The Sun. — London, England, 1834-08-30 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Papers of Thursaay.) The 11,I ontteur contains a R o y a l O r di nanc e of th e 20th i "tant, by whi c h t h e following electoral colleges are con tF.eked, in con sequence of the Chamber having declared that e places of their respective deputies have become vacant,: 1.-sueiThd at second arrondissement of the Basses Pyrenees, to be h al +. . •, on SepteMber 18th, the deputy returned 1re „,!,% e'en his option to sit for another place. The se _nuln arrondissement of the Sarthe, at Beaumont-sur-Sarthe, September 18, the late deputy having resigned his seat. Roee sixth arrondissement of the Charente-Inferieure, at hefort, on September 20, for the same cause ; and the tueth, arrondissement of the Rhone, at Villefranche, on Sep siameber 20, the deputy returned having given his option to _tor another place. A second Ordinance, dated the 14th .•43t., declares that from the Ist of October next, the de nitnent of the Maine-et-Loire shall be permanently united `, ‘ ° .l the 12 t h Military Division, and the department of the e nne to the 4th division. A third Ordnance, dated the 190 1 • nistant, reduces the entrance-duty upon cloves from pren o rdia ch Guiana to tw e l ve sous th e kil ogramme . A fourth ance declares that th e M em b er o f th e Academic des Sc ience s , i wh o forms part of the Counseil de Perfeetionne -41. t, established in th e di rect i on o f th e serv i ce o f gunpow tral and saltp etre, shall henceforth be attached to the cen ,,,depot of the A r till ery. e Temp s says--" A marked coolness exists between th_ de Talley ran d an d M. Pozzo d i Borgo ; yet l ast year iit ese abl e di plomatists overwhelmed each other with po en ess and amiability." ?o ft is announced in the most positive manner that the rtuguese Government has ordered the formation of a i h t :P t s., of obs ervat i on i n Tras-os-Montes, in order to succour e qoanish t roops if i t should be needful. It i s sa i d also f t r h_a t the slo o p o f war Isabella Maria, had been despatched 1: _to Lisb on to cruise off the coast of Biscay. Many small 'Leis wer e i mmediately to be employed on similar service. The Journal de la Guienne of the 25th instant affirms tha t Madame Zumalacarreguy had not yet received permis o return M n t . to Spain, as stated in a letter attributed to F_ ! niers, and o f w hi c h s h e has h a d no not i ce b ut t h roug h 'le Mediu m of the journals. th At the Sitting of the Swiss Federal Diet on the 22d inst. eatltoll of S o l eure propose d t h at a un if orm p ena l co de Duld be adopted throughout the Swiss cantons. The an ut Y developed the utility of this proposition, and de forded that a committee of the Diet should be appointed ktiPers , e Pari, s ng the dra ug ht o f a p ena l co d e ; a nd the De- Bern and Fribourg were of opinion that the most to euiElual means o f ren d er i no • the proposition nugatory was i n t arge the Diet with it, for that body would be 30 years sh o ! scussing the preliminary measures. Every Canto St n I Q imp v its own penal legislation, which it would be essaPtoible toee generalize, so as to apply to 22 different s• Zurich observed that the proposition might be be t b e a . o the States, i n or d er t o ascer t a i n w h a t C an t ons would Th' is Posed t o acce d e to i t. Thi s a d v i ce o b ta i ne d assen t. A -.ngsbu rg G aze tt e o f t h e 24 t h i ns t. quo t es the . 4 se at Vienn a on th e 19 t h, 5 per C en t. M eta lli ques , 984 , i.. Cent . ditto, 884; Bank Actions, 1,241. Ge n ., jE AN'nE.-LUZ, AUG. 24.—The day before yesterday g a di e e r r s tu j itedil m arc h e d f rom T o l osa t owar d s L ece t a . Bri each With his aureguy and Iriarte followed in the same direction, brigade. en(fallmalacarreguy was with a part of the rebels at Maria c, an to Estev an ; but he holds no fixed point, and marches ev ery dire c ti on. erlittouleteer, well known in the country, and in whom ea rn 'nay be pl ace d repor t s t h at l as t wee k theinsurgents tetle to his hou se , t oo k 14 o f hi s mu l es , an d or d ere d h im t o wt ; ci e as th e i r conductor. He was obliged to submit. They fi av er ed about, without resting, among the mountains. H,l.,`'g succe e d e d i n ma ki ng hi s escape, h e arr i ve d, a f ter a e's Constraint, at Oyarzun, overwhelmed with fatigue. fr ain sa Ys that Don Carlos was in the mountains wandering Th e ';',rie point to another, accompanied by eight courtiers. inentreen's Generals were close at hand, and discourage- Pea red ec atn. e daily more evident among the rebels. It ap long quite impossible that they could continue much er it the state in which they then were. peel% deserters from Zumalacarreguy have arrived at St. T out shirt situation is truly deplorable. Some are with lert s, othe rs h ave no s h oes. Th ey d ec l are th a t th e y searen i i the army in the same state. They get no pay, T hr y any food, and are kept eternally marching. to joi ee young Carlists, who had left their families at Irun n the insurgents, were soon glad to return home. F. FRENCH FUNDS. —Paai., Ave. 28. F o e Per Cents., 10 f. Dec. 106 f. 105 f 9: c. Ti,,.r Per Cents., 92t 75c. P 2. Per Cents., 74f. 90c. 85c. 75c. 11 Actions , Actions, 1 , 7 ' 7 f• 5 0 c. ete de Naples, 92f. 50c. 40c. -m an Five per Cents., 91. 11 1 , 1spagne, Five per Cent&, 3414% 33%. It erate d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 24 Wl4 22„ 4° 1 141 SPanish Loan, 324 30% RentePelpet. d'Espagne. Five per Cents., 33 31 30%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 99. Haytian Loan, 267 f. 50c. EXCUANGE ON LONDON. tine month, pap er , 25f . 27%c. • money, 25f. 271 c. th ree months, p aper, 25f. 15c.% money, 25f. 15e. COhrs Authentique. BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS. in g 9 t B ° T END, AUG. 26.—The King went on Saturday morn ‘4,.l_ With c see the sl u i ce of Nieuport, which he examined atten bth the plan which was presented to him . last year or, 1, magistrates for the improvement of the sluice. ,Y, Yesterday for several jest, van de Weyer was t h ra o n a s ra a tn. ctr l n i g re b st usiness with his Ma- Capelle, thence he mii'e-ilay his Majesty is gone l' Haecreg-ras . ,.. he INA Urn 41. fr Ontie :Ind gone tn West Capelle, thence he O to Haegegras. -and dsit the several fortifications on ' 4 ' 4 ret rs ° His majesty will pass the night at Eccloo, to-morrow by way of Bruges to Ostend, whence 1., remain till the 7th Sep . tember. di o „" e Bishop of Bruges has just sent to the priests of his t o b e e the last energetical letter, as the only infallible rule vol l i e t f ollowed towards' his Eminence, and the only one to eg th e 1 3 _ y are to pay attention. vid u ttl issti.s, AUG. 27.—The Eclair says :—" An indi tea„,a,l,has been very roughly handled in a public house f pili; Lae Cathedral for having spoken against the acts k o_ rae n ge ', We are assured that some of M. Tilmont's wor tht e ) tvt le gave evidence on the trial at Mons, have been If t telt ed by some of the populace, armed with knives. is i, v ent „ true, the police will doubtless endeavour to pre pro '''eb disgraceful occurrences." MatiP e sals have been circulated at Antwerp for the for- Si ° , l 4 o f a company for the whale fishery. It e2 . c i ee the prices of the Spanish perpetuelles at Am latoralli and Brussels have become nearly equal, the specu Ve,.:,10 not find any profit in buying hereto sell in Holland. eople 114;)e•no tie is now done here in this stock, in wh o „: 317 nn confidence ; on the other hand, l% ;lie holders, p their 'mild not sell at high prices, are reluctant to part Isith st Q ° enow that it has so much fallen.—Brussels Per, Aug, zau 28 . ta rns 4 t i, Nit EINI• AUG. 20.