The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

- - THE AFFAIR OF MAHAENA. REPORT ON THE COMBAT OF MAHAENA (APRIL 17, 1844), ADDRESSED TO THE MINISTER OF MARINE BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE FRENCH POSSESSIONS IN OCEANIA. Papaiti, April 22. Monsieur le Ministre,—l had the honour of inform ing you, in my report of March 22, that the insur gents had taken refuge at Mahaena. Information since brought by some agents showed me that their number was augmenting considerably ; they were reckoned even at 1,500 fighting men. This estima tion appeared to me exaggerated, yet the intrench ments which they were raising, on a width of 1,800 metres, proved that they were exceedingly numerous. I neglected no means of preserving peace. Influ ential persons applied to the chiefs, and showed them that such persons as were summoned to appear had only to come and make their submission at Papaiti to be amnestied. They at first appeared disposed to re turn to us : the chiefs of our party then sent them a deputation, which was well received; but the female chief, Teritous, who is always at the head of the op position, declared, in the name of all, that they would not accept any arrangement, and that the multitude would not disperse. The people of Taiarabou alone appeared inclined to separate from the insurgents. The English missionaries, with my authorisation, made a final attempt, which completely failed. It then appeared to me absolutely necessary to profit by the presence of the Charte to strike a blow which might prove to the natives that not only we had nothing to fear from their attempts against our esta blishments, but that we could reach them in the po sitions which they had themselves chosen and forti fied. M. Mallet, captain of the Embuscade, received orders from me to dispatch, by the Clementine, the second section of the voltigeurs, in garrison at Tara vaoa, and twenty-five men of his crew. I took all necessary measures to set out the moment I learnt that the schooner, which was to carry this reinforce ment, had- reached Mahaena. This intelligence ar rived on the night of the 11th, and, on the evening of the 13th, the Phaeton took the Uranie in tow, and, profiting by the calm, I proceeded with these ves sels for Mahaena. Violent and contrary winds hav ing got up during the night, the Uranie and the schooner the Clementine, which had reached us, con trived to crowd all sail to gain to windward. I took with the Phaeton the anchorage of Matavai, thus plac ing myself between the insurgents and Papaiti. On Sunday, the 14th, the wind having fallen, I set out in the night, having taken as a reinforcement the sec tion of voltigeurs embarked on board the Clemen tine, and on the 15th I anchored at Mahaena. The frigate came up on the 16th, and I took its an chorage at three hundred and fifty metres in front of the little bay where I wanted to effect the landing. On the 17th, at a quater past five in the morning, all the troops and sailors were assembled on board the Phaeton, and at day break the landing, di rected by Lieutenant Malmanche, the head of my staff, commenced on a shore defended naturally by the abrupt point of a mountain, the approaches t o 'which were commanded by the Uranie and Phaeto A hundred men were set on shore. The section of voltigeurs took possession of a height, and being at tacked, they beat off the enemy, which gave way after some loss. The sea, which was already heavy, became more so. The landing could only be effected in whalers, and notwithstanding all the precaution taken, two boats were thrown on the coast. One man was drowned, and we had a quantity of cartridges wetted ; but thanks to the devotedness of several men of the Uranie and the Embuscade, who often ran the risk of being crushed or drowned, and to the good direction given by M. Malmanche, every one was landed at ten o'clock, and the losses were repaired. I found myself with two mountain howitzers, 45 artillery, 248 seamen sent from the Uranie, the Charte, the Embuscade, the Meurthe, and the Phaeton, and 148 infantry—in all 441 men. There were thirteen men who could not land in time, the Clementine having arrived in the harbour too iate. From the intelligence which I had received, I knew that the insurgents were to concentrate their efforts in the intrenchments which they had dug, and which they considered so much the more impregnable, that a thousand men de fended them. These intrenchments consisted of three dykes of six to seven feet in depth, dug parallel to the sea, on a length of 1,800 metres, and defended from the fire of the vessels by a glacis. They were covered by a horizontal roof of bourahau (a wood of the country), which hindered the defenders from being seen, giving them an opportunity of taking aint at their assailants, and hitting them almost hand to hand. It is true that if the position were once turned, re treat became impossible. From this information I drew out my plan of attack. M. Dollieul, with the section of the Embuscade, was to defend our rear ; M. Domezon was to seize on a hill that commanded the height where the flag floated, which the section of voltigeurs, commanded by M. Martin, were to make themselves masters of. The other section was then to join us. Lieutenant Gout, of the navy, had orders, with the company of the Uranie, to turn the redoubts, by placing his men as sharpshooters; and the bulk of the troops of the line, under Captain de Brea, with two pieces of artillery, were, in following the shore, to attack the intrench ments on the flank. These arrangements being made, Captain Nicolai, who filled with great distinction the functions of Captain of the Staff, carried to M. de Brea, in command of the line, the order to advance. At eleven o'clock the movement commenced. It was then that a petty chief of the island, who was in my suite, intrepidly carried off, before the eyes of the insurgents, and from the midst of their bullets, the flags which they had planted on the hill. The fire commenced in the midst of cries of " Vive le Roi 1" a thousand times repeated, both by the troops and the vessels in the harbour. The heights were crowned, and the flank movement com menced by Lieutenant Gout. The bulk of the column marched on the first redoubt, keeping up a very sharp fire of musketry. As soon as I learned that the redoubt was turned, I ordered it to be carried at the bayonet's point, which was executed with a bravery and energy that do great honour to our sailors and soldiers. The second redoubt was carried a little after in the same manner. Seventy-nine dead bodies found in the intrenchments attest the determination with which the attack and defence were carried on. I judged it right not to leave any repose to the insurgents, and gave orders to march at once on the third redoubt. The resistance was less obstinate here, and after a fire of but little duration the defenders took to flight, and easily es caped from our attack, by saving themselves in the underwood which skirts the redoubt on the side of the river. Here they were for a long time struck by the balls from the frigate, which added to their loss. The fire of the sharpshooters continued also sometime in the same underwood, but the loss sustained by the insurgents forced them to retire. At half-past four the fire ceased along the whole line. One hundred and two of the insurgents remained on the field of battle. Their guns have been spiked ; their flag, a half hundred muskets, and some ammunition, have fallen into our power. The artillery of the Uranie, commanded by M. Bonard, as I have had the honour of informing your Excellency, prevented by its good direction the insurgents from spreading them selves outside the intrenchments. The Clementine, commanded by M. Boyer, joined her fire to that of the frigate to annoy the fugitives in their retreat, and cut off the passage of the river. The Phaeton, Cap tain Maissin, insured the safety of our ambulance sta tioned at the place of landing, and which was at one period attacked. M. Vesco, surgeon of the Uranie, was there struck with a spent ball. I have to inform your Excellency that the zeal and solicitude of this officer was worthy of all praise. I am bound also to mention to your Excellency the conduct of M. Gabrielli de Carpegna, Enseigne de Vaisseau, who speaks the language, and who I had brought with me, charged at first with the signals with the harbour, and afterwards with the care of having the wounded transported to the Ambulance, where their number became considerable. M. de Carpegna acquitted him self of the task with zeal and devotedness. After baying bivouacked that night in the place where we landed, I, on the morning of the 18th, during the re embarkation, sent Captain Nicolai with the reserve, commanded by M. de la Vaissiere, Enseigne de Vais seau, and which had landed too late to take part in the affair. M. Nicolai visited the field of battle in every direction. He had the ammunition and arms picked up which the night before had escaped observation. He destroyed a half-hundred of canoes and three whalers which lay in a pond near at hand, and which might prove of great service to the insurgents. At five o'clock the anchors were weighed, and the same night I was back at Otaheite. This victory has not been without lamentable loss on our side. We had fifteen men killed, of whom two were officers—M. Nau sonty, of the navy, and M. Seignette, lieutenant of artillery ; besides fifty-one wounded, of whom two, Messrs. Colondre and Debry, were deves. Every one did his duty well, but several made themselves remarked in a striking manner. I have the honour, Monsieur le Ministre, to transmit to you the report of Chef de Bataillon Brea, in command of the troops, which points out to me the most deserving. From the manner in which this officer behaved, his name ought to be placed at the head of the report. I ad join a list of names for promotion and decoration, praying your Excellency to lay them before his Majesty, as justly meriting recompense. I have the honour, &c., BitUA,T, Governor of the French Establishments in Oceania. THE CORPORATION OF LONDON AND MR. DAVID SALOMONS.