The Sun. — London, England, 1839-10-17 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. iONE Y MARKET and CITY NE W S. (WEDNESDAY EVENING.) i'OST.—The Stock Markets were in a depressed state to-day, the precise cause of which is not very easy • (,f explanation. The unsettled appeamnce of things in ite East—the gloomy accounts from the United States —the partial want of money—and circumstances con : minted with the account, which closed yesterday, were severally assigned ; but we rather think the loan Just negociated with Mr. Jaudon, for the use of the Phila i delphm Bank, has engaged more attention, and that sales of English Stock to some extent may have been made by capitalists for the purpose of going into it. The demand for this interest seems, in tact, to be much greater than could have been reasonably expected. The quotation for the OA Stock of the said }link was iigain rather higher at New York on the departure of t..e British Queen on the Ist instant. It had advanced to 1034 to 7 ; but that there would be a material re action on the arrival out of the Liverpool steamer, • about a week after, is more than likely. The banks were, in the meanwhile, holding fast, one and all, by their recent policy. No discounts worth naming were procurable on any terms, so that the mercantile inte rest were distressed beyond all precedent for the want of accommodation. Two or three failures had occurred ..inong the foreign residents, while more serious ones -vere expected. The French and Belgian agency esta ';iisliments seem, thus far, to have been the principal ,tfaulters. The British Queen brings specie to the :,mount of about 150,000/. sterling, of which 100,000/. is in sovereigns, and the remainder in dollars. remittance is distributed among the various houses • whose affairs are in some way mixed up with those of the United States Bank, and others, but we un derstand none of it goes d.rectly into the hands of Mr. Jaudon. If such be the case, it may be in ierred that the President of the Institution (Mr. Dunlop) must have bad a presentiment of the storm bat was gathering in Europe, and that he saw a strong ❑ecesssity for guarding against all contingencies. %lessrs. Baring, Brothers, and Co., and Messrs. • :.seph Denison and Co., are, we believe, among the tel consignees of this further supply of the precious • antals. Some important sales of the stock of the •;tilted States Bank have been inaee here during the .ast f..w days at about 201. per share. More has been ‘lone in them, indeed, than we should have thought -.,11 practicable in the present condition of the Money \l.arket. A failure in the silk trade was mentioned to ' us in a confidential way on Saturday, but we abstained from alluding to the matter at the time, as a hope v.as expressed that an arrangement might pro bably be come to that would render any disclosure needless. There appears, however, to be difficnities it the way of an accommodation which are not pro li•wly to be overcome. The liabilities of the party are of soine;extent, and, from the healthy state in which the silk trade was known to be, generally speaking, it is not impossible that this case of embarrassment may have had its effect on the Stock and Money Markets. The latter, owing to the di pressing influences to which we adverted a few days since, is aot likely to be relieved at present. Indeed, circumstanced as the country now is, as the regulator of the monetary affairs of the whole world, we do not think the commercial houses can very well look for any relaxation in the rate of interest for some time to come. With all these elements of derange ment in operation, it is, perhaps, rather to be wondered that the depreciation in the public funds should have proved so limited as it has. Consols left off at 901 to for Money, and 90-i to 1 for Account. Exchequer Bills were quoted 3 to 1 dis., and Bank Stock 1791 t; 80. TlMES.—Considerable activity has been displayed to-day in the Stock-market generally, and the transac tions have been on an extensive scale, more especially in the English house. Some large amounts of money stock in Consols were pressed upon the market, and led to a decline in the quotations, which at the close were 901- for Money, and for Account 90;, to 90j. Bank Stock was 179 to 180, India Stcok, 245 to 247. Ex chequer Bills, 3s. to Is. discount. Money was easier in the house to-day. The diffi culties in the shape of money accommodation, taking in took and carrying over accounts, having been in a great measure arranged yesterday, the settlement of the account in the Foreign Market was not attended with any circumstances of peculiar interest, although the account itself was of greater extent than usual. The business of Spanish Securities still continues to be of a heavy character, and a slight improvement in prices may be noted. SPIRIT of th• PUBLIC JOURNALS. (FROM THR HORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.) (From the Morning Chronicle.) A pleasant view of the condition and prospects of the Tory party may be gathered from an article en titled " British Policy," in the just-published num ber of the Quarterly Review. The article might as appropriately have been headed " Tory Policy ;" for although in form, and perhaps original purpose, it he an attack upon Ministers, chiefly in relation to Canada, it is really a complaint of the course pur sued by those who, through the late Session, directed the movements of the Opposition. It is discovered that the right method for upsetting the Government was not adopted. There is grumbling, if not mutiny, in the camp. The faction is ill at ease ; its aspiring volun teers want their commissions ; and the Swiss crave Letter pay or ampler plunder. The writer laments like a modern Jeremiah, and seems disposed to throw Sir Robert Peel overboard like another Jonas. Ac cording to his statement, the party is in the jaws of a crisis, and there is no hope but in a different system ef Parliamentary tactics :—" The danger is imminent, and it is useless to conceal that, unless the friends of good government, the protectors of life and property, without delay act upon fixed principle rather than on !heir late fluctuating policy, we shall inevitably be ruined i:f.yond human relief." But the critic should be rea sonable enough to expound what is to be done, if the vat) , have no " fixed principle" to act upon. He should sow what possible ground, in the whole region of de ilned political principle, there is on which the Tory leaders can take their stand, without alienating a portion or their supporters. The regiment is recruited from every sinister interest, and any one great political principle would send whole companies to the right alrout. And then how absurd to require this sort of ine tal consistency of Sir Robert Peel, who never et could keep a single principle fixed through the i len‘,:th of a single speech ? The case is desperate. If fixing principles be the only resource, the critic may make up his mind that the fiction must " inevitably be ruined beyond human relief." It is unfortunate that a Quarterly Review takes so long a time to pass through the pr: ss. If Toryism has anything like a fixed prin. eiple, it is that of coercion. The writer seems to have had this in his mind. He would have had his party back, to save the country by another Manchester mas sacre. As a climax to the mischiefs of the Whig Go vernaient, he awfully announces that a " National Con ' vention is already formed ; pikes, pistols, and muskets i;) considerable numbers have already been amassed ;" an d he asks "is not this revolution?" Unfortunately / for his eloquent italics, while compositors and pressmen were tlran,;ing through their work, th e C onvent i on i s already dissolv ad, the pikes and pistols already pawned or given up, and the revolution has quietly evaporated, un der the influence of a wise and merciful policy, the com plete reverse of that which might have been apprehended troin Tory councils. What a wicked revolution, not to wait till the Reviewer's argument had at least enjoyed a week of triumph ! The Chartist " revolution" being defunct, one principal reason for a change of Tory po :icy, such a change (bless the mark !) as should place .the party in power, has vanished. Another remains, , less interesting to the public, but nearly a ff ectin g th e p.,rty He assures us, that its members cut a very ridiculous figure during the last session. They 1 were under too strict a discipline, and their genius was cramped thereby most abominable. His picture of his s comrades has humour in it;— " We repeat, therefore, our opinion, that during the AG sess;,on the discipline of the Conservatives bas been too ciosely maintained ; they waited for orders which it was not deemed prudent to promulgate, and thus, instead • a firing their muskets independent.y wherever th ey got a glimpse of their irregular enemies, they patiently and in , nUch silence stood before them to the very end of the ,es i nn with ordered arms.' " ' The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn, , '• Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan— . Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham l'" We question whether the Tory leader will like this F ,irapoon upon his tactics well enough to laugh at it. :submit to the laugh of his followers he most ; and this • one of the many intimationa which mast sometimes 1 Ake Sir Robert Peel feel the degradation of his posi : In. He has none of the respect and confidence that should belong to a statesman leading a Parliamentary ~.trty. It is not long si nce t h at the Times rated him bound ly for his adhegion to the New Poor - law s la an d 1 demanded, in an insulting manner, whether any - one man i 1 the country thought te more f avoura b ly of that s ; law 1 iii consequence of his approval? The implied nega tive is doubtless the correct answer. But, than, it i cto only be the answer in relation to the tool of a )' party ; its nominal leader, but its real slave. Amongst the Tories themselves there is evidently no dia.. i position to consider Sir Robert Peel as anything Aico re i 4 o,ln a clever convenience. He is not their political i' ,a dc. They have neither faith in his principles nor I respect for his intellect. Hitherto his great recommen. dation bas been the shrewdness of his parliamentary tactics. In a connection simply cemented ,by that bond, there is nothing very honourable to either: gut no w ! his skill as a tactician is questioned and denounced. According to the Quarterly Review, he has beef& the misleader of the Tories, They would have fought het■ ter, it seems, without drilling; and might have won the tj hattle had they not waited for the word of command. :iap_ s tijd be unfair to withhold the Reviewer's recipe for ;,i5c..!. of Tory discomfiture. He has mapped out an 4:4ti tivi, _.. _,th to g l or y. Th e way to success i s, h e sa y s , i v .t, Li r ,gettin g into a scrape : ,oTip e t(loo)ple of E ng l and are, we know, not only rea d y , i • :;?` .. f'.•::: 5- ' ' . .*.ty ~"~ ~f THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 1839. but anxious, to rally round the British standard, if they could but see it, even by an individual, fearlessly unfurled and firmly planted; and we are quite certain that, if our Conservatives, instead of cautiously feeling their way, step by step, doubtful about attacking, and doubtful about de fending, anything at all likely to involve them in 1-arlia rrentary defeat, would, in the sacred cause of truth and justice, actually seek to place themselves in difficulty and danger, in order that the British people might clearly see what is really the case—namely, that nothing but their as sistance can save the country—the appeal would be enthu siastically responded to ; and the intelligence, wealth, and property of the country would, en masse, rise in defence." What sort of a rising en masse is here counselled does not distinctly appear. As the author expected that the Chartists would cut a figure in the field, perhaps he meant to put us between two fires. By the defeat of the one revolution we are, then, freed from the other. However, we leave the Tories to settle their own tactics. Let them by all means " place themselves in difficulty and in danger," if they deem it expedient. The policy smacks of plagiarism. In the continuation of the " Tale of a Tub," Jack hangs him self on the strength of Martin's promise to cut him down in time to save his life. The project was scarcely more prudent than would be that of the Tories getting into difficulty and danger on the speculation of a gene ral rising for their rescue. These recriminations, and proposed changes of policy, are no symptoms of heart or hopefulness. The fatal blunder of Sir Robert Peel, when he attempted to storm the Court and subjugate the Queen, cannot be retrieved. Striving at a false show of favour, he discovered to the world the true position of his party. The cement of its organization then began to melt away. And now, it is proclaimed that his troops will do better without discipline. They have experimented upon order long enough, and will commence an experiment upon disorder. We shall pa tiently wait to see who or what will be " displaced" by this " most admired disorder." This (From the Morning Herald.) We rejoice in the multiplication of agricultural assn• ciations, because we rejoice in the extension of a system which promises to afford to the great body of English agriculturists, the means of self-protection against their formidable enemies. For the very reason, therefore, that we regard with pleasure, all the movements of the cultivators of the English soil to add to their power, do we view with regret such an exhibition as would seem to have taken place at the recent meeting of the Arundel and Bramber Agricultural Association. At that meet ing, Captain Pechell, M.P., for Brighton, is reported to have expressed himself in the following most unbecoming terms:— " Captain Pechell, in returning thanks, said be congra tulated the association on the successful result of its working, visible in the improvement in the moral con dition a the working classes, also on the high character which the association had main tained , so diff erent from many of thos e i n Cumberland, Oxfordshire, and Buckinghamshire, where the farmers appeared to be occupied in the business of flattering the vanities of their great men, and lending themselves to party and political purposes.— ( Cheers.) The gentlemen composing this association had far different objects.—( Cheers.) They did not meet to flatter the vanity or consult the prejudices of any man, however great or high ; they entered the association, not to advance the interests of the higher or middle classes further than through their means to promote the interest of the working people.—( Cheering.) He considered the farmers of Sussex a body of inde pendent men who would never tolerate such pro. ceedings as were reported to have taken place at Banbury, in Oxfordshire, and in some places in Buckinghamshire —(Cheers)—which latter county was fore_ most in the field in constantly bawling for protection, though it was notoriously the lowest in the scale of En glish counties in agricultural skill and in the amount of wages paid to the labouring classes, who were consequently in a very inferior condition."—( Cheers.) The farmers of Buckinghamshire are, at least, as little addicted to the practice of " flattering great men" as are Captain Pechell and his brother Whigs ; and as to the imputation that the Buckinghamshire agricul turists rank beneath the other agriculturists of England in point of skill—it happens to be a piece of gratuitous impertinence ! When Captain Pechell shall understand his business as a legislator, only half as well as the farmers of Buckinghamshire understand the business of agriculture, Brighton may congratulate itself on a very favourable change in the character of its Whig-Radical and nautical representative. Let Captain Pechell, before he shall presume to sneer at the Buckingham shire farmers, strive to understand something of the ele ments of the art, of which, by his position as a Member of Parliament, he is presumed to be a professor. At present he ranks amongst the most ignorant members of the very ignorant and despicable party to which he belongs. ALLEGED ROBBERY AND AT TEMPTED MURDER IN HYDE-PARE. On Tuesday evening last about half-past six o'clock, Knight, one of the boatmen belonging to the Royal Humane Society, was standing on the bank of the Ser pentine, near the boathouse, when he heard a faint cry of " Boat, boat !" coming apparently from the bridge. In a moment or two the cry was repeated in a louder key. He then got into one of the boats and immediately pushed off in the direction of the bridge, and when he had got near the second arch on the south side he with some difficulty discerned (the evening being very dark) the head of a man bobbing up and down in the water. Knight then threw out his grapnel!, and had dragged the body to the boat-side when he was joined by Super intendent Williams, and they together got him into the boat. (From the Morning Advertiser.) The calm which at present prevails in the political world is, we fear, of an ominous character. We are apprehensive it portends no good to the cause of Liberal principles and good government. The lethargy with which the minds of the Movement party seem to have been recently seized is not only calculated to inspire alarm, but is altogether unaccountahle at such a moment as the present. It is clear that we are on the verge of a great political crisis—one not merely involving the destinies of this country, but of the civilized world itself. See the position of the two great parties into which the Legislature and the people of England are divided. Is not the strength of the friends and foes of those principles, on the ascendancy or overthrow of which the greatness, and glory, and well-being of England manifestly bang, so nicely balanced in the House of Commons, the arena in which the battle is to be fought, that it is difficult to say which party shall have to boast of a majority when the first great trial of strength shall take place ? At this moment the Liberal party are understood to have a majority of from eight to ten. But who shall say what the chapter of accidents and the allurements of Tory corruption may bring about before the month of February—the period, it is un derstood, when the sessional campaign shall commence ? A few favourable single elections —and the Tories are usually successful in isolated struggles—will suffice to turn the scale against the Liberals ; or, if that should not occur, have