The Sun. — London, England, 1839-10-25 00:00:00

lIVENING _EDITION.' THE LATE DIME OF BEDFORD. (From a Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.) " Multis Me bonis flebilis occidit." Nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice." When a " Master in Israel" has fallen, however turbulent or exciting have been the times in which he lived, the mind which excludes not the best feelings of human nature will turn from public and national differences to those qualities of private dis position which embalm the memory of the dead with fragrance of unalloyed sweetness. Happy is it for the living and the dead when, apart from all feel ings which engender strife, it may be said of him who is gone, " He was a good man !" The Duke of Bedford was, as has been already stated, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. By his first wife, daughter of Lord Torrington, he has left three sons, whose names are sufficiently known. By his second wife, daughter of the Duke of Gor don, a lady much younger than himself, he has left a numerous family, of whom Lord Wriothesley, the eldest, is in the Church ; Lord Charles, M.P. for Bedfordshire ; a daughter, Lady Louisa, is married to the Marquis of Abercorn ; and the sons are prin cipally in the army and navy. During the lifetime of his first wife, who died in 1801, the Duke lived in retirement with the in come of a younger brother, much of his attention, as well as that of his lady being given to private benevolence, in which it is said they exceeded the convenience of their means. In the• year 1802, on the sudden death of his brother Francis, he suc ceeded to the title, removed to the principal family seat at Woburn, and married the present Dowager Duchess. At Woburn was the largest portion of each year spent up to his lamented death, and it is principally as a country nobleman and landlord that this humble sketch is intended to exhibit him. Politics may be dismissed in a few words. The Duke was a consistent " Old Whig,"* and his principles will therefore be viewed through the ~ colouring" of each man's " spectacles." But it wa s never attempted to be denied that his conduct was conscientious and disinterested. Interest, in fact, he had little occasion for; and if he had, he was not the man to cringe or compromise. A " revolu tionist" he certainly never was in the least degree, one proof of which was, that in the most perilous time he was active in raising and commanding a squadron of volunteer cavalry. Nor was he at all a latitudi narian in religion. The chapel of Woburn, which —amongst greater alterations—he ornamented with organ, altar-piece, and communion plate, had his presence at the service, including the sacrament ; and honest and deserving clergymen, either " or thodox" or " evangelical," had his patronage, as also religious societies. In education it is well known that he coincided with Lord Brougham. His principles were vindicated from some attacks in your paper a very short time before his death (Oct. 1). An old charity school at Woburn, founded by his family, was extended by him, and two or three other schools were established by him self or the Duchess. The Duke was characterised by a strong natural reserve, except when in his family or familiar so ciety, which was often supposed to partake of hau teur. But of the offensive quality of this feeling, which has any wish to give pain or any pleasure e "ri making inferiority felt, lie had not an iota. 1-I.e was not the man to whom Sterne addressed hi s i niercing rebuke, " Thou art rich, and standest deifies,' by a numerous tribe of cringing expectants. What t.hen ? Art thou proud, because they are hungry ?''' If however, any embarrassment was felt from diffe . rence of station, no honest person, of any rank, feared the Duke, because he knew he was just ; and what is even better, merciful. He was also a forgiving inae , • It he considered that he had experienced disrespect or offence, the party on i expressing acknowledgement and regret was re stored to his favour and kindness. The Duke, though not a showy, was a sound man. Amongst other things, he was a good clas sical scholar. An eminent Conservative Bishop .(Dr. Kaye, of Lincoln), may remember a circum stance (related the writer by a gentleman intimately connected with a London Conservative Paper), that on passing a day or two in company with the Duke, he was actually surprised at the great flu ency of historical and general knowledge which his Glace displayed. Agriculture materially engaged the first twelve years of his Dukedom. It was then a fashionable subject—when noble hands would " handle sheep." But there is no doubt that much solid and perma nent good is the practical result. IVlany can recol lect the stirring festivities of the " Woburn sheep shearing,"-f the disuse of which, however less neces sary it had become, was much regretted at the time. i The excitement and benefit a, Woburn, during the three days, nearly equalled that of the " Eglinton Tournament." 1 In Devonshire, as well as in Bedfordshire and everywhere else, where he had estates, the Duke was reckoned, even by persons of the most oppo site principles, " a good landlord." Comfortable and occasionally ornamental cottages were built for the poor, and let at a low rate. Of the " New Poor-law," a subject. on which so much honest dif ,ference of opinion exists, and on which the writer re grets that he differed from the Duke, or to speak mo re honestly, that the Duke differed from him, he belie Jes ham to be a most conscientious, but by no means " out-and-out" supporter. In fact, the tenor of his disposition must have been rather to " mitigate" tilan to " strain." For many years previous to the year 1816 the Duke had made many ornamental additions to the I s noble domain of Woburn. About this period he visited Italy, &c. for two years, and formed that splendid collection of statuary, sculpture, and an cient relics which fill the Sculpture Gallery, for me?ly the greenhouse, a noble apartment, with its adjulact, 200 feet long, at Woburn Abbey. Here are to be seen, not only some of the finest produc tions of the chisel of the amiable Canova, West macott, &c., &c., but a really fine and full collec tion of ancient sculpture, vases, torsi, &c., some with perfect and hateresting inscriptions, which is hardly to be excelled by any private collection inEu rope. An account w k as published in a large folio volume, privately printed by Dr. Hunt; and an other in a " History of Voburn, the Abbey, and the Russell Family,' publisl;ed in 1831. A very handsome " triumphal arch" e .ntrance to the park had been erected some years beibre. His Grace's patronage of British painters and other artists is well known, if only from the engraving of Hay ter's picture " Lord William Russell's Trial," for which the Duke gave him a commission of 1,500 guineas. i In the year 1830, the Duke rebuilt, in a very , handsome and permanent manner, Covent-garden Market, which belongs to the Russell family, at an expense of 40,0001., forming a very desirable im provement to the metropolis. It is singular that one of his last public acts was giving an immediate assent to the erection of an additional convenience et the west end, which is scarcely completed, and Will be looked at with a melancholy interest. In the same year (1830) the Duke rebuilt, nearly from the foundation, the tower of Woburn Church, which had fallen into deeay. The new tower is a loft- • . - ~.. J and handsome one, with a lantern and flying ciuttresses 2 havi n g St. D anstan . s ‘., a much fine r effect than that of decorated, and ra eet-street. The chance) was also grand painted window inserted at the east end. The whole of these were from the designs of Mr. Blore F.S A at an expense of 4,0004 It would be .something less than common justice to omit, that not only in various elegant im provements in the country . , but in the more impor tant points of charity an d b eneficence, the Duke was fully aided or prompted from natural impulse, by the present Duchess Dowager. This brings the writer to the last, but anything but least part of the narrative. The Duke has left a blessed example of private charity and kin dness, the details of which , though some of them m in a dness, y ap- • In the " Sculpture Gallery" at Woburn asp Temple of Liberty, with an elegant lonic portico, containing the busts of the principal Whig statesmen at the comm ence _ ment of the present cantury. On the frieze is the follow_ ing inscription :—" fianc cdem libertati sacram, et a viro patrim, bonorumque eiv ium amantis'simo, Francisco Russell Bedfordias