The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-25 00:00:00

sPiaiT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENTWG PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The Archbishop of Canterbury has re turned a reproving answer to a complaint made to him of Tractarianism in the sermons of a Rev. Mr. Shaw. 'We can say nothing about this case, as we have no evidence on it before us. But we can say that it immediately concerns the clergy more than the laity, that cases of this kind should be probed to the bottom, and not dismissed on ex parte evidence. Unless the clerical order, by itself constituted the Church—in which case, Puseyite development threatens it with having the Church all to itself—the laity must necessarily be allowed, directly or indirectly, to have a voice in the matter of the teaching they are to listen to. This is unavoidable, so long as listening is not corn pulsory. We grant that, if the New.naniac van guard of Puseyism could have things their own way—if reconciliation with Rome were effected — which the Newman coterie declare the first indispen iable requisite—if the noble and glorious company of St. Ignatius had its effective force fully reorganised, and if the Secular Arm could be forced to execute what ever the Infallible Church, by its Pope, had decreed —the daily defections from nigh Church congrega tions might be viewed with indifference—or viewed simply as arguments for preparing sufficient dragoon force to drive the flock back to the fold. In the meantime, however, nothing of all this has, as yet, been accomplished. " Protestants, and other heretics," have the assurance still to think themselves constituents of the Church. They have the assurance still to think that something else than obedience belongs to laymen • and that something else than Jesuitism should be the model contemplated by their guides. They have the assurance to laugh to scorn the miraculous sacerdotal system again sought to be accredited. They do not contest the right of another Church to believe new wonders, and canonise new Saints. They do not contest the right of Roman Catholics to believe that St. Alfonso Liguori, while praying to the Virgin in a congregation, was raised two feet from the pulpit, and turned, in rising, to the image of that Blessed Lady, whose countenance miraculously beamed upon him. But they do contest the right of English Churchmen to write as follows of the system of casuistry revived by that, and such other modern Saints, in moral matters: —" The tender but pure system of discipline intro duced into Italy by St. Alfonso towards the conclu sion of the last century, though it met with clamour and opposition from the rigid party, has probably been one main cause of the singular revival of spirituality in that part of the Church." It is well known to those who have looked into these matters, that the Jesuitical management of the con fessional—which " the noble and glorious company of St. Ignatius" are re-introducing in France and Italy—has always been one of the things most Obnoxious to moral censure about their institute. It has always, however, been one of the main elements of their power. The license exercised to distinguish and extenuate at discretion in all cases brought before them, is the sure recipe employed by men of the world engaged as soldiers of Christ, or rather soldiers of the Pope, for such has been, from the beginning, the Jesuit service—to attract weak men, and weaker women, into the great net which they spread over all Europe. They are spreading that net again. Are they not? Is there no meaning in the fact that _Fnglish clergymen have the impudence (that is the word) to hail them noble and glorious—to hail their permanence as a standing miracle ? Is there no meaning in the fact that French education is grasped at in their name ; that rulers, philosophers, professors, all men who will not bow to their gentle yoke, are asssailed with every infamous inven tion of cell-bred slander? They are too precipitate — the scribes of the Univers—the myrmidons of M de Montalembert. That notable Jesuit and Peer of France is, by half, too plain -spoken. . The Dublin Review never did a worse service to the cause it supports than by publishing the haughty summons 9f that lay-preacher of Jesuit Mariolatry. The pear is not ripe ; not ripe even in France ; far less in England. France has not forgotten the old independent distinctions of her own Church. That Church, indeed, is now low enough ; a miserable multitude of despised parish priests are helpless enough against any impulse which a stronger Organisation may give them. But France is not Bel gium ; the intellectual republic of Paris cannot be again priest-ridden. It is more than a sally of M. Alichelet that France expelled a dynasty to rid herself'' of Jesuit direction—and would expel ten dynasties more. Jesuitism is nothing but the volunteer force, or "auxiliary legion," of an Infallible Church. Implicit obedience to the earthly head of an Infallible Church was the grand scope of Jesuitism. This was, from its origin, an offensive warfare against the common sense of all Europe. Again and again Europe has expel!cl the sable militia which tormented her. Again and again they have made resurrection—and the Newmanite standing miracle again lifts its head. In this we hold there is nothing miraculous. The miracle, we think, if there is any, consists in the modern tolerance of a pretension—for enforcing which Jesuitism furnishes the best machinery. The preten sion is, that implicit obedience is due to any autho rity on earth. Admit that pretension ; and Jesuit agencies to work it follow in natural order. STANDARD.—It is not difficult to account for the contempt with which certain writers affect to treat agricultural meetings. It is by such meetings that the writers in question have been most effectually opposed—driven from their free trade doctrines and fixed duty projects to take re fuge in an ungracious and most reluctant silence. It may be true that much of novelty is not to be expected at an agricultural meeting, but are such tneetings useless? If so, universities, colleges, and schools are useless, for they are all employed in teaching things previously well known to some. Neither universities, colleges, schools, nor agricul tural meetings are useless, for though what they teach is not new in the abstract it is new to those to whom they teach it. The speech of Lord Stanley, at the late Liverpool meeting, happily illustrates the value of teaching old truths to those by whom those truths, though old, had never been duly appreciated. There had been scarcely any farmers or landlords in England for some centuries ignorant of the fact, that the more . money judiciously laid out in draining and manuring land, the more productive the land is made to the farmer, and the more valuable his estate is rendered to the landlord. Yet how few, comparatively, are the farmers and landlords who seem to have profited by this know ledge ? Now, one effect of agricul tural meetings is to remind the dull or negli gent of such plain truths as this, and to stimu i late them by the intelligence that others are reminded of these truths also, and that if they do • not act upon them, they will be left bee hind ; yes, when a farmer is made aware that his neighbours are, to some extent, about to reduce the money price of produce by greatly augmenting its amount, he must set to work to improve his crops, too, or he will surely be left in the lurch. Here, however, seems to arise a difficulty, as farmer and landlord are both equally interested in the improve ment of the land, who is to pay the cost ?—and if both, in what proportions are they to pay it ? Lord Stanley solves the difficulty, by an appli cation of the rule as old at least as the civil law—" Qui sentit lucrum, sentiat et onus," — a rule mast successfully and satisfactorily adopted by the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Harrowby, Mr. Barnebv, and many other noblemen and gentle men. Where a tenant has a lease for a term, let him expend in profitable improvemeet an amount proportioned to the value of his term, and no mire, unless his landlord lends it; and where the tenantcy is at will, let the landlord advance money for improvement, upon a reasonable interest. Experience has shown that upon average land farmers may make twenty per cent. of money for which they pay , but five, while landlords en sure from one to two per cent. upon the mere loan, plus the immense gain by the permanent improvement of their estates. Is it not of some worth ; that through agricultural meetings this is known to all the landlords and farmers of the country ?—that every improving landlord is re minded to say to his tenant, drain and improve the land, and I will lend you the money (which I can - borrow at 31) at 5 per cent„ and that the improving tenant is reminded to say to his landlord, "I am 'willing_ to. ,drain and manure the farm I hold from Yon', if you will only grant me or procure me a loan at the legal rate of interest." In the present state of the money market, it must be shameful, when such things are known, to every landlord or farmer who neglects necessary improvements ; and this reminds us of a material omission of the noble Secretary for the Colonies. His Lord ship forgot to remind his hearers that to the Cabinet of which he is so distinguished a support and ornament, the country owes not only the auspicious state of the money market, but the perfect safety of investments in agricultural improv bent—fur ;ale these investments would not be were it not for the moderate aryl efficient corn-law of 1842. That law it is which has ruined the League and muzzled even our " fixed duty" friends. THE BATTEXT AT BRIGHTON.