The Sun. — London, England, 1839-11-04 00:00:00

-EVENING EDITION. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. CARLISLE. The election of Councillor to ill the places of those Whose period of service has expired took place on Fri daY. The polling commenced at nine o'clock in the morning in the different Wards. In Botchergate there IV " a spirited contest. It is but fair to add, that we believ e the Tory candidates personally took no part in the matter, an d were p ro b a bly scarce ly cognisant of their names being put forward. So far as party is con cerned the Couneil remains precisely as it has been from the first—composed almost entirely of liberals. — Carlisle Journal. LIVERPOOL.—SATURDAY. The Municipal Elections yesterday, in this town, Proved rather less favourable to the Liberal party than had been anticipated. They returned eight, and the Tories nine Members to the Council ; and that body now consists of forty-seven Reformers, and seventeen Tones. Yet, upon this slender ground, the latter have raised d shout of ' re-action ;' and, judging from the fuss with which the matter is trumpeted, it would ap- Pear that a great victory has been gained! KIDDERMINSTER, Nov. 1. The municipal election has terminated, after an unu sually severe contest, in the return of five Reformers, and only one Tory to supply the place of the six Coun cillors going out of office this year. The Tories strained every nerve, and actually had the effrontery to tender the voting paper of a man who was lying at the time at his own house on his dying bed. North Ward.—Joseph Boycot (T), 91 ; Charles Talbot (R), 88 ; Thomas Hopkins (R), 88 ; W. B. Best (T), 87 ; Paul Hughes (T), 85 ; Wm. Minitie (R), 84. South Ward.—John Shemmonds (R) 102 ; Charles Cole (R), 95 ; George Humphries (R), 93; John Nettle s hip, 91 ; Stoddart (T)B7 : Walter Hill (T) 67. The three first in each ward were elected. HARWICH, Nov. 1. The town has been all excitement for the last few day s , such a desperate effort have the Tories been making to regain the power in the Council; but not withstanding the wretched, vile, and base arts of the Most unprincipled and unblushing bribery and trea chery, the Reformers succeeded in getting two out of !he four, which will empower them to elect a Ma3or of their own principles, the first Reform Mayor in the bo rough, The Council now consists of nine Reformers and seve n Tories. At the close of the poll the num bers were— ' Reformers---Thomas George, Esq., 110 ; Thomas Wakefield, Esq., 112. Tories—Mr. F. Stevens, I 1 1 ; Mr. J. T. Groom, l 14. CANTERBURY, Nov. 1. The election of the Town Councillors in place of tl3ole who retire in rotation, fell on the following gen tlemen : —Mr. Bowman, Mr. C. N. Miette, Mr. Wil liam Plummer, Mr. T. Wilkinson (all re-elected), and 6 , 11 Mr. Mathews, who takes th , place of Mr. Smithson kit Tory), and Mr. Austen, who succeeds Mr. B. hliette. Thus the election'has given one more Liberal than before, showing that but for the old freemen, litany of whom do not possess the qualification of bur- Pases, the Tory cause would be extket in the metro- Dothan city, notwithstanding the Cathedral influence. MANCHESTER. There was no contest except in New Cross Ward, where the united Tory and Radical forces were marshalled in favour of Mr. James Wroe and the Rev. James Schole field, The allied forces, however, were not so successful ea thin occasion as at the recent election of Commis sioners of Police in that district ; and the out-going Councillors were re-elected by fair majorities.—Man chester Guardian. LANCASTER, FaInAY. The town has been in a state of great excitement all this morning, the election of six candidates for the /Icancies in the Town Council having been keenly contested. Four Tories have been returned, being fourth part of the whole body of Councillors.—Lancas ter Guardian. DOVER, Nov. 1. Yesterday the election of six Councillors took place. An of the gentlemen who are now returned have been te•clected, so that there is neither gain nor loss to either party. We candidly confess that we are disappointed at this issue ; for we had calculated on a gain of two or three members on the Liberal side. Tory bribery and c orruption, however, have proved too powerful, we re gret to say, for the purity principle on which the canvass has been conducted by their opponents.—Dover Chro nicle. BRISTOL. Bristol has manfully done her duty. Thirteen Con aervatives have been elected, and three R a dicals.—Tory • P aper. The Council is at present constituted as follows Aldermen 15 Tory ... 1 Liberal... 10 Councillors 30 „ ... 18 „ 48 Total... 64 SHREWSBURY. 2 8 7 e18 h Ward.—Watkins (C), 287 ; Alltree ( C ) , rn ; Sayer_ (R), 93 ; Poole (R) , 98 . — Conse rvative ajority, ~CaStie W a r,l Without.—Hors e man ( R ) , 190 ; Stant "4 188 ; Birc.ls (C), 184 ; Beacall (C) , 162.—Ita (liedal majority, 4. Castle Ward WfAin.—Birch, 130 ; Drury, 130. both Conservatives, rstturned without opposition. Stone Ward Withii:.—Grove, 122 ; Lloyd, 122. Both Conservatives, returned without opposition. Stone Ward Without.—liunt, 130 ; Harper, 130. B oth Conservatives, returned v:• - ithout opposition. C ONSERVATIVE TRIUMPH IN TOE TOWN COUNCIL. 2 ,,Conservatives, 21 ; Radicals, 11. 1 ; Majority, Paper. LICHFIELD. The whole six Radical councillors, with the present 'layer (Brassington), at their head, have sustained a most signal defeat. The next parliamentary election is -now considered by the Conservative party quite safe : , South W ar d.—M r . Johnson (C), 137 ; Mr. Ready, ;,e), 140 ; Mr. W. Smith (C), 133 ; Mr. Mallett (R), M r . R. Smith (K), 65 ; Mr. Lisliman (K), 59. N 6 rth W a rd.—Mr. Proffitt (C), 171 ; Mr. Jackson (, \'), 107 ; Mr. Dalton (C), 168 ; Mr. Brassington (the pr esent .Mayor (K), 103 ; Mr. Dorrington (K), 00 ; 117 t• Haw kins (K), 90. Alas that the Mayor could only muster 103 votes out of 360.—Tery Paper. BURY ST. EDMUNDS. l'our Conservatives returned out of the six new )l lneillors elected, six Whig - Radicals going out of 0"t ". In this borough the Conservatives h ave only be en abl e to return one of their party since the passing of the Municipal Act. EYE. Four Radicals retired, have been replaced by four i t ? e nservatives, by which means the Town Council will, I:" the first time since the passing of the Municipal Act, enabled to elect a Conservative Mayor. KINGSTON-ON-THAMES. Th e Conservatives in this ancient town have kept up their c h aracter by re t urn i ng five Conservatives out of e six. CAMBRIDGE. (r ,St. Andrew's Ward.—J. E. Law (C), 235 ; Woodly 207; Searle (R), 211 ; Clayton (R), 170. Market Ward.—G. Fisher (C), 177 ; H. Rance (C), 1 59 ; Baden (R), 157 ; Elliston (R), 153. Trinity Ward.—Wentworth (C), 210) ; Balls (C), 9 t ; W. Ekin (R), 20 0 . ' , Rat Barnwell Ward.—Fawcett (C), 174 ; C. Wag staff (0), 164 ; Haylock (II), 167 ; Skrine (It), 159. , 'West Barnwell Ward.—Palmer (C), 174 ; Papwor th (C), 170 ; Livett (R), 225 ; H. Harris (It), 219. OXFORD. (From the Oxford Herald.) We have affixed' an asterisk to the names of those Who want out of office, and we have put a t to those of th e successful candidates. The numbers were as follo w : Last Ward—t John Matthews (C), 230 ; tJohn Mat thew (C) , 9.25 ; *Chris. Waddell (R), 9 ; Taman ( 6. West Ward—t#Wm. La'chmore (R), 186 ; *J as . A r m. Sl at t er (R), 179 ; Richard Dry ((), 175. North Ward—t William Glover (C), 251 ; tJohn T "Ylor (C), 233 ; *lsaac Alden (R), 138 ; *Jos. Warn e (R), resigned. South Ward--John Hastings (C), 220 ; ±John Towle (4 177 ; *Charles Butler (C), 169. Central Ward—t James Hunt (C), 177 ; tJohn thorP W CN 54 • *Thomas North (R), 94 ; *Wm , 1 ' (), ) resigned. WINCHESTER. The Municipal Elections for the B orou g h terminat ed 4 fc.lar o'clock yesterday afternoon, when the following e ritlenien were understood to be returned. In the toit td• of St. Maurice, Messrs. Border and Bird ; the Po,.s'llg eandsclates being Messrs. Bulp ett and Deverell. the W at ;rl of St. Thomas, Messrs. Barnes and l„ - Y vv °: Mess rs . ~Tlcob and Bon being defeated. And Ward of S. John, Messrs. Littlehales and 1 54 1 nY bein g returnee; w i t h ou t opposition. By the attle of this con t es t the p2rties in the Council are ex oe 3 1 balan ce d, an d t h e e l ee t h .'n of Mayor on Sa turda y -,.tt will be looked forward t 0 viith some interest.- 1 - 4,7Nvshire Independent. PORTSMOUTH. The r , oi , lowin •rsons have been returnttl'—: , /in l' ?!.temouthfVPaLrd.—:qessrs. Devereux, AO>Ansi !Ina sJa king. ' 7 4geeombe and Pres ettilt°llBea--St. John's.—Messrs..L. without opposition . St. G With, George's .— Messrs. Chamberlain anu cut opposition. Crassweller, G., 413 40ft-4.11 Saints.—Messrs. John P .... , s „ v Isi t i on orthy, Smithers, and Nance, jun., without PPPu She pard, 0...._ , St. Paul's.—Messrs. Hay, Dixon, and Smith. St. Mary's.—Dr. Thompson. We shall make a few observations on these results next week, and expose several Tory tricks of a shame ful character, that have come to our knowledge.