The Sun. — London, England, 1839-09-20 00:00:00

- - EVEN ING EDITION. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, SEPT. '2O. Wiii be presented an entirely new and original Nautical Drama, in Three Acts, entitled ARMSTRONG, THE SHIPWRIGHT. ) Reuben Armstrong . , Mr. T. P. Cooke; Abel Armstrong, Mr. E. F. Saville; Annis Mildred, Mrs. H. Vining. After which (`.29,n time) the successful Nautical Drama of BEN BOATSWAIN ; Or, SAILOR'S SWEETHEARTS, Ben Bowling, Mr. T. P. Cooke. Tit l conclude with, THE BROKEN CHAIN. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE. ON MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY, 9.3 d, :2-Ith, and 9.tltb. , GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAM. PETRES, By the unrivalled Band of this Establishment, Conducted by Mr. Godfrey. Exhibition of the Wonderfully-intense and beautiful new Lig' KONIAPHOSTIC, Under the guperintendenee of 31r. H. Carter. And the ERUPTION of MOUNT HECLA. Admission One Shilling. Feeding Hour Five o'Clock—Concert at Six. The Eruption of Heela, with all the other unique Entertain ments, every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. HIGH WATER AT LOND:IN BRIDGE TO.NIORROW. Morning lB minutes alter 0. I Evening ... 43 minutes atter 0. , ~,,... ,Vit ~r. 7 • J _.4 'Z 1,...\.:-, -.5.--0 49‘4 1 / 4 V ,- - - , 4; t l-I,,,''' i ~ , V:P.' • :. -'-= a. I filb _,,,-.4 , _ - ,-,x,e,,,, ' Zbre nu. LONDON : FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1839. Mr. SHILL has been re-elected for Tipperary without opposition. We should have been much surprised at this had we not been acquainted with the tactics of the Tories, for up to the last they threatened a serious.opposition. Their man was named, and they were ready for the fight. It was all vapour. The Tories did not dare show them , selves. If the Ministers lost Cambridge by a small 1 majority, they have, as Mr. SHILL said, kept Ire land—and kept I re l an d a lmo s t unanimously--with I them. In Tipperary with a population of 500,000, where the Tories possess great wealth and great estates, but where they are well known, they could t not poll, when they mustered all their strength, 500 Ivotes. Such is the popularity of the Ministers where they have endeavoured to do justice to the people, and have treated them with confidence and 'kindness. Mr. SIIIEL, at another part of his speech, could t happily point to a diffrent proof of the same facts. i Notwithstanding, as we mentioned on S a t ur d ay , I that upwards of 1,100 soldiers were employed in the first half of the year in enforcing writs of 1 ejectment issued by Noble Lords to clear their estates, and notwithstanding the military are still required in Ireland to collect the tithe impost, Mr. SHIEL was able to state that now there are only 13,000 troops in Ireland, while in 1834, under Lord STANLEY'S ill-tempered Administration, there were '23,000. Nearly half the military, Itherefore, can be spared, because the Administration merits and receives the confidence of the people. Well might Mr. SHIEL exclaim that Lord NOR MANBY should have disdained all reply to the carp ing criticisms of the Tories :—"A larger view ought to have been taken ; and to nothing but to the great political results of his administration ought any reference have been ever made. He secured for England and for her QUEEN the attachment of 7,000,000 Irishmen--where deep discontent had reached, he infused confidence and attachment, and with a genuine loyalty filled the nation's heart." A noble result, indeed, of virtues sup posed in the exercise to be most pleasing to their possessor. And why should not a sinilar result be looked for in England ? A very little, perhaps we may call it flattering attention, satisfies a people, and makes them patiently submit to numerous privations, and even bear hardships with glorious enthusiasm. On the accession of her MAJESTY, and more especially on her coronation, events testified that all the old feelings of loyalty were still slumbering in the hearts of the people, and midit be easily awakened into renewed life and vigour. A little deference to the privations of the people—a little economy—a little restriction on pensioners and idlers, so that the industrious might not be the only sufferers—a little encouragement to the public hopes of political improvement, would have sufficed to make the Go vernment almost as popular in England as it is deservedly popular in Ireland. The lost opportu nity can now only be regretted ; but we would fain hope that the Ministers, taught by the advantages they have derived from their kindly conduct to wards Ireland, will think 'the affections of the English as well worth being purchased by a show of justice and of mercy, as the affections of the Irish. Our hopes are revived by Mr. SHIEL'S speech. It is conceived in an honest and bold spirit. It breathes defiance to the Tories, and hatred to their crooked, coercive policy. We trust its spirit may pervade the Ministry. "By associating (said Mr. Spiel) with the Govern ment, individuals enjoying the confidence of the Irish peo ple the Government is strengthened, and in this view all reference to the merits of those individuals may be pot aside. I make no doubt that at the opening of the naxt Session the Ministers will preSent to their antagonists a force which will render all the efforts of their antagonists vain.—(Cht , ers.) The Tories speak with great al. fected reliance on their success in breaking up the Go vernment. But they have held the same language for three Sessions, and nona cl their predictions have come to pass. It is true that. they have been able to baffle the Government in the Lords, but look to the signal success of the Ministers in various great transac tions, then consider how latle ground there exists for that despondence, to which some amongst us are tco apt to give way.—( Cheers.) , The civil aux- in Spain is at an end— the affairs of Belgium and of Holland have b"en adjusled_ the diffcalties arising :ram the Mexican block I:*e are at an end—the Indian expc , thion has been triumphant, ant a trcety of inc. , lcu!,Le!e ;mportance wilh Austria ir).s been eunciud ed. Surely the p,•opic of England will attach more importance to those great events than to the decla mations Against Porry, with which an anneal has been re cently mace to their religious yrejudices.' Should the Miinsttrs, as the recent appointments made by them give us reason to suppose, be deter mined next Session to show a bolder front to To ryism. whatever guise it may assume, all may vet be well, but unless they do, we should not be in clined to an-wer for the continuation of public tr,inquillity. We recommend Mr. SHIEL'S speech erusal. The Rialit Hon. Ge,itleman has lost nont• of his vivacity by it s acceptance of office. In at. other part of The Son will be found a par tion of si...n:e Parliamemary Papers just publishee, relative to . t.ransportation, and assignment of con victs. Ti vi fslini.iters, it appears, have resolved on mo dii v i n e, die present system o f secon d ary ~, punisinnents, retainn;,?; at home all the persons scn teneed to seven years' k.'rnprisonment, and making, with some judicious alterations, transportation in all cases a severe, and, as much as possible, an equal punishment. A much smaller number of convicts will consequercly be seat to New South Wales ; a still smaller number wilt be at the corn 'nand of the settlers, the plan of assigi:ing the con \ vi ,_ets he , destined graduaily to terminate. The taann ' , . "''gave may give a temporary check to the progress • ol tnat c o t us character, but it will in the long run tend ~o 1 reacerrihicheha.racter 1 with w , and save it from the disasters t . is threaten e d. ? The two letters which w ' e publish announcing the determination and t h e i are accompa n i e d pans of Government, .by a n i secondaly puhi,hmote on transportation and 1 _RUSSELL to Lord GLEent transmitt e d b y L or d JOHN iSCOIIIIL HOWIC K , and L a G ' a m emorandum by 1 I ICHARD BOURKE. w memorandum of Sir these, or a portion of them, befpoereto be a bl e to b y e ho o n ioirow ; in the mean tim e we must t r reader s to remark that th:r• do credit to Lord JOHN LuiLl HOWICK. We shall not RUSSELL and hesitate to express our von-concurrence with many of their • views on the very important subject of punishment, but W e s h a ll Papers of ourselves now with saying that th e ' of both these Noble Lords exhibit a stron g wish to gut at the bottom of the subjc'ct and to form correct opinions as to the effects of secondary punishments now in use. Th!