The Sun. — London, England, 1839-10-11 00:00:00

Ely ENING EDITION. ITY NEWS MONEY MA THURSDAY EVENING C H RONIC L E.—The accounts to-day relative to the precise nature of the settlement which Mr. Jaudon has effected for meeting the liabilities of the agency of the Bank of the United States do not exactly agree. The arrangement, however, has been substantially what we stated. The balance due by the Bank at the adjust ment has been met by deposits of Pennsylvania Stock ; 2,000 shares of the Stock of the United States' Bank changed bands yesterday at 201. per share. The Bank Directors had an unusually late sitting, which attracted attention, but nothing transpired. The aggregate averages of grain for the last six weeks are—Wheat, 70s. 9d. per quarter ; Barley, 395. 6d. ; Oats,27s. 2d. ; Rye, 395. 7d. ; Beans, 435. 9d. ; Peas, 425. 6d. ; and the duties payable till next Wednesday are, on Wheat, 10s. Bd. per quarter ; Barley, 3s. 4d. ; Oats, 6s. 3d ; Rye, I ls. ; Beans, ss. ; Peas, 6s. 6d Private letters received this morning fully bear out the favourable opinion which we gave yesterday of the crops in the eastern counties of Scotland. Oats and Barley are luxuriant, and a great portion has been stacked in high order, the weather of late in that quarter baying been peculiarly favourable for harvest work. We furnished some days since the particulars of the conversion of Mexican Stock, which have at length been ratified by the Government of that country, and are now in course of preparation h ere, a year from the publication of the decree in London being allowed for that purpose ; and a translation of the relative Act of the Mexican Congress has been circulated this morning. It may be useful to recapitulate some of the leading features. The overdue interest of the foreign debt of ;Mexico is to be added to the principal, by the creation o f a " National Consolidated Fund," of which the Five per Ceot. Stock is to be taken at par, and the Six per Cent. at the rate of 11.21 per Cent., which would together amount, by that arrangement, to 9,247,378/. This is to be divided into two portions, and one half, or 4.623,6891. to be Active, and bearing an interest of Five per Cent., and the other half Deferred The latter to be receivable for the purchase of lands in the provinces of Mexico at the rate of ss. per acre. Ar rangements have also have been made, by which a portion of the revenues of the Customs is to be entirely appro priated to the payment of the interest upon the new ictive Bonds ; and, in the event of this not being pro perly' attended to, it is provided that the coupons shall be received as cash for the payment of duties, to the extent of one-sixth part, payable as above. It will be seen from the returns of the Customs of Mexico, that they average from eight to ten millions of dollars annu ally, and the interest on the first portion of the conso lidated debt will be about 1,000,000 dollars. Should the Government of Mexico fail to remit the interest which will fall due on the consolidated debt to the bond holders in this country, they can send out their scrip, and in that way secure to themselves the benefit of the new arrangement. The converted Stock will be, besides. saleable in the market, and considering the time which bas elapsed since the bondholders have received int erest , any proposition likely to give any specific value to these bonds is important, and we hope the above arrangement may produce that result. HERALD.—There has been something like a feeling of dissatisfaction amongst a portion of the mercantile and monetary interests, that more explicit information has not been made public respecting the progress of the arrange ment between the holders of the post-notes of the United States Bank and Mr. Jaudoc, their agent. It is, however, fully understood that the principle upon which this arrangement is to be effected is simply the tran4er of the Pennsylvanian Stock, about 4,000,000 cf dollars, now held by the United States Bank, to the bondholders in Europe on the terms we have already t t, ted. The arrangements will produce a temporary calm in the Money Market, but as the holders of this Pennsyl vaLian Stack can constantly sell it, in the end the tran saction will simply turn out to be a barter of the obli gations of the United States Bank, in exchange for those of the state of Pennsylvania. This arrangement is palpably no actual payment, it is merely a postpone ment, and much depends upon the next arrivals whe ther it will work well or the contrary. jj•-ssrs. Lizardi and Co., the agents of the Mexican Cloven; (Went, have circulated to•day a translation of the Acts of khe I‘Lxiecn Congress, relating to the foreign debt of that: Republic from the commencement of 1837 to 1839. The - second and third articles chiefly refer to the interests if the holders of that Stock. We. therefore :u l )join thetn in their original terms ; " Art. 2. The holders of the bonds now in circulation of the foreign debt, proceeding from the two loans effected in London at five and six per cent. interest, shall have the power to convert the same bonds, as well as the coupons thereof not paid and due, into the bond of the new consolidate I fund, under the following con dttions .---lst. The bonds bearing five per cent. interest shall be received at par. 2d. Those bearing- six pet cent. interest shall be received at the rate of 110} for 100. 3d. Coupons for interest due on both loans shal, Be taken at par. 4th. For the bonds offered far con ion there shall be given in payment one - half of di, aunt in the bonds of the consolidated fund, bearing \filii . , per cent. interest, and the other half in land-war /39Iteott the vacant lands in the departments of Texas, '‘Ceelluahua, New Mexico, Sonora, and California, at ithelate of four acres far each pound sterling, and these #: "Irlitrants shall in like m h a . n h ner h , bear five per cent. ? Wong 1 3P to the day o possession of laterest shall beholders are put . in the lands,nanwd which s t o e doing the accruing thereby acquired credited , au and the quantity of lands how ,ever, under the co gva n e d n it ted in proportion ; always, themselves to take possession that they shall present on in the manner expressed in article 5 of this decree. " Art. 3. Interest on the national. conolidated fund shall be payable in London, halt April and I st of October in each year , r e o o f m l nBe 3 n 7 c . ing U fr l o it m il the let of October of the present ye a proper measures can be taken for the periodical trtvai mission of the funds fo r t his purpose, the holders of ' pons which may become due shall have the right cou dea o to i ,present them to the agents of the republic i n L on the day en which th e y become due, and to demand of eiem a certificate, also countersigned by the M ex i can Minister at the said Court, and said certific a t e s h all be leceived as cash in payment of duties, to the extent o f one-sixth part, for all duties accruing in the mar i t i me Custom House of Vera Cruz or Santa Ana de Tamau lipas. The agents of the republic in London shall b e bound to issue such certificate when thereto required by the holders of coupons, yvhich . may Aot have b een paid when due. Each pound sterug of the amont of oaid coupons shall be estimated at the rate of five dol. fats, and the amount of each certificate shall be sup meneed to the extent of six per Gent. in full compensa t;sn firc all difference of exchange, and all expenses one r'pellsea6, of which those interested shall pay ,on reemiv ' Ink* n:.ificate to said agents, who shall account for on pa , -t thereof to the Mexican Minister-Plena- , Potteililitt'. *nder of these Acts of the Mexican Con- ,:,~~ POST.—The affair of the United States Bank agency, to which wealluded yesterday, may now be considered vir tually concluded. The advance proposed to be made to Mr. Jaudon by different capitalists, will, we under stand, be at the price already named, say 94 per cent., but on a plan somewhat different from that which we mentioned yesterday. The bonds of the United States Bank, for three years or upwards, as may be determined upon, are to be given, the redemption of which, and the payment of interest at six per cent. per annum upon them, will be guaranteed by the deposit of Pennsylvania State Stock in the hands of trustees. The double se curity of the Bank itself and the State of Pennsylvania is so ample that, but for the peculiar position of the Money Market, there would, and could, have been no hesitation in acceding to the terms of the agent in the first instance. There can be no doubt, however, from what has transpired that important concessions have been made to the monied interests during the nego tiations. Much astonishment has been expressed by men of business of all classes at a circular which has just made its appearance, on the subject of the vacant agency of the Brazilian Government. We mentioned some time ago that the trust was about to be transferred from the house of Samuel and Phillips to the Imperial Brazilian Mining Association, and such was the intention ; but it appears that the Association are not empowered