altar, he is suddenly informed by a terrified attendant, that a female has just emerged from the neighbouring wood, pursued by a lion. He rushes to her rescue, and succeeds in bringing her unharmed to his hut, where, while occupied in restoring suspended animation, he discovers her to be no other than the object of his first and only love. As the lady had departed this life some time previously, he is naturally somewhat confused at this unexpected meeting, and a partial explanation ensues, the spirit being prevented by the presence of Eblis (who is visible only to her), from warn ing him of his danger. She declares that wine alone can re store her to life ; it is immediately provided by the officious care of the King of the Demons, and the Dervise is tempted to indulge in copious libations of the infernal liquid. The Peri relents, and warns him of his danger; it is too late, the wine has evidently been " hocussed" by the Eblis ; he becomes pot valiant, and declares that, be she mortal or demon, he will live for her and her alone. He falls senseless at her feet; the sacred fire is extinguished, and the demons appear to carry off their prej, which they are, however, pre vented from doing by the sudden appearance of Soleila and her attendants. Here a colloquy ensues between the contending powers. Elbis contends that he has a right to the soul of the Dervise, in consequence of his having neglected to feed the sacred flame ; Soleila, however, resorts to a little special pleading, and urges that as it was extinguished through the interference of another party, the Dervise has a fair right to return to earth. She, accord ingly, sends him back " to the place from whence he came," to await fresh trials. The disappointed demons hereupon wax exceedingly wroth, and have recourse to " the weapons of evil." The good spirits are immediately accommodated with " the swords of truth," and a " celestial and infernal combat" forth with commences. The good spirits are victorious ; the bad ditto—to the number of some eighteen or nineteen—fall through a trap-door, and the first act terminates. In the second act we have the Dervise exposed to the manifold temp tations of wine, food, women, suffering, thirst, hunger, and cold, all of which he steadily resists; the spirit of the golden city again appears in splendid array; the demons and the stage o down together, the lovers are united in the regions of para dise, and the piece concludes with a strong light and a pretty scene. It will be readily imagined that it possesses no merits as a dramatic composition ; we never heard worse dialogue, or saw clever actors thrust into parts so com pletely beneath their talents. The scenery is extremely good, and the general getting up of the piece evidences all that tact for which this management is generally remarkable. The machinery' is extensive, and when the difficulty and bustle of a first night have been removed, we doubt not will work well. Having said this much, and giving the proprietors full credit for sparing no expense, we have said all we can in favour of the piece. Considerable hissing prevailed at different periods during the representation, but it was com pletely drowned in the general applause which followed its con clusion, when Mr. Yates appeared in a somewhat extraordinary costume, the disordered state of which bore testimony to his active exertions as stage-manager, and announced the play for repetition every evening till further notice. We had almost omitted to say that the several performers did the most they could with their respective parts. Mrs. Yates looked and played, as she always does, extremely well ; and Hemming and Wilkinson played very respectably in the characters which were originally allotted to Messrs. Yates and Reeve. It is always more pleasant to bestow praise than inflict censure ; and we therefore turn with much satisfaction to the second novelty of the evening, which was a domestic burletta in three acts, entitled The Chain of Gold, or a Daughter's Devotion. It is of the same class as The Wrech Ashore, Vic torine, and other similar productions, which have acquired considerable popularity. We think it nearly equal to any of its predecessors, and this is no slight praise. Mrs. Keely's acting was perfection itself. For genuine feeling we never sa w it excelled by any actress of much higher pretensions. Yates, Reeve, and Wilkinson did their best, and contributed essentially to the success of the piece —especially the former. OLYMPIC. Last night, being the first of the season, no less than three entirely new pieces were produced ; the first, a V audeville Burletta call e d The Loan of a Lover, with some pretty music arranged by Mr. Tully. The events of three Burlettas comino upon the attention in rapid succession, are apt to produce some little entlnglement of memory, and to render it no very eas y task to mention with sufficient clearness the story of each. Ernestine (Miss Fitzwalter), a young lady of fortune, has a number of admirers, each most solicitous to obtain her hand. The most pressing of them is Captain Amer.yArt (Mr. Vining). Gertrude (Madame Vestris) is this lady's maid, an orphan, known from i n f an cy t o Pet e r Spyh (Mr. K ee l ey), a substantial fanner, and fondly attached to him, while he is entirely unconscious of it. Gertrude is most solicitous for a lover, but cannot make Spyk comprehend her wishes ; and her mistress—rather teased by the importunities of the Captain, offer the loan of him as a lover to Gertrude. The offer is ac cepted, and both the Captain and Gertrude play their parts so well as to excite the jealousy of Ernestine and Peter Spyk, and the result is that the parties are happily united in wedlock. The amusement of the piece is produced princi pally by the lively and natural way in which Gertrude endeavours to draw from Spyk the secrets of his heart, and his intentions on the subject of matrimony. He is determined to have a wife, but among the many he mentions as having occasionally occupied his thoughts, Gertrude finds in each some fault of mind or ridiculous defect of person that puts a stop to his further progress. At length seeing Gertrude, as he thinks, loved by