The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-07 00:00:00

►L NEWS' ) THREE. lull appearanc e Ilia 500 wel l Shares con' Birminghell Chester tier lin and Cashel' rpool and Man' idon and York► , 1091 ; New d Manchester , is, 2i; (MOO ay, but e xcept ing biter Intel' , st of the othe r agriculturist s + :ed in most of in earthquake , have escaped; hocks were of i been any de' home ag3in s t .en taken 0 04 lad graciousii .opositions for ealous of the issia ; but the not quite eo realise 10011 t ers have poi' tt 104. V I Z Bank Stec" , being steadf , d the acceo, ll/ icer is the de' been no large ierally. The though, it II forward, M. to 35. The have realised .se Converted ish 50i. Span nd the Three urth per cent. realise 43 to .e 621 to 620 firm, and ill and Chester rn Countiesf to 71; Ditto ; Ditto, Nen . Mancheste r Tewcastle and York 0! en, 181 to 19 Cho Banking 'CLOCK. iooy4 2ss% 281 .. 210 .. 100%34 76 pm. - pm . 75 pm. 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Cellereff Sirnse c ' D ern ersr° th Bentle. ll St. hl a rt' - ew :, Johns° vi L Quebe c ' )IJ, Lin e ' ;hleen, 5t T QUeb e° ' {: Fatk et m b her Ow: :ineard inef . haa3ne ss ' and fro: t h e sco , -• n Botabil g, but W° the RiY er. irge, fro lo of Mol l ; ers saleu: th Sea s and ' C S : fri ffatt, t, es, Criigt Higg in" ottertis al• Lek, Vcle°' ux Csi el a Low, Al row ➢darinu.' It. 30h ils ' d job yorbfh nanich" t. Johns' Dulia °t :toU. teidt " r ey, paner, c udoeP t Eleso4 lenbuckt bee. ~ F e rns.- Bretc l ? ,Id. 4144 a t t d ii ° Mr. Jr ttattlii of tn" wou Abe hat he e lec . vat g ` gi o n up t a b at" oo the 'est for. ;floor inten d° 3 Tiler SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubitt Optittott. " Who runs may read." POSIZIGW. Most o f th e Mi nisters present in Paris proceeded on - erida3. to St. Cloud to transact business with the Duke ,tle Nemours who, acc or di ng to some , h a d b een appo i nte d l'ieotenant General of the Kingdom. and to others, mere President Of the Council, without a deliberating vote. Marshal Soult is to manage the business of the Depart 'tents of Foreign Affairs and Marine during the ab sence of M. Guixot and Admiral Mackau. On Wednesday the Prince de Joinville was mingled with the crowd visiting the tent in the Garden of the bur nt ne T 'l • His Royal Highness has become much sun- Theries. Hi Minister of Marine left Paris on Friday morning for le o . 1 The Revue de Paris states that the affianced bride of 4i s Royal Highn ess t h e D u k e d' Auma l e, the d aughter of the Piinc e de Sskrno and neice of the Emperor of raekeiittraiial, uisainifitio lier n e s 7arkable for personal beauty and The Duke d'Aumale is expected at Paris about the 20th inst. The Prince will thence repair to Naples in tae b eginning of November, the period fixed for his mar tiage with the daughter of the Prince of Salerno, whom h e • , i „ Is to conduct to France after the nuptial ceremony. 4 tie IS de Montpensier is to accompany his brother to hely. The famous parasol was exposed to view at the h ail; on Pride ) It is valid es placed open, behind the iron r ''''ags of the choir. ' The colours of Morocco are placed 01 1 the pilasters at both sides of the grand altar. The Messa r anticline. to the rumour of tke loss of Me Vir g ini e, g s c a:vs:—" The correspondence, which has l e 1 , 111 _,,„", (1 at the Ministry of Marine up to the present day, t to o - w i it t s: st s a - S a °thine. which can give the least foundation short has been rumoured on this subject After a at Sainte Croix-de-Tendriffe, this frigate put w e e l s e: th",,, 4 4 7 a i n n i on the 2d of August, in most favourable since then no information has beets re the? create any uneasiness as to the remainder of We l ; to 747aegaelj; contra:. ::de Paris announces that M. de Glucksberg bctw ee -,., 1 'e Paris on Saturday %iith the treaty concluded o -v ranee and Morocco, and ratified by the two Th e -ting Powers. of t h e C'eurrier de la Drone gives the following statistic France Produce of silk in the several departments of herePass•nee:--.Very little more than fifteen years have since there were only six departments in which th e ' Were extensive plantations of mulberry trees, for so general rearing of silk-worms. To these might be ea`r4.d sixteen others, in which this cultivation was Ml: t ri ed o n, but on a limited scale, and in a precarious hav li tL . Now, however, forty-two new departments capital. up on this profitable employment of time and d ep ;'; so that we have sixty-four out of the eighty-six silk - i t h ` ra crnis clothed with mulberry trees, and producing five to greater or lesser quantities. Th . ; Moniteur contains a very long ordonnanee rela rantee,the ac quisition of property in Algeria, the guas with c I to p ore , nasers, and the various points connected re., ° "Isation The object of this ordonnance is to —o re . 1 , . • l e 0 . 0131.113 ,e , e difficulti es which, owing to an imperfect gls abet] h of 1 : , e ,.. n a t v e er hithertop prevented the due development 13" r 0 )'al Yal ordunnance of September, 1844,. the manu- Th e • °f gunpowder is formally prohibited in Algeria. Poi. ,Ipportation of foreign gunpowder is also forbidden. s e e's futur e no powder is to be sold in Algeria but a s comes from the royal manufactory in France. Th e • . cot nirr—lerainxosctusza. aftie Invitations sent out from the Lord Chamberlain's- It os e on Wednesday to the Duke of Wellington, Sir (mil Peel,to tte , _ the Earl of Aberdeen,. &c., were counter eat% `: °o Saturday, when a reissue was made, the o th ne Bthstaing the Queen's invitation to be from Tuesday um to Monday next, instead of Wednesday the 9th, kin .- " c h day it seems it was at first arranged that the p g of the French would reach Windsor Castle from °rt,amuh. doh " Duk e of Richmond, and a large party from Gor vtteCasstle, left that ducal residence early in the last keestinror Inverness, to be present at the northern The m a W''l rquis of Buto left Cardiff tes a s i Ctl his seat in 11 ,_l, on M ond for ay last, his estan e, Bedfordshire. ii t , 'ne Earl of Rosse who has been attending the meet rig!, of the British Association at York, proceeds to Countess 'nto at Ru s sel of the week on a visit to the Dowager of The Earl i'au rrin r gd ie Z b_uve and Countess of Radnor and Lady Jane passing the autumn at Coteshill Park, near Berks. otT.,he Earl o f Ab oyne presided at the anniversary dinner line Peterborough Agricultural Society on Thursday. Earl Cadog an h as and Ladies Augusta gone to Widmer, and the Countess from Brighton on Vk7cd Honoria Cadogan, who arri ve d nesday, have left town to visit the Earl and Countess of I funtin g d ons hi re. Sandwi c h at Hinchinbrooke, The Earl of E g li nton ' s birthday was celebrated by .a 41 P i a iy i e l li i re e car s it l:nner at Ir vine, and general entertainments in Parts of his estates in Scotland, last week. The P.titicmt e xpressions of admiration were promulgated by , wie:ted tenantry holding farms under the Noble then„chac,ete e.xcellence as a landlord is deservedly praised Th e il Pis large property in that country. L44 ies Se it o t t - t, " w a h Countess of . Eldon, and the youthful F ever Scott, o are on a visit to the Dowager Lady epee hate, to' ' 4l the West Cliff, at Scarborough, are not !.., nc t °f the press return to Hamilton-place, London, until the 'gall, D e Prest.nt month, when they proceed to Encombe Horse for the winter. The SZ I* 3 O3SZOkALMMOUS. tri t i sh c ° tint St Aulaire, Ambassador for France to the if eto, Gn. Ourt, in the ea I I has taken apartments at the Railway The R e 'Port, to wait the arrival of his royal master. as so, infidel Robert Taylor, who made himself notorious preacher and writer, is no more. He died Th ere r i Y part of last month at Tours, in France. hlts resigneds orstruth in the report that Sir W. Symonds its totue office of Surveyor of the Navy, as stated ~, The • of the Papers. 4, 13 1, a --oration of the monument in honour of the al gee ° f Welli n P : d e: , t S o lliorr gton, erected in Glasgow, is take , d °"‘'• Extensive preparations have been Parts ofd h a large number of the nobility, from various btirig he " at rY, have • ified their intention of Th Pre 'ent at the signified mae sas, interesting ceremony. 450 CPsoll steam -frigate, of 1,299 tons' burden, naaster.e•arsePower, designed l by Mr. Oliver Lang, at half -p ast IPwright of Woolwich Dockyard, was launched tr o e saterEttene P to it hf st ri f uo._ur o'clock, P.M., en . Tuesday . last, in the aierous naval and military officers, and al- Th e f e fashionable families in the neighbourhood. 1311111 % abo ar t il itdings of Mr. Priddle, of North Stone yered on a n t '° ll l' miles from Southampton, were disco ,4t recal,rendered 'lent o re e urn then Saturday A n express was immediatel) sp ot, " 'or fire- e •- • , hich.ere speedily on the nary; pig.t.st(ifesP,ra.° most efficient assistance " in saving a plearrta. It is stated that four ricks, gra Per t ~ full w as destr o • . quantity of corn,. and other pro f h ata°llnt. 3ed, and that it is not insured to its a e . _ s an _ Strong suspicion exist that the fire was th e he L )..? 