—, Hampshire Independent. LICHFIELD. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The Tories have been victorious here for the first time since the passing of the Municipal Act. They are indebted for their temporary success to the apathy and indifference of some of our leading Whigs, and to the unpopularity of our present Mayor, who was one of the candidates for re-election. We were also disap pointed in not seeing our Member, Lord Alfred Paget, earlier. If his influence had been thrown into the scale a few days sooner, the election would have been secure. The Tories played a deep game ; they dis claimed all idea of a contest. Our friends thought themselves safe, and it was only two days before the election that the Tory party crept out of their holes, ' and announced the names of their candidates. It turned out that their agents had arranged all their plans a month ago, and their emissaries were out in all directions on the day of election. We still have a large majority in the Council. The Tories will be disap pointed if they suppose they can foist a Tory Mayor upon the town. We subjoin the final state of the Poll : SOUTH WARD. TORIES. WHIGS. Ready l4O Mullett BO Johnson William Smith NORTH WARD. Proffitt Dalton Jackson Brassington, the Mayor 103 Hawkins Dorrington 9O TRURO, Nov. 2. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The necessity of union was never more disastrously felt than at the election of Town Councillors for our borough yesterday. Ever since the last election, when Mr. Tooke lost the representation of the Liberal por tion of the constituency, there has been a grudge be tween the Whigs and the Radicals, consequently there has been no union of action. The effect of this was most severely felt yesterday, as will be seen by the fol lowing tabular statement of the termination of the poll for the two wards into which this town is divided : Eastern Ward. C. Carlyon, M.D. (T) 171 Mr. E. Mitchell (R) 167 Capt. Devonshire (T) 160 Mr. Josephus Ferris( R) 154 Mr. Vice (T) l5l In both wards the three Western Ward. Mr. John Tippet (T) 282 Mr. James Ferris (T) 268 Mr. H. Burrows (T) 181 Mr. John Paddow (R) 168 Mr. Tealor (R) first-named were returned. DEVONPORT. The election for two Councillors for each of the six Wards of the Borough of Devonport, took place yester day (Friday, Nov. Ist), at the Town Hall, at Morice Town, and at Stoke. The following was the state of the poll at the close ; Morice Ward.—W. B. Blackmnre, 134 ; J. W. W. Ryder, 85 ; Peter James, 32. Mr. Peter James withdrew at one o'clock. St. Auhyn Ward.—W. G. Byers, 146 ; John Rooke, 131 ;R. 0. Backwell, 66. _ . [We feel it due to Mr. Backwell, to state that he was put in nomination at a late period, without his consent.] St. John's Ward.—R. B. Oram, 86 ; W. J. Little, 73 ; John Hallett, 66 ; J. S. Herring, 60. Stoke Ward.—John Veale, 140 ; Thomas Husband jun., 73 ; Edward Lyne, 54 ; Da❑iel Little, 49. Clowance Ward.—Messrs. R. Condy and R. Rundle were re-elected without opposition. Tamar Ward.—Mr. Samuel Jenkin re-elected, and Mr. John Rowland elected without opposition. BRECON. There was no contest here, Messrs. Vaughan, May berry, Winstone (Tories), and Price, a Liberal, were re-e►ected. LEICESTER. The Liberals were triumphant in this borough. SALISBURY. The Conservatives out-generalled the Liberals in New Sarum. Six Town-councillors have been elected, and in these Councillors we recognise none but Conserva tives. PORTSMOUTH, The present contest, notwithstanding the desertion of their duty by the three quiescent wards, is a gain of three to the Tories. Portsmouth and St. Mary's stand as they did, but St. Paul's gives three good men and true for three Radicals. Portsmouth Herald (Tory paper). SOUTHAMPTON. In most of the wards the Tomes obtained a majority, but in St. Mary's the Liberals triumphed signally. WORCESTER. There were contests in three of the Wards, but the political constitution of the Council remains unaltered .each party having gained and lost one, viz., the Liberals in St. Nicholas and the Conservatives in All Saints. MONMOUTH. M es srs, Goode, Probyri, and Roberts, were re elected councillors for M o nmouth, and Mr. Whiting was chosen in the place of Edwards. These gentlemen are all Tories, and the substitution of Mr. Whiting for Mr. Edwards arose from the latter gentleman having committed the unpardonable sin of voting for the Li beral Mayor, at the last PPlll.o3ted election for that office, in Monmouth. No opposition was offered on this occasion. TAM WORTH. Not only have the three retiring Councillors (all Reformers) been re-elected by large majorities, but the place of the retiring Peelite been filled up by the elec tion of a staunch Liberal. Sir Robert Peel and his friends are enraged beyond description at this defeat. They fully calculated on electing ractpbers of their own party to fill the corporation 6%CeS, and they cannot but acknowledge that the success of the Liberals 4 to them a " heavy blow and a great discouragement." Long and pale faces are the order of the day among them, while throughout the land the defeat of Peel in his own stronghold will be held by Reformers t,e be a great victory of principle over corrupt influence, The Councillors re-elected are Messrs. Francis Hunter, William Henry Wain, and Richard Barrett. M r. William Ka& is the new Councillor. BERWICK. FIRST OR NORTH WARD.—*Mr. John Tait, 67 ; *Mr. Thomas S. Good, 67 ; Mr. Alex. Moor, 65 ; Mr. George Robison, 63. SECOND OR MIDDLE WAR D.—A - Mr. Join Cunning ham, 96 ; Dr. Cahill, 91 ; *Mr. Patrick Clay, 85. THIRD OR SOUTH WARD.—Mr. Robert Crossman, 78 ; Mr. A. B. Gowans, 72 ; *Mr. James Ramsay, 64 ; *Mr. Robert Guthrio, 49. We understand Mr. Guthrie was averse to accept the office. Those marked thus * were brought forward by the Reformers. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(THIS DAY.) DEAL, Nov. 2.—Wind S. S. W.—Sailed Tagus steamer, INl‘Leod, Lisbon ; British Queen (s.) Roberts, New York; Persia, Stevens, Ceylon ; Gypscy, Gibson, South Seas; Susan Taylor, Stader, Jamaica; Clarendon, Fisher. Do.; New Phcenix, Simpson, Do ; Tobago, Pearson, Antigua; Ann, Burgess, Tobago ; Grant, Foreman, Barbadoes ; James Cruickshank, Young, Trinidad ; Montreal, Duffing, New York; Vulture, Gilbert, Do. ; Dart, Airth, Madeira. LivEarooL, Nov. 3.—Wind S. E.—Sailed the Flowers of Ugil, Armand, for Calcutta; Kirkman Finlay, Scott, Bombay ; Bengal, Hicks, Maranham ; Rapid, Thomas, and Dorothea, James, Jamaica; Acadia, M'Kenzie, Mo bile ; Benjamin Morgan, Johnstone, Charleston ; Dala ware, Pastes, Boston; Parmeit Kerr, Bacon, St. John's New Brunswick ; Minerva, Innes, Para; Lapwing, Os born, Laguayra ; Providence, Mager, NewfoLlildland. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 2.—Wind E.N.E.-3. Wind E. to E. S. E. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 2. —Wind E. S. E. FALMOUTH, Nov. I.—Wind N. E. to S. E., fresh breezes. -2. Wind N. W. to S. ditto.—Arrived the liraf._,,anza (steamer), Lewis, from Gibraltar ; left 24th ult ; Cadiz 2 5 th ; Lisbon, 28th ; Op o rto, 29th ; and Vigo, 30th ; Amyritas, Popham,: Miramichi. Off port, the Sultana, Scott, Smyrna. Sailed the Anna Forte, Windsor, Newfoundland. The following has been posted at Lloyd's : " Admiralty, Nov. 1, 1839. Stn,—Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of this date, calling their Lord ships' attention, by direet . on of the Committee of the General Shipowners' Society, to the present continued prevalence of easterly winds, and to the circumstance of there being many ships delayed in consequence in the chops o f th e Ch anne l, which may require supplies of pro visions, Ike., I am commanded to acquaint you, for the in formation of the Committee, that their Lordships had anticipated this application by ordering the Meteor steam vessel, from the Clyde, to perform the service of proceed ing to the relief of the ships so detained ; and I am to add that the Pantaloon will be ordered by this night's post with provisions and water for the relief of any ships in the chops of the Channel, that may be in want of them. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JOHN BARROW , Wm. Oviat, Esq., iSeeretgry General Shipowners' Society. -- - GERMAN COMMERCIAL UNfOti Mr. Whea ton, agent of the United States of America, the Con gress of the German Customs Union, ha s bean more successful in his mission than Dr. Bowring, haying salc cended in obtaining a considerable, reduction in the in3port Motives of the Prus• jinties on one of the prine;p4.l productions of his cOntrY United ,(cot9ip, we suppose). Among tiiie sian •Gavevynent for granting this favou r ( 4 , t h„ pl i itee e,,t„..y . een Prussia and North Ame- States was tiw lFrge exchange of products which has states.—lerankfort & ro t e ii ; , a . w t. Cillk!ite e . l , n at f t r e o r m tak o c e s a fr r e: si4 , ...2 n uantity o f wool, line., glass, Journal. , • o'4 THE SUN, LONDO`isi - ,MON bA_V, NOVEMBER 4. 