by their deed of settlement to undertake it. The novel scheme, and a most inexplicable one it is, of getting over the difficulty by the establishment of an " Agency Company" has therefore been suggested. It is pro posed to raise a capital of 300,000/. for the use of the Brazilians ; but every one asks, as well he may, for what purpose ? We have been satisfied for some time past that the Imperial Government was failing in its Exchequer. Nothing could more clearly show this than the difficulty manifested in the remittance of funds for the payment of a paltry half year's dividend on the debt, and the measure that was consequently had re course to of raising a trifling loan for the purpose. The present expedient we regard as anether approach to wards the catastrophe that may before long be expected, wit' we should consider ourselves wanting in our duty to the public not to caution them against having anything to , do with it. A patchwork business of this description can r.ever come to a satisfactory issue. The idea of paying up instalments on the shares at the rate of from ten to fourteen pounds per share per month in the existing state of the Money .Market is perfectly ridiculous. The scheme has, it is true, the advantage of great names connected with it ; but so have the Portuguese, the Spanish Treasury, and other bubbles, and no sort of importance is to be attached to these. If the Brazilian Government be in the embarrassed condition we suppose them to be, let them acknowledge the fact, and come to an arrangement with their creditors before they enter into any fresh obligations. We were assailed on a former occasion by the late respectable agents, Messrs. Samuel and Phillips, in con sequence of the freedom of our observations on Bra zilian affairs, but the retirement of those gentlemen is significant, and, to be candid, we confess that in the course they have taken we think they have acted with commendable prudence. 1:14" e 'l' \ • r. ....\_ .I fp: THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11. ipsio gress go to point out how the happy holders of these bonds shall be enabled to exchange them for land war rants, and how the 'Mexican Gnternment specially hy pothecates, in the name of the nation, one mann of acres of the vacant lands in 'he departments of Cali fornia, Chehuahua, New Mexico, Sonoro, ant Texas, with special guarantee to the siid Consolidated Fund until the total extinction of the bonds no sales o these hypotheoated bonds to be made at less rates than ss. sterling per acre, &c. The period of conversion has been limited to one year from the authorised publication of this decree, which is dated the '29th of July last. This document is attended with some minor arrange ments, which at present are of no . importance. It would app. ar f rom the seem." , y now offered to tie creditors of the Mexican republic that this mode of ad justing the debt due to them would place th em on t h e wrong side of th e horse. It is indeed, a truly satisfac tory adjustment, and very consolatary. If th e y get l an d s for their m o ney they must emigrate to look a ft er t h em ; if they adopt the alternative, they must wait for their princ.pal and interest. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The Times of yesterday contains a letter, under the signature of " Benbow," the sentiments of which it more than adopts, censuring the app o i ntment o f Ad m i ra l Si r Charles Flemi ng t o th Governorship of Greenwich Hos pital. A list of names of Admirals is furnished by " Benbow," who he thinks have prior claims to Admiral Fleming. But it is well observed by " Justitia," one of the correspondents whose communication on this subject we have elsewhere inserted, that several of these Admi rals are already in the possession of commands, and re ceive large sums of money for those sinecures. Other Admircis are, from age and infirmity, unequal to to the duties of the Governorship of Greenwich Hospital ; but indeed, it seems to be taken for granted by Tories that the last thing to be thought of in appointing to an office is fitness for the discharge of its duties. Admiral Sir Charles Fleming. is held in the greatest regard in the navy as an excellent officer ; and all who have served with him, or under him, are loud in his praises as an able, a vigilant, and a humane officer. Even " 13,:nbow" allows that he is " a friendly man." With a navy like ours, against which, for a long period before the close of the last war, no enemy durst show himself, the number of officers who have had com mands in general engagements, and are in a condition to discharge efficiently the duties of a situation like that of Governor of Greenwich Hospital, most be few in d. ed. It is not true, as " Justitia" remarks, that the office has always been filled by officers who have been in such engagements, and he instances Sir John Colpoys. But the best title of Admiral Fleming is his peculiar qualification for the office. It is due to him to state that no man is more liked in the navy, on account of the care which he has always taken of those under his charge, and his determination to see that the health of the seamen should not suffer from the irregular or inadquate fulfilment of contracts. It is generally al lowed that no officer did more for the navy than Earl St. Vincent, by his vigilance in guarding against abuses. If Admiral Fleming have earned a reputation for the determination with which he enforces the faithful per formance of contracts, in order to secure the health and I comfort of the seamen, this is no slight recommenda tion for an office like that of Governor of Greenwich Hospital. The veterans whn have fought their country's battles, are entitled to all the care which that country can bestow on them in their old age ; and the care of them ought not to be committed to men unfit, from age, infirmities, or other circumstances, for the effective discharge of the duties of the office. No man was more alive to the importance of providing for the adequate support of the men under his charge than the Duke of Wellington. With his characteristic modesty he attributed a,: great deal of his success to his skill and diligence in seeing that the commissaries did their duty with regard to the supplies of food. " I think," he says in one of his des patches, " that I know how to feed men." There is, as be well knew, a close connection between feeding and fighting. The veterans of Greenwich Hospital will know how to appreciate the merits of an officer who has distinguished himself by zeal for whatever regards the comfortable well-being of the sailor. Our Contemporary, the Globe, has already adverted to a very ill-judged re mark of the Standard, that most of our old Admirals are Tories. " What that system was (says the Globe) which pre vailed at the Admiralty Board in the days of rampant Toryism, and how it operated upon the service, may be seen in the memoirs of Nelson, Collingwood, and others of our bravest naval worthies. The letters to friends, in serted in their Memoirs, are filled with complaints against the Admiralty, of the manner in which the best interests of the service were sacrificed to the party projects of the Go vernment. It was notorious that no officer whose connec tions were not of the Tory party could obtain promotion, whatever might be his merits ; aad that no one needed to despair, however destitute of every other claim, if his ap plication were backed by sufficient Parliamentary influence. No wonder that few Admirals are at present found among the Whigs ! The consequences of this injurious system were manifested in the paucity of officers competent to command a fleet, even while an interprlsing enemy was threatening our national existence. Why was Coiling wood compelled to remain afloat, notwithstanding his ear nest entreaties to be relieved, and was at length sacrificed to the disease under which he was labouring, and the ra vages of which might have been stayed, and his life pre served, could he have obtained permission to return home? The Ministry had no one to take his place ! They had abundance of candidates ; but corrupt patronage had fur nished few competent to command." The memoirs of Collingwood will always remain a monument of Tory shame. That brave and honest officer was engaged in a constant warfare with the Tory Government, which endeavoured to fill the navy with persons in all respects unfit for the service, in order that they might have a title to the public money. The Duke of Wellington's dispatches bear testimony to the same prodigality. He is constantly complaining of the inefficient creatures forced on him, from whom be could derive no assistance whatever. Again and again he laments, in his last operations, his hard fate in, being surrounded with incapables, whose duties he was obliged to discharge in addition to his other labours. The ob jections to Admiral Fleming come with a very bad grace from the Tories. They no doubt think that the public will be led by their boldness of attack to overlook their own misdeeds. ADMIRAL FLEMING. " Non tali auxilio—nec defensoribus istis Tempus eget." It is therefore that, feeling the necessity of a frank, manly, and intrepid declaration of sentiment by Pro testants at the present crisis, in regard to the Popish policy of the Government, we cannot but approve of the plain, energetic, and straightforward language of the following declaration :—" That it ought never to be for gotten that the crown was placed on the head of the Sovereign of this empire under a solemn oath that the Protestant religion shall be faithfully upheld, and every British heart must be filled with the deepest anxiety as to the difficulties attending the maintet.ance of that solemn compact, if Popish Councillors are those who are to be placed around her Majesty's Throne—a thing unknown till now since the days of William 111., of glorious memory." --....