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THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, OCT. 27, Will be presented THE MISER'S DAUGHTER, which has been for some time in preparation. and will be produced with New Scenery, Dresses, and Novel Effects, combining all the resources of the Theatre. The Piece dramatised from the popular Work of the same name, by Mr. Edward Stirling, byper - mission of the Author, W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq., who, in' conjunction with George Cruikshank, Esq., will person ally superintend the numerous Tableaux, &c., as illustrated in " Ainsworth's Magazine." After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. The Imp, Mr. Wieland ; Fleur-des-Champs, Mdme. Proche •Giubilei ; •' The Frightful, Spiteful, Oki Bachelor, Mrs. H. P. Grattan. • To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, Mrs. IL P. Grattan.,; Norma, Mr. Paid Bedford; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery , Is. Doors open at half-pan six, commence at seven o'elock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 27, M ill be acted a New Drama, entitled ESTELLE DUMAS, supported by the entire Company. After which, the Nautical Drama of POOR JACK; or; THE WIFE OF A SAILOR. Poor Jack, Mr. T. P. Cooke, whose performance attracts nightly overflows. Eleanor Mrs. H. Vining. To conalude with Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with most decided success. Neville Audely, Mr. H. Hughes ; Hugh Laneret, Ai r. N. T. Hicks; Herrick Evenden, Mr. J. Webster; Blanche rleriot, Mrs. R. Honner. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from eleven to four. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 44 minutes after 6I Evening ..... 20 minutes after 7. THE NEW SPORTING WORK. Now ready, in 2 vols., small Bvo., NIMR OD ABRO AD. By C. J. APPERLEY, Esq. Author of " The Chase, The Turf, and The Road." &c. Henry Colbern, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. QEL-F-DEVOT ION; OR, THE HISTORY OF KATHARINE RANDOLPH. By the Authoress of " The Only Daughter." EDITED BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE SUBALTERN." " A perfect woman, nobly formed To warn, to comfort, to command; And yet a spirit still and bright, With something of an angel light." WORDSWORTH. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. _ _ Published this day, Bvo., pp. 19'4 10s. 6d. cloth, LAYS of ANCIENT - ROME. By the Right Hon. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. Loudon : Longman, Brown, Green, and Lon mans. -------- published this day,- handsomely printed in squase crown Bvo., pp. .54:38, with above 120 Engravings, U. ss. cloth, ASCRIPTURE HERBAL ; containing an Ac count of all the Plants, Drugs, Perfumes, and Gums, mentioned in the Bible ; with an enumeration of the Texts in which they are mentioned. By Lady CALLCOTT. Illustrated with upwards of 120 Wood Engravings. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. LIFE IN SWEDEN. pnhlished this day, ra2;ols. post Bvo., pp. 674, 18s. boards, TIE NEIGHBOURS a Story of Every-day Lire. By FREDERIKA BREMER. Translated by MARY HO WITT. 4 , 8 The Authoress may jotly be termed the " Miss Austin of Sweden." Her works hiti been extremely popular in her native country, and in Germany alone three editions of them have appeared in rapid succession. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. EIGHT THOUS AND TWO H UND RED MONEY DIVIDENDS will be divided in NEXT MONTH, amongst t 3,200 SELECTED Bonds of the LOAN negotiated in the yeni 1820, andG U ABANTEED by the G 0- VER N AIENT l aiid' his Royal Highness the GRAND DUKE of BADEN. 1 Dividend 50,000 , Florins .. 50,000 Florins 1 do, 25,000 " 25,000 " I do. 12,000 " 12,000 1 do. • 10,000 " ..•••• 10, " " 1 do. - 5,000 " •• -•• 5 , 000 " 8 do. 1,000 ~ • 8,000 ~ 10 do. 500 " 5,000 " 10 do. 200 '' 2,000 t 9 2)0 do. 110 " 200 do. 105 " •••••• 21,000 " 467 do. 100 " 7,300 do. 94 " 8,200 Money Dividends, amounting to 892,900 Florins, or £74,400 Sterling Money. 8,200 SELECTED Bonds, each of which is sure to obtain one of the above Dividends. Largest Dividend £4,166 13 4 Smallest Dividend £ 7 16 8 12 florins equal to £1 sterling, a trifle more or less, as per the day's exchange. ALL THE DIVIDENDS PAYABLE WITHOUT ANY - DEDUCTION WHATEVER. Direct for the few Bonds which are stilton sale, WITHOUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS at HAI‘IBURGH. Bonds are on sale NOW at £l3. Against the end of this Month the price will rise to .E. 14, and the Sale will close in the first days of - November. Those who remit £1 5 BEVORE the 28th instant, will re ceive an order for £2 upon our London Bankers, together with the Bond. To those ordering too late for being attended to, their re mittances will be returned by first post. HEINE BROTHERS. HAMBURGH, October 4, 1842. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, OCT. 27, . .. Will be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand Opera of SEMIRAMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide by Miss Adelaide Kemble ; Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from the principal Theatres in Italy ; Assur, Mr, Giubilei ; Oroe, Mr. Leffler ; Idreno, Mr. Travers ; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. Bland. After which, the New Farce, called COUSIN LAMBKIN. Squire Mulberry, Mr. Bartlev ; Captain Bantam, Mr. Walter Lacy • Doctor Lionel Lambkin, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Bantam, Miss Cooper • Rose Maynard, Miss Lee ; Dainty, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with the Farce of THE IRISH TUTOR. Flail, Mr. Meadows; Terry O'Rourke, Mr. G. Hodson ; Rosa, Miss Lee; Mary, Mrs. Humby. I,oors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery ls. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season 'Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond-street ; Mr. Mitchell , Old Bond-street; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. LONDON THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 27, 1842. We adverted on the 15th instant to the great familiarity with legal punishments, depriving them of all terror, and to the vast extent of des titution which prevails in conjunction with it, as calculated to alarm those who reflect on the mea ns which the State employs to protect the rights of individuals. The whole of our political fabric rests on punishment. Terror secures pm :Tr, and terror protects property. The dis franchised and, as it were, outlawed multitudes, destitute, as the rule, of any property, can only be preserved in obedience and taught to respect the possessions of others by coercion and penal ties. All persons, therefore, who rely on the terror inspired by punishments to keep 'society together, must learn, we think, with some addi tional alarm, that such is the present destitution of the people, and such their lessened horror of imprisonment, that they voluntarily become in mates of gaols. We are indebted to Mr. F. Pi. GOU, a Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, for directing public attention to this startling fact. On looking into the Seventh Report of the Inspec tors of Prisons, to Which he refers, we find the following statemen t • " I am sorry to say that there has been a consider. able increase in the number of prisoners during the last year, especially at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Perth, Ayr, and Dumfries. - . . . " I fear that no small portion (of this increa:4! , ) i attributable to the great amount of poverty which exists, and which in some paces apiii-ars to- be bordering on destitu tion." .7 . "But the most - striking proof that has come to my knowledg e Of the existence of great noc,n-ty and destitution among . some of the people ni the fact that there are at the present mo ment nearly forty persons in the prison of Glasgow who h : i v o voluntarily subjected themselves to all the rigour of imprisonment (and of imprisonment on the separate system), in order to obt a i n f ood and shelter. S o ,l i e have been in this kind of c i v il d eath for more than a year, giving up every particle of personal liberix, performing a task of ten hours' labour every day I)efore they can earn a . penny for th emselves, livir.g on very plain food, rising early in th e morn ing, both in winter and summer, and many of them confined day after day, and month after month, in a smaThcell apart from all human beings except officers of th e p r i son ; and this with the knowledge that at a ny moment t h ey h ave but to utter a word and they can be placed at perfect liberty. P. 14. That is decisive and fearful evidence that the punishments inflicted by the law have lost their terror. The Metropolitan Police-courts supply evidence almost every day of persons corn milting petty offences to be sent to prison, or taking: refuge in gaol from utter destitution. In fact, than the slow and lingerinc , starvation to AV :1 C h..a great skumher of persons • have been F.osed within : the last eighteen months, no avn y caw - be :greater, only it - is' bOine with a consciousness that .it..is not. deserved, and hope that it cannot last. The destitution, tlierefore, to which so large a portion of o ur Ulation is reduced, is paralysing th e criminal -s_ - ."1- V..' tt._ .