The Sun. — London, England, 1839-04-09 00:00:00

itiVUNING EDITION. iorlty of the Members of the House of Commons into the false sod dangerous position be has visibly prepared for tLeat.—llloreisy Post. We give insertion this day to an article from a morning Contemporary (the Times), which indicates the tactics which the Tories may adopt on the motion of Lord John Russell, upon the policy adopted by Lord Normanby in Irehnd. A more barefaced piece of impudence than is ex hillited in this exposition of the policy of the Tories, we do do not recollect to have met with in the whole course of our experience.. The Times counts on the support of certain Ra dical. Members to assist them to the patronage of office. Be fore they speculate on the aid of Radicals, we would advise them to remember the direction of Mrs. Glasse, " Catch your hare first." The Radicals, will do their duty. They know the Tories too well, for a moment to entertain the most remote intention of aiding them in their attempt to seize the reins of Government. The article speaks for itself. It is quite clear that the party is at a nonplus—out of to many expedients they will be at a loss to make a choice. Undoubtedly the Times is perfectly arm. e of the various expedients now under the considera tion of the Conservative party; and it is not altogether impossible but that the Tories, estimating the consistency tied integrity of the Radicals by their own standard of enorals, may lay the flatterirg unction to their souls of assistance from that quarter. We congratulate them upon their simplicity ; we know the Radicals better, and under take to assure them that they reckon without their host.— Horning Advertiser. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. TILE DERBY. Destructive as the running last week proved to the chances iteretat hoeses that had been prominent favourites for the Del by, it does not appear to have affected the disposition to opetia , a.e, for the betting, yesterday was animated and full of interest. Closer was nominally at sto 2, or perhaps 11 to 4, nearly the "'hole of the afternoon; but, although three or four parties offtred to take 3 to 1, we did not se. a bet made. Shorely before the close, which was late, two or three gentle men would have laid the odds previously offered to be taken; these odds, however, were the very outside, and were not *fared carrently. The Dey of Algiers was backed seve ral times at 15 to 2, and the odds afterwards offered. The chief toature in the afternoon's business was the extraordinary aiesnoe of an outsider in Scott's stable—Dragsman ; for a long inie he had bees stationary at 50 to 1, at which figure a con siderable amount had been get on ; he opened yesterday at 25 to 1, roe* in a short time to 15, and finished at 16 to 1, each of these i rice* being taken eagerly. Erin-go-Bragh, of the ciuste iv, had a tolerably numerous party, but did not make rogress. The otht r four (Epidaurus, Zimmerman, The Lord Mayor, and Accelerator), as the quotations below will indicate, were out of favour ; Euclid was at about 16 to 1, and had scarcely any friends present; Ilderim sprung to 20 to 1 ; and Westenian, after a bet of 25 to 1, dropped five points ; F ainvae, brother to Menipo, and Tros, are where their run e might have been expected to leave them; Kremlin, we are informed. started yesterday from Newmarket for his old Tier.era st:7,lidillelanl. At s late hour the re closed as follows: I 4to 1 apt :co,t's Lot (taken) 12 to I agst Jahn Day's Lot 3 t• 1 apt Lord Jersey's Cwsar 13 to 2 agst Colonel Peel's - Dry of Algiers (taken and af t.war.ls offered) in to l ag,t Ak. 'Thornhill's Euclid (take 18 to 1) lb to I a;st Mr. G. Clark's Drageman (taken freely) 20 to 1 apt Lord Jersey's Ilderim (taken, and afterwards offered) 30 to I apt Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-Bragh (taken) t• l east Mr. Wretord's Westonian (taken) 3.1 to 1 a4st Sir G. Ileathcote's Valaincourt (taken) 10 se 1 agst Lord Westminster's The Lord Mayer (taken and after lards offered) 10 to 1 agst Mr. ‘Vref)rd's Wapiti (taken) 40 to 1 srt Lord L chards Gulnare colt (take 50 to I) b 0 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Brother to Flenipo Al be 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Flambeau 000 :o'lo agst Fulmar Craven's Deception (taken) ',WU-to 15 agst Mr. Theobald's (nomination) Hamlet (ta.) 1.000 to.lo agst Mr. Bowes's King of Kelton (taken) . _lOO to I agst Lord Albemarle's Tros 1,000 to 3 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Oroonoko (taken) 1,000 k 13 ii i .;st Captain Williamson's Melbourne (taken) 1,100 to 1,050 on Cwsar, Ilderim, Dey of Algiers, Euclid Dragsmaa a".t the field (taken) ever. between Ilderim and Erin-go- Bragh (taken) 4,0 1 ,f0 to 100 agst Accelerator, Epidaurus, and Zimmerman (taken in one bet—odds afterwards offered) 25 to I agst Gulnare and brother to Plenipo (taken) 1100 RACES.—SATURDAY. Match—Two miles. Mr. Brand'e bk. g. Norman, aged, 12et. (owner,) beat Mr. Daniel's Mallard, Ilst. 71b. The Anniversary Stakes of 10 sous. each, h. ft. Two miles. Six subs. Mr. Webb,er's Harrold, 1 Ist 71b. (Owner) 1 Mr. Wilalicre's fiord, Ilst. 71b. 'Jr. D. Radcliffe's Vagrant, 11st. 121 b. Mr. Daniel's Mc Unknown, list. 121 b. 4 Mr. Brand's Amian, Pst A good race. The I•'ariners' Cup (in Specie), the gift of the Gentlemen cf the Elects Hunt Club, for horses bona fide the property of farmers occupying not le.-s than 60 acres of land within the precincts of Mr. Rath:La's Hunt, list. 71b. each, two mile heats was won in tv o heats by Mr. Lattimore's br. m . (M r. lieri:ham), beating Mr. Nightingale's br. in. Heide, Mr. Smith's br. h. and Mr. Lines's br. h. after a good ra ce . Ilunt•rs' (Handicap) of 10 sous. each, h. ft., for horses that have not been regularly hunted with the owners on their backs, with D. Radcliffe 's hounds. Gentlemen riders. Two miles. Six Subs. Mr. Webber's Harold, 12st. 121 b Mr. D. Ifitticliffe's 'Vagrant, 12st. 51b Sir. R'.a4l's Redwing Mr. Brand's bk. g. Norman, lOst. 121 b .... 4 Alr. Latour's Grimaldi, 1031 Mb Won easy. HUNTING A Pl' OINTMENTS. York and Ainsty hounds will meet. on Thursday at Allerton New Inn ; Saturday, Oulston—at half-past 10. - Sir T. Sykes's hounds will meet to-morrow, at Castle Howard Inn—at half-past 10. Male hounds will meet to-morrow, at Bellerby ; Friday, Colbron Village• —at half-oast 10. Wynyard and Durham hounds will meet on Thursday, at Floater a Mill ; Saturday, Old Burdon—at ten. Cleveland hounds will meet on Thursday, at Ormsby Bank —at ten. Brancepath hounds will meet on Friday, at Stonebridge— at 11. Vnlithgow and Stirlingshire hounds will meet to-morrow, at Kirkburdo ; Friday, Maulsdcn, Forfarshire—at half -past 10. Perthshire hounds will meet to-morrow, at Lintrose ; Sa turday, Melklcour—at half-past 10. Fife hounds will meet on Thursday, at Cleish ; Saturday, the 'Vette of .Muckhart—at half-past 10. The Ncw Forest blood hounds will meet on Thursday, at Fritham. Mr. Farquharson's hounds will meet to-morrow at Handley Common; Friday, Chetterweod. N. F. H. will meet on Saturday, at Hill Top Gate—at 11. Pembrokeshire hounds will meet on Thursday, at Step-aside Bridge —at 10. H. H. hounds will meet on Thursday, at Lumway's Inn ; Saturday, Herriard Common—at half-past 10. Sir James Cope's hounds will meet to-morrow, at the Three Crowns, Bucklebury—at 11. Sir James Flower's hounds will meet on Thursday, at the Swan Inn, Lorii Stratton, (a buck)—at half-past 11. Devon and Somerset stag hounds will .neat on Friday, at Harford, (a hind)—at 10. IJer Majesty was expected to give her first state hall this season on Monday next, at Buckingham Palace, lot, at a late hour last evening it was not positively known whether that day would be rived. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge intend shortly to give a series of balls at Cambridge House, in honour of her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta of Cambridge " coming out." His Highness the Prince of Oude, we are happy to iav, is recovering from his severe attack of rheumatism. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury hav,e issue I cards for a sumptuous entertainment to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, on Friday, the 19th instant. The Duke of Wellington and a distinguished pasty will meet h er R oyal Highness. Viscount and Viscountess Galway have the Diwager Lady Galway, and a select family circle, assem bled at Herlby Ilnll, Notts. Lord and Lady Suffield have arrived at Brus mos, where they intend to remain some time. His Lord ship's bunting establishment at Melton Mowbray is to be brAcn up. Count Bjornstjerna, the Swedish Ambassador, th hig Lady, family, aLd suite, are hourly expected to arrivo in town, from Stockholm, via Hamburg. TEe Cona!riJS been absent on leave more than a twelvemonth, fror„ ill health. • AI. de Benkhausen, the Russian Consul-General, has returned to town from the Hague. It is understood the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia will arrive in this country from Holland on Sunday or Monday next. THE MARCHIONESS OF LONDONDERRY.