The Sun. — London, England, 1839-10-23 00:00:00

LITERATURE. HEB.REW GRAMMAR IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. By the Rev. J. S. C. F. FREr. London, Cradock, 1839. I This is the tenth edition of one of the most deservedly popular elementary works for the use of students in the Hebrew language with which we are acquainted. The Grammar of Professor Hur witz is more copious, but this we regard rather as a drawback than as an advantage—particularly in the case of the many learners who take fright at the mere appearance of difficulty. The Hebrew I language cann o t b e stu di e d too dili gen tly by a people making the Holy Scriptures their rule of faith. _EVENING EDITION. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.- The Queen rode out in the park soon after three o'clock this afternoon, accompa nied by Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, and attended by Lady. C. Barrington, Baroness Lehzen, Miss Quen tin,, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Falkland, Hon. Colonel Grey, Hon. C. A. Murray, Count Kolowrath, Baron , Alvenslcbtn, Sir Frederick Stovin, and Sir 9"r10 - Quentin. The Hon. Miss Cocks drove after "in equestrian party in a pony phaeton. Prince Ernest of Saxe Cobourg, attended by Lord Allred Paget, left the Castle this morning for town. His Serene Highness is expected to return to the Castle this evening. The Lord Chancellor, Lord and Lady Lyttleton, the Marquis of Normanby, Hon. William Bathurst, and Mr. G. E. Anson, took their departure to-day. Lord Hill is expected at the Castle this evening on a 'in, and will join the Royal dinner party. His Lord shiP will attend the review to-morrow, in the Little Park, of the regiments at present stationed here. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager was expected to leave the seat of Earl Denbigh, Newnham, Warwickshire, at an early hour yesterday morning, on a visit to Earl Howe, at his residence, Gopsall Leicestershire. The Princess Augusta visited the Duchess of G:ot:- cester yesterday at Gloucester House. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of Stamps and Tans, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes day in Downing -street. The Marquis of Norma* returned to town y( s terday afternoon from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Mr. Grote, ALP., and Lady, have left Bucks, for Dover, on their way to the Continent. Mr. and Lady Augusta Baring and family h ire ar rived at Farrances Hotel, from Dover. Th e Lord Chancellor returned to his residence at ON:me-hill, yesterday, from a visit ,to the Queen, at Windsor Castle. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. , Major and Mrs. Th o r n hill, i n D e vonshire-street, Port- And- pl ace , from Italy. CHANGES. Sir R o b er t P ee l, at D ra yt on M a nor, f ro m Li c hfi e ld ; ,„_ Thomas Duncombe, M. at Lambton CaAle; Lord l Ytottesley, at Wrottesley Hall, Staffordshire ; Lady .., g 4 4 4 uford, from Wynnstay, on a visiting tour ; General Joh n Lambert, at Dover; the H o n. William Howard, at Brighton; Lord Moreton, at Lichfield; the Earl of Nrbury, from Brighton; Admiral Sir Charles Nugent, G.C.8., a t Weymouth ; the Duke of Dorset, from Bcr. tied Lodge, for Drayton House. ANOTHER PRESENT TO HER MAJESTY. A few days since a small hamper, the contents of which were secured by a linen cloth being carefully sewn over the top, arrived at Windsor by coach, from York shire, and addressed as follows : " With care. " To her Majesty " Queen Victoria " At Briton. Palace. " Or wherever she may " Bee " With Speed." Upon the poettr at Nloody's coach-office taking the i n teltage (the carriage of which was 4s. 6d.) to the Castle at Windsor, it was refused to be received. The pro reietor of t:tve coach office, however, thinking there might 4o ,me mistake, sent it a second tim e t o th e C as tl e , whenf it- . was ag a i n re f use d by th e or d ers ( as we are in °rtn'-!(1) of the Master of the Household, the Hon. C. A 'Murray. In the course of the same afternoon a curi °l44 squeaking noise (as the package was lying in the ' 404 0i-office) was heard to proceed from the hamper, re lerabling the stifled cries of a child ; and as it was clear there was something in it alive, it was judged expedient, Under the circumstances, to open the package—a thou land rumours having got abroad, in the meantime, as t ° the real nature of its contents. At length the ham- Per was opened, and then there were discovered, crouched beneath some hay, a couple of very beautiful to.her , 11aj a male and female—and a letter addressed esty, of which the following is " a true and veritaote c o p y : " Laughton-in-le-Morthem, Near Rotherham. " A Present of 2 Guniea-pigs To her Magesty, from A tittle: Boy, 5 years old that come in one day from Piay ll* in the Street Says Mother, I love the Queen, be v4use she is a Good- Queen ; I Wish I Knew ware she live, I would send her my two Pigs. " The child would not Rest till he had sent the Queen the only Tresure he posses he shed a teer over Is, Pigs and told them they wet Going ware they would „I"ie more plenty than he Could Huve for them he is 'quite Happy at porting with them. 44 I am Afraid your Royal Highness will be displeased at a Poor woman taking the Libirty to send them to ‘ll.ll. Majesty. Your Majesty's Most Humble " Servant, " Oct. 9th "ELIZABETH ELDRIDGE. 1839." The auth or iti es a t th e C as tl e s till re f us i ng t o a d m it th e Pigs—notwithstanding Master Elridge told them, 'Afore they left Laughton for " Brighton Palace," that they wes going ware they would have more plenty" --4 gentl eman i n Wi n d sor pa id t h e carr i age o f th e nhper f rom R ot h er h am ; an d t h e p i gs , w hi c h h e h as ~ il riaten e d Albert and Victoria (the latter of which shortly introduce some new acquaintance to his faintly circle), are now comfortably domiciled in a spa "us hutch in the stable attached to his residence in Gloucester-place. It is currently rumoured that a matrimonial .alliance is expected to take place between the Honour able peorge Wentworth Fitzwilliam and a daughter of the Earl of Carlisle, and sister to Lord Morpeth.— .Bheffield Independent. We are happy to say that Mr. F. F. Lovell, of the Ist Life Guards, who recently met with a severe accident while pigeon shooting at the Red House, B attersea -fields, continues to go on very favouraly. Viscount Burghersh continues in Scotland, mak - Ing a tort of visits. fir Benjamin and Lady Hill have been entertain- NI % a large party at Llanover Court, their seat near Abergavenny, durirg the past week. FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE RIVER.—On Tuesday an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the Town of Ramsgate public. house, Wapping Old-stairs, In the b o dy of a lad, fourteen ye a rs of age , name d "an, the son of a master lighterman, who was acci. d entally drowned in the river Thames. Ttie Jury re turned a verdict of " Accidental death."—Another in , quest was held at the same time on the body of a man *hose n ame i s un k nown . Th e deceased was picked up by` a man named Ro e , on Tuesday morning, off the :rnatnes Police-offi ce . The body appeared to have be min the water only a few hours. His clothes indi ated that he belonged to some collier ship. The Jury, l.!k!'he absence ()auntie!. evidence, returned a verdict o L' niarl drowned." "':. bEATH FROM LQCK-JAW.—Last night an i° n quest was held at Clapton, b e f ore M r . B a k er , on t h e body of Frederick Thompson, aged forty years. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased, who was a gardener by trade, in endeavouring to kill a pig belong ,TC to himself on last Friday week, the animal became unr nanageable, and he, in his effort to cut its throat, cut i k Piece out of the little finger of his left hand, just by i t he middle joint. He became so nervous at the time 4 1 to be quite unable to kill the pig, and told a person It nn came to his assistance that he was afraid he had ..-:tut his hand off. He then hastened to the shop of a ~I t irgeon i n t h e ne i g hb o urhood and got the wound ‘ ,.._"' -e ased, and was going on so well that the sur 'o did not think it necessary to remove the dressing " 11 . his going to the shop on the Monday following. It '!till, however continued painful, and on Thursday even int he complained that the pain , which he had b e f ore •lelt „.-cili,tly in the finger and hip , had r emoved into his 4'lt f . ' a nb , and that he felt a drea dful illness all over ' l .1 .. - 1 1° ' He became gradually worse un til Saturda y , When several medical gentlemen who were called in runounced the case to be one of double lockjaw— tetY a perf ec t closing of the jaw and throat, so that was- impossible to pass any thing to the stomach. He un -- n tintied in the greatest possible pain u ntil Sunda y night at ten o'clock, when death terminated his suffer- I° ''• The Jury returned a verdict , " T hat the de ceased di e d of lock-jaw, brought on by the causes above - stated." The deceased has left a family of eleven chtl ;Yen, sev en o f whom were so l e l y d e pendent on him or r‘ suPPort, and a w id ow , f ar a d va nced in pregnancy. I • u wing to the complete failure of the fruit cr o p ti n e Lanarkshi re t hi s season , a num b e r of the large ulers turned their attention to Ireland —taking o ver experienced pullers and packers with them. The con ., as,Tlence is, that the Irish fruit imported into the Clyde it eu tt abundant this year.