-- (PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP YESTERDAY.) (From the Globe) The Standard quotes against the Government an admission we advisedly made in referring to the ap pointment of Admiral Fleming to the Governorship of Greenwich Hospital, viz., that comparatively "few Ad mirals hold Whig principles." The fact, we apprehend, is notorious ; its cause far more discreditable to the Stan dard's party than to the Government to which it is op posed. The shameful system ofconfining appointmentsand promotion in the service to their own adherents, which prevailed during the long reign of Toryism, compelled an abandonment of their political principles, or in duced the younger, branches of the Whig families to decline serving their country under an Administration which would not fail to regard them with suspicion, and throw every impediment in the way of their success. This will account for the fact, that few old Admirals (they must have entered the service during the period we have referred to, in order to be now on the list) are of Whig politics. What that system was which prevailed at the Admiralty Board in the days of rampant Toryism, and how it operated upon the service, may be seen in the memoirs of Nelson, Collingwood, and others of our bravest naval worthies. Their letters to friends, inserted in their memoirs, are filled with complained against the Admiralty of the manner in which the best interests of the service were sacrified to the party projects of the Government. It was notorious that no officer whose connections were not of the Tory party could obtain promotion, whatever may be his merits ; and that no one needed to despair, however des titute of every other claim, if his application were backed by sufficient Parliamentary influence. No wonder that few Admirals are at present found among the Whigs ! The consequences of this injurious system were mani fested in the paucity of officers competent to coin- mend a fleet, even while an enterprising enemy was threatening our national existence. Why was Col lingwood compelled to remain afloat, notwith standing his earnest entreaties to be relieved, and was at length sacrificed to the disease under which he was labouring, and the ravages of which might have been stayed, and his life preserved, could he have ob tained permission to return home ? The Ministry had no one to take his place ! They had abundance of can didates ; but corrupt patronage had furnished few com petent to command. TO THE EDITOR OF THE " MORNING CHRONICLE." SIR,—I observed in the Times of this day a letter signed " Benbow," reflecting on the appointment of the Honourable Admiral Fleming to Greenwich Hospital, and stating, amongst other disqualifications, he was never in a general naval engagement. It appears this was not con sidered an objection, for the truly respected Admiral Col. goys, when placed at the head of Greenwich Hospital, was similarly situated, and had previously held various very , good situations—commands in the Channel fleets, a Lord ship of the Admiralty, command at Plymouth, &c. " Betibow gives a list of a number of the full Admirals of the Navy, never considering that many he mentions are, from age and infirmity, totally unfit for the ( - Zee. Admiral Sir George Martin is Vice- Admiral of the United Kingdom, and has bad command ; Sir R. Stopford is Rear- Admiral of ditto, and has and is boiling a command. They have both salaries (see new Naval List by an Old Commander) tor those sinecures, and have stars, &c. As Greenwich Hospital is situated, it should never become a sinecure ; and a reference to the Naval and Military Gazette, page 561, Ist of August last, will show that an active officer is required, and even Admiral Fleming's ene mies must allow that on that score the selection is justifi able. No officer in his various employments ever sacri ficed more to the study to enforce the public contracts for victualling his crews, &c. One thing is certain, that strict justice will be enforced in every way in which the interests of Greenwich Hospital are concerned ; and though the Ad miral had never the good fortune to be in command in a general engagement, for which no blame can attach to him, 'nem is not a person who knows him or ever sailed with him but is fully confident that zeal and activity will be tully exerted, and that his manifold duties will be most abir, most faithfully, and most honourably discharged. Oct. 10. JUSTITIA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHONICLE. SIR—In the Thundirer of to-day a storm has beer showered upon the heads of Lord Minto and Sir Charles Fleming, because the latter was appointed Governor of Greenwich Hospital. This pop-guii explosion is. after all, nothing but smoke, being doubtless the work of some iisappointed Tory factiorist, whose angry indignation may be naturally accounted for; and whe, to prevent;susoieion, mentions the names of a few old naval officers, differing from himself in politics, as preferable to the " busy pant -an " for the successor of the late Sir Thomas Hardy. This is human nature. If the Governorship of Greenwich Hospital be held up as a special reward for those who have been fortunate enough to witness a variety of engagements, escaping from each without the loss of a limb--without even a bruise or a scratch !—then, perhaps, there are some who have a bet.er claim for that appointment than had Sir Charles Fleming Ministers must patronize those who patronize them. Such was always the case under each Administration; Whigs, Radicals, or Conservatives have all done the same, and, therefore, what is fair in one case is equally fair in another. Lord Minto has selected an old officer, universally re spected and beloved by his immediate friends and . the naval one who has ever evinced . the profession generally; Galled to slo so • whose ser on. , to serve his country whets greatest zeal in the welfare of the navy, ready and willing gain nothing in the hands of •old " Benbov; " but who is nevertheless allowed growling . , vices, great or small, will to be just as well worthy of the honour conferred on him as any other Admiral of t;ie present day. Yours, Mr. Elitor, London, Oct, 10, 1839. TOM BOWLING. (Prow the Morning Post.) The spirit of the peok. of England (it is no party I ORIGIN OF SURNAMES.—UntiI th e time of spirit) r evo l t a t thi s momen t a gainst the oppression of a li the Normans, persons were generally called by one t: n e g f h o s n h d monster whose hoofs have been forged in the infernal as Richard, Edwin, Harold, &c. The names, Robert, good-for-nothing Court. This is the . i, which the , Henry, and William, were introduced by the "WI of Irish Popery, and whose head is decked with 1 monster r • • Normans, and, for a long time, finery of a giddy and name , have to oppose This 4 the offensive p f e a'Y op7e s acid. 'rictic9ll4" by ' the lower ' , , down , singly orders. People took their surname thing Which they must 44 wn lest it Pat a t • 4 " l ' •event in their lives, With toe 14 : of , put ,',^ urn, , - , • trom an earang (sod, the vi t "di Pe uP°n °PT C ory . ~ , ther person, r FR. side. Though we is o • &e. The possession of !I of the Tor- aVe a Prouder banner still to fight under, the , party -we a fari, ,l tarnished other names, is Preston, Ely, Grantham ; banner of Eng land's national faith and national' feeling—,. others from occupations and trades, as Monk, Abbot, . ' * * 4. the good old Njason, Carpenter ; and others from occupations now cause, f * our peace, our fearful innocence, tii.cootinued, as Falconer, Fletcher, Archer, &c.— And pure religion breathing household laws." Ince's Outline; of English History. ( From the Courier.) So many communications have reached us condemn• hie the appointment of Admiral Fleming to the post of Governor of Greenwich Hospital, to the exclusion of veteran officers who have far hither claims, on the double ground of length of service and of experience in their profession, that we are compelled to bring this individual instance of the unjust preference of the Go vernment before the notice of our readers. The Gover norship of Greenwich Hospital has always been consi dered one of the prizes of the navy ; to be obtained only by long service, great experience, and conspi cuous knowledge of the profession. Not one of these uuolic claims can Adm;rvl Fleming bring forward ; of service he has seen little, of experience he has less, and as that conspicuous and undoubted knowledge of naval affairs which can be obtained only by activ e service and long experience, no naval man would ven ture to assign it to him. To what circumstance, then, are we to look for his appointment to so distinguished a post as that of Governor of Greenwich Hospital? In our difficulty, we are irresistibly led to surmise that the accidental circumstance of his relationship with the dispenser of naval patronage is the principal if not the only recommendation. It is with much reluctance and regret that we are compelled to adopt this solution of what would otherwise be an impenetrable mystery.