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ertirb Etittion THE FUNDS-(C] BRITISF Bank Stock.." div 203 3 per Cent. Red 99 3 per Cent. Cons. lOO 3) per Cent. Red New 33L per Cent 102% New 5 per Cent — Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860............... 12 Oct. 1859........«.».. 11% Jan. 1860.............. FOREIGI OSING PRICES.) FUNDS. Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — P Ditto under £! ; :00 93 !South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities ... Ditto New Annuities ... Ex. Bills, 1,000/. 134 d Ditto 500/. 71 p Ditto 5ma11.......... ..... 73 pm. Bank Stock for Acct.... !Consols for Act.... ..... NO% India► Stock for Acct... Austrian, 5 per Cent ......... Belgian, 5 per Cent............ Brazilian Bonds ....»........ 85% V FUNDS. Russian, 5 per Ditto, Metallic ..... Spanish, 5 per Cent., 1840 Ditto, 1841 Ditto, 1E42.......... ....... Ditto, ....... Ditto, 1841 Ditto, 3 per Cent ......... 3.4%, Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cs — French, 51.er Cent. —t — c Exchange French, 3 per Cent —f. —( Dutch, 2% per Cent .. Ditto„ :5 per Cent .....«»...... Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent ChDian t 6 per Cent ..... Colombian, 6 per Cent Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 1625, 5 pet Cent Mexican, 5 per Cent .. Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct — Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent, Pei ueian Bonds. 6 per Ct — Portuguebe Bonds, 5 per Cs SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) .... '79 Direct Northern, 2 paid . 2 5/ Ely and Bedford, 1 paid ••• 0000000000 ••• 1( Great North of England, 100 paid Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Fifths ' 12 paid Lancaster and Carlisle, 10 paid London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) % Lon.lon and Brighton (50 paid) London and Croydon (Trunk) l6 Midland Counties (100 paid) les Birmingham and Derby, £lOO paid '76 4 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid 9 south Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) ,.,, 43 Ditto New Shares, 4 paid ......... ... 16 Trent Valley, 2 paid 8 York and North Midland (50 paid) 106% Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paidi .. , ... 33 Central of France, 2 paid Boulogne and Amiens, 2pi d .... ...... ......... -.... 3t Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid ...... ...... 3 1 4 laris and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen. 20 paid .. ........... ......-........ 39% SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. liOll TER ITIMING PAPKIIII OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The Archbishop of Canterbury has re turned a reproving answer to a complaint made to him of Trectarianism in the sermons of a Rev. Mr. Shaw. We can say nothing about this case, as we have no evidence on it before us. But we can say that it immediately concerns the clergy more than the laity, that cases of this kind should be probed to the bottom, and not dismissed on ex parte evidence. Unless the clerical order, by itself constituted the Church—in which case, Puseyite development threatens it with having the Church all to itself—the laity must necessarily be allowed, directly or indirectly, to have a voice in the matter of the teaching they are to listen to. This is unavoidable, so long as listening is not com pulsory. We grant that, if the Newmaniac van guard of Puseyiem could have things their ovvt, way—if reconciliation with Rome were efiected— which the Newman coterie declare the first indispen sable requisite—if the noble and glorious company of St. Ignatius hail its effective force fully reorganised, and if the Secular Arm could be forced to execute what ever the Infallible Church, by its Pope, had decreed —the daily defections from High Church congrega tions might be viewed with indifference—or viewed simply as arguments for preparing sufficient dragoon force to drive the flock back to the fold. In the meantime, however, nothing of all this has, as yet, been accomplished. " Protestants, and other heretics," have the assurance still to think themselves constituents of the Church. They have the assurance still to think that something else than obedience belongs to laymen • and that something else than Jesuitism should be the model contemplated by their guides. They have the assurance to laugh to scorn the miraculous sacerdotal system again sought to be accredited. They do not contest the right of another Church to believe new wonders, and canonise new Saints. They do not contest the right of Roman Catholics to believe that St. Alfonso Liguori, while praying to the Virgin in a congregation, was raised two feet from the pulpit, and turned, in rising, to the image of that Blessed Lady, whose countenance miraculously beamed upon him. Eu' they do contest the right of English Churchmen to write as follows of the system of casuistry revived by that, and such other modern Saints, in moral matters: —" The tender but pure system of discipline intro duced into Italy by St. Alfonso towards the conclu sion of the last century, though it met with clamour and opposition from the rigid party, has probably been one main cause of the singular revival of spirituality in that part of the Church." It is well known to those who have looked into these matters, that the Jesuitical management of the con fessional—which " the noble and glorious company of St. Ignatius" are re-introducing in France and Italy—has always been one of the things most obnoxious to moral censure about their institute. It has always, however, been one of the main elements of their power. The license exercised to distinguish and extenuate at discretion in all cases brought before them, is the sure recipe employed by men of the world engaged as soldiers of Christ, or rather soldiers of the Pope, for such has been, from the beginning, the Jesuit service—to attract weak men, • and weaker women, into the great net which they spread over all Europe. They are spreading that net again. Are they got ? Is there no meaning in the fact that English clergymen have the impudence (that is the word) to hail them noble and glorious —to hail their permanence as a sta4ding miracle ? Is there no meaning in the fact that French education is grasped at in their name; rulers, philosophers, professors, all men who will not bow to their gentle yoke, are asasailed with every infamous inven tion of cell-bred slander ? They are too precipitate— the scribes of the Univers—the myrmidons of M. de Montalembert. That notable Jesuit and Peer of France is, by half, too plain -spoken. The Dublin Review never did a worse service to the cause it supports than by publishing the haughty summons of that lay-preacher of Jesuit Mariolatry. The pear is not ripe; not ripe even in France; far less in England. France has not forgotten the old independent distinctions of her own Church. That Church, indeed, is now low enough ; a miserable multitude of despised parish priests are helpless enough against any impulse which a stronger organisation may give them. But France is not Bel gium : the intellectual republic of Paris cannot be again priest-ridden. It is more than a sally of M. Idiclielet that France expelled a dynasty to rid herself of Jesuit direction—and would expel ten dynasties more. Jesuitism is nothing but the volunteer force, or "auxiliary legion," of an Infallible Church. Implicit obedience to the earthly head of an Infallible Church was the grand scope of Jesuitism. This was, from its origin, an offensive warfare against the common sense of all Europe. Again and again Europe has expelled the sable militia which tormented her. Again and again they have made resurrection—and the Newmanite standing miracle again lifts its head. In this we hold there is nothing miraculous. The miracle, we think, if there is any, consists in the modern tolerance of a pretension— for enforcing which Jesuitism furnishes the best machinery. The preten sion is, that implicit obedience is due to any autho rity on earth. Admit that pretension ; and Jesuit agencies to work it follow in natural order. STANDAIta—It is not difficult to account for the contempt with which certain writers affect to treat agricultural meetings. It is by such meetings that the writers in question have been most effectually opposed—driven from their free trade doctrines and fixed duty projects to take re fuge in an ungracious and most reluctant silence. It may he true that much of novelty is not to be expected at an agricultural meeting, but are such meetings useless ? If so, universities, colleges, and Schools are useless, for they are all employed in teaching things previously well known to some. Neither universities, colleges, schools, nor agricul tural meetings are useless, for though what they teach is not new in the abstract it is new to those to whom they teach it. The speech of Lord Stanley, at the late Liverpool meeting, happily illustrates the value of teaching old truths to those by whom those truths, though old, had never been duly appreciated. There had been scarcely any farmers or landlords in England for some centuries ignorant of the fact, that the more money judiciously laid out in draining and manuring land, the more productive the land is made to the farmer, and the snore valuable his estate is rendered to the landlord. Yet how few, comparatively, are the farmers and landlords who seem to have profited by this knowledge ? Now, one effect of agricul tural meetings is to remind the dull or negli gent of such plain truths as this, and to stimu late them by the intelligence that others me reminded of these truths also, and that if they do not act upon them, they will be left be hind ; yes, when a farmer is made aware that his neighbours are, to some extent, about to r e d uce the money price of produce by greatly augmenting its amount, he must set to work to improve his crops, too, or he will surely be left in the lurch. Ilere, howner, seems to arise a difficulty, as farmer and landlord are both equally interested in the improve ment of the land, who is to pay the cost?