4 incendiary. Secret;tjn rtlst Executive have officially, and through pc d, tii Until "Y announced, that unless they are better the will resign ih they now kr• O'Connorsv.t.....n a month. They state that thei r eal ! n °t exp ect 1 has stood the needful, which litaNronthseit C any it p o r r i telt:rd , B bu :slim to continue any longer, and . that . iil o large that they cannot give him r ers Castle is ordered to be appropriated as a . mi- Y Prison, t o fl a g at w eed° contain 100 offer ders. Another build t)tlted for th e n ' and a. third elsewhere, are also to be e cosen t r_rangemseanmtseisObileocot4 The estimated outlay for ,eevriteart, f oss oaitird a .. J last the overseer of the parish of Bay ed C u.aPPeard befor A ilatersttf.o.6.raifr. James Espinasse, the revising atte nd ' 4 '8 to show cause why he did not n °.. the A ct or ii . n the previous Thursday, as required ect e d with h. arhament, to discharge the duties con neither read : °fa ce. His excuse was, that he could or write ! DEATI I OF --------- ________ ADMIR AL BART., R.C.8., AND G C.II Ili ' announce the death f this V • •• --We have to o is t istinguished fl ag - of fi c er lce S ..1-7----on's Poo BERESFORD, which took p a on Wednesday, at Bedaie, in Yo rkshii:e. The deceased NMiral, Sir John Beresford, was born in 1769, and was th e natural son of George first Marquis of Waterford, !t_ lid brother of Viscount Beresford. - He married three times. Sir John Beresfori entered the navy in the Year 1 782. In 1796, while in the command of the Lynx w l')op, he captured La Concorde, of fourteen guns, and Ptil Captain of the Raison, fought a gallant action with tile French frigate 'Vengeance. In 1801, be was iiresent, and rendered great services at the capture of the N andi of St. Bartholomew, St. Martin's &c. He core rat ended the Theseus at the attack on the enemy in Aix •hec'ttdfL In 1813 and 1814, he was actively employed on that American station, in command of the Poictiers. On ~ return to this country, he was selected by the Lords ! 1 ,1 the Admiralty to escort Louis XVIIL to Calais, on he restoration to the crown of France. In yn,.e succeeding month, he was created a Baronet of the ilutil%nitt.dßingdoin. Ile was first elected a Member of the sc of Commons in 1812. In 1835, on Sir Robert eel succeeding to the Administration, Sir John was 40(1 4PPointed one of the Junior Lords of the Admiralty, contested the borough of Chatham with the Hon. Captain Byng, the result of the election Sir v °l,l in a minority of twenty-five. Since placing thinfl°ll of that Parliament, the deceased had retired entirely ,r,.^111 public affairs, and resided mostly at his seat in lowst orkshire. His naval commissions were dated as fol :--Lieutenant, 4th of November, 1790 ; Com iatlder, sth of July, 1794 ; Captain, 25th of June, 5 . „' 9 , 5 ; Rear-Admiral, 4th of June, 1814 Vice-Admiral, 11-tn.of May, 1825 ; Admiral, 28th of June, 1838. Ile 81leeeeded in the Baronetcy by his eldest son, Captain G eorge Be d now Sir George Beresford, Bart. 1 117/1 WELstr CATTLE PAIRS. —Our cattle fairs tq l ,.. 0 ,,, 11 1R the month of September have been but thinly at bt-r,""ed by the drovers who usually purchase for the put_ If t , s e of driving cattle to the English fairs and markets. 01.7 failure of turnip crops, together with the short crops "V and straw all over the kingdom (with very few ti),{eePtions) are alleged as the reasons. Compared with th e business usually transacted at this season of the year, ro.' a raount of transactions has been small. Cattle fit ' slaughtering were scarce, and a demand at 403. to to, 4 , • Per cwt. to sink the offal ; prime sheep are worth ,•"' Per lb., also to sink the o ff al. Pork and bacon pigs ,•', 4 t little on the advance, while small ones, and bare andsre are at a very low price; good horses are scarce An demand, while poor ones are nearly unsaleable. wastel: 4"begwily fair, on Wednesday last, the show of was very In • different, and few changed hand s. fairs. es ruled nearly the same as at the September rye/Malan. THE MANCHESTER ATHENIEUM (From the Times.) No one can read the brilliant addresses made at the soiree of the Manchester Athenxum, without feeling a double pleasure, first, in the excellence of the occa sion, then, in finding it so worthily celebrated. It is the great difficulty of our age to bring things toge ther. Either there is profusion or lack. What might tell with noble effect if well bestowed, is thrown awAy where it is. We have literature and taste enough, but then it is all in a class, heaped together—of as little use as a well-stored magazine ten miles off the devoted band who are selling their lives dear because their ammunition is exhausted. On the one hand there are thousands who are daily pining for the occasion which is to bring out their powers. Their one great lack is opportunity. Oh for something to do—somebody to work upon—something to assure me I am a real man, and not a shadow, with an actual call and business in this world. Mean while a street, or a wall, or a less visible barrier, separates you from a sphere where it is all opportu nity, all raw material; everything to be done. The elements of grandeur lie waste because the soul of order is absent. There is plenty of rudeness, wild nature of men and things, unorganized multitudes, brutish incessant toil, furious energies, noble instincts, gigantic capabilities, everything vast and shapeless, the sooty workshop of the Cyclops. All this waits to be informed, and trained to beauty and greatness. But as yet that cannot be accomplished. Strength is rude, and refinement is coy. The one resents inter ference, the other revolts from its task. Thus both are wasted. It is then a great beginning that literature should be seen raising its head in the midst of our great marts of industry, and summoning to its aid some of its most favoured sons. It is not necessary to abate one's satisfaction with the salvo, that literary institutions, libraries, news rooms, with the appendage of gymnasia and balls, are not sufficient. Such a caution is even less needful in Manchester than in the enlightened metropolis. True, they may satisfy and fill the mind. To that abuse are all heaven's gifts obnoxious. They are, how ever, good as far as they go. It is a good thing done —an actual step in advance—if minds or hands here tofore occupied in mere mechanic arts should ask ad mission to the worlds of imagination and taste. Imagination is near akin to faith, and taste to good ness. The ideal is the school of truth. With all the many weaknesses and temptations of literature, who that has it would not have had it ? Let those who declaim most eloquently on its engrossing, or enfeebling, or secularising tendency, consider within themselves whether they are not on the whole gainers by this perilous gift. Why, then, should he who would be miserable without his bookshelves, dictate to others an abstinence or a deprivation which he would himself be the first to break selves. " For my own part," says he, " I really believe that had that party and sectarian feeling pro ceeded in the same power and virulence it has done for the last twelve or fourteen years, it must have exercised a barbarising influence upon public senti ments and public manners. There are some amongst us now, I know, who believe that the period has arrived when a great effort must be made to emanci pate the country from the degrading thraldom of fac tion ; to terminate, if possible, that extreme, that sectarian, and limited view in which all human con duct is examined, observed, and criticised; to put an end to exclusiveness, which, in its peculiar sphere, is equally deleterious as that aristocratical exclusiveness of manners which has produced so much evil; and, as far as I can form an opinion, these views have met with sympathy from every part of the counntry." These sentiments were received with loud applause, and they well deserved it. Coming from any public man, they must have been gladly and gratefully received ; but coming from a gentleman who sits in the House of Commons immediately behind Sir R. Peel, they must have been received with special wonder and delight. Among those present who most cordially hailed the utterance of these liberal and enlightened senti ments, was the Member for Stockport. Mr. Cobden's observations had an immediate reference to the liberal character of the Institution, whose interests they were all assembled to promote, but they were meant to hare a universal application. "He could not," says the report of Mr. Cobden's speech, " help con gratulating himself, while Mr. D'lsraeli was speak ing, that with Lord John Manners on the one side, and Mr. Smythe on the other, the imputation of party must be an absolute contradiction. He thanked them fur coining among them, and producing so admirable a result as they had witnessed that night. And now taking that vantage ground—having the fullest reli ance upon the cordial support of every party, sect, and class, in the community, he would ask what might not the Atl - enasum become under such favoarable aus pices 2" Lord J. Manners referred, with an exulting spirit, to the auspicious absence of party feeling which characterised their assembling together. "In these days," says that Noble Lord, "of political rancour, and class and party distinctions, it is gratifying to any one who remembers that the name of English man should be one of prouder import, and bear a more quickening spell, than that of Whig or Tory, to find a field whereon politicians of all opinions may meet without quarrelling, and, better still, with a good hope that the result of the meeting may be af fording increased means of mental amusement and recreation to the laborious tradesman and toiling apprentice." We trust we are not over sanguine in believing that a new and happier era is about to dawn on this country. We think we can clearly discern the proximate advent of a period when the greatest and best of our public men will bury their political partisanship and personal jealousies in the dust; and shall strive together as to who shall contribute most largely to the improvement of the moral and social condition of their countrymen. That were a noble rivalry. That were an emulation worthy the dignity of our nature. Were the feeling but universal, and we rejoice to say it is rapidly extending, it would, in a very little time, convert a world which is full of crime and misery, into one of the purest virtue and most exalted bliss. through ? He owes half his thoughts, and more