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Eid. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to com•rence at Seven o'Clnek. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The production of Ainsworth's " Jack Sheppard," has attracted complete overflows, and been pronounced to be the greatest achievement ever yet attempted, it will consequently be acted every Evening. THIS EVENING, OCT. 25, Will be acted, Ainsworth's celebrated Drama of JACK SHEPPARD. Illustrating all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivant. Characters by Messrs. Saville, Dale, Heslop, Laws, Smith, Russ, Neville; Mrs. Vining,• Mrs. Daly, Miss Martin, Miss Grant, Mt s. Laws, &c. To conclude with the Comic Drama entitled TIIE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 33 minutes after 4. Evening ... 55 minutes after 4. ItAV d ee- Teitil • Akff,l2 6. .r , Zat' --21.t:II. LONDON : FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1839. By a Berat, or Letters Patent, of the SULTAN, pnblished in the Times of yesterday (and which wiEl be found in another part of our Paper), dated two years ago, the SULTAN grants complete tolera tion to the Catholics of his empire. His example, MusAtilman though he was, is worthy of imitation by some of our own High Priests. One sentence of the Berat runs thus— . 4. The Catholics shall be free in the practice of their worship. No one will be entitled to say to them—‘ Why do you perform the ceremonies of your religion in your hr us e s ? Why do you read your Scriptures there, and sus-, end lustres, and have pulpits, and pictures, and veils? Why do you burn incense and exhibit crosses ?'" If MorvrimEit O'SULLIVAN and Bishop PHI ',POTTS were in Turkey they would run the of being bastinadoed for sa yi ng to the Catho- Why do you exhibit crosses—why do von have pictures and veils—why do you worship false gods, you idolators ?" The Editor of the Times, too, would be liable to have the soles of his lett made tender for exhibiting his want of tole- ,ation of the Rowans, and for his abuse of them and their priests. The Ber - at corresponds to our Catholic Emancipation Act, but we require a Sul ton vigorously to enforce it against such intolerants as the Times and Bishop PHILPOTTS. We may also observe, that the Bishop, and all the Protestant Bishops, seem likely to have a for th midable rival in her MAJESTY'S good graces is the titular Catholic Archbishop of Armagh. Dr. CitoLLY, at the Cork dinner, spoke of the great blessings for which the Irish were deeply indebted to their most gracious Sovereign. He could trace the hand of improving industry in his travels, and he praised the illustrious QUEEN under whose aus pices his countrymen were protected. Queens, as well as Kings, like that kind of flattery. Dr. CROLLY may be perfectly sincere; we be lieve lie is ; he may be only a courtier hut whether a courtier or a sincere clergyman, such 140guage will make the Sovereign lean with satis factit,,n on the: Catholic clergy and on her dutiful Catholic subjects. KNox, we apprehend, will now be found to take her MAJESTY to task for showing favour to those who honour and respect her ; and if such a man were fonad in .the bosom of the venal, un christian, wordly, Parliamentary Church of Eng land, his presumption would only be derided. Church of Enp,landism may be a good political re jigion ; but, because it does not spring from indi vidual conviction—because it is based on forms and articles, to profess a belief in which the clergy are cont i nua lly bribed—ze a l i n i ts pastors, directed against their Parliamentary head, would onlyh can excite s corn and mockery. The Anglican Churc and if it could, h e poduce no KNox , would- have no followers, and produce no effect. The Catholic Archbishop's speech was more than flattering to her MAJESTY : it was calm, sen sible, conciliatory, and wise, calculated to mak e an impression on the people of England, and win sup port for the Catholics. IVhile the Anglican priest hood remain in their present false position, preaching persecution and protesting for freedom of con science, denying the Roman Catholics a full partici pation in all the honours and offices of the State, and tenaciously claiming for their own purposes all the wealth which once belonged to the Roman Ca tholics, they will be unable to speak as rationally, calmly, and wisely as did Archbishop CROLLY. He like a good Christian and a good man, could exult in that Union of 'Catholics with Protestants in ! council, co-operating in the important measures of the State fur the improvement and happiness of all sects and classes of her MAJESTY'S subjects ; but 1 the Anglican clergy furiously cry out against it, and by their unchristian conduct give their adversaries great advantages. We do not pre tend to advise, but we can assure them that their conduct will look unlovely and unjust in the eyes of all men compared to that of the Roman Catholic Archbishop, and even compared to the Berat of the SULTAN. That they will run the risk of displeas ing their SOVEREIGN, and• make her prefer the Roman Catholic priests, for their duteous, respect ful conduct, will appear to them of little import.. ante, because they rely on the same Act of Parliament which places her MAJESTY on the Throne to secure the dominancy and the wealth of the Anglican Church. One Act of Parliament, however, can be set aside by another, and if the clergy have nothing better to rely on than an Act of Parliament, the sooner they betake them selves to more mild and conciliatory councils and conduct, the more stable they will make their power. We learn with great satisfaction that the Earl of CLARENDON has joined the Ministry. The Noble Earl has long been distinguished for his firm and Liberal opinions, and his accession to the Ministry is another proof of its disposition to advance in the Liberal career. By no other means can they secure the support of the people, or maintain the tranquil lity of the empire. We sometimes read the Police reports with the same kind of horror that we read GIBBON'S account of the Roman tyrant, whose frequent exclamations were, " Off with his head ''—" Flay him alive." r So our Police Magistrates exclaim, " To the tread mill with him —" To Bridewell with him." Here are the examples : A matronly woman was carried before Mr. LONG, at Marlborough -street, accused of being found drunk in the streets. She was represented as a married woman, living in a respectable way with her family. She said she had a husband and children. The Policeman accused her of using abusive and indecent language. The accusa tion was neither denied nor confirmed. Then said the Magistrate--" She must be punished ; I com mit her to Bridewell for fourteen days." The de fendant pleaded earnestly to be allowed to depart the Magistrate was inexorable ; and the wife and mother, living in a respectable way, was removed to the lock-up cell. We hope that there was some thing in the case not reported, for it seems to us a gross piece of cruelty, full of misery to a wife and a mother, to be sent to Bridewell for fourteen days. She may be cured of drunkenness, if it be an habitual vice, but it is more probable that she will be demoralized and ruined. Here is another example :—JAMES MYTTON went into a public-house ; a soldier, in sport, as MYTTON supposed, exchanged clothes with him and then sallied out, taking MYTTON'S clothes with him, and telling MYTTON he must follow him to get them. He did so, and on the road the soldier was arrested as a deserter, and MYTTON carried before the Magistrate, charged with receiving a sol dier's regimentals. He had incurred a large penalty. The Magistrate of Worship -street, Mr. GROVE, asked him had he any goods and chattels. MYTTON —" None whatever." Mr. GROVE—" Then you are committed for two calendar months to the House of Correction." MYTTON, adds