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to the Irish people —to persevere—(Cheers ;" We will.") It was a time to gain golden opinions, and his absence would be painful if he thought they would relax. They had much to contend against—misstate ments and lies. The Globe, for instance, denied that the rebellion of '9B was fostered by Government in order to effect the union more easily.—(Cheers.) He had five witnesses to that fact—Lord Plunkett, Burke, Saurin, Scott, Lord Clonmel, and the fact that Colonel Maquare was in communication for eleven months previously with the Government, and that they knew the abode of every colonel and cap tain all the time. They had fanned discontent into rebellion ; the men of Wexford nearly turned rebellion into a revolution.—(Loud cheers.) The Irish people were content that their own Church should be supported on the voluntary principle. They had never been guilty of persecution. They had been three times in power since the Reformation, and if a single instance could be shown in which they perse cuted Protestants, he would give up the repeal agita tion for ever. There were but two countries in Eu rope in which persecution was enforced by law, and neither were Catholic countries. A statement had been made at a recent religious meeting at Glasgow, that a woman had been persecuted in the island of Madeira for leaving the Catholic faith, but on inquiry it was found to be an utterly unfounded rumour.— (Cheers.) In Sweden, a Protestant country, an emi nent artist was recently banished for life for having become a Catholic, but nothing of that nature was witnessed in Catholic countries. There could be no danger, were it even otherwise, of the Catholics per secuting in Ireland, for there would be ninety-nine out of a hundred of the Irish House of Peers Pro testants, and he was convinced that more than half of an Irish House of Commons would belong to the same persuasion. After again expressiong his hope that during his brief absence in the country the business of thesAssociation would be carried on with as much order and energy as if he had continued present % the Honourable and Learned Gentleman concluded by re• minding them that it was by perseverance and order they could alone expect to succeed, and to see their country again what they all desired her to be, and what nature intended she should be— " Great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth, first gem of the sea" The Hon. Mr. IftyrcurssoN bore testimony to the observations of Mr. O'Cennell with regard to the Irish rebellion. That rebellion, if not planned, was at least fostered by th e English Government, and he could state this fact on the authority of his father and uncle, Lord Hutchinson.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. STEELE handed in a sum of money, and said he would take that opportunity of cautioning the executive against receiving reports of meetings fur nished by policemen and such characters, which could not by any possibility be correct. If the Government wished for reports let them employ gentlemen, such as his' friend Mr. Hodge (the Government reporter), to whose accuracy and fidelity he could bear the strongest testimony.—(Hear, hear.) After some further business had been disposed of, Mr. O'Connell announced the rent for the week to be 6001. 12s. 6d.—The meeting then adjourned. THE CEDRYN SLATE QUARRY IN CARNARVONSHIRE. It is a circumstance of rare occurrence for a slate quarry to be in the market. The great abundance of money renders the time for this auction very au spicious, and we suspect very few capitalists will be able to resist the temptations held out in the printed particular of this important sale, as detailed by Mr. George Robins. We refer our readers for a full, true, and particular account, to the description we have alluded to. The following is extracted from it : THE CEDRYN SLATE QUARRY is of great extent ; it is situate in CARNARVONSHIRE, NORTH WALES. If it be inquired why a concern that is so highly eulo gised should be in the market, it is rejoined (tu use a very ancient and very homely adage), " too many cooks frequently spoil the broth," one competent person, pos sessing a brain farm, will speedily accomplish all which this announcement has in perspective, and even more under a talented direction. The slate is of excellent quality, of a rich grey-blue colour, and can be had in abundance under a very thin cover. The work is al ready about 40 yards wide, and is capable of bAng ex tend'd to upwards of 180 yards, where a large number of men may be employed most advantageously, and with out the slightest risk. This is an investment affording a rare opportunity to any party with moderate capital to realise a large fortune. The observations which fallow are extracted from a Welsh paper, and fully demonstrate the accuracy of the foregoing statement:— We have been in Carnarvonshire to see the quarry, and our opinions are, that there is sournhing extraordi nary in it; it can be made, with a few thousands outlay, THE MOST EXTENSIVE CONCERN OF THIS SORT THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ! The vein of pure slate is ascertained to be no less than 180 yards wide, and at least half a mile in length, with out any obstruction, and as deep as any parties may feel inclined to go, wherein there is sufficient quantity of that useful material to supply the whole world for centuries to come ; and with good management the profits would —they could not be less than from 100 to 150 per cent. upon the outlay, after it is put in proper order. It will employ many hundred men to advantage. Another de sirable point connected with this concern is, that the cover of earth on the surface is only two or three yards deep, whereas most of the quarries are under ten or fifteen yards cover. The workshops, waggons, and work ing utensils are in good repair, as also the road, three miles of which has been made at the expense of nearly 2,0001.; these will be included in the purchase. Another point is worthy of consideration, the work is on the side of the celebrated Carnarvon hills, and a sufficient decli vity affords to the water a cheap conveyance to THE BEAUTIFUL EIGIA LAKE, which splendid waters are full of fish, and consequently afford lots of amusement. The hill prevents the possi bility of any annoyance to the works from water. The distance to a capital shipping wharf is only seven miles, and but nine to the intended CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD GREAT RAILWAY. The name of the concern is the Cedryn Quarry, it is situated about ten miles from Bangor, and the same dis tance from Conway and Llanrwst; in the centre between the three towns. It is held under the Right Hon. Lord Newborough, for an unexpired term of twenty-eight years, which can be extended at any time. In conclusion, we can only add that the quarry ought to produce a considerable sum, as it is a sure fortune for any spirited party who may be lucky enough to get it. This unpretending statement of facts will convince even those inclined to be sceptical, that it is an investment free from doubt or uncertainty. It may be well to add that this property is in no way connected with the Pimlico Slate Works. PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS. - Farren and Mrs Glover have, during the last week, been delighting the Bristolians in the standard comedies of the School for Scan dal, the Rivals, the Clandestine Marriage, and Wives as they Were and Maids as they Are. They were admirably supported by Mrs. Seymour, of whose acting in Lady Teazle the Bristol Times speaks in the following terms : Her acting in Lady Teazle was the best performance of that part we have seen ; in the passages where it was required, there was a degree of esprit and archness such as we have rarely seen equalled, but never excelled : yet in the serious parts, particularly in the scene in which having been discovered in the apartments of Joseph Surface, she advances and denounces the hypocrite, her acting was both dignified and impressive. A lady of such talents cannot, we should presume, be long a stranger to the metropolitan boards. In addition to these sterling old comedies, Farrell appeared in Secret Service and Grandfather Whitehead, and to their praise be it spoken, so delighted were the Bristol play-goers with this last exquisite drama, as to require its repeti tion on a second occasion. THE BANK CHARTER.—On the 10th of October next the following provision in the new Bank of England Charter will take effect:—Section 28, "And be it enacted that every banker in England and Wales, who, after the 10th of October, 1844, shall issue bank-notes, shall, on some one day in every week after the 19th of October, 1844, (such day to be fixed by the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes) transmit to the said Commissioners an account of the amount of bank-notes of such banker in circulation on every day during the week ending on the next preceding Saturday, and also an account of the average amount of the bank-notes of such banker in circulation during the same week, and on completing the first period of four weeks, and so on completing each successive period of four weeks, every such banker shall annex to such account, the average amount of bank-notes of such banker, in circulation during the said four weeks, and also the amount of bank -notes which such banker is authorised to issue under the provisions of this Act, and every such account so verified by the signature of such banker, or his chief cashier, or in case of a com pany or partnership, by the signature of a managing director, or partner, or chief cashier of such company or partnership, and shall be made in the form to this Act an nexed, marked (B), and so much of the saidreturns as states , the weekly average amount of the notes of such bank shall be published by the Commissioners in the next succeeding London Gazette, in which the same 'nay be conveniently inserted ; and if any such banker shall refuse to render any such account in the form, and at the time required by this Act, or shall at any time rend er a false account, such banker shall forfeit the sum of 1001. for every such offence." MIL HUME AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.