The Sun. — London, England, 1833-09-05 00:00:00

THE LATE STORM. FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE WRECK OF THE AMPHITRITE. Boulogne, Monday, Sept. 2. The conduct of the custom-house officers of this port demands the most rigid and severe investiga lion. It appears, from the mest undonbtedtesti mony—and that not of one but of several individuals —that they put every obstacle in the way of the saving the crew and ship. I dare not at this moment trust myself to reneat a tithe of the melancholy de tails I have received on this head ; but you may rely on one fact as a specimen of the rest, viz. that these custom-house efficers actually prevented by force a woman from saving the I fe of an unfortunate sailor who was struggling in the surf. This subject must be examined irro nn the spot, and the English must demand a rigid account of the French G tvernment. The proprietor and editor of the Annotateur, French journal published at this place, are resolved o n .. x p o .in g the facts of the ca , e in its columns, and on exposing, as it should he done, the conduct of these custom-house harpies. The men saved are doing well. Two are con valescent. The third, who was the boatswain, and who has been wrecked thirteen times, has a little fever, and his knee is wounded ; but in a few days he also will be quite restored. The accounts of the two men at Barry's Hotel differ to a certain extent from that of Towser, who is ar the hospital. Towser was the friend of Fo res er the surgeon, and his si-ter had visited Mrs. Ft. ester on hoard the vessel in the river, and had only left on the 25th ult. Towser, therefore. from motives of friendship and gratitude, does all he pos sibly can to exculpate the conduct of the surgeon, and throws the blame on the Ciptain. The whole three, however, agree on one point, and that is, that if the surgeon or Captain had received from the English Consul an authority, or orders, to land the crew, every one might have been saved. Whether that authority ought to have been sent is another question; and whether the Captain and the surgeon ought not to have taken on themselves the respon sibdity without any authority from the Consul is another; but one thing is certain, and that is, that all might have been saved if the proper steps had been taken. It appears that when the surgeon told the boat swain to get down " the long boat," Mrs. Forester rushed forward and opposed it, saying that all would be swamped together—that it was his, the surgeon's basiness, first to take care of her, his wife, and that in consequence of this protest, and of some alterca tion which was the consequence, no long boat was got out at all. The men agree in stating that sixty lives might have been saved in the long boat, even if it ha , l nor returned to the vessel. Whether the whale boat could have lived at sea is doubtful, but the long boat would have done so. The examination of the men who have been saved has already shown the deplorable nature of the transport or convict system. Young girls—young women for small offences—females who might have been easily reclaimed, and led back to the paths of virtue, were all stowed together with 20 hardened and most abandoned criminals from Scotland, whose swearing, whose disgusting language, and violent conduct rendered the ship the scene of constant out rige and disorder. Never was so scandalous a want of attention manifested to the classification of pri soners as that exhibited in the case of the female convicts on board the Amphitrite. The conduct of the Captain was also most extraor dinary. When he saw he must of necessity be driven on shore, instead of taking the necessary steps to drive up as high on the beach as possible, he threw out his anchor, and never cut away any of his masts. He fired no signal of distress, hoisted no colours, and showed no light ; but appeared to abandon himself to the sole hope of getting off with the flood tide—a hope which was perfectly absurd, placed as the vessel was, with a tremendous gale blowing on the shore and in the midst of the breakers. The conduct of the crew was bold and faithful, but- their obedience was so slavish as to ensure the destruction of the vessel. They would not leave the Captain. This was right. But they ought at least to have endeavoured to save the prisoners. Both Heuret, the pilot, and Henin, the master of a fishing-boat, agree in stating, as well as the three survivors of the crew, that it would have been most easy to have saved the lives of all if proper steps had been talc, n. But, when the wreck took place, was everything done that might have been to have saved the crew and the convicts ?—Decidedly not. There were very few of us there. Mr. Barry did all he could, and•sorne English ladies aided me ; in restoring life to some. But we could not be every where. The British Consul ought to have ranged with lights at least two or three hundred people along the coast, to pick up the bodies. This was not done. We had hut one copper of hot water, and but two bed teeads ready at the house of the Humane Society; though certainly Mr. Barry opened his hotel, and did all he could to save the lives of the unfortunate victims. _ The Amphitrite was not seaworthy ; the timbers were in a most shameful condition ; and the under wri,ers ought not on any account to think of pay. ing the ownpr.. They have orq to send and exa mine the wreck, and obtain on the spot the neces• situ proofs. I have just had another conversation with Heine% lie informs me that when he applied to have horses to convey his little boat by land to the side of the beach nearest the vessel, and into the water as far as possible, in order to save time, that the horses were refused him, and that the owner replied— " What am Itodo if my horses are lost ? Who is respumuble ?" If the English Consul had been there the security might have been given, and the horses supplied; and at least half an hour, if not more, might thus have been saved. This is a pain ful reflection, but it is one which is universally made. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE WRECK.—It app.