- . "".> ..• 4 . .. -7 ~, i, ~ 1,,,,- _yon 2-...4_,, 11.,=t , **l4ll cit?,§' l'i.. .4;, j ,),.• Ar*!P*-- f , -,. - ', .• ~,,tt.--4 . if . ~.„.• „,_, •., . . 4 . ~..: • s .. , ~, , _ mi .., . ,- irt•-• .0.4 --,-••-•,,,, "-? i •-;-• , -,-.--- ... • I ZbtfltL TUE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1842 law, and endangering, to an alarming degree, Your markets are such towns as Manchester, the general security. Stockport, and Warrington, and when trade is Some of our Contemporaries have lately held bad and wages are low, and when many are out up to merited reprobation the cruelties in- , of employment, you cannot expect to have the same price for your produce that you had in flitted on the prison ers in N orthl each prosperous times. Have you had no reduction House of Correction, but if they cannot in the price of cheese ?—(A. Farmer—Yes ; the remove the terrible destitution, they should best quality is down 10s., and the second 20s. a cwt.) rather advocate still lower diet, still harder What is the cause of this reduction ? Not Sir labour, still damper cells, and still more Robert Peel's tariff, which has left the duty on foreign speedy and numerous deaths. The advocates of cheese untouched. Had he taken off even a shilling restrictions on the people's industry anal of the a cwt. we should have had an outcry that this had caused the fall of 10s. and 205., which you are now , ban upon their food, who also advocate more ca- suffering. We must look, then, for some other cause ;1 pital punishments, are consistent men ; and it is ' and you will find it in the deep distress of your cus puling and inconsistent humanity to limit the sup- tomers.—(Hear, hear.) You will observe that the ply of food, and demand that prisons be made fall is greatest on the inferior quality, which has hi other than destructive of life. The slow process thereto formed a considerable part of the meal of the working man, but now he cannot purchase whole ' of starvation subdues the body to the uttermost some wheaten bread and good cheese, but is reduced depths of physical misery compatible with pre- to the necessity of living on potatoes ; and you will serving existence, and subdues the mind to the have a still less demand from him during the winter, commission of crime. It demoralizes and it which threatens to be one of greater privation and suf stints the human race. It dwarfs the body and fering than has ever yet been endured by a much suf it perverts the soul. It dooms the rising genera- fering people. tion to the complicated evils of physical and And this distress in the manufacturing towns reaches moral degradation. Better were it, far better, you in another way. Part of your population, tempted by better wages than you could afford to give them to revive the system advocated by the Post, and here, have settled in the towns, where they have sup rather feed the gallows annually with a few ported themselves without being chargeable to you ; thousand victims, than continue to deteriorate but now, being unable to find employment, they are the race by stopping their food. Better were it passed home, to add to the burden of your poor's to adopt the hints of the Rev. Mr. MELVILLE and rate — to be paupers , per h ap s, for life.—.(dear, hear.) others, and at once blow up and level the half of Let me ask y ou, how y our poor's rate is now, com our towns, than consign this and the next and pared with what it was this time last year ?—[The Chairman—lt is advanced forty per cent.]—Forty every succeeding generation to the vast and ter- per cent ! Forty per cent. reduction in the price of rible evils of continual hunger. your cheese—forty per cent. increase in your poor's The mode in which destitution leads to crime, rate—and both these effects from the distress of the is most affectingly described in this Prison Re- manufacturing districts! port. We copy the fair abridgment of it given With such teachers as falling markets, empty by- the Chronicle's Correspondent : pockets, high rates, and the lecturers of the "My parents were decent, honest people. I was League, the farmers must become converts to married very young to a sailor. When he went to free trade principles. sea, he assigned me part of his wages every month. ' 1 had sore trouble after he left, for work began to get scarce, and my little child fell ill. I went to the agents to ask for my husband's pay, for I was sore distressed from grief and fatigue. The ship was lost off China ; all hands were saved ; but, as was the custom in such cases, the wages were stop ped. This was heavy news for me, for I had neither work, nor money. I bore on for some time, trying to get work, however trifling; but there was no work to be had for me and hundreds more. I had heard of a female house of refuge in Glasgow, and I deter mined to seek food and shelter there. I took my little be in my hand, who is about nine years of age, and walked the twenty miles to Glasgow. When I got to the house of refuge, I showed them my mar riage lines, that they might see I was a donee, decent body. The matron was very kind tome, and said she grieved for me, but that the house was not for such as me, but for poor, misguided women—prostitutes and the like. My heart was fit to break, and I said to myself, that I maun be wicked before I could get a morsel of bread. The matron took pity on me, and she let me stay one night, and gave me a supper and a breakfast the next morning. We walked back again the next morning to Greenock. I had nothing to buy food or shelter with. My boy was weakly, though nine years old, and I had carried him many times on ray back, when he complained of his feet. I sat down on a bank and cried bitterly ; but my child, who was aye a donee clever lad, and had been well instructed in the Sunday-school, little as he was, was my comfort. When he heard me say, 'We shall die of want,' `Well, mother,' said he, ' then we shall go to granny, in heaven ; and we'll want no food there. He took off his jacket, and pulled off his little shirt, and said I should pawn his shirt, for that would bring something ; and so it did, and we got a night's shelter for that time. I suffered much before I stole?' Destitution, therefore, caused by a law which makes it hard for the great multitude to live, and renders charity for them almost impracti cable, is the parent of crime; and corrupts minds which, like that of this woman, seem capable of reflecting honour on our common nature. " Can anything (says Mr. Pigou) be more pathetic than this—any words better chosen than those of the poor Scotch woman ? Do they not go to every pa rent's heart—doth not the similitude of her case to Hagar's, strike every one ; but with this difference, that no angel came to her in her distress, showed her no well, and she at length—who can wonder, and who can blame—fell into crime, that her Ishmael might not perish in the Christian ddsert " Is it possible that, in the face of narratives such as these, any other object can be thought worthy of our consideration ? What avails the decoration of our towns, the grandeur of our palaces, the strength r. of our bridges, roads, arsenals • the wide arch of our ,empire ; our colonies, that stud and circle the world, when our people seek shelter in our prisons and force an entrance to them ; when they rather break into them than out of them ; when their hardest labour, their hardest fare, are sought as boons by the sons and daughters of destitution ? What is it that our mer i chant navy is counted by a tonnage of millions—that the navy of the State has borne 150,000 seamen, car rying conquest to the limits of the earth—that the army has taken the capitals of our enemies—that our exports are fifty millions—when wailing is in our streets, famine in our cottage households, and our re fuge in prison ? " Is it possible that any other object than a remedy for such desolation, which the annals of each day con firm and augment, can fill the thoughts of our states men, who, retiring to their stately halls, can sleep without dread visions of squalid and pining multi tudes sometimes expiring in silence, at other times breaking out into feeble insurrection—their strength, for good or evil, unavailing through long emaciation ?" COURT CIRCULAR. Is there not in such scenes, coming now so frequently before us, enough to make every man solemn and earnest, to banish smiles from every face, and lightness from every heart? The subject is so important, that statesmen must consider it. Our hope of improvement rests on the circumstance that these terrible evils begin seriously to affect the upper classes. Their pro perty is invaded to maintain paupers and support policemen and gaols, and they now see that gaols and policemen cannot give them security. We notice a list of subscriptions to pay the Yeomanry of Stafford their expenses, which is headed by Sir ROBERT PEEL with the sum of 1001. If the Nobles of England, therefore, reckon the matter only like pedlars, by paltry pence, they will find that the expense they are put to far exceeds any amount of rent they gain by a law which inflicts destitution on the people, and will earn for them the execration of an enlightened posterity. They have, we know, the political power of the State in their hands ; but they cannot use it to limit the people's food, and bind their industry, with out sacrificing their own security, their own for , tunes, and their own fame. It is for their respectability, happiness, and honour, that we call on them speedily, aye instantly, to take their fetters off industry, and no longer make them selves responsible for the terrible calamities which hunger and want of employment are bringing on all classes of the people. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—This morning the Queen and Prince Albert took their early walk in the Home Park. His Royal Highness the Prince, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, after wards rode to Swinley Lodge, attended by the Marquis of Exeter, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, and the Hon. C. A. Murray. The Royal party en joyed the sport of shooting for some time, and had most excellent sport. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken airings twice to day, accompanied by the Dowa ger Lady Lyttelton. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. Francis this morning with a sitting for a bust of his Royal Highness. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and his Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklen burgh Strelitz, paid a morning visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore Lodge. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent rode out this afternoon attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas. The Queen has a dinner party this evening ; covers are laid for twenty-five. The company consists of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Hig,hnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, his Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, the Earl and Countess of Dunmore, the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Cam bridge, Hon. Georgiana Stanley, Hon. Clementina Hamilton, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Hon. Mrs. Anson, the Marquis of Exeter, Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Viscount Hawarden, Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir George Couper, Bart., Admiral Sir Robert Otway, Col. Arbuthnot, Sir E. Bowater, and Dr. Prcetorius. Her Majesty's private band, and the band of the Horse Guards, in barracks here, will be in attendance at the Castle this evening. General Sancho, the Spanish Minister, transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign-office. The Hon. Edward Stewart, Deputy Chairman of the Customs, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official residence, in Downing-street. Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, arrived in town yesterday, from Tray House, near Monmouth. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had an interview with Sir J. Graham .yesterday, at the Home-office. The Right Hon. Stewart Mackenzie transacted bu siness at the Home-office yesterday afternoon. We insert the Address which the Anti-Corn law League has published, with a view to prepare for a final assault on the Corn-law. We hope that none will be necessary, but that the landlordswill see the folly of continuing to coop themselves up in a fortress in order to levy a black mail on their countrymen. That kind of extortion wastes a great deal more than it wins, and puts both parties to great inconvenience. However, the League is preparing to make another attack, and as money is the sinews of war, the Leagur asks for money. Political power is' bonglit and sold in England, and the League seeks the means of buying political power. It does not intend, however, to corrupt electors, but to enlighten them. It is about to distribute Anti-Corn-law tracts amongst the farmers, and send lecturers to explain them. By such a pro cess the League will effect a great deal more than the repeal of one bad law—it will sow the seeds of instruction, which will flower into knowledge and ripen into action. It will help to pull down a system. Other per sons seem acutely sensible of that possible consequence, and they call on the Govern ment to stop with a strong hand the instruction which is too el ,itheLeague is about to distribute. Sir R. much of a free trader, according to the Post, to quarrel with the League for spread ing through the community a knowledge of prin ciples on which he is disposed, it is said, when . ever lie can, to rest his power. As a specimen of the success of the League, we will refer to Mr. PRENTICE'S address to far mers,' at Over, in Cheshire, which appeared in The Sun on Monday. It its only necessary- to teach the farmers their true interests—aria the following passages will show that facts combine with the League to instruct them--:-in order to secure the destruction of t67COrn-law:—. THE LEVANT MAIL. We have received papers and letters from the East by the Levant mail, which arrived yesterday. The dates are—Constantinople the 7th inst., Smyrna the 9th, Alexandria the 6th, and Malta the 15th. The state of affairs in Syria gave rise to a new con ference of the Ambassadors, which was held at Bujuk dere on the 29th ult. On the same day a Cabinet Council was held at the Porte to deliberate on the same subject. The results of those conferences had not transpired; but it was believed that no definitive arrangement would take place until the Five Powers had returned a reply to the last note forwarded to them by the Ottoman Government. Private accounts, however, state, that Riza Pacha, whom Sir Stratford Canning expected to find more favourable to his views than Izzet Pacha, had been as inflexible on the Syrian question as his predecessor, and as little inclined to be influenced by the repre sentations of the British Ambassador. All the con cession the representatives of the Allied Powers had been able to obtain from the Divan was, that the hatti-scheriff placing the Druses and the Maronites under the jurisdiction of a Turkish governor should not be issued for the present. The Porte had not yet expressed any opinion on the late revolution in Servia, nor had the representatives of the European Powers