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To secure passages, and forward goad s and pre . ls, app l y at the Company's Offices, 51, St. Mary- Axe ; ; I ll e infor mat i on may also be obtained at 44, Regent - s treet, c, of Earle Langston, Manchester ; and W. an dE. Falmouth. No. 15,662. LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING' SUN NOVEMBER 5, 1842. PRICE sd. THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, in Time for the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that Hour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Ni g ht, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE. NATIO NAL , MERCANTILE LI FE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ROBERT CURREY. Esq., Chairman. _ b i le Dire c t ors, Members, and Friends of this Society WILL hill, OG TETHR, at he Londn Coffee Huse, uaate- THURSDAYE . the 29th of o December, o 1842,- At e Six precisely. Tickets, One Guine. STEWARDS. _ _ DWARKANAUTH TAGORE. PUBLICATIONS. " Having been appointed member of the Chamber of Peers, created by Napoleon, he received the command of the first corps of cavalry, passed the Sambre on the 15th of June, took possession of Charleroi, was the first to enter the town, and took up a position the same evening behind Ileums ' whence he dislodged the Prussians. On the 16th he attacked the enemy, although superior in numbers, and having perceived, on the 17th, that the enemy had weakened his lines, he charged their advanced posts, and captured ten pieces of cannon, all their baggage, and a vast number of prisoners. Those cannon, the only ones captured during this campaign, were sent to Napoleon, who decorated Pajol with the grand cordon of the Legion of Honour. France. No one wished to prevent those inte rested in the measure from making their objec tions, the Government itself world have invited them to do so. Supposing that this plan had been brought before the Chambers, a serious debate would have taken place, and possibly a fixed plan would have been agreed on. The nation would have been informed whether France, already isolated in a political point of view, ought to be isolated commercially, for we must not think of finding markets for our produce if we will not at any price, even at the price of con siderable political advantages, admit those of others. As for ourselves we are, we declare candidly, in favour of a commercial union with Belgium, but we do not pretend to force our opinion on others; but we doubt that the mode of opposition is conformable to the charter. Tai practice it appears to offer a thousand dangers, and it is to our friends, the true Conservatives, that we with confidence address our reflections. It is with sincere pleasure that we publish the fol lowing interesting letters. We cannot imagine any thing more gratifying than the tribute paid by the Court of Directors to the zeal and philanthropy of this gentleman, unless we except the satisfaction which must be felt by every friend of India, 'to find that the just and liberal rule of these merchant princes (the Honourable Court) has received the ap probation of a distinguished native of that important empire : kraus. E. Baker. J. Capper. J. D. Carter. J. R. Conley. T. Dakeyne. NV. M'Cullocb. T. Reid, R. Ridley. T. Roberts. • Ticke . yrnpson. ts ma be d the Ili we_the Stewary ha Stewards; and ot Mr. w • tr elltry, at the Office, Arthu . By Order of Messrs. W. R. Spicer. J. Spicer. F. Starr. H. Sterry. J. Stokes. G. Stockdale. J. Walsh. R. Wilcoxon. W. Williams. Just published, Second Edition, price ls. 1110P1 &MARKS on our PRESENT POSITION _ILL with AFFGHANISTAN and CHINA, addressed to Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Tucker, K.C.8., by ROBERT WISE, Esq., of Allonby, near Carlisle, (late of Liverpool). The profits arising from the sale of this work to go to the Caubul Fund. 3.r of the London Coffee-house; Jenkin Jones, Actuary and r-street West, London-bridge. the Stewards, JENKIN JONES. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION hib iti The COLOSSAL ELECTRICAL 31ACHINE, ex.- / 41 . 1 4 the varied and beafttiful Phenomena of ELEC T RIC 'l ll-1, the AURORA BOREALIS, &c. &c. is shown yat Three o'clock, and at Eight in the Evenings. Three to llent SP ECVMENS of MACHINERY have just been P i L leted t and are now at work b Steam Power, in the Hall of 1 1l ri ~ P y AI m'ea• CALOTYPEPORTRAITS taken dailyy, by , de ii - W,"_. The W ee kl y Li st o f POPULAR LECTURES UY Dr. Ryan, Professor Bachhoffner, and the other in • ttgrers, with the appointed hours for each, is PETER'S ItOlt eil lii• The fine Exterior of SAINT• at. "..yi tt and the Interior of the CHAPEL of ST. HELENA. lA * SKLEM, the latter after D. Roberts, R.A. (puls ttt 3 lr• Moon), are among the latest additions to te bIYIN It G GEn ' DISSOLVING VIEWS. The ORRERY, I VIEw R LLL, DIVER, &c. &c. To the COSMORAM C been ro ;', l a anwn in the Evenings, a beautiful addition has just 1 5 - 1 ,Conduetor of the Band, Mr. Wallis.—Adinis • ." en ° ol s, half-price. ~11 441 18 . T 1C G kiTER S.—POPE and PLANTE fallraall!'heavi3enlie ' and 'Firth), Hosiers, 4, Waterloo-place, Ladie s , introduced ELASTIC ILK GAITERS for draw n n „ c i a requir e neither lacing nor buttoning, and are for boots a n(' off with facility, forming an excellent substitute a elsori. ' at a moderate rice, appropriate for the winter ar n eat „__ . They fit close to the ancle and instep, with part e lcul a. 41,14:ster3i', suitable for home, the carriage, promenad - an C. Can be forwarded in a letter. TI 0 N.—MECIII'S MAGIC STROP' Str oo 1 7he Real Magic Strop"—" The Double . M s agoi!~ecb„ The Magic Strop"—are all base . imitat i on s 41 4 - 4 a gie Strop. None are genuine without IVieche p eril : winch they dare not use • yet, strange to say, many thi li s r ule rsallin g them se l ves respectable , endeavour to palm. th e lei s , ch (they cost from 3d. to sd. each in Sheffield) on ihbpublic as Mechi' s genuine Strop, although they possess n: *4724 propertie s w h atever , but the very reverse. Th ikthr: nov in MAGIC PASTE is an invaluable aux ili a ry to Me t h° Strop ; its renovating properties are astonishing.— RA ZORS stand pre-eminent. ti A n I WES HEELEY an d SONS' PATENT tiges."'ANDLE SPRING combines the following advan -444 iz-It holds the candle firmly, is much neater in appear- Paper, rp i s more readily applied, is more cleanly i n its i: ev ents all waste, and is a security from fire. ER' Per Box, containing six Springs, 9d. ; Tinned ditto, Is. 1 014), L EY and SONS' celebrated PENS of very superior tn_ thveto suit every description of writing, viz. :—The_Eu_r in_ rje, Macrostyle, Diamond, Ruby, Mercantile, Ith!_• 4 11;117. 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Bs. to 12/. 12s. ; Zerti,,is'raontal Movement, in Flat Silver Cases, 41. 10s. ; the Tartit,l*-4 Movement, in Gold Cases, 61 . 6s. to 101 . 10s. ; the - -44 alovetnent, in Silver Casey, 21. 125.. 6d. to 41. 4s. 041 A warranty for twelve months. Liver larg e stock of new and tasteful Jewellery, Ladies' Cals and Vinegarets, Gentlemen's Snuff Boxes, "wil • ik bil"" variety of other Fancy Articles, at prices consider -- 44, toe usual London charges. R MACHE TEA TRAY S.— . A set of X 42 8; 42 ": s ee, Gothic-shape (including the largest size made), sa iPe s *gr ee Gothic•shape japanned, 2 . 55. ; three Sandwich 7,244 6 -Thi every article in Furnishing Hardware, un -' "in I t e ;,. 1 quality is here the primary consideration, hence Due 4Pted success for 50 years, and its present celebrity Les tb 't tint extensive F u rnishing Warehouses " I —Mau. 411 4 most extensive f aie ' rora s ent!9;: c il a i r V, ES, Ivory handles, warranted,. I Is. per doz. ; ' with h " 4 8. per pair. 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SILVER CASES. w\Viitthh double-bottoed cases, capped £6 6 0 hu nting eases, capped OLD CASES. bitt o S ize for Ladies ' With elegant G gold dial £l2 12 0 in ouble-backed 414 0 Si " f or dentlemen,d enamelled dialcases 1 1 3 13 0 Ditt o , A Pimphl extra full size, capped.... 17 17 0 . roestr- et, containing observations respecting the . various in Rc e:ct , ol4 on which Watches are made, with the prices both_ Sign, 'an silver cases, and a variety of sketches of new de • km: whichhave just been completed in gold Chains, will be co, rates and postag e free, on application by letter to T. kor a (14_"rY, Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London, seven d racechurch-street. THE , Ir HEUNI ATISM CUR ED FOR A SHILLING. - rSTRY'S MAGIC PILLS, for the cure of the 4 ' l all ..90UT, RHEUMATIC GOUT, RHEUMATISM, ~„ . 