The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-26 00:00:00

'orb Mbitton THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ....•...............• 1 Indian Stock 3 per Cent. Red ....... ....... . ;Ditto Bonds .. .... 3 per Cent. Cons. ...... ...... 99X 'Ditto Old Annuities ;36 per Cent. Red — Ditto New Annuities ... Kew S% per Cent — Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 1)4(1... 76 pm. New 5 per Cent - Ditto 5001. .......—..... 7 d Plal- Lone Annuities to expire Ditto 5ma11........."..... 76 pm. Jan 1860....•—..•..•• Bank Stock for Acct.... 208% Oct. 1869•••••••••••«.• Consols for Act. lOO% Jan. 1860. .... ......... India Stock for Acct.... 268 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent ...: :: iPOrt4l7ese, 5 per Cent ...... Belgian, 5 per Cent.. ... — Ditto, New Ditt0....... ..... ... Brazilian Bonds - :Prussian, 5 per Cent .... ..... Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent 3734 Russian, 5 per Cent............ Chlllan 6 per Cent - Colomblan, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1 4..„.......„....„.„ — Ditto, 3 per Cent .......... ..... 35 Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — 'Ditto, Deferred.....„.„.„..... Danish, 3 per Cent .. . — ;French, 5 per Cent...—. — t . —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent. — Exchange ......, ....... ~,.. —if, —c. Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837...- — ,Dutch, 234 per Cent...-. 62% Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per Cent .........100% SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) lO7 Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid Eastern Counties (23 paid) Ditto Registered (81 68 8d paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Lancaster and Carlisle, 5 paid ... 6% London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) Lonion and Brighton (50 paid) London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) London and Croydon (Trunk) IS.X London and York, 2% paid 4 14 Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid .......... ltii South Devon, 5 paid South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d p a id) .... York and North Midland (50 paid) lO4 Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) Boulogne and Amiens, '2 paid .... ...... ........... ?arts and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen. 20 paid Rouen and Havre, 10 paid 1,% Strasbourg and Bale (14 paid) 9% SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. GLOBE.—The Herald has opened its columns to an apology for Alderman Gibbs. If wedo not griev ously mistake, the statement, which is headed "from a Correspondent," is from the pen of the worthy functionary himself. The circumstance of the Alderman being likely to have his suc cession to the Mayoralty postponed, un til the prejudices, which his conduct as Churchwarden of St. Stephen's Walbrook has accu mulated around him are removed, has called forth this wordy and involved composition. In a recent ar ticle in our columns on the anomalous position in which Mr. Alderman Churchwarden Gibbs has placed himself (and to which the statement in the Herald professes to reply), we suggested the neces sity which circumstances seems to impose both on the Livery and the Court of Aldermen, to hesitate ere they take a step by which the dignity of the office of Chief Magistrate may be compromised, or its efficiency impaired. Without imputing dis honesty to Mr. Alderman Churchwarden Gibbs in the application of the parish funds, we confidently submitted that sound policy requires that his election to the Mayoralty he postponed) for the present year. While the proceedings to which the parish has been driven to obtain from him a verified account are pen dente lite , it would be prematur e an d censura bl e t o ant i: cipate die result. But we adhere to the position which in our former article we assumed—it remains unshaken by anything adduced by the Herald's " Correspondent," or in the Herald's remarks upon the case. Where a public officer, being in the receipt and having the control and application of public funds, allows his accounts to remain unaudited for a period of nearly twenty years, and, when required to produce his accounts by the pa rish whose trustee he is, with the vouchers by which their integrity may be ascertained, refuses to do so— meets reiterated applications with quibblings—im pugns the legal competency of the parishioners to ask for such accounts—and interposes every obstacle in his power to prevent them from obtaining such satisfac tion—we say, such a man makes out a prima facie case against himself. He has himself to blame for any inconvenience he sustains—for any injury to fame or feeling which he incurs. We do, therefore, in sober earnestness, ask whether such a functionary, having placed himself in such a position, can, with any reasonable hope of ha v i ng hi s c l a i m a ll owe d, l oo k to his fellow-citizens to place him in the highest post of the Corporation ; and confer upon him the honours, and invest him with the functions of Chief Magistrate of their city ? To comply with his request would be to adopt the responsibility of a possible result to the investigation by the Court of Chancery of his suspiciously-withheld accounts. If the award he against their validity, his administration of the trust he held would be impugned, and his integrity seriously damaged, if not irretrievably ruined. Nor would this be the extent of the evil. The high office of Mayor of the Metropolitan City would be exposed to no small portion of the odium and disgrace. Can the postponement for one year of Mr. Alderman Gibbs' election to the office to which, it seems, he still aspires, in the influences such a postponement would exercise upon position, be comparable to the mischiefs which would inevitably be inflicted on the Corporation, should the chair of its Chief Magistrate be filled by an indi vidual whose claims to public respect and confidence are of a doubtful kind ? The reputation and influence of the Corporation would be lowered in the estimation of the city and the nation; the administration of jus tice would be deprived of respect ; and the office be denuded of efficiency. After the controversy that has been raised—after the painful interest that has been excited by the extraordinary conduct of the Lord Mayor expectant, and the appeals which have been made to the Livery and Court of Aldermen to pass Mr. Alderman Gibbs by for the present year, and choose the Alderman next in succession—. they raise him to the Mayoralty; and the result of the suit in Chancery, to which the parishioners hare been driven by his inveterately obstinate and indefen sible conduct, unhappily terminate in an adverse decisioa against that officer—on those who have re fused to listen to the suggestions of what is due to the office and to the public, for whose interest s it exists ' will the odium rest. If Mr. Alderman Gibbs can induce the Livery to return, and the Court of Aldermen to select, him for the Mayoralty on Sa turday next, he cannot be blamed. The blame will rest on those who have so low an opinion of what are essential requisites in the Chief Magistrate of London, as to place in that office an individual who has manage.) to render himself conspicuous by conduct that has gratuitously involved his administration of a public trust in suspicion, and subjected him to general reproach. We really wonder that some shrewd fellow, charged before Mr. Alderman Gibbs with embezzling moneys balonging to his employers, has not set up a kind or argumentum ad hominem defence. He might, with at least some show of propriety, question the right of his prosecutors to claim an investigation of his accounts, or to demand the books and vouchers by which they might be elucidated. The legality of their partnership might be questioned—the form of the deed, if any were in existence, might be impugned ; or the absence of a deed might be adduced, to show that no partnership existed ; and that the parties claiming the moneys the prisoner was charged with illegally detaining, had really no claim to either the right of the aceounts, or the moneys. We do not say that the case we have imagined is, pari passe, that ofMr. Alderman Gibbs. But should such a defence be set up in a case of disputed accounts, in which malversation was charged against a party on the ground that no proper account current had been rendered, it is likely that the persons in court would be remined of Alderman Gibbs, and some of his reasons for refusing to produce and verify his accounts, when called upon to do so by the pa rishioners of St. Stephen's, Walbrook. The Times of this morning, in an article on the subject which is worthy of the serious consideration of the Li very and Aldermen, remarks—" The characters of the chief men of a city, such as London, ought to be worthy of the high reputation of the body over whom they preside. The character of men in office is the test of the soundness of the system which puts them there." There is much which requires reform in the existing constitution of the Corporation of Landon. Recent circumstances have not tended to enhance its claim to respect or confidence. 'We should be glad to see a determined effort made to raise its character, and retrieve its reputation. The proceedings of Saturday next will have a beneficial or injurious tendency. The effect of the choice that will be then made —or should there be a contest, which we do not anticipate, the result of the SNAP , WESTMORELAND.