The Sun. — London, England, 1839-09-24 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (MONDAY EVENING.) TIMES. --The annexed remarks, which appear in one of the papers of this morning, are quoted on ac count of the belief which prevails here that they are a dictation from the Bank parlour •. Nothing farther has transpired respecting the affairs of the United States Bank but what is satisfactory, and calculated to give confidence to the shareholders and others interested in its stability. The demur which has taken place in the French cities with respect to the bills that were in suspense in the beginning of the week seems, after all, to have been very much the result of accidental circumstances, and of which we doubt not an explanation will in due time be afforded. We have no idea of beating down a really powerful and, in a general sense, valuable institution, by declamatory and unjust statements ; neither do we mean to lend our selves to anything of the kind whatever may be the Course adopted by parties professing to advocate the in terests of commerce, though with how little truth there are few that can be ignorant. Were the United States Bank a weak and insignificant establishment, the irregu larities which have occurred at Paris and Havre would have been deemed scarcely deserving of a comment. The bills might have lain over to the day of judgment, and not a word of sympathy would have been uttered in behalf of the holden; but the opulent and influential Philadelphia Bank, which some of our Contemporaries, for reasons best known to themselves, have singled out as an object of ceaseless hostility, is quite another thing. This is an institution worthy of all that calumny and misrepresen tation have, for years past, been able to accomplish to its injury. We consider the issuing of post. notes by the United States Bank an ill-considered measure, but it is one which will, we presume, be abandoned, if in deed it has net been abandoned already. It is now but too apparent that the cotton trade will not bear the interference of the banking interest, whether at home or abroad. The price of the staple must be left to be regulated by the legitimate process of consumption and demand ; but the United States Bank stepped forward to the assistance of the mercantile interests of America, it is to be recollected, under extraordinary circumstances, and at a period of universal difficulty and derangement, and if it has not done all the good that was contemplated by it, but possibly partial mischief, the failure is not to be by any weans interpreted in the light of a crime, but simply in that of an error. The misfortune of the United State, Bank is to have attempted more for the relief of commerce than, in these times of financial pressure, it has succeeded h. effecting so triumphantly as its conductors had anticipated. The insufficiency of our corn crops last year, and the in different prospects of the present harvest, have caused, as every one is well aware, the utmost perplexity to the Di. rectors of the Bank of England. Our gold has gradually de creased, until the average of the three months is reduced to something less than 3,000,0001. ; but the Directors have a resource in their ally, the Bank of France, which happens to have a profusion of the precious metals in her cellars, and is rejoiced to have an opportunity of ridding herself of a portion of the incumbrance ; so that, although more corn may be imported for the current year's consumption, l will go well until some permanent remedy for such contingencies shall be supplied by the Legislature. That ' the embarrassment has been great is, nevertheless, certain, and if our own national Bank has Lund herself in a situ: - tion during the last few months to laa glad to take acivar ,- tage of the proffered assistance of a neighbouring est a blishment, we can with little decency vilify the [Mitt td States Bank for an irregularity arising out of that ye ry state of affairs which led to the acceptance of such emit t ance. The holders of United States Bank shares in England are numerous, but we do not hear that they are pressing them upon the market. They have no occasia in to do so. The dividends will, we venture to say, continn e to be paid as punctually as heretofore. We do not cone e forward as the apologists of the United States Bank, Ise r does it stand in ne-zd of our services; but, as lovers o f fair play, and enemies to commercial detraction, we feel it incumbent upon us at the present crisis to bay thus much in its favour. .‘ We have been a , ,ked if it be true that our Govern,. meat meditate taking into their own hands the powers ; present vested in the Bank of England. That they desir e thus we have very little doubt, and that the Alinisterisl journals should do alt they can in furtherance of th.a scheme is perfectly natural ; but that a Conservative por tion 01 . the Pte,is should iabaur as it does in the same? cause is altogether past comprehension. Our Contem poraries cannot surely wish to see the power of regulating the bauk-note circul tion transferred to the keeping of 6., O'Connell party The principle is the same as regards ' the United States Bank. The Bank has done more the c any thing else to ke. p in check Om violent c.emoerat . c sprits of the Union tor the last thirty years, and it call hardly t , e the . ousiness of those who are opposed to toe views of General Jackson and toe • Loco focos' to destroy the credit of such an it:siltation. Our friends are evi• dently in a false position." 'fne impression which these remarks have conveyo?. , :i is of a very peculiar kind. That the Bank should be come, or even pretend to b,t, the apologist of the Unite... I Status Baok, is quite contrary to the feeling which ha 3 .ieretofore pievaiied there, cud is rendered the more ridiculous on this occasion, us all the Lets stated in e:e - tenuation of censure wire in r4aiity a' sweeping condemn.. - tion of the management of that institution. To superfici a I . readers the contrary may perhaps appear, but such wa I us totnel, on attentive examination, the true state of tin czise. But the motive for thus going out of the way to de. • fend and apologize for the United States Bank is, Li • i f adopt the current opinioe of it, still more curious and extraordinary. The Bank of England, it is said finds a paramount reason for the defence of impro• vident wanking uy others, in the circumstance that the time is near at hand when indulgence is to be clairi , ed for its own errors. "If our own national 'panic," says this oracle, " has found herself in a situa tion within the last few months to be glad to take advantage of the proffered assistance of a ne:gt bouring establishment, we can with little docent:s vilify the United States Bank for an irregularity arising out of that very state of affairs which led tc • the acceptance of such assistance:" The two banks, then, are in a similar possition ! This is alarming, but not meant, it is to be hoped, as the preparation for a similar accident in Paris, the scene of the opera tions of both. But we are led to expect, in a previous passage, that " all will go well until a permanent remedy for all such contingencies shall be supplied by tile Legislature." If this has any meaning, it must be taken as a hint that we are to look for an issue of one-pound notes at least, if not for an absolute re striction of specie payments soon after the meeting of • Parliament. But the richest passage of all is that near the conclu sion, in which the attempt is made to connect all appo aition to the present system of bank management with Whig or Radical principles. The truth lies directly the reverse way. The Directors know very well that they are everything to the party at present in power, who were both too weak and too ignorant to deal with them according to their deserts, and that, had the Tories been in office at the time of the renewal of the last charter, they and their monopoly would have fallen together. In all respects a more unlucky appeal was never made •o public sympathy, considering the quarter from si •hich it came, than is this parallel between the cases of the United States Bank and the Bank of England. CRIM. CON. IN INDIA. (From the Bombay — Press of June 17.) SUPREME COURT.—JUNE 14. LARKINS V. LEWIS. This was an action by the plaintiff to recover c.,m pensation in damages from the defendant, for criminal conversation with his wife. Messrs. Howard and Montriou appeared as counsel for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Campbell for the defendant. The damages were laid at 50,000 rupees. Balloo Canojee, late coachman to Mr. Larkins, was accustomed to drive Mrs. Larkins in the shigram. The last time he drove her was from Mr. Larkins's house to the Apollo Pier. There was an European nurse with her. Has not seen Mrs. Larkins since he drove her to the Apollo Pier. Mary Richardson examined by Mr. Montriou—ls servant to Mrs. Larkins, and has been so for about eighteen months. Has not resided at Mr. Larkins's since September last. Mrs. Larkins left her husband on the 22d of September. I accompanied her. We went together in a shigram to the Bunder, and frOm thence on board the ship Fortfield, and proceeded in that vessel to Bushire. There were two cabins pre pared in the vessel—one for Mrs. Larkins and the other for myself. Mrs. Larkins and Mr. Lewis occu pied her cabin. I see Mr. Lewis in Court, and recog nise him. I knew him previous to this occurrence, from his having resided with Mr. Larkins. We were about two months on the voyage from Bombay to Bushire. While on board Mrs. Larkins went by the name of Mrs. Lewis. Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Larkins lived together as man and wife. When the vessel arrived at Bushire Mrs. Larkins accompanied Mr. Lewis ashore, where they resided about two months, and lived as man and wife. Cross-examined by Mr. Campbell—l left England with Mrs. Larkins, and from her arrival in Bombay until she left it I lived with her constantly. lam aware upon what terms she and Mr. Larkins were, as I had frequent opportunities of observing. Almost imme diately after Mrs. Larkins's return from England Mr. Larkins behaved with great unkindness to her, although I heard Mrs. Larkins promise to forego all gaiety in the way he wished her. His unkindness consisted in the tyranny he endeavoured to exercise over the mind of his wife, forbidding her to read any books but those he should select or approve—religious books. Mrs. Larkins did not read novels ; she wished to read other literary works, but Mr. Larkins considered all know ledge except that derived from religious books as super fluous. Mrs. Larkins did not agree with Mr. Larkins on those points. This caused disagreements and alter cations between them, and I was present at several of their quarrels. On such occasions Mrs. Larkins would so demean herself as to prevent a recurrence of them ; but Mr. Larkins would insist on Mrs. Larkins giving her opinion. She did so, which had a tendency to create further discussions, which generally terminated by Mrs. Larkins crying and leaving the room. Neither party re canted the opinions they had given. On other than religious subjects Mrs. Larkins and her husband agreed, but on religious ones they never did. I remember when Mrs. Larkins bad been very poorly all day. She lay on the couch in her dressing-room, and was conversing of her own family, expressing a wish that Mr. Larkins possessed but half the affection for her her brother had. Mr. Larkins observed that he knew Mrs. Larkins thought him a fool, and that he had heard while she was in Env land she bad said she did not care whether he was dead or alive. Mr. Larkins when speaking to her on such subjects expressed himself in a very savage manner. When Mr. and Mrs. Larkins disputed on religious subjects he wished to make her say that she wished to die, but Mrs. Larkins ever expressed a wish to live, Mr. Larkins observing that her heart was estranged from God, and that she preferred living in this sinful world to the enjoyment of a future state. For about half an hour Mrs. Larkins was in hysterics after she left the room. The discussion was kept up until she left it. Mrs. Larkins said she could not tell me all Mr. Larkins had said to her, but that he had made use of very provoking language. I have frequently seen ' Mrs. Larkins in hysterics and tears previous to Mr. Lewis having visited at the house, and have often known her to leave the dinner table on account of their quarrels. I remember Mrs. Larkins reading " Tne Life of Oliver Cromwell," when Mr. Larkins said it was a waste of time ; this led to a quarrel, which c ntinued all the afternoon. I was walking about in the verandah, and could hear Mr. Lar kins scolding and upbraiding Mrs. Larkins. At the conclusion of the quarrel Mr. Larkins said that none but books treating of divine or religious subjects were edifying. I recollect one evening, when we were at Bombay, Mrs. Larkins, feeling herself unwell, went to sleep after dinner i when Mr. Larkins said to her, " if she was preparing for a ball she would he lively enough, and that he wished that some of the fine gentlemen who paid her compliments could but see her in that state." Mrs. Larkins merely replied, " Say no more, and do not behave so unkindly to rue," adding " she would wish to return to England." Mr. Larkins said, "If you go to England I shall keep the children." Mrs. Larkins upon this left her room, but was followed by Mr. Larkins, and he apologised for his conduct, promising that if Mrs. Larkins would forgive him he would never again act towards her in such a manner. Mr. Lewis was ac quainted with Mr. Larkins previous to his residing there. 1 think I saw bim visit there about six weeks previous. Saw Mr. Lewis when he came to take Mrs. Larkins's portrait, and also at several evening parties. Remem bers Mr. Larkins saying when Mrs. Larkins had only seen Mr. Lewis once, that she entertained a preference for him. Mr. and Mrs. Larkins were in the constant habit of driving on the beach, at which he objected, saying Mrs. Larkins wished to go there to meet Mr. Lewis. This occurred after I had first seen Mr. Lewis at the house. Perhaps he had then visited three or four times. Mr. Lewis resided at Mr. Larkins's house, and after being there about three days a very serious quarrel occurred at dinner. I was not present, but Mrs. Larkins told me she had never been so insulted. Mr. Larkins, shortly after dinner, went to Mrs. Larkins's room, and apologised to her, saying he had behaved to her in a most shameful manner. Mr. Lewis Ik7as not present at the conversation in Mr. Larkins's dressing-room. After this occurrence Mr. and Mrs. Larkins and Mr. Lewis rode out to the beach. During the time that Mr. Lewis resided at Mr. Larkins's very frequent disputes and arguments occurred between Mr. and Mrs. Larkins. Mr. Larkins was acccustomed to have family prayers in his house. On one of these occasions Mr. Larkins gave Mrs. Larkins a chapter in the Bible to read concerning the breaking of the s eventh commandment. On Mr. Lewis observing a pon what subject the chapter treated, he shut his E able and pushed it across the table, but I heard no y e , mark made. I remember a quarrel taking place be ts', 'en Mr. Larkins and Mr. Lewis. I know Mrs. Las king's hand-writing (five notes of variegated paper were . handed to witness for perusal. They were from Mr 5. Larkins to Mr. Lewis, before he left Mr. Larkins's bou se s l. I have very frequently seen Mrs. Larkins in t ears when Mr. Lewis remained at Mr. Larkins's I louse. Mrs. Larkins wrote several letters to Mr. • Lewis, which I was in the habit of delivering—she vrote to him on the 17th and 19th of September last. ( The witness recognised two letters shown her to be A irs. Larkins's hand-writing). Mrs. Larkins had de sit -ed Mr. Lewis not to come to the house previous to m 3 ' giving him tr,, last note. Mr. Lewis visited often. Re-examined by Mr. Montriou—lias very often ta k, sn letters to Mr. Lewis's servant. Was not in the habi t of reading them. Mrs. Larkins occasionally „ ail some of them to her. I remember delivering a note. ): - rom Mr. Lewis to Mrs. Larkins about the Bth or 9th of 15epten:ber last. It was merely one inquiring a . bout her health. Mrs. Larkins told me of her inten a short time before we quitt e d ti .on to leave Born ( my ,it . She had also hinted it to me before Mr. Lewis, ~m 1 i g ave me instructions ab out packing up the things, &c. ; f t )thing beyond that passed. This happened about two days before they eloped. I was quite aware under w i ,at circumstances Mrs. Larkins was leaving Bombay. Mi .s. Larkins frequently read a portion of her notes to Mr . Lewis to me. Mr. Larkins generally accused Mn 3. Larkins of displaying favouritism to Mr. Lewis. Mr, Larkins, when angry with his wife, could assume a ver y savage manner. I never could ascertain whether Mr. Larkins entertained any affection for his wife or not . •1 never knew Mr. Larkins refuse her anything so i ar as money was concerned, and when she request e d to re Ly visit • -s I never knew him to refuse her. I h a ve have known him to grant it when s refuse his permission to attend very large km .am him te din nee parties, ( and on I i t. When I say Mr. Larkins was she had insisted I mean .., 1 'en quarrels took place. Mr. Larkins sl y a ge, 0. • eve r assumed a sava ,e manner when quarrelling on the ' and if he observed Mrs. L ar ki ns trivial subjects ; . mo st • I, it would afford car easing her little gir.. fond I the girl was too of its mother, not so of qu a .rre - us appeared jealous of every the father. Mr. Lark i ns i bod y• • Dickinson exansined.—l am th e w if e t Is , Trs. Catheri ne I have known Mr. Larkins since iof C o lone! Dickinson. Iris wife. When h e f , t came out to India acquainted 1 ; I also know b sh-, , . l ne out I became with her, and w as she ' a- ter ms with the parties until .returned on i ntim ate to _}. zoiyiail d. I have , not however, seen much L ' ' ce her last return . ,Ir 'kirks sin of Mrs. from England, owing ito ac lr Larkins was of so religinus c Lul :nt. D, es not think N is.. at, - 1 -he now Mr. and Mrs. Larkins am formes. 1 3,, . . They did not appear as reB fo r some time. idea with ms e t P ; u bile professors of religion. Mr. Larkins was not par "'e ularl fond f goiet Nir but always entered into anything th Y ° •.,, • ' l i v ed on terms of at was pressoss•—• y certainly 114 .ppiness together, and Mrs. Larkins was very anxious al ,out the state of Nr• L arkias's health. The last time I saw Mrs. Larkins was at her own house, about a in onth previous to her ls.'aving Bombay. I dined and sr .ent the evening there, ant: observed nothing particular in the conduct of either. Mr. Levvi..t was not there on tE at evening. Mrs. Larkins, I si..