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.0 0 Oh) 0 Wiz g lon. 19th, the neer evious two 18; 1 iy there rs accompania Yorks, Generil' id several otitt Their Majestie s )ngst the gvest, nd the Geuevu rough the Coll nperial &nib' itely after tbri ,h, ron in the 1 1 (Cherbourg) us ved at two, tiO, Pluton at Four., red that Goer"' Accra, to vhot t ! lence, have olso, !,r accounts stats, by French Cos from Toulon °, ) following ele: d o have deferred in the Augsbu r g ) have seri ous ly place in 5 S I vs on the 1310_, era of engine _r: ns are insufficlelivs g its passag e, de . artillery to en, t o the nu ll o i c ; [cites, and 2,13 Lorne. . 0 ance tha fol u i ws of the Fana i all the hm thunder un d dace the igt of them p or t 0 Challtlf* 00. mlit to Ly _ nn their novenae, i t parting t o . 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" the ?en tried he , 111 , c) r all, w. „ 0 , ty carts, G ibt* Oderinee w et° ie farm s C itiveg car t, the T ba jOUrnel • we rt i nd Lone,.,4e o • in the he: c ift , e Bstrler' a Holine* a , n ow I ,llir wounding „di, b e sawn s r ?! grievous 0110 the Cub 0 0 isoner, alw.jog red With l e v€ 6 of the ° "0 0 the chief ° for trial. OP a nd ,rbr nter ,„. o s, j I,s, was '' er ce cu . having ...of to R f st. ur °o Afte r ee jn the . 0 , 0 rs negi e for , arrant I`>. co if dagistratooty e parisk.,, j os* 'nether r,_ 44 Y. w ife 49.11 ,t of Afr .. . n o• 0 ° was coed robbed ino 0 smart'°l3.4 his P° °se •fe mild not and Sirabilti ;harge c• .6 e /Ar a n Gm ol IS to 0% diSP °S f rittgiStral 01# able to 3ol' ec ru r the kh eir v isit at 1";10 3taintbret Pr o f n the oP e-I s il ivy the Co ur !i ce h e co w ee Marto 1 n 3 A rouse t Ler oy noon th and e in p, rJecide n " 4 10 eir the ~b iem , tir i "' R ope ° l ESeS Whe distingn inesse, s h totcl aye lej fi esig' t : Gre. — or s o' ed vi s Alt ga' its at' h e : quil l til . n for e ir d; 101. "ri dod et.er!tri P oly nay ,00 3 3# [sle ( Ate° fe itoe . bis on d a the , orc ishlt his -0 tginl~o. 0' :g Ater largo rile 3 ' I tl'* (l .00( , tra cou l ir , Se) ; • 1)15 f,s1C 1 / 40 9 b1e ofLive Pr e gtlic ,„ s ioo . 00 eceP" o y o r o he r ceci l l of use - it 1 31 i~• a of t e of d 0 o 5 the r ti j. f i p es urclgY frod Court 'fed 1 d ell flr / . .. r y .. bSlW,',cti P ` ot g _ .. g r "Ist evening tiarlv three linnclr.l gentlemen, the fri e to nd ethe A tn U. supporters of D av id Saloons Esq., dined electors d on ' upon the invitation of that gentleman, at the e nT avern, to celeb ra t e th e efforts made by the Of the ward o f P or t so k en to carry out t h e grea t P. Mciple of civil and religious liberty, in connexion with e l vie ° Mee% by returning a member of the Jewish reli- T . ° ll a 8 a fit an d proper person to be an alderman of the Jo f London. M any of the most influential persons connected with the trade and commerce of the City were present on the occasion, and amongst the company were al era gentlemen professing the same religious faith as all% Salomons. The Con servative cause in Dublin having been at a discount for some time past, a great effort is about being r a nkle to run it up again to premium, and with this view thereat Meeting o f th e C onservat i ve e l ectors i s to h e ld on 2d of November next. Wi lliam Cousins, labourer, Pathhead, tried before the Inp ri sheriffri and a ju r y, on t h e 12th of August last, for a se- i °us a ssault upon a f ema l e, and sentenced to four months' sonuunt ) made his escape from the New Prison, U.apar, on the forenoon of Thursday last. He was em ployed in wheeling rubbish in front of the prison, and the pers on o , in char ge h a d gone i ns i de for another to relieve ten Cousins, but by t h e t i me he returned, being away about ,_ mi nutes, the p r i soner h a d ma d e hi s escape . li e i s w ont six f eet in height, and wore a pair of moleskin trousers and a brown jacket. THE UNITED STATES. Thep LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. acket-ship Cambridge, Captain Barstow, I ;,. rr ived in th e r i ver th i s morning, br i nging New Yor k Papers four days later than those received by the steamer. „ The thr ea t ened crusade for the extermination of `" Monnonit es h ad assumed an aspect of immediate 'ger, and we find that the anti-Mormon party of Ra m n "ek county, Illinois, had called an armed assem b sr, t° meet at th a t p l ace on the 27t h ult. P rompte d 4 7 this mov ement, and in pursuance of h i s an 22tteced resolution, Governor Ford had ordered out ) 6 00 of the State militia for the preservation of the bli ° Peace, and to prevent the violation of the _con stitution and leached laws of the State. The result has not coin meeting us„ but it is highly probable that finding Y,reevernor Ford so determined to quell disturbance, would not proceed to extremities. Great tb _lplaints had been made of the delay in bringing ; murderers of Joe Smith to justice. The Go _eonor had intimated that he was ready to sustain the Knper authorities in proceeding with the prosecutions. tit he unexampled orderliness and freedom from out- f e e w hich have on this occasion characterised the v parations for the approaching Presidential election, at length been disturbed in New York, where b and Pit,ig procession was assailed by a Locofoco . mob , p uci H e ill-blood engendered by the collision had th at ced such a great and i mmed i ate exc i tement, th e 'HA partie s were t h reaten i ng to come f or th i n t o armed Public streets on every future occasion fully re s i We extract th e f o ll ow i ng from a series of ° oases adopted at a meeting of the " Buttend pielll Hunters,. as they elegantly term themselves : edaesioyed,—That each hunter keeps his flint e of his Powder d r y, an d w h en th e y se e the white .Ye---let split!' T h e n aval court-martial at Washington was still en g a ged with th e i nvestigat i on of the c i rcumstances Steamer Missouri. txtbATISTICS OF THE THEATRES IN GERMANY, COL @, nr L. SCHNEIDER, AN ACTOR AT BERLIN.— d r ' e are altogether 115 German theatres, with 1 4 4 ? ° S a..tie performers (1,870 actors and 1,3 d __ ingers (89 male anpderfsoBrmfeemrs.ale)T. kloteers, 2 ,089 orchestrala c t actresses), e s 3 s , e l s 7 ) s , The el7-I e ntireprincipal nu m- sl o t °f Persons employed on the German theatres is 0n 4 ,. t 12 ,769. The most numerous orchestra ..95, is an t d hat th o e f and Vienna, the former comprkein ts „, of 77 persons. he I Carthnerthor Theatre) consis ~a mullest orchestra is that of Marb ur g, - "IY 12 persons. By adding the singers a ora ls di r rs to the a d ee t m he pr m isi o n s g t 0 4 1. ectors and stage-manage and number abomuatdaratic actors,. theole i w s, o h u o l w d properly amount t he to . 1 0 „.., . 60 0. This ca l cu latio n 0 , 1 ; me mark, for amongst . the . 115 theatres, there atyhehree pre :rl39 21 travelling companies included. 0 9 ed that there are more than 200 theatres. Amongst prompters are also 39 female prom p te rs. engaged, Dresden e ; t ue greate s t num b er o f l ea di ng ac t o rs 1.04, - , :l! s g , i o e f a s t s z p n e u rs im o . ns; the smallest, comprising only 12 L' 4 . l BLEr .—STATE or TRADE.—A lthough, as might kn ow Pect ed ex season, at this that branch of industry ri as the Paisley trade is undoubtedly fiat, a n nd u a t Eca many operatives are to be of the country, if we 44; s treets ; still, the gene ral trade seen disengaged about to 3 ;. i. jUdge by the extensive or m de a rs nu w fan hi t c u h re w rn e h in av e e ev s e e ra en l iath " hands of our leading . can, of c t :. branches, is so brisk asAstotah ff eorrdaistlheye weaver prospec t la ellrable employment.. by j,. 1 an hour, convert his loom . lay, ' 1 ,.. 1 '1R up his "harn e a s , " and intrtoodercinmgona purposes, com m common Pr - 04,- - nms, checks, &c., an d also gauzes,are faricsof readily 'and 1;: e °, in lie u o f th e ordinary local fabrics the % c rets• We are happy to say that the e eo d n e s m id a e n r d ah f l o e r . The eseriptions of goods is at pre klajectorsehli: ki 11 n14kin g Of branch of our local business.— Captain has for some time back been Ira ildlver t as ise a r. Captai n bnlL, i Barclay's annual sale of pure t short -horn ury an :Ives and other stock came off on Tuesday ~. le l ,! l l;ll lB g ' e tts ,. ° R former occasions, attended by a largeas °I agriculturists from all parts of the e country. a. meter, and stock even surpassed its former high h Th e '„ r _ : ' a " Was much admired by the judges present. fo- eloszitanytiie:e_sa:oibtTned for the hull calves (of which the ! showed that it had lost nothing in 8 public .. 1 : it Lyall, Druinclune 36 15 1 1 Mr. Craighead, Perwinnes 3 B, 17 ' 'f Mr. A. Wilkie, Orwiston Mains , 3 ne ar Edinburgh 36. 1 .1 5, 4 . -Mr. Moir, Tar g tie 4 3 5 ' 147 `' . Gow, Raitb, Fifeshire 35 14 6 . lir. J. Miller, Ballumbie, Forfarshire 24- .3 7 . Mr. S, Gladstone, of Fasque 8. 144 r. Watt, Rannieston, Elton 2l 0 Mr. Garland Cairnton 21 0 10•1 l%'. Walker , Fortlethen 25 4 : rho 1 . Mr. Scott, Achath (very young) ..• 16 which was considerable competition for the po l l 6 ledcow s, v ar i ed had been served by a short-horn bull. Pri ces . Served tecording to size, age, and condition ; but we ou „ lull , Luat some of them brought upwards of 181. A in th e lunch was laid out fur parties as they arrived Pain ed forenoon ; and after the sale the captain ente n r: h er ed his friend s to dinner in his usual hospitable ma i., Caledonian Mercury. ie Ili a „ . ReSTER.—The Lord Bishop of the diocese held e,,tritiary visitation of the clergy and lay in the _the . dr",Xeditrral church on Tuesday se'nnight, in the Catbe rei ' e h Pomp and ceremony was observed on the et i ci a• The very R the Dean (Dr. Chandler) le r-- med the sermon , Rev, did not forget to attack the reYite iof the church for its heresy.—Brighton 4 lierdi an. q „"-orcitoß n OL D S P ORT SMAN.