—The commissioners acting under the Brighton Local Act have fur some tinge had under their consideration a plan for widening the King's-road between Ship -street and Cannon-place, and some months ago they appointed a committee on the subject. The battery standing i n the W the pro jected improvement, a request has been made of deto i t i h a e Ad miralty to allow of its removal; and a lette r been received from the board, giving their assent t s o j t u tt " re moval of the battery 53 feet to the southward on th e beach. By this means the only narrow part of the mag nificent three-miles drive at Brighton, along the front of the town, will be got rid of, besides avoiding the cres cent round the present battery. The stew fortification is to be flanked by two bastions, each mounting two guns, is addition to the strength of the present battery. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice MAIILE and Mr. Baron ROLFE.) James Ball, 30, was indicted for a felonious assault upon Lucy Leser. When the prisoner was placed at the bar he inti mated that he expected counsel had been employed on his behalf. Mr. Baron ROLFE asked him if he had employed a professional man ?—The prisoner said he had not, but the deputy-governor of the gaol had undertaken to provide counsel for him. Mr. WILKINS complained of this course of pro ceeding, and said that the proper course, when a pri soner was not in a position to employ an attorney, was for him to hand over the depositions or the state ment of his case to a counsel in open Court. Mr. Baron RoLrE said there should be some inquiry, and he directed the deputy-governor to be sent for. That functionary soon afterwards came into court, and, in answer to questions from the Bench, he said that the prisoner had handed him a sum of money to provide counsel, anal he had given it to the governor, who, he understood, would engage counsel fur the prisoner. Shortly afterwards Mr. Ballantine rose and said that he had been requested by Mr. Cope to watch the case on behalf of the prisoner. Mr. WILKINS said that the prisoner had, no doubt, made a judicious selection of a counsel, but he must say he did not think it a proper course for the officers of the gaol to act in this manner on behalf of pri soners. It placed the whole of the bar under the favouritism of the governor or the deputy-governor of the gaol. Baron RoLrE did not see any harm in the pro ceeding. If a prisoner fancied the governor was qualified to choose a counsel for him, he did not see how the Court could prevent it. The trial then proceeded, and the prisoner was eventually convicted of an assault, and he was sen tenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for eighteen calendar months. Mr. PARRY then addressed the Court in reference to what had taken place upon the subject of the de fence of the prisoner, and wished to know whether the members of the bar were to understand that the judges sanctioned or approved of the proceeding of the governor or deputy-governor of the prison employing counsel for prisoners. Mr. Baron ROLFE said he had not expressed any approval of the proceeding, but what he said was, that if a prisoner chose to consult the governor as to whom he should employ for counsel, he did not see how it could be prevented. George Weston, 23, John Cooper, alias Twiberlake, 27, and George Jackson, 23, were indicted, the two first-named prisoners for stealing twelve sovereigns and other property, belonging to Edward Blundell, and the other prisoner, Jackson, for receiving a por tion of the property, knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Simon conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Baldwin defended the prisoner Cooper. The other prisoners had no counsel. The circumstances under which the robbery was committed were of a most cruel and heartless cha racter. The prosecutor was in the service of a builder in the Belvidere-road, and on the 27th of August he went to his work, as usual, leaving his wife, who had only been confined a fortnight, and her nurse, at home. Shortly afterwards the prisoner Weston went to the house and asked to see the prosecutor's wife on particular business, and when she was introduced to him he told her that a very unpleasant circum stance had taken place, that her husband had been taken into custody upon the charge of robbing his em ployers, and that he was a police-constable, in plain clothes, who was sent with a warrant to search the house. The poor woman was, of course, dread fully alarmed at the story, and, not suspecting anything wrong, she opened the boxes and cup boards, and produced twelve sovereigns, some silver-spoons, and some articles of jewellery, all of which the prisoner put in the drawers. After a close search he said that he did not find any property he expected, and he would write a letter to the officer on duty at the station-house, which she had better take, and at the same time see her husband. He at the sane time said that a young man in the employ of her husband's master, was waiting outside, and he would accompany her to the station-house. The poor woman, anxious to see her husband, and of coursa under very great alarm and agitation, consented to do as Weston suggested, and he then called the prisoner Cooper, who was standing outside the house, and asked him to go with Mrs. Blundell to the station house, and he would take charge of the property while she was gone. Cooper and the prosecutor's wife ac. cordingly went away together, and when they had gone a short distance, Cooper, under some pretence, left her, and as he did not come back so soon as he had promised, her suspicion was excited, and she returned home, when she discovered that the moment she had left Weston had decamped with all the property he could lay his hands upon. The only evidence against Jack son was, that he had formerly lodged in the house of the prosecutor, and that when he was taken into custody a wedding-ring, which was believed to ha:'e been the one stolen from the prosecutor's house, was seen on his finger ; but as he afterwards contrived to get rid of it, there was no possibility of identifying the article. The jury found Western and Cooper Guilty, and acquitted Jackson. CONVERSION OF SIX HUNDRED ROMAN CATHOLICS TO PROTESTANTISM. The remarkable conversion of an entire commune, consisting of upwards of six hundred Roman Ca tholics, has been effected by the simple reading of the Scriptures, circulated by the agents of the London Bible Society. The commune is called Villefavard, and is situated in France. We take the following account of the conversion from a letter of Mr. D. Pressensee, published in the Bible Society's Monthly .Extracts : " I have already spoken to you of the labours of the Bible Colporteurs in the department of the Haute Vienne (Limoges), and of the good effected by them in a commune consisting of six hundred and more Roman Catholics, where the reading of the' Scriptures has led the people to make inquiries after a religion more consonant with the truths of the Gospel. I have also already mentioned that the Popish clergy have done all in their power to stop this movement, and the active and strong manner in which they have been seconded by the authorities ; yet, notwithstand ing all this, the perseverance on the part of the in habitants of Villefavard (the name of the commune here spoken of) has triumphed over every obstacle. They have come to the happy conclusion, not by violently resisting the authorities and the priests, but by declaring as one man (for not a single individual among them manifested the smallest hesitation) that they were firmly resolved to embrace the Protestant Evangelical religion. " On Sunday, the 7th Sept., the church, on which the seals had been placed by order of the Sub-Pre fect, with a view to prevent the Gospel from being preached in it, was at length opened, and given up to the inhabitants, whose property it is. The labours at this time carrying on in the fields kept many from attending ; but still the church itself was not only full, but there were as many as it held standing on the outside. Mention is made of 1,820 persons from Villefavard and the neighbouring communes having been prevent. During the two hours that the service lasted, the crowd, in the church and outside, re mained stationary, attentive, and deeply affected. Three pastors officiated on the occasion. At the con clusion of this meeting many persons from the sur rounding communes, who had previously entreated the minister recently established at Villefavard to visit them and to converse with them on the Iloly Scriptures, repeated their request afresh; and there is reason to hope that the spark, which has thus fallen in the midst of the department, may soon be kindled, and burn in all directions. " ' In the meantime,' writes the friend from whom the above account has been obtained, ' we behold a commune, consisting of more than 600 souls, passing over, with their mayor, their cure (that is, their former cure, converted to Protestantism, and become a teacher), and their church to the Protestant faith, or at least to the Protestant worship ; and if all are not converted to the Lord, all will at least have, in future, an opportunity of hearing the Word of God. Even at present, the reformation which has been effected in the Commune of Villefavard manifests its influence upon those around them who are still Ro man Catholics, by compelling their clergy to be less haughty and less exacting."' FRENCH PRINTS.