The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-20 00:00:00

AMED OCCLTPATION OF ANGIERS BY TILE FRENCH. The Patrie, Paris journal, of Saturday evening, has the following article : " Rumours of the highest importance were circu lated to-day •at the Bourse. It was said that the Prince de Joinville had landed, and had taken posses sion of Tangiers, where the tri-coloured flag was waving at the present moment. " It was added, that the English Consul had imme diately protested against this measure. " The complication of the se events, the strange si lence on the part of Government—all this has caused a real panic, which has produced a considerable fall in the prices of public securities, as will be seen in our report below, that the Three per Cents. fell 75 centimes and the Fives lf. 10c. " There were other reports mentioned, besides these. It would appear that the King received the imprtant news we have just mentioned, last evening, at the moment he was going to dinner, and the Ministers were instantly sent for to meet in council, over which his Majesty presided. After the council, extraordinary couriers were dispatched in all di rections. " Finally, persons who pretend to be well informed assert that Tangiers, immediately after the bombard ment, had been pillaged, plundered, and laid waste by the Moors themselves. Some exaggeration there may be in these rumours; but public anxiety is extreme and fur the Government to remain silent longer would ba an unpardonable fault." SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TrIE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. esLOBE.—The bombardment of Tang.ers—even though the active intelligence should lack confirma tion—would be sufficiently threatening to the dura tion of peace, with which the essent;al interests of I England and France are identified. Ili re is, how ever, hope that war yet will be averted. The forbear ance of Lord Aberdeen is proverbial. The lamb-like patience that has hitherto shown itself invulnerable, still promises to be proof against this additional in stance of French aggression. The Herald—which, in all the qualities that separates our Foreign Minister from the sympathies that have been roused throughout the nation against the reiterated inso lence and injuries of France, bears a striking resem blance to its patron and prompter—bestows a reproof upon us for our remarks on this now all-absorbing event. Tangiers is not, it seems, of sufficient im portance to warrant a moment's regard from a nation so great and glorions as England ! France may, accord ing to the Herald, be permitted to play what pranks she pleases on the entire line of the African coast ; bombard what towns she pleases, and occupy what ter ritory she pleases, without calling forth any expression from England, beyond, perhaps, an expostulation uttered with" bated breath," against what cannot be altogether approved. If a remark, prompted by surprise and indignation at fhe indifference or pusillanimity which characterises the Ministers of this country, be uttered, the complaint is met by the ready excla mation, " England is great; and Sir Robert Peel is Minister !" What necessity can exist for uneasiness ; eve though one event after another, each indicative the aggressive policy of France, tread each other's heel? " Who's afraid ?" The Iteraldtassigns a long string of reasons—some of them veiy strange ones; which are adduced for the pur se of making out a justification for ministerial for bearance :—" England has nothing to fear, in the vul gar sense of the word, from a war. At this moment the surplus revenue of the country, beyond its expen diture, represents a capital of nearly one hundred millions sterling, which might be doubled or trebled if necessary, and true economy would dictate to engage in war ' cum toto corpore regni,' should the cruel necessity of war be forced upon us. And not only are the pecuniary resources, but all the other elements of military power at hand. We have an ample, if not a redundant, population. We, too, have a bold and high-spirited youth, whom we do not always find it easy to provide for in peaceful occupa tions. We have an enormous amount of capital (the Three per Cents. have been hovering about par), the possessors of which would not be sorry for a more active demand for it. We have manufacturers who do not forget the prodigious fortunes acquired between 1793 and 1815 ; and agriculturists not unacquainted with the prices of that period—even our labourers sometimes think of war wages." What is this but a repetition of the old story of the countryman, who sought improvement of a good state of health, and be took himself to a quack ? To the questions, "Do you eat well ?—Drink well ?—Sleep well ? "—the answers were " Yes." "Oh !" said the quack, " I will give you something which shall speedily cure you of all that." The nation's " surplus revenue," derived from th income-tax, will give place to formi dable deficiency. " A redundant population" will be readily got rid of by the wholesale destruction of life that is occasioned by war. " The bold and high-spirited youth, for whom it is not easy to find employment in peaceful occupa tions," will be provided for by commissions in the sud denly-raised fleets and armies that will be required in the war, on a grand scale, which England is suffi ciently wealthy and powerful to undertake. " The Three per Cents., which have been hovering about par," will rapidly sink to 60 ; and the fundholders " will not be sorry for a more active demand for their capital," in the loans which the Chancellor of the Ex chequer will be compelled to raise to provide the sinews of war. " Our manufacturers," continues this profound lecturer on the commercial advantages of war, " do not forget the prodigious fortunes acquired between 1793 and 1815." The manufacturers who profited by the war were chiefly those who fabricated the munitions of war, which were purchased by the Government with the money raised by means of enormous taxes imposed upon every imaginable article consumed by the people. There are " agricultu rists who still remember the prices of that period. Even our labourers," adds this approved Govern ment guide, " sometimes think of war-wages!" Yes; and these different classes, whom the Herald represents as desirous of war, have also a salutary recollection of the widely-spread ruin caused by a return to peace, and to peace-prices. The immense increase to the National Debt, and the perpetuity of the immense load of annual taxation imposed on the country to pay the interest of that sum ; with the °tiler numerous calamities which were entailed non the nation by the " just and necessary war," in which England was engaged from 1793 to 1815 ; are, we trust, sufficiently impressed upon the memories, and seen and felt in the daily privations of the community, to cause a renewal of war to be deprecated as a fearful visitation, and an aversion of its threatened curse to be anxiously hoped for, as a deliverance from the worst of national evils. As to the insignificance of Tangiers, on which the Herald expatiates, as a reason for allowing the French to occupy it, and the whole territory of Morocco, if they please, without the remonstrance or interference of England—we are happy to find that at present there is no response to the disgraceful hint. It would be a shorter and a less troublesome course to surrender Gibraltar to the French, without further question, than to allow England's power to be frittered away by the occupancy of Tangiers by ? French army. Could not the dispute be arranged by a French "Protectorate" being established on the old rock, in order to keep the English in order, and as a retaliation for some fancied affront to thegreat nation, in not allowing them to do as they please upon it ? STANDARD.—Whoever has had the misfortune to be intimately acquainted with an hypochondriac (and it is a plague that few escape through life) must Le aware that there is nothing more unac ceptable to the sufferer from imaginary ma ladies than the plain, and what ought to be the consolatory truth, that there is nothing really the matter. Flatter his delusion, assure him that he is in a dying state, and if friend you will I.e welcome, if physician well fed, and if relation duly considered in the ready will : but dare to tell the truth, promise length of days, recommend beef stakes, port, and an excursion on the moors, and you are sure to lose friend, patient, or in heritance, according to the relation in which you stand. Nor is it only in respect to bodily ail ments that this unreasonable hypochondria pre vails, though doubtless the high and palmy state of in . edieal quackery in our d a y d emons t ra t es its preva lence in that department. There are hypochondriacs upon all subjects —every one remembers the doleful gentleman in Golds mi th' s alway s v i s i ted with his bitterest resentment,' those who told him that his fears and his resentments were groundless. Weatetempted to quote a passage for thebenefit of our Contemporary tn . it will i alarmists.My v " y with dear i t lloneywood—Look atfreeze you terror—andyet my wife can read it—can read •t and laughs.' The f r i en d i , appealed to gives no en couragement to fear, and our disappointed liypochon &Lie proceeds, " How, si r , do you • I should lie down under such an maintain th a t d show neither by my tears nor complaints , that a I have something of t h e spirit of a m an i n me ?" Whoever will compare this last touch ing appeal with some recent articles of the Morning Chronicle, Times, &c., and, comparing, will observe the community not only of principle, but almost of phrase, between the apostrophe of Goldsmith's h u mouriet and the remonstra nces o f , our public instruct ,'s, will, N we think, agree with us s : that all nervous .tucies are not limited to corporal ailments, and that there is much quackery which has ao concern with pills, draughts, or lotions. The public, Tin fact, always has been, and always will be a • complex giant hypochondriac. And the press, we anust say it to our shame, lives in a great measure by exciting the absurd fears of this REWSpAritice. Take the history of Great Britain for ' ' last fifty years—that history is, certainly, ills. -4-- re( F .ttie ~k which . prosperity predominates. But be t et seee • , ~ ,.