=: daculLes of the system are not slurred over, but met and grappled with, arid reasons are assigned, particularly in Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S paper, for the conclusions to which he has come. He may not be able much to improW our present sy9lllkm, which is perhaps founded on ao erroneous Conception of the very qualities and att. - ibutes of crime, b ut h e ev i nces an honest intention and en deavour to • improve it. He is sensible of many of its faults and ' vices, and anxious to amcnd theru• The Tories, like hardened sinner 5, ,have denied that the system had any faults. They have insisted that it was all excellencies and have stickled as stoutly f or the preservation' lows and transportati on if t as } of the gal le fate of tlw, Church 1 and the State was involved in retaining unaltered the venerable penal systems of our ancestors, some of which, indeed, can scarcely boast of the anti quity of half a century. If Lord JOIIN RUSSELL, however, and Lord HOWICK, find it necessary to set forth in elaborate essays the reasons why th e y recommend convicts, who are completely in the power of the State, to be treate.l in a particular manner, will they not find it necessary to justify still more elaborately their policy towards all the free and independent part of the population ? Such essays as those mark a great change in the relation of the governed and the governors. We are arrived now at a period when Mr. BENTHAM'S recommendation, that the lawgiver should assign his reasons for every law he passes, is and must be practically carried into effect. It deserves, then, to be cons,dered, if no new law, and no change in the old laws can be effected without such reasons being assigned, whether the old laws and Constitution can be l on g preserved unless they can be justified by reason. The working classes who are now agitating and agitated, who are stirred up into ask ing questions through the length and breadth of the land, will never again sit down quietly under the present Constitution, and under any system of Government, nor, we may say, under any distribu tion of property, which cannot be defended and justified to their inquiring minds. The interest at present taken in monetary affairs will make the public read with eagerness the ac count which appeared in our Evening Edition, of the half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors of the Bank of England. We have only one remark to make. While the country is suffering, the Bank seems to prosper. The divicknd was declared to be 31,- per Cent., and the Rest, from which future dividends may be taken, is in creased by 62,0001. The spirit which dictated the objection to a gift of 5001. to the Church of Eng land, while some gentlemen of the Jewish per suasion reprobated the objection, is instructive. To have an anti-Church feeling manifested in the money corporation is the effect of the many efforts made to excite a factitious regard and support for the decaying Church of England. It was our opinion from the first that the riotous 'proceedings which took place at Birmingham in July were not to be attributed to any peculiar vio lence of character in the working men of that town, but to the indiscretion of the metropolitan police, who had unfortunately been employed to keep the peace. The course of the investigation which is now going on gives daily confirmation to this opinion. The evidence which we published yesterday, as well as that which will be found in our columns to-day, goes to show that, until the police interfered, there was no disposition to tumult manifested by the persons in the habit of meeting in the Bull-ring, and that when this disposition displayed itself it may fairly be traced to the unnecessary, and in some instances brutal, violence of the police. We are sorry to speak in this way of a force to whose moderation, forbearance, and general good conduct we have often with pleasure borne our testimony ; but a regard to truth extorts this language from us. It almost appears as if the police had, on leaving London, left most of their good qualities behind them, as things which were not wanted in the place whither they were going—incum finances which it were better to be without. They seem to have been impressed with the idea that die inhabitants of Birmingham had forfeited their right to he treated like other subjects of the realm. There was no attempt made, and ap parently no desire entertained, to distinguish the innocent from the guilty—if the latter term can be applied to persons who had offended against no law. The staff was indiscriminately and vigorously applied to the heads of all who came in the way. Respectable tradesmen, passing quietly along the streets on their ordinary business, and thinking of anything rather than of rioting, were knocked down, beaten in a very cruel manner when down, and then handcuffed and driven or dragged through the town amid the jeers and insults of the police. One of the persons thus maltreated, WILLIANI JAMES, was held to bail by the Magistrates for an alleged as sault upon one of the policemen who were guilty of these outrages towards him, which Magistrates, he states in his evidence on Monday last, refused to call any other witnesses than the said pcliceman and one of his companions. Yet when JAMES was arraigned at the Assizes for this assault, the Coun sel for the prosecution declined proceeding, and thus proved the futility of the charge and the gross in•• justice which t:iis man had suffered. The point of most importance, however, which is elicited in the course of these examinations is, the fact now, we think, proved beyond dispute, that. the riot which took place on the 15th of July, when two houses were burnt down, and various acts of plunder committed, was not premedi tated. The evidence of EDWARD SAVAGE is conclusive on this subject. He states that when he went to the meeting on the evening of that day, the last speaker was descending from the chair, the business having been completed—that im mediately afterwards another person got up, and told the people to go round by certain streets which he named, and then to disperse—that then a second person directed them to take a different line—and hat a third recommended a route different from both the others. These varying directions, at such a time, are totally irreconcileabie with the notion of a preconcerted plan of operations. It is also to be borne in mind, in corroboration of this view of the matter, were any wanted, that the testimony of Captain Moortsom is to the same effect. That gentleman, who was in command of the special con stables during the whole of the disturbances, who wa s in the midst of these unfortunate transactions, and who, therefore, had the best means of ascer taining the real state of the case, closes his evi dence on Saturday last with the following emphatic words :—" From all I knew and saw, I am of opi nion that the riot and destruc!ion of property on the night of the 15th, was not premeditated." No one, indeed, oan read the evidence of SAVAGE without being satisfied that the violent and lawless proceedings of that night were confined to a very few persons—namely, the party, prenci pally lads, who were met and appealed to by the man who had been roughly handled by th e p o li ce , and had been r e sc ue d from them. This was the origin of the riot, and the thieves and other worth less characters, who are always ready to lend a hand where mischief is g=oing on and booty expected, fanned the flame. Whether there wai sufficient promptitude on the part of the Magistrates to quell the tumult, is a question which can only be decided when the present investigation is concluded. We shall therefore not enter upon it till then. Letters and Papers from Madrid of the ll th instant, have been received. On the previous day the Chamber of Deputies concluded its preliminary inquiries, elected its officers, and voted an Address to the QUEEN, for which we shall endeavour to make room in our columns of to-morrow. On the 11th, General ALAIX proposed the following pro ject of law to the Chamber, which was unani mously adopted, without discussion : " Art. 1. The fueros of the Basque provinces and of Navarre are confirmed. " Art. 2. The Government as soon as possible will p r esent to the Cortes, after having, however, b een fi rst understood with the provinces, the modifications which it will believe indispcnsible to conciliate the interest of these provinces with the general interest of the nation and the pulitical constitution of the Monarchy." This is the true way to render the peace pur chased by the valour of the QUEEN'S troops, and the friendship of the British and French Govern ments a source of permanent happiness to Spain. The Monifeur of Wednesday, which we have received along with the other Paris Journals of the same date, con:ains the following telegraphic de spatches : BAYONNE, SEPT. 16, TEN A M. THE GENERAL COMMANDING TAE 20PII DIVISION TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. Four Navarrese battalions have taken refuge in our ter ritory at Sarre. Eight battalions still remain in Navarre. Espartero is to depart this day from Urdax t• pursue them. THE PREFECT OF THE LOWER PIRENEES TO THE MINISTER OP THE INTERIOR. Don C ar l os d eparted yesterday even nog Sep t. 17. g at eight o' clock for his destination. Everything passed off in the greatest order. The Monzteur announces that the KING of the FRENCH has named General ESPARTERO a Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. Captain FOLTZ, one of Marshal SOULT's Aides-de -Camp, left Paris on Tuesday for the General's head -quarters, charged to deliver him the insignia of the Order. On the same day, the Baron DE TINAN, another of the Marshal's Aides-de-Camp, was sent by the TBE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1839. Government, charged with a mission to conduct the Pretender and his family to Llour t ;es. The high price of bread in France has rearly produced an insurrection at Mons, in the depart ment of the Sarth. On the 14th, the populace rose in a body, and forcibly detained several wag gons, laden with grain, on their way to Chartres and Paris where they had been purchased by the Government. So violent was their conduct that the Prefect was compelled to send for a strong de tachment of cavalry, by whom thirty of the ring leaders were arrested. The mob having raised a barricade, the departure of the waggons was delayed twenty-four hours, in the course of which several outrages were committed, but, happily no lives were lost. NEWS FROM AFRICA. (Private Correspondence of the Constitutionnd ) MOSTAGi.NENI, SEPT 3, .1839.