The Sun. — London, England, 1839-10-31 00:00:00

EVENING the calumniators of the Queen knew from tb4 ' she could not, from the n. - oition iri 'which she is placed, have recourse to a s:, - ,oilar 'expedient, for the puer.ds'e of repelling and sYlepro•:',ng their charges. Whore then, let us ask, e!aall we find language sufficiently forcible to denounee ought to be denounced, the conduct of thr.,se who could be base enough thus to take advan tage. of the defenceless position of a virgin Queen, to 7 l•ad her with a double portion of their heartless Ca lumnies? There is not, we repeat, an iota of evidence to show that the retort, that Lady Flora Hastings was enceinte, erigirated v,ith the Queen. The assumption that it did so, 13 not only pure l .y gratuitous, but has, h i ppily, beet confined to a fsw persons who have had either private or poe,itd o' lasts in view through out the whole of the business, ad whose wishes must hev'e been father to the thought, that is to say, if they (even believed th e thi ng at a ll , w hi c h i t i s excee di ngly doubtful if they ever did. Nay, we are persuaded, that the very individuals who have been most persevering and zealous in their efforts to damage the character and diminish the popularity of her Majesty, by either cun eengly insinuating, or broadly asserting, that she was the first to express an opinion that Lady Flora was pregnant, have never themselves for one moment. believed that such was the fact. Our firm conviction—and that conviction, we know, is shared by the great bulk of the community—is, that no particular individual in the Palace c m, with any regard to justice, be charged with having been the first to set afloat the rumour respecting Lady Flora's supposed condition. The very appearance of her Ladyship must, in the nature of things, have at tracted the attention of every one who had an opportunity of being in her company, though no one would, in elle first instance, have been likely to account for that appearance on the supposition of pregnancy. It could on'y have been when the symptoms which u sually ac company that s t a t e b ecame more an d mor e marked, instead of disappearing or diminishing, that the con clusion of pregnancy could have been come to ; and that conclusion must have been simultaneously arrived at by almost every person in the Palace, and been ar rived at some time before—Lady Flora being unmarried —any one ventured to embody it in words. Who the individual was who first gave utterance to the general impression is not known, and possibly never will ; but it by no means follows, that such individual was the first to entertain that impression. And so far from any blame being attached to the party w h o fi rst hinted her suspicion of Lady Floras pregnancy —that suspi cion being, we repeat, as it must in the circumstances of the case have necessarily been, universally enter- - tained in the Palace —such party is entitled to the highest commendation for straightforwardness and can dour ; and proved, moreover, the greatest friend which Lady Flora had at Court, inasmuel t as when the suspi cion was embodied in words, it at once enabled Lady Flora to prove that it was groundless ; or, in other words, to establish her own innocence, and restore her self to the favour of her Sovereign, and the friendship of the ladies of the Palace. The utmost extent of her Majesty's participation in the mutter was simply her ex pression of a wish, after the alleged pregnancy of Lady Flora had become the topic of general conversation in the Palace, that she should not appear in the Royal presence until the point had been set at rest. And does any blame attach to the Queen in having expressed such a wish ? Assuredly not. On the contrary, we main• tain that her conduct was commendable in the highest degree, and that to have acted otherwise would indeed have been to expose herself to censure. Let it never be forgotten, that the Queen wes not precipitate in conveying the intim a ti on i n quest i on to L a d y Flora. she acted with the greatest deliberation ; for it was not until the other ladies were making Lady Flora's condition the subject of unreserved conversation, and the married ladies had openly expressed their entire F.anviction in her Ladyship's pregnancy, that her Ma jesty sent that message to her. And believing, as the Queen must have done, from the confident statements of the married ladies around her, that Lady Flora was actually enceinte, shy was bound, from respect for herself, and a desire to maiat4in unblemished the character of her Court, thus to mark by her disappro b ,tion the error on the part of Lady Flora Hastings which her supposed condition necessarily implied. IF, with such a conviction fore , ad on her mind by those who might na . o al y ba expected to be the most competent judges in such matiers, the Que,n hail continued to as sociate in the same Tnanner as before with Lady Flora, the very seine pligh ts who now so groEsly traduce her woti4l have hecn the very fir:.t to assail her for conti nuing to have any intercourse with her Ladyship. Her Majesty eculd, io such a case, have been charged by the parties in question vvitit 'virtually giving her sanction to immoralities in her twa t Court. in all the circum stances, therefore, of tlai.s unfortunate case, her Majesty acted in a manner which reflect s th e highest honour on her. Her conduet not only proves the spotless parity at her own mina, but her deep and most commendable solicitude that. 'not even the slightest suspicion should entertaAsed respecting the purity of her Court. That her 'Majesty was actuated by no unkindly feel ings towr,rais Lady Flora, but solely by a sense of what wigs d ue t o h erse l f and her Court, is sufficiently proved by the testimony of Lady Flora herself. The very moment that her Majesty was apprised of the groundlessness of the suspicions which had been enter teined respecting the condition of Lady Flora, she m•lde every reparation to the latter in her power, by assurances of the deepest concern at the mistake which bad been committed. To use Ledy Flora's own words, she expressed her sorrow "handsomely, with tears in her eyes ;" and it is well known that she afterwards lavished her attentions and kindnesses upon Lady Flora in every way which a generous and ingenuous heart could have prompted. Such arc the real facts of the case, and it affords us infinite pleasure in being able to say that, notwithstanding all the misrepresentations which have been made use of, and all the calumnies which have been heaped upon our youthful Queen, the nation view the subject in its true light. We can bear our in dividual testimony to the fact, that on , every public assem bly of her subjects, when the Sovereign's name is men tioned, it is received with the me-st_rnarked demonstrations of applause. In fact, the very. efforts which h ave b een so assiduously and pertinamowAy made by a section of the Torino, in conjunction with persons who are actuated by p-ivate anineoeities, to wound her feelings and estrange the affections of her people, have, as re. gartis the latte r object, not only signally failed, but have produced th.e very contrary effect. Instead of diminishing, the. result has been to increase the popu larity of her Majesty. And thus it always has been and will he ; those who play with the weapons of calumny and injustice, invariably find in the end that they have oversloot the mark. The public odium which the traducers of the Queen have so strenuously laboweed to direct against her Majesty, is now, by a rie.teous retribution, directed against themselves. (From the Morning Herald.) A general election will, in the present state of par ties, secure, beyond question, a vast majority in the House of Commons to the Conservative party. Even' without a general election, the balance bids fair to be turned in favour of the Conservatives, by the results of single elections. The Whigs and their principles are fairly worn out. The present occupants of place have tried all the shifts, which circumstances have placed within their reach; and fortune has favoured them to a remarkable extent. They came into office, loud brawl ers in favour of " liberalism "—fierce champions of " principles" destined, in their operation (as the Whigs of 1830 alleged) to regenerate society. Within a short period, their lofty pretensions disap peared ; and they were glad to solicit popular support, not on the score of any active merit which they ventured to claim for themselves—ht on the strength of that unpopularity to w hi c h th# intrigues of the Reform Bill period had subjected the Conservatives. Duriog the last five years, the highest position which the partisans of the present Ministry have ventured to take, has been involved in the assumption, that it is necessary " to keep out the Tories." Even that ground is now cut from under their rt..et. The Whigs have exhausted their long list of " aeie!es" and professions. They have prated about " keeie.. g out the Tories," until all the world laughed at them ; and now they exist as placemen, simply in virtue of habits of courtiership of the most despicable and