The Sun. — London, England, 1839-10-21 00:00:00

AVENI 1 4 MTT1 ON. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal Highness the DuclL:ss of Kent, and his Serene Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg., at tended Divine Service this morning in St. George's Chapel. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Markham, from St. John, chap. 8, verse 34. The Rev. C. Knyvett, chanted the service. The Rev. Dr. Goodall, and the Rev. Mr. Markham officiated at the altar. The Te Deum, and Jubilate was Dr. Cook's in G ; the Sanctus, Sir A. Barnard ; Kyrie Elieson, arranged from Handel, by W. Smith ; the Creed, Dr. Aldrich in G. The Anthem, an arrangement from No. 1 of Mozart's Masses, by Prat of Cambridge— " Praise the Lord, 0 my soul." The solo from the Agnus'Dei, sung very prettily by Master Foster, one of the choristers, the verses by Messrs. Salmon, Harris, and French. The Royal party were attended by the Marchio ness of Tavistock, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Hon. Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Pitt, Lady Ca roline Barrington, Viscount Falkland, Sir Frederick Stovin, Hon. W. Cowper, Hon. Col. Grey, and Lard Alfred Paget. The Queen promenaded this afternoon on the East Terrac e of the Castle, and, in company with the Duchess of Kent, Prince Ernest and Prince Albert cf Saxe Coburg, walked round the outer Terrace, which was lined with a great concourse of spectators, who ap peared most highly delighted at the condescension of her Majesty. In attendance, and following the Royal ,P, a ,rty, were Viscount Melbourne, the Marchioness of lavistock, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Hon. Miss Paget, Hop. Miss Pitt, Viscount Falkland, Count Kolow rath, Baron Alvensleben, Hon. C. Murray, and Lord Alfred Paget. The illustrious party afterwards walked on the In "er Terrace, or private walk of her Majesty. The hand of the Life Guards, and the band of the Rifle Corp s were in attendance, and performed during the afternoon on the parterre. The Earl of Surrey left the Castle yesterday. Her Majesty took her usual equestrian airing in the park yesterday afternoon, accompanied by the two Princes, Ernest and Albert, and attended by a nume rous party from the Castle, including Lady Charlotte bundas, Baroness Lebzen, Viscount Falkland, and Lord Alfred Paget. The Duchess of Gloucester attended Divine Service esterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. he Sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Randolph, Rho took his text from St. Luke, chap. 9, verse lxii. The Lessons were read by the Rev. Mr. Packman, and the Prayers by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. Sir George smart presided at the organ. The Marquis of Anglesey and the Marquis of Nor- Manby were amongst the nobility present. Mr. Burgess and Mr. Hall had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby on Saturday, at the Home Office. The Earl and Countess of Lichfield arrived in town :On Saturday from Newmarket. Despatches were received yesterday at the Foreign Office from the Ministers at the Hague and Bru.:sels. Sir Robert and Lady Fitz Wygram are entertaining company at Tusmore Park, near Bicester, Oxfordshire. HER MAJESTY'S APPROACHING NUP TIALS. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING —Notwithstanding the strong assertions which have neon made to the con trary, it is rot only currently announced here, but posi tively stated in those circles, which ought to be wed informed on the subject, that at the Privy Council which will be held at the Castle to-morrow, Parlia . meat will be prorogued to an early day before Ciiristmas, then "to sit for the dispatch of bul.:ne,s,' when the intended alliance of her Majesty with Prince Albert of Slxe Coburg will be ofEciAy announced to the Legislature. It would be idle to speculate upon the probable time when this event will take place, al though we may state it is rumoured that it will occur in the month of March, or in the early part of April next, FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Marquis and Marchioness Lisboa, in Dorset-square, Regent's Park, from Ostend; Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. 11411 , in Upper Harley-street ; Lord Alford, in Belgrave ', "Pare ; Lady George and Miss Murray, in Green. street. Park-lane ; L4rd and Lady Ch ries Thynne, in Montagu , square; L ird Allen, in South-street, Park-lane; Capt and Mrs. Gunning, in Gloucester-place, Portman-square; Lord Dalmeny, in Piccadilly; Sir De Lacy and Lady Evans, in Bryanston-square; Lieut.-General Sir Joseph Fuller, in Boanston-square, from Highgrove House. CHANGES. Sir John and Dady Chetwode, at Bognor, from Worth. ir !g; the Dowager Marchioness of Northampton, on a visit to the Marquis of Northampton, at Castle Ashby, from &fated Lodge, Bognor; the Archbishop of Armagh, a_!_rßeivoir Park, county Down, from Newcastle ; General 6i Henry Bayley, at his seat near Shaftesbury, from the Continent; . Weld. at Lulworth Castle, m fro Humphrey Shaftesbury; t h e E ar l o f M ou nt Edgesumbe, at fount Edgecumbe, near Devonport, from the Imperial [lnte 1 , Lea m i ngton Sp a ; t h e Bishop of Chichester and Dowager Otter, a t th e Epi sco pal Palace, Chichester, from the !Amager Marchione,s of Northampton's seat, Coobhurst, %latex ; Mr. and the Hon. Mrs Henry Taylor, from St. Leonard's-on-Sea, on a tour; Mr. Hodgson, M. P., and Mrs. Hodgson, at Brighton, from the north; the Bishop Exeter, at the Episcopal Palace at Exeter, from Honi- Ion; Viscount Dungannon, at Dromore, county Down, I nun Brynkinwall House, Derbyshire; the Countess of Bridg ewater , a t Tatton Park, Mr. Wiibraham's seat, in Cheshire, from Ashbridge Cagle, Herts. TAYMOUTH CASTLE.—The Marquis and Mar chioness of Breadalbane have been entertaining a suc cession of visitors during the autumn, at this splendid seat. Lord and Lady Seymour, Earl Ashburnham, Lady Stuart de Rothesay, Hon. Louisa Steuart, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, Lord and Lady Hatherton, and the Hon. Miss Littleton have been among the guests. BOULOGNE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, ONE O' CLOCK.—EarI and Countess Granville, Viscount Le veson, M.P., and the Hon. Frederick Leveson, and suites, have just landed on the quay from the Water witch, Captain Hayward, and gone to the Hotel des Rains, from whence they proceed to Paris, in the course of an hour. We have also had within these few days, la this town, the Earl of Selkirk, the Earl of Shrews bury, and family, and Lady Cadogan, THE QUEEN D O WAGER.—A correspondent from the Earl of Denbigh's has obligingly forwarded a brief account of her Majesty, the Queen Dowager's re ceptio n on her arrival at Rugby, which lie characterises as highly creditable to that town. A numerous ar.d remarkably respectable assemblage awaited the Queen Dowager's arrival, which was saluted by the hearty eheers of the spectators. Her Majesty acknowledged their respectful salutations by slightly bowing. Al though the weather was rather unfavourable, parties had col lected at the different stations, and, as the royal train Passed, greeted the party with cheers. The circle as sembled at Nuneham Paddox is very select. On Tues day next her Majesty will leave the Earl and Countess of Denbigh's for Gospel Hall, to pass a few days on a visit to the Earl Howe. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and Lady Cecilia Underwood have arrived at Upleatham liall, near Guisborough, on a visit to Earl and Coun tess of Zetland, where a distinguished party has as sembled to meet his Royal Highness. Prince Esterhazy left Chandos House on Fri day morning, to meet their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Augusta of Cambridge, at Chatsworth. The Duke of Montrose, who arrived in town a few days since from Brighton, has taken his departure for Buchannan Castle, N. B. The Duchess remains at Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield arrived at Chesterfield House on Friday last, after an absence of several months on the Continent. His Excellency M. Fontique, accompanied by a Secretary and two attaches, arrived at Mivart's Hotel, an Friday, from the Caraccas. His Excellency is the accredited Minister from the State of Venezuela to this country. The Earl and Countess of Burlington have re. turned to Chatsworth, on a visit to the Duke of De vonshire, during the stay of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, from a short visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, at Lilleshall. THE LATE VISCOUNTF.SS TAMWORTH.