The Sun. — London, England, 1839-09-06 00:00:00

EV kNING - EDITION NEW ZEALAND IN 1835 -11 r New Zealand is now become as familiar to Eng ;- lkihmen as Van Diemen's Land and New South W a l es ; vast numbers of our countrymen have settled there, the current is still on the increase, , and any authentic account of the present condition and future prospects of this valuable and interesting country must be acceptable to ,English readers. Dr. Lang, a Presbyterian clergyman, who is already known to the literary world by his " Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales," has just published four letters, addressed to the Earl of Durham, on the colonization of the country, with an 'amount of the present condition and prospects 'of its native inhabitants. The author had resided for sixteen years in the Colony of New South Wales ; his attention had, during that time, been much directed to the condition and pros pects of the native inhabitants of the nume -1 rout islands of the Southern Pacific, and espe cially to the group of islands known under .the general name of New Zealand. From the fre quent intercourse between these islands and the Australian Colonies, he had opportunities of ac quiring much practical knowledge of their general resources and capabilities, and having visited them -- onde .., , and being a man of much observation, and not afraid to express his feelings or opinions about land sharks, missionaries, whalers, emancipists, con vict-stockmen, Colonial stockholders, editors of Co lonial Newspapers, and of individuals in general, " waiving the garb of gentlemeu, and utterly dis gracing the English name, we shall make no apa)gy for giving copious extracts from a publi cation abounding in intereoting statements, which we fear, ipr the sake of our countrymen, are entitled to too. much credit. He describes the editors in a very short sentence, but it is a pithy one—" In shore, to toik of moral principle and of Colonial politi cians of any party in the same day would be sin gularly absurd " This remark is contained in a note, and the subject to which it refers would ap pear to justify its severity:— . .. Within the last twenty years," says Dr. Lang, " there were four different nations of Aborigines, each seasking a language of its own, in the island of Van Diemen's Land ; but for several years past there has sot been a single native on that island! After a long 1 period of exterminating warfare, the miserable remnant of the aboriginal race was at length collected from all t par* dike island, and conveyed to a small island in Bass' liat -rents, by an individual whose heroic devotedness to 1 d - eof outraged and oppressed humanity has been se ; if . 9t, all, inferior to that of the celebrated ..1, rd.---(Mr. G. Robinson, now chief protector of 'l he Aborigines in New South Wales.) In that island it they have been reclaimed in a great measure from their -sarv3c habits, and instructed in the principles and du ties df the Christian religion ; but as they have re cently been dying off very fast, either from con !' •streiption or from confinement, Sir John Frank tlie, the Governor of Van Dien en's Land, and my Lord Glenele, strongly recommended some time ago, that an asylum should be given them at Port Philip on the south coast of New Holland, the expense of their maintenance to be paid by Van Dieman's Land. But ev42 this miserable boon, my Lord, has been refused them—on the ground of their not being sufficiently civilized and Christianized yet—by a cold-blooded Committee of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, with a Protestant Bishop for their Chair -1 men ! Nay, as the law in that Colony has recently t been taking cognizance of certain murderous outrages \lately committed on the defenceless Aborigines of New South Wales, by the convict-stockmen of the country, lelided and abetted by their wealthy Colonial masters, in- I div:duals wearing the garb of gentlemen, and utterly dis. gracing the British name, have recently been giving out in the Colony, that they will henceforth take a quieter ! mode of getting rid of the black natives, whose grievous i wrongs, my Lord, do sometimes, I confess, render them 1 troublesome at the distant cattle stations, viz. by giving i them wheaten bread, of which they are exceedingly fond, siceped in a solution of arsenic." On this mrocious mode of getting rid of trouble tome neighbours, the Doctor makes the following cod - lineman; ;...... - - J ''This atrocity of feeling, unheard-of before in the British Empire, has been greatly encouraged by a por- ' tton of the Colonial - press, especially by the Sydney He rald, the paper in most extensive circulation in New 'South Wa;es ; the Aborigines being systematically spoken of in that paper in the most contemptuous terms, and described as ' 'make) s," black brutes,' &c., and the policy of getting rid of them in the most summary manner, strongly though insidiously rroommended. The Herald, lam sorry to add, is the principal - Tory paper of the Colony, and is patronised by a large number of tae wealthy colonial stockholders, v. hose interests, forsooth, it thus professes to uphold. The individual who at present writes for that paper is an emancipated convict from Dubin, whom I succeeded about four years ago, at the risk of, an action for libel, xi getting dismissed from the editorship of the Sydney Gazette, by a series of article's published in another journal which I had established myself (for moral and educational and not political purposes), in which I had pointed out to the C'oionial public the enormity and die gracele (Ammeter of a state of things which would per mit such a person to occupy sa highly important and retpoosible an office. My exertions on that occasion store ipplauded by the Sydney Herald, because it witted' the politics of that paper to represent the Colo eV Vhtg Government of the day as the patrons of the !owe& ?refs ; but na sooner was the purpose of the townent• served, than the dismissed emancipated con vict editor was taken into the pay of the Herald to write I l about ' monkeys' and ' black brutes,' for the infor mation and amusement, of those sheep and cattle hold erei of the colour, whose assumed interest it was to have ' *woe ' monkeys' and ' black brutes' shot or poisoned by their convict servants." The Missionaries sent out by the Church Mis sionary Society are treated with as little ceremc.my or 1 mercy. " I am confident, my Lord (he says), it would be impossible to find a parallel in the history of any Protesvaut mission since the Reformation, to the amount of inefficiency and moral worthlessness which ttrat record presents.—(This record is a manuscript account, drawn up from unquestionable authority, of every Missionary that set foot on New Zealand up to 1824.) Indeed, Divine Providence appears to have frowned upon the New Zealand Mission all along, and blighting and blasting from Heaven seem to have rested upon it even till now. 'The first head of it was dismissed for adultery ; .the second for drunkenness ; and the third (so lattely 'as the year 1836) for a crime still more enormous than either." In a note the author gives the initials of one of the parties, and by a quotation from Virgil leaves no doubt about the alleged crime for which he was dismissed. We see from a statement published in the Christian Spectator, that the amount sub ' scribed last year by the British nation in aid of the Church Missionary Society is 72,0311., and if this ralst sum is expended, as a portion of it appears to be in New Zealand (or rather was, for he admits there is some improvement), not in propagating the Gospel, or humanizing the natives, but in en couraging licentiousness, and in promoting the sel fish interests of the Missionaries, the Society may he regarded as a curse rather than a blessing. But the Doctor does not rest satisfied with general at tacks on the Society and its agents, he points out what they have done and what they are doing, gives the names, the lands they have acquired, and the ruinous effects which the system has produced on thq unfortunate natives. " "iny is it," he asks, " that the Christian religion, , as exhibited in the teaching of the Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, has hitherto taken so slight a hold —for such is unquestionably the fact—on the hearts an d a ff ect i ons of the NeW Zealanders ; for while the baptised natives do not exceed two hundred . a m poi d tlipact; even am ong there are frequent instances of the ministers of'ntolaneg 1 for the success ofGospel &charge the duties of 4 StitintiOUSly, it is neverthelessr theirare in no respect responsi blethel ministry, provided they undeniable, do not engage in their work • *Pry of albsi, and the extension o w f it t i l: reeavour to 'serve God and a thsni ? Why, my Lord, although offi ce honestly and con mon;hat if they a single eye to tile e Kingdom of Christ, ' .t 4. undoubtedly issue in disc failure be chargeable entirely u their efforts poPnPt7intrnerit, and their hem selves ef . ase N ot ow th l e ),!, meprehend, my Lord, that this is exactl theo tlat want T o w Zealand Vission, and the true source • 0 .1 success wha has hitherto peen experienced Missionaries, and is so generally complai ne d of byi the i 3 laid. For instead o.' coefinine themselves with ' the the X s t a terestedness that became their office t o the con scientious ucientious discharge of their im p o rtant duties, as th e . professed disciples of ' Him who, though rich, for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty m i g h t be rich,' the Missionaries of the Church Missionary s o . eisissy in,New Zealand, utterly incredible as it may appeal in Dili : land, have actually been the principals in the grand conspiracy of the European inhabitants of the is • land to rob and plunder the natives of their land !" And in a few pages further on, he adds I : " I was, unf or t una tely, usable, my Lord, exactly the real ex t en t of the land posses r se l, d ' to or ascertain cloim ed, 1 en the ground of alleged purchases from the natives, by tele Church MiQsionaries and their sons in New Zsa :and, either in English acres orsquare miles (the latter is the u sua l mode of computation in the island); but your .. Lordship w ill b e a bl e to tonal some idea on the )ret, when I state, on t h e aut h or i t y o f se veral intel :gent persons residing onile spot with the Soci e ty, t h at i f the vaivable, and unconnected bye ' timb er grow-I l i D g on the land so claimed, or possessed, were to be I THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1839. THE EGLIN TON' TOURNAMENT. The following splendid dresses, worn at the tournament, were omitted in the list of Monday : DUCHESS OF MONTROSE. MORNING COSTUME.