°ulct say, is an accom- PI ished woman, and I think more so than the generality of ladies. Her society was courted, .and she was con si tiered an attractive person, and conseq uently admired. Cress-examined by Mr. Campbe;l Mrs. Larkins rig very well. Never observed anythirt k. xtraordinary i Mr. Larkins's part when site sung. N.lvsqr observed iy rude display of temper on Mr. Larkinx , 's part when LORD MON TEAGLE. I, We have, as our readers are aware, no partict , penchant for this little Lord, and from time to' ti, me we have expressed ourselves rather freely, and.. in a manner by no means complimentary towards hit n, whenever we have bad occasion, which was not liar, quently, to condemn his projects, and to stigrnatis e the anti-national tendency of his actions. Many pet •sons, then, have expressed surprise that we have not nc ticed the arrangement which has lately been come to bet ween this said Lord Monteagle and the venerable pa triot, Sir John Newport, in consequence of which Sir John has retired upon a pension, and Lord Monteaglt has succeeded to his sinecure office of Comptroller of the Exchequer. We have net followed the example of n !any of our contemporarie s in bestowing harsh epit bets upon this arrangement, because bad as we believe ..ord AU ' , le 4- Jnteagle to be, we would wish to " give t be d—) his due," and in this instance we are inclined .o think he "is not so bl ac k as h e is painted..” In plain English, then we have not alluded to this sc •catled "job," because we believe the filets to be that i It does 10 t merit that u g ly e pi t h et . L or d M onteagle having i 'le'd the office of Chancellor of the Excheque.r for a eelire. period, was entitled by law to a pension o. n his saiaryment from office, of an amount larger that i t-he attached to the o ffi ce held by Sir John New . port, and as the c hzellor of the Exchequer cannot drat v his pension whil e a evident, eannothlolds any other office, the count] .y, it we could not justi os e by the exchange, and thee' .tore that which the eire Y i; as we thi n k , condemn as ii . "'"jr).) " stigmatising with suchnihstaarnsjies would not warrant us in proof harshness,_ Pilot. [lt is a singular unpopularzly of ' Mr. Sprit*. Rice, that no friend hictastphb:eren found to - volunteer tha explanation in a Londo n Irish *opponent is the only journal which has done hiAnj justice. If the retiring pension of Sir John Newpo: n s to bl, paid by o w reas on what- Lord Monteagle, the country will hav e ever to complain. If the country, h o pay it, and if that and Lord Mon tea I ' ever' have to g e 8 &liars, . of h . new place exceed the amount of the pension he noi*,l l2 claim, so long as Sir John Newport liv , .he coi.*lAjtry't es , will suffer by the arrangement.] HOSPITAL PATIENTS .--. fit an in. 1 OUT-DOOR r. Wakley, M. P ~ Thuriday morn i ng , died before M dd in its m ot h er ' s quest beldon on the body of an . 1 •on broug ht from St. Bartholomew's arms, after havi ng Hospital, to whi c h i t h a . 4 been taken in or d er to receive medical t reatment, a witness, in reply to the Coron er , sa id the m ot h er h ad been obliged to. wait at the ho s pi ta l f or whereu: three hours befo re s h e could see th, -. Physician, ous iu m p Mr. Wakley said " The public p ress , dis. .ver zeal setninating any i n f ormation that may prove ._ C eneficial to the i I am about poor, will, I hope, give publicity to the remark .„.,.u,ixo to, m ake. Many a poor person's life is lost in cons ' ll i , ir,n , Or the long time poor out-door patients are kept wh ; Eli ! before the hospital physician attends to them. To Iv .., I ing people time is cverwthinfr; and knowing !Ito mint lose so muah of it if they seek Fur aid at St. Bartholor ue''c's' th e y abstain from applying at all, and thus allow disea . se to make such an inr , ?ad on the constitution that no effor is of science can stop it, Idm certain that if the trovernoi sof the loapitai knew of the exinence of the evil I have j 'ust, adverted to they would forthwith cause it to be remcdie, I.' - at V rdict—" Natural Death." THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1839. AN ALDERMAN LOST. " Where is Alderman Thompson ?" is a question every day propounded by the astonished electors of the borough of Sunderland ; and it is a question which no man presumes to answer. How woefully have the victims of this political vam pire been disappointed. Alderman Thompson entered within the walls of the House of Commons a pledged Radical Reformer—and a representative whose powerful influence in the City, it was expected, would have been ex rted, not in favour of old women merely, but of the merchants, shipowners, and tradesmen through whose solicitations and credul ty he had been returned. The most unfair taxation, perhaps, which was ever levied upon any great branch of national industry, appears equity itself when compared to the iniquitous imposition on coals levied by the municipal copartners of Alderman Thompson—the Corporation of London. Our readers (for which of them is not deeply injured by the coal-tax ?) are too well acquainted with its his tory and injustice to require much explanation from us. Suffice it to say, that every one, except its receivers, cries out against it ; and the City authorities themselves pretend to admit its injustice, even whilst petitioning for its continuance. But it is not the peo ple of the North only who suffer—and who suffer, in proportion to their means, the most deeply. The poor, the needy, the half-starved, and the half-naked of the metropolis, are deprived of a portion of that comfort in ' dispensable to their existence, for the purpose of erect ing palaces and embellishing thoroughfares in the most wealthy and overgrown capital of the world. That numbers of miserable wretches perish annually in the metropolis is unquestioned ; and as unquestioned is it, that it is not the want of bread alone that drags them to the grave. Fuel is almost as indispensable as food— and less easily obtained by the ill-clothed and shivering wanderer, as evidenced by the fireless hovels in which metropolitan misery too frequently expires. One of the great champions and assertors of this tax —o ne o f the most prominentperpetuators of this misery —is Alder man Thompson, the Tory Representative of th e coal exporting and coal-trade-supported borough of Sunder land T. /.—Gateshead Observer. INTEREST OIN DEBTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—The fact that it is now legal to demand in te rest on debts of long standing, after having given notice to their creditors of their intention, appears to me not, to be generally known. By making it public through your valuable Journal, you would I think confer a be nefit on the trading community. Some of the West-end traders, of which I may in stance Storr and Mortimer, have a notice to the follow ing effect on their bill heads, " Unless this bill be paid within a certain time, interest will be demanded on the same." Sept. 20, 1839. EQUITY. CONSERVATIVE BANQUET AT LIPTON PARK, SOUTH DEVON. This affair to which we alluded when speaking of the Conservative feast at Columpton took place, on Friday at Lifton Park, the seat of W. A. Harris Arundell, Esq., who entertained upon this occasion upward of three hundred of the most influeniial Tories of both divi sions of the county, who had been invited by him to meet their four representatives, in order, according to the felici tous phraseology of the Cooserva..ive clacquers, to cele brate the triumph of Conservatism over prostrate Whiggery in this extensive and important district, and to consolidate the strength of that party here which has the true interests of the country for its object !! RUMOURED ILLNESS OF MR. O'CONNELL. —An Orange journal has issued a placard, announcing 'h.: .. se' ions illness of Mr. O'Connell." We are happy to have it in our power to state that lett , 'rc were receiv e d i n town this morning from Mr. O'Connell, which are evi dently the producrion of a man in the best health and spirits.—Dublin Evening Post. THE WEATHER IN DUBLIN.—ThiS day (Friday), on the whole, has been very fine— a bracing :dr, and a ripening sun. The barometer has ascended to .29. I —the thermometer steady, at 61. Signs of change ap peared in the afternoon, and hope has given wav to some anxiety. Saturday— Weather again highly favourabl e Barometer, 29.2—Thermometer, 60.—Dublin Eveainq Post. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL gentlemen addressed Mrs. Larkins. I regretted that I did not see more of them as formerly. Mr. George Smith King examined by Mr. Mon triou—l have been acquainted with Mr. Larkins for about two years and three months. I also know Mrs. Larkins. lam on intimate terms with both. Since Mrs. Larkins's return to India I have been in the habit of visiting once or twice a week, until Mrs. Larkins went away. I then continued visiting Mr. Larkins. I saw Mrs. Larkins the last time about the 19th of September last, but not at her own house. She was at Mr. Farish's, at a prayer meeting. I had often met Mrs. Larkins when meetings of that nature were held at Mr. Larkins's house. She invariably at tended them, and joined in the devotional exercises of the evening, and it struck me she entered into them with pleasure. I know Mr. Lewis. Repeatedly met him at Mr. Larkins's house, and was on intimate terms with him. Has met Mr. Lewis at prayer meetings, held at Mr. Farish's and Mr. Larkins's. He was in the constant habit of attending those at the latter per son's house. The last meeting held at Mr. Larkins's was on the Saturday before Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Lar kins eloped. He was there. The meeting generally assembled at seven and closed about nine. Mr. and Mrs. Larkins and myself sometimes took upon our selves to expound Scripture. The defendant joined in the devotional exercises of that evening. Mr. Lar kins's motive in inviting Mr. Lewis to attend these meetings I understood to be with the view to incite Mrs. Larkins to withdraw herself more from gay so ciety. Mr. Lewis told me the reason why he courted religious society was that he re ceived more real kindness at their hands than from other portions of the community. I should say that Mr. and Mrs. Larkins lived happily. When visiting there I ge nerally had dinner, and remained during the evening. My visits were not so frequent after Mr. Lewis went to reside at Mr. Larkins's. Mr. Larkins was not parti cularly austere with