—Mr. Hume addressed his constituents at Montrose on Friday after noon. The Guildhall was filled with a numerous and attentive audience on the occasion. Mainly, the address delivered by the Hon. Member was similar to that spoken by him in Arbroath on the previous day. It was now 52 years since he left this his nati ve pl ace , d ar i ng which long period he had been in various countries, not alto gether inobservant of "men and manners ;" and the re sult of his observations was, that the poor man in this country, from the unequal taxation and unequal legisla tion, waa in d less favoured situation than in any other country where there was the shadow of government. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by expressing his readiness to forward the interests of the burgh at all times ; and afterwards partook of wine and cake with the magis trates in the council-roGea. On Monday Mr. Hume ad dressed his constituents in Breehin ; and on Tuesday, the electors and inhabitants from a window in the Town hall in the aming—Montrose Review. THE SUN, LONDO WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, X 844. AT a very numerous MEETING of GENTLE MEN, who have formed themselves into a COMMITTEE in SUPPORT of ALDERMAN WOOD, held at the Swan-with- Two-Necks, Lad.lane, on Wednesday, 18th September, 1844, WILLIAM COATES, Esq., in the Chair, The Chairman informed the meeting that some time since a state ment in writing had been furnished to him by Alderman Wood, explaining fully his connexion with the Talacre Mining Company, which statement he had carefulfy perused, and then submitted it in manuscript to the several Gentlemen of the Sub-Committee for scrutiny and remarks, and they had come to the unanimous con clusion that it was a full, complete, and satisfactory answer to the illiberal and unfounded charges made against the Alderman. Mr. Alderman Wool) entered into a full statement of his con. nexions with the Talacre Company. A letter was read from the Rev. Mr. Perry, a clergyman and magistrate residing at Llanassa, stating that coals were abundantly met with at the Talacre coal and mining properties, and that the new Company were realising a handsome return from the efforts of their labours. It was moved by Mr. Under. Sheriff ANDERTON, and seconded by Mr. E. HARRISON, and carried unanimously : " That it is the opinion of this meeting the charges made against Mr. Alderman Wood with reference to his connexion with the Talacre Coal and Iron Company, are groundless and un founded ; and that such charges have been most fully and satis. factorily refuted in the statement submitted tc this meeting." It was moved by Mr. Deputy MunDLE, and seconded by Mr. HOLT, and carried unanimously:— "That the above statement be printed for distribution, and that the Livery be earnestly invited to attend at Guildhall, on Satur_ day, the 28th September instant, at twelve o'clock, to support the nomination of Mr. Alderman Wood, in due rotation, to fill the office of Lord Mayor for the ensuing year." It was moved by Mr. CURTIS, and seconded by Mr. MOWBRAT, and carried unanimously : "That the gentlemen present, with such others as may hereafter join them, be a Committee to conduct the nomination and election by poll (if demanded) of Mr. Alderman Wood for Lord Mayor." It was moved by H. S. S➢fITH, and seconded by Mr. JOYCE, and carried unanimously:— " That these resolutions be published in the usual Morning and vening Papers, under the discretion of the Committee." Mr. Alderman WOOD proposed a vote of thanks to the Chair man, which was carried unanimously. TIIE CHILD'S OWN BOOK. In a very handsome volume, square 16m0., price 7s. 6d., bound in cloth, THE CHILD'S OWN BOOK, illustrated with _ilk_ nearly Three Hundred Engravings. The Sixth Edition. London : Printed for Thomas 'Pegg, 73, Cheapside, and Bowdery and Kirby, Oxford-street, where may be had, just published, with en tirely New Cuts," The Girl s Own 1T00k,7 by Mrs. Child, the Thirteenth Edition. N ICHOLS'S MORNING EXERCISES AT CRIPPLEGATE. On Tuesday, the Ist of October, In a large volume, closely printed, price 12s. in cloth, MORNING EXERCISES AT CRIPPLE GATE, St. Liles-in-the-Field, and in Southwark. The Fifth Edition, carefully collated and corrected, by JAMES IsTICHOLS. Volume IV. (to be completed in Six Volumes.) London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside, and may be pro cured by order of all other Booksellers, of whom may be had the first Three Volumes, a few copies of which remain on hand. Now ready, in 2 vols. small Bvo., price 245. bound, R EVELATIONS OF RUSSIA; OR, THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS AND HIS EMPIRE IN 1844. BY ONE WHO HAS SEEN AND DESCRIBES. " Tot ou tard tout se scait."—Maintenon. Our readers will find in these "Revelations of Russia," interspersed th the most amusing anecdotes, the best account of Nicholas, of e condition of his Subjects and serfs, of the Cossack of St. Peters ur gli and its inhabitants, of the secret police, laws, military and aval strength of the empire, &c. The chapters on Circassia are full f interest ; so is the history of the conspiracy of the Nobility in 3 5, and their unsuccessful revolt. We very sincerely recoirmend uch of our readers as may desire to obtain the completest idea of Russian power, and the nature of Russian society and manners to be found in any one book, to peruse these well-written and important volumes."--Sunday Times. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Oct. 1, price One Shilling, the First Number of THE NEW EDINBURGH REVIEW ; A CRITICAL JOURNAL AND MAGAZINE. CONTENTS:- Advances since the Peace — Lard Malmesbury's Diary and Cor respondence—Mrs. Shelley's Rambles in Italy—Life of Lord Chan cellor Eldon—True Origin of v;ypsles—Autobiography of a Living Writer—Character of the Americans—The Cycle of Nature—lmpor tance of Trifles—Memoranda by a Public Character of Eminence— Royal Etiquette—Monuments to the Great—The Old Edinburgh Re viewers—Hints to Lawyers—lmperfections of Science, &c. London : Hayward and Adam, 48, Paternoster-row ; and J. Edinburgh. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET Will OPEN for the SEASON on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, with the same Talented Company that has hitherto obtained such plpularity and distinguished patronage, with a revived Comedy, a Comic Drama, and a Popular Farce. Box-office to be opened on Saturday, the 28th instant. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI, Lessee, Mr. B. NVEBSTER, NV :1 OPEN for the SEASON, under the Management of Madame CELESTE, on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2& During the recess the Theatre has been entirely repainted and decorated in the mo,t costly and elegant style by Mr. I'. Ireland and assistants, the Boxes so arranged as to give a perfect view cf the stage, and in every cepartreent strict attention paid to the comfort and convenience of the public, :nd perfect ventilation throughout the Theatre. A splen. did new ch . .ndelier in glass has been ii troduced at considerable ex pense, executed by Mr. Phillips. Also, a new curtain, and a new act drop designed and paint d by Mr C. Marshall. Is ew Manage. ment, Old Favourites, and New Pieces. LIST OF COMPANY. Madame Ce'este Miss Augelyne Mr. 0. Smith Mrs. Yates Miss Maurice Mr. Wilkinson Mrs. Fitzwilliam Miss Lonsdale Mr. C. Selby Miss Woolgar Miss Fleming Mr. Cowe 1 Mrs. F. Mathews Miss Simpson Mr. Maynard Miss Chaplin Ikliss Johnson Mr. Worrell Ai iss E. Harding Miss Bell Mr. Cullenford NI iSs Vernon Miss Taylor Mr. Sander s Miss Thimes Mr. Hudson Mr. Cooper Miss Worrace Mr Wright Mr. Lindon Mrs. Glenny Mr. Paul Bedford Mr. Sylvester Miss Brooks Mr. C. llibdin Pitt Mr. Glenny Miss Jones Mr. J. Vining Mr. Mitchenson Miss Schmidt Mr. Lambert Mr. Fenton. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—B o x—ortice will be opened on Thursday next, from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. Another great Achievement Successfully Triumphant ! ! T o attempt to eulogise the gorgeous splendour of the New Extrava ganza of " Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, or New Lamps for Old Ones," would be a work of supererogation ; the Manage ment, therefore, contents itself by simply stating that it will be repeated every Evening! THIS EVENING, SEPT. 25, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLX. WIT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, F. Vining, Emery, 4it4 7-lathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley; Miss E. Chaplin, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss roves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. lb conclude with an entirely Original, and much better than New' Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern Pale, in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal cha racters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, J. W. Collier, and Keeley; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Woolli ige, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, MI Al James, Miss Carson, Miss Hunt, Miss Reede, &c., &c. PRICES OF A DMISSION.