—It appears that the direc poll, and the selection by the Ald ermen — w i ll e i ther tors and Mr. Stephenson, and the other contractors for evince a criminal indifference to the qualities which the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, are determined to .uppress the rep oand are requisite requisite to render the Mayoralty re a ll y respect erl conduct further of the workmen en f a b edg rut r and able on the line, and able and efficient; or it will be seen that those who to to lend every assistance to the civil authorities for that aspire to that office must not only be men of in- purpose A meeting of the directors was held on Thurs tegrity and worth, but men who are held to b e such day last, and 'it was agreed that efficient policemen be by the universal consent of all who have had dealings engaged, and stationed at suitable distances on the line, with them. to preserve the peace at Shap and other places, to be paid STANDARD.—The occasion for reviving th e Out of the funds of the company. Upwards of 200 spe profitless discussion of whether or not we have oh- chat constables have been sworn in at Shap, Orton, Pen tained the degree of roparation from the French rith, &c., to assist the police. All was peaceable at Shap on Saturday and Sunday last, save a little for the unauthorised conduct of a subordinate officer at Otaheite—conduct which was reproved and punished cautioenu,l:'_ . or two and it is to be hoped that every pre -14b.e taken to prevent disorder and riot on the long before the Governmenta of either coun t ry next pay The magistrates are determined to pre could have had an opportunity of expressing any serve the peace. opinion on the subject—is one which ought to have ADMISSION or A ROMISII CONVERT INTO THE produced a very different result. W e a ll u d e t o the CHURCH OF ENOLAND.—An interesting service took " Jubilee," as it is called, of the London Missionary I place in the new chapel, at Ellerker, in this Riding, on allegiance to the Bishop of Rome, into commu- Society, celebrated yesterday (its ,50th anniversary,) I Thursday, last week, in the admission of a person, pro it Exeter Hall. We are far from inaerisible to the fessing innm—who attached to a arty praiseworthy efforts which have been made nien with the Church_ aof England. The convert was a by this Institution during its long and useful young man—Mr._ l3 eh Government career; but over-much zeal is often as prejudicial to He ov had been for some survey of the conducting the time in a course a good cause as its very reverse ; and some of the 1 county of York. speeches at a recent meeting of this society were ofincumbent of Ellerker of r the Rev. of discipline and instruction, under the G. F. Townsend, the ; and on a character but little reconcileable with the pre- the of e presence the Venerable Sinned sentiments of a body whose professed object Thursday was admitted, into the to preach "peace and good will," and not to holy communion of the National Church. At the con ' Archdeacon - Wilberforce and other clergym en , minister to the evil passions of those who elusion of the Litany, the Venerable Archdeacon Wil fall within its in fl uence. M eet i ngs dest i ned berforce proceeded to admit the convert into the Church to afford an excuse for mere manifestos of of England.—Hull Packet. PARIS CORRECTIONAL POLICE. A young and pretty woman, named Warren, whose manners and language indicated that she belonged to a respectable station in society, and who indeed is the daughter of a Lieutenant-General, appeared on Sa turday before the Correctional Police, to enter oppo sition to a judgment passed on her by default, in 1840, for swindling. She was also under a charge of having thrown vitriol on a person named Lombard, through motives of revenge. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner had received a good educa tion, but had, by her irregular life, been reduced to distress. She afterwards contrived to interest some influential persons in her behalf, and opened a school in the Rue d'Astorg. She again became irregular in her conduct, and, being forced to leave France, went over to England, where she became governess in a family of rank, and about eleven months back married in that country a person of the. name of Warren. She returned some months back to Paris, and again commenced a life of dissipation. It was during this period that she formed the acquaintance of M. Lom bard, and on his breaking off the intercourse existing between them, threw the vitriol in his face. This latter person deposed that he had gone to the resi dence of M. Poultier, the singer, who is one of his friends, and whilst there, being called out, he found the prisoner at the door waiting for him. He had, he said, certainly known her before, but not suffi ciently to lead him to suppose that she could ever think of revenging his breaking off his acquaintance with her. She, however, after reproaching him with his conduct, endeavoured to inundate him with the vitriol, but he fortunately per ceived her intention in sufficient time to in a great measure avoid the liquid. In answer to this charge, the prisoner declared that she had purchased the vitriol to clean the floor of her lodging, and that, having it in her hand when speaking to M. Lombard, the bottle by chance flew out of her hand, was dashed against the wall, and some drops of the liquid fell on his clothes and face. This was, however, positively proved not to be the case. The case of swindling was practised on a watchmaker named Legris. The prisoner called at his shop in 1839, and asked to see some watches for her mother, who was unwell. Three were set aside, which she desired the watch maker to carry to a house in the Rue de Miromesnil, where her mother would decide which she would take. lle did so, and, delivering up the watches to the prisoner to show to ',the invalid, was left in the room by himself. Some time having elapsed, and the lady not appearing, he began to grow uneasy, and, going to the door, found it locked. He then disco vered that he had been tricked, and at last only got out by calling to the porter from the window. A year after he had some propositions made him by the prisoner to repay him the value of the goods which he had lost, but nothing came of it, as she had only some china of little value to give him to make up his loss. A charge of robbery was also brought against her, but the evidence appeared inconclusive. During the time the Court was deliberating, the prisoner ap peared in the greatest despair, and, throwing herself on her knees, exclaimed, in piteous accents, " Oh, spare me ! spare me ! I will go over to England, and you shall never hear of me more." The Court con• demned her to two years' imprisonment, and 50f. fine Galignani. A HORSE IN A CHINA SHOP. On Thursday last, a gig and horse, in charge of a servant of Colonel Low of Clatto, having been left standing before Mr. David Reid's shop door while the servant was inside executing some orders, the horse got startled by the noise, it is said, of a wheel barrow which some person was rolling out of a neigh bouring court. He immediately darted into Mr. Newton's stoneware shop opposite; and having broken from his traces, left the gig at the door, in order to he more at his freedom, and began dancing about among the crockery. Mr. Newton having endeavoured to stop this outrageous beast in his mad career, was soon disposed of with his broad back on the floor. Tu reens he overthrew with his feet, basins he knocked about with his nose, and he whisked the smaller art:- cies of crockery off the counter with his tail, pricking his ears all the while, and snorting with evident glee and delight. Amidst all the fearful desolation which he created, the inhuman creature, far from feeling the pangs of remorse for his climes, seemed to take a savage pleasure in the thing, and continued to go-ahead, and try how much of Mr. Newton's valuable stoneware he could destroy, knowing that the whole was to be charged to Colonel Low's account. Nothing so utterly lawless and wild in the dancing dvartment as this beast's style of pirouetting arid side-cutting was ever seen in this world, or even in Cupar, within the memory of man. Luckily, the finer branches in the stoneware line were in the back room. The horse, now wishing to extend his depreda tions, set his face towards the quarter. Mrs. Newton, who throughout the whole of this trying scene hail displayed the utmost fortitude, had the pre sence of mind to fasten the glass door, and to barricade it inside with the furniture as well as she could, and then fled for safety and for succour into a press, the door of which she kept a little agee, in order that, if her life should be spared, she might witness the issue of the day's eventful transactions. In the meantime, the horse having satisfied himself with smashing two pounds nineteen shillings' worth of good pigs (Anglice, crockery) in the front shop, resolved to have a shy at the elegant china in the back room, and accordingly manfully knocked his head through one of the panes of glass ; but was checked in the assault by the defences skil fully erected by Mrs. Newton, who still maintained her position in the press. While in this retreat she saw the monster thrust his bleeding head and gory locks into the room, and coolly stand and take a vidimus of the whole premises—gazing earnestly upon her, while he allowed the blood to flow from his reek ing temples into one of her most fashionable basins. His spirits, however, being at last cooled by plentiful phlebotomy, he was with some difficulty backed out into the Bonny-gate. Mr. Newton does not recollect of any customer having done so much business in his shop in so short a space of time, and with so little speaking.