—The Manheint Gazette . _con 'tato the following article :._.._,. We are able positively h to ,M,4cl e ', la t a German of the Grand Duchy of Baden to '4 ps' ll effer t o the English nation, in a letter addressed for o a kiitab;itne Minister, Lord Melbourne, to give upto it con ttivaole r,eenmpense the description and the model of a s hall 1; e by which all large ships of war and . merchantmen 'wve htn e ,cured against suffering shipwreck in storms. The e 'l th -I. J eaNes the decision on the applicability and success from e mael ' 4, line to four Englishmen versed in naval affairs of Lae C o . t v Y. 1 u nnercial Marine, and three from the Royal t h e ,, t kal t i t . l o :ase the decision should be unfavourable he does iv i 'll, od d • any remuneration, not even an indemnity for Si, e ' r .,' ke• It remains now to be seen whether Lord ' 0 41 ° ,1 4 ge will take sufficient interest in the matter. of i t th e machine answer the purpose the use perch Mast , pro ve of conimense advantage both to the t a e l , e ekloiat.seadndinthe Royal av The inventor, who is trial hec)vtedleparing his Model, is said especially, to of his name till the of ,a s b e an for the concealment 4 t he t n . made, a condition with which the delicacy I lik /a glisli Minister will of course comply. . . 14s latelyl-8t Ito AUG.l5.—The library of our University lalo,ireceived f u ro G Enoiand a very valuable present ; PahlisW,,lee entire co m llection of the ancient . documents olio v eluro o ;" by the Record Commissioners, in 74 f give s ift A UG , I.I slttin , 2 l.—Our chambers . having in succes ,.ll of tile s u,scussed without interruption all the particu 'hlac Publi c , 04841 -. 04 ,„,. ~,,, „‘iz our The reductions effected are so b e n lie e n t d . iture, we have now arrived at the )Nolllll3lo, that there g is every reason to believe that the tio h . b : will not be found deficient in the then pen d le4 / I ' B ;) gintlin g• (The Budget is fixed for next three l ' . ,Ni :,, P .°P CoN s „, °nal s - elted i n "NcE, AUG. 14.—Great sensation . has . Rta-, for thispol,,.e neighbourhood by h the . arrest of indivi visirl'' Ivlcnhald loffences. M. he is, f a ong .resided in M P u a s r ean . aincl,.anwaasblceoinlitehto; wa s st ;_, a.t Steisslingen, in the Baillivsickof Stock co:fistEin, in Person, arrested in the night by the High . Bailiff an 4 eroe nt P er son, and has ever since been kept in strict ' Pe ar '" With respect to the reasons for his arrest, it ra tio e t hat tl o ° II t o le French Government has made communi lir-e:8". tnurs' representing M. Muschani as a suspected I , 'loose, Jeediately after his arrest, search was made in •r b e , e in aolls e e 'l it is said nothing was found except two or t o ti e ornr oti ,!:lPts . or printed leaves, of a political nature. b tite lc eff ect ileleation of the French was said to have been Fat i w Ge r „, l at M• Muscharii probably intended to distil- P ros , ua4tilany prohibited writings, and it expected cfor t p s e rf them would be found in his p ossespsion.— Li a , Aug. 24. 40 V i s , says ofol. COTTON MARKET, AUGUS 28. a nt h ttin , Cotton to-day, amount to 2,000 bags. There u ttliti ect ' deity Eni d , and the present prices are with difficulty v to say to 1 lestatiOni PO ? iftle , 811 .11 bY '— at SO. tO s ° , I' reaClY " the raalSt t the rly a \I bemre, urrie witb morni n g Co, n , lice flyr y s part WO ban-. • e first t ' uld let lie las t t ime. for f"ur. .ast let it lanCe . Dr 5 " )c.‘, cc Ed 110 t 5 h neci at qbe le could ti o s t °s kn ffeed again here an At th e d to S. 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Yesterday the King, accompanied by the Duchess of Glou cester, rode in the Great Park in an open phaeton. Her Ma jesty also rode to Virginia Water on horseback, attended by the Duke of Dorset, Lard and Lady Falkland, and several other Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court. Sir Philip Sidney left in the morning for Plumhurst, and Lord Albemarle for Hampton. Lord Seaford arrived in the evening to dinner. Their Majesties in consequence of the wet weather have not left the Castle to-day. The following distinguished guests took leave and left this morning :—Duke of Dorset, Sir Wathen Waller, Colonel and Lady Wemyss and Lady Erroll. Lord Erroll will leave to morrow morning. The Duchess of Gloucester paid a morning visit to the Princess Augusta, at Frog-more. • FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol, in St. James's-square, from their seat, Putney-heath, Surrey ; the Duke of Devonshire, at Nev.ham, Oxfordshire, from his seat, Chatsworth, Derbyshire; the Earl and Countess of Lichfield, at the Earl of Belfast's, Cowes, Isle of Wight, from their seat, Shugborough, Staffordshire ; the Right Hon. Sir Augustus Foster and family, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from the Continent ; Sir John Ogilvie, Bart., at ditto, from a tour ; Sir Lloyd Duckenfield, Bart., at ditto, from his seat in Berks ; J. Taylor, Esq., and sons, at Symons' Hotel, St. James's-street, from Brighton ; - Lucas, Esq., at Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, from Ireland ; Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell, at ditto, from the Continent ; Captain and Mrs. Forbes, in Brook street, from Worthing; Talbot Patterson, Esq., in Piccadilly, from Naples ; Mr., Mrs., and Miss Bradyll, at Patterson's Hotel, Brook-street, from Lancashire ; Dr. Thomas, at ditto, from the Continent ; Mr. Palmer, at ditto, from Berkshire ; Captain Bla grave, at ditto, from ditto ; the Hon. W. Ward, at the Berners Hotel, Berners-street, from Hinley-hall, Dublin ; J. Parker, Esq., at ditto, from ditto , Mrs. Kipling, at ditto, from Richmond ; J. Craddock, Esq., and Mrs. Craddock, at ditto, from Southampton ; J. C. Hector, Esq., and the Misses Hector, at ditto, from Peters field ; Miss Grant, at ditto ; F. Forbes, Esq., at ditto ; John Sedgwick, Esq., and it Sedgwick, Esq., at ditto, from Skipton, Yorkshire ; Rev. James and Mrs. May, at the Albion Hotel, Cockspur-street, from Southampton; J. Smith, Esq., at ditto, from Manchester ; Charles Mordaunt, Esq., at ditto, from Paris. DEPARTURES. Mrs. Birch and Miss Birch,. from the I3erners Hotel, Berner,- street, for Bath ; Graham Clarke, Esq., Mrs. Clarks and family, from ditto, for the Continent ; Mrs. Small and Miss Small, from ditto ; Talbot Glasscock, Esq., from the Albion Hotel, Cockspur street, on a tour; Thomas Disney, Esq., from ditto, for Ports mouth ; Robert RUtherford, Esq., from ditto, for Edinburgh ; Alexander M'Carthy, Esq., from ditto, from Cheltenham ; Robert Hughes, Esq., from ditto, for Wexford; J. Knower, Esq., from ditto, for the Continent; Sir John and Lady Franks, from Dia mond's Hotel, New Ormond-street, Queen-square, for Chelten ham ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, for their seat, Hatfield; the Dowager Marchioness, for ditto ; Lord and Lady John Thynne, for Wrotham Park ; Sir Thomas Acland, Bart., and family, from Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, for Scotland ; Mrs. and the Misses Pallacer, from ditto, for Leamington, War wickshire ; P. Pallacer, Esq., from ditto, for his seat in Kent ; Colonel Tynte, M.P., and Mrs. Tynte, from Hill-steet, for their seat, Hahwell-house, Somersetshire ; G. H. Lyon, Esq., for his seat in Norfolk ; T. Horner, Esq., for his seat, Mills-park, Frome ; Sir George Wombwell, Bart., for his seat in Suffolk ; Captain Ives, from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Dublin ; Mr. and the Misses Potts, from Symmond's Hotel, St. James's-street, for the Continent ; Count Palapre, from Batt's Hotel, Dover street, for Paris ; Colonel Peel, for his seat in Norfolk ; Sir W. Beauchamp Proctor and family, from the St. James's Hotel, Jer myn-street, for their seat, Langley Park, Norfolk ; Charles Cham bers, Esq., of the Rifle Brigade, from ditto, for Southampton : Captain Meyrick, from Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street, for Ireland ; Lord Farnborough, for his seat, Bromley-hill, Kent. ARRIVALS AT BUXTON. The Archbishop of Armagi; the Ladies Beresford and suite ; Viscount and Viscountess Lifford and family ; Lady Noel Byron and Miss Byron ; Lord Western ; Lieut.-General Sir James Kempt ; Gen. Sir Henry Fane ; Gen. Sir Henry Cumming ; Mr. Justice and Miss Bosanquet ; Gen. Blundon ; Lieut. - Gen. Allan ; Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley ; Mr. and Miss Mosley ; Sir John and Miss Stanley ; Col. Gibbs ; Col. Maxwell ; Col. and Mrs. Pitman and family ; Hon. Mrs. Rushout ; Mr. Hay, M.P.. and Miss Hay ; Capt. Swinfen ; Capt. Every ; Capt. Baddeley ; Capt. and Mrs. Findall ; Dr. Cursham ; Capt. Johnston, R.N. ; Capt. Allan ; Capt. Birdes ; Rev. Gale Townley ; Rev. B. and Mrs. Snape ; Rev. J. Wilson ; Rev. R. Smethuest ; Rev. C. C. Bates; Mr. de Loude, &c. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In your paper of last night I find a report of what took place at Marlborough-street Police-office, relative to my alleged refusal to maintain my wife. I have no reason to quarrel with the report as regards its faithfulness, still I trust to your candour to insert the following explanation of some circumstances there detailed :—Mrs. Archbutt represents that she had only 601. per annum for the maintenance of herself and child. This, Sir, is far from being the fact. During the time her child was living with her she had, through the banking house of Messrs. Hoare and 3arnett's, 71. monthly, and subse quently to his being taken away 5/. per month ; and which she always affirmed to be an annuity granted to her by her late husband's relatives. On her application to me for an allow - ance, I was told for the first time that the money paid to her was not an annuity, and that the further payment had been stopped. I hesitated affording her out of my pocket any thing for her support until she satisfied me of the truth of her state ment upon that point, which never attempted to do. After that, when I found Mrs. Archbutt had applied to the parish board for relief, I offered in the presence of two of the assistant overseers of St. George's, Hanover-square, to allow her 7s. 6d. weekly, rather than be subjected to the annoyances I daily received from her, which she refused to accept, requir ing me to pay her 1/. per week. I feel that I have trespassed too long upon your columns, therefore I will conclude by subscribing myself Your very obedient servant, SAMUEL ARCHBUTT, Jun. South-street, Chelsea, Aug. 28, 1834. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER. ST. LEGER. The business upon this event increases as the day of its " coming off" approaches. Many are the Sweepstakes that have been formed, from the humble " Half-crown Sweep" of the pot-house to the " Guinea Sweep" of the leading turf marts, the " Bush and the " Apple Tree." At a late hour last night the betting stood thus .- 12i to 8 agst Mr. Batson's Plenipotentiary 7 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Shillelah 7 to I agst Mr. Heseltine's Worlaby Baylock 9 to 1 agst Lord Sligo's Bran 16 to 1 agst Sir J. Boswell's General Chasse 16 to 1 agst Mr. Watts's Bubastes 16 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Touchstone 22 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Marcellina CANTERBURY RACES, Auousr 29. The Bridge Plate of 701. Heats, two miles. Captain Skipwith's Lady Charlotte 2 I I Mr. Forth's Gratis Mr. Gardnor's Myrrha 3 3 dr Mr. Willis's Guildford Lord A. Conyngham's Isabel • dis A Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, with 20 added, (heats, a mile and a distance, and three flights of hurdles,) was won in two heats by Sir W. Geary's Arab, beating a b. g. by Camel, and Cantab. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 50 added. Heats, two miles. Mr. Smith's The Witch - 1 1 Mr. Saour's Raven 3 2 Mr. Gardnor's Omen 2 3 Match, 50 sovs., one mile.—Mr. Helmsley's b. g. by Figaro beat Mr. Vannack's Zohrab. WEYMOUTH RACES, AVOUST 28. His Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. Two miles. Mr. Finch's Cecilia 4 3 1 1 Mr. Pryse's Caldicot Mr, S. ,Herbert's Carnahy 1 2 fell lame. Mr. Shrapnell's Mayfly 3 dr The Lodmoor Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 25 added. Heats, about two miles. Lord Pembroke's Coroner . Mr. Scott's Barney Bodkin Mr. Jones's Warrener A Handicap of 3 sous. each, and 50 added by the Ladies. Heats, 1 1 2 dr 3 dr a mile and quarter. Mr. Scott's Barney Bodkin Mr. Radcliffe's Mazeppa Mr. Jones's Warrener 3 1 1 0 3 2 1 2 3 RACES SEPTEMBER. '0 COME. 'Enfield Brecon Lincoln Eieaton Park Walsall Wrexham Newmarket Beverley Richmond Pontefract Warwick Western Meeting Dorchester Ashford Beccles Carmarthen Morpeth Lichfield Abingdon Leicester ........ • Dover Doncaster Shrewsbury Oswestry Upton-upon-Severn OCTOBI', Carlisle Epsom Nottingham Newmarket Northallerton Caledonian Hunt Newmarket Captain Ross having returned from his visit to the Courts of Sweden, Russia, and Denmark, i s now b us ily em ployed in superintending the printin g of his Arctic expedition. All the Northern Courts have subscribed t o it, an d during his three months' absence 3,000 copies were ord ere d i n E ng l an d. SCOTCH FISHERIES .-- No improvement has taken place in the herring fisheries on the coast, f rom Wi c k to Helmsdale ; the failure is said to be without a parallel. At Fraserburgh, fishing has latterly been tolerably successful ; and a great improvement has also taken place at Banff, large shoals of remarkably fine mackerel having visited the bay. The Inverness salmon fishing has been as successful as it has been in the south. Information was received yesterday morning from Tarragona, stating that the cholera has broken out there t o an alarming degree, and fear is entertained it will communi cate to Barcelona. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST to, DUBLIN-AuG. 28. (PROM OUR COT:RESPONDENT. An opportunity now presents itself whereby some opinion may bO formed of the policy likely to be acted upon towards Ireland by our present Ministry. The Hon. Richard Jebb, second Judge of the Court of King's Bench, is no more. A vacancy is therefore created in one of the courts in which much of the important law business of this county is tran sacted, and whoever may be appointed to fill it up, should be recommended not less by the character of a sound lawyer, than by his other claims on a Government disposed to conciliate the country by reform, and a regard to utility in all its proceedings. There is a number of candidates at this moment for the honour of the Bench. The legitimate claimants, or those said to have the preference on such occasions, are the Attorney and Solicitor-General, Sergeants Pennefeather, O'Loglin, and Perrin. It is thought the Attorney-General and Sergeant Pennefeather would decline the honour—the former, be cause he may, under any Government, expect a Chief's place in due time ; and the latter, from the probability of his one day at taining the highest appointment in the profession, for which, I believe, the general acclamation of his brethren would de clare him eminently qualified. The Solicitor-General, too, is a gentleman whose legal and literary attainments, independent of his present situation, would seem to point him out as des tined to fill more important offices. But owing to the unfor tunate state of party feeling of late, and his rejection by the University as their representative, his merits have not been fully developed. He has been always a liberal man, but never a partizan, and consequently less popular in Ireland than he deserves to be. This, however, it is presumed, cannot inter fere with his elevation to the Bench, should he, in the present posture of affairs, think the place of puisne Judge worth his acceptance. If he declines, Sergeants O'Loghlin and Perrin seem to possess equal claims, the one as senior Sergeant, the other as a Member of the Legislature and prime agent in the work of corporate reform in Ireland. Indeed the better opi nion seems to be that Sergeant Perrin will be promoted, either to the Bench, should the Solicitor-General decline, or to the place of Solicitor-General, should Mr. Crampton pre fer the "negotium sine periculo," now presenting itself to the more remote chances of higher honours. FROM LAST NIGHTS GAZETTE. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, AUGUST 13, 1834. The King was this day pleased to 'confer the honour of Knight hood upon Samuel Thomas Spry, of Place, in the county of Corn wall, Esq., M.P., Lieutenant of the Honourable Corps of Gentle men at Arms. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, AUGUST 20. The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight hood upon the Right Hon. Robert Grant, Governor of Bombay, and Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUGUST 29. The King has been graciously pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas Dennison, as Consul at Bristol for the United States of America. WAR-OFFICE, AUGUST 29. 2d Life Guards—Lieut. T. Naylor, from the 15th Light Dra goons, to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, vice Duckett, who ex changes, August 29. 2d Dragoon Guards—Cornet H. C. Paulet to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cholmeley, who retires ; A. Prescott, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Paulet, Aug. 29. Ist Regiment of Dragoons—R. Corbett, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Campbell, whose appointment has not taken place, Aug. 29. 15th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet and Sub-Lieut. G. F. Duckett, from the 2d Life Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Naylor, who exchanges, Aug. 29. 6th Regiment of Foot—J. 0. C. Barnes, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Martin, who retires, Aug. 29. 7th Foot—Lieut. J. Vereker, from half-pay 27th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Meade, appointed to the 43d Foot, Aug. 29. 12th Foot—Captain H. Boys, from the 75th Foot, to be Captain, vice Gold, who exchanges, Aug. 29. 17th Foot—W. B. Kelly, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Holden, who retires, Aug. 29. 43d Foot—Lieut. J. Meade, from the 7th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice F. Jackson, who retires upon half-pay 27th Foot, Aug. 29. 56th Foot—J. F. Burke, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Thornhill, who retires, Aug. 29. 59th Foot—Lieut. W. Richardson to be Adjutant, vice Heathcote, promoted, Aug. 29. 74th Foot—Ensign G. T. Evans to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Horton, who retires; A. E. Obins, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Evans, Aug. 29. 75th Foot—Capt. H. Y. Gold, • from the 12th Foot, to be Cap tain, vice H. Boys, who exchanges ' Aug. 29. 78th Foot—Ensign J. Gillespie, from half-pay 89th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase , vice Suthe r l an d, A ugust 29. Ceylon Regiment—Lieut. A. Grant to be Captain, by purchase, vice Law, promoted in the Royal Newfoundland Veteran Compa nies ' • Second Lieut. R. Lisle to be First Lieut enan t, b y purc ha s e, vice Grant; J. W. Grylls, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lisle, August 29. Royal Newfoundland Veteran Companies--Captain R. Law, from the Ceylon Regiment, to be Major, by purchase, vice Burke, who retires, August 29. COMMISSARIAT. To be Assistant-Commissaries -General. Deputy Assistant- Commissary-General G. Maclean, May 23; Deputy Assistant- Commissary-General W. Bishop July '24. MEMORANDUM. 4 The Christian names of Lieut. Heming, of the 26th Foot, are Samuel Bracebridgc, and not J. B. as before anted. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. GEORGE ROWLAND, innkeeper - , Plymouth. FRANCIS BONNAFFE, merchant, St. Michael's-alley, Cornbill. EDMUND PETER POWELL, tailor, Southampton. JOHN BRADLEY, joiner, Clown, Derbyshire. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. JOHN MORGAN, grocer, Newport, Monmouthshire. BANKRUPTS. . - JOHN LARKINS KENSINGTON, merchant, Alincing lane, to surrender Sept. 3, at one, and Oct. 10, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Owens, Holyhead ; Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, Lendon; Whitmore, Ba s i nghall-street, official assignee. PELLEGRIN ARCHER and GEORGE ARCHER, mer chants, Botolph-lane, Sept. 10, at twelve, and Oct. 10, at ele ven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, Pancras-lane, offi cial assignee ; Brown, Martin, and Thomas, Mincing-lane. WILLIAM MITCHELL, grocer, Abingdon, Sept. 17, at twelve, and Oct. 10, at ten, at the Lamb Inn, Abingdon. Graham, Abingdon ; Graham, Mitre-court Chambers, Temple, London. JAMES WILLIAM BELL, upholsterer, Rotherham, York shire, Sept. 11 and Oct. 10, at one, at the Town Hall, Sh e ffi e l d. Butterfield, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Potter, Rotherham. JOHN BURLEY, brushmaker, Birmingham, Sept. 3, at one , and Oct. 10, at four, at the Law Society's Rooms , Birmingham. Taylor, Roscoe, and Turner, Bedford-row, London; Ryland, fi r _ mingham. WILLIAM MASON, coachsmith, Margaret-street, Cavendish square, Sept. 3, at two, and Oct. 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Locock and Greville, Sun-court, Cornhill ; Cannan, Lothbarv, official assignee. HENItY WALLINGTON, builder, Stockport, Cheshire, Sept. 16, at twelve, and Oct. 10, at two, at the Commissioners'_ rooms, St. James's-square, Manchester. Gadsden, Furnival's Inn ; Coppock and Woollam, Stockport. THOMAS ASHCROFT and JAMES TILTSON, timber merchants, Liverpool, September 10 and October 10, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Atkinson, Liverpool ; Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London. WILLIAM SEDDON, flour-dealer, Eccleston, Lancashire, Sept. 24 and Oct. 10, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Baxendale, Tatham, Upton, and Johnson, King's Arms-yard, Cole man-street, London; Shackleton, Wright, and. Hunter, Liverpool. JAMES BACH, inn-keeper, Aintree, Lancashire, Sept. 10. and Oct. 10, at twelve, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Ad lington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London ; J. and J. Brown, Liverpool. WILLIAM EDWARDS POWELL and JOHN POWELL, linen-drapers, Oxford-street, Sept. 6, at half-past twelve, and Oct. 10, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Burt, Mitre-court, Milk street; Turquand, Copthal-buildings, official assignee. BENJAMIN TUMMON, painter, She ffi eld, September 11 and October 10, at eleven. at th e Town-hall, Sheffield. Rodgers, De vonshire-square, Bishopsgate-street, London; Rodgers and Son, Sheffield. DIVIDENDS. H. Benns, cordwainer, Norwich, Oct. 9, at two, at Messrs. Beckwith and . Dye's offices, Norwich. J. Nation, victualler, Gosport, Southampton, Oct. 2, at twelve, at Mr. Compigne's office, Gosport. J. Jay, Upholsterer, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square, Sept. 19, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. J. Stonebridge, corn-merchant, Wivenho, Oct. 8, at eleven, at the Lion Inn, Colchester. J. Warren, currier, Ellingham, Norfolk, Oct. 9, at ten, at the Offices of Messrs. Beckwith and Dye, Norwich. W. Ellis, mister, Fuller's-hole, Norwich, Oct. 9, at twelve, at the Offices of Messrs. Beckwith and Dye, Norwich. J. Turner, cornfactor, Langport Eastover, Somersetshire, Sept. 19, at eleven, at the Langport Arms Inn, Langport Eastover. CERTIFICATES-SEPT. 19. J. Prince, innkeeper, Bath. R. Roberts, ship-chandler, Liverpool. W. Atherton, merchant, Everton, near Liverpool F. Marriott, jun., bone-merchant, Eaton, Nottinghamshire. T. Hordley, engraver, Shelton, Staffordshire. T. Pearson, timber-merchant, Liverpool. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. - - W. L. Spelt and G. Moase, schoolmasters, Southampton. C. Gooch and W. Blake, Custom-house agents, Harp-lane, Lower Thames-street. F. Roope and J. D. Rock, commercial agents, Lombard-street. 11., T. Y., S., and J. Hunt, and R. Chatfield, Pentwyn Iron Works, Monmouthshire. W. Lee and Isabella Mary Lee, builders, Honiton, Devonshire. W. J. Cooper and T. Hornby, apothecaries, Tuxford, Notting hamshire. T. Porter and H. Porter, copper-smiths, Liverpool. R. Warr, W. H. Piggott, and W. W. Thompson, tailors, Bristol. M. Cooper and Mary Jennings, schoolmistresses, Hemel Hemp sted, Hertford. H. C. Payne and G. Dyke, tea-dealers, Clapham, Surrey. J. Hobson, H. Hobson, and J. Broadbent, carriers, Manchester. R. Horsefield, S. Goodier, and J. Holden, engravers to calico printers, Manchester. J. Mellen and T. Leonard, grocers, Ponty Pool, Monmouth. W. and S. Ileald, Woolstaplers, Leeds. T. Morgan, tallow-melters, Tottenham Court-road. J., J. and W. Capper, linen-drapers, Gracechurch-street. J. Whitworth and BV. Whitworth and Sons, Rochdale. E. G. and W. Howard, woollen-drapers, Newry. J. Leathley and W. Mortimer cloth-manufacturers, Batley, Yorkshire. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. JOHN HART, merchant, Glasgow, Sept. 3 and 18, at two, at the George Inn, Glasgow. DUNCAN CAMERON, spirit-dealer, Torrance of Campsie, Stirlingshire, Sept. 1 and 15, at two, at Morgan's Albion Coffee house, Glasgow. The General Steam Navigation Company's mail' packet, the Tourist, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Cus tom-house, at four o'clock, P. M., 29th August. Lord G. Beresford, Colonel Clements, Captain Jones, and many other passengers, came over by this vessel. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORIL—On Saturday last Henry G. Randal, M. A., was elected and admitted Fellow on the Michel foundation at Queen's College. The Rev. D. Williams, D. C. L., Head Master of St. Mary's College, and Prebend of Winchester Cathedral, has resigned his stall in Brecon collegiate Church. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Rev. Joseph Carter, B. D., late Fellow of St. John's College, in this University, and Rector of Baynton, Yorkshire, to the Incumbency of the New Church about to b e o p ene d at Frenchay, near Bristol. The Rev. James Champion Hicks, A. 8., has been licensed by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester, on the nomination of the Rev. M. F. T. Stephens, A. M. to the perpetual Curacy of Rangeworthy, in the county and diocese of Gloucester, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. George D'Arville. The Lord Bishop of Exeter has instituted the Rev. Charles Digby Mackworth Drake to the Rectory of Huntshaw, Devon shire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Charles Hiern. BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL. GRAND REHEARSAL IN THE NEW TOWN- HALL. Yesterday a grand choral rehearsal took place in the New Town-hall, on occasion of the opening of the magnificent organ, which is now nearly completed. The public were ad mitted to the galleries at 2s. each, and to the floor of the Hall at Is. each, and nearly 3,000 persons were present. The number of singers was about 150, who executed several fine chorusses with precision and judgment, aided as they were by the powerful and brilliant tones of the organ, which was pre sided over by Mr. Munden. The rehearsal commenced with the first chorus of " The Messiah," which was followed by the other chorusses in succession, the first part concluding with " Lift up your heads." The second part comprised " The Coronation Anthem," " Zadoc the Priest," together with several chorusses from Handel's Oratorio of " Israel in Egypt," and concluding with the grand Hallelujah Chorus of " The Messiah." Many very - competent judges were present, and all concur red in opinion that the effect given to the music by the vast dimensions and just proportions of the building, was unrivalled, and, perhaps, not to be surpassed. The distinctness with which the notes fell upon the ear, and the dead silence which instantaneously followed the pauses incident to the several pieces, was particularly remarked; not the slightest reverbera tion or echo was observable. Several of the chorusses, and particularly the " Coronation Anthem," were loudly and en thusiastically applauded. The temperature of the Hall, not withstanding the presence of so large a number of individuals, and the closeness of the weather, was not in the least unplea sant. Although only four of the sixteen entrances to the building, were open, it was pleasing to observe the ready in gress and egress to and from every part of it. In fact, in seven minutes after the conclusion of the rehearsal, the audi ence had all left the Hall. The building is a Grecian Temple 4 of the Corinthian order, erected upon a high rustic base, the material being Anglesea marble. The length of the Hall is 140 feet ; its height, from the ceiling to the floor, 65 feet. The portico is supported by eight columns, which with the twenty-four on the sides gave it a most imposing and mag nificent effect. The organ is said to be the largest in the world, and yet its immense volume of sound never appeared to be too great for the room, or to drown the voices of the singers, every tone and every syllable were heard clearly and distinctly, so admirably is the hall constructed for sound. The opening of this edifice, the first of its kind ever erected in this kingdom, and surpassed by very few of the temples of an tiquity, has been indeed a great triumph for the architect, Mr. J. Hansom. But alas I when we consider that it has involved him and his partner, Mr. E. Welch, in bankruptcy and ruin, he must have little of the Englishman about him who can look upon it without being animated with other feelings than those of adMiration, particularly when it is considered that it is by far the cheapest building of its magnitude perhaps ever erected. We ought to observe, that the rehearsal and the opening of the building at this early period, were decided upon for the pur pose of counteracting an absurd report, that the sound of the Organ would burst the walls, or at any rate bring down the roof upon the heads of the audience. Now, so far from this being likely to take place, we have no hesitation in saying, that if it were possible a moderate clap of thunder might be discharged in it without doing the building the slightest in jury, so far as sound is concerned. The fact is, the walls would bear fifty times the weight they have to sustain ; and as for the roof, a most scientific piece of carpentry, it has been ascertained by actual experiments, that it will support six times the weight it now carries.—Birmingham Journal. DOVER, AUG. 28. ( From the Correspondent of a Morning Contemporary.) THE LOSS OF THE CAMELEON. I understand that two of the Government lighters are hourly expected from Woolwich, for the purpose of raising the wreck of the unfortunate Cameleon cutter, which will be then brought into the harbour, and the bodies taken out in order that an inquest may be held upon them, and doubtless a very strict investigation will be instituted, by direction of the Ad miralty, into all the circumstances of the melancholy catastro phe. It has further transpired that the crew of the Cameleon had boarded yesterday morning a smack belonging to Roches ter, and the boat's crew which had been so employed were en gaged in reefing the main -sail, their backs being turned to the Castor, who did not perceive that the Cameleon was lying to, until too late to prevent the mischief. The Cameleon is sunk in about 14 fathoms water. Several small vessels are cruising near the scene of the calamity, and it is apprehended that no difficulty will be experienced in raising her, and it is stated that she may be even again rendered sea-worthy. Gibson, one of the survivors on board the Cameleon, had a very narrow escape ; he was in his hammock, when he per ceived his danger, and leaped upon deck, whence he caught the chains of the frigate, and was taken on board, divested of any clothing. The two lads saved their lives by swimming ; one of them sunk in the cutter, but rose, and as he was an ex pert swimmer, he kept afloat until he was picked up by the boats of the frigate ; the mate of the Cameleon was killed by the boom of the cutter falling on him as he was springing for ward to endeavour to catch the ropes of the frigate. The sur vivors have been examined by the Mayor (Mr. Pilchorp), but very little information, I understand, could be gathered from them touching the disaster ; they were so panic struck at the moment that they cannot distinctly relate the circumstances. Another account says that the Cameleon which was a very large revenue-cutter, was lying-to about half a mile from the shore, off Dover, when the Castor ran her down, with 29 men b e l o w, every one of whom were drowned. Perhaps a more extraordinary accident never occurred. It was broad day-light. The frigate must have had the cutter in full sight for seven miles, and she bore straight upon her, under her top gallant sails, going with a spanking northerly breeze, from twelve to fourteen knots an hour, took the cutter full midships, and drove her to the bottom in an