The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-14 00:00:00

THE SUN', LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1844. _ aeries and calamities of a protracted and sanguinary w ar. The words of the toast were—" May the present friendly relations between France and England long continue." He would beg leave to alter one word, and D ay, may they continue for ever.—(Loud and long-pro tracted cheering followed the enunciation of this senti ment, th e entire company standing , and t he ladies in the galleries waving their handkerchiefs, partieipating in the enthusiasm evinced by the assemblage below.) This having concluded the list of toasts, the Mayor and principal guests retired, and in a few minates the banquet hall was completely deserted. The French officers are to-day entertained by Colonel Trevor and the officers of the 59th Regiment. DEPARTURE OF THE KING OF THE FRENCH. (From the Times.) In the very clever and ingenious tale of " Hajji Baba in England," there are few things which excite the sur prise and disgust of that illustrious traveller more than the off hand manner in which the arrangements for the reception of the Persian Ambassador at our Court are conducted. He is even considerably shocked that no procession should have been formed to greet the en trance of so great a man and his suite into the metro polis, out of suitable respect for one who was delegated to represent so supreme and august a potentate as the Shah ; and at first he will not believe but that all the passers-by in carriages and horseback, whose attention the new corners so forcibly attract, can be any other than a cavalcade appointed to escort them. We apprehend, however, that had that acute and lively Oriental de ferred his peregrinations till these days, he would have been completely aghast, and absolutely at his wit's end, to observe how socially and familiarly the very royal and princly personages of our time run about knocking at the doors of one palace or another, rushing onwards by railroad or steamer, without so much as a dozen dragoons of their own to look after their lives or property ! No accurately measured etiquette—no nicely balanced scale of dignities—no beautifully ad justed equilibrium of localities and approaches — no l en gthened train of glittering warriors to frighten the gazers into awe—no tribe of keen gray-headed politi cians to make you think how such cunning folks might circumvent or overreach you. Poor Hajji would have dropped the eylids of ignorance over the eyes of asto nishment, and placed the finger of suspense on the lips of silence. We confess that to us this is one of the most agreeable topics which we have lately had to deal with. It seems like a brightening of the political horizon in the midst of those thick clouds of turbulence and dis affection which have long been gathering around almost every Government in Europe. We rejoice with no small degree of satisfaction in the reflection that Prussia has sent her King, Russia her Emperor, Saxony her King, and France—yes, even France, agitated as she is with a fierce and desolating faction, who would move heaven and earth for a war of extermination with us— France has piloted her King to the shores of Albion, to visit Queen 'Victoria in the unostentatious character of a friend. To those who, without shunning the alternative, when called for, of a just and necessary war, still love and cherish the blessings of peace, occasions like the present 'must afford the deepest pleasure ; and we Islay surely be allowed to hope and to presage that from this source of unceremonious cordiality between crowned heads, the nations over whom they preside will imbibe for each other sentiments (in some de gree at least) of a similar nature. We do not pretend indeed to assert, that we shall ever be able to conciliate the furious and unreasonable party to whom we have alluded, or the populace-whom they irritate against us; but we cannot forbear looking for some good ti.om the occurrence of such events as that of which we are now writing ; and although we dare not transgress the limits of judgment and experience in framing views which may prove to be too sanguine, still we will be bold to set at defiance the intrigues and misrepresenta tions which would render the visit of Louis Philippe to pur Sovereign nugatory for any valuable and peaceful end. In private a man incurs a large share of odium in the circle in which he moves, when he abuses the hos pitalities of an intimate by any flagrant outrage upon .the duties, the proprieties, or even the conventional civilities of life. He, in fact, shuts himself out of his e sreJe, by milking it necessary to prevent his repeating the offence. The same rule, in its degree, will extend to the ease before us ; and we are surely authorised to expect a system of amica'ble relations with every Court whose ruler comes hither on a trip of pleasure apart f ro m every political motive, and enjoys and responds to „,ehe various manifestations of friendly solicitude wh i ch, not the Queen alone, but the public bodies of por o and towns through which he passes hasten to the the royal foreigner. The impression of such exhibit to s, disappear in the path of every-day events: scenes canna, must, leave a delicious and refreshing they will, they o sub sequent position of affairs can memorial which e ver thoroughly obh:tcrate. Between the individuals on the throne a threefold cs'rd of amity is thus cemented, and deep and bitter regret, will overspread that hour (if it ever arrive) when variance or ingratitude shall pre vail to sever the connexion. In leaving these shores, which he has twice visited, as an e xile and as a King, Louis Philippe will carry with him rs" collections of a it:de he should tender and grateful character. It is impost.' forget that, when his country once denied his'n a home, he found it here — a home where he might c ultivate those peaceful talents by which he has more than once saved Europe from the horrors of war. And now that he has come as a King, his presence has been doubly welcome. It has been a tribute of those fruits of which the seed was sown in our own land; and most sincerely do we trust, that while England waves him a kind and cordial adieu as he leaves her shores, those of his own subjects who have been hardy enough to ridicule or de nounce his humane and peaceful policy, will yet learn gener osity enough to acknowledge the wisdom by which they have so long profited. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The King of the French re-embarks this day for his own shores. His reception at Windsor was, of course, cordial and magnificent, and, had circumstances per mitted his Majesty to accept more of the national hos pitality,he would have seen equal eagerness in the middle and commercial, as well as in the higher and courtly classes, to cultivate the best understanding with the re presentative of a country so closely connected with England by political and geographical position, and, if the French would so permit it, by interest. What ever effect such royal visits may have in them selves on the personages who come together, they are at least calculated to make a very great impres sion on the people of both countries and of Europe. When populations, neither very profoundly versed in politics, nor stimulated by the passions which politics excite, see the Sovereigns of two such countries meet year after year in amity, their ministers, and nobles, and leading statesmen intermingling also with cordiality, it is impossible for them not to suppose that there exists a certain mutual understanding, with principles of fairness and feelings of amity on both sides. With respect to the English and their Queen, there can be no doubt of our amicable feel ings towards France, and of our wish to be friendly and pacific, and more than pacific, if the French would let us. The same may be said of the French King. What Louis Philippe most wanted was the support and friendship, not merely political but personal, of one of those old and acknowledged Crowns who stand at the head of the princely and aristocratic interest; of Europe. The French Court, since 1830, made efforts to propitiate the courts of the east of Europe. The princes were sent to Austria to seek alliances and marriage. We know how they were repulsed. In August, 1830, King Louis Philippe (as indeed his own journal, the Presse, of last Tuesday, re minds him) addressed a letter to the Emperor Nicholas, which said, " France loves to see in Russia its most na tural and most powerful ally." The expression meant, that the King of the French, just elected, was quite ready to continue the policy of the elder Bourbons, and, if received into the ranks of the Holly Alliance, to be as true to its principles as Charles the Tenth, setting England and her liberal ideas at defiance. The offer was rejected by the Czar with contumely, and the Court of the Tuileries was obliged to fall back on the alliance of England, and to get Prince Talleyrand to complete it. We recur to all this, not in anger or in pique, but in order to a due appreciation of the present state of *airs. There can be no Tory, no Radical, no politician, or print, so desirous to be on the most amicable rela tions with France as we. But we cannot admit ourselves satisfied with such a state of relations as that which we have described. It is most unfair to England, letting ' down by degrees her national pride, and sacrificing her interests one after another—in Spain one day, in Africa another, and in the Pacific the next ; and after all, for a temporary truce with a sot of madmen, who are not conciliated in the least by our abjuration of