The Sun. — London, England, 1839-09-13 00:00:00

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Sharp, because i t it a :gere electioneering puff for Mr. Walter. The other letter of Working Man was a genuine produc ion ; J. Sharp will e:cuse pi for thinking, till we receive evidence to the contrary, i!sat ItiF charac' er is simulated. To B. T.—We believe tlrlt all the Medical appointments in the Colonies, in the gift of the Ciovernment, are connected with the Army and Navy. We are not avvare that the India Com pany have any Medical officerg except those connected with' the Indian Army, and with the difter,q - A Presidencies. wATra AT LOX DoN BRIDGE TO.IIORROW i 4 minutes after 5. Evening minutes after 5. f e• - •' ' :),... ' . ~,- r , ;,,, , -rir,' - ~ , t Aii .-- :.-:, A ---,2_,.:. _ LONDON: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1839. That the Tory Papers should cxult over the errors and failures of the Chartists is natural. Every evidence of the corruption and degradation of the people is the confirmation of their political theory, and the encouragement of 'their hopes. They claim power, because the multitude, which they call swinish, is cowardly, 'unthinking, dis ►raced, and brutal. All the facts which justify a their opinions, and make us mourn over the debase ment of the people, are halm to the disappointed Tories. They countenance the conviction, that the Tory principle of coercion can alone maintain the peace of society. We cannot be surprised, _ therefore, that the Tory Journals should - seize eve ry opportunity to blacken the character of the bulk of the people, and rejoice at any evidence of their weakness and folly. But that which is natural in the Tories ought to be repugnant to the Whigs, and doubly repugnant to all the Liberal Journals. In the late Session we were frequently told that the landlords were only encouraged to maintain' the Corn-laws by the Chartists having refused to ally themselves with the middle classes to procure the repeal of those laws. A demonstration on their part, it was said, would have frightened the harpies f ro m their prey. Now, too, efforts are making, or at least talked of, throughout the manufacturing districts, to unite the bulk of the labouring classes with the middle classes in demanding that repeal. But, if the lower classes be unworthy and degraded, their support and alli ance must be more injurious than beneficial. The landlords, it is said, wil yield to nothing but terror, and the aid of the lower classes is invoked to terrify ,itlee landlords ; but how will that end be answered if the landlords he at the same time taught to I despise the lower classes as a set of cowardly poi : troons, who have not the courage of hens, nor the consistency of butterflies. Much, therefore, do we deprecate the various attempts which are now making, and have for eome time been made, by some of the so-called Lateral and Ministerial journals, to ridicule and di-o;:era!se the Chartists, and the great bulk of the leorkiej classes to which they belong. One Liberal paper is pleased to show up their eenvae.ilice, by telling a tale of their hastening to bury , : t h e ir ( nlies ; another records a tale of their valour in buy;ner a jackass on which to try their weapons ; end a tilird represents them as cueing in the most i ; ;;eject terms for petty mercy. We do not compre . eittl the pleasure which journals, whether Tory or .• we 4 ,e, Can find in creating vices and exaggerating teults I,r ;:oor " true born Englishman,' and in ine ki e e h e el a i .)pear one of the meanest and most despicable of eleilised men. lie who has neither couraeze to face 3 policeman's bludgeon, in what 1„ : , believes to b e a Loyd and an holiest cause, nor consistency to pereeveiY ire a plan, the success of 1 which he has asseitei is neesfary to his indepen deuce and his prosperity, will not be a very formi ; (table opponent to a Feenchman, awl may perhaps even quail before a boasting Portuguese. The statements over which a.'e Tories exult, and at i which the exclusively middles class journals chuckle, wer e they true, would prove our population to I be at once chicken-hearted and imbecile. We feel itneoat painful toassent to such e. conclusion, for the character which our Contemporaries give of our people, by implication, demonstrates the destruction ) of the elements of a great nation. Our territory is i comparati ve l y sma ll and un f ru i t f u l, an d our national I greatness is altogeth er due to the moral qualities of our people. There must, however, be an end to that if the typ e our national character have be come, instead o f an ill treated, well-f e d lustyonkey. Hill , t re ated, half-starved costermon ger ' s donkey. Apart, however, iroen ~ this consideration, that t his manner of speakin g o f t h e bulk of the ,eople degrades the national character in the eyes of fo reigners, and encourages them to believe that we have neither sense nor spirit, we must affirm that it is not prudens nor even safe, so to misrepre sent the people. Granting that they havemistaken,both t ,tse means of obtaining their political ends, whfgs and Tories have a thousand times proved themselvn in this respect no wiser th an t h e Chartists. Granting that they have shrunk back from their projeeN, so have the Ministers, and so have the Tories. The forner threatened the Church but retreated terrified from the conflict, as the Chartists have retreated from a conflict with the civil authorities. Tile latter fled from tag Dissen ters and the Catholics, and have long o tacitly. acknowledged that their talk of reconquering Ire land was an idle threat. The Chartists, therefore, are on this point only on a level with the other par ties- To brand them as cowards can only serve two bad purposes. It will stimulate the unthink ing of the middle classes into arrogant oppression, and --irritate the working classes into more fretful tand ifhpa tient resistance. When the great object i3 ' 1 or °tight to be, to u n it e t h ese two c l asses in only( to ',/ overthrow the scoundr e l monopo l y o f t h e landlords, to ridicule and disparage the lower classes can only be productive of mischief to the Liberal cause, whe ther it be done by the Manchester Guardian, the organ of the factory Lords, or the London Globe, which by its persiflage much misrepresents the senti • ments of the Liberal party, and we trust of the Ministen. In another part of our Paper we publish the correspondence which Mr. FROST has had with the Home-office, relative to Messrs. VINCENT, EDWARDS, DICKINSON, and TOWNSEND, con• fined in Monmouth Gaol for political offences. Without making ourselves responsible for Mr. FROST'S statement of facts, and without approving of the language of his letters, one small portion of which we have been compelled to omit, we must express our deep regret that the Marquis of NOR MANBY should have felt himself constrained by a sense of duty, in _performing his first known public act in the Home Department, to decline presenting an Addressto her MAJESTY from a numerous assembly of her subjects, and decline to interfere for the better treatment of th e prisoners. W We know what is due to forms, and what reverence is still preserved for Tory laws and Tory corrup tions, but we submit that the cases of Messrs. VIN CENT and the others, and of Messrs. LOVETT and COLLINS, are cases in which an adherence to form and to law will i n fli ct on t h em gr i evous an d g l ar i ng injustice. The Government has no more right to make itself the instrument of middle class prejudices than of mob plunder ; and the evidence adduced by Mr. FROST shows that the verdict was the re sult of the alarm of the Juries. We do not defend the language used by Mr. VIN CENT, but when language as strong, as libellous, and as seditious as that he used is continually met with in the public Journals it is unjust, it is illegal—for in a land of customary laws, what passes unpunished becomes legal—it is absurd to punish him. Much greater allowance, too, ought to be made for spoken language, perhaps incorrectly, certainly imperfectly reported, than for written language, which permits of some deliberation and revision, even in a Daily Journal, the most hurried and least deliberated of all published writing. The worst part of Mr. VINCENT'S address was, we believe, the phrase " Death to the Aristocracy." Now he was talking about a Constitution, and might mean, had explanation been possible, politi cal death, the extinction of the privileges of the Aristocracy ; but it happens that this phrase is connected with a series of alarming events, including the murder of many Aristocrats, and Mr. VINCENT is punished for the sanguinary crimes of the French Revolution. Such words