The Sun. — London, England, 1830-09-27 00:00:00

the good citizens to work with them in unpaving the streets and in erecting barricades, then they go into the houses to force the inhabitassts to buy the paving stones at three francs fur every basket full. The last diligences that left finviselswere stopped at the gates by the populace, who arrived here yesterday evening, 'and those from whom we have these details, were obliged to give up to the heroic defenders of the country, one his great coat, the other his hat; the other passengers were served in the same manner. Such is the picture of the state of Brussels at this mo ment, and which threatened to become still more gloomy, if the King in his goodness had not resolved to put an end to so many evils. (From the Journal de Gand of Sept. 25.) GRIM, Sm. 24.—We have official news that the internal heights of Brussels, the Park, the three Palaces, and the adjacent squares and streets are occupied by the Royal troops. Besides this, the cavalry, with 30 pieces of cannon, entered the city on another side. All those who are acquainted with the state of parties at Brussels easily anticipated this result. The rich and the merchants occupying the upper-town, and having been long under the tyranny of the mob and the agitators, have doubtless joyfully introduced into the quarters where they reside the troops who came not to conquer but to defend them. It is added, but not officially, that the remainder of the city was occupied almost immediately. This ap pears to us to be the infallible result of the occupation of the first positions, and especially of the manner in which that occupation took. place. All persons acquainted with Brussels know that those heights form a plateau, very favourable for the use of artil lery, and that they command the outlets of all the streets of the lower town, in which the infantry and flying artil lery can there act with ease. We are told that these events were prepared in the following manner :—After some partial engagements at other points, a corps of 600 men, placed before the Flanders gate, having opposite to it some Brussels troops who wore the Orange cockade, is asia to have been seduced by their appearances of concord to fraternise with the troops of the city, and to have en tered the gates without mistrust, but that they were per • Odiously attacked by those who introduced them, and did notiffect their retreat without having 15 or 20 wounded. Whatever truth or probability there may be in this state ment, this violation of all ideas of honour and probity is said to have exasperated the troops in the highest degree, and to have been followed by an order to fire upon Bros eels. Soon afterwards this formidable demonstration having filled with terror the wealthy cititens,who have no interest in the fatal struggle in which agitators and the populace have engaged every body, are said to have made a convention with the troops to give up to them the positions which they first occupied. Such at the moment of our going to press is the situation of affairs as far as it is known. Victories without any result;.—.this is all that a revolution could produce, which not being the expression of a want could not take deep root in the minds of the people. Our city is happy in having discovered the real motives of a move ment founded on private interests and private vanities, and the martyrs of which have not even the consolation of dying for the success of a great idea. All the accounts which we receive confirm the entrance of the troops into Brussels, and the occupation of that city. We expect the details, which we shall immediately give in a supplement. M. &Melia, Member of the Second Chamber, has given, as we hear, orders to two Advocates 4d Bruges, to sue the local authorities for damages, on account of the spoliation of his house, and the destruction of his furni ture in the riot at Bruges, in July. Several persons have been arrested in the environs of Brussels ; it is reported that Baron de Stemma has been arrested near Mons. . The Antwerp Journal of the 23d says This morn ing a carriage with a strong escort, brought to Vilvorde as prisoners M. de Ducpetiaux, President of the club of Brussels, and one of the Editors of the Courier des Pap Bas, and M. Everard of the same city. We do not positively know the circumstances of their arrest, they were lodged in the prison and immediately examined. Yesterday about three in the afternoon there was some fighting on the plain of Mont Plaisir. This morning at half -past seven cannonading was heard at Boom, in the direction of Brussels, The cannonade then ceased, and it is hoped that the hostilities are concluded. It is probable that the troops, however, entered Brussels to-day. May this be effected without bloodshed, and may policy and clemency disarm the severity of justice. The following letter, dated Antwerp the 24th inst., has been received at LLOYD'S this Morning :-- t. " Prince F re d er i c k only acted upon the Proclamation of e 21st inst,, yesterday morning, when at seven o'clock the troops began to mo ve towards Brussels; they mat a most determined resistance, and not until one o'clock r. 14. did the troops make themselves masters of one of the gates, they ultimately possessed themselves' yesterday afternoon of the upper town. The whole of the day, until late in the af ternoon, very heavy firing of guns was heard, and again this morning. Reports on Change to-day state that at tan o'clock this morning the troops had succeeded to get Possession of all the gates of the unfortunate town. How ever, no official accounts have reached here since yesterday afternoon, than the Prince's first success wag announced. We remain here in a state of the most anxious suspense. The reports all agree that the insurgents here lost 4 great many men, far more than the troops, as grapeshot O nly secured the success gained by the troops, who were brought down to the ground by cannon shot. Three in dividuals, who presented themselves before the Prince on Wednesday to treat, were arrested and brought here. It would appear that they came to the Prince armed." The French and Dutch Papers contain much interesting matter. The Gazette de France of Friday gives an impressive account of the state of affairs in Brussels. A brisk action had slready commenced there between the Dutch troop s and the populace, in which the latter had slightly the advantage. Subsequent accounts, however, mentioned in the Paris Papers of Saturday, state that the Belgic insurrection was at an end, that the Dutch flag floats over Brussels, but that the entry of Prince FRE bIRICK into the capital had been pre ceded by some hours of the most frightful anarchy. The same Papers teem with re - Ports respecting a change in the French Ministry. A stronger infusion of Liberalism is, it seems, to be thrown into the Cabinet, of which LA.VITTE is publicly talked of as likely to b e the head. The Dutch Journals are filled chiefly with the address of the First Chamber in answe r to the