—and if both, in what proportions are they to pay it ? Lord Stanley solves the difficulty, by an appli cation of the rule as old at least as the civil law—" Qui sentit lucrum, sentiat et onus,"— a rule most su ccess f ully and ' satis o fa f ct i o i rilY adopted by the Earl of D er b y, the Barneby, and m any other noblemen arrowhy, Mr. men. Where a ten an t h as a lease and for let him expend in profitable improvem ag ee et t netrime-' n amount proportioned to the va l ue of his term, and no more, unless his landlord lends it and where the tenantcy is at will, let the landlord I advance money flor improvement, upon a reasonable interest. Experience has shown that upon average land farmers may make twenty per cent. of money for which they pay but five, while landlords en sure from one to two per cent. upon the mere loan, phis the immense gain by the permanent THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OtrOBER 24, 1844. improvement of their estates. Is it not of some worth, that through agricultural meetings this is known to all the landlords and farmers of the country ?—that every improving landlord is re minded to say to his tenant, drain and improve the land, and I will lend you the money (which I can borrow at 3) at 5 per cent„ and that the improving tenant is reminded to say to his landlord, "I am willing to drain and manure the farm I hold from you, if you will only grant me or procure me a loan at the legal rate of interest." In the present state of the money market, it must be shameful, when such things are known, to every landlord or farmer who neglects necessary improvements ; and this reminds us of a material omission of the noble Secretary for the Colonies. His Lord ship forgot to remind his hearers that to the Cabinet of which he is so distinguished a support and ornament, the country owes not only the auspicious state of the money market, but the perfect safety of investments in agricultural improve ment—for safe these investments would not be were it not for the moderate and efficient corn-law of 1842. That law it is which has ruined the League and muzzled even our " fixed duty" friends. SEE iERIPTION FOR THE WINDOWS AND CHILDREN OF THE lIASWELL SUFFERERS.—SUNDERLAND, TUES DAY.—Upwards of 3,0001. has now been realised in aid of this benevolent object. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. CLERKEIV WELL. Yesterday, Elizabeth _Lewis, a tall woman, was charged by Mr. James Lewis, veterinary surgeon, of Long-yard, Lamb's-conduit-street, with stabbing him. The prisoner, who was charged on a warrant, was so violent towards Bayson, the officer, that he was compelled to convey her to the Court in a cabriolet. It appeared that the parties had been married for twelve years, and the defendant was addicted to in temperance, and disposed of property to indulge her propensity. On Sunday last complainant remon strated with her on the impropriety of her conduct, and the bad example she afforded to her children, when she seized a fork, and running towards the door, stabbed him in the back, and caused three wounds by its prongs. He turned round to reproach her, when she seized another fork and stabbed him under the right shoulder. She was secured, and wit ness was taken to the hospital, where his wounds were dressed. She had before maltreated him, and he felt his life to be in danger from her violence. The prisoner, in her defence said, the complainant abused her in a shameful manner. He struck her with a stick, and threw a chair at her. Complainant said, he held up the chair to save himself from the fork. He did not touch her before she stabbed him. He was still unier the hands of the surgeon. Mr. COMBE (to the prisoner)—You must be com mitted till Friday next. Prisoner (crying) —Oh, pray do not send me to prison ; do not disgrace me. Mr. COMBE—You should have thought of that be fore you used such a weapon.—She was then com mitted. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. John Parker, a labouring man, was yesterday brought before Mr. Maltby, by Lacy, the messenger of St. George's, Hanover-square, on a charge of having caused the death of his wife, by refusing to allow her sufficient support. The case was not gone into, as an inquiry before the Coroner is to take place. The short facts appear to be, that a suspicion arose some time ago that the deceased was kept in a starving state by her hus band. The parish authorities were applied to, and a warrant was issued against the husband for neglecting to supply his wife with proper maintenance. The woman died before the warrant was executed, and as an impression got abroad that her death had been accelerated by her husband's unfeeling conduct, the warrant was put in force, and the man was taken into custody. Mr. MALTBY directed the prisoner to be remanded until the result of the investigation before the Coroner was known. Captain William Breedon was charged with having committed an unprovoked assault on a gentleman named Falconer, living at No. 7, Wilton-street. The complainant said he was walking along the Haymarket at twelve o'clock last night, when he suddenly received a blow on his body from the de fenda,nt, who was a total stranger to him. The blow was so violent as to deprive him of his breath, and to cause considerable pain to him ever since. Mr. Willis, of No. 4, Trafalgar-square, saw the assault, which was premeditated and perfectly unpro voked. He had previously watched the defendant, who, as he passed along the street, menaced persons with his cane ; but he took special care to avoid any man whose bulk appeared likely to secure retaliation. The prisoner said he lived at Kennington. In :re ference to the assault, he merely said he had been quarrelling with his wife, and this had operated on his temper. He had no intention of assaulting the com plainant. Mr. MALTBY inflicted the full penalty of 51., or two months' imprisonment. UNION-HALL. Yesterday, Eliza Davis, late inmate of the Female Penitentiary at Pentonville, was brought up on re mand, charged with robbing William Wyatt, in the employ of a mercantile firm in the City. When the case was called on, Mr. Payne, the bar rister, said that since the previous examination, Mrs. Lane, the matron of the Penitentiary, had been com municated with, and she distinctly denied ever having had such a conversation with the prisoner as she al leged, with respect to a meeting in Bond-street to arrange matters. That Mrs. Lane was now in at tendance to disprove the assertion alluded to, if it was deemed necessary to ask her ; but that, under all the circumstances, Mr. Wyatt, the complainant, hail avowed he erred himself on the occasion in suffering himself to be entrapped by the prisoner into an um fortunate liason with her. Although it would be proved she had robbed him of the property, yet that he had no desire of proceeding with the charge, his main object being throughout to openly avow that he had not authorised her to take the various articles. As, however, the complainant admitted he h a d erre d himself on he occasion, he (the Learned Counsel) fully agreed that it was his best plan not to press the charge, unless the magistrate or the prisoner herself were desirous he should proceed with the prosecution. Mr. Payne then complained, on the part of his client, of an inaccuracy in the report of the previous examination in an evening paper, and copied into some morning journals, describing that the com plainant did not deny he had authorised the prisoner to take his property. So far from that being the case, the complainant throughout the whole proceedings de nied that he had ever given her such authority. Mr. 