pronounced in a conclave of Bishops, or in the drawing-room at Apsley-house, would have only provoked derision ; but uttered in an assembly of the people they are calculated to excite very different feelings. Is Mr. VINCENT, then, to be punished because his auditors were not Bishops or lay Peers ? Is he to be punished because the people, groaning under a load of unjust taxation, and suffering oppression from laws which they are allowed no voice in making, are in distress and dis contented ? On this principle what a man himself does is not the test of his criminality, but the opinions and feelings of his auditors. If the people were prosperous and happy, Mr. VINCENT might be allowed to rave, but because they are neither prosperous nor contented, he is to be punished. We cannot concede that this is jus tice ; that it is grossly absurd, may be at once taken as a proof that it is legal. Such being the trifling offence of Mr. VINCENT, and the Chartist ebullition having sunk down flat and stale, though it may again be revived by legal violence, we should have rejoiced had the Go vernment listened to the prayers of the warm-hearted Welsh, and granted, first, a relaxation of punish ment, and, next, a pardon to Mr. VINCENT and the rest of the Chartists. That Mr. FROST may have urged the suit abruptly, injudiciously, intem perately, is not a sufficient reason for depriving her MAJESTY of the merit and the popularity of par. donhig an offence divided from virtue by a very thin partition. Mr. VINCENT, Mr. LOVETT, and the rest of them, are the representatives of very numerous classes. Of themselves they are nothing, but they speak the sentiments of millions ; and, to punish or to pardon them, is to put enmity or friendship betwixt the QUEEN and the bulk of her people. From the weighty consequences involved in the question, we join with Mr. FROST and the Welsh in asking for the discharge of the political pri soners from gaol. The Protestant Association is anxious to revive persecution. It petitions her MAJESTY to pu nish a portion of her subjects by withdrawing and witholding public appointments from them, because they do not follow the same priests as the Protes tants. They believe in the same GOD, in the same Redeemer, in the same Revelation ; but the one acknowledges the POPE of Rome as his High Priest, and the other the Archbishop of CANTER BURY. Both profess the same allegiance to the Monarch, and vow the same obedience to the laws ; but there are some slight differences in their creed, and on that ground the Protestant Associa tion, in utter scorn of the Christian character, asks for persecution. If with the measure they mete it shall be measured out unto them, what can they expect whenever and wherever the Catholics get the upper hand ? It will be seen by our Summary of yesterday's Evening Papers, that Viscount LORTON, according to the Globe, lately turned a considerable number of persons out of their holdings on his estate of Bal linamock. According to a letter published in the same Journal, the order to eject them was given by Lord LORTON in November, 1838. After giving that order " his Lordship was as good as his word. He did clear the lands, and swept away the people to make way for a class of tenantry new to the soil, and worthy to live in such houses as no former tenants had inhabited, for good houses' were to be built for them." What became of them we do not know, but we regret to suppose that the present Government did perform what the Globe seems to think is only ' the duty of a Tory Government. It assisted the Noble Viscount, at least to clear his estate, and if it did not afterwards take measures to provide for the ejected, by settling them in America, as Lords LANSDOWNE and STANLEY have settled their ejected tenants, the more shame to the Govern ment. We have now to bring under the notice of the reader the proof that the Government per formed what the Glebe supposes is only done by the Tories. There was yesterday published by the House of Commons " A RETURN OF ALL APPLICATIONS MADE SINCE THE FIRST 07 JANUARY, 1839, FOR ANY MILITARY FORCE TO ASSIST THE CIVIL POWER IN THE EXECUTION OF WRITS OF EJECTMENT IN IRELAND." Among the items we find the following :-4th April, a detachment of the Second Dragoons, consisting of 1 captain, 3 subalterns, 5 sergeants, 2 bugles, and 56 rank and file—of the 59th Foot, consisting of 1 captain, 2 subalterns, 3 sergeants, 1 drummer, and 70 rank and file, and of the 99th Foot, consisting of 1 field officer, 3 captains, 4 subalterns, 1 drummer, and 30 rank and file ; in all a military force, amounting to 183 persons, was afforded to carry into execu tion writs of ejectment at Ballinamuck, Lord LORTON'S property. Subsequent to April, the Noble Viscount proceeded to clear his estate ; the poor wretches could not be easily wrenched from their holdings, it was like tearing apart soul and body, and the troops of her most gracious and merciful Majesty, Queen VICTORIA, were ern. ye a to carry into effect the Noble Viscount's de. ectment. Such decrees, and the employ. crees .^f ej ment of 1:le QUEEN ' S troops to enforce them, need no com ment. The facts speak more emphatically than a thousanc: . however, let us renOrkt are levied from the p eo p le, and p a id f or by them, ser mons. Her MAJESTY S troo p s, who are thus made to support the instruments which carry into execution the ty rannical decrees of their detested oppressors. If Lord LORTON and his like have no consciences, can they suppose that other men are destitute of both sense and feeling ? But unless they supp ose the oppressedanadreermueelrtey can be or stones, how can they conceive i t poss ibl e that such a detesta bl e s y s tem of injustice con tinually ca us i ng d' be perpetrated without disturbances and convulsions in society? We may add that the number of applicatioo 111 which the military afforded aid to execute writs of ejectment in Ireland, between the lst of January and the 26th of July, in the present year, was fe!vexclusive of cases of ti t h es which were pro a e bi c 7 ,st iii more numerous. In one of these cases that of Coonogue in Carlow, 500 infantry and two troops of dragoons were required to enforce the writ of ejectment. When civil process must be enforced by the sword the law is the tyrant not the protector of the people. The Church-rate agitation has not of late been so brisk as it was some time ago. This has put it into the heads of certain persons gifted with a won derful conceit of their own sagacity, that all oppo sition to the - Ecclesiastical plunderers of the people is at an end. They flatter themselves, these p►ous supporters of a rapacious priesthood, that the Dis senters and other " malignants" will in future submit without a murmur to that periodical fleecing of the body which a Church-and-State religion holds to be indispensably necessary to the health of the soul. Let them not deceive themselves by any such fallacious appearances as a temporary cessation of arms may afford. The Church-rate is a claim which the Dissenters will not only never acknow ledge, but towards which they will continue to entertain that rooted aversion which all well-prin cipled persons must feel towards gross civil injus tice, combined with still grosser religious intole rance. It is utterly impossible that this feeling should ever be extinguished. Those who possess it may choose the times and seasons for ex pressing it, or for embodying it in more or less active measures of hostility, but the feeling itself is ineradicable, and in its very nature progressive in intensity. . . We rejoice to see that there are symptoms of a " revival " on the Church-rate question in various parts of the country. In another column will be found reports of stout and successful battles having been fought in the cause. One of these took place at Linfield, in Sussex, where the Church authorities betrayed the cloven foot, by first proposing a shilling rate, and then a fourpenny one. In both they were defeated, although every vote that intimidation and influence could command or cajole was brought into the field. The other case is one of a rich description. The figure which stands out most prominently in this piece is that of a fat pluralist—a man of GOD of more than usual rotundity, no less manifold a per sonage, in short, than the Reverend E. S. THun- LOW (D.D. of course), Rector of Houghton-lc- Spring in the county of Durham, sinecure Rector of Easton alias Queenhope in Wales, sinecure Rec tor of Llandrillo also in Wales, Vicar of Stamford ham in Northumberland, and Prebendary of Norwich. This reverend vulture, whose predatory excursions have, it appears, taken a pretty wide range, has feathered his nest to the tune, first and last, of about two