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of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TCE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—The Vice-Chancellors of Oxford and ambridge are taken from the Heads of Colleges in certain orders of rotation established by common consent and for convenience. If a new Vice-Chan cellor is to be appointed every year, as in Cambridge, or every fourth year, as is the practice at Oxford, the advantages of such a system and rotation are obviously great. The rule, of course, is not ab solutely binding, and occasions may arise where it ought to be departed from. An academical Alderman Wood or Gibbs would be passed over without at all impairing the force of the rule. But there is an end of the rule altogether if politics or doctrinal controversies are made grounds for depart ing from it. Some years since, Dr. Lamb, the learned and excellent Master of Corpus Christi Col lege Cambridge, was passed over, when it came to he his turn to be nominated for the Vice-Chancellor ship, for no other reason than that he was a zealous Liberal politician. The late Government marked their sense of Dr. Lamb's merit, and of the injustice with which the bigot Heads at Cam bridge had treated him, by appointing him to the Deanery of Bristol. Will Sir Robert Peel have the courage to give any similar slap in the face to the rampant Oxford faction which is opposing Dr. Symons because he is an Evangelical (see the Times articles passim), and will, therefore, probably keep Puseyism at bay, as Dr. Wynter has done ? Great pains are taken by the Puseyite agitators to convince the world that they are not opposing Dr. Symons because he is no Puseyite. But the difference between opposing him because he is no Puseyite, and opposing him because, being no Puseyite, he will pro bably do things, as Vice-Chancellor, distasteful to Puseyites, is a difference which none but a Puseyite can be expected to appreciate. Dr. Wynter was an " Evangelical ;" and Dr. Wynter summoned the Board of Heresy to judge Dr. Pusey's ser mon, and vetoed Mr. M`Mullen's Divinity de gree. Dr. Symons is another " Evangelical," and will probably do similar things in similar circumstances. This is the logic of innu merable correspondents of the Times, honoured always with large type. Has Dr. Wynter done any thing unconstitutional? The aforementioned large type gentlemen say that he has. But it does not follow that another " Evangelical" Vice-Chancellor will be led by similar views of religion into similar violations of academical law. Similar religious vie ws will of course lead him to similar opinions on Dr. Pusey's sermon and Mr. M‘Mullen's thesis. But then, it is not on account of his religious opinions simply that the Pusey faction are moving heaven and earth to de feat the nomination of Dr. Symons. on Tuesday next. Oh no! It is all very well now to disclaim re ligious considerations, and rest the opposition to Dr. Symons on the unconstitutional acts of his brother Evangelical predecessor. But did any constitu tional questions enter into the contest for the Poetry chair ? Those who made Puseyism the test for a Professor of Poetry, would not have the sense to prevent them from making it the test for a Vice-Chancellor. But they have, it appears, the cunning to endeavour to conceal their mischievous motives. What we principally care for in this and all the other Puseyite demonstrations at Ox ford, is the evidence furnished of the theolo gical unity and peace which the University secures by the compulsory subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles, and the additional notoriety given by each of these outbreaks to the fact of the existence of a large and powerful body of Dissenting Conformists in a Uni versity which will not abate one jot of the Thirty nine Articles, to:allow honest Non-Conformists a par ticipation in its advantages. Mr. Newman and Mr. Ward enjoy fellowships ; but those whom Mr. New man's and Mr. Ward's writings send unto the Church of Rome, have the door of the University closed upon them. We read, only in last week's Oxford Chronicle, of a beneficed clergyman who, having been convinced by Mr. Ward's book, has given up his living, and gone into the Church of Rome. This man's son will be required to sign the Thirty-nine Articles before he can be admitted to receive educa tion at Oxford • and if he follow the faith which his father has learned from Mr. Ward, Fellow of Baliol College, the test will exclude him from Oxford. Mr. Ward, meanwhile, continues a Fellow. And how, oh, good Sir Robert Inglis, does this angrily-prosecuted quarrel about the Vice-Chancellorship—only one of many such quarrels—prove the efficacy of the Thirty.. nine Articles to keep Oxford free from religious discord ? STANDARD.—One of our morning Contem poraries (many of our agricultural readers will be able to guess which) commences a long leading article this day with the following paragraph : " Among the numberless proofs which every day supplies of the utter prostration of the agricultural interest may be noticed certain proceedings which distinguished the recent meeting of the Vale of Evesham Agricultural Society." Now, so much do the judgments of men vary upon the same representations of the very same facts, that we draw from the proceedings at the Evesham meeting an inference precisely the opposite of ;hat which would describe the agricultural in serest as in a state of " prostration." On the other hand, we see in these proceedings, to our sense. the clearest proof that the agriculturists are now, al most for the first time in our own history, or in the i.istory of any other country, entering upon the course by which they will do justice to themselves Ia saying that this course is an untried one, we et course, admit that it is subject to serimus diffi eLt iti,„ iit first, and opposed by many prejudices; neverthe ;.,,s, we are confident that in the judgment of reason ;Vole persons the principle will carry us to our conclu s on. When the Economists and Leaguers have been c!amouring to deprive the agriculturists of that fa'r protection which is allowed by law to every other pursuit of industry, our answer has always ben that agriculture is a trade and a manufacture es much as the fabrication of cotton, woollen cloth, earthenware, or hardware ; a trade and manufacture, however, subject to heavier burdens and more violent vicissitudes than any other, and therefore requiring, to maintain its existence. a higher degree of protection than any other tra'le or manufacture. We have never found the Economist or Leaguer who could answer this pl lin proposition, and therefore we hold it to he unansserable. Now, if it he true, that agri culture is a trade and manufacture in one , f?i,se, it is true in all senses—as true when w e demand commercial intelligence, enterprise, and activity from the agriculturists, as when we slain, rotection on their behalf. It is a remarkible fact, however, that while great fortunes have been realised in other branches of industry, and powerful and dis tinguished families founded by successful traders in silk, cotton, earthenware, wood, iron, &c., the example of such successes on the part of agricultu rists are extremely rare, if any such examples are to he found. The seeming reasons for this are suffi ciently numerous and sufficiently obvious to satisfy „,,,,eurperficial inquirers, but they will not bear a close examination, because they all rest on two fallacies; first, the notion that the produce of the soil is not capable of an infinite augmentation ; secondly, the opinion that the demand for agricul tural produce is, in like manner, limited. Resting upon these two fallacies, landlords have despaired of Ci nsidembly augmenting their family estates by any outlay of capital, and have, therefore, neglected to save money for the purpose, while farmers have been but too happy to hold their own, and labour from morning till night for a bare subsistence—both have cast anchor in the existingrstate of things. But ships at anchor bring home no cargoes; and agriculture has, in consequence, been left far behind in the race to wealth. What would have been the fate of other branches of industry if they, too, had, fifty or sixty years ago, dropped anchor in the status quo Wbat would be now the dimensions of Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds, if the manufacturers of 1780 had said—We cannot employ more labour, for we have no more to employ; we cannot hope to extend our markets, for we already find it sufficiently difficult to dispose of our goods ? The manufacturers reasoned differently ; they saw that the demand for labour would produce labour—that the abundant supply of markets would augment and multiply markets, and they have thriven accordingly. Why, then, did not the agriculturists pursue thu same course? They were as intelligent and industrious as the manufacturers of 1780, and could command much more capital. The reason was the same that operates up to this moment—they wanted, generally, the encourage ment afforded by the example of success in particular instances, the great stimulus in other departments of industry; and the want of such examples is to be ascribed to one important pecu liarity in agricultural pursuits. In every other pursuit the same man commands and applies the amount of capital necessary for ensuring success, also