-qui that as night closed in, the violence of the gale increased, and the situation of the vessel was evidenr lv becoming each succeeding moment more and more critical. One or two guns were fired from her, apparently intended as signals of distress; but as the tide was running strong, and the wind blowin g with violence into the harbour, it seems probable no available assistance could now be ren dered. The situation, therefore, of the unfortunate creatures on board—inevitable destruction staring them in the face, and the feeling of the multitudes assembled on the beach, incapable as they were of rendering them the slightest succour, although the vessel appeared only a few yards distant—may well be conceived, no words can describe the horror of it. About eleven she struck, and, it is supposed, swung on the anchor, by which her bottom was seriously damaged, and a tremendous sea striking her shortly after, she separated nearly at rnidships, and immedi ate sunk. The whole of the unfortunate convicts, it is supposed, were confined below when the vessel se. parted, and consequently were in an instant altoge ther consigned to a watery grave; not a vestage of her now appearing above water; and in a few mi nutes the whole strand was strewed with dead bu llies and portions of the wreck, which the tide had washed ashore—many- of the bodies still warm I One of the hapless females had her infant fast Jacked in her arms. It was a soul-harrowing sight the mind s:ckens at the contemplation of it parti cularly when viewed as one of the dreadf u l conse (petters o f cr ime. The bodies, mostly fem a l es , cut thus off in the prime of life, presented a most ghastly sight. Many appeared to have been dreadfully con. tused and mutilated. In the confusion which pre vails, it is impossible to decide whether blame can he justly attributed to any persons, but not a few amongst the English here are dissatisfied; and it seems to be the unanimous opinion of both English and French, that the vessel was not fit to be em ployed on such a service, as, from the nature of her fastenings, and from the appearance of her timbers, she would appear to have been unseaworthy.. Some inference may be drawn from the fact, that the. whale wreck has been sold for 700 francs here. SHIPWRECK OP THE ANN AND AMELIA, FROM CAL CUTTA, OFF BERCK, NEAR ETAPLES AND MONTREUIL. I am distressed to state to you that the Ann and Amelia, a vessel from the East Indies (Calcutta) of 500 tons, has been dri►•en on shore off Bergues. Five lives were saved when the courier left. It is said that the Ann and Amelia has gold on board, and that her cargo is of great value. She went aground on S►rurdiy night, or on Sunday morning. The Ann and Amelia is said to be a free-trading vessel to Calcutta. Boulogne, Monday, Two o'clock. I have this moment seen driven on shore the stern of a tradirne vea.el, bearing the name of George and Elizabeth, of Newcastle, William licks, master. It is thought that she must have been ab uit 120 tons burthen. In half an hour the bodies (nearly seventy) of the unfortunate beings wrecked on Saturday will be buried. Each one is supplied with a coffin, and are to he interred side by side in trenches. I shall attend the funeral. Towger has just come out of the hospital, and has called on me to thank me. Poor fellow, I shall not forget his delight when on the beach; when be was picked up I spoke to him in English. Today the wind has gone down. The steam boat to Dover has left with passengers. The sea is high and the surf is heavy, but the weather is fair, though the wind is piercing. l'Aur o'Clock. I have jug , returned from the cimetiere. The bodies were placed in plain deal c, ffitis at the Hos pital, and were carried on carts to the burial ground, ou'•ide the town. Two large trenches w ere made, in which were deposited all the coffins. Th e Eng lish clergyman was about reading the burial service when I left, in time to reach the post before the courier left. OTHER ACCOUNTS A letter from M.-. J. Lachlan, of Great Alie-street, the agent to the Amphitrite, states that " The late Mr. John Hunter, the master and owner, was full 33 years of age, had been regularly brought up to the sea, and commanded a ship as far back as eight years ago." The British Consul at Bouloene says, the master and the surgeon having with pistols re fused assistance is untrue. The Amphitrite, although of the age mentioned, was a perfectly sound vessel, having in March last had a very thorough repair at Deptford, under the inspection of the King's officers, being then in the transport service, and previous to her commencing the voyage on which she was lost she was most minutely examined by the said officers, and found every way fit to perform the same. BANGOR, SEPT. 2.—Friday. about eleven, a.m., a strange sloop, the Swift, of S•rangford, bound from Strangford to Liverpool, with wheat,was seen beat ing about in the mouth of the Menai Straits with out any cloth set, and completely at the mercy of the sea. At half-past eleven she disappeared from the view of the spectators on shore, having struck on the Dutchman's Bank and almost instantly sunk. A Liverpool pilot boat passing at the time, within hail, the men observed the Swift's crew clinging to the mast, but could render no assistance, the surf running so tremendously on the bank, where there were not above two feet water. All hands perished. COWES, SEPT. 3.—On Thursday, 29th August, at half-past one p.m., Commodore Lord Yarborough made a signal for the outward and leewardmost to weigh ; and after lying off and on in Cowes roads until the line was formed, the Commodore made sail with 30 sail of the squadron, and was clear off St. Helen's at five p.m. Ott Friday, 30th, at day-light, the squadron ar rived off Cherbourg. The Louisa, Earl of Durham, having been despatched by the Commodore the previous evening to announce the squadron having sailed, was observed at eight p.m., saluting Rear- Admiral Baron Mackau's flag, which was returned. At nine o'clock the squadron anchored in the roads, and the Commodore also saluted the flag, which was returned. Unfortunately the Coquette brig, passing on the wrong side on the buoy in the western passage, struck on the breakwater. The Commodore imme diately made signals for the squadron to give assist. once ; and the Commodore went on board, and other yachts' boats followed the example. The French Admiral sent out boats and launches with casks, and afforded every possible assistance; and the brig was shored up, arid on the rising tide floated off, and was taken 'in tow by the George Canning steamer, of Liverpool, and towed into the road., where she was supplied by Admiral Mackati with an anchor and cable. Fortunately this took place previously to a heavy gale of wind, or it would have been utterly impossible to have saved her. The squadron rode out the gale, some of which, hiving piked frOin their anchors and cables, were obliged to run into the basin for shelter; and though so much crowded with shipping, met with no other accidents, not even an instance of a spar being car ried away. Arrived the American ship Vesper, Hunt master, 54 days from New Orleans, for orders, with to bacco. Also the British brig Ann, Potts master, 88 days from Rio de Janeiro, for orders, with coffee. CANTERBURY.