—Edinburgh Courant. and a ters._;tin bis ri se y sea so n a q n u d i t now ow altered com commands in a n a d p s p e a a rgaonocde price, what b "i sale: -The ierop of large' fruit in Ireland has .....__ MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (TUESDAY EVENING.) t~HRONICLE.—The English sme'lt. t . ,larket has been firm throughout the x tit-Atei• part of the day, and business was done in Cobs°ls at 91 for the account, but the closing prioos were the same as yesterday. Money is easy nrt the Stock Exchange, and not altogethtq• tight out of doors. The house of MCOV , S. l 411.SVAlild has received a remittance from the CfAmtinent of 75,000 sovereigns, and more specie is expected from the United States and south America. These remit tances will find their way to the Bank of Engl#l4, and help in filling up the drain ; but we hear they haute drawn to the extent of 1,500,000/. on thcie treait account with the Bank of Paris. The Continental merchants are watch ing narrowly the operations of the Bank, and have suspended orders for British manufactures to a lat-ge ex tent, in the expectation that their contraction of the circulation must force down prices. The Exchanges. as quoted to day, do not tend to alter their opinions, as they are all flatter than last post, and Paris Isallier lower. While we remain in this position s and our ex port trade continues inactive, we cannot look for relief from the present gloomy aspect of commercial affairs. We are not insensible to the faults which have been committed by the Bank Directors, nor to the privi leges and profits which they enjoy on condition of per forming certain obligations to the people of this country, and it is well known that they have not always fulfilled their part of the agreement ; but an exposition of their mistakes does not meet the exigency of the present times. It may be useful to act as a check for the future ; but, under existing circumstances, they are compelled of necessity to curtail the circulation. TIMES.—By the advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 331 per mark, which at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d the ounce fur standard gold gives an exchange of 13. 8, and the exchange at Hamburg on London at short being 13. 51, it follows that gold is 1.16 per cent dearer at Hamburg than in London. The premium on gold at Paris is 8 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. the ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.35, and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.321, it follows that gold is 0.10 per cent. dearer at Paris than in London. A better tone has prevailed in the English stock market than for some dabs past, and Consols improved, and stood for some time at 901 to -13- for Money, and 90i to 1 fir Account, but they finally closed at the last quotations of yesterday-90t to 1 for Money, and 904 to for Account. Bank Stock, 17 to 91- ; India Stock, 245 to 7 ; Exchequer bills, 3s. to ls. discount. The foreign market has been inactive. Railway shares remain dull, and with little variation. In the quotations of the foreign exchanges this after noon, that on Hamburg is lower than last post ; on Paris and Amsterdam the rate is unchanged. By the usual official return published by the Customs, the exportation of the precious metals from the port of London to foreign and colonial ports for the week end ing the 17th of October is as under : Ounces. Gold bars, Hamburg Silver coin, ditto 140,429 Rotterdam New Orleans Silver bars, Calcutta 7,826 HERALD.—The calm to which we referred yes terday, as prevailing in the Discount and Stock Ex change Markets, has continued, and our subjoined quo tations will show that it gave something of a tone during the morning to transactions in both departments of the House. The Market for the Continental Exchanges, how ever, has been very gloomy this afternoon, and bills were scarce until the very close of business hours ; even then the exchange on Paris scarcely advanced upon the re duced rate. There has been more business upon the English and Foreign Stock Markets to-day, but, though specuLtion has been carried on to a greater extent, there is nothing in the present aspect of either market to induce out door jobbers to believe that. the calm to which we have referred will permanently prevail. POST.—We mentioned yesterday that the Bank of France had ceased, for the moment, to purchase gold. The fact is important, and we are accordingly glad to be able to confirm it. The Bank of England is the only considerable purchaser in this metropolis. The price given is 775. 9d. per ounce. The continental ex changes may be considered about the same as on Friday last—that is to say flat. There was, however, a comparatively ample supply of bills towards the termi nation of business, Messrs. Rothschild and Co, having become sellers. Paris (three months) 25 60 to 62k, Hamburg 13 10 to 1, Amsterdam 12 4 to I, Frankfort 1.504, aril Antwerp 12 3-4-. It is calculated that the Liverpool steamer will reach England from New York about the 3d of November. In the meanwhile patties are beginning already to speculate rather freely upon the nature of the intelligence that will probably be re ceived by her. The general idea is that the managers of the United States Bank will have made every pos sible exertion to put their agent, Mr. Jaudon, i❑ funds wherewith to pay the bills at maturity, protests for the non-appearance of which were sent out by the Liverpool. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Advertiser.) If the Reformers do not bestir themselves without delay ; if they do not immediately organize their forces for the impending general election, there cannot be a doubt of the issue. The exertions of the Tories will be crowned with signal triumph ; and the Reformers will have bitterly to reproach themselves for their criminal supineness. The Liberal portion of every constituency ought forthwith to meet together for the purpose of fixing on suitable candidates against the period of a general election. If they defer the choice of a candidate untilithe time of election shall have arrived. the result in the majority of cases wi.l either be the defeat of the person they put forward, or the election of a very inefficient representative. The course which true wisdom dictates would be for some of the leading Reformers in every constituency to name the persons they suppose would most honestly and effectively represent their sentiments and interests in Parliament, and then to bring the claims of such persons before the constituency generally, Or if a division of opinion should chance to obtain among the most influential Liberals, which in many instances will doubtless be the case, as to which of two or more gentlemen would make the fittest representative, then the obvious course would be to decide the matter by a vote. But before this be done, it would be desirable that all parties should pledge thomselves to sacrifice their individual opinions, should they happen to in a minority, to the opinions of the majority, and afford the fortunate candidate the same zealous support which they would have extended to him had he been the man of their own choice. In this way alone can the ap proaching contest be engaged in on the part of the Libe rals with any prospect of success. A division of opinion among Reformers will prove fatal to the people's cause. Should the extreme Radicals be foolish or unprincipled enough to start candidates of their own ; should the Mary lebone or Manchester game be played over again ; should some three or four dozen Colonel Thompsons and Feargus O'Connots he found rcady to come for ward at the call of the offscourings of the Radical party, or come forward in compliance with the promptings of their own vanity, which must be fed at any price ;—if, we say, such shall be the case at the approaching gene ral election, then farewell fir a long series of years to a Liberal Government. Give but the Tories a Parlia menrary majority, and there is no saying when they may be again ejected from place. Who, at all events, shall i venture to predict, in such a contingency, the amount of mischief they will entail on the country before the nation has got rid of the infliction ? (From the AI o. ning Herald.) The extremely " liberal" Lord Radnor, like the whole of the class of politicians to whom lie belongs, is a profound admirer and zealous supporter of the Whig schemes of centralisation which threaten the subversion of the constitutional rights and liberties of Englishmen. He who denies to the poor the gleanings of his corn fields—he who has assisted the Whig Ministers to apply the iron flail of the new Poor-law to the backs of the un employed labourer, the widow, and the fatherless—he who has eulogised and defended the unchristian and