—On Monday .ii g h t . ~ P AN th e s p .n inquest was held before Mr. C. J. Canter, upon MI T iger's quest Inn Lee, next Lewisham, Kent, f up n dead, of Charles Morton, aged 76, Reati,, b y from a rafter in a barn belonging I who was found d n It appears that t l al an named Russell, residing at Lee. 1) . : 1 ":::::;ased wits formerly huntsman to the Earl of 1n: 3 5. and that subsequently he kept the Derby h Arms and ,"oYdon, the Magpie Inn, on Hounslow- eath, B ars -ro was landlord of the Leaping Bar, Black-_ a eo . a ,W here he was robbed by his . housekeeper of asideble sum of money, siace which he had l 'olved • le t , , himself in a lawsuit, which ended in his rui . n. Of he ti a had become very eccentric and strange in his m h an._ ebarl The following evidence was adduced :—Ric Ric h ar d dep osed es Mullett, auctioneer, of No. 8, Blackfriars-road, a mat that he knew the deceased as an innkeeper for . ehs4ett ma hat years ; had seen him frequently of late, and r. 'red hat be had become singularly strange in his - same th at e k r a. Rosa Howard, of Camden Cottage, Lee, deposed in the barn she was walking with her aunt, and on aeitil h is observed observed the deceased suspended b P y as a s ha lter, g is knees near l y to the ground. It was about one a n d cfel° alt on Saturday. She was exceedingly frightened, I,,,,frave information of the circumstance. John Covill, k:tn*•de-rnaker, Lee, deposed that he was called by last_ ess, and cut the deceased down ; he was a powerful it an, of about eighteen stone weightt. Mr. Mullet was reecalled, and said that deceased had lost a great sum of at °ll °Y in the public-house trade ;he had since become I,:clagely eccentric. During the last year and a half he t . been amply supplied by Mrs. Tattersall with pecu tiarY Means, &c. That lady having died, his circum -4,,,a4ces got worse. Deceased had written a letter to the til' r tY with whom he was at law, threatening to destroye d,Tos,l. He was , however, by no means in wa nt. . 11 .3 wire",.3ln He and hounds. Mr. Tattersall, since hi de ath, had assisted and served him much. Th e . bee_ landlord of the Tiger is a son of the deceased. This 11,, Lig the whole of the evidence, the Coroner summed a r , and the jury returned a verdict--" That the deceased I.".,e!traYed himself while labouring under a fit of temp ‘rY derangement." lae llW ROYAL EXCIIANGE.—Every precaution has .oentl taken to secure e ffi cient ventilation in the rooms 4-__ nected with this edifice, and Day's Patent Wind -1"11,,,1,1 has been called into requisition for such purpose. a __"t HE MEDICAL Bl LL.—Yesterday, in pursuance of direearlution passed at the aggregate meeting of the me de pr.ofession, held at Exeter Hall on the 29th ult., ft putation of the medical practitioners of the metropolis irt-Ittnded at Apothecaries' Hall, for the purpose of hold • ..."R a conference with the Master and Court of Assist- the' of the Company. The Master and Court stated, t i e ' l Z bad given this subject their best and undivided at kidri", and, in the course of a few days, would again repo ess the profession, and explain the plan of medical e_LtYra which they would' recommend. This plan was princeo ceived in the most liberal spirit, and conceded the e Ple of self-government to its licentiate, for which vue_..putation were such strenuous advdeates. The de pro'no.n, nut considerable length urged the necessity . of tion"° that illegal practice by summary convic prof! and that the welfare of the public, as well us of the p, r ajsion, demanded it. They also submitted the itn. a Colle ge necessity which existed for the establishment of ti, un e ge of medicine and surgery for general practi , _rs, whose manifold acquirements and utility really coostitt►''al eipi, ''-. - the , profeasion. In this fundamental prin.- eeafe' a " e'r:g• In many other details considered in the , ren e ... eea s i derati t - the tit.tuost u.nanimity revailed. Further oft Low , on of tho quotton was adjourned until the gee laration of the Court *UM appear, LITERATURE. IRELAND AND THE IRISH. Duffy, Dublin, 1844. We have here a translation from the German of , Herr J. Venedey, who took a trip to Ireland during the memorable " Repeal year"—as Mr. O'Connell loves to call the year 1843—and wrote down his im pressions of what he saw and heard at the moment when they were fresh in his mind. He seems to have entertained warm feelings of sympathy .for the agi tators, and more than once takes the opportunity of stating that—so far as he could discern—Repeal was a far more momentous question than it was supposed to be, in England and on the Continent, aid that the movement in its favour did not lay merely on the surface, but proceeded from the very heart of Ireland. Of course, while resident in that country, our author made a point of getting introduced to O'Connell; and he relates, with considerable animation, the parti culars of a delightful day which he spent with the great Liberator and his fad= Achates, Tom Steele, at a retired cottage on the sea-shore in the neighbour hood of Dublin. He visited also the Earl Roden, the Corypheus of the Irish Orangemen, at his splendid estate, Tollymore Park, and gives the heads of a con versation which he had with him on the subject of the Repeal agitation ; of which, as may be surmised, his Lordship was no very reverent idolater. We quote our author's graphic sketch of the Noble Earl's park, with whose various scenic beauties he appears to have been quite enraptured : " I made a circuit around the castle, and following the noise of the waters, I soon came to a wood-stream, which is the ornament of this park, and this park itself is one of the finest in Ireland. I must own, that never, either in Switzerland, nor on the Rhine, nor in the Hartz mountains, did I see anything to equal the unparalleled beauties, which ono half hour's walk presented to my eye, all clustered hero together. An artist might dis cover, in every step he took, scenes that if truly depicted could confer immortality upon him. The flood which played through the rocks, was one that had wantoned with them, for a thousand years, and had moulded them according to its capricious fancy ; hero it had scooped them out into a deep bed • there it had formed them into a bubbling cauldron ; further on it had fashioned them into a cascade, and then made of them a bath, in which a giant might lave his limbs—and these rocks ! white and naked in the stream ; yet 'when they rise above the surface but a few feet, covering themselves with soft moss, and wild flowers, and bold plants ; whilst over all, and as if stooping down to gaze upon them were the trees springing up on every side, and crossing their great palmy branches, as if they struggled to de fend that sacred spot, from one ray of the sun, which might by its heat interfere with the temperature of the cool bath beneath. Oh lit was beautiful I—how very beautiful I There are a few spots in this landscape, that are of unparalleled loveliness. An old arched bridge forms one point of the back-ground of the picture, and to this there hangs a sort of iron bridge that leads under the arch. Here the flood tumbles wild, foaming and furious over the rocks, whilst the trees form a sort of concave roof over the entire scene, and through this roof the sun has but a narrow space here and there to shoot down his rays, and send them playing amongst the waves, whilst the trees form a sort of concave roof over the entire scene, and through this roof, the sun has but a narrow space here and there to shoot down his rays, and send them playing amongst the waves, whilst the coquettish, kissing, ever dimpling waters boldly reflect back his beams, or send them sparkling with a thousand variegated colours, amid the tender moss, the vivified herbage, and the grand parti-coloured flowers. And then around the trees, there climb up with unrestrained strength the rebelly-green parasitical plants, giving to the scene the perfect character of original and natural wildness. Ah I when looking upon such a spot, I can well comprehend how St. Patrick must have longed for his own wild mountains and brooks in Ireland. They are so wonderfully beautiful. Here indeed might be founded a holy hermitage, such as all the rest of the world c mild not equal. The scene that I now describe is always the same, and yet but one step further and it is changed ; a new tree—a new light—or a new shade cast upon it, and it produces a totally different, but still equally beautiful aspect. Here the water assumes a blue appearance, there yellow, soon black, and then brown, and a step further on, it is of a grass-green colour, but in all, transparent to the very bottom I Again say, that whatever of beautiful scenery I have looked upon in Switzerland, or in the Hartz, or at the Rhine, is not equal to that which, in half an hour, I beheld in Lord Roden's park." OUR ISRAELITISH ORIGIN, OR BRITISH CHRISTIANS A REMNANT OF THE TRUE ISRAELITES; with a Reply to the Rev. E. Bicker- steth. By J. Wilson. Nisbet, 1844. This is rather a startling title, but there may be more in it than meets the eye. The subject of the lost tribes has occupied the attention of numerous writers. Their fate is certainly mysterious, and cal culated to excite curiosity and give scope for conjec ture ; but the greater difficulty is to believe that they have been irretrievably dispersed or destroyed, than that they may be found in some of the remaining nations of the earth. Many have supposed that the red race, or American Indians, are the descendants of the ten tribes, an opinion entertained by the Rev. Mr. Bickersteth, and other eminent divines, but to this, we think, there are several decisive objections; others have indulged in different conjectures, but no one, to our knowledge, has taken the same original and rational mode of accounting for their disappearance, and discovering their exist ence, as Mr. Wilson, or supported their views with more confidence and ability. He has brought forward many curious and striking facts, which he maintains to be plainly coroborative of prophecy, and he has with great ingenuity availed himself of ety mology to trace the descendants of Abraham and fol lowers of Moses in their chequered peregrinations. He shows that the tribes which so entirely lost their