1839, NEW CONSPIRACY Ii PARIS• (From the Maniteur Parisien.) In consequence of information which had reached the authorities that many persons who had formerly be longed to secret societies were in the habit of assem bling clandestinely, and that they were manufacturing powder, cartridges and balls, and a kind of bomb, con taining balls and powder, warrant, were issued for the apprehension of several of these persons, and a search was ordered in the places frequented by them. On Tuesday last the police entered a room at No. 22, in the Rue des Lombards, where they seized a trunk containing 95 parcels, containing each a pound of gunpowder, and another containing 12 pounds, with several utensils for the manufacture of powder and cartridges. Three persons who were in this room were arrested. At No. 80, in the Rue du Faubourg Montmartre, the police found a bale containing 20 bombs or projectiles, packed in oiled cloth, and carefully tied up ; each containing a pound of pow der in a first envelope, surrounded by a great number of balls, and forming a total weight of 61b. or 71b. Each of these projectiles has a lance with a fuse. The two persons who occupied the room in which this seizure was nu.de were arrested. One of them had been long under the eye of the police. In the Rue de Neuilly, in the Faubourg St. Antoine, a seizure was made of 251 b. of powder, a great number of cartridges, several instru ments for the manufacture of powder, and a receipt for the making of it, and also a number of guns and pistols. At Creteil, a village two leagues from Paris, an individual, who has been manufacturing fuses such as those mentioned above, was arrested, as also his sister-in-law, who lives in the Rue St. Jacques. At the residence of this female a great number of articles used in the manufacture of gunpowder were found. The Ministerial evening journal adds that other seizures and arrests have taken place. The total num ber of arrests is eleven, all of whom belong, it says, to secret societies." WARLIKE MOVEMENTS OF RUSSIA. Our correspondent in Marseilles has forwarded to us the following extracts of a letter from Odessa : " The utmost activity reigns in all the harbours and dockyards of the Black Sea, as well as on several other parts of the coast. In order to form an idea of this pro digious movement, one should have witnessed the pre parations for the campaigns of 1812, 1828, and 1829. Every day feldtiegues, or Cabinet couriers, reach Odessa with orders for the Governor-General, and who thence repair express to different points of the country to hasten the arming and departure of the troops. 35,000 men are already assembled at Sebastopol and its envi rons. Additional reinforcements, said to be considera ble, are shortly expected. Amongst the troops in march for that city are the sth, 6th, 7th, and Bth regiments of Dragoons of the sth corps of cavalry of reserve. The Black Sea squadron and a large number of transports are in readiness to take those troops on board. "'Three divisions, the 24th, 25th, and 26th, of the 6th corps of the army, are to form a reserve under the orders of Count Kaissaroff, a General better known in the circles of St. Petersburg by his taste for French literature than for his military acquirements. On the other hand, the cavalry General Rudiger has been in structed to reinforce the army of Bessarabia. He brings with him 14 regiments of infantry (10 of the line and 4 of light infantry), 6 regiments of cavalry, and se veral batteries of artillery. The destination of these troops is not yet known, but it is easy to see, and we way safely affirm, that they are intended to influence the determination of the young Sultan, should he, as we are informed, evince a disposition to abide by the advice of England and France. " Russia, who is only waiting for a pretext to interfere in a military way, has hitherto succeeded in protract ing the negociations. Her object is to tire out the patience of the Pacha cf Egypt, whose resources are exhausted by the hesitations of diplomacy, and to compel him to march his army upon Constantinople. The Cabinet of St. Petersburgh would then have a favourable oppor:unity of putting an end to that young Egyptian dynasty, which can alone dispute with her (at least with a better chance of success than any other power) the inheritance of the Sultan. "In the event of Ibrahim Pacha's a dvancing upon Constantinople, Russia, by means of her fleet and of the army of Caucasus, could throw several corps of troops on the flanks and rear of the Egyptians, and endeavour to annihilate them in a drawn battle. This plan had been suggested by General Jom;ni, and was actually adopted by Russia previous to the campaign of Turkey, should Mehemet Ali have marched to the assistance of the Sultan on the side of Anatolia. Prince Paskie witsch is the man of confidence of the Czar, and will be charged with the execution of this plan, which it is probable, however, the prudence of Mehemet Ali will defeat."—Courrier Francais. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS (From the Morning Chronicle.) Sir Robert Peel has by this time, we suspect, made the discovery, that if he ever contemplated profiting by the base warfare in which the Tories have embarked against the Queen— a war f are di sgraceful beyond any thing of which we have an example in modern times— without being himself mixed up with it, he has made a grievous mistake. The Tories will insist upon his wal lowing in the mire with them. The treason of Mr. Bradshaw was the treason of the clergy of Canterbury and the gentry of East Kent ; for it was received by them with tremendous applause. At the anniversary dinner of the Ashton-under-Lyne Operative Conserva tive Association, at which were present Colonel Thomas, M.P., of the 20th regiment of the line ; Major Maclean, Captains Horne and Murray, Lieutenants Brooke and Sharpe, all of the same regiment ; Captain Clarke, of Hyde ; Captain Ainslie, &c. ; a Mr. Raby was rapturously applauded while uttering the most atro cious libels against our amiable Queen. " I hope," said that foul-mouthed brawler, " that Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington will purge the Court of the filth— of the filth, I repeat the word—which offends the nostrils of all but those whose sense is so vitiated that they know not vice from virtue, or purity frfrom im purity. I nnocence i s con f oun d e d w ith guilt ; virgin in. nocence is banished the palace while vice riots ram pant at the Royal board.—(Applause.)" This beastly language is heard, not merely without challenge, but with applause, by an assemblage containing gentle men, many of them bearing the Queen's commis sion. If there were the slightest foundation for the calumny —if it were not as notorious as the sun at noon day, that the throne of England never was filled by a Sovereign whose every thought, word, and act bore stronger evidence of purity—if her Majesty were not, in all that most en nobles and adorns the female character, an example to her subjects —we might understand how this dastardly libeller presumed to bespatter his Queen with his abuse, however much we might condemn the attempt. But it is utterly unaccountable how English gentlemen, officers whose profession ought to inspire them with something like gallantry, should allow faction so far to degrade them, as to applaud imputations against their virtuous Queen, which they know to be false and calumnious, merely because that Queen would not belie her convictions, by declaring a confidence in Sir Robert Peel which she did not entertain. When Burke expressed his astonishment that ten thousand swords did not leap from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened the Queen of France with insult, be thought merely of her beauty—he was not unaware that the life of Marie Antoinette had afforded ground for scandal. What would have been Burke's indignant language, could he have foreseen that men calling themselves gentlemen, officers wearing the Queen's uniform, dared to apply to their own virtuous Sovereign language such as could only be applied to the lowest and most de graded of her sex ? But such is Tory chivalry ! And yet how short is the interval since the throne was filled by a Sovereign whose life was pro fligate beyond example, but who was nevertheless worshipped by the very Tories who are now driven to invent calumnies against her present Majesty ! Dignitaries of the Church of England were ready with their incense to this modern Sardanapalus ; and his brother, whose life certainly was not a model of purity, and whose gambling and other vices have entailed ruin on so many innocent families in this metropolis, was idolized by the Tories, who had a ready apology for all his faults. But the Queen will not endure them, and their love of virtue, forsooth, which never burst forth before against royalty, is so un governable that it leads them to trample