—Fifeshire Journal. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVIINING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1844, e opinion, can be productive of no possible ad vantage, and when such expositions of sentiment have reference, as is often the case, to secular, and more especially political topics, they are likely to be mischievous to an extent which can hardly have been contemplated by their authors. The speeches deli vered at a late meeting of the London Missionary Society on the subject of Mr. Pritchard's treatment by the French authorities at Otaheite .(whilst his Government was earnestly occupied in securing for him whatever reparation was his due), for example, was calculated to increase embarrassment without the slightest chance of benefit to the object of its sym pathy--not to mention a violence of manner as well as of language, on the part of one or two of the speakers, which was clearly inconsistent with the principles for which their authors claim credit, and on the faith of which the society to which they belong has hitherto been so warmly supported. The senti ments evolved at yesterday's meeting were mere moderate ; but why convert an occasion destined to celebrate the good service which the society has rendered, during a period of half a century, to Chris tianity, into an excuse for a political manifestation on a subject which has already given occasion for the greatest irritation ; and which, but for the moderation and good sense of the respective Go vernments of England and France, might have even tuated in a war which would effectually have arrested the efforts of the society in many of the most promis ing arenas of their labours ? We have already seen that a fair and reasonable reparation has been exacted for the treatment of Mr. Pritchard— a reparation which, whilst it cannot fail of having proved satisfactory to his feelings, repays him for any pecuniary injury he may have sustained. What need was there, we ask, after such an arrangement for a long resolution expressive of the " fixed determina tion of the society that Otaheite shall be free." Does the London Missionary Society propose to supersede the Government in its functions ? Or has it the intention to carry on a " little war" of its own, for the expulsion of the French authorities from that island ? If the latter, its labour is likely to be lost; for it has already been confessed by more than one influential French journal that Otaheite is not worth the expense and trouble which it will cost the French nation to retain it. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER NEW ZEALAND. Report from the Select Committee on New Zealand, with the Minutes of Proceedings. (Ordered by the House of Commons, to be printed 29th July, 1844. No. 556. Amended copy of Parliamentary Paper, No. 556, delivered on 10th August.) We have very recently printed in The Sun the nineteen important resolutions agreed to, after many divisions, by this Committee, on the important matters submitted to their consideration. The case being one of entire novelty, as to what may be termed the es sential characteristics of colonial relations necessary to establish a claim of military protection by the mother country to the settlers or colonists, or those who are assumed to be such, we reprint the entire report. " The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the state of the colony of New Zealand ; and int o th e proceedings of the New Zealand Company,' and to report the Minutes of Evidence, and their opinion thereon to the House, and to whom two petitions were referred; have considered the matters to them re ferred, and agreed to the following report : " The duty assigned to your Committee of in quiring into the state of the colony of New Zealand, and into the proceedings of the New Zealand Com pany, and of reporting their opinion thereupon to the House,' they have found to be on e o f no or di nary difficulty and delicacy. An attempt at colonisation upon a very great scale, and of the success of which high expectations had been formed, has hitherto failed to realise the sanguine hopes of its projectors; instead of obtaining those advantages on which they had confidently reckoned as a reward for their enter prise and the privations to which they have submitted, a large body of British settlers are at this moment in a situation giving ground for very serious anxiety, while the lives of several of their number, have been unfortunately sacrificed; these unhappy results have moreover been connected with differences which have arisen not only between the settlers and the colonial authorities, but also between the New Zealand Com pany (which reckons among its members many gen tlemen of high station and respectability) and the Executive Government at home. Under such cir cumstances, it will be obvious that a very heavy and very unusual responsibility is thrown upon your Com mittee when they are called upon to express an opinion as to the causes of a state of things so greatly to be lamented; and though we have endeavoured to execute this task to the best of our judgment, we submit the result of our deliberations with much diffidence to the House, and the more so because the evidence before us, oral and documentary, is so ex ceedingly voluminous, that we feel it would have re quired much more time than was at our disposal to have digested it as thoroughly as we could have wished. " It appears to your Committee that the difficulties now experienced in New Zealand are mainly to be attributed to the fact, that in the measures which have been taken for establishing a British colony in these islands, those rules as to the mode in which colonization ought to be conducted, which have been drawn from reason and from experience, have not been sufficiently attended to. When it was first pro posed to establish New Zealand as a British colony dependent upon New South Wales, Sir George Gipps, the governor of the latter, in a very able address, laid down the following principles as those on which he had framed the Bill, which it was his duty to submit to his legislative council for the regu lation of the infant colony of New Zealand The Bill is founded,' he said, upon two or three general principles, which, until I heard them here contro verted, I thought were fully admitted, and indeed received as political axioms. The first is, that the uncivilised inhabitants of any country have but a qualified dominion over it, or a right of occupancy only ; and that, until they establish amongst them selves a settled form of government, and subjugate the ground to their own uses, by the cultivation of it, they cannot grant to individuals not of their own tribe any portion of it, for the simple reason that they have not themselves any individual property in it. Secondly, that if a settlement be made in any such country by a civilised power, the right of pre-emption of the soil, or in other words, the right of extinguishing the native title, is exclusively in the government of that power, and cannot be enjoyed by individuals without the consent of their Government. The third principle is, that neither individuals, nor bodies of men belonging to any nation, can form colonies, exeept with the con sent, and under the direction and control of their own Government; and that from any settlement which they may form without the consent of their Govern ment, they may be ousted. This is simply to say, as far as Englishmen are concerned, that colonies cannot be formed without the consent of the Crown.' " Referring to the speech of Sir George Gipps for the argument in support of these rules, it may be observed, that, with reference to New Zealand, they were, to a certain extent, infringed by the irregular settlement of British subjects on the shores of these islands, which began many years ago - but they seem to have been first openly and delibrately departed from, when an attempt was made by the New Zealand Company to establish a colony, not only without the sanction, but in direct defiance of the authority of the Crown. This attempt led at once to a violation of the law by the first settlers entering into a voluntary agreement for the establishment of an authority by which they hoped, in the absence of any legitimate power, to maintain order amongst themselves. The illegality of this arrangement was pointed out to the Company by the then Secretary of State; but the expe dition sent out to found, what was to be, in fact though unauthorised, a British colony, had already sailed. It is to be regretted that more decisive measures were not adopted for preventing the sailing of the expedi tion under these circumstances, since it appears im portant, with reference to the future, to observe, that such unauthorised attempts at colonisation cannot be permitted without leading to the most serious incon venience. When large numbers of British subjects have established themselves in distant regions, inha bited osly by