The Sun. — London, England, 1836-09-27 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. Windsor Majesty, acc ompan i e d b y the Duchess of Gloucester, left Castle at 11 o'clock yesterday morning for Bagshot. his Seatunt Melb ourne arr i ved in town yesterday morning from , Brocket Hall, Herts. His Lordship attended a mept ing of the Church Commission, at the office in Whitehall-place. obArchbi s h op of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, Lord Rusaell, and other Commissioners were present. Vis count Hall. Melb ourne afterwards left town on his return to Brocket Lord John Russell left town yesterday afternoon for Tun bridge Wells. _,Lord G lenelg left town yesterday afternoon on a visit to Viscount Melbourne at Brocket Hall. OUTING INTELLIGENCE. DOVER RACES, FRIDAY. In consequene of the unfavourablestate of the weater the race f A or the Visitor'sc Plate of 501 on Friday s was deferred till h Saturday. Hunters' Stakes of 3 !ors each, with 40 added ; the second horse to receive 5/. M f the wi. r. Daw son ' s Lad Graham, rom Ilst. I Alb nner Butler 1 1 M y r' W. White's Yeoman, aged, Ilst. Illb . 2 Air. Leith's Paddy, aged, list. I llb 2 3 Air. Payne's Bess, aged, 1 Ist. 111 b dis -uespatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial GDepartment, from the Governor of British Guiana ; from the ov er nor of Sierra Leone, dated 9th August ; and from the i;reor of C e yl on, d ated 3d May. e spatches, dat e d 12 t h i ns t an t, were rece i ve d yes ate_r,y morni ng at t h e Foreign D epartment, from Lord Howar d de Walden, the English Minister at Lisbon. ter Des patciies, dated 17th instant, were received yes- A bd y morning a t t h e F ore i gn D epartment, f rom t h e B r i t i s h Ino assador at Madrid. . 1 _ Despat c h es, d ate d 22 d M arc h , were received yester-14 ' 4 ,„. 4 Y at the I n di a Board, from Lord Auckland, the Governor- General of India. the Gene ra l S team Navigation Company's packet to S zr Edward B an k s, f rom Rotterdam, arrived off the Cus nl Rouse on Sunday • and the Britannia, from Hamburg, Yesterday, at nine o'clock. fie The General Steam Navigation Company's magni _nent steam -ship Monarch arrived at Blackwell, yesterday, at e °'cleek, having performed the passage from Edinburgh in 43 hours. A great number of passengers left London on Sun daylast bY the Antwerp Company's splendid steam-ship m a n ,,cess "Victoria amongst whom were the Earl of Carnwath '1" - i ar nilY, Colonel Perccval, Lady Charlotte Crofton, Mr. I gne and family, &e.: Me The Revising B arr i s t ers f or th e city of London, o ssrs • Craig and Milne have appointed Saturday, the 15th ....etober, for opening thoir respective Courts at Guildhall. T he Courts will proceed first with the lists of freemen. 01 1 Friday the King of the French conferred the rand Cross of the Legion of Honour upon Count de Wet tn''tedt, the Swedish Foreign Minister, who left Paris on Sa rday on his return to Stockholm. orderin g Archbishop of Paris has issued a pastoral letter, g prayers on the occasion of the appearance of the cholera in the Roman States. U. Cassimir Lavigne has nearly finished a new dra tznatie Piece, called L a Popularite. The plot takes place in a gland, and the names of the personages are English. A new comedy in one act, and in verse, is shortly to come out at the Theatre Francais, under the title of Les Droits d'une Femme. Letters from Prague of the 14th state the Emperor of Aust r i a to be suffering much from a cold. It is said that serious disturbances have broken out ft ro C e! burg, which have required the interference of an armed Prince G eorge o f C um b er l an d was on th e 16th a t Begin. Colonel Sir George Berkley, K.C.8., who was in to/Wed t o fill the office of Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands by the present Government, retains his station on the Staff of the island, with Lieutenant the Hon. Cadogan as Aide-de-Camp ; but 'Major-General Sir Howard Douglas continues for the present to exercise the functions of High Commissioner. Mr. Buckingham, M.P., is at present at Ipswich, Inhere he intends giving a course of lectures on his travels in the East. Dr. Macmichael, author of the " Gold-headed Cane," and other publications, is dangerously ill at his house, Half Moon -street, Piccadilly. Extensive excavations have been made in front of the Athenaeum Club House, whereon workmen are employed in4de the hording, making new cellars and additional vaults, c ommunicating with the sub-apartments of the house. Great exertions are making to complete the line of t he London and Greenwich Railway in order to open it next ,Icontli. During the past week between 500 and 600 men slave been employed night and day. Lo r i and Lady Talbot de Malahide have been Inaki ng g Continental tour, and were last week at Frankfort co -the. Ma ine. Count Servillino has taken up his residence at H arefield-place, Hendon3 The Hon. Colonel Compton Cavendish has left town on a tour pen, d e Campuzano was Secretary to the Coal the an Peace the Ambassador from Spain, at the period of of Amiens. General Alava, the late Spanish Minister at Paris, !g -shortly expected to arrive in England from Tours, intending, It It said, to fix his residence in this country. Sir Thomas Cartwright, the British Minister to the th et .at Frankfort, is a great , sportsman, and rents almost all the majors in the vicinity of that town. Sir Thomas is, how ever, ver y o bli g i ng i n grant i ng perm i ssion to shoot on them. We perceive by the Naval and Military Gazette, that Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin has liberally contributed 1001. in aid of the building fund of the Royal Naval School. This is Sir Isaac's second donation of 1001. to this excellent institution. The rumour is revived of a contemplated matri tnenial alliance between the Marquis of Douglas, only son of the Dok e o S Hamilton, and Miss Strachan, daughter of the alareli osa &Ilia, (Lady Strachan.) The young Marquis, in addition to the large estates attached to the Dukedom of Hamilton, will inherit the large fortune of his grandfather, William Beckfo.rd, Esq., late of Fonthill, now of Lansdowne crescent, Bath. The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland have left Newton House, near Doncaster, for their venerable mansion, 'abY Castle, i n th e county of Durham, where they will en tertain a party of friends. Lord Harry Vane, who generally resides i n Paris, where he i s an Attach e to t h e British Em bassy, la on a v i s it t o the Noble Duke previous to his return o tue Continent. The overseer of Fressingfield, Suffolk, has been con s'ileted by the Magistrates at Oxne, in the penalty of 40s. and co.lts, for disobeying an order of the Oxne Union. The Derby Town Council, on Monday last, affixed a ne . 0 f 50/. to any burgess refusing to serve the office of Mayor. of that town, 15/. for alderman, and 101. for councillor, audito r or assessor. The Rajah Ram Roy, son of the celebrated Rajah died Roy, Ambassador from the King of Delhi , w ho i , ed in this country in 1833, a rr ived on Sunday last from Lord x eneducles on a visit to the Rev. A. R. Kenney, of L i c h. „d has been introduced to some of the leading families that r city. The Rajah professes the Church of England re- Pon, and speaks the English language remarkably well. The magncent mansion of Sir Robert Peel, at v "r A ayton, Staffordshire, will be finished in the course of a few e eka, against th e re t u rn of Sir Robert and Lady Peel, from their tour on the Continent. The Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire, Ladies ;barlette and Mary, and Lord Edwin Hill; have been staying !er th e l ast month at Dundrum, for the purpose of sea-bath -I,tt6', and en j oy i ng i ts pure mo untain air, with the beauties of e eastern coast of Down. k T he Glasgow Chronicle says Lord Broug ham's Glasgow is again quite restored, and that he would have visited a l i es govi thi season, but for his having determined to avoid _ risk of periling his health until the meeting of Podia toeet, when it is his intention to resume his place in the House of Lords. Lord Gardner and his Lady have arrived at I ,Kin- Park, the seat of Lord Dinorben, where his Royal High -as the Duke of Sussex aucl a select circle are assembled. The Count and Countess Wallis and suite arrived ti Clarendon Hotel on Sunday last from Rotterdam. vscount Folkstone, the eldest son of the Earl of Cl' 610 t has returned to this country from the Continent. 