—Dress of ruby velvet, having ar morial bearings on left side emblazoned in gold on corn-_ flower blue velvet ; jacket of black velvet, trimmed with miniver, with hanging sleeves faced with miniver ; long tight velvet sleeves ; upper part of bodice ornamented with jewels ; mantle of corn-flower blue velvet trimmed with miniver. Head-dress, a cap of blue velvet barred with gold, over which was worn a coronet of stones set in gold. Gauntlets embroidered with gold. EVENING COSTUME. —Petticoat of rich cerise velvet, relieved by a breadth of silver watered cloth richly or namented with precious stones; jacket of silver cloth trimmed with Russian sable ; hanging sleeves, lined with cerise and turned up with sable facings ; long tight sleeves of silver, fastened at the wrist with emeralds and diamonds. Head-dress, a magnificent tiara of diamonds, with pendant veil of silver canvas. Gauntlets embroidered with silver. THE CHURCH IN THE COLt)NIES. ( From the Colonial Gazette.) The " Expenses of the Ecclesiastical Establishments LI the Colonies"-that is, the amount of public money paid annually to Clergy of various religious denomina tions-are stated in a Parliamentary Paper, printed by order of the House of Commons during the Session just closed. In the table given below, the reader will find a " general recapitulation," or abstraet of the ac count. It presents some results worth notice .-Church of England, 134,450/. 10s. 11d. ; Church of Scotland, 9,967/. 6s. Bd. ; Dutch Church, 6,8861. 4s. 6d. ; Church of Rome, 14,7631. 1 15.4 d.; Totals, 166,067/.135. sd. Cape of Good Hope, Wesleyan Minister, 751.; Jamaica, Wesleyan Chapel, 500/. ; Jamaica, Baptist Chapel, 600/. ; Jamaica, Jews' Synagogue, 1,0001. ; General total, 168;242/. 13s. sd. The Archbishop of Canterbury told Lord Normanby that he did not complain of the amount of public money given to the Church, but he could not agree that all religious denominations should be put upon an equality. In so far as the State recognizes other sects by giving money to them as well as to the Church, the claim of the Church to exclusive aid from the State is disregarded ; and it was against this, probably, that the Archbishop intended to protest ; for, as respects the amount of aid contributed, the superiority of the Church over other Christian denominations is maintained. For instance-in Upper Canada, where, as Lord Dur ham's Report declares, the members of the Anglican Church are a minority, the sum of 7,476/. 15s. 10d. is allotted to them, while the Church of Scotland receives only 2,1181. and the Church of Rome 1,6001. Out of the total 168,2421. 13s. sd. the Church of England gets 134,450/. 10s. 11 d.-the lion's share certainly. The venerable Primate had no cause to grumble at the pro portions in which the grants were divided among the different religious denominations. Looking a little further at the account, we see that it is not to the numbers of the clergy, so much as to the higher rate of payment, that the excess of the Church receipts is to be attributed. At Gibraltar, a Catholic Vicar-General and four other clergymen divide 300/. ; while two Chaplains to the Garrison, belonging to the Church of England, obtain in salary and allowances 745/. 7s. 4d. In the lonian Islands, three Chaplains of the Establishment receive 6851,, and three Roman Ca tholic Chaplains 91/. At the Cape, the sum given to the Dutch Church is 5,547/. 2s. 2d., but it is divided among twenty-three ministers ; while six English clergymen take 2,313/. 15s. The Dutch are paid at the rate of 2411 . ; the English 385/. In Upper Canada, twenty-six clergymen of the Church of Scotland are paid 57/. per annum each, amounting to 1,482/. ; the salaries of the English Church clergy vary from 10C/. to 3001., the great majority being 1701 and the total 7,4761. 15s. 10d. The sum of 1,0001. is paid to the Roman Catholic Bishop to be divided among twenty-nine clergymen of his church in Upper Canada. In Newfoundland, the Venerable the Archdeacon is paid 3001. ; the Roman Catholic Bishop 75/. And so it runs throughout the Colonies. Complaints, at any rate, should not come from the Established Church ; and perhaps the Bishops and Archdeacons, now in England, would act wisely in pocketing their sa laries'and saying little about them. THE LORD BISHOP OF GLOU CESTER AND BRISTOL. There is in this country, on the wild and secluded range of the Cotswold hills, a small and obscure village called Winstone. The late Rector died a few months ago, and nearly at that time it so happened that the advowson of the living, together with some adjacant property, was purchased by a gentleman named Lyons, who is we believe a resident solicitor in London. The cure of the parish of Winstone had for several months been entrusted to a curate who it appears gave much satisfaction to the parishioners. When the living be came vacant it reached their knowledge that this cu rate (a Rev. Mr. Holder) was to have the living. A consultation took place among the principal parish ioners, and a petition was drawn up and presented to the Bishop of the diocese. To this petition the Bishop returns the following answer:— " Cloisters, Westminster, May 18,1839. " have received this morning a letter from you, and signed by eleven of the parishioners of Win stone, complaining of the neglected state of your parish. The only instances which you specify are that the Sun day school has been suffered to decay, and that there is no Sunday and day school in the parish. This is in deed a serious and distressing thing. lam sorry that this has not been sooner communicated to me, and I will iose no time in writing to the Minister of the parish on the subject ; but in regard to a more efficient clergy man, you must be aware that the nomination of the in cumbent rests not with me but with the patron. " I am, Sir, your very obedient, humble servant, " J. H. GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL. The Churchwarden of Winstooe." Now, in the first place, the decay of the two schools are not " the only instances the parishioners specify of the neglect complained of." They instance first and ioremost the almost deserted state of the parish church, and afterwards the increlsed attendance at the dissent ing chapel ; plainly proving the strength of the cause which compels those who previously preferred and ad hered to the Church to have recourse to a place of worship from which they differ ; forced thither by the alleged misconduct of the minister of the Established Church. As his Lordship deems the minor charges " serious and distressing," it is fair to assume that he entertains a still stronger sense of the graveness of the more serious ones which he omits to notice. Under these circumstances it might have been expected that, in-toad of confining himself to a letter to the minister (which has produced no result), his Lordship might have recollected that though the presentation rests with the patron, the veto rests with him ; a veto entru , ted to him by the Church for the express purpose of guard ing parishes from the spiritual injury of inefficient ministers. The public, and especi a lly they who belong to the Church, will learn with surprise and pain that within a few weeks of the date of his Lordship's letter the curate was inducted into the living, and continues to reside and officiate, though we are credibly informed that the dis charge of his spiritual duties has become nearly a sine cure—that occasionally no one attends the church, and that no steps have been yet taken to restore the means of education.