6 tin R heumatic Affections. public most extraordinary Medicine, which I now offer to . . the 4 % 1+ is decidedly the most convenient, safe, and expeditious ofg otl e t uY in the world for the cure of the Gout, Rheumatic t il ti lleevelnat,:and, indeed, for all R . bertmatic Affeetio . ns, 1.0,,,k_ various g ames of Face-ache, Tic-Doloreux, Sciatica, cuaße, lie ~. cont a i ns • 11,.,,.,_ neither Mercury, Antimony, nor any . other 44-I_Jus aubstance:; relieves a fit of the Gout or Rheumatism in tan "ar or two; gives soothing and refreshing sleep ; and, in tk a j ca ges, I have knows patients walk well and easy in less twenty-four hours. - I hav li e . , eno doubt there are hundreds of cases where poor.fami th?_ekve been deprived of many of the necessaries of life by e . 5 !ruel disorder. It is true there are several excellent reme -I:!sefor Gout and Rheumatism but the prices the proprietors :!, r chosen to affix. to each is lotli_ consideration \ , Ls complete a barrier to their use as intention, f (to the class of persons now th eye Z of the sort was in existence . — lt is my v i ikt _ ..e, as it has pleased the Divine Will, that I should b e at 2 1 ui a situation above worldly want, to offer this Remedy_ low, '',,, price,. as to meet the means of the class of my fel_ eave,Z4tures who stand most in need of our attention. I 11 .0 74 5: 4 .1 41 d aside a portion of my private fortune , . fo . r the n "Lnild 1 "‘li bring'n this medicine before the public „ad call ep on ' t ee e d in t benefiting' mankind, without any very l arge _ th e • e im, - of m f am ily, I shall be amply paid b y 0 s atislaet;„,, eritance .my family , ;orn fon f .--. of h av i n g contributed in some degree to the 41 " the Z ' c ' oB --.msieh needing the sympathy of the wealthy T jhey . 114141 1 e. --414,- 48 -re sold stholesale , by Barclays, Farringdon.street; Cle at • ' St. Paul' s • Suttous, Bow Church-yard ; Butler, 4, ` lli te ; and Han ' tlay and Co., 63, Oxford-street, London. Price is. per pox, and lid. duty. PA.VERIS EMBROCATION for GOUT, ,„ „, RHEUMATISM TIC DOLOREUX, Scc. l C; ; ltij` a Letter addressed'hy Trevor Holland, Esq., t4-mDeit, IV Staffordshire , on the 6th the X.i, near alsall, July last, Surgeon, i. s . ultor oft he " Oat r ' -- I think it a dutyl owe to the public to make known Which has O a remedy which I met with accidentally,__ oin d e /4, 11 ",,_ °as been of such wonderful benefit to myself. Some ratty ago I met with a very severe accident, having d i h es ;" %rid fractured say ancle severely. From the great ten i de n r- - ti t ,,," the joint I was quite unable to walk, the limb co tender s '''' liery much swollen and adematous , and I suffered . _ e_adfully from severe attacks of spasms in the night, which te'lesnded from the ancle to the leg, thigh, back, and to the 11 ; 1 ' • Having exhausted every resource of relief which lan 14 medical friends in the country could suggest, to no 1 41: °3 e, I set out for London with the intention of con b,,tiaN Sir Benjamin Brodie or slr. Liston—then to adopt se . a 7 v i l l :ng• By accident I met with Mr. Feaver, 16 Ludgate-hill, 1 ii i iPl i lied his Embrocation, and, to my great . astonishment, rii,,,., ni n ° spasm that night, nor have I had one since. The next 4 bi t ng I carne down stairs without my crutches, and was to walk the swelling of the limb soon subsided, and 1 am IM ‘ k ra 'i ' . to iv Pi y recovenng. Having for many years had an ex- f t ye medical practice in the county of Stafford, I know o In ° Medicinal compound possessing such wonderful efficacy. at nq teSihnotly to Mr. Feaver's Embrocation, I a . m ac d,,si °la° other motive than gratitude to him, and a sincere fererres to nuske known his invaluable remedy to my fellow-stif le:Bl4li e v t7 t c h a i s n in g g , as I ever did, the strongest prejudice to be noth.l in the shape of quackery, I should be the an t ? "Phold a system which, generally speaking, I know but a nefarious traffic and humbug. aro, your o b e di ent servant , " C annock " TREVOR HOLLAND, Surgeon. 44 p. s . , new. '%Valsall, Staffordshire. s ur At the various consultations held up3n deg the d dl , of . n g ion t'san lo d ek P h . :sioians (including myself) were e y n e l:: that the frequent violent attacks of spasms would ter hadiuttle in lock- j aw . but, as I have before stated, I have not . of this 'lighest symptom' s of spasms since the first application This se.xtraordinar y'embrocation.—T. H." •11 inatly-celebrated remedy (which is equally efficacious . 1 any of the above afflictions) may be obtained of, or through any respectable wholesale or retail Chemist in Town or *lf tram the !‘ n tr, Bt. the Depot, corner of Wellington -street, Strand ; Proprietor, Mr. Feaver, 16, Ludgate-bill, London. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. " Some points are new, and are put forth by one whose in tegrity is indisputable, and experience is extensive."— Colonial Magazine. Mr. Wise's views on China are sound and practicable."— Indian News for July. " The great value of this work consists in the practical infor mation which it contains."—Gore's Liverpool Advertiser. " The information it conveys is the more valuable, as it is the result of personal observation obtained many years ago, and is matured and strengthened by the remarkable operations car ried on by the British forces on the west and east of our Indian possessions."—The Sun. Whittaker and Co., and Smith, Elder, and Co., London ; J. Mawdsley, 4, Castle-street, Liverpool ; Love and Bartons, Alarket-street, Manchester, and at Thurnam's, stationer, Carlisle. On Thursday, the 24th of November, will be published, ALMANACS AND COMPANION for 1843. Under the SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE SOCIETY for the DIFFUSION of USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. THE BRITISH ALMANAC, extending to 96 Pages, and embracing a body of Information suited to the Tradesman, the Manufacturer, the Merchant, and the Pro fessional and Upper Classes. Sewed, price Is. The PENNY SHEET ALMANAC. The COMPANION to the ALMANAC ; or, Year-Book of General Information, being Vol. XVI. of the Series. -Sowed, price 2NM.A. . itlr TheI3RTTISH ALMANAC, bound in cloth, price 4s. The " Companion for 1843" will contain, among its varied Articles, the Old and New Tariffs ; full Abstracts of the Pro perty-tax, Bankruptcy and other Acts of general Interest; and Accounts of the principal Architectural Works that have been undertaken during 1842. London : Charles Knight and Co., 22, Ludgate-street. On Friday next, the 11th inst., will be published, in 1 vol. foolscap Bvo. POPULAR CONCIIOLOGY ; or, the Shell Cabinet arranged ; being an Introduction to the Modern System of Conchology : with a Sketch of the Natural History of the Animals, an account of the Formation of the Shells, and a complete Descriptive List of the Families and Genera. By AGNES CATLOW. Illustrated with 312 Woodcuts. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. A NEW ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Just published, price Is. bound, THE ELEMENTS of ENGLISH GRAM MAR, with a set of QUESTIONS and EXERCISES. By W. BARNES (of St. John's College, Cambridge), Author of "An Investigation of the Laws of Chse in Language," "An Arithmetical and Commercial Dictionary," " The Elements of Linear Perspective and the Projection of Shadows," &c. The aim of thin work is to teach the Principles of English Derivation ; and to train its student, by expositions of the more common laws of articulation and case, with the mood, parenthesis, and ellipsis for the study of other Languages. Longman and Co. ; Whittaker and Co. ; Hamilton and Adams. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR• ANCE SOCIETY, FOR GRANTING LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c. No. 26, CORNHILL. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. DIRECTORS. T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. J. Elliotson, M.D., F. R. S. John Rawson, Esq. John Griffith Frith, Esq. John Riddle Stodart, Esq. Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq. George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F.ll.l.ll 3 rofessor Graves, A.M.F.R. S. ACTUARY—W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq. , F. R.A. S. PHYSICIA N—J. Elliotson, F.R. S. SURGEON—E. S. Symes, Esq. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Ewens, and Ommanney. BANKERS—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. The most rational motives to Lzfe Assurance are found in the plan adopted by this Society ; viz. joined to a secure provision at death for inheritors of the Assured, the Society affords succour to the Assured himself (proportioned to pre vious payments) in the event of unforeseen reverses. Annual Division of Profits. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. E UROPEAN LIFE INSURANCE COM PANY. No. 10, Chatham-place, Blackfriars, London. Established January, 1819. PRESIDENT—Sir JAMES RIVETT CARNAC, Bart., Rook Cliff, Lymington. VICE,-PRESIDENT.—GEORGE FORBES, Esq., 9, Fitzroy square. With Twelve Directors. Facilities are offered by this long-established Society to suit the views and the means of every class of insurers. Premiums are received yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly—or upon an in creasing or decreasing scale. The incured for life participate septennially in the profits realised. A liberal commission is allowed to solicitors and agents. DAVID FOGGO, Sec. N.B.—Agents are wanted in towns where none have yet been appointed. GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE AS SURANCE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street, at the Entrance of the Old Post Office, London. DIRECTORS. JOHN W. BUCKLE, Esq., Chairman. JAMES MORRIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Renry Hulse Berens, Esq. Johnsh, Esq. John Dixon, Esq. Lew Loyd, jun., Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. George Lyall, Esq. M.P. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. S. Marjoribanks, Esq. M.P. Ralph Fenwick, Esq. John Martin, Esq., M.P. Thomson Hankey, Jun., Esq. Robert Mitford, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq. G. orge Johnstone, Esq. John Thornton, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. AUDITORS. A. W. Robarts, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq. George Stone, Esq. ACTUARY—Griffith Davies, Esq., F. R. S. In the LIFE DEYARTMENY, a Bonus was declared in June, 1829, exceeding One per Cent. per Annum on the Sums in sured, en an average of the different Ages; and a second Bonus of nearly similar amount was declared in June, 1836. At each period the Bonuses allotted to the different Policies averaged rather more than 28 per Cent. on the amounts of Premiums paid thereon during the preceding seven years. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—Notice is hereby given, that Assu rances which expire at Christmas must be renewed with in fifteen days at this office, er with Mr. Sams, No. 1, St. James's-street, corner of Pall-mall, or with the Company's agents throughout the kingdom, otherwise they become void. GEORGE KEYS, Secretary. UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-Mall, London. DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED. HONORARY PRESIDENTS. Earl of Errol Earl of Stair Earl of Courtown Earl Somers Earl Leven and Melville Lord Viscount Falkland Earl of Norbury Lord Elphinstone Lord Belhaven and Stenton DIRECTORS. JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman. H. DE CASTRO, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Samuel Anderson, Esq. Charles Downes, Esq. Hamilton Blair Arsine, Charles Graham sq. Esq. F. C. Maitland, ' E E sq. Edw. Boyd, Esq., Resident William Railton, Esq. E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., As- John Ritchie, Esq. sistant Resident F. H. Thomson, Esq. SECRETARY.—Patrick Macintyre, Esq. This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords the most perfect security in an ample paid-up Capital, and in the great success which has attended it, since its commence ment in 1834. In 1841 the Company declared an addition to the Share holders of one-half of their Stock, and also added 21. per Cent. per Annum, from the date of the policies to those par ties who had insured with Profits. The Premiums nevertheless are on the most moderate scales and only a moiety need be paid for the first five years, where the Insurance is for life. The amount of bonus added to policies since the commence ment of the Company in March 1834, to the 31st December 1840, is as follows : Sum Assured. Time Assured. Sums added to Policy. £l,OOO 6 Year?. 10 Months £136 13 4 1,000 4 Years BO 0 0 1,000 3 Years 6O 0 0 1,000 1 Year Every informati on w ill b e afforded en ap..p.lication to the Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of No. 8, Waterloo-place' Pall-mall, London. Frederick Hale Thomso n , Esq., Surgeon, 48, Berners-street, attends at the Of fi ce daily, ab ou t Half-past Tw oo o'clock. GENERAL PAJOL. " The excitement occasioned here by the dtsmissal of General Pajol," says our Paris letter, " still con tinues. Before handing to you a translation of a bio graphical sketch of that distinguished officer, it may not be amiss I should mention that he is, and has been, one of the finest men in Europe ; full six feet high, gigantic in proportion, but so well made as to present nothing extraordinary to a casual observer. He is, moreover, remarkably handsome, though a very fair man. His manners are amiable, but he has proved himself exceedingly susceptible, and no stranger to violent passion ; for example, when it was proposed, at the interview of the deputies from Charles X. with M. Laffitte and the chiefs of the popular party, on the '2Bth of July, 1830, that that Prince (Charles X.) should continue to reign, Pajol, who was present, drew his sword, and swore he would immolate any man who should again utter such a proposition.' This was felt to be no idle threat. The subject was there fore dropped." The following biographical sketch is from the National:--- " Claude Pierre Pajol was born at Besancon, *on the 3d of February, 1775, of a family distinguished in the profession of the law. He entered the military service at an early age, performed prodigies of valour during the campaigns of the Revolution, and advanced from rank to rank to that of Brigadier-General, which he obtained in 1805. He fought valiantly in Poland during the years 1806 and 1807. At the battle of Ileilsburg he supported with his brigade the charge of the enemy's entire body of cavalry, and gave tne French an opportunity to rally. After the battle of Friedland he was the first to pass the river at Fregel; he unceasingly harassed the enemy, with whom he entered Tilsit, received the first propositions for an armistice, and forwarded them to Napoleon. " The following year he commanded the entire line of advanced posts on the frontier of Bohemia, and re ceived in this position in 1809 the declaration of war from Austria, whose forces attacked him on all points. He held them in check with 2,000 cavalry until General Davoust had assembled his corps d'armee. After having passed the Danube at Ratisbon, he en gaged the enemy at Peissing on the 20th of April, and prevented them by his intredidity from attacking Da voust's left wing. On the 23d he contributed to the success of Davoust at Eckmuhl, where he had two horses killed under him. lie subsequently pursued _ _ _ the enemy to Ratisbon, and captured inore than 2,000 men. IN apoleon, who was a witness of his intrepidity, created him Commander of the Legion of Honour. General Pajol pursued the enemy into Bohemia, but was recalled by the Emperor to join the grand army, which had just occupied Vienna. Having ar rived at the island of Lobau on the 4th of July he passed the Danube; on the sth debouched on the plains of Essling, whence he drove the enemy and took a position on the Nesselbach. At the battle of Wag ram he resisted all the efforts made by the enemy's cavalry to reach the Danube, and defeated them. On the following day Pajol routed all the enemy's cavalry which were on the river Taya, and made many prisoners. He was the first to pass this river with '2,400 cavalry in presence of the enemy's rear guard, which he drove back to the heights of Zriaim. At the conclusion of this day an Austrian Lieutenant- General came to him to propose terms, which he com municated to Napoleon. " Hostilities having ceased, General Pajol was ap pointed to take - the command of the cavalry at Dant zie and on the line of the Vistula. On the expedition to la ß rs u h s a s in 1812, he formed l ia bavoust,s corps.d,a the advanced rmee,ys,asthefirsgtutaord of