—Abd-el-Kader has left Miliana, and has been encamped for several days in the country of the tribes of Hachem and Metleer. The Arab Chiefs whom we have seen Assure us that the Emir has come to an agreement with Marshal Vallee, by means of Lieutenant. Colonel Sdle, sod that the result of the communication is, that the Arab tribes rurject to Mand.•n are in no way to molest the expedition, which the Duke of Orleans and the Marshal were to conduct from Algiers to Constantine. Thus this famous expedition to Hanlza, with which we have so long been amused, and of which you have heard so much, would be reduced to a mere mi;itary mzxch, of which Abd-el : Kader would do the honours. The wily Marabout woul.l take good care not to oppose the pacific march of the Prince. Ile knows full well that the intentions of the Marshal and his syvem of Govern ment be favourable to him, and that the breaking out of hostilities in the presence of the Prince would lead, in spite of os, to a war, the consequences of which would be fatal to him. But in order to inculcate his ideas and get his plans adopted, Abd-el-Kuler is obliged to employ all the re. sources and all the arts of his genius. Accordingly he visits the tribes, exciting in the most obstinate a tannin:- attachment to his cause, and distributing gifts amore;; the poorest—the plan which the Emir has been pursuing for four years to gain time, and finally to invest himself with absolute authority. The Dauairs who deserted from Oran in the first half of August are now at Melita, and in the plains of the Ha chcm Gueris. Abd-el-Kader has given a very kind re cerion to their chiefs, and has allotted them very fertile lands.—Le Gonstitutionel. We learn that Russia continues its armaments with great activity, endeavouring to keep them secret. This news and that of the levies contemplated by Austria make a strange contrast with the unanimity, which the assertion , ' of the supporters of the Ministry persist is maintained be tween the Five Powers. —Le Commerce. BIWSSELLS, SEPT. 18. —The Krng and Queen arc ex pected to embark on Thursday at Woolwicn, and to arrive at Ostend on Friday. The King will be present on the 224 at the opening of the railway et Charleroi. Their Majesties and the young Princes will return to the palace of Laeken on the 23d. The average price of wheat last week was 24.091., and that of rye 13 091. per hectolitre. Wheat may he im ported free of duty, but rye is liable to an import duty of 21.501. per 1,000 kilogrammes. Both may be exported on the payment of a duty of only 25 centimes per 1,000 kilo grammes. CONSTANTINOPLE. Aro. 28.—There is little appearance of measures of coercion being tried against Mehemet Ali. Not only Russia, but France manifests a decided aversion to it. England, indeed still insists that Mehemet must evacuate Syria and Candle, and content himself with the Hereditary Throne of Egypt, but France will rot agree. It fears a coup de main of Ibrahim, which might be very hazardous to the peace of Europe, and therefore recom mends amicable measures. It is certain that Mehemet on the threat of the Consuls at Alexandria, that if he per. sisted in his demands, the English and French fleets woul d appear before Alexandria, declared that in that case he would order his son Ibrahim to march, without stopping, against Constantinople. Tee English and French fleets are stll off the entrance of the Dardanelles; which, how ever, have at pmsent as little to apprehend from them as the harem of Alexandria. Admiral Stopford is said to have declared that he ;voted not forc-.! the entrance, except in one of the three following eases :—.First, If Ibrahim Pacha should march against Constantinople. Second, If serious disturbances should break out in the capital. Third, If a Russian fleet should appear in the Bosphorus. BO UR S E.—PA las, WEDNESDAY, SEPT, 18. first .Highest Lowest Last Price ('rice. Price Price i - rench 5 per Cent. IR/ tO ... 110 60 ... II.) 60 ... 1.0 60 3 per tents 8) 'JO ... SI ... 80 9.) ... SI Bank of rrance 2739 & —.27,7 , 0 ...08 / —2781 Lair - Ate Bark I,ooof. SI 1055 "" ...to. 5 ...li 53 ...11 55 5,004. Sir.— 52 5 _5215 —.5215 —.52,5 Belgian 5 per Cents 10.3 ... 10:3 ... 1 , 21 i ... .1121 Bel,;ran 3 per Cents 72 25 ... 72 25 ... 72. 25 ... 12 25 Bank - 757 si) ... .. Cmpons Spanish Ac‘ive... .......... Passive l/-',r ... 91, ... 944 ... ii% New ti, ferrei Old Deferred 13;44 ... 10,', ... 9 ... 10 Portwuese 3 per Cents 'lca olitan Roman t0..3.1, ... 10,% ... 1026 ... 1V.214 RAILWAY SHARE,. St. Germain Versailles, It. B 5 .25 ... 510 ... 515 ... 530 L.B. Have, Strasburg to Bate 3's Orlean 4 ... . ............. ....... 43i ZO7 50 ... 415 :',07 50 .Montpellier to Cette 540 581 ... 580 • t• ,SU THE CASE OF BOY COKER It will be remembered that :At the last Session cf the Central Criminal Cow t, bo•: named Coker was convicted of stabbing a man named Gates, and sentcr.ccd to be transported for life. Endeavours were made to obtain a commutation of the sentence, and this morning the fol lowing answer was received from the Government : " Whitehall, September 19. " Sir,—The Marquis of Nor manby having had under consideration the petitions which he received on behalf of George Coker, who was convicted at the August Session of the Central Criminal Court, and sentenced to be transported for life ; having also maturely con sidered the Judge's report of the case, I am directed to inform :you that his Lordship, under all the cir cumstances, does not feel that he can, consistently with his public duty, advise far Majesty to grant the pri soner any mitigation of his sentence. Should the convict at a future time, from good conduct in the colony to which be may be sent, merit the recommendation and approbation of the Government thereof, the Marquis of Normanby will then he ready to consider the case, with a view to some mitigation of the sentence.--I am, &c. Mr. Sheriff' 'Wood, &c. &c. F. MAULE. DON CASTER RACES. (YESTERDAY.) The Three-yr-old Stakes of 200 sous. each, h ft, for colts, Bst 7,b, and fillies, Bst 3b. St. Leger Course (15 subs ) Mr. Bowes's Epidaurus, by Langar .... (Scott) 1 Lord Lichfield's The Corsair 2 Lord Chesterfield's Bloomsbury - 3 Wbn easy: The Gascoigno Stakes of 100 sovs each, 30 ft. for 3 yr old colts Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 21b ; the winner of the St. Leger to carry slbs extra. St. Leger Course (5 subs.) Lord Westminster's The Lord Mayor Scott 1 Colonel Cradock's he Provost Duke of Cleveland's Kremlin Won by half a length. The Two-yr-old Stakes, '2O sows each, colts Bst 51b, fillies Bst lib. T.Y.C. _ . Duke of Cleveland's br c bro to Euclid... (Lye) 1 Lord Westminster's br c Launcelot 2 Mr. Howard's ch c Fitzroy The following also started, hut were not placed : —Mr. Bowes's br c Black Beck ; Mr. Oshaldes. ton's ch f by Belshazzar, d by Whalebone ; Lord Kilhurne's oh c by Retainer, out of Emilia ; Mr. Parkin's br c Naworth ; Duke of Cleveland's ch c by Lang,a! ; Mr. Bell' s b f by Gainsborough, cut of Golden Drop's dam, and Mr. St. Paui's ch f Calypso. Won by half a neck. The Cup, value 400 Guineas, given by the Stewards , fi vi ; e ith yr s s o ss a t d i d o ec i l b ; s, t s h i r x ee yr y s rs al 7 id st a , g f e o d ur , 3 s ' t rs ; theBst 316 x, five of the St. L eger t hi s year 3 1 b s extra. About two miles and five furlongs. Major Yarburgh's Charles the Twelfth, 3 yrs 1 Mr. Ramsay's Lanereest, 4 yrs 2 Mr. Orde's Bee's-wing, 6 yrs 3 Mr. Denham's Compensation, 4 yrs ...... ... 4 Wen by a he,d. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TIIURSDAY.