than half his tone of thinking, to literature. It is the grammar of his mind. It is also his no slight social bond. He tries to communicate his thoughts and feelings, and finds himself unintelligible to the crowd—intelligible only to the initiated few. Piety opens its mouth to denounce literature, and finds itself speaking the language and recognising the mission of its imagined rival. In the act of condemning philosophy it is itself guilty of the crime. Let it be remembered, too, that the gentile world was provi dentially led through a course of arts before it came to the gospel. The truths of Christianity were de veloped in the schools, and grew into a divine philo sophy, the awful literature of Heaven. Those fathers whose mind and language have sunk deepest into the memory of the Church were bred on the lap of Pagan science. Let such pursuits be only followed in a spirit of gravity and reverence, and no one need fear the result. Some will think this a superfluous advocacy of what must speak for itself. Of course they will also set down the speeches of Mr. D'lsraeli, Lord John Manners, and Mr. Smythe, as idle and fruitless displays. But there is a wide-spread and a deep-rooted prejudice against the higher and finer accomplishments, against every branch of learning which does not pretend an obvious utility. It is agreed that the sons of manufacturers must be manu facturers, and no more than manufacturers; and that if you try to make them more, you will fail alto gether. Writers who furnish in their own style abun dant proofs of the powers and delights of a classical education, are so ungrateful or so thoughtless as to think the wealthy master of five hundred operatives will be better and happier and abler without it. " He will have to cast accounts and compute profits. Then he must learn bookkeep ing. He will have to improve his machinery. Then let him study mechanics. He will have to pay wages. Let him acquire a positive taste for compound addi tion. In order to make out and . execute orders he must be handy at practice. Geography also will be wanted occasionally." Offhand writers seldom mean all that they say, but we do not see what other meaning to assign to the following passage in Ur. Cooke Taylor's Tour in the Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire : " I should be very much puzzled if I were asked to point out a dozen schools in the country where youth could obtain instruction in those branches of knowledge which are the best calculated to train them for a life of commerce and active business. In plain terms, the ma nufacturing youth of the higher and middle classes are not trained for the order to which they must eventually belong, but for an order to which there are few chances of their ever attaining, but after which there is all but a perfect certainty that they will render themselves mi serable by aspiring. This defect is sufficiently notorious, and one consequence of it has passed into a proverb, that There is but one generation in Lancashire between clog and clog.' If manufacturers cannot be induced to associate themselves into a distinct order for their own sake, they ought certainly to do so for the sake of their children, and, above all things, they should assert the dignity of the commercial character by a public recog nition of the extent of information necessary for the commercial profession." On the contrary, manufactures and commerce seem especially to crave the greatest possible infusion of literature. They know best their own want. The manufacturer sends his son to a public school, and is anxious to see him an accomplished scholar. To be able to do this was part of the vision which, from his earliest life, concentrated and sustained his efforts. But for this hope, he would have continued to this day a smug, self-satisfied, eating, drinking, and sleep ing, fifth-rate tradesman. Deprive him of mental advancement, and his wealth has lost its value. This is Dr. Cooke Taylor's own supposition. He is cen suring the folly of commercial men who wish to make their sons scholars and gentlemen. What's the use of money, if they are not to do this ? The process of mechanic production induces a conceit of power, which breaks out into overbearing arrogance. A man who has secured the most glittering of human prizes, and has that which all mankind seem running after, is too conscious of his success. His activity becomes rough and tyrannic. The fine arts are use ful in this stage, though such a mind will scarcely apprehend any other than their most sensual ap plication. There is another stage in the manufac turing history—another class, to which literature is indispensable. What can wealth do, or be, without it ? Dr. C. Taylor will answer, " Let wealth go on producing wealth." Experience shows that it will not. The youthful possessor or expectant of thousands per annum is apt to contemplate his wealth till his mind becomes as laden and lumpy as his ingots. To possess and to enjoy is his life. Soul and body he yields himself to the passive delight. The gold enters into his soul. He devours it with his eyes before he comes to its actual use, Such is the being whom a man of real genius proposes to keep at the desk, to the exclusion of other art or science. A worse danger remains. It is impossible that the mere pursuit of wealth and mere mechanic employments should so satisfy the mind as to render it even ordinarily secure against the sensual allurements to which wealth is so easy a prey. High religious feeling is the gift of few; but against that host of lower dangers a gentlemanly education is at least an immense auxiliary. Any thing in the mind, if only innocent, helps against sense. The education of the working classes has already done wonders in Lancashire. To it must be ascribed the affecting resignation with which so vast a mass endured the virtual famine of 1840-42. The (From the Morning Herald.) A meeting took place at Manchester, on Thursday, graced by the presence of several of the " new generation," the reporting of which meeting shows that there is nothing so unimportant as to escape the vigilant caterers for public information. It was, to be sure, declared by one of the lions on the occasion —Mr. Cr. Smythe, of Canterbury, called by a con temporary at the very nadir of bathos, " the chival rous Smythe"—that " that meeting will be memora ble when civilisation shall be one hour from its zenith;" yet we fear the mischievous will add the ill-natured commentary of Porson—" but not till then." The meeting was held for a very excellent purpose, and the founders and supporters of the Manchester Athenaeum are entitled to all praise. But of what importance upon earth is it to the rest of the empire to know that Mr. D'lsraeli went down to Manchester to tell the people there the history of what they themselves had done—a history with which they were, of course, much better acquainted than Mr. D'lsraeli could possibly be ? " You have founded a news-room," and " you have founded a lecture-room," were facts both important and creditable to the locality in which they were stated; and if the facts were not recorded with a parade which makes them ridiculous, they might serve as examples to other places. But when the meeting is exhibited as an important " sign of the times" (that portent which is always most easily discovered when the seeker is the least intelligent), or is compared modestly with the invention of printing, the beneficial effect is infinitely lessened. Mr. D'lsraeli may have seen " Ilyssue silvery springs," and may have the most vivid recollection of the sunset on that occasion. He may be also aware that Mr. Cobden gazed delight fully on the land where Penelope wove her web of yore, yet the relation of these facts, however it may serve for a sign of character, we scarcely can call " a sign of the times." But Mr. D'lsraeli enunciated some rare maxims, and one of these was, that " it is the duty of every citizen in a free community to be acquainted with the opinions he has formed." We hope it is a duty which " Young l i England" has not failed to perform ; for if their " opinions" (as we presume their phantasies are designated) can be reduced to a compre hensible system, the sooner some one of the frater nity, remembering the fate of the - theories of the late reverend and ingenious Edward Irving, promulgates their politics in a known tongue, the more advan tageous will it be to their prosperity. The allusions of the guests of the people of Manchester to that very ancient desideratum, which " Young England chooses to call one of its discoveries; viz., facilities for the amusement of the working classes, could not have been made in a more appropiate place. The games and sports in which " Young England " places —and to some extent justly—great confidence as a political medicine, are certainly least known i n manufacturing districts. The anti-experience legis lators, however, mistake the concomitants of a certain state of society for its essence; and because highly coloured tradition tells us of a happy peasantry under the regime of priestcraft, would saddle us again with the " corporations of bachelors." The amicability with which " Young England" sighs for an over throw of party spirit is highly commendable, but hew are they carrying it out ? Albeit that to honest party spirit, the pure attachment of up right minds to the principles which they admired, we owe most of all that is valuable in the British Consti tut;on—nay, the preservation of that Constitution itself; yet it were indeed lamentable if much neutral ground did not exist upon which distinctions of party could be forgotten. This fusion, however, is not to be accomplished by the system of Messrs. Smythe and D'lsraeli, viz., flattering on all occasions the dis- tinctive tenets or characteristics of a party, and as invariably