3 Lordship attained his majority on Sunday, the 18th inst., LoNgford Castle has, in consequence, during the last Week bee n the scene of great festivity. eei r o r l ll n e g E Load ,; : , : "4 C o untess of Chesterfield have left near Nottingham, on a visit to the Earl and Wh ere of to er:e the races take , p_ at Heaton Park, near Manchester, la.ce to-morrow, thence they will return t e tbY Park. v r iz . th ß e u i n )a n uy i h n t t e e r n o d i s to bring out the new Parisian . th e Danube, soon after' the opening of a w i lt Lane ; he will have the aid of Taglioni and Duvernay, do i t h anything can draw money before Christmas this will RE MOVAL ROYAL ACADEMY.—The OF THE Porters of the Royal Academy are now busily em loyed, under th 7 loperintendence of Sir M. A. She c . and e th p e members of v . Council, in removing from their anzient resting-places the ,i'ealable antiques, bas-reliefs, and paintings, belonging t e o th e s a ess a i t e mY• The Professor of Anatomy will commenc e is . oral lectures in the room at Somerset House, as usual but it is expected that the Professors of Painting, and Arch' ildincf, as th_ itecture will deliver theirs in the new bu Sculpture,. a.t7hoecciur.la!er in the season. The Council are equally busy ri _ b u ilding in Trafalgar-square. Negociations are going (2....?10t only with the Council of the Roya.l Academy, but also Tth the gers of the National Gallery in Pall-niall, closed_ a fo rts ast recess there on Saturday. It has been ititi l_t El to the o ffi cers of that institution, that many valuable which donations by distinguished patrons of the art will be made to k a •g all erY, as soon as it is removed to Trafalgar-square. His Duke has been mentioned amono. the number, together with u uke of Bedford and Lord egremont. A portion of the scat l e A__ Partments of the Royal Academy will, it is believed, • ' 1 , 0 „! "Zn to the Royal Asiatic Society, the Council of which, ""‘ tart Munster at their head, some time ago made appli- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1836. THEATRES. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. The Gaberlunzie Man, a new Scottish operatic entertain ment, was last night produced et this theatre. It is founded on a ballad attributed to James the Fifth of Scotland : the piece closely follows the lyric. With regard to the music of course not a sentence of criticism is required. Mr. Tully, by whom, we believe, it was selected and arranged, has executed his task with taste and judgment ; the airs, in their respective places, were quite appropriate, which is all that is wanted : they were splendidly given by Wilson, though evidently la bouring under a hoarseness, for which, by-the-by, he apolo gised. Miss Shirrefl; notwithstanding her exertions in the earlier part of the evening, continued in excellent voice and sung prettily. The manner in which this charming songstress gave " When first we trod the dewy green," to the good old tune of " Jock o' Hazledean," elicited warm applause. Mrs. Serle also sang tastefully and sweetly. Mrs. F. Matthews is a clever little body, and made a bustling house-wife. Oxberry plued the part of a nondescript, a Londoner out to study agri culture in Scotland, with much humour. Wilson announced it for representation amidst the applauses of a crowded house. URREY. Last evening a new nautical drama, intitled Mr. Midship man Easy, was represented for the first time at this theatre. Incongruous and improbable as the novel is, it is, however, in teresting, because it is interspersed with some excellent writ ing and admirable portraits; the drama is unintelligible, and its language, except where taken verbatim from the novel, is most dull and stupid. The only attempt made to represent by the performers any one of the characters in the novel, was by Mr. Rice, who personates the black Mesty; and he was obliged to descend to the disgusting trick of introducing a curse in every second sentence. Between a peculiar whistle, and the execration of " I'm from the original, the character of Mesty was greatly ap plauded by the audience of the Surrey. The only attractive portion of the entire performance was some good fighting be tween the players ; but such was the crowded state of the house that in the course of the evening their acting was cast into the shade by two or three real fights in the pit. MR. BEAUMONT and MR. O'CONNELL. Darrynane Abbey, Sept. 18. MY DEAR FRENCH,—I send you under another cover two letters, the one written by Mr. Almon, of Stonehouse, near Plymouth, with two guineas subscribed to the Justice Rent. The other letter is from one of the most distinguished of the gentry of England—J. Wentworth Beaumont, Esq. You are aware that he is a Member of the House of Commons, so well knoiin as to require no description. I also send you his cheque for 1001. towards the Justice Rent. This splendid donation, coming from such a man, at such a moment, not only forbids us to despair, but actually di rects the most desponding among us to hope for more sym pathy from the English people. The causes of our defeat at Newcastle are distinctly traced by this gentleman to pri vate and individual pique. He certainly has-better means of knowing the facts than we can have, and it is impossible not to yield the most implicit credit to anything he asserts. He has, therefore, completely satisfied me that we do not owe the defeat of Mr. Blacket to any hostility to Ireland. But I attribute that defeat to hostility or indffference to the rights of Irishmen. Now, although it was not hostility, yet Mr. Beaumont establishes beyond any doubt my opinion as to the mdifference ; for assuredly if there were a lively sense of the importance to Ireland of a friendly Member for Newcastle—and still more, if the electors felt strongly the injury to Ireland which an unfriendly Member, however untalented, would just at that moment inflict—they never would suffer caprice or pettishness to controul the contest and decide the election. However, the accession of a gentleman of the high sta- tion in society, and independence of character, which Mr. Beaumont enjoys, to the cause of Ireland, is a matter of the utmost importance. lam sure that the Association will hail that accession with cordial gratitude, and will express its respect in suitable terms. Had I been in Dublin, I should feel truly proud to propose the expression of that gratitude and respect to him. My place will, I know, be well supplied ; and this occasion, will, I am sure, be seized upon to increase the disposition of the Irish people to continue longer their expectation of redress without falling back upon our last resource—the agitation of the question of repeal. Mr. Beaumont's conduct Certainly en courages us to hope that we may still obtain justice FROM England.' I see that my esteemed friend, the Rev. Mr. Groves, has a motion for the next day, to publish weekly the ex penditure as well as the receipt of the Justice Rent.' I hope he will not persevere in that motion. The publica tion of the expenditure should only take place after au diting the accounts. No account should be published until after the expenditure had undergone a careful audit of the vouchers, so as to shew, in the first place, the regularity of the order of the finance committee for the payment ; and secondly, the fact of payment itself. It will . be quite enough to publish the items of the expenditure, as the Ca tholic Association did, once in every twelve months. The books should continue to be open for the inspection of all tha members, but the publication should be deliberate, and after a thorough vouching of every item of expenditure. I wish I could positively promise the drafts of the two addresses committed to my care, so as to have them read at the next meeting of the Association. I will do the best I can, and if I am - unable to have them finished, let not my delay be imputed as a fault. He to whom no hope is afforded for himself may, and I believe, ought to find his only consolation in the