The Sun. — London, England, 1839-09-25 00:00:00

14w1'NTING EDITION. (.........., STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENTS. The Report of the Commissioners on steam ' vessel accidents, leads to the painful conclusion t ha n - with sc-resly an exception, the accidents, as they are called, but properly speaking, the cul pable destruction of human life by the loss of steam boats, have arisen entir e ly from some defect insthe vessels, or negligence on , the part of the persons appointed to manage them. On inquiring into catastrophes of this sort for the last ten years, the Commissioners found that the vessels in many in stances were not sea-worthy, or the boilers and machinery were bad, or the captain or engineer was guilty of gross neglect of duty. While it is painful to reflect that these calamities, three of which hap- Pened only last year, might have been averted by the ti me l y interference of the Legislature, as is the case in other countries, it is some relief to find that when properly equipped, and under proper n 'ana°ement, a steam-ship is the safest of all v "sers ; and that when Government shall have established an efficient system of inspec tion, the recurrence of such painful events will be next to impossible. Of this fact the Commis ioners aear to have no doubt; and they are best able to Judge. After stating a number of cases where the loss of the vessels was attributable to defects or negligence, they add, " Several good judges of nautical matters have, in their communications (and many others per sonally), expressed to us their conviction that s si- _ stron g y constructed, well-fastened steamer — from its peculiar build, and being unencumbered with lofty and heavy masts, spars, and rigging, could, with effective ground-tackling, ride out the most severe storm s , even if her engines should be disabled. " It is to the credit of steam vessels, and a great roof of their superior security over sailing vessels, when in honest condition, that no steamer was lost " our coasts during the hurricane of the 7th of January last (almost unparalleled as it was in force and duration), excepting a small iron one, the Tar bets Castle, on Loch Fyne, which, from her light draught of water, was unable to cope with it." Before giving a few of these cases which con firm this opinion, we may state that as far the Commissioners have been able to carry out their investigations, they have ascertained that within the last ten years, 634 persons have lost their lives in steam-boats, of these 308 perished in 40 vessels Wrecked, foundered, or in imminent peril at sea, 77 `were killed by explosions and 66 from collisions. The greatest ascertained loss of life at any one time Occurred by the wreck of the Rothsay Castle in 1831 , off Beaumaris. Th e following are the melancholy particulars as give n in the report : " The Rothsav Castle, originally built as a river vessel, was put upon a sea station between Liver pool and Beaumaris, for summer service ; she was wrecked in 1831 on the Dutchman's Bank, about three miles from Puffin's Island, near Beaumaris ; of 130 passengers on board, only 21 were saved. " The following note was handed in to the Coroner by Sir R. W. Bulkeley, foreman of the jury. Sir,—From the evidence brought before them, the jur;', on this inquest, cannot separate without expressitsg their firm conviction, that had the Roth say Castle been a seaworthy vessel, this awful cala mity- might have been averted. They therefore cannot disguise their indignation at the conduct of those who could place such a vessel on this station, and under the conduct of a captain and mate who have been proved by the evidence before them to have been in a state of intoxication. " R. WILLIAMS BULKELEY." The greatest number of lives lost at any one time from collision was sixty-two. This happened in the Clyde, when two vessels struck against each other in the night, and one sunk in a few minutes. The greatest number lost at any one time from ex p.!osion was twenty•four. This occurred in 1837 at Hull, when the boiler of the Union steamer, about to start for Gainsborough, burst, and killed °r wounded nearly all on board. " This explosion," says the Report, " is attri buted, with great apparent reason, to the instanta neous disengagement of an immense volume of steam, produeed by the oscillation, or listing, of th e vessel ; the boiler, a rectangular one, being at the time short of water, and the upper plates of th e furnaces, on the higher:side of the vessel, being probably red-hot, or nearly so. 46 No ordinary number of safety-valves could fl,ave liberated the amount of steam thus suddenly g e nerated. " The primary cause of this accident was care lessness in allowing the flues to be bare of Water. It d oes not appear that glass water-gauges were affixed to this boiler, only guage-cocks, which fre quently oi . e false indications of the level at which th e wa t er re ally is within the boiler, particularly when the vessol is not on an even keel. " Engine-man oi en have the water very low in the boilers at starting, to save the labour of pump ing by hand, and several explosions have been pro duced by their trusting to its not becoming too low, befor e setting on the engine to do the work f or t hem. Mr. J. S. Russell recommends a plan for supplying the boilers with water when the steam is tip but the engine not at work, others recommend a k small steam-engine for this purpose." In the course of last year three vessels were comuletely wrecked, and a fourth, the Aurora, escaped the same fate, only through the kno w i s tdge and determination of Mr. M'Neil, the civil engineer, who happened to be on board. The particulars of the loss of the first two —the Forfarshire and the Northern Yacht—must he fresh in the recollection of our readers. The one was lost off the Fern Islands, when the light house-keeper, pat ling, and his daughter, displayed such couraireous conduct ; and the other was sup posed to have gone down in the Bay of B erw i c k, with all on hoard. The Report of the Commis sioners leaves no doubt about the causes. " These documents (the Ccroner' Report and th e de positions of the witnesses) establish the fact that the primary cause of the loss ot . .the Forfarshire was the defective state of one of the boilers ; that its condition was well known to the owCers and Com mander, when she left Hull on her las - voyage, and that its repair had been delayed. Furt(ler, that in her greatest peril she might possibly, and very pro baLi-, have been saved by her anchors—. y her hull being sound and good—but that the ca bl es were I ° lll , so that the anchor could not be let go. Fe:tY five lives (at least) were lost." " Respecting the Northern Yacht, which foun dered on the 11th of October, 1838, the circum stance of no inquest having been held, as no body was washed ashore, prevented that immediate and 1 Public disclosure of her unseaworthiness, which be came known in the case of the Forfarshire, through the official interference of a Coroner and jury. We:have consequently, laboured under great difficu;ty in ob ta.ning satisfactory testimony as to the state of this vessel previous to her last voyage, which proved 1 fatal to about forty h uman b e i nos " We found the publi c mind. at Newcastle still I in an excited state on this subject, though four months had elapsed since the accident ; the Cap tain and entire crew had perished ; and we could expect little information from interested parties ; nevertheless, we collected, in confirmation of state ments remitted to the Right Hon. the President of th e Board of Trade, by the Rev. A. Reid, of New c3stle, and forwarded to us, much valuable testi , Molly as to the defectiveness of the hull, engine, and • h o d, rs, -for many weeks prior to her foundering. " 'f he details of this case contain an account of the construction of the hull ; also the evidence of perfectly disinterested persons who had been pas- Sengers in 1 1 ,-.r : amongst others, that of two indivi duals, Mr. Carr and Mr. Greener, who were inti mate friends ant: associates of Mr. James Middle tn aS, the master, lost in her. These last brin g down the testimony, as to the condition in which she was within four da)'s of her disappearance. " We received also nonerous statements of her habitually leaky state, from Partie s whose names w e ante not at liberty to disclose, but whuv respect b - li t y ,and f am ili ar acquaintance with the Northern y 4 -ht, and ot h er steam vessels, assume us of their accuracy. " The historyofthe Northern Yacht is the history of ablenumerous steamers constructed _ ea put On On ly for river navioation, and afterwards. Sea serroce. Many of these ore built, not to order, but for s ale • the ''ai • y e purchased by i ndividua Is lought to be . t h ey ignorant of what a steam vessel comparue or are advertised in seductive teims, s uch as Powerful steam vessels ' Spl en di e 1 new and. ; , t e rms, ' \ of which the public only discover the fallacy lay som e tragi i .al event." The Am .ors was steamin g in smooth water, in the L oug h ( >f Belfast, and had she reached the open • "........."