The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-07 00:00:00

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Most of the Ministers present in Paris proceeded on Friday to St. Cloud to transact business with the Duke de N einours, who, according to some, had been appointed -Lieutenant General of the Kingdom, and to others, mere President of the Council, without a deliberating vote. Marshal Soult is to manage the business of the Depart ments of Forcien Affairs and Marine during the ab &eh" of M. Guiaot and Admiral :thicken. On Wednesday the Prince de Joinville was mingled with the crowd visiting the tent in the Garden of the Tuileries. His Royal Highness has become much sun burnt. The Minister of Marine left Paris on Friday morning for Eu. T• he R evue de Paris states that the affianced bride of Royal Hi g h ness t h e D u k e d'A uma l e , t h e d aug h ter Austrof the Prince de Salerno and neice of the Emperor of Austria, is alike remarkable for personal beauty and ia, qualifications. l th . . o e th be in gsi The Duke d'Aumale is expected at Paris about the tt.minTghe Prince will thence repair to Naples in of November, the period fixed for his mar relltge with the daughter of the Prince of Salerno, whom T ue he is i to conduct to France after the nuptial ceremony. "like de Mont ensier is to accompany his brother to Italy. P fa mous parasol was exposed to view at the In on on Friday. It is placed open, behind the iron ,• ",ngs f the choir. The colours of Morocco are placed -11,1,"e pilasters at both sides of the grand altar. th e I.7l''';'llessager, alluding to the rumour of the loss of arrivedsays:—" The correspondence, which has cot at the Ministry of Marine up to the present day, to w a i l lt ? Jlothing which can give the least foundation short a " "as been rumoured on this subject. After a to t „ e. 6t aY at Sainte Croix-de-Tenkiffe, this frigate put w•eth ay on the 2d of August, in most favourable • er, and • ' ation has been re ceieee t Since then no information th e ‘ , O „ ° c reate any uneasiness as to the remainder of Jags , was t o • 141 ';'e de Paris announces that M. de Glucksberg bea s : :) ,, le ,ave Paris on Saturday is ith the treaty concluded cen t . r ranee and Morocco, and ratified by the two 'Actin g ewers. ef th e Uourrier de la Drome gives the following statistic Pra tte e e Produce of silk in the several departments of Pass e d Very little more than fifteen years have th ere s ince there were only six departments in which th ,, were extensive plantations of mulberry trees,. for aidegleneral rearing of silk-worms. To these might be earri,,dsixteen othrs, in which this cultivation was manner., but on a limited scale, and in a precarious ha e e t ,_ Now, however, forty-two new departments capi tn i,iten hP this profitable employment of time and depart se that we have sixty-four out of the eighty-six that clothed with mulberry trees, and producing 'LI T ' h it : gatrieeaet7 °r lesser quantities. r t j a v n e t e t es the o '''"r contains a very long ordonnance rela rerouore iun4actqi nof property its Algeria, the gua. Witt- co , parhasers, and the various points connected eutils.iti°The object of this ordonnance is to 7 ls Is .. the difficulties which, owing to an imperfect tgeelil3tlijahi,ohnatveerphriitshoe.rto prevented the due development 33 3' royal ordonnance of September, 1844, the manu facture Th e • gunPossder is formally prohibited in Algeria. For I,rnportation of foreign gunpowder is also forbidden. ane t „ trie future no powder is to be sold in Algeria but " as comes from the royal manufactory in France. The i nvita officesent out from the Lord Chamberlain's en Wednesd a y to the Duke of Wellington, Sir Zu lt hert he e Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, &c., were counter ear - F c ' 4 on Saturday, when a reissue was made, the th e Queen's invitation to be from Tuesday `kBth to Monday next instead of Wednesday the 9th, ie which d ay i t seems it was at first arranged that the "g • , ' of the F rench would reach Windsor Castle from ortarnouth. rieTe Castle Duke o f Ri c h mond, an d a large party from Gor " left that duc a l residence early in the last W eek, for Inverness, to be present at the northern reeeting. The Marquis of Bute l e ft Cardiff C as tl e , hi s seat i n Wales, on Monday last, for his estates in Bedfo r d s hi re . • the Earl o f B osse, who has b een attending the meet- Wgs of th e B r i t i s h Association at York, proceeds to ri ghton at th e en d o f t h e wee k on a v i s i t to the Dowager Cuuntes s of Bosse. The Earl and Countess of Radnor and Lady Jane lolouverie are passing the autumn at Coteshili Park, near l'arringd on, Berks. The Earl of Aboyne presided et the anniversary dinner of the Peterborough Agricultural Society on Thursday. Earl Cadogan has gone to Weimer, and the Countess and Ladies August a an d Honoria Cadogan, who arrived f lora Brighton on Wednesd a y, h ave l e f t town t o v i s it t riQ Earl and Countess of Sandwich at Hinchinbrooke, ila ntingdonshire. The Earl of Eglinton's birthday was celebrated by a lecillablic dinner at Irvine, and general entertainments in hT•ejent Parts o f hi s estates i n Scot l an d , l ast week. The ty;:"est expressions of admiration were promulgated by h.r,?ntented ten an t r y h o ldi ng f arms un d er t h e N o bl e thr oef ltse excellence as a l a ndl or d i s d eserve dly p ra i se d T• h e 1 , 1 4 his larg e p ro p erty i n t h at country. Ladi es Earl and Countess of Eldon, and the youthful eeretP:avile,:ribst:lo::sOetl who are on a visit to the Dowager Lady e .l on the West Cliff, at Scarborough, ar's not e e _ „ to return to Hamilton-place, London, until the present month, when they proceed to Encombe for the winter. Th e c DatIIiC3aLLALIVISOUB. tre esh °lint St. Aulaire, Ambassador for France to the hot el, GC°llrt, has taken apartments at the Railway The p s Port, to wait the arrival of his royal master. as an infi`eale•••illobert Taylor, who made himself notorious ia th e earl , preacher and writer, is no more. He died h as here Part of last month at Tours, in France. s. resignedo tp tne ofthe.ptarpuetrha.in the report that Sir W. Symonds his o ft. ce s of Surveyor of the Navy, as stated The inau buk e oe N e a l i' l ation of the monument in honour of the place tonseorrolawgton, erected in Glasgow, is to take made, and a lar E xtensive preparations have been parts of t h e olignetrlllithber of the nobility, from various Tile satesea.: ei ng Present Y. have signified their intention of tovlheeirnteresting ceremony. roaster_ • h•se so and 45 0 hu P a steam -frigate, of 1,299 tons' burden, at , s tp ar i ght ,designed by Mr. Oliver Lang, half -past f (11 001 wiCh Dockyard, was launched istrieoeithenea?leftohfonuour o'clock, sex., on Tuesday last, in the merous naval and military officers, and al flehionable families in the neighbourhood. hate, ari n - buildi ab uut ngS of Mr. Priddle, of North Stone :et:red on cur miles from Southampton, were thendisco nt,„ffanfderrrk,etaise:Sedaturday. An express was immediately spot, tire-engines, which were speedily on the must efficient assistance in saving a great deal of nar y, ni a l n t d is stated that four ricks, gra I:i.lrltilva,tz r:ttle.s, a lar • ge quantity of corn, and other pro. that it is not ' insured to its tile Set Strong Suspicion exist that the fire was Th an incendiary theirChsrtist Executive have officially, and thrceigh Secret a Paid, the List announced, that unless they are better until n ue ) : wil l resign within a month. They state that they Mr. O'Connor has stood the needful, which cann ot their • expect i,,, him to continue any longer, and . that . prin ter ' s en e more otti is so large that they cannot give him 60u., orders. ]li ar t hsea Castle is ordered to be appropriated as a mi for the sameclobj'a pris° °, to contain fitted 100 offenders. Another build ifitfeeltt Weedon, g rnents is 4,000/. are ealustolayto for f t these n Saturday oot third The elsewhere, estimated ers, arran e last the overseer of the parish of Bay atr°aPPeared before attend at Hertford barriser, s e 4 ° T . mr. James Espinasse, the revising h alt's, to show cause why he did not by th,) A et of pari 9n the previous Thursday, as required nested with hi, norufaw : a .te meet, to discharge the duties con ither read ee• His excuse was, that he could -------- DE ..„ ATR OF ADMIRAL SIR JOHN to BERESFORD, biART., K.C.8., AND G.C.R.