The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-19 00:00:00

r ... E .. los oil. eared in i„lf, PP d 010 6 , pasS e his 0/ Ck, °ll pbjeSti for his . vied the l e t oe vearni" Par is° ed it i ll dol l t Cloud ia s the °: e :ffnes s sr ral e stli Ae d verY • ree lred day h e viir n d all tbe the his even bBll, to a grfind b io ho b — i ictO of th e be iv )I'l, an d rll the 6 • e rf, c es s from, colonists , w is after un •ood sac - of ape ) rshiPs uall o rr , v og us Ile, D ios. e t or PublicSn ati s 9 , 0 1 Nine/ 10 3 00 4, • - L , EMISCI I SIIII4IMIIOI7III. The Den Monitor states that the O'C onne ll t r ib ute • r this year a mounts to 28 ,850 1 , and two parishes still 'lolzrnain to be " made up." • ri4 In cons - Nuence of the fine open weather which has just et her Maje s ty h as determiesd upon remaining in the A sift iof Wight until Mondit,V Guizot was botn:en the 4th of October, 1787, and 1. 4 :asequently entered into his 58th year on the 4th inst. '0 the 29th of the present month the Ministry, of which it Guizot is the soul, will enter into the fifth year of s existence, a phenomenon which has not been seen ince the Revolution of July. A medical witness, in giving evidence a few days ago, ;It an i nquest held before Mr. Wakley, M.P , on the body of a murdered child, said that he found fracture of t her h e frontAd w and piri ta l b ones , an d what as singular, ! te were no external marks indicative of the internal nainjury. Th e C oroner said that was nothing extraordi ; W na r r o y ng yhe book s upon me di ca l j ur i sprudence were all Numerous instances had come under his imme ! ate notice, in which tLbs, carts, and even waggons h eavi ly la den had passed over men's bodies witho u t l eav i ng th e 'east extt>rnal musk of inj ur y. COArlton Horn Fair commenced on Friday, in a field acent to the park of Sir 'Thomas Maryon Wilson, Aart., of New Charlton. The weather proved very 'favourable throughout the day. During the morning a -vast number of well-dressed and respectable inhabitants of Greenwich, Woolwich, and the surrounding neigh jbourhood, both male and f ema l e , as we ll as numerous uveniles, promenaded the fair. The Lord Mayor has issued his precept for the elec tion of an Alderman for Portsoken. The nomination is to take place at the Three Nuns on Monday next. The general opinion seems to be, that there, in reality, will - be no second candidate, but that the ex-Sheriff will be left to walk over the ._!ourse, and battle it out with Mr. Salonions in a court of law in the best manner he is able. On Thursday evening a vestry was held in the school room, and adjourned for want of accommodation to the -Parish church rr St. Paul, Deptford (the Rev. B. S. Ffinch _ittihetrheehcahvaii, for the purpose of making a church rate, been no rate made for the church in that :Parish f., r t h e last six years. Extreme sensation was 7 ,...‘92ar!.fested • add e d to w hi c h t h e l ate churchwarden, ' 111 ; bad declared publicly that he considered the funds •of the church were adequate to meet all the demands for the support of the fabric, without callinc , upon the parishi oners for a rate. Upon a show of hands, 35 were - neld up for the rate, and against it were held 400 or 500. poll was demanded. Uensiderable sensation was created at the Board of --bireeters and Guardians of the Poor of St. Alarylebone, who held their usual weekly meeting at the workhouse, ‘l'eve-road, on account of the receipt of a communication from the Poor- law Commissioners, calling upon them, in -accordance with the 64th section of the New Poor-law Act, to elect a Chairman and Vice-Chairman of their -Board, in the same manner as those officers are elected read Poor.l aw un i ons. The communication having been , an animated discussion followed, in the course of which a fixed determination was expressed to resist the -;onlcurtn oioachment of the P oor -l aw C omm i ss i oners, an d a re deferring the consideration of the document was -carried unanimously. -"IAMB URGH and FLANDERS MAILS (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) thiFttoNTIERS OF SEIIVIA, OCT. 6.—At the beginning of s month a new attempt was made to effect a revolution Servia, which, however, like the preceding, has been • fluPpressed by the energy of the Government. The ob ieet W as, as befor e , t o overturn t h e G overnment of the thron e . and to rep l ace t h e f am il y of O b renovitsch on the For this purpose, it is said, preparations had 4:•e en : • making for some time past on two p o i n t s o f th e Austrian frontier, with funds said to be furnished by litoloserthit,ior, and Uniforms an d s t an d ar d s made, and arms and au l • whi ek purchased. Disguised in th ese un if orms , " vvilre precisely similar to those of the Servian h - e ";„Y , a 'oand of emigrants, with one Joannovitsch at their crossed the Sare a few days ago. He began there the circle of Schabaez, where they calculated on finding th e people,took them for a body of Government troops, and got possession of the Town house, where they cut down 'with their sabres two of the magistrates. New officers /v '',re immediat e ly appo i nte d, an d measures taken with all speed to forward the enterprise which had so far suc ;needed But the Government h a d meant i me b een in 'lined of these events, and immediately ord ere d t roops to Schabaez which surrendered at the first summons , eaui gav e up the new chief magistrate, on which troops were sent in pursuit of the band, which had proceeded In the detection of Leschnitzs, and had found little sup port from the people. Fresh complaints are said to ave been already sent to St. Petersburgh, Constanti .lqle? and Vi enna , aga i nst Prince Milosch, who is very heavily accused by the Servian Government. A letter 'G Salonica says th a t pi racy i s increasing. in the - reek S: a. D ea d b o di es i t i s said, are often found, the beads having been cut off by the pirates, that they may 0 t be recognised. VBERLIN, OCT. 15.—The bulletins of the health of the ince of Pru ss i a , pu bli shed in the official part of the 4Universal Prussian Gazette of the 13th, 14th, and 15th, say that there is no trace of fever, and that the injury sus tained by his Royal Hi g h ness is in a fair way of being 'speedily cured. STETTIN, OCT. 10.—The Swedish mail steam-boat (the l'wedish Lion), which left this port on the 3d instant for stadt, put to sea from Schweinemunde in a violent i t i i )Tl7 o, and had not arrived at Ystadt on Monday the 7th, zee the voyage is generally performed in twelve or six lowl hours, so that it ought to have arrived on the fol ::paraarorning, the 4th. The Danish mail ;steamer Valt e e t las ready to put to sea on the same evening, but se abat ed : 11 the following morning, when the storm had ved safe at Copenhagen. It is therefore to )lop e that the Swedish Lion is totally lost : the only 13ornhal to b e , t h at i t may have put into some port of &fedi 41, Which, however, is not probable. On board the with I,steanier.was :the - Countess of Sievus of Royal, but ar . r ,servants who wanted to return toSt. Petersburg, to R , 1 : 11 Ing too late for the steamer to that city, resolved way of Sweden. Debt'GlAN FUNDS.—Bausszie, Ocr. 16. Ttotbschn d ' 2 % per Cent., ..... 4,„„ 0f ! Loan, Five per I tr e l s shirty Millions, Four per Cent.... . 9 Three per __ Thtrtyseven Minh ns, 103%'77 0 " t77" 104 tk it, c n i n 0 WoinniB4e3r,c Four o per T . /L.I;7W Z . ; 484 °off ium, Five per Cent _60% ele Pipets, . Oct. .... IL IMBURGH BORSENHALLE, OCT. 15. ItaitUitan 5 per Cents. 113 A ' t ,tares 1t340 4gp-nussian Loan 114% 114% ~?.5 Der Cent., Ist series, Certificate 105% 105' rttissik r ; l !n. Ist series lcs%, 1)i, seriess Per Cent. Hope an d C o ., 3d an d 4 t h 93% bu ew tetg i e C r e s 9 0 3 ,1 1 bitto .kctual Debt, 2% pe r CenL ......... 61, 1 61% it4:1111441:10.0anNlel swh b L0 p,.. 1 . 1, c 3e Cents. e C n e t! - 17% ...ex, ............ ........ rive i/STIII.I N FUNDS.—VIENNA, OCT 11. Per Cents. Metalhques fiZ per e . 100 t( rker mu Cents.. ""Zeineine . „ . ... " ..........»....«......... ».«« •••••• 1600 Zeitung, Oct. 14. b,;\,rett,.._Zt; MoNEr.-THE ATTACK ON ST. JEAN the.,d'E I.)l4TitincTloN or ,60,000/.-Yesterday being PaYinaeY-4-PP°iated by her Majesty's o f 60 000/, which, .4 prize nt of the Pa 4 i-apentary grant-Govern , ment for the 4 .. raoney,. was to be distributed_among tl y i e e d o i ffi n c t e h r e s : eel berkWs of her :Majesty's. ships of war engaged variouse ratea honahardtnetit of St. Jean d'Acre, and the Reeas'saults on that coast, the same was awarded a °r(li ng to the instalments among the various t hai\f'plieants, at the office of Mr. P. Musprat , at tiers,. 33, Abchurch-l'aue Lombard-street. of Sir R . st tee, which was underfleet in ' ' the command The boy s , `,1),1,0rd, G.C.8., consisted of the Bellerophen, Ben et.,,l '4-linbur,-h, Ilastings Powerful, Revenge, Thunder, Pique, 't.2•1,P8, Gurg 6 n C ' arysfu ' r . t, pido, Alagicienne, ~....toot y, i ..li , , 403). , ..tyura, Stromboli, Hazard, Vesuvius, Wasp, Zi i ,a , /?,-,e , and a battalion of the Royal Marines, i -se the extended a considerable distance present °ll l4 the coast of Syria.The shares of those . on. the 3d of November, 1840, at the assault of 1 9 06/. 3s. 7,1.4414,cre, are the Commander-in-Chief, ,-- d. firstaptains, 173/. 19s. 3d. ; Commanders, 861. 19 s• ~, class, 251. 15s. sd. ; second ditto, 151.95. 3d; third ditto, 71. 14s. 7id. ; fourth ditto, 51. 7s. Id. ; fifth ditto 2/. 116 . ; sixth ditto, 1/. 175. 4d. ; and the seventh (1.,140, 175. 211' , The shares of those engaged between I . _he 9th of u nder i n . September and 10th of October are-the Com- Car,, , Chief, 1,206/. 4s. ; Commodore, 603/. ,ia,ns 130/ 14- ( ' 2 04 , , . s. ; _ ommanders, 67/ 176 . ; ". 4d. ; second ditto, 12/. 