nationality were removed northward in the Assyrian captivity, and that, increasing greatly in numbers, they passed into Europe, and spread abroad towards the north and west. In proof of this, he cites Scrip ture higtiiri very copiously, and refers to the religious belief and Israelitish manners which lingered among the nations of Europe. The 'local appellations of Hebrew aspect are also adduced, and the immense number of tombs, and other remains similar to those in Judea, which are scattered throughout the region north of the Kuban and along the back of the Euxine, indicating a numerous population, where there is now but a scanty num ber of inhabitants, altogether offer to our author a convincing proof that a powerful stream of Israel itish emigration flowed westward. In short, the Gothic races who broke up the Roman empire are asserted to be the descendants of the tribes of Israel, whose seed has been multiplied so exceedingly, ac cording to Divine ordination, and who, by the con currence of repeated prophecies, are to be ultimately " brought from the north country and gathered from the coasts and isles of the earth." The Europa Israel ites, to adopt a 'term, are destined, it is observed, to re-civilise the Asiatic nations, and the English are " the grand producers of good to man and its most liberal distributors." Israel, or the house of Ephraim, is not to be confounded with Judah or the Jews. In the course of our Saviour's ministry all his movements were to the north. "It is through Samaria," observes our author, "that we trace the course of his journeys, and it is round the coasts of Galilee that he went preaching the glad tidings, and it was when in his furthest journey in that direction on the coasts of Syro- Phenicia that he pronounced the important words, I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.' His mission promised to Israel in the north country was more fully carried out by his apostles." Paul, it is observed, uniformly wrote and travelled northwards, and passed into Europe, to Rome itself, with the intention of proceeding into Spain. " Paul and his fellow-disciples all followed out the course indicated by the great " shepherd of the sheep, and that being uniformly north-westward, directs our at tention to our own part of the world, as being that in which the lost sheep of Israel may be found." Pp. 60 —7O. The work is written in a forcible and unosten tatious style, and it displays great knowledge of an cient history and depth of research and original thinking, with a zeal and earnestness well calculated to excite the respectful attention of the reader, although he may refuse his assent to all the points on which Mr. Wilson has fixed his own conviction. are IMPROVEMENT IN THE STEAM-ENGINE.—WO informed that the greatest improvement made in the steam-engine since the days of Watt, is now about being patented by Mr. Samuel Moyle, of Bosvigo House, in this county, civil engineer, which, it is said, will effect a saving of at least 50 per cent. in the consumption of fuel. Great as the advantage arising from this improve ment will be to the mining interests of this county, equally great will it be to railroads on the atmospheric principle, and still greater to steam navigators, who will thereby be enabled to perform voyages twice the distance they are now enabled to accomplish.-- West Briton. ST. ANDREW'S.—A MISTAKE.--The schooner Snow drop, from Stockton, coal laden, bound for Dundee, came into our harbour on Monday morning at three o'clock, in a manner unexpected both to the crew on board and the people on shore. The master, guided by the lights on the pier-head and at the corner of Mrs. Bell's tavern, came slap into the harbour, mistaking it for the river Tay, and did not know his mistake until at the pier-head (having been there seven or eight years before), when immediately heaving back to stop the vessel's way, she struck upon the cross pier, displ acing several tiers of masonry.; and immediately getting clear of that, she came right into the harbour, against one of the fishing boats, causing a good deal of damage, an d tearing a plank out of another one. Sh logat last got safely moored along side the quay, ha done no -damage to herself during her headlong career. Happily no p e rson was injured Caledonian Mercury. SCILLY. —During the storm with which we were visited on the 9th inst., the Mary and Eliza, Tregarthen, master. from London, with a general cargo for Gibraltar "and Cadiz, was driven ashore, and has become a complete wreck, the fragments of the hull being subsequently sold for 91. 10s. The greater part or the cargo has been saved, but all in a damag ed state, having beep some ee time under water. This is the first occasion on which Capt. Manby's apparatus has been used on the islands. Just before dark a line was fired over the vessel, by which a hawser was conveyed to the shore from the mast head, over which the crew, five in namber, were saved from perbliing.-- West Briton. rriE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23 184 4 MR. SALOMONS AND HIS SUP- PORTERS IN THE PORTSOKEN WARD. Yesterday Mr. Sslemons entertained a large party of his friends and supporters in the late contest for the aldermanie gown of the ward of Portsoken, at the Lon don Tavern. Nearly 300 gentlemen sat down to dinner. Amongst the company who were present were the Baron A. :de Rothschild, James, Esq. (barrister), James Thomson, J. S. Hall, Standing, E. James, Lush, J. Saul, James Kilby, John Kenzie, S. Jutsum, Wm. Scholey, 11. Child, J. Charles Prior, Randall Glynes, Wm. Coates, and E. Smith, Esqs., and most of the in fluential and wealthy electors and inhabitants of the ward of Portsoken. The dinner was of a very costly description, and was worthy of the long-established fame of Messrs. Bathe and Breach. The wines were excellent. The portion of the repast provided for the gentlemen of the Jewish persuasion was cooked and provided by Messrs. Meyers and Sons. The cloth having been removed, and the usual loyal toasts having been given, and responded to in the most enthusiastic manner, The CHAIRMAN proceeded to give " The health of her Majesty's Ministers." Though he did not seek to make this a political meeting, yet it partook in some respects, at least, both of a political and yet a private meeting. Still there was this distinction, that where in a meeting at one's own house certain toasts might be dispensed with, on the present occasion, and on all simi lar occasions, he considered they must be anxious to pay respect to her Majesty's Ministers.—(Cheers.) At the head of the Administration was placed a Right Hon. Gentleman, of whom the country ought to be proud— a gentleman, who was, as it were, but one step removed from themselves—a gentleman, the son of a manufac turer, who had risen by his own industry and skill to the highest position to which a subject of her Majesty could aspire.—(Cheers.) Sir Robert Peel was a man of the highest talent, and of unblemished character, who applied all his time and his talents to the service of his country. They ought to try every man by the test of his own conduct, and there could be no doubt that Sir Robert Peel and his Ministry had made great advances in favour of public opinion, and looking to that Right llon. Gentleman as the head of the Government, he begged to propose " The Health of Sir Robert Peel and her Majesty's Ministers." This toast was responded to with acclamation. Mr. SeLosioNs again rose and said that, though he did not wish to make this a party or political meeting, he must say he had great satisfaction and pleasure in seeing around him those persons to whom he was in -1 debted for having placed him in the position to which he had aspired in the Court of Aldermen.—(Greatcheer ing.) Ho was very much obliged for that display of generous feeling, though ho stood in the equivocal posi tion as to whether lie was an Alderman de facto or de jure. lie might be described as placed like the tomb of Mahommecl, between earth and heaven.—(Laughter.) The men of the ward of Portsoken had done their duty nobly ; and he was much obliged to them for their un bought suffrages, which had placed him in a proud po- Sition. The lion. Gentleman concluded by giving " The independent electors of Portsoken, particularly the 168 who had voted for him." SAMUEL HALL returned thanks in a speech of some length, in which he acknowledged the high compliment which had been paid him and his fellow-labourers by their worthy Alderman—(Cheers)—for such he must call him until he should be better instructed. Having repudiated the calumny of the voters having been gained over by pecuniary considerations, the Hon. Gentleman concluded by proposing " The Health of David Salo mons, Esq., their Alderman." (Here great cheering followed, in the midst of which, upon Mr. Salomons rising to respond to the toast, the toastmaster (Mr. Harker) called out " Silence for the Alderman 1' and the cheering was then renewed.) Mr. SaLomoNs said—After the proceedings of the previous day, he begged his friends to understand that he j neither had the advantage, nor had be the vanity of considering himself as their Alderman,—(Cries of " It must be,") —although he did flatter himself that that cognomen might shortly be applied to him; nevertheless he was very much obliged to his friend, Mr. Hall, and the gentlemen present, for the kind manner in which they had been pleased to express their feelings towards himself. Having borne testimony to the zeal and judg ment of Mr. Hall, as the chairman of his committee, Mr. Salomons proceeded in strong terms to repudiate the malevolent and malignant calumny which had been spread by his opponents, that the electors of Portsoken had been unduly influenced by any considerations what ever. In his own case, he had been met on one hand by a legal technicality, and on the other hand by an attempt equally malignant and malevolent, to make this matter assume the character of a sort of religious question. In his opinion, the question of personal feeling being acceded, it then assumed that of a