the report, who is a widower with two children, was removed to the cell crying bitterly. We suppose the circumstances were different from those stated by MYTTON, and that he was. , suspected on some good grounds of aiding the de serter to escape. But if that were the case those [ circumstances should be stated. Whatever the lower classes know of law they learn from police reports, and to them it must appear that the widower was torn from his children, and sent for two calendar months to the House of Correction, for merely allowing another man to make, as he supposed, sport with him. If no suspicion entered the Magistrate's mind that the man was aid ing the deserter ; if the Magistrate believed his story, then, by no straining of the law, could his frolic be construed into guilt, and the punishment is equally unjust and cruel. The lower classes have enough to bear in the burdens which society throws on them ; and reflecting Ma gistrates and Legislators should relieve and protect them as much as possible, instead of aggravating their sufferings by partial, meddling, and unjust laws, and by severe and arbitrary punishments. They may by such laws and punishments be made submissive, humble, obedient, and spiritless, but they will, at the same time, be taught to hate both the law and the Magistrates with all the intensity of which their nature is capable. Were our hu mane people to study the Police Reports, they would find, it appears to us, as much injustice to redress at home as abroad. It appeared by a letter from Mr. HETIIERING TON, inserted in our Journal, that the Magistrates of Warwick continue to use Messrs. LOVETT and COLLINS most severely and improperly. There can be no use in aggravating the punishment to which the law has condemned them, and their venial offence is a proper subject on which to exercise the prerogative of mercy, rather than the infliction of cruelty. It is, we think, the duty of the Govern ment to see that its prisoners are properly- taken care of and properly treated. Perhaps, therefore, the Secretary of State for the Home Depart men t will think it incumbent on him to interfere, and prevent honest and honourable men from being treated by gaolers and 'Magistrates as if they were thieves and pickpockets._ We find two curious announcements in the French Journals of Wednesday. The first is, that Lieutenant-Colonel SENILIIES, who set out for Spain at a moment's notice, was charged with a mission, not to the Spanish Government, but Es- PARTERO, the purport of which was a request that the Christino Commander-in-Chief would sanction the proposal of the French Cabinet for granting passports to Don CARLOS. The second is, that that the said passports have actually been delivered to the Pretender, signed for Salzburg. The first of these statements we believe to be quite correct ; and the second, if we may judge from the disgraceful and perfidious conduct of the French Govern ment towards the Spanish people is exceedingly probable. The nonsense uttered by the Legitimatise and Tory journals upon this subject, manifests the grossest ignorance of what they are continually prating about—the law of nations. France having ratified a treaty for setting for ever aside the claims of CARLOS to the Spanish Crown, her Cabinet can no less regard him as a rebel than the Govern ment of Madrid. Neither can she, without a vio lation of the law of nations, extend to him the rights of hospitality, so long as he refuses to re nounce all claims to the Sovereignty of the Penin sula. Those who bluster about France treating CARLOS as an independent Prince, entirely over look the very important fact that she has volunta rily contracted obligations, precluding the possibility of such courtly complaisance without a notorious and scandalous breach of good faith, not only towards Spain, but towards Great Britain and Portugal. A few days more, however, will set this question wholly at rest. Should it turn out that passports have been actually given to CARLOS, we shall know ever after in what way to estimate treaties signed by King Louis PHILIPPE. But o ne a d vantage w ill result from it. Though it may prolong the I civil war for a few montL.'3. ll nr! fail tr-, an end to Frence influence in the Peninsula, and to all the match-making schemes of Louis PHI LIPPE. The Cortes must of course see, in the liberation of the Pretender, under any pretext what ever, a fresh attack by the French KING on the Constitution of 1837, so thoroughly detested at the Tuileries. The Univers confirms the report of the French Government having entered into negociations with that of England for the purchase of an island to serve as a penal colony in the South Seas. "It is true," says the Univers, "that the Government is preparing a project of law on the transportation of criminals, in which it said that this punishment will be applied not only to the repression of some specified offences, but also to the punishment of every repetition of an offence. The place on which the Ministry seems to have cast its eye, is the Bay of Derci, on the East Coast of New Guinea. This place seems to offer, from the fertility of the soil, and the salubrity of the climate, everything to be desired in a penal settlement. Arrangements have been made with the Dutch, who, in 1828, founded a small settlement on the banks of the river Domza, nor does the project of the Government appear to meet with any obstacle." We trust that if any such project be ever carried into effect, the French Government will not be guilty of the folly of taking as a model the systems adopted in our penal colonies But from the outline of the project given above, it appears to us that this is but a disguised scheme of colonization, with a view to counteract the in fluence of Great Britain in that part of the world. The I%foniteur Parisien publishes a letter from Perpignan, of the 17th inst., which states that Barce lona is entirely in the hands of the Exaltados. On the 13th the military governor of the place, at the head of a detachment of troops, went at nightfall by order of General SEGA NE to the Political Chief of the province, and, notwithstanding his protest and resistance, carried him off and placed him on board the Cortes frigate. This act of violence is said to have caused a great sensation. The munifipal elections had gone in favour of the Exaltado party, and disturbances similar to those which hare so fre quently taken place in Barcelona, were expected. The frontier journals publish frightful accounts of the atrocities committed in La Mancha and Ar ragon, in the shape of reprisals. The Indicateur Bordeaux publishes a letter from Ciudal Real, in which the following passage occurs :—" The Carlist Chief PALILLOS having attacked the town of Pezuelo de Calatrava without suc cess, has so entirely ravaged the adjacent coun try in revenge that there can be no vintage got in, nor can the land be sown for next year. A pea sant, bringing a despatch from Villarubia, was met by one of the Carlists, and had one of his ears cut off; in return, the wife of the rebel was shot. PALIL LOS, exasperated by this act, had five labourers put to death ; upon learning which the Christino commandant seized nine of PALILLOS' rely tives, and had them all shot. Thus, for a petty reprisal, fifteen persons have lost their lives. The King of HOLLAND has formally acknow ledged the Queen of SPAIN'S Government, thus fairly kicking CARLOS and his claims overboard. The Kings of SARDINIA and PRUSSIA are about to follow his example. The Quotidienne publishes a rigmarole defence of the monster CABRERA, from the pen of the Count de VILLENIUR, son of one of CARLOS' hopeful Ministers, which, of course, is quoted by the Post, and promised to be quoted by the Times, being, according to our recreant Contemporary, a vindication of the " brave, loyal, and able