— We ars idortred that Lady Londonderry progresses very slowly towards er,nvaltsettnee; and we regret to add that her rough continues moat harrassing and distressing. We uncitntand that the Noble Marquis and family are likely to remain at Wlndhara Park for a considerable period, in eJr•equanco of her Lad}ship's lamented indisposition,— Durham Chronicle. The Earl and Countess of Lucan, who, with their fatroily, have been passing several weeks in the French capital, have arrived in town. Lady Paget and family are on their voyage to England in the Cornwallis ship of the line, the late flag ship of the regretted Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Paget, the Commander-in-Chief of the station, Captain► Sir Richard Grant rill return in command of the Cornwallis. APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE. --The cut,templated tnatrirnonial alliance between the 'Marquis of Douro and Lady EiizabAh Hay, will be posi tively solemnised on Thursday, the 18th inst., at 10 a. m., at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. The Rev. Charles Long, nephew to the Earl of Lauderdale, and Cue late Lord Farnborough, will lead to the altar on Thursday next, at Walthamstow Church, Miss Anna Maria Fetroy, grand-daughter of the late and sister to the preeent Sir Robert Fitzwygram, Bart., of Connaught place. The Dowager Lady ‘Vygram will give an elegant slejctincr after the ceremony. Lord Fitzallan's marriage with Miss Lyons, daughter of Captain Sir Edward Lyons, resident Minister at the Court of Kin , - Otho of Gre::!co, will he solemnised in the course of the ensuing %tenth, when the accomplished bride elect will arrive in Zaglaud. Count Castellane will be iiried in the course of OA present week at Paris, to Mdile. Talley rand de Pe datiOter of the Duchess de Dino. The Earl and Countess of Surrey and Viscount I I . ri . t.sallan arrived i n H y d s P ar k- p l ace , l ast even i ng , f rom i 'lltehttrapto ri Hall, their seat, in Sussex. St ' fit. Duke o f Norfolk arrived at Norfolk Hou se , g t. '',.:un , b4i-aqua re last evening, from his seat, Fornham, tit!nevieve, near Bury Sr. Edmund's, Suffolk. Lord and La dy Dorchester have arrived in town from con.tinae.rtalteur of several months. The Noble Lord and M r l duri i- ng da:laje been . among the English Nobility at Lord and Ladvorocnation of th e . Emperor of Austria. Cowes, a f ter the Gondola cutter r, A! eteriveat • hich fortres'l a t t h e c r a tempestuous passage, gr6 ll petted in town Yfoirefth' e c i n ea tl s t o e n. l-Ith ult. I tip, ;14< - 'l3 - q i t -~-~ 5 „..„.,,,,„. i ,... / .. tic ,„ 1 v: y:.,.../.:. LITERATURE. VIE ITS OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HEAVENS, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO A LADY. Br J. P. NiczoL, L.L.D., F.R.S.E., 4-c. Tait, Edinburgh. This is an eloquent book, though the woulds and shoulds, wills and shells are terribly misplaced. To those however who can conquer the little repugnance which such venial errors cause, and have a taste for the subject, the book will be very delightful. The prin cipal object of the author is to state what recent times have evolved concerning the vastness of the universe, in language so plain that whoever wills may henceforth look at the heavens, not without some thing of the emotion which their greatness communi cates to the accomplished astronomer. The author, ex cept when he gives "speculation free wing," generally confines himself to explaining the discoveries and doc trines of the two Herschel's, which, from peculiar and somewhat suspicious circumstances, seem never to have been popularized, and certainly the knowledge of which has never been extensively circulated amongst the people. Now and then a glimpse of them has been opened up by some lecturer, but in general the magnificent discoveries of these two men of genius, have remained entombed in the archives of the Royal Society, and no more form a part of tha popular knowledge of the day, though they constitute some of the most brilliant dis coveries ever made, than the theories of Hobbes or the vortices of Descartes, " The elder Herschel was struck for a discoverer," says Mr. Nichol, " in the finest mould." The telescope in his hands assumed a capability of sounding the uttermost profundities. " One of the first truths which Mr. Nichol places before us as discovered by Herschel, is that, divided from our firmament by measureless intervals, numerous firmaments, glorious as our's, float through immensity, doubtless forming one stupendous system, bound to gether by fine relationships. These remarkable masses are located so deep in space that to inferior telescopes they seem like faint streaks or spots of milky light on the blue of the sky ; but the instruments which had just been summoned into being, dissolve their mystery, and disclose their myriads of stars. One of these objects, perhaps the most brilliant in the heavens, is in the con stellation Hercules. After all, bow easy the belief to its indwellers that a mass thus surpassingly gorgeous is infi nite. What wonder although the inhabitants of a planet revolving round one of its central suns should have mis taken his own magnificent heavens for the universe, and needed the distant and dim vision of our firmament ap pearing to his telescope as a starry spec to remove the veil from his mind, and give him juster notions of the ma jesty of creation." That opens to us a novelty—that there are other heavens, and other firmaments than those we see. Nor is it for us less strange to be told, contrary to what our senses tell us, as the hasty judgments of former times gave rise to the terms rising and setting of sun, that our globe is not in the centre of a hollow sphere, as the heavens appear, but in a portion of a starry firmament which has an oblong shape, and breaks into two branches. After mentioning some of the proofs of this statement, and illustrating it by figures, which we cannot copy, Mr. Nichol says— " The opinion is thus forced on us anew that we are in the midst of a mere group or cluster of stars, and moreover, that it is a group of peculiar configuration, narrow, but greatly elongated in the line of the milky way. Is it not strange that an inference so natural, so palpable, flowing so easily from the phenomena of our brilliant zone, was never drawn before, and that, notwithstanding of that zone shining and speaking since creation's dawn, moat invitingly to reason, it should have been left for Ilerschell, even to so late a day, to rescue it from mythology and mystery, and teach us to luek at its countless orbs with emotions loftier than an ex citing but useless wonder ? But so always has arisen truth ; late, late." We shall quote another passage to show that these discoveries of Herschel], gorgeous though they be, arc only beginning to unfold the mysteries ofthe.heavens to man : " With all this, however, even in the northern hemis phere, we are only entering the field, for in the profound vault there are probably myriads. To discover Struve's 3,000, not more than 120,000 stars were examined, and what are to these the entire contents of the skies ? Sir William Herschel! computed that in the Milky Way 116,000, or more than nine-tenths of this whole number, have passed under his review during a quarter of an hour's observation ; so that in undiscovered systems the heavens are still marvellously rich, and mechanisms, more singular, perhaps, than any yet known, may lurk within these masses, now only revealed by their obscure and aggregate light. The ground is thus cleared only over a trifling territory. The measurement of the base is but begun, and observers are solicited to the labour, and implored toshrink from neither watchings nor toil. The enduring glory of Tycho, whose name is as a star, whispers a sweet promise of immortality to him, who will here be a victor over the unknown, if indeed, external reward is needed, or aught else than the pleasure of unwinding the harmonious arrangements of the universe and the first vision of their magnificence. In search of magnificence, it is true we need not wander far ; witness the fields which encircle your home, the blade of the modest grass which adorns them, but the heavens are fresh,—familiarity has not left its foot-print on their un trodden floor. In the silence of warm midnight that noble curtain stretched out above me, and the idea present and impressive of its orbs, obediently pursuing their stu pendous paths, I confess there is a italstrinity which some times falls upon the Arit, not unlikt the feeling of the Patriarch, when he h rd that ICkw rushing wind, believing it to be the audible f steps of his Crevor." We shall quote ou3 more passage descriptive of the ligh t of the stars : " To one additional circumstance alone will I allude in conclusion, partly because of its inherent interest, and partly because it unquestionably points to some important, although still undefined fact, relative to the physical consti tution of the celestial bodies. The light of the stars is by no means uniform ; the ray of Sirius, for instance, differs, not merely in intensity, but in kind, from the ray of Vega ; and in countries where the atmosphere is less humid and hazy than ours the difference is striking to the naked eye, one star shining as an emerald, another as a ruby, and the whole heavens sparkling as with various gems. This at tribute of variety of colour also characterises the double stars, but the remarkable thing is that in many instances where one star is of one marked colour its companion is of the opposite. " Instances abound in which a red and a green star are associated, or a yellow and blue. When the stars are of different degrees of brilliancy, this contrast may originate in an optical delusion—in that tendency which disposes the eye, when gazing on any bright colour, to endow fainter objects near it with the opposite, or complimentary colour, by way of relief; but the explanation is not universally borne out, inasmuch