The Sun. — London, England, 1836-09-20 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Anoth er FRANCE. Molitor special messenger was di s p a t c h e d t o M ar sh a l fo after c o untry seat, the d a y b e f ore yester d ay ( F r id ay ) ; ur ter what h as f a ll en from La Paix (M. Guizet's organ), this subject, the Ministry are strongly bent upon having The illustrious sword" at the head of the War Department. ten 'Ptation, however, will fail. It is certain that the motive s , Marshal acquainted the Prince Royal at Compiegne with his f ,,',"yes, and with his fixed determination to refuse the port. e viio; he also entreated his Highness to prevent, if possible,. It ' fresh attempt beiNg made to test his devotion to the King. c!)is difficult to believe that this refusal should not have been m .ll . lTnun ieated verbatim to the Cabin e t ; and inasmuch as they !n u ll persi st i n calling upon M. Molitor to take office, they is st be sadly at a loss for candidates. Indeed, this poverty obvious' for even M. Gasparin has availed himself of the opportunity to put in the claims of the General who com manded t h e artillery at Lyons, during the prefecture of M. Gasparin the re , and during which time that city suffered so vsc:, cruelly. It must be confessed the circumstance forms a b,r,Y„sjiigular claim to the place of a member of the Cabinet; to".L_NI Gasparin has no occasion to feel surprised ; there are `.:!,Y similar cases to bear him out.—Courrier Francais. rested have heard that several suspected persons were ar ro'!.t. a at Compiegne, where they were found placed in the th ute which the King would necessarily take from the 15th to m e ar ? o th of this month—namely, the Fauxbourg (suburb) of f or 'PIY, which is the direct road to the Camp. The uni -4007f these persons was a smock frock and a white hat.— ae Re uen fin' and (du Nord) took to his bed on his arrival in , and h e i s vfieresta believed. much more seriously indisposed than was at He was unable even to receive one of his Ad tsiti 8-General, who waited on him for the purpose of corn enmeating on official affairs. M. Mole, the President of the se "ell, paid him a visit in the course of th, day. There are te el e doubts as to whether M. Martin will actually fill the post h is he he h as b een called, arising either out of the state of in th e alth, o r perhaps from the chlnge which has been made fr o e d epartme nt of the 'Minister of Commerce, by detaching kn ow Bureau Bureau th e c h arge o f t h e P u bli c W or k s. I t i s °lvit these do that M . Mole was opposed to this innovation ; but if , uts are well founded, the Cabinet will no sooner new ' Y ' u later sol e the Commerce. Meantime the Doctrinaires con k) on mselv es f or their checks, by boasting of successes which 'aY thattatilheeiteerprove or disprove. For instanc e , th e ir o rgans e it has received a letter from M. Dupin, the co ntents King h i t s of , which . bad afforded him entire satisfaction.— rancais S kis gri ng the last three days the Charge d'Affaires of the W as ciosett U nion has b een rece i ve d b y t h e Ki ng , w i t h w h om h e °f th e spir e d ed for a considerable time. From what has tran nature of this interview, it is generally forthwith, that conciliatory measures on both sides are to be adopted wi th, with reference to the understanding between the taieztieStates ; the Charge d'Affaires at the termination of tro unce t , sy, despatched a courier to Berne in order to an had . the satisfactory appearance of matters. Lord Grenville "rrived at Frankfort.— Courrier Francais. a „„ °Ts, 18 .--The Journals of Bordeaux of the 15th -wee irt SEPT. • ea th stating that a courier who passed through that city th e preceding evening, coming from Madrid, had brought tr ance that M. Mendizabal was appointed Minister of Fi eld."' M. Arguelles President of the Council, and that M. eat.etrava retained only the department of Justice and Modifi eordl°•e, and the Ministry was in fact expected at Madrid, ac thing to the journals of the 10th, and there would be no rte'...surprising in its having taken place in the manner above ruhoned, but we believe that the courier who passed through Pm. ° leat iz on the 14th must have been the one that arrived at staYesterday,b,, reconstruction Psis with letters which spoke indeed of prospects re-construction of the Spanish Cabinet, but without crisis that anything had yet been decided. At that date the ittt s `' of the French Ministry was perhaps a subject of greater C hristi at Madrid than the choice of Ministers of Queen is at sti ea• There is no news from the frontier. Don Carlos T he on a tour to inspect the posts of his army. t a k e Phare says :—" The booty which Basilic, Garcia has a e „,l i to Navarre is very considerable ; it is said that the mo lleat:one amounts to five millions of reels (1,250,000 francs.) 200 - r „" a g, gage, goods, and money were conveyed on the backs of Nvh e — i, ' h es; and notwithstanding the immense embarrassment par s a convoy must occasion, Basilio has escap e d th e uit of the Constitutional columns." th 11 e Evariste San Miguel announces that he has raised th "' e go of G an d esa , which was closely pressed by Cabrera, the Carlists report that they have obtained an advantage over Who General. It is the same with Gomez and General Alaix, her., ar e,oPposed to him in Castille, with Evans and Zubiri Ar a f e ' n e ,ot• Sebastian, with Quilez and Colonel Breil near --cie In Catalonia alone the superiority of the Consti ittleti.on.alis.ts is incontestible. But it is not these partial stru - g ',that can decide the fate of Spain. letter from Madrid says :—" Our Government seeing the liP t number of superior officers who have taken advantage of wo e event s to quit Spain under various pretexts, is going, it is A . to adopt a very energetic measure with respect; to. them. oe Pers en h• has in a high degree the confidence of one of f o - rei Minist w ers . has assured . us . th at all Generals actually in to obi Countries will be immediately recalled, and if . they fail st ,,, e u,eY this order, their pay will be stopped, and their names ev e , Off the lists. Such a measure must be applauded by Yea r It It is scandalous to see Llauder, who for nearly a G eneral nag been receiving in France the pay of a Lieutenant doelleras..l; and now the Pyrenees see Zarco del Valle, Cor ao•urmorillo, Las Amarillas, Espeleta, &c., assembled there." Po i n s al du Commerce, Sept. 18. T he oth Sl" ' 18, 10 A.M.