—This day Mr. David Sal omons w i ll attend the Court of Aldermen in order to be sworn in as Al derman of the ward of Portsoken. It is expected that the court will be much crowded, the proceedings having created a vast deal of interest in the metropolis. It is, we believe, the intention of Mr. Salomons to address the court himself. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1844. CONFLAGRATION AT THE NEW , CROSS RAILWAY STATION. One of the most fearful fires that has occurred in the neighbourhood of the metropolis for many years took place at a late hour last evening, at the works attached to the station of the Dover and Brighton Railway, at New-cross, resulting in the destruction of property to an enormous amount, the principal buildings and works being totally destroyed, and vast damage done to the adjacent property. The spot in which it commenced was a loft imme diately over a large octagonal brick building, used as a store-room in the engineering department. This store room was fitted up as a painters' shop, and was upwards of eighty feet in breadth, having in its centre a lantern roof, upwards of seventy feet in height. It occupied a large area, and stood westward of the station, being ap proached by a gateway on the London side. Beneath was a repository for the locomotive engines and car riages, and it contained at the time four or five of the former (each of which, at a rough estimate, is valued at 1,800/.), and also a number of tenders. The works were all shut up, and the interior of the station was in a state of animation in consequence of the approaching arrival of the King of the French, he having signified his intention of proceeding to Dover by this route. Ther e were present Captain Charleville, superintendent of the Dover Railway ; Mr. Howell, deputy superintendent of the same line ; Mr. Cubitt, the engineer ; with several others. While the workpeople were engaged erecting the tent on the platform for his Majesty's reception, they were startled by cries of " Fire," which subse quently proved to come from the watchman. On turn ing toward the octagonal building they discovered to their astonishment the flames kindling in the upper part, among the paint stores. A general alarm was instantly raised, and on admission being obtained, the fire was found to have attained such a hold of the combustibles contained on the floors that it was morally impossible to prevent it from consuming those departments. The police, of whom there were a large number present, both of the company's and metropolitan forces, directly exerted themselves in every possible way to prevent the flames extending. Unfortunately, although the company have but recently been visited by a similar calamity, there appeared to be no provision made in cases of another emergency of the kind ; and the con sequence was, that when their engine was got to work there was not sufficient hose to reach the part in danger. From that moment the conflagration was fearfully rapid. The flames rushing through the sky light into the lantern, from whence they burst forth with increased fury. Before there was time to send informa tion of the outbreak to the engine-stations, the ascent of the flames had completely illuminated the whole of the metropolis, causing a complete turn out of all the engines. Long before any of them arrived, although not a mo ment was lost, every portion of the " octagon" was in flames, the floor and the roof had given way, and fallen upon the locomotive power beneath, which also speedily fell a scrifice, notwithstanding its almost fire-proof con struction. Previously attempts had been made to extri cate this valuable property, but unfortainately without the least beneficial effect. The railway police and work people, seeing that there was not the least chance of saving anything this building contained, directed their efforts to preventing the flames from reaching another building, termed the fitting-house and carpenters' shops. These, although under one roof, were more extensive as regards depth and length than the other. They were upwards of one hundred feet long by nearly forty wide, and were contiguous to the warehouses and other buildings attached to the line. Although every person exerted himself to the utmost, the fire continued pro ress and defied all human efforts to stop it. The consternation now created was indeed be yond description, for it could be too plainly perceived that the last building would share the same fate as the previous one. About this time an engine belonging to her Majesty's dockyard at Deptford arrived, attended by a detachment of Marines, under the command of Major Hamilton and other officers. The men were of great assistance; conjointly with the work-people and the po lice they scaled the walls of the warehouse adjoining the octagon, and got through the windows, and removed a vast quantity of materials used in the engineering de partment. Whilst these operations were going on, Mr. Henderson, the foreman of the southern section of the brigade, arrived with his engine from the Southwark bridge-road, and was followed by Mr. Connorton, with the West of England engine. Both of these, as soon as possible, but with the greatest difficulty, were brought alongside the burning property to two well holes, out of which they were got to work. Subsequently arrived the brigade engines from several other stations, under the spperintendence of Mr. Braidwood, as also the County engine, with Mr. Garwood, the foreman. The whole of the force had reached the scene before ten o'clock, the fire having broken out soon after nine. The firemen at first appeared to be completely bewildered— the flames were rushing out of the roofs, and through nearly every window in the octagon and fitting departments, and were roaring with an awful sound. At the same moment, the molten lead was running from the cornices round the blazing property, thereby exposing every one to great danger. Nevertheless, every man exerted himself with the greatest intrepidity, and by that means, a long range of premises, used for the erection of carriages, was saved. There was a spacious tank between the two buildings ; but the fire was so extraordinarily fierce, that it completely reached over it, and almost set the roof in a blaze. It was indeed truly distressing to see the valuable lathes and splendid machinery in th e fitting-house falling a sacrifice to the fury of one of th co d most alarming of all elements. There was no alter n o ; the whole was quickly destroyed, or r endere ° useless. The loss in this department is also said t' amount to several thousand pounds. On each side o this fitting-house, or, more properly speaking, the factory, stood, on the east the platform of the station, in the opposite direction, the remainder of the works, stretching along to a considerable distance. Fortunately there was a large space between sufficient to admit the firemen and others engaged in their arduous operations. For two hours and upwards the fire continued to rage with awful violence, although its progress had, to a certain extent, been stopped. The immense mass of inflammable material that the two buildings contained, with the heavy floors and roofs, caused the conflagration to be of frightful extent, the flames rising to such great altitude as to be seen from many miles distant, attract ing some thousands of persons to the spot. An unusual assemblage of police was at the scene almost as soon as the alarming discovery was made, on account of their being on the way to attend upon his Majesty the King of the French on his arrival at New-cross. These were under the direction of Superintendents May (A), M'Lean (P), and Mallalieu (R) divisions, and were of the greatest use in prevening the immense populace from breaking into the station, which otherwise there is every reason to apprehend they would have done, the pressure being so great. Ills Majesty the King of the French arrived at the station about eleven o'clock. To get to the platform the royal carriage had to pass over several lengths of hose, whilst the engines were at work ; the scene at that mo ment was of intense interest. The appearance of the troops who formed the royal escort, the reflection of the flames upon their bright helmets and accoutrements— the roaring of the engines working—the shouting of the firemen, and the huzzas of the crowd in honour of the French Monarch, excited a feeling that can with diffi culty be described. For some minutes the carriage re mained stationary, and his Majesty viewed from the window the progress of the flames, which were within 100 feet of him. His Majesty on alighting expressed his regret at the calamity. One very fortunate circumstance was, that the wells from which the engines worked were powerfully charged with water, they being supplied by a steam engine on the works, and to this in a great measure may be at tributed the saving of the remainder of the company's property, for had it not been for this, nothing could have saved the other portion of the station from being _ consumed. At one o'clock a great number of the engines were still in full operation, there remaining a great