The Sun. — London, England, 1839-11-06 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch of pub 'l;: business. CORONERS CHARGES AND EXPENSES OF PROSECUTIONS AT THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. Mr. ANDERTON called the attention of the Court to a return which had been made to an order of the Court of Common Council of the 4th of October, 1839, of an account of the expenses of the office of Coroner for the last nine years, by which it appeared that the Coroners' charges upon the funds of the Corporation had, in a few years, increased three times in amount as ' formerly ; as, for instance, from the 30th of July, 1830, to the 30th of July, 1831, the sum paid was only 250/. 163. ; whilst from July, 1838, to July, 1839, the sum paid was 853/.175. Bd. He did not impute any blame to ' the Coroner, nor did he mean to say that the increase of expenditure could be avoided, but he did think that it WaS a fit subject for inquiry, and for that purpose he should move that the return be referred to the Ad ministration of Justice Committee, as he should also move for a return which had been made of the amount • charged upon the funds of the Corporation paid for pro secutions, witnesses, and Counsel's fees, since the operation of the Central Criminal Court Act, which came into operation on the Ist of November, 1834, and by which it appeared that in this department also the charges were yearly increasing, and with every appearance of becoming more heavy, unless some check were put upon them.—( Hear, hear.) By the return which he then held in his hand it appeared, that in the year ending the 31st of December, 1834, the sum paid was only 6081. I3s, whilst in the year ending the 31st of December, 1837. it amounted to 1,009 L 15s. ; and in the last year, 1838, it had in creased to the large sum of 1,7841. 13s. For these rea sons he moved. " That the returns made by order of tl;e Court of Common Council of the 4th of October, 1830, of the expenses of the office of Coroner, and of the amount paid for prosecutions, witnesses, and Coun sel's fees, since the operation of the Central Criminal Court, be referred to the Administration of Justice Committee to investigate, examine, and report the causes of the increase of the expenditure which ap pears by the above returns, and whether any and what means can be adopted to reduce the future expenditure in the above departments, and to make such further re- port in the above several matters as the Committee s h a ll see fit, with power to examine any of the officers o': the Court, and such books, papers, and documents .13 may be required." After some observations from Mr. STEVENS and other members, the resolution was unanimously agreed to. BETHNAL-GREEN PROPOSED NEW CHURCHES. Mr. R. JOHNSON, Chairman of the Corn, Coal, and Finance Committee, in bringing up the report recom mend;ng a grant of 1,0001. towards the erection of the ten proposed new churches, schools, and parsonage banns in Bethnal-green, regretted that the other urgent business of the Court ha occasioned some delay. Such indeed was the favourable impression made upon the Court en the presentation of the petition by Mr. Fowell Buxton and others, that it was a doubt with him whether the Court would not at the moment have ;teceeded to its prayer. He hoped, however, that the interests of the petitioners had not suffered by the dis cussion and scrutiny the subject had undergone in Corn rntiteee. He moved that the report be then read. It was accordingly road, and it appeared that the expense of the proposed buildings and endowments had been estimated at 75,0001.—that 30,0001. had already been raised, and consequently 41,0001. was required. It appeared also that the patronage of the parish belongs t. , Brazenose College, Oxford, but an arrang emen t h a d LPen made by which the Bishop of London was to have the first presentation to the ten new churches ; and the report concluded with recommending a grant of 1,0001. in aid at the fund for new churches in Bethnal-green. Mr. R. JOHNSON having moved that the Report be agreed to, Mr. HOOLE rose to oppose the motion. He could not at all see how the members of the Corporation eould think of appropriating so large an amount of their funds to such a purpose as that of building churches. He snould have no objection to apply the funds of his constituents to charitable purposes or to the diffusion of education amongst the poorer classes, but to give 1,0001. to build churches was a proposition so monstrous that he could not for a moment think of it without sur• prise and indignation. The Church of England stood in no need of assistance from the Corporation of Lon don, and the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's and of ... Westminster upon being applied to, replied, he under stood, that the funds intrusted to them were intended for very different purposes. He considered that the City funds were in the same predicament, and he should therefore move as an amendment, that the Report should lie upon the table.---(Hear, hear.) Mr. STEVENS seconded the amendment with a great deal of pleasure. He was aware that it was the fashion to charge those who objected to the erection of addi tional churches with infidelity, but he was determined to brave this imputation. He considered that religion was a most essential blessing, but it appeared to him that_it was an essential part of religion to appropriate the funds entrusted to their care to proper and le gitimate purposes. He could not easily find a more intoroper application of the City funds than that which the Committee had just recommended. Could any thing be more preposterous than building ten new churches in the parish of Bethnal Green ? If, in deed, the sum were proposed for the furtherance of some great charity for the benefit of the poor of the neighbourhood in which it was pro posed to erect these churches, he would, for the sake of human nature, consent to the proposition, but he must reject a plan which, under the pretence of being a boon to the poor, was actually intended to afford sup port to ten clergymen, and those clergyman of a sect— for the Church of England was, after all, nothing but a sect.—(Hear, hear.) It was in the power of that Church, the dignitaries of which were rolling in their earriages, to pay for the advancement of its new interests. The present motion did not mean the relief of the poor of the extensive district of Bethnal-green, but to give affluence to ten persons, and if the Court agreed to the recommendation of the Committee, they could not con t.eientiously refuse a thousand pounds to assist in the erection of ten additional meeting-houses.—(Hear.) Mr. STACEY supported the amendment. He had asked the petitioners at the bar, when the petition was ~resented, whether the present churches were fully attended, and the reply was that one of the churches was I.,r,ge that it was quite impossible to fili it.—( Hear, h"ar.) He begged to call the attention of the Court to Cue rejection of a petition to assist in the education of the poorer classes. Now education, in his opinion, ongitt to precede the erection of additional places of v%,,rsitip ; and he would rather give 1,000/. towards the education of the poor than 1001. towards the building of churches. Besides, the Members of the Court should into ect.sideration the fact that the Corporation had ul e: , l 3 r voted 500/. in the cause of church building. Mr. Noanis stated, that being a member of the Com ir:t.eo to t.hich this petition was referred, he felt it u his duty to make the Court acquainted with a few of the facts of the case.—( Hear, hear ) It came •-ut in esidence before the Committee from the peti tio "ers themselves, that there were at present, in the district referred to, not only tenantless pew.; and un „ocapied pulpits, but that places of religious worship übstantial edifices, ready built, had been offered petitioners (the projectors of this building ;;;cu l,ltilit) for sale ; for at present it was a mere speculative project, no two stones being as y e t l a id upon the other—projected, not t o a pp ropr i ate churches' and chapels now waiting for pastors, b ut fo raise from 70,000/. to 100,0001. to build new Th e : projectors further proposed that out of the um thus raised a portion should be set apart as an en dowment for the incumbent ; the patronage necessarily helouging, with the mother church, to the college of B rase n dse, Oxford. The moral and religious benefits ones a:isi;ig from the exercise of patronage thus appertaining to 1;:ew collegiate authorities was pretty fully evidenced (Mr. Norris's)judgment in the oddities, vagaries, an:i ciiaraetcristics of the incumbent of the mother c RINI), the Rev. Joshua King.—(Great cheering.) If a benevolent effort been made in a distressed district, where an edifice or edifices were partly riiscd, the promoters were in difficulties to com plete them, and no unoccupied places of worship were near them, it might be a case for the consideration of the Court ; but when no effort had been made except that of beggie g , no building had as yet been commenced, I nor its site even chosen, and when many places of wor ship were shut up, and, as one of the petitioners stated, had been offered for a small sum, and could be readily ovu le use of, and whilst another bad become a deposi tory for Hanbury's porter, instead of books and the ' means of religious instruction, it did appear to him (Mr. Norris) a very ill-timed proposition to give 1,0001. to raise and endow new structures.