—The funeral of this estimable lady took place on Tuesday l ast, when h er Ladyship's remains were interred in the family vault at Staunton Harold, a short' distance from Prior Park. The chief mourners were her sons, the Viscount Tamworth and the Hon. W. D. Shirley. • The Dutch Journals announce the death of the Baron Van Brienen, leaving an only son, the inheritor of property to the amount of 65,000,000 of francs ?,600000/.), with the exception o f p ortions be q ueathed ' 3 everal charitable institutions. ~ , At Mar L o dg e , Braemar, the Duke of L eeds an d a party of sporting friends have had excellent sport, Shootin g red deer, ptarmigan, grouse, and black game. His Grace and friends, up to the Ist instant, had bagged ( ?P w ards of 900 b race . The Dowager Duchess of Leeds 18 Passin g her widowhood with the Duke and Duchess. ---116erdeen Jounzal. geLord en Dr ummond o f GI lyon with Miss FL is to be solemnised in a few days, when a roundt o f splendid fetes will be given b y hi s L or d s hip iO O th e f amily tenantry in Perthshire, at Blair A t h o l', eelebration of the nuptials. The festivities are to lasto several days, and the fine troop of H'ghlanders, 7att _attended his Lordship to the tournament at Eglin ° Sastle, are to be participators in the entertainment. of We have heard with more than ordinary feelings __ ce pleasure, that a play by Mr. Leigh Hunt has been ( r-,. ,,, pte r l at Coventgarden Theatre ; and we shall be "Hishted to bail the accession of this elegant and ae c0,......,. _•42pushed writer to the list of dramatic poets. ii......._ SIR, ItOBER:1` FELL. Sir Robert Peel has addressed the following letter to the Observer, in relation to an article which we copied from that Journal during the week. The Observer has declined to declare on what authority it made the statements alluded to : TO THE EDITOR OF THE OBSERVER. Drayton Manor, Fazeley, Oct. 14, 1839. Suz i —l have just seen a paragraph in the Observer of yesterday, which I should have let pass without the slightest notice, had not you declared that the state ments therein made were made upon the most positive authority. The statements to which I refer are the following : That eertain Protestants in Ireland " had demanded to know in plain terms whether the advent of Toryism was in reality to be the signal for civil war in Ireland." That " the answer given on behalf of Sir Robert Peel was to this effect—that it, was required for the suste nance of the Tory party to keep up and enforce the No- Popery feeling in England, but that there was no design of pushing the exterminating principle in Ireland so far as actually to excite rebellion." That it was added, " that the necessities of the party required such expedients, and that in fact the end must he taken to justify the means of deceit and falsehood by which it was brought about." You proceed to observe that " you can state upon the most positive authority that such language has been held, such explanations made, such excthes given by persons who speak the sentiments of Sir Robert Peel ;" and to this you add, " that you trust you have proved that there is no term of abuse sufficiently strong to mark the infamy of such double-faced policy." Now as it is utterly untrue, so far as I am concerned, or have any knowledge, that any such or similar com munications have been made, directly or indirectly, on the part of Irish or other Protestants, or that, with my sanction or cognizance, any such explanations have been given, or language held, as that to which you refer —as, in short, I never heard one word on the subject of these alleged communications and explanations until I read the article in the Observer, I cannot doubt, after the declarations you have made as to the positive authority on which you have spoken, and considering the terms you have applied to the policy which you impute to me, that you will consider it an act of common justice to declare publicly what is that positive authority upon which your statements have been made, and who are the parties who have professed to give answers on my behalf, and to speak my sentiments. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT PEEL. SPORTING IN TELLIGEN CE. NORTHALLERTON RACES,—TuunsnAy. Siveep;takes of 20 cove. each, h ft., vrith:lo added by W. B. Wrightson, Esq., M.P., the second saved his stake ; for t wo yr-old colts, Bst 51b ; and fillies, Bst 21b ; The winner of any two-yr-old stake this year 3 lbs extra; of any two-yr-old stake at Doncaster slbs extra. Two-yrs-old Course. Mr. Gill's b c Resolution, by Physician (Oates) 1 Colonel Cradeck's b c Gallypot, by Physician Duke of Cleveland's b f Laura, Sister to Eliza 3 Betting-6 to 4 agst Gallypot, 2to 1 agst Laura, and sto 2 apt Resolnt.on. Wen easy. The Town Plate of 501., for maiden horses, &c. ; three-yr-olds, 7st 101 b ; four yrs, Bst 81b ; five yrs, test. 121 b ; six yrs and aged, 9st ; mares .Lnd geldings aliowed2lbs. Two-mile heats. Mr. Shaftue's bc by Physician, 3 yrs ( Heseltine) 0 I 1 Mr. Bell's bl c Bumblekite, 2 yrs Air. Loy's b c Ararat, by Liverpool, 3 yrs Mr. Wormald's ch g Centipede, 4 yrs 2 0 0 Mr. Howard's b f Orelia,.3 yrs 8 0 0 Mr. Attwood b f Armelle, by Physician, 3 yrs 0 0 0 Mr. Aglionby's b f Sister to Petrel, 4 yrs 0 0 dr First heat--Betting, 2 to I agst Orelia, 3 to I agst Mr. Shaf toe's colt, 4to 1 agst Ararat, and sto 1 agst Centipede. Won by a length. Second heat—Betting, sto 2 agst. Ararat, and 3to 1 agst Mr. Shaftoe's colt. A goonl race, and won by half a neck. Third heat-2 to lon Mr. Shaftoe's colt. Won by half a length. FRIDAY. A Gold Cup, value 100 guineas Two miles. Sir .T. P. Beresford's br c The Provost, 3 yrs (Oates) 1 Alr. Wrightson's br c Kremlin, by Sultan, 3 yrs A Plate of 50/. Two mile heats. Mr. llese'tine's br f The Shadow, 3 yrs 3 1 1 Mr. Vansittart's bf by Sandbeek, 3 yrs M. Haworth's b f Fair Louisa, 3 yrs 4 2 dr Mr. Clark's ch c Auckland, 3 yrs DUMFRIES RACES.-THURSDAY. The Gold Cup cf 100 sovs, by subs of 10 sovs each, p p (the surplus in specie). Two: miles. (12 subs.) Mr. liarnsay's br c Lanercost, 4 yrs, fist slb (W. Noble) 1 Lord Eglinton's br h St. Bennett, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b 2 Won by a length. 501. given by the Southern Aleetino.. Mile-and-a-half heats. Mr. Dawson's ch c Clem of the Clewl, 3 yrs, 6st 10Ib, 3 1 1 Lord Eglinton's ch c Zoroaster ; 3 yrs, fist 10:b Sir J. I3oswell's b g Constantine. 4 yrs, Bst 1 llb 2 dr The first heat wen by half a head, the second a good race, and the third won easy. CURRAGH OCTOBER MEETING. THURSDAY. The Rusborough Stakes (renewed), 25 sovs, 20 ft, for two years' old; colts, Bst 41b ; fillies, Bst I llb—Conolly's mile ; second horse saved his stake. 31b allowed to untried stallions or mares ; bib to both. _ Mr. Maher's b c, by Lapwing or Skylark Mr. Watts' b or br f, by Skylark M. J. Mansfield's f, by Lapwing... 3 The Rossmore Free Handicap, 20 sovs, h ft—Rossmore Post (one mile and a half on the Peel course). 100 sovs added by the Club, and 50 by Lord Rossmore. Major Hay's ch c, by Recovery, 3 yrs, 9st 21b (Neale) 1 Lord Howth's b c Claret, 3 yrs, Sat 21b Mr. St. George's ch h Barebones, aged, Bst 31b 3 Mr. Graydon 's b f Heather Bell, 3 yrs, Bst 61b Corinthian Stakes of 10 sous each, h ft, 25 added for hun ters ; race horses admitted. Rode by gentlemen. Peel course heats. Second horse saved his stake. Mr. Magill's ch h King of Kelton, 3 yrs Mr. Fitzgerald's Cromaboo, 3 vrs . 1 2 2 Lord Howth's bc by Picton, Eel, 4 yrs 2 3 dr Mr. Mitchell's br g Welcome, 5 yrs Mr. Burgh's b m Lady Clare, aged . 5 0 3 FRIDAY. The Royal Whip, presented by his late Majesty to the Turf Club, with 100 gs added annually by her Majesty ; weight for age, three yrs old, lost; four yrs, Ilst 41b ; five yrs old, 1 Ist 121 b ; six and aged, 12st. Four miles. 31b allowed to mares and geldings. Major Hay's ch cby Recovery, 3 yrs (Neale) 1 Mr. Graydon's b f Alba, 4 yrs 2 Sweepstakes of 10 sovs h ft, with 25 added ; second horse saved his stake. One mile and a quarter on Peel course. 2 soya each for entrance. Mr. Watts' br c Monasteroris, 3 yrs, Bst 71b....(M. Walsh) 1 Lord Howth's b h The Little Clown ; 6 yrs, 93t 71b 2 Mr. St. George's ch h Barebones, aged, Oat 71b.. 3 LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. THE DERBY. 7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's lot—offered, take 8 to 1 10 to 1 agst fur. Thornhill's lot—take 12 to 1 13 to 1 agst Aluley Ishmael 20 to 1 agst Glenorchy 20 to 1 agst Wardan 20 to 1 agst St. Andrew 27 to 1 agst Maroon—take 30 to 1 33 to I agst Fitzroy—offered 33 to I agst Dreadnought—taken freely 33 to I asst Gambia—taken freely 200 to 1 agst Perseus—taken HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The Devon and Somerset staghounds will meet on Friday, at Helebridge, near Dulverton--at eleven. The Cheltenham staghounds on Friday, at Cubberly• Gate —at eleven. The York and Ainsty hounds Thursday, at Linton ; Satur day, at Whixley—at half-past ten. The Earl of Harewood's hounds on Wednesday, at Hook Moor ; Friday, at Walton—at half-past ten. The Cleveland hounds Wednesday, at HazElgrove ; Friday, at Ginsborough Park—at ten. The Sinnington hounds Friday, at Tylas—at half-past nine. The EdJlethorpe hounds Wednesday, at Castle Howard Inn ; Friday, at North Grimston—at half-past ten. The Earl of Yarborough's hounds Wednesday, at Hendale Lodge; Friday, at Redbourn Hall—at eleven. The Wigton harriers Wednesday, at Wiza Bridge ; Friday, at Caldbeck—at eight. Mr. Ramsay's harriers Wednesday, at Kinmaries ; Friday, at Raims of Aisiie—at half-past ten. The Lancaster Union harriers Friday, at Warton—at ten. The United (Shropshire) hounds Saturday, at Longville Hill—at eight. Mr. Bulteel's hounds Friday, at Bideford Bridge—at half past ten. The M. H. Friday, at Chiselborne Down. Mr. Musters's hounds Wednesday, at Stragglethorpe Cross Roads ; Friday, at the Brick-kiln, Selston Common—at half past ten. The Heythrop hounds Friday, at Bradwell Grove ; Satur day, at Boulter's Barn. The F. B. H. Thursday, at the Helston Kennel. The Charborough hounds Thursday, at Woodbridge. Colonel G. Wyndham's hounds Wednesday, at Eastdean Wood ; Friday, at Coster's Mill—at half-past eleven. The Brookside harriers on Thursday, at Telscombe Tye—at half-past ten. The Brighton harriers Wednesday, at the Race-course ; Friday, at the Dyke—at eleven. The East Su-sex hounds Thursday, at Beddingham Hill ; Saturday, at Poyning Common—at a quarter to eleven. The Nelmes hounds Saturday, at Laindon Hills—at ten. The Northumberland and North Durham hounds, Wednes day, at Woodend ; Friday, at Akeld ; Saturday, at Pawston— at half-past ten. THE LATE CAMBRIDGE ELECTION.