as many couples, in precisely similar circumstances, show no such contrasts. Sir John Hers chell was at first decidedly inclined to attribute the phe nomenon to an actual difference of colour, and although he has since, perhaps on good grounds, half relinquished that conclusion, we have the acquiescing testimony of Struve, founded on observations with the Dorfiat tele scope, whose clearness has never yet been rivalled, so that we may not absolutely part with the early, pleasing specu lations of the British astronomer. " It may easier be suggested in words, (says Sir John) than conceived in imagination, what variety of illumination, two stars—a red and a green, or a yellow and a blue one, must afford a planet, circulating around either; and what cheering contrasts, and grateful vicissitudes, a red and a green day for instance, alternating with a white one, and with darkness, might arise from the presence or absence, or both, from the horizon." _ We dare not quote any more, or we would lay before our readers the curious facts which led the illustrious astronomers, whose discoveries Mr. Nichol brings forward, to infer that out of the Nebula which they detected, and out of what they called star-dust, a continual creation of stars is now in progress. We are obliged to stop, but we recommend the book as well calculated to interest the mind, and give it new and wonaerful ideas of the Great Creator. For us, we will own it is something new to learn that our globe, our sun, and all its planets and comets, that the whole, to us, spherical and visible heavens is but one of many firmaments, all of which are equally eared for by the Great Being who presides over all, and all of which, so far as the adaptation of light coming from the furthest corner of space to the eye and the prevalence of gravity are concerned, are regulated by one common and universal system of law. The endlessness of these phenomena, the continual revelation which is going on of them to man, if not the continual creation of them, seems, we arc bouad to ob serve, quite as much opposed to certain theories of cos mogony, which have long been supposed to be of indis putable authority, as the modern discoveries of the geologist. Has this circumstance, let us ask, had any influence in preventing the ennobling discoveries of Herschell from being popularized for the people? Can it be that the power of priestcraft has been suffered in the nineteenth century to suppress a general know ledge of facts more stupendous, more divine than any others, more suitable to impress on man a sense of his own nothingness, and to elevate him to great dignity of thought, by being permitted to learn and to contemplate such wonders—can it be that any set of men, to serve their own purposes, have prevented the vast discoveries of Herschell from being popularized for the information of the people? We ask why have not those whose business it is to instruct the people, and who are largely paid for it, made them acquainted with the wonders of Creation as developed by the Her schells ? It would indeed be a strange proof of the manner in which one class of men seek to coin the hearts and minds of other men into rroney, if it should turn out that the telescope discoveries of Herschell in the heavens, like the Wernerian and Huttonian dis coveries in the bowels of the earth, have been kept in the back ground, in order to preserve, for the selfish purposes of a class, the authority of an ancient theory. HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE STATESMEN OF THE TIMES OF GEORGE THE THIRD. C. Knight, London, 1839. The majority of these sketches have already appeared in print ; some in the Edinburylz Review, where they attracted very general attention, and others in the vo lumes published last year, containing Lord Brougham's (the author) speeches. At t h e t i me of their appear ance we noticed them at considerable length in The Sun ; we need say litt!R more, therefore, on the present occasion, than that we are heartily glad to see them re prieted in the form in which they are now presented to • the public—namely, that of a handsome octavo volume, embellished with several striking portraits of the statesmen whose character Lord Brougham has drawn with so much skill, and, generally speaking, with such laudable impartiality. In the course of a short time, the work, we trust, will be brought out in a cheaper form—say, a five shilling volume—which is the only thing wanting to ensure its general popularity. Of the new sketches inserted in the volumes before us, the two most carefully drawn are those of Lords North and Mansfield ; while that which appears to have been penned in the most con amore spirit, as if with a hearty relish for the task of delineation, is the sketch of the celebrated republican, Franklin, of whom Lord Brougham observes with justice, that " the circum stances under which others succumb, he made to yield, and bent to his own purposes—a successful leader of a revolt that ended in complete triumph, after appearing desperate for years ; a great discoverer in philosophy, without the ordinary helps to knowledge ; a writer famed for his chaste style without a classical education ; a skilful negotiator, though never bred to politics ; and ending as a favourite, nay a pattern of fashion, when the guest of frivolous Courts, the life which he had began in garrets and in workshops. Com binations of faculties in others deemed impossible, ap peared easy and natural in Franklin. The philosopher delighting in speculation, was also eminently a man of action. Ingenious reasoning, refined and subtle con sultation, were in him combined with prompt resolution, and inflexible firmness of purpose." This is well and justly said of Franklin, who deserves all the praise that Lord Brougham has bestowed on him. D EERBR OOK 3 yds. Moron, London, 1839. Deerbrook is a simple, unambitious village tale, which, in many places, especially in its vivid landscape descrip tions, will remind the reader of its authoress's (Miss Martineau) first work of fiction, the " Illustrations of Po litical Economy." Those who are not on the constant look-out for dramatic effect, and will be content with dialogue that is natural, without being at all striking or pointed in its tone ; who moreover prefer truth of deli nection in character, to mere melo-dramatic exaggera tions—this class of readers, and we fear they form an alarming minority, will derive infinite pleasure from the perusal of Deerbrook, and will look eagerly forward to another similar tale from the same pen. The present story abounds in dialogue, which, gene rally speaking, Miss Martineau has managed with much address, and puts forth occasionally such earnest and thoughtful observations, as show a kindly, philosophic nature. One of the cleverest characters is that of Mrs. Grey, whose village gossip is as true to the life as Miss Austin herself could have made it. We have no space for extracts, or we should have given some of the Authoress's graphic and vigorous landscape sketches. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1839. TREATMENT OF SEAMEN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Slll,—One would be almost inclined to conclude from the tenor of the protracted discussions that have of late been got up in so many quarters regarding the past and y, that the people of this present state of our Nav country were totally ignorant of the real and true grand difficulty under which it labours, and which may perhaps account for there being no efficient attempts made towards its removal. While we are subjected to hear the despicable party-drivelling of lordlings, &c., about the hooping of a mast, or the number of spare sails in store ; and while they chatter about compara tive trash of that sort, the se r i ous an d true quest i on, that calls with a warning voic e f or i nvest i gat i on , on l y pops up its head occasionally, lik e a d angerous h a lf- t id e rock that lies in a ships track, and is only seen to be avoided. I allude to the dislike, amounting to abhor rence, that exists among our best seamen to serve their country on board the vessels of our Navy. We well know that it proceeds from no fear to meet their country's enemies, for they have well proved that to be their very glory and inclination. Can it be in the treatment they meet with on board these vessels? In short, Sir, among all the Committees and Commis sions of Inquiry that have been instituted, I would ask to why it has never been deem e d o f su ffi c i ent i mportance this country to institute a searching investigation into the causes that not only drove o ur b est seamen out flora their native land into exile, but into the service of the enemy, where, from the decks of that enemy's ships they hurled a stain of disgrace and defeat upon the flag of Britain that cannot be effaced ? Would any deficiency of allowances of pay or provisions ever have produced an effect so diabolical ? Impossible. the idea would be monstrous, and infamously unjust to a class of men who are decidedly our b est patr i ots. Di d they not prove it during the ti me o f t h e mut i ny, b y declaring their readiness to carry the ships into action without the officers? No, no, Sir; there has been, and there still is, something between England and her sea men that we know not of. I had got thus far when I observed your notice of Friday, that a ship's crew had been paid off at Ply mouth, not one of whom would respond to the Cap tain's appeal for re-entering to serve under him. To a person having any knowledge of the doings that have been carried on in the Navy, it appears most absurd • to observe the outcry raised if a soldier is punished with a hundred lashes, awarded by the sentence of a court-martial. What would they say to more than a dozen of prime seamen being subjected to p un i s h ment , equal to double that extent, by the dictum of one indi vidual, and sometimes not a man of them guilty, either of a crime or a fault even? Perhaps thus :—A frigate takes in a reef in her topsails of an evening, and the fore one is an old sail. Well, during the night this sail (in a passing squall) splits across the lee side, close under the reef band ; the Captain is thereby put into a great passion—swears the reef was badly taken in the evening—the whole of the men that were on the lee yard-arm are called to the quarter-deck, when, after hurling a torrent of abuse at the wretched sailors (and they are always the choice seamen of the crew the topmen), he (the Captain) orders the whole to the gangway, where, stripped and siezed to the gratings, three dozen lashes are inflicted upon every one of thorn, which would oc cupy a space of three mortal hours, during which no thing but the whizzing of the cat and its sickening crash upon the men's naked backs is heard. What would be thought of that for a midnight scene ?