---1:. . ._._ c v . , . te )10 predictions of the press, and the coun t ... ,-.-- t ,! : .o ...401,0 t have perished at least twenty years ago, i of t he press been adopted -....:41 1 *. , - the suggestions Vii`s THE SUN, LONDON, _TUESDAY. EVENING-, AUGUST 20, 18#4. seasoned, as the hands have been taken off her for three years ; she could be launched next year. The Sybille, 36, is in a forward state; and the Thetis, 36, has her timbers all prepared and stacked. The 26- gun frigate Juno was Nunched last month ; the Creole, 26, will be launched about the end of October ; the Amethyst, 26, immediately. The frames of the Alarm, 26, the Malacca, 26, and the Niobe, 26, are all ready. The Calypso, 20, -will be launched this year; Coquette, 20, Challenger, 20i and Camilla, 18, have their timbers preparing. The frames of the 16- gun sloops, Atalanta, Dispatch, Elk, Heron, Mariner, Martin, Kangaroo, Liberty, find Zebra, are mostly prepared. The Kingfisher, 12, is nearly 'ready for launching ; the frames of the Britomart, 10, and Hound, 6, are prepared; and the Dart, 3, is in a for ward state. SUMMARY OF THE ABOVE. Ships of the Line-22. Royal Albert Royal Frederi'!k llO Sanspareil B4 Victoria Prince of Wales llO Brunsiviek Marlborough Windsor Castle .. 110 Cressy Aboukir Extnouth ... 90 Lion Princess Royal Algiers St. Jean d'Acre 9O Mars BO Frigates-17. Arethusa Liffey • 50 Thetis Raleigh 5O Niobe Constance 5O Alarm Severn Shannon Leander 5O Juno 26 Active Flora 36 Corvettes, Sloops, and Brigs-18. Coquette Calypso 2O Mariner Challenger Camilla lB Zebra Atalanta Dispatch ' Elk l6 Britomart lO Heron Kangaroo No. Guns. 22 ... 2,014 17 ... 650 igs, &c lB ... 265 Ships of the Line Frigates Corvettes, Sloops, Bri Totals.. 57 2,929 CUSTOM-HOUSE DETENTION. TO THE EDITOR Or THE TIMES. Sir,—l was glad to see some sensible remarks on the detention of passengers by the London Custom house authorities, and venture to offer a brief account of what has just occurred to myself, which I think will point out the defective part of those perhaps necessary, but certainly always troublesome and an noying, regulations. On arriving at the London-bridge wharf the pas sengers' luggage was conveyed to the baggage room, while they awaited in an adjoining one the pleasure of the officials. Although the steamer comes up to the wharf, and the baggage room is upon the wharf itself, more than an hour elapsed before the officers announced themselves ready to examine the luggage, which, to passengers just lan led after a voyage, and perhaps long absence from Eng land, is no slight trial to their patience. Their names are given from the Captain's list, and therefore, in the order in which they paid their fares, and, fortu nately, mine stood among the first. Even when the examination commenced, it was very slow and weari some work ; a party with a large quantity of luggage would not be less than twenty minutes, or perhaps double that time; so that even I, who luckily had not more than seven or eight names before me, had to wait nearly another hour before my turn came; and from the numbers which were below me, I am con fident that some must have been detained more than double that time. On entering the baggage-room I found a landing waiter at a desk writing into a book the numbers which had been affixed indiscriminately to each article of luggage. There was only one man to search out my things from the confused heap, which he could only do with my assistance 5 for the affixed numbers did not follow each other in any sequence, and were, therefore, no guide whatever. He then called out my name with the numbers aforesaid, and the landing waiter entered them. The same man had to open and examine the trunks; I was not permitted even to unlock them, still less to open them myself. He was much hurried, and the examination was ne cessarily very imperfect, although a good deal of fussy and rather annoying roughness was dis played in pulling the clothes out of their plwe and crushing them down again without the slightest re gard to their smoothness, &c. This done, the trunk was stamped by another landing-waiter, and when all had Me through this process, they were taken to another table to be again stamped and delivered... There was a great deal of pretension made at " open ing everything," even down to a little parcel of a dozen apricots. Thu whole process seemed as badly arranged as possible. Nothing could be more use less than affixing random numbers to each article of luggage, and then entering them into a book--a pro cess which alone took as much time as the whole examination would have done in a Belgian, and still more a Prussian, Custom-house. There being only one man to search out the luggage of each person, open and examine, it is perfectly absurd when we consider that he has to perform the same duty for 80 or 100 pas sengers. There was no incivility shown beyond an unavoidable degree of rough haste in going through the examination, although the half surly silence of the chief landing-waiter—a stout middle-aged man, why did not vouchsafe a word beyond a monosyllable or two to his sub—struck me as very different to the cheerful civility particularly of the Prussian officers. With them the business is much more simple and short, and the baggage of a couple of hundred railway passengers is dispatched in the same time that is required for a dozen by the mud dling and feeble arrangements of the London Cus tom-house. A circle of tables is formed round the room, within which at least a dozen officers stand with the baggage ; the passengers range themselves on the outside with some more officers for still further expe dition ; the whole is done much more agreeably, and with fifty times the dispatch ; each article receives its mark of having been examined, which is inspected by two more officers at the doors; and lam sure that I speak svi;hin bounds when I say, that from the mo ment of my arriving at the station to my leaving it I was not detained twenty minutes. E. R. August 14, 1844. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. James Richard Downes, 23, clerk, was indicted for feloniously embezzling three several sums of 11.65. 6d., GI. 175., and 11.65. 6d, the moneys of Robert Saywell, his master. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Mr. BALLBNTINE, who.appeared on behalf cf the pri soner, urged, in mitigation of punishment, that the prisoner had, hei - ctolore, borne a good character, and also stated that his master was desirous to recommend him to the merciful consideration of the Court. Mr. Saywell, in answer to inquiries from the Court, said be was deskous to recommend the prisoner to the mercy of the Court, but he was at the same time compelled to state that the sums mentioned in the in dictment were not mere isolated cases of embezzle• ment; but he had reason to believe that he had received other sums, to the amount of 150/., which he had appro priated to his own use. The prisoner was sentenced, to be kept to hard labour for twelve calendar months. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) BOW-STREET. Yesterday afternoon- Michael Read, and Jane Fur pley were brought before Mr. Hall, charged with cruelly cutting and stabbing James O'Flaherty with a pair of scissors. The occurrence took place on Saturday night in the lodgings of the wounded man, to which the two prisoners went ; and. he was so badly injured as to be . immediately removed - to King's College Hospital. Being unable to appear, Mr. Hall sent a messenger for Mr. Twyford, who pioceeded with the second clerk, Mr. Bowstead, to the hospital, to take the de positions of the wounded man. The statement of O'Flaherty was, that he was sit ting, on Saturday night, in his house, when the two prisoners entered, and after they had sat for some time drinking together, the male prisoner wished the • female to go away with him, which she refused, whereupon lie struck her. The wounded man inter fered, and was immediately struck by Read, whom he immediately collared, struggled with, and fell. While down Read seized a pair of button-hole scis sors, with which he inflicted many deep and desperate wounds in all parts of O'Flaherty's person. When separated the prosecutor was nearly dead from loss of blood ; and on being removed to the hospital, was found to be wounded most severely. The prisoner was remanded till the improved state of the prosecutor's health permitted his appearance. Patrick Larkin was brought up for final examina tion, charged with stealing several letters from the Post-office. The facts of the case appeared in The Sun last week.. .The prisoner said nothing in his de fence, and was fully committed for trial. Q EEN-SQ LIAR E. • Yesterday, Mrs. Pelham, who underwent several examinations at this Court a short time ago on the charge of gross neglect and cruelty to her son, Brent Spencer, a lunatic, and against whom a true bill has been found, accompanied. by Mr. Head, from the office of Mr. Steel, solicitor, waited upon the magis trate. Mr. Head stated that the object of his visit was to reply to a ronntic statement which .had been made at that Court on Saturday last... The". magistrate would remember that a female named Bird had come before him, and -said that about one or two-and twenty yeirs ago her child had been taken from her by Mrs. Pelham and that she had never been able to find her until that day, when she recognised her at Chelsea workhouse. Mrs. Pelham had felt it her duty to come forward, and was now prepared to meet the charge, which had not the slightest foundation, and which was calculated to do her a very serious injury. She had enough to answer at the present moment without being' made the victim of such idle stories as these, and was desirous of putting the ma gistrate in possession of such facts as must leave the inference on his mind that she was innocent of this charge. The woman's child was stated by her to be one or two-and-twenty years of age, while Wilson Pelham, the conjectured offspring, was above three and twenty, and, as regarded property, there was not a penny coming to him in any way. There was a total absence of all motive in the affair, as Mrs. Pel ham had not the slightest expectancy, by substitution• or otherwise, of receiving any emolument by him, and moreover, she could distinctly prove that he was her own child. Mr. Ryder had, it appeared to him, been extraordinarily zealous in this matter, far indeed, he considered, beyond his duty as chairman of the Board of Guardians. Mr. BurntELT. interrupted the gentleman. He did not agree with what tie said of Mr. Ryder. Mr. Head continued—Some observations had been made on the subject of some property—an allowance received by Mrs. Pelham from Edinburgh ; that pro perty had been left to Mrs. Pelham thirty-one years ago by her own mother, and he held in his hand at that moment a_ letter from . the North British Rail way Company, treating with her on the subject of her property, which was situate in the Canongate, at Edinburgh. He concluded by repeating that there was not the slightest grounds for this charge, and ex pressed a hope that as the poison had gone forth so would the, antidote. Mr. BuituELL said he had no control over the press, nor ought he to have. A statement had been made to him on Saturday, which wa s un der consideration. Mr. Head observed that, although the story was so idle, Mrs. Pelham had considered it her duty to come forward and repel the accusation. Mr. BURRELL said that he had not yet taken any steps in the matter, as his mind was undecided. Mr. Head and Mrs. Pelham then withdrew. stating the facts to him, that gentleman expressed the greatest astonishment at them, and immediately signed a certificate, formed upon his own personal knowledge of the supposed lunatic, couched in terms stronger, if possible, than the others. Applicant had since made repeated applications at the Charter house, accompanied by the strongest remonstrance against the course they had taken ; but not the slightest notice had been given to them, and he now wished to know what steps he could adopt that were most likely to be attended with a beneficial effect ? The applicant then handed to the Magistrate the three certificates he had alluded to, accompanied by a letter from his friend Mr. White, the latter of which bore every evidence of perfect sanity, and was such, to all appearance, as a man in full possession of his facul ties would indite. The. Magistrate, after perusing these documents at tentively, told the applicant he was afraid he could render him but very little assistance under the cir cumstances he had stated, for the only course open to him, that he could see, was an application to the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, requesting him to issue an hlheas corpus. That was the only advice he could give him. The applicant shook his head doubtingly at this step, but thanked the Magistrate for his attention, and withdrew. THE ~ TARTAR SOLDIER" IN HYDE PARK. On Saturday last, about five o'clock in the after noon, a very large number of people, princi pally military men, were attracted into Hyde Park to witness the horsemanship and mili tary exercises of a very curious individual, a Tartar soldier, formerly in a Mahomedan regiment of cavalry in the Russian service, who, it was understood, would exhibit himself and his_ horse in front of the Horse Guards barracks. Accordingly, at five o'clock, or shortly after, the Tartar made his appearance, ac companied by several gentlemen on horseback, one of whom appeared to act as his interpreter, and in some degree to direct his movements, and a large space of ground for his evolutions was cleared out and kept, as the term is, by the privates of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards. The Tartar is a good-looking man, apparently between twenty-five and thirty years of age, of an athletic frame, with con siderable squareness of limb, but with no superfluous flesh. He stands about five feet ten inches in height, and may weigh about 13 stone. He was dressed in a tight fitting tunic of rose-coloured silk, wadded, and capable of resisting a hard blow ; very loose trousers, drawn tightly round his legs just below the knee, and met by tight black boots almost resembling long gaiters. On his head was a sheepskin cap of black wool, similar to those worn by the Persians who were in the suite of the Persian Ambassador when in this country a few years .ago. He had mustachios on the upper • lip. His arms consisted of a pair of pistols, which, in the course of his performances, he repeatedly discharged, and a' pole about ten or a dozen feet long, which he used as a lance, throwing it with considerable force when galloping, and with so correct an aim, that had it not been for the quickness and agility of the gentleman who volunteered to be the object of his aim, and who was also on horseback, a broken head or a fractured bone would probably have been the result. We believe this part of his practice is what is called throwing the " djereed." The Tartar also dis plays considerable skill in lifting this weapon from the ground without dismounting, but this he performed without potting his horse in motion, mak ing him stand still whilst he recovered his weapon. He also threw himself off his horse while at the top of his speed, and vaulted again into the saddle with great - ease. The performances were very well in their way, but nothing that cannot be done, more especially the equestrian feats, by a large proportion of the men in our cavalry regiments, and by hundreds of others; and the spectators did not seem to be much astonished by what they beheld. Towards the close of the exhibition Mr. Maynard, formerly an officer of the Blues, the son of Lord Maynard, mounted upon a troop horse, with a fencing foil, undertook to encounter the Tartar, who was armed with a basket-hilted single-stick, and nothing daunted by his formidable appearance and reputation as a swordsman, succeeded with apparent ease in in flicting a " palpable hit" upon his ribs, just beneath the left arm of the Tartar (who is a left-handed swordsman), as the latter raised his arm to inflict a perpendicular cut - at his head. The Tartar did not appear to comprehend what had occurred, and in rather an irritable manner dismounted and did not renew the contest. Mr. Maynard then threw his fencing-glove on the ground, and putting his horse in a cantor, lifted it up without dismounting. This gen tleman also exhibited the feat of vaulting into the saddle, - and in the comparison of horsemanship with the Oriental foreigner certainly . suffered noting. As a skilful swordsman the Tartar is certainly to be sur passed by many of those_,,who were on the ground, and many of the_ I.4ife . Guardsmen expressed their willingness to contend with him. On Tuesday last, are believe, he exhibited at the barracks in the Re gent's-park, and was matched with Limbard, consi dered the best swordsman