hundred thousand pounds of sterling money ; and yet, with all this booty, he could find in his apostolic heart to levy a contribution upon the poor Dissenters of one of his parishes for the purpose of repairing that church in which he every Sunday inculcates the duties of self-denial, of bro. therly kindness, of charity, and denounces the deadly sin of seeking after the Mammon of un righteousness — The parishioners of Hougliton-le•Spring, how ever, have thought it high time to resist the grasp ing propensities of their spiritual ruler, and corn• menced proceedings by inquiring into the mode in which the former drafts on their pockets had been employed. Four hundred pounds of their money were found to have been expended—on the repairs of the church ? Oh, no. The parson's glebe, it was conjectured, would be nothing the worse if a bridge were erected in a certain place not very remote therefrom—so up went the bridge, and down went the four hundred pounds out of the Church-rate. This snug little bit of jobbery thus detected, opened the eyes of the rate-payers, and an opposition to Church-rates was organized, which, notwithstanding sundry clerical tricks re sorted to for the purpose of defeating it, which will be found very graphically described in the account which we have copied from the Durham Chro nicle, was ultimately successful. Parson THUR LOW is, we believe, one of the holy ministers who lately remonstrated with the Marquis of LONDONDERRY for fighting a duel, and who mo destly entreated that the Noble Marquis would receive their representation ‘. with that deference which is due to God !" The accounts received from Spain continue to be favourable to the Constitutional cause. We yester. day noticed the Carlist rumour, that the Christinos were defeated with the loss of 1,500 men at Liria, by the Carlist division, commanded by FoncA DELL, and that this success, on the part of the rebels, had determined the Pretender to attempt a junction with CARRERA, in order to make Arragon and Catalonia the centre of future military opera tions. The Eco d' Arragon of the sth inst., re ceived this morning, contains an animated account of this engagement, in which, instead of being con querors, the Carlists were defeated with great loss. At the first onset the rebels were greatly superior in point of numbers, but General ASPIROZ arriv ing opportunely, the Carlists were routed with con siderable loss. Besides this success, two Carlist battalions, forming the garrison of Santa Barbara de Maneau, surrendered their arms and the for tress to Don DIEGO LEON, and in virtue of the articles of the capitulation of MAROTO, were in stantly incorporated with the QUEEN'S troops. In the Moniteur of Wednesday we find the following telegraphic despatch, which has entirely removed the apprehensions of the QUEEN'S friends of any further inaction on the part of ESP ARTERO, and, consequently, seals the doom of tht Pretender : BAYONNE, SEPT. 10, TEN O'CLOCK, A M. THE GENERAL COMMANDING THE 20TH MILITARY DIVI- SION TO THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " Espartero writes to me, under date Tolosa, the Bth, that he would resume his operations on the 9th, and march towards the Bastan, in order to compel Don Carlos to seek refuge in France.' He is to acquaint me with his movements." Letters from Tolosa, of the 6th inst., state that Lord JOHN HAS, at the request of General ARANZ, allowed the Royal Marine battalion, the Royal Artillery, and the Ruyal Marine Artillery, commanded by Colonels PARKE and CoLQuHouN, to occupy Andoain, in order to afford the QUEEN'S troops additional facilities of advancing against the enemy. Letters from Bergara, of the same date, state that the number of Carlist battalions that had arrived there and ac cepted the terms of the Convention, was twenty-one, viz., five Castilian, eight Guipuz coan, and eight Biscayan, exclusive of two companies of cadets, a company of artillery, one of sappers, and three squadrons of cavalry. They are reported to be the finest men in the Carlist ranks. Most of the peasantry on surrendering either broke or threw away their muskets, declaring that they were sick of war, and wanted nothing but peace. So general is this feeling in Guipuzcoa, that the Correspondent of the Chronicle, writing from the spot, is of opinion that no insurrection would take place were the province left without the presence of a single battalion in arms. _ . The Carlist chief, CANION, surrendered with 150 horse to the QUEEN'S troops, near Burgos ; the Cura DA DALLO, commander of the fortified village of La Pohlacion, surrendered with his gar rison ; and, in short, every hour produced some fresh defection from the Carlist cause. Besides the above gratifying intelligence from the North of Spain, we have received letters and papers from the capital of the 4th inst. The news of the triumph of the Constitutional cause excited the liveliest demonstrations of joy in the Chambers, and among the citizens., On the night of the 3d, the city of Madrid was illuminated, and bands of musicians paraded the principal streets, singing songs of triumph. The two Queens were repeatedly obliged to appear at the palace windows to receive the loyal greetings of the people. The sitting of the Chamber of Depu ties on the 3d was convoked by an extraordinary notice addressed to each Deputy, in order to hear a communication from the Government. The at tendance was uncommonly numerous. The Mi nister of War read ESPARTERO's dispatch, which was followed by loud bursts of applause, The following report of the subsequent busi ness of the Sitting, will be read with interest as indicating the determination of the Cortes to yield no point which may be incompatible with the maintenance of the Constitution of 1837 : senor PloFage said that it was to be regretted that the Congress was not constituted at that moment, as all his Hon. Colleagues would agree with "him that accord ing to the regulations of the Congress, which ought to be respe t e cb t o e ui l soct as ,er n l h a ca si , , do, n f o ats t h h eii i n pG g a on e vi a o er u rs l d sn: ell b no e tt h proposed icnoga lu t ►icoa c y r . ;n learning that the C onst i tut i o - lO r t a i d o o n p . tedOT could be experienc,,..._ ..,itutiona. re vernment had been recognised by tne troop; 7. hi ' h had hitherto fought against it. What was best to be done under the circumstances was to constitute the Chamber as soon as possible, in order to examine with suitable care THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1839. what has been just submitted. We can, nevertheless, declare that the first act of the Congress will be an act in favour of those who have contributed to such a satisfactory result, provided that the Constitutional Government be maintained in all its purity. The Minister of War (interrupting) —It will be so. Senor Olczaga—ln what manner? The Minister of War (earnestly)_l say that it will be maintained in all its purity. Senor Olozaga—lt will be maintained, as I understand, as it ought to be, as it will be, no doubt. Our first act, I repeat, must be in favour of those who have contributed to this glorious result, and at the same time we manifest our wishes in favour of the country, in order to contribute by all the means in our power tai the consolidation of the Con stitution of 1837, of the throne of Isabella 11., and of the regency of her august mother.—( Great applause. ) 'The proposition of Senor Olczaga was then unanimously carried. The sitting closed shortly after five o'clock. The Pre sident, Senor Zumalacarreguy, went and warmly embraced the Ministers of War and of Grace and Justice, and the greatest satisfaction prevailed amongst the Deputies. No!withstanding this show of firmness it is stated in letters from Madrid that thefiteros of the Basque provinces will be carefully respected, with the ex ception of the privilege of - being governed by the decrees of a local legislature. The QUEEN'S Go vernment has wisely determined not to abuse the confidence which the insurgents have reposed in its good faith. It is rumoured in the City that an express has just arrived from Paris, announcing the arrival of Don CARLOS at Bayonne. The affairs of Spain and the East occupy, almost exclusively, the columns of the Paris Jour nals of Wednesday. Of the intelligence from Spain all that is interesting will be found in another article, to which we refer our readers. The whole of the news from the East is subjoined among our extracts from the Journals of Wednes day. Order has been completely restored in Zurich. On the 7th inst. the whole of the pea santry, amounting to about 15,000, had peaceably returned to their homes. In the late conflict eight persons were killed and fifteen wounded. The Councillor of State M. HEYETSCITWERLER, re ported to be dead, was living, bui in a dangerous state. Hopes were, however, entertained of his recovery. There is no domestic news of any interest in the French papers. CON;TANTINOPLEi AUGUST 21.