duce inchoalam, Johannes Russell hmres eju s ea voluntate fratris morientis perficieudam curavit. Anno Christi, t There was a painting by Garrard, containing por traits of the Duke of York, Lord Somerville, Scc. &C., from which a large folio engraving wa s made. t The w r i ter b e li eves t h at th e Duke was Lord-L.ieute nax .t of Ireland in the year 1806: but in this really im pron,'Ptu sketch, is uncertain as to dates. His career thcre was qciet, but by no means unpopular. It was during ht. 3 absence ill that a false report of an assassination by brigands, caused a regret in the nei g hbourhood of Woburn , which will Iln tit be but t oo rea l, The Dilagave 2,300/. to the " Metropolis Churcbes Fand." • -*/ pear simple, are very worthy of record and imita tion. At Woburn, which, of course, was not the whole or largest field of his benevolence, soup was given to the poor weekly. Wine was given to them, on application, in sickness. Fuel was sold to them at reduced prices during the winter. The privilege of once a week picking up and carrying home the collected " fallen wood" in the noble park of three thousand five hundred acres, abounding in trees, was much greater than a stranger could sup pose. Every Christmas 100 guineas was given to the clergyman of the parish to be distributed in meat, fuel, and clothing. Perhaps there was never a case, public or private, fairly brought before the Duke, that he did not respond to more or less, ac cording to his opinion ; and if his benevolence was never excessive, it was steady—it could be calculated on. To the writer's knowledge, one of the last letters he could have written was one of active kind ness, and that where his patience had been rather severely taxed. No doubt his charities will be continued by his successor, on whom may the mantle of his benevolence fully fall. A good, mild, and merciful spirit—one of those which can ill be spared—has been withdrawn from this mortal scene. An old man, of the mighty of the land, after an honourable career, has been ga thered, full of years, to his fathers. Peace be with him /—not in the Roman, but in the true Catholic sense of the universal feeling of mankind. Gently may the earth lie on his mourned body 1 and plea sant be his waking by the " quiet waters," where the conditions of blissful re-union are faith, love, mercy, brotherly kindness, and charity, P. London, October 23. DESTRUCTIVE TORRENTS IN THE ALPS. (From a Corresponden t of the Morning Poet.) BAVENO, Oct. 10. The cries and prayers of the unfortunate have at length been heard. The deluge which has been poured upon the Alps and their neighbourhood with such fatal results has at length ceased. Four days and nights did it descend without a moment's intermission, and with a fury almost unprecedented, swelling the torrents to bursting, inundating the low countries, and bringing destruction, dismay, and death to the dwellings and to the very hearths of the unhappy inhabitants. On the evening of the 7th, the wind had blown from the south, veered round to the north-east, and with the clearing heavens the rain ceased to fall. At that pe riod the violence of the torrents was at its height, but such was the rapidity with which the accumu lated waters descended from the mountains, that in a few hours they had considerably diminished, and by twelve o'clock next day they so far dis charged themselves into the valleys as to give us, who were imprisoned in the dreadful Vale of Vedro, some hopes of making our escape. On the Bth,about eleven o'clock, we left the refuge, between Goudo and Isella, guided by four stout mountaineers. God I what wreck—what desolation—what chaos lay before us I An earthquake could not have left more appalling traces of its wrath. It would seem as if all the demons of destruction had been let loose to revel and do their worst on this devoted region. Rocks of a size that would make them appear as immovable as the earth itself, hurled from the highest cliffs and peaks, and scattered about like pebbles in the ravine, in the villages, and across the road. Torrents poured from new and hitherto unsuspected beds, rushing over gardens and uprooted plantations, and exulting over the foundations of demolished habitations. All symp toms of cultivation and of human industry vanished, and nothing but ruin, total and unrelieved, on every side. Of the splendid military road of Napoleon, from Goudo to Crevola, nothing remains but a few wrecks, just enough to show where ran the great route of the Simplon. The two new and beautiful bridges leading into Varzo have been so com pletely swept away that of one not a ves tige is left, and of the other only a few stones. Here houses have been rolled with the rolling torrents down the savage gulf of the Dive dria, and the late wretched habitants sent wander ing over the wild rocks for shelter, glad at having escaped a snoctina death. To attempt to describe our journey out of this horrible ravine would be absurd. Led on by our intrepid guides, we had to plunge into foaming torrents,black with maddened rage—to climb precipitous heights strewn with loosened stones, tottering over our heads and ready to fall at the least agitation—to scramble over crumbling earth and insidious sands, in positions where one slip would lead to instant annihilation— to cross raging floods astride upon poles, laid across the yawning gulfs from rock to rock. The dangers and the sights of that day will never be erased from my mind, for not in the wildest stretch of my imagination had I ever conceived anything as really existing half so horrible. Near Isella I was struck with one thing eminently remarkable even in this scene, where all was eminent. A piece of the road, of about 30 paces in length, which had been cut through the living rock, and which, consequently, would have been supposed to be the most secure and ir removable of the whole work, carried, with the flinty foundation on which it was laid, into the all-receiving vortex, stook there high and unharmed, as if in mockery of man's art, the enormous base on which it was laid having been 'undermined by the hill of waters lashing beneath it. Having made our way in the manner I have mentioned to Cre vole, and passed the noble bridge in that place, which bravely outlived the deluge, we felt some relief from the apprehension of a horrible death ; but the scene before us was, if possible, more heart rending than that we had just escaped from. The beautiful vales of Piedmont, their orchards, their vines, their plantations, and their fields, turned into one vast desert of sand and slime—the yet ruling waters being the only disputant to its undivided em pire. Such convulsions and visitations amidst moun tains and ravines, sprung as these are from the con tentions of the elements, are in some sort natural ; but in the midst of fertile plains and populous vales they fill the mind with tenfold astonishment—they strike the heart with tenfold anguish. All the road to Domo-Dossolo was broken into a hundred fragments, and utterly impracticable, except on foot, and thus I may say that from Simplon village to Domo, a distance of about twenty miles, the pas sage of the Alps, with the exception of a few fragments, is entirely destroyed. What damage May have been done from Simplon to Brieg, I can not of my own knowledge speak, but report says it is equally extensive; every town andevery inn on the line is filled with persons and vehicles arrested by this znisfortune, and little or no chance have they of either going on or returning. A few weeks may, perhaps, render the route passable by pedestrians, but I have it from one of the inspectors that car riages will not be enabled to pass earlier than next spring. Had but a little care and money been yearly expended upon this superb work the present affliction would have been in some measure alle viated ; but the road has been let fall into disrepair, mended merely temporarily, as occasion required, and that in the worst and most slovenly manner. It is said the King of Sardinia more favours the passage of Mount Cenis, as leading through a greater extent of his territory, and that he is, therefore, indifferent or averse to the Simplon route. It is also said that the Emperor of Austria has no objection to the shut ting up of the great highway for the French into his Italian dominions. But whatever be the real cause of the neglect, it is lamentable to see this unequalled monument of genius and art falling into decay, and sinking under the combined attacks of those elements it was intended, and for so long a time has successfully striven, to subdue. We