made any proposition to the Turkish Goverment on the subject, as they were waiting instructions from their respec tive Courts. It was believed that the Russian Mi nister would not act with the other Ambassadors in this question, as the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh had disapproved of the conduct pursued by the Russian Consul-General at Belgrade ; nor was it believed that the Russian Government looked with a favourable eye on the family of Obrenowitsch, because Prince Milosch had courted the protection of Austria; nor could Prince Michael have adopted a course more displeasing to the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh than to have taken refuge on the Austrian rather than on the Russian territory. The Sultan removed, on the 29th, from his country residence of Tcheragan to his winter palace. All the high functionaries of the Porte had followed the ex ample of the Sultan. On the 30th M. de Boutenieff, the Russian Envoy, waited on Saritn Effendi, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and on the 3d inst. was admitted to an au dience of the Sultan. On the same day M. de Titoff, the former Minister Plenipotentiary of Russia, took leave of his Highness, and left in a Russian steamer for Odessa. Chekib Effendi returned to Constantinople on the 29th ult., accompanied by the Servian deputation, which had been sent to submit to the approbation of the Porte the election of the new Prince chosen by the people to replace Prince Michael. Chekib Effendi obtained a private audience of the Sultan on the 4th. The Egyptian steamer Boulak arrived on the 30th from Alexandria, having on board Sami Pacha, En voy Extraordinary of Mehemet Ali, whose return had caused a lively sensation in the Turkish capital. He n 0 was, other mission however,su t p i p m o n s ed that to o h f a th e a n b k e i e n n gintrustedthe Sultan with n conferredt he hdt o an:ue spi szoinei rnh,Pacha .Mehemet ifamaannvd(boiuyoc rAfoemill imploring fo e commander r tAoni r t ndh he i elevating heohdafi him mrt h honour d ahieenrtlmperial mi the tpheperai Pacha,arh Ideflo dignity ha net eh e of h o i x f s_ G c i r i a a i p g n i t. The feast of the Ramazan commenced on the 4th, at 8 o'clock in the evening, by the sudden illumina tion of all the mosques of Constantinople. Fuad Effendi, the last Charge d Affaires of the Porte in London, arrived at Constantinople on the 4th in the French steamer Eurotas. The news from Persia continued to be pacific, but the neighbourhood of the frontiers in both countries was infested by robbers, who rendered the roads in secure for travelling, and impeded the commercial relations. On the 3d the Tahiri Bahri, and two other steamers, left Constantinople for, it was supposed, Beyrout, where they were going to take on board the Albanian roops, whose presence. in Syria had been the occa tion of frequent complaints on the part of its inhabitants TURKEY: CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 7.—Chekib Effendi, the Ottoman commissioner, accompanied by Simik, a Servian notable, who is to represent the new Go vernment here, came up by the Danube steamer last week. The question, there is no doubt, occupies at this moment the serious attention of the Porte, though the negotiations of M. Boutenieff are con ducted with such secre3y, that little has yet transpired with respect to them. This much, however, is cer tain, that the affair has opened a very wide field of discussion and recrimination between Turkey and Russia, and that the mask of friendship under which the latter has for some years prosecuted her destruc tive policy, may, in the sharp conflict of argument and interests about to ensue, be once more cast aside, dis playing the hostile front of the old and inveterate enemy of the Othman race. Should the Porte, in the adjustment of this affair, make any determined resist ance to the views of the Russian Cabinet, M. Boutenieff, it is said, has instructions to assume the offensive, and demand explanations with ,respect to certain prctiects which Hussein Pacha of Widden, is accused of having formed last year, with the conni vance of the Porte, for the invasion of Servia and overthrow of its late Government, proofs of which projects are said to exist in documents intercepted at that time by Prince Michael. In reply to these charges the Porte will, in all probability, allege that such measures, if they were ever meditated, were only meant in self-defence, since it had positively ascer tained that the Prince had fomented, by every means in his power s if he was not himself the author of, the rebellion, which had broken out at that time in Bul garia. The fact is, that the Porte, as it would ap pear, has at this moment in its hands papers, which it has received from Voutchish, the General of the Servians, and which not only establish beyond all doubt the Prince's participation in these dis turbances, but also that of the Russian Government, which, indeed, suggested and instigated the whole. The Porte, if hard pressed, will undoubtedly produce these documents, and it remains to be seen what effect such a retort will have on the Russian Mi nister. It is to be feared that, however clearly the mischief may be traced in its source and origin to Russia herself, she will be very slow to acknow ledge herself in the wrong. In similar discussions with the Turkish Government, she has generally discovered an indifference as to right and wrong, and a blindness as to cause and effect, which have cer tainly no parallel, except in the apologue of the wolf and the lamb. But she will, in this instance, not be entirely allowed to have her own way. Austria, who has long had an eye upon her machinations in Eu ropean Turkey, will undoubtedly protect the Sultan in the maintenance and exercise of his just rights; and England, whose policy is Conservative and based on honourable principles, will also see, and, if need be, enforce, fair play between the disputants. M. Boute nieff may find that, with all his skill, little is to be done with the cards he has to play, and his Govern ment discover that M. Titoff, who has been recalled, could not have made more of the game than he did. Be this as it may, the latter diplomatist, it is univer sally admitted, is at this moment under a cloud, and has incurred the serious displeasure of his Cabinet. Sarni Pacha has, since his arrival from Alexandria, had several secret conferences with the Turkish Mi nisters. Mehemet Ali could not have a more active and persevering agent than this man, who has gra dually wormed himself into the confidence and good graces of the Turkish Ministers, while the influence of his master is every day on the increase. SYRIA._ _ _ BSYROUT, SEPT. 27.—Things here are tolerably quiet, although the flame of discontent has by no means subsided. Since the Albanians have been let loose on us, we are in constant dread. Their depredations are nume rous, and extend to all parts of the country. In. Lata kia the Russian Consul was violently assaulted, his dragoman all but killed, and his house robbed. On the roads, wherever you see an' Albanian, you are in danger either of being robbed or assaulted. In our own town three churches have been sacked and a convent robbed. A few days ago the lady of the British Consul, while walking under the protection of her Janissary (cavass), was insulted, and even struck by a young Turk, upon whom the Janissary immediately used his whip. Complaint was made to the authorities, but owing to the absence of the Consul at Tripoli in the Vesuvius, nothing satisfactory was resolved on. The Consul returned late last night. Great difficulty seems to exist in bringing the dif ferent Sheiks to their allegiance to the Turkish autho rities. A proclamation has been recently issued, calling on the people, under the threat of heavy punishment, to beware of the attempts of the Emir Abdallah of Gazir, and several other Sheiks, to create a disturbance among the people, they having refused to appear on the summons made to them. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. CORFU, OCT. 4.