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..e nt3 20 r„ and tablets, under cover, 330 feet in length, and s t height. The accommodation in the proposed 3 6 114 8 4 atgle the site of ' New Pairice-yard, would be for s o y ' til es ; and for mural monuments and tablets, under cord. a surface of wall 369 feet in length, and 16 feet in 0 ( 1 ght• Thus the entire number of pub'ie monuments that woe building and its quadrangles could accommodate to „ 4 . 1 1 hP, in isolated monuments or statues, 270 ; and in 1,17411 monuments and tablets, about 400 ; or in the k e n, monuments of all kinds. In . Westminster ke n, the number of monuments of all kinds, forming ~rilection commenced (with a few exceptions) from the t - ' l 3 u of the thirteenth century, amounts to 357 ; of which eu , lt le table and eller monuments, with figures in a re j47ellt or devotional attitude ; 15 are isolated statues pith are position ; 98 are mural monuments, with n ure for the most r art allegorical ; 122 are tablets "hens-ri onlyare busts ; 8 are brasses let il a b ement ; and 31 consist of table monuments, t i tf ;an stones, with sculpture either decomposed or leed to such an extent ai to be nearly obliterated." iri We have all heard that the great Nelson, in leading, . nis resistless intrepidity, one of his most mag kfice exe , nt and successful attacks on the enemy's fleet, A b Lainted, " A peerage—or a tomb in Westminster 4 4 'Y." Mr. B a rry repudiates this " longing after J tto rtality" in sculptured marble, if the record is Z i e i raised i n our cathedrals. We have been amused his reasons for this discouragement of an ancient orh..,lce, founded, we suspect, in part, on the caprices , 13 2wh somewhat apocryphal taste in such matters ; ,„ 4 -4, on the pharisaical prudery of certain prelates h e „Parsons of the Established Church. Of St. Paul's, thus discourses : h ei l In St. P au l' s C at h e d ra l, th e num b er o f monuments, ot w l T It collection of the last fifty years, amounts to 43, ti t4r . 14 are isolated statues of the men they are de l - t to histor ree ; 3 are „ i f historical and commemorate partly s alle gorical i cal ; and li 21 fs consist be e ; Yof allegory. Of this number, those which have th e k er eeted at the public expense amount to 36. From ) 4 ,l,`'°'re statement of the existing monuments in St. 1.. 4 Cath e d ra l an d i n W es t m i ns t er Abbey, it may 114 be inferred, that the accommodation afforded by tl n ,, ew Pala c e o f Westminster, for public monuments 14 1 1„ e i : would suffice for ages to come ; and if the feeling 4 4 r now very generally prevails in favour of the ex- It s ,.;Z t t of all monuments from places set apart for Divine to "" 1 .1 ) , which, from their character, are not calculated ,„Pcite in the mind of the beholder emotions of piety Co d evotion (in which number would be included, tit: 20 0 in Westminster Abbey, and with two excep thea, the entire collection at St. Paul's Cathedral), of i fq Ultimately lead to their removal, the NeW Palace kr, estminster might afford accommodation for those of lef i llb lie character, either in the open arcades, or in gal to be provided above them in the proposed addi-; t ut u ' quadrangle, on the site of the New Palace-yard. 0, 0 hether this removal and transfer of monuments I% t ll l l sir should not ultimately take place, it might per s " worthy the consideration of Parliament, whether ould not be advisable, both for the sake of encourag het:ett, and evincing a renewed and grateful remem list Of services rendered to their country, to order t &I to be erected in the New Palace of Westminster, t „." Public expense, to the memory of a certain num , . lit e the most eminent of its public characters and be kot°l's of bygone times, in order that a collection of ligh - t u loents, to the memory of all whom the country de trez,s to honour, may be at once commenced, and be b ee li fter maintained and increased within the walls of I ,IW the same public edifice." p ee ni t e have lamented the apparent absence of all the Ish e r Y of art from this gentleman's conceptions of a at w ine of decorative illustration for the New Palace of e stininster. He first recommends the adoption Mch devices for portraiture in sculpture as we see wh_ t ted to by the Bubbs and Bacons of bygone years, gibs r epresent Britannia weeping over an unintelli ktle mask of a decayed hero, on a sort of marble t oti °over, and then very coolly, ex cathedra, de kilees that true poetry which ancient and modern t rOre and painting have embodied or transferred , most sublime productions : It e i : V ith respect to monuments which may hereafter be ne ed by Parliament to be erected at the public ex blis-eta'to the memory of not only those eminent men who lori`"tlnguished themselves in the civil and military ke t „ j e e 3 of their country, but also of those who have pro affv-`4„ its honour and advantage in the cultivation and ts ti : ll i eement of art, science, and literature, no building 4 4 1 . 41 toy opinion, with greater propriety or effect, be Lopriated for their reception than the Palace of the leAislature whose site is hallowed by the most interest • hist • ' mkt orical recollections connected with it from the toe ? emote periods. Such monuments might be ar -14 hiv 4ed ,, With considerable effect, both within the building, en as in the New Quadrangle, which I have already eye 3 ted as an addition to it, on the site of the New tilt, -yard ,• and in order that due importance and naay be given to them, they should not, in my kt. i .,„ °l3 , be confined by, or form part of, the architectural Al4geMent of the design of the interior; but should be to tit,'3' detached from the walls, and be restricted either %I N ," statues of the men they are designed to comme like,tate, or simply to mural monuments and tablets, with 44 0 4 , 5 " gf the deceased in the form of busts or me -4(1. -1, with suitable inscriptions ; BUT ALL ALLEGORY, 118 ab sur diti es , should be carefully avoided." sot L ikenesses of the deceased or medallions !" Why 11 4 , cheap profiles, scissors cut, in black paper? 4 e her e is a wholesale exile pronounced against that I ,Z,I'Y in which, not to remount to antiquity, Michael 44'Q in sculpture as well as painting, Ratraelle and 4le o n ; Painting particularly, have left such terri veautiful, beautiful rich or impressive, ex kr, * With this flippant condemnation by ke lit B arry, let us contrast, for a conclusion to the pre- Pe article,. the following eloquent passage from a 4 4, 11 , Y the accomplished and gifted author of the L tt i e 7 ) te :___ Ages" (Appendix, No. 8. Nr. Hallam s il l : Would there not be something ridiculous in covering ter:l 4ll3 of our Houses of Parliament with Caesar or t hot;' ,4 cos ? that is, if we determine to exclude all * N 1 4 94)11, or mythology, or poetry, or classical history, tlo otter, and at the same time are compelled to ex ktii•t' by the infelicity of recent times, which prefer to the to picturesqueness, and choose what is convenient tai) lll ,selves, rather than what would look well on a 814,i i t u a o most important events, and the most distin thhat i eg . Personages of our annals. In a larger view, %.a: , if we give full scope to the artist's genius, neither A t oor Caractacus need be set aside." 142 4 What does Mr. Gaily Knight—fresh from his triinorable tour devoted: to the pictorial illustration o f ti l ' i l iagnifi cen t sc h oo l o f Ecclesiastical architecture e Continent—what does he propose among his „ - „ s olution s ?" (A ppen di x, N o . 9.) !lie &it if allegorical figures should be :excluded from 41: Qs and galleries of the Houses of Parliament., yet ey e tght not be improper that in the Queen's porch, the 4 to tb 4 ;, f , the Sovereign should first be met by statues ern- Barof religion, justice, mercy, and fortitude." "th these extracts we shall close our notice of Mr. 3i 's Paper. COURT CIRCULAR. Cri t , IN DSOR, TUESDAY. —Their Royal Highnesses the 'or ' e of Wales and the Princess Alice were taken Learriage airing this morning, accompanied by °wager Lady Lyttelton. tit th e ' Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived Castle in the forenoon from her residence, t r ,...Ore Lodge, to see the Royal Family previous departnre for Brighton. f lo: Ron. Miss Devereux, Maid of Honour to the r, 4 41 ) left the Castle yesterday. Colonel Drum ... lou r. ) Groom in Waiting, also left the Castle on a A At t o'clock this afternoon their Royal High n "le Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the o„,' e ss Alice, left the Castle, accompanied by the k a g, er Lady Lyttelton, in a carriage and four, for "'ough station of the Great Western Railway. 4 lte ll ,_ - °n• Colonel Grey and Mrs. Brown followed in k id L ance on the royal children, in another carriage four.At RI a special train was in readiness, which ki tb ,led the illustrious party to the Paddington ter teks, Where they arrived soon after three o'clock. 1' 1 ,6" Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the by Liss Alice, wen t fr o m Paddington, accompanied PoprDowager Lady Lyttelton, in a carriage and the fir T WO other ro yal carriages and four followed, ow r st containin g the Hon. Colonel Grey and Mr. 'lot)T he royal party proceeded to the New Cross sta -11,; t .,nd left by a special train of the Brighton Rail or the Pavilion at Brighton. h,„ " 3 4 "lon. C. A. Murray, Master of the Household to at arei ved at F en t on ' s Hotel on his way to Brighton, D e te nd the r o y a l f am ily. I. l4 . P u tations, consisting of Mr. J. Parker, M.P., 44 (1 11 ;Tan, and of Mr. Michael Ellison, Mr. Stevenson, e he Tie, on the part of the Sheffield and Man nailway Company; of Mr. Westhead, Chair of k or the Birmingham and Manchester Company; and r ' Aldam, M.P., on the part of the Huddersfield 4 4. ilt!atichester Railway and Canal Company ; of Mli~Chairman, and Messrs. Shepard and ryas, - rr s of the Barnsley Junction Company ; and of I ; 44 insford, M r . F o wler, and Mr. Humfrey, on Ttif w ar , t °f the proposed Sheffield and Lincolnshire in connexion with the Sheffield and Man 'Nem' `-'orupany, attended at the Board of Trade a id 3ii 44 3', and had a long interview with Mr. Laing b ell tr. O'Brien the joint secretaries of the Railway ~ldAfterwards, Mr. Parker, M.P., Mr. 1, 4 (1 4 m - ' "LP., Mr. Westhead, Mr. Tie, Mr. Randall, " 41 h o „ r ; Ire, had an interview with the Earl of at the office of the Board of Trade. 