...4 1 IMMIIIa.., ......................... sea must have foundered like the Northern Yacht. Mr. M'Neil saw that she was not a seaworthy vessel, and luckily prevented the catastrophe. The following is his opinion as to the necessity of ap pointing inspectors of steam-boats :—" I have no hesitation in giving it as my deliberate opinion that this vessel would have been lost, and the lives of all on board sacrificed, had she reached the open sea ; and I am also convinced, that had she been subjected to a proper trial and inspection by com petent persons previously to her sailing, she would have been adjudged not seaworthy, and unfit to receive passengers and cargo for such a voyage. By such an inspection the public would have been apprized of the true state of the vessel, and prevented exposing themselves or their property to such immi nent danger. I therefore trust, and hope, that the Commission you are now appointed to, will lead to the establishment of some controlling inspection, which will for the future, prevent the recurrence of such disgraceful transactions as the one I have men tioned, and be the means of saving both life and property." The agent to a respectable Company at Glasgow, the proprietors of the Aurora, however, gives a very different opinion in these words :—" I cannot suggest any regulations which would give greater security to persons and property on board steamers. It is so strongly and obviously the interest of owners to procure amid preserve for their vessels a good cha racter, subjected as they in are to so much competi tion as abounds this country, that, taking an ex tended and general view of the subject, I believe no better security, upon the whole, can be afforded to the public than at present exists ; arid, in addition to this, it is also the interest of manufacturers of engines, for the sake of their own reputation, to see, as far as possible, justice done to their work b ) keeping it in good order," &c. This hardly requires an answer, after so many instances of gross negligence and want of humanity. It is for the interest of a man to treat his horse and his slave well, but if the principle always operated beneficially, why is it that the various acts for the prevention of cruelty to brute animals and to slaves are sanctioned by the Legislature and by the uni versal voice of the country ? IRELAND. FAILURE OF THE HARVEST. DUBLIN, SEPT. 22.—Although in Dublin the weather has become dry, the rain still pours down in the pro vinces, affording grounds for the very worst apprehen sions. We give two accounts, one from the south, the other from the north, but both equally disheartening : " LIMERICK, SEPT. 2l.—The weather continues wet and gloomy, the rain falling in torrents upon our mea dows and corn-fields, adding every hour to the ruin and devastation which prevail, and giving the country a most melancholy appearance, which the farmers and harvest labourers (the landlords, too, may be added) behold in absolute despair. After one fair hour, which the labour ers eagerly avail themselves of to snatch part of the crop from impending ruin, they are driven from work the re mainder of the day by rain, which again saturates the little they had saved. In many places the wheat fields are only half.cut, not gathered in, but the grain lying on the fields half drenched with water : in other places the straw alone can be cut for manure. There was loud thunder yesterday in the county of Clare, followed by torrents of rain." " BELFAST, SEPT. 21.—From Newry to Belfast the wheat appears almost totally lost ; what has been cut chiefly remains in stooks, a black unseemly mass ; and what is uncut appears still worse. The oat crop is very heavy, only a fraction cut, much of the remainder half ripe, and a great deal laid flat by the weighty rains. The barley seems to have been better saved. The po tatoes look well." LORD EBRINGTON.—Lord Ebrington, who is im proving in health, still remains at Summerville, in the county of Waterford. Yesterday his Excellency dined with the venerable Sir John Newport (whose sinecure office of Controller of the Exchequer is now filled by Lord Monteagle, at a salary of 2,500/. a year.) Sir John, who has retired upon a pension of 1,000/. per annum, resides at Newpark, a few miles from Water ford. In the forenoon of yesterday his Excellency at tended a confirmation held by the Bishop of Cabe!, in Waterford Cathedal, when his third son was confirmed. On Tuesday his Excellency is to leave Waterford for Lady Osborne's seat, in the county of Tipperary ; thence he is to proceed to Bessborough, on a visit to Lord Duncannon, and is to return to Dublin on Satur day, in order to swear in Sir Nicholas Brady as Lord Mayor of Dublin on Michaelmas-day. A meeting of the county of Waterford was held on Monday last at Dungarvon, Sir Richard Keane, Bart., in the chair, in order to agree to a congratulatory ad dress to his Excellency, Lord Ebrington, upon the oc casion of his visit to his estates in that county. A Committee was named to make the necessary arrange ments ; and, having returned from the Committee room, Mr. Stuart, M.P. for the county, the Chairman of the Committee, and proposer of the address, stated that, in order to admit all parties in the county to con cur in the expression of gratulation towards her Ma jesty's representative, it had been agreed upon to omit all mention of the name of Lord Normanby in it. Mr. Beresford Boate, in consequence, seconded the adop tion of the address proposed by Mr. Stuart, which was then unanimously agreed to. The Chairman in put ting the question to the meeting, spoke warmly of the claims of Lord Normanby upon Ireland, and stated that though, for the sake of unanimity, the mention of his name in the address then proposed had been omitted, yet the county was about to assemble on an early day to express its sentiments of gratitude towards him, and to congratulate him upon his elevation to his present important office. SLiztiltE FOR TITHES.—On Monday the Under- Sheriff of the county of Wexford, accompanied by a large police force, visited the lands of Fisherstown, and bore off a considerable share of the property of Mr. Edward Dvvyer, for arrears of tithes, due to the Rev. Mr. Auchinleck. A sale of the articles took place at 'Faglimon on Tuesday, when they were purchased by the friends of the owner.—lliatellord Chronicle. EJECTION OF TENANTS.—We have received from a faithful source in Dungarvan a full and triumphant con tradiction of certain misstatements which appeared, under the above head, in Saturday's Free Press, with respect to Sir Nugent Humble, Bart. It is deplorable, indeed, that a liberal-minded young man, just entering on the threshold of public life should be thus dealt with, as though he were a revengeful and cruel depopu lator ; but we blame not the Free Press, which, we have no doubt, will make the ainende when the truth becomes known.--Waterford Chronicle. FATAL ACCIDENT FROM THE INCAUTIOUS USE OF FIRE-ARM s —On jMonday an inquest was held before Mr. Wakley, M. P., at the Seven Stars, North-end, Fulham, on the body of Thomas Quarrier, who was acci dentally shot on Saturday last by a lad named Alfred Stevens. Evidence precisely similar to that taken before Mr. Burrell, at Queen-square, was sworn to in tl e Coroner's Court, and fully acquitted the lad of any criminal intention. The only points relative to the unfortunate occurrence worthy of being remarked (as they show that it is impossible to exercise too much caution when hand ling fire-arms) were, that the gun is an old rusty-barrelled m usket, that it had been charged for five days, that the steel of its hammer was worn off by use, that it was exposed to the rain on the morning of the accident, that another boy bad pulled the trigger before Stevens took the weapon into his hand, that he took it from off the wet ground, where it was lying with the pan open and without priming, and that finally he pulled the trigger four times before the gun went off. The Jury, satisfied that the lad did not know that the piece was loaded, and that it was by mere chance he painted it in the direc' ion of the deceased, in stantly returned a verdict of " Accidentally Shot." On Sunday night last four armed men came to the house of Michael Lyons, on the lands of Terravogane, the property of Thomas Brereton, Esq., within a few yards of Mr. Egan's new distillery, at Ballinderrv, in Lower Ormond. One of the party knocked, and asked permission to light his pipe, when two others rushed in, and presented their pistols at Lyons, who endeavoured to battle with them, and push them out. Lyons was, how ever, felled to the ground with blows of the pistols on the head, and when in a state of insensibility, the villains rifled the house, and took therefrom a case of pistols. On the same night, and within about two hundred yards of the above place, a party of men attacked the house of a man named Donohoe, a tenant of Doctor Dempster, but not being able to effect an entrance, they broke the windows, and made an unsuccessful effort to smash the door.