—The Moniteur has no news. .er zoi Mo rning Journals have nothing interesting. The ati nation of a Minister of War is not yet made. The nomi 141n:eAthe Minister of Commerce is not yet officially ttoThe • Journals of the departments have not arrived.—Na- Sep 18. SPAIN. The (From the Journal des Debats.) ad v i e .ollowing is the substance of the military news which c ., es from Madrid of the 10th have supplied us with rna lie Mez has not been overtaken. Brigadier Alaix has re eoilldid twelve leagues behind him, owing to the miserable ablltion of the division, and above all its wants of stores. Un . - i nto ' to reach the enemy, and obliged to convert his pursuit tain, a f tl ereh of observation, he has descended from the moun- Li g - "I Order to protect in case of need Cuenca, and refresh In tr i l ° Ps• He occupied Cuenca on the 16th. 'qe Meantime Gomez descended to Salva-Canete, and j,lt t o bet Mayo, which he left on the 7th, moving towards T/141,git, without being in the slightest degree molested in his lea kt ,": ehelva is in the kingdom of Valencia, at fifteen f rom that city, in a strong position, the only access to bast Phi be is a narr ow d e fil e, f orm i ng t h e b e d o f a torrent. Ch e l va ther beea fortified by the Carlists, who hare even established c Zao'e a cannon foundry. It is the arsenal of Quilez, as an -4a is that of Cabrera. c hel e cannot yet foresee what Gomez is about to of do towards the n or what consequences may f o ll ow his junction with tholu„-lllVents o f V alencia. His forces have i ncrease d b y about band leners :se,Pd Men • he h as un i te d t o his division the scattered prisoner the Cuenca mountains, and a very large part of the r,. 4 .414, the Madrid garrison, taken at . the unfortunate ranksJadraque, who have taken service in Don C . ar . los's the is even said that the famous Sergeant Garcia is of k e n - ruer, but that Gomez, refusing to acknowledge the ra . n latr ee — : ael which he had obtained since the St. Ildefonso has admitted him only as an officer entrusted with h undr e d aecou ' Gomez has now 6,000 soldiers, besides several A ed recruits who follow him. T t ,ort o e , °l4 4lll of 300 men, come from Chelva, under the Canon u tiell i ; c arried, on the 30th of August, the little town of Th'e bet Requena and Cuenca. 1i 44 Parlist column under the Monk Esparanza has obtained terba.4%°ietory over Colonel I3uil, between Chelva and Sa te Val e the insurgents appear to have become very formidable T he nn. krair s °Acid Gazette publishes nothing respecting military 411 .kiet y ; . itB silence can but serve to increase the general 1 PORTUGAL. ~.. Etp l , il l 4 h „ a e'r PROM A LETTER •.- o ln the memoir ofoe Oporto arid ;"'rarnissioner Imbrechts, , i9 n the trade between i es of wine vier e ratn, it is stated that ' in 1834, 31,358 pipes . of 38,408 pipes— the lapelled from Oporto ; and in 1835, the t.tt!ft. quantity 32,535 and 720 to Brazil," leaving pipes went to England, 3,200 . to I tefi -fl ed States of America, t'ilaratitiat less than 2,000 pipes for all therest al o l f o t t h b e er w u , o o r u l u d . , tries alone taking nearly 6 times as much as . at ai l Put together Senor Imbrechts calculates the wine a kvera,„ • ma tY, 6 v of 80 milrees, 201. a pipe, besides the Government Per whWitich he justly terms a very impolitic one, of 12 milrees 1 9i n ve Sehout 15 per cent.) A . export duties to the Por ccording to this, England t ugti e ear 9 100 ,000/. per annum in lit and Covernment, and is the mean u s u o u f a d ll i y str a i m bu o t u in g g t b h e e tw ru e e e r n . Fharit °even hundred thousands a r Douro. But not only tl thi s and cultivators of the a we nt uraneh of our trade Upper Douro. But not only of our trade a lucra tive one for the Govern rofittand People of Portugal, but it is well known that great large amount of English 4004 'tie derived to both, from the - tl, a'rv'uich, after paying the custom tie h r ou i s u e to du s ti p e a s in i . n P rr or h T s - , indeed° anleggled over the land fron matter of much lamen- - tation as I night be expected, is a . )10,6,v,ith Senor Imbrechts, who, however, instead of Pr d o aw "oat Spain should reduce those absurdduti t e o s, b o e 41;Z with tlaose prohibitions which he acknowledges Lo: of the evil,would have Portugal femia union, after the German fashion—a into a custrotro tt''a evi dent she would have everything eunnticor i n os w e h a ic n h d i n t to o tinue so it is im- Pessib? t At present (how long it may con Portur,e,°,BaY) the moderate duty of 15 o is th p i e n r g : g ~„‘_ai atlows the smugglers on the Spanish frontier importation in 111;;V: lorofit after paying the legal duties on ltiimerptousemdabk.ye amount so kltiogia_,'• Senor Irnbrechts calculates the Nal; '°,in the whole frontier at two millions of dollars an talbs'o'r wuiell would give 300,000 dollars a year to the cus w, Portugal upon this branch alone. l allit it t Z re sPect to the commerce between Portugal and Eng- Y it . e facts above quoted show that Portugal is a gainer ligd g Of IN eno asmbrechts ascribed tho present retrograde state It ° wottllal, respects wealth and industry, to the true causes, kii7a%b.