RING'S Speech. The Address promises his MAJESTY'S hearty and unqualified support. t the annual meeting of the Mechanics' In. lt , h utieh, held a f ew d ays s i nce at the Court house, Leeds, Mr. BROUGHAM made some Pertinent and caustic remarks on the Earl of WILTON'S late lachrymose speech respecting the education of the lower classes. After corn hienting on the notable absurdity of the Noble Lord's line of argument ; on his alarm as to the progress of knowledge throughout the country; and on his attempts to inoculate the Duke of WILLLINo'row with his own apprehensions; the Hon. and Learned Gentleman went on to ob serve, " he (Lord WILTON) was greatly mis taken if he thought the bulk of the community derived their education from the kindness o f the upper orders; the bulk were not taught by the upper classes, but he (Mr. BROUGHAM) rather thought that the upper classes were taught by the b• • • ulk. • This is pre cise l y w h at we ourselves observed when remarking a week since on the same subject. The lower classes taught by the upper ! What an egregious farce I As well might the unformed scholar attempt to teach his master the ru diments of the classic tongues. The Per !lasse s h ave never yet instructed the louwePr, h ave this nothin g to teach worth knowing— the intellect is almost wholly on the other side. .A 1 By intellect, we mean that sound progressive knowledge whose stream originating with what Lord WILTON arrogantly calls " the loyer, classes," thence diffuses itself with more orless force through every branch of the community, and at last contrives to trickle through the upper classes, by whom even its slightest gurgling is not heard without emotion. The lower classes taught by the upper ! What an utter falsification of fact ! Who generated that moral and intellectual power which ex torted from a reluctant aristocracy the re peal of the Test and Corporation Acts ? Who by the same intellectual energy wrung from the same aristocracy the memorable Catholic Eman cipation Bill ? Who were the first to appre ciate and speak out manfully in favour of regene rated France ? Above all, whose voice is likely to be heard with the deepest attention—and this despite the brayings of a whole herd of bo roughtnongers, sinecurists, and placemen throughout the ensuing Sessions ? The people's voice—the voice of that community from whom all legitimate power is derived, and for whose interests, represented by official organs, all legi timate authority is exercised. The lower classes taught by the upper I And what, pray, may be the amount of information that the one have taught and the other have learned ? We will answer in a word. The art of paying an exorbitant rate of taxation, and of believing implicitly, and without reservation, in the utility of church pluralists, state sinecurists, and political boroughmongers I Away, then, with such trash as the people deriving their education from the Aristocracy. How can , those be donors who have nothing to give ? Let the case be reversed. Let the upper go to school to the lower classes, and then per haps we may be enabled to find poets—philoso phers--orators—divines—statesmen among the former, where we now feel that they are only to be looked for among the latter. One thing is certain—England can dispense with her aristo cracy, but her people are necessary to her very existence. Our national glory would suffer no great diminution by the extinction of the bo roughniongers ; our national revenue would not be very perceptibly impaired by the abstraction of an odd million or two from the Church and State sinecurists ; our national literature would suffer to a ludicrously trifling extent were any accident to deprive it of my Lord NORMANDY'S love-tales and my Lord GOWER'S poetics—while with regard to the people—or as Lord WILTON calls them, " the lower classes"—let us hear what GOLDSMITH says; it is quite conclusive on the subject : " ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay ; Nobles and Kings may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But d bold populace, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied." THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). SMITHFIELD MARKET. In this day's market, which was largely supplied through out, each kind of meat experienced an exceedingly dull sale, at barely Thursday's quotations, indeed, the average price of the primed small Beef offering did not exceed Ss. 4d., that of the primest large Oxen Sc. per stone. A great many Beasts are expected to be turned out unsold. pawn riga STOWS or Eimis. TO SINK rat OFFAI.S. s. d. tot. 11, .. 4. toe. d. Inferior Beasts llO 2 0 Large Lambs 0 0 0 0 Second quality ditto 2 0 2 4 Prlmesmall ditto 3 0 4 0 Prime large Oxen... 210 S 2 Large coarse Calves 910 3 2 Prime Soots, &0..... 3 2 3 8 Prime aniall ditto 4 0 4 4 Inflator Sheep 2 0• 0 0 Lug. Hogs 3 0 8 4 Second quality ditto 2 2 2 8 Small Porkers 4 0 4 4 Coarse.woolled ditto 3 0 3 8 Suckling Calves 12$. to 40t. each. Southdown Wethers 3 8 4 0 Quarter old Pip 12s. to 18s. each. SUPPLY, 115 PER CLIRK'S STATZSISNy. Beasts. (Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. I Piga. 3,373 I 27,730 167 220 About 2050 of the beasts came up the different North Roads; about 150 from the western and midland districts ; about 50 from Norfolk, Sutlblk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire; about 15 (rola Kent and Sussex; and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c., in the neighbourhood of London. NEWOATE AND LEAI)ENIIALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. a. d. tog. d. a. d. to s. d. Heel 2 0 3 2 Veal Mutton ... Lamb 2a. lOtt. to as. 10d. MEETING ON KENNINGTON COMMON. (THIS DAY.) A meeting, as the bill expressed it, of the middling and working classes, was held on Kennington Gunman this day, for the purpose of addressing the French people on the late glorious Revolution in that country, and also to petition hie Majesty to adopt some measures to relieve the present distresses of the country. The meeting was called for one o'clock precisely, at which time Mr, ihmtv HUNT was to take the Chair. At twelve o'clock the Common presented but a very sorry appearance in point either of numbers or any thing decent or respectable, at that time there could not have been more than five or six hundred persons pre. sent, and those of the lowest description. After that the numbers began slowly to increase, and a few minutes before one o'clock, Hunt's " Patent Composition" van, which was destined to hold the Committee of the " Poli tical Union," drove up in front of the Horns Tavern. On one side of the van was a large tricoloured flag, or rather sheet. A few minutes afterwards Mr. Hunt made his appearance in a one-horse chaise. It was some time before the orator was recognized; when he was, however, he was received but in a very cool manner, there being only a faint expression of applause, and that proceeded from a few idle boys who followed his gig. Indeed Mr. Hunt himself appeared to feel (we were going to