—Limerick Chronicle. PUBLIC DINNER TO AIR. A. W. PAULTON. —We understand that arrangements are in progress, among the friends of free trade in this town, for giving a public dinner to Mr. A. W. Paulton, on his return from Scotlend, as a testimonial of respect for the ardent, indefa tigable, and highly successful manner in which he has agitated the question of Corn-law repeal from the one end of the island to the other. A few weeks ago, we observed ' from the S co t c h j ourna ls, that be was lec turing to large and ent h us i ast i c audiences at Aber deen, Inverness, and other Hyperborean latitudes. It is now more than a year since Mr. Paulton delivered his first le n e ,e tur ms e oi i nr n ee t e h to e th ß aawt olto er n . theatre, ' on ' this " question. of questions." e u es hastio s o . d we hesitate not to say that p f k t e h n i o the public mind . to the just views of the importance o a individual in the countr Wee Corn-law question than any are not altogether ungrateful for there fore, that his townsmen yh.av r a ft re he gl s a e d rv t ic o es le h ar e n h , as o lv o e d d an to d .h sh ig o h w w th ag at es. t , hy ren dered in the cause of " chea rf p "o iva bi ls va h r a e Bolton Free Press. most splendid NIS'S INVERARITY.—Oneof th a v r : , tny b , r o fo u r g m h e t r luys the n lookingthcatr theatricals, m is en t which h w i cehl 1 -known olateHissar r fair rival in vocal music of Miss Sheriff the ro London . boards. Yesterday morning we saw her Broadway, and a more magnificent looking promenading dean seen on that delightful promenade. A good n d l ea s l e o h f curiosity is beginning to be expressed for her a pp earance on the Park boards.--New f ork Herald. CHAItTISM IN SHEFFIELD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—ln these days for a man to acknowledge that he is a Chartist is to draw upon himself the perse cution and obloquy of the respectable portions of society. Any poor fellow who wishes to obtain the " five points," and uses what he conceives to be the best method of getting them, is sure to be hunted till he is quite run down, perhaps even unto death, by those who are, or who wish to ap pear " well to do in the world." The Papist and the Protestant, the Orthodox Churchman and the Heterodox Dissenter, he who owns to having no re- ' ligion at all, and politicians of every grade, can cor dially unite together, to put a stop by any means, lawful or unlawful, to the wicked Chartists. The Newspaper Press has been, and is, the foremost in the chase, and cheers on to further pursuit those who might be disposed to cry " hold enough." T e only difference in this case between the Whig News paper and the Tory Newspaper is this—the Whig iMg makes a desperate and successful struggle to push the Tory from his high eminence of advocate of coercion. The influence of the London Daily Papers on the public mind during the late movement of the working classes has been tremendous, and all (with one honourable exception, The Sun, and for which exception thou sands of its readers are truly thankful), are on the side of tyranny. Even in the English Courts of Justice have lately been enacted scenes which will never be forgotten. It has been a boast that the laws in this country have been administered with strict impartiality—can this be said now ? Certainly not. In the over-anxiety of those in authority to inflict the terrors of the laws on the abettors of Chartism, many serious mistakes have occurred, which in ordinary times would have called forth public remonstrance ; now they are passed over as mere matters of course. Many individuals quite guiltless of Chartism have been very severely and unjustly handled. A circumstance, not very plea sant to some of the parties concerned, took place a few days ago in this town. Last Thursday week, in consequence of Chartist meetings which had taken place on the nights of the previous Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the Magistrates deter mined to clear the streets early in the evening. Many persons were taken into custody for loitering about and refusing to move forward when desired so to do by the policemen. Most of these, after exa mination, were ordered to find bail for their appear ance at the Sessions, and for good behaviour. On Tuesday last the writer of this letter was at the Town Hall, when three of these men were brought up. In reply to the questions of the Magistrates, the Surveyor of Police stated that " he felt assured that the men were in the streets from accidental circumstances, and that they had taken no part in any of the disturbances." The Worthy Magistrate then, with much gravity, proceeded to point out the folly of parties who go, on any occasion, into crowds of people, and he concluded his eloquent and philosophical remarks by telling the men that they were never to risk themselves in a large concourse of men, women, or children so long as they lived. Here one of the men wished to inform the Bench why he happened to be in the streets at all that night, when he was cut short by the Police Surveyor, who coolly told him that " if he did not hold his noise it would be worse for him !" The Magistrate also said he had better say no more about it. This poor man, whose name is Bamforth, and who was not allowed to speak, had a child dead in the house when he was taken into custody. He belongs to the Order of Odd Fellows, and he went after his work was done on Thursday night to obtain money from the " Lodge" that he might be able to inter his child with decency. As he was returning home he saw the police men parading the streets, and on inquiry of a woman as to what was the cause of the policemen being out, he was seized, without any kind of warning, and locked up all night and next day till five o'clock in the afternoon, when he was liberated on bail, and told to appear on the day following (Saturday). He attended at the Town Hall ac cording to instruction, when, after waiting a long time, he was informed he could not be examined t that day, and that he would have to come again on Tuesday. When placed before the Magistrates, as related above, not a single charge of any kind was preferred against him, yet when he was discharged the Police Surveyor said if he did not hold his noise it would be 46 worse for him." Thus, after having spent one night and one day in prison, and lost three days' wages, which to a working man is no trifle, and when not the slightest charge, of either breach of peace or contempt of authority, is brought against him, he is sent home, not with soothing words, but with an insult. Conduct like this may be lawful, but is it just, or is it politic ? Under similar cir cumstances, in any other town, these men might not have fared better, but an apology was due, and ought to have been made, to them. Had they been treated with kindness, and shown that it was merely on account of the state of the town that they were put to inconvenience, and had sorrow been expressed • for their loss, they would have been satisfied, and would have felt thankful for the courtesy. As it is, the men will very likely hate the laws, and all con nected with them, as long as they live. Who could wonder if these men took the first opportunity of joining a riotous party, that they might have the pleasure of cracking the heads of a few policemen ? For several Sundays past the Chartists of this town have attended the morning service in the parish church. On one occasion they went at the special invitation of the Vicar, who, the writer is glad to say, is the most reasonable, charitable, and just clergyman for miles round, and whose life and conversation have gained the esteem of all to whom he is known. These church-goings have been of the most peaceable and orderly description until last Sunday week, when one of the seat-holders, finding his place occupied by a stranger, proceeded to eject the intruder by physical force. This caused some disturbance, and the Magistrates determined to put a stop to the attendance of these outlaws at Church. Consequently last Sunday morning the pious wor shippers who congregate at St. Peters were guarded by armed men. The Editors of our local news papers appear to be mightily elevated with the idea of having their Sunday piety protected by swords and guns. The language used by two Sheffield papers, published to-day, is worth preserving. The Whig Independent glorifies the occasion as follows :—" Policemen armed with cutlasses, were stationed at the gates of the churchyard ; who exer cised discretionary power as to the parties to be admitted ; and other policemen were distributed in the church to prevent disturbance there. C. Brownell, Esq., was at the church ; and W. J. Bagshawe, Esq., was at the Tontine Inn, with a detachment of Dragoons in readiness to suppress any attempt at riot. ' The Tory Mercury, after describing the precautions used to prevent improper persons passing, says, " any decently-dressed indi vidual was allowed to pass." So that after all the assertions of the Mercury, and other Tory Papers, about the " poor man's" Church, it appears that none are countenanced there except they are " de cently dressed." Those who are merely covered with rags have no business at Church—they can pay nothing. That the rich are obliged to be guarded in their devotions by armed men, and that the poor are frequently incarcerated in prison with out having committed any crime, shows that there is something " rotten in the state" of England. These things cannot take place much longer with out producing results which it is frightful to con t e m pl ate . Your insertion of this letter in your widely-cir culated publication will oblige, Si r , Yours, with great respect, A CONSTANT READER• Sheffield, Sept. 21. THE NEW POLICE ACT.