—We have to announce the death of this distinguished fla4-officer which took place on IVednesday, at Bedaie, in Yorkshire. The deceased Admiral, Sir John Beresford, was born in 1769, and was the natural son of George first Marquis of Waterford, and brother of of Beresford. He married three times. Sir John Beresford entered the navy in the Year 1 782. In 1796, while in the command of the Lynx sloop, he captured La Concorde, of fourteen guns, and Y ear Captain of the Raison, fought a gallant action with the French frigate Vengeance. In 1801, he was present, and rendered great services at the capture of the Islands of St. Bartholomew, St. s, &c. He CM ' Martin ' I nanded t h e Theseus at th© ~ attack on th e enemy i n A i x r oads. I n 1813 and 1814, he was actively employed on th is e Ameri can station, in c ommand of the Poictiers. On return to this country, he was selected by the Lords of the Admiralty to escort Louis X.VIII. to Calais, on that monarchs restoration to the crown of France. In the succeeding month, he was created a Baronet of the ilnited Kingdom. He was first elected a Member of the tease of Commons in 1812. In 1835, on Sir Robert eel succeeding to the Administration, Sir John was appointed one of the Junior Lords of the Admiralty, yaptuand contested the borough of Chatham with the Hon. in Byng, the result of the election placing Sir John 1 0 a minority of twenty-five. Since the • termina tion of that Parliament, the deceased had retired entirely r°ol public affairs, and resided mostly at his seat in Yurkshire. His naval commissions were dated as fol -I('''s :--Lieutenant, 4th of November, 1790 ; Com - mender, 6th of July, 1794 ; Captain, 25th of June, ;779t1510; fßear-Admiral, 4th of June, 1814 ; Vice-Admiral, May, 1825 ; Admiral, 28th of June, 1838. He IS succeeded in the Baronet 7 by his eldest son, Captain tt,Geerge Beresford, now Sir George Beresford, Bart. ~;' Illit WELSH CATTLE FAIOUT cattle fairs "ring the month of September have been but thinly at tended by the drovers who usually purchase for the pur- P r o ,se of driving cattle to the English fairs and markets. ",e failure of turnip crops, together with the short crops t'ilenaY and straw all over the kingdom (with very few "eeptions) are alleged as the reasons. Compared with business usually transacted at this season of the year, th e c ° mount of transactions has been small. Cattle fit `c't slaughterng; were scarce, and a demand at 40s. to 4 a. per cwt. to sink the offal ; prime sheep are worth s d. per lb., also to sink the offal. Pork and bacon pigs a te a little on the advance, while small ones, and bare tores are at a very leer price; good horses are scarce b e t in demand, while p-or ones are nearly unsaleable. I.‘ Abergwilly fair, on Wednesday last, the show of 1...." 114 ta was very indifferent, and few changed hands. 14°41 es rued nearly the same as at the September fairs. Welshman, 1%...m Ti 1E MANCHESTER ATHEN2EUM. (From the Times.) :o one can read the brilliant addresses made at the aurr ee of the Manchester Athenaeum, without feeling a dc Arlie pleasure, first, in the excellence of the occa sion 1, then, in finding it so worthily celebrated. It is the great difficulty of our age to bring things toge ti war. Either there is profusion or lack. What it ,ight .tell with noble effect if well bestowed, is tf irown away where it is. We have literature and to ste enough, but then it is all in a class, heaped tsgether—of as little use as a well-stored magazine ten miles off the devoted band who are selling their dear because their ammunition is exhausted. On the one hand there are thousands who are daily pining for the occasion which is to bring out their pov vers. Their one great lack is opportunity. Oh for son iething to do—somebody to work upon—something to assure me I am a real man, and not a shadow, with an actual call and business in this world. Mean while a street, or a wall, or a less visible barrier, separates you from a sphere where it is all opportu nity, all raw material ; everything to be done. The ele mentee of grandeur lie waste because the soul of order ;.5 absent. There is plenty of rudeness, wild nature of men and things, unorganized multitudes, blare: 7 ,sh incessant toil, furious energies, noble instincts, gieeantic capabilities, everything vast and shapeless, ties sooty workshop of the Cyclops. All this waits to, be informed, and trained to beauty and greatness. tas yet that cannot be accomplished. Strength is rude, and refinement is coy. The one resents inter fex ence, the other revolts from its task. Thus both are wasted. It is then a great beginning that literature should be seers raising its head in the midst of our great marts of industry, and summoning to its aid some of its most favoured sons. It is not necessary to abate one's satisfaction with the salvo, that literary institutions, libraries, news rooms, with the appendage of gymnasia and balls, are not sufficient. Such a caution is even less needful in Manchester than in the enlightened metropolis. True, they may satisfy and fill the mind. To that abuse are all Heaven's gifts obnoxious. They are, how ever-, good as far as they go. It is a good thing done — , an actual step in advance—if minds or hands here tofore occupied in mere mechanic arts should ask ad mission to the worlds of imagination and taste. ' Imagination is near akin to faith, and taste to good ness. The ideal is the school of truth. With all the many weaknesses and temptations of literature, who that has it would not have had it ? Let those who declaim most eloquently on its engrossing, or ' enfeebling, or secularising tendency, consider within themselves whether they are not on the whole gainers by this perilous gift. Why, then, should he who would be miserable without his bookshelves, dictate to others an abstinence or a deprivation which he would himself be the first to break through ? He owes half his thoughts, and more than half his tone of thinking, to literature. It is the grrmmar of his mind. It is also his no slight social bond. He tries to communicate his thoughts and feelings, and finds himself unintelligible to the crowd—intelligible only to the initiated few. Piety opens its mouth to denounce literature, and finds itself speaking the language and recognising the mission of its imagined rival. In the act of condemning philosophy it is itself guilty of the crime. Let it be remembered, too, that the gentile world was provi dentially led through a course of arts before it came to the gospel. The truths of Christianity were de veloped in the schools, and grew into a divine philo sophy, the awful literature of Heaven. Those fathers whose mind and language have sunk deepest into the memory of the Church were bred on the lap of Pagan science. Let such pursuits be only followed in a spirit of gravity and reverence, and no one need fear the result. Some will think this a superfluous advocacy of what must speak for itself. Of course they will also set down the speeches of Mr. D'lsraoli, Lord John Manners, and Mr. Smythe, as idle and fruitless displays. But there is a wide-spread and a deep-rooted prejudice against the higher and finer accomplishments, against every branch of learning which does not pretend an obvious utility. It is agreed that the sons of manufacturers must be manu facturers, and no more than manufacturers; and that if you try to make them more, you will fail alto gether. Writers who furnish in -their own style abun dant proofs of the powers and delights of a classical education, are so ungrateful or so thoughtless as to think the wealthy master of five hundred operatives will be better and happier and abler without it. "He will have to cast accounts and compute profits. Then he must learn bookkeep ing. He will have to improve his machinery. Then let him study mechanics. He will have to pay wages. Let him acquire a positive taste for compound addi tion. In order to make out and execute orders he must be handy at practice. Geography also will be wanted occasionally." Offhand writers seldom mean all that they say, but we do not see what other meaning to assign to the following passage in Mr. Cooke Taylor's Tour in the Manufacturing Districts (f Lancashire : " I should be very much puzzled if I were asked to point out a dozen schools in the country where youth could obtain instruction in those branches of knowledge which are the best calculated to train them for a life of commerce and active business. In plain terms, the ma nufacturing youth of the higher and middle classes are not trained for the order to which they must eventually belong, but for an order to which there are few chances of their ever attaining, but after which there is all but a perfect certainty that they will render themselves mi serable by aspiring. This defect is sufficiently notorious, and one consequence of it has passed into a proverb, that There is but one generation in Lancashire between clog and clog.' If manufacturers cannot be induced to associate themselves into a distinct order for their own sake, they ought certainly to do so for the sake of their children, and, above all things, they should assert the dignity of the commercial character by a public recog nition of the extent of information necessary fur the commercial profession." On the contrary, manufactures and commerce seem especially to crave the greatest possible infusion of literature. They know best their own want. The manufacturer sends his son to a public school, and is anxious to see him an accomplished scholar. To be able to do this was part of the vision which, from his earliest life, concentrated and sustained his efforts. But for this hope, he would have continued to this day a smug, self-satisfied, eating, drinking, and sleep ing, fifth-rate tradesman. Deprive him of mental advancement, and his wealth has lost its value. This is Dr. Cooke Taylor's own supposition. He is cen suring the folly of commercial men who wish to make their sons scholars and gentlemen. What's the use of money, if they are not to do this ? The process of mechanic production induces a conceit of power, which breaks out into overbearing arrogance. A man who has secured the most glittering of human prizes, and has that which all mankind seem running after, is too conscious of his success. his activity becomes rough and tyrannies The fine arts are use ful in this stage, though such a mind will scarcely apprehend any other than their most sensual ap plication. There is another stage in the manufac turing history—another class, to which literature is indispensable. What can wealth do, or be, without it ? Dr. C. Taylor will answer, " Let wealth go on producing wealth." Experience shows that it will not. The youthful possessor or expectant of thousands per annum is apt to contemplate his wealth till his mind becomes as laden and lumpy