on truth and decency, and to divest themselves of every manly feeling. We said that the Canterbury Tories would not have applauded as they did the treasonable ebullitions of Mr. Bradshaw, if he had not given expression to sentiments with which they were before familiar ; and the Morning Post candidly admits that we correctly interpreted the proceedings. He has spoken, as we are told, " what thousands of loyal Protestants feel, though they have hardly ventured to express it to themselves, and certainly would be very cautious of expressing it to others, with that distinctness and force, from which the language of Mr. Bradshaw did not shrink." The Standard, too, qualifies Mr. Brad shaw's speech as sound and able, though there are afew unjust and intemperate allusions in it. In short, he has merely revealed on a public stage the madness by which Tory society is infected. It is notorious that in Tory society treason is openly meditated, and wishes expressed that the Throne could be filled by the King of Hano ver. We may well admit, with the Standard, that wrong-headed men are never a very inconsiderable class or destitute of influence in Tory society ; but, then, how can Sir Robert Peel govern this country, sur rounded by this wrong-headed class ? It is quite clear that Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington will not be suffered to wear the guise of moderation : " We must," says Mr. Roby, " have no trimming, no half measures; the enemy is not only in the gate, the enemy is in the citadel ; Queen Victoria sits at her Royal Council with Popish advisers. What next? Will you, Englishmen and Protestants, sit tamely by say ing-6 God help us !' Will you, without an effort or a remonstrance, allow these profligate rulers thus to perpe trate their blows against our Constitution in Church and State? Where are our leaders ? Where are they who ought to have defied this profligate administration, and have dared them at their peril—aye, have them dared at their peril—to perpetrate their miscreant acts against the very Constitution which they had sworn to uphold ? I hope that, in the next Session of Parliament, our Peels and our Wellingtons (and I wish they were present to hear me), will say, with Major Bridgnorth, in Sir Walter Scott's ' P.veril of thePeak,' We may forgive our own enemies; but we dare not, we hold no commission, to for give the enemies of our country.'" The difficulties of Sir Robert Peel are only beginning. He may have thought that he could profit by Tory folly ; but Tory folly will prove his master. He must degrade himself to its level, or he must withdraw. In the mean time, we trust the men of Canterbury will, at their me e ti n g, at twelve o'clock to-morrow, prove to their country that they have no part in the feelings which dictated the foul slander of their Sovereign. (From the Morning Herald.) " Evil communications corrupt good manners." So saith a high authority, and, if we are not mistaken, Dr. Kay, the Secretary to the Education Committee of Privy Council, affords a memorable illustration of its truth. The time was when this gentleman could re turn the following answer, in his examination before the Select Committee for the Education of the Poorer Classes in England and Wales ;—" 1 have recently been engaged in introducing improvements in the train ing adopted in the workhouses of Norfolk and Suffolk, which are not yet complete. But the system we pro pose to pursue is, that the boys shall, under the Com missioners' regulations, be instructed during three hours, tat least, every day, in reading and writing, and the principles of the Christian religion ; and that, during certain others, such instructions shall be given them as are calculated to train them to habits of usefulness, industry, and virtue. The expedients which we adopt for this purpose are as follow :—The Bible, the Testament, and the Book of Common Prayer, and the Church Catechism, are considered essential school books ; and if any other religious books besides these are employed, they are submitted to the chaplain ; and if difference of opinion should arise between the chaplain (who is to be licensed and approved of by the diocesan) and the board of guardians, respecting any books which might be supposed to influence religious belief, or to relate to the essential doctrines of Christianity, we think it right that that difference of opinion should be referred to the diocesan. Of course duo regard is had to the provisions of the 19th section of the Poor Law Amendment Act, by which relief for the conscientious scruples of Dissenters is provided."—Report on the Education of the Poorer Classes ; ordered to be printed 1838, Pp. 15, 16. Now we do marvel that Dr. James Philip Kay who, as an assistant Poor-law Commissioner, in the year 1838, could thus feel himself bound most punctiliously to own the jurisdiction aria authority of our diocesan bishops, even in questions relating to parish paupers, should now be content to act as the agent and official of a Privy Council Committee, which would abrogate the authority of these diocesans, even over the National Schools withi n t h e i r several dioceses. This, we say, is a marvell ous convers i on, and whether it has been achieved by the Marquis of Lansdowne or Mr. Wyse—by the friend o f P r i est l ey or t h e fr i end of the Pope —it shows up Dr. Kay as what would have been called, in King James's-time, " a thoroug,h confider." (From the Morning Post.) The paltry and selfish Ministerialists, while they affect so much loyal horror at the unguarded expres sions of Protestant indignation, which !heir base policy has called forth, know well in their hearts that the only true friends of the Monarch and the monarchy of this country are the Conservatives, and such of the Whigs as most despise the support upon which the present Ministry is dependent. The Ministerialists themselve, we say, know well that those upon whom they rail are the very men upon whom her Majesty may trust to the uttermost ; not indeed for the amusement of her Ma jesty's Court, but for the security of her Majesty's Throne. The Conservatives pity her Majesty's youth, imposed upon by ill advisers—they regret her Majesty's predilections, which, unfortunately for herself And for the country, are not in harmony With the national feeling of Great Britain ; but they deeply re;wAeet her Majesty's lawful authority, and in its 40 ectm l an4 in her's, they are, if need were, ready to di,e,„ 1 r . ier'pr-vsent serva nts, as her Majesty will 0110 day 3 4l3over, are mere hypocrites—creatureg whnse design is to serve them selves, at no matter what expense to the principles of the monarchy--at no matter what sacrifice yf her Ma jesty's permanent welfare as Soyereign of these realms, If there were Any W I telt h er M a j esty of the conduct L s4cc i by the present Ministerial party befo re th e y arne courtiers, her Majesty might better judge he little dependence could lie placed upan Olvro, 1 130 1* were In tie haplt P4t only 4t 4 1 :ProAllift and ;.: isa;ting tie IteraT , ' ffi . ..g tile ttoyai cmit•f:6flq authority, as absurd ineumbrances upop the progress of society." Their speeches were invectives against the Crown, and their writings—but one of John Dryden's couplets will best describe them " Their business was by writings to persuade, That Kings were useless, and a clog to trade." Such was the character, even at this time but a few years old, of those who now—because they have wages for it—pretend to loyalty, while they do all that they possibly can to give offence to the really loyal. They now batten upon the corruption of the Court as they did formerly upon the corruption of the populace. They formerly sought to ruin the State by putting it under the dominion of' the rabble ; they now yield it up to ruin by putting it under the dominion of the Romanists. (From the Times.) For what reason Sir John Campbell's political keepers deemed it prudent to cage and diet their lion in private, rather than risk an exhibition of him to the Edinburgh public, we must leave our readers to de termine. The Learned Knight having stolen in upon his constituents on the Tuesday evening, or at latest on the Wednesday, measures for securing a crowded assembly of spectators, though certainly not approving ones, might have been adopted immediately. With an advertisement in Thursday's Courant, aided by decent handbills, which in so small a place generally effect their purpose in an hour or two, an immense public meeting might have been convened at twelve o'clock on Friday, not only with the utmost ease, but without interfering with Sir John's engagement to the constabulary dinner, which the Whig Provost, having previously disbanded the independent mem bers of that body, had procured Sir John Campbell an invitation to. Why was this not done ! The electors, we have good reason to know, were anxious to hear Sir John. They wanted an unbought opi nion from him, although aware he is retained and feed by the Whigs, respecting the recent Popish ap pointments of Messrs. Shell, Wyse, and O'Ferrall. They had also a variety of other matters to inquire about. They wanted to know, more particularly, if the scheme of sectarian education proposed by the Whigs shall continue to be infected with a rotten and anti-Christian liberalism. had the Attorney-General been disposed to front the constituency, his opportunites for doing so during his stay were abundant. We ask again, why those opportunities were shrunk from ? The fact is, he durst not venture to encounter them upon such delicate and dangerous ground ; so his friends dexterously contrived to smuggle him through with a select party-breakf4st and a non-political dinner, where, of course, cross-examinations were wholly out of the question. SECOND EDITION. THE FUNDS.