body of fire in the ruins. The hose of some were direct ing streams of water, from the warehouse and the adjacent buildings, into the burning mass beneath, whilst the firemen were stationed on all sides to prevent the flames extending. Up to this period, and an hour subsequently, several of the at taches to the King of the French, who were to follow in another train after the royal carriage, were to be seen mingled with the police and firemen. Their dresses wonderfully contrasted with those of the fire corps, whose apparel was covered with mud, and their faces as black as sweeps. In the course of another half-hour or so the whole of the suite left the New-cross station in a special train, on their way to Dover. In consequence of the arrival of his Majesty and his subsequent departure, very little could be gleaned respecting the origin of the fire, the chief portion of the officials of the railway having to accompany the august party to its destination. We ascertained from them that the loss is partly insured in two or three offices. It is impossible to conceal the fact that some suspicion overhangs the origin of the fire. It will be recollected that a mouth or two ago a consider able destruction of property took place on the same lino and near the same spot. On that occasion a long line of shedding and several carriages were consumed. The company entered into an investigation, which led to no satisfactory result. One remarkable fact connected with the present fire is the following :—That the work shops had been closed for some time previously, and no light has been allowed to enter that portion of the pre mises where the flames were first observed. There were in the workshops a large quantity of paint and other matter which would ignite spontaneously ; but no doubt a rigid inquiry will this day take place as to the true cause. 'I he workpeople, it should be stated, who were employed on the premises, were in the receipt of excellent wages, and there is no reason to believe that any of them have been the cause of this immense destruction of property. The ruins, particularly those left of the octagonal or principal buildings, as the fire gradually subsided, had a most remarkable appearance ; the upright walls of the upper story, or lantern, which was supported by four stone pillars, while the body of fire was raging beneath, were so charred and splintered by the intensity of the heat, that they resembled the fretted pillars of some an cient monastery which had been worn away by the lapse of years, and the destructive hand of time, while the wreck of the several locomotives was to be seen along the extensive line of shedding, showing a most serious loss of this most valuable property of the company. The total amount of the damage done was computed at upwards of 25,0001. DEPARTURE OF FOREIGN MAILS. The next mail for Malta, Greece, and the lonian Islands, via Southampton, will be dispatched from hence on the morning of the 17th inst. The next mail for Ude West Indies, &c., will be dis patched from Southampton, by the Tweed steamer, on the morning of the 17th inst. The next mail for America is by the Hibernia steamer, from Liverpool, on the evening of the 19th inat. London, Oct. ettrbf Wlttion SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. PRICES OF SHARES - - _ IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 15. Amount of Paid. Price. Share. I & d. 100 0 0 41 13 4 Jo° 0 0 100 -- o 0 107 3114 66 COURT OF ALDERMEN. (THIS DAY.) A special Court of Aldermen was held this day in be Guildhall, for the purpose of receiving the return from the ward of Portsoken, and tendering the oaths to Mr. David Salomons, the recently-elected Alderman for that ward. The hour fixed for opening the Court was twelve for one, but long before that hour the avenues and approaches to the Court were crowded to excess by respectably-dressed persons, the majority of whom ap peared to be of the Hebrew descent. The proceedings appeared to excite the greatest interest in the City. At one o'clock precisely the Lord Mayor took the chair, and the names of the Aldermen having been called over, the minutes of the former Court were read. THE ADDRESS TO THE RING OF THE FRENCH. On that portion of the minutes being read which re lated to the presentation of the address of the Court to the King of the French, Mr. Alderman Wlesost asked the Sheriffs if the ad dress had been presented ? Mr. Sheriff SYDNEY replied that the address had been presented. Mr. Alderman WILSON asked why the Court bad not been summoned to present the address ? Not only had the Court not been summoned, but one of thu members of the Court, who was then present, had been positively told that if he attempted to attend with the deputation, he should be given into custody.—(Hear, and a laugh.) It was time that the rights of the Court should be ascer tained, and that it should be known whether it was an independent Court, having a right to present an address, or whether it was a mere appendage to the Court of Com mon Council. The LORD MAYoR denied that there was any desire to encroach on the privileges of the Court, but the stay of the King of the French was so short, that it was thought better to present the address of the two Courts by a de putation Mr. Alderman HUGHES had assisted in drawing up the address. He had been excluded from seconding the motion for the address by Sir Peter Laurie, and on that occasion he bad expressed his regret. He lived at Windsor, and certainly he had felt great surprise that he had not been asked to assist in the presentation of the address. A Noble Lord about the Castle had asked him if he was not to be present at the presentation? and he had replied that, strange to say, he had been excluded. — (A laugh.) He had written to the Remembrancer, stating that his equipage should accompany the deputa tian, and the Remembrancer had replied that he was ex cluded from attendance, and Sir Chapman Marshall had told him that if he or any other person attempted to accompany the deputation, he should be taken into custody. After a few words from Sir CLAUDIUS HUNTER, The LORD MAYOR explained that the address was pre sented by a deputation composed of those members of the Court of Alderman who were in a position to attend. Now the proper place for Mr. Alderman Hughes on Sa turday was not at Windsor, but at the Guildhall. He was the Alderman upon the rota, and it was his duty to have been there to pass home 400 Irish paupers. Mr. Alderman HUGHES said that Mr. Alderman Wilson had attended for him at the Guildhall, and had discharged the duty for him. He thought the observa tions of the Lord Mayor totally uncalled for.—(Hear.) The conversation then dropped. The return of the prisoners in the various metropolitan gaols was then read. Several persons appeared to be admitted as brokers, and, on the report of the proper authorities, were ad mitted accordingly. MR. SALOMON'S CASE. It was then ordered that Mr. D. Salornons might be called in. Mr. Salomons having come into Court, Mr. SAMUEL HALL read the return of the ward of Portsoken, and in presenting Mr. Salomons to the Court, said that Mr. Salomons had been elected as Alderman of the wardmote of Portsoken. He was glad that he was introducing a person who was already known to them, for he had filled the office of Sheriff for the City, the duties of which he discharged with the greatest credit. He was brought up in the City of London, and had obtained the highest character at the Royal Exchange, which entitled him to be placed in the foremost ranks f the merchants of the City. He was, moreover, a magistrate of two counties, and had now for several years discharged the duties of a magistrate to the entire satisfaction of his brother ma gistrates. It was moreover the pleasure of her Majesty in council to place Mr. Salmons in one of the most hn portant trusts that could be held by a subject,that of High Sheriff for the county of Kent, the duties of which office he also discharged with entire satisfaction. These cir cumstances influenced the electors of the ward of Port soken, but they were also further influenced by the high and unimpeachable private character which Mr. Salo mons was well known to possess. It only remained to submit the choice made by the ward of Portsoken, which presented to this Court Mr. D. Salomons, to fill the office of Alderman for that ward. Mr. DAVID SALOMONS said he had reason to believe that there might be some technical objec tion to him which would require legal infor mation to guide both the Court and him in the position in which they now stood. He had obtained legal information, but not of that high legal character by which the Court would probably be influenced. He intended to have the opinions of men of such high legal standing as Sir Thomas Wilde, Mr. Kelly, or Mr. Erle, but he was unable to procure them in consequence of their absence from town. He therefore begged the Court to grant him a fortnight to obtain such legal ad vice. He would, if the Court desired, read the opinion of two excellent lawyers whom he consulted. The Court would not hear the opinions. Mr. Salomons was then asked if he had signed the declaration required by the statute of George IV. within the previous month? Mr. SALOMONS asked if he was to understand that his application was denied? Mr. Alderman WOOD said he thought before that question was put the request of Mr. Salomons ought to be considered and discussed. The RECORDER said that the proper course to be pur sued was to tender the declaration in the first place. Mr. Alderman WOOD thought that the discussion upon the request of Mr. Salomons ought to take place first. Alderman LUCAS said he understood that Mr. Salo mons asked for time in consequence of being asked to sign the declaration. Mr. Salomons was then asked whether he was pre pared to sign the declaration ? Mr. SALOMONS said he made the application he put forward in the best faith, and he begged of the Court to give him the time he asked to consult counsel as to the course he ought to pursue in circumstances altogether new. He asked it as a personal favour to himself. Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER said he thought the Court ought to be cleared before they discussed the sub ject. Sir PETER LAURIE said, if the declaration was not taken, he would move that the election be void. Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY did not see why they should discuss the subject with closed doors. Mr. Alderman HUGHES hoped the Court would not be cleared. Mr. Alderman WOOD hoped that Mr. Salomons would be allowed the time he asked for. The RECORDER advised the Court to pursue the usual course pursued on occasions like the present, which was to tender the declaration in the first instance. Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER said it was competent for any person to have the court cleared. Mr. Salomons was again asked whether he would take the declaration. Mr. Sawarosts begged for time till this day fortnight. Mr. Alderman HUGHES wished to know the grounds on which uAbaLj t n lis ap oei subject. Np sA t l r i tt c up at said opportunity i in w et o hsyee umot of juoennest made. uhbleut to on I%r t h i h a e ; have tn a jpgupnl Queen'sii ca or t c io o n u ni counsel order uwnesre were in town. He bad sought fur Sir T. Wilde, Mr. Kelly, and Mr. Erle, but in vain. He had obtained the opinions of Mr. James and and Mr. Welsh, and they had advised him to ask for time, as they wished to consult their seniors. The RECORDER asked if their opinions went to the fact of his liability to be required by the Court to sign the declaration. Mr. SALOMONS—Yes, as to the mode in which the qualification was to be taken, and as to the modifications made in it by a recent Act of Parliament. The RECORDER wished to know whether Mr. Salo mons asked the Court not to tender the declaration ? Mr. SaLoarosts—No; I only ask for a delay of a fort. night. Sir J. KEY thought the request a reasonable one, and would move that the delay of a fortnight be granted. Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY seconded the motion. The worthy Alderman was about to enter into a dis cussion on the merits of the case, when he was called to order, on the ground that the question of delay was the only question before the Court. Sir PETER LAURIE was quite prepared to argue the question. He opposed the application for delay. They were there not to alter or modify the law, but to see the law obeyed. They were acting ministerially, not judi cially, and they could not grant the request for delay. He entertained a high respect for Mr. Salomons per sonally, but he should vote against delay. Mr. Alderman HUGHES opposed the motion. It was not as if the case had been new to Mr. Salomons. This declaration had been before tendered to that gentleman, and refused. It was therefore impossible to say that he had not an opportunity of well considering the subject. It was not as if he had come before the Court for the first time, and he could not believe that the delay of a fortnight was necessary, in order to enable Mr. Salo mons to ascertain his position. It was out of the power of any Court except the High Court of Parliament to modify or alter the declaration. Mr. Alderman CHALLIS reminded the Court that since Mr. Salomons' last election the law had been modi fied, and whatever might be his opinion on the matter in question, he should certainly vote for giving Mr. Salo mons all possible time to consult legal authorities. As he understood the question, Mr. Salomons contended that the qualifications had been so modified by a recent Act of Parliament as to enable him to take it, and he cer • tainly should have ample time allowed him to consider the subject. Mr. Alderman WOOD believed, as a lawyer, that the case was one in which grave doubts might be en tertained, whilst the decision of the courts of law, which had been alluded to, bad not been modified by a recent Act of Parliament ; and surely every opportunity ought to be afforded to Mr. Salomons to get the best ad vice on the subject. He should vote for granting his reasonable request. Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL would be happy to accede to the request if he could do so legally. He should like to know, from the Recorder, whether they could do so legally. The RECORDER said they were assembled there to perform a public duty, which was to tender a declara tion to a gentleman who offered to take upon himself the duty of Alderman of the City. It would be a most inconvenient course for them to pursue, U' they were to interrupt that proceeding by a motion for delay. No. as yet had occurred which rendered such an appli cation necessary. He should advise that the declaration should at once be tendered to Mr. Salomons. He would then be in a position to state any legal question, and show cause why he refused, and the Court could then deal with the legal merits of the ques tion. But, at the present stage of the proceed ings, to entertain a motion for delay was what, in his opinion, it was not competent for the Court to do. He should recommend the Court strictly to walk in the same path in which they had hitherto walked—to tender the declaration as had been done in all previous cases. Mr. SeLomorts had attended there in obedience to the summons of the Court, and all he asked was for a delay of a fortnight. He trusted he should have a definite answer given to his request for delay. The RECORDER recommended the Lord Mayor at once to proceed to the business, and to tender the decla ration to Mr. Salomons to make and subscribe, who would either decline or give his reasons. The LORD MAYoR decided that the declaration should be again tendered to Mr. Salomons. Mr. Alderman WOOD wished to make a motion. Mr. Alderman H. HUGHES submitted that they were not in a condition to entertain a motion until the ilocla ration had been tendered. The ItEconDEB wished to know whither or not Mr. Salumons refused to take the declaration? Mr. SALOMONS did not rffuse to subscribe to the de claration. He asked for delay. The RECORDER would remind Mr. Salomons that the Act did not state refuse. The words of the Act were, "that if any person so elected should omit or neglect to make the declaration, such election should be void." Mr. Alderman H. HUGHES thought they ought at once to ascertain whether it was competent to them to entertain the motion for delay or not. He called upon the Lord Mayor at once to state whether he would put the ques tion of adjournment or not. The LORD MAYOR did not sit there to be dictated to by Mr. Alderman Hughes. He should pursue his own course in his own time. He was anxious not to press heavily upon Mr. Salomons ; but it was due to the Court either that he should take the declaration, or state his reasons for refusing. Mr. SALomorts still urged for an answer to his applica tion for delay. The RECORDER reminded him that it was not neces sary that he should give a verbal refusal. A refusal might be given either by word of mouth, or by gesture, or by any act; and it was competent to the Court to de clare the election void, in case of any omission or neglect on his part to take and subscribe the required de claration. A long and very disorderly discussion here arose as to whether the Court could entertain the proposition for delay. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE wished to know from the Recorder, whether, in his opinion, a member of that Court could at that stage of the proceedings legally pro pose the adjournment of the Court fur a fortnight ? The RECORDER was of opinion that such a motion could not then be legally entertained. Before such a motion could be made Mr. Salomons must either refuse to subscribe the declaration, or raise some legal point on which he might submit to the Court that ho was exempt from the necessity of taking the declaration. In ten dering that declaration they were engaged in a solemn act of duty, and that act could not be interrupted by any motion for adjournment. After a few words from Mr. Alderman Farcbrother and Sir Claudius Hunter, The LORD MAYOR announced that he had determined not to put the question on the motion of Sir John Key for delay. His Lordship then formally called upon Mr. Salomons to make and subscribe the declaration which had been tendered him by the Town Clerk. Mr. SALOMONS then proceeded to address the Court. After a considerable share of debating, it was at length decided, by a majority of 10 to 6, that the declaration should be finally tendered to Mr. Salomons according to the Act of Parliament. The declaration was then tendered, which Mr. Salo mons did not take or refuse to take. It was then moved and seconded that the election of Portsoken be delared null and void, which was carried. Mr. SALMONS left the Court protesting against the construction which had been put upon the Act by the Court, and stating that he had not neglected or omitted to do anything by which his election should be completed. SPIRIT of the rUlsLie JutiltNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. GLOBE.