voting against it. On this conduct we had some time since the following lamentation from the. League : " It is with grief we add that the name of this powerful advocate for the extension of commerce (Mr. Smythe) was found in the list of the monopolist ma• jority that rejected Mr. Villiers's motion, and that the same list contains the name of the author of " Co ningsby," to whose eloquent denunciations of commer cial restriction we recently directed the attention of our readers. This is a sad anomaly." Now we think it rather a wholesome anomaly. If a man perpetually says one thing and perpetually does another, it requires no great quantity of algebra to discover the value of his principle or his common sense ; and with such facts before the world, the mouthing of " Young England," even at a gala soirée at Manchester, is as harmless as the pipes of the Stre phons, with whom one of its young members would cover the grass-grown ruins of that important town. (Prom the Morning Post.) With feelings of rare and unqualified delight we bespeak the attention of all our readers to the report we this day publish of the magnificent meeting held on Thursday, at the Manchester Athenteum. We publish an elaborate report of the proceedings; for we conceive them to be interesting in the most ele vated sense of the term. They present a grand and consoling indication of that better feeling, with re gard to the social and domestic condition of the work ing people, which, within a comparatively recent period, has made its influences felt in quarters the most widely separated on most points of taste and opinion. And amid the many uncheering charac teristics of the times, it is no light comfort to find at least one symptom giving ground for hope that all may yet be well with England. Truly it was a noble spec tacle to see Lord J. Manners—the young and generous representative of England's most exalted aristocracy —standing amongst the honest workpeople and their wealthy employers, in consultation upon the mode of making all classes better pleased with each other— better qualified to be virtuous, useful, happy, and loyal subjects of the mighty empire whereof their higher and intermediate classes are advancing in pro portion. Of course, one watches with anxiety, and even suspicion, the sudden efforts of a newly-gathered population ; but the auspiees are good at present. They only want leaders. (From the Morning Advertiser.) The meeting of the subscribers to the Athenaeum, at Manchester, held on Thursday last, was one of no common character. The numbers present were com puted at 3,000; but it is not to the greatness of the gathering that the importance of the meeting is to be ascribed. The character of the assemblage, the speeches delivered, and the spirit which pervaded the intelligent throng, were the circumstances which in vested that meeting with a special interest. By far the most important characteristic of the meeting• was the entire absence of party feeling. Never did men of more opposite principles assemble together. Who could be more opposed to each other in their political faith, than Mr. Cobden and Mr. Benjamin D'lsraeli Mr. 3dilner Gibson and Lord John Manners ? The same diversity of political sentiment prevailed among the more humble individuals composing the body of the meeting. And yet the most harmonious feel ing pervaded the entire proceedings. Mr. Benjamin D'lsraeli was in the chair. The speech of the Honourable Gentleman was able and eloquent ; but it possessed a still higher quality, especially con sidering the political party with whom the speaker has hitherto acted : it was a thoroughly liberal speech. it was more : it was a manifesto in favour of the organisation of a party who shall disconnect themselves from any and every faction, and be solely influenced in all their actions by an earnest desire to promote the well-being of the people. Mr. D'lsraeli denounced, with withering effect, the narrow, exclu• sive, sectarian feeling which has hitherto, more or less, largely characterised the various factions into which the politicians of the day have divided them little_ island home is the mistress and arbitress. 'When we further mention the name of the chivalrous Smythe—of D'lsraeli, the champion of the essential principle of monarchic rule—of Cobden, and Gibson, and Brotherton, advocates of the violent doctrines of political Liberalism, we sufficiently intimate how en tirely absent was everything partaking of , vulgar party combination. Rejoicing, as we do, that the rich manufacturer in our large towns is at length ac knowledging the claims of the poor to some portion of - care for their health and comfort—heartily re joicing that the amusements and relaxations of the people are attracting some share of attention, as an important element in the constitution of a happy and healthy body p o liti c — we cannot h e l p re verting, with gratitude and satisfaction, to that which has been the main promoter of this move ment for amelioration, in what may be called the domestic politics of the nation. No very long time has elapsed since we gave our cordial support to the - recommendations contained in a pamphlet by THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING OCToBER 7, 1844. are ordered to assemble at nine o'clock. The Mayor and Corporation will also present an address to his Majesty, suitable to the occasion.—Hampshire Te legraph. !...) PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 6.—The Caiman, French war steamer, arrived hero this morning with dispatches from his Majesty to the Queen, and to his Excellency Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador. The Caiman also brought a portion of his Majesty's equipage, and was hauled alongside the dockyard to land it. Seven of the King's horses formed part of the freight ; they were landed at the dockyard, and will be conveyed, with their attendant grooms, to-morrow morning by railway to Farnborough, and thence to proceed to Windsor. In the afternoon the steamer left the harbour on her return to France, where she is to join the squadron which is to accompany his Majesty to England. As soon as she had passed the Parade-battery she fired a salute, which was returned by her Majesty's ship the St. Vincent, at Spithead. His Excellency Count St. Aulaire sent down a special messenger on Friday to engage apartments for himself and suite, as it is his intenti on t o b e h ere to awa i t t h e arrival of his Sovereign. Apartments have been selected at the Railway Hotel, which are ordered to be in readi ness this evening ; it is therefore expected that his Ex cellency or a portion of his suite will arrive to-night. It is now generally understood that his Majesty will embark on board the Gomer, at Treport, on Monday, and arrive here on Tuesday morning, accompanied by a squadron of steamers, which, as well as the Gomer, will take up their moorings in the harbour. His Majesty will land at the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard, where he will be received by his Grace the Duke of 'Welling ton, the Lot d Lieutenant of the county ; his Excellency Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, the Naval Commander-in-Chief at this port ; Major-General Sir Hercules Pakenham, the Lieutenant- Governor And Commander-in-Chief of the district ; Rear-Admiral Parker, the Admiral Superintendent, with their respective staffs, naval and military ; and by the Mayor of Portsmouth, and other municipal authori ties. It is also anticipated that his Royal Highness Prince Albert will meet his Majesty upon landing. From the Clarence-yard his Majesty will proceed at once to the railway terminus, where a special train will be in readiness to convey him and his suite to the Farn borough station, whence they will be conveyed to Wind sor in the royal carriages. Every preparation is being made to receive the King with becoming eclat. The squadron already assembled at Spithead to salute him consists of two line-of-battle ships, and eight sloops of war, namely, the St. Vincent, 120, with the flag of the Commander-in-Chief ; Queen, 110 ; Cruiser, 16 ; Flying Fish, 15 ; Osprey, 12 ; Daring, 12 ; Mutine, 12 ; Espeigle, 12 ; Pantaloon, 8 and Water Witch, 8. Several of the vessels belonging to the Royal Yacht Squadron, among which is that of the Commodore (the Earl of Yarborough), the Kestrel, have also assembled at this port, to wait the arrival of his Majesty. The troops of the garrison are ordered to be under arms at nine o'clock, and are to line the road from the Clarence-yard to the railway terminus in the following order :—The 47th Regiment, the Royal Marines, the 59th Regiment, the 76th Regiment. The guard of honour which is to receive his Majesty the King of the French, upon his landing at the Royal Clarence-yard, will con sist of the Grenadier Companies of the 47th, 59th, and 76th Regiments, under the command of Major Gordon. A guard of honour will also be stationed at the railway terminus, to receive his Majesty on his arrival there. ,The Mayor and Corporation of Portsmouth are pre paring a suitable address, to be presented to his Majesty on his reaching this country, in the event of the applica tion which has been forwarded to the King through the French Ambassador, to know if his Majesty will be disposed to receive the same, being answered in the affirmative. Lord John Manners, on the sports and pastimes of the people. The publication of that pamphlet drew an interest to the subject which it had never before been able to secure. This interest has fortunately gone on increasing. We have parks proposed and planned for Manchester—we have the Prime Minis ter of England, with that princely munificence by which his every private act is distinguished, sending down his 1,0001. subscription towards the expenses of a work that is practically to increase the innocent