-(CLOSING PRICES.) CORN RIOTS IN FRANCE. A riot occurred at Dol, in the department of Ille et Vilaine, on the 24th ult., on the subject of corn. A crowd, mostly composed of women, 'mopped a waggon laden with grain, unyoked the horses, and conveyed the contents to the market. They afterwards proceeded to the house of the factor, burst in the door, carried off all the wheat they could find in it to the town stores, broke all his furniture, and would have killed him if he had not absconded. A few Gendarmes, who endea voured to restore order, were beaten and pelted with stones. The mob next paid similar visits to the dwel lings of several other persons engaged in the corn trade. The drums of the National Guard beat to arms, but only twenty or twenty-five turned out, who were over come or repulsed by the mob. Several among them were, moreover, dangerously wounded. Troops were immediately marched to the town from Rennes and St. Male, and tranquillity was re-established in the morning of the 25th ; forty-five of the rioters were arrested, and removed under a strong escort to St. Malo. The National Guard of the place was suspended by order of the prefect, because of the paucity of its members who presented themselves to do their duty. THE FRENCH ARMY IN AFRICA The following is an extract from a letter from Store, in the Courrier Francais, dated the 19th of October : " The year 1839 will have been fatal to our African troops. The mortality is so terrible, and the number of sick so great, that it is almost impossible to continue the service. At Constantine the Duke of Orleans found lying under tents, in the middle of the public place, and for the most part without mattresses, a great number of sick troops, in a country in which wool for bedding costs but seven sous per pound. He ordered the unfortunate soldiers to be brought into the palace, where they were placed even in the drawing-rooms. The Prince ordered at the same time that mattresses should be bought at his own expense for their use. This order honours him ; but is it not a deplorable thing, that a Prince should have to come from Paris to discover such miseries, and that a nation like ours should leave to languish, without beds or shelter, thousands of soldiers oppressed by pri vations, the most moderate picture of which would create horror ? It cannot be repeated too often that the African army is now at the height of its sufferings. The state of the hospitals—the appearance of the camps—the sight of the soldiers, pale and lank—show, on the part of those who have to provide for them, such an indifference for the life of men, that we would willingly call it criminal, if we were not afraid of excit ing anger. But it is to be hoped that the truth will come forth, and that an end will be put to abuses of every kind in Africa." The Journal des Debate terminates a long article on the military operations in Algeria in the following words : " The passage of the French army and the presence of a French Prince will bt a memorable epoch in the history of these tribes. They will have seen, that if the right of conquest exercised by civilized nations be the most strong, it is also the most just. Habituated, as they have been for thousands of years, to defend their persons, families, and property against every de scription of invaders, they will now learn that French domination respects persons and property--that the French bring with them order, peace, industry, and law. It is not war that we are seeking in the west of the province of Constantine—it is peace which we are desirous of establishing ; it is the French name for which we wish to command respect ; it is a march of Roman legions through Africa ; it is civilization march ing in behalf of barbarians. Is not this a grand and noble task for the army and the heir of the monarchy of July ?" EXECUTION OF PEYTEL FOR MURDERING HIS WIFE. The execution of this murderer, whose case has ex cited the deepest interest in France, took place on Mon day last at Bourg. It will be remembered that Peytel was a notary of that town, who had formerly been a dis tinguished member of the Parisian press, enjoying the friendship and acquaintance of Lamartine, M. de Bal zac, Jules Janin, and the leading literary men. Peytel contracted a marriage with a young lady of property, and, as there is too much reason to suspect, with the intention of murdering her as soon as possible to acquire her fortune. At his pressing intercession she made a will hia favour, and was five months enciente when she was found astassinated, as also Peytel's domestic, near the Bridge of.t.ndefl. Peytel was not suspected for some time, his story was plausible. He said that his servant shot his wife in the travelling carriage and essayed to kill him, but pursued by Peytel, the master dashed out his domestic's brains with a hammer. A long train of cir cua”tamial evidence proved that this story was made up. The excellent character of the unfortunate ser vant--the irreconcilcable statement of Peytel, with the testimony of !.he medical witnesses as to the nature of his wilds wioun4 aug subsequent death, formed a chain o f circumstances which *light the mime home to Peytel. The verdict of the Jury was confirmed by the Court of Cassation, end on Alanday he was brought to the scaffold. After having twice received thi3 kiss of peace from the Priest, he rapidly ascended the steps of the scaffold, and on seeing the fatal plank he looked at the execu tioner, as if asking what remained for him to do. After a significant gesture from this worthy functionary, he stooped, and his head rolled upon the scaffold. During the whole time of his imprisonment Peytel wrote incessantly, but although he made no protesta tions of innocence, he made no avowal of his crime. H e has left an immense mass of manuscripts, which probably contain minute details of this mytAeriuus and dreadful deed. . In reply to the numerous loroirics concerning tho last moments of the prisoner, his confegsfir has given out that 1;0 died as became a Christian. HONOUR AND HONESTY IN HUMBLE LIFE. —At the great fair of Ballinasloe, October, 1839, an Austrian officer (Count Weiper) who attended to pur chase horses, set up at " Craig's Hotel," and upon the moruing of the day that be intended to make ? those purchases, hs breakfasted in biaswhFrc several tables w•e'e Lid, and many persons ',A took their hurried weal ; a;l4 started of to the 44.; Count Weiper in the throng, A-fter he had left the room, a young man who superintended a.od received the money from the numerous waiters in that ropm, per? ceived a pocket-book on the floor, took it up, and found therein several hank notes. Immediately ho informed hi', employer, and they (together) counted forty notes of the Bank of England, 1001. each ; then closed and laid by the pocket-book. Shortly afterwards Count Weiper rushed in, almost distracted. The young man, ;liter a few questions, to the Count's inexpressible joy, restored ,to him his lost treasure, and in presence of the " maitre ofhael" (Mr. Craig), requested the Count to examine the conUas, Tl e did so, and found all right." With gratitude, the Count offered him *Ol, which the honest and honourable young fellow declined to aexept—" Excuse me, Sir, I do not feel en titled to a reward for doing my duty," was the reply, The grateful Count earnestly requested the young man to accompany him, and he would get him a commission in the Austrian service ; but the young fellow remem bered his widowed mother, who, since his father's death, he.4l by honest industry, and great prudence, supported and edazatea him and her other children—he would not desert bed gveu that promotion so flattering to the son of a soldier could not Setups him to swerve from the path of duty. This high:minele,d aPc l 04 honourable youth is the son of Geo rge ki.Oonald, of ,• Caithness,' formerly colour -sergeant in the gallapt 42i , whose wanly form and soldier-like bearing, induced ti'e lao w i a bja .gerphermere to have his likeness taken at fug length :Ls 4 pz, -,- Pet model of " a brave ' Wier , ,—Dublin Pilot . •. A. of ing 'Silurian Advertiser corresponds , . . • • ,• Advertiser states that the presence of altn:`" 4 !0 be f9PPCI iP t) , •e iron ores of Radnorshire, and that it is 'l'6ll *(ifth consideration of those iron masters who are at a grea.; expense in importing the red ore of Lancashire. EASTERN INTELLIGENCE. MALTA, OCT. 16.