—A question of some importance to printsellers and publishers has recently been paid by the Customs' officers, with respect to the duty to be charged on prints published in France, and accompanied by letter-press in illustration of the different engravings. A case, containing upwards of fifty numbers of a work executed in France, illustrative of the Chateau d'Eu and of her Majesty's recent visit to the King of the French (being, it is understood, a copy of the akum presented by Louis Philippe to the Queen on the occasion of his return visit at Windsor Castle), each number containing six engravings, and accompanied by two pages of letter press in the English language descriptive of the prints, has recently been detained by the officers, as liable to the duty of five per cent. as books, it being considered that, being bound slightly together, or rather stitched, as it is termed, and accompanied by a descriptive account, it destroyed their claim to being termed simply prints, and gave them the character of books. Orders have been issued for the same to be delivered as prints, the letter-press being merely descriptive of them, duty free, and directions have been given to the officers to govern isssmua thems elvesptiny.hßd SU BSCRIPTION descriptive Nta f il u v future I roo r lat e r t taThtei isinstances,uteinelgengraving, alavicolnVoiaghu:sne andrt e ,A aNt accordingly. Dde e 00 recdstiinr nottlD);t.letter-presscon tainEN OF TUE HASWELL SUFFERERS SUNDERLANTo, TITES DAL—Upwards of 3,0001, has now been realised in aid of this benevolent object. THE SINKING OF THE SPANISH SCHOONER. The following is a full and authentic account of the late untoward affair of the Rayo : " Between two and three o'clock in the afternoon of the Ist of October, two vessels were descried by the sentry on duty, about two miles from the shore, and nearly opposite to the Governor's cottage, at Europa, bearing towards the fort. One was a trader, evidently seeking the shelter of our batteries from the other, which was closely in chase of her and which fired a shot at her from a swivel-gun, and then sent an armed boat in pursuit of her, from which eight or nine more shots were fired in succession. At this juncture Captain Aymer, of the Royal Artillery, having seen and heard several shots fired from the schooner's boat, fired a shot over the boat in chase, with the view of bringing her to. Instead, however, of paying any attention to this signal, she attempted to pull out to sea, not, however, until her crew had again fired at the vessel of which she had been in chase, the schooner continuing her course after the trader. A second shot was then fired at the boat, when she returned alongside the schooner, which persisted in continuing to disregard the signal, keeping onwards to Europa Point. The 18-pounder under the flag-staff was then manned, and two shots were successively fired with the same object, in front of the schooner, as well as over her, with as little effect. Another shot was directed at her rigging,which fell astern of her, to which she paid as little attention, continuing to bold her course for Algesiras. Other shots were then fired designedly wide of her. It appears, however, that one of these shots took effect upon her hull, and sunk her, her master and crew having been picked up by a Portuguese vessel which happened to be at hand. Meanwhile the trader had been detained close to the shore under Europa Point, and her master confirmed the fact that the Rayo and her boat had con tinued to fire at his vessel after she had arrived in the British waters. The catastrophe was per fectly accidental, although ,the circumstances of the case would fully have authorised the authorities o Gibraltar in firing at the schooner with the view of sinking her, agreeably with they/all-known regulations of the port. The trader pursued was not a smuggling vessel, as was at first supposed. The Rayo was a Spanish coast guard cruiser, and her fate was entirely owing to the folly and obstinacy of the person in com mand of her, which left the authorities of the garrison no option in the matter." _ INTRODUCTION OF BRICKMAKING INTO ENGLAND. —lt is generally admitted that the Romans introduced the art of brickmaking into this country, for we have no account of any being used prior to the Roman Conquest. Noe does it appear that the Romans employed this ma terial otherwise than when compelled to do so is the ab sence of other material. The Roman walls were gene rally built with cement and tiles, or flint stores laid in courses at convenient distances to bind the parts together, and at the external and internal angles, to strengthen them. These bands consisted of three or four courses of tiles or stones laid through the wall, and were placed at two or three feet from each other ; the intermediate spaces being raised by a sort of cement composed of mortar and pebbles, and sometimes of rag stones, or such materials as the country afforded. In this manner the Nails of Verulam, Colchester, Chesterford, and other places were built. Alberti tells us, on the authority of Varro, that the Gauls built their houses of baked brick, but this does not correspond at all with the incient sim plicity of those people, for the use of this materiel always implies a certain advance in civilisation ; on the other hand, in places where other material could not be pi•o cured, it is very probable they had recourse to unburneil brick or mud.—The Budder. SALE OF AMERICAN HAY, &c.—On Tuesday a sale by auction of 85 bales and 38 half-bales of Ame rican hay, imported per the Westminster, from New York, took place at the offices of Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, brokers, Monument-yard ; this being the second sale of a similar article, but which was of a much su perior quality than that previously offered for compe tition. There were sixteen lots, which realised from 85s. to 965. a ton, a figure from 10s. to 20s. higher per ton than the former parcels. A mueh larger quantity could have been disposed of. But fur the high freightage, which will only be taken by measure ment and not by woigkt, a. much larger supply would be imported. There were also offered for sale 10,2941b5. of Irish salmon in tins, at sixpence and sevenpence per lb. There were 68 lots, the tins containing 21bs , 31bs., and 4lbs. each, and the article was highly approved of. In a few days a quantity of preserved milk from the sister island will be put up to auction, the article being one that has hitherto been sent to the London market from Scotland. MANAGEMENT OF BLISTERS....—Dr. Robertson giVcS the following direction for the management of blisters, as the result of nearly seventeen years experience:—The blistering plaster should be spread thinly on paper or linen, not sprinkled over with powdered cantharides o n the surface ; but instead thereof, a few drops of olive oil rubbed on it and allowed to remain. Used in tlis way, he says, the blister acts speedily, and without causing irritation : with him it never produces atrangury. He objects to a blister spread upon leather, because the leather, by the heat of many parts of the body, becomes dry, partially crisp, and with difficulty ad heres to the skin, and thereby prevents it from acting well and generally over the whole part intended to be blistered. The blistzr should be spread thinly, because the outer surface only is efficient ; and when it is used in a thick layer, it becomes irregular, and consequently partial in its operation. The powdered cantharides should not be sprinkled on it, because they will not add to its efficiency, as they act but slightly on the skin ; but the active prin ciple of the Spanish fly being soluble in olive oil, affords a reason for the use of the oil on the surface of the blister. Dr. Robertson concludes by remarking, that every one can make this blister fur himself, of the commonest mate rials,-at a very trifling expense, and, if this be any re commendation, it will act three, four, or six times, if un injured, and the oil gently renewed on its surface. — Medical Times. POISONING wt . Paussrc ACID.—We are cognisant of an instance, where a dispensary physician prescribed prussic acid for a patient, a certain number of drops to be taken during the day. The apothecary, to save him self trouble, wo presume, gave the patient, an Irishman, a bottle, containing a quantity of medicinal prussic acid, unmixed with anything else. The man, calculating that if five drops would do him good, twenty or thirty would be much more effectual, took the larger dose, and nearly paid with his life for his rashness. In both these exam ples, had the medicine been dispensed for the patients in the doses proper to be taken, the consequences which we have described would have been avoided, and in this consists one of the many advantages possessed by the general practitioner over the pure, whether physician or surgeon, as he can exhibit the medicine he orders in properly divided doses, can watch and control its effects, and increase or diminish the dose as he deems it advis able, while it is notoriously the practice with the pures, unless when attending in conjunction with a general practitioner, to order medicines to be taken by drops, and of which a quantity is generally directed, sufficient to last for several days or weeks.