reached Domo on the evening of the Bth, and left it next morning, still having the misery to p ass through nothing but unmitigated ravage. The splendid bridge which crossed the Torce at Ma s'one was so wholly swept away as not even to leave a trace of where it stood, and the w ro it a n d the to Vogogna was intersected at ev er y fe w paces i r m es p is e t. impetuous The pretty moinatai n n and populous which nothing could populous tor vasco, betw een V o gogna al2d Herio.a, presented of Orna one of the saddest spectacles conceive. T orren t s fierce, it is possible to an d o f a volume scarce imaginable, were rushing, even on that, the ..e -cond day after the subsiding of the deluge, through the doors and windows of the fated houses, the streets being choked up ten or twelve feet with the stone and sand which had been previously carried down and there deposited. A volcanic eruption could not have left behind it a greater accumulation of earth and stones than was thrown upon this half-buried town by the irruption of the mountain waters. Like another Hercula neum, it stood overwhelmed with ruins, deserted, and half hid under the earth, while a few solitary individuals stood looking over the devastation of their homes, and the blasting of their hopes, with leaden aspects and fixed eyes—pictures of despair. The elements would appear to have reached the climax in their war upon humanity, for as this was the most afflicting sight we met with, so it was the last. From Ornavasco to Heriola, althocgh some remains of the inundation yet rested on the land, yet the greater portion had drained off, and the road remained almost entirely perfect. At Heriola what a change ! From unbounded rage to the most divine peace—from hideous deformity to the most exquisite proportions I The lovely Lago Maggiore lay before us, reclining, like a Sultana, at voluptuous ease—her beauteous bosom heaving and swelling at unequal intervals, the expiring throbs after a late violent passion—and her breath fragrant with the delicious perfumes of the citron and olive trees. There she lay, clothed in her robes of the brightest green, spangled over with uncountable gems, which sparkled like a fir mament, and blazed in the rays of the cloudless sun —the far Rhetian Alps standing round her couch like domestics, obedient to her wish and auxiliary to her pomp. Never did anything appear to me so like a dream—so like a coup de theatre as this sud den transition from the savage to the gentle. It was as if some kind, good-natured geni had, with a stroke of her wand, transported you from the fell magician's devilry to the enchanted abodes of enjoy ment and delight. And here I shall take advan tage of the sweet languor of the clime, and take a short siesta, that is at Baveno, where I now repose, lapped in Elysium, and famed by the odorous airs of the all-smiling lake. I may conclude with Othello in exclaiming— " If after every tempest comes such calm, May the winds blow 'till they have wakened death, And may the labouring bark mount hills of seas Olympus high 1 and duck again as low As Hell's from Heaven." CIVILIZATION IN EGYPT. CAIRO, JUNE, 1839.—As I intend spending some time at Cairo I shall be able to afford you some sketches of the interior of the country. lii the meantime I deem it an indispensable duty to acquaint you, in hopes that you will give it all the publicity it deserves, with an atrocious scene which passed some days previous to my arrival at Cairo, where it has excited universal indignation. The occurrence, which is still the theme of all conversa tions, has been related to me by eye-witnesses, whose veracity cannot be questioned. Doctor Clot Bey, Officer of the Legion of Honour, and, as you are aware, Inspector of the Sanitary Service of the Viceroy's Land and Sea Forces, Member Correspondent of the principal Academies and Societies of Medicine of France, Italy, &c., had long applied for leave of absence, in order to restore his health in Europe. The favour was granted immediately after Mehemet Ali's return from his journey to the celebrated mines of Fazoglou, and Clot Bey was about to start, when the arrival of M. Cochelet, French Consul-General at Alexandria, who alighted at his house, obliged the illustrious Doctor to postpone his departure for some days, in order to do the honours of his resi dence and of the capital to his new guest. One morning as M. Cochelet was receiving some visits in. his apartment, among others M. Tippel, French Consul at Cairo, and M. Jouanin, the Chancellor, cries of " Help I Murder I" were sud denly heard, uttered by a female voice, in the neigh bouring room, where was M. Clot's cabinet. The door was opened, when a woman in tears, and co vered with blood. came and threw herself at the knees of M. Cochelet, whose clothes she covered with blood, imploring his protection against Ciot Bey, whom she accused of wishing to kill her. The latter immediately appeared, pale, agitated, furious, and justifying in some measure by his aspect the terrible charge borne against him. The following had given rise to the scene :—About to quit Egypt, Clot Bey summoned before him his slaves, and in formed them that in his absence they should inha bit a house which he mentioned. One of these poor creatures, whom her master had rendered a mother, took the liberty of observing that she should not invoke the rights which that sacred title gave her according to the Mussulman law (which was applicable on the occasion, since Clot Bey lived as a Mussulman), but that she begged him to make other arrangements with regard to her, as she could not live in the house he pointed out—a house in which she had so much to suffer during his pre ceding journey to Syria. M. Clot heard no- more, but seizing a forceps that lay close to him, he rushed upon the woman, furiously gave her seve ral blows with the instrument, and cut open her skull. He would have infallibly killed her had it not been for the interposition of M. Cochelet and of the persons who happened to be with him at the moment_ After this act of violence Clot Bey was neither arrested nor molested, but shortly after he parted with the Consul-General of France for Alexandria.—Extracted from the Journal de Smyrne, Sept. 9. HOP INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER, OCT. 19.—Our Hop market for fide Hops is about the same as last week, but middling and inferior samples meet with very little attention, and uru difficult to sell, although offered at a decline of 3s. p cwt. from the prices last quoted. There was a mate; i‘d falling off in the supply, the great bulk of the Hops in offer being those that remained unsold last market d .y. The quantity weighed was 1,047 pockets of new, and 37 pockets of old ; and 885 pockets passed the scares during the week. The present prices are—the best new Hops, 68s. to 755. ; second rate, 555. to 635. per cwt. Duty called 10,0001. DISTRICT REPORTS.—From all the Hop districts we find they have finished the picking for the season. In East Kent they are expected to produce about the same quantity as last year, with a quality not so good, except the latter picking. Mid Kent, about Maidstone, Bar ming, Farleigh, Terton, East and West Mailing, Had low, and the two Peckhams, with several other parishes, prove short of last year ; yet on the hills they get something more. On the whole, including the Weald of Kent, it is expected the Kent district will exceed last year's produce by about 10 or 12m. old duty. Sus sex also is expected to pay rather more, though in many Parts they get about the same, the Hops proving so light at the scale. The growers throughout these va rious districts consider the present estimate of duty much over-rated, and many are consequently holdieg back to obtain better prices, feeling confident the duty will not exceed 205 m. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT "AN EXPERIENCED 111;a."—Alexander Davis, one of " our people," applied to be discharged on sureties. He appeared very deaf. Chief Commissioner—You are an experienced man, Mr. Davis, in this Court. The insolvent shook his head ; whether he meant a good deal was not known. It was certainly not an ex pressive shake. Chief Commissioner—l say you are experienced. You have been once a bankrupt and twice an insolvent. '[his is your " third appearance" as an insolvent. The insolvent made no reply. " The least said the soonest mended." The Court examined the proposed sureties. was a daughter of the insolvent. The Chief Commissioner asked him if he had voted in respect of the house now rented by his daughter ? Insolvent—No. Chief Commissioner—AM I see you can hear me now fast enough.