spirit or of rights. Louis Philippe is, however, a most able and pacific Prince. One cannot but admire how he has bestridden the fiery war-horse of his nation, reining it and managing it, so as to spend its fury in curvets, without allow ing it to make a charge, except upon a i few savages n out of the way corners of the world. His Majesty would, no doubt, prolong his reign of peace, and, were he immortal, we might calm all apprehensions of war. But even he must one day disappear from the scene, and then what have we to look to ? The mainte nance of peace, we are told, is greatly due to his per sonal abilities, to his unrivalled wisdom. This may be ground of admiration, but it is also a source of fear. Nor the pacific system may disappear with the store of royal wisdom and sagacity. When we look to the French Chamber, which must acquire almost uncontrolled power on the demise of the present Monarch, we see parties and statesmen indeed, but not one party or statesman who could pretend to rule without royal support. Neither Count Mole, nor M. Thiers, nor AL Barrot, nor M. Dufaure, nor, still less, M. Guizot, could command a majority, if the royal hand, so skilled in forming and managing majorities, were withdrawn. (From the Morning Herald.) The reception of the King of the French by the people of England, of all ranks and of all parties, has amply vindicated the national character from the imputations heaped upon it by the viler portion of the French press. The homage due to the honoured guest of our gracious Queen has been paid not merely. with cheerfulness, but with an alacrity, and even enthusiasm, which must have proved to him how readily his twofold claim on the re spect and courtesy of the British people has been recog nised. From the first moment of his arrival no oppor tunity has been neglected by them of testifying the esti mation in whi c h h e i s held in th is country ; sind the frank and noble spirit in confirmed he has r esponded to such court es i es h as gen eral impression in regard t o hi m. In his answers the to t h e complimentary add resses wh i ch have been presented to him, but one feeling predominates, that of an anxious desire on his part to improve the amicable relations between France and England —to employ his Majesty's own energetic language—" to maintain and strengthen the friendship subsisting between the two countries, and which most warmly subsists between the two Sovereigns—to promote sincere union between Eng land and France," and " to preserve the blessing of Few, to neeentiel to the prosperity of both nations." Such sentiments cannot fail of being appreciated by every enlightened mind throughout the country, and to increase the admiration, not unmixed with personal es teem, with which the efforts of his Majesty to cultivate an entente cordiale have been regarded. Nothing could have tended more effectually to cement the good understanding which has at length been created between the two nations than such a decla ration ; and but for his Majesty's intimation of his wish that his visit might be considered as a private one, such demonstrations would have been almost universal. That such a course was wise on his part is proved by the jealousy with which his Majesty's presence in England is regarded by the Opposition press of France, whose conductors cannot conceal their mortification at the prospect to which his reception in this country, and the sentiments to which it has given occasion, must, of necessity, have conducted them. The Republican looks for war, as affording the sole chance of ascendancy that remains to his party. The Legitimatist, equally mis guided by a vicious and virulent press, regards the culti vation of amicable relations with England as equally fatal to his hopes. The visit of Queen Victoria to Eu was hardly more acceptable to them than that of their own Monarch to Windsor. Their efforts, therefore, are neither unnatural nor unexpected ; and if they have proved ineffectual it has been because the great mass of the people of France are no more influenced by their malice than the reflecting portion of the British public are by the gibes and misrepresentations of which our own Foreign Minister is the object, for his imputed sacri fices of the honour of England to the interests and demands of France ! Unsuccessful in their frantic endeavours to exaggerate any contre temps that seemed likely to disturb a peace of some thirty years' duration, they attempt to account for the re ception of the King in a manner calculated to wound the amour-propre of their countrymen. They attribute our earnestly-expressed desire to cultivate an amicable understanding, to a haughty sense of our own superiority ; and add that we should not have received Marshal Soult as favourably as we did had he not been unsuccessful in his operations against us. Now every Englishman knows full well that it was the gallantry which he displayed on all occasions in which he came into collision with the British forces that inspired the cordiality of esteem with which he was received when he visited us a few years ago. The heroism displayed by the French troops in the Peninsular war and at Waterloo, to which the warmest testimony has been borne by nearly all our military writers, has inspired a similar feeling in regard to the French army generally. We have found the French worthy foes, but may ask with the poet,— " What better than a noble foe, Unless a noble friend ? " We assume no superiority over them, still less should we base the hospitalities due to the illustrious strangers who are now among us, on so arrogant a feeling, even had we been conscious of its existence. Were the people of England, however, liable to such a charge, it must surely be considered inconsistent with the anxiety they have displayed to remain at peace with the nation of whose inferiority they are declared to be so satisfied. The imputation is almost too absurd for grave refutation. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TUE EVZWING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. STANDA RD.--The " Romanist Dissenters," or at least their :newspaper organs, are angry that the followers of Mr. Newman and Dr. Pusey, and the fellow-labour& Irs of the astute Dr. Hook, should be so designated ; a) id the !more wary among them, having ascertained, frc un the result of the late contest at Oxford, how utterly they have miscalculated their strength,. would fain appear to disclaim the -bolder Popery of Mr. Newman, Mr. Ward, and others ; altlyaugh they feel that they cannot con sistently desert the more cautious but not less con firmed Ros.manism of Dr. Pusey. We have already exposed the jesuitical attempt of Dr. Hook to break the fall of his Tractarian allies, and the value of his assertion, that Dr. Puny was not justly dealt by, albeit convicted of doctrine which forms a lead ing element of the Roman Catholic belief—that of Transubstantiation. Blinking the question of whether or not such doctrine ought to have been preached hi a Protestant University, Dr. Hook professes t° rest his complaint on the alleged fact that Dr. lusey had not a fair trial, although he seems di isposed now to keep his own opinion of such pris. mciples out of sight. A correspondent, whose letter, under the signature of " A Lay man," will be found in another column, has, how ever, shown pretty clearly that the Doctor's sym pathies even with the bolder and more undisguisd doctrine of 11(r. Newman, Dr. Pusey, Mr. Ward, et id omne genus, are of no very recent growth, Of the tendency of his friend, Mr. Newman's, opi nions before other of the more notable members of his party had spoken out, we have also the fol lowing unexceptionable testimony in a passage of one of Dr. Arnold's letters, in which he defends himself from the apparent inconsistency of ad vocating the cause of avowed Roman Catho lics, whilst he appears to have deprecated the conduct of Tractarian Roman Catholics (for so he describes Mr. Newman and his friends) for signing the articles of a Protestant Church, and holding offices in the ministry of that Church. Had Dr. Arnold bean alive at the present mo ment, he would have witnessed the further anomaly on the part of these gentlemen, of boasting of the impunity with which they have been permitted to openly announce their adhesion to the Roman doctrine, and yet retain the honours and emoluments of a Church which they profess to despise. The passage to which we refer in Doctor Arnold's published correspondence, if it cofirms our views of their conduct before these daring apostates had ventured upon the indecency of boasts like those indulged in by Mr. Ward, is still more applicable to their case at the present juncture :—" You seemed to think that I was not so charitable towards the New manites as I used to be towards the Roman Catholics, and you say that the Newmanites are to be regarded as entirely Roman Catholics. I think so too, but with this grave difference, that they are Roman Catholics at Oxford, instead of at Oscott—Roman Catholics signing the articles of a Protestant Church, and holding offices in its ministry. Undoubtedly, I think worse of Roman Cetholicism in itself than I did some years ago ; but my feelings towards a Roman Catholic are quite different from my feelings towards a Newmanite, because I think the one a fair enemy, the other a treacherous one. The one is the Frenchman in his own uniform, and within his own prcesidia ; the other is a Frenchman disguised in a red coat, and holding a post within our presidia, for the purpose of betraying it. I should honour the first, and hang the second." In an elaborate manifesto of his principles, recently published