continuous exertions of public duty. For my part, I have convinced myself that all that is left me in life is, to fill up every moment of my existence with some effort to ameliorate the condition of my country. Prosperity and justice from England or from herself —such must be the " peace cry" of Ireland. Believe me to be very faithfully yours, DANIEL O'CONNEL. ‘' Scarbro,' Sept. 7, 1836. " Dear Sir,—As I spoke very unceremoniously against the expediency of your agitation in England, when I was convinced that with whatever intentions, you were doing a practical injury to the cause of liberty and the security of liberal principles, so when f see you proceeding in a right course, I do not hesitate with equal frankness to offer you my humble assistance. Allow me to request your accept ance of 1001. towards the Justice Fund. " I have just read in the Globe your letter to the editor of the Spectator, and must be permitted to set you right on the subject of the Newcastle election. You are really not justified in answering Newcastle' (as you pithily ex _ press it) to those who assert that the people of England are favourable to the Irish. I assert that opinion, and I have no doubt that the Reformers of Newcastle will not be offended by my saying in their name that they should be much hurt by their town being your watchword, t o desig nate English illiberality and prejudice. The reason o f my friend Blacket's defeat , and of Mr. Hod g son Hi ndes's suc cesslis (he has since changed his name by King's patent— would that he bad also changed his politics) is simply this —that the tw o most zealous Liberals (one of Whig the other of Radical persuasion) ventured to think that they had the power of installing a Member in the vacant seat for the town. The mettle of John Bull was excited—the caprices of a bull in a pet are unreasonable enough—they forgot the public liberty in rage for asserting their own— the Reformers of Newcastle were desirous to resent an at tempt at domination. This, I am sure, is not an incorrect representation of the true cause which lay at the bottom of the success of the Tory. The Irish was forgotten in the individual question. " Should the same question be tried at a general election, when the public fermentation would absorb petty jealousies, no town would, I am certain, be more ready to convince you of its sympathy with your unjustly and insultingly treated countrymen. But, Sir, I only speak as a Northum brian, knowing the feelings of my neighbours, an d no t au thorised by position to relate the opinions of the indepen dent men of Newcastle. But as a Northumbrian, I pro test against the injustice, proceeding from ignorance on your part (natural and unavoidable ignorance, I admit) of the meaning you have affixed to the name of our principal town, and its very high-minded and high-spirited constituency. " e me, dear Sir, yours truly, " T. W. BEAUMONT." " To Daniel O'Connell, Esq." It may probably have escaped notice, that every' shareholder in railway, canal, and other Companies, if his share be of adequate value, has the right of voting For every county which the line shall intersect or occupy, and every Company, of whatever denomination—coal, metal, conveyance, &c., possessing freeholds for the purposes of such Company, will give a similar right to its proprietary. The Farmers' Friends on Friday last at the Epping Agricultural Meeting appear to have given better proofs of their claim to the, title than many other claimants to the dis.. tinction. The soi-disant friends of the Agricultural interest — your Che.ndoses, Sibthorpes, and onzne hoc genus—on hearing of the proceedings of the meeting referred to, must, we think, experience a sense of humiliating shame akin to that felt by detected impostors. The Essex Herald contains the following remarks upon the meeting ;—"ln the speeches," says our Essex Contemporary, "throughout, both landlords and te nants, evince, by their bold and straightforward tone, a deter mination to place their own shoulders to the wheel instead of sitting down to indulge in useless regret, that Parliament will not or cannot remove the distress under which they labour. Mr. Conyers, the President, broached the subject of a reduc tion of rent, and the matter was vigorously followed up by other gentlemen. Mr. Marsh probed the question to the root, and showed in few, but impressive sentences, that the tenants themselves are the principal cause of maintaining high rents." A TORY.--At the great Tory dinner at Newton, the other day, a little fellow named Roby, of Rochdale, in the course of his speech declared that he was a geologist, a philo logist, a theologist, and a mathematician ; that he could do any thing, and every thing—that lie was a conjurer, a fortune teller, consulted the stars, was gifted with second sight, talked with ghosts, hid himself under his bed when it was thunder, &c, STATE OF IRELAND. Tp THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. DUBLIN, SEPT. 23. " The ruin or prosperity of a State depends so much upon the administration of its Government, that, to be acquainted with the merits of a Ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people."—JuNius. SIR-If the preceding rule for ascertaining the "merits of a Ministry" be as infallible as it would seem to be, not less so is the following one, for finding out " The Views of the present Government towards Ireland," which is the object of my second letter. The people of this country, from North to South, are in a condition wholly unprecendented in their history : they are peaceable and comparatively happy, and place unbounded confidence in the principles and promises of their present Governors : from which it may be inferred that the object of these Governors is to increase that peace and happiness, and thereby justify that confidence. Now, by the people, I mean not only those six millions of Catholic subjects, who, as shown in a former letter, for centuries past, have been denied the blessings of the British Constitution ; but I include all the independent and intel ligent portion of the Protestant nobility and gentry, whose best feelings and understandings have not ben perverted by the corrupt system under which most of . them had hi therto an opportunity of enjoying a very beneficial monopoly of the "good things of Church and State." I could prove this by reference to the various addresses that have been presented to Earl Mulgrave since his arrival as Viceroy amongst us—addresses which, and the answers to them, notwithstanding the unavoidable repetition of many charac teristic topics of Irish feeling and policy, would be very de serving of attention, were it only for the purpose of collect ing the real principles of the old Reformers, as well as the altered tone of those Tories lately converted by the straight forward and impartial administration of Earl Mulgrave. But I shall not travel over ground now pretty well known to the readers of your enlightened and widely circulating Journal. The selection of a few names and facts as I pro ceed, will illustrate, if not establish, my position, and dis pense with references, likely to be deemed, by many, works of supererogation. It may be asked, how comes it to pass that there is at this period, more than at any other in the history of Ireland, such implicit and universal confidence placed in the Government ? Some Tories and their organs will have it that it is because O'Connell has given them all his influence, or, as they say, commands it. This is cer tainly one of the grounds, but it is not the only one, of their strength. O'Connell's approbation of the course pur sued by the present Ministry does undoubtedly conciliate towards that Ministry the affection and good will of the largest numerical portion of the people of Ireland. But it should be remembered that the " Reform Re g istry Asso ciation," founded on principles independent of his and his party's influence and politics, embraced a number of men perfectly free from the bias of all the old conflicting parties and factions of Ireland. In fact, before it was fully ascer tained what measure of countenance and support O'Connell himself would continue to afford to the Cabinet that suc ceeded the Wellington, Peel, and Haddington