un constitutional hastile law with an energy of Malthu sian devotion not surpassed by that of Lord Brougham himself, or Lord John Russell, or Mr. Grote, or Mr. Hawes, or any other of the utilitarian advocates of the penal test of destitution—even he is the man who has undertaken to work for the Government the scheme of introducing a centralised police into Berkshire, but, as yet, without success. As the Ultra-Liberal Sir Harry Verney has been defeated in the attempt to fasten upon John Hampden's own county of Buckingham a despotic system of police, though supported by John Hampden's biographer, Lord Nugent, so the Earl of Radnor has had the mortification to sustain a discomfiture in fight ing a similar battle in the county of the Great Alfred, the founder, or at Icest the consolidator, of those noble Anglo-Saxon institutions which our Whigs and Libe rals are so anxious to subvert. Rightly did Mr. Duf field, who made an able and eloquent speech against Lord Rudnor's proposition, say that " If this nwasuie had been proposed to the Noble Lord ten years ago, lie would have d enounced it as an outrageous attac k upon the liberties o f t h e su b ject !" so he would. But it must be rec o ll ecte d t h at the Tories were in of fi ce ten years ago, and the Whigs were officeless patr:ots— always declaiming upon popular rights and Magna Charta and the Habeas corpus Act, and making Ithe nation ring with the report of their hypocritical zeal in favour of those ancient and free institutions which they now strain every nerve to destroy. Lord Radnor would not have tolerated in Tories those attacks upon the bulwarks of public liberty which he assists his good friends, the Whigs—formerly " the people's friends"—to carry on in a spirit of unceasing hostility to Constitutional Government. Ah, Mr. Macaulay ! your much-panegyrised Whig patrons are very sorry and • vtty . ?harrretes's - " , _iiii)(Attoi. Mr. Duffield felt convinced, 'fii\ieed so tiok.!s every Englishman, Who is not a Whig or `NVliigling, that the measure proposed by Lord Ita;d's4 wits only a " step to the appoinyoeizit l oti a stipendiary Magistracy throegbronthb tdridorn." That it ec,rtainlY amk ient , vi a huNry Whig dependent is now looking...foe the day when the unpaid, indOeVidat, bii,z,h -! minded rural Magistracy of Englaaa stz It be superseded by Home-office vassalst, Wl4.c Will take their pay from the country, and tfkeil• instructions from the Government. A centhllfsed police must of necessity be followed by a stipendiary Magistracy. This will give a large addi tional patronage to the "- no patrohage'' Government. It is by rainilyina its influence through new channels of patronage that the tottering Whig Government is now ee.tlenrouring to strengthen itself. The Whigs lecl that neither O'Connell's " tail," nor the ihfluence of the ladies of the bed-chamber, can much longer keep them in office, unless they can acquire a vast accession of p itronage wherewith to bribe new legions of sordid supporters. (From the Morning Post.) A pretty MOnarchy it would be, indeed, which de pended apon the existing national will T. The Chronicle boasts that " the Monarchy never was more deeply rooted in the public heart than at present, because he Sovereign is not. the exclusive patron of a class or sec tion, but of an entire people." This, we regret to say, is exceedingly false ; but if it were true, what then ? What, security would the Monarch have that it would be so two years hence ? How long is it since the Chronicle maintained, in the name and on behalf of the nation, that the Reform Bill was the most perfect, complete, and sa tisfactory of national measures ; and Ea:l Grey the greatest, the wisest, and the best of statesmen ? And what is now the feeling in these respects of those whom the Chronicle still represents as the nation ? Why, the measure which they so applauded is the object of their vituperation, and the Minister whom they idolised the subject of their sneers. A pretty Monarchy it would be which should depend upon that kind of " will" which was and is exercised concerning the Re form Bill and Earl Grey. As to the present Sovereign being peculiarly the patron of the whole people, we beg to know how that is to be reconciled with the direct opposition of her Maj 'sty's Government, in re spect of public education in England, to the opinions affirmed on that great question by a large majority of the Representatives of the people of England in the House of Commons? If her Majesty's Government believe that the majority of the Representatives of the people of England did not then, or do not now, cor rectly express the judgment of the people, why do they not dissolve the Parliament ? Which ever way we turn we find fresh evidence of the falsehood of the pretences of the modern whiffiers, culling themselves Whigs. (From the Times.) The quantity of opium grown at Malwa, Benares, Behar (Patna), and other localities, under the active encouragement of the East India Company, is immense. It is true that at the first of these places, whence about one-half of the whole product of India is obtained, the management of the soil (although the chiefs are under British protection) is to a considerable extent beyond the Company's control ; but as the latter body are in the habit of taxing the Malwa opium with certain transit duties which yield a large annual revenue, it is clear that, but for this pecuniary temptation, which tells strongly against the Company, they are perfectly com petent to increase these duties to such an extent as would effectually put an end to the further growth of the poison. In Benares, Behar, and indeed in all the territories within the Company's jurisdiction, the encouragement which they give to the manufacture and exportation of opium is much more direct. The ryot, or immediate cultivator of the soil, is required, under certain penalties, to guarantee the delivery of the produce at a fixed rate. Nay, it is even alleged by a late writer (so says the Chinese Repository for Feb., 1837), that the growing of opium on the part of the ryot is, to a great degree, compulsory—so much so, that should he refuse the pecuniary advances for that pur pose which are systematically paid by the local Govern ment through its native servants, the Peons immediately subject him to a process of coercion from which there is no relief except by the fulfilment of his contract. Moreover, with the express design of prosecuting a profitable trade in opium for the Chinese market, vast tracts of the Company's land, not recently reclaimed from barrenness, but formerly occupied with less lusra live crops, are now covered with poppies; and it ap pears that the cultivation of the deadly drug over a wide extent of territory is still on the increase. (From the Morning Chronicle.) Our Tory Contemporaries seem to think that we have, most unprovokedly, orginated the charge of unfixedness of principle against their party. The allegation was only quoted by us from the Quarterly Review. On that authority, which they are accustomed to respect, it was proclaimed that, unless they did, " without delay, act upon fixed principle rather than on their late flue tuating policy," they would be " inevitably ruined beyond human relief." The implication and the ac cusation are as plain as possible. What is more, they are true and incontrovertible. Tule or false, it is on the Quarterly Review, as the accuser who impeaches their faction, the witness who testi- fies against it, the judge who condemns it, that Times and Standard, Post and Courier, should turn their vengeance. The Quarterly Review arraigns their fluctuating policy. The Quarterly Review reproaches their unfixedness of principle. The Quarterly Review predicts their impending ruin. Can we help it if such brethren fall out by the way, tell tales of one another, and show the world, by quarrelling about the means for gaining their end, that they are growing desperate as to its attainment. It would not comport, however, with Tory tactics to assail the Quarterly Review, for the very assertion which, when transplanted into our co lumns, is represented as being so very calumnious. If it be the lie which our Contemporaries say it is, why have they left it untouched, so far as the Quarterly is concerned? Just because they think there arc people on whose minds it may answer a party purpose. ftt;_S,UN. LONDON, WEnN FSDANT, OCTOBER 23, i 839. LORD 13ROUGLIAM. MORNINh 'Tilts DAY. (Prom the Alci , liihg Chrimictc. in a second edltiOn, yesterday morning,. ive:cOntrat7 dieted the abcOltht, hredohsly piibli4hea, in this and other journals, of Lord Brougham's death. An acci dent there had been it appears ; the carriage was broken to pieces, and the driver mu c h i n j nre d, but his Lord ship his friends happily escaped unhurt. ;It is due to the public and to ourselves to say that the statement we inserted was not founded on any vague and untrace able rumour ; nor did we omit such inquiries as would have sufficed, under ordinary circumstances, to guard against mistake, or even deception. It seems as if gross falsehood or wanton forgery, or both, must have been employed to put this