The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-21 00:00:00

PIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, FROX THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The war journals of Paris are again attempting to get up an excitement. On Tuesday evening the Messager published a dispatch from Ota beite, confirming the report, which had already reached England, of another conflict having taken place between the French and the natives at Otabeite; and stating that the Governor, Bruat, had attacked the natives to the number of 3,000, who had en trenched themselves at Mahahana, and had three pieces of artillery. The redoubts were carried by the bayonet,, the cannon spiked, the works destroyed, and the colours, arms, and ammunition captured. The natives had 102 men killed, says the dispatch, but the French had two officers killed and 52 men wounded. Now, considering that the natives were attacked by the French, and that, upon the admission of their own Government, the French authorities at Otaheite had un righteously usurped dominion over the poor natives, who were but defending their rights and those of their legitimate sovereign, we should have thought that the blood of the 102 men who were killed would be justly imputable to the French ; and that some regret would have been expressed at a calamity arising out of an invasion of rights already censured by the French Government. No tear of regret, however, is shed in France for the poor slaughtered natives ; but, on the contrary, the Opposition journals in Paris call for vengeance upon Mr. Pritchard, and the English Govern ment, for the French blood that was shed in this con flict. The flagrant injustice of such imputations is manifest. In the first place, Mr. Pritchard was not at Otaheite; and the conflict shows that the natives were not, as the French have pretended, roused from a willing obedience to their invaders by his presence and exhortations. It shows that, although but par tially civilised, they have the consciousness of right and the sense of injury. The expulsion of Mr. Pritchard, whatever influence he may have had over them when at Otaheite, did not suffice to extinguish the feeling of independence and duty. The presence of Mr. Pritchard was not necessary for them to feel that their rights had been violated and their Sovereign outraged. They required no other counsel than their wroags—no other stimulus than their indignation ; but it must never be forgotten, that whilst they were resisting the agents of France, France her self had repudiated those agents as having com mitted a gross violation of right and humanity. The resistance, then, was a sacred duty—the attack was an act of brutal injustice. M. Bruat and his officers certainly were not aware that the assump tion of sovereignty by Admiral Dupetit Thouars had been disavowed; and, as individuals per forming what they considered to be an act of duty, they may not be held personally responsible for the lives that they have destroyed. But their own Government has admitted that the assumption of the power under which these massacres were performed was an unrighteous one ; and the least that could have been expected from the French press, was an expression of regret for the lives that had been sacrificed by the French force in Otaheite. But, far from finding such expressions in the French journals, we meet with furious attacks upon Mr. Pritchard, the English, and M. Guizot. The Courrier Francais and the National call for re venge ; and assert that the blood of the French which has been shed at Otaheite must fall upon the head of Mr. Pritchard, and on that of M. Guizot, for having disavowed the act of the French Admiral. The National on this occasion uses language of the greatest violence; it calls down public execration upon M. Guizot, and excites the navy to rebel against the Government for having censured the conduct of Admiral Dupetit Thouars and M. d'Aubigny. A more atrocious and libellous article than that of the National we never read ; and if it be not prosecuted by the Government for its sedition, it can only be because M. Guizot fears that an impartial and honest jury is not to be found to secure a con viction; in which case we can only pity the friends of order in France, at being thus exposed to the un bridled violence of political incendiarism. The Courrier Francais is little less violent than the National. It denounces M. Guizot to the Chamber of Deputies ; and say that if justice be not done by it upon him, the country will do itself justice upon the Chamber ; which means nothing less than that the mob will get the upper hand of the representatives of the people. The Constitutionnel exhausts most of its fury upon 11r. Pritchard. It is so much out of breath with calling for vengeance upon his head for the shedding of French blood, that it is comparatively lenient towards M. Guizot. STAND ARD.—According to the statement of the Moniteur, the French Government has received• intelligence of a sharp skirmish between the natives of Otaheite and the French force on the island. In this engagement, which occurred on the 17th of April, the natives are said to have lost in killed 102 ; the French, two officers killed, and 52 men wounded. The French, though greatly inferior in number, 441 to 3,000 (the natives being also entrenched) were co npletely successful. What, however, is to be the fruit of this success is left to conjecture. The use which the war journals of Paris would make of the event is, irked, sufficiently manifest, but reasonable men expect something more than a topic of railing an occasion of quarrel as the equivalent for so much bloodshed; but what that solid equivalent can be, we are at a loss to conceive. Otaheite, in absolute sovereignty and cordial obedience, would be perfectly useless to any European power, certainly not less st:dess to France than to any other; how much worse tLan useless then must be the protectorate of a people ceostantly "straining upon the bit" and seizing every gportunity to indulge a hostile and vindictive feeling. This most silly war is deplorable enough without milting it worse than it is; but we must remonstrate w:Lh the Paris journals against the imputation of th.) war to Mr. Pritchard or any other Englishman ; th , immediate cause of hostilities has been an act of usurpation, acknowledged by France, and seen by all tip.. world to be such ; but an act of usurpation has always been admitted as an adequate cam bell, and we therefore need not look beyond M. Dupetit Thouars for the party responsible for the French and native blood shed in April, with which Mr. Pritchard has had no more to do than his accusers in the National, Courrier Francais, and Reforms. Our opinion of Mr. Pritchard—an opinion however formed rather from what we have seen of his exhi bition in this country, than from any report of his conduct in the kingdom of Queen Pomare—is, that he is an indiscreet and perhaps an ambitious man. It is a common calamity, indeed, that how pure soever may be the first stage of religious mis sions, ambition always infects the second and later stages But whatever Mr. Pritchard is, it is certain that neither he nor Queen Pornare sought the French people, but, OD the other hand were sought out by French officers when in perfect peace with all the world, and anxious only to maintain peace ; a consideration which candid Frenchmen will admit to be of some weight when the consequences of the initiative taken by France are to be appreciated. Mr. Pritchard may have spoken with patriotic exaggera tion of the promptitude of his own country in aiding all who suffer from oppression; and possibly the simple credulity of the natives to whom he spoke may, in their hopes, have exaggerated even upon his exaggerations. We may concede all this, because it is obvious that if no pretext by oppression had been given, the utmost extravagance of promise on Mr. Pritchard's part, though aided by all imaginable credulity on the side of the natives, would be harmless. The ori ginal wrong-doer in such cases is prima facie the only party responsible for consequences. It may happen that his antagonist, by retaliating with * greater and a disproportionate injury (this hap pened to us in China), shall relieve