owns it, and reaps the profit of its employment, and thus capital is abundantly applied. In agriculture the landlord has, or can command. capital, but has no urgent motive to employ it. The tenant, on the other hand, has every ima ginable motive to employ capital, but, he neither has it in sufficient quantity, nor can command it ; capital, accordingly, is not applied to the cul tivation of the so il in anything approaching to its proper amount, and the soil does not produce one half of what, by a small additional outlay, it may be made to produce.. But h ere it will be objected, that a great augmentation of produce would ruin the farmer by exceeding the demand, and by, conse quently, reducing prices. This is a remnant of the old error of Lord Liverpoors day—the error' of trier-production. It was not, however, too much production that created the distress In. the five or six years after the close of the war, but too little money in the niarket to pay for it. If the farmer, however, pro duce-tbee quarters of wheat where before be pro- rluced but two, is he a loser, though wheat decline 10 or 20 per cent. upon the quarter? There is nothing to be feared from the great increase of ; production, if made gradually, as in the nature ofi things it must be made. Nay, agriculture may be, and probably will be, a more profitable trade long after this country shall have become a corn exporting country. And why should it not become a corn exporting country ? Our soil and climate are not inferior to the average of the corn exporting countries of the continent of Europe. Our constitution and laws are better adapted to the protection of every branch of industry than the constitution and laws of any other country. Our people are the most industrious and skilful in whatever pursuit they engage in ; and we have infinitely more capital to give effect to their exer tions. If labour is dearer with us, its dearness is not found to affect other branches of industry ; and there is no reason why we should not send a quarter of wheat to the Continent with as fair 'a prospect of underselling rivals, as we can send a bale of cotton. To this we firmly believe it will come, if the Legislature continue to agriculture a fair protection, and if only agriculturists, more particularly landlords (for all depends on them), will but follow the advice given to them at the Evesham meeting. This advice may be shortly described as incorporating the land lord's capital with the tenant's industry and skill —each receiving a due share of the return. Let the landlord, in a word, make all important, expensive, and permanent improvements, and charge the tenant a moderate interest for the outlay. This plan has been adopted with complete success by the Duke of Wellington, by Lord Harrowby, Mr. Barneby, and many other landlords. The land is drained or otherwise improved by the landlord, who charges the tenant, in some of the in stances quoted at Evesham, five per cent., and this five per cent. the tenant most cheerfully pays out of a profit of 10, 15, or even 20 per cent., which he derives from the arrangement. The landlord can, however, obtain money upon his estates, in the present state of the money market, at three per cent. or a little more, leaving him a profit of two per cent., or nearly two per cent., upon a transaction by which otherwise he greatly benefits his property. Such are the pros pects of a branch of industry, which our dolo rous Contemporary describes as in a prostrate state. Nor are the most important class of all, the agricultural labourers, unconcerned in the bright prospect. Whatever gives additional energy to farm ing puts bread into the mouth of the labourer and the labourer's children. It was stated by Lord Sandon, at Evesham, that on two farms, where the number of labourers had previously been no more than nine, forty have been called into employment by the new plan. THE COMMERCE of the AMERICAN LAKES. (From Simrnonds's Colonial Magazine.) Since the remission of the duty on Canadian flour, combined with the known aptitude and fertility of our Canadian provinces, and their admirable adaptation to the growth of the finest wheat, the cessation of the ravages caused by the fly in the extensive fields for merly covered with that grain, in the eastern portions of Canada, and the construction of a ship canal round the rapids of the St. Lawrence, to facilitate its trans port to the ocean, the commerce of the lakes has be come an object of transcendent consequence and the greatest value. When the long chain of water com munication, intersecting countries of unbounded fer tility through the whole American continent, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Labrador, is being traversed, without interruption, by every description of vessels—ships, brigs, schooners, steamers, steam propellers, barges, and boats—it will be admitted that this branch f commercial enterprise is highly interesting and deserving every attention. Chris topher Colles was one of the first individuals who directed his attention to the inland navigation of the huge waters of the western world, which, at a very early period of American enterprise, naturally riveted the attention of the mariner, the merchant, the me chanic, and the farmer. Jesse Hawley wrote many valuable essays, demonstrating the practicability of connecting the lakes with the Hudson river, and, thus, with the Atlantic Ocean. De Witt Clinton, Governor of the State of New York, was the int who put the plan into execution, amidst every de scription of opposition, ridicule, and reproach. The canal, named after the vast lake which it connected with the ocean, the Erie canal was termed Clinton's ditch. The natural valley of the St. Lawrence, like that of the Mississippi, being the proper outlet and channel for these worlds of waters, was not long before it became the object of attraction, and, not withstanding the impediments to its successful! explo ration, by the numerous waterfalls and rapids in its course, more especially that hugest and grandest—one )f the wonders of the world—the mammoth cataract of Niagara—the vast importance of vanquishing these obstacles of nature became every day more apparent, and ultimately eventuated in the construction of the two canals—the Erie canal from Buffalo, at the eastern extremity of Lake Erie, with the Hudson river, and the Welland canal, on the Canadian side of Lake Erie, commencing at Gravelly Bay on that lake, and entering Lake Ontario, at its western ex rrernity at Port Robinson ; these canals forming, to gether with the lakes and the river St. Lawrence, tri inland water communication of upwards of 2,000 miles. The rapid increase in the value of property along the whole line of the Erie canal, particularly through the beautiful valley of the Mohawk, soon convinced the most sceptical of the forethought, wisdom, and prudence, of De Witt Clinton. The timber of the majestic forests skirting its banks, in ;tead of being burnt, as the preliminary step to culti vation, was soon borne on its bosoms to those markets on the Atlantic coast where it was in great demand, and of inestimable value. The hydraulic powers, fur nished by the various streams falling into the Mohawk river, were soon required for manufacturing purposes ; Ind the gloomy wilderness—the haunt of the savage, mad the lair of the beast of prey—became the site of cities, towns, hamlets, homesteads, orchards, fields, gardens, and a large, and happy, and pros perous population. From Albany, on the Iludson river, to Buffalo on Lake Erie, a distance of 330 miles, the whole country is now one continued sue • cession of farms, with numerous populous towns and villages intervening; and the Erie canal has been one ,f the most useful and lucrative public undertakings wer carried into execution. The great value of this gigantic water communication arises from the hound ess fertility of the extensive country it traverses. ')ur present concern is with those portions pertaining the British Crown, and in immediate connexion with the river St. Lawrence. The lakes bounding that territory are lakes Superior, Huron, St. Clair, Erie, and Ontario. These majestic lakes were first navigated by the French ; and the earliest description riven of these vast waters was by one of the enter prising and pious missionaries who accompanied the 4pirited La Salle in his first interesting and perilous voyage. During the summer of 1679, a vessel was constructed on the shores of Lake Erie, called the Griffin, commanded by La Salle, having a crew of Frenchmen, and a humble Flemish recollect, La Pere Hennepin, the spiritual director of these navigators, and the faithful chronicler of their toils. These lakes never having been traversed before but by the frail barque of the red men of the immense forests that skirted their shores, they sounded as they went. Their first anchorage was contiguous to those beauti ful islands at the western end of Lake Erie, near the entrance of the river Detroit, the scene of warfare between the British troops and the American brigands in 1837 and 1838. Many portions of Canada still bear the names of these early pioneers, Tonti, Charle voix, Marguette, and others. The great Cardinal de Richelieu, whose chalice, vestments, and other per sonal effects, are still treasured up with great care in Lower Canada, was the first statesman whose powerful mind was directed