—Viscount and Viscountess I - 16wiAt, Miss Copley, the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Colonel R ei d o f t h e Life Guards, nod Colonel Boys of the 45th Foot, now stationed here, are expected at the Castle this evening to join the Royal dinner party. Tiie Dowager Countess and Lady Frances Co' per left the Castle this morning ; the other Royal Visitors remain.. }fur Majesty has not taken her usual airing today in the Park. Mr. A. Stewart, of Nova Scotia, and Major Hall, had interviews yesterday with Lord John Russell at the Colonial-office. Mr. Hart Davis and a Deputation bad an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official reiidence, in Downing-street. Lord John Russell came to town yesterday from his residence near Sunning Hill. Despatches from Colonel Cockburn, Governor of the Bahamas, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. - - FASHIONABLE INTELLIGEINCE. ARRIVALS. Lord and Lady Kilmaine, at the B u rli ng ton H o t e l, (turn a tour; the Hon. William Bathurst, in Half Moon treet, from 13 , gne.r ; Mr. Under-Secretary Phillips, from Brighton ; Lord Marcus Hill, from ditto; W. Blount, Esq., M.P., in Cumberland -street, from a visit to tiir Duke and Duchess of Somerset ; Mr. and Mrs. John Fitzgerald and f:mily, i,rt Portland-place, from Naseoy fla;i, Northamptonshire ; Lord A. Fitzclarence, from S!anes Castle, Aberdeenshire ; Lady Lucy Pusey, from Brighton; Wm. Hanham, Esq., of Knowle, at Fenton's !Intel, S:. James's -street, from Russia ; Captain Sturt, R.N., at ditto, from ditto; Lard and Lady Louth, at the Hyde park Hotel, Hyde Park-place, from- Ireland ; Mr. and Mrs. Dawson and family ; at ditto, from a tour. CRIMINAL COUHT.-(THIS DAY. OLD COUAT. William Walls, an ill-looking fellow, aged 29, and de scribed on the calendar as a boot maker, was indicted for killing and slaying Ann Martin, a child of about e years old, by beating, striking, and bruising her in various parts of the body, on the sth of August, and several following days. Mr. PAYNE conducted the case on the part of the pro secution, and Mr. Cnaaks!;il appeared tor the prisoner. From the statements of the Learned Counsel, and the evidence produced, it appeared thiit the deceased was the child of a woman named M,,rtin, with whom the prisoner lived. The first assault was made on the sth or August, and between that time and the 24.. b, several other assaults had been committed. The prisoner was charg ed with manslaughter upon the C oroner ' s inquisition, but Cie Grand Jury had found a true bill for murder against him. Mr. Ponder, the surgeon who bad attended the deceased at the rr quest of the prisoner, stated that the latter had tuid him the child had fallen down stairs. When he first called in, the child was in a stupifiod sate. On ex mining its head. h r found a coi,tusion on the left temple aed the right cheek bore, which inppcared to be the result t.f recent Injuries. After this time the child partly re. covered, and he administered s. , ine medicine to her. The next morning the child again appeared to he in a stupified state, and continued getting acre-c until the evening of the next day, and it died about twcive o'ilock on the Mon day night following. After death witness examined the body, and found between the scalp and the b6ne a great deal of blood corresponding with the external bruise. There was also coagulated blood under the scalp on the left side of the head. There was also very extensive inflammation correspondinf , with the external injuries. There was also an effusion of pus or serum upon the brain. Such an effusion would have produced death. By Mr. Justice VAUGHAN-I'. was probable that all the injuries might have been caused at one time, and at a period very recently before the death of the child. The injuries might have been occasioned by a fall, or by blows. Mr. Bligh, a surgeon of Chiswell.s:rcet, examined_ He had seen the head of the child after it had been opened by Mr. Ponder, and he considered that it died from a blow on the back part of the head ; by that he meant some ex ternal violence. The injury on the back part of the head might have been occasioned by a fall. The injury must have been received a few days previous to the death of the child. Esther Christmas saw the child about five weeks before its death, when it was brought to her house by the pri soner and its mother. On the Zith of August witness supposed she beard the child heat with a strap, and heard prisoner call her a d-- d stinking little bitch. The mother was not at home at that time; the child appeared to cry as if it were stifled. Witne, , s also heard, as she aupposed, the child knocked upon the floor. Asked to see the child the next morning, but her mother would not let her. On the 24th witness heard the child crying, but she did not hear any blows struck. Did nut know whether the prisoner was at home at the time ; this was about eight o'clock. In the evening witness saw the child ; it was bruised all over, and the prisoner said it had fallen cff-the chair and struck itself. Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—From the day the child came into the house until the 24th of August witness did not tee it. Sarah Rawlings—Lived in the same house with the pri soner and the last witness. About three weeks before the death of the child heard it and the mother cry. On the 24th of August witness accused the pi isoner of beating the child; be denied it., and said that it had fallen off the chair against the bed. Phillis thown—Kept the house in which the prisoner and th•• witnesses resided. Heard some woman, on the sth of August, say to the pri,oner, " You shall not murder my child—you have mur d ered my child ;" saw the child; it was very much bruiied. Mr. Justice VAUGHAN here stopped the ease. It bad been very properly brought before the Court by the parish authorities; there could be no doubt that the child had died of the bruises it had received, hut there was no evidence to show those bruises had been inflicted by the prisoner. The Jury, therefore, under the direction of the Learned Judge, acquitted the prisoner of the capital charge, but found him guilty of an as,ault, and Mr. Justice VAUGHAN sentenced him to six irlmths' im • prrsonme,. -. t and hard labour, one month t o b e passed in solitary confinement. DEPARTURES. Lord Stuart de Rothsay, from Carlton-terrace, for Pa ris ; the Hon. Miss Montagu, for Brighton ; the Dowager Lady Pechell, for Bognor, Sussex ; Sir John Chetwode, Bart., from Grosvenor-place, for Bognor; the aiwager Lady Byron, on a visiting tour; Major-General Sir Henry, Lady, and the Misses Wheatley, for Leamington Spa ; Lord and Lady Douglas, from Hanover-square, for Hirsel House, Coldstream; Lord and Lady Win. Poule't, from Curzon -street, for Downham Hall, Norfolk ; M. Blacker, E;sq., from the Brunswick flote!, Jerrnyn-street, for White er; T. Tickell, Esq„frcm ditto, to.- Cobham; Capt. Tolle. m,acho,frrim ditto,for toe north; the Count and Countess Melei and family,from ditto, for Milan; Mon. Deschesnerand Mons. liriao, from ditto, for the Continent ; John Lees, E-q., end Mrs. Lees. from ditto, for Wellir, ; the Rev. Char us and Mrs. Steuart, from ditto, for Ewhurs, ; Mons le Comte Ronder.ux de Courcv and Mons. Sarcenal, from ditto, for Cheltenham ; Lord and Lady Clarina and fa. roily, from Hyde Park Hotel, Hyde Park-place, fur Italy ; Lady Lyons arid Miss Lyons, from ditto, for Egyr ; Lord and Lady Fitz Alan, from ditto, for the Duke of Norfolk's seat, Farnham, Suffolk. CHANGES. Lord Hevtesburv, from Bath, to the Isle of Wight ; Sir Charles mid Laity Morgan, at Brighton, from the Isle of Wight ; the Marquis of Westmeath, at Elwyn Castle, county Westmeath, from Buxton ; the Earl and Countess of Huntingdon, on a visit to the Bishop of Cashel; Lord Carew, at Castle Boro, Wpxford, from a visit to the Lo , d Lieutenat t at Summerville; ►Mr. and Lady Jane Lawrence Peel, front Ktrigstowa, for the Continent ; Sir Lawrence and Nli.s Palk, at B ith, from Devonshire ; Lord Morpeth, from Castle Howard, Yorkshire, for the V►ce Regal Lodge, Dutiiiit Castle ; Lord Ferrard, at his seat, Castle 0: inl, fmni Louth ; Lyre, and Lads Sinclair, from Tor Abbey, Devon, for their Marine Villa at Torquay ; the Marquis and Marchioness Cholmondeley, at Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire ; Mr. Neeld, M. P., at Grittleton House, Chip penharr, from Deviz;s ; the Marchioness of Westminster, at the Countess of Bridgewater's, Ashende Castle, from Moor Park; the R.lrhof Lauderdale, at Thirlestane House, from Berwickshire; the Earl and Countess of Charleville, and Lord Tullamore, from Glasgow, for Charleville Forest, Tollamore ; Lord Archibald St. Mawr, from Eglinton Castle, on a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Halford and family, at Broadstairs, front Paris. We understand that their Majesties the King and Qu,'en of the Belgians intend to dose their visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle in a few days; indeed their Majestit•s are expected to embark for Ostend this week.' Lord and Lady Maryborough are entertaining a select circle at Djal Castle, Kent. Lady Bagot and the Misses Bagot arrived at the Castle en Monday, and Sir Charles left town yesterday to join the circle. The Marquis of Winchester has left town for Brghton. The Dowager Cotintess of Clarendon, who has been pasting a few weeks at Leamington Spa, arrived in town at the close of the past week, but has since taken her departure for Deal Castle, on a visit to Lord and Lady Maryborough. The Earl and Countess of Hillsborough are still residing at Anglesea. The Countess has been ex tremely indisposed, but during the past week has greatly recovered. The Attorney-General, Sir John Campbell, and Lady Stratheden, embarked, on Sunday last, at Brighton, for Dieppe, with the intention, however, to return in a few weeks. THEATRICAL MOVEAIENTS.