in the regiment quartered there,. and also with Hemmingway, a good swords man of the. same regiment. Limbard, in the sporting phrase, had the best of him, and Hemmingway also set him at nought, In the course of the exercises of that day he discharged his pistol so close to the face of .the last named of these two men, that the powder drew blood, and the man's face is blued, probably for the rest of his life, as such marks are rarely oblite rated. Some allowance must, however, be made for the impetuosity of the Tartar, and .his total unac quaintance with the manner and feeling in which our national sports are carried on. The following account of this singular personage may not be uninteresting to our readers ; we have it from a gentleman who has had opportunities :of in quiring and coining at the facts :—Balthazar Beck Pogus is the son of a Kniaz, or Khan of Independent Tartary, a country which boasts of never having been conquered by, or subject to any foreign power. The inhabitants are Christians. At the early age of four teen, Balthazar joined the Circassian army and fought against the Russians for three years. At the end of this time the troop in which he served were taken prisoners, when engaged in a battle near Tiflis. As Balthazar had no choice left but to be sent to Siberia or to take service in the Russian army, in the hopes that some day or other a chance of escape would offer itself, he chose the latter; 'and was sent to Warsaw, where he was placed in .a Mussulman regiment, and served in it for nine years. - In November last, , a mus ter of his regiment was' ordered ; the horsemen under • his command consisted - of 29, but as he appeared on parade with 28 only, his superior officer inquired why . the number was not complete, and on being told that the-reason was, that one Of . the men had been taken ' very ill' in the morning, and there had been no time to report the circumstance, he exclaimed, " Christian -dog, I shall punish you for this breach of discipline ; yeti are one of those who eat pork, and your religion is a dog's religion !" and. at the same time struck Bal thazar . on the breast in an insulting manner with the back of his hand. . Thus outraged without cause, be ! fore his own men, the T j artar could no longer master his feelings, and, in a state of frenzy, he drew his , . sword and cut down the officer who had so griev ' ously wronged him. He saw, in a moment, that he was a lost man, and there was no safety L for him but in the desperate expedient of flight Beckoning to his cousin and his ser . vast, who served in the same regiment, to follow, he started without losing a moment. They made for the frontier of Prussia, but by mistake they took the road of Plock instead of Plonsk. Meanwhile an alarm was raised, and Cossacks were sent in pur suit of them ; but although the pursuers obtained fresh horses at the different pickets, so well were the fugitives mounted, that it was not till after they had ridden twelve hours, having performed a distance of 120 English miles, and being very near the Prussian frontier, they were at length overtaken. An officer with seven men rode up to them, calling out to Bal thazar to surrender. He replied " Never;" and added " You know me, and that when I take an aim I never miss ; if therefere, you value your life, suffer me to proceed." Ati „that moment two pistol shots were heard, and his companions dropped dead from their horses. Balthazar revenged them,by shooting with his brace of pistols two of the Cossacks ; then, setting ' spurs to his horse, he resumed his flight, followed by the remaining Cossacks. So good, however, was his horse, of Arab breed, that his pursuers, one by one, man, as he rode after th e T ar t ar , fi re d at him, and wounded him in the thi g h. H e f e lt the bloodorg in s - t n o , pto b p u ed t a h bl e vyi t r i v se a u s cai t l i n o ad t cd o ae f se a tpi a t letmy brook,p; e a r ri and In, ; (2, livi dropped off, till only one rema i ne d—th e o ff ice r. This l o i t u , ts suddenly situation t n i l l e r ut t l i oy n b d e oN came s . ' seemed to forbid his further progress. Rousing, how ever, his jaded but .high-couraged horse, he rods boldly at the brook, and got clear over. The Cossack officer, following closely, attempted the same feat, but failing, fell with his 'horse into the water. Balthazsr, now in Prussia (for that brook formed the boundary), and freed from his pursuers, rode on to the first village, where having told his story, be was -taken in and kindly treated. Shortly after the Russians sent to claim him as a deserter, but the Prussian authorities refused to give him. up. Seine Prussian gentlemen of distinction in the neighbour.. hood showed him great kindness, and when he reco vered from his wound, which was, not for a long time, and expressed his desire to return to his own home, they advised him, as the best mode of doing so, to getto the toast and embark for England. Accordingly, hav ing been supplied by them with money for the journey and with letters to friends at Dantzie, he proceeded on his horse to that city, where he met with further kindness from the officers of the garrison, by whom he land his horse were sent to this country, whence it is . I said be; intends-to depart- for France, and -by way of Marseilles to gpt to Cosistantinople. We understand he has been patronised by Lord Dudley Stuart, and other influential persons, and that a subscription to defray his expenses and journey to Constantinople, to the amount of 501., has already been made. He has the 'greatest affection for his horse, a grey Arab, of great beauty and extraordinary good points, and has refused to part with it for any price. On being asked a few days ago by an officer of the Life Guards if he would sell the animal, he energetically laid his hand upon the scalp of his head, and said, " I would sooner cut this from my head, and make my horse eat hair and all, than sell her, my preserver !"—Times. twenty yeais ago or more, the country would, t in fact, have sunk to a third-rate power. It is t a remarkable fact, too, and one which must go far to excuse the quacks of our order to worldly I : judges, that the most persevering alarmists and fault finders, and the most uniformly bad advisers, have always been and are, in a commercial view, pretty generally the most prosperous. If the ground were not already occupied, it would be an ex cellent speculation to set up a journal NN t h some such motto as this—" How are we ruined ?" and to conduct the organ of woe upon a principle of indiscrimindte abuse, sneering and snarling at ever y measure that did not emanate from the im portant " we," and at every public man that should refuse to bow to "us." It would be quite un necessary to give that pledge for political integrity that a decent consistency affords, as experience sly.ws ; and as for talent, the smallest amount possible would be sufficient, as we see 'by the in spiration that always invests the editors of a popu lar journal in succession with eloquence, wisdom, and learning, for a long succession of years, though the parties may be and have been uniformly a succession of absolute dunces—except during the illuminated periods of their employment. The secret is all in this, abuse plentifully and indis criminately, find fault without end. Everybody can shine in this, from Billingsgate to Westminster, Covent-garden and the Corn Exchange, Dublin. All can be eloquent and seemingly wise for the day, if they wilt only throw aside the restraints of truth and decency, and minister to the humour of , the day, which, if the venerable Hooker says rightly, is commonly a sour, angry, and desponding jiumour. A journal such as we speak of must c67mand commercial success, if the ground were not uluckily already occupied. Our reflections have been thrown into this channel by an article which we have elsewhere copied from a morning paper, not precisely of the stamp that we have been describing, but which seems to prove by its recent success that quackery is not the only road, though certainly it is the easiest, to public favour. The article in question demonstrates, we think very satisfactorily, that the alarm set up by a majosity of our Contemporaries, is wholly groundless—that France is neither desirous of con quering Morocco, able to conquer that country, nor able to retain it if conquered. Further the article to which we refer offers a series of remarks which must convince all who are not intellectually blind that as England never was either absolutely or relatively one-half or one-third as powerful es she is at this moment, no war can be declared against England by any country the rulers of which are not down right madmen. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. TIMES—Two returns have lately been printed by order of the House of Commons, which at this peculiar juncture of affairs will.be read with interest, and, we are inclined to think, with satisfaction. The first gives the " amount of horse-power ordered for her Majesty's steam-vessels between the Ist day of April, 1839, and the 31st of August, 1841, as follows :-- Horse-Power Number of Vessels lB Tonnage The second describes the " amount of horse-power, &c., between the Ist day of September, 1841, and the Ist day of July, 1844," thus : Horse-Power • 11,261 Number of Vessels ..... 