The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-19 00:00:00

U N G ENGLAND TIIE SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE EMPIRE. This new Paper will be published as soon as the necessary prepara tions shall have been made. Communications for the Editor, from all who are anxious to co-, operate In this design, are requested to be addressed to the Publisher, Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, Ot;TOBEtt 19, Will be performed Auber's ceiebrated Opera THE SYREN. Marco Tempests, Mr. W. Harrison; Scipio, Mr. D. W. King; Zerlina (the Syren), Miss Rainforth. After which, the Grand Ballet, entitled THE CORSAIR. Zonrad, M. Albert; Julien, M. Desplaces; Sanguo, Montessu ; Itedora, Miss Clara Webster ; Une Vivandiere, Mdlle. Auguste, Delbes; Guinare, Mdlle. Adele Dumilatre. The Box-ottic,e is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six is the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes. Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 19, Wlll be repeated Vanbrugles Comedy of THE CONFEDERACY. Adapted to the present Period. The Principal Characters by Messrs. Strickland, W. Farren, Buckstone, and C. Mathews, Madame Vestris, Miss P. Horton. Mrs. E. Yarnoid, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Stanley, and Mrs. Glover. After which, will be produced a New Comic Drama, founded on Den Caesar de Baran, entitled A MATCH FOR A KING. Charles the Second, Mr. Stuart; Don Sebastian della Rosa, Mr. C. Mathews; Mariquita, Miss Julia Sennett. To conclude with a New Farce, by Mr. Buckstone, entitled THE '1 NIMBLE RIG. John Ginger, Mr. Buckstone, Sam Shindy, Mr. Strickland; Mrs. Ginger, Mrs. W. Clifford. Orche,tra Stalls cwhich may be retained the whole of the Even mg). &. each. First Price—Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3 s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price at Nine o'Clock—Boxes, 3s. ; Pit. 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, fd. Doors opened at Half.past Six, Per formance commence at :even Private Boxes, Two Guineas .and One Guinea and a.Half each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, at the Box.oftice, from I'en till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, 'ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 19, Will be performed an entirely New Drama, entitled CESAR DE BAZAN b • or, Love and Honour. Charles the Second, Mr. Howe; Cesar de iaan, Mr. Wehst. r ; Maratina, Madame Celeste. After which. a New Eccentric Mythological Burlesque, called TELEIIACHUS; or, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss Woolgar ; Calypso, Mr. Wright ; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedferd ; Dinah, Mr. Cowell. To be followed by a New Comic Operetta, called the FOX AND THE GOOSE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Paul Bedford. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, 4fr Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-odice open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STHEET. LESSEE, Mr. J. H. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER Will be perform d THE SY REN. Principal Characters by Messrs. Walton,,C. Horn, Jun., Leffler Allen ,a nd Mcille. Nau. To conclude with the New Drama, called DON C2ESAR DR AZAN. Don Caesar, Mr. Wallack ; Charles the Second, Mr. Walton ; Marittna, Mrs. Stirling; Countess di Rotondo, Mrs. Posbrc ke. Stage Manager, Mr. H. L Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 45. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes. two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half. pest Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The ox-otfice. under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham— Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA• HOUSE. Mader the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING. OCTOBER 19, WI Ibe performed THE SWISS COTTAGE. Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Yarnold, and Keeley, Miss Grove, Miss Arden, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, the Comic Scene, called OUTGENERALED ; or, a Hint to Bachelors. Charles Stanley, Mr. F. Vining; Mrs. Stanley, Miss Walcott. To which will be added THE rosT OF HONOUR, In which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will perform. To be followed by an entirely Original, and much better than New, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern Tale, in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALAI/DIN AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal cha racters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, .1. W. Collier, and Keeley ; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Weolli ige, Miss G r ove, Miss Arden, bliss Turner, Mr ,s James, Re., &c. PRICES OF A OMlSSlON.—Balcony /loxes. 44. • Upper Boxes, 3s. • Pit, 25."; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony B oxes, 2P. ; Upper Boxes, Is 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the naicony Tier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private iloxes on the Pit Fier (holding six persons), One (Rupert • The Box...)ffice is open from Ten to• Four o'Clock, under the direc non of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. DA VIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING. OCTOBER IP, Will be repeated a New Military Drama, entitled THE EVE OF BATTLE. Sup, , orted by the whole. Company, with New Scenery ani Splendid Appointments. After which, the Wonderful Performances of the CHIARINI FAMILY on the Cords Elastique. To conclude with THE WHISTLER. Places and Private Boxes to be hati-of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 19, Will be performed Shals,pe re's Tragedy of KING LEA R. King tear, Mr. Grah im ; E .gar, Mr. Jamei Bennett ; Earl of Kent, Mr. Dale; Cordelia, Miss Vincent After which, MISCHIEF MAKING. To conclude with MIDAS. Apol'o, Miss Louisa Lyons. Private Family Boxes, £1 Is. Od. and £1 Ils. 6d. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, OCT. 18. TfisastomETEß, Lowest, 38; Highest, 54; Noon, 50. as.p.onurrF.B., N.W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is wually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... II minutes after 7 Evening ... 43 minutes after 7 illorlditff2/un. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1844. On Wednesday last, a public meeting, at which the Earl of RADNOR presided, was held at llighworth, for the purpose of taking into consideration the dis tress of the working classes. At this meeting several stern home truths were told, which appeared to make a deep impression on all who heard them ; and it was further remarkable, as showing the keen sense which the labourers entertain of their present forlorn con dition ; their perfect consciousness that they are not treated as they should be, by their superiors ; and the exemplary patience with which, notwithstanding this conviction, they bear their privations. Occasionally, however, a bitter feeling of indignation was exhibited by, those of the humbler classes who attended the meeting ; and when one of the speakers observed— " The gentry ought to come forward and see to the poor if their horse or their foxhound was ill, the doctor' would be sent for, and the fine generous animal would be cared for and physicked. But if men—men made in the image of God, with wives and children, whose cheeks met together from starvation—came to them, they would not give them a bit of bread. They knew that the people were starving, yet they would attend to their horse or their dog, but they would do nothing for the honest, industrious working-man ;"—when we say, one of the speakers expressed himself in this blunt, energetic manner, the indignant murmurs of his hearers proved how strong was the conviction they entertained of the truth and force of his remarks For our own part, however, we are by no means dis posed to go the extreme lengths of Mr. EDRIDGE. We do not acknowledge the strict justice of his cen sures upon the gentry. We do not believe that the poor are treated by them with such callous, insulting indifference as he would have us sup pose ; their treatment, indeed, is far—very far - from what it should be ; still it is more considerate and kindly than it has been for many years past; and w• think we can detect grow ing symptoms, on the part of the higher and middle classes, of an earnest wish to ameliorate the condition of the humbler orders, and raise them in the social scale. The spirit that prevailed at the late agricul tural meetings—the favour shown to the allotment system by many of our great landowners—the public subscriptions raised in some of our leading provincial towns for the formation of public walks and parks—. and still more, the active stir now making by that compact band of zealous social Reformers, who call themselves " Young England ;"—all these are signs and tokens not to be mistaken, that the nobility and gentry are at length awakening to the necessity of improving the condition of the ignorant and impoverished masses. The midnight torch of S wing has, we suspect, assisted not a little to bring them to a determination in this matter. When the farmer's hay-rick is in a blaze, the thing i s be coming too serious for mere superficial considera tion ; it assumes a direct personal importance—n am faa res agitur paries cum proximus ardet—and this, no doubt, is one of the many causes that have in duced the upper classes to investigate the