instant, with scarcely a shock to herself. Three hands on the deck of the cutter leaped overboard, and were saved. An express was sent off to the Admiral in the Downs, who came to Dover post, and took the commander of the frigate into custody, where he must remain till a courtmartial is held. Most of the men in the cutter were asleep in their berths, having just come off night duty. A Folkestone boat, with four young men of that place, was upset, returning from the regatta, and three of the four unfor tunately perished. Ramsgate is filled with visiters ; the steam vessels from Lo ndon bring down 150 daily. The Duke of Wellington has rode over to the citadel seve ral times since his arrival at 'Weimer. His Grace, as Lord Warden, will shortly hold a Harbour Sessions here. MANCHESTER--AUG. 29. (From a Correspondent.) POPULARITy OF CHURCH RATES! At a meeting of the citizens of Middleton (a populous town ship, within six miles of Manchester), held this week, a Church Rate of three-pence in the pound was made by Mr. Theophilus Smith, steward to Lord Suffield, who stated that about one third of the rate would be wanted for paying off part of a debt incurred in building a wall to the church-yard ; whereupon a weaver, named Ward, who can probably earn eight shillings a week clear, proposed, in a sudden fit of generosity, that the rate be a shilling in the pound, which would enable the church wardens to pay the whole debt at once 1 This liberal propo sition was duly seconded, but the. three-penny rate was adopted by the meeting. CHURCH RATES IN MANCHESTER. Manchester is at this moment the scene of almost as much bustle and excitement, as if we were again in the midst of a contested election. The cause of this is a renewed struggle on the question of Church Rates, a meeting for the imposition of which was held in the Collegiate Church on Wednesday last. Offensive and unjust as this rate is in the abstract, the objections to it in regard to Manchester are increased many fold. The parish of Manchester is very extensive, including no less than thirty townships, and about 240,000 inhabitants ; and although the parish contains perhaps thirty churches, the church -rate is limited in its distribution to five churches—the four parliamentary churches, and the collegiate or parish church, which has a princely income. Thus, therefore, the hostility to the rate is great and well-founded, on other grounds besides the abstract principle. • At the meeting before alluded to, a rate of one half-penny in the pound was proposed by Mr. J. C. Harter, and seconded by Mr. G. Faulkner. An amendment, that the meeting be adjourned to that day six months, was moved by Mr. G. Hadfield, (an eminent Solicitor, and leading Dissenter here, and a leading supporter of Mr. Poulett Thomson) and seconded by Mr. T. Potter, (brother to the Honourable Member for Wigan). A stormy discussion ensued ; but the amendment was carried by a majority of at least fifty to one, in a meeting of more than two thousand persons. A poll was then demanded, under Sturges Bourne's act, which was forthwith commenced at the Town-hall, and will continue until next Wednesday. At the close of last night the number of votes stood thus :—For the church-rate 1322; for the amendment 843—Majority for the church-rate 479. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET. This market, which is held on Mondays, was well attended on last market-day, and all descriptions of flannels maintain previous prices. As the winter approaches, a further improve ment may reasonably be expected. In the wool market there was also a steadiness in price indicative of speedy improvement. STATE OF TRADE. It is long since trade generally has been in so satisfactory a state as at present. All the factories in this neighbourhood are in - full work, and the earnings of the spinners are very large, wh en compared with the low price of the necessaries of life. Of the weavers so favourable a report cannot be given, indeed they appear to be a class of work-people in whose cir cumstanccs it *ere hopeless to expect much improvement, and their patience is most exemplary. Commerce has not been so brisk for the last few weeks, probably owing in some measure, to the approaching termination of the shipping season ; and also to the belief that the Bank of England is contracting its issues ; but it is in a sound and healthy state. - 7 - 7 _ , V) THE TAILORS. A strike has existed for many weeks among the tailors here, to resist an attempt, on the part of the masters, to put an end to their Union, and to make n trifling reduction in their wages. All attempt at an arrangement being at an end, at least for the present, the journeymen have this week opened a shop for themselves, at which they announce their intention of doing business on " equitable principles," and " at 20 percent. less than the iiharges of those masters against whom they have turned out." THE EAST INDIA TRADE. A meeting of merchants and others interested in the East India and China trade took place yesterday, at the City of London Tavern, which was numerously attended. The meeting was convened for the purpose of receivinc , a report from the Committee of East India merchants, rela tive to the best manner of facilitating the trade of the port of London, and of establishing sales upon the same princi ple as that followed by the East India Company. Among those present were many of the principal merchants of the City connected with the India and China trade, namely, Mr. Bates, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Horton, Mr. Malcolm, sen., W. Crawford, Esq., M.P., Mr. Larpent, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Weeding, Mr. Colquhoun, &c. &c. The Chair was taken by JOHN HORSLEY PALMER, Esq. The CHAIRMAN said that the object of the meeting was for the purpose of giving an opportunity to the East India Merchants' Committee to lay before the mercantile interest the proceedings of that Committee, appointed in last Fe bruary, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best mode of carrying on the trade in East India produce, on the retirement from commercial operations of the East India Company, and to take the best means of establishing the merchants' sale of East India produce in the same manner as conducted by the East India Company. The Court of Directors gave every facility to the Committee to carry into effect the arrangements for the successful prosecution of the trade, and to forward the intentions of Government in the opening of the China trade. The Court of Directors gave to the Committee the privilege of applying to their servants for every information, and had acceded to the proposition of al lowing the use of one of the Company's sale-rooms, in order, as far as possible, to give the merchants' sales the charac ter of those of the East India Company. The East India Merchants' Committee then proceeded to fix the charges for conducting the sales, and with respect to the lot-money of 25., he thought that if the merchants' sales were sup ported as they ought to be, and as, indeed, they should be for the interest of the port of London, these charges would be lessened. The Merchants' sale of Indigo had been conducted under the new plan, and the result had given satisfaction, no inconvenience having been expe rienced. The plan had gone on favourably until the drug sales, previously to which the Committee of that trade had had correspondence with the East India merchants, con cerning certain alterations in the conditions of such sale, some of which had been agreed to ; but the merchants were required to make certain allowances with regard to rent, which practice had not been followed by the East India Company, and the committee of merchants were not, there fore, disposed to accede to the request. The present ques tion affected the importation of East India produce princi pally, but buyers were solicited to express their opinions upon the subject now before the meeting. Mr. P. then referred to other points, to show that the merchants were anxious to facilitate the making up of their. accounts after the sale as soon as possible. He would now read