4s. 9d. ; third ditto, first class, 6 /. 2s 41,1 " - 2 , -..; fourth ditto, 41. Is. 7d. ; fifth ditto, 2/. Os. 90.; tult'2xth ditt 1/. n7s. 2 , 41•; and se vent h ditto, 13s. 7d. Pay lie,,,,et n willtu util b s e . math; L ., very Wednesday- and Friday for ZEi naDER.---A ease occurred on Sunday, which itves little doubt that murder has been done in this city, ascertained a 'Row; and the particulars of which, so far as we have . . them, are as follows: -About seven o'clock P''ekla the morning, a Person named George M`Naught, a ing- box maker, residing at 100, Havannah-street, slot"Larriled some of his neighbours, by stating that he could arouse a man who had spent a part of the night by Ping in the same bed with him, and that he was afraid e ,,,: 18 dead. The first effort at resuscitation was by il l3 t - ` vi u g rhisky down the man's throat ; but as this did s °- -14 '"e any symptoms of life, the neighbours then ..enricte for a medical man, who was immediately in attend .",._ ' - lle at once said that the man was quite dead, and '-..)1. turning the body, discovered the cause of death in a 'lllle.l, which was sticking to the depth of an inch and a I ,kit nt the right side of the deceased immediately below the ribs The instrument, which is called a three head-bandauarter of an inch chisel, had perforated the trousers ass ert and shirt of the deceased ; and it has been ,audained, we believe, to belong to M`Naught, the 1,,e..10rd of the house. The name of the deceased is 1;21?A,.,11 M‘liinnon, a dyer, residing in Dalmarneck-road, t`::t.se character of late years has been none of the i.) Ikl`Naught, who had himself given information at Na °li coffice in the course of the morning, that a dead Z_ T.l tale was Iyhig in his room, was immediately sough . t for en into eitvody. Beyond stating that M`K . innon tnoroin r his house about half past four o clock in the ir e I, /•,, and lay - don nin the bed with him, he denies, d e L e bnYe, all knowledge of the cause of the man's .:til. There is no reason to doubt, however, that 4.2siught, the deceased, and some other persons, were i:i,s"n,..l, i_ng in the room during the night ; and some of the i.h.bcurs were alarmed by the noise of a serious scuffle t,la . .e dayliht.-Glasgou. Herald. ti lt Wil:3u2, illt2 celebrated vocalist, has been for s,otTalll,ifew days delighting the people in the north of o'Q. l . Q _.` Re ..commenced a circuit of concerts at John oat s. t il r.i: EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF DEER STEALING. WORCESTER, WEDNESDAY EvENING.-A very ex traordinary charge of deer stealing (which, fr o m th e respectabl e position which the acettted occupy in so ciety, and the circumstances which brought it to light, has excited considerable astonishment in the neighbourhood) has been tried to-day at the quarter sessions for the county, before Mr. J. S. Pakington, M.P., the Chairman, and a full bench of magistrates. The accused parties are too highly respectable farmers residing at Kyre, named Ephraim Swan and John Patrick, who were charged with having, on the 21st of Aug us t, 1 844, feloniously killed and stolen a buck deer, Kyre Park, the property of Mr. William Lacon Childe. The prisoners had been admitted to bail, and on being called into court, they immediately surrendered and entered the bar. They were ar raigned in company with other prisoners, and pleaded " Not Guilty," in a firth' but respectful voice. Mr. Whitmore appeared as counsel for the prose cution ; and Mr. Lea and Mr. Huddlestone for the prisoners. Mr. Whitmore opened the case in a very temperate speech, and detailed the facts as he subsequently proved them in evidence. The offence, though charged to have been committed in August, 1843, would ap pear not to have been discovered, or at least disclosed, until twelve months afterwards, when a boy named George Passey made a statement to the effect that he had seen the deer hunted and killed by the prisoners. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to call witnesses. The first witness examined was Mr. Thomas May lett, the park-keeper of Mr. Childe, who deposed that in July, 1843, he noted a certain dark-coloured buck among the herd of deer in Mr. Childe's park for killing, but missed the deer on looking for him some time afterwards. About the same time George Passey was employed, by witness's permission, in gathering sticks in the park. At the end of August witness observed that the fern growing near to a maple tree, at the outskirts of the park, not far from the residence of Swan, had been pressed down, as if something heavy had been dragged over it, and upon one of the park palings near was some " fens," or deer's hair, and a little blood. In his cross-examination the witness admitted that the deer often strayed from the park and leaped the fence. Both the prisoners had assisted • him to kill deer, but he had never given them permission to kill deer in his absence. He was on good terms with both of them. George Passey, a boy about fifteen years of age, was next examined, and upon his evidence the case entirely depended. He deposed that abont the time of the corn harvest—he could not recollect more pre cisely—he was employed in gathering sticks in Mr. Childe's park, when he saw the prisoner Patrick driv ing the deer. He got up into a tree and watched him. After a time he left them, and was absent for a short time, when he returned in company with Swan, who drove the deer towards Patrick, the latter having stationed himself in a particular part of the park, near to where the witness was concealed. Patrick now had a gun, and when the herd approached him he fired, and a dark-coloured buck fell. Both prisoners then ran up, and, having cut the animal's throat, dragged the carcase along the pass until they got to the park paling, and, lifting it over, proceeded in the direction of Swan's house. This transaction took place in the broad daylight ; indeed, from the witness's statement the deer must have been shot about noon. Soon afterwards he went home to dinner, and then told his parents what he had seen, but nothing more was said of the circumstance until about a twelvemonth afterwards, during which time Passey was taken into Mr. Maylett's service, and then the matter was disclosed. This witness was under examination a long time, and prevaricated in a sligh degree. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were taken for a carriage drive yesterday afternoon. This morning their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice were taken their ac customed airings in the pleasure grounds of the Castle on ponies. FRENCH RAILWAYS. (From the Sicle, of the 16th October.) During the last session, the Chambers began to understand that the application of the law of June, 1842, to a great number of railway lines, might com promise the position of the treasury ; they, therefore, voted for the railway from Amiens to Boulogne (which will form the communication between France and England), a lease (concession) fixed at a maxi mum of 99 years without any aid from the State, and entirely at the risk and perils of the lessee (conces sionaire). The adjudication of this railway took place this morning at the office of the Minister of Public Works. It was known beforehand that only one company would offer, and that, consequently, there woul7l be no competition of a nature to shorten to any extent the duration of the line. The adjudica tion was, therefore, only an affair of pure form. Messrs. Charles Lafitte, Blount and Co., have been declared lessees, subject to the approbation of the Government, with the insignificant reduction of a month, making the duration of the term 98 years and 11 months. The ordonnance of approval has not yet appeared, either for the Bordeaux or the Vierzon line ; we have alluded to the report which is current respecting the latter, the concession of which, it is said, the Minister hesitates to confirm, in order not to create a precedent for a species of premium given to a transaction be tween companies placed in competition. As to the Bordeaux railway the exclusion, without any reason assigned, of the D'Anthouard Company, will be the means of formally deciding a point of jurisprudence of great importance, in reference to concessions of public works. The D'Anthouard Company has appealed to the Council of State, de manding the annulling of the adjudication, upon the ground that the company had fulfilled all the condi tions required by the law, and by the order of the Minister issued in execution of the law. This com pany is still in ignorance of the causes of its exclusion, for M. Dumon has positively refused to state them. We know how extensive are the powers which the Chambers have given to the Minister; we do not pretend to judge of the motives of the very serious decision come to by him, in regard to the D'Amthouard Company, since those are a sealed book to all the world. Without, however, wishing to attack the use made of the blank seal confided to the Government, we may be permitted to express our astonishment that it has not been deemed proper to assign any cause of refusal, thereby placing the directors of the excluded company in a most unpleasant position with their subscribers. M. Dumon has overstrained administrative rigour, because his brother and his cousin are among the founders of the company ; but with all due respect for such scruples, we are bound to state that it is not under our form of Government that a sentence can be pronounced without a reason being assigned, thus leaving strong doubts of its justice. Otherwise the most well-founded measure might be endangered by caprice or injustice. ANNULLING OF THE ADJUDICATION OF THE RAILWAY OF VIERZON. (From the Democratic Pacifique of the 16th Oct.) His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ar rived in town yesterday morning from Kew, and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester llouse. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz arrived at Cambridge Ilouse in the afternoon, from Kew. His Excellency M. Dedel transacted business yes terday at the Foreign-office. A deputation from the Thetford Deviation and Norwich and London Direct Railway Company, con sisting of the Hon. Francis Baring, Sir John Ren nie, C.E. ; Mr. S. C. Bidwell, Mayor of Thetford ; Mr. Garner Gill, and Mr. IV. Clark, Town-clerk, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yester day, at the office of the Board of Trade. Dispatches for Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor of Canada, and &lso for the Governors of the other North American provinces, were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. OCT. 15. Dream cutter, George Bentinck, Esq.,wfrom Portsmouth. SAILINGS. 11. Nymph cutter, Sir John Bayley, Bart., Ports• mouth, (to lay up) ; Whim cutter, Charles Brett, Esq., Cowes Harbour, (to lay up). 16. Dream cutter, George Bentinck, Esq., on a cruise to the westward. 17. Georgian schooner, William Lyons, Esq., Cadiz and West Indies. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. Ketch—Kestrel, Commodore Earl of Yarborough. Schooners—Xarifa (Earl of Wilton) ; Flirt, (Sir B. H. Graham, Bart.) ; Gem, (John Bamborough, Esq.) ; Jack o'Lantern, (Earl of Orkney). Cutters—Phantom, (Sir William Curtis, Bart.) ; Dream, (George Bentinck, Esq.) ; Turquoise, (C. H. Coote, Esq.) Yawl—Nau tilus, (R. S. Wardle, Esq.) HER MAJESTY'S ARRIVAL. On the 15th, at about 10h. 30m. A.M., the royal yacht Victoria and Albert arrived, and brought up in the Roads. During her Majesty's approach, the Royal Yacht Squadron battery and Cowes Castle commenced saluting, as did also the Phantom, (Sir William Curtis, Bart.) At eleven o'clock her Majesty landed at East Cowes, the Royal Yacht Squadron battery again saluting on her Majesty passing by, with her Noble Consort, in the royal barge, as did the Commodore, and other yachts at anchor. As her Majesty passed through the squadron she was well received and cheered, and the Phantom, whose cross-trees were manned, seemed, as Re hear, highly to amuse and gratify the royal party. On the 16th her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince, had an excursion on the water, in the royal barge, for more than an hour, off her own residence at Osborne. On the 17th, at about 1 P.M., her Majesty em barked at Osborne, on board the royal yacht, and proceeded to the eastward, for a morning cruise, with a fresh breeze from the N.W., and fine weather, several yachts in company. The royal yacht left Cowes Roads, at one o'clock this day, (the 18th). The Black Eagle, and another steamer, came down from Portsmouth, and joined her ; they ran close into Osborne, when her Majesty and the Prince embarked from the beach. The three steam ships then proceeded to the westward, it is supposed to Alum Bay. The steamers returned at half-past five o'clock, and landed her Majesty. The weather con tinues very fine. This rusticating of her Majesty and Prince Albert, is quite an event in our history. All pomp and parade is dispensed with. Her Majesty's dress is neatness itself, and as plain as it is neat. She is not inhabiting a castle, but an old gentleman's house, and that not a large one. Not a soldier or guard of any sort, within miles ; not a man-of-war even in Cowes Roadstead. No one intrudes on the grounds, which are as private as the rooms of the house. The same may be said of the beach, from which they can embark and disembark, without even being seen by any but those in the little barques, whom the waves are bearing east or west. It is only the yacht that looks like royalty, and but for' her presence, people in Cowes would not be aware that the Queen was so near them. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 18.—We:are informed that Rear- Admiral Bowles will hoist his flag in command of the squadron at Spithead on the forthcoming trial cruise on board the Caledonia, Captain Milne, and not on board the St. Vincent, as at first anno un c e d. The St. Vincent has not been docked for nearly five years ! After this cruise she will, we believe, return to her former moor ings in the harbour until the Neptune, 120, is prepared for the flag, when the St. Vincent will proceed to the Mediterranean as flag-ship on that station. The Firebrand, 8, steam-frigate, Captain Corry, left her moorings in the harbour yesterday for Spithead, to join the squadron under her command. The remainder of the brigs not paid wages on Wed nesday, received two months' advance yesterday. The Devon lighter sailed on Wednesday for Plymouth with the men and stores employed in navigating the Stirling Castle convict establishment from that port to this. The Rhadamanthus steam transport, Master-Com mander T. Lae°, left on Wednesday for Plymouth and Cork with supernumeraries. The Mercury tender sailed on Wednesday evening with supernumeraries for Chatham. The Sinbad lighter sailed yesterday with stores for Sheerness and Chatham. The Sylvia cutter, tender to the Seaflower, left last evening for Jersey, having undergone thorough overhaul and refit. Admiral Sir G. Cockburn and Vice-Admiral Sir W. Gage, accompanied by Admiral Sir C. Rowley, went out to Spithead yesterday to pay their respects to her Ma• jesty on board the royal yacht as ahe passed through ; but the yacht steamed so fast that their Lordships were obliged to relinquish their object. At the time of the adjudicitiOn of the railway from Orleans to Vierzon and Bourges, a coalition took place between the two competing companies ; they made such arrangements between themselves as, that one tender only was lodged, and the railway adjudged with an insignificant reduction of the term. This fact *as undeniable : we therefore learnt with pleasure that the Minister of Public Works, M. Damon, and the Minister of Finances, M. Lacave Laplagne, have resolved at length to show some energy against the speculators who play SD audaciously with the fortune of the State ; their intention is neither to cause the provisional adjudication pronounced on the 9th Oct., nor the right which belongs to them according to the term of the law, to be ratified by royal ordonnance. But there are powerful interests which will oppose there result and endeavour to prevent the Minister from doing justice to that manifest coalition which has taken away all real character from the public mode of adjudication enployed to guarantee the inter ests of the State. Being apprised of the intentions of the two Minis ters, the parties to which the lines are adjudged will spare no effort, will put all the means in their power into operation to ward off the blow which menaces them. Who will credit it ? They rely upon the re sults of their jobbing for authority to continue it. " You cannnot," they say to the Ministers, " annul our adjudication—the effect would be to alarm all those speculators who, for above a:month, have bought and sold our promises of shares at enormous pre miums already paid or received ; the Stock Exchange itself—the English Stock Exchange—would be in jured. Your tolerating the manoeuvres of the Bourse during so long a time has authorised every one to believe that you would continue to support them; the annulling of the adjudication would annul at the same time the numerous bargains made upon the rise of our shares. You would surely not wish yourselves to throw disorder into the alley ! You would arm against you all the bankers and their adherents. Are you sure of proving the strongest in this struggle ? Take care that you do not lose your portfolios in it." The Minister must close his ear to these threats and sophisms. Each of the speculators must have known in kbar gaining with promises of shares that th e ir va l ue was only a provisional value, and that the Council of Ministers had the power of ratifying or annulling the adjudication. Now the coalition of the above two companies is a fact publicly known—the conditions of the coalition have been concealed from no one ; the resolution of the Ministers would therefore be perfectly well founded in reason, and we are in hopes they will know how to elevate the power and dignity of the Administration by an energetic measur e , w hi c h cir cumstances so imperatively demand. The determination as to the adjudication once pro nounced, what should be done ? The affair should be disengaged from all those shameful manoeuvres in which the banking interest is engaged with the authorities : all jobbing should be put an end to; and with that object the Government should, in the name of the State, take upon itself the [working of these railways, by organising a special administration to manage them. (From the Satan-Corsaire of the 16th Oct.) The adjudication of the railway from Amiens to Boulogne took place this day at nine o'clock, at the office of the Minister of Public Works. One tender only by the house of Charles Lafitte, Blount, and Co., was lodged. The caution money was 800,000 francs. FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS AT BRIGIITON.