condition of the masses, with a view to see what can be done for their improvement. However, he the motives of the former what they may, we bail their present altered tone as an omen of auspicious import; and trust that the day is not far distant when the poor and the oppressed shall no longer have occasion to complain that they are neglected by the rich and the influential. In the Herald of yesterday appears some deli cious twaddle —quite a treat in its way—on the subject of the sayings and doings of her MAJESTY and Prince ALBERT at East Cowes. It seems that on Thurs day last—memorable day! —the illustrious couple "strolled 4o the sea-side, which surrounds the grounds attached to Osborne House," •and.there indulged them selves " in watching the sinuous course of the vessels majestically gliding up the waters, or in exploring the beach for curiosities." Our Contemporary does not tell us what were the " curiosities" which the QUEEN and the PRINCE expected to find on the sands; but leaves us quite in the dark on the matter, which 7 is a pity, for it sets conjecture on the qui vice, only to tantalize and disappoint it. While searching for these annonymous " curiosities," her most gracious MAJESTY unluckily got off " the hard beach into the softer sand," the consequence of which was—as the Herald quaintly assures us—" that her feet up to the ancles became im beded." Shocked at this catastrophe, " his Royal Highness was immediately by her MAJESTY'S side ;" but she—greatly, as it appears, to the astonishment and admiration of our Contemporary— " making amusement of the occurrence, laughingly retraced her steps." The Herald is particular in telling his readers that the QUEEN laughed at the calamity which had befallen her ancles, fearing that otherwise their loyal sensibilities might have re ceived pain:from the belief that she had wept, and that the PRINCE from sheer sympathy had mingled his tears with hers. "Meanwhile," continues the Herald, Colonel BOUVERIE came up, and to him, as to others, it was a matter of surprise and remark that the lady and gentleman, watching the sea arm-in arm on the strand, apparently two private persons, should be the beloved Monarch of England, and her illustrious Consort." We do not wonder at the surprise of the gallant Colonel and his companions! It was indeed a legitimate subject for astonishment, to see the QUEEN and PRINCE, looking just like any other people, and " watching the sea" just as any other people might have done ! We wonder the be holders of this strange spectacle did not go off in a swoon, out of the very excess of their wonder I But the richest bit is to come. " Having got on board the royal yacht, her MAJESTY ordered that they should start on a short cruise, and during it a shower of rain came on ; but it was received very good-humouredly, and, as a matter of course." Wonderful 1 Our Contemporary, no doubt, expected that the QUERN would have been quite in dignant with the atmosphere for presuming to rain upon Royalty, and duck the LORD'S Anointed, instead of which—to his ineffable astonishment—she took the drenching quite "as a matter of course"— just as if she could not help it ! Really it is high time that all this nonsensical twaddle about the daily movements of the QUEEN should be put a stop to. It cannot but be highly distasteful to her, desirous, as she evidently is, to enjoy for a time the blessings o privacy and retirement. So lately as the sth instant it became our melan choly duty to call the attention of the public to the catastrophe by which, only a day or two previously, one hundred people had been sacrificed—in an instant of time—at the Haswell Colliery ! With profound regret we have since had to announce another dis aster of the same nature, though (fortunately) not attended with the sacrifice of human life to the same appalling extent as occurred at Haswell. But, on the night of Monday last, at Coxlodge Colliery, near ewcastle-upon-Tyne, an explosion took place, by which five persons, within the workings, were se riously injured, of whom two are so much maimed that no hopes can be reasonably entertained of their recovery ; one of these (BAINBRIDGE) having been blown against a tub, by the explosive force, with such violence as to fracture his thigh bone; the other (Commas) having been violently felled to the ground, and remained there for no less than two hours, in an atmosphere saturated with the deleterious " choke damp"—that noxious and inflammable gas, the escape of which is the grand agent of these terrible cala mities. From the best accounts hitherto obtained, it would seem that, at the time this explosion took place, there were, in the mine, seventy-nine men and boys variously employed in the several districts into which the " workings" are divided. " Shifters," as they are called, had been engaged, in the morning and afternoon, clearing away where the coal hewers were to get to their work at night. Five of these coal hewers were waiting, to commence these opera tions, till BROWN, the " deputy," should have ex amined the workings and reported " all right." Two of the sufferers, ANDERSON and COLLINS, had concluded their day's work as shifters, when they were re quested by the " deputy" to assist him in removing iome tramway pieces out of the " goal," as "it was likely to fall." This fact, and the one which follows, are well calculated to excite a lively idea of the fearful hazards to which these poor pitmen are ex posed. They went with the " deputy," but had to return immediately, as the " goaf," or gallery, was already " working," that is, creeping and heaving ! BROWN, the deputy, although these unfortunate shifters had been working with proper safety lamps, committed, it would seem, the unpardonable impru dence of carrying a naked candle to the "stenting," from whence, if from any point, the jet of gas would come, "to see if the place," as he said, " was safe for the hewers to operate upon, whom he had in waiting, to put on." It never seems to have occurred to him to consider what must be the consequence of his action, should the place not prove safe. Although expressly cautioned by ANDERSON to take his candle back, "as there was danger, if the goaf fell," he per sisted in carrying it on to this stenting, where the gas actually had formed, and now ignited with an explo sion which was felt throughout the entire mine, but most providentially exhausted itself within a hundred yards of the area of ventilation in the mine, from whence the stream :of air is subdivided and distri buted through the different districts or flats of the colliery. Had it travelled on to this place, says the report, and blown down the erections by means of which this distribution is effected, "every man in the pit at the time would have been killed." As it was, two of the coal hewers (ANDERSON and KENT), who awaited BROWN'S return, were most seriously injured, as already stated ; COLLINS, a shifter, was severely burnt, and with BROWN, the deputy (al though this latter, after the gas had fired, ran away so quickly as to reach the shaft in safety), is not ex pected to survive. In a former article we quoted, at length, the preamble of one of the burked Bills of last session, called "A Bill for establishing District Registers of all Mining Operations in - England and Wales." We remarked, that had it happily have been passed into law, there was every probability, that by means of the scientific supervision which its clauses went to provide, the Haswell casualty would not have oc curred. Precisely the same remark applies to the unhappy accident we are now considering. The Coxlodge Colliery belongs to Messrs. BELL, BRAND LANG, and Co., and has always been deemed a very well ventilated one. But, if we may credit the state- ment published, recenti facto, in the Miners' Advo cate, it would appear that the deputy, BELL, to whose rashness or incompetency the disaster appears to have been so mainly attributable, had been brought up to the plough, and was neither accustomed, nor compe tent, to the due discharge of the responsible post he filled. If this be so, a stronger case could not have been raised to demonstrate the necessity for carrying out the general propositions of the Bill in question, to the full extent of their scope and spirit. It is evi dently indispensable that these mines should be con stantly visited by duly qualified members or officers of a Commission, composed of scientific and practical men, well acquainted with the natural laws which regulate the generation, and the phenomena which announce the presence, of these noxious vapours. It is as evidently requisite, with a due regard to the de mands, in the first place, of a humane and provident policy, and in the second, of the owners of capital and property already sunk, or about to be invested, in iuch extensive works, that a careful, accurate, and periodically attested register of every preceding week's operations should be organized and main tained, to be copied and deposited as Parliament may direct, fur the purpose of supplying the information thus recorded, to all interested parties, as generally as may be practicable. We should then cease to hear of "judds" being removed—of old workings being de stroyed, or new ones commenced—with all the liabili ties thus fatally attaching to such operations, when not directed by scientific skill, or controlled by prac tical experience and sagacity. Where so large an amount of human life, so valuable a supply