enjoyments of the poor artisan. All this is pleasant to think on. We pray sincerely it may be only at its beginning, and that its noble and high-minded originator may have hereafter to congratulate him self on the restoration of some of that manly sentiment of respectful affection and confidence be tween different orders of society, which was always characteristic of the honest minds of old England. • Whilst his Majesty is paying his visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle, the officers of his squadron will not be neglected here, but will be invited to a series of enter tainments to be given by the naval and military officers at the port and by the inhabitants of the borough. On Tuesday, the day of their arrival, they will be invited to dine with the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Charles Rowley. On subsequent days they will be entertained at dinner by the Lieutenant-Governor, Major-General Sir Hercules Pakenham. A ball and supper, to be given by the naval officers in commission, and for which pre parations on a magnificent scale are being made, is to take place at the Royal Naval College, in the dock-yard. Intelligence has been received here this afternoon, which places it beyond a doubt that his Royal Highness Prince Albert will come to receive the King of the French on his arrival. DEATH OF THE REV. ROBERT TAYLOR. This eccentric and extraordinary man died about a month since at Tours, to which place he retired some years since, and where he practised as a surgeon, to which profession he was originally bred. Robert Taylor was the son of a respectable ironmon ger of that name, who resided many years in Fenchurch street, amassed a fortune, and retired upon it to Enfield. To his favourite son, Robert, he Sate a first-rate educa tion. He (Robert) was sent to bt. John's, Cambridge, where he took his demrees, and was esteemed an admir able scholar. He took holy orders, and became Curate of Midhurst, Kent (qy. Sussex). It was at a christening that he first expressed his dissent to the doctrines of the Established Church, and subsequently, literally breaking into infidelism in the pulpit, he was stripped of his gown. _ _ Ile came to London and associated with Carlile, man far beneath Taylor in intellect, and not to be named with him in attainment. Mr. Taylor took the Roll's rooms, in Chancery-lane ; from thence he proceeded to the Paul's Head, Cateaton-street, then to Founder's hall, Lothbury ; at all which places he lectured (or preached, as Carlile termed it) his favourite doctrine. He also visited several provincial towns. At Leeds he was confronted by Mr. Calvert, a clever actor, then in Mr. Cummins's company. Calvert, who was a ripe scholar, detected Taylor's false quotations from the Latin ecclesiastical writers. This induced the Doctor to beat a retreat. Taylor returned to town, was a con s t an t v i s it or at Lunt 's Coffee-house, Clerkenwell-green, where he asso ciated with Gale Jones, Wenman, and other well-known characters of the day. He was also seen at Smith's, High llolborn, near Great Turnstile; and at the Globe, Fleet-street. In the summer his favourite resort was Temple-gardens, where he distributed his tracts, and sought disciples. The Doctor's followers at length purchased for him Dr. Bengo Collier's Chapel, in Cannon-street, City. This place Taylor christened the Areopagus. Here he ran riot, and at the instigation of Alderman Brown, now Chamberlain, then Lord Mayor, was prosecuted, and committed to the Compter. There Carlile brought Miss Richards (better known as Mrs. Dorey, of Barber and Fletcher (celebrity) to him as a visitor. The Doctor fell, or feigned to fall, desperately in love with the lady, and gave her a promise of marriage; but they were doomed to part, for Taylor having been tried and con victed of blasphemy, was sentenced to two years' impri sonment. On the expiration of his sentence, he returned to his old lodgings at Mr. Russell's (a law-stationer, in Carey street, Chancery-lane), and there, we believe, he met a lady somewhat stricken in years, who subsequently be came Mrs. Taylor. This wedding, of course, roused the ire of Miss Richards, who commenced an action for a breach of promise of marriage, and recovered 2501. damages, to avoid the payment of which Mr. Taylor and his bride departed for Tours. Though some dis parity of- years existed betwecn Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, they lived very happily. He renounced his errors, and returned to the doctrines of the Established Church. Robert Taylor was born in 1792 ; he was, consequently, either near his 52d or in his 53d year. About eighteen years since a bitter article against him, written by a well-known dramatist, appeared in a popular weekly newspaper. Taylor threatened an action for libel, but wisely abstained from carrying his threat into execution. Mr. Taylor was a man of great acquirements, but erratic. He was generous, nay, profuse, in his nature. EXPERIMENTS IN THE MARSHES.—WOOLAviciI, OCT. s.—Colonel Paterson, Lieutenant-Colonel Dansey, C. 8., and Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmer, Assistant Director-General of the Royal Artillery, attended in the marshes yesterday afternoon to witness various experi ments. The first were carried on by firing at a shield placed in a butt at a range of 200 yards, the intention of the inventor of the shield, which was composed of alter nate bars of iron and wood, was to ascertain if it would prove a defence if applied on the same principle to pro tect steam-vessels when fired at. The shield was only three feet long, by two feet ten inches broad, and ten inches .deep, according to its curved form. The bars of iron were three inches broad, and three-quarters of inch thick. Five out of the ten rounds fired at the shield struck, and went through, breaking the lower part into minute fragments. The same inventor, Captain Addison, then submitted a plan for heating shot to a red heat, by placing sixty 12. pounders into a square cast metal furnace, nearly similar in appearance to a stove. The shots were admitted six each, at ten different entries, five above each other, and, after the furnace was heated, which occupied an hour and three-quarters in the first instance, the heat became so great that the shot were heated red hot in twenty minutes, and afterwards in less than a quarter of an hour. The invention appears far superior to the rough grating hitherto used, and it does not consume much fuel. It appears to be formed in such a mannerthat in the time of peace it wou ld answer the purpose admirably:of heating store or barrack-rooms, and only requires some modification to regulate the draught according to the state of the wind, to render it highly useful for many purposes. Experiments were also carried on by firing two 24-pounder guns on heavy carriages, and two 24-pounders on ship carriages, to test the strength of Alderton's platform. Seventy rounds have now been fired out of the 100 intended for each gun, and the platform still remains in good condition. TIER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE CITY.—It iS gene rally supposed that the 23d instant will be the day on which ber Majesty will visit the City, on the occasion of opening the Royal Exchange. The number of persons to be invited to dinner will not exceed 1,300. The viands, wines, plate, seats, &c., are to be done by contract. and tenders have been sent out to six of the most eminent houses in the City for the purpose of ascertainingtl'e amount per head. The collation isto i b n be cold. tended that her Accord ing to the present arrangements, i t is Majesty should enter at the west-end of the building. It i is impossible to finish every part of the works ; the por tions left unfinished w ill, there f ore, crimson cloth. As the time is too short for the statue of her Majesty to be finished, it is arranged that the model shall be fixed up for the occasion, and It is now undergoing a process of enamelling, to make it appear like marble. The large commemoration medal, to be presented to her Majesty, the Royal Family, and others, will not be ready, but the smaller silver medal, of the size of half-a-crown, is already finished, and will be given to the company who are invited,—Observer. IRELAND. ILLNESS OF LADY HEYTESBURY. DUBLIN, OCT. 5.-Lady Heytesbury, we regret to say, is in a most dangerous state. The medical attendants have scarcely a hope that she can survive the attack, symptoms of dropsy having appeared. lAt two o'clock on Saturday the answer to inquiries at the Vice-regal lodge was, "Her Excellency is worse." Lord Heytesbury, Lord Eliot, and the other rela tives of her Excellency are in the deepest affliction. BALLIgASLOE FAIR. The great annual sheep and cattle fair commenced yesterday. On Friday there was an advance in sheep of from 3s. to 4s. on the prices of last year. Another account represents the advance as ss. or 6s. per head. Wool was much inquired for, but an advance was demanded :- " At an early hour considerable quantities of sheep were driven into Garbally-park, but not, however, to the extent of the number exhibited for sale at the fair of last year. Ewes seemed to be more in demand than others, and buyers, especially from Leinster and Ulster, were readily found at an advance of from 3s. to ss. per head over the prices of last year. " Mr. Pat. 'Taaffe's top lot of ewes brought, as I have been informed, very advanced prices. His wed ders were sold as high as 21. 12s. 6d. The prices given for ewes varied from 1/. 7s. to 21. 45.