CA BRERA !" Bravo This is excellent T. The butcher of our defenceless countrymen—of naked Englishmen, who had laid down their arms on being offered quarter—the executioner of twenty-three defenceless women, whose infants were tossed on pikes before their eyes, by command of this very CABRERA, is now proclaimed " brave, able, and loyal," by the apostate Times ! There is no other news of any interest in the French Papers, save what is contained in the an nexed extracts. The price of bread, we regret to state, has again been raised to 18 sous, or 9d. the 41b. loaf in Paris. A Frankfort correspondent of the Courrier Francais, in explaining the proceedings of the Germanic Diet re lative to Hanover, says :—" The Diet, when it does not vote in pleno, consists only of 17 votes, the states of the third and fourth order having only collective votes. Hanover could not vote, as its own cause was under discussion ; there consequently remained 16 votes. The following voted against his Majesty King Ernest : Bavaria, the kingdom of Saxony, Wirtemberg, Baden, the Duchies of Saxony, and the free towns of Hesse Darmstadt, in all seven votes. Austria, Prussia, and the King of the Netherlands, as Grand Duke of Luxemburg, Denmark, for the provinces of Schleswig Holstein, the electoral Prince and Re gent of Hesse Cassel, and all the states of the fourth order which have no political independence, voted in favour of the coups d'etat of the King of Hanover, in all eight votes. There remained the vote for Brunswick and. Nassau, which is given in turn, one year by Brunswick, and the other by Nassau. The vote for 1839 belonged to the Duke of Brunswick, who declined voting on the ground of his relationship to the King of Hanover, notwithstanding the pressing request of his Chambers. This vote ought to have been regarded as lot,t ; but the President of the Diet, who saw that eight votes did not give the majority of sixteen, called upcn Nassau, which had no right to vote this year, to vote in the place of Brunswick. The Nassau Minister, who was not ignorant of the mode in which the votes had been given, then voted gravely in favour of Ernest Au- gustus, and the glorious majority was attained." VIENNA, OCT. 15.—The Archduke Francis Charles returned yesterday from Galicia, whither he has been to inspect the troops, but has already set out again for Tegernsee to fetch his consort. Archduke Albert is daily expected on his return from Borodino. Prince Puckler Muskau is likewise expected. Refaat Bey, the Turkish Ambassador, has not yet fixed the day for his departure from this city ; he seems to intend to wait for the arrival of Prince Metternich. He has given orders here for a costly sabre, the scabbard of which is to be of the finest gold, adorned with jewels, probably intended for the Sultan himself. Colonel Hodges, late English Consul at Belgrade, continues in this city. It is said he has been directed by his Government to stop here till he received further orders respecting his des tination. Baron Von Klenau, who died here as Mister-Gene ral of the Ordnance, was buried yesterday, with the usual ceremony. The deceased is said to have been above 100 years old. Some days ago the journals said that a conspiracy in the Russian army, commanded by General Geismas, bad been discovered on the I:2th of June, 1839, and that, in consequence of the treachery of one of the conspirators, above 400 officers had been arrested. We have just learned to-day that the following officers, Polubiensk, Hollowicz, Joseph Nowicki, Mickiewicz, Berdajoff, Iwanoff Wasileki:and Ladroff, who were implicated in the said conspiracy, have suc ceeded in escaping, and that they arrived on the 13th of this month at Le:igwy, in the department of the Moselle. The French Government, at the instance of the Rus sian Ambassador, has refused to receive them, and they have been forced to return to Belgium, where the same fate, probably, awaits them.—L' Univers. BOURSE.—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23. irst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 1:0 85 ... 110 83 ... 110 75 ... 110 80 4 per Cents lOl 0 ... 101 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 50 3 per Cents AI 7U ... 81 70 ... 81 65 ... 81 65 Bank of r ranee 2933 ...2835 ...2835 Lafhtte Bank 5,000 f. Sh 5215 ...5215 ...5215 I,ooof. 1065 ...1055 ...1(165 ...1065 Belgian 5 per Cents ex. div. 101% 101% 101% ... 101% 3 per Cents 7l 61 71 80 ... 21 SO ... 31 80 Bank 740 ... 740 ... 735 ... 735 Cmpotts ...... ....... Span!sh Aedve 29j,i ... 29 ... 29 ... 29M Passive 7 ... 7% ... 7 ... 7% Old Deterred Sty ... HM ... B!ii ... 8 1 ,4 Portiliniese 3 per Cents Neat olitan Roman RAILWAY SHAREs. Versailles, R. B 517 50 ... 517 50 ... 515 ... 515 L.B. 3OO ... 301 25 ... 300 ... 300 Havre Orleans .. _ 447 51 ... 450 ... 447 50 450 - ... --- Strasburg.to Bale ... 310 ... 310 ... 307 50 ... 31)8 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, OCT, 15 five per Cents. Motalli ques Feszr per Cents. Three par Cents. Bank. Shares BO Zeitung. Oct. 20 1516 HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, OCT. 22. A u strian 5 per Cents. Bills. ............................ 151017 5,14 1514 Russian B an k shares .An lo. Russian Loan • 116% 106 1 4 Hops and Co. 3d and 4th jth.6an 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate ...... 101% 101 Russian - Inscription, 5p per Cent. Series. ........... 97 991 i Seihs Ditto in Certificates THE SUN, LONDON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2.5, 1839. HUtril : Ourtl riebt.o , (,,, , r',,,t 1 . •• ~..!. ... Polish Bond New . icket Anglo-t)anish Loan, 3 per Cent 7ON, 7 , 1 i Norwegian Lean, k 34, 4 per Cent„„ lOl% S,:anish, New 3 per Cents. 21,, EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, OCT. I'l.-13. sk—Two months 13. 3. ! , .rocrotor.m, OCT. 15.—Ssventy-fi ve days, 11. 29. LlErmix, °cr. 19. - Three months, e. 2 %. Mr. Bronterre O'Brien has sent us for insertion a long letter which appeared in the Times of yesterday, complaining of the treatment he received at the hands of the Bow-street officers, and also of certain portions of the report of his examination before the Magistrate. The first part of the lt tter is little more than an am plification of the statement which he made to Mr. ford, on Friday, the 11th instant, which we published ; and being pressed for room we cannot see any necessity for inserting it. The other portion, relative to the exami nation, with which the letter concludes, we willingly give. It is as follows :- 1 our reporter, Sir, has made me say, when before the Magistrates, " that the institutions of the country property to t h e amount o f 1,000/. had stripped me of a-year," &c. The tendency of this report is to make me appear an impostor, it being well known that I never possessed property to that amount, nor anything like it. What I did say was, that the institutions or the country had deprived me of the means of acquiring property to the amount of at least 1,000/. a-year, &c., an assertion which I can easily make good. Your reporter also makes it appear that Sergeant Kerr had some difficulty in finding me, that he had " attended five or six public meetings for that purpose, and at last succeeded in capturing me," &c. All this, Sir, is incorrect. Sergeant Kerr knew well where to find me, having before arrested nie on the 12th of August, in my own house, where he might have done the same again at any hour of the day, had his employers th oug h t proper to sen d hi m. I am not a man, Sir, to keep out of the way of the law, as Sergeant Kerr's employers well know. But it suited their base purpose, instead of arresting me in the morning, and at may own house, to arrest me at night, and away from my house, in or d er to h ave me lo ck ed up in a dungeon - for thirteen hours, to alarm my wife and family by my non-appearance at home, and to cut. .me off from the chances of having bail before five o'clock next day, when I should necessarily be sent off to Lancaster, perhaps handcuffed like a common thief or felon. For these mis-statements, however, Ido not blame your reporter, who, doubtless, had his informa tion from the Bow-street gentry," PATENT PENCIL.