strange im position into a distinct and credible form. As we stated yesterday, a letter, professing to come from Mr. Shafto, one of Lord Brougham's companions iv. the adventure, addressed to Mr. Alfred Mont gomery, was read by Count D'Orsay at Crock ford's, describing the catastrophe, with the particular circumstances attending it. The object of this letter was to deceive the public, and the end was, for a time, accomplished ; nor did the reply to our inquiries at Lord Brougham's house tend to excite suspicion of a fact to which there appeared to be such direct testi titnony. Wherever the invention originated, this was going great lengths for a joke. As Lord Brougham is, happily, alive and well, we are not sorry at having been led to speak of his character and conduct as they may appear hereafter when viewed from the distance and through the medium by which whatever is most ho nourable is rendered most prominent. Of Lord Brougham living it may be a more imperative duty, than of Lord Brougham dead, to " mark the spots;" of either it is a much more satisfactory task to " observe the brightness." _ (From the Morning Post.) We yesterday published some remarks upon the death of Lord Brougham, under the melancholy con viction that this event had taken place. The authority on which we received the intelligence, and the circum stances of detail which accompanied it, left us not the slightest room for the shadow of a doubt that the news was as true as it was afflicting. Lord Brougham, we have now reason to know is in perfect health. The sub joined communication, received at a late hour last night, fully states the particulars, on a knowledge of which we felt justified in believing that a fatal accident had occurred to the Noble Lord. It will not be very easy to excuse the criminal levity that could have devised so wanton an outrage on the feelings of the community. In the certainty that a few days must clear up the apparent mystery that hangs over the whole matter, we abstain from further observation, and merely give the following letter the iii' poied calamity was asserted to have been Made, ksidsed d general belief of its truth, which, had the intelligenn Been derived from a more ordinary source, Would nbt hay . 6 bee'n readily and tiqtyrisively yielded. Lord Broughaq't was; it appeal's, it' datliag6 ttith Jleadei and Air: and Mis..'hafto ; Which diet with an accident by the axietree of pole breaking, itt cdfise quence of which the horses became unmanageable, add the carriage was upset, and much damage done. Lord Brougham and the entire party e sca p e without any serious injtay f the postboy alone being materially, but not dangerously, hurt. We have been favoured by the comtritinidatiati of a letter written by Lord Brougham, giving an account or the accident ; and our readers may, therefore, confi dently rely on the accuracy of our statement. The report, which we have taken some trouble to trace to its source, originated in a letter pretending to be from Mr. Shafto to Mr. Montgomery, and giving the account of the accident which has already appeared, and of his own escape from the accident alleged to have been fatal to Lord Brougham. We must sincerely rejoice in the escape from danger, and supposed death, of which Lord Brougham has been the subject. While we have freely commented on ninny points in the Noble Lord's recent course, we have still cherished respect for his varied talents, and gratitude for the benefits he has conferred on his country when, freed from the trammels of faction, and emancipated from the prejudices of personal disappointment or dis like, he has stood forth the eloquent advocate of free dom, the undaunted champion of human rights, or the promoter of and successful labourer in the advancement of literature and science. We sincerely hope the heartless being who by a for gery—to produce which required no other quality than an active imagination uncontrolled by principle—has oc casioned such deep and extensive anxiety and regret, will be traced out, and iu general exposure and unmixed indignation meet his appropriate reward. It is not a little curious, that in this predicament of being reported prematurely killed, and haiing the plea sure of reading his own (posthumous, it might almost be called) character, Lord B roug h am i s i n t h e same position with his old friend and circuit companion, Lord Abingcr, at the time Mr. Scarlett. (From the Courier.) REPORTED DEATH OF LORD BROUGHAM— BY THE MORNING CHRONICLE OF THIS DAY. " Harry, thy wish wag father to that thought." The Morning Chronicle, at half-past six o'clock this morning, announced, with breathless baste, the death of Lord Brougham ; and later in the day, in a second edition, published a contradiction of it's report. "Of the event itself," said the Chronicle of half-past six in the morning, " there is, we fear, no reason to doubt." (" Harry, thy wish," 4-c.) A panegyric on the Noble Lord then follows, which cannot but occasion considerable surprise to the be-praised party. Comparing this praise of Lord Brougham deceased with the virulent vituperation of Lord Brougham liv ing, we cannot but be struck with the vast difference in the party estimation of a political antagonist alive and dead. Happily, however, we trust for his country and for himself, the terrible antagonist of the feeble and tottering Ministry still lives ; " whatever expectation or apprehension " his Lordship excited in the minds of Ministers and their adherents, is not yet " stilled for ever." We can just imagine the possibility that there are some in the world who would not grieve exceedingly if it was. The spirit of party which could rejoice in the anticipation that the opposition to the late Government of Sir Robert Peel " was killing him," would not be very scrupulous in its gladness if other inconvenient personages were re moved from the toils and cares of this political world. Altogether there is something instructive, and apart from the accident itself, amusing in this affair. His Lord ship himself cannot but be pleased with the result of the post mortem examination which the Chronicle has made of the defunct Statesman. His Lordship's friends will he pleased to find that it was unnecessary. The public will be pleased that the great orator of modern times still exists to justify the expression of Sir Samuel Romilly, that " there is no fun out of opposition." In short every body will be pleased, not excepting the Morning Chronicle, who must be particularly pleased to find that it has lavished all it's admirable encomiums on an antagonist who is likely to take his place in the House of Lords next Session, instead of being corn fortably deposited in Westminster Abbey ; and that it has had the opportunity of discovering in the deceased statesman various brilliant and useful qualities which it was unable to perceive in the living poli•ician. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. 'NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING—TUESDAY. Lord Tavistock's Lucy Kemble, Bst 71b, agst Col. Peel's f. by the Colonel, out of Mary Ann, 7st 131 b ; first halt of Ab. M., 100, half ft. Mr. Byng's Garryowen, Bst 71b, agst Mr. Greville's Trojans, Bst 51b ; first half of Ab. M., 25, 10 ft. SECONDARIES' OFFICE. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE—OWEN V. SHARPE. This was an action to recover compensation for a breach of 'promise of marriage. Mr. CLARKSON said that the plaintiff was a milliner in Northampton, and in the year 1831 she became acquainted with the defendant, who was the Eon of respectable persons who possessed some property. At that time he avowed himself her admirer, and it was agreed that they should he married whenever he ob tained a situation, or the means of supporting a wife. Those attentions continued until the year 1637, when he obtained a situation in the Board of Control, of 200/. a-year. He commenced a correspondence with the plaintiff, and his letters, from the time he got into the situation, breathed the most ardent and sincere affection. His addresses to the plaintiff were with the full concurrence of his family. In April, how ever, his letters began to assume a colder tone, and he put off the match on the plea of ill health. Each succeeding letter was indicative of his intention to break off the match, and, on the 24th of July, plaintiff received the last letter, which announced that their connection was dissolved. This so affected her that she was obliged to leave her situation, and go to an aunt's, where she re mained for three months, suffering the most poignant mental agony, as well as bodily ill health. On the 7th of August, subsequent to the '24th of July, the date of the last letter, the defendant married a widow of the name of Winch, who, as it was stated by counsel, had an an nuity from a former husband, and in whose house ho lodged, in Park-street, Camden-town, some time pre viously. The Learned Counsel put in several letters from the defendant, which were subsequently read. Mrs. Prideaux, the sister of the defendant's wife, on his letters being shown her, stated that she had never seen him write, and therefore could not