The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-19 00:00:00

Erb tttort THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock — 'lndian Stock 283% 3 per Cent. Red ........ ...... Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. 3% per Cent. Red — Ditto New Annuities ... 98% New 334 per Cent. — Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 134 d ... 76 pcii New 5 per Cont. Ditto 5001 ...... ......... 71 psn Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small... ..... ....... 76 pm Jan 1860 — Bank Stock for Acct.... 208 Oct. 1859 Consols for Act. 99% Jan. 1860 l2 5.16 India Stock for Acct.... 284 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent ...... ... ! Portuguese, 5 per Cent ..„.. Belgian, 5 per Cent ..... ...... 103% Ditto, New Ditto„, Brazilian Bonds ...... ..... 88% Prussian, 5 per Cent ...... Buenos Ayres, 6 per be .. nt... 3654 Russian, 5 per Cent.....„ — Chillan t 6 per Cent ..... ...... 105 Ditto, Metallic ..•• Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 Ditto, 3 per Cent ......... ...... 34% Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent.— Ditto, Deferred.....„....„..... 13 4 Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 18:5, 5 per Cent — Exchange ........ ...... .... —f —C. Mexican, 5 per Cent ...... Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 — Dutch, 2,16 per Cent...... 624 Peruvian. 1825, 6 per Cent— — I Ditto, 5 per Cent .........10074 SHARES. Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Dublin and Belfast Junction, 254 paid 5 Dublin and Cashel, 234 paid Harwich, I paid I% London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Greenwich (121. 15s. 4d. paid) 1054 London and South Westein (411. 6s. MI. paid) 76 Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) London and Croydon (Trunk) l6 London and York, 254 paid 5% Manchester and Birmingham Ditto New Quarters ( 2 paid) ... ......... Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip (15 paid) 25 South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) Ditto New Shares, 4 paid Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid) York and Selby Scrip. paid 3634 Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid .., .............„ , 2% Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux:l paid ...... Paris and Rouen, 20 paid SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TILE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The Emperor Nicholas has made up his mind to starve us. It is a fact—the Post says so. "If this step has not already been taken, there is reason to believe that it is seriously contemplated." But this annunciation is, if possible, even less start ling than the comment of our Contemporary : "And there could be scarcely more substantial evidence," he continues, "of paternal solicitude for the people's welfiire, on the part of a Monarch and a Govern ment, who have the honour of being selected as the special objects of abuse and denunciation by all the turbulents and malcontents of Europe." Rather hard, though, to visit the sins of all Europe upon the unlucky head of this country ; and a special evidence, it must be confessed, of " paternal solicitude " for the welfare of his people—videlicet, Poland—to destroy her whole trade at one blow. But there may be deep policy in this scheme. The Em peror is capable of great sacrifices for great ends. How much in men and money has he not thrown away—is he not still throwing away ?—in the con quest of Circassia ! lle has, however, evidently given up the idea of attacking us in India. People used to talk of Russian influence on the North Eastern boundary ; and not a few thought it. quite enough success for Lord Palmerston, even had he done no more, to scare away the Rus sian agents from Peshawur and the Court of I)ost Mahomed. But the state of things is reversed. The question now is—or rather has been—not whether a Russian agent is exceeding his written instructions at Caubul, but whether Lord Ellenborough has yet taken it into his head to march upon St. Petersburgh ? The Emperor, therefore, with that intuitous self adaptation to circumstances which distinguishes the Autocrat, has given up India for the present. 'War in Europe, against this country especially, is to be carried on, not by hostile troops, but by hostile taritTh. Hunger will tame a lion ; and this " Great 'Wizard of the North" will soon have the British Lion crouch ing at his feet. 'We really wonder that this "fright ful" danger :eft the Post self-possessed enough to ad mire the " substantial evidence of paternal solicitude." To be sure, the Post tells us, a few lines afterwards, that when there is "a scarcity in England, the unfa vourable quality of the harvest in Poland would," of itself, we presume, " shut out the possibility of a sup ply," from that quarter. So that, after all, the Em peror's prohibition may not extend further than that Poland is not to export when the country has a full supply. In this sense there certainly is substantial evidence of paternal solicitude in preventing his peo ple from losing their money. But to be serious, we thought that by this time the bugbear of dependence on foreign supplies had been laughed down. For some years past we have averaged a supply of 1,000 quarters from abroad. According to the gennerally understood consumption of this country, these would supply a thousand individuals for a year. A great proportion of them, at all events, would starve but for our " supplies from abroad." And we presume that the ability to starve that number is as serious a consideration with our legislators, in determining the question of foreign dependence, as if the num ber were to any amount greater. For the life of a single citizen assassinated abroad, a strict account is rigorously exacted by us at the hands of the State under whose protection he happened to be residing. We presume that that life would be the subject of no less anxi ous solicitude, because it happened to be destroyed by starvation at home. We are, in fact, as much dependent on foreign supplies as we ever can be. If these improvements in farming continue—which, by the way, the Post does not seem much to admire—it may be a question how far we shall not get rid of it altogether. The idea is too ridiculous. The Post must remember the time when theßussian nobility forced the Emperor Paul to make peace with this country, that they might regain our trade with them in the Baltic timber. If in that article our trade was so necessary to them that they could not afford to continue at war with us, and the Emperor Nicholas really has confided to the Post his fixed resolution to starve us, we shall wait with most exemplary patience for his success. STANDARD.—The French Government has promptly followed up the successful termination of the war in Morocco, by giving a decisive proof of its pacific intentions. Orders have been issued to suspend the preparations in progress at Rochefort, Cherbourg, L'Orient, Toulon, and Brest. The expenses of the expe dition to Morocco are rated at about 800,0001. ster ling, and it is not intended to add to them by fur ther preparations, when no new movement is con teTnplat(d. Were it not that men sometimes en tertain apprehensions of evil, after they have fel-- gotten the grounds, upon which these apprehensions were first conceived, we should be ashamed to recur so often as we do to the arguments which we em ployed from the first to combat the predictions of those, who held that the A ar in Morocco must end in the conquest of that empire by France, as terri torial aggrandisement was its only conceivable motive, and that Morocco was to be made the step ping-stone to an attack upon England. Such no tions may, no doubt, have found their way into the imagination of the mad blockheads who write the National, but it is impossible to believe that any sober-minded Frenchman could entertain them for one moment. Morocco could not be securely con quered by any one European power, or by any two European powers, though all the ether States of Europe should maintain a strict neutrality. But if the aggrandisement of France by an acquisition so great and so near as the empire of Morocco, is calculated to excite the jealousy of this country, were not such an aggran disement calculated to excite still stronger jealousy in other nations of Europe, not only by the preponder ance which it would give to, perhaps, already the most powerful nation of the Continent, and by the recollection which the very name of extensive French conquests would inevitably awaken ? These are considerations which cannot have escaped the - wise statesmen who govern France; and these are considerations which must for ever restrain our neighbours from enterprises like that imputed to them. Now that the ruffle of alarm has blown over, we cannot help thinking that it will prove in the and to have been productive rather of good than harm, if it has taught our neighbours to contemplate a little more closely arid a little more