debasing description. The preseht Ministers of State rank amongst the mere toadies-of the palace. They have degraded their high offices, as no responsible advisers of the Crown ever did " f or'• They exist under a daily-accumulating load of c ontempt ; an d t h ey str i ve to susta i n t h e l oss o f pu b lic Sovereig n , by abu s i ng the persona l s y m p a thi es o f t h e 7 fi e r i 6 r.o. If a ug ht were want i ng t o esta bli s h t h e ut t er SC_-4.111e51 a the Whig_ party, the , required proof might be sup p li ed Melbourne by i:eference to the mode in which Lord " 4 his associates have covered their Royal Mistress w i t h re tortion own unpopularity Let the Monal,)s ! predile ct i ons b e w h at t h ey may , still no meas ures of Court h favou r w ill b e a bl e, l ong, to whom sustaina in fe e pl ble majoritythe use of Commons has barely endured for tw o year ' s plat. The Ministry ca nnot outlive the next. Sessi on. tthhee Queen's Conser vative leaders even abstain from aqackino railpaec,r,,itybiunt obsequious advisers, these worthi,s can no longer be prevented from displaying their nativ e s k t " The pear" is in fact, not merely It will tali, even if the free should not be shaken. whig. princ'iple's have have passed away. o K nepiii _ the Torie 6 out" is a game that is exhausted. The wine off Court favour is on the s The dire it o f a Popr." rebellion in Ireland will not avail much longe r , w e trust that as soon as the Cons-rvatiyessliall return to power, the l a , w ill h e invindicatedthe cu e o f O'Connell, and of all th brawlers who now preach fo ;:.:duce these cow ar dl y preach treason with impunity. boasters to a state of harmlesstess :would be one of the easiest tasks imaginable. The hewer of the agitator to do mischief has arisen solely from the non-enforce ment of the law. No man has a nicer sense of personal danger than O'Connell. Let the bully be fairly con fronted by the Protestant guardians of our Protestant iastitutions ; and th e t h reat o f a P op i s h re b e llion will soon oease to be employed for the benefit of her Ma- j jesty's. Ministers, by their especial friend end protector. Sir• John Campbell adverted in Edinburgh, last week, to the Ffacioney of the old laws of England towards the repression of Chal tam. Sr John may rest assured, that hte lags of England, honestly administered, will be found quite as efficient to put down the sillanies of his masters' master—the cowardly ; , ;Itator of Ireland! PROM FIE EVENING --- PAPER3 OP YESTERDAY, (From the Globe.) While the Irishman utt e rs treasot, who calls the Lords the enemies of Ireland, and leads the minds of his hearers, though only by tacit inference, to the re storation of a Local Legislature, the Englishman utters no treason, but " much bold anti useful truth," which it is right " should be known in the Palace," who speaks as Mr. Bradshaw has done in Canterbury. This Mr. Bradshaw, whose electioneering renuvvn, which is all that he has in C an t er bury, is simply that of an able-bodied and long-winded political bravo, uttered bold truths certainly, which we are far from wishing to confine to the Palace, but are anxious to give our assistance in dif fusing throughout the United Kingdom. The Standm dhas sufficient shame left to disapprove the spirit of the speech, so far as " it is unjust to the Sovereign and her family." Unjust! The phrase is a gentle one from a journal prompt to denounce treason, when any one attacks the collective character of the House of Lords! Still, though unjust to the Royal Family (or imprudent in those who would gain its favour), the speech tells so much " bold and useful truth," that the Standard would have it known at the palace. For once we are of the same mind with our Tory Contemporary. We would have it known at the palace, and in the coffee-room, and in the cottage. It does tell " bold and useful truth? of the spirit of Toryism—truths the timely knowledge of which may tend to prevent the re alisation of the object of the Standard's professed horror —the dismemberment of the empire. What the Standard treats with "disapprobation," is the injustice to the Queen and the Royal family. What it regards as " bold and useful truths," are the views of policy towards Ireland. Now the " spirit" which prompted one part of the speech is the same as prompted the other. If the one part is just, the other is only unjust by cour tesy. It is most certain that her Majesty does approve of the policy of governing Ireland with consideration of the wants and feelings of the bulk of its people. We have as much right to assume this, as the Tories ever had to assume the personal adhesion of George the Third to an exclusive policy. The Royal mind has been frankly expressed, in the one case, as in the other. Therefore, if Mr. Bradshaw's views about Ireland are bold and useful truths, her Majesty is the queen of a faction, and all the rest Mr. Bradshaw calls her. (From the Courier.) It is a common cry with the supporters of Ministers, that the condemnation of Mr. Shell's appointment is caused by the circumstance of his being a Roman Ca tholic, Nothing can be more false than this. It is not of Mr. Sheil qua Roman Catholic that the condemna tion exists, but of Mr. Shell, a Roman Catholic, who has expressed his determination, with all the eloquence of which he is so great a master, and with ail the virulence with which his Church inspires him, to destroy the Protestant Church in these realms. It is against the appointment of the zealous, proselytising, and exterminating Roman Catholic, that the cry of indignation is raised by the Protestant community. When the Catholic Relief Bill was con sented to, it was the understanding of the people of aigland, that the oath which would be imposed on Ro• man Catholic Members of Parliament,and also on Roman Catholics taking offices of trust in a Protestant kingdom, would be a sufficient safe-guard to prevent them from attempting to commit damage on the Established Church. It may be that the oath to which we allude, was not worded with sufficient care, nor made suffi ciently clear and stringent to effect the purpose in tended. Whether that may be so or not, we are quite sure, that the Protestant inhabitants of these realms intended that the oath should have the effect of restraining Roman Catholics in Parliament, or in office, from attacking and from endeavouring openly or covertly, to destroy the Protestant Church in England or in Ireland. Such was the intention of the oath ; there can be no douhr, of that ; it was on the faith of that guarantee that the Roman Catholics were ad mitted by the Protestant Parliament and the Protestant King of Great Britain, to a participation in their legis lative and administrative privileges. Little was it then, imagined, that within ten y ears after the passing of that Act, that a Roman Catholic Member of Parliament would openly exert himself in Parliament to inflict dis couragement and damage on the Protestant Established Church ; still less was it imagined that the Protestant Ministry of a Protestant CroWn would dare to place in high office a member of the Roman Catholic Church, one of whose principal objects in taking office must be, according to his notcrious opinions and his recorded acts, TOTALLY to destroy the Protestant Church in Ireland ! (From the Standard.) As we anticipated would be the case, the speech of Mr. Bradshaw, at Canterbury, at the Kentish Conser vative meeting, has been made the theme of long and violent invective, combining the whole Conservative party in one comprehensive charge of "filthy disloy alty." We have already freely given our opinion of the improper spirit of a part of Mr. Bradshaw's speech, and of the injustice of some of its allusions ; but we utterly deny that a single proposition of it is either indelicate or disloyal. It may be well, mean , while, in order to correct some prevailing errors, errors which we fear are rapidly gaining ground, to consider the matter a little more at large. It is the constitu tional theory of this country that " the Sovereign can do no wrong ;" and this theory is not limited to the techni cality of law. It is, if we may say so, a moral principle, pervading all considerations of our own relations to the wearer of the Crown ; and the principle, in the sense in which it has been universally received, is a wise and a just one. While the practice of the Sovereign is adjusted even to theArnis of the Constitution, we can know nothing, certainly, of that Sovereign's motives or conduct, and we must therefore run a great risk of committing in justice in the attempt to form an opinion of either. In matter of opinion itself, as well as in legal respon sibility, the Ministers are to stand between the Sove reign and the people, if we would preserve the respect due to the monarchical institution. When the Sovereign violates the forms and substance of the Constitution, as was done by the second James, then the case arises which, as Mr. Locke truly says, it is indecent to anticipate, but which must be met by a remedy pro re rata. If, however, it is in any but extreme cases improper, and even unjust, to charge the Sovereign with wrong, it is more emi nently improper and unjust to do so, before the people have exhausted all efforts to guard against the wrong complained of. We must first do our duty before we complain of laxity or perverseness in the dis charge of their duty by others. Now the bare fact, that, having the power to remove them, we still permit Lord Melbourne and his collergues of the O'Connell Ministry to surround our young and inexperienced Queen, and to fill her Court with their creatures, proves that we have not done our duty ; and it ought to ope rate as a protection to her Majesty against even unfa vourable opinion. DESTRUCTIVE FlRES.