The Sun. — London, England, 1830-10-12 00:00:00

P . THE MARKETS ---(THIS DAY). ----- HAY MA RKETS.—(At per Load of 3.i Trusses.) kloarse he a vy , Lowland Mea ST 51 dow H . 61A ES'S. y„„ New Meado w H ay ay .£2 0 to le in 2 5 3 5 ttgeltll Old Ditto.. . 2lO 3 title Ve e and Meatiew and nygrass Hay. ..... 4 5 5 5 0 6,6 . Glover Hay 215 5 5 .14 • Vat 5traw.......11.1 0 . t0 XI 141 Wheat straw ll6 2 0 • • A limited supply, and a dull trade ; prices as last quoted. SMITHFIE Coarse heavy Lowl a nd M eadow Hay LD. £.2 5 to .£2 IS New Meadow Hay 2 5 315 Useful Old Ditto. 3 0 4 0 line Upland Meadow and hye.grass Flay 4 0 410 Clover Hay (extra tine)....ts 10 -Generally ~?, •••• Oat Strom Zlloto 41 121 Wheat Straw 114 110 ~..„ Itt 6 t Cl over Hay Si., Straw from 28. to 4s. per load lo we r th an taA voted; prices otherwise stationary. A good sii..ply„ and a -f i - Vtill dull Wade. CITY lIIARKETS--(TWO O'CLOCK.) St/GA E. --The market for Plantation Sugar,. is steady this Ism - fling. The deliveries last week were nearly 2 600 Mute, leaving a stock in the West India Dodo, of 46,715 4hlnla. a n d 3 , 4 38 trees. Strong refining qualities at in 17- denten(); low and middling grocery are at 48s. to 52e. 6d. per cwt. East India Sugars are dull. The Company's sale is to take place to.motrow. Refined Sugars are more in demand,. Foreign Sugars are not so much inquired after, the sbipidog season to the northward being nearly over. The COFFEE market this morning is not quite so active es it was last week. Prices are steady. drliieries last week amounted to upwards %If 560 Duna., of which 350 were for home nee, leaving a stock in the West India Dods of 27,561 puns. and 2,513 Suess. --The sale of Cinnamon, Pepper, Bce. `'f'il'e Lords (4 the by order Treasury for the Ceylon Government took plate yesterday afternoon, when 110,0001bs. of Cm t'it'*3n and 60 bags of Pepper were offered. The sale was attended, and went off very briskly at an advance of troM'2d. to 3sl. Per Ile on the se con d an d t hi r d qua li t i es o last sale prices. Th e fi rst qualities went about Id. to - *Ali& fi lb. low er . The dlowing are th e quotations : '—'lll434liileri &it qtrality' sold from Ss. 611. to 9s. 9(1. per lb. s 400 bales second quality 6s. 4.d. to Bs. 4d., and 517 bales of third quality from 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d.. and 6s. per lb. The Pepper sold w e ll . There were subsequently Offered 100 b ags o f long Pepper, which realized 495. per cwt.' Mem casks of Mare, which sold from 4s bd. to 51. 111. per Ib. ; and 10 casks of Nutmegs fetched 3s. 7d. • to 34, ner lb. Tut BALTIC Taane.--The information from the fishery clawed an increased dement] for Russia Tallow, which has risen to 38 per cwt. The deliveries last week were 2,423 casks, and the stock it 27,042 casks, being V,500 casks inure than at this time last year. Hemp and Flex are firm. TUE Tea TRADE. —'fire East India Company's (leas ration is out for the December sale. It is as follows ilohea, 1.600,00 0 1 h5. ; Congon, Campoi, Souchnng, and Peltoe, 4 800 ,00011 w. ; Twankay and Hyson Skin, 11250,00011 re ; an d 1./ Y .. son, —tn 250,000 lbs.aking a total of 7,900,00011 w. There is a brisk demand for Bo hess'at a profit of 2tl. per Ik. On last sale prices. TDE. INDIGO SAL.—The sale at the India House is Proceeding slowly; up to this morning only 2,690 chests Imving p atostal. The sale goes on verl, steerage's may be quoted about the Caine y as last uneven sayle.but the The Sag TRADE has again become heavy. Raw Silks Cr. la, per lb. lower, . `The exportations ofthepreciotis metals continue to some extent, and in the week ending to-day have been exceed.. ingly lar g e , amounting to not less thin 800,0001., viz., principally of foreign gold and silver coin and bars. The entries yesterday and this morning are Understood to be considerable. it ~' . SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. T ATTERSALL'S. Prim' the 'subjoined st,tternent it win be collected that , tha'ratte a at Newmarket last week have not produced any ' 4 t h e Derby betting,' nor, with the exception of °x Ylao, have th e odds on the O aks been touch affected. The tfiare lot' named is the favourite for the Clearwell Stakes next week (at Newmarket), Washington and Forth's ' talked of no definit e p r i ces are quote d.— Rreatertlay wait slack at the undermentioned odds: DIARY. II ME tt) Chifoey'a Caleb .14 to '.l eget LOrd Jersey's Cobweb colt 20 to 1 agst Mr. Reardsworth's Colwick 2 0 to 1 agst Colonel thlney's Antiope colt aim 14r..II enr y' a T am o ' Sh anter 1 agst laird Exeter's Br. to Zinganee (taken) 2• •to -hagit'Sirj. Shelley's. Cressida colt to 1 ag st D uke of Richmond's Solicitor (taken) SO to 1 agst Lord .1. Fitztoy's Washington SO tol,agst Mr..ll,etre's-Rattler OAKS. ' 6 to 1 agat Mr. Hooldsworth's Circassian 9 to I agst Duke of Grafton's Oxygen II to 1 apt Mr. Sadler's Delight. '` NAPOLEON'S CHAIR. —When the late Mr. , : ntanussox was in office, he was presented with the chair Irilich the exiled Emreamt usually sat in during his die. /nal sojourn at Longwood. This relic Mr. Ilussassott 4 Ppeared to set a great value on, and a place was appro. Priited for it in his library. He had also a small brass Ph* affixed to the chair, on which the period when it ' 4lll .Presented to him, and come other particulars, were "Paved, to which the following lines from "Ilyron's Ode to Napoleon" were added:.— " Nor till thy fall could mortals guess Ambition's less than nothingness." The amiable daughter of a gentleman of rank and fitrtune met with a severe disappointment on Saturday l i 4 a k Pn i,nguat Brighton. Betrothed to a gentleman, as she 4 111114, the bride was attired for the wedding, anti the " tOll ll l, was at her father's door, to convey her and the e:lPVeted bridegrootn to the Temple of Hymen ; but, lo! faithless swain b a d fl e d the preceding night, and with ‘ 11 "1 Yollng lady's immense fortune, which had incatt , I°lll 'Y beta paid hint the day before the intended consum mation ! ....11 4rorniv Paper. BARRINGTON„ AND 1118 FRIENDS.—TiIi3 el.T" tic novel, regarding the author of which so much 4111 ;Y has been expressed, has excited the attention not rdrto of lawyers in gen era l, b ut o f a ll t h ose w ho ar e plunged 1 ki gationt Particularly as regar d s a c tions for debt. It I,_ &Noe be hoped that goo d w i ll ar i se from t h e d eve l opment s, startling in themselves, and pregnant with matter 'for earnest thought. The Honourable and Reverend Pfteher, who is an actor in the plot, will perhaps think 2_, been drag ge d i nto the work rather unceremoni ; SO will one or two of our living solicitors and "'inners. La The approach from Tooley-street to the New af.1 44 Ilridge will be by a gradual ascent over a series ,", dry rchs, which are now being constructed. They —rnmenee tit that diately o part of the bridge which is imme „ pposite to St. Saviour's Church, and will terzni l'ke iu Tooley-street, at a short distance to the east of that Di, of St. ()lave. Within these few days the Bridge i" lc t"ra: have erected a hand-rail, extending from the % n llt : i nea to York -street, thereby separating foot passengers ,;" leen side of the bridge from the horses and car rCes' With which they have hitherto been so dangerously intermingled. BRIGHTON WATER WORKS.