30 Tonnage . 26,892 From these statistics it seems that in the first three years of the present Administration there has been an addition of twelve to the number of our war steamers, with a corresponding increase of more than 10,000 tons in their burden, as compared with the strength of the same department during the two last years of their predecessors—a period memorable for the isolation and the irritability of France, and the grand naval demonstrations in the East. It is, in deed, highly gratifying to discover this accession .of strength to an arm of the service on which may dee volve the duty of supporting the honour of the Eng lish marine in any future war. And although we are far from desiring that any opportunity for such a display should soon occur, yet when we look to the present aspect of the political horizon, and read the deliberate opinions and pre vailing sentiments of those by whose opinions and sentiments the paohabilities of a continental war may be enhanced, and its terrors multiplied—when we see them coolly calculating on the possibility of subverting our power by the multiplied resources of steam navigation, and determining the issue of a campaign by some dexterous stroke of piratical tactics—it certainly does gratify us to find that the present Government has not been wholly indifferent to the efficiency of that peculiar force to which the avowed policy of our prospective invaders has already attributed the faculty of deciding international con troversies in the shortest and most summary way. We trust, indeed, that their warnings may proves as unnecessary as their predictions false ; and that the peace of Europe is in no danger of being violated . ,by the blunders of wrongheaded subordinates, by 'the zeal of hotheaded propagandists, or by the truculent ambition of a restless faction. But we know that there is no method at once so effective and pacific of demonstrating the futility of their predictions, and the emptiness of their gasconader, as the possession of such an armament as they themselves affirm is adequate to cope with all the necessities and fulfil all the functions of a great and powerful navy. While, however, we cannot help applauding this increase in the numbers and efficiency of its war steamers, we would at the same time once more im press upon the country and the Ministry the convic tion that no time should be lost in placing the other departments of our marine establishment on a footing of corresponding magnitude. We may rest assured, that should it be‘our ill fate—and we may say the ill fate of Europe—to be involved in a continental war, the great conflict which England will have to wage must be determined on the sea; and that the question of maritime predominance or maritime subjection— the question which England would then be forced to decide—in a word, the question whether she should abdicate her dominion of the seas or not—can under no circumstances be decided by any number of steamers, however skilfully constructed, however lightly built, however cleverly managed, or com pletely manned. No; the masterdom of the ocean must depend —as it hitherto has depended—upon the bulk and body of her sailing ships—their breadth of beam, their solidity of construction—and, more than all, on the native courage of those who man them. As heretofore, the fate of a great naval battle will depend on the combined science, gallantry, and cool ness of the officers avid their men—upon the tact with which the line is broken, or the dash with which the enemy is boarded. No new invented mode of inva sion will prove a successful substitute for these old and approved resources. HERALD.---The writer of that insane article in the Republican National, lately so much remarked upon, how much soever he may be deemed the object of contempt and ridicule in the estimation of the sober and intelligent, peace loving people of France, I is, in our opinion, deserving of the pity rather than the laughter of the united services of Great Britain. It is evident that this gaseonnade has been written on the confident hypothesis, reasonably enough de duced from the parliamentary misrepresentations of. Lord Minto, and others, that the English navy is in the same wretched condition that it unfortunately was under his Lordship's administration. We have at various times during the last month published the lists of the royal navy, in commission and in ordinary, both sailing and steam-vessels ; we have also given the number of steam-vessels building, amounting to above 10,000 horse-power; and as the ./Vgtioaa/ has vaunted its 23 ships on the French stocks, and Sir C. Napier has declared that the French have more ships building in one dock-yard than we have in the whole of our royal building establishments, we shall be pardoned for publi.hing the following state ment:—There are building, and order to be built, in her Majesty's dock-yards, 57 sailing men of war. Of these, six are three-deckers, viz.—one of 120, and five of 110 guns; sixteen two-deckers —six 90's one 84, and nine 80's ; seven frigates of 50 guns; four of 36 guns; six of 56" guns; thirteen sloops—three 20's, one 18, and nine 16's; five brigs—two 12's, one 10, one six, and one three. The shipwrights of all the dock-yards, excepting Pembroke, are generally em ployed in repairing vessels. When not so engaged they are turned over to the ships building. Their progress in this department has been slow for the last two years, in consequence of the immense repairs re quired in the ordinary. At Portsmouth two slips have'been taken into the site of the new steam esta blishment; but three new slips are being con structed, and are far advanced towards completion. Of the line-of-battle ships, the Royal Albert, 120, is one-third in frame ; the Royal Frederick, 110, is having her sides planked ; and the Victoria, 110, is in a forward state ; the Prince of i Wales, 1113, has her frame cut arid stacked for seasoning ; and the Marl borough, 110, and Windsor Castle, 110, have their frames cutting. The Aboukir, 90, and Exmouth, 90, are up in frame, and might be got ready for launching next ye:rr ; the Princess Royal, 90, has her sides being planked; the Lion, 80, Madras, , 80 , . Colossus, S 6, are in a forward state ; and the Mars, 80, is so far advanced that she eould be ready to go off the sticks at the end of next • hear. The Majestic,A! iers, 90, St. Jean d'Acre, 90, and " nswicic, 80, Cressy, 80, Irresistible, 80, Agamem non, 8 9 8 0 0 , , theirfl.s already timbers inn. The H ann ib a l , The frame of th e Sanspareil 84 is already cut out for seasoning. Th e 50-gun' frigates Constance and Raleigh are building —the latter is in A fo r r e u th •V a sta s t o e, And will be launched this year ; the a Liffey, 50, Severn, 5 . ( , ), Shannon , r, 0,. I,Panfle; 50, hove their timbers in course 4- I , r 4 jaintion. The 36-gun frigate Flora will be ready for launching in September. The Active, 36, is in frame, and is well UNION-HALL. Yesterday, William Postlahumite,a man of respect able appearance, holding a mercantile situation, was brought before Mr. Traill, charged with attempting to violate Mrs. Eliza Augusta ToWnsend on the pre ceding day. ~, The complainant stated that her husband is at present in France, and that during his absence she was staying at the residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Ward, her mother, at No. 13, Walcot-square, Kennington. The prisoner, who lodgedin the house, occupied the back room on the second floor, and she (complainant) slept in the front room on the same floor. That on Sunday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, she had occasion to go up stairs to the third floor, and brought down a water jug, with which she entered her own bedroom, but the moment she got inside the door she was greatly agitated at seeing the prisoner undressed there. She immediately drew back, and was about to quit the room, when the prisoner ran towards her, and seizing her round the waist pre vented her. She resisted his violence, but he being a very strong man, succeeded in dragging her towards the bed, on which he threw her down. She here de scribed the circumstances of the violence resorted to by the prisoner towards her while in the above condi tion, and from which it appeared he had made the most vigorous exertions to succeed in accomplishing her violation.. She, however, screamed out "Murder," and at the same time resisted her assailant until she be came exhausted, and in the struggle he broke one of her front teeth, and tore her clothes, and the bedstead, the legs of which were placed on pieces of wood to elevate it, was thrown off and pushed up nearly to the window during the outrage. After continuing the struggle for some time, she became at length insen sible, and had no recollection of what had passed. When, however, she recovered in some