—By the arrival of her Majesty's ship Howe, from Corfu, we learn from a correspon dent at that place that the Howe, with the flag of Admiral Sir F. Mason s arrived on the 26th ult., hav ing been towed in by the Geyser steamer. This ship, accompanied by the above-named steamer, parted company with the fleet under Sir E. Owen, off Cape Passaro, on the 21d. On the passage, which is con sidered to have been a quick one, the Geyser was obliged to extinguish her fires in consequence of a leak from one of the mud holes of the boiler, which circumstance caused a delay of some hours. On the arrival of the Howe she found . the Van guard, Cambridge, and L'Aigle, the two former under sailing orders for Malta. Rear-Admiral Mason, on landing, was saluted by the garrison with 11 g un's. The Lord High Com missioner, Sir Stewart WlCenzie, had proceeded to England a few days previously, via Trieste. The Vanguard, after visiting Suda, Beyrout, Athens, Syra, Besika, and other places of interest, arrived here on the 22d, en route to Malta. On the 29th Sir George Berkeley, the Commander in-Chief of the Forces in the lonian Islands, with his staff, visited the Howe, on which occasion the ship 3 present manned their yards, and a salute of 11 guns was fired by the flag ship. In the afternoon of the same day the President of the Council, accompanied by several members of the Senate, paid their respects to Sir F. Mason. After inspecting every part of the ship a target was laid at 600 yards' distance, and they were much gratified at witnessing the admirable preci sion with which each shot was aimed. The learned body, on quitting, received a salute of 11 guns. The Geyser remains in port. The Howe, Van guard, and L'Aigle go out to-day. MALTA. Company steam-packet Iberia, on the OCT. 15.—Since my last report by the Peninsular and Oriental 10th inst., our naval movements have been limited to the arrival, on the 13th, of the Great Liverpool steam ship, belonging to the same Company, from Gibraltar, with the London mails of the 30th ult., and her depar ture again for Alexandria on the 14th, with the mails and passengers (quite full) for India ; the Alecto having arrived from Marseilles with the overland London mail of the 4th, on the evening of the 13th inst. This la.st-mentioned . vessel encountered such heavy weather as to cause some damages, which has rendered it necessary to send on in her stead, to the lonian Islands and Greece, the Cyclops steam-frigate. She left this evening. On the 13th inst. (after the arrival of the London mails) the Devastation war steamer was despatched to Tunis, where she will com municate ; the Locust, steam-tender, to Bengary, to convey to Tripoli the son of the Governor of that place and Pacha of Bengary, and from Trip2li to Malta the family of the British Consul. The Hecate was also despatched to Candia and Syria. The Cam bridge leaves on the 20th for England, and the Rod ney for Gibraltar on the 18th. The Polyphemus, with the mails from the lonian Islands and Patras, has just arrived ; and on the 17th the Prometheus will be dispatched to Gibraltar, with the intermediate mail for England. The Belvidera will proceed to Smyrna to relieve the Magicienne. No other immediate movements are contemplated. The Malta journals, of the 15th inst., state that a report prevailed, that in consequence of a disposition on the part of France to reduce her naval force in the Mediterranean, the British squadron in that sea would undergo a similar reduction, and that three or four ships of the line would be shortly ordered home. A Court-martial held on the 11th, on board the Impreg nable, to try Lieutenant Alston, of the Cambridge, for marked indifference in executing the orders of his captain, and for having beaten Francis Fitzgerald, a volunteer of the first class, found him guilty, and sen tenced him to be dismissed the service. ARREARS OF BUSINESS IN THE EQUITY AND LAW COURTS. The following is an abstract of the business in the. Courts of Chancery and Common Law Courts, with the exception of the Common Pleas, for Michaelmas term, commencing on Wednesday next, independently of applications for new trials arising from the Au tumnal circuit : Couirr or CHANCERY.—For judgment, 24 causes, and eight on pleas and demurrers. There are 50 re-hearings and appeals set down to be heard before the Lord Chancellor. Causes, further directions, and exceptions : Before the Vice-Chancellor of England, 76. Before the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, 33. Before the Vice-Chancellor Wigram, 56. ROLLS' COURT.— ; In this Court there: are six pleas and demurrers for hearing, and 106 causes, &c. COMMON LAW COURTS.—COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—In the new trial het there are three rules standing for judgment, and 98 remaining undeter mined, the earliest of which was moved m Easter Term, 1840. In the special paper the number is 36, and a similar number of enlarged rules. In the Crown paper there are only five cases. COURT OF ExciteQuEa.--NEw TRIALS.—In this Court there are three rules standing, for judgment, and two for argument. In the special paper there are two rules for decision and five for argument. The peremptory paper exhibits only eleven applications. The hurricane of Tuesday night, which succeeded a very showery day, has delayed the arrival of many vessels and steamers expected yesterday, and among others the Batavier steam-ship, from Rotterdam, which in the usual course would have made her ap pearance at St. Katharine's, at ten o'clock in the morning, did not arrive during the day, and is no doubt delayed by the bad weather. Several vessels and steamers which did arrive appeared to have suf fered much by the storm. The shipping and craft in the river have wholly escaped damage, and there has not been a single accident. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had a long inter view this morning with Sir James Graham at the liome-bffice. The Archduke of Austria and Prince Esterhazy visited on Friday last the Earl of Haddington at Ty nninghante.--Scoich Paper. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, LEECH, AND CROWQUILL, The NOVEMBER NUMBER, price Half-a-Crown, of BENT LEY'S MISCELLANY. CONTENTS Mr. LEDBURY'S ADVENTURES AT HOME AND ABROAD. By ALBERT SMITH. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY LEECH. Chapter 111. Of the manner in which Mr. Ledbury was exa mined by the Municipal Guard, and of his interview with the Prefect of Police. Chapter IV. Of the Quartier Latin, and of Mr. Ledbery's lodgings therein. Chapter V. Of the evening party given by Mr. Ledbury and Jack Johnson to certain students and grisettes, at their rooms in the Rue St. Jacques. The Haunted Mine, by R. B. Peake. The Life and Songs of Anacreon, by Barney Brallagan . Her First Visit Afloat, by the Author of " The Naval Sketch- book," &c. A Campaign with the Christinos in 1838 and 1839, by Charles F. Fynes Clinton. The Dying Child. 'f he Persian Spy, by J. B. Fraser, Esq. The Junior Barrister. Malay Vengeance, by H. R. Addison. The 'Youth's Death, by Mrs. Howitt. A Traitor's Doom, by H. R. Addison. A Monumental Pic-nic. Ballad Literature of Ancient Greece, by Dr. W. C. Taylor. Paddy Carroll, the Piper, by Bryan O'Halloran, with an Illus tration by George Cruikshank. The Pl:tilosophy of Fighting, Edited and Illustrated by Alfred • Crowquill: Eyes, by T. J. Ouseley. Richard Savage, by Charles Whitehead. Placing a Newaub on the Musnud, by H. R. Addison. Richard Bentley, New Burlington•street. C ~. .4 el • q?.. ..-- . Az goysi,,,o. ,;.--!-1 ,.. 1,,„...0, -- z ._..;:- , ....