say) ashamed of it, for he threatened to give the young urchins a flogging if they did not get further off. Mr. Hunt then proceeded to the Committee-room, and gave orders for the van to follow him. A few minutes after. wards it returned with the Committee, and having reached the turnpike gate, some railings were pulled dotvit for the purpose of admitting it to the enclosed part of the Common. At this time we should suppose the numbers collected could not exceed more than from four to five thousand ; indeed, we have no hesitation in characterizing the whole affair a complete failure, and in such lhol order did the concocters of it appear to be, that at the time our Re porter applied to the Committee for accommodation to report the proceedings, agreeably to a circular forwarded to the different Newspaper Offices, he was informed that they (the Committee) hail been endeavouring to obtain four vans ; but, (rain some cause or other, the parties to whom the applications had been made were inexorable, and consequently that all their en deavours on this head had turned out abortive. Under the circumstances, we need scarcely add, the necessary ac commodation could not be afforded by the Committee, or obtained by those gentlemen on the occision. It was generally understood that a very strong detachment of the New Police would be on time scene of action, but that orders had been issued by the CAsnimissioners that none of them should be in attendance, and not a single member of the body was to be seen during the whole pro ceedings. As usual, on all similar occasion., there was no t wanting a small sprinkling of flags and placards in scribed with party inscriptions — such " Hunt and Liberty," &c. &c ., and the itinerant members of the Re ligious Tract Society were snore tha n ordinarily active and zealous in the dispensa tion of their pious gratuities. At half-past one o'clock Mr. HUNT having been called to the chair haraneued the assembled multitude in a speech of considerable length, in he couse of which h e begged of them not to disturb the speakers by cries of " Order," and also requested a gentkman who qu ietly wits smoaking his p i p e in the crowd, to lay it down, as the smell of t obacco was not agreeable to the olfactory nerves of some ora tors. Mr. H thento verted to the object ► for which the me eting had been con- vened, and was proceeding k his usual tirade against the daily press at the time our reporter left. The following is the petition to his Majesty that will be submitted to the meeting : TO HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY WILLIAM THE FOURTH. MAY IT PAUSE YOUR MAJRSTY, " We your Majesty's dutiful and loyal people, the middle and working classes of the British metropolis, and its suburbs, as. sembled on Kennington Common, in the county of Surrey, this '4th day of September, 1530, in numbers amounting to persons, most respectffilly approach your Majesty with our sin- • eere and unfeigned congratulations upon your accession to the Throne of these realms. At the same time we assure your Ma jesty that our Joy is heightened with a just belief that your Royal consort, Queen Adelaide, is endowed with every virtue, and possessed of every accomplishment calculated to soothe and to bless your reign, and that she will exercise her native benevo lence and philanthropy, in conjunction with your Majesty's truly English feelings and habits, in such a manner as will be calcu. lated to insure to an industrious and a free people the blessings of contentment and prosperity. " We know that we should but ill discharge our duty to your Majesty, if we were merely to offer our congratulations in the fulsome strains of flattery, or to approach the Throne in the hy pocritical caut of adulation—we feel that a e should be guilty of a compound act of treason to the King and to his people if we were to come before your Majesty with false and delusive representa tions as to the state of the country : such fawning sycophancy we should deem equally abhorrent to the character of keemen to offer, and disgusting to a patriot English King to accept. " We tender our homage to your Majesty in the humble, the respectful, and the dignified language of truth ; and, although we feel that it would be arrogance in us to intrude win your Majesty any thing bearing the semblance of dictation, yet we know that we should disgrace the name of freemen, and justly merit the appellation of cringing slaves, if we were to endeavour to withhold or disguise the truth by imposing upon your Ma. jest) , a repetition of such false and hollow adulation, and such gross misrepresentations of the flourishing state of the country, as have already emanated from more than one body of your Ma jesty's subjects. " We, therefore, respectfully, but firmly, offer the following statement as to the condition of the country, for your Majesty's serious and deliberate reflection; and we fearlessly appeal to your Majesty's own recollection, and to your personal know. ledge, as to the truth of such statement :—ln the year in which your Majesty was born only EIGHT MILLIONS of taxes were lin posed upon the people of this country; at the present time at least SIXTY MILLIONS of taxes are annually wrung from the in. dustry of the people. For nearly thirty years this country was plunged into the most sanguinary wars, waged against the liber ties of the people of America and France, during which period the money forcibly extorted from the hard earnings of the pea le by unbounded and relentless taxation, was squandered in the most wanton, the most wicked, the most profuse, and the most profligate manner, sanctioned by corrupt self-elected Parlia ments in the choosing of the Members of which the people who paid the taxes had no share whatever. This expenditure, in one or two years, amounted to the enormous sum of Oai HUN DRED AND THIRTY MILLIONS per annum. To enable the people to pay these enormous taxes out of their hard earnings, a delu sive, fictitious, and greatly depreciated paper currency, was stab. i stituted for that of the current coin of the realm • and an enor mous debt of EIGIIT HUNDRED MILLIONS was contracted in this depreciated paper currency. In addition to this, cruel and op pressive Corn Laws were passed, for the purpose of keeping up the rents of the aristocracy, and which had the effect of filling the coftra of contractors and loan-jobbers, whilst the labouring people were suffering the greatest hardships and privations Since the period above alluded to, that of your Majesty's birth, the criminals of this country have increased in number tenfold, and new gaols and other receptacles for the unfortunate allbrd the most unequivocal emblems of the fallen state of the people of this once.flourishing and happy country. At the end of FOUR TEEN YUARS of peace, amongst many other most objectionable and oppressive Acts of Parliament, a law was enacted. compel. ling the industrious people of this country to pay in GOLD, of tllll standard value, the interest of that debt before alluded