44 iss accounts received in town of the health of 4 ; 1 or n i eel continued unfavourable yesterday, both "O g D rayton afternoon. The family of Sir Robert t4 t: urayton Manor, remained in the greatest t his y°o',, 'Li uneasi n ess and anxiety respecting the state of g lady. (1,_4/8. 4 4 7, lin 4 l: lll °US SUICIDE.—In this journal of yester tikid r the above bead, appeared an account of , a ; sl sra it : e'rnmitted by a young man, on board the ‘N a 4team-boat, No. 7. The name of the unfortu :hotij-hung man is Henry Terry. His parents, with idwss residing are in affluent circumstances, 41 "-kt l ' e 'n Clarendon- - square, Somers'-town, and not at • tNenia N e w - town, as i ncor rectly stated. The deceased b q43 ' h -f tnir years of age and had he lived, would ‘Ws .) ,:ftve come into the possession of considerable THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING SEPTEMBE, 11, 1844. RAILWAYS. (From last night's Gazette.) Railway Department, Board of Trade, Whitehall, Sept. 9, 1844. Referring to the notice in the Gazette of the 23d of August, announcing the intention of the Railway Board to examine into certain schemes therein enumerated. with a view to the presentation to Parliament of minutes or reports therein, in the event of their becoming the sub jects of application to Parliament, the Board hereby give notice that it is further their intention to examine, with a similar view, into the following schemes, viz : I. The scheme proposed for extending railway com munication through South Wales to l'embroke and Fish guard. 11. The Trent Valley scheme, from Stafford to Rugby. 111. The Churnet Valley scheme, from Macclesfield to Derby and Tamworth. IV. The proposed branches of the Grand Junction Railway Company, to connect Shrewsbury, I)udlvy, and the Potteries with their line, and to shorten the distance to Liverpool by means of a new line across the Mersey, leaving the Grand Junction line near Preston Brook. V. The L( eds and Thirsk scheme, and, in connexion with it, other schemes proposed for connecting Harrow gate and Knaresborough, with the Great North of Eng land or York and North Midland Railways. VI. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Junction scheme, from Blackburn, by Burnley, Skipton, and Keighley, to Leeds and Bradford, and, in connexion with it, the Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, Leeds and Brad ford extension, and other schemes for accommodating portions of the same district. VII. The Scottish central and other schemes, for ex tending railway communication north of the Forth to Stirling, Perth, Dundee, and Aberdeen. V 111. The Lynn and Ely scheme. IX The Belfast and Ballymena scheme. X. The Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston scheme. The principal points into which inquiry will be made, in connexion with the above schemes, are as follows: Ist. The ability and bona fide intention of the pro moters to prosecute their application to Parliament next session for Bills to authorise the several undertaking. 2d. The advantages to be obtained, in a national po►nt of view, in completing or extending important lines of railway communication. 3d. The amount of local advantage afforded to the towns and districts more immediately affected. 4th. The engineering circumstances of the line, so far as may be necessary to form a general judgment of the character of the undertaking. sth. The estimates of cost of construction, and of traffic and working expenses, so far as may be necessary to judge of the probability of the line being completely and efficiently worked, in the event of its being sanc tioned by Parliament, and with a view to drawing a comparison between the merit of competing lines of railway. The inquiry, in conformity with the recommendation of the fifth report of the Select Committee on Railways, will not embrace questions of private property or in terest, which will be reserved altogether for the consi deration of the Legislature. (Signed) DALHOUSIE. C. W. PASLEY. O'BR IE N. S. LAING. COLLISION IN THE IRISH CHIN- NEL, AND LAMENTABLE LOSS OF LIFE. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.—We deeply regret to state that this morning, shortly after two o'clock, the Dublin mail iron steam-ship Iron Duke (600 tons burden) came into collision with the brig Parana (200 tons), outward bound from this port for Montreal, about three leagues to the eastward of Point Lynas Light, by which the the latter vessel was nearly cut in two, and so sudden was the accident, that six of her crew, including her commander) (out of eleven on board in all), were thrown into the water, and perished. The brig, it ap pears, had a light on her poop, and her mate also ele vated the binnacle-light in his hand, and shouted to wards the steamer when he saw her coming rapidly into dangerous proximity; but, as he conjectures, he was not heard, owing, probably, to the noise of the engines, and the steamer, before the brig could effectually alter her course, ran into her abreast of the fore hatch. The night was thick, or what seamen term " dirty," and it were improper to attribute blame to either party, from the information we have yet received, though it is de rived from both parties. The following is a copy of a report from Lieutenant Parsons, R.N., with which we have been kindly favoured :—" At 2 15 A.M. on the 10th September, struck the Parana, a brig of about 250 tons, with general cargo, from Liverpool to Montreal, out one day. Her captain and five of her people went down, three jumped on board the Iron Duke; and two were saved by the boats, which were launched for that purpose. Captain Wilson, who perished, is stated to be the principal owner, and has left a wife and family. Lynas Light bearing W. three leagues when the collision took place. "GEORGE PARSONS." From the mate, an exceedingly intelligent seaman, and three of the crew, we learn the following particu lars :—The brig Parana, Captain Wilson, a vessel of 200 tons burthen, sailed from Liverpool yesterday, with a general cargo, for Montreal. About two o'clock this morning, when about six miles to the eastward of Point Lynas Light, made a vessel, that proved to be the Dublin mail steam ship the Iron Duke. Saw her bearing down upon them, but was no way alarmed. The brig had no light forward, but a poop or high quar ter deck, and no bulwarks on the quarter (merely a rail). and a towering skylight about three feet above the deck, in which a light was fixed. As the steamer neared the mate hailed her (but the noise of the engines was so great that he conjectures he was not heard), and imme diately took the light from the binnacle and held it up, but without effect. The brig was on the starboard tack, steering about S.W. half W. when she was struck by the steamer a little abaft the fore rigging, between that and the fore rigging and the foretopmast backstays, and went through the starboard coomings of the fore hatch, and reach the larboard ones, thus nearly cutting her in two. In th's i four of the crew managed to get on aboard the Iron Duke by the bowsprit, and the mate, who ran aft to call the captain , who was lying on the lockers, got entangled with some of the wreck, and was severely though not dangerously hurt. He was eventually saved by the -boats of the steamer, but how he has not the least recollection. The mate, as well as all the seamen we have seen, positively state that the engines were not stopped until after the collision took place— but that the night was exceedingly " nasty." The names of those saved from the brig were—William Hichell, mate (badly hurt) ; William Cover and John Martin, seamen; John Craig, cook and steward. An other man, whose name we could not learn, was also saved. Those drowned were—Wilson, the captain; Alexander Stewart, second mate; George Coates, seaman; also the carpenter and an ordinary seaman. The captain was, it is stated, a married man, and has left his wife and five children in this town to deplore his loss. A subscription was immediately entered into on board the steamer, on behalf of the survivors, and, we learn, very soon amounted to 40/. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN ARTISTS.—It is surprising how partial every nation, except the English, is to their own artists ; a Dutchman will prefer the high finish of his Mieris and Gerard Dow, his Ostade and Berghem ; the Fleming will celebrate his Rubens and Vandyke, Tcniers, and Rembrandt ; the Frenchman will boast of his Le Brun, Le Sueur, Bourdon, and dispute the merit of his Pouissin even with Raphael ; while the Italian looks on them all with contempt. And even in Italy, every province contends for the precedence of its own school against that of all the others ;.whilst the English man is pleased with everything that is not the production of England.—Northeote's Life of Titian. SRA. SICKNESS A REMEDY FOR JAUNDICE.—MT. Percy narrates a case of jaundice which had existed for three or four months, and was cured by a violent attack of sea sickness, followed up by brisk aperients. Within twenty .four hours, several small gall stones and a quan tity of inspissated bile were discharged, and the patient soon recovered.—Medical Times. POLICE VIGILANCE.