barbarous tribes, it is impossible for her Majesty's Government to leave them exposed without protection to the dangers which their own rashness may draw down upon them, or to allow them to exercise, without control, and perhaps to abuse the power which their superior civilisation gives them over the rude natives of the soil. Hence every new establishment of this kind involves a new demand upon the military and naval resources of the empire ; but the undue multiplication of such demands must occasion a very heavy burden on the nation, and it therefore follows that enterprises of colonisation should only be entered upon with the sanction and under the authority of the Government. In this in stance the irregular and precipitate mode of sending out the settlers had the unfortunate effect of placing these settlers, and the agents of the New Zealand Company, from the very outset, on unfriendly terms with the officer whom her Majesty's Government found it necessary immediately to dispatch from Eng land for the purpose of establishing the authority of the Crown in the islands of New Zealand ; and there can be no doubt that this want of a good understand ing between those whose cordial co-operation with each other was so essential to the welfare of the newly-established colony, has been one of the main causes of the difficulties with which it has had to con tend. In order to avert these difficulties which were soon seen to be likely to arise, a Charter of Incorpo ration was afterwards granted to the New Zealand Company, with the hope of placing that body in friendly relations with her Majesty s Government; but this attempt was defeated, partly by the jealousies created between the respective servants of the Crown and of the Company, by the error originally com mitted by the latter; partly by other causes of diffi culty which afterwards arose. These are chiefly to be traced to the means which were adopted for esta blishing the authority of the Crown in New Zealand. " The sovereignty over these islands had, at an earlier period, been formally disclaimed, and their indepen dence had been distinctly recognised, both by the Crown and by Parliament. This course had been pursued because it was considered (and by no means upon light grounds) that it was not advisable to ex tend British dominion in these distant regions; but in adopting this policy it was overlooked, both by the advisers of the Crown and by Parliament, that it was impossible to check the tide of emigration which set so strongly towards the shores of New Zealand, and that the regular establishment of British power was the only practicable mode of guarding against the evils which could not fail to follow from permitting a large number of Europeans to settle among its un civilised inhabitants, without being subject to any le gitimate authority or control. Looking back at what was then done, with the light to be drawn from sub sequent experience, there is no room to doubt that it would have been far better if British dominion over these islands had been asserted as early as 1832, or even 1825 ; but a different policy having been at that time pursued, it was considered, in the year 1839, when Captain Hobson was sent out, that the diffi culties which had thus been created could only be got rid of by obtaining from the natives their assent to the extension of the authority of the British Crown over New Zealand. Acting under the instructions he had received, Captain Hobson, therefore, immediately on his arrival in New Zealand, at the beginning of the year 1840, concluded, with a large number of the chiefs of the Northern Island, a treaty known by the name of the treaty of Waitangi, by which, in return for their acknowledgment of British sovereignty, they were promised protection, and guaranteed in the pos session of all lands held by them individually or col lectively. The evidence - laid before your Committee has led them to the conclusion that the step thus taken, though a natural consequence of previous errors of policy, was a wrong one. It would have been much better if no formal treaty whatever had been made, since it is clear that the natives were in capable of comprehending the real force and meaning of such a transaction ; and it therefore amounted to little more than a legal fiction, though it has already in practice proved to be a veryinconvenient one, and is likely to be still more so hereafter. The sove reignty over the Northern Island might have been at once assumed, without this mere nominal treaty, on the ground of prior discovery, and on that of the absolute necessity of establishing the authority of the British Crown for the protection of the natives them selves, when so large a number of British subjects had irregularly settled themselves in these islands, as to make it indispensable to provide some means of maintaining good order amongst them. This was the course actually pursued with respect to the Middle and Southern Islands, to which the treaty of Wai tangi does not even nominally extend ; and there is every reason to presume that, owing to the strong de sire the natives are admitted to have entertained for the security to be derived from the protection of the British Government, and for the advantages of a safe and well-regulated intercourse with a civilized people, there would have been no great difficulty in obtain ing their acquiescence in the assumption of sove reignty than in gaining their consent to the conclusion of the treaty; while the treaty has been attended with the double disadvantage, first, that its terms are am biguous, and, in the sense in which they have been understood, highly inconvenient; and next, that it has created a doubt which could not otherwise have existed, and which, though not, In the opinion of your Committee, well-founded, has been felt and has prac tically been attended with very injurious results, whether those tribes which were not parties to it are even now subject to the authority of the Crown. " Your Committee have observed that the terms of the treaty are ambiguous, and in the sense in which they have been understood, httve been highly incon venient, in this we refer principally to the stipulations it contains with respect to the right of property in land. The information which has been laid before us, shows that these stipulations, and the subsequent pro ceedings of the Governor founded upon them, have firmly established in the minds of the natives notions, which they had then but very recently been taught to entertain, of their having a proprietory title of great value to land not actually occupied; and there is every reason to believe that, if a decided course had at that time been adopted, it would not have been diffi cult to have made the natives understand that, while they were to be secured in the undisturbed enjoy ment of the land they actually occupied, and of what ever further quantity they might really want for their own use, all the unoccupied territory of the islands was to vest in the Crown by virtue of the sovereignty that had been assumed. " Your Committee have already mentioned, that it is one of the fundamental principles of colonial law and policy, which they believe to have been correctly laid down by Sir G. Gipps, that the uncivilised in habitants of any country have but a qualified do minion over it or a right of occupancy only; and that until they establish amongst themselves a settled form of government, and subjugate the ground to their own uses by the cultivation of it, they cannot grant to in dividuals not of their own tribe any portion of it, for the simple reason; that they have not themselves any individual property in it.' Unfortunately the original instructions given to Captain Hobson, when he was sent out for the purpose of establishing British do minion in New Zealand, were not sufficiently precise upon this most important point; they contained di rections as to the manner in which he was to proceed in purchasing land from the natives, and they did not (as your Committee think that they ought to have done) clearly lay down the rule that sovereignty being established, all unoccupied lands would forth with vest in the Crown, and that, except in virtue of grants from the Crown, no valid title to land could be established by Europeans. This mode of framing the instructions seems to have led the first Governor into the error of acting throughout upon the assump tion that no part of the extensive and unoccupied ter ritory of New Zealand was to be considered as belong ing to the Crown, or available under its authority for the purposes of settlement, until first regularly sold by the natives : this is not indeed distinctly stated in the treaty of Waitangi ; had it been so, this treaty would probably have been attended with less injurious con sequences than it actually has been, since in that case there can be little doubt that it would have been at once disallowed by her Majesty's Government; at least it is clear that the treaty could not have been understood either by the Governor of New South Wales or by the Secretary of State, in the sense put upon it by Captain Hobson, since both expressed their approbation of it, though the former had pre viously laid down the very different principle upon this subject already quoted ; and the then Secretary of State, Lord John Russell, after he had received and approved of the treaty, adopted in the most formal and authentic