Mrs. Larkins, and I should add that Mr. Larkins was a very fond and indulgent hus band. I was invited to dine at Mr. Larkins's the day Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Larkins eloped. I arrived at Mr. Larkins's house about six o'clock. On entering the dining-room Mr. Larkins said, " King, they're gone." Mr. Larkins was extremely excited, and I then thought he had lost his reason. I remained there the whole of the night at Mr. Larkins's request, and stayed there for a fortnight. During that time most of his conversation was about his wife. Mr. Larkins was very ill for the first three or four days after the occurrence. Cross-examined by Mr. Campbell—l had convers tions with Mr. Larkins regarding Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Larkins. Mr. Larkins wished to get Mr. Lewis out of his house. These conversations took place about eight or ten days previous to the elopement. Mr. Lar kins urged as a reason to be rid of Mr. Lewis's presence that he was afraid he was putting fashionable notions and ideas into Mrs. Larkins's head. Mr. Larkins was very uneasy at Mr. Lewis remaining in his house. Mr. Larkins seemed afraid of offending Mr. Lewis by or dering him out of his house. Mr. Larkins entertained suspicions of Mr. Lewis's conduct before the event took place. Mr. S. D. Murray examined by Mr. Montriou—l am a partner in Messrs. Gisborne and Menzie's house- I had a few opportunities of observing that Mr. and Mrs. Larkins lived happily as man and wife, and those since March or April, 1838. I never saw them but in the presence of a third person. On the last occasion Capt. Andrews (Mrs. Larkins's father) visited Bombay ; he resided at Mr. Larkins's. Rev. George Candy examined by Mr. Montriou— I have been on intimate terms with Mr. and Mrs. Larkins since December, 1837. I generally attended a Saturday evening meeting at their house, and I once spent a week there. I had sufficient opportunities 01 judging that they lived Lappily together. Mr. Larkins appeared to be a kind and indulgent husband. I never saw anything to the contrary. There did not appear to me that any kind of restraint was placed on Mrs. Larkins by her husband ; she was ever cheerful. have been frequently present at devotional exercise in their company, and the part she took in them was ❑nt that of a person labouring under any restraint. In fact, Mrs. Larkins always took part in religious con versations. Mr. Thomas Lancaster examined by Mr. Montriou —I am a merchant of Bombay, and manager of Foster and Co.'s firm. Mr. and Mrs. Larkins were on tho best of terms. He was an aff,2ctionate husband. 1 thought their affection mutual. I never heard Mr. Larkins reprove Mrs. Larkins, or use a harsh expres , zion to her. Mr. Campbell addressed the Court on the part of the defendant in a most powerful speech. Five letters, numbered from 1 to 6, were read in Court by the prothonotary. They were letters sent by Mrs. Larkins to Mr. Lewis, full of the most tent!cor effusions of love and constancy to him, and entreatimr him to hasten their departure from what she was pleased to term •• the inhospitable and never-to-be-endured residence in the house of her husband," &c. Mr. Montriou having replied, and the evidence having been summed up by the Court, The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da -1 mages, 2,000 rupees (2401. sterling). SCOTTISH CHRISTIAN UNITA- TARIAN ASSOCIATION. The ninth anniversary of this Institution wa: - ; held in Glasgow, on Sunday and Monday, Bth and 9th of September. The Rev. R. E. B. Maclellan, of Edinburgh, preached in the forenoon, in the Christian Unitarian Chapel, Union-street, from Gal. iii. 20. ; in the afternoon, the Rev J. Cropper, A.M., of Aberdeen, preached from Heb. x. 24, 25. The Rev. George Harris then addressed nearly three hundred communicants, and the Lord's Supper was dispensed. In the evening, Mr. Maclellan again preached from the passage 1 John iv. 8. Notwithstanding the extreme wetness of the wea ther, persons were present from upwards of twenty towns ; and between the afternoon and evening worship upwards of one hundred friends took Ica together at the Argyle Hotel, where a very hand some entertainment was provided by the attentive landlord. On Monday afternoon, a meeting, numerous attended, was held in the Chapel. The Rev. J. Forrest, A.M., of Greenock, engaged in prayer, and a hymn of thanksgiving was sung. W. Wat son, Esq., was then called to the chair, and the Report of the Committee of the Association for ti►c past year, read by the Secretary, Mr. Harris. Its statements presented cheering proofs of the progress of Scriptural inquiry, and benevolent feeling,in varion 3 parts of Scotland, deeply interesting to a denomi nation, upholding the fatherly character of God, and the universal brotherhood of man. Several resolutions were proposed by gentlemen from dif ferent towns, in speeches replete with good feeling to all mankind ; and the meeting closed about ten o'clock, with prayer and benediction. We give the two following resolutions : " That the Members of the Association rejoice in the opportunity presented by their annual meet ing, of expressing their gratitude to the one God and Father of all, for the increase of success which has attended their promulgation of the life-givin g truths of the Gospel of Christ, and believing t!,e principles they are associated to support to be of ,unspeakable importance, indissolubly connected with the honour of God, and the well-being of man ; with piety, benevolence, and freedom, the great motives. to moral and spiritual progression ; the harbingers of individual and social improvement and happiness ; and the never-failing sources of consolation, peace, hope, and joy, again pledte themselves to continued and unremitted efforts for their diffusion and practice." " That regarding ignorance as the prolific source of fanaticism, superstition, and bigotry, the barrier to individual improvement and social melioration, the members of this Association rejoice in every measure calculated to diffuse the blessings of know ledge ; considering it the paramount duty of society by its civil government to provide for the education of the entire community, they feel called on to give public expression to their sorrow at the deplorab!e deficiency of means, for the accomplishment of this great end, which exists in the British dominions ; as well as their deep regret on account of the blind and furious opposition with which a• 1 plans for enlightened National Education have hitherto had to contend ; coupled, however, with their ear nest hope, that the wise and good of all communi ties will unite in pressing on the Legislature the urgent necessity of laving the foundations of the increasing liberty, virtue, and happiness of the people, on the solid basis of universal education."--- Scots Times. A TTACIIM ENT OF FISHES. —I once had occa sion to observe the friendship which can exist even beta een &h. I was accustomed to keep some gold-fish in a large glass globe. I do not think I should do so now ; for whatever care I might take of them, still it vt as a state of imprisonment to which I was doom;ng them. It so happened, that from some cause, the nature of which I do not recollect, !ny stock was diminished to two; I gave away one of the n. The other, from that moment, refused to eat ; he l a y motionless at the bottom of the water, r!)f!, as I thought, was evidottly pining away. It struck to that he wa. mourning the loss of his companion. I s hall never forget the evident joy and s t range an ti cs to re store hieh abandoned himself, w h en hi s companion w d to his;. —North Devon Journal. — A --- spring of stron2ly impregnated saline water s just been disco erect at Tenbury. The water is similar to t of Cheltenham, except that there appears to be double int: quantity of saline matter in the fluid, o d, one pi n t o f which n s l o w evaporation in a shallow vessel, produced an of crystalline salt.— Worcester Chronicle. TURKEY AND EGYPT. MEMORANDUM, Addressed to the Consuls of the Five Pow.r , resident at Alexandria, by the Viceroy of Egmor, in reply to the despatches arr i ve d b y whereby he was enjoined to adhere to the treaty of Kiutaya, and not to trouble the peace and status quo of the East. Dated Alexandria, Sept. 5, 1839. " I believe I have submitted to the other four Great Powers every observation calculated to enable them to appreciate my position and my w i s h es . I st ill c h er ish the hope that his Majesty . . . . will continue his good-will towards me, and that in time he will change his opinion on my affairs, and no longer oppose himself to my wishes ; for I desire nothing contrary to the interests of European policy,:or the tranquillity of the East. I have felt that it is my duty to provide, before my death, for the fate of my family and my adopted children. It is for them that I claim the hereditary succession, with which I shall be satisfied, if I ob tain it by means of negotiation . S uc h i s a ll my d es i re . I will not commit hostilities against the Sultan, and of But I cannot consent to allo w my h an d s to b e t i e d t h a t I may become the victim of the Porte, and I would prefer a complete downfall, to leaving the fate of my that disposition myjourney to Sennaar is a sufficient proof. family and people undecided. If I do not succeed in obtaining what I ask by solicitation—if my reasons are disregarded by the great Powers—if they will give no guarantee as to the future position of Egypt—if, in fine, I am reduced to depend on myself, I shall resort to such measures as I believe most proper to rescue myself from the difficulty. In case I am com pelled to have recourse to arms for the solution of this question, it will not then be the hereditary succession