measure from the attack, she found that the prisoner was gone, and that she was supported by Mr. Scriven, a gentleman who occupied the first floor. The complainant, who appeared to be in a very weak and nervous state while giving her evidence, added that she had been exceed ingly ill ever since the transaction occurred, and that she still continued very unwell. In reply to Mr. Traill, the complainant said that the prisoner never attempted to take the slightest liberty with her before, and that his presence in her bedroom, into which he had obtruded himself, was so unexpected on her part that she had not the power of calling out when she first saw him there ; that she always made a point of locking her bedroom when she was there, and was in the act of doing so on this oc casion the moment she entered, when she was asto nished on seeing the prisoner. Mr. George Scriven stated that he was a clerk in the London and Westminster Bank, and occupied the first floor in the house, No. 13, Walcot-square. That between nine , and ten o'clock on the preceding morn ing he was awakened by the violent screaming of a female, as if in distress. He immediately jumped out of bed, and having hastily put on his clothes, he ran up stairs, and on entering the complainant's bedroom saw her lying on the bed struggling with the prisoner, who was entirely undressed, with the exception of his shirt. The witness here described the situation of the parties when he entered the room, which left no doubt of the violent nature of the attack made by the prisoner on the complainant, who at that period was still struggling against her as sa ilant. Witness at once proceeded to assist the complainant, which he did by dragging the prisoner off the bedstead, when the latter immediately walked out and went into his own room, while witness attended to the complainant, whose hair and dress were dishevelled, and she was apparently in a state of exhaustion, produced from her struggles with so powerful and determined an assail ant. The witness added, that Mrs. Ward being from home at the time he scarcely knew how to act on the occasion, and that while he was supporting the com plainant, who was in a state of insensibility, the pri soner left the house. The prisoner, however, custody. Nathaniel Smith, re turned the same night, when he was given into a policeman, stated that when the prisoner was giver., into his custody for attempting to violate the complainant, his answer was that Mrs. Townsend must be mistaken, and that she mistook him for some other person who had assaulted her. Mr. TRAILL, addressing the prisoner, said that he had heard the nature of the charge preferred against him, and asked him what he had to say in answer to it ? The prisoner, who spoke in a very low tone of voice, said that he did not use any force on the occasion. Mr. TRAILL—How do you account, then, for the position in which you were found by the witness when he entered the complainant's room on hearing her scream violently ? The prisoner declared that he was unconscious she had made any noise. The witness S , , , riven said that the complainant's cries for help were so loud and frequent that he was confident the neighbours must have heard them. Mr. TRAILL said that the circumstance of one of the complainant's teeth being broken in the struggle with her assailant, showed, that it must have been of a most violent description. As, however, the prisoner had adopted such a line of defence, he should remand him for further examination, which would give him an opportunity of employing a solicitor to advise with. The prisoner was accordingly remanded. WORSHIP-STREET. •A. gentleman, who stated that his name was Walker, and that he resided in St. John-street, Clerkenwell, stepped into the witness-box, and hand ing his card to the Magistrate, requested his advice and assistance under the following circumstances : The applicant stated that an aged and respectable friend of his, of the name of White, who had been for several years one- of the brethren of the Charter house, and' regarding whose perfect sanity there had never been the least .suspicion among all who knew . him intimately, had written him a communication, about a month ago, couched in the most apprehen sive terms, and stating that he had been privately informed that it was.the intention of some of the superiors of that foundation to incarcerate him forthwith in a madhouse, on the supposition that he was -insane, and earnestly beseeching the ap plicant to immediately interpose on his behalf and prevent so dreadful a c alamity. Applicant im ,mediately called upon Mr. White, with whom he had a long conversation, and the result of it was that he was never more convinced in his life of the perfect sanity of any man than he was of that of Mr. White. fle therefore lost no time in seeking the assistance of two eminent medical practitioners, whom he took with him to the Charter-house, that hii friend might undergo a searching examination as to the state of his mind by them ; and both those gentlemen, after questioning Mr. White with extreme minuteness, were unanimously of opinion that he was thoroughly' in posles7,ion of his mental faculties, and each of them unhesitatingly signed a certificate to that effect. The the applicant immediately laid before Mr. Tucker, the principal or house steward of the foundation, in the hope that their preconceived notion as to the state of Mr. White would be removed; but in a few days after he was astounded at receiving a second letter from his friend, beseeChing him to come and see him, and ostatPlig that the threatened proceeding had been put into execution, and that lie was pleb actually in a lunatic asylum at Bethnal,. green. For the:first week that Mr. White was confined there complainant was allowed .unrestricted access _to bun, but on presenting himself at the establishment ..at the beginning of the second week; he was told by the proprietor that he had.; received positive' directions froth the charter . house not to permit any one on any account to see *him again without an express and ,written order to that effect from them. .f.le• then called' upon •an eminent' physician, who had been intimately ac quainted with Mr. White for years, and upon THE LAW OF SETTLEMENT. The following are the contents of the Bill proposed by Sir James Graham, to consolidate and amend the laws relating to parochial settlement, and to the re moval of the poor:— Section 1: Repeal of so much of former Acts of Parliament as relates to settlement in parishes, and to the removal of the poor, whether English, Scold), or Irish, or of the Isles. of Man, Scilly, Jersey, or Guernsey. Section 2. Settlements which, before the Act, had been ascertained by warrants of removal, or by a€l - in writing, to be retained. But warrants of removal made before the passing of this Act may still be appealed against, as if the Act had not been passed. Section 3. Other settlements declared—namely, birth settlement; or, 2d., father's settlement ;"Or, 3d., mother's settlement. No settlement to be de rived from grandfather, grandmother, or remote an cestor. _ _ Section 4. Place of birth proved by register of birth or baptism. Section 5. Proviso, that children born in union workhouses shall be settled where their mothers are chargeable ; children born in hospitals, prisons, &c., or while their mothers are under orders of removal, shall not have a birth settlement, but shall take their parent's' settlement. Replaces, with modifications, 9 Geo. 1, c. 7, s. 4, proViso ; 13 Geo. 3, c. 82, s. 5 ; 20 Geo. 3, c. 36, s. 2 ; 54 Geo. 3, c. 17, s. - 2, 3 ; 9 Geo. 4, c. 40, s. 49; and the effect of, Dalton, 168, and of the cases R. v. Astley, 2 Bott., 17 ; Suckley v. Whitborn, 2 Bott., 3. Section 6. Declaration that there shall be no other manner of settlement. _ Section 7. Declaration, that unsettled persons are to be relieved at the charge of the " parish" where they are destitute, as if they were settled there, until they are lawfully removed, or their destitution there is lawfully at an end. Section 8. Persons chargeable to a " parish" in which they are not settled, declared liable to be re moved to the parishes of their settlement, with a salvo for the cases of— I. Married women; who are not to be removed from their husbands. 2. Legitimate children, who are not to be removed from their fathers' parish. 3. Legitimate and bastard children, who are not to be removed from their mothers. 4. Widows and their families, who are not to be removable for a year after the husband's death. 5. Widows, who are not to be removed from the place of their husband's settlement and death. 