to, which had been borrowed in a depreciated paper currency. During the period of this depreciation, the Civil I.ist, the salaries of all the Royal Family, the Ministers of the Crows, all the Officers of State, the Judges, &c., were advanced at least one-third in amount, upon the plea of the high price of the necessaries of life —the Ministers who proposed it, and the Members of the House ' of Commons, the pretended guardians of the public purse, ap pearing totally to lose sight of this important fact—that the people, out of whose pockets this money was to be taken to pay those advanced salaries, had to pay the same price for their bread, and the other necessaries of life, which rendered them less able to bear the burdens of taxation already imposed upon them, much less to bear the additional burden thus inflicted. And it is a fact which we cannot refrain from calling to your Majesty's recollection, and submitting for your humane and just consideration, That the above-named augmented salaries of the Royal Family. the Officers of State, the Ministers, the Judges, &c., still are paid in their full amount in gold, and con sequently they . remain now in the receipt of full one-third more than they received before the currency was depreciated.' In ad. dition to these acts of cruelty and injustice, a paper has been laid before Parliament, proving that 113 Privy Councillors, receive annually out of the taxes upwards of 650,0001. in the gold cur rer.ern. consequence of these and innumerable other similar acts and proceedings, we most respectfully, but firmly and con stitutionally, beg to represent to your Majesty, that thousands of men of property are flying front the country, to add to the wealth and strength of other stations ; that a considerable por tion of those in ahe middle walks of life are fast being reduced to pauperism ; and that a very large portion of the industrious and labouring classes are driven to ruin, beggary, and starvation.— As an instance of the latter fact. we take leave to inform your Majesty, that the very same newspapers which gave an account of your Majesty's accession to the throne, recorded this appalling event, that five labouring men were found starved to death on one day, within seven miles of your Majesty's Palace of St. James's. • " We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal people, most earnestly and most sincerely beg to state to your Majesty, that it is our deliberate, long-confirmed, and deep.rooted conviction that time evils we have felt it mar duty to describe to your Majesty in this our humble Address, as well as all the other evils attendant upon and resulting from excessive and overwhelming taxation, have wholly arisen from the absence of a full, free, and fair re. presentation of all the people in the Commons' House of Par. liament. _ _ _ " We, your Majesty's faithful and loyal people, look forward to better days, in thecontident hope that your Majesty will cause o be restored to us the constitutional rights of which the people have been so long and so unjustly deprived—namely, the right of every person who pays taxes to vote for a Member of that Ifouse which imposes the taxes; and the right to exercise this inalienable franchise free from all unconstitutional controul. which latter right, we beg to assure your Majesty, can be se cured only by giving to the electors the protection of the BALLOT. " We, your Majesty's faithful and sincerely loyal people, most earnestly pray that your Majesty's reign may be one in - linter. rupted scene of peace and happiness, and that your Majesty, in union with your Royal Consort, may sever cease to deserve and receive the spontaneous homage, and to live in the hearts of a free, a prosperous, and a contented people. (Signed on behalf of the meeting), 1 ' HENRY HUNT, Chairman." THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY). CITY, TWELVE O' CL CK. The Ostend steamer has arrived. The accounts by the passengers are very confused, report says that Prince Fre derick has gained possession of the higher town of Brus. sets, and has given them a day to consider on the surreu• der. Another account via Margate states that Brussels was in flames ; in fact, we have nothing positive as yet. We have tl e arrival of several:maik th►s morning; from Vera Cruz of August 8, a Jamaica mail of August 14, and the Rio Janeiro and Brazil mails. We do not hear that the Jamaica mail brings any news of consequence, with the ex ception that the Camden packet, on the 29th July, grounded on Negro Point, to the northward of Cartha gene, and she will not be able to leave Carthagena under three or four weeks. The private letters from Buenos Ayres state that all was quiet there. There had been some disturbances amongst the Indians, which have been put down. Accounts from Turin of 11 th September state that the Albanian insurgents, having learned the massacre of their Chiefs by the Grand Vizier, took revenge and set fire to the town of Janina, massacreing all the Turks. TIIK FUNDS. This day being one of the strictest holidays amongst the Hebrews, called the White Fast, the most of them will be in the Synagogue during the whole of the day, and no busi ness will be transacted by any of that persuasion, conse quently the Stock Market will be in the possession this day of the Christians. Consols, which left off on Monday at 881, opened at 881 fur the Account, since which they have been done at SRI. The estafette from Paris is anticipated by the Morning Papers. We have this moment another account, that the Dutch troops have entered Brunch) without any opposition from the Belgians. Singapore Papers to the 16th May have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house; also Car thagena to the 3d August, and Mexican to the 30th July. The Singapore Papers do not contain any news from the city of Mexico, they state that all was quiet there, and the Government improving in their finances. The Jamaica Papers of the 9th of August state that a dreadful hurricane took place there on Saturday. The rain fell in torrents; the scene from the Wherries was truly appalling ; the sea in the harbour ran mountains high ; several wharfs received considerable damage, and several vessels were driven from their moorings. Sydney Papers have been received at the North and South America Coffee-house to the 284 of May. They do not contain any later news from the Swan River, or any news of importance. The sheep at Bathurst have broken out with a new kind of scab, which destroys the wool, and carries the skin with it, EN ULISH FUNDS Bank Stock, 3;4 per Cent. 9ii4 4 India Stock, 233 4 4 per Cent. new, 3 per Cent. Conctil3% 34 4 per Cent , Do. for Accot.nt, 83% t India Bonds, 62 4 Ditto Reduced. Exchequer Rills. to 70 TWO O'CLOCX. Consols up to the present time may be quoted at 69i for the account, and 89# for money. Retract of a letter from Antwerp It is reported here that the upper part of the City of Brussels is in the hands of Prince Frederick, There has been an engagement , and the Commissioners that were sent to the Prince were taken prisoners." A great many private letters have been received from Antwerp this morning, confirming the capture of Brussels by the Dutch troops, after a very bard contest of three days. A great many lives have been lost on both sides. THREE 0' CZ 0 CIL Consols, 881 1. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES, Consols 884 Danish Do. for Ac 88 Greek, 1825 Brazilian Bonds 71 Mexican, 1825 Buenos Ayres Peruvian 18 Milan Do. Russian 1014 Columbian, 1824, Spanish 24 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY,) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL; San. 26.—Arrived the Katherine Stewart, Forbes, from New South Wales ; Eagle, Smith, and Juno, Hollar, from Singapore; Eleanor, Edmonds, from 11adras; and Kingston, flohnes, from St. John's, N. B. STANDGATE CRXEK, SEPT. 26.—Arrived the Sir David Ogilliy, from Cephalonia; and Diana, Holmes, from Malta. Maitaant, Sari% 26.—Arrived the Agnes, Roe, from Buenos Ayres; Eliza, Wise, from Philadelphia; and Mint, Smith, from Quebec. alms, Ssrr. 23.—Arrived the Lady Cathcart, and General Wolfe, from Jamaica; and Camillus, —, from New York. PoßTsmouTir, SRPT. 26.—Arrived the Hellespont, .ongside, from Leghorn. FALMOUTH, Stern. 25.—Arrived the Hope packet, from Iluenoi Ayres, sailed the 21st of July, Monte Video the 26th, and Rio Janeiro the 18th tilt ; Lady Wellington packet, from Vera Crux; and John, Cabot, from Africa. DARTMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—Arrived the Frederick the Sixth, from China. The William Mitchell, Pakidge, from Jamaica to Havannah, was distrusted the Bth ult., and part of her cargo thrown overboard, bound to London. The James, Dennistoun, from Quebec, was in the Gulf of Canto the 25th ult. discharging, having sustained con siderable damage. The Henry, Ferrier, from Jamaica to London, was fallen in with abandoned, thesth inst., in lat. 35. long. 69. The Moore, Reese, from Waterford to Liverpool, was totally wrecked in Carnarvon Bay on Thursday night. The County of Cork, Bower, from New Ross to New York, was stranded in Cardigan Bay on Friday. The Camden packet, from Jamaica to Falmouth, put into Carthagena de Columbia to repair, having been on shore. The Ducliingfield, from Honduras, Lae arrived off Beachy Head. COURT CIRCULAR. Their lktaassruts gave a ball at their Palace at Brighton, on Friday evening, to the juvenile branches of the No bility and Gentry. The company began to arrive at the Palace soon after seven o'clock, and were conducted into the ball-room. Their MAJESTIES and the Royal Party condescended to notice the happy dancers, and appeared fully to partake of the happiness of all around them. Danc►ng was kept up till past ten o'clock, when the youthful party were ushered into the banquetting-room, where they sat down to supper. The ball concluded soon after eleven o'clock, when the Band played " God save the King." The KING and QuErw, accompanied by the Landgra vine of HESSE Homouto, the Princess AUGUSTA, the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, the Duke of GLOUCESTER, the Duke of lircustoNn, the Duke of ARGYLL, and a select party who had the honour of dining with their MAJESTIES, entered the ball-room about eight o'clock. The juveniles were then formed into sets for quadrilles ; the first quadrille was formed by Prince (ignitor of Cambridge and the daughter of Lady Au ceterA FITZCLARENCE, Lord FrrzaLLax and Miss A. I ,Vroaßsr. Lord DESERT and Miss ADELAIDE OTTVAY, and the Hon. Mr, VILLIErts and Miss %GRAM. The following Nohilky and Gentry, with the younger branches of their respective families, were among the com pany present, viz. :—The LORD CIIANCP:LLOR, Baroness BoLow (the lady of the Newsier) Minister), CORDlelik MUNSTER, Countess WAkwicE, Earl of LIVERPOOL, Lady JANE PEEL, Lady S. BRIDGE:IIAX, Lady C. DE LA ZOUCIIE, Sir HERBERT TAYLOR, Sir HUSSEY VIVIAN, SIT War. JOLLIFPE, Sir D. Scow, Sir MArrintw and Lady TIERNEY, Sir ROBERT WIDRA3I, Sir ROBERT OTWAY, and Mrs. GEORGE DAWSON. The arrangements for the dancing of the juvenile guests were under the management of Madame Micunu. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, attended by Colonel Paorr, arrived in town last evening, from a visit to their MAJ Villas at the Palace at Brighton. Prince TALLEYRAND, Ambassador from the King of the FRENCII, arrived in town on Saturday evening from Paris. SEPT. 26. Their MAJESTIES, accompanied by the Royal Family and Household, attended divine service this morning in the Chapel Royal. The Royal Family enjoyed their usual airing yesterday, with the appearance of the most perfect health. His MA JESTY, accompanied by his three sisters, the Princess ELIZA , . Baru, AUGUSTA, and MARY, drove in as open carriage.— Her Isleartstv, accompanied by the Royal Brothers, his Royal highness the Duke of CAMBRIDOIC and his Royal [lig/melts the Duke of GLOUCESTER, Prince GEORGE of Cambridge, Mier Furact.e.asNes, Miss D'EsTs, Miss BOYLE, Mr. Fox, Sir AND Lk*.‘V BARNARD, Colonel F. FITZCLARENCE, and a numerous suite, rode on horseback. The cells in the course of the day at he Palace have been very numerous. The Duke of CA Ntaßtnoz will leave. for Windsor to day, where he remains for ten or twelve days. The band of the Life Guards played on the Steine this evening. The place was crowded with fashionable company. ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY. The English Opera company closed thair performances on Saturday night, with the Irish Girl and the Middle Temple. At the end of the operetta, Mr. BARTLNY (stage manager) delivered the billowing address : " Ladies and Gentlemen,—Although our grate this season have been, in one sense, confined, I trust that our exertions will not be regarded in that light : we have added one more grand opera—namely, Mozart's great work of " Don Juan"—to the list of those which have before dis tinguished the character of the English Opera-house; and, when the difficulties we have had to contend with are con sidered, I trust I may, without presuming too much, lay claim to some merit for the manner in which it has been brought forward. The principal difficulties we have had to struggle • with have been the necessity of getting up every pi e ce, old arid new, with entirely new scenery, dresses, and decoratiens—every species of property—every hook and manuscript—and every sheet of music, having been destroyed by tit!e awful calamity which reduced the English Opera-house to ashes. The espence attendant on these requisites (and notwitlistar aiitgo tila very that of keepingraltacr i tfiocgeevtohnertilnespoasrntstaoll a t of the performers),heatre a company which, we trust, has not disgraced the efforts of former years, have ren dered the season, I lament to say, any thing but a pros- perous one : in fact, a heavy loss has been added to that which the proprietor sustained in the total destruction of his property in February last, Still, Ladies and Gentle men, munificently supported a. he has been by the pa tronage of some