- %It ° have specified among the most prominent .. f te t . ho ..o se r that union of Portugal with Spain which exi, d 1 'ltill r a n' , and during which entirely owing to that h c e on u n . e . c e; igli.le wtost valuable part of her colonies, and t uf - 7,.,0f her wealth were wrested from her by the enemies . Platrk The acquisition of Portugal by Philip ll. e to i o n k . al,ltex,titn. 1581. The union of Utrecht between a th re vier44,.. Provint es of Holland was signed utwtourlyieed against Ik a for Y t t i . Ti le arms of the Dutch were s?o DiPossessions of Spain, and India in particular spec . "`~_ dily became the object of their attacks. In a few years the most valuable settlements of the Portuguese had prUlt i their hands, and, when Portugal recovered her independence, her African and American colonies indeed remained ; but the great source of her wealth, her Indian empire, was gone for ever. Looking at the past, therefore, Portugal has certainly not much reason to be particularly anxious to draw nearer the bonds of Spanish connection which Senor Imbrechts thinks so natural and desirable. Nor does the custom-house union now recommended, seem calculated to benefit any other country than that of the proposer, which would doubtless be benefited if it could persuade Portugal to make over to it, by any sort of machinery, the sum it now receives from the contraband trade. Nor is the project of bringing the wines of the Spa nish provinces on the Douro to compete in the English mar ket with those of Portugal likely to be thought prticularly ad vantageous to the latter country, to which the only thing pa latable in this memoir that I can see is the denunciation of the evil consequences of British connection, which, I am sorry to say, is always a popular topic with those who undertake to enlighten (lucus a non, 6-c.) the public upon these subjects. SWITZERLAND. We take the following from an article on the subject of Switzerland, in the Journal du Commerce of Sunday last:-- " One hundred and thirty-three refugees have been sen tenced by the Federal Directory to depart Switzerland ; 83 are still at Switzerland, awaiting the decision of the Govern ments of the Cantons. Among the 136 against whom sen tence of expulsion has passed are 87 Germans, of whom 47 are from Prussia, 13 Poles or Hungarians, 4 Frenchmen, 1 Dane, 5 Savoyards, and 26 Italians. This is the result of the official intelligence from Berne. This calculation, derived from the Journal des Debate, an authority which will not be questioned, exactlysorresponds with the notes of M. de Monte bello, and with all that we ourselves have said on this subject. In the interest of the French Government there have been found but four refugees for expulsion: There were 132 Prus sians and Austrians, that is to say, belonging to the Prussian and Austrian States, from the Germanic Confederation, and from Italy. Thus, in all this quarrel, the interest of the French Government was the weakest ; we may even say that it had none at all ; it cannot be imagined that the power of France rests on so sandy a foundation as to endanger, by the sojourn at Berne, at Zurich, or at Fribourg, of four persons, whose names even are unknown. If this supposition be unwarranted— if the residence at Switzerland of these four men did really endanger the stability of the Government—we must infer that the administration was very weak and incapable, or that the system had been bad indeed for a period of six years, for no Government whatever requires six years for its establishment. A Government which has the masses with it has nothing to fear from individuals. A Government which fears individuals gives grounds for the assertion that the masses are not with it ; it thus enfeebles itself at home as well as abroad; it propagates the opinion of its own instability; and if it wish to again de monstrate its strength, one course only remains, that is, to alter its policy. " Four Frenchmen have been expelled. Does this, we ask, afford sufficient reason why Switzerland should be threatened with a blockade and invasion. How, we demand, and for what cause has the Minister acted! thus, compromising our alliance with a State which covers our frontiers. He has evidently obeyed the requisitions of Prussia and of Austria, and that alone is amply sufficient to show the intimacy of our alliance with the Northern Powers. The interest of those powers we showed yesterday. It is their interest to re-es tablish in Switzerland an Aristocracy which may be able, as in 1815, if a continental war should break out, to open to them the Yhine and the Alps. It is not because any notion of a near invasion exists. All questions are adjourned, but every day brings us nearer to the end, and that man possesses but little sagacity who does not discover in the distance the general confusion which threatens Europe. Now, on either supposition, whether a war of principles or one of territory break forth, the three Powers must organize Switzerlaad in such a manner that she presents no obstacle in the prosecution of their projects. If there be a war of principles, our frontiers will be open; foreign armies will then penetrate into the very heart of France without finding those natural or manual or local obstacles which stand in the way of an invasion. And if a war of territory should occur, these powers will have the same advantages, and they will make use of them to drag us forcibly iato their alliance, and to renounce that of England. A combination like thislit appears beyond all question, the Minister has aided. Now France in the actual state of her foreign relations ought to apply herself in an especial manner to the preservation of her own free agency, of her own unfet tered motions." BOHEMIA. PRAGUE, SEPT. B.