*—and it is always our best fellows that meet the most frequent punishment —the men who must execute the evolution s aloft. If the part of the crew termed landsmen kept themselves clear and free of crime—they had least to fear ; but those who have the reefing of topsails, sending up and down top-gallant, royal yards, &c., there was no end to their terrors and apprehensions, for besides the Captain they were liable to called down at any hour of the night or day at the caprice of the lieutenant or officer of the watch who flogged them also, but in a different way. On these occasions they were stripped only to the shirt, which was sometimes cut in shreds by the hard ropes used by the boatswain's mates, who are always inflicters of corporal punishments. This latter mode of flogging is said to be fully as bad as that by the cat, and such punishments sometimes were of very frequent occur rence to the same men ; of course it was very different in degree in different ships, but under a system where anything like the above constituted a part, to be sur prised that good seamen will have nothing to do with your ships of the Navy, would be very inconsistent and ridiculous. We heard something the other day about topsails being reefed in an incredibly small number of seconds. There has been far too much of that sort of thing, and exercising top-gallant and royal yards, &c.; it undoubtedly appeared miraculous to witness it ; so it is to see what some of the dogs and monkeys are now doing in one of the theatres in London—and by what system is it all effected? the answer in both cases is—terror. Some will tell you it was emula tion ; but I fear emulation was murdered, although it would soon burst into life, were it not crushed by op pression, and beaten out of the field. In fact, the life of our seamen, has been a state of terror and oppression, altogether degrading to manhood. I am no advocate , for a laxity of discipline, not even for the disuse of the cat ; but there must be a clear and distinct limit to its use—two dozen lashes is sufficient for the purposes of punishment—beyond it is butchery; and even that should only be permitted under very grave circum stances of crime, or serious breaches of discipline. Naval officers become callous from witnessing such tor ture so frequently, and (with their pardon) cease to be very fit judges of the due limit of necessary punish ment ; for it is only those who have never before wit nessed the infliction of such torture, that are really capable of forming a fit judgment on the subject. I have been at sea from the age of 13 to 40,and have commanded ships as large as frigates. So that may be some excuse for my thus addressing you. Do our ships of war pos sess any one single attribute that is superior to those of other nations, excepting that one alone, cur seamen ? No, Sir, not a single one. On the contrary, our ships, if anything, are inferior to our ne i g hb ours. Would it be believed then for a moment, that a country so utterly dependent on the services of her seaman—l may say her existence as a nation --would it be credited that she is not quick and watchful of their well-being— would a foreigner think it possible that an enlightened nation could be so infatuated ? But so it is, and so it has been. Our men in high places will rather evade this vital question, and trust to the horrors of press gangs, than grapple with it. They are like fraudulent debtors, who dislike to face those to whom they lay under deep obligations. Sailors have been the most un obtrusive, and therefore suffer neglect and treatment like crest-fallen slaves. But I hope evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons will be insisted on as to the causes alluded to above, and circumstances will come out in detail that will astonish some of us. Most obediently yours, I. S., an Old Skipper. High-street, Hastings, April 7, 1839. [We give this letter, because the causes of the un popularity of the Navy ought to be known, but we hope and believe thatour Correspondent states facts and describes scenes that did, rather than do, exist. Since about the year 1813 we b e li eve orders were issued to limit punishments on board ship ; but prior to that period they could be inflicted without stint and without investigation. They often were inflicted most capri ciously and most brutally ; and sometimes because the Captain was drunk, not because the men were crimi na l. The reputation the Navy then acquired from such pro ceedings it has never lost, and if the case to which we referred on Friday be true, it seems now not wholly un deserved.] COURT OF SESSION. We have received the annual return of the num ber of cases instituted and decided in this Court last year, and we think it forms a most convincing argu ment ag'inst increasing the Judges' salaries, and for diminishing their number. The total number of final judgments, in litigated cases, pronounced by the fire Lords Ordinary, is .507 ; 312 of which were car ried into the Inner House. The Inner House of the First Division pronounced 162 final judgments, in litigated cases ; the Inner House of the Se cond Division 135 ; and there were 37 causes tried by jury ; so that the real judicial business of the Court consisted in deciding 529 causes : for the causes car ried from the Lords Ordinary into the Inner House cannot be counted. The decision of these 529 causes costs the country about 70,0001. a year for Judges, clerks, &c., besides the expense of counsel and agents, paid by the litigants themselves, or 132/. each, which, we shrewdly suspect, is more than the average sum at stake. If we look, however, to mere matters of form, which are in reality done by the clerks, without the Judges once looking at the applications, we find a considerable appearance of business ; for we have 501 decrees in absence, pro nounced by the Lords Ordinary, 659 mere formal ap plications, presented to the First Division, and 356 of such applications to the Second. Small, however, as the business is, all the Judges contrive to be in arrear. Lord Moncrieff had, at the date of the return, no less than .57 causes ready for debate, but not heard, some of which had stood on his roll very nearly a twelvemonth. Lord Jeffrey had sixty-three, some of which had been on the roll since the beginning of March last year ; and the other three Ordinaries were all, more or less, in arrear. Both of the In ner Houses, also, were two or three months in arrear, though, as every one who attended the Court must have observed, they often did not sit more than an hour or two . a-day. Why, with such a state of matters, the sittings of the Court were not extended, under the provisions of the statute 1 Gul. IV. c. 69, sec. 10, is a question which we hope some of the Mem bers of Parliament will ask the Lord Advocate ; for, if we remember rightly, there was a similar arrear at the beginning of last year. We are, therefore, glad to observe that Mr. Wallace is to move, in the Committee on the Court of Session Bill, that the sittings of the Court be extended to eight months ; for it is plain, from what has occurred, that no discretionary power in this matter can be entrusted either to the officers of the Crown or to the Court itself. Mr. Wallace is also to move for an inquiry into the nature and extent of the duties of the Judges, and whether one of the Inner Houses, and four Judges, clerks, &c., may not be dispensed with, and a saving of 14,0001. a-year thereby effected. Such a reduction would amply enable the Fee-fund, so long felt as most oppressive, to be entirely removed. Another excellent proposal of Mr. Wallace is, that, in future, all wit nesses should be examined orally in Court, instead of the absurd, tedious, and expensive form of taking written proofs by commission ; but of course, all these valuable suggestions will be rejected by the combined Whig and Tory majority, who consider it a much better thing that the Minister of the day should have plenty of patronage, and their partisans plenty of places, than that justice should be expeditiously, cheaply, and efficiently administered. Why, when business is so rapidly declining, the Judges' salaries are to be increased, we have seen no explanation ; but that the business is declining fearfully no one now disputes. An appearance of business is no doubt kept up by employing the Judges in making up records, and other matters not at all of a judicial nature, but which ought to be done by the parties themselves or by the clerks of court. One half of the time of the Outer House Judges is occupied in motions for an order to lodge papers, and other mere formal business ; most of these motions arc so much a matter of course, that no opposition, or even appearance is made by the other party. We have, on former occasions, given returns of the number of cases brought into the Outer House annually sincel794, show ing a regular decrease of business. The last return we gave was for 1831, when the number was 1,956 ; last year the number was only 1,486—50 that the predic tion in our last Register, that in a few years the Court of Session's " occupation would be gone," is amply confirmed. The sooner its primary jurisdiction is abo lished, and it is rendered a mere Court of Review of the decisions of the Sheriff and other inferior courts, the better. Four Judges would be quite enough for that purpose, and a saving of .50,000/. a year would be effected.