—Medical Times. THE BELGIAN . TARIFF.—The Belgian tariff, which has just been promulgated, appears to be dictated chiefly by hostility to English manufactures. Printed cottons, which hitherto paid 211 francs per 100 kilogrammes (about 2201 b. English), are now to pay 325 francs. On co:eured or printed silks, the duties have been raised from four francs per kilogramme to 10 francs. With regard to France, the old duties on cotton cloths are w remain for twelve months. We perceive that some of cur Contemporaries seem to fear, that the effect of these o;fierential duties will be to substitute the printed cottons of France and Saxony for those of Manchester ; but we doubt whether there is much ground for any such ap prehensions. The prints of Rouen and Mulhausen are widely different from those which we export to Bel. gium ; and, therefore, unless a considerable change should take place in the fabrics manufactured by our continental rivals, they will not come into very serious competition with our merchants in the Belgian market. —Manchester paper. REQUISITION TO THE MAYOR FOR HIS RE-ELEC- • TION.—We understand that a requisition, signed by every member of the council of the borough, was pre sented to Alexander Kay, Esq., the mayor, on Monday morning last, requesting that he would allow himself to be re-elected to that office, which he had filled so much to the satisfaction of the council during the past year. We understand that at first the mayor most emphati cally declined the intended honour ; but he was so ur gently pressed by various members of the deputation, that at length he promised to consider the matter ; and ultimately assented to the request of the corporate body. Indeed, whatever may have been his own feelings on the subject, it is obvious that, under the circumstances. scarcely a choice was left to him, the opinion and wishes of the entire council being so emphatically and una nimously expressed. Indeed, as a gentleman possessing considerable legal knowledge and experience, and being entirely free from the engrossing demands of a private business or profession, and thus able to devote his whole time to his public functions as chief magistrate of Man chester, we have no doubt his re-election will give general satisfaction.—Manchester Guardian. ARGUMENTS FOR THE PATRIOT AND POLITICIAN. — It is stated that the distilleries of New York and its gal lons homeef gene e n m u a i n n e u f w a c h t i u s r k e y t p h e a r t d requiresay. T i s no must r th e e ra species protec tion. At all events, as the Whigs and Locofocos have now nearly exhausted a ll ot h er ki n d of arguments, here is a supply of a new species that is very potent at the polls, and particularly at ge tti ng up process i ons, mass meetings, riots, fights, and rows, and all such necessary elements in electing presidents and other public men to office.—New York Herald. COLLIERS' STRIKE.—A very general strike has taken place amongst the colliers at Oldbury, for a rise of 6d. per day. On Monday last, at a very early hour, they congregated in crowds of about 150 persons, and went to the different pits to prevent those willing to work from going down. In this way they succeeded in keeping most of the men at play. On Tuesday morning their intentions were frustrated by the very active mea sures resorted to by Captain Bennitt, of Dudley, who was on the ground before five o'clock, and continued to ride through the different works until after seven o'clock, accompanied by Sir W. Russell, Bart., of the 7th Hus sars, stationed at Dudley, and Colonel Hogg, of the county constabulary. Colonel Hogg had a strong police force at West Bromwich, and other places in that loca lity, to act if necessary; and we understand Sir William Russell's troop were in readiness to turn out on the shortest notice, so that we trust the interruption to this 1 important trade will speedily subside.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. DREADFUL ACCIDENT in a STONE QUARRY TWO MEN AT ASIITO KILLED N-UNDER-LYNE. We have to record the particulars of a melancholy accident that occurred near this town, occasoned by the falling in of a portion of a stone quarry, and which, though serious in itself, might have been attended with still more distressing results. We some time ago noticed the erection of a new barracks in this neighbourhood, the site of which is on the Mossley-road, about a mile and a half from Ashton; the whole is being built with dressed stone, which is obtained from a delph opened for that purpose, about 200 yards distant. It appears that about eight o'clock yesterday morning, just as the workmen were about to leave for breakfast, Mr. Ball, the foreman of the quarry, along with another man, named James Smith, went to the top of the quarry for the purpose of seeing that all was safe. They had no sooner reached the top, than the whole mass of earth and stone which overhangs the place, in which upwards of forty men were at work, gave way, and came down with a tremendous crash. The man Smith was pre cipitated to the bottom, and buried beneath the ruins ; Mr. Ball fortunately escaped by running on one side. It appears the men below heard a slight noise at the time, and, on looking at the " slope," saw the whole mass in motion. They ran in all directions ; one unfortunate man, named John Mottram, in running, fell against a stone, and was also buried in the ruins. Another workman, Michael Callaghan, was endea vouring to get out of the way, but was caught by a piece of stone, and seriously injured. He was shortly afterwards carried out, when Mr. Hunt, surgeon, was sent for, who directed that he should at once be taken to the Manchester Infirmary: none of his limbs were broken. Immediately on the first alarm subsiding, the whole of the men set to work with great rigour to remove the ruins in search of their fellow-work men ; and, after removing several tons of stone and earth, they found the unfortunate man Smith about ten o'clock ; he was most dreadfully mutilated ; one leg was severed from the body, and found a short dis tance from it. The men set to work again for Mot tram, and, after working hard for upwards of four hours, found the deceased about the centre of the delph, about two yards and a half below the surface. When taken from under the pieces of stone which had fallen upon him, it was found that the body was literally crushed to pieces, almost every bone being broken. The bodies were taken to the Odd Whim public-house, on the Mottram-road, to await the coroner's inquest. The unfortunate men, Mottram and Smith, lived at Herst Nook ; the former has left a wife and one child, and the latter a wife and seven children, to lament their untimely end. On making inquiry on the spot we find that upwards of 1,000 tons of rock and earth fell at the time the accident I took place. —Manchester Guardian of Wednesday. '1 HE BRAZILIAN TARIFF. (From the Manchester Guardian.) The further ietelligence from Rio Janeiro respect ing the tariff to be aiopted in the Brazils, from and after the 11th of November next, instead of clearing up the doubts which had previously existed in refe rence to the duties propOsod to be levied on the leading articles of British manufacture, leLves the matter more uncertain than it was before. We have already stated, that two different pavtas, or tariffs, had been prepared and printed, differing widely from each other, as well as from that now in existence, not only in the amount of duties proposed to be levied, but in the mode of charging them ; and now the packet has brought a decree, dated the 12th of August, imposing certain ad valorem' duties upon a nunber of articles specified, and, along with that decree' e an entirely new pauta, at variance, not only with the two which preceded it, but also with the decree which appoars to have been issued concurrently mustwith it c . on l f V es h s at theseour : con ti nu al changes may mean, we ttter inability to comprehend. Either the Brazilian Government has some curious intrigue on foot, or it labo'grs under a very discre ditable infirmity of purpose. According to the decree to which we have alluded, the duties on nearly all the textile ma2ufactures ex ported from this country—whether of cotton, woollen, linen, or silk—appear to be fixed at one uniform rate—namely, thirty per cent. ad valorem; being an increase of about five per cent. on the existing duties. By the pauta which accompanies this decree, how ever, instead of this uniform ad valorem duty, a number of specific duties per square vara are im posed, varying greatly in the relation they bear to the actual value of the goods. The following is a list of a few of the duties mentioned in the pauta. The vara, by which they are all to be estimated, is a measure containing forty Brazilian inches, equal to a 1 small fraction more than forty-three English inches. The square vara, therefore, contains about 1,850 square inches English. One thousand rees (a milree) are equal, at the present ,rate of exchange, to about 2s. ld. English. Drills, linen and cotton, plain „ cotton entrancada (twilled) " cotton and linen ditto Ordinary