Administra tion, many of the most influential Protestants and Catholics, who were never guided by O'Connell, or any other political leader, had signified their adhesion to Earl • Mulgrave's Go vernment in this country. And they did so because he landed upon our shores with a high personal character, in addition to the ticommendation of being sent by a Cabinet which, as Boyse of Bannow has happily expressed it, "is honourably engaged in redeeming those pledges, and realis ing those promises, now when they are in office, which they made us while they were in opposition." They found the Ministry of which he is a humble member consistent with themselves—not taking office for the purpose of enjoy ing its power and patronage in luxurious ease or indolent repose, but with the view of carrying into immediate effect many salutary principles of reform, as well as the principle of " appropriation"on which the people of the United King dom had registered their wishes. There has been no fal tering or quibbling on their part—no evasion or turning aside from that broad political course which public opinion expects them to pursue. Were they inclined to prefer their own quiet and undisturbed enjoyment of office, to the public expectation and welfare, they had Tory precedents enough to plead as their guide and direction. As regarded the very principle of " tithe appropriation" itself, they might have availed themselves of the good Tory suggestion of " compromise," and adoptin g Sir Robert Peel's view, as be and his party had often adopted theirs, pass a tithe Bill without that clause, leaving time to reconcile all parties to its future enactment at no distant period. This was the way in which the people of England had been led gradually to assent to the abolition of the slave trade ; or rather it was the way in which the Tories postponed the question while they held the reins of Government. But the present Ministry disdain such temporising and vacillation—being thoroughly acquainted with the British Constitution, and knowing that the " appropriation" principle was not only analagous to its spirit, and to several of its enactments, but that it had been actually recognised by the Irish Parlia ment and the Irish aristocracy, they determined to let the Irish people, now clamorous for tile abolition of tithes, have the full benefit of the British Constitution and Tory prece dent in this instance. They accordingly make this founda tion of their holding office a sine qua non principle in the settlement of the tithe question. Now, if the peace, hap piness, and permanent welfare of the community at large be the end of all human legislation, one would suppose that any measure calculated to promote so desirable an object ought to be sanctioned by Parliament, even though there were no municipal precedents for its adoption. But even here there is no innovation. The history of Ireland affords a precedent on this very subject—it is to be found in one of the last Acts of the Irish Parliament, 40 Geo. 111., c. 23., by which no claim for agistment tithe was permitted to be prosecuted in any Court, civil or ecclesiastical, unless for such as had been usually received within the then pre ceding ten years. But no agistment tithe worth mentioning had been paid for sixty or seventy years previously,—the same having been suspended by the celebrated resolution of the House of Commons in 1735. And it is remarkable—and the attention of the parsons and their friends cannot be too often directed to the fact—that the Church right to such tithes of the first grazing country in the world was divested out of the then rightful owners, and put into the pockets of the landlords by the very faction or party who now deny, that the State has a right to appropriate tithes to public uses. No question was then raised against the right of the legislature so to divest and appropriate tithes : nor was it ever raised while the Tories had the Government of the country in their own hands ; because the Wlzig opposition would not abuse the spirit of the Constitution in order to get into place. On the contrary, the following will show what continued to be the feeling of the Irish Aristocracy on the subject long before the spirit of Reform gained the ascendant, and the Tories had not been pronounced unfit to govern a Reformed people. " We, the Grand Jury of the county of Armagh, assem bled at Lent Assizes, 1808, see with much concern the ex orbitant demands made by some of the clergy and their pastors, in certain parishes in this county, in collecting of tithe, to the very great oppression of their parishioners, and tending at this time in particular to detach the minds of his Majesty's subjects from their loyalty and attachment to the happy Constitution of this country. " Resolved, That our representatives be instructed to further, with their decided support, any measure that may be, brought forward in the Imperial Parliament for modi fying and placing in some more equitable mode the pay ment of the clergy in this country." Tithes have always been held to be within the ju risdiction of municipal laws in every part of Europe, and to be binding only by these laws, according to the maxim " deeimaa non obligant nisi per consuetu dinem patrim." The Legislature can change the con suetudo or custom of the country, as often as it is found expedient for the public good to do so, either by commutation or abolition ; and if the use of any custom or principle ought to be put an end to, " mains usus abolendus est," when it becomes odious to and intolerable by the peo ple, the present mode of tithing is long since condemned and abrogated by every principle of reason, justice, and ex pediency. And the State—nay, the House of Commons, as the representative of the great body of the nation—have a primary right to effect such changes. This principle, in dicatory of the Commons' power, was acted upon by the Irish House of Commons in the reign of George 11., when they appropriated 120,0001. surplus of the annual supplies to the payment of the national debt, without asking the consent of the Crown, and against the wish of the British Cabinet. This was in the year 1749. (See Parliamentary history.) Ireland can never enjoy the benefits of the British Constitution or an Union with England, unless the Ministry extend to her the entire spirit and practical enjoyment of British laws, in as full and ample a manner as they are enjoyed by our brethren on the other side of the channel. It is because the Government of Lord Mel bourne seems intent on doing so—by settling the tithe question, that fertile source of turbulence and rebellion— reforming the Corporations, and in other respects assimila ting the political economy of both kingdoms—it is on these grounds that the people of Ireland justly and rationally be stow on him and Earl Mulgrave their entire confidence. Great preparations are in progress for the grand en tertainment to be given by the Reformers of Liverpool to Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell. The attendance is expected of t t o ic h k e e v ts e . ry numerous w a i i i i l d b h e igl w il a y n r t e h s lo pectable , so mu ch so, that it w ill b e f oun d necessar y t o limit the time fo r the to give this pop u l ar meet i ng. An O r d er i n C ounc il f or aug mentin . g of the clergy of Guernsey arrived at the Governmnt House oil Thursday. B y th e t er ms of the Ord er, es which which were f rom 60 / . to 70 1. a year have been increased 501 ., salarei ) / e a tto , with 101. i n li eu of t i the on fish, now abolished as hurtful to fisherie s , tliest e ii sends cation for it at the Woods and Forests. They were not re- fused, but simply informed that there were then no apartments in Somerset House at the disposal of the Crown. THE EX-QUEEN OF NAPLES.