—(Hear.) And the proposition became the more unwelcome when it /vas remembered that it was proposed to give away j.,0001., whilst the Court could only boast of a balance Lf4B:l. 3 s . 3d. in the hands of the Chamberlain on t h e t h of the past month.—(Hear, hear.) The question could stand over, at any rate, without prejudice, until the promoters had their object in a more forward state. Mr. RODGERS said, in allusion to the remark of the last speaker, which was to the effect that h e would Wait unti the Church had made an effort of its own, he would tell that gentleman that a grand effort had al r,ady been made by Churchmen. Ha_cl i no_t . lo,oool. 1),,) granted by the Metropolis Chur b ch .ld F ing nd add s i , t o io o n o a l i by her Majesty's Commissioners for building Churches? and 15,0001. by voluntary subscribers?— (Hear, hear.) Was this no effort on the part of the Church in f ur th erance o f the great object the Society bad ie view?—(Hear.) What the Bishop of London had to do with the Rector's vagaries, or why the Right Rev. Prelate's name should have been introduced into the dis cussion, in connexion with the name of the Rector, of whom he knew nothing, he could not divine, unless it was done with the usual motive of wounding the Church through the person of one of her brightest orna ments.—( Hear, hear.) The project had been adverted , as a s p eculat ion — speculation s were not usually un dertaken without a view to profit, and he was at a loss to discover whence the profit was to arise in the 1 present instance ; he looked upon it that the only profit to be derived, and that not a pecuniary one, was by the j dark and destitute population of the district.—(Cheers.) Another gentleman had said the existing Churches were not fully attended, as to two of those he could of ' his own knowledge contradict the assertion ; but the state of the present Churches formed no part of the question, the object of the Society being to plant Churches in those parts of the parish which presented neither Churches nor Meeting-houses ; the poor man it was well known would not travel far to Church, and if they desired to make the indigent Church-goers, they must erect places of worship at their very doors. The worthy deputy for Bishopsgate had demanded upon what pri nc ipl e , if the Report should be agreed to, could the Court reject a similar application for aid towards the erection of ten Dissenting Chapels, the property of the Corporation not being applica ble to one particular sect ! He would tell him why he should prefer the grant in question ; it was because that grant was to go in support of the Established Church—a Church which was!part and parcel of the British Constitution.—(Hear, hear.) The grant should have his best support.—(Cheers.) Deputy PEWTEESS said, that the Court were bound to give education to the poorer classes ; but they ought to take particular care that their benevolent institutions should not be applied in an improper channel. There was a time when the property in the hands of the clergy produced the most disastrous effects ; and abused as the spoliation of the Church had been, that spoliation gave rise to great benefits, for the Church had dried up all the avenues of trade and commerce. There was danger in allowing property to belong to the clergy, except upon the right principle. If he was sure that the money proposed to be voted would be applied to the legitimate object be would have no objection to the grant ; but he apprehended a different application. Mr. BOWER was for the grant. He considered that wherever the Christian religion was preached it must do incalculable good. He was for giving liberally to the poor man's Church. After some observations from Mr. Burton, Mr. Hale, Mr. Bedford, Mr. Anderton, and Mr. King, Mr. ASHURST said that there was no ground for calling the Church of Engl a nd th e p oor man ' s Ch urc h ; for sh compelled the poor man, who had not the power to support his family, to pay rates for the purpose of supporting the Establishment.—(Hear, hear.) The petition was that of a sect, and it asked not merely for money to build churches, but to support ten clergy men.—(No, no.) The ignorance of the poor in Beth nal-green was great ; and on a recent occasion 300 out of 600 of them were found not to be able to write their own names. Now, the idea of teaching religion with out first teaching the poor to understand it, was quite ridiculous.—(Cries of " Oh, oh," and " Hear, hear.") Mr. JOHNSON, in reply, stated that the fears of gen tlemen as to the state of the City's cash were ground less, for he held in his hand a statement by which it appeared, that on the 10th of January next the Cham berlain would have in his hands a balance, applicable to purposes like the present, of 10,0001. and upwards. A division then took place, when there appeared— For the amendment Against it Majority Mr. STACY then moved, as an amendment, that the sum of 5001. be voted for the erection of schools in the parish of Bethnal-green. The amendment was negatived, and the original mo tion agreed to, without a division. A Report was presented from the Coal and Corn and Finance Committee, recommending an allowance of 201. to the three surviving daughters of the late Rev. John Villette, ordinary of Newgate. Mr. HALE objected Co the grant. It was twenty years since Mr. Villette was the servant of the Corpo ration, and during that twenty years his widow had en jlyed a pension of 751. per annum. Was there never to be an end to the claim ? Mr. NORRIS said the circumstances of the case were singular ; the Rev. Gentleman had been much injured by a fall while attending upon the execution of some malefactors at Newgate. The petitioners had been brought up as governesses, and the pension was abso lutely necessary for them in order to keep them in a state of respectability. The grant had been unani mously agreed to in Committee. The Report was agreed to. Mr. ANDERTON brought up the Report of the Par liamentary Committee—"On the references respecting the Commercial London and Blackwall Railway, and for payment of the expenses incurred in the opposition thereto," which amounted to 2,460/. ;" also " On the several references respecting Bills and proceedings in Parliament in the last Session," which were agreed to. In the absence of Mr. Wire _ _ Mr. ASHURST moved—" That it be referred to the City Lands Committee to examine the state of the building appropriated to the Courts of Law in the Guildhall Yard, with power for them to give the ne cessary directions to cleanse, repaint, and repair the same where needful ; and also to inquire whether any and (if any) what improvements can be made therein, and what other accommodation can be provided for the Attorneys and Jurymen frequenting the same." Agreed to. On the motion of Mr. ANDERTON it was ordered— " That it be referred to the Library Committee to con sider and report to this Court the propriety of collecting and placing in the Library all official and autograph letters and papers from Royal, Noble, and distinguished persons belonging to the Corporation, and now in the hands of any of the officers ; and also the propriety of removing from the custody of the Chamberlain to the Library the sword presented to the Corporation by the late Lord Viscount Nelson after the battle of the Nile." Mr. LOTT moved as a standing order of the Court— " That no Member of this Court who shall be a share holder in, or agent, solicitor, valuer, or otherwise con cerned for any public company, speculation, or under taking, the formation, progress, operation, or extension of which shall be opposed by this Corporation in Par liament or elsewhere, shall be eligible to sit and vote upon any Committee of this Court to which shall be delegated the opposition, or considering the propriety of opposition, of any such measure, during the time the same shall be under the consideration of such Com mittee or Commission." Mr. WIRE suggested as an amendment to the motion that the Court deelare that the characters of the members were so frail that they could not be trusted to vote in any case, however remotely they were connected with it. Restrictive orders made by the Court were of no use, as they were generally evaded. He thought the re solution ought not to pass, but he would content him self with votinc , against it. _ _ Mr. Alclerin - an - Gißis would support the motion, for his experience of the Court taught him that there were many evils connected with the present system. The motion was agreed to. On the motion of Mr. KING, it was carried by a di vision of 40 to 2.5, " That on and after the next re appointment of the Committees of this Court, one fourth of the members of the London Bridge Ap proaches Committee do annually go out, so that the whole of the commoners of that Committee be changed once in four years, in accordance with the plan adopted by the Library Committee of this Cour.." Mr. WIRE gave notice that next Court day he would move that after the year 1840 it was inexpedient to print the sermons delivered before the Corporation by the Lord Mayor's Chaplain.