—(A laugh.) The Court accepted the bail, and the insolvent was liberated till the 9th cf December. One IN RE MICHAEL MOSS. " THE SCHOOLMASTER WANTED."—IR this case the sureties were opposed on the ground that the schedule was incomplete, by debts being left out, and the case was adjourned to file amendments. Mr. Commissioner Harris gave a hint to the attor ney's clerk to take some lessons in the mother tongue. He said some of the most ordinary words were incor rectly spelt. The attorney's clerk, or" professional adviser," seemed alarmed. He said, " Really, Sir, I was not aware. I am sure I did not know." Chief Commissioner—Oh, no ; we take it for granted you did not, sir. Of course, you could not.—(A lau !h.) Henry Hart Davis was liberated on bail. It ap peared that his debts were about 700/., incurred some time ago. He had been in no business for year.s, hut had been supported on his wife's income. She w^3 a teacher of dancing, and realised about 600/. a year. She had, however, been seriously indisposed sinca May, and hence arose his insolvency. Mr. Commissioner HARRIS inquired into the truth of the statement. The insolvent said his wife was principally empLYed three months in the year, June, July, and August. She wa s taken ill at the commencement of this season. '['he bail was accepted. William Bea), Esq., LLD., Head ,Master of the Tavistock Grammar School, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society ,of Corms all. SUICIDE TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. have read in your paper of this evening, a letter on " Suicide," the writer of which, expresses his opinion that no inquest should have been held on the body of the poor boy Hawes, who precipitated himself from the Monument. I entirely disagree with J. J. in this opinion. Might it not have been possible that he might have been treated cruelly by his employers ? This was satisfactorily disproved by the evidence, but the bare possibility of this having been the case was sufficient to justify inquiry. The fact of the existence of suicide to a large extent at the present time, ought to be the subject of a wider scrutiny, and affords room for the industry and research of the enlightened and benevolent moralist. An analysis of the previous education and habits of every self-murderer, would lead undoubtedly to the discovery of facts, which would be of immense importance in the science of mental cul ture. The connection of the mind with the body, and the dependence of the health of the one on that of the other is a fact which does not generally govern the instructor of youth in the principles of education which he adopts, and it is easy to foresee how amply this important fact would be illustrated, and how many new and useful principles of educa tion might be extracted from such an analysis as I have hinted at. I think few cases of self-murder arise from insanity, (properly so called.) It is too true that the buffetings of the world acting on a succeptible temperament, will cause the mind to revert to the only means of ridding itself of its troubles, and in the dazzling prospect of oblivion, the moral guilt attaching to the act of suicide is too often overlooked. Not always is the self-mur derer worthy of our contempt, but rather ought he to be the object of our sympathy. Each individual case of suicide should incite us to aid in the good cause of promoting human happiness on the amount of which material depends the frequency of these lamentable occurrences; and you will agree with me, Mr. Editor, in saving that the mind which has been properly trained by a healthy and vigorous educa tional process, is most fitted for the reception of happy arid agreeable impressions. That the day may soon arrive when every indi vidual in the State shall receive the blessings of such an education is the devout hope of, Sir, Your obedient servant, W. R. H. Oct. 23. THE PENNY POSTAGE. Amongst the objections to Mr. Hill's plan of pre payment, the following seems deserving of considera tion. It is contained in a pamphlet, by a Mr. Vim. Cooper, published at Southampton, who states that he is practically acquainted with all the details of the Post-office business : Four hundred and ninety-nine times out of five hun dred, the receivers of letters are the parties who ought to pay the postage, and to compel the senders of letters to do so, would impose additional labour on them by making it necessary that they should keep accounts against those with whom they correspond, the trouble of which, and the risk of re-payment, would check, to a considerable extent, the sending of letters. We will take from the same pamphlet the Author's suggestion as to the means of facilitating the labour which stamped covers are intended to supersede : The labour which stamped covers would supersede, would be that which is consumed in taxing or marking on each letter, the amount of postage chargeable on it, and also that which occupies the time of a Postmaster immediately before a mail is despatched, in ascertaining the total amount of postage chargeable on all letters for the delivery of a post town to which a mail bag is about to be sent, and this, through the regulations of the Post-office, is ascertained by a very difficult mental process. A postmaster, in reckoning the postage on a great number of letters, is unable to do so by adding small numbers to each other, such as 10 and 9 are 19, and 2 are 21, and 4 are 25,-25 pence are 2s. Id. ; because, perhaps, some letters are taxed Is. 4d., others 2s. 3d., or or Is. Id., and the difficulty of ascertaining the aggregstc amount of such sums, can be imagined by any accountant being compelled to reckon a compound addition sum, not by ascertaining the number of pence first, but by mentally saying Is. 4d. and 2s. I 1 d. are 4s. 3d., and is. 10d. are 6s. Id., &c. It is the invariable practice, after letters have been sorted into boxes, preparatory to their being tied into bundles and placed into mail bags, to ascertain, by rapidly examining them, if the sorter' s duty has been correctly performed ; this is an essential process to prevent letters from being missent. It is well known, that if the number of letters thus examined were required for any purpose, it could be obtained during the examination, without at all di minishing the rapidity with which it takes place. Now, let any one, (bearing in mind that charged and forward letters must be sorted separately, that the sorter's labour must be examined, and that the process of examining and counting of letters can with the utmost ease be performed together,) suppose a low and uniform rate of postage introduced, such as a penny under a certain weight, and the public allowed, as at present, the privilege of optional payment of the postage, the vast majority of letters would be unpaid, and the postage, when delivered, would be one penny each. Let such penny letters be stamped, sorted, but not taxed, and during the necessary process of examining those for the delivery of a post town, to which a letter bag is about to be sent, let the number of such letters be ascertained, and that number would be the amount in pence, for which the Postmaster of that post town would be accountable. By this means, the very labour which stamped covers are intended to save, would he unnecessary ; the revenue would be more correctly secured than it is at present, for there would scarcely be a mistake committed, and persons would enjoy the privilege of paying for letters when posted, or when delivered, as suited their convenience, or the nature of their correspondence. With regard to paid letters, no time is ever wasted in taxing them, since it is per formed while taking them in at the Post-office window. Let such letters be marked in red ink, as at present, and their number ascertained separately when about to be placed in a letter bag, and the amount of pence, for which the Postmaster would be accountable at whose office they were paid, would be known by their number. The few letters that would be double or treble, liable to the charge of twopence or threepence each, could have the numbers 2 or 3 marked on them in red or black ink, according as they were paid or unpaid when they were posted ; and such letters could be reckoned each as two or three letters, when the Postmaster was as certaining the numbers about to be placed in a mail bag. The ship and foreign letters could be also marked with numbers, corresponding to the amount of pence charged or chargeable on them for postage; thus Is. Bd. or 2a. 6d. could be marked 20 or 30, and each