carefully the probable benefits and the possible losses of war. In this country, where the people have, for more than a century, exercised the habit of thinking for them selves, and where we have had pretty generally fairly divided among thepeople the blessings of peace as well as the burdens of war, peace is always popular, although, by our insular position, and other circumstance s, we are better prot ec t e d' than others from the worst effects of war. In People h a d, un til France, on the other hand, the lately, too little share in t he cond uct of the affairs o f their country to think very seriously about them ; and in the matter of peace or war they had scarcelyany pacific interest ; for while war held out the pros pect of glory to all, and of employment , to a great :many, peace proffered nothing. or fourteen years the French people have, for the first time since France was a nation, been in the enjoyment of free government, and for nearly four of these fourteen years in the enjoyment of good government, and now that it is for the first time the choice of peace or war has been presented to them even in the distance. To suppose that a whole people of thirty-four millions would in four, or even fourteen years, change all it predilections, would be indeed extravagant ; but still we have every reason to think that very nearly all of the French people who have as yet learned to think—a great majority, and certainly all without, exception who have learned to appreciate the blessings of good government, a majority also —are, like ourselves, friendly to peace—more friendly, be cause of the calculations which the late events have fiseged upon their attention. Under a good system j of government, patriotically administered, peace is always a blessing to all—and it is only under such government that all the blessings of peace are developed. But France has now such 1 government for the first time since she was a nation, as we have remarked, and is now also in the enjoyment of peace, as far as Europe is concerned, and no Frenchman in possession of his senses will risk the loss of either, with the fair account of profit and loss before him. Peace is the interest of all nations—of Great Britian as much as of others, though certainly not more—but of peace the prospe rity and the contentment of France are the guarantee to Europe. Every interest, general and particular, binds us to promote the prosperity and to cultivate the friendship of the neighbouring country. France cannot be rich without making us richer in propor tion. France cannot be free and happy without confirming the peace of Europe. We are encouraged to hope that rich, free, and happy, she will be, from the effect of four short years of good government that we witness. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1844. THE LATE UNFORTUNATE EX PEDITION TO BORNEO. FURTHER PARTICULARS. (From the Friend of China, May 4.) After leaving Semmirendan, we dropped down until we felt the effects of the flood tide, when we anchored, still lashed together, watching the boats that several times attempted to close in. At daylight we weighed, the boats firing at us from a point above ; but having a fair wind, we made sail, followed by the boats, until we reached that part of the river where the bar is situated, about thirteen miles from the sea. here we had to anchor in one of the four branches into which the river divides, separated from each other by narrow islands covered with jungle. Captain hart went in his boat to sound, but found it would be some hours before we should be able to cross. The boats now took advantage of a point above us, and opened a well-directed brisk fire upon us, raking both vessels, cutting up the rigging and completely hulling the brig. It was so severe that at one time Captain Lewis allowed no one on the poop but himself; the poop gun being of no use. Boats were arriving in great numbers every minute and crossing over out of our fire, with the evident intention of passing down one of the other reaches, and attacking us in the rear. Seeing this, it was decided to move a little further down, so that we could prevent them rounding the point, and at the same time compel those boats above us to come out, at least when they fired. In a slim t time, as we expected, the boats came to the point now abeam of us, though not, as they expected, in our rear, and received such a severe fire of grape and musketry as compelled them to retreat; but they soon returned with fresh boats, opening a brisk fire of grape and musketry on us, but it was so warmly re turned by both vessels, that they were never able to round the point It was here, during this heavy cross fire, that Mr. Murray was killed ; he was shot through the heart by a grape shot, whilst pointing the schooner's midship gun. Two men, volunteers, came in the schooner's boat for me, in spite of the heavy fire ; but he had expired almost instantaneously; the expression of "My God !" was all he ever uttered. During the whole of the action he was very active, going from gun to gun, and encouraging the men, who certainly behaved most bravely, standing to their guns, though much exposed in the hottest fires, returning their shot with a cheer, always ready for anything, though they had nothing to eat but biscuit during the action. The firing from the boats now slackened, it being the first time that we had been able to get them within the range of grape and musketry, and severely they felt it, their guns being long, and carrying a great distance remarkably correct. After about seven hours hard firing at our anchors, Mr. Garret, chief officer of the schooner, with the brig's long-boat, and a crew of volunteers, laid out a warp over the bar, when both vessels lashed together and warped over the bar. Though we grounded several times, yet with a fair wind we got over safely, and made all sail for the sea, which we could see about thirteen miles dis tant, still pursued by the boats, who kept firing at us until we made a good offing about eight P.M., when they fired their last shot, about thirty-four hours after the first, the brig having fired alone 720 rounds during the action. 'We now made all sail for the Dutch port of Manado, to refit, &c. Mr. Murray was interred in his own flag on the morning of the 18th of February, at sea. The above is the simple and correct account of all that occurred from our entrance until our leaving the River Coti, of the death of our lamented leader, and of our really wonderful escape out of this nest of pirates. Nor do any of us look back on the scenes through which we passed without thinking of the I conduct of our commanders, Mr. Murray, Captain A. Hart, and Captain 11. Lewis, and feeling that respect for their abilities, bravery, and coolness, which brought us out of so much danger and difficulty : nor of that of the other officers and gentlemen of the expedition, who did their duty in most dangerous situations. From my being in both vessels during the action, and intimately acquainted, through Mr. Murray, of all that occurred, both before and during our stay in the Ceti, and when not engaged with the wounded, passing my time in assisting on deck, and being thus able to see more what passed than a person confined to one place and one vessel, is the reason why I have taken the task of writing this upon me. W. SAM., Surgeon to the Expedition. DISTRESSING AND FATAL ACCIDENT. It is our melancholy duty to record the particulars of a most distressing accident, which happened in the neighbourhood of this city last Saturday after noon. On that day, the Rev. Prebendary Medley, vicar of St. Thomas, accompanied by Mrs. Medley (his mother), the Rev. Prebendary Cornish, vicar of Kenwyn, near Truro, and the lion. Mrs. Shore, of Mount Radford, a widow lady, and sister of the gen tleman last named, left St. Thomas for a drive, in a double-bodied phaeton, drawn by a pair of horses. They visited the chapel at Oldridge, which is a chapelry connected with Mr. Medley's parish, and were returning by the Whitstone road, Mr. Medley driving. At the top of the hill, beyond Whitstone, at the point where the descent begins, the horses started off, and proceeded down the hill with fearfullrapidity, never stopping until they came within fifty yards of Nadder Farm. The carriage swayed from side to side, during the descent, and Mr. Medley felt it would be best to keep in the middle of the road. They went on without injury until they came to the turn of the road, when the carriage, either from the locking of the wheel, or from coming in contact with a stone, was in an instant broken in pieces, and the whole party thrown violently upon the ground. Mr. Cornish regained his legs immediately, and escaped with out injury, but Mr. and Mrs. Medley and Mrs. Shore lay upon the ground in an utterly helpless condition. With the assistance of a man named Nichols, of Exeter, who was working in a field hard by, they were removed as quickly as possible to the house of Mr. Baker, at Nadder Farm, and a man on horseback, who happened to come up at the time, was instantly dispatched for a surgeon. Mr.Lyddon, of St. Thomas's, promptly arrived, and rendered to the sufferers all the assistance in his power, but the injuries which Mrs. Medley had received were so severe that she expired in less than two hours-and-a half after the occurrence of the accident. Mr. Med ley, in the course of the evening, was removed to his own house, at St. Thomas's, where he has been since attended by Mr. Barnes, and we rejoice to say that, although he was much hurt and bruised, no bones were broken, and he is now doing well. Mrs. Shore remains at the farm-house into which she was taken at the time of the melancholy occur rence, her state being so precarious as not to justify her removal. We are happy, however, to learn that the latest accounts yesterday represented her as im proving. The event has thrown a gloom over the parish of Saint Thomas, and great anxiety is manifested on all hands for the recovery of their respected vicar, who is alike looked up to and beloved by rich and poor. The horses appear to have fallen into a ditch, ani to have escaped without hurt.