'num. having questioned the prisoner as to whether she wished the case to proceed or to have it withdrawn, and her answer being in accordance with the latter, she was therefore discharged. George Henry Brenton, an apothecary in Newport street, Lambeth-walk, was placed at the bar for exa mination, charged with assaulting and causing the death of Mary, his wife. The deceased's brother attended, and stated that the inquest was held on her body the preceding day, and that it was postponed with a view to have the attend ance of two gentlemen whose evidence would be likely to turn out of the utmost importance. Mr. TRAILL inquired if a post mortem examination had taken place, and the witness replied in the affirma tive, and at the same time handed in a certificate of two medical gentlemen, which declared that her death was attributable to disease of the lower portion of the spinal column, which appeared to have been produced by violence. Mr. TRAILL—Was there any testimony adduced of the lady having received any violence at the hands of the accused ? The witness, in reply, said there was none but that of the nurse, who heard the scuffling in the bedroom on the night of the alleged violence. The accused inquired if Mr. Fisher was present at the post mortem examination of his wife, that gentle man having attended her accouchement, and there fore qualified to describe her particular condition durin g that period, and the dangerous symptoms un der which she laboured, and which would account for her dissolution ?—The witness, in answer, said that the coroner had ordered the attendance of the gentleman alluded to; upon which the prisoner re quested that Mr. Jones might be summoned to attend, as he could also give some important testimony in the case. The prisoner was then remanded until Friday. WORSHIP -STREET. Yesterday Thomas Smith, alias Richard Sheldrich, who has been many times examined with Henry Mil h.r, Sarah Dewar, alias Miller, and the rest of a gang who have carried on a most extensive system of whiffling, was placed at the bar before \lr. Brough ton, upon a distinct charge of forgery. Mr. Michael Levy Green, and Ephraim Levy Green, his brother, clothiers, in Houndsditch, proved that early in September two persons, who called themselves George and James Truman, of Acton, or dered goods to the amount of 501., giving a reference to Mr. Dewar, 22, Ashford-street, • Hoxton, and Mr. Ephraim Green proceeding to that place to make in quiry, saw a girl, who said she was Mr. Dewar's (Lii,c.ihter, and that her father was out, but she went for him, and in a few minutes returned with the pri- .oner now at the bar, ‘vho, on being asked, said that his name was Henry Dewar, and spoke so highly of the two prisoners calling themselves Truman, that the 501. worth of goods were supplied, 201. being paid in cash, and the prisoner's acceptance taken for the remainder. On the 9th of September, a bill for 291. 18s. was accordingly drawn up in the presence of the prisoner, who accepted it in his assumed name of Dewar. It was not due till the 12th of November, but in the mean time the parties had disappeared, and the house was shut up, and the complainants being, a few days since, applied to by Sergeant Dubois, found the prisoner in custody at this Court in the name of Thomas Smith. The bill was produced, and the acceptance identified as having been written by the prisoner. Mr. Healey, of Newington-green, stated that he is owner of the house referred to at Hoxton, and in the month of July let it upon a written agreement for three years certain, to a person who then called him self Henry Dewar. That person, however, was not the prisoner now at the bar, but the other prisoner in custody, of the name of Henry Miller. The witness had never received any rent, and had lately regained possession of his house. The prisoner now said he did not deny what had been stated, but he handed in a letter and another paper, purporting to be a written authority to accept the bill in that name. Police-constable Wood, 277 N, proved that when he and the other officers were in possession of the house in llarvey-street, Hoxton, to which Miller and Sarah Dewar, who passed as his wife, were traced after they had decamped from Hammersmith, the prisoner now at the bar knocked at the door, and, seeing the witness there, became agitated, and said he wanted to see Mrs. Dewar. When told that he must be detained, he declared that he was a respect able tradesman at Mitcham, and his name Richard Apsell. An officer being dispatched to Mitcham without loss of time, found that the prisoner had re cently taken a house of business there, and obtained possession of a heap of letters and papers relating to the proceedings of the swindling gang in various other places. Mr. BROUGUTON said that, in his opinion, the charge now before him was a clear case of forgery, and he should remand the prisoner, to be ultimately com mitted upon that as well as the other cases. The prisoner was identified as having, in the year 1832, been committed from Worship-street to Now gate, with a person named Frost, for stealing a quan tity of wine andbrandy, which they had ordered from a house in the City. On that occasion he gave his name Richard Sheldrick, and he and Frost were trans ported for seven years, William Thompson, alias Johnson, with his wife and daughter, another party of the numerous gang of swindlers, were brought up for re-examination, and committed upon several charges, but remanded upon others. The male prisoner in this case was stated to have been before committed, and his son, Charles Jones, alias Fetch, alias Thompson, who is in custody at this Court upon a separate charge, has also been convicted and transported. Alfred Edwards, the young man who has been a considerable time in custody, and repeatedlyexamined upon a charge of having murdered Jane Gregory, by infusing poison in soma brandy and bitters that he had given her, was brought up yesterday for some additional evidence. The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Mur der" against the prisoner several weeks since, but the evidence was very defective, and last week the body was exhumed, and some of the viscera extracted fur further chemical analysis. Mr. Leeson, lecturer on chemistry at St. Thomas's Hospital, who had, in the first instance, extracted some metallic lead from the coats of the stomach, stated on Mondayithat in the kidneys he had, by the application of chemical tests, discovered what appeared to be minute traces of some combination of mercury and lead, but unless he could produce the metals them selves he would not positively affirm their presence. He stated yesterday, however, that he had since Mon day completed an analysis of a portion of the kidney, from which he obtained a distinct globule of mercury, and was now enabled to say positively that some pre paration of mercury and of lead had been taken by the deceased. These metals combined would cause death, and he had no doubt, under all the circum stances, that the deceased had died of poison. Mr. BROUQIITON said that, upon the Coroner's jury, the prisoner must be tried for murder, but it was such an important case, requiring such minute investiga tion, that it could not be properly prepared for trial at the present session, and he should therefore remand the prisoner until the next. The witnesses were bound over by the Coroner for the present session, but the Court would be moved for a postponement of the trial, and it was intimated that the law officers of the Crown would act for the prosecution. The prisoner, who seemed exceedingly dejected, vas then removed from the bar. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the 19th of October, 1E44." Tho Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar;General:— _ _ Weakly Total. Average of Five Years Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 226 178 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat B5 111 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 133 157 Liseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 35 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other CAUSES OF DEATH. Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, /cc Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, kc. L'iseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 4 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c . . 3 1 Old Age, or Natural Decay 63 71 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified Deaths from all Causes ... . . 895 946 Is VATILI FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER TIM ABOYB READS. Total. Consumption Scarlatina Pneumonia Dropsy ..... Hooping Cough ....... Typhus Small Pox 35 Disease of the Heart Measles Apoplexy Diseases of the Brain.. Diarrhoea.. Sudden Deaths DISTRICTS ..... 74 ~... 22 Weekly Average of Flva Tears. 147 34 79 West 145 138 North Central East . 180 207 South 245 242 Total ...... ..... 895 946 DICTIONAIRE NATIONAL FRANCAIS. - The lIIIITI hers which have already issued of this critical dictionary or the French language are sufficient to found upon them the judgment that, when completed, it will form not on'Jy a most valuable work, as comprising all the new and ae nowledged words introduced lately into the French tongue, but a repertory of the critical and analytical notes a all the other most esteemed dictionaries. M. Bosch Aine, the author, has evidently bestowed on it great labour and attention, as well as talent ; and his Majesty the King of the Frenck never showed greater judgment than when he took this great national literary work under his immediate patronage. The publishers, M. Sit son, Rue des Fosses du Temple I Paris, and Messrs. L. and A. Ber and Co. of Blenheim-street, in this city, have every reason to be satisfied with the suc cess of tLis undertaking. [An ERTISBAIENT.]—A NEVER-FAILING REMEDY. FOR AEA CASES OF SCURVY, SCORBUTIC HUMOURS, AND :'_;CROF UT .A, BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.