The Sun. — London, England, 1839-09-10 00:00:00

VENIN G 14]DIT I ON. Ct-NEY MARKET and CITY N 1 WS. (14°NDI % -- Y EVENING.) CHRONICLE.—A r a much l ess d espon; : Jotters throughout th e d a y h ave worn the U n i te d Stet, ino. complexion. Th e accoun t s f rom istrument a l s ' alluded to b e l ow , h ave b een very it',_ the spi r i t 'at imiiroving the t one o f t hi ngs, an d theering - 4 fof people ; f or i nstea d o f b eing of an ungratify ing nat . . , re, as apprehended, they are riot only bright, but !bare ao'ompanied with the transmis , ',on of no less a sum ar' about 350,0001. in specie, ellefly sovereigns, which of " ,, 'elf is a very important fe'.*.ture at this moment, whet'. I every ex er ti on i s making, to prevent th e exportakn of the precious metals, P.nd the importation i!` them looked for with unusua), anxiety. Money b-.. 5 also been more abundant, or, at all events, it has ken less in requi , be ( sition ; but the very fact of large importations of bullion. taking place, or being expected, would soon make Bank notes more easily obtained; for there is, unquestionably, no real deficiency of money, but the want of confidence and credit, which has existed so long, has occasioned gold to much h, has and the capitalists and others, from the same ea..tse, have been ve cy reluctant t o ma k e l oans, w hi ch t hey Iv,ould rea dil y do * if there were the slightest appear wee ,of money gettin g cheap. The English Stock Market n r ,a , c,onsequently bier rather buoy an t at i mprove d pr i ces. ‘ . '_ Gr asols for Money left off at so, to i, and 914 buyers for !r .e Account. New Three-and a-Half per Cents. 981 ; Exchequer ILlls 7 to 9 prem. ; and India Stock 248 to 249. T IME "..3. —The Liverpool packet from New York has brought about 120,000/. in sovereigns, which does not, bo w" er arise from the state of the exchange between the two countries, which would not allow of such a transaction, °W• as a remittance in quarters where bills, p ro b a bly, wca ld r.ot b e f ound to answer the same purpose. If any bone fide engagements have been made, to supply spe , zie in ac quittance of debt, they must, of course, be fulfilled. The transactions in the Funds have been without im portance to-day, but the market was rathe,r firmer, though tilleriet. Consols i m p rove d to 90 1 f or money, and 91; s for account. India Stock was 248 to 249 ; Ex.. chequer Bills 7s. to 9s. premium. Speculation was extremely animated in the foreign house in Spanish Stocks, in which an advance of nearly 2 per cent. has taken place. POST. —Money was easier again to-day, not at the Stock Exchange alone, but for general purposes connected with the business transactions of the City ; and the ac counts from Lancash?.re are found to be much more en couraging, for, ie. the absence of that, reckless spirit of speculation wh',ch prevailed there cotton and oe.ler staples, there !IP.-peaars deal of 1 • • trade, shortnow t o time bbe a ago,go good le activity in ~ il the leading branches of The reports of the p'pal merchants and brokers t a h r a e : in f act , more cheerie'g than any we have seen from re -. quo rter for mx ly weeks past. The intelligence ailFf iVef'A .. this mor'aing ‘ - from New York, by the steam :lard 3 cLotrivenirpecrcoila,l a is ffai o r f s. considerable T.aeat interest, as re t, . .ch i n ock market has suffered , consequence of the very gloomy accounts ob- Aleea from this country, and the worst—that is to say, 'V A° great check which had been once more necessarily 0 given by the Bank of England to the speculative operations of the American houses—bad yet to be ascertained. / The difficulty of raising money may be imagined from the depreciation which had taken place in the shares of the United States Bank, those securities having fallen to IoB,—' j . The exchange on England was at 8i per cent. premium. The decline in the different stocks of the Union seems to have been caused in a great degree by the information now first received from this side of the water, to the effect that no further sales of such property are practicable in the British mar kets. In this state of things the merchants seem not to have known very well what to be about—by what rule of action to regulate their future movements. With the altered prospects of the cotton trade, and the gloomy tenor of the correspondence just obtained from England, it was oPprehended by the i mporters o f European fabrics, who had, in c ommon w i th most of the dealers in the article, fully calcul a t e d on t h e price of cotton being sustained, that the supplies ordered will prove more than their exports, at the reduced rates now giving for them, will be sufficient to Pay for, and that, as stocks are no longer available as a me -1 ditarn of exchange, the demand fo r s p ec i e w ill b e greater than the b an k s will be able to meet. The notion of a metallic 'currency is still cherished by the Americans. It was well known that the importers have given out their orders upon a liberal scale, and it was believed that, to aggravate the mischief, the spinners would be sending out some of '. l ,ie heavy st oc k s t h ey had or, hand on cons i gnment. It is anticipated, however, that much of the deficie:,,cy may be made griod by the shipment of the superD.tamdant produce of the harvest to England, which, that is given upon the subject, bu.„ G eeOrding to an estimate in which we have little Confidence, will be equal to 'foout 15,000,000 dollars, or three millions sterling. P omo further shipments of flour were in progress, and 'We doubt not that a few cargoes are already on their tv,,,y; indeed, there seemed to be an in tention of goio'„ not only promptly . but as extensively as the means of. -individuals would admit of into the " traffic. Nini. T HERN MONEY MARKETS. A _NTWERP, SEPT. s. —After the close of the Exchange, at half-past two o'clock, Spanish Stock opened at 21 Pas. sive, and 214 Active; was immediately in demand at 22, or 1 per cent. advance at Paris; rose to 224, 228, 224, and closed at 224 Active, and 228 Passive. A great deal of business was done. SEPTEMBER 6, HALF PAST 2 O'CLOCK.—Spanish Stock opened at 23 A ct i ve, rose gradually to 234. 234, 23 8 , 23ii, 234, and soon fell to 23k, 234, 234, at which it remained Active, or 234 Passive. The absence of the quotation at Paris hindered bargains being made. Primes at all sales were much in request ; some were done at 24, two of 25iwhich were for the 9th and 10th of this month. Ardoin' e., Active. Primes at one month, of which 2 per cent. Ardoin, 244 to 25 passive. SEPTEMBER 7, HALF-PAST 2 O'CLOCK P. n.—Spanish Stock opened at 234 Active, 234 Passive ; closed at 234 Active, and 23 3-16ths Passive. Little business was done. Primes were less sought after, though offered on low terms. Ardoin's 254 Active. Primes at one month, of which 2 per Cent. Ardoin's 25 to 244 Passive.—Journal du Commerce d'Anvers, Sept. 5,6, and 7. AMSTERDAM, SEPTEMBER 4.—The quotation of Spanish Stock on the I.;,:xchange of Antwerp, yesterday, disap pointed the expectations of our speculators. They sup posed that the higher quotations from Paris would have a similar effect. at Antwerp, and were, therefore, not a little surprised learn that a considerable decline had taken V M ac ?: 's fall had a very pre j ud i c i al influence on our —lcuatige, and caused a reaction, wh was the reate Ht p r oportion as th e pre ceding rise had hic been rapid a n d con r IssiederatlAe. Th e l ate f avorable news from Spain not having u-zr. confirmed, a further decline was feared, as everybody v, as in a hurry to sell. Ardoin's opened at 224, fell to Ili, recovered for a moment to 214, but fell again to 214 to above which they did not rise again. In Dutch Funds, the slackness in purchasing was in creased by the fall of the Spanish. All descriptions were freely offered, but little business was done. The same may be said of Russian Stock, especially rubles. Austrian Stock maintained its price. All descriptions of South American Stock very unfavourable. Money Loan, 45 per cent.; prolongation 5 per cent. ; discount, 5 per cent. SEPT. s. —The state of the exc ) Jange to-day was unfa vourable to all kinds of stock. Dutch Stock was offered at the opening at the closing latices of yesterday, but the eagerness of the sellers increr.sing, all descriptions, with out exception, sensibly dec.:lined, partly in consequence of the critical state of the Lendon market, and partly in con sequence of a report, whie h, however, was unfounded, that that there had been a fAccline in the London market the day before yesterday. An increased demand for money was observed. Spanish Stock is falling as rapidly as it rose. The fall braeis ascribed to a lower quotation for Paris of yesterday, brought by tin: crirrier pigeons. A r d o i n ' s opened at 21, the mar ose to 214. but f e l l to 20g. Here the fall stopped, and ket recovered a little. AI. other fo re i gn stock was dull, and in general offered it Lower pricey,. Money Lc.an, 44 per cent. ; prolongation, 5 to 54 per cent. ; discount, 5 per cent. SEPT. 6,.—Though the report of a fall of our funds at London was by no means confirmed, they could not reco ver, Lo'.; were very little higher than yesterday. In Spanish funds there was a good deal done. The quotations received this morning from Paris of the day Qt, C ure yesterd a y, an d f rom Antwerp of yesterday, prove tkat instead of a considerable decline, which was expected, tlAere had been a considerable rise, which had a corres• pending effect on our Exchange. During all 'Change hours Ardoin's fluctuated between 224 and 224, and closed at the first price. A good deal of business was done, but tio large purchases made. Russian and Austrian stock more in demand; South American unchanged, except Colombian, which was more Offered : Money Loan, 44 per cent. ; prolongation, 54 to 54 : discount of bills, 5 per cent.