—It is said that Bunn, in conjunction with Balfe, have signed and seaecl for the St. James's Theatre, which is to be opened forth with with a very extensive and, as report states, effective operatic and ballet company. They are likewise in treaty for the new theatre in Oxford -street, which is to be opened early in the spring. Sir William Follett's health has been so much benefited by his excursion on the Continent that he will be enabled to resume his professional duties at the close cf the present vacation. DRAYTON MANOR, TUESDAY.—MiSS Peel is tonsiderabl) better, and her disease is progressing fa vourably. Ir. is said immediately alter that young lady is r, covered Sir Robert and Lady Peel will give their grand facto the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, which was to have taken place this week. ANISGATE, SEPT. 17.—This pleasant water ina-place continues full of visitors, and the town has never been more lively or prosperous than during the present season. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch drove over from Broad-stairs on Monday, and joined the promenade's on the pier. Their Highnesses the Prince and -Princess of Capua, and the Infant Don Carlos de Bourbon and the young Princess, kit Lord Ing , strie's in 13 , 1grave-squ,re, on Wednesday, on a visit to Lord Dinorben, at Kinmel Park, South Wales. Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, attended by Vis count Persigny, arrived at Lord Cardigan's mansion, in Carlton-gardens, from Glasgow; the Prince, on his way, paid a short visit to Liverpool. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, accompa nied by the M.irquis of Worcester and Lady Blanche So mereet, left Wiesbaden the week before last, for a tour of the German Sp,s. At the close of the ensuing month the Noble Duke Duchess proceed to Paris. The Earl and Countess of Lincoln, on leaving town, proceed to Ranby Hall, Retford, Nottinghamshire. it is said they intend to reside during the autumn. It i.ffords us considerable pleasure to be able to state h,-r Ladyship is now in the enjoyment of better health than for some years past. Tice Earl and Countess of Wilton have aban cloned their voyage to the Mediterranean, in consequence of the boisterous weathor his Lordship':; yacht, the X4rifa. sustained off the coast of Cornwall. The Noble Earl and Cour tees are expected to land at Portsmouth. Lord Monteagle intends shortly to visit his seat, Mount Trenchant, and will he accompanied by several members of his family. A distinguished circle of the Nobility have made arragements to pass the approaching winter in Paris; among whom are the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Mar quis and Marchioness of Ail.sbure, Earl and Countess of Wilton, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Anson, &c. Lord and Lady Granville Somerset are passing the autumn at Brighton, with their family. Lord and Lady Bridport and the Hon. Misses Hood have returned - to town 1:otn a visit to the Dowager ViscounteSs Hood, at Whiteley Abbey, Warwickshire. Lord Brougham will join Lady Brougham and the Hon. Miss Eden, at Brighton, the week after next, from Brougham Hall, Westmorland, where the Noble and Learned Lore; is visiting his venerable mother. BERSTED LODGE, NEAR BOGNOR.—The Earl and Countess of Mayo are entertaining the Marchioness of Northampton, Major- General Sir John and Lady Gardi ner. Mrs. Smith, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Dickens, the Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Ossory, the Rev. John, Mrs., and Miss Bourke, and Admiral Praed. HIS EXCELLENCY COUNT Pozzo DI BORGO. —We understand that the precise period of the Noble Count's return to resume his diplomatic duties as the Rus sian Ambassador at the Court of St. James's, is not yet deter mined on, but, from what we hear in the best. informed quarters, it is probable his Excellency will not leave Paris for this country until November. The Hon. Captain and Lady Mary Hood have returned to Cheltenham, from a tour - of visits. The Hon. Caetain's regiment is quartered in that borough. DEATH OF LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR JOSEPH IVPLEAN, C. B. KC. H.—An important and valuable civil appointment has become vacant by the demise of this la mented and gallant officer in the Royal Arsenal, Wool wich, on Thursday morning. Sir Joseph was Inspector. General of the Field-train Department of Royal Artillery, and Inspector-General of the Brassfsuudery Establishment, which he succeeded to on the melancholy death of the late General Win. Millar ; Sr; Joseph at that time being Corn mr.ndant of Woolwich Garrison, which command Lieut.- General Lord Bloomfield, G. C. B. G. C. H. now holds. Sir J. M‘Lean was one of the most dashing officers in the last war, having performed distinguished services whilst acting as Aide-decamp to General Farrington during the expedition to the Helder in 1799. He subsequently served in that capacity with the army under the command of his Royal Highness tho Duke of York, until his Royal High ness's return to E ng l an d, when the' ship in which Sir Joseph was a passenger INt3 wrecked, and very nearly lost in the Yarmouth -roads Having also shared in several engagements, he received the honourable distinction of being nominated a Commander of the Order of the Bath ; and, on his being appointed to the command of Woolwich Garrison, his late Niaje , ty William the Fourth was pleased to mate him a Ktrght Bichelor. and to give him the decorat'on sofa Knight Companion of the Royal Hanoverian Gut Iphic O; der. Sr Joseph had been several times severely wounded im the service of his country, and has left a soil, now serving in the Royal Artillery, a widow, and several daughters to deplore his loss. MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) _ _ CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of Enghsh Grain and Flour this week have been very small; of Foreign Wheat, Barley and Oats, moderate. Wheat supported an advance of 2s. to 3s. per quarter on Mon day's prices for dry parcels. Oats also Is. per quarter higher. In other Grain very little doing. More money is demanded for ship parcels of Hour. English Irish Foreign %%heat. 1,•30,rs ARRIVALS 1 male,. Oat... ,1 , ~,,, - 25f) yr& 330 qr, i (.97 ack i Y,l, 0 :; - bris . ,•• , , SMITHFIELD MARKET. The trade very good for all sorts. For the primest Bee; an advance of 2d. per stone was obtained, and all other articles fully sustained the currency of Nondav last. Beef, 3s. 6d. to 4s. Gd. ; Mutton, 4s. 4d. to ss. 2d. ; Veal, 4s. 63. to ss. 43.; Pork, 4s. Sd. to ss. 6(1 Lamb, ss. to ss. 83. ; Beasts, 673 ; Sheep and Lambs, 6,000 ; Pigs, 487 ; Calves, 321. CITY FISH-MARKET. The supplies were very short, and the demand very moderate —pries high. Turbot, Bs. to 30s. ; Cod, bs. to ,Os. : Soles, Is. to 4s per pair. Lobsters, Is. to 4s. 6d. ; Oysters, lr , s. to 40s. per bushel ; Haddocks, Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. ; and Whitings, 6d. to Is. MONEY Ar%L) COMMERCIALNEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK LIVERPOOL COTTON AfARKET, THURSDAY.--`tie have had a dull market for Cotton to-day, and a decline of id. per lb. has been submitted to. The sales, 3,000 bags to the trade. Arrivals this morning arc French and Ostend mails, ship-letters from Trinidad and Jamaica, Sydney, of the 301 h May. We have received Port Phillip Gazettes to the 30th of May. The Gazette of the 22d May says—" As we pursue our emu se of examination and scrutiny into the economy of the Government departments, as instituted for Pert Phillip, the same careless arrangement, the same futile operation is everywhere evident, and to comment upon the state of the mo.t important establishment in Melbourne, from its intimate connection with our mercantile welfare, can only be to repeat the remarks applied by us to the state of the other offices. The management of this branch of Govern ment requires, however, a less cursory review than that which has been taken of the survey in the police ; it is virtually the machine by which the taxes, in directly paid by us in support of the Crown's authority, arc disposed of and applied. The importance of its functions must ba measured by the means which it has the power of dis pensing." " So short was the supply of flour in Melbourne previous to the arrival of the Indastry, that 571. per ton was a . .. Ted and refused. Bread in consequence had risen to a most extravagant price, indeed is hardly to be obtained but as a favour. " The report which reached Melbourne of tile Govern ment auction about to be held here, we are happy to find is officially confirmed in the Gazette. " A shepherd belonging to an ou!er station, on Mr. Far ' lan's establishment, was found dead on the ground, his head split with a tomahawk, his body separated, and his entrails torn out. The savages were traced for severe] miles, but ultimately lost. The whole station is natural!) thrown into great alarm, the men expressing their deter mination to leave if some protection is not afforded. The Chief Protector has received full instructions, by the late mails, placing at his command the appointments necessary for his assistance." The accounts from Sydney in the Port Philip Gazette, are to the beginning of May " THE REVENUE.