— EXTRA C RDINARY CURE.—Henry Hill, now a footman to Lord 8., was lately discharged from the Duke of D.'s service in consequence of his having large scorbutic blotchesi all over his hands and face, to his great dis figurement. Fur twelve months he was treated by his master's::medical attendants, but to no purpose ; and the case wash at last declared incurable, and he was dis charged.. The poor fellow then, as a forlorn hope, summer iciai using Holloway's Pills and Ointment, which effectuany eradicated the disease from his blood in less than three weeks. Sold at Professor Holloway's Esta blishme.at, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable vendors of medi cine throughout the civilised world. DEAFNESS. TESTIIIIONIAL from John Sawyer, Esq., of Hay wood Lo( Ig e, Maidenhead, Berke, to Messrs. S. and B. Solo monv, 39., Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Gentlemen, having been deaf :Tor some time, I was induced, in the month of No vember, 1 . .839, to make trial of your Invisible Voice Conductors, and, altho tz,gh at my advanced age, at that time past my 77th year, I ha.l no hope of obtaining any relief, yet immediately I applied thin* I could hear the general conversation, and my hearing h: t:; become so much improved by their use, that I can now hear :tutely without their aid. I am, Gentlemen, your most obedi ont servant, J. Sawyer. 22d June, lB42.—Frem the late He •nry Cowper, Esq., of Tewen Waters, Herts, to Messrs, S. rand B. Solomon, : —Gentlemen, having been deaf for many ;rears, I was induced to try your Invisible Voice Conductors.. They enable me to hear persons in company, and at a p'ta re of worship most distinctly. The Spectacles and Ilandglass which you have sent me are very excellent, and suit my sight perfectly', the transparency of which is so bril liant, that: although f have passed my 86th year the 22d of May last, ye t they enable me to read, and by candle-light, with the greatest ease and comf or t t o myse lf . I return you ray best thanks, and remain your obedient servant, Henry Cow 22d June,. 1839. —Telescopes, Opera Glaser, Micro:o r :4NT &c. of the sa me kind of Lenses.—Caution. —Messrs. S. and B. 184-' lomons, OLiticians and A urists, arc not in any way connected with a person of the same name in their immediate neighbourhood. Nor n any part of the country. To prevent mistakes, be eau tioui, and ~..`bserve,—Only to be had at 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, of .petite the York Hotel. QUOITL G ENGLAND V. SCOTLAND. —On Wed nesday the. :return match between two English and two Scottish pi:Ayers, for 100/. a-side, carne off at Shrews.. lorry. 'Cite day being fine, there was a great gathering of the " fancy," the match having excited considerable interest in. the sporting world. After a contest, which at no time• could be characterised as keen, owing to the marked s aperiority of Messrs. Dunlop, Pollockshaws, and Turn' astll, Parkhead, the Scottish players—the re sult was as: follows:—Scotland, 61; England, 33; majo rity for Scot land, 28.—Scotch Paper. The Sec retary of State has just appointed Mr. Richard who has been for many years messenger to the snag istrates at Clerkenwell Police-court, to the post of fie Col Id usher there. Baylis is an active, efficient, and obligir.g officer, and every way entitled to promo tion. Both' magistrates warmly interfered in Baylis's behalf.— Correspondent. LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SHOW. (Abridged from the Liverpool Courier cf Wednesday.) Yesterday the annual exhibition of stock and im plements took place at the usual locality, at the back of Roscommon-street. The exhibition, as a whole, was considered the most satisfactory of any that has yet occurred in the annals of the soc i e ty, f or , although not so extensive in the aggregate, by any means, as some that have preceded it, yet in all essen tial particulars it has been pronounced by competent judges to be the best as indicative of th e genera l prosperity of the association, and of devotion to its more immediate objects, of any that have yet taken place. The day was one of the finest we have witnessed for a long time past, and the attendance was such as might have been expected from a combination of salubrious weather, and the evident desire to impart the greatest eclat to such a gathering. Almost all the noblemen and gentlemen whose names we have commented on in our account of the dinner were present, and took a very lively interest in the proceedi ngs , no t on ly as regards the immediate affairs of the society, but as respects the individual circumstances connected with this display. We are happy to be enabled to state that the exli; bition of stock, though not by any means as we could desire, was yet so large as to corroborate the opinion originally expressed—namely, that this locality would bear away the palm in any competition throughout the country. The bulls were first-rate. The cows also were of excellent quality and condition. The pigs and sheep were generally above the average de scription. The show of implements was not very numerous, nor did we observe any very material im provements beyond those we witnessed last season. A dinner took place in the evening, at which Lord Stanley presided. He was surrounded by a nume• rous group of agriculturists and some manufacturers. After the usual loyal toasts, Lord STANLEY gave the prinelpal toast of the evening—" Prosperity to the Liverpool Agricultural Association." I feel it unne cessary (said his Lordship), to express the satisfaction I feel at seeing myself surrounded by so numerous and respectable an assemblage, gathered together to do honour to the institution the anniversary of which we are engaged in celebrating, and also, I would fain hope, to bear, by their presence, their testimony to the merits of this and similar institutions, in pro moting the important objects they are designed to serve. These objects are of a two-fold charac ter, not only important as they tend to increase the facilities and to increase the cheapness of cultivating the soil of this country and rendering it more adequate to meet the daily increasing wants of a rapidly augmenting population, by the applica tion of improved science and art to the limited sur face of the earth over which we have command, but still more important in their bearing upon our social relations, bringing together all classes of the comma nity—(Elear.)—landlords, tenants, of a higher and lower class, and even the labouring classes, also, and combined, as lam happy to see them on this and similar occasions, in this locality, with representa tives of the great manufacturing, mercantile, and trading classes.—(Cheers.) In every quarter f the kingdom we find, within the last few years, societies similar to this have been springing up, and agricul ture is partaking of the great movement which has been pervading all the industrial branches of this country. Farmers are finding out that it is neces sary for them with a view to their own interests, to take a very different course from that which was lowed by their grandfathers and great grandfathers.— (Hear.) In these days no man is allowed to stand still. Improvement must go on. And if I look at our own immediate neighbourhood, and compare the position in which we stand, defective as we still are, and having much to learn and much to improve in— yet whether I look at the farmer's stock, his mode of cultivation, or his desire for improvement and amelioration, and compare the state of things now with what it was when, fourteen years ago, I first had the honour of occupying the chair of this society, I hope I am not assuming too much when I say, that to the constant meetings and constant intercourse carried on between different classes by means of this society, much of that improvement is to be traced which no man with an eye in his head can deny has taken place, and which is most gratifying to those whose interests, like mine, are bound up with the welfare of the agri culture of this district.—(Hear, and cheers.) Even within the last few years, within a much shorter time than that which I have named, within the last four or five years, I see strides which, small as they may be compared with what might be done, are gigantic when compared with what was done before. I think it is not more than four or five years ago, that at a meet ing of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, I first noticed as a novelty of a singular character a new manure known as guano, andrecommended to the agri culturists of England.