—Handdsblad, Sept. 5, 0, and 7. Mr. Ellice has ad ressed d following to the Morning Chronicle : TO TOR EDITOR OP THE BIORNINO CHRONICLE. Sir --I have seen, with the utmost astonishment, this morning, in your paper of the 3d instant, a statement that Mr. Poulett Thomson had accepted the Government of Canada at my earnest request. I desire you will contradict that statement on my be half, f rom whatever quarter your information may have been derived.—l am, Sir, Your obedient servant, EDWARD ELLICE, Inverness-shire, Sept. 6, 1839. The Duke of Argyll, Lord Steward of the House hold, and Miss Campbell, have left Park-lane for Inverary Castl e , A rgy ll s hi re, t h ence hi s G race will go to Rosneatb, D umbartonshire. The Noble Duke will not return to town for three months. The E ar l o f Sh e lb urne , D r . Philli more and family, Colonel Stewart, &c., were among th e p assengers Rho left Lond on b y t h e A n t wer p C o mp an y' s steamship Antwe rp. A large number of high-bred horses went th by this ship on thei r way to Vienna, as well as some of e servants, carriages and horses, of the Marquis of Hertford. CASTLE HOWARD.—The Earl and Countess of Carlisle and the Ladies Howard are residing here, but there are not any visitors. Lord Morpeth is visiting his friend s in the county. DEATH OF SIR JOHN BRYDGES.—We have Plto announce the demise of this gallant officer, which took ace on Friday last, at his scat, Wottor. Court, Kent. John was in his 75th year, and was Captain of Sand gate Castle, and a Commissioner of Dover Harbour. He waghbrother in law t o t h e late Marquis of Waterford, and tost e Lo r d P r i mate of Ireland, having married, April 14, 0 16 , Lady Isabella Anne Beresford, eldest daughter of `Jeorge, the first Marquis, Lord Brougham on his arrival in town from a trbiseitecto,. the D u k e of Wellington at Weimer Castle, left, owing day, for Brougham H a ll, P enr i t h, C um b e r- Lord ;ere t h ey ~ham L ord arrived on Friday last. wn ere a _L oughana i ntends passin g t h e autumn at Bri g hton, mansion has been engaged for two months. AN EGYPTIAN BATH. • (I:TA)S1 THE FRENZ:fi 130 t Se:•-..cely had I 'dritereti, when t ,c, tvo strong men e- I ;Eanging to the 'bath laid hold of me, and in an instant I was stripped to the skin. One of them then passed a linen shawl around my waist, while the other fas:aned on my feet a pair of gigantic pattens, which at once mado the a foot taller. This mode of shoeing not only rendered flight impossible, but, by its clumsy elevation, destroyed my equ ilib rium ; and I should inevitably have fallen, had not the two men supported me on either side. I was fairly caught. We passed into another room ; here the vapour and heat stifled me. I thought that my guides had mistaken the way, and got into an oven. I tried to shake them off, but my resistance was anticipated. In a few moments I was astonished at perceiving that, as the perspiration poured from me, my lungs began to dilate, and my respiration returned. In this state I passed through five or six rooms, the heat of which increased so rapidly that I began to believe that man had for five thousand years mistaken his proper element, and that his ap propriate destiny was boiling or roasting. At last we came to the stove-room. There the fog was so dense that I could not see two steps before me, and the heat so f . , - atirely insupportable that I partly fainted. I shut my eyes, and resigned myself to my guides. After loadirr or rather carrying me a few steps further, they tok off my girdle, unhooked my pattens, and extended me, half swooning, on something like a marble table in the middle of the apartment. Here, again, I soon be came accustomed to the infernal atmosphere. With my other senses, my sight revived ; and, despite the fog, I made out with tolerable accuracy the surrounding objects. My tormentors seemed to have forgotten me foi , a moment : they were busy at one side of the room. I lay in the centre of a large square saloon, incrusted, to the height of five or six feet, with variously coloured marbles. A series of spouts threw out, incessantly streams of steaming water, which, falling on the pave ment beneath, glided thence into our basins, like caul drons, at the four corners of the room. On the surface of the water in these basins was an indefinite number of bald heads bobbing about, and expressing, by the most grotesque contortions of face, various degrees of felicity. This spectacle so occupied my attention, that 1 scarcely heeded the return of my masters. They came, however ; one with a large wooden b ow l of soap-suds, th e ot h er w i th a ball of fine flax. Sud denly one of the rascals inundated my face and neck with his suds ; and the other, seizing me by the shoul der, rubbed most furiously my face and breast with his flax. This treatment and the pain induced by it were so perfectly intolerable, that all my powers of resistance and resentment waked at once. I bolted upright, kicked my flaxen friend half across the room, and planted my fist in the face of soap-suds with such good-will that he lay sprawling on the floor. Then, knowing of no other remedy for the soap, (which was blistering my skin,) I boldly plunged into the larger basin. I had misjudged ; the remedy was worse than the disease. Before, my face and neck were cauterized, now, my whole body was scalded : the water was boiling! I yelled with pain ; sprang on and over my neighbours, who'could not comprehend my case ; and got out of the tub almost as rapidly as I got in. However, I was not rapid enough to escape the Effect of the ablution : my body was as red as a lobster. I was stupified! I must be dreaming, or riding a night-mare. Yet there was no deception. Here, under my very eyes, were men stewing in a broth of which I had tried the tempe rature, who evidently took great delight in the opera„. tine. I determined, again, to submit to my torinentors. They came, having recovered from my ag::ault. I fol lowed them without resistance to an'.,',:ner basin. They made signs to me to descend 1 - 1 .7 e steps : I obeyed. . • From this I passed to an of a higher temperature, but still supportable, I remained in it, as in the first, about three nniut, es . I then proceeded to the third, which w! . ..s still some ten or twelve degrees hotter ; and, finally, reached the fourth, where I had commenced my hellish apprenticeship. I approached it with the greatest repugnance, but I had made up my mind to go through with my desperate adventure. I first dipped my toe in the water ; it was hot, certainly ; but not so scalding as before. I gradually immersed my whole body, and was surprised to find it endurable. . . . My attendant s now again took me in hand. They replaced the linen around my waist, bound a shawl on my head, and led me back through the rooms by which I had entered (taking care to add to my cover ing at each change of atmosphere), until I arrived at the chamber where I was so unceremoniously stripped. Here I found a good carpet and pillow. My turban and girdle were taken off ; I was enveloped in a large woollen gown, laid down like an infant, and left alone. I had now an undefinable feeling of comfort. I was per fectly happy ; yet so exhausted, that when the door was opened, half an hour after, I had not changed my position by the movement of a finger or a muscle. The new comer was a sinewy and well-set Arab. He approached my couch as if he had some business with me. I looked on him with a sort of dread very natural to a man who had passed such an ordeal as I have described ; but, i was too weak to attempt to rise. He took my left hand, cracked all its joints, and did the same to the right. After my hands, he administered upon my feet and knees ; and, to finish the matter, be dexterously threw me into the position of a pigeon to be broiled, and gave me the coup de grace by cracking the vertebras of my spine. I screamed with terror, thinking my back-bone was brokers, to a certainty. My masseur then kneaded my arms, legs, and thighs for a quarter of an hour, and left me. I was weaker than ever ;my joints all pained me, and I had not strength sufficient to cover myself with the carpet. A servant now brought me coffee, pastiles, and a pipe ; and left me to intoxicate myself with perfume and tobacco. I passed half an hour in a drowsy state, lost in the vagaries of a delicious inebriation, experiencing a feeling of happiness before unknown, and entertaining a supreme inuifference to every (absent) earthly thing. I was awakened from this by a barber, who shaved me, and combed my whiskers and moustaches. Next, my Arab returned, to whom I made signs that I wished to depart. He brought my clothes, assisted me in my toilet, and led me to the chamber opening on the vestibule, where I found my cloak. The cost of this entertainment, which lasted three hours, was a piastre and a half, or eleven sous of our money. TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF MR. WYSE.