- (From the Standard.) In the letter of Mr. Macaulay from Windsor Castle, addressed to his Edinburgh constituents, that gentleman declares, with much pomposity, that " office, at this mo ment, has for him few of the ordinary attractions '•" but that a, "selfish caution wo u ld ill b ecome him, " he has ac cepted it, believing that" the weakness with which her Ma jesty's present Ministers are taunted is attributable solely to adverse circumstances, to " popular delusions, faint hearted and unreasonable friends, and unscrupulous ene mies." Mr. Macaulay does not define what these " ad verse circumstances are. Neither does he inform us how long be has become a convert to the beliefthat the" popular " opinion" is a " popUlar delusion." If, however, his friends are really labouring under so dreadful a complication of affliction a 5 he has described, their dis sulution cannot be far off. If, as we infer from this cautious and reluctant admission, they are hated by the people, despised or neglected by their false-hearted unreasonable friends, and exposed to the attacks of bitter and " unscrupulous enemies," their disorder must have arrived at a crisis calculated to fill their admirers and dependents with equal grief and alarm. Taking their case from Mr. Macaulay's own graphic description of its symp tom:, it is really a very melancholy one, and too mach credit cannot be given to the Learned Secretary at war fur allowing- himself to become the tintinabula y appendage to the tail of such a Government—the claquer en chef to such an establishment. Fighting under this flag we hope to conquer, but, whether we do or not, we diall still remain satisfied that we have taken the right course, Whether we win the goal or not, " the race is glorious to rum" We are contending for the weal, the principles, and the wishes of Great Britain, as expressed by a majority of her representatives in the House of Commons, as well . as b y an i mmense majority of her nobility in the Lipper House. These majorities are thwarted, and the most serious feelings of the people trampled upon, through the abused favour of the Court to the present Ministry, and through the co-operation of the Irish Ro tnanists. The frivolous and reckless Ministers seem to see no indecency in this; but cannot even they see the danger? Do they suppose that such a state of things can continue to be submitted to ? Can they make no calculation of human pati, nce ? Do they not perceive the moral necessity of some mode being devised whereby a people so bold and manly as the British may relieve themselves of a policy which they detest, and of Ministers whom they despise ? Let the Ministers beware. This people will not allow their institutions to he polluted by a dirty flood of Irish Popery ; and when the hour of action comes—when the cup of indignation has been filled to the brim and begins to overflow—they who opened the door to this filthy flood, and invited its approach, will not he forgotten. " Oh," but say some people, who have but very little depth of sound feeling, or of sober principle. beneath the smooth surface of their man tiers, though this partnership with Popery is very bad, and you are very right to exclaim and protest against it, would it not be better to spare the Court ?" We say most emphatically " NO ," the state of the Court is a very serious mischief—a national mischief, and such a mischief as ought not to continue. We are as loyal as., any courtier that ever fawned or flattered, but our loy alty is to the Monarchy as well as to the Monarch, and we hate and despise that bastard loyalty that would sa crifice the former for the temporary gratification of the latter. It is absurd as well as wrong. It is utterly un worthy of serious men who have duties beyond the fashioning of a dress or the ordering an entertainment. Ministerial puppyism comes waltzing or quadrilling it away from the chambers of the Palace, to prate in public of the necessity of " reform)." It is very true. We know where " reform" is wanting. It is at Court. CLOSE OF THE CIVIL WAR IN SPAIN. We have great pleasure in announcing that two couriers have left Bourges for the head-quarters of Cabrera and of the Count D'Espagne, conveying to these two chiefs a positive order from Don Carlos to dismiss their followers, and to desist from all further enterprises against the established Government of the Qu.en of Spain. This decisive, and it is to be hoped conclusive, step, we are informed, was not taken by Don Carlos until he had acquired the convictio n that it was the intention of the French Government to detain him in captivity at Bourgee as long as his partizans kept the fi,ld in Spain. A few days before this event, Don Carlos received a communication from the Count D'Espagne, acquainting him that dissensions had broken out among his foi lowers, and that it was no longer safe to lead them against the enemy ; and requesting to know what course he was to pursue under such circumstances. Carlos replied that, even were there no prospect of success, it behoved a faithful servant to shed his blood for his master rather than yield to his enemies. At this time Don Carlos had not given up all hope of being shortly set at liberty by the French Government. We therefore cordially congratulate our readers on the prospect of the immediate and total cessation of the civil war in the Peninsula. (From the Morning Herald.) At the recent meeting of the heritors and commis sioners of supply of the county of Berwick, we observe that the language of some of the resolutions carried, in reference to the Popish tendencies and appointments of the Government was very strong, but not too strong for the occasion. The time has arrived for the friends of the reformed 'religion and Protestant constitution to speak out. The late batch of Popish appointments by the Melbourne Ministry unequivocally attest the con tinuing and increasing influence of a spirit hostile to the principles of the Reformation in the Cabinet of Great Britain. Either that evil influence must be driven from the councils of the Sovereign, or the principles which seated the august family of our youthful Mo narch on the throne of these realms be banished from the Court and Commonwealth. For which of these alternatives are the Protestants of Great Britain pre cared ? They must have one or the other. In the conflict of great principles which a Romish faction, with O'Connell for its political chief, and the Whig Ministers for its servile tools, have forced upon us, neutrality is despicable —compromise impossible. Protestants who preach a cold prudence and practice a timid reserve while the ramparts of our Protestant Constitution are assailed by the enemy, and its bulwarks undermined, are not such Protestants as won for England the manifold blessings of the Reformation, or retrieved the liberties of the country, and rescued its threatened religion at the glorious era of 1688. FROM THE MEMOIRS OF MATHEWS. " An Irishman at the house of a friend of mine, the author of The Spy,' and The Pioneers,' discovered a part of the wood work of a chimney. piece on fire, that endangered the whole house. He rushed up to his master and announced the alarming i n t e lli gence . D own h e rus h e d with him ; a large kettle of boiling water was on the fire. Well, why don't you put out the fire ?' ' I can't sur: Why, you fool I pour the water upon it., Sure it's hot water, sur.'—Fact During some severe weather, Mr. Mathews had hired a hackney coach to take him to the theatre where he had to act. Something had hap pened several times to derange the harness, and the driver, a steady old Scotchman, had been obliged to descend from his box to put it in order ; but a third occasion put an end to my husband's patience, besides giving him some alarm lest he should not arrive in time to dress. He looked out of the coach window, and perceiving the man very deliberately tying some rope together, to effect the necessary repair, somewhat angrily called out that such delays were very pro voking ; and being unable to induce the man to hasten his operations, he exclaimed in a sharp tone, Be pleased to remember how much time I am losing.' Vary weel, Sir,' answered the 'Han, quietly and slowly, and you will be pleased to re inember that I'm losing just as much time as yoursel: " Like Goldsmith, his behaviour with children was that of the most simple child. He generally ad dressed them in the tones and manner of childhood, always making himself of the age of those to whom he talked. At first, the little creatures would look surprised, sometimes frightened ; but this effect soon wore off as he persevered, and it always ended in his being accepted as a playmate. The first wonder over, ever after he was considered by them as a boy, for such was his voice and manner. " I remember our travelling into Suffolk once, with Mrs. Richard Wilson, on a Christmas visit, and stopping at a village inn for refreshment, while her horses baited. Soon after, we saw my hus band near the door, with half a dozen boys of about eight years old, playing at marbles, bawling and wrangling about the game, in their childish and rude manner, and every one of his companions as grave and earnest with him as if they were all of the same age, and had been used to him all their ives. There he was squabbling. You Bill At kins ! I say you h ave no r i g h t to that taw.'