we not reason to apprehend that there are at least some half-dozen professedly Liberal M.P.'s whose virtue—if the term be not a misnomer— is purchasable by Carlton gold ? At all events there can scarcely be a doubt that if the Reform party continue much longer in their present cul pably supine state, the powers of corruption will in some way or other triumph when the trial of strength takes place between the antagonist parties. And let the Tories only once succeed in obtain ing a majority in the representative branch of the Legislature, and then farewell to a Liberal Govern ment for an indefinite period. With a friendly House of Lords, a dispirited people, and a manacled helpless Sovereign, a Tory House of Commons, instigated by a Tory Ministry, would be all-powerful for any amount of mischief; and might protract their despotic ascend ancy in the Councils of the country for a long series of years. These, we are well aware, will prove unpa latable observations to many of the friends of freedom. We cannot help that : the question is, are they true ? Unhappily they are too true ; and though the truth is not always to be told, it is wholesome to tell it in the present instance. They who would give a different representation of matters in the present case are either very injudicious friends of the Li beral cause, or its bitter enemies, however loud and reiterated may be their protestations of attachment to it. But it will he asked, what is to be done to avert the destruction with which the interests of Liberalism are menaced? There can only be one answer to the ques- SINGULAR CASE OF STRANGULATION.— tion : let the Reformers shake off the lethargy which On Tuesday evening an inquest was held before Mr. now presses on them with all the paralysing pressure of Rogerson, the Borough Coroner, at the Saracen's Head an incubus, and commence a course of vigorous agita- public house, Wigan-lane, in Wigan, on the body of tion, which shall be persevered in without intermission an elderly woman named Margaret Horrocks, the wife till the meeting of Parliament, in favour of the great of a man who had for some time been in the service of principles of freedom which are now in such imminent Thomas Woodcock, Esq., of Bank House, as coach jeopardy. Public meetings ought to be forthwith held man. The fatal occurrence which led to this proceed. in all parts of the country, for the purpose o f pass i ng ing took place on Monday night. Horrocks, in com resolutions embodying and asserting the views of the .. pay w i t h hi s w if e ( t h e d ecease d) and another woman, nation as to the principles on which the G overnment o f named Rigby, went to Warrington on Monday in a gig, the country ought to be conducted. If the people con- and before they returned they got intoxicated, espe tinue inactive until the Legislature meet, a Tory ad- cially the deceased, who it appears was insensibly vent to office in the course of the Session may be re- drunk, to which is to be attributed the melancholy ter garded as not beyond the bounds of probability. The mination of their journey. It appears that she fell out Liberals, therefore, ought to be up and awake, if they of th e gig, near a place called Smith Brook, and her mean to maintain their principles, or to support a Go- husband and Rigby- being unable to assist her, remained vernment whose members are now in great part pledged sus p e nded with her head downwards, and her feet to promote them. (From the M o r n i ng P ost .) cau ght by some part of the spl as h-b oar d . Some persons Every Ministerial tirade that meets our ey es upon hearing their cries came to them a n d t i e d t h e deceased t the subject of Ministerial education assumes, point to the gig between her husband and Ri g b y . H er cloak was so fast about her neck that she died from strangu blank, that the Government scheme is not only a good lation before they got to Wigan. After a number of one, but so exceedingly good that her Majesty's Minis. witnesses had been examined, the Jury re t urne d a ver ters are deserving of unutterable praise for the courage dict of " Accidentally strangled while in a state of with whviceh persevered (in spite of in their plan. Thi s i s, no doubt, " such for m id a bl e opposition") "/ drunkenness." The Jury expressed a de s i re t h at t h e they have Coroner should severely censure Horrocks an d Ri g b y , a very compendious way of settling the case in favour as they considered them highly culpable.—Wigan of Ministers. It is highly convenient to assume that Gazette. what Ministers have resolved upon is the sovereignest wise, en- At the Hedingham agricahural meeting, Mr. J. Wa stated that he had tried the experiment of sowing lightened, and so forth. It is also very consistent with thing on earth for rendering the peo ple • proficiency e oc o y f thine tole- seed with his beans, hoeing it in with the second the usual turn that Whig modesty takes in matters might be profitabl y hoeing, which he seemed to thi nk of controversy. And yet, after all, we must take leave r o S fi o c m i ]lowed. Ashort time since, one of the unfortunate men Ministerial to doubt . lthawtriittersis, who, by s h a y tisf t a h c e t i o r ry. p blarney as well as in abusiveness, show their apti- residing near Boughton, who . underwent a year's .impri part in the Courtenay affair, at under the following rap tur e at the conduct of her tempted to commit suici de Majestytude for wearing the livery of the O'Connell Govern- sonment for taking . ment, profess the utmost wife in that condition in having been gracious ly_pleased to apply one stances :—Shortly after his return from Maidstone gaol, plan. We which " ladies, " ought not be whose "lords" have been hundred pounds out of her Majesty's income towards the he . found, to his great surprise, his formation of a "normal school" on the new so long absent. This preyed upon his mind, and about ought to himself from a beam in an outhouse. a fortnight ago he attempted suicide , by suspending aretol d consequentth a u t po t n h the delight e h an act and af "munificence" gratitude al a ai fieen o e f e,, the public He was that one ately cut down, and life not being extinct, he was in a know no bounds. Pity that one cannot be grateful, or immedi delighted, upon merely Ministerial suggestion joy short short time recovered.—Kentish Ti mes. and to be so. Surely it is but reasonable that the joy The Animals' Friend Society last week caused and thankfulness in this case should be propor tioned to the probable benefit to be derived from the Charles Purfet and David Richards, to be fined by Mr. donation in aid of the new education scheme. If Jeremy, for great cruelty to two truck dogs drawing that acherise be a mischief, why should the English hearth stones, and let ou t f rom L ock ' s-fields, for Sd. public be grateful or d e li g h te d b ecause t h e Q ueen h as per day each dog ; out of whi c h sum t h e poor an i ma l given part o f h er M a j esty ' s allowance in its support ? rece i ves it s w h ole a llowance of food. Also, Lavender Now, it so happens that the English public has used to be fined for havin g cruelly kicked a hor s e i n the all the means which the Constitution allows to demon. I stomach. It is a p it y , how ever , they were only fined s t r ate to her Majesty' s G overnment, and to her Ma. 68, each, a s it is trifling with th e o ff ences, and causes jsa ,MS ty herseif, that they do look upon t h e new education 1 them o f tener t o b e . committed, an d t h e offenders oftener SCU 414 q, mischief, and not as a b enef i t. Was there I punished, t h an b y inflicting a more su it a bl e fine. On animation being restored, he became exceedingly violent and delirious, so much so, that two soldiers were procured from the Magazine station to assist in prevent ing him from doing some mischief. The surgeon bled him copiously, when he became weak, and was conveyed home in a coach. His name is Richard Goodman, a coachman to a private gentleman, who broke up his es tablishment three weeks ago, and according to his state ment, he was on his way to Hammersmith to pay some money, when he was robbed and tossed over the bridge. During the whole day of Saturday he continued alternately in a state of delirium and sleep, but about eight o'clock in the evening he became collected, and then made the following extraordinary statement ! He said that about half-past six o'clock, he was en tering upon the bridge from the Kensington side, when two men came suddenly upon him, one was in the un dress of a private soldier of a foot regiment, the other wore a black frock coat and hat. The (presumed) soldier then thrust his hands into his trousers, and, catching hold of the fob, in which there was 51., tore it out. Goodman caught hold of him by the collar with the intention of holding him until assistance came up, when the other said, " Throw the over the bridge." They then, before he could even utter an exclamation, threw him over. He held on for a moment by the parapet, but a blow from one of the men made him loose his hold. He then remembers trying, though he could not swim, to save himself, and caught by the arch of the bridge, and while in that situation he saw two women approach, to whom he called, and imme diately that they saw him he sunk and remembered nothing after. Upon this statement being made his friends imme diately gave information to the police, and Inspector Partridge, of the D division, immediately proceeded to Goodmau's residence and made him recapitulate the story, which be put down in writing. He then asked the man why, when he was attacked, he did not call out ? The man's reply was he was so surprised that he could not call out. He also said that all he had taken to drink since he left home was a bottle of ginger beer. On Sunday night the man again relapsed into a state of stupor, and though he has been constantly attended upon by a surgeon he was still lying in a most precarious state. Inspector Partridge has, since receiving the above statement, been actively engaged in endeavouring to gain intelligence that may confirm the statement given by Goodman. 