letter so taxed, could be reckoned as 20 or 30 letters. _ By doing away entirely with keeping Post-office ac counts in pounds, shillings, and pence, and adopting the above simple plan of accounting to the public revenue for postage, a uniform Penny Postage could be immediately introduced, without depriving the public of the very con venient mode of optional payment; this plan could be learned by the dullest Post-office official in an hour, and it possesses this immense advantage, that the public would have to learn no other Post-office regulations than what every one is at present acquainted with. We may remark, that now that the attention of de -1 ver and practical men is directed to this subject, there will, no doubt, be many modes discover e d o f a b r id g i ng labour, We have before suggested, and now repeat, that whether the payment be made in advance or not, a great portion of the business of sorting letters may be performed by the public without any additional labour. It will only be necessary to pitch boxes at the Post-office for the different large towns or mail routes. For example, one side of the hall of the Post-office might be divided into three departments for England, Ireland, and Scotland ; and these again might be divided into North, South, East, and West. These subsidiary divisions might em . brace boxes for Cat lisle and York, for Dover and Has tings, for Yarmouth and Norwich, and for Bristol an] Exeter. And if the people were to throw their letter.; into the boxes so provided, half the labour of sorting the letters might be spared. What an immense number of people are crowded together in London, Liverpool, Manchester, &c. Why not divide these large towns into post districts, and make the public, in throwing their letters into the post•office, sort them, as migiit be intended, for one district or another of Lou don, Manchester, or Liverpool. A number of im provements, if not in this form, yet in some other, but in this spirit, will doubtless now be made in this great and useful branch of the Administration ; and the Mi nisters, aided by Mr. Hill, will deserve the applause and gratitude of the present generation and of posterity for achievi ng so great an d g ood a work in spite of the carping opp os i t i on o f t h e ex t rav agant, oppressive Tories, who only study the best means of wasting the resources of the people. We have heard, with deep regret, that the Bishop of this Diocese has appointed a rank Puseyite, in the person of the Rev. Mr. Keebles, curate at Bisley, to the Head Mastership of the Training School at Gloucester, belonging to the Diocesan Board of Education. W e arc convinced many of the most zealous of our clergy will feel hound in conscience to withdraw their countenanc e from schools exposed to the anti-Scriptural influence which this appointment will foster and extend.—.C/le/- ten/tans (Conservative) Chronicle. Trade is languishing. In Dundee there are many excellent mechanics idle, and the manufacturin g population are not faring better, nor will they, we feAr, for some time. In Montrose there are a considerable number of flaxdressers and others out of employrne::t, which is a state of circumstances new in this town. Iu Arbroath, we hear of very many complaints ; and sonic people say there is too much work doing without, and too little with, orders. Several mill spinners say that they cannot get the value of raw material for yarn. Th e harvest has slightly eased the produce of the looms o Forfar, Kirriernuir, Brechin, and the villages, but we doubt that cloth will accumulate. We have every reason to think that provisions will be cheaper and better than last winter, hecause we do not depend on wheat so much as oats in this quarter.—i lontruse ßeview. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT James Slukc, the first mate of the ship Rosalie, sur rendered to take his trial upon an indictment charging him with the manslaughter of a seaman on board the same vessel, named James Norman. The indictment charged that the death of the de ceased was occasioned by his being struck, and cast and thrown upon the deck of the vessel. Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner. Edward Hannah deposed that he was a seaman on board the Rosalie, of which vessel the prisoner was the mate. The deceased was a seaman on board the same vessel, and occasionally acted as cook. On the 30th May the vessel was on a voyage from Liverpool to Rio, and they were on that day just under the line. The pri soner gave the deceased some directions with regard to the management of one of the sails, and the deceased swore, and neglected to fulfil them, and the prisoner in consequence went up to him and struck him in the breast, and the deceased tried to strike him in return. The prisoner then struck the deceased several times upon the breast and side with his fist, and the deceased fell upon the deck upon his face, and lay. He died almost immediately. Other witnesses were examined, from whose evi dence it appeared that the prisoner bore an excellent character for humanity and gond conduct, and that he was greatly shocked when he heard of the death of the deceased. Mr. Baron MauLE summed up, and the Jury re turned a verdict of Guilty, coupled with a strong re commendation to mercy. The Court sentenced the prisoner to six months' im prisonment. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) John Phillips, aged 22, was convicted of stealing 20 skeins of silk, value 3s. 4d., the property of Richard Thomas Swaine. The prisoner, who is the brother of a man tried last Session under the name of Freegrove, was sentenced to transportation for seven years. They were members of a regular gang. Henry Daniel Risbed, aged 19, was convicted of stealing two shawls, value 205., from a public-house in Fulham, at which he slept one night, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, three weeks to be solitary. 2U'ary Foley, aged 17, was indicted for stealing one shawl, value .55., the property of William Cotterell. The prosecutor stated, that the prisoner, with another woman, came to his shop to purchase a bonnet, and shortly after they left he missed a shawl which had been layinr , on the counter. He ran after them, and found them pawning it at a shop in Tottenham-court-road. I said to the man in the shop (proceeded the prosecutor)—" That's my shawl."—(A laugh.) " he said, " there's the gals and here's the shawl." Says I, " Sand for a policeman." Says he, " I've no von to send." Says I, " Send that tall youth there."—(Laughter.) Says he, "Ve have summut else to do." " Vell," says I, " Then I'll take 'em to the station-house myself ; so I puts the shawl under my arm, and takes a gal in each hand.—(Laughter.) Ven I got to the corner of Hanway-court, they pitched into me."— (Great laughter.) The COMMON SERGEANT—What do you mean by pitching into you ? Prosecutor—Vollopped me—l could'nt manage 'em, and the shawl too, no how.—( Continued laughter.) Vell, I at last gets the prisoner at the bar to the station house, at St. Giles. The COMMON SERGEANT—Then the other got away ? Prosecutor—Lord bless you, my Lord, I vos obliged to let her go, or I should have got my eyes tore out.— ( Laughter.) The Jury found the prisoner guilty ; and as it ap peared she had been convicted before, the Court sen tenced her to be transported beyond the seas for the term of seven years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. " A SERGEANT IN DISGUISE."—ATTEMPTED IMPO SITION.