- , By appointment. the friends of Mr. Wyse met him at the Town Hall about ten o'clock, yesterday morning, whence they proceeded to New Guild Hall for the purpose of his re-election. The Honourable Gentleman was taken by the arm on the one side, by our own deservedly popular Mayor, Win. M. Ardagh, Esq., and on the other by Wit. ham Aylward, Esq. With pride and pleasure we refer to a report of the proceedings in another part of our paper__ those proceedings are alike creditable to Mr. Wyse and to his constituents. To say he was returned without a dis sentient voice, would be to convey only a faint idea of the flattering manner in which he had been greeted on the hustings. The electors seemed to view with each other in expressing their admiration of the virtues, talents, and patriotism of their gifted representative. His exposition of the Colonial policy of the Government, their negotia tions with foreign countries, their exertions to extend the cause of Reform, and an en li g h tened system of Education, their persevering efforts to redeem the pledges which they had made to promote the work of popular improvement— and their system of retrenchment, were given in such a lucid, statesmanlike and satisfactory manner, as to bring down the universal plaudits of the Court. We congratu late the Government in having obtained the services of Mr. Wyse, and we congratulate the Honourable Gentle man himself, in having been selected by a Government who have the confidence and support of the people. Mr. Wyse may boast of a long line of ancestry, who were ever faithful to their creed and country, and it must be a source of congratulation to the Honourable Gentleman him self, as well as to his fellow-citizens, that he has proved himself by his virtues and abilities, not only to be an honour to his family, but a credit to his native City. Several of the Conservative gentlemen of the City attend. ed, not that they agreed with Mr. Wyse in his political opinion, but that they esteemed him for his virtues, and the amiable and gentlemanly manner with which he deports himself in every society. During his address he did not say one word calculated to wound the feelings of any per son, no matter how sensitive, though he spoke for nearly an hour and an half. He maintained his opinions without compromising one iota of principle, and, at the same time, sedulously guarded against any expression calculated to convey the slightest offence. Of Mr. Wyse, indeed, it may be truly said, that he is the type of an accomplished Irish gentleman, and a pure and honourable politician.— Waterford Chronicle. RAILWAY THROUGH CORNWALL.—Sir Hus sey Vivian has written a letter to the landed proprietors, merchants, &c., of Cornwall, strongly urging them to set about constructing a railroad through their county in self defence, as the only means by which Falmouth can be con tinued a packet station. The Right Hon. Baronet says : —" Of the great benefits derived to a country from the es ta'Slishment of a railroad, I have lately had an opportunity of witnessing an instance in Belgium, where a case presents itself more analogous to that of the people of Cornwall than is afforded by comparison with any of our own rail roads. In Belgium, as with us, the rate of travelling was very slow, the means of communication by no means good, and the persons travelling have b een constructed, the n um b ero f trave ll ers has increased in a degree infinitely ' were but few, Since railroads beyond the utmost calculation, and b n taegiy. A e singulareco accordingly. exhibition rnuechoe:ceedin g t h e proportion even on our railroads; and t .h e e fi d merce of th e country, and the inhahitants, have been took l Rue Vivienne. A wor n sellin f g ro in the midst of a crow from time to time, a cage, which she was atone exclaimingo the p co a u c n e try la w t a e s iy sta il n:d t i h ng e with about a hundred swallows in " Qui en/eut a un sous pour leur don ne sous each, ner la liberte ?" She soon and the little prisoners were let one was anxious to practise disposed of her stock, for every humanity at so cheap a rate, element in search.of their supper. oosefetterstatementelectors, from Paris. Provost Greig arrived at Perth he denies, i has n t h e published m os most ex a p n li a c cl it d t r e e r s m s tso, theth e Monday, and whichf Mr. Oliphant, that he pledged himself to support that him B°' or that he requested Bailie Clunie to nominate Oliphant, in a letter to the electors, in reply to"the Mr.o vost'& statement, states, that the impresqo : ' n left on h is mind was decidedly what he mentioned on the h ' ngs._ Caledonian Mercury. wi 'IIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTENII3I4:II, 10. 0-39. 'l-q? TIIE COURT OF TUSCANY. Two members of Napoleon's family for many years found an honourable reception in Flo rence. Louis, the ex-King of Holland, and the late Countess Lipona, the wife of the unfortunate Murat. Between the latter and her sister, the Princess Borghesi, a violent feud for many years existed. Pauline, who bitterly resented the refusal of her brother to elevate her husband to the regal dignity, may be said almost to have rejoiced at the tall of the Emperor, and the return of her sister to a private station. The cause of their estrangement was the refusal of the title of Queen by her sister to the ex-Sovereign of Naples, a concession which she exacted from all who visited her, and which few refused to pay. After the second mar riage of the Grand Duke the Queen Dowager of Na ples was a frequent visitor at the Court of her daughter, much to the annoyance of her who had formerly borne that title ; upon these occasions the Countess generally left the city to avoid the sight of the carriages and Royal liveries, which were rather ostentatiously paraded before the gate of her palace, an insult which legitimacy might well have spared. The mother of Napoleon appears to have been the only one of his family who loved him for himself, and not for the bene fits which he heaped upon them. During her last illness she had remained for several days upon a couch in her boudoir, but at length consented, at the entreaty of her brother, the late Cardinal Pesch, to he removed to her chamber. Previously, however, to quitting the roe:.,, she directed her attendants to sup port her star, to a pedestal, upon which rested the bust of the Emperor. Unable to see it, for she had long been kind, with mourn f u l ten d erness s h e slowly passe her hands over the sculptured portrait, and repeatedly pressed her lips upon the marble,—what a scene for the sculptor or the painter ! Louis, the ex-King of Holland, lives in a handsome palace upon the Arno, and receives, without ostenta tion, such as are presented to him. Tieing an in valid, he seldom quits his h ome : when he 'does, he is treated with that respect which his character so justly commands. I have, upon more than one oc casion, seen his carriage pass that of the Grand Duke in the Cacine, and been pleased to observe that their owners saluted with great apparent cordiality. Among the residents of Florence I must not fail to mention Emma Carew, the unfortunate daughter of the too celebrated Lady Hamilton. Her father, Sir William Hamilton (she was born previous to the mar riage of her mother), left her a respectable provision : unfortunately it fell into the hands of her improvident parent, who was her guardian, and, as may be imagined, was speedily dissipated in her career of extravagance. Her unfortunate daughter long struggled to procure an existence by teaching the English language, during which her privations must have been numerous ; latterly her means have been increased by a small pension from the Grand Duchess, ostensibly in consideration of her mother's services to the Royal Family of Naples, and doubtless they were great ; but it is whispered that the surrender of a packet of letters, written by a certain lady, in which the sanguinary scenes perpetrated by Cardinal Ruffo and the ruffians who followed him were instigated, was the price of the trifling provision. Among the Tuscan Nobility best known to the Eng lish are the Princes Corsini ; the younger is one of the Ministers, and a Nobleman universally respected ; the elder resembles in his character the celebrated Duke of Queensberry ; like him, at the age of eighty, he has several mistresses, and a childish horror of the approach of death. He has made the fortune of at least a dozen quacks, and bathes every morning in a vessel filled with wine from his vineyard at Fiesole ; the wine is afterwards sold at a reduced price. Lord Burghersh is still gratefully remembered at Florence by all who have partaken of his splendid hos pitality. _ Abercrombie, who succeeded Seymour as Minister, is looked upon as a parvenu by the Court of Tuscany, where a man's shield is more closely regarded than his morals ; perhaps his father's political position may have in some degree occasioned this, for in point of fact, he is of better blood than many who sneer at him. And with a little more caution in his presentations, a few better dinners, and a younger friend than the lady whom, to the amuse ment of all Florence, he has chosen, would make an ex cellent diplomat, PERILOUS ADVENTURE. An occurrence of most thrilling interest took place at ,iiagara Falls yesterday afternoon, attended with Im minent peril to the lives of two individuals, but result ing in a most happy and providential deliverance. The new brid ge t o I r i s I s l an d i s planted in a fright ful rapid, where the current is from twenty to thirty miles an hour, and is only about 100 or 150 yards above the brow of the great precipice or perpendicular fall. A carpenter, by the name of Chapin, was engaged with others in covering the bridge ; and, while at work upon a staging about 100 feet from Iris Island, accidentally lost his footing and was precipitated into the rapids, and, in the twink ling of an eye, swept away towards the great cataract. Speedy and inevitable destruction seemed to await him ; but, fortunately he was uninjured by the fall, and, even in this most hopeless condition, re tain perfect self-possession. Turning his eye to wards the on l y po i nt of hope above the fearful pre cipice, he succeeded, by great dexterity in swimming, in effecting a landing upon a little island some 20 feet in width and length, the outermost of the group of little cedar islands, situated some 30 or 40 yards above the falls, and about eq...ii-distant from Goat Island and the American shore. There he stood for an hour, look ing calmly and beseechingly back upon the numerous spectators who lined the bridge and shores, but with whom he could hold no conversation on account of the distance