—(Laughter.) The business in the Paper having been disposed of— The LOAD MAYOR said he could not retire from the Chair without expressing his grateful thanks to all the members of the Court for the liberal support which had been afforded him during his year of office. During that year their rights and privileges had been assailed--the question of a Reform in the Corporation had been much discussed, but throughout the whole of the debates upon those questions there had been no unpleasant feel ings created, neither during the year had there been aay occasion to wait for members to form a Court.—(Ap plause.) He begged to thank the members of the Court most gratefully for the kind support they had af forded him. Mr. WIRE, for himself and the Court generally, had to thank his Lordship for his kindness, and for the great freedom of debate they had enjoyed under his Lord ship's sway ; and thanking him, they had only to hope the example would be followed by his successor.— (Cheers.) The Court then adjourned. THE PRIVILEGES OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER. —The hearing of the case in which Mr. Sawyer, game keeper to her Majesty Queen Adelaide, was ch with trespassing on certain land at Hounsl ow , was gre sumed on Monday before the Magistrates at Brentford Petty Sessions. The real question at issue is, whether the right of free warren over the ground referred to appertains to her Majesty or to the Duke of Northum berland. The Magistrates dismissed the information against . the gamekeeper, and fined another party (who had pleaded guilty) in the nominal penalty of 55., it being understood that the matter would, without delay, be carried before a Superior Court. GUY FAwKEs.—Smith in his " Antiquities of Westminster," gives a very precise account of Guy Fawkes's cellar, which has not been accessible since the Houses of Parliament were burnt down. He says, " That one entrance is on the south side of the Prince's Chamber, in a small enclosed court," and de scribes the size, and continues, " that the quantity of powder to to Pi a e b e, e s provided was thirty-six barrels, that if the f orce of the powder was not sufficient to b low t h e walls the explosi on wou ld h ave f o und its way out of th e d oor without affecting the b u ilding. Fawkes hoped to escap e through th e d oorway , crosse d th e wa y down Parlia mentpassage to the wa t er , w h ere a boat was in waiting to water, him ac ross t o L am b et h, i n b hopes that t h e eing h a o n v o i n n a - c s o e n t d fi u r c e t non-conductor, o r , t h h e o t w r a o i u o l . d have escap e d the shock after c ” LOYAL LIBER ALLUB— T h mosti s c S h o e eer ie r i e i o t g y a has os commenced its operations. pices. Sir T. B. Lethbridge under. P.O has n accepted the offic e o f President, and the Hon. P. that of Vi ce - President—a Committee of active and ve influenti a l gen tlemen has been appointed, with instructions to add to their numbers.—Somerset County Gazette. MR. BRADSHAW'S SPEECH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE KENTISH TIMES. SIR-I have just read, in a hand-bill, which was issued last Saturday, Mr. Bradshaw's speech as ex tracted from the Kentish Gazette, and as a reader of your paper I feel justified in asking you whether that is a correct report of what Mr. Bradshaw said, because if it be, your own report of it, and the one which appeared in the Canterbury Journal, must have been grossly incorrect, for I find in neither of those the particular expressions and allusions which have caused so much virulent commentary in the London newspaper press. 1 think you are bound, in justice to yourself, to your readers, and to Mr. Bradshaw, to explain this matter ; to yourself and your readers, that you may not lie under the im putation of blundering inaccuracy, and to Mr Bradshaw, that he may not be made answerable for what he never uttered, if it should turn out that the Kentish Gazette's report, and not your's, is the correct one. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant and well-wisher, Nov. 3, 1839. VERITAS [The first thing we did upon receiving the above letter was to band it over to our Reporter, and we subjoin his reply :]— TO THE EDITOR OF THE KENTISH TIMES. SIR,—In reply to" Veritas," and in vmdication of myself, I am enabled to state, upon further re ference to my notes, that Mr. Bradshaw's speech as delivered at the dinner, and as given in the Kentish Gazette, is at complete variance—that Mr. Brad shaw did not deliver at the dinner, one-half of that which is imputed to him in the Gazette. and even many parts of the speech to which he did give ut terance, are put forth in a very different phraseo logy from that which he employed. How the Re porter of the Gazette could publish such a speech as being the one delivered by Mr. Bradshaw at the dinner, I am at a loss to imagine. The report which I furnished I declare to be substantially correct. I omitted those points only which had the appearance of tautology, or were capable of abridgment with a preservation of the sense. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, THE REPORTER FOR THE KENTISH TIMES AND CANTERBURY JOURNAL. Nov. 4, 1839. We have since had an opportunity of speaking with two gentlemen who were present at the dinner, and took part in the proceedings, and they both de clare that the speech in the Kentish Gazette was not the speech they heard Mr. Bradshaw deliver ; one of them adding, that the report in the Kentish Times was " substantially correct throughout, and in many parts the very words of Mr. Bradshaw." Having done all that is necessary for our own ♦in cdication, we have no desire to push the matter fur ther.—Kentish Times of Nov. 5. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1839. NATION AL EDUCATION. Five more letters on the subject of the Privy Coun cil Board of Education, and the grant it is to distri bute, four of them from Dr. Kay to the several Secre taries of the National Society, and one from Lord John Russell to the Moderator of the General Assembly, have been published. National education is not a very inviting subject for the great public at any time, and if it were there is such a thing as writing a subject to death, which seems very likely to be the case with this. Dr. Kay may be a very clever man, but he is, we are afraid, too fond of authorship. It lowers authority also to be perpetually explaining what it means, and refining about its intentions. Business, particularly the business of command, is done, as far as our experience goes, after a different fashion. Let the Privy Council make known the rules on which it will administer the grant, and abide by them, caring no more for tho chatter of the parsons than so many magpies, and being no more moved from its purpose by the querulous objections of Rev. Secretaries and Right Rev. Bishops than a General is moved to alter his in structions by the growling of his subalterns. If such letters pass between the Secretary of the Privy Coun cil and the Secretary of the National Society, who seem all at once to have become great functionaries—of more importance than the Secretary of State—if they choose to keep up a war of paper pellets, do not pub lish them, unless it be intended to make the whole ques tion of National Education ridiculous. We cannot fill our columns with Dr. Kay's letters. Lord J. Russell's letter refers to the assertion by the Commission of the General Assembly that" the powers of the Privy Council Board are undefined in their exercise, and seemingly arbitrary and irresponsible ;"and asserts that " these powers are strictly defined by the Order in Coun cil, are limited to the distribution of funds voted by Parliament, and are exercised under the same control and responsibility as any other powers exercised by her Majesty's councillors and advisers." The Commission state that, "according to a promi nent feature of the plan, the Ministers of the Established Church, and indeed all Ministers of the Gospel, are in- , terdicted from any share in the superintendence of the National Schools. " The letter says there is no such prominent feature in ;he plan. The Commission state, " that according to another feature of the plan, a separation is drawn and ordered to be kept up between religious and secular instruction ; so that the peculiar truths of the Gospel shall be excluded from the course of education in the National Schools." This, the letter says, evidently alludes to a plan at one time in contemplation, not for a system of National Schools, but for one Normal School ; and to the plan now proposed the application is totally inapplicable. I can assure the Commission," says Lord John, " that under the authority of the Committee of Privy Council no change will be effected in the Parochial and Bible School system, SJ long the boast of Scotland, and that the Committee have neither the wish, nor the power, to promote any scheme for separating religion from the knowledge and business of youth." In conclusion, let us observe that as long as Dr. Kay, Lord John Russell, and the Ministers generally, out of deference to the priesthood, adopt their slang about the deadly errors of Popery and Socinianisrn, and similar matters, they will only encourage the arrogance and cant of the most arrogant and canting set of men now in the empire. If the Ministers are to promote educa tion, let it not be, as we regret to say they appear to wish it to be—education in subserviency to the Prelates and Presbyters. For such an education we would rather curtail than augment the funds ; and if the Privy Council is to be wrangled out of its discretion by Bishops, Secretaries, and Commissions, the sooner it lays down its functions the better. FUNERAL OF THE LATE DUKE OF ARGYLL. INVERARY CASTLE, SATURDAY.