as his ingots. To possess and to enjoy is his life. Soul and body he yields himself to the passive delight. The gold enters into his soul. He devours it with his eyes before he comes to its actual use. Such is the being whom a man of real genius proposes to keep at the desk, to the exclusion of other art or science. A worse danger remains. It is impossible that the mere pursuit of wealth and mere mechanic employments should so satisfy the mind as to render it even ordinarily secure against the sensual allurements to which wealth is so easy a prey. High religious feeling is the gift of few; but against that host of lower dangers a gentlemanly education is at least an immense auxiliary. Any thing in the mind, if only innocent, helps against sense. The education of the workin classes has already done wonders in Lancashire. oit must be ascribed the affecting resignation with which so vast a mass endured the virtual famine of 1840-42. The higher and intermediate classes are advancing in pro portion. Of course, one watches with anxiety, and even suspicion, the sudden efforts of a newly-gathered population ; but the auspiees are good at present. They only want leaders. (From the Morning Advertiser.) The meeting of the subscribers to the Athena um, at Manchester, held on Thursday last, was one of no common character. The numbers present were com puted at 3,000 ; but it is not to the greatness of the gathering that the importance of the meeting is to be ascribed. The character of the assemblage, the speeches delivered, and the spirit which pervaded the intelligent throng, were the circumstances which in. vested that meeting with a special interest. By far the most important characteristic of the meeting was the entire absence of party feeling. N ever did men of more opposite principles assemble together. Who could be more opposed to each other in their political faith, than Mr. Cobden and Mr. Benjamin D'lsraeli Mr. Milner Gibson and Lord John Manners ? The same diversity of political sentiment prevailed among the more humble individuals composing the body of the meeting. And yet the most harmonious feel ing pervaded the entire proceedings. Mr. Benjamin D'lsraeli was in the chair. The speech of the Honourable Gentleman was able and eloquent ; but it possessed a still higher quality, especially con sidering the political party with whom the speaker has hitherto acted : it was a thoroughly liberal speech. It was more : it was a manifesto in favour of the organisation of a party who shall disconnect themselves from any and every faction, and be solely influenced in all their actions by an earnest desire to promote the well-being of the people. Mr. D'lsraeli denounced, with withering effect, the narrow, exclu sive, sectarian feeling which has hitherto, more or less, largely characterised the various factions into which the politioiana of the day have divided them- OCR. 43 44 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING OCTOBER 7, 1844. selves. " For my own part," says he, " I really believe that had that party and sectarian feeling pro ceeded in the same power and virulence it has done for the last twelve or fourteen years, it must have exercised a barharising influence upon public senti ments and public manners. There are some amongst us now, I know, who believe that the period has arrived when a great effort must be made to emanci pate the country from the degrading thraldom of fac tion ; to terminate, if possible, that extreme, that sectarian, and limited view in which all human con duct is examined, observed, and criticised; to put an end to exclusiveness, which, in its peculiar sphere, is equally deleterious as that aristocratical exclusiveness of manners which has produced so much evil ; and, as far as I can form an opinion, these views have met with sympathy from every part of the counntry." These sentiments were received with loud applause, and they well deserved it. Coming from any public man, they must have been gladly and gratefully received ; but coming from a gentleman who sits in the House of Commons immediately behind Sir R. Peel, they must have been received with special wonder and delight: Among those present who most cordially hailed the utterance of these liberal and enlightened senti ments, was the Member for Stockport. Mr. Cobden's observations had an immediate reference to the liberal character of the Institution, whose interests they were all assembled to promote, but they were meant to have a universal application. "He could not," says the report of Mr. Cobden's speech, "help con gratulating himself, while Mr. D'lsraeli was speak ing, that with Lord John Manners on the one side, and Mr. Smythe on the other, the imputation of party must be an absolute contradiction. He thanked them for coming among them, and producing so admirable a result as they had witnessed that night. And now taking that vantage ground—having the fullest reli ance upon the cordial support of every party, sect, and class, in the community, he would ask what might not the Athenaeum become under such favourable aus pices ?" Lord J. Manners referred, with an exulting spirit, to the auspicious absence of party feeling which characterised their assembling together. "In these days," says that Noble Lord, "of political rancour, and class and party distinctions, it is gratifying to any one who remembers that the name of English man should be one of prouder import, and bear a more quickening spell, than that of Whig or Tory, to find a field whereon politicians of all opinions may meet without quarrelling, and, better still, with a good hope that the result of the meeting may be af fording increased means of mental amusement and recreation to the laborious tradesman and toiling apprentice." We trust we are not over sanguine in believing that a new and happier era is about to dawn on this country. We think we can clearly discern the proximate advent of a period when the greatest and best of our public men will bury their political partisanship and personal jealousies in the dust; and shall strive together as to who shall contribute most largely to the improvement of the moral and social condition of their countrymen. That were a noble rivalry. That were an emulation worthy the dignity of our nature. Were the feeling but universal, and we rejoice to say it is rapidly extending, it would, in a very little time, convert a world which is full of crime and misery, into one of the purest virtue and most exalted bliss. Lord John Manners, on the sports and pastimes of the people. The publication of that pamphlet drew an interest to the subject which it had never before been able to secure. This interest has fortunately gone on increasing. We have parks proposed and planned for Manchester—we have the Prime Minis ter of England, with that princely munificence by which his every private act is distinguished, sending down his 1,0001. subscription towards the expenses of a work that is practically to increase the innocent enjoyments of the poor artisan. All this is pleasant to think on. We pray sincerely it may be only at its beginning, and that its noble and high-minded originator may have hereafter to congratulate him self on the restoration of some of that manly sentiment of respectful affection and confidence be tween different orders of society, which was always characteristic of the honest minds of old England. (From the Morning Herald.) A meeting took place at Manchester, on Thursday, graced by the presence of several of the " new generation," the reporting of which meeting shows that there is nothing so unimportant as to escape the vigilant caterers for public information. It was, to be sure, declared by one of the lions on the occasion —Mr. h. Smythe, of Canterbury, called by a con temporary at the very nadir of bathos, "the chival rous Smythe"—that " that meeting will be memora ble when civilisation shall be one hour from its zenith ;" yet we fear the mischievous will add the ill-natured commentary of Porson—" but not till then." The meeting was held for a very excellent purpose, and the founders and supporters of the Manchester Athenaeum are entitled to all praise. But of what importance upon earth is it to the rest of the empire to know that Mr. D'lsraeli went down to Manchester to tell the people there the history of what they themselves had done—a history with which they were, of course, much better acquainted than Mr. D'lsraeli could possibly be ? " You have founded a news-room," and " you have founded a lecture-room," were facts both important and creditable to the locality in which they were stated ; and if the facts were not recorded with a parade which makes them ridiculous, they might serve as examples to other places. But when the meeting is exhibited as an important " sign of the times" (that portent which is always most easily discovered when the seeker is the least intelligent), or is compared modestly with the invention of printing, the beneficial effect is infinitely lessened. Mr. D'lsraeli may have seen " Ily-ssus' silvery springs," and may have the most vivid recollection of the sunset on that occasion. He may be also aware that Mr. Cobden gazed delight fully on the land where Penelope wove her web of yore, yet the relation of these facts, however it may serve for a sign of character, we scarcely can call " a sign of the times." But Mr. D'lsraeli enunciated some rare maxims, and one of these was, that " it is the duty of every citizen in a free community to be acquainted with the opinions he has formed." We hope it is a duty which " Young England" has not failed to perform ; for if their " opinions" (as