-At Marylebone office on Monday, Thomas Dean, a journeyman tailor, was charged under the new Police Act with aiding and abet ting at a dog fight, and using language calculated to pro voke a breach of the peace. Mr. John Eyre, surgeon, of 15, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury, stated that he was pro. ceeding along the Hampstead -road that morning, vi hen his attention was attracted to the prisoner and several other men, who were actively engaged in setting two dogs to fight. He remonstrated with them, when the prisoner said to him, " Who are you?" and added, " I'm as good a man as you." The other men called the dogs off and went away, but as the prisoner remained he gave him in charge. Mr. Rawlinson, after a caut i on, discharged the prisoner, observing that the alleged insulting language was not strong enough to come within the meaning of the Act. It is at length arranged that the correspondence of noncommissioned officers and privates of her Nlajest)'s service shall be conveyed to and from the East Indies by the overland mails, via Falmouth, o n t h e mere payment of Id. each, the letters being , single, and f ran k ed b y the o ffi cer commanding.—United Service Gazette. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1839. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURGIT, SEPT. 3.—According. to the official accounts of the births and deaths in the Russian empire it appears, that in the course of last year, a great many per sons died who had attained a remarkably high age. The number of births was >,333,993 Deaths Excess of Births Marriages Among the deaths there were, of persons— From 100 to 105 years From 110 to 115 years 125 From 116 to 120 years l3O From 120 to 130 years 3 From to 145 years. 1 From 150 to 156 years 3 Of 160 years ........... Of 166 years The provinces on both s id es the C aucasus , Caucasis, and Transcaucasia, are not included. According to the report of the Finance Dep artment t h e popu l at i o n of the Russian Empire in 1838 was sixty millions. MONE Y MARKET and CITY NEWS (TUESDAY EVENING.) TIMES.—By the advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4324 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. the ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.8, and the exchange at Hamburg on London at short being 18. 6, it follows that gold is 1.29 per cent., dearer at Hamburg than in London. The premium on gold a t P ar i s i s s per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s: 101 d. the ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.36, and the exchange at Paris on L on d on at short b e i ng 25. 30, it follows that gold is 0.26 per cent. dearer at Paris than in London. The revival of our trade with the north of Spain, now that the civil war is approaching to a conclusion, is a subject of much s o li c i tu d e w i th the merc hants of London. It may be sa ti s f actory, t h ere f ore , to learn that there is a fair prospect of the speedy renewal of commercial intercourse, and that some of the oldest merchants of that country, who are usually distin guished by extreme caution, are about to recommence business. A letter from Bilboa of the 14th instant, received this morning fr.:4n one of this class says— " Peace has been restored in our provinces almost by enchantment. We have before us the cheering prospect that the rest of Spain will soon be pacified, and that we may undertake with perfect safety the usual mercantile transactions. All the peasantry of this province have laid down their arms, and are re turned to their former avocations, and no hostile feel ing is perceptible among the Biscayans, who had served during the war on opposite sides, the fuer os being the common bond of union among all. The continued tran quillity of the northern provinces, however, will depend on the solution of the question of confirming in their integrity or modifying the fueros, which is to be referred to the Cortes. It is a difficult and delicate point to settle, but all parties seem now to be animated by so strong a desire for peace, that we hope at least for a lair arrangement. Of ail modifications the most ob noxious would be the establishment of a custom-house in this port, as it would ruin our northern trade, chiefly with England." POST.—There was again considerable pressure on the Money Market to-day. This was felt not at the Stock Exchange alone, but in the commercial depart ments also, though not, perhaps, in quite an equal degree, for loans, on the deposit of Consols and other English securities, the high rate of from eight to teu per cent. per annum interest being demanded. Consuls left off at 9(n to ,a t - Money, and 91 to for Account. Exchequer Bills closed at 2s. to 4s. prem. At one time in the day a trifling a dvance was realized, but it was not long supported. The quotations generally fell back to those of yesterday. We seldom venture to offer opinions upon these points, but, considering the peculiar position of our commerce and of our monetary affairs, there does not appear to be much room at present for any improvement in our domestic funds that is not produced by the operations of speculators. The foreign ex changes are still flat and embarrassing, and, from the tenor of the advices obtained this morning from the United States, it is to be feared that they will continue so for some time to come. The transmission of Ameri can bills to the Continent, through the medium.of the London market, has assisted materially in keeping up the quotations, but we find by the New York letters brought by the packet-ship just arrived, that the United States Bank, having lately transmitted to Europe a suffi cient amount of specie to meet all its engagements, would cease drawitig. It had also been intimated, in answer to a communication made to the President on the part of the other banks, that no more specie would be demanded of them for the moment. It is to be concluded from this, however, that no apprehen sion whatever existed in the mind of Mr. Biddle's suc cessor of any difficulty springing up in the case of the Hottinguers at Havre and Paris, and, although many contradictory reports are circulated upon the subject, we feel bound in justice to the Bank to say, that the property in the hands of the two houses is considered by parties on whose information we have every reliance fully sufficient to cover the protested drafts. The shares of the institution had been done at New York as low as 106, but, on the views of the President being made public, they advanced to 1061 107 A-. Those of the Commercial Bank are quoted 94 to 96. The exchange on London had advanced to 8i 9 prem. This was at tributed to the retirernea from the market of the United States Bank in the character of a drawer. PARIS MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. crisis, terrible7i Bn l i9 l s be N ten t , hesceo A cema : ' r , ecasi S rt eymE guillotiningroo Trt more alarming ea 2 ol 3a ron r. connected f —n: pi Louisnlr g' e v with 1 PROVISIONS.—The scarcity of corn is still felt, and the p fro revious to ThvdtiEsoaiNy. the calamity, o n a day.Snrciocto:ClTY OF d of i t ae l i i hn e g r g e ta i o g v etnhooe orders dnteoerrrstrioi forra, Unfortunately the corn riots continue, and are ex is no longer any doubt that it was the Government wh of corn in the department of La Sarthe. The Cabi net, no doubt, saw the necessity of securing provisions for the large towns, and acted in the exercise of its right, but the Government agents did the business so awkwardly by a sudden and almost instantaneous re moval of the corn which came to market, that the people saw nothing but famine before their eyes. It is also well known that large purchases of corn have been made for the English market, to be delivered in the months of October and November. This fact has not escaped the attention of the corn merchants here, and they act accordingly ; all parties apprehend some calamity, and endeavour to provide against it. The people cry out against. England, and exclaim that ve e their food was taken from them to feed the English ! and several rpi purchase e r c t a s i 'ee othera r al quarters.' and d l a accumulation anticipations. c u other muarSntusiardirocdaenht theneri -nesf The Government and the authorities have been guilty of great negligence to allow things to arrive at such a crisis. The free circulation of corn throughout all parts of the country is the only means