of the proudest names of the country, and by the ready assistance of many distinguished and sympa thising friends, the proprietor looks forward with cheerful confidence to the next season, when he trusts we shall have to greet you in a new and commodious theatre, in the construction of which your comfort and accommoda tion have been, from the moment of the fire, the constant occupation of his thoughts. He premises you, Ladies and Gentlemen, a better, though not a larger, theatre then the l et a iai s te t i I pwr ai me ti citsee s d h a o nl u ue l lw d t t is lie tt. et;thilte st impedimenta i:eeeattiri ley s n rh , e l a i tin i I c t l )b i ,: h d, a ;i v v e it,ie ft ed r t i i s it it k f ys r o o lu n tet t . reception on the Ist of July in the ensuing year. And es zantill ttliprvtoolliutenoliiialii)egrrisgitg,ertraoetrte: in n i l n n s alcy f k o o r nwo m wn e i ea, b ing u t. t i n t i o n w e t x; e portion of ost cordial good a n n a: i nts wi fi ti i i r r k e v s e pe i c la tf v u e l y r e b e i e d i v y e( r i n ; l farewell." The opening into St. James's park, from Pall mall, via Carlton-gardens, is now rapidly progressing. Twenty men (being as many as can work at the wane tune in the space allotted fat excavation) are busily employed in throwing the soil into carts, which immediately remove it to a large pit within the enclosed part of the park, out of which gravel was dug last summer. By this means two useful object* are at once accomplished ; a direct and com modious entrance from Pall-mall and Regent-street will h e afforded to the public, whilst the unpleasant aspect (and to - children dangerous nuisance) of a deep chasm in the park itself will be replaced by the green and level turf. There is a report at the West end of the town, that Mr. Gotalinnw quits office to make way for Lord PALMEUSIOW. It is understood that Mr. Gout. UURN will he proposed as Speaker in the new Parliament; and as the Opposition will propose Mr. Wv:4l4 (who is, by the by, infinitely better fitted for the office), it is not improbable that this will be the first trial of strength be tween the two parties. Were we to judge of the probable acts of politicians by the plain rules that govern other men, we should pronounce a junction of the GRANTS and Pasts as extremely unlikely ; but the combinations of Parliamentary cliques proceed for the most part an prin ciplei that defy ordinary calculation.—.. Spectator. In many parts of the North scarcely any pal of the barvebt WI been yet got in. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DONCASTER RACES FRIDAY Matti'. The same unpleasant weather that marked the last day the races in 1829 accompanied the termination of is present meeting ; a steady continuous rain threw a ;loom over the sport that not even the second appearance if Birmingham could dissipate. In concluding our notice of these races, we should state that although many of the 'edgings were not let, and the company much thinner than list year, the stand, the b ills, and the new betting..ionms, received greater support ; upwards of 2,000 tickets (at a guinea each) were sold for the stand. The first ball was mended by upwards of 200 fashionshles, and the second by double that number ; and the rooms had more than 700 subscribers. A melancholy accident occurred in the Cup race yesterday, which entirely escaped our notice. Just as the horses got to the distance post, a poor fellow, who evidently must have thought that they had all gone by, run from underneath the rails on the course ; it hap dened, unfortunately, that Dolly had not passed, and before the rider could pull up, or turn aside, she ran against the nan, knocked him down, and killed him on the spot. Re mare was thrown on her knees, but recovered herseli ind went on. Idirmingham and Priam.—Mr. Chifney challenged the proprietor of Birmingham to run for 1,000!. each across the Flat at Newmarket in the next Craven meeting, and Priam to give Sib. Mr. Beardsworth declined, on the ;rounds that his horse had some good engagements at Chester and Liverpool about the same time, and that he had never trained horses at Newmarket, hut he offered to run for that sum the St. Leger course this day. Priam, however, was already on his road to the south, so that there is no probability of a match. Retriever and Priatn.—The result of the cup having induced Lord Kilburn to believe that his horse would have heat Priam in the match it running hail been made at a better pace, he has made the following match with Mr. Chifney :—Doncaster Races, 1831.—Firat day—Fitawil liam Course, Bst. 71b. each, Retriever, 4 yrs, agst Priam, 3 yrs. DXRBY. Betting.—Several engagements have been made in this stakes in the course of the meeting, Cobweb and Caleb having many friends. Colwick, who has evinced quali ties likely to make hint run a distance, is also backed by Mr. Beardswnrth as well for this stakes as the St. Leger. The present odds for this stakes are as follows 15 to I agst Lord Jersey's Cobweb colt IR to 1 agst Mr. Mardi Caleb 20 to I agst Colonel Udny's Anttope colt 20 to I agst Mr. Henry's Tam O'Shanter 20 to l agst Mr. Ileardsworth's Co!wick 33 to 1 agst Lord John Fitsroy's Washington. OAU. Immediately after her race yesterday, Circassian came strong into the market, and before the night closed 7 to 1 found ready takers. Mr. Isaac Srdler's mare Delight, win ner of the Two-yr-old Stakes at Warwick and Abingdon, is also in the betting at 12 to I. ST. LIG IL Betting 120 to 1 agst Mr. Beardsworth's Calwick, taken freely. Circassian and Frederica are in the market, but as yet no definite odds are quoted. The races to-day came off as follows: Sweepstakes of 30 sm. each, 10 ft , for S•yr-olds. One mile. (2 subs. ) Mr. Beardsworth's Birmingham (71b. extra) Lord Scarborough's The Chancellor Dlr. Itiddell's Emancipation Duke of Leeds's Redstart 4 The 71b. extra on Birmingham only served to prove that he is even a better horse than could have been ima gined from his running on Tuesday. Never was a race won with greater ease. The odds were bto2 on him. Emancipation took the lead followed by Birmingham, Chancellor next, and Redstart last. In this order they ran to the Red House, where Chancellor occupied the second place : at the rails Redstart was beat off; Chancellor then went up to Emancipation, and forcing strong running, beat him off without much difficulty ; Birmingham then began to creep up, and at the stand, it was clear to all that lie was winning easy; in fact he did so by a length and a half, pulling hard ; he was rode by Conully, Chancellor by Nelson, Emancipation by Johnson, and Redstart by Tem pleman. We are enable to give a few additional particulars of Birmingham. A short time after he was purchased by Mr. Beardsworth, he went amiss, and continued so fur some month', during the whole of which time he was nursed in a private box, and, in fact, reared by Mrs. Beardsworth, being the pet of the establishment, and thus he became as docile al a lap-dog. His good temper is also remarkable. He stands 