The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

ORT?I BRTTISTI AILIIAY., ().; re:l7y Tiow preceed•ng at ail pats vsiLh gi eat vigour awl ue our ovi,n city the changes caused by this great work are not among the least striking. At the Calton-hill, Where the line piercs the hill, the face of the declivity is cut into so as to make it steeper than ever, while the workmen plying their vocation at various heights on the hill, give the whole -a singular appearance. Here also the wall is considerably raised on the north s:de of the North Back of Canongate, whence a bridge is to be thrown aea - oss the street on the progress of the line to its terminus at the North-bridge. Preparations are also making for the bridge that crosses the Abbey-hill at Simpson's coach-work; and the retaining wall there has already attained a considerable elevation. The houses 'facing the street here still stand ; but several that stood behind them have been removed to make room for the em bankment that is to carry on the line in its progress. From this point to the Meadow-bank Brewery, there is little trace of the works; but near this latter point, and just where the line enters the low grounds at Craigentinny, the surface of the ground has been removed, and workmen are busily employed driving piles to give a foundation for the extensive works that are intended to carry the line over to thehigh grounds east of Piershill. Here we believe a viaduct is to cross the post-road, but nothing has yet been done with that view ; and the next trace of the railway is to be found in a field adjoining the old Roman road to Portobello, now generally known ' as the Fishwives' Causeway. Here the portion of ground intended for railway purposes has been staked out, and workmen are employed to remove the sod. From this point the line proceeds to the southward of Portobello, and on the high ground above that town a considerable number of men ,are employed. The ground has not only been marked out, but the surface has been removed for a consider able length of road, preparatory to a deeper levelling, while iron rails and waggons are also collected in the immediate neighbourhood, with a view, we presume, to the formation of a temporary railroad fur removing the soil. Near the easternmost part of Portobello the railroad crosses the road from that town to the vil lage of Easter Duddingstone, which it will do at a lower level ; and a good deal of progress has already been made here, in building the walls of a bridge which is to span the line, while the forma ' tion of the ordinary road, slightly altered in its course, and considerably heightened in its inclination, is pretty far advanced already. Further on the line crosses the road to a quarry in the neighbourhood, from which the greater part of the stones for the • bridge are being procured. Here the railway goes above the road, and a viaduct is to be thrown over the - road. Here the side walls of the bridge are up to the level of the road, and a number of workmen are busily employed rearing it further. A little onward the line encounters the small stream that falls into the sea near the Magdalen Foundry ; but operations do not seem to have yet commenced here. From the ra pidity with which all these works are prosecuted, however, and the course adopted of commencing the more difficult parts of the line first, we cannot doubt that two years, or little more, will see this extensive line in full operation.—Edinburgh Evening Courant. SCOTCH BANKING. At• the general meeting of the Edinburgh Mer chant Company, held in their Hall on Monday, J. P. MITCHELL, the Chairman, said he need hardly advert to the great interest which this subject was exciting among all classes in Scotland, especially among the mercantile and trading classes, further than to say, that that interest and excitement had induced him, along with deputations representative other public bodies, to call upon their representative, Mr. B. Macau lay, when recently in Edinburgh, and lay before him all the information in their power with respect to the working of the present banking system, its perfect safety, the satisfaction of all classes of society with it, and their alarm at the prospect of its being in any way interfered with. Mr. Macaulay certainly heard the deputation with willingness and attention, but the feeling which seemed to be uppermost with him was just this—it seems to be the impression in the minds of all Englishmen, that gold in the shape of sovereigns is a good thing to circulate south of the Tweed, and . they cannot understand why in that case they should not be an equally good medium of cir culation to the north of the Tweed. This statement would show them what was in the minds ofpublic men ; it was an index of the general state of feeling among the leading statesmen ; and Scotchmen—especially all the Scotch traders and merchants, must make up their minds to use strong exertions if they would preserve a continuance of the present system of bank : mg, which had wrought so well for all classes and in terest in the country, and without any injury what . ever. They must join the noblemen and gentlemen of the counties, and other public bodies who were now moving to preserve the present system of bank ing. It may be all true that the sovereign currency did well in England, but it could never do in Scot . land, where they were so far removed from London, and where their transactions were generally of a much smaller kind than in England. He could easily show that the system would be most expensive, for , the trading part of the community would have to boar the expense bf the heavy exchanges between town and town, and they would be continually in volved in a scarcity of the circulating medium. It was the duty of Scotland to stand up and decide this question, before anything was done at ell in the way of preparing an Act of Parliament. If they did so, the Prime Minister would not run in the face of the united feelings and sentiments of the whole people. It was agreed to remit the matter to the Master • and Assistants with the addition of Mr. Cadell. Mr. JAMES M'LAaEs wondered that Sir Robert Peel should have such an extraordinary anxiety about the stability of Scotch banks—it would be more werth his attention to look after the banking system of Eng land, which had never been in so safe a state that it should be put forward as an example to this part of the empire. But what was the evidence that the Scottish banking system was unsafe ? Could any thing be safer? The paper circulation throughout the whole country by all the banks did not exceed three or four millions of money. To back that paper circulation, which was absolutely necessary for the purposes of commerce, there was a proprietary capital of twelve millions sterling, which was at all times liable to make good any deficiencies that could pos sibly occur. They were told, notwithstanding the perfect security and convenience of the present sys tem, that Mr. Macaulay seemed to justify interference with it on the ground, that if a gold currency had don 3 well in England, it would also do well in Scot land. He (Mr. M'Laren) would reverse that senti ment, and maintain that England's currency had never been so safe as Scotland's, and he would draw from that fact the conclusion, that a gold currency having always worked ill in Ingland—he meant as compared with the small note currency of Scotland— jit would undoubtedly, if introduced into Scotland, work as ill there as it had done in the south. Mr. CADELL said, that the country would be roused from one end to the other to tell Sir Robert Peel that they would not allow their banking system to be trifled with. Where was there a shadow of evi dence or of reas m for meddling with a system which all agreed had worked to the satisfaction of all inte rests throughout the country ? A Parliamentary Committee in 1826, in consequence of the strong opinion then expressed, declared that the system, having worked so well, it ought not to be meddled with. hey had had eighteen years further practieal experience of the working of the system, and what had occurred since then to make an alteration necessary in 1844, which, in 1826, was found to be impolitic and un reasonable? If they had learned anything in that time, it was to value more and more their banking • system, which had stood safe when that of England had frequently brought the country into jeopirdy. He hoped that the company, and all the other public bodies, would take up firmer ground on this great question, and adopt the most decided steps to crush the plasject at its outset. After some remarks by Mr. M'FARLAN, power was given to the . Master and Assistants to watch the pro gress of matters, and to co-operate with other bodies. HURRAH FOR HIGIPBANDED JUSTICE ! —We are glad to see that the wisdom of our ancestors, as evinced in the punishment of offenders, whi w ch, e fea . red, had fallen into gene ral contempt, continues, in some favoured nooks of these dominions, to overn the pro ceedings of the magistracy. A gloriougs case occurred at the Banbury Petty Sessions. One John Coggins, labourer, was charged with an offence against the game laws. He had been seen, on the morning of the Ist of September, walking about in a stubble field , with a gun. William Co yling, one of the Earl of Jersey s lookers-out, saw him, the rascal I Coggins, to be sure , had no dog, nor did any gam get up, neither did he fire ; but witness took his gun away. A stupid jury BRUTALITY.