and the roar of the rapids. There is a man in the \ village of the falls, by the name of Robinson, of ex traordinary muslular powers, great intrepidity, and withal an admirable boatman—and he was probably the only one that could have been found within fifty miles— who generously volunteered his services to attempt reaching the island in a boat, and bring Chapin off. A light boat of two oars, similar in construction to the Whitehall race-boats was soon procured and he embarked. He proceeded with g re a t deliberation and consummate skill, darting his little boat across the rapid channels, and at the intervening eddies holding up to survey his situation and recruit his strength for the next trial. In a few mi nutes he neared the island, but a rapid channel still in tervened, sweeping close to the island, and rendering the attempt to land very difficult. He paused for a moment, and then with all his strength darted across and sprang from his boat ; his foot slipped and he fell into the rapid current. With the spectators it was a moment of thrill ing interest and breathless silence ; his boat seemed in evitably lost, and himself in fearful jeopardy. Retain. ing, however, his grasp on the boat, he sprang in ; and again seizing his oars, brought up under the lee of the little isl an d. All again felt a momentary relief ; but still the great labour and hazard of the enterprise re mained to be overcome. A cool head and a strong arm could only effect it. Robinson proved equal to the task. Taking his companion on board, in the same careful and deliberate manner, though at infinitely greater hazard and labour, they effected a landing on Goat Island. There the spectators assembled to give them a cordial greeting. A scene of great excitement ensued ; the boat was draon up to the bank, and it was movedand carried by acclamation that a collection be taken up on the spot for Chapin and his noble-hearted deliverer Robinson. After the collection, Robinson and Chapin took their seats in the boat, and were carri e d i n tr i umph on the shoulders of their neighbours to the village. The in tense interest of the whole sc ene was heightened by the presence of Chapin's wife and children, who stood on the shore watching with unavaili ng h orror and agony what seemed his inevitable and fearful fate.—Bqfalo Commercial Advertiser, July 26. EARTHQUAKE AT BRISTOL. —A. Very smart i shock of an earthquake was felt n this cit y and neighbour.. hood about one o'clock on Monday morning. The sensa tion was more particularly observed about Kingsd own . an d we have been told of several parties who felt their beds rock under them, and doors were th rown open, crockery displaced, and unusual noises beard. Th e s h ock was also felt on the other side of the water in Newport, Cardiff, and other places in South Wales.—Bristol Gazette. (From the Court Journal.) Tuscany, though fallen from the reputation which it en joyed under its glorious line of Medec•ian Princes, can still boast of one of the most polished Courts in Europe. Ages of despotism have failed to crush the gallant spirit of her nobles, and her daughters are still as fair as when Bianca di Rapella led her Sovereign in chains. The Grand Duke Ferdinand, the father of the present ruler of this the fairest portion of Italy, was the first of his line whom the Tuscans regarded with any degree of complacency, and even he was rather tolerated than beloved by them. The coarse frankness of his dipo- sitio3 was certainly less dangerous than the leaden despotism of his predecessors, but almost equally offensive to the higher class of his subjects, whose I refinement he shocked by displaying in his intercourse with them the manners of a German boor. Shortly before his death his confessor visited him, and after having announced to him the report of his physicians, that they considered his situation hopeless, concluded by assuring him that in a short time he would be an inha bitant •of Paradise. " Father," answered the dying Prince with a smile, " I was never an ambitious man, the Palazzo Pitti is quite good enough for me." The present Sovereign, Leopold 11., possesses all the mild qualities of his father, without the brusqucrie of manner which made the latter so offensive ; the punishment of death is unknown in his dominions, and yet no part of Italy is so free from crime. By his second marriage with a Princess of the House of Naples, he has a son, much to the joy of his subjects ; as other wise his States, in the event of his death, would have passed to the sway of Austria. His Imperial High ness's mode of government is rather unsuited to an Englishman's ideas ; he has a number of Ministers, who make their reports to him, and he dictates a new law, like a physician's prescription, as occasion may require. NATIONAL CONVENTION. uonvention met yesterday at the Arundel Coffee House, at Eleven o'Clock. Mr. FROST in the Chair. FINANCE. Mr. PITREITIILEY brought up the Report of the Finance Committee appointed to investigate the accounts of Mr. Lowrey, Mr. Hcnessey, and other Missionaries of the Con vention. M ETROPOLITAN POLITIC tiL SUMMARY, The settlement of 14fr. Richardson's account was post. poned, in or d er to afford the Secretary an opportunity of c ommunicating w i t h hi m w i th respect to a sum o f 12/ . received b y hi m from Caine, and which he had not given credit f or . The sever a l i tems of the various accounts were t h en gone th roug confirmed, and the R e p or t o rdered to be received and THE DEFENCE FUND , Mr. O'Corrivon moved the appointment of a Committee of five to investigate all matters connected with the De fence Fund Committee, and to report thereupon. The motion, havi ng been seconded, was agreed to, and Mr. J ames Taylor, Mr. Bussey, Mr. Jackson, Mr. F. O'Connor, and Mr. Richards were nominated to form the Committee. DECLARATION OF RIGHTS Dr. T AYLOR then brought forward the. motion of which he had g i ven notice, for the adoption of the Declaration of Rights pres ente d to the Convention by Mr. Schroeder. It would b e f or them to say whether they would adopt it clause by clause, or make any general objections that might seem fit. As he had before observed, it was one of the most masterly comments he had ever read, or that had ever been laid befor e the country. The Convention would do itself honour by adopting that address, and placing it before the public as a declaration recognized and sanc tioned by them. Ile thought such a measure would go farther to do away with the calumnies and obloquy that had been heaped upon their proceedings than almost any other they could adopt. It would show the people that, instead of wishing to destroy the Constitution, the object of the Convention was to go back to their ancient rights and privileges, and establish the Constitution on its original basis. They would thus give justice and fair play to the poor, and secure the liberties and happiness of all. If the document were well founded every law and every Act of Parliament that had been passed since the people were deprived of Universal Suffrage were illegal, and need not, or indeed ought not, to be obeyed. Many of the middle classes were opposed to them merely because their views and motives had been grossly misrepresented; but when these were fully explained, it would render them friends instead of enemies. It was unnecessary for him to take up their time further, but he would merely give one instance. He had been among some of the middle classes last night, and many of them were opposed to the views of the Chartists. In about ten minutes, he (Dr. Taylor) explained to them what the real views of the Chartists were, and before he left the room these men had become weekly subscribers to the Chartist fund.— (Cheers.) Dr. Taylor concluded by moving the adoption of the address. Mr. F. O'CoNtcoe said there was once an old woman in Ireland who was very fond of stirabout, but one morn ing she complained of it as bad ; her servant said the fault was not in the stirabout but in the meal; that was an answer t I Dr. Taylor's remarks respecting the middle classes—it was the men that made and perpetuated the system. He did net think the Convention ought to adopt the document as their declaration of rights, for if they did so, they must recommend the country to set aside those laws which had been made, which were in novations upon Magna Charta and the 8.11 of Rights. They were not in a condition to do so yet. He mould therefore move as an amendment that the thanks of the Convention be given to Mr. Schroeder for his diligence, ability, and research, and that they recommend it to be perused by every working man in the country. They had two objects in view, first to return their thanks to a gentle man who had put forth the most important document of the time, and then to get the people to study it. Mr. PITKEITHLEY seconded the amendment. . Mr. CARPENTER hoped Dr. Taylor would press his motion. He did not see the difference between the re commendation of the declaration of rights, and the adop tion of it by the Convention. By adopting it he did not see that they at all recommended the people to disobey the law, but merely that it was their declaration of what they knew to be due to them. Mr. WOLOTENHOLME would support Dr. Taylor's mo tion, and suggested that it should not only be adopted by the Convention, but the Convention ought to recommend that it should be signedty the people. He had no doubt, in a very short time, it would be signed by four millions of the people. Mr. SCHROEDER begged to be allowed to say a few words in favour of the declaration, although he was not a dele gate. The declaration was the result of years of hard labour and research into the Constitution of Eng. land ; and he thought it ought to be put forth by the Convention as their own faith and creed, in order to re pudiate those charges which had been thrown out so foully and falsely against Chartism. They ought to remember what it was that led to the Revolution in Germany. What caused that mighty change but the declaration of rights put forth by Luther, Melancthon, and Zingluis ? Let them also remember what took place when William the Third arrived here with his few Dutch guards._(Hear, hear.) He lay for eleven days at Southampton, and it was not until he bad signed the declaration of rights that he was seated upon the throne, and that decla ration was then embodied in an Act of Parliament. Let the Convention send the present document forth with their full sanction, and probably before they again met it might have worked out a bloodless revolution. His only object was to do good to his fellow -countrymen. Mr. Bessay thought they were bound either to reject or adopt the document. Mr. Deegan, Mr. Skevington, and Mr. Richards were in favour of adopting the document as their own. 