-the latter sum was for very heavy stock. Two year-old wedders fetched, according to the condition and quality, from 30s. to 50s. " Mr. John Fahey, of Loughrea, sold four mixed lots of maiden ewes and wedders for 31s. 6d. Mr. Walter Bourke, of Dumacreena, for mixed ewes and wedders, and Mr. O'Flaherty, of Lisadowna, obtained 345. for ewes, which was an increase of from 4s. to 58. over last year for the same description of stock. Mr. Charles Blake, of Tuam, sold a lot of ewes for 305., such as were with no inconsiderable share of difficulty disposed of last October for 255. ; and he obtained for a better quality 325. Mr. Burke's, of Clegg, ewes fetched 325. 6d. Mr. Dennis got 435. for some fine wedd ers , an d 30s. for two and three years-old ewes. Mr. Kelly, of Kelly's-grove, sold to Mr. Hopkins 200 two and three- years- old ewes for 31s. 6d., and for a beautiful lot of ewe hoggets 465. Mr. Robert Fair disposed of 240 three-years-old ewes at 333. 6d.; 200 three-years-old wedders at 485.; and 100 of an inferior quality, fed on light land, at 455. Mr. Thomas Fair's good lot of three-years-old ewes brought 29s ; Mr. Hughes's ewes, three-years -old, 30s. ; and Dr. Colahan's two-years-old ewes 435. " There is a large supply of hogget rams of a very beautiful quality, and almost monster dimensions, but as yet no sales of any consequence have been effected, gentlemen anxious to become possessed of first-rate tups being busily engaged in the selection of other descriptions of stock. Mr. Reit has a prime rain, which he expects will bring close on 30 guineas. It is a cross of the Leicester and the old Irish, crossed again by the Cotswold. " Already several horses, some of them thorough bred weight-carrying hunters, and animals well adapted for military chargers, have been exhibited through town, and, as a demand is expected, the prices will, in all probability, rate high. It is said that an agent of the King of the French is in I3allinasloe, and has been located in the neighbourhood since Monday, intending to pick up any good young horses sub mitted for sale, arid the contractors for supplying the cavalry stationed in Ireland with chargers have also arrived. Well-matched carriage horses will be looked after largely, an English jobber being here to make purchases of that nature. " The nobility, gentry, and landholders of Con naught, assembled at the Ballinasloe fair, and all in terested in the prosperity of this province, are to hold a meeting on Monday, at Gill's Hotel, on the subject of railway communication being extended to the remote districts of Galway and Mayo, the advan• tages of which are now so self-apparent. Lord Cle ments has expressed his intention of presiding on the occasion." • in lighting his windows on the 9th of September, as a token of rejoicing for Mr. O'Connell's release frarri prison. Mr. Sullivan is a Protestant, and was one of several Protestants who illuminated on the occasion. —Leinster Express (Tory paper). PORTOBELLO GARDENS.—BALLOON ASCENT. _ _ _ QUEEN'S BENCH.—REVOLTING CASE. On Thursday a case of a singular character was brought before Judge Burton, at his private residence in Stephen's•vreen. Mr. J. A. Curran appeared as counsel, Mr. Fitzgerald as attorney, for a respectable man named Esmonde. Mr. Martyn and Mr. Lodge attended as counsel and attorney for a person named Joseph Millikin,an electrotype gilder, who it appears lived in Mary-street. The facts of the case, according to the statement of the counsel for Mr. Esmonde, were these :—To wards the close of the year 1843, Bridget Anne Esmonde, the daught er o f M r . C urrant ' s c li ent, was seduced by Joseph Millikin, and induced to lea ve h er family ; an altercati on i s alleged to have taken place between Bridget Esmonde and her family, in conse quence of their desire to prevail upon her to return to her home. She summoned them before Mr. Duffy. of Henry-street Police-office, on Friday last; and her father and sisters, finding that a good opportunity to recover possession of her, endeavoured to force her home. A scene then ensued which baffles all descrip tion. Mr. Duffy was interrupted in the progress of his magisterial duties by the most terrific screams emanating from Miss Esmonde's sisters, father, and brother, all of whom were engaged in the attempt to compel her to accompany them home, in which they were strenuously resisted by Joseph Millikin. Mr. Duffy said he would afford every facility to Mr. Es monde to recover his long lost daughter, and the re sult was, that she was prevailed upon to go home. Since that occasion Joseph Millikin made an appli cation to Judge Burton for a habeas corpus, to be served on Mr. Esmonde, requiring him to produce his daughter, alleging as his reason for seeking the writ that she was treated cruelly by him; and on Thurs day Mr. Curran, with Mr. Fitzgerald, attended before his Lordship, as already stated, to make return to the writ. his Lordship desired Mr. Fitz gerald to make a return, which he accordingly did declaring that Miss Esmonde was not in the posses sion of her father at the time when the writ was served upon him, nor had she since been so. Mr. Martyn produced an affidavit sworn by his client, set ting forth that Miss Esmonde was confined in a peni tentiary in Marlborough -street—that she was starved, and otherwise badly treated. Mr. Curran, in reply, said that the institution to which Mr. Martyn referred was under the control and guidance of the Roman Catholic clergy of Marlborough -street Chapel, and that the treatment received by females who sought refuge within its walls was kind and benevolent in the extreme. Mr. Esmonde said that his daughter had been detained by force from him, in order that he might not be able to procure the facts from her ne cessary to sustain an action for seduction again .t Millikin. Judge Burton said that Mr. Curran should produce an affidavit verifying the truth of the return made to the writ of halves corpus, and he would ad journ the case to Saturday next (in chamber), when he expected Miss Esmonde would appear, and enable him fully to investigate the facts. It would seem that Miss Esmonde was of full age, and it might turn out to be a case in which he could not interfere, but for which the law in another way provided a remedy. The application for a habeas corpus on the part of an alleged seducer to get back from her father the person who he had led from virtue, and induced to abscond from his house, was very novel, and one in acting upon which required from him the exercise of great caution ; on the other hand, if the institution adverted to was one in which the girl enjoyed her freedom and was her own mistress, he could not see what impedi ment was in her way to enable her to appear before him and state her or case. his Lordship then an flounced that he would sit in chamber on Saturday to hear the ease, and the parties withdrew. On Saturday Mr. Justice Burton sit in chamber. At four o'clock the case of Millikin and Esmonde was called, and Miss Esmonde waa produced. After hearing counsel on both sides, Mr. Justice Burton decided that as Miss Esmonde was of age, she was free to go where she pl ease d, an d could not e controlled. After a most affecting advice from Judge Burton, who shed tears, Miss Esmonde consented to go back to the house of her father. Mr. Martyn and Mr. Lodge emphatically denied that they were counsel and agent for Millikin, having been retained by Miss Esmonde. The ascent of Mr. Hampton, the xronaut, in his " monster balloon," which is little inferior in size to the " great Nassau " itself; took place on Friday, from the Portobello Gardens. Mr. Hampton de scended en the grounds of M. Callaghan, Esq., Ar tane House, a few minutes before five o'clock ; and arrived, with his balloon, at the Portob e ll o G ar d ens, at half-past six o'clock, accompanied by some friends, who followed him in vehicles. LANDLORD AND TENANT COMMISSION. The inquiry was held in Kilkenny yesterday. The Commissioners in attendance were Sir R. Fergusson, Messrs. John Wynn, Redington, and Hamilton. MR. O'CONNELL IN DERRYNANE. The Kerry Examiner contains the following:— " The Liberator, though received with enthusiasm everywhere on his route from Dublin, could not have been more warmly or cordially welcomed than on his entrance, and all through his native mountains, to Derrynane Abbey. The roads were thronged with joyous human beings. He sojourned for- two days at Hillgrove, the hospitable mansion of his relative and agent, John Primrose, Esq., with his so n John and lady, and the two sons of his friend, t he of Right Hon. David Pigot, where a large number _ f the neighbouring gentry were also ent l er n ta di l d ne p d a . ek O o n f Monday morning he left, with hi h s e sp b e Ahe 'Within beagles, and hunted on his way to t several miles of this lovely thousands of thethei r joyous weh spot he was met b y tens of people, shouting Herean beingsthem : o tit the people to we t r h e ei l r i t l e i r b: l r ly ato a r li a s n e d Ni m i a t r h ty b r. am people from the shores of Berehaven and Bantry Bay came in yachts and boats, accompanied by bands, to hail their liberator at his own door, returned from an unjust imprisonment, but, blessed be God, in the best health and spirits." THE LATE ILLUMINATIONS. Sergeant Maher, of the 62d Regiment, attached to the recruiting party stationed here, and who, our readers will recollect, was charged with having his lodgings illuminated on the occasion of Mr. O'Con nell's liberation, has received orders to join the regi mental depot at Chatham.