—The body of the deceased Duke lay in state at Inverary Castle, on Tues day last, and on the following day was conveyed by a steamer to Rosneath Castle. where it lay in state as ma the preceding day, in the principal saloon, which was hung with black and illumined with wax flambeaux. The coffin was superbly emblazoned with armorial bea rings of the Campbell family, and richly ornamented wit h sil ver gilt furniture. On Thursday morning the tx ortal remains of his Grace were placed on board a steamer, to be conveyed to the place of interm !nt at Kilmunn. Two steamers followed, having on board a party of Highlanders, about fifty in number,, from Islay, and the family tenantry in the neighbourh, )od of Inverary. The weather was very tenapastuous. The steamers entered Holy Loch shortly before three fin the afternoon, the corpse being landed at the quay. During the landing the men in the preventive. ser vice, a t short intervals, fired sma ll cannon. Tb e fu neral procession was then formed, the coffinrincipbaleit73Ciapnrets ceded by nearly one hundred of th e p of Argyllshire, and a domestic carrying the coronet of the late Duke on a velvet cushion. The coffin im mediately followed, carried by twelve fine Highlanders in their elegant national garb, the pall being borne by the Marquis of Lorn, Marquis Breadalbanc, Earl of Char leville, Mr. Campbell, M.P., Lord Tullamore, Lord Arthur Lennox, Mr. Campbell, jun., Sir William Cumming, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, and two other gentlemen. About 30 Highlanders guarded the coffin on each side. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll, with their son and daughter, Lord and Lady Campbell, were the mourners, the funeral procession being closed by a long line of the gentry and tenantry fo: many miles around. The Duke of Argyll appeared throughout the solemn ceremony to be deeply affected. The re mains of the late Duke were deposited beside those of the late Duchess of Argyll, in the ancestral vault at Kilmunn. Letters from Parma state that the Archduchess Maria Louisa (Napoleon's widow) is dangerously ill. Bills have been affixed on several houses in Abingdon-street, including the renowned Chequers public-house, by the House of Lords, announcing that they are to be sold preparatory to their being pulled down, to make way for the new Houses of Parliament. Dr. Jerrard, Classical Examiner of the Univer sity of London, has been appointed an Examiner for the Classical Tripos at Cambridge for the year 1840. This we arc glad to observe, as a proof of right feeling on the part of Cambridge towards the new University. NATIONAL EDUCATION.--The members of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education are,. the Lord President, the Lord Privy the Chan-- cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Labouchere, Lord Mont— eagle, and Sir George Grey. COUNTY CONSTABULARY FORCE Whitehall, 1839. GENTLEMEN,—The recent Act for the appointment and establishment of County Constables having enacted, with a view to uniformity of system, that rules are to be made by one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of S'ate for the government of constables so appointed, I have the honour to transmit to you the enclosed copy of rules, made by me, for the government of the constables appointed under that Act for the county of --. In conformity with the provisions of the same Act, I have directed a copy of the rules to be sent to the Clerk of the Peace of the county. As the first step towards the establishment of a con stabulary force will be the appointment of a chief con stable (who is to be appointed by the Justices at Quarter Sessions, subject to the approval of the Secre tary of State), I request your attention to that part of the rules relating to qualifications of chief constables. I have given directions for a short summary to be drawn up, respecting the duties and powers of er,nsta bles, which may be useful for their instruction and guid ance after they have been appointed, and I will transmit a copy of this summary to the Magistrates as soon as it is completed. I have only to add, that if the Magistrates are de sirous of receiving from me any further information upon this subject, I shall be most ready to afford them all the information in my power. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, (Signed) NORMANBY. To the Justices of the Peace for the County of --. QUALIFICATIONS FOR SUPERINTENDENT AND CON STABLES.—To be under 40 years of age ; to stand five feet seven inches without shoes ; to read and write, and keep accounts ; to be fre e f rom any bodily complaint, of strong constitution, and generally intelligent. No person shall be appointed a superintendent or constable who shall be a gamekeeper, wood.ranger, bai liff, Sheriff's bailiff, or parish clerk, or who shall be a hired servant in the employment of any person, or who shall keep or have any interest in any house fo r th e sa l e of beer, wi n e, or spirituous liquors by retail ; and if any person who shall be appointed a superintendent or constable shall, at any time after such his appointment, become a gamekeeper, wood ranger, bailiff, Sheriff's bailiff, or parish clerk, or shall act in any of the said ca pacities, or shall sell or have any interest in the sale of any beer, wine, or spirituous liquors by retail, such per son shall thereupon become and be incapable of acting as such superintendent or constable, and shall forfeit his appointment of superintendent or constable, and also all salary payable to him as a superintendent or constable. The annexed certificate of character is to be signed by one or more respectable persons who have had per sonal knowledge of the candidate during the last five years at least, either singly or collectively. Rules made by the Marquis of Normanby, one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, for establish- in g an uniform system for the Government, pad clothing, accoutrements, and necessaries of Constables appointed under the Act 2 and 3 Vict. cap. 93. CHIEF CONSTABLE. QUALIFICATIONS OF CHIEFCONSTAISLE.-1. His age must not exceed forty-five. 2. He must be certified by a medical practitioner to be in good health, and of sound constitution, and fitted to perform the duties of the office. 3. He must not have been a bankrupt, nor have taken the benefit of the Insolvent Act. 4. He must be recommended to the Secretary of State by the Magistrates in whom the appointment is vested, as a person of general good character and con duct. If he has been previously employed in any branch of the public service, civil or military, he must produce testimonials, from the proper authorities in such service, as to general conduct whilst so employed. SUPERINTENDENT. QVALIFICATIONS OF SUPERINTENDEN T.--41e must be qualified according to form A. In case of a vacancy in the office of superintendent, it should be filled up by the most deserving constable. CONSTABLES. QUALIFICATION of CONSTABLES.—No person shall be eligible who does not produce a testimonial, accord ing to form B. annexed hereto, duly filled up, and who is not possessed of the qualifications stated in the form A. The chief constable is to keep a daily account, according to form C, which is to be laid before the justices of the county at each quarter sessions of the peace, or any adjournment thereof, showing the actual state of the constabulary for the period since the last preceding quarter sessions of the peace for the county. And once in every three months, as soon as may be practicable after the termination of the quarter ses sions of the peace in each county, the chief constable shall transmit a report in writing to one of her Ma jesty's principal Secretaries of State, that such daily account has been laid before the justices for the county in quarter sessions assembled ; together with a copy of any note or minute, which may have been made by any of the said justices upon the same, expressing their opinion with regard to the effective state of the con stabulary during the three months. PAY. The pay of the chief constable is to be not less than 2501. or more than 5001. a year. Of a superintendent not less than 751. or more than 150/. a‘year. Of a con stable not less than 15s. or more than 1/. J. a week. The above rates are intended to be exclusive of any allowance under the eighteenth section of the Act. The constable is to be supplied in addition with the following articles of— CLOTHING.-Ist year —one great coat, cape to ditto, badge to ditto, coat, badge to ditto, two pair of trowsers, one pair of boots, one pair of shoes, hat, stock. 