the original wrong-doer of his prima facie responsibility ; but nothing of the kind can be alleged against Dir. Pritchard ; for since M. Dupetit Thouars XSUrpecl the sovereignty of the kingdom of Queen Pomare, Mr. Pritchard has done no thing to give offence or to cause mischief. It gives us no pl easure to fi n d our F rench neighbours In. wish wrung —quite the reverse ; we heartily WISH them quietly and honourably out of this Otaheite business; but we confess that we do not at present see by what paths they are to escape, even if we could suppose great Britain and all British inte rests sunk in the Pacific to facilitate an arrange ment. To maintain Otaheite by forc e i s ou t o f th e Question. Otaheite is one of ten thousand islands— a more or less connected, di rec tl y or mediately, by relations of friendship or h ost i lity; the Euro pean Power that would establish a permanent settlement in one of these islands must contem plate the conquest, aye, and the garrisoning too, of the whole of Polynesia—a sufficient explanation, by the way, of the grounds upon which Great Britain declined the protectorate so rashly sought by France. What, then, is France to do in the matter ? Perhaps the most manly and prudent course were to back out of it. We are not conscious that England has sus tained any dishonour in leaving. the Affghans to the punishment of their own anarchy, and the protection of their mountains. Why mi g ht not France, with as good a grace, leave the Otaheitans to the punishment of their own rude manners, and the protection of their great remoteness and other local circumstances ? It ' 156. f per cent. Apex ccnt. and es.ed. be. J per cent. 7per cent. -... AN Per cent per cent TRADE or DUNDEE.—We have a continuance of the demand for yarns and linens, and many kinds of the latter are not to be had until mado. The stock of linens h smaller at present than fur at any time these nine years past. 1 lax of the common runs is in fair request, ond holders inclined to ask a small advance. The dates fm Sc. Petersburgh are to the 3d instant., from Riga to the sth, both markets very firm, and the dealers asking bighor prices. The Memel letters are to the 6th inst., winch say that that ma:het is all but switpt of flax. Sir Robert Peel, accompanied by two, of his sons, left Wh itehall-gardens yesterday for Brighton. We owe happy to state that M.i.ss Peel is daily improving in filth owl otreugth. 3000 lkoo 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY ETIENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1844. PRICES OF SHARES --- IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS,ASSUBANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 20. Dividend per Annum. Names of Cora panics. An OUrit of Paid. Price. Share. bi per cent. 41. Canals. Ashton and Oldham... Ashby-de-la-Zouch—av Basingstoke Breckneek & Abergay. Birmingham,l-16th eh. Do. and Liverp. June. Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry ••••••••• Cromford Dudley Derby ........ ..-:••••••••••• Danube and Ma ne.... Ellesmere and Chester £ s. d. 07 18 0 113 0 0 100 0 0 150 _0 0 41. 101. 4 per cent. 41. 401. .15s. Erewash •••••••••••••••••••• Forth and Grand Junctlin.......••• Grand Union ....... Grand Surrey Grand Western........ 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II percent. per cen t A New York paper advertises that the owner of the perpetual motion, lately exhibiting at Boston, has absconded without paying the man who turned the crank in the cellar I LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 20. (Before Mr. Commissioner EvANs. ) William Basford appeared upon his petition to be examined on his first hearing. As soon as the case was called on, Mr. WATSON, barrister, rose, and in strong terms )bjected to a course whi c h he understood Mr. Hughes (also a barrister) was about to take in regard to this case. The bankrupt had been up on a former occa sion, when his petition had been dismissed. As coun sel and adviser to the insolvent, he (Mr. Hughes) had become cognizant of all his secrets, and now he had accepted a brief to oppose the very man he had formerly been paid to assist. He trusted such a course would not be sanctioned by the Court. Commissioner EvANs—" Why—its unavoidable, I iL suppose."—(Loud laughter.) Mr. HUGHES then proceeded to question the bank rupt, who said his debts were, as stated in his sche dule, 2991., some shillings. He had not entered one Mrs. Dent as a creditor. She had taken up a bill for 301. for him, and he was to repay her by hi s future labour. He (Basford) was a trader, and had petitioned the Court as such. % Mr. HUGHES supposed there was no necessity to carry his examination further, in order to induce the court to dismiss the petition. The applicant was a trader—his debts, if truly and honestly set forth, were above 300/. ; and he had therefore no claim upon the consideration of the court. The COMMISSIONER—The petition is dismissed. Mr. WATsoN—Surely your Honour will allow us to examine Mrs. Dent—her evidence will probably alter your Honour's decision. COMMISSIONER—No, it won't. What, you want people to perjure themselves to get this man clear! Every one in court heard him swear Mrs. Dent had taken up the bill—that he was to pay her hereafter, and therefore she is a creditor, and ought to have been entered, and he owes more than 3001. I'll hear no witnesses after that—l can see what it all means ; the petition of the bankrupt has been dismissed once, and I now it is dismissed again. I will hear no thi ng fur -1 ther about it. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COUR.T OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice WIGHT lAN and Mr. Justice CRESWELL.) John Axtell and George Axtell, the two boys who were convicted on Wednesday last of feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of William Edward Harvey, and stealing a quantity of nearing 3i apparel, value 30/., were called up for judgment. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL sentenced them to solitary confinement in the gaol of Newgate for 14 days. Michael Read was sentenced to be imprisoned for seven calendar months, and kept to hard labour, having been found guilty in the course of the session of assaulting James O'Flaherty. iyi William Hartridge, aged 17, and Edwin Hartridge, 19, brothers, were indicted for stealing two gold 3i watches, value 201., and a quantity of jewellery, the i%s property of John Sari a n d o th e r s , th e mas t ers o f Wil liam, in their dwellin g -h ouse . Mr. Clarkson conducted the prosecution. The pri soner, William Hartridge, was defended by Mr. 14 Doane, and Edwin by Mr. Charnock. 14 The particulars of this case have been fully pub lished in the police reports within these two or three days. The prisoner Edwin had been formerly in the )1 * service of the prosecutor, Mr. Sari, watchmaker and ) 1 % jeweller in the Poultry, but had been dismissed about a year and a half ago. The other pri soner was i n 711 Mr. Sarl's employment up to the time of the robbery, i % which was discovered by the shopman of Mr. Atten r borough, the pawnbroker in Bridge-road, Lambeth. ,N Edwin Hartridge pawned a gold watch on the sth of August at Mr. Attenborough's shop. On the 7th of the September assista offered another n the remembering h gld watch in is o faceand pawn an d the nd recollecting the name which he had first given, which was dif hi ferent from that he then mentioned, had his suspicion excited. After a good deal of shuffling, the assistant went with the prisoner to see where he lived, and being baffled and taken from place to place, he at length gave him into custody. Inquiry led to the arrest of his brother, and both prisoners having told , improbable stories, they were sent f o r t r i a l on f our or 34 five separate indictments. The first case tried was that of the watch pawned 4 on the sth August. In that th e ev id ence f a il e d s3i against William altogether, and the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty for both. The other case was then gone into, that of the gold , 14 watch offered in pledge on the 7th Sept. The jury ;% convicted both prisoners on that indictment. % Mr. Justice CRESSWELL, after commenting upon the serious and unpalliated offence of which they had been convicted, sentenced them to ten years' trans portation each. The Court adjourned to Monday, the 21st October. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET. CHARGE OF MURDER.—AIfred Edwards, a pickle manufacturer in Haberdasher's-place, Hoxton, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with having administered a quantity of poison to Jane Gregory, and thereby caused her death. 1 7 ' Mary Green, the wife of a weaver living at N o . 4, New-court, 7 . ew Nicholl-street, Bethnal-green, / 4 stated that the deceased, who was "an unfortunate If girl," resided next door to her, and had been for the r last twelve months on the most intimate terms with 3 the prisoner. At eight o'clock on the preceding even ing the deceased called her up into her room, and asked her to take some beer ; the prisoner was at that q time seated on one side of the fire, and the deceased, 0 6 who was in p er f ec t he a lth an d exce ll en t sp i r i ts, was 7 sitting opposite to him. There was a black quart s bottle and a teacup on the table, but what the bottle contained she was unable to ascertain. A quarter of an hour afterwards witness again went up with a light, I N and the deceased told her that as soon as the prisoner had left she should go out, and requested witness to iq accompany her. The prisoner was still in th e room , % and observing that the bottle remained on the table, ; [ witness asked the deceased what it contained, and she replied, " Ketchup," which Alfred, the pri ; soner, had brought to her. Witness then went r out in company with the deceased and the pri ; soner, and after proceeding a short distance 34 the prisoner shook hands with th e d ecease d , % kissed her, and wished her " Good night." The de ' ceased stopped him, and asked at what hour to-mor row she should see him ; to which he replied, " Stop % till to-morrow comes," and then ran away. Witness lj then proceeded with the deceased as far as the Bri tannia Tavern, in Hoxton, on reaching which the % deceased suddenly stopped and complained of feeling dreadfully ill, and on being asked what was the mat ter, she replied, " I told you that what was in the bottle was ketchup, but it was brandy-bitters, and I have not felt well since I drank it." She left the de ceased soon after, and saw nothing more of her until half-past ten o'clock on that morning, when she went into her room and found her in bed. She was then very ill, and had scarcely power to utter a word ; her , X face was black, and her hands were as cold and as black as her face. Witness asked her what was the matter with her, and the deceased replied, " Oh ! 1 3 34 Mary, lam very ill indeed; I think I am dying." Witness asked her if she had been eating or drinking IN anything ; and the deceased answered, "No ; only that brandy-bitters that Alfred gave me, and I have felt % dreadfully ill ever since I took it." Witness asked the deceased if the prisoner had partaken of the liquor, and she answered, " No ; that he put the bottle up to his mouth, but that was all." She repeated that she % knew she was dying, and asked witness to go and fetch her brother. Witness did not go herself, but rsent another young woman, who a cc id en t a ll y met ; the prisoner passing the end of the street, and told him to hasten and see the deceased, as she was dying The prisoner in a few minutes afterwards entered the deceased's room, at which time she was sinking rapidly, and asked her what was the matter with % her. The deceased told him that her illness was caused by the brandy-bitters he had given to her. The prisoner coloured very much, and said, "Never." As she was evidently sinking very fast, witness ran off for Mr. Wildbore, surgeon ; but although she was only about five minutes absent, she found on her re. turn that the prisoner had left, and the deceased soon afterwards expired in her arms. Charlotte Scott, living at No. 2, New-court, deposed that when the last witness left to go for the j% surgeon, she called upon her, and requested her to go immediately up to the deceased. Upon entering the 1 4Z room she found the prisoner there. The deceased o repeated to witness what she had told the preceding one, with regard to th e b ran d y an d bitt ers caus i ng pm 13. her illness ; but th e p r i soner sa id it was nonsense, it s 4 % could not be th a t, as h e h a d t a k en par t of, it. a Witness then asked him to drink some in her presence, 3 and the prisoner took the bottle and a teacup from at the cupboard, and pouring out half a cupful of the 4 liquid, drank it off; but, before he did so , t oo k some ' thing out of the cup, and flung it on the ground, and, after drinking, spat a quantity of the liquid into the fender. He then said that he must go, as he had business of importance to attend to, but should be back by the time the deceased's brother arrived ; and, although witness entreated him to stay, he refused to do so, and left the place, but did not again return. The prisoner here said that he wished to explain 7% that what he took out of the teacup, before drinking its contents, was a small piece of cork, which he did 1% not observe till he put the cup to his lips. 1114 Another Another witness, named Sarah Russell, was th en ; II called, and deposed to similar facts, tending to incul s• pate the prisoner. Mr. George Hill Smith, assistant to Mr. Wildbore, stated that he was called to attend the deceased at half-past eleven o'clock, and found her in bed, per fectly sensible, and capable of speaking in monosyl lables. She laboured under great prostration of strength, and complained of intense pain in the region of the stomach, which could not sustain the slightest pressure. There was a bottle, about half filled with a dark liquid, on the table, part of which witness poured out and tasted. Brandy and bitters were the pre dominant ingredients, but the liquid had a very astringent and nauseous taste, which remained on his palate for more than an hour afterwards. The de ceased had been repeatedly sick all the night and morning, and the stomach was so manifestly empty that he did not think it necessary to use the stomach pump. Witness desired the brother of deceased to place the bottle in his pocket, and accompany him to his residence, where witness prepared a remedial anti dote, and hastened back to the deceased, but on reaching her apartment he found she had expired. The proximate cause of death was inflammation of the stomach, produced by some acrid poison. He had not yet had time to analyse the contents of the bottle, and the body had not undergone a postmortem examination. Mr. BROUGHTON—Do I understand you distinctly to give it as your opinion that the deceased's death has been produced by poison, or some other violent irritant of the stomach ? Witness—Most decidedly —no doubt of it. Sergeant Sheelig, 45 N, stated that he accom panied her brother to a public-house close to the de ceased's residence, where he found the prisoner, and took him into custody. The brother of the deceased corroborated the evi dence of the sergeant, and said, in favour of the pri soner, that when he had seen him in company with his sister, they always appeared to be kind to each other. On being called upon for his defence, the prisoner said that the reason he did not go b ac k to the house was, that he did not think the deceased was in the slightest danger ; and with regard to the bottle, that it had been left in a hamper, containing several other bottles, at his father's house, and had belonged to an old lady, who died there three years ago. He sup posed there must have been something deleterious in its contents, as several of the porters employed in re moving the old lady's goods, and who had drank out of some of the bottles, became seriously ill afterwards. The prisoner's father, a retired linendraper, corro borated his son's statement with regard to the delete rious effects produced upon the porters employed upon the occasion referred to. Mr. BROUGHTON said that the whole case was re plete with the darkest suspicion. He should remand the prisoner on the charge, and the police must exert themselves to the utmost to throw further light upon the case. The prisoner was remanded until Tuesday next. UNION-HALL. Two fashionably-dressed men, named John