—The French steamer has just arrived from Toulon in eight days ; as also an Eng lish steamer, from Alexandria, in four days. The Austrian Councillor Huzzan has also arrived. It appears that the union between the Great Powers has not lasted long, for M. de Boutenieff and the Prussian Envoy must have comtnnnicated to the Porte that Russia and Prussia would not consent to concessions which would destroy the Sultan's independence. Russia also declared that she was ready, by virtue of the Unkiar Skelessi Treaty, to send a fleet here and troops to sustain the Sultan at his first demand; and that, if the Porte permitted English and French vessels to pass the Dardanelles, Russia would consider it as hostile, and that M. de Boutenieff would immediately demand his passiorts." The Augsburg Gazette of the 7th, publishes the fol lowing correspondence : CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 21.—The emissaries sent by Mehemet Ali Pacha to Salonica were not well received by the Pacha, who had been reckoned upon at Alexandria. He refused all verbal communication, but undertook to forward a hog letter from Mehemet Ali to the Sultan. The emissaries then returned to Alexandria. _ ALEXANDRIA, Ave . 16.—Thin evening a French brig of war, from Tenedos, and an Austrian corvette, arrived in our harbour. They have brought important despatches, but the contents have not transpired, as the Pacha is at present at the garden of Muharrem Bey, where ho does not receive visitors on political affairs. Some days ago the English steamer Rhadamanthus arrived from Tenedos, with despatches from the Consuls-General to the same purport as those previously received, namely, that the Powers bad taken the settlement of the affairs of the East into their own hands. _ _ _ We have related, after the London Journals, a new mis• take, in consequence of which an English sailor was wounded on board the Spider, by shot fired from the French ship the Perle. The Armoricain, a Brest Journal, gives the following account of this affair, which differs considerably from that in the English Papers:— " The Spider packet, commanded by Lieut. O'Reilly, entered by night the port of Monte Video. By virtue of a convention ketwcen us and the Oriental Republic, we exercise at this moment a very vigilant surveillance with respect to all ships that enter or quit this road in the night. A boat belonging to the Perle corvette was on duty ; it hailed the Spider several times, but was not answered. Then it fired some musket shot in another direction. The Spider pail no attention to them. At length a musket shot was fired, not at the vessel, but so that the ball might pass very close along-side of it. Unfortunately the ball touched the arm of the man who was sounding. If, on the one hand, tho English Consul at Monte Video has endeavoured to represent this accident in an odious light, on the other hand the officers of the English squadron at once acknowledge that there was very cer tainly no intention to insult the English flag, which be tides was not flying since it was night. But the frank and friendly explanations that took place have not hindered the declamations of the English Journals, which seem to be resolved to drive France into the arms of Russia." Mr. NI-Gregor has just passed through Paris. It is said that he is going on a mission to Naples, and othlr Italian States. We have reason to believe that the Anglo- French Commission, which met at Paris last winter, is going to resume its labours —Le Commerce, Sept. 11. The Journal of the Two Sicilies give the following summary of the statistics of the capital of Naples for the year 1838. It is compiled from an official Report made to the King by the Minister of Police : The population, on the Ist of January, 1838, was 336,302 ; on the Ist of January 1839, it was 336,537 ; of which population 156.695 were males, and 179,842 females. The births for the year 1838 were 13,228, of which 6,850 were males, and 6, 37 8 females. Deaths, 12,993 ; males 6,962; femal es 6 , 031. Of t h e deceased. 97 averaged from 90 to 100 years of age, and 9 exceeded even that long p e riod of human life. Marriages, 3,543; widowers married 564; widows, 440 ; being an increase of 490 marriages upon the retusns for 1837. Number of suicides, 22 ; of fires, 16 ; of bankruptcies. 8. Arrivals in the capital from the Provinces, 21,739; departures, 17.712 : remained, 4,027. Arrivals from abroad, 9,408 ; departed, 8,407 ; re mained, 949. Vessels left the Port.—Neapolitan, 976 ; Engli , h, 92 ; French, 81 ; Russian, 2 ; Sardinian, 19 ; Tuscan, 34 ; Roman, 1 ; American, 3 ; Swede, 1 ; Dutch, 1 ; Norwe gian, 1 : Lucca, 1 ; Belgian, 1 ; Spanish, 1 ; and Tur kish, 1. _ _ Vessels arrived during the year.—Neapolitan, 998 ; French, 874 ; English, 86 ; Sardinian, 28 ; Tuscan, 33 ; and from other States, as enumerated in the preceding paragraph. BOURSE.—PaRis, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 11. I irst Highest Lowest Last ' Prim Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 111) 60 ... 110 SO ... 110 65 ... 1 0 65 4 per Cents lOl 311 ... lel 3U ... 101 30 ... 101 50 3 per Cents Bl 10 ... 81 10 ... 81 ... 81 Bank of France 2775 —.2775 ...27i 5 —.2773 Lattitte Bank 1,188)0 Sh lO6O ...ICC+, —.1060 ...1060 5,000 f. Sh 5215 • —.5215 ...5215 ...5015 Belgian 3 per Cents 7 , 15 ... 72 15 ... 72 15 ... 72 13 Bank 785 ... 78i ~. 785 ...735 Spanish Ac ice '..9% ... 29% ... 29 ... 293( Passive 7% ... 7 % ... 7 .., 7% New Of ferret Old Deferred 7ll ... 7 3 4 ... 7% ... 7i, Portuguese 3 per Cents 22% ... 2'1% ... 22% ... 22% Nea Oiitaii Roman __ __ _ . 1( . 12:!,, ,,. .,..11L% ... 102%, ... 102% RAILWAYMHA ItE3. St. Germain Versai;les, R. 11 542 50 ... 512 50 ... 540 ... 510 LB. 312 50 ... 312 50 ... 307 50 ... 310 Flavra Strasburg to Bale „ ... 3 5 ... 307 f.O ... 3 - 5 ... 307 50 Bordeaux to La "'este rSELt.iI AN i• UNDS—Bausem.s, SEPT. 11. Actual Debt, tf per Cent. Itothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent l'll Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92 3 per Cent. ...... .• 71% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent — Society of Commerce, 4i per Cent ll5 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent...-. ...... ... National Society —Brussels Papers, Sept. 11. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Visassa, Sgrr 3 Fire per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares ....,....... ................ ..... ....... ._ . - —Altitemeate Zatung. Fept. 8 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Sarr. 7. Rills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 , 4 per cent ......».....103 103 Prussian English Loan, IMO, 4 per cent. ;0.35, 1029 s luxchange on London, three months ... 6 20% - -Prussian State Gazette. Sept S. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, SEPT. 12. —Wind W. S. W.—Arrived, the West minster, Moore, from New York ; Marquis Huntley, Motley, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 12. —Wind N. W.—Arrived, the Walter, Falck, from Charleston ; Zephyr, Senegal ; Sophia, Lugana, Palermo ; Chieftain, Connor, Narva ; Jane Avery, Robinson, ditto; Quecn Victoria, Griffiths, Riga ; Amelia, Guthrie, Dantzic ; President Rothcr, Zulach, ditto. Sailed, the Ann, Whinfield , for Rio Jailer° ; Berbice, Grayson, Berbice ; Wave, Bartlett, Nassau; laLhi °P Coo er New foundland. Off port, the ower, Medora, Charoleston. p PORTSMOUTH, S EPT. 12. Wind NN.W.to W. , Harr Afr ica ; Hpe, , PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 12. Wind N. W. FALMOUTH, Sept. Wind S. W. to N. N. W. Sailed the Albion, Smith, for Quebec. DOVER, SEPT. 12.—.0f port the paragon, Coleman, from Calcutta. C''wEs , SEPT. 12.—Arrived the Sarah, from Batavia. Swomm, SEPT. 12 —Off port the Lord Auckland, Frazer, from Calcutta. MARGATE, SEPT. U.—Arrived off the Eagle, Rollins, from the Cape of Good Hope—sailed 22d June. Poct.E, SETT. 12.—Sailed the Seal, Alarah4eld, for Nevvfoundland. YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, SEPT. 12.—Sailed the Westmoreland, Brigstock, for Australia. RAMSOATE, SEPT. 12.—Sailed the Joaen Emilia, for 14arpelona , San Antonio, Anza, ditto. y IS a fact that the young per son now in Newgate, and next week to be tried for her yfe rpt the Central Criminal Court, on the charge of having destroyed her new-4) . 0m child, is not yet 16 yiars of 'age. She had not attained her 17th year when s he was seduced o. _ by the man who vras for WOO, under the bastardy clause of the New Poor-law, was not liable to any part of the expenses of its maintenance. MARKETS.