--Balcony Boxes. 45.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s.*; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2y. ; Upper Boxes, is 6d.; l'it, Is. Private Boxes on the Tier holding eight persons), Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Iler (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a.HaIE Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guirea• The Box-ottice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direr. lion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Nightly overflows, and Re.engagement of the wonders of Mr. Carter, the American Lion King for this Week. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 25, Will be performed a Grand Spectacle Extraordinary, and First and only appearance of Sir W. Blanchard, Mr. Coney, and Mr. W. Sm it h 'a wonderful . rained dog Hector, in i he FOREST OF BONDY, Splendid Feats of Horsemanship, FRENCH IN MOROCCO, and the Great Steeple Chase on the Stage and in the Circle. Acting and stage.an tnager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. It. Smith. DAVIDGE's ROYAL SURREY THEATRE Immense Success of the " Protector" and " The Road_of Life"— Continued Engagement of Mr. G. Wild. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 25, Will be performed THE PROTECTOR; or, THE REBEL'S GAUNTLET. Characters by Messrs. F. F. Saville, H. Hughes, Hicks, Mrs. H. Hughes, Mrs. R. Honner, &c. After which, THE ROAD OF LIFE. Supported by Messrs. G. Wild, R. Honner, Neville, Rogers, Mrs. H. Hughes, Mrs. Hicks, MSS E. Torrey, &c. To conclude with ANGELS AND LUCIFERS, in which Mr, G. Wild will perform his Original Character. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.. tßice, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 25, Will be performed GUY MAN NERING. Colonel Mannering, Mr. Osbaldiston ; Henry Bertram, Mr. Binge; Lucy Bertram, Miss Vincent; Julia Mannering, Miss Louisa Lyons; Meg Merrilies, Mrs. W. West. With an Ethiopian Entertainment by the celebrated AMERICAN SOUTHERN MINSTRELS, introducing the most beautful of their Native Melodies. After which, A DEAD SHOT. Mr, Timid, Mr. J. Herbert; Louisa Lovetrick, Miss Vincent. Te conduct" with GIOVANNI IN LONDON. Don Giovanni, Miss Louisa Lyons ; Leporello, Mr. J. Herbert. Private Family Boxes, .£1 Is. Od. and XI lie. 6d. STRAND THEATRE'. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 25, Will be performed M ANTI N CH UZ ZLE WI f. Young Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Ranoe; Old Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Ayliffb; Jonas Chuzzlewit, Mr A ttwood; Montague I igg, Mr. Roberts; Tom Pinch, Mr. Biddies; Mr. Pecksniff, and Mrs. Sairey Gamp, Mr. H. Hall; Mary Graham, Mrs. Coleman Pope. After which, 131 NKS, THE BAGMAN. Supported by Messrs. Wright, l'aul Bedford, and Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with an Original Burlesque, entitled THE WON DERFUL LAMP, in a New Light, being an Illustrated Version 1 Aladdin. Abanazar, Mr. Paul Bedford; Aladdin, Mr. Wright ; Princess Badroulbadour, Miss E. Stanley. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. LAS!' WEEK BUT TWO. EXTRAORDINARY AND NOVEL ATTRACTIONS. On MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and THURSDAY, throughout the Season, the Gardens will open with the following attractive Novelties : THE PICTURESQUE GROUNDS—FEEDING OF THE ANIMALS—UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. MODELS of VENICE and LONDON in the OLDEN TIME Painted by Dawson and Telbin. The sensation caused by this unrivalled production Is beyond all former ,iecedent; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer are all struck with its extraordinay beauty and fidelity of deim. Lion, and are unanimous in pronouncing it the most wonderful ex hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle for the terrific display at Dusk is unjust; it should be seen in the calm stillness of the quiet Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa.. eious Lake, to be fully appreciated. Beethoven's celebrated Battle Sinfonia, descriptive of an En gagement between the French and English Armies. The Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS on Mondays, Tues.. days, Wednesdays, and Thursdays connucted Dy Mr. Godfrey , are upon a scale of more than usual excellence; lint words fail In doing justice to the awful representation of THE GREAT FIRE O} LONDON. Its fearful characteristics are truthfully pourtrayed, but at the same time so beautifidly blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic Art, mat delight is predominant over terror; and the 'thousands who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit that ::outliby, :the Unrivalled Pyrotechnist has achieved a matchless triumph. The Gardens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect state, And combining so many and interesting features, are by far the most attraf:tive lounge in or near the metropolis. Doors open at Nine—Feeding of the Animals at Half-past Four— Concert at Half-past Five.—Conflagration at Dusk. Admittance, One Shilling. LAST IVEEE.Z.—TIIE NAPOLEON MUSEUM. The Manager beg 3 respectfully to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that the very Extensive' and Magnificent NAPOLEON MUSEITM will CLOSE on SATURDAY NEXT, the 28th instant. Efs'yptian The Admission is One Shilling. Hall, Piccadilly, September 21, 1844. RENEWA L OF THE SURREY TOLLS.— The public have been greatly astonished at the renewal of the Surrey tolls, notwithstanding the recent destruction of th e gates and bars, and the general supposition that the tolls were abolished by Act of Parliament. In the Borough-road, a small wooden toll-house has been erected, and the old gates have been restored. On the toll-house there is printed an announcement that, on Sundays, such charges (mentioning the amounts) will in future be made for horses and carriages, which, it appears, are claimable by the Borough, under a local Act. Tolls are also still charged at the gate leading from London-bridge to the Elephant and Castle, which belongs to the Surrey new road, as the Act under which such tolls are enforced does not expire for two years from this date. The tolls abolished belonged to the Surrey new trust. TM, WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, SEPT. 25. TITERMOMETER, Lowest, 43; Highest, 63; Noon, 59. BAROMETER, 30.25.—Winn, N.N.E. Noi.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is amally placed opposite 33, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 49 minutes after 01 Evening ... 12 minutes after I , :„, Vw Apill 4 ••`TIY,-F r,z - 7\ - -P l lll6- °it v . , • 0,N.v.•m,„,. • • SECOND EDITION. ettitilillj LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1844. The approaching election of an Alderman of the Corporation of London to the distinguished and respon sible post of Lord Mayor of this great city, appears to demand from us a few words of incidental commen tary. The importance of the position—the moral influence which the annual contest for its occupation may be considered to exercise on the character and conduct of those who are already, or may, in after life, become eligible for it ;—the distinction which its te nure, short-lived though it be, must be considered as conferring on the private demeanour and public in tegrity of its holder,;—these are trite topics that readily suggest themselves to every mind, and re quire no sort of elaboration at our hands. But in proportion as they are trite, and thus readily sug gested, it is expedient that their application should not be perverted by prejudice, or passion, or secret ill-will, or avowed hostility, to the wrong of any individual presenting himself to the notice of his fellow-citizens as a candidate for the office. There is no circumstance more remarkable about the pending canvass, if we may venture thus to designate it, for the Mayoralty, than the feeling of distrust, or the presumption of disqualification, which it is actively attempted to ex cite against Mr. Alderman THOMAS WOOD—the senior Alderman—and therefore entitled, by the cus tom, at least, of the Corporation, to be elected into the civic chair. We crave the reader's attention to a report which we have given in another column, of certain proceedings at a recent meeting, held at the Swan with Two Necks, of the friends of Mr. Alderman WOOD, assembled for the purpose of supporting his appeal on the present occasion. They seem very satisfactory. It will be remembered that, some years ago, the connexion which Mr. Alderman T. WOOD had had the misfortune to form with a certain Joint-Stock Company, became a subject not only of legal pro ceedings in the Law Courts, but of angry and con flicting comment in the columns of some of our Contemporaries. It really appears to us that the animadversions which have, in this way, been heaped upon the Alderman's head are absolutely undeserved, judging of their amount and extent from the state.. ments put forward by those who oppose his election and impeach his eligibility. If we are right in thi s impression, it is our duty to endeavour to instil it into the minds of others : for, so long as the perversion of