—The abstract of the Revenue for the th at t h e tota l amount o f reve pquubarlitsehresde.ndihigy i N t la it rch, 1838, a n d 1839, comparat i ve l y, i s appears nue for the quarter ending 314 March, 1838, is 67,6941. 53. 4v.. and for the same quart er i n t h e present year. 101,5561. 11s. aid. ; being an increase in the corresFond ing quarter of last year of 33,862/. 1.55. load. A decrease in the gime quarter, occurs on certain heads, amounting to to 1,3831. 4s. 7d. The increase is principally under the heads of customs and duties on Colonial spirits, on which alone there is an increase of 2 014/. 23. 6;1. The sum of 3,214/. 3s. ald , the proccedn of the sale of stores, landed per emigrant ships, is altogether a new item. The bulk of the increase accrues from the safe of Crown lands, and customs at Port Phillip. We have received the Journal ofAntwerp ^f yesterday's d: , te, but it does not contain any politi ca l he ws • the price of Spanish at the Exchange of Antwerp WaS 29} buyers. The Great Western, from Bristol to New York, was n with on the 3d instant in hit. 48 59., long. 40. We have few arrivals this morning, consequently there is a dearth of intelligence. THE FUNDI. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off price of yesterday 90A -3 Money ; for Account 90; 7 1 - buyers—at present may be quutcd 91 cilers fur Account ; Monty. with little doing ; Exchequer Bills, par, 2a. prom. ; lo India Bonds, nothing done. Bank Stock, fur opening, 187 188 ; India Stock. 249 259. :.'ipanish, which closed at 39+—at present 32+ t ; Por tuguese left off 364—may he quoted 36. 1 1 37 ; 'Three per Cents. 21 a ; Mexican, 27 28 ; Colombian, 31i 32 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Halt per Cents., 54+ ; Five per Cents 104+ riiiCEs OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT 01v2. O'CLOCK. Bank Stock ......... . l per Cent. Bed. 3 per Cent. Cons. 9C-X y 4.?„ South Sea Stock ----- 3, per Cent - • Old Annuities I :itto Red. - ... -- ; New Ditto N,Av f,',;. per Cen- 'lB l ,l, %lA, 3 per Cent. Annuities, 17,1 _ N. w 5 per Cent. aink Long Annuities toe.xpire I Ditto 500... par Ditto Coinnwri ial Jan. 5, 1801................. —; Ditto Small — iar ~ dis Ditto Advertised .... ~ _. pin, Jan. 5, ISSO — I Bank Stock for Account ... 1-8 7 April 5, Pl5ll — I I n d ia St oc k t n r Account ... 9 ii% Jan. 5. 1870 Oct.: -: ti . 1 :1 -:, 1 1 8 8 i 5 k 9 1 —i Consos for Account 91 1, Ti ; I PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DA 1 AT ONE O'CLOCE. Austrian Bondi; — Peruvian Bonds l9 Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Drizihan Bonds Ditto Account w Buenos AyTes Bonds Ditto Aecount ......... ___-;1 , Russianpi l ni ) ) eii i ii tt t tt ftt t t is N Aedi l 3 l3 : Qu i l per C i i: ic : , : e ti 1 ..2 . ..... ,A '2 2:4 1 1 . ... ; ,2 : 61 ,,,;, ; ''' Chilian Bonds 1) tta Accini. t_ Colombian Bondi _ Ditto Acc0unt..„.........., Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 12.4 . .., _ Spanish Bonds.. ...31% l i 2",4 t k i !A Fr i e ' ri zs c s h i , ve s per cent....... —t.l--c Ditto Account ............ 31% 2! , 4 ......, —4 per cent....... —c -- Exchange....... —r _ ft : 4, il GreekDanishsDe . 1 ittcttOo Bonds :B Al i o c cn n o d d : ::::i .t. &l2 5 :-... 1 : : :: :: ( 1 u. ... : t 7 j ‘% • - —515..ii545,.9 Ditto Account 1 1 ) ) t i t t t t oo account c c c c o o u u n ri t t ....... • -- Dutch, tlppercceenntt... ............. fl 5 7 1 1c ,', Ditto, 6 per Cent Keapolitan... « -- Ditto,Ditto c p c e o r u c n e t nt . ,,, ......... : _- PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per : , tmie. Eastern Couities R a il way l5 . I)7i Brighton Railway ... London and Croydon Rallwa; C om panY II/ ISs. 64 iiii4% HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK Very little has been doing , in the course of the rry nine', in the British Market. The chief operations have been in the Foreign Market, in Spanish stock which in the early pLaorntdoofnt.heirorning was gradually ' declining, and was done at 3Q, since which it improved to 32i I, owing to its which a high a obpeierigatisi o td m ay , appearsa financial n d f thato r ascertainedons. that M. Mendizabal was expected in realizing is now the order of the day in the above Stock when it reaches a certain price, which has been the case Alone ra fe te wy ofi days discount in relatin gdcnl i a s nd given tthoi ; s within a short period, and another re-action has taken place. Spanish receded to 3l la. Consols may be quoted at present 90k 91 for the Ac count, and for Money 90} ;I E xc hequer gills, 2 p rem. i s :ti 4 tr i ; ;InDd,i.afer Ir3eodnis,si. ; Dutch 52 prom.. ; Bank Stock for the open ing 187, l ower ; India Stock, 2.501. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active 31i; Portu. guese, 36,-; Thrr e p er C en ts., 25; Colombian, 32k Mexican, nothing done ; Brazilian, 77; ; Spanish Passiv e , s , l i i. Co nso l s are heavy, receded T, v from o-an 91 I d-and f 9 p oi cr . Cents., 'MM........".• PRI- D .CE OF WHEAT, &C. IN. ÜBLlN.—Yester day a great variety of corn was exhibited in our market— some good, 403. to 41s. the supply sc arce at Berne bad. The best kinds of wheat br o u g h t , but m an y secon d ar y samples were pur c h ase d off at 335. to 345. U a t s a d van ced Is. a barrel; 16 s . to it demands. 6 d.for a g t o l o 7 d 4. ne andtowl,Bg.per cat. Very li tt l e market; old oat s 2 0s. to 2i s., an d ver y scarce . O atmeal iln7svery n gre new ben in the market ; the sale for good new flour is fair, at 261. down to 24s according to quality. Good old flour is scarce, and held from 255. to 265. ; firsts 27s to 289. —Pilot of Wednesday. Colonel and Lady Dorothea Leslie returned last week to Balblair, after paying several visits en route from the tournament, at the Earl of Ezlinton's !eat, in A t rshire. LITERATURE. ESSAYS ON GOVERNMENT. E. Wilson, Lon4n, 1839. The author of this work has undertaken a task for which he is in no way qualified. Essays on Government are not to be wrAten by a mere act of volition; the subject is one which requires thought, extensive historical knowledge, and a keen, inquisi tive intellect, in order to its adequate develop ment; but of these, so far as we can perceive, the vo lume before us gives few or no tokens. Instead of being sententious, it is diffuse ; instead of displaying logical acumen, it is vague and lax to a degree in its arguments, and everywhere wraps up the tritest common-places in bulky sentences, deformed by su perfluous epithets. The great cause of the author's failure is, that he has not properly meditated on, or diaested, his task. He seems to have come to it wholly unprepared, and the consequence is that his Essays abound in repetitions, and come to no definite conclusions. Yet there are indications of a liberal spirit in his volume ; but even when most tolerant in his theories, he appears to be ill able to give reasons for the faith that is in him. IRELAND, SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND RELIGIOUS. Two Vols. Bentley, London, 1839. _ . This is a translation, from the French, of M. Gustave De Beaumont, an intelligent author, whose woks on the United States are among the most enlightened of any that have yet appeared on that subject. He here takes Ireland for his theme, and discusses it in a temperate, just, and sagacious spirit, that proves him to be a keen political ob server. His portrait of O'Connell is touched off with the hand of a master; nor is he less successful in the character which he draws of the Irish Protestant aristocracy, to whose combined intole rance and despotism he attributes the major portion of the sufferings that afflict the sister country. One great recommendation of these volumes is that that they they are not the production of a partizan, but of a dispassionate and observant man of the world. REMARKS IN VERSE 01V SHOOTING, to. By W. WATT. Second Edition. Having an apportunity of seeing a portion of the numerous productions which are intended to amuse or instruct, some of which are published, and others denied that privilege, we can venture to assert that the quantity of writing talent at present in th's country is immense. If few persons be distin guished, it is, as Voltare remarked, because we have a multitude of clever miters. A single tree seems a magnificent object while it is alone, but in a forest of trees all nearly as large as itself it is overlooked. In bye-gone times, Mr. Watt would probably have been reckoned a prodigy of genius; in the present times, when the art of versification is general, he writes an agreeable and pleasant book, and is passed by almost unnoticed. His remarks on shooting contain an historical notice