moral aspect. Nine years ago, he had presented him self to a neighbouring ward, who had considered him personally fitted to the situation to which he aspired; he was returned to the Court of Aldermen. Now, the Ame rican acceptation of the word " repudiate" was not what the party would not do, but that it was not convenient to pay. That expressed more strongly the position in which he (Mr. Salomons) stood. It was not that he had not been legally elected, but that it was not convenient for the Court of Aldermen to admit him, or to elect him. The Hon. Gentleman here took a lengthened view of the various Acts of Parliament previous to 1828, which bore upon the question of disabilities of various deaomina- Lions. The Act of 1828, the abolition of the Test and Corporation Acts, had not contemplated the exclusion of the Jews. The Acts of 1837 and 1838 were made, it was true, to apply to Quakers, Moravians, and Separatists. They knew a.Cltuaker often by the shape of his hat—the Moravian by the cut of his coat—but as to the Separa tist, how were they to distinguish him ? The true in tent and moaning of these later Acts of Parliament was, that every man should take that oath which should be most binding on his conscience. For himself, had he chosen to enter by the by-door, he might at once have come into office, but he would not violate his conscience—he might have attained the object of his ambition, if he had been willing to assume the cha racter of a " Separatist," which he had been advised indeed to do. Against the highest legal officer of the Corporation, ho begged to say he made no com plaint. The effect of the present law was that many honest men were kept out of office. In Holland and in England, the two countries where the Jews enjoyed the most freedom, commerce and manufactures had flourished most. After many further observations on these points, the lion. Gentleman concluded by assuring his friends that in any and every situation of life in which he might be placed, he would feel delighted in serving his fellow-citizens. . _ Mr. JAMES rose to propose "The health of the Lord Mayor of London, and the Trade thereof." The Hon. and Learned Gentleman adverted to the case of Mr. Salomons, as being one of a very anomalous character, for whereas a Jew had the right to issue the Queen's writ, and to fulfil the most important duties, yet it was said the law held that he should be excluded from muni cipal offices in the City of London, as regarded the Court of Aldermen. Tho declaration which was re quired to be made certainly smacked much of Oxford. The Jews were not hostile to the Established Church ; on the contrary, he believed the great majority of that most respectable body held it in high respect ; they never offended its etiquette. The Jews contributed largely to the trade, the commerce, and the well-being of the City of London. Ho hoped that when her most gracious Majesty visited the City it would be whispered into her Majesty's ear that a vast body of her loyal sub jects were excluded from a fair and equal participation of their municipal rights. The CHAIRMAN next proposed " The Health of Mr. Hall," with high eulogiums on the zeal and activity of that gentleman. Mr. HALL returned thanks. . The next toast was "Mr. Twisdcn Hodges and the Kent magistracy." Mr. T. HoDaEs returned thanks, and bore testimony to the high character and integrity of his brother magis trate, Mr..Salomons, whom he supported as an advocate for the full freedom of religious Mr. SALomoris proposed " The gentlemen visitors and non-electors, and especially Mr. Coates." Mr. COATES returned thanks in a speech which we aro bound to say evinced much talent. A variety of other toasts followed, and the company separated at a late hour. The ventilation of the splendid room in which the dinner was given has been very much improved under the system of Mr. Cubitt. The room, though crowded, was kept at a comfortable temperature, and the improve ment is such that we think it will hereafter induce many aged valetudinarians to venture again into crowded rooms to partake of good cheer, without fear of endan gering their health. ASSAULTING THE POLICE •AT WINDSOR CASTLE. —Yesterday a man, who gave his name John Rose, and who had been remanded upon two former occasions, was convicted before the Mayor, Mr. Blunt, and Mr. R. Tebbott, of a violent assault on James Kinner, ono of the metropolitan police in constant attendance at the Castle, on the day of the investiture of the Ring of the French as a Knight of the Garter. It appeared that the defendant, a Swede (who spoke French and English fluently), went to Windsor on speculation, during the visit of Louis Philippe to her Majesty, to act as inter preter and guide to any foreigner who might desire to employ him in those capacities. In consequence of the misconduct on former occasions of a set of fellows call ing themselves " guides," strict orders had been issued by the Master of the Household, that none of this fra ternity should be permitted to approach the Castle nearer than the Norman gateway. This man, however, managed to pass through the gateway, and proceeded up to the tradesmen's entrance ; and, upon being ordered away by the police, in pursuance of their instructions, he resisted, and was taken to the station-house. While there, he became more violent, and during the time he was being searched (having made a threat that he would stick a knife into Louis Philippe), he kicked Kinner on the neck, and bit his hand so severely as to cause the loss of a considerable quantity of blood. Tho prisoner, who made a long, rambling, written defence, stated that he was engaged that morning by a foreign gentleman to act as interpreter, who had brought a present for Prince Albert from the Emperor of Russia. He denied having kicked or bitten the police, but admitted that he resisted on being taken to the station-house. The pri soner was convicted of the assault in the penalty of 40 - s. and cost!, Bs. 6d., and, in default, to be committed to the House of Correction at Reading for one month. The man, having no money, was taken to prison. DANGERS OF CROWDED THOROUGHFARES.—Yes terday an elderly gentleman was standing on the kerb stone in Newgate-street, when suddenly the wheel of a truck, heavily laden, ran against him, throwing him violently i n t o t h e gutter. Several persons immediately raised him from the ground, when it was discovered that he had sustained a dreadful compound fracture of the left thigh, the hones protruding. A police stretcher was procured, and he was convey ad on it to St. B a rth o l omew ' s kiospital, CHINESE TREATY. (From the Journal des Debats.) The dispatches from China, brought by fast mail, con , tain intelligence which is important to all nations whose commerce is preparing to avail itself of the establishment of the English at Hong -Kong, and of the opening of the five ports on the Chinese coast. Interesting in a com mercial respect, these accounts are equally so in an his torical point of view. The statesmen of the Celestial Empire, although the last initiated in the difficult science of diplomacy, are likely to distinguish themselves in it, judging by their debut. Their coup d'essai is a coup de maitre; for it will be presently seen that, by a treaty, regularly negotiated, accepted, and ratified, they have just reconquered for elusive and haughty their country—at l east very nearly—the pos i t i on , ex made them lose. enough, that an unfortunate war had It will bo remembered that Sir Henry Pottinger had been commissioned to negotiate with the Chinese com missioners a treaty supplementary to that of Nanking, in wder to define and limit the commercial relations that were to be opened with all nations, and especially between England and China, We published that document some mouths ago, such as it had been translated in the Official Gazette of Hong-Kong ; but we had then no data to appreciate its terms or real scope. It now appears that that translation was not a correct one, and that Sir Henry Pottinger had been the victim of a shameful fraud. The principal interpreter of the British Legation, Mr. J. R. Morrison, died whilst the articles were being drawn up. His death, as Sir Henry Pottinger said at the time, was a national calamity to England, but its consequences have been still more disastrous than he anticipated, for, availing themselves of the ignorance of the English pleni potentiary both in commercial matters and in the Chinese language, and of the acrimony that prevailed between him and the English merchants, who might have given him advice, the Chinese diplomatists who were opposed to him, bribed with money the new interpreter, employed from necessity as a substitute for Mr. Morrison, and Sir Henry Pottinger happens to have accepted and ratified in the name of his G•vernment terms that annul, very nearly, all the advantages obtained by the English at the cost of so much blood and money, and which will probably check for a long time to come the rise of the newly created colony of Hong-Kong. The fact is, that on comparing the supplementary treaty, such as it had be en su b m i tte d t o Sir Henry Pot tinger by the interpreter w h om h e h a d t rus ted in, with a second translation made in E ng l an d by the most learned professors of the Chinese language, it has just been dis covered that the most serious and most deplorable dif ferences exist between the two translations. In the ver sion submitted to Sir Henry Pottinger, not only has the meaning of several articles been designedly altered, but important clauses, and whole paragraphs have been left out, whilst they remain irrevocably recorded, and have force of law in the original treaty he signed as pleni potentiary. These alterations and suppressions bear upon the whole document, but principally upon the 13th and the 17th articles, the immediate effect of which is to annul the establishment of Hong-Kong ; to exclude it from all participation, by transit or coasting trade, in the trade of the several nations with the five ports; and lastly, to restrict, nearly as it was before the war, the commerce of all nations to the sole port of Canton. The following are the articles, according to the cor rect translation; the italics denote the passages altered or suppressed in the version submitted to Sir Henry Pottiuger:— Art. 1. Henceforward: when the Chinese merchants shall wish to export goods in order to sell them at Hong- Kong, t n they shall inone orotherbeginbypaying the duties according e the wtar i ff of the five ports of Canton, Fouchoo, Amoy, Ningpo, or Shanghao, and by receiving in exchange passes from one of those localities. 