—' I Crave, said I say, you haven't I say I have.—' Ali I you cheat ! I wo'nt play with you no more.' And thus eventually he picked a quar rel with one of them, and taking off his coat, offered to fight. He was met with spirit by the boy in question, and, finding this, he resumed his good humour, and made a present to his adversary of the marbles he had won, and left them all pleased with the large boy. " We inquired how he became so regularly in stalled amongst these urchins in so short a time. He told us, that he went up to them as they were playing, and assuming the tone and words suited to their age and the occasion, asked if he might play with them ? They all looked up with some .ring like alarm mixed with wonder, and stared at him in silence for a minute. He reiterated his wish to join them, and they all looked gravely and Theepishly at each other. He still urged them, till it last, after some demur, the smallest of the party boldly cried, ' Let him play; what harm Very well,' said another, encouraged by his friend's example ; ' very well ; but has he got any marbles ?' No,' said the new comer; but I've a penny:— . Well, then, let him buy some of yours, Tom; you've rot plenty to sell.' Th e b arga i n was comp l ete d , and he knuckled down, soon learned several o heir names, and thus we found him with them was most diverting to observe how completely the ')oys had ceased to regard him as anything but what he represented ; no giggling, no suspicion, but thorough confidence at last in the reality of his 'icing a child, though of larger growth' than themselves. As he quitted them, he said he must to to his ' Ma,' and joined us ; the boys looking after him and at us with curiosity, for a moment, lut immediately resuming their play, seemingly without any further reflection upon the incident." s' The commonest purchase puzzled him, and he would come lime after any attempt to supply him self with a pair of gloves, shoes, hat, or other trifling article, and convulse me with laughter by his serious account of the difficulties he had gone through in obtaining what he had bought ; and the bad quality and fit of his purchase was equally laughable. He gave the drollest description of the tradesmen, who always accused him of being different in his proportions from other people— nothing would fit him that was made upon general principles ; neither hat, shoe, glove, neckcloth, nor stock, nothing did for him that was suited to other men of similar height.' This was, In fact, true ; for if the collar of a shirt fitted for instance, the wrists were wrong, and vice versa. His hands and feet were so small that neitherstock- ;ngs, shoes, nor gloves, could be obtained ready made but what were too large for them. Sir,' a shoemaker would say, as if reproaching him, you :Are not made like other gentlemen ; y our f ee t are too short for your h e i g ht.' This would excuse a pair of boots brought home two or three inches too long, although he had been measured for them. Sir,' said the haberdasher, your throat is larger than that of other gentlemen. If he asked for a hat, the hatter would shake his head—. - No, Sir, your head is smaller than any ready-made hat; you must be measured.' All this used to fret him for the moment ; and he once asked a 4iend, if he thought his hatter knew him ; for he .vished to try to obtai►► a hat of so►nehody who would not twit him with his peculiar make.' His friend encouraged him to drive to a hatter's in Bond-street. I waited for him at the door, and watched the process of putting on and taking off a great many hats. At last he hastily re-entered the carriage, and ordered it to drive home, observing to tile impatiently, with a half sigh, " Ali I it is of no use ; I was found out. No hat to fit my head Hatter very much ofFend . xl at my expectin g suc h a thing . . In fact, it appears that I am very much to Maine. They're all angry with me when Igo to buy anything ; and I feel as if I ought to ap o l og i se for my mal-proportions.' MATHEWS AND THE IRISHMAN. Mr. Mathews' dislike to being encumbered with money exposed him when from home to many em barrassments; such a, stoppages at turnpikes, and want of funds to answer claims for charity, when they touched his feelings during his rides. One of these inconveniences occurred to him at this time, on his return to Briton Ferry, and was the occasion of rather an interesting result. The whole party staying there had passed over in the passage-boat, with carriages and horses, early in the morning, on a visit to Swansea. At the close of the day, on our return, Mr. Mathews rode for ward ; and arriving first at the ferry, recollected that he must wait for the coming up of his party, as he was without the means of pay inn.l' his passage over. He th ere f ore wa lk e d his horse about until the expected arrival of his friends. Just at this moment an Irish beggar, in the most miserable plight, came up, and poured forth all that lamentable cant of alleged destitu tion, which it is their vocation to impress upon the tender-hearted, and which seldom fails to draw forth sparks of compassion. My husband, however, as sured the applicant (who declared he was ' making his way back to ould Ireland without bit or sup for days together,' and that a halfpenny itself would be a treasure to him ') that he had not even a farthing to offer him. It was in vain ; the wretched, almost naked creature still importuned him. At last he was told by him he supplicated, with some impatience at the tiresome and senseless perse verance, after this explanation, that so far from being able to bestow alms, he was himself at that moment in a situation to require assistance ; actu ally, cold and damp as it was (November), com pelled to remain at the water's edge till some friend came up who would frank him across the ferry. The man's quick bright eye surveyed the speaker for a second ; but upon a reiteration of Mr. Ma thews' assurance, that he was detained against his will for want of a shilling, adding, that he was lame and unable to walk home from the other side of the ferry, or otherwise he might leave his horse behind him as security—the beggar's face brightened up, and he exclaimed, ' Then, your honour, I'll lend you money What, you! you who have been telling me of your poverty and misery for want of money I'-..' It's all true,' eagerly interrupted the man ; it's all true; I'm as poor as I said I was, —divil the lie 's in it. I'm begging my way hack to my country, where I've friends; and there's a vessel ready, I'm tould, that sails from Swansea to-night. I've got some money, but I want more to pay my passage before I go, and I'm starving myself for that raison; but is it for me to see another worse off than myself, and deny him relafe? Your honour's lame ; now, I've got my legs, anyhow, and that's a comfort, sure Then taking a dirty rag out of his pocket, and showing about two shillings' worth of cop pers, he counted out twelve pence, and proffered them to Mr. Mathews, who willing to put the man's sincerity of intention to the proof, hi ld out his hand for the money, at the same time inquiring, How, if I borrow this, shall I be able to return it? My house is some miles on the other side of the ferry, and you say you are in haste to proceed. I shall not be able to send a messenger back here for se veral hours, and you will then have sailed ?