--(THIS DAY.) 1 CORN EXCHANGE. The supply of Wheat and F our this week has been mode rate, of all other articles very small, and of Foreign Wheat and Oats middling. There has been very little disposition to do business; old Wheat is held at Monday's rates, and new being chiefly tender, was 2s. per quarter cheaper. In Barley, Beans, and Pease no variation. Oats advanced Is. per quarter. Ihe Flour trade was very dull. In consequence of the rejection of some high fictitious averages the duty on Wheat remains un altered. English Irish - Foreign 13030 Wheat. 3,780 qrs ARRIVALS Barley. 160 qrs. Oats. Flour ir3. 3,244 ,acico ZZ.O --- brls. SMITHFIELD. In consequence of the shortness of the supplies, the,trade has improved s i nce l as t d a y, t h e pr i mest sorts of Beef meeting a ready sale at an advance of 2d. per stone. Mutton, Lamb, Veal, and Pork commanded readily the prices of Monday last. Beef, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. ; Mutton, 4s. 2d. to ss. ; Veal, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ; Pork, 4s, 6d. to ss. 4d. ; Lamb, 4s. 6d. to ss. 4d. Beasts, 418; Sheep and Lambs, 6,220; Pigs, 497 ; Calves, 314. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Moderate supplies, and the demand was much in proportion, prices continued stationary. Turbot, ss. to 18s ; Cod, Is. 6d. to Bs. ; Soles, 10d. to 33.6 d. per pair ; Lobsters, 10d. to 4s. ; Oysters, 12s. to 40s. per bushel ; Whitings, 3d. to Bd. ; and Haddocks, 841. to Is. 2d. ; Salmon, ls. 3d. to Is. 6d. per lb. for good quality. MONEY AND COMMERCIALNEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.—We con tinue to experience a pool demand for Cotton to-day; the sales are 6,000 bags at full prices, and a firm market. Several vessels have put back ; among them is the Levant packet, for Constantinople, 'with the loss of her bowsprit. We have received Cape of Good Hope Papers to th e 231 June. (From the Cape of Good Hope Papers.) By the last post from the frontier we have no news of any consequence, though the reports of Caffre depreda tions are as formidable as they ever were in time of peace. That many of these reports are groundless, as in the re cent case of Mr. John Pringle's horses, we learn from the formal contradictions that appear from time to time in the Paper that first gave them publicity ; but a sufficient num ber are true to authorise additional force on the part of Government, and the utmost watchfulness on the part of the frontier farmers. The drought in the central districts of the colony is said to be extreme, in some places rain has not fallen for the last three years, The measles, we learn, still bear heavily on the midland and frontier inhabitants. In Cape Town something like influerza begins to pre. vail ; this is certainly the most unhealthy season we recol lect at the Cape. At length the long-looked for Hamburgh mail has arrived, which was due on Monday last, of the 6th S, p tembar. Exchange on London -13 2 ; gold, 430 ; Metalliques, 106 ; Bank Actions, 1,517. THE RECENT STORM—DREADFUL LOSS OF LIFE,-It is with the utmost poignant sorrow we state that intelligence has been received from Uitenbago, to the effect that durng ' the storm on Monday, the 21st inst. eight waggons, loaded with merchandise were carried away by the Zwartkops River, and lost. The loss of life is stated to be appalling, Five waggons were " outspanned" at the lower drift, and three at the upper ; they had been driven up for the night on the flat banks of the river, where, by one of those sudden overflows for which African rivers are remarkable, the whole, including every body with the waggons were over whelmed and swept away by the force of the torrent. The number of lives lost is not at present known, but cannot be less than sixteen or eighteen, amongst whom are many Europeans. The rivers in every direction have been swollen to an extraordinary height. PORT ELIZABETH, Mav 23 —This place and neighbour hood was visited on Monday last by one of the severest storms which have happened for a long time pest, and more rain fell than for the last eight bears, accompanied by high wind, thunder, and lightning. Considerable damage has been done to the buildings, several of which have fallen The country is covered with water, Our old seasons seem to have returned to us, it is to be hoped with our old pros perity. THE FUNDS. Money having become. rather plentiful, and discounts on good bills at an easier rate, caused a prevailing opinion that the Bank directors would have issued a notice yesterday, lowering their rates of discount, which has not taken place. A rumour prevails that the Bank direction have re cently afforded extensive assistance to parties to whom their most jealous notice has constantly been directed, and to whom they had, hitherto, refused all support, and done all in their power to depreciate ; though such assistance tended, at the same time, to counteract the measures they had in progress for the contraction of the circulation, and through fear of what might happen if such assistance were refused. To the present hour there is very little doing in either of the markets, and we do nDt expect that any further operations of magnitude in Spanish will be effected until after the settling day in the Foreign Market, which takes place on Monday next : this day and to-morrow the brokers and jobbers will endeavour to square their accounts in Spanish, and we apprehend that the settling will be at tended with great difficulty, as the extreme rise has been upwards of 10 per Cont. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices, 911 Money ; for Account ; Exchequer Bills, ss. to 7s. prem. ; Bank Stock for the opening, 186} 1871 ; India, 249 250 ; Spanish Active closed 271. 28, receded to 27i i; Portuguese, same as they left off, 34. ; Brazi Tian, 781 ; Colombian, 33i; Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents., 541 ; Five per Cents., 1041. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY Ai' ONE O'CLOCK Bank Stock ......... - India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. - Ditto Bonds 8 pin per Cent. Co”s ‘ ,1%% IA South Sea Stock 3, per Cent ,„.. Old Annuities Ditto lied. !.. - New Ditto New 34 per Cent 99 8% 9 3 per Cent. Annuities. 1751 New 5 per Cent: — Exch. Bills, £l,OOO ... 5 7 pm, Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500... pre. Jan. 5, 1960 ..... Ditto Smali 2O ... —pm Oct. 10, 1850 -- Ditto Commercial dis Jan. 5, 1860 l4 1-16 Ditto Advertised ..... -- pm Jan. 5, 1980 — Bank Stock for Account ... Aprils, MO. — India Stock for Account ... Jan. 5. 1970 — Consos for Account 91%44 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLO( K. Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds 194 Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account . 734 Ditto Account 1 4% 5 54 Buenos Ayres Bonus Ditto Aecount Chilian Bonds D tto AccoL. t Columbian Bonds 32% , Ditto Account — Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1524 3344 1 4 Spanish Bonds .27% +4. R 4 9 Ditto Account 3Mi Ditto Account...2o4 4 'ifs t i Danish Bonds Ditto Account — Del, rred tireek Bonds French, 5 pet cent. —t. --c. --f. --C. Ditto Bonds, ISZ ....... Ditto Account - Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Exchange. f 0 Ditto Account —!Dutch, 2; , ‘ per ccnt. ' 4yi% Ditto, 6 per Cent 08%y Ditto Account I Itto 'ccount Knapontait. — Ditto Account — PttlCL'a 01' b.HARES THIS DA: A r UNE O'LOCK. Paid. C Per Share. _ E stern Counties Railway l6 6%_ . 65 gnat W. ,:tern Railway Company 5 54 Ditto ~I 4s e w ti st.ocks oubLIN, SEPTEMBER 10 ritlC-- 4)l ' L ftiS poi; • Gran,l Canal I )e:,s. 6 per cent. Sy !I par Gent . Consol s .4 oi, 1 Ditto, 4 per cent. 3 x - ! Hibernian Bar& Ditto New, 1830... .. .. 97 ,, , 1 City of Dublin Steam Comp. - ',1 , 2 par Cent. Debentures... IN i National Insuranc e C ompany - Bank Stock . - 1 City Debentures , 4 per c en t. - grand Canal Stock -1 Ballast Office Debentures, 4 - Royal Canal Stock HALF-PAST ONE. The chief business doing in the course of the morning was in the Foreign Market in Spanish and Portuguese. The speculations in the former have been ia continual motion to the present hour. In the early part of the morning there was every appearance of a considerable fall in the Spanish Stock,' which receded to 27k, since which the pigeons have arrived, and immediately a reaction took place, and the Spanish went up to 29 to 29k, an improve ment of li per cent. The report is that Don Carlos has arrived at Bayonne ; this, as yet, requires confirmation,: but we have no doubt that some information of importance has been received from Paris. Spanish at present may be quoted at 281 29. We just hear that it has again got up to 29i. Money continues the same as yesterday. Consols 9l f:} for the Account ; ' , Money, 91f ;* Exchequer Bills 5 7 prem. ; India Bonds 8 prem. ; Bank Stock shut. India Stock 249 ; Spanish 291 ; Portuguese improved to 35 j; Brazilian 78i ; Colombian 33i ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., b4ii ; Five per Cents. 