—Yesterday Wm. Chapman was brought before the Lord Mayor under the following circumstances : Charles Chamberlain stated that he came from Yar mouth on Tuesday by the steam-packet, having sent his portmanteau by Deacon and Co.'s van. On arriving in London he went with a friend to a public-house, where they had some conversation about sending for the portmanteau. The prisoner joined in the conversation, and said he considered them to be suspicious characters, and would watch them. He said he was a sergeant of the City police in disguise, and followed them about the streets, causing great annoyance until given in charge. Chapman, in answer to questions by the Lord Mayor, said that he resided in Weymouth-street, Kent-road, where he keeps a broker's shop. Policeman Bird, 224, said the prisoner came up to him in the street and called his attention to Mr. Cham berlain and his friend, stating that there was something suspicious about them. Shortly afterwards he was called into the King's Head, Pudding-lane, to quell a disturbance. The prisoner there had accused them of stealing the portmanteau. He told witness that he was a sergeant in disguise. The prisoner was remanded in order that some inquiry might be made into his character. BOW- STREET. A costermonger named Lacy, was charged by James Hughes, a dog-fancier, with stealing a miserable little cur•dog. The complainant said he missed the animal about two years back, and although he made every inquiry after it, he could get no tidings of it until Wed nesday, when he was obliged to pay a sovereign for the information. The prisoner said he had no doubt that the dog be longed to the complainant, but if he was compelled to give him up, he would expect to be paid for the keep. Mr. HALL—Surely you could not think of making any charge for supporting such a diminutive creature as that. Prisoner—Small as it appears, that there hanimal has cost me sixpence for cat's meat every blessed week it was in my possession. . Mr. HALL—That may be, but you ought to make some allowance for the pleasure you enjoyed with such an engaging companion. Prisoner—l never inwited him ; but as he ran into my place, I thought it a pity to drive him out, he used to fri,k about so merrily every morn in g , on his hearing " cat's inee" cried at the door. The complainant said he demanded his property twelve months ago , and it was denied to him. Mr. HALL said he could make no order on the subject, as it did not appear the dog had been stolen, and if it even had, there was ample time within the lapse of two years to recover it. GUILDHALL. Yesterday a decent-looking man named Wenzyss was charged with having drawn a knife and attempted to stab a policeman in Farringdon-street. It appeared that the prisoner was in a state of intoxication at the time, and causing a disturbance, which the officer en deavoured to suppress, and had it not been for the as sistance of another policeman he would in all probability have been dangerously wounded. Two individuals gave the prisoner a good character, and he was ordered to be discharged on entering into recognizances to keep the peace for three months. WORSHIP-STREET. James de la Pois, an Irish labourer, was'eharged with having wilfully damaged a quantity of gas pipe belonging to Mr. Horsepool, a butcher, in Featherstone -street, St. Luke's. It appeared that the complainant left home on busi ness the preceding evening, and upon his return some time afterwards he was surprised to find that the gas light in his shop was extinguished, and to his increased surprise on going in he found the prisoner busily at work with the entire gas apparatus strewed in ruins around him. Upon asking his wife and sister what it meant, they stated that shortly after he went out the prisoner entered the shop, and after informing them that he (complainant) had ordered him to repair the pipes, he set to work upon them. As he had given no such order, the machinery being in a perfect state, he turned to the prisoner for an explanation , who very coolly told him that in passing the shop he thought the gas burnt very badly, and conceiving be could effect an improvement by adjusting it after a fashion of his own, he resolved to give him the benefit of his gratuitous services. The prisoner, who was considerably drunk, had made wild work of the job, the greater part of the fittings having been torn down, one of the pipes broken, and a meter entirely destroyed. A policeman was called in, into whose custody he was handed over. In his defence the prisoner attributed his extravagant conduct to the quantity of gin he had imbibed. He was ordered to p a y t h e amount of damage, toge ther with the drunkard's fine, or to be committed for 14 days to the House of Correction. HONESTY REWARDED.--A young man, named Alexander Stewart, a labourer, belonging to Dunkeld, in going to his work at Dowelly Sawmill, by an unfrequent e d ro a d, l a t e ly f oun d a poc k et -b oo k , con taining, besides other valuable documents, bank-notes to the amount of some fifty or sixty pounds, the property of a distiller in Tullymet. The pocket-book and its contents were restored to their rightful owner, who had been almost frantic about his loss, and who, in the exu berance of his generosity, presented the young man with a shilling !as a reward for his honesty. The dis- tiller being a man of modest pretensions, we believe that he would not wish his name to be coupled with this generous and liberal transaction.—Perth Chronicle. On Saturday a bathing machine at Kemp Town was set afloat, in consequence of having slidden with great rapidity down the " full" of the beach, which was more than usually shelving ; and seven lads, who were in the machine at the time, were thus placed in imminent danger. Happily, two other youths, named Rouse and Coore, w h o were ne ar the spot, and bravely wen t to their re scue , succee d e d in stopping the machine, and had the pleas ure o f bringing - the lads in safety ashore.—Brighton Gazette. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) Recovered from the state of perturbation into which it was plunged by the heartless hoax practised upon it by the alleged fatal accident to Lord Brougham, the public mind now naturally reverts to the origin of the forgery or fraud ; and requires satisfaction by the disco very and exposure of its author. Count D'Orsay, to whom the report was traced, has explained the part he took in the affair. We published his letter yesterday ; and think it due to Count D'Orsay to state that the explanation it gives is candid, circumstantial, straight forward, and consequently satisfactory. But Count D'Orsay's letter implicates another party ; of whom the public have a right to demand, as no less due to himself than to the public, insulted and outraged by the contemptible and heartless hoax practised on its sym pathies, an explanation or specific contradiction of the statement of his part of the affair, so seriously affecting his honour and probity. The statement we allude to is contained in the following part of Count D'Orsay's letter to the Post— '. The facts of this business, so far as I have had any thing to do with them, are as follow :—Mr. Mont gomery, a friend of Lord Brougham and Lord Wel lesley, called upon me on Monday afternoon in a state of the most distressing grief. He had received a letter from Mr. Shafto, dated, Brougham-hall, Saturday, detailing the dreadfu I occurrence very nearly as it was detailed in your paper of this morning. Mr. Montgomery, when he called upon rne, was on his way to Fern-hill, to communicate the contents of this letter to Lord Wellesley, and I never saw any one in a more deplorable state of grief and agitation than Mr. Montgomery was. This morning I had a letter from Mr. Montgomery, written at Fern hill, and he was as strongly as ever under the distress li ing conviction of Lord Brougham's death. It has since come to my knowledge that Mr. Shafto's letter was intended as a joke. I leave others to explain the mo tives for so heartless a hoax." It will be seen by the above extract that Count D'Orsay has no suspicion that the letter was a forgery. He does not even assume that Mr. Shafto's name bad been used by some unprincipled and unfeeling person to obtain credence for the string of falsehoods the letter contained. It is " Mr. Shafto's letter, dated Brougham Hall ;" and again—" Mr. Shafto's letter was intended as a joke." If these representations of the genuineness of the signature verifying the contents of the letter be founded in truth, Mr. Shafto will find that the perpretation of such outrages on public feeling as that caused by the letter in question will subject the offender to consequences which any man, having a regard to personal honour and character, would desire to avoid. The offence would subject a plebeian to the treadmill : one moving in the sphere of polite society may escape visitation from the laws ; but he will henceforth find that some other and more satisfac tory authority than his name or word will be requisite to procure for any statement of his credence as to its integrity. The Earl of Clarendon is, we understand, to be ad mitted to a seat in the Cabinet, and to receive the ap • pointment of Lord Privy Seal. We make this an nouncement with unmixed satisfaction : the aid of the Noble Lord's well-known talent, and the confidence which his acknowledged integrity of principle properly inspires, will enable him to serve his country efficiently as a Member of the Government. DEATH OF THE DUKE OF ARGYLL.