—On Friday night, Sergeant John Gunn observed a female hurriedly leaving a noto rious house in West Register-street, and suspecting all was not right, followed at a distance, until he got the assistance of one of his men, and apprehended her in St. Andrew's-square. He found in her hand notes and sovereigns to the amount of 40/., and on being ques• tioned as to how she got possession of it, she said she " didna ken" where she got it. After lodging her in the police-office, he proceeded to the house in ques tion, and apprehended other three women on suspicion, but could get no trace of the person who had lost the money. However, about nine o'clock on Saturday morn ing, M‘Levie, the officer, was sent for by a gentleman, who stated that he had been robbed of a considerable sum of money the night previous in West Register street, and described the money. The officer invited him to the police-office, where, to his astonishment, Lieute nant M•Lellan produced the cash, which was imme diately identified. The whole of the prisoners were re mitted to a higher court.—Caledonian Mercury. FIFE RAILWAT.—We have received the last issued prospectus of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway Company. The proposal now made is, that the crossing of the Tay be made immediately above Newburgh, by a swing bridge from the north shore to the island of Mug drum, where the navigable channel is only about 400 yards wide at high-water, and 150 at low-water of spring tides. By this bridge the trains will be carried over without the least interruption to the navigation of the river. "'The remaining part of the channel of the river (says the prospectus) between Mugdrum and the north shore, being dry at low-water, will be passed by a ca useway or road formed on piles placed so far apart as not to interfere with the salmon fishings." By the pro posed changes a rcduction of 300,0004 is calculated on the cost of the railway. We certainly would have wished that the line had been carried from Cupar to Dundee ; but on the completion of the scheme as now agreed to by the Provisional Committee, we think there can hardly be a doubt that a branch from Cupar to Craig head will be immediately contemplated and carried into effect.— Ftfeshire Journal. DISTRESSING DEPRIVATION.—A daughter of Mr. Stephen Stephens, smith, of Llandilo-fawr town, named Anne, aged ten years, died after a few hours' illness on Sunday, the Ist instant, at ten o'clock, also Thomas, a son, aged three years, at three o'clock of the same day ; and on Tuesday, the 3d inst., David, another son, aged six years. On Wednesday the three were buried in the same grave in Llandilo Churchyard. Thus, suddenly Mr. Stephens was deprived of all his children, who, a few hours previous were pictures of innocence and health.— Cambrian. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, SEPT. 9.—The crops here are good ; the price of wheat is falling. Potatoes are plentiful, and selling in the market by the farmers at 2id. to 3d. per stone of 141 b. Herrings, at Shields, are selling at ten to twenty for a penny. In this town they are six. for a penny. All this abundance is, doubtless, the result of the patriotic exertions of the Anti-corn law League. LITERATURE. WESTMINSTER REVIEW. IVO. LXXXII. Clarke, London, 1844. The most remarkable article in the present Num ber, is the one which is very properly placed first; it is on the subject of " Railway Administration and Improvement," and is full of most sanguine specula tions as to the immense advantages that will accrue to humanity from the spread of these wonderful improvements. The Reviewer justly remarks that the railway serves to unite both mind and matter, and to draw the ends of the earth together, and that it is its office to perfect the civilization which the Press has commenced. " Coningsby" is a notice of Mr. D'lsraeli's most popular work of fiction ; it is written in a highly eulogistic strain, though, as might be expected, there are many points in which the Reviewer differs widely from the Reviewed. On one point, however, their opinions are marvellously in ac cordance with each other. Both acknowledge that the machinery of the Reform Bill has utterly failed ; and the former, more especially—who, we need not say, is a Radical—expresses his decided opinion that the kind of Government which this Bill has secured, is neither that of the majority nor of the intelligent minority, but that it has placed power in the hands of the venal. There is some truth in this observa tion, but it certainly is not true to the extent which the Reviewer would fain have his readers be lieve it is. The Reform Bill has done a world of good, if in nothing more than in having overthrown the corrupt influence of the boroughmongers, and brought the House of Commons more in harmony with the character of the Constitution ; but it un questionably is not a final measure, and—notwith standing the perverse notion of one of the Whig chiefs—could never have been seriously intended as such. The " Prize Comedy" is a caustic notice of Mrs. Gore's unfortunate play of Quid Pro Quo, which the author denounces as a trashy abortion, and observes that it is far more remarkable for flippant vulgarity than for sterling wit or humour. As we have neither seen nor read the comedy, we cannot of course presume to pronounce an opinion on its merits, but if we may judge from the extracts quoted by the Reviewer, we should be tempted to say , that it was at best but a so-so production. "Charles James, Bishop of London," professes to be a temperate and impartial esti mate of the character of this bustling Prelate. The article is clearly the production of one who has at tentively studied the peculiarities of the character which he pourtrays, and his judgment, therefore, however unfavourable, cannot but be received with respect. The Bishop, he says, " gives us the impres sion of being a man of small mind, of feeble powers of thought, contracted sympathies, mean aims, and a most slippery public morality. He has talent with out a doubt—talent to become Bishop of London— talent to get new churches built, and cathedral sine cures cut up into benefices for episcopal patronage ; but of any of the higher mental qualities, we see not a trace at any period of his life." We quote the following eloquent and emphatic passage from the article on railways : " God made the country, and man made the town.' And now that man bath practically annihilated both time and space. by the spirit within him that hath taught his right hand the cunning whereby he may achieve his escape from darkness into light, let the country once more be devoted to God's uses for the many, instead of being confined to the few. ' Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. The words of God's mouth are written on mountain and moor, on heath and hill, on wood and forest, brook and river, ocean and sea. They who would blot out the face of nature and make the whole land artificial, would destroy one of man's noblest faculties, the power of appreciating nature. They would destroy God's handwriting, and substitute for it artificial signs. We hope, we trust, we believe, that this shall not come to pass. We trust that the wild lands of England, the Mount Horebs of the soil, the spots that nature bath made difficult of cultivation, as though she had said, " these are reserved" the wild gardens of the poor man, in which the purple heath and the yellow gorse flourish self- planted—the old forest patches, the Charts and the Commons, the Combes and the Hursts, the wildernesses of the land—we trust that the rich man's plough shall never pass over these, the poor man's inheritance. Up and be doing, ministers of religion ! Plant your cross in such places, and shadow them with your protection. Not as the head of the Church—he of Canterbury—hath done—enclosing a poor man's common for a private park, but shutting out for ever the spoilers of Naboth's vineyard. Proclaim that the high places and wild places are set apart for the worship of nature's God, and build ye your temples at their entrances, for the seasons when the rains of heaven shall fall, and a wintry sky require artificial warmth. " The great work is nearly wrought, the problem solved, whereby the natural man and the cultivated man may become one, whereby the city may be rescued from its squalor, and field and forest from their ignorance. The yearning for this has always existed in men's minds. People confined to towns by their daily avocations placed their children at school in country air—when they possessed pecuniary means—excepting the strange anomalies of Westminster school, and similar establish ments. The poor were fain to be content with the day school, or the parish school—free air was too great a luxury for them. The church, the chapel, the lecture room, the concert-room, the theatre, were all reared in impure places, and their uses confined to the inhabitants of towns. All this is within remedy, as the uses of the railway become developed. The poor man can have his accessible country dwelling. Churches and chapels may be reared in beautiful spot. 3 at the confluence of lines of railway—temples worthy of man's nature, where man may meet man in Christian equality, where all benign influences may be at work, attracting but not com pelling, where architecture, music, and painting—the beautiful in art, may combine with the beautiful in na ture. When the promoters of religion shall work by the aid of nature, instead of striving to counteract her, when they shall enable the working-classes to pluck wild flowers, as well as " ears of corn on the Sabbath day," when they shall make for them a healthy and pleasant path to the temple ; then will the temple be thronged with voluntary worshippers, and hypocrites shall cease in the land." PARSONS AND WIDOWS. 3 Vols. Colburn, London, 1844. These volumes are from the pen of the author of "Peter Priggins"—a tale which was very favourably received by the reading portion of the public, when it made its appearance from time to time in the pages of the New Monthly Magazine. Like that amusing story, the work before us abounds in touches of genuine humour, occasionally exaggerated, but pro ducing laughter even in its broadest extravagance. The author belongs to the school of the late Theodore Hook, and eschewing anything like maudlin senti mentality, trusts for effects to the promptings of healthy, cordial nature. His clergymen are pour trayed with considerable vigour and truth of de lineation, and though he is less successful in his female sketches, yet one or two of his widows will amuse by the skilful and graphic manner in which their peculiarities are hit off. We have been pleased with the naivete of the subjoined remark, which occurs in one of the introductory chapters : " Parsons are proverbially great populators of their country. The preventive check has not yet found its way into the parsonages of Great Britain ; and in spite of all the political economists that ever lived, I trust the day may be very far distant that shall see such an unnatural engine introduced into the prolific walls of our manses." DOVER, SEPT. 9.