104.1._ THE NEW NOVEL, " MORTON OF MOR TON'S HOPE, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY."—The principal aurae. tion of this extraordinary work consists in the great number and variety of characters introduced, entirely new to the English reader—characters which, for originality of con ception and force of execution, have not been surpassed by the most successful writers of our day. " Besides Morton's Uncle Joshua and Aunt Fortitude—the one a bundl e of contradictions, hind-hearted, oratorical, and full of theo. ties, the other equally kind-hearted, b u t averse to a ll innovations—there is the accomplished and eccentric Von Rabenmark—the garrulous Count Tromp Von Totten burgh, with his sixteen quarterings, ever prating of his ancestors; and Dummberg, the superannuated student of five-and-thirty I and the octogenarian Popp (plain Popp), principal librarian's—sub.librarian's--deputy. rssistant's —secretary's clerk, and Professor Poodle. burg, the magnificent ; and Gottlob, the executioner's son; and the great professor and dramatist Funk, who was twenty-five years engaged on a tragedy, and had only finished two acts and a half; and the Baron Kinski, with his " Hall of Skeletons," and his " cabinet Mi nister," which last is neither more nor less than his grand-father stuffed and kept ,in a glass case and the wonderful Bohemian opera singer Minna ; and Sir Gules Doomsday, the economist and spendthrift ; and Potanko, retiring from civiliTed life, and becom ing a Chief among the Indians; and Wahquimacut, the White eat, the facetious and drunken Chief; and Cushcashka, the lovely daughter of the great Mohawk warrior Kelemuchpekink ; and Welpc i me Dodge, the Yankee patriot, and many others top numerous to men tion. From this specimen of the characters, the readers m a y judge of the author's discrimination in the choice of his draznutf4 persona ; and he has shown no less in their comlynation and in the managemement of his scenea.' , :—. New Monthly. EDINPIIq4I) MONDAY.—We regret to state ' that during the last few da)s the weather has been very unfavourable, and must considerably retard the harvest operations, as well as injure the crops in this qUarter. A great dail f rain fell on Saturday ; but about two o'clock, the atmosphere cleared, and we had a few flow's of bright ai.tturnti sunshine. Tuwards evening the sky again lOwered, and the rain Came on, and continued with little intermission throughout yesterday, including several very 'heavy showers. At ten o'clock on the same evening_ the wind came very strong from the w est, which will tend to lay much of the standing crops.—Caledon ian Mercury. THE DAGUERREOTYPE. (EXHIBITION THIS DAY.) We were admitted this forenoon to the first exhibition, in London, of this machine, or rather apparatus, for taking, in same fifteen minutes, an exact likeness of any external object. M. Do St. Croix, a French gentleman, performed the operation with great dexterity and com plete success. Tile house in which he exhibited the performance is situate close to the Regent Circus, Pic cadilly, and having a view of part of Regent-street and the Circus. This view he proposed to represent to the spectators. He first took a sheet of copper, plated with silver, which he washed carefully in a solution of nitric acid, which removes from it all the extraneous matters on its surface. A slight degree of friction is requisite in this prceesi,but it mus t not b e app li e d al ways in the same direction. When the sheet is thu s prepared, it is placed in a closed box, and exposed to the vapour of iodine, for fully ten minutes, the room being kept quite dark. A thin coating, of a yellow colour, is thus formed on the surface of the sheet. The sheet, when covered with this substance, is of the most excessive sensibility to light, and is thus ready for the camera ob scura. M. De St. Croix ascertained the exact point at which the sheet should be placed, and having done that by means of a mirror from which the objects were re flected, he placed the sheet ( in the camera obscura, where it remained for fifteen minutes. When taken out it was quite dark—not indeed a vestige of the street or houses could be distinguished till it was exposed to the vapour of mercury heated to about 180 or 200 degrees of Fahrenheit. He then washed it with a solution of the hyposulphate of soda the solution attacking the parts upon which the light could not act, and respecting the light parts, being the inverse of the action of the mercury. He next washed the sheet with distilled water, and the image, though the day was rather cloudy, exhibited the most perfect likeness of the houses, the street, and the blue sky. The operation altogether occupied nearly an hour, but it can be performed in much less time. NATIONAL CONVENTION. (THIS DAY.) The Chair was taken by JOHN FROST, Esq., at a quarter past eleven o'clock. The SECRETARY read a long letter from Dr. Fletcher, relative to the conduct of the Council, and complaining of the manner in which his conduct had been animadverted upoh by certain members of the Convention. We have room only for the following extracts:—" The whole case as regards the salaries of the Council rests en the resolu tion which was passed either on the Wednesday or Thurs day before the Convention adjourned, on the motion of Mr. O'Connor, and ellich, strange to say, has not been once alluded to in the reports of your proceedings. The characteristic trick which Mr. O'Connor played off in dictating the irregular minute on the 6th of August, which he says is intended to be a minute of what passed on the 27th of July, has enabled him, as I am now convinced it was intended, to mystify the affair to his heart's content by keeping his own resolution out of sight, and making it appear that the only authority for the payment of our salaries was the decision of the small meeting on the day of the adjournment —a Daniel come to judgment, a second Daniell The resolution to which I have referred states that 'the wages' of the Council shall be paid out of the rent. This resolution was never rescinded, or in any way interfered with by the Convention. The terms of the resolution of Mr. Duncan's Committee on Friday, that 2/. a-week should be peel to the Delegates going down to their constituences,' could not refer to the council The plotters had better h've done what they had to do at last, have given Mr. O'Brien (who had no claim under the original vote, having no salary ), two pounds a-week, without all the miserable trickery which has been thrown away on this business, unless it wa s their intention from the first to make it the means of slan_ dering those who refuse to wear the O'Connor livery. And Mr. O'Connor has the face to talk of what Pitkeith_ ley endured in resisting our demand, and this in the pre sence of those who know that scarcely a word was ad dressed directly to Mr. Pitkeithley on the subject. What right had Pitheithley there ? It cannot be forgotten how strongly Mr. O'Connor urged on the Convention the ap pointment of this gentleman as Secretary to the Council, and that it was almost unanimously negatived. Yet, there he was objccling, demurring, and shufaing.! Mr. O'Connor had occasion to employ him ou private business, but this was not intrigue—this was not dictation. Oh no; it was only centralising opinion. After all, this martyr to the cause of economy, who rarely paid a shilling without a minute inves tigation, paid it appears, 9/. to Mr. M'Crae, without any au thority whatever. I do not believe that Mr. M'Crae applied for the money without an understanding with some of the Council. If he did, it was a positive fraud, and the affair demands public explanation. As to the Dublin affair, I take shame to myself for not at once perceiviag that Mr. O'Connor's swan would, as usual, prove to be a goose." Mr. PITKEITHLEY said he was not before aware that it had been in contemplation to make him Secretary. With regard to the other charges contained in the letter of Dr. Fletcher, he would not notice them further than to state that he felt he had discharged his duty, and had merely acted in accordance with the wishes of the majority of the Convention.