—Tait's Magazine for April. LORD WARD.---A paragraph has been going the round of the papers, alledgieg that his Lordship had lost to a Noble Earl and a gentleman of sporting celebrity the sum of 200,0001., which paragraph seems to have been copied from a Worcester Paper. The same report, with the addition of the names of the supposed implicated par ties, appeared in a scandalizing Sunday Paper. Lord Ward in a letter to the Times, says—" The Earl alluded to I have met in society, and the gentleman of sporting celebrity in the field, but with neither have I ever been engaged in play for one moment, nor to either have I ever lost one farthing." EFFECTS Or THE NEW ART.—The Dague roscope and the Photogenic revolutions are to keep you all down, ye painters, engravers, and, alas I the harmless race, the sketchers. All ye, by whom the " Flumen Rhe num, ant pluvius discubitur ercu.s," before whose unsteady hand towers have toppled down upon the paper, and the pagodas of the East have bowed, hide your heads in holes and corners, and wait there till you are called for. The " mountain in labour', will no more produce a mouse; it will reproduce itself, with all that is upon it. Ye artists of all denornina• tions that have so vilified our nature as her journeymen, see how she rises up against you, and takes the staff into her own hand. Your mistress now, with a ven geance, she will show you what she really is, and that the cloud is not " very like a whale." You must positively abscond. Now, as to you, locality painters, with your towns and castles on the Rhine, you will not get the " ready rhino" for them now, and we have no pity for you. Bridges are far too arch now to put up with your false perspective. They will no longer be abridged of their due propor tions by you : they will measure themselves and take their own toll. You will no longer be tolerated. You drawers of churches, Britton, Pugin, Mackenzie, beware lest you yourselves be drawn in. Every church will show itself to the world without your help. It will make its wants visible and known on paper; and though vestry and churchwar den quash the church-rates, every steeple will lift up its head and demand proper repair. _ . " Mox reficit rates Quassas, indoeilis paupericm pati." Te animal painters, go no more to the Zoologicals to stare the lions out of countenance, they do not want your countenance any more. The day is come for every beast to be his own portrait painter. " None but himself shall be his parallel." Every garden will publish its own Botanical Magazine. The true " Forget me not " will banish all others from the earth. Talk no more of " holding the mirror up to Nature," she will hold it up to herself, and present you with a copy of her countenance for a penny, What would you say to looking in a mirror and having the image fastened ! As one looks sometimes, it is really quite frightful to think of it; but such a thing is possible, nay, it is probable, no, it is certain. What will become of the poor thieves, when they shall see handed in as evi dence against them, their own portraits, taken by the room i in which they st o l e , an d its the very, act of stealing.— Blackwood. " Not a fiction. PENNY POSTAGE.--A public meeting was held at the Tolsey, Gloucester, on Thursday, convened by the Mayor, in pursuance of a requisition, signed by thirty of the merchants and traders of the port of Gloucester, to take into consideration the proposed reduction of postage, as recommended by the Committe e of the House of Com mons, and to petition Parliament on the subject. The Meeting was numerously and respectably attended, and petitions to both Houses of Parliament were carried una nimously. The inhabitants of Ross, Herefordshire, have also forwarded petitions to both Houses of Parliament in support of an uniform penny postage. Petitions to the same effect are now in the course of signature in Hereford. The inhabitants of South Wales should be on the move, as no proposition, in our humble opinion, was ever better sus. tained by reason and sound policy.—Cambrian, When the police arrived in Mansfield, and the Tories believed that they had been sent by Lord John Russell entirely on his own account, loud were they in their denunciations ; but the moment it was found that the Duke of Newcastle and some Tory Magistrates had their fingers in the pie, why it was quite necessary to have the force I And, now it is a matter of doubt as to who will turn out to be in the bla me f o r causing the unconstitut i onal step, and the heavy expense, they are expediently silent and stilll l--Derbyshire Chronicle. PENNY POSTAGE.—On Friday, the Town Council of Devonport unanimously agreed to a Petition to both Houses o f Parliament, in favour of M r. R o w land Hill's plan of a general Penny Postage. The petition will be presented to the House of Lords by Lord Ash burton, and to the Commons by Sir E. Codrington , MURDER BY A HUSBAND. —An inquest has been held at Poorstoek, on the body of Mary Hounsel, who died from the effects of mineral poison. The inquiry com menced on the 28th of February, and was continued by ad journment until M on d a y week, when the jury came to a unanimous verdict o f Wilful Murder against John Hounsel, the husband of the deceased, who was committed to gaol upon the Coroner's warrant for that offence. The contents of the stomach have been analysed by Mr. Herapath, the chemist, who discovered the presence of arsenous acid, from the effects of which she died.—Bath Gazette. On Friday Mr. O'Connell had a meeting with the Deputi es f rom the di ff erent tra d es in Dublin on t h e subject of combination ; when he informed them that he was strongly opposed to any further legislation for restrict ing combination, and he believed the Government had not the remotest idea of legislating on the subject. There is now living in the Bel:on poorhouse a man, named Jacob Adcock, who on Tuesday last completed his 101st year, and is in perfect health.—Derby Mercury, BRITISH FORCE. VERA CRUZ AND WEST INDIA STATION. A Return of the Amount of British Force present in the Bay of Vera Cruz at the time of the taking of the Castle of St. Juan d'Ulloa, by the French Squadron under Admiral Baudin, and at the taking of Vera Cruz by the same Squadron ; also, copies of any Memorials on the same subject addressed to the Lords of the Ad miralty ; also, a Return of the number of Disposable Ships and Vessels under the orders of Commodore Douglas, actually present within the Jamaica part of the West India Station, at different periods between May and December, 1838. H. F. AMEDROZ, Chief Clerk, Admiralty, 22d March, 1839. No. I.—A Return of the amount of British Force present in the Bay of Vera Cruz at the taking of the Castle of St. Juan d'Ulloa and of Vera Cruz. At the Castle of St. Juan d'Ulloa, the Satellite sloop and Express packet ; at Vera Cruz, the Express packet. No. 2.—A Return of the Number of disposable Ships and Vessels under the Orders of Commodore Douglas, actually present within the Jamaica part of the West India Station, at different periods between May and December, 1838. On the Ist June, 8 sloops and 3 schooners ; on the 2d July, 8 sloops and 1 schooner ; on the 14th August, 8 sloops, 1 steam vessel, and 1 schooner ; on the 10th September, 7 Floops, 1 steam vessel, and 1 schooner ; on the 28th September, 1 frigate, 7 sloops, 1 steam vessel, and 1 schooner ; on the 13th October, 1 frigate, 7 sloops, 1 steam vessel, and 1 schooner ; on the Ist November, 1 frigate, 8 sloops, 1 steam vessel, and 2 schooners ; On the 3d December, 1 frigate, 7 sloops, 1 steam vessel, and 2 schooners. No. 2.