— Western Luminary. CHINESE STRATEGY. If a general is pusillanimous, he will not have the sentiments of honour which become a person of his rank, he will be deficient in the essential qualification of inspiring his troops with ardour : he will depress their courage at the time it ought to be excited ; he will never know how to teach, nor exercise them pro perly ; he will never think that he can rely on the in - telligence, the valour, or the skill of the officers who are under him ; the officers themselves will not know what to depend upon : he will make a thousand false movements with his troops, whom he will arrange sometimes in one manner, and sometimes in another, without following any system or any plan: he will hesitate about all things; he will decide on nothing; everywhere he will see nothing but subjects of alarm and then disorder, and general disorder will reign in his army. If a general is ignorant of the strength and weak nessm of the enem y aga i ns t w hom he is to fight ; if he is n o t th oroughly acquainted, as we ll w i t h th e p l aces which he is occupy, according occupying, as with those which he may according to different events, it will fall out that he will oppose to the strongest part of the enemy's army the weakest part of his own ; he will send his light an d veteran warriors against the heavy troop of the enemy, or against those who are held in no estimation by the adversary; he will at tack when he ought not to attack ; he will suffer to perish, for want of assistance, those of his troops who may find themselves incapable of resistance; he will defend himself inexpediently in a bad situation ; he will give up causelessly some post of the neat est importance; in occasions of this kind he will rely on some imaginary advantage which will only be an effect of the politics of the enemy, or he will lose courage after a relapse of trifling consequence. He will find himself pursued Without having expected it; he will find himself surrounded, they will attack him furiously; happy then will he be if he can obtain safety by flight : it is for this reason, to return to the topic which is the subject of this article, a good gene ral ought to know all the places which are or may be the theatre of war, as distinctly as he knows all the corners and angles of the courts and gardens of his own house.—From the "Art of TVar," in Captain Pidding's Chinese Olio and Tea Talk, No. 21. UNION TREATMENT. Yesterday Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., Coroner, and a jury empanelled on Saturday last, at the One Tun public-house, Old Brentford, resumed an inquiry into the circumstances attendant upon the death of John Shaw, aged 22 years, who died in the work house of the Eton 'Union, at Slough, Bucks, from the effects of injuries he had received by a fall of earth, and who, it is alleged, was much ne glected. John Peverall deposed that he was a pauper inmate of the Eton Union workhouse, at Slough, and for seven years had been nurse in the men's sick ward. Deceased was brought to that work house on the afternoon of last Saturday six weeks, having been injured by an accident owing to an abatement of earth which had fallen on him while excavating for the foundation of some cellars at Slough. Deceased was accompanied by Mr. Nobland, a sur geon, of Windsor, who was passing at the time. Mr. Hammond, the surgeon of the Union, saw deceased next day, and continued to attend him up to his death, which took place on the night of Wednesday, the 12th instant, about half an hour after midnight. The day that deceased was brought in Mr. Bryan, another surgeon, set his leg, and deceased re peatedly declared to witness that he was sa tisfied with the treatment he received while in the workhouse. After a very extended examination, Mr. Seers, the master of the deceased, deposed that the deceased told him that for the first three weeks he was quite starving, and consequently, although contrary to the rules, he took him food. Deceased also told him that after Mr. Bryan had seen him on the Monday night, no medical man saw him until the union surgeon came on the Friday morning, when he became much easier. Wit ness gave deceased money, as he said other men had victuals which they could not eat, which he would buy of them, as he was so !hungry. Since deceased's death the master had asked him to pay for the porter and wine deceased had had the last two or three days of his life, as witness had said he would send deceased some nourishment. Mr. Wakley said, after that evi dence, the case must be adjourned, for the attendance of Mr. Hammond, and other witnesses. The inquiry was then adjourned for a week. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS The following are the results of "A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the 14th of September,llB44." The Tablelis issued from the Office of the Registrar-General : Weekly CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. Average of Five years. Epidemie,Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 236 178 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat B4 111 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 132 157 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration i 197 286 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 2l 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 7 5 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 9 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 1 Old Age, or Natural Decay 55 71 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified Deaths from all Causes ...... DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER TEE ABOVE BEADS. Weekly Average Total. of Five Years. Consumption Scarlatina 7O 34 Pneumonia .......... Dropsy .. ... .. .. ............ Hooping Cough .... ....... .. Typhus Small Pox 37 15 Disease of the Heart Measles lB 28 Apoplexy Diseases of the Brain ll 9 Diarrhoea.. - Sudden Deaths 7 15 DISTRICTS. West ...., North.. Central., East ... . South... 135 138 172 171 178 188 .... 175 207 183 242 Total . ~ 843 STATE OV FIELD-LA NE AND ITS VICINITY.—In the evidence given before the Commissioners for inquiry into the state of large towns and populous districts, lately published by Dr. C. J. B. Aldis, physician to the Far riugdon Dispensary, he says, " In the neighbourhood of Field-lane some persons have not even cesspools orprivies, all their excrements are thrown into a little back yard, where they are allowed to accumulate for months together ; others have a cesspool, but it is not pro vided with a drain, so that the excrements run into courts or streets, where they remain till a shower of rain washes them into the gutter. Such are the places we:are called upon most frequently to visit. One woman informed me to-day that her husband lay dead, and that she could not obtain water without the greatest difficulty to was his rags.' I went into her room, and found her husband lying dead in a coffin ; the room was small, dark, and dirty, and occupied by six children, in addition to the father and mother. Another female re presented the place to be stinking alive' for want of water. The courts in Field-lane are low and ill-ventilated, leading to backyards and houses. The yards are strewed with decayed vegetables, dust heaps, dung, human excre ments, and other putrescent substances. In one yard I have noticed some pigs. I find the cesspools imper fectly covered, and the privies in a most filthy condition. All this must necessarily occasion effluvial poisons. Red Lion-court, Saffron-hill, is quite unfit for human beings to dwell in. One yard especially, pointed out to me, was filled with a mass of putridity. Other sources of unhealthiness may arise from the knackers' yards, in one of which I was informed that 60 horses were slaughtered weekly. Different kinds of animals are skinned here, and the bones boiled, which occasion a sickening smell, and heaps of bones may be seen in the yard, the wash ings from which, with the offal from the animals, are thrown into the Fleet-ditch." D'AUDIGNIC REPRIMANDED.