by Mr. Ward, Fellow of Baliol College, Oxford, the extent of the impunity be has enjoyed is set forth in no very equivocal terms. In this somewhat remarkable publication Mr. Ward declares, that in subscribing to the Thirty nine Articles, he renounced no one Roman doctrine; and that, although he professes to believe " from his inmost heart" in the "sinfulness of the Reformation," the " corruption to its very core of the Protestant Church ;" delights in the idolatrous language of Bona venture to the Virgin; and is of opinion that Protest antism is a demon which will cruelly rend the body from which it is preparing to depart ;" he not only continues to hold his fellowship, but has hitherto " received no ecclesiastical censure in any shape." To have judged of him by the opinions he has thus thrust upon the public, and to have made them the ground of condemnation, after the pre scribed rules of the University, would, according to the expressed notions of Dr. Hook, have been to have subjected him to an unfair trial. Dr. Pusey has recognised similar principles in less guarded terms ; but the " pear is not sufficiently ripe" to admit of his defending himself in the same bold and uncompromising language, as his defence could only be founded on his justification of the doc trines he has preached. He has, therefore, chosen to remain silent. He has been condemned, we are told, unheard ; but the party who bring forward this accusation well know that he has not been condemned unread. GLOBE.—Numerous annual meetings of Agri cultural Societies have been held, in different parts of the kingdom, within the last few days. The after dinner speeches of the landlords—spoken specially for the instruction and guidance of the tenant-farmers, present and absent—have had almost exclusive rela tion to two topics. Low prices, which farmers are now to expect, must be made up by increased pro duction. To effect this, their utmost exertions must be put forth. The recently-discovered composts must be spread upon their lands, regardless of expense. La bourers must be employed upon it in numbers propor tionate to the labouring population of the parishes ; and at a rate of wages sufficiently high to enable the labourers and their families to procure the comforts of life, and thus be rendered contented and happy in their condition. These points were illustrated and enforced with both skill and industry at most of these agricultural meetings. The incendiary fires which have been kindled in considerable and lamentable numbers in several agricultural counties, seem to have shed light upon the deplorable state of the farm-la bourers and their families; and have furnished to the landlord-orators at these meetings an occasion for bestowing some words upon the necessity of rais ing these unfortunates a little above the starvation level to which they have been pressed. At the Hun tingdonshire meeting held on Wednesday last, Mr. Fellowes, one of the M.P.'s for the county discoursed with much impressiveness on these two points ; and Lord Sandwich, from the chair, also lent the aid of his wisdom and rank to enforce the Hon. Gentleman's exhortations and advice. Mr. Fellowes was " especially anxious that his mo tives, in pressing the suggestions he was about to offer, should be appreciated by the meeting." The anxiety was natural. It might be suspected that self-interest prompted the advice he gave. If the land be highly cultivated by the tenant, its value will be improved at the occupier's cost ; and thus the owner be certainly advantaged, and his rent secured, even though the amount of capital drain the resources of the tenant, and reduce him to bank ruptcy. It was therefore necessary for Mr. Fel lowes, at the commencement of his address, to be speak the favourable opinion of the farmers, by assuring them that the advice he was about to give them was purely disinterested. He there fore " trusted all his friends in the county of Hunts would do justice to his motives, and believe nis observations to be founded on his anxiety for the interests and welfare of all classes of agricultu rists." The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to the main topics of his address : —" 'When prices were low, they should:be met by improvement in quality and in crease in produce—not by a diminution of labour, but by an increase of labour. The farmer should gain in quantity and quality what he lost in price. There was enough to be found in the land, with the aid of the improvements that might be brought to bear, to assist greatly the tenant-farmer in times of depression." The system of high cultivation having been enforced, Mr. Fellowes proceeded to urge upon the farmers the policy . of employing a larger amount of labour on their occupations-- " lie had observed—and he spoke not of that county alone, but of others as well—that during the last twelvemonths there bad been a diminution in agricultural labour in some districts; and he had been told that the reason of this was the low price of corn." This "reason" Mr. Fellowes designated " false ;" but did not even attempt to show how the farmer, with diminished prices, and conse quently diminished means, could afford to employ an additional number of labourers—aye, and at increased wages too. Perhaps this is one of the secret things which belong to landlords ; the unquestioning re ception of which is one of the duties they exact from their tenantry. The same grounds on which the farmer is compelled to vote for his land lord's candidate at a Parlimentary election, without any regard to his private opinion of the gentleman whose canvassing card is indorsed with his landlord's name, or to his own opinions on national politics, will serve to sustain a landlord's dictum upon subjects such as Mr. Fellowes discoursed upon at Huntingdon on Wednesday. When landlords condescend to give lec tures to their tenants, it is, of course, the obvious duty of the latter to listen with respect, and to obey, at whatever sacrifice....lt is consolatory to find that incendiary fires—those appalling results of despe ration in suffering men—have forced attention to the wretched condition of the agricultural labourers and that of their families. Such blind and des perate acts of destruction cannot be too deeply deplored, or too strongly condemned ; but if they induce a general inquiry into the causes that have produced them, and lead to an honest and earnest effort on the part of the landed interest to raise these serfs of the soil to a higher grade in the scale of phy sical comfort and intellectual and moral worth, even the incendiary fires, that have spread desolation and alarm in so many districts, will not have blazed in vain. We cannot but express surprise and regret that the suggestions and exhortations to the farmers with which the addresses of the Commoner and Peer abounded, were begun, continued, and ended without anyallusion to thereciprocal duties of landlords to their tenants. No mention was made of leases at rents re duced to the level of the reduced prices —of which so much was said, to enforce the employment of ex pensive composts, m draing and marling, w ith o th e r improvements, jo ined with an increased amount of labour, that increased production may compen sate for diminished prices. Not a word was uttered respecting the destruction of crops by the breeding and preservation of game, nor of the expenses entailed on the poor-rates by maintaining the wives and families of convicted poachers, while the men were expiating their offences against the game-laws in a prison. Nor did we observe any allusion to plans by which the condition of the labourers was to be raised. Nothing was said respecting small allot ments of land, granted by the phil an th ro py o f the owners of the soil, by the cultivation of which by spade husbandry before and after the hours of labour for his employer, and in which his wife and some of his children might aid him, an addition would be made to the labourer's scanty means, and habits of industry and care be encouraged by the reward that sweetens labour. All was to be done by the farmer. The office of the landlords is, it seems, to point out what the farmers are to do for the im provement of the labourer's condition. Like finger posts, they indicate the right course ! but move not in it. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 12. IN THE MATTER OF JAMES SAWYER. The insolvent, who had been an attorney, in Bow lane, Cheapside, was opposed on the part of a widow woman named Rokes. The complaint against the insolvent was that he had defrauded Mrs. Rokes out of a considerable sum of money, the loss of which had reduced her to distress, and had obliged her to sell some furniture to bring her case before the Court. The evidence proved that Mrs. Rokes's late husband and son were in partnership as undertakers, in Union street, Borough, and that the son had saved 2,0001., which he kept in a box, and shortly before his death gave it to her for her exclusive benefit. Her husband afterwards died, and she administered to his effects, and took out letters of administration to about 6001. In February, 1842, her son-in-law, named North, was heard in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, on which occasion she was subpoenaed as a Witness. She con sulted the insolvent, and mentioned the circumstance about the 2,0001. given her by her son, which she had not set forth when she took out letters of administra tion. He told her that she had committed an offence for which she could be transported, as the property should have been mentioned. The poor woman became alarmed, and it was arranged that she should sell out her stock and place it in his hands as a deposit, which she did, the amount being 2,4001. North was finally heard in April, 1842, and until after that period no application was made to him that it might be again invested. The insolvent told her that North's credi tors were entitled to a portion, and hence the selling of it out of the funds. He had made advances to her, which were set forth in a book, to about 4001., and that was the whole she had obtained of the sum of 2,4001. The insolvent stated that he was to allow her in terest for the money. He had advanced her 5001., had a bill for law costs (which had not been deli vered), and he admitted that he owed her a balance of 1,4001. He had used the money in his business, and was at the time in a practice to some extent, keeping his carriage and nine clerks. His banker's book showed that he had only deposited small sums at the period the money was deposited with him. He had taken the opinion of counsel, and believed that the money should have been returned in when the letters of administration were taken out. He had not advised her to make a different return, but she suggested that the money should be deposited with him, and he "ac ceded" to the suggestion. His insolvency arose from the failure of a Mr. Hannan, who owed him 2,0001., and he had other debts owing to him. Sir C. F. WILLIAMS ordered an account to be fur nished to him of the disposition of the 2,4001. before he gave his opinion. Mr. COOKE asked the Court to appoint an early day. The insolvent had been quite long enough out of prison, and the interests of justice required a speedy decision. Mr. CHAMBERS prayed the Court to grant some days' delay. Sir C. F. WILLIAMS adjourned the case to Monday week, and required the account of the money to be furnished to him some days before the next occasion. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MARYLEB ONE. Caroline Berry, a meanly-dressed elderly woman, and Elizabeth Phasey, a middle-aged female, respect ably attired, were charged with having been con cerned in stealing articles of jewellery, &c., valued at 3851., the property of John Goldie, Esq., 39, Baker street, Portman-square. Mrs. Goldie deposed that, on the 10th of July last, she and her family went out of town, after leaving the house in charge of Phasey, one of her servants, and on her return, on the 2d of the present month, Phasey informed her that the wardrobe had been left open. She (Mrs. Goldie), who was convinced that it was locked prior to her departure, examined it, and found that a pair of diamond ear-rings, a diamond brooch, an emerald ring, and a silk dress, had been extracted therefrom. She asked Phasey if she knew anything of the missing articles, to which she replied that she did not ; and, on her being further questioned, she said that the only persons she could suspect of having done anything wrong were the prisoner Berry, an occasional charwoman at the house, and a young man, named Edward Payne. Mr. LONG—Do you know anything of the man, Payne ? Mrs. Goldie — All that I know of him, Sir, is, that Phasey, m y servant, told me he had slept i n the house while I was away, and that she first became acquainted with him while she was with me at Lea mington some time ago. William Henry Clarke, shopman to Mr. Dobree, 12, Gilbert-street, Grosvenor-square, produced the diamond brooch and ear-rings (articles of a most splendid description), which had been pledged at dif ferent periods by the prisoner Berry for a small amount, she (Berry) alleging that they were " paste," and belonged to Madame Davis, 15, Gilbert-street. Mrs. Goldie identified the valuables brought for ward by the last witness ; he (witness) was, as it ap peared, young in the trade, and was not aware of the worth of the property which he had taken in. Berry, in answer to the charge, said that the pro perty was given to her by Phasey to pawn, and she was not aware there was anything wrong. Phasey denied this in most vehement terms. Both the prisoners were rernansied till Friday. CLERKEIV WELL. Thomas Triggey, who described himself as an assistant officer of the Court of Requests, Kingsgate street, was charged with extorting money from Mrs. Ann Waugh, a poor person, living at No. 11, s Thomas's-buildings, Somers Town, und er th e pre tence of giving her legal assistance. Mrs. Waugh stated that she owe Chichester-rents, Chancery-lame, pOta n - f f d or a a Mr. Goodwin,ek ef toes, which she had purchased of him on the " tally system," at his shed. On her inability to pay, a summons, and subsequently execution, was issued against her, for debt and costs, amounting to upwards of Bs., and by the order of the court she was ordered to pay it off by 2s. instalments. On going to the court, on Wednesday, to pay, a. man named Terne, whom she pointed out to the magistrate, told her she was too late, as the court was closed ; but if she allowed him to act for her, he would make it " all right." He then introduced the prisoner Triggey to her at an adjoining public-house, who told her that she would have ss. Bd. to pay, on which she at once went and raised the money by pledging her cloak. She then paid Triggey the sum he demanded for his services, and treated Terne with a pint of beer with the only remaining 2d. she possessed, leaving herself and her two children destitute. She hereupon satis fied her mind that everything was arranged; but, on Friday, execution was levied on her goods. Terne, whom she had seen before at the court, had, on that occasion, said he was an officer belonging to it. Joseph Term?, who at first objected to give his name to the magistrate, was then placed at the bar. Mr. Goodwin stated that on proceeding to the poor widow's house to execute his warrant for the goods he had sold her, she presented her receipt from Triggey, showing she had paid him the money, and she had considered him as the landlord at the time, he being behind the bar, and that gave her sufficient confidence. On the warrant of execution being examined, it appeared to have been delayed since September, through the neglect of the officer. James Wheldan, who described himself as "bailiff" to the court, and said he was appointed by Mr. Ser " every morning," gave an account o =se wi geant Heath, and sworn in, like the other officers, authorised to receive wmaurcrhanhtsesiwtaitthionh.im,HheutsawideethnaettTriey. executed the Terne had money. Terne was an agent , gettingdpaid him whateverthe he could ; neither Triggey nor money received from Mrs. Waugh. it is Mr. hSieohmethbelanßkENfocrmH s r w em er a e rke for a d fte o r n pe Tri r.ugsgin ey g , t u h p em on , " This shows what a nest of iniquity , o e f m i e n e d e i y ff7ence people resort to these courts in . and are frightened by designing men out of their Ser geant Heath must be shown. t m he e s m e e ; n p te oo e r f i d g i n s o tr r e a s n e t , hard earnings. as The MAGISTRATE then sent to request the wtreeeaetehdartgheedthiwnitgh the court, to explain its rules and . until Terne e r h n e e proceedings. This "stealingnamatter e t r h time, the prisoners attend ance of Mr. Heath, or some other principal official of being found impracticable at the , were remanded to Monday. WORSHIP-STREET. Jane Bowe, a amartly•dreased girl, was charged before Mr. Broughton with having, on three several occasions, disturbed the rest of Mr. G. H. Coward, the district surgeon of police, in the New North road, by ringing his house-bell without lawful excuse. The complainant stated that about one o'clock on Wednesday morning he was disturbed by a violent ringing at his night-bell, on answering which he found the prisoner at the door, who requested the im mediate attendance of one of his assistants to visit a sick man who was lying dangerously ill at a house in Britannia-street, City-road. Oae of his assistants was immediately dispatched to the given address, but he remained so long absent that witness became alarmed, and obtained the assistance of a policeman, with whom he went in search of him in all directions, without success. After more than three hours' ab sence the young man at length returned hack, and said that he had been unable to find the place. On the following night, about the same hour, the prisoner called again, and said that his assistant was in stantly wanted at the house of a dying man named Phillips, in Monyer-street, Hoxton, whither he was accordingly sent, but after a protracted absence he came back, and said they had been again hoaxed, as no such person resided there. When she called the second time witness was not aware that she was the same person who had led them such a wild goose chase on the preceding night ; but about one o'clock on that morning she paid him a third visit, and was deliver ing a similar summons for his assistant, when he recognised her as the same girl who had broken his rest on the two previous occasions, and gave her into custody. Police-constable No. 98 stated that, on her way to the station-house, the prisoner confessed that her con duct was the result of a preconcerted scheme between herself and Mr. Henry Petch, the compainant's assistant, to enable him to enjoy the pleasure of her society. Mr. Coward said that he had questioned his as sistant on the subject, who had admitted, after a good deal of hesitation, that the girl's statement was per fectly correct. He had some previous intimacy with the girl, and not being permitted to leave the house after it was closed for the night, they had resorted to this stratagem to bring them together. On being asked if she wished to say anything, the prisoner declared that Mr. Henry would be best able to explain all about the transaction. Mr. BROUGHTON ordered her to pay a shilling for her discharge. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. NEWMARKET, SUNDAY, TWO O'CLOCK, P.M. In the programme of the ensuing meeting, published on Saturday, we indicated by an asterisk the horses that were in the town up to Friday, omitting, however, Jamal, who should have been included in the arrivals. Since that time the following have arrived :—Lord Eglinton's Plaudit, Britannia, and Jamie Falshaw—Lord Glasgow's Give-him-a-Name, Sister to Give-him-a- Name, and colt by Velocipede, out of Amulet—Mr. L Day's Zelinda filly—Mr. Payne's Sir Francis, Johnny, Queen Mah, Mania, and Walpole—Mr. Greville's Rigo lette and Jamaica—Lord Stradbroke's Jeremy Diddler, Erenus, and Boarding-school Miss—Mr. Ramsbottom's Pine Apple and Brush—Mr. May's Corinthian Tom, and f by Bentley, out of Battersea Lass—Mr. Hook's Una— Mr. E. Clarke's Sir Edward—Lord Verulam's Charlotte —Mr. Griffith's Wild Rose—Mr. Walter's My Mary—Mr. Denham's Julia—Mr. Buckley's David—Mr. Meiklam's Aristotle—Sir C. Monck's Glossy—Mr.Dawson's Light ning—Mr. G. Moore's The Bride—Mr. Worley's Example —Colonel Anson's Marquise—Lord Chesterfield's Knight of the Whistle, Cockfighter, Tiddly Winks, f by Hornsea out of Gamelass, 2 yrs, fby Hornsea, dam by Sultan, 2 yrs, and f by Hornsea out of Industry, 2 yrs, and several others ; making the number now in the town greater than has been known in the memory of the oldest inhabitant ; as a proof we may mention that, out of the forty-six horses engaged in the Cesarewitch, all are on the spot except Campanero, who broke down at Stam ford, Pickpocket, Haitoe, The Currier, Telemachus, Rowena, William le Gros, and Everton. Una pulled up lame yesterday morning. Lord Albemarle in tends to run the Emperor and The Brewer, but not Delapre. It is not unlikely that William le Gros will come ; he ran second to Alice Hawthorn at Dumfries, and on the following night was backed at Manchester, at 14, 15, and 16 to 1. John Day has nothing here at present ; Old England will arrive to-morrow, but from the number of horses amiss in the stable, it is doubtful whether anything else will come. As yet, the arrivals are few ; but, from the orders for post-horses, and the number of places secured for the extra coaches, there is every reason for expecting one of the fullest meetings ever known. The only fashionable names that have reached us are the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Earl and Countess of Albe ovule, Earl and Countess of Miltown, Lord C. Manners, the Lion. Capt. and Mrs. Rous, the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Anew. Hon. H. Forester, Hon. Capt. Spencer, Co lonel anal Lady Alice Peel, Mr. C. Greville, Mr. H. Greville, Mr. S. Graham, Mr. Worrall, Mr. Ramsbottom. Sir G. Hetti,' hcote will be at his old quarters, the Crown Inn, Chesteri:ord- Some shower,3 fell yesterday afternoon and the course of the night, but .the ground is still harder than trainers like ; a few hOurg of steady rain would be of immense service in this neghhourhood. The Ratan case comes on next Tuesday mori2ing previous to the races ; the investigation is undertaken by the stewards in conse quence of a letter received from the Hon. Captain Rous and Lord G. Bentinck, requesting them to inquire into all the circumstances connected with the affair, in order, to use an ancient but not inappropriate phrase, that the saddle may be put on the right horse. The daily journals have published an account of an insult said to have been offered to Lieutenant Rose, of her Majesty's ship Hazard, by the French naval authorities at Otaheite. This announcement, of what was deemed to be a fresh subject of complaint and of demand for satisfaction by Great Britain, has evidently caused great excitement in Paris. We have the more pleasure, therefore, in being enabled to state that the impression in the best informed quarters in this country is, that no insult whatever was offered, or intended to be offered, to Lieutenant Rose by the naval officers of France, and that the whole proceeding can be satisfactorily explained as regards the part the French took in it.—Observer. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.—Albert's success ful ballet of The Corsair, in which that celebrated dan seuse, Mademoiselle Adele Dumilatre, has created such a sensation, is nightly increasing in popularity ; yet, in a determination to give as much novelty as possible, the lessee has announced his intention of producing the last opera by Auber, called The Syren, on Thursday next. The music is extremely beautiful, and will be supported by Harrison, King, Stretton, Borrani, Weiss, and Miss I.Zainforth ; a host of talent, which must insure its com plete success. In the course of the last week the follow ing distinguished persons have visited this theatre : Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Duke of Devonshire, '.Marchioness of Conyngham, Earl and Countess of Ches terfield, Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Baron and Baroness Gersdorff, Countess of Pollington, Earl of Car ,ligan, Earl of Munster, Earl Fitzhardinge, Marquis of Worcester, Marquis of Douro ; the Ladies Somerset, Wellesley, E. Bruce, S. Cocks, Campbell, Ross, Turner ; Lords Gardiner, C rans toun,C an tel u pe,D uncan non, Dover, Rosslyn, Canning, Alfred Paget, Duplin, Ross, Seaham, Clinton, Dufferin, Shelburne ; Sir Charles Shakerley, Bart. ; Sir W. Massey Stanley, Bart. ; Sir Jacob Astley, Bart. ; Sir John Burgoyne, Bart. ; Sir Fred. Bathurst, Bart. ; Sir Charles Ibbotson, Bart. ; Sir J. Lister Kay, Bart. ; Sir Henry Webbe, Bart. ; Sir W. Curtis, Bart. ; Sir alter Blunt, Bart. ; Sir Richard King, Bart. ; Sir E. P. Turner, Bart. ' • Sir Henry Mildmay, Bart. ; Sir Henry Webster, Sir John Campbell, Sir John Rennie, Sir Henry Wheatley, Hon. Mrs. Norton, Hon. Sydney Herbert, Hon. Mr. Curson, Col. M'Douall, Hon. W. Ashley, Captain Balfour, Captain de Saumarez, Captain Ridley ; Charles Standish, Esq., M.P. ; T. S. Duncombe, Esq., M.P. ; Captain Curzon, and Captain Blayne. THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT SOUTH SHIELDS. —The inquest on the body of John Brown, one of the persons killed by the collision, concluded on Wednesday night. The jury found that John Brown had come to his death by the collision, and levied a deodand of 300/. on the locomotive which was " the moving cause of his death." They also strongly expressed their disapproba tion of the practice which had prevailed of sending im portant messages by one inferior servant to another, and be given to him by a third, and stated that the business uf the railway had been conducted in a very negligent manner. It is already reported that the Company intend to remove the inquisition into the Court of Queen's Bench, with the view of quashing it, on the ground of informality. INCENDIARISM.—A fire broke out, on Saturday on the farm occupied by Miss Fyson, at Exning, about a mile and a half from Newmarket, which in a short time destroyed a barn full of wheat, all the out-buildings and stacks, four horses, several pigs, and some poultry. Lord Thurloe's private engine (kept and horsed by his Lord ship for the use of his neighbours) and three others were rendered useless by the want of water. PROPOSED PUBLIC PARK IN LEEDS.—Some of our benevolent townsmen, among whom we may mention our public-spirited Mayor, are desirous that Leeds should not be behind other towns in the formation of public parks or walks for the healthful and rational recreation of all classes. It has been suggested that the Zoological and Botanical Gardens, which comprise nearly twenty acres, in a beautiful situation and well laid out, might be pur chased for this purpose. Some of the larger shareholders in the gardens are, we know, disposed to transfer their whole property in them to the town-council, or some other body, for the benefit of the public ; and we think it likely that many others would follow this liberal ex ample, thinking it more agreeable to see their fellow townsmen of the humbler classes enjoying themselves in the gardens than to walk there in comparative seclu sion. Those shareholders who took shares as an invest ment, and who could not afford to give them to the public, would probably accept a moderate sum for that which now yields them no dividend. A subscription would, therefore, be required to purchase the gardens for the public ; and we think this would be forthcoming, as the amount would probably not be very large. A yoarly subscription would also be requisite to keep the gardens s i i n n otrhdiesr laudable W e ho attemptp e tbe able o to o promote shortl yto report the health and recreation of the industrious classes.