Trail and James Johnson, members of the swell mob, were brought before Mr. Traill, charged with attempting to pick pockets. Goff, a shrewd and active officer of the L division, stated that about eight o'clock last evening he was in company with Brooks, 118 L, in the Westminster road, when he perceived the prisoners attempt several females' pockets. They followed them into Oakley street, where the prisoners followed a lady with a child by her side. The prisoner Trail went behind the lady and lifted up her dress on two occasions ; the other prisoner was covering his actions. Finding what their intention was, they secured them, and took them to the station house. Mr. TRAILL inquired whether the prisoners were known ? Goff replied that Johnson had been convicted at Maidstone, and had been several times in custody for felony. Brooks stated that he had the other in custody about twelve months ago, for stealing a coat. He was tried and convicted at the Surrey Sessions. Johnson denied the officer's assertions. He had never been convicted. Mr. TRAILL said that he intended to remand them for proper evidence as to their former convictions. It was quite clear, from the testimony of the officers, what their intentions were. Goff informed the magistrate that on the next exa mination he believed he should be able to bring a charge of burglary against the prisoners. They were remanded until Monday. Edward White, an able-bodied young pauper, be longing to Christch urc h wor khouse, Southwark, was next charged with crushing the fingers of an aged pauper in a dreadful manner. Richard Williams, about 60 years of age, stated that he was placed in the men's ward to keep the lads in order. This morning, about eight o'clock, he was standing by the door leading to the yard, when the prisoner knocked at the door. He put his hand be tween the door and the door-post, when the prisoner immediately seized hold of his fingers and closed the door, crushing his fingers in a dreadful manner. He remarked, that had not a stone been in the way, the prisoner would have crushed his fingers off. Several of the old men corroborated the complain ant's testimony. The prisoner denied the charge. M‘Kay, the porter, said the prisoner was a most desperate character, and almost always in prison for his misconduct. He had been confined six months for attempting to stab one of the inmates. Mr. Tnaan committed him for two months. MARYLEBONE. Thursday, Richard Pates, servant to Mr. Phillips, surgeon, in Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, was charged before Mr. Rawlinson, on a warrant, with having committed an assault of a most atrocious na ture upon William Donaldson. Complainant, who is a tailor, living at No. 9, Northumberland-street, New- ' road, depo se d th a t on Tuesday last he went toßutler s beer shop, in Notting ham-street, taking with him a waistcoat which he had made for defendant, who tried it on. As one of the buttons required to be moved, complainant took it home and made the necessary alterations ; he returned with the waistcoat to the beer shop, and waited there some hours in the expectation of being p a id f or th e ar ticlewhich defendant had, upon its being b roug ht b ac k, put into his pocket. Complainant at length asked for a settlement, when defendant, who was helping him self to oysters outside of the door, called hi m a " wretch," and threw a shell in his face. He held up his arm, and in doing so, accidentally knocked off the hat of defendant, who thrust the oyster knife against his side with such force as to cause him to fall to the ground; he jumped up, exclaiming that he was stabbed, but fortunately the instrument had not injured him. It had, however, from the force with which the lunge at him was made, perforated his clothing, and passed nearly through a leather case, containing various papers, &c., which he had in the left side pocket of his coat. He took po ssess i on o f the knife, and the landlord, in order to prevent any thing further of an unpleasant nature occurring, ad vised him to go up stairs, which he did. The land lord also took home the defendant, who soon after wards came back and offered a sovereig n t o an y one who would produce complainant, at the same time stating that if he could get at him he would tear him limb from limb. He subsequently went to com plainant's house, and after using much abusive lan guage to Mrs. Donaldson, expressed a wish thEt the knife had been two inches longer. He was much the worse for drink. Other witnesses having spoken to the same facts, Mr. RAWLINSON said it was a most atrocious case, and that he should make the strongest example of de fendant that he could. He was fined 51., and, in default of payment, two months' imprisonment. The penalty was paid. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Sept. 20.) SUGAR.-For West India Muscovado Sugar there has been a falling off in the demand this week. The grocers have purchased most descriptions sparingly, and the demand for refining purposes has been small. To-day importers of West India Sugar were desirous to realise, and submitting to a reduction on former rates of 6d per cwt for grey, common, middling, yellow, and brown'sorts, tempted grocers and refiners to purchase largely, and the sales reached 650 hhds ; good and fine yellow kinds, however, still support former rates. The total purchases for the week are 2,050 hhds and trcs : REFINED.-Prices have ruled firm for all descriptions of Refined Goods since this day week. The home trade have purchased extensively, paying 72s 6d for brown melting lumps, 73s to 73s 6d for brown grocery, 74s 6d to 75s for standard lumps, 74s to 78s for Milers, 79s to 83s for fine ditto, 74s 6d to 84s for Hambro' Loaves, 858 to 90s for double ditto, and 71s to 73s per cwt for wet lumps. To day the refiners could not obtain higher rates for refined Sugar, but at former terms the home trade pur chased freely ; indeed, the market is bare of goods. Bonded Crushed is much wanted, and prices are firm at 27s 3d to 27s Gd per cwt. MAURITIUS.-This afternoon there was a large public sale of 9,697 bags. The whole found purchasers, but at a decline, on the rates of the last auction, of 6d to is per cwt for brown, common ellow , and refining sorts; but middling, good, a n d fine yellow fetched full prices ; y fine grey sold at 58 s to 60s, good 56s to 575, mid 53s 6d to 54s 6d, low 52s to 53s ; low brown 42s to 455, mid 47s 6d to 48s 6d, good and fine 50s to 52s 6d ; low yellow 53s to 54s 6d, mid 55s to 56s 6d, good mid 57s to 58s, good 58s 6d to 59s 6d, fine 608 to 62s ; very fine Barbadoes kind 63s to 65s per cwt. EAST INDIA.-With Bengal Sugar the market has been abundantly supplied this week. The trade, how ever, have purchased freely, an d th e parcels offered at auction, amounting to 9,253 b ags , we re nearly all dis posed of-strong yellow, middling, good and fine white fetched fully former rates, but all inferior kinds went at a reduction on last week's prices of 6d to is per cwt. Fine strong bright yellow Dobah kind sold at 65s 6d to 665, good 64 s to 64 s 6d, middling and good middling 61s to 63s 6d, damp 63s to 63s 6d, washed 60s to 62s 6d, false packed 665, very fine sound white 68s 6d to Is, fine 64s to 58s, good 62s to 63s 6J, middling 60s 6d to 613 6d, low 68s 6d to 59s 9d, damp 603 to 67s 6d, washed 59s to 61s 6d, damp brown 44s to 48s, very low 40s to 425, middling dry grey 565 to 56s 6d, low 54s 6d to 555, good middling 57s to 57s 6d, damp 55s 6d to 56s 6d, washed 50s to 54s 6d, false packed 535 to 555, soft middling yellow 545 to 555, good mid &Lig td to 57s t;:l, low 53s to 525, damp and washed 51s 6d to 56s 6d, false packed 50s to 535, drainage da maged Ms Gd to 54s Gd per cwt-a fair proportion con sisted of the better qualities. For Madras Sugar prices are sustained, and obfair demand exists for the better qualities. Of Foreign East India Sugar none has been brought to public sale, and privately there is not much on offer. Java has fetched full prices. The market is still without a supply of Siam. FOREIGN.