—The Countess de Lipano, Napoleon's sister, has paid a visit to the Place Ven dome column, accompanied by some old and faithful servants of her illustrious brother. General Bertrand was of the num ber. The ex-Queen remained some moments in meditation before the statue of Napoleon, and tears dropped from her eyes. The august foreigner will visit the triumphal arch of L'Etoile. Among the persons who have waited on her are MM. Sapey and De Morbourg, Members of the Chamber of Deputies, the former an old friend of Lucien Bonaparte, the latter ex Minister of Finances of King Joachim. The Countess de Lipano has been very unwell ever since her arrival at Paris. Fortunately, she hopes that she will be permitted to spend the winter there. The ex- Queen of Naples has had the satis faction of beholding herself surrounded by all the ladies for merly attached to her Court, who have hastened to present their respects and tender their services. Admiral Jones and family are gone to Tunbridge Wells. _ The mansion of Mr. Phillip John Miles, in Ha milton-place, formerly the abode of the Duke of Wellington, . _ is undergoing a course of improvement. The Marquis of Abercorn is making great improve ments on his newly-purchased estate, Lochlagan, in the High lands. His Lordship is erecting a mansion, the building of which he has inspected during the last week, having rode over from the Doune for that purpose. The Marchioness and in fant family are expected in three weeks from Brighton, on her way to meet the Marquis at Baron's Court. The Countess of Pembroke's mansion on Hay-hill is ordered to be prepared for the reception of her Ladyship and the Ladies Herbert, who are on the Continent, and who are expected home next week. The marriage between Lady Catherine Herbert and Viscount Fincastle did not take place at Frankfort in consequence of his Lordship's indisposition. Sir Wm. Houston and his son, Capt. Houston, ar rived on the 22d at the Haguo. The Bishop of Worcester will entertain a few friends during the approaching festival at Worcester. Lord and Lady Lyttleton are amongst the expected guests. Lady Mary Anne Bruce has arrived at Wentworth Castle, near Barnsley, on a short visit to her sister, Lady Au- _ gusta Wentworth. The Earl and Countess Beauchamp, after sojourn ing a few days at Cheltenham, proceeded to Madresfield, where they have arrived. The Earl of Charleville will entertain a party in Charleville Forest in the course of the next month. The Earl of St. Germains is entertaining a party of friends at Port Elliot. The Hon. Col. Lygon, M. P., has arrived, and is on a visit to the Noble Earl. The Duke of Norfolk left Norfolk House, yester day for Fornham Hall, Bury St. Edmonds. Sir Charles Dalbiac, for the borough of Ri pon, left Slenningford Hall, the seat of his relative, Colonel Dalton, on Monday last, on a tour into the north. Sir Francis Holyoake Goodricke has built a noble mansion, Studley Castle, on his paternal estate in Warwick shire. He is purchasing largely in that county, and consoli dating his property there. Mr. Under-Secretary Fox Maule and his Lady, after visiting Lord Panmure, in Forfarshire, proceed to visit Lord and Lady Abercromby, at Tullibody, Clackmannan. H. T. Hope, Esq., is at present sojourning at I-lig ham Park, the seat of S. Baker, Esq. Colonel Chatterton, K.H., of the Royal Irish Dra goon Guards (son-in-law to James Atkinson, Esq., of York), has been appointed Inspector of Yeomanry in Hampshire. Colonel the Honourable Sir Horace Townshend's new rppointment of Deputy Governor of Windsor Castle is, we believe, a newly-created office by the King. The late Hon. Miss Sophia Townsend was for many years State house keeper of the Castle, which his Majesty conferred at that lady's demise on Lady Mary Fox. At the Liverpool Post-office a most serious accident has happened, owing to some evil-designed person having put in letters containing detonating powder. On the stamping clerk proceeding to mark them the powder exploded, and wounded him dangerously in the hand, and destroyed one of his eyes. Such diabolical malignity is happily seldom heard of, and cannot be too much reprobated or too severely punished. The various improvements and additions made to the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, will enable the King to ac commodate a number of visitera who formerly were compelled to lodge at the different hotels in the town. The whole of the Royal Family, except the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, are expected to pass the winter at Brighton. The Duchess and the Princess and suite are expected to honour Ramsgate with another visit this season ; and it is understood that they will leave Claremont for the West Cliff in that town on Thursday or Friday next. DIVING.—On Monday last Mr. Joseph Orchard made a sub-marine excursion in Weymouth Bay, in the pre sence of a great concourse of spectators. He submerged at the New Pier Head, and walked at the bottem of the water round the bay ; in his journey he picked up several articles, amongst others an antique pewter tankard, which, from its corroded state, must have been long under water. The diver was accompanied by a boat, with an air-pump, from which he received a constant supply. GAMING.—At the Magistrates' room at Doncaster, on Wednesday last, informations were laid against two respec table inhabitants of that town, for suffering gaming in their houses during the races. The first information was against Mr. Weble, the auctioneer, who had let his house to certain individuals, whose names he refused to give up, and who had been playing roulette and rouge et noir. The defendant being the agent only, and not the proprietor, of the premises, the information was dismissed. In the other case the Magis trates, after deliberating for a considerable time, separated without coming to any decision.—Doncaster Chronicle. About two o'clock Sunday afternoon, a whirlwind or vane of wind, took a tree in St. James's Park, stripped it completely of its branches, and left it like a flag staff. It was singular, that at the same moment, there was hardly a breath of air to be felt out of its range. We have more than once had occasion to mention the alteration of Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy by Sheridan Knowles, which Macready purchased from the author of the additions. It is to be one of the early novelties at Co vent garden Theatre, under the title of The Bridal, and h as been making previous trial of it in the country. M On ac t r h eY the 19th instant he played it for his benefit at Bristol, when he took the part of Amintor, that of Melantius having been filled by Mr. Waldron, and the character of Evadne, the heroine, having been sustained by Miss Huddart, who being engaged by Mr. Bunn, at Drury-lane, cannot, of course, have anything to do with it in London ; it will, of course, devolve into the very competent hands of Miss Helen Faucit, when it is probable that Melantius will be given to C. Kemble. MUSIC AMONGST THE LOWER CLASSES.—It was impossible to hear Redemption without being forcibly struck with the immense advance that music has made among the lower orders 1 Here was a chorus of 270 voices, more than 200 of whom are living in Norwich—weavers, dyers, tailors, and shoemakers—who leave their looms and vats and shopboards to perform the most sublime of Mozart's composi tions, with a degree of feeling and spirit, of enthusiasm and expression, quite marvellous. These men and women will have to teach their " betters" ere long—in fact, they do it now. To the titled frequenters of the Opera—to the ad mirers of all that is puny and rickety in music—they now pro claim the real power and majesty of the art. It is thus that music must diffuse her spirit through the land. The many follow after Mozart—they leave Bellini to the few—without a spark of envy or jealousy.—Spectator. TIIE CHIPSTEAD BURGLARY.—On Saturday a man of the name of Charles Bedser was brought before Joseph Reid, Esq., and a Bench of Magistrates, at Croydon, in custody of Coleman, the chief constable, charged on sus picion of being concerned in the daring attack made upon the residence of Captain Frederick Rankin, the Mint-house, Chipstead, when one of the robbers was shot. The prisoner, who was dressed in a smock-frock, and had the appearance of an athletic countryman, it appeared had absconded, and had been travelling about to different parts of the country ever since the apprehension of his companions, one of whom, Wm. Harley, it will be remembered, was executed. Coleman, the officer, however, who was instrumental in the apprehension of all the other culprits, knowing his desperate character and connections, used every effort to trace him, and at length re ceived information that induced him to go to Kingston, where he apprehended the prisoner. Coleman, on being sworn, stated that from information he received he believed that the prisoner was concerned in the burglary at Mint-house. Mr. Reid asked the prisoeer what he had to say in answer to the charge ? He replied that he should say nothing at present. The prisoner was then remanded, and shortly afterwards he was handcuffed, and placed in a post-chaise and conveyed to Horsemonger-lane Gaol. The prisoner is the last of the gang who committed so many outrages in Surrey. The examina tion created considerable interest. MR. HUSKISSON'S MONUMENT.