2. When the Chinese merchants shall wish to repair to Hong-Kong, in order to take in cargoes of European goods, they shall in the same way present themselves before the Chinese authorities of the ports of Canton, Fouchoo, Amoy, Ningpo, or Shanghae, and demand a permit for the introduction of such g oods paying the required duties. But every Chinese merchant who shall buy goods at Hong-Kong shall not ship them in any but Chinese vessels provided with passes delivered at Hong-Kong. These passes and permits shall be every time and at every voyaye subscribed (vised) by the cfficers of the Chinese Custom-house, in order to avoid all contra vention.* As for the other ports of the Kwang-Tong, Fukien, Chekiang, and Kiangsoo, such as Chapoo, &c., as they are not authorised factories (comptoirs), the mer chants are not permitted to solicitpasses there for Hong- Kong ; and if from those parts they repair without permission to Hong-Kong, the English and Chinese Custom-houses shall make combined efforts to discover and denounce them. Art. 17. The small English coasting vessels of every description, such as schooners, nutters, yawls, &c., have hitherto paid no , duty. It is now agreed that all those vessels, whether coming from Hong-Kong to Canton, whether they return from Canton to Macao (excepting those exclusively used for correspondence or passengers), the moment they shall carry the smallest bale of goods, even only weighing 1001bs., shall thenceforward pay duty in proportion to their tonnage. Nevertheless, as it would not be fair to apply to them the same scale as to large foreign ships, and seeing that they may go to and fro several times during the month, they shall be thus classi fied—the smallest shall be considered of 75 tons (whether they have or not that tonnage), and the largest shall be of 150. Both shall pay a " mace" per ton every time they shall enter the port. All that shall exceed 150 tons shall be considered as large ships coming from foreign parts, and according to the new tariff, shall pay Ale mace per ton.t As for Fouchoe, Amoy, IV ingpo, and Shanykae, as none of those coasting vessels enter it, it is useless to make any reyalations on the sul l iects These two articles, adds the Debuts, coincide, and are linked together with an art that oould not be too much admired, if their consequences were not equally detrimental to all flags, by excluding them, or nearly so, from the four ports so recently opened. In fact, accord ing to the wording of these articles, it becomes quite ruinous to land at Hong-Kong the goods destined for the Chinese continent, since, in compliance with the 13th article, their re-exportation can take place but in Chinese vessels, that is to say in junks, which can sail but with the monsoon, at tido intervals, always with a good wind, by quietly keepi ng c l ose t o th e coast, and which thus effect in six months a voyage which an European coasting vessel would accomplish in a few weeks. There remains, indeed, the alternative of using English vessels of above one hundred and fif tons ; but, ivy such case, with the enormous d u ty of: five "mace"' per ton, the cost of freight from Hong-Kong to Amoy (a distance of some hundreds of miles) is nearly the same as from Liverpool to Canton (a distance of seven thou sand leagues.) Lastly, supposing that a ship directly goes to the five ports without touching at Hong-Kong, the owners will h ave to pay five, six, or even seven times (if they wish to report a return cargo), that exor bitant duty of five " mace " at each port, that is to say, twenty-five, thirty, or thirty-five " mace " per ton for the whole voyage, or " much more " (as the Friend of China, of the 17th of April says) than it would cost to dispatch, without any other trouble, the goods from Can ton, by the canals of the interior. This last method will, therefore, bo reverted to, for it avoids immense fatigue, and all the dangers of navigation; or, in other words, we shall revert to the old system of commerce exclusively with Canton , where it is always certain to find return cargoes. Thanks to the wording of the sup plementary treaty, the freedom of commerce with the northern ports is, therefore, perfectly illusory; it is a mere nominal privilege. It also follows that Hong. Kong will henceforth be but accidentally visited by such ships as may require a refuge in bad weather. • This whole Passage had been suppressed. t The meaning of this had been given in a very confused manner. : This passage had been completely suppressed. [The French papers in general show the most deplor able ignorance of the state of affairs in China and India, and we have published the preceding article, not that we attach any importance to it, but solely from the respect ability of the journal in whioh it appears. But that journal, as on a former occasion, had trusted to its cor respondent in the East, who has one great merit—that of invention.—ED. Sun.] AN ASSEMBLY OF GREEDY GLUTTONS.--An Ostend newspaper, which yesterday reached our office, relates the following anecdote of an Englishman, who appears to entertain but little respect for temperance and " total abstinence" pledges:—" A few days ago (says our infor mant) this person, who has been long resident at Ostend, being desirous of giving a feast to sundry masons and carpenters, amounting in number to 45, employed in al. tering his house, ordered a supper to be prepared, con sisting, besides several entremets, of ten largo pieces of roast beef, weighing altogether about 108 kilogrammes (2391 b.), and ten puddings, in which, besides 30 bottles of rum, were distributed an enormous quantity o f Corin thian raisins, sugar, spices, and eggs, &c. Theseud dings weighed altoge. tier about 112 kil ogrammes (248i1b.) The beverage provided to wash down this Brobdigna gian meal was exclusively confined to rum punch. There not being any plates at hand sufficiently large, our Eng lishman had ordered to be brought as many plates as there were guests. i The feast was s erve d up b y 15 ser vants. The state n which the 45 artisan reached home, after their libations of punch, may be ea s ily conceived. There was, it is said, an immense demand the following day for iced soda-water and other refrigerating drinks 1" FATAL A C CIDENT.-0B Thursday mor n i ng , J a mes Lindley, an operative joiner, employed in erecting an addition (about sixty yards long and eight stories high) to the mill of. Mr. James Fernley, Albion street, now occupied by Messrs. James Stuttard and Co., fell from the seventh story of the new erec tion to the ground floor. Ile was immediately conveyed to the Royal Infirmary, where it was found that he had received a severe fracture of the base of the skull, of which injury he died about twenty minutes after he was admitted. An inquest was held yester day before Mr. Chapman, and it was stated in evi dence that the deceased was attempting to land some joists for the roofing, which were being hoisted up by means of a pulley, when the joists came in contact with a plank, upon which he was standing, and the con sequence was that he fell as stated, without coming in contact with anything until he reached the ground floor. The occurrence seemed purely accidental, and the jury returned a verdict to that effect. The deceased was twenty-four years of age, and was unmarried. Ho was engaged to be married in a fortnight.—Manchester Guardian. THE WHEAT SOWlNG.—During the last week the weather has been tolerably dry, and very no for the season of the year, so that the preparing of the land for wheat sowing and the sowing itself have proceeded pros perously. The land films up in excellent condition, and insures a dry bed and a safe germination for the seed. This is of the utmost consequence, as it secures the plant from injury during the most critical period of its growth. —Liverpool Times. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.--The Queen and Prince Al bert walked for some time this morning in the pleasure-grounds adjoining the Castle. In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal High ness again promenaded in the Home Park. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and he Princess Royal were taken for their accustomed exercise in the forenoon on the Castle terrace and the pleasure-grounds. The Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Hardwicke, Sir Henry Pottinger, and Sir Henry Wheatley, took their departure from the Castle to-day. This afternoon the Royal Family were taken airings in the Home Park. Lady Portman has arrived at the Castle, and has succeeded the Countess of Gainsborough as Lady in Waiting on the Queen. The lion. Captain Duncombe has also arrived at the Castle, and has succeeded Sir Frederick Stovin as the Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. , Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, arrived in town yesterday morning, from Kew. Their Royal High nesses left Cambridge House in the afternoon, on their return to Kew. A deputation on the Buxton Railway, c ons i s ti ng of Mr. Henry Tootal, Deputy-Chairman of the Bux ton Railway, Mr. David Waddington, Deputy Chair man of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company, Mr. John Lowe, engineer, Mr. James Wheeler, and Mr. Grahame had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie 'yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade, His Excellency M. Dedel had an interview with Lord Aberdeen at the Foreign- office yesterday. A deputation from the Monmouthshire Canal Com pany, consisting of Mr. Blakemore, M.P., Mr. Mor gan, M.P., Mr. Phillips, Mr. Mostyn, solicitor, Mr. Carter, chief clerk, Mr. Marsh, engineer, and Mr. Hayward, Parliamentary agent, had an interview yes terday with the Earl of Dalhousie, at the Board of Trade. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Lady Dodd and family, in Wimpole-street, from Li verpool; James M'Taggert, Esq., and Mrs. Meraggert, at Marsall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square, from Lyndhurst, Hants; George Farley, Esq., and Mrs. Far ley, at ditto; Cotton, Esq., at ditto; Pomroy, Esq., at ditto; Carain and Mrs. Mundy Pole, at ditto, from the Continent; Manning, Esq., and Mrs. Manning, at ditto; W. Lowndes, Esq., at Nelson's Hotel, Portland place, from Birmingham; Edward Brown, Esq., at ditto; D. J. Thompson, Esq., and Mrs. Thompson, at ditto, from Portugal; E. M. White, Esq., and Mrs. White, at ditto; H. M. Morgan, Esq., at ditto, from Iloughton Lodge, Stockbridge. DEPARTURES. J. Fairlie, Esq., from Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square, for Newmarket; Mrs. and Miss Phi lips, from ditto, for Brighton; Alfred Gill, Esq., from Nelson's Hotel, Portland-place; W. Walker, Esq., and Mrs. Walker, from ditto, for Hastings; T. Lomas, Esq., from ditto, for Bury, Lancashire; James Brown, Esq., M.P., from ditto, for County Mayo; 11. W. Dallas, Esq., from ditto; Rev. C. Borrer, Mrs. Borrer, and family, from ditto; A. A. Browne, Esq. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT to the CITY. Yesterday the following proclamation was issued by the Lord Mayor,_ for the purpose of keeping the streets clear on Monday next " MAGNAY, MAYOR. "Mansion-house, Oct. 22, 1844. "Her most gracious Majesty haying graciously signified her intention of being present at the opening of the Royal Exchange on Monday next, the 28th instant, the Lord Mayor hereby directs that no carriages, carts, or other vehicles, nor cattle of any description, will be allowed to pass over Blackfriars-bridge, or through any streets or thorough fares in the line of procession from Temple-bar to the New Exchange, between the hours of ten o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the afternoon ; and that the police have directions to see that the above orders are complied with. " By order, " S. GOODMAN, Clerk." In pursuance of the above order, and for the purpose of better carrying out his Lordship's direc tions, workmen were yesterday employed in fixing up barriers at the end of all the streets in the City through which the royal procession will pass. Similar measures will be adopted outside the City, under the direction of the Metropolitan police, a considerable number from each division having )een ordered to keep the line clear from Buckingham Palace to Temple-bar, assisted by the two Regiments of Horse Guards. At the Royal Exchange there are to be four entrances for the general company, in addition to the principal entrance at the western front. These were :completed yesterday, and are situate two in Cornhill, and two in Bartholomew-lane. In the area around St. Paul's, seats capable of con taining from 10,000 to 15,000 persons, and extending from the north-west to the north-east side, are in the course of erection. These are to be covered in, and lined inside with pink and white drapery, with simi lar decorations as those used in 1837. At some of the shops in Cheapside the goods have been removed from the windows, and seats fitted up in lieu of them. In the neighbourhood of the Exchange as much as five guineas is asked for a single seat, whilst throughout the whole line not one is to bp obtained under 10s. Gd. THE POOR MAN'S CHURCH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. - - am not generally in the habit of reading novels or romances, but I have lately been induced to read on of each class ; the first a novel by Mrs. Trollope, entitled " The Vicar of Wrexhill ;" the second a romance by the Rev. W. G. Ward, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, rightly named, " An Ideal Church." I have made several extracts from pages 420, 421, 422, and 426, which are at your ser ice for publication, should you deem them worthy of notice, on the principle that no reasonabl e roan would hesitate to stoop to pick a sovereign out of a gutter.—l am, Sir, yours, &c. Ilfracombe, Oct. 22. A PROTESTANT. " It has been so generally professed of late years, that a Christian society is bound to be a Poor Man's Church,' and that it is the high and peculiar preroga tive of the Church to alleviate the misery of the humble and oppressed, that the task seems incumbent on ma—however ungracious—of estimating the praises heaped on the English system by this standard. Let me ask, then, while all the frightful and accumulated mass of misery which now oppresses our land was gradually, during the last sixty years, growing to head, where was the voice of the National Church heard drawing attention to its growth ? That the civil Government, who are obliged_ to cope, day by day, with present and passing emergencies, should not have had the leisure or the thought to take a de liberate and far-seeing view of our social condition, this is hardly a matter of blame : but where was the Poor Man's Church ?' How is it conceivable that she can, at that time, have really thought or eared for the poor, without becoming cognisant of the fatal disease in progress, and loudly proclaiming its exist ence to the country and to the world ? What other appellation than that of grossly and miserably corrupt can we give to a system under which such monstrous neglect was so much as possible ? Well—at length, through no agency of hers, the attention of the whole nation has been called, in some insufficient measure to the perils under which we lie; all honour to Lord Ashley, and his precursors and coa ljutors in the noble task ! Has the English Church at least exhibited the grace of humiliation and repentance ? Has the blush of shame been visible on our cheek ? Have her ministers sorrowfully and contritely confessed their sinful and unpardonable dereliction of duty, and taken on themselves bitter shame, as fact after fact was brought to light ?—facts which it was their bounden duty long since to have dragged into the face of day, and which place in still stronger colours the godless ness and depravity of vast portions of her flock. In- ' credible as it might have appeared, the very con ception would seem never to have occurred to them : with unruffled brow and complacent voice they have still repeated their insane watchwords, pure and aisosto heal," holy and venerable' Church, and have dared to speak of the corruptions of other Christian bodies, when they should rather have been in lowly and penitential abasement, mourning those of their own. By what process of effrontery can we bring ourselves so much as to breathe the name of the 'Poor Man's Church' in connexion with our system, if we are compelled to • acknowledge that nothing like this has been the case ? For more than ten years the great principle has been echoed from mouth to mouth, that our Church is no creature of the State, that she derives her duties and her privileges from a far Higher and more August Authority. Has the zeal displayed for this principle been only caused by our desire of having something to say which shall close the mouth of Roman Catholic and Dissenter? Or, if not so, how is it that we have failed to see, that the more triumphantly we vindi cate No great truth, the more plainly we publish our own shame ? For if it be directly by God, and not by the State, that the poor are committed to our charge, no supineness or neglect of our civil gover nors can do ought but even aggravate our own guilt, in that we did not compensate for their slackness and insensibility, by a double measure of zeal and watch fulness. When members of a Church, which has thus basely betrayed her trust, find it difficult to conceive that sonic among their brethren can, without the most serious moral delinquency, abhor and denounce the system under which such betrayal was possible ; when they accuse us of violence, eccentricity, and paradox, because we cannot consider a Church pure which neither bears witness against wealth, nor pro tects poverty, I can only say, that our hatred of the existing system cannot more offend them than their toleration, nay, admiration of it, perplexes and asto mashes "To be lukewarm, to be insensible of her own cor ruptions, to be loud in her own praise, are the notes given in Scripture of that Church, which our blessed Lord will spue out of his mouth.'—(Rev. iii., 16, 17.) What is His judgment of our Church's practical system ?—a, system under which she tolerates almost every variety of condemned and branded heresy ; and under which her authorities seem really offended and disgusted at only one class of opinions, those which speak of her present condition as corrupt and almost apostate. The closest approximation to denial of our Lord is permitted without prqtest, much more, with out condemnation ; but an imputation on nnasELF.she eannotforgive." . ILLEGAL DETENTION OF THE BRITISH CUTTER HERON. GIBRALTAR, OCT. 12.