—We are glad to hear that this desirable public work , is likely to be pro -1411 qedell with, in the ensuing Session of Parliament, when wlll be applied for, with a view of establishing a flo . PThY• Having already expressed our opinion of its ' ity, not only as regard the economy and domestic con venience which will be obtained by the propoaed mode of IN)PIy, eon:l:Area with the present laborious and expen. sive niesn o in the use of wells and pumps,--it only re- holies for us to paint out what, we conceive, entitles it to , N 4tte ":". l 4 " 4 Ruppert 1... we allude to the security it will r n i ") t he lawn and its inhabitants in case of fire ; fort '!thou , h we have hitherto been so fortunate, by the few .7f4 which have occurred, exemption from calamity of d 'at kind must not for ever be calculated upon; nor, in eetl, is it prudent in a town of the extant and import auee to which Brighton has now arrived,—with the im rnense property vested in buildings, &c.,—that it should I Y longer be without such a resource and safeguard. !Olen the structure of the bootee of this town is consi . etre,' . ~, , .s lowa a fire occur, with a strong wind, who car! 'he.l. s ,7colne tile extent of luso, both of property and life i !troldaner, it Is evident, will be greatly removed by the uured Weter Works ; the main pipes of which, passing '..°rough the leading streets, will give an instant an d "pie supply of water, immediately on the discovery of , fibs and, with a force that will throw it up to the highest "oae in Bri 1t • NA. 3' op • s—the reservoir (supplied from the lot and royning spring's at the DOce), being same rpeßon.dred feet above L akin level of the town.--The parties eting this undrtg, and who, last October, sill>- , itt!leet their plans tea public' meeting, are justly entitled tu . . 1 e theuka .of the inhebitants, for the industry, labour, ',TO rare, whieh they have bestowed I,7_Peat's), in bringing this object forward; and also in col arranging and et • ' (at great individual ~ , or tanking every needful information, whereby :1 fo rth a correct judgment of the profit derivable to the 7°ler'bers, which, we understand, Lessildenee.--.Brighiox Herald. is spoken of with much COURT CIRCULAR. .His MAJESTY has hiul the rheumatism in his hands. Leeches have . been applied with success by Me. KEATES. the surgeen of London, whir has at ended the KING. His MAJESTY is now free &DUI the cempiriut, Their Muss - ma Will, it It expected, come to town on the 23d inst , an 1 Will remain a few weeks. The Duke of BRUNSWICK had an ii.tetview- with the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday at the. Treasury. His B , rene Highness also visited the Earl of AfiEIiDEEN at the Foreign- office. A Cabinet Couneil was held at half-past three o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office, whit was at tended by the LORD CHANVELLDR, the Duke of Wet- LINGTON, Earls Hotsst.YN and ABERDEEN, Viscount MsL- vit.t.r, Lord ELLENBOI4OI/Oll t Sir ROBERT PEEL, Sir GEORGE MURRAY, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHFOUEIt, and Mr. HERMES. The Council sat two hours and a boll' in deliberation. Prince TALLEYRANIL, the Ften.ll Ambassador, ,and the Austrian Ambassador, had interv6ws with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday, et the office of the Secretary of Stat for Foreign Affairs. • , The Spanish Minister transacted business. yesterday at the Foreign Office. ' Sir ROBERT PEEL arrived in town yesterday from hi?, seat, Drayton Park, Staffordshire. BRIGHTON, OCT. r 11, Their MAJEsTun, after divine service yesterd iy, drove out in. an open carriage and four, with outriders, acco►n panied by her Royal Highness the Princess A uousTA and Lady BROWNLOW. His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE and Prince GEORGE of Cambridge rode on horseback. . Colonel F. Firm:Lattallor,. Lady AUGUSTA FITZ. CI.A RENCE, Rev. A. and Mi Frrzet.aaaNct, Sir A BARNARD, and seven] other membera of, the Roial Household, were on the Promenade. The,band of the Life Guards played for several lioiirs on the Stayne, which was orowdefl to excess by fishionahles. On Siturday the E►ri of DARNutt left the Pithier, for London. Count MuysTan, Count BERT, Baron 11fuxen Us RN, Mr. Cox, and Baron WArratommus had the honour of dining with their MA.tasrtt►s. The following distinguished persons had the honour of leaving their times at the Pavilion :-....8ar0n MUNCHA U. SRN, Lady and Miss TIMMY, Mr. WILLIAM HARRISON, Lord ARTHUR HILL, G►unt MATOUSCEVLTZ, the Russian Minister. The race course is crowded with persons, their MAJZS , ms being expected to drive on it to witness the races, which take place to-day. • DOVER ) OCT. 10.—An order has been issued at Calais to prevent the running of small boats with ex pres,es, eouriets &e., between that port and England. The Dublin Papers say that it is 7 now ascer tained that Lis MAJ Pal' will honour the Dublin Musical Festival with his presence, andlhat the arrangements are rapidly proceeding. POINTS OF lloNoun.—Colonel MONT- nomxav was b hot in a duel about a dog, Ciptain RAMSAY in one about a servant, Mr. Frrity.itsroN in oue about a. recruit, SrEhisre's father in one about a goose, and another gentleman in one about an " acre of anchovies." One Ohm was challenged Mr merely asking his opponent to enjoy a second goblet, and another was compelled to fight about a pinch atonal; General lIA SKY was challenged by a Captain SMITH, for declining a glass of wine with him. at dinner in a steam-boat, although the Genetnl had . pleaded in excuse that wine invariably made his stomach sick at sea. THE WAFER WITCH, BY MR. COOPER.- The public, the novel-loving portion of it at least, will be delighted to bear that the great transatlantic novelist has in preparation a New Tale of the Sea under the above remarkable title. Nothing has yet transpired as to the OA of the story, but as the scene is the ocean, a first-rate work may be expected, since our author's home may be said to be on the Wate►s. THE ENRAGED AUTHOR.—At One Of the Parisian theatres, a writer of little or no real pretensions to talent, had, by means of flattery and intrigue, obtained the acceptance of a piece, where others of sterling worth had been rejected.' On the night of performance the piece was assailed with hisses from all parts of the house, whereat the enraged author slashed on to the stage, and throwing his hat into the pit, dared the' most valiant to bring it to him. A young gentleman took it up, and was about 10 present it, when he was interrupted by a wag, who coolly observed, "Stop, Sir, what would be the use of returning the man his hat, when ho has evidently lost his head ?" Tatter. Advicos haie been received that the Liverpno and Ma►nchearer Rail-road Company are forthwith to com mence the Rail-road between Waterford and Limerick.