—During the period of the awful storm last night the police-officers were sent for to quell a serious disturbance which had occurred, and murder cried, in a noted house in Paper-alley, Charlton, Dover. Upon the officers' arrival they found the neighbourhood in the utmost alarm, expecting for hours previously that murder would ensue. The house was occupied by sweeps and prize-fighters. The police were requested to go in to preserve the peace ; on their entrance they were im mediately attacked by the whole gang. The police were only two in number, Samuel Couchman and Smith ; the latter was soon knocked down, and upon Couch man coming to his assistance he was immediately surrounded, struck, kicked, and stamped upon. At length one of the ruffians, named Thomas Clarke, a prize-fighter, from Canterbury, took up the handle of a broom, to which a piece of iron was attached at the end, and struck poor Crouchinan with the greatest fury across the bridge of the nose, which lacerated it and the cheeks in the most frightful manner. He never spoke afterwards, and having breathed a short time, fell dead. He had been some months in the police, and served upwards of twenty-six years in the loyal Ma ines, on board her Majesty's ship Thetis and other men of-war ; had obtained the silver medal for twenty-two years' good conduct, and a medal for his services at St. Jean d'Acre. He has left a widow and two children. Four of the gang concerned in the murderous attack have been taken, but the leader, Thomas Clarke, and a man named Smith, fled, and were seen on the road be tween Canterbury and Dover. IMPORTATION Of SPIRITS IN BOTTLES.—A direr sity of practice having prevailed in the mode of ascer taining the quantity of spirits in bottles, the same being computed at certain of the outports at the rate of six reputed quart bottles to the gallon, and in London by actual measurement of one bottle out of each case ; the Commissioners of Customs have deemed it expedient to extend to the outports the regulations of their minute of August, 1839, which directs with respect to spirits which are chargeable with duty according to the strength thereof, that the bottles in each case be counted, and that one bottle of each size from every case be sent to the room appropriated to the trial of the strength of spirits for measurement ; but as regards other spirits and cordials, when the bottles are of the same size, the glass, and description of glass, that one bottle in every three cases be measured, excepting Maraschino, and with respect to that article, that one bottle only in every five cases is to be measured. Copies of this order have been furnished to the officers at the several departments n London, and to the collectors and controllers at all the outports of the kingdom, for their information and government. We understand that the visit of the King of the French to her Majesty is now definitively fixed for the early part of next month. It is arranged that his Majesty will embark at Treport on the 3d of October, and proceed at once from Portsmouth to Windsor. The Queen of the French will n ot accompany his Majesty ; but it is expected that. King Louis Philippe will be attended by two of his Ministers, and by his youngest *9n, the Duke de Iteutpensier. years will drain the greater part of the silver out of the country, and raise what remains to a factitious value. Even now, in Canton, the sales are in many instances made in exchange for inferior teas ; the price of the article sold being merely nominal, as it is impossible to calculate upon what these teas may realise in the Eng lish market : " Hove-HONG, 20TH MAY, 1844.--The dispatch of the Audax to Calcutta enables us to continue our gene ral mercantile advices to this date. In Canton and this neighbourhood business generally is dull, owing in a great degree to the unwillingness of foreign merchants to take teas on barter for their goods, and the equal reluctance of the Chinese dealers to forego the advan tages of the old system. At Shanghae, where the trade is confined chiefly to British manufactures, little is doing: some parties, in order to effect sales, have been compelled to receive tea in barter at higher prices than those pre vailing at Canton. At Ningpo there is scarcely any market. At Foo-choo-foo no consul has yet been ap pointed, and no business consequently been done there. At Amoy, though trade is on a trifling scale compared to Canton, matters seem in a more healthy state than at and• other of the new ports, and the place is gradually rising in importance. " BRITISH MANUFACTURES.—CamIets.—Amoy, dirs. 25 to 28 ; Canton, 23 to 25 ; Shanghae, 25 per piece ; very dull, owing to the large stock. Chintz.—Amoy, dlrs. 2to 5 ; Canton, 3 . 50. The supply of these goods is large everywhere, and the demand slack. Cotton Yarn.—Amoy, dlrs. 25 to 26 ; Canton, 22 to 25 per picul ; the little demand which exists is entirely fur low numbers, but there is actually hardly anything doing. Long Cloths.—Amoy, whites, dlrs 4 ; grey 3 ; Canton white, 3 . 50.; grey, 2.80 to 3 ; Shanghae, &c., white, 3.80 ; grey, 3.50 per piece ; these goods are in fair re quest in all the ports named, the supplies of each being moderate. Greys are oftener inquired for than whites. Long Ells.—Assorted Amoy, dirs. 7'50 to 8 ; Canton, 7 . 75 to 8 . 50 ; Shanghae, 8 to 9. In Canton we hear of one or two transactions, but elsewhere little is doing. Spanish Stripes.—Amoy, dlrs. 1 . 25 to 1.30 ; Canton, 1.20 to 1.30 ; Shanghae, Lc., 115 to 1'35 per yard ; the demand for Woollens generally is falling off, and Spa nish Stripes are suffering in consequence. " EXCHANGE.—On London at 4s 33 per dollar.• Ben gal rs. 224 for 100 ditto. Bombay, 222 for 100 ditto, Madras, 224 for 100 ditto. Sycee Silver. 3 and 4 per cent. premium. Mexican dollars, 4 and 5 per cent, " FREIGHT.—To London and Liverpool, 31. per ton." (From the Overland Price Current, July 19.) THE MARKET—OBSERVATIONS.—Boxner, JULY 19. As usual at this season, the market is closed for all imports, and there is little of interest to report with res pect to transactions since the departure of the last over land mail. The rains fairly set in about the 18th June —a plentiful supply has since fallen, and the prospects of the agriculturists are cheering. METALS.—There have been but few transactions in metals durinc , the past month. Some sales of copper have been made at our last quotations ; holders, how ever, look for an advance ; and for the copper 40ir (which is a rise of 2ir) has been offered and refused, and 54r for braziers. Iron is rather dearer, and a disposi tion is shown to speculate in it. Spelter has been sold at 14-13 r; but 15r since then been refused for it. There is no change worthy of notice in other articles under this head. COTTON MANUFACTURES.—Transactions in these are reported all but suspended, and the few sales we have to report are such only as are required for local consump tion. In prices there is no change to notice. YARN!.—The imports have been large in the last mnnth, but no sales have been made, and prices are nominal at our last quotations. WOOLLENS.—No sales have been reported fur the past month, and our former quotations are continued. MARINE STORKS.—There is no change to notice in any of the articles classed under this head. Still Can vass continues very dull of sale, and at unremunerating prices. COCHINEAL—Of this article a large quantity has been imported of late, but there is no alteration to notice in the price. SerruoN.—There has also been a pretty large im portation of Saffron, and the price has fallen about 3r per lb. Corks and Bottles are dull of sale, and rather lower. BEER.—Allsop's and Bass's maintain their former price, 60r to 65r. Of Rees's a sale of 50 hhds at 42r, and Saunders's a sale of 100 hhds at 52r to 55r bare been reported. SPIRITS.—Brandy still maintains our former quota tions, and is in good demand. IRELAND. TIIE REPEAL ASSOCIATION. DUBLIN, SEPT. 9.