-puz - )Itlfrt,, *troiol2tittton SUN OFFICE Three o'Cluck. The line of policy which the King of PRUSSIA has pursued since his accession to the Throne holds out bright prospects for his country, and furnishes an example which cannot fail to excite the envy, and perhaps the fear, of the adjoining States. He has been the most active agent in forming the German Commercial League, which, if we may judge from the enthusiasm it created among many millions speaking the same language, will be followed by important political results, and raise up in time a powerful confederacy, able and willing to defend their rights against all aggres sors. The merciful disposition he is known to entertain towards Poland has not only increased his authority in that country, but among his own subjects, and all civilized States. This ge nerous and noble conduct has been followed by a liberal line of policy within his own dominions, in summoning yearly the States-General to deliberate on questions submitted to them by the KING'S Ministers. Though the questions for discussion will be left to the Government, and the decisions of the Chambers may either be adopted or rejected by the SOVEREIGN, it cannot be denied that he has made a most important concession to public' opinion, and commenced a system which may lead at length to the fulfilment of all the pro mises made by his father. In fact these Provincial States form at present, to a certain extent, a Parlia ment for determining what are the wants most ge nerally felt in the country, discussing subjects of trade, commerce, and the general interests of the different provinces; and, above all, for conveying advice to the Executive on great administrative questions. In the paternal speech addressed to them by the KING, through his Mi nister, at the opening of the sessions on the 19th, there is much to admire; and we re commend it to to the especial attention of our Legislators, who pass laws only for certain class interests, without the slightest regard for the ge neral good of the great community. " Un doubtedly," said the KING, " there will be ex pressed in this assembly various opinions, and, as occurs amongst men, they will be defended forcibly; but that very fact is necessary in order that it may be well ascertained what is required for the general good. But when contrary opinions, arising from the particular interests of each province, or from the different manner in which the subject is looked at, shall be arrayed against each other, let it always be considered a brotherly competition, maintained with a view to the well-being of Prussia, which is in common dear to all—let the friendly conflict always take place with a conviction that you are assembled here as members of the same political body, and the faithful subjects of the same King." The prudence displayed by the KING in thus preparing his people for a representative govern ment, also deserves great praise, and forms a most remarkable contrast to that of some other rulers, who make Constitutions in a few days, and jump at once from despotism to the oppo site extreme. If a similar plan had been adopted in Sicily, Naples, and other Italian States, the jealousy of the despotic Governments of Austria and Russia would not have been roused, and advances might have been made in . legislation and in general improvements, which could not fail to have the best effects on the con dition of the people. Every friend of liberty and good government, therefore, must rejoice at the change which has taken place in Prussia, not on account of that king dom only, but for its effects on the sovereigns and people of the surrounding States. If the system work well, it cannot long be confined to one kingdom, but must ex tend to Austria and even Russia, carrying with it the blessings of civilization, and attaching the people to their rulers by the most effective of all bonds—those of esteem, gratitude, and love. Private correspondence from Alexandria, dated the 6th inst., announces the return of the Egyp tian fleet to that port on the 29th ult., after a cruise of 27 days. On the following day the Ad miral, SAID PACHA, proceeded into Lower Egypt to inspect his villages there. InnAxill PACHA had previously gone in the same direc tion, but MEHEMET ALI remained at Alexandria to celebrate the month of the Ramazan, a period of fasting and prayer. The Pacha had disposed of 10,000 ardebs of wheat, and a like quantity of beans, to M. ROSETTI. The disease amongst the oxen had caused dreadful losses, 84,000 of those animals having perished throughout Egypt. The Pacha had in consequence been obliged to send three regiments of artillery, with their horses, to his farms, in order to assist in tilling the ground. He had likewise imported a num ber of horses from Tarsus, which were conveyed by two frigates to Alexandria, and were intended for the same destination. An extraordinary robbery was committed at Alex andria on the 28th ult. The palace of OSMAN PACHA, the Commander of the Viceroy's guards, was entered by some thieves, who stole the General's decoration, his sabre, and 10,000 piastres. The delinquents had not been disco vered. The French engineer MANor.r. had re ported to the Viceroy that the plan of canalizing the Nile was much more practicable than he at first expected. It was the Paella's intention to have sluices fixed at Rosetta and Damietta to prevent the water of the sea flowing into the Nile. A sluice was likewise intended to be made at Atfe, where the canal of Mahmoudieh communicates with the Nile, by which means boats might proceed from Alexandria to. Cairo directly. The French steamer Cameleon ar rived at Alexandria on the 4th inst., having on board 100 pilgrims from Algeria on their way to Mecca. This act of policy on the part of the French Government bad created a deep impres sion on the Mussulmans of Alexandria. A new bank had been formed at Alexandria, under the title of ISMALUN, VALENSIN, and Co., with a ca pital of 65,000 dollars. The Smyrna papers of the 9th inst. state, that the Austrian frigate Venere, bearing Admiral BANDEIRA'S flag, arrived at Smyrna, from Syria, on the 4th inst., and the British corvette Ma gicienne returned to Vourla, from a short cruise along the adjoining coast, on the Bth. M. CLE MENT BOULANGER, a French painter, who accom panied M. TEXIER in his exploration of the ruins of Magnesia, died of an attack of brain fever on the 28th ult. The English steamer Iberia, be longing to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, touched at Smyrna on the 4th, coming from ConstantinOple. She had on board a valuable cargo, and no less than 260 cases of silk. Advices • from Athens of the - 10th inst. an nounce the return of the KING and QUEEN On the 9th, from a short tour through the Islands. Rumours of a change in the Cabinet were afloat, but were not considered well-founded. Two new journals had made their appearance at Patrap. In their first number, they called upon the KING to fulfil the promise he made on his ac cession to the throne, to give a Constitution to Greece, and on the protecting Powers, but par ticularly England, to insist on the accomplish ment of a pledge which they had guaranteed. The Iberia steamer reached Athens on the 6th, and proceeded the same day on her voyage to Malta. Madrid papers and letters of the 17th and 18th have been received. The Eco del Comereio of the former date publishes a long reply to the necrological article on DIEGO LEON, contained in the Herald° of the 16th. It likewise expresses deep sympathy for the fate of " that brave offi cer," but with this difference, that it considers his condemnation perfectly legal, and then calls on the vanquished of September to sacrifice their rancour and resentment on the altar of the country, and to rally round the throne of ISA BELLA IL—" a course which would more speed ily promote the reconciliation of all Spaniards than angry and futile recriminations." It appears that the Financial embarrassments of the Captain-General of Catalonia become greater every day, and that dispatches pour into Madrid, requiring the Government to transmit funds. Two Cabinet Councils have been held on this grave affair, but they have produced no sa tisfactory result. The Infant Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA and his family were very popular in Saragossa. On the 14th a serenade was given to the Prince by the chasseurs of the first battalion of militia, one of whom sang verses to the, tune of the Jota Ara gonesa, in which each stanza was concluded by these words :—" Count upon our swords ; should any one attempt to sow disunion among us, come to Saragossa, brave Infant of SPAIN." On the 17th the Three per Cents. were done at 211 at 69 days, and the Five per Cents. at 261, 27, 27A- at 60 days. The debt bearing no interest sold for 5 9-16, at 60 days ; and on the following day the Five per Cents. were done at 26 7-16 for cash, and 27 at 60 days. We have received Paris papers