to the commercial importance of the lakes. He devised a system for the collection and shipment of the furs obtained in the north-west regions for France, and established a line of forts from Quebec, through the lakes, to the remotest regions of the west. At the Sault de Saint Marie, Green Bay, Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara, Fort Stan ivix, and other places on the lakes, trading ports 7were established by the early French merchants, who acted as agents for the French Government. Within the memory of the present generation, the annual collection of voyageurs assembled at Montreal, in the early summer months, and departed amidst great ceremony and pomp, in their numerous canoes, on the Ottawa, to carry on the North American fur trade. In 1668, the Hudson's Bay Company obtained a charter, and afterwards the north-west Company monopolised the trade in furs. After many conflicts with the Indians and the French, the English became possessed of the north-west re gions, and during the whole progress of the American Revolution, until the declaration of peace in 1795, warfare continually interrupted the settlement of the borders, and arrested the commerce of the lakes. The western posts on the lakes were surrendered in 1796, but it was not until after the contest on the lakes, during the war of 1812, that this important naviga tion may be said to have occupied any real attention. In reality it was not until the introduction of steam into these waters that their trade and commerce may he fairly said to have made much progress. Lake Su perior, the vastest and largest of these inland seas, 1,116 miles in circumference, has yet but one steam boat on it ; but the boundless mineral wealth on its shores will, doubtless, soon give an impetus to the navigation to this great inland sea. From the rapid settlements on the borders of Lake Michigan, and the country beyond it, that lake has many steamers and schooners constantly plying on it. With the excep tion of the steamers that are constantly passing through Lake Huron from Buffalo, and the steam propellers from Oswego, on Lake Ontario, to Chicago, there is but one steam boat on Lake Huron. O n Lake Erie there are nearly 100 eteftwOrs of various sivs, many of great magnitude, conveying from 1,200 to 1,500 passengers at a time to the settlements on L ake Michigan. On Lake Ontario there are ntrarl: r forty steamers, those on the Canadian side carry ing the mails between Kingston and Toronto, of great , size and power, and commanded by most expe riem ;ed and excellent captains. Those who have once had the pleasure of making a passage with Captain Cob slough, the obliging and able commander of the P noess Royal, will soon find an excuse to make a sc ;c ond. It is impossible that anything can surpass the a .ention and 'arrangements to be met with in these t ;as cellent vessels. There are numerous lighthouses on .e lakes, and every assistance has been afforded to mir secure navigation. The practice of towing barges, nrb ich had been generally and successfully carried on, c 'n the Hudson river, was found impracticable on the It dr es, in consequence of the severe storms to which the y were frequently subjected ; but since the introduc tic), aof the screw propeller into schooners and large vessels, the necessity has been obviated, and a vast d a d. of merchandise is now carried on by this mode. r ne celerity, convenience, and safety with which st earners may descend the rapids of the St. Lawrence, has been found to be one of the most useful and suc cessful experiments made in that new application of steam 'power. During the month of June, in this present season, the fine schooner Adventure, the pro perty of the Toronto and St. Lawrence Steam Navi gation Company, made the quickest direct run ever known between those large and populous cities. The .distance is 470 miles, and she went from Toronto E ,) Montreal, laden with freight, in two days and a ti; uarter, demonstrating, to the entire satisfaction of tla e Company, the admirable adaptation of this class of vessels for the navigation of these waters. To extend th e commerce of these seas, loans were advanced by tls .e provincial government, in 1841, to incorporated at )mpanies engaged in the promotion of the trade of tl ne lakes. In 1842, the gross amount of collections of ,ustoms' duties in Canada was 278,9301. 7s. 34d. ' • the ;nett amount collected at Quebec was 68,0871. ; at :Montreal, 149,4911. ; at St. John's, 16,864/. ; at Bur lington Bay, 7,2631. ; at Kingston, 6,5101. ; at To ronto, 8,053/. ; other ports, smaller sums. The nett :revenue derived from customs, in 1842, exceeded that ,of 1841 by 50,947—the increase at Quebec and Mont -real alone being upwards of 55,326/., and on the "Western Canada ports, 2,2301. The tolls on the La s hine canal produced during the year 16;322/. (ADVERTISHMENT.) NEW SCIENCE OF WARFARE TO THE PUBLIC. Some years since the son of Louis XVI., the :legitimate King of France, had his residence in a :small town in Prussia, and his occupation being me chanical, led him to study the science of warfare. His first production was a cannon, upon a principle cntirely new, with a percussion lock, and without re coil when discharged; also a self- explodieg bomb ,shell, of extraordinary power. In the year 1829, his Royal Highness sent this cannon to Paris, through the Count Dagaut, then Ambassador to Charles X., in Berlin, but what s now become of it is unknown. This unfortunate Prince lost his only friend in the loyal Family by the de nth of the Duke de Berry, :ho was assassinated; he afterwards addressed him- elf to Charles X., but without effect. The determination of his family not to recognise h im, although their chief obliged the Prince to seek h is private rights, and throw himself upon the justice o f his country; he went, therefore, to Paris, presented h imself at the proper tribunal, and, after much diffi culty, succeeded in obtaining a trial. The French ;-overnment upon this fact arrested him, put him in aision, and, without allowing a judgment to pass, he i vas, in 1836, by order of the King of the French, ent by military power to Calais, put on board an nglish packet boat, and landed at Dover. With the persecutions of this unfortunate Prince, ;however, at present we have nothing to do ; we only know, that from the time of his arrival in England to the present day he has employed his whole time in studying the power and system of warfare. About four years since the Prince addressed him t elf (through an agent) to the Select Committee at Woolwich, he was accepted, and at the first experi t sent ; presented three exploding bomb-shells, to the atisfaction of the Committee ; and many general .3 fficers then present must recollect the remarks made, list the explosions were terrific. The second experi t nent failed, from causes which can be easily explained. It is well known what happened to this persecuted I ) rince at Minerva House, Old Kent-road, when, from caalice, all his inventions were attempted to be de t troyed; his landlord swore his life against him; his ea-editors harassed him; and after nine months' incar c oration, he was discharged by the Insolvent Court. What became of many parts of his machinery of war /.ire during this time we are not aware; but we hear .f individuals, both in England and:France, pretending t put forward, as new, inventions which were disco s -ere(' by his Royal Highness as far back as 1821. The Prince, during his residence at Minerva House, t is true, had, at times, some French gentlemen with din, and, it may, therefore, be presumed, that some f them attempted to profit by the confidence he re ,osed in them, as will appear from the French news .spers. It is, however, certain, that the principal I ecrets have been preserved to himself alone. Ills first invention, the cannon, is a beautiful piece c)f machinery, without the least recoil when fired, and onstructed in such a manner that one man may direct thirty-two pounder (manufactured upon the same principle) with as much ease as a musket. The sight Os° shows the mark at a considerable distance, by ,:iptical power, and without fail, by the self•exploding mmb shell, the object is destroyed. His second are rockets, which explode the moment 1 hey strike the object. These rockets are without t ticks, go straight to the mark like a cannon-ball, and Ire of tremendous power. His third are bomb shells, the power of which is truly terrific, and called by Captain - Warner invisible. 