—The Confiance steamer arrived on Thursday, and the Talavera on Sunday last, both from Besika Bay, bringing letters from the British squa dron to the 6th inst., announcing the return there of the Rhadamanthus from Constantinople, the Zebra from Alexandria, and the Hydra from Malta, all bearers of dispatches, touching the contents of which the rumours and reports are so various and opposed to each other, that no reliance can be placed on any one of them. It appears, however, certain that the Pacha of Egypt has added another refusal to the five or six already given to restore the Ottoman fleet to the Sultan, and letters from Alexandria to the 7th inst., brought by the Vol cano, which arrived on Saturday, assure us, that his Highness is preparing to show fight in the event of the appearance, off Alexandria, of the combined fleets of England, France, and Austria, with a view to force upon him their demands. The wea ther at Besika Bay has been very boisterous, and a safer winter anchorage must soon be sought. Several masters have been in the Confiance to seek whether an anchorage can be found in the Gulf of Soros, where the Tyne has already proceeded. The Ganges, Im placable, Powerful, and Vanguard have gone on a short cruise to Smyrna, and the Hazard has sailed for the same port to relieve the Dido. The bulk of the British fleet will, in all probability, winter at Vourla, whilst the French Admiral will divide his force between Smyrna and Port Oliver, in the island of Mitylene. Uaptain Hyde Parker, in the Rodney, is to hoist a Commodore's broad pendant, as second in command. The Talavera proceeds from this to England, and will be followed by the Pembroke, as soon as the Hastings gets up to re lieve her. The Benbow will relieve the Minden. The result of the Court-martial of Lieut. Hennah, of the Talavera, is, as was anticipated before he had made his defence, a full acquittal, and the restitution to him of his sword by the gallant President, with an appropriate speech. Another Court-martial has dis missed from the service Mr. Bray, the chief en gineer of the Confiance, on a charge of drunkenness. The trial only occupied three hours, and his twenty years' servitude and previous testimonials of ex cellent character were of no avail. Lieut. Downes, of the Bellerophon, has exchanged with Lieutenant Hutchinson of the Zebra. The Implacable has lost, after a few days' attack of fever, her professor of navi gation, whose remains were deposited alongside those of Mr. Ovenden, of the Princess Charlotte. The Phoenix steamer arrived from England and Gibraltar, on the 9th, and carries up the despatches and mails to the Ad miral, which arrived yesterday by the Blazer from Gi braltar. The Volcano brought no Indian mail, nor did she call at Beyrout ; but Mr. Dumaresq, mate of this vessel, was sent on with the mails for the last-mentioned port from Alexandria, whither he will return to meet the next steamer, which will leave this about the 23d, with the overland London mails for India of the 14th, for which the Hermes proceeded from hence to Mar seilles on Sunday last. The future overland mails will, until further orders, be made up and transmitted from London on the 4th of every month, so that those for Alexandria and the East Indies will be despatched from Malta every 13th or 14th of the month ; but the steamer conveying them will not call at Beyrout, the merchants of which place, we understand, will them selves provide an Austrian steam-vessel to run between that port and Alexandria. " OcT. 20, 1839—1 avail myself of the sudden de parture of her Majesty's steamer Blazer, for Marseilles, whither she proceeds to convey an East India mail, which arrived here yesterday afternoon, in charge of that indefatigable person, Commander Waghorn, who contrived, in the absence of any other desirable con veyance offering at Alexandria, to get the loan of an Egyptian steamer of war, to announce the arrival yes terday of the Be'nbow and Edinburgh, from Lisbon, and of the Belleisle, this day, from Gibraltar, all which will immediately proceed to join the Admiral, from whom we have tidings to the Bth instant, when he was still at Besika Bay with the squadron, excepting such as had a short cruise. Our present Mediterranean squa dron consists of the Princess Charlotte (flag), Rodney (Commodore), Asia, Belleisle, Bellerophon, Benbow, Edinburgh, Ganges, Hastings, Implacable, Min den, Pembroke, Powerful, Talavera, and Van guard (ships of the line, 15) ; Carysfort, Castor, Tal bot, Tribune, and Tyne (frigates, 5) ; Beacon, Daphne, Dido, Hazard, and Wasp (sloops of war, 5) ; Jaseur, Scorpion, \Veazel, and Zebra (brigs of war, 4) ; 'Mag pie (cutter) ; Gorgon, Hydra, Phoenix, and lthadaman thus (steam frigates, 4) ; Confiance (steam tender) ; Acheron, Blazer, Hermes, Megmra, and Volcano, (steam-packets in the Post-office service,s); Augusta, bombard in the packet service , and Ceylon, receiving ship, making a total of 42 pendants. The Talavera is still in port, but will proceed to England next week. The Horatio, transport, arrived from England yesterday. The Phoenix sailed with despatches for the Admiral on the ltlth, and was followed by the Confiance, with further despatches, arrived overland on the 17th, on which day the Megwra sailed for Gibraltar, and the Volcano, for Corfu with the mails. As the packets for Alexandria do not call at Beyrout, the Consul-General at Alexandria has taken up a bombard, which has been called the Augusta, to run as a packet between Alexan dria and Beyrout. Mr. Don Philip Damaresq, a mate of the Volcano, has been appointed to command her, until the pleasure of the Lords of the Admiralty is known. —Hampshire Telegraph. 5,E26101,1,1101T5E, CLERKENIVELL.— At a meeting of the Middlesex Magistrates on Thursday the following resolution was adopted :—" That a representa tion be made by this Court to her Majesty's Secretary of state for the Home Department, complaining of the heavy expenses inflicted on this county by the trial of prisoners for trifling offences at the Central Criminal Court, in consequence of a practice recently adopted by the Magistrates of the Metropolitan Police Courts of committing almost al l offenders (however tr ifling the offence) for trial at the Old Baile y , as also the great expense and inconvenienc e it entails u p on prosecutors andi.i ti witnesse s,)l' e te l cid ti ):( lb y o l' ' e a r' iCentralna period of from ten to fourteen Criminal Court, whi c h h ave lately gt o attend during th e p rotracted days, in consequence of tliP PfK9ber of such committals, and by which the term Pf imPriis"4l,e°.t in vases of ac quittal is materially inereas eG, 4nu inflicts a severe punishment previous to the trial of a party who mar ultimately be declared innocent," MURDER DX A LUNATIC.--On Monday an inquest was held at the Lunatic Asylum, A u li t h ) ~_ , roan, on the body of Charles Donally, a lunatic, who had been in the institution about a week, and was lodged in a room containing two other insane persons ; one of whom, name d Ri c hard Hilton , was received on the - 2 ,40 1 iPst4n f t.-4 1 ie name of the other was Wilson. These were all considered i4c,rmlegs persons, and were • i Wilson was :losely covered tip iq accQuintio4ge4 with ore of . appropriated to the room s patients of si kittii;t dispo§o ll . l, Nothing unusua l oc curred up to bed time on itittirday i whop they were as usual locked up, but on Sunday morning .6o na lly Wtiti foßnd dead on the floor, between his crib and Hil htoan:4s, with e . b a o n p y d ro , arif's of violence u Herald. . P" hilt, Hilton:: LA Verdict, " Fonntl dead ." --- --:ayern °milk.; 1 BRITISH FUNDS flank Stock 180!x! India Stock f249% 3 per Cent. Red 3 per Cent. CclO I us. t Ditto Old Annuities s73; 3 per Cent. Red 97 Ditto New Annuities New 3yQ per Cent 9S, Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2,1 Bd is New 5 per Cent I Ditto 500/ 7 die Long Annuities to expire I Ditto 5001 8 dis. Jan. 18611 Oct. 1859 Jan 1860 .NOREION FUNDS _ —......., Austrian, 5 per cent 1063 Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. Belgian, 5 per cent. — Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds 73 Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — ! Russian Bonds, 5 per cent.... Chilian, 6 per cent — , Ditto, Metallic.. Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent 27 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred .11% Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. 1106 50c. Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent — !French, 3 per cent l. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent.. 1825......... 