—The monu ment to the memory of the late Mr. Huskisson was on Friday last placed on the pedestal in the building erected for the pur pose, in the cemetry at Liverpool, immediately over the spot where his remains were interred. The statue, of fine white -marble, is seven feet nine inches in height, and conveys a very admirable likeness of the late Right Hon. Gentleman. He is represented in the dress of a Roman senator, with a scroll in his hand. The building in which it is placed is of a circular form, with a rustic basement, about two feet in height, which supports ten three-quarter fluted Corinthian columns. The expense of the building was about 1,4001., and the cost of the gtatue about 1,500/. In the eve,Ding. of the 11th ult. a man named Beau mont, but better known by the sobriquet of La Redingote de Velours, entered the gamisig.house at 129, in the Palais Reyal, and put down upon the table one of the hand-bills of Mr. Walker, the hair-dresser, Rue du Port Mahon, which is printed so completely in the form of the notes of the Bank of France, that at the first view, it may easily be mistaken for Beaumont at first played for 50fr., and afterwards for 100 fr-, I:.Plh of which stakes he lost, and then demanded the difference of his pptc, which was given him. He afterwards put down twice more, but observing that his note was under examination he hastily retired. He was, however, afterwards ariaagdt and when his lodgings were searched, twelve or fif teen gilt metal ==inters, bearing the name and address of M. were found, and which there was no ' a wineßeaumont merchant,had be beer, in th e h a bi t o f us i ng i n gam bli ng as 0 pieces. He was yesterday brought before the tribunal doubt Beaumont Soupe, of eerrectional Police, and, having admitted the intentional fraud, was condemned t 9 three months' imprisonment and the costs.--French Paper. FROM THE PORTFOLIO—No. XXX. CONFIDENTIAL DESPATCH FROM COUNT NESSELRODE TO PRINCE LIEVEN. DATED ST. PETERSBURGII, JANUARY 9TH, 1827. We have postponed, until the departure of a courier, who will be sent to you in eight or ten days, the explanations which we reserve to ourselves to make to the Cabinet of London on the affairs of the Peninsula, on the circum stances which have given rise to the expedition of British troops to Portugal, and on the position of the Infant Don Miguel. It is, nevertheless, impossible for us to conceal from you at once the deep feeling of regret and of pain which the Emperor has experienced in reading the speech of Mr. Canning, in which that Minister, who had just vin dicated the measures adopted by the Government of his Britannic Majesty to save the Court of Lisbon from immi nent danger, has suddenly thrown contempt on the policy of France, revealed the secret views which guide him with regard to that State, and declares that he had called the new world into existence ; and that all the revolutionists in Europe, all those who only seek to betray their Sovereign and their country, were the natural auxiliaries of Great Britain. His Imperial Majesty approves of the observations which you hastened to make to Mr. Canning respecting this lan guage, which Europe had nowhere heard since the sad epoch of the French Revolution. Judicious replies have al ready reduced to their just value the praises which the English Minister had lavished on his own combinations and their effects. A moderation which cannot be too much appreciated has led the Government of France to the wise step of not giving importance to words, which may, never theless, bequeath to both countries centuries of interna tional hatred. Finally, Mr. Canning himself, struck with out doubt with the consequences of his imprudent asser tions, has modified and almost retracted them, in a new edition of his speech. This disavowal, whilst proving the justness of our remarks on the character of the principal Secretary of State of his Britannic Majesty, and on those passionate expressions which only entail upon him a tardy repentance, offers, on the other hand, the only reparation which one can exact from a Minister, placed in the exalted situation which Mr. Canning occupies—a reparation which claims from us even due respect ; and you will not, Mon Prince, offer him any official observations on the subject of the declarations which he has made since he seems to have acknowledged his error. But, in your private interviews with him, his Imperial Majesty desires that you will not leave him in ignorance how much he has been affected by seeing principles hostile to all Governments, and subversive of the general peace, loudly professed by one of the first functionaries of a power such as Great Britain. You may observe to Mr. Canning, that the Emperor has sufficiently proved, and continues to prove, his desire that relations of strict amity and mutual confidence should reign between Russia and Great Britain ; but that this con fidence and this friendship would be inadmissible, if every State were to see in the English Government a secret enemy, whose policy would lead it to foment discontents, and to encourage treason, in order to be able to count, in case of need, on their results, and to profit by their sup port. Could a doctrine, so contrary to the rights of na tions, and to the morality of civilized Europe, be really the doctrine of the Cabinet of St. James's, the rule of its de terminations, or the instructions of its agents ? We do not believe it, notwithstanding the speech of Mr. Canning, and we would rather believe that, carried away by the heat of the debate, he expressed sentiments, the application of which would be, even in his own judgment, an universal ca lamity. It is in this sense, Mon Prince, that you will have the goodness to enter into explanations with him, whilst intimating, in the name of the Emperor, his Imperial Majesty's confident hope that we shall not be under the necessity of recurring to the subject. Receive, Mon Prince, the assurances, &c., &c., &c. NESSELRODE. (Signed) During the present summer the temperature of the atmosphere has shown most unusual alterations in various parts of the globe. At Riga complaints have been made that the weather has been hotter than for many preceding years. In the country between New Ruppin and Oranienburg, the nights of the 31st of July and the 3d of August were so cold that the buck-wheat and the foilage of the apple-trees were completely frozen, and the surface of the water in the ditches turned to ice. At Philadelphia, in North America, it was so cold on the Ist of June, that it was necessary to have fires in the rooms. In the environs of Munich, the fineness of the summer and the abundance of the crops have been • subjects of self-congratulation to the inhabitants. In the greater part of Germany water has been so much wanting that the mills have been stopped, and the meadows so parched that it is expected there will be no second crop of hay. Bread is extremely dear, not from scarcity of corn, but from want of means of grinding it into flour. The price of meat has risen, and it is expected to be still higher. The branches of manufacture carried on in Stirling, and its neighbourhood, are at present in a very flourishing con dition, more so, indeed, than they have been for a long time past. In the woollen shawl trade, goods have risen twelve per cent. within the last four months. Tartans, blankets, and plaidings, have experienced about the same advance. The carpet trade is also brisk, and prices high ; but owing to 'the great advance in the price of wool, the profits are small. All hands are, or may be, employed in the spinning and weaving departments. The wool-spinning department is brisk beyond all precedent, so much so, that two large mills are now build ing in Stirling and its immediate neighbourhood. And two others are about to be built, besides what is being done in Til licoultry, Alloa, and other places, where trade is equally brisk. Wages are good, so that the industrious operative has cheeringa prospect before him for the winter. All our do mestic traes are equally busy, and a sufficient supply of work men can scarcely be found.