71:hese bomb shells the Prince will discharge from a 4 : . annon in any direction with a certainty to strike the abject desired, and are named rocket-of-cannon. His fourth is the hand rocket, which can be used vith equal advantage, either at sea or upon land ; s vith this missile the inhabitants of any island or town, however small, may protect themselves against the united power of Europe, as the Prince dare assert, t hat no army, however strong in power or numbers, c an take possession, whilst opposed by these rockets, nd they will be found of incalculable benefit to cap tains oemerchant ships, to protect themselves against pirates or any other power at sea. His Royal Highness will also show that these rockets, directed by an air ship, with the assistance of a balloon, may he sent from London to Paris, or from Paris to London, and can be made to explode at any given time, with such destructive force as to destroy everything around them, proving thereby that a nation, in possession of this power, has nothing to fear from the combined force of her neighbours, as no fortress can stand against it twenty-four hours. It may be necessary here to state that many of the Prince's rockets are of a very peculiar construction, they go without stick, carry no fire with them; some explode on touching the object, others upon entering the side of a vessel, tearing her timbers asunder, and others go through the timbers, explode, and set the ship on fire. Another matter also, which is of con siderable importance in the inventions of his Royal Highness, is, that all these destructive missiles are rendered perfectly safe and harmless until required for action, and therefore capable of being packed and transported to any part of the world without danger. Thus it must be seen, that Government need not ex pend large sums of money in the purchase of invisible missiles, as it will be proved that many of the inven tions put forth by recent adventurers, are fallacies, and can stand no test with the original inventions. The Society of Practical Science and Noble Science of Warfare, Mulgrave House, Fulham, have pur chased several parts of these important inventions from his Royal Highness the Duke of Normandie, and propose, on the 15th instant, to show a series of ex periments upon their grounds at Mulgrave House, when the rockets, &c., will be so constructed as to be safely used upon the grounds without danger ; and the Society of the Noble Science of Warfare are pre pared and willing to forward sample rockets and shells, upon a large scale, to be proved at Woolwich or elsewhere, should the Select Committee or the Go vernment request it. The Society beg to announce that on the 15th instant the first experiment on their grounds at Mul grave House, Fulham, will be an invisible bomb shell ; the second, a visible bomb shell ; the third, a self-exploding rocket without stick; the fourth, hand roocket, which will be thrown in several direc tious frm the top of a mast, to show that any mer chant ship can defend herself against a pirate, or even a man-of-war, at sea. The next will be a self-exploding rocket, which shall go off at a time prescribed by any gentleman present. The commencement of these experiments will take place at one o'clock, and terminate at six; and it is presumed, that to noblemen, naval and military offi cers, and men of science, the experiments will prove interesting and valuable. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, OCT. 4.—There hat been an improved demand for West India sugars this week, the sales reaching 700 hogsheads West India, as about former prices. The cargo of Bengals, per Mary Imrie, has been brought to market, and about 1,200 bags have been disposed off, chiefly 60s. for strong grained dry quality. No sales in Mauritius.—Bristol Mercury. OLDHAM.—The inhabitants of Oldham have for years been endeavouring to obtain a mail, for London, at about five P.M. daily, which they have at length suc ceeded in getting, by raising a subscription for the pur pose. A London and general bag aro now conveyed by the railway train leaving Oldham at 5.50 instead of the old-fashioned gig mail, when the box closed at 2'15 P.M., for London. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 5. IN THE MATTER OF JOHN MYNDE COOKE. This insolvent, a younc , man who had been an attorney in Clifford-street, Bond-street, was opposed by Mr. E. James, on the part of a Mr. Hugh Strat ford Stratford, Mr. Thomas Flight, the money-lender, and others. He was supported by Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. C. Smith. Mr. Bagley represented some creditors who were favourable to the application. The present was the first case of a prisoner heard under the new Act. The insolvent had been five months in the Queen's Prison, and was brought up on a warrant granted by Mr. Commissioner Evans. The case occupied nearly three hours, and disclosed some peculiar gambling transactions. The debts on the schedule were set forth at 40,9891. 10s. 3d., in cluding a sum of 24,0001. on a qui tam action for Lambling. The credits were 1,7891. 195., including ord Huntingtower as a debtor. The complaint was that the insolvent had improperly contracted a debt with Mr. Flight, the money-lender, and that the general character of his schedule called upon the court to refuse his application on his interim order. It appeared that the insolvent began business as an attorney in 1842, and concluded in May, 1843, in which month an in junction in Chancery was obtained to restrain the negotiation of bills of exchange accepted by Mr. Hugh Stratford Stratford, who now opposed. By the admissions made by the insolvent it was proved that Mr. Stratford had played at hazard and blind hookey with a sporting man named Coglan, whom he met at Chelmsford, and lost 10,8431., for which he gave his acceptances. Stratford, Coglan, and a female played when the insolvent " played." The insolvent won 5,0001. of Coglan, and 4001. of Stratford, and he (the insolvent) got from Coglan 4,500/. of the accept ances given by Stratford for the large sum lost to Coglan of upwards of 10,0001. He denied that he had " shared" the winnings with Coglan. Two of the 1,0001. bills were discounted by Flight for 1,6441., the rest being deducted as interest on short dates. The principal question was the representations made to obtain the discount, and on that point the evidence was very conflicting. It was stated that the insolvent had represented that he had the bills from his client to get discounted, as he was about to marry a Baro net's daughter, and required some money ; and it was sworn by him, and confirmed by a clerk, who heard through a " canvas partition," that he mentioned that they were given for a gambling affair. Two wit nesses on each side gave the version stated. Mr. Commissioner EVANS eventually held that the debt had been contracted in fraud, and that he gave evidence to the statement of the creditor. The very reason in the case showed that a person would not state that the bills were given for a gambling debt, as that would prevent the recovery of the amount, He should refuse the application. Mr. JAMES asked the court to dismiss the petition, which was resisted on the statement that the boncr fide debts were under 1,000/., and some of the creditors wished the property in the case to be protected. The COURT acquiesced, and instead of dismissing the petition, refused to name a day for the final order. Mr. SMITH asked the court to name a distant day when the insolvent might again appear. * He had al ready been five months in confinement. The COURT refused the application, and the insolvent was remanded to prison. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. THE QUEEN v. MYERS AND OTHERS. On Saturday Abraham Myers (alias Samuel Myers), Mary Smith (alias Mary Johnson), and Elizabeth Nelson, surrendered to receive the judgment of the Court for keeping a house of ill-fame in the parish of St. George, Hanover-square. The defendant Myers was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction, with hard labour, and to enter into his own recognizances on his discharge in the sum of 1001., and to find two responsible housekeepers to be bound in the sum of 501. each, for his good be haviour for the ensuing twelve months. The sen tence of Mary Smith was that she be kept to hard labour in the same gaol for two months, and on her discharge to find two sureties of 501. each, to be answerable for her good behaviour for twelve months. Elizabeth Nelson was sentenced to one month, with hard labour, in the same gaol, and to enter into, on her discharge, her own recognizances of 201., and to find two 101. bail for her good conduct for twelve months. THE QUEEN U. MOSES DAVIS THE YOUNGER. This was a similar case to the others, and the de fendant was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction, with hard labour, and on his discharge to find two sureties, to be bound for his good behaviour for twelve months, in the sum of 501. each, and to enter into his own recognizance of 1001. THE QUEEN V. ♦INCENT HOWARD. The defendant in this case was willing to give up the keys of the house, and to do all he could to abate the nuisance. lie was discharged with a nominal fine of lc. THE QUEEN V. WOOLRIDGB, HARRIS, BRA HAM, AND GALB. In these cases the learned counsel said the parties could not be found, but they had abated the nuisances, and he was willing that the recognizances should be discharged.—Discharged accordingly. THE QUEEN V. RACHEL STURGEON AND ELIZABETH FRANKLIN. The defendants were convicted on the same day of a like offence, and were out on bail, but had not made their appearance when their names were called over. Their recogniunces were, therefore, ordered to be estreated. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. John Thompson, a person advanced in ye ars, of very respectable appearance, was brought before Mr. Maltby for final examination, charged with having committed several small thefts at the stands in the Pantheon Bazaar. Miss Joice said she attended a stand in the bazaar. On Monday afternoon her attention having been at tracted by a slight noise at her stand, she was induced to look into a rosewood tea- caddy, and she then missed the cut glass sugar-bason. As she was quite certain the prisoner must have taken it, she followed him until he turned into a room belonging to the porters, the door of which she locked, and then went in search of one of the constables who are in attendance at the bazaar. The sugar-bason was afterwards found in the room in which the prisoner had been detained. Brown, one of the porters, said he examined the prisoner, but found nothing on his person. On look ing about the room he found the sugar-bason con cealed in a pail of water which stood behind the pri soner. L In defence, the prisoner said he had been ' wounded in the head some years back, and this ren ' dered him at times wholly unconscious of his acts. He was fully committed. There were two small silver-tipped bottles found in the cell in which the prisoner had been placed, both of which had been stolen from another stand in the same bazaar. These being identified, they were ordered to be delivered to the owners. Inspector Aggs said he had been misled with re spect to the prisoner, as far as his former statement, that he would turn out to be a well-known thief, was concerned. He had, however ascertained that the prisoner was known to the police as having been con cerned in swindling practices. WORSHIP-STREET. Four well-dresssed persons, named Henry Miller, Sarah Dewar, and Thomas and William Smith, alias Apsells, with a host of other aliases, father and son, were brought up for re-examination before Mr. Broughton, charged with having feloniously obtained possession of a quantity of :miscella neous articles, the property of different trades people in all parts of the metropolis. The prisoners were said to form part of an extensive and organised gang of swindlers, who for some time past had pur sued their depredations with remarkable tact and in genuity, and the court was crowded with tradesmen to prefer charges against them. It appeared that about three weeks ago the two first-named persons hired a house, situate No. 1, Peter's Cottages, Hammersmith, and immediately on establishing themselves sent round orders to the tradesmen in the neighbourhood for goods of every description, which were executed with all the alacrity and promptitude usually manifestedon such occasions. At the expiration of a fortnight theprisoners suddenly broke up their establishment and clandestinely re- ' moved the whole of the property, but the police, after incessant exertions, succeeded in tracing them to a house in Harvey-street, Hoxton, where they also found the other two prisoners, and conveyed them all to the station-house. A vast quantity of miscella neous property was found at the house and taken pos session of by the police. It was proved in evidence that the elder prisoner Smith had personally super intended the removal of the goods to the house in Har tvoeyth-setrletteht,dlaonrdd t t h h a e t k t h e y e y o f o u t n h g e e e r S t t e h a d t e v a e t e m d e u r p . smith a few days after the flight of the other pri soners. The prisoners were remanded upon a charge of fraudulently obtaining a quantity of bonnets, the property of Afr. Peat, a straw-bonnet manufacturer at Hammersmith, and thefollowingadditional charges were yesterday proceeded with. Mr. Barker, a furniture dealer, at Hammersmith, stated that about a fortnightterterm Cottages, of t h a r g e o e prisonert yw h e e haircsh. he The saidgo Miller o hd .es ca lled at his place of business, and gave him an or d er for furniture, to the amount of between 301. and 40/, hf w oa e rd r tehejusth accordinglyo takenu seinf Peter'sora sent in, but on calling, according to appointment, for his money on the 25th ult., he found the house shut up, and that the prisoner had ab sconded. Mr. Barnes, an ironmonger at Hammersmith, and several other tradesmen, identified the prisoner Miller as Flaying victimised them under similar cir cumstances. Sergeant Dubois stated that havingrkeived pi*itive information. that the elder Smith had lately taken a house at Upper Mitcham, in the name of Richard Ap sell, he proceeded thither on Friday, and searched the place, where he found a large quantity of new dresses and other ;trizicles, corresp Hiding with similar articles which had been fraudulently obtained from different tradesmen. He also found a large. mass of written documents, some of which were agreements for houses take ain different names, for various terms of years, in all parts of London. Some of these docu ments relat , 0 to one Joseph Price, who had been en gaged in extensive swindling transactions, at a house in Cambridge Heath-road, and he was prepared with evidence to prove that the said Joseph Price and the elder Smith were one and the same person. Mr. James t Kipling, clerk to Messrs. Truman and Co., tea-deals Ts, in Coleman. street, identified the elder Smith as having obtained goods to the amount of 501., from the 11 rm, in the name of Joseph Price, of Cambridge-heath-road, on which occasion he gave a reference to :a Mr. Dewar, of Ashford-street, Hoxton, whom the witness identified as the prisoner Miller. Sergeant IJ+ubois said that the prisoner Smith had opened no leras than seven different shops, in as many different names, within the last twelvemonths, and if allowed further time he would bring forward nume rous other charges against them. Mr. Dunce mbe, who attended on behalf of the pri soners, subiratted that no case whatever had been made out ag afinst them; but Mr. BROVVIITON said he was clearly of opinion that a case of constructive felony had been established, and he should remand all the prisoners for another week. UNION-HALL. Wm. Johnson, a young man of genteel appearance, was brought -.up on remand from Wednesday, charged with stealing several silver spoons and other silver articles from different coffee-houses and taverns in the metropoli s. Owing to the publicity given to the charge agairvit the prisoner on Wednesday, on which occasion he took two silver table-spoons from the house of Mrs. Hubbard, a pastrycook in the Wal worth-road, :and substituted two metal ones in their places, the c.t .urt was literally crammed with tavern and hotel-kos,pers from different parts of the town. Mr. Jone s., the proprietor of the Three Tuns tavern, St. Margarot Southwark, stated that on Satur day, the 21st ult., the prisoner walked into his coffee room, order I a reast partridge for dinner, and talked very familial rly about his acquaintance with some wealthy hop merchants in the Borough. He then countermand ed the'order for a partridge, and ordered a mutton-chi and having taken some sherry negus, left the hoc Lse, and soon after his departure a silver spoon, a sail t spoon, together with a silver mustard pot and spov n, were missed. Mr. Jones had no doubt as to the prlsoner's identity. The land lord of the Golden Cross, Charing-cross, stated that fthe prisoner dined at that house on Thurs day ; he h:u I dinner in the coffee-room ' and when he was gone ts vo silver spoons were found to be missing. The prop rietor of the St. Paul's Hotel, St. Paul's Churehyard, stated that six weeks ago the prisoner dined and bad tea there, and having paid his bill he left the coS.ie-room. He had, however, scarcely left the house when a silver sugar-basin and tongs and tea-spoon were missed ; but he got clear off, although pursued by one of the waiters. The land lord of the Ship Hotel, Charing-cross, stated that :about a week ago the prisoner called there and had a glass of gin-and-water in the coffee-room, and that he decamped with a silver table-spoon, a salt-spoon, and a tea-spoon, which latter arti c l e he had with bi s gin and water. The proprietor of the pastry-cook's shop at the corner of Gracechurch-street, identified the prisoner as having bad a bason of soup in the refreshment room, and Laving paid for the same, it was discovered that he heel taken two large silver spoons, leaving in their plates; two metal ones very similar to them in appearance. Mr. COTTINGHAM said three cases out of the num ber should be selected upon which to prosecute the prisoner, wlho was asked if he wished to say anything in answer to the numerous charges alleged against him. The prisoner merely said he should leave the case in the - hands of his solicitor. Policemim 166 M stated that the prisoner was an old offendew ; that about twelve months ago he was in his custody on charges of a similar description ; that he was con victed at the Surrey Sessions of stealing various articles of plate from the Hummums, and sen tenced to six months' imprisonment. The pris oner was then committed, but he will be brought up' again on Wednesday next. Mr. Joseph Ashford, landlord of the Queen's Head, Green-lane, Tottenham, was charged with wilfully breaking the panel of a third-class carriage belong ing to the Brighton Railroad Company. Robert Sutton, guard, in the employ of the Com pany, state.d that the defendant came from Croydon in the Brighton train on the preceding night, and that when they arrived at the terminus he commenced hammering away at the panel of the carriage with a stick until he did damage to the extent of 10s. The defendant being called on to answer the charge, said it was very important to the public that all the circumstances of the complaint should be known : on the preceding night he arrived by the half-past nine o'clock train at the terminus. The tickets were collected from the passengers, and he wanted to get out