—Political causes, to which it is impos sible to attach any credit, have been assigned for King Louis Philippe's change of route, so naturally accounted for by the weather. The departure of the King of the French from our shores has not lacked awful elemental accompaniments ' • and super stition has not failed to croak its usual forebodings from them. " The sky at this time," says a Con temporary's correspondent on their Majesties' arrival at Gosport, " was obscured by clouds of the most threatening nature. Even before the arrival of the royal party in the Victualling-yard the rain had already commenced to fall heavily, and the cir cumstance of a vivid flash of lightning, accom panied by a long roar of thunder, occurring just before their entry, was the cause of some curious observations among the superstitious." Fire from heaven was left at Portsmouth ; and fire on earth encountered at New Cross :—" His Majesty the King of the French arrived at the station about eleven o'clock, and to get to the platform the royal carriage had to pass over several lengths of hose whilst the engines were at work. The scene at that moment was one of intense interest. The appearance of the troops who formed the royal escort, the reflection of the flames upon their bright helmets and accoutrements, the roaring of the engines working, the shouting of the firemen, and the huzzas of the crowd in honour of the French monarch, excited a feeling that can with difficulty be described. For some minutes the carriage remained stationary, and his Majesty viewed from the window the progress of the flames, which were within a hundred feet of him, the heat at that time being very great." We do not know what antiquity would have augured from these phenomena; but, in our view, the rapid and skilful adjustment to awkward circumstances may be accepted, as regards the future, in the light of good rather than of evil omen. Incidents which would have overpowered arrangements of less civilised times, create no confusion—though some circuitousness—in the route of royalty ; and we trust the political storms which have likewise beset it may prove equally powerless to frustrate the ultimate attainment of the great end of peace and friendship amongst all nations —an object dependent so mainly upon France and England. STANDARD. —It is the cardinal sin of a certain ostentatious order of modern philanthropists, that they denounce or ridicule every plan for amelior ating the condition of their species, which does not originate with thedselves. No sooner is a society formed for the relief of one class of sufferers than they are sure to suggest another, in their estimation, infinitely more necessitous. Cha rity must put on their spectacles, or she is nothing worth. She must not presume to alleviate any sort of misery but that which they have ticketed as best entitled to public sympathy. No scheme which does not minister to the morbid vanity of this order of philanthropists, by the adoption of their crotchets and the promulgation of their prejudices, can hope for their approbation. They profess to be sensibly alive to the miseries of the poor, but will not entertain any plan for their relief which goes forth to the world without their imprimatur. Nor is this all. The public is not only called upon to meet out its benevolence by their bushel, but must agree with them in their notions of the causes of the evil to be remedied. To judge from the speeches of the small knot of exhibitors at the Manchester Athenaeum, who rejoice in the designa tion of " Young England," and the extravagant eulogies which have been heaped upon them in a newspaper which they have, with great pro priety, selected as their organ, they would seem to have patented all the philanthrophy which can have any possible reference to the improvement of the condition of the labouring classes. Their last discovery (cricket and public gardens having been, if we remember aright their panacea at Manchester) is the " cottage allotment system," which, from the tone of their speeches at Bingley, one would suppose had been patented by them, instead of having been in successful operation in all parts of the country for upwards of 30 years. Who that is acquainted with the labours of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, when Bishop of Chester, from twenty-eight to thirty years ago, re quires to be assured of the advantages of such a system, when the labourer, whether in the factory or the field, has leisure for the occupation it invites ? Of what service, however, it will be to the opera tives of Mr. Marshall and Mr. Gott of Leeds, whose whole lives from daylight until long after sunset are spent in the unwholesome atmosphere of a cloth-mill, we have yet to learn. As little can we understand how the fact that Lord John Man ners took an innings at cricket with the agri cultural labourers at Bingley, a few days ago, is cal culated to benefit the poor men who were the objects of his ostentatious condescension. That the over wrought factory operative after fourteen hours of in cessant labour requires a breath of fresh air to revive his jaded energies, is a fact which cannot be disputed ; but whether he will be in a condition to avail him self of the parks and gardens in preparation for him, or to cultivate the plot of ground which his master's kindness may have allotted to him, is much more questionable. Even more improbable is it, that the agricultural labourer will be attracted to such pursuits, after a hard day's work, by the mere sight of Lord John Manners, " the son of a duke," with his coat off and a bat in his hands. Were either the allotment system or cricket, however, likely to prove as great an alleviation of the condition of the poor as Lord John Manners professes to believe, neither he nor his brother phil an th rop i sts H ave any right to appropriate the suggestion as their own. Long before his Lordship and Mr. D'lsraeli, who has lived something like half a century, were born, such exhibitions of sympathy for the poor were of common occurrence among the higher classes, and we rejoice to add, that the disposition is even now far more general than the Young England coterie would appear to suppose. Had his Lordshin filled the bellies of the labourers of Bingley, before he " doffed his coat to bat Jem's ball," he would, we doubt not, have had to deal with more active and cheerful competitors. To provide cricket for men who are engaged in the most fatiguing occupations during the whole day in the open air, is, surely, a work of supererogation. A good supper, without a lord for a competitor, and a comfortable " settle," would be much more germane to the matter. As for the poor operative of the cloth or cotton factory, his cramped limbs and exhausted frame would hardly be provoked to such an exercise as cricket, even with the temptation of a Lord for a batman. Such suggestions sound well enough in oratorical displays of the kind usually supplied by Young England, but are they practical ? Certainly not, until accompanied by much more substantial alleviations. The novelists and poetasters of whom this ambitious little clique is composed are not much better political economists than they are litterateurs, and have as much defied the axiom of Pope (" drink deep or taste not"), in one capacity as they have in the other. We know not the motive which has prompted the adoption of the generic designation they have selected; but if a perfect ignorance and obli viousness of all that was accomplished before they arose on the political horizon, be considered their qua lification, they are young enough in all con science.. We respect benevolence of motive, be the proposed panacea ever so eccentric ; but there is something so impudent in the attempts of these five or six old and young gentlemen to persuade the peo• ple of England that they are the only scions of the aristocracy (?) who care a straw about them—some• thing so exquisitely absurd in what the Morning Chronicle 'happily calls their " solemn dishing up 01 philanthropic odds and ends," as to render any grave contemplation of their proceedings wholly out of place. THE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) WHITEHALL, OCT. 14, 1844. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dig nities of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Honourable , Edward Lord Ellenborough, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the names, styles, and titles of Viscount Southam, of Southam, in the county of Glou cester, and Earl of Ellenborough, in the county of Cum berland. DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 14. The Queen has been pleased to appoint W. H. Draper, Esq., to be her Majesty's Attorney-General for that part of the province of Canada formerly called Upper Canada. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint William Morris, Esq., to be Receiver-General for Canada. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Denis B. Papineau, Esq., to be Commissioner of Crown Land: for Canada. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint James Smith, Esq., to be her Majesty's Attorney-General for that part of the province of Canada formerly called Lower Canada. _ _ _ Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Domi nick Daly, Esq., to be Secretary for Canada. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint John Downie, Esq., to be First lfuisne Judge for the colony ()I British Guiana. Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Fran• cesco Dalmas, Esq., to be Cashier to the Governmen of Malta. BANKRUPTS. WILLIAM MINTER, innkeeper, Colchester, to sur. render, Oct. 24, at half-past twelve, and Nov. 26, at tw•o, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; Milne and Co., Temple ; Smithery and Co., Colchester. THOMAS BATT HALL, grocer, Coggershall, Essex, Oct. 25, at twelve, and Nov. 26, at three, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street; Wire and Child, St. Swithen's-lane, London. EREDERICK ARNOLD BERENGER, clothier, Homer-street, Crawford• street, Marylebone, Oct 26, at half past twelve, and Nov. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Teague, Crown-court, Cheapside. MICHAEL. LEE and BARNETT LEE. tailors, Dukt street, Piccadilly, Oct. 26 and Nov. 27, at one, at th( Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman's buildings ; Lewis and Lewis, Ely-place, Holborn. GIDEON BALL, builder, Bath, Oct. 29, and Nov. 26. at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman. official assignee, Bristol; Drake, Bath; Richards and Co., Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. HENRY DAVID WILLIAMS, plumber, South. ampton, Oct. 26, at twelve, and Nov. 27, at eleven, a the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Cole. man-street•buildings; Paterson, Bouverie-street. THOMAS TABERNER, corn-factor, Birmingham, Oct. 29 and Nov. 28, at eleven, at the Birmingham Dis trict Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birminghrm ; Bartlent, Birminghman ; Holme and Co., New Inn, London. JAMES BIBBY, livery-stable-keeper, Liverpool Oct. 29 and Nov. 26, at eleven, at the Liverpool Distrie Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Cornth waite, Liverpool ; Cornthwaite and Adams, Old Jewry • chambers, London. WILLIAM JOHN JACKMAN COALL, grocer. Exeter, Oct. 22, and Nov. 19, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Stog don, Exeter ; Keddell andiCo., Lime-street, -.London. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London Mercantile Price Current, Oct. 15.) B. P. SUGAR.—A moderate business was done in W. P. sorts to-day at steady prices, amounting t( 580 cks, including 150 cks Barbadoes at auction. 2,295 bags Khaur Bengal were taken in. The Refined market is dull. MAURITIUS SUGA.R.—Scarcely any business was done in this description previously to a public sale of 6,017 bags on Friday, but only a portion was then disposed of, and that at a reduction of 6d per cwt ; middling brown to fine yellow at from 52s 6d to G3s 6d, with low brown at from 45s 6d to t9s per cwt. BENGAL SUGAR was sold at auction on Friday last, Is to 2s per cwt under the previously current rates. The lower qualities experienced the greater decline. Low to fine white brought from 56s to 645, low to fine soft yel low from 48s 6d to 54s 6d, and good brown was taken in at 47s per cwt. By private contract about 200 tons Khaur sold at from 44s to 46s for fair to very good. FOREIGN EAST INDIA SUGAR.—About 1,000 bag middling soft yellow Manilla have been disposed of at 19s per cwt, and about 5,000 bags of ordinary damp brown at 14s 6d to 15s per cwt. FOREIGN SUGAR.—The holders have not been dis posed to realise, unless at extreme rates, which limited business until Friday, when there was an improve. ment in demand, and considerable sales made at very full prices. The reported transactions during the week are as follow : 1,300 boxes white Havannah at from 26s 6d to 30s for low to good quality ; 250 chests fine yellow Trinidad de Cuba at 22s 6d ; a floating cargo of 370 chests white Bahia at about 235, deliverable at a new port on the continent ; a floating cargo of 2,800 boxes brown Ilavannah at 20s, and one containing 440 chests brown Bahia at 18s 3d, both to be delivered in London ; also a float ng cargo of 350 chests Pernambuco, brown at 16s, and white at 22s 6d per cwt, deliverable in th( Mediterranean. At public sale, 113 chests Rio brought from 20s to 22s 6d for ordinary to good middling white, and from 16s to 18s fcr low to good brown, which are considered moderate rates, in comparison with other transactions. _ _ REFINED SUGAR.—In the grocery descriptions a steady business has been done at rather easier rates. Crushed in bond for exportation remains at the previous week', quotation, and continues to find purchasers. In loaves there has been no alteration. MOLASSES —There has been but little business doing in this article, and there is no change of value to report. SPIRITS.—In Rum the transactions have been rather limitad, but no alteration of rates can be mude. Brandy is in full demand, and large parcels probably could be obtained at ld per gallon under our quotations, but for small quantities former prices are paid. Delivered for home use last week 147 puns.. COFFEE.—The market for the British West India sorts has been been very languid. There has been no public sale. Some small parcels of B.P. were offered and sold to-day at auction. Ceylon Coffee went steadily at a sale of 342 bags. 334 bls Mocha were taken in. OTHER E. I. AND B. P. COFFEE.—At action 197 bales Malaba, subject to the high rate of duty, sold at from 39s 6d to 45s 6d, with one lot at 46s per cwt for good to fine ordinary. In other sorts there has been nothing d o ing. Mocha is without alteration. FOREIGN COFFEE.—Very little business has been done for exportation, and prices remain unaltered. On Friday 48 barrels superior Rio and 37 casks from Puerto Cabello were taken in at auction ; the former at 43s to 455, the latter at 50s per cwt fur fine ordinary Plantation kind. COCOA.—There has been no public sale. Prices of both British Plantation and Foreign remain unaltered. TEA.—Since our last publication no alteration of prices has occtured, but the demand has been limited : a public sale is advertised to take place on Thursday next, for which 37,000 pkgs are announced. Tea duty paid last week 560,482 lbs. RlCE.—Since Tuesday, even rates have ruled for Ben gal in the private transactions, which have been moderate in extent. The demand for Madras has been rather dull during the Reek. Of Siam 500 bags low white sold steadily at auction at from 9s 6d to lOs per cwt for ordinary to middling white. Carolina has met a good demand for home consumption, and former prices are firm. No particular business has been done in Java description, the holders requiring higher prices. A cargo of 7,000 begs is expected to arrive shortly. At public sale, 147 boxes Pearl Sago sold, duty paid, at 14s Gd per cwt for low quality. SPICES.—As the large parcels of Cassia Lignea lately arrived will soon be offered at auction, the trade defer their purchases, for the execution of orders, until the sales take place, so that business pri vately has been suspended. Business in all kinds of Pepper has remained quiet. On Friday there was an auction of 380 bags Malabar which were all taken in above their value, namely, at from Sad to 3/d per lb for good half heavy to good heavy shot kind. The holders of Pimento have asked very stiff rates, which has limited the transactions. FRUIT.—Nov Vaienein Raisime are moth wanted, in the absence of arrivals. Of new Muscatels two small cargoes have arrived, and aro being sold at the quota tions. Of new French Fruit the following descrip go§ were disposed of at public sale ;--inape rial, in cart oons an d h a lf ditto 110 s to 126 Quarter and eighth ditto 115 s to 130 s. Q uarle A r t boxes 655, and eighth boxes 75s per cwt• r e auction, also, 38 s b u tt s , 48 carotee l s , an d 26 barrels fine new Patras C urran t s , a ll s li g htly or badly . daniage: 2 brought fron t 44 s t o 48 s . A cargo , co nsisting of 1 ' s old butts and 80 caroteels, out of condition, partly damaged 41s to 435, with some sound at 45s per evi l ' Privately fine new Currants bring 47s to 49s per ewt• bl i o SALTPETRE.—Private transactions since the P u i"ets sale have not b een wor th y o f pu bli c no tice ; the ha l eo are firm in thei r d eman d s f or th e f u ll ra tes. Th e p r rice are of Nitrate of Soda has b een nom i na l, no sales of i atoes having been e ff ec t e d. F or B r i t i s h Refined there h, been a moderate demand at former rates. ooedt INDlGO.—Yesterday and to-day the demand wa s and the prices of d es i ra bl e s hippi ng s orts fully o '7; tained, but consuming qualities have occasionally Po rather lower. To this day 4,872 chests are act! 5 sold, 823 chests h ave b een t a k en i n , and 3,09 8 the withdrawn, leaving 4,179 chests for sale. After the public sales of East India, 181 serous of c. Spanish were offered, and partly disposed of at a re -d tion of about 4d per lb f r o m f ormer r ates ; ea t° sobre 2s 8d to 3s 4d per lb. Os COCHINEAL.—This afternoon 413 bags 11 ° 11-11 w its were offered at the publi c s a l ts . A f a ir proportion, ti es, disposed of at a decli n e o f 2d p er lb on the low qua and Id per lb on th e good. Ut ters TALLow.—This market remains steady. tbe from St. Petersb u rgh to th e sth o f O c t o ber, reP rt sale of 5,000 casks in the current week at 10 3 t° rbls. Exchange 38 9-32 to 5-16. SO Ou.s. —A parcel of British Sperm sold last wee 911 10s, fur Oil and head-matter. THE FORGED EXCHEQUER )3 LO _ ,I -; AND PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. o f SIR,—I beg, through you, to call the attentilef parties capable of m a ki ng the inquiry, as tow e is a surmise on my part, that Prince Louis Napele e ta • a victim of the Forged E x ch eq u e r-bills' ConsPil ;0 in order that Engli s h men , a ft er the King 43 ,,' it s French shall have left our sh o res, may make ? appeal to him to remit the sentence on the Prinesor In the first instance, in order to support ref t ot position, I believe it is an undoubted fee t o pt itapello entered into the contract for the engef e , c o. of the steam-packet ( w ith th e p ro p r i e t o rs) whi° ll ll; d veyed Prince Napoleon and his party to the sn°' France. o pti I was in London at th e ti me o f thi s mad et t olt and in the immediate neighbourhood of the ti 1-I ce d Exchange. I perfectly r eco ll ec t th a t th e news el bsble just after the close of b u si ness ; —i s it not Pr ° , bpd there was some delay in the arri v al of the new fi b oto that it was intended to have arrived in business or and created a panic of w hi c h th e F orge d Exeu e l it o4 bills' Conspirators purposed to take adv - anteg e itheir make a grand rush in ord e r to r ecove r some ° immense losses ?