6. Persons chargeable through sickness, not to be removed until relieved forty days. '7. Labourers and others who - have maintained them selves by their labour in the place for five years, not to be removable. Section 9. Declaration, that, except wives and chil dren who are before made removable to the husband's or parent's parish, and persons removable to Scotland, Ireland, &c., no person shall be removable to any other parish than that in which they are settled. Section 10. Power to overseers to admit settle ments, and agree to amicable removals. Section 11. Summons of persons liable to be re moved; their examination; the warrant for their re moval. Proviso for the examination of persons who cannot attend the summons. . Replaces 13 and 14 Car. 2, c. 12, s. 1, as to power to remove; as to complaint to one justice, R. v. West wood, 2 Bott., 782 ; summons, R. v. Wykes, 2 Bott., 818; hearing by two justices, ib.; examination of in firm persons, 49 Geo. 3, c. 124, s. 4 ; and of prisoners, 59 Geo. 3, c. 12, s. 28. Section 12. No removal to be made until of er forty days' notice, unless the removal be previously submitted to. In case of appeal, the removal not to be made until such appeal is ended. Replaces 4 and 5 Will. 4, c. .76, s. 79. Section 13. Overseers, or persons employed by them, may execute the warrant of removal. Replaces 54 Geo. 3, c. 170, s. 10. Section 14. Persons procuring removals without warrants made subject to penalties. Section 15. Delivery of paupers under warrants of removal, at the workhouse of a parish or union, to be regarded as delivery to the overseers. Section 16. Suspension of the removal; recovery of the charges incurred by such suspension ; appeal where such charges exceed 201. Replaces 25 Geo. 3, c. 101 ' • as to sick persons, R. v. Everdon, 2 Bott, 878; and as to the whole family, 49 Geo. 3, c. 124, s. 3 ; as to justices' jurisdiction, 49 Geo. 3 - , e. 12.1, s. 1; as to notice of the warrant and suspension, 4 and 5 Will. 4, c. 76, s. 84. Section 17. Overseers may abandon a warrant of removal, paying the costs caused to the other party. Section 18. The clerk of the justices to transmit a duplicate of every warrant of removal and the ori ginal depositions to the clerks of the peace. Section 19. The clerk of the peace, on application, to furnish copies to the overseers of the parish to which the e removal is directed to be made. Section 20. The parish aggrieved by a warrant of removal may appeal, giving notice of the grounds of their appeal. Replaces 13 and 14 Car. 2, s. 2, and 3 Will. 4, c. 11, s. 10; and as to statement of periods of appeal, 4 and 5 Will. 4, c. 76, s. 81. Section 21. And may have access to the pauper touching his settlement. Replaces 4 and 5 Will. 4, c. 76, s. 80. Section 22. Quarter sessions held fourteen days after notice of appeal, to hear the appeal, no grounds to be gone into, but such as have been set forth in the respondents' and appellants' statements. Replaces 8 and 9 Will. 3, c. 30, s. 6, giving, how ever, jurisdiction to sessions of places, not counties; restriction to, the grounds of removal and appeal, 4 and 5 Will. 4, c. 76, s. 81. Section 23. On the trial of the appeal, the dupli cate of the warrant, and the original depositions trans mitted to the clerk of the peace, may be referred to for certain purposes. Section 24. Costs incurred by reason of notice of removal, or of appeal, and costs of trial, and costs caused by statements of frivolous or vexatious grounds - of removal or appeal, to be awarded and certified by the court ; recovery of such costs. Replaces 8 and 9 Will. 3, c. 30, a. 3, and 4 and 5 Will. 4, c. 76, s. 82. Section 25. Costs may be taxed by the proper officer at any time, although' the court be not sitting. See Regina v. Long, 1 Q.B. 740. Section 26. The cost of relief and maintenance of persons under warrants of removal incurred from the time that notice of - chargeability was sent, till the time when the warrants might lawfully be executed, to be repaid to the parish. Proviso saving the provi sions in clause 15, respecting suspended warrants. Replaces 4 and 5 Will. 4, c. 76, s. 84. Section 27. Notices of removal, appeal, &c., may be sent by post. Section 28. Natives of Scotland, Ireland, and the Islands of Man, Scilly, Jersey, and Guernsey, not settled in England, may be removed to the places of their birth. Replaces, as to natives of Scotland, Ireland, Man and Scilly, 3 and 4 Will. 4, c. 40, s. 2 ; of Jersey and Guernsey, 11 Geo. 4, e. 5, s. 2. Section 29. Justices in quarter Sessions to make regulations for . such removals. Replaces 3 and 4 Will. 4, c. 40, s. 3 and 4.- Section 30. The expenses incurred by the parishes in such removals to be repaid out of the county rates. Replaces 3 and 4 Will. 4, c. 40, s. 5, with addition of natives of Jersey and Guernsey. Section 31. Or in London, by the Chamberlain of the City, and levied by a special rate. Replaces 3 and 4 Will. 4, c. 40, s. 6. Section 32. And in other cities and places not con tributing to a county rate, by a general rate. • Replaces 3 and 4 Will. 4, c. 40, s. 7. Section 33. Guardians of unions in Ireland, and the heritors and kirk session or borough magistrates in Scotland, may appeal against such warrants. Re moving parish may abandon its warrant, on payment of all costs incurred, including those of sending the pauper back to such parish. . Section 34. Boards of guardians may apply for warrants of removal, and execute such warrants. Section 35. Paid officers may he appointed to con duct removals. Section 36. This Act to be construed as one Act with the Poor-law Amendment Acts. Section 37. The Act limited to England and Wales Section 38. The Act may be amended this session. • • There is no truth whatever .in the paragraph in the Standard of Wednesday with respect to., the com missioning the vessels comprising the experithental squadron. Not only are they not commissioned, but there is not a commission or warrant down for any, of them. The report in the same paper that Captain A. L. .Corry had commissioned the •Firebrand, and hoisted a Commodore's broad pendant on board, is equally erro neous. With respect the brigs, there is some doubt as to their being commissioned at all ; the 'men may be wanted for larger ships, .and as a reason for the remark we may state that an inquiry has been sent down to know how soon six sail of the line can be at Spithead. The reply was .three weeks, exclusive of manning. We may also State that men are entering at the. Tower . for ,‘ general service."—Hampshire can.. state . ,': upon undoubted authority, that Mr. Prinsep,who was recently. appointed to a situationosan,Lnghsh , railway , is not .thd,Mr..ll. T. Prinsep . contested the Kilniarnoelflnirghs. The latter gentleman is It MEW of independent fortune, Glasgow Herald. [ADVERTISMENT.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—We beg to send for publication the follcasieg cure of consumption, by the universal medicine.- - V is are your obedient servants, MORISON and CO. British College of Health, New-road, London, Aug. 19, 1844. CURE OF CONSUMPTION BY MORLSON'S HYGEIAN MEDICINES. COMMUNICATED BY THE REV. .1. SMITH. Stockton, Durham, May 20, 1844. Gentlemen,—Truth outweighs fiction, and facts l e s stubborn things. Considerable experience prove s -t t the finest flower in Nature's garden, uninterrupted how:, is attainable by the use of the purifier of the system the extirpator of disease—the harbinger of real joY " Morison's Universal Medicines," as the following traordinary case of cure will testify : Called, in the performance of professional duties, M visit a person labouring under that dire disease, consumP; Lion, I conversed with him respecting the particular ses' of.pain, and ascertained everything relating to the co!: mencemcnt and progress of the disease, which it is VI unnecessary here to paticularise, suffice it to stat e ' 0 found him, (a man about twenty-eight years of age. b bricklayer by trade) labouring under an excessive cog' the expectoration very weighty, and particularly eff, e b ; sive to the visitor, his perspiration through the 131 ,g,. season very great ; he had been confined to his 11 01) ,'„i tion for two months, and to his bed for weeks. 1 1 er ni also received the best medical advice from - phYsw 4 e and surgeons, who had declared the case a hopeless 01 1 o; he being in the last stage of consumption. In thi s dition Ifound him. Having performed the' duties w" . 40 took me to his dwelling, I offered him assistance; .0 gratefully accepted it, and I commenced by giving 1 2;di two pills of No. 1 each night, and one of O. I - LA morning, this he continued for ten consecutive days,D then I gave hint three pills, No. 2. During this4' ; 0 , his cough, during the night, became less troubl eso and he slept better. He then proceeded alternite i l d take three to five pills of each number, and, at the - en to three weeks, to the surprise of his family, he was ahlero leave his room, his cough very little distressing b iol. :hi persevered with the doses as above stated : the- oT o , sweats gradually left him, strength of body No s • i pti parted, and after continuing a course of the ineeoc l o g for seven weeks (never using larger doses), be t his enabled to appear in the 'house of God to testify 0 goodness, and praise Him for his love. The M io was well known in the village, and his appeargllo the sar.ctuary astonished , the minister (14 6 d frequently visited him, expecting his dissolution) !..0 the congregation, it appearing that an almost deed was raised to life and health. tp For four or five weeks longer he continued to is sot medicines of the British College of Health, and 1 . 