—Cheltenham Examiner. GUIZOT AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. —" Honour to M. Guizot," saith the Standard. M. Guizot is a Protestant and a Conservative, consequently not likely to be unduly prejudiced against a Protestant and Conservative Established Church—and as authority has always been of infinitely greater weight with the " Peel and Dawson crew" than the most cogent arguments, we recommend to them the following opinion of the man whom the Standard delighteth to honour, concerning that Church which it equally delighteth to support. In Guizot's twelfth lecture on the General History of Civili zation in Europe, pp. 345 and 346 of the Brussels edition, speaking of the Reformation, he says, " In England it has permitted the hierarchical constitution of the clergy, and the existence of a Church as full of abuses as the Romish Church has ever been, and infinitely more servile." For once we can join in the cry raised by the Standard, and exclaim " Honour to M. Guizot." LORD CLARENDON AND THF. SPANISH PATRIOTS Of the powerful impression made upon the public mind in Spain by the admirable speech of Lord Claren don in favour of the Queen's Government, so coarsely aspersed by the Marquis of Londonderry and his friends, some idea may be formed from the following gratulatory letters addressed to his Lordship by General Espartero, and the patriotic Tertulia of Madrid, for which we are indebted to the Spanish correspondence of the Morn ing Chronicle. We have learned from a different source that the Noble Lord has received several letters breathing the same sentiments from distinguished Spaniards of the highest rank ; and it is not at all unlikely that his Lordship's able defence of the Con stitutional cause will be further stamped by the appro bation of the Cortes : " DUKE OF VICTORIA TO THE EARL OF CLARENDON. " MY LORD—I have had particular satisfaction in perusing the speech pronounced in the House of Lords on Spanish affairs by your Lordship ; and my heart has been deeply affected by observing the interest which your Lordship takes in this magnanimous but unfortu nate country struggling to secure its Liberal institu tions, and consolidate the throne of its legitimate So- vereign. " The masterly manner in which your Lordship has analyzed and reduced to nothing the errors entertained of our political situation ; the favourable and honourable notion your Lordship has formed of the Spanish character, the exactness with which the Pretender and the principal personages of his party are described, and the generous incentive your Lordship offers to England to increase her aid in order to secure to us more rapidly the triumph of the noble cause which we defend, are so many sublime acts of generosity, which shall eternise your Lordship's memory and the people's gratitude in this ill-fated land and the pages of history—a feeling now universal amongst us, and the only tribute worthy of the noble and generous Clarendon, to whom this feeling is consecrated. " For my own part, I feel the greatest pleasure in as suring your Lordship of the general existence of this sen timent ; and in thus fulfilling my duty as a grateful Spaniard, and complying with the obligations of our former friendly relations, I have the honour, my Lord, to repeat myself your affectionate friend, &c. " Duke of VICTORIA. " Urbina, August 17." (From the Patriotic Terlulia of Madrid.) " TO THE EARL OF CLARENDON, &C. &C. The speech delivered by your Lordship in the Upper House of Parliament in England, on the 23d of last July, has been received in Spain with the strongest marks of favour and approbation. Foreign journals, con taining full reports of it, were sought by the public with the utmost avidity. It was immediately inserted at length into all those of the empire ; and as if this were not sufficient to satisfy the general demand, various trans lations and copious editions of it were, and are, being made, which will give it a degree of publicity never before experienced by any foreign document amongst us. It is because the Spanish people, up to the present moment, had heard no friendly voice from abroad make known to Europe their political situa tion, and the true genius of that struggle in which they are engaged, and felt too well the importance of the contents of that speech being diffused through every corner of the empire ; it is because they have seen all that is noble and generous in the national character, duly appreciated, and their reputation vindicated by your Lordship from the calumnies with which it has been sought to be darkened by the envy of some and the ignorance of others ; and because they are unabh , otherwise to recompense the benefit conferred upon them by this speech, that they take a pleasure in making it known universally to the country—a pleasure naturally resulting from that gratitude proper to noble and gene rous breasts, and most agreeable, doubtless, to hire whose lot it has been to draw it forth. " But some citizens who assembled together for the purpose, and many others who participate in and sub scribe to their opinions, thought they would not suffi ciently discharge the debt of gratitude they owed your Lordship, if they did not thank your Lordship in the most solemn and public manner for the faithful descrip tion of the state of Spain given by your Lordship to the House of Lords, the profound knowledge which your Lordship displayed of our affairs, and the extreme ac curacy with which you touched upon various other topics interwoven with them. By some your Lordship's just defence of the Queen's Government and Generals, whose conduct, seldom severe and generally mild in the ex treme, has been sought to be conf,unded with the ferocity of the rebel chiefs, has been particularly ad mired ; by others has been still more esteemed the picture which your Excellency has given of the ridiculous Court of the Pretender at the momont when lua declared hi, General-in-Chief a traitor, and When very soon aft, , r he had to ask his pardon and commit to the flames his own condemnatory decree ; thus has your Lordship made known not only to the people, but to Kings, that which the sceptre would be in the hands of him who in vain aspires to wield it against the laws and the national will. Some whose constant endeavour it has been to establish in Spain the representative system, with all its natural consequences. hat's' been plrticuiarly gratdicd by the favourable no- lice which your Lordship takes of our infant political customs and legislative assemblies, while those who had the pleasure of knowing your Lordship's promises in our favour on taking leave of the p,•ople of this city, re peat and declare that, as a true Englishman and man of honour, you have more than redeemed these pledges ; but that which one and all of us recognise as of greatest importance in your discourse, is that which your Lordship says of the absurd project of a mar riage between our Constitutional Queen and the rebel son of a rebel Prince. There is so much and obvious truth in all you have said upon this point, that nothing more could be added by our public men, if they had to express their opinion upon this base and impracticable union ; but at the moment when the faction approaches closer than ever to the impossiblity of their endeavours, and being no longer able to cohceal from the eyes of Europe their weakness, have to seak other means, if not to conquer, at least to save themselves from total de feat, a good opportunity presented for declaring that in such a measure they would find no refuge ; and, per haps, there was prudence, too, in the declaration, since events more or less remote might awaken in the minds of certain silly or disaffected persons the idea of such a marriage. " Thus all good Spaniards join in congratulating your Lordship upon the services rendered to the cause of liberty, of civilization, and the prosperity of this country, by this explanation. Well known and recog nised have been at all times the interests and relations which have united this country to England ; and proved by glorious deeds and recent and important aid, is the sincerity with which both nations are united in alliance but the opinion of the British Parliament, so respectable, which your Lordship has enlightened in a manner more perfectly than perhaps was ever done before in the case of Spain, not excepting the case of the question and times of the war of independence, the character of which it was easier to understand and appreciate, the opinion itself of Great Britain, in which your words cannot fail of producing great effects, and that of its enlight ened Government, which consults, directs, or follows it, cannot fail to influence, powerfully and favourably, that country in its policy towards Spain. Thus shall be made more solid, and perhaps enduring, the alliance between the two nations, and the civil war be terminated which afflicts us, more readily, and without injury to our liberties, and the guarantees which they possess in the Constitution of 1837. To your Lordship shall belong much of the glory, to both nations great and reciprocal advantages, and to us well deserved and deeply felt gratitude, who subscribe ourselves,—Your Lordship's respectful and bumble servants, &c. &c. &c." (Here follow the names.) SPRING RICE v. SUMMER WHEAT.