we presume their phantasies are designated) can be reduced to a compre hensible system, the sooner some one of the frater nity, remembering the fate of the theories of the late reverend and ingenious Edward Irving, promulgates their politics in a known tongue, the more advan tageous will it be to their prosperity. The allusions of the guests of the people of Manchester to that very ancient desideratum, which " Young England " chooses to call one of its discoveries; viz., facilities for the amusement of the working classes, could not have been made in a more appropiate place. The games and sports in which " Young England " places —and to some extent justly—great confidence as a political medicine, are certainly least known in manufacturing districts. The anti-experience legis lators, however, mistake the concomitants of a certain state of society for its essence; and because highly coloured tradition tells us of a happy peasantry under the regime of priestcraft, would saddle us again with the " corporations of bachelors." The amicability with which " Young England" sighs for an over throw of party spirit is highly commendable, but how are they carrying it out ? Albeit that to honest party spirit, the pure attachment of up right minds to the principles which they admired, we owe most of all that is valuable in the British Consti tution—nay, the preservation of that Constitution itself ; yet it were indeed lamentable if much neutral ground did not exist upon which distinctions of party could be forgotten. This fusion, however, is not to be accomplished by the system of Messrs. Smythe and D'lsraeli, viz., flattering on all occasions the dis tinctive tenets or characteristics of a party, and as invariably voting against it. On this conduct we had some time since the following lamentation from the League : It is with grief we add that the name of this powerful advocate for the extension of commerce (Mr. Smythe) was found in the list of the monopolist ma jority that rejected Mr. Villiers's motion, and that the same list contains the name of the author of " Co ningsby," to whose eloquent denunciations of commer cial restriction we recently directed the attention of our readers. This is a sad anomaly." Now we think it rather a wholesome anomaly. If a man perpetually says one thing and perpetually does another, it requires no great quantity of algebra to discover the value of his principle or his common sense ; and with such facts before the world, the mouthing of " Young England," even at a gala soirée at Manchester, is as harmless as the pipes of the Stre phons, with whom one of its young members would corer the grass-grown ruins of that important town. _ _ (From the Morning Post - .) With feelings of rare and unqualified delight we bespeak the attention of all our readers to the report we this day publish of the magnificent meeting held on Thursday, at the Manchester Athenmum. We publish an elaborate report of the proceedings ; for we conceive them to be interesting in the most ele vated sense of the term. They present a grand and consoling indication of that better feeling, with re gard to the social and domestic condition of the work ing people, which, within a comparatively recent period, has made its influences felt in quarters the most widely separated on most points of taste and opinion. And amid the many uncheering charac teristics of the times, it is no light comfort to find at least one symptom giving ground for hope that all may yet be well with England. Truly it was a noble spec tacle to see Lord J. Manners—the young and generous representative of England's most exalted aristocracy —standing amongst the honest workpeople and their wealthy employers, in consultation upon the mode of making all classes better pleased with each other— better qualified to be virtuous, useful, happy, and loyal subjects of the mighty empire whereof their little island home is the mistress and arbitress. When we further mention the name of the chivalrous Smythe—of D'lsraeli, the champion of the essential principle of monarchic rule—of Cobden, and Gibson, and Brotherton, advocates of the violent doctrines of political Liberalism, we sufficiently intimate how en tirely absent was everything partaking of vulgar party combination. Rejoicing, as we do, that the rich manufacturer in our large towns is at length ac knowledging the claims of the poor to some portion o f!c are for th e i r h ea l t h an d comfort--heartily re joicing that the amusements and relaxations of the people are attracting some share of attention, as an important element in the constitution of a happy and healthy b o dy po li t i c — we cannot help re verting, with gra tit u d e and satisfaction , t o th a t which has been the main promoter of this move ment for amelioration, in what may be called the domestic politics of the nation. No very long time has elapsed since we gave our cordial support to the recommendations contained in a pamphlet by are ordered to assemble at nine o'clock. The Mayor and Corporation will also present an address to his Majesty, suitable to the occasion.---Hampshire Te legraph. FoßTamourll, Oct 6.—The Caiman, French war steamer, arrived here this morning with dispatches from his Majesty to the Queen, and to his Excellency Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador. The Caiman also brought a portion of his Majesty's equipage, and was hauled alongside the dockyard to land it. Seven of the King's horses formed part of the f re i g ht ; they were landed at the dockyard, and will be conveyed, with their attendant grooms, to-morrow morning by railway to Farnborou g h, an d thence to proceed to Windsor. In the afternoon the steamer left the harbour on her return to France, where she is to join the squadron which is to accompany his Majesty to England. As soon as she had passed the Parade-battery she fired a salute, which was returned by her Majesty's ship the St. Vincent, at Spithead. His Excellency Count St. Aulaire sent down a special messenger on Friday to engage apartments fur himself and suite, as it is his intention to be here to await the arrival of his Sovereign. Apartments have been selected at the Railway Hotel, which are ordered to be in readi ness this evening ; it is therefore expected that his Ex cellency or a portion of his suite will arrive to-night. It is now generally understood that his Majesty will I embark on board the Comer, at Treport, on Monday, and arrive here on Tuesday morning, accompanied by a squadron of steamers, which, as well as the Comer, will take up their moorings in the harbour. His Majesty will land at the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard, where he will be received by his Grace the Duke of 'Welling ton, the Lord Lieutenant of the county ; his Excellency Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, the Naval Commander-in-Chief at this port ; Major-General Sir Hercules Pakenham, the Lieutcnant- Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the district ; Rear-Admiral Parker, the Admiral Superintendent, with their respective staffs, naval and military ; and by the Mayor of Portsmouth, and other municipal authori ties. It is also anticipated that his Royal Highness Prince Albert will meet his Majesty upon lauding. From the Clarence-yard his Majesty will proceed at once to the railway terminus, where a special train will be in readiness to convey him and his suite to the Farn borough station, whence they will be conveyed to Wind sor in the royal carriages. Every preparation is being made to receive the King with becoming eclat. The squadron already assembled at Spithead to salute him consists of two line-of-battle ships, and eight sloops of war, namely, the St. Vincent, 120, with the flag of the Commander-in-Chief ; Queen, 110 ; Cruiser, 16 ; Flying Fish, 15 ; Osprey, 12 ; Daring, 12 ; Mutine, 12 ; Espeigle, 12 ; Pantaloon, ; and Water iritch, 8. Several of the vessels belonging to the Royal Yacht Squadron, among which is that of the Commodore (the Earl of Yarborough), the Kestrel, have also assembled at this port, to wait the arrival of his Majesty. The troops of the garrison are ordered to be under arms at nine o'clock, and are to line the road from the Clarence-yard to the railway terminus in the following order :—The 47th Regiment, the Royal Marines, the 59th Regiment, the 76th Regiment. The guard of honour which is to receive his Majesty the King of the French, upon his landing at the Royal Clarence-yard, will con sist of the Grenadier Companies of the 47th, 59th, and 76th Regiments, under the command of Major Gordon. A guard of honour will also be stationed at the railway terminus, to receive his Majesty on his arrival there. The Mayor and Corporation of Portsmouth aro pre paring a suitable address, to be presented to his Majesty on his reaching this country, in the event of the applica tion which has been forwarded to the King through the French Ambassador, to know if his Majesty will be disposed to receive the same, being answered in the affirmative. Whilst his Majesty is paying his visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle, the officers of his squadren will not be neglected here, but will be invited to a series of enter tainments to be given by the naval and military officers at the port and by the inhabitants of the borough. On Tuesday, the day of their arrival, they will be invited to dine with the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Charles Rowley. On subsequent days they will be entertained at dinner by the Lieutenant-Governor, Major-General Sir Hercules Pakenham. A ball and supper, to be given by the naval