—A patent has been taken out for what the inventor considers a great improvement in the construction of the ever, pointed pencil. In this the ex ternal slide and slot in the case are dispensed with, and the point is pushed out by the action of an internal screw. These appear the main points of difference be tween it and Mordau's, which has obtained such cele brity. The workmanship is excellent, and it certainly surpasses all other pencils in one respect—the length of the name—" Riddle's new spirally-propelled patent ever pointed pencil." It requires a screw to push out the name, as Jonathan would say. THE WEATHER.—A change in the weather took place on Wednesday, when some rain fell. The following day it rained incessantly, and to-day we have some drizzling showers, with a cloudy sky and a humid atmosphere. POPE TO SWIFT.—" They have scoundrels enough to write for their passions and designs ; let us write for truth, for honour, and for posterity."-1726. A NEW METHOD OF EVINCING ONE'S GRA. TITUDE.—Joseph Williamson, a bottle-nosed, happy. looking sailor, apparently fully " three sheets in the wind," was placed at the Hull Police bar, charged by police-constable No. 19 with being drunk and incapable that morning.—lnspector Tacey said that the police man, about three months since, met the prisoner drunk, and took care of him by assisting him on board his vessel. He had no sooner seen the prisoner safely on hoard, than that gentleman, much to his astonishment, struck him a forcible blow on the face, saying " There, take that for your trouble."—Mr. Carrick : Well, Jo seph, what do you say to this?—Prisoner : Nothing of the sort, Sir.—Mr. Carrick : I think we must make you pay this time for what you did the last. When did you arrive ?—Joseph : On Tuesday, Sir.—Mr. Carrick : And have been drunk ever since ?—Joseph : Yes, Sir.—Mr. Carrick : Why, you're not sober now ? Prisoner (hitching up his trowsars and hiccupping most formidably): 0 yes, Sir, sober as a Judge, now .—Mr. Carrick : if you are sober now, what are you when you are drunk ?—Joseph (very seriously) : Why, your Honour, I can neither speak, stand, nor walk then. On promising to keep a little more sober in future, the sailor was then discharged. RURAL AFFAIRS.—Last week was characteris tic of the whole season—three dry days and three wet ; or, in other words, good and bad, time about. Ou Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the weather was fine ; hut daylight now is so much abridged, and frosty dews so heavy in the morning, that husbandmen are com pelled to put their spurs on, and do everything in hot haste, if they expect to do any good at all. Bad as the be g innin g of the week was, tide occurred durin g which shearing went forward ; but there could be no leading up till Thursday, or rather Friday, Saturday in espe cial was an invaluable day, and enabled so many to make a clean sweep, that harvest work must be, we suppose, about nine-tenths concluded in Dumfriesshire and Galloway. Amidst weather so critical much good has been done by gaiting—that is, placing the sheaves on end with the tops well spread, instead of gather ing them into stooks. Oats, unlike wheat and barley, are for the most part clean in the straw ; and when treated in this manner may be forked and carted .at the end of two favourable days. Stooking, hooding, and then opening, perhaps three or four times running, is a bad plan in rainy weather, which entails loss to the ex tent of a seeding, and some times more. Mr. Brown, Ingleston, has saved, by gaiting, many acres of excel lent crop on the higher parts of his beautiful farm, that would otherwise have suffered serious deterioration from repeated handling ; and we believe that his example has been generally followed in Kirkbean and various other quarters. In the valleys there are numbers who had every sheaf stacked a fortnight ago ; and although hill men may still have some patches to cut, the aggregate breadth must be inconsiderable and should the baro meter realise its present promise, harvest-home will be all but universal in the south of Scotland by Saturday next. The sheep are thriving on the stubble fields, where they find grasses intermixed that suit their nature well ; and we were mistaken last week in limiting sown grass keep to a fortnight. On some farms it - will extend to a month. Raising rznd storing potatoes are again in full operation ; blanks in the drills are by no means un known, chiefly owing to the greedy crows, who by scraping purloined many a set ; but the crop upon the" whole is considered a good one, and at least a half heavier than that of last year.—Dumfries courier. CAPTURE OF WHALES IN LOCIIRYAN.= On Tuesday morning last, a very unusual ap?earance presented itself to the good folks, of fishing notoriety, in Kirkcoltn. Two monsters of the deep, of the bottle nosed description of whale, had come round the Scour and embayed themselves in the wick ; the receding tide swept its treacherous waters from under them, and, finding themselves grounded, their mighty exertions were truly terrific, yet unavailing, for their extrication. Mr. Robertson, of Clendry, was the first who took no tice of the errant strangers, and arming himself and re tainers with pitchforks and knives, repaired to the scene of action and commenced the terrible onslaught —the dangerous work of death. And here a remarkable scene took place. The dying agonies of the mighty monsters were truly tremendous. Desperate from the repeated thrusts of their opponents, and from their in extricable position, their powerful toils were brought into play with astonishing effect. The water (of which there was yet a quantity around them), was lashed into foam and agitation, the crested waves stretching to an incredible distance, while high in the air the water. ' ascended in one unbroken sheet. From their blow-. holes the crimsoned water was sent in a jet, imposingly grand, to a great height. After similar and protracted writhings, with a kind of snort or roar, their fury sub sided, and in a short time ail was still. They were towed to the shore, amidst the gaze of numerous and wonder-stricken spectators, a large number of whom ar rived hourly to inspect them. A number of men were then employed to cut the blubber, of which there were thirteen barrels, leading five carts. Mr. Robertson will thus realise a very remunerating day's fishing. Th e dimensions of the largest fish were 24 feet 4 inches in length, and 16 feet at the thickest part in circumfe rence ; the smaller one about 16 feet long, and thick in proportion. The tail of the largest was 6f feet in breadth. --Gallo way Register. CAUTION TO JURORS.—At an inquest held before Mr. Carter, the Coroner for Surrey, at the Mon tague Arms, in the hamlet of Hatcham, near Peckham, upon the body of a child which was accidentally suf focated in bed, the Coroner and several of the jury were kept waiting for upwards of three quarters of an hour by the non-attendance of the other parties summoned. Those who were present complained that their time should he so wasted. The Coroner said the last time he was there he had been kept waiting half an hour, and he saw that he should very soon he compelled to adopt the course pursued by Mr. Carttar, the Coroner for Kent, against a juryma n who had failed to attend when summoned. A juror asked what that was? The Coro ner—By indictment at the sessions ; in the case I have alluded to I believ e the juryman was fined 501. lam always punctual myself, and it is too bad that five or six gentlem en s h ould be kept waiting b ecause others chose to stay away. It was suggested that more should be summoned, The Coroner said he did not wish to bring twenty-Four gentlemen out of their business when fifteen would do. Sntne short time since Mr. Payne fined about ten absent jurymen, and ever since that time nearly the whole of those summoned have been careful to at tend, in order to avoid a similar infliction. The evil complained of, it is more thin probable, is occasioned by the parties not being summoned by the beadle, who merely takes their promises to be present, and when private business interferes the promise is not kept. In I the case on which this observation was made a verdict of " Natural Death" was returned. 