-0 the Chancellor of the Exchequer it may be truly said, tha " nothing in his political life became him like the leaving of it." Like a good man and true, he has, towards the end of this far niente Session, hammered away right bravely at the Corn-laws, and shown himself re;olved to put the saddle on the right horse," in spite of Attwood and :all his works, backed by the in-Hume-an attacks of the Kilkenny cat, or rather of all that is left , a bit of the tail. The last onset of the national cashier is perhaps his most furious and most forcible. It is no Eglinton tournament work, with shaft cut across the grain, rounded lance head', and soft sawdust to receive the " seat where honour dwells," of discomfited tinfoil Nobility. No ; it is a re al, right down English blow, fair into the bread basket, supported by some hard hits on the knowledge box , and an appeal to the " bowels of com p a ssion," which must seriously have astonished the wea k minds of the " elegant extracts," who still pr e f erre d duty, soda water, and killing time, to ahocting grouse, girls, or other game in the provin ces. If you don't believe us, judge for yourselves, and if you be dirt dealers, alias landorvners, tremble. " The Hon. Member for Kilkenny attributed the high rate of in terest aitogether to the Bank. But the present state of the Corn-laws was at the root of the question.—( Hear.) It could not be expected that the country should make payment for five millions of fox •eign corn, and that should not create an exchange again st the country. Whatever banks existed in this country, tl - le necessary consequence of that altered balance must be !Ix e production of all the phe nomena which the Hon. Mc zber attributed to the ex istence of the Bank of Engler, d. He thought the course pursued by the Hon. Member was very unjust. It diver ted the attention of the peo pie of England and of tha public from the real cause of the whole matter. If we had a more free trade in forcit fn corn, and it was paid for by the manufactures of this cot- ,ntry, we should not be sub ject to casualties so great, nor dangers so pressing. This is well and truly said ; yea, bravely garnished with an amazing amount of candour s uid honesty to a Minister of Medem, Courtier The Russianf Francaisll'i.following m — b a a l n:a dcccolor°r is copied from the State—Corn Law Circular. that did sheno t bad interfere e a r f directer e in Paris, to Marshal Soult, teeti-nnunication made by Count the former the affairs of Russia from rffording it. Belgium or S ai a, began by stating th at interest in the affairs of the P E ast ; that she felt obliged to maintain that influence, so that If the Sultan asked tor Rus- R bu ti t ssia sian aid, e; M. Medem added, that f the 4 Sultan called ow England and France to send succeor, the, n , and then only, would no "ng should revel 0 Russia tolerate the presenceof thei r fleets at Constantinople. " Our vessels are ready," (weal Count Medem, "so are our troops tin forty-eight hours th e y can be unde r the walls of the S erag lio, whilst Fran e e re q uires three we e ks to send troops. For every 10,0( )0 men you send, Russia can send 50,000." This brutal fani 4 rronado roused the heart of the old soldier, who replied, •u' The Russians may do all this ; but if they do, we will burn Sebastopol." YELLOW FEVER IN NEW ORLEANS.—The Bee of the 3d says- 4, We have made careful inquiry at the sources where accurate information is most likely to NEW YO TItICALS 1 ( From the New York Morning Herald, of Aug. 13.) Next Monday, or rather next Monday night, com mences the grand theatrical campaign in our " Great Metropolis." On that night Forrest opens the National Theatre, in his favourite part of Metamora, a character which is not only exclusively his by right of purchase, but which we venture to say no actor in or out of ex istence could render so popular as himself. The Bowery of course will not close, especially as for some days to come, they must have nearly a mono poly of the theatrical business. Hamblin thus having the field to himself, intends to revive some of Mas singer's old plays, a measure which will meet our most hearty approval, provided he does not permit either of his " talented adaptators" to emasculait the text with their scissors, or to improve it with their pens. The Olympic and the Franklin are at the present time doing the " cheap and nasty" business. The for mer splits the ears of the groundlings with spouters of the very greenest order, while the latter, less ambitious in its aspirings, delights those who are admirers of herculean feats with the outre contortions of a troop of " voltigeurs." Niblos will of course keep the field yet for some weeks, and as a large portion of the audience there are formed from a clique of conscientious personages, who will visit a garden to see vaudevilles and rope-dancing, when they would not, to save their souls, go to a theatre to witness a play, we may expect to find as good an at tendance, and to get as bad a glass of punch at the garden, as we have been accustomed to since the arrival of the Ravels, and the advent of Burton, upon whose shoulders the mantle of Jack Reeve is said to have rested. This is the present position of the Thespian army now, but let us see what are its future prospects ; for in this case the race will certainly be to the swift, and the crown of victory awarded to the strong. We shall therefore review the talent of their respective leaders, and calculate the intellectual and moral stamina of the rank and file. _ _ _ The managers of the National, as every body knows, played their cards badly at the close of the last season, and in consequence they shut their doors a few weeks sooner than they had calculated on. They did not, however, sit down quietly to mourn over their mishaps, but instantly commenced the re-embellishment and re decoration of the interior of the edifice ; and we are happy to bear testimony to the liberality, genius, and taste which have been displayed by the proprietors and the artists in their employ. We venture to assert, without fear of contradiction, that no theatre on this, and but few on the other side the Atlantic, will present a more brilliant coup dceil than the National, when crowded with the beauty and fashion of Gotham. As we do not expect, however, that the New Yorkers would attend a theatre, merely for the beau ties of its interior, we will, en passant, take a look at the comparative merits of the two companies, which are just now resting on their arms, or travelling with the speed of steam to the scene of action. 'lle following, we believe, is a pretty correct esti mate of the talents of the Park and National employees, both present and prospective : PARK. Tragedy. Shaw—the tyrannical Hield—the heroical Wheatley—the loveable; and Gann—the strutable. To be supported by Miss Cushman, and Mrs. Richardson. Comedy. NATIONAL. Tragedy. Forest, Charles Kean, Van clenh off, James W. Wallack, Henry Wallack, Miss Vandenboff, Mrs. Rogers, and Mrs. Sefton. Placide, Cresfield Richings, Power, Povey, Chippindale, and Fisher. To be supported by Mrs. Cresiield, Mrs. Fitztvilliam, Miss Poole, Mrs. Chippindale, M.s. Vernon, and Mrs. Wheatley. Opera. Guibilei, Nlanvers, Martin, and Comedy. Mons. Alexandre, Yankee Hill, Manager Mitchell, - Lotter, Lambert, Billy Williams, Young Wallack, Probably Browne, and S tan t ley. To be supported by Miss Monier, Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Lambert, Mrs. Rogers, and Miss Ay. es. Opera. Edwin To be supported by iss Inverarity, and 1 - s. Martin Wilson, Horncastle, Andrews, Mss Sheriff, Mrs. Bailey, and Mrs. Henry Wallack, late Miss Turpin. Ballet. Ballet The Taglionis, and Madame Guibilei. For the Musical Department', Celeste. Eliason and Thomas. The The Musical Department is former well known as a skill- ,not quite arranged, but as ful violinist, and the latter asiuppose that as Hughes has s,-cond leader to the Coventlgone to Eur,,pc, very little Gaiden orchestra for the last alteration will be made from season. the last season. Leaving the orchestral department out of the ques tion, we find by the foregoing enumeration, that the two companies are nearly on a par with respect to numbers, but that the National is the strongest in point of material and talent, especially in the higher v,alks of the legitimate drama. In tragedy, the Park only presents the additional name of a Mr. Shaw—we believe they might as well have taken Freer—who, according to the Courier, is to "do the tyrants." It is, however, somewhat unfortu nate for this gentleman, that a namesake of his has lately been doing a little in the tyrannical line, at the Bowery, and although his efforts may have been much to his own satisfaction, we believe he has found very few admirers or imitators. We presume therefore that the new Mr. Shaw will not follow in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor. In comedy, with Power and Placide, they may certainly do something, especially with the assistance of Miss Poole, and our old ac quaintance of the Surrey Theatre, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. In opera, the Park will rely on Guibilei and Miss Inverarity, but they will not be able to bear away the palm from Shirreff, Bailey, and Wilson, unless the Park management support them with some good second-rate singers, and a chorus efficient both in numbers and musical attainments. In ballet, Mr. Simpson must pro vide the same adjuncti—or fail. Now let us look at the force of the National. For rest is too well known and appreciated to need any comment. A full house may, therefore, be calculated for every night during his engagement. Can any one doubt but Charles Kean and Vandenhoff will - draw, when sustained by such artists as the two Wallacks and Connor ? Of Miss Vandenhoff the London cri tics have spoken favourably ; but independent of that circumstance, the rarity of a debutante in the higher walks of the drama cannot fail to prove attractive to such lovers of novelty as the denizens of this city. In comedy, the National