—BraziI has been in excellent request pri vately, and previous rates are fully supported. Two floating cargoes of Bahia have been sold for near ports —one at 18s 3d for brown, and the other at 22s 6d for white and 18s for brown. The demand has increased for yellow Havannah, and importers have obtained prices they could not previously get. For white there has been a better demand, and prices rule firm ; 300 boxes of good quality have been disposed of at 30s per cwt. COFFEE—West India has met with little attention this week, some holders have been desirous to reduce their stacks, and by private treaty cheap purchases have been made. This afternoon the large quanty of 485 bales Mocha were offered at public sale, but the whole was taken in at 2s to 3s per cwt above the value, viz. mid even greenish clean garbled at 725, fine ord green 655, broken yellowish 565, sound pea berry 84s. 10 bales were, however, sold at 69s 6d for greenish, 43s for triage, and 81s for pea berry. Of Ceylon 592 bags were brought forward, and nearly all taken in at stiff rates—good ord pale rather mixed at 575, low mid bold palish colory Plantation kind 755, but a few lots were sold—fine ord bold pale colory at 66s to 675, pea berry 80s, and triage 50s ;28 bags Bengal. at the 4d duty, sound, was taken in at 57s for pale rather broken, but sea damaged sold at 51s 6d, ditto and re packed 45s per cwt. Of Rio, 300 bags of of very good ord sold privately at 32s 6d per cwt. TEA.—There has generally not been so much busi ness transacted in the Tea market as of late ; the better descriptions are held with firmness, but more desire has been shown to sell all common kinds : none has been offered at auction. The lower sorts of Congou have ken taken sparingly, and the prices accepted are rather under those previously quoted, common selling at 10d to lOid, good common lld to is per lb, but the better kinds have been in good demand, and former prices are fully supported. To-day there was a good deal of business transacted in the better qualities of new green Tea. Hyson and Im perial, at from 2s 9d to 3s 3d per lb, were the most in re quest. Fine and good Congou are in request at full rates, but the lower kinds remain dull of sale at the decline previously noticed. SPICES.—There has been no public sale of Black Pepper this week. This afternoon at public sale 63 casks 53 boxes of Jamaica Ginger were all sold, but at a decline on former rates of 5s to lOs per cwt, and went at 3/ 158 to 1012 s per cwt for low to fine quality. Rims, BRANDY, AND HoLLANDS.—Jamaica Rum is still attracting attention, and the transactions have been to a large extent this week, the rates previously established are fully sustained. Leewards have met with free pur chasers ; the quantity sold has been 200 puns, at 2s 5d to skd proof, and good brown ditto 2s 6d per gallon. De merara at 3s 3d to 3s 6d for good and fine strong. Calcutta sold at 2s 3d to 2s 3kd per gallon, proof. Brandy of common quality is much wanted at 2s Ild to 3s 3d per gallon. Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s ; 1839, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d ; 1840, hhds 4s Ild, puns 4s 9d ; 1841, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d ; 1842, hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s sd, and mid to good mid 3s 4d to 4s per gallon. Geneva is not so much wanted for shipping, is 10d is the value : of fine fitf duty prices are steady at 2s 6d to 3s 6d. English Co r Spirits remain at lOs 4d per gallon, cash. M OLASSES.—lmporters of West India have been moi' inclined to realise this week on account of the heavy arrivals, but submitting to rather lower rates buyers have been induced to purchase more freely, and the large quantity of 400 puns sold at 20s to 24s per cwt for low to good quality. In East India there has been scarcely anything done, and parcels could only be dis posed of but at low rates. COCOA.—For West India prices remain firm ; none has been offered at auction, and little is to be purchased privately, as the stock is nearly all in second hands ; several inquiries have prevailed. Of Foreign, some parcels have been disposed of at very full rates ; there is little offering for sale. RICE.—To-day Bengal Rice met with more attention, and the parcels disposed of privately were at stiffer rates; sales made at Ils to Ils 6d for middling and good middling white. Java and Madras were in increased request at the rates previously quoted. FRUlT—There are few purchasers of currants, and the market has a dull appearance. Some holders are ready sellers at 39s to 42s for Zante and Cephalonia, and 45s to 48s per cwt for Patras. Other sorts of fruit con tinue in limited request at present, except for new Va lentias, which are much inquired for, and some parcels are daily expected to arrive. SALTPETRE.—There are few purchasers of Rough, and small parcels of Calcutta have been disposed of at 23s 6d to 24s for common, 24s 6d to 25s for middling, 25s 6d to 26s for good, and 26s fid to 27s per cwt for fine. English refined is not much wanted, and 29s to 29s 6d per cwt is the value. INnico.—The market is firm for East India, but there has beeu only a limited business transacted this week to supply either home or expoat orders. For the quarterly sale the quantity declared is 12,805 chests, and which quantity is not likely to be much increased. For Spanish prices remain firm. A fair demand exists ; there is little in the market. The deliveries of East India are still large. Oms.—There has been a much better demand for Lin seed Oil this week, parcels having been disposed of on the spot at 243 to 24s 3d per cwt. In Rape Oil the ope rations are upon a more extended scale ; pale at 36s to 36s 6d, and brown 35s to 35s 6d per cwt ; there is not a large quantity being produced. Cocoa Nut Oil at 28s to 303 per cwt. Palm Oil, fine at 27s to 27s fid per cwt. Olive at 441 to 451 for Gallipoli, and 411 to 431 fur Spanish. Barbary, 391 to 401 is the value. Cod Oil, 331 153 to 34/ per tun. Other de scriptions of common Fish Oils have brought full rates, 34/ lOs to 351 for pale Seal, and 271 lOs to 32/ per tun for Southern. Sperm, 851 to 861 per tan is the value of fine British. Although prices rule high, the trade are disposed to operate largely. This afternoon at public sale 60 tuns Southern Oil were partly sold at 30/ lOs to 321 53 ; 15 tons Cocoa Nut Oil taken in at 26/15s to 27/ per ton. TALLOW. —Prices have suffered no further decline for Russian Tallow this week, but the market has been in a tranquil state. The small purchases made have been at 41s to 41s 3d for old, and at 41s 6d to 4 Is 9d per cwt for new P Y Candle. Town Tallow at 41s per cwt, nett cash. There is only a moderate quantity being pro duced. This afternoon at public sale 365 pipes 137 hhds of South American Tallow were sold at 34s 6d to 408 for very low to fine. STATE OF TRADE. _ The advices received since our last publication from all parts abroad with which we have connexion have been important, and generally of a character very satisfactory, inasmuch as from present appear ances we may expect a continued good export de mand for manufactured goods, with a better chance of remuneration to the shipper than fur a considerable time past. In the import trade we can notice no improvement generally, and once more we have to report a very gloomy market for cotton. The accounts from America, in reference to the crop, are so univer sally in favour of the largest yield that has ever been produced, that speculation has not been thought of, and manufacturers, pressed by an eager desire to realise on the part of holders, have made their purchases this week at prices always id. and occasionally id. per lb. below the rates current a fortnight ago, whilst it may still be quoted as a re markable fact, that the spinners have taken less from this market for consumption this year than they did during the corresponding period in 1843. It can only be supposed that more labour and less raw material is now employed than was required for the heavy ma nufactures then produced. The West India news is not of a very agreeable nature. The planters had not recovered from the discouragement occasioned by the measures in refer ence to their produce passed in the last session. Here the prospect for them is iinproving, as sugar is daily becomiig more valuable now that the first impulses have given way to calm reflection, and buyers and sellers both discover that they cannot, all at once, be overwhelmed with an import of foreign produce. The new trade in guano continues to be much talked of, and reports as varied as possible are in cir culation in regard to the capacity of the islands to furnish an adequate supply : it may be, however, that every party is more guided in giving his opinion by his wishes, and what his interest requires, than by any duly authenticated facts that would bear exposure to public view. It is a new, and it may become an important trade, and we should regret to see it interfered with unnaturally by any premature speculation. So far, it has been of vast advantage to shipowners, and we trust it will prove equally satisfactory to agriculturists. From the manufacturing districts, in every direc tion, the most satisfactory statements of improvement continue to be received, and, with the present low prices of corn, the prospect before us is gratifying. .