—MonsieIIr Guizot has undertaken to order Captain Bruat to reprimand M. D'Aubigny for his conduct to Pritchard. The solemnity will, we understand, be performed in the following manner:—Bruat will be seated at a table with bottles and glasses before him. He will then order D'Aubigny to be brought into his presence. Bruat will then rise, and with great sternness address the prisoner, thus— M. D'Aubigny, it is my painful duty to severely re primand you—and you are reprimanded accordingly (D'Aubigny bows). Now, comrade, sit down (pushes the bottles). Chateau Margaux or Lafitte? D'.Aubigny —Lafitte. Bruat (filling)—" Tringuous ! Ala gloire de France !" And, until a late hour in the evening, D'Aubigny continues to be remanded.—Punch. STRIKE or SIIIPCARPENTERS. SUNDERLAND, SEPT..I7.—The ship-carpenters of this port have struck for an advance of wages. At present there wages are 18s. per week, and they request that these wages (which it must be admitted are very low) should be raised to 21s. For the last three or four years ship-building.at this and the neighbouring towns has been in a greatly depressed state—so much so, that the wages of carpenters declined from 30s. and upwards down to 18s. and even to 16s. per week. Many ship-builders were either ruined or voluntarily closed their yards, and indeed laft year there were scarcely even a dozen ships upon the Mocks at a time in this port, which was at once cele brated as the first ship-building port in the world. At the commencement of this year a revival in this important branch of industry took place, and hundredsof able bodied men who were thrown for sustenance upon the poor-rates again found employment,although at low wages. Since the close of the pitmen's strike there has been an extraordinay demand for vessels, and freights have been offered both in the coasting and foreign trades double those given at a corresponding period of the preceding year, and in some instances a still further advance has been demanded and obtained. The consequence of this has been, that ships have risen in value, and an additional impetus has been given to ship-building, which is now in a thriving, and promises speedily to be in a highly flourishing state. The men have seized the present opportunity so favour able for obtaining increased remuneration for their labour. On Saturday night most of them ceased work, and yesterday they held a numerous meeting on Build ing -hill, at which they resolved to continue out of employment until they received 21s. per week. This afternoon they were to have held another meeting in the same locality, but this meeting either . waspost poned, or the place altered. The general opinion in the town is, that the workmen are entitled to and will re ceive the advanced wages ; but it is to be regretted that previous to a strike commencing the men employed in any trade do not wait upon their employers, and repre sent their wishes and urge their claims. If this were done, strikes would not be so frequent as they now are, and a better feeling would prevail amongst masters and men. FRENCH MISAPPREHENSION OF ENGLISH TITLES AND PROCEEDINGS.—The late elevation of Lord Stanley to the Upper House is thus recorded and explained in the Commerce, a Paris paper of high character, in its number of the Bth inst. :—" Lord Stanley, Minister for the Colonies, has accepted the title of Lord Chiltern Hundreds—a title with no duties annexed—which is in compatible with that of Member of the Elective Cham h-r, because it is attached to the Household of the Queen." In the same blundering spirit, the National of Sunday has a long article in which it talks of the efforts made by " Lord Piardinge " to conclude a commercial treaty with the Pacha of Egypt. A mysterious per sonage, called Sir R. Peel, is still commonly described in the French provincial journals as the English. Premier; and it is only a few weeks since we were startled bY the announcement, that Sir W. Peel, the son of the said Sir R. Peel, had passed his examination at Portsmouth for the rank of Admiral I—Times. - - CHEAP TRAIN PROM YoRK.—On Monday a cheap train brought an importation of between two and three thousand visitors into Newcastle, giving an unusual ap • pc-arance of bustle to its streets.— Tyne Mercury. Mr. J. C. Belaney is said to be now on a visit in the family of a gentleman at Cleadon, near South Shields.—Tyne Mercury. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. Solomon Parker, 19, and Joshua Jacobs, 25, were indicted for a burglary in the dwelling-house of Abraham Belasco, with the intent to steal the goods and moneys of the prosecutor. The jury found the prisoners Guilty; and Parker was sentenced to nine, and Jacobs to twelve months' imprisonment. Alfred Dellinger was convicted of stealing two tablespoons, the property of James Morris Frost, and he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. Edwin and William Hartlidge, brothers, were brought before the Lord Mayor, in the custody of In spector Waller, charged with robbery in the house of Mr. Sarl, jeweller, of the Poultry, and Cornhill. Mr. Humphrey appeared for the prosecutor, and Mr. Nobler attended for the prisoners. William Brown, shopman to Mr. Attenborough, a pawnbroker, stated that he knew Edwin Hartlidge, who called at the shop on the sth of August, and pledged a gold watch for2l. 10s. A few (lays afterwards the same prisoner called and offered another gold watch, asking the loan of the same sum upon it. Wit ness handed over the watch to a fellow-servant, and said he would accompany the prisoner to the address which was given with it, and which was different from that given with the former article. They accordingly went together to the neighbourhood of Dorset-street, Clapham-road, where, at No. 15, Edwin Hartlidge said he resided. When they approached the house the prisoner told the witness he did not wish to let his parents know anything about the watch, and he must therefore decline calling at home, but he requested witness to go with him to his brother, who resided at a little distance. As they went along, Edwin Hart lidge met a man who seemed to be waiting for him, and after exchanging a few words, the man ran off; and the prisoner asked the witness to go elsewhere with him. The witness refused, and ultimately re turned with him to Mr. Attenborough's shop. On the way Edwin Hartlidge told witness that he had purchased the watches for 7L a piece, and that one of them was his brother's, and the other his own, but he could not tell where he had bought them. William Sari,' jun., stated that Edwin Hartlidge had been in the service of the house about four years, and had left about nine months ago ; and William had also been in their service two or three years, and up to the time of the robbery. It was the duty of William Hartlidge to attend to the shop in the Poul try, and his general instructions were to prevent any one from going upon the premises who did not be long to the concern. The watches were kept in a glass case on the counter, the keys of which case wit ness locked up in an iron safe. He saw one of them on the night before the robbery was committed on the premises in the case. It was one of those pro duced which Edwin Hartlidge had taken to the pawn broker's shop. The other watch was also the property of the firm, and had been stolen. Witness was pre sent when William Hartlidge was questioned about his brother Edwin, who, he said, crying, had slept on the premises on Friday night, and had attempted to rob them, and that he had snatched from his brother two watches which the latter had taken from the case, which was opened by him with a pair of scissors. The witness not only identified the watches, but two breast pins and brooches, which Edwin Hartlidge had sold or made presents of, and which had been stolen. Mr. Hobler submitted that the suspicion of the par ticipation of 'William Hartlidge was very weak. The LORD MAYOR, however, after a very scrupu lous examination of the evidence, said he considered there was quite enough to show that William Hart- Edge aided and assisted his brother. It appeared that there was no mark of any attempt to open the watch-case with any instrument. Inspector Waller, after a great deal of exertion, ascertained that Edwin Hartlidge had stolen two other watches, and pawned them at the shop of an other pawnbroker. The watches were produced and identified. The prisoners were both committed for trial ; and bills were ordered to be laid before the grand jury against them at once, so that probably a very few hours will intervene between their committal and their trial. Robert Walker, a well-dressed, smart-looking young fellow, was charged by Mr. Kemp, broker, of Ab church-lane, with having robbed him of a purse, con taining 141. and some silver. The prosecutor stated that as he was passing through St. Paul's Churchyard on the preceding day, his attention was attracted by the appearance of a man who was looking sideways at him. Ho imme diately turned round, and saw the prisoner, whose face he recollected, and who ran off upon finding him self observed. Witness, upon putting his hand to his coat pocket, missed his purse, which contained fourteen sovereigns, and five or six shillings in silver, and he at once followed the prisoner, crying, " Stop thief!" The prisoner was secured by a porter and a policeman, and the purse, containing the money, was taken out of his right hand. The LORD MAYOR asked the prosecutor how he happened to know what sort of person the prisoner was o a m fe e w nt ?