2d year—one coat, badge to ditto, one pair of trowsers, one pair of boots, one pair of shoes, hat. The supply for the third year will be the same as for the first year, and for the fourth the same as the second ; and so on for successive periods. ACCOUTREMENTS. A constable's staff is to be supplied to each consta ble, and a small cutlass may be supplied to any constable who is so situated, that in the opinion of two Justices of the county it i 3 necessary for his personal protection in the performance of his duty. The cutlass is to be worn at night only, or at times when rioting or serious pub lic disturbance has actually taken place, or is appre hended, or upon any sudden emergency when orders have been given by the chief unstable that one or more of the constables should be so armed ; and the chief con stable shall on each occasion of giving any such order report the same, and the reason for such order, to any two justices of the peace for the county as soon after wards as is practicable, who shall immediately transmit the said report to the Secretary of State. GOVERNMENT. The chief constable is from tine to time to frame such order as he shall deem expedient relative to the parti cular service of the superintendent and the constables, their distribution, and the places of their residence, and all such other orders as he may deem expedient for preventing neglect or abuse, and for rendering such civil force efficient in the discharge of all its duties, and he will keep in mind that the prevention of crime is to be made the great object of all the exertions of the constables. The chief constable must lay before the justices for the county assembled in the next quarter sessions, or any adjournment thereof, a statement of all orders issued by him ; and a copy of the same is to be transmitted by him to one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, as soon after the issuing thereof as may be prac ticable. COMPLAINTS. In case of a complaint against the chief constable, the party complaining should give immediate notice to a justice of the peace, who will proceed thereon according to law, if the offence be cognizable by him ; and if the subject of complaint do not constitute any offence legally cognizable by him, the said justice will lay a statement thereof before the justices of the county at the next quarter sessions of the peace, or anyadjournment thereof, and the justices will inquire into the same, and report the result of such inquiry and their opinion thereon as speedily as possible to one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State. Immediate attention is to be paid to any com plaint of misconduct against the superintendent or any constable appointed under the said Act. If the charge be for neglect or violation of duty in his office as constable, it shall be laid before two jus tices with the least delay possible, for their proceeding thereon under the 12th section of the said Act ; and in case of any other offence committed by such constable, notice thereof shall be immediately giv'en to a justice of the peace, who will proceed thereon according to law. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS. Parties in custody are to be taken before a magistrate as soon as possible, and the nature of the offence, with other particulars, entered in a charge sheet, form D. The charge sheet is to be laid before the magistrate by whom the charge is to be heard, and when all the cases entered therein have been disposed of by the magistrate, the charge sheet is to be sent to the chief constable, or kept safely by one of the superintendents or constables as he shall direct ; and all such charge sheets are to be returned by the chief constable once in every three months to the clerk of the peace for the county, who is to keep them in his custody until he shall have received the directio ns of the justices o f t h e peace for the county , assembled I at any quarter session, as to the final disposal thereof. If a charge against a party be not taken by the constable, an entry is to be made by him in form E , and the particulars filled up under each head and transmitted to the chief constable, who will lay before the justices of the peace for the county, assembled at the next quarter sessions of the peace, an abstract from the forms D. and E., stating the entire number of persons charged with offences as appears thereby, the nature of the charges and the results, with any other particulars that may tend to show the state of crime in the county. The chief constable will also make an immediate re port to two justices of the peace of any serious dis turbance of the public peace that has taken place or is apprehended, and of any crimes of an aggravated nature committed, and for which the parties charged or suspected have not been apprehended ; and he will immediately transmit duplicates of such information to the Secretary of State for tho Home Department, so as to insure the earliest communication to the proper authorities of any matter affecting the public peace, in order that further arrangements, if required, may be made without delay. IMPORTANT RAILWAY MEETING AT BODMIN. On Tuesday a meeting of the county of Cornwall I teas held at the County Hall, Bodmin, to take into consideration the expediency of applying to Parliament for the purpose of obtaining a railway through the county of Cornwall ; and to consider the measures proper to be taken for that object. The meeting was not only the most numerous, but also the most in fluential and respectable which has been held in the coui.ty for many years. The speakers were calm and dispassionate, and looked upon the undertaking which they proposed to accomplish as a necessity, as a thing no longer to be delayed without injury to the interests of the county, and all those connected with it. Among those present were the Earl of Falmouth, Lord Bosca wen, Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart., M.P., the Master General of the Ordnance ; Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., M.P., E. W. W. Pendarves, Esq., M.P., Sir R. M. Rolfe, M.P., the Solicitor-General, J. W. Freshfleid, Esq., M.P., J. Ennis Vivian, Esq., M.P., Edmund Turner, Esq., M.P., Honourable George Fortescue ; Revd•. Dr. Rodd, T. Grylis, C. T. Kempe, N. Ken dall, F. Webber, J. 'Wallis, and E. Rimell ; and J. H. Tremayne, G. W. F. Gregor, R. Johns, H. Willyams, J. Paynter, J. T. Treffry, F. Rogers, N. Kendall, C. Carlyon, M.D., Francis Rodd, A. H. Arundel', W. Hext, C. J. W. Ellis, J. Yates (London), C Dean (Exeter), T. Collins (Under Sheriff), J. Ellis ( Mayor of Falmouth), W. Corfield (Mayor of Penryn), Cooke (Mayor of Launceston), J. P. Peters, T. Perse, F. Pender, W. Paul, jun., W. M• Tweedy, A. Thomson, A. Fox, W. Carne, R. Taylor, J. Cornish, R. R. Broad, J. Bull, Berkeley Fox, W. H. Bond, W. Glasson, J. Symons, J. Pollard, Esqrs. Time High Sheriff of the county, D. P. Hoblyn, Esq., presided on the occasion, who, after the Under-Sheriff had read the requisition, called upon the Earl of Fal mouth, as one of the requisitionists, to proceed with the business of the day. The Earl of FALMOUTH said he had paid great at tention to the subject of railways for some years past, and had done so the more because he had foreseen the probability of exertions being made in this county to carry out a railway in continuation of that to Exeter, and in so doing, considered he had done no more than his duty as a county man.—(Cheers.) The result of his study of the subject was a conviction of the prac ticability of forming a railway between Exeter and Falmouth.—( Hear, hear.) The Noble Earl said he did not come to this meeting with any speculating mania, properly so called; but while he said that, he could not but remark that the time had arrived when the county should take care that the application of steam to railways and navigation do not supersede those na tural advantages which the port of Falmouth possesses The question was not now what the effect of railways might be on the happiness of mankind ; nor were they to consider the complaint of the citizens of London that they could not keep their wives and daughters at home, on account of the delights of the London and Green wich Railway.—(Laughter.) The fact was that man kind would have railways. Nothing is too fast—too rapid for them ; and if they (the people of Cornwall) did not place themselves on an equality with the rest of the nation, they would inflict an irremediable evil on Cornwall and Cornish interests.—(Cheers.) His Lordship concluded by moving a resolution to the effect, that as the nautical superiority of Falmouth as a packet station had been admitted and declared on several occasions, it is expedient to promote the pro gress and completion of a railway communication be tween London and the west of Cornwall. Sir C. LEMON, Bart., M.P., seconded the resolution, and adverted to the many great advantages which would result from the projected undertaking, if carried into effect. Many of the advantages were incalculable ; but there was one which ought to be reduced to a cal culation. In his evidence before the House of Com mons; Mr, Alfred Fox had stated, that in the year 1836—a year not of extraordinary activity—his house alone had dispatched to London eighty-one expresses, the average expense of which was 261. He mentioned that Mr. Broad had sent mole, and that the Go vernment, besides others, had sent at least 100 ex presses yearly. Those, at 261. each, would cost the Government 2,6001. alone. If a railroad could be achieved, supposing the sending the sending of these ex presses amounted to one-fourth of the expense incurred heretofore, there would be a saving to the Messrs. Fox of about 1,5001. a-year. Now that 1,5001. a-year re presents a capital of 30,000/. Whether Mr. Alfred Fox meant to subscribe the whole of that sum, or only a part of it, he could not tell.