of the instruments used to kill game before guns were invented, and an account of the invention, forms an appropriate introduction to a description of the present practices of the sports man. For all brothers of the gun, his production must be most amusing. It is full of information, pleasantly versified. His litte volume also contains a considerable number of occasional poems, and some fables that are neither trite nor common. THE LATE BIRMINGHAM RIOTS THE GOVERNMENT INQUIRY. BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY. This morning the Government inquiry into the conduct of the Magistrates of the Borough, in relation to the late disastrous riots, was commenced at the Pub lic Office before Mr. Dundas, the barrister, who was appointed by the Home Secretary to conduct it. Mr. Hibbert appeared as agent for the petitioners, and Mr. Clarke, of the Midland Circuit, acted as their counsel. Messrs. Gem, Barlow, and Ryland (Magistrates' clerks) appeared on behalf of the Magistrates. The inquiry has excited intense interest. The Mayor, almost all the Magistrates, and a great number of the Com missioners were present. The room was otherwise crowded with the most respectable of the inhabitants. After a few preliminaries of no importance, the exa mination of witnesses commenced. Mr. Payne, the High Constable, and Colonel Chat terton were examined at considerable length, but the evidence given did not convey any information materi ally different from that which has already appeared in the newspapers. The following witnesses were next examined : Mr. George Wheatley—Several days previous to the 15th of July I heard reports that a meeting was to be held on that day at Holloway-head, at which Mr. Att wood and Mr. F. O'Connor were to attend. 1 heard general apprehensions of disturbances were entertained. The Birmingham petition had been rejected by the House of Commons, and the meeting was to take itF rejection into consideration. At 9 o'clock on the night of Monday. the 15th of July, I was standing talking with Mr. Wills, and Mr. Joseph Walker, the Magis trate, on the News-room steps, when a gentleman came up and said there was a row in the Buil-ring. Having been sworn in as a special constable, I went for my staff, and ran into High-street, where I found the windows of Mr. Naden and those of other shopkeepers broken. From thence, as the top of High-street was blocked up with the crowd, 1 went down the Castle-yard to the Public office, and arrived there about 10 minutes past 9. I found the windows completely demolished. The London police were at that time drawn up in the yard. I saw a mob opposite Bourne's premises, and heard the breakincr of glass. first s, in quired, 1 believe, of Mr. George Redfern, where the Magistrates were 1' I was told there were none et the office. I immediately called upon Mr. Redfern to turn out the London police. Mr. Redfern replied they had orders not to turn out without the presence of the Magis trates. I repeated the call to Mr. May, the superin tendent, and I received from him the same answer that I received from Mr. Redfern. Mr. Walker, the Magis trate, afterwards arrived, when I made the same appli cation to him. I said " For God's sake, turn out the police, the mob are destroying Bourne's shop." Mr. Walker said, " I am extremely sorry (manifesting the utmost anxiety), hut the Magistrates have given orders that the police shall not act without the presence of two Magistrates, and I as a single Magistrate cannot undertake to overrule that order." lie also added, that the military were sent for, and would ro doubt be there immediately. I then heard a still more violent attack on Bourne's shop. I again said, " For God's sake, turn out the police ; if you will only give me 20 men, I will un dertake to disperse the mob." Mr. Walker againexpressA his utmost concern, but he could not upset the orders of the Magistrates. I applied to Mr. May a second time, when lac said he should not be justified in disobey ing his orders, and exposing his men without the sup port of the military. Shortly after Mr. Shaw, another Magistrate, 'arrived, and said he would go and look after the military, and I did not sec him again. Soon after this I saw Bourne's house on fire, and heard re newed shouts from the mob. 1 made another applic tion for ten men, and said we could go in at the side door of Mr. Bourne's premises, clear out the mob, and put out the fire. 1 was answered either by Mr. Walker or Mr. May, I cannot tell which, that we had better wait until the arrival of the military. About thirty special constables bad by this time arrived, and offered to accompany me into the Bull-ring. I answered, I would do it with ten or g anized poli cemen, but not with s p ec i a l constables. Some of the special constables, however, rallied, and we went along Moor street, On approaching the Bull-ring I found the front of Bourne's shop and the centre of the Bull-ring clear, and a prisoner was taken and given into my custody. A bonfire was burning in the middle of the Bull-ring. The military had not then arrived. The police, headed by Mr. IVelker, then came into the Bull-ring, and we charged across the street. The mob dispersed in all directions ; and afterwards I saw the military come along Moor-street, with the Mayor at their head on horseback. The next day the greatest consternation prevailed. The shops in the Bull-ring, High-street, and New -street were either wholly or partially closed. Cross-examined LAND—I did not h ear i n thecourse week that Mos e l ey -h a ll was ofprevious . s R to be burnt down, but on the night of the riots I did hear it was to be attacked. 1 told Dr. Booth during the fire that i n formation was received that men h ad gone to Moseley for the purpose of attacking the hall. During the week prece di ng t h e rio t, t h e town, as far as I saw, was quiet. The week before that it was i n a more ex cited state. T Mr Walken-1N ill Mr. Whateley charge his memory as w the reason why I would not order out the London police? Mr. Whateley.—Because Mr. Walker said he would not overrule the order already given to the Magistrates. I think, too, I have some recollection that something was said about not acting without the military. Had t h, police been ordered out when I requested it, Bou' Bourne 's shop might have been saved. A very general impression prevailed in the public mind that a disturb ance would take place on the evening. of the 15th. Dr. Booth—l wish to ask Col. Chatterton, whether he observed any dereliction of duty on the part of the magistracy On the night of the 15th of July, or on any precious occasion ? Mr. Chanc,i—l must protest against this question being put, if Dr. Booth means it to apply generally to the body of which he was a member. If he means it only to apply individually to himself, he could have no possible objection to the question being put. Mr. DUNDAS—WeII, then, I shall put the question, EVENIN g EDITI N. ~~ nil I shall mks us , may be ni. cessary . Cub e! Cilattertan i w ho were the 11i. 'straf es w h om you olxierved on duty on the ni,tht of the 15th Colonel Chatterton—l saw Dr. Booth, Mr. Walker, and the jllayor. Mr. DuNDAs—You saw Dr. Booth, then. Well, Old that gentiethan exhibit any want of courage cr perseverance, :inch as under the circumstances of the case yon might have reasonably expected from a person so situated ? Colonel Chatterton—N o : on the contrary, the evening of the 15th o f J u l y , and on every ot her occasion in whi c h h e (D r . B ooth ) had acted with t h e military, be di s pl a y e d unquestionable courage, zea l, a nd business. both on Mr. DuNDAs—Dr. Booth hill prceive that his question is not relevant to the present inquiry. • Dr. Booth—l wish to put to Colonel Chatterton another question. Has that gentleman, in his exP' rience, always been of opinion, in the case of firing LIP" a mob, that two Magistrates were necessary ? Mr. DUNDAS—It is hardly right to ask a military man his opinion upon such a subject. No doubt the Colonel has his inst!uctionß, and would act accordingly Dr. Booth—l merely wish to ask Colonel Chatter ton whether, under such circumstances, it would not be expedient to have two Magistrate 3 Mr. DUNDAS—You hear. Colonel Chatterton, the question. Is it expedient to have two Magistrates where an order to fire upon the people may be made? Colonel Ch atterton—Undoubtedly, two Magistrates are better than one.—(Laughter.) Considering the awful responsibilit y attendaut upon firing upon a mab: , should say that sometimes it is as well to have two Ma gistrates. But, undoubtedly, I should act under the authority of one. Mr. Clarke—There is not the slightest intention to cast any imputation upon the courage or firmness of Pro Booth, or any of the Magistrates, after the time the military were called out. All we say is, that the met' ought not that night to have been allowed to get to suc h a head. Mr. DUNDAS—That is the real point. Thomas Clive—l am one of the constables Of the town of Birmingham. My impression was, that them= had been more th an usua l excitement during the wee' previous to the 15th. The impression was that a c rist3 was arriving, when an effort would be made. I h ad heard in the middle of the week, and also on the:Mon day, that something was to be done that night. I wen t to the office about half -past 7. 