facts, and the prejudice thereby generated, which we have spoken of, are permitted to prevail—unrefuted because unexamined—so long is an individual of some mark and considerable ability ousted of the legi timate aim of an honourable ambition ; so long, indeed, are his character, his prospects, and his sta tion in society seriously compromised. Let us see what the sum of . the charges against Mr. Aldermrai THOMAS WOOD really is. It is imputed to him, first, that he and the other Directors of the Talacre Iron Company appropriated to their own use a large number of shares, as fully paid up, without advancing the money for the calls thereon :—Mr Alderman WOOD'S answer is both emphatic and circumstantial, and confirmed by the report of those whom the General Meeting of Share holders had delegated to inquire into the whole affairs of the Company. He denies that he ever sanctioned —he proves that he expressly op posed—such appropriation, on the ground of its in justice to the General Proprietory ; that although the other Directors accepted such shares, he refused to take them, even after they had been by those Directors expressly received for him in his absence from town ; (facts that appear on their "Minutes.") He shows that he afterwards persuaded several of those Dire(:toxs to relinquish their thus appropriated shares, and that he himself held but twenty shares, on which he duly paid all the calls. Secondly, It is urged that he held various offices in this Company, such as director trustee, and chairman. He replies, that he was not the originator of the Company; such appointments as he held were pressed on him by the Prop'tietors ; and such duties as he discharged were performed by him without fee or reward ; that, far from 'caking or making anything, from or by, the Company, he is a loser of several thousands of pounds by the specula tion ; that these offices, so held by him, were not in consistent the one with the other, and are commonly held by one and the same person in a Company of this nature. Thirdly, In the next place, he has been ac cused of deceiving the public by sending coals to Dublin, represented as of very superior quality, and the produce of the Talacre mine, but really obtained from some other pit. His answer is, that the Company took its name of " Talacre" from the appellation of Sir EDWARD MOSTYN'S seat, Sir EDWARD being the party from whom they rented their coal-fields ; that they had three coal-pits, respectively known the " Picton," the "Bryn," and the " Marsn." 'te coals sent to Dublin were produced in, and xaised from the "Bryn," where they are of very superior quality, and such coals, therefore, we, in act and truth, as represented—" Coals from the Talacre Works," &c. The last of these principal charges is—that on the purchase-money having to be paid to the l essors :of the mines, Mr. Alderman WOOD refused to join with his co- Directors in signing bills of exchange, with the view of thus evading personal liability, and of transferring such liability on the shoulders of his colleagues. But he shows that he had already assumed the like liability, by the execution of a deed of covenant for payment of this very debt ;—that "artich.ls" into which he had entered with his partner precluded him, (under a condition very common in partnership deeds), from signing bills of exchange; but that his not concurring in such a step with the other Direc tors was so far from working to him any such ex emption from the same liability, that he has actually been sued in the matter. Again we say, to us this seems a most reasonable and s4tisfactory defence to the charges. That the Alderman should have been mixed up with any Joint-Stock Company is to be regretted ; but the fact infers an error of judgment, only, common (as was observed at the meeting of his friends) to some three fourths of his Alderrnanic brethren. That he should have been a severe sufferer by his connexion with a bad Company is an argument to show that he acted with no kind of fraudulent intentions as to others. His private and his professional character are allowed by his opponents, as well as his friends, to be unimpeachable. Then, on what grounds should he be deprived of the benefit of a precedent which , would make his seniority on the list of Aldern.:ien eligible to be elected to the Mayoralty, a guarantee for his election on this occasion? If there be, thus, no ground of objection to him on the score of professional conduct or private character, is there any on the score of unfitness or incompetency for the office he seeks ? So far from it, he has already filled the office of chairman of many important committees in the Corporation, and is most eminent in his own immediate vocation. Are we to suppose that he has compromised his conventional title to be elected, by not having come forward at an earlier period of these charges to give the same satisfactory answers to them which he has now brought under the public eye, or to make still more ample disclosures of all facts involved in the history of his connexion with the Talacre Company ? Why, it is notorious that any man, who might volunteer a detailed state ment of all the circumstances attending a transaction of this kind, might thereby—howev er bl ameless or _ _ _ _ even commendable, they should establish his con duct to have been, to ruin, by thus exposing himself to an endless succession of legal, though most unfair liabilities, which legal subtlety and the constructions of technical ingenuity would at once rivet upon him, through pleas founded on such admissions on his own part. The public, of course, would have no right to demand of any man any such suicidal proceeding. But with what justice and force might not his own family reproach him for having, by an act of exaggerated simplicity, demolished his own fortune, and destroyed their natural prospects and equitable rights ? Suppose Mr. Alderman WOOD to have addressed himself to one of the highest legal functionaries in the kingdom, complaining that certain publications had much maligned and misrepresented him in an affair of this nature, and asking advice as to the institution of civil actions or criminal indict ments with a view to redress and vindication, we can imagine the QUEEN'S Attorney-General replying to him—" I have read these papers, perused your an swers, studied the documentary evidence you have sent in to prove them. I am clearly of opinion that they establish the fact of the libel you com plain of, and vindicate your character ; but, I am as clearly of opinion that, to put them on a record, or to introduce them into a plea, would cover you with overwhelming liabilities for all the acts, debts, and obligations of the Company with which you have connected yourself." Of course we are in no sort of condition to say, or even to assume, that the facts of the Talacre Company's affairs warrant any such hypothesis. But it is a fair hypothesis for our purpose; and on this ground and for the reasons we have offered above, we really live that Mr. Alderman T. WOOD may successfully proceed to election as Lord Mayor of London. A grand ball and supper have recently been given, in the Corporation Hall of Londonderry, in honour of Lady SALE. We congratulate the townspeople of that renowned city on the credit they have done themselves by this homage to our heroic country woman. We congratulate those individuals among the men of Derry, with whom the necessary arrange ments rested, on the good tact and judgment they have displayed, in taking care to mark their compli ment as specially destined for her ladyship. To her gallant and excellent husband they had already evinced their cordial respect, by that sensible, Eng lish-like, intelligible, expressive form of greeting—a public dinner, at which he was TIIE guest—the re spected, and reverenced, and greeted of all present at it. To Lady SALE the homage of a ball, glitter ing with all the adornments which the vicinity of the city, and the whole county of Derry, indeed, could furnish of distinguished station, of beauty, rank, and fashion, of civil eminence or aristocratic connexion— was a more appropriate and graceful tribute of atten tion. It was susceptible of enhancement by, perhaps, one only concomitant, and this the people of Derry did not fail to attach to their invitation—for her noble husband, at once the partner of her fortunes and her liberator from a fearful captivity, was, as he would have desired to be, amidst the rapine and desolation of Cabul, the captivity of Jellalabad, and the multi plied perils of the Khoord-Cabul pass—at her side. All honour, we cry, with our Irish compatriots, to the self-devoting, the calm and collected, the intrepid, and yet gentle, Englishwoman, whose exalted sympa thies with her ill-starred fellow sufferers—whose strong and unclouded mind, and unwavering energy— whose quiet resignation to the will of PROVIDENCE, combined with the generous solicitude of her active humanity on behalf of friends, kinsmen, and followers, sore wounded and faint with agony, or fast perishing beneath the destructive fire of ambushed enemies, or the yet more relentless snows and frosts of the savage and cloud-capt crags through which they urged this terrible retreat—all honour to her, whose magnani mity, and fortitude, and resolution, shed a halo of glory, and of triumph, even upon that ap palling spectacle of disorganisation, discomfiture, and disgrace, from which our mutilated army had to force its desperate way. This great, this memorable woman cheered the