the Captain, and having a crowd of ad mirers besides, an attachment, which was smoulderinc, in his heart from childhood, breaks out, and he finds himself furiously enamoured, and of course furiously jealous. In the display both of his love and his jealousy, Keeley was irresistibly laughable, and contributed mainly to the success of the piece. There is sonic pretty music, and Madame Vestris was encored in one of the airs, which she sung with her usual sweetness and felicity of expression. There is a very beautiful new scene, a view on the canal near Utrecht. The second piece is a bur letta called A Little Pleasure. It takes this name from .111 r. Henpeck (Mr. Keeley), who having married his own servant, by whom he is most cruelly tyrannized over, goes down alone to Margate "to take a little pleasure' for two or three days. Here he is brought into a variety of laughable embarrassments through means of a silly, ignorant, and mischievous coxcomb, Mr. Fitzflash ; an inquisitive and prattling chambermaid, Hetty Bandy (Mrs. Orger) ; and his own wife, who pounces on him unexpectedly from London, while he is very unsuccess fully in pursuit of a little pleasure. The waiting maid has, for her station in life, rather too much to do and to say, and a little curtailment in her part would not be amiss. There was some slight indication of disapprobation at the close of the piece, but nothing to make the repetition a matter of doubt. The title of the third Vaudeville is "Mrs Friend the Governor." The Governor of Seville has, in a way utterly unaccountable to all his friends, heaped favours without limit upon Pequillo (Mr. Liston) and upon his family. The rea son is that this same Governor, when a student at Salamanca, among other wild freaks of youth, had robbed Pequillo, while sojourninff there with his wife, of all he possessed in the world, being 500 pistols. He now, therefore, having arrived at wealth and power, endeavours by all means to make amends for the wrong he had inflicted, Pequillo being utterly igno rant of the cause, and attributing all the favours heaped upon him to his own merits. At length, in an unhappy hour, he is reminded of a madcap of the same name as the Governor, who, twenty years before, had made himself notorious at Sa lamanca by his riotous life and his success among all classes of females, high and low, married and unmarried. A crotchet takes possession of his brain that the Governor is the wild youth who formerly figured away at Salamanca, and by aid of insinuations from a kind relation,he becomes convinced that the Governor is now, by his bounty, making payment for favours received at Salamanca from Ftlipa, his wife, who was then young and beautiful. Liston's jealousy is The great attraction of this piece, and he kept the audience in roars of laughter from the time the fit seizes him till he is undeceived at the close --- A Miss Paget and a Mrs. Macnamara made thcir first appear. antes at this Theatre, and did very respectably what was corn• mitted to them. The house was crowded in every part. VICTORIA THEATRE. This house has re-opened for the season. The principal novelty announced in the bills, and that which seemed to be the great attraction of the evening, was the glass curtain, the production of which was loudly applauded by the audience. The house has been thoroughly cleaned, and a great many small chandeliers illuminated with gas have been judiciously substituted for one immense chandelier in the centre of the ceiling. The appearance of the whole is good. Othello was the play, the part of the Moor being enacted by Mr. Elton, who is a clever man and a good player ; he reminded us in many passages of Kean, of whose school he is a successful disciple. Mr. H. Wallack was the lago, and Miss Horton and Mrs. Selby the Desdemona and the Emilia of the evening ; both these ladies displayed considerable talent ; the latter was on several occasions applauded with enthusiasm. Rame Samee exhibited his feats of balancing, &c., to the entertainment of the evening ; and a farce, entitled the Gentleman with the Carpet Baq, in which a villainous attorney, who is conveying the deeds of an estate, which he wishes to keep out of sight, in a carpet-bag, is by no great stretch of imagination mistaken for a depredator, who travels for the purpose of committing rob beries, is detected, and forced to relinquish his pray, con cluded the performance; this last trifle was exc ee di ng ly well supported by the acting of Mitchell. The dialogue is a mere play upon words, in which some real wit is crushed under a deadweight of extravagant and antiquated puns. The house was crowded in every part with respectable company. It is, we understand, the intention of their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria shortly to proceed from Tunbridge Wells to the sea side, and St. Leonard's has been selected by the Royal party for their residence during the winter months. The West Villa (re cently occupied by Lady Dover), with the two adjoining houses, are taken for their Royal Highnesses and suite. On Wednesday the Duchess of Kent and the Prin cess Victoria arrived at Sheffield Park, where a brilliant party, consisting of the neighbouring Nobility and Gentry, had as sembled to meet them. We underst a nd th a t i t is their Royal Highnesses' intention to remain there for some days.—Hamp shire Telegraph. His Royal Highness William Frederick Duke of Gloucester is at present on a visit to Sir Clifford Constable. His Royal Highness, when Prince William of Gloucester, was admitted to the freedom of this town in 1798, on which occasion he dined with Mr. Standage, who was then Mayor. In now visiting the town it is expected that some measures will be taken by the authorities to testify their respect to a member of the Royal Family, and so near a relative to our most gracious Sovereign.