— Dublin Paper. In the course of the present month, « Port man Market," Edgware-road, will be opened for the sale of hay and straw, on Moulay, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, in every week, under the Act of Parliament. In order to obviate the inconveniences from exposure of the hay to the rain and atm, substantial sheds have been erected, and other accommodations provided for the farmer and salesman. The proposed fruit, vegetable, and general market, adjoining, and a market for pigs, are in prepara. tion, and will be opened as soon after the hay•rnarket as the necessary arrangements will allow. PA ItLIAM EN TA HY BON MOT.-Sir HENRY CAVENDISH, a Member of the Irish House of Cossimons, w♦s so expert at short-hand, that he was correct even to a word, and frequently, during important debates, sent the most remarkable speeches to the Castle, to gratify the solicitude of the Impatient Viceroy. His Excellency, after a warm debate (during which Sir florrur seceded from the Devonshire party), asked Sir HERCULES LAN* Ramis if Sir flexor had taken notes that night? The Baronet, affecting not to understand the tenor of his Ex cellency's question, pleasantly replied that be believed Sir flexor had taken either notes or ready money, but be could not exactly inform his Excellency which. Sir flexor went into office immediately after. Various arrangements have been whispered about during the week relative to certain alterations and reductions which are about to take place in the pay of naval and military officers. Some say that each indivi dual is to give up the amount of one day's pay in the year; others, that this reduction is to be quarterly. With regard to any such alteration in the navy and army, we know nothing; but we believe that a reduction to a much more serious extent will be made in the salaries of all offi cers in every civil department under Government. This reduction, we have reason to think, will amount to one day's pay weekly, being about 14i per cent., or 1-7th part of their whole salary. We are not aware that there is to be any distinction as to the rate of deduction, de raiding on the amount of salary received by the senior or Junior members of these departments, as we believe it is the present intention, whether the salary be 1,000!. or 50!., that the deduction shall in either case be at the rate of RI per rent. We trust, however, that we are niis taken in tbli reripeet, and that some further modification will yet take place, before the plan shall be definitely settled ; and we hope.to lee the junior officers, whose sa laries arc barely sufficient to enable them to subsist, will not be subject to a deduction which would be to them of very serious consequence, and that no salary under 1601. will be touched. With regard to the senior officer's, if the system be universal we scarcely think we have any right to complain, when we consider that the arrangement it in accordance with the voice of the country, whose general cry is for economy and retrencliment.—Portimouth Her. Dovica, OCT. 10.—A quantity of smuggled goads was seised last night by the Coast Blockade. While in the act of being hauled up the Cliff the rope broke, and let the articles—tobacco and silk—down into the jaws of the officers. A rew days since a muse.. the largest we have ever seen, was caught in a trap in a house in Elgin. It wart most strangely deformed. From its right ear to the middle of its right side there was a protuberance en is size and farm, a young mouse, th a t much reeemblingt one would at first sight have been in danger of mivtaking it f o r suc h...-.Eigin ,COUrier. A MAN TRYING TO BE INSI!IRED.—WheE the French Poet BA RTHIL was occupied with his love epistles and eclogues, a friend observed him one evening over the great basin in the Luxembourg-gartlena, stamp ing his feet, and throwing his arms about like one pos..: peeled. He approached bim. " Why, my dear friend," said he, " what is the matter ? what ails you ?" "I am in a horrid state," returned Itsanti, "here have I been ogling the 11:10011 for this hour ; you know how it inspires. those cursed Germans; well on me it has not the least . influence. lam frt len to death, and petfect:v stupid ; and 1 have gut s cold in the bead. Tbet . devil . take the. moon and the poets too their tenderness confound; --Taller. FASHIONABLE INTELIAGENch. ARRIVALS. The I)uke rAf I)6fnishire, at Devonshire House, from his seat Chitswortb. DerbYsh ire ; the Marquis and Marchioness of-Litns tioWnV, at Glasgow, from Ireland; lord and Lady Anson, st their house in st. Jameals.se,uare, from their seat, Shuglawough ; the Earl of Egremont, his house in Grosvenot-plaee, from his seat, Petworth, Sussex ; Mr. anti . Mrs. Gosling at, the Loudon Hotel; Albemarle-street, from a tour; alrs. and Miss Daddy, at ditt o , from Stafihrdshire ; the Roe. Mr. Jennings, at ditto, irtim a four; Henry Strickland, Esq. at Crawlev's lintel, Albtnnarle-ststet, from Paris ; lirevort, E.g. at ditto ; from ditto Mr.,. B. and Miss Wilson, at ditto, from tliclt si4 in TotkiildieMr. Mid Mrs. l'rnlteperfilmilY; at hb 11411 - Strum tuyiptun ;N. le, Esq. at cllttb, troth ditto; Captain . atson, at Morley's Hote l, • Co'ckspur-street, from Dover; - Dickenson, Est;. at ditto, from ditto; J. H. I). Alrev, Esq, at ditto, from a tour; M. Barrington, Esq. at ditto, from Dublin ; I)ogherty, Esq. at ditto, from ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Fordyce, in Piccadilly, from damsgate. I)EPARTUIIES Prince Troubetxkoy and suite, from the Pulteney Hotel, Albe marle-street, for St. Petersburgh ; Gensral Surliletr, frottt ART) on a tour; Sir James and thelktVles ik right; fl'otii thii Burling: ton Hotel fot Pnitstoolitli ; CtiDlain Ind - Mrs. Jones, for Brigh ton ; tha ItoWaltet Marchioness of Salisbury, on a visit to the Duke and I/ochess of Gloucester, at Bagshot l'ark ; J. Simpson, Es ti. from the British Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Oxford ; Captain Davidson, from ditto, for Hastings; Mr. and Mrs.' Hughes from Brook-street, for their seat in Wilts; Lord Bridport, for his seat in Wilts; Mrs. and Miss Pemberton, for Ramsgate; Miss Wyk. chain, from the Waterloo lintel, Jermyn.street fot Brighton ; Major-General Toler and Miss Taylor; froin ditto, for Ireland; Mr. and Mrs. Strangways, froth (Mtn, for thecoptinettt; the ReV, G, H. Templer, and Mtg. Templer, fir Dorietthirti. . - TUE MINISTRY.