of perilous labour and intrepid enterprise are involved, as are vo luntarily entombed in our collieries and mines for long protracted periods, it is the duty of the Legis lature to protect the workman against the avarice of the master, on the one hand, or the incapacity of his deputy on the other. We impute nothing like ava rice to the respected owners of Coxlodge. We have no wish to press the presumption of misconduct against their wounded servant, BROWN. But, as a 4eneral principle, the first object of Parliament should be to economise the lives of the parties whose labour alone gives value to the products of our mines; its second, to apportion the charge of accomplishing that beneficent end on the mining property of the district within which it is to be accomplished. The Madrid journals of the 11th are chiefly filled with details respecting the opening of the Cortes, and comments on the QUEEN'S speech. They possess, however, no interest. A supplement of the Gazette of the 11th announces to those interested in the public stocks, that the junta named by the royal decree of the 13th of March, 1837, as directors of the National Sinking Fund, is prepared to burn and annul bonds to the amount of 400,120,000 reels of the Five per Cent. Stock, and giving thirty days' notice to parties who may have any claims upon these bonds. The Gazette then contains the following decree from the Minister of Finance, for the conversion of the Float ing Debt of the Treasury into Three per Cent. Stock : " Art. 1. The conversion into consolidated Three per Cent. Stock, ordered by royal decree of 26th June for the holders of Government contracts, is hereby ex tended to the inscriptions of the floating debt of the Treasury. " Art. 2. The conversion is to be made at the rate of forty per cent., or at the rate of 250 reels of nominal value in bonds, for every 100 reals of inscriptions. " Art. 3. The said inscriptions shall not be entitled to the four per cent. interest, hitherto allowed after the Ist July last. " Art. 4. The produce of the salt and the stamp duties, mortgaged for the payment of the Centralized Floating Debt, shall enter into the public Treasury from the date of the liquidations of the month of September last, and shall be devoted to the payment of the obligations of the State " Art. 5. The holders of the inscriptions of the Float ing Centralised Debt shall be subject to all the other conditions established by the decrees of the 26th June. ".art. 6. The Government will submit to the Cortes the dispositions contained in this decree." The following gossip about the young QUEEN is given by a correspondent of the Journal des Debate at Madrid:— " The Queen is much grown, and though she is thin- . ner, her constitution has evidently gained strength. Her forehead, her eyes, her smiles, and, above all, her voice, and also her deportment, are those of her mother, whom she seeks to imitate. Since the unfortunate occurrence of last year, her Majesty never transacts business with only one of her Ministers being in the presence ; but two of them always attend her in her cabinet. She is said to display a great aptitude for business, conferring at length with her Ministers, and almoSt always in important cases requiring the papers to be left with her, that she may consider them maturely before she comes to a decision. She takes pride in showing courage and resolution. On their return from Barcelona the two Queens having been very ill, from the usual effects of a sea voyage, they, on landing at Tarragona, determined to make the rest of the journey by land, as far as Valencia. As their equipages were not there, they set out incognito in one of the diligences, accompanied only by General Narvaez and Count Vista Allegria, Under Secretary to the Minister of War. On passing at nightfall through Maestrargo, the scene of one of the most terrible of Cabrera's ex ploits, General Narvaez perceived some horsemen in the distance, whom he suspected might be a party of rebels, who had recently infested the country. He and the Se cretary alighted - to examine them more closely. Hap pily, they proved to be only a band of muleteers. On the Queen's return to Madrid, one of the grand officers of her household asked her if she was not frightened at Maestrargo ? 'Frightened exclaimed the Queen, looking proudly at him, No ;I am like my mother, I and never afraid Her Majesty has an excellent me mory, retaining the whole chronology of ancient and modern history, of which she has given many remark able proofs in this respect as well as in others. She never forgets the name of a person she has once known. She is perhaps the only person in Spain who can repeat by heart the whole of the Constitution of 1837, and also all the rules and orders of the two Chambers, of which she is a strict observant." Accounts from France state that the KING arrived at Eu on Tuesday evening, in excellent health. The Paris journals, of Tuesday evening, publish the fol lowing telegraphic dispatches, announcing his safe arrival in his own dominions " CALAIS, OCT. 15, SEVEN A.M.—The weather has not permitted the KING to embark at Portsmouth. He came from that town to Dover by the railroad. His MAJESTY arrived at Dover this morning at three o'clock, and is to embark at noon for Calais." " CALAIS, OCT. 15, HALF-PAST THREE P.M.—The KING landed at three o'clock. He has reviewed the National Guard, and received the civil and military authorities. He was received with the most lively enthusiasm by the entire population. His MAJESTY has left for Eu." The papers bring no news of importance. The principal topic to which they advert, is still the KING'S visit to England ; and as we hope the subject is now nearly exhausted, and this may be regarded as the winding up of the discussions on a very remarkable event, a few more extracts from them will not be con sidered out of place. The Presse, a journal supposed o be under the influence of Queen CHRISTINA has had very few articles on the subject, though i evidently had regarded the visit with jealousy. AI last, however, it breaks forth in good earnest in these words :—" The presentation of an address at Windsor by the Corporation of the City of London, is certainly a manifestation of great value, as a personal homage rendered to the character of the former refugee at Twickenham, the present KING of the FRENCH. But to attribute to that manifestation, as is done this morning by the Journal des Debats, an immense political importance is to fall, according to usage, into exaggeration and fawning. To keep within the bounds of truth and prudence, it is necessary to dis tinguish between the sentiments which ally the two SOVEREIGNS, the sentiments which draw the two Cabinets together, and the rivalities which seperate the two countries. These rivalities have existed at all times, and henceforth cannot but increase. To hope, or to suppOse, that they can be allayed by fine speeches, would be a gross deception. What sen sible man could partake in the illusion, especially at times when the constitution of the State were in question, when the existence of Ministers is dependent on the fluctuating voices of majorities, and when the two Cabinets may very probably not be animated with the same feelings as those which might continue to exist between the two SOVEREIGNS. Unfortunately the cordial and pacific phrases which have been ex changed at Portsmouth and Windsor, will not pre vent-the agents of the two countries, wherever they may be together, from disagreeing and becoming rivals. They will not diminish the and con tempt of the British navy. They will not prevent the inveterate sentiments of hostility, the suspicious jealousy, and the insolent disdain which we have re cently seen bursting forth at Otaheite and Gibraltar, in the whole conduct of the Consuls PRITCHARD and ROBERTWILSON, in the speeeh of Sir ROBERT PEEL himself, and, to go back to 1840, in the insulting propositions of Lord PALMERSTON, and in the diplo matic dispatches of Mr. BULWER, from being at bottom the true sentiments of the English nation with regard to us, as soon as she shall receive on our part the smallest resistance or the most involuntary opposition. Did the enthusiastic reception given to Marshal SOULT in 1838 prevent the signature, two years after, of the treaty of the 15th of July ? Yes, there is one certain means of making the two countries live in mutual peace, and to make their union cordial and durable. It is to accept frankly the supremacy of Great Britain, to content ourselves with the rank of a second-rate power, to consider it quite right that England, N‘hich has already snatched from us Upper and Lower Canada, Acadia, Terra Nova, Grenada, St. Vincent, Dominica, St. Kitts, Tobago, St. Lucie, the Isle of France, and New Zealand, who has taken from Spain, Gibraltar, Jamaica, Cam peachy, Honduras, the Bahamas, Trinidad, and the Falkland Islands ; from Holland, Demerara, Berbice, Esequibo, and the Cape of Good Hope; from Turkey, the lonian Islands; from the order of Malta, Malta and Gozo, &c. &c., should also take exclusive pos session of all the other points on the globe, and all the other markets which its navy or its commerce have not yet got, that we should renounce all right to place our flag on even the smallest islet, that we should at its instigation bring confusion into our colonies, while we at the same time retarded the day marked out for the emanc i pat i on of the negroes, to reduce our navy while we kept up an exorbitant and ruinous army; to occasion every now and then to continental Europe some fears respecting the continuance of peace, and thereby retard the progress of industry, and bring about commercial crises, and, in short, •to give it every trouble in fomenting revolution, a s it i s doing at the present moment in Spain. These are the terms upon which it may be reckoned that the understanding between the two countries will not be less cordial than that between the two Sovereigns. Let us 'cease to be rivals, and there will be no obstacle to our being allies." The Constitutionnel regards all the compliments paid to the KING and the French people as mere imi tations of French politeness, meaning nothing. We wish these haters of England would follow the example in place of denouncing Englishmen as cut- r••••- o r, ' i.