—that Prince Napoleon W as f e ll pletely ignorant of the scheme of which 11° I victim, and was led to belie ve th a t a s t r ong Psi' c 'l e s ready to receive him on his landin g o n the sh ° olo France, and that he is to this mo men t ignorant lbeif real object for whi c h th e cons pi ra t ors m ade hill ' ready tool ? It has been the surprise of all parties how 130 10 100 a sum of money could ha ve b een go t r id of as that , tf rili by the Forged Exchequer-bill s ' Conspirators. i also be recollected, that when Louis Napoleon e° party were secured, an immense sum of mould found in their possession. If this money wa s rt be., the proceeds obtained on the deposit of some ° 0 0 10 forged Exchequer-bill s , a gre at p or ti o n of the bo o fully accounted for, and also the means explain e d be ,he party obtained possession of a sum said t ° been nearly one hundred thousand pounds. 0 . 1 tr-' l l If it can be proved that no real conspiracy el 1 ) 0 in France to aid the mad attempt o f the Prin ce 's that he is the victim of a set of forgers and St° if 0 change speculators, I think it highly probabletwold appeal were made to King Louis Philippe, he 1 0 0 remit the sentence on Louis Napoleon in corer ) a. to the reception given him on his visit to EnF la p. I am, Sir, &c., E. Ilfracombe, Oct. 10, 1844. THE CUSTOMS.—A diversity of practice APP ei fil to have prevailed in remunerating tidewaiters o _ B A r on vessels allowed to discharge their cargoes bef(l'ioioll after the legal hours of business, when such Pe r fd e b . ,.1 is granted, on special application being e i .„g u' merchants on the occasion of a vessel lealt t l h olr being under contract or demurrage, or at * tl ,, quest of the dock comp an i es or w h ar fingers "`" n ow influx of shipping a ft er t h e preva l en ce of ef he eS" winds, and consequent pressure of bugue n g s ' i di pense , for such over-time attendance being, ; e - h sions, borne by the parties making the applic,t l ";ll su c h ; the Board of Customs being of opinion that ' ° Seald,„" eases a charge at the rate of sixpence an huu r ,: r oost made, instead of a shilling, as has hitherte,,:rg beY°" . „ stances, been the case for a tidewaiter %Wl:de the hours fixed for the attendance of waterr" •desvait 6 "' and that when the services of a see° ° ; d t e i r ed b o r ij r on the same vessel, shall be co cessary to assist in keeping an account of th e 0 0! veries, his over-time be also charged at the 59.1 0 , orders have been issued to the officers at the severala e a meats in. London, and the outports of the United "00 0 classe o r n ;l ow, ew r attendanceoet f o g uoffil a ct govern iteoiorl anfisetwtlciihv t oieee h turyh e nce m i atannr s r;go e etot l thrvheeeaefsql from louoe i in future srvotee f r td u dehy, t e u eat r atons e hrhyek a ioypp c er c aeaat o ypwrs r me d aos i ne : : : :hts c ceYdbf no top os r 0001 o u t th h e e delivery of much for extra attendance as for extra attention '' duty; their attendance on board the vessel 101,10 quired day an d n i g h t from the time she i s boar° Gravesend till the whole of her cargo is cleared. pe t ROYAL ETIQUETTE.—The author of " Frances Burney, or, by marriage with a Fro% be grant, Mad ame D'Arblay, complains bitterly I h ile Memoirs of the severe fatigue she underwent noc: Court lady. Her employment was personal ett e „%ife u on Queen Charlotte, to assist in robi n g, and 910 replenished her Majesty's snuff-box. It is 0 0 0 01 etiquette to sit or cat in the ro y a l p re s e nce ; not pass the royals on the road, nor any room °l3" stsil they are, if the door be open ; if met you raoo,, still ; in retiring from their presence it must b e l l ward ; if they enter you mus t i mme di a tely rise, fo'i r to the wall, leaving th e cen t re o f th e roo m for tile s 00 elusive use ; you mu s t no t a dd ress th e m uniesfisiOi spoken to ; if a royal personage condescends t° ps , subject, he brings with him what guests he Ple a teas entire control during his stay of the malas le i ";bo di princes are of ancient institution, all these me s hie ld doubtless a sage and politic meaning. They ar e - Sol e ; intended to maintain the personal dignity of th e d," reign, to present him being indecorously exp os per taken unawares, so as t o b e t ray weakness, or the V at 0 ante of restraint on his will and pleasure. sb l 4 6 princes are no l onger cons id ere d di v i ne or imP ei ty Ai heL nor perhaps wish t o b e —f or th e assum ption m°_, - 0 t f ' o been irksome—they might perhaps be relaxed j 1 British Court, as they have been on the Continee'ey di' Boor factory girl suffered more than Fanny 13 ,° ° „,, .rom their observance, sometimes ready to ary.r o 11 " i hunger and long-standing. Yet she says it ,„, ° , 0 10,1 cruelty or hardness of heart in the Queen, who ".,„ 0 0t,", and considerate, that inflicted this suffering, but " OV A thought and experience of her situation. The se°2„ e u s is the cause of nine-tenths of the misery througo".,riOr; world—want of reciprocal knowledge between s d niti and those dependent upon them—New Monthly Revkw. —.or/ Dividend per Annum. 15i per cent. 41. 41. 10s. 81. 4 per cent. 41. 401. .15s. 71. 11. ss. 31 12s. Bd. 1:10s. 341. 101. 17/. 301. 3% 17s. 6d. 101. 6 percent. 28 20/. 1/. 105. 151. 321:105. 101. 108. IL 1.45. cent. A per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. 31. 10s. 5 per cent. 1 .!, per cent. I% per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. 1% per cent. IL N. Bd. 18s. Id. per cent. 11. 7s. Ss. 108. 4 percent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 38.6 d. pr eh 51. 66. per share per cent. 31. Gs. per cent. 4r 30s. bs. 4% per cent. 5% per cent. 5 per cent. 8 per cent. per cent. 4s. 2s. 6d. per cent. :19s. 12 . sh. & be. 11. ss. 10e. 10s. per cent. b per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. lb be. 4r. s,per cent. 6% per cent. 11. 4e. 5 per cent. lON per cent 51 8 per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 6per cent. per cent. percent. 43 per cent. 6 per cent. Ills per share Gs. per share 10 per cent. per cent. 16s. 11.55. I/. 7s. 51. and bs. i;4& and bs. per cent. rcenk 101. 101. 81 per eh 15s per eh 21. 6 per cent. 5 per cent.: 6 per cent. 5 per cent; 8 per cent. 134 per cent. 34 12s. ; 21. 10s. 2/. 108. 21. 108. 5 p e r c ent. 44 16s. 11. 146. 21.135. p. sh. 11. 4a. per cent. es. per sh. 21. 5a per sh JO per cent . 3% per cent. BL ss. per de 2341. per sh. 12s. per sh. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 1341. per sh 104 per sh. 11.145. &per share . 334 d per sh 91.170. pr sb 1133 1 per sh 1. 1/. 51. 15$. u. iii 7. lod. 15 per oent. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 11. it. St. Ts. 6d. 108. tO per cent. 108. per eh. 11. 104 perch. Names of Com panies. Canals. Ashton and Oldham... Ashby-de-la-Zouch av Basingstoke Breckneck & Abergay. Birmingham, 1-16th sh. Do. and Liverp. Jur,c Chelmer & Blackwator Coventry Crom ford Dudley Derby......... Danube and Mayne Ellesmere and Chester Erewash Forth and Clyde.... ..... Grand Junction ..... Grand Union Grand Surrey Grand Western .. Glamorgansh. ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham ........ IludderstiOd .........av Kennet add Avon ay Lancaster av Leeds and Liverpool... Leicester Leicester & Northamp Loughborough ........av Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Melton Mowbray Mersey and Irwell. Macclesfield Neath ............ ........ _ Oxford Peak Forest „av Regent's (or London).. Rochdale sv Shropshire Somerset Coal Do. Lock Fund Stock Stafford and Worcester Shrewsbury Stourbridge ........ Stratford.on.Avon...av Swansea Severn & Wye & Trent & Mersey, 14 sh. Thames & Medway..av Warwick and Itirming. Warwick and Napton... Worcester & Binning. Wilts and Berks .av Wisbeach Wey and Arun Docks. Commercial East and West India London Ditto Bonds Bristol... ........ ........av Do.Bnds,var.amounts St. Katharine Ditto Bonds Ditto Bands Southampton Bridges Hammersmith . ..... Southwark, new Subs Ditto New of 7% pr c Waterloo Ditto Old Ann. of Si , Ditto New ditto of 74 Ditto Bonds Vauxhall. .av Assurances. Albion.... ............ ......• Alfred Life' Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marine Atlas Birmingham Fire ...... British Commercial Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eagle• ....... •••••••••..•••••• Economic Lifo ...... European Life Ditto New Freemasons ••• Globe Guardian Hope Life Ditto Fire Imperial Fire Ditto Life.... Indemnity Marine Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship ... National Loan Fund Neptune Marine ..... Palladium Life ..... Protector Provident Rock Life Rhyal Exchange Sun Fire Ditto Life...... University Universal Life Union Fire and Life Joint Stk Banks Australasi 7... .......... Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westminstr Ditto New..... ... London Joint Stock Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland Ditto New National of Ireland Nat. Provincial Englnd Ditto New Gloucestershire Union of Australia Union of London Gaslight di. Coke Bath British Ditto Provincial...— Birmingham Birming. & Staffordsh Bristol Brighton ..... Ditto General City of London ....." Ditto New Continental Con solid Ditto New....... ...... Equitable Imperial Isle of Thanet Independent . ........ Ph cenix Ratcliff South Metropolitan.... United General ..... Westmins. Chartered . - Water Works. Birmingham East L0nd0n....." Grand Junction ay Rent Nw Riv Lon. Bridg An. Manchester and Salford Vauxhall, late S. Lond. West Middlesex av Yrk Buldg Co.Les,Prop Iron Railways. Birmingham & Derby Birmiog. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Eastern Counties...„... Edinburgh & Glasgow Grand Junction Great North of Englnd Great Western Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths Harwich (Braithwaite) Hull and Selby ... Lancaster and Carlisle Leeds and 5e1by...... .... Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto Half-Shares London and Brighton Ditto Loan Notes London and Blackwall London and Greenwich London and Birmingh. Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto Thirds London and S. Western London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares-- Manchstr and Birming Midland Counties North British Norwich & Brandon Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss. din Paris and Orleans Paris and R0uen....., Rouen and Havre Stockton & Darlington South East. and Dover Yarmouth and Norwich ork and N. Midland Ditto New Shares Mines. Albion Copper Alten Anglo Mex., iss.sl. p.m Ditto Subscription 80l Janos Ditto Scrip i 3razil. Imp. ss.sl. p.m Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U, Do. St. John Del Rey British how Candonga. Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Copiapo Columbian, ibS. 51. p.m General Mining Hibernian .. . Imperial Slate Corapy. Mexican ...... . Mining Co. of Ireland., Real del Monte, Unreg. Ditto Loan Notes Rhymney Santiago de Cuba —. United Mex., iss.2l. pm. Ditto Scrip Ditto New Scrip ". Lit erv,ry. Londn,wit:n Sin. Ticket London University Russell ..... King's College idisoellaneous Anglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricultur Brit. American Land, IL 48. 11. 15s. (per cent. b per cent. Alb. and/ es.6d. be. I 6per cent. Vet cent. •54 per cent 6per cent Canada ............. Upper Canada Bonds Oen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood Pay., is*. 11. Mex. and S. American New Brunswick (Land) New Zealand ..... Penins. & Orien. Steam Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. Soc South Australian Thames Tunnel Van Diemen's Land LIST OF SCOTTISH COM OCT. 2, 1 Bank of Scotland." Royal sank British Linen Compny Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank Western Bank ..... Central Bk. of Scotland Caledonian Insurance Hercules Insurance North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of gccitl. Edinburgh Life Insur. Scottish Union Insur Standard Life Incur Dalkeith Railway Edin. and Glas.ltailwy Glasg. and Green. Rail. DuA4el4nd Axtruliia 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 8 per cent. 6 per cent. 7 per cent. 6 per cent. Bper cent. 6 per cent. 7 per cent. 9 per cent. bper cent. (per cent. t per cent. 5 per cent. yer cent. I per cent 9 per con e ..... All paid 00 0 0 Stock Stock 1.47 9 0 Stock 500 0 50 0 0 63 2 8 50 0 0 leo 0 0 70 10 3 500 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 1000 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Stock - 100 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 77 10 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 41 13 4 190 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 63 12 9 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 o 0 100 0 0 70 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 23 0 0 50 0 0 'lOO 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 12 0 0 2 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 2U 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 100 0 0 2 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 41 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 SO 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 70 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 100 0 0 2 10 0 4 0 0 45 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 12 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 S 1 0 14 10 0 100 0 I) 25 0 ( 150 0 0 150 7 0 35 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 21 0 0 25 0 0 15 0 0 75 0 0 7 10 0 7 10 0 40 0 0 13 0 0 55 0 0 20 0 0 10 10 0 3 0 0 59 0 0 7 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 55 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 60 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 40 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 2 10 0 75 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 - 100 0 0 - 100 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 ) 50 0 0 [@o 0 0 10 0 0 30 0 0 35 10 0 32 10 0 15 0 0 5 q 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 C 14 0 0 1 10 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 7 0 0 75 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 O . 9 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 `ANIES' PRICES. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 12 10 0 1 0 0 2 10 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 00, 158 114% 10134 1 1 3 2434 21% 120 29% 72% 193 18% a 6% 5W 400 11.135. 145 49% 651 188 15% 45% 5% 11 15 2 40s. ,21s. 2334 5 80 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 55 0 0 '5 _0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 250 0 0 All paid 0 0 3 0 0 36 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 ( 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 2 10 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 6 5 0 0 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 20 0 25 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 17 10 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 16 0 8 18 0 0 19 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 31 5 0 28 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 39 0 0 90 0 0 25 0 0 48 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 33% 9)4 25 213;i 1.44 105 1 / 4 78 3y. 7 1 / 4 13% 213 125 144% 8.% 26 1% a % Is% 203 104 47% 11% 654 10% 213 74% 16% 119 109 11 574 35% 39 6 ye 265 40 -. 27 105% b 8 3% 7 5% 5 12U 20 26 6 3 1 14 9ii It 4' 118 9 2314 4- lat% 285 Eies r 6336, 32 104 13% 22U 8% l 8 21s. 4% 50 MARRIED. 11 0 . 5 On the 3d inst., at the Church of the Holy TrinitY,:ijoisw ton, by the Rev. George Pocock, LL.B., in - cutnben t ,` T v .- 01, 4 1 of St. Paul's Chapel, St. Marylebone, Franklin H udb° ;O r of Alexander-square, Brompton, to Sarah, eldest da_iiihig. George Gunthorpe, Esq., of Newington-place, J ew.-- Surrey. F ed er pli 3 On the Ist inst., at St. Ma r ti n ' s , L e i ce ster, 3- 0 :: - ; o r t ° t , S. Martin, of th e G rove , St ra tf or d, E ssex , to 01.— TrelL" daughter of th e l a t e M r . W. Taylor, of Burton -11 0 11 ;0 4 r On the sth inst., at the Collegiate Church, Anthony, second son of Thomas Sherwood, Esq., P' square, London, to Annie, second daughter of Glasgow, Esq., of Manchester, ... re, lie d DIED. 100- On Saturday, the 12th inst., at Anstey P ast iate " • Leicester, John Frewen, Esq., youngest son of the , - - te ol , Frewen Turner, Esq., of Con Overton Hall, Lela's , and of Brickwalt House, Northiam, Sussex, aged 26., f,soe' On the 10th -inst. at Vicarage-terrace, Stratfora, _.‘i 17' Elizabeth, relict of the late Mr. J. H. Giles, ire On the 30th of September, at Gisborn, in yon— oodt Sykes, Esq., of Bruton- street. „ . . t , TOOO. O O On the 4th inst., at Bruton, Somerset, Julia Say; do eldest daughter of the late T. Sampson, Esq. , e' " place, aged 72. A GO rge of . On the 4th inst., at Canterbury-grove, Norwelf .s ocl; io the third son of the late Edgar Ash SpilsburP Walsall. On the sth inst., at Roehampton, Surrey, Aleianu' A. Esq., of Elderslie, B. d Je l3ll On the 9th inst., at Knowle Lodge, Hampstead' i ilf cie Thwaites, Esq. On the 9th inst., at Park Villas, Cheltenham, George 0 Esq., aged 63. ye of JO On the 10th inst., at C oven t ry , Eli za b e th, the I ' l oa r Twist, Esq., solicitor. On the 11th inst., in Brunswick-crescent, Cold-barb n ll ' lane, Camberwell, Thomas Russell, Esq. S ll56 — On the 11th inst., at Camden-row, Camberwell, ~t y . 0 relict of the late Arthur Ryder, Esq., of Rood-lan e ' b e° „ t alc , Lately, at Ludlow, in the county of Salop, 2 '7 1 4 e i t t : - i l - 2.l l_ , r_o h. w i ; t i , ng t, , t ne ,s.... 7 lf , : , :f a ll e l e r a . 7 J 4 o . hn Browning, late al YOV 1 1/. Lo , leon: Printed and Published by BIURDO $O. pi No. 112, Strand, P r i n t er , a t The Sax Offic e 'r o ool Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, is the Middens, Tuesday, October 16,1844. GRI - Ncti ee r itNy R 01( 4: tor t r en t , tl4l 2- rest T deLee nder, o f t Grad li OxF BIRTHS. Pir On the 12th inst., at S ou thb oroug h, Tunbridge-11 44 of Thomas Brabazon Aylmer, of a daughter. •Es4' On the 12th inst., the lady of William Woodgid e4 Woodland-terrace, Greenwich, of a son. ma/ fi e° On the 12th inst., at Thistl e t on , R u tland, -- • Fludyer, of a son. , „,, of On the 12th inst., at Portland-place, the Countess $ of a daughter. m a tad' On the 9th inst., M rs . H a y nes , o f th e Hampst-- - a daughter. f 06P" On the 9th inst., at Ghe n t, B e l g i um , the wife ° _,' is, Charlier, Esq., of a da ug ht er . V' jl. On the 11th inst., a t Sh en l e y, th e w if e of the Be , Newcome ' A of a daughter. v. ;01111 On the 11th inst., at He n l ow , th e lady of till . Byng, Vicar of Langford, Beds, of a daughter. y go rr On the 12th inst., at Tottenham, the lady of d• ,j, Esq., of Finsbury-square, of a daughter. , r „ 0 On the 12th inst., in St. John's-wood-road, the wu - y Sutton, Esq., of a son. ____...--- 9' 39 640 141 71 1140 160 117 360 15 365 505 120 130 11 480 230 3t