that I shall proclaim, but my entire independence. lam not igno rant that, if the Great Powers unite against me, I must expect to fall ; but, pl ace d a l rea d y i n so e l evated a position, such a triumph will not augment their re nown, 'while I leave the Courts to judge of the conse quences, if the chances of war should turn in my favour." (From the Medtterrane o of the 11th instant.) " Our private correspondent at Constantinople informs us, that the news of the day is, that it has been decided in a council held by all the Ambassadors, that the Eng. lish and French fleets are to proceed to Alexandria, to demand the restitution of the Turkish fleet, and that, in case of refusal, they are to force Mehemet Ali to a com pliance. In case Ibrahim Pacha makes any attempt to advance towards Constantinople, the Russians declare that they will send an army of 20,000 men to oppose his progress. The Austrian Government, jealous of this .notion on the part of Russia, also g i ve ou t t h at t h e y w ill send an equal force into Turkey, so as to prevent any encroachment whatever upon the Sultan's territories. Should Mehemet Ali refuse to yield to the wishes of the united Powers, England and France are to declare war against him, and the latter will proceed immediately to land troops at Alexandria or at Kashid. We cannot understand this ; for should the French succeed in ef fecting a landing, it will be a hard job for the English to dislodge them. In fact, the policy of the day is in comprehensible—but a thin veil of out .ard amity covers the mutual jealousy and enmity of the several great Powers." The complicated difficulties by which the - question h; surrounded are thus detailed by our Maltee Contrtr- porary " The Five Power! unite to settle the :Iffirs of th East, or to check the ambition of an obstiiia;.. Paeha ; but is their union a bona fide one? England and France, whose Cabinets, at least, are moved by one and the same principle, ought to be so. The journals of both nations, however, are not in unison. The French jour nals persist in seeing in Mehemet Ali their hero, and would give to the Pacha the supreme direction in the arrangement of the affairs of the East, and the care of dictating the treaty of the boundaries of both kingdoms. Those who know Mehemet Ali must know also what the Porte would in that case become, and those who know Russia must know also, how, by this mode, the French journals tickle her appetite. On the other nand, British journals have been silent in deprecatim; Mehemet, because Great Britain aspires at an aggran disement of territory, or exclu.;ive advantages over the Red Sea and the Euphrates. Whatever things turn out, the gr!,i,t question of the European equilibrium must of nee-ssity be decided at Constantinople. " That Russia is allied with the Porte, and why and how she has the interests of the latter at heart, are things known to all. Wh::t is the use of repeating, that it is the irresistible desire of Russia to attain the Dardanelles, and that she will not have completed her political intentions until she has become the mistress of them ? On the other side, Turkey can, indeed, be di vided into two kingdoms, hut they will never be made two independent kingdoms the one will be absorbed by the other, or rather by that formidable powei-, from whom both will solicit support. It is evident that in tue last struggle, each party did but wait for a favourable opportunity to attack the other. And of what use can a treaty of independence be ? Conquest for Mehemet All is now become a condition of his existence, as the possession of the Dardanelles is foe Russia. She can give no vent to her gigantic. life, without breaking through such a barrier. The former cannot be contented with Egypt and Syria, for he is not sufficiently rich to maintain his newly created military power. And in the interim, what is Russia looking for, more than that Mehemet Ali may never be contented ? It is easy now to draw an inference, but let us not be hasty ; let us even admit that the Pacha now, in one way or other, is kept within the limits assigned him by the Powers. Mehemet Ali, in order to support himself, must overstep those limits. Will he not find a pretext for a second attack against the Porte ? And will not Russia find a pretext to justify an assistance that will make her the mistress of the Dardanelles ? What remains, then, for England and France? Either an honourable war or a disgrace ful peace." CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. James Curly was charged with the manslaughter of his wife Mary Curly, by beating her on the body, and casting her to the ground. The Jury acquitted the prisoner of the felony, and found him guilty of an assault. Sentence—Six months' impri. sonment. Henry Dale and Alfred Beard were indicted for stealing a handkerchief the property of John Robinson. It appeared that the prosecutor was walking in Parlia ment-street, on the 27th of August, the day on which her Majesty prorogued the parliament, when the pri soners who had previously been observed to " try" the pockets of several other persons in the crowd, went up to him, and Dale took the handkerchief from his pocket, while the other prisoner " covered" him to prevent him from being observed. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. A policeman named Cundell was then called, and it appeared that he had sworn positively at the police-office that Dale had been before in custody for felony, and had been summarily convicted. He now, however, admitted that this statement was false, and upon , being questioned, he said that it must have appeared in the depositions by " mistake." Mr. C. JONES who defended the prisoners, commented very severely upon the conduct of the policeman, in pre suming to swear to a circumstance of such a serious cha racter affecting the prisoner, when it appeared there was no foundation for it. The RECORDER remarke d that the witness certainly appeared to have sworn very rashly, and he thought some inquiry ought to be made, in order to ascertain whether he had acted by mistake, or whether it was his intention wilfully to deceive the Court. = He should not, under the circumstances, allow his expenses. It appeared that Beard had been before in custody, and ha was sentenced to be transported for ten years, and Dale was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Two lads named Farrow and Abbott were then indicted for stealing a handkerchief, the property of a man un known. Messrs. Phillips, Payne, and Doane defended the pri soners. This case occupied a considerable time, and created a good deal of interest. It appeared from the evidence of Bagnell, a policeman of the F division, that he saw the prisoners in Drury-lane, and observed one of them pick a. gentleman's packet, and they both ran away. His evidence was corroborated by a person named Lawler, who said he was a printer, . but who ap. peared to be a kind of amateur thief-taker It turned out that he had been a witness under similar cir cumstances at the last Session of this Court, and that on that occasion also the prosecutor did not appear. This witness and the policeman contradicted each other flatly. It also appeared that Lawler was in the habit of walking about v.ith the policeman while on duty. Neither of them gave any satisfactory reason why the gentleman who it was alleged bad been robbed did not come forward. Mr PHILLIPS made a powerful address to the Jury, and remarked upon the facility with which prosecutions of this kind were got up, and the danger, if such evidence were to be relied upon, of innocent persons being punished for crimes o. which they were not guilty. Witnesses were called who gave both prisoners a good character. The Jury, after deliberating some time, returned a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners; they at the same time recommended them to mercy, and expressed their disapprobation of persons like the witness, Lawler, being allowed to accompany a policeman when on duty. The Court concurred in the opinion, and hoped the practice would be discontinued in future. The prisoner, Abbott, was then sentenced to six months' imprisonment and judgment upen the other was respited. THR LATE SIR JOHN RAMSDENT, BART.- The property left by Sir John is prodigious. The young Bdrenet, who is his grandson, and only twelve years of age, succeeds to 120,0001. a year; 500,0001. is left to be divided amongst Sir John's sons, 40,000/. to each of hia daughters, and 8,000/. a-year, together with the mansion of Byrom. to Lady Ramsden, the widow —Hull Times. THE STEAMER SOLWAY.—We are sorry to state that thiq vessel, on her passage from Belfast to this port, on Tuesday last, encountered a tremendous gale off the Mull of G.llloway. She was struck by a heavy sea, hich carried off the cattle, staunchions, &c., from the deck. I z was then found that she had sprung a leak, and was mak water so rapidly that her engines soon became useless. The Captain, at length, found it nect-ssary to throw part of the cattle overboard ; and having succeeded in getting the, vessel before the wind, fortunately carried her into Port Nessock, with five feet of water in her hold. Fifty-five. cattle were thrown overboard, and 12 drowned in the hold. She had 198 cattle on board.— Carlisle Journal. PRINTING FOR THE BLIND.