--Liverpool Mercury. NOTICE TO MARINERS. THE LIGHT OF ALL NATIONS ON GOODWIN SANDS. _ _ Union -street, Deptford, Sept. 20, 1844. Gentlemen,—Having been engaged for several months in erecting on the site of the caisson sunk on the Good win Sands by me during the autumn of 1842, an iron column, with the twofold object of fixing thereon a red light for the guidance of mariners, and for boring the quicksand to ascertain its depth, with the ultimate view of erecting a more permanent lighthouse, I have the honour of informing you that I have already fixed the column nine feet above high watermark, and shall, in the course of the next fortnight (weather permitting), carry it up to the height of 30 feet, and that on or before the Ist of November next I shall show at the top of the co lumn a brilliant red light. The true bearings of the other lights have not yet been ascertained accurately, but shall be furnished to you in the course of next week. I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, your obe dient servant, (Signed) WM. BUSH, C.E. To the Committee for Managing the Affairs of Lloyd's. THE him MIINICIPALITIES.—It has been sug gested to us to recommend that, after the banquet, which is to take place in Dublin on the 18th instant, all the Municipalities in Ireland should, as an aggregate corpo • rate body, have a grand state banquet in the metropolis —the day to be hereafter determined upon by the Li berator and the:several Mayors. We highly approve of the suggestion, and trust that the various municipalities will take the matter into consideration.—Drogheda Mule MR. CLARKSON'S SECOND LEC TURE ON ANCIENT EGYPT. (From the Cambridge Advertiser.) In furtherance of his promise Mr. Clarkson gave a second lecture on the manners, customs, and amusements of the ancient Egyptians, at the Town Hall, Cambridge, on Thursday, on behalf of the Mechanics' Institute. There were two important omissions, which time compelled him to make in the former lecture; one relating to agriculture, the ether to manufactures —embracing the implements and products of agriculture, and the tool of the artisan— which he should now fill up. He had remarked in his former address, and had always maintained that Egyptian antiquarian discovery comprises fa - as and inquiries from which the utilitarian and political economist may derive new and necessary informa tion. It lays open the whole progress of early agriculture, art, trade, and manufacture—the pro gress from serfdom to freedom—the origin of judi cial institutions, colonisation, and taxation—of' the corn-laws—of the first division of the land, and of a single land-tax a tax of 20 per c en t. ( a tax recom mended by political economists as the best), appro priated to all the purposes of government. The sub ject opens out new and momentous views of early history—(or rather creates a new volume of history, and necessitates the introduction of a new element in the ground-work of education)—fills up vast chasms in the invention and progress of art and science, and embraces perspicuous views of the foundation, the de velopment, the progressive tendencies, and, conse quently, the ultimate destinies of political society. It is but recently that a conviction of the truth of these propositions had reached the public mind; but the conviction was daily acquiring new force, and the exciting attraction of the subject was now proved by its growing popularity. A singular proof of its close connexion with the political economy, and corrobora tion of his argument, was just put into his hands ; the organ of the Anti Corn-law body of political economists (the League paper) having last week founded a discussion •of Egyptian agriculture with wood-cuts, derived from Rosselini's illustrations before them, and promising next week a similar review of Egyptian manufacture. These were the two points to which he had promised briefly to call their attention previous to a survey of the 18th dynasty of Egyptian Sovereigns, which would com plete his view of Egyptian society, and terminate his course of two lectures. Mr. Clarkson then threw a rapid glance over the agriculture of the ancient Egyptians, exhibiting large drawings of the various agricultural implements, and exhibiting illustrated scenes on a large scale, copied from the Theban tombs of ploughing, hoeing, sowing, reap ing, carrying, and storing the harvest. The writer in the League had made three mistakes in a short passage, which was perfectly excusable, considering the novelty of the subject to ordinary political writers. He asserted that the wheat was not stacked in sheaves—that gleaning was not allowed —and that the agricultural labourer toiled in melancholy slavery, and was denied all amusements and enjoyments. There is no evidence like that which is submitted to the eye; and Mr. Clarkson produced numerous evidences that gleaning was allowed—that the corn sheaves were stacked—and that the pro prietor rewarded his labourers with liquor-e-en- couraged their pastimes (as Homer describes on the shield of Achilles), and that our harvest-home revels and songs (an Egyptian harvest-home song, probably with musical notes, is extant) were derived from theirs. Some of those pastoral and agricultural scenes exhibited by the lecturer were calculated to remind the audience of Thomson's Palmmon and Lavinia, and of Boaz and Ruth. From agriculture, Mr. Clarkson proceeded to an exhibition of ancient trade and manufacture, com menting on them, with numerous large illustrations, which he produced, as he proceeded. Volumes of written detail would not give us so complete an in sight into the Egyptian workshop, laboratory, or manufactory, as those plates. Every process of art and manufacture then known is elaborately and minutely laid open. The shops of the Egyptian fish mongers and poulterers in the act of buying and selling, plucking, trussing, scaling, and salting, are also exhibited. The mode of making shoes, and of blowing glass, of staining leather, and the whole business of the linendraper and tailor are brought before our eyes. The fuller, dyer, and currier, are exhibited in their daily cr a ft. e see the potter with the " potter's wheel" in the act of making his vases—the turner in the act of modelling his wood— the coachmaker in manufacturing all the details of the splendid chariots of the Egyptian aristocracy. The whole process of wine-making from training the vines on trellises and gathering grapes, to the stage of pressing them in the wine press, and storing the wine in amphovre during and after fermentation, is accurately exhibited, and the most minute details respecting the process of " treading the wine press," to which reference is so often made in the Scrip tures, are brought in the same obvious manner before our eyes. The Scriptural "corn floor" is exhibited with the same vivid accuracy. There is a subject connected with the extensive trade of pottery and brickmaking in Egypt which demands attention. Mr. Clarkson exhibited an illus tration wherein the Jews are represented making bricks with straw, under a taskmaster, in Egypt. Subsequently, they appear as warriors, either incor porated in the Egyptian army, or warring against the Pharoahs. In the tomb of Petamon Osiri, opened by Belzoni, they appear as types of the Caucassian family of the human race. Their last appearance is in the person of Rehoboam, King of Judah, at Kar neck. Their first appearance, however, on the monu ments, is most remarkable, as bearing the most startling evidence to the truth of the Mosaic record. A grand ta'deau, of which Mr. 