of Monday and Tuesday, but they contain little political news of importance. The intended review of several re giments by the KING on Monday was put off, as is alleged, on account of the bad weather ; a de gree of consideration, says one of the journals, rarely displayed for soldiers, even in campaign. On this subject the Presse makes the following remarks : " Having, however, for some reason or other re called the order that the troops should hold themselves in readiness to be reviewed, the King sent for the corps of officers to the Tuileries, and received them in the Salle des Marechaux. His Majesty, surrounded by the Dukes de Nemours and Montpensier, his aides de-camp, and several general officers, expressed his regret that the unfavourable state of the weather should have deprived him of the pleasure of seeing the troops. His Majesty then distributed, with his own hand, the decorations granted to the different officers and sub officers of the 39th and 65th of the line, which regi ments are about to change their garrison, together with some officers and non-commissioned officers of the Municipal Guard and the gendarmerie de la Seine. The King enjoys most excellent health. The general and superior officers had the honour to dine with his Majesty." The appointment of General JACQUEMINOT to the Command-in-Chief of the Paris National Guard, is loudly condemned by the Opposition journals. The oaths were administered to him in the KING'S closet on Sunday in the usual form. It would seem from a long article which the National publishes against the system of military expeditions pursued by General BUGEAUD in Algeria, that the French were beginning to tire of that expensive toy. " We are far from demanding," says the National, " that France should abandon her conquests in the north of Africa : but inasmuch as we appreciate its importance, we consider it the more necessary to point out the situation of affairs there, and the expenses that attend the occupation of Algeria under the present Government. With respect to the preservation of the troops employed there, the following fact will serve to illustrate the system :— , -There exist at the moment we are writing 24,000 sick in the military hospitals of Africa. General Bugeaud, in his last expedition against Ben Salem, had great difficulty in collecting, out of the 80,000 men under his command, a column of 3,000 or 4,000 convalescent combatants, and even to form this small force he was obliged to form one battalion of sappers, engineers, and artillerymen. - Within the last twelve years Africa has consumed 70,000 of our troops, the least part of whom fell under the balls of the Arabs : the remainder died under the influence of the burning sun, the frosty nights, and the pestilential marshes of Algeria. These are, we confess, enemies difficult to combat but it would have been certainly very possible to have rendered their effects less fatal by adopting a more rational system of war. It may be said that the troops which incurred those chances in the moun tains of the Atlas have at least acquired experience in the art of war, and so become an element of force for France. No doubt good soldiers and excellent officer 3 are formed in Africa, but the following fact will prove that the army, notwithstanding the kepys with which some regiments are adorned, is not much re cruited by the warriors of Africa. Last year, out of 10,000 sick which left hospitals in Algeria, 2,000 only could rejoin their regiments. Those facts are not to be found in the bulletins destined to obtain the staff of Field-Marshal or the epaulettes of General for the favourites at the Tuileries ; but it is necessary that the French nation should be informed of these details, in order to know the value and the expense of the system pursued for the last 12 years." The Paris papers publish the address of the General on taking the command of the National Guards, in which he expresses his regret at Marshal GERARD'S retirement, and declares his determination to follow in his footsteps, calling for the co-operation of his comrades to support the glorious revolution of 1830, and reminding the citizen soldiers that he had requested Gene ral CARBONEL to act as chief of the Staff, as that officer had been in the same situation under General LAFAYETTE in 1830. "It would appear," says the Revue de Paris," that the political difficulties which have arisen between us and England are not drawing to a close. We were too hasty in thinking that England had definitively given up all hope of our ratifying the treaty of 1841, and in announcing that, the protocol being finally closed, the other Powers had recognised that France was no longer a party to the treaty. Matters, however, are not so far advanced. Lord Cowley, on his return from London a few d a y s ago, is said to have declared, in the name of his Government, that the protocol was still con sidered open, and to have demanded if it were true that the French Government intended to suffer the Conventions of 1831 and 1833 to fall into disuse. The warrants delivered by France to British crui3ers, are only available until February 1843. The English Cabinet, it seems, cannot conceive that France should refuse to execute the treaty of 1833.' Thus matters rest. Ministers seem well convinced that the ratification of the treaty of 1841 is impossible, and we are sure that they have no intention of ratifying it, but they have not yet considered themselves justi fied in making a categorical declaration respecting the Conventions of 1831 arid 1833." The Semaphore de Marseilles of the 21st inst. states that the fourteen Arabian horses sent as a present to the KING of the FRENCH by the PAcn A of EGYPT were landed from the Nile steamer on the preceding day. They are described as re markably fine horses, and as having suffered very little by the passage. The National states, that commercial failures in Paris are increasing with alarming rapidity. Within the first twenty days of the present month, thirty-seven bankruptcies have been de clared by the Tribunal de Commerce. The Administration of Customs had published the returns of the imports into France during the month of Septemb'r last, from which it appears that the quantity of colonial sugar imported amounted to 10,800,167 kilogrammes; foreign sugar to 3,023,008 ; coffee, 2,039,548 ; raw cotton, 4,181,573 ; olive oil, 3,802,213; wool, 2,257,000; coal, 43,698,539; cast iron, 1,801,916; copper, 1,115,680; indigo, 246,193; hempen and flaxen thread, 289,055; linen, 234,753, &c. It was reported on the Bourse on Tuesday that ALTAROCHE, editor of the Charivari, had been killed that morning in a duel w ith a C aptain on the Staff of the National Guard, who chal lenged him in consequence of au article in that paper reflecting upon the choice of General JACQUEMINOT ,for the command of the Paris National Guard, but private accounts. state that the report is entirely without fbundation. The Moniteur contains a Royai ordinance, authorising the Orleans Railroad Company to raise a loan of 10,000,000 f. for the comp the works. let ion of BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, OCTOBETI 25. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 118 80... 118 80... 118 70. 119 7 47 4 1 , per Cents 106 60... 106 60... 106 60... 106 60' Four per Cents 101 25... 101 101 25... 101 25 3 per Cents 80 5... 80 10... 80 ••• 60 5 Bank of France 3270 ....3275 —.3270 .. 3275 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1055 ..1055 —.1035 —.1055 5,000 f 5085 ...5085 —.5080 . 5060 Belgian Fives ... ..... lO3 ... 103 ... 103 103 1840.... 104* ... 104* ... 104* ••• 100 Portuguese Fives 324 ... 324 ... Neapolitan... lOB 45... 108 45... 10.5 45... 1 08 "‘" Roman RAILWAY SHARES Versailles, R. 13 265 ... 265 ... 260 260 L.B lO5 —. 105 —. 95 ... bS 25 Rouen Orleans. Strasburg to Bale 207 56... 207 50... 207 50... 207 b° The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel arrived in town this morning from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Right Hon. Baronet is expected to leave town this afternoon for his seat in Staffordshire, to receive her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester , who is expected to honour Sir Robert and Lady reel with a visit at Drayton Manor. • INDISPOSITION OF VISCOUNT MELBOURNE.