-- , .• . '; ''''• . - 41, e 4. ~, ' °,III.I•MA ' ' ,- 1' :' ' i .„, 4 ,6 , ~,„,„ < ..., ~.... 7 , . ,i i . • ...„,,,, A r.i.-", -• 411 0 1*->' '"Ill ! ?s• '.; 'Z' 4,A 111.1:., li - •• -..I•• /0 0 ~., , ic , • . , - •'.'-• ' :A '',..-.....-• , ..-- .Y,' , 4 1w , • .. _ • - THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTQBER 19, IM4. throats in Otaheite. The following are its spiteful remarks : " The King of the Vrench has been the object of every attention in England. We are grateful for it to the English nation and its Government. In fact, if these speeches, addresses and royal fet es , h ave f or t h e i r ob ject to place a certain salve on our recent wounds, and to console by satisfactions of pure vanity, our offended interests and dignity, at least they are acts of politeness, and we prefer them on the part of England to rude be haviour. Our Ministerial journals are, it is true, highly ridiculous in their enthusiasm. The King has the Order of the Garter, neither more nor less than Louis XVIII. and Charles X., his predecessors I Behold him altoge ther in the rank of legitimate Kings ! He can wear, like them, on days of ceremony, a garter on his left leg, and display before the eyes of ambassadors this present of Queen Victoria ! The Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London, rode three or four leagues in their carriages, dressed in their crimson robes, to congratulate the King on the policy of his Mi nistry, and to recommend him to continue that policy, in the interest of humanity ! What happiness for France ! What a political event ! But it is not the fault of England that our Ministerial journals are ridi culous. Our neighbours, judging of our nation by its Government, have taken it into their heads that appear ance is everything to our eyes, that the bottom of mat ters is of little importance to us, and that forms alone occupy us. They go direct to the useful, the true, the positive, but they imagine that we are a formalist people, and that we regard no other interests than those cf our self-love. They servo us, therefore, ac cording to our taste, and we ought to be grateful to them for their desire to please us. In Morocco, we have the glory of Isly; they have the treaty of Tan giers. At Otaheite, they get our throats cut and expel us ; but at London they compliment us, and place us in their addresses above all the great warriors in his tory. They have obtained the disavowal of M. d'Aubigny and the indemnity of Mr. Pritchard, but the Aldermen of London visit the King in their crimson robes. Have we not all that is suitable for us ? However, our Minis ters make the King declare that peace is the greatest in. terest of nations, as if independence, the integrity of the territory, national honour, and the grandeur of the country, were not interests still more precious than peace, of which we know better than any others how to recognise the value. The King is recommended to pro claim the coming of perpetual peace, that dream which the head of a great nation ought never to declare aloud in a foreign country. This definition of the entente cordiale is in fine suggested to the King ; a platonic friendship between France and England, in which France demands nothing from England, nor England anything from France ; a vain definition, for such an alliance im plies an alesolute stain quo, a complete fixity in the world, or else it is not a real alliance. All this the English ap plaud with the utmost gravity, and continue to proceed towards their object, of acting everywhere without us and against us if necessary. They pay us in coin which they suppose is suitable for us, and they flatter our vanity for the greater edvantage of England." The Globe thus adverts to the address from the Corporation of London : " This Corporation, so important by the private posi tion of each of its members, and also by the influence of the burgesses of London, by which it is elected, has heretofore limited itself to the reception within the city itself of the foreign Sovereigns who sojourned in Eng land. It never on any former occasion quitted the limits of the commonalty till this occasion of the visit of his Majesty to Queeu Victoria. The departure, too, of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen for Windsor has been considered by all serious minds as a most significant event. To have induced the Corporation of London to break through a rule consecrated by immemorial custom, required in fact that the elite of the English population should have pronounced itself strongly in favour of France, and that the deference and veneration felt for our Sovereign should be carried to the highest pitch." The French Funds on Wednesday were very firm. The Five per Cents. which rose five centimes, closed at 118 f. 60c., and the Threes at 82f. 40c. THE BOURSE-WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16. First Highest Lowest • Price. Price. Price. Price. FronchriveperCznts...• •• 118 35 .. 118 40 .. 118 35 .. 118 40 Fours. lO7 2.5 .• 107 25 .. 107 25 .. 107 25 Three per Cents..• 82 20 .. 82 40 .. 82 20 .. 82 40 Bank of France 3055 ..3055 .•3050 ..3050 LeMt° Bank, I,ooof. s%westlli 50 ..1112 50 —lll2 50 —lll2 50 5,000 f. Sharesso4s ..5045 ..5045 ..5015 Belgian Fives,lB3l una .. 1011 •• 1011 .. 1011 1840 ........ 1031 .• 103/ • • 1031 .. 103/ Spanish Passive .. 6 .. 6 •• 6 .. 6 . - Active............ 321 .. 321 .• 32} .. 32} Threes ........., •• 351 .. pi .. 351 .. 3f , i Portuguese Five per Cents.. 49 .. 50} 44 .. 50i Neapolitan• •••—..•• • • • • • 98 70 .. 98 70 • • 98 70 .. 98 70 —. _ _ Roman .... • 1051 1051 .. 105 i- .. 161 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R.B ...••• •• 397 50 .. 397 50 .. 397 50 .. 397 50 L. 8.......•••• •• 282 50 290 282 50 •• 286 25 Rouen Rouen to Havre 767 50 767 50 .. 765 • 765 Orleans ••.• ..... 50 —1022 50 .•1017 50 1020 Strasburg to Bale ..... 276 25 •• 280 • 276 25 .• 280 Avignon to Marseilles-- 780 • 781 25 780 781 25 RAILWAY SHARES FOR SETTLING, 16TH OF OCTOBER. St. Germain 917 50 .• S2O .. 917 50 .. 920 Versailles. L.B••• 282 50 .• 286 25 .. 282 50 .• 283 75 Rouen •• •• •• •• •• •••••• ....1010 .•1015 —lOlO —lOl5 Rouen to Havre............ 766 25 .• 767 50 •• 765 .. 767 50 Orleans • • lO2O ..1021 25 ••1020 ..1021 25 Strasburg to Bale• • • • ....•• 277 50 .. 278 75 .. 277 50 .• 278 75 Mignon to Marseilles.•..•• 778 25 .. 781 25 . 778 75 •• 781 25 RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER 31. Versailles, R.B. . Rotten • • • .... Rouentollavre...•....•••• 766 25 • 767 50 .. 766 25 767 50 Orleans. .. ••1020 Straeburg to Bale ... Avignon to Marseilles...— 778 75 .. 781 52 .. 780 • • 781 25 DR. WOLFF. Lady Georgiana Wolff has acquainted the Presi dent of the Committee of the Stoddart and Conolly Fund, that she has received letters from Dr. 'Wolff; and also from the Persian Ambassador at the Court of Bokhara, translated into English by the favour of Colonel Shiel. Dr. 'Wolff, in letters dated July 29, and August (no day being specified), states that he expected to leave Bokhara in a few days, and had re ceived a present from the Ameer of a horse, a silver bridle, a robe of honour, and ninety ducats, but had not yet had his audience of leave. The Persian Ambassador, in a letter dated July 23, stated that he expected to bring Dr. Wolff away in about eight days. As the second of Dr. Wolff's letters, published a few days ago, and dated August 1, or some days after the date specified above, contained no mention of these encouraging circumstances, but, on the con iannexoitynesi; there seems inconsistency but by n tr o ar A y ra , y i o n f di a c c a c te o d unt c i o n n g si f d o e r ra t b h l e e supposing that there is some mistake in the date of the letter of the Ist of August, and which, as no reports whatever could claim any credence in opposi tion to the statements in Dr. Wolff's own letters, led to a misconception of his real position at that time. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, OCT. 12.—The average price of wheat las week was 19f. 18c., and that of rye 10f. 50c. per hec tolitre. Madame Bunsen, the lady of the Minister Plenipo tentiary of Prussia at the Court of Great Britain, has arrived at Brussels with his family. Count Muclinaere, Governor of East Flanders, is come to Brussels, having been sent for, as it is said, to take part in the deliberations of the Council, relative to the speech from the throne to be delivered at the opening of the Chambers. The official part of the Prussian Gazette has the fol. lowing announcement " His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia, on going to visit a building on the Babelsberg, had a fall, and broke both the bones of the forearm joints above the wrist. Dr. Wiess, the physician of the Regiment, im mediately arrived, and did what was necessary, and his Royal Highness is in a very satisfactory state this evening. (Signed) "Da. DIEFFENBACH. " DR. SCHONLEIN. " DR. WIESS. " Babelsberg, Oct. 10, 1844." BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausesis. Ocr. 14. Aetna Debt, 2% peFiver Cent., — Rothschild's Loan per Cent .. - .... .