—Chief Justice Doherty has arrived at the Norfolk Hotel, for the purpose of taking a house hero for the winter. Chief Justice Pennefather, who has recently left Brigeton for Ireland, has derived great benefit from a residence on this coast. The Countess of Effingham, who has lately arrived at the Norfolk Hotel, has just taken one of those splendid mansions of Mr. Nugee, on the Eastern-terrace, where Sir Robert Peel is residing with his family. The Duchess of Somerset was desirous of taking the corner mansion, but Lord Petre had previously engaged it, and we understand that there is not a house vacant large enough for her Grace. The Du2liess has been in treaty for Sir Isaac Lyon Goldstuid's house on Adelaide-ter race. The Duke of Devonshire was down here on Mon da Ly to see his houSe in Kemp Town, which -is about to be occupied by Lord and Lady Granville. Lord Francis Egerton has 'taken a - house on. Eastern-terrace. The Duke-- and,. -Duchess - -of St. Alban's. are expected, in Eastern-terrace to-morrow. The Countess of Glengall, Lady Twysden, Mr. and La , Harriet Maynard, Sir Jol:m and : Lady Campbell,iLady Augusta r karing, Baro ness- Rothschild. and family, .Lady Charles Somerset, Sir hT flugalaSer, the Earl of Bosse, and Sir Charles Des Vceux, are also among the visitors at this fashion able watering-place, which continues very full of com pany. WINDSOR, FRIDAY EVENING.—In consequence of the fine open weather which has just set in, succeeding the late heavy rains, her Majesty has determined upon remaining in the Isle of Wight until Monday next. A messenger arrived at Windsor this morning, from Osborne House, with a notification to this effect. The preparations which were in progress for the reception of the Court at the Castle to-morrow have, in consequence, been postponed. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, OCT. 18.—At a con gregation just holden, the following degrees were con ferred :—James Baird, Queen's College ; George Chris tian Purches, Corpus Christi College ; Samuel Arthur Walker, Corpus Christi College ; and Edward Walker, Pembroke College. At the same congregation the fol lowing gentlemen were elected Pro-Proctors :—Rev. John Legh, M.A., King's College ; and Rev. Henry Philpott, M.A., St. Catherine's Hall. The following graces also passed the Senate :—Mr. Bates, of Christ's College, Deputy Taxor, in the absence of Mr. Hildyard; Dr. Paget, of Caius College, Examiner for Medical De grees for the ensuing year ; Mr. Maddison, of Catherine Hall, to resume his Regency ; Mr. Atkinson, of Trinity College, to resume his Regency ; Mr. Bates, of Christ's College, to resume his Regency. PARKER, SHORE, AND Co.'s BANKRUPTCY.—Yes terday a meeting for the proof of debts under this bank ruptcy, was held at the Leeds District Court of Bank ruptcy, before Mr. Commissioner West. Mr. Bagshawe, of London, barrister-at-law, appeared on the part of Mr. Wm. Wright, the receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery, on an order from the Court of Review, dated the 3d of June last, to claim to prove for the sum of €5,8461 I Is., on behalf of Harrington Ofiley Shore, an infant, vested in the name of Oftky Shore, one of the bankrupts, as the surviving trustee of his father, Mr. Samuel Shore. Mr. T. 11. Hill, barrister, of Leeds, and Mr. Eyre, solicitor, of Sheffield, on the part of some of the creditors ; and Mr. Bromley, of Sheffield, solicitor, on the part of the assignees, objected to the claim, and addressed the Court at considerable length, after which his Honour requested the papers to be handed to him, and took time to consider his judgment. The further hearing on this point was consequently adjourned. Mr. Cariss, solicitor, of Leeds, applied to prove on behalf of Mr. Joseph Thompson, for the sum of 1 , 26 71. Is. 5d., on the joint estate of the partners, and on the private estate of Mr. Hugh Parker. It appeared that Mr. Thompson applied for his money out of the bank a few days before the stoppage, when Mr. Parker offered him his security for the saMy of his cash, as Mr. Thompson had said that he had heard rumours of the bank's insolvency. The Court admitted the claim on both the estates. There are some other claims, but not to any serious amount.—Sheffield Iris. THE WEATHER.—Yesterday (Tuesday) was as fine an autumn day as could be wished, with an unclouded sky and bright sunshine—yet the glass was as low as on any day during the whole year. It is probable there may have been a blow-out somewhere. If not, our baro meter is getting useless.—Glaayow Constitutional. [The same discrepancy between the glass and the weather was observed in Edinburgh both on Tuesday and yesterday.] Caledonian Mercury 0 Thursday As we had foreseen, the house of Lafitte and Co., finding. itself alone and without competitors, ; _ could 'have obtained tie' concession with the deduction ,of single day of the 99 years, which is the extent of the privilege. Mr. Charles Lafitte has been more gene rous than we expected. He has offered a deduction of a month. We are assured that the royal approba tion will be refused, and wd find =than it is . knot necesr, sary that one scandatihotildfolloit'another. Another adjudication, that of the railway from Orleans to Vierzon, has greatly interested the Bourse. The act of Ministerial pleasure (bon plaisir ltio . ste rid) which has rendered the Orleans Company the sole lessee of the line, when two companies had been admitted to compete, causes so much the more outcry on account of the speculation which is already car ried on in the shares of this railway, the price of which, from 500 francs, has rapidly risen to 685 francs. We cannot too much deplore the conduct of the Minister under these circumstances ; he cannot, without compromising himself, longer allow the job bing of great speculators at the expense of the public interest, and of parties who really desire to invest their capital; he is bound to announce, without delay, that the adjudication will not be confirmed, without waiting until disgraceful suspicions of his conduct appear well founded. The reports are of the most sinister kind. For our part we are far from giving credit to them, for culpable connivance is condemned by the article 412 of the penal code ; and the l?ailway Journal of the 12th of October asserts, nevertheless, a most extra ordinary fact, viz., that the Leconte Company NN ith drew from the adjudication in consideration Of a gift in shares of 35 per cent. of the capital. It even goes further; it publishes the circulars addressed to its shareholders by the above company, to apprise them of the reduction of 65 per cent., which will in con sequence be made in their subscription. We repeat, we cannot believe in these manoeuvres ; and if we speak of them, it is to demonstrate the necessity for a new adjudication. The companies excluded from competition will, without doubt, again present themselves ; the public and the Treasury will have the benefit of a bona fide competition. The re duction of fourteen years, offered by Messrs. Luzarche, Laurent, and Mackenzie, is a good sign, the con cession which they have obtained being generally re garded as less advantageous than the others. It is high time t o o pp ose th e progress of this de moralization, in which money is an object and a means equally objectionable. William Benbow, a carpenter, occasionally em ployed by Mr. Maylett, corroborated that portion, of Mr. Maylett's evidence relative to the fern being pressed down in the park, and the evidence of deer's hair on the paling. Taylor, an inspector of the 'Worcester county con stabulary, proved, that on apprehending Swan he said, " I did not kill the deer." He also spoke to the situa tion of localities described in the evidence of the boy Passey. Mr. Lea then addressed the jury at some length for the prisoners, calling attention to the defective nature of the evidence has it had been laid before them. He charged the whole affair as a conspiracy, and ob served that no date had been fixed which would have given the accused an opportunity of better clearing themselves from the charge. The Learned Counsel dwelt at some length on the statement of the boy Passey, and especially pointed out certain prevarica tions and contradictions therein. Remarking on the fact that the boy's statement had not been made until after he had entered the service of Mr. Maylett, the park-keeper, he suggested that it might have origin ated in a spirit of ill-feeling, engendered against one of the accused, who occupied a piece of land in the centre of Mr. Childe's preserves. The learned counsel then called a number of wit nesses to character, all of whom spoke highly of both prisoners, and especially of Swan. The CHAIRMAN then addressed the jury, and drew their attention to the leading points of the evidence. The prisoners' counsel had suggested that the state ment of Passey was incredible, and they would have to consider whether there were any grounds for such discredit, and also how far his evidence was sup ported by that of other witnesses. As to the position in life which the prisoners occupied, he told them that they would have to consider that feature in the case in precisely the same manner as they would a good character, but not further. In the same manner as evidence of previous good character would weigh in a case of doubt, so would their elevated position in life. The jury, after about a quarter of an hour's de liberation, found a verdict of Not Guilty as regarded both prisoners. On the verdict being returned there was a slight ebullition of popular feeling, some of the audience ex pressing their approbation by clapping their hands. SOUTII•WESTERN RAILWAY.—A very influential meeting of the inhabitants of Honiton was held on Tuesday, for the purpose of memorialising the directors of the South-Western Railway Company to extend their line through Honiton to Exeter, and onwards through central; ornwall to Falmouth. A memorial was unanimously adopted, approving of the central railway. We understand that a similar meeting is contemplated at Exeter. —Plymouth JournaL BUILDING EXTENSIONS WESTWARD OF LONDON.-- From a statement made at the Southwark Literary So ciety, it would appear that, within the last three years upwards of three thousand mansions and first-class houses have been built westward of London. In the King's -road vast improvements are in rapid progress; and in .the 'Brompton-road tha i noble structitre of the Hoipital fOr Consumption is rapidly progressinglinder the hands of the eminent builders, Messrs. Bird, Of Brook-green, Hammersniith. - COLLIERY ACCIDENTS.