--Stirling Observer. It is not, we believe generally known that England is the convict settlement of the Channel Islands. The fact is so, nevertheless. On the 18th inst., some men who had com mitted an offence at St. Helier were ordered " to find security for their future good behaviour, and in default thereof to be banished to England (the convict settlement of the Channel Islands) for the term of three years." The Dumfries salmon fishery is stated to have been less productive this season than has been known through the the last twenty years. This is ascribed partly to the coldness of the season, but in a greater degree to the operations of the poacher. By law the fishing must cease on the 25th, and it is lamented that this is the period of the year when the draughts are most abundant, and the fish in best condition. The money market at Liverpool presents a more favourable aspect this week than last. Last week money was worth six per cent., and then could only be obtained upon first rate paper ; now it is more plentiful at five per cent. The determination of Government to advance the rate of interest upon exchequer Bills, and to apply their surplus to the buying up the Exchequer Bills as they become due, has given satisfaction, and more confidence to the mercantile world. Coleman being asked what he thought of John Kemble, in Don Felix, answered, " that there was too much of the Don, and too little of the Felix. _ MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—A very melancholy occurrence (the nature of which will be seen by the evidence of Miss Haines) took place on Thursday last, in the Solway, by which Sarah Ann Miller, aged 22 years, the daughter of Mr. Haines, one of the Preventive Officers stationed at Bow ness, and Mrs. Isabella Irving, of Wigton, aged 40, two re spectable females, lost their lives :—" About half-past two on Thursday the 15th inst., I requested him to take us across to Bowness—he said he could not take us before seven o'clock. Upon this Mrs. Irving proceeded to Mr. Irvin's, at Whinney Rigg, who also keeps passage boats. She there applied to a female, by whom two of Mr. Irving's labourers were called out of the harvest field, who took the boat up as far as Brough's house. Witness then asked them if it was safe to cross, at the same time expressing her fears that it was not, as Brough had previously refused to go with them. They made answer it was perfectly safe, and in a joking way said,' Brough could take them well enough, but he wanted us for lodgers all night.' Witness at this time requested them to let us out ; Fergusson was willing, but Bell refused. After proceeding a little way we struck upon the sand, and I again desired them to let us out. When we got into the channel of the river, we saw some stakes and nets below us, and called the boatman's attention to them ; but the current was r unning so very strong that the boat immediately came down against them broadside and capsized. I threw myse lf against the stakes and took hold of my sister, who remained :it d h the thn boat. Mrs. Irving was at this time up in t he boat little girl was clinging to the nets. In a very boat, time the nets gave way and fell over, and the boat sunk, keel up wards, and I remember nothing more . The men did render us all the assistance, I consi dered, they might have done. I was about chin deep in the water".— C arlisle Journal. AGAIN—The Bangor THE SEA SERPENT SEE o N f August publishes the sub (Maine) Advertiser of the 10 .t tli to tor a our shores paid 11 the tea joined account of another absentvisi considerable time :---This setpent, who had been inlet between Mount Desert Rock creature was seen in n the Saturday, by Captain Black, of the and the mainland, Fax, of Sedgwick.. Captain Black is an fishing schooner F• intelligence and veracity. He says that he was elderly man of of his snakesbip for an hour, and at least within fifty yards ' body were exposed when in motion and that sixty f eet be ot' at ' least twenty feet longer. The head was only he mustabove the surface ; it was precisely like the two or three land snake, and the neck was smaller just below the head of a la n in this particular resembling the snake family ; his co ihead, was perfectly black, and looked like a porpoise. When r:state of quiet, a t one -third of his diameter was ex d and Captain Bl judged that the exposed part was po9e t . _ a bout the size of a half 'barrel. There were no protuberances, but when in motion it answered the descriptian of the lumps. The Captain attempted to near him, but the noise of the boat alarmed him, and he sank and rose some distance off. If ho had had a gun, he thinks he could have killed him. He is going again immediately, prepared to give him battle. . 11 : has nev er b e li eved in the existence of the monster b e fore, but is now r ea d y to make oath to the above statement. There were with hi m at t h e t i me a man and a woman,n b o at with t ucksport H ote l i s an o ld woman w h o was i n the At the B Parson C umm i ngs i n t h e revo l ut i onary war,whe -n be saw the this. serpent, and her account coincides with Our informa tion comes from a gentleman of this city, who conversed with )a Jen, Captain Black at Bucksport.—New Yor k 1 CENTRAL CRIMINAL CO NE TV CO UR T. SENTENCES.—The whole of the cases forall • been disposed of, ni g g M- The RECORDER proceeded to pass the sentences on such prisoners as had been convicted in the course of the session. The following prisoners were sentenced to be transported for seven years :—Mary Rogers, alias Halligan, Georg Hagman, Thomas Baseke, William Cummings, James El good, James Grey Markclair, Edward Light, James Dal, Joseph Tomkins, John Williams, 22 ; John M'Cluster, James Mansfield, Edward Cox, Thomas Seager, Eliza Lamb, James Davis, William Ruddell, Eliza Percival, Thomas Jones, 19 ; Samuel Robinson, John Smith, 18 ; Josephs Crannis, Richard Hardy, Mary Ann Harvey, Robert Isaacs, Thomas White, John Povey, Susannah Webber, James Whitelaw, Thomas Johnson, William Billings, James Green, 28 ; Thomas Jackson, alias Bran son, Thomas Richards, James Brown, John Campbell, Henry Waters, James Johnson, Joseph Newman, John Davies, Robert M'Gee, Henry Entwhistle, and Charle Canterwell. John Blewitt and Harry Bell, who had severally been convicted on two indictments, received: sentence of trans portation for seven years on each conviction. To be transported for 14 years :—Raphael Tolamo, John Fulford, John Williams, 17 ; Mary Ann Selkirk, William Bennett, James Grimes, Alexander Allen, William Davis, William Holmes, William Catling, Thomas Prior, Eliza Lamb, and James Green, 42. - To be transported for life :—William Cook, Elizabeth Yates, John Hamilton, Henry Knight, John Shuttleworth, and William Winter, alias Garner. Mary Jones, who was indicted with Matthew Feaks, the waggoner, for a conspiracy to induce two girls named Veale to quit the guardianship of their friends in Cambridge, and to visit London, with a view of resorting to prostitution in the house of the prisoner Jones, but who was acquitted of the conspiracy, and found guilty of a count charging her with keeping a brothel in Lombard -court, Fleet-street, was sentenced to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for one year. Isaac Norton, a respectable-looki ng old man, a retired coach and harness maker, who resided at Norwich, and Samuel Poole, a young man, a baker, who were convicted of a disgusting misdemeanour, were sentenced to be imprisoned for two years in Newgate. Jeremiah Spillawn, convicted of a disgusting assault upon the person of a female child, was also sentenced to two years' imprisonment ; and klenry Denham, convicted of a like offence, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment, and