desponding, way-worn, bleeding soldier, whose first breath had been drawn beneath the temperate skies of her own well-remembered and happy home, in that far distant land to which she must have felt in secret that there was little chance or none that either of them ever should return. In vain she staunched the gaping wounds of the be- Joved husband of her beloved daughter. With each new call ofduty, in that long and hideous pilgrimage through defiles rife with human carnage and military ruin—the gallant STURT, heedless of his sufferings, reckless of his own life in the anxiety to provide for the protection of others, flew to the points where the Khoord robbers or the Affghan soldiery had rushed in upon our broken columns in the greatest numbers, and with the fiercest fury, till the death which he had so inces santly defied relieved him, sword in hand, from the protracted anguish of his honourable wounds. But neither bereavements of . this inexpressible mag nitude, nor her own suffenng—for the musketry of the mountaineers had not respected even her person— could withdraw Lady SALM from the sacred task of consoling, reanimating, exhorting, attending, reliev ing the miserable and multiplied victims of the mur derous treachery and fanatical resentment which pur sued, and hung upon, and decimated the retreating force on every side. The undaunted sepoy—first and boldest of our native subjects and allies—after exhibiting in Cabul, among the howling defiles of the Khyber Pass, before Jellalabad, or on the plains of the Punjaub, an emulous heroism which had recorded him to all posterity in the same rank of military valour and conduct with his European teachers and leaders, and had extiAguished the old distinction of respective pre sidencies, in estimating sepoy service, by one common course of sustained and daring achievements in the fiel,d ;—this sepoy blessed with his dying breath the fair English hand which ministered to his last wants (who had been reared beneath the burning sun o f Southern or of Western India), among the eternal snows and icy winds of the mountain ranges of Central Asia. The touching accents and the commanding devotion of this heroism inspired the most exhausted soldiers with renewed energy, the faint-hearted with ir resistible confidence. Her impressive example confirmed the still resolute, upheld the wavering; and a gene rous sharne at the contemplation of so much intrepidity in a woman, the partner of their dangers, the companion of their flight, the witness of their efforts, the partici pator of their sufferings, soon resulted in the infusion of an enthu s ia s tic and salutary assurance of speedy succour and success into the hearts and councils of all around her. The events which justified these anticipations restored her to the arms of her gallant husband and her surviving comrades, for it is her proud privilege to be authorised thus to speak of the valiant wreck of an Anglo-British army, to the victorious protection of their countrymen. Honour to this illus trious lady, let us once more exclaim. But are the citizens of Derry to be alone in this great work ? Is the National gratitude, is the National chivalry, at so low an ebb that its tide cannot greet with some tributary offering so noble an object for its honours ? Are the fountains from whence, by an axiom —(shall it, indeed, be said by a "fiction")—of the Constitu tion, all graces and honours to the subject are sup posed to be derived, to be closed or dried up at her approach, whose contact with them can possibly im part more ennobling virtue to, than it can receive from, them ? Or is it, in this age of political prudery, in these days of cant about official precedent and the custom of departments, that neither royal condescension nor ministerial recommendation, nor the public will, can be moved to confer some lasting memorial of an empure's respect for transcendent conduct and ex ,2mplary virtues, because where it would have been n m conceded ne dd e a , r s l in ee matt vs se n e r e ax o t lr f easos o r curse ddieigiar re t y o e a t eh n xe y i gs m ea nm a c n ei , e who qualifica tionstha i d s e ecu inlbetr that thought to be d ecorous to withhold it from a woman, who has evinc e d th ese merits, who has established theseca aaegzcabinets pretensionseet, st u difficulty ? emergencies under d remember theirhigofhetshtepomssosibtleextent unexampledan h d and and Itt L ist y $A LE must uscourts not and b be forgotten. Accounts from Madrid to the 17th instant have reached us. The appointment of M. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA to the department of Foreign Affairs is bit terly attacked by the Opposition journals. They dread the alterations which they say he intends to propose in the Constitution of 1837. The Castellano, in reply, observes, " that M. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, instructed by long experience, would now adopt a wiser course. If, at the commencement of the civil war in 1834," he deemed it expedient not to press any important measures of reform, for fear of detaching and frightening the Royalists; now, when the revolution is over, he cannot be influenced by the same considerations." El Globo reminds the detrac tors of M. MARTLazz Da LA ROSA that it was be who:contributed most, after Queen CHRISTINA, to re establish the constitutional system in Spain, in 1834. " The Liberal of 1812 and 1820, the Minister who, after the demise of the KING, opened the doors of Par liament, has not, as asserted by El Clamor Publico, constantly resisted the progress of liberty, and the re forms of civilisation. M. MARTINEZ DE LA RosA never regarded the Estatuto Real as a work of per fection, or a definitive concession, but merely as the basis upon which the structure might be erected." We are inclined to believe, with the Castellano and the Globo, that the Spanish Ministry do not now in tend to propose very extensively anti-liberal altera tions in the Constitution of 1837, but we also believe that they did at one time intend to propose those al terations, and that they are only prevented from doing so at present by the dread of a Carlist outbreak in the north, which, should it take place, will force CHRISTINA to adopt a conciliatory policy towards Liberals of all classes. On the subject of the threat ened Carlist outbreak, a private letter from Bayonne of the 20th inst. says : " The state of Navarre excites the attention of the Spanish Government far more than is generally believed. Besides the forces marched to that province, a formid able police is about to be organised in it. A superior officer of the new gendarmerie, or guardias civiles, left Madrid on the 16th, in order to organise that corps. The Carlists are stirring up the country in the most energetic manner. More than six thousand proclama tions, published in the name of Don Carlos, were about to be forwarded from Bayonne to Pampeluna, Estella, San Esteban, Lodoso, and other points, when a counter order arrived which suspended operations ; nevertheless, everything is ready for a movement. A friend of mine has seen these six thousand proclamations in a house of this town. A good number of deserters from the army, and of young men whom the Quinta includes, continue to arrive at Bayonne. If a Carlist band, provided with some money, were suddenly to appear in the environs of Pampeluna, you may rest assured that it would be joined, within a fortnight, by three or four hundred refractory recruits." The scrutiny of the votes has made no change in the situation of the candidates for Madrid. The 111o3erados are all returned. The Deputies for Ma drid are MM. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, NOCEDAL, ALCALI-GALIANO, GUERRERO, EGUIZABAL, FER NANDEZ DE LA HOZ, and NUNEZ-ARENAS. The sub stitutes are the Duke D'ABRANTES, the Marquis DE PovAR, and CABRERO. The senators are the Mar quis DE PENAFLORIDA, the Duke DE CASTROTERRENO, RUIZ DE LA VEGA, GORCOECHEA, AGNAR, and the Marquis DE MIRAFLORES. Several of the newly-elected Deputies have arrived in the capital, and preliminary meetings to organise plans of action are already talked of. The Duke DE GLUCKSBERG has arrived. He is the bearer of the treaty of peace concluded with Mo rocco, and it is said will proceed himself with it to Paris. MADRID BOLZA, SEPT. 17—Three per Cents. 26 13-16 for cash ; 27/ at sixty days ; Four per Cents. 19/ for cash ; Five per Cents. 