3 .4 ,4 others were administered, and he regained his r e of , health, engaged in his wonted employment, and °.,e, after two years, has never experienced a return pf disely I will furnish any lady or gentleman who will add' r me, through you, with the name and address of the Poe,o son, and every particular respecting the case, which t se superintended by myself ; and so surpris ed wereco inhabitants of the place at the extraordinary fr o effected, that they looked upon him as one ra ised the borders of the grave. " ' That you may long live to dispense the best ever devised for the extirpation of disease f rQui efo' human system, is the:fervent wish of your ardent ' l a J. SW sate, To Messrs, Morison and, Co; London. Cairrioir.—Notice is hereby given, that no chercisiit;' r e druggist is autherlied to sell Morison's Pills. Fu rc „ t ici! only of the appointed agents (who are all Pr ' n hygeists), one of whom is to be found in every tn oe the kingdom, and throughout the world. See °doll words " Morison's Universal Medicines" are eogr il/ ,-red the Government stamp, in white letters upon' opi ground. Sold in boxes at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6dp 11s. each. Also, the Vegetable Powders, at ls. T' UNPARALLELED ACTIVITY IN THE BOOR. s ot About a fortnight since, a young man neatly, tr e t2i . or with something of the air of a Dissenting mne' country schoolmaster, called at the shop of Mess l7 t;,,i and Ridler, the well-known booksellers and lihrsrw;, , eo High-street, Bristol, and inquired how often thil, f rf in the habit of writing to London for books. Th e '7 OO O was " every evening." In that case he would triibleti them to order for him six dozen of a sixpenny 1)°, 1 'to 0 entitled the "Biter Bit," the parcel, when recely e ln sent to Mr. John Duncan, No. ---, Stoke'§ Croft• obi' course of the same day, a young bookseller, who s` ° ter parcels through Messrs. Light and Ridler, sent pit., quest they would get 100 copies of the " 1 3 it er d tts' On receiving this additional order they concluaergoi this, to them unknown publication, was some _ 5, *o ° l tract of surpassing interest. The next day Mr- ' 1 ;10" carries on the same business in Clare-street, oil to t V after a few remarks in his usual facetious style, 5 . 5 , 4. 0 state of trade, &c., asked if they had any orders for " Biter Bit." " Why, yes;" and so on comparing purr it appeared that Mr. C. had been favoured by g r ',l o ", can, of Kingsdown House, with an order for 5i..„01: An adjournment was then moved and carried unanicov to the house of Mr. H., - a brother chip, wboseLties, residence is on Kingsdown, and he, on engin* while professing utter ignorance of any Mr. Johnojtb' can, of Kingsdown, owned a slight acquaintance. ft, fi gentleman of that name, resident in Stoke's C r° n itl ; whom he had the previous evening ordered 100 1; 0 PS a pamphlet called the "Biter Bit." Mr. C., F t , not dispatched his order, indulged in a loud gaffs-I'olr countenance of Mr. Light grew dark and hearli, j o g Mr. Ridler seemed in all the painful throes of so l v e' most difficult conundrum. In a few minutes inr", tion was the order of the day ; domiciliary visits cora paid all the bibliopolists of Bristol, and, an inqui-1.1, ducted with a celerity, minuteness, and acuteness, 01`or a Home Secretary or an Assistant Poor-law 0.1„,t10 sioner would have envied, concluded in-ascertain"ne gratifying fact that Mr. John Duncan had heell io impartial t?' fectly in the distribution of his favours. in the trade were too high or too humble to ee l ,. ViiA°, patronage. About 3,000 copies of the " Biter so"' be Vi been obtained at his request. By some mistakLy, y o up to the present moment neglected to call, Yie r ffir A take away the interesting pamphlet, which, being of either a religious or political ter'uote ls unmitigated farrago of nonsense, detailing th e ci tiseP 4 of two itinerant lecturers.—Great Western Ada" 1 , i• MR. TEMPLETON AT THE LATE FESIL VI 'AiI O /1 1 HONOUR OF BURNS.—We perceive, by the 00; 1 , 0 1c: - 68er, that Mr. Templeton added not a little t°,: ‘ , Of f ; of the late Burns' festival. The first speech of ti e d man, after the withdrawal of the cloth, concluu " ttyist.ge the toast, " The memory of Burns," the band s a y s ! II ; , " Here's a health to ane I foe dear." " Here , Ayr Advertiser, " Mr. Templeton, the eminent' ' t t li j , who, from the first, had taken a warm inte re i ,„ s hs r !„l demonstration, and had placed himself' in trolit l l2 ; of the committee, with a tender of his voca l in on the occasion, advanced from his Riec e he gr i t pavilion to where Mr. Blewitt, who had In ` spirit undertaken the management of the the r , department, and who brought, to the task f e sti v o 3 perience of having conducted the Shakspearise s e re was seatcd at a grand piano, and sung ' 11 , t • braes o' bonny Doon' with a combined brilliar 011 K, derness, and taste that thrilled the feelifigs e „ 15 0 , 6 4 smt, and was followed by the most rapturous 4 . at', Subsequently, when Mr. Henry Glassford some heart-stirring remarks on Irish rainstreton posed " Moore, and the Irish poets," Templ e i fter with admirable effect, " The Harp of Tara. COlC:'te toast " The Peasantry of Scotland," proposed u f , r ofr.' c r) Mure, of Caldwell, Mr. Templeton sung the arrd v eto',i' e d song " My Nanny 0," which (says the Ayr A h t ieclud was so much applauded, and followed by suc ° to e encores that Mr. Templeton returned to the P w ho 0 5 seemed' to electrify tho audience with " Sco ts • we Wallace bled." The celebrated singer, W i l o l y P r • o, also present. Several calls were made upon es song, but an apology was tendered for hin)_; as 'iv stated that he had caught cold. Mr. Terar e :ess , tr y cert, at the Ayr Theatre, was crowded to e;ti stage being filled, and ninny of the nobility a goo / of the county being present. BIRTHS. .1i1(114 On the 17th inst., Lady Norreys, of a son. ..,_..4_ the P- On the 15th inst., at East Sutton-place, Ae"'" OA Sir Edmund Filiner, Bart., 81. P., of a son. „ o fthe , On the 16th inst., in Portman-street,. the law .0 . 6 .1 1 ' J. C. Dundas, M.P., of a son. ......tico, '''''' , On the Bth inst., at Lower Eaton-street, roP -- eS" reo c Burkinyoung, of a son. ' • teit' e On the 12th inst., at Granby-street, Morning Mrs. Edward Cutten, of a dauttter. , y iiper -54tiftre' On the 15th inst., Mrs. W. H. Garrett, of .0' Islington, of a daughter. Of °_:,iel chute' , p.-- On the 16th inst., at Greenwich, Mrs. Gay ." - _,li 0 1 On the 16th inst., at Weimer Lodge, the 1 1 .•.' go , Russell, Esq., of a son. j lii i .2ll=t o t n ypper Park-place, j ' '' W l ' vac ,,,, es ili , d, , 0 9. On the 18th inst., Mrs. Berry, of Seven SisterP* loway, of a daughter., tone hi . .. i r • MARRIED. aniPC"' On the 13th inst., at Northborough, - 15.°rth oolleg e kor tli‘ Grainger Lawrence Towers, Esq., of St. John C lar k, ' bridge, to Eliza, second daughter of Mr. W. . l i es' borough. felo c i el Q.treet, ° Aite On the 14th inst., at Paris, Edward M. •-• e iy ds° B * ter, Sussex, to Marie Antoinette Pauline, 0 - •lc i' Monsieur T. Nollet, Rue d'Enghien. vre deri tie e ne, By special license, at Marylebone Churitehd,i-lide Di. 0.00. White, Esq., Royal Marines, to Francis he Env , t • 0 daughter of the late Major J. ' W. Dunne, ° f t 1,06 , and 6th Dragoon Guards. 'r d Von On the 14th inst., at Ealing . Church, ALP ° Esq. . 0 IV Eliza, second daughter of the late John Vernon, , eOl ,l _ or On the 15th inst., at Cippenham House. CIPP eD :I I Tiet I Go* f prot._x• parish of Burnham, Bucks, Joseph J° lll E s q 0 cikr deley,only child of Joseph ChOlmondeleY:rtirner, or.. ham-place, Regent's-park, to Lady Pag e „ . • • • • House.ham - • DIED. ' teitob ert. On the 16th inst., Elizabeth, relic t of the la • . ' Ater d daub- Esq., of Alpha-road, Regent's-park. .- . . e thir On. the 16th inst., at Upminster, -Maria, to L s tol f : of Mr. Thomas Boyce. On the 17th inst., Granville Sharp, E sl i r ii(ft 'or:lt:nit, c ''' 0 0 On the 17th inst , Mrs. Mary Smith, - e I lls, I L W. Smith, of Southampton row, Bloomsbury'. :,..,. F0..,0fe. his O l n ?n t s h a e g l e 9 t t o h E of n Ad a n n i d l ,I afsrto,matcstician,a'o,ltob:ol,lvCcl7rt.ll sec-. paymaster of her Majesty's 55th Regiment . ' l _ :,„ of the d Emma, ' ,ll , .. the On the 12th inst., at Hatnpstea , ~e d ..,J• ._ o f • J. P. T. Wyche, M.A., of Crnnfield, Beds,. no rt, !sty ._ On the 15th inst., Major Christopher •N ewli " . 4.00, 1. 04' Bombay Army. „ sll o li n to t e h , E e sql6.,tlhatiensotf thienFU:ehigiTt..lloffiarcte-,..stgl...Pfliigislobll;o3o.ml:lolo. On the 16th inst., at Bristol -road, P".. „ i v , VP Kettle, Esq., aged 75: On the 16th inst., at Ladbroke- ora Pls e c is e t liNre. Rev. T. C-BrOwise, Viiai of liaise, s H o f YOlg, oft London: Printed and Published by MU 01) of No. 112, Strand,— Printer, - at_ The 'Bros:. Otr,oool Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, is Old Middlesex, Tuesday, August 20,1+344.