---4 Oh, thin niver mind, your honour; niver mind ; I shall do without it, sure,' and was walking on. Mr. Ma thews stopped him by saying, Well, then, after all, I suppose you have plenty left, and you de ceived me when you begged Oh, divil the farthing more, your honour, than what you saw.' Well, then, how can I reconcile to myself to take so much from you ?' Your honour's welcome to every farthing. sure some good-hearted crarhur will give me more.' But indeed I cannot think of borrowing what I cannot return.' Oh, thin, may be when your honour meets another of my poor distrist countrymen you'll pay him the twelve penny ; sure its the same in the end.' _ " Mr. Mathews was affected at the poor fellow's evident sincerity ; but, desirous to put the matter to the fullest test, he thanked his ragged benefactor, and wished him a safe journey back to his country. The man, smiling with the most benevolent expres sion of countenance, cheerfully turned away, with a Long life to you r h onour '.' and proceeded at a quick pace across the burroughs, and was soon out of sight. Mr. Mathews, however, suffered him to go no farther towards Swansea than it was easy for him, with his horse, to overtake him ; and when he did, he saw him trudging along upon his poor naked feet, whistling with the greatest uncon cern. But when he was overtaken, and told that the person he had so generously as sisted could not prevail upon himself to use his gift, the poor fellow seemed really hurt, and in the most positive manner refused to take the money back again ; and had not the obliged been on horseback, he would have been fairly distanced by the good-hearted Irishman. How ever at this moment one of the expected Briton Ferry party rode up to them, and, had this not happened, it was the firm resolve of Mr. Mathews to go on with the beggar till he met some of his friends. The gentleman lent my husband what he required, with which he not only overpowered the man's loud refusal of the principal, but convinced him that he might with a safe conscience receive an interest, which made him independent of further charity on his journey, and take him back to Ould Ireland' much richer, probably, than hen he left it." WESTMINSTER SE S SIONS PoT STEALING.—Two bo y s fOr stealing pots, the property of publicans, which had been left in exposed situations, were sentenced to three months' and one month's imprisonment respectively, the last week in each month to be solitary. The Court intimated that io future th'e expenses of publicans in such cases would not be allowed, as they were guilty of great negligence in leaving their pots thus publicly exposed. Janzes Smith, who is most respectably connected, was charged with having, early on the morning of the 24th September, indecently exposed his person to a soldier, named Wm. Dunn, of the 3d regiment of Guards. Mr. Ballantyne appeared for the prosecution, and stated the nature of the transaction, which occurred near the Duke of York's column. Atter evidence had beenheard in support of the charge, Mr. Clarkson addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner in a powerful speech, asserting that this coun try had now become one in which, for certain purposes, at certain hours of the night, it was unsafe for any man to walk the streets, and except through the instru mentality of juries, aided by the experience and legal knowledge of those who presided in Criminal Courts of Justice, no man would be safe. He trusted that the jury would be of opinion that the case had not been sa tisfactorily made out, and that they would therefore re turn a verdict of not guilty. The jury, however, found the prisoner Guilty, and the Court sentenced him to be imprisoned for one ca lendar month. BRENTFORD PETTYSESSIONS, On Wednesday Edward Dart, a respectably-dressed youth, aged 19, was brought before the Magistrates, of a charge of having feloniously uttered a forged check on the bank of Messrs. Drummond and Co., with intent to defraud Mr. Morse, of Ealing. Mr. Morse deposed that he did not know the prisoner personally before the previous day, when on his return home in the afternoon, he learned from the servants that he had called at the house two or three times durin;. his (witness's) absence, desiring to see him. About six o'clock he again called, and presented the following check, with a request that witness would cash it for him : " No. 2,739. " Messrs. Drummond and Co., 49, Charing-cross. " October 7, 1839. " Please to pay to my order the sum of six pounds ten shillings, to Mr. Dart or bearer, for " 61. 103. " J. W. BEVAN, Oxford." Witness further proved that the prisoner presented th, check to him to have it cashed. He first said he hat , got it from his father, and then from a person in Ham mersmith. From the evidence of other witnesses it appeared that no account was kept by Mr. Bevan at Drummond's bank. The prisoner declined saying anything in answer to th, charge, but His father, who was present, and who was much af fected, said that for the last two months the prisoner had been consilered by his friends as not right in his head. He was committed to Newgste to take his trial. WESTMINSTER COURT of REQUESTS. FAMILY SHAVlNG.—Budridge-vreet, St. Giles's, ha , . been long known as one of the most populous and wretched of those numerous locations of the lower order of Irish in London. Possessing all the characteristics o' such settlements, dirt, drunkenness, rags, and perpet 1121 rioting, no industrious man in his sober senses, and es pecially a Scotchman, would, it is presumed select suet. an unpropitious spot wherein to carry on his worldly calling. To this locality, however, came Alexander Macpherson, a raw Scotch lad, the personification of Strap, in " Roderick Random," who having just explored what the facetious lexicographer called the most pleasin_ prospect in all Scotland—the high road to London— here adventured to set up his shaving pole. A Scot, it is said, can manage to live, where any other man would starve ; but even to a Scotchman, a barber's shop among Irish cadgers, haymakers, and hoppers, presents about the same prospect of success as that enterprising breeches-maker had, who emigrated, to the Highlands in the hope of establi-hing a trade. Getting, as might bt expected, wofully in arrears with his landlady, a hard featured and hard-fisted virago, he found himself sud denly summoned before the bench of Commissioners tf, say why and wherefore the sum of 16s. should not bt liquidated, either by purse or person. Mrs. Judith Maginnis, the raw-boned landlady, proved the hire of the shop at 4s. weekly, and an accumulated unpaid rent of four weeks. The unlucky shaver, who looked as if he had fed ' upon nothing of late more substantial than " muslin kail," sorrowfully acknowledged his inability to discharge the hack-standing amount ; but hoped the Court, in consideration of his manifold mishaps, would deal 118 leniently as possible with him. A stranger to London, and conceiving one quarter quite as good as another for trade, he 'Lid incautiously consented to hire a shop in Buckridge-street, and to try his luck in the shaving line. The defendant, moreover, had stipulated that, in addi tion to the rest he was to give the two " boys" an oc casional touch of the rrzor, and once a week, or 011 gala days, give her own carrotty front the a la /node frizzle. The poor chin-scraper had hardly been es-a blished an hour in his new shop, before he found he was the first cu s t omer th a t was lik e l y to get " l at h ere d.' One of the daily, or rather hourly, rows happening close to his door, the pole, which stood invitingly out, was immediately seized and converted into a most efficient shillela by one of the combatants, who, on being applied to for the restoration of the shaving symbol, made a whack at the barber's sconce, which, had is not been warded off, would have given h.m his ' quietus. Five melancholy weeks were weathered out ; at last, his shaving kit being pounced upon for a beer score, the barber was obliged to own himself " dead beat." But what he principally relied on to induce the the Court to take off a portion of the amount was the unfair advantage the landlady and " boys" had taken of the shaving and dressing stipulation. " The boys,'" continued the barber, " I fund were no but twa chicle six feet lang, wi' faces lik sides o' bacon, an' beards as bristly as an auk: boar's doup ; and they wad baith lute a clean scrape ilka mornin', and the landleddy wadna be content, unless I used a gude sixpenny worth o' scented Macassar, and pit French bows and Victoria plats till her ain pow." _ There must be a mistake here," said a Commis- SIGNER, who had been inspecting the " set off" account put in by the shaver, " I perceive you have charged 6d. for shaving the landlady three times." "'An the job was wee( worth a saxpence," said Sandy. " But you don't mean to say you shaved the lady as well as her sons r remonstrated the CHAIRMAN. " tak my aith o't," said the shaver. " Let ony o'ye gang intil Buckridge-street, and ye'll see see Irish lasses there wi' beards like tinklers."—(Laughter.) The landlady, when appealed to, did not deny the " soft impeachment." She, however, declared the ope ration was only necessary because she was marked on the upper lip with a " hare's foot." " Well, well," said the CHAIRMAN, laughing. " The difficulty of the task was well worth double the shaving price. But why is this shilling charged for fumigiting the shop ?" Shaver —The shop, ye maun ken was mair darty than ony stye. and crammed wi' creepers, so that I was obleeged to gang till a 'potecary for some yellow stane like stuff. I uinna ken the name o't. Was it brimstone?" asked the COMMISSIONER. Shaver —Oh !ay ; that's the nam ; but I'll no be sure. 1 brent it and smithered the vermin wi' the reek. COMMISSIONER.--It's rather odd you should not have recollected the name. Don't they use brimstone occasionally in Scotland ? Shaver(angrily).