pass the Niemen the 24th of June, took possession of Kowas, and made prisoner a battalion of Russians. He captured Trezimori, Vilna, Minsk, and the im mense magazines of that city. Having been informed that General Bragation's large park of artillery was engaged on difficult ground, he followed with 100 picked men. This expedition, which was crowned with success, gained him the rank of General of Division, on the 7th of August, 1812. Having been ordered to observe the fortress of Bobruisk on the Beresina, General Pajol succeeded in keeping the garrison in check, and likewise, by deceiving the left wing of the Russian army, he assisted Marshal Deroust in the capture of Mohilew. Pajol, ever at the heels of the Russians, took pos session of Dombrowna Krasnoi, Orcha, and Rassasna, drove the enemy from the left bank of the Dwina, re lieved Witepsk captured Poriechi, and, after having traversed a frightful country, reached the grand army on the eve of the battle of t the Moskwa. He there resisted the combined efforts of the enemy, and saw Generals Montbrun, Caulaincourt, and his own aide de-camp, perish at his side. In fine, by taking in flank the great Russian redoubt with his cavalry, whilst the infantry attacked it in front, Pajol forced the enemy to retreat. Having occupied Mojaisk on the 9th, he made two Russian battalions prisoners, had his right arm broken by a musket shot, and his horse killed under him, but nevertheless pursued the enemy to Moscow. He did not wish to return with the wounded, but remained with the army until their fatal retreat. Napoleon sent for him to consult him, when he arrived at the Bober, to ask for information respecting the Beresina, which this General had par ticularly reconnoitred. He indicated Zambinan as the only point practicable, and it was there that the wreck of the glorious army traversed the river. "Pajol, having recovered of his wounds, returned to the grand army in 1813, and fought at Lutzen, Buntzlau, and Bautzen, and continued the campaign until the armistice of the Elbe. His good conduct procured for him the good will of the inhabitants, who gave him constant information relative to the enemy's movements. On the armistice being broken, Pajol was attacked and obliged to give way. Having collected all the troops in the neighbourhood he re tired on Dresden, sweeping away all who resisted him, and reached that city without loss. The defence of the approaches to that town was intrusted to him, and it was from one of his pieces of artillery that the ball was fired which took off General Moreau's legs. ' During two days he resisted the attacks of the Austro-Russians, who were endeavouring to penetrate into Dresden, and gave Napoleon time to arrive with his guard and part of the grand army, with which he gained the celebrated victory, and made 20,000 pri soners. Pajol, pursuing the enemy, made himself master of Pirna, the defiles of Gezhout, protected General Vandamme's retreat, and guarded the defiles of Bohemia. At the head of the sth corps of cavalry, of which Napoleon had given him the command, he resisted the united force of the enemy's cavalry at Wachau. In a charge, a shell having exploded against his horse's breast, Pajol was blown a consider able height into the air, had his left arm broken, and his ribs fractured. "He had his arm still a sling, when two months afterwards he offered his services to the Emperor, who intrusted to him the command of the army of obser vation of the Seine, of the Yonne, and the Loine. Having been obliged to follow the army, in his retreat he destroyed the bridges, took up a position on Ypres, and occupied Melun. Napoleon having sent for him to Guignes, the 15th of February, 1814, communi cated to him his plan on Montereau, and ordered him to arrive with his corps early in the morning of the 17th, to attack the enemy on the heights of Surene. On the 16th, Pajol entered Chatelet, after a hard fought contest, and at six o'clock on the morning of the 17th, defiling from the wood of Valence, whence he had dislodged the enemy's advanced guard, forced him to fall back on his line of battle, which he attacked with vigour, believing that Marshal Victor would at tack the right flank at the same hour. The latter not having appeared, Pajol having to contend with the entire army, lost nineteen pieces of artil lery out of twenty-four, together with a number of his men, and was about to retreat, when Bertrand, the Grand Marshal of the Palace, galloped up and desired him to hold his ground, assuring him that General Gerard, who had succeeded Marshal Victor, had arrived, and that his riflemen were already engaged. General Pajol then collected all his forces, advanced and charged the enemy who had abandoned his posi tion, on the high road to Montereau. Pajol came up with the enemy's columns under a horrible fire, over threw it, and captured 5,000 men with all their artil lery, and pursued the remainder until night, which alone saved them from total destruction. This charge, one of the most brilliant in the annals of military ex ploits, gained Pajol the rank of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, conferred upon him by Napoleon on the field of battle, who embraced him and ob served, ' If all my Generals had served me like you, the enemy would not now be in France: Towards the end of this day, Pajol had his horse killed under him, and his fall having opened his wounds he was obliged to return to Paris for medical advice. " After a few days he heard that the Emperor had abdicated. " After the restoration he organized the King's four regiments, which he commanded in 1814, and which were afterwards disbanded. On Napoleon's return in 1815, he sent him, on the 21st of March, his sub mission, distributed the tricoloured cockade to his soldiers, took the command of the army of the Loire, led it to Paris, and advised the Emperor to march upon Brussels with the 18,000 men composing it. " On the 18th of June, after having captured Na mur, he followed the high road to Brussels, when he heard the terrible cannonade of Waterloo. He marched in that direction, but did not arrive at the Dyle until five in the evening, when he informed Grouchy of his arrival. The latter commanded him to pass the Dyle at Limale, which he effected at nine in the evening, but too late, as he was informed in the morning of the 19th of the disaster of Waterloo. This news did not discourage Pajol ; he proposed to attack the enemy with the 36,000 men which had not been engaged, and to fall suddenly on the left flank of the Anglo-Prussian army. This advice not having been approved of, Pajol recrossed the Dyle, and effected his retreat to Paris in good order, notwithstanding the repeated attacks of the enemy. He subsequently fol lowed the army behind the Loire, and remained with it until it disbanded, when he was placed on half pay the 7th of August, 1815." , IRELAND. DUBLIN, Nov. 2.—Term commenced this day, and the Courts Here opened with the usual formalities. In the course of the morning the Lord Chancellor held a levee, which was numerously attended by members of the bar. Levees were also held by the Chief Baron and the Lord Chief Justice. In the Court of Chancery the Lord Chancellor an nounced to Mr. Smith that her Majesty had been graciously pleased to appoint him her Attorney-Ge neralfor Ireland, and to Mr. Greene that the office of Solicitor-General had been conferred upon him. Four gentlemen were called within the bar, namely, Dr. Longfield, Mr. J. Sheil, Mr. J. M'Donough, and Mr. J. M'Kenna ; and fifteen were sworn in bar risters, whose names are as follow :—James M'Cul high, jun., of Straban ; Peter Richard Kenrick, Dublin ; W. Duggan, Galway ; Wm. Moore, county Antrim; John Reilly, Michael P. Walsh, Samuel E. M‘Guinn, James Isaac Carnegie, Wm. Lander, county Cork ; Augustus M‘Mahon (son of the late Sir 11 m. M‘Mahon, formerly Master of the Rolls) ; David Bough, Wm. T. Garrett, R. Fitzgerald, jun.; James Burke, John M'Cullagh. Of these gentle men four are Roman Catholics. The Hall of the Four Courts has rarely been so crowded as it has been during this day, The number of new appointments which have just taken place doubtless contributed, in a principal degree, to pro duce this result. The ex.