—We regret to have to announce the death of his Grace the Duke of Argyll, which took place on the 22d inst. His Grace was in his 72d year, having been born in Sep tember, 1768. He succeeded to the family titles and estates in 1806, on the death of his father, John, the fifth Duke ; he has left no issue by his mar riage, and is succeeded by his next brother, Lord John Campbell, who is married, and has issue several children ; his eldest son is in his nineteenth year. The late Peer was Duke and Earl of Argyll, Marquis of Lorn and Kintyre, Earl of Campbell and Cowal, Viscount of Lochow and Glenilla, Baron Campbell, and Baron of Lorn, Inverary, Morven, and Tiry, in the Peerage of Scotland ; he sat in the British House of Peers as Baron Sundridge and Hamilton ; he was also a G.C.8., a Privy Coun cillor, Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, Keeper of Dunstaffnage and Carrick, Lord Lieutenant, Vice- Admiral of the Coast, and Hereditary Sheriff of Argyle shire, Lord Steward of the Household, one of the Keepers of the Crown and Regalia of Scotland, and an Official Trustee of the British Museum. (From the Courier.) Some days since we took occasion to draw the atten tion of the public to the difficulties which the new Go vernor-General of the Canadas had to encounter, and to his deplorable deficiencies, physically and mentally, for the task. It would seem, that the Ministry at home, with its peculiar infelicity of selection for public duties, had contrived to misplace the most unfit person possible in the most arduous office out of Great Britain ; and with the like infelicity which pervades almost all its acts of practical government, to displace the most efficient man that could be found for the tranquillization of the Cann das, under the embarrassing circumstances of their po sition in respect to the parent country in their allegiance, to the United States in their temptations, and to each other in their rivalry. This state of things cannot fail to give alarm to all thinking men in this country. If it is to be made a question whether it is worth while for Great Britain to retain her colonies or not, let that ques tion be fairly brought before the British public, and we shall be ready to argue it. But if it is wise to consider the Colonies as of so great value to the British Crown, that their loss would go far to destroy Great Britain as a great and independent power, would strike a fatal blow at her commercial prosperity, and spread distress and ruin throughout her population, then too much caution cannot be taken to conciliate our colonial interests at home and abroad. Is there any man bold enough to assert that the recent appointment of the Go vernor-General of the Canadas is calculated to produce that conciliation, and that respect for the authority of the parent country, which are so particularly desirable in the present position of Canada ? Is it not notorious that the appointment has given the greatest dissatis faction, and has excited the greatest fears at home and abroad ? It is with pain and reluctance that we make observations which seem to be especially pointed at an individual ; but it is the question of the preservation or the loss of one of the most important of the British Colonies that we have to deal with : all personal considerations must give way to the paramount importance of this consideration. These colonies are in danger ; and in endeavouring to rouse the public attention to this fact, we do but repeat the general opinion when we say, that reparation of Ministerial misgovernment, and of Lord Durham's perilous imprudences, would task the energies of a statesman of much greater calibre and loftier pre tensions than Mr. Thomson. (From the Standard.) We have frequently had to complain of the heart less, unmanly, and indecent liberties, taken with the Queen's name by those who are loudest in their pro fessions of loyalty and affection to her Majesty. The most flagrant outrage of the kind that we have yet seen is, however, the following passage in a late speech of Mi. O'Connell's, at Cork : " They all must remember the cries of The King, God bless him !' which used to issue as the watchword of that faction, and for any one who dared to speak a word against him the black hole was too good, and the lash and the torture merely a fit requital. But where had the loyalty of those men gone to now ? It had completely vanished, and they eagerly entered into every plot and every chambermaid conspiracy ; and even when the purity of the Royal mind was such as to lead her to shudder at the appearance of vice, and because she was too good to tolerate even its appearance about her, that miserable, malignant faction still clung to their calumny ; nay, they would, as he had said before, deprive their Sovereign of her life if they possessed the power.—(Hear, hear.)" There can be no doubt that Mr. O'Connell here alludes to the melancholy case of the injured Lady Flora Hastings, and that he directly imputes to his in nocent Sovereign the cruelty and injustice of which the lamented Lady Flora was the victim, and which Lady Portman and Sir James Clarke have yet only dared to insinuate against her Majesty. As to the rest, let Lords Melbourne and Headfort write a commentary upon Mr. O'Connell's text, and they may call in to help them Mr. Robert Owen, the apostle of " Socialism," whom the Premier lately introduced to his maiden Queen. SUDDEN DEATH IN THE YORK HOUSE OF CORRECTION.—On Thursday last, an inquest was held by Mr. John Wood, the Coroner, at the York House of Correction, on view of the body of John Waddington, a prisoner, who had been found dead in bed that morn ing. The Jury consulted privately for upwards of an hour, when the Coroner said the Jury had unani mously agreed that the deceased " Died from inflam mation of the bowels, and that he did not receive from the keepers of the prison and the medical officers that attention which his case required." He hoped that in future he would be more careful than he appeared to have been on this oc casion.—York Cou ran t. The Animals' Friend Society has again detected the vile practice of the butchers in throwing sheep a down cellars in N ewin g ton Market. Terry rid Ro berts were last week charged by its officers with P this abominable crue l ty ; they were fined by but only in the inadequate sum of s s* A each. rie John , J eremy B o nner was fined 10s. by Mr. for having ill treated a truck-dog, and driving the poor animal be tween the carriages, so t h at its foot was run over, after which it wa s d r i ven on towards its home, twenty miles off, but was prevented from proceeding by Gib bins, an officer of th e Society, who t o ok the driver into cust o dy, Henry Martin, Joseph Tuck, and John Clay, were also fined by Mr. Jeremy and Alderman Humphery for similar offences. But Mr. Greenwood unfortunately dismissed a strong case against John Brown (in which a horse had been ill-treated), be cause the stick, which was broken and bloody, had not been seen by the complainant in the act of being broken. SPOTS ON THE SUN. The Gazette du Midi gives an account of a dis covery by Count Decuppis, the Italian astronomer. He is said to have succeeded in manufacturing glasses which enable the observer to look at the sun without having his observations at all affected by its rays. By means of those glasses the sun appears of a pure whiteness, and the surrounding firmament is equally distinct. M. Decuppis is stated to have observed on the 3d instant an un usual number of spots on the sun's disc, and having made an addition to his apparatus, he perceived, at a quarter before nine on that day, a small black spot entirely free from penumbra, and of perfectly spherical form, which had advanced upon the disc, describing an arc of about seven minutes. Reite rated observations convinced him that it had to the mean time advanced towards the sun s limb to the extent of two minutes and thirty seconds. At three minutes after nine, when M. Decuppis attempted to make a new observation, the spot had disappeared. The perfectly round figure of this spot, its blackness, the smallness of its diameter, its motion, and the absence of penumbra, appeared to the observer to be so many proofs that it :was a small planet hitherto undiscovered which was passing over the sun's disc.—Galignant's Messenger. [The " discovery" of the glasses is no disco very at all, and the " small planet," which the Italian astronomer has found, will prove a mare's nest. For the rest, our readers will recollect, that in our paper of Tuesday we made the following announcement :—" SPOTS oN THE SUN.