—At the Cambridge Borough Session; on Monday, true bills were found by the grand jury again s t Samuel Long, for bribing G eorge S m i t h, an d a ttempting to brib e William Marsh, to vote for the Hon. Manners Sutton at the late ele c ti on f or t h at b oroug h. The proceedings hav e been removed by cer ti orar i i n t o the Court of Queen 'se Bench.—Cambridge Advertiser. NARRO W ESCAPE OF THE DUKE OF BRUNSBRUNS WICK.—OnFriday even i ng , a b out s i x o'clock, as. h is Royal Hi g h ness the Duke of Brunsw i c k was drising along Oxf or d- street, in his cabriolet, accompanied by a friend, the horse, which was a very high•spirited one, suddenly became unmanageable, and, galloping off, dashed with great force against a street cab at the cor ner of Orchard•street. The latter vehicle was nearly shattered to pieces, and the driver much bruised. Toe Duke and his companion were by the violence of the concussion thrown from th e i r seats to the ground, the cabriolet having been u p set and damaged ; but fortu nately neither of them received any serious injury. Several persons narrowly escaped being run over. DUELLING.—The Inspector-General of the Constabulary (I reland ) ha s b een commanded to sioalify to the Force his Excellency's determinatio n to p u ni s h , with immediate dismissal from the E s t a bli s h ment, any officer who shat give or acc e pt, or be concerned, either dire ctly or indirectly, in glsin:i or accepting a challenge to fight a duel upon any pretext, or under any provoca tion whatsoever. .31a.RKLI CITY NE E. TlMES.—According to a decree of the Congress of New Granada in 1835, Portobello and Panama were to be declared free ports for 20 years, so soon as a com munication should be opened between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, from one of those places to the other, either by canal or by railroad. As these enterprises, so often announced, and for which special privileges were conceded to various companies and individuals, have never been carried into effect, nor even commenced, another decree was passed in May last, importing that until the realization of the project referred to, the port of Panama is to possess for four years the following pri vileges :—All national and foreign vessels of friendly and neutral States arc to be exempted from payment of any duties of anchorage, tonnage, or other duties usually received on their entry and anchorage. The agri cultural produce of the Rtrpublies of the Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, and Central America, the impor tation of which is permitted into New Granada, are not to be subject to any duties of import, excise, or roads. Gold in the shape of dust, paste, or manufac tured, and silver in bars, pigs, or manufactured, are not to he liable to any export duty, provided they are the produce of the Isthmus, or imported from abroad. Na tional and foreign vessels which enter the port of Pa ❑ama may proceed to take in fresh water and provisions at the island of Taboga, for which the necessary pre cautions will be adopted at the Custom House. Por tobello is declared a port of entrepot for all national and foreign merchandise, according to the regulations esta blished by the decree of April 4, 1836. The port of Buenaventura, on ;he coast of the Pacific, is declared a free port for the space of forty years, with the right of free entry and departure of national and foreign vessels of every class, without payment of any import dues, or of any other charge of whatever kind. No exception is made except for the vessels of nations at war with New Granada. This privilege extends only to the port and inhabitants of Buenaventura ; all the merchandise exported for other parts of the republic thence, by sea or by land, are to be subject to the pay ment of the national dues. It will be observed that for some time past the Go vernment of New Grenada have been wisely rendering their commercial legislation more liberal. The present measures seem much better adapted to realize the great and desirable enterprise of a canal or railroad commu nication across the Isthmus by national enterprise at home, than by trusting to the sp.:culations of capitalists abroad. These commercial privileges will serve to attract commerce, and therefore introduce anti increase capital in the country itself, which in the natural course of things must lead to its application to this and all other sorts of internal and beneficial improvement. Senor Fortique, it is stated, has recently arrived here as Commissioner from Venezuela, to co-operate with Senores Gual and Mosquera, the Commissioners for New Granada and Quito, in the division and arrange ment of the Colombian debt. These Governments at present appear to mean well towards the English cre ditors, but the parties interested will do well not to be over sanguine as to the result. CHRONICLE (SATURDAY). —The Gazelle or last night not having contained the looked for monthly re turn of the assets and liabilities of the Bank of Eng land, fears were entertained this morning that the omis sion was occasioned by a serious diminution in the amount of bullion held by the Bank, and Bank Stock fell two per cent. The better informed, however, at tributed its non-appearance to mistake, or accidental delay, on the part of the Treasury, which proved to he the case, and accordingly in the course of the day the usual official abstract was published in a supplement. Be this return it appears that toe averatae circulation has been reduced by the sum of 348,0001., the deposits have decreased by 1,047,000/., the securities are diminished 997,0001., and the bul lion, from 2,816,000/., has fallen to 2,52.5,000/., while the surplus profits have increased from 3,011,000/. to 3,118,0001. Considering the heavy claims which the Bank has had lately to meet in payment of the di vidends, the amount of bullion in the Bank coffers is greater than many people expected, and the contraction in the circulation of less extent than was generally sup posed. But, at the same time, the position of its affairs is widely different from the principle on which Lord Althorp stated, in May, 1833, that the concerns of the Bank of England were to be managed—namely, that the proper proportion of bullion to be kept in its coffers was one third of its liabilities ; and, although the average amount of the circulation does not show a very serious col-, traction since the former return,yet the refusal ofdiscoun's has pressed severely oil the trading interests in London. We formerly observed that, having f. equently o'ajected to the conduct of the Bank parlour for enlarging the circu lation beyond proper hunts, we are not disposed to inter fere with them on account of such proceedings as they may find it necessary to adopt for the purpose of pre serving the circulating medium at its true value, while they duly fulfil their obligation to the public in that respect. We have accordingly abstained from animad verting on their refusal to discount the paper of joint stock banks of issue, drawn on their London bankers ; and it ought not to be overlooked that one cause which has influenced the Bank in now limiting their discounts has been the improvident bargains which they have made with certain country banks of issue, with whom they hare opened large discount accounts, and who now operate upon them to the utmost extent, thus compelling the Bank Directors to apply the pressure at one end, and in ducing them to contemplate, it is said, a notice of shorten ing the time for which they will receive paper for dis count. It is, indeed, almost impossible to expect that the Bank will be able to avoid a further contraction of the circulation in the continued *unfavourable state of the Exchanges ; and we fear they may be compelled even also to take measures for the purpose of forcing sales and lowering prices, with the view of stopping the additional drain which will be occasioned to. procure us fresh supplies of corn from abroad. Money, however, was decidedly easier to-day on the Stock Exchange than it has been for some time past ; and, although still held tight at the old rates in Lombard -street, some very slight shade of difference was here also perceptible. The depression which we have noticed in Bank Stock was nevertheless general on almost all securities ; but before the close of business the Consol market rallied, and an improvement also took place in some of the Foreign Stocks, but the business done was very limited. HERALD.