manner the views of Sir George Gipps. By the advice of Lord John Russell, in the month of December, 1840, a charter passed the great seal, by which New Zealand was erected into a sepa rate and independent colony; and this charter was transmitted, together with instructions under the Royal Sign Manual, to the Governor, Captain Hob. son. In this charter and instructions, ' actual occu pation and enjoyment' are clearly pointed out as alone establishing a right of property in land in the natives; and the rule is laid down that all other lands must be considered as vested in the Crown, in virtue of the sovereignty that had been assumed, and that they must be dealt with accordingly. The treaty of Waitangi (which had previously reached England and been approved), it may therefore fairly be as sumed, must, when this charter and the instructions which accompanied it were forwarded to the colony, have been understood as bearing a meaning not incon sistent with the terms in which they are couched. The lands held collectively,' of which the possession was guaranteed to the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand, must, therefore, have been regarded as the and cultivated in m manner ' freque n tly pree n landsn common on actually h y a tribe,occupied in t b h y e them prac tised, and the forests as those actually used for cutting timber. " This is the interpretation which, consistently with the ancient and acknowledged principles of colonial law as laid down by Sir George Gipps, and consistently also with the terms of th e c h ar t er o f the colony and of the royal instructions to the Governor, ought to have been put upon the treaty ; had it been so, the most serious of the evils which have since If native rights to th been a d m itt e d w h en arisen eow n w e o r u sh ld ip ha o v f e l b an ee d n h a a v d oid on ed ly . arising from occupation, there would have . been no difficulty in giving at once to the settlers secure and quiet possession of the land they required; and they would thus have been able to begin without delay and in earnest the work of reclaiming and cultivating the unoccupied soil. The proceedings of the Commis sioners appointed to inquire into the claims to land would also then have been short and simple ; they would have to inquire merely whether lands actually occupied by natives had been fairly sold to settlers by the occupants, and with respect to wild lands, whether Europeans claiming to have purchased them had done so at such a price, or had incurred such an expense in respect of them, as to give to the supposed purchasers not a right to the lands (for they could not derive a title from parties who did not them selves possess one), but a claim on the consideration of the Crown to have granted to them as an indul gence more or less, according to circumstances, of the lands they had nominally purchased. With respect to the .New Zealand Company, as the extent of land to which they were entitled had been already settled by a special agreement with the Government and the award of Mr. Pennington, they would at once have been put in possession of all that very large portion of the land on which they proposed establishing set tlements which was previously wild and unoccupied ; and the question to be determined by the Commis sioners would have reduced itself to that of whether those inconsiderable portions of land actually occu pied and enjoyed' by natives had been fairly sold by the occupants—a question the decision of which, one way or the other, would have been comparatively unimportant." (TO DI CONTINUED.) MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS The following are the results of "A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Caine" registered in the Week ending Saturday, the 21th of September, , lB44." The Tablops issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:— of ff the ee IBieraiarnt,aNnderßvleoso,d_vesseis 23 W.ekly Total. lyetage of and other an Fire Years, Epidemic,Endemic,and Contagious Diseases 250 178 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat lOB 111 Diseases of the Lungs, Respiration 192 286 and Senses l3l 157 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of_Digestion ......... Ki CAUSES OF DEATH. 74 69 Diseases of tne Anneys, &c 8 5 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ..., lO 10 Di se ases of the Joints, 6 Diseases of the Skin, n Decay, &c 1 1 and Muscles 5 Bones , Old Age, orNatural. '4s 71 By Violence, Privation, or Int em p erance the Causes specified... .................. . 854 942 Deaths from all Causes 857 946 DEATHS FRODI THE PRLNCEPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER THE ABOVE HEADS. Weekly Average Total. of Five Years. Consumption .............. - 124 147 Scarlatina B7 34 Pneumonia .......... 37 79 Dropsy ••• •• .. ........... - 32 35 Hooping Cough ........... .. l4 33 Typhus 33 31 Small Pox ..... .. 37 15 Disease of the Heart Measles ... ...................... 18 28 Apoplexy ........ ... Diseases of the Brain ...... Diarrhcea.. ....... - ........ Sudden Deaths .............. DISTRICTS. ___ West .............................. 123 138 North 164 171 Central East lB3 207 South.. 230 242 Total .... ..... ... ...... ... 857 946 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREE7. Yesterday a Jew, named Abraham ,lfgor., late keeper of a saloon in Great Windmill-street, was placed at the bar before Mr. Maltby, charged with having wilfully wounded Mr. Robert Clayard, livery stable keeper, Lisle-street, Leicester-square. It appeared from the evidence that Clayard and Myers were in the habit of meeting at the house of Mr. J. Banks, the Crown, Cranborne-passage, Lei. tester-square. On Tuesday evening they met as usual, together with several other persons. Some altercation took place between the prisoner and Cla yard, and blows were exchanged. This occurred in front of the bar about 7 o'clock. An apparent recon ciliation afterwards took place, and all parties went into the parlour, where general conversation was car ried on, without any reference to what had occurred in the bar. About 9 o'clock Myers went out, re questing some one to take care of his great-coat till his return. Having been absent ten or twelve minutes Myers resumed his seat, and no apparent change had taken place in his demeanour. Clayard, who was sitting in a chair at the opposite end of the room to Myers, addressed the latter, saying in a familiar tone, "Come, come, Aby, there should be no ani mosity between us, here is my hand, and with it my heart," at the same time extending his right hand. Myers, without the slightest hesitation rose from his seat, and approaching Clayard, took hold of the ex tended hand with his own left hand, and then said, "I freely accept your hand, but I'll have your heart's blood ;" and suddenly drew from his coat pocket a large butcher's knife, and made a desperate lunge at his in tended victim. Clayard caught sight of the weapon, and, in order to turn the point from his side, to which it was directed, seized the knife with his left hand, when Myers violently drew it through the hand, cut ting through the ball of the thumb in the most danger ous manner. Myers again raised the knife, and re peating his threat, made a second stab, which inflicted a flesh wound just above the left breast. The fact of Clayard being seated in a chair enabled him to throw himself backward, and to this may be attributed his fortunate escape, for the prisoner's determined pur pose was evident to all present, who interposed as speedily as possible. The prisoner then dropped the knife, and was making his escape from the house, but was stopped by a waiter, and given into custody. A surgeon was fetched to the wounded man without loss of time, and after the blood was somewhat stanched, he was carefully conveyed home. Yesterday the policeman who took charge of the prisoner handed to the magistrate a certificate from the medical attendant, which was to the effect that the present removal of the wounded man would be unad visable. Mr. Smallwood, solicitor, who was present to watch the case on the part of the prisoner, did not at all in terfere in the proceedings, nor offer any opposition to the magistrate's determination to remand the prisoner, who was accordingly put back till Saturday next. The knife with which the attempt was made was exhibited in court. It is nearly a new one, and of the largest size butchers use, being altogether from eighteen to twenty inches long. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday James Lewis, a shoemaker, and Sarah 'layman, a woman with whom he cohabited, were brought up before Mr. Broughton, charged with deserting their male infant, a child six weeks old, in the public streets, whereby it had become chargeable to the Spitalfields Union, and since died in that work house. It will be recollected that the infant, which was rolled up in a bundle of dirty rags, was found at ten o'clock at night, on the 31st of May last, lying upon the flag-stones in Henry-street, Commercial-road, by a married woman, named Mary Gray, who took it to her own house that night, and on the following morning delivered it to the parish authorities, at the workhouse. At the former examination, the infant, which was exceedingly ill, was produced by a work house nurse, and several of the witnesses then in attendance distinctly swore to it as being the child of which the female prisoner had been delivered, and identified also the clothing upon it as belonging to Hayman. It was now intimated to the magistrate that the unfortunate child had expired in the work house at four o'clock in the morning of the 20th inst. and that a coroner's inquest had returned a verdict of "Died from natural causes." Mr. Ross, the surgeon of the Shadwell and Wap ping district of the Stepney Union, said that the child was brought to the workhouse on the Ist of June, at which time it was in good health, but that in a month afterwards it was attacked. with diarrhcea, from which for a short time it rallied; but a second attack took place, and it then expired. He did not think that the exposure of the child had produced the disease which caused its death. Mr. BROUGHTON then inquired whether the police man who had the case in hand had succeeded in ob taining any information with respect to the other child, of which it had been proved at the last exami nation that the female prisoner was in a state of preg nancy with when she absconded from the work house on the 15th of August, 1842, and which it was suspected the prisoners had disposed of by unfair means, as they so positively refused to give any ac count of it ? Hams, 248 K, replied in the affirmative, and called the following witnesses : Elizabeth Laws, living at 2l,Brown's-lane, Spital fields, stated that at the latter end of August, 1842, the prisoners, who were accompanied by a little boy, two years old, hired apartments in her house, and that in about a week afterwards the female prisoner gave birth to a male child, which was full-grown and perfectly healthy. The prisoner had no baby-linen ready, and she (witness) supplied her with it. About a month after that the prisoners left her house clandestinely, taking with them the child in question, and upon witness going up into the room they had occupied, she found every article of child's clothing she had lent the prisoner left behind them, and hang ing upon a line. She had never seen anything of either of the prisoners since. Maria Ridley, a midwife, proved having attended the female prisoner at her accouchement on the 26th of August, 1842, when she was delivered of a re markably fine male child, which was both full-grown and in every respect in perfect health. Diana Still, of No. 12, Sebright-street, Bethnal green-road, stated that in September, 1842, the pri soners engaged an unfurnished room in her house. They were accompanied by a little boy, about two or three years of age. The woman appeared in a very weak state, as if she had just got up from a confine ment, but she had no baby with her, nor did she make any allusion whatever to having had one. They left about five months afterwards, having been ordered to quit by witness's husband, in consequence of their cruel treatment towards the little boy. The prisoners had been frequently in the habit of going out for hours together, leaving the poor child shut up in a deal box, and locking the door :of the room after them. The child frequently remained so locked up till mid night, when the prisoners generally returned and re leased it. Mrs. Laws here stated, that while the prisoners lodged at her house, they were guilty of similar in stances of cruelty towards the boy, whom they were repeatedly in the habit, when they went out, of shut ting up in one of the drawers of a chest in their room till their return. Hams, the officer, stated that he had ascertained from Mr. Lawrance, a master shoemaker at Cam bridge-heath, Hackney, for whom the male prisoner had formerly worked, that a young man who had lodged in the same house with the prisoners in Brown's-lane had been to his (Mr. Lawrance's) house, and made frequent , inquiries of him to ascertain--the prisoners'--address, declaring that if he could only discover it, he would instantly give them both into custody for destroying the life of their child. He (Hams) in consequence had been using exertions to find this young man, but had not been able as yet to ;do so. He had traced the prisoners to a lodging in a house at the back of Shoreditch Church, which they occupied before they lodged at Mrs. Still's, where they went without the infant of which the female prisoner had been so re cently delivered, and there he lost all further trace of their movements; but he hoped he should succeed in finding the young man, who, no doubt, could give important information. Mr. BROUGHTON said as the evidence of the medical officer absolved the prisoners from the charge of causing the death of the child which had died in the workhouse, they would now, as far as regarded that child, be only sent to take their trials for deserting the infant ; but with respect to the other child, of which it had been proved that the female prisoner had been delivered two years ago, its fate was wrapped in such mystery, that nothing could remove the suspicion at taching to both prisoners, but a full and candid reve lation on their part. 'Would the male prisoner give this explanation ? Male prisoner —I could very easily do so, if I chose, but I decline saying any thing about it at this court. The female prisoner remained silent. Mr. BROUGHTON said, in that case, he could not think of parti ng w i t h them as yet; he should send them both back to prison to enable the police to make further inquiries into the matter, and endeavour to ascertain the fate of the missing infant, if possible. The depositions of the witnesses wero then taken in the first charge, on which the prisoners were com mitted for trial, and they were remanded to answer the second. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday George James, a dissolute-looking lad, about fifteen or sixteen years of age, was charged with highway robbery under the following curious circumstances : Henry Morton, a very intelligent boy, fifteen years old, but short for his age, stated that he was bred to the sea, and had gone two or three short voyages. On his return from the last of these he went home to his father, who resides at Cheltenham, in Gloucester shire, taking with him it., which Was 4 he had been able to save up. He found that his father had been some time out of employment, and tendered him the money, hut the po:o• man, not 1 - eing fiZ.l3 to mak e p,ny provision fur the lad, gave it back to him again, tell ing him to go to London, and procure another ship. He consequently came to town about a fortnight since, and lived as sparingly as he could upon the sovereign whilst looking out for a ship. On Tuesday evening, whilst he was talking to a lad at the St. Katherine's dock, the prisoner and another, who overheard him inquiring after a ship, came up and addressed him. They then moved a little away and whispered after which the prisoner again addressed him, and said he could procure him a ship, but it would not do for the whole four of them to go to the captain, who would blow them up. Complainant, who promised the pri soner a shilling in the event of his procuring him a ship, proceeded with him and his companion towards Blackwall, where they took him to a shed near the Gun, and asked him where was his money, to which he made no answer. Upon this, the prisoner took a blue kerchief with white spots from his pocket, and tied it round the complainant's mouth, threatening if he called out, to stifle him. The other lad then put his hand into com plainant's pocket, and took all the money he had— namely, four shillings, 6d. in halfpence, and six far things. They then ran away, and he pursued them, calling out, " Stop thief." The prisoner was subse quently caught by a constable, but the other had got away. Police -constable Davies, 94 K, hearing the cry of " Stop thief;" pursued the prisoner, who, in the true artful dodge style, also called out " Stop thief," at the top of his voice. When arrested, he cried out, " Oh, Sir, it was not me ' • it was a shipmat e o f m i ne ." Witness asked him w h a t his shipmate had done ? to which the prisoner, pointing to complainant, replied, he had robbed the boy of Ss. 6d. The complainant then came up, and, addressing the prisoner, said, " You have done sufficient to transport you, as you and your mate have robbed me of 55." He, at the same time, added, " What did you tie the handker chief round my mouth for ?" To which the prisoner replied, " What if I did ? I did not think any harm of it ; but .idare say we. shall overtake my shipmate, and find whether he has your money." The prisoner was then taken to the station-house, and on being searched nothing was found on him but a spotted blue kerchief, the same with which the prisoner's mouth was tied up. The prisoner said he knew nothing more of the matter, except that the lad who was with him offered to take complainant and introduce him to his captain. They went together, and on coming to Blackwall, the other boy, of whom he knew nothing, except hearing from him that he ran away from his parents, thrust his hand in complainant's pocket and ran away. He (prisoner) pursued and overtook the boy, but ha succeeded in getting away again. Davies, the• constable, here stepped forward, and said the prisoner told him he and the other lad came from St. Alban's together, and slept at the Holborn Union on Monday night. Mr. BRODERIP said, that if the boy's statement was true, the case deserved attention and he should be looked' after. He would remand the prisoner until Tuesday next, and in the mean time it was pro