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) If I am not misinformed, from this single port of Liverpool there have gone out, within this single year, no less than 150 vessels, chartered expressly for the purpose of importing this, then unknown, manure for the improvement of the agri culture of the country. It is not alone, however, in matters like this that we see the usefulness of these societies. I look for much more extended and per manent improvement from their operation. Every where I see old, useless fences disappearing, fields en larging, improved modes of cultivation adopted ; and I see going on with immense rapidity that which I must a impress upon you who a re connec t e d the basis of all improvement —deep a n d with hin the and lan ag d a i i s n thorough drainage of the land; and not here alone, but throughout all England, I see most remarkably, as any one, indeed, may do, even though whirled through the country at the railway speed at which we are now carried, what an extent of improvement has been effected in this respect. Every one is struck with the appearance of preparation for future exertions, which are, at the same time, the token of well de served success. Some of the old farmers of this country —I mean the real old class----(A laugh)—shrug their shoulders and say, " What is the need of all this stir about improvement, and making the land grow so much more ?" By the bye, it is not so much making it grow more as making it grow different crops — making it grow wheat instead of weeds.—(Hear, hear.) But some say, " What is the use of all this ? It is not a question for the farmer. We shall only have our rents increased the more productive land is." Such an argument, allow me to say, is the very climax of absurdity. To use a very homely phrase, it is " cutting off one's own nose to spite one's face." " Why should I undertake an improvement because my landlord will benefit by it ?" appears to me a very inconclusive and absurd argument. lam not here to dispute the fact, that every improvement in value,, every addition by science to the productive power of the land, everything which adds to its fertility, must, in the long run, be an advantage to those in whom the fee-simple is vested. But the question is, at the same time, that if it is an advantage to the landlord, is it not also an advantage to the farmer who occupies the land, and makes his livelihood out of it ? I ask na man to undertake an improvement if his own good sense does not lead him to do it. I ask no man to apply any improved mode of cultivation if it does not appear that his own individual advantage would be promoted by so doing. But when farmers argue, that because at the expiration of their tenancy their rents may be increased, it is not worth while to adopt improve ments, I must say they take a very short-sighted view of their own interests, and must think their landlords very great fools and blockheads. They must go on the presumption that although he sees his land might be made more productive, he will be satisfied, for the purpose of seeing his own rents low, to allow a slovenly tenant to go on in his slovenly courses.—(Hear, hear.) The landlord would be as short-sighted as the tenant, if he could take such a view as this. But again I say I want the tenant not to undertake any improvement that will not repay him, capital, interest, and profit, during his occu pation of the land.—(Loud cheers.) This brings me to another question—as to the degree to which it is desirable or important that the practice should prevail of holding lands by lease. I speak, I know, in the presence of a Noble Friend of mine, and every man who knows him is aware that there is not a kinder or a better landlord, or a warmer friend to his tenants and neighbours, than my Noble Fr iend on my left, the Earl of Sefton. — (Much applause, the Noble Earl rising and bowing to his Lo rdshi p and the company.) .1 know also it is not m y Noble Friend's prantice to let his farms on lease. The great majority of his tenants are tenants from year to year, with such entire and perfect confidence in the honour and integrity of their landlord, that I do not believe that the fact of their havii:g no lease operates dis advantageously in any individi2l ca se. But this I say, and as one connected with the lan e I feel m y self bound to say it, that a landlord has no right fa expect any great and permanent improvement of his 3ana the tenant, unless that tenant be secured the repay ment of his outlay, not by tha,personal character or honour of his landlord, but b' a security which no casualties can interfere with—the security granted him by the terms of a lease for years.—(Applause.) I do net speak of a lease for lives. In my expe rience, with some exceptions, wherever I have found fields badly cultivated, and buildings dilapidated, I have found that the property is held under a life lease. —(Laughter, and much applause.) I speak of a tenant who is prepared to join his capital, and to go hand in hand with his landlord, in the improvement of the farm. The greater the improvement you ex pect, the greater ought to be the lease you give. I consider it unjust, if you call for improvement, not to give to the tenant the moral certainty that the im provement he effects shall repay him during the course of his lease for the expense he incurs.— (Hear.) But, gentlemen, I am not speaking now except that of which I am practically conversant with, and given proofs of my adherence to in practice. I allude especially to that whic h, a ga in I repeat, is the basis of all improvement , and es pecially in this country the thorough draining of the soil. And I repeat what I have already said on a former occasion in this room, that there is no investment in the world in which a landlord can so safely, so usefully, or so profitably invest his capital, as in the improvement of his own farm, by money sunk in draining, on security of the land which be longs to himself.—(Hear, and cheers.) I think I give you a tolerably practical proof of my conviction on this point when I say—and I say it not for the purpose of boasting of what has been done, but of encouraging others to follow the example, when I say, that on my father's property in this neighbour hood there has been laid down at his expense, and charging five per eat. interest to the tenants, which I believe they most gladly and willingly acknowledge they have over and over again received the benefit of—in this last year we have laid down in deep draining somewhere about three hundred miles of drains, at an expense of between 5,0001. and 6,0001., and I think employed about a million and a-half of draining tiles. By the arrangement I recommend for this purpose both parties are benefited : the landlord receives an ample return for his outlay. I be lieve, on the whole, I am in a position to con gratulate you on the present state of this society. I hope the period of its depression is already passed. Undoubtedly it has been subject to some vicissitudes, and experienced some losses; and two or three years ago, it became involved in debts from which some ex ertions were necessary to relieve it. I have the satis faction of saying that these are paid off; and although that object has been effected by a reduction of some of the premiums, and thereby, in some degree, the sphere of the society's usefulness has been curtailed, yet we have every reasonable prospect of the income of the society equalling its expenditure. With these observations, and thanking you for the patience with which you have listened to the remarks of one very little competent to address you on such subjects, I beg of you to join me, as I feel you will do cordially and heartily, in drinking " Prosperity and success to the Liverpool Agricultural Society." The Earl of SEFTON proposed the health of the " Earl of Derby," with three times three. The call was most readily responded to, and the toast drunk. Lord STANLEY returned thanks, and after some other toasts and speeches, the meeting broke up. WEST SURREY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. THE ALLOTMENT SYSTEM. GODALMING, WEDNESDAY.—The annual meeting of this association took place to-day, at the Red Lion, Godalming. J. M. Molyneux, Esq., took the chair. There were also present Mr. Trotter, M P., Mr. Mangles, M.P., Messrs. Drummond, Leach, Currie, Lieut. Wood, R.N., the Rey. Mr. Boys, and a num ber of other gentlemen of the neighbourhood; and nearly 200 of the principal farmers belonging to this division of the county. The usual loyal toasts were given and responded to. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the " Lord-Lieute nant and Magistracy of the county." Mr. DRUMMOND, in returning thanks, said, that at present a great deal of talk was made about giving scientific information to farmers, but he must confess that he did not place much faith in it ; and, in his opinion, the only important question for the farmers was how to make a dunghill.