—Copies of any Memorials addressed to the Lords of the Admiralty. Liverpool, 28th July 1838. MY LORDS,—Being deeply interested in the trade to Mexico, we beg respectfully to call your Lordship's attention to the unprotected state of the British trade to the ports in the Gulf of Mexico, which your Lord ships are aware have been blockaded by a French squadron since the 16th of April last ; and up to the latest dates, from Vera Cruz of May, and Tampico of the 16th of June, we do not hear of any of her Ma jesty's ships or vessels of war being off, or in, any of these ports, to protect British interests. We beg to acquaint your Lordships, that besides the Mary ( Wheelwright), which returned to the Thames some weeks ago, with a valuable cargo shipped in London in February last, that the Laurina, Captain Kirk, with a cargo of British manufactured goods, to the value of 50,000/., returned to this port a few days ago, having been warned off by the French squadron. Captain Kirk could not touch at Vera Cruz to have an interview with his consigners, but only through the favour of the Commander of an American vessel of war, who kindly lent his boat for that purpose, otherwise he could not have had any commurication with the shore. Several other vessels which have sailed from British ports, from March and May inclusive, with valuable cargoes of British manufactures (without any know ledge of this blockade) may shortly be expected to re turn to this country, or have to land their cargoes at some neutral port, to the great loss of the shipowners and merchants interested. May we beg to hope that this state of matters (if it has not already) will receive the immediate attention of your Lordships, and that the Admiral on the West india station has been, or will be, instructed to send a force sufficient, to remain off Vera Cruz and other Mexican ports, to protect the trade. We have further to call your Lordships' attention to the report, that her Majesty's packets will no longer be allowed by the French squadron to carry home any specie or bullion on merchants' account. We cannot believe that such an indignity, to call the right into question, can be for a moment submitted to by any of her Majesty's ships commanded by commissioned naval officers ; if so, we may next hear of the French officers opening the letters on board of the packets, and ab stracting bills of exchange ; unless, therefore, we are protected from this grievance, the merchants and min ing companies will be compelled to send their specie and bullion in American ships of war to the United States, thus experiencing protection, denied or with held by our own Government. May we, however, yet, hope to be assured by your Lordships that the British trade to Mexico will receive due and immediate protec tion from your Lordships.—We are, Scc. (Signed) JOHN and GEORGE CAMPBELL and CO. To the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, London. Admiralty, August 1, 1838. GENTLEMEN,—Having laid before my Lords Corn mi.sioners of the Admiralty your letter of the 28th ultimo, drawing their Lordships' attention to the un protected state of the British trade at the ports in the Gulf of Mexico, I am commanded by my Lords to ac quaint you, that they do not understand, either from your letter, or from any other source, that there has been any want of protection to the British trade in Mexico, as it is impossible for her Majesty's Govern ment to interfere with the blockade legally established by the French. With regard to carrying treasure in her Majesty's packets, belonging to private parties, into or out of Mexico, it would clearly be an infraction of the block ade ; and, therefore, any attempt to do so has been for bidden by their Lordships. _ I am, sze. (Signed) CHARLES WOOD, Messrs J. and G. Campbell and Co. Liverpool. Liverpool, July 31, 1838. MY LORDS,—I take the liberty of addressing your Lordships on behalf of the Mexican and South Ameri can Association of this Port. By advices from Tampico to the 16th of June, we learn that the United States sloop of war Ontario was on the Mexican coast, and that the French blockading squadron had interposed no objection to her shipping specie for the States on account of American citizens. According to the regulation lately promulgated by Lord Palmerston in the House of Commons, British merchants at Mexico will not be allowed (as we first supposed) to ship specie to this country by the packets ; it of course becomes of immense importance that we should, if possible, obtain this privilege by the interven tion of a ship of war ; there being no doubt, we appre hend, that we are at least entitled to be put upon the same footing as the Americans in this respect. This Association, therefore, are induced very respectful ly and earnestly to request, that your Lordships will be pleased to detach a ship of war from the West Indian station to the Mexican coast for the general protection of British interests there, and with particular instruc tions to aid, as far as may be practicable and proper, in receiving shipments of specie on merchants' account, which, if your Lordships think proper, might be conve• niently transhipped into the packet at Havannah for conveyance to this country. I have, &c. (Signed) To the Right Hon. The Lords of the Admiralty. W. WATSON, Chairman Admiralty, August 1, 1838. SIR--Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of the 31st of last month, wherein you state " that the United States sloop of war Ontario was on the Mexican coast on the IGth of June, and that the French blockading squadron had interposed no objection to her shipping specie for the States on account of American citizens," I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you, that my Lords have no knowledge of this transaction, though they believe it cannot be true, as it is contrary to the regulations of a blockade, which my Lords would not be justified in infringing ; and, for the same reasons, my Lords cannot comply with your request to order a ship of war there for the purpose of shipping treasure belonging to private individuals. lam ,&c. (Signed) C. WOOD. W. Watson, Esq., Chairman of the Mexican and South American Association, Liverpool. the required protection will appear in the strongest pos sible terms ; for your Lordships will not fail to observe that, for rant of that information and advice, which he could only have obtained effectually from one of our own cruisers, this vessel and her very valuable cargo were placed in imminent jeopardy, and only escaped being captured by the accidental absence of the block• ailing squadron from off Laguyra. We may further be allowed to observe, that the peril of the British residents in the sea-ports of Mexico, and their property, will continually inenatse with the duration of the blockade, producing, as there is every reason to apprehend, a stste of political con fusion and anarchy on the coast, and withal great temp tation to outrage in the accumulation of specie. Your Lordships will also readily perceive, that by the inter diction of remittances in specie from Mexico, it is we alone that suffer, the Mexicans, probably, not caring how long they may be left In possession of a plausible excuse for not paying their just debts to this country. Under these circumstances, we beg leave, most earnestly, but respectfully, to intreat your Lordships' further consideration of this important subject, and herein the protection and assistance requested by my previous communication of the 31 st ult. I have, &c. (Signed) To the Right Honourable the Lords of the Admiralty. W. WATSON, Chairman, Extract of a letter to Messrs. Cross and Co., from George Wheeler, Master of the brig Lama, bound from Liverpool to Vera Cruz, dated at sea, 24th June 1838. " On the 3d instant, I arrived off the port of Vera Cruz, when to my great disappointment, I found the harbour strongly blockaded by a squadron of nine or ten French men of war. I was soon boarded by an officer from one of them (a brig), who demanded the ship's papers, which he indorsed to the effect that all the ports and harbours of Mexico were in a state of blockade, and if I touched at any of them I should be subject to capture of ship and cargo, concluding his unwelcome visit by ordering me off immediately. The officer spoke very little English, therefore I could get no information whatever from him. " It struck me, that if I could communicate with Laguyra, that I.might learn something that would tend to direct me in my future plans ; accordingly, I pro ceeded to that place, and landed in the ship's boat on the 13th instant, and on calling on Mr. Russell and the Vice-Consul, they informed me, that the port was declared by the French in a state of blockade, although there had been no vessel of war there later than the 25th ult., and from what they knew there was no chance of a speedy settlement of the differences between the two Governments, and strongly advised me to go to the Havannah, which agreed with my former ideas." Admiralty, August 7, 1838. Sin,—Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of the 3d instant, on the subject of affording assistance, by means of her Majesty's vessels, in bringing away from Mexico specie belonging to British merchants, and repeating the statement, that American ships of war have conveyed from thence specie belonging to citizens of the United States, I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you, that my Lords cannot doubt the statement so con firmed, though they cannot order a vessel of war there for the same purpose, as it is directly contrary to the acknowledged regulations of blockade, which it has been the invariable policy of this country strictly to maintain ; their Lordships have, however, represented the matter to her Majesty's Secretary of State for Fo reign Affairs, in order that he may take steps, as he thinks advisable, under these circumstances. With regard to the extract of a letter from Mr. George Wheeler, Master of the brig Lama, it does not appear that the French officer enforced the undoubted rights of a blockading force otherwise than in the usual manlier, to which no objection can be taken. I am, &c., (Signed) C. WOOD. W. Watson, Esq., Chairman of the Mexican and South American Association, Liverpool. (A) Admiralty, Aug. 14, 1838. SIR,-1 