'onr's more s a t g a r n e t e i v d e t °Motion, and a gree d to unan i mous l y . ikelr. been OnC paid noThe amendm en t was then negat i ved, and the motion than amendment2L er w w as ee t k h . p then put as a sub have Dr. T AILOR t h en moved that the Council ought not to Mr. C ARPENTER said the question had been so often discussed before, that it would be a mere waste of time to go on discussi ng i t again. He suggested ' that it would be better to appoint a committee to consider and report upon the whole subject. Mr. BuRNs thought the adoption of that course would render it necessary to send for Mr. Fletcher. Mr. PITKEITHLEY did not think they would be enabled to come to any better conclusion thatmode sorted to. Mr. BURNS said that the vote was no money vote at al it was merely a resolution that the Council should have their wages while in London, but nothing was said as to the amount. Mr. O'Cosmort thought that the proper course would be to move that the minute of tho vote of Friday, the 26th of July, by which it was ordered that the Council should be paid the same as the Delegates, should be inserted upon the books, and to resolve that the Convention had no power to rescind that order without notice, and that the resolution of the 6th of August should not be recognised as an Act of the Convention, and should be erased from the minutes of the Council. After a desultory conversation Mr. O'CONNOR withdrew his amendment, and Upon the motion of Mr. CARPENTER it was agreed that the minute in the Council -book should be struck out. Mr. HETIIERINGTON moved an amendment, that the word " wages " in the minutes of the Convention of July shall be understood to refer to the amount of wages paid to the Delegates sent on missions, namely, 21. per week. Mr. PITKEITULEY seconded the amendment. After a somewhat warm discussion the Convention di vided, when there appeared— For the motion For the amendment The CHAIRMAN gave his castinr , vote in fa vour of th e original moti o n, w hi c h was accordingly ' carried. Mr. DEEGAN then moved that each member of the Coun cil receive the same salary during the time he served on the Council as he did previously from his constituents— which was seconded by Dr. Taylor. Mr. PITKEITHLEY and Mr. O'CONNOR opposed it. There appeared— For the 'motion 3 Against it JO Majority against it... AUDITING THE ACCOUNTS. Mr. CARDO then moved that a Committee of five be appointed to audit all the accounts of tho Convention, which having been seconded by Mr. SKEVINGTON, was carried unanimously. Adjourned at three o'clock. --- THE NEW CALCULATING MACHINE.—In Mr. Spring Rice's successor we see, on the whole, neither any gain or loss. His opinions as to Reform are about as objectionable to Radicals as those of his predecessor. ' He has the reputation of being a good man of busines s and is reputed next to M r. B a bb age ' s i nvention as a calculating machine. If Plutu:, were in want of a doorkeeper, Mr. F. Baring would be his man, and this is a recommendation for the guardianship of the Exchequer.—Eraminer. The Globe of last evening, in an article exposing the oppression of the Irish peasantry by Orange landf lords, and more especially the monstrous cruelty o turning them naked upon the world by dispossessing them of their wretched cabins, alludes as fol lows to the mock Report of the Lords' Com mittee upon the state of Ireland :—" But their Lordships did not examine the witnesses who are really competent to give information upon this har rowing subject., It wont do' to throw dust in the public eyes by asking two or three landlords if they have not been very, very kind' to the wretches they have turned out to beggary. They should have brought forward some of the instruments employed in these doings—the agents and b a iliff s o f the cleared estates, the sheriffs and officers who were com pelled to assist in clearing them, the middlemen upon whose shoulders all parties are so anxious now-a days to cast the odium, and the hard necessity of resort ing to those unnatural proceedings ; and, above all, they should have examined some of the unhappy victims of modern improvement themselves. But their Lordships knew a trick worth two of that : they had their conclusions formed before they went into the proofs at all, and it was necessary to confine the exami lion within the tract their upright and judicial minds had prescribed. We expect that the first act of the House of Commons, after the next meeting of Parlia ment, will be to appoint a real committee of inquiry, to go over the ground which this mock inquisition has pre tended to delineate." The. Courier observes as follows, on the rival preten sions of Messrs. Greig and Oliphant to repre sent the people of Perth in Parliament :—" Mr. Oliphant has been tried in Parliament. and was not found wanting. We trust that the expecta tions which are now formed of Mr. David Greig will be as satisfactorily realized. Remarks have been made on the absence of express declaration of opinion in the Honouruble Gentleman's address, and some doubt of his political principles has been implied in these observa tions. The Chronicle, however, vouches for him in the strongest terms We are assured that if Mr. Greig did not dwell at more length on his principles, it is be cause that he was addressing men thoroughly ac quainted with him, and reposing the fullest confidence in his zeal for the good cause. A more stanch Liberal than the Provost of Perth never sat within the walls of the House of Commons.' This, after all, is the grand point ; and aceordeigly we shall re j o i ce to find that whatever temporary disagreement there may be as to the choice of persons, there can be no permanent dis satisfaction as to the choice of principles." The Standard endeavours to prove that the Liberals escaped defeat by something approaching to a miracle, at Manchester, and that so sensible were the Re formers of their danger, that they deemed it pru dent to provide for the worst. The following is amusing from the cool impudence it displays :—" At Manchester, as at Cambridge, the Whig party appear to have provided a grievance on which to fall back in the event of defeat. In one case we had a bribery affair' most cunningly devised, and served up with the sauce piequante of the 'general indignation,' and a' that.' In the second, the friends of the Whig candidate amused themselves by writing letters to each other, professing the object of drawing mercantile voters from the election! We do not hear that any of these letters were so far relied on, as to produce the object for which it was pretended they were written. The assertion that any Maqchester accountant' would have withdrawn himself from his native town at such a moment, on the representation, under fictitious signatures, that the insolvency of a large mercantile firm' (no name specified) was about to take place, will obtain as much belief as it is en titled to. If Manchester boasts of an accountant' possessed of so little common sense, the less he is employed the better. Equally absurd is the pretence that an anonymous summons to two brothers (not named) to the bed of a dying relative (also anony mous) should have been the means of depriving Mr: Greg of their votes. That such letters are in exist ence we have little doubt ; but that the Manchester Guardian or Leeds Mercury, arcades ambo, will afford any information calculated to lead to the discovery of their writers we will not believe. All that they have at present deigned to inform us on the subject, namely that the authors of these summonses are men of edu cation, does but confirm our opinion that the whole story is a weak invention of the enemy.' There must have been considerable apprehension of defeat, or such contemptible tricks would not have been re sorted to." The Times of this morning observes, in the course of a leading article, the text of which is furnished by a pamphlet recently published, under the title of "A Letter to the Queen :"—" The truth is, that the ad ministration of the Whigs is altogether a new experi ment—an attempt to govern by the power of the Crown alone, without the Commons, and against the Lords. That has been suffered for a little while, in the outset-of a ferrate - reign, from what Mr. Burke calls • a generous loyalty to rank and sex,' and from the acci dent that the opposition was composed of Conserva tives ; but it is a kind of forbearance which the friction of public business must speedily wear out. The Court appears to have been amused with thd vain hope that the people at large were favourable trci; the Ministers, and that the loud and formidable voice of their represenatives in the House of Commons would overawe the Peers into acquiescence. The event, on the contrary, turns out to be, that the Ministers, on their most vital questions, can comreaud no greater preponderance in the House of Commons than' a ,ba