--"ldaSt evening letters were received at the Reform Club, from .• Bro•-....ket Hall, Herts, from which we learn that the Noble Viscount had nearly recovered from hisindis-r: position. We understand it was on Sunday morning - when his Lordship was attacked by symptoms which. caused considerable alarm to Lord and Lady Beau vale, who were staying with Viscount Melbourne at the time, and an express was immediately dispatched - to Viscountess Palmerston, the Noble Viscount's sis ter, to apprise her of his Lordship's ill nes s. The messenger arrived at Viscount Palmerston's mansion, on Carlton-terrace, late on Sunday afternoon, and both Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston being in towr. , they instantly departed for Brocket. Dr. Hol land, the Noble Viscount's medical attendant, was also sent for, and likewise waited upon his Lordship. with the least possible delay. On Monday his Lord ship was exceedingly unwell, but has since continued to improve, and we are happy to hear is now fast ap proaching a state of convalescence. Viscount an 4., Viscountess Palmerston and Lord and Lzi,ly Beauvo_::: are still staying at Brocket. .7.40 17 SUMMARY OF NEWS. 1;/!, AND , 60 1 ( A PLOW Optatom ;slo:rig " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. ...,01 1 .11na The Levant mail has arrived with letters ; •-i papers of late dates. The intelligence, which will found elsewhere, is not important. • _.trt i ap . Barcelona advices of the 18th state that a dr ea d storm on the coast of Valencia and Catalonia wit* 1 caused considerable ravages. f o n The police at Paris have seized on several copie s ' a pamphlet, published by Laine, the bookseller in t, Passage Verot•Dodat, entitled " Lord Guizot, tre de rEtranger en France." The same work voll seized at some other booksellers, where a sec°, pamphlet was on sale, entitled "Les Ministres sur Sellette, ou les Dix Commandemens," with this motto' " Saint Angleterre adoreras, Guizot l'ordonne expressement." The fourteen horses sent by the Pacha of Egypt a present to the King of the French, were landed °e, the 19th at Marseilles. They are remarkably hue' animals. et 4 We learn by a letter from Copenhagen that a new s of recruitment for the army is under dis cus ' sion by the Danish Ministry. It is said, that in futurg , iastead of making peasants, as at present, exclusively liable to military service, the obligation will be lin' posed on all classes. According to the proposed Pin there are to be three branches of the army, viz.' regular troops, whose period of service will b eti r years, and two classes of militia, one of eight, a nd t ' e other of four, years' service. The Courrier du Havre says :—" A cabin boy ° n board the Recherche, the natural son of a Conntlf e s; just received information that his father had "t" after having acknowledged him, and bequeath ed tO him a fortune of 20,000 f. a year." The number of suicides is shown to be on th e in. crease in all the capitals of the Continent. ith e The Emperor of Russia left Warsaw on the inst. for St. Petersburgh. On the same evening'. tea Grand Duke Michael, brother of the EinP eror' arrl c at Warsaw. to It appears that new negotiations are abo ut b :. opened between Russia and the Papal Governnnilva A letter from Rome, 13th inst., announces . tle-ptlrrt,:rs in that city of Captain Gregori e ff f ro m St" . -e burgh, with important despatches. Alotre The Senate of Hamburgh has invited S. e the Consul of Brem en a t B or d eau x, to Per'u— rtu the a functions of Co nsu l f or H a mburgh, ad interim, in sequence of M. Meyer having ceas ed to be CoO' General of the Senate in that city. M. Berryer, who was to have set out for Gerel i a t rl io l o ' is detained a t Angerville, by the serious inclispos of his son. MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE • r t he The anniversary meeting of the proprietors. 0' Isle of Thanet steam-vessels, shipowners, 5: 1 % . 1 held at that place at the beginning of the vr` - vots About 80 gentlemen sat down to dinner, and it, a ., stated that the Company possessed above 40 nu.p ships, containing above 25,0 00 tons, exceeding there J even the Government steam-vessel establishmen t, ECCLESIASTICAL. bag . - The Bishop of Exeter has announced that he 8 we require from all candidates for holy orders, who na yet been educated at the University of Oxford, the certi cates from the two new Professors of Sacred as L i ter attp t so soon the new statute shall be in full activi., Similar demands will, of course, be made fro m Can dates from the University of Cambridge. . AGRICULTURAL. On Wednesday last the Duke of Richmond din e d '' • about 200 of his tenantry, in his new hall at 1ra11 t ,..1; His Grace in future will hold an annual show w ent ealb 4 at Gordon Castle, and give premiums to the e. Or -1001. per annum, for improvements in the breed °'• cattle, and in agriculture, by his tenants. NAVAL AND ranaTA.lvr. was A valuable American vessel, named Le-ifarreN'oiiip totally destroyed by fire on Thursday w ee `'+ , 'bop lying off Bordeaux. She was of 600 tons bul; and laden with silks and merchandise, for wh ic fi r" ~/ was insured only in part. The crew have bed to. rested on suspicion of having wilfully caused calamity. LAW AND POLICE. -!/ The following verdict on the Northleac h ease sle s returned by the Jury on Tuesday—" That C1 1 103 ,i . , er . Beale died of consumption, brought on and aggre'r, iect' by his treatment in Northleach prison," accemP e n :0 1 0 . 1,3! with their unanimous vote of disapprobation Governor, surgeon, and under turnkey of the S in g • a rw It is understood that the Jury intend for memorial to Sir J. Graham respecting Norte gaol and other prisons in the county. L . Jingl y. ' Yesterday James Powell, in the employ of A tei ling 7 draper in Noble-street, was charged w ith 6 erso nsi upwards of 60 linen-shirts, and three other f i l son era with receiving part of the property. The P were committed for trial. ~,, on sow,diCd An inquest, on Saturday, was held at EP ho the lady of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bart., Th e on Friday last from being frightfully burner . 0. Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Dee"' LITERARY AND SCIENTIrIC,' Victor Hugo, the French poet, has Pllr e ,_"„. s t ian hotel in the Place Royale, formerly the 'lto"' the celebrated Marion Delorme. CQVlLT—rissmucomanz s• The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort return , Beaufort House yesterday from Newmark et ' to 11 ' 1.- The Duke and Duchess of Sutherlan d were, fraa rive at Wishaw House, Lanarkshire, ye sterday' Dunrobin Castle. crese pat The Marquis de Lavaletto arrived in ra- - yesterday, from Paris. The Countess Brownlow leaves Belgreve in few days, for Canford House, Dorset. ° T T t oe o f The Earl of Liverpool arrived at Fife .r. Tuesday last, from Buxted-park. at p re- The Earl and Counte ss o f Harrington are sent staying in town. ~„0.100 Viscount and Lady Margaret INlarshaul are r the autumn at the Moat, Alaidstone. reers Viscount Sandon has taken Mr. Lawrence mansion, Kemp Town, Brighton, for the 50 6 ° n : es ter' Lord Gran v ill e S omer set arrived in town day, from Troy House, Monmouth. on W ed ' yesterday,T he Bar from m r Lady Beresford left Boulogne for Paris • nesday last. dot e ra a lle to Y u ra n nd St. :YZISCELLANZOICTS. rti o wn, -1 , M. Cerfberr, the French Consul at Cap e . . Fork t ' n died on his Domingo, a. Ha - ire, from the injuries received by the , house during the late earthquake at HaYr2, 4 fi r ms e, - arrived in Berkeley -5. • Upwards of 120 of the most influentinissioner' , Cheapside have petitioned the Sewer U0,n 1 ,.. the city passage from he of for a wood pavement throughout that part u u. rord Lord Francis Egerton has purchased I sir Thonol formerly the property of the la te Adir anie e collis' el • with the Waterman steamer, No. 6, on rescue; A boat, containing eight persons, e Bermondsey, and by great exer tions we_ l . d e er turnet l- ; from the water, into which th e y were • The Company has since compensated' the ; , ',;. , ? 41 11 ,'• r tb.' S. 1 : f i ,~1 1