—Hull Packet. Lord Burghersh entertained on the 28th inst. the Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester, Count Torlonia, Sir Willoughby Cotton, Baron Tuyll, and the Honourable Mr. Dundas. Lord and Lady Tullamore on Michaelmas-day en tertained a party of friends, amongst whom were the Marquis of Worcester, Sir Willoughby Cotton, Mr. Villiers, and Mr. Duncombe. Mr. and Lady .Elizabeth Vernon Harcourt gave a sumptuous dljeuner to a large family connection at N une h am on Thursday last, on the occasion of the marriage of th e i r only child, Miss Harcourt, to Viscount Norreys, eldest son o f t h e Earl of Abingdon. The Right Hon. R. C. Fergusson, M. P., an d family ; Lord Lumley, M. P. ; Colonel Wright and family, and Colonel Baillie, have arrived in Carlisle. Russell Grove, the magnificent seat inherited by t h e Hon. R. A. Clive from his brother-in law, the late Earl of Plymouth, has received an accession of distinguished guests since the present proprietor took possession. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland (sister to Mr. Clive) the Coun tess of Pembroke, and the Ladies Herbert from Malvern, hav e been among the visitants. BRIGHTON, SEPT. 28.—The Lord Chancellor, ac companied by Miss Spalding, arrived on Friday evening, and the next morning visited the Earl of Westmorland, at the Bedford. Lord Brougham took an airing oa the Cliffs yes terday afternoon, accompanied by Lady Brougham and Miss Spalding. BERLIN, SEPT. 22.—A list is circulated in the high circles here of the distinguished persons who are expected at our Court while the Empress of Russia is here in i3erlin, and in Potsdam. Among them are—the Grand Dukei of Oldenburgh and Saxe Weimar and their families, the reigning Duke of Anhault Roothen. Duke Eugene of Wirtemberg, the Landgraves of Hesse Philipsthue and Hesse Rothemberg, &c. RYDE, SEPT. 27.—His Grace the Duke of St. Alban's, as Grand Falconer of England, intends flying his hawks on Ashley Down on Monday next. Oar amusements were never so varied nor so warmly supported as during the present season, which we may fairly att r ib u t e t o 'th e D u k e an d Duche4s of St. Alban's. Whatever can contribute to the plea sore, of the place meets their ready and liberal sanction. At , rivals—Sir William Robinson, K. C. 8., and Lady Robinson, and A. Goldschmidt, Esq. SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT.27.—On .R e v. the the the Chancellor of the diocese held a visitation in Holyrood Church, and delivered a most impressive charge. The ser mon was preached by the Rev. T. Mears, Rector of All Saints. The Rev. J. B. Clifford (Curate to Dr. Wilson at Holyrood Church) has been presented to the Curacy of Petersfield by the Bishop of Winchester. The Revising Barristers ap pointed to this town have, during the week, completed their labours. On Friday morning, 'as the Hon. Berkeley Craven was turning the corner of East-street from the High-street, with his carriage and four, one of the leaders fell and entangled the others, and before they could be separated one (a valuable horse) was so severely injured that it is not likely to recover. The noble owner and friend escaped without injury. WINCHESTER, SEPT. 27.—The C and D troops of North Hants Yeomanry Cavalry will be quartered in Win chester on Monday and Tuesday next, under the command of Major Sir W. Heathcote, Bart., and Captain Baring. On Tuesday they will be inspected on Compton Down, being their last this autumn. A public Meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held at the Guildhall on Tuesday last, to take into consi deration the best means of supporting the police force esta blished in the city and suburbs, when necessary resolutions were entered into for that purpose. Confirmations.—The Lord Bishop of Winchester will hold a confirmation for the Lord Bishop of Bristol at Wimborne Minster, and also at Poole on Thursday next, the 2d of October ; at W are h am on Friday the 3d, and Dorchester on Saturday the 4th. COWES, SEPT. V.—Commodore Lord Yarborough returned from his six weeks' cruise on Sunday last, having vi sited Lisbon and Madeira. The variable weather experienced satisfactorily proved that the Falcon haw been improved by the alterations. She is come into harbour to be laid up. His Lordship entertained a distinguished party at the Yacht House on Thursday. On Thursday the SparrothhaWk cutter, E. Heneage, Es also returned, last from St. Mich ae l' s , i n eiaiit days. She ran 3,000 miles in tw enty d ays. Sailed the Water Witch, the Earl of Belfast, for Portsmouth, to be sun veyed for the British packet service. The Vice-Cciinnodore intends to build an improved brit--yacht. Yachts in the roads Ann, Earl of Listowell ; Emily, Captain Pechell ; Spenser de Horsey, Esq. ; Pet, Captain Corry hawk, E. Heneage, Esq. ,pdoPg, p ' SPurw" THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1834 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS IN THE ARMY. HINTS TO THE MILITARY COMMISSION, &c. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlB,—The debate on the flogging of private Hutchinson, of the Guards, is likely to have important results. In the season of peace we may safely conclude that the petition on that subject, presented to the House of Commons by Mr. Tennyson, has given its death blow to corporeal punish ment. Public opinion has been so loudly and decidedly pronounced against it, that every officer in either Service must now be convinced that this revolting system cannot be much longer upheld. The Secretary at War on that occasion stated to the House of Commons, that one-fifth of the army had within the last year passed through the different gaols ; he subse quently qualified this astounding assertion by saying it was but a tenth : however, we learn from other sources of information that in the period he speaks of, there have been no less than 18,000 courts-martial in the army—consequently the Secretary could not have been far wrong when he estimated the number of offenders at one-fifth. But whether we take the number as one-fifth or a tenth, in either case the por tion is so great as to give rise to the most serious appre hensions ; and whether we look to the sullen discontent now prevalent among so many of those neglected officers, who fought their country's battles, or to the avowed in subordination of the soldiery, it is evident there is an in ternal rot, and we can no longer disguise the fact, that the once proud and martial spirit of the British army is fast falling away. It appears