—During Monday night the following fires occurred in the Metropolis : About half-past five o'clock a fire, which at ono time threatened very great destruction of property, hap pened on the premises of Mr. Felt, oil-boiler and mer chant, situated in the Grove, Great Guiloford-street, Southwark. It originated in the boiling-house, by one of the coppers bursting, and the contents flowing into the furnaces beneath, which instantly ignited, and in a few moments the premises were enveloped in flames. Very fortunately at the time the work•people of a neighbouring foundry were passing by the place ; they with one accord tendered their assistance to extinguish the fire, and exerted themselves in a manner highly praiseworthy. Two engines of the fire establishment in the Southwark-bridge Road soon arrived, and after the lapse of about half an hour, the flames were got under ; part of the roof is burnt off, and a great quantity of oil destroyed. The building is insured in the Royal Ex change Fire Office, but the property in it is not in sured. Shortly after midnight another fire broke out in the house of Mr. Long, No. 35, Skinner-street, Bishops gate, but happily for the proprietor, it was got under before any serious damage was done—not insured. About half-past three o'clock in the morning, a house, occupied by several families, situated in Glasshouse street, Rosemary-lane, was discovered on fire by the po lice. Engines were speedily on the spot after the alarm had been given, but much property was destroyed. FRANKLIN.—If, then, all ports were always open, and all commerce free, every maritime country would generally eat bread at the medium price, or ave rage of all the harvests, which would probably be more equal than we can make it by our artificial regulations, and, therefore. a more steady encouragement to agri culture. The common people do not work for pleasure generally, but from necessity. Cheapness of provisions makes them idle ; less work is then done ; it is more in demand proportionally, and, of course, the price rises Dearness of provisions obliges the manufacturers to work more hours ; more work is done than equals the demand ; of course it is cheaper, and manufactures in consequence. It would be better if Government med. , died no farther with trade than to protect it, and let it take its course. When Colbert esq-nibled some of th wise old merchants of France, and desired their opinion end advice how he could best serve and promote com• coerce, their answer, after consultation, was, " Laissez 710 US faire. " (Let us alone.) It is, therefore, to be wished that commerce were as free between all the nations of the v;erld as between the several counties of England. These counties do not ruin each other by trade ; nor would the nations. No nation was ever ruined by trade. L EICESTER.—The South Leicester Liberals have gained 211 votes on the years' revision, according to the M ercury, a Liberal journa ); the Liberal gain in the borough is stated by that paper at five, in addi tion to Mr. Ellis's rnajirit last Y e lection of 297, besides Liberals than unpolled. Captain Deans Dundas, who ha s b een h ere during the week on an official visit, was invited to be come a candidate ; and, we under s t an d, wou ld have a ccepted the invitati on , had he not been pledged to con test Greenwich.—Devouport 7'elcgraph. THE StrN, LONbON. thURSIiAi, 0C1 4 0111+7,R St 1839. ADDITIONAL NEn rROM INDIA. . • (From the Bombav re'. eillel 6 the 12th of September. DETHRONMENT OF THE RAJAH OF SATTAR A. The Rajah of Sattara has at length itli t his well merited fate. A little before daybreak on Wednesday last, the tiffie allowed him for the acceptance of, the terms having expired without his cornplialice, the Resi dent, supported by the tth Regiment of Native In fantri, one eompany of her Majesty's 41st Foot, and the Hank companies of the 21st and 25th Regiments of Native Infantry, proceeded to the palace of the Rajah and arrested his Highness, who surrendered himself at once, and was sent under an escort of 150 Irregular horse, and some Sepoys to the village of Nimbgaum, about seven miles from Sattara, and about eight o'clock the same morning Appa Sahib, the ex- Rajah's brother, was proclaimed his successor under the style and title of Shrernunt Maharaj Shajee Rajah Chutterputty of Sattara." The proclamation issued by the British G.,vernment will be found below. Bala Sahib, a member of the Royal Family, and about twenty adherents, followed the palankcen of the dethroned Prince from Sattara. It is, we believe, in tended that he should reside at Benares, though some mention Malligaum. The present Rajah has no chil dren, and is not to be permitted to adopt ; so that the Sattara territory will at his death be annexed to the dominions of the East India Company. We are glad to be able to state, in correction of a passage which occurred in our account of the 4th inst., that although the Rajah was told the British Govern- ment was fully satisfied that his guilt had been conclu sively established, he was not required expressly to make any acknowledgement of his criminality. This measure would have been harsh ; it might have clouded the otherwise unsullied justice of the cause, and afforded to generous minds a justification for the Rajah's resist ance. Every effort was, on the contrary, made to save his Highness ; but the usual fatuity of those whom destiny has abandoned hurried him to his doom, and trusting to the various agencies he has established in England and India, and on which he has squandered large sums of money, he would not be saved. What must now be the reflections of those who have reduced him to his present fallen estate ? Their bitterest regrets will probably be, not for the fate of their - victim, but for the cessation of their own gains. They will " mourn over the golden plumage, but forgqt the dying bird." On this point we would recal the very just remarks made by the late Sir John Malcolm on the Court of Baroda, which will be found in his last book, " Government of India," Ap pendix A, page 5 : " I must, in concluding this short record of Baroda affairs, state, that the evils attending them, both as af fecting Tyajee and the Government, have been greatly aggravated 6y ecwrzipt agents, instilling into his mind false hopes of his receiving support from his Majesty's Courts of Law at Bombay, and afterwards from the visits of one of his principal agents to Calcutta. Proof will be found of these facts in the records ; and they are worthy of the serious attention of the authorities in England. They may not be capable of complete re medy, but that should be applied as far as practicable, for there exists not, amid the difficulties which must ever attend that administration of the empire, one more likely to generate corruption and intrigue, or which is more calculated to hurry princes and chiefs to their ruin, than that impression which low and interested men create and maintain, of their being able to appeal in political matters, beyond the local Government under whom they are placed." The Rajah's conduct may appear incomprehensible to those not behind the scenes, but to the latter it is easily explained. From the day he was placed on the throne, instead of being grateful for the favours bestowed, he was dissatisfied, and thought himself injured by our re taining any part of the Peishwa's territories. In proof of this, we may quote the following passage from Grant Duff's History, p. 483, vol. lii. " The Rajah Portab Siew (or Sing) was in his twenty seventh year, naturally intelligent, and surrounded by men of profligate character, and ignorant of everythi ng except the etiquette and parade of a Court. His whole family entertained the most extravagant ideas of their own consequence, and their expectations were propor tionate, so that, for a time, the bounty which they ex perienced was not duly appreciated." Though released from captivity to sit upon a throne —though gratuitously placed by British arms in the possession of the most compact and productive princi pality of the Deccan, yielding a net income of nearly fifteen lacs of rupees—the ex-Rajah was discontented with his lot, and restless for the possession of greater power. A dissatisfaction at his situation has existed in his mind for several years, arising out of the British authorities resisting his unfounded claim—a claim, too, directly opposed to the terms of the treaty—to be con sidered lord paramount in respect to the foreign