—The accounts from the manufacturing districts are very unfavourable, particularly in Lauer,- shire, and there is no doubt but that the existing tight ness of the Money Market will compel the manufactu rers to work short time, if not, in many instances, to stop their mills. It must be expected, therefore, that. American produce will not advance at present in our markets. The Money Market here at present is in a very pecu liar position, and the necessary great caution of the bankers and leading bill-brokers presses very severely upon parties requiring oommercial discounts, which can, not be obtained generaliy under 7 per cent. per annum. Indeed, those clases of the commercial districts who usu illy rely upon their discounts to meet their pay ments must for a time struggle with considerable diffi culties, and among moneyed and commercial men there prevails a degree of anxiety more easy to be understood by practical parties than described. It is true that the late difficulties of Mr. Jandon, as agent for the United States' Bank, have been con quered, since we understand that Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Co., negoziated the loan of 800,0001., to which we have before referred, at the rate we then stated—viz., 921. for every 100/. bond at 6 per cent. par annum, redeemable, one moi ..ty in fifteen months, nd the other in thirty months. These new securities have, to some extent, found their way into the market at a premium of 2 a 3 upon the contract price. Messrs. Denison and Co. act as trustees of the holders of these bonds, and Pennsylvanian, Mississipi, and other Ameri. can Stocks have been lodged with that firm as security. Many persons consider this to be a secure and most satisfactory arrangement, others, who are persons of much experience think differently, and view the arrange ; ment as merely the procrastination of a debt that for a long period will hang, incubus like, over our Money Market. Advices from Holland state that a negotiation for a loan of the like amount, and on something of the same terms, is on foot with the opulent house of Messrs. Hope and Co., of Atnsterdam. All these arrangements may produce a favourable movement in the Money Market of New York and Philadelphia, and possibly in sonic degree mitigate the effect of the unfavourable news carried out by the Liverpool. The facilities which have been given to fraud by joint-stock and country banks selling bill stamps with a printed form to strangers, as illustrated in the Herald police reports of Saturday, has deservedly met with much reprehension in all our commercial circles. It is not any justification to the Birmingham Borough Bank that it has been customary so to do ; but we know it is not the practice with many respectable country bankers to accommodate any one but their own customers with the blank forms of bills having appended to them the title of their firms, or the names of the London corre spondents. The practice of giving such forms to strangers opens the door to frauds of every kind ; it fosters a false system of bill credit, of which any vaga bond may avail himself while it exists ; but we trust for the honour of the banking interests of this country, that we shall hear that this, vicious practice has been wholly abolished. We have learned from good authority that the Bank parlour have as. yet established no new rule referring to bills drawn at longer dates than twenty-one days after date, issued or endorsed by banks of issue ; but we believe that instructions were forwarded to all the Bank of England branches in the north of England to enforce that rule rather more rigidly. This caused the remonstrance from the joint-stock hanks of Liverpool and other places. But to this subject we must return at some other time. POST.—Our Contemporary of the Times introduces into his columns c:.Satttrday som e l etters excu l pa t or y o f the conduct of the joint-stock banks in the country. They are prefaced with the remark, that " as the Bank (of England) Directors have their organs for attack in THE SUN, LONDON - , MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1839. these cases, it is .ight that there should be a r thedin also for the defence ;" we do not, nevertheless, think it necessary to take up the time of our readers in proving to them anything so perfectly notoriouslas is the fact, that if there have been any attack, as doubtless there has, and this a most violent one, it has been an attack by the organs of the joint-stock establishments on the Bank of England. The journals in the interest of these concerns have been teeming for many dap.. past with these attacks, and it was but quite 'recently that anything in the shape of an answer was offered in behalf of the Bank of England. One of the letters referred to criticises a statement made by us the other day with respect to the impositions attempted to be practised on the Bank of England by the joint-stock banks, but we must say the writer comes out of the discussion with very little credit to himself. The tricks of the country banks of issue are well understood by the Bank Directors; and the endeavours which are made to conceal or palliate them is only an aggravation of their misconduct. It the country banks of issue choose to discount securities for their customers, let them by all means do so, and keep them in their own bill-cases until they become due. This is a system of banking that every one is familiar with ; but if the banks in question think fit to put the said securities again into circulation, the only reasonable conclusion that we can come to concerning them is, that they (the banks) are cramped for means, and that they are unduly interfering with the functions of the Bank of England, as, when ever such paper comes before the Directors of the latter institution bearing the endorsement of the coun try bank of issue, there can be no mistake about the manoeuvre. One of the correspondents of our Con. temporary says—. . _ " When the bank A discounts a 5,000/. bill originally to B, it gives for it 5,0001. of currency; when it afterwards sells the same hill to C, it receives from him for the bill the like sum of 5,000/. currency, thus withdrawing from circulation the same quantity that had at first been issued. C again remits the bill to his friend in London in payment of a debt, and if this friend discount it in London be re ceives for it the like sum of 5,000/. Whatever, therefore, may be the number of hands the bill passes thrcrigh, it never em represe n t m or e of th e currency t h an 5,0001." Our opponent, who possibly writes in good faith, does not know what strange results may be pro duced by chicanery and collusion. The bank A may have an understanding with C, a large share holder perhaps, and the suspicion of such being the case is fully justified by the circumstance of the bank of issue endorsing in his favour the 5,000/. bill afterwards sent up to London " in payment of a debt." If the joint-stock banks of issue can do no business more legitimate than that of buying and selling bills in the way described, the sooner they close their doors the better. There are always " kiteflying" transactions going on, the object of which is to maintain the value of commodities. This, during a period of ad verse exchanges like the present, it i s th e pr o vince of the Directors of the Rink of Engl an d t o p u t a s t o p to rather than encourage by discounting questionable paper; but that they should do so without creating a great deal of clamour would he contrary to all experience. Those whose schemes are the most gross in cases of this kind are always the noisiest when detected. We must fur ther observe that if the Times has no better witnesses to bring forward in defence of the joint-stock fraternity, it is wise in him to allow the writers of these letters to speak for themselves, and to refrain, as he cautiously dces, from attempting to give any importance to them beyond that merely of saying " they will serve as spe cimens of the feeling against th.l Bank which the late severe measure has excited." That our Contemporary should approve of the fol lowing revolutionary scheme—a scheme which is worthy only of a Cobbett or an O'Connell—is scarcely credible, although he allows it to pass through his columns with out a single word of condemnation : " What some of the leading Joint-stock Banks are said to meditate by way of retribution is, that such an amount of Bink of England notes should be collected in the couary and presented for payment in London, and at the branches, as will cause the Old Lady' to beg for quarter or re3ort to an Order in Council ler the issue of 11. notes." The juint-stock establishments have fully proved how prone they are to do mischief; but fortunately they have not the power. The stand made against them by the " Old Lady" has led to a disclosure of - their' imbecility. Their threat of presenting notes for gold is pure bom bast, and it will be well for the shareholders and the public if some more of them do not presently fall to pieces. Times and Dublin Evening Posi are, we, be lieve, genrol ally disposed to go together in their views of the policy of the Bank of England. We, therefore, avail ourselves of the sentiments of the latter, as regards the treatment of the country banks. Our Dublin Con temporary observes : " We should like to see the trade of banking indepen dent like all other trades, But we really cannot join in the cry that has been raised against the Bank of England on this account (the alleged refusal of the Directors to cash the securities of other banks of issue ) The bullion in her coffers is escaping with a rapidity which she has no means of controlling without placing a limit on her issues. She Would be obliged to stop in three or four months, if she did not endeavour to check the downward progress. She has done every thing in the power of man or woman to regulate the exchanges. She has borrowed, in effect, four millions of money from the Bank of France to check the i, , sue of specie; but all her efforts have proved un availing. Giving the Bank of England credit for all man ner of improprieties hitherto, we ask, how would her im pugners have her to act, with a view of preventing the calamity of a restriction ? Would they have her discount with her accustomed liberalty ? If she did her notes would assuredly be returned upon her in the prom's of a brief period for the purpos e of obtaining gold to buy corn on the Continent, and flour from America, and she would find herself some fine morning without a tester in silver." We have here brought into court a most unwilling witness, and it will be admitted that his evidence, though somewhat flipm . ,ntly given, is straightforward and decided. The Du 61in Evening Post is compelled, in candour and honesty, to part company with his old ally in the present instance. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNI NG PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The following letter from Sir Robert Peel appeared in the Obscr'ver of yest 4 trday. As the letter itself con tains a distinct stateme.nt of the contents of the para graph by which it was )ecasioned, we insert it without an) f irther preface. [Fo r the letter see anotherpart of The Sun.] The Observer qi 'miens Sir Robert's right to the disclosure he demands, reminds him of the disownment of Mr. George Robert; Dawson when that gentleman had prematurely annouinced Sir Robert's conversion to Cat holic emancipation, and reiterates the inquiry whether the fanatical and perse. cuting No Popery policy is really adopted by the Tory party, or only temporized with for the sake of what a trength may be derived from it in the conflict for place, and power. We leave the Ob strver and Sir Robert Peel to settle the personal part of this affair by themselves. The Baronet's letter looks very suspiciously tows rds a tendency to a breach of the peace. There is a 3 well of powder in the last para graph. The champiol t of the Church seems rather in a militant mood. His pistols are at the service of the PI ceestant religion. 'I 'he Durham divines must be ready with a remonstrance. ' They will have a subtler casuist to deal with than Lord Lendonderry. We could almost wish for the fight, lc a. the sake of the edifying corre spondence on Christie: t morality that might follow. A defence of duellieg from the chosen leader of the No Popery fanaticism, b . the sophisms of a Jesuit ! Sir Robert Peel's denial g c sacs to the form rather than the substance of the allegi pion. It is the sort of denial which a Tory candidate a gives of the bribery practised at his election. There is always, in such cases, a most felicitous innocence and ignorance. He, the lucky com petitor for a seat, wlim t voters had received their ten or twenty guineas pea • head—he had no knowledge " that any such or sir iiilar communications had been made ;" " in short, he never heard one word on the subject of these allege. I" bribes " until he read the" petition that set them forth ; and yet, somehow or orb, r, lie is seated by si ten means, and reaps all the ad vantage that was purch used for him during his uncon sciousness. Not %Try iissimilar is the position of Sir Robert Peel. The do able game is played or playing. The sanguinary bigots of Orange Protestantism are encouraged to entertain hopes from him, and mode rate politicians are pre Served from despondency. He has the double phalanx : at his heels, and what power he possesses is in the it 4 congrous combination ; yet he, forsooth, has never said whither he would lead them, nor to what. If they t ; hink, do, or say anything false or atrocious, or tending to enfeeble the heterogeneous faction, he is as uncons4 ;iota as the sweetest babe of grace that ever smiled. All he knows is, that he is going into a place upon their t ihoulders—if they can carry there. At any rate he takes the chance. Whatever else may be questioned, the fact is beyond denial " that it was required for the s ustenance of the Tory party to keep up and enforce the No Pope ry ' f eel i ng in Eng land ;" and that the orgi in s of the party have brought all their energies to sea r on this point. A charitable allowance is made in thei, r favour by suppos i ng that, to this dirty necessity.atidT he desperate hard m rdern " No P opery " cry may be the same in terms, b ut in spirit it is the reverse of that which embodied th e apprehension s of our fore fathers. Then, it was a rallying cry for civil and r religious rights ; now it is a clamour for the abroga tion recognition. co o in. Then, f o rightstiu it t h: tvc legally obtained a sol e mn gntiprotest against spiritual as cendancy and persecution ; now it is an insatiable de mand of ascendancy, and a n intelligible threat of perse cution. Then, it was a y lea for freedom, peace, and charity ; now, it is the fir, rbrand of discord, inflaming animositi e s, and foreboding hatred, strife, and desolation. For the cold and calculat ing wickedness which raised and fosters this cry, it. woul d be difficult to find a parallel even in the most disgustil 1g annals of party spirit. It is a practical denial and tic !secretion of whatever is most true and holy. It denies that this is a free country, in which the rights of conscience are respected, even when conscience is most benight ed. It denies that the pro gress of knowledge and rilization has abated prejudice, and humanised the nii; id, and rendered persecu tion for theological opinion an obsolete (as it ever was a mistaken) obligation. It denies that Christianity is a religion of divine love and human brotherhood. But no matter to Toryism what it de nies, if it do but affirm the possibility of crossing over to the Treasury bench. Only let it serve for -a safe passage over that gulf, and the bridge may be forthwith broken or burned. On this subject there is no need of authority. By this lie, Toryism lives. Sir Robert Peel knows that ; and he consents to be the Tory leader. When so much was obvious, it really was little worth his while to trouble himself about the story in the Observer. , Suppose it altogether a fiction, still that fiction is only the dramatized form of an unques tionable fact. There may have been no Irish questions ; no authorized respondents ; no explanations or pledges ; nevertheless the damning truth remains untouched that Sir Robert Peel's party,. for its own party purposes, has evoked and turned loose upon society a demoniac spirit of' theological hatred worthy only of the darkest periods by which the pages of history are overshadowed. Against this fact, this systematic policy unani mously pursued lay the . organs of the Tory party, the word of Sir Robert Peel could have gone for nothing. But that is not exactly the case with the other topic included in the statement of the Observer. Sir Robert Peel's word would have been worth some thing on the prospective policy of his party as to Ireland. We do not mean as to the inherent credibi lity of anything he might nave affirmed, but for the very sate reason that he could have said nothing distinct with out risking the loss of some portion of his followers. Has he, or has he not, repented of Catholic Emancipa tion ? Is he, or is he not, prepared to nullify that char ter of Catholic freedom ? Will he, or will he not, gratify the savage desires of the bigot Orange Protestants of Ireland ? These are questions which he might easily have answered ; and on which no honest statesman would leave the public in doubt. The oracle is mute, however. Intolerance and moderation are both fed in silence, that they may pull together in their work. The promissory note of explanation is only payable at sight in Downing -street. We cannot think so meanly of the national character, or of human nature, as to imagine the success of this nefarious hollowness, this wholesale double-dealing. It not only cannot eventually succeed, but it cannot last. The symptoms are thickening of disunion and mutual antagonism in the Tory camp. The feeling implied in the Observer anecdote undoubtedly exists, and in considerable strength and extent. The affected • ferocity of bigotry in the Tory press has been overdone, and produced a reaction of disgust and apprehension. By the way, as Sir Ro bert Peel is sensitive enough to become the correspond ent of the Observer, how coves he not to demand Mor timer O'Sullivan's authority for publicly asserting his (Sir Robert's) repentance for the Emancipation Act ? There is precisely the same ground, personal and pub lic, for inquiry in the one case as in the other. In both Sir Robert Peel stands personally committed by others for that to which he does not personally com mit himself. The sense of honour and of truth would not dictate any distinction ; but partizan craft does enforce a great distinction. Sir Robert calculates the consequences. Let him speak out, and "to arms, cries Mortimer," and Toryism is taken in the flank by the fierce band of Orange bigots. With such retainers the Tory leader thinks, with a cele brated pugilist, that " the best posture of defence is to keep a quiet tongue in your head." So let the as sertion pass, false or true ; especially as it is profitable to the party. Combining these different indications with the mutiny of the Quarterly Review, on the point of discipline, and