identify his hand-writing. Cross-examined—She only knew the defendant two months before his marriage with her sister, who was 35 years of age ; the defendant was 29. When he married her she was a widow with four children. She had no annuity from her former husband, and had it not been for the assistance she received from her friends, she would not have been able to live. Previous to her mar riage with the defendant she had a furnished house ; but the furniture was not worth much. Tile defendant was in a very delicate state of health, and was at great expense for doctors. Miss Green, milliner, in Northampton, stated that the plaintiff lived with her in the year 1837. Defen dant visited her as an accepted suitor, and it w as w ith 3', so much so that de yfacnialilled to ask p erm i ss i on f or f t c h n e d full ant s e omn mother t u h r e r r e nic.ree frequently e hisnt l plaintiff to come and see her. Plaintiff always conducted herself with the greatest propriety. In November, 1837, defendant asked her (witness) would she come up to London in the following month, and be present at their marriage. Witness replied that April was the season when she visited L.)ndon, and she could not go until that month. Defendant then said that the mar riage should be put off until that time. On the plaintiff receiving the last letter of the defendant, breaking off the match, it so affected her that she was obliged to leave her situation, and was not able to return to it for three months. Other evidence was adduced in support of the plain tiff's case, showing that she was uniformly well conducted. Mr. C. JONES addressed the Jury on the part of the defendant, and left it to them to say whether under his state of health, and with a wife and four children, with the prospect of an increase, his salary of 2001. a year was adequate to support them. He hoped that they would give such moderate damages as the peculiar cir cumstances of the case warranted. The SECONDARY having summed up the evidence, The Jury retired for ten minutes, and returned a verdict for the plaintiff-1501. damages. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST. SIR-I have seen the following paragraph in the Morning Herald of this day, relating to the reported death of Lord Brougham :—" The rumour that the No hie and Learned Lord had been killed—' kicked to death,' as the rumour had it—was set on foot, we are told, by a well-known fashionable Count, who having received a letter from Mr. Shafto yesterday morn ing, in which the acsidcnt was mentioned, took the letter to White's, and by way of a joke (I) read it publicly in the coffee-room, in such a way as to justify the rumour that the result of the me l nt b io el n iev to e thisupset a w r a a g s r a t p h h e a d l l e u a d t e h s o t f o m Lord h e o ß a r u o s u e g am did." many persons in the course of yesterday that I had seen a letter from Mr. Shafto, announcing the dreadful accident to Lord Brougham. The statement, however, that I took the letter to White's or any other-Club house, and read it by way of joke, is an infamous false hood, which I cannot refer to without indignation. The letter which I saw I considered to be genuine ; and you will readily believe, Sir, that my feelings yesterday even ing were anything but jocular. The person who could suppose that I could be capable of making a joke about Lord Brougham's death can know nothing of me, nor (I should think) of the feelings of a gentleman. The facts of this business, so far as I have had anything to do with them, are as follow :—Mr. Montgomery, a friend of Lord Brougham and Lord Wellesley, called upon me on Monday afternoon in a state of the most distressing grief. He had received a letter from Mr. Shafto, dated Brougham Hall, Saturday, detailing the dreadful occur rence very nearly as it was detailed in your paper of this morning. Mr. Montgomery, when he called upon me, was on his way to Fern-hill to communicate the contents of this letter to Lord Wellesley, and I never .aw any one in a more deplorable state of grief and eih a ,oa g i ind i l t ,v a iac t an io tdi o n l than enhtet r from Mr. M M o r . n Montgomery m w e a r s. y, w rtt This e u m a o t r ni Fern ng - had the lt d h is a t a re s s i s o m e g e come to my knowledge that Mr. Shatto's letter was in tended as a joke. I leave others to explain the motives for so heartless a hoax.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, Ctc. D'ORSAY. Tuesday Evening, Oct. 22, 1839. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Standard.) FALSE REPORT OF LORD BROUGHAM'S DEATH. We have a high gratification in being able to contra dict the reported death of the Noble and Learned Lord whose name appears at the head of this paragraph. According to the answer given at the Noble Lord's re sidence, upon the authority of a gentleman who ar rived at the house from Westmoreland this morning, Lord Brougham has met with a slight accident, but is quite safe." Though thus happily assured that the observa tions upon Lord Brougham's character offered by our Morning Contemporaries are uncalled for by the occa sion, we preserve them as expressions of public feeling ; and for a like reason we forbear to cancel the following remarks written under the apprehension that the state ment of Lord Brougham having fallen by a fatal acci dent might be true. We can vouch for the accuracy of the following paragraph with which we have been favoured, as it is founded upon a letter received in town by this morn ing's post, written by a friend of Lord Brougham's after the accident : " We can positively inform our readers, from the best authority, that a letter has been received from Lord Brougham, written by his Lordship since the ac cident, dated Brougham Hall, Saturday afternoon. We are happy to state that Lord Brougham was quite well, and walked home 13 miles with Mr. Leader after the accident, and even went out of his way a quarter of a mile to look at. a view. We understand that the car riage was kicked to pieces, and the horses ran away. The driver was the only person hurt, but it is hoped that the man will soon recover." Lady Brougham is residing at Brighton for the benefit of her health, and Mr. William Brougham, his Lordship's only brother, is on the Continent. We cannot, therefore, but express our regret that such a circumstantial detail of the accident should have been published without further inquiry as to its accuracy, as it must of necessity cause for some time the greatest dis tress amongst the relatives of the Noble and Learned Lord. LORD BROUGHAM. At a late hour in the evening of yesterday a report of the death of this Learned Nobleman, by an accident, reached town. The report was so precise in circumstan tial details as to obtain very general credit, but no intel hcrence of the melancholy event had arrived at the Noble Lord's house, and while we write we aro still in that state of uncertainty which permits us to hope that the rumour is unfounded. Such being the case, we content ourselves with co pying from our Morning Contemporaries the observe tions which their belief in the report alluded to has suggested ; and we do so the more readily,' becaus e they are generally written in a just and generous spirit. Our own opinion of Lord Brougham's claim upon the respect and affection of his countrymen has been long known to our readers. We have ever given his Lordship credit for a lofty spirit, a powerful mind, and a good heart.._. natural gifts, the full effect of which was indeed im paired by his education in the worst possible school —the school of the cold and conceited Scotch philo sophy of the end of the last century—by his Lord ships's early entanglement in fierce provincial politics, and by his long-continued connection with a party the most eminently calculated to foster the vices of such an education and of such an early bias. It is only since the desertion of him and of their own Party, and th e l e i sure isbeoynthinisuance of prof ess i ona l l a b our, a n m ding to , g th i% a .e t the fai public have fair professed consequent upon rinci p a l e di h s a timate of th ose v i rtues and play to his havebedispositionsen aa able oe wteoand r L i nh o irsdaußjn just o set u r s g et those powers which , " me ant for mankind," were too long engaged in an unworthy p art y s ervice. We say, the public; for all who knew anything of Lord Brough am ' s his priv a t e personal that w whatever practice—thatc ha a ra s et appe arede tt r hhe a endmvery ms personalto disingenuous on h t i r s a t o s rt 3, were we ll aware, objectionable i n hi s pu bli c conduct 'oand f acrimo nious debater in the House of Commons was a man of the most simple and kindly conversation in private society—that he who too often slighted the obligations of honour and generosity in his professed doctrine, formed his own life upon the most honourable model, and indulged in a generous temper beyond what ordinary prudence would justify— or, to say all in one word, that the chief promoter of the cold-hearted New Poor-law Bill w as one w h o h'td eo d f r e Lordd. If, i n d ee d, we Brougham, it actually, without a murmur, sacrificed hi mse lf to t h e haveinterests now of t h l i a s m friendsentthe anddeath a t h k n will be the sorrow for " Genius and worth untimely lost When best employed, and wanted most." (From the Globe.) REPORTED DEATH OF LORD BROUGHAM. We are able, on the best possible authority, to relieve the public mind of the concern and anxiety which the reported death of Lord Brougham had excited so gene rally last night. The circumstantial description of the accident, and, above all, the authority on which the communication of GAMBLING IN IithLAND. The transaction detailed in the following extract of a Carlow paper has been the subject of a motion in the Queen's Bench Chamber, before Judge Burton, and will be brought forward again in the full Court in the ap proaching term SWINDLING EXTRAORDINARY.