—(A laugh.) Genuine philosophers had devoted their attention to instruct ing farmers in their business, and a number of ways were found out how they were to improve their land, but they forgot altogether where the money was to come from. The farmers had no money to spare, and it was useless to tell them to lay out 1001., unless they could, at the same time, show how they were to get the money back. In his opinion, these universal remedies were of no use whatever; and he was satis fied there was a limit to the productiveness of the soil beyond which it was useless for them to attempt to proceed ; and that this limit they had almost, if not quite arrived at, and, consequently, all their expendi ture in guano, and the other new-fashioned measures that had of late been introduced, would be entirely thrown away. G. T. Nicnorsost, Esq., proposed the healths of the "Members for that division of the County," and in the course of his address he said that he hoped, before long, the large quantities of waste land that existed in Surrey would be made use of, and that it would be made a means of employing the labouring popu lation. He agreed with Mr. Drummond that they ought not to rely upon one general specific, but still he could not think that there was a limit to the pro • ductiveness of the earth, or if there was, that they had yet arrived near to it. He must admit that the present condition of the agricultural population was calculated to give great pain and uneasiness. Every day it happened to him that men of good character— men of strong sinews, willing and anxious to work, came and implored him to give them employment, and he was unable to find it for them. He felt deeply for them, and he considered it to be his duty, and that of every man, to endeavour to do away with such a distressing state of things.—(Hear, hear.) Much, in his opinion, would be done by improvements in agriculture, which would cause a demand for labour ; and as associations of this description tended to effect that object, he had great pleasure in sup porting them, and he trusted that some means would speedily be devised to rescue agriculture from its present depressed condition, and to improve the con dition of the labouring classes. He concluded by proposing the healths of the Members. Mr. TROTTER, in returning thanks, apologised for the absence of Mr. Denison, who had been in very bad health, and who was at present in Yorkshire ; but he had desired him (Mr. Trotter) to express his regret that he was unable to be among them. As for himself, they had heard him so often that he really felt unable to say anything new to them, and he would only assure them that be felt a pride in sup porting, by every means in his power, the agricul tural interest ; and he trusted that meetings of this kind would go on and flourish, and that each suc ceeding year there would be a better understanding between landlords, tenants, and labourers.—(Hea r , hear.) Some portions of the press had attempted to cast a slur upon these meetings, and had attempted to insinuate that the promoters of them were actuated by unworthy and selfish objects, but he would say, in answer, let them look at the meetings in Surrey, and the results that had arisen from them, and say whe ther they were sincere. —(Cheers.) lie did not con sider that the proceedings of these associations should be merely theoretical. They ought to be practical ; and he considered it was the duty of the landlords to assist the farmers in their attempts at improvement, and that landlords and tenants should go hand in hand together.—(Cheers.) He was deeply anxious to improve the condition of the labourer. He believed the English labourer to be naturally grateful and kind-hearted, and if he was properly treated, he would exert himself for his em ployer. For his own part, he respected as much as any man the honest agricultural labourer, and all who knew him were aware that he would pay as much attention to the complaint of the poor labourer, and speak to him with as much pleasure, as he would to a lord, and that no one would do more than himself to endeavour to make him a happier and a better man. The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of " John Leach, Esq., of Lee."—(Cheers.) Mr. LEACH, who is a very aged man, in rising to return thanks, was loudly cheered. After , some pre liminary observations, he expressed his opinion that it was the duty of every one to endeavour to rescue the agricultural interest from its present depressed condi tion, as every one who had the means which they had of knowing the condition of the poor of England, must feel that they were in a most distressed and miserable state, from which it was the duty of every man to endeavour to relieve them. He admitted that it was difficult to say what should be done, but still they should endea vour to do something. He could not himself be cer tain to live beyond a single day, but he did think that some of those around him would live to see the pea • santry of this country restored to that condition which entitled them to be considered the pride and boast of England.—(Hear, hear.) He was afraid that the labourers had not the same feelings at the present time that they had formerly, and he would relate one fact that had come under his own observa tion, bearing upon this point. One of his own labourers, named Jonathan Chilton, had brought up a family of ten children without any parochial relief. He was, however, attacked by a. serious illness, and the doctor's bill came to 201. The man came to him and told him he did not know how he should ever pay the amount. He told him, in reply, that he thought the parish ought to pay it, and the answer that he re ceived was, that he would not receive one farthing from the parish. Upon this he (Mr. Leach) went to Lord Middleton, his neighbour, and several other gentleme n , an d mentioned t hel circum stances, and they all willingly subscribed, and before he got home he found he had not only money enough to pay the poor man's bill, but had also a balance to give him ; and he assured them he felt great pleasure in rendering this assistance to an honest, worthy labourer. The CHAIRMAN then proposed " the Healths of the Judges of the Ploughing, Messrs. Giles, Taylor , an d Turner," and he said th a t f rom th e general excellen ce of the ploughing they must have had very greaf dfi ficulty in making their award. Mr. GILES returned thanks. The ploughmen were here introduced, and the CHAIRMAN, having made some appropriate remarks , handed over to them th e diff erent prizes to whic h they were entitled. Mr. C. DAVISON next proposed the " Health of Col. Sumner, and success to the Surrey Union foxhounds." Mr. CURRIE then gave the " Health of the tenant farmers of Surrey," and said that, bei ng a tenant farmer himself, he was we ll aware o f the difficulties they had to contend with. They had in many parts of that county especially a very poor soil, very small farms, and veryllttlo money in their pockets.—(Hear, and a laugh.) Still, however, they had good land lords; and although he must admit that at present they were in a desponding state, yet he did not despair, and he believed that with th e ass i s t ance o f the landlords they might still struggle successfully with the difficulties they had to encounter. They had reason to be proud of their county, for it was well known that in Mark-lane some descriptions of Surrey wheat fetched higher prices than any other that was grown in the kingdom. He had no doubt that very great good yet remained to be done, and that draining, if extensively carried out, with the có operation of the landlord, would alone go a great way to find employment for the labouring population. He begged them to remember that the winter was rapidly approaching, and he begged them all to exert them selves .in behalf of the poor man, and endeavour to' find him employment, and keep him from the union workhouse. He regretted to observe the tone of de spondency that appeared to prevail, but he trusted that by perseverance the agricultural interest would soon be enabled to better its condition.—(Cheers.) Mr. MANGLES, M.P., next rose, and proposed the "Health ofthe Agricultural Labourers,"and he assured the meeting that he spoke sincerely when he expressed his opinion that this might be considered the toast of the evening. He felt great difficulty in addressing the meeting upon the subject to which he had in tended to allude, viz., the allotment system ; not merely on account of the difference of opinion that prevailed respecting it, but that in the course of the evening he had been alluded to, and represented as having made it his particular study. He could not say that he had done this, but he had no hesitation in stating that it was a subject of great interest to him, as connected with the welfare of the agricultural labourer. He did feel that the owed a deep debt of gratitude to the agricultural labourer—a debt of which only a very small portion . had been dis charged, and of which much remained unpaid.