—( Hear, hear.) Mr, Pakeithley then read a letter which he had received from Mr. M'Crae, stating that he conceived he had a right to the same pay as other Members, lout that if Lowrey and the rest had returned back their salaries, he bad no doubt the county of Ayr would restore his 91., as he had left as much in the hands of the Convention as would refund it. " But I can tell you," (proceeded the writer), " that you are, by your mode of action, doing the best you can to destroy those defence and victim funds that I have been endeavouring to collect in Ayrshire. Now it seems that I have been a great rogue, and brought away n.oney that I had no right to ; but if this sum is taken back from the couety, and others allowed to pocket the sums they have claimed, I iesist on a fair reckoning, and that the men of Ayrshire should know how some of the money has been expended that they have saved from their hard won earnings." He had also received a letter from the Secretary of the Ayrshire Association, stating that if the other meiebers returned their salaries Ayrshire would pay back Mr. al'Crae's. ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE, Mr. BUSSES' then brought up an address which the Corn. mittee appo:nted last night nad concocted, and which having been ordered to be laid on the table, the Convention resolved itself into a Committee to take it into consideration. Mr. SKEVINGTON approved of the address, and moved that it be that of the Convention. Mr. NEESoM seconded the motion. Alter some discussion the address was Rent h.t'k to tho Committee for re v . . .... Dr. TAYLOR moved that 250 copies of the Chanzpion newspaper be purchased by the Convention, as it contained the declaration of rights in acorrected form. It was most, important, and he thought it ought to lie reprint e d by all t he constituencies. Mr. PITKEITHLEY Obj;ClC'd to the number proposed to be purchased--one hundred copies was quite enough. He moved accoidingly. Mr. O'BRIEN moved as an amendment that the pro prietor o f th e N ort h ern Star be requested to insert the amended copy. That would give a circulation to the declaration without any expense to the Convention. The original motion was carried. On the motion of Mr. O'Batzu, Dr. Taylor, Mr. Pitkeithley, and Mr. Rogers were appointed as a Com mittee to superintend the printing of the balance sheet. Adjourned. - - ---- MURDEROUS OUTRAGE AND ROBBERY AT THE SENIOR UNITED SER VICE CLUB HOUSE, PALL-MALL. (FURTHER PARTICULARS.) Towards the middle of yesterday Mr. Fenn, the stew ard, on whom surgeons were in constant attendance, revived considerably, and at intervals was enabled to enter into conversation, in the midst of which, how ever, he relapsed into his previous state of insensibility. We understand, however, that the following explana tion of the mysterious affair has been in detached sentences given by him :—After be had been, as he supposed, about an hour in bed and asleep, he was suddenly awoke by receiving a severe blow on the side of the head with, as he believes, a stick. He instantly jumped out of bed, when he was seized by two men, with whom be entered into a fierce struggle, which was ended by his receiving the blows on the bead and arm, which knocked him to the floor, and deprived him of his senses, in which state he must have Lin until discovered by the domestics. He is unable to give any description of the ruffians by whom lie was attached. From the examination of the premises it had been ascertained that none pf the locks of the doors had been forced, and it is therefore supposed that the thieves must either have been well acquainted with the mode of ingress and egress, or have, by some means at present undiscovered * secreted themselves in the offices unseen by any of the domestics. Last evening a meeting of the members of the Club was held, to consider what steps should he adopted under the circumstances. The result has, however, not h,!en suffered to transpire. Mr. Fenn, who is about as. or 40 years of age, we under stand still remains in .7, most precarious state. He has been for some time. connected ;with the Club, and is much re spected. It appears that the cash box has not been taken away, as was at first stated, but has been broken open and rifled of its contents, We observe it has been atmeanced that Mr. Rowland Hill has within this day or two had an in terview with the Qhaueellor of the Exchequer. We hope that may be considered as a sign that the Cioveenment has engaged, or means to engage, the ser vices of that able gentleman, in order to carry into effect his plan of the uniform Pe SIWS&ELS, SEPT. l Penny Postage.. l i av erage p rice o f wheat last week was 23f. 74c., and that of Ry e , 1 2 f . 90c. The duties on importation. .14d_ exportation rema i n as before. NEW STAAND IHEATRE.--A laughable but someu hat extravagant piece was produ ce d at this theatre last night, under the name of Behind the Sc enes , or Actors by Lo mid ght. This trifle appears to be partly f oun d ed on the Frenuh piece of Les CoAtisses and the late tournament at Eglinton Castle. The first part, which embodies the behind-seetW representation of a most exaggerated melo drama, in which one Jeremiah Hopkins ( Attwood), stage-struck hero, personates a suicidal son, and Mr. Spooney Negus (Oxberry), the devil, was full of fun, and was received with ince,sant shouts of laup,hter. The second part, t.fre In t, .ui.esqu e of the tournament, was rather a sorry affair. The pii cc owes its success entir. ly to the excellent acting of Attwood, Oxberrv, and %Irs. .Selby. 1, 4 0 rd Adolphus .Fitzelarenc e is expected to return to the Ambassador's Court, St. James's, the middle of the ensuing week, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, at Gordon Castle, N.B. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and family will teturn to Italy next month, and winter in Rome. His Grace has been enjoying the ofgrouse ti g sport at his shooting lodge, in Dumfriesshire. EVENING EDITION. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty promenaded on the Terrace of the Castle, and also on the slopes, this afternoon, attended by the Earl of Surrey. Tile King and Queen of the Belgians, and the IN chess of Kent, went this morning in a carriage and four to Dropmore. Their Majesties and the Royal Duchess will return to the Castle this evening to dinner. His Excellency the French Ambassador, and Ma dame le Comtesse Sebastiani, Madame Van der Weyer, the Lady of the Belgian Minister, and Sir Hamilton Seymour, G.C.H., are expected to arrive this evening, and will join the Royal dinner party at the Castle. The Marquis of Normanby left the Castle this morning. Tile - Royal party returned from Woolwich to the Castle this evening to dinner. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and attended by Baron Knesebeck, left their residence at Kew with their Suite in three carriages and four, at twelve o'clock yesterday. on a visist to the Earl and Countess of Jersey, at their seat Middleton Park, near Bicester, Oxford. During his stay at Middleton Park, the Duke of Cambridge it is expected will honour with morning visits the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Pierrepoint of Everly, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Cartwright of Ayrd, and Sir Robert and Lady Fitz Wygram of Tusrnore Park. The Marquis of Normanby returned to town yester day from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Earl of Lichfield has returned to Buxton. Mr. Hall, Chief Magistrate of Bow-street Police office, had an interview yesterday with the Marquis of Normanby, at the Home Office. FA SHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Henry Thomas Hope, Esq , in Mansfield-street, faun a tour in the Netherlands ; Lord and Lady Tanker vine, in Grosvenor-square, from Walton-upon-Thames, en route for Chillingham Castle, Northumberland ; Lord and LAy Charles Hervey, from a tour; Sir Augustus d'Este, in Connaught square, from ditto; Lord Augustus Fitzcla rence, from Maple Durham. DEPARTURES. The Hon. Miss Lister, from Wilton-place, on a visit to Lord John Russell, at Sunning-hill; Sir William Burnett, Physician-General to the Navy, from Somerset place, for Portsmouth ; Lord George Bentinek,from Harcourt-house, for Doncaster ; Count Portalis, for the Continent ; Gen. Sir Josiah and Lady Champagne and family, from Harley street, for Tunbridge Wells ; Prince Anglona and suite, from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermvn•street, for the Conti nent ; Lord and Lady Milton, for Dalmahoy Castle, the seat of the Earl of Morton ; the Earl and Countess of Falmouth, and the Baroness Le Despencer, from St. James's -street, for Woolhampton, Newbury; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Booth Grey, from Charles street, Berkeley square, for Wicken Park, Stoney Stratford ; the Hon. Miss Hope Johnstone, from South -street, on a visiting tour ; Sir John and Lady Croft, from Hyde Park-place, for Cowling Hall, Yorkshire; Lady Coz Hippesley, for Brighton ; Colonel Chaloner, on a tour; Lady and the 11.)n. Miss Eleanor Brougham, for Brighton; the Hon. Charles Gore, from Wilton -crescent, for Gordon Castle; Lieut.