appears a little the weaker of the two, but not sufficient, we believe, to turn the scale, provided Wallack brings some novelties in the shape of interludes and farces, and scientifically concentrates the talents of Browne, Mitchell, and Williams, on those nights when Mons. Alexandre and Yankee Hill appear. The public will thus perceive that the rival houses are nearly balanced, and that to the perseverance and tact of their respective managers they must, after all, depend mainly for success. The struggle will be despe rate, for the fortunes of each depend upon the result. The outlay of both has been unlimited, and to succeed, or even get a bare return upon the capital employed,the most energetic competition must be kept up, coute qui coute. There is no doubt but their expenses, without the stars, will be upwards of 600 dollars per night, and therefore they must have an audience which on an average will yield 750 dollars throughout the season. The ex penses of the National are calculated, in the best in formed circles, at 450 dollars, exclusive of stars, and to pay they must take 600 dollars, or lose money. The question then is, can the city sustain three large and three small theatres? and that question will be tested before another year expires. be obtained, and we are justified in concluding that yellow fever does exist in our city. In the Charity Hospital seven THE GALVANIC TELEGRAPH AT THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The space occupied by the case fatal cases have occurred, and there are now several patients containing the machinery (which simply stands upon a ill with the disease. Some cases have broken out in the city. We know of two young men, merchants 'clerks , who table, and can be removed at pleasure to any part of the r are now down with the fever. As yet , however the epide- room) is little more than is reguired for a gentleman's mic prevails to no very alarming extent ' • but with the in- hat-box , The tel e g r aph i s wo r k ed by merel y p res s in g t en se heats which have succeeded the long-continued and small brass keys (similar to those on a keyed bugle), copious rains, it is altogether probable that, in a few days, which acting (by galvanic power) upon various hands we shall have to record numerous cases. We, therefore, placed upon a dial-plate at the other end of the tele caution strangers who remain among us to be exceedingly graphic line, as far as now opened, point not only to each cautious in their habits, and to avoid exposure to the dews letter of the alphabet (as each key may be struck or of the morning and the evening, and, if possible, to the pressed), but the numericals are indicated by the same unmitigated fierceness of the sun's rays at micLday. means, as well as the various points, from a comma to a The last Java papers contain an official letter colon, with notes of admiration and interjection. There is likewise a cross (x) upon the dial, w h l a i s ich be i e n n dicat d es relating to the melancholy fate of a woman and her three children. She had gone wick them to a rice field to work, that when this key is struck a mistake telegraphed, and that when seeing a storm approaching, she ordered the two in some art of the sentence ues tion, such, for an "erasure " is intended. A eldest, a girl of eighteen and a boy of six years of age, to" How many passengers instance, as the following, p e r o o m ved on e home, intending to follow with the youngest girl, only eight months old. After stopping a little while in the started from Drayton by the from ten o t ' h c e le t c e k rm t i r n a u in s ? to " andtbe answer could be transmitted .Drayton field she set out to return hon.e, and had got about half way when a tiger leaped upon her, and after a desperate and back in less than twoof communication niii° te T h i i s s o w n a l s y pleted struggle tore the infant from her, but being pursued it fell quite dead. On returning home with the dead child, as far as the West Drayton station, which_ is about thirteen Paddington. There are wires (as a hollow iron tube, not more f Co t o h m in r m ee u g n h icating with each end, thus fa she found that the two eldest bad not been seen. Accom panied by several persons, she returned to the spot where miles and a half may be imagined)deseing the tiger had attacked her, and, discovering some traces of complet! than an inch and a half in diameter, which is fixed about blood, soon found the remains of the two children, who had six inches above the ground, running parallel with the been destroyed by the tiger, concealed in the rice. railway, and about two or three feet distant from it. It is HAVANNAH, JULY 30, 1839.—1 n our market, the intention of the Great Western Railway Company to produce has a downward tendency. Sugars nominally, 8 carry the tube a l o n g the line as f ast as completion of the 12 a 9 13 rs. ; Coffee, 2ds 14, ads, 9i Eii ; Molasses, 5 i rails takes place, and ultimately throughout the whole rs. ; Honey, 3 rs. per gallon. There is not an article distance to Bristol. The machinery and the mode of that will pay a profit now from the United States, our wor king it arc so exceedingly simple that a child who market being abundantly supplied. A fire outside the could read would (after an hour or two's instruction) be walls destroyed yesterday some 15 to 20 wooden houses. enabled efficiently to transmit and receive information. This occurred in front of the same place where, about two ANOTHER STEAM-BOAT F IRED INTO. —Th e American steam-boat St. Lawrence was fired into by a months since, there was another large fire. It caught in British armed schooner, near Brockville, U. C. The St. a grocery by igniting a pipe of rum. Oar city is quite healthy : we rarely bear of a case ofthe `when was passing down the river on her regular tri The natives enjoy better health in the warm i f e e v t c r. e when she was hailed by the schooner, and ordered to hoist cool season. yellow than or her colours. Thi s was not done, and three muskets were FROM HAVANNAII.—Captain Peder sen, then fired Ha- 1 upon her, and a cannon was of out for the ur the brig Patsy, B. Blount, arrived yesterday from H , pose•of beinused,when g P g vannah, reports that on the 30th of July a Spanish slave . Government ste , bm- oat Oneida was despatched to King e schooner arrived at Havannah. a prize to her Britannic stop to investigate " the . matter, when Captain Sandon, th Majesty's brig snake. The vessel was captured on the 3d Commander of the British `Forces on the lake, expressed of were Jullanded atwhich Jamaica, h and t time se had h e schooner 175 slaves onbroug board. They his ht to Ha. - surprise a n d regre t, an d i m mediately sent for the Captain of the schooner to investigate the matter. vannah for trial. ____ DU Cii %lAJi Hurprian Diet has ra solved to deliberate, in the first place, on the Royal pro- E E positions, and is now already engaged with the levy of recruits. We learn from good authority that an address from the Diet will be shortly sent to his Majesty the Emperor, requesting that the coronation of the Em• press, as Queen of Hungary, may take place next year at Presburg, in order to combine with that ceremony the commemoration of the coronation of her Majesty the Empress Maria Theresa, a hundred years ago ; and .ii thus to render the ceremony more imposing. Count Von Richfeld, hitherto Charge d'Affaires of Austria at the Court of Brussels, is appointed Ambas sador at Carlsruhe. CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 4 —Hafiz Pacha was last week in great danger of atoning for his defeat with his life ; the Divan was uncertain whether, according to ancient custom, the silk string should be sent to the General, or whether he should be tried by a court mar tial, of which the Prussian officers should be members, when the Prussian Ambassador Baron Von Konigsmark generously took the Pacha's part, and prevailed on the Port not only to abstain from inflicting any punishment on him, but likewise to leave him in the post of Governor of Sirvas, which he has filled since the death of Reschid. Prudence way, indeed, have likewise influenced the Divan, as Hafiz Pacha has many partisans in the army, who unequivocally manifest their disapprobation of the manner in which S iadulah Pacha, the present Coro mander-in-Cnief has treated his predecessor, when he caused him to be taken as a prisoner to Sirvas, and scarcely deigned to give him a short interview. M. de Bella, the Belgian Charge d'Affaires, has entered on his functions, and M. de Achard means to leave by the next steam-boat. AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 3.—The Austrian Observer, of Aug. 27, has :.ecourits from Constantinople to the 14th, which contain little of importance. The sanitary state of the capital was very satisfactory. The Count Von Besmurk, Lieutenant-General in the service of Wurtemburg, has arrived at Amsterdam. We find from the Austrian Observer that Prince Metternich is so far recovered that no further bulletins of his health are to be is-ued. BERLIN, AUG. 29.—Rahme Effendi, Turkish Charge d'Affaires, at this Court, died yesterday of consumption. He was interred yesterday evening between eight and nine o'clock, in the manner prescribed by the customs of his own country, in the enclosed burying ground out of the Halle Gate, where two other Turkish diplomatic agents are buried, viz. :—the Ambassador Azig Ali Effendi, who died in 1798, and Mehemet Erad BeY Effendi, who died in 1804.