—On Friday evening last we were visited with one of the most dreadful hurricanes ex oerienced in this part of the country for many years. For some days previous the weather hol been sul'ry, and thioughout the entire of Friday it was very hot and the air serene. The rain began to fall at about . eight, and a b r isk w i n d sprung up, ~hich soon increased to a violent hurricane, and continued almost incessantly and with only a slight abatement until Sunday morning. The hops, nearly ready to pick, were blown down ; the bine knocked off, and branches torn away and strewed about the grounds in every direc•ion. The loss in some plantations is very great. The news from the coast is most disastrous. FEVERSHAM.—Immense damage has been done to the orchards and hop-gardens in the neighbour hood of Feversham by the late severe gales. Se veral vessels belonging to Feversham have become wrecks along the coast ; some, it is said, are entirely lost. HAMBURG, AUG. 30.—8 y accounts from Esi. fore, it appears that the Frau Johanna, T. Tohorg, master, of S•ral.uod, bound from die port to Dron theim, in a severe storm on the 22d, shipped a heavy sea, and was sunk three miles and a half (German) from Moen. Only the cap of the mast remained above water, and one of the men was seen sitting on it. A great number of boats en deavoured to reach the wreck, but in the state of the weather that was not an easy task. At last, after the poor fellow had been nine hours in his ex. trardinary position, he was brought off by Captain J. H. Evers, of the Alai. HERNE BAY.—The storm proved very disastrous at Herne Bay. Four barges were broken to pieces. The pier has also received considerable injury. LOWESTOFFE, SEPT. 2.—Three large vessels were passed in the North Sea dismasted, and the sea Making a free passage over them ; another was seen on her beam-ends. The accounts from the North 'Sea are truly appalling LIVERPOOL, SEPT. L—Wind N, blowing a gale. A sm sek went doNii yesterday, near Orm's head, and all hands perished. SIIEERNISS —On Saturday there was a tremen dous gale from the N.W.; several small vessels have been wrecked, two barges have been sunk, and a ivessel and barge went adrift. In the town, the ;chimney -pots and tiles have- been blown about to l su r c e h a degr ee as to render i t unsafe to wal k i n t h e sat et s. W e scarcely remember so dreadful a gale this period of the year. Hops are advertised to be sold at Salisbury at 41 a pound. They have been as hi g h as 2s. 6 d . On the 28th ult. a boat belonging to the Marcia cutter, passing down the Medin a to Calshot Castle, with Ceptrin and Mrs. WOODHAIi, upset near Dudner, by going too ne.r a sand bank ; the C ptain anti his lady were, however, rescued by the exertions of the wen. We understand that a communication has been received from the Dutch Goverianent, which win 1-ad to a renewal of th'e Cadet ence, tbateidieri of *Which are expected to meet to--day or to-morrow. BRUSSELS PAPERS. BaussEts, SEPT. 1.-M. Gendehien has sent to the Minister of the Interior his tesilnation of the office of President of the Committee of the Standards of Honour. M. Lion, one of the Commissioners sent to London, arrived at Brussels yesterday. A letter from Antwerp, of the 31st August, says— " Our city continues to suffer by the ravages of the cholera. Within these two days there have been a considerable number of new cases, and last night there were several deaths caused by this Asiatic disorder in the hospital." OSTEND, Sarr. I.—For the last 48 hours a most frightful storm has been raging; such a one has not been known here within the memory of man. This morning an English brig, with a rich cargo, ran ',ground. At the same instant a Swedish brig, with a cargo of deals, ran ashore to the west of the port. The crews of both vessels were saved. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the Talbot steam-boat, which left on Friday night for London, was blown on the coast near Ostend ; part of the passengers have already landed ; the (Firers, who are the greater number, and more prudent, wait till the vessel shall be left dry, which will be between 4 and 5 o'clock. We see to the West, and !till at a great di-tance, a vessel approaching the coati., it is to e feared that it will have the same fate as the others. BRUSSELS. SEPT. 2. —The King and Qoeen will this month visit the provinces of Namur and Liege. Their Mieries wiil leave Brussels on the 12th of September. They will visit Namur, Durant, Huy; Liege, Spa, and Versi iris and return to Brussels on the 23d. OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT of FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Britissms, SEPT. 3.—The Governinent has just been informed that his AI ijesty, the King of Sweden, having 1-arnt the favouraltly m inner in which Swedish ships are treated in the poe ts of B •Liiusn, has de,iired that all ships belonging to the kingdom of Belgium, wich their re spective cargoes, arriving in the ports and on the cows of Sweden, shall nut bencefirth be sulijeoted to higher duties of an.-denomination whatever than Swedish ships and thi-ir cargoes. For the Minister of Foreign Af f airs. The Secretary General. (Signed) NOTHOMB BRUSSEL% SEPT 3.—The Monileur contains the list of th. names of the persons who have received medals fi.r services performed on occasion of the cholera.—(The list fills five columns of the Moniteur.) ANTWERP, Sm. 2.—Yesterday the wind, blowing with great vicleace from the north-west, dot great damage to the old dike of the Scheldt, between the opening at Burght and Fort Isabella. Workmen ate now employed in securing this dike till the works for re-torin,9, the /likes of the inundated Pold-r of Borgenwiert shall be completed. A Stack of 50,000 favines,which was three fret ab=•ve the level of the usual high tide, was swept away yesterday by the ebbing tide. We lam that the villages of Berendrecht and Stabroeck are inunda•ed by the tide of yesterday evening, havirg risen above the dikes. Two of our gun boats have been driven from their moorings, and run aground ; they have not suffered much dama,g,e. A Dutch gun-boat i• aground at Doel. All the ships at anchor in our roads have weathered the storm ; in the basins three ship are adrift—only one is slightly damaged. The tide is now coming in wi , h a very strong N.W. wind, so that we fear we shall have another very high tide. M. Potier passed through our city to-day on this way to the Hague. The Prince of Orange had alrea , ly, on the 29th August, given orders that he should not expe rience any difficulty on entering Holland. The Chamber of Represenzatives, in its sittings of the 30th and 31st of August, and Sept. 2, has continued the d.seuasi , :n of the several items of the budget and the public (L bt.