— (Hear.) When he visited this class in their cot tages, and saw their miserable condition, and the privations they endured, while surrounded by: persons enjoying every comfort and luxury, he must say that he could not help honouring their honesty, their in tegrity, and their forbearance. He thought the time was come when they ought not to be satisfied with mere professions in their behalf, and giving them re wards' and expressing sympathy for their con diti on , but that some practical exertions should be made to benefit their condition. He was sure they would allow that their noble neighbour, Lord John Russell, had never said a truer word than when he stated that, looking at the increase of the wealth and luxuries of the country, without looking into the causes of the result, it was impossible to deny that the agricultural labourer had not advanced in physical comforts in proportion with the rest of the community. He was not one of those who considered that the insti tutions of olden times were necessarily better than the present; and he did not mean to sug gest that the labourer was any worse off now than he was formerly, but certainly his condition had not improved in the same proportion as the other classes of the community. He agreed with Mr. Drummond that it was not likely that one general remedy should succeed, but he did think that means might be devised by which the sufferings and priva tions of the agricultural labourer might be alleviated, and his condition improved. He would not go into the various subjects that had been mentioned as likely to effect this, but should confine himself to one mat ter—the allotment system, by which, if fully carried out, he believed the condition of the agricultural population would be very much improved. At the same time he wished it to be understood that it was his opinion the system should be carried out judi ciously, and with the concurrence of the higher classes. He would not give the labourer enough of land to make him independent of the wages of labour, but the latter should always be considered as the principal, and the allotment merely as a resource to fall back upon when overtaken by sickness, or being out of work ; and he begged it to be distinctly understood that he did not at all desire to increase the farmer's field for the demand of labour. He must, at the same time, observe, that there never was a system which had more obtained the general sanction of all classes, and he did not be lieve that the allotment system had failed in any one instance where it had been tried, whether in York shire, Sussex, or this county, where it had been car ried out very extensively by Colonel Sumner, who spoke in the most favourable manner of the result. He held in his hand the details of some most surpris ing crops that had been grown by the labourers. These documents had been furnished him by Mr. Drummond, and he must say, that they appeared en tirely to refute his own argument—that there was a limit to the power of the production of the soil. There could be very little doubt that the system would have the effect of improving the physical condition of the labourer. At present, he was not suffi ciently fed, and they all knew that, if a man was under-fed, he could not work.— (Hear, hear.) He knew of one case where a labourer had been doing the intense work and exer tion of mowing upon bread and water, and he put it to them whether such a state of things ought to con tinue. He thought there could be very little doubt that giving a small portion of land to a labourer very much tended to improve his moral condition, and he knew several cases where desperate poachers, and even suspected highway robbers, had been reclaimed by being put in possession of a portion of land on which they could occupy themselves, and be induced to feel that they had some stake in society. This being the case, he did entreat them not to submit to the taunts that were thrown upon them, and to show that it was not true, as was asserted by a portion of the daily press, that the agriculturists said everything and did nothing. Let them commence a plan for in troducing the allotment system into every parish of the county, and he was sure that if they put their shoulders to the wheel the task would be effected. He should propose that a committee be formed for the purpose of establishing the allotment system throughout the county, and he should be happy to give both his time and his money in further ance of the object. He suggested that commu nications should be opened with the clergymen of every parish, with a view to ascertain the extent of land that would be available for the purposes of the allotments, and that the tenants and the proprietors be requested to co-operate with the committee in carrying out their views. The Hon. Member con cluded by stating that he would render all the assist ance in his power to carry out the allotment system fully throughout the county. Mr. DRUMMOND begged permission to be allowed to say a few words in answer to what had been stated by the Hone Member. He had tried the allotment system twenty-five years, and therefore ought to know something about it. He allowed his labourers to have as much land as they could cultivate with their own spade, and although certainly it had been the means of giving them some additional comforts, yet in his opinion it had produced no public good or benefit whatever. He was at the same time, however, quite ready to lend his assistance to Mr. Mangles in his endeavour to carry out the experiment on a more extended scale. In his opinion the great difficulty they had to con tend with was improvident marriages among the la bouring population ; and he did not believe that in France, or in any other country in the world, the labourer contracted a marriage a s h e did in England, without having any means to provide for either his wife or his family. He knew of a ease recently where a boy of 19 married a girl ofl6, on the Wed nesday; he had but ten shillings, which were spent on the Thursday and Friday, and on the Saturday they both went into the union workhouse, to be passed to their several parishes. The healths of the Mayor of Godalming, and of Messrs. Rand and Marshall, the Secretaries of the Association, were then proposed and responded to , after which the meeting broke up. SCOTCH BANKING. The understood intention of the head of the Go vernment to interfere, by means of a legislative mea sure, with the currency and banking system in Scotland, has excited a feeling of apprehension as general and as strong as when a similar attempt was made eighteen years ago, the overthrow of which was chiefly attributable to the caustic letters of Malachi Malagrowther, the nom de guerre assumed by Sir Walter Scott. Meetings have been held, and remonstrances carried with unanimity, in every part of the kingdom. A considerable number of the most influential counties—Edinburgh, Lanark, Perth, Forfar, Aberdeen, Moray, Inverness, Caith ness, &c., have already taken up the sub ject, and passed resolutions condemnatory of the threatened interference. Town Councils, Cham bers of Commerce, and other public bodies, have also recorded their disapproval of the Government propo sition ; so that we may venture to hope the Premier will see the wisdom of withdrawing his intention, in the face of such overwhelming manifestations of re sistance. No Ministry, however strong, can with safety provoke the hostility of a whole nation; even were the questiop one of far less importance than the abolition or alteration of a Fong-cherished system, the working of which has been found by the ex perience of nearly two centuries to be unexception able and satisfactory, adapted to the habits of the people, and conducive to the prosperity of the country. I'he arguments against the proposed change, stated from the press and the platform, are so cogent, so convincing, that we presume to think, when deli berately considered, their force must appear irre- SiMible. The dangers and disadvantages of tampering with our currency, and the proposal to do away with the circulation of one-pound notes, were clearly and powerfully set forth in the series of resolutions passed by the Chamber of Commerce at Glasgow about a month ago, as well as in those submitted by Sir Jas. Gibson Craig to the county of Edinburgh, and more recently by the Merchant Company at their meeting yesterday. At a similar meeting of meycliants and ingrinfaetnrers in Dundee op the pth instant, one of the speakers gave a luminous explanation of the poei. - - tion of the currency question as affecting t h e v arious interests of the country, and pointed out the ruinou s consequences which must result to those ante' rests, by meddli ng w ith a sys t em w hich haa„, he effectually answered the purposes of commerce. over-issue of notes in Scotland is guarded again st by the checks which have been established by 1 - 1 ;, system of exchanges ; and were bankers to be 1. . 0 stricted in the issue of their notes, as is the case i n England, the facilities now afforded by cash credits and discounts must be limited or withdrawn, mole fatal injury wou ld th us b e i n fli cte d upon the 4 industrial e conom y o f soc i e t y . Th e ques ti on does p et affect banking interests alone ; it is mixed up ind i r t s,,lubly with every department of public business., applies equally to the a gr i cu lt ura l, th e ma nufacturiu.P the commercial, and shipping interests. The 01 trade of the cou n t r y wou ld b e e ff ec t e d b y it, and all this without conferring a single benefit on ane n t : • terest or any class wh a t ever . W ou ld it b e pr udent , then, in the Gov ernmen t t o urge th e i r measu re in he teeth of such palpable mischief, such unanimons, re4 monstrance ?