—Prussian Slate Gazette, Aug. 30. H.I:` , IBURG BORSEN HALLE, AUG. 31. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Sank ~: ares 1515 17,12 .n 10-Russian Loa - ... I: 64 100% Russian ri per Coot Ist series, Certificate ...... 101%, 101% Inscription, Ist Series.., _ ..... Russian 5 per Cent. Hop i and Co. 3d and 4th Se i, s Ditto in Certificates Dutch ..ctnal iieht, 2i pe Cent 5:34 Ditto per Cell` lOl Polish Bond. New fact Anglo.: lanish Loan, 3 per Cent 7l Norwegian Loan, 1 , 34, 4 per Cent......., lOl Alll,l 111 A N FUNDS,—Vinimidis, ACV '26. Ci , ti I , i, :'rota. :' , lsitalliques i'l)t , i , er Cents. Three iier Cents ~„ Bralis Shar,s .............. .................. ..... • —.lll , !emetne &thing. August 31 cut down and disposed of, it would be worth, at present market price in New South Wales, not less than half a million sterling." This being the case, need the public wonder that the opposition exhibited to the New Zealand Colo nization Bill last Session, originated chiefly ar? the friends and supporters of Christian Missions, and especially among the friends and supporters of the Church of England Society's Mission to the Aborigines of those islands ? "It professed" (continues the writer in hi! usual vigorous and fearless mode of describing hypocrisy and villany), " it professed to sympathise with the feeble efforts of that race to rise to a hi g her level in the scale of humanity, and to occupy a prominent place in the catalogue of civilized nations. And, more than all this, it professed to deprecate the serious obstacles which a community of European colonists might in all likelihood throw in the way of the general reception of the Christian religion by the natives of New Zealand. I am sorry, however, to be called on, from a sacred re gard to the interests of truth, as well as to the cause of humanity and the Christian religion ; I am sorry, my Lord, to be obliged to state that the anticipations of unmingled benefit to the Aborigines of that island, which were thus founded on the prospect of their being left entirely, for the future, to the charities of the Church Mission in New Zealand, were alike unwar ranted by the past history, and by the present condi tion, of that mission." And he adds, in another place— " In such circumstances as those I have thus detailed, your Lordship will not be astonished that the New Zea land Mission should hitherto have made so slight an impression for good, as it has confessedly done on the interesting natives of that island, notwithstanding the enormous expense at which it has hitherto been con ducted.—(lts present cost, I believe, is 15,0001. per annum. It has been as high as 17,0001.) It is humi liating, however, to reflect, that instead of exhibiting that Christian virtue to the natives of New Zealand, so many of the Missionaries of the Church Mission in that island should have actually been making common cause with the veriest spoilers of the natives in the land ; and that the natives should have had such good reason to say of them, as they have done again and again, that their only reason for coming to New Zealand was that it was a better country than their own.'" This accusation, however, does not apply to all classes of Missionaries. Dr. Lang admits that the Mission of the Wesleyan Methodists, towards the northern extremity of the northern island, as far as he can learn is in a highly prosperous state, and states that its success is to be attributed in no small degree to the fact that the Wesleyan Missionaries are strictly prohibited by the laws of the Society from acquiring property of any kind, whether in land or agricultural stock at their missionary statims. Dr. Lang disapproves also of the New Zealand Land Company, because he does not consider they have a good title to the land, and also because their system of colonization would increase " the scramble for land in New Zealand, which is at present active and unprincipled enough, and which will conse quently be increased tenfold, and be generally cha racterised by a total disregard of all moral prin ciples and of the rights of humanity." The only remedy, he considers, is the establishment under the sanction of the Government (which they can form without an Act of Parliament) of a Bri tish colony founded and conducted on Christian principles, which will " afford the only prospect of preserving the New Zealanders from the ruin and extermination with which they are at present threatened, as well from their professed friends as from their undoubted foes." We recommend these letters to the attention of the Christian public, and more especially to the attention of the numerous parties who are called upon to answer accusations which so seriously inculpate both their morality and their religion. If the Doctor returns to New South Wales we would recommend him to beware of wheaten bread. PARIS MONEY MARKET, AND COMMERCIAL NEWS Money is not so scarce as heretofore. The receipts at the savings bank en Sunday last were B,ooof. more than the disbursements, a proof of the improvement of business amongst the middle classes. The reduction on the colonial sugar duties has pro duced a beneficial effect at the seaports. In Francs the question of colonial sugar (produce of the sugar cane) and that of beet-root sugar are of vital import ance. The colonies supply, for annual consumption, no less than 80,000,000 kil. (2lbs each) of raw sugar, upon express condition that they are to be exported in French vessels only, and the reduction of the dutis thereon became necessary to prevent the ruin of the colonies. The Government will, no doubt, support its measures, and the Chamber of Deputies will not again interfere with the subject. However, there is nothing to prevent the Government from coming to the assist ance of the manufacturers of beet=root sugar, which also pays a duty. It would appear, from an exact calcula tion, that in England each person, one with the other, consumes annually 20Ib. of sugar ; in France, on the contrary, each person uses not more than 81b. in the same period. The cultivation and manufacture of beet-rout is ma king rapid strides every year in Germany and Prussia. France at the present moment possesses an immense number of beet-root sugar manufactories (70 in the northern departments), which have combined for the pur pose of resisting the payment of duty on home sugar. It seema imperative upon the Government to listen to their just remonstrances, and endeavour to calm the irritation manifested by so extensive a branch of commerce. At all events the beet-root manufacturers have a right to an indemnity. Great alarm and outcry have been excited among those engaged in the manufacture of thread throughout France : the thread spinners demand that the duty on English thread should be augmented ; but, from the best information on this subject, it appears that no niaterial alteration will take place. It is by Royal Ordinance that the Government intends " rectifying" the tariff of duties on thread. Tile President of the Council has announced in posi tive terms that the negotiations entered into between France and England, relative to the revision of the tariff of duties of the two countries, would shortly be resumed. The harvest, as regards grain, has been generally good throughout France, The price of corn has been reduced at almost every market, and, consequently, confidence is fast returning. _ Bordeaux wings maintain their prices ; large quanti ties have been bought, and Paris cannot expect much wine from that quarter during the two next months. RAILROADS.-In France the locomotive system has not been understood ; large sums have been frittered away without any important result or future advantage. It appears that 8,000,000 sterling has been expended on mere intermediate railroads, whereas, for the same sum, a fine and extensive line might have been esta blished, to the great improvement of the communication with foreign countries. France is, therefore, far behind her neighbours in this respect, and there is little pro mise of her awakening from this state of torpor. PAWNBROKERS. -By the 50th section of the New Metropolis Police Act, 2d and 3d Victoria, cap. 47, it is enacted, " That after the passing of this Act, every pawnbroker within the metropolitan police district, and every agent and servant employed by any such pawnbroker, who shall purchase, or receive or take any goods or chat. tels, in pawn or pledge, of or from any person apparently under the age of sixteen years, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than 51." -- ---- --- _ SURVEY OF THE COAST BETWEEN THE THAMES AND PORTSMOUTH.