there is a Commission about to be appointed for the purpose of inquiring into everything connected with the discipline of the army, of revising our military code, and to recommend some substitute for corporeal punishment. This Commission will, no doubt, be empowered to call what ever evidence they can collect. I sincerely hope their la bours may be attended with useful results ; but it is earnestly recommended that they do not confine their in quiries to foolish theorists, or to those who have lately given their testimony on the sinecure governments ; the same persons, always questioned, seldom throw new light on a subject, and the present is one infinitely too important to be any longer trifled with by the drivelling of. dotage. They must have recourse to practical men—that is to say, to 'generals of districts, to colonels in command of regiments, and captains in command of companies, who have served in war and in peace ; to adjutants, selecting those particu larly who have risen from the ranks, and respectable ser jeants; Those are the men who maybe said to have charge of the discipline of the army, and who, from experience and knowledge of a soldier's life, must be the most competent judges of how he can be best governed without the use of the lash. It has been asserted, I believe, on the authority of Sir W. Gordon, that a soldier of infantry, who is the lowest paid of any class, receives only twenty-five shillings annually in cash, after defraying all his wants. Now, if we examine into the list of offences committed by soldiers, it will be found, that in nineteen cases out of twenty, they originate from drunkenness. Let some of the captains who pay the men be then called upon, and I venture to affirm it will ap pear that in all well-regulated regiments the soldier receives at least twele or thirteen shillings a month in hard cash ; that is, after being well fed, housed, and clothed, with every comfort about him, he gets the amount of twelve or thirteen shillings a month to spend as he pleases. With this money the soldier generally goes to the canteen, or to some spirit shop, where he frequently gets beastly drunk, and in this state commits some disgusting outrage, possibly on a help less female or other unoffending member of society, and is deservedly punished for his misconduct. The question may be here asked, ought the army to be paid at this extra vagant rate ?—or how long will the people consent to pay an idle and dissolute soldiery all this money, that so many thousands of them may pass as culprits through the gaols for violating those laws, which they are so• well paid to protect? By the present regulations, it is impossible to rid a regi ment of a bad character, unless he is transported as a felon. If there were condemned regiments or companies on parti cular stations, it would prove eminently useful, and courts martial ought to have the power of sentencing incorrigible offenders to serve for five, ten, or fourteen years in one of those condemned regiments or companies, according to the degree of his offence, and then be discharged with ignominy from the Service. It has been remarked that, since the power of punishment has been taken out of the hands of commanding-officers, crime has rapidly increased ; for one court-martial in former days you have now thirty, from which it is plain that the regulations which transferred the management of a regi ment to the general was a most injudicious one. In short, as by this system, out of an army not in any way exceeding 100,000 men, there have been 18,000 courts-martial in one year, there is sufficient evidence that responsibility ought to rest somewhere, and in all fairness the colonel cannot be held' - responsible for that which he has - not the means of guarding against ; disorders take place underMiiery . eye, a quire of paper is wasted in corresponding with the dif ferent officers, and this is what they call now-a-days go verning an army ! They forget that punishment, to be effectual, must be prompt, one case being punished by ten days' imprisonment, under the order of the commanding officer, when the offence committed is fresh in the minds of the men ; or, as an example, with fifty or sixty days in flicted by the general in many cases where the crimes are forgotten by them. A commanding-officer should, more over, be empowered to fine soldiers for petty offence s an d drunkenness, but not to exceed 2s. 6d. for each offence. Let it be borne in mind, that in everything connected with his pay the soldier is like a sensitive plant, and the greater the drunkard, the more mercenary and selfish will he always be found; and I am well persuaded that if the power of fining to a limited extent was_ vested in the commanding officer, it would go a very great length in preventing drunkenness and disorder, and that the number of courts martial would be thereby diminished more than one-half. This is .only making a commanding-officer a magistrate in his own corps. The mode of pensioning soldiers also requires revision. By the regulations a soldier is entitled to a pension after a certain period of service ; at present the good and bad cha racter are equally rewarded. This ought not to be : character should at all times have its due weight, and it is most un fair to deal out the same measure to a brave, orderly, and efficient soldier, as you do to the troublesome, disorderly, and inefficient gaol bird. On a second conviction before a court-martial a soldier might be mulct of ld. a-day (in addi tion any o othern s c punishment), of the pension he would be entitledand so on ld. f or ever y conv i c ti on afterwards should he continu e i ncorr i g ibl e, t h e con d emne d companies in regiments must be r esor t e d t o . Thi s , I be t ;oba re, be lieve, would be found to have a most salutary effect in re crime, particularly among th ose w h o b a d serve d f or pressing upwards of ten OE fourteen years. I am clear for restoring to the commanding-officer all the power in his own regiment, which is at present possessed by the general of the district, holding- him strictly responsible for its proper exercise. With this view, there can be no objection to lay the proceedings