—Edinburgh Ad ver ti ser (T o ry paper)* RUSSIAN DISASTERS IN DAG: HISTAN. (From the Malta Times of Oct. 1.) The following extract from the letter of a travelle r in Georgia will give some idea of the results of the late Russian ca m p a i gn i n D ag hi stan. E ver y rell' ante may be placed upon the impartiality of the BC. count : "It was publicly announce d , a few days ago, t h at t the campaign in Daghistan had terminated, and tu, o 9 the troops are i mme di a t e l y to be withdrawn irD winter quarters. V ar i ous rumours of victor i es b a te been circulated in Tifli s , an d t h ere i s no dou bt tial , l in a province s o genera ll y di saffected as Georg i a , it is highly necessary th a t th e G overnment should con"; tenance any favour a bl e i mpress i on. It has clVie so by many official decl ara ti ons, an d by s O ffi ce r bestowal of hono urs an d rewards upon various employed in the exp e diti on . I must admit, however' that all those who are acquainted with the nature: i. recent events in the mountains, and even many It, tary men of emi nence , con f ess that the campaign `„," not only been fr u itl ess , b ut that the want of suav''' will, probably hereafter, lead to very disastrous r e : sults. This is already evident from the serious 0 2 5 1 ; understanding w hi c h ex i sts between the Ras ' a° from the general discontent which r e : vails amongst the troops, from the frequent deserti°% and from the extension of the rebellion to va,r i r tc , tribes, which h ave hi t h erto b een considered faithful is the Imperial G overnment. As the secrecy, which invariably obse rve d b y t h e Russian authorities, P chides the possibility of obtaining any auene3.l3 details of th e war , t h e following sketch must farn is a you with a general idea of its great importance, o n of its results : " You are p ro b a bl y aware that it was O n Of° Y s e' years ago th a t th e R uss i an Government became riously alarmed at the revolt of the mountainous P re , vince of D ag hi s t an. T h i s province, you mot member, is not to be confounded with Circassia, at o believe, it freque n tly i s i n E urope. Circass i a never submitted to Russia, and has opposed the '?", gress of her arms for many years. Daghistan is asnj go siderably to the east o f i n d ependent Circassia, ad has acknowled ge d, lik e ot h er parts of Georgia, wes supremacy of Russia. The reve,ii, in 1842, of headed by one Sh am il B ey, who had l on g previa° 0 , been end eavour i ng to league the mountaineer against th e i r nort h ern rulers. This chief 710 been partly e d uca t e d i n the Russian capital, a i nd f p of consequently acquired some i ns i ght into the n ature, Russian policy. He was known to be a man ofsupe .oe abilities and of grea t personal courage, and to cos 'of a very considerable influence amongst the . trihes do Daghistan. A re b e lli on headed by such a let r e was, of course, ex t reme l y formidable. Last Y ea r vigorous atte m pt was ma d e b y the Russian Gaceeost molt to suppress it, b u t t h e expedition sent alio, Shamil Bey was c omp l e t e l y d e f eated, with great not This chief, aft er th e retreat o f the Russian trooP a l satisfied with their expulsion from Daghistan, car i , r b i his arms i n t o th e ne i g hb ouring provinces, to' . assault several fort resses , an d a l most comp letel9,ino tercepted the great lines of communication beta ke the norther n an d sout h ern parts of Georgia. In ere spring of this year preparations on a vast sc ale 0 0 d made by the Government to effect the subraiss i ° o l% Shamil Hey, and t o restore tranquillity to the tested province. It was even reported that the o,o r peror himself woul d either be present in the camPaigsine would in person i nspec t t h e troops, and dater' since the plan of op era ti ons . N o one doubted the slic:- of an expediti on o f suc h magn i tude, in wh i c h a cos paratively paratively small b o d y o f rude moun taine ers 0 1 matched against more th an 50,000 d i sc i p lined e experienced troops. It was even expected that r o very report o f so l arge an armament would ansi: if the immedi a t e su b m i ss i on of the rebels. Eveutn, the chief comman d was con f erred upon General Seled hart, the three divisions of the army being Pi°, under General s Leiders, Gourko, and Dolgourou / W t It was decid e d th a t the invasion should be made s o three different points, an d th e di str i ct of Awour i a L chosen as the most. vulnerable place of attack. Russ troops campaign was o p ene d i n t h e spr i ng. The Rnastbe troops advanced w ith ou t muc h opposition. It wa s policy of Shamil B ey t o avo id a battle, to retreat veo fore the enemy, carry i ng o ff w i t h h i m the i n halAss i bi of the country, an d t o h arass t h e Russian army; by attacking its flank and rear d ur i ng i ts march, and cutting off its s u ppli es . Th e mode of warfare, trev, bined with th e natural difficulties o f th e country' soon checked the progress of the invaders, and r_ l o , them in very serious difficulties. In August, alt a° %. the various corps d'armee had formed a junction, a ro cording to the original plan, and although ! ci te ? slight advantages had been gained, no material whatsoever had been made towards the effectual Ina fication of the p rov i nce. Supplies and forage °n be be soon wanti ng —th e troops suffered the sever of privations, and th e army h ad lost the greater par 50 .. its horses. Ma n y d esert i ons ensued, and a Co of quent very materi a l augmentation of the fornlich Shamil Bey, parti cu l ar l y o f his artillery, to vv Europeans were essential. At length a general e L e " d, cil of war was h e ld at G eneral Neidhart's nr.'ishs quarters, in which it was resolved to ahanotol t , ;be campaign for thi s year, to evacuate wait 01 -de, places recently occupied, to build one, or two t he Cached forts on the frontiers, and to withdraw troops for the winter. 0 " The failure of the expedl'clon is attribut ed ati a much to the incapacity of the Russian Generals 7 0 , to their mutual jealous!es as to the courage and c o t duct of Shamil Bey. It is certain, however, " 10 5 throughout the campaign the mountain c hief fl a shown a consummate military skill. His Pe i r s l o r gallantry and daring have merited even the an i t, s o tion of his enemies. lam informed, that on more ( 1 one occasion, at the head of one or two thou men, he forced his way through the Russian " The result of the retreat of the Russian ihr c ;ich—, already vi s ibl e among the Georgian tribes, vv"rpe are naturally 'disaffected to th e Russian 6 1 by' • ment, and whose submissi on i s on l y secure" 00, fear. The successes of Shamil Bey will W ei l rage them i n th row i ng off the yoke, and .1113. bes have alre a dy j o i ne d hi s standard. Should all the triw, of the Caucasus, including the Circassians, ac kno e# ledge Sh am il B ey as their chief, and place themse . . ic ,i s a under his dire c ti on , t h e power of Russia in GeTiai.4 will probably b e most materially shaken. As es chief is a Mussulman, it is generally believed that ~ be, has preached a kind of religious crusade agains t hie his Christians, and that it is the pretended sanctity 0 . ;01 character as a Shiek which constitutes his oily ,c 1 707 to the sympathies of the mountaineers ; but I , ee t, assured, by a person well informed upon the su L b l re if that such is not the case and that he relies entirely upon his military fame, and upon the universal dete s . Lao . tion of Russia n ru l e w hi c h reigns amongst the Ow' of the Caucasus. Wil l " The account w hi c h I h ave given you shove et, prove the impossibility of explozing, for the re° at least, the mountains of Georgia.' BIRTHS. On the 16th i ns t., at Loudoun House, St. John , s "'' rod' Mrs. Ogle, o f a son . t er• On the 20th inst., at Matfen, Lady Blackett, of a long..le On the 21st inst., at Southampton, the wife of Comm A. L. Montgomery, R.N., of a daughter. the 'm e ° I On the 21a inst at Marine-square, Brighton, Allan Maclean Skinner, Esq., of a dauhter. On the 22c1 inst., in Ebury- s t ree t, Eaton-square, 'ffl- frs. 11.. Leggatt, o f a son. J. lir' On the 22d i nst., at I lam Hall, Stafford, the lady of Russell, Esq., of a son. On the 18th inst., the Countess of Sandwich, of a s°l--1- 1 .. On the 10th inst., at St. Mary MARRIED Church, Thetfork „ero col l 4 t Mr. James Asprey, of Sandleford-villa, Newbury, 1 : 4 . 6 0 for Sarah, only child of the late Joseph Gifford, Esq., ° I mer place. v e nt T /TWO On the 22d inst., at Stepney Old Church, Mr. .a — „lay* eldest son of Mr. Bell, Finch-lane, Cornhill, to G e f _T o T i se• youngest daughter of Mr. Bland, Garraway's Coffee DIED f wti le On the 2Sth of Maylast, at Sydney, New Sou th v s q, Emily Agnes Elliot, third daughter of Elliott, late of Great Ormond -street, Bloomsbury. A .°ies C ' On the 9th inst., at Brussels, Anne, the wife 01 'i liar Alder, Esq., of Cosham Lodge Hants. Bright°l/' On the 18th inst., at the , Gloucester Hotel, Colonel William Spearman, aged 69.. n Estl' t On the 20th inst., at Neston, Cheshire, Joseph LY„, ° ,,„ r ' ear" On the 22d inst., at Wevertree-road, Edgehill, su"''' infant daughter of Mr. Robert Browne. ur of ciao On the 22d inst., Edwin Henry, sixth child of -.Le Mary Simms, of the Old Kent-road. 11.113 ‘ tThheo2m2adsinysatilopat, E R N am ., sg of ate o , n T do h n o . mas, second snrvi J' A' sol O io n f On the 2%1 inst., at Lower Edmonton, Middlesex, Chappell, Esq., aged 74. rr ie t Ger On the 23d in..tt., in Low er B e l grave - s t ree t, ,-. TT 11-- trude, third daughter of W. Griffith, Esq., surgeon. k.ter o On the 23d inst., at Blackheath, Fanny Maria, & i g , the lute J. 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