—OUr readers are aware that Mr. Alston has already completed the printing of the New Testament, and many other works, in raised Roman letters for the use of the blind. Some time ago he commenced the arduous task of printing the Old Testament; and, having finished the book of Genesis, he proceeded on a tour of all the institutions for the blind in Eng ;and and Scotland, in order to ascertain the extent to.which they were wlltlng to aid him in this important work. With the exception of one the directors of all the institutions expt essed their readiness to assist turn by taking a proportion of the different volumes in their progress through the press. Encouraged by this co , ,ideration, he made application to Lord John Russelt, as Secretary for the Home Department, for assis tance f..ont the Royal bounty, to aid him in the accomplish ment of this benevolent object. We arc happy to state that the application was transmitted to the Lords of the Treasury, who have been pleased to direct that an issue of 4001. bz made from the Royal bounty, for the purpose of assisting him in the prosecution of the work. --. Scottish Guardian. SINUULAR DISCOVERY.—A few days ago some poplar trees of three or four years growth, were re moved from the shrubbery of Bridge Cottage, Edward.: street, Truro, where they had been planted as a screen, when the trunk of one of them, on being cut transversely for fire wood, exhibited a perfect cross, of a blood colour. The interest of this phenomenon, from whatever cause it may arise, is considerably heightened by the fact that the ground on which these poplars grew was a part of the old Dominican Friary ; and had the discovery been made a few centuries ago, the fragments of wood which exhibit so sacred an object would, in all probability, have been depo • sited in a costly shrine, and •isited by devotees from every part of Christendom.— West Briton. FORGERY AND DETECTION.—A forgery was a few days ago detected, in a manner to which it may be serviceable to some of our men of business if we direct at tention. A person trading in the city had bought in Eng land goods for which he tendered a bill, which was for 681 . odd, and.which purported to have been accepted by another citizen known to the house at which he purchas• d, was at once taken, and would have been payable a few weeks since. The supposed acceptor having died, the drawer w a ited on the widow, and apprised her of the existence of the bill, and that it would shortly become due. The widow denied the acceptance, arid said that if any such bill bore her hus. band's signature it was a forgery. The drawer offered to swear that he had seen her husband sign it, but this would not satisfy her. ;She mentioned the matter to a friend ; communication took place with the agent of the English firm, and on examination it was discovered that the date on the stamp was :about two months subsequent to the date of the bill. This, of course, proved the forgery, and the drawer decamped... A similar fraud, we remember, was detected in the sat ne way in England, soon after the pass ing of the Act which requires the stamp to be dated, but we are not aware that any case of the kind has hitherto occurred in Irelartd.—Cork Paper. THE NEW POLICE AST.—On Saturday John Sharp, a young titan, was charged before the Magistrates at the Kensington Petty Sessions, with violating the new Police Act, by r inging a house bell without just cause. Mr. Jerome Barra tt, a surgeon, at Notting hill, stated that about one o'clt )ck that morning some one rang his bell, he being in his study at the time. On going to the door he saw the defendant running away, but a policeman broug'at him back. The policeman hearing the bell ring ran after the defendant and another person, and took the former into custody. The defendant said in his defence that seeing a light he wanted to purchase a dose of salts, but, recollecting that he had no half-pence in his pocket, he ran away. Vhe Magistrates said if that bad been the case he ought flu )t to have run away ; they were inclined to fine him in the ft 111 penalty, but, on the intercession of Mr. Barrett, they mi tigated it to half-a-crown. It is said to be the intention of the Admiralty to try the experion eat or fitting a line-of-battle ship wits a steam-engine, of moderate power, to aid in propelling her during calms, a tad not to interfere in any way with the working of the sails.—Devonport Telegraph. ANNUITY- .TAX.—A friend has shown us a notice which h as been served on him by Mr. Davie, the Collector c if Ministers' Annuity, intimating that warrant has be ten obtained from the Magistrates for poinding and distraining his effects for payment of annuity tax arr Gars, and that, unless payment be made within eight di tys, the warrant will be put in force without furthe r intimation. Now comes the tug of war I Have tb to Churchmen resolved to create a new batch of martyr s? If so, we trust that all whom they select for this I tonour will prove themselves worthy of it. The recusants, as wo have already intimated, are more numerous this year than formerly ; and if they only remain true to their pi inciples, they have it easily in their power to secure the s peedy and total overthrow of this obnoxious impost —Scot tish PUNISHM ENT FOR CLEANING SHOES ON SUNDAY.—Tht I injustice of the case which appeared in our Loughborough report last:week has excited genera! attention, and it is deem ed only right that a subscription should im mediately be et tiered into to reimburse the poor bey for the amount of the l eavy fine so improperly inflicted on him by the Magistrates, and lest all our readers should not be ac quainted with 1.1 to case we again give the particulars: " Frederick Pic, c, servant to Mr. Bryan, of Six Hills, .was brought up for Lisobeying the orders of his master. Mr. Bryan said he bad given instructions that the knives and shoes necessary for the family should always be cleaned on a Saturday nig! it, in order that the Sabbath might be pro perly observed, but contrary to his orders he found Pick on Sunday mornin g last Sept.( 8) cleaning his own shoes. The defendant admitted the offence, but urged that he had cleaned all except his own that was necessary ; after which the Magistrate s gave him a severe lecture on the enormity of his offence i n disobeyi ng his master's orders and break ing the Sabha ;b, acid fin e d him 40s. and costs." A book lie. at our offir it, for the names of all persons disposed to contribute six pence fur the above object. —Leicestershi re Mei c url. DREADF 171. STORM.—On Tuesday Hastings was visited by a. complete hurricane; the oldest inhabitai.ts do nut remen ta , er it blowing so violently for many yeß r s• Great fears were Pfitert in ed for the safety of our fishermen. but we are happ r to say that they got too Rye harbour quite safe; we t egret, however, to say, that the poor fellows had their • sails shivered into threads. A great many of our lodg' ing houses had windows destroyed. Toe St. Leonard's tf otel suffered the vnost severely ; we have not heard of any other damage occasioned by the storm.— Sussex Express. SUMMARY. The Times of this morning makes the following cursory remarks with reference to Mr. O'Connell's last letter to the people of Ireland, on the subject of registration ;—" If once, by any calamitous chance, the Whigs could obtain the support of a large majority of the county and burgh repre sentatives of England, it is quite clear that 0 Connell's occupation would be gone. The influence which that demagogue possesses with the Ministry depends solely upon their straitened circumstances. Cou'd they only command a sufficiency of English votes for their purposes— a disaster which even O'Connell's destruction could scarcely atone for—their deliverance from his tyranny would be coin plete. It is only because they are so dreadfully embarrassed in divisions, that he and his Irish party, having sufficient strength to rescue them from defeat in critical cases, assume a degree of political importance which they other wise would not possess. An English majority of such strength and steadiness as might enable the Whigs to set him at defiance would be absolute death to him. His whole weight with the Government would he at an end. Nobody knows this better than O'Connell himself. Any appre hensions he may entertain of- the Whigs becoming so popular in England as to enable them to do without him are visionary enough, God knows ; but still, the ideal spectre of such a contingency appears to be too frightful to._ be contemplated by him without a seasonable- effort to prevent its realization, and to scare it away. This, our readers may rely upon it, is the secret cause of his letter to the hereditary bondsmen,' which we published on Saturday. The deep and double game which he has to plsy at pre sent is just barely to maintain his Whig vassals in office, and yet to keep them so contemptibly weak in the House of Commons, and so generally despised among the inde pendent representatives of England, as that on every_ cri tical occasion they may be fain to purchase his support by giving him whatever he chooses to ask. With this two fold object in view, and without forgetting so to O'Con nellize the Irish registrations as to enable him, not to ad vance the cause of iberty, which Popery eordially hates, but to increase his Parliamentary power for his own selfish and beggarly ends, forth comes the recent manifesto from Derrynane, at once the craftiest and clumsiest effort which that national workhouse has yet produced." The Morning Chronicle says, in allusion to the approach ing agitation on the question of the Corn-laws :—" Last year the Tories had the Chartists for allies. No principle could be more serviceable to the former than that on which the latter acted—that all attempts at Reform ought to be postponed till the Charter was obtained, as by delaying other reforms, all classes would be forced, from the pres sure of intolerable evils, to concur with the Chartists in extorting Annual Parliaments, Universal Suffrage, &c. The Tories sought to profit, too, by a delusion which some of the leaders of the working people entertained with re spect to the connection between high prices