of warding off a famine. The people must be made to understand this indispens able condition ; but should the fear of a scarcity become evident, and increase to any extent, it will then be the duty of the Government to make known to the country the means of subsistence it has in reserve, otherwise a corn-insurrection may be renewed in France with all its appalling consequences. The augmentation of the price of corn throughout the departments generally is now a matter of notoriety, and the state of the Pari:i warket during the past week will appear from the following quotation :—Arrived on the 19th, 20th, and 21st, 4,200 sacks of flour ; sold on the same days, 3,900. Thus it will appear that the weekly surplus is not more than 300 sacks, and that the sales are nearly equal to the quantity brought to market—rather an unfavour able prospect for a capital like Paris, which now con tains above a million of inhabitants. It must not, how ever, be forgotten that the stock in the corn stores Nile) amounts to 7,001) sacks. The reserve stock is generally from 14,000, 15,000, or 16,000 sacks, and sometimes 20,000, The :small quantity—only a third — now in store, shows a want of foresight on the part of the Government. The poorer classes are aware of this, and hence the distrust and general state of anxiety which prevails. The bakers are not pai d for their manual labour, and it is probable that they w',ll succeed in raising the 41b. loaf to 18 sous (9d). The only gleam of sunshine on this gloomy prospect is d erived from the fact of the fine harvest obtained both in America, Austria, and Spain, from which countries, it :,s to be hoped, timely supplies will be procured by the I.3fovernment—a reparation due to the working classes an d the community at large. BOURSE, Fouu o'CLoi notice was posted on 'Change to-day, announci Jig that from the date of the 26th, the Sinking Fund could buy up daily, for cash, 5,000 Rentes at five per cent., and 8,000 ditto,three per cent. It is thought this operation will be carried on for three or four weeks, as t. acre is a capital of 4,000,000 f. to be employed in this w, ay. Mr. James Rothsch: ,l, l! has not as yet arrived in Paris, but he has signified his approval of the accep tance of the bills of the I Jolted States Bank, upon the guarantees offered by MI Jaudon, and it is to be hoped that this timely aid will I estore confidence in the Paris and London money marl cets. A favourable effect has already been produced a t the Bourse by the resolution of Mr. Rothschild, and tt it purchases for account of the Sinking Fund, and mono} is more plentiful It is ex pected that the arrival of Mr. Rothschild will cause a further rise in the Three per Cents. Our Malta correspe ndent states, under date of the 11th inst., that a 'rep ort was current in that island, that Sir E. Lyons, R.N..., was about to be appointed Lord High Commissioner; of t} .e lonian Islands. TElGNmou:(.ll.—! ,, t is generally understood that Queen Adelaide has fc x the present deferred her visit to the south of D( von. The gentleman in this town, who so Lberally offere d the free use of his mansion for the ser vice of her Nlaje sty, 11 is received a most gracious reply, through Lord FI owe.—. . Western Luminary. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Morning Chronicle of this day, recurring to the important question of the Corn-laws, says :—" The Corn laws are a shift to throw taxes from the land owners on the other classes of the community. Why should the agriculturists be exempted from paying their share of the burden created by the war ? The manu facturers have no immunity from taxation. They can have no protection, for they produce for the foreign market, and the foreigner who buys from them does not ask what taxes they pay, but what is the price in the market? The manufacturers can have no protec tion against the agriculturists, and why should the agriculturists have any protection against them ? The manufacturers can have no protection against the agriculturists, because the price of manufactures is determined in the home market by the price;;;(1; for, if the exporter could obtain more at home than abroad, he would not be such a fool as to export. The Corn-laws, then, are injurious in seasons of scarcity, by limiting the means of supply; they are injurious to our commerce, by narrowing the market for our manu factures abroad, and affording a bounty to rivals ; they arc unjust to all other classes, by throwing exclusively on them the share of taxation which ought to be borne in fair proportion by the agriculturists ; and they, besides, rob all classes of the amount which monopoly otherwise adds to the price of food." 'fhe Illor ning Post makes the following remarks on certain rumoured Ministerial changes :—" Among the offices now vacant are those of Secretary at War, Master of the Mint, two Secretaries of the Board of Control, Secretary of the Admiralty. With respect to the last of these, we have already announced that Mr. More O'Ferrall is to have it. We believe we may now state very positively also that Lord Seymour is to be one of the new Secretaries of the Board of Control. It is not much less than a month since that office was offered to his Lordship and acoepted ; and we confess we are a little curious to know why the appointment has not yet been officially announced. Is it because Ministers find some difficulty in getting any pre sentable man to take the seat at the Treasury Board which this appointment has left vacant? Or is it Ministers are apprehensive that it may become necessary after all to make Lord Seymour Secretary at War as a pis alter on account of the continued obduracy of Mr. Macaulay? The im portant office of Secretary at War has been vacant for a length of time. It was offered to Mr. Macaulay with out a seat in the Cabinet, and refused with disdain ; for Mr. Macaulay very naturally thinks that, con- sidering what kind of persons are now considered fit for Cabinet Ministers, the offer of a place to him without a seat in the Cabinet bad about it a good deal of the character of insult. It is thought, however, by those who are best acquainted with Mr. Macaulay that his anger, however warm and just, will at length subside, at least to a point at which it may not be incompatible with his acceptance of office. Anotber of the Offices now vacant: that of Mas- ter of the Mint, has given occasion of offence to Lord Clarendon of exactly the same nature. Lord Clarendon received the offer of the Mint with out a seat in the Cabinet, to which he returned a haughty and unqualified refusal, and forthwith packed up and set off upon his travels to the Continent. This is all that we can aver with respect to his Lordship." The Times, alluding to some remarks recently made by the Recorder of London in the Central Criminal Court, observes as follows :—" The bold and able stand which the Recorder of London made during the last Session of Parliament against the di) st step of the Whigs towards the abolition of trial by jury, has caused that Learned Gentleman to be marked out as an espe cial object for the vengeance of the Government, who lose no opportunity of setting on their hirelings to misre present, to insult, and to vilify him. The most unprin cipled and the most slavish of these hirelings, who conduct the only evening Ministerial print in existence, now that the Whig-Radical scribes of the Courier have given place to Conservative writers„have been selected to throw mud at the Recorder, doubtless because they have proved that there is no work too dirty for them to un dertake. The selection was judiciously made, more over, for this further reason—namely, that men who have defended the bloody murders perpetrated by , Maroto, and so given ground for the belief that they • are quite capable of committing as horrible offences themselves, must necessarily stand greatly in awe of a criminal judge ; and we can easily suppose the very mention of the name of the Recorder to be enough to give them a ' crick in the neck.' " " A Ministerial Morning Journal two or three days ago, favoured its readers with the pleasant announce ment that the pension' to be granted to Sir John Newport on relinquishing the Controllership of the Exchequer amounts to One thousand pounds per annum !' How comes this ? Why does Sir John Newport vacate the Controllership of the Exchequer ? So the Controller of the Exchequer has had, and will of course continue to have, a salary of 2,000/. per annum. Why does Sir John Newport give that large revenue up for half the sum ? The Right Hon. Baronet is not in the slightest degree more superannuated, or more inefficient, or less capable of rendering service to the public in the proportion of one per cent. for such a salary than he was when, by a dar ing exaggeration of every previous instance of Whig corruption on record, he was saddled upon the office in the year 113834. The question, therefore, is still un answered—why has this irksome old Irish partisan resigned ? But again, how came Sir John Newport originally to be installed in the office of Controller of the