— . --It known to thos resident in mining districts thataceidents have frequently. occurred from the dangerous practiceta smoking in coal pits. The Newcastle Advertiser of Thursday Contains the following case, in which three persons were convicted and sentenced to be imprisoned in the House of Correc tion for tampering with their Davy lamps for the pur pose of pursuing this practice :—" John Marshall, Them is Lockey, and Thomas Thompson, pitmen, work ing at the Elmore pit, Hetton Colliery, were brought before the magistrates at Easington, a few days ago, the two former charged with having drawn the flame through their Davy lamps to light their pipes, and the latter with having unlocked and unscrewed his lamp for the same purpose. After a long and careful investigation, it appeared that, at the part of the pit where this shame ful and dangerous offence was committed, there was no immediate danger from foulness, and the magistrates therefore, with the utmost leniency, only sentenced them to three weeks' hard labour in the House of Cor rection." COLLIERY EXPLOSION. Two LIVES LOST.—On Wednesday night, about nine o'clock, the village of New ton was thrown into a great state of excitement, en alarm being given that the pit belonging to Messrs. Micklethwaite and Co. had fired, and that four men were at work at the time. Providentially the cupola man and a boy, who were at work near the other two men, had made their escape to the pit's eye, and were with the greatest dispatch landed on the surface. The man had not sustained the least injury, but the boy was much burnt about the knees, having also received a severe cut in the forehead. The other two men were found both dead. A little after one o'clock the bodies were brought up, and a truly horrible picture was then presented to view, the flesh on their arms and faces being literally burnt to a cinder, the skin hanging about them like so many rags ; they were immediately laid upon stretchers. asinhne there to await the held yesterday at the h Vine Tree Inn, N ew t on . N o w house and oour so conveyed Coroner's Josephy d inquest, t o t G o e sun, which adjoining c particulars have as yet transpired as to how the explo sion originated, but it is to be feared that the sulphur must have ignited at the lamp of one of the sufferers, the semi not having yet been found. The other two lamps are in a perfect state. The names of the sufferers are John Whiteley, a lad, residing at Bragg-lane, and severely burnt ; James Brown, Westgate-common, a married man, aged about thirty, dead ; and George Wild, of Potovens, aged seventeen, also dead. Brown has left a wife and one child to mourn his untimely end. The pit continued on fire yesternight, the sulphur hav ing ignited the coal. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of " Accidentally killed in a coal-pit."— Wake field Journal. THE OVERLAND PASSAGE TO INDIA.--The addi tional protection and facilities recently accorded by Me hemet Ali to the passage through his dominions (parti cularly across the Desert between Cairo and Suez), have given a new interest to this singular route, and will doubtless direct unusual attention to the forthcoming work, from the pen of Major and Mrs. George Darby Griffith, detailing the various features of the journey. The peculiar advantages which these travellersare known to have possessed, lead to the expectation of a work of uncommon attraction ; and if, as we are led to believe, the volumes should furni , h the long-felt desideratum of a sort of Handbook to the Overland Passage, they will LT one of the most acceptable and valuable offerings of the kind that have yet enriched our library of travel. Cer tain it in is, that no d escr i pt i ons of the scenes and inci dentsquestion, written on the spot, and at the moment to which they refer, can fail to include an interest as strong as their utility must be extensive. CHATHAM OCTOBER 18.--TheMenelaus Lazerett o was put out Of dock this day, having had her rudder fixed, and otherwise prepared for being navigated to Portsmouth. The African and Monkey steam-vessels are waiting to take her away to Portsmouth. She is ordered to leave to morrow. The Eagle, 50 guns, ad vanced ship, was taken into dock on Thursday, the 17th instant, to be rigged, she having previously got a portion of her tanks on board. The whole of her gun-carriages, besides her ballast, are all on board. The Trafalgar, 120 guns, was navigated to Sheerness on the 13th instant by the African and Monkey steamers. The Thunder surveying vessel, C. Barsett, still remains in dock, making good her defects and fitting for sea. She will be fully completed this week, when she goes out. The Diligence. naval transport, Martin master, lies alongside the duck, ebehmi ag her cargo of sore& t, TH)FI stiNT „ , SATII RDA Yt F/VgP, 4I ,,LN Qt. PcTOBER 10, 1844. ORLEANS, TOURS, aiid BORDEAUX tiAILWAV. (From Sccond Edition of the ffai/way irecord of to-day.) Much mist inception etists with respect to the terms of idly lease of this line, tnainly dwing to the malice of disappointed parties, but in some degree also to Went df accurate information on the subject. We believe we tire within the mark when we sa.y thcre is not .one English Shaleholdef in a thousand who has any clear, well-de fined notions respecting the laws and regulations relating to these French lines, nor in what they differ one from another ; for it is no less singular than true, that almost all are based upon different constitutions, as far as they have yet obtained the sanction of the Legislature ! What may be done in the coming session of the French Chambers, it is impossible to predict —except this, that the terms that might have been obtained by companies during the last two years will never be offered to them again. The Government and the public are beginning to be aware of the value of an important main trunk line of railway, when one-half, or rather three-fifths, of the whole cost is borne by other shoulders than those of the Shareholders. For the information, then, of those who have not seen, or do not know the law, or the Cahier des Charges relat ing to this line of railway, we will just state that the works at the charge of the State on the section between Orleans and Tours are nearly finished, and will be deli vered over to the Company almost immediately, to enable them to commence the upper works and provide the carrying stock. Th e G overnment takes six years to construct the remaining portion of the whole, that is, at the cost of the State, between Tours and Bordeaux, where the ground is not yet broken. The Company are allowed two years after the final delivery to them by the Government for completing the upper works, and getting their currying stock together, so as to be ready to open the whole line to the public ; and, lastly, the lease will date only from the end of the two years so allowed to the Company. Thus a lease, in the terms of the law relating to this railway, is, in point of fact, a lease for 27 years 278 days, plus 6 years of construction by the Government, plus 2 years of completion and stocking by the Company, or 35 years 278 days, of the 72 miles between Orleans and Tours, and the successive sections of the line that may be brought into operation before the whole is completed. Now, the section between Orleans and Tours, the connecting link with the P ar i s an d Orleans Railway, is by far the most productive of the whole line, and will yield about one-half of the whole revenue, while it is not quite one-fourth of the distance. Tours is a point at which concentrates all the traffic of the west and the south-west of France to and from Paris, which is itself more than the mere capital of the kingdom, in consequence of the sys tem of centralisation which prevails in the government of that country. We hear that the Company are about to arrange with a firm of contractors of known and tried ability, for the completion and stocking of the whole line, ready to be opened to the public, and it is expected at a figure that will leave a good margin still on the capital of the Company. This would be a most gratifying ope ration for the Shareholders, because it would reduce the sufficiency of the capital to a positive certainty, while it would relieve the Directors also from all anxiety about extra Bills, and greatly lighten, in other respects, the most onerous and disagreeable part of the labours of a Board of Directors—that which precedes the opening of a railway. The section to Tours, we are assured, will be opened in the autumn, if not in the summer, of next year, at a cost-of not exceeding 51. per share, and will yield at least 15 to 18 per cent. on the capital expended upon it. We understand that the Directors will make an official report to the Shareholders immediately after the royal ordonnance shall have been obtained • and lay fully be fore them those stati s ti ca l details, which, with the pru dence that has characterised all their management, they thought proper to withhold from the public while the conditions of the lease were yet matter of discussion in the French Chambers. The ordonnance will probably issue soon after the return of the King of the French to Paris. His Majesty will reach St. Cloud this day (Sa turday, the 19th instant). In the meantime, without pretending to know what precise combination this company have employed to ensure to their Shareholders the mathematical certainty of the repayment of the whole capital at the expiration of the lease, we call the attention of all men of business to the fact that the operation of a progressive sinking fund, averaging not more than 1 per cent. on the capital, im proved at 4 per cent. compound interest, will extinguish in 34 years just 56,759,545 f. of that of this company, leaving only little more than 8,000,000 f. to be provided for by the valuation of the stock, materials, and stores, to be paid to the company at the expiration of the lease. The probable value of this plant wilt be at the least from 8,000,000 f. to 10,000,000 f., at a depreciation of 50 per cent. on the first cost. ,on— Thus it is clear that if the lease were but for 34 years only, the term would be sufficient to liquidate the capital in the manner just stated. RAILWAYS IN CORNWALL. (From the TVest Briton.) CORNWALL RAILWAY.