—Mr. Higgs on Thursday resumed the might have doubted whether he was sparrow shooting or inquest on the body of a woman named Parker, whose not, or have believed his story, that he was going to husband was in custody, awaiting the result, it being gu toard his tato crop. But he had a true English ma - alleged th at his brutal violencwards an, herthe had cause g trate deal with, who was too deep for the ro g ue. her d eath. On a post mortem examin to ati surgens Mr. Matthews said it was painful to him to address gave it as their opinion tha t this violence, though it had the pris oner . Of course . Mr. Matthews, says undoubtedly accelerated, had not directly caused, he. the Times reporter, i s a clergyman, as well death. The coroner deeply regretted that on this evi as a sportsman ; and we ma excuse the weak - dente it would be useless to commit the prisoner, even n ess, particularly aslir. Matthew s, - for manslaughter. The jury de clared he was one of the sibilities, inflicted on the offender a penalty of ten greatest ruffians they had ever heard of, and returned a pounds, and said a dist ress w declared should be levied for 1 verdict in accordance with the medical evidence, but the amount. Coggins fetch that money. •• Then," sai d theh goods would not I also expressed very strongly their feeling o f the brutal committedwould have (how well a malediction in a lay mouthiust Matthews treatment the poor woman had received from her husband sounded after the " Then I") " you stan d BL.tNDFORD, OCTOBER 22.—A meeting was held two months' hard labour." Coggins will probably for 1 at the Town Hall, at a very short notice, relative ruined, with his wife and family, if he ha s any. This i to a line of railroad proposed to be adopted by the the way to keep fellows in order. This is the method South-Western Railway Compqny, to bring a branch from their line to Salisbury, Cranbourne, I , Virnborne, VI teach people what they are at. Would that our wu ndford, Dorchester, and Weymouth. The meeting 'squirearchy had still the making of the laws. Rogues well attended, an d the--subject appeared to excite w ould soon see what was what. Oh, for the good old much i nterest. Pros peetuse s w i ll days of the stoc ks, the p illory, and the gallows ! Alas 1 I further partic u l ars shortly be issued, and e public,--Sherburne Journal. they scarcely ever bang anybody now .—Punch. • . YIESIVIERIS3I IN EDINBURGEL SPIRIT or the ii-q./8!..1C -.I 4 t.n.. T RNA LS, 1 The most prominent topic of discussion at present FROM TIIC MORNING PAPERS 0F THIS DAY. in the norther 1 ni , tropolis i, 1`.1.-stnerimn, demon-tra TIMES. —lt is now near three centuries since not tion o: + hich s''-tulle 1 s-i.nce have. b.. n repeatedly the least illuszrious in a long and splendid line of tier; sovereigns bestowed the none and impress of ro-.7alty attended by nearly all the University rufe ,,, orw now on the central seat of British commerce. To the in the city, as well as by Professor Liebiz , Mr. George Combe, and a considerable number of other opening vision and enterprise of that era it seemed a , memorable day ; and, though the intervening period distinguished in the world of science and has not been barren of events, the day is memorable letters. The following, which appears in the supple ment of the last North 3ritish Advertiser, is, we un- still. that,, commerce, whose interests Elizabeth derstand, from the pen of Bon Gaultier : so solemnly identified with the glory of her crown, a " The recentlectures and experiments of Mr. Spencer adds daily fresh lustre to the history of its early Hall in this city have revived the interest in Mes - s truggles. Vast changes since have been; the great of the earth have been laid low ; empires have de • merism, which had been in a great measure shaken by the somewhat suspicious demonstrations o f the caged, fleets disappeared, and crowded ports gone c lecturers on the same subject who bad previously back to desert strands. That ambitious power which menaced the universal liberty of man, which visited us. The facts of Mesmerism are of a nature so startling, and many of the demonstrat ion s s o clearly claimed a new world as the smallest of its dowries, of a kind which it is possible , th ou g h p erha p s only and concentrated against this island the utmost just possible, to imitate, that we must be satisfied not of its strength and fury, instantly and con merely of the integrity, but also of the sagacity of the tinually from that time has sunk to nothingness operator, before we can yield them our belief. Both and shame, and now is scarcely told among these qualities Mr. Hall obviously possesses in a re- the nations. Meanwhile the British merchant markable degree. A mind that has from childhood has gradually and peacefully won the prize for which taken nothing upon trust, that has always kept a free conquerors vainly contended. Small beginnings, ge open eye and heart to the impressions and impulses nerous ambition, steady perseverance, equal rights, of nature, and accustomed' itself to build its know- and social duties, have raised him to be the head who ledge, wherever it was possible to do so, upon facts was the tail ; and in the busy Exchange we now see and individual experience, seems to render him pe- not merely the seat of a thriving trade, but the real culiarly fitted for investigating the subject to which source and centre of the greatest and most beneficial he has for some years devoted his whole energies, earthly dominion. The day will not be less memo while the combination of these qualities with a can- rable on which Victoria has renewed, with tenfold dour, simplicity, and frankness, which at once inspire significance, her predecessor's auspicious act. In the confidence in his sincerity, and a modest caution in comparative infancy of commerce, a wise polici or a drawing his deductions, entitle him to a fair and full noble condescension might have induced the Tudor hearing for whatever he may have to adduce. Queen to lend it her presence and her name. It is "The phenomena which he elicits are of so singular no longer a prophetic sense, or a patronage of weak a kind—not only so unlike, but so contrary to, or- ness. Commerce is now but another name for British dinary experience—that they must be seen to be strength and greatness. Merchants have grown to believed. The story of the enchanter in the Arabian merchant Princes, and are the chief feoffees of Nights, who held the Prince spellbound in a chair the Crown. To them it owes that a seventh of for years, has ceased to be a fable. He did no more the human kind obeys and loves the British rule; than we have seen Mr. Hall do, in a less degree, again to them and to their inexhaustible means it and again. But had we not seen this with our own owes a power of peace and war beyond the eyes we must have regarded both cases as equally faculty of armies; to them the respectful homage fabulous. of every realm that ocean hives. The Queen of "It will not do to maintain, as we have heard some merchants does but close intuitively and inevitably w do, that such phenomena are produced by collusion. with her high calling, when she holds her court in Mr. Hall is above suspicion, and the inducements to the Merchants' Hall. In a palace worthy of the oc the parties operated upon to act contrary to his will casion, and worthy to be called her own, yester were too powerful to leave a doubt that they would da y p resided, not merely the Sovereign of she a powerful have done so if they could. The strongest instance nation, but the head and governor of a social fabric of this which we have seen occured at a demonstra- which has filled the earth with its blessings. She tion, a few evenings ago, at a private house in the there was seen, as it were, in the most intimate pre- New Town of Edinburgh, in presence of a party of sence of her own peculiar empire. And of all merely gentlemen met for the purpose of testing some of Mr. human occasions what can compare with that when Hall's experiments. The patients were four in num- a Sovereign is publicly invested with the most sub ber—three of them lads earning from 3s. 6d. to 53. stantial and abiding of earthly powers, and crowned per week, and the fourth a person to whom with the truest and most innocent of human prosperi t srenty pounds must have been an important sum. ties? The extorted homage of conquered princes, the Mr. Hall, first, by what appeared a mere effort of unwillin g obedience of injured or of humbled realms, will, made one of the lads unable to move from the are but a base triumph—the unreal advantage of one, place where he stood ; another was rendered unable Purchased by the real calamity of many. In those either to walk or to drop a walking-stick which was petty conflicts it is impossible but that one must lose put into his hand ; the third found himself incapable what another gains, and one must fall for another to of rising from the chair in which he sat; while the rise ; but in that field of honourable rivalry where our fourth, who was told to rest his right knee upon Sovereign yesterday sat triumphant, the case is con a chair, could neither withdraw it nor move his spicuously otherwise. There to be great is to impart other leg, While thus riveted, the operator offered