—Mr. hay, her Majesty's Consul-General at Tangiers, has officially intimated, in a letter dated the Bth, from Ceuta, where he had accompanied, in the Spanish steamer Andaluz, Mr. Beramend ,i the Spanish Charge d'Affaires and Consul- General, that in the terms of the late treaty between Spain and Morocco, the Spanish lines, which extend to several miles beyond Ceuta, and which, previous to 1837, had been occupied by Spain for such a ltingth of time, have again been established. The Governor of Ceuta, Don Antonio Ordonez, with the Sheick of the district of Augera, as well as Mr. Hay and Mr. I3eramendi, were present on the occasion. The very marked attention and politeness of the Governor are spoken of in high terms, and the fine appearance and martial bearing of the Spanish military, employed in the re-occupation of the lines (which was effected without any untoward popular demonstration) would have done credit to the best drilled troops in Europe. The case of the Heron, British cutter, formerly possessed by the Hon. Captain Ponsonby, which came here the day before yesterday, after her liberation from Almeria, is the last among many instances of the galling surveillance, illegal detention, and, to use no harsher term, unjust confiscation of cargo practised on our regular traders, and it can therefore be a matter of little surprise if, in the protection of our commerce, accidents occur similar to what befel the Spanish war-schooner last week, more particularly when, as in that instance, the aggression wa s com mitted with such barefaced audacity under the very guns of the batteries. The Heron sailed from this port on the sth of last month, with a general cargo, and her papers regularly made out for Algiers • when on the 9th, about 30 to 40 miles south of darthagena, she was chased and searched by a vessel of the Spanish coast-guard, which, after some hesitation and delay, ultimately conveyed her to Almeria, where her cargo was landed, and placed in the Government store. 'On the circumstance being communicated to the owners here, and formal application made by them in the proper quarter, the Warspite, which was about to proceed to Barcelona and Malta, received instructions to call at Almeria to demand her liberation ; but the authorities there anticipating, it is conjectured, the unwelcome visit, released her the day before the War spite arrived, and she only reached this the day before yesterday (the 10th), of course with the loss of her cargo, which, before it is given up, will entail legal and other expenses, equal, it may be, to the value of the seizure. A company of 68 men of the Royal Sappers and Miners arrived here yesterday by the Royal Tar steamer; and Captain Gordon's company (the 6th), which has been stationed in this garrison since 1837, being now relieved, will embark for England by the same vessel to-morrow. The inspection of the different regiments in the garrison by his Excellency the Governor, which had lasted during the greater part of the week, terminated to-day with that of the 79th Highlanders. Although the hour was early a considerable assemblage of spec tators was on the ground, and among strangers of all different nations, not a few of our fair countrywomen appeared to grace with their presence the inspection of this highly-disciplined crack corps. The general ap pearance of the regiment was picturesque in the ex treme, and the fine bearing of the men, who are all young, as well as the faultless precision of their varied evolutions, excited a general and almost enthusiastic admiration. The military display of the day termi nated with artillery practice from the saluting bat tery, on the Almeida, when three rounds of shot and two of shell were fired from 25 guns, at a buoy placed at a considerable distance out in the bay. Although the buoy was not actually destroyed, so very correct was the firing, that had any small vessel occupied . ts place, almost every shot would have told with certain effect. The Gazette of last night contains a Treasury Warrant, dated the 18th instant, directing that, on and after the sth of next month, British and Colonial news papers'will be taken in packet-boat to Venezuela, in South America, free of postage ; but if in private ship, they will be subjected to a charge of Id. each. A similar permission is granted to Venezuelan newspapers brought to England or the British colonies. MONDAY'S HOLIDA.Y.—THE BANKS. —At a meet ing of the Committee of Bankers, held on Monday last, A. W. Robarts, Esq. in the chair, it was resolved,— " That from the unavoidable obstruction to business which must necessarily takep e lace on Monday, O c t. 28 , Queen the day appointed by th e for attending the open ing of the Royal Exchange , it will be desir a bl e , i n con currence with the B an k of England, to close th e severe; a t twelve that day. The Committee, therefore, recommend the adoption . pf such regulation." THE NEW AUSTRIAN AMBAS SADOR TO GREAT BRITAIN. Count Moritz Dietrichstein,_ who has been lately appointed Austrian Ambassador at : the British. Court (says the Constitutionnel) belongs to one of the most distinguished families of the. Austrian hierarchy. His • father, a former Minister of Francis 11., was Go vernor to the Duke of Reichstadli, with whom the new Ambassador passed his childhood. Count Morita Dietrichstein is a very young man for the eminent post to which he has been appointed. He cannot be yet forty years of age. For many years he occupied the post of Charge d'Affaires at the Court of King Leopold, who received him on terms of friendship and intimacy. His nomination may be looked ution as a symptom of the decline of Prince Metternich's influence at the Court of Vienna. The Count's father, in fact, ranks among the pretenders to the political heritage of the - Prince Chancellor, with whom, moreover, he. has been in some degree of rivalry ever since the Prince has refused to give one of his daughters in marriage to the new Ambassador. Apropos of the Waterloo sword which the Duke of Wellington is said to have worn at the ceremony of tl e Order. of the Garter, one of . the French journals offers the following details respecting a sword belong lag to NapoleOn with which his Grace was also con nected : " Napoleon had always kept, until 1811, the sword which he wore on the day of his coronation. At that period the remark was. trade -to him that the sword was not in harmony with the jniperial costume. Ile summoned, therefore, M. Regnault Nitot, his gold. .smith, and demanded a model for a sword of cere mony. The Model was designee, approved by the Emperor, and executed. Th e Regent diamond, which was on the hilt of the first sword, was taken from it ; end the rest, as well as the blade, were valued, and left in the jeweller's hands as a part of the payment. In 1815 the Emperor -was desirous of having back this sword, and Nitot was employed to put it into a fit state, but the Hundred Days came to a concl us i on before Napoleon's, orders could be executed, and M. Nitot remained -legitimate possessor of the Imperial sword ; it was a well-known fact, and he himself had mentioned it to an English lady. One day he re ceived a visit from a stranger, who asked him whether it was true that - the sword was in his possession, and in that case whether he would dispose of it. The price was left at his own discretion. " At this period of invasion individual right had no very sure guarantees, and M. Nitot, who had no wish to give up his precious relic, persisted in denying that he had it in his possession. The stranger used every possible entreaty, but without success ; and at last, appearing to comprehend the noble sentiment which dictated the refusal of the jeweller, he expressed his esteem for his conduct in the warmest terms, and, presenting his card, took hi s l eave . I t was the Duke of Wellington. The fact is curious, inasmuch as it proves that if the English General really took, as is pretended, Napoleon's battle sword in the imperial carriage at Waterloo, his fancy to possess another was singular enough. M. Regnault Nitot, who still lives in the neighbourhood of Corbeil, has kept the Em peror's sword s% ith the greatest care, with the inten tion of leaving it•to the Invalides at his death." The Journal Flu Loiret publishes a letter in refe rence to the amnesty lately published, which describes in very strong colours the sufferings of the prisoners excluded from its benefit. It mentions, among other political prisoners now detained on account of ill health in the hospital of Tours, Laure Gronvelle, as having been driven mad by his imprisonment ; and Hubert and Blanqui as victims to diseases contracted in the damp prisons of Mont St. Michel. CORONER'S INQUEST. THE LATE MURDER ON THE RIVER. Last evening, at six o'clock, the investigation, ad journed from Tuesday last, relative to the death of a man unknown, whose body was found in the Thames on the morning of Sunday week last, with five mortal stabs about it, was resumed before Mr. Higgs, the Coroner for Westminster, at the Pine Apple Tavern, Ilungerford-street, Strand. George 'Wicks, one of the toll-collectors at Vaux hall-bridge, stated that about a quarter before twelve on the night of Friday week last, a gentleman, who passed over the bridge from the Surrey side, asked if there was not a policeman on the bridge ? 'Witness replied that there was one there about every half hour. The gentleman added, that it was a pity there %N as not one there' then, as there was a party of swells ill-using a poor man. 'Witness said it was a pity he had not stopped and seen him righted. A few minutes afterwards, witness received the same in formation from another gentleman, with two ladies, passing over the bridge. Shortly afterwards, In spector Taylor, of the B di v i s i on , came t o the toll house with a basket he had found on the bridge; it contained some carpenters' chips, crumbs of bread and cheese, and a printed shop-bill of the prices of car penters' tools. Witness observed the next morning on the centre of the bridge a quantity of blood. Mr. Deputy Superintendent Lewis, or the Thames Police, said he had made inaluiries on the river, and could not learn that any person was missing. He had examined the marks of blood on the bridge, and saw that there were several spots on the buttresses, and on the balustrades were the marks of three Woody fingers. Mr. Bainbridge, the surgeon, said this could not refer to the body of the deceased, as the body had been in the water several days. He had no doubt whatever but the wounds had been inflicted during life. The jury, after a brief consu lt a ti on, returne d a ver dict of " Wilful murder against some person or per sons unknown." WINTLR ASSIZES.—It is now definitively fixed that a winter gaol delivery shall take place ; but it is believed that the subsidiary arrangements will not be made till the be inning of term. EXCURSION TRAINS ON RAILWAYS.