—Brussels, S •pt. 3. BELGIAN FUNDS, Seer. 3. Actual Debt, 214 per Cent. Rothnhild's Loan, 5 per Cent 93/ Loan of the City, 1832, 4 per Cent. Ditto, 1833, 4 per cent. DUTCH FUNDS—AmsTEEnam, Am 31. Actual Debt, '2 per cent 48% Amort Syndic, 4y4 per cent .....« —Brussels Papers, Sept. i. _ NAPLES, AUG. 4.—Last week there was a great Mi nisterial Council, at which the King in person presided. This sitting is a subject of general conversation, fur it is believed that subjects of great importance relative to the political situaiion of the country were discussed. Several couriers have been despatched by the department of Fo reign Affairs, which circumstance strengthens the nation of a great change in the system of Government. it being supposed that notice must be given to the Foreign Coot , s, who are the most interested, to obviate misunderstandings, which the Givernownt must naturally wish to prevent. If the public is right in its conjectures, we may expect a more liberal policy at home than hitherto, for the King is fond of popularity and much inclined to new ideas. The introducii( n of innovations does not, however, wholly de pend on the King's will. The family compacts with Austria, awl several Italian stares, have provided for such cows, which cannot he allowed, unless they are without injury to one of the contracting. parties, but are otherwise, according to the stipulations, inadmissible. The Ministers, it is thought, are fully aware of their situation, and pro. reed with great caution.— Frankfort Papers, Aug. 29. pumas OF STOCKS Tills DAY AT oli- , O'CLOCK. Bank Stctr: -. !New S per Cent...„.. — Ipa ,- Cent. Red ..... 3 per Cent.Cous. 3% per Cent. Ditto Red .964% Old Annuities... ..... ....... 86 3 5 New 3% per Cent. .94% 96 New Ditto B6 3 Per Cent. Ann. 1724 . .... —3. per Cent. Ann. 1751 4 per Cent. 1826 ... I^4 104 Ex. Bills, .Cl,OOO —4o pm. Bank Long Ann. to expire Ditto ..... ......500 —42 Ml Jan. Jan. 5, 1861. Oct. 10, 1859 % 5-16 , Ditto Commercial.... —Pm Jan. 5, 1860 17% 1-16, Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank for Account ..... ...... 212 f April 5, 1880 — India for Account Jan. 5, 1870 — I Cons. 'A , Opening 88%34 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Austrian Bonds 98 Peruvian Bonds oo Belgian Bonds 914 !Portuguese Bonds 77 Ditto Account 0414 : Ditto Account 77 Brazilian Bonds 68% ; Reg. Scrip Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds 25 . Prussian Bonds — Ditto Account ... 1 Ditto Bonds, 1822 lO l l,l Chilian Bonds Ditto Account 2O i Ditto Account 10614 Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Spanish Bonds, 1821 Ditto Bonds, 1824 ........ .....► , Ditto Account 22 48 Ditto Ace , inut 25!,4 I Ditto Bonds, 18:43 Danish Ron 4 744 Ditto Account 2l Ditto Ace, unt French Bentes. sp. c. 104 I' 50c. Greek Bonds 124 !-- Exchange 2if 60e. Ditto Bonds, 1825 3B —3 per cent. ...... 76f 75e. Ditto Account —; Exchange 2sf 70e. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent. 3.3 , Dutch, 2A . , 91 p. c. Ditto Account O3; Ditto Account 49% ii Ditto, 0 per cent 17N ! Ditto, sp. c 95 Ditto Account...-. 38 3714 8 Ditto Account...... 95% 14 Neapolitan... ... ....... ........93 French Scrip 44 pm. PRICKS OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLoCF. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. tics. at 5/. pm.) £lllO 14 1 4 Rolanos Mining enmpan, £l5O 180 Brazilian Mining Company £s 1% Brazilians Imp. Atm. Co. (iss. at 5/. poi.) £2n 58% Ditto National 2O 23 Date St. John Del Rey Ditto ( - nears. 5 7 Cata Branca Mining Company l% m 6 British (toll Mining Company .£so Cnluml oltn Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 51 6 13% English 1 11,..itig Company 12% 13 1 4 ..Poems mining Associati o n l2 10 Hibernian Mining Co. £lo 4 Mexic .n Mi. ing Co £4B 12% Real del Monte Mining C 0....,.. fl i e d Mex Min. t!o. (iss. at 21. DM.) 40 13 1 4 Ditto New Set ip 5 16% Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO 11 Protector ins. trance Comp. ...... Australian C 0.... . . 'anada Company l7 5.1% General Steam Navigation Co. l3 13 National Provincial Bank of England 5 5 Rio Doce yrovincial Bank Jt Ireland 25 36 SPECIFIC AGAINST CHOLERA. (From 'a Correspondent of the United Service Journal: )• At a time when the nation is partialty affected with so deplorable a calamity as the cholera, whose ravages may sue day be attended with frightful consequences in cur barracks and fleets, it may be fairly assumed, that the pages of your journal will not be closed against a few brief ob-ervationa on the cure of a disease in which all the skill and science of the medical profession has hitherto so lamentably failed. It has been my good fortune, Sir, in many cases of re laxa'ion of the bowels, attended with slight spasms, to have found a speedy and efficacious relief from a very simple remedy, which I have since understood scaro•.ly ever fails in cases of relaxation of the bowels, or scouring, among animals, where too much acidity in the atom .eh seems to be the source a the disease, which some have supposed to be the prima'ry cause of cholera; and which I have not the slightest doul•t was the original source of my own sufferings. However this may be, judging from my own experience, and influenced by the above analogy, I had determined last year, when the cholera prevailed, to have r course to the same remedy in much stronger doses, or larger quantities, if the disease should attach me with the premonitory symptoms of a laxity of the bowels to any extent. It pleased Providence, that no necessity in my case arrived; but my attention has been attain called to the possible remedy, by the reappearance of the disease •in other places, and a striking case of cure in a young animal on my farm, on whom all the usual remedies had been ineffectually applied to check a violent scouring of the bowels, but which, on the very