am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, that in consequence of orders forwarded by the French Government to the Commander of the blockading squadron, to allow the shipment of specie from Mexico on account of foreign merchants, as well as on account of their respective Governments, the Commanders of her Majesty's packets may ship treasure fur private individuals at Veca. Cruz and Tampico. I am, &c., (Signed) C. WOOD. Captain Plumridge, H.M.S. Astra3a, Falmouth. EDTTION ; :,,,.._• i other negroes. Says that he has heard reports the negroes had been murdered, and served for fi 46- ; but " them tell lie." He was above, and th °se below know nothing about it. They were fed with 60 so rice, that is rice only. One white man died, tbe . ,Y put a cloth upon him, and heave him into the water. I bis " THOMAS k PHILLPOTS. mark. (Signed) Witness, (Signed) " P. SPENCER." Examined More me, in the presence of Mr. Surveyor Spencer, and Messrs. Forster and Davis, waiters and searchers„ this 17th July, 1838. (Signed) JOHN ROBY, Collector. (Extract of a letter.) " That the Africans had been dreadfully ill-treated , the horrible state of disease and emaciation (the thighs of many not being thicker than my wrist) in which they were landed, besides the cases of cramped legs and dropsy induced by debility, I think there can be no doubt ; and the minds of the negroes being naturally exasperated against the Spaniards, would readily give credence to the horrible tale of their having been fed on the flesh of their companions. Whilst under my charge they were altogether during the day (the sexes being separated at night), and a tale of that exciting- nature told by one would be communicated to all. Gentle men, for whose opinions I have respect, have stated to me their convictions, found e d on conversation with the Africans, that the reported atrocities actually took place. I own that, from my inability to obtain any direct testimony to the alleged fats from any person 4 and the positive contradiction by the 'lntelligent little b , ly Bamboo,' who had the best opportuoities of knovring the real state of the case, I am incred llous as to the pickling of human beingtyand serving out for food.” COURT CIRC ULAR. The Queen will hold a PTivy Council to-mm Tow ate" noon, at Buckingham Palace. Her M.ij,sty honoured Drury-lane Theatre W i t h her presence last evening to witness the performance of" The Maid of Palaiaeau." Her Majesty was attended tbe Marchionea of Tavistock, Mon. Miss Murray, '.Lady Theresa Digby, Viscount Torrington, Hon. Major Ii:PPP e ' and Colonel Buckley. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Qt yesterday. Her Majesty honoured Mr. Francis with a sitting y. terday for her bust. Her Majesty inspected yesterday a proof of Mr. fl• Cousins' engraving from the State Picture of her Majes t y ., by Mr. George Ha)ter, presented by the Queen to she, City of London. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by the Baroness Ahlefeldt, Baron Knesebeck, and Colonel Jones, came to town yell terday from Kew. The Duke of Cambridge Tisited the hineets Augusta at Clarence Houve. A Deputation from the Highland Society of London' consisting of tke. Marquis of Breadalbane, Sir George Murray, G. C. 8,, Captain Macdonald, and Mr. Jobn Macdonald, Secretary, had an interview with the Marq 6l of Normanby yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Alderman Hutnphery had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Home-office. The Russian Ambassador transacted business yesterdg at the Fore4,n-office. Commander M. Murray, Stipendiary Justice for Ttinl" dad, the Lord Mayor, Rev. John Radcliff, and Mr. Saint' house, had interviews yesterday with the Marquis of Nor' manby at the C,lonial-officc. Lord John Russell arrived in town yesterday from Rich' mond. The Chancellor of the Exchequer came to town yester day afternoon from Hastings. Dispatches from Sir William Nicolay, Governor of !hi: . Mauritius, and from Si r H ow a r d D ou glas, Lord Nig' Commissioner of the lonian Islands, were received pat° . day at the Colonial-office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE' ARRIVALS. The Earl and Countess of Hillsborough, in Hann/ e n r i square, from a visit to the M arqu i s an d M arc hioness Downshire, at their seat, East-hampstead Park, Lord Loftus, in Great Cumberland•street, from Bright°' the Hon. Fox Maule, M. P., in Piccadilly, from Cheshire; the Earl and Countess of \Vinchilsea, in Wilton-cresc ent ' from Leamington Spa, Warwickshire; the Hon. Ile nri e Fitzroy, M. P., in South-st ree t, f rom L ewes C as tle; A d Hon. Captain and Lady Mary Hood, at the Marquis a s in Marchioness of Downshire's, in Hanover-square, fr o Berkshire; ; Si r Ri c h ar d an d L a d y J en ki ns, i n Mansfield street street from Brighton; Viscount Hawarden and the Hs% Miss Maule, in G rosvenor -pl ace f rom a visit t the Marquis and M arc hi oness o f D owns hi re IL5t ; hampstead Park, B er k s ; t h e D u k e o f W e lli n gton,L, Apsley House, from his seat, Strathfieldsaye, Hants, Richard and Lady Phillips, in Portland-place, fo si , i t visit to J. P. Williams, Esq. M. P. at Temple House,Gr e :i, Marlow, Bucks ; Sir John and Lady Catherine Boil lb Upper Brook-street, from th e i r sea t, T aco l ves tone P s .; Norfolk, for the season; Major-General Sir F. Trench , Bolton-street, from Brighton ; Sir F e li x B oo th, Bart. , I' n' Portland-place, from his villa at H en d on; Lady We,4l lock, in Carlton House-ter ra ce, f rom hi s sea t, Can al Hall, Staffordshire; Lord an d L a dy Ch es t er field, fr o g Newmarket ; Count Bathy an y, from ditto ; Lord Lefe s° ; from Woburn Abb e y ; Lord Macdonald, from Melton Mowbray ; Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. Campbell, at Bath Hotel, Arlin g t on - stree t, f rom t h e C ont i nen t; Charles Coote, M. P., L a dy C oo t e , an d f am il y, i n naught-place, from the Continent ; Sir R. P. Jodre A . Bart.. in Portland-pl ace , f rom I ta l y ; M r. and La" ; : Bromley, at Talbot's P r i va t e H ote l , Green•street, Gro s ' venor-square, from Staffordshire ; Lord Loftus, from Brighton. DEPARTURES. his The Earl of Cardi gan , f rom S t. J ames ' s-stree t, for "of residence, near Cant er b ur y ; t h e E ar l an d Counteas„-0 Rosebery, from Piccadilly, f or H ast i ngs; Si r SteP. h ",, Glynne, Bart., M. P., f rom P a ll- ma ll , for his seat' '- Castle Hawarden, near Chester ; Lord Arthur Lenealt' from Arlington-street, for Sussex; the Hon. Wm. Bag ° „; from St. James's-square, for his seat, Poole Park, a, e ; Ruthin ; Sir Wm. L. Young, Bart., M.P., from Charl ey ' street, St. James's-square, for his seat, near High ",,J; combo ; Sir Edward and Lady Filmer, from Eaton-11 11 ' u ; for Bath ; Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Harvey, K. C. ',- assume the command on the West India and North Am sir can station ; Mr. and Lady Emily Foley, for Brighton ; d, T. and Lady L e thb r id ge , f rom B e l grave-street , f o r Sa p , hill Park, Som erse t : M r . an d M rs . A . H ope, from Cari),°,, gardens, for the Deepdene ; Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan, "i or Park-square, or, a tour; the Hon. Spencer Cowper , 0 Brighton ; the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and suite, „fr° the St. James' s R o y a l H o t e l, f or D u bli n ; M r . a nd al r i y Errington, from Hill- s t ree t, on a t our; t h e D owa ger Ls e 1 Arundel, from Dover-street, for Tunbridge Wells; Colo; and Lady Elizabeth Steele and family, for Brighton Benjamin and Lady H e y woo d an d f am il y , f rom Tel ° ° , 4 - Private Hotel, G reen - stree t, G rosvenor - square , f o r 1-d 113 " - - shire ; Mr. and Mi ss D aw ki ns , f rom di tto, for Ssedg Ate ' Mr. and Mrs. Smith, from ditto, for their seat, Cobhallb Kent. CHNGES. Lord and Lady Rolle, at Bath, from their seat, n iet n ° ,: t Lodge, Devon ; Lord C esmo R usse ll, at D u blin, f. i r a ;,.. Buttevant ; the Hon. M r s. B e ilby Th ompson , at mington Spa, from the family seat, in Yorkshire. UNIVERSITY AND tLERICA INTELLIGENCE. Oxrono, APRIL t;.—At the annual election at Ne ll ; :lollege yesterday, S. E. B a th urs t, o f Ch r i s t Church, ". .leeted a Fellow. o ' The Rev. Dr. Gilbert, Principal of Brazen Nose i e „ lege (the present Vice- Chancellor), will be the new or legate of the Press, vacant by the death of Protege Rigaud. J. The Bishop of London has appointed the ite"her Walker, of Brazen Nose College, to be Oxford Pre a " to the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. Gor ge The Lord Chancellor has appointed the Rev- W. Sandys, of Pembroke College, to the vicarage ° Grandborough, Buckinghamshire. pill The next congregation for granting degrees, be Wednesday nex t, b e i ng th e fi rs t d a y o f Easter 'l g o The new Proctors Will then be admitted into offi ce the usual formalities. The following days are appointed f o r h o lding CO e g r a egl ea" tions during next Term :—Wedn e sd a y, Ap r il 10; I 'V e ' ° ,slk. day, April 24 ; Thursday, May 2 ; Friday, May 14 ' turday, May 18. 11I s FIGURES OF OLD M ORTALIT Y A , J I.) -0 - a bit PONY. —Tii o figures, representing Old Mortality an d er Pony, have just been brought to Edinburgh for Pti_u_ n , the N.B.