of any or every regiment as regards c ourts-martial and punishment before Parliament, whenever they may be called for. Mr. Buckingham, and some other well meaning individuals, seem to think that the more frequent advancement of sol diers to the rank of officers would, by holding out encou ragement, do away in a great degree with crime in the army. But on inquiry it will be found that the situations of adjutants frequently, and quarter-maSters without ex ception, as vacancies occur, are bestowed'tin deserving non commissioned officers ; that many staff-appointments, such as town-majors and town-adjutants, are. now filled up by agricultural there par t o i s f men who h ave r i sen f rom t h e ran k s. If , i n ad di t i on to all this, one-h a lf o f t h e comm i ss i ons at the d i sposal of the com mander-in-chief were g i ven to soldiers, I do not believe it would ind uce a b etter class of men to enter the Service. a t h e distaste population to the e te militarysame mayamong e the lnE said of S co tl an d , and also some part of Ireland. It is true that in war time many gener especta . ble men were found in the ranks, and that, generally speaking, there was a much . better materiel for the formation good non-commissioned officers than is now to be found. e tmust, however, be re collected that the plan of volunteering from the militia at that period threw into the ranks of most regiments a much superior class of men than any other mode of recruiting ever did. Many of those who volunteered got commissions in due time ; but had there beenmilitia in the first no .in stance, few, if any of them, would ever have enlisted. It was after the war co • ntinued for a much longer period than was expected, that many of them • seeing no near prospect-of disbandment, as they were compelled to serve in the militia at all events, preferred entering into the regular army and going abroad, former a t boine ut now this source b e i ng d r i e d u p, y ou have . no other 1; B way left than by recruiting. At present the army is chiefly composed of the refuse of society--that is, the idle and dissolute from the manufac turing towns in England,and every one has witnessed the ragge vagabonds who join the different regiments as re cruits from Ireland. Now, when this is notoriously the case, it cannot be expected that any man of respectability will feel very anxious to allo w hi s son to en li st, knorc i ng beforehand that the abandoned man mint, for some period at least, associate with when lie c.hal7ucters in a barrack room, at a time of life il be le. 1, 00 ready to take impres certainty, if he escaped y P"siP7 around him, even with the to the rank of 01 c(r " 1.1- Won of ultimately being raised The best enc o ,,- r. conducted him 4-- ' —d-agement that you can bold out to a well „...dialer is to shorten the service tha t entitles tns discharge with a pension ; this would mak e a great :distinction between the good and the bad, to do which is the greatest point of all. By the present system, it disorderly man and a good man, of equal lengtii of service, are rewarded alike, although the former may be said to have only performed one-third part of the duty of the latter, who, by keeping himself free from punishment, has to bear that portion which belongs to the disorderly man, whose best time is passed in the guard house or in gaol, and who, so far from meriting reward, ought to be branded with lasting infamy and shame. W. R. DUBLIN, SEPT. 27. (From our Corresi.ondent.) Still the intentions of the government with regard to the expected changes in the higher departments of the law are involved in uncertainty. The press is almost mute, but the greatest anxiety prevails in society about the result. Mr. Blackburne has returned to Dublin from Harrowgate, and the Evening Mail begins to crow. If it be really that gentleman's wish to continue in the confidence of a liberal Whig government, he has reason to be thankful to Mr. O'Connell, who has exerted himself most powerfully to fix him in his present office. The letters mandatory to Lord Duncannon, have furnished the Tory party with a fine ar gument to taunt the government withal, should it finally decide upon acting in conformity with its-• Own principles, and consulting the general desire and feeling of the country. The cry will then be that the appointments are O'Connell's, and that he is in truth the " Ministerial man" that he so insidiously represents himself. Already, in anticipation of the dreaded event, the cant has become quite prevalent. " This is the touchstone," and so, indeed, it is. On all hands it is agreed that this occasion will try the heart of the new ministry. But the Tories affect to consider it as a test, not of its soundness and honesty of purpose, but of Mr. O'Connell's power and influenc3 over it ; and it cannot be denied that the sinister mandates of Mr. O'Connell give a kind of colour to such insinuations. 1 have heard several of them say that if Mr. Blackburne shall be disturbed, or any arrangement made, such as would satisfy the people of Ireland, O'Connell will then be, de facto, and confessedly, the government of Ireland. But such an assertion, though plausible enough for the purposes of a party destitute of solid argument, is in reality, a poor and miserable fallacy. For the arrangement which these gentlemen dread is scarcely an object of greater dislike to them than it is to Mr. O'Connell. It would not answer his purpose that a po pular appointment should take place, unless it were possible at the same time to select an individual to be Attorney- General, who would agree to be his fag. An independent, honest, patriotic man in that situation, would derange his plans and objects, as much as some persons believe Mr. Blackburne to have assisted them. Be assured that the Conservatives and Mr. O'Connell are of one mind on tha head ; but let the government take the - noble speech of Lord Durham for their text, and they may laugh to scorn all that the avowed malice or the illlmeant smiles of the factious can devise against them. But will they do so ? That is a consummation more devoutly wished than hoped for. If we n-;y --- judiieef what they will do