bable that the other lad would be apprehended. Inspector Rutt, who seemed much interested in the lad's case, said he would see to a full provision in the interim. Mr. BRODERIP commended the boy to his care, ex pressing the fullest reliance on his humanity. The case excited the deepest interest, owing to the youth of all the parties involved, and the more than ordinary intelligence which the poor little fellow dis played throughout the inquiry. Mr. Leadley, the junior clerk, undertook to writ• to Gloucestershire, to test the accuracy of his state ment ; and The. MAGISTRATE assured the lad, that if his story proved true, no pains should be spared to provide him with a ship, and furnish him with an equipment. BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND HAS TINGS RAILWAY. The first General Meeting of the Directors and Shareholders in this Company was held yesterday afternoon, pursuant to the terms of the Act of Par- liament, at the terminus of the London and Brighton Railway, London-bridge. Wm. Nash, Esq., took the chair. The Secretary read the report, which stated that the contracts for the works had been entered into at a sum below the Parliamentary estimate. The con tractor had agreed to take a portion of the contract money in shares in the Company. The Directors were happy to announce that they had received the cordial co-operation of the landowners on the line —more particularly that of the Earl of Chichester, Lord Gage, and Col. Trevor, who had, in the most generous manner, presented the Company with the sum of 5001., to be applied towards the preliminary expenses. The Directors observed, with regret, the continued determination of the South-Eastern Com pany to contest for the traffic to Hastings with this Company. The Brighton Company had agreed to take up 1,400 shares in the Company, and it had still been found necessary to issue 2,100 shares more. A proposition had been received from the Brighton Company, to take up any number of shares not ex ceeding 3,000, provided the option were given them of taking the line, when completed, at 4 per cent. on the estimate cost of 475,0001. The report was re ceived and adopted. A resolution was then passed, authorising the Di rectors to cause surveys to be made for a line passing through Rye, to join the South-Eastern Railway, at or near to Ashford, and for a line between Lewes and the Brighton Railway, in a north-westerly direction, with a view of materially shortening the distance be tween London and Hastings. A vote of thanks was passed to Lord Chichester, Lord Gage, and Col. Trevor. The meeting was then made special, to confirm the proposition of the Brighton Company, which having been done, the meeting separated. NEW AND VEXATIOUS REGULA TION AT THE CUSTOM -HOUSE. We have received a letter, inserted elsewhere, and signed a " London Merchant," on a new regulation in the Customs' department, which calls for the atten tion of the commercial public, and, in our opinion, for vigorous remonstrances against the continuance of this novel annoyance to trade. Our mercantile readers are aware that in case of export of exciseable articles on which a drawback of the duty is allowed, it has long been the practice for the merchant to send notice to the Expert office of his intention to pack excised goods on which the drawback was to be claimed, when an officer was sent to his premises to superintend and certify the packing, on whose report and certificate the goods were passed at the Custom-house without further molestation. By the new regulation, this con venient and proper practice is to be discontinued, and such goods are to be sent down to the quays, where the searcher can only perform his office of as certaining the amount of drawback to be allowed by opening the packages and examining the contents, which are then to be repacked by the labourers of the Custom-house. The bare enunciation of the fact will suffice to convince our commercial friends of the loss, detriment, and iniquity, implicated in the new practice. The answer to remonstrances on the innovotion—as remonstrances on such a matter must be loud and frequent—is, that the change has been made by order of the Lords of the Treasury. We do not affect to dive so far into the arcane of official tactics as to pretend to know in what depart ment the first move towards the pernicious change had its origin —whether it was suggested to the Treasury by the Customs, or whether it sprung from the board of supreme finance. But it is evident to our mind that the new regulation has been put into operation through pure ignorance of the nature and requirements of " packing" for over-sea transit. It surely could not have been known by those from whom the order emanated, that the business of packing goods was an art—an employ ment of skill and knowledge; and that every distinct kind of goods demanded its i peculiar care, arrange ment, and contrivance to fit t for sea voyages ;—that 1 every trade, in fact, had its own system for packing its particular wares ;—that the safety and durability of goods on a voyage depended mainly on the skill and care in packing them ;—that the costs and charges of transport were much affected by the mode of packing ;—that many goods were so compressed by immense mechanical force, that no unassisted, human power could reduce them into the same compass, in the event of a pre mature release from the compression of the packer. All this and much more regarding the commercial importance of the art of packing, should have been well considered by the Government authorities be fore they undertook to issue an order which went to contravene the especial care of traders for the se curity of their goods—to nullify all their cost and labour in packing, and to leave a large amount of our exported manufactures to damage, mutilation, and almost certain destruction, under the opening and repacking of a set of unskilled, careless, undi rected, Custom-house labourers. It is manifest to all practical men, that the new regulation cannot be persisted in, unless in every Custom-house in the kingdom there be set up a regular packer's establishment, with all the implements, sur rounded by all the skill and special knowledge called for in every particular branch of the export trade in excise goods. The concoctors of the new regulation, whether Lords of the Treasury or Commissioners of Customs, did not, we are convinced, foresee the serious derangements to our commercial pursuits, the great danger of damage to our expert produce, which it in volves. We trust, therefore, that the authorities will at once see the necessity of abandoning such a vexa tious and absurd rule; and not wait until merchant exporters shall be driven to try whether in our courts ofjustice they cannot obtain redress for damage sus tained by the ill-advised and arbitrary administration of A public &cut board,—Journal of Commerce. ADTERTISEMENT.] TITS TURN OF LIFE !—C URE E XTRA ORDINAL.Qt 47 , HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—A respectable woman, age d 0 1, named Graham, res idi ng i n Scotland-road, Liverpo.o was in the most cr iti ca l an d dangerous state for i s' months, being sometimes almost choked with Phl e g i : with shortness of breath, palpitation of the heart, tog ther with a g enera l d erangement and debility of wer whole system. Her life was in the greatest dauly, when she commen ce d th e use of these miraculous 1/140 which restored h er t o t h e h i ghest state of health i a weeks. They are the finest medicine i n tke world for females of all ages. Sold (also Holloway's Ointmel at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Straw (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost a respectable medicine vendors throughout the cfrih world. PAISLET.—STATH OF TRADE.—Trade Still Co 1; tinues brisk, and all hand arc employed. This rem applies to the whole of the different branches of Oic e manufacture. The nei g hb our i ng v il lages also partielrog in this agreeable state of things. In the neighb" so town of Johnstone, cotton-spinning has not been all brisk for a good many years. The old mills s re so busy, and some new ones are in course of erectiolo doubt, wages are small, but provision s are un' l cheap and of exce ll ent quality —so that th e poor m an circumstances must be considerably improved,.GlasT National. THE CASH OP THE SOLDIER'S WIPE.--On Fridl last Mrs. Dynan and her child sailed from the Prince . Dock in the Mary Somerville, for Calcutta. Before leaf; ing she waited on Messrs. Taylor, Potter, and Co., 212 thanked them f or th e i r ki n d ness in having afforded h 4 ,7, a free passage to h er h us b an d . S he also expres sed St' i deepest gratitude to the numerous parties in Liverr e s who had interested themselves in her behalf and raise her from a state of friendlessness and destitution to ?u o i. of comparative happiness. Her joy at the prospeo,,, speedily meeting her husband was unbounded. F . .", occupies an excellent berth on board, and ever that can minister to her comfort along the voyageT:e, been kindly p rov id e d f or h er b y those b ene volent lan d and gentlemen who, from the first, took so prom inent sii active a part in maki ng provision for her necessitie s:— Liverpool Albion. # THE GAM E - LAWS IN FRANCIL—A eolith:nor O r the Messageri es R o y a l es appeared before the Ccorectitl, Police on Saturd a y, on a c h arge of having before the shl ut ot ing season was op ene d, b rought on his diligence a 1335 from Nantes cont a i n i ng t wo ra bbi ts. For thedefenceit 0.0 alleged that the basket was marked " fowis," and tigi t t ho diligence company h a d no r i ght to examine wilt in ; parcels committ e d t o i ts c h arge did or did not eoll'E'ed that, in additi on , th e s h oot i ng season had coeunv'ot at Nantes at the time the rabbits were transmitted. t t he the accusation th e Ki ng ' s A dvocate argued tO i . n ot court had nothing to do w ith th e measures tak'aP 0400 taken by the co m p an y t o i nsure a proper ob ser r, see° "0e law, and that it was not the locality from which the it it was dispatched, but th a t t o w hi c h it was sent, who was necessary to have the shooting sPason open A court found the defend an t guilty, and conde nineu 10 ,ible to 50f. fine and costs, making tly,! comp a ny resP° l3 " for its payment. SACRED TOAST.