—We have recently observed notices in the local journals of inspections, by Commis sioners of known respectability, of harbour a on this coast ; and, on making the necessary inquiries, we are exceedingly glad to learn the very important nature of the investigation in which they are engaged. They have been appointed by -, the Board of Admiralty to inspect the harbt. ors and the coast Between the Thames and Portsmouth, fo order to enable them to frame a general report founded on Otisfac tory data as to the means of improving the communication between this country and France by steam-packets, and of affording shelter to ships in distress during contrary winds or storms. It is a melancholy fact, but nevertheless we believe literally true, that there is not a single harbour along the coast in question which a vessel of any consi -1 derable size, or which steam packets can enter, near the period of low water. The survey and inspection in pro gress is now, therefore, exciting great interest, especially in the towns along the coast in question. We cannot ,doubt that very advantageous results will be the conse quences of the labours of the Commissioners, all of whom h a ve been selected on account of their professional know ledge and eminence. The Commissioners are Admiral Gordon". Colonel Thomson (a military engineer), M essrs . James Walker and Cubitt (civil engineers), Captain Drewe (a member of the Trinity house), and Captain Vidal' (a Post-Captain in the Navy.) The Admiralty deserve great credit for turning their attention to an ob ject of such acknowledged utility and general interest, and which cannot fail to produce results most beneficial for the public, especially to those engaged in commercial pur suits and navi ga ti on . A very seri ou s case of stabbing occ urred at Port-Glasgow, on the morning of Fr ida y last. It a p pears that about t wo o ' c l ock on t h a t morning two men, some what intoxicated while assin along the street , wer e met by two s a il ors accompanied by tw,o women. Some alter cationpg tooklled s,iiior; pulled out ;Ihrls knife, bott the andp artier differ it as in t t o o wthheo belly ' the agg ressors the course of the dicpute one of the of one of th e men first mentioned. Unt.l Sun d ay t h e symptoms of the p ersons stabbed + 'but he is now conside re d I which was not expe c t e d, a were very unpromising , casesnseahrel):out of danger ; a result of this kind almost in. and one of them, we two sailors have been ap. I variably terminate fataPv. e deed, but urges that heact s e h d in seif..elefence. .) l i i p r r g e h e e c n r, d c e d t , t, understand, confesses hay- This the v.tinded man denies. The ra t o r Fiscal have been engaged in investigaetinifigathned m P a r t o t c e u r -. —Greenock Advertiser. COUNTESS OF CHARLEVILLE. MORNING COSTUME.—Dress of crimson velvet, with ar morial bearings on left side emblazoned in gold on blue velvet; jacket of emerald-green velvet, trimmed with mi niver, with hanging sleeves faced with miniver; long tight velvet sleeves ; upper part of bodice ornamented with pre cious stones ; mantle of emerald-green velvet, trimmed with miniver. Head-dress, a cap of green velvet barred with gold, and coronet of precious stones set in gold. Gauntlets embroidered with gold. EVENING COSTUME.—Petticoat of rich silver brocade relieved by breadth of sky-blue satin, edged with cerise and festooned with bouquets of precious stories ; jacket o poncean velvet, trimmed with miniver, blue bodice, and sto macher of jewels; hanging sleeves faced with miniver, an long tight blue satin sleeves embroidered with silver. Head dress, a tiara of precious stones, with pendant veil of silve canvass. Gauntlets embroidered with silver. Another evening costume of the reign of Henry VIII., composed of a mauve velvet surcoat, trimmed with Fold lama, confined round the waist ; with scarf of green and gold; under dress of avauturine and white satin, trimmed with gold chef. Head-dress, a cap of green velvet, orna mented with jewels. MRS. GORDON CAMPBELL. EVENING CosTcMT.—Ponceau velvet jacket trimmed with gold bullion fringe, gold bodice, and stomacher of jewels ; hanging sleeves of velvet, with long tight sleeves of gold brocade ; petticoat of rich silk brocade in colours, with gold brocaded breadth, trimmed with bullion fringe. Head-dress of ponceau velvet, trimmed with bullion fringe, and pendant veil of gold canvass. LADY BLANTYRE. A black velvet dress (costume, Ann Boleyn) trimmed with pearis and cordeliere of the same; under dress of white satin, bordered with swans'-down, point lace tucker and ruffles. Head-dress of black velvet, and pearls in unison with the costume. HON. MISS STUART. Dress in the costume of Louis XVI., composed of rich cerise brocades; under-dress of white satin, flounced with lace ; sleeves of white satin intermixed with cerise riband. Head-dress, a bouquet of mixed flowers on the left side. HON. MISS FANNY STUART. The same. MISS MALCOLM. EVENING CO3TUME.—Jacket of scarlet and gold brocade trimmed with bullion fringe, hanging sleeves of green and gold, Indian barbes ; long tight sleeves of white satin ; stomacher of ditto, covered with enamels; petticoat of white satin, trimmed with green and gold barbel, edged with cerise velvet. flvad dress of cerise velvet, with white aigrette and gold bows and fringe ends. The unlucky Tourney is burlesqued, it appears, even in Scotland, notwithstanding the money it must have caused to circulate through the country. A piece has been brought out at the Edinburgh theatre called the Rival Knights, which, according to a Scotch Paper, is more amusing than the grand show at Eglinton. The Caledonian Mercury thus describes it :—ln the first scene the mock-heroic performance of Messrs Murray and Lloyd, along with Miss Newton, was in itself a rich treat, and one in which many excellent hits were made, particularly as regards present affairs and the state of society generally ; but the scene which told best was that in which the knights, engaged i❑ a combat a cheval a routrance, put up umbrellas to protect them selves from the " pelting of the pitiless storm," and then resumed the combat, if poking at each other with wooden poles can be termed so. The procession to the tourna ment was greatly applauded. Strikingly contrasting with this. followed the chivalric knights, armed for the lists, and mounted on basket horses (not barbed c hargers), the rear being brought up •by a file or two of Lilliputian policeman. BRITISH ASSOCIATION. BIRMINGHAM. FRIDAY EVENING. AN EXCURSION. This morning's louring and unpropitious appearance did not deter those who had obtained tickets for the dif ferent excursions from presenting theinsolves at their i respective canal boats at the appointed times. I had I taken a ticket for A. Previously to the party leaving I the boat the rain fell in torrents, and continued to do so the whole morning. It is a rule that no boat shall pass the toll-house of the , magnificent Birmingham Canal \ without a description in the books of her draught, ! tonnage, and contents. There is no exception to this rule, and one of the entries, therefore, of the 30th of j August, 1839, stands thus :—" Draught, 13 inches ; 1 tonnage, 34 tons ; cargo, philosophers." Under wha7 1 class of merchandise they will be ranked in the 1 year 2839 it would be impossible to say. But i I am inclined to think that by accident their I character will be correctly given ; and if such a word should then be in use, " miscellaneous," as now, would be their distinguishing sign. Not only their pursuits 1 but much more are their manners, various, if all the I occupiers of the boats come under the term philoso- ' phers ; and accommodating, indeed, must that significa tion be. The limestone caverns, or rat her excavations, were sufficient recompense for every inconvenience. After descending the gloomy pathway for some dis tance, a most peculiar, unique, and extraordinary view burst upon the sight. It is difficult to describe the effect, and probably it will never again be seen. The form of the vast excavations resemble most a hollow wedge. The overlying stratum, the sloping roof of the stupendous cavern, dips at an angle of more than 7.5 degrees ; and the substrata having been worked out to a considerable distance, the floor should have been nearly horizontal, and the proportions of the hollow wedge increased. But the rubbish, the loose small stones, and earth accumulating there have attained almost a like, though more varying, angle to the roof, and still at an immense distance from it, at what may he termed the base of the wedge. There enormous pillars of limestone, stratified, of course, at the same angle as the superior layer, but broken all round and jagged by the art of man, support the millions of tons resting thereon. These appear of greater interest and more attractive to the human mind, beholding, but not reflecting, than the works of nature around. Because they seem to have been piled by man ? Or why ? The Giant's Cause way ! Fingal's Cave l ! or beautiful flowers likened to waxwork !! ! or other of man's descriptives I!! ! At the narrowest portion of the hollow wedge is the canal, along which boats pass to carry out the lime worked at the extremity, a distance of more than a mile and a halt from the entrance, and up which, on this occasion, they had borne their living masses. Hundred and hundreds' besides, from far and near, had entered on foot, attracted by the announcement of the lighting-up of the caverns. At other times these wonderful excavations arc as dark as Erebus, and can only be explored, candle or torch in hand, bit by bit. To-day thousands of candles, doubled. or rather, in effect, half increased by their reflections in the water beneath, attempted to dispel the gloom, but they only made the moving masses appear as gliding spectres, and the canal as Styx crossed by silent shades. It was only when the blue and red lights were fired that this dint light was increased to awful glare, and the silence broken by roar and rumble, reverberation anti echo. The spectacle, as it may be termed, had much in it also of dramatic effect ; the flitting imps in tilt wings, with lights on their heads, or in their hands, were made ghastly and superhuman by the coloured lights. CORONER'S INQUEST. MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A LADY AT TUFINHAM GREEN.