1 know that the'Justiees were appointed to meet at 10 in the morning a t the Public-office, and remain until the business .ifs i done—three or four o'clock. I understood there iva s. an arrangetspnt for the Magistrates -to be in attendanc e in the evening, after the 4th, and I expected to find theo there, but did not. About ten minutes past eight I seti t Redfern to Dr. Booth's, and requested him to go fr' ol there to the Mayor's. He went immediately. Pre' viously to that ev en i ng , I t hi n k on t h e F riday previous to the 15th, I heard Dr. Booth tell Mr. May he exceed' :ugly regretted the precipitate manner in which tbe9 (the London police) were led into the Bull-ring, rAnd he consequences that ensued, and to prevent the rei petition of suc h : an un f ortunate occurrence, they come to an unanimous resolution, or opinion, tine th' t police should not go out again without an order frees two Magistrates, and the military to conduct them; This, I understood, was a repetition of the Magistrate' s resolution. He did not give Mr. May any orders ; h' t only told him of this. In a few minutes after Red. ,eft, the mob made an attack upon the office. 1 1 Police were willing to go out if they had .orders. think they might have dispersed the mob before t hal , houses were st: t on fi re if they had gone out. Th e : might have had some difficulty in the first instance. 0 On cross- exam i nat i on h e said it was about 10 m i n ute to 9 when M r . W a lk er came, and he wrote a note t 6 Colonel Chatterton for the troops, which was sent by messenger instantly. Mr. Whateley bad been d e l 0 then. Th e military came in a f e w m i nutes a fter t police cam e . I saw t h at evening the Mayor, Dr. Boot !0 Mr. Shaw, an d ot h ers. I heard some false rumours ! the town during the week. The Magistrates' reds ° fir condemning us were, they had not received iba t . B , h sistance from the police connected with the office w i . 0 thy had a right t o expect . I t hi nk there was no !Or assistance referred to. Reexamined by Mr. Clarke—We exprassed :e willingness to give all assistance in our power, b ut .old the Magistrates it was the first time we had a C o—) inunication from them on the subject. Mr. Charles Bache, merchant, of Moor-street , B ir ; iningham, was next re-examined. His evidence o% not materially diff erent, re l at i ng chiefly to the crow d s vi r t t ;he street, and to the absence of the M a gistrates p ions to eight o ' c l oc k. Charles C o b urn —l am a b oo k seller i n t h e u pper pal of High-st ree t, Bi rm i ng h am. I saw the peop l e a ssem bled at Holl oway -h ea d on S unday morning, t h e 14t of July, as I returned from St. Th omas ' s church. Tbe!• said they should meet t h e next n i ght to discuss whet b el they should t a k e possess i on of Smithfield or the Bal ring. They w ere t o come prepared—when the Loogiu., police came b e fo re t h ey were unprepared—bring so W I thing, I don't t e ll you w h at. I saw the Mayor the n e . : mornin g , and told him what I have stated n ow- Mayor replied--" If they come I dare say we sh 3;, prepared for them." The Mayor knew me as a dent in Birmingham lam a special constable. Fr' or what I heard on Sunday I was apprehensive of a r , on Monday night the Isth. From previous meetings attended I apprehended disturbances, and have forme! communicated with the Magistrates upon the subject.. ; Cross-examined by M r . B ar l ow —l t was b e tween J and 12 o'clock on the Monday morning I spoke to tr., , u ; Mayor. He was upon the bench in the Public-office nu one was sitting with him. Thomas Waddell gave evidence as to the c rowd I ' l I the streets, and the impression that a disturbatce wool take place on the 15th. Mr. James Taylor—l am a Magistrate for the cour it! of Warwick, and reside at Moor-green. I was .. " 3 / Birmingham on the night of the .sth of July. . 1 4 left the Hen and Chickens at a little before b' past seven, and in going down 'Worcester-street observed a crow d, an d a man carried upon a lit r with his head apparently badly broken. I Inquiries as to how the man had been injured, a li immediately went an d communicated what I had see" to the Publi c - o ffi ce . I f e l t i t my duty to see a Magistra e, and I went for the purpose of calling upon Mr. WI? t , I saw him on my way home, about a quarter to eir" r j and told him that I had been at the Public-ofnee, n t that no M ag i s t rate was t h ere. I added that I thouk he and one of his brother Magistrates ought, in; ln t. present excited s t ate o f t h e town, to be at the P" ; office. I h a d h ear d t h at the Chartists had applied Ig: a the use of the Town-ball on the Monday evening, " r ! , that in con s equ ence o f t h e di sappointment they ei:Pe eneed in n o t b, i ng a bl e to comply with the te , :ms r . quired, that the disturbance was expected. illy tr . r of yeo manry were prepare d to act on Moneay , but the) were not caled out by the Magistrates. The Court then adjourned till to-morrow. P ROVIsIONCONTILACTS. • t The Government cont rac t f or supplying the nav y w yen 9,000 tierces of beet, and 17,000 tierces of pork, sv" t 8 yesterday, at Somerset-house. In consideration of the lat ape quantity required, as compared with former years since o b. Nag of the w ar , a great number of tenders ag s . I y mit , ed, and scarcely a provision house of any r. spectra ° tbe in the United Kingdom that was not represented ° II ber occasion. The Lords Commissioners for Victualling ?) is Majesty's Navy as sem bl e. i at 11 o ' clock, and remaine 4, 1 1 close deliberation until half.past five, when the sucee candidates acre declared as follows : ; rc e " Beef. Ti erces. A r" • 9 Messrs. Barnewall, of L on d on 6.000 4 6 ' 161 4 Messrs Phillips Messrs. Nisbett Messrs. Barclay 3OO 6 17 Total Beef... 9 000 Pork. Tierces. A I le : (e () Mr. Leslie Alexander, of London... 5,500 £ 6 l i w 1 0 Mr. Barclay .. .......... 6 ........... 500 6 6 Messrs. Aliens and Anderson ...... 11,000 61/ understoodA portion of to thbaet fo contractedfo o r f b m y ~...._ Total Pork— 17 000 ii 4 of Cork, by whom it will be made up; ao ',I t h a t by N I i g °- e M ss 'e rs s and Anderson, for the firm of Messrs. P. uss eu, of I ' l % °c rick. That taken by Mr. Leslie Al'Jxander, it is 43 ' ~ lectured, will be made up in Belfast, an d part of the r,' ..,'", mainder in Glasgow and Pip - net:o' n , Th e q uantity al r ;f, plied to the navy last year was voly 5,000 tierces of e .,,. e d . sr r s. ,oo ß id ar a n n e d w e ( l lll and 10,000 tierces of pork, and the highest price obtai ',d i e im the !;i,lding for the former was 5/. 19s. 6d., and for ce latter 6/. Os. 4d., making a difference of nearly 11. at' r ' a ct in favou r o f the higher prites of thi s year. This ca nt t u be . is con s id ere d to regulate the export price of beef an d I f he for the s e a son f rom Ireland; so that the above m a : ;03 taken a s an average, unless some unforeseen c i rcurn stai should arise to cause an increased demand. Colonel Wo o d, M.P., an d L a d y Caroline Ny arrived at their sea t i n B recons hi re early in the week,l cou 11 ' Littleton, for the winter. THE NORWICH FESTIVAL.—The performr. lo in St. Andrew's Hall, under the superintendence of 5 P b : l ,0 are proceeding satisfactorily. The denunciation irolnl pulpit hAs not diminished either the number or t'ne girt, cation of the audience. Multitudes flock deity to the" to indulge in one of the purest and most elevating sures to which the human mind is su,s; :ept ibt o . A - I ,OC P RO TEST OF THE UNITF,ID STATES -U."— o f 2lfessager gives tb:o following expissnuti " nu the refusal of Messrs. Hottinguer to cash biAs drawst uP v them from tic United States Du, ins . ; the late End' cial crisis several English and French bitikers either ad vanced money or gave their signatures to bills for the relict of certain American houses, and s'nce that time large (lumn tities of cotton have bees consigned to London and to meet these obligations. It app ears , h owever, t h a t troll bills were also being qrawn on a ccount o f t h ese consign, me ets. Th.o cotton tna t k et b e i ng so dull that sales co n, ) " not be effected without a sacrifi ce , an d Messrs. H ott i n guer' who had lent assistance to the United S..ate., being there fore unable to realize money upon, the guarantee in their' they have, a s a measure of precaution, .ic rus " ,4 " accept in the present state of t h e market, to pay oz the bills which have been drawn up on t h em. " _Havre on o e lln the present state of the market, to. pay oz nccept ... „ ......., ... ~.„.,,v , „,.„,,,..j , ~ ......,...., ........ ...,,•,.... 1 F -...,..ie tiojecti t in question tieing put• ughters to deplore his loss. Mr. DUNDAS—WeII, then, I shall put the question, ' bills which have been drawn upon t h em. " • Air-yr —7 ' er r . .. .. ~....no,•••••••• •t v wpow. v ...- t •••••••••,......". 1