officers in commission, and for which pre parations on a magnificent scale are being made, is to take place at the Royal Naval College, iu the dock-yard. Intelligence has been received here this afternoon, which places it beyond a doubt that his Royal Highness Prince Albert will come to receive the King of the French on his arrival. DEATH OF THE REV. ROBERT TAYLOR. This eccentric and extraordinary man died about a month since at Tours, to which place he retired some years since, and where he practised as a surgeon, to which profession he was originally bred. Robert Taylor was the son of a respectable ironmon ger of that name, who resided many years in Fenchurch street, amassed a fortune, and retired upon it to Enfield. To his favourite son, Robert, he gave a first-rate educa tion. He (Robert) was sent to St. John's, Cambridge, where he took his dec , rees, and was esteemed au admir able scholar. He took holy orders, and became Curate of llidhurst, Kent (qy. Sussex). It was at a christening that he first expressed his dissent to the doctrines of the Established Church, and subsequently, literally breaking into infidelism in the pulpit, ho was stripped of his gown. He came to London and associated with Carlile, a man far beneath Taylor in intellect, and not to be named with him in attainment. Mr. Taylor took the Roll's rooms, in Chancery-lane ; from thence he proceeded to the aul's Head, Cateaton-street, then to Founder's hall, Lothbury ; at all which places he lectured (or preached, as Carlile termed it) his favourite doctrine. He also visited several provincial towns. At Leeds he was confronted by Mr. Calvert, a clever actor, then in Mr. Cummins's company. Calvert, who was a ripe scholar, detected Taylor's false quotations from the Latin ecclesiastical writers. This induced the Doctor to beat a retreat. Taylor returned to town, was a constant visitor at Lunt 's Coffee-house, Clerkenvvell-green, where he asso ciated with Gale Jones, Wenman, and other well-known characters of the day. He was also seen at Smith's, High Ilolborn, near Great Turnstile; and at the Globe, Fleet-street. In the summer his favourite resort was Temple-gardens, where he distributed his tracts, and sought disciples. The Doctor's followers at length purchased for him Dr. Bengo Collier's Chapel, in Cannon -street, City. This place Taylor christened the Areopagus. Here he ran riot, and at the instigation of Alderman Brown, now Chamberlain, then Lord Mayor, was prosecuted, and committed to the Compter. There Carhie brought Miss Richards (better known as Mrs. Dorey, of Barber and Fletcher3celebrity) to him as a visitor. The Doctor fell, or feigned to fall, desperately in love with the lady, and gave her a promise of marriage; but they were doomed to part, for Taylor having been tried and con victed of blasphemy, was sentenced to two years' impri sonment. On the expiration of his sentence, he returned to his old lodgings at Mr. Russell's (a law-stationer, in Carey street, Chancery-lane), and there, we believe, he met a lady somewhat stricken in years, who subsequently be came Mrs. Taylor. This wedding, of course, roused the ire of Miss Richards, who commenced an action for a breach of promise of marriage, and recovered 2502 damages, to avoid the payment of which Mr. Taylor and his bride departed for Tours. Though some dis parity of years existed between Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, they lived very happily. He renounced his errors, and returned to the doctrines of the Established Church. Robert Taylor was born in 1792 ; he was, consequently, either near his 52d or in his 53d year. About eighteen years since a bitter article against him, written by a well-known dramatist, appeared in a popular weekly newspaper. Taylor threatened an action for libel, but wisely abstained from carrying his throat into execution. Mr. Taylor was a man of great acquirements, but erratic. He was generous, nay, profuse, in his nature. irought J9s; dr. Hughes's ewes, three-years 30s. ; and Dr. Colahan's two-years-old eves 435. " There is a large supply of hogget rams of a very beautiful quality, and almost monster dimensions, but as yet no sales of any consequence have been effected, gentlemen anxious to become possessed of first-rate tups being busily engaged in the selection of other descriptions of stock. Mr. Rait has a prime ram, which he expects will bring close on 30 guineas. It is a cross of the Leicester and the old Irish, crossed again by the Cotswold. Already several horses, some of them thorough bred weight-carrying hunters, and animals well adapted for military chargers, have been exhibited through town, and, as a demand is expected, the prices will, in all probability, rate high. It is said that an agent of the King of the French is in Ballinasloe, and has been located in the neighbourhood since Monday, intending to pick up any good young horses sub mitted for sale, and the contractors for supplying the cavalry stationed in Ireland with chargers have also arrived. Well-matched carriage horses will be looked , after largely, an English jobber being here to make purchases of that nature. " The nobility, gentry, and landholders of Con naught, assembled at the Ballinasloe fair, and all in terested in the prosperity of this province, are to hold a meeting on Monday, at Gills Hotel, on the subject of railway communication being extended to the remote districts of Galway and Mayo, the advan tages of which are now so self-apparent. Lord Cle ments has expressed his intention of presiding on the occasion." QUEEN'S BENCH.—REVOLTING CASE. On Thursday a case of a singular character was brought before Judge Burton, at his private residence in Stephen's•green. Mr. J. A. Curran appeared as counsel, Mr. Fitzgerald as attorney, for a respectable man named Esmonde. Mr. Martyn and Mr. Lodge attended as counsel and attorney for a person named Joseph Millikin, an electrotype gilder, who it appears lived in Mary-street. The facts of the case, according to the statement of the counsel for Mr. Esmonde, were these :—To wards the close of the year 1843, Bridget Anne Esmonde, the daughter of Mr. Currant's client, was seduced by Joseph Millikin, and induced to leave her family ; an altercation is alleged to have taken phtce between Bridget Esmonde and her family, in conse quence of their desire to prevail upon her to return to her home. She summoned them before Mr. Duffy, of Henry-street Police-office, on Friday last; and her father and sisters, finding that a good opportunity to recover possession of her, endeavoured to force her home. A scene then ensued which baffles all descrip tion. Mr. Duffy was interrupted in the progress of his magisterial duties by the most terrific screams emanating from Miss Esmonde's sisters, father, and brother, all of whom were engaged in the attempt t o compel her to accompany them home, in which they were strenuously resisted by Joseph Millikin. Mr. Duffy said he would afford e ver y facility to Mr. Es monde to recover his long lost daughter, and the re sult was, that she was prevailed u p on t o go h ome. Since that occasion Joseph Millikin made an appli cation to Judge Burton for a habeas corpus, to be served on Mr. Esmonde, requiring him to produce his daughter, alleging as his reason for seeking the writ that she was treated cruelly by him ; and on Thurs day Mr. Curran, with Mr. Fitzgerald, attended before his Lordship, as already stated, to make a return to the writ. His Lordship desired Mr. Fitz gerald to make a return, which he accordingly did, declaring that Miss Esmonde was not in the posses sion of her father at the time when the writ was served upon him, nor had she since been so. Mr. Martyn produced an affidavit sworn by his client, set ting forth that Miss Esmonde was confined in a peni tentiary in Marlborough-street—that she was starved, and otherwise badly treated. Mr. Curran, in reply, said that the institution to which Mr. Martyn referred was under the control and guidance of the Roman Catholic clergy of Marlborough-street Chapel, and that the treatment received by females who sought refuge within its walls was kind and benevolent in the extreme. Mr. Esmonde said that his daughter had been detained by force from him, in order that he might not be able to procure the facts from her ne cessary to sustain an action for seduction again -t Millikin. Judge Burton said that Mr. Curran should produce an affidavit verifying the truth of the return made to the writ of habaes corpus, and he would ad journ the case to Saturday next in chamber), when he expected Miss Esmonde would appear, and enable him fully to investigate the facts. It would seem that Miss Esmonde was of full age, and it might turn out to be a case in which he could not interfere, but for which the law in another way provided a remedy. The application for a habeas corpus on the part of an alleged seducer to get back from her father the person who he had led from virtue, and induced to abscond from his house, was very novel, and one in acting upon which required from him the exercise of great caution ; on the other hand, if the institution adverted to was one in which the girl enjoyed her freedom and was her own mistress, he could not see what impedi ment was in her way to enable her to appear before him and state her own case. His Lordship then an nounced that he would sit in chamber on Saturday to hear the case, and the parties withdrew. On Saturday Mr. Justice Burton sat in chamber. At four o'clock the case of Millikin and Esmonde was called, and Miss Esmonde was produced. After hearing counsel on both sides, EXPERIMENTS IN THE MARSHES.