first :Ipplication, seemed to expel ience a degree of exhilaration such as the strongest cordials rarely produce; and in twenty-four hours was cured, without relapse. The simple rem alluded to ig made by pouring al , out three quaris of water on a pound of quicklime, and letting it stand till cool ; then pouring off the lime water, and giving about a pint in a drink, which is to tui repeated, if necessary, three times a day. This is the remedy Mo tfficacioui for calves, and per haps taken to the amount of a large tumbler alt would answer fir an adult of our own species, rep ated. At b.ast tha is the quantity I have always taken once in very slight cases. but properly with a view to soften the caus ticity, mixed with a little milk, though perhaps, when the di.ease is violent, it should be t iken unmixed. I am perUctly aware that this recommendaion will appear to some of your readers a sulj .c for ridieule, coming from an individual unconnected, as I avow myself, with the medical profession; but to me it has always ap peared, that when skid and science have exhausted ad their resources, in useless attempts to arcomphab a cure, relief is not altogether to be desp mired of, when we so well know bow much human nature is inde.,ted for its curative blessings to chance and comparative ignorance. P.S. Lime -water will keep for some time in a glass bottle well corked; but is perhaps best when newly made from fresh unslaked lime. • - ERRATA.—In the paragraph yesterday- re lating to the market for gold in Parla, for average read exchange. The quotation of the H imiturgh - exchange also was put in shill.ngs and pence instead of mares bane°. On Monday evening the Company's steamer Soho was hired by the Portuguese Government ro convey t h e young Queen of PORTUGAL to Lisbon, and between II and 12 yestet day morning she left her moorings at Black wall for Havre, where the youthful Sovereign is now wa iting her arrival. She was cheered repeatedly at the passage ~wn the riv e r. of the H on . P ERCY C HARLES a r W Y N D HAM, the sinecure places of Cl er k o f C our ts, Secre tary, and Prothonotary of the Common Pleas in Barhaeloes, docks By and the yards death ori her cl have become vacant. The late possessor always resided in this country. Penny theatres have becom e extremely com mon on thg outskirts of the metropolis. In some, how ever, the quality in the boxes pay two•penc e ' The Vauxhall Jubilee has taken so well, that it is expected the proliiietOrli will liiiltlstc tetlariary festival every ytar for the future, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1833. At the Levee yesterday, which was the last o the season, his MAJESTY invested Sir C. M. SUTTON, the Speaker of the House of Com mons, with the ()icier of the Grand Cross of the Bath. We know of few public men more wor thy of this honour, than the Right Hon. Gen tleman thus distinguished. As the Speaker of our first Reformed Parliament, he has . shown wondeiful , address, temper, And Management; so much so indeed as 4o have , conciliated all parties. If his political opinions do'nbt alto gether accord with those of the age, still he has had the rare discretion to keep them under strict discipline, and never to allow them to interfere with the discharge of his official duties. We perceive by the Brussels Papers that the late storm has been almost as general along the Dutch coast, as along the South and South Western coasts of England. A letter dated Ostend, September 1, quoted in the above Journals, says, for the last forty-eight hours, a most frightful storm has been raging ; such a one has not been known here within the me mory of man. We see to the West, and still at a great distance, a vessel approaching the coast, it is to be feared it will have the same fate as many others." The full particulars of the havoc occasioned by the late tempest, are yet to be ae , certained. Hitherto, with the exception of that most dreadful and indeed unparalleled shipwreck at. Boulogne, we have had but very impeifect details. The damage done toshipping in various parts of the British coast, will, we apprehend, be found very extensive. Intelligence from Antwerp mentions that there, too, the storm has been felt in all its horrors. The public will be gratified to learn that the first accounts received from the West Indies since the arrival there of the resolutions of the House of Commons respecting the slavery question, are favourable. It was yesterday mentioned in our City article that papers had been received from Jamaica up to the 20th of July, in which the satisfaction of that island at the amended, or altered Ministerial plan, was loudly expressed. We have not yet seen copies of the Jamaica papers; but in another column will be found an extract from the Antigua Herald, of the 20th of July, in which the editor of that journal expresses his own delight, and that of all classes of the in habitants of that colony at the plan i►i general. It is curious that the only point on which a " shadow of dissatisfaction" has been expressed, is the apprenticeship provision. In the resolutions it was decided that apprentice ship was to be for twelve years at most ; and many supposed friends of the slave owners con tended that this period should not be shortened. But what says the Antigua Herald? We have conversed pretty generally on the subject, and can say, without hesitation, that masters, in this island at least, think that the freedom had better be easy, simple, and unrestricted, andfeel convinced that every thing will soon find its 'level." This is gratifying to those who con• tended in this country for the shortest possible period of apprenticeship, and we imagine that the same feelings will really predominate in all the colonies, however much, for the sake of cocsistency, they may, after a time, grumble at the reduction of the maximum of apprenticeship to six years. It is evident that the Antiguans are taken by surprise at the immense amount of the compensation money, although the editor of the Herald preserves sufficient caution to call it partial compensation." We hope that the West Indians will not allow this gratitude to grow cold before proceeding to gratify the wishes of the people who have made such sacrifices on their behalf. That the Commission appointed to investi gate corporate abuses will have abundance of work upon their hands, every day furnishes fresh proof. Some of these abuses, however, are of a nature which we hardly think the Commis sioners have power to remove. We have, for