-Lord Mayor was among the crowd. Mr. Blackburne sat as Master of the Rolls ; the vacant sergeantcy is not yet filled up. Mr. Keating, it is now said, will be the favoured individual. Master Litton took possession of his office yester day, at two o'clock, per appointment, with Mr. Ma zieres, nephew and examiner of the late Master Curry. He has appointed his nephew, Edward Thomas Litton, Esq., son of his eldest brother, to be his examiner. Dr. Stopford will be consecrated on Sunday next, at Armagh, by the Lord Primate, the Bishop of Down, and the Bishop of Kilmore. The new Lord Mayor gave a very elegant dejeuner yesterday at the Mansion-house after the inaugura tion ceremony had been brought to a close. This n r e r a , Roman a office, who was a gentleman is a Protestant and a distiller of malt' whisky—which makes him contras t, in a ver y livel y ma nner, with ewei extremely Catholicht r e h m i a s enl dy predecessor ag tiade ettoo t lael %\ n e arn, says the Northern Whig, that a paragraph, which wa s lately published respecting Sir Francis Macnaghtcn's health, was much exaggerated. Sir Francis was very unwell, ' but is now convalescent; and, at no period of his ill ness was his life despaired of', nor was he considered, at any time, by his medical attendants, to be in a dangerous state. FRANCE AND BELGIUM• MATERNAL DEPRAVITY. The re-union of Deputie3, says the Journal des Debats, which has been held for th e purpose of oppos in g the commercial union with B e l g ium, most serious dangers, and is contrary, if not to the letter, at least to thespirit,of constitutional our charter. It is an encroachment on the privileges of the Ministers and that of the Chambers. offers the It tends in a word to despoil the Government of its right to pro pose measures of policy and of its liberty of action, and the Chambers of the independence necessary in deliberating upon _the plans which the Government may wish to submit to them, and these facts we shall examine briefly. But first we must remark, that what is permitted to one party cannot be forbidden to others. What is done to-day on a commercial, may hereafter he practised on a political question. At present we admit the question is legitimate, here after the object may be injurious to public order and tranquillity. When the ordonnance is read declaring the Parliamentary session to be closed, the charter says that the Chambers should be immediately ad 'ourned. Every deliberation had subsequently would be illegal and null. Even the Committees appointed by the Chamber no longer meet. No doubt the cha racter of Deputy remains the same, but the rights to be exercised remain suspended. Now we wish to ask this question. Can it be permitted to elude those principles of the charter—those essential and funda mentalw rules of the division of po w er, which no one wou ld dare to violate directly ? At present from 20 to 50 Deputies assemble, they draw up and publish resolutions. Who could prevent to-morrow one or two hundred Deputies, or even the entire Chamber, to assemble and constitute themselves in permanence ? They would not meet in the official chamber, but they would not want private houses for meeting. They would not speak from the Tribune, but they ; would have journals to report all they say. They wo uld not make laws, but they would concert mea sures, publish them ; the spirit, though not the letter, of the law would be violated. drav‘ wr, e up lea r :e so all sensible lemen to consider the con sequences of so serious an infraction of the prin ciples of the charter. We entreat the members of these assemblies to reflect seriously on the subject. They are establishing a precedent without, perhaps, being aware of it, and they create a right for the ad vantage of all parties. They tend to authorise by their example all meetings of the same nature, what ever may be their object. They raise up those asso ciations which many of their members contributed to destroy. They create a commercial agitation ' for getful that political agitatio n ma y be produced by the same means. We do not, however, confine ourselves to political consequences, other interests are already but too much excited against each other. The agri culturists demand new markets, the sea-ports reclaim free trade, the manufacturers are never sufficiently protected. Is the Chamber of Deputies about to di vide itself into as many hostile armies as there are interests at issue ? Are the Deputies about to place themselves each at the head of a legion ? And then what authority will remain to the Government, what credit will the Chamber obtain in this conflict of battalions organised in advance and well determined to close their ears against all argument ? For, in fact, you propose to combat the plan of a union of cus toms, and you do not even know what it is. This plan is not yet arranged. The Government is deli berating on it, and no person can tell what will be the issue of this deliberation. No matter ; you interfere in the question, you endeavour to stifle the plan be fore-it is brought forth, you do not discuss the measure —because a plan cannot be discussed which has not yet been brought forward—you merely threaten. Once the plan is produced, you will have a right in your places, as Members of the Chamber of Deputies, to defeat it by your objections, to demonstrate its faults, and to cause its rejection. The partisans of the measure would have equally the right to defend it. Public opinion could judge between you. It is public opinion that is endeavoured to be stifled. Thus, you Deputies, you alienate your vote beforehand. If a parliamentary debate was to take place it would be a mere matter of form. The deliberation took place in M. Fulchiren's parlour on a plan which was not known. On the other side the hands of the GoNern ment are paralyzed, the weight of an extra Parlia mentary opposition is thrown into the scale, and the plan is not suffered to be laid before the public. It may be asked, will this opposition succeed ? Very possibly for the moment, but we consider it a danger ous example, and we consider it our duty to declare our opinion. Bad examples remain. Authorised by respectable names they become the law. A thou , sand legitimate modes were practicable to combat the plan of a commercial union with Belgium, supposing that this plan was contrary to the interests of A case of horrible depravity was yesterday, after two sittings, decided by the Tribunal of Correctional Police of Paris. A woman named Labar was tried for having placed her daughter in the hands of a wealthy seducer under the following circumstances : —lt appeared from the evidence that when the child had attained the age of fifteen, the mother, who was then in a state of destitution, discovered the address of an elderly gentleman named Delagen, with whom she had formerly lived as a servant, and, having called upon him, she persuaded him, as there had been - at the period of her service intimate relations between them, that she was pregnant when she left, and that the child in question was the fruit of their intercourse. M. Delagen refused to recognise the girl as his own, as he was requested to do by the mother, observing, that this would be to declare her illegitimacy and de stroy her prospects, but generously offered to adopt her. The offer was accepted, and the girl went to live with M. Delagen, who provided for the mother. From this time the girl was treated with unvarying kindness by the supposed father, and her conduct was highly proper, until M. Delagen had the misfor tune to make the acquaintance of a rich man named Delamotte, whom he first met at breakfast at the house of a friend, and when his adopted daughter was with him. M. Delamotte fell in love with the girl, and it being ascertained by M. Delagen that he called frequently upon her during his absence from home, he removed to Versailles, in the hope of pre serving his adopted daughter rom seduction. His address was kept concealed from Delamotte, but not frem the mother of the girl, who basely became the medium of correspondence between her and the wealthy profligate, and at length carried her off clan destinely, and delivered her up to her seducer. M. Delagen was one of the witnesses for the prosecu tion, and gave a most affecting account of the whole transaction. Delamotte was afterwards heard as a witness for the prisoner. He denied that there had been any criminality in his attentions to Josephine, the daughter of the woman Labar, and indulged in gross abuse of M. Delagen, who, he said, had done all he could to promote the seduction of Josephine, and now, in his disappointment at not