1 ever, then, more impudent blarney than that which pre tends that the people s h ou ld b e h appy an d grate f u l f or the Royal " munificence" in aid of that mischief? We grant that the Ladies of the Bedchamber may have told her Majesty that it would be a very spirited thing to give a hundred pounds in support of that against which the Archbishop of Canterbury and an immense majority of the House of Peers had solemnly warned her Majesty. It is very possible that Lord Melbourne may somehowor another have given to such a proceeding the air of a practical joke, worth at least a hundred pounds, and so have determined her Majesty in its favour. We do not deny, therefore—if it so please the Ministerialists—that it is an act for which the Court circle (little dogs and all) should bark and jump with every noise and gesture of applause ; but it really does seem rather much to require that the people should be delighted for aid given to what the people gravely suspect and greatly dislike. (From the Times.) We have stated of Admiral Fleming not a word or syllable which affects his private character as a gentle. man. We dare say he is on that score unassailable. We have not insinuated one iota in disparagement of his courage as an officer ; but we said that in the whole course of a service of near fifty years, and during a war of twenty-three years' continuance, when British men of-war traversed every ocean, and cut out work for our enemies all over the surface of the globe, Admiral Fle ming's name is not to be found in any one tecord of our maritime achievements as having at any moment of that long and multifarious conflict exchanged shots with a hos tile vessel. For years Captain Fleming was captain of the Egyptienne, a 24-pounder frigate, one of the finest in the service. It did so happen, that if Captain Fleming had no opportunity of meeting an enemy in this fine frigate, the frigate did find the opportunity without him, inasmuch as when he was on shore, attending Sir R. Calder's Court-martial, his First Lieutenant, Hand field, then commanding the ship, chased, fought, and, in company with the Loire, succeeded in capturing the Libre, a French frigate, after a smart action. We are far from affirming that Captain Fleming would not have done as much ; but the fact is, that neither then, nor at other times, did he effect the capture of an enemy's vessel of any force, nor encounter one in action. But had Captain Fleming no op portunity of meeting and engaging an enemy ? In 1805, while commanding the Egyptienne, he was attached to Sir R. Caluer's squadron of fifteen sail of the line, when that gallant and much injured officer fell in with, fought, and defeated, a combined fleet of twenty French and Spaniards, taking two of their ships ; had Captain Fleming his twenty-four pounder frigate in that engagement, when an addition of half her number of guns might have afforded useful aid to his overmatched commander? Where was Cap tain Fleming? We do not know ; we have looked at the despatches, where his name is not mentioned ; we have looked in "James's history," where the other British frigate of the squadron, the Sirius, a much weaker ship, contrived to exchange broadsides with the " Hero," a French ship of the line, and to lose some men killed and wounded. But of any share taken by Captain Fleming in the engagement not one word is on record. Then, all that we allege is, that when the Admiralty advocates dwell on the praises (what cruel irony !) of Captain Fleming as a candidate for high rewards and honours, they ought to tell us, what they never have told us, about the things that he has done. It is rather cool to pick a man out of obscu rity, and, in loading him with rewards due only to ac knowledged eminence, attempt to justify his promotion by boasting that there is " nothing against him." The onus is not on us to prove his disqualification, but on his patrons to give evidence of his claims. E-tates are not assigned by law to the first person who asserts that he has never been in Newgate. But we believe that the public mind is pretty well made up as to wherabouts the charge of " impudence" ought to be affixed in " the case of Admiral Fleming." It is no joke to disgust the navy of England—it is no light offence to make even the civil Government contemptible in the eyes of foreigners, and odious in Great Britain. A COMPOSER'S ADVICE TO A RISING SINGER. M. Masset, a young tenor, made his debut some days ago, at the Opera Comique at Paris. After stating that it was a most successful one, and that the de butant's voice is one of the finest and most extensive Paris can boast of, M. Berlios bestows on him the fol lowing advice, after the fashion of that which Pon Quixote gave Sancho when the worthy squire was about to take possession of the government of Barataria : " Masset, you have now made your way. In some weeks you will be celebrated. Your voice will soon be 'polished, and your talent finished ; you will have abundant applause, and endless emolu ments. Authors will court you, managers will no longer make you wait in their anti-chambers, and if you write to them they will answer you. Women unknown to you, and whom you never will know, will speak of you as of t protege or intimate friend. Books in prose and verse will be dedicated to you. Instead of five francs you will be obliged to give your door keeper a hundred on New Year's Day. You will be exempted from doing duty in the National Guard. You will get leave of absence now and then, and cities will then quarrel for your performances. Your feet will be covered with flowers and sonnets. You will sing in the Prefect's drawing-rooms, and the Mayor's wife will send you apricots. In short, }ou are on the threshold of Olympus ; for, if the I ta li ans ca ll the cantatr i ce dive (goddesses), it is clear enough that great male singers are gods. NVell, then, since you are a god, be a good devil, nevertheless, and do not tco much despise folks that may give you wholesome advice. " Remember that a voice is a fragile instrument, which declines or breaks down in an instant, often with out any known cause ; r emem b er t h at suc h an acc id ent suffices to precipitate the greatest of gods from the highest throne, to reduce him to the condition of a man, and sometimes to something less. " Be not too harsh with the poor composers. " When from the height of your elegant cabriolet you perceive in the street Meyerbeer, Spontini, Halery, or Auber on foot, do not salute them with a little nod of patronage, at which they would laugh in pity. Forget not that many of their works will be admired and full of life when the recollection of your highest note has vanished for ever. If you take a trip to Italy, do not get enthusi astic about some second-rate weaver of cavatinas ; do not, when you return, pronounce him a classic composer, and tell us with an impartial look that Beethoven had also some talent ; for there is no god that can escape ridicule. " When you accept new parts, do not permit your self to change anything in them at the representation without the author's consent. You know that a single note added, retrenched, or transposed, may flatten a melody and change its expression. Besides, it is a right which can in no case be yours. To modify the music one sings, or the book one translates, without saying one word about it to him who wrote it only after a vast deal of reflection, is an outrageous breach of good faith. People who borrow without warning are called thieves, faithless interpreters are calumniators and assassins. " If peradventure you have a rival whose voice has more vigour than yours, don't, in a duet, play at lungs with him, for rest assured that we must not struggle against the iron pot, even when we happen to be a china vase. In your provincial tours beware, when you speak of the Opera Comique and its choral and instrumental company, to say my theatre, my choruses, my orchestra. The provincial folks do not like, more than the Parisians, to be taken for silly people ; they know full well that you belong to the theatre, and that the theatre does not belong to you, and they would think your conceited language perfectly grotesque. " And now, friend Sancho, receive my blessing ; go and govern Barataria ; it is a rather low island, but the most fertile one, perhaps, in terra firma. Thy people are but indifferently civilized , encourage public instruc tion : may, in two years hence, they who know how to read no longer be distrusted as detestable sorcerers ; don't be deceived by the praise of such as may sit down to thy table ; forget thy confounded proverbs ; when in public thrust no more thy hands in thy pockets like a muleteer ; never fail to thy word ; let they who may trust their interests to thee be assured that thou wilt ❑ot betray them, and may thy voice be in tune for everybody." POISON IN FRUITS.