—(Laughter and cheers.) But it was of the highest importance to the merchants of Falmouth that great exertions should be made. The advantage to the landed interest would also be very great. The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. Mr. Pendarves, M.P., Mr. Freshfield, M.P., Lord Boscawen, Mr. Poynter, Sir R. M. Rolfe, M.P., Mr. Turner, M.P., Mr. J. H. Tremayne, and others, ad dressed the meeting, and severally proposed resolutions in furtherance of the proposed undertaking, all of which were put and carried unanimously. ENGLAND AND GREECE. (From the Morning Herald.) Not having observed any allusion in the English papers, or any foreign journal, except the Augsburg Gazelle, to the present state of relations between Eng land and Greece, I think it right that it should be known, as generally as possible, that Greece has refused to give the satisfaction demanded by the British Go vernment for the atrocious wrongs and insults inflicted upon British subjects by Greek functionaries. Five months have this day passed since King Otho addressed a circular to the Cabinets of Europe, which concludes in the following manner : " Notwithstanding the state of facts set forth in the above exposition, and notwithstanding the explanations given to Mr. Lyons up to the 22d of March, upon all the various affairs respecting which he had thought proper to make remonstrances, this minister, never theless, has finally addressed to the department of foreign affairs a note in form of ULTIMATUM, dated 12th April, 1839. He received, on the 22d and 27th of April, an explicit and definitive answer on the part of the Greek Government, relative to the demands of England for the immediate arid direct payment of the interest and sink ing fund of the loan guaranteed for Greece by the three powirs, • 'and as to the demands of the British Cabinet on the subject of lonian affairs, the definitive answer which the Greek Government has thought proper to give to Monsieur Lyons, bears date the 10th of May." From that time to this hour the might of England has been defied by this contemptible State, and her just demands treated with insolent refusal. Europe is in formed in a State paper, which for wilful perversion of truth is without parallel or example, that the demands of the British Cabinet have been definitively rejected by the Greek Government. How much longer is this in dignity to be patiently endured ? Will Englishmen look on tamely while their countrymen pine to death in loathsome dungeons, to which, in violation of all law and justice, they have been consigned at the capricious will of some upstart functionary, who hopes to gain favour with his superiors by heap ing wrong upon British subjects? And will Englishmen submit to see the demands of their Sovereign for redress scornfully rejected P Gratitude it is hopeless to expect from the despicable Government which England has helped to impose upon this miserable country, a Go vernment which has violated every pledge given in its name to the Greek nation by the Allied Powers, and every engagement which it contracted with themselves —a Government impotent for all but evil--dead to all sense of shame—making a jest of public faith, the sacredness of treaties, and the rights of humanity. But if it is impossible to hope that such a Go vernment can be induced by arguments and friendly representations to act according to the principles which regulate the conduct of civilised societies, it must be taught by a severer mode that it cannot be permitted to violate these principles with impunity ; it must be made to feel, that the power which was chiefly instrumental in calling it into existence, can annihilate it with equal facility, if it be found to have produced evil instead of good, and therefore not to have answered the purpose of its creation. It is true that a kind and generous nature will leave the meanest creature undis turbed to exercise the functions and indulge the pro pensities natural to its state ; but when such reptiles become offensive, there is but one way of dealing with them—they must be crushed. Athens, Oct. 10, 1839. The consequences of the derangement of the paper bubble are, that, at this moment, and for more than two weeks past, from 500 to 1,000 weavers are out. of employment in Paisley. Those who are obtain ing employment are getting only inferior work, and the accounts from every merchant are of so gloomy a na ture, as to give no other prospect but of that state of things going on for a time to come, still making worse.— Paisley Reformer. LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.—O n Mondayafter noon an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, at the Steelyard Coffee-house, Upper Thames -street, touching the death of Israel Dawson, aged 33, whose body was picked up in the Thames. It appeared that the de ceased had been many years clerk to Mr. Rhodes, soli citor, at Rochdale, Lancashire, and on Thursday had come to London to manage some business affairs. On Friday and on Saturday, up to one o'clock in the after noon, he was under examination at the Exchequer Court, after which he went to view the Tower, and at half-past twelve o'clock at night his body was found alongside a barge off S tee l yard Whar f . O n his person were found five sovereigns and ten shillings. He had no doubt got into th e water f rom acc id en t. Verdict— " Pound drowned." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CLYDESDALE COURSING CLUB. AUTUMN MEETING, OCT. 31, AND Nov. 1, 1839. Cup, 2 Sovs. each for Puppies. Lord Eglinton's Glencoe beat Mr. H. Maxwell's Mulberry Mr. A. Graham's Caledonia beat Marquis of Douglas's Croll Lord Eglinton's Waterloo beat Mr. A. Graham's Cur. Non Mr. A. Graham's My Ain Thing beat Lord Douglas's Ilero Mr. A. Graham's Glenkilloch beat Lord Douglas's Hawthorn Mr. A. Graham's Castlehill beat Marq. of Douglas's Coxswain Mr. H. Maxwell's Moustache beat Ld Eglinton's Dreadnought Lord Eglinton's Fingal a bye. Glencoe beat Caledonia—Waterloo beat My Ain Thing—Mous tache beat Gleukilloch—Castlehill beat Fingal. Moustache beat Glencoe—Waterloo beat Castlehill. Lord Eglinton's w. and r. d. Waterloo beat Mr. H. Maxwell's bd. roughed Moustache, and won the Cup. Champion Collar 5 soya. each, for dogs of all ages. Marquis of i)ouglas's Dover, beat Mr. A. Graham's Cowboy Mr. H. Maxwell's Mountain-dew, beat Mr, Carnie's Cora Marquis of Douglas's Draffan, beat Lord Eglinton's Moses Mountain-dew beat Driver. Draffan a bye Mr. A. Maxwell's bd d Mountain-dew beat Marquis of Doug las's bk and w d Draffan, and won the collar. Cadzow Stakes, I soy, each, for Puppies. Lord Eglinton's Moonlight, beat Mr. A. Graham's Forester Mr. A. Graham's Silverlock, beat Mr. H. Maxwell's May-be -not Marquis of Douglas's Chouringo, beat Lord Douglas'■ Annan. Mr. Carnie's Cringet, beat Lord Eglinton's Bessy Bell. Mr. A. Graham's Cacciatore, beat Mr. H. Maxwell's Midnight Marquis of Douglas's Dino, beat Mr. A. Graham's Scarecrow Lord Eglinton's Maggy Lauder, beat Mr. Carnie's Comet Mr. H. Maxwell's Melicent, beat Lord Eglinton's Risk Mr. H. Maxwell's Mirza, beat Lord Douglas's Beatock. Lord Douglas's Edward a bye. Silverlock beat Moonlight— Chouringo beat Cringet—Cacciatore beat Dino—Melicent beat Maggy Lauder—Mirza beat Edward —Silverlock beat Chouringo—Cacciatore beat Melicent Mirza a bye. Mirza beat Silverlock, Cacciatore a bye. Mr. H. Maxwell's bd L Mirza beat Mr. A. Graham's w and od d Cacciatore, and won the stakes. East Kilbride Stakes, 2 sovs each, for Dogs of all Ages. Lord Eglinton's Skylark beat Mr. Carnie's Countess Martinis of Douglas's Clyde beat Lord Eglinton's Indiana Lord Douglas's Kent beat Marquis of Douglas's Cashier Lord Douglas's Mastic beat Mr. A. Graham's Stewartfield. Kent beat Skylark—Clyde beat Mastic Marquis of Douglas' bd b Clyde beat Lord Douglas's bk d Kent, and won the Stakes. Hamilton Stakes, one soy. each, for Dogs of all Ages. Mr. H. Maxwell's Mignionette beat Lord Douglas's Knight Lord Eglinton's Swan beat Mr. Downie's Othello Mr. Maxwell's Mullandhu beat Marquis of Douglas's Dewdrop Marquis of Douglas's Doctor beat Lord Eglinton's Stargazer Mr. Downie's Myrtle beat Lord Eglinton's Deluge. Lord Douglas's Squeezer beat Mr. A. Graham's Judy Marquis of Douglas's Comedian (late Blueman) a bye Mignionette beat Swan—Doctor beat Mullandhu—Comedian beat Myrtle—Squeezer a bye Doctor beat Mignionette—Squeezer beat Comedian Marquis of Donglas's w d Doctor beat Lord Douglas's bk d Squeezer, and won the Stakes. Clyde Stakes, one soy each, !or dogs that never won a public prize. Mr. A. Graham's My Lord beat Marquis of Douglas's Hawk Mr. Downie's Major beat Mr. A. Graham's Jenny Mr. A. Graham's bk d My Lord beat Mr. Downie's bk an, w d Major, and won the Stakes. The Marquis of Douglas, and John Graham, Esq. of Craig allan, Stewards; Mr. Nightingale, Tryer ; Dugald M!Cal him, Secretary. FICTITIOUS ABSENCE. The lady who writes under the nom de guerre o " Viscount Charles de Launay," thus describes a fashionable failing which is not confined to the capital of France : "We have, now, according to the expression of a witty and most amiable woman, the ridicules d'ete. They are of more than one descrption. but the most ludicrous is surely the one which we shall call /a fausse absence. At this time of the year custom will have us take