—The re is at the present time on the sun's face, and not far from its centre, a splendid group of spots, visible through the London fog to the naked eye, or which, when the planet shines strongly, the eye, protected by a smoked or dark glass, will instantly detect."] DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, OCT, 21:—His Majesty has been pleased to nominate Lieuteuant-General Baron Chasse to be a Member of the First Chamber of the States- General. We learn that orders have been given at the fron tiers to receive and conduct to their place of destina tion criminals natives of this kingdom, who are still ern' ployed in the prisons at Vilvorde, Ghent, and other towns in Belgium. THE HAGUE, OCT. 22.--The Second Chamber of the States-General was engaged to-day in examining into the validity of the election of the new Members, all of whom were admitted. The Chamber then chose by ballot three of its Members as candidates for the post of President, one of whom will be selected by his IVIa; jesty. Persons who are well skilled in m atters 0 1 finance highly approve of the step taken by the house of Hope and Co., to co-operate in putting an end to the crisis in the Unites States. It is this crisis that chiefly influences the pecuniary embarrassment in Eng land, which, though it has not been fully felt i n the market, could not fail to have an eff ec t upon it in th to end, when the consequences with respect other financial concerns of the kin g dom m i g ht be incalculabl e . P ra i se i s t h erefore d ue to that house which seeks to assist in averting the danger. The measures now proposed by the house, and of which we said a f ew wor d s yester d ay, i s to o pen a of ten millions of D uc h florins, on good security , on aecount of the North A mer i can B an k o f Philadelphia , to be repaid in five y ears , or sooner if possible. It is to be hoped that thi s measure , toget h er with severa l remittances that h ave l a t e l y b een rece i ve d by Mr. San loan ders, the agent of the American Bank, London, will. suffice to support the credit of the great Transatlantic republic, and thus relieve the Banks in Great Britain. It does honour to the Dutch circumspection that amidst all the financial embarrassments in other coun tries, our credit is not only unimpaired, but that we have not refrained by ill- judged indifferences from af fording, aid in quarters where aid is necessary, and where complete financial ruin might be followed by disastrous consequences, likewise, in the Netberlands.--- Handelsblad. There appeared on 'Change to-day (the 22d) a great diversity of opinion respecting the true import of the paragraph in the King's speech, relative to the expected financial measures ; and this was manifest in the fluctuation of the prices. At the beginning all descriptions of Stock were in request at higher prices than yesterday, but afterwards many sellers, espe-e. cially of the Old Syndicate, appeared, by which d% 9 1 prices in general, especially of the Stock, experienct! ere visible decline. Of those in the Corn ComPany. were many sellers. Much business was done in the Two and a Half per Cents. The decline in the prices of the Syndicate, on the contrary, was caused by very few sales. In Foreign Stock hardly anything was done. Spanish and South American were a shade lower. Russian and Austrian remained firm. LAST PRICES, FIVE o ' CLOCE.—Two and a HAI ( per Cents., 51 9-16 ; Five per Cents., 100 ; Cora Company, 1714 ; Ardoin, 26i to 7.16. Exchange 0 11 London, 12 ; two months, 11 85—Dutch Papers, Oct. 22. T. PETERSBURG, OCT. 11.—The accounts of the harvest in different provinces of Russia are not very favourable. In the Governments of Novogorod, Orel, Tiver, Jarostoff, Bialystock, and Mohilew, and ra L i ; vonia, the crops were but middling ; in Jamboro and Rjasen, bad ; in Courland and Esttorisa, good. BRUSSELS, OCT. 23.—The average price of corn last week were—wheat, 24f. 97c. ; rye, 14f. 37c. ; the impor tation of wheat is therefore still duty free, and the ex portation prohibited. Rye is liable to an import duty of 21f. 50c., and an export duty of 65 centimes for 1,000 kilogrammes. Caron Falck has been suffering from an attack of the gout since the day after that on which he presented his credentials to the King, and has not yet been a ble to see anybody. Baroness Feick has received, at the Hotel de Belle vue, visits from some persons of her acquaintance. Baron Falck is looking for a house in this city, to which he wishes to remove in the course of next month. The Speech of King William, on opening the Session of the States General, makes no allusion to the projected marriage which the public journals have for some time past made a subject of discussion. Mr. James Long Wellesley, who is attached to the English Legation, has arrived at Brussels. BELGIAN .t. UNDS—BaussaLs, Oar. 23. Actual Debt, 24 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOl Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per - Cent. PM 3 per Cent. 71.% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. 93% Society of Commerce, 4 % per Cent ll4 Bank of Belgium, S per Cent 63% National Society . Exchange on London (short) - -Brussels Papers, Oct. 23. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Beaux, Om 19. Bills. Monet. St. Schuld. Sch., 4!y per cent. IO3X 103% Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102% 102% Exchange on London, three months 6 21 —. —Prussian State Gazette, Oct. 20. ___......... MARRIED. On the 22d inst., at Ealing Church, the Rev. Edward Rg/ell" Shaw, Rector of West Kington, Wiltshire, to Jemima Charlotte, third daughter of John Ibbotion, Esq., of Ealing. On the 22d inst., at All Saints, Worcester, Mr. J.W .13.- f vington, of St. George's-square, to Eliza, third dau g hter o Thomas Leonard, Esq. On the 22d inst., at St. Geore's Hanover- s quare, J. If' Hankin Turvin, Esq., of Terlings- p a rk, Herts, to Caroline Jane, third daughter of Benjamin Travers, Esq., of Bruton-street, Berkeley-square. On the 22d inst., at Peterboro u g h, the Rev. John Reid! eldestß. A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, to Fanny, daughter of Willi_2! George Po______:_t_e2l , L_ Es q' at cit y' . DIED. On the sth ult., at Pensacola, United States, Shermo b fourth son of the l a te H. F en S Esq., of Westoe, Durhavi* aged 37. On the 14th inst., at Sarbiton, Surrey, Thomas Hill, Esq. , aged 77. On the 14th inst., in Lancaster-place Waterloo - b r i e ', Sibella Milner, wife Hantse Rev. Bowater James Vernon, Curate of Pet ersfield, On the 23 d i nst., in Brompton-square, Frances, the w ife of Sittin East India S erv i ce , a nd daughter of nt, t Ca h e pt l a a i t n e Wi liic H hard Valkßaeth K Bathurst, Esq. , of g bourne , aged 25. On the 22 d i nst., at Theberton-s q uare, Islington, Mrs. rison. ondon: Printed and Published. 112, Strand, at The Sun O ffice, A IUR DO YOUNGs! L No ffice, No 112, Strand, is the coun ty of Middlesex.—Friday, October 25, 1839. tt. EIGH T- DAY CL 0 CIC S. Three and a Half Guineas each, warranted. They are i s ele gant cases, about 7i inches high, suitable to stani either ... a bracket or mantel-piece. For Five Guineas eac h "1 1 , derable variety may be selected from both in Bronze , 'J r) " a , Alabaster, Rosewood, and Mahogany Cases ; also 11 1 , movements, showing the entire mechanism, under a shade, at T. COX SAVORY'S, sakettittio Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, Lew don (Seven doors from Gracechurch-stre et). f . ,g SHEFFIELD PLATED %VINE COOLEIt., A. B. SAVORY and SONS, :Manufacturing Silversinit,h_gr 14, Cornhill, London (opposite the Bank of England), hav!,.l:, choice in their warerooms a Selection of PLAIN and ()rims MENTAL ICE PAILS, to which they wish to direc t attentiv:. The price of the Plain Tub-pail (now much in u se), Si 1v: ' the pair ; the Classic Vase (very neat), 101. ss. the Pa ir ' Victoria Pattern, 15/. the pair ; the Braden Cooler 191. th e pair, &c., all of whit.. are strongly mounted with Silver, 113 have Silver Shields for Engraving the Crest or Coat if Ar m A pamphlet is published, with drawings of the above an other articles of plate generally, which may bad es aPPlirs tion, free of cost. BIRTHS. a , I . b. TY On the 22d inst., at D a lb y -t errace , I s li ng ton, Di"' Henderson, of a daughter. On the 28th in s t., at the Barns, near Bedford, tha IT,,dy of the Rev. John Brereton, of a son. es On the 20th i ns t . , at S tanstea d B ury , the of .W 1 Henry Crawford, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Serv;,ce, of a 5 1; e i , On the 21st i ns t., a t Sl oug h, t h e l a dy o f Sir John Hers Bart., of a daughter. On the 23d inst., at Wimbledon, the lady of 11Iajor-General Hogg, of a son. NE ~: THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1839. EVENING EDITION.