—A greater proof 'of the lively interest taken by the country in the present unsettled state of its Ministry cannot be given than the great de .mand for the two able pamphlets lately noticed by us, via., " The Result of the Genera Election t or ) What Las the Duke of Wellington gained by the Dissolution ?" and " The Country without a Government:" both of which, we see, have reached the Third Edition in a leff days. Workmen are now beginning to take down the low wooden shed which has so long disfigured the in tenor of Westminster-hall. Nearly the whole of the Be. dords of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas therein temporarily deposited Are already removed to the upper story, at the east end of the King's Mews, where suitable apartments have been prepared for the reception and preservation of these important documents. . An Evening Paper,-with a dishonest mean ness scarcely conceivable, copies the letter of Count MOLE to the South American Envu3s, which we published ex clusively yesterday morning, as part of its French extracts. In what French Paper did it appear ?—Tintes.—Why does not our cotemporary name the Gffending Journal? The words " an Evening Paper," mean nothing. On the night of Wednesday, the 29th Wt., some barbarous fiends cut the throats of ten hea , l of cattle, on the lands of Genoa, on the borders of this county anti the county of Tyrone. We have not heard any cause assigned for this diabolical net, but we trust the vengeance of the law will fall upon the guilty heads of the base wretches who perpetrated it.—Ennishilkts Parket. On Tuesday evening last a beautiful celestial phenomenon was observed at Edinburgh, eonsi•ting of a long stream of light, which presented an appearance similar to that of the Aurora Borealis, and formed a 1 irg►• luminous arch, in a direction nearly from west to east. The phe nomenon was visible in various parts of Scotland, and con tinued so for about two hours. THE REFUOE FOR DESTITUTE SEAMEN.— - - This building is now r a pidly r i s i ng on t h e s i te of the late Brunswick Theatre, under the auspices of the Reverend Boatswain S3IITII. The workmen employed have prayers every morning at six o'clock, but for all this the piety iif some of them is rather questionable. A person passing that way saw an Irishman listening very wen tivi ly ; the stranger asked him if he were not a Catholic? " Yes," was the answer. How, then," inquired the other, " can you join in prayer with these people ?" " Oh, by J—s !" replied the labourer, " its asier work than cleaning bricks."—Sunduy Times. MILITARY. FLOGGING...—. Many of our readers will be glad to learn that petitions to Parliament are now in course of receiving signatures in this city against the brutal and degrading punishment of our owl diers and sailors by the whip. This mode of correction' may be very proper fur dogs; but, to have an intelligent being—a man who has been professedly engaged as one of the defenders of our laws and liberties, subject to he tied up to a post for the most trifling offence, and whipped till life is nearly exhausted, must destroy every manly feeling, and produce an effect the very opposite to the one which is desirable. The soldier is a citizen, and should be heated accordingly, and not like a brute.— York Herald. TILE NEW POLICE.--A meeting of the parish of St.. Pancras was held yesterday, for the purpose of taking into consideratioo the necessity of petitioning his MAJKSTY to do away with the " New Police Act," and " The Turnpike Bill." At least two thousand five hen_ deed persons assembled. In the midst of the proceedings the Chairman announced that he had been robbed of his gold watch, seal*, chain, keys, and all the money he had in his pockets. The doors were closed, and every exer tion made to detect the daring plunderer, but in vain. A reWardt.f2ol. was instantly offered. After several pa rishioners bad addressed the meeting, various resolutionv, deprecating the Acts of Parliament, and a petition to the Kura, founded upon them, were unanimously agreed to. ALTERATION IN THE NEW POLICE. -...I n the 'parishes of St. George, Hanover square, and St. James, Westminster, the day duty of the police Las been mat,rially re-organised both as to the number of men employed in those two districts, and the length of time they remain on duty—they arc now a separate body front the nightly watch, and are employed on no other occasion. They commence duty at six o'clock in the morning, a n d continue till one o'clock in the afternoon, when oanrealgieafino,f the same number comes on, and remains till seven o'clock in the evening, when the morning party comes and stays till nine o'clock, and the nightly watch then proceeds under the former regulation. Only half the pr e _ sent number will be required under the new system, so that the remainder will augment the force at niAht. LAUGHABLE JOKE.—Since the late out rages in the vicinity of Dover, by the breaking of thresh ing -machines, a great excrement has prevailed evertamong the friends and relatives of the farmers residi ng i n that town. Last week a tradesman, who has >a brother in the farming business, received an anonymous letter, in a similar strain to what the depredators have been in the habit of sending, threatening that he might expect his house to be fired if he did not put away the thrashing machine he kept on the premises. In consequence h e became much alarmed, as well as hit lodgers and neigh bours; the former left his apartments, and a vigilant watch was kept throughout the following night. On th e succeeding day the wag who sent the letter caused it t o be understood that the sturdy spouse of the tradesman, who in a recent domestic renctintre with her Benedict proved herself the better half, was the machine alluded to—which eclaireissement turned all the serious appro. hensions into merriment. MOTHER AND CHILD DROWNED.—On Thursday forenoon the body of a child, about ten months old, was found drowned in the water adjoining Swann's Mill, near this town. The infant being recognised as belonging to a person named /tutus', whore mother bad left home with it some days before, and had not since been heard of, apprehensions were entertained that the parent would in all probability be found to hive shared a similar fate. Persons, were therefore, employed to drag the Canal, when they succeeded in finding her body also. On Thursday evening an inquest was held before Mr. Alder man YATzs, at the Bowling.green public-house, Oxford, street. It appeared in evidence that Jon:. ALt.apt, jun. with his wife and child, came to reside with his father, who keeps the County Bridewell, some time ago, and that they appeared to live together on the most affectionate terms. The mother was extremely fond of her child, and there was no reason to suppose, from her manner and conduct, that her mind was affected. On Saturday, the 25th of Eeptember t she left the Britiewell to take walk with her child, and appeared in her usual health and spirits, In letting her out the turnkey saw nothing in her appearance to excite observation. JOHN ALLLN, the father of the child, hail, at the request of his father, gone to London and Bristol, in the hope of hearing something respecting his wife and child, as he had no suspicion of their deaths. The following is a copy of a letter found in her pocket, *Without either name or address :—" If any thing happen to me, which I am afraid of, I hope your father will not blame you for it; but I cannot live here—, lam wretched. lam sorry for you, for you always have done every thing before ire came here to make me coin- fel table, but I believe yet; did not study me in coming, as you know I never was used to hard work. I cannot do much, and perhaps you will do better without me ; but I feel I Canna...4 is not from any guilty motives that 1. wish to die—but I cannot live without my dear mother —Gon bless her, and you, and every body ; and I hope the Loan will receive my soul. If you will let my MO ther and sister have my olothes and things, I shall be much obliged to you."