—Leeds Mercury. UNION-HALL. William Johnson, alias William Fellows Darkness, was brought up for re-examination, charged with robbing . a great number of hotels, coffee-houses, and taverns, in all parts of the metropolis. The office, as on the former examination, was crowded with the proprietors of establishments in the above lines, who had been plundered of plate by the accused, under cir cumstances similar to those already detailed in a previous police report. Mr. COTTINGHAM, addressing the parties in attend ance, said that four cases out of the number would be sufficient to send for trial. The magistrate added that it was quite time the prisoner should be sent out of the country, for it appeared he had been tried and con victed of robbing hotels and taverns of plate, and sen tenced to six months' imprisonment. He was then committed. CROYDON. Inspector Collier, of the P division of police, brought to the attention of the presiding magistrates, Messrs. Adams, Lucas, and Barclay, a case of imposition, which, it is feared, from the ingenuity displayed in it, has been very successful as a means of defrauding the humane and charitable. It appears that, on Thursday, a document, pur porting to be the certificate of the magistrates of the Croydon bench, and which represented that a trades man, named James Brown, who resided at Croydon,had been robbed by burglars of property to a large amount, and was thereby reduced to a state of poverty, was enclosed in a letter, addressed to Mr. Howell, of the firm of Howell and James, in Regent-street, an application, at the same time, being made for assist ance. Mr. Howell not being in town, the petition was sent down to Croydon, for the purpose of inquiry being made respecting it, when it was, of course, discovered to be a fraud. _ _ The inspector handed the document referred to to the magistrates for their inspection; it was of rather a singular character, and well calculated to disarm suspicion. It was headed by the Royal arms ; on the left-hand corner were the printed words " Croydon, Surrey, to Wit ;" and below them the words " Whereas, the bearer hereof," printed in old English characters ; and the paper had all the appearance of the ordinary forms of process issued from the police, offices. It went on to state that the magistrates, having fully investigated the circumstances of the robbery, which had reduced the pretended James Brown from a position of respectability and comfort to poverty, and deeply commiserating him, had in structed their clerk to draw up the statement, in the hope that it would be the means of inducing charitable persons to assist him, and enable him again to enter into business. The docu ment was represented to be signed by Mr. George Penfold, the clerk to the bench, at the re quest of the magistrates, and a sum of 51. was also placed as having been contributed by him. In addi tion to this, there were very excellent imitations of the signatures of Mr. Reid, Mr. Barclay, and other magistrates who usually act in this district; as also the signatures of the Rev. Mr. Lindsay, the vicar, Lady Hoare, Mr. T. L. Robinson, and others. The name of Mr. J. Drummond, the solicitor, also ap peared, and he was represented to have paid over the sum of 211., which he was stated to have received for the use of the unfortunate Mr. Brown. It was evi dent that the projector of the fraud had taken great pains to get it up well, as he, must have obtained means to copy the genuine signatures of the gentle men whose names appeared on the paper, the whole of them being so excellently imitated. Mr. ADAMS, having looked over the document, re marked that it was a very well got-up thing, but there was one circumstance connected with it which would immediately have made him doubt its authen ticity if it had been sent to him. Mr. LUCAS asked what that was. Mr. ADAMS drily observed that . the paper repre sented two lawyers to have subscribed—one 51., and the other 21/. ; and this alone would have excited his suspicion.—(Laughter.) Mr. Penfold remarked that perhaps this was what excited distrust at Mr. How ell ' s, and which led to the petition being forwarded to him to be inquired into. The MAGISTRATES obse rved that i t was fortunate the fraud had been discovered, and it would now, in all probability, be put a stop to; and they at the same ti m e gave instructions to the police with a view to the apprehension of the party, if he should again make his appearance. CAUSEWAY ACROSS THE SEVERN.7-A writer in the Hereford Journal proposes, what he acknowledges "in other times would be considered an extravagant and chimerical undertaking, no less than the blockade of the Severn at the Old Passage." He says, " Let the Great Western Railway Company, the Severn Navigation Company, the Wales, and fora the Railway throughi Post-office d e p ar tment of the Government, unite for the purpose of f c auseway across the Severn at the spot men onmmi shalla After the proportion of expence that each is to bear be decided on, the engineering part at the te P dn. g n commencement is simple enough, by loose stones thrown overboard, or sunk in tanks, until they rise to high water mark. The part of the Severn above this breakwater will then form an immense lake of transparent water con taining about fourteen thousand acres, or twenty-two square miles, below Gloucester, the entrance to which, by vessels of any size, should be by a lock from the Wye at the narrow isthmus where the figure 3 (miles from Chepstow) is marked on the Ordinance Map, which is only three hundred yards across, and the mouth of the Wye will be a good roadstead or soft mud-bed for vessels bound up the Severn. A weir will, of course, be formed on the breakwater of sufficient capacity for the River Severn in its greatest floods, and for the passage of the Salmon, and over all is to be a causeway for a railway from Bristol through South Wales. The ad • vantages contemplated by the proposed plan are as follows :—First, with respect to the Post-office commu nication with South Wales, the letters are at present detained in Bristol four hours after the arrival of the London mail, because the passage (always dangerous) can seldom be crossed in winter before daylight—but ex cluding this objection, Bristol alone will still be the London of South Wales, requiri ng the mo s t direct com munication with the principality. The navigation up the Severn will be greatly facilitated, as the water will always remain at the same level, with but little or no perceptible current, and the present " boar" up the river, with all the other annoyances occasioned by the rapidity of the tide, be annihilated. The passage into the Severn Lake, by the Wye, being landlocked, will always be free from danger and difficulty, which cannot be said of the entrance to the Berkeley Canal; and last, though not least, the lake of transparent water will add greatly to the beauties and attraction of the neighbourhood. A CENTENARIAN.—There is now living under the care of James Adam Gordon, Esq., of Naish House, in this city, an old man of the name of Richards, who has attained the extraordinary age of 109 years. He was born at Broadclist, Devon, in the year 1735, and is a fine tall, intellectual, merry-hearted old fellow, possess ing a most benevolent countenance. The old gentleman is at present visiting one of his sons at Tiverton, Devon, and he walked on Sunday last to that town from Col lumpton, a distance of six miles.—Bristol Gazette. [ADVERTISEMENT.]---NONE NEED BE SICK ! READ TIIE FOCLOWING CASE OF CURE BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. —Mrs. Jessie Anderson, living near the Fountain-bridge, Edinburgh, suffered from lowness of spirits, sick head aches, dimness of sight, together with a want of strength and appetite. These symptoms were accompanied with a cough and spitting of phlegm, and likewise much windy spasms. No medicine bad been of any service to her, until a lady advised her to try " Holloway's Pills," which gave her immediate relief, and in a fort night made her as well as well as ever sht was in her life. Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at the Establish ment of Professor Holloway, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable vendors of medicine throughout the civilised world. THE OXFORD-STREET WOOD PAVING. - - On Saturday the question of wood paving became again the subject of discussion at the Marylebone Vestry, and the vestry was very fully attended. Mr. W. Low having been called to the chair, A numerous deputation of the inhabitants of Ox ford-street waited on the vestry to present a memorial, praying that body, as it was understood to be their intention to take up and repair that portion of Oxford street between Tottenham-court-road and Charles street, to have it paved with wood. The memorial urged that the inhabitants of that portion of Oxford •street above specified had submitted to all the inconvenience and nuisance arising from the laying down of bitumen and other specimens of paving from time to time, and that now they were entitled to that consideration which had been afforded by the vestry to their neighbours in the same street, by having wood, instead of granite, placed before their doors. In answer to questions put by various members of the vestry, the deputation said, that they did not be lieve the wood paving to be a bit more dangerous for travelling than stone. In answer to Mr. Nicholay, Mr. PACKER said that he had paid great attention to wood paving in various parts of the metropolis, and had never seen any wood paving in so disgraceful a state as it was in 9xfurd street from filth. Mr. JOHN WILLIAMS had no doubt that Oxford street was kept in this filthy state purposely to lend Sir Peter Laurie and the opponents of wood paying a handle against it. Mr. IhRBUT denied that the vestry had anything to do with the dirty state of the wood paving. He concluded by moving that the deputation should have the minute of the vestry read to them, which declared that they would not entertain the question of wood paving for a period of three years from that date. After some observations from other gentlemen, the motion was put and carried by a large majority ; and on the deputation being recalled, The Vestry Clerk read the minute of the vestry of the 4th of March, 1843. The deputation then withdrew. Mr. SCAICE, the parish surveyor, brought up a re port which he had been directed to furnish by the vestry, as to the state of the 4,000 yards of wood paving laid down by the Metropolitan Company be tween Wells-street and Rathbone-place. The report set forth that, pursuant to the orders of the vestry, the surveyor had minutely examined the state of the wood