greatness ; pre-eminence shows the greater benefactor; twenty pounds to the boy who was then rooted to the the blessings of giving and receiving • , re indissolubly ground, if he would abstain from sitting down in connected; honour is the invariable test of utility, a chair which was placed at the distance of a few feet and no one rises upon his fellow-men, but only will from him, and he likewise offered the same sum them. So it is with the Sovereign—with the whole to each of the other parties who should not go ou t of empire—with every subject. Her Majesty appeared the room. In a few seconds, the boy who was st a nd- the foremost tenant of earthly thrones, because ing threw himself into the chair — the l ad who was her rule is the greatest interchange of benefits—the largest communication of Heaven's bounties. She was sitting sprang up and darted out of the room—the fingers of the boy who held the stick forced them- surrounded by subjects who are prosperous because selves open, and he shuffled , by working his heels they have augmented the prosperity of their species, and whose wealth is only their fair and modest and toes alternately, out of the room also. He could portion out of the public wealth which their pro notinge- walk, his legs having been previously made rigid nuity and enterprise have created and diffused. by Mr. Hall. The fourth patient withdrew his knee from the chair, and after resisting the influence Service in that system is the rule of rank. He for three minutes and a half (the time fixed by Mr. stands highest who works most truly and indus- Hall for accomplishing the experiment being five triously under the Author and Giver of all good minutes), sprang forward into the adjoining room, things. Every b e nefit there denotes another. If all to which Mr. Hall had withdrawn. Here collusion other climes and people toil for us, it is because we was out of the question. The patients were strangers toil for them. If they pour in their tributes, it is to Mr. Hall,—twenty pounds a-piece was a bribe too the equivalent return for our subsidies. Such is the tempting to be slighted,—and to suppose that they reign of kindness, of mutual help and encouragement, had either been promised, or had hopes of a larger of combined progress, and of common victory, in which our Sovereign yesterday placed her throne, the sum for co-operating with Mr. Hall, would have most favoured, most loved, and most beneficent of been simply ridiculous. It was plain, that the parties earthly potentates. It is seldom that great acts can be would have won the money if they could. Their will was opposed to the operator's, but their limbs repeated with equal greatness. A singularity, a once were entirely subservient to his control. Here, then, for all, stamps every higher occasion of history, de was an undeniable fact, directly at variance with all terring the boldest imitator, and humbling the most our previous experience. How is scepticism to ex- rightful successor to its honours. Second foundations plain it away ? Admit it, and what limits are to be are lost in the brightness of the first. Thus, the pre set to the operations of the mysterious influence by carious heroisms of a rude and barbarous age will which it is produced ? often eclipse the greater, the wiser, the more impor " The power of producing a rigidity and intensified tent, and more deliberate achievements of maturer muscular force, which shall make a delicate girl's times. Probably, however, arm oppose an easy resistance to a power that would who witnessed the scene of it occurred to no one yesterday, that it was bend a strong man's like a reed,—of twisting limbs liable to such a disparagement, any more than the acts of the child can detract from the originality of into unnatural contortions without discomfort to the patient,—of producing entire insensibility to pain in the man. The royalty of Britain has not merely been mooted, it has become something new, since the days the most sensitive parts of the body, are all facts auugs of Elizabeth. So, also, its commerce. In their, demonstrated by Mr. Hall beyond the shadow of y doubt. There is no sagacity in the scepticism h i ch glorious and most necessary union they now consti looks profound, and shakes its unbelieving head, and tute a work of the perfecting of this earth's strength asks for explanation, of why and wherefore, when and beauty, and the improvement of universal man, these phenomena are exhibited. The results are for which, excepting only what is heavenly, the all there,—there as unquestionable facts,—and it is superior economy of Grace, we shall find no earthly nothing against their reality that no unequivocal Parallel. No empire, or alliance, or mutual under rationale why they are so can be given. Principles standing of empires, can pretend either equal or like. may he guessed at, but they can be proved only by This has slowly dawned upon us, but is now manifest and uncontradicted. We saw yesterday then olemn an aggregate of facts ; and a vast variety of observe recognition of this awful trust. 'Whatever Elizabeth tion and experience is required before a science can be framed out of phenomena so new and so fluctuating as did for commerce was but a beginning of begin those of Mesmerism. But surely enough has already nings. It belonged to a different era from ours.s But little community had her ere cus ' been demonstrated to make it the duty of all lovers toms, her bought and sold monopolies, with that of truth, of all students of physiology, of all medical frees pirit which since her day has created another men worthy of their profession, to inquire earnestly into the subject. If there be no truth in this thing London on the mud-banks of the Mersey. There let it be put down as a troublesome lie •, but if there is nothing effete or decayed, no lingering ghost be truth in it, then its results should be, without of prosperity, no senility either of power or of mo rals, no obduracy of prejudice, no invincible barriers loss of time, converted, as they appear most capable of private i in British commerce, as we have of being, to the benefit of mankind. The apathy of lived to see M erest o us it is young aga glowing the medical profession on this subject is not very creditable to them. We rarely meet one of its mem- with hope, full of bursting energies, rejoicing in bers who does not admit the existence of some such strength unmeasured, prospect unlimited, contented influence or agency as that contended for by the mes- with nothing short of the earth for its field, and sub merists ; and yet, admitting this much, they are con- mitting to nothing lower than Heaven for its law. tented to let their inquiries stop here. They will let Nor will it ever be content so long as aught remains such men as Mr. Hall go on investigating the science to be done. To us British commerce is as full of through abuse, insult, and calumny, and the diffi- mysterious anticipations as if it were new born, never culty arising from imperfect scientific knowledge ; seen or told before. In the successive fabrics which and when the science is established, if established it have arisen at Cornhill in fresh and increasing splen• shall be, and there is nothing to be feared in reputa- dour on the site and ruins of their predecessors, we tion or in purse from giving countenance to it , they see an ima g e of the elastic and bounding growth of will embrace it and convert it to their profit. Is it a the system. Its best friends are its enemies, its ruin fact, or is it not, that persons are cured by Mes- its restoration, its difficulties its triumphs. Through losses, through spoliations, through fire and sword, it merism of' catalepsy, epilepsy, and all that monstrous train of nervous disorders which create much more lives and prospers. Driven into the ocean it emerges than half the ailments of civilised life ? Is it a fact, grander still. Exiled, it finds a foreign home. that by it even organic disease of the most fearful Whether menaced by an armada, or encompassed kind, as in the case of Miss with iron-closed ports and shores, it has bounded over Martineau, is alleviated, cif its enemies. The and p-ssibly removed? If these be facts — and they t hongtt tt it y crushed rcumvallations under their feet, and saw it overy seem to be demonstrated by evidence as powerful as their heads. Surrounding, they found it had mean that upon which any other facts are admitted—then while surrounded them. Beleaguered by a continent, is it indeed time, to say the very least, that the it occupied the world. There is much to make men medical faculty should devote the whole energy of scrupulous even beyond the suggestions of common their intellect and knowledge to this important subject. feeling, and the calculations of ordinary prudence, " That Mr. hall has established a great variety of how they depreciate or check so strange and mighty facts in Phreno-Mesmerism we think there can be no doubt. We have seen as little reason to suspect col- a growth of time as the present commercial position of this empire. Are there not the tokens of Heaven lusion in his demonstrations of this class of phenomena in it ? Look at the majesty of these realms ; turn as in those to which we have already alluded. In from her who sat yesterday as its visible representa fact, it would tax our belief more to conclude that tive, and expand the ken of