—The Conciliation Hall this morn ing presented, within and without, such an appearance as it never yet exhibited since the day upon which it was first opened immediately after the suppression of the Clontarf meeting last year. Between eight and nine o'clock, large crowds of persons, of whom the great majority were decently-dressed women, assembled around the doors, which after a while were thrown open to the accumulating masses, and instantly that portion of the galleries set apart for the humbler members of the Association, as well as the body of the Hall, was thronged by the densest assemblage which we over witnessed within any building. The attendance of ladies was not less numerous, and the great pressure which their ardour urged them to inflict upon each other caused some dis tressing scenes around the doors. The whole of the large circular gallery presented nothing to the view but a straggling array of caps, bonnets, ribands, and feathers, whilst a pin could not have been let fall to the ground in any part of the hall, so great was the crowd of the associates. The number of persons of both sexes seeking admission (in effe c ti ng which they sometimes did not seem to overlook the utility of physioal force) increased as the day advanced to such a degree, that the whole of the quay, fur a considerable distance, at both sides of the building, was completely blocked up, the doors having been closed against all applicants so early as eleven o'clock, and placards to that effect placed against them. The unfortunate gentlemen of th e p ress were obliged to fight their way up to the .barriers, and then submit to be torn through, or carried over the heads of the multitude into the hall, some two hours before the time fixed for the meeting. There was much dissatisfaction evinced that the Conciliation Hall was not twice as big, and great grumbling was heard from in dignant gentlemen and ladies who had brought monev from the country, or who shouted declarations through the keyholes to that effect, to soften the rigid janitors, who heard all such statements unmovedly. About one o'clock the smaller leaders of the Associa tion began to arrive, and to force their way up to the platform. Then came the dii majores. First Mr. Steele made his appearance, and was greeted with all kinds of applaudatory noises. Then Mr. Barrett, of the Pilot, made his bow amid a similar demonstration. Dr. Gray's advent was acknowledged in the same way, and at length, preceded by Messrs. Butler, M.P., Grattan, M.P., and accompanied by Mr. J: O'Connell, M.P., the Hon. Member for Cork advanced to the front of the platform, and took up his usual place, amid such a display of feel ing, and with such rapturous welcome, as may rarely be seen again. One storm of cheers, blessings, yelling, and cries in Irish rose around from every part of the ' hall, and was echoed by the crowd outside. Al! the women in the gallery waved their white handkerchiefs (which they seemed to be especially provided with), bonnets, and shawls, with astonishing vigour and perse verance ; whilst the men were equally energetic with their hats, hands, and feet. For nearly ten minutes cheering and applause, which was not surpassed in in tensity either at Tara or Mullaghmast, continued to peal through the hall. Mr. O'Connell acknowledged it by repeatedly bowing around him, kissing his hands to the ladies in the gallery, and placing the crown of his hat on his heart.. As he was thus engaged, Mr. Smith O'Brien rushed to the front of the platform, causing if possible an increase in the clamour, and seizing Mr. O'Connell's hand, shook it vigorously for some moments. Mr. O'Connell then caught Mr. S. O'Brien's hand, and placed it on his heart, whereat the very building trembled and quaked beneath the redoubled cheering and stamping. At last Mr. O'Connell seemed to get tired. He opened his lips again and again to speak, but his words were inaudible, until a number of uplifted hands and voices from the platform stilled the storm. Mr. O'CONNELL was at length heard to say that he claimed it as a privilege to be allowed to move that the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin do take the chair. The LORD MAYOR (who was loudly cheered in doing so) assured the meeting that it was the proudest hour of his life to be called on to preside over them upon the present important and auspicious occasion, and that the distinction was one which he never expected to have ar rived at. He congratulated them and the country on the restoration to liberty of tho man to whom they were all indebted, and to whom he (the 'Lord Mayor) felt espe cially indebted for the high position he held as first ma gistrate of the city, and for the high honour he that day enjoyed of presiding over such a meeting. No man had ever contributed so much to the liberty of the human race as Mr. O'Connell.—(Hear, hear.) Even his enemies admitted that he had given liberty to his own country, and undeserving of it indeed would they be if they did not evince their gratitude for such a benefit. And they did so. The scene which had just taken place—the scene which had taken place on Saturday, when 500,000 of his fellow-countrymen exhibited as much anxiety to look at him as if they had never seen him her:ore—proved that they were grateful ; while he was sure they were esteemed by Mr. O'Connell as in some de g ree a compen sation for the imprisonment which he had suffered. On one result springing from the State prosecution he could not avoid congratulating the people of Ireland, for he had no doubt that by that prosecution the system of packing juries in Ireland had got its death-blow.— (Cheers.) Within the memory of man there never had been such a triumph over faction and injustice.—(Cheers.) Mr. T. M. RAY having then presented himself amidst renewed cheering, proceeded to address the meeting, holding in his hand the minute-book of the Association. He assured them it was with the most thrilling delight that he resumed the honourable office of Secretary for Ireland.—(Cheers.) They had had a glorious triumph of justice over iniquity—a miraculous triumph. After the father of his country had been dragged by a species of legal brute force to a felon's dungeon—after the country had been subjected to the turmoil and danger through which sho had passed in consequence, there they were again (meaning the ex-traversers) to pursue the same object with increased energy and determination. Often in his prison had Mr. O'Connell exulted in the faithful conduct of the people of Ireland. It was gratifying to him to find that his spirit was abroad amongst them, and that they had shown implicit obedience to his will. He had heard that amiable gentleman, the Attorney-Gene ral, ridicule the Liberator's boast of being able to drive a coach and six through any Act of Parliament that im peded his progress. The Liberator had at all events proved himself equal to the Attorney-General ; for he had driven the triumphant car of repeal through the legal meshes which that functionary had flung around him.—(Cheers.) He had told the people of Ireland that he would not lead them astray, that he would keep them free from the meshes of the law, and he had kept his word ; for he had come out of prison with his fame as a lawyer unsullied. Let them continue to pursue his advice, and to follow his directions, and their final triumph was secure.—(Cheers.) Mr. Hay having then read the minutes of the last day's proceedings, Mr. O'CONNELL moved the admission as a member of the Association of Mr. Somerset Butler, M.P. for Kilkenny, whose family, he observed, was illustrious for its antiquity, its valour, and its love of old Ireland, having bled for her in the field and upon the scaffold. His Hon. Friend was just as ready to live for her—aye, and to die for her too.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. S. O'BRIEN said he had to propose the admission of a member of the Protestant aristocracy of this country —(Cheers)—and lie did so with not the less pleasure because many of his connexions were strong Conserva tives. The name he had to introduce was the Hon. George Hely Hutchinson, brother of Lord llonough more.—(Prolonged cheering.) As a Protestant he thanked those Protestant gentlemen who were now enlisting themselves in this great Protestant as well as Catholic, because national, cause. He hoped that the introduc tion into that hall of a number of the aristocracy, was only the commencement of a new era in the history of the country. He knew that there were many men entertaining the loftiest sentiments of devotion towards Ireland, who, from one cause or other, had been pre vented from enlisting in their ranks ; hut those impedi ments no longer existed, and he doubted not that the example of Mr. Hutchinson would soon be followed to a great extent. He felt it right to say that there had been no conversion in Mr. Hutchinson 's case, for that gentleman had always been an enemy to the union. Mr. O'CONNELL haying seconded the motion, it was agreed to. Mr. 11. GRATTAN congratulated the meeting on the accession of such men to that Association, and moved the admission of Captain Mockler, of the county of Meath, an Orangeman, who had been induced by the recent persecution, for such the State trials had been, to come forward and join the ranks of the repealcrs.—(Cheers.) It was not enough that Peel should vindicate the course he had taken in having instituted those trials — he must atone for the injustice he had done by them. — (Cheers.) They would make no appeal to England or to Englishmen. The liberties of Ireland were at stake, and, thank God, there was a sufficiency of Irish arms and Irish hearts to defend them.—(Cheers.) Mr. O'CONNELL also seconded this motion, which was agreed to. Mr. S. Butler, M.P., Mr. Hely Hutchinson, and Capt. Mockler, severally returned thanks. The last-named gentleman in doing so said that he had b een dismissed from the commission of the peace, which he had held for thirty years in the county of Meath, because ha d lie had anded declared himself against the unio n. an investigation into his conduct as a mag istrate during that period ; the demand was ref usecland on a future day he would read the correspondence which took place in reference to it. Mr. O'CONNELL, having risen.to hand in some money, P roceeded to say—As l am u p on m y legs, I believe I may as well proceed at once to address you.—(Loud cheers, which continued for some minutes.) It would be utterly impossible for me to find language adequate to describe the sensations of delight with which I once again address this assembly.—(Renewed cheers.) I had imagined that my voice was to have been suspended at least till the month of May next, but the " merry month of May" has come upon us eight months too soon, and we as May birds.—(Ch eers an d ca n now rejoice as merry laughter.) But, seriously speaking, we have the most important reasons for rejoicing. A victory was never yet more worthily won —a triumph was never yet more honestly earned.—(Hear.) 