having ob tained his terms, deposed against him. The President of the Tribunal remarked, in terms of great indigna tion, on the conduct of this witness, who is a married man, but was separated from his wife in 1841, and concluded his severe admonition in the following lan guage :—" Reckon yourself fortunate, Sir, that the part taken by the prisoner in this sad affair has pre vented your taking your place at the criminal bar in stead of appearing here as a witness. But if the law has sheltered you from prosecution, you are not the less branded in the eyes of morality. Was it not you who corrupted a mother to the debauchery of her child ? Was it not you, who, by the seductions of wealth, wrested this child from the protection of her father ? If opulence be honourable when it is employed for the relief of the unfortunate, it is degrading when it is employed, as you have employed it, in acts of corrup tion and immorality." After this dignified rebuke, the Tribunal heard several witnesses, who declared that the daughter had avowed to them the conduct of her mother in urging her to accept the offers of De lamotee, on account of his wealth, as she had no affection for him, being neither young nor handsome, and then proceeded to deliberate on its sentence. It declared the prisoner to be guilty, and condemned her to two years imprisonment, a fine of 100 f., and interdiction of civil rights for ten years.--Galipiani's Messenger. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered in the week ending Oct. 29, 1842." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:— Weekly Average 1838-9-40-1 Total. Four Four Autumns lYears Epidemic,Endemie, & Contagious Diseases 176 190 190 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 144 140 149 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... 11);seases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion ... Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 6 5 4 Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c l5 15 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Museles 5 6 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 1 Diseases of Uncertain Seat lO6 106 104 o'.d Age, or Natural Decay Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem perance Causes not specified 1 8 7 Deaths from all causes Average Weekly Deaths 912 912 Population: Average Death Weekly in merated Deaths the Ib4l. 1833-9-40-1. Week, West—Kensington, St. George ( Hanover-squ are ), Westmin - Four I Four ster, St. Martin in the Fields , Ye,rs.lAutumns. St. James North—St. Mary-le-bone, St Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 161 174 Central—Saint Giles and Saint George, Strand, Clerkenwell, Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon don, West London, City of London 373,806 188 185 187 East—Shoreditch,Whitechape , Bethnal Green, St. George in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392;498 206 207 229 South—St. Saviour, St. Olave, St. George( Southwark),Ber mondsey, Newington, Lam beth, Camberwell, Rather hitke, Greenwich .... -.438,060 221 228 237 CAUSES OF DEATH. Total 1,870,727 912 912 967 It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon don with and without the walls , the Cit y and Liberties of Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality-- and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington, Fulham, Hammersmith Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom ley ), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890 , and in June 1841, was 1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, 1840, and 1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by 208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52. TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING Oct. 22. Oct. 29. 58s) 510 33 34 47 43 3, 1842. Highest Lowest Daily Mean ......... General Register Office, Nov. epo S b h l e e at' circumstances MalM al 1, MELANCHOLY CASE.—Mr. Carter, the Coroner for Surrey, took an inquisition on Thursday, at the Wind mill, High-street, Lambeth, respecting the death of Saraht dl r a aged 12 0 Sun ,ho w d • a a s y b m u r o n r t n i u n n g d . e r It m a o p s peared by the evidence of the another that she had been for some time in the most heartrending state of poverty. The room in which the accident happened had but two old chairs, a table, and a mattress ; in fact, the house in Calcite-court was miserable in the extreme. On Sunday morning, at nine o'clock, she went to see a person of the name of Rose, in Guy's Hospital, who has since died. Her husband deserted her about eight ears ago, and she has f or some time been living with Rose. Soon after she had left home a person of the name of Ascott heard dreadful screams issuing from the house, and upon going to the first-floor he found it full of smoke, and he could not enter. He went to the next floor, and creeping on his hands and knees, opened the window, and let out the smoke. He then went back, and found the deceased lying on the mattress enveloped in fire, and burnt almost to a cinder. Mrs. She arman said she had left her other children in care of the deceased, as she had often done before, and from what ano ther child told her, the deceased had been broiling the head of a red-herring, when her frock caught fire. A Juror said, it was dreadful to read the accounts of the deaths of children by fire. The Coroner remarked, this was a most pitiable case, for one of such extreme destitution he had never witnessed. A verdict of Ac cidental Death was returned, and the Coroner made a present to the mother out of his own pocket. REMARKABLE FACT.—We learn from a corres pondent that although there were each day 40,000 persons at the races of Caher, not a blow was struck, and very few drunken men were seen ! Tipperary is Wont% Chritian.—.Dublin Mau. " East India-house, Oct. 21. " SIR,—On the occasion of your return to your native country, the Court of Directors of the East India Company are desirous of presenting you with a testimonial of their esteem, and of the approbation with which they regard the public benefits conferred by you upon British India, by the liberal encourage ment you have afforded to the diffusion of education, and to the introduction of the arts and sciences ; and by the generous support you have given to the chari table institutions of Calcutta, whether established for the relief of the Hindoo or of the British community. The Court trust that the noble course which you have pursued will have the effect of contributing to the ac complishment of that object which it has ever been their anxious desire to promote, viz., the identification of the feelings and interests of the native and Euro pean population committed to their Government, and thus strengthening the bonds which unite India with Great Britain. " Impressed with these sentiments, the Court re luest your acceptance of a gold medal, for the prep-- ton of which they have given the necessary instruc tions. In making this communication on their behalf, permit us to assure you of the satisfaction which we derive from being the medium of conveying the Court's feelings and wishes, in which we most fully participate, and to express our sincere hope that your visit to this country has been productive to you of much gratification, and that your future career may be marked by happiness and prosperity. We have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servants, " J. L. LUSHINGTON. " JOHN COTTON. " Dwarkanauth Tagore." " Paris, Oct. 25. " Gentlemen,—l have received with a pride and pleasure I cannot find words to express, the letter with which you have honoured me. If my efforts to promote the improvement of my countrymen, and the welfare of my native land, had been attended by suf fering, privation, or evil to myself, I should have sought no higher recompense than the flattering opi nion the Honourable Court of Directors have been pleased to express of my conduct, and the gratifying testimonial of that opinion to which you advert, and which I shall indeed be proud to wear. I repeat that if distress and danger had beset my path, I should have considered myself more than re warded by the distinguished honour now con ferred upon me ; but I felt with confidence, and not less with gratitude, that under the just and liberal rule of the lion. Court an honest citizen seeking to improve the condition of his country by legal and not unworthy means, had everything to hope