—JACkSOII of Exeter, as well oo for his literary as his musical tal en t s , and remarkub for the readiness of his wit, being c a ll e d upon at 11 'gr. lie dinner fo r a t oas t, said, "I have great pleas ure ' coo Chairman, in complyi ng w i th your command, and gi.ven:o, the opening word s o f t h e third Psalm. " The (-)01,1111T-deaf astounded at the a pp arent i nappropriateness of t% stopped the mus i c i an short, by exclaiming. " ; 'for Jackson ! the beginning of a psalm do you g eat convivial to as t?' "Yes, Sir ; un l ess you w ill suV jot better, I give y ou Lord Row."--Dransatical and Review. Sydney S m ith, i n argu i ng against the hrirr or . ° ! n I° i some Christians a t th e t h ought of indulging eY I - 41 „ling nocent pleasures, s p ea k s o f them as " alwayr, Oen. at the ide a o f b e i ng entertained, and thinking oc, Christian safe who is not dull." IRBTHS. On the 17th i ns t., in College -place, Camden-town , M l ' s " Everest, of a daughter. On the 23d i ns t., M ra. R ichard Walford, of Ch ar' °Eta' street, Bedford-square, of a daughter. On the 23d inst., at Twickenham, Middlesex, Mrs. Je — Moore, of a daughter. Geor ge On the 23d i ns t., a t C room ' s-hill, Greenwich, Mn. Busk, of a daughter. On the 22d inst., at the Re c t or y, Fledborougl-, mob@ lady of the Rev. ugustus Fitzgerald, of a son. On the 23d inst., at Lacock, the wife of th e Be v c .' hte Beekett, M.A., of T r i n it y C o ll ege, Oxford, (A's c 181 4" ere. G. On the 23d inst., at Liverpool-terrace, 16liagt011t M. Boyes, of a son. On the 24th i ns t., at G uy ' s Hospit'.(l, Mrs. Janes Stocker' of a son. On the 24th i ns t., th e l ady of Samuel Wreford, v , of Oxford square, Hyde-park, of a daughter. On the 24th inst., at AthiteßparrEisfchureh, St. mary i e bone; s econu Henry Tufnell, Esq., ALP. to the Hon. Frances Brag , daughter of General Lord gtrafford, G.C.B. ad, On the 24th inst. at St. John's Church, Waterloo-re_ I , Mingay Syder, Esq., of Upper Stamford:street, to Ser e Ann, fourth daughter of the late J. P. Stu.dd, Esq. , Whitten' Suffolk. *gb - On the 24th inst Captain W. B. Suckling, MN. , et 111 r wood Lodge, Romsev, Hants, to Elizabeth, eldest daughte of the late J. Barry, Esq., of Montague-street, Rase ell-s " are. On the 24th inst., at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Mr. Dennison► Mr• of Gray's Inn, to Jane Weston, °lily daughter of the late Slater, of Birmingham. On the 24th inst., at Upton, Bucks, John Carter, Caroline, relict of Captain John Crockett, of China. On the 24th inst., at St. Pancras New Church, Thomas M. Smith, Esq., to Eliza Isabella, daughter of W. Stevenson, Esq., of Hampstead-road. DIED. On the 23d inst., Lady Ellen, wife of J. W. cane, Esq.' of Shirborn Lodge, Oxfordshire. On the 14th inst , W. Bryant, Esq., late of Relgate, SurreY• On the 16th inst., at Dover, Elizabeth Anderson, of Ciles; ham, youn ges t d aug h ter of the late Rev. AV. Anderson, °' Bristol, aged 19. On the 19th inst., at Vevey, canton de Vaud, Switzerland, Nathan Dunn, Esq. On the 20th inst., John Willis, Esq., of Woodnesboroughr -Kent, aged 79, On the 22d inst., at Nightingale-vale, Woolwich, Joseph Briggs, Esq., of the Royal Military Academy. On the 23d inst., at Mornington-place, Hampstead - roa d, Miss Louisa Mary Guy, aged 82. On the 24th inst., George Wilford Bulkley, Esq., wolici t°r ' Chelsea. On the 24th inst., Edwin Hills; Esq., of Claremont-tcrrac e Pentonville, aged 56. On the 22d inst., in Upper Grosvenor-street, Nathaniel Fenn, Esq., aged 65. On the 23d inst., at Britton-placa, Briton, William Browne, Esq., aged 38. London : Printed and Published by hiIIEDO TOEING 01 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TYie Sun OffiCar No. 111 Strand, in the Precinct of the liavoy,:in the Conti' Middlesex, TblirildAY, $0146140.? 26,1844. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. NOTICE TO AIAMNFIS. Aid/1110NA". BEACON BUOY ON THE Sa ll BEEF. Admiralty, Sept. 24, 184 4 . Sir,—l am co mman d e d b y my Lords Commiss i on s_ of the Admiralty, to transmit to you herewith, for tn e information of the Committee for Managing the Affn i !,l of Lloyd' s , a copy o f a di spatch from the British Consul at Elsinor e , re p ort i ng t h e establishment of an addit i o n Beacon Buoy on the Scaw Reef.—l am, Sir, &c., (Signed) JOHN BARROW. Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's. (copy.) Elsinore, Sept, 12, 10C . .. My Lord,—l h ave t h e h onour to transmit to Yo4l' Lordship herewith .inclosed, a translation of a notice issued by the G enera l B oar d of Customs and Tra d e 1 , Copenhagen, d a t e d t h e 10t h instant, making known tb ss an additional Beacon Buoy has been laid down st the S. E. extremity of the Scaw Reef, which will be out die ring the winter, and in case it should be carried away bi the ice, it will be replaced by another as soon as cheat" stances shall permit.—l have, &c. (Signed) HENRI - GEORGE KUP} 3 The Earl of Aberdeen, &c., &c., K.C. (TRANSLATION.) In order to mark the reef which projects from the point of the Scaw, a Bacon Buoy was some time back laid d own at i ts N .E. extremity, which lies iii four and a h a lf fathoms wa t er , i n t h e direction IV. by S. of the Lighthouse and the Old Church Steeple, both in one line, and was furnished with three broom* In addition to the foregoing, another Beacon Buoy now been laid down at the S.E. extremity of the reef, four fathoms water, the Lighthouse bearing W.N.IV., an the old Skrugen Church Steeple W. This Be,icon 134 is provided with only two brooms, and will, in the satoe manner as the first -mentioned buoy, lie out during 0 , 3 ,7 winter ; and sho u ld i t b e carr i e d away by the ice, it 10` be replaced' by another as soon as circumstances 0 01 1 permit. General Board of Customs and Trade, Sept. 10, 1844. LIGHT ON BRUSTERORT, BETWEEN PILLAR AND MEMEL. Royal Prussian General Consulate, London , September 25, 1844. Sir,—l am di rec t e d by his Prussi an Majesty's P e ; partment for For e i gn Affairs to acquant you that it intended to erect on Brusterort, a projecti ng . point °{ land betwee n P e ll au an d M emel, a revolving light of w e second class, upon Fresnel's plan ; but as the building cannot be finished for some considerable time, it has been deemed necessary to renew the North Beacon as Brits; terort, which was burned down in September, 1842, an d to give the Sea Light there an improved construction. , I beg to inclose you a translation of a notice to now' ners, which has been published in the Continental P a. pers. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obediees servant. (Signed) B. HEBETER, Prussian Consul-General Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's. (corr.) The Sea Light exhibited on Bristerort has been in t ; proved so as to show two fixed lights, the position elevation b e i ng th e same as the former, and Visible 111 clear weather at a distance of about 2i German wilt within 101 d egrees o f t h e horizon, namely, from W• '- N. by N.N.E. (query, if from W. to N. by E. round b i e North.) B o th l ig h ts w ill b e exhibited for the first_thn s on the evenin g o f th e Ist o f October, 1844, and kept burning from sunset to sunrise through the year. - NEW LIFE -BOAT.—A new and extraordinary 'Vs.": is being built upon the diagonal principle, by she ratt e :, Kamptulic on an d Fl oor i ng Company, near Wrater,_' ° bridge, the pl an k s o f w hi c h are composed of India r ubbed and ground co r k. I ts spec ifi c gravity is stated toeed het two-thirds li g ht er th an oa k , and from which it is bel i e v the boat is i nca p a bl e o f b e i ng bilged or sunk. """ed, length 34 f ee t, an d b rea d th 11 feet, is copper fastel l t h and pulls twelve oars; h as two lugg sails, and steers ° I either a rudd e r or oar . Th e Belgian Government 111 1 . directed three to be built for that coast. mock Map ing 11 In. to tine t • Tit tnuet for a 4 than / Prop htidgt that Chang Pitny, 2 ,500 4,000 Pany of • rsoter Comp; rnib er Secret At Hthed the pr aPProi of the Stil very f 'Pen fi Ray is to b e • tiles. Dai 6 f the cons u l Ponan Princii dition sho wn The tondo Moorg toitard The nPPUce session The Meet t Prelim' all call tailwa; The wady. A la ap n 1 41 L1 th e om Pro spe kg% , n theste i Henry 4 1. • Wm's() ilbareb Esti Id ba 71Vei l Pas ,biduc expi %I nc • - Oeir AOL ee • tipd e „.,, Bah -~~ _ Put _eh % % me *Men Port by I mei or it atom end St. I Stan and Tho and ' cum gavel Brad tam al . w shire brats coins and 1 drain snarl TO 1