—Carlow Sentinel (Tory parer). An investigation has been ordered by the magis trates of Philipstown district, into the conduct of Mr. Sullivan, clerk of petty seisions in Philipstown, THE WEST INDIES. (From the Jamaica Morning Journal, Sept. 9.) The present mail will convey to our distant readers the intelligence that the Jamaica House of Assembly has been dissolved—that new writs have been issued for a general election. The dissolution took place on the 2Gth of August. The weather throughout the island is represented as favourable, and the prospects of large crops general. The parishes to leeward are said to be looking remark ably Colic immigration, it is thought, w ill no t b e favour ably regarded - by tho new House of Assembly, nor en couraged to the extent which parties in the mother country seem to desire. The proposition for a loan will of course not be necessary, if the views of members prove, as they are expected to do, adverse to the new immigration scheme. To African immigration there does not exist any strong objections. It is likely there fore to continue. The island remains healthy and perfectly quiet and peaceful. KINGSTON, SEPT. 3. The Royal Mail Company's steam-packet Trent, with the mail of the Ist of August, appeared in the ofling on Saturday evening, but could not reach Port Royal, on account of the dangerous situ- ation of the keys. She therefore anchored outside, and passing round that place, reached her moorings off the company's wharf early yesterday morning. EXECUTION OF THOMAS BROWN FOR MURDER. (From the Cornwall Chronicle.) The above-named criminal, who, it will be recollected, was convicted at the last July Cornwall Assizes for the murder of James Miller, of St. Elizabeth, was executed on Tuesday last, the 27th instant (August). The gal lows was erected in the gaol-yard. The necessary ar rangements having been completed, the prisoner was led from his cell at seventeen minutes past eleven o'clock. On arriving at the scaffold, the Rev. Mr. Macintyre and the prisoner knelt at the foot of the ladder. At the conclusion the prisoner stood firmly up and looked around him for a moment, putting one foot on the lad der to ascend ; but seeing Mr. Delisser on his right, he said, "Me Massa Delisser, shake m e b an ' now ." Mr. Delisser cordially shook hands. He next turned to the Rev. Doctor, who also warmly shook the prisoner's hands. Other persons attached to the gaol, who had ministered to the prisoner's wants while there, seemed also to attract his attention. The ceremonies ended, he ascended the ladder, during which he said, " I don't de serre what lis to suffer—l don't deserve it—l will die like a man—l hope God will give me the spirit." The assistant of the executioner, after the prisoner had gained the platform, ascended to pinion his arms, on which he said, " Massa, me don't want dis man here." The man descended ; and this arrangement' having been accomplished by the executioner himself, he said, " I want to speak one word before lam done. Yearry me, massa, addressing himself to the rector, who told him that that gentleman (pointing to Mr. Delisser) would tell him when to speak ; and Mr. Delisser shortly after said, " Now, Thomas Brown, say what you have to say." He replied, " Tel dem witness dat prove against me dat I forgive dem freely from my heart ; I hope dat massa (meaning God) will forgive dem." He paused, and then added, " I hope my Lord Jesus will forgive dem too. And now me bredderin, onoo all good bye." The rector, fearing lest he should become excited, then said to him in a soothing tone, "Remember what I said to you." He replied, " Yes, massa, I have nothing more to say," and became calm and collected. The cap and rope having been completely adjusted, the rector commenced to read the funeral service, during which, at the words, " Sutler us not, at our last moment, for any pains of death to fall from thee," &c., the rope by which the drop was fastened was cut ; it fell down with a loud clap, and the wretched man, after a few brief shudders and weak struggles, seemed to enter into eternity with little visible suffering. It was one of the most impressive and orderly conducted executions we have ever wit nessed in this country. FEARFUL COLLISION ON TILE CROYDON RAILWAY. —(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)—SattIrdAy morning, at half-past twelve o'clock, a monster train, divided into two parts for the convenience of conveying passengers to the Bricklayers' Arms and the London terminus, left Croy don with about seven hundred persons. The London passengers took their places first, and the train started off, followed in a few minutes by those for the Brick layers' Arms terminus. The train for London reached the Annerly station about twenty minutes before one, where, unfortunately, the lamp at the tail of the train went out for want of oil. This circumstance not being q)bserved by the conductor, the train went on, followed immediately by the second one, when, in less than a minute after, the collision took place, attended with an awful crash. The greater part of the passengers were asleep in both trains, having been spending the day at Croydon fair, and were returning at a late hour much fatigued. They were awoke out of their slumbers in the greatest consternation. On the stopping of the trains lamps were procured, when it was discovered that one of the car riages had been forced off the line and much damaged. A first-class carriage in the London train was much broken, the panels being smashed, together with the windows. The last carriage was broken into splinters. The in jured persons, between thirty-five and forty in number, were speedily released from their painful and embarrass ing situation, and proceeded to the Annerly Arms' public-house, where they remained:upwards of an hour, during which the trains were put in order. Many of the sufferers, both male and female, presented severe contu sions of the head, arms, and body, and two females were severely cut on the temple and eye, another had her skull fractured, and was put to bed and attended by a surgeon. Many of the sufferers presented black eyes and bleeding faces. Some lost their hats, and others their bonnets, shawls, and reticules, during the darkness and confusion. The trains ultimately reached the Bricklayers' Arms and London-bridge stations at three o'clock, with those who had received slight injuries, and thus ended their trip to Croydon fair. The directors have expressed their readiness to make good the loss and damage of property, and surgeons' bills, created by this unfortunate event. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—One night during the present week a barrel containing yeast was deposited at the Hertford station of the Eastern Counties Railway. Being in a high state of fermentation, the cask burst, and it was forced against the roof with so much violence as to occasion considerable damage.—llertford County Press. THE MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—This highly promis ing club has obtained leave to prefix the word " Royal" to the club, and its title will henceforth be " The Royal Mersey Yacht Club." The Honorary Secretary of the Club has received letters from Sir Robert Peel, the Earl of Wilton, the Marquis of Anglesea, and other noble• men, consenting to become honorary members of the club ; and also a notification from Sir J. Barrow, Secre tary to the Admiralty, granting permission for the ves sels to carry the blue ensign of her Majesty's fleet, with the distinguishing marks of the club, which it is believed will be a Liver and Crown in the fly of the ensign. AWFUL OCCURRENCE.—On Monday evening last a joiner, of the name of Thomas Jamieson, a native of Ayr, was married at Stirling, and on T ues d a y th e couple, accompanied by Elizabeth Jamieson, a sister of the bridegroom, drove to Callender in a drosky, where they met with another joiner, James Taylor, a native of Stirling, but who has resided for some time at Cause 'way-head, and was working at Callender. While there, they had a desire to visit Bracklinn. The party set off unknown to Taylor, but he suspecting where they had gone, followed briskly, and unfortunately came up to them just as they were about to enter upon the bridge, which the young woman, Elizabeth Jamieson, was objecting to do, when he seized her in mere wanton ness to place her on the giddy pathway, which is s wooden structure scarcely two feet broad, with a railing upon it, and stretching over a yawning chasm of most gloomy and forbidding appearance, upon which but to look- thrills tho nerves of the hardiest not accustomed to such scenes. She, in her endeavours to avoid the dis agreeable object, fixed her hold upon the railing, whit* gave way, when both were precipitated into the abyss below. Every one who knows the place can easily form an idea what the consequence must be. The body , of' Taylor could not be got at the ti m e, having been car ried .. away by the stream, and must have been ti mangled ; while the girl was found with the lifstille l.l yesterday afternoon, when ourinform ant .1 her, but with little prospect of surviving . left, Aetftohuor woman was still alive, and the body ,of Tay lor bad not beets found.—Stirling Observer. INCOME-TAX. the Warwick Ad in pusuance of a requisf verftser, that on tion presented to the M a y or, and his Worsh ip's conse -Ailonredayleallsnt, from quent apporn • orient of a public meeting, to be held at inhabitants of the borough of Warwick assembled, " for the Court-house , man y of the p rof essional and trading -the purpose of taking into consideration the mode of as. sess ing the income-tax, and the place of appeal against all taxes; and also the propriety of petitioning the Legis lature against the continuance of the tax upon income." Resolutions in furtherance of the object of the meeting were agreed to, and the Mayor has forwarded to Sir John Mordaunt, Bart. (Chairman of the Local Board of Commissioners of Taxes fcr the district), a coy of them. The Earl of Clar e an d th e H on. Col. Fitzgibbon have been placed in mourning by the death of Mr. Thos. G. Fitzgibbon, who died at his beat in the county Lime* rick last week. It is calculated that the thirty-one railways for which Acts of Parliament were obtained last session will require a capital of 11,741,7171. sterling. It is reported that Lieutenant Puddicombe intends. to prefer an action for damages against Colonel Burton, 11. M., whose letter respecting the Lieutenant's erimi. nalit3- h s been the subject of animadversion. We are informed that the preliminaries have been arranged for a matrimonial alliance between the Hon. Captain Boyle, second son of the Earl of Cork, and Miss Georgiana Itobarts, daughter of the well-known banker of that name. The ceremony will take place during the present month. The marriage of Lord Loftus nith the wom plished daughter of Lady Elizabeth Hop, Vere, which , was to have been solemnised to-morrow, is unavoidably postponed for a few days. COURT CIRCULAR. SUNDAT.