—The Board of Trade has just issued a circular to the several railway companies, calling their attention to the danger of the plan adopted on some railways of running excursion trains drawn by several engines. They state that the opinion of several of the most experienced practical men has been taken, and that they all state the present mode of working the excursion trains to be extremely dan gerous ; and the Board of Trade recommend that these excursion trains should be divided into sections, so that no more than two engines should be used with any one train of carriages. They also point out the extreme danger likely to arise from the want of punctuality in the arrival of these excursion trains, arising from their great weight ; and they strongly urge upon the com panies to adopt a di ff erent mode of working the excur sion trains in order to avoid the danger of the present method. It ought to be observed that very few com panies have adopted these " monster trains," and it is to be hoped that those which have adopted them will alter their arrangements to such as are more compatible with safety. _ AN - EXTRAORDINARY BAROMETER.—The mate of the brig Grand Turk received a few years since a severe blow with a club over the left eye : the skull was pro bably slightly fractured, and is so tender as to indicate, with unfailing accuracy, any change in the weather. The Captain of the brig says—" Generally about six hours before the commencement of a gale his head begins to ache with more or less violence, as the case may be, the position higher or lower on the head, and the degree of pain denoting squall or gale, moderate or severe ; and so peculiar are the sensations, and so infallible in their indications, that he is able to foretel the commencement, and generally the duration and severity, of a gale with a greater degree of accuracy than I have ever known a ba rometer to do."—American Paper. AFFAIRS or JERSEY.—Mr. Roebuck, M.P. for Bath, who has been staying this summer in Jersey, and who is generally understood to have taken an active part in the discussions which arise between the Government and the Channel Island authorities, returned a few days since from a visit to the Lieutenant-Governor at Haviland Ball.—Le Pilote, Guernsey paper. FIRE ON USHER'S QUAY, DUBLIN.—Just as we were going to press we learned that th e b u ildi ng occu pied by the White Quakers, formerly Holmes's Hotel, was burned to the ground.--Pilot. A letter from Algiers of the 10th states that the annual Jewish fete terminated by a sort of disturbance in the synagogue. It is the custom of the chief of the congregation to proceed to the synagogue of Ben Naray to adjudge the privilege of reading the Bible for that day to the highest bidder, the sum obtained being appro priated to the use of the synagogue. When on this oc casion the chief came forward, he was greeted by T the he persons present with hooting and cries. So most turbulent declared that they e extent of liberty under the Frenehneveedrnmtheeenut of the s h all en i n attempted th e g end a t r o m e r turn gendarmerie. As the Government himd d n o o u t t, waanndt he e h eie w c a h s oblig T ed hey to h office, hi s . application was attended to ,aad rec a o b g o n u i t se tlfty of tn e rioters were arr l e sfo te v A S CO TIA.—RIGHT REV. DR. WALSII.--ThiS arrested. The matter is unde r investigation. est i m able prelate has arrived in London, on his way f ro m Rome to America. We are enabled to state, on good authority, that the religious affairs of Nova Scotia have been arranged by the Holy See in such a manner as to afford satisfaction to all the parties concerned, whilst it promises the brightest hopes for the future suc cess of our holy faith in that important mission. 'phe i mm ense diocese of Nova Scotia has been divided by a decision of his Holiness the Pope Doctor Frazer re• mains bishop in the eastern part of the province and the island of Cape Breton. Doctor Walsh is appointed to the exclusive administration of the western, or Halifax district, including the islands of Bermuda. —Pilot. After twelve trials in smooth water of her Ma. ' l s t screw e t :w: i p le ro s p p e e l steam-shiplrehr,outrhß.eataTtvlheerer,afletted up with Mr. Smith's Rattlerspeed i s gained 6b 8 tons, wa an u t t horse power ; and her sister ship, the Prometheus, similar similar to her in every respect with the exception of having paddle-wheels, only reached el knots an hour. The Rattler has got her masts on board, and is to be fitted for sea immediately ; and, in consequence of ber success, the Admiralty have given orders for six other steam-ships, of a large class, to be forthwith constructed on the same principle.—Liverpool Stattjard. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has to acknow• ledge the receipt of 501., stated ig be " for the for taxes probably omitted,", 7.7.4 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlE,—Some time since the Board of Customs were memorialised on the subject of delay in the trans- mission of duty warrants from the Long-room to the docks. Although the term " transmission of duty warrants to the docks" was used, the fact was, the delay took place in the Long-room before ' the warrants were dispatched to the docks. The memo rial was transmitted to the proper authorities for in quiry, but the result has never appeared to the public, for the evil remains unabated ; so that, in order to insure the saving of your servant's time, and that of your horse, should you cart your own goods from the docks, you are necessitated to pay your duty at least one day, that is to say, twenty-four hours, before you send for your goods. But this is not the only evil. As most of us act by example, in many instances the Dock Companies, and officers stationed there, require a day's notice, in conformity with the example set them at the Long-room, and so the evil spreads itself through every department. I remain, Sir, yours, obediently, A MERCHANT'S CLERK. WINDSOR, TUESDAY EYENING.--It is stated that her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by some portion of the infant Royal Family, will visit Claremont for a day or two previously to proceeding to London, for the purpose of opening the Now Royal Exchange. Saturday next is the day spoken of for the departure of the Court from Windsor fur Claremont-house. Should the arrangements which are at present in contemplation be carried into effect, her Majesty and suite will leave Claremont on Monday morning for Buckingham Palace, proceeding thence to the City in the royal dress carriages, and returning to Windsor Castle in the evening to dinner. Since the de parture of the King of the French, a great number of persons of distinction, who had been favoured with tickets from the Lord Chamberlain, have inspected the suite of state rooms at the Castle, which had been left in precisely the same state, with all their magnificent embellishments, in which they were during their occupa tion by the Queen's illustrious guest, his Majesty Louis Philippe. Workmen have been employed since yester day morning in removing some portions of the gorgeous furniture, and making the necessary arrangements for their being re-opened to the public at the earliest period. THE IRON HOOP AND OTHER STREET NUISANCES. —The following clause•of the New Metropolitan Police Act, passed under the auspices of the Melbourne Ministry in the summer of the year 1839, has been re ferred to lately by several of our correspondents ; so that we are induced to give it at length, for the informa tion of those who may be disposed to seek a legal remedy for the dangerous nuisance of iron hoops in the roads and on the foot-pavements of the metropolis. By the 54th section, " every person who shall roll or carry any cask, tub, hoop, or wheel, or any plank, ladder, pole, show-board, or placard, upon any footway, except for the purpose of loading or unloading any cart or carriage, or of crossing the footway," is liable to a penalty of 405., and any police-constable is empowered and autberised to take into custody, without warrant, any person who shall commit the above offences within view of any such con stable. And uow, by the way, that winter is drawing near, and pedestrians are likely to be constantly annoyed by having to wade through filth and slush, which ought to be cleared away, it may be well to re mind householders, shopkeepers, and others, that by the 60th section of the same Act (2d and 3d Victoria, cap. 47) " every occupier of a house or other tenement in any town within the limits of the metropolitan police dis trict, who shall not keep sufficiently swept and cleansed all footways and watercourses adjoining to the premises occupied by him," is liable to the same penalty of 40s. for every such offence. The present worthy Chief Magistrate, on entering upon his mayoralty a year ago, expressed his determination to see the above provision carried into effect, as well as several others enacted by the Police Act for the prevention of public nuisances generally. It is naturally impossible to conjecture what course may be adopted by his successor at the Mansion house, but nobody, whose business or avocations daily and hourly compel him to tramp the streets of our crowded city, can be unaware of the abominable neglect of householders and shopkeepers to comply with the terms of the Act, by keeping the pavement fronting . haustiblo in providing sustenance, not _only for th e th their 0A s pi a e En m lnv i o s n e E s , x i s n pao., a ß. s t r o t l h e ie r n a o b l ly inii c en l r e ,E l A. c a N n lD : r l .o_ :: c te i, n s e t a c il3. o ca n n di na ti c o xo n :f customer, al.ritutie:elv?ilft .T .p o trh h oo n fi pt ß aub u b l l le l i . c export tSalmon of b 'tl undant d ainty—eels?—There a titinih r ala i ttiE t vf e oecn n rsi t sl b o iaoS n aPmh s te Cr o o f luai mar k e t rnrn tl d i ce i o s nlnbeos;etranenb prolifica bundant fish now in tanks at Killaloc, awaiting a conveyance to London; and a vessel adapted for the trade will take on board from this port in the en suing week 40 tons of eels for the London market,