for, and no thing to apprehend. I have worked in my humble sphere under a firm conviction that the happiness of India is best secured by her connexion with your own great and glorious country; andthat the more the people of that vast empire were enlightened, the more sensible they would become of the invincible power of the protecting State, and of the excellence of a Government whose pure and benevolent intentions, whose noble solicitude for the welfare and improve ment of the millions committed by Providence to its charge, may challenge the admiration of the whole world. " To yourselves, Gentlemen, allow me to offer my unfeigned thanks for the manner in which you have communicated the gracious sentiments and intentions of the Hon. Court. The honour, so great in itself, has been rendered doubly acceptable by the terms in which vour kindness has conveyed it. Indeed, if I might be allowed, I would solicit permission to pre sent my humble and grateful acknowledgments to the Hon. Court individually, as well as collectively, for their generous hospitality, delicate courtesy, and un varying goodness, which I shall not cease to remem ber with gratitude while I live. " I have the honour to be, with the greatest respect, " Gentlemen, your most obedient servant, " D WARKANAUTH TAGORE. " Sir J. L. Lushington and John Cotton, Esq., &e:, DIS ItILTS. FIRE AT BEAR WOOD. It is with much regret that we announce the oc currence of a fire at Bear Wood, the seat of John Walter, Esq., M.P., which, although fortunately checked in its progress, has occasioned the loss of much valuable property, and for some hours threatened the whole mansion with destruction. It appears that about half-past one o'clock yesterday the fire, which is supposed to have originated in the kitchen flue, was discovered in some rooms occupied by the servants, and forming the extremity of one wing of the mansion. An alarm was instantly raised, ex presses were despatched to Wokingham and Read ing to procure the assistance of the engines, and in the meantime the members of the family, assisted by the numerous workmen employed upon the grounds, and with the ready aid .of all the neighbours whom the alarm had reached, did whatever could be done to extinguish the fire, or, at least, to confine it to the offices in which it had first broken out. But little water, however, for such an emergency, could be obtained, except from the lake, which, although at no great distance, was still not near enough to furnish such a supply as would enable them to resist the flames, which were gaining rapidly upon them when the engines arrived. The first was that belonging to J. Simonds, Esq., of Sindlesham, but it was speedily followed by one from Wokiugham and, after a short interval, by two others from Reading, and these all, the one supplying the other, formed a line of communication with the lake, and were soon brought efficiently into play. By this time the news of the fire had spread in every direction, and the neighbours and peasantry as sembled in great numbers, all anxious to assist either in working the engines, in rescuing the property, or in any manner which would evince their desire to serve one who, by a multitude of kindly offices, and especially by his devotion to the interests of the poor, had rendered himself so deservedly popular. In a short time every particle of furniture which could possibly . be removed had been placed in safety ; and, as the thick wall of the conservatory resisted the pro gress of the flames, that building was preserved, and the fire eventually prevented from extending beyond the wing in which it had commenced. At seven o'clock the fire was still smouldering, but no further danger was apprehended.—Times. MISS MARTINEIII.—The disinterested and truly noble conduct of this lady, in refusing a pension so kindly and delicately and properly (as things go) offered her by Lord Melbourne, before he went last out of office, has suggested to us the idea of proposing a public subscription throughout the kingdom, to be entered into by the working classes and others, ad mirers of the writings, principles, and character of Miss Martineau, as an acknowledgement of her just claims on the people, and acting on her own well an d justly laid down rule, that for services rendered to the people, the people themselves ought directly to pay. And the people, we make no doubt, will pay, readily, cheerfully, and abundantly. Whatever may be their faults they are not ungrateful. In order that this proposal should be carried duly into effect, it is only necessary that it should be taken in hand by some known and responsible parties. Miss Martineau's re sidence in this neighbourhood seems to place a pecu liar obligation on us to begin the work, and we are authorised on behalf of three gentlemen whom we know, to subscribe 3/. as a beginning. —Tyne Pilot, DEATH THROUGH FRIGHT. ---'fhursday morning, at about half-past seven, an elderly lady, residing at Austin-friars, in the City, was being driven at a rapid pace toward the railway station in Euston-square, from whence she intended to proceed to Birmingham. In descending the very awkward hill near the B ag _ nigge-wells Tavern, the horse stumbled and fell, the driver was thrown off, and both shafts broken ; and it was a mercy that the cab was not precipitated to the pavement, which at this spot lies nearly four feet be low the level of the road. All that the poor old lady cou ld utter, when another cab was procured, w as be driven back to Austin - friars, where she • almost speechless, and by half-past nine a paralytic stroke terminated her existence. A new religious sect, much more strict in discipline than the Methodists, has just b een esta b lished at Geneva. They are said to be a sort of St. Simonians. They are obliged to hold their noisy meetings outside the town, not being able to procure a place within the walls -- GHENT, OCT. 31.—T0-day the adjudication of the works for the construction of a railway direct from Ghent to Antwerp, took place at the Hall of the Pr° vincial Government. M. de Ridder, the chief engi neer, who is the auth or o f t h e plan, obtained the gran t of this new railway for ninety years. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—A curious and not uninteresting consequence of the more popular basis on wluch power has become placed in this country is de veloping itself in a section of the Church. W es . are much mistaken if we do not see more of this. We have anticipated its occurrence for some time. At former epochs in Europe a n e affairs the Church has made bold bids for popu larity. The doctrine of the majesty of people, and their right to cashier Kings for mis conduct—always of course under the direction of their spiritual guides,—was first propagated in modern Europe by the Jesuits in the cause of the Church. The doctrines of unlimited democracy (subservient always to the priests) were never more broadly preached than in France in the days of Henry the Third and Fourth; and the spiritual guides of those days did not lack an executive arm in the persons of such heroes and martyrs of the true Church as Clement and. Ravaillac. The genius of the Church of Eng land is supposed to be quite contrary to popular agitation. And so it has hitherto appeared doubtless, and is so still, on the part of the " lambs'-wool brothers," " Fellows who put their legs in lamb's-wool hose," as the foul-mouthed monk expresses it, it we re collect right, in Mr. Taylor's " Edwin the Fair." Right reverend dignitaries, and men of snug be nefices, are no more agitators than they were in the last century, when they threw cold water on the zeal of Methodism, and its offers of service to the Church. But the new generation of Churchmen, who put fbrth revived claims to spi ritual authority, appear disposed to raise them selves on the shoulders of the people to power. And here a curious contrast exhibits itself between the principles and practice of these gentlemen. Their principle is to magnify the episcopal authority to the utmost—to describe it as representing the apos tolical function through all ages. Their practice is, through several organs of the press (we need only name, at present, the Times and the British Critic), to set at nought all episcopal admonition that thwarts their new scheme of restoring Church power on a popular basis. Truly there is nothing new under the sun ! The philosophical poet, we above quoted, has painted the new Churchmen, in painting the old Monks. The good easy Church-exteusionists, who fancy they are planting new barriers against popular discon tents, providing new " security to property," by seconding every Church movement, may find they are subsidising new agitators,—substituting a new and turbulent Monkery for the old Church of England. STANDARD.