16 hands and an inch, has lung thighs and arms upon short legs, with a light airy top, and not a pound of flesh that is not necessary to constitute a perfect racer. He Las run lb times, and won 12. Sweepstakes of 20 mom each, and 20 added by the Cor poration, for 3-yr-olds. St. Leger Course. (Eight subscribers.) Lord Scarborough's Vo!afte, by Waverley Lord Queensberry's Maria The following also started, but were not placed; —. Duke of Leeds's Lady Mowbray Mr. Clifton's Moss Homo Mr. l'owlett's Lady Emmeline . . Betting 6 to 4 wit Maria, 4 to I agat Lady Mowbray, 4to 1 agst Volage, and bto I agat Moss Rose. The latter ►made first running, followed by Volage, to the hill, where Lady Mowbray went ahead, and continued to to the distance, where Moss Rose was defeated. Vulage and Muria then came up, and at the stand headed her. Be tween these two the rest of the ground was contested head and. head, nor was it till the last two strides that Volage contrived to win by half a head. Lady Mowbray was a very good third. The winner rode by Nelson, Maria by Arnull, Moss Rote by Darling, Lady Emmeline by Lye. Sweepstakes of 25 govt. mach. Four miles. (Eight subs.) Major isrburgios Laurel, 11 yrs I.ord Cleveland's Stotforth, 6 yrs Lord Mimilllarn's IlalladSlnger, 5 yes Duke of ',ceder Ituasignol, 45.ra . Betting 7 to 4 on the mare, and S to 1 on Laurel. Ballad Singer made very strong running, followed by Res signol to the (haulm in the first round, when Laurel took the second place. The mare continued strong play to the Red House in the second round, where Laurel and Slot forth came out, and at the rails the mare was dead beat. After a very short contest Laurel shook off Stuffed'', and won in a canter, rode by Nicholson. A Purse of 100 sous. Heats, two miles. I Ant Scarborough's Wharnclitth, 3 yri Lord Milton's Duro, 4 yrs Betting 5t02 on Wineliffe. Won easy. Previous to the races yesterday, the celebrated stud of Richard Nutt, Esq., for many years the most popular in Yorkshire, and most productive of winners, was brought to the hammer ; the prices were very small compared to what they would have fetched four or five years hick ; they were as under-- Guineas. Bay mare by Walton, Altisidora, with it colt by Blacklock (Captain (Gant) Bay mare by NVhisker, Mandan., with a colt by Black_ husk (Mr. Wreford) Bay mare, sister to Coulon, by Whisker, Miss Cranfield (not sold). Memphis, sister to Figaro (Mr. Grant) llO Chesnut mare, by Carton , Altisidora, with a filly foal by Blecklock (Mr. Denison) Margellina, sister to Memnon (sold to Mr. Wreford)... . 2OO Sister to Barethot, (Sir T. Sykes) . 115 Two-yr. olds. Bay colt, by Whisker, Mute, engaged in the Spring Sep. ling, 1113 t, (Mr. Mott) 2SO Bay colt, by Champignon, Thomasina, the dam of Violet by Comas, grandam of Jerry, Metioro, Dora, &c., (Mr Forth) lOO Yearlings. Filly, by Cattnn, Walton mare, (Mr. De»lson) 45 Bay colt, by Blacklock, Whisker mare, in a sweepstakes of :100 SOY S. each, h. ft. in Yolk Spring IVeeting, 1831, (Mr Dickinson) 3lO There were two or three other lota which were not put up. The Administration of Justice inll, vthich received the Royal assent at the close of last session of Parliament, will come into operation on the 12th of Octo ber, w h en the additional Common Law Judges will receive theirappointments. Mr. V. Por,Locx, and Mr. J. Wm 'Jams, of the King's Bench bar, and Mr. Sergeant Lawns, of the Common Pleas, are spoken of as likely to be raised to the Bench on the occasion, but it is highly probable that the new Baron will be taken (coin among the ranks of the Chancery bared PLEASURES OF THE TABLE.---The groat labour and research manifested by Mr. DOLBY in his po pular work entitled 44 The Cook's Dictionary," entitle him to the thanks of the public in general, and of housekeepers in particular. Care in the preparation of u dinner has been judicirmsly styled 44 one of the minor snoralitits but care alone, without knowledge, is of little use, and it may safely be said knowledge was never more clearly con veyed than in the insti netiOns as regards Cookery and Confectionary given in Mr. DOLBY'S work to miswrite , * of fatuities. The Author's unceasing .experience in the cele brated That.thed (louse Tavern of St. James's-street, is a guarantee for the practical excellence of his receipts. cc Tttr TnA osytounArtoN" IN GLASS.-- On Saturday Mr. BACK LEEL afforded to the patrons and votaries of art a very high treat, in the exhibition of his nu lei for a copy of Rieuart.'s immortal work, in stained Woo, intended to form en alter-piece in the east window o f St. James's Church, Westminster. This is in every respect a noble and most praiseworthy object ; and if car tied into effect, as we trust it will be, we have no doubt of Mr. BActuatn's entire tuceess, SPIRIT OP THE PUBIC JOURNALS. The Paris Papers of Friday, which we received, ism night, contain the Report of the Commission' qn the impeachment of the late French Ministers, which we received by express on Saturday, but vhich came too late for publication on that day, ex •ept in a very abridged form and in a second edi ,ion. The document itself is now given entire, and we make no apology for the following remarks on ;ts contents, as these papers contain no other news. !t is evident, upon the slightest inspection of this paper, that the greater part of it has no more rela tion to the late Cabinet than to any of the numerous Cabinets which have followed each other in rapid succession for the last IS years. Much of the his tory which it contains of the attempts mad. upon the Charter by the framer of the'Charter him elf, Louis XVIII., and by his infatuated brother Charles X. has as much reference to the present Minister o f France, Baron Louis, who held the mine post under Louis XVIII., or to M. de Villele, who was Prime Minister under both brother; as to the weak and wicked traitors who are now on their trial. If the long narrative, therefore, has any ten dency at all, its tendency is in fevour of the ac cused, who become the more excumeable in submit- ting to the criminal commands, or in executing the guilty projects of their master, that they had seen repeated inroads made on the Constituticia by for mer servants of the two Bourbons, without resist ance from the nation, and with the concurrence of the Legislature. Had the Monarch himself been put on his trial instead of the fatal Cabinet by whose crimes and folly he lost his Crown, the following paragraph would have applied better than to Po lignac and his wretched ministerial fraternity : " The old age of Louis XVIII. submitted to the sad influence of those (Ultra Royal at) councils; under his reign began that Ministry of six years, the mission of which seems to have been to accomplish the connter-re• volution ; under his reign, and in spite of him, Spain saw a French army smother her aspirations after liberty, and the celebrated ordinance annulled de facto at the moment of its publication. " At the death of that Monarch, the projects sketched under his reign began to be