—It appears that a lady, whose name was Susan nah Ferry, had occupied apartments in the house of MN. Iles, a widow %, omen, for the last several yea's• Her sister, a Mrs. Arrow, resided with her, and slit. received no visits whatever from any other relative or /riend. For the last three or four years the old lady h a d not been seen by any of the neighbours, or the in. mates of the house in which she resided. On Sunday morning last, at an hearly hour, Mrs. Arrow, the sister, left home very suddenly by the mail, to proceed to London. She returned on the evening of the same day ; bot she made no sort of com munication to the landlady of the house. In tii course of Monday it :vas ascertained that Mrs. Ferry was dead. Mrs. Arrow's visit to London on the pre vious day was for the purpose of giving - directions io: the funeral of her sister. The whole of the circuit!- ' stances attending the sudden death ofthe deceased, with an evident wish on the part of the sister to .keep the matter secret, gave rise to very suspicious conc►usions, and through the instrumentality of some of the ,neigh hours information was conveyed to Stilwell, the consta ble and beadle of the parish, who proceeded to the home of Mrs. Iles. The constable not being satisfied, wrote to Mr. Wakley, the Coroner, upon the subject, who. ssued his precept for holding the inquest, at two o'clocl yesterday afternoon. On the constable receiving the the warrant he went to the house of Mrs. Iles, and saw Mrs. Arrow, to whom he stated that the interment c' the deceased could not take place until the inquiry hat been held. Mrs. Arrow treated him with great con tumely, and said that her sister was to be buried that , afternoon. • Yesterday, a Coroner's Jury assembled at the Princo of Wales, Turnham Green, when Mr. Wakley was in • formed that the body had been conveyed to Chiswick Church for interment, but the c l erg y man re f us i n g to perform the rites - of burial, it was brou g ht b ac k. T e Jury visited the body, which exhibited no externni marks of violence. Ile Coroner, however, gave dirce tions that it sbou.d be opened, and adjourned the inquest until this day. EVENING EDITION. T U R KEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 14.—Mehemet Ali is endea vouring to tamper with the fideiity of Governors of the different provinces, not only of Asia but also of Roumelia. An Egyptian brig arrived a few days ago at Salo nica, having on board six of his emissaries charged with confidential communications to the authorities of the interior, and one of them addressed to the BeY of Salonica himself; and containing, as regards the Porte , the most treasonable proposals. The Bey, however, has been proof against the temptations held out to him, an d by his timely exposure of these machinations put his Government on its guard. The Austrian steamer, just arrived from the Danub e ' brings intelligence that the Russians have erected a battery at the Sulina entrance of that river. A 51° ' went of general confusion like the present is too favour" able to encroachment to be overlooked by Russia. But, though nothing of political importance has oc curred during the last week, I have an event to r ecord which, whatever sensation it may produce elsewhere, at Pera, at least, could, in point of real stirring in",, terest, be surpassed by no other. One-half 1 1 that suburb has been again burnt to the growl- The quarter where it first broke out was the Greek one, whose narrow wooden streets presente d a mass of the most combustible matter that could he well collected together. Almost the whole of the Ai' nnenian quarters were destroyed in a few minutes. The only chance that remained of saving the rest of the town W as presented byasmallguard-house,constructed of stone, air situated in the centre of the street. It was a t this critical juncture that the Prince de Joinville, fol lowed by the crews of the French frigate a nd brig, threw himself gallantly into the flaming breach. In the space of two houis they had succeeded in demolishing the wooden edifices adjoining the guard-house, so that the devouring element was here, a t length, in the absence of further nourishment, brough t under. This dreadful conflagation occurred on Friday last , ana n continued to rage between the hours of twelve at 11°°'" and twelve at night. On the most moderate calculation 3,000 houses were destroyed. The following morning 30,000 of the late inhabitant!, now houseless, might be seen bivouacked among the ir e effects in the neighbouring countries. Subscription s hay _ been set on foot for the sufferers, and the Sultan ha; issued a firman ordering every Mussulman to give p art of his house for their accommodation. THE MARKETS.-(YESTERDA.V.: COUNTRY CO CHELTEN HA Pee Bushel. s. d. to s. d,, 4. to ti Wheat Barley Oats 4 0 4 8 Veal Beans. Pease 5 0 5 6 Lamb 0 0 Hay 3/. Iss. to 5/. Os. Od. pc.r ton. LEEDS CORN MARKET.— Sept. 3. Wheat, Norfolk and Stiffblk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Sutbalk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 6Bth. Oats, Potatoe Frl g . 14 d . t o 1 5 3:58 : 15 : 361: • . tit i 1e344:74:26711: ; :::. 1 1 ' 0 141 —healing, }Or. --‘1 to —d . Shelling RN MARKETS. LM MARKETS. Per lb. THE NEW POLICE ACT AND THE B• 01(1+ ,, I RESIDENCES.—It will be recollected that in the beg ianis ; of the present year a madman, named Flower, was di sc o ( vered at a late hour in the night in the picture Ol e / t Buckingham Palace, after her Majesty had retired w rt r. : and no great distance from the Royal dormitory. This t o , cumstauce caused a strict inquiry to be made, so as t ° - 0( 1 certain to whom blame was due for neglect of duty; s the result was, Ledbitter and Capes, the two officers red had been appointed to do duty at the Palace, were rello e , from thence, Ledbitter being sent to Windsor, and Cap to Brighton; and in their stead two insp,.ctors and six cs °. stables of the A division were appointed to de th e dut t Since that time the New Police Act has come into op erstw,A be the seventh clause of which provides that "it shall be lawful for tile Commissioners of Police to admin ister t oath to any constable belonging to the metropolitan poltoe'L to execute the office of constable within the Royal Pala of her Majesty, and ten miles thereof." In aceordse with the provisions of this clause the required oath 1 "`" administered to Steed and Russell, the two inspects r l previous to her Majesty's leaving town for Windsor; stild upon her Majesty's proceeding to Windsor they foll ffise i, her thither, and will, it is understood, be always in. atteeuto ance at any residence her Majesty may be plcasec l o t sojourn at. The pay of the inspectors is increased 6 o f p,r year. It is almost needless to say that the serv ices the old of f icers are dispensed with. • • uaVe It is computed that 1,00 0 , 000 of emigrants fir landed in the United States since 1819. From!' that I t e- f to 1838, inclusive, 486,036 arrived in the s ingle pe r. ° New Yolk. LADIES' GOLD WATCHE S „ A variety of excellent and c are f u ll y fi n i s h e d L a di e s' 7 :1 t hc hand Gold Watches, many o f t h em i n accordance l'ltolee' latest taste, with Gold Dials, Jewelled, &c., are offered for tion, price from Six to Eight Guineas each, at Watchmaker, G o ld and COX SilverS smAVORY ith, 47, Cornhill, London (Seven Doers from Gracechurch-street). N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchj SHEFFIELD PLATED WINE COO • ° h A. B. SAVORY an d SONS, ManufacturingSilverste l e t fo g s . 14, Cornhill, London (opposite the Bank of Eiand),,,bejsA• choice in their warerooms a Selection of PLAIN and MENTAL ICE PAILS, to wbich they wish to direct atte,ll The price of the Plain Tub-pail (now much in use).. the the pair ; the Classic Vase (very neat), 101. Bs.pair; the Victoria Pattern, 15/. the pair ; the Dresden Cooler , 19: ad pair, &c., all of whit_ are strongly mounted with Silv er 4o o. have Silver Shields for Engraving the Crat or Coat of ye and A pamphlet is published, with dlawiags of the ab o other articles of plate generally, welch may be had on apP Hon, free of cost. . BIRTHS. am On the 31st ult., at Geneva, the Lady of John WYn Bruce, Esq., of a daughter. la of On the 3d inst., at Farley-hill, near Reading , the ' Robert Wilkinson, Esq., of a daughter. char g e s On the 3d inst., at Wickham-place, Clapton, Hancock, of a daughter. MA. On the 27th ult., Mr. William B RIE rai D 13 ' 1 kenridge, of 'l. , . bill, Edmonton, to Miss Maria Cox, of Long Ashton , Somersowt-ebb On the 3d in 4., at Great Baddow, Essex, Thowo 0 CO" Greene, Esq., of Lincoln's - inn , Fellow of Trinity-ba•-' ,jobo bridge, to Anna Lucy , eldest daughter of the late M•Lachlan, Esq., of Baddow-hall. __-- ~~r i DIED. R g ' en the 31st ult. , at Penton-street, Pentonville, thei c Thomas Sheppard , for 25 years Mini-ter of St. J am ' 3's, Cl '''' enwell, aged 78. price St ' On the 2d inst. , at Coopersale.hall, Essex , 3 0 9ePh George, Esq.. of Nottingbill.square, Kensington- _ - o f 1. 9intor. : Printed and Published by 5111E100 YOUI‘";' No. 112, Strand, at The SUN Ol&te .No. 119, ,‘..: itt traW the courtly of Middlesex.— Fri,iay, S eptember 6, IbS 9" .° •