instance, in a pamphlet before us, published by Mr. THOMAS WHITE of Hull, on the manage ment of the hospitals and alms-houses of that town, a list of abuses sufficiently gross to pro voke the indignation of the most indifferent ; but we doubt whether municipal reform will remedy them. Placing greater power in the hands of the people over their corporate officers, will certainly prevent future abuses of corporate funds, or of charitable bequests, to be administered by corporations, but it will not recover the property which Mr. White laments the loss or mis-appropriation of. In page 66 of his pamphlet Mr. White (who has been overseer of the poor at Hull, and in that character acquired the information he now lays before the public) says, " At one time several rooms in different hospitals were occupied by Aldermen's servants, of various grales, from the haughty officer attending on the Mayor, down to the humble footman, each leaving the hospital every morning to wait upon' his master, and returning to it when hie d illy labours were over. To such an event did this system prevail, that one of the aldermen, not many years ago, had absolutely five male and female hired servants quartered on the hospitals, each of them receiving wages reduced in proportion to the sum received from the alms house in which he or she happened to reside. " I have known several instances of elderly decayed tradesmen applying for rooms in the hospitals, but they were always refused, the refusal g nerally being accom panied with a remark that the hospitals were intended for the servants of the donor,! The new-made aldermen appear to have adapted the creed of their predecessors, and thus absurdity may be transmitted through euuntless generations, unless measures be taken to convince the present race of their egregious mistake " Of course, the establishment of a popular con stituency in the town of Hull will prevent the Mayor or Aldermen ever again keeping their servants in the public Hospitals, but we do not see how property bestowed upon the corporation for specific purposes, and sold by them, can be recovered. Mr. WHITE, and the Reformers of Hull, have, we fear, no remedy for past misdeeds of this description. They are, we trust, about to receive, with the inhabitants of every other corporate town in the kingdom, the complete control of their own affairs. If they should then be able to discover misapplications of property, which they can remedy by their own power and their own acts, well and good, but we would advise them not heedlessly to rush into the Court of Chancery, particularly if, as in the case before us, the decision of some constituted au• thority is against them. The Charity Commis sioners, who refused to institute a fresh inquiry into the abuses of which the Governor, Deputy- Governor, &c., of the poor of Hull, complained, have probably some reason for doing so, suffi ciently good, to make the -result at an application to the Court of Chancery doubtful. GRAVESEND.—Attempts are making, in pursuance of previous threats, to shut out . the public from that most attractive and delightful spot, ";" indeed actual barriers have been erected to confine the inhabitants and visitors to the path that leads only to— the alehouse there ; but these barriers have been put down for the present, by one of those meritorious individuals who now and then are to be found ready to maintain public rights, though at personal - inconvenience and ex pense. The object of this enclosure of Windmill-hill is to convert it into a site for building, and already three 101. cottages and a beer shop send forth their fume and smoke where the hawthorn and wild flower lately dis played their fragrance. The result is, that the corn fields and gardens surrounding the hill areby this &version trespassed upon, and other provoking injuries inflicted on the farmer. -Gravesend-hill belongs to the Rev. Mr. Raikes, of the fatnily of the wealthy and highly respect able bankers of that name.—Maidstone Gazettc. The Director-General of the French Post offite has given notice that all letters from Fiance to the British settlements in Asia, America, and all other coun tries beyond sea with which England keeps up regular communications by packets, may henceforth be sent through England from the Post-office in France, on pay ing the usual postage of letters by estafette, with the ad dition of the postage charged for each letter from England to its place of destination. The public are directed to write upon all such letters in distinct characters, the words Vole d'Angleterre. Yesterday an elderly man, form Birmingham, named Townshend, gave information at the Bunhill•row station, St. Luke's, of the fillowinerobbery :—He hail recently . left Birmingham with about 1001. in guineas. On Monday afterocon he was looking about in Holborn for a small shop, when he was accosted by two genteel looking men, who wormed out of him that he had sixty four guineas and seven pounds in his pocket. " Oh," said one, " I don't think you have such a thing as a guinea—they are not to be found now ; I'll bet you 51. you can't produce such a number of guineas." The bet was taken, and the three adjourned to the Sir John Falstaff. when the countrym in displayed his money. W e ll,"_ said the sharper, "you've won it sure enough," and threw down a 51. note. Without going over the whole story, it may be stated that the sharper pretended to wrap the man's money up in the note anti put it in his fob. On their departure the man found his guineas gone, and halfpence in their place. A case which had excited considerable interest was decided by an appeal to the justices at Paisley on Thursday. The flower.lashers having struck work in the middle of last week, claiming to be paid by the piece in p ace of by the day, and for some other alterations in their rules of trade, and several of them having refused to finish their flowers on hand, the case betwixt the journeymen and masters was brought into court, by the latter pursuing the men for breach of engagement. , The evidence adduced by th,. different !mai, was of the most contradictory nature imaginable, the whole of the masers who gave evidence on the vitt of the pursuer having sworn li s . tincily that the rule and practice of the trade was, tat the masters could not discharge, nor the men leave their work, till the fiawers they were engaged on were finished ; and on the part of the defender, about 20 journeymen deposed thie, the rule and practice of the trade were quite the re verse ; that the masters were iu the bait of discharging the men at any hour of the day, without regard to whether their piece of work was finished or nut. After hay ng heard evidence on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the sitting justice (Captain M'Alpin) gave sentence, on Thursday forenoon, finding for ti:e men but leaving both parties to pay their own expenses. We believe there is no likelihood of an amicable arrangement betwixt the masters ' and journeymen in this case ; in the mean time, the greater part of the masters have a. number of hands em „wed, a nd are determined to stan d b y t h e i r f orme r ru l e of ,Hying by the week, at the rate of 1.55. to 165., while the workmen are equally Arm for tho, Am. regolatiomi el — Glasgow Chronicle, PRICES OF IMSI4:4TOCICS, DUBLIN, SEPT. 2. . _ Bank Stock 21014 St. Patrick T nsur.