space and time to the the parties operated upon were able to feign the mani- circumstance festations which they exhibited than to suppose whole natural and providential story of England. Nursed in the lap of ancient Europe,a mar that they were influenced by some agency to w hi ch venous child,—for a time the jealousy of nations, but we were strangers. Actors, with a natural capability now superior to envy,—enforcing the admiration of ,for expressing emotion, and who have made grace all by the manifest transcendency of her achievements and fitness of gesture and expression the study of for the universal good, she stands upon the very point a lifetime, have not been able to do what we have seen of power and enterprise, at the very mid line be illiterate boys do. Nothing in sculpture surpasses the beauty of their attitudes, nothing in features irradiated tween land and ocean, old and new, the things that by the habitual emotions of a noble and cultivated have been, and the things men hope for. On a sacred nature, is more exquisite than the expression which we soil, open to every friend, inviolable by any foe , at once a f have seen light up their features, when the organs of ortress and a refuge, she maintains a terrible et racious state. Here she guards a neutrality the higher moral faculties have beny excited. They g speak, and their stumbling grammar, halting sense, amid petty dissensions, a liberty for great designs. Safe on her charmed rock, she despises the threats or and vulgar dialect become fluent and forcible lan guage, delivered in the tones and with the manner intrigues of nations, and allies herself with the of a superior class. How comes it, if all this be wondrous powers of nature and the merciful dispen acting, that this marvellous faculty is not turned to sations of Providence,—faithful to tread the waters at account, when it would be the certain source of the heavenly call. And who can mistake her errand? wealth ? People who ask us to believe it to be acting What has the Ocean Queen before her but to pacify forget that they are taxing our credulity quite as much . universal sea and land, to conciliate divided realms, as Mr. Hall. ' and lead all men to their own best interests ? It is " Much more will require to be known and esta- hers to draw from every coast its own contributions to blished in regard to Mesmerism in all its branches, the general weal, to elicit the virtues of nature and before its uses, both as regards mental and physical the virtues of men, to make the wilderness smile with science, can be ascertained. But in the meantime, abundance,and savage men with gratitude. It is hers t en ough has been established in our opinion to entitle to people eve r y s h ore w ith th e f r i en ds of human kind, it to the thoughtful and patient scrutin y of all lovers an d teach them to pil e a t e v e ry p o rt, and interchange with every fellow-man, the m a nif o ld gifts of Heaven. of truth." For every message of love, f o r th e c o mmunication of every blessing, she is singularly provided, and sin gularly ready. Who can foretell the end of such a destiny ? It is evident that we only see the be"in ning. Hence the solemn import of yesterday's in auguration. CHRONICLE.— The magnificent scene pre sented by the metropolis yesterday, claims more at tention and suggests more matter for refl ction than courtly or civic celebrations usually do. The peace ful and decorous assemblage of such vast multitudes, preserving order, as it seemed, from a kind of in stinct, and giving way to no excitement but that of enthusiastic gratulation towards a beloved Sovereign, was a spectacle which might well excite wonder and admiration in a stranger; but it was one by no means new in the reign of Queen Victoria. Her Majesty is familiar with the sight of congregated masses. The imposing aspect of a collected people , and the shout of loyal welcome bursting from the lips and the hearts of all, have met her eye and ear too often to excite in her own or in any other mind emotions not experi enced before, The solemnities of yesterday, grand, joyous, and exhilarating as they were, contained more than this, or tht-y would leave no permanent impres ' mon behind. The crowning event of the day was, in truth, eminently significant. The opening of a new Exchange, of a place in which merchants are to con greg:.te, by an illustrious Sovereign, and with a stately ceremonial befitting the highest acts of royalty, was characteristic of the age, of the position and destinies of this mighty empire, and of the Mo narch by whom the act was performed with so much grace and dignity. When Greiham first erected his comparatively humble Burse, the commerce of Eng land was only in its vigorous infancy, but the sagacious policy of Elizabeth afforded the merchant protection and encouragement. Since then the child has be come a giant. English commerce has risen to be a power without parallel in the history of the world. It has made vast territorial conquests, by which rich and populous regions have been added to the empire ; it has sustained the nation through a protracted struggle of life and death with the most formidable enemy it has ever known • and, greater triumphs than these—it has carried the language and civilisa tion of England to the extremities of the earth, dis pelling ignorance and barbarism at every step of its advance. Commerce having thus become a main ele ment of the national greatness, it is fitting that its claims should be publicly honoured and recognised. It is time that the last traces of that old feudal pre judice which regarded trade as a less honourable em- ployrnent than vvar, should be eradicated from our minds. It is time that the habitual serftiments of nothing could have been more appropriate than the scene which was yesterday witnessed in the City of London, namely, her Majesty gracing with her presence the opening of the great Mart of British commerce the new Royal Exchange. Foreigners must have been much struck with the nrignificence of the spect?:cle, which they yesterday witnessed. They must have painfully felt the con trast which would be presented by any exhibition of national grandeur which their countries could make. There is no other city in the world that could get up suything at all approaching the splendour of yester day's scene. If, then, not only the magnificent dis play which dazzled the eyes of her Majesty's metro politan people, but, as before remarked, our greatness as a nation is mainly to be ascribed to the success of our commercial enterprise, it follows that every ob struction to our trade and commerce ought to be removed, and our national commercial resources be allowed full play. Were this done—were the princi ples of free trade to he adopted in their widest extent, and full scope allowed to the enterprise of our mann factureri and merchants, Great Britain would rapidly rise to an eminence, socially as well as commercially, which has never been attained by any other country, in ancient or modern times. There could be no more suitable, and certainly no more salutary measure, than would be the following up yesterday's opening of the new Royal Exchange, under the auspices of the Sovereign—by the annihilation, in the coming session of Parliament, of those various monopolies which restrict our trade and cripple our commerce. every class should be brought into harmony with this stubborn and momentous reality. This truth could POLICE INTELLIGENCE. not be more strikingly proclaimed or happily acted MARLBOROUGH-STREET. upon than in the ceremony of yesterday. When THE POLICE AT THE PROCESSION.—Yesterday Queen Victoria journeyed in state to open an Ex- three gentlemen, named Phillips, Hodgkin, and Smith, change, she rendered a homage to the commercial were charged with having obstructed the police in the power of her kingdom, and practically recognised its execution of their duty. connexion with the grandeur and stability of her throne. The defendants, with some friends, being desirous A struggle of long standing, however, by which of seeing the procession to the City, took up their commerce is excluded from its just influence in the position in Trafalgar-square. The police stationed to government of the country, still remains to be brought keep the line at that place requested the party to to a conclusion. The aristocratic power which once stand further back on the pavement. In making a trampled on the trader, still loads him with cramping retrograde movement an elderly gentleman was dis and vexatious restrictions, and the elastic force of placed, and this gave rise to a few words, but the commercial enterprise is debarred from that almost affair was soon adjusted. The defendants and their boundless expansion of which, under free and en- friends, mostly very young men, began laughing and lightened legislation, it would be capable. This dis- joking among themselves, and with the police. Their cordance evidently needs a remedy. If commerce be merriment was not very well relished by the police, of vital moment to England, the legislation which and a trifling altercation with the inspector resulted. affects it must become subject to commercial in- The inspector laid the case before his superintendent, fluences ; enlightened commercial opinion must and the superintendent directed the police to remove acquire a decisive force in the deliberations of Par- the