—We hae nae use in Scotland for ony sic an article. The Court took the whole case into consideration, and ben of opinion that something ought to be allowed for the " family " shavings, reduced the plaintiff's claim to 10s., which was ordered to be paid at 6d. per week. A very tardy but humane act is now about to be performed by Government, after the annual loss, for centuries, of numerous valuable lives, mostly of seafaring persons. A harbour of refuge is niw about to be con structed at Margate for her Majesty's steamers, and, it is hoped, tOr many other vessels of burthen. It is cap able of being mide a noble harbour at little expense -- 150,0001., including back-water. This was the late Mr. John Rennie's opinion. It is earnestly hoped no paltry consideration of expense will longer delay this " na tional undertaking, and that the valuable lives of our poor boatmen and nautical brethren may be deemed fully worthy of the best efforts of Governm,lnt and their engineers in its speedy completion.—Kenlish Paper. THE SOLAR SPOTS. The surface of the sun has of late presented a very striking and diversified aspect, when contem plated through a powerful telescope. The spots of all descriptions by which its disc is divaricated have been more numerous, and some of them much larger, than have been observed for several years past. On Monday, the 2d ult., almost the whole surface of this luminary seemed to be diversified with large and small spots of every description pe culiar to the sun. A cluster containing four or five very large spots, and,about thirty or forty smaller ones, disappear_ d from the western part of the disc on Tuesday, but a very great number of both large and small spots still remain. At present (Septem ber 4th) there is a very large cluster, approaching the centre of the disc, which consists of about eighteen large spots, the smallest of them not much less than the size of the earth, and some of them much larger. Besides these, there are within the compass of the same cluster above eighty smaller spots, which can be distinctly counted by means of an achromatic telescope magnifying one hundred and twenty titnes—making about a hundred spots in all within the limits of one cluster. The smallest of these spots cannot be less than from five to nine hundred miles in diameter. One of the spots which lately passed off from the western margin of the disc, measured about the one-thirtieth part of the sun's diameter, and consequently must have been about thirty thousand miles in diameter, or nearly four times the diameter of the earth ; and, if it is to be considered as a solid body, it must be above sixty times larger than the earth. It contained an area of more than seven hundred millions of miles. Besides the cluster noticed above, there are five other clusters nearer the western edge of the disc, containing several large, and a number of smaller spots, amounting in all to about seventy or eighty ; so there are at present ' nearly two hundred spots, great and small, diversi fying the surface of this luminary. The largest cluster will likely remain for about eight days longer before it disappear from the western limb. Some of the other spots will disappear in the course of three or four days. There are indications of other clusters about to appear oil the eastern limb. Each of the larger spots has a dark nucleus, surrounded with a penumbra, or fainter shade, nearly of the shame shape as the nucleus. Some of the nuclei " pear nearly round, others elliptical , others coni cal,a and some of them are divided in the middle by a bright streak. When these spots are near the margin of the sun, they appear surrounded with a mottled appearance, such as is seen on some parts of the lunar disc—evidently indicating eleva tions and depressions, or, in other words, moun tains and vales of very great magnitude. These mottled appeal ances generally precede the appear ance of spots on the eastern limb, and plainly show that there is a very great diversity of surface and scenery on this magnificent orb, and that changes and operations of inconceivable magnitude are continually going forward—probably for the purpose of Preserving this central body in a proper state for diffusin g light and heat, and other infl . ..... enee to surroundin, '' worlds. Four or fi ve o f t h e larger spot s ma y bedistinetly seen by means of au opera glass which magnifies about two or three times, and even by the naked eye, provided coloured glass is interposed between the eye and the sun, or a common plain glass smoked with the flame of a candle.—Correspondent of Dundee Advertiser. NORTH ESSEX AGRICULTURAL. ANNIVER sARY.—The Anniversary of the Agricultural and Con servative Association of North Essex was celebrated on Tuesday evening, by a dinner at Castle Hedingham, in the Hinckford hundred. The dinner was much more numerously attended than it has hitherto been, in con sequence of its having been understood that several attempts had been recently made to induce the mem bers of the Association to abandon that portion of their title which binds them to Conservatism, and which at tempt led to considerable discussion. Mr. Round, M.P. for North Essex, took the Chair, and George Spurling, Esq., the Vice-chair, and were supported by Sir John Tyrrell, Bart., M.P.,' Sr Alexander Rae, Bart., J. P. Owes, Esq , the Hon. and Rev. Dundas, the Rev. Dr. Burney, Messrs. Hutt, Wias, J. Spurling, C. New , man, H. L. Majendie, J. Jardine, and a great number of other influential gentlemen and clergymen of the county. We regret to perceive, from a report of the speeches made on the occasion, that several of the speakers dilated on the necessity of preserving the check on a supply of corn. Sir John Tyrrell was con fident that " without the protection which the present system of Corn-laws afforded to the farmers, they would not be enabled to remunerate their labourers." And as the House of Commons would look coldly on any petition from the agriculturists " they were thrown upon their own resources, and must stand forward in support of the present Corn Bill." Mr. Elwes, as well as Mr. Round, the Member, spoke in the same strain. The termer gentleman made the following instructive and very remarkable declaration--that it was impossible for the agriculturists to uphold agriculture unless they were Conservatives. We understand that the Coal Masters in and around Glasgow have advanced the price of C 0 4 15 Is. a waggon. Two NEW THINGS.—There is a man down East, rather a facetious chap, whose nam e is New. He named his first child Something, as it was Something New. His next child was c h r i stened Nothing, it being Nothing New.—American Paper. BROTHERLY LOVE.---It iS with unfeigned gratification that we learn from an authentic source, that John E. Lacon, Esq., has in the most handsome and disinterested manner divided the large fortune left to him by his father, the late Sir E. K. Lacon. Bart., equally with his elder brother, Sir H. K. Lacon„ Bart. It will be remembered that the present Baronet mar ied,contrary to his father's desire, a daughter of Mr. Ron mett, a partner in the house of Esdaile and Co., bankers. The old Baronet never forgave this act of insubordina tion in his son, and consequently left nearly all to his younger son, J. E. Lacon, Esq., who with most noble ! feeling has divided the property with his eider brother. —Cambridge Independent, Te.i. ;.•••." • v Nr 14'M TT I ON'. AFFAIRS OF THE EAST. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY MARKETS. oAm Wheat. Barley. fiats. ttea..s. p e to A A' to s. ,r. to S. a. to a a . hi Si 38 AA I 9f) ?IQ AR M Quarwr.l s. to is. Is. 5. s. to s. a. to a. Bath l6B 63 j3B 29 38 46 5 6 Blandfiird 64 76 36 24 30 46 5 0 Bridport i 60 80 r 4O 48 22 24 4S 56 Gloucester 72 75 45 48 I :44 34 41 43 Exe er - Guildford 36 38 9 0 33 42 44 Newbury --, 50 80 32 50 21 84 42 52 Reading S 4 35 49 14 34 40 34 Salisbury 79 6 40 54 3.1 32 44 b 5 Shtrborne 72 78 40 44 26 3,0 42 4 6 Shepton Mallet. 64 it 38 42 26 34 48 52 Uxbridge —I —i 37 42 23 32 wsrininster —I 53 77 39 42 28 31 44 47 Winchester 64 76 -- Yeovil 63 73 36 4111 30 46 5 0 DEVIZES CORN MARKET. Per Sacg a d. dd. Per Quarter. s• • 36 0 it t Wheat . e n 0 Second • 34 II 37 6 Beans (per sack) 94 0 Third Barley 4O 0 49 ( Broad (per ga11.)... 6 ... -'' ...... ••• -.-- _ .. •••• ••• .... •••• .....• _ - ... ...- - - . . . ..- - . •••• we. v.. 110.• SHIP LETTERS.—AII masters of outward bound vessels should be made aware that, to whatever part of the world they may be going, they are bound, by the 2d and 3d Victoria, c. 52, sec. 10, to receive and convey post letter bags, if required so to do. jn case of refusal they are liable to a penalty of 200 t., to be recovered by the Post-office authorities. SERIOUS AFFRAY AT CROYDON.