••••••••••-• 102 Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 98% . Three per Cent — Thlrty-seven Milli ns, ditto (1840) IOB% 1841 ... . ...•-•••••••••••••••••••• 104% Loan of City, 1813, F our pe .. ••• per C ent. 102% Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent. Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 60% lime of 1841 . •,• - •..... . . ..... ..... ••••••••••••••••••••••• —Brunei; Papers, Oct. ... AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VrtrNa, OCT 10 Five per Cents. Metalhques • , I 103( Four per Cents• ••••••••••••• ........ 11•••••• 00000000000000000000 1 0 0 4 Three per Cents. 76 Bank Shares •••• ....PO ••• 1112 4llgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 13. The Hon. Spencer Cowper, youngest son of Vis countess Palmerston, is suffering from an affection of his eyes. The Hon. Gentleman has been obliged to come to town to consult Mr. Alexander,' the eminent oculist. - The reception of the Hon. F. Paul Methuen and his bride at Corsham Court on Monday evening was most gratifying to the feelings of the youthful couple. The whole town was illuminated, and triumphal arches erected, under which they passed, amid the joyful accla mations of the assembled thousands from all parts of the country, who came to welcome back to the seat of his ancestors the heir of the house of Methuen; and many fervent prayers were offered up that he and his young bride might for very many long years enjoy uninter rupted happiness and prosperity. The bells rung out a merry peal, and nothing was wanting to testify the heartfelt joy of the tenantry on this auspicious event. When his feelings permitted hum to speak, and the cheering had somewhat subsided, Mr. Methuen expressed his gratitude for the reception he had met on his return to the home of his childhood, and concluded by saying that he hoped they might find him the same sort of man as his father. NEW THEATRE IN SHOREDITCH. — Witnin the last few days several houses in High- street, Shoreditch, im mediately opposite the terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway, have been pulled down for the construction of a spacious theatre, which will be under the direction of Mr. Nelson Lee, at present manager of the Pavilion Theatre. A circus of 120 feet in circumference is to be formed, and the stage will be larger than any in London, not even excepting those of the patent theatres. The works have already commenced, and the theatre is ex pected to be ready early in the spring of the next year. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. The English market closed steadily, but scarcely with so buoyant an appearance as yesterday. Consols fur Money were 100+ ;4,, and fur Time 100 3 I. India Stock was 287 i. The heavy Securities remained the same as in the morning. . . Spanish Boiids receded also a little, the Fire per Cents. being 24 to 234; and the Three per Cents., 35 to 341. Portuguese Converted, were 50i to 4; Mexican were 34i; and Colombian, 144. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Chester and Holyhead were 24; Dublin and Belfast, 21 -g-; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 13; Ditto, Quarter, 3 ; Ely and Bedford, ; Great South and Western (Ireland), 8 ; Great North of England, New, 111; Great Western, 70; Hull and Selby, 15 to i; Lan caster and Carlisle, 3i ; Birtninghatn,ll3 ; South-Western, 321 to ; London and York, 11 ; Midland, 8; New castle and Darlington, 263; Norwich and Brandon, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 14; York and North Midland, Selby Scrip, 493- to 48k; Central of France, 11 i; and Boulogne and Amiens, 24 premium. Eastern Counties have been 114 discount, Eastern Union were premium to par. There was an advance in the rates of exchange upon all the principal continental cities usually quoted under this head. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 6,000 bales, all but 300 for export, being io the trade.—Shares were steady, and a fair business was transacted. Cale donian. 4 ; Chester and Holyhead, 74- ; Dublin and Bel fast, 4i ; Eastern Counties, 13/. 16s. 3d. ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 235. ; Grand Junction, 208 ; Ditto, Half, 1034 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 13i ; Lancaster and Preston, 44 London and Birmingham, 2121 ; Ditto, Quarter, 24 ; London and Brighton, 47 ; Lynn and Ely, 31 ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter, Midland Counties, Fifths, 3 ; Newcastle and Berwick, 4 ; North British, 5!. 16s. 3d. ; Preston and Wyre, 19 , 1; Sheffield and Manchester, 1001 ; South-Eastern, 40, 4 a ; Ditto, New, 13i ; Ulster, 331 ; Paris and Lyons, 2} ; Paris and Orleans, 3911 ; Paris and Rouen, 394 ; Or leans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 71s. ; Boulogne and Amiens, 4i ; Central of France, 4. The contents of the new Brazilian Treaty, as com municated by the packet just received from Rio, are considered by the merchants of the City as not being quite so objectionable as the outlines received a few days back. We believe there is no question but that the terms of the new tariff will be carried out, but as to the Treaty, not a word is said about the completion of the new Commercial Treaty between this country and the Emperor of the Brazils. No doubt, however, the new special Envoy, the Marquis of Abrontes, who has just arrived, is commissioned with full power to carry out the intentions of the Ministry at Rio Janerio, in this and other respects. The date of the commercial letters re ceived from Rio are not later than those before received. The arrivals this morning are but few, and the ad. vices are destitute of news of interest. This is the pay 'day in the Consol market. The losses have been liquidated without any apparent difficulty. Consols for Money have receded from 10011 to 1004, and for the Account to 1001. We hear that capital is be coming more and more in request for mercantile purposes. It could not be better employed, as specu lation in produce of all kinds is at present car ried on to a very small amount. The great bulk of the public and private sales for some time past have been for bona fide consumption. The rate of in terest bas advanced a shade. The New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. have been firm at 1021. Exchequer Bills are quoted at 73 to 75 premium. Bank Stock at 206, and India Stock at 95 premium. The Commis sioners took 10,0001. Consols at 1001 to-day. Spanish Bonds have been pretty steady to-day at 351 for the Three per Cents., and 24/ + for the Consols. The decree for funding the floating debt of Spain ought to have had a contrary effect, for most unquestionably the Spanish Minister of Finance, whoever he may be, will meet the demands of the home creditors ere the de mands of foreigners will be thought of. Dutch Stock has advanced ; Portuguese, Austrian, and Russian Bonds have been in request ; Mexican Five per Cents. are at 341 ; Brazilian Five per Cents. remain at 851. A slight improvement is noticed in some of the Rail way Shares this morning. The Great Western Fifths have realised 14 1 to prem. ; the Manchest er an d L ee d s , 4 81 to 83 prem. ; the Manchester and Birmingham, 12 prem. ; the Boulogne and Amiens, 3 prem. ; and the Paris and Orleans 20 prem. The Australasian Bank Shares are at 8 prem. PRICSE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank 5trek....."....••••...................... 0000000 2054 4 206 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9936 % 3 per Cent. Consols. Ann.; New 34 per Cent. Annuities ...... . 102%36 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860.... 00 0 000 ~ 12 1_16% Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. l2 7-16 5-16 India Stock India 80nd5,1,009........- 0000000000 .......•.. 0000000 sees 95 Ditto under 1,000. 000000 •••••• 0000000000000 ••••••••••••• 95 South Sea Stock - Ditto Old Annuities Bank Stock for Account ••.. 0000000000000 ...........• 20 , % Consol for Account Exchequer Bills I itcl I% d I,IXXIr- •"................." elm.« 00000 73 75 pm. 5001..• ...!"................ •••••••••••• 73 75 pm Ditto Liars.— • • .•••••••• ••••••• 73 00000 75 pm. Ditto Advertised......... .._....... PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent lO4 Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Mexican Bonds, 1837,5 or r Cent. ........- .- 34 Russian Bonds, 1822.5 per Cent , 18% Spanish Bonds, Five per Cei,t 1840 24% Ditto for the Account 24 %% ditto Three per Cent..,„.„.„.„.„.„.„.„.„ 85% Ditto for the Account Dutch 236 per Cents- 0000 ......... 0000000 "...." 62%3631 Ditto ror the Account Dutch 5 per Cents 0000000 00 ............ ........ Ditto for the Account. PB4 PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SRARK, Birmingham and Gloucester lOO .... ..... 10536.... to Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester 3O .... ..... 433{ 43... to 44 Caledonian Chester and H01yhead......."..." 5 woos , 7% •••••• to .•—• Churi•et Valley .. .......