—Nearly fifty years having elapsed since the accession of the late Emperor, the coronation of a King of Bohemia was a novelty to most of the inhabitants of Prague ; and the various preparatory ceremonies also .had raised ex pectation to the highest pitch. At six o'clock yesterday morning all the citizens were in movement. These, by seven o'clock, formed a continuous line for a distance of more than a mile from the Palace. A considerable number of them had six horses, and what with the silver lace reins, the numerous chasseurs, looking like so many Russian Generals, and the running footmen in liveries, almost covered with gold and silver lace, they presented a tout ensemble highly gorgeous, at least, if not in the best taste, according to the more sober English ideas. Soon after eight o'clock all parts of the Cathedral allotted to spectators were occupied. The throne was erected on the right of the grand altar. A little lower were two tribunes, opposite to each other, for the Empress, the Nobility, and the Ambassadors. A double line of gal leries was also formed along the sides, and another large gallery facing the altar, so that the number of spec tators admitted could not have been loss than twelve hun dred. At half-past eight his Majesty repaired to St. Wenzel's Chapel, where, after some preliminary prayers, he was invested by the Archbishop of Prague with the royal mantle ; and at nine the sound of trumpets an nounced the entrance of the procession into the Cathedral. The Archbishop, accompanied by twenty Bishops, wearing their mitres, and with vestments of richly embroidered cloth of gold, led the way; following them were the members of the Privy Council, and the officers of the Court, among which latter were conspicuous the Grand Warder, Count Mladota, with a golden key ; the standard-bearers, Counts Chorinsti and Krandatiss, with splendidly emblazoned banners of Aus tria and Bohemia ; and Count Waldstein, as Grand Carver, with his assistant, bearing respectively on red velvet cushions a gilded and silver loaf. Immediately preceding his Majesty were the oppointed officers, with the emblems of Royal State : Baron Wagemann, with the orb ; Knight Von Probazfa, with the sceptre ; Count Clamcallas, with the holy sword of St. Wenzel; and Count Kollowrat, with the Crown, who took this office in place of the High Boroughreave, Count Chotel, unable to attend in consequence of the death of his brother, the Arch bishop of Olmutz. The King was attended by the Grand Trea surer, Prince Lobkowitz ; the First Lord of the Bedchamber, Baron Hess ; also by Counts Dietrichstein, Clam-Martinitz, Kinsky, Clam, Lutgow, Horn, Shouborn, Spook, Hartman, &c. mostly with the orders of the Grand Cross, the Fleece, and Maria Theresa. A body of the Hungarian Guards closed the pro cession. The King took his seat, in the first instance, in the centre of the nave, uncler a handsome canopy suspended from the roof. After a variety of introductory ceremonies high mass was performed, after which the King advanced to the altar, and, placing both hands upon the Bible, pronounced in Latin the coronation oath, t o respect and h o ld i nv i o l ate the customs and privileges of hi s B o h em i an su bj ects. Th e cere mony of anointing between the shoulders, and on the right arm, from the elbow to the wrist, was then performed by the Archbishop, with the words " Ungo to in Regem de oleo sanctificato in nomine Patris et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti." The sleeve of the right arm, and the part of his Majesty's dress between the shoulders, having been unbuttoned for the purpose of anointing, the King, after this ceremony, retired behind the altar for about ten minutes, that the oil might be dried, and the dress re-arranged. His Majesty then, coming again in front of the altar, was successively invested with the sword, " Accipe gladium de Altari sumptum ;" the ring, " Domine, sanctifica annulum istum," and " Accipe digni tatis annulum ;" the sceptre and orb, " Accipe virgam vir tutis et sequitatis ;" and finally his Majesty, with the as sistance of the Archbishop, placed his crown upon his head. Thus, invested with all the Royal insignia, he pro ceeded to the Throne, where he seated himself, all the spec tators rising. Count Kollowrat then, as representative of the Bohemian States, called upon all around to do reverence, with the words " Let us acknowledge our King and heredi tary Sovereign," and set the example of approaching the King, and, bending on one knee, touching the sceptre. In this he was followed by all the officers of State, and the nobles immediately round the throne, while a discharge of ar tillery announced the coronation to the city, and the bells of all the churches commenced ringing. At the same time the populace without were admitted into the great square of the Castle, where they awaited with impatience the appearance of the King. His Majesty then, having taken the communion at the altar, again returned to the throne, and performed the customary ceremony of dubbing as Knights of St. Wenzel about thirty Bohemian Nobles, by touching the shoulder three times with the holy sword. All the ceremonies within the cathedral being thus concluded, the King, crowned, and bearing all the regalia, proceeded, under a splendid canopy, supported by eight principal Officers of the Court, out of the church, and along the whole length of the raised terrace, from thence to the grand entrance of the palace, in full view of the assembled thousands who crowded every inch of the spacious court, and rent the air with their acclamations. A more impressive or mere gratifying sight was never witnessed. After this the King repaired to the great hall of th e C ast l e, w h ere a b anquet was prepare d f or the principal officers of State and others, in number about 140. Though everything was in abundance, the banquet was rather one of ceremony than anything else, for as gentlemen only sat down, and the Empress with the ladies of her Court were among the spectators, who together amounted to about 200, those at tabl e con ti nue d seated only till the formal i ty for which the banquet was principally prepared had been per formed. This was the E m p eror d r i n ki ng to t h e h app i ness an d prosperity of his Bohemian subjects. The Royal toast was announced to the city by a di sc h arge of artillery, and all the hells again rang out their joj ou s p ea l s . Af ter t h e b anquet t h e King again, in full regalia, presented himself in the balcony to the people, amidst the same demonstrations as before. The festivities of the day were to have been closed with an illumi nation the most extensive, and tasteful preparations for which had been made ; but unfortunately just as the lighting com menced a heavy shower, which continued all night, com pletely extinguished every lamp. An illumination is, howe ver, intended for Monday next. The splendid steam - ship Duchess (2f' Sutherland arrived at Downe's Wharf, from Inverness, on Sunday after noon at half-past three o'clock, having performed the passage in the unprecedented short time of forty-five hours, being at the rate of sixteen miles an hour. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1536. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. former of the right sort. We only hope his party will adopt his advice. In that case we shall, ere long, have a thoroughly sweeping reform—if, indeed, we have not some thing worse.-11forni7zg Advertiser. There is no perfect uniformity under the sun. Great Homer sometimes nods, and O'Connell, on some occasions, speaks a little truth. We must, however, do justice to the consistency of the Irish Agitator---he contrives whenever he does tell, truth, so to link it with falseho o d t h at , upon a the whole, false impression is conveyed, and thus the ge neral harmony of his composition is preserved, though there may be a little bit of discordant truth in some of its parts. An example of this is afforded in the following extract which we make from a letter of his, addressed to an indivi dual bearing the classical name of O'Fogarty. The letter regarded the merits of Mr. Villiers Stuart, to whom a din ner was, or was to have been, given a few days ago at Wa terford : Has the revolution in Spain or in Portugal effected any ' change in our relations with these countries ? So far as they are concerned does it annul, does it weaken, the ob ligations of the Quadruple Treaty? This is a question which neither abuse, nor ribaldry, nor sophistry can decide. It is a question of filet, resting upon the first principles of international law, which to be understood requires but to be stated. What was the object of the Quadruple Alli ance ? Not certainly the establishment of any particular form of Government at Lisbon or Madrid—not to support the Estatuto Real, or the Constitution of 1812 ; it was simply to secure to the people the most perfect freedom in the settlement of their own internal affairs. Spain has adopted the Constitution of 1812—Portugal the Constitu tion of 1820. What is the inference? The Quadruple Treaty is scattered to the winds ! Admirable conclusion ! To Spain and to Portugal we have guaranteed security from foreign interference in the arrangement of their own form of Government, whether unmixed Monarchy, Con stitution, or Republic. This security they have enjoyed, therefore the guarantee is trampled on ! Admirable reasoning ! Passing over that mass of treaties of ancient date by which we are bound in close alliance to Portugal, putting aside the important fact of their recognition and renewal in 1815, let us come to the year 1823. When the Cabinet of Lisbon, the Ministry, remember, of a democratic Constitution— the Constitution of 1820—called for the stipulated aid of Great Britain, what was the unanimous opinion of our Parliament, our people, and our press? Was it that our treaties were scattered to the winds—that our "parch ment bonds" were torn ? No ; the enlightened Minister, the spirit of whose policy still reigns over our councils, told the Parliament and the country that though the Constitu tion of Portugal had undergone a material alteration, the obligations we had contracted with her remained unchanged. Where, tell us, where is the difference between the two cases? The treaties which were recognised and renewed in 1815, were contracted with an Absolute Government— they were acknowledged—acted upon during the existence of a Democratic Constitution—the very Constitution that was proclaimed upon the 10th of the present month. If the obligations contracted at the Congress of Vienna were not annulled by the proceeding of 1820, why should the Qua druple Treaty be annulled by the proceeding of 1836 ? What have we to do with the internal Government of Spain or Portugal? Is this the doctrine upon the profession of which a Tory Minister wishes to assume the reins of our fo reign administration—that he is not pleased, forsooth, with the form of Government demanded by the people—ac ceded to by the sovereign of allied countries, and that, therefore, our treaties are " trampled on"—" scattered to the winds ?" If that mixed manifesto of sophistry and stupid ribaldry that has been put forth have any meaning, does it not plainly tell us that if the abettors of Absolutism can succeed in carting the refuse of the Tory party into power, the faith of the nation, the obligations of treaties, shall offer no obstacle to the accomplishment of their pur poses ? We have been censured for our attacks on the French Government and the French King. In what did these attacks consist ? In nothing more than the plain statements of plain facts and pointing out the consequence of the policy of the Tuileries. Our object was not to flatter, to please, or to delude. The results we at once anticipated and deplored are hastening to their consummation. Had they been averted—if they can be still averted—we may rejoice, but our opinion is still unaltered. In all, however, that we have said of the conduct and the po licy of Louis Philippe, we have said nothing so harsh, nothing so offensive, nothing that, if true, could fix so deep a stain upon his personal and political character as the scathing approval his diplomacy has earned from the organs of the Tory faction in this country. The present policy of Louis Philippe's Government, we do honestly believe, is fraught with consequences the most dangerous. This we have said before ; the events that have since transpired but strengthen our opinion. Still we have never accused the King of the French of the deep deceit, of the deliberate violation - of his most solemn obligations, for which we find him applauded by certain commentators on his conduct. We have not accused him of " seizing the first opportunity presented by circumstances, for which he was manifestly well prepared" to escape from the obligations be bad con tracted ; we have not represented him as playing the nefa rious game, the very guilt of which is sure to win the appro bation of the Times. Suppose, however, that the charge conveyed in that degrading praise were true, what is the inference to which the writer