'T.' ! . :7 T', fp7s CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of English Grain this;Ve;l:have been moderate, and good of Foreign Wheat and Oats. In consequence of the il.uty on Foreign Wheat having advanced to 16s. Bd., higher prices were demanded by the factors, and Is. to 2s. per quarter more than Monday has been obtained for Foreign, but English is unaltered in value. In other Grain no variation. Little done in Flour this week exc. pt for the best fresh made. SMITHFIELD MARKET. Trade extrerno!y dull, few hu3ers of any quantity at market, the supply moderate, and Mutton and Veal have declined 2s. per stone each; Beef unaltered; fine young Pork soM readily at previous rates ; Beef 3s. 2d. to 4s. ; Mutton 3s. 10(1. to 4s. Bd. ; Veal 4s. 4d. to bs. ; Pork 4s. 6d. to as. 6d. Head or Cattle at market—Beasts 464 ; Sheep 4,090 ; Calves 23 ; Pigs 583. CITY FISH MARKET. The supply was good, and prices were lower; the demand tolerably good. Turbot, Bs, to 20s. ; Cod, 2s. to Bs. ; good Salmon, Is. 6d. to 2.5. Gd. per lb. ; Oysters, 12s. to 40s. per bushel ; Soles, Gd. to 3s. ler pair ; Whitings, 6d. to Is. ; and Haddocks, Is. to 2s. 6d. - MONEY AND COMMERCIAL N s CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.—The sales this day are 3,000 bags, without alteration in prices. Americans barely supported Friday's quotations. The Helena, from Quebec, arrived at Liverpool, spoke the Gnat Western steamrr on the 201.11, .5 P.M., long. 8, from Bristol to New York, wind E.N.E. The accounts received this morning from Manchester state that owing to the absence of demand, and the gloom which has prevailed in the market for some weeks past still continuing, the prices both of yarn and goods are gradually declining, and the working of short time is gradually extending ; and unless a change for the better takes place, it will no doubt become general throughout the district. The Hamburg mail has arrived of the 22d October, by which we have received the exchanges on London the same as the previous mail, 13 3 ; gold, 43 li—one half mark higher. Accounts were received in the course of yesterday from China, by the way of St. Helena, to the 16th of June, several days later than last received. These ac counts fully coi.firm the news received through the commander of the American ship Panama, that no alte ration had taken place in the prospects of the Chinese merchants. The trade continued suspended, and all the English vessels had left Whampoa. The Reliance and George the Fourth were to sail from the saute! anchorage in a day or two ; the Trusty had gone to New Holland ; and three vessels, which had come in from India with cotton, &c., were still remaining, with their cargoes on board, waiting the result of the pend ing difficulties between her Majesty's Superintendan t and the Chinese authorities. Graham's Town Papers (Cape of Good Hope) have been received to the 16th August. The depredations of the Caffres are again becoming troublesome. The advices from Port Natal state the return of the expedi tion sent to meet Dingaan, and finally conclude the ar rangements of peace, as well as to receive back the cattle and sores which had been captured. The latter were delivered up to some extent, but the expedition returned without coming to any final settlement with Dingaan. THE FUNDS. We have another blank day in respect to Continenta inteiligence, as well as for arrivals of any consequence this morning ; very lit►le is doing at present in either o 1 the Markets. Consols, which left off yesterday at 90i 91 for the Account, opened this morning at the same price ; Money, 90 f t 1. Exchequer Bills, 3to I discount ; Bank Stock, 179 180 ; India Stock, 245 247. Spanish has receded, closed at 291 8, at present 29i ; Portuguese, 361 ; Three per Cents., 24125, Colombian 321 ; Mexican, 321 ; Brazilian, 711 721 ; Dutch Two-and• Half per Cents., 524 ; Five per Cents. 1001. PRICES 01 STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 180 794 3 per Cent. Red. 8 6 % 34. ' 54 8 per Cent. Cons. 35,, per Cent Ditto Red. 97V4 New :34 per Cent 48}06 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long A nnttitles toexpire Jan. 5, 1860. 13 11-16% Oct. 10, 1859 - Jau. 5, IStitl - Jan. 5, ligo - April 5, 18;30 - Jau. 5. 1870 - DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock — Old Annuities — New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 1 3 d a Ditto 503 par 2 d.s. Ditto Small 1 2 i.m. Ditto Commercial 6 dis. Ditto Advertised Bank Stock tor Account ... India Stock for Account ... Consos for Account o o3s I PRICES OF FOREIGN Ft) N DS A uqtrian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditty Account Drazilian Bcnis THIS DAI AT ONE O'CLOZA Peruvian Bonds __Ditto Account. f Portuguese Bonas —; Ditto New Bonds :161 A 3 4 Ditto &ccount ............... : Ditto Acc•unt ......... 3d IA Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Chilian Bonds Ditto Accon_ t —, Ditto Account Colombian Bonds Ditto Account —, Ditto Metallic.. Columbian Bonds, liiik Ditto Account — , Ditto Account, 29 ;4 fi Danish Bonds Ditto Account —j Def,red l:3si preek Bonds j French, b per cent...—. —f. —c. Ditto 11111134h1. Mb .— I -----t 4 per cent....... —f. —e. Ditto Account — --- 3 per cent. —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — ' --- Exchange. -- 1 -. —r. Ditto Account — Dutch, 2Ni per cent. Ditto, 6 per Cent. 3234 Ditto Account Ditto Account Neapelitan: Ditto ACcount ..... , PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CL4 CX. Paid Per Share •roat Western Railway Company Si Ditto Now London and Croydon Railway Company l4/. IS,. ticl fl .HALF-PAST ONE. Both commercial affairs and speculating in the Funds have a dull appearance. In respeet to the latter, during the course of the morning lthere has been very little fluctuation in the British Market, and Consols may be quoted at 90i 91, alternately buyers and sellers ; for Money, 901 Money continues plentiful in the house at an easy rate of interest, from 3 to 4 per cent. ; in the money market, according to the paper offered. It is not expected that any business to a great extent will be done until the arrival of the Liverpool steamer from New York, which may be expected about to-mor row week, on which no doubt our manufacturing dis tricts are anxiously waiting, as well as those connected with the United States Bank. The packet ship Ox ford, of the 7th instant, is expected to-morrow, from New York. Exchequer Bills, 1 to 3 dis. ; Bank Stock, rather lower, 180 179, ; India Bonds, 2 dis. ; India Stock, 246. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, rather lower, ; Portuguese rather better, 3631 ; Three per Cents., 24k; Mexican, 321 ; Spanish Passive. 71 Deferred, 13i ; Dutch Two -and-a-Half per Cents .524 i 3 ; Five par Cents., 100 a. No reports or any further arrivals at present. TH E L ATE DUKE OF ARGYLE.