'We have had a triumph over combination and fcul conspiracy—we hare had a triumph over the crime of packing of juries—we have had a triumph of the constitution, and we are therefore entitled to enjoy the pleasure and satisfaction of that triumph. The words of the hymn readily suggest them, selves to our minds in our present position, " Sit ties plow, sit sonora, sit juoinda, sit decora, mentis jubilatio." Yes, it is a moment in which the jubilation of the mind should, with proper decorum, but with entire fervour, rejoice in the flood of OVERLAND MAIL INDIA AND CHINA. The intelligence brought by the mail is dated Bombay, 31st July ; Calcutta, 14th July ; Madras, 20th July ; and China, 21st June. The letters and journals, however, add little to the news brought by the telegraphic dispatch, with regard to the mutiny of the 64th Regiment of Bengal Infantry, and the surprise of some foragers belonging to Sir CHARLES NArrEa's army. It appears that the Colonel of the regiment, in order to induce them to march for Sinde, had held out promises which the General could not sanction. They in consequence showed the greatest dissatisfaction ever since their arrival, and on the 23d of June broke out into open mutiny; refused to obey the orders of their officers, and de clined to receive their pay. The Colonel was suspended, General HUNTER took the command, ordered up several regiments and marched the refractory troops to Sukkur, when the ringleaders were given up and some of them punished. It appears great blame is attached to the party of foragers who were com manded by Captain MACKENZIE. They allowed themselves to be surrounded by the B.looches, and nearly fifty of them were cut to pieces. We are glad to learn that the troops in Sinde were generally healthy. The accounts from Calcutta and China are unimportant. SINDE. We have letters from Hyderabad to the 4th, and from Kurrache4 to the 2d of July ; from Sukkur of the 29th of June. From Upper Sinde the news is unsatisfactory. The court of inquiry, assembled to investigate the causes of the reverse at Poolajee, had scarcely closed its proceed ings when another mishap, which occasioned the loss of 80 men, befel us. The grass cu tters of the 6th Irregu lar Cavalry having been employed in procuring forage. under an escort near Khanghur, was surrounded and set upon by a party of Bellochec horsemen, when about 80 men, including 30 of the cavalry party, were cut to pieces, and 50 were wounded severely-. Sir C. Napier has recorded a most indignant general order in reference to the affair, highly blaming the conduct of Captain Mackenzie, the commander of tho Irregulars. This is exactly the style of annoyance that may constantly be looked for, on a frontier so exposed and indefensible as that to which we have now advanced. Four men of the same corps, when escorting bullocks towards Sukkur, were set upon, and having been severely wounded, nar rowly escaped with their lives. An officer's letter gives the following account of the disaster :—" Captain Mackenzie's report has been sent in, but little further information is afforded on the sub ject of the Chupao at Khanghur ; it seems that the party of syces and the escort were sent to a much greater distance than was necessary. The horsemen, after reaching their ground and going to sleep, were alarmed by a pot shot fired close to them ; a single man only was observed, and in place of attacking him at once they commenced firing with their short carbines. This however did not last long ; a party of about 50 men well armed, accompanied by a small gun, attacked them in flank, and a second body, about 100 strong, appeared al most simultaneously and attacked them in rear. The escort on finding themselves thus between the horns of a dilemma,' commenced a sort of sauve qui pent devil take-the-hindermost-sort of retreat, left the grasscutters to their fate, and rather preferring trusting to their steeds than their swords, they reached camp with the loss of fourteen men. The grasscutters are believed to have all perished." It may be recollected that when the order was issued to have Sinde garrisoned by Bengal instead of Bombay troops, six regiments mutinied on the subject of pay and allowances, the 64th N. I. having taken the lead amongst those who refused to serve on the Indus on the terms offered by Government. The 37th, the most turbulent of the mutineers, was after wards disbanded ; and the 64th, intimid a t e d a pp a rently by this, and misled by the order of Government in re ference to Sinde allowances, expressed their regret for their past conduct, and volunteered to serve where they had formerly refused. On arriving at Sukkur, fresh discontents on the old subject made their appearance. They were ordered to Shikarpore, and there, on the 22d of June, they broke out into open mutiny : they refused to accept the pay which was offered them, disobeyed orders, and threw stones and brick-bats at their officers on parade. General Hunter lost no time in ordering the 69th out from Sukkur, to take the place of the mutineers, who were taken under his own command, and ordered to march to Sukkur, to be prepared to proceed without a moment's delay to Delhi, there to be dealt with by the authorities who had sent them where they were so unfit to be trusted, and so unworthy to serve. On arriving at Sukkur they were kept clear of the cantonments and marched towards the river, where boats were in readiness to carry them across to Roree. Here her Ma jesty's 13th and Forster's battery were placed in ambush within point-blank distance of the mutineers, the guns of the artillery loaded with grape, and the gunners holding the matches ready lighted, to have poured in a Tolley in case of disturbance. General Hunter, who had taken the regiment under his own command, here harangued them on their misconduct, and severely cen sured the officers; he required the ringleaders to be sur rendered, when thirty-nu eof them were given up. Col. Moseley has been temporarily removed from command, and is greatly blamed. Colonel Norton has been placed in charge in his stead. The conduct of General Hunter appears to have been eminently firm, prudent, and judicious. It was fortunate, indeed, that Forster's battery and her Majesty's 13th chanced to have been at Sukkur, otherwise we should have been exposed to an active, indefatigable, and exasperated enemy, with discontented Bengal troops alone to garrison the whole of our north-west frontier from Roree around to the Halle mountains. Shere Mahomed is said still to be hovering about at the head of about 1,500 horsemen, but is reported willing to come in. A detachment was about to proceed on the 3d instant from Kurrachee to Beira, to return 1,500 ra. previously paid by the chief of that place, as compensation for some cattle which had been stolen from camp and traced to his territories, but which were restored shortly after their abduction. The chief had been obliged to pawn his arms to raise the money, and our sense of the honesty of his conduct was to be marked by a present. This is a small but pleasant incident, standing out amidst fero city knavery the one side, and violence on the Napier continued at Kurrachee—the treasury was to b e b rought up on the 4t h f rom i ts o ld location. other. Sir C.on Sir Charles Napier has just issued a cry beneficial order, permitting white cotton to be worn, instead of sc arlet cloth, by Sinde. the officers and soldiers throughout LAIIORE. The affairs of the Punjaub have grown more settled llecra Singh's last Successes have secured his throne, and caused his provocations of the British to cease. Dispatches from home are said to deprecate any view of conquest. Ileera Singh hin want of money, and is still menaced by his uncle, Goolab Singh, and the widow of Such,t, but for the moment he can set them at defiance. The young Maharajah had the small-pox, but has re covered. It _ is said the British Government have agreed to re store the treasure belonging to the estate of the late Rajah Suchet Singh found at Ferozepoor, on the joint receipt of Rajah Heera Singh and Goolab Singh. A large number of troops have returned by order from the province of Peshawur, as all apprehensions of an invasion by the Affghans hare vanished for the pre sent, and the Minister has succeeded in persuading a number of the men, to the amount of ten or twelve thousand, to take some two, some three months' leave, which it is customary to grant to all native troops (even in our armies) during the hot season. This time, it is supposed, Rajah 'ken' Singh will devote to the organi sation and augmentation of the troops more particularly devoted drawn c hi e fl y f rom h i s own jagheers i n th that he nal) , have effectual support in case of any future outbreak a ga i nst hi m on t h e part c f t h e Sikh soldiery, whom he still f ears on account of the dif ference of faith, and their ran eDrous f ee li ngs at th e , sohim, death of one of their most celebrat e d p r i es t s , t h e Bh aee Bheer Singh. ehills to ob.erf e 0 r jeeutabi abeand AFFGHANISTAN. Dost Mahomed appears to have b ea t d own th e oppo sition which his government experienced on his return to , necessary, bue Caubul ; and has no w be g u n to relax in the severities at first Mahomed Akbar had been successful at Kooner ; he h him. A n id ea of mak i ng an , and been received in triumph C u His troop s h a d reached the capital attack on Peshawar , if an y such was in reality enter ina d probablyreturned of detachmentsi ie a d t a t a I i f B f rom baujo fo und enter tained, appears to have been abandoned for the present. Commerce at Caubut was improving rapidly. The chief of Koondooz was still said to threaten Bameean, while the Bokhara barbarian was in terror of an attack from Persia. The chiefs of Candahar are said to be appre hensive of another attack of the British, a very ground less apprehension, and are cultivating the friendship of the Caubul ruler. The news from Herat is so conflict ing, that we can scarcely venture to attempt to reconcile the statements of the opposite authorities with each other, COMMERCIAL RETROSPECT. CHINA. —Intelligen ce from China has been received M th a e y 'llalwa q ua liti es , on The quantity of the coast and at Hong -Kon g wa s immense. The ong saidnucleteortiartedl"otp Kong Gazette of the 15th of Ma y states, that the neces ituomt,hpear2tiBcuthlaorlfy sity of a reduction of the duty on tea is daily becoming more evident. The increased consumption of goods in China must be met by a corresponding export ; hitherto with the exception of tea and silk, China has been un able to furnish other articles to any amount, suitable to the English market, and so far as is now known, it is with these commodities the enormous importations from England and India must be paid. The opium trade is draining the bullion out of the country, and the Ame rican bills on London, which has long afforded a safe remittance,- are decreasing—the Americans finding that their own manufactured cottons yield a handsome profit, will send goods to procure their tea charges. That China will, in the course of time, be an outlet for a very large quantity of the staples of British manufacture is un doubted. But the question now is—how is she to pay for them ? With the enormous drain upon her in the shape of compensation money, and the heavy annual burden of some twenty millions of dollars for opium, all paid in specie—unless there are mines in the in teLior of Which Nurypeans are i 4 ignorance —. 