and high wages. Experience has undeceived the Chartists, and we may expect this year the union of all classes in agi tating.for the repeal of the Corn-laws. They have learnt, that though the price of food has risen wages have not risen, while partial employment has practically had the same effect as a fall in wages." - The Morning Post thus clumsily endeavours to account for Lord Normanby's recent appointment to the Home office :—" A great deal of ink has been spent by the hire lings of the dirty and degraded Whigs in the attempt to prove that the new Secretary of State for the Home De w.rtment is a marvellous proper man to ' direct the do mestic administration of the country ' The real secret of these patriotic efforts is undoubtedly this—the man was O'Connell', sub,ervient tool as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and therefore it is extremely pleasing to Mr. O'Connell and the Irish priests that he should be male Secretary of State for the Home Department. Now, the present Ad ministration of Great Britain being as completely dependent upon Mr. O'Connell and the Irish priests as any lackey of any Lord in England is dependent upon his master, it is very easily seen why the Ministerialists are so very anxious to reconcile the public to the preposterous appointment of Lord Norrnanby in the room of Lord John Russell." The Morning Herald thus expresses itself on the ques tion of national education :—'• It is by the combined influence of the aristocracy, the Church, and the middle orders, that our national education should be still superin tended The interference of the Government and the Privy Council can only retard and injure our moral, intel lectual, and social improvement. It is unconstitutional in principle, and will be found detrimental in practice. It is foreign to all our manners' and habits, and, thank God I it is altogether impracticable on a great and national scale. But the attempt deserves to be met with the severest rebuke and castigation. On the part of the revolutionists ,and agitators it is an effort to destroy the natural influence of the upper and middle classes of society on the poor. On the part of Dissenters itis an effort to destroy the just and beneficial influence of the Clergy and the Established Church. On the part of Papists, it proceeds from the sheer hope of destroying the ascendancy of Protestantism." The Courier of last evening, in a leading article on the subject of Ireland, says :—" Ireland is made the battle-field of politics ; and unhappily for her present generatidn the personal interest of the individual who now has so powerful an influence on her destinies, lies in the discontent, the turbulence, and the insurrection ary readiness of her population instead of their tran quillity and prosperity. It is now generally understood that it is from the want of regular employment that the Irish population has long suffered, and continues to suffer. In the agricultural improvement of Ireland, to say nothing of the establishment of railways, it will not, we think, be disputed, there would be employment for double its present population. But this requires the steady application of capital ; and capital is not only prevented from being invested in Ire land, but capital already in use is driven from Ire land, by the insecurity of property. And how much worse must be this state of things, when in 'aggrava tion of the insecurity of property, life itself is unsafe from the bitter religious animosity' artificially en gendered and systematically fostered in the minds of the Irish people ? Tbus it is, that, the agitation' practised—whether designedly for • the advantage of an individual or not, certainly producing that per sonal advantage as a result—having the effect of driving capital and capitalists from the country, thereby draining it of the means of employment, and the want of employment rendering the people, in their starvation and discontent, the fitter materials for agita tion to work upon, a mischief is produced acting in a perpetual circle, and seeming so hopeless in its remedy . as almost to justify the despair of those wishothee condi tion There is no remedy for Ireland.' of Ireland, for whose distresses some seem to de spair of finding a remedy ?" The Globe observes, with reference to certain clauses of the Metropolitan Police Bill :—" It will be remem bered that in the course of the last session of the Cen tral Criminal Court the Recorder of London, in an ad dress to a common jury, indulged in some extra-judicial comments on certain clauses of the Metropolitan Po lice Bill, then before Parliament, for giving sum mary jurisdiction to Magistrates, under certain re strictions, in cases of petty larceny. The design of the projectors of this change in the law was to remedy an evil of almost daily occurrence, in the cases of mere children brought before the magistrates, charged with petty thefts ; and who, upon the evidence being taken, and found to establish a prima facie case ag ainst them, were neces sar ily comm it te d to pr i son unt il the ses sions. The certain contamination to which children must be exposed by being brought into contact with experi enced thieves ; the cost to the public for their mainte nance in prison, and prosecution ; the expense and in convenience to which the prosecutor and witnesses are necessarily put by being compelled to attend from the first day of the Session before the Grand Jury, and then till the case comes on for trial in its regular course ; the absurdity of putting the whole machinery of justice, accompanied by all its solemn forms, into motion to try a child entirely ignorant of the mean ing of the terms of the indictment charging him with the offence, and to whom the new and strange scene of a Supreme Criminal Court, with the pa raphernalia deemed necessary to stamp dignity on the administration of the law, and produce a due sense of its importance on the minds of the ignorant —all these considerations induced some Members of Par liament, who are at least as celebrated for legislatorial wisdom as the Hon. and Learned Recorder of London, to imagine that substantialjustice could be as satisfactorily dealt out in such cases by two Magistrates deciding on the question of guilt, and on the degree of suitable pu nishment to the child-culprit, as by the preliminaries re quired in trying the graver offences against persons an d property committed by adult offenders. The Hon. and Learned Recorder Law happens to be of a different opinion. He is one of those who pride themselves on supporting things as they are ; in whose eyes the anti quity, and not the utility of an institution gives it value." The Standard makes the following allusions to the Commissioners of the Irish National Board of Educa tion :—" We have only bad time to bestow a very cur sory glance at the Parliamentary Return of the sums of money which have been paid to the Irish National Board of Education, which has just fallen under our notice ; but we • have seen enough to satisfy us of the degree of candour and good faith which is to be expected from the commission. Notwithstanding the order of the House of Commons, which directs that an account of the number of Protestant and Roman Catholic children respectively educated out of the funds of the Irish National Board of Education shall be supplied, the Commissioners hav e t a k en upon themselves the responsibility of withholding that information ; altho u g h it m ight easily have been obtained by a letter of inquiry, addressed by them to every school under their inspection. The object of this Jesuitical omission cannot be mistaken. They are naturally anxious to avoid furnishing data which would enaiele t h e public to estimate as it de•erves their rigid and Catholic notions of fairness and impartiality. Their cue is, of course, to keep out o f v i ew how verys ma ll a proportion of the chi!dren belonging to the Este bli,hed Church have been allowed io derive the sliWest benefit. from the s yst em o f nat i onal education now adgopt,al, by the Government. in Ireland." ~ , r ! TRADE OF LEEDS. —The demand still conti nues brisk :or low-priced goods at, both our Cloth aids, and in fine and middl e - pr i ced cloths there hr's been a little morecone than for some time pest; cn the whole, how ever, there is much less business doing than usual at this season. There has also beer a little imprnvement in business in the warehouses this week, compared with the last few weeks. —Leeds Mercury. Mr. Feargus O'Connor has declared himself a Candidate for the West Riding of the county of York at the next election.— York Herald. ELECTION OF PERPETIT AI, CU - . RATE TO ST. JAMES'S CLERKL.N i ELL. The poll finally closed yesterday at four o'clock, and shortly before five Mr. Lerard, tho churchwarden, pro ceeded from the workhouse in Coppice-row, where the the poll had been taken, to the porch of the parish church in Clerkenwell-green, and announced the num bers to be— For Rev W. E. L. Faulkner, M A 2.231 For Rev. R. C. Dillon, D.D ,842 MAjority_for Rev. W. E. L. Faulkner... 3 89 And that the election had consequently fallen on the Rev. W. E. L. Faulkner. This announcement was received with loud cheering. Mr. NICHOLSON then stepped forward, and, on be half of the Rev. W. E. L. Faulkner, thanked the parishioners for their kindness in electing him as their Minister, and stated that they would always find him ready to perform his duty as a Christian pastor to all alike without distinction of sect or creed—to those who had opposed as well as to those who had supported him ; and he trusted that, as the election was now over, all heats and animosities would cease.