--It is with feelings of the deepest regret that I take up my pen to inform you that our much-respected Duke of Argyle is no more. He died last night at dinner ; fell dead off his chair, supposed to be in a fit of apoplexy. He was out and well before dinner, and had a ride up Gle nary. He was a friend to the poor and needy at all times, and always relieved their wants. It shall be a long time ere the estate of Argyle shall have such a generous-hearted man, who is deeply lamented by all who knew him.—Correspondent of theGlasgowChronicle. On an application from the keeper of the Ayr Mechanics' Museum to the Right Hon. the Earl of Eglinton for a lance used at the late tournament, the Noble Earl sent a lance, accompanied with a donation of 51., to the institution.— Glasgow Courier. Mr. Pryme has published a letter in which he contradicts the report of his having accepted the situa tion of police magistrate.—Cambridge Free Press. USEFUL SUGGESTIONS TO YOUNG MEN.— In the course of my travels I have seen many a promising and fine young man gradually led to dissipation, gambling, and ruin, merely by the want of means to make a soli tary evening pass pleasantly. I earnestly advise any youth who qu it s th at a b o d e o f purity, peace, and delight, his paternal h o m e , t o acqu i re a t as t e for reading and writing. At every place where he may reside long, eithe r in England or on the Continent, let him study to make his apartments as attractive and comfortable as sop b oss e ib s l t e ave f d or at te the will b fi eg nd ian a ia li g ul t e a ex be tr a g o a r a d d in e a c ry anay expense ii the end : let him read the best books in the language of the place in which, he lives ; and, above all, let him never retire to rest without writing at least a page of original comments on what he has seen, read, and heard in the day. This habit will teach him lo observe and discri minate ; for a man ceases to read with a desultory and wandering mind, which is utter waste of time, when he knows that an account of all the information which he has gained must be written at night.—Clayton's Sketches in Biography. BIJOTLIE - R JONATHAN'S BASHFULNESS.— , The American gentlemen approach women with the , most indubitable consciou=sness of their own inferiority, and, caber fro m mo d esty or prudence, seldom open their lips except to affirm what has been said by the ladies. One is always reminded of poor Candide's honest prayer, " Helms! madame; je repondrai comme vous voudrez." I have seen one of the most distinguished old gentle men in the United States—one who held the highest rank in the gift of the American people, and whose learning and knowledge on most subjects rendered him a most pleasing and entertaining companion of men—betray as little self-possession in the presence of women as if he had been making his debut in society, and this, too, in the house of one of his most intimate friends. This excessive awkwardness in the men, to which even the most distinguished of their race make no exception, must be owi ng to someth i ng rad i cally wrong in the c omposition of American society, which places mon as well as women in a false position. The convic tion of this fact must force itself on the mind of every imp a rtial observer wh o h a 3 had an opportunity of making himself familiar with the customs and m anners of the higher classes. Th ere appears to be a singular mixture of respect and want of sincerity on the part of the men with regard to the women, produced, I be lieve, by the unnatural position which the latter hold I wherever they arc brought into contact with the former. I A L COI S id, A. 'Si John Thomas, a respectable young man in appear ance, was indicted for feloniously forging, on the 3d of March, a bill of exchange for sixty pounds, with intent to defraud Kenneth Poole, a hill broker, in the City. In another count be was charged with uttering the hit' krax.ein 4 i: to be for,,J., d. Mr. BALLANTYNE conducted the case for the pro scent 1011, and Mr. PHILLIPS nppeared ior the prisoner.. Mr. K. Poole stated that be was a bill broker, carry ing on business in the City, and was acquainted with the pris. ner. In the month of March last the prisoner brought a bill of Exchange to him for 601, and asked him to discount it Witness advanced him 401. upon the bill, and subsequently handed it over to a gentle man named Kemp, who discounted it for him. The bill purported to be accepted by 'i person named Haywood who was rela*.ed to the prisoner, and when it became due it was dishonoured. Mr. Haywood was called to prove that the accept ance was a forgery, but as lie did not appear his re cLgnizances were ordered to be estreated, and the case m;.ainst the prisoner fading for want of his evidence, the Court ordered him to be acquitted. MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—James Rippen, a cat's- meat-man, aged 22, was indicted with foloniously and maliciously . cutting and wounding John Bullock, with . . intent to murder him. In another count the intention was said to be to resist his lawful apprehension. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner had been raising a disturbance in the Cart and Horses, Clerkenwell ; in conseqnence of which a policeman was sent for, and, upon his attempting to take him into cus tody, he took a knife out of his right-hand pocket, put one arm round the policeman, and stabbed him in the face with it ; the blood immediately flowed very fast from the policeman's face. He held him for some time after he had been stabbed. The prisoner was then secured by another officer, and the policeman was taken to the surgeon. _ Bullock, when called upon to give his evidence, ap peared extremely weak, and was obliged to have a chair in the box, having been ill ever since the occurrence took pace. Several witnesses clearly proved the committal of the Offence. Mr. PAY NE addressed the Jury for the prisoner. Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up, and the Jury found him Guilty of assaulting the prosecutor with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. He was then sentenced to 15 years' transportation. James Murphy, aged 21, was con%icted of violently assaulting, on Sunday last, John RuQsell, a man of colour, and cook on board the Mary of Hamburg, and robbing him of half a sovereign, a jacket, a hat, and a pair of shoes. Thomas Nelson was also indicted with Murphy, bui the Jury acquitted him. Mr. Justice BOSANQUET sentenced Murphy to 15 years' transportation. The trial of John Wentworth Fairbank, who stands chargcd with the wilful murder of Arthur White, on the high seas, and Aich was specially appointed to take place to-day, was put off till to-morrow, for the con venience of Mr. Sergeant Andrews, who is retained to defend the prisoner. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) The Court was occupied the whole morning in try ing . cases which possessed no feature of novelty. MANSION-HOUSE-(T HIS DAY lfilliam Chapman, who yesterday was remanded on a charge of having annoyed a gentleman named Cham berlain, by following him about tie streets, and repre senting himself as a " sergeant in disguise," was again brought up. Three witnesses were called, who gave him a general good character, but said he had " got a crack in his head," and was " quite wild" when he got drink. The LORD MAYOR said the character which the prisoner had received would save him now, but would not he of any avail if brought up a second time. He would advise him not to represent himself as a police man again. Chapman, having promised to t.tterd to his Lordship's recommendation, was discharged. GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.) STEALING THIRTY POUNDS.--Wm. Higglestone was charged with having stolen a 201. note and a 101. note. Patrick Hughes, of No. 3, Birch's-place, Rolls buildings, Fetter-lane, stated, as near as we could col lect, that last night, between seven and twelve o'clock, he and the prisoner were drinking together in his room as above, at which time he had in his pocket a 201. note, a 101. note, a sovereign, some silver, and a letter of credit on the Australian Bank for 98/. Before the prisoner left he missed the two bank notes, on which the prisoner ran part of the way down stairs, and tumbled the remainder.