Exchequer ? Ay, and how came such a place us Controller of the Exchequer into existence ? It never was heard of before Sir John Newport staggered into it. The answer is, that the place was made for Sir John Newport—for Sir John—in the first instance— there being, as is perfectly well attested, a sharp 100 - ..,.. ..._ out upon the successorship to the Right Hon. Baronet, from the hour :it which his first appointment was dated. Well, then, in the year 1833, and antecedently, Mr. Henry Ellis, an active and able public officer, held the office of Clerk of the Pas.' Mr. Ellis was, and is, a near relative of the Earl and Countess of Ripon. But he had not been baptized in the water of Whiggery. So, as Lord Ripon was not in ,he best of odours with his colleagues, it was resolved :o get rid, by fair means or foul (foul for choice), of . . ,hebrother-iii-law of the half-and-half Colonial Seere- .ary. Mr. Ellis did the whole work of the office for 1,400/. or 1,500/. per annum. He was in the prime of ife, and a gentleman of no:inowledged capacity. But it comported,' I.s the Yankees say, with Whig expe diency, to supersede him—to supersede him for no shadow of misbehaviour, negligence, error, or in efficiency—quite the reverse ; the most ostentatious and lavish compliments were showered upon Mr. Ellis from all official quarters. Never was victim for the sacrifice decked out in gaudier colours. But he was superseded ; and by whom ? Why, by Sir John Newport, who had passed the prime of life by more than 30 years—an old worn-out rag of factious Whig- gery—even in his best days nothing more respect. able than a prating, pragmatical, voluble, virulent, fatiguing drudge upon the back benches—a tedious, pe tulant finder of mares' nests—a daP.y dinner bell to the most patient of his party, which all men heard, but to which none listened. It comported, we say, with Whig dislike of Mr. Ellis to put on the mask of pity for an an cient huger-on, and to manufacture (though not for him, any otherwise than as a warming-pan) a new receptacle, to be called " Controller of the Exchequer," abolishing the name, and the name only, of Clerk of the Pens,' but dismissing the substance of Mr. Ellis. Further, since no particle or pretence of reason was or could be assigned for this ungenerous and offensive job, it was necessary to bestow a retired allowance on the outgoing Clerk of the Pens. His whole salary for life, therefore, was Mr. Ellies compensation. But something more was to be done in connexion with the name of the quondam Member for the city of Water ford. The salary which had sufliccd for Mr. Ellis in his malihood was deemed an unworthy remuneration fo the age and imbecility of Sir John Newport. So the nor,-patronage Whig economists raised from the country, for his immediate benefit, an income, not of 1,400/., bui of 2,000/. a-year. We ask, was the office coital dered an effective one ? If so, why superannuate Mr. Ellis, for the sake of calling to a troublesome post a man whom nature had superannuated twenty year. before ? Or was the Controllership to be a sinecure ? A sinecure! What ! with Grey and Newport declamations against sinecures yet ringing in the ears of the commu nity ? It seems, however, that more than met the public. eye or car was contemplated by the coiners of this new fangled office. Sir John Newport could:not last for ever. It was notintended that he should. TheControllership was destined to outlive him. But who was to succeed him ? That was the arriere pensee which engaged the atten tion of certain parties who ostensibly busied themselves in making an arrangement for the comfort of Sir john Newport.. We ask them—was it not ? We put it to you, Mr. Thomas Spring Rice—we put it to you, who boast . of being a religious man, and, barring the use of pious frauds, conscientious equivocations, and a few analagous figures of speech, may be a tolerable graduate in reli gious observances, for aught we know ; but we put it to you, on your oath, or if a declaration, ' upon honour' do nor sit awkward on so young a Peer, we do solemnly adjure you, Baron Monteagle that is—Viscount Vul ture, Earl Cormorant that is to be—was it not your earnest and anxious hope, nay, your fixed and dogged determination from the very outset, that, whenever Sir John Newport carnet() have a successor forced upon him, you yourself should be that successor ? Hence, the enormous magnitude of the salary then granted ; hence the knavery of saddling the public with 2,000/. a-year under the pretence of liberality to poor, old, zealous, faithful Sir John Newport,' who is now — now, when his interests only are to be considered, and no reversionary anticipations thought of in favour of less aged aspirants after pensions —is now, we repeat, put off with one thousand pounds per annum instead of two. Why, if a thousand pounds a year be at this time of day enough in all co n s c i ence , un der the head o f k b ' rality,' to Sir John Newport, w as there aught but the grossest prodigality as against the public in the as signment of two thousand for the same identical oi ject, no longer than five years ago ? But we have al ready explained the motive for this iniquity. When the office of Controller was invented in 1834, it was Mr. Spring Rice, in his quality of remainder-man, %; hose future advantage occupied the heart and soul of that right honourable personage : at present, in fixing the retirement of Sir John Newport, when the superfi cial-inch gentleman has had no one but the octogenarian to consider, he feels for the public, and patriotically limits his exaction to a single 1,0001. Then how stands the case in its financial bearings upon the Queen's Exchequer ? Behold the contrast. In the days of profuse and rampant Toryism, under that old rogue the Duke of Wellington, and Sir Robert Peel, that wholesale dealer in corruption, the cost of the matter stood thus, viz.:— Right Hon. H. Ellis, per annum, for discharging the duties of the office £1,400 Under the fru ga l Whi g R e f ormers , th us , v i z . : — Right Hon. H. Ellis's retiring pension forced upon him by the Whigs £1,400 Ditto Sir J. Newport l,OOO Lord Monteagle's salary 2,000 4,400 Balance against the country, as the price of Whig virtue, precisely £3,000 We now ask the people generally—we ask Lord Mel bourne individually, to gloss over, if he be able, this nefarious wickedness. It i s no t t h e act o f M r. S pr i ng Rice : it is not the job of the ex-Chancellor of the Ex chequer. Don't let Lo r d Melbourne flatter himself that the nation will let him off on such a plea. It will not do for Lord Melbourne to smirk and rub his hands, and protest that ‘: he is very sorry for it, and that really he can't excuse !t," as his Lordship in a fit of desperation, under the guise of candour, has often done before. My Lord, it is the job of your collective Ministry. My Lord, it is your own job. You have begotten it, and in spite of the new bastardy clauses, you must father it. However your own exquisite moral sense may acquit you of this atrocious public robbery, you must bear the blame ; yes, and before long one moiety of the punishment also. As for the new Brummagem Peer Monteagle, he has surpassed—he has out-Riced himself. He will scarcely have the impudence to insist on the patent for his plun der, and the certain indemnification for the country is, that at the first moment of a new Minister's accession to office, the whole villainy must be ripped up from top to bottom, and either the " Controllership" of the Ex chequer smashed, or a less odious officer appointed." The Morning Advertiser, speaking of some remarks made in the new Tory manifesto of the Courier, respec ting the present state of the country, says :—" As we have already admitted that a temporary gloom hangs over the mercantile and trading community, we can have no difficulty in also admitting that at present the finances of the country are not in a healthy state ; but our existing financial unhealthiness is not only tempo rary, but is in no respect attributable either to Minis ters or to the Reform Bill. It is the result, like the dullness which prevails in the mercantile and trading world, of accidental circumstances and physical causes. The bad harvest of last year must necessarily have had an injurious operation on our financial system. Perhaps the Courier has forgotten—as it is very convenient for the new masters whose lacqucy it is to forget—that until the harvest of 1838 our financial circumstances were much more prosperous and healthy since the passing of the Reform Bill, and above all since the accession of the present Ministry, than they had been for a long series of years before. The most un answerable proof of this is to be found in the fact, that in the course of those five or six years the taxation of the country had been reduced to the extent of nearly .5,000,000/. annually. Would this extensive reduction of taxation have been achieved without the Reform Bill? Certainly not. 