3V% Dutch, t.lji per cent. Peruvian, 1825,6 per c0nt..... 7.. I Ditto, 5 per cent. YENING- EDITION. tations to render her such in fact ; but this satisfaction ' has happily no so lid f oun d a ti on , an d as groandiess is the hope of difficulties from his own party to ' Sir Robert Peel, when he shall accept his high commission as restorer of the empire. It is true, and it would be undutiful and dishonest to conceal the truth, that the Queen does not possess the same enthusiastic attachment of her people which welcomed her upon her Majesty's ac cession to the throne of her ancestors. Strange it would be if she did, after two Years of outrage upon the best feelings of the nation by her Ministers, and of public and private exertion on the part of these Minis ters to exhibit her Majesty as embarked with them in all their crimes. Such a long-continued warfare against the character and peace of the Sovereign has necessarily produced some effect ; but that effect is at present limited, and it would not last a month after a change of administration. The Protestant feeling of Great . Britain and of Protestant Ireland is very strong. It is the feeling: which placed the House of Brunswick upon tile throne, and which has maintained that house upon the throne in defi ance of two Jacobite rebellions ; and, indeed, we may say a Jacobin rebellion also, for the Protestant feeling of a part of the Irish population it was which saved the empire in 1798. This feeling cannot be in sulted to the extent that it has been with impunity. The people will avenge a continued course of insult ; and will, in some instances, avenge it amiss. " In ill-advised dislike. The guiltless head with random censure strike." All such vague and violent resentment will, however, be confined to the inconsiderate of not the highest rank. Let us not be misunderstood : we are speaking of the present position of public affairs—not to what may be—we had almost said what must be the effect of a perseverance in the system of outrage to the t'rotestaut feeling of the people. We will not promise that the masses will remain Cunscrvalive when the fearful alternative of allegiance to their reli gion or allegiance to the Crown shall be thrust upon them. A sentiment which now affects but one or two men of ardent temperament in the middle classes, would, if descending to the millions of Protestants in humbler stations, produce results which we do not like to con template. SHARES Great Western Railway V lO Ditto New Shares 9 l l, London and Brighton Railway 16!.4 London and Birmingham Railway 140 Ditto New Shares London and South Western Railway 4O Manchester and Leeds Pfdlway Midland Counties Railway North Midland Railway SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Globe.) The Tory Newspapers have christened Lord Mel bourne's Government " The Lucky Administration," in consequence of the invariable and signal success which has attended all its undertakings. We have no objection to the appellation, though we do not admit the assumption implied in it, that the successes ob tained have been owing to good fortune and not to good management ; for on the.contrary we are prepared to show that all the successes which have so happily marked the career of Lord Melbourne's Government have been the result of a judicious selection of objects, and a prudent adaptation of means to ends. But it is no slight recommendation for a Government to have the eharaCter of being invariably fortunate. This character is one which many great leaders, both milit ar y an d p o liti ca l , have been the most desirous to establish, as being the one most likely to secure for them zealous and energetic co-ope ration from their followers. For mankind are more likely to follow those whose undertakings are thought to be sure to succeed, than those whose undertakings only deserve to succeed ; and, as far as the interests of a nation are concerned, success is the main point ; whether it is the result of fortune or of good combinations, regards only the merit of those by whom it is achieved. But never was there an occasion on which it could less truly be said that success was owing to chance, than in regard to our recent glorious achievements in India ; on the contrary, these achievements have been the result of the most able combinations, and of the most judicious adaptation of vast means to accomplish a great end, The end which has been accomplished is one the full value and importance of which can only be justly appreciated by persons Well acquainted with the con cerns of our Indian empire ; but we fearlessly affirm that our triumph has not merely added glory to our arms, but is pregnant with advantages of trans cendant importance to British interests of a vital kind. With regard to the means employed, nothing was left to chance, as far as human foresight and pru dence could provide __for future contingencies. Four armies crossed the Indus, three of which united to march on Candahar, and the fourth was ready to have marched on Cabul if necessary. The Bombay army from the South, the Bengal army from the North, and Shah Shoojah's troops from our frontier, all met by different routes to the eastward of the Bolan Pass, and marched successively to Candahar, Ghizni, and Cabul ; and the fourth army, which came through Run jeet Sing's territories, was ready to have taken Dost Mahommed in the rear if he had not prudently fled. Some of the Tory papers have said that the capture of Cabul was solely owing to the accidental circumstance that 13,000 well appointed troops of Dost Mahommed refused to fight ; but why did they refuse to fight ? Why, for an excellent reason—that if they had fought, they would have had to contend against a victorious army three times their own number. (From the courier.) The extraordinary ability with which the plan of cam paign against Cabul was combined, the patience and perseverance under privations of no ordinary severity, with which marches of a duration so lengthened and distances so vast were accomplisned, and the climax of surpassing gallantry by which all was wound up in the storm of Ghizni and the capture of Cabul, the capital itself, have ',scarcely been repaid hitherto with that full and fair tribute of admiration and gratitude to which they are so pre-eminently entitled. It may, indeed, be observed of Indian affairs, and the achieve ments of our Indian army generally, that they receive less attention and are regarded with much less interest than is creditable to the intelligence or honourable to the feelin g of the nation. It would almost seem as if the lustre of victory was dimmed, and the warmth of national sympathy chilled, in proportion to accumulating degrees of intervening latitudes and longitudes. And yet the annals of the Indian Government, and that heroic Indian army, from the earliest dawn of empire, present one unbroken record of glorious triumph in the field and successful sagacity in council, such as con tinuously can be paralleled only, but not transcended, in the history of Rome, Republican and Imperial. That matchless army has ever been, as yet it is, the nursery in which the military spirit, the best blood, and the brightest genius of British chi valry was cradled and trained to the vigour of man hood : from the laurels, almost unheeded, of Indian war fare we have seen its chiefs mount to impeiishable fame on the ruins of the mightiest of the hosts and heroe. of more civilized Europe. If we have been unmind ful of the arrear of iratitude due for the past, let us be just at least f or t h e present and for the future. The hand so lavish of reward and title to Colonel De Lacy Evans, who led battalions only to de feat and decimation, and returned with no remant of the army committed to his charge, save a bare truncheon, cannot he niggard or churlish in the dispensation of ho nours and rewards to Sir John Keane and his gallant asso ciates, who have triumphantly uphold the invincible banner of England and extended the empire of their Sovereign. Whilst, however, we humbly discharge our portion of the national debt of gratitude to the Indian army, we must be allowed to question the policy and pruded ee o f the Indian Government in entering on this ;car without necessity, 'i'be syst e m . of Indian policy, as under stood and acted q hy our ablest statesmen, has been in prinelpl i e essentially defensive and pacific ; conserve ',;i44 cot territory and influence has been the rule, con est and extension the excevion. (F r om the ..S.teftdard.)