20 for cash, 20-1 at sixty days; Floating Debt 63 for cash, 63,1 at sixty days; Coupons 25i- at sixty days; Debt without in terest at sixty days. Exchange—London, 37/. We have received the Paris papers of Monday They contain as usuel articles on the subjects of Morocco and 0 taheite. The Warspite correspon dence and the visit of Capt. WALLis to the French Consul also come in for a share of notice. The National speaks in the following handsome terms of the conduct of Capt. WALLIS : " We mentioned two days back the honourable pro ceeding of Captain Wallis, of the Warspite, with the Consul of France at Gibraltar. This brave officer, who had appeared sincerely indignant and annoyed at the disgraceful conduct of his subordinates, has hastened, as he promised, to stigmatise them publicly." The Algerie contains a few particulars of the manner in which the pacific termination of the war between France and Morocco was brought about. The account is as follows : " The Pacha of El Araich, Sidi Bou Sellam, made the first overtures of peace. He wrote on the sth, in the name of the Emperor, a letter full of friendly protes tations, and in which ho declared that his master, who, notwithstanding the hostilities, had not ceased to be our friend, was disposed to subscribe to all the condi tions. The Consul-General of Naples, M. Martineau, undertook to carry this letter to the Prince de Joinville. He embarked on board the Var steamer, and arrived at Cadiz on the 6th instant. Sidi Bou Sellam had already given too many proofs of his duplicity for the Admiral to place entire faith in his letter. The Prince therefore ordered M. Warnier, who had been the bearer of the French ultimatum to Sidi Bou Sellam, to go to Tan g iers and verify his powers. The Cuvier left Cadiz on the evening of the 6th with M. Warnier and M. Mar tineau, and arrived in the roadstead of Tangiers on the 7th. M. Martineau alone landed, and found the Kaid on the shore waiting to receive his orders. At nine o'clock, the Pacha arrived in town from the camp, and went with the Kaid to the Neapolitan Consul, who shortly after wards hoisted a signal which had been agreed upon. M. Warnier immediately landed, and was received by the local authorities, civil and military. There was a line of troops in pretty good order formed from the landing place to the Casbah. Sidi Bou Sellam received M. Warnier like an old acquaintance. When M. Warnier stated that he had come to verify the powers which Sidi Bou Sellam said he had received, the latter expressed his regret at not having applied to the Emperor for a special letter to this effect ; but in order to obviate a difficulty which the distance at which the Emperor was would otherwise render irreparable, the :Pacha affirmed by a document in due form, and written in the presence of witnesses, that he had received orders to treat with the French Plenipotentiary. According to the usages of the Mussulmans, the word orders, which the Pacha made use of, signifies that the person who nego tiates in the name of the Prince is charged with full powers, and relieved from all responsibility. M. War nier and Sidi Bou Sellam separated on the most friendly terms, and at two the Cuvier returned to Cadiz. The document given by the Pacha attesting the mission with which be was charged appeared sufficient to our nego tiators. On the 9th the squadron quitted Cadiz, and arrived at Tangiers. On the 10th, at ten in the morn ' in g , the Kaid Abbou, Governor of Tangiers, went ova board the Suffren, to renew the demand for peace, in the name of Sidi Bou Sellam. The Prince received the Raid with distinction, for he is a brave soldier, who, on the 6th of August, was appointed governor of the town and chief of the garrison by public acclamation. The Prince presented him with a pair of pistols, as a sovenir of our attack and his courageous defence. At two o'clock, M. Warnier, accompanied by some officers, landed, and pre sented the treaty, which was accepted by Sidi Bou Sellam. A signal was immediately hoisted at the Nea politan Consulate. MM. de Glucksburg and de Nyon then landed, and went to the palace of the Governor, where, at five in the evening, they signed the treaty with Sidi Bou Sellam. Our flag was then hoisted at the French Consulate, and saluted with a discharge •f 21 guns." The Moniteur Parisien gives the following from Algiers : " The garrison of Djidjelli had for some days been expecting an attack, for the Chiekh of the Zeramchas had stated on the 22d ult., that the Kabyles would un dertake to carry off the flock when it should be sent to graze outside the lines. On the 26th, at break of day, some Beni Kaids, and other Kabyles of the four frac tions who had obtained authority to come to market, were installed in their usual place, when suddenly Lieut. Ferrand arrived, and stated that as he was going to the lime quarry he was nearly carried off by a party of 200 Kabyles in ambuscade. Being on horseback, he made his escape under a general fire, and happily no ball hit him. The commandant immediately took the field, and by ten o'clock the Kabyles had fled. We lost only one man in this affair, but the enemy had several men killed and wounded. All the Kabyles, forty in number, who were at the market were retained p risoners , until the 30th, when the Cheikhs of the fourteen fractions of the Beni Kaids came up and claimed them, and they were given up on the payment of fines, and a solemn promise to pay up their arrears of tribute." The Akbar of Algiers, of the 12th, mentions a report that ABD-EL-KADER and his family and fol lowers are established_ in the valley of Wad-el-Azha, between Ouchda and Tazah, about twenty leagues from the frontiers of Algeria. Accounts are also stated to have been received at Toulon from Oran, dated the 13th. The news of the treaty of peace had not yet arrived there, but on the 11th General LAMORICIERE received from the son of the SULTAN a request for a suspension of arms, with an assurance that peace was on the point of being con cluded. The .Afrique states that Marshal BUGEAUD is soon to come to Paris. Six Arab chiefs are also shortly to visit Paris at the expense of the Government. The object of the visit (says the Afrique) is to let them judge of the power of the country by which they have been subjected, " Another English ship," sayS also the above quoted Algerie,"has been cannonaded by the Moors l It is the , third time in the ten days that the British flag receives such an insult on the coast of Morocco. The English steamer Sydenham, on arriving off Vibat, on the 3d inst., was received there, not with some isolated canno n s h o t s , as the Ve suv i us had a fewdays before, but with a shower of shots, which did her so much damage that she was obliged to return to Gibraltar in order to repair it. This third cuff applied to the British flag, seems to denote an intention quite clear enough," The Siecle has a long article on Lord PALMER.. STON'S proposed visit to Paris, which, it contends, must be connected with politics, more especially as he has expressed an 'intention of visiting Louis PHILIPPE. The S'iecle then calls upon the Cabinet to keep on its guard. Lord PALMERSTON thinis that I the Tories are tottering, and that the Whigs may I soon baVe A ague of recovering office • but he knows that an Administration openly hostile to France would have public opinion against it in Eng land, and he is, therefore, coming to make his peace with Louis PHILIPPE and his Ministers. "We wish," adds the Siecle, " that there may remain of this step but the recollection of a sort of amende honorable made to the Prince, who represents France, by the Whig Minister who betrayed the French alliance and revived against us the evil feelings, as well as evil designs, of the coalition." The aggressive spirit of " perfide Albion" is the subject of comment in the Constitutionnel, which views with alarm the progress of our settlements in the Bay of Honduras. " The progress of England does not stop, and each day she extends her power and her commerce in some" new point of the globe. It would tire one to enume rate all her enterprises. She is attempting the con solidation of the subjection of India, and she is trying to establish herself in the island of Borneo. She is increasing her commerce in the Chinese seas, where she has just established herself; and in New Holland she has recently joined Port Islington (Essing ton?) to her establishments. Without the fear of a rupture with the United States, the British flag would at present float over the Sandwich Islands. On the eastern coast of Africa Port Natal and Victoria are ac quisitions not to be despised, and will not fail to become the centre points of considerable colonies. In the neighbourhoood of the Red Si. a the mission of Major Harris to the Kingdom of Shoa, explored originally by the French, will open a new market to the commerce of Great Britain. But as if so many different under takings were not sufficient for her ambition and her ac tivity, she pursues without cessation her progress in the sea of the Antilles. It is not merely from yesterday that Great Britain has fixed her attention on the rich countries which this sea washes. For more than a cen tury she possesses on the coast of Honduras an import ant establishment. The colony of Belize, at the mouth of the river of that name, has a vast territory. It is from Belise that come four-fifths of the mahogany annually imported into England. The English find there cochineal, dye-woods, and sarsaparilla; cotton and the sugar cane grow there naturally, and almost without culture. But Belize is, above all, important as the storehouse of the English products, which are distributed through Central America. The annual movement of this port is estimated at upwards of 20,000 tons. Up to the moment that the Spanish colonies separated from the mother country, the situation of the English on the coast of Honduras was precarious, disputed, uncertain; but scarcely had Cen tral America formed herself into a federative republic, independent of Spain, when England commenced her accustomed career of encroachment. She has succes sively enlarged her territory at Belize, and stretch ing to the south has taken possession of the most important points of the coast.. In this way she has seized on the island of Ruatam, in the Bay of Honduras, and purchased from an Indian chief for a few puncheons of rum a vast extent of country. Several establisments have been founded on this coast by a company, with the authorisation of the English Government, and in con tempt of the complaints of that of Central America. Finally, for the last two months, the British flag floats over