—There is no doubt that Lieutenant Maclaine, of the 7th Fusiliers, was the unfortunate victim of e. conspiracy entered into by a hatch of gamblers to plunder him. It appears that two of the craft, who reside in Dublin, having heard of the attachment of Maclaine to gambling, determined on fleecing him, and accordingly they sent a dispatch to London to a well-known swindlers, named' Coyle,' alias Antrobus, who occasionally styles himself Captain,' to iproceed without delay to Kilkenny, where they would join him, and assist in robbing Maclaine on the fashion table pretext of gambling.' Coyle left London, started for Kilkenny, and was introduced to Maclaine as a !' Captain,' and that he succeeded in his plundering spe culations our readers will learn • when they hear that Coyle and his scoundrel associates won 1,700/., for which Maclaine gave his bond. The history of Coyle is a singular one, he having contrived hitherto to elude the vigilance of the London police, although passing under different names. He is what is termed a Greek' attached to some of the hells of London, and by profes sion a swindler. This is the fellow who disposed of Mr. Maela;ne, whose deplorable condition should operate as a warning to those who are tempted to risk their cha racter and fortune on the hazard of the die."—Carlow Sentinel. The person who is stated to have acted as the decoy in this case is a magistrate of the county of Wicklow, a fine, strapping-looking hero, who sports moustachios and a splendid imperial. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. IVORSHII S -STREET. CAUTION TO WORKING MEN.—Yesterday Benjamin Simmons and Abraham Sandford, two journeymen brickmakers were charged with having stolen the sam of threepeence from the person of Francis Wicks, one of their fellow-workmen. From the complainant's statement it appeared that he had recently obtained work at a bricktield in Clap ton, where the two prisoners were also employed. On leaving the field the preceding evening, he was sur rounded by several of his fellow-labourers, who de manded from him the price of a gallon of beer, to pay what they termed " his footing." He refused to acced e to their request, a n d wa lk e d away, but the two pri soners followed him, and one of them forcibly ab straeted threepence from his pocket, which he handed to the other. Two policemen came up during the struggle, and he gave the prisoners into custody. Police constable N 174 stated that the prisoner Sim mons offered great resistance, and struck him two or three times. The other prisoner went very quietly to th e station-house. Mr. Allen, the prisoner's master, was asked by the Magistrate if it was usual amongst his men to make such a demand and to levy it by force, to which he re plied in the negative. Mr. GnovE said that if such a system existed it was a very bad one, and he should certainly have committed the prisoners to Newgate to take their trial for highway robbery, if there had not been the further charge of assault against them, which he could dispose of sum marily. The prisoner Simmons was fined 40s. or six weeks' imprisonment ; the other prisoner 20s. or one month. LISBON, OCT. 14.—Lord Palmerston, it appears, has notified to this Government that he has taken it upon himself to appropriate a sum of about 4,000/., which was due to Portugal, as a balance for vessels improperly captured by English ships of war cruising against the slave trade, to the part payment of certain claims made upon Portugal by some British subjects. Of this money 1,5001. have been, or are about to be given to Sir J. M. Doyle, and 1,000/. to General Bacon, under the head of ceinpansation ; to the former for his incar ceration by Don Miguel, and to the latter for his ex pulsion from this country in 1837. A Cabinet Council was held immediately after the receipt of this commu nication, to which several of the leading members of the Cortes were invited, to deliberate upon the answer to be returned to it. I know not what passed at it fur ther than that they, one and all, showed themselves most indignant, and that an opinion was expressed and unanimously concurred in, that if the question had been with France, Russia, or any other powerful nation, the British Government would not have ventured upon so arbitrary a proceeding as, that of placing the disputed claims of third parties as a set off against an acknow ledged debt. DUNDEE, OCT. 17.—EMIGRATION.--Yester day, forty-five individuals left this town by the Dundee steam-ship, for London, thence to proceed to France, where they are to be employed in the manufacturing interest. The great majority of these emigrants were women, there being only ten or twelve men and three children amongst them all. THE BRITISH QUEEN STEAM-SHIP.-DIA BOLICAL ATTEMPT.—PreViOUS to the British Queen leaving New York the engineer detected several pieces of iron put into th e mac hi nery b y some ev il dis posed person, which would have caused extensive des truction had the discovery not been made in time. This should be a warning to a ll eng i neers to exam i ne their machinery carefully w h enever t h ey h ave b een i n a po sition admitting of the possibility of malicious persons having access to their vessels. The officers o f the Bri tish Queen have not been able to fix suspicion on any particular party.--Garotte. DARING ROBBERY ON SALIS BURY PLAIN. GALLANT CAPTURE OP ilk *6iltiß - AND SUDDEN DEXTH OF ONE OF A.bant :is o'clock on the evening of the 2241 itiStat4, ads Mr. Death a respectable farmer, of Imber, was re turning from neviZes green Fair, after he had passed through West Lavington, and just as he had entered Salisbury Hain, he was attacked by four men, who vio lently pulled him off his horse, put their hands upon his mouth, and rifled his pockets, from which they took OK, and then decamped. In a few minutes after Mr. Morgan, of Chitteen, came up, and hearing of what had taken place, turned his horse, and boldly pursued the robbers, with whom he soon came up. In consequence of the rascals threatening him, he was obliged to keep at a distance, but at the same time giving the alarm and retaining sight of them, until Mr. Hooper, of Gore Farm, came with some men, and a double barrelled gun, to his assistance. After three boars' hot pursuit, and considerable resistance from the robbers, three out of the four were captured. No sooner had the fellows been seized, than one of them suddenly fell down and expired. It was thought at first that he feigned death, but after more minute inspection it was found that he was really dead. On the following morning the route which the robbers had taken was ex• amined, when all the money taken on the previous eve ning was found. There is no doubt but these men are connected with a strong gang of the most daring robbers, who have been infest►ng the Plain for the last twelve months. Not a single week for the last three months has passed without one or two robberies having been committed on some part of the Plain. S. Whitchurch, Esq.. Mayor of Devizes, has been occupied the whole of this day (Tuesday) in examining witnesses, &e., in consequence of pocket picking and robbing yesterday and last night, and the result of which has been, the committal of from twelve to four teen prisoners, to take their trial at the next borough sessions. We have received the following paragraph from a gentleman who signs himself " a Manufacturer of Lan zashire :—" The step taken by the Bank of England, hos tile both to the Country Banks and to the country ge nerally, seems now to resolve itself into a defensive and offensive war of extermination, and we hope and trust the country will ride triumphant over monopoly. I ad vise the Country Banks to make all mu:tents they can in bills of three months, and not in cash ; to is:•ue their notes where cash is absolutely necessary, as in cases of the payment of wages. To pay balances on exchange of each other's notes in bills of three months' date, adjusting balance of interest between each other. To send all Bank of England notes up to London and the Branches, and get gold for them and to make no compro mise in any shape with the old lady in Threadneedle street, and we shall soon see who will first repent the obnoxious resolution taken. Let the country only be true to itself; and the game will soon be up."—Preston Observer. AN INDIAN THIEF.