—Mr. Pre li vi e o m uly his wife, while Kemp said it was rather i passing in a carriage , saw him surrounded by a set of fellows, who were all , no doubt, thieves, and called out to him that one of them was trying to pick his sng ualtar the moment pocket. He turned about and saw the prisoner, and made a blow at him. One of his companions, however, was taken and conveyed to Guildhall, from which the magistrate committed him to Bride well for seven days, upon the evidence of his (prosecutor's) servant. The prisoner said the gentleman was mistaken about having seen him before. Gooch, the turnkey at the Giltspur-street Compter, stated that the prisoner was well known as the com panion of thieves, but had been particularly lucky in escaping committal. The prisoner was then committed for trial. BOW-STREET. Yesterday William Hawthorn, aged eighteen years, Frederick Cornwall, seventeen, and Henry Baldwin, sixteen, having the appearance of country labourers, were brought up in the custody of the officers of the detective force, and placed at the bar handcuffed, charged with having made th e i r escape f rom th e gao l of St. Alban's, where they had been committed for trial at the next assizes for felonies. The escape of the prisoners was published in the Police Gazette, giving a minute description of them, and a reward of fifteen guineas offered for their apprehension by Mr. Deayton, the governor of the prison. Sergeant Wicher, a detective officer, stated that about half-past seven o'clock in the morning he met the prisoners in the Strand, and suspecting that they answered the description given of the persons who had made their escape from St. Alban's, he followed them until he obtained the assistance of Parker and Thornton to apprehend them. On questioning them, they immediately admitted having made their escape on the 13th inst., and it was their intention to have enlisted, in order to be sent out of the country. The prisoner Hawthorn also said he had been committed for a burglary, and his companion for stealing a watch and 55., and that the turnkey had employed them in cleaning windows, and they made their escape with the ladder he had supplied them with for that purpose. The prisoners did not deny they were the persons described in the placard produced by the officer. Mr. JARDINE ordered them to be conveyed to Watford, where conveyances are easily obtained to St. Alban's. The prisoners were then removed to the cells for a short time, where they exhibited such noisy conduct that they were threatened to be confined separately in an underground apartment unless they desisted. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday Mrs. S. Silvera, of No. 18, Whitehead's grove, Chelsea, appeared to a summons, charging her with refusing to pay the legal fare for the hire of a cab. T. Roberts, the driver of the cab, 1,391, stated that between eight and nine on Mae evening of the Bth in stant, he took the lady up in Ebury-street, Pimlico, and drove her to Whitehead's-grove, where he de manded sixteen pence which she refused to pay. The lady inquired ' how he made the fare amount to sixteenpence. The driver replied that there was eightpence for the mile of ground from Ebury-street to Whitehead's grove, and there was eightpence back carriage. The lady said s h e had offered the driver a shilling, which he h a d re f use d t o t a ke. She was not aware that there was any back carriage ; there was a cab rank within t wo mi nutes' walk up where the driver had set her down. Mr. BURRELL observed that the lady had behaved very liberally in offering the shilling, as she supposed the fare was but eightpence. The public were not aware of the fact, that a mile back carriage, at least where the party were set down above three miles from the General Post-office after eight o'clock in the evening, was legally claimed by the driver without reference to his being near a cab rank or not. The body of magistrates at the police-courts had consi dered the conveyance of the person and the back car riage as two distinct fares, and had acted upon it. He must adjudge the lady to pay the amount claimed, with the costs. _ _ The Lady- --- How much then, Sir, have I to pay ? The Clerk—Six and fourpence, Madam. The Lady —pray, what is that for ? The Clerk— The amount of the ,fare claimed with the man's loss of time, and the summons. " Well, really," said the lady, with apparent vex ation, " if ever a cabman insults me or overcharges me, I'll summon him directly. Don't be surprised, Sir, if you see me making an exhibition of myself here." Mr. BURRELL-But, Madam, it would be hardly fair to revenge yourself The Lady (with much warmth)—l assure you I shall summon the first person that offends. Mr. Burrell again attempted to address an observa tion to the lady, but on being again interrupted by her assurance that she would make an example of the first driver who overcharged her, he relinquished the idea of reasoning with her, and proceeded to other I business. The lady then paid the amoant and withdrew. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday Martin clerk, a Swede, was placed at the bar before the lion. G. C. Norton, on a charge of stabbing Mary Anne Judith, a prostitute. The complainant stated that the prisoner, on his re turn from a former voyage, had stopped with her for one night, and from that time he had frequently threatened to stab her. On the night before she was in the Swedish Flag public-house, in the neighbour hood of Ratcliffe-highway, and seeing the prisoner kick a young woman with great violence, she told him he must be a great brute for doing so, upon which he grasped hold of hi , ; knife, and, opening it hastily, made a lunge at her left breast. She threw up her hand to ward off the blow, and received a wound from the point of the knife. _ _ The young woman whom the - prisoner had kicked was next examined, and deposed that she was merely standing by where the prisoner was settling with a cabman, when the prisoner, without the slightest pro vocation, gave her a desperate kick. Si brutal was the kick that she was for some time unable to speak or draw her breath, and throughout the night she re mained in great torture. This witness fully corrobo rated the prosecutrix in her statement. Other witnesses proved that the conduct of the pri soner, particularly when he took the least liquor, was of the most ruffianly description. For sometime be fore he had committed the offence with which he was charged he marched up and down the long room of the public-house, drinking the liquors of some and upsetting the grog of the customers there, and when remonstrated with he threatened instant destruction to any person opposing him, declaring that while he he had his knife about him he cared for no one, as it was his particular friend. On making these threats the prisoner grasped his knife, which was slung by his side from a thick cord round his neck, and brandished it about, so that all present were struck with terror at his appearance and manner. Tfie prisoner, in reply, said that he was so drunk as to forget all that happened. Mr. NORTON observed that he seldom heard of such dastardly and outrageous conduct, and commit ted the prisoner on the capital charge. THAMES POLICE. A Customs locker, named John Howes, in the em ploy of the Crown, who was formerly a police-con• stable, was convicted by Dlr. Broderip, on Monday, under the Police Act, for having in his possession a pint of rum, supposed to be stolen, or unlawfully procured, and the sentence passed on him, was seven weeks' imprisonment and hard labour, in addition to the week he had been in custody from the time of his apprehension. The evidence against him was in substance this, that be was seen to enter one of the warehouses in the West India Dock and drink out of a glass bottle containing rum, which he left between some hogsheads of sugar, where it was allowed to remain for three days, that he took the bottle away and deposited it in his desk in the box belonging to the Customs lockers, and that he afterwards returned to the same warehouse, and threw away a tin case when he saw he was observed, and it was found to contain a pint of rum. To-day Mr. Williams, a solicitor, who was employed jointly with Mr. Pelham for the defence, served a notice of appeal against the decision of Mr. Broderip, and tendered the names of two respectable housekeepers as sureties. Mr. Leadley, the junior clerk, on making known the solicitor's business, and placing an order before the Magistrate for his signature to have the prisoner brought up and to put in bail, said that Howes in tended to appeal to the Middlesex sessions. Mr. BRODERIP, who looked surprised, asked Mr. Williams if it really was his intention to appeal ? Mr. Williams replied—Certainly. I am so instructed by the prisoner and his friends. Mr. BRODERIP said it was a very bad case, for the prisoner was an officer employed under the Crown, and he (the Magistrate) ought to have superadded hard labour to the imprisonment. Mr. Williams said the sentence on the commitment was hard labour. Mr. BROBERIP—I did not include hard labour in the sentence ; I never mentioned the words. Mr. Leadley assured the magistrate that he in cluded hard labour in his sentence of imprisonment. Mr. BRODERIP—It is no such thing; my sentence was seven weeks' imprisonment, without hard labour. Mr. 