the changes proposed to be introduced into the conditions of sales. The conditions provided that the goods sold by the East India Company should be taken with all faults ; the samples to be furnished by the Dock Companies. That goods bought at the sales should be reweighed to the buyer, except when printed, " To be taken at the East India India Company's warrant weights," or " at the landing weights," &c. The altered conditions proposed certain changes in the tares on the weighing of goods, and provided that all goods should be at the risk of the sellers, until the prompt day, unless previously paid for. It was also pro posed, to meet the demands of the drug trade, that " the warrants delivered to the buyers at this sale, shall entitle the holders thereof to keep the goods in the respective warehouses, in which the same may be laying, free of ware house rent to the prompt, and to have them unhoused, either before or after that date, free of charge, but the buyers are to pay the customary warehouse rent for every package of goods that shall remain in the warehouses after the prompt day, according to the rates of the respective establishments, and also the wharfage and shipping on goods, which have not been entered at the consolidated rate of delivery by water carriage." The CHAIRMAN then said that the following resolutions had been agreed to by the Committee,-and were submitted to the meeting for adoption, viz.:— " That it is expedient for the present to adhere as nearly as may be practicable to the usage_s of the East India Company's sales, and, therefore, that until further notice no goods which have been bought in, either at the East India Company's sales or at those established by the East India merchants, be put up again in the public sales of the latter. " That, in order to obtain uniformity in the East India mer chants' sales, conducted through the registrar's office, the conditions of sale now read be subscribed as approved by the respective houses engaged in the import of East India produce, and printed for circulation." With these alterations, the Chairman said, the Com mittee of East India merchants hoped that the sales of pro duce would be continued to the advantage of all parties. After some observations from Mr. KING and Mr. Wu xxlisoN, relative to the hardship of shippers of goods being obliged to pay the wharfage duties, The CHAIRMAN then put the resolutions, which were also adopted:„. The Committee were then empowered to add to their number, and the meeting adjourned. Many foreigners hold our metropolis in great con tempt, while very few indeed are found who do not express themselves with delight at the freshness and beauty of our rural scenery. EXTRAORDINARY CASE. CORONER'S IN QUEST.—On Thursday, the 21st instant, an inquest was held at the Windmill public-house, New Carlton, near Norwich, on the view of the body of J. Smith, who died the day before from taking opium. The deceased was an old sailor, upwards of sixty years of age, and had been a man of very irregular habits. He had once before cut his throat, but it was sewn up, and his life was saved. He had also once before, we understand, attempted to end his life by poison, but by great exertions that also was conteracted. His legs, thighs, arms, &c., had been broken about twenty different times, and in the course of his life he had been eighteen times in the hospital; but being a man of extraordinary strength, he was, notwith standing, up to the last day of his life, able to carry a rack of flour under his arm with ease ; and was still so fond of fight ing that he would engage almost any man, although he was quite deformed, had lost one eye, and saw but dimly out of the other, and these chiefly caused by his pugilistic adventures. From what passed between him and his wife on Wednesday evening, it appearing that he took a larger quantity of opium than usual, for the purpose of ending his existence, saying that he would take it, " and die and be —." His wife, however, took no notice of the matter, and although the man was in a dying state all the next day, no assistance was sent for until late in the afternoon, when it was too late to do him any good, and he died about eight or nine o'clock. A very long inquiry took place at the inquest, in consequence of this very singular conduct of the woman ; but she being a very weak person, this was attributed to imbecility of mind, and not to any evil intentions. The jury, after sitting from noon till late at night, found a verdict of—" Died from taking opium, in a fit of temporary derangement." Dr. Bell superintended the post mortem examination, which, from the numerous frac tures, &c., was a very interesting one to anatomists, seven or eight of whom attended. FRENCH SENTIMENTALISTS.—Euphrosine Le moine, a young woman, residing with her family in the Fau bourg St. Antoine, and a young cabinet-maker, had formed a strong and mutual attachment for each other ; but the parents of the young woman wished her to marry a wealthier lover, a M. B. ' • and, after long and 'reiterated importunities, drew from her a reluctant consent. The forsaken cabinetmaker then withdrew from Paris, and remained absent for some years. Recently, however, his desire to see his beloved once more became irresistible. They met ; their mutual flame, which had been smothered. revived with increased force, and Eu phrosine deserted her husband, and went to live in secret with her lover near the Garden of Plants. The disconsolate husband, after an anxious search of three days, discovered their retreat. A negotiation ensued, and the husband, stronger in attachment to his erring spouse than to his own honour, agreed to receive her back the following day. Love, however, was tri umphant over duty, and the frail fair one broke her engagement. The infatuated lovers removed their quarters, and remained un molested for eight days more, when their retreat was again discovered, and threats of an interference of the police were uttered. This drove them to despair. They hired a small room in the house, where they first met, in the Rue Trouvee, where, on the following morning, they were both found dead in each other's arms, having deliberately produced suffocation. Before completing this fatal tragedy one of them had drawn upon the wall of the room in charcoal two burning hearts, un der which was the following inscription :—" Its s'etaient jures un amour kernel. La mort, l'effroyable mort les trouvera Te nnis. 1" The following is another instance of a double suicide from the all powerful cause of love :.—A fisherman two days ago was, at the break of day, casting his nets near the bridge at Sevres, when he drew up the bodies of a man and woman ; the left hand of one bound to the right hand of the other, and the left leg of the one to the right of the other. The female appeared to be about twenty-one, and the man, who was a sol dier in the Bth Regiment of Horse Chasseurs, about twenty three. Their names were Florentine Fail& and Goyon, as appeared from a paper wrapped up in a piece of parchmen t ,he declaring that, being ardently attached to each other, y were determined to be eternally united, and entreating that they might be buried in the same grave --Galignani. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS., A late distinguished writer, who kne*; i the well, in an article on the periodical press, in the Edin burgh Review, No. 76, thus happily described it : " The Times conforms to the changes of the time. It bears down upon a question_ like a first-rate man-of war, with streamers flying and all hands on deck ; but if the first.broadside does not answer, turns short upon it, like a triremed galley, firing off a few paltry squibs to cover its retreat. It takes up no falling cause'; fights no up-hill battle ; advocates no great principle ; holds out a helping hand to no oppressed or obscure indivi dual. It is ever strong upon the stronger side: Its style is magniloquent ; its spirit is not magnanimous. It is valiant, swaggering, insolent, with a hundred thousand readers at its heels ; but the instant that the rascal rout turn round with the whiff and wind' of some fell circumstance, the Times, the re negade, inconstant Times, turns with them I Let the niqb shout, let the City roar, and the voice of the Times is heard above them all, with outrageous deafening clamour ; but let the vulgar hubbub cease, and no whisper---no echo of it, is ever after heard of in the Times. Like Bully Bottom in the play, it then aggravates its voice so as if it were a singing dove— ; an it were any nightingAle.' Its coarse ribaldry is turned to a harmless jest ; its swelling rhodomontade sinks to a Vapid common-place ; and the editor amuses himself, in the interval before another great explosion, by collecting and publishing from time to time, affida vits of the number of his paper sold in the last stormy period of the press." Something like a defence of the inconsistency which has characterized it, from the clay when it was furiously Anti Jacobin, in the revolu tionary war, to the present moment when it is labour ing to destroy the Whig Ministry, is attempted in the number of yesterday. " Our labours," says the Times, " are attacked with a foolish cry of, You said so and so formerly ;' but is not the first and the im portant question whether what we say is true and just, and to the purpose now ? With relation to the public interests, we shall always be found in the same posi tion of duty ; but as individuals shift from the ground upon which we were once proud and glad to show their eminence, so must we alter our views of their de sert. The inconsistency is not ours, but theirs. If we have been deceived by the specious mask of a Tartuffe, is it the less our duty to society to tear it from his face ? But it is alleged that we disparage intellect we have before acknowledged : °our answer is, that while talents appear devoted to good purpose, they are gilded by their objects, and the powers and accom plishments to which we give a generous estimation while they are employed in a virtuous cause, will na turally be subjected to a more prying and rigorous cri ticism when they are in the course of perversion to mischievous uses." This will not do. It is easy to say that, with all its changes, it is true to the public interests, and that if individuals change, its opinion of them is changed also. No reflecting per son, even for one moment, gave the Times credit for sincerity in any opinion it ever uttered. Changes of conduct, no doubt, justify a newspaper in changing its opinion of a public man ; but it is because the Times without anv such justification, runs down the man to day whom it idolized yesterday, that the opinion pro nounced in the Quarterly Review for January, 1831, that it is " the most notoriously profligat e o f th e London newspapers, and the mos t impudently-incon sistent in everything, except in malice and mischief," was universally admitted to be true. Indeed so noto rious is the dishonesty of the Times, that in society a gentleman would deem it an insult to his understand ing were he told that it was an honest and a con sistent journal, It would be much about the same as calling Mary Ann Clarke a chaste and virtuous female. All opinions cannot be true ; and all opi nions have by turns been advocated and attacked by the Times. Lord Brougham was lauded to the skies for fifteen years ; Lord Brougham gives offence to the Times, and instantly he becomes an arrant quack, a man who cannot put two sentences together without falling into the most glaring inconsistencies. But then his talents were gilded by their objects. We suppose we must understand lying by gilding. To extricate itself from the charge of abusing without a , cause, it pretends that it praised him beyond his de serts, because in praising him it was furthering certain objects. This is exactly the way with Cobbett. What ever suits his purpose is gilded by that object ; and hence it may be said of him as of the Times, that there is not a public man whom he has not at one time praised, and at another coarsely abused. But in taking credit for an affection for Lord Brougham of fifteen years' duration, the Times has sunk a little episode on the 21st August, 1830, shortly before the Whigs came into office. An article, attributed to Lord Brougham, in the Edinburgh Review, just then published, was, with reference to him, said to consist " of the wailings of some disap pointed suitor for place, whose occasional misgivings, between his mortification at defeat and his not quite abandoned hope of possible promotion, give a whim pering vacillating tone to the composition, which ex cites at once our laughter and compassion. He is ex ceedingly angry with the Duke of Wellington and Sir R. Peel, for presuming to conduct public affairs with out the aid of such statesmen, for instance, as the author of the pamphlet entitled The Country without a Government, or even as himself, the critic and ad mirer of that flippant production. He then, with the infirm purpose of unsettled principles, begins to eulogise these two Ministers, who may, perhaps his vanity whispers, apply to him even at the eleventh hour, and whose solicitations his con science ventures to tell him in a louder voice would at any time -be gratefully acknowledged." This was the article in which the consistent oracle of Printing-house square told the Whigs that the people.of England de tested them--that they could never hope to obtain office—that in power they were haughty aristocrats, and out of power demagogues. There was no gilding in the way at that time, and Lord Brougham and the Whigs were " subjected to a more prying and rigo rous criticism." But let not his Lordship despair. If h e be ambitious of the applause of his affectionate eulogist for fifteen years, he will assuredly have it ere Yong. Why did all who read the prognostication on this subject in the M orn i ng P os t a few days ago, pronounce our Tory cont em p orary a true prophet, but because the former gambols of the Times pre pared them for such a contingency ? The Times, like all swaggering bullies, is cowardly. It miscalcu lated the stability of the Ministry, and the hold Lord Brougham has of public favour. An ordinary man might have been struck down by the blow of the Times, which was vigorously aimed. But he has too many claims on the people of England, for great and important services, to allow them to witness, with any degree of satisfaction, the ruffianly onset of the Times. Lord Brougham may have his failings but who has done so much for the people of England as he'has done ? His failings are, in fact, inseparably connected with the qualities which have made him resistless in the cause of education and philanthropy. His in fluence on the public mind of England, ever since he appeared on the stage, has been much greater than that of any other individual. The people of England know that he is now as much as ever bent on effect ing the great objects with which his fame is asso ciated. Henry. Brougham would be miserable were he not occupied with projects for the advancement of knowledge and the improvement of his fellow-crea tures ; and we should as soon believe that a blackamoor could be washed white, as that lie could lose his desire of doing good—that he could become a selfish Tory--.a man who . thought only of putting money into the pockets of himself and his obtaining g on f s o — r h th im at he h e e s pthcouldym. become one of tho se that encumber the earth w i t h their carcas es , d evo ting themselves to selfish a n d gro velling pursuits. The brutal attacks of the Times will benefit of the pop him: t e hey le , only t o th e people. will,Theby impress on him more strongly the importance of trusting Times cannot, by a few coarse paragraphs, destroy a reputation founded onentrlyle Broughampattic labours o f h a lf a lifetime. Were H people, and to abando n the iur to desert the f n e l io gi NN p . a .c ss re io a n tur o e f s_a his life—the improvem ent of his less formidable opponent th an t h e Ti mes cou ld wound him ; b ut so long as his aims are elevated, lie may defy the shafts of malice. Already we perceive symptoms in the Times of its usual cowardly policy. A man who is supported by the approval of his own ,tyr 7 '~ R ~y