—The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Monday) afternoon at the Castle, at half-past two o'clock. Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert walked in the forenoon in the pleasure -grounds of the Castle, after wards his Royal Highness went out shooting in the royal preserves, attended by Viscount Sydney, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. George E. Anson. The Prince returned to the Castle before two o'clock. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert rode out in a pony phaeton, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, and attended by Major-General Wemyss and Colonel Bouverie. The Royal Family were all taken airings yesterday. In the afternoon the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, was taken a carriage drive. Messrs. Daniel had the honour of submitting to Prince Albert a specimen of the service executing by them for his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, of which his Royal Highness expressed his appro bation. This morning the Queen and Prince Albert and the Court attended Divine worship in the Private Chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. Charles L, Courtenay officiated. The Duchess of Kent attended Divine service this forenoon in the parish church. Lady Charlotte Dun das was in waiting on her Royal Highness. The Royal Duchess afterwards visited her Majesty and Prince Albert. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked this morn• ing in the pleasure-grounds about the Castle. The Royal Family were taken their accustomed air ings to-day. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz returned on Saturday to Kew, from the north. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meek lenburgh Strelitz arrived in town on Friday. Their Royal Highnesses returned to Kew in the evening. His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Phi lippsthal, left Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, on Saturday morning for Witley Court, Worcestershire, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister, and Count Reventlow, the Danish Minister, transacted business on Saturday at the Foreign-office. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governor of South Australia, and also from the Governor of the Mauritius. Lord Stanley left town on Friday for Knowsley Hall, Lancashire. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence left his residence in St. James's Palac e on S a t ur day morning f or W oo l w i c h , to embark on th e ro y a l s team yacht, and a ft erwar d s proceed to Portsmouth. VISIT of the KING of the FRENCH. Preparations are talked of on every side for a splendid entertainment to be given to the officers who will attend his Majesty Louis Philippe to this country. We believe several plans are in contemplation, on an unprecedently magnificent scale. One is a grand ball and supper in the Royal Naval College, to be got up by the officers of our navy . exclusively, five or six day's pay from each officer being subscribed for the purpose of conducting the entertainment upon the most hospitable and brilliant scale. This certainly would amount to a handsome sum, the number of naval officers now at the port in commission being considerable. Another plan is the erection of a very large tent, capable of holding conveniently about 2,000, in which to give a ball and supper, also upon a superb but less exclusive scale, naval, military, and civil officers being reported the projectors. Of course, many rumours are afloat respecting what will and ought to be done to give eclat to the visit of so im portant a personage as the King of the French, the above, among the rest ; but a few days will determine which is the right. The guns of the platform saluting battery have undergone two courses of paint, as also those of the King's bastion, in anticipation of the royal visit; but whether this will prevent the French officers from seeing how wretchedly they are pointed we much doubt. certainly they are on the peace establishment. Spithead begins to look lively, and with a few line of battle ships, in addition to the fi ve brigs of the experimental squadron now at anchor and the other three which will shortly join them, together with the Firebrand and another fine steam-frigate or two, will look imposing, and confirm the celebrity which has long been given to that matchless road stead.—Hampshire independent. His Majesty Louis Philippe, who, in early youth, bore the title of the Duke de Chartres, was, with his brothers and sisters, educated at home under the direc- tion of Madame de Genlis,;i;ci;;eil known as the writer of several agreeable works of fiction. The young Prince entered the army early; he was at the battles of Gemappes and Valmy, in which the French were victorious. Dumourier, who after the death of Louis XVI., was appointed General in Chief of the Republican armies, found s o muc h discretion and prudence in the young Duke, that he formed the project of overthrowing the Republican Government, and placing on the throne the Duke de Chartres, who was at that time one of his Aides-de-camp. For this purpose, Dumourier entered into secret negotiations with the chiefs of the Austrian army; but the dreadful defeat of his troops at Der winden excited the suspicion of the National Convention ; he was des er t e d by hit!_own soldiers, and reduced to pro vide for his safety by flight. The young Duke ac companied hi m , an d upon t h e d eat h o f hi s father, which took place shortly afterwards, he took the title of Duke of Orleans. A few years before the fall of Napoleon, he allied himself, by marriage, to the Bour bons of Naples ; and the present Queen of the French is the aunt of the Duchess of Berry and of Christina, the ex-Queen of Spain. After the battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Orlean s b ecame a great f avour i te w i th the liberal chiefs, owing to the good opinion entertained of him by Napoleon. At the same time, the high tone of morality that reigned in his own family was praised by all. The Parisian saw with delight his sons frequenting the public colleges and zealously pursuing their way to scholastic h onours, as if t h e i r f at h er h ad been but a private gentleman ; the leaders of the Op position were always welcome at the Palais Royal. At the death of General Foy, his Maje s ty sen t 4001. to the subscri ption then raising t o erec t a monument to his memory; and w h en th e ce l e b rate d Casimir de la Vigne was, on acc oun t o f a p i ece of poetry too liberal in its sentiments, dismissed from his post of librarian by Count de Peyronet, the Minister of Justice, the Duke of Orleans offered to the poet a similar situation at the Palais Royal. Thus by several deeds of well-directed liberality, the Duke of Orleans ingratiated himself considerably with the French nation.—Observer. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. s—His Majesty the King of the French and suite will embark at Treport, on Tuesday next, for this port, attended by five steam vessels, to pay the proposed visit to her Majesty at Windsor, where every preparation is already made to receive his Majesty, in that distinguished manner in which hermost gracious Majesty and his Royal High ness Prince Albert were welcomed at the recent visit to the Chateau d'Eu. Among many other distin guished characters who will accompany his Majesty, will be M. Guizot. One of the French historical painters from Paris, Monsieur Edouard Pingret, has already arrived in this country, for the express pur pose of aiding in the painting of the proposed picture, delineating the meeting of the French and British Monarchs. It is_understood that his Majesty will bring over valuable presents for her Majesty, in re turn for those with which he was honoured at the Chateau d'Eu. Amongst them will be some splendid articles of Sevres porcelain, and others of French ma nufacture. The Royal Squadron will consist of the following : comer, 24 guns, King's steamer yacht, Admiral La Susse, Captain Goubens, Lieut. Seuette, Lieut. De Laronciere, Ensign Le Pertues, Ensign Sallye, 450 horse power, equipped at Cherbourg. Elan, steamer, Lieut. Dieudonnez, Ensign Deff resne, Ensign Sage, Ensign Berenger, 220 h orse power, equipped at Cherbourg. Caithman, steamer, Lieut. 'Valmont, Ensign Cour net, 220 horse power, equipped at Cherbourg. Fulton, steamer, Lieut. Marreau, Ensign Rosier, Ensign Villemorin, Ensign Vrigneau, 160 *horse power, equipped at Cherbourg. Reihe A niche, .the Ring's sailing yacht, C; pt. D'Harcourt. The King will reach this port on Wednesday morning, where every preparation is making to re ceive him, and, immediately afterwards, landing at the Clarence Victualling-yard, will proceed, by spe cial train, to Farnborough, where his Royal High ness Prince Albert, with several royal carriages, will be in waiting to receive his Majesty, and conduct him to Windsor. His Grace the Duke of Wellington and a Board of Admiralty, with the First Lord, will be in attendance here to receive the King; guards of honour will be post e d a t th e Cl aren ce-yard and Rail way terminus, and the troops in the garrison and at Gosport will line the road between these points. They