jaconet and check muslins 9O „ Entrefinas (middle quality) ditto Finas, fine ditto Cassimere shawls Prints (all kinds) Quiltings, ordinary 3OO „ „ middle quality „ fine Nankeen, striped l5O „ Silk handkerchiefs, each Maddapolams, ordinary 6O fine lf 100 Jeans, ordinary, white or coloured ~ fine, ditto ditto 240 „ Shirtings, fine l2O „ 6-4 eambrica, ordinary fine 19 130 „ icoloured cambrics grey calicoes 7O f, stout .. . lOO ~t witted t , Coloured twilled (American) White ~ It Striped cottons, blue; &c. Striped cottons (union striped, and other ordinary striped goods) l2O „ Ditto ditto fine Cotton ticks lBO „ Blue salampores White „ ordinary According Co the flue e ceding rate of duty, a p 97so iece : of If . twoor d i n a a n r d y a p quarter i u n aib t ry ute w etnr i il these hmoe b isr e i edr order subjected u, t t o 4 a s . d 6 u d t y . duty of th the latest readersn o t with may a a y n any know t w l i what t r e t i he have h v r eea upon, tnge a s t o ur r e much agitated question. now an n publishedoune e are e announcements O t s' e ft e e b nr n e el de pendediatnhrg the present duty being about 3s. 3d. lthis The police authorities of Heidelberg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, have, with a view to prevent idleness and drunkenness amongst the labouring classes, issued an order, declaring that any workmen who shall be except at the hour of meals, found in a public-house, shall be fined a sum equal to three francs French fur the first offence, and, in addition, be imprisoned three days for a second offence. Public-house keepers are prohibited, on pain of heavy fines, from supplying the workmen with wines or liquors, except at meal-time, and employers who do not report to the authorities the absence of their workmen from their regular occupation, are to be fined twelve francs for each omission. MURDER AT A WEDDING.—MARRIAGE OF THE DYING BRIDEGROOM.—Mr. W. W. Rives, of Wilcox county, Alabama, having recently won the affections of a handsome young lady residing in that vicinity, Miss Sarah Tait, daughter of Captain J. A. Tait, the neces sary arrangements were completed fur their union, and he proceeded to her residence to have the marriage ceremony performed, and to celebrate their nuptials in a becoming manner ; but, on arriving at Captain Tait's dwelling, Mr. lives and his friends were met near the door by the captain's son, Dr. Chas. Tait, who took Mr. lives aside for a private interview, while the friends of the latter went into the house. Young Dr. Tait imme diately commencei assaulting Mr. Rives with a cane, and on the latter defending himself, drew a revolving pistol, and shot Mr. lives through the lower part of the stomach. The murderer fled, it is supposed to the eastern states. The unfortunate man was taken into the house, and died on the following Monday ; his affianced bride, showing her love for him by having the marriage ceremony performed soon after the melancholy occur rence related above, soothing him in their deep affliction, and ministering to him in his dying moments as his wife !—New York Sun, Oct. 1. BEARSTBD.—COTTAGE ALLOTMENTS.—Wednesday se'nnight being the rent-day of the allotment holders of the parish of Bearsted, the whole number, amounting to 39, were provided with a substantial hot supper and a plentiful supply of good ale, at the Royal Oak, on Bearsted-green. The supper is provided annually by the subscriptions of the landed proprietors, clergy, and gentry of the vicinity, whose health, accompanied by hearty English cheers, is always drank on these oc casions. The allotment system in this parish has now been in active operation ten years, it having been in troduced by Major Wayth in 1834 ; and it is a pleas ing reflection to that gentleman, and those who act with him on the committee, not forgetting their ex cellent treasurer, Mr. Streatfield, that not one farthing has been lost by the non-payment of rent during the above-named period. The sum paid .for the land is 40s. per acre. The average size of the holdings is one phorr quarter eeNvsaeet lrvyes ,er doiif benefitingut mo a b n r acreeen, dwhicher that andatd themselvesqo ue sa a n_ s oatnciuote t dyt h s sae fromof r i wadf e msal saoi is lnnipideetuss. tnh Journal.oi g in Ihenloyt sweepings, EXTENT fpaargeoet: g washings, &c., prod uce su ffi c i ent manure, if properly ductive, the system is cons id ere d b y the occupiers as they are fully aware that without manure t h e i r l a b our wouldanbe m idle waste iofihtiis process requi sition at the Sheriffs' Court yesterday, on the part of the Crown, against the executors of a Mr. Gosthng, one of its debtors. The debt was 6,0001., for excise duties. The property, worth near 15,0001., was all mortgaged to its full value, and its available value was, consequently, assessed at Is. Writs were then enforced against the two sureties, on the bond given for the debt ; but the verdict in both cases was—no property I The amount was, therefore, lost to the revenue. IMPORTANT RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. On referring to a list of newly-projected lineg railway, the promoters of which are actively prepar• ing themselves for the earliest possible application tc Parliament, it will be found the number of scheme's amount to forty, extending over a distance of 2,17:3 miles, and involving an aggregate estimated expen diture of 39,695,000/. Of this number, five of the. projected lines are in Ireland, amounting to 2,695,000/., and extending over 237 miles ; the remaining enor mous amount of 37,000,0001. being the estimate for lines in England. While it is certain that a great many of these competing lines will not be carried out, we may safely calculate on a good half, or 20,000,0001., being expended on railways in the next three years — a sum which, under present circumstances, will, we trust, have a most beneficial effect on the industrial classes of the community; while the division of so much capital into various channels must have its due effects on monetary affairs, and, by the increased in terest afforded by such undertakings, tend to keep down the price of Government funds, and induce still further to the carrying out of large scientific works, for increased facilities of communication between dis tant localities, the increase of trade and commerce, and the moral advancement of the human family. We are glad to see the railway system in Ireland be ginning to cause that interest in the moneyed world, which the subject deserves, and trust that the pro jectd lines will meet with the most favourable con sideration from Parliament ; it will open a wide field for the employment of her population, and the cir culation of upwards of 2,000,0001. sterling in Ireland, within a limited period, would disseminate an incal culable amount of good. That there are good grounds for still farther extension of the railroad system, the following extraordinary increase which has taken place in the gross receipts of twenty-one extensive lines in the first quarter of the present half-year, as compared with the same period of last year, will show : Birmingham and Gloucester £11,721 Chester and Birkenhead Edinburgh and Glasgow 1,541 Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr 3,406 Grand Junction 7,591 Great North of England Great Western Liverpool and Manchester London and Birmingham 15,558 London and Brighton London and Croydon London and South-Western 8,399 Manchester and Birmingham 5,028 Manchester and Leeds v 24,349 Midland Company 22,278 Newcastle and Carlisle 4,430 North Union Preston and Wyre 1,802 Sheffield and Manchester 2,771 Ulster York and North Midland 9,006 Total increase on the above 21 railways for the quarter, 187,6641.—Mining Journal. THE MEEK REMONSTRANCE OF THE MAN IN BRASS. TO MR. ALDERMAN GIBBS. The last twenty years, Sir, I have always been one of the principal sights at the Lord Mayor's Show. When I say this, I needn't tell you that I am the man who rides in brass armour. I was brought up to the bar, but having, in consequence of a fatal modesty of temperament, failed as an Old Bailey pleader, I was compelled to make the most of my very fine figure by riding the high horse every 9th of November in a complete suit of mail. Denied the Old Bailey bar, I nevertheless still thought I could profit by brass in some shape. I confess it ; I have very often thought myself elevated above my merits. When riding in state, and looking over the heads of certain Aldermen, I have thought that nature had created them with a larger claim to the brass than myself. Nevertheless, I have thought they had sufficient opportunity of exhibiting their native metal on the magistrate's bench and at Guildhall meetings. Here upon I did not feel wholly abashed at the unworthi ness dryly elevation. Alas, Sir, now it is otherwise ! With you, Netted as Lord Mayor, my position is gone. It is impossible that I can stand against such rivalry. I shall be no more thought of in the show than so much gilt gingerbread. Those who deign to look at me will turn away from my despised glories, as men turn away from bad money. " You the man in brass !" they will cry, with contemptuous belief, " Pooh, pooh !