with other discouragements in the position of the Tories, it seems likely that they will take little by the abominable means which they unscrupu lously employ, besides the deserved discredit of em ploying such means. That will stick to them like the shirt of Nessus. And while we decline discussing the propriety or impropriety of the Obser ver in refusing to gratify Sir Robert Peel by naming its authority for the paragraph in question, we beg leave to add that we do know, and will name, the authorities for the concluding sentence of the paragraph, viz., that which affirms that there is no term " sufficiently strong to mark the infame of such double-faced policy." Those authorities ar- Historical Truth, Common Honesty, Christian Princi ple, and the Moral Sense of Mankind. We have named them, and the Tory Champion may call them out, if he so please ; do battle with them he may— destroy or silence them, he cannot. (From the Times.) We denounced last week, " nothing better than than a dirty, profligate, impudent, rancorous Downing street lie," a paragraph describing some supposed corn • tnunications between Sir Robert Peel and certain Irish Protestants, which the Observer published on the " most positive authority," last Sunday. We should be quite justified to-day in borrowing the Observer's " most," and saying that it was a most dirty, a most profligate, a most impudent, a most rancorous, a most Downing-street lie. We are told, that we might add, " a most Duncannon lie :" but as we do not tell lies ourselves, or insert what may be the lies of others knowingly and wilfully, we shall say no such thing, even upon " the most positive authority," while we can't name that authority. If, however, it should happen to be true that the uncased, unglazed, and un museumed, human curiosity, which we have referred to, and which is known among its colleagues by the endearing. appellations .of "chin and cravat," " nose and neckcloth," &c., does vent either malignity , or mendacity through the eolumns of the " Queen-and- Royal-Family"-patronized Observer—let him look to himself. We will make every place in the Woods and . Forests Office a quickset hedge for him to sit upon. But, in sober seriousness, we acquit Lord Duncannon of all participation in this publication. He was never wise enough to set the Thames on fire, nor wicked enough to try to accomplish that feat ; and he cannot have become, in a few years, so profligate an old fool as to invent or retail, for the amusement of " the Court and Royal Family," such a lie as that which appeared ' in the Observer, and which we denounced last week. Our denouncement of that lie was perfectly well founded, as our readers will see by the letter which Sir R. Peel has addressed to the Editor of the Ob server. Now, what do our readers suppose is the an swer which the Observer gives to this letter ? They will never guess. Besides refusing to name the " most positive authority," it indulges in a mean, lying, sneak ing, slanderous piece of slip-slop (too bad even for Lord Duncannon to have written), which we cannot think calculated to entertain the " Court and Royal Family," because we know it must disgust every honest and well-conditioned person in the empire. Still this answer (unintentionally, and through mere clumsiness, no doubt) admits that its " most positive authority" is a most positive lie, because it yields the most implicit credit to Sir Robert Peel's denial. Now, was there ever any living thing in the creation, except an unformed and incorrigible cur, that would show its teeth after being kicked and buffeted at such a rate as the cur of the Observer confesses itself to have been most deservedly kicked and buffeted ? The Observer patronized by the " Queen and the Royal Family !" Stuff! If this were true, we should begin to believe that it was by her Majesty's consent that Mr. Macau lay took advantage of the few hours he was at Wind sor to date his letter from the Castle, instead of being sure, as we are, upon the " most positive authority," that her Majesty is so disgusted by that piece of im pertinence, that she will not transact business, except by deputy, with the present Secretary at War! Alas! for the Queen, the Court, the Royal Family, and the regal halls of Windsor, when they are degraded to these Whig-Radical uses, and when lying prints placarded themselves, without reproof, as published under Royal patronage ! (From the Morning Herald.) It is with great regret that we have seen, in a pe• riodical called the Church of England Magazine, . a most bitter, rancorous, and unjustifiable attack upon the Wesleyan Methodists. We disclaim, on the part of the Church, whose doctrines we profess, and whose autho rity we uphold, any participation in sentiments much more worthy the Church of Rome than the Church of England. Popery assumes, like " the old serpent," many disguises for the purpose of effecting its ends. Unquestionably the spirit of Popery speaks in the article to which we allude, in the disguise of a champion of the Anglican Church. In that semblance it assists O'Connell's object by endeavouring to bring into hatred and contempt that large body of our fellow- Christians of the reformed faith who are engaged, in common with Churchmen, in fighting the battle of Scriptural instruction against the projectors and promoters of the Romano-infidel scheme of national education. In the bitterness of his spite and malice against the Wesleyan methodists, did not O'Connell lately drag their great teacher John Wesley from the repose of the tomb to arraign him as a culprit at the bar of public opinion, charging him in a sort of posthumous indict. ment, with the heinous crime' of setting London on fire in 1780, and drenching the streets of the metropolis with blood ? What a pity that O'Connen was not of age to be a witness at that time, as he oignt have figured the Titus Oates, or Dangerfield, of the Wesleyan plot, and obtained for the venerable founder ,if Methodism the " honour" of a martyrdom at Tyburn: When we noticed some time ago, in the terms that it deserved, O'Connell's malignant abuse of the Wesleyan ,Me thodists, and his impudent calumnies upon the 1116 - mory of John Wesley, we little thought that .be venerated name of the Church of England would be prostituted by any writer to the same disgraceful task. But the Church of England has no more connection with that ungenerous and unjust attack on the Wes leyan Methodists than John Wesley bad with the riots and burning of London. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. (From the Globe.) Colonel Pasley's thousands of pounds of powder, and voltaic batteries, are a mere flea-bi-e—his " operations against the Royal George" mere child's play—to the operations against the Cabinet contemplated by her Majesty's Opposition. Hear how Monsieur Parolles,in the Duke's service, prates in the Quarterly With such a Ministry to contend against, all that ap pears necessary is, that the Conservatives, and those of other parties who equ a lly despise them, should steadily persevere in showing them up,' in ' stirring them up, in ' cutting them up,'in sewing them up,' in 'screwing them up' in rooting them up,' and, as they wont sink down wards, in blowing them up,' until the nation, disgusted 1 with their unmasculine characters and performances, in dignantly hisses this epicene company from the stage." Truly these are " prave 'ords," every way worthy lof Parolles or Pistol, or even of his ex-Excellency the late Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada. Her Majesty's Opposition are henceforward to act " re gardless of majorities, minorities, or of the violent pas sions which her Majesty's Ministers so artfully ex cite. They are to set to work, we suppose, with all the coolness imaginable, at the several showing, stirring, cutting, sewing, screwing, rooting, and blowing -up processes. They are not to excite any" vio lent pasSions," but only " indignant hi.ssings." Well, we think it very likely they may succeed so far, before they have done. There is nothing the people of Eng land are more apt to hiss than empty bravado—words without even the pretext of preparation for deeds. Here is the grave Quarterly oracle of the great national Con servative party recommending them to throw off all discipline— a ll o b e di ence to thir present leaders, whom it describes, by inuendo, in the following four lines : " The Earl of Chatham with his sword drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strechan. Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham." So the Tory host, without waiting for either, are " to fire their muskets independently, whenever they get a glimpse of their irregular enemi es ." T e i s wr i ter has t h e happiest knack a t the transfer of epithets. So far as all this Parolles-prate is translatable into plain English, we take it to mean that the Tories have flown des perate at their last miss of office ; and intend to be have as such. " Under their [Ministers') unprincipled system, whenever they are beaten tliey retire, not from their offices, but from the institutions it was their duty to defend." Now the sting of Tory exasperation ie., that Ministers did retire from their offices, and that their wary chiefs did not think it advisable to take their places ! So the troops, hopeless of pay and plunder, begin to talk of throwing off discipline, lam poon their leaders, fire their muskets independently, and are just as likely, if we may judge by appearances, to shoot their officers as their opponents ! (From the Courier.) It is rather unfortunate for Mr. Thomson that the mission confided to him requires the union of many rare and valuable qualities ; and it is still more unfortunate for Canada and for this country that it is precisely these rare and valuable qualities which Mr. Thomson does not possess. Here is a British Colony placed in the most delicate and embarrassing position ; having the Delegated Lieutenants of a Monarchical Govern ment for its rulers, with the Republic of the United States as a constant model alluring to imitation by its side :—its population being the unmixed people of two different nations, speaking different languages, of dif ferent religions, of different habits and forms, legal and social, and cherishing hereditary prejudices and animosities ;—the one portion of this incongruous co lony having recently been subdued in their unsuccessful rebellion against the authorities of the mother country, and the other portion still elated with the successful part which they had taken in putting that rebellion down :—and further, the one portion of this heteroge neous community, the principal in point of numbers, wealth, and influence, deprived of its long enjoyed representative constitution, while the other still retains its constitutional forms and privileges ; and it is to adjust all these differences, to reconcile all these earring interests, to sooth, to soften, and to per suade ; to guard the hand of power from weighing heavily, and to maintain withal the authority of the British Crown, that the late President of the Board of Trade had been metamorphosed into the Governor- General of Canada. To meet these duties, and these difficulties, must be brought the qualities of resolution and perseverance in laying down a plan of action, of constancy and patience in continuing it, of unerring sagacity in penetrating the views of others, of long familiarity with command, and experience in the prac tical art of governing. These duties are sufficiently arduous to task the health and energies physical and mental, the mens sans in corpore nano, of the most robust. That the new Governor-General unites any fair proportion of these indispensable qu&i fications may, in the absence of all proof, reasonably be doubted ; which is the more to be deplored, as the opinions which the Right Honourable Gentleman is known to entertain on the subject of Free Trade, and his proneness to carry into practice its abstract doctrine without regard to its practical expediency, are not doubted at all, and arc precisely the opinions which all parties in Canada most repudiate. In addition to this and other positive disqualifications, the Right Honour able Gentleman is open to the suspicion of having been relieved from high official station at home, on the real core of enfeebled powers of body and of mind, render ing him an incumbrance, or, at best, an absolute nullity in the Cabinet, and giving rise to the necessity of some pretext for his vacation. It remains to be seen how the inhabitants of the two Canada; will regard this tyro Governor, who seems to have been saddled on them by way of rent-charge, to recruit a shattered constitution, and to pave the way for his further transmutation to a pension and a Peerage. (From the Standard.) The Morning Chronicle makes a great bustle about a three-and-sixpenny dinner, " beer," and " batty and pipes" (which our Correspondent assures us were called tor) included, which was given on Wednesday last to the Chancellor of th.. Exchequer at Portsmouth_ Every effort that could be devised, even to the giving away of a large number of tickets, was resorted to to swell the motley group that assembled on the occasion. Every person possessing the slightest influence in the town had his part assigned to him ; but owing to the prevalence of " civil and religious liberty" in the room, all the speakers, from Admiral Fleming down to Moses Solomons, the Jew slopseller, attempted to recommend their own wares to the Company. The Gallant Admiral, who was profoundly silent on the subject of Greenwich Hospital, re-delivered his parrot oration about the perfect efficiency of the Bri tish navy. He alluded to the clamour which had been raised against " the family," for their scandalous neglect of the naval resources of the country, but was silent respecting the hubbub which his own profligate appoint ment had created, not only throughout every department of the naval service, but throughout every part of the country. Could this fortunate gentleman have advanced anything in his defence, he had here an excellent oppor tunity, for as his speech preceded the " bacey and pipes," he would, of course, have found willing lis teners. The Gallant Admiral, however, cautiously avoided the subject ; being of opinion, no doubt, that in his own particular case " silence was wisdom." The temptation must have been strong nevertheless. The Ministerial newspapers have attributed services to him, which have been as stoutly denied by their antagonists. To be sure, the naval records of the country, with which most of his professional friends are acquainted, are accessible enough, if people would but be at the trouble of referring to them. But what a signal revenge might he have taken upon his " tra ducers," had he boldly asserted his clait . to ever so small share of the glory earned for their coun try by the brother Admirals whom he has surplanted. His admirers boast of his having taken a part in the action of Sir Robert Calder. He is shown to have been out of sight of it at the time. They declare that his ship captured a French corvette after a dashing brush, and soft did ; but the Admiral was ashore ! They insist that he passed like a meteor along the western coast of South America, burning, sinking, and destroying every thing in his way ; but although his orders gave him an opportunity of so doing, his ship was quietly at anchor at Rio de Janeiro a large portion of the time that might have been occupied in such ex ploits. But he was' ordered to join Lord Col lingwood at Toulon, and might not only have done some service there had he obeyed the summons, but have escaped the censure of that Gallant Officer for his neglect. He had, say his friends, no opportunity of distinguishing himself, because he did not command a ship of the line until 1807. The navy list unhappily accused the Gallant Admiral of having commanded the Re venge, of 78 guns, one of the noblest vessels in the service, and in which but for his ill-luck (which appears to have been confined to his various attempts to distinguish himself) would have shared in the glory of that action in which Sir Samuel Hood lost his arm. All these things he might have settled in half an hour, had not his accustomed ill luck stood in the way. RIGIJLAR" FAR-WESTERS.—TaIk of bulls ! I knew an ox so sat, that his shadow stuck to the ground for an hour after he was gone !—Talk of spirits! I had a cask of whisky so genootne, that after drinking a glass of it you spoke broad Scotch perfectly ; and after three tumblers, pure Gaelic ! Two Companies of the Royal Artillery em barked on Thursday morning off the Arsenal, Wool wich, on board the Rattlesnake, transport ship, for Ceylon, to relieve the two companies now doing duty in that colony. , The Rattlesnake is expected to leap e the river to-morrow. SUICIDE FROM INTOXICATION. —On WaterSatur : Satur day morning, about seven o'cloc k, a woman of the name of Scott, residing at No. 9, Nottin g ham-street, 100-town, Bethnal-green, committed suicide by cutti o • her throat. Along with her husband, who is employ ed as a mason nn the works of the Eastern Counties P way in the immed iate neighbourhood, she bad be en in a state of inebriety for several days, and on aece, unt of some quarrel with her husband the ni ght was band th r eatened to commit suicide. This threat heeded, but on Saturday morning, after heas not . r h us had gone to work, she went into her land', w here she ob t a ined a razor, with w hich she, .:rd's ff ect : d °° h ln e ; deadly purpose. When discovered, the unhappy was found seated in a chair opposite tliefire,her..7.atT bead re clining downwards , and her apron lain filled with blood, life being extinct. I.JII A L Po IC E.