'Williams said he was present when sentence was passed, and said nothing was said about hard labour. He was never more surprised in his life than when he saw the words " to be kept to hard labour" on the commitment at the prison, and he understood his client was set to work on the treadmill. The sen tence of the Court was simply imprisonment for seven weeks in the House of Correction. Mr. I3RODERIP—Then the commitment is wrong. Mr. Leadley said he inserted on the minutes the sentence actually pronounced by the magistrate, and the form of conviction was drawn up by himself and Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, according to the decision. Mr. BRODERIP—My sentence was without hard labour. Mr. Williams—lt was, Sir; I heard you pro nounce it. Mr. Leadley was positive the sentence included hard labour, and after some conversation with Mr. Broderip in an under tone, retired with him to the magistrate's private room, and no more was said on the subject except by Mr. Williams, who positively asserted the form of conviction was wrong. In the afternoon th• prisoner was brought up before the magistrate, and having perfected the requisite sureties was set at liberty. SAILING MATCH BETWEEN AN ENGLISH AND FRENCH SHIP OF WAR FROM VALPARAISO TO THE CHANNEL. The Paris Globe of Monday contains the follow ing :—" A contest such as we should be glad to behold frequently, because it shows sentiments of mutual esteem and friendly rivalry, took place lately between a vessel of the English navy and another belonging to that of France, and we mention it to prove how easy it would be to maintain or to cement the intercourse between the two countries. Before returning to Europe the English frigate, the Vindic tive, Captain Toup Nicholas, and the French brig the Adonis, Captain Viscount de St. Georges, happened to be in the harbour of Valparaiso. In the conversa tions held between the officers of the two nations, Captain Toup Nicholas praised to the skies the qua lities of his frigate, the best sailer in the British navy, according to the account of Admiral Napier himself, who boasted of it in the House of Commons. Vis count de St. Georges also ventured to speak of the qualities of his brig, and, on an ironical smile appear ing on the face of the English officer, he politely challenged him to see which vessel would first reach Europe, whither they were bound. The challenge was accepted, and it remained to decide what was to be the wager. Forty-six months' station in the Pacific Ocean had frightfully tarnished the French officer's epaulettes, and therefore the English officer, whose own were not in a very brilliant state, pro• posed a pair of epaulettes. The day of sailing having arrived, the Vindictive, the Adonis, and two American frigates, weighed anchor at the same time, and set sail towards Cape Horn. The national feeling had doubled the ardour arid address of the rival crews, and they performed their duty with marvellous pre cision and rapidity. The English frigate spread all sail, and the Adonis glided like a seagull over the waves. At the expiration of a few hours, and while land was still in view, the French brig had already gained the distance of several leagues on the Vindic tive. The captain of the Adonis thought that it was only good taste to take leave a second time of Cap tain Toup Nicholas, before he departed finally for Europe. He, therefore, sailed back towards the Vindictive, which was majestically advancing, and after having gone round her, again resumed his voyage, crying, " Bon voyage" to the English. In a few hours the brig had completely disappeared. Captain Nicholas, on his arrival in England allowing that the Vindictive frigate had been nobly beaten by the Adonis brig, wrote a very civil letter to Viscount St. Georges, with a handsome pair of captain's epau lettes. The brig Adonis is a veteran of our squadron. She carries 20 guns, and was built 20 years back. She was condemned on her return from the South Sea station, but the report given by her captain of her brilliant qualities has caused the Minister of Marine to give orders to have her re-constructed in the same proportions." Galignani, of Monday, in giving the above, makes the following remark : " This must be rather a bold boast of the gallant captain, for the Vindictive, if we mistake not, was beaten in a trial trip in the Channel, before she sailed for her station in the Pacific. We must remark that, in comparing the sailing qualities of two vessels of the above sizes, it is material to know the state of the weather. In a light wind a brig of any sailing merit might beat a frigate, but in a smart breeze would soon be hull down." L ADYERTISEMENT. ] THE TURN OF IFE !—CURE EXTRAORDINARY BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—A respectable woman, aged 47, named Graham, residing in Scotland-road, Liverpool, was in the most critical and dangerous state for nine months, being sometimes almost choked with phlegm, with shortness of breath, palpitation of the heart, toge ther with a general derangement and debility of the whole system. Her life was in the greatest danger when she commenced the use of these miraculous pills, which restored her to the highest state of health in five weeks. They are the finest medicine in the world for females of all ages. Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable medicine rendore throughout the civilised world, MARSEILLES, Sept. 11. The following interesting notice was made known this morning. Travellers from Alexandria, India, Constantinople, &c., will hail with joy the new qua rantine regulations of the French Government : " QUARA.NTINE ESTABLISHED BY A MI ,NISTERIAL DECISION, DATED AUG. 14. " WITH UNCLEAN BILL OF HEALTH. "Art. 1. French Post-office Packets.-19 days after debarking effects and passengers. • "Passengers by these Boats and their Baggage.-17 days after landing at the Lazaret ; 14 days only when the baggage shall have been plombes at the consulate of France at the port of embarking, and that this operation be legally certified. "Art. 2. French or Foreign Men-of- War.-17 days after the landing of passengers and their baggage. " Passengers on Board these Vessels.-17 days without spoglio, 14 days with spoglio. " Art. 3. Vessels with Pilgrims.-25 days. " Pilgrims.-25 days after landing. " Art. 4. Every other description of Sailing-ves sel or Steam-boat.-21 days after landing suspected articles. " Passengers by these Vessels.-17 days without spoglio, 14 days with spoglio. " Merchandise.----21 days after landing at the Lazaret. " WITII DOUBTFUL BILLS OF HEALTH. " Art. 1. French Post-office Packets.-15 days after debarking effects and passengers. " Passengers by these Boats and their Baggage.- 14 days after landing ; 12 days only when the baggage shall have been plombes at the consulate of France at the point of embarking, and that this operation be legally certified. " Art. 2. French or Foreign Men-of-War.-14 days after the landing of passengers and their bag gage. Without passengers, 12 days. " Passengers on board these Vessels.-14 days after landing without spoglio, and 12 days with spoglio. " Art. 3. Vessels with Pilgrims.-20 days. Pil grims, 20 days after landing at the Lazaret. " Art. 4. Every other description of sailing vessel or steam-boat.--1.5 days after landing suspected articles. " Passengers by these vessels.-14 days without spoglio after landing at the Lazaret ; 12 days with spoglio. Suspected goods 15 days after landing at the Lazaret. " WITH CLEAN BILLS OF HEALTH. " Art. 1. French Post-office Packets.-12 days after debarking effects at the Lazaret. " Passengers by these boats and their baggage.-9 days after landing, and their baggage exposed to the air. " Art. 2. French or Foreign Men of War.-9 days, with or without passengers. " Passengers on board these vessels.-9 days after landing, and their baggage exposed to the air. " Art. 3. Every other description of vessel or steam-boat.