—a rascally counterfeit." And then, Sir, they will turn to a certain carriage, and, with an exulting shout—a shout that, through my metal, must wither my very marrow—will acknowledge the pre sence of the true thing—the man of the greatest brass in all famed London's City. I beseech you, Sir, think of my condition. Let me be paid, for I cannot forego the fee ; but, good Sir, dispense with my services on the coming 9*:h of November. Why should Ibe set upon horseback, only to serve as a foil to your sur- passing merits ? Besides, to put metal upon metal is bad heraldry. Therefore, Sir, let me, on the import ant ninth, remain in the bosom of my family. Po not enforce my presence in the procession only to con quer me. As you are strong, be merciful ; and so you shall ever have the sympathizing admiration of, yours, eclipsed, —Punch. THE MAN IN BRASS. ECONOMY of ARTIFICIAL LIGHT "Report of the fourteenth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Mon day, September 30. Section G. M Thanical Science. On the Economy of Artificial Light for Preserving Sight. By Mr. J. Hawkins." " Few were aware," he said, "of the injury in flicted on the Sight by too much, or too little light, and by a sudden transition from gloom to light. He had tried several experiments with a view to procure a light of a medium description. He commenced with two common candles, alternately snuffing and leaving them unsnuffed, and measuring the intensity of the light. The result of this experiment was, light tha t as nine pounds of the unsnuffed ca n d les. that he found that the candle wel l snuffed, g ave ei g h t times the light of that which was u nsnuffed. He then one ecpeeodueadd of taheprsoneueffssedof " candles weighing, gave and as much found Mr. Hawkins further found that a pound of candles, to burn (like Price's Patent Candles) without snuff ing, gave the same light as four pounds snuffed in the usual way, say every ten minutes, and the same as eleven pounds unsnuffed altogether. After alluding to further experiments with Candles, and also with Oils, he conclitded by recommending the Self-Snuff ing Candles in preference to Oil Lamps. Price's Patent Candles have for some time past been advertised as more economical than common tallow ones, because, not requit:lng to be snuffed, they give so much more light. The PaL'ntees now pub- Hill the above extract as a remarkable conrmation of the truth of their assertions. Those who still rrsist in burning tallow moulds, or dips, in the idea that candles at sixpence per pound are necessarily cheaper than those at a shilling per pound, may now learn how much real economy there is in such a course. Four pounds of the snuffed candles giving, as above shown, the same light as one pound of the self-snuffing ones, those who burn tallow candles at sixpence per pound are doing the same thing as if they paid two shillings per pound for Price's Patent Candles ; for they pay four sixpences for that quantity of light which one pound of these candles will give. They suffer, moreover, the bad smell, dirt, and annoyance, arising from the use of the snuffers every ten minutes, and the injury to the eyesight, stated above, to follow the sudden transition from gloom to light when the candles are snuffed. Price's Patent Candles are sold by respectable dealers in most parts of the kingdom, but care must be taken to insist on being supplied with the real ones, as many imitations are made at low prices for the shopkeepers, which, on account of the greater profit, some of them endeavour, and with too fre quent success, to palm upon the public as " just the same as the Patent Candles." The trade may obtain them wholesale from Edward Price and Co., Belmont, Vauxhall; or from Palmer and Co., Sutton-street, Clerkenwell.—From the Athena um of Saturday, 19th October, 1844. [ADVERTISEMENT.] INFERENTIAL PROOF OF THE FALLACY OF THE ORGANIC THEORY OF DOCTORS: Compare the human body to a tree, with all its roots and branches, and then fancy Doctors giving thousands of different drugs, among which are num bered prussic acid, opium, mercury, &c., with a view to eradicate disease out of different parts of the body. Does it not seem an absurdity ? Hygeists, on the contrary, treat the human body as they would a tree going to decay, viz., by draining its roots of stagnant impurities—the sole cause of its body and branches being withered and in a dying state. Let Doctors, if they can, prove the fallacy of this analogy. Doc tors might just as well prescribe different remedies for the different branches of a tree gone to decay, as prescribe different remedies for different parts of the body. Are not trees and plants treated as a whole ? So should it be with the human body. Issued by Morison and Moat, of the British Col lege of Health, New-road, London, for and on behalf of the body of Hygeists, who contend, that since all diseases arise from one cause, namely, an impurity of the blood, they can be cured by the Vegetable Uni versal Medicine, which being composed of innomous ingredients, may be taken by any person without the aid of a Doctor. PRINCELY TIIEFT.—It appears that Kennington common, whilom a place for cricket and other healthful sports, is to be built upon, t) benefit the estate of the Prince of Wales as Duke of Cornwall. These places have been called the lungs of a town. Surely to choke the lungs is hardly the best way to captivate the heart. Will the Prince of Wales be more beloved in Kennington if only known as the Prince of Bricks and Mortar ? Punch. THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS. The ceremonial of laying the :foundation-stone of this great undertaking took place on Tuesday, and was rendered as imposing as the vast importance of the occasion justified. The day proved one of the most brilliant of autumnal days, and was a general holiday to all classes. Business was laid aside. The hundreds of labourers and mechanics employed in the various departments of the harbour and docks, and also of the private buildings, were not merely per mitted to cease from toil, but were paid for their day's time ; arrangements were also male for enabling them to partake of the general hilarity. The dawn of morning was hailed by the firing of cannon and the ringing of bells. Flags were seen hoisted on every point. Liverpool and its environs, on the Lancashire side, and every city, town, and vil lage on the Cheshire side of the Mersey, poured forth their gladdened population to witness the inspiring scene, and to partake of the widely-spread means of enjoyment. The poor inhabitants were supplied, from a fund subscribed, with bread and meat of ex cellent quality, and in large proportions—the bread in loaves, and the meat in pieces of from four to eight Founds, according to th e num b er o f t h e i r f am i lies. rom an early hour in the morning the Liverpool and Birkenhead steamers, decorated with streamers, were employed in conveying the anxiously-expectant multitudes to the scene of hilarity; the railway trains also, at reduced fares, contributed to swell the con stantly-increasing masses. It was computed that not fewer than sixty thousand visitants were congregated on the occasion. These spread themselves in every direction, and imparted to the scene a liveliness and variety of extreme interest. At half-past eleven the procession started from the Town-hall—an insignificant building, which is about to be deprived of its municipal character, and to be succeeded by another, more suited to the magnificent town, which is rapidly rising into existence. having performed the appointed circuit of peram bulation, the procession arrived at the site of the new harbour. The arrangements made for this, the most impressive part of the ceremony, were distinguished by great taste and considerable regard for the conve nience of the gentlemen to whom platform-tickets had been issued. Platforms were erected round the site, on the shore, a short distance to the northward of the upper side of the Woodside Ferryslip, and on a scale which accommodated, without inconvenient pressure, the invited guests, and those who took part in the ceremonial. At about two o'clock the proces sion reached the site of the new harbour. On pre senting the trowel, a very chaste and classic implement, to Sir Philip Egerton, M.P. for the southern division of Cheshire, who had undertaken to , officiate on the occasion, Mr. Randell, the engineer, delivered a short but appropriate address to Sir Philip Egerton. The Hon. Baronet descended from the platform, and having completed the process of laying the stone, and prayer having been offered by the Rev. Mr. Gardner, Sir Philip Egerton addressed the Company in an elo quent speech, which was in several parts loudly cheered. Having made some appropriate introductory observa tions, the Hon. Baronet took a rapid but very inte resting retrospect of the history of Birkenhead. In the time of his venerated grandfather, and only fifty years since, it did not contain more than three houses ; in 1801 these had increased only to seven ; and at intervals of ten years, until 1831, its progress was scarcely perceptible. In 1841 it began to give some signs of decided progress ; and now it presented the scene they then witnessed. The town having lines of streets, amounting to thirty miles in extent ; a har bour and docks in course of formation which would far exceed, in their means of accommodation, any now in existence in any part of the kingdom ; and these so aided by the remarkable facilities which nature has afforded, that the amount of outlay, though large, would be comparatively small. The Hon. Baronet then proceeded to indulge in predictions of Birken head's