—The substance which gives their peculiar flavour to bitter almonds, and to the kernels of peacees, apricots, &c. as also to the leaves of all the species of cherry and peach, is the prussic acid. —Popular Encyclopedia. A market for Welsh flannels has been established in Shrewsbury. There are in Ireland numerous Protestants—men of rank and property—who, although from early associa tions, they might prefer having Tories in office, would, nevertheless, sacrifice their early prejudices rather than hazard the peace of their native country and the se curity of their own lives and property, by assisting into power politicians whose Bible would be but an enlarged and embittered edition of the old penal code, and whose creed would be relentless persecu tion. The result of this feeling on the part of these rational Protestant-Tories has been, that several of them demanded to know in plain terms whether the ad vent of Toryism was in reality to be the signal for civil war in Ireland ? The answer given on behalf of' Sir Robert Peel was to this effect—that it was required for the sustenance 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 ; and then it piteously represented to the Irish remon strants that the necessities of the party required such expedients, and that, in fact, the end must be taken to justify the means of deceit and falsehood by which it was brought about. We can state, upon the most positive authority, that such language has been held— such explanation made—such excuse given by persons who speak the sentiments of Sir Robert Peel ; and whilst we abstain from giving to this double-faced policy the reprobation that is its due, we trust that, without the use of Billingsgate language, we have proved that there is no term of abuse sufficiently strong to in.zrk its infamy.— Observer. CURIOUS RELIC OF THE COVENANTERS.— Mr. James Paterson, Tundergarth, has in his possession a copy of the Geneva translation of the Bible, printed in 1599, with pretty full marginal and explanatory , notes by Francis Junius, and with Sternhold and Hop kins's version of the Psalms, which bears a deep mark of some powerful cutting instrument, caused, as we have been assured, by the stab of a persecutor's sword. The following singular account is given of it :—The Bible belonged to William H anna h, in Tundergarth, one of the persecuted Covenanters, who suffered much from the violence of persecution, and, with others, was frequently compelled to seek for shelter in the "caves and dens of the mountains," or when closely pursued sometimes found concealment among the straw of his own barn, for seldom was he permitted to repose in peace in the bosom of his family ; but his Bible was the constant companion of his solitude and his sufferings. On one occasion, being closely pursued by a party of " Clavers's dragoons," he fled in great precipita tion, leaving the Bible among the straw where he had been concealed. Scarcely had he left the barn when a party of soldiers rushed in, and commenced search ing every corner for the object of their pursuit, and, among other precautions, stabbed with their swords the straw where he had been lying. In this process the Bible received the deep cut which it still exhibits, but its owner had fortunately escaped to a place of safety. The following interesting account of William Hannah end his son, is taken from Crookshank's History (part ii. chap. x.) :—" On the 26th of October, 1684, Wil liam Hannah, in the parish of Tundergarth, in Annan dale, having been apprehended in England by Colonel Daezes, was received by one Sprinkel into his troop. H e l a y in irons at Dumfries, and at last was confined in a dark pit under the Canongate prison. The soldiers who brought him his small pittance of meat and drink and said, Seek mercy from heaven for we have none to give you, with other expressions of blasphemy. He continued in this place nine days, and then was brought up to the prison, where he remained till lie was sent, with others, to Dunnotar. His only crime was non-conformity, for which he had in the preceding year ,uff ered greatly. His son William, not 16 years old, was, in 1682, taken by a party of soldiers, though he was afflicted with ague, and forced to walk afoot for some days along with them. Coming to the grave of one who had been shot, and buried in the fields, they set him down on the grave, and covering his face, threatened him with immediate death if he would not promise regu larity, &c. The boy told them God sent him into the world, and had appointed his time to go out of it, only he was determined to swear nothing he reckoned sinful. He was now in their power, and they might do as they would. In the year 1683 he was taken to Edinburgh, and after several examinations was tortured with the thambkins, and then loaded with irons, which were so strait that his flesh swelled out above them ; and, after a year and a halt's imprisonment, he was transported and sold in Barbadoes. It is said he returned after the revolution and was a minister in Scarborough. Tra dition farther says that when General Dalziel purposed to banish the father also to Barbadoes, the old man entreated that he might be allowed to spend the few short years he had to live in his own country, as he was too old and infirm to be of any use for manual labour. If you are too old to work you are not too old to be hanged, said the dastardly murderer of the unarmed peasantry,' and by the gold on my hand you shall he hanged to. morrow. But before to-morrow came Dal ziel was in eternity. The old man was afterwards set at liberty, returned to his home and ended his days in peace. His son William, after the revolution ,returned from the West Indies, betook himself to the study of theology, and was appointed minister of a Presbyterian church at Scarborough. His father's bible, marked with the persecutor's sword, he is said always to h ave used in the pulpit, and to have brought it back with him to Tundergarth, where he died in extreme old age, in the house of one of his relatives."—Dunifrie s Courier. ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF THE FINE ARTS.-(SCOTLAND.) The " Report" of this Society is a highly satisfactory document ; and may be accepted as another proof of the beneficial results that are sure to follow the energy and activity for which the Scottish people have been always so distinguished. It commences by an allusion to the rapid progress the Institution has made from year to year ; it is astonishing as well as gratifying to find that, in the course of four years, the fund realised for the purposes of art rose from 7281. to 8,428/. ; and that during the year 1838-9, the increase was no less than 1,422/. The committee are, therefore, fully justified in thus referring to the consequences of their exertions : "The country is also beginning to reap the reward it deserves for the exertions it has made. Art has sprung into an importance hitherto unknown in Scotland; its professors feel that its value is appreciated ; arid that they themselves enjoy a certainty of receiving an ade quate remuneration for their labours. Within the la,t five years 11,9881. have been contributed by the Associa tion alone for the purposes of art ; about three hundred works have been purchased, varying in price from 3501. downwards, and before many months elapse, eight thou sand copies of beautifully executed engravings from paintings by Scottish artists will have been dissemi nated. A few years ago the sales effected at the annual exhibition Isere seldom amounted to 4001. ; this year they will exceed 4,000/. ; and of all the works offered far sale, considerably more than one-half have been pur chased—a tact well worthy of being mentioned as indi cating a much larger proportion of sales than it is be lieved was ever effected before in any exhibition in Great Britain. The receipts likewise, drawn by the kcademy from visitors, show that a still increasing inte rest is taken in their exhibition ; and that, in proportion to the population, it is considerably more attractive than even that of the Royal Academy of London,. The suns collected at the doors of the exhibition was 1,1421., being 60/. more than last year. Fourteen hundred arid eighty-three season-tickets were disposed of, which the committee understand is the greatest number ever sold during any one season." It is, therefore, pardonable to find our excellent neigh bours, with their wonted national pride—the fountain of their greatness—anticipating that Scotland is " resolved to take the lead in the encouragement of the Fine Arts." We heartily congratulate the committee on the great good they have conferred upon their country, their beneficial influence upon art generally, and, above all, for the example they have set to othera, which it will rejoice them, as well as us, to see extensively followed. As yet, strange to say, London is behind Edinburgh ; it cannot long remain so. We have little doubt that, within a year or two, we shall have to draw up a " re port" which will leave our neighbours a length, at least, behind us in the race for pre-eminence. It is a praise worthy and honourable rivalry ; and when we have sur passed them we shall readily acknowledge that from them was caught the spirit that animated us.