•• .. 2 •... 4% Dublin and Belfast Junction... • ... 2 34 ...... 5 - Grrat Souther n and Western i 5 1236 (Ireland) Great Western ...".."....."..... 75 Ditto 34 Share s „ ..... ••••• ..... ...moo 50 ••••••••• 89 ..... to MN Ditto Fifths...—. ........ ... ..... 12 ........ 26%4 to London and Brighton ...... ..... .... 50 ........ 47% to London and Greenwich (Preference) 18% ~ 23 to London and Croydon London and York."... ........... ... 2% 3%... to Lynn and Ely l4". ..... 2% ...... to Manchester and Leeds 7O ••••••••• 113 •••••• to 111 Manchester and Birmingham Midland Counties "........"...... 100 .......102 Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 21 ..... ... 48 .... to Norwich and Brandon ..„•„,.... 6 ......... ........ to Ditto New — l% to South Eastern and Dover ..... -.. 3236 Ditto New • . .... 1 ,........"......... 4 ••••••••• 14 133 4 ... to 14 York and North * midland .•...... 50 ......••1034 •••••• to 109 Ditto Scarborer• Branch ..... ... 10 35% to 35 Ditto Selby Scrip Central of France...". ........ Boulogne and Amiens 2 •••.•.• 4%% to 5 Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeauxl I ..... ".. 3 % to (d'A.nthou ard's Company) j Paris and Orleans 2O 39% ..... to 40 Paris and Rouen ..... ........ ....... •••• 20 •• 40 CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Barak Stock.... ... ....ex div. 206 ilndian Stock 287 36 3 per Cent. Red 9936 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. .....„•..,. 1004 Ditto Old Annuities ... 336 per Cent. Red Ditto New Annuities ... New 34 per Cent. 102% Ex. Bills 1,000/. 136 d ... 73 pen. New 5 per Cent. ..... Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 75 pm. Jan. 1860 12% Bank Stock for Acct.... 206% Oct. 1859 ll 15-16 Consols for Act. 100)6 Jan. 1860 l2 5-16 !India Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent — Portuguese, 5 per Cent — Belgian, 5 per Cent — Dit to, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds ...... ..... .... ;Prussian, 5 per Cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent.. ;Russian 5 5 per Cent — Chllian, 6 per Cent ••.......• 'Ditto, Metallic ..... " 00000 .....• Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, 3 per Cent 35 Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per Cent — French, 5 per Cent.... —t. —c. Greek, 18.5, 5 per Cent — Exchange ..... ....... ... ... f. .... c. Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 — 'Dutch, 2 per Cent.... Peruvian, 11it25, 6 per Cent 253 Ditto, 5 per Cent ........ .... SHARES. Chester and Holyhead ( 5 pa i d ) 73( Dublin aid Belfast Junction, 23¢ paid 4% Eastern Counties (23 paid) Eastern Union, 5 paid ...... i a Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Ditto Quarter Shares (1236 paid) Ely and Bedford, 1 paid Great North of England, 100 paid Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) Great Western (75 paid; Hull and Selby, 50 paid 65% Lancaster and Carlisle, 10 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) 7336 London and York, 2% paid ... 3% Midland Counties (100 paid) IOS Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid 4736 Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid ..... •••• ... Ditto, New Shares Sheffield and Lincoln hire, 1X paid 2% Central of France, 2 paid ...... ... ... 3% Boulogne and Amiens, i paid . . COURSE OF EXCHAN GE.—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 6i Gibraltar — Ditto, at sight l2 4 Leghorn 3O 50 Rotterdam 2U. 12 7 Genoa 25 85 Antwerp 25 90 Milan — Hamburgh M.B. 13 13 Venice ... Altona Paris, 3 days' sight 25 GO Palermo, per oz llB Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon ssi Marseilles 25 90 Oporto 55 Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 23 Frankfort on Maine.. 121 Bahia 23 Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Buenos Ayres — Berlin 7 NewYork,2ldys sight Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 952 Philadelphia — T rieste, ditto Madrid 36/ Foreign Gold, bars..X3 17 9 Cadiz Bilbao 36 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0 Barcelona 36 New Dollars O4 9i Seville Silver in Bars 0 4 Ila The Eastern Counties Company, we find, intend to start, on Mond a y next, a tra i n compose d o f t hi r d- c l ass carriages only, to leave London early in the morning for Colchester, and return to town late in the evening, for the poorer classes, who, in pursuance of the recent Act of Parliament, are to be charged only one penny per mile. A similar train will traverse the Cambridge line daily.— Chelmsford Chronicle. SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.--A very influential meeting of the inhabitants of Honiton was held on Tuesday, for the purpose of memorialising the directors of the South-Western Railway Company to extend their line through Honiton to Exeter, and onwards through central:Cornwall to Falmouth. A memorial was unanimously adopted, approving of the central railway. We und ers t an d t h at a s i m il ar meeting is contemplated at Exeter.— Plymouth Journal. BUILDING EXTENSIONS WESTWARD OF LONDON.-- From a stat emen t ma d e at th e Southwark Liter ar y So ciety, it would appear that, within the last three y ears upwa r d s o f three thousan d matlstrms and first-class houses have been built westv.ard of London. In the ICing's-road vast improvements ate in rapid progress; and in the Brompton-road the not, le structure of the lioipital for Consumption is rapidly progressing under the hands of the eminent builders, Messrs. Bird, of Brook-green, Htunmer4rairh. " • NEW BRAZILIAN TARIFF. The packet Linnet, Lieutenant Douglas, arrived at Falmouth on Thursday, from the Brazils. Her dates are from Rio Janeiro, Aug. 25; Bahia, Sept. 5; Pernambuco, Sept. 15. On freight 15,0001., more or less, although it has been estimated at 18,000/., in gold and diamonds. Passengers—Viscount and Viscountess d'Abrantes, and two servants; Senor Macedo and Miss Macedo ; Mr. Habbe, Russian Charge d'Affaires; Mr. Falconer, Mr. Eggers, Mr. Lambert, and Mr. Holloway. The two former gen tlemen are deputed to confer with the British Govern ment in relation to the expiring treaty ; the Viscount having full powers as Minister Plenipotentiary and Ambassador Extraordinary, and the Senor is ap pointed as his secretary. By decree dated 12th inst. (August), the per centage of duties to be enforced from and after 11th November, on imports cleared for consumption, is declared to be as follows : SIXTY PER CENT. Every description of manufactured and unmanufac tured tobacco. FIFTY PER CENT. Ale and porter, brandy, cider, gin, hewn stone of every description, linen coffee bags, of every description, liqueurs of every description, poignard knives, refined sugar, tea, wines of every description. FORTY PER CENT. Candles—composition, tallow ; carpeting, carriages of every description or any part or parts thereof, chande lit rs, china inkstands or sand boxes ; choceolatt —ordi- nary ; coffee bagging, earthenware ; not otherwise •pe cifie 1, fire- works of every description, furniture. Glass —ordinary plain wine, liqueur, champagne, and porter glasses, ordinary plain mugs and tumblers from 10 to I to the quartilha, ordinary plain decanters to 1 quartilha. (The foregoing described in tariff as N. 1.) Ordinary cast or wrought, or cast and wrought wine, liqueur, champagne, and porter glasses, ordinary cast or wrought, or ca-t and wrought mugs and tumblers from 10 to 1 to the quartilha, ordinary cast or wought, or cast and wrought decanters to 1 quartilha. (The foregoing de scribed in tariff as N. 2.) Ordinary plain cast or wrought wine and liqueur glasses, with cut or plain bottoms. (Described in the tariff as N. 3.) Square bottles with stoppers to 31bs., without stoppers to 2lbs., wide mouthed bottles with stoppers to 41bs., wide mouthed bottles without stoppers, common green or other dark bottles to 1 quartilha, chimuies, lamps, gunpowder, har ness, ivory-handled brushes, mahogany and other fine wood in boards or veneer ; paper—folio post and impe rial, hanging, painted, gilt, or silvered ; playing cards; preserved fruits, dry or in liquor, ready-made clothing, scales, shaving and other soap, vinegar. TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. Aniseed, biscuit ; brass—sheet and plate, copper, copperas ; fish—salted or pickled ; flour, gall Aleppo ; iron —bar, pig, rod, and sheet ; ivory, jerked beef ; lead —bar and sheet ; leather—hog skins, kid skins, Mo rocco, sole, varnished, waxed calf skins ; osier, salted beef and pork, sa ltp e tre, s t ee l, t a r ; tin—b ar and rod, tin plates. TWENTY PER CENT. Barilla, embroidery of every description, not being of pure gold or silvor, or being mixed with silk, linen, or cotton, handkerchiefs of linen, cambric, or cotton ; lace —cotton, not embroidered, thread, or silk ; regimental sashes of silk net. TEN PER CENT. Books, charts, damasks, dresses, embroidery of pure gold or silver, globes, hair ; instruments—mathematical and philosophical ; maps, silk net and sewing, velvet. SIX PER CENT. Gold and silver bullion, cord, lace, spangles, if of pure metal. FIVE PER CENT. Coals, gold for gilding, manufactured silver. FOUR PER CENT. Jewellery of gold or silver, gold manufactured. TWO PER CENT. Animals for breeding, diamonds, and other precious stones not mounted, plants, seeds. THIRTY PER CENT. All and every other article not included in the fore ping. The amount of duty upon most articles is stated in the tariff : all other goods are to be cleared