would lead us ? France has trampled on her treaties, therefore let England do the same ! The Noble Lord who is at the head of our Foreign Administration has called down the indignation of this sagacious scribe, because he has not appreciated the justice of this reasoning, assuming the truth of the facts upon which it is based. What means that senseless railing at what is termed the " position of the foreign policy" of this country ? The Noble Lord upon whom so much slander is poured out, may well, as he does, pass it over with scornful contempt. His reply is one of which a British statesman in the best days of our history might well be proud. With the elements of discord let loose from every quarter of the globe, he has succeeded in pre serving the peace of Europe during a period as eventful as any in our annals. The high character which his admi nistration has succeeded in preserving for our country has elevated England to the proud position of arbiter in the disputes of two of the most powerful nations in the world. The full and spontaneous satisfaction rendered for the injury inflicted upon a British subject, despite of the opposition of hostile diplomacy, standing alone as it does in the history of the Ottoman empire, is ample evidence of the respect in which our Government is held by Foreign Powers. A still more gratifying proof of the success of the present most skilful and prudent administration of our foreign af fairs is the perfect confidence it inspires through the country. Were the Parliament assembled to-morrow, and in the ordinary progress of the public business the foreign policy of the country brought under the consideration of the House, we feel assured that any motion by a Tory Member would be received with the same indifference—the result of conscious security—as during the past session w as invariably manifested towards all such factious exhibitions. —Morning Chronicle. The plot of Conservative dinners continues to thicken. To eat and drink, especially if it could be done at the nation's expense, we always knew to be one of the'm os t prominent traits of Tory character. Still we were not prepared for that universal campaign on the larder s o f country hotel-keepers which the provincial journals are just now, one and all, employed in recording. What can have given the Conservatives, from one extremity of th e land to the other, this sudden and extraordinary appetite, is one of those things which we must admit to be beyond the reach of our philosophy. Can it be that, with that instinct which is peculiar to themselves, they perceive that this is the last season they shall ever, as Conservatives, meet around the festive board, and that therefore they are resolved, in homely phraseology, to have " a parting glass" before their extinction as a body ? Such we know is the opinion of some people. Whether correct or not the event will shew. Another hypothesis is—and it would not surprise us should it turn out to be the true one— another hypothesis is, that they are so utterly blind as to suppose that the game which the Lords played off last session will not only be repeated next one with impunity, but that the consequence will be the overthrow of the Melbourne Ministry, and the substitntion of a Lynd hurst Cabinet ; and that therefore the country orators, who figure at these provincial feeds, are labouring hard to recommend themselves, by their speeches, to the notice of the embryo Tory Administration. Well, we live in a strange world, and daily witness strange things. But if this be the fact, we can only say as the Irish woman (men tioned by Cobbett) did, when she saw the learned pig tell the hour of the day on a gentleman's watch--" By the powers but this bates every thing!" The Tories, as we have said and shown a thousand times over, are rare logi cians ; none but themselves can be their parallel : but if their logic be so much at fault in their cooler and more sober moments, it would argue a want of logic in us not to expect there would be a still more plentiful lack of that commodity in their atter-dinner harangues. We have long since ceased to feel surprise at any thing, however out rageously absurd, which a Conservative can say after a public dinner. When, therefore, the Rev. Mr. Hillyard says, at the East Riding Conservative Festival,—" that had the Tories yielded a little in 1829 to the demand for Reform, the events of the intervening years might have been delayed, if not prevented ;" and immediately adds, —" that they ought consequently to resist all further con cessions to the popular voice"—wh en , we say , we h ear this Rev. Gentleman arguing in this way, we look on the thing in no other light than as a matter of course. That such an arrant absurdity should be listened to for one short moment, that the friends of the Rev. orator did not forthwith pull him off the table by the skirts of his coat, or by some means or othe r — an d t h at hi s most sweet voice was not instantaneously drowned by one loud and universal shout of " Oh, oh ! "only proves that the Rev. Solon and his audience were worthy of each other. The worthy divine's argument was a fine specimen of the syllo gistic form of reasoning. Had the Conservatives yielded a little to the Reformers in 1829, subsequent events would have been delayed, if not prevented. But the Conserva tives did not yield a little to the Reformers. Therefore, those events, namely, the Reform Bill, and all the other reforms, have happened. So f'ar, all is logical and true. But mark the second inference, or second " therefore." Therefore the Conservatives ought to make no further con cessions to the popular voice. The plain English of the matter is this—the Tories half ruined themselves as a party by refusing trifling concessions in 1829 ; they ought wholly to ruin themselves in 1836, by refusing to yield the slightest iota to the demands of the people. The Reverend Gentleman, without being aware of it ,is a Radical Re " The great evil in Ireland is the estrangement between the people and the class who belong, or claim to belong, to the aristocratic or landed gentry. The