—The Art Union. ALLEGED MURDER AT FLIXTO Yesterday the village of Flixton, near Manchester, was thrown into a state of great excitement by the report, which proved to be true, that a young man, a resident of the place, had been found dead in a midden-hole, with some deep wounds on his head. The discovery of the body was accidental, and arose, we understand, from a man getting over a wall at the back of the premises of the Church Inn, for the purpose of going into an ad joining garden. This was about eleven o'clock yester day forenoon ; and, when upon the wall, the man thought he saw some one lying in the soil hole ; and pro curing assistance, it was found to be the body of a young man, twenty-two or twenty-three years of age, a master wheelwright, residing in Flixton, named Lawrence Watmough. The body was stripped, and a surgeon was sent for to examine it. He had not ar rived when our informant arrived ; but the injuries are described to us to have been a deep incised wound on the left side of the head, behind the ear, about three inches in length, and another about two inches and a half in length more, at the back of the head. When the body was found blood was flowing from both these wounds; and, to all appearance, there can be little doubt but that they were the cause of death. The only other external injury was a slight bruise on one knee, which might be caused by coming in contact with some hard substance, the soil-hole being surrounded with a wall of between four and five feet in height. The face, however, was very black, as if from blows. The body was no sooner recognised than it was found that the unfortunate deceased had not been at home all the preceding night ; and it was also ascertained that, at a late hour that night, he had become involved in a quarrel and fight with a stranger, an Irishman, in the Church Inn ; and that he had fled from the house into the back yard, in the direction of the place where he was found. Inquiry was made for the Irishman, and it was ascertained that he had been left in the kitchen when the family retired to bed, and had gone away about seven o'clock yesterday morning, taking with him some articles of dress, most of which were recovered by two men, one of whose bats he had taken ; but that he had been allowed then to pursue his way, in the direc tion of Manchester, as it was subsequently discovered, with a pair of trousers in his possession, belonging to Mr. Jones, the landlord of the Church Inn. The supposed perpetrator has been traced to Man chester, but not discovered. The deceased is stated to have been a young unmar ried man, whose parQnts reside in Flixton. He had just commenced business as a wheelwright. He is stated to have been a stout, strong, athletic young man, with very powerful arms ; and, according to the opinion of those who savr them both, was a match in strength for the Irishman, if the latter had not at first taken him at a disadvantage.—Manchester Guardian. THE WEATHER, &c., IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND. `We regret to say that no favourable change has taken place since we last addressed our readers upon this distressing topic. It has rained with little intermission since Friday last ; and from the aspect of the clouds, the point from whence the wind continues to blow, and the state of the mercury in the barometer, there is little to ground a hope of a speedy alteration for the better.—Dublin Evening Mai/ of Monday. There is still a good deal of oats in stook and uncut in the west of Ireland ; but if this week holds up fine we may expect to hear of the completion of th e liar vest throughout Ireland. The high prices of Dublin and Ireland generally will certainly attract vast quantities of corn and flour to our shores. Although the Irish flour millers have an Act of Parliament to protect them from the com petition of American flour, yet English flour, displaced by the cheaper American flour, can be brought into Ireland, which comes to the same thing.—Pilot of Monday. In the low grounds the sickle has all but done its work completely, and matters, we would fain hope, will be pret'y much the same among the moors and bills before the present week is out. Thursday was a de cidedly bad day, but Friday mended matters considera bly, and on Saturday leading went briskly forward. The weather, while we write, is again unfavourable.— Dumfries Courier. With the exception of the very earliest spots in Scotland, there is still a good deal of grain exposed. In the immediate neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and in the low grounds in this district, the fields are en tirely clear, but from the termination of the Almond Valley, as the ground rises to the west of Edinburgh, the quantity of grain out gradually increases, till the traveller arrives at the higher lands, were there is very little yet taken in, and quantities still to cut. Between Glasgow and Stirling for instance, although the country does not rise much, at least a half of the grain crop is still out, and many fields to cut. This may generally be understood to be the case in the low damp and higher cold soils. In the carse of Stirling there is a great deal of grain still on the fields, every where the potatoe crop is both abundant and of excel lent quality, and in the early districts the farmers are busy lifting them. The same thing may be said of the turnip crop likewise, so far as regards quantity and quality. At Edinburgh and neighbourhood there has been strong drought and no rain for several days. On Thursday the streets were as dry as in mid-summer, and the dust flying in all directions. In the west country we have been differently situated, with scarcely a day this week without rain, and when it is dry above there has been no drought to dry up, either the grain or the ground.—Glasgow Chronicle of Monday. are indebted to tile officers of the steam-packet Columbia, Captain Winkle, thirty-six hours from Galveston, for papers of that place, and Houston of late dates. The city of Houston is repre sented to be remarkably healthy. The Telegraph says, " We have not heard of a death for a week past." The general election passed off' at Houston very quietly, there not being a single fight to enliven the business of the day. The Galveston Civilian, of the 13th Sept. states :—" We have little domestic news of importance. About eighty men left this city on Mon day morning to serve against the Indians on the frontier, case they should be needed. Several hundred men will be kept regularly in the field, until all appre hension of further trouble from the savages shall have subsided. We understand that improvement is pro gressing pretty rapidly at the new seat of Government, notwithstanding the great difficulties necessary to be overcome. The next session of Congress, we suppose will be holden there, though board is now five dollars (Texas money) per day—exactly the salary of a mem ber. The Government offices and property have been rem oved from H ous t on. G a l veston has es tablished quarantine regulations.—American Paper. A SHORT-SIGHTED YouTH.—There is a chap down in the far w es t, w h o is so short-sighted that he rubs out with his n ose w h a t he writes with his pen.— New York Paper. MIDDLESEX COUNTY COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Dußois.) Mr. Jonathan Sawyer and Mr. Peter Baggs, a couple of substantial citizens, both evidently " raised" within the renowned regions of Cockaigne, presented them selves to the Court, the first as plaintiff and the latter as defendant, in a case wherein the sum of 255. 6d. was concerned. The plaintiff, according to practice, handed in a written statement of his demand. The first item proved a " poser" to Commissioner, Jury, clerk, and audience in Court. " Two three-legged Grecians, with glass centre-pieces and wax bottoms," read the Commissioner. " Why what does that mean ?" Plaintiff—lt means table lamps and ornamental glass stands. Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS —Oh and the charge, I see, is for hire and broken stand. And what are the wax bottoms ? Plaintiff--W ax candle pieces, which were furnished to Mr. Baggs for his party. " It's all out of spite and wengeance," said the de fendant, " that I been summoned by my neighbour. He wants to went his windicktive teelins on me and my vife, cause she wouldn't give him tick for a sclubbing brush.' " Mr. Commissioner Dusois—Then you deny the debt ? Defendant--Every farden on it. You see, at the hanniwersary of our hannual wedding day, my vile vish'd to give vot she called a feet sham Peter in our back garden ; but I put my weto on it, and turned the consarn into a tuck-out and a hop arterards. In course my neighbour, Mr. Sawyer, was inwited, and as my vife and hiss had talked over the party, it was agreed that the thing vouldn't be slap-up vithout vax lights ; cause, as my 'rife said, and she knows " high life" as veil as any vooman in our neighbourhood, that at the fashionable routs at the vest end, nobody never axed the ladies to snuff the candles—and as she vos sure that the gentlemen at ourn would be too lumpy-ish arter dinner to handle the snuffers, vy she agreed to ask Mr. Sawyer for the loan of his lamps and vax candles, vich vouldn't vant no snuffing at all. Plaintiff—No such thing. The lamps were regularly hired, and when they 'sere returned Mrs. Baggs told my wife she hoped I wouldn't stick it into yer, on account of the haccident which had happened to one of the ornaments. Defendant—That was a glass sarcer vot one of the lamps stood in, and I aint sure as it warnt crack'd when it come to me. Plaintiff—Why you told me yourself that Miss Jones, the tinman's niece, broke the stand in trying to make a brandy bishop in it. " There is no use," said the COMMISSIONER "in having any further argument about the matter. The plaintiff has sworn to the debt, and the jury is of opinion the claim is a just one." " Vell," said the defendant, putting down the money, " I'll pay the amount—but now, Mr. Sawyer, jest mark my vords, I shant never no more invite you or your vife to none of my tuck-outs—never no more." The parties then made way for the next case. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. The Court, during the early part of yesterday morn ing, was occupied in trying petty larceny cases of no public interest whatever. Having disposed of them the following case was called on : TRADES' UNION AND DOCUMENT MEN. CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—Richard Hart, William Holland, John Peru, and William Bibb, were charged with assaulting Charles Coleman, on the 17th of June, 1839. Mr. CLARKSON and Mr. BALLANTINE appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. 'flummox for the defence. The prosecutor stated that he was a carpenter, and worked for Mr. Taylor, a builder, in Hyde-park Square ; that he was what is called a " document man," havinc , signed a document that he will not belong to any Trades' Union ; that he was, in consequence, subjec ted to frequent insults from those who did not approve of the document system, and on the morning in question, as he was going to his work, there was a great hallooing and shouting after him ; that on coming to a heap of gravel which blocked up the way, Hart and Holland stood before him, and kept pointing him out to the per sons who were following, when Hart asked him if he was not ashamed of having signed that document ? That he put his hand up to push him aside in order to pass, when Hart said, " That is what he wants, give it him," when the prisoners, and a man not in custody, fell upon him and beat him severely. The prisoners were present, and assualted him, and when he got up, and endeavoured to get through the crowd Perry came behind and struck him, so as to make him stagger. He was so injured, that he was unable to do a full day's work for some time. William Harwell, a plasterer, in the same employ, corroborated the prosecutor's testimony. Witness is a document man. Mr. Thompson addressed the jury for the defence, and called several witnesses who endeavoured to show that it was a fair stand up fight, between a man not yet in custody, and the prosecutor, but on their cross-examination by Mr. Clarkson they so contra dicted each other that it was impossible to place any reliance on their testimony. The CHAIRMAN having summed up, the Jury found the prisoners Guilty, but recommended them to mercy on the ground of the strong party feeling which ex isted on the subject. The CuaialtaN said that it did not appear that there was any party spirit among the document men, who were only two in number, surrounded by enemies. Mr. *William said that he had been a journeyman carpenter many years, and it was not by unions and combinations that he had got on. Ha considered the defence far more disgraceful than the assault itself. The CHAIRMAN in passing sentence said that consider ing the situation Hart occupied, his brother being Clerk of the Works, where the rest were employed, and con sidering that Perry had struck the prosecutor when he was in a state of exhaustion, he should award a more se vere punishment to him than to the others. It was little better than Chartism for a mob of 150 persons to attack one man because he differed in opinion with them, as he bad a right to do. He hoped their punishment would be a warning to their companions. He could conceive nothing more horrible than the wickedness of the getting up of that disgraceful defence, and he would rather be one of the prisoners than one of those witnesses. He then sentenced Hart and Perry to four months' imprison- ment each, and Holland and Bibb to three months' im prisonment each, in the House of Correction. SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS. KING STON—WEDNESDAY. The COURT this morning proceeded to dispose of the 'elonies, none of which possessed any features of public nterest. Applications were then made for the renewals of the icences of the different Theatres and other places of amusement in the county of Surrey. Mr. Jemmett applied for a renewal of the licence to the Royal Circus or Surrey Theatre, in the name of George Bolwell Davidge —Application granted. The next application was for a renewal of the li cence to Astley's Amphitheatre, in the name of Han nah Waldo Astley, John Chevalier Cobbold, Andrew Ducrow, and William West--Granted. The licence to Vauxhall Gardens, in the names of Frederick Gyc and Richard Hughes, was then renewed. Mr. HEDGER remarked that the Magistrates had been required to alter the period at which the performances were to commence, from five o'clock to three ; the Ma gistrates, however, had no such power, and if any entertainments were performed before five o'clock the parties licensed would be liable to penalties. The perform. ance of the Curriculum clearly came within the Act of Parliament, and it would be no excuse that the respon sibility was shifted to Mr. Ducrow. Colonel CHALLONER said he should be very glad if the Magistrates had the power to alter the hour so as to lega!ize this performance, which he considered a very excellent one. He put it to the Court, however, whe ther the performance of the horses came within the terms of the Act, "music and (lancing." Mr. HEDGER said there could be no doubt it did. There was music, and the horses danced. He, at the same time begged it to be understood that he did not desire in any way to curtail these performances, but to show that the Magistrates had no power to graat the required extension of time. The licenses to the Duke's Head and Bower Gar dens, Stangate, and to the Jamaica Tavern, Rother hithe, for music, were then renewed, without any re marks being made respecting them. Mr. Jemmett applied on behalf of Mr. Richard Howard, of the St. Helen's Gardens, Rotherhithe, for an extension of his ,present license, which is for music only, to one for dancing, and the like entertainments. He said that since the license had been granted to this house for music, it had always been conducted most respectably, ;Ind Mr. Howard now sought to be al lowed the privilege enjoyed by other houses o f h av i ng dancing as well as music. There had been at one time a strong feeling on the minds of Ma gistrates against allowing entertainments of this description, on the ground that they were likely to prove injurious to the morals of the working classes, but he believed that e xperience had been a means of greatly altering that opinion. He, therefore, trusted that, as the house had been all along conducted in a most respectable manner, the Bench would extend the licence as prayed. In answer to a question from the Chairman, it was stated that no notice had been given of the intended ap plication. The Court thought that such applications ought not to be entertained, unless notice was given, and on that ground refused the application. An applicatio n for a music 'license to the King's head, Little Charlotte -street, Blackfri ar ' s - roa d was re fused by th e C ourt. , A similar application was made on behalf of Mr. Thomas Cox, the landlord of the Black Dog, Vauxhall walk. The petition of the applicant set forth that the appli cant had carried on the business of a licensed victualler E 1 ENING EDITION. in this house a great number of years without any coin pl not, and that, he was at present liable to the most vexatious and harrassing proceedings from commos in formers, for the slightest infraction of the law, and that the granting of a music license would tend to the accom modation of the neighbourhood. Mr. BUCKLE expressed an opinion that if no money were taken at the dnors, a licensed victualler was not liable to a penalty for having music in his house. Colonel CH A LLONER said he had always entertained the same opinion respecting the law upon the subject. Mr. Jemmett, who supported the application, said he apprehended that the taking of money at the doors did not make any difference. If a publican suf fered music to be played in his house he was liable to a penalty. The object of the application for a music li cense was to relieve the publicans from the vexatious proceedings of common informers. Mr. H YDGER s aid there could be no doubt 2S to the law. The question had been argued before Lord Ten terden, and it had been laid down that the receiving of money did not at all affect the question. The Court, however, in his opinion, had nothing to do with that part of the subject, but were merely to consider the pro piety of granting or withholding the license. The license was then refused. Mr. Su g den applied for a renewa l o f the license t o the Royal Victoria, formerly the Coburg Theatre, in the names of John Adolphus Young, William White Smyth, and Henry Beverly.