the walls of Blewfields. A man-of-war arriving at Belise landed a governor, soldiers vrms, and took pos session of the town and port. This town, whose exist ence is revealed to Europe by this sudden act, is at but little distance from St. Jean de Nicaragua, which the English continue to blockade, and which is the most im portant port of Central America. Here then is England on the point of being mistress of all this coast, studded with so many ports placed between the two Americas, and destined to be opened one day to unite the two oceans. This progress takes place in the midst of peace, without pretext. Let it not be imagined that the con quest can be looked on in the same light as the Mar quesas, Otaheite, and the islets which are disputed to us with so much clamour and perseverance. Few coun tries have been more liberally endowed by nature, and offer a richer and vaster field to human industry. The interior contains a population of several millions of in habitants, which the want of manufactures renders ne cessarily dependent on foreign produce. Heaven only knows what a rich empire England will found in time in Central America." It would appear from the following, that the phy sical difficulties, in the way of the formation of a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien, are almost if not quite insuperable : " We are credibly informed," says the Courrier Fran cais, " that the hopes entertained with regard to the piercing the isthmus of Panama have not been realised. M. Gazella has returned to France, after having explored the isthmus, and ascertained that the point at which the junction between the two seas was contemplated was not ten metres (30 feet) above the level of the sea, as stated by the Franco-Grenada Company, but 125 metres (375 feet); so that instead of a mere trench, and a canal with out a sluice, or, in other words, an artificial strait, which was deemed practicable from the survey of the engineers of the company, the canal to be opened at the point of junction would require upwards of 60 sluices. M. Ga zella is a distinguished engineer of the mining depart ment, and had been sent by the French Government to explore the isthmus, and verify the levels taken by the surveyors employed by the above company." TEE BOURSE—MoNDAY . , SEPT. 23. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. Frenchleiveperemta,exelv 118 90 .. 118 95 .. 118 85 .• 118'95 Fou..s., ex div•• •• 103 75 .. 104 103 75 .. 104 Three per Cents••• •• 81 85 .. 81 90 .. 81 80 81 85 Bank of France• • . ..... • .• . 3055 ..3055 • • 3055 .•3055 [Ante Bank,' 5,000 f. Sharesso6o —5060 —5060 —5060 Belgian Bank • • • ... 665 .. 665 • • 665 .. 665 Belgian Fives,lB4o ••• • • 1054 6 .. 1054 .. 105,4 .. 105 i 1842 •••• •• 1574 •• 1071 .. 1074 1074 Spanish Passive •• .... 51 .. 54 .. 54 .. 54 Active .• •• .. 314 314 .. 314 .. 314 Threes. • Portuguese Five per Cents •• 464 .. 464 .. 464 • • 464 Neapolitan•• • • .. ••• • • • • 98 75 .. 98 75 • • 98 70 .• 98 70 Roman ••••• • • • •• RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain •• •• •• • • • • • • • • 925 .. 925 - 925 .. 925 .•••• Versailles,R.B... ....•••••• 385 .. 385 .. 385 .. 385 L.B 258 75 .. 260 .. 258 75 .. 260 Rouen •• •• •• •• •••• •••• 987 55 .. 987 50 .. 987 50 .. 987 50 Rouen to Havre. Orleans 983 75 .. 985 983 75 .. 985 Strasburg to 8a1e......•... 260 .. 260 •• 260 .. 260 RAIL WAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, SEPTEMBER 30. Versailles, R.B L. 8............. 260 .. 260 .. 260 .. 260 Rouen .................... 990 .. 990 .. 987 50 . 590 Rouen to Havre..........•. 750 .. 752 50 750 .. 751 25 Orleans ................... 982 50 .. 986 25 .. 982 50 .. 986 25 Strasburg to Bale.. •• •• .... 260 .. 260 . 258 7 5 .. 258 5.; Avignon to Marseilles.• •• •• 761 25 .. 761 25 .. 761 25 .. 761 25 THIS DAY S NEWS. BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE RE- GISTRATION—(THIS (Before C. D. MOYLAN, Esq.) John Edward Chapman, of 47, Foley -street, applied to have his name reinstated in the list of voters for the All-Souls district. It appeared that his name had been objected to by the Conservatives, on the ground that he was not the occupier, but the landlord of the house. He did not attend to oppose the objection, as he did not know until yesterday that the list of voters for the borough was undergoing revision. He said he was the landlord of the house in question, and that it was let out to lodgers. He retained a back parlour in which there was a bed and other furniture, and in that room he slept occasionally. He had paid all the taxes, and appre hended that his name ought to be retainei on the list. The REVISINGBARRISTER reinstated Mr. Chapman's name. Thomas Smith was objected to by Mr. Greenwood. Smith said he occupied a second floor at No. 6, Great Carlisle-street. The landlord did not reside in the house, which was let out in separate tenements. He paid ss. 6d. per week. The person who occupied the ground floor paid the taxes. Smith said he served a claim at the house of Mr. Mick, one of the overseers, on the 25th of June. This vote was objected to on the ground that the poor-rates were not paid at the time of his making his claim. The REVISING BARRISTER said he would take time to consider the question. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Deputy-Judge ADAMS and a Bench of Magistrates.) This morning, at the sitting of the Court, Mr. Payne presented articles of the peace on beealf of Mrs. Eliza beth Wall, landlady of the Britannia Tavern, Back road-street, St. George's-in-the-East, against John Fea therstone, a seafaring man, of very superior address, and having highly respectable connexions in Birmingham. Mr. Prendergast appeared for the prisoner. After a brief discussion between Mr. Payne and Mr. Prendergast, the Court ordered the prisoner to find bail, himself in 801., and two sureties of 40/. each. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) An elderly man named Lewis Creasy, was brought before Mr. Jardine, charged with being drunk and dancing in Bow-street. The officer proved the case. Prisoner—Dear me, Sir, dancing is so very incon sistent with my general character that I can hardly be lieve that I could be guilty of such folly.—(Laughter.) Mr. JARDINE—WeII, but what do you say to being drunk ? Prisoner—Why, Sir, the fact, is I met an Italian yesterday, who said he knew me about thirty years ago, in Milan. How true that is I don't know ; and he gave me some drink, more, in fact, than nature required. Mr. JARDINE—What are you ? Prisoner—l am by profession a teacher of languages, but, owing to my ap pearance, which partly arises from necessity and partly from my own neglect, I am not patronised as I used to be. Mr. JARDINE—WeII, I hope this will be a lesson to you. You have been locked up all night, and, therefore, you may be discharged now. Prisoner—l sincerely thank your worship. He then left the Court, bowing all the way. LATEST MANCHESTER BETTING. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) MAN CHESTER—TuEspe.r. cEsAßE.wrrcil STARES. 9to 1 agst the Souvenir £lB to 1 agst William Le —taken Gros—taken 12 to 1 agst Glossy 20 to 1 agst The Bride—t 13 to 1 agst The Brewer—'2o to 1 agst 2-laitoe—t take 14 to 1 6 to 1 agst Lo:rd Exeter's lot—taken to . 50 /. 18 to 1 agst Rowena , 120 to 1 agst Newsmonjer 30 to 1 agst The Rebeec,a 0 DEI 12 to 1 agst Alarm—t freely 16 to 1 agst Cobweb e—t 20 to 1 a gst Kedger—t The Brussels journals of Saturday state that Mr Dyce Sombre had arrived in t4t capital, and that he is on his way to London. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE -WEDNESDAY We had a fair average supply of English Wheat, yet . the demand for it was fair steady, at full Monday' quotations. Of Foreign Wheat (free of duty) the show was good, yet a tolerable business was doing in that article at late rates. The trade with Barley and Malt was extremely heavy, and prices were barely supported. In Oats, Beans, and Peas, we can notice no alteration. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Flour 1,180 qrs. 1,490 qrs. 1.170 qrs. 2,140 sat& 5,580 8;i80 1,090 Malt. 1,770 ors. WIIXTECHAPEZ. There was a fair amount of business doing in prime meat ut full prices, otherwise the demand ruled heillP Beef from 2s 4d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d . 1 Lamb, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; an' Pork, 2s 8d to 4s per Blbs by the carcase. English Irian.. Foreign. HONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was with" out change, being heavy. Sales 3,000 bales, including 200 American, for export, and 200 on speculatio n. Shares were better, and there was more inquiry for speculative Stocks. Birmingham and Gloucester, 102} Bristol and Gloucester, 45 ; Chester and Birkenhea d . 33k; Chester and Holyhead, 64; Dublin and Belfast, 5 ; Eastern Counties Perpetual, No. 2, 21. 