—W orces'zershire, Gloune st( r shire, Essex, and several other 'counties are aboni.; put ting themselves under the 'Rural Police Forte Act. Tue measure has tn2t with some opposition 'in St ock• port as well as elsewhere. LN • ATTA CK ON . THE KING - OF - TR El ! FRENCH'S CARRIAGE, BY A LUNATIC. EVENING EDIT. (From Galignani's Messenger of SAurday.) I We are sorry to have to record an insult offered to the persons of their Majesties, which occurred yesterday ' afternoon. From the information which we have been able to collect, and which is in full corroboration of the connected : c n.; c d: o ne Teurtethilititnaiesstsdagatnwrihtivieteei:hn, woman afternoon," aaoonenniil(io:cwi, that I , :,:iaa t: there e s: i m i te a aeu p dac p ii e iir: a ich ; u: s i. ma t ost circumstance b ae nin e e n pe o t i d iss o i ulnabbnt labouring i i what ever gy sterial evening jour nal, "at half-past five, at the moment when the King and Queen were leaving the Tuileries, a woman ap proached the King's carriage, and threw a stone into it, which broke the glass, the fragments of which wounded the Queen slightly in the head. • The King was not in jured. Their Majesties continued their route to St. Cloud. The woman was immediately arrested and taken to the house of M. Marut de l'Ombre, the Conimiszary of Police, where she was interrogated by the Prefect of Police, who had immediately proceeded thither. She stated that her name was Stephanio Girodet, and that she was a servant out of place. She is lab :urine under ins iiiity." The Messager, after repeating tne same sti tenter, t in ne , ry the same wonis, adds :---" Ti e follow -leg are the particulars, as related to us by an eye witn as ; —A s the King's carriages were leaving the gate of the Car rousel by the side of the river, the first carriage, in which were the King, the Queen, and Madame Adelaide, had arrived opposite to the entrance gate of the garden of the Tuileries, when a woman advanced suddenly to the door of the car:iage. The officers of the Court were preparing to put her back, when, raising her arm, she threw with great force a stone, which' broke the glass, just above the fragments of which struck the Queen above the left ear. -The carriages stopped an instant, but as the wound was not serious the King gave orders to go on to St. Cloud. The author of this incredible attempt appears to be about thi!ty years of age ; she is of middle height, and of sanguine temperament ; she wore the costume of Paris servants. The incoherent replies of this woman have left no etoubt as to her in sanity ." While the King's carriage stopped it was surrounded by a crowd, which showed every mark of interest and respect, and when their Majsties continued on their way saluted them with loud cheers. The stone had but a narrow space to pass through, as the. window of the carriage was nearly covered by the person of the orderly officer who rode by its, side ; and it must have been thrown with great force, since the woman was at a good distance train the ei!titre'of the raid:: She wore a red handkerchief "on her'. head i her other clothes were yet)? ragged.___ The King and Queen arrived at St. Cloud at a qua"- ter after six., Dr. Pasquier was immediately called ,a,r thJ Queen, and his report on inspection of the bruise at once dissipated all uneasiness. Her Majesty dined with the King as usual, and received company in the evening. The President of the Council and all the other Ministers went to St. Cloud to pay their respects. The Danish Minister, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, the Count de Montativet, Countess Dueilate', and a great number of other personages, were successively received by their Mjesties. The Queen retired at half past ten o'clock. " The woman Girodet," says the Moniteur, " who threw the stone into the King's carriage yesterday, was visited in the evening at the Conciergerie, by Drs. Cherie] and Vignardane, in the presence of the Minis-- ter of the Ir,terior and the Prefect of Police. Both physicians are decidedly of opinion that she is insane." The Droit states, that before the King's carriage cam e out of the Court of the tti cries, the woman was see to traverse the Pont Royal, gesticulating vehement'iy, and exhibiting with a menacing air a stone which she had picked up from where the workmen were engatged in the alterations of the bridge. The King, it adds, took up the stone after it had ente -ed the carriage, and threw it out of the window. The Quotidienne says, thit the woman Girodet had been observed sitting about on the pavement near the Pont Royal during the greater part of the day, and at times weeping bitterly. LATE STORM IN FRANCE. Disasters similar to those we have recorded in the departments of the Ain and the Rhone have oc curred in the Isere, by the bursting of a water-spout in the night of the 4th instant, on the plain of St. Simeon, where the road was severely cut up, and nearly every species of property on the borders of the little stream called the Perouse, and which was swollen into a torrent,wasdestroyed between Viriville and Marcillolle. The river Galaure also made great ravages in the communes of Roybon and St. Clair, destroying roads, lands, manufactories, and dwellings in the valley of Galaure. In the commune of Dienay the crops spared by the stor ins of la l / 4 t month have been entirely swept away ; that of St. Antoine has also guf ered, and the roadbetween it gad - Womans intefeeptect The H:_)c i has uncovered the two abutments of an an elent bridge near that place,the existence of which had been forgotten for ales. The Geie In;s dons much damage, as the Lyons papers state, at St. Sym plwrien near Vienne, by tvciflor_ inz its banks; the los4 to agricultur!sts is 'estiine:ted at 30,000 francs. Nearly - all the b6iteera. Vienne and Beaurepaire have .been' tarried away. liurther to the south, in the Gard, - the Rhone has destroyed the bridge of Roquemaure, and sunk four teen barges with coal. Much irjury had been caused by storms in other parts of Fran ce . In the Pyrenees Orientales there hare been several thunder storms. A journal of that department states, that in one of them the lightning entered the Chateau de Pollestres by the chimney, and killed a dog which • was lying on the hearth ; two females who were sitting in the room were thrown out of their chairs and stunned, but received no other injury. The water of the Loire, as we learn by the Journal du Maine et Loire, increased suddenly on Wednesday and Thursday by - between 4 and 5 feet in height, and floated away an immense quantity of hemp near Les Rosiers, which had been cut and left out to dry. The loss is said to be very considerable. The * Journal du Loiret states that the recent storms have done great damage in that department. The black oats which were still standing have been, cur. to pieces, and the young wheat entirely destroyed. In many cf the communes the roofs of houses have been torn off by the wind, and the hail had fallen with such force that after a storm of the 12th inst., poultry, bares, and partridges, which had been killed by it were sold in the market of Orleans at extremely low prices. Orleans itself had sustained no injury whatever, but an enormous quantity of rain had fallen. Sir Robert and Lady Fitz Wygram are: enter taining company at Tusmore Park, near Bicest er, Ox-• fordshire. IMPORTANT TO MARINERS. F4ASTERN CHANNEL LEADING INTO PLYMOUTH SO' J Np,—The established leading mark through this tAtai.inel is Tor house (in a grove of trees, bearing N :TN:E.g.) brought in a line with a black diamond r f ,dinteii on • a white patch upon the south side of i'lymouth eitalel, but some trees having grown up so as to eclipse Tor-hbtise, in the Eastern channel, the Admiralty' -have caused. beacon to be erected ur,;on the north wail ofAhe•oit.adel. - and in a line drawn from the black diamond to Tor house. The beacon is a vertical po'St ten feet above the parapet, varying a skeleton sphere, surmounted by a vane, the whole being painted white. This beacon will serve us a leading mark whenev,T Tor-house is bid den by the foliage of the trees or obs cure d by fogs, and will also pointout the direction of Tor-Louse, when brought over the top of the gcale,,,ilslllotise (in a trrOVC of trer;s a little way to the eastward of Tor house) for Torbouse itself.—W. Walker,.R. N., 13 3 - visaed, Sept. 13th, I B39.—Nautical Magazine. BEAU ' BRUMMELL.—It will be tnatter of n ews i to many persons to hear that this once c:elebrated per_ s ,n, the arbiter elegantiartim of the days of G eo an , 1 which the .11 ; under r L mental ( ;: ,,n h , n e tt n hbo_s P et r Prince of is, j f dt -Wales, e W e s a sca l e tsh s h , ei:on : lo n :ss d ebi t iv,w h e, hes): , : l: stal ;_ 011:: _ id t in Normand In con.nement l a at Pa io r n t s, fo a r od th hi e s co . ntributions of old friends. derangement, at Caen, This admired of all admirers is existing on the y• Ir in obi a ce n p evi l : b e; s or e almost . extorted bene- I :. amount of poor rw George': they 1 once nc orn were'. e ri is 1. e o a l r . a-year fr,r one who began life with lur - Aries bei)How differently must his a good rincel fortun t e, high expec tation, great connexions, and patronage. ruling passion reigns triumphant p even in walls of he a , madhouse. Beau Bcummell still imagines himself a fine gentleman, and assumes all the airs and importance of his bygone popularity and good fortune. Amongst other feats he rings the bell of his solitary apart ment continually. The keeper, who with great hu manity humours his insanity, asks what commands? " Order my carriage," says the light of other days ; " I must go directly to Carlton House to see the , Prince." RAILWAY SUNDAY TRAVELLING.—SiIIee ( the opening of the Ulster Railway from Beliast we have. observed some indications of hostility to the establish- 1 ment, on the ground of Sunday travelling, as if the the e mployment of coaches and: I movement of carriages on a railway, without horses, In Scotland, where, certainly, an c I w a e r r s e on in e ° fanaticism has r ecently been mak:ng rapid strides, there orenansionnfurloatahsr has been a rezular campaign 'against the Railways, and: it is not, after all, surprism,g that the mania should, ex tend to the North of Ireland ; but we must own that yr.: were unprepared for ti e manner in which the advo cates of the biller observance of the S bO h '' at are carry ing on their operations in Bcltast.—DublinExeningPost.