—Granted. Mr. MILES STRINGER, one of the Visiting Justices to the gaol at Guildford, brought before the notice of the Court a circumstance of a very novel character on Tues day. He stated that he and his brother Visiting Ma gistrates had been applied to by a Jew, who was at present confined in Guildford gaol, and who had still to undergo an imprisonment of several months, and who complained of being compelled to work on the tread wheel upon his Sabbath, and begged them to re lieve him from his lab our on that day. The Magistrates felt that i: was a case of some hardship, and they resolved upon relieving the prisoner from labour on his Sabbath, but they felt it to be their duty to bring the subject before the full Court, in order to obtain their opinion upon the subject. Mr. HAvves thought that the Visiting Justices bad full power to deal with the case. At the same time be, could not help expr ess i ng an op i n i on t h at t h e r ules and regulations of the gaol ought not to be interfered with on slight grounds, or that the observances of the Jewish, Sabbath ought t o b e l oo k e d upon as a matter o f so We° solemnity. A MAGISTRATE observed that they ought to have some proof of a prisoner being really a Jew before be was released from the labour, or else he feared there would be a great many Jews.--(A laugh.) Mr. KEMBLE said that, in his opinion, the conscien tous scruples of a Jew ought to be as much regarded as those of any other class of persons. He suggested. however, that it would be quite unnecessary for the Cour t to adopt any proceedings upon the subject, because the matter would be finally settled when the New Prison Regulation Act came into operation, which would be very shortly. The subject was ultimately referred to the Committee appointed to inquire into th e su bj ect o f t h e Act i n question. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HATTON- GARDEN. UNCERTAIN ST ATE OF THE H ACKNEY- C OAC H LA W. COACH STAND IN UPPER SEYMOUR-STREET Since the op en i ng o f t h e Bi rm i ngham Railway t h e cab men and coach-drivers have extended the stand in Lower Seymour -street i nto U pper S eymour -street, to t h e great annoyance of the inhabitants, who have in vain endee voured to get rid of the nuisance. Yesterday, Robert _Wilber, driver 294 of the hackney carriage 880, appeared at this office to answer the a n : plaint of the Commissioners of St. Pancras for di l "' obeying the provisions of the local Act, which punishes with a fine of 40s. any driver of a hackney carriage creating an obstruction or annoyance. Mr. Clarkson having stated the case on behalf of the complainants, Mr. Combe said that it must first be proved that the estabiishing a hackney-coach stand was an annoya°° o In this case it was not pretended it was an obstruction , and it was not the stand which was an annoyance, but the persons who assembled there. Mr. Clarkson—Can a coach stand then be formed ill any district ? Mr. Combe—lf we find a licensed waterman at. tending there our hands are stopped. The best co urse for you to pursue would be to summon the waterman under the Hackney Carriages Act, to know by what right he plies in Upper Seymour -street. The whole law relating to hackney.coach stands is in a most unsa tisfactory state. Defendant—You will never find a waterman in UP. per Seymour -street. Mr. COMBE—Then you can summon the driver plying at a s t an d w h ere t h ere i s no l i cense d water • The present informati on mus t b e di sm i sse d. f or n ni We understand that Sir David Wilkie, duri n g his late northern tour spent some time at Arbuthnot t House, where he was engage d i n ta ki ng a full-leng th picture of Viscount Arbuthnott. This work of art , which has been subscribed for by the landed proprietors and tenantry of the county of Kincardine, of which his Lordship is Lord Lieutenant, will adorn the Cool Hall at Stonehaven.—Edinburgh Advertiser. THEROMANCE OF PRIVATE LIFE, BY MIS S BURNEY.—By " itself alone" the name of Burney must prove a passport to a work of fiction. Amongst the novel reading world who is there to whom, for more than half a century past, the name of Burney is no t _ fa miliar?—and to whom a re no t t h e reco ll ec tions of " Evelina," " Cecilia," & c . f res h an d v i v id as though they were only the produ c ti ons o f yester d ay . Such was the extraordinary su ccess o f th e ear li er per f orman ce s of the Miss Burney, a ft erwar d s M a d ame D'A r bl aY , that they procured for her the especial notice and fa your of Royalty, and a subscription of three thousand guineas for her " Camilla." Those were, indeed, golden days for novel writers! There is no doubt but that genius is hereditary in many families, and the race of Burney is amongst the favoured. " The R om ance of Private Lif e " will be hailed with delight by all novel readers, not alone on account of its great merit as 3 first-rate work of fiction, but for its opportune appear' ante at this dull season of the literary year. GEORGE CRUIESHANK' S ILLUSTRATIONS To " JACK SHEPPARD."—Mr. Ainsworth's popuiar nevi romance, " Jack Sheppard," has, in addition to the por trait of its author, twenty-seven plates by George Cruill; shank, in illustration of the following striking portions 01 the story :—The Adoption of Little Jack Sheppard--- The Discovery in the Lott—. The Murder on th e Thames—Th e Great Storm—The Name on the Beam —The soi-disant Noblemen—The Quarrel—The Exa mination at the Old Mansion House—The Robbery 10 Willesden Church —The Night Cellar—Jack's Escap e from Willesden Cage—Mother and Son—Blues ki : and J ac k i n M r. W ood ' s Bed Room—The Eil"P from Clerkenwell Prison—Auda c ity of Jack Slier pard—Th e M an i ac i n Old Bedla m—The Escape 1 from the Condemned Hold—Jack's Portrait taken DI Sir James Thornhill, introducing Gay and Hogart Murder of Sir Rowland Trenchard by Jonathan Wi l e —Jack T r i c ki ng Sh ot b o l t t h e Gaoler— J ac k' s Escape from Newgate exhibited in three plates (ten designe)__ Seizur e o f J ac k Sh eppar d at his Mother ' s Gra v ! on Jack' s I rons k noc k e d o ff i n N ewgate— T he P r ocession to Tyburn—Th e L as t S cene. DESERT' LADY TRAVEL LING ACROSS THE b The following is w r itt en f rom C a i ro, I f.ith March, brag lady on her passage over l an d to E ng l an d :—" N cit oe could be easier, n or more com f orta bl e , t h an our pase 7. , across the desert ; we ma d e i t i n f our d a ys on the kies, by stages of t wenty m il es . an d f oun d three or . f ile t small tents at eac h stage. The weather was inter :0 cold during the whole of the first three days, and we were glad of cloaks, blankets, &c. It se emed li k e e. , pic-nic the first three days, and I found it more ag r ee ' able to cross the desert, than I ever fo un d travelling t o India. As to any difficulties, it i s qu it e a farce o think of them." PATENT LEVER WA TCH k ' l With silver double-bottom cases Xi t. 6 With silver hunting cases ma „hie ,. This celebrated con s t ruct i on the .. ..accurate a watch can be made) is now offered, with the latest improy:., merits e. the detached escapement, j ewe lled in four h° l . capped, hand to m ar k t h e seconds hard enamel dial, and taining power to continue going While winding up, at the above price, at T. Cox SAVOY', Watchmaker, Silver and Goldsrai tit, R 47, S Cora;11, London, (Seven doors from Grac/church-street). N. l3 . —Second-hand Watches purchased in exchang.!_... BIRTHS. On the 7th i nst., i n Guildford-street, Russe ll- squ are, 3 1 ' 5 ' John Blogg, of a daughter. h R On the 13th i ns t., i n P ar k- roa d , S toc k we ll, 'sirs. Jo h n Dobson, of a son. MARRIED. On the 16th i ns t., a t St . M ary ' s , N ew i n gton, the Bey.' George W e i g ht, 8 . A ., of Magdalen-hall, Oxford , Curate of St. Georg e -th e -M ar ty r , S ou th war k, t o Marianne, of daughter of the late Rev. Henry Longu ev ille Munsel , Rector of Cosgrove, Northamptonshire, and grand -daughter of the late General Manse', of Cog g rove-hall, and of the late A dmiral Sir Robert Moorsom, K. C. B. On the 12th inst., at. Brighton, Henry, eldest s on of g On hter Alexander, Esq., of Cork-street, to Isabella Maria, dau of the late George Brummell, Esq. On the 15th inst., at St. George's , Hanover-square, do Right Hon. Thomas Frankland Lewis , to Marian ne, only sur— viving daughter of the late John Ashton, Esq. DIED. On the loth inst., in the 53d year of his age, Frimi Grego° Colmere, Esq., of Moor End, Charlton Kings, in the county of Gloucester. On the 4th ult., at Dominica, the Hon. Alexander Robin" ten, Member of he r Majesty's Council of that Island, aged 54. On the 11th ult. , at St. JsTo de Cuba, of the yellow fever, General Don Joaqui n Esear i ,,, Govern or an d Commander-in- Chief of the Eastern P rovince of the Island of Cuba. l a te On the 11th inst. , a t Pi mlico, Amelia, d aug ht e r of tits Isaac Charrorier, Esq., of the Resource estate Dominica. Loudon. Printed awl Published by AIURDO YOUN . U; 0, No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Oilier, No 112, Strand, 1 0 im county of Middlesex.—Thuradav, October 17, 18.39. s V