'Clarkson exhibited copies on a large scale, has been recently discovered on an excavated tomb at Beni Hassan, of an Egyp. tian governor of Goshen (the Wadi Tomylat), a " Royal Scribe" (so called in the inscription) or secretary of state, whose name, phonetically, is read " Yoseptha," or " Noseptha," is introducing to the Viceroy of Osirtesen (who reigned in On in 1897, and was therefore contemporary with Joseph), ten Hebrew brothers (clearly identified as such) with one lad and their wives, amounting to thirty-seven persons. The Secretary of State, Yoseptha, produces a decree of the reigning Pharoah, in which is recorded the arrival of these strangers across the Syrian desert, in the sixth year of Osirtesen. They bring with them Syrian presents, the gazelle and ibex of Judea. They are called " bond slaves" after the Chinese fashion, but they are well armed. One is playing on a lyre —one bears a royal pedum, or sceptre—and one carries the Jewish cow-horn trum pet—all marks of triumph and rejoicing rather than of bond slavery. Two carry the desert water bottles, slung over their .shoulders, and accompany ing asses carry. the large water-bottles, now borne by those animals in crossing the desert between Egypt and Syria. Few persons, on inspecting the tableau, will doubt that it is a pictorial repre sentation of the first colonisation of. the Jews in Egypt—of the arrival of the " lad " Benjamin, with his brothers, to be introduced to the Vizier, their brother Joseph, to redeem Simeon, who was, in fact, in "bond" till their return, under a gaoler, as re corded in this most striking illustration, and to enter on the possession of the land of Rameses, where the picture is located. Time would fail, said Mr. Clarkson, were I to at tempt to lead you seriatim through the whole details of the magic lantern of trades and manufactures here exhibited. To the trades naturally follow the Weis therein used. Many of them resemble entirely those used in modern times. The mallet, the bent and straight chisel, the saw, the axe, the adze, the centre bit, the gimlet, the awl, the file, the wimble, the lathe, the trowel, the leather-slice, &c., &c., come under this description. The common saw resembles precisely the modern. The shuttle, the distaff, and the spindle, resemble entirely those which were u se d before the ate improvements in machinery. At the various institutions, metropolitan and su burban, where he had lectured during the last ten years, Mr. Clarkson said that the tools and imple ments of manufacture and agriculture and the deve lopement of trade, had been considered specially fitted for Mechanics' Institutes, and the exclusive novelty of the subject was certainly equal to its appropriate ness ; the Egyptian room at the British Museum con taining the tools, being only recently opened, and the great Tuscan Commission's work, representing the tools illustrated before them, not being attainable in Cambridge, and one copy only being at the Bri tish Museum. Many of the implements are painted yellow, or copper colour, in the illustrations. The saw is generally painted red, and was most probably made of copper. There are many tools of the same de scription, made of copper and brass, preserved in the Egyptian room of the British Museum. They are elastic, do not oxydize, and cut the hardest granite. The chemical knowledge displayed in the fabrication of the tools was equalled by the chemical knowledge evinced by the artisan, the tradesman, and the manu facturer. The " fine linen " manufacturers employed 540 threads to the inch in the warp to 110 in the warp; the famous Dacca muslin looms being only 100 to 84. They employed metallic oxydes, vegetable and mineral dyes, both substantive and adjective, and acetates of iron and of alum. The dyers use the saf frum indicum, the carthamus tinctorius, and the re seda luteola. The tanners had (vial chemical skill. It appears from remnants of leather found in the tombs, that they employed the bark of acacia in tan ning, and the periplaca secamora, which grows near the Red Sea. The painters employed vegetable ex. tracts and mineral oxydes, and the relics of glass ex tant or attested, prove an equal chemical knowledge among the glass-blowers. The emerald hue which they gave to glass appears from chemical analysis to be imparted by oxyde of copper, and the reds used in ornaments, imitating rubies, appear to have been derived from minium. They must have used oxyde 51.55. per share 5 per cent. SI. per cent. lc 30s. bs. 57 per cent. per cent. per cent. 6 per cent. S per cent. 4s. 2s. 6d. per ceit. :19s. 12 ih. & b. 1/. ss. 10s. 10s. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. IL ss. S per cent. s% per cent. IL 48. 5 per cent. 10% per cent or. 8 per ceht. per cent. b per cent. bper cent, liper cent. per cent. per cent. a per cent. 6 per cent. Hs per share 6s. per share 10 per cent. per cent. 15s. 11. ss. 11. 7s. 51. and bs. 041. and bs. per cent. Trent. 1114 104 it per sh 15s per sh 24 0 per cent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent 6 per cent. per cext. SI. 12s. 21.105. 2L 10s. 24 10s. 5 per cent. .4/. 16s. IL 14s. us. per sh 11. 4s. per cent. Ss. per sh. 5s per sh le per cent ?.)4 per cent. 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Of the pure ruby colour which they produced we have lost the art. Mr. Clakson then proceeded to the main subject of the present lecture. The trades and manufactures of ancient Egypt belong to the magnificent 18th dynasty of Theban sovereigns, of whom Rosellini furnishes us with details of the most ample and accurate descriP' tion—details which may be justly said to constitute a new volume in the history of the world. He bad exhi' bited, at the last lecture, the model cf &private dwel ling. He now exhibited the model of the temple palace of one of th o se s pl en did an d am bi t i ous monarens with whom all human civilisation begun. Numerou s large diagram drawings of Karnac, of the gigant i c hypostyle Hall, a fac-simile model of the Obelisk ,w Osirtesen (the oldest ex t an t), an d a perfect P or trPt Gallery, on a large scale, of all the kings and queens of the magnificent 18th dynasty, accompanied this par t of the lecture. Mr. Clarkson brought before the audience prone' . sions and pageants ; the nature of the military force; horse, foot, or chariots ; the countries warred upon; the costume and arms of the hostile nations; th e triumphant processions consequent upon victory the prisoners, the enslaved captives or the sacrifice(' victims, and the booty in the produce of the various countries subjugated by th e Ph aroa h' s arms . All these things are detailed and with that minute Pre' cision, and in that indisputable form, which leave n ° , l matter for question. Th ey are i n f act sculpture' bulletins. We have next the costume of the coil and army, not brought b e f ore us as t h at o f our 01 chroniclers, including Froissart, accurate as they ar e ' but in a more certain form—for much is left imagination by description, nothing by the sense ° sight. With the power of an enchanter, as if be wielded the serpent wan d s o f t h e very E gy ptian theocracy, which he describes. Egyptegraphe r Rosellini brings before us from the grave the kings' the heroes, the sages, the legislators, entombed for 4,000 years. No dreamy and mysterious vaguenes s , as that which hangs round the line of Banniin s , exorcised dynasty, o r th a t w hi c h , h a lf conce aled the lineaments of the magnates of the ancient world , which Faust is described as summoning before, him! The vision here produced from the sleep forty centuries is as clear as the light of day; and the " kings of ancient name" of which Heraeis Syrens sung to the man o f w i s d om —th e opt i ma t e s o f the earth's youth—stand before us in garb, in fer ture, in lineament, in physiognomical expression, a s precisely pourtrayed as those of any of our contemPr rary kings. Not they only, but with them come in equally perspicuous form their generals, their pontiff s ' their priests, their counse ll ors, an d all the var ion splendid appendages