_ The literary ;Ipporeterssuppoosf theunlilpoinpiustiaryritymaonfiftebset great satisfactipp at the Queen with the Conservative party, and exult in the diffic 4 i t i e , w hich the assumed v i o l ence of that party would impose upon Sir Rolaert P ee l at hi s accession to ofAcet The sottsfactiou professed tt the loss t o ti (ueen of Abf? afActicto, of an i mport - A kirlalon ' a her *Rtitos—and !tat divis;- Crawo la', ever found :‘ 1 — on , too, In which the -.wilt vi ..0 alley Support in times of danger ... - -- is . a sir.. 6 oiar evidence of 16.yally ; but it is quit * in Ic.:eping with the whole policy of that party, wV ch h as so sedulously laboured to represent the Sovereign as in feel ing the Sovereign only of a factic,-,1, and by these represen %formation has reached us of a public meet',„, held at Calcutta on the 19th of August, to receir e t i,s' e report of the New Bengal Steam Fund Commit, an ; the Lord Bishop in the chair, at which Eurcrtiear4s and na tives urged in the most pointed lanr.iage., and in the strongest manner, the importance to India o f a direct and speedy communication with thi; country. The feeling is intense in India and gener a l he re in favour of the plan, and what is there to prevellt it; execution ? We will not repeat the suggestions, offered by some of the speakers at the Calcutta mrAting, but when it was shown, j a this communication, as o municati on , th a t f orty -fi ve d ays in p o i nt f time, and three shillings in p o i n t of charge, may be - - -•. sr..ved on every letter to or from I n di a, b y .„ : impro v r, ment in the mode of transmissi on , the public have right to know who and what it is that preverit ffi j ie. 4 l ‘ t P7.team 4 the immediate establishmect of a direct aAnnd,ei communication between us and our b ° oull'an fel low-subjects.—At/as. HOGARTH AND AN OLD SIL'K litNDICER cHIEF.—For a considerable time past, t o b f e 'm j with respect t the National Gallery have been in P k u e c e h p a e l r a s nn of and astonishment, ; the apparent decay of Hogarth's fire series of pa .ntings, which have been for so tr4any years one the Ciallerv. I , a p of the chief attractions of „ litocrp of that while the pictures are,und the brilliancy of color,rs: the .maintained trsb their i original ortl satirist daily riaded, becoming a u m e ore by our u n r iore mm dinr a y. They were strictly observed, the wall which they ado-. / 4 . 4 1 was examined, yet no cause for the lamentable - c h ange was detect e d. A fter much anxiety it was discri arise f rom t h e breath of the numerous visit-orsvered to to the Gall ery , who examining the pictures it,- question with microscopic eye, eager to catch the: minutest detail of their truly English character,, minutest the can vass too nearly. The damn 1-. r- tuns occasion attracted and retained the dust of t/ ~e room. on the surface of the pictures, until their v.eonted e.ad well known beauty gradually became obs• * , nre d. What was to be done.? the application of Liquids to clean pictures is at IA 1 times hazardo- A ; doubly so w i t h t h e delicate and ex. pressive # Juches of Hogarth's masterly pencil. The effect of old silk handkerchief was tried an ot - t the orner r of one of the pictures—the re sult was .cniraen .. re rubs and th e pi cture app lous—a few mo r. aced in all and its pristine beauty of colour_ expression* The rub bing process was extended to the series, and our old friends with " shining morning faces," can now scarcely be recognised.—Literary Gazette. THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—We have ourselves only to blame if our public, monuments do not equal in splendour and design i n , most distinguished edifices of foreign natizytis. A miserable parsimony has, a lmo s t always wit Lout Lion, blighted the geniusexeep of our archit,:etsp and com pelled them to adopt expedients to realize the views of their employers, whether the Government, Committees, or public Companies, at once disgraceful nail ing. Tate New Palace and the National Gallery are signal instances of the national character for art being sacrificed to a sordid economy. Our artists have nal, in vain devoted years to their earlier studies, and vvan dered far and wide to cull the beauties of ancient and modern art ; it is not for nothing that they have en dured fatigues, undergone dangers, and suffered tions in the pursuit of instruction. We arc of opinion that our architects of the present day are equal to any intellectual effort, and only want a discerning and liberal public to foster their genius. It has of late years been the fashion_ with the critics in certain literary pe riodicals to vaunt up the merits of foreign buildings, and to decry the productions of our own architects. They little consider the millions which have been ex pended on the modern edifices of France and Ge'- many, and th e i na d equate means placed at the . posal of the English artist. At home our buildin- , , s are diminutive in size, devoid of their necessary zchitec tural embellishments. Abroad the productions of the pencil and the chisel come in aid of the architect, and the union of the three arts produce those impressions on the wind of the traveller which he in vain looks for at home. These reflections have arisen in consequence of the competition of designs for rebuilding the N ew Royal Exchange, an d t h e su b sequent discussion whio'. took place in the C ommon C ounc i l on Thursday 1.05 t,, when Mr, Donaldson presented a memorial praying for a revision of his design. Here the artist has confess edly rendered himself equal to his subject, as /Ur, Barry did in his design for the Parliament Hous.,s, Ile has shed a new light upon the subject, and sh. dwr that the Royal Exchange should not be a mean, ccto mon-place affajr, a mere house of business 'with fifes of columns, without use or propriety, wi . ..11 rows of but that it is capable, any sacrifice o f use f ul many tiered windows, like a merchant' s s i .op and store withou.. ness, of combining the cla:,sic spieno.ours of ancient art with all the requisites of modem usages. The Ex alange should be a rocal point, surpassing in import ance and grandeur all the surrounding architectural groupes. It should not be second to the Mansion- house in size, nor inferior to the Bank in embellish- ' ment. It should not be a mere echo of the Globe, nor a repetition of Princes-street or the Post-office. W e want new sensations—a departure from the beat , „ track, Well, dire c tl y suc h a design is offered, i', i, savagely anat om i se d b y the architect judges, ay ,d „_ jected by th e C omm i ttee on the score of . : _, ense What, are we t o h ave an Exchange secondp to th at o t do the citizens 1 tYur provincial u P n a e r s is of or L o i‘ f .er S p t o . ol P o e r te . T 4 s i b as u g rg ov; -- ? infe w ri o.hrr..tto require ? Is gen'.us of commerce, 1 of the first commercial city in the, world it not a temple, as it were, .to t 1„ which her merchants may vw.c with a proud conscious- I ness, and not be ashamed t,o display to every fot eigner. I What are a few thouFands in comparison with thu object of having a noble Royal Exchange ? Mr. / Lambert Jones ItA out of the bag on Thursday that the 1 Committee had had a design, pre.viously ma d e, l a i d before them, upon which they originally founded their opinion of the turn which such a building ought to cost. Upon wh ose aut h or i ty was such a design prepare(' .! I What is the name of the architect who designed . 4 ? , Has all this competition been a mere farce, in ord rat length to bring in the fortunate author of this NVOD.. I drous design ':' Have 38 architects expended "w on ; t;neir exertions three and four thousand pounds, and dev .ote d . t h„,, months of hard labour, merely that might be cruelly analyzed, their profe'dsional character tainted, and their hopes dec;lived, fr the purpose of introducing a favourite architect, ',low behind the cur- tain ? The Committee seem. to be mere tools of a , designing e,nd intriguing mind. Let them have their I eyes open, their wits about them. Let them judge for i themselves, and do their duty. I am y ours , & c. 1 OBSERVED THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S 1 :CIP . EIGN ORDEIIS OF KNIGHTHOOD.—HiS Grace It K n i m i a Grand Cross of the (Austrian) Order of I‘l,mir . Th ere , 4, Knight of the (Danish) Order of the F;teph"‘lnt, Knight C` cost, Knight of the (French) Order of the ii• j i y Grand Cross of the (Portuguese) Order of the Tower and Sword, Knight Grand Cry) Order of the Order of tile Prussian Eagle, Knight of tkie first class of the (Roc slat!) Order of St. George,, Knight Grand Cross of the (Sardinian) Order of t! t; Annunciation, Knight of the Order of the Rue:gown of Saxony, Knight of the (S4nlian) Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit, Knight Grand Cross of the (Spanish branch) Older of um, Golden Fleece, and Knight Grand Cross of t) (Swedish) Order of the Sword. A tragical event has occurred near Cone!Ater,. The Count de Champ, who was to have been riumied in „ day or two to Mademoiselle Montaigu de Mardore, went on a shooting party to procure g- Aole f or the wed ding feast, and was 'returning home., when, at a brook which he had to cros s , his dog refu se d to proceed, lie took up the anim, d l to throw it over, but his gun gettin g between his le o went off, and wounded him in the side. He expire:l in a few minutes.—Patriote de Soane Loire. ct