paving in question. The surface of the said paving was rather rough and uneven, and there were many short holes in it. The workmen of the Wood Company had, at his request, opened the paving across the street in three places in Oxford street. Opposite No. 51, the blocks which are of fir were worn from their general thickness of six inches to four and a quarter inches. The paving facing No. 50 is of elm, and was found worn generally from six inches to three inches ; and opposite 31, also of fir, it was found under the coach stand worn from six inches to three inches. This portion of the street, although in moderate condition on the surface, is so much worn that it was found difficult to raise a whole block. To put it into good condition, he considered the whole ought to be relaid, bottom upwards, about one-half or two-thirds of the old blocks being drawn out and new ones substituted. Mr. HARBUT moved that the report of the sur veyor be adopted by the vestry, and that it be for warded to the Metropolitan Company, together with an official notice that the vestry, in accordance with the terms of their contract, required them to put the 4.000 yards of wood paving between Wells-street and Rathbone-place in a state of efficient repair, to the satisfaction of the parish surveyor, forthwith. Mr. CLAPP seconded the resolution. After a few words from one or two other vestrymen, the resolution was then put, and carried by a large majority, and the vestry shortly after separated. THE CORPORATION OF LONDON AND WHOLESALE DEALERS. Some excitement has been occasioned by the order just issued to the City Solicitor relative to the whole sale dealers in the City. The Committee appointed by the Common Council on the eve of St. Thomas's day in the last year, have at length produced their report, which has been confirmed by the Court. It is very voluminous, and contains many curious ex tracts from the City records, from the Saxon era to the present time. It is recommended in these sug gestions that the Corporation shall immediately com mence proceedings to compel all wholesale dealers to take up their freedom, and, for the purpose of more effectually accomplishing this object, that the ancient practices and proceedings of the wardmotes should be revived, and then due observance should by degrees be more rigidly enforced. Upon these suggestions the Committee have reported as follows : " The subject-matter is not only of the greatest im portance to this City, but also involves weighty con siderations—having on the one side deep-rooted pre judices, long practice, and continued neglect to over come ; and on the other the necessity of extensive and effective correction of existing evils, and the securing the restoration of the ancient, just, and reasonable rights of the City. " We have weighed and considered the conclusions which are printed, and the proceedings which are suggested, and though we are not at present prepared to give our final report on all the matters referred to us, or to recommend at once all the proceedings which may hereafter be requisite, yet there are some points upon which we are prepared to report our recom mendations to this Court, and to press their immediate adoption, as required by the existing evils, and the necessity of a speedy correction. "The pressure on the retail dealers, and the immu nity of others, who dwell within this city, and par take of all its advantages, have weighed much with your Committee, and we have unanimously resolved that the acts of Common Council imp os i ng pena l t i es on persons residing in the City, and not enrolled, using arts, trades, occupations, and mysteries within this City, should be recommended for immediate en forcement. "We have been the more inclined to recommend to this Court the adoption of proceedings for the penalties under the Acts of Common Council, as we have the satisfaction of knowing that the Court of Aldermen have likewise had laid before them, by the Remembrancer, extracts and docu ments relative to the wholesale dealers, co pies of which have been communicated to us by the Court of Aldermen ; and from which we find that the same view we have taken of the liability of the whole sale dealers, who are not freemen, to proceedings for penalties under the laws and customs of the corpora tion, is adopted by the Remembrancer." It is stated in the corporation circles that there are some thousands of opulent merchants and wholesale dealers carrying on business in the City without being free. The publicity which the report has received has caused a very extraordinary sensation amongst this class of persons, but it is understood not to be the intention of the corporation to commence an indis criminate crusade against the whole body, but to select from each ward one or more offenders, with whom the question will be tried. It is stated that an the great wholesale dealers are determined to resist what they consider to be an usurped power, and next term is spoken of as likely to bear the decision. PROFESSOR LIEBIG. A letter, signed by about forty of the farmers of East Lothian, was sent to Professor Liebig at York, inviting him to a public dinner at Haddington. Liebig, however, is under the necessity of leaving this coun try so speedily, that he was reluctantly forced to de cline the invitation. We subjoin a copy of the answer he returned to the requisitionists : " Edinburgh, Oct. 5, 1844. " Gentlemen,—l have had the honour to receive r through Professor Gregory, your letter of the 27th, inviting me to attend a dinner in Haddington. I most sincerely regret that I am compelled to decline this honour, the extreme shortness of my stay in Scot land not permitting me to accept your very friendly invitations. " I frankly confess that this expression of your sen timents is to me a most precious recompense for all my efforts to reduce the operations of husbandry to rational principles. Although I could not but enter tain the rational desire to see my labours crowned with success, I was yet far from hoping to obtain, in so short a time, a degree of appreciation of those la bours surpassing my expectations. " As proceeding from men whom I regard as the first agriculturists, not only of Scotland, but of all Europe, this testimony of your approbation will spur me on to pursue the course on which I have entered, and the thought that in a country so remote from my native lard, a large number of such men feel an in terest in my labours, and agree in my opinions, will always afford me the highest enjoyment and the purest satisfaction. " I shall preserve y our mos t grat if y i ng i nv it a ti on , with the signatures att ac h e d t o it, as a p rou d me morial of the intelligence of Scottish farmers, and of their appreciation of the beautiful maxim of IL Davy, that 'science belongs to no country, but is the com mon property of all mankind.' " I beg once more to express my unfeigned regret that I am unable to accept the invitation to a meeting from which I should have derived so much pleasure. " And I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, " Dr. JUSTUS LIEBIG." Liebig stated to the gentlemen from East Lothian who waited on him, that on the next occasion of his coming to this country, he should have the greatest pleasure in paying them a visit. SPORTING PARSONS.—On looking over the Game Lists published last week we find that no fewer than sixty of the Yorkshire parsons have taken out shooting licenses for the present season.—Livds EXTENSIVE SMUGGLING. On Tuesd a y morn i ng a b out n i ne o'clock, William Simpson, acting chief officer of the Coast Guard, seize a vessel called the Joseph and Sarah, off t he Powder Creek in L ong R eac h , in the parish of Dartford, la den with ninety-five bales of contraband tobacco, with five baskets of French apples, and twenty otherOrr baskets. Mr. Simpson with four men boarded the vessel off Greenhithe, and found two men in charge the vessel, u p to The vessel and cargo was on Friday brought Woolwich, and the prisoners Henry Wilkins and lienq Jones were taken in custody by the Inspector a . t!lr together Woolwich Police, before the sitting magistrate, Dir . Grove, when the following evidence was adduce d. Mr. Podbury, solicitor of Customs, attended to pro secute, Mr. Simpson deposed that he had examined t he vess el and found twenty-one bales of manufactured tobacco, weighing el even hundred and forty pounds, fourteen duty of 9s. sd. per lb. ; thirty bales weighing hundred and sixty-eight pounds leaf t,bacco, liable to a duty of 3s. 2d. per lb. ; and forty bales of stalk to• bacco, weighing two thousand two hundred and MU; seven pounds, prohibited ;. together with twenty-thre and five baskets of foreign-grown apples. subject to a Mr. Thomas Cornell, Queen's appraiser of Cus toin t deposed mi nu t e ly as to the extensive manner in wh ic the revenue was eva d e d b y the contraband tra de oft- 0 bacco in the po r t o f London, and stated the du t y on On twenty-one bales produced amounted to 5381. 1 3 s. the thirty bal es t o 231/. ; and on the forty-iv-dr. bales of prohibit e d s t a lk t o b acco , valued at 3 65 /. 2s. 9a The value and d u ty, h e sa id, amounted to 1,2281. 13s. 11 Mr. Simpson sa id th e present was th e second s eizure he had made withi n t we l ve mont h s . The first capture he made was one o f s i x t y b a l es, f oun d on board the frit which he was quite satisfied belonged to the slun g parties as owned th e J osep h an d S ara h, which ve' s was forfeited to the Crown as well as the cargo. The prisoners pleaded guilty to tieCharg. eac h Mr. Grove told th em th ey had made themselves nt liable to a penalty of 1001., and in default of PO rne to be imprisoned during h e r M a j es ty' s pleasure. The prisoners said they were not in a condition to PaY the penalties. • to Mr. Grove told th em th a t it on l y rem ained for him commit them to Maidstone gaol.