lance of from two to five : insomuch, that when we deduct the votes given by the Ministers themselves for the prolongation of their own tenure, the Oppositionl l are an actual majority of the whole representation of the people. Month by month the forces of the Miei i istry are waning away. Th e i r strongest garrisons surrender. Mr. Gibson has been repudiated with scorn at Cam bridge ; and Manchester itself, the very citadel of ultra- Whiggery, has been made so sensibly to feel the " rock ing of its battlements," that the next attack will pro bably plant the standard of the Constitutio n on it s wa ll s . In this s t ate o f things, the country is left with Out a Government, and the sense of that deficiency has become strong and general throughout the nation." The Morning Chronicle, alluding to the Marquis of Londonderry's reply to the recent remonstrances of the Clergy of Ripon, Thirsk, and the neighbourhood, res pecting his duel with Mr. H. Grattan, makes the follow ing observations :—" Notwithstaading the 'retort,' not quite courteous,' which they brought on themselves, we by no means profess to blame the clergy on this oc casion, to question their motives or to impugn their doc trine. The interference was a much more creditable one than that which recently exposed the clergy of Win chester to the more consistent and poignant rebuke of the Directors of the Southampton railroad, wh . cit those reverend intermeddlers desired entirely to dote on the Sabbath day. The Durham clergy had plainer precept and higher purpose. Their censure was aimed at lords instead of labourers, at the enforcement of moral duty, and not of mere ceremonial; at a sanguinary custom, and not a timely relaxation ; at a public nuisance, and not a public accommodation. But these very ditnren ces in their favour, are the circumstances that have drawn down the thunders of a London derry on their devoted heads. As his Lord ship has done so much, let him do more, and fairly expound the conditions on which his faction allies itself with the clergy. Let it be told out that there is one Christianity for exalted station,' and another for the inferior classes of society. That while judgment is preached to the multitude, every soldier and gentleman is his own best judge.' fhat the proper duty of clergymen, in their holy alliance with Toryism, is to thwart all practicable schemes of popular education ; to bullrag Dissenters in the pulpit, and to harry them on the bench ; and to be a standing agency for the purpose of electioneering. In return, the other high contracting party guarantees the continued right of taxing Dissenters for the expenses of the Established worship ; the monopoly of all funds and endowments, with as little duty as possible ; the pleasure of Irish per secution ; the dignity of Ecclesiastical ascendancy, in all points not trenching on the emoluments or practices of the aristocracy ; and the toast of ' Church and State,' with all the honours, and the favourite glee of ' A jolly full bottle,' at every Tory demonstration." The ,horning Herald thus comments on some of the flagrant misstatements and misrepresentations recently put forth by the enemies of negro emancipation : " The enemies of negro emancipation, though often de tected in their mis-statements so pompously put forth to deceive the British people, with respect to the effects of that most just and humane measure, have bad the audacity again to attempt insulting the common sense of this nation by a new series of misrepresentations relative to what they are pleased to term " the dis graceful conduct of their negroes." This is certainly very bold language, and would be of very great im portance if its authors would only condescend to give us the facts upon which these violent assertions have been founded ; but as those amiable children of;Moluch have not had the hardihood to go into the particulars ne cessary to establish evidence of general misconduct on the part of the emancipated negroes, it is naturally con cluded that these gentle and kind-hearted task masters are unable, though nothing loth, to bear out their foul assertions, and that if these matters were properly inves tigated, it would he found that the white tyrants who so lately were mercenary traffickers in human flesh, are still the same incorrigible oppressors which they ever have been, of the African or of any other race, white or black, which might have experienced the infliction of being placed under their control. Lnng habituated to deeds of revolting cruelty, their blood-stained hands are evidently itching to seize again the lash and the brand ing-iron, which the genius of British freedom has struck from their unholy grasp, we trust for ever. That some irregularities and insubordination may have manifested themselves amongst the late slaves we are not prepared to deny, but, on the contrary, we think it not improbable that the superior misconduct of certain despotic planters may have caused their labourers to quit their employ ment." SUPPOSED INCENDIARISIVI. On Monday morning last, at a very early hour, the town of Hertford was thrown into alarm b y t h e appear ance of a very l arge fi re a few miles from the town, at Bramfield, where the farm buildings and stacks of Mr. Horn were burning at a fearful rate. The wind blowing briskly at the time from the south-west, the flames were carried from shed to shed and barn to b arn w ith f ea rful rapidity, till the whole of the buildings on three sides of the quadrangle were in flames, and great fears were entertained f or t h e safety of the house, the fire having considerably scorched the large tree which stood between the house and the new granary. Some difficulty w ou ld have been found in getting the engin e to work, from the almost criminal unconcern of th e la bourers who had assembled,if the engineer had not fortunately ten with him from H ert f ord as many people as the engine could carry. Nothing was done without preliminary demands for beer. T he stack of wheat was pulled down and principally removed ; b u t th e fire extendedto the other buildings in a line with the wheat barn, totally destroying the chaise-house an d new granary, and threatening instant destruction to the almost conti guous house. From the wheat barn it communicated n. Th e new gra nary to the th a t c h of the barley barn on th Q ot h er side of the gateway, where was the produce of 12 acres ; thence to the cow s h e d, an d to the stables, w oo l- house, and old n s j granary on the third side of the yard, where gs it was stopped by pulling was e and would hav e con t a i ne d more than a hundred quarters of just wfinnisahrir,tiwoitnhotfhte exceptionhebuildi of th e bi ns, grain. The loss is estimated at near 2,000/. The stock and buildings were insured in the Sun Fire -office. How the fire originated is a matter of upcertaint Y ; but there are many s t rong c i rcu mstances which warrant the sus picion of its being the work of some diabolical incendi aries.—Herts Reformer. The Mcrning Post, after alluding cursorily to some of the recent Ministerial changes, comments in the fol- Parliamentary proc ee di ngs o f lowing terrng on i:29 aovernment during the last two or three months of the Session :—' o lt is scarcely nee,ggary to call to mind, that, notwithstanding all ilia Was said by the Libe rals' last May of the absolute necessity for strengthen ing the Government, and obtaining a majority in the House of Commons, nothing was done to that purpose during the S ess i o n. From the middle of May to tne middle of August the Administration was just as weak and as contemptible—just as unable to do what it professed to think necessary to be done—as it was from the middle of February to the middle of May. Indeed, instead of mending, it grew palpably worse. It became daily more and more evidently dependent upon Court favour—more and more os• tentatiously feeble in both Houses of Parliament. It wound up the Session with the exhibition of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer kicked like a foot-ball by Mr. O'Connell from a measure which be declared to have been considered and unanimously resolved upon by the Cabinet. Lectured and reprimanded in the House of Lords, laughed at and beaten in the House of Com mons, the Administration huddled up the affairs of the Session, and prorogued, amid the hissing scorn of the whole country . Th e Chancellor of th Exchequer, almost crying w i t h vexat i on, got a coronet to soothe his mortified spirit ; and the rest looked each at his banker's book, where there was a very agreeable entry once a quarter. Thus were they all reconciled to their fate." The Morning Advertiser speaks as follows, on the subject of the late elections at Cambridge and Man chester :—" We yesterday adverted to the immoderate exultation in which the Tories are indulging, at what they are pleased to cad their recent victory at Cam bridge. They take care, however, to maintain un broken silence on the subject of the counterbalancing defeat they have sustained at Manchester. This is doubtless discreet on their part, and only affords a further proof of their being what we have always allowed they were—excellent tacticians. But though the Tories, for cogent reasons, choose to re main mute at the result of the Manchester election, it does not follow that we ought to imitate their exam ple. Their signal defeat must have been doubly rnorti fying, in consequence of the confident expectations of success which they cherished up to the last moment. And on what were those expectations grounded? Prin cipally on the anticipated division of the Liberal inte rest, which they imagined would be effected through the instrumentality of that Tory-Chartist, Colonel Thompson. They laid the flattering unction to their souls, that the population of Manchester was sectioned into two great political