4 few EASTERN PRODUCE. COTTON.—Our present quotations show a fall of lr to 2r per candy from those of last month, but the low rates ruling in England have checked in a great measure pur chases for that market, aad but few transactions have, in consequence, been made. COFFEE.—Mocha has kept steady at 9-1-r to 9 : lr per maund, and there has been a large business done in it by the native merchants, for 'shipment to England. The import has been very small, but, we believe, a large quan tity is expected immediately from the Red Sea. Of BURBORA there is very little here, and prices are as high as 11r per maund. Gusts.—Animi, Arabic, and Olibanum—in all these a fair business has been Ldoing at our quotations, but principally by the native shippers to England. There is a fair supply at present in the Bazaar, but prices are ruling high. Iv oar is scarce at present, and little has yet been received, though at this season it usually comes forward in: quantity. Prices are ruling high, and there are few fine Teeth to be met with. Oriuii has advanced lOr per chest, and is now at 1,400 r. Wooi..—There is none in the market, except of Mol nar, which maintains our former quotation. PEPPER.—Prices of Malabar Pepper have advanced about 4r per candy. Some purchases have bean made at 55r, and the dealers are now asking 57r. We do not hear of any transactions in Bhutcoll. An advance of about 2s per candy is demanded. There will not be any supplies received from the Malabar coast until the termination of the monsoon, so that the dealers hold their stocks very firmly. FRElGHTS.—Freights may be quoted to London at 3/, and to Liverpool at 215 s per ton. The current rate fcr China is Hr per candy. THE MONEY MARKET.—The following are the pre sent quotations of the Government Securities :—Five per Cent. Loan of 1825-26, 109 r to 110 r; Four per Cent. ditto of 1832-33, 105 r to 106 r ; Four per Cent. ditto, of 1835-36, 994 r to 100 r ; Five per Cent. ditto of 1841-42, 1104 r to Illr ; Four per Cent. ditto of 1842-43, 994 r to 100 r. EXCHANGE on England has continued firm since our lust, and we quote the present rate for six months' bills, at 1-10 k to 1-104, and for bills at 30 days' sight at 1-10 per rupee. Exchange on Calcutta, at 60 days, is 101 r, and on Madras at 6 days' sight, 100 r. On China, at 60 days' sight, 214 r to 214ir per 100 dollars. Berixs.—The Bank of Bombay has declared a divi dend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum for the half year ending 30th June. Its shares are at present quoted at 51r to 52r per cent premium. The shares of the Bank of Western India are quoted, old at 47r to 4sr, and new at 49r to 50r per cent. premium. PRICE OF BuixioNe—Sovereigns, each at llir ; Bank Notes, per .g at 1 lir. We learn from Calcutta that the accounts which had reached that presidency of the contemplated reduction of the differential duties on sugar, had put an entire stop to all operations in that article. To make up for the partial loss of the protecting duty (10s. per cwt.), a fall in price of about 31 rupees per maund would re quire to take lalace; and as the holders were not natu- . rally very willing to submit all at once to the heavy loss which circumstances had thus forced on them, a tempo rary suspension of operations was the consequence. The opium market continued excited, and prices were sup ported by speculation in the bazarr at about the highest rates obtained at the last Government sale—viz., 1,550 per chest for Patna, and 1,480 for Benares. The money market was lively, in consequence of require ments for opium shipments to China, and agricultural operations in the interior; and, although there was no alteration in the rates of banking operations, there was an upward tendency in discount and interest. In Go vernment securities and bank shares there was no altera tion of importance. Freights had an upward tendency —but there appeared to be little variation from those current at the time of the departure of the last mail; an advance having been checked by the unfavourable ac counts respecting sugar, which at present tend to re strain shipments. Several recent arrivals of the larger class of shipping had been put up for China, but they experienced difficulty in completing . lading. Exports of grain and emigrant labourers to the Mauritius in some measure afforded employment to a considerable amount of tonnage. There was no difference in Exchange on England. The following is the result of the Calcutta Govern ment's final opium sale of this season : CALCUTTA, JUNE 24, 1844.—The fifth and final Go vernment opium sale of the season came off to-day, and the whole quantity offered, namely, 3,544 chests Patna, less 155 reserved for the French Government, and 1,106 chests Benares sold at rates yielding the following aver age : Highest. Lowest. Average. Patna 1,545 Benares 1,480 The Patna opened at 1,495, and gradually advanced to 1,545, from whence the biddings declined to 1,520 to 1,530. CALCUTTA MONEY MARKET. _ _ _. _ The Benares, which, as usual, was sold immediately, opened at 1,480, but gradually declined to 1,450. liumanu OFFICE, CALCUTTA, JUNE 29, 1844. Since our last issue, our Money Market has been steady, and rates of interest have continued to show a lass downward tendency ; the opium purchasers requiring large funds. Government Securities have maintained their value generally. Exchange had ruled from Is. Hid. to Is. 14d. at ten months' date. GREAT FOOT RACE FOR FORTY POUNDS.—Be tween six and seven o'clock this morning, the great race for the above sum, between Warwick, styled the "Epsom Novice," and another, called the " Unknown of Charing cross," came off on Waterloo-bridge. The distance was a quarter of a mile, and the spot was from toll to toll. After the usual preliminaries, the men took ther places on the Surrey side of the bridge, and, on a signal, started, the Novice taking the lead, which he maintained throughout the whole distance, and winning the match by several yards. There was a great number of spec tators present, considering the early hour it took place. Too BAD.—On Tuesday last, a young man named Samuel Farrar, with a young woman, both from Barns ley, presented themselves among other parties for mar riage at the Leeds parish church , but after witnessing the ceremony being performed for the two first couples, the young man took to his heels and ran out of the church, followed by the disconsolate young woman.— .Examimr. our triumph, and in the victory that we have N' obtained. I am, as I have stated,. utterly unable to de- ---- s("C - N,„,_ scribe the sensations that overpower my mind. Thes- -3 ''. ' '''\ first thing that comes upon me with all th e f orce o f an tl-'-'7. absolute certainty is, that the repeal must be carried— (Cheers) —that nothing can impede the repeal but mis conduct on our parts—that recent events prove that the repeal is in its progress tco awful and too important to --- be retarded by any means but by our own misconduct „; %t sy alone.— (Cheers.) It is not by man's effort that we have "' achieved this victory over fraud, and conspiracy, asd in justice. It is not by man's means that so great a change •has taken place in one week. Last week everything was triumphant on the part of the prosecutor and the oppressor—he had been until then allowed to enjoy his triumph ; but the shout of exultation is now on our side.—(Loud cheers.) No, it was not man who did it. We were defeated in every part of the progress of our case. The judges refused everything that we demanded for conducting our defence. Every motion that was made on our part was sure to he negatived by the bench. Every attempt that we made fur our defence was coun teracted by the judges. Every right given to us to in sure an acquittal was taken away by the selected jury. —(Loud groans.) We appealed to the House of Lords, but even there we found the same unfavourable auspices. We found seven out of the nine English judges giving the most astoundingly absurd opinions that ever were pronounced by mortal man ; but they were not the less against us for being absurd.—(Hear, hear.) If I ever entertained any hope—and really I did not—it had been long since banished away ; and when the account Came to me of the decision in our favour, though the attorneys rushed into my presence, and one of them did me the honour of embracing me, still, notwith standing that kiss and the words that accompanied it, and with the full knowledge that it was so, or the attor neys would not be:there, yet for a full half hour after wards I did not believe it.—(Cheers.) Yes, I repeat it is not the work of man. It is a blessing bestowed by Providence - on the faithful people of Ireland.