by valuation, such being subject, as heretofore, to be taken, upon pay ment of the estimated value and ten per cent. additional. The duties upon transhipment or re-export are re duced to one per cent., subject to the approval of the Legislature, and sureties must be given, until the deci sion of the Legislature be known, for 15} per cent. upon all merchandise sent from Brazil to the coast of Africa; 2i per cent. if shipped to other foreign ports. The five per cent. hitherto charged for storage and clearance is included in the above recited per courage,. All descriptions of merchandise denominated estivo goods are allowed to be landed fifteen da) s, other de scriptions two months, free of charge for storage ; both being subsequently chargeable one fourth per cent. per month or part of a month. Goods re-exp•irted subject to the like payment of one-fourth per cent. per month for such period as they may remain in the Custom house. The Government is authorised to impose upon the merchandise of any country, in which the produce of Brazil is liable to a higher duty than similar produce of other countries, an additional duty, so as to neutralise the ill effects of the difference of duty upon Brazil pro dace, such additional duty to cease when the increased duty upon Brazil produce shall be abolished. A similar differential duty will be charged upon the merchandise of any country in which the produce of Brazil is chargeable with a higher duty if imported in foreign vessels than in national bottoms. The above recited duties on imports cannot be in creased during the finance year 1844-1843, but ►he Go vernment is empowered to direct the payment, in gold or silver coin, of five per cent. of the amount of these duties, upon such articles as are chargeable with more than six per cent. and less than fifty per cent. DREADFUL MURDER.-011e of those shocking mur ders, at which humanity revolts, and which is a blot on civilization, occurred on Friday morning last, about six o'clock. The victim was Matthew Brennan, who had been in possession of a farm in Coolcullen, the property of Lord Frankfort, since March last twelvemonths, from which two brothers, of the name of Purcell. had been dispossessed for the non-payment of rent. The unfor tunate man's throat was cut from ear to ear, the wind pipe and arteries separated, three wounds inflicted on the head, and one under the left breast. The victim of he demoniac assassin or assassins had several gashes in his hands, as though he had endeavoured to ward off the deadly blows. An inquest sat on the body on Sa turday last, when a verdict of wilful murder was re turned against some person or persons unknown. Such frightful agrarian outrages should make their due im pression on the mind of Lord Devon and his brother Commissioners, and stimulate them, as an act of Chris tian duty, to recommend to Government such measures as are calculated to amend a system prolific of the worst of evils.—Kilkenny Journal. THE CHAIM E OE MURDER AT PADDINGTON.— Thurs3ay afternoon, at two o'clock, a protracted inves tigation, adjourned from the previous day, was resumed before Mr. G. I. Mills, deputy coroner for Middlesex, at the Dudley Arms, Harrow-road, respecting the death of Ann Lee, aged thirty-six, the wife of a labourer named Michael Lee, now in custody on the charge of having murdered her. The accused, who stands remanded from Marylebone Police-court, was brought to the inquest room in custody of Sergeant Thompson, of the D divi sion. The evidence, which was of a conflicting character, has already been noticed. After much discussion the jury returned an open verdict, " That deceased was found drowned, but how she came into the water there was no evidence to show," with a request, however, that the police would still pursue their ir.quiries. DISGRACEFUL SCENE.—On Wednesday night two amazons, named Pyne and Russell (well known in St. Giles's and to the police), had a quarrel at a public house, and it was agreed that they should settle their differences in a pugilistic conflict in the street. They according stripped themselves to the waist, tied up their hair, and having appointed backers or seconds in the persons of two other of the " softer" sex, repaired to Tottenham-court road, where, pursuant to the usages of the prize ring, they prepared for the " fray," amidst a crowd of profligate and idle spectators, who formed a ring, and the combatants commenced striking at one another right and left, and dealing knock-down blows, whilst the screams and hollowings of the crowd were like a gang of savages. At length police-constables 5 and 41 E arrived on the spot, and interfered, when they were attacked ; but they seized on the principals and seconds. The latter quietly surrendered themselves, as d:d also Russell ; but Pyne, after great resistance, fell on the ground, fought, bit, kicked, and tore like a mad woman, and it required tight officers to take her to the station•hou , e ; and, sti ange to say, on her arrival there the officers were more exhausted than herself. She and the other prisoners were locked up, and yesterday morn ing the whole of them were taken before the magistrate at Clerkenwell Police court. Pyne was committed to the House of Correction for a month, Russell for seven days, and the seconds were discharged with a salutary admonition. Pyne tripped lightly from the bar, saying she would have it out another day. THE NEW VACCINATION ACT.—An extraordinary instance of the facilities afforded, by the loose manner in which the new Vaccination Act is framed, for imposition, was brought before the Marylebone Board of Guardians, at its last weekly meeting, and which, no doubt, is prac tised equally in every other district of the metropolis. Mr. Daniell, one of the guardians, expressed his surprise at the large amount paid for the purposes of vaccination, but more particularly at the fact, that the parties vacci nated were not confined to infants or to the young, but extended to the old. He found that there were a large number of persons vaccinated whose ages were between forty, fifty, and sixty years, and in one instance there was a person sixty-two years of age, who had been vac cinated. He wished to know if the Act of Parliament contemplated that persons should be vaccinated twice over. Mr. Bushell said the Act of Parliament was very vague, for instead of coafinintv, vaccination to infants, it was expressed in the comprehensive term " persons." In the course of a discussion, it was stated that the vacci nators, who received a fee of Is. 6d. for each case of vac cination, in order to insure customers gave 6d. out of the Is. 6d. to persons of any age to come and be v a ccinated, retaining for themselves the remaining shilling, and there were plenty of old people, who, in order to obtain the sixpence. were glad to undergo the process of vaccina tion. A committee of inquiry was appointed. THE INCOME-Tax SCREW.—We are assured, from a source which enables us to speak positively,. that sur veyors, and several other officers under the Innome4 - ax Act, have not even yet been compensated for the vast labours and very great unpleasantness undergone, thougs'i the Government have, some time ago, received into their exchequer two years of the tax. Well may reasonable ) Tories even (as they do) confess their shame at this treatment of highly respectable public officers.—Frorp Correspondent. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Their Royal HighlleSSeS g e / Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, eccompa ni by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were taken for carriage drive yesterday afternoon. This morning their Royal Highnesses the Princ ess Royal and the Princess Alice wet e t a k e n their aC custotned airings in the pleasure-grounds of the Castle on ponies. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge Oa' rived in town yesterday morning from Kew, an visited her Royal highness the Duchess of Glo ucester, at Gloucester House. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Gr ill/ d Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz arrive at Cambridge House in the afternoon, from K ew. His Excellency M. Dedel transacted bwiness y et terday at the Foreign -office. A deputation from the Thetford Deviation en d Norwich and London Direct Railway Company, con , sisting of the Hon; Francis Baring, Sir John Ile u nie, C.E. ; Mr. S. C. Bidwell, Mayor of Thetford; Mr. Garner Gill, and Mr. W. Clark, Town -cle • rko had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yester day, at the office of the Board f Trade. Dispatches for Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor (),f Canada, and also for the Governors of the other North American provinces, were sent eff yesterday evening from the Colonial-office.• LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, OCT. 18.—Wind westerly, fresh breeze, oe' RAMSGATE, OCT. 17.—The Alex. Robertson , f i l ls London to Ichaboe, was run into, 16th inst. i n the Oa Stream, by a light collier (name unknown), ' , .had larboar; bow stove, and sustained other damage, and will be tole' back to London and repaired. HASTINGS, OCT. 17.—Arrd. John Calvin, * Bon* Of* DEAL,OCT.I6.—Wind A.M. N.W. () by v ., • ; W.N.W. 10 r.DI. W.