—Committed. ORLEANS AND BOADEAV RAILWAY. The main features of this undertaking are follows : The present prttposal of the Company whole distance from Orleans to Bordeaux, 2 95 , 13'1 ilex, passing by the populous cities and towns A n goulere e ' Amboise, Tours, Chatelleroult, Poictiers, and Labourne, to Bordeaux. S ta te, The works to be executed, at the cost of the , ei on the portion between Orleans and Tours, area lre fi nT, so far advanced, that in the hands of this Company embraces.ithse, that important extension of the Paris and Railway could be opened to the public in the sun; Pe of 1845, with an expenditure of not more than s `' r share en the whole capital. r „ n ee. - The Company is re-constituted for this pu-„,0 The statutes of the Paris and Rouen and the sb e- ss and Havre Companies have been adopted, fur they are applicable to this Company. o f the The Minister of Public Works in the nam e — a eon State, engages to pay for the land, and compen s ",; l l, to landowners ; to execute the earthwork, In,e s , ° 0 of stations, workshops, police stations, and builai n e ) ;ol Orleiver every description ;—in short, to make the 1 10 ,e' c ot its dependencies, up t o f orma ti on l eve l, bs th e , en r, what it may ;to maintain th e ear th wor k for five the masonry for two ye ars , an d th e b u ildings I° ` • years, after delivery to the Company. A b llset The Company have only t o p rov id e , lay, an - : I v the the permanent way, fen ce o ff th e ra ilway, OP P' a nd locomotive and carrying st oc k, wo rk the line , thes e maintain it during the term of their lease. T ° alone their liability extends. „ nr ofite The State is to participate equally in the nett p of the Company, after 10 per cent. to the shareho,:vi, upon the capital expend e d, name ly, 9 per cent. al dend, and 1 per cent. sinking fund. n et{ the of The right of the Stat e so t o p ar ticipate in profits does not arise until after the first five Y ea/.5 the opening of the line throughout to Bordeaux' e ar s This will give to th e C om p an y a bout twelv e J o e , of undivided enjoyment of the nett profits of the tion between Orleans and Tours. the peon Company are requ i re d t o sur render manent way and its dependencies, at the ellr a id of the term, without compensation, but are to L' ° Y in is, the actual value of their carrying stock, math" nevi and stores, either by the Government or ethe ir lessees, within three months after the term e r lease shall have expired. —Railway Chronicle. MEDICAL TESTIMONIAL—SIGH- 1 - A HEARING. Afessr s ' From T. J. Pettigrew, Sur geon , F.R.S. L' o lstr eet, S. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, AlbelV ar re - Piccadilly,—Gentlemen, I have no hesitatioal t n he u se 01 to your inquiry as to the results o bt a i n ed by tot habit your Improved Spectacles ; b e i ng i n th e eons by of reading and writing for many h ou rs t oge ther ". I , eu tea i light, it is but justice to say that your newly n' f o rt. Spectacle Lenses have afforded me the greatest to When I employed the ordinary pebbles, I never faile d as . experience in the morning a great irritation in the e l m u Since I have used your a dmi ra bl e g l asses I su ffer ir ra , no inconvenience of the kind, and m y v i s i on i s much ,v proved. I shall ever feel grateful to my good fr ie „ l/ i r Dr. Blundell for having drawn my attention to the ject.—Believe me to be yours, very re: tf 11 9• 0 ; . t ed ° PETTIGREW, 8, Saville row. Also, newly 4 ; F or •,ec_ u Acromatic Waistcoat-pocket Telescopes and vp-rre glasses of the same kind of Lenses.—E ver kind of ri lescope of la rger s i ze an d increasing powers.) for sh °°t ' v jj ; sea purposes, and upon stand for astronomical obseir ht tions the pow e r s are so great and the lenses so hrgis• and brilliant that minute objects at an ex t r aordinarL o a tance is brought comp l ete l y under the eyes. SP°l.l,,ve tourists, and sea- si d e v i s i tors w i ll i ndee d here Tr,tioa great treat. A coust i c i nstruments of every s er 4 ti „ for deafness. C au ti on .—M essrs. S. & B. Solomons, . fr g clans and aurists, are not in any way connec ted w hb l' otir person of the sam e name in their immediate neig t 03 0' hood, nor in an y p art o f the country. To prel st 39, takes, be cautious, and observe—Only to be b a ' r el. Albemarle -street, Piccadilly, opposite the York 1 : 1 : 0 - r - i y, We can state now, from unquestionable ant _ rt f that it has been decided by Government that the Pu,, fu go Weymouth is to form one of the harbours of l'realv about to be established in the Channel, and that k v . rt of water will be built extending from the eastern P., 1 . 0 $ the Island of Portland to a length sufficient 0 secl' ilt ile protection for the shipping interest, as well mere r, be as naval. This national undertaking will, we P. tio u ia on a grand scale, and being about the centre pos i " rage the Channel, will be a most efficient harbour of re s na between the two large naval depots of Plymo uth resC Portsmouth: It is expected the p ro p r i e tors of the this Western Railroad will promptly ava il th e mselves fora, favourable circumstance for laying down a line sea Bristol and Bath, th roug h th e most advantag eoll d o ubt convenient track of country to Weymouth, as .3 11° bec oay this latter port, from it s p ecu li ar a pt l oca lity, and tier the ing a general depot for s hippi ng , w ill b e hero , t oci chief entrepot and link for commercial conneet ic 0' transition, through the medium of the Channel Is ti 'l o eot• from the midland counties of England to the C°'" —Sherborne Journal BIRTHS. On the 10th inst., the lady of T. B. Charlton, Esq.' °f ell"' ~ well, Notts, of 4 daughter. Ff • P. On the 29th of July, at Wereloo, Ceylon, the lady 0 Templer, Esq., of a son. apvicl‘' lAr On the sth inst., at the Vi c a rage , G ran borough, '• shire, the wife of the Rev. W. J. Wise, of a daug hter., 411 On the 9th inst., at Bowdell, S ussex , the lady of utir Chester, 90th Light Infantry, of a daughter. f CPP er On the 10th inst., the lady of Joh n C. Cole, Esq., 0- Bedford-place, of a son. to n, th e On the 10th inst., at Buccleuch-terrace, Upper Chic" lady of John Jones, Esq., surgeon, of a daughter. , BastA On the Ilth inst., at Eaton-place, the lady of J. Esq., Royal Horse Guards, of a son. (,off'(,off'On the 10th inst., in Myddl e t on - square , Mrs. Jo hn , head, of a daughter. I, Ae" On the llth inst. Mrs. Lawrence Engstrom, o f yor.-' Portman-square, oia daughter. Mr- E. On the Itth inst., in O x f or d- s t ree t, the wife of - Churton, of Holles-street, o f a d aug ht er . W. f. At Horsendon House, Bucks, the lady of the Be Partridge, of a daughter, still-born. MARRIED. On the lith of July, at Rondebosch, Cape of Good Fitzjames Edward Watt, E sq ., D epu t y -A ss i s tant Ce tri- r sary-General to the Forces, to Catherine, eldest dattglite Charles Stuart Pißans, Esq., of Rosebank. /To tele: On the sth inst., at Wandsbeck Church, in „' — , : - 2:betP James Capel, Esq., of Fitzroy-square, to bliss D"' - Cuncly, of the same place. lior On the 9th inst., at St. Mary _-le-Strand, Charlesr t - hi l bery, Esq., son of the late Captain Hollingbery, el.-- Sussex, to Anne, only daughter of Mr. Tuck, St r and. u . nso n, On the 10th inst , at Faringdon, Berks, John Il v eul i i i istd late of Gray's Inn-square, to Ma r y, daughter of - 1 " Wheeler Crowdy, Esq., of the former place. -Rev On the 10th inst., at Tissingt on , De r byshire, the ij, to Fayrer, Incumbent of Em m a nue l Ch urc h, Camberwe„h„ Frances, youngest daughter of the late W. Fletcher, Tissington. r) On the 10th inst., at the Friend s ' Ilieeting-house ,.,- ' 9 Go^ ton, Robert Barclay Fox, of P erran , Cornwall, to Jani eDal" ney, daughter of the late J. Backhouse, of Polam-hi l " lington. _ DIED. On the 12th inst., at No. 10, Claremont-place , Pen ton Miss Cowley, in the 74th year of her age. (On On the 20th ult., at Pal e tt e , M a lt a , on her retu,,, rn or - ki. Palestine, Sophia, wife of Atnede Augustus Comti de On the 4th inst., at Amble House, Northumberla nd, Matilda, infant daughter of T. Browne, Esch Da F . 41 On the sth inst , at Margate, George F re derick , e quier, Esq , of Thistl e - grove , Old Bromp t o n, and a the nance-office, Pall-mall. Job the 9th inst., at Knowle Lodge, Hampst ea d Alexander Thwaites, Esq. On the 9th inst., at Al oorcro f t H ouse , Hillingd on, widow of the late Jaines Stilwell, Esq. Eygl On the 10th i ns t , a t L ower Tooting, Peter Dorniii,"' On the 10th inst., Willi am Add ams , Esq., of WaPP il teftisi s On the 10th inst., in Bryanston-street, the Rev' Lovell, Rectr f St. Luke's, Midlesex. OliV eh On the 10th o inst., at Lansdown- d terrance, Frederi ck Esq., aged 29. f tbi 3 wife o On the 10th inst., at Saville-row, Anna, the tl'„ i bro/te Rev. Robert Synge, Rector of Walwyn's Castle , r e " . . e se shire, and sister of Sir W. Webb Follett, ALP, her Al a i Attorney-General of London: Printed and P u bli s h e d b y 3 TO V lURDO - o. - No. 112, Strand, P r i n t er, at The Sun OfEce9r4 s gotY Of Strand, in the Pre c i nc t o f t h e S avo y, in OS v bliddl Oa f Bicadab Octobet 14, 18441. (BEAT Nl 'ANy t- ' S hereby /1 0 • ar e READ s hty Y h the r ter m , of *" Nu r , tic hte ten °Ws, In trid. th warrants al Is ai r Per Cent 'ee of the lerdee"l Ity order:l Nit xorth of Ei i\---- D arlington U II tECT / „ LOND t4pital 4,000 he t ic PRO I t t n. 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