'Would a Tory Administration have effected it ? Never." The Morning Herald croaks in the following lugu brious style, of what our Contemporary is pleased to call the present " aspect of the times :"—" The as pect of the times—and the character of our political and commercial relations with foreign countries—render it more imperative than ever that our colonies should be governed with wisdom. The importance to England of her Indian possessions becomes more marked every day. We are threatened with the loss of our trade with China. India offers the means of rendering us, in , ime, independent of the celestial empire, for the article of tea. Our trade with America is, at this moment, to considerable extent in jeopardy. The bills of the United States Bank have been, within the last fourteen days dishonoured ; and the fears of a panic in the money market of America, have not yet passed away. Scarcely three years have elapsed, since the suspension of cash payments by all the banks throughout the Federal Union inflicted a heavy blow on the commercial pro sperity of England." The Courier of last evening makes the following comments on the present position of the Bank of Eng land :—" The Bank of England is in a difficult position. Whatever step it may take, it is sure to displease somebody. If it is liberal in its discounts, it is -barged with unnecessarily increasing the amount of the circulating medium ; if it restricts its issues, It is accused of illiberality towards the trading interests. Either way it is sure to be found vault with ; and at the usual periodical crises in the Money Market, a general attack is made on the establishment from all sorts of discontented per sons for reasons as various as their individual causes of complaint. Now we think the Bank of England .8 hardly dealt with. It is impossible for the Bank to do more than the laws which bind the currency Allow. The law says that the Bank shall pay its notes n gold ; the law makers being perfectly aware at the :ime of enacting this law, that if the Bank were to re- Strict its issues to the amount of gold and silver bullion chich it would be possible to collect in its coffers, it would not be worth the while of the Bank, as at present established, to carry on the banking business, Ind that under such a restricted currency, almost all commercial and trading operations would be necessarily suspended, and a general national convulsion would be the result. How is the Bank to act under these cir cumstances? In ordinary times its task of managing the currency is difficult and delicate enough ; but in imes of extraordinary emergency, the Bank is required her discontented censorists to do that which is Im possible—namely, to assist the commercial and trading community with money, when money is• most wanted, and at the same time to retain her stock of gold and silver qullion in readiness to change for her notes, precisely when the course of exchange is most powerfully acting to remove the precious metals from home to foreign countries." The Globe makes the following comments en the Recorder of London :—" The Recorder of London is, is is well known, a violent politician, more remarkable for zeal than discretion within the walls of Parliament, and not unfrequently allowing his political prejudices to oeep out when on the Bench. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman's remarks on the Houses of Lords ind Commons respecting summary jurisdiction being en trusted to Magistrates in cases of petty larceny, which supplied him with occasions for some very pretty politi cal prattle with the jury box during the past and present session, we have already alluded to, and should not again return:. the subject, were it not to show how invariably such ebullitions of folly in the Judge are caught at by the Bar, and produce caricature imitations by some babbler who must earn the half-guinea he has received with his brief by saying something for his client. The case, if it supplies nothing favourable, must be kept from the mind's-eye of the Jury by some extrinsic, pro bably grossly indecent, attack on another party, or by an allusion to some event which has no possible rela tion to the subject of investigation in which the Court is engaged." The Standard, commenting on a leading article in the Globe of yesterday, on the s ubject of some remarks lately made by the Recorder of London in his address, to a Jury of a Central Criminal Court, says—" Now, instead of finding anything objectionable in these re marks, no reasonable man can doubt that they were ex tremely judicious and well-timed. The assertion of the Globe, that such cases are, in these days of fre quent occurrence, is notoriously untrue, and even if they were more frequent than they are, they would not justify our Contemporary's pet plan of sum mary jurisdiction' by Magistrates. One swallow does not make a summer, neither does an oeca ±ional case of the description alluded to warrant so gross an invasion of the liberty of the subject as our Liberal Nlinisters have attempted to establish. But our Con temporary knows as well as we do that summary jurisdiction' was not to be limited to the cases of children under the age of 12 years. It was intended to extend over a very wide surface of crime, and to embrace charges of various degrees of importance. In reminding the jury, therefore, that the solitary case in q uestion afforded n o a r g ument in favour of summar y Jurisibilict, tion,' Mr. Law was preaching' no politics, it simply directing their attention to a fac t with v rescuing was essential they should be acquain ted, and l the committing Magistrate fro m the imputation 0. having outsteppod his duty on the occasion r the rest, the force of public opinion will deter p rosecutors o the la w oil juvenile delin (it has already greatly dimin i s hed their number), from invoking the vengeance f quents for such trespasses. d he for seve e r e m m b a ar i n negd abroad a t ral months. terr V an is ea c n o , u w n i t th C tl a ie n i t n iltueriteioinlaosf ARRIVAL OF VICE-ADMIRAL SIR C. ADAM AT THE BROOMIELAW.-On Friday, the Admiralty steam yacht Firebrand, commande d b y Captain Saunders , having on board Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, arrived in our harbour. The visit of Sir Charles Adam was, we understand, to inspect the en gines, now completed by Mr. Robert Napier for her Majesty's steam -frigate Vesuvius, and also the harbour of Glasgsw. Sir Charles was waited up'm by Mr. J. Hut chinson, Chairman of the Committee of Management of the River and Harbour, and Mr. Bell, one of the Trustee.. accompanied by Mr. Bald, engineer of the Clyde, who were received with much courtesy by Sir Charles Adam. After viewing the interior arrangements of this beautiful vessel, the party had the honour of dining with Sir Charles on board of the Firebrand. The Firebrand left our har bour on Saturday.—Glasgow Herald. 'Med EVENING EDITION. BUENOS AYRES AND MONTE VIDEO. By an arrival at Boston, Buenos Ayrean papers have been received to the 20th of June, and letters by the Editors of the N. V. Journal of Commerce from Buenos Ayres of the 23d, and from Monte Video of the 24th of the same month. The United States sloop Independence sailed from Monte Video June 23d, for Rio Janeiro : and the Fair field for Buenos Ayres on the 25th, all well. By order of General Lopez, Governor of Cordova, the Unitarian Chief Pedro Nolasco Rodrigues, formerly Provincial Governor of the same State, was shot at Conception on the 21st of May, under a charge of high treason. Domingo Cullen, another powerful mem ber of the Unitarian party, has probably shared the same fate. The blockade of Buenos Ayres still continued, and from the circumstance of sev era l F rench ships of war having recently arrived at Monte Video, it was thought a more rigorous blockade was conte m pl ate d. The Go vernor of Buenos Ayresis said to have 16,000 troops under his command. The French, it is stated, have no vessels that can approach near enough the town for an effective cannonade ; and should a bombardment be determined on, they would have to build vessels of a lighter draft. RUSSIAN MOVEMENTS. The National publishes an interesting letter dated Bucharest, the 0 0th ult. The numerous forces accu mulated by Russia in Bessarabia caused a great agita tion throughout Moldavia and Wallachia, where nobody doubted but the Russians would shortly in vade those provinces. " The people," says the writer, " tremble at the idea of the occupation of their territory by the Russian army. They remember the cruelties committed in their country from 189.8 to 1834 by the savage hordes who imported there the plague and cholera, levied as a war subsidy 180,000,000 f. on its inhabitants, massacred in Moldavia whole villages, peopled with Catholics ; and finally excited the abhor rence of all classes of the population, whom they ruined, ill-treated, and humiliated." The writer contends that the Czar is le,s interested in becoming master of Con stantinople than inflicting a mortal flow en the Mob. dave-Wallachian nation, whose rising in arms would me nace his preponderancy. " Never," he says, " did a finer opportunity offer to assert our independence. We never had before so many