ourselves off ; some go to their estates, others to the waters, and a few undertake long journeys. The elegans who respect themselves cannot remain at Paris, on pain of passing for grocers or journalists, for ministers or door-keepers. The capital must be left at any cost. Now, to go to one's estate, one must have an estate, and to travel in proper style a good deal of ready money is requisite. What is to be done when one has neither farms nor cash ? In such case you cannot take to the fields, but at all events you can take leave. Elegance does not require your being at Bagneres or Baden ; it requires only that you be not at Paris, and the means not to be there is not to be seen it you remain. Nothing is easier ; you close your shutters, and your doorkeeper declares that you are gone. You shut yourself up the whole day, with your lady, in some little solitary room at the further end of the court. There you remain three months, during which you travel. You write to nobody, and your friends complain of you. " They are amusing themselves," say they ; " they forget us ; it is quite natural." When midnight strikes you tender your arm to your travelling companion, and steal out to take a short walk. One day you are at. Dieppe inhaling the sea breezes ; on the morrow you are at Chamouny, enjoying the mountain air. If you chance to meet a relation in the street you avert your head with horror. Vainly does be recognise you and attempt to address you ; you make no reply, and continue out of town. If he insist, you announce to him your return in next month ; and next month you appear again in the capital, ra ther fatigued by your journey, but delighted, crammed with picturesque recollections, and not at all sun-burnt. You may possibly not have been extremely amused, but, at least, you have remained irreproachable on the score of elegance ; and you may loudly say to those whom buiness or affections have miserably fastened to this city—' How can one spend a summer at Paris !' Fictitious absence is not a plai.santerie : it is much more—a verite plaisante." MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (Front the London Nets Price Current of November 5.) SUCIAL-For British Plantation Sugar during the past week the demand was brisk from both grocers and refiners for the yellow and strong grey qualities, and the supply not being large, the merchants obtained an advance on pre vious rates of Is per cwt. This afternoon there was a brisk demand from the grocers for brown, as well as for yellow qualities, the refiners pur chased to a fair extent, and the merchants obtained an advance on the rates of Friday of 6d per cwt. for all de scriptions; the private sales amount to 1,000 hhds. and trs. At auction 113 hhds. Barbadoes sold freely at prices 6d above those of the last auction ; fine fetched 68s to 68s 6d, good 67s to 67a 6d, gcod middling 66s to 66s 6d, middling 65s to 65s 6d, and one lot ordinary 63s per cwt. REFINED.-For home consumption last week a fair business was transacted in Refined Goods, and prices slightly improved ' • standard Lumps were sold curren tl y at 77s 6d to 78s, and brown lumps at 75s 6d to 76s 6d per cwt. B istards of fair and good quality at stiffer prices, but com mon at late quotations. Pieces on former terms. Yesterday Lumps, Pieces, and Bastards at previous rates. For Crushed for immediate delivery 34s 3d to 343 61 has been freely paid, there are not tut ther sellers under 34a 6d, some parcels of Loaves have been disposed of at 37s 6d to 38, for 141bs, and 101bs at 38a 6d to 39s per cwt. Treacle has fetched I3s 63, and 13s 3d has been paid for delivery in a few weeks. Dutch Crushed Sugar is offered at 33s 3d to 334 6d, deliverable at Amsterdam. To-day Bonded Crushed was much wanted, but for im mediate delivery there is none to be had, 343 3d to 34s 6,1 is readily paid to wait two and three weeks. Fur home consumption goods are in fair request at our quotations. aurtyrius.-A fair business has been transacted by private contract in yellow and strong grey qualities, and rather higher prices have been obtained; brown and soft yellow sorts have been taken more freely, but no advance can be quoted. EAST INDIA..-For there are few buyers for export, but for Refining here under bond, a fair demand has prevailed, and previous rates have been supported Siam, good white sorts have brought rather higher rates. This afternoon there was no auction of Bengal ; pri vately there were several inquiries for calory kinds, but there are few parcels to be met with. Of Java, 673 baskets were offered at auction ; the whole was taken in at previous rates, viz., middling brown at 22s to 22s 6d, and middling grey at 23a to 24s per cwt. Fox:slam-Brazil at previous rates, Bahia low and mid dling greyish white at 25s to 26s 6d, very ordinary and middling soft 22s 6d to 24s 6d, soft yellow and grey 21s aid to 225, good middling and good brown 19a to 218; Pernambuco middling and good middling white 25s to 275, soft 24s to 243 6d, good and fine soft yellow 20a 6d to 22a ; by private treaty 150 chests have been disposed of at 283 for good white, and 24s 6d for middling. This afternoon there was more inclination to buy yellow Havannah Sugar; and 2,199 boxes at auction were nearly all disposed of, the better kinds at previous rates ; common sorts went, in some instances rather lower, but this was not generally the case, fine fetched 27s to 27s 6d, good 26s to 26s 6d, good middling 25s to 25s Gd, middling 24s to 24s 6d, and ordinary 23s to 23s tiel per cwt; 96 boxes damaged white sold at the reduced rates of 291 6d to 30e per cwt. Monasstrs.-West India at previous rates ; fuse Antigua at 3:35, good 325; Nevis, common 295; Montserrat, good fair 30s; St. Vincents and Dominica of similar quality 30a, and common at 29s per cwt. TEA.--At the monthly sales of 4,497,188 lbs, which corns menced yesterday, the attendance of buyers was numerous, out of 15,000 pkgs which passed the sale 10,000 were taken in and withdrawn at much higher rates; the remainder feund free buyers at prices 2d above those of the Oc tober sales for Congou, 2fel to 3d for Twankay, 2d to 24d for Hyson, 3d to 4d for Imperial and Gunpowder, and lid to 2d for all other kinds, excepting Pekoe, which have not advanced. Congou but mid rather coarse little new sold at Is 11id, but mid rather strong and coarse 2s to 2s Id, but mid rather blackish leaftas lid to 2s 2-d, strong blackish leaf 2s 3d to 23 41d, Pekoe flavour 21 iid a 21 6d ; Hyson middling rather old 3s 31d, middling rather brightish leaf 3s Id a 3s 21d, but middling rather fresh 23 1 lid a 2s 1 I id, but middling and middling rather coarse 2a Bid a 2s 10d, coarse yellow leaf 23 8d a 2s 84c1; Twan kay but mid rather fresh brightish leaf 2s 2icl, middling small brightish leaf Ilyson kind 2s 9 1 d a 2a lld ; Flowery Pekoe good mid 2s 11d a 2s Hid, fine 3s 10d; Orange Pekoe good mid 3 s a 3B 3cl; Souchong mid m i xe d leaf 2s. 2d a 2s 21d, mid 2s 8d a 2s 10d, fine as 4d ; Im perial but mid and mid 3s 3d a 3s 4id, mid coarse 3s Id ; Gunpowder but raid little coarse 3s 10d to 3s Ilid •' good Skin mid 2 raid 4s 4d ; s C - 2 aper but mid is 1;1d to is IQ-d, and Hyson d. To-day higher prices by Id ald were obtained. Up to the present time 30,565 packages have passed the sal es , o f which 12,000 h ave been disposed of, and the remainder bought in and withdrawn ; the lowest price at the close of the sale was 2s for Congou, 2s 21e1 for Twankay, and 2s 8d for Hyson ; these sorts are the most in request. In Company's Congou large purchases have been made at 2s Old for cash, and 2s ISai with a three months' prompt. COFFEE.-I n the British Plantation Market there has not been much activity since our last report ; unclean EVENING EDITION. qualities have again met with a slow sale at rather lower rates, low ord and fine mid elf:en sorts Itavr.. geld slowly, a:id e',s'er prices hav,.. beta; accepted, but mid and fine ord descriptions have been in steady request at previous rates. and the general opinion is, that ere long the demand will increase fur these sorts, and prices will improve. This afternoon the trade b oug h t caut i ous ly by private contract, but in prices no variation has occurred ; only 20 casks 15 bags B. P. were offered at auction, and nearly all taken in at previous rates, viz. middling coloury Ber.- bice at 112 s per cal, it was imported in a sugar ship. Prt• vately there was some inquiry for g oo d or di n ary Ceylon at 101 s 6d to 1023, fair Mocha at 106 s, and for export at 1041 r cwt. SPICES.—This afternoon the auctions consisted of 108 bags Bourbon Clove's, 1,117 bags Malabar Pepper, 69 9 b.igs Malabar Ginger, and 15 casks Nutmegs; the Cloves were taken in at Is ; the Malabar Pepper was only partly sold at 3id to 4d for half heavy, which is rather lower; the Ginger went at 10s to lls 6d for very ord wormy and mixed, and the Nutmegs taken in at 4s 2d per lb. Rica—ln Bengal prices remain firm, good white has sold at 14s to 14s 61, and middling 13s 6d to 13s 93 per cwt. Java and other kinds have been in steady request. Madacasgar, ordinary mixed fetched 108 to lls per cwt. Carolina commands late rates. Ruu, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The transactions in Jamaica, as well as in Leeward Island Rum have been ex tensive since our last report; of the former 500 puns have been disposed of, common qualities at previous rates, the better kinds at a slight advance, 26 to 28 per ce nt ' over proof have brought 5s 3d to Ess 4d, 29 to 31 over to 5s 74, 34 to 36 over 5s 8d to 5s 9d, favourite marks 6. to 68 4d; of the latter 460 puns have been sold at ld advance on previous rates, proofs to 3 per cent over proof have fetched 3s 4d a 3s 4f d, 5 to 8 over 3s 5d a3s B a , 10 to 12 over 3s 9d a 3s 10d, 15 to 18 over 3s 11d a 42 Id, 20 to 25 over 4s 3d a 4s 6d, 26 to 28 over 4s Sd a 4s 10d, 30 to 33 over 5s a 5s 2d, 34 to 38 over Ss 3d s 5s 6d. At auction 49 p uns vatted Manilla sold at 23 3 d a 2s 31c1 for 10 per cent and two degrees over proof ; the flavour was indifferent. In Brandy there has not been much doing, but prices remain firm. Geneva maintains last Tuesday's rates, For British Cora Spirits there has been an increased sale. Oar..