—We are informed that the success which has attended this undertaking since the prospectus has been issued, is most satisfactory, and that from the application for shares, which are upwards of 40,000, the greatest difficulty the Provisional Committee will experience, will be to give satisfaction to the appli cants, to whom it will be impossible to allot the number of shares for which they have applied. It will be ob served that the names of several influential gentlemen are added to the Provisional Committee this week, and it is said that confidence in the accomplishment of this great measure is greatly strengthened. It is also stated that there is not the slightest foundation for the statement which has appeared in the columns of a Contemporary that the associated companies have given encouragement to the promoters of a central line. On the contrary, it is said that those companies are satisfied, as are the Committee of the Cornwall Railway, that the south line is the only practicable line, and, therefore, the line to ob tain which their utmost exertions should be directed, and that of the result of those exertions they entertain not the slightest doubt. CORNWALL CENTRAL RAILWAY.—A meeting of the leading solicitors of the county attending the Quarter Sessions at Bodmin, was held at that place on Wednes day evening, on the subject of this railway. As the meeting was strictly a professional one, we are unable to give a detailed report of what took place ; but we un derstand that the immediate object of the meeting was to consider whether the projected central line had as yet assumed such a shape as to entitle it to support as a practicable undertaking. The result was an unanimous decision that there was no longer reason to doubt the necessary funds for carrying it into effect would be forthcoming. A requisition is in course of sig: nature to the Mayor of Bodmin to call a public meeting in that borough to take into consideration the best line of railway through Cornwall, and re questing him to forward a copy of the requisition to the Members for the borough, to ask the favour of their attendance at the meeting on Thursday next. We are informed that a meeeting is also to be held, on Wednesday next, at St. Columb, and that preparations are being made in other towns of the county for holding similar meetings in favour of a central line of railway through the county. WEST CORNWALL RAILWAY.-011 Wednesday last a , public meeting was held in the Guildhall, St. Ives, to consider the propriety of applying to the West Corn al Company to extend at branclb.of their railway to-that them. John ..ehellevi, Esq., mayor, was in the chair, and - W. - T. FrattVEsq. - , - MTP.; - "vvittrnmst-of the influential - keatlimen --and merchants, attended the' meeting. " Several resolutions •=were'entered into, arida - deputatiOn!waraappointed to wait en -the Committee to -carry .she•tneasure-into effect:, NEWARK AND SHEFFIELD, OR SHERWOOD FOREST RAILWAY.—NEWARK, OCT. 12.—The railway mania has extended itself to this place, and a now line is projected. A railway meeting was held at Mansfield on the 4th instant, for the formation of a railway from Sheffield, at which place a junction is to be made with the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, and at Ashton and Staley bridge, with the Leeds and Manchester Railway, and thence by Chesterfield and Manchester, to join the pro jected London and York Railway at Mansfield, and to be designated the Newark and Sheffield or Sherwood Forest Railway. The gentlemen constituting the pro visional committee are both numerous and respectable. 13,000/. worth of shares were taken in the room.—Leeds Times. BELE STATION.—The new line of road from Sid mouth to the above station (and not Collumpton, as has been frequently stated in the newspapers), has been com menced in several places, and is proceeding with great spirit, and from the respectability and experience of the contractors, is very likely to be completed in a short time. The sidework of this station is also completed, where coals and goods aro to be had for the neighbouring parishes.— Western Times. THE RAILWAY WORKS IN PROGRESS.—The great• est activity prevails on the line of rail, more parti cularly between this town and Ely, and from the country through which it passes presenting no very great engineering difficulties, the progress in the works is most rapid. From the Chesterton side of the river, on towards Ely, the road for the recep tion of the rails is being rapidly formed ; the soil immediately adjoining Chesterton is admirably adapted for the purpose, gravel to any quantity being found immediately below the surface ; at Waterbeach, and for some distance where a great number of men are em ployed, the soil is very soft and fenny, to remedy which an immense quantity of ()Tavel has to be conveyed there, which the contractors e are procuring from land purchased by them for the purpose. There will be three bridges over the river between here and Ely, and the necessary preparations for their erection are rapidly progressing; a massive frnme-work is completed for the purpose at the crossing near Sturbitch-green. At Paper Mills, where the line crosses the turnpike-road, the old way is stopped up for the erection of a viaduct under which the trains will pass. Workshops, stables, and every other convenience required, are most substan tially built, every device for the shortening of labour is put in requisition, and no one visiting the works can have failed to notice how rapidly they are progressing. It is confidently expected that very early in the spring the line will be opened between Cambridge and Ely.—Cam bridge Chronicle. DREADFUL SIUMWRECK.—We understand that an other steamer has just gone do wn in the North Sea. She had only one befit, which wa s swamped by the des perate passengers crowding int") her. We lament to s tate that among them w ere one Royal Duke, three Peers, and half-a-dozen Mem bers of Parliament, with their wives and families. A later Account.—We are h a ppy to state that there is no truth in the above para graph ; but when there shall be—when Dukes, end Peers, and Members of Parliament, go to the bottom with common people, then—and it would seem not until then—will there be an Act compelling shipowners to carry boats of sufficient size to contain the crew and pas • rsengers.—Puno vz)v DELGrAii FF. (Froni the Corraspodeiit t:1 Ltd fbafittil de§ 27V1ng... I.T.qSELS, OCT. 14 —I send yod the fesluthlr§ come to litre fi2vr days Ago; by which several modif7d.l-: tions are to be made in the WITT of the customs of this country. It will not appear in the Moniieur Delp , " till to-morrow. With respect to all articles which can in any way interest the trade of France, an exception is made in favour of that country. England alone will be the stifi'erer. Printed cottons which pay 211 francs per 100 kil., are henceforth to pay 325 francs. The duties on bleached, coloured, or printed silks, which were for merly at the rate of 4 francs per kilornetfe l have been raised to 10 francs. With regard to France, the present duties ore maintained on cotton cloths during a year, and on silks during the period yet to ran of the conven tion of 16th of July. There is no deubt that the effect of these differential duties will ba to substitute the cotton manufactures of Rouen and Mulhausen in Belgium for those of Manchester. Belgian industry has suffered from the royal ordinance which recently raised the duties on machinery on its entry into France. People cannot conceive here why, at the moment that France was ringing with the praises of the machinery exhibited at the Exposition, a duty should be laid upon fo reign machinery, which is tantamount to a prohibition, for the new duty, instead of being twenty-two per cent. as is pretended, is in fact forty per cent. The evi. dent intention of the Belgian Government is to do away with all causes of jealousy or discontent on the part of France. If it limits the duration of the exemption in favour of France, it is principally in order to put the French Government and the Chambers in a position to come to an arrangement of as broad and durable a nature as possible. Whatever may be said to the contrary, the feelings of the great majority of the peopl e o f B e l g i um are in favour of France. " LEOPOLD, KING OF THE BELGIANS, TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, GREETING. " On the report of our Minister of the Interior and of Finances, we have resolved, and we hereby resolve, that the tariff of duties on entry be modified as follows : " Machinery.—French steam engines, 13f. per 100 kilog. ; steam-engines for navigation, 25f. ditto ; locomo tives, without tender, 35E ditto ; all kinds of machines and mechanism, not specially denominated, 25f. ditto ; cards for combing, 75f. ditto ; tenders, boilers, gasome ters, &c., in iron or cast iron, 20E, in copper or any other metal, 40E ditto ; detached pieces i❑ cast iron, 15f., in malleable iron, 20E, in copper •nd other materials, 40f. ditto ; machinery in wood, at the rate of other wooden works. " Chemical Productkns.