metaled. The new King hastened to satisfy the clergy by means of the law ou as. crilege, the emigrants by means of the law of Indemnity : he tried to abolish the liberty of the Press by means of a projet de lot, which raised against the Ministry which was the author of it such just outcries ; he endeavoured to en slave that profession which is the most useful to mankind by another projet de loi on the medic rl juries and the schools of medicine ; he tried to prepare the minds of men for the suppression of the jury in proposing that sap pression for the crimes of barratry and piracy." Another thing that must strike the reader who discovers with us the most unequivocal evidence of high treason in the subversive ordinances them selves, and in the enforcement of there by military violence, is the introduction of such irrelevant topics us the Algerine expedition and the fires in Nor mandy as snake-weights in the charge. On the lat ter topic the commission avow that they had ob. mined no proof, and profess that they have formed no opinion. They have, therefore, probably aided the cause of the prisoners (if that were possible) by such vague speculations as the following, on the commission of crimes, which the liberal journals at the time ascribed to the Royalists, and the Royalist journals to the Liberals, though they were probably committed, like similar atrocities in England, at the instigation of no political faction, and with no poli tical motive:— " France had already been alarmed with the spectacle which several of the departments at ancient Norma* had presentjd. The dames had there devoured indiscri minately the cabins of the poor and the mansions of the wealthy,—frightful conflagrations, whose true author had escaped the inquiries of justioe, forced the citizens to arm themselves to watch over their properties, and their minds were given up to the highest exasperation. " It was scarcely natural to ascribe these crimes to private malevolence: the cause of them was "ought in a political combination, r.nd suspicious arose to implicate the Government itself. Your Commission have caused ex tracts of the numerous proceedings on the subjret of these crimes to he laid before them. They have perused the voluminous correspondence to which the inquiry has given rise, and have found in it so much obscurity that it will be difficult to arrive at just conclusions. It is certain, however, that the conflagrations of Normandy were not private crimes, nor can they he ascribed to Waled or %tn. confederated individuals., it Is also certain that a kind of Gnaticiont was there at work. Various facts, and espe cially the obstinate silence of individuate, in the cut of perpetrating these crimes, seem to prove it." The disclosures—new to the public—which are made in this document, though not so numerous as its length would indicate, are important and inte resting. It seems fully established that the Ex. king (the father of the exiled Court of Lu!worth), weak and bigotted as he is, was, during the last year of his reign, his own Minister, having been so unlucky us to find a man to place at the head of his councils weaker and more bigotted than himself; that the Dauphin exerted his influence for the downfall of the dynasty as much us lay in his power ; and that all the Ministers, except Polignac, signed the Ordinances with considerable terror, and after long resistance. Poor M. Chantelauze, who came from a provincial tribunal to occupy a place in the Ca*. binet on the mere recommendation of a foolish speech in the Chamber, struggled long against the proffered honours of office and the anticipated mar• tyrdem of Royalism. Even the King's son, the heir apparent, had to go to Grenoble to seduce him • to his ruin. M. de Chantelauze having refused to join the Ministry, or at least having declined till Peyronnet had accepted, in a letter which was laid before his Majesty, the Report thus gives the cow elusion of his negociation, and expresses the terrors of the unwilling Minister : " This letter, it appears, was immediately laid before Charles X., and the refusal which it expressed painfully interpreted by this monarch, for a letter from his Majesty to M. de Polignac, also seised at the Tuileries, and dated St. Cloud, May 14, said—' I send you my dear Jules, the long letter of M. de Chantelause—that of my son says every thing' (that Prinee had arrived from Grenoble, where it would seem be bed been drawn, on his return from the provinces, in order to have an laterview with M. tie Chantelauze),'except the last word, which is, that he is afraid of losing a pleas as once agreeable and not liable to removal, to take one unfortunately too liable to removal. Moreover, I change nothing of my project, and If things happen as I expect, we shall execute our project through the means of N. de Peyronnet.' lbs. Chantelarse then received the order to repair to Paris, where they suceeeded in overcoming his previous repugnance. The Commission should also mention a document which has been united to the process. It is a letter addressed on the 18th of May to his brother, the couusellor at Montbrison, in which he , says, 'We have long kept silence to each other. lam new the first to break it, as I'do not wish that yes should learn by the Afoniteur, and at the same time with the public, the mast important, and, I believe, the most stn.. fortunate event of my life : it is my mooduation as Keeper of the Seals. For these last two months I have steadily resisted the proposal for my going into the Council. lam no longer left to possession of my own free will, tail the orders which are given to me permits to the no were than obedience. 1 ens willing to he the victim.' A similar reluctance to invade the Constitution, with a similar imbecility in yielding to the wishes of the king, sects to have characterised all the other Ministers except Polignac. The project of the ordi nances met with two opponents on their first die. cussion,in M. do Pity rennet and M. G tumor% Raneille, who were esteemed the most reckless politicians, rxto.fstahuevSoetsolsasemicietatlhietisortlina emoti o n , n or d ina nc es and the most audacious Ultras of the Cabinet; and over their ronteots, it the following picture drawn by the Editor of the t a i lt r i n d a es r, i d re g el lo h t i le n i i n t: t g al i: id e lya receipt for then,. 11n_ fabling su ffi ciently paints the state of M. de Menthol's feelings : e K it:f e e l : Monthel observed it, and expressed hims e lf '" with some up fSittlis iVI : T° I 1 1 tatin n ......4 Well,' the worthy Editor rep lied, itt few b u t ex . pressive words, n Monseign eur , tar Gad save the hint;, may Cod save Prance !' A long silence which M. de Moutbel, wishing m. tosa‘ . l ; j e l nsuedi and after self, said again, 'Well, Sir.' SMIV rep e ated W TI; same words, and was about to withdraw , '' when ea th en Montbel, hastily iisiug, held him , and most anx i o usly urged hi m ; saying, 'bleak.'_' _ Gentlemen, ' - said. M. Salm, in returning, 1 1 am fifty-woven years of rip