far greater part of that class entertain an envenomed hatred of the Irish people. They are ready to act upon Lord Lyndhurst's political doctrine, and whenever they can treat the Irish people worse than they would mere aliens. Hence the reaction of popular hatred on" their oppressors." In the above, although very ill expressed, " Some truth there is, but dashed and brewed with lies." It is true that a great, if not the great, evil of Ireland lies in the estrangement of the mass of the Roman Catholic po pulation from the gentry—from those who own the land upon which the population subsists. In Ireland we find nothing like the cordial feeling which happily subsists so generally between landlord and tenant in England. In this country there is not only a feeling of common interest between them, but in many—we believe we may say in most—cases a sentiment of respect and attachment on the one side, and of considerable regard on the other, which greatly contributes to the good and the happiness of both. In Ireland—at all events in the Roman Catholic part of it—it is not so. There is no respect on the one side, nor regard on the other. The occupier is for the most part taught by those whom he is brought up to consider as infallible that the landlord is an alien, an oppressor, and a heretic—he is a Saxon and a Pro testant, whose possession of the land is an usurpation, which one day will have an end, when Ireland has her rights. On the other hand, the landlord is made to feel upon every possible occasion that these are the sentiments of his tenantry towards him ; and it is no won der that, whatever his charity may be, his affection towards them is of the very slightest description. Moreover, it must be allowed that in too many cases the Irish landlord, having become from habit less than indifferent to the com forts of a tenantry whom he knows to be wholly estranged from him, thinks only of screwing out of them the utmost amount of rent he can obtain, and acts upon no principle of duty, or feeling of regard, with respect to his estate, more than he would with respect to any other source of revenue. He cares no more about his tenant than about any other indifferent person upon whom he may have a pecuniary claim. So far, then, it is true, though Mr. O'Connell says it, that the peasantry are estranged from the gentry ; but how does this happen to be the case ? Mr. O'Connell's account of the matter is self-evidently false. It is downright nonsense—more ranting folly— to tell us that the Gentry have an " envenomed hatred" of the Irish people. Does Mr. O'Connell think that anywhere out of Ireland human creatures will believe that a certain class of the Irish are born with a natural antipathy to another class ? Such an absurdity could go down nowhere but in Ireland. There is a cause —and that cause exists in the detestable system pursued by the Irish Priests and Mr. O'Connell himself, to gain their political ends. In this horrible system may we trace the root of the social misery and degradation which makes the Irish peasant a bye-word and a reproach among the na tions. It is strange that the United Parliament has so long acted as if it were blind to the fact ; but the fact is, that a Protestant landlord cannot be upon good terms with his te nantry, unless he sacrifices his political independence to the tyranny of the Popish Priesthood. Let any man go to his Irish estate with the most earnest desire to promote improvement, and to be on kindly and cordial terms with his tenantry : be cannot effect his purpose unless the Priests be on his side ; and, unless he submits to them in all poli tical matters, they will not be with him, but actively against him. If he be resolved to act upon bis own views of what is right in politics, and if those views happen to be Con servative, nothing he can do will avert the hatred—perhaps the personal and deadly violence—of those whom he seeks by acts of kindness to conciliate. With a fiend-like inge nuity his political enemies, the Priests, will turn even the kindest acts into food for hatred, and the blackest calum nies will be manufactured out of deeds deserving of all praise at the hands of honest men. The real " oppres sors" in the case are the Roman Catholic Priests, who will allow no act of justice or mercy to have its natural effects except upon the condition of submission to them. Through superstition, their power over the peasantry is absolute, and they will not be satisfied with less than the same amount of power in political matters over the gentry. We may select the case of Colonel Bruen, in Carlow, as an example of the general fact which we describe, because his statements and the evidence in support of them have been a recent and a public matter. There could not be a stronger instance than his of forbearance and kindness carried almost to a fault ; and yet, because his political in fluence was opposed to that of the Romish Priesthood, the grossest calumnies were spread abroad against him, and so perseveringly published that they met with some credence even in the House of Commons, until, with indignant elo quence, the Honourable Member vindicated himself, and flung back the calumnies which his persecutors had invented in the face of their Parliamentary agent, Mr. Daniel O'Con nell. Here, then, we have the cause of the estrangement of the peasantry from the gentry in Ireland. The peasantry are governed by persons who regard the g e nt r y as i nva d ers and heretics, and who can, by no acts of grace or favour, save the most unqualified submission to their absolute will, be induced to regard the gentry differently. The origin of the estrangement is in the system of the Priests, and this Mr. O'Connell must very well know ; while, in conformity with that system of persecution and falsehood, he attributes it to an unnatural and causeless—an " envenomed hatred" on the part of the aristocratic and landed gentry. We wish to call atten tion to one more extract from the same good-natured epistle, upon which we have thought it right to make the preced ing remarks. The following is a most engaging specimen of th