allies and means of success. Let us shake off' the yoke of the procon suls of Russia and proclaim our rights as a sovereign independent state, insured to us by our treaties with. Turkey. •To-day 11Iehemet Ali stands in need of allies in European Turkey ; we may rely on his aiding our movement, and supporting it with his money and influence." The correspondent of the National then . tells his countrymen that England and France have guaranteed the integrity of the Ottomon empire, and that the moment a Russian soldier sets his foot on the territory war would be declared, and Odessa burnt by the combined fleets ; that Austria had stationed 60,000 men elong the frontier to second their resistance, and that with the aid of Servia and Bulgaria they could oppose an army of 300,000 combatants to the invaders. In conclusion he appeals to the Molvado-Wallachians to raise the standard agaiest their oppressors ; to expel the princes imposed upon them by Russia ; to found a national Government for both principalities ; to notify to the Russian Consuls that they are foreigners, and have no right to meddle in the affairs of the country ; and, finally, to proclaim as their prince an honest, in telFgent, and patriotic man. " The moment for acting," he declares, " has arrived. Let us stand up against our tyrants, and victory will crown our arms." Private letters from the frontiers state that General Moreno was shot, not in the town of Vera, but outside, near the frontiers, where the soldiers, not knowing him, merely wanted to rob his person and baggage, when he remonstrated and told them his name and rank, think ing this would protect him ; but quite the contrary—those that would have been satisfied with his money now took his life too. From a secretary of Elk's they got 20,000 dollars in cash and other valuables—and a good deal from Padre Cirillo, whom they advised to go back to Havannah and collect the revenues of his archbishopric. Maroto is ill at Bilboa, where he assured his friends that if it had not been for Espartero's impatience to effect the surrender at Bergara when it took place, but give him a day or two Imre, he, Maroto, _would have brought the greatest part of the Alavese and Navarrese battalions to the same point. He also acknowledged himself to have been principally in great danger at the Pretender's last re. view of his troops on the 28:11 of August, near Elorrio, for had Don Carlos their possessed the least firmness and pre- S2OCC of mind, Maruto must have been shot. He knew well the Pretender's iniheeility and irresolution, but was much alarmed lest ore of his confidents should do the thing for him, and did net feel safe till he saw the whole group gallop off the gruund. LE.CIBURG (GALICIA). SEPT. 10.—Austria is continuing her armaments among the eastern and south eastern frontiers. Independently of the corps of 30,000 men stationed between Gloczow and Tschernowitz, along the Russian and Moldavian frontiers, another corps, com posed of 20 battalions of infantry and 32 squadrons of ca valry, with nine batteries of artillery, have lately entered Galicia, from ;Moravia, and were advancing, by forced marches, by the high road to Tschcrnowitz, towards Buko wins. The Galician authorities, too, have of late shown themselves extremely kind tow-IRAs the Polish Refugees, and have granted succours of money to the Russian pea sants, who, to avoid the Conscription, sought rvfage„ in Galicia. INTERNATIONAL COURTESY.—IL trill be re collected that the United States exploring squadron, whilst at Cape Horn, met with very boisterous weather, and some of the vessels suffered damage. The store ship Relief, it is understood, lost all her anchors at that time. She arrived at Valparaiso in April last, and was of course obliged to lay off and on, having lost all her anchors. Her Britannic Majesty's corvette Fly was Is ing in the harbour at the time, and the condition of the Relief was inferred from her movements. The Commander immediately des patched his boats, with an anchor and cable, for the Re lief, which were bent on, and the store ship came to an chor. The Relief was at Callao en the 16th of May, and she then had the anchor and cable of the English cor vette. Such expressions of international courtesy always merit a distingunthcd notice.— Washington Globe. PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN FRANCE.—One hun dred and ninety• five towns are provided with public libra ties, containing altogether 2,500,000 volumes. At Paris there are five great public libraries, containing 1,378,000 volumes. CORN CROP IN THE `VEST.—The Louisville Journal of the 24th instant says :—" We conversed yester day with a very intelligent gentleman who has recently tra velled through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, and who has conversed with persons from every part of those States. In Illinois and Missouri the corn crops are remarkably abun dant In the state of Indiana they are in general poor—in soa e pits the produce is almost nothing. It appears that the drought has injured the Baden corn much more than the commo on account of its being planted so much thicker. The drought has extended into Ohio, and in some places there, it is said, there will be no more than halt a crop."—New York Paper. A SPRINKLING OF LYNCH LAW IN OHIO.— Some of the inhabitants of Batavia, Geauga county, took it into their heads, about two weeks since, to rid themselves of the Perfectionist priest, a Mr. Mead (a new sect, we should think), who had lately been bailed out of prison; and also of a Mr. Foot, a brother-in-law of Mr. Thomp son, said to be the paramour of Mead. To accomplish this object, in a manner which should be effectual, it is said the Perfectionists were first divested of their wearing apparel, then daubed all over with tar, and, by way of ornament, then covered with feathers. In this situation they were rode on a rail about fire miles, to Burton, where they were placed upon their own footing, %Alit' their faces set to the south, and ordered to make tracks out of the country.— Cincinnati Republican. DEATH OF HENRY SINGLETON, iS with great regret that we announce the death of this veteran, able, and universally respected artist, which took place on Sunday, the 15th instant, at the house of his friend, Mr. Simpson, at Kensington Gore. Mr. Single ton was 73 )ears of age, and had been for some time, we imagine, the oldest living exhibitor at the Royal Academy, compositions were tit , th morefacility, and at other institutiens connect ed with the fine arts. His works, therefore, have bee n too fre q uentl y before th e public to render it necess ar y for us to say more of t h em than that, if they did no t reach the h i ghest point of mer i t, en . lly Ple as i ng and In man's com p osi i . they s,alatilidayrsefienviermeeeidit.tiieNpoomssaenssion of composed wi It was but lately that we noticed, n the Lztcrary Gazette, t h e compl et i on , by Mr. Singleton, of an ext ens i ve series of cabinet p i c tures, illustrative of Shakspe are ; an effort w hich, at his tim e o f life, was exceedingly creditable t o hi s p o wers, and to his love of his profession. Si r J os h ua Re) nolds , speakin,c; of Luca Giordano, expresses surprise that, considering his numerous disqualifications, he had not made himself a great name in at t." Th e same may be said of Mr. Singleton. The cause probably was, that, having many years ago formed a c erta i n s tyl e , an d esta blished certain principles of design, light, and shade, and • colouring, he thenceforward painted entirely from his own conceptions and recollections, without any further reference to those sources of excellence which the intense and never ending study of nature can alone supply. Although his Toile lay in works of imagination, Mr. Singleton occa sionall painted portraits ; his gioup of the Royal Academi cians, sitting in the Council-chamber of Somerset-house, under the presidency of Mr. West, attracted much atten tion at the time it was produced, and ought to have secured his admission into the Royal Academy. It has been en graved by Mr. Beatland. We are happy to sa y that Mr. Singleton was in easy circumstances , the result of . s industrious and moderate habits. The unaffected simpli city of his manners, and the kindness of his disposition, had endeared him to a large circle of friends, by whom he will be sincerely lamented, —Literary Gazette. DOG CA RTS.—The Commissioners have in good time placarded the following notice : --After. the firs . t duy of January next (1840), every person,. who, within the M -tropolitan Police District, shall use any dog for . the purpose of drawing, or helping to draw any cart. carriage, truck. or barrow, shall he liable to a penalty not more than forty shillings for the first offence, and not more than five pounds for the second, or any following offence " HIGH Tinats.-011 Monday and Sunday the banks of the river Thlmca were overflowed by the tides, their w hich rose se veral feet beyond usual height. Great damage, in consequence, took pities, more particularly about Shadwell , Rotherhithe, Bankside, and Battersea.