--On M on ' . day afternoon a very serious disturbance took place upon the fair-field at Croydon between a number of the lower classes of persons belonging to the town and the gipsies and booth-keepers. It appears that at the conclu sion of the fair it is the custom for the young men to go round and obtain beer or money from booth-keepers who have never attended the fair before, and the leader of the party carries upon his head an iron pot, such as is used to hold fire, and goes by the name of a devil ; this name being adopted by the pot-bea rer. The " devil; in the course o f his rounds, took some liberties with the goods of one of the stall keepers, and, upon his interfer ing, a fight took place between them. Reinforcements for both parties soon came up, and a desperate scuffle en sued, during which saws, hammers,stick s , th e l e gs of tab le ' severe wounds. other dangerous instrume n t s w ere f ree ly m ade use of, and some of the com b a t an t s rece i ve d very " seY wounds. A man wh o goes b y th e name of G Jack was very ac ti ve d ur i ng th e a ff ray , an d wa s obse rved to kick several of the other party i n a most b ru tal wan ner while they were lying upon the ground. At length the police made their appearance andsucceeded in captur ing Upsey Jack and five other men, who were subse quently brought before the Magistrates ; but in conic quence of the difficulty of obtaining evidence to show who were the aggressors in the first instance, ac'd also as to the identity of the persons concerned in t.:tre affray, the Magistrates dismissed them upon pe.yief their fees, the booth-keepers promising to leave town immediately. HOLY GUILD.—Our readers- are aware that there is in Bradford a benefit society of the Catholics called the Holy Guild of St. Joseptr and the Blessed Virgin. On Saturday one of the fraternity, called Michael Walsh, died, and he was laid out on a kind of bier, at his brother's house in Tyrrell's-court, habited as a Benedictine Monk—viz., a black gown and cowl, white ruffles on his wrists, and a cross on his hands. Two large candles were placed on each side, and various emblems about in the room, similar to those on the altar at mass. We may say literally that thousands have gone to see the dead man thus laid out. He was buried on Wednesday.—Halifax Guardian. THE LARGEST FOWLING-PIECE IN ENG LAND.—A few days ago Mr. Bates, the gunmaker, of Goodramgate, in this city, finished, new stocking, and otherwise repaired, one of the largest fowling-pieces in this country ; it is denominated a " punting gun," and is used on rivers and lakes for the purPce'c of shooting water-fowl. Its great size may be judg e d of when we mention that the barrel weighed 86)ffib., and measured 8 feet in length ; its calibre was 4 inch, and diameter 31 inches. The lock alone weighed 3}lb. The die m rer of the breech was 3i inches, and circumference 101. This ponderous gen required two men to convey it to the carrier I—YoPkshirernan. A BLACK B OREALIS.—The Fall River Pa - I triot of the 12th ult. has the following account of s singular phenomenon ;---" Night before last the heavens presented a very unusual appearance. It was a clea r star-I,ght, when a black column began to ascend in the south-east and north-east, directly opposite to each other. The one in the south was first supposed to be, a column of smoke, but it soon began to branch off, Sea the streamers shot off and varied their position i n the usual way, only they were black, and so dense as to obscure the stars over which they passed. They stretched away from the opposite columns, so that, about ten o'clock in the evening, they met in the er. , t• W e never before have seen or heard of a black barer.lis." A QUANTITY OF SECOND-HAWD SIL VER SPOONS and FORKS are offered ',or Sale, pri ce from 6s. 3d. to 6s. 9d. per ounce, at T. CO".( SAVOR Y'S Goldsmith, Silversmith, &c., 47, Cornh',ll (Seven Oa" from Graceehurch-street), London. SHEFFIELD PLATED WINE COOLER S A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing Silversmith; 14, Cornhill, Lo n d on ( oppos i te the ' dank of England), hav e choice in thei r warerooms a S e l ection of PLAIN and Orto MENTAL ICE PAILS, to which they wish to direct attention. The price of the Plain Tub-pail (now much in use), 81. 1 e • the pair ; the Cla ss i c V ase ( very neat), 10/. ds. the pair ; . 1 : Victoria P a tt ern , 151. t h e pa i r; the Dresden Cooler, 191. pair, &c., all of whir_ are strongly mounted with Silver, an have Silver Shields for Engraving the Crest or Coat of Arm' A pamphlet is published, with drawings of the above a" other articles of plate generally, which mayhad in be tion, free of cost.applies- B RTHS. On the 10th inst., the wife of David Burnes, Esq., Surge° l4 &c., of Vernon -place, B loomsbury -square, of a daughter. On the Bth inst., at Hanover-square, the lady of Boyd Mel" ander, EN., of a son. On the Bth inst., at the Willows, Upper Tooting, thr, wife of Colonel Strover, of a son. ARIED. On the Bth inst. at Patc M ham, R Sus ex, Th.or i as C. Rensh aw, of Lincoln's-inn, ' Esq., Barrister-at-law, 'to - Elizabeth, °n"' child of George Baker, of Patcham, Esq., ; On the Bth inst. at Longharn Church,, Mr. David Con Per, Waterloo-place, Condon, to B at Kar a A nne, secon d daughter 0 . John Hastings, Esq., Longham fall, Norfolk. Mr. Joh n On t e Bth inst , at St. P-ancras New Church, Jones J ac k son, of. Livern'dol, to Emma, late Thomas Northovethe B nk of Englan" r, sq., cashier to a only daughter o . f thie. DIED. In June last, at Bombay, William Morley, jun., Esq., Cap tain in the Hon. East India Company's Artillery. On the 3d i nst ., at Chatham, Augusta, wife of Dr. Piper, of the Provisional Battalion, aged 55. On the 4th inst., Charlotte, the wife of Mr. John Hawke,' of the Bank o. England. On the 4th inst., Leonard John Cole, Esq., late of the Edgware-road, aged 56. On the sth inst. at Stanley Hall, Shropshire, Sir Thomas John Tyrwhitt Jones, Bart., aged 46. On the sth inst., the Rev. Richard Constable, Vicar of Cowfold, Sussex, aged 83. On the 6th inst., in the Dockyard, Chatham, Mr. Williare Hardy, of the P a ymaster-General's-office, aged 56, On the 7th inst., at Harlow Vicarage, E s se x , H ar riet Frances, youngest surviving daughter of the la :e Rev. Charles Sanderson flier. On the Bth inst., Mary, the wife of Esq., of Wandswo rth, a g ed 74. Brunswick-square, On the Bth inst. , at Judd-street. John Falconer Mi st s Dani el ' youngest son of the late James .- N ''_.wton, of Doctors'..Commonss Esq., aged 22, London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, No, 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No 112, Strand, in t he county of Aliddlesex.—Friday, October 11, 1838. CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 18.—In consequence of the delay that has occurred in the arrival of the Cabi net messenger from Downing-street, Lord Ponsonby remains still without instructions, and no further steps have been made in the pending negotiations. There is some mystery attached to the non arrival of this cou rier. It appears he left London on the 26th ultimo, under which date letters were received here by the Vienna mail on the 13th inst., five days ago. Ths Tatar who brought them states that the English courier left Belgrade the day before he did ; so that, in the absence of all intelligence with respect to him, suspicions, which the very critical position of affairs would seem to coun tenance, are entertained that he may have been way laid, or otherwise foully dealt with. A council or commission, which began its sittings yesterday, has been specially appointed for the investi gation of charges of a very serious nature which have been brought against Izzat Pacha of Angora and Su leyman Paella, to whose treachery and insubordinatio n Hafiz Pacha attributes the defeat of Nezib. Mehe met Ali is said to have notified to the Consuls of the European Powers that unless some definitive arrange ment was come to before the 26th of this month, be would command his son Ibrahim to march upon Ko niah. He intimated at the same time, that it was solely from motives of deference to the Five Powers that the advance of Ibrahim had been delayed ; since the position he at present occupied had become highly unfavourable for a regular supply of provisions, and one which he had declared to be quite untenable. By the same opportunity arrived here that far-famed champion of Egypt nd Mehemet Ali, Mr. Waghorn, who, after a private interview with Lord Ponsonby, and another with the Grand Vizier, vanished as suddenly as he bad come the day after by the French steamer. Whether Mr. Waghorn Bey has really taken upon himself the solution of the question which has baffled the collective wisdom of the Five Powers, or whether he merely came to announce to Lord Ponsonby that, unless the English Government show Mehemet Ali more re spect than they have hitherto done, he will intercept our communication with India by the Red Sea, which he has openly threatened to do, are points involved in obscurity. In taking leave of Chosrow Pacha the latter kissed him very affectionately and desired bin' (the Judas!) to bear that kiss of peace to Mehemet A li, so that between these two hoary sinners Mr. VVaghora Bey will hav e a d e li g h t f u l tas k as me di ator. Oar fleet at the D ar d ane ll es i s very b a dly supplied with fre s h p rov i s i ons . Th ey have h a d to d ea l wt knavish Gr ee k s , f or w h om our pursers are no matc h at all.