(pet Share) Consols, 3 Der cent ;ov. Stock, 3l per cent. 95k, : Naiicual Ditto — Ditto, New 95% ° Patriotic Ditto,„. ...... ...,,,. I per Cent — Hibernian Bank 22% Soy. Deb. 31 percent.... SR% Provincial Ditto — Royal Canal Stock 4O Royal Irish Mine — tirand Canal Stock 24% Imperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per cent — Mining Co of Ireland 4allast .ffice Deb. 4D. c. 59 Commercial Buildings HIGH ATEF. AT LONDON lIRIDOR TO-MORROW. hforni . l7... 9 minutes m , r ,,, t0. after 6 CIVIL SINECURES, PENSIONS, AND ROYAL ARTILLERY. THE NAVAL AND MILITARY GAZETTE of SATURDAY next, the 7th instant, in addition to its usual important and ex clusive information, will contain a comple.e list of the Civil Sinecure Offices, holder's name, and the emoluments thereof, in England, Ireland, and Scotland, an i the Civil, Militaty, and Naval Pension List of 1833. The Strength and Cost of the ROYAL ARTILLERY (Horse and Foot), Engineers and other Departments of the Ordnance, will also be given after the method (so much approved ot) detailed in the expo4tion of the Army and Nivy, in tl , e last two Numbers of the Gazette. N- B. The Stations of the British Army by REG'. MENTS, and the Distribution of the Royal Navy by SHIPS, with their resp.ctive Commander•, and Number of Guns, will also be given on Saturday, along with a variety of oth«r valuable Intellieence- The NAVAL and MILITARY GAZETTE is for warded by the Newsmen to all parts of the country, postage free. price 7d., and may be ordered by any Bookseller, or Clerk of the Roads throughout the United Kingdom. Office, 19, Catherine -street, Strand. trt • , ga vit ,• 4,..1 wo.4*-• BUTCHERS AND HIDE SALESMEN' (THIS DAY.) Coal ° In consequence of the Bermondsey Market _ s ir having appropriated a part of their premises as deP7OO for the sale of raw hides, a meeting of the metropolis took place this day, at the hall of the W s ' Ole ful corporation of butchers in Pudding-lane, at _Jilt after twelve o'clock, to consider, as the circulars exem-01 the " propriety of supporting the continuing of the mark s 0 unrestricted sale of raw hides in Leadenhall nis r i ao opposition to the monopoly of the Bermondsey his • ;• Company." (,hair' Mr. WARRINGTON having been called to the C 0 0 Mr. Srunenss, of Leadenhall Market, rose toil the first Resolutions, which expressed the oeini° n „ meeting, " That Leadenhall Market, establishe d pat, under the sanction of a charter for the proteloli a free sale of raw hides and skins, was anW le tub biA dimensions and convenient in its locality." Ig r ' S , in moving the resolution, dwelt at great length on toe - sio w which the general interests of the butchers would sl o f the removal of the hide market to Bermondsey. 14 0- bu'cber ° o - l ir. pany there obliged every seller of hides, before he could Kt hire a counting• h ouse , w h ereas , i n L ea d e nhall-rw r i ke o I toll or tax of any d escr ipti on ex i s t e d on the s..le 01 , if , When once it s h ou ld b ecome th e cus t o m to sell rje o ll . , Bermondsey inst e ad o f Le a d en h a ll- mar k e t. b u tchers be at the mercy of the Bermondsey CotepanYs ; 014 Mr. WAaMINGTON, jun., seconded the resalutll regretted the absence of hid e sa l esme n, who bad r sa much of butchers' money.—(Hear.) One Web. ( salesman had told him hi s h eart was with the butopii but still he was not th ere .— Cries of 4. Pe, oh.") o tlf. had yet to see wh e th er hi s exertions would be a of a support the but c h e rs. —(H ear , b ea r .) J 3el-7° i s ior l, t' market was in the possession of the tanners of Bei p s . , sey, who, if they once left Leadenhall, vo'u t ,, o l o "/ it in their pow e r t o exc l u d e w h om t h e y pleased Jr" ,OSS, sale of hides. Hides was a most important Wick , 'fi O 4 there was another imp .rta n t ar ti c l e , na mely---fa t; 00 , what was to become o f th e i r f a t, if t h e y did not P il o? a free market? How could they tell what they vl u w sl o fir their fat, when the monopoly would be plac ru „,o6 4 k:i hands of a few gentlemen, i n a b ac k p ar l ou r at Bet o br sey—perhaps talow-chandlers—who would cow,i butchers to take what they might please to give ?..." 10 , d He bad known m my of the Bermondsey tanners IN.Tiblef ctildhood, and as individual s th e y were most rear' „ 0 0' but when they combin e d f or suc h an un h a llowed P i n r islo' a+ this, it was their duty as E ng li s h men , as citizen s ; ', great metropolis, and, he w ou ld sa y, as trade °. 40' (Hear)—to show, by their determined• oppasi ti lserr e4' although it was hinted, in 1817, th a t the butch e r ,sr_. nobody, that they were now somebody.—(Reae".ases7 plause.) He had not heard a s i ng l e com plaint 11 . indivicintl butcher, and the fault was that buealw; been too supine while th e i r i n t eres t s were , t ra , o ,o o on.—(Hear.) The c on sequence was they were . 1 " r nothing of, and the tanners said "if we 101 moadsey, the butchers mu s t f o ll ow us."--( 11 e 3r.1 ,00: he hoped the butchers would gi ve th e t a nners ea°'"ljlo l ' proof that they were Englishmen and would no t them.—(Hear, bear.) If the butchers did stet Bhp B rmondsey with their hides, buyers must come roof h . at Leadenhall Market, or they would lose the cusw in t he , c iuniry tanners.—(Cheers. It was their (WY to ~f selves a n d th e ir chddien to keep the advantages t ""' held. The resolution having been put, le ti r o t u Mr. GIBLET, of Bond-st ree t, concurre d in the res° / and said that although the Bermondsey en' ,l l, : e s , o P s oo o7, l i , , , consulted the interest and convenience of W A - c ool! deal-rs, they had done nothing for the interest an 0 root nience of the butchers of the metropolis. If they t e io If the plans of the Cumpany, he had made a o 'lo l °' O,: which it appeared, that the Company would 0 341 :0 0 :,, out of the much respscted trade of butchers. irb- 1071, tie 24 per cent. on the whole expense of the both - tor taunt-rs and butchers.