—One evening at dusk, a I certain Syce (groom) who had charge of a horse, picketed at some distance from his master's tent, was abruptly addressed by a stranger, who said to him, " I advise you, my friend, to take care of your nag, for this right I intend to steal it." Having thus spoken, he retired about twenty paces, and there squatted himself on the ground with the greatest in difference, facing the groom, who astonished at his cool impudence, stood transfixed with his eyes intent upon him. On reflection, however, it struck him that he appeared the stronger man of the two, and as his assailant had no weapon but a short bamboo cane, he felt himself equal to the contest in case of necessity ; perhaps he felt ashamed to call for assistance without with further assurance of the man's evil intentions ; as it seemed very improbable that he would have pro claimed them had he been in earnest. Meantime, the shades of night gradually deepened into darkness ; yet, still these two parties remained apparently in slain quo i. e. the groom keeping steadfast watch on the immove able stranger. Suddenly he was startled by the sound of a horse's hoof behind him, within six paces. He turned round, and behold his charge was gone, and already lost in the darkness. In an agony of terror he rushed on the still, quiet, mysterious visitor, that he might retain his body as a security and called aloud for aid. His surprise may be better imagined than described, when he found nothing but the bamboo stuck in the ground, and a turban placed upon it, and the white garments of the stranger transferred from his own shoulders, and artfully disposed around it. When it had become dark enough for his purpose, the thief had gradually divested himself of his clothing, and arranged it so like himself to all appearance as to deceive the poor Syce, and then silently withdrawing himself in snakelike fashion on his belly, had succeede in getting round and finally effecting the theft, by cutting the head and heel ropes of the horse, mounting, and away ! His original warning to the Syce was an artifice to draw the man's attention from his charge, by attracting it to himself.—Memoirs of a Cadet. NERVES AND BRAINS.—There are thousands of women in " this earth of ours" who never think that they can be sufficiently interesting but when they are complaining of some derangement of their nervous systems, and who, through a silly vanity of this kind, contrive to torment, with their simulated or imaginary ailments, their fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts , , lovers, husbands, friends, relations, and neighbours; and each and every animal, rational and irrational, that has the ill luck to come with n the reach of their influence. To these we would humbly submit the following passage for serious and atten tive consideration ; and if the inference plainly de ducible from it be not that if they had more brain they would have less nerve, or that the proportion o f brain and nerve in any animal is always in an inverse ratio, we shall positively recommend nervous hypochondraism as the most agreeable mode of enjoying existence :—" Soemmering has observed that man has the largest brain, in proportion to the nerves given off from it, and that this proportional magnitude tray, in every instance, be referred to as the best criterion of the degrees of intelligence. Now it appears to me not at all difficult to account for this fact (the general truth of which may be granted), by comparing it with an other not less important—viz., that in the inferior classes of animals the nervous system becomes, as we descend, more and more widely diffused." This proportion of nerves and brains graduates through creation till we come to the lowest animals, which are all nerve and no brain.—Discoveries iu the Nervous System. A Novel, entitled " Preferment," has just been completed by the practised hand of Mrs. Gore, and is likely to appear in the course of the present month. Report announces this new work of one of the most po pular writers of the day to contain an exposure of the abuses of the Church patronage system now prevailing in England. HOWELL, ROBERTS, AND JONES.—We have received a long article, entitled an Address to the friends of humanity in behalf of Messrs. Howell, Ro berts, and Jones, who were sentenced at the Warwick Assizes to death, for having taken part in the riots at Birmingham. Their sentence was subsequently com muted, but what is to be their ultimate fate, we are'uot aware. They are we believe still in prison, and almost forgotten. We cannot publish the address, beeause it is too long, and somewhat, we regret to say, too vitu perative. We must content ourselves with stating that the writer calls on all Unions, Benefit and Trade So cieties, and indeed every friend to the oppressed, to exert themselves and form a Committee, whose sole object shall be to procure the return of these men, whose only crime is Chartism, into the bosoms of their dis tracted families. We believe and trust that the object proposed by the writer Will be more likely to be ob tained by this brief notice of his address, than by pub lishing it. He will find it in the office of our publisher, addressed to a " Middle-Class Chartist," if he wish to reclaim it. MILITARY MEN OF FIFE.—The following re• markable anecdote was told by General Durham at the ordinary of the late meeting of the Caledonian Hunt in Cupar, in returning thanks for the army :—" I have nn former occasions," said the gallant veteran, now in his seventieth year of service, "mentioned in public that at one period of the late war there were no fewer than seventeen general officers in the army belonging to the county of Fife, and that to this no county in Scotland could produce a parallel. As the correctness of this statement has been doubted, I shall now give you their names ; they were—the Earl of Hopetoun, the Earl of Balcarres, the Earl of Egin, Sir John Oswald, Sir Ronald Ferguson, General the Hon. John Leslie, Gene ral the Hon. David Leslie, Sir William Erskine, Sir David Erskine, General Wemyss, General Ramsay, General Durham, General Moncrieffe, General An struther, General Grahame Stirling, General Nisbet Balfour, and General Clephane—(Great applaus 6 ) — and having named these, I think I am safe in saying that no county in Scotland but Fife could boast of the like." A HOUSE OF ONE'S 0 wN.--To those of the middle walks of life we would say, " Beware of the indulgence of a house of one's own." It is often one of great cxpense,and not (as is erroneously believed) of economy. True, it may not be in the outset a very heavy purchase, scarcely amounting to its former rent, but when " the house is our own," we fondly think, " Oh, it wants this room papering, and the other paint ing, and a tr ellice run up here will make it quite de lightful ; and as it is our own, we may as well at once have these small alterations made, and then we can enjoy them. So long as we continued to rent the house, I never should have thought of spending money on another's property; but really these additions will e sh n e e li r s h , a'e perhaps, tlie com fortlo them a o s f k tei z l e l h ,r c u s z whether, while e o w yet they rented the same house, it neer ted paperi ng , pa i nt i ng, or a tre lli ce to enhance its com. - . arts ; but indulging in the common error adds one expel ,:se upon another, in the disguise of comforts, till each aevolving year they find that their "improvements" u hay t! run up accounts which still re quire gas rent to pay them. Few of the innocent am a s large indulgences as of a work a-day life are such ex-; P cn. "' G ' to y s as is " a. 'house of our own."—Metropolitan. EVENING EDITIONT LATEST FROM EGYPT. ~ ( - From the Sud of Marseilles.) A LIt*A`NDRIA, OCT. 7.—Mehemet Ali, to get from the fatiguing and barren entreaties of the Co; has gone to Cairo, On Sept. 30, arrived the En,,, I . •c e fth " ing r Vulcan, filmJxlalta, with the London mail. b:," yet transpired concerning Colonel Camp bell's despatches, yet we are assured that the English Consul has received assurances from his Court that coercive measures will be employed against Mehemet Ali to compel him to restore the Ottoman fleet. Co lonel Campbell had a conference immediately with M. Ctoc:iche joist l le th t and Count eyicero a .11 , e m t l ß de ose , t who left immediately ta ' .Heretur ncdth f e a f t o e i r . lowing day, not having been able to see Mehmet Ali, who had left two hours before he arrived. On the arrival of the French packet, the Vicero y's despatches from Constantinople were sent to him imnso diately. He was then at Cafre Lazar, and received them •at midnight. Mehemet was very impatient for the arrival of the courier, and got up to read his despatches. He was much pleased with their contents, and exclaimed " The Sultan and Sultana are both my friends. Chosrew cannot long retain his post, for he is universally hated." " M. Tosizza, the Grecian Consul, who accompanied Mehemet on this trip, arrived here yesterday. He left his Highness on the Zjth at Cafre Lazar, just as he was embarking for Cairo, in excellent liesith. Mehe met does not intend returning to Alexandria before next spring. " It is reported among the people that Ottoman agents have arrived in Egypt to assassinate Mehemet. In passing by Cafre Mawo (a village on the banks of Nile) the Viceroy heard that some Arabs had spread this report. He was so affected by it, that he ordered two of them to be immediately decapitated. We hear that the principal reason for Mehemet Ali's secret de parture was the dread of the crews of the Ottoman fleet, from whom he concealed his departure for Cairo. " The Consuls were much disconcerted by this un foreseen circumstAnce, and are only waiting the next packet to repair to the capital. The Austrian Consul has assembled his countrymen to inform them that his Government had acceded to the treaty of commerce between England, Fiance, and Turkey for the abolition of monopolies, and that the treaty would be put. into execution forthwith. " The English steamer has given up going to Bey rout ; despatches for ria are taken in a sailing vessel. No news from Syria. Ibrahim is still at Marasch, ready to advance at the first signal. The English and French Consuls have each demanded a station for two ships of war to protect the European colony at Alex andria." S 1 , . 