in order to meet the stage at the Flower Tot to take him to Tottenham. The door of the carriage, however, was kept closed for upwards of ten minutes after their arrival, and he admitted that he knocked with his stick to get out ; that he did not strike with more violence than was necessary to make the persons hear, and owing to the detention he lost the stage, and was compelled to walk home, where he did not arrive until past one o'clock in the morning. Mr. COTTINGIIAM inquired as to the cause of such a detention after the arrival of the train at the terminus ? The superintendent said that they were obliged to wait until a Croydon train, which was about to start, was got out of the. way. The superintendent added that great force must have been used to break and damage the panel of the carriage in the way it was, and that the defendant's arm was seen thrust out of the window striking away at the side of the carriage. Mr. COTTINGHAM was astonished to hear that a passenger should have been kept locked in for such a length of time after the arrival of the train and the collection of the tickets ;. but it was the duty of the Company to have seen that there was no impediment at the terminus on the arrival of the train, and not to have put many of the passengers to the inconvenience of being detained for such a length of time. If any unavoidable accident over which the Company had no control had occurred, then there would be an excuse for such a detention, but in this instance bad manage ment was apparent on the arrival of the train. The magistrate added that the damage done to the car riage being proved, the defendant was bound to pay for it, but he (the magistrate) must say that it was with reluctance he compelled him to do so. CROYDON. The presiding magistrates, Messrs. Adams, Barclay, and Lucas, were occupied for a considerable time in the investigation of a case arising out of the alte ration in the bastardy clauses of the Amended Poor law, which have only just come into operation, and the professed object of which are to give greater facilities on the affiliation of illegitimate children, and to throw some portion of responsibility from the mothers of such children upon the putative fathers. It will be seen, however, that from the difficulty of procuring what is sound corroborative testimony of the evidence of the mother, it is almost impossible to make out a case against the father, and the hardships created by these clauses in the original Poor-law re mains unabated. A young man named &Then Smith was sum moned by a girl named Emily Peake, to show cause why he should not have an order made upon him to support an illegitimate child, of which she had been delivered, and of which he was alleged to be the father. Mr. Penfold, the clerk to the bench, in answer to a question from the chairman, explained that the proceeding was taken under the last Poor-law Amend ment Act, which had just come into operation, and under which the mother of the child, or her friends, were empowered to take this step to compel the father of an illegitimate child to support it, without any in terference on the part of the parish. The complainant, a respectable-looking girl, appa rently about eighteen years old, was then sworn, and she deposed that she was delivered of a female illegi timate child on the Ist September, and the defendant was the father o f it. Sh e was unable to support the child herself, and therefore desired that the defendant should have an order made upon him to support it. In answer to questions from the bench, the com plainant said that the defendant had been keeping company with her for some time, and she expected to have been married to him. The intimacy between them which led to the birth of the child took place on the 24th December. The magistrate said that the complainant had so far made out her case as to s wear that the defendant was the father of her child, but they could not act upon that declaration unless it was corroborated by other testimony. They therefore wished to know what evidence she could produce in support of her state- meat. The complainant said that she wished her mother and sister to be examined. The mother was accordingly sworn, and in answer to questions put to her, stated that all she knew upon the subject was that the defendant had been keeping her daughter company for two or three years, and that he broke off the connexion about two years ago, and then renewed it again of his own ac cord last December. She never saw anything im proper take place between her daughter and the de fendant, and when she discovered her daughter was in the family way, and she informed her the defend ant was the father of the child, she went to him and asked him what he intended to do, and he then denied that he was the father of the child, and said he could not approve) f paying anything towards its support. Mr. ADAMS asked the mother whether defendant had always denied to her that he was the father of the child ?—The mother said that he had. Mary Anne Peake, an elder sister of the com plainant, was next examined, but she was unable to prove more than that the defendant had kept company with her sister for a considerable time, and that having broken off the connexion with her for a year and a half, he came to her mother's house on the 24th of December, and in the evening her sister and the defendant went out for a walk about seven o'clock, and did not return until after nine, but she did not know where they went to. The CHAIRMAN inquired whether the witness had ever had any communication with the defendant upon the subject ? The witness said, that three or four days before her sister was confined, she went to the defendant and told him she was very ill, and at the same time charged him with being the father of the child. He hesitated a little while, and then said that the child was not his, but he told her he w ou ld come and see her sist e r. e did not, however, do so. Tile complainant was then re-called, and The CHAIRMAN having explained the law to her, told her that the magistrates had no power to assist her, unless she gave them some corroborative proof of the truth of her statement. They wished, therefore, to know whether she had any further evidence to offer, or whether she had anything more to state to the bench in corroboration of her testimony? The complainant said she had no further evidence to offer, but again asserted that the defendant was the father of her child. The BENCH, after a short deliberation, expressed their opinion, that the statement of the complainant had not been sufficiently corroborated, and they therefore discharged the summons. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. DEPARTURE OF THE FOREIGN MAILS. LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 7.—The next mail for India, &a., via Marseilles, will be dispatched from hence this evening, Monday, Oct. 7. The next mails for Malta, Greece, and the lonian Is lands, via Southampton, will be dispatched from hence on the morning of the 7th inst., and for Egypt and India on the evening of the 2d November. ARRIVAL OF FOREIGN MAILS. The next mail from the English and Foreign Colonies in the West Indies is due this day. The next mail from Mexico, Honduras, and Havanah, is due this day. The next mail from Bermuda, New Granada, and San Juan di Nicaragua, is due this day. The next mail from Lisbon, Madeira, Spain, and Gib raltar, is due the 9th inst. EAST INDIA. SHIPPING. Arrivals-Planet, Baillie, from Ceylon, off Ports mouth, sailed March 16, Mauritius July 6, St. Helena August 18 ; Sir Robert Sale, Ingleby, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed May 28, St. Helena August 21 ; Canopus, Stroyan, from China, in the Downs, sailed April 6, Anjer June 2, St. Helena August 3 ; Ophelie and Anne, Barker, from Ceylon, in the Downs, sailed May 2, St. Helena July 29 ; Tyne, Robertson, from Port Philip, off Torbay, sailed April 26, New Zealand May 23 ; John Hullett, Austen, from Mauritius, in the Downs, sailed June 26 ; Vanguard, Garwood, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed May 4, St. Helena August 13 ; Mary, Grant, from Bombay, in the Downs, sailed May 30, St. Helena August 10 ; Cape Packet, Lamb, from Madras, off Hast ings, sailed May 23, Mauritius July 6, St. Helena August 18 ; John Knox, from Batavia, off Hast ings; Buteshire, f rom Beng al , in the Down s , sailed May 14, Mauriti us , July 13, St. Helena August 20 ; Nautlilus, Gibson, from China, in the Downs, sailed from Hong-Kong Aprill2, Anjer June 4; Seringapatam, Peckett, from Madras, in the Downs, sailed April 19, Cuddalore April 29, Mauritius June 6, St. Helena July 28; Kinnear, from Hobart Town, in the Downs, sailed June 6 ; her Majesty's ship Clio, from Bombay, at Portsmouth, sailed May 20, Trincomalee June 9, Cape July 30, Ichaboe August 11, St. Helena August 21, Ascension August 24; Platina, Wycherley, from Port Philip, in the Downs, sailed April 9. Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope-Couch, Bell, July 11, from Rio; Hope, 12th, from Liverpool; British Settler, 14th, St. Helena 15th ; Chanticleer, 19th, from Algoa Bay; Canning, 22d, from Ichaboe; City of Sydney, 26th, from Mauritius; Zoe, 28th, from Bristol; Colony, 29th, from Eh ade Mayo ; Athenian, from London. Arrivals in Sinion's Bay-Her Majesty's ship Isis, July 11, from Mauritius; her Majesty's ship Conway, 23d, from West Coast. Departures from Simon's Bay-Her Majesty's ship Helena, July 12, cruising; Candahar, 22d, to London. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GORTON RACES.—SATURDAY. The Claret Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added. Heats, two miles. Mr. Thompson's b g by Shrigley, out of Fenella, 5 yrs (Darling) 1 1 Mr. Singleton's Teresa, 3 yrs 0 2 Mr. Whitworth's Lady Sarah, 3 yrs 2 0 Coheiress, Xanthus, Staley, and Hampton, also ran. Won easy. A Cup of 501., added to a Handicap of 10 sovs. each, Sce. Mile and three-quarters. Mr. Dawson's Lord Saltoun, 3 yrs (Riley) 1 Mr. Flintoff's The Rhine, 4 yrs 2 Little Hampton and Sir R. Buikeley's Bay Middleton mare also ran.—Won cleverly. The Hunters' Stakes were won by Mr. Thompson's Jack. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT SLOUGH. On Saturday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. John Charsley, one of the coroners for Bucks, at the tap at the railway station, Slough, on the body of Miss Jane Buckstone, a young lady, twenty-nine years of age, the niece of tae late Mr. John Travers, who met with her death by falling from one of the windows of the Royal Hotel, as detailed in the fol lowing evidence : George Boulton, a waiter at the Royal Hotel, was the first witness examined. He stated that, on that morning, at a quarter Past five o'clock, in conse quence of hearing a noise like some one breaking into the house, lie got up and went into the area, where he heard groans. On opening the shutters of a room on the ground floor, he saw a woman lying on the ground, on her stomach, with her head completely doubled up under her body, and bleeding from the mouth and head. Her shoes were lying about a yard distant from the body. He immediately called up Mr. Dotesio, to whom he handed the body through the window, who took it in his arms to the room where it is now lying. The deceased arrived at the hotel last evening, with two other ladies. Mr. Charles Dotesio examined—l am the pro prietor and landlord of the Royal Hotel, at this station. At a little after five o'clock this morning, the last witness knocked at my bed-room window, and told me that some one had fallen out of the window and was dying. I instantly got up and went into the parlour, where the window was open, and received the body from Boulton, and took it to the apartment where it is now lying. The deceased was in her night clothes. I placed her on a mattress brought by Boulton, and fetched the bed-clothes from off my own bed with the view of warming her, and put my pillow under her head. Having just left my bed, the bed-clothes were warm. I immediately sent for Dr. Bryan, who arrived within twenty-five minutes after the body was discovered. I then had my housekeeper called up, and got her to call the aunt and sister of the deceased. During that delay, while I was alone in the room, I kept rubbing her hands and feet. She got warm, and I thought began to breathe. I asked her if she knew where she was, and who I was ? She made an effort to speak, but could not articulate. After the aunt and sister came down, she moved her hands and arms two or three times, and pulled a loose tooth out of her mouth. About half-past six o'clock this morning, deceased's sister gave me a letter for her brother, which I dispatched by the guard of the luggage train to town. The brother has since arrived. The deceased, with her aunt and sister, slept at my house some weeks ago, on their way to Bath, and they were now on their road from Bath to London. Dr. J. B. Bryan stated that the deceased lived for about an hour and a half after his arrival at the Royal Hotel. She was not sensible, but retained, to a cer- tain extent, the power of motion. The injuries she had sustained, which would have been produced by falling from a height, consisted of a very severe con cussion of the brain, and the lower part of the spine was also severely injured. George Powlesland, a waiter at the Royal Hotel, stated that the deceased and two other ladies upon their arrival last night, took tea and retired to rest about ten o'clock. Ann Meades, housekeeper at the Royal Rotel, stated that after she had called up the aunt and sister, she went into deceased's bed•room, the window of which she found wide open, and the blind drawn up. The table had been removed from its usual position under the window. The deceased's watch was lying in the middle of the bed, which appeared to have been lain in. Dr. C. J. Fox, of 13, New Broad-street, London, stated that he was called in by the brother (who is also a medical man) of the deceased to see his sister, about Christmas last, who, he was informed, had been suddenly seized, while cleaning her teeth, with a diffi culty of articulation. When witness saw her he found her ton gue d rawn to t h e l e f t s id e, an d s h e was slightly paralysed. She was put under particular treatment for many weeks. The tongue gradually returned to its proper place, and paralysis subsided, but there was no affection of the mind that witness could discover. She was recommended to go into the country for change of air and scene. 11Titness had seen nothing of her since she left London. Miss Hannah Travers, the aunt of deceased, resid ing at Denmark-hill, Camberwell, deposed as follows : —My two nieces reside with me. The health of the deceased for many months had been in a very infirm state. During the last three months we have been travelling in the south of England for the improve ment of her health, and we were now returning home. Yesterday evening she was more than usually cheerful. She had no apprehension of consumption since Midsummer. I believe the unfortunate occur- rence of this morning to have been purely accidental. Constantly, while we were at the sea-side, I c arried her a jug of salt wa t er every morn i ng before seven o'clock. I usually found her half. dressed, lying 00 the bed, with a book beside her, and the window open' She required all the air she could obtain from feeling occasionally a difficulty in breathing. Neither rni bed-room door nor that of deceased, was locked, but the outer passage-door I locked myself. She Was never known to walk in her sleep. This being the whole of the evidence, the Coroner, in summing up, said there was no doubt her death was occasioned by the injuries she sustained by the fall, but that with reference to her state of mind At the time the evidence was only inferential. The jury returned a verdic . :; - that "The deceased came by her death in consequence of a fall from 6 window; but whether that fall was the result of nod dent or not does not appear." 'Fhe body was removed to London the same night: The family of the deceased are anxious to state that the above accident occurred from no fault in the or rangements of the hotel. Under the painful circurn" stances they are desirous to acknowledge the ex' treme kindness and considerate attention they expo" rienced throughout from Mr. Dotesio and erel member of his household. brGugh before I tCry and It them 1 i n 1841 schem e abando ] (Mr. G 4. T; of Apr: Proj ect , ed by tnth e the nar 14 ;Orthe befo re 4, ent o r hie had THE EDUCATION 11ANIFEsTO. The following amusing article we copy from the Church and State Gazette--a"knife-to-the-death supporter of Sir R. Peel on the fall of the Whigs "Lord Wharncliffe has certainly a grea t a pti t ude It' • surprising people. W e h ave scarce l y recovere d our breath at the astonishment into which we were throw n at his late extraordinary exploit in.the House of Lordtti where of an assembly of j u d ges h e ma d e a soc i e ty (/` dupes, than we are again the victims of an excited sen . sibility, and stand confused with wonder, amusement, arid indignation at his Lordship's provincial perform' antes at Barnsley. " This noble and astute Peer is undoubtedly theJad ill of diplomatists : he betrays under- an affectation of tal i exceeding measure of lo ve . H e ca j o l e d t h e ans ia' tots o Peers into a desertion of th e i r d uty , b y anxiously ass u ,, r , r Dot ed ing them that it wo u ld b e f or t h e i r own uns peo Indspe able benefit, if they pe rm itt e d t h e l aw m i ce o f Whi g ger i i , ee s to free the lion of agit a ti on f rom t h e h ea l t h y to il s wilie r tli e ; r bound him. The noble d u p es o f thi s cra f ty coun sello the ad( ()keyed in the very unconsciousness of their igeoral 05 hi t , Without well knowing what they were doing, they .execu s that of whieh they now pretty well know the cOnr length quences ; and Lord Wharncliffe, having been so P e suPari n Ciro p chievously successful in deluding the Peers, carries li c e An d his vocation of arch deceiver by trying to mystify the APril people. Ho has for ever destroyed the efficien, c i e A of the House of Lords as a last court of spry." t • hitt , ) o „ ng and so vivacious is he in his evil doing, t nd, s 3 having bruised the coronets of th‘ peers, dProj ect turns restlessly to an assault on the duties an er OH, privileges of the c l erg y. lie is so well pleas e d a t havin t ! Ilunti n - rendered the L or d s r idi cu l ous , t h at h e has attempte d boro ugt strip the clergy of their dignity and usefulness. Basil II 4,0 o( s tated t stabbed the State he assaults the Church. May he ti fi don AN in the latter an antagonist more powerful than the 11, 1 '; mast titude whom he cheated into a dereliction of duty. ot ; his assault on the Church be less successful in its iss u- a r 4 x, 131 than his attempt on the Peers. The latter was effeet e lf 1.. by a species of petty larceny, and succeeded mail 34 bent g through the ignorance of those whom he designedL' d direc t a his victims; the former partakes more of the old,, yet I S tentr a d spirit, of the old highw a y man . W e trust the clergy ° he *Hern e neither be alarmed by the b o ld ness , nor d ece i ve d by SP sch eme coolness of their aggressor. F orewarne d i s forearnil.; ; Way to it and if they are not speedily arra y e d i n a ll t h e i r pannP e fr eireesd don w e after such a note of wa rn i ng as t h at soun d e d in arst Pm Barnsley speech, and repo r t e d i n our co l umns o f to-dl i : Joh n / 14 a too tardy arming will no t on l y not prevent t h e ir fs B but that fall itself will fain to win sympathy for the° who faltered, when they should have stood firm. "It is needless for us to point out to our clerical read e r e the portions of that speech which appear to us Ow e pregnant with prospects of danger to the Church. confine ourselves to directin attention to it, and 101 1 ,1 the least suspicious of our readers to form at leisure ,J l e ; t own opinions thereon. W e are sa ti s fi e d, h oweve r, ti!, with us he will see in thi s B arns l ey man if esto a s Peci oe of charge to the cl e r g y, ma d e b y one assurn ist; authority above that of the highest dignitary of Church. This charge w ill b e seen to b e rep l ete w 3 b e deceitfully affectionate persuasion to the clergy to at confederate to their own wrong. It will be seen tl ie there is an already cut-and-dry design to depth e ministers of the Church of their right, privilege, du a f and office, of being the irresponsible religious teachers 4 the young. It would have been little had G o verntaf be declared that th e m i n i sters o f eac h sect m i g h t be ' eh Mentors of their own peculiar followers ; but it is 51 ,1 5 e that that same Government should be preparing which is to d e p r i ve t h e c l ergymen of the Church of 7.5 land of their right o f b e i ng t h e uncontrolled counsen,;, of that Church' s c hild ren . Th e new Government llef*i3 is evidently one of those centralising projects w hio lo quietly to transfer the education of the people fro° clergy, who are their natural instructors, to the e 4 4. vocal superintendence of a G enera l B oard i n Dovni es street. The real design is well enveloped in a tre,.rY isePo cious colouring, but it is clearly discernible neva:w or e c es The very fearsopologies,explanations,and rernoa s „ ts m ark which, notwithstanding the boldness of the Pl an ' feral the speech of him delegated to demonstrate 19 .„ n eti alone a sufficient ground of suspiCion. But, strle L s eb of all the sophistries which enwreathe it, and by " 1 it it .is intended t o d e l u d e an d m y st i fy the clerat amounts to simply this, that the latter shall be no fur ther the superi n t en d ents of the education o f thei r flocks, titan as they ar e th e d eput i es of a m i xe d cu— ,, ; mittee in L on d on . T he freedom that is promised th e , e is nothin g mor e t h an that granted.to a man confined „f a room, with the liberty of not leaving it. The head s o f our Church are the only true and natural gu ardians t ; r her sons. T o th e f ormer t h e e d ucat i on of t h e Int er er may be safely entrusted ; but here is a despoiling pos‘, above th e Ch urc h, an d t h at p ower i s now directe d t o I b ~ effecting of a grievous injury, and striking at the leges of that Ch urc h. L or d Wh arnc liff e talks o f s eear i v ties ; but, granting the m as un d en i a bl e now, t h e y be made a moans of further assult hereafter. We, P r test, then, against this new G overnment p l an, whie h ' by giving the direction of the entire education of the you of England to the Government Ministry of the day, er„ t . it in the possible keeping of A r i ans an d Atheists. I 'v ' l ,O ever we may think of the or th o d oxy o f the Preslo. occupants of power, wh a t i s t o ensure us aga i nst the re fidelity and heresy of f u t ure Mi n i str i es ? Some fut`", Lord Melbourne might make an educational super s tendent of some hereafter-to-be Mr. Owen ; and the Church would in such case protest'in vain against ;" 0 Socialist doctrines of the teachers whose instruerl o g they are bound to obey. The possibility of such a ° h e must not be for a moment permitted. In this matter".d, Church must be the master—the Government it s 3 243 On this question, the latter must look up to the Cha' - a , for instruction, and not down upon her to transmit percilious directions that are expected to be silent/ obeyed. Lord Wharn c liff e , f rom hi s speech, evidenre conceives the whole a ff a i r t o b e arrange d b y the n ; ° f announcement of his plans ; and the " hear, hear r to a portion of his auditory to be the recognition of t I , Government's condition as rulers, and the clergy's 1W. 5 1.. tion as slaves. B u t thi s i s an un d ue hasten i ng to an /a, founded conclusion. The clergy are forewarned, t i ' l/ as we said before, forewarned is forearmed !" The f atal fi cal si qUent It) Con *hitt, 4te n do oth er App,] [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A NEVER FAILING RE , .- 13 g FUR ALL CASES OF SCURVY, SCORBUTIC HUNOUt: AND SCROFULA, BY H O L LOWAY ' S P ILLS AND OIS"; MENT.—EXTRAORDINARY CURE.—Henry Hill, now Puke f)otman to Lord 8., w a s l a t e l y di sc h arge d from the Pu k eof B's. service i n consequence of his having 131,'10 scorbutic blotch es a ll over hi s hands and face, to 'll4 great disfigurement. For twelve months he was treat e e by his mast er ' s me di ca l attendants, but to no pur pesj and the case was at last declared incurable, and he Iv :, discharged. Th e poor f e ll ow then, as a forlorn 11°5 commenced using Hollow a y' s Pill s an d Oi n t men t, wh , effectually eradicat e d th e di sease f rom h is bloo d in less than thr ee wee k s . S o ld at Professor 11°M,:f way's Establishment, 224, Strand (where advice 113 7 f be had gratis), and by almost all respectable vendor s medicine throughout the civilised world. ,The An daa 441 . 1 813 a 4 rltry yr":, C. IN l'echer, art Wateoi BIRTHS. f g r. On the 14th of July, at Cutta c h, C a l cu tt a , th e w ife o William Barckley, superintendent o f F ou l P o i n t Li g ht 1 1 ° 45 " of a son and heir. der On the 21st inst., at Roade, the wife of the Rev. Alexia' Armand, of a daughter. : ; • 11 'g On the 2d inst., at Rutland-gate, Hyde-park, London, Bagle, of Rosemont, Ayrshire, of a son. 3 113 ' On the 3d inst., at Great George-street, Westminster , J. F. Lynde, of a son. MARBLED. whit' On the 3d inst , at St. Alphage, Greenwich, Robert more, second son of the late Major Clarke. R.M., to Marl4l`, Elizabeth, eldest d aug ht er o f Li eutenant touse,R.N., G ree ' wich Hospital. o f On the 3d inst., a t K ens i ngton Church, Mr. John Kin,„6't',- Bren t ford, to M argare tt e W a lk er Taylor, of St. Mary Ab ' terrace, Kensington. On the 3d inst., at South Stoneham, Hants, the Rev: M. Cahnont, o f Hi g hfi e ld , i n that parish, to Emily Georgfir. youngest daughter of F re d er i c k Hill, o f t h e Polygon, S°ll ampton, Esq. • et , On the 3d i ns t., Willi am E ssex, E sq , o f Gordon- 5 t . l. e „13 Gordon-square, t o 3lary, third daughter of the late , To s ' Thrupp, Esq. On the 3d inst., a t Pi nner Ch urc h, th e R ev. Charlq1 1 :1; Fowler, M.A., to Emily Matilda, eld es t d aug ht er of Sir s" ham Mlan, art., of Pinne A. r-grove. On them d ins ß t., the Rev. W. Taykir, Rector of Sto l(6 , Newington, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Richard W l ' field, Esq., of the same place. On the 2d inst., at Broadwater, Sussex, Charles Lus bi lf ton, Esq., formerly, M.P., f o r A s hb ur t on , t o Julia, the late Thomas Teed, Esq., o f th e H urs t House, wide/. on ls ,, e) ;rcl On the 2d inst., at St. B r id e ' s , Fl ee t- s t ree t, Mr. E" v ' t be Kilbinton Brewer, to Susannah, youngest daughter of late Captain Grimstone, of Rotherhithe. t he On the 2d inst., at the Scotch Church; River-terra c kb, Rev. George Craig Sprouston,'Kelso, to Margaret M'Crlitoo second daughter of the late James Morrison, Esq. Mye, Kelso. DIED. Jobrl On the 2d inst., at B e d a l e H a ll , Y or k , Ad m i r s l S i r Poo Beresford, Bart. On the 24th ult , at th e R ec t ory, D own h am, Ely, the William Tilden, aged 45. On the 28th ult., M r . John Fames, of the Cliffe, Leese On the 29th ult., in Smith-street, Chelsea, Hannah , - of the late John Bailey, Esq. liE On the 2d inst., a t B ag l au Cottage, near N ea thy widow of the late Francis Bramah, civil engineer. third On the 3d inst., at Burst House Lancashire, Sara h, daughter of the late chard Es. On the 4th inst., in ßi Great ToWer'- stree q t, Mr. E. M. St i r :i ll :g ' On the 4th i ns t ., Wi ll i am, the youngest and las t sury wief son of the late Mr. Joseph .Nicholson, of LaVirraCe- Cheapside, and Feot's-cray, Kent. Vl4 6 Loidon: Printed an d P u bl iahed by MUR DO 1119 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 7'fie Sri Officet,,„„,n'°.ifof Stroud, in the Ppoink of the Sayby; in tile vv. — Zdale,los, Cieber 7,1844. for 48. 64. " PE and pr , Ur, I'NR% iti MAC, eceek LA N] ,Ntid graved welch , Dire THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVEN ING OCTOBER 7. 11844, D