—Lisit this letter should produce a filet in:pre:Won on the minds or the jury, Mr. Am..)l and another witness stated that the deceased never did any hard work while there.---Verdict of " Temporary de-, rangement."—Leicester Override. PORTUGAL (From the West Briton.) LISBON, SEPT. 18.—Sinee I wrote you on the Ilth inst., the Government has steadily pursued its ferocious course against ell who are even suspected of holding lib, rat opinions. The ecirisequences re sulting from the atteinpt of Charles X. to rule de , - potiektily in Pramie appear to make trio haptessioa on Miguel end his Cabinet. So far is this tyranny eartieth that It i 9 deeitid a' high Crifist fot those in the employ of Governm e nt t o itilithriir at the mode in which they are paid— f payment it can be called —by tickets payable at six months. These tickets weie formerly discounted at 30, 40, and 50 per cent.; about a fortnight since the rate of discount rose to 75 per nent l but now they cannot be dies counted on any ferias. Stich is tke coAdence re 4 posed in the stability and resources of the Govern ment. Between two and three o'clock in the morn ing of the 15th, the Royal Marine Barrack was visited by a strong ploy of soldiers, when upwards of forty of the inmates carte seized and conducted to prison; not one of these union melte% it is said, knoWs for *hat he hes ht!th taken upv except for being a suspected - Malhuda. LaSt week t‘Vo lies arrived here from the Brazils. There were eleven persons —men, women, and children; they have all been sent to prison, on the alleged ground of their not having regular passports ; but the real Ouse is believed to he, to ensure silence On certaitl topics. About ten days since, a young man named Manning arrived here from Cotk, having a regular passport from the acting Portuguese Consul there. However, he was taken into custody and sent to Belem Castle, on the alleged ground that his pass. port was not regular. The British Consul applii.d fbr his release: but, like most of the appl.cations from the same quarter, the remonstrance was unattended to. Happily Me. Manning found a more influential protector in the Rector of St. Patrick's College, who made a spirited remonstrance on the illegal detention of his countryman. Mr.' Manning was set at liberty, after haVing been incarcerated in a loathsome priFon for three days. Every night for this week arrests have been made ; last night upwards of 40 persons, roost of them shopkeepers, were taken up. Yesterday a quantity of ball-cartridges were sent to the barracks of the infantry, to he kept there, lint not distri buted unless in case of emergency. Three nights since the police visited the house of Lieutenant- Colonel --- : not finding him at home, they took his son, a lad under 17 years of age, into cus tody, and questioned him as to where his father was to be (mind. The lad said he could not tell. Suspecting that his ignorance was feigned, they ap plied the thumb-screw to extort a confession, and the poor youth, in great agony, mentioned such howes as his father usually kept-wed. A search was made aceordinely ; but us it proved unsuccess ful, the father being nio.t probably apprized of the intention of the Government to arrest him, the ruffians returned to the house where they had left the son in custody, and applied the torture so vio lently, as to force the blood through the ends of his thumbs, in order to extort a confession as to the place in which his father was concealed; but, though this treatment was continued for some hours, they did not succeed in their 'object ; the youth eith er did not k now t h e p l ace of his father's retreat or he heroically persevered in not discovering it, and up to yesterday noon the Colt:islet had eluded the active search of the police. This day an impress of seamen commenced for the purpose of mewling the Diana frigate, which h a s b een pr e pare d f or another cruise o ff Terceira, in order to enforce the blockade of that island. It is hoped that the ty-, ninny of the Government here will not last much longer. Miguel must fall, from the want of money, which it is utterly out of his power now to procure. STRATHPEFFEK SPA. Our advertising columns of to-day contain a proposal fur the formation of a Joint-Stock Company with a view to the erection of an Hotel in the immediate vicinity of Strathpeffer Spa, for the accommodation of those invalids and others attending its waters. We trust the project will meet with every success. It at all events deserves to do so. The health-restoring qualities of the Strathpeffer water are not more celebrated all over the country, than the place has hitherto been unhappily notorious fur the mkerable accommodation it affords to those indisposed individuals temporarily sojourning at it. For many years past Strathpeffer Spa has been visited by crowds of people of every rank in life ; but so deficient is the place even in what may be called indifferent accommodation, that almost every one has had to complain of the inconveniencies to which he was subjected. The distinctions of rank must of necessity while there be in a great mea sure forgotten. The higher and the lower classes are obliged in most cases to mingle pro miscuously together. The habitations, gene rally speaking, to be procured are of that un comfortable description, that those brought up amid the comforts and delicacies of life arc mi seiable in them by day, and not less so in the night time. It is unnecessary to enunciate the consequences of all this. Those visiting the place have often been necessitated to make a much shorter stay than they would otherwise have done, and which was perhaps necessary for the beneficial operation of the waters ; and others have been deterred from going to the Spa at all by the unfavourable report given by the accom modation to be had by those who have been so journers at it. - The