o f th e courts o f t h e an cient Pharaohs and all the female aristocracy of their court° . —queens, mothers, wives, sisters, princesses, all the various costume of their graduated ranks—Wl / magnificent in dress, some resplendent in beauty -- -1 " marked as portraits, not by difference of feature only' but by difference of physiognomical ex pressioni Use wears off the edge of wonder, but if the even of this discovery had suddenly taken place—the cir e cumstance by which the y ou th an d o ld age oaf 'i r world may be c ons id ere d as j o i n i ng hands ed a long interval of oblivion—it would have startlethe world as by a su dd en an d su b stant i al m iracle „A realised before it s e y es . M r. Cl ar k son referr7f to the triumphant processions as ev id e nces ° f the extent of the conques t s o f t h e Pharaohs. a Scythian bear and th e I n di an b u ff a l o, t h e ape an, the parrot of Indi a are th ere . Th e cameleopar?', native of middle, and the ostrich of southern, Afr it ; are among the spoils. Th e peop l e o f Lydia, 34e5 _ s w potamik Armenia, Araca n , A ra bi a , Judea, --Lri; India, Scythia, Russia (Mosck), are ascertained. the Chinese type am ong the combatants and the OP; Lives depicted in the re p resen t a ti ons o f t h e grea t ba t ties of Sesostris and the more warlike of the Pharoalef. bearing the comm on name o f R amesses ? Smoo_ the combatants in cars h ave d ec id e dl y th e T ar tar enl racter, with long. locks o f h a i r a t th e top o f t he hes': as the Tartars wear at the present day. Their resemble the war waggons of the Scythians desclior:o by Herodotus. I n some o f t h e magnificent V. 1%, vases which adorn e d th e b anquet ta bl es o f t h e rious Pharoahs, there appear Caryatides figures resen t " bling the moder n Chinese. But that the victorie s of ev the conquering Ph aroa h s ex t en d e d to Chi na h a s he A latterly proved by an extraordinary discovery. , Chinese scent-bottle with characters capable of b eing deciphered, has b een f oun d i n one of the torahs' t of date of which is contemporary with the monarch' the immediate line of Ramesses. Sesostris extended his conquests to the borders f Scythian, Tartary, and China, and Tartars, Si ng shaved heads and long single locks of hair depen u a r i from the crown of the head, as well as figures V reo , resembling the Chinese in physiognomy and " b 5 appear among the captives in his sculptured trump or thrones, and Cary a tid e A, support i ng the go ld!a and jewelled banquet c u p s on hi s ta bl e. Other 01 s torical desiderata sugge s t t nem S e l ves . A re t h e re ri and beardless people who appear among the eonquere_ nation of the Nubian monuments the red and beardle.s race of the American Indians ? Recent discoveries have proved that a contemporary nation in Amer l . o ' o. now extinct, were in an equally high state of civilisati They had copper tools and weapons pyramids as is o r n g, as those in Egypt, sculptured temples, palaces of c o l, siderable taste, and magnificent subterraneous seP, o f chres, granaries, and treasuries. From the exte.nz_i, the conquests of Sesostris, including the three COS sations during the 18th dynasty—(lst, Jew s ef Argives ; 3d, Athenians)—and the consequenee,rr. those great events on all modern civilisatio n w , bole Clarkson proceeded to the great result of th e do ing inquiry. Th e ques ti on o f t h e l ost art of 11 $, r , ape copper led to the question of the " lost arts .o vt ific rally, and to the extent of the cheMical and sn l !,; ne d knowledge of the E g ypti ans . M r . Cl ar k son rnain'_ eco , that independent of man y ar t s th a t we h av e not r with vered, the Egyptian m en o f sc i ence were familiarars the Artesian well, with th e ra il roa d, an d with St e e lf power. In the latter asser ti on , he supported hirn2,o, by a recently published memoir of M. Aff .i ;j e With reference to the " lost arts," one unavoidab le inference occurs. A perfect chemical science imP_ es , an equal knowledge of the whole circuit of scienc o f The contest of the Sophoi, or magician 0rd . e . r..., scribes with Moses, lsafore Pharaoh pays stria 7, tribute to their " union of knowledge with po,w` the No supernatural aid is intimated. Three 01 sir miracles of their natural magii (as affirmed by David Brewster on Natural Magic and Dcemono l f s tio the jugglers of India and moder n *E g ypt can n: dus e perform now. In the f o urth, an a tt em pt to Pr_ t he the lowest form of animal life, they fail. Free sin whole statement, one inf erence i s sa f e , that l tit o led bition of the priestly chemists and anatomiat s ba b o ing, them from the fictitious immortality of eruvraolten and the triumphs of chicken hatching to orin stein experiment on the vit a l fl u id, an d on 1 " 4 . j0 i0 of e ciple of life. A similar a m biti ous assurnP: vr i-- creating—not re-producing—the ga l v anic to the lowest form of life—has been recently ascribe a modern savant. Ne ledge , This being the elevated range of their low,. sovve , how and why were these powers and these disc had ries lost ? Because the men of science of that time no press to record them—because they a Jesuitical principles of secrecy—because they on b bound their god of letters in insidious chainsafa_t:ivl altars of superstition. The extinction of EgYy_ nt i, t, knowledge" was the just retribution of their,,,easio popular monopoly of its "power" and its per _ t r to despotic purposes. The fact furnished a gre,s_ a ir tional lesson, and far from giving ground for u n r e j" vti of the human progress, furnished the most g: t o f safe, and cheering auguries of an illimitable eat en improvement, social, moral, and intellectual. io n Mr. Clarkson concluded, by expr ess ing his 0 . 17 00 that lectures of this description ought to be gi`e an d a public stage, assisted by the eff e cts of scenery' machinery, in order to do them justice. The l ec _ ture a nd which was given extempore, and lasted one 11o: b r ow s three quarters, was received with warm aPP, r , , w hich throughout. The large room in the Town-ht; W i t h will hold 1,000 persons, was the whole time fill n gentlo ne-' a highly respectable audience of ladies and SUNDERLAND, SEPT. 19.—The strike of shirt r c i: penters at this port may be said already to be at an eTr,.. As we anticipated, the masters have in nearly ev,..`' r, n d stance given the advanced wages of 21s. per w ee %,' the men have consequently resumed their ernP l(9 Trade is still improving, and as freights keep on the,g o to vance (10s. 6d. per ton having been paid for coia_, London to-day and 121. per keel for Ilarab ur gh). sp u l;, building will speedily be brisk at this and the n ei g h ing ports. BIRTHS. gen t , WS' On the 17th inst., at Plaistow, near Bromley, ElOnias, of a son. Wad e ' the 18th inst., in Dean-street, Soho, Mrs. Rob ert of a daughter. On the 18th inst., the lady of Robert Hun ter Sso3Ple, surgeon, of Sans-buildings, Islington, of a On the 23d of May, at St. Helena, MARRIED. J o h n genr.y t to ~ Georg e Powel Blachford, Esq., of the Commissariat Departrneeleii, Emma Jane, eldest daughter of J. Moss, Esq.! of St ' 11 f the On the 17th ult., at Florence, Alberic, eldest son e gist Marquis Balbian, of Colcavagno, Piedmont, to do u se, youngest daughter of S. Price, Esq., of H endon Hendon. ____.-------- lED On the 15th inst., at Bal D lymac . oll, Meath; Gertrude beth, youngest daughter of the Baron de Robeck. „11 On the 15th inst., Benjamin Barlow, Es , l , °f the * near On R the 17th ochdale in aged O. gar rtt st., at Shanwick-pl ace , Edinburgh , le a sed daughter of the late Sir William HOIVIIIILII, of Armada G Bart. On the y 19th inst., in King William-street, Ilarvel , the fant son of Hugh P. Fuller. On the 19th inst., at South Lodge Edgware John Au s Liu Tlirupr, of Spanish-place, 11.1:,kachestor-snJare ,o London: Printed and Published by MUSD° 1 -0 I ", ti. "' „T 02 , No. 112, i Strand, Printer, at The Sus Oftlo3l,, n 4 l ° ' of Strand, n the Precinct of the Savov, the vv" — raidale4a, filitardoh goePtember 21 - • ffo. G I Btu .....__ , ANy r itt weDrt 1 4101 1 Of the Mott Nott. Ti bntq t to b e 2.5 th 11 The 4 ,,' 3 C 0 /1( coue3 Thi ternt, * es tag lea kri se (4 0 t If ids kr to -........ 8 yb teAt; ley --__