party. The police promptly obeyed orders, and liament. The aristocracy must follow the example as some of the party refused to be roughly handled of the Sovereign, and acknowlege gracefully their without remonstrating, the three defendants were ul obligations to the founders of the Royal Exchange. timately laid hold of and lodged in the station-house. Until commerce assumes its true place in the govern- Two P division police-constables said that when ment of the country, there will be a constant jarring they proceeded to put in force their superintendent's and uncertainty in the movements of society. A directions Hodgkin struck them and used some offen growiog power, unduly compressed, must expand sive language. until its restraints are burst asunder. The commer• A police-constable of the C division said he took cial class in this country may be deprived of its Smith into custody in consequence of seeing him try just influence for a time, but sooner or later it will ing to rescue Hodgkin from custody. acquire what is withheld, with a movement sudden Inspector Campbell, P division, said the defendants and violent in proportion to the delay. Far better were linked together on the pavement, pushing against would it be to surrender at once to the merchants of persons, and applying the epithet of Peelers to the England the regulation of English commerce, and so police. Believing that a disturbance would take place put an end to the conquest so long kept up between at last, he consulted with his superintendent, and, the supposed interests of an aristocracy and the intel- acting on that officer's order, the police proceeded to ligence of the age. 'With such concessions, the open- disperse the party. Phillips would not go away; on ing of a new Royal Exchange would, indeed, be the the contrary, he not only tried to excite the mob to starting point of a new era in our commercial his- interfere, and the defendant Hodgkin to resist, but tory. The, prospects of commercial enterprise, he struck witness on the body. stirring as they were in the days of Elizabeth, when In defence, Hodgkin said there was no real occa the wealth of the New World was just opening upon sion for the interference of the police. The fact was the eyes of adventurers, were in truth both narrow that the inspector, an elderly man, felt affronted at and fallacious, compared with those which would the term " grandpepa" which one of the party applied now spread out on every side with a system of free to him, and he retorted by calling them "puppies." interchange between nations. This grand develop• A little "chaffing," but in a good-natured way, oc ment of the capabilities of commerce has been re- curred, which, however, did not tend to soothe the served, we may trust, for the present age. The cir- ruffled temper of the inspector, who laid his case be cumstances of the time at once invite us, and enable fore the superintendent, and the result was a violent us to effect it. If the opening of the new Exchange attack on the whole party by the police. More than shall prove to be the precursor of this beneficent one constable struck at him with his staff, and had he alteration, which it seems to foreshadow, the cere- not warded off the blows he must have been seriousle inony of yesterday will take its place amongst the injured. lie was then seized by the collar and taken memorable events of a reign destined, we trust, to be to the station-house. He positively denied having equally long and glorious. struck or menaced any constable. HERALD.—The Queen's visit to the City yes- The defendant Smith also denied having used any terday excited an interest without example in our insulting expressions. On the contrary, his advice time, and it presents a moral of great value ; but yet to Hodgkin, when in custody, was to go peaceably it is much easier to sympathise with the interest than with the police. to explain its causes; much less difficult to feel the The defendant Phillips said, when the police began moral than to put it into proper words. Queen their rough work, the inspector seized him by the Victoria has claims upon the affectionate respect of breast, and tore his shirt. He followed him to the her countrymen and countrywomen, which English- station-house, and when at the station-house door he men and Englishwomen would cheerfully acknow- was laid hold of by the inspector, and charged with ledge, even were they not her subjects. She is a an assault. young and a beautiful, and a good woman—a model A number of witnesses came forward and declared mother and a model wife. These are qualities which that no assault on the police took place, and that in are nowhere so highly appreciated as in England, fact the police acted with more than necessary violence. because nowhere else are the most amiable attributes Mr. MALTBY was at first disposed to inflict a fine of of womanhood so frequent, or so much a part of the 50s. on all the defendants ; but on a representation solid happiness of the people. But, in addition to from the defendant, Phillips, that really no obstruc these high claims upon our veneration and love, Queen tion or insult to the police had been for a moment Victoria is our Sovereign, and the good Sovereign of contemplated, and that all parties were sorry for what a free people is an object of attachment more exalted, occurred, and were willing to apologise ; and from vehement, and enduring, than any other Sovereign the inspector himself handsomely pleading for a miti can be. The Sovereign of a free country admits the gated fine, the magistrate reduced the amount to 20s. subjects of that country into a partnership of each, which was immediately paid. council and of power, which, while it leads to no WORSHIP-STREET. degradation, gives room for those affectionate ties THE LATE SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT AT BETHNAL that can only exist where there is some community GREEN WORKHOUSE.—Mary Todd, the wife of a porter of condition and of end. This union of circuin- in a City warehouse, who stood charged with having stances necessarily renders Queen Victoria the been concerned in concealing the birth of a male most popular of Sovereigns living, or perhaps that infant, the body of which she had surreptitiously in ever lived. Her high personal qualities are exactly troduced into the Bethnal-green Workhouse," on the suited to her station; her station is precisely that in admission of its mother, a young woman named which these qualities can be developed with most ad- Martha Goffee, who is now an inmate of that house, vantage and honour. We will not insult this beloved was put to the_ bar, before Mr. Broughton, for final Princess by a c omparison with any foreign Sovereign examination. of her sex, because there is none such whom it would Rowland, the officer, intimated to the Magistrate not be almost a pollution to place beside her ; but that a coroner's inquest had been held on the body of compare her even with our own Elizabeth, whose the child, at which the jury had returned a verdict of name is " familiar in our speech as household words" " Found dead," and that the parish officers had no to express patriotism and magnanimity, and assuredly further evidence to offer in support of the charge Queen Victoria will not sink in the comparison. The against the prisoner. qualities of the two Queens are different, because Mr. BROUGHTON, under these circumstances, ordered they lived and live in different ages, but the qualities the prisoner to be discharged. of both are equally great; and who will deny that QUEEN-SQUARE. those of the Princess under whose mild and affect Yesterday William Stariborough, a tall fashionably tionate rule we live are much the more amiable? dressed person, who drove up to the private entrance Elizabeth had to reform a rude age, and to prepare a of the Court in his gig, was charged with an assault people for greatness, and admirably she acquitted on John Puleston, a boy in the service of Messrs. herself of the task assigned h er b y Providence—Vic- Raekstraw and Atkinson, fishmongers, Victoria-road, toria has to rule a people far advanced in refinement Pimlico. The summons was directed to William and and in morals, and to continue them in the happy George Stanborough, of 6, Wilton-street, Grosvenor course of advancement by reflecting, with the added place, but the latter did not appear. lustre of the Crown, all their best accomplishments and Complainant said that he went on Tuesday evening highest virtues. If we are to estimate the merit of the by direction of his employers to Mr. Stanborough's, benefit conferred, by the required difficulty and sacri- No. 6, Wilton-street, to ask for a bill they owed. On fices, it is impossible to give a preference to either. knocking at the door it was opened by a young gen- Queen Elizabeth had many dangers and obstacles to tleman, and he had no sooner delivered his message contend with, but to minds of native force action is the than a man from the other side of the street came up highest gratification, and we may doubt whether t o him, and with the assistance of the person who had Elizabeth would be as happy in an age like ours as opened the door, dragged him into the passage, and she was in her own rougher generation. Certain it thence to the parlour. They then asked him what he is that if she had not considerably modified her virago