posses sions of his Jageerdars, as he was admitted to be in regard to their poi . sessions within the boundaries of the Sattara territories, as defined in the schedule to the treaty. _ _ He rested his pretensions on vague and general expres sions in respect to these Jageerdars in letters to him from Mr. Elphinstone, all of which were, of course, to be go verned and controlled by the explicit terms of the treaty, which he himself signed, and by which alone he became a Sovereign at all. His Highness, however, would not be satisfied with any interpretation except own, though bound by another article of this treaty to he entirely guided by the British Resident ; and his dis appointment in these ambitious views may be presumed to have added acrimony to the correspondence which he always unquestionably maintained with the other native powers, and to which the late disturbed state of India may be supposed to have given much encourage ment. We may refer also to the sth article of the Treaty of the 25th of September, 1819, quoted in the subjoined proclamation, which proves that the framers of the treaty were fully aware of this bent of his mind, and ende'tvoured, but in vain, to secure him from the con sequences which have ensued. But perhaps the truest and most prophetic sketch of hischaracter and probable destiny is to be found in the following extract from a letter from Colonel Briggs, dated as far back as the Ist of January, Ig27: He is, however, tenacious of his prerogatives, and will every day more; and mbre resent our control. He has lately been flattered by those around him in errone ous estimates of his own importance ; he has already evinced strong inclinations to extend his connections beyond the limits prescribed by treaty. It will be for tunate, perhaps, for his Highness himself if events afford this Government an early opportunity to give him timely warning of the danger he is incurring, or I should be very apprehensive that he may succeed in involving himself in secret communications with those who may at some future period provoke the resentment of Go vernment, when it is likely a development of a system of intrigue with his Highness may take place, which will altogether shake our confidence and may lead to his ultimate ruin." The partisans of the ex-Rajah in Bombay, whether believing him innocent or believing him merely rich, and as such a fitting carcase for the vul tures to gather on, little know the mass of conclusive evidence to his guilt, oral and documentary, which is now in possession of Government. The title which he bad assumed in his own Court, and by which he had latterly been addressed by his agents, Hindu Pud Padsham Sirkar, or Emperor of the Hindus, is in itself a sufficient index to the insane pretensions which his miserable deluders had led him to entertain. Thus, after a lapse of twenty-two years, the Rajah of Sattara has followed the example and met the fate of his former enemy, the Peishwa Bajee Row. It would be curious to learn the feelings of the lat ter when he hears the intelligence. The ex-Rajah may ere long be a neighbouring pensioner to the ex-Peishwa, and both may then speculate in company on the muta bility of human greatness —may "sit upon the ground, And tell strange stories of the deaths of Kings." It were more profitable for those still in possession of power (we allude especially to Baroda, Sinde, and Joud pore) to take a lesson from the fall of these princes— Discite justitiam moniti et non ternnere divos." But wisdom crictli in the streets in vain. The lesson so inculcated is never learnt by heart. PROCLAMATION, ISSUED BY THE RESIDENT AT SATTARA, UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE '.ION. SIR JAMES RIVETT, CARNAC. BART., GOVERNOIt OF BOMBAY, DATED SATTARA, SEPTEMBER 5, 1839. 1. When the British Government was compelled by the unprovoked hostility of Bajee Row to declare war against him, a proclamation dated the 11th of February, 1818, wr.s issued by the Hon. Mr. Elphinstone, sole Comini-ssioner for the settlement of the territories con quered from the Peishwa, setting forth the circum stances which had rendered that measure imperative. In this it was announced as follows : " The Rajah of Sa , tara, who is now a prisoner in Nee Row's hands, will be released, and placed:at the head of an independent sovereignty of such an extent as may maintain the Rajah and his family in comfort and dignity. With this view, the fort of Sattara has been taken, the Rajah's flag has been set up in it, and his former Ministers have been called into employment. Whatever country is assigned to the Rajah will be ad ministered by him, and he will be bound to establish a system of justice and order, The rest of the country will be held by the Honourable Company. The reve nue will be collected by the Government, but all proper ty, real or personal, will be secured. All Wuttun and Enam (hereditary lands), Wursha Arms, annual sti pends, and all religious and charitable establishments, will be protected, and all religious sects will be tolerated, and their customs maintained, as far as is just and rea sonable." Yv having b een rescued from 2. The Rajah of Sattara, captivity on the defeat of the Peishwa at Aehtee, was, pursuant to the above declaration,placed on t h e t h rone, and a treaty of alliance and friendship was concluded between his lighness and the British Government, ett'ed the 25th of Soptemb2r, 1819. By the second article of this compact the R S ah : for himself and for his lt6rs and stfcce!sOrst.,engageu tp held his, tetaitoty in subordinate co-operation with the British d o verunient, and to be guided it all matters by the advice of the British agent at his Highness's Court, By the .011 article the Rajah, for hiniself arid EI:A his heirs and toe cessors, engaged to forbeaf from all intercPutse with Forhign VOweri, and all 6irdirlia, Jagheedars, Chiefs, and Ministers, and all persons of whatever des cription who were not not rendered subject to his autho rity, and to abstain from all connection or Correspondence with them. It was further stipulated by the same article that any affairs that might arise with the aforesaid states, and persons relating to his Highness should be exclusively conducted by the British Government, and that if (for the purpose of forming matrimonial connections for his Highness's family, or for any other purpose) his Highnesa should have occasion to com municate with persons not rendered subject to his authority, such communication should be made entirely through the political agent. Finally, it was declared that this article was a fundamental condition of the agreement, and that any departure from it on the Rajah's part would subject him to the loss of all the advantages secured to him by the said treaty. 3. Notwithstanding this solemn compact, it has been conclusively established, to the conviction of the Bri tish Government, that the Rajah, unmindful of his obligations, and of the generosity which restored him to liberty and conferred on him a throne, has for a series of years held clandestine communications, contrary to the stipulations contained in the sth article of the treaty ; that he has cherished ambitious designs hostile to the British Government ; that he has advanced claims and pretensions incompatible with the letter and spirit of the treaty ; and that he has conducted himself in a manner subversive of the alliance formed between the two States. 4. Nevertheless, the British Government, willing to believe that the Rajah had been betrayed into these acts by the counsels of evil and designing men, and in the hope and expectation that the Rajah would appre elate its clemency, and abandon the dangerous course into which he had been seduced, had resolved to over look and forgive the past, on his agreeing for the future to act strictly and in good faith, according to the treaty ; to dismiss from his councils the Minister who had been chiefly instrumental in creating disunion between the two States ; and to abstain from injuring those persons through whose information his violations of the treaty had been established. 5. With this view the Honourable Sir James Rivett Carnac, Bart., Governor of Bombay, vested with full authority from the Right Honourable Lord Auckland, Governor-General of India, proceeded in person to Sattara, and having explained to the Rajah the danger ous position in which he had placed himself, and having communicated both verbally and in writing, the condi tions on which the British Government was willing to grant an amnesty for the past, urged him to the com pliance with these terms, as the only mode by which re lations of amity and friendship with him could be restored. 6. Tne Rajah, after repeated conferences, and ample opportunity for reflection, and after having been ex plicitly warned of the consequences, rejected these con ditions ; and the British Government being, therefore, convinced that it is impossible any longer to maintain friendly relations with a Prince who has shown himself so regardless of a treaty, entered into under the peculiar circumstances above recited, hereby declares the alli ance between the two States dissolved, and its intention to enforce the penalty specified in the sth article of the treaty entered into by the Rajah, and dated the 25th of September, 1819. 