divisions, Conservatives and Chartists ; and that, consequently, there was not the shadow of a chance for any man who came forward as a candidate on the intermediate principles. The friends of Mr. Greg were unanimously voted insane fur ima gining for a moment that there was even the slightest probability of his return. Well, and what was the result ? Behold the Liberal candidate triumphantly elected, and cease to wonder at the supreme mortifica tion and utter confusion of the vanquished Conserva tives. Colonel Thompson, true to his ilfarplot cha racter, made desperate efforts to aid and abet the cause of Toryism. He kept the poll open till the latest moment allowed by law, and addressed and re-addressed his Chartist friends. Alas, for the Gallant Gentleman's oratory, or his principles, or rather, perhaps, both !" DREADFUL CATASTROPHE On Saturday evening about six o'clock the inhabi ;ants of the Edgeware-road were thrown into a state of great alarm, occasioned by the fall of a house, No. 89, on the eastern side of the Edgeware-road, a few floors from the New-road, St. Marylebone, belonging to Mr. Blake, hosier, who also occupies the two adjoining houses. From information obtained on the spot, it appears that a few weeks since the adjoining house being old and un tenable, was pulled down for the purpose of being re built. On Saturday last some workmen were employed in digging a new foundation, in doing which they were compelled to undermine some portion of the foundation of Mr. Blake's house, but which they had neglected to shore up. A few minutes before six o'clock on the above evening, the workmen were preparing to leave off work, when they heard a loud noise, and before some of them could make their escape the premises of Mr. Blake came down with an awful crash, which sounded like a distant peal of artillery, burying its inmates in the ruins. As soon as the dust occasioned by the catastrophe bad in.. some degree cleared off, the neighbours and others brought to the spot set about clearing away the- rubbish to get at the unfortunate sufferers, and in a short time they suc ceeded in extricating the body of a young woman about eighteen years of age, which proved to be Mary Lansbury the servant-maid, who, at the moment of the catastrophe was in an upper room, user as a kitchen, washing up the tea-things. She was found between two rafters, and presented a most shocking spectacle. Her head was smashed to atoms, and the upper part of her body other wise shockingly mutilated. She was immediately con veyed on a shutter to the Western Pencral-Di.p....ary in-the - New-road, 'where - she was seen by Mr. Lomax, the surgeon, who pronounced life quite extinct. Shortly aftersrvards the assistant of Mr. Blake and a w orkman were got out, b u t we are very h appy in being 'able_ to I state that they were more frightened than hurt. The assistant, at the time of the catastrophe, was returning along the shop from serving two customers who had pnly departed a few moments, and crept beneath the counter where he was found, and which had sustained the whole weight of the premises. Mr. Blake and his family were at the time of the catastrophe in the adjoining house 1 RISII SUPERSTITION.—A SWELLING BOY. —A boy once clambered to the top of this holy cell (of Gollerus), and stole the bell. stone, which he carried away with him, for some good or bad reason now forgotten. But he had scarcely reached the village with it, when, to his horror, he found himself beginning gradually to swell all over like an inflating balloon ; for which strange and awful phenomenon no explanation could be given, except that the guardian spirit of the place had punished him in this terrific manner for his depredation upon the property of the Church. What to do to appease the anger of the supernatural protector of the bell-stone, or to propitiate it, puzzled the poor boy and the terrified villagers. He soon became too large to get out through the door of his cabin, and still went on increasing, swelling bigger and bigger, un til at last it appeared probable that he would have grown as big as the little chapel itself; and then, most probably, have died of repletion. Happily this sad fate was pre vented by a plan to which his mother had recourse,after her unfortunate son had, by gradual swelling, nearly come to that extraordinary size that he must have either pushed out the walls of his cabin, or have squeezed all its inmates to death against them, or have burst asunder himself. But before he had quite arrived at these dimensions, his dis tracted mother suddenly thought that, by restoring the charmed stone to its original position, her son might pos sibly appease the offended being by whom he was punished in this dreadful manner. The stone was accordingly con veyed back to the church, and in one moment the boy found himself restored to his natural dimensions—thus escaping, by the happy thought of his mother, the awful fate which threatened him. Where this stone now is no one knows ; it has either been taken away by the presiding spirit, or otherwise disposed of. But certain it is, that all the people of the district believe the story, as I heard it, to be quite true, and would sooner pick a hole in their own cabins than take one stone from his holy cell, which is under such powerful and mysterious guardianship, Cm/me Otway. A COACII MADE COMFOItTABLE.--It will be seen by advertisement in another column that the Regulator, from the Lion Hotel, has been put upon a superior footing of accommodation, so as to breakfast and lunch in Bath and dine in London.—Bath Chronicle. liahnneman, the father of homeopathy, who is now 85 years of age, has so many patients that he is corn• palled to turn a portion of them over to his wife, a lady asho, having been cured, or having fancied that she was cured by homoeopathy, married her Doctor under the im pulse of admiration and gratitude, and now assists him in his labours. —Letter from Paris. Animal maTietisin still maintains its ground in Paris, and has recently made some converts among medical men. There is an exhibition every Friday at the Athenee, in the Rue de Valois, to which persons arc admitted by , tickets. At the exhibition of yesterday six persons were successfully operated upon, and one of them at least was above suspicion, for it was a young lady of the highest re spectability, who happening to be present with her brother, and having some doubt as to the reality of the thing, re solved upon trying it. She was put into a magnetic sleep in less than two minutes.—Letter from Paris. EXTRAORDINARV CASE.—On Friday evening a Coroner's inquest was held at the Harrow public-house, Kensworth Green, Herts, on the body of Mr. Thomas Briden, an opulent farmer, residing at Thrales End Farm, who was discovered hanging, and quite dead, in one of his barns, on Wednesday last. The circumstances of the case were rather of an extraordinary character. it appeared that the d ecease d h a d b ee n e ngaged with his man in and cart ing so me w h ea t a t th e commencement of the w ee k,them that while his teams were so occupied one of t m came in c on t act w i t h a cart belonging Pepperman,farmer named a farm residing in the same neighbourhood, ighbuouprahn this ood,and the deceased's cart was overturn°a pitchfork felled him to the a v n io d let p rt ep q p u er a m rr a e a l , t a o n o d k th p a lac f e orm b e e rn t d we s e e n ia. ed the a deceased Pepperman severely, 'ins a enstb e. The next day g an ro d un b d e , a a t nd Pe h P e aw a) that Pepperman was deceased having received information • was in a dangerous state, sent to him to request his for giveness,but the latter replied, that if the halter was Briden's doom he should have it, and that he would not base any reconciliation with him. After this message the deceased appeared dreadfully alarmed, and he was heard by his servants to say, several times, that he must either fly the country or destroy himself. On Wednesday morning he was found lying as described, and quite dead. Evidence was adduced to show that the deceased was of weak and imbecile mind ; and tho Jury, after a full inquiry, returned a verdict, that the deceased destroyed himself in a tempo rary fit of insanity. The Foreman of the Jury, after the verdict was returned, inquired whetner they might not in flict a deodand upon the deceased? The Coroner in quired upon what ground. The Juryman replied, on the ground that he had assaulted Mr. Pepperman. The Co roner said there was no ground for any deodand being levied. In the case of a brute animal or inanimate thing causing the death of an individual, the Jury would be jus tified in allowing a deodand, but the present was a totally I different case. The deceased was a man of very large pro- I perty in the neighbourhood. Mr. Pepperman has since quite recovered frora the effects of the injuries inflicted upon him by the deceased. kVRNENt: EDITION. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 7.