—The same day a communication was made to hibition by Mr. Currie, a self-taught artist ffu tor the the Foreign O ffi ce, in order that they might make a re- Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. They were opened . a itoll presentation to the French Government on this subject. first time to the public on Friday week, in the an ' The result appears by the copy of the letter to Convening-room, where, we understand, they aro _i o t a! Captain Plumridge, and those following marked (A) tinue only for a very short time previous to their r; ; t el and (B). to London. Considering that they are among th e id ea Liverpool, August 3, 1838. forts of Mr. Currie's chisel, we cannot help ou r , as oto on: MY LORDS,—I have this day laid before the Mexican these figures are entitled to very high praise.—o c „., a re and South American Association Mr. Wood's letter to me of the Ist instant,in which your Lordships are pleasedneighbourhood le - t Something is in the wind. The Tories, 111'„,a -always on the alert, are busy in the Do to express your disbelief of the statement in my letter of vassing for, as they say, the approaching e lection• Robe rt the 31st ult., th at t h e U n i ted States sloop of war, i s, we presume, they are calculating upon Sir , p a rlis; Peel's accession to o ffi ce, and the dissolution ° { °t ot Ontario, bad b een a ll owe d , b y the French blockading meet, which is to follow. I n th e ne i g hbouring c o are the squadron, to s hi p spec i e f rom Mexico on account of Cheshire they are particularly active. But wh a t a do O f f American citizens. Liberal party in Liverpool doing by way of pres ot hia9 a Our information was derived from authentic private intelligence, above all suspicion of inaccuracy , and such a crisis, should it really come upon us ? metbiPP which we are now enabled to confirm by reference , to all. But it is time that they should be doing: o c th ipg ne . be unless they have made up their minds to go' to t the New York Daily Express newspaper, of the 19th boroug h to up and allow the town to become a close _,,,,e June last, wherein, in another United States ship of Tories. We can hardly believe that we are to as e t u s "i s ce p. this without a struggle, but as yet every body is f war, the Natchez, is stated to have arrived at New Orleans, on Bth J une, from Tampico via Metamoras, —Liverpool Ch ron i c l e o f S aturday. N DA: "bringi ng l e t ters and papers, and about 60,000 dollars C APTAIN SCOTT ' S TRAVELS IN work in specie, to different individuals." This paper goes are from the Quarterly Review just published :--,_ aw ry% on to state, that the blocking squadron was off Tam- Lusit.—Th e following remarks on this interes,t,inigolso, piping times of peace, our soldiers, • tired of ev,._r_stb rou ghn 0 pico, Brazos de St. Jago, Vera Cruz, and Campeachy, and that the blockade was more vigorously enforced mould their swords into steel pens, and pally forth t notes. , a o t f e. pilg T r i h rn e i a r g p e u , i w )t h ic i a c t h ia i n io a n d e o b c u r t ed so it ld t i o er The Peninsula n g aturally presents and scarcity in the sea-port towns. The same intelli- Custom-house, Montego Bay, Jamaica. July 17, 1838. gence is further confirmed by private letters here from Bamboo, otherwise Thomas Phillpotts, an African New Orleans, to the 13th of June, adding also, that a apprenticed to M r . J o h n T uc k e r Vaughan, of Green- country. England may present to her nov a : r e 0 oft b s ° conducta had been expected to arrive by the sth of w i e b Hill, p i mento p l antat i on , i n the parish of St. military travellers, from whom her old foes b to Pr iat i : June, with about 60,000 dollars, and " that a Govern- James, apparent age twelve or thirteen, examined on fled ; she may Inca vessel would run occasionally between N ew paro l e , says th a t w hen he was taken on board the slave o ar bled corresp on d ence of their conq u ero r rankli n g un 0 1 b it Orleans and Tampico to convey letters and specie." ship he was put down into the hold, as others were , She blushes for no Pillets, Foys, 8"' " w e ase of tr at b an call upon her French allies _r of Tou lool er • d Yln corroboration also of the necessity and peril that and he was employed to wait upon the Captain and defeat, soothe mortified vanity lush te "sexcPharacterise . 0 _ f exist, inducing our late request to your Lordships to crew ; says that the Captain and crew did not kill any- conscience. The work before ; lively .... erce ptio r iis u b Sa \ s that unaffected tone of good humour -_-..d00r P detach a ship of war to the Mexican coast for the body on the voyage ; and, when asked if he had not general protection of British interests, we beg leave to heard it said that they killed the negroes to feed the the charms of an Moro-Andalusianadventurous w an f understaniing.n Scott' i f ii o a r hi t I the .ib n, 3 lali uage. To us Ca P t w el brance i 6k existence -- of :heir subjoin, for your Lordships' information. a copy of a survk ors, he said " them tell story." , I - r - lieu ihe ne,,, , ,r‘iPs died they weie throv,ri into leitif &or., Geo. Wheeler, Master 01 ,[:r h e 1 fvuel,briae-anl: h b e e l t r this port, to his owners, from which the urgent necessity of I and were never served as food, or " messymessy," , tor Spanish travels." ____ ............. ...,../ r - tb. st a, Sli ' ett:ilC l B ( ll . .i n v er 'e s r'ec a i ' illed many g pleasurable reale (B) Admiralty, Aug. 14, 1838. SlR,—With reference to your letters of the 31st ult., and the 3d inst., I am commanded by my Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, that the French Government having forwarded orders to the Commander of the blockading squadron, to allow the shipment of specie from Mexico on account of foreign merchants, as well as on account of their respective Go vernments, her Majesty's packets have received orders to ship treasure for private individuals at Vera Cruz and Tampico. I am, &c., . . (Signed) C. WOOD. Wm. Watson, Esq., Chairman, of the South American and Mexican Association, Liverpool. Similar letters to Messrs. Tuckling and Goschen, 2, Crosby-square, with reference to their letter of the 10th instant. J. D. Powles, Esq., 3, Freeman's-court, with refer ence to his letter of the Bth ult. Messrs. Heath and Co., 31, Old Jewry, with refer• ence to their letter of - ult. Messrs. J. and G. Campbell and Co., Liverpool, with reference to their letter of the Bth ult. Messrs. A. M. Rothschild and Sons, 2, New Court, St. Swithin's-lane, acquainted. HORRORS of the SLAVE TRADE Our readers will perhaps recollect that some time ago it was currently reported that on board a slaver captured-by her Majesty's ship Snake some of the slaves had been killed and served up for food to the remainder. We are rather pleased to learn, great as are the hor rors of this traffic, that there is reason to suppose this enormity was not committed. Some papers have been laid on the table of the House of Commons on this subject, and printed, from which we make the following extracts : " Port Royal, Jamaica, July 6, 1838. " STR,—Having by your directions, this day read a letter from Mr. Evelyn of Lucea,' in this island, stat ing that the Portuguese crew of the slave vessel Arrogante,' captured by her 'Majesty's ship Snake, mule use" of the bodies of the negroes who died, and also killed others, for the purpose of feeding the re mainder, on her passage from the coast of Africa to the island of Cuba. I have the honour to inform you, that I do not think this horrible transaction could have taken place, or if so, that I would have been informed of it, as at the time she was captured I was the officer that boarded her, and I remained in charge until she was condemned by mixed Commission Court at Sierra Leone on the 6th of March last, a period of 103 days. It appeared from the statemeat of the master, as well as from the log-book, that the Arrogante's cargo was shipped by a well-known slave-dealer, of the name of Pedro Blanco, at the river Gullinas, ;an the 13th of October, 1837, the whole num ber received being 470, and when captured she had on board 406, only 64 having died on the passage, which occupied a period of forty days, and which I consider from my own experience, having had charge of five slavers, an ususual small proportion. I have, how ever, a still stronger reason for supposing no such circumstance had ever taken place, as there were two male negroes on board who had before been captured on the coast of Africa, and liberated at Sierra Leone, but by some means kidnapped and again sold at the Gullinas ; one of these men talked English distinctly, the other not so well, but sufficiently to be understood. I had frequent conversation with them, as 1 employed them as boatswains to direct the others, and they never hinted at such a circumstance. The Arrogante was also abundantly supplied with pro visions and water to complete her voyage ; thole being, as near as I recollect, about 100 sacks of rice, and 10 tons of water on board at the time of capture, and she was then about four days' sail from her port of destination ; under these circumstances, it is scarcely to be supposed they would be guilty of such a horrible crime, or that they would wantonly sacrifice to them such valuable pro perty. The master, by name Augustus Caesar Medina, is a native of Port Praya, in the island of " St. Jago," Cape de Verds, and he informed me he had been six voyages in the slave trade to the southward of the line, and appeared perfectly to understand the mana g ement of a slaver; during the time h e rema i ne d with me be conducted himself in a quiet inoffensive manner, and, as far as I could judge, I do not think he would be guilty of such a horrible transaction. I have, &c. (Signed) R. B. MILLER. Lieutenant of H. M. S. Snake. Commodore Douglas, Port Royal.