proposal to erect, by public subscription, a commodious and suitable Hotel at Strathpeffer Spa, is one which is closely identified with the cause of humanity as well as of public comfort, in the North of Scotland. The wretched ac commodation to be had at these waters h:therto and at present, has made .many an- invalid both in the higher ► and lower classes of life struggle with his maladies at home until they either issued in death or,became so inveterate as to bid defi ance to any future efforts to effect a cure ; whereas a timely attendance on these waters might have wrought a speedy restoration to health. Such would not be the case were the proposed accommodation once prov id e d . When the na ture of one's indisPoution was such as to render it probable that benefit' would be derived from the use of Strathpeffer water, such person would without any unnecessary delay repair thither for the purpose of testing its medicinal qualities. It strikes us that the spirited projectors of the Hotel in question, have omitted one thing ne-, cessary to' the more speedy success of their scheme. So far as our information goes, no subscription papers have been forwarded to the different northern towns for the purpose of re ceiving the names of those who might be sup posed willing to forward the project by the pur chase of shares. This we conceive ought to be . done. Let ,auch papers be sent to Inverness, Nairn, Forres, Elgii,, Fochabers, Keith, Huntly, Banff, fitc, and be entrusted in the hands of some public-spirited active individual, and we have no doubt whatever of the success of the. prolect. The sum proposed to be raised is 2,0001. in shares of 26/. each.---Elgin Courier. On Tuesday last, a person named WILLIAM AII'ULEYs frofn Doneaster, wenn() work at Sheffield, journeyman btoneMltelM, and after having been at work the whole of Monday, in enjiiiment of perfect health, re tired to rest about tea o'clock, will and hearty, and vas found dead in bed the next morning...Doncaster Gas. CO VENTIGAiIbEN THIUTRit. • A Mr. Kreeeer. appeared, Ihf the first time in Lan don„ at this' theatre last evening, as &meek His per formance was, upon the whole, decidedly successful, air) evinced as much talent as fairly entitled him to the ap phttete he received, ifs was evidently labouring through tint tinder a certain degree of emborraennent natural bnlingh to allebutunt in a part which, arduous in itself, ileednies tntireed from the familiar acquaintance which the greater portion of the audietiee hse with the text of the play, and the manner of other actors 'who bate tepresented the iluiracter. notwithstanding this drawleA, he tli.played so MLitt good ilste, and so competent an under standing of the spirit of the part, diet we cannot help be lieving- that, if in his future performances he can over come his timidity, and trust himself more, he will become an acquisition to the theatre. The chief fault in his re preleetitatioti of laet night was a want of confidence ; its most prominent ifierit striti the tenderness with which he gave the love scenes with../u/ded.• in the Net of these ecenes the fear of doing too much withheld' him from doing all that was required of him. Jo the parting scene, lifter his banishment is decreed, he was infinitely more successful. He delivered the eitpfleitspoetry of this part of the play with great propri e ty, an d his tutting wee still better; the struggle with the necessity that compels him to leaee his " three-hours' wife," the manner in which lie gives her into the fitirle's ems, end the effort with which he tears himself from the emit, itetk tnetked with great discrimination, and with a happy effect, which was en hanced by the absence of that misplaced mouthing which hate of late been condemned to see in these passages.— ' In the latter part of the recta! with Tybalehe was not suf ficiently vehement ; nor teas that In the as ne wel as the other parts of his acting. The last now Wets extremely good. He expressed very powerfully that over whelming grief which po.sessee Romeo's spirit. and a hick making the werld loathsome to him, has impelled him to the desperate deed he comes to act. The short part that ensues after Juliet awakes was also very ingeniously given, with some originality, and without any of that rant which it is impossible for an actor to avoid who does not trust to his own feelings and judgment rather than to the vulgar attempt at " splitting the ears of the groundlings." Taken together, and making such allowances for it as a first ap pearance in such a character is entitled to claim, the per. formance w.s extremely respectable. The actor is evi dently nut new to the business of the stage. His figure it good, but somewhat too spare ; it would be well if he could adopt the advice he gives the apothecary, and " get himself into flesh.'' l'his may lie difficult; hut it will lie less so to procure a wig. of which he stands mar vellously in need. His features ore agreeable, and posers, considerable power and variety of expression. We are glad of this opportunity to observe that bite. Gress has made a rapid and decided improvement in her per formanees of the, Nurse. The comic semis were acted ' with an ease and confidence, the want of which marred her efforts on the first night ; and that little part in which she attempts to mike Juliet flom the trance, was very ad mirably given. If she goes on thus she will make us re gret Dirs. DAVENPORT less than we thougl t was likely. There was nothing new in the other parts of the play ; and now that a Romeo is supplied, it may be said to he performed in all respects quite as some much better,—than it has been of late years. It le very much to he wished that some means meld he hit upon for keeping the gentlemen and ladies in the upper galleries more quiet. They made so much noise last night that not only the business of the stage was interrupted, which is an evil, but the other ladies and gentlemen in the lower boxes could not hear themselves talk, and that is of course a much more aerinus inconvenience. One of the former class roared out at the top of his lungs, and in the midst of one of the most moving parts of the tragedy, that be " smelt red herrings." It might ,he true; but it was an announcement of so little interest to the rest of the audience, that lie might to have kept it to himself, or, at the farthest, to his next neighbours. BLKMINOWAM, OCT. 11.