—(Hear, hear, and cheers) There is no superstition in repre senting it as the gift of Providence ; no submission in bowing before the throne of God a n d accepting it as his act. I would not introduce such a topic here if it were contrary to the principles or doctrine of any religious sect represented here. But it is not. It is the doctrine of the Protestant Church, as well as the Catholic Church, that God interferes with the concerns of man. As Christians they all believe that ; and the Book of Com mon Prayer contains, in every part, proofs that it is one of the tenets of Protestantism, for it contains prayers for fair weather, for rain, and for other variations in the seasons, as well as for every temporal advantage. I cannot, therefore, hurt an individual prejudice by refer ring to this subject ; and I would not do so, if it were possible that any such prejudice could exist. What I have been describing is clearly the doctrine of the Ca tholic Church also. And let us recollect that millions of the faithful people of Ireland had lifted up their hands to God—that the priests of God offered up the holy sacrifice of the mass—that the holy secluded Sisters of Charity united their prayers with those of the priests at the altars. The Catholics of England joined with us on the occasion. The entire Catholic population of Bel gium offered up similar prayers, and along the shores of the Rhine the same voice of supplication has been heard. Oh yes, it has been heard, and we stand free before you, thankful to God, and blessing all good men. —(Loud cheers.) It is a glorious triumph, and it is fitting that such a cause should have had such a triumph. For what was our cause ? There was nothing selfish or individual in it. There was nothing in it that involved the fortunes of particular persons ; but it was a cause involving the great principles of the British Constitution and the interests of liberty. By that prosecution the Government attempted to prevent peaceable meetings of peaceable persons to petition for the redress of grievances, ' or, if it did not profess to take away that right altocse-, ther, it would, if the attempt had proved successful, have left scarcely the shadow of a right remaining. For what was the case made out by the indictment ? It was that great multitudes of persons, assembled together even for a legal and proper purpose, necessarily produced intimi dation, and that we, having so many people together at the meetings which we attended, were guilty of a con spiracy, because those large assemblages must necessa rily have intimidated those who were opposed to us. If that attempt of the Minister had not failed the conse quence would be, that the more people you had concur ring with you in the progress of public opinion—and you would not be entitled to alter the law without hav ing a considerable portion of the community with you, for the more you had with you the more would it ap pear were the public convinced of the necessity of the alteration which you advocated— the more criminal would it be for you to look for the alteration or im provement you required.—(Hear, hear.) The only chance which exists of procuring any redress of op pressive grievance arises from the weight of public opinion that was brought to bear upon it, and that chance was to be thus taken away for ever ; for when the popular voice was poor and pitiful it was only sneered at and laughed at, and when it was swelled to be the voice of the people generally—which in our case was the voice of God—every foul means was to be taken to violate the popular right to petition, by , rendering it criminal for that popular voice to make it self be heard.—(Hear, hear.) I say, therefore, that ours is a triumph of the holiest and best of causes. It is a triumph without which the throne of the monarch would be insecure. It is to public opinion that Queen Victoria owes her throne. But for it, the family of Sa voy, or of the Stuarts, would still be upon the throne of these realms; and their fate shows that even the monarch himself is not safe from the influence of the popular voice. As the gigantic accession of man to man could not be prevented without the misconduct of the govern ing power, it becomes treason against the safety of the Queen, or her throne, for any Government to attempt preventing the popular mind from being heard. When I come to talk to you presently on the subject of the present Government, I shall be able to demonstrate to you that they did meditate treason to the throne, when they resorted to such an unconstitutional attempt to suppress public opinion. —(Hear, hear.) Well ; but there is also another branch of our triumph that cannot be doubted—it is the vindication of the principle of trial by jury. —(Hear, hear, and cheers.) There is now no fear that you will have another selected jury ; or, at all events, there will be no precedent for it in our ease. Here we had the panel fraudulently constructed will not say by whom.—(Hear, hear.) We had the jury list fraudulently diminished—l will not say by whom ; but this I say—if I get the voice of public opi nion to support me, I will be able to ascertain by whom that fraud had been perpetrated.—(fear, hear, an d cheers.) The trial by jury was in its purity put an end to, and a packed jury substituted—but we stand here triumphant over those who would substitute a bad principle for a fair tribunal to adjudicate on the lives and the liberties of the Queen's subjects.—(Cheers.) Trial by jury and the right to petition have, then, been triumphant, and we stand here to-day rejoicing in the vindication of both. — (Ch eers. ) I re j oice in being one of those to announce to the public and to the world our joy on this great triumph achieved in our persons. But it is not for these alone that we should express our gra.. tulations. Another great cause has also obtained a triumph. What chance, I ask, would the repeal cause have if these proceedings had been affirmed ?—(Cheers.) It would, to be sure, have some chance from the progress of public opinion ; but now, in our peaceful majesty and tranquil might, united, but determined to violate no law, we remain, without a particle of intimidation, as in our monster meetings, but with a continued and thorough conviction, that repeal is absolutely necessary for Ire land.—(" Hurrah," and loud cheers, which continued for several minutes.) There is no ifupediment now in the way of the peaceable and triumphant termination of the repeal movement. There is nothing to prevent us, by keeping ourselves within the law, from meeting, and re solving, and organizing, and fortifying ourselves by the increase of our strength at the registry, and by every other legal means, to bring petitions before the Legisla ture until we make the table of the House of Commons rock beneath the load of the collected complaints of the people of Ireland.—(Cheers.) The constitutional right is free—the guarantee of trial by jury is secured, and will pros tect us, and, standing on one and on the other, I here an nounce that the universal feeling of the Irish people, from the Giant's Causeway to Cape Clear, and from Connemarato the hill of Howth, is in favo ur of the g reat national cause of repeal, and must to any man of common sense and common honesty appear too strong to render any amount of resistance to it permanently successful.— (Cheers.) Well, we have been successful, and, what is better, the success has been achieved on the merits. It has been said, and it will be repeated, that the decision in the House of Lords was a crotchety decision founded on technicalities. It was no such thing. It was a deci sion upon the merits, and I will prove such to t b h e ou the h case count to any man in less than three even may not be a lawyer. Ti sixth e a e tings for the purpo se colflairngtidmiudsawtingh.imiTailniegsepub m we re held by all the judges here, including even Judge Perrin, to be good counts, and the judgment of the Court was given upon them. The judges of the Irish Court of Q ueen' s Bench gave their judgment on these counts, declaring that they con tained charges or offences of a most criminal nature. Judge Burton, in passing the sentence of the Court, used the words "on these counts," in allusion to me expressly, and to the other traversers also, but he directed himself to me in that part of his address. lie referred directly to these counts as being good counts, and yet all the English judges have, without an exception, declared them to be bad counts.—(Hear, hear.) In fixing on the sen on e forfinding tence that was to b e i mpose d , M r. J ust i ce P err i n, as t h e junior judge of th e C ourt, was fi rst as k e d w h at h e thought the sent ence oug h t to te. lie said he thought six months s h ou ld b e the t i me fi xe d . J u d ge C ram pton. was next ask e d w h at h e cons id ere d th e sen tence should be, and h e sa id two years .—(L ou d cr i es of " Oh, oh I") Judge Burton was then asked his opinion , and he said one year ; and Chief Justice Pennefathearowanids finally' asked what he thought the sentence_ should be, when lie said, also, two years.— Oh oh.) '( Thus two of the judges were for two years twelve tht a imprison ment, one of them for six months, and d on months. Judge Perrin very proprly, he could not do better, joine d with Judge Burton, and the Court, then condesce nded to pass a sentence of 12 months upon me ; but I had as g ood a right to send them to gaol as they ha d to send me there.—(G rent These wiseacres d 7th counts are certainly ba d ; but we a cheering for some minute s. ) Let us now come to the decision of the seven En g lish j ud g es. wi ll presume that said, " There arc some of the counts g ood ; the 6th an theh d counts." Why, the judgment of the Irish judges had the judges did not intend to fix an y sentence on every one been before the public — t he y had been printed, and were in circulation. Every one had read them, "The judgment had been publicly announced,lands. It was used by counsel everybody's I at the bar — so that , in p oint of fact, it was as s reading a and them. was in • clear as the sun at noo nda y that the j ud g ment had been pronouns a gainst us oil the bad counts ,but the seven wiseacres of judges in England presumed otherwise, and decided against us on thct presumption. Their decision is, in fact, founded on a lie.—(" near, hear," and cheers.) ~~ `= gii• ITS, LI 0 ths/ 'I L