-12 days after landing suspected goods. " Passengers by these vessels.-9 days. " Suspected Merchandise.-12 days after landing at the Lazaret." Last evening the steam-packet Rhamies entered this port from the Levant ; she brings news of no im portance from Constantinople to the 29th. The letters from Alexandria are of a date anterior to those brought by the Alecto with the Indian mail. The steam-packet Royal George also entered this port last night from the coast of Spain ; she brings dispatches for the Government from the Prince de Joinyille. The Royal George sailed from Cadiz on the Ist ; at that date four French steamers were lying in the roads. Two French men-of-war cast anchor in the roads at the moment of her departure. The following is an extract from a private letter, dated Athens, August 29 : . " M. Coletti is in a most critical position, and I doubt much that he will be able to stand his ground. The country is in a state truly deplorable—a civil war at Maina and other provinces, an empty trea sury, no commerce, and, I am credibly informed, great dissensions in the council. Informatioh has been received that the fourgon with the commercial correspondence for Trieste, dispatches from the Austrian and Prussian Governments, and an auto graph letter from King Otho, had been pillaged by a band of miscreants between Calamaki and Lou traki. The banditti got possession also of 14,000 drachms in gold. Our coast is infested with pirates." The following has been received from an Italian Consul : REGULATIONS FOR PASSPORTS IN THE TURKISH EMPIRE. Art. 1. Every person desirous of entering the Turkish empire must be provided with a passport from the competent authorities. Art. 2. Every subject of a foreign power friendly to, or in alliance with, the Sublime Porte, wishing to enter the Turkish empire, must have his passport vise,d by one of the consuls of his nation, or by the ambassador or consul of the Sultan, at the Court of the country to which they belong. Art. 3. On arriving in the country, either by sea or land, the passport must be immediately presented to the proper authorities. Art. 4. Within twenty-four hours after his arrival, the traveller should present himself before the proper authorities to reclaim his passport, and if he intends taking up his residence in the place, should provide himself with an authority for that purpose. Art. 5. Any seaman or passenger landing from a vessel and desiring to remain in a place, must provide himself with a certificate stating that he has regularly being discharged from the ship, and must then get his name registered at the Passport-office. Art. 6. Passports for the interior of the country are delivered at Constantinople, at the Passport-office. Art. 7. To obtain a passport for travelling in the interior of the country,it is necessary to obtain a letter from the consul of their nation, which they have to present to the Chancellor. Art. 8. A fresh passport - must be obtained for every fresh journey, and the usual vises obtained. Art. 9. Passports granted by the Ottoman Govern ment are valid for one year, and must bear the name, age, description, &c., of the bearer. The name of the wife and children under 15 years may be inscribed on the same passport. Above that age a separate pass port will be required. Art. 10. Every captain of a vessel carrying pas sengers is required to ascertain that they are respec tively provided with the necessary passports, which he must take into his possession until their landing, giving a receipt for the same, to be returned at the end of their voyage. Ambassadors and diplomatic agents of friendly and allied powers are alone exempt from this regulation. They are, however, to give notice of their arrival within twenty-four hours, and to send their passports to be registered. Art. 13. Any traveller being unprovided with a passport, or having one which is not en regle, should present himself before the proper authorities of the place in which he may be, and explain the reason of such being the rase. If these excuses are considered satisfactory, a written certificate to that effect will be given to him; if not satisfactory, he will be placed under arrest, and sent out of the Turkish empire. Art. 14. Any one presenting himself at the fron tiers without passports en regle will be refused per mission to enter ; or, if they have entered the country and are found travelling therein they will be arrested and conducted before the authorities, and dealt with according to the circumstances of their case. Art. 15. Any one travelling with a false passport, or under a false name, will be liable to arrest, and to be sent out of the empire. Art. 16. The traveller is bound to produce his passport at the desire of the different authorities who may demand it. Dated at Constantinople, July '2O. THE EARL ofROSSE'S LEVIATHAN TELESCOPE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sim,—With pure delight do I communicate to you the fact that the leviathan telescope, on which the Earl of Rosse has been toiling in his demesne at Parsonstown now upwards of two years, although not absolutely finished, was on Wednesday last directed for the first time to the sidereal heavens. I very much regret not being present on this occasion, but experiments on which I have for many years been employed rendered it impossible for me to leave home. The letter which I have this morning received from its noble maker, in his usual unassuming style, merely states, that the metal, only just polished, was of a pretty good figure, and that with a power of 500, the nebula known as No. 2 of Messier's catalogue was even more magnificent than the nebula No. 13 of Messier, when seen with his Lordship's telescope of three feet diameter, and 27 feet focus. Cloudy weather prevented him turning the leviathan on any other nebulous object. Thus, then, we have, thank God, all danger of the metal breaking before it could be polished overcome. Little more, however, will be done to it or with it for some weeks, inasmuch as the Noble Earl is on the eve of quitting Ireland for England, to resign at York his post as President of the British Association, and to visit his noble relatives at Kilnwick and at Brighton. This done, he returns to Ireland; and I look forward with intense anxiety to witness its first severe trial, when all its various appointments shall be completed, in the confidence that those who may then be present will see with it what man has never seen before. The diameter of the large metal is six feet, and its focus 54 feet. Yet the immense mass is manageable by one man. Compared with it, the working telescopes of Sir William Herschel, which in his hands conferred on astronomy such inestimable service, and on himself astronomical immortality, were but playthings. J. SOUTH. Observatory, Kensington, Sept. 17. A Supplement to the Gazette of Tuesday last was published last night, containing a continuation of the Orders in Council of the 3d September, relating to the Ecclesiastical Com m i ss i on , an d t h e C ommerc i a l Treaties with Great Britain, Austria, and America. ADVENTURES OF A TEN POO' - NOTE. On Tuesday, a rather curious case came be— ,o sitting magistrate at Worship-street and was in substance as follows ;—A man' 0 Abraham Gunton, a policeman of the II divisit/ n i the 2d of May last, received the sum of 6 51 . ,•i ; 5 il and 51. notes at the London and Westminst i r and, for security against fire and flood, Pa. n ,7'}'',l l up carefully, and carried them about with one of his pockets. While on duty, at ten ocO c ii: Police-) Thursday morning last, in a court leading ci te rl the Hackney-road, he had occasion to e n l oll house belonging t o a M rs . Pl owr i g ht, and t f rol notes from his pocket, laid th em d o wn, ( ln" place, forgot all about them, and left then l b e t , him. Directly aft er h e h a d l e ft, M rs . Plowrig P od covered the treasure, b u t no t b e i ng a bl e to re of vt write, and never havin g p ossesse d a genuine O r own, she thought all th ese mus t b e s p u rious , % j ell notes ; and, to settle the ques ti on , ca ll e d in a n ,, e neighbour, named Jos e ph R ea di ng , t o w hoin su e n e rk municated her discovery, and asked his opinin il LeA tii ° ing, who possessed on ly th e same amoun t of en 00 did not know what t o a d v i se h er, b u t co nsiderV " Bank of Elegan ce " no t es a l so , an d a dvised ' O l O keep all the notes but one of them, purport ing ,'" for 10/., which he e x p resse d hi s determination t°,o to a more enlightened f r i en d o fhi s , one Willis ll lo a porter employed in th e d oc k s . Thi s was n g t be and Reading hied straight to the docks, wb ere into consultation with Short, who, though in $ n 'a'r state of blissful ignora nce , corro b ora ted thel l 0 of the others, and em ph a ti ca ll y declar e `' t 0 note to be " flash." Reading n ur 0 walked away, and l e ft b e hi n d 1 1 i19 .1, note, which was careles s ly l e ft on th e top of 7 bier' and as Short had to make certain significa,4a glyphics for