—The dinner of the Birmingham " Political Union," in commemoration of the French Revolution, takeo lit coy this day, and the town is in a state of extreme excit abut. Thotormdl are congregating, and the members of the Union all wear tri coloured cockades, end the medals of the Society. The dinner—a cold collation--has been laid out in the eaten- sive building called the Carriage Bazaar; and to admit able are the arrangements that nearly 4,000 persona may sit down with comfort. There is no building in London that could accommodate half the number of persons; and Mr. Ilsaanswonnt has granted the use of the place gra.. tuitously. There are 40 tables, and each table will con tain nearly 100. There are knives, forkii, plates, and pitchers, placed on the tables; and, to keep order, r there are 400 stewards appointed, whose duty it will also be to see that. the company arc properly necomin.dfat e d. Es t + steward will have a flag to distinguish him, and the 40 members of the Council will superintend each of the tables, h Lying, to diatinguish them, still )urger fl.gs, with the union jtck on one aide, and the tri-colouts on the reverse. Mr. Arrwoon will take the Chair, end give the three first toasts; the two following by Josnua Scitta.Fitto and FURDERICK MARTZ, Esqrs., of this town. Two others will be moved by Mr. 'EDMONDS and Mr. Witstost. Over the Chairman's seat are displayed the Royal Arm., and the walls of the building are deco rated with tugs bearing popular and pats iotic mottoes. The picturesque appearance of the noble building is peculiarly striking. It is surroundcd on three sides by galleries, and on the fourth are three tiers of balconies fur the accommo thin of ladies, who may obtain admission through Mr. BRA It OSWORTH 'a house. M. DE TRACY, who for the last two or three sess:ons has been endeavooring to :uncial the penal code of France, by introducing a law to abolish the punishment of death, but who was scarcely listened to with that patience which his eloquence and respectable private character ought to command, renewed his proposition slier the late revo lution under happier auspices. He found a willing audience in the Chamber, and had his proposition referred to a Commission. This Commission made a favourable report, and, as the Chamber agreed with it, the next step would have have been the introduction of a Hill to catty it into effect. But the coincidence between the successful introduction of such a Bill and the approaching trial of the Ex. Ministers could not fail to strike public attention. The measure was, of course, supposed to be intended to rescue their heads irons the block, should they be con demned, and was thus regarded as a stratagem to save their lives. It therefore became the object of odium to those who demanded vengeance for the massacre of Paris, and not even the zealous advocacy of LA rAvarrt could obtain for it any share of his own popularity. To pass a law by the influence of the revolution, thus branded beforehand with the reprobation of the authors of that revolution, would neither, perhaps, have been politic or Rabe; but, to try the effect of its principle On so great a political oc casion as the condemnation of a whole Cabinet, was an object of importance and urgency. If there is one man snore popular in France than old Laravarrs, it is the KING. The zealous and conscientious friends of the measure, therefore, thought of the means of obtaining his support to it, by making him its author in proposing it to the Chamber. They therefore on Friday voted an Ad. dress to his MajltSTY, requesting him to exercise his initiative in presenting a Bill to effect the object in view, and his MaJEsirr has acceded to their prayer.— Thiles. MOST INFAMOUS ACT OF PLUNDER..---W 4 - - have this week to record as disgraceful an act of robbery and mischief as ever wits perpetrated in a civilized coun try. On Thursday night lest seine miscreants succeeded in removing the foundation-etnoe of the Infirmary, the ceremony of laying which we last week descril►ed, and took from th e cavity of the lower stone, the urn containing the coins, Ike. deposited therein I Plunder seems to have been th e ir object; but as the only articles -which the urn con tained were a crown and half-crown pieces, a shilling end sixpence, some copper, awl ens or two of the city news papers, we think the villains would be wofully disap pointed. Three atones' were thrown down in effecting their infamous purpose, viz., the stone which coveted the urn, &c. 2ft. Din, by eft. Gin., and lit. Sin. in thickness, weighing three-quarters of a ton—and one each side of it 2ft. Gin. by Sft. Din. and I ft. thick. These three stones were fastened together by Clamps of iron, end the centre stone was secured to tlto•bottone one by two sitnilar clomps, We mulct stand that a handsome reward will be offered fite the discovery of the heartless wretches who have dam this base act, and most ardently do we long for their appre hension.— Carlide Patriot A well-organized plan, by the convicts under reatepoo of transportation, fiir their escape from Newgiste,, as we learn, has lately been detected by the vigilance of M r WONTNIA, the Governor. The arrangements were so /regret and well conducted, _that no suspicion was excited Until those concerned in the attempt had been enabled to bring their plans to such a state of forwar4ineas that they had bored holes in the walls, florists provided themselves with a strung bar of iron, to answer either for a crow-bar or a weapon of defence. The full petticoa t . o f t h e et . tempt hare not yet transpired, but on Saturday last 26 of the most desperate of the gang n ere sent off' to the hulks under a strong guard, and the expectation of the rest en. tirely frustratell. SPIRIT OF TIII PUBLIC JOURNALS. As might have been espeetek the wale of affairs in the Netherlands continues to he a stihjek of daily discussion with the Preia Paris. The :journals are neerly utittflitnol/0 of course in sopporting the cause of the insurgents, and in condetrieing the course pursued by the 'Royal Government, but it it gratifying to observe that the great majority of them declare loudly against any kind of intervention on the part of France. The violent jitcobinical party, whose element is civil disturbance and pas Nigel change, call upon the . Government to send succours to the Belgic inaurgents; :and are endea vouring to encourage bodies -of Volunteers to do what their Government ha* refused; hut we. do not observe that their clamours produce much effect. They speak of a body of 600 "adventurers who were to leave Paris for Belgium, if a sufficient subs seription was raised to equip them for the cam paign; but though the Panamint are willing to give their good wishes to the cause, they are Trot disposed to sacrifice their purse* The prudent determination of the French Government to remain at pence with all Europe,--the moderation and good sense of the organs of public opinion in Frake, who 'wisely prefer the certain consolidation of the national liberties to the doubtful advantage of an extended territrity r s , sand the general feeling in the Chums hers and the upper classes of society that they have enough to do at home, ere strong guarantees fin. the non-intervention: of France in Belgic affairs. This state of:things can only, hewever, be main tained so long as other nations likewise abstain from