—(Laughter.) Mr. Alderman LAINSON—Were you both drunk ? Hughes—l was nothing amiss, for I could walk any where, but we were both rather fresh. Alfred Beckett, of the King's Arms, Fetter-lane, stated that about half-past eleven, last night, the prisoner came into his house for some gin, and pulled out a p;ece of paper to light a pipe. He, however, got a light by some other means, and threw the paper on the floor, which turned out to be a 101. note. Hughes, in answer to questions by the Alderman, said he had obtained the money at the East India House. Mr. Alderman LAINSON said it was a suspicious case ; but the prisoner could not have been conscious what he was doing when he attempted to light the pipe with the 10/. note. The officer was directed to make inquiry at the East India House as to the number of th, 201. note, and stop it, and the prisoner was remanded. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY,) A young female, named Elizabeth Ives, of very pre possessing and lady-like appearance, and aho, in addi tion to her being respectably connected, was carrying on a good business as a dress-maker, was placed at the bar, before Mr. LONG, the sitting Magistrate, on the following charge of felony : it appeared that the prisoner became the occupant of furnished apartments, at the house of Mr. John M'Dowall, No. 79, King-street, Golden-square, tailor, on Friday last, and from that time up to the period of her being given into custody, continued to reside there. Oo Tuesday last, a valuable silver watch Fe longing to Mr. M'Dowall was stolen from the Gent par:our, but the prisoner was not in the remotest degree suspected to be the thief. Handbills, describing the property, were circulated to pawnbrokers, which led to the discovery that the watch had been pawned on the day it was stolen, by the prisoner, at the shop of Mr. Franklin, No. 5, Tottenham Court-road, pawnbroker. She first obtained 2/. upon it, and in about half an hour afterwards Iss. more. She offered no defence, and was fully committed for rial at the Central Criminal Court. HATTON-GARDEN.-(TFIIS DAY CHARGE OF STEALING MONEY AGAINST AN AT TORNEY'S CLERK.—George Lloyd, a respectable look ing young man, who it appeared had been a writer in an attorney's office, was charged with stealing twenty shillings, the property of his master, Mr. White, a soli citor, residing in Hatton-garden. Mr. White stated that the prisoner had entered his service on Tuesday last, at a salary of 1/. ss. per week, that yesterday he gave the prisoner 305., with written instructions as to the disposal of the sum. Among other things he was to get certain judgments signed, and to pay the fees thereon. He did not return until late in the evening, when he brought back the judgment papers unexecuted. The prosecutor, who had waited until his arrival, asked him for the change, which he refused to account for ; there was also a balance due to the prosecutor from monies entrusted to the prisoner on the preceding day. The prisoner was very insulting. A policeman was sent for, and he was given into custody. He then offered to pay 12s. 6d., but the amount he had to account for was upwards of twenty shillings. On being searched, seventeen shillings and tenpence were found in his pockets. A long discussion arose as to whether the act of the prisoner could be considered as a larceny, or merely as a breach of trust, w hi c h en d e d i n his being remanded until Thursday, with permission to put in bail. Mr. WHITE very kindly offered to send to tho pri soner's friends, in order to inform them of his situation, and to facilitate his putting in the bait required. THE DUSTMAN'S BELL—Joseph _Arnold, a simple looking countryman, was charged within fringing the pro visions of the New Police Act, by ringing a bell in the parish of St. Mary, Islington, for the purpose of collecting dust. It appears that the dustmen of Islington ha% c an idea, that in consequence of the provisions of their local Act, they have a right to continue the ringing their bell, which they persist in doing.. Mr. GREENWOOD having referred to the local A ct , said the provisions of that Ac t, authorizing the use of the bell, were clearly repealed b y the g e neral Act, and that by way of examp l e , he s , hould fine the prisoner five shillings, which he thought the master ought to pay Should the practice be persisted in, he should inflict the highest penalty —forty shillings. HIGHWAY ROUBERY.—Last night, between as Alr.. Joseph B anner , a gentleman re siding 11 and 12 o'clock , in Church-buildings. Common, w as returning home along the Poyndor•roati, Clapham New P ar k, he was attacked by t wo men, who stopp e d hi m , and with horrid imprecations demanded his money. Mr. Banner being a powerful man, struggled with them for some time, but they eventually overpowered him, and forcibly took from his pocket. his pocket-book, containing a bill for 50/. and a 10/. Bank of England note, with which they escaped across the park towards Brixton. The French Government is about to fortify the paint of separation of the two roads which lead from Les Rouses, on the Jura, through Nijon, and through Ferney to Geneva.—Swiss Paper. EVENT NG EDITION. L A V ERN I' The first Anniversary Dinner of the Hotel and Tavern-keeper's Benevolent Institution, the object of which is the establishment of a fund fur the permanent or t,Anporary assistance of members, their Sri !ore=, and o:•ildrf a, toak I dace yest..rd,v evening- at the London C Luti_,ne 11111. The Chair was taken by BENJAMIN BOND CADDELL, ; and at half-past six nearly two hundred gentle men sat down to an entertainment of which it is unne cessary to say more than that it was worthy of Love grove's high character for good taste and liberality, and that the wines reedit, d the unanimous. approval o f a c,mpany which included some of the best judges in the metropolis. After the usual loyal nr:d patriotic toasts had been g:v, n and cordially responded to, the Chairman gave, " Prosperit: , to the Hotel and Tavern-keeper's Benevo lent Institution ;" prefacing the toast by some very ex cellent and appropriate aservAtions on its merits, and the claims which it had upon puhl:c sympathy and suppOit. Mr. BLEADEN, of the London Tavern, returned thnnks, detailing the history of the formation of the Institution—pointing nut the benefits it was calculated to conferr upon aged and necessitous members—and in culcating the advantages of frugality and economy. In the course of the evening the Secretary, Mr. NEWBON, amidst loud applause, read a long and cheer ing fist of donations and s u b s criptions, amounting to nearly 4001. There was a very full attendance of professional singers, including Messrs., Bellamy, Broadhurst, Atkins, Hawkins, Fitzwilliarn, Robinson, and Masters Martin and Cliff, whose exertions contributed much to the har mony and hilarity of the evening ; the enjoyments of which were protracted to an advanced hour. ADMIRAL FLEMTNU. The editor of the Ayr Observer, a high Tory journa l ' is highly indignant with his brother Tory of the Times (whom he denominates a " plum-pudding blusterer")' lor his rabid attacks on the Government relative to the appointment of the gallant Admiral to Greenwich Hos pital. It is amusing to find the party falling foul of each other in this way. Has anything fallen from the Liberal Press at all to be compared to the following piece of virtuous indignation ? The Editor of the Times has well nigh grown rabid on the subject, and gives vent to a spirit of national jealousy, which, front the days of the famous John Wilkes, of "cap-of-liberty" notoriety, no one ever c 5" petted to find resuscitated in the columns