every ca s k or pip e th a t was o' no t the cellars, he thought the note could I,oLoll applied to a more usef u l p ur p ose , and ,‘ made all his entering upo n th e no t e till th e it was completely filled with chalk-ma rk was now thought to be of no further use, removed from barrel to barrel, until at ln st d I t° came so annoying to be obliged to In c r e t , paper about, that it was pushed on to the dr, where it remained for an hour or two, trodd e „ - I tilr, by every workman who entered the vaultst_ A " length it became so tattered and disfigui, o l l , mud and dirt that it got out of sight, and r t o;' altogether. What makes the thing more 55 0 11 4 ing is, that a number of mechanics and Irish 151 , were in and out of the place the whole tin t ?: ~4 1 yet none of them noticed the quality of ° o il ° During this peregrination of the note G' 11 ,;'11 0 : owner, discovered his loss, and made aPP" c h - foi Mrs. Plowright for his property, 45/. of whi n nbel,,,` once restored, and a promise of restoration n , note made for the following Monday; but day came the note could not be found, an d ips gave Mrs. Plowright and the two men, Re a l ,„t Y j . Short, into custody. It was proved t“ . .,:dr, Plowright was a respectable though uninforwy6 son, and that she had resided 40 years in °Il • a ro and there being no grounds whatever fol!ej dishonesty to any of the prisoners, or anYt' i ot . / ) than an unfortunate ignorance. Mrs. P/ow r i' o rri Reading were at once discharged, and Sho r a tlf) to enter into his own recognizances in case B t l a i further should in future transpire regarding property. CONFUCIUS IN 0FF1C 6 0 . 4 Ting-koung, the King of Loo at lengti l advantages that might be derived from etnP il e i till' e l actual services of the philosopher. He re iTl4 °')( that Confucius, in his earlie s t y ou th, and h ° ' a subaltern appointment, had established copoii, between the inhabitants of the town and th e a itsj and had made the kingdom of Loo assume , 'Or a new form, by the influence which the 1, 113 1 0 1 ; necessarily has over all other towns. 11 . e __"fore , lf he would have the same success in his 11 1'nt19 vested with an office which should give bill' St i iii co to , over the general police of the ki n gdom. ljeliiie 4th him to Court, and impart e d th e v i e ws vvbie,..",„ a tained. Confucius, w h o soug ht for nOtr t le make himself useful in bringing men back l i c :hotitr; tice of their respective duties, accepted, vv,": tation, the burdensome duties which the, Ai n F,be o '4 to impose upon him. lie began by fillng i n fi t of governor of the people in the very to w° the Sovereign held his Court. his 05 On entering into office, the first of DIA major it y to make himself agreeable to the- r1 33 .j benevolence towards all those of the ll e ae o,P; He frequently conversed with them ;be P tv"4 self on their level; he seemed even to con e p and by this means he adroitly he bad re.ol'Al, expediency and necessity of w hat were cony' do. When he thought that they that from their dispositions he judged that he, venture without risk of compromising himselte;#4 basing authority, he promulgated hi s ordina e /i insinuated to 3 1 0 ,4 had them executed to the letter. After three tjo ir o had elapsed, he had the satisfaction t o fee ~04(1,4 things had changed their face. Pea ce re t° families ; the citizens, far from s eeking 05, one another, as they had formerly d ene ' e stf,; pated one another by their kind offices; be n 9 veiled in trade, and assiduous labour anle n g 9o o ;" Ting.koung, deli g ht e d w ith an alteration ,e," to his subjects, and s o g l o rious to his fel .4 cordially thanked 'aim who was the authorob kingdom of Loo," said lie, "is in the most ti,je,!6. state ; my subjects are become submissive, J'ileter laborious. This is your work. But it 0 014 ;p , plete ; I hope it will soon be so. His hopes were not disappointed; the le re ti trate turned his attention towards th e / A O This class of persons, the most useful of iTi le r t y to him to deserve particular attention, 3 0° o il! pc' them. Ile sent experienced persons to and oil! country, and desired them to give an b ac be ' OP count of it, in order that nothing to i g h ; o die e t l " ' O9 lished which could turn to any one's Pr e .' : „forP',4 o their return he took advantage of the P - f oluttoei which they gave him, to make regulationshe to the qualities of the different lands, whic h e piell into five general classes. He assigned , t° O 4P the peculiar species of grain or vegetablen4ogod best adapted to it ; fixed the time for s : o , tl 3 !, t r ier planting, as well as that of rea tr ii re species should have full scope for P arriv lll 7;o os . 1 ) 0 tion. The strict observance of these re", a cured an abundant and wholesome food , ;0 0 "y ll sd well as poor, the proprietors of lands, , l';'! if f e lsot'. o , vators, were equally benefited.—From ',C P! the Life of Confucius," in Captain Piddin,P; Olio and Tea Talk, No. 21. ay ° MELANCHOLY OCC URRENCE .-01). I°l'l l,e d l about one o'clock P.M . ., while two 'omits; d e n r oll!" Fair Isle were on their way t o Osekney, p oll! " produce of the island, they w e re overtake n molf the squall" when about seven miles to the S.' ifstiPc o il`' y light in Sandy. One of the boats instantly ~Te l l ;., and has since been found by a London 0 " - v gerg,,, ,t 4i ° up, and has been taken to Sandy. T here 0 1° 1 men on board, two of whom have - left larg e fr oA e ' deplore their loss. The other boat had a°- -Ross-shire Advertiser. BIRTHS. Ecl iv nell O, Esq., of a n the 12th son, t sti 11-born ins., at W . iv bledon, the "- °f ° f s s° l On the 1411 inst., Mrs. Frederick W. Ree — . On the 16th inst., at Carshalton, the wife 0f t y man, Esq., of a daughter. Soot he., 4( On the 16th inst., at Landpo r t-terrace, of J. C. Giles, Esq., R.N. of a daughter. nool - the 16th inst., at Woolley-green, reen near rife ° 4 Charles Simeon, of a daughter? ' g s fie On the 15th inst., at Bury St. Edmonds, t ie Rev. J. W. Donaldson, of a daughter. tiar e ' On the 16th inst., at Store-street ' -- Bed.for" --(1 of James J. G. Wilkinson, of a son. ------- °ert" MARRIED, ttic, go o f 0 On the 16th inst., Mr. Thoma s Brockle b3 Alter 4 , traveller, Liverpool, to Eleanor, second c lll° ' Wiir ' Kendal, Esq., Gleaston, near 17 1 .eerstonc. _ s treet i 2. el On the 17th inst., at St. SepWchre's, Skinnef w igto f V eldest son of W. H. Browni ng , E sq ., of 11 °liter of de Middlesex, to Frances Anne, second daog Atigol Iloughton, Esq., of Ckstrterhouse- square. , jobn.,.„ r t On the 17th inst., at St. Mark's, Kenn i ng ton ‘,O l i n e- ii ir Cory, Esq., of Durham, youngest son of the I n A ii jittiV Esq., of Great Yarmouth, to Emily Ann, fu ll Joseph Hall, Esq., South Lambeth. ..------ °. ll'IJ --- 0 (1 0 Wilson, Esq., her Britannic Majsty's urgeco Wig' 0 O nn Venezuela.t t h he e 1 2 4t h o f July, Caracas,p .Louisa, Brockett Brockett,it hinst, jun.,s P b o a n u t i e s s t f e o r rd , $t Y but7 l ' .I near Weis ,f On the 15th inst., t Hampton-place, m uri g lit°l74 ; 111 Atkins, Esq., aged 67. firi P t 60 , On the 15th inst., at Tonbridge-wells, the Arthur W. Ward, Esq On the 16th inst., at . Augusta-place , CloP hitill ' ' OA 0 1 ' * Favenc, Esq., aged 69. , vr „ii . 4 , yid 4 On the 16th inst., at St. John's-woeu ., '-..---'' r eli' wife of Mr. Thomas Ditchburn. 'here * 0 On the 16th inst., at Petersham, Maria 1- - 0 , t or the late Joseph Gourdez, Esq., of Turnham- greet. the l $ On the 17th inst., at Greenwich, Jane, relict° John Clause, of the same place. 1 0 On the 16th inst., Captain Robert Ma(leod. „Of " On the 17th inst., at Hawley-terrace , C aniden" relict of W. Thompson, Esq., of Kentisb.-town. or e, 7 t ;, , j On the 17th inst., in Ormond-street, Queer i l iq ape O r relict of T. Dale, MD., of Devonshire -street, Bo l l i g s rir ot o On the 17th inst., at West Ham, Essex, daughter of the late Joseph Cleypole, Esq. if , of O glsi I , On the 17th inst., in London , E liza, the w ife rii Price, Esq., of Paris. Job ° 1 o On the 14th inst., at Amelia - pla ce, Brompton, 011 the child of the Rev. Henry John Owen. he wi cloll i' On the 15th inst., at Islington, Hannah, t ~. 40 a ged 7, ;iii air ~ late Rev. Professor Farish, of Cambridge, On the 15th inst., at Grosvenor-place, John 1 1 ' -"" 4 " IP den, Esq., aged 46. 9 (14 ~1) On the 15th inst., George Vernon Cotton., „, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.flisl,l; Frances i p /, On the 16th inst., at Wilton -place , ~. iste:7 O' Catherine, daughter of Adam B ro milow,k,sq.,b*__!:-.-- --• '0 * ------_,-- ----- 0 fl a t London : Printed and Published ty RD I' l P, ' No. 112, Strand, Printer, tit, The Sur 011 -w—t. Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, to the MiddleaUt Thtllldar• t4ptembOr 19/ 144 ii eta _ 6 1111 HA 4Y, ,11 - 6 wits • CA ER TA ' ILA ind tt T, Of W : brr ' 4, rfe h Sin C '., . .f th( ...Fel& ri, -__ '1: %Tito s c ply to n, 14,11 I‘ ll _, %th - lo x. e ttl lea , Vi t i t ofd!