4 a WK . ,nsuls/ t rlids.;Ai:4ll nglishc ' • STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER.--There was an exceedingly gloomy market yesterday, and goods and yarns of almost all de scriptions were quoted lower than on the preceding Tuesday. In consequence of the Unfavourable pros pects for the coming winter, a number of individual spinners and manufacturers in various parts of the neigh bourhood have already ceased to light up their factories. We have not heard of any general agreement to that effect ; but understand that several meetings, for the purpose of considering the subject, are in contem plation. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, OCT. 14.—We have had but a very indifferent market to-day, the demand has been slack, and the number of pieces sold limited. The prices are about the same as those of last week. In the Wool Market there is no change to report ; the manufacturers buy both sparingly and cautiously. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET. OCT. 15.—There is no new feature in this day's market for the better. Like the weather, all is gloomy and discouraging, with al most a complete stagnation in every description of goods except low fancy woollens. CAMPAIGN 1N ARKAGON. The first decisive act of the campaign which Espar tero now enters on, will be the siege of Segura, the fall of which will bring that of Alcaga and Montalvan. The army is advancing towards these towns in three columns, one by Daroca, another by Hijar, and a third by the upper valley of the Rio St. Martin. The Com mander-in-Chief attacks the mountainous country from the side of the Castile, taking as the basis of his ope rations the great road between Saragossa and Valencia. This plan ensures the safe arrival of the convoys for supplying the army ; it takes from Cabrera the possibi lity of making an incursion into Castile, and leaves him no retreat except by the Lower Ebro. Cabrera can no longer execute a diversion in Castile, except in very small bands. But if he himself, with the mass of his army, tried to get through them, he would infallibly be intercepted by superior forces, and be unable to get back to his fortresses. For this reason he is concen trating his force beneath these fortresses, in order to oppose their being besieged. The army of Espartero is formed into four divisions, commanded by the Generals Leon, Samper, Urala, and Castenada. A fifth division called the vanguard, is commanded by General Aspirot. The artillery, com posed of forty mounted cannon and twelve mortars is distributed amongst the five divisions. A park of heavy artillery follows at two days' march behind the army. The Commander-in•chief is always escorted by two squadrons of three hundred horse, taken from all the army. Espartero has often charod - fhttfteray With' thir escort, and twice in critical .eirdusastances has thus de cided the victory. . • , The provinces of Arragon and Madrid have taken very extensive measures to ensure the subsistetiee and , pay of this army, A great quantity of provisions has been collected at Saragossa, with ample ,means of trans port. Corn is abundant in Arragon—meat seems to be wanting, Cabrera having driven away all the sheep into the mountains. The pay and rations of the troops are ensured. The peasants, no longer under the influence of the terror.of Cabrera, since they see a competent force . of Constitutionalists to protect them, serve and supply the latter willingly. This division is destined t 3 pursue any band which Cabrera might detach towards the province of Cuenca. This chief has extended his conquests so far, that he possesses two small strongholds in Castile—Caneta io the province of Cuenca, and Beleta in the province of Gnadalaxara ; they communicate with Can•avieja by` the mountain chain of Albarazitn. But this communi cation will be intercepted as soon as Espartero can Bur , : round the principal fortresses. Cabrera has in his power -2,500 Constitutional pri. goners, and 500 hostages of every age and sex—unfor tunate persons whom he treats in the most barbarous manner, in order to extract from them large ransoms. His ferocity seems to increase as the tempest approaches which is gatherinc , round him. The rumours of transuc clan which are abroad seem very improbable, from the proclamation of General Espartero, in which Cabrera and the Count d'Espagne are called two monsters, thirsty for blood. But it is probable that some of the secondary chiefs will be induced to make their sub- mission. The Carlist Chief, Cabanero, marches with the staff to the General. Cabanero is a rich proprietor of Lower Arragon, who declared for the cause of Don Carlos from aversion to the revolutionary excesses at the time of the massacres of mocks, which uselessm fined constitutional Spain. It is he who, with B,ooofas n, eighteen months ago, surprised Saragossa, and peny netrated into the centre of that great city, from whieb he was repulsed by the valour of the inhabitants. Ca banero not having been sufficiently assisted by Cabrera in so arduous an undertaking, thought the latter wanted to sacrifice him to his jealousy ; hence their enmity. A part of the battalions of Cabrera have been formed by Cabanero. He exercises the greatest moral influence, not only upon his own sfAcliers, but also upon the pea sants of this country, who know and honour him. Ills presence in the inidt:t of the Constitutional army will, perhaps, have important results. Espartera /ass, also with him two Chiefs of Constitutional corps, VE-,' Ms and Baguet . , who are acquainted with the most itt tricate paths of these mountains, in which they fought so long. General O'Donnell marches from Valencia' towards Teruel, in which is already a division of his army corn- , ed by General Claveria.—,lournal des Debals. wand o us to his visiti ng 1 Cast . le, had been t o meet i the l - ~ .\o i r a d r q .l u a i smoefspSiittueadrtt, why,Cardiff F, re v 1 his constituents in Ayrshire, has joined Lady James S tua rt and family at -Malvern Wells, from Wal es . -- The Right Hon. Lord Ashburton arrived at Devonport on Thursday last, from Kingsbridg where his Lordship h as recently purchased the beaut:i ulanOr of Charleton. l a 3 y A a ST P A ct ß:l s ' ess L io A ns W i T r N ,O LAW--NOVEL 'EI Southwark CWtass CASE.- On 1 i O n n t N h ' e lE'""e7 :.e d stry-room of St. Saviour 'a Church, for the 1 pn application urpose o ofhearn the in part gparis of the parish cases. Amongst on Ar i . these ll i n t o wag n a St. George's to affiliate a female infant : hoard of guardians of who at the time of the birth of the child was one of the guardians of the parish. Mr. Corner, the vestry-clerk ()f defendant, S t .° (dare's, e a ' id i who e thought appeared there l''st I:veo ullefableadnviser of the t I to do so, as he should he able to show that the ° enhcieldeswslaYs I now above three months old, and had been chargeable ever since her birth. By the Act under which the guardians sought to affiliate it was expressly stated that the application should be made within three months after the child had become chargeable. Such proviso not having been complied with the parties were conse quently out of Court. Mr. Boxer, who appeared for the g u a rdians, contended that the meaning of the clanse referred to was that it should be within three months after the passing of this Act, and therefore they were in time. A long discussion ensued as to the expiration iv o e r n no n-expiration of the time allowed by the Act for mak ing applications . Mr. Weston here consulted with his brother ol e i\ l o a f g i: h t e r a a t e rg , u a r zi n tssai t d beir mature that, after consideration., g he and his c olleagud had decided that they would hear evidence in support of the case. Notice of appeal was immediate l y g iven, Mr. Corner observing that the ease wou ld not end at the sessions, for if def eated they I I determined to carr y it to the highest Court. . - were ~.