future greatness, and presented a sketch which not merely derived probability, but became certainty, from the knowledge of what had been already realised. The Hon. Baronet concluded a very interesting ad dress by a fervent wish, which was responded to by the cheers of the assembled thousands of spectators, that the most sanguine hopes of the projectors might be realised. Thus terminated this interesting and impressive ceremonial. The workmen were subsequently re galed with substantial fare ; their wives and children were also provided with abundant means of suitable enjoyment at the expense of their employers. The dinner to the company, for which extraordinary pre parations had been made, and for the ball and supper afterwards, will bear comparison with anything ever exhibited on any public occasion. Accommodation had been made for 550 gentlemen, of whom nearly 200 were specially invited guests; the latter were seated at semicircular tables in imme diate proximity to the chairman (Mr. Laird) and to the deputy-chairman (Mr. W. Jackson). Over the head of the chairman was placed a splendid portrait of his son, painted by Illidge, and a most impressive likeness. On no occasion could the splendid picture have been exhibited with greater effect than on a day which was commemorative of the successful exertions of Mr. Laird, jun. By him the stupendous under taking was projected; and to him, in conjunction with the Messrs. Jackson, and two or three other gentlemen, the success of the plan may be mainly attributed. Among the noblemen and gentlemen who accepted invitations for the dinner, and some of whom were at the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone, were the following :—Sir Philip Egerton, M.P., Tatton Eger ton, Esq., M.P.;. J. J. Tollemache, Esq., M.P., and Cornwall Legh, Esq., M.P., the four county Mem bers ; L.ird Bateman, the Hon. E. J. Stanley, Sir William Massey Stanley Bart., of Hooton Hall, and party ; John Stanley, Esq., of Hooton ; the Hon. Lloyd Kenyon ; J. Bailey, Esq., M.P. for Hereford.. shire; William Ewart, &q., M.P. ; Thomas Thornely, Esq., M.P.; W. H. Collett, Esq., M.P.; William En twisle, Esq., M.P.; Jos. Brotherton, Esq., M.P.; Peter Greenall, Esq., M.P.; Thos. Grimsditch, Esq., M.P. ; Sir Edward Cust, Bart. The dining-room and ball-room were most taste fully fitted up and arranged. They were formed of the railway carriage booths, but had been enclosed, floored, and hung with the most graceful ornaments. The dining-room was about 140 feet in length by 40 in width, and of ample height. The coup d'wil on entering was extremely imposing. The walls were ' covered with crimson, yellow, and blue drapery. The recesses were decorated with evergreens and large ornamental flowers, and the whole of the principals and framework of the roof were similarly adorned, so as to resemble a shrubbery that had taken leave of its parent earth, and mounted into mid-air. From the beams were suspended handsome richly-gilt gas chan deliers, as central lights. There were four rows of tables, the two outer ones united at top and bottom by being continued in the form of a semi circle. The ball-room was about the same size, but much more richly embellished. The reception-room and :f , tiring-room were decorated in a style which created wonder that, in such a place, so much could have been accomplished. The Countess of Essex, Lady Grey Egerton, Lady Amelia Cecil, the Hon. Mrs. E. J. Stanley, and many other ladies of high rank, were among the ladies patronesses of the ball. A supper and ball afterwards took place at the Town-hall, given by Mr. W. Jackson to the clerks and other official gentlemen in the employ of the Commissioners, who, with their friends, thus participated in the hilarity of the evening, as they had previously done in the preceding enjoyment of the day. THE FISHERMAN'S GIFT. On their journey they met a fisherman, who pre sented them with a basket of fish which he held in his hand ; Confucius thanked him for his good-will, and at first refused, but the fisherman persisted, and said, "What I offer is of little value, but I offer it with all my heart. You will perhaps not find any fish where you are going to-night. You are just there, and I should have a long time to travel before I reached home, so that my fish would be spoiled, and I should be unable to sell it. I haVe had the good for tune to meet you, can I do better than in giving you the benefit which I cannot enjoy myself ?" At these words Confucius advanced respectfully towards the man, took the gift which he offered him, thanked him warmly, and ordered his disciples to pre pare it as an offering to the ancestors. His disciples could not forbear displaying their surprise at his attaching so much importance to a thing of so little value, which a person of the lowest rank offered him only because he did not know what to do with it, and because he could make no use of it him self. Confucius answered, that it was not the value of the gift, nor the rank of the person who gave it, to which attention was to be paid ; but the integrity, the goodness of heart, and the sincerity of the giver whose intention was to oblige. "As for me," said he, " looking at the integrity, the sincerity, and good ness of heart of this fisherman, I own to you, I attach more value to what he has just offered me, than I did to the thousand measures of rice which I formerly re ceived from the King of T:,ze."—Captain Pidding's Chinese Oho. [ADVERTISEMENT.] A CERTAIN CURE FOR ASTHMA BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS I—fIEAD THE FOL LOWING CASE !—James Holmes, a cotton-spinner, re siding at Ancoates, Manchester, had been asthmatical for the last three years ; he was frequently so bad that, when rising from his bed, he could scarcely speak or draw his breath, and would cough and spit for half an hour together, and often thought he should be choked. He was much reduced in strength ; and, after every other means of cure failed, he used these wonderful Pills, which have removed every symptom of asthma, and he is now as free from it as when he was a child. Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable medicine vendors throughout the civilised world. The Chancellor of the Exchequer returned to his residence, Beechworth House, Surrey, on Wednesday Afternoon. MEDICAL REFORM. A p iblic address on medical reform was delivered yesterday by . Mr. Hilles, surgeon, at the Western Li,t i e l ; rary Institution, in Lei ces t er - square . The object of 1 0 address was to call the att en ti on o f the public, a s w e . as of the profession, t o th e i n j ur i ous e ff e cts likely to r suit from Sir James Graham's Pill. Hr. Hilles menced by observing that the profession did not reclil i b r e a monopoly. They were willi ng to throw open the compounding of medicines, a nd eve n the privil e g e re practising ; but what they c on t en d e d for was, that tbe should be a marked disti nc ti on b e t ween the qualified siii; unqualified practitioner, so that the public might l eo misled. They objected, therefore, to allowing or to medical science to assume the titles of " sorg e°l4 ,,lo " doctor," and desired to limit such titles to those The had attained the distinction by a regular education. ,0 plan of registration was, he thought, a very inadequt protection ; and, as there was little inducement to Prs" .. ,„ titioners to register their names,' but, on the 0111.1 the ' 1 :, there would be an annual charge attending it, preten„ would be that many of the most distinguished surgenes would not care to register, and whilst their na rn o were not to be found on the list, the unqua lified In v would also pretend that he might re gi s ter himself if O . would, but that he considered it a disgrace to d° , s- 8 1 Mr. Hilles pointed out many other parts of the Dill sfld would be injurious to the respectable p ra ctitioners , , Sir he declared his conviction th a t th e s ole object col James Graham was to establi s h a medical poorlard commission. It had been found th a t the surgeons pow not now so readily compgte for the appointroen t ,,S o l poor-law unions, and by making a fr e e trade of tn eul o o science it was hoped to increase competition for tb the situations. The lecturer inveighed strougly agai nst in heavy duties and miserable rem unera ti o n of surgeons ea poor-law unions, and he asserted that, as the avn w oo object of the New Poor-law was to throw the poor co their own resources, so the obj ec t o f th e present Me a ! ou Reform Bill was to throw the medical practitioner'we the poor, and to compel them to eke out a misers• living by extracting the last s hilli ng f r om their di re patients. Mr. Hilles advocated th e a d o ption of a r e p ro . sentative system by the medical profession. He tell posed that the twenty-five thousand m embers of wu l to that body is composed should elect representat ifes io protect their interests, and to p ro t ec t the public 1 , - 0 , from becoming dupes of the outcasts of the professv) The lecture was very scantily attended. As. Yesterday a meeting of the Medical and Surgical ,", e sociation of the borough of St. Marylebone took P' ll o ".' for the purpose of considering and agreeing to a wa t t l e festo to be presented to Sir J. Graham, deprecating the Bill lately introduced into Parliament, as not effe ctic i e oi excluding quacks from practice, as erroneously °P e a l ' 0 the field of practice to chemists and druggists, a n ,r e ir prescribing an improper scheme of professional & i d, tion. The Association als o a d voca t es th e institutio n " college of general practioners, with an e lective co lae o f and court of examiners, in order to secure unifortsgth, education for the general practitioners throughou t of United Kingdom. Mr. R. Pennington (Senior Feilovi e the College of Surgeons) was in th e ch a ir, discussion, in which Mr. Coope r , M r . A nc el, Mr. j a r" wood, Mr. Gray, Mr. Davies, a n d M r . Mi c hele took Poe the manifesto was adopted. Th an k s were voted t ° chairman, and the meeting separated. and after 51. BANK OF CEYLON.