wanted ? and on his replying the amount that was habits, her exempte would be anything but conducive owing. defendant gave him a smack on the mouth, to the " domestic' comfort (we use the word in its w h ic h sent him back war d s . A not h er o f t h e party most limited sense) of the male division of her subjects then kicked him two or thre e ti mes i n th e s id e , ari d in the nineteenth century. Now, though undoubtedly the third struck him a violent blow on the shoulder it costs Victoria nothing to present the example of with a stick, and hurt him very muc h. C om pl a i nan t wife and mother, which she does present, she, too, has then ran into the passage and c a ll e d " M ur d er ," an d had trials as Queen, which mus t h ave cos t m ore to a the three parties then opened the street-door and vigorous mind, like hers, to pass through than any kicked him out of the house. which ever confronted Elizabeth; and this, after all, Mr. BOND (to defendant)—D o y ou w i s h t o ut is the great test of strength of understanding and of any question to the compl a i nan t ? D e f en d an t—Y es , principle. We can all afford to be magnanimous when I wish to ask him whether he did not make a great it costs nothing; but when sacrifices are to be made, noise at the door. then we are fairly tried. Queen Victoria was called Complainant—No, I did not. I knocked and it upon by her people and her P a rliament to make sacri- was opened to me directly, when I asked civilly for fices. We all regretted that they were sacrifices; but the the bill. safety of the empire demanded them, and the Queen Mr. BOND—What answer hare you to the charge ? made them, promptly, cheerfully, and ingenunusly, Defendant—His account is not true, nor near true, and yesterday she had the reward, which certainly Mr. BOND—Have you no explanation to offer for she did not seek, b u t w hi c h canno t b e on th a t account such conduct ? Defendant—There's no exp!anation the less grateful. The reception of Elizabeth, 270 to offer. I don't reside there. Its too improbable, I years ago, could not be more enthusiastic., and sure should think, to be true. we are that it was not so affectionate. We give else- Mr. BOND—How is it that the second person who is out of town, an d h a d b een so f or a wee k be where the particulars of the ceremo ni a l u p on this is summoned is not in attendance here ? Defendant i s n p o le s i t rd di,rlaawndopomo theirostdeliogv,h,tofuhl hearts for fobrutaorueralreraedperers. — He fore this occurred. sentation of the feeling that animated the millions Mr. BOND—You could have produced the third wrho spectators. bore a part party here to h ave con t ra di c t e d t h e b oy ' s s t a t emen t if o re never saw such a consent of untrue. in l ‘ the ceremony , whether as actor. of affectionate loyalty, and we ha rdl y th ought the Defendant—H e i s cer t a i n ly wrong as reg a r d s me. thing possible. From what I understand he was not treated as he de- ADVERTISER.—The spectacle which was yes- scribes. I am told that he came frequently and myriads who had the gra- s t ree t-d oor . I d eny t h e assau lt. terday exhibited in the City o f London, will no t soon knocked and rung violently, and made a noise at the be forgotten by the many tification of witnessing it. Nor will it, we are sure, Mr. BOND—It seems to be extraordinary conduct ever be obliterated from the memory of the illustrious on your part. The attack of three persons on a boy personage who was the principal performer in it. like this is very cowardly. You must pay a fine of 4/. the enthusiastic reception which her Majesty met Defendant was locked up, but the penalty was sent with, as well as the extent and brilliancy of the pre- for and paid before the closing of the Court. parations made t o g i v e her a welcome worthy of the Jane Smith, a girl not more than sixteen years of great city she honoured with her presence, must have age, was placed at the bar charged with fraud. inspired the royal bosom with feelings of profound She went on Saturday evening to Miss Catherine gratitude for so s t r iking a display of devoted loyalty, Meyer, a lady residing at 4, Burton-street, Pimlico, as her Majesty's metropolitan subjects then afforded. I and representing that she was the daughter of' a re- Nothing could be more appropriate than the pre-1 spectable tradesman, named Smith, who was known sence of the Sovereign at the opening of such a to the lady, solicited a loan. She stated that her place as the Royal Exchange. That magnificent reason for making the application was, that her mother building is the fruit of the boundless wealth was lying dead, and her father was too unwell to of the City of London, and that boundless wealth i s ! come out, and he wanted thirty shillings, as it would the result of our ex t ens ive commerce. It is to the ' enable him to draw some money out of the funds. commerce of Great Britain that we are, in a great As Miss Meyer knew Mr. Smith to be a very re measure, to attrib u t e the superiority of this country spectable man, and believed the story, she gave the to every other on th e f a ce of the earth. Destroy the ' girl thirty shillings, lent her her purse that she might trade and commerce of England, and the axe is laid carry it with more safety, and gave her sixpence to at the root of our national greatness. With her ride home in an omnibus. On the following day the commerce crushed, this country would inevitably , lady communicated what had occurred to her land become a secondary p o wer. The chief source of our lord, who was in the habit of' employing Mr. Smith, wealth would be i m paired. And an impoverished ! and on inquiry, it was ascertained that the whole tale country cannot possibly long maintain its social or was a tissue of falsehoods, and that Smith knew no political influence. H e r Majesty is therefore deeply thing whatever of the prisoner. Monday the accused and directly interested in the prosperity of English again made her appearance to endeavour to obtain trade and commerce. No one, indeed, has greater some more money, when she was given into custody. reason than th e Sovereign to rejoice in the corn- I Mr. BOND asked her what she had to say ? PH :Wrenn Well-being of these realms. Conseiuently l Kotler-1 1 11 tell the truth, your worship.. I wet that man (pointing to Mr. Smith) whom I never saw be fore, and he told me to go to the lady, and when I had been, I gave him a sovereign of the money, and he let me keep the rest. Mr. BOND (to Mr. Smith) —You hear what she says. Mr. Smith, who looked very much surprised, ex claimed, " I never saw the girl in my life before." Mr. BoND remanded the prisoner until Thursday. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday, John Featherstone, a tall, portly, and well-dressed man, aged 32, was brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged, on a peace warrant, with pre senting a pistol at Mrs. Elizabeth 'Wall, the landlady of the Britannia Tavern, in the New-road, St. George's-in-the-East, and threatening her life. There was another charge against the prisoner of obtaining 10s. by fa!se pretences from Thos. Wilson, a broker, of No. 7, Wilson-street, Drury-lane ; but, owing to the absence of the prosecutor, who was acting as a special constable in the City, the case was adjourned till to-morrow. Mrs. Wall, who was much agitated, said the pri soner came to lodge in her house in May last, and she understood him to be a seaman who had been paid off from a man-of-war, and he represented that he was entitled to considerable wages, and also held a prize ticket for 3001. After staying in her house some time, he began to pay very great attention to her, and proposed himself as a suitor ; but, having ascertained that he was a mere adventurer, and that he had ex pended all his prize money and wages with the excep tion of a few pounds, she refused to encourage his addresses, and frequently requested him to leave her house. He refused to do so, and continued in the house until the early part of September, and contracted a debt of 141. for board and lodging. He then began to assume all the importance of a master, and attempted to control her actions. On the 6th of September she was about to leave home on busi ness, and the prisoner, who appeared to be jealous of her, insisted on knowing where she was going to, and on her refusing to satisfy him, and directing him to leave the house, he abused her most shamefully, and took up a carving knife, and threatened to murder her. His conduct was so violent that she gave him into custody, and he was ordered by the magistrate to find bail to keep the peace. After he had been in prison five days he procured bail, which she believed to be hired, and was liberated. He immediately returned to her house, and commenced annoying her again, said he was master, and dealt in the most scandalous insinuations against her reputa tion. One night he refused to leave her house till she gave him a sovereign, for which he handed her his t. 0. U. On the following day he molested her again, and remained in front of her bar, abusing her, and vilifying her character to the customers until he was again taken into custody and held to nail, himself in 801. and two sureties of 401. each, and in default, he was committed till the sessions ; when Messrs. Wire and Child, her solicitors, exhibited articles of the peace against