of any re spectable journal. Admiral Fleming's worst feature , i t appears, is not hi s Whi gg i sm —h e is a Scotchman --aaa that is wormwood to the pure English blood of the Editor of the Times. He d‘ signates the Admiralty a Scotch Board, and in his frenzy, gives vent to the fol fowing mouthful of insanity—" England leaps forward to rescue her palladium from disgrace ; she proclaims to the Scotch Board of Admiralty_' You shall not job i n the sanctuary of nip veteran seamen.' " This of course is sheer raving —nonsense which every man of common under qanding will d enounce ; b ut t h e impudence 0f the writer exc ee d s anyt hi ng we could have conceived in the conductor of a public newspaper, writing at the of of nearly a century an d a half from the un ion 0 1 l" e Crowns. "W e stan d erect," says the editor of the Times, for the navy of Great B r it a i n ; and for ne ither Whig nor Tory w ill we surrender one particle of its claims to justice." This is all very well, but so long .is it is the navy of Great Britain, 'we cannot p ossibly see the right of E ng l an d to say to the Board--unrn posed of Scotchmen as it may b e —" You shall not job the sanctuary of my veteran seamen 1 ." T he philippic is a wanton insult to a country which con tributes more than her equivalent of the Pu blic revenue, and assuredly much more than her pro P e r: Lion of m en , b ot h f or t h e army an d t h e navy—th a " palladium o f w hi c h th e Ti mes i s so very erect a n d conscientious a supporter. When this plum-pudding blusterer shall show us the enterprise in which Scotch men have not been engaged ; or point out the victory, either by sea and land, in which the best blood of the nation has not flowed, in defence of the Crown and in' terests of Britain, then we may pardon the arrogance which could dictate such a sentence ; and perhaps un: derstand how it happens that Scotchmen have not equal rights with their Southern neighbours ; and why it comes that they are not as eligible to constitute a Board of Ad- , miralty as any set of Englishmen in the country ! The editor of the Tones may rest assured that the - cause he espouses with so much. warmth, is not to be promoted by such wanton ebullitions of national prejudice as this. Every honest Scotchman, whether Conservative or otherwise, must feel indignant at the insult offered. DON CARLOS A PROPER HOSTAGE THAT HIS SERVANTS CABRERA AND D'ESPAGNE COMMIT NO MORE BUTCHERIES IN THEIR MASTER'S NAME AND BEHALF. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Inner Temple, Oct. 24th, 1839. SlR—Your remarks of this evening, on the subject of the indispensable detention of Don Carlos are the very best I have met with on the subject. Reverses of fortune, and no invitation, or offer of hospitality. or refuge, placed Don Carlos in the power o f the French Government, i, e. of one of his declared ene-, mies, as the Quadruple Alliance exists to prove. Novi this enemy of his pretensions, and without doubt of bit merciless character) has an unforfeited right of detaining the refugee, whom the chance of war has driven upon its sod ; at least till he gives orders, which shad be obeyed, to his Lieutenants and agents to cease prosecuting those pretensions at the edge of the sword France, as one of the tour declared enemies to the pre tensions of Don Carlos, has not only the right so to insist, but, in consideration of its engagements with the other three, is, in honour and justice to them, bound to follow such a course. The obligation of detention is imperative ; the policy and humanity without ques tion. I have only to add, if matters were carried in such cases with a high hand, as they ought to be for the sake of human life and human happiness, the French Government should notify to the monsters named in my heading, that unless they laid down their arms Don Carlos should be cast into gaol. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A BARRISTER. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY•Y DEAL, OCT. 24.. Wind S. S. E.—Sailed the Mary Eliza, Pattison, for Port Philip ; West Indian, ill'Arthur, Hobart Town; Clifton, Cox, Bombay; Marquis of Hunt ley, Burn, Sierra Leone ; Zephyr, Kenney, Alicant; and Mary Imrie, Boyd, Mauritius, LIVERPOOL. OCT. 24. —W ind S. S. E.—Arrived the Nerva, Greenhorn, from Demerara, with cargo shifted in a gale off the Banks of Newfoundland : Mary Wylie' Miller, Madeira; Eliza, Carthagena; Palatine, Denis; C , imorns, Baird, Rio Janeiro; Celt, Grig, Barbadoes; Brigand, Eail, Antigua; John Bolton, Lalor, New Or leans Cnrnhill, Dowsley, Newfoundland: and Chieftain, Dodds, Sierra Leone. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 23.—Wind S. by W.—Sailed the Benevolent, Stamp, for Sydney. New South Wales. FALMOUTH, Oc r. 23.—5. S. W. fresh breezes.—.. A rrived the Magic, from Smyrna. Off port, the Alexander, from Tobago. CREEK, OCT 24.—Arrived th e R e b e l, Spriggs, I,ifr?An! Smyrna; Prima Donna, Denia ; Ace of Trumps , torer, ditto. ick, DOVER, OCT. 24.—Arrived off the John Ren w Byer, Manilla. OFF THE WIGHT, OCT. 24.—The United King d°2ll ' Henderson, from Quebec. COWES, OCT. 24.—Arrived the Idoglicter., from Bahia' GLOUCESTER, OCT. 24.—Ar r iv e d the Mary Ann , Pat terson, from Der.ia. DUBLIN, OCT. 23.—Arrived the Three Sisters, Dwye r ' from Malaga. p o ole, KINGSTOWN, OCT. 23.—Arrived the Brothers, - - from St. John's, New Brunswick. CORK, OCT. 23.—Arrived the Favourite, from the Cape of Good Hope. HULL, OcT. 24.—Wind S S.E True Leve, Parker, from Davi.= 'Stt:aif, r : e , 3 w h it — h9 A ; r fi ril sh e . d the EXTRAORDINARY CHANGE OF F O RTIJNit* -..... (From a Correspondent.)—Mr. John Mobbs, who died at Islington, about the end of th e year 178 9 , by his . bequeathed a large and val ua bl e estate, t h en known 9. ' were to h r the Wenloek Fa rm , to executors, u on trust f o r the benefit of his tw o sons, then of the a p res of three and four years, who w e o a r,; e m e " n p t so r o p ; r s ‘ o s c e h i society e to rs' b t e ° be qualified to bec ome brought up to the Church of England." The executors, in violation of the trust reposed in them, at a proper age apprentic e d t h e b oys to s h oema k ers i n the neigh bourhood of Shoreditch, and they have up to the Pr e : sent tim e u n d ergone many v i c i ss i tu d es, tota lly ignorer"' of the splendid patrimony to which they were entitled. The property, which during the present century has bell •d bl ' , consi era y improved, comprises about 200 acres of l an d, now near l y a ll b u il t upon, an d several old established and first-rate public-houses in Hoxton Ol d Town and its vicinity, among which are the Old Ivy House, the Rosemary Branch, the Queen's Head, the Cock and Greyhound, the King of Prussia, t h e Bri tannia, the Pacchus, the Plough, the Green Man. th° College House, the Whtmore's Head, the Robin Flood, and the No a h's Ark. The will of Mr. Mobbs, after having been secreted by the different parties to elmie hands it has been until within the last few weeks , been r having come into the possession of his sons, has just t 1 proved by them in Doctors' Commons. The prope y roust at the present time be weeth upwards of three hundred thousand pounds. the It is in contetnplation to give a dinner to Members fur the bo rou g h of Manchester, Mark phi; lips, Esq., and Rober t H y de Gre g , Es q ., as soon aftel. M. Greg's return as the extensive p re p arations will al- M,.. low ; those who w ere in-vited to the Anti-Corn 1.1.1 dinner in January last, it is underst nod, will 7ece i v e In vitations for this occaion.—Globe. , ith A clerk of the Roman Post Office, charged $ 1 :: , the embezzlement of 6 0 , 00 0 piestro:s, has been ar restec ! at Marseilles b y order of the Fr enr: h Government, asia is to be delivered over to the P ontilical authorities. i \- t h( b :ft, A 'CI :tit ;pa Igi r)i (