—WOOLWICH, OCT. s.—Colonel Paterson, Lieutenant-Colonel Dansey. C. 8., and Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmer, Assistant Director-General of the Royal Artillery, attended in the marshes yesterday afternoon to witness various experi ments. The first were carried on by firing at a shield placed in a butt at a range of 200 yards, the intention of the inventor of the shield, which was composed of alter nate bars of iron and wood, was to ascertain if it would prove a defence if applied on the same principle to pro tect steam-vessels when fired at. The shield was only three feet long, by two feet ten inches broad, and ten inches :deep, according to its curved form. The bars of iron were three inches broad, and three-quarters of inch thick. Five out of the ten rounds fired at the shield struck, and went through, breaking the lower part into minute fragments. The same inventor, Captain Addison, then submitted a plan for heating shot to a red heat, by placing sixty 12-pounders into a square cast metal furnace, nearly similar in appearance to a stove. The shots were admitted six each, at ten different entries, five above each other, and, after the furnace was heated, which occupied an hour and three-quarters in the first instance, the heat became so great that the shot were heated red hot in twenty minutes, and afterwards in less than a quarter of an hour. The invention appears far superior to the rough grating hitherto used, and it does not consume much fuel. It appears to be formed in such a manner:that in the time of peace it would answer the purpose admirably:of heating store or barrack-rooms, and only requires some modification to regulate the draught according to the state of the wind, to render it highly useful for many purposes. Experiments were also carried on by firing two 24-pounder guns on heavy carriages, and two 24-pounders on ship carriages, to test the .strength of Alderton's platform. Seventy rounds have now been fired out of the 100 intended for each gun, and the platform still remains in good condition. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE CITY.—It iS gene rally supposed that the 23d instant will be the day on which her Majesty will visit the City, on the occasion of opening the Royal Exchange. The number of persona to be invited to dinner will not exceed 1,300. The viandr,, wines, plate, seats, &c., are to be done by contract,. and t tenders have been sent out to six of theasmccorstatinernginei the houses in the City for the prposo of is to be cold. Accord amount per head. The collation arrangements, it is intended that her Accord ing the present t the works ; the por• is impossible lions left unfinished wi , 11 therefore, be covered with shoutldo fi en nis e h r a e t ve th ry e p w a e r s t t- o e f nd of the building. It erliainjessotnycloth. As the time is too short for the statue of her M;jesty to be finished, it is arranged that the model shall be fixed up for the occasion, and it is now undergoing a process of enamelling, to make it appear like marble. The large commemoration medal, to be presented to her Majesty, the Royal Family, and others, will not be ready, but the smaller silver medal, of the size of half-a-crown, is already finished, and will be given to the company who Mr. Justice Burton decided that as Miss Estnonde was of age, she was free to go whore the pleased, and could not be controlled. After a most affecting advice from Judge Burton, who shed tears, Miss Esmonde consented to go back to the house of her father. Mr. Martyn and Mr. Lodge emphatically denied that they were counsel and agent for Millikin, having, been retained by Miss Esmonde. LANDLORD AND TENANT COMMISSION. The inquiry was held in Kilkenny yesterday. The Commissioners in attendance were Sir R. Fergusson, Messrs. John Wynn, Redington, and Hamilton. MR. O'CONNELL IN DERRYNANE. The Kerry Examiner contains the following:— " The Liberator, though received with enthusiasm everywhere on his route from Dublin, could not have been more warmly or cordially welcomed than on his entrance, and all through his native mountains, to Derrynane Abbey. The roads were thronged with joyous human beings. He sojourned for two days at Hillgrove, the hospitable mansion of his relative and agent, John Primrose, Esq., with his se: e l John and lady, and the two sons of his friend,u a m of I Right Hon. David Pigot, where a large number ned. On the neighbouring gentry were also e Monday morning he left, with to the e Abbey. Within his splendid loack of beagles, and hunted on hi s wa y s e v eral miles of this lovely spot ho was met by tens of thousands of the p eo p le, shoutin g their joyous wel come to their liberator and martyr. Here the moun tains were literally alive with human beings : the people from the shores of Berehaven and Bantry Bay I came in yachts and boats, accompanied by lands, to hail their liberator at his own door, r e t urne d from' an unjust imprisonment, but, blessed be God, in the best health and spirits." THE LATE ILLUMINATIONS. Sergeant Maher, of the 62d Regiment, attached to the recruiting party stationed here, and who, our readers will re co ll ec t , was charged with having his lodgings illuminated on the occasion of Mr. O'Con nell's liberation, has received orders to join the regi mental depot at Chatham.—Carlow Sentinel (Tory paper). - An investigation has been ordered b y the magis trates of Philipstown district, into the conduct of Sullivan, clerk of vettv imions in Plailinstown, gluing his windows on the September , ...-...... 9th of a IRELAND. i i a iu t i o i l . ten . of rejoicing for Mr. O'Connell's release f' ILLNESS OF LADY HEYTESBU U. DUBLIN, OM 5.-Lady Heytesbury, w r reg 4,et i prison. Mr. Sullivan is a Protestant, and' was one of to say, is in a most dangerous state. Theo med ical 1 several Protestant s who illuminat e d o f ) th e occas i os• ) attendants have scarcely a hope that she can , sur vive -Lei aster L,s (T or y paper . the attack, symptoms of dropsy having appe: %red. [At PORTOBELLO .-- GARDENS BALLOON' _ two o'clock on Saturday the answer to int) (nixie& at ASCENT. the Vice-regal lodge was, "Her Excellency i a worse." , The ascent of Mr. Hampton, the mronaut, in his Lord Heytesbury, Lord Eliot, and the of her r e la- , monster balloon," which is little inferior in size t' fives of her Excellency are in the deepest aftli effon. the " great Nassau " itself, took place on F'day, from the Portobello Gardens. took_ Ham ton l.l di: - BALLINASLOE FAIR. • The great annual sheep and cattle fair comma enced scended en the grounds of M. Callaghan, L A yesterday. On Friday there vvas an advance in sheep tare House, a few minutes before five o'clock and' of from 3s. to 4s. on the prices of last year. Ai other( arrived, with his balloon, at the Portobello Gardens,. account represents the advance as ,19. or 6s. per head. at half-past six o'clock, accompanied by some friend f t, adVan: e was who followed him in vehicles. Wool was much inquired for, but .1.1 1 demanded !-- ____ _ . . . "At an early hour considerable quanCties of sheep THE WEST INDIES. • . were driven into Oarbally-park, but not, h•owes vr, to (From the Jamaica Morning Journal, Sept. 9.) the extent of the number exhibited for sate a.: the i The present mail will convey to our distant reacler tic i a ttlligence that the Jamaica House of Assembly has fair of last di-solved . -tha, new . writs have been issued for it year, Ewes seeme to be more in ,ieriland than others, and buyers, especiaDv from hainster b • ,from general election. The dissolution took of place on A* and Ulster, were readily found at an advance 9 tith of August. 3s. to ss. per head over the prices of last year. _ , The NA esther throughout the island is repr Vali as " Mr. Pat. Taaffe's top lot of evres,,,Prought„ • 218 1 , A fitvourable, and the prospects of large crops general. have been informed, very advanced pricea. His 'A '"" •' The parishes to leeward are said to be I lc' oo Log remark . ders were sold as high as 9 /. 12s. 6d. The pric ss 4 a b l3 _. well. given for ewes varied from 1/. 7s. to 21. 4-s• - "'b t u' l Coolie immigration, it is thought, will not be favour latter sum was for very heavy stock. Two yea,"oi 1 . i ably regarded by the new House of Assembly, nor en wedders fetched, according to the condition aiNi 1 couraged to the extent which parties in the mother quality, from 30s. to 50s. country seem to desire. The proposition for a loan wilt of course not be ne . • - • ' cessary, it the views of members " Mr. John Fahey, of Loughrea, sold four" mixed , , 6 1 ,ore,as they . are expected to do, adverse to the new lots of maiden ewes and wedders for 31s. 6d. 4.. .`t". l ' ; •ation scheme.. To African immigration there Walter Bourke, of Dumacreena, for mixed ewes and "‘" th " .1 ,, • i x exist an 3 strong objections It is likely there. wedders, and Mr. O'Flaherty, of Lisadowna, obtained " f oes • 'Untie. - - ' ov , e , to .. ce i .. 345. for ewes, which was an increase of from 4s. to the le an‘ -1 remains healthy and perfectly quiet . and ss. over last year for the same description of stock. peaceful. Mr. Charles Blake, of Tuam, sold a lot of ewes for KiaccsTow, SElvi% 3. - The Royal Mail Company's 305., such as were with no inconsiderable share of steam-packet Trent, with the mail of the Ist of August. difficulty disposed of last October for 255.; and he appeared in the offing on Saturday evening, but could obtained for a better quality 325. Mr. Burke's, of not reach Port Royal, on account of the dangerous :situ- Clegg, ewes fetched 325. 