—When the extravagant tariff adopted by the United States Legislature first reached this country, we did not hesitate to say that it must be utterly impossible to carry into effect such a scheme of exclusion. The conside rations upon which we formed this opinion were— first, the vast extent of the accessible frontier of the States; secondly, the nature of the Govern ment. The frontier by land and water extends to probably 5,000 or 6,000 miles, and such a frontier could not be protected against a contraband trade by an army of less than 100,000 custom officers— such an army the States of the Union, were they united in pursuit of the object, would not be able or willing to keep on foot; but they are not and cannot be united in this pursuit, and the at tempt to force the exclusive system effectually would be, as in the case of the nullification quarrel, to inflame a now indolent jealousy into actual Ivan The number of Custom-house offi cers, of which we have spoken as necessary to line the immense frontier line of the States, will not be thought extravagant by those who have observed the preventive force that now occupies the coasts of Great Britain, and the frontier line of France, by land and sea; and these are countries where the authority of law holds a higher place than, for centuries to come, it can hold in the United States, could it indeed ever hold that place in a demo cratical government. The effect upon the public mind of the attempt ri g orously to enforce ex clusion may be learned from the spirit which Napoleon's attempt to enfore his Berlin and Milan decrees, almost totally unsuccessful as that attempt was, produced in every country of Europe, France itself not excepted. Now the American Government has a much greater ex tent of frontier to guard than that which Napoleon failed to guard with a million of men at his disposal, for with him every soldier was a Custom-house officer. And instead of being, like the French Emperor, responsible to no one, the American Government is respon sible to the persons most strongly tempted and most deeply interested to violate its injunctions. It may be true that at moments of high excite ment, and when points believed to be of vital importance should seem to press, the Americans as well as others would make great present sacrifices; but the disposition to make such sacrifices never anywhere outlives the emergency that calls for them—for men will not continue to use " extreme medicine as daily bread," and certainly there is nothing in the present position of the States to justify its Legislature in calling for any extraordinary exercise of self-denial on the part of the people. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. CHRONICLE. —Lord Stanley offered to admit Canadian wheat and flour manufactured in Canada (no matter where grown), into British ports duty free, provided the Canadian Parliament would subject American wheat to a fixed duty of three shillings per quarter when imported to Canada. The Canadian press even go so far as to say that all wheat im ported into Canada under that duty, whether manu factured afterwards or not, may be exported from thence, and admitted into England free of all duty. The Canadian Parliament have wisely closed with the offer, and passed the Bill under that con tract with the Imperial Government. If her Ma jesty's Government, therefore, keep faith with the Canadians, a Bill must be introduced the next session of Parliament to give effect to the agree ment repealing the duties of ss. to is. now levied on Canadian corn in British ports, and de claring the same admissible at all seasons free of duty. Should this Bill pass the House of Commons and House of Lords, Canada will become a depot, in transit, for the produce of the great corn States of America, and the meaning of Mr. Sullivan w:11 be explained, who, in addressing the Legislative Coun cil, at Kingston, in support of the Bill, declar e d that if the dispatch of Lord Stanley were carried out in its full spirit and meaning, it would confer one of the greatest boons upon Canada that had ever been experienced. Such a measur e , it w ill b e re m e mbered, is in perfect accordance with the declared sentiments of Mr. Gladstone, the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, who expressly stated in the debate on Lord Howick's motion, regarding differential duties, that the true principle of legislation in respect of colonial integral part was, to treat the colonies as an " part of the empire," thus intimating that colhonial the p re duce ought ought to be admitted duty free, an tat venue should be exacted from foreigners.. The new tariff, which created differential duties in . se . veral . in stances, forms a strange context to those opinions, the Right Honourable Gentleman the Vice-Presi en of e Board of Trade. , --- ---- -------- . PEEL'S TARIFF IN IRELAND. We are furnished with the following characteristic effusion of an Irish farmer's bitter hostility to Peel and his Tariff. It is contained in a private letter to a friend, which will account for the unrestrained indul gence of expressions which, had his letter bee n in tended for publication, would probably have b een rendered more conformable to the standardof phraseo logy which is usually observed in compositions erin tended for the pu blic e y e. He resides at ar m f illl.ain' s co unty Galway , .an d is one of a numerous prices. eims which is acutely su fferin g under high rents and low " The times her e are ver y bad. All the are smashing ; they are not getting paid last year for t heir cattle. I near what they heard that . . . went off to Liverpool with his cows, and am af ra id h e went to a bad market. The Tariff is receiving many a heart y c of Sir Robert Peel, curse. soon follow the farmers, and . The landlords will Some very good oats havethe devil mend them ! stone, the best at 5d.; been sold here at 3d. a selling up] the poor and the agents driving [i. e. fact is, that the people in every direction. The tunes of the distress agents and their drivers will make for ,4 The Rev. m ess of the people. Commission r. . . . has been removed from the of the p with c _ „,,. Peace, on account of his fighting w ry in Dunmore." --- - STRONTIAN CATTLE MARKET.—The StTOritiall an nual October market was held upon the new stance, on Thursday, the 20th ult. The stock - exhibited for sale, from the districts of Morven, Ardnamurchan, and Moidart, was more numerous and better con ditioned than those produced at any previous market. Buyers were also more numerous; but the prices of every description of stock suffered a corresponding depression to other markets. "Prices may be quoted as follows : —Cows, from Si. to 6/. ; queys, from 4/. to 51. ; s i x . quarter-old stirks, from 2/. 16s. to 4/. 4s. ; and stirks, from 1/. to 2/. ss. Few of the latter were a nd were very inferior in quality.—lnver- We understand that the statement which has gone t ne i x : e shsi r b o Ci u ted' o n 't d r i o e r f . the papers as to a pension having been conferred upon the poet Wordsworth, is not strictly ac curate. The yearly sum which Mr. Wordsworth will receive is a retiring allowance, given to him upon resigning the office of distributor of stamps.--Brighton Gazette. WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Office, 49, Parliament-street, Westminster. DIRECTORS. HENRY EDGEWORTH BICKNELL, Esq. WILLIAM CABELL, Esq. THOMAS SOMERS COCKS, jun., Esq. GEORGE HENRY DREW, Esq. WILLIAM EVANS, Esq. WILLIAM FREEMAN, Esq. FRANCIS FULLER, Esq. JAMES HUNT, Esq. JOHN ARSCOTT LETHBRIDGE, Esq. EDMUND LUCAS, Esq. GEORGE HENRY POLLOCK, Esq. JOHN BAZLEY WHITE, Esq. J. CARTER WOOD, Esq. HENRY WRENCH, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. COCKS, BIDDULPH, and CO., Charing-cross. SOLICITORS. Messrs. BICKNELL and LETHBRIDGE, Abingdon-street, Westminster. Perfect security combined with moderate rates. The assurance of a CERTAIN BONUS. The allowance of HALF the ANNUAL PREMIUM to remain unpaid for SEVEN YEARS. and TEMPORARY LOANS to the ASSURED on available security. EDWARD T. RICHARDSON, Secretary.