at the expiration of the period to enter into his own recog nizance in 501., and to find two sureties in 251. each, to keep the peace towards all his Majesty's subjects. Henry George Thomas was then placed at the bar by direction of the Learned Recorder. The prisoner was convicted at the last session of a most violent attempt on his wife's life. He was, at the conclusion of the session, sentenced to death, and scarcely any hope was held out to him by the Recorder. . ..., His LORDSHIP now addressed the prisoner, and said that his case had been submitted to the full consideration of his Majesty in Council, and it had been judged that, under the peculiarly aggravated circumstances of the case, the terms and conditions on which his life was spared should be pub licly communicated to him. He would be transported for life ; but, instead of being conveyed to a colonial settle ment, like prisoners convicted of ordinary offences, he would be carried to a highly penal settlement, where he must work in a chain gang, and where the very hardest labour would be apportioned to him, where he could ex pect no intermission in his toils, but, under every circum stance of misery of seclusion, and of pain, he would wear out his unhappy existence. It was dreadful to announce this to a fellow creature, but the humanity of the law, it was found, could alone be extended to him under these cir cumstances. The following prisoners were next brought up to receive the awful sentence of death :—George Edward Peacock, for forging a power of attorney for the transfer of stock ; Jonathan Holcombe, John Beck, Joseph Longhurst, John Mahoney, James Davis, and Thomas Lucas, for burglary ; and Thomas George, for robbery. The RECORDER addressed them in nearly the following terms :—Prisoners at the bar, you have been severally con victed of offences by which your lives are forfeited to the laws of your country. The circumstances of your re spective cases will be submitted to his Majesty, and what ever mitigation, if any, can with justice to the public be extended to you, will be readily afforded to you by our beneficent Sovereign. There are cases, however— and I address myself to one unhappy individual (the pri soner Peacock) —which will require the most painful consideration ; and it will have to be considered whether, in justice to the commercial community, whether, for the sake of the general safety of the public, whether, as re gards the confidence generally reposed in professional men, whether, with respect to the enormous sum which has been improperly withdrawn from its destination, or whether a li t recent Act of Parliament by I%l' the penalty of death is provided as the consequence of crime of which he h as been guilty be noticed, mercy can t e extended. All that I can undertake to do is, to promise that no circumstances of mitigation which may be made known to me shall escape the notice of our Sovereign. . Seven other prisoners were sentenced to be imprisoned for one year, three for nine months, twenty-three for six months, one for four months, eighteen for three months, four for two months, one for six weeks, and six for one month. The Court then adjourned to Monday, Oct. 24. A petition is being drawn up, praying his Majesty to mitigate the sentence of death passed on Cail lot.—Jersey Advertiser. The shouts of " No, no," which are now so fre quently heard, with ether unseemly noises, in the House of Commons, were formerly punished by the House with great severity. In a debate which took place on the 4th of March, 1658-9, a Colonel Morley having uttered a cry of " No, no," Mr. Knightly observed, " It is a high breach of privilege for any man to cry No ;' I 'nave known divers sent to the Tower for saying less. It is a breach against the gravity of the House." Sir Arthur Haslerigg—a man of no mean authority in those days—" concurred in this statement of Parliamentary privilege, and agreed that it was very irregular to cry No, " It does not appear, from Burton's Cromwellian Diary, vol. 4, page 4, where this debate is given, that any punish ment was inflicted on Colonel Morley for his negative infrac tion of the privileges of Parliament on that occasion. A native of the village of La Reid, in Belgium, who was drum-major in the army of the Netherlands in 1828, is now at Parma, and has grown to the immense height of eight feet four inches. The deputies of the Commercial Union, who met at Munich, have separated ; and their report on the manufac ture of sugar from beetroot has received, it is said, the atten tion of the French Government. Two gentlemen from France have been sent to visit the manufactories at Nymphenburg and Schleissbeim, both of which are to carry a new plan of manu facturing into operation next month. ESCAPE FROM DROWNING. —About two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, Mr. G. F. Stansbury, Miss Anderson, and Mr. Daly, all of the St. James's Theatre, took a wherry at Vauxhall stairs, for the purpose of proceeding to Hunger ford. After the boat passed under the bridge, and had got opposite the London Company's Gas-works, the wherry struck on a sunken barge, of which, until that moment, the water man (Bartlett) was quite unconscious. Fora few seconds he held the wherry in a steady position, with the fore part of it resting on the barge; in an instant after the wherry was in undated, and the parties precip i tated into the river. At this moment Aliss Anderson and Mr. Stansbury sunk, while Mr. Daly, by an extraordinary effort, succeeded in leaping from the sinking wherry to another which came alongside; mean while Mr. Stansbury (who does not swim) appeared at the surface of the water, bolding the sleeve of Miss Anderson's dress near her shoulder ; the dress gave way and she again sank. By the praiseworthy exertions of Bartlett and another waterman, named Hallam, the parties were rescued from their perilous situation. It is to be regretted that due precaution had not been previously used by the proper authorities to pre vent the possibility of an accident, which, were it not for Di vine intervention, must have proved fatal. HAMBURG, SEPT. 20.—A letter from Warsaw of the 16th Sept. says—" News has been received here to day of an accident that has befallen the Emperor Nicholas, on, his journey between Pensa and Tamboff, in the neighbour , hood of the little town of Czembor ; the horses ran away, the carriage was over t u rned into a ditch, and the Emperor had a severe fall, in which his left shoulder was dislocated. His Majesty was obliged to stop at Czembor. The last accounts of his Majesty's health are entirely satisfactory."—Haraburg h Paper. On Wednesday last the wife of Joseph Monks, Cropper-street, was delivered of three sons, two of whom were born dead. The father is a journeyman tailor, and is a coin plete cripple, nature having forgotten to furnish him with - legs. On receiving this addition to his family, he wrote a note to his employer, of which the following is a copy :—" Dear Sir i — Be so very kind as to oblige me with the loan of 305., as my wife has got her bed of three sons, and two of them is' dead." —Liverpool Mercury. THE JEW DANDO AGAIN.—This individual, 'so noted for going into coffee-rooms, getting a hearty meal, and walking off without paying for it, made his appearance, on Wednesday morning last, at the St. Dunstan's Coffee and Ale rooms, 183, Fleat- street, and ordered a breakfast, consist ing of eggs, w',ich he requested might be lightly boiled, coffee, tea, hvt roils, &c. After a hearty repast, he was departing, when the landlord politely dropped him a hint touching the payment. The fellow said he would call after seven o'clock in the evening, and pay, as the forenoon was a Jew's holiday; but the host and hostess were not to be diddled with impunity; and they detained his hat (a shocking bad one), and then kicked him out of the room, after having drenched him with, cold water. The incessant rains and chilling winds have des tro y ed all hopes o f an a b un d ant h op season . - The picking has vie_ cipally co mmence d w i t h a v i ew t o save the bops from t otal. destruction. The duty is down to 180,0001., and the proslrret is very gloomy.—Kentish Gazette. F e i. 4 I: 1 1 x' 4 - ~, , +~ r