• The third annual gener a l mee ti ng o f t h e Bank of C e ; lon was held yesterday at the office of the CohlP t LeP t• Old Broad-street. Mr. Cummings, one of the v` — ors, in the absence of the chairman, presided. The CHAIRMAN read the Directors' report, 111- 1, 1 11 stated that the business of the bank had consider-3, increased during the past year, and the char:L(4l,7 l dr transactions had been secure and legitimate. lr[woo, crease they considered the more satisfactory, as '"; t p evidently connected with the advancing prosper', o - 11.4 the colony. There had also been an increase ofy ie — a t o during the year, and the Directors were still env bang state that no bad debt had bee n i ncurre d by the 4n a s es 6 since the commencement o f it s b us i ness . The i t the cordiality of feeling h a d b een man if es t e d toward s o rba concern by the merchants and planters in CeYln i od' had steadily adhered to it a s cus t omers , netwit° s l ;p s tv ing the solicitations by the p ro j ec t ors o f a r ival est's" l ment. A branch establish men t a t K an dy had b ee T he most satisfactory operation during the past yeae;,, management of the business at th e c hi e f b r anch .`" e the lornbo had been such as to merit the approbation i ?` Directors, who expressed their satisf a ction with tu e f e. ertions of the kink officers and local Directors ja,,,reot 'noting the interests of the corp o r a ti on . The stateTio of accounts up to the 30th of June last showed ° llia addition to the half-year's dividend paid in Dialtbalf' Directors were now enabled to declare a wow, p et yearly dividend a t th e same ra t e o f s i x per cet";to annum on the paid-up capital of the bank ; the sn t of be payable in this coun t r y on an d a f ter the I ' l. o November next, and in Colombo as the manager sb after receipt of advice. gobiE Oa the motion of Mr. Sto o k s , secon d e d b y 3 1- I. 'i to u`' son, the report was received, adopt e d, an d ordere' printed for circulation. e the n Colonel Sir F. Hankey and Mr. Cummings we r e unanimously re-elected Directors of the bank. /10' The CHAIRMAN, in answer to a question &urn 05 8 prietor, stated that it was very probable that the in e old of steam communication with the island of Ce3' l " require the establishment of a bra nc h a t t o n in ec t e d s e sa y ues iS: and the Directors were no w ma ki ng quiries on the subject. In answer also to another ,j:1 0 1 tom. the lion. Gentl e m an sa id th at t h e o nly comr - h the Bank of Ceylon h a d i n th e i s l an d was a bratt e ; r e , the bank of Western India ' • but the form er having: occupied the ground, they had no fear of any opr- d r , as MRS. TROLLOPE' S N EW N OVEL , " Y OUNG -., ° §Uk —The manners of a portio n o f ;h e hi g her c 13 •1: e - ttie England have never been d e li nea t e d w i t h s uch WT4 force as they are represented in Mrs. Trollopes Novel, just published und e r th e titl e o f " Youn° l4°l pir the clever authoress having been as happy igh er , o ll tures of such society as she was in her very no, work, " The Domestic Manners of the Anier c is She has been particularly successful in her port r— ., sod celebrated individuals of both sexes, whose wsL e for means are far more remarkabl e f or i n genuity r ",:i o r' honesty. We are inclin e d t o thi n k t h at so me fires ad/ ginals who have figured muc h i n t h e pu bli c eye have sit to her for their portraits. The llonollm ble e seo' Thorwold, the niece to a Peer, bears a striking r blance to a beautiful adventuress connected With i° t:in noble house ; and there can be little dim c° lo o fixing the identity o f t h e muc h- a d m i re d L o rd "/ frbe Hammond, on a nobleman well known about towo.h disclosures of the p rocee di ngs o f l a di es in hig", i 9g 6 through the agency of that extremely useful pet s got the dealer in lady's c as t- o ff a p pare l, in Salt. ter 'treet, will be found as e xtr aor di nary as they are 07 , , taining. As a love story, a l so , M rs . TrolloPe4lo work will be considered by all her readers of t" sex as one of her most successful productions. T f yO li A EFFECTS OF TH E M ARCH OF AN ARMY. --- "" so' have an army of one hu n d re d th ousan d me n on foot' y are about to lead it to th e di s t ance o f a t h ou sand I t th e must be sure that both without, as well as wittit, ll ' Tp country, as well as in town, all things will be f/ o ![,, ment and in rumour. The towns and the villg a e ; which you will have taken the men who coullt - h troops, the hamlets and the countries from W 0 15 , w a have drawn your provisions, and all the apP a i .Theor.; those who are to lead them, the roads filled with rpls'S going and coming ; all these things cannot WO 0 07 without there being many families in desolatio n, t e la lands uncultivated, and much expense to the 5 " . curred.—Captain Pidding's Chinese Olio. D. SOUTHWARK LITERARY INSTITUTION. -- ' 4 ‹ . fi ti ol3 .7 Stuart King gave his fir s t en t erta i nmen t on '` )-- efel Mtlody, Comp the songs w ere " Th e b e ams ° Pe osition, and Song," on Wednesday fn' inn. Among l ot/ re ; those gentle eyes," " Aly Si s t er D ear ," " Wilt t: e lsoS, member me;" but "Kathl een O'M ore " and `,,. 1 suet' told best in favo ur o f t h e voca li st. Th e 6cott" li li t th e " Cam' ye by Atholl" was rapturously encored. the fla t , conclusion Mr. King exp resse d hi s gra titude for t he °`', tering manner in which he had been received el l va go casioa of his fi rs t p u bli c appearance i n L o ndon, 11 ., nounced for next Wedneiday's entertainmen t Beauties of Burns, with Songs," when, doubtless, e pr e f be quite at home. Th e h ouse was we ll filled on ° sent occasion. We have no doubt, from the cord' e doe e e his reception, that the next evening will pr o bumper. ..........- of BIRTHS. the r ' On the 22d inst., in Lo n d on , Mrs. Henry Mere ° s o . a daughter. the On the 22d inst., at Mailing Lewes' House, near J. , e 0 3 hof Arthur Powell, Esq., o f a son . On the 23d inst., th e l a dy o f th e R ev. D r . Mortiele r, master of the City of London School, of a son. MARRIED. On the 21st inst., at St. George's, Hanover-squaprie;ter °IP James Dean, of Greenwich, to Theresa eldest da ub Mr. Joseph Taverner, of Mansell-street. ' Co o t p s li On the 22d inst., at Leominster, Sussex, u• -1) % of her Majesty's 22d Regiment, to Rhoda Cerletit:se'%,,d daughter of William Holmes, Esq ,of Brookfield' S el:an t I; On the 23d inst., at York-road Chapel, George,„r ol• Esq., of Cheshain, Bucks, to Lydia Louisa, daub ere er° late John Hepburn, E s q., o f S out h war k. Bo n ° f b l o t On the 22d inst., at Newbury Church, Henry, dog Bunny, Esq., of Newbury, to Catherine, youngest of Robert Baker, Esq., o f th e same p l ace . p Cs,P tS pil On the 23d inst., a t St. G eorge ' s, Hanover-aqu a ,al 0 6 Tik the Hon. Robert Ed war d B oy l e, Coldstream Gtu3"6-iejloi..rg;toff surviving son o f th e E ar l o f C or k and Orrery, o youngest daughter of Abraham W. Robarts, Esq" -• Berkeley. square, t bet ° ED. , In Septemb er , a t St. DI Anne's, Canada, W nii in Atil - •flA Hale, Esq., l a t e C apta i n i n the 52d Light I n fantr 4 v ' lde",4; On the 13th inst , at Kirton Lindsey, Lincolnshi re, vice' second daughter of th e l a t e R ev. Booth Hewi tt, • Ita lu Castor, and Rector of Rothwell, Lincolnshire. Nor th DO On the 16th i ns t . , at Mi nef i eld, i n A pp le, ID° igt John Kermack, Esq., aged 26. On the 16th inst , at:Colchester, Essex, 3 -E r ' .I°llll s treet of Canterbury-row, Newington, Surrey g °j a r° On the 20th inst., Mr. Thomas Fleet, a iti..ler j '„aio ' On the 21st inst., at Woolwich, Captain 00015 Thomson, Royal Marines. yo o u n ng t , h o e f 2 t l h s e t G ifi r s a t n ., g a e t -r T o ll a o d r , n ß ti e m-hea d th, Surrey , 3111 ' w ife o f Mr. William Bowern.. rmon seY. vo ila, On the 13th inst , at Maidenhead, - Berks, -' Lae W illi° At Eaton-square, Mary, the daughter of the ''-- 10 Chatfield, Esq., of Croydon. „ t W illi i On the 21st inst., at Wimborne Minster, ' - ' ° " -e ' '°' Castleman, Esq., aged 78. young est I tigliter On the 22d inst., at Bexley, Anne, young — a i' ol:4 the late Christopher Chapman, Esq. De toe , 'ri v er-, rt , On the 22d inst , at Ashle House, near El:zabeth Susanna ' , widow of the late J. James , ',Ve'et, r° On the 23d inst., Mrs. llarriot Smith, of King's— I°B man-square, acred 80. . of tile On the 24t1rinst., Mr. R. 11. Willey, only -Oil _....!.. R. Willey, Esq., of Wellclose-square. Of LDru;iiin : Printed and Published by MURD ° COOf6ce. 13 °I No. 112, st r a n d, P r i n t er, at The Sun • the S rand, in the P rec i nc t o f th e Savor, in hliddleeez, Friday, October 25,1844. l THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTO_BER_2S I _ , 1844.