—Alum, 4f. per 100 kilog. ; soda, &c., 6f. ditto ; sal ammoniac, 20f. ditto. ",Tissues of Cotton.—Unbleached or bleached, the pre sent duty ; dyed or printed, 325 f. per 100 kilog. " Tissues of Silk (excepting Ribbons, which continue at the present duty).—Unbleached or half-bleached, the present duty ; bleached, dyed, or printed, lof. per kilog. " Tulles and Lace.—Cotton tulle, unbleached, as at present ; bleached, dressed, or coloured, 18f. per kilog. ; worked, 12f. " SPECIAL DISPOSITIONS. " The metal cases in which itin shall be imported are subject, according to the metal, to a difirent duty from the goods. " Engines and machinery may be imported by sea, by the Maese, and by the Custom-house offices attached to the state railroads. " The duties on machines or part machines are com puted on the net weight. " The declaration must establish, indepently of the nature of the machines and the general weight, the pieces of which it consists. " There shall be produced in support of that declara- " 1. An inventory explanatory of the objects to which it relates, and indicating the number, the object, the weight, and metal of each piece imported. "2. A plan, on a scale distinctly setting forth the metals of which the machine is formed. " During a year, from the present time, the augmenta tion of entry duties shall not be applicable to French cotton cloths, the origin of which shall be fully justified, in conformity to regulations to be laid down by the Minister of Finance. Neither shall they be applicable to the productions of the Zollverein during the existence of the treaty of the Ist of September, 1844, between Belgium and the Zollverein, and from the present time, pending the exchange .of the ratifications of the said treaty. " The present duty of 4f. is continued— " 1. On silk tissues of French origin, during the re mainder of the convention of 1842. " 2. On those of Zollverein origin, during the existence of the treaty of the Ist of September, 1844, &c. " The importation of unbleached and half-bleached tissues for the purpose of being dyed and printed and then re-exported will be allowed free of duty." The Duke of Portland has been confined some weeks at Welbeck by a painful and dangerous disease ; he is pronounced by the last accounts to be much better, if not entirely out of danger. IMPORTATION OP GRAPES.—The Dutch steam ship Batavier, Captain Dunlop, which which was due at the St. Katherine's Steam Wharf on Wednesday morn ing, from Rotterdam, but which, in consequence of the boisterous weather experienced during the passage, did not make her appearance till the following day, had on board, in addition to a large number of Dutch cattle, poultry, &T., several hundred boxes of grapes, which it is understood are imported for the purpose of making home-made wine, being very small in size and of a pale colour, and unfit for ordinary use. An immense quantity of grapes have been brought from Hamburgli during the last few days. They are remarkably fine in quality, being scarcely inferior to our own hot-house; and being in such profusion they have been exposed for sale at the markets and shops at the low price of Is. per lb. NOT TO DE " DONE"—During the late Goose Fair a man went into Wombwell's menagerie, where his at tention was immediately attracted by the immense size and " knowing" tricks of the elephant. So pleased in deed was he with the sagacity of the enormous beast that he gave him an apple, and afterwards permitted him to take another out of his cost pocket. Soon after he offered the elephant a third, but contrived to get it out. of his reach before he could take it ; the animal, how ever, was not to be thus cheated, for marking the pocket into which the man had put the fruit, the next time he came within his reach he made a " grab" at the coat lap, and to the fellow's uncomfortable surprise, actually swallowed it, the apple, a silk handkerchief, and some halfpence into the bargain.—Nottingham Journal. THE ROYAL EXCHANGE FESTIVAL—The Gazette of last night contains an official notice from the Bank of England, that " Monday, the 28th instant, being the day appointed for the opening of the new Royal Ex change by her Majesty Queen Victoria, the Court of Directors, in concurrence with the committee of bankers, recommend that bills and notes due on the said 28th of October be paid on Saturday, the 26th of October, and that they will, for that purpose, give directions to their clerks to present them for payment on that day. The Court of Directors also give notice, that the offices for the transfer of the public funds, and for the delivery of the dividend warrants, will bo shut on Monday, the 28th instant." DEATH FROM DRUNKENNESS.—An inquest was taken before John Williat Cowley, Esq., one of her Majesty's coroners for the county of Bucks, on the 14th inst., at Lavendon, on the body of Lydia Sparks, aged fifty-four. It appeared deceased was much addicted to drinking, and on Saturday morning last drank a quantity of beer. About half-past nine she, her husband, and her daughter _went up 'stairs to bed ; the deceased; however; wont down stairs again, .and her . husband, hiaring her fall, called his daugktor, who got a light and then went down stairs together, and found deceased at-tlle bottom, quite dead ; neither of them touched her, but returned up stairs, dressed' themselves, and then , called in some neighbours, who took a more active part, by placing the deceased on a bed ; life, however, was quite extinct. Verdict—" Natural death, accelerated by excessive drinking." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.—WOOLWICII, OCT. 18.— The Dmdalus frigate is now ready for sea, and will be commissioned immediately by Capt. Peter M'Quhae (1835). The Black Eagle steam vessel, Master Com mander S. B. Cook, left Woolwich on Wednesday even ing for Portsmouth. The Apollo troop-ship, Lieutenant Commander Maclean, embarked the baggage of two companies of the Royal Artillery this afternoon, and the men will go on board at seven o'clock to-morrow morn ing, and the vessel will sail on Sunday for the Medi terranean. MR. SALOMONS.—A public dinner is to be given to Mr. Salomons on Tuesday next, at the London Tavern, by the inhabitants of the ward of Portsoken, for the purpose of testifying their respect for him. It is under stood that Sir Moses Montefioro will preside on the occasion. There will be illuminations, it appears, on a grand scale in the City, on the 28th instant, to celebrate the opening of the new Royal Exchange by her Majety, The Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital have given 2001. in aid of the erection of a parsonage-house at Scremerston, near Berwick-upon-Tweed. They have also promised a similar sum towards the building of a new church at Nent-head, in Cumberland.—Newcastle Advertiser. The marriage of Viscount Loftus and Miss Jane Hope Vere, daughter of Lady Elizabeth Hope Vere, is definitely arrangtd to take place on Thursday next. The I)uke of Wellington is expected to arrive in town on Wednesday from Strathfieldsaye, his Grace having promised to attend the ceremony, for the purpose of giving the bride away. TonAcco.—lt is calculated that if the duty were paid on the whole of the tobacco at present in bond in London alone, including manufactured and unmanufac tured tobacco and cigars, the sum would amount to little short of seven millions sterling. THE LATE WRECK AT RUSH. —Yesterday upwards of 100 country cars from the neighbourhood of Rush into from tolv lade n wr n ockof a with lep palmi h oil,at was whicho lost t on had been cametaken m the f Tues day se'nnight at that place. The prop ert y was in char g e of a revenue officer, and was deposited in the Custom house stores for the present.—Dublin Evening Post. 13atauToN.—Fine autumnal weather has again set in. Yesterday was a most brilliant day, and our cliffs and rides were thronged with fashionable company. Th e late rains have only had the effect of making the town look more fresh and beautiful. In Brighton no soo ner 1 v g i a g i o n r i a s t s i u n e g fo d r u t ri h. ng T t h h e e a p ir as h t a v, s , be ee e k n . p h fresh the shower cease than the pedestrian and eq ues t r i an h amn l in c a leared it of all impurities.—Brighton Herald. last the celebrated Mr. Braharn Mn. BRAHAM'S CONCERT.-0 Tuesday evening gave a grand concert this town, on which occasion the ch highlyn ing u t e a s le d n a t y ed veteran w ß • r a a s h assisted T The ey concerthis sons w , b a u rl t es n a o n t d so M m r. a H ny am w il e t:n e attended by a numerous and highly respectable compal‘anisry. present as availed_ themselve's last year of the opportu nity of he • armg this great singer and composer.