—Arrd. Brothers, South Seas; Duchess of Argyll, Tait. and Hong-Kong, Dodds, u rn / eutta ; Berkshire, Clarkson, Caroline, Williams, John Calvin, Knox, Bombay; Amelia, Teesda le, Bue r Ayres ; Africanus, Iremonger, Gambia ; Ruth, 1'1;1: barun, Adeline and 1-lenrietta, and Sophia, Quebec.,.'ne Slanis Castle, New Zealand ; Countess of Mint°, of Good Hope ; Helen, Tobago ; Traveller, Barbatiae4; Thomas, Mercury Island, and the greater par t of tP outward bound. whic • b FOWEY, OCT. 17.—The Royal Adelaide, rived here 15th inst. from Qu.bee, sprung h er fore and lost some sails on the 9th inst. - SWANSEA, OCT. 16.—Sid. Alexander Harvey, C lib4. COWES, OCT. 17.—Arrd. Passenger. Rio Janeiro. a pa FALMOUTH, OCT. 17.—Wind W. to N.W., strong , squally.—Arrd. Linnet packet, Rio Janeiro, sailed 2i ft 25, Bahia sth ult., Pernambuco 13th, on freight 15,,°70 in gold and diamonds. Sid. Janet, Mauritius, Renwick, Bermuda. A LIVERPOOL, OCT. 17.—Wind N.N.W , fresu.-----vras Buenos Ayreans, Calcutta, Sld. Eliza, C or nish, ' Republicain. Put back, Walton, for Trinidad. ho e. CORK. OcT. 15.—Arrd. Tantivy, Doning, Ice i r a r , Sld. Kate Kearney, Jamaica ; British Queen anu,-I,b, mouth, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off, Rose, ul Valparaiso. LEITH, OCT. 14.—S1d. Catharine Jamieson, SydflePo, CROOKHAVEN, OCT. 14.—The brigantine Bei°3 vis s Kemp, of Liverpool, from Morocco to Cork, whie ll , 4 „ s r, supposed to have foundered 12th inst., off Cape 'fat has been brought in here dismasted, and with four e st water in her hold, and only one man on board, th e r : o f of the crew having abandoned her.—(See Ship Nevi.' yesterday.) „ le y to HARWICH, OCT. 17.—A loaded sloop, from Mis---or Gloucester, with beans and barley, grounded tbis o°.nd ing on the West Rocks, but got off without damage' proceeded. to YARMOUTH, OCT. 17.—Arrd. Friendship , 111- kr, Sheilds, with loss of sails, bulwarks, stancheons) having been in contact with a barque in the Gulls. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. the Arrivals—Berkshire, Clarkson, from Bombay', 'r i m 0 Downs, sailed June 30, St. Helena Aug. 3 1 ( V b ii Calvin. Knox, from Bombay, in the Downs, sailed . 013 0 27, St. Helena Aug. 28 ; Duchess of Argyll, Tait, A„°%. Bengal, in the Downs, sailed June 5, St. Helena 24 ; Hong-Kong, Dodds, from Bengal, in the D° s, sailed May 14, St. Helena Aug. 0 1 ; Caroline, Wi l l from Madras, in the Downs, sailed May 24, blatllltith July 15, St. Halena Aug. 22 ; Brothers, from the S°ll 4 • Seas, in the Downs, sailed from St. Helena in Aug''''; a : Tantivy, from Ichahoe, at Cork, sailed Aug. 2 9 ; 13° 2'0, lore, Smith, from China, in the Downs, sailed Apri l - 6 ; Singapore June 12. Artier June 29, St. Helena Atlg'. 2 o Vigilant, Clarke, from Singapore, in the D o wns,. se: 0 May 3. Anj..r 111.,v 22, Mauritius June 92; St. i ts Aug. 9 ; Circassian. Mat:4)ol, from Batavia, nij°no mouth. sailed June 22, St. Helena Aug. 26 ; 15u' Ayrian. from Bengal. at Liverpool, sailed June 16. Arrivals at lehaboe—Thfenas Laurie, Aug . 18, P' Shields ; Laurel, 22d, and Morley 23d, from Lon41011'1;wtfl Arrivals at Bahia—Gilmore, Sept. 4 , fro m Port Ph to London. Departures from Bahia—Superb Aug. 14 ; Car°lille' 16th, to Icha boe. p Arrival at Pernambuco—Cremona, 13°141 ' Se- t. from Sydney, and sailed dte London. 11 t ° Departures from Pern 3 amb:leo—Comet , Sept. , Ichaboe; Gwalior, Aug. 21, to Bombay. e Departures from Rio—Ann Bates, A 112% 18 ; ‘- I „.„ °— ` ag e , Canning, Sept. 11; Hazard. 13 th. to Cape of Good liOrt Arrivals at St. Helena—Brooke, Ai:g. 31, front of Africa ; Robert Fult ,, n, iron Manilla ; Admiral "Vt'- Kingsbergen, from Batpvia. The Earl of Stradbroke has arrived at the Brunserie#ll Hotel. Jermyn street, from Newmarket, on his oaf 0 Henhani Hall, Suffolk. rt T OO PROPOSED NEW ROAD FROM HUNGERFORD TO KENNINGTON.--It is in cteitemplation to create a el, street or line of road from the terminus of the SusPeslio slon bridge, in the Belvidere road, Lambeth, to the 0 03 . road commencing at the Asylum, leading t o Kenniug...,' and Vaexhall. Thursday, the surveyors were in measuring the line of road, tied ascertaining t he I ito of the property through which it will pass. From the terminus, the road w;. 11 cross the York-road, thr on g Lower Marsh, and emerp:e at the corner of Oakley in a direct line with the Keb:_nington-road.: RANGE.—:Mi en Six- MILRANGE.—:Mien Captain u i r d Witrribeort speaks of his six-mile range, for which he req. .be a two-pounder, he states a physical chlamassibilityglr;or present state of chemical science ; and - C:Vta in hope c oup is certainly not one in whom any reasonable al be be indulged that by his knowledge any advano ":,id be made. By the use of the fulminates nothing 14 0' art gained, for, with compounds so loosely held togel'oo, there appears no certainty ; they are all liable to 4,00 taneous decomposition. The fulminate of mercury ye ti considered safe while mixed with spirit of win e '' while in this state it exploded, and Mr. Hennell , of Apo thecaries'-hall, was destroyed by it. Mr. Eley. th e .o4 ventor of the wire cartridges, who had repeatedly 031 ., 0 ( his fulminate of mercury, perished from the exp lesie Lo a pound of this highly dangerous composition. A F r T " de' vessel, fitted during the French war with some per lea tonating compounds, was never heard of after it °Ali, from Toulon. 'The large gun made for Mehemetii of requiring a charge of 401 b., and throwing a b i a ts of 4801 b., is considered too dangerous to use. Ree6eorsi 100 lb. are not found to move one yard. There sP I / 4 01) to be a limit to destructive powers, and we haNe re'vetl, to thank Heaven it is so. The service may be iMP r I e II 6 rockets may eventually be made to go straight, s 'l o o may be made percussioned, and a greater precisiol l ff o of, to cannon firing. It is possible, by the introduc ti° b i o li the patent principle of Mr. Harding's new gu n, vi rt ieg t has given so great an increase to the power of sr'', guns, we may improve that of the cannon ; but the 6 t he effected, would be but a slight step to realisiugthol theories of Warner or of Normandy. The evi l P. cause, and that is a serious though unavoidable orle,toiti that scientific characters are debarred from the g re ' t iou these enthusiasts claim as their own. Every ap plica e g g for experiment is now refused at Woolwich, beetiusoo/ out of 100 applicants prove to be ignorant a dventuf ec ` (Polytechnic Maaazinc for September.) To poi. of ball, therefore, a distance of six miles, by means 0 , 110 i 5 explosive force, the action of which on the proi,e-015 instantaneous, aid ceases from the moment that it `-"j3ot, the mouth of the piece, is physically impossible 1 ail to while maintaining this position, we are not prelo / 0 et deny the possibility of obtaining that result by Ine.%iple a projectile that shall contain within itself th e Prilikes of movement. This principle is peculiar to the r': )c co t' and, although, from this inherent cause, hither to Deco tile 4 tain result has been obtained from these PoLie,vii, beyond a limited range, still, as the principle is ''''bore' the question to be solved is the possibility of its ela f t he Lion—whether, for example, the combined skill s' mechanist and the pyrotechnist can so gradua te tbilooll moving principle as to impart to the projectile a veesist that will not expose it to the law of atinospherie,rctieu ance, and at the same time a sufficient intensity elirtt.oer to accomplish its trajectory course. If Captain N"teii can really attain a range of six miles, it is s _ b l it toelf principle alone. But, even if this range can be cu we may question the power of directing a Plod* through so long a trajectory with any degree of aee —Polytechnic Magazine for October. Ti THE OVERLAND PASSAGE TO , le tional protection and facilities recently accorded hemet Ali to the passage through his dominions ile O b oe cularly across the Desert between Cairo and Suez) ( i given a new interest to this singular route, V i o la doubtless direct unusual attention to the forth Dar by work, from the pen of Major and Mrs. George orti ef' Griffith, detailing the var:ous features of the .i°, 1 , 0 0 .1 1 The peculiar advantages wi:ich these travellers are " ~600; to have possessed, lead to the expectation of 9' "levet be f uncommon attraction ; and if, as we are led to the volumes should furnish the 100 felt desideratwifill a sort of Handbook to the Overland . Passage , tbl o oll e be one of the most acceptable and valuable offerings kind that have yet enriched our library of tarn it is, that no descripticns of the scenes 8 00 30 5 dents in question, written on the spot, and at th e rot a 5 to to which they refer, can fail to include an ire strong as their utility must he extensive. f 0 MEDICAL REFORM.—The organic theory •oc ssti • doctors is completely wrong. Thousands are , e o w% that this is the case. Would it not, therefore,. " i gen tray and oci; strous in Sir James Graham, or any other force it upon the public nolens vokns? - , " e i to e - „ theory has been invented for profit, and no l , er efor'' diseases ; the public has found this out, and, wan the doctors are forsaken on all sides. What else ue c Orit ig a lf expect ?—lssued by Morison and Moat, of th e beb College of Health, New-road, London, for tin i : °since the of the body of Hygeists, who contend, Oa" d by fo r' diseases arise from one cause, they can be cur e , er Vegetable Universal Medicine. —N.B. For fur!' re ferr to oation on this important question, the public h a d gro_ , to the Doctors' True Petition, which is to be r 7 ose pta at th.,e Collega as above, and of ' all the LlYgeia Sp