upon great occasions by their ma nagement of trivial concerns, it would be a bold thing to predict what course they will take on this occasion, be fore it appears in the Gazette. Within the last month two appointments have been made which are strongly impressed with the original sin of the Whigs, that of neglecting friends in the childish hope of propitiating adversaries who are implacable. The Lord-Lieutenant, at the reqUest of the Bishop of Ferns, has presented the Rev. Thomas White, A.M., to the Diocesan School of Wexford. The " A.M." attached to this gentleman'S name is a sufficient index of his politics ; unquestionably he is one of the nu merous voters for Shaw and Lefroy, who have been sig nalized by the favour of Lord Wellesley and his prede cessor. It is needless to say who the Bishop is at whose recommendation this lucrative endowment has been thrown away. When the name of Elrington is mentioned it is enough. The hostility of a Beresford is civilized warfare compared to the odium theologicum with which the Bishop of Ferns regards a Whig. He is in our Church the exact counterpart of Wetherell at your bar. Last July he sent out as many of his curates as did not disdain the errand, to permeate the diocese, with inkhorns at their buttonholes, canvassing for signatures to a petition which breathed sentiments of the most fierce and contemp tuous nature against the present Government ; and yet the Lord-Lieutenant gives him an appointment which many an adherent of his Government would have been delighted to obtain. We never hear of any of the Bishops offering to provide, out of their abundant patronage, for the clerical applicants who crowd the antichamber of Mr. Littleton. The civility is all at one side. The other case is the appointment of the Hon. Edward Plunkett to the Lieutenancy of. the castor frigate, in the room of the unfortunate M'Cleverty. This young gentle man, who has but just passed his examination, is no "Han nibal." He belongs to quite another stock, being the younger brother of the Hon. Randal Plunkett, whose ora tions at the Conservative Society made up in length for what they wanted in substance, and supplied a plentiful lack of wit by an overflowing portion of acrimony. His father, Lord Dunsany, was an original subscriber aud nurs ing-mother to that confraternity, and is now engaged in a scheme for swamping the House of Lords with Tory Peers from Ireland, by removing from the representative I'eer- age all who are Peers of the United Kingdom, in order to make room for himself and a few more of the same kidney. There was nothing in such parentage to justify the Lords of the Admiralty in passing over men of years and service to confer a premature promotion on this Hon. Master Plunkett. SECOND COURT-MARTIAL ON PRIVATE J. HUTCHINSON, CHARGED WITH DESERTION. On Thursday last private Hutchinson, of the Scotch Fusileer Guards (whose dreadful flogging at St. George's Barracks, Charing-cross, must still be In the recollection of the public, and who afterwards absented himself and subsequently gave himself up to the regiment) was taken before Colonel Bowater, and informed by him that he would be tried by a district Court-martial on the following day (Friday) on two charges, which were delivered to him. Accordingly, on Friday, at twelve o'clock, the Court-martial was formed at the barracks, and the prisoner was brought in. The charges were then read over by the Adjutant, and were as follow : Ist Charge.—For deserting from his Majesty's service by absenting himself from his battalion without leave, when stationed at St. George's Barracks, Charing-cross, West minster, at or about ten p.m. of the 25th of August, 1834, and not returning until brought back in plain clothes to the Infantry Barracks, Windsor, by an escort under autho rity of a War-office route, at or about half-past two o'clock p.m., on 'the 19th of September, 1834 (the same being 25 days). 2d Charge.—For making away with a pair of regimental boots. Hutchinson was then asked by the Court to plead to the charges alleged against him. The prisoner refused to plead, and protested against the proceedings--first, because he had not received sufficient notice, and, secondly, that a very material witness on his behalf, Sergeant Duff, of the 2d battalion of Scots Fusileer Guards, was not present, and he had not been allowed time to send for him. He begged that the court-martial might be adjourned until the following day (Saturday) when he should be prepared to proceed. The PRESIDENT directed the court to be cleared upon this point, and the members sat in deliberation for about a quarter of an hour. Upon being re-opened, the prisoner was told by the Court that his objections had been taken into consideration, and disallowed, and he was again required to plead to the charges. Tile prisoner asked if it •Was the intention of the Couit ;o allow the attendance of the.witness he had named ? The COURT said, they would not answer the question the court-martial would proceed. The prisoner again begged that his court-martial might be postponed, Sergeant Duff not being present, who could prove the exact day that he surrendered himself to the re 7 giment, which was 19 days absence instead of 25 days, as alleged in the first charge, and no soldier in the regiment was ever tried for desertion, unless he had been absent, more than 21 days. The COURT refused to accede to the prisoner's request, and he was again called upon to plead, and he at last pleaded Not Guilty. Two witnesses were called in, who proved the absence of the prisOner on the 25th of August, and also that he was not brought back to the battallion at Windsor until the 19th of September (25 days.) Some evidence was then adduced about the boots which lie was charged wtth having made away with, but it appeared that he had the boots on when voluntarily surrendered himself, Wing sent the whole of the other regimental necessaries to the barracks, and also havalg• them on at the present moment in Court. Captain Taubman, the adjutant of th e r eg i men t, was next called and prodOced the War-office route, from which it appeared, that the prisoner arrived at Windsor on the 19th of September. In answer to questions ii om the Court, Captain Taubman said thOt he considered the prisoner was correct in his statement that he had been absent only 19 days instead of 25, as alleged in the eharge, as he had givert himself up six days previous to hia being brought down to Windsor at Knightsbridge barraeks. The prisoner then addressed the Glint in his defence. The proceedings of the Court were tien declared to be concluded, and the prisoner wamemoved in custody to the guard-room. The judgment of the Court will not be made known for some days, as the minutes of the Court-martial will have to be transmitted to the War-office. The General Steam Navigatton Company's mail packet, the London Merchant, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom-house; at 2 o'clock p.m., 28th Sept.; having acaily 60 passengers on board, among whom was Sir C. Wetherell. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING. MONDAY, SEPT. 29. The Trial Stakes did not fill. Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each. T. Y. C. 3 subs. Colonel Peel's Lochinvar, Bst. I`4lb Mr. Greville's Gondolier, Bst. 71b Pavis 1 " Won by a length. Betting 6t04 on Lochinvar. The Holt Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft., for two-years-old fillies not engaged in the July Stakes, Bst. 61b. each. New T. Y. C. 11 subs. Duke of Grafton's Florin . J Day 1 Lord Orford's f. by Whisker—Elizabeth Sir M. Wood's br. f. by Whisker 3 Duke of Rutland's bl. f. Flame, by Lamplighter General Grosvenor's f. by Phantom—Maresfield's dam 5 Won by half a length. Betting sto 1 agst Florin, 3to 1 agst filly by Whisker, 6 to I agst Flame, even on Theme dory filly. Gmnd Duke Michael Stakes of 50 sovs. each, p.p. ; for three yrs. old colts, Bst. 71b. , and fillies, Bst. alb. A. F. 27 subs. Sir M. Wood's ch. c. Flatterer (Clare c. )...Robinson 1 Mr. Yates's ch. c. Bentley Lord Oxford's b. c. Paris - Duke of Grafton's ch. c. Olympic General Grosvenor',: Dick 5 Won easy. Betting 6t04 on Flatterer, 3to 1 agst Bent ley, 6 to 1 agst Paris, and 10 to 1 agst Olympic. Kingston House Rooms, Monday Night. ST. LEGER. STAKES (WEDNESDAY). Charivari the favourite, but no odds quoted. HOPEFUL STAKES (TO-MORROW). sto 2 agst Lord Chesterfield's Eva. No others mentioned. A large field is expected to start. ENTRY mu, TIIE B. C. PLATE (To-MORROW). Mr. Biggs's Littl3 Red Rover Mr. Greville's Chantilly Lord Lichfield's Dissolution Lord Bcrners' Spotless colt MR. ALDERMAN THOMPSON AND HIS COISr.. STITUENTS.—Mr. Alderman Thompson, one of the worthy Members of this borough; intends to give a dinner to his con stituents on Monday ; and on the. day following the electors will give one to the Hon. Alderman. This harmonious reci procation-of respect between the represented and their repre sentative is highly gratifying. It evinces that the latter is proud of his constituents, and that the 'former know how to appreciate the labours of an active, valnable and upright senator.—Sunderland Herald. . Mn. ALDERMA N 1 HOMPSON.-- This patriotic, independent, and distinguished representative of the borough of Sunderland arrived off the bar of the Wear on Monday, In one of the Edinburgh steam-ships, on a visit to his constitu- _ ents. The Hon. Member's arrival having been made known to the inhabitants, nearly the whole population of the borough crowded the piers and the sea-shore, to give him a welcome reception. The Hon. Alderman. was accompanied by his ffiend Mr. Alderman Pirie, of London. Mr. Alderman Thompson has published an Address, cordially accepting an invitation to dine with his constituents, but stating that he cannot forego his intention of entertaining such of the electors as will do him the honour of dining with him on Monday. Under these circumstances, it has been determined that the dinner at Mr. Laing's works shall take place on Monday, as at first arranged, and that the Hon. Member shall dine with his constituents in the Assembly Room on Tuesday.—New castle Journal. Go VER NESSES.—An eminent English physician states, that, of the female inmates of madhouses, the largest proportion consists of women who have been governesses. We should like to have this verified—although we a g ree with the author of " England and America," when he asks " What con dition of life is more detestable than that of an English gover ness ?" "In England," says he, " governesses, young, beau tiful, well-informed, virtuous, and, from the contradiction be- tween their poverty and their intrinsic merit, particularly sus ceptible, are generally very harshly treated; imprisoned, set to hard labour, cruelly mortified by the parents and visitors, worried by the children, insulted by the servants ; and all for what ?—butler's wages I" The vast number of this respect able and educated class of females, and their almost insur mountable difficulties in procuring comfortable situations, form, indeed, one of the most remarkable . characteristi cs o f E ng li s h domestic society in.the present day." TEMPERANCE IN EATING.---it is surprising to what a great age (says Dr. Cheyne, in his Essay on Health and Long Life) the Eastern Christians, who retired from the persecutions into the deserts of Egypt and Arabia, lived healthful on a very little food. We arc informed by Cassian, that the common measure in 24 hours was about 12 ounces, or a pound (for the Eastern pound was but 12 ounces), with mere element for drink. St. Anthony lived to 105 years on mere bread and water, adding only a few herbs at last ; James the Hermit to 104; Arsenius, the tutor of the Emperor Arca dius, to 120, 65 in the world and 55 in the d2sert ; St. Epi phanus to 115 ; St. Jerome to about 100 ; Simeon Stylitcs to 109, and Romauldus to 120 ; and Louis Cornaro, a Venetian nobleman, after he had tried all other remedies in vain, so that his life was despaired of at 40, yet recovered and lived, by mere force of his temperance, to near 100 years. The Right Hon. Lord Auckland, Admiral Dundas, and Mr. Labouchere, M. P., Lords Commissioners of the Ad miralty, attended by the Hon. Captain Elliot, M.P., their Secretary, and Captain Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, slept at !Vets' Hotel; Hot*Ollt,' yeSterthry sell - might, having landed at a late hour from his Majesty's steam-ship Firebrand, last from Milford, which vessel proceeded to her destination with the morning's tide on Saturday. His Lordship and party were waited upon at an early hour, and invited to dinner by the Mayor, which invitation they were compelled to decline, being under a previous engagement to the Marquis of Lansdowne at Bow Wood, for which place they proceeded, after having exa mined Mr. Brunel's iron steam-boat and the whole of the Float; Queen-square, and the Quays, attended by Lieutenant Claxton, R. N. The Captain of the Pilot had an opportunity given him of stating the particulars of his rencontre with a pirate (as stated in our last), which no doubt will cause a sharp 100k -out, if it does not lead to the detection of the villains. Upon seeing the County of Pembroke steamer it was remarked that she had well beaten them in the Firebrand the day before, which vessel, although very long, and a very beautiful model, has only 60-horse engines on board.—Bristol Journal. POPULATION.—It is curious to observe the diffe rent proportions of inhabitants distributed to the different quarters of the world. It is undoubtedly a general rule, that the mild and temperate climates, bordering on the tropics, have a more compact population than the rest of the world ; but the causes why countries which are separated only by a mountain, or a river, or an imaginary line of latitude, differ so much in their comparative population, are more evanescent, and must be sought' in circumstances which at first appear unimportant. Few minds are capable of detecting and de monstrating their causes ; but any on e w h o w ill t a k e t h e trou ble to calculate,. may see that the following statement is eon. rect, although almost every one will be astonished at the dis proportion between the spare population of Iceland, and the multitudes which throng the little island of Malta. Upon an equal space where one man subsists in Iceland, three men subsist in Norway ; 14 in Sweden; 36 in Turkey ; 52 is Poland; 63 in Spain; 99 in Ireland; 114 in Switzerland; 127 in Germany ; 152 in England ; 153 in France ; 172 in Italy ; 192 in Naples; 224 in Holland ; and one thousa n d one hundred and three in Malta! SINGULAR SCENE.—At the meeting of the Mayor and Corporation of Bodmin, at the Guildhall, on Wednesday, for the purpose of electing a Mayor for the ensuing year, Mr. R. B. Edyvean; the Alderman, who stood in rotation for s crving the office of Mayor, walked into the hall without his go7,i'n, and tendered his resignation as a member of the corpo ration, which tender was at once accepted. The Rev. John Wallis then said that the Rev. Nicholas Every, of St. Veep, who stood next in rotation, could not fill the office of mayor as he was not a resident in the borough, and that he ought therefore to resign, and so also ought the Rev. Wm. Phil lips, of Lanivet. Mr. Digory King, the Alderman next on the list, was then proposed as Mayor for the year ; but as he was not present,.a messenger was sent to inform him that if he did not make his appearance in ten minutes he would be elected. This inthoation brought Mr. King into the hall, when he stated that he should decline the honour intended him, and concluded by resigning his aldermanic gown., The Rev. John Wallis, who sto s ud next on the list, said that rather than serve the office of . Mayor he also would resign, which he did. A consultation between the remaining corpo rators then took place as to the best way of getting over the difficulty, when after having " laid their heads together" for some hours, Robert Flamank, Esq. was prevailed upon to accept the office so frequently declined. CHOLERA.—We haire been at some pains to ascer tain the progress of this scourge in our land ; and though we cannot help looking upon its re-appearance with a feeling of dread, in consequence of the ravages it makes in families, we are almost gratified to be able to confine our notices t 9 a very few places. First in point of time is Beith, where we think its appearance is satisfactorily accounted for, as well as its progress described, by an intelligent correspondent. About ten days ago the disease broke out at Sprmgburn, a small suburb north of Glasgow, where, however, it has not been very virulent. At the same time it appeared in Duntocher, a township in the parish of Kilpatrick, and the village itself, and the accounts of yesterday bring the number of cases to be about forty, and the deaths thirteen. A report from Irvine states that the disease had also appeared there, but it is not well authenticated. On the whole, in its present visitation, cholera is extremely insulated, and though violent in its com mencement, appears not to be extensive in its r amifications. If greater sobriety characterised our working population , it would have far fewer victims.- , -Scots-Scots Times. THE WORLD.—When we stand upon the sea shore, we mark the gathering waters rise into a wave ; We see it increase in size, and roll with violence towards the shore ; of a sudden it sinks, and the particles of which it is composed disperse and form parts of other masses . ‘ equally_ -h ired d„ ys you would imagine its duration and unsubstantial. Just such arc the events of human life. A novelty occurs—conversation is engrossed—the . newspapers - r i y m e p o or m t p a r n e t_, i are filled—for a few would be for ever; but whilst you speak another shadow has risen in its place,and b forgotten. , e n fo li r s e b • r a i s ef th i e lis a t l o l is gone—is lost —is hends nearly all the o ccurrences in the world ; a new play, a debate in Parliament, a drawing-room, or a sermon ; a mar e had conversed perh aps on l y a f ew d ays bc f e e ; o riage, a birt h, or a death. Yes, even a dea th : the loss of n with7c ho uh m .os n e . voice yet lingers i n our cars, w h ose i mage hag scarcely passed from our ey - es----the loss of such an ono is f or the mpst part merely the wonder of a moment. We drop a tear in his grave, and then pa ss on an d f orge t ; or if we do . not entirely forget, it is because memory will, in spite of our. selves, retain some scattered fragments of the Rao. t.