—Don caster Gcizette. - .gJ .. ~ __ t !BATHS AND WASHIMUSES,,FOR THE LA BOURING CLASSES. (From !he Times.) The meeting At the Mansionehouse on Wednesday, for prennating the establishment of baths and wash houses for the labouring classes, will, N;" .q can have little doubt, lead to beneficial consequences teihe poor far beyond the limits of the metropolis. The scheme, which recclved so cordial an approbation from that meeting, has the advantage of being eminently practical, and, as experience has already shown, de cidedly practicable. There is a vile notion enter tained by some that " the poor love dirt." A fouler slander on the poor was never perpetrated. The poor endure dirt, they exist under the misery of dirt ; but they do so in those situations, and, as a general rule, in those situations alone, in which dirt is inevitable. Step into a cottage in the country, where its tenant is in the receipt of wages sufficient for his respectable order scanty,; butth e there is maintenance, and what is tee first thing th a t s t r ik es the eve ? The furniture may e accom modation may be of the homeliest an air of cleanliness over everything, which will be sought for in vain in the habitations of far ,richer men in large town, The rural poor, in genera..' ; love cleanliness. They put up with dirt, when they do :o, because they cannot help it; and it is not till years of hard necessity have made them forget the delight of being clean in the anxious daily care of seeking how they may gain the means of bare existence, that dirt, rendered 1'2,5 offensive to them by long suffering, comes to be disregarded. The rich, when they pro fess their belief that " the poor love dirt," entirely forget why they themselves are so much cleaner. Your fastidious fine gentleman, with his ample supply of the finest linen, and the most luxurious appliances of the bath and the toilet, with the necessity upon him from his position in society of being scru pulously clean, and habitually regarding the slightest want of cleanliness as tarnishing his social reputation, finds his daily ablutions to be equally a duty and a pleasure. But condemn him for a single twelvemonth to hardships in any way approaching those under which many of the labouring classes constantly suffer, and how great would not be the change of at any rate his outward man! Take, for instance, thm House of Lords, probably the cleanest assemblage of men which could be found ; condemn them to cold water and no soap, and to wash all their own clothes with their own hands in their own drawing-rooms for a single twelvemonth, and how would they look at its termination ? Isabella colour would, we saspect, become fashionable for shirt fronts, and white would yield to drab of divers shades. Can there be any - doubt .on this point ? Can any one man, whether peer or commoner, maintain that he, or any other in his station in life, would make any approach to his present cleanliness under the stafe Of things which we have suggested ? The belief that ht . could do so, however good his will might be, would be preposterously absurd. We do not go so far as to assert that the rich would, under such circumstances, love. dirt; but any man of plain co m mon sense mus t see that they would learn to bear a far greater amount of it than they can now conceive it possible to en dure. The necessity which, amidst a choice of evils, compels dirt to be put up with, must be admitted by all to be a most important consideration in estimating the probabilities of the proposed baths and wash houses being resorted to by the labouring classes. Our attention has been called by a correspondent to the propriety of exposing the fallacy that they " love dirt ;" but, except as regards those whose ac quaintance with the poor is simply theoretical, we should think more than we have said on the subject a waste of words. That old habits of tolerance of dirt can easily be broken ; that men whose whole day is devoted to slaving for meat and drink, and who can scarcely find a spare copper once a-month for anything like an indulgence, will throng to the proposed baths from admiration of cleanliness in the abstract; or, that the evil consequences of long neglect of the poor by the rich can suddenly be remedied, we do not believe, and we should be far from readily anticipating; but that it is the duty of the rich, whose luxuries are the result of the poor men's needs, to make every effort towards mitigating the wretchedness under which they pine, we strenuously maintain ; and because we entertain a confident expectation that no endeavour to benefit them, which proceeds on an accurate ac quaintance with their wants, and is reasonably calcu lated to meet them, can fail of producing some good, we give our suffrage in favour of the establishment of the proposed baths and washhouses. But let not the gentlemen who are engaged in promoting their establishment flatter themselves that they are doing anything worth a name for the very abject poor. So long as the belly is pinched, the condition of the skin is a matter of mere secondary importance. The man who is half-starved will not give up twopennyworth of potatoes for the sake of a warm bath. The family which has nothing but rags to cover, and, perhaps, scarcely cover their nakedness, will give little trouble to what the Committee call ‘, washhouses," but for which we think they would do well to substitute the far less equivocal, and equally well-known name, laundries." By degrees, but werking downwards in the scale of society, the practice of bathing may extend. At first, we can have little doubt, the baths will be resorted to principally by mechanics whose wages allow them to indulge in some trifling super fluities. Still, to such men, pent up in the midst of a large city, and deprived of many of the facilities for cleanliness which can be enjoyed by the country, a cheap is-arm bath once or twice a-week will be a great comfort ; and, even if no others should avail themselves of the establishment, for their sakes it 44. would be worth founding. The " laundries," as we beg permission to call thesis, may afford temptation to a more numerous class. The cost of firing for a washing day, and the trouble, and frequently the expense of obtaining the needful supply of water—to the rich perhaps apparently light, but to the poor really heavy evils; but, above all, the constant serious inconvenience, and, according to the reports on the health of the poor, often the danger to health occasioned by all the processes of washing being performed in the one close room in which the poor man's family too frequently dwell — these distresses will, in all probability, send a far larger proportion of poor women to the laundries than of men, women, and children, to the baths. Even at the small and inconvenient establishment in Liver pool it appears that more than 305,000 articles of clothing and domestic use have been washed in the course of the year; and the applicants at that esta blishment are so much increasing that another is about to be formed in a different quarter of the town. We augur well from the spirit with which the matter has been taken up in the City. There was something far better in the meeting on Wednesday than we can find in the run of rpeeti9gs for-consider- Inetheeondition — Of the poor which haze ,bed held it c g untry. There was pa talk of driaing tlse poor 4,0 ensigiation.witk;a,bell-wetelierpVisglesessfarmer's soti at their'head. Instead . of telling them to go to Canada and wash in Lake Erie, it was determined that means should be provided by the richfertnabling the poor to wash and make themselves more comfort able at home, and a handsome subscription was imme diately set on foot. Cheques for ten and twenty gui neas were immediately handed in by bankerp i mer chants, clergymen, aldermen, and common Council men, instead of wordy resolutions by magistrates, de puty-lieutenants, and sporting country gentlemen. The City meeting was held for doing, and not for mere palaver, and we shall rejoice to see the example set by men of business widely followed out of London by those . who have equal means and more time at their command. For the erection of the four baths and laundries which the Committee propose to establish in the metropolis—three in Middlesex and one on the Surrey side of the Thames—large funds will of course be required, but we cannot anticipate that any diffi culty will be found in raising them. Why should not the Fleet Prison be converted into one ? The street is of such ample width there that the opposite residents would not be exposed to any perceptible annoyance, and the gift of such a building would greatly facilitate the progress of the scheme. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAV.—On Friday an inquest W&s held before Mr. Chapman, at the Atlas Rotel, Oxford road, Manchester, on the body of James Curse, a map dealer, of Mount Pleasant, Rochdale, whose death resulted from the injuries received on the Old hambheet h and l d wife Cars( e f branch of the Manchester and Leeds Railwa y . on but Wednesday on the arr i v e a v l e r:: f Williaml t Leigh,f r from the t e t r h , e 0 f e e vidence 1 of e,h t El a i t za s i got ng , into and w a railway e r e gom raing to at Rochdale, the train at the Mid dleton j unction, Curse o p ened the door of the carriag e, which was a third-class, as the trail. ' tO oe ld hd h a a l m e, was slackening its pace, and tried to get out, when hi i o n nly half till a an hour .do Thursday ytThnhe night, cjhcuti:dy‘evnfhote'unbnudh but lie ah died i . ee s r u d i r about N i . e i t v e foot slipped, and he fell across the rail. The off-whet.' of the succeeding waggon passed over the unfortunate man's thighs, and he was removed to the Manchester infir mary past i t rt3h' seven ceased was in liquor at the time of the accident, and the unchester Courier. , f , a A ul c t e l•a e s n e ts lti d r e e a ly th h : Ls o il Ns i r A splendid brown horse, rising 5 years old, has been purchased fro m M r . J oseph Clay, Mr. Reynolds, groom to her Majesty Dowager, by ord ers o f E ar l II her o s t t ' y thi t s h tow4n, by M ber w ain. Thi s beautiful animal ° ise' Majesty's intended b . ye herc Cham berlain. Ma jesty as a p resent to hi s Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Weimar, and was yesterday sent off to Witl , y Court, Worcestershire, for her Majesty's inspection previous to its being forwarded to Germany.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. The rate in Christ Church, Blackfriars, has beta carried by a majority of 129. EASTERN UNION RAILWAY.—The works on this line have been commenced at Great Bentley; wbc there are about 100 men at work, the operations extetz.t• ing to nearly a mile.—Suffolk Chronicle. A block of porphyry, weighing upwards of 50,000 lbs. has been taken from the quarries at Morlaix, to be used the sarcophagus of the Emperor Napolectt.