-General Charles Gore, from Wilton crescent, for Gordon Castle ; Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, K. C. 8., on a tour in the North of Europe ; Sir William Pepys, Bart., for Tunbridge Court, Surrey; the Bishop of London, from St. James's-square, for Ryde, Isle of Wight; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. W. Vesey, from Batt's Hotel, Dover -street, for Ireland ; Messrs. Murphy, Brady, and Kernan, from ditto, for Ghent; Rev. W. Lee, from elute, for Cheltenham. CHANGES. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, Lady Cecilia Underwood, and suite, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Leicester, at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, from Southwick Park, Hants; the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, at his shooting quarters, Inverness-shire, from a visit to Earl and Countess Grey, at Howick Hall, Alnwick ; Viscountess Barrington, at the Queen Dowager's, Bushy Park, from Beckett House, Shrivenham, Berks ; the Hon. Mrs. and Miss Cavendish, at St. Leonard's, from Windsor Castle; the Earl and Countess of Warwick, at Warwick Castle, from Cheltenham ; Lord Pollington, at Warwick Castle, on a visit to Lord an d Lady Warwick, from a tour; Lord and Lady Leigh, at Stoneleigh, from Leamington Spa Lord and Lady De Vesci, from their seat, Abbeyletx , Queen's County, on a visit to the Dowager Countess of of Pembroke, at Wilton House, Wilts; the Hon. Thos. Vesey, at ditto, from ditto ; the Earl of Portarlington, a t Emo House, Queen's County ; Lord and Lady James Stuart, from Cheltenham, on a tour. The Duke of Wellington arrived at Apsley- House on Wednesday from Walmer Castle, expressly to present a new stand of colours to the 45th Regiment. The Hon. Captain H ast i ngs , b rother to L o ra Huntingdon, has be en a pp o i nte d i nspecting commaa d er of tho Coasi, Guard at Ardmore, Waterford. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings and family have arrived at the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street, from their marine villa at Cowes, where they have been sojourning since the d ecease o f the lamented Lady Flora. The Marquis and Marchioness will leave town in a few day's for Castle Donnington,their seat, near Ashby-de-la. Zoßefl. The hope which the Tories of Perth han en couraged of a serious disagreement arising aP.'eong the Roformers,.in consequence of what took plaee at the last election, has induced them to .put forward., a Mr. W. F. B:ack, who, in an address which he has published, inti mates that " he has been engaged in business all bis life is London." His promises are as specious as usual ; he can't pledge himself to support any Ministry, but he is to offer n o : filet/ons opposition ; very anxious to promote educationr but can't approve o f th e Ministerial efforts to advance it; &c. His address, in short, is precisely of that kind which can only be r e c e i ve d w i t h cre d ence or respect by a con stitueney willing to be duped ; and as that is far from being the case with the independent Reformers of the city which this Mr. Black aspires to represent, it follows that the Tories have as little chance of success in their threatened opposition at the next election as they felt they had a few weeks ago. Their candidate is. we believe, unknown in London, and is known only in Perth by his visits to vote for the Tory. Their expectation that Provost Greig will resign, we presume to be as vain as their hope of dividing the Reformers. ,‘ A squadron el dragoons," says the Memorial of Dieppe, " having arrived at Eu to reinforce the garrison during the King's stay, the military authorities, 'not knowing where else to lodge them, suggested to the Mayor part of the buildingseof t e consented; eo but lleg the ew principalat hiehvcasunboice:Jpied. The Mayor the college declared that he never w ou ld a ll ow i t to be converted into barracks , ai:d that if th e y were reso l ved to station dragoons in it they must first burst th e gates open. This, in fact, was done . The deputy Mayor, wea7ing the insignia of office, and ac companied by a picket guard, went and twice forced open the gates of the college, which the principal as often closed again ; b ut i n the end the dragoons were placed in the vacate; part o f t h e buildings." Thursday, after an absence of seven years, Lot' and Lady Stafford returned to Cossey, when the tenantry. and vill zera, with a r ea di ness which speaks the warmth Of their attachment, p repare d a f ete to welcome them home. At a little before five a cavalcade of near eighty horsemen , wearing the c o l ours of the family, and f o ll owe d by upwards of a thousand persons, preceded by a band of music, me t Lord and Lady Stafford at Easton : the horses were taken from tho carr i age , an d i t was drawn to the entrance of Cossey Park. Here the children of the Village scbol, joined in the procession, each wearing an appropriate knot of red and yellow, and bearing at their head a miniature banner, inscribed with their good wishes to their founder. At the porch of the hall the little band of scholars opened , and forming on each side, while the horsemen surrounded the court doorway, led the swelling chorus of gratulation by cheers that spoke their full sense of the comforts showered among them by an unsparing hand. A consider able number of the tenants, tradesmen, and inhabitants afterwards dined at the Falcon, where the sentiments which inspired these demonstrations were warmly expressed in appropriate toasts. At about ten o'clock the park was again thronged by spectators, and the festivities closed by a display of fireworks.—Bury Post. CARRIER PIGEONS.—Mr. Mathews, the Pier master, shot yesterday afternoon, at half-past six, a pigeon which had a strip of paper round one of its legs, b e aring the following inscription : BAYONNE, 9 SEPT.—Don Carlos a ap p e l e l es diverses bat.illons Navarrois a Lecumbe r y, ma i s cette operat i o n P' ll pu avoir lieu, a cause de l o ur I c E s part ero a d u sort i r ce matin de V x Tolos a avec 1 2 b ata i llons, pour II" D2O marcher sur L ecum b ery. E 17-i- (25th) L'emigr at i on cont i nue: 80 officiers On' rentrei hier p ar S are. " The pigeon appeared v er y di stressed, and had rested on o ne of the chains of the Picr for some little time, before Mr. Mathews went for his gun to shoot him. —Brighton Gazelle. HOWDEN GR EAT H ORSE FAIR. Great pre parations are ma ki ng by the innkeepers and others for t he approachi ng f a h' ; will be very numerous, it being confidently anticipated that the mand for horses in this attendance of foreigners, dealers, farmers, and graziers, in co u consequence ofthtehecg reat de- The fame of the horses of Yorkshire is deservedly spread ; and they are so highly esteemed, not only in this coun'ay. but in F • ranee, Germans, Russia, America, and in other parts of the world, that dealers come over, commissioned from Emperors and Kings, to buy the horses of this country, at this celebrated mart, in order to improve th e breed of their own, for which they freuently giv e exorbitant prices. In the year 1200, King John granted to Bishop Philip a license to hold an annual fair at How den, which is held on September 25, and six following ontinent. days, and is admitted by dealers to be the largest end most celebrated horse f a i r in the kingdom.—Hull Times. LITTLE PEDLINGTON.—Our readers do not require to be reminded that there is such a place as Little Pcdlington, or to be told of its " whereabout," and the numerous and famous literati, illuminati, and others, who illustrate its now classic purlieus; but they may like to be, apprised that the distinguised traveller who first enj o y ed the honour and happiness of discovering this heretofore terra incognita, and laying bare its social and intellectu al wealth to the wonder and admiration of the world, bag at letigth been impelled by the natural ambition of an origi nal and exeursi , e mind, to publish, in a collected form. the whole of his o bservations, social, political, literary, artis: tical, graphical, biog ra p hical, &c. , &c. The result will doubtless be the production of one of the most amusing and piquant works of its class that has ever issued from the p.- es. -s — a wok claiming a corner in every well. appointed post-chaise, and a good word from every critic who is duly impressed with the belief that to laugh is not only the t, nest pleasure of life, but the universal panacea for a ll ' its ills. ; ,Aoh