7. The British Government, however, having no views of advantage and aggrandizement,has resolved to invest the brother and next in succession to the Rajah with the sovereignty of the Sattara State, according to the limits fixed by the treaty of the 25th of September, 1819. He is therefore proclaimed Rajah of Sattara, nattier the title of Shreemunt Mabaraj Shajee Rajee Chutturputty of Sattara, and all persons residing within his territory are hereby required to render to him al _ . (Signed) C. OVANS, Resident at Sattara. PORTUGUESE SLAVE TRADE. NOTE OE THE BARON DA ItIBEI RA DE SABROSA OF THE 28TH SEPTEMBER, 1839, IN REPLY TO THE NOTE OF LORD HOWARD DE WALDEN OF THE 15TH OF THE SAME MONTH AND YEAR. The undersigned, President of the Council of Mini sters charged with the Department of Foreign Affairs, has the honour to receive a note which, under date of the 15th of the current month, was addressed to him by Lord Howard de Walden, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of her Britannic Majesty, in which his Lordship appears to fear the effect that the publication of the note might have, which, in answer to those of his Lordship of the 28th of April and sth of Msy last, the undersigned sent to his Lordship —not on the 9th, as his Lordship inadvertently states, but on the 11th instant—unless it were accompanied by a reply from his Lordship. The too great deference of her Majesty's Govern ment for that of Great Britain, in delaying the publica tion of its correspondence with his Lordship, has, per haps, made Portugal appear defenceless in a controversy a hich, in England, has been so much misrepreseted. If, then, in order not to defer any longer the know ledge of the real state of the question in Portugal, one or other of the notes of his Excellency the Viscount de Sada Bandeira, and even that of the undersigned, have been lately published in the hiario do Governo, Lord Howard de Walden needs not apprehend that his Lordship's own notes will be omitted. Her Majesty's Government is the first interested in their publication, and his Lordship will find in a collection of the impor tant documents relative to the negotiation of the treaty between Portugal and Great Britain for the total abo lition of the slave trade, which will soon be out of the press, the note to which the undersigned now answers. In it we read that his Lordship denies, once for all, ever having consented to sign the treaty, such as it was, when his Lordship left Lisbon on the 23d of May, 1838, or ever having agreed wiVi his Excellency the Viscount de Sada Bandeira that the slave trade should not be declared piracy, whilst with the most formal contradiction his Lordship transcribes in his own note a project of the declaration proposed by his Lordship to the Viscount himself, for the purpose of being signed by both, in which his Lordship, omitting entirely the pretended declaration of piracy, and content with the simple promise that Portugal should follow, in this respect, the example of the other European Powers, binds himself to sign " sub spe rati" that very treaty which had been agreed upon, and which his Lordship so much praises, saying that it contains " important stipu lations, perfectly agreeable, in many momentous re spects, with the principles and circumstantiated disposi tions of the project presented by his Lordship to the Government of Portugal." How can all this accord with Lord. Howard de Wal den's assertion of never having agreed to the treaty ? How can we construe the bitter censure which his Lordship affixes to the stipulations of the treaty in his netes of the 28th of April and sth of May last, after his encomiums of them ? Why are those very stipula tions, once so much praised by his Lordship, now re jected .under the name of pretensions of the Portuguese Government, and as such contested ? Both 'this project of declaration presented by his Lordship, and his subsequent note of the 20th of May, 1838, in which it is asserted that to declare the slave trade piracy was a condition sine qua non for the signing of the treaty, were presented pro forma by his Lord ship, because it suited the purposes of his Government that its presentation should be known ; but so convinced was his Lordship of the impossibility of making such a declaration in Portugal, that not only the treaty without it had been agreed upon, but even in his most confidential letter, the copy of which accompanied the note of the undersigeed of the 11 th instant, his Lordship suggested the answer that ought to be given to the requisition of his Government, in conformity with which it was that his Excellency Viscount de Sada Bandeira replied in his note of the 22d May to his Lordship's already.cited note of the 20th of the same month. The •:arhlnce which also, according to his Lordship's ass'4rtion, had always existed between himself and the Viscount, concerning the additional article, by which Great Britain was to guarantee to Portugal it% trans atlantic dominions, was at the time of his Lordship's departure for London of very little importance. His Lordship, in his project against the additional article, promised an effective aid to Portugal when this should be demanded to preserve the tranquility and safety of those- dominions ; and the object, nature, quantity, and duration of this aid was to be regulated by a special agreement, respecting which the two Go vernments ought immediately to commence negotia tions, In the last project of the additional article presented by his Excellency Viscount de Sada Bandeira, for the stipulation of the a id i n quest i on, as a proo f o f her Bri tannic Majesty's so li c i tu d e i n f u lfilli ng the treaties of alliance and guarantee existingibetween the two Crowns, the nature, quality, and quantity of this aid, as well as the manner in which it was to be demanded by the Portuguese, an d rendered by the Br i t i s h authorities, was left also to be settled by the two Governments, through negociations which ought to commence imme diately, and be terminated by the time the ratifications should be exchanged. From this simple exposition may be judged how far the variance had been obviated which from the begin ning, had existed concerning this stipu l at i on ; an d t h e negociation having arrived at this point, it was easy to reconcile what still remained of it, and sign the treaty otherwise already agreed upon, if Lord Howard de Walden had pleased to defer his departure for London His Excellency, Viscount de Sada Bandeira is not at present in the Ministry to answer the observations which, as it appears in his note, his Lordship. deemed proper to make in his correspondence to London upon what had passed personally between both Planiperten tiaries in this negotiatio n ; but there are in the depart ment of the Secret ary o f State authentic doom, tents which entirely verify the Viscount's expositions in his notes of the 22d of May and 6th of October, 1668;1 and those of the undersigned Q f the llth inst. The bfikinat ptoJect of the treaty, in which all the amenamenis PrtvoLted fr.,) tht: tigeount and approvcdby Lord Howard de Walden arc written Lordabies own band, still exists ; and, for greater authencity, page of this document in signed by both. It was com pared hi this depattment by the Secretary of the Bri tish Legation, Mr. Cfai , 'Eiii; W 17e Itfiften off and signed, which certainly could not be done if it iiiefd Wit agreed upon. The same secretary said very positively and formally hi his letter, the copy of which accompanied the note of the undersigned of the 11th instant, that his Lordship considered the treaty as concluded with the riscoulit. His Lordship also declared itt his own letter, a copy of which accompanied that note, that his Lordship had adopted all the amendments made by the Viscount to the different articles of the treaty, desiring the copying of it to be hastened. The letter in which his Lordship suggested the answer to be given by the Portuguese Government, according to what his Lordship deemed most convenient to justify the omission in the treaty of the clause de claring the slave trade to be piracy, exists also. How could all these facts exist, all this be done, unless his Lordship were in perfect accord with the Viscount de Si da Bandeira ? How can it still be doebted that there was a treaty definitely agreed upon by both Plenipotentiaries ? The undersigned deems it proper to insist no longer in his arguments, in answer to the subterfuges employed in Lord Howard de Walden's last note to veil those facts,lfor the reason that the undersigned is aware of the difficult position in which his Lordship was thrown by the notes sent in answer to the Viscount de Sa Bandeira, whose object is not to disprove any declarations that his Lordship might have made, but to deny the existence of proofs that, being written by his Lordship's own hand, must appear indisputable. The undersigned avails himself with great satisfaction of this new opportunity to have the honour of repeating to Lord Howard de Walden the protestations of his most distinguished consideration. (Signed) BARON DA RIBEIRA DE SABROSA. Department for Foreign Atratres, Sept. 28, 1839. THE BARQUE "STATESMAN," OF LIVERPOOL-HER PERILOUS SITUATION AMID THE ICE. In our ship news of Saturday week we mentioned the arrival of the barque Statesman, Captain Quiller, from Sydney, New South Wales, and that she had been, in the course of her voyage, beset during thirty-six hours by ice. 