—The Phoenix steam-vessel will sail tc-morrow for the north coast of Spain, taking out two officers of the Royal Artillery, and First Lieu tenant Tra vers , o f t h e R oyal Marines—the latter to join the battalion at St. Sebastian. The Madagascar, 44, Captain Wallis, came into harbour on Wednesday, and will be paid off the latter end of the ensuing week. The Lilly, 16, Commander Deare, arrived yesterday from Plymouth, for the purpose of investigating, before a Court-Martial, charges prefewd , against the gunner of ship. 72, Capt. - ftenderson, went out o f the The shEi harbour on Tuesday, and is waiting orders ; she will most probably proceed to Lisbon, and thence to the Mediterranean. The Ringdove, Hon. Commander Stewart, 16, was at St. John's, New Brunswick, on the 941 i of August. The Cracker cutter, tender to the Seaflower, came in yesterday from Jersey, to refit. The Jupiter troop-ship, Mr. Fulton, Master, was at Columbo on the 3d of May, waiting orders respecting the 61st Regiment, as it was uncertain if the Governor- General of India would permit the return of the regi ment to England. I T , h h c e H A o ra ra b ti o s t t e r a a L n n s - p v e o s r s t e arrived sailed t 0 0 - n d a N y , from ve dne s Woolwich. day, with troops, for Cork. The Hecla steamer sailed on Monday for the West Indies, touching at Plymouth. The Duke of Argyll, for Madras, and Samson, for New York, sailed on Wednesday ; the True Briton, for Madras, arrived from the River yesterday, and La Belle Alliance, for the Cape and Bombay, tosclay. The Duke of Argyll is now anchored at St. Helen's, driven back by the westerly winds. The Medusa, a new mail steam-packet, fitted for the station between Liverpool and Kingstown, has just com menced running. She made her first passage across the Channel on the 2d instant, performing the distance, 123 miles, in nine hours and forty minues, which is said to be the shortest ever noticed. The Medusa is a splendid verse), 880 tons, built at Pembroke, and commanded by Lieut. J. P. Philips, late of the Lucifer. In Ilarbour—Britannia, Victory, Excellent, Royal George, Madagascar, Phoenix (steam-frigate), Rattle snake, Firebrand, Messenger (steamer), and Cracker (tender). At Spithead—Blenheim, Edinburgh, Pique, Lily, Horatio (transport), La Belle Alliance (East Indiaman). PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenant— Wm. Rowlatt, to the Niagara. Assistant Surgeon— J. 11. Haire, to the Impregnable. Mate—Henry Chads, to the Excellent. PLYMOUTH, SErr. s.—The Boadicea transport, bound to Bermuda, arrived on Saturday from Ports mouth. The Belleisle, 72, arrived on Monday from a cruise, and was towed into harbour yesterday to be caulked, having strained very much in the late tem pestuous weather. The Hecla steam-vessel, bound to the West Indies, arrived on Tuesday from Sheerness. The Lily, 16, sailed to-day for Portsmouth. The Netley tender arrived on Wednesday with supernume raries for Falmouth. _ _ _ In Hamoaze--- - Impregnable, San Josef, Partridge Apollo, Hecla steam-vessel, Carron steam• vessel, Goodwill, and Swale lighters. In Baropool—B.2lleisle. In the Sound—Boadicea transport. The Navy will regret to learn that, under the ar rangements resulting -from the elevatioD of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Peerage, Mr. Charles Wood, the active and intelligent Secretary to the Admiralty, quits that departtent: We have fre quently heard officers and others express their asto nishment at the facility with which the Honourable Secretary made himself acquainted with the most mi nute details of the service, civil and military ; and it is certain that such a comprehensive knowledge of a subject, not the most inviting for a landsman:s study, could only be acquired by intense and undivided ap plication to the duties of his office.— Naval and Military Gazette. THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. So many idle and erroneous statemei:ts are flying about respecting these interesting operation, that we • have felt it a duty to our readers to ascertain and report the exact state of the case, without troubling them or ourselves with any speculations as to causes. Oa Thursday, the sth, although the weather was very un fal ourable, another of the large cylinders was lowered to the side of the wreck, and the galvanic spark again tried, but, as before, without effect, on the .firing of the charge, one of the wires, owing to the tempestuous weather, having been broken. An impression having ' got abroad that the galvanic action may have been interfered with by the depth of the water and the length of the submerged wires, we nave made particular inquiry into this branch of tbe sub ject, and we find that sev e ral manor explosions have been successfully made' 'bi - Colonel Pasley at Spithead this week, by means - or:ibis Arry galvanic operation, at the depth of 15 fathoms (which is two fathoms and upwards more than on the wreck), with every other circumstance equally similar to that used in the case of the great cylinder. In the meantime Col. Pasley, unwilling to defer any longer active operations, has exploded a number of minor charges against the Royal George. By means of these explosions, which, we should mention, were fired by Beckford's fuses, after being hauled into their proper position by lines passed through rings by the divers, large pieces of the wreck have finally been wrenched off, and then drawn to the surface by ropes fixed to them by the divers. In this way Col. Pasley has succeeded in bringing up 14 feet of the mainmast, including that part embraced by the maindeck partners, several large beams of from 15 to 20 feet long, a knee marked L.xxvi. nr., and a number of bolts, rings, and belaying cleats. The work of destruc tion being now fully commenced, still more active measures are taken to keep up a brisk fire, we may look for results more and more interesting every day. We regret very much to add that a serious accident occurred on Friday on board the Success. One of the small metal vessels, containing a charge of gunpowder, preparatory to an explosion, was incautiously rolled against a bolt and stove. Colonel Pasley ordered it to be taken tri the magazine and emptied. This was done ; but the person employed omitted the precaution which Colonel Pasley always prescribes in such cases, of rinsing the vessel out with water, and accordingly, just as the soldering proce s had commenced, a small quan tity of powder remaining in the vessel exploded, and fractured the leg of the poor Sapper employed to repair the damage. He was immediately sent to the Artillery Hospital, and we are glad to say is doing well. Two more huge beams, one of them covered with ringbolts, have been brought up to-day, That part of the wreck to which the large charge of powder was fired yesterday (2601b5.) has been examined to-day by the divers, who report that it is so completely shattered that, by help of chain slings, it may all be brought up.— Hampshire Telegraph of Saturday. TIIE LATE PERTH ELECTION.—WC are sorry .o find a misunderstanding prevails between the friends of Mr. Oliphant and Mr. David Greig, the Provost of Perth, returned at the late election for the borough. In the ad dress, under the head " The late Perth Election,". Mr. Grcig successfully justifies himself against anyttling like double-dealing towards Mr. Oliphant. As far as the Liberal cause is concerned, it is agreed on by all who know Mr. Greig, that the electors of Perth, a majority of whom are very decidedly Liberal, could not possibly be more fitly represented than they are by that gen tleman. The electors of Perth have, like other constituencies, their partialitie3 and predilections; but we are assured from those who are well ac quainted with the political feeling of that- part of the country, that, in giving Mr. Greig the -preference over Mr. Oliphant, they were well aspired that the former would in no respect fall short of . the latter in his zeal to uphold the Liberal cause. We have observed with regret that a Sunday Contemporary, the Spectator, in noticing l I stanch s t Liberal confidence tha e i n the Provost ze Mr. Greig's address , seem s to cast som ething like doubt on the principles of M r. Grei g . W e are assured that if Mr. Greif; did not dwell at more length on hi s pr i nc i ples, it is because he was addressin g me n thoroughly acq ua i n t e d al for of Perth never sat within the walls of the H ,nn drel" Aor i m ngt e llefu eo of Com twhiethgohmoid cause. m ons. No constituency in Scotland is more d •use ore decidedly Liberal than that of Perth, and they took care to choose a , re presentative respecting whom there could be no mistake.' --Morning Chronicle. FIRE. —On • Saturday morning a fire broke out Robert on the premi ses of Esq., No. 32, Bul strode-street, .Manchester-square which entirely c les,:;.oytel efurniture, and damaged the pi,: , - the whole o f t h e valuabl ' 1 mites. It originated from the housemaid placing a candle too near the bed curtains. A CURIOUS AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY RECENTLY MALE,— A man was charged with having poi- ‘ coned a p erson w i t h w h om h e was dr i n ki ng, b y putt i n g ' verdigris in his glass, and death having ensued, the sto mach and entrails were submitted to what has hitherto been considered an unequivocal process. A certain quan tity of copper was discovered, and no doubt was enter tained that verdigris had been administered. Some I unexpected results in this process having, however, led one of the chemists engaged in the investigation to believe that copper and lead were to be discovered by this process in cases where none had been taken, be performed the same experiment upon several persons who had died a natural death, and ascertained the existence either of lead or copper in every case, but by another process no stch re. sults were obtained. It does not appear that any experi ment has yet been made with the new process; upon persons w ho had died from the e ff ects of p oison by one of these substances; but s ufficient has been ascertained to show that the discovery of copper or lead by the process hitherto employed is no proof that the party had been poisone d. When it is considered that in several cases was not present in the where the po ison. stomach, from the length of ti me which had transpired between the perpe tration of the supposed crime and the death of the person, the presence of the poison by chemical analysis, under the-- presumption that it had been absorbed, has been taken as a conclusive proof of guilt, deep regret must be felt that so much importance was attached to a minute process of chemistry which is now shown to have been founded in error.—Letter from Paris. 1 I