12s. 4d.; Glase' t and Dumfries, 1 1-5; Great Western, Halves, 1061 Liverpool and Manchester, New, 35; London and Bit: mingham, 214; Ditto, 321. Shares, 36; London and YOll, 44; Lynn and Ely, 41-; Manchester and Birminghar ° ,_ 49i; Midland Counties, 1071; Newcastle and Berwi ck, 48; Sheffield and Mancheste, 93k; Paris and Lyons, 2 V Central of France, 24. The opinion still continues to be on the increase, n°t • withstanding the doubts of some of our Contemporari es ' that a satisfactory progress has been made in the sr; rangement of a fresh treaty between this country an the Brazils. How ardently such a consummation 1, wished for by our merchants need not be repeated. ." the terms be liberal on both sides an immense imp will be given to the export of British manufactures. subject is one of all •eFigroning interest. The arrival 0 _ the packet, which is almost houily expected, will nu doubt set the question at rest. At a public sale of teas which took place yesterdni! the produce of Upper Assam, it is pleasing to state duo the quantities ofkred generally showed an improZ ment in the growth, the manufacture, and l'u condition of the leaf. Some good parcels realise d from 2s. 9d. to 3s. lid. per lb. If properly conducts and a see economy is practised, the supply from Lb: Fast Indian plantations must become a most imports' ) article of importation to Great Britain. We have not heard of any late colonial arrivals this morning. There is a public sale here of American bai L i e Friday, and which is expected to excite consid erai t attention, many of the leading salesmen acid 03° 1 proprietors having intimated their intention te ntt el ? o ,„ The same parties, Keeling and Hunt, who have 50 dustriously introduced foreign provisions after 13 : l it coming a great deal of popular prejudice, will sat' this novel importation to the public, and we shal l 85- nothing of its quality until we hear what pric es /a realises, although described to us as a good sincP The quantity is not large, but we may expect snore. ~n 1 Stocks are quiet again, but very firm. Consols , V, to 99 1 1 for money, and 991 to par for account. Ex c en querßills are74s. to 765. premium. India Stock has he d at a rise to 2851 and 286, and Bank Stock to 2 08 2091. The Commissioners have bought at 991. i g h The Foreign investments have been steady. SP s 3 4/ Five per Cents. are 23k, and the Three per Cen t ti c sa to Portuguese Converted have been 46i. ..„ DpiGli are 361 to 37k, and Brazilian are as high as 90.. Two-and-a-Half per Cents are 621 to Shares are still rather flat. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOC IC* (From the Official List.) per Cent. Consols. Annuities....." .......« 99% 0 46 India Stock Bank Stock far Account 2OS% Consols for Account 997‘0% India Stock for Account 286 Exchequer Bills, I%d. I)4d .0001. ................... 76 74 Pnl• 76 74 Priz Ditto 5in11..... — .......... 76 'if, int Ditto Advertiser -- FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE I:PIA , C .,( 1, Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ....... .......... ...... 90 ~. Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839. gB 8 7 PIP 36X. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ...... ...... ....... 3 7 Ditto Deferred Stock 15% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 3% WDitto Passive Bonds. •...............«•.•.....• _u Ditto Three per Cent. ...........„,„,„,.. Dutch 2% per Cents ...... ........... ...... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. Paz PRARIio 41,16 Bristol and Gloucester 93 44% " .... to ""..!., Chester and Holyhead...... ..... .... 5 6% • .... to .....-- Dublin and Belfast Juncti0n......... 2% 4 ...** to ... Dublin and Cashel. Eastern Counties ..„.... ........... 25 .... Ditto New Registered.... 81. 6s - . Bd. Great Western Ditto % Shares 21 4 $ London and Birmingham. lOO .215% ..... .. n ..,.. Dit o % Shares 2 16% - ' London and Blackwall . 6%/4... to tO London and Brighton . ... .......... 50 London and Greenwich... ..... ... 12% to ..... London and South Western 41% it ....•.•• London and Croydon ~... London and York .34 4 % -fi .... to , Lynn and Ely 154 44 ...... t ° __, Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 Midland Counties lOO ..„.. »• 107 ......... t° ~,„i " Birmingham and Derby ..... 416 Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 21 ..„..... 47 North British Northern and Eastern 45 Ditto Scrip l5 South Devon ...... ... to • South Eastern and Dover 39k •—•*: t o -- Ditto New Trent Valley 0 3 York and North Midland .....«.. 50 I "*". W •,..' Ditto Selby Scrip 364 Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeauxl , . ... (cl'Anthouaid's Company) 5 ' • .... to —. Parisand Rouen ..... ....... ..... „„ 20 „„,„,„ Paris , - .nd Orleans •, tO 01 ' Rouen and Havre . SEPT. 2 4* *.. t a r' MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, tictl. continue to have au active market, without anYPa r won j3lO I change in prices.—Barnsley Junction, 51 I ; • s ad 3834 1 ...... .. ..... t 010 - . . . Du On add and Preston, B i i ; Churnet Valley, 411 ; — 1; has Belfast, 5 ; Dublin and Drogheda, 70f ; Edinburg,ter Glasgow, 66 ; Lancaster and Preston, Thrriee-Veds, Shares, 26f ex div. ; Ditto, New Shares, 2 ,1 - ;, Urns' Dewsbury, and Manchester, 5 5-16 ; Liverpool' ic or kirk, and Preston, 3 ; London and York, 4 2 1, .r o tta chester, Bury, and Rossendale, 6k ; Mans_ll este 'lo7l 4 Birmingham, 494 ; Ditto, Quarters, 4i ; Midla nd ' il ; Sheffield and Manchester, 94 ; Ditto, Quarters; 2 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 2i- ; P J-Jr ° aris and Waterworks, 60f. 1 LL( YD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS reel / s ' LONDON, SEPT. 25.—Wind northerly, fresh and fine clear weather. DEAL, SEPT. 24.—Wind N.E., hole° r South Seas ; Ellen, Demerara ; Imogene, Pfr . East London, Bermuda. a siogiv BnisToL, SEPT. 24.—S1d. Steadfast, Cape pore ; John Cobot, Africa. Af ri l% BRISTOL CHANNEL, SEPT. 24.—Arrd. Cong ',j o s SHEERNESS, SEPT. 24.—Sld. her Majesty':sm' tine, Espeigle, and Cruizer, Portsmouth. Tr ue PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 24.—Wind Briton, Cape and Madras. A rd• :14er FALMOUTH, SEPT. 24.—Wind tune, Gloucester to the Baltic, leaky. Wtig ll4 SCRABSTRO ROADS, SEPT. lB.—Arrd. Stenior, Quebec for Hull, master sick. nuebe c ij HULL, SEPT. 23.—Arrd. Janet, Hanifordes, ~At LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 24.—Wind N.E. modera, te ' job° Prince Orange, Africa. Off, Manchester, Quetriest:e:! Scott, Sid. Sir C. Campbell, Ne w ' lebsbu— s James Turcan, Bombay; lanthe and Margaret, Ag Thomas Hunter, Africa; Penningham, na hi°; coats ri° ' Sophia, Barbadoes; Higginson, Charleston; Boston. The Alcyone, for St. John's, New 13,,r11'. has put back leaky, having bore up from loth II" 4e c. WHITEHAVEN, SEPT. 23.—Arrd. Carricks, CLYDE.—Arrd. Scotland, Hammen, Quebe Ar c- elee itP DUBLIN, SEPT. 21.—S1d. Kate, Quebec; St. John's, New Brunswick. et LONDONDERRY, SEPT. 20.—S1d. Fanny' , New Brunswick. an d abet BALLINA.—Arrd. Eagle, Edwards, Queb ec ' an discharging has sailed for Miramichi. kle' W -t ha's , the CORK, SEPT. 22.—The Ceylon, for St; u c -r, int, Brunswick, remains on the sand at Camden 'led. he re i efforts to get her off these springs having -al WELLS, SEPT. 24.—The Magdalena, se e/ eir. from Kiel, took the ground in the river ves t e d , h . L :ig, and has two feet of water in her hold. 1-1 t MUCH, SEPT. 24.—Arrd. James and Port 11 , ;:.. 11 ace for HuD, short of provisions. bee, tt Q ue SHOREHA:`,I, SEPT. 23.—Arrd. Victoria , ma 23, —Sid. Brigand, TEIGNMOUTII, SEPT. l . B rs o - Di rid E g e e 7::. wa7exti -..... riguishiDg - - -- - ' leek , 116 upon DI" the gasman friars-bridge, b ' observed lli I n t b " I 'l e i body Vl2'g bl e i og f uh t a t ss b i lying on the mud of the Thames, nea: th e terr°lll :ii: / g . the Fleet Ditch. Police-constable Jkli):.s, 34.1,L have obtained assistance, conveyed the body I^ e street police-station, ' Mr. Hutchinson, surgeon of Farringdon-street, j'ajoilieft it as his opinion that the deceased had been in the dor several days. Under the direction of Mr. InsP a i t . d , a C n h d dwick the pockets of the deceased were sear.c_Ato: and upon examination among a number of papers was discovered ere laity addressed to J. Holden, Esq., Mitcham. There Acre also found a fashionable leathern purse, conai,e, t'isereof bie l , is. 6d., and a yellow silk pocket hankerchie. ,:-L,L'e following is a description of the person and dress et, ' i ; t , deceased, viz., five feet six or seven inche s in be loc i stout and corpulent, about fifty-five years °I. ag e,A feel grey hair; grey Chesterfield wrapper, black figurNack drab trowsers, and boots; frilled linen shirt, and -4. t he -e silk neckerchief with white spots. The body lies a " West London Union Workhouse for identification, on a coroners inquest. 'rm., la THE LATE CHEVALIER B E NSLIA.USEIC ----..-- la s t mented gentleman, whose death was announced o week, died on the 9th instant at Marienbad, and lint to Wiesbaden, as stated by mistake. He had repaired.ea Marienbad for the benefit of his health, unaccompenith by a single attendant, and the iroforination of his ci ty through the medium of Lord Elphinstone, who is,!':•; ing at that spa, was forwarded to the Russian Eino;;,.. at Vienna, and from thence sent to this country- ~,,Ch e, „;l o her Benkhausen had been Consul since 1813. Jae "0 in his fifty-eighth year. Mr. Hamilton and Mr. L : tr o f are, we believe, two of the executors named in the wile the deceased, and his affairs are now in their hando• ,' : 0 wa s unmarried, and his fortune i s chiefly distribute ' legacies to his numerous friends. ,- .1,, 0' INCENDIARISM IN Surramt.--The spirit or .c e tbe dittrism . has again ma,nitested itself by 9 fare r .• i° A , 1 1 occuiK.zion of Mr. Sibipr. - ;tone, of Saxharn, beinr'z'''' e . ,_ ; , ar ti t i o Saturday evening last in three places. This null"' • third incendiary fire that has taken place iu tbi l within. the last fortnight. Th, Prese t of ac wa s a bands paracl( Was r n lUerea tA . sr ] Mr taPer ee n zuoti c terly Mr Itoti c Cour Tb Powe regal t heft been then, on ti notic