'lnc following is an abstract of the particulars ; as detailed in the log. About noon, on the Bth of August last, in lat. 58 d egrees sout h , l ong. 60 d egrees west, with fresh breeze and hazy weather, several ice bergs were seen, one of which being upon the weather bow they passed about half a mile to the westward. Upon its side, climibing towards the summit, they saw two objects, very like men. They immediately wore round and made sail, with the intention, if possible, of ascertaining what these two creatures might be. They sailed close past the island and distinctly saw about one hundred animals, of some description, some black and some white, apparently about seven feet high. Those on board came to the conclusion that they were either seals or sea elephants. At five o'clock they lost sight of the iceberg, and about seven they tacked close to what appeared to be another. Shortly after this they began to discover that the sea was covered with masses of floating ice, which increased till between nine and ten o'clock, when :a large . piece struck the bow of the vessel, and caused her to let in water. Be tween this time and the following morning they were continually getting in and out of the loose ice. and passng in the vicinity of icebergs. At one moment they were flattered that they were clear of all further risk, by fading themselves in clear water, and the next they were again entangled amongst the masses of ice, which struck the ship with great violence, shaking her fearfully. At daylight they found she had sustained considerable damage, the cutwater having, where it joined the water, been utterly destroyed to the stem. The first plank below the main walls, on the luff of the bow, was stove in, so as to admit great quantities of water ; and the copper on both sides, at the bends, was completely rubbed away. It now became necessary to have the pumps regularly attended, and to use the utmost vigilance and skill, in hope of rescuing the ship from the dangers by which she was beset. When the day had completely broke, the packed ice was visible in all di rections, as far as the eye could see from the mast head. Sail was made in every direction which offered a prospect of getting into clear water, and many were the disappointments which followed. They were sur rounded by floating islands, and frequently, for a moment, they were clear of the ice, and in an instant were again beset. During the whole of the afternoon their spirits were wearied by this continued succession of alternate hopes and disappointments. The day closed around them, and still, so far as the vision could pene trate, they were surrounded by, as the Captain ex presses it, " a hopeless and dense mass of ice." Their fears were increased throughout the evening by the ship striking hard and grinding against the solid ribs of ice. At length a black streak of water was seen, extending from W. to N.W., right ahead of them. They made efforts to reach it ; and though the ship did not appear to move through the water, yet, in about an hour': time, about half-past nine o'clock p.m., they got into clear water, and were but little troubled with ice during the remainder of the night. In the morning, at day light, they got entirely clear, but it was evident that they were not far from the scene of their danger, as they saw about twenty icebergs—some very high, al most on every side of them. The Captain states that at nine o'clock on the Friday evening, only half-an-hour before they got into clear water, he thought their fate was scaled, as he did not see the least prospect of get ting out of their dangerous predicament. The black line of water then in sight only appeared like another of those small open spaces of clear water which had so frequently tantalised them. The ship had for some time been striking and grinding so fearfully that it was deemed that nothing less than a miracle could keep her afloat till morning. We may add to the above inte resting particulars of the Statesman that she sailed from Sydney on the 19th of June last, and has brought to Liverpool the largest cargo of wool ever imported from New South Wales. It consists of no less than 1,188 bags, weighing 336, 7 6 0 lbs.—Liverpool Albion. SPORT IN G IN TELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. ( Additional particulars of Tuesday's Races.) 50/. Plate.—After plunging and twice falling with his jockey, Algy went away with a tremendous lead, followed by Adrian, the others lying wide many lengths astern; at th e new groun d Ala) , declined, and Sal Volatile took up th e runn i ng, w hi c h she' carried on to the end, and won by six lengths ; the others were distributed all over the course, with long intervals between each. Little Howlett rode 4st 41h, including saddle, &e. 100/. Plate.—St. Peray and the Wings colt went away in front, the former leading to the new ground, where the young one took the lead, kept it, and won cleverly by a length. Joannina was beaten about half a length from Mendizabal, and was five or six lengths before St. Peray. The weather was fine, but excessively windy and cold. The company was less numerous than on Monday. The following is an average of the morning and evening betting : NIT aSERY STAKES—FRIDAY. 9 to 4 agst Garry-Owen, 7st 41b—taken 7 to 2 agst Assassin, Est 101 b 9 to 2 agst Nicholas, 7st 121 b—taken 7 to I agst Little Wonder, 7st 4 1b—taken 8 to I agst colt by Augustus, out of Constantia, 7st 21b Besides the above, the following have also accepted :—Ten• pound Note, ist 71b ; Raymond, Est 101 b ; and Miss Romer, 6st 81b. THE DERBY. 16 to 1 agst Wardan—takers 16 to 1 agst Muley Ishmael 17 to 1 agst Launcelot—taken 20 to 1 agst Angelica colt—taken 20 to 1 agst St. Andrew—taken 22 to 1 agst Glenorchy 30 to 1 agst Lady Sarah colt—Ulm 33 to 1 agst Lueetta colt—taken 40 to 1 agst Maroon—taken several times A 0 to 1 agst Gambia—taken 50 to 1 agst Morgan Rattler—taken 1000 to 15 agst Marinello. colt (Maroon was backed two or three times at 1000 to 30.) ST. LIMIER. 20 to 1 agst Gibraltar—taken WEDNESDAY. Subscription Plate of 501. for two-yr-olds, Est 71b ; and three, Bst 10Ib. T. Y. C. The winner to be sold for 3501., &e. Mr. Dixon's Camclino, 3 yrs Mr. Sigswortb's Muleteer, 2 yrs .. 2 Mr. WOrrall's Maid of Ipswich, 2 yrs The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. W. Edwards's Remnant, 2 yrs ; Lord Exeter's Stamboul, 2 yrs ; and Duko of Grafton's Mist, by Vaish, out of Legend, 2 yrs. Betting--7 to 4on Camelino. Won by a length. Lord G. Bentinck's Capote, 2 yrs, 7st 41b (W. Day), beat Lord Miltown's Medea, Bst 41b. First half of Ab, M., 100, h ft. Betting-5 to 4on Capote. Handicap Plate of 501., for three-yr-olds and upwards, A.F. Duke of Grafton's 'Ether, 3 yrs, Bst (Nat) 1 Mr. Ford's Quo Minus, 4 yrs, Bst 71b 2 Mr. Graydon's Roscius, 3 yrs, Est. 91b 3 Mr. Worrall's Antler, 3 yrs, sst lib 4 Mr. Bowes's Mickleton Maid, 3 yrs, 6st 91b Col. Peel's The Dey of Algiers, 3 yrs, 7st 91b ......... Betting -5 to 2 agst /E t h er ( tal;en); sto 2 agst The Eey of Algiers ; 9to 2 agst Quo Minus ; 11 to 2 agst Mickleton Maid ; and 7 to I a g st Ar.aer. Won by half a length. • The letters received yesterday from India mention a rumour current there, that the seat of the Supreme Government was to be transferred from Calcutta to Bombay, and that the Madras Presidency was to be abolished, and apportioned between the two States. A foulness of the Teeth is by some people rs little regarded as it is easily removed ; but, with the fair sex, with the polite and elegant part of the world, it is looked on, as a certain mark of sloth ; not only because it diagrams o ne of the greatest ornaments of the countenance, but the, smell imparted to the breath by dirty teeth is dig agrefailslo to the patients themselves, and extremely ofensive to others in conversation, rr , To remedy these evils, and to prevent ti.eir taking place, is recommended Rowland's Ode nto; which, as an embellisher and preserver of the Teeth, ard consequent promoter of comfort and attraction, is certainly the first Dentifrice of the present age. ,~- ~.. LITERA TITRE. FOR OT. Ackermann, London, illOg. The Annual season is about to set in—as Can ning once observed of an English summer—`E with its usual severity." he Forget-Me-Not, the first of the fraternity, is now lying before us, and many others are announced as being just on the eve of publication. In our notices of these showy little works, which are a sort of literary confectionary, or rather Tunbridge-ware, we shall no more think of pressing hardly on them, or subjecting then to a searching critical process, than we should thinw of breaking " a butterfly upon a