—(Cheers.) Mr. PARIS, COS behalf of Dr. Dillon, thanked the 1,842 parishioners who had supported him ; and be also trusted that any differences that might have been generated by the election would, now that was over, be for ever buried in oblivion.—(Cheers.) On the motion of Mr. NrcHoLsoN thanks were then voted to the Churchwardens for their impartial con duct, and the meeting separated. EVENING EDITION. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 21.—The Edinburgh, 72, Captain Henderson, and Blenheim, 72, Captain Sir H. Senhouse, sailed on Sunday morning, the former for Lisbon and the Mediterranean, and the latter for Plymouth ; but having encountered heavy squalls from the westward, the Edin burgh put back the same night to St. Helen's, and again proceeded on Tuesday morning. The Blenheim bore up for Portland, where she was still at anchor on Wednesday . night. The Phoenix steam frigate, sailed on Sunday morning for the north coast of Spain, touching at Plymouth, which, owing to strong adverse gales, she did not reach until Monday afternoon. She proceeded to her destination on Wednesday. The Hecla steam vessel sailed on the 13th instant from Plymouth,for the West India station, with despatches for Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Harvey, and supernumeraries for the squadron. The livcate steamer arrived on Tuesday from Glasgow , and sailed again for Woolwich ; on Wednesday sailed the Avon steamer for the same quarter; and on Thursday the Atholl transport, for Deptford. The Lapwing packet arrived on Saturday, at Falmouth. from Halifax, whence she sailed on the 28th of August. The Crocodile, 28, Captain Milne, had arrived at HaVal, in 14 days, from Havannah. The Wasp, 16, and the French frigate Sybille, and a cor vette, with the Owen Glendower yacht , were at Gibraltar on the sth inst. The Talavera, 72, arrived at Gibraltar on her way home, on the 31st ult., but had returned to rejoin Sir Robert Stopfurd's squadron. The Trinculo, 18, and the yachts Merlin and Sparrowhaw It, were at Cadiz on the 6th instant; the Donegal, Hercules, Benbow, and E+oir, alid the French ships Terror and Aigle, were at Lisbon on the 9th ; the Hastings sailed thence, on the previous day, for the Mediterranean. The Firebrand steamer left Plymouth yesterday se'l n.ght, with the Lords of the Admiralty, for Falmouth arid Milford. The Vernon, bound to India, sailed en Tuesday. The Winchester, 52, was spoken on the 31st ult., il l long. 57. W. The Cracker cutter sailed this evening for Jerseys to assist in protecting the oyster fisheries. In Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Excellent, Ro} al George, Rattlesnake, Messenger steamer, and Cracker tender. At Spithead—Lily ; Canton convict ship. NAVAL PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS —AFYON''' . MENTS.—Captain —Francis E. Loch, to the Victory, vice Se.irle, C. 8., whose period of service has expired. Lieu tenants—W. Forrester, to command the Linnet packet , vice Downey, resigned; Edward Collier, to command the Lyra packet, vice Forrester. Clerks—J. E. Collins (ad ditional), to the Wellesley; Mr. Inch, from the Princr i r Charlotte, to be clerk in charge of th e Bl azer ; Mr. Li"' crap, from the Princess Charlotte, to the Implacab le. Assistant-Surgeons—Dr. John Sinclair, to the Excellent, vice Cree ; Mr. E. H. Cree, to the Rattlesnake. vi ce Sinclair. Gunner—William Phillips, to Lily, vice Pe p ° y' Royal Marines—Mr. William Burney, son o f Capt. Bur ncy, R.N., of Gosport, is appointed Second Lieutenan t- We understand that Chaplains wh o ma y a ct as I 4 a n Instructors will be paid, in addition to their pay as C a P" laids, the bounty of 301. a year, and 5/. a year for each young gentleman instructed. THE MARKETS -(YESTERDA" PRICE OF The highest price of Bread in th Lear, Good Bread may be had at 8 BREAD. io Metropolis is is for the 4 1 b. 350. PRICES 0 SEEDS. Per Cwt. Per Quarter. New English nod C10ver...50, 8-Is St. Foin Old Ditto Ditto —s. —s. S Rye Grass NOl7DFirto.ignDitptoitto ...—s.—s 6(23.. 638.-3 P ein e Zed G , ra fo m r feeding -- -- s"' ; : . —4--4. 4 4) 3 3' 31 4 7:2 4 '' ' New White Clover ...455. 555. 655. Ditto, for sowing., „„..,.s. m s . Nis Old Ditto Ditto ...... ...—s. —s. —s. Ditto, for crushi'Ag —s. 428. 468. New Trefoil —s. 188. Ws. Canary —3 70s. 808. Old Ditto - —3.128. 228. Hemp —s. 33s 408. Trefolium 8 —s. —B. Per Bushel. el. English Carraway —a. 548.59 x. White Mustard...l Is. QC 14s. i , Foreign Ditto —s. 508.59 x. Brown Ditto l 7B. Od. 2 2' Coriander —s. 20.. 258. Tares 5B. (M. Be. 3ei, Rapefieed, English tine (per Last) 301.331. Foreign 284 PRICES OF LEATHER. Per 11). cl, to d Per lb. d. to d• CrogHides,3o to4olb, each 11 131 Horse Hideo, German... 12 22 24 —4O 50 l2 16 —......._. Spanish • la 22 ---50 60..... ,„ Bull Hides - —4O 50 000000000 18 2.4 Butts, V triok... EnEnglish l5 24 --70 100 ......... IS 22 , ‘ ,•—• Foreign Foreign Hides ..... 10 1 .2 -- small .. .. . 2° 16 20 Dressing Hides ... ... 11 14 Kips Shaved... 13 17 Basile... . 6 11 Be., Saddlers' Elides... 15 101. Bellies .. Horse Hides, English 11 I" , Shoul :era Call Skins, if rounded 2d, to 4(1. por lb. more. PRICES OF HOPS. Farnham rockeis (per cwt.) 0 Os. 0/, os. to 01 0, Ea 4, Kwi.t Pockets. "Ditto Bags 3 10, 0 Os to 4,4, • Mid Kent Pockets 1 Ditto Bags 3 10 , 0 O's tu 4 Or Sussex Yearlings Ol. Os. 3i '3l , to 3/ 10 . Old //Ids Old Duty estimated at 230,0 0 '0i. PRICE OF tilt. RapeOil,brown,pe, ton, :15/ 1 0s.—Rehaeii;i4/.os. inseed 'il, 251. Os Litbeed uil Cake at the Mill (1.*30), MI. na.—Ra, , e Cake, per t0n,71. PRICE oF TA LLO W, SOAP, ,fie. per I 121 b. Town Tallow 5:B. tlid.lYel.:.w Soap... 1. O I L Yellow Russia ......... White Soap Ditto ... Melting Btuff .. Ditto Rough PRICE F RAW FAT, per stone of 81”. Price of fallow (as stated by the Tallow Meiters) .2s. 11}$d. PRICE ..F CANDLES. The price of good Store andles in the Retail Shops is as follows :-- Candles, p.r dozen, Ss. Od ; inferior :s. ; Moulds, 91. Gd. Sixpence per doze discount for cash. OAL MARKET. Carr's Hartl v y Holywell Main '4o 1 Ord's Redhugh Original v% indsor's P , intop 2'l 6 Pontop Windsor 24) 1 Smith's Pontop Tanfied Moor Butes 2l 6 Wylam. Walls End Brown's IS 0 Halls :end Heaton ., 24 0 Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killingworth Walis End Newmarch .— 2 l 2l 0 Walls End Walker 22 I Walls Endßraddyll'sHetton 23 3 Walls End Haswell n 3 Walls End Hettou .. 23 6 Walls End Lainbton 23 9 ships arrived since W. E. North Hetton Lyons. 2.i Wall 3 End Stewart's [Walls Whttwell g Walls End Har'clepool Walis End Kr : floe 24 g Walls End Adel. ide, 6 Walk End Barrett 22 Walls Eni:l Clarence Hetto , i 21 6 Walls Endßichardson's Tees to tt W. E.Ri c h ar d- on ' s Hartley 18 Walls End Tees . 2 0 Walls End T e nnant .. 0 'Blythe., l6 0 Barnpton 2 0 0 Hartley a 0 Howard's Netherton Main 1- 6 16 Wigan last market-day, V. FLAT GOLD WATCHES, NINE GUINE ° EACH.—Some fine horizontal fiat Gold Waistcoat Watch:, jewelled in four holes, s il ver di a l s , h an d t• mark t h e seccnor. and double-back to th e cases , warranted to perforna rectly, Nine Guinea s eac h ; or with gold dials, Ten Gain each. A. B. SAVORY and SONS, irt ok- Watchmakers, No. 9, Cornhill, L on d on , o pposite 0 0 ' - ' 1 •f England. __.------' PATENT LEVER, WA TCH E S o' With silver double-bott om cases ` 6 6 With silver hunting ca ses blab This celebrated construction (the most accurate fin a watch can be made) i s now offered, with the latest. inlef eb ments e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four a l .. capped, hand to mark th e secon d s, hard enamel cp.al, and i re taming power to conti nue go i ng while winding ep, at the ow" price, at T. COX SAVORY'S,, r Watchmaker, Sil ver an d G oldsmith, 47, C.rnhill, .•.11doll; (Seven doors from Gracnalr.irch-street). N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in excha B TH S. g On the 22d i ns t ., at Edenhall, Cumberland, Lady Mu'r ave, of a daught er . On the 19th inst., the lady of Mr. L. H. Simonet, of ston, of a daughter. On the 21st inst., Mrs. William.Lyall, St. a son. H e ien's_ploco , of On the 22d inst., Mrs. Samuel S. T. Carlow, of Cl'Aphot roatl-place, of a daughter. Mrs. On the 22d i ns t., a t El t h am - p l ace , K e nnington, - Thomas Conway, of a daughter. ............----i"" ... MARRIED. • *. „.1 On. the 10th o f J u l y , a t th e B r iti s h Protestant E4 15 7 1 , § h Chapel in P ernam b uco , Th omas B ernar d 0 • un stop, " r " ,- ,1 merchant, of Maranham, to Anne, fourth ("As:Light e r of Ed war Watts, E s q., h er Al a j es ty' s C onsu l a t th e form er port. cer ft. On the 19th inst., at Eccles, Lancas;nire the Rev. •• •„. Marsden, M.A., Vicar of St. John's, Chester, to Fra nc. " - : daughter of George Gardner, Esq., of the Priory, Pendletoord On the 21st inst., 'at St. Maery's, Islington, Mr. Ric M.. Ellis, jun., to Elise Christine. e7idest daughter of Mr. C. deter, of Rodney..street, Pento• A ville. Russ ell ._, On the 21st inst., at Pinner, Middlesex, George e Nixon, Esq., to Rosalie Adelaide, youngest daughter of the ia'' John Dourgan, Esq. ___..-------- •-'' DIEP. . 11. her On the 22d of September , at Anglesea Ville, Gosport, _ha Bth dear, Cecilia ; third daughter of the Hon. Edward 3' Stanley, M. P. altArres Cavalryot,Lieut , e ag na e n d ur' t F re scottp of tOhne the 15th ins;.,Regiment l(ji Madras Jacob :'siaude, Esq., of Selaby _hall , O On the ham, aged 83. r. On the 20th in=t., at. Gr.. , eahithe, K en t, Eli za beth Bowes, the (laughter of George Bowes Wats) n, of ClaP hs New Park, Esq., aged 10 months and 18 days. of On the 2 1 st inst. , at Woolwich, Robert Da , Atwood, Esq., the Royal Engineers, after a few days' illness. r I London Pr'nted and Published by A111,11)0 YOUNO- No. 112, &rand, at The Sun. Office. No. 112, Strand' the county of Middlesex.—Tuesday, September 24 J"4-,o"'