him, and he was ordered by the Chair man to enter into sureties to keep the peace towards her for twelve months. He remained in prison till the last Tuesday, when he found bail, and was dis charged. On the afternoon of the same day he again came to the house and created a disturbance, and threatened her life, and he repeated the same conduct on Wednesday and Thursday, and collected a mob about the house, interrupted her business, and alarmed her family and servants. On Friday night he sud denly presented himself in front of the bar, swore loudly at her, and drew a pistol from his pocket, which he presented at her. She was so alarmed that ,he fainted, and before she recovered the prisoner rushed out of the house, and made his escape. In the middle of the night stones were thrown against her bedroom window and on opening it she saw the pri -oner below, and he demanded admittance. She ealled for the police, and he ran- away. She had no doubt the prisoner meditated serious mischief against tier, because she had refused to marry him, and if she .vas not effectually:protected she must close her house and be ruined. Blake, 137 K, said he took the prisoner into cus tody on Saturday night on another charge, and he made two attempts to strangle himself in the station house, and his neckerchief, garters, and braces were taken away from him. The prisoner, with great assurance, said that Mrs. Wall had once encouraged his addresses, and that he went to her house on Tuesday night last, to ascertain If his cousin in Warwickshire had forwarded a letter to him. He then made vehement assertions that he never had a pistol, and stated that he met Mrs. Wall at the Court on Saturday, and she wanted to speak to him, and because he refused to converse with her, she followed him about the streets for three hours. They ultimately walked and talked for a long time. Mrs. Wall clasped her hands, sobbed loudly, and declared that there was not a word of truth in what the prisoner said. After she obtained the warrant, the prisoner followed her from the Court and abused her till she reached her home. Mr. BALLANTINE said the prisoner was a most worthless fellow, and had no business in Mrs. Wall's house at all. He had already twice bound over the prisoner to keep the peace towards the widow, who he believed, was a most respectable woman of good reputation, and he would not allow her or her chil dren to be annoyed and made uncomfortable. He should once more compel the defendant to enter into sureties to keep the peace towards Mrs. Wall and her family, himself in 80/., and two sureties of 401. each until the sessions, when Mrs. Wall could exhibit articles of the peace. It was really monstrous that Mrs. Wall should be kept in a state of continual alarm. Mrs. Wall--Oh I can't afford to go to the sessions, Sir. It cost me 71. last time. Mr. BALLANTINE—YOU must do it if you sell your bed from under you. You ought not to be put to the expense of 75., and the bail entered into before me and at the sessions has become forfeited. Mrs. Wall said the prisoner procured " bought bail," and they gave false addresses. The officer Blake said the sureties were straw bail. Mr. BALLANTINE knew, from his long experience as a magistrate, that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, false and artificial bail was given. The Chairman of the sessions must be made acquainted with the fraud. Mrs. Wall said she had received a lawyer's letter, demanding 1501. which the prisoner alleged was due to him, and she was most shamefully persecuted. Mr. BALLANTINE said the magistracy and police would go as far as the law allowe in protecting the widow, and after a strong condemnation of the pri soner's unfeeling and brutal conduct, once more con signed him to Clerken well Prison in default of bail. THE FOREIGN PRESS. England has been the parent of the Press. She it is that cherished, developed, and protected that new and mighty power which, yet young, might so easily have been crushed, and was crushed in all other countries, by the too natural jealousy of tho-e it power. How ungrateful is the offspring to the mot her which nurtured. There is not at this moment a ti►- reign press, liberated from the hands of the censor ship, which has not taken for its daily task to revile and calumniate England, and preach the necessity of eternal enmity and war towards her. The French press speaks for itself, near enough for us to hear it : all its parties, alike monarchic, aristocratic, sacerdotal, constitutional, republican, Jacobin, uniting in one theme : the necessity of knocking old England on the head, previous to each setting about the fulfilment and enjoyment of their peculiar schemes. If from France we fly off in disgust to America, we see the self-same task performed by the press, with equal recklessness and less ability. An intelligent correspondent of the Times, the " Genevese informs us that the American press has in formed its public, not only that England is labouring to destroy slavery in Mexico and Texan, solely for the purpose of dissolving the American Union, but that England has also supplied a large amount of money to the ultra-Liberals, in order to defeat the tariff people in the new elections. Thus the amiable press of America represents us at the same time as in triguing with the American Whigs for the destruc tion of slavery in the south, and with the American Locofocos for the destruction of the tariff. There is no limit to our Machiavelism or our money. We are the great primum mobile of all ill, in America as in France ; bribing M. Guizot ani Mr. Webster, Gene ral Jackson and Abd-el-Kader. And, to avenge all these imaginary misdeeds, Frenchmen of all parties and Americans of all shades threaten us with war and annihilation. Perhaps, however, it is merely France and America that are mad in their estimation of us. Is there not some one free country that does ux justice, e-pecially amongst the countries that we have freed and consti tutionalised ? There are three kingdoms which we have so favoured, Spain, Portugal, and Greece. What is public opinion in all three with regard to England ? What saith their press with regard to England ? They all speak the same language ; de nouncing the English as the most insolent, avaricious, treacherous, tyrannical, base set of people on the face of the earth. It is not the Spanish Carlist, but the Moderado Spanish Liberal who will tell you this, and who will print it, and who wiil be believed. Even the poor Greek has, like a parrot, taken up the same tune, and hoots Senhor Mavrocordato as a wretch worthy of the bow-string, for harbouring English ideas! What are we to think of this heap of injustice and insanity? Has the press been intended to be not a shedder of light, but of more monstrous and more baleful ignorance than darkness and slavery together could have engendered ? Is it not to be an instru ment of peace, but of war ? Judging by what Nse see, could we suppose the freedom of the press ex tended to all countries, the inevitable consequences would be, not better understanding or enlightenment, but all Europe converted into an arena of wild beasts devouring one another. Upon reflection, however, we are inclined to con- elude that freedom, and civilisation, and peace, and fairness are still great and powerful principles, which will not allow themselves to be stifled by the madness or corruptness of the press ; and that the press itself, and its freedom, will be more I , lcely to be sacrificed. than any of those principles. Hitherto the aims of Governments which have controlled the press have been directed, as in France, to the preventing its being seditious, or libellous, and disturbant of do mestic peace. The French press, for example, is most completely fettered and tied up in this re s p ect, and accordingly it has turned all its fury and irra tionality to foreign topics. Not being allowed to excite sedition, it has turned to stir what was next to it—war. Spain follows, as usual, in the woks) e , l France. The military rulers, who would not 'p eril° a journal to di-cuss the merits of a judge, favour in ternational calumny and abuse. Hence in all those countries the Liberal party has been converted into A war faction. We fear much that, as upon the Continent the press has always been gagged when its freedom he came incompatible, or was thought incompatible, public tranquillity, so we fear its freedom is likely te, incur danger and curtailment as soon as it is fouo incompatible with European peace. Most certainly the freedom of the press, as at present understood anz practised in France and Spain, may be a useful ally 0' despotism, or anarchy, or war; but has ceased to have any connexion whatever with liberalism, or progree e l or peace.—Examiner. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE . NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. MONDAY EVENING, FIVE O'CLOCK.