wheel," for they are not meant to be analyzed, but to be admired ; and whaa they have been sufficiently handled and fondled in the boudoir or the drawing-room, to be thrown aside and forgotten. We must confess—notwith standing their general flimsiness of character—to a sort of streaking partiality for Annuals. They come upon us as pleasant mementos of Christmas—that season of jollity and good-humour; and are far too considerate to tax our thought, or worry our reason ing faculties. Half-an-hour's attention is the utmost they presume to exact from us ; and as they deal in no crotchets or theories, and display no repulsive acerbities of temper, we really think they have a fair claim on our good opinion. The Forget-Me-Not, which now lies glittering on our desk in all the bril liancy of gold and purple leather, is a very credit able sample of these attractive little Ephemera. It is a pleasing, modest-spoken Annual, containing many contributions in verse and prose, over which one may lounge away an idle hour agree ably enough. " Old Betty's Nook"—a tale in prose, by the " Old Sailor' —is an article of this sort. It is just of the fitting length, and its va rious incidents are ingeniously dovetailed, one into the other. The leading idea of the narrative is the same as that of " Guy Mannering," and relates to the abduction of an English Baronet's son, while yet a boy, by some smuggler whom his father had offended by his harshness as a magistrate. Ulti mately, he is found anti restored ; all parties are made happy ; and, as a matter of course, the story concludes with a marriage, a bonfire, and a sheep roasted whole ! " A Tale of the Tower" is a passable copy of verses from the pen of Douglas Jerrold, whose genius, when lie perpetrates rhymes, always seems to us to move stiffly, as if in fetters. " Adeline" is a sketch, written in a sad and earn est spirit, of the difficulties that beset the path of those accomplished ladies whom untoward circum stances compel to gain their livelihood as govern esses. "To the Bust of My Son Charles" is a poem by " Delta." It is full of pathos and un affected simplicity ; indeed we feel disposed to rank it among the most successful of its author's pro ductions. The Plates are eleven in number ; and we speak highly in their praise, when we say that they are in no respect inferior to their predecessors. The most conspicuous one is a full-length portrait of Queen Victoria in her Coronation robes, the at titude of which is graceful, and even majestic, but the countenance wears far too stern—or at any rate, too serious—an expression. " Ascent of the Spi rit" represents a very substantial young woman going up to Heaven, in a ball-dress, under the es cort of two fat seraphs with gauze wings growing out of their shoulders. The conception of this picture is puerile and conceited, but as a work of art, it is engraved with much skill. THE ORACLE OF RURAL LIFE. Bailey, London, 1839. A sort of Sporting A linanack for the year 1840, embellished with fourteen characteristic illustrations, and several minor wood engravings from designs fur nished by the Messrs. Barraud. The nature of the object which the publishers have in view, we are told in the preface, is to supply in a form at once attractive and easy for reference, a great variety of information, nowhere else to be had in a collective form, on subjects connected with the sports and oc cupations of the country ; and this object, it is but just to say, they have accomplished in a most effi cient manner. KOCH'S REVOLUTIONS OF EUROPE. Whittaker, London, 1839. This is the first number of a Miscellany—which it seems, is to be " issued occasionally"—under the title of " Popular Library of Modern Authors," at a very cheap price, and in the most convenient form, namely, that of medium octavo. We like the idea, and trust it may be successful, especially as we are assured that " the series now offered will equal in mechanical execution and cheapness any yet pub lished, and will have the additional advantage of containing the productions of some of the most ap proved modern writers of History, lijographv, and Fiction. The Number before us comprises "Koch's Revolutions of Europe," a standard work of re ference which has been for some years in high re pute on the Continent, and is now, we believe, for the first time translated. The labour and research necessary to accomplish this undertaking must have been immenso ; indeed, we are informed that it oc cupied thirty years of the author's life, which is not to be wondered at when, on looking into the volume, we find that it is a record of the principal events and vicissitudes of more than fourteen hun dred busy years. The portion of the work we like least is M. Koch's brief account of the great French revolutionary outbreak, in which he betrays too much of a partial spirit, confounding the Girondists with the Jacobins, as if both parties were equally guilty of sanguinary excesses. He attributes the Revolution, too, we perceive, to the writings of the French Encyclopxdists ; this was certainly one of the causes, but by no means " the principal one ;" the great propelling cause was the disarrangement of the finances under the Administrations of 'For got, Maurepas, Calonne, and the other statesmen of that imperfectly educated school. FINE ARTS. In our hasty notice the other day, of the " Oriental Annual," we alluded briefly to some few of the " illustrations ;" and now return to the subject, for the majority of the engravings, executed, as they are, in a superior style of art—deserve more than a passing mention. The " Fort Gate, Pen konda," is in Finden's neatest and most careful manner. The Fort stands on the edge of a tre mendous precipice, at whose base is a stream, from which an Indian peasant, with his pitcher on his back, is about to draw water. Above him, on the opposite side of the stream, some horsemen are galloping along, whose dwindled figures accurately mark their distance from the peasant in the foreground. There is a pains-taking and delicacy in the finish of this print which the artist has not often surpassed. The portrait of " Akbur Shah, second Emperor of Delhi," is quite a triumph in the art of engraving, the soft lights and shadows melting into each other with the nicest and most imperceptible gra dations. Even in oil colours we never saw any thing handled in a more life-like manner than the appearance of extreme age in the countenance of this Indian monarch. The drawn-in countenance, long and shrivelled, the strongly defined crows - feet about the puckered eyes, the drooping lids, and the contracted eye-brows, are all marked with singular skill and minuteness. The portrait strongly reminds us of Shakspeare's sketch of Old Adam, whose " age is as a lusty winter, frostly but kindly." The " Tomb of Meer I-laiat Kalundur, at Min grool," is another engraving by Finden, and is chiefly worthy of notice, from the easy and graceful way in which the small groupe of Indians iii the fore-ground is managed. The trees, however, which overshadow this groupe on either side, are somewhat stiff, and the unwaving boughs look as though they were manufactured of cast-iron, like the metallic branch given to 2tneas by the Sybil, of which we read in the sixth book of the )Eneid. " Tombs of the Beereed Kings" exhibit such specimens of architecture as might delight even those accustomed to the sight of the ruins of .Itome and Athens. Not only do they excel in general majesty of a ppearance, but on looking more closely into them we find that there is a uniform h armon y in their proportions, which the best European architects have never surpassed. Few, we suspect, are at all aware of the vast archi tectural treasures that are scattered throughout India ; we at least must confess to an almost total ignorance of them till the appearance of the " Oriental Annual." We do not imagine that they are of native origin, but were the results of the Ma hometan invasion of India—at least the better spe cimens of architecture; for what there is that is not Saracenic is of a very ordinary character, except in point of dimensions. " Jhain Temples" exhibits a picturesque mountain back-ground, whose perspec tive is. defined with great nicety and correctness of I,TEN ING EDITION touch. Of the remaining Plates we have already spoken in The Sun. " The Illustratrons to Finden's Tableaux" are now lying before us, and. show a great variety of subject, treated in a novel manner—that is to say, by small detached sketches being grouped round the principal plate, so as to complete the restora tion of the story or anecdote of which it forms a portion. The " Dream" represents a chubby-faced little boy sleeping on a couch, while around him and above him, are gliding the fantastic objects on which his imagination is brooding in slumber. The still, half-developed features of the child are pencilled with infinite delicacy. The " Escape" tells its own tale, without the aid of an interpreter. A young girl, in a state of great alarm and disquietude, is hurrying away from her paternal home into a gon dola, wherein stands a young man, who has evi dently been some time awaiting her approach. The face of the girl is beautiful, but more youthful than her figure, which verges on the matronly. A gen tleman named Gibbs is the engraver of this print. In the " Rescue," we see an aged monk valorously wielding a sword in defence of a lady who has rushed into his arms for protection. The coun tenance of the old Priest is somewhat curiously at variance with the martial character in which he is here figuring. The " Wood Cutter" is a sweet pastoral landscape—one of those sylvan scenes which Gainsborough has depicted with such truth and feeling. The full-length groupe in the fore grouDd is arranged with infinite tact. In the " Pil grim" the I ; rg hts and shadows are broadly and dis sinctly defined ; but the countenance of the two females who are placed opposite each other at a table in a humble cottage, Are rather too lackadaisical and die-away in their express;on, like the heroines in Mrs. Radcliffe's romances. Of the remaining Plates we may perhaps speak when we notice the literary contents of the volume. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE• Shakspeare's delightful comedy of Much Ado About Nothing was produced at this theatre last evening, for the purpose of introducing a Mr. Marston to a London audience in the character of Benedick. It was certainly a bold attempt in Mr. Marston to undertake this character so soon ater the secession of Charles Kemble from the stage, and while his Benedick was fresh in the recol lection of every playgoer, but we are happy to say that the boldness of the attempt was equalled by its success. Mr. Marston is young, and possesses a good figure and gentlemanly address ; his voice is by nod meansrees good, but he manages it well, and b y it the disagreeable effect at first produced b y wears off. During the whole of the fi rst act he was evidently suffering from extreme nerv ousness, and was consequently unable to do himself full just ice, but he eg gradually warmed in his part. In the second act he made very a good point at the passage, The w orld must be peopled." The audience apprecia ted it, re warded it with a round of applause, which gave him the encouragement he stood in need of, and he vrent through the remainder of the piece in excellent style. He is follower of the Kemble school, and possesses taste n" judgment. His action is characterised by gentlemanly elegance aad freedom, and he understands his auth or, and can act him, and this we consider no mean praise ; for we have many a popular actor, who , goo d in ordinV i l parts, utterly fails when he attempts Shak s p eare. o ut was called for at the fall of the curtain , and gave the play for repetition to-morrow and Sato) day. amidst the unanimous applause of the a udience. M the z s ' Stirling made a very lively, witty, Beatr ice, and at conclusion of the comedy was led forward by Mr• Marston. The Dogberry of Mr. Dow ton is too well. known and too justly a reciated to stand in need ot our approbation ; but we c: pp nnot close this notice without bearing witness to the admirtible acting of Compto n in Verges ; Attwood, as Seacoal, a nd °sherry as he Sexton, were exceedingly quaint and laughter-moving' NEW PLAN FOR PROCURING SPRING WATER FOR LONDON. (From the Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal) of We were somewhat surpr ised by the appeara an advertisement about ten d a y s ago, stating that " A plentiful supply of wholesome water, so ardently de sired," &c., •' is now on the eve of attainment." The plan was said to be original, though the place front whence the supply would be taken had been pointed out by the late Mr. Telford. As there was no engineer's name to the advertisement, it appeared alit tle myste rious, and we doubted whether it had any proper foun d se a tion, without meaning disrespect to the gentleman who name appeared as parliamentary agent. " We have since discovered that this " origlnal plan is to take the water from a plac e p ointed out by the late Mr. Telford in his report in the year 1834, situated near the town of Watford, and the " originality" consists in uniting the upper and lower springs. We find that borings have been quietly going on for some weeks, a nd the result of the experiments has been eminently suc cessful. The place is singularly felicitous for a bed of water, being nearly surrounded by high hills, and o f a size calculated fur the largest reservoir the world ever saw. It is about 150 feet above the Trinity datum of the tide of the Thames , and can conseqnetly descend to any part of the metropolis by its own gravity, and without the aid of steam-power. Springs r have been discovered at every three feet to the depth or about fifty feet ; beneath them a stratum of limestone two feet deep, and beneath that a vast body of water, which rises to the level of the water of the upper springs, and of all the other springs. These are valuable indi cations, added to which the water is particularly soft, and consequently fit for all domestic uses, which spring water generally is not. We hear that Mr. Giles is the chief engineer, and that he is assisted by other gentlemen of scientific emi nence. We shall endeavour to obtain for our readers all the details of the experiments that have been made, in our next Number. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' DINNER. Yesterday afternoon about four hundred people as sembled at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the convivial meetings of this Society. The choir was taken at four o'clock by T. S. Duncombe, Esq., M.P., supported by Mr. Vade, Mr. Walters, Mr. Bryan, Mr. Vousley, jun., and other influential members of the Licensed Victuallers' Pro tection Society, together with several members of the different branch associations. The dinner being over, the CHAIRMAN successively proposed the healths of " The Quern," " The Queen Dowager„' " The Duchess of Kent," and " The Duke of Susseii,' in all of whom the• Society had found the wa rmest patronage ; and the toasts were severally re: sponded to with feelings of the m ost heartfelt satisfaction; We have not sufficient space to admit of even a con densed account of the different speeches, or the r espe tive titles of the songs and glees with which the " busi ness" of the evening was interspersed. From the Secretary's Report it would appear that the Chairman bad contributed 101. towards the funds of the association, and that Messrs. Barclay and ?Fr kin s, together with all the other " Co.'s Entire," which the great metropolis abounds, had severally in ed the finances to the sawe amount. HOP IN TELLIGE:NCE. WORCESTER, OCT. 26.—We had not mtuay country buyers here to-day, still there was a good denWndfor hops of every description, and the prices of the pre viol: e"" week were fully supported. From calcula tions ruat-e of the produce of several extensive parishes , it is now' thought the duty for the w hole district will not exceed the 18,0001., but owing to t he lateness of the picking, h amo unt will not be known till the e nd of next tuont• The number weighed t o -da y was 1,228 p ockets of n, s and 13 pockets of old H o p s ; there were also upwartis of 700 pockets we i ghe d durin g the week. Prices—" New Worcester: , 40 s. to 75 5 . ; choice, 80s. ; 183 325. to 505.; choice, 565. DISTRICT REPORTS. — The hop-picking being c e " tireiv finished throughout the different dis tricts, the only point now thought of is the amount of duti likelY to be declared at the end of next mouth—this being t. only circumstance that is expected to alte r the p rice the article, either for or against the growers. M 3O planters, considering the duty estimate far beyond whet it will pay, have determined not to se ll an y more, a t the present low rates, until the duty is declared. The nominal estimate at present is—Kent, 112,000 sex, G 8 68 ; Worcester, 18,000 ; Farnharrff 7,000 Kingdom. 5,000-210,0001. old duty. a nd the STATE OF TRADE. During the the last three days, two additional failures have been announced, both, we believe, in some degree connected with t he one to which we some on Friday, and one of them of considerable magnitude—the debts being variously stated at frorn 42,000/, to 50,000 1 . T he other, we believe, is of sme all importance. Owieg to these failures, and to the gen ral pressure on the market, the demand for y arn was extremely limited, and prices were not only generally lower, but exceedingly unstcady.,—sales being made at the same time, at rates varying" id. to id. per lb. for the same qualities and descrq;tions tin ` very Alrinufactured goods of all kinds were . also .in very limited demand, and at prices a shade lower tlta of Tuesday last. In consequence of the unfavourtLhie appearance of the market, a meeting of the spinners of coarse yarn, in Oldham and the neighbourhood , h e ld on Monday evening, when it was resolved to work only nine h ours p er day, for the next six weeks. T establishments to which this resolution refers are , however, generally of very limited extent, and tha dimunition of produce cannot be reckoned at more than 40,000 weight per week.—Manchesier Guardian' —......0000 crease ..~ 1 .M... ~.