e O'Connell style, when encountering political oppo nents at a safe distance : " We are now emphatically a degraded because a foully in sulted people. The insult of the accursed Lyndhurst is upon us. Its brand is burned upon our foreheads. We are stig matised not by words alone, but practically and by legislative enactment, as inferior and grovelling beings, unfit for the en joyment of constitutional rights and liberties. From my soul I do despise the Irishman who can contain within bounds his just indignation at the atrocious Lyndhurst's insult. The Irishman who submits to that insult deserves it. He ought to be insulted because he is degraded ; but there is no such re creant poltr6on within the precints of this green and lovely island." We shall not waste space in criticising the above fero cious bombast, a replete with ignorance as it is with inso lence. We give it, however, in order that our readers may, judge• how true are the descriptions afforded by the Ministerial papers of the delightful spirit of tranquillity and peace which, under the present happy Government, reigns throughout Ireland, and how just are the reproaches levelled by the same prints against Conservatives, for the unprovoked violence of their language when Mr. O'Con nell is the theme of their remarks.—Morning Post. Bell's Lift in London and Sporting Chronicle of Sunday next, September 25, will contain an accurate Portrait of the Winner of the Great St. Leger ; and the Sunday following, October 2d, an Engravinc , of the Heaton Park Cup. No expense shall be spared, by extending the sporting and general intelligence of this Journal, to merit a continuance of the unexampled popularity which it has here tofore attained. Bell's Life is a large 20 folio column Journal, one-third of which is devoted to sporting matters, with a very limited number of advertisements. The price only Five pence. Can be had on Sundays 200 miles from London.— i*.* Bell's Life of last Sunday, Sept. 18, containing the En graving of the Doncaster Cup, can be had for Five-pence at the Office, No. 170, Strand. THE LINSE Y WEAVERS' STRIKE.—We regret that it is not in our power to communicate that the differences between the Linsey weavers of this town and their employers have been amicably adjusted. The men still remain out—of course to the great distress of their families, and the inconve nience of the masters.— Kendal Mercury. SALMON FISIIING.—The fishing for the season terminated on Wednesday on the Tay, in common with the other rivers north of the Tweed; and though latterly the fish were more numerous, the take of the season has been below an average. —Berwick Advertiser. The registers of arrivals at Wisbaden, in Germany, show that, up to August 26, they amounted to 9,554 persons, of whom 8,486 came to take the waters Distress, even when positive or superlative, is still only comparative. " Such is the pressure of the times in our town," said a Birmingham manufacturer some years back to his agent in London, " that we have good workmen who will get up the inside of a watch for eighteen shillings."—" Pooh 1 that is nothing compared to London," replied his friend, " we have boys here who will get up the inside of a chimney for sixpence." Hop-picki ng i s now i n full operation throug h o ut the hop district s o f this county. The crop, for the mostt part, is expected to be a b out a fourth larger than y ear ; i n e xposed s it uat i ons, the winds have ta gged or that ofb ruised a hop, which will inj ure many samples, otherwise the e xpected to be very excellent. We hear of partial appear ancesdens, but of mould i n many of the Here f or d s hi r e hop gar throughout the e nt i re growth, t h e plant has been remarkably clean.—Hereford Times. isam is the sample CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. Matilde Barton, aged 24, was indicted for stealing a pair of bocts, of the value of es. 61, from the shop of Mr. Wil liam;, boot and shoemaker, of Fleet -street. The prisoner in her defence said she was exceedingly in toxicated at the time, and that she had been in the habit of dealing at the shop of the prosecutor. The RECORDER summed up, and the jury found the prisoner Guilty. The RECORDER inquired of Mason, the constable, the pri soner's character ? Mason—l have had her in custody at least one hundred times, for drunkenness ; but never before for felony The Court sentenced her to three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. _ Thos. Jackson, alias Branson, aged 22, was found guilty of stealing six reams of paper, the property of Messrs. Parker and Co., Old 'Change. The Court rose shortly after five o'clock. SUMMARY STATEMENT, DESCRIPTI V WHICH THE PRISONERS SR' OF THE VARIOUS OFFENCES WITH tVERALLY STAND CHARGED. Administering a drug to cause Forgery miscarriage I Larcenies Assault with intent to commit a Ditto by Servants...... -capital offense Bigamy Burglary 3 above the value of 5/ ............. fl Child-stealing Uttering and having Counterfeit * Misdemeanour 2 Coin in possession Conspiracy 3 Obtaining goods under false pre- Curtilage breaking .6, 2 pretences Cutting and maiming 2 Receiving stolen goods Embezzlement 7 Robbery on the public way ll Total NI London prizoners Middlesex ditto Essex ditto Admiralty Cases Kent ditto Surrey ditto 155 STATE OF HIS MAJESTY'S GAOL OF NEIVGATE, MADE UT TO SATURDAY EVENING. Males. Females. Prisoners under sentence of death Prisoners under sentence of transportation for life 1 2 14 years .... 0 5 7 years .... 1 IS Ditto, for trial at the present Sessions Ditto, acquitted on the ground of insanity, but remain dun ing Royal pleasure 4 0 Ditto, whose judgments are respited Ditto, committed by Commissioners of Bankruptcy 1 0 203 278 Total MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. The General Sessions for the county of Middlesex com menced yesterday at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell-green. The calendar contains the names of 124 prisoners who are charged with various offences. Twenty-eight are charged with felonies and larcenies, 32 for making a riot, 26 for as saults, 25 idle and disorderly