interfering. Were Prussia, as the ally of the King of Hand, to send troops into Belgum in the pre- sent struggle, it might not be possible for the Frenth Goverment to restrain the ambitious ardour of its army from such a tempting field. King Philip end his advisers are only now required to exercise a little self-denial in repelling tenders of submission offered HA the price of protection. They have only to lend a deaf ear to Belgic traitors ; but if Pr u s4a interfered, they would have to resist, not only Belgic importunity, but the feeliegi of pride and the passion for conquest which throb in the brcasta of their own people. Even thoegh willing, they would find it impossible effectually to restrain the enthmiasm for war which would he excited in Frenchmen by the sight of Belgians imploring sinc erer, with offers of paternitalirm, and Ptitssians leagued with Hollanders to atthjugete their friends and threaten their frontier. It is, therefore, most desirable that no demonstration of interference should be made on the port of Prussia, and the wisdom, as well es the fears, of the Prussian Cabinet are u security fur its pacific conduct.-- Strong hopes are said to be entertained in various pans of Belgium, that an enangement may still be brought about on the original terms of an administra tive separation of the two divisions of the kingdom, with the appointment of the Prince of . Orange as Viceroy in Brussels. The Ghent Journid declares the great ma , is of the citizens of that great mantis facturing town desire nothing more. But it is evi dent that no such treceornmodation can be effected, so long as the Provisional Government of Brussels exists. It has made an appeal to it tuitional conven lion, and before the convention meets it promises to have a constitution of the republican stamp ready for its adoption. It may, by the way, be mentioned as it rather singular circurnstence, that the two members of this constitutiottal commission, vomi noted by Dc Potter, should likewise be members of the !loyal Council of Antwerp, nominated by the Prince of Orange. We shall see by the next ar rival which master they mean to serve. Oncof the Paris Ministerial Journals (the Menagee des Chambres) not only urges the Belgians to be Wk• lied witha separate edneinistration, but volunteers its advice 011 the best way of settling their new relations to Holland. The Journalist recommends that the new title of the King should he that of Hol land and Belgium—that the Prince of Orange ihotild be made Viceroy of the litter, and reside ut Brussels,--that the act of separation should be drawn up by commissioners from the two countries, elected for this Special object : mid the Thinee should alkw the Provisional Government to'exercise its functions; till the di finitive arrangement should be settled. The financial administratton should be di.- f ; Belgium bearing none :of , the debt oflifol- , !mid, mod paying no civil list to, the wing; 'butiothig quit for a fixed provision to support the Prince.YThe Deputies of Belgium would meet at Brussels, having been elected by the new law of the Provisional Go vernrnent, and the Provincial States 'Would hare-the power of nominating a 'Senate for life. Theee, two Chambers would settle definitively a' constitution which the King and the Viceroy would be obliged to swear, Antwerp might be allowed to remain at tached to Holland, to avoid all questions Ana the navigation of the Scheldt, and all angry rivalry on . he part of Amsterdam. The question of the cus tom-house duties, and the commercial relations be tween the separate divisions, to be afterwards 'set tled. Such is the advice given .by th e Messoger der Chambres to enlightened Belgians, who would thus (the journalist says) avoid the inconvenient forms of a Republic, while they enjoyed all its advantages. Neither foreign nor domestic counsel of -this kind is likely to be attended to by the party now at the head of affairs in Brussels.—Times. The report of M. Berenger on the proposition to abolish the punishment of death, is an elaborate 'pa.. per. Although it contains some str►k►ng passages, and traverses a wide space of (possibly irrelevant) disquisition, the real interest of this report is much enhanced, if not in a great degree produced, 'by its connexion, in time and circumstance, with the ap proaching trial of the miserable Polignec and his colleagues. The Reporter first buckles to his busi• ness by inquiring into the right of punishing aim:- 111113 by death. "In the infancy of society," says he, " us at present, the right was merely that of 'self-defence,' extended or contracted in the progress of society, according to the advance of civilization. The kr talionis was, perhaps, in horbarnits age., the Brat title of retributive justice known io inftelkind; blood for blood- - -cruelty for cruelty." but the Reporter, we conceive, is incorrect where he refers this savage mode of ptinklintent eltietly to a sentiment of vengeance, and but incidentally to e sense of the benefit to be drawn from ex ample. On the contrary, when the supreme power of ti state has inflicted capital punishment, either in *lady or in recent times, the motive has been generally a desire to worn by example, and but very rarely, and as an exception to the rule, any thirst for vengeence on the criminal. When, as sometimes happened, the low of a turbulent and warlike society tolerated in individuals the right to punish a wrong..doer, against themselves or their re lations, any desire to serve the state by making an example of the culprit went, of vourset for littler qtr with " But it is the simple punishment of death itself, g o t' le t being thes e the dispensers spirituider of which ! I d e a l ro7titii et lae invariably without allioiion to its objects or motives, which it n o w behoves the Committee to investigate; 4. The inviolability of human life between man an 4 nla mu is,—csn bein g society be n all l7ays roelstt ed ssi b b o y philosop ty, the question ey nounce to lire or►ti of Reporter professes' to y " philoittwphy" net (co,issiosotin A eessfereral f mo t ri e lilu r :sioaiseeitril a ict atiell‘ g :levve o yef t ilog r ile t if l uat(eiht d mil a peie l )tnimi t: o albsayi f tyy:: c rta l th i pti t e t eri t rioo i , this point, which, viewing it abstractedly, the Coni nstderat►un .of ; fr}ct e, hy an appeal to utility, muperirog.the punielituents• with th ose: ed) which liow from it‘htah"tePrt innadeon:trZitt:ol:ll:nritirePtllagreertanslttabljeenstilgionxitermainet'l cannot the death is, r6fore lio it is csrraitr that lrs am; runieymil tiersin ad a e a l n i e wt : it t l e a;as f:l o ol f t: a uc. ff rs i i . ti tt lil e i e i en s : nm a g l y t u lt e n n u t t g 4 i l n i mit present . the saint rears *MI of moral guilt. punity of athinees ..-.ien_ P u nity to the criminal, hut danger and wrong to society, the judge sod jurors, in dreed of applying *