6d. Mr. Dennis got 435. ation of the keys. She therefore anchored outside, o.nd for some fine wedders, and 30s. for two and three- passing round that place, reached her moorings off its years-old ewes. Mr. Kelly, of Kelly's-uroee sold to •wharfearly company's 0 , EXECUTION OF THOMAS BROWN FOR Mr. Hopkins 200 two and three-years-old ewes for 31s. MURDER. Gd., and far a beautiful lot of ewe hoggets 463. Mr. (From the Cornwall Chronicle.) Robert Fair ' disposed of 240 three-years-old ewes at The above-named criminal, who, it will be recollected. 335. Gd.; 200 three-years-old wedders at 485.; and was convicted at the last July Cornwall Assizes for the 100 of an inferior quality, fed on light land, at 4 5 5• murder of James Miller, of St. Elizabeth, was executed Mr. Thomas Fair's good - lot of three-years-old ewes on Tuesday last, the 27th instant (August). The gal br lit 2r 'M: F - - - v.‘4l ' .he gaol- , rd. Th lows was erects. , in the gaol-ya. .e necessary ar rangements having been completed, the prisoner was led from his cell at seventeen minutes past eleven o'clock. On cirriving at the scaffold, the Rev. Mr. Macintyre and the prisoner knelt at the foot of the ladder. At the conclusion the prisoner stood firmly up and locked around him for a moment, putting one foot on tire lad der to ascend ; but seeing Mr. Delisser on his riglri, he sa id, + 4 Ale Massa Delisser, shake me han' now.' lir. Delisser cordially shook hands. He next turned to the Rev. Docfoi; who also warmly shook the prisoner's hands. Other persons attached / to the gaol, who bad ministered to the prisoner's wants while there, weaned also to attract his Attention. The ceremonies ended, he ascended the ladder, Sting which he said, " I don't de serve what lis to suffer—l don't deserve it—l will die like a man—l hope God will give me the spirit." The. assistant of the executioner, after the prisoner had gainecP the platform, ascended to pinion his arms, on which he'. said, " Massa, me don't want die m.'sn here." The man descended ; and this arrangement!! having been: accomplished by the executioner himself, he said, " want to speak one word before lam done. irearry me,. massa," addressing himself to the rector, w h o fold him ; that that gentleman (pointing to Mr. Delisser) would tell him when to speak ; and Mr. Delisser shortly after said, " Now, Thomas Brown, say what you have to say." He replied, " Tel dem witness dat prove against me dat I forgive dem freely from my heart ; I hope list massa (meaning God) will forgive dem." Ile pausee, and then added, "I hope my Lord Jesus will forgirie dem too. And now me bredderin, onoo all good bye? The rector, fearing lest he should become excited, then said to him in a soothing tone, " Remember what I said' to you." He replied, " Yes, massa, I have nothing more to say," and became calm and collected. The cap and rope having been completely adjusted, the rector commenced to read the funeral servizte, daring which, at the words, " Suffer us not, at our last; moment,, for any pains of death to fall from thee," &c., the yope by which the drop was fastened was cut ; it fell down with a loud clap, and the wretched man, after a few brief' shudders and weak struggles, seemed to enter into eternity with little visible suffering. It was one of the most impr.lSSiv• and orderly conducted executions we have ever wit aessed in this country. FEARTUL COLLISION ON THE CROYDON RAILWAY, -(li Tlikat PARTICULARS.)—Saturday morning, at half-past twelve o'clock, a monster train, divided into two Nits for the convenience of conveying passengers to the ilricklayers' Arms and the London terminus, left Croy don with about seven hundred persons. The London passengers took their places first, and the train started off, followed in a few minutes by those for the Brick layers' Arms terminus. The train for London reached the Annerly station about twenty minutes before one, where, unfortunately, the lamp at the tail of the train went out fin: want of oil. This circumstance not being observed by the conductor, the train went on, followed immediately by the second one, when, in less than a minute after, the collision took place, attended with an awful crash. The greater part of the passengers were asleep in both trains, having been spending the day at Croydon fair, and were returning at a late hour much fatigued. They were awoke out of their slumbers in the greatest consternation. On the stopping of the trains lamps were procured, when it was discovered that one of the car riages had been forced oft" the line and much damaged. A tirst-class carriage in the London train was much broken the panels being smashed, together with the windows :Die last carriage was broken into splinters. The in jured persons, between thirty-tive and forty in number, were speedily released from their painful and embarrass mg situation, and proceed e d t o t h e A nner l y A rms ' public-house, where they remained:upwards of an hour, during which the trains were put in order. Many of the sufferers, both male and female, presented severe contu sions of the head, arms, and body, and two females were severely cut on the temple and eye, another bad her skull fractured, and was put to bed and attended ist a surgeon. Many of the sufferers presented black eyee and bleeding faces. Some lost their hats, and others their bonnets, shawls, and reticules, during the darkness and confusion. Tho trains ultimately reached this Bricklayers' Arms and London-bridge stations at three &clock, with those who had received slight injuries, and thus ended their trip to Croydon fair. The directors: have expressed their readiness to make good the loss and damage of property, and surgeons' bills, created by this unfortunate event. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.-01)0 night during the present week a barrel containing yeast was deposited at the Hertford station of the Eastern Counties Railway. Being in a high state of fermentation, the cask burst, and it was forced against the roof with so much violence , all to occasion considerable darnage.—liertford County Press. THE MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—This highly promis ing club has obtained leave to prefix the word " Royal" to the club, and its title will henceforth be " The Royal Mersey Yacht Club." The Honorary Secretary of the Club has received letters from Sir Robert Peel, the Earl of Wilton, the Marquis of Anglesea, and other noble men, consenting to become honorary members of the club ; and also a notification from Sir J. Barrow, Secre tary to the Admiralty, granting permisalon for the ves sels to carry the blue ensign of her Majesty's fleet, with the distinguishing marks of the club, which it is believed will be a Liver and Crown in the fly of the ensign. AWFUL OCCURRENCE.-011 Monday evening last a joiner, of the name of Thomas Jamieson, a native of Ayr, was married at Stirling, and on Tuesday the . couple, accompanied by Elizabeth Jamieson, a sister of the bridegroom,: drove to Callender in a drosky, where they met with another joiner, James Taylor, a native of Stirling, but who has resided for some time at Cause way-head, and was working at Callender. While there, they bad a desire to visit Bracklinn. The party set a' unknown to Taylor, but he suspecting where the!' had gone, followed briskly, and unfortunately came up to them just as they were about to enter upon the bridge, which the young woman, Elizabeth Jamieson, was objecting to do, when he seized her in mere wanton ness to place her on the giddy pathway, which is wooden structure scarcely two feet broad, with a railitw upon it, and stretching over a yawni ng ch a sm of most ~eloomy and forbidding appearance, upon which but to look thrills the nerves of the hardiest not accustomed to such scenes. Site, in her endeavours to avoid the agreeable object, fixed her hold upon the railing, which gave wsy, when both were precipitated into the abyss below. Every one who knows the place can easily form o fornl an idea what the consequence must be. Th e e n b: f Taylor could not be got at the time, having be xried away by the stream, and must hav e been dreadfully the life still in mangled ; while the girl was found syat b her, but with little prospect of nrronsurviving.a At four o'clock left,the woman yesterday afternoon, when our i nformant of Taylor had not hem t ‘ ' ‘ o . a u s n d still alive,tir.ilNcosir-Tax.—We learn from .. the Warwick Ad- St nodbse the ~,,,, b .. ody ter t eser , that on Monday last, in pusuance of a requiai-' li o n presente d to the Mayor, and his Worship's const u le meeting, to e of hi' • b held the Court-house, many •or the professional and tradinl qu ent a ppointment inhabitants of the borough of Warwick assembled, " fir' the purpose of taking into consideration the mode of sessing the income-tax, and the place of appeal again.. all taxes; end also the propriety of petitioning the Legi; t lature against the continuance of the tax upon income:, Resolutions in furtherance of the object of the meetit were agreed to, and the Mayor has forwarded to S. John INfordaunt, Bart. (Chairman of the Local Board ► Commissioners of Taxes for the district), a copy of then . _ 1, The Earl of Clare and, the lion. Col. itzgibba4 have been placed in mourningi by the death of Mr. Tho r G. Fitzgibbon, who died at his seat in the county Lime rick last week. It is calculated that the thirty-one railways f, which Acts of Parliament were obtained last session up require a capital of 11,741,717 E sterling. It is reported that Lieutenant Puddicombe intenor , to prefer an action for damages against Colonel Burto f R.M., whose letter respecting the Lieutenant's erica, nality has been the subject of animadversion. We are informed that the preliminaries have bet s. arranged for a matrimonial alliance between the He. e , Captain Boyle, second son of the Earl of Cork, and Mi. I Georgiana Roberts, daughter of the well-known bank of that name. The ceremony will take place during ti .present month. The marriage of Lord Loftus with the accotr •' plished daughter of Lady Elizabeth Hop? Vera, whit was to have been solemnised to-morrow, is unaroidali postponed for a few days. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.--The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Monday) afternoon at the Castle, at half-past two o'clock. Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert walked in the forenoon in the pleasure-grounds of the Castle, after wards his Royal Highness went out shooting in the royal preserves, attended by Viscount Sydney, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. George E. Anson. The Prince returned to the Castle before two o'clock. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert rode out in a pony phaeton, accompanied by the Prince of Wa7es, and attended by Major-General Wemyss and Colonel Bouverie. The Royal Family were all taken airings yesterday. In the afternoon the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, was taken a carriage drive. Messrs. Daniel had the honour of submitting to Prince Albert a specimen of the service executing by them for his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, of which his Royal Highness expressed his appro bation. This morning the Queen and Prince Albert and the Court attended Divine worship in the Private Chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. Charles L, Courtenay officiated. The Duchess of Kent attended Divine service this forenoon in the parish church. Lady Charlotte Dun das was in waiting on her Royal Highness. The Royal Duchess afterwards visited her Majesty and Prince Albert. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked this morn ing in the pleasure-grounds about the Castle. The Royal Family were taken their accustomed air ings to-day. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz returned on Saturday to Kew, from the north. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meck lenburgh Strelitz arrived in town on Friday. Their Royal Highnesses returned to Kew in the evening. His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Phi lippsthal, left Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, on Saturday morning for Witley Court, Worcestershire, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister, and Count Reventlow, the Danish Alinister, transacted business on Saturday at the Foreign-office. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governor of South Australia, and also from the Governor of the Mauritius. Lord Stanley left town on Friday for Knowsley Hall, Lancashire. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence left his residence in St. James's Palace on Saturday morning for Woolwich, to embark on the royal steam yacht, and afterwards proceed to Portsmouth. VISIT of the KING of the FRENCH. Preparations are talked of on every side for a splendid entertainment to be given to the officers who will attend his Majesty Louis Philippe to this country. We believe several plans are in contemplation, on an unprecedently magnificent scale. One is a grand ball and supper in the Royal Naval College, to be got up by the officers of our navy exclusively, five or six day's pay from each officer being subscribed for the purpose of conducting the entertainment upon the most hospitable and brilliant scale. This certainly would amount to a handsome sum, the number of naval officers now at the port in commission being considerable. Another plan is the erection of a very large tent, capable of holding conveniently about 2,000, in which to give a ball and supper, also upon a superb but less exclusive scale, naval, military, and civil officers being reported the projectors. Of course, many rumours are afloat respecting what will and ought to be done to give eclat to the visit of so im portant a personage as the King of the French, the above, among the rest ; but a few days will determine which is the right. The guns of the platform saluting battery have undergone two courses of paint, as also those of the King's bastion, in anticipation of the royal visit ; but whether this will prevent the French officers from seeing how wretchedly they are pointed we much doubt. Certainly they are on the peace establishment. Spithead begins to look lively, and with a few line of battle ships, in addition to the fi ve brigs of the experimental squadron now at anchor and the other three which will shortly join them, together with the Firebrand and another fine steam-frigate or two, will look imposing, and confirm the celebrity which has long been given to that matchless road stead.—llempskire Independent. His Majesty Louis Philippe, who, in early youth, bore the title of the Duke de Chartres, was, with his brothers and sisters, educated at home under the direc tion of Madame de Geniis, a lady well known as the writer of several agreeable works of fiction. The young Prince entered the army early; he was at the battles of Gemappes and Valmy, in which the French were victorious. Dumourier, who after the death of Louis XVI., was appointed General in Chief of the Republican armies, found so much discretion and prudence in the young Duke, that he formed the project of overthrowing the Republican Government, and placing on the throne the Duke de Chartres, who was at that time one of his Aides-de-camp. For this purpose, Dumourier entered into secret negotiations with the chiefs of the Austrian army ; but the dreadful defeat of his troops at Derwinden excited the suspicion of the National Convention ; he was deserted by his own soldiers, and reduced to pro vide for his safety by flight. The young Duke ac companied him, and upon the death of his father, which took place shortly afterwards, he took the title of Duke of Orleans. A few years before the fall of Napoleon, he allied himself, by marriage, to the Bour bons of Naples • , and the present Queen of the French is the aunt of the Duchess of Berry and of Christina, the ex-Queen of Spain. After the battle.of Waterloo, the Duke of Orleans became a great favourite with the liberal chiefs, owing to the good opinion entertained of him by Napoleon. At the same time, the high tone of morality that reigned in his own family was The Parisi an saw w ith deli g ht hi s sons frequenting public h colleges and zealously pursuing pr their aies w d a b y y atoll. theT scholastic honours, as if their father had been but a private gentleman ; the leaders of the op position were always welcome at the Palais Royal. At the death of General Foy, his Majesty sent 4001. to the subscription then raising to erect a monument to his memory; and when the celebrated on account of a piece of poetry (e too i liberal er Vignel in as t ' ssentiments, dismissed from his post of librarian by Count de Peyronet, the Minister of Justice, the Duke of Orleans offered to the poet a similar situation at the Palais Royal. Thus by several deeds of well-directed liberality, the Duke of Orleans ingratiated himself considerably with the French nation.—Observer. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. s—His Majesty the King of the French and suite will embark at Treport, on Tuesday next, for this port, attended by five steam vessels, to pay the proposed visit to her Majesty at Windsor, where every preparation is already made to receive his Majesty, in that distinguished manner in which her most gracious Majesty and his Royal High ness Prince Albert were welcomed at the recent visit Among company his Majesty, many other distin gtouisthheedCchhaartuecatuerds'wEuhu. will will be M. Guizot. One of the French historical painters from Paris, Monsieur Edouard Pingret, has already arrived in this country, for the express pur pose of aiding in the painting of the proposed picture, delineating the meeting of the French arid British Monarchs. It is understood that his Majesty will bring over valuable presents for her Majesty, in re turn for those with which he was honoured at the Chateau d'Eu. Amongst them will be some splendid articles of Sevres porcelain, and others of French ma nufacture. The Royal Squadron will consist of the following : comer, 24 guns, King's steamer yacht, Admiral La Susse, Captain Goubens, Lieut. Seuette, Lieut. Do Laronciere, Ensign Le Pertues, Ensign Sallye, 4.50 horse power, equipped at Cherbourg. Elan, steamer, Lieut. Dieudonnes, Ensign Deff resne, nsign Sage, Ensign Berenger, 220 horse power, equipped at Cherbourg. Caithman, steamer, Lieut. Valmont, Ensign Cour net, 220 horse power, equipped at Cherbourg. Fulton, steamer, Lieut. Marreau, Ensign Rosier, Ensign Villemorin, Ensign Vrigneau, 160 horse power, equipped at Cherbourg. Reins Amelie, the King's sailing yacht, Capt. D'Harcourt. The King will reach this port on Wednesday morning, where every preparation is making to re ceive him, and, immediately afterwards, landing at the Clarence Victualling-yard, will proceed, by spe cial train, to Farnborough, where his Royal High ness Prince Albert, with several royal carriages, will be in waiting to receive his Majesty, and conduct him to Windsor. His Grace the Duke of Wellington and a Board of Admiralty, with the First Lord, will be in attendance here to receive the King ; guards of honour will be posted at the Clarence-yard and Rail way terminus, and the troops in the garrison and at Gosport will line the road between these points. They 10 moi