—Nothi n g h e occurred to alter our opinion of the prospect of t week—on the contrary, everything tends to encouraa; belief that it will be the most successful on record. ' 1 ,4 arrivals have been incessant— a determination to Ina . sport is shown in all quarters, and the weath er is ec., lightfully mild and clear. Business commenced OP morning in the town with the Ratan Wy e which, after a further examination of witnesses, ri adjourned until Tuesday. The Committee it from nine o'clock until nearly twelve. The 1, 0 jection made by Mr. Payne to Cabin Boy a' engaged the attention of the Stewards, by whose direct:, tion the horse's mouth was examined by Messrs. Bart t3 :o Barlow, and Stevens, veterinary surgeons, residing the town : they have certified that his age is correct. rt. retaliatory objection of Sir Francis had a similar rese' The racing, which came off in the presence of se lul l,: mense assemblage, commenced at half-past 12 o'cle c eo and, allowing twice the customary interval betvicot Garry Owen's match and the Cambridgeshire, Was, ° by finished until after four. It was preceded, as usual , ,., ‘ some betting on the principal event, at the follot; prices :-6 to 4 on Foig-a-ballagh ; 7 to 1 agst ,A,.. Cure ; 12 to 1 against the Altered One; 14 to 1 agst Ply court ; 33 to 1 agst Glossy ; and 40 to 1 agst Sir f:d . , strupus. The race began with a match, 3251 . to 3,-0 150 ft. D. I. Col. Peel's I-am-not-aware, Bst 41b beat Lord Glasgow's Give-him-a-name, B st 71b ( 3 e,':, 0 son). 5 to 2 on I-am-not-aware, who won ea s Y length. 71b; Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, for three yrs old , 7st 81b, four yrs, Bst 31b ; five years and upwards, B s t 3 5 4 Criterion Course. The winner to be sold f or (7 Subs.) , 0 Sir G. Heathcote's Khorassan, 4 yrs (C 1 op 'l e i 0 Mr. Meiklain's Philip, 4 yrs...• .......................... The following also started but were not plac e o . 'l Mr. H. T. Worley's Example, 3 yrs—Mr. Ramsbottev, Pine Apple, 4 yrs—and Captain, Colquitt's Pickp oc 4 yrs. A ales Betting 7 to 4 agst Philip, 7 to 2 agst Pine 04`00. 4to 1 egstKhorassan, and 5 to 1 agst Example. liihorits;id, Philip, and Example ran in company from end to t y the first two finishing with a dead heat, aid b e sting o h, mare by a heal only ; Pine Apple was an indifferent foc ) Handicap Swi epstakes of 25 sows. each, for thrteroiil old and upward, D. M. (5 Subs., two of whe w 10 sovs. each.) Mr. Buekley's David, 5 yrs Bst 71b ...(Whitehouse" Mr. Drinkald's Vol au-Vent, 3 yrs, 6st 51b .......... .• 10 1 Even betting. V.. 1 au Vent in ide all toe play' tba was caught a few strides from home, and beaten oe post by a heat. .00 Match, 200, h ft, T.M.M.—Lord George Beet, l o l Clumsy, a feather (Kitehener), beat Sir J. 11° " 50 Vibration, Bst 9lb (F. Butler), by a length easily ; - - 2 on Clum-y. oiet/' • Match, 100, h ft, T.Y.C.— Cal. Peel's Gatti AO; Bat lib ( at), b •Itt Lord E. Rus,ell's Nat, 7st 516 5 to 2 on Garry Owen, who won easy by two lengt i° o 4 The Cambridgeshire Stakes of 25 soya. each, 10 14 80 . 5 only if declared, with 100 added by the tovie's Last mile and a distance straight. (123 Subs, 4 whom declart d.) Lord Stradbroke's Evenus, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b ...... (P t ' 5 Mr. Irwin's Foig-a-ballagh, 3 ) rs, Bst .................. Mr. Payne's Walpole, 3 yrs, sst 7lb ................. The following also started but were not p ly, , Captain Harcourt's Sir Abstrupus, 4 yrs, 7st 4 ,Lftoe f : Combe's Fakeaway, 4 yrs, Tat 41b—Mr. Porto Bello, 4 yrs, Est 12tb--Mr. Newton's Ma `6lb l , yrs, Bst 121b—Mr. Gritlith's Newcourt, 4 vrs,_ B trorti 'l Mr. Salvin's The Cure, 3 yrs, 75t 131b—Mr. Dere f ,' o o l ' The Altered One, 5 yrs, 7st 101b—Mr. Wesleys if o l sailor, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—Sir G. Heathcote's Akbar, i o ta! 6.t 81b—Duke of Rutland's f by Beiram, out of 3 yrs, 6st 71b—Lord G. Bentinck's Croton Oil, I'PP Est 51b—Lord Exeter's Algernon, 3 yrs, sst 121b,:101 G. Bentinek's Emma, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Mr. 11 /0 11/ Walpole, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Colonel Peel's c by Slane; '7l of Jason's dam, 3 yrs, sst 51b—Mr. S. Scott's ,b alt l Defence, out of Negress, 3 yrs, Sat—Sir C. . 01°- Glossy, 4 yrs, sst 121 b. t Th s , Betting-5 to 4on Foig-a-ballagh, Bto 1 tig s „ - 0 te; Cure, 12 to 1 agst Akbar, 14 to 1 agst Newcourt, btioe' agst Emma, 30 to 1 agst Evenus, 33 to 1 agst C h ° lor, and 40 to 1 agst Glossy. Won very eas ' Y " lengths, Walpole a bad third, Counsellor fourth+ Cure fifth, and Algernon sixth. The Criterion Stakes of 30 soya. each, 20 ft ;". is • old colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 51b ; from t he the Lands in. (40 Subs.) ise Lord Londsdale's e by Jerry, out of Turtitl, e- _, Lord Glasgow's c by Bay Middleton—Miss WhlP;ij The following also started, but were not plte " Lord G. Bentinck's Miss Elis —Mr. Wreford' s ~„%eter, Camel, out of Mommia, 21b extra Lord .r"' Timbtia—Mr. Bristow's Carissirna—Mr. Boo t h's Year's Day— Mr. Hook's Bastion Mr. ril ne for ° Francis Mr. Lintott's Cabin Boy and AU' Fusbos. f I to 1 LOf F 5 to 2 agst Elie, 4 to 1 agst the winner. 6 0 1 ' 5 O s Wreft.rd's colt, 6to 1 agstCarissima, 7to I ags t t b,„ d Bto 1 agst tiir Francis. Won cleverly by le i3 L, Nl:ss Whip colt beating Miss E:is by a head , fourth. 4 I Deciding heat for the 10 sous Swe_epstitel;oo) Philip Khorassan .............................. (Te‘ ....................... ... ....... „ 6 to 5 on Khorassan, who lo,t a fine race length. logg Lord Exeter's Merope received from Lord G Sister to Pathfinder, 6.•tslb. T.Y C. 200, h 9 1/ Mr. Osbuideston's Sorelia, 10st 7ib, received fr ° of Bedford's Minotaur, list 101 b, A.F. 200, b f t %4 Duke of Beaufort's Captain Phebus rec eis t Lord E'glinton's Britannia, Bst 21b, T.Y.C., 200 , By the death of the nomin4tor (Mr. DS tu , k place at N.. wina'ket y, sterday inornirg, of Orleans is disqualified for the Great Stakes.' i......w.....w"7 7 ' - • -- -- BIRTI-IN .. e.-4 ... s lit 01 On the 25th inst., at Portland House, Haninl.3 , '' lady of Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, Esq , barrister" 0 a son. On the 25th inst., at Thornes House, near W ake6el li fi Mimes Ga , kell, of a son. 0 On the 25th inst., at Hanger-lane, Stamford-hi ll ' ~.101 Pr of John Jerram, Esq., of a daughter. D i ' P. ~,, On the 26th inst., at Euston-square, Mrs. 4 .''' 'J r mons, of a daughter. ~e , ,tb, On the 26th inst., at St. Germain's-place, Blac l “' tY Sutherland, of a daughter. , g toOf 4 On the 26th inst.. at Hyde-park-gate, gene.— of wife of Captai Charles Forbes, of a &P. h oort b ' On the 26th n inst., in Hereford-street, Mrs. Ras— (laughter. f a 5°11* ? 0 On the 27th inst., Mrs. Frederick Lawrence, 0 - , b e hi On the 22d inst., at Feltham-hill, MiddleseX, ' pi? W. Sheffield, Esq., of a son. 100. , On the 22d inst., the lady of Charles Metcal fe " 0 0 ,i' e tir; Mayor of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, of a fourteentA r g. P On the '23d inst., at South-grove, Peckharn , of Edward Swift, of a son. ......! 0 :/ On the 23d inst., at Ely-place, Holborn, the " H. Newstead, of a son. A I'4 MARRIED. 11 U . ter On the 22d inst., at Ampthill, the Rev. Fr cleric ti• dl l e dor i t Vicar of Wilstead, Beds, to Helen Louisa, only fle if. di l" j the late Philip Deere, Esq. th e On the 22d inst., at St. Saviour's Church, Bath , to 1. 40 0 „, Whitaker, Vicar of Oakington, near Cambridge, itart"101 ) ; Charlotte, only daughter of the late Rev. Richalblitetol On the 24th inst., at St. Mary Magdelene, re,. c 00 eldest son of J. Beatson, Esq., of Peckham, to P lace. or daughter of J. H. Spurling, Esq., of the satne•P,. ide, Ve 11 :.. 0 On the 26th inst., at St. Martin's-in-the-0,,e; to , or Barday, jun., Esq., of Buckingham-street, AdelPs s oi e if , daughter of the late D. Smith, Esq., of the Comm e' partment. :9 On the 2Gth inst., at Watford, George Col lle Esq., to Lady The r esa Li s ter. 1 0 DIED. So tto Oil On the 27th inst., at the Rectory, Overlnl f t 01 0 ' Rev. Thomas Maners Sutton, Subdean of .1---c 11. A 55th year of his age. J. iti I ,llllll e' ij ai. ° On the 24th inst., in Oxford-street, Mr. J...7',ii LOU , lird On the 24th inst., at Esom, Mrs. MarY„,. l „ - t „ -s scor of the late G. Pluiston, Esq., of Sevenoaks ,ll- h e , - !Of 09 On the 21th inst., at Cowes, Isle of Vlig'''" e V' . Anthony Palmer, aged 41. of $ l3 od i On the 24th inst., Thomas Ffooks, ES ( l . ' f 0 Dorsetshire, age in d 70. gaith, 0 , tO On the 24th st., Mr. Jnhn Smyth For- loth street-place, Stepney. I T he per On the 25th inst., at Grove-lane, Camberwel' ,„,ie, youngest child of Charles Harden, Esq. Bong' i f , O f ' On the 25th inst., Mr. Joseph Weston, 0 '• - of monOnd „,..bter o' the 25th inst., at Exeter, Letitia, 08 " TA" Bell, of Hampstead. .„,. Tore, WO ° On the 26th inst., Elizabeth, wife of p. - r how-f a esl of the Army Medical Board-office, and Char t . i te 'd, So' ro d , On the 27th inst., at the Vicarage, M. a t -el too' Rev. John Kirby, Incumbent of that parlsofisreiling.„ ' f ./ . 1 On the 27th inst., at Myrtle Cottag e, i o ° 2'7 C Bow-road, Elizabeth, thelate relict of .---- - - t it Jdi i, ... - ' o pi ija 1.1 Elle /I , A:islet Ul tar. 04VuYr Blithtlesex, Tuesday, October 29, 184 *a:' “"'“, L. Th e ' Wo uld 404 wi ' t and ea , 1 74 by urat eh nor th vir, the goi; ? Or mark; 'nal nd e , I ' l gre An e D'OPOrti ~_l '' a n ner •-r Att e li 11* chaff ws Prc ntotc .aow r..., alalo u 's nt f011ows: 11 ,Y St ag , 41 Steal I'r o , N II D 7 hsti 19 Irish 14,,r, b ot * clueti in t th Oct , .............:: 0 X Intel teot rant Ine r .41 ~~ rRE SUN, LONDON TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1844. to to to u ceedi whic di rec or fi n Near there the c( st Ca The Not t alons 'R elate t li Ot„ sou Th o __llll w-,; T; C.kn i I tthi, oCoi be toN,