—Pale Seal Oil at 321 10s to 331 per tun. South ern at at 261 to 28/ 10 3 p er t un . C o d Oil at t h e quo tation!. Sperm has comm an d e d a d vance d rates. Li nsee d Oil 233 6d to 23s 9d. Rape has declined Is per cwt. pa lm s of good quality 3s s . E ast I n di a Cocoa Nut, f i ne , is per cwt. This afternoon 100 tuns Southern at public sale were partly disposed of at 241 10s. to 271 103 for mid to Da' quality. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. of first quality has sold currently d at 48s 3i to 48s 6d per cwt. F or de li very up to the end of the year p r i ces h ave ra lli e d to 47s 6d to 47s 9d• rot the Spring months 48s to 48s 3d is asked. This afternoon the operations on the spot as well all fo r delivery up t o t h e en d o f the year were to a fair extent , and the price on 'Change was 48s 3d a 48s 6d for the former , and 47s 9d for the latter purpose. IRISH MARKETS. DUBLIN MARKET NOTE for the WEEK .nding NOV. i From 3L 0 ..... 0 15 0 13 0 To 41 0 I 22 0 16 0 A vet see 36 I I •••• fl 15 10 - 0 5,650 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 0 Bere l6 stone 72.5 Barley 2,368 Oats l4 stone 0 Flour, per cwt..., 8 stone 893 Oatmeal S stone Sold to Bakers only. 6,281 Cwt. Flour 1 25 0 I 280! 26 4 Average price *f Wheat and Flour 6.55. 4,1. per sack. , from 275. od. to 906.w"' Receipts of Flour, 11,743 Firsts S ond from 1 , ,s Od. to VS , * An " Sales of Do. 18,003 Thirds - from 10s.. Od. to 12s- .••• PRICE OF BREAD. Quartern Loaf INd. I Half Quartern SV. CORK MARKETS.—Nov. 2, 41 Wheat (per (.:()c.t.1166 0.1. $ to t's. OA. Oats (per 14st.) ... Is. OA. to 14, 4 u Barley (per lest.) 0 22 0 'Flour (per cwt )...i6 0 ' 0 Oatmeal (per cwt.) 12s. 0.1. to 10-, ed. Beef, 4d. to 7d.—Mutton, sd. to 6d.—Vest, 4d, to 6d. Pork, 41d. to 51—Fresh Butter, 10d. to lid, per lb. PRICE OF Burma. To the Merchants. To the Count"- First Quality 70 0 s gls. Second 65 ^ll 1 hird Fourth 74 Fifth 6B 59 Sixth CLON BELL MA RKETS.—Nov. 2. Per Cwt, , t i. v. d. s. d. s . d. -• 0 New Butter BB oto 80 0 Hid es (raw) 6 0 00 to 3. . . 2_ .4 : 0 : Oatmeal 12 0 12 3 Ba con Pi gs Rendered Lard 0 52 0 H ea d s Per Bag. Flour, Second 044 0 I Fl our , Thi r d 5... .....-2838— --Household.-- 0 42 01— Fourths_.....22 V •••• Per Barrel. - 0 I Barley 13 0 1 4 0 10 0 Coals ....... ............. 0 .-- 0 15 0 17 I Rapeseed 20 0 Here S 4 KILKENNY MARKETS. Wheat s perbarrel)3os. Od.to 375. Od. Beef (per 1b...;-- 05. Od. to eq. 613 ' Barley 20 0 22 0 Mutton 0 5 0 6 Oats 12 6 14 6 Pork Flour (per bag)....30 0 40 0 Veal OII 0 7 Butter(perewt.)...9o 0 98 0 Fresh Butter 0 0 1 0 Bacon Pigs 35 0 36 0 Salt Ditto Coals 1 0 1 2 Pot a t oes ( per st. ) 0 2 0 - MARKETS. AIN. Barley, Mecklenburgh 9 221 t° ------ tf l o a l g s d te e i b n u Oats, Elder r7 2.- 1 19604 -- Summer .....•• •••• 11 i t too : 1351 ...,.. 94 - Mecklenburg " liO to 1 " - Holstein 1 1 , p - ease, Ez e t cu Fr e i n e b , l u a r n g i.:: 2 - 234 : 3 5 11,51 to ;3611 Beans Buck Wheat tO Rapeseed, Hanover , Malt Tares ON. leo to 2.1 to -- Maranham Madras 5% 4 4 Surats 5 . s?i Domingo .. .. ......... T E. Domingo La 6 ual ra b4 114 Putto Rice sf4 6 S HaTannah 8 6S 1 8% Discount.) Bahia, White 6 to Ili Brown 54 a Pernambuco, White 6 l u Brown 43‘ ',' rill, 54 to SN. HAMBUR GR. Wheat, Marks 420 to 450 - Magdeburg Anhalt, white 420 to 480 -- red - Bruns Rick 414 to 45t5 - Mecklenburg 4(O to 464 - Polish 4OB to 400 - Holstein Rye, Mecklenburg - Dantzic .... . - Elbing and Ko nigsburg 216 t• 26: -- Upland - Riga 2lO to 249 cor'. Carolina and Tennessee 7% to 9% Georgia. Ist sort 9 9% 8 3d and 4th 6% _7% cc* Mocha 9 to 11% Batavia Su:natra — Rio 4% S 4 Bahia SUGAR.— (Wit Fravannah, White Cito Brown s;.e 5 354 Rio, White ti Brown Manilla, Bros Sir Henry and Lady Emily Hardinge are now at Penshurst, Kent, superintending the improvements in progress on their newly-purchased estate. THOUGHTS ON A NEW YEAR'S DAY.—HOW painful is it to reflect on the breaches which the de r parted year has made in the friendly, if not in the family circle He must have a limited number of friends, indeed, who can say he has lost none of them during the year which has followed its predecessors into the eternity that is past. If there should be a few hermits or misanthropes in the world who have no friends to lose, there are thousands and tens of thousands of others, from whom, during the lapse of the past twelve months, many of those they affectionately regarded. have been snatched away by the hand of death. And what can more deeply wound the susceptible heart, than the loss of those it highly prized, and with whom it held delightful companionship ? Nothing surely. The an nals of human nature furnish us with countless instances of individuals whose minds were so powerfully affected at their separation by death from those they loved, that they did not long survive the shock, but fol lowed them in a few months, in sonic cases in a few weeks, to the mansions of immortality. And it were strange i n d ee d if man, with all his rationality and all his lolly conceptions of what he ought to 1)', did not feel acutely while ruminating oil the departure to another world of those he loved and esteemed in the present, when the more savage of the brute creation set him the example. The instances of innumerable in which the lower animals, of almost evert species, suffer so severely when deprived of their off spring, or when separated from others of their kin d with which they were wont to associate, as to die very soon thereafter under the influence of feelings similar to those which bre a k th e h uman heart. A melanclolY recollection of those departed ones whom we once numbered among our friends, will frequently obtrude itself on the minds of those addicted to habits of retie': tion, and possessing in their boss,m a drop of the milk of human kindness ; but the commencement of a new year is a season peculiarly adapted, for many reasons. I for feeling those melancholy emotions with peculiar force.—Walks and Wanderings in the World of Litera ture, by the Author qf " The Great Metropolis: PRIZE CUPS.—New and Second-hand SILVER PRIZE CUPS are offered at very REDUCED PRICES, sul selection nay be made from a g rea t var i ety, b oth of Sizes an d Patterns, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Goldsmith., and Watch maker, 47, Cornhill, London (Seven Doors from Graiseehureh street).—Drawings of Cups will be forwarded in answer t• s post-paid application. N.B. It is desirable Letters for Drawings should rnentieu either the size or about the price of the Cup Cups that 1 0 1 be required. ENAMELLED GOLD WATCHES (size of a Shilling).—A. B . S AVORY and SONS, Watchmaker s . N o. 9, Cornhill ( opposite the Bank), have a great variet.,v 1 / 4 7 these elegant chef-d'oeuvres, the finish of which is so exact that they can be warranted to perform as correctly as larger Watches. The cases of some are delicately enamelled Ile flowers, & c ., and others are of finely-wrought gold price from Fifteen to Twenty Guineas. No. 9, Curnhill, November, 1839. B 1R T On the 3d i nst., i n Ho lad- E street, the lady of Radcliffe Ja n Abbot, E sq ., o f a son. On the 2,1 inst., in Bamford-street, Bedford-square, the w ife of Arthur Phillpot, Esq., of a daughter. On the 4th inst., Mrs. Elmenhorst, of a son.. On the 2d inst., at Euston-place, Euston-ssluare, the lady al Robert Peddie, of the Island of Antigua, of a son. On the 3d inst., in Grosvenor -street, the lady Of Davidson, Esq., of a son. On the 4th inst., at Kentish -town, Mra. Shoolbred, of a daughter. On the 31st ult., at Walthamstow, Mrs. Ford. Barclay, ° I a SOD. On the 2(1 inst., at I-furstanton, Norfolk, the 11.dy of Lieute nant-Colonel Oakes, of a soil. On the 27th ult., at Ham-court, Worcestershire, the lady of Henry Shirley, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 4th inst., at Beddington Church., William BristoW, Esq., to Miss I3iggs, both of the same place. On the 9.(1 inst., at. St. George's Chur ch, Hanover-squa re, Mr. Samuel It. Ewen, of Old Broad-str eet, to Maria Louisa, only daughter of Mr. Henry Gale, of Be rkeley-square. D lED. On the 4th inst., in Hans-place, Jab n Meheux, Eiq., aged p a On tlo , 2d inst.. at Camberwell. Ri c h ar d W a lk er capon: Esq.,late of the Navy - o , rxe, young ez t son of the late A d mi ral Cla) tun. On the 24th ult., at Southall-park, Si r I'Villiain Charle s Ellis, M.D. London: Printed and Publish e d by MURDO YOUNG; , °t No. 112, Strand, at TL Sum Office, No 11 2, Strand, in the County of Middlese x .— Wednosday, Norweatioer 6, 1869.