—(Hear, heat.) o gentleman was commend a bl e i n d o i ng as h e thnulniatel' but he hoped that no gentleman would sen d lac Bermondsey till he saw how his in•erests were P"; e ar —( Hear, hear.) He wished to say nothing 114 0 00/ offend any gentleman ; but it certainly was i 1 10°11 :, W / some in the tanners to say, th a t if th e butchers w l d-ar.•, take ttteir hider to them a t 11.•rmondley, they tables'' . go to L ea d en h a ll mar k et , b ut go roun d to the ° lo t r ii and buy up the hides direct.—(Hear, bear.) ' b iossr: butchers be true to thems e lv e s, and semi their b the Leadenhall-market as h e r e tofore; for t Ithougb t ort; monssey-market people now offered them an 011 • Of! n g I° five, tell, or fifteen per cent., there was no se),l-00 soon they would be obliged by c o mpet i t i on to r' °ll ' , advantage. ;00 ) The resolution was then put and carried utts° i- a o tir e . Mr. Hicks, of Newgare Market, moved staisse c ",, a Ll" solution, expressive of the determination of the tre e- 0 0 17 . , resist the attempt of the Bermondsey tanners, t''' c atlF them carry their hides across the water. Notling s bie( be more gratifying to his feelings than to do en t iteard,. that would assist the trade of the butchers. -- 10 ,00, He did not think he could better do so than by ~.. 40.1 ( ing Leadenhall Market. Time tanners of Lentb,,o:o? mistaken if they supposed Leadenhall . Market err ~. upon them, for more than two. thirds of the bid es o stali, in the market went into the country. The 13e 0 1 0 r , tanners told them that the new depositor* bei g t o rkna , more convenient for them, the bides would be' or potiv - ; ,l each more to them. That might ire, but the rn e ... g t, i i i * :( by being near the Thames would enable them - .ma i tr:, it at any time; and if they did not like the paces' ° I • i, . were• not buyers. Now, sb e hey all knew 'a P r a pit it was to do business with a cheerful Wie r ' wa lor,T sr . . being pressed with other business, was glad " trltia' i bi whenvpaunetahgaeas purchases tannera as Y soonatP :8 : 111s present I a u l lo r ud t l h d, ef owithout i w r o h i ge I' Be rmii:ee tg.YO Cori :l , Leadenhall lie was really a buyer...—(Applen se ' i re are ! - pl were now more respectable than they were 2 .° I ,, r y rie but still he found, among some Parliament-ibey y it with whom h e h a d l ate l y b een i n commun i c ationt 6oo o or , not thought very highly of. The conduct '4004 ilk people connected with their business, especie ll Y 0 thst e o, drovers, and p er h aps sonic o f a l ower class miss r o fe ' drovers, had b u t t oo j ust l y occas i one d this el it ' ' sion of th e i r genera l c h aracter ; b ut it delve " . ,'.1 themselves to beware of this misapprehension. ~. '„,:: (LEFT SPEAKING.) ' ',,, _ tz e re vi s A , ,i' THE ALMANACEI DES GOU.-- 1 ,,i0/2 1 0.4: Grimod de la Reynieres, the author of th itt a r''. >' duction, calls an indigestion, Me remorse ° f . , V ' ',"e stomach I e . t)r se 4e Captain Addison, the author of 011 to .• successful pieces at the Adelphi, is a deice:ldo l °. brated author of that name. e a ;/ . k t sn f $ The Dover and Calais Steam-P 3c , o e re . ; fo l , panics have just applied to the Government;, l f u j o je t t f the establishment of a separate communics tni o rros o stingers by the Post•office, which would be t„telotit ous competition to private comp a ni e s, a s the " - e b ot otP . paying itself for the entrance duty on coals an d 'a b . is in reality exempt from charges which are El f' some to private enterprises. Ofe i At; go THE FALL OF THE BRIGHTON - the is f. , "r"' s 0. it —(Further Particulars.)—The Anthemn s bo 0 0, dome in the world, exceeding in diamete r t he 0 0 01.5 Peter's at Rome by 36 feet, the width ni he gf° ,10b,.: bottom being 164 fe e t, an d th e h e i g ht from the 05 '".. the top of the ring exact ly 64 f ee t. With i - je; * P fg i, would have been 80 f ee t or more on the ' U t'' ld hi e :o, height inside, to admit th e l o l ty pa lms. ‘c °° ,he giyt 7 • considerably increa se d by gra d ua lly s inking 0 0t. / o f t ils , It must be rememl•mered that the dome 'f *4 ge ca' t - a lt t i : # 9 Peter's, placed on a height ;, it rose at ° p '',Pm U s " Ica ground. At six o'clock the workmen left ardoe r, ~ i sb vii; cepticg a man named Wyatt and the head g ri d efe r f,oo, duly it was to see the houses locked %IP B r, o ho vitti secure. A little before seven, the ga t * d h e e d ' oj e tp: . o b iti a e v i ' , 00 : y . O 0 . : . the centre, was alarmed by a loud cracking, end g eo.o exclaimed " Save yourself, it is not sd e 'e ra bet. ° . ( ;) (3 l / barely escaped at the north entrance. mid .na. tell ', (Ai paling, when the whole top part of an awful rapidity. He describes the rib e ch a ce 0 09 down, one after another like a pack of c of o f,'s . be a sound res-naining the continued firing ielPop The millions of sparks produced by so Ma l l.' if the . striking azainat each otl.r, nude it ePli ekir i;:icicd ° , II 0 had fallen :n a bi-d of it .mes; and eon e . O ri o .)., i x the next field actually gave an show of l! re ,/ lie', ./ ( sn. was so great in time neighbourhood that the o , s tr oo t? plant and melon pits simulrmeously slid i i st oil ia . VI. hwileiliate information of the disastrou s c lie s e if r warted to Mr. Phillips, who waived A t t ..hat 0° Of l‘ ff, of the greatest agita , ion ; but linding% et iane ol d oli ' been sacrificed, he gave the neceq,arY tim e o pt ; 0 -0 ) 1 ing out time curious who crowded "' d t he n i i g t e# i fortunate it was that lie did so, as ( hard , 00 0 0 4 lof the principals, which were bo'h is t r % re" down with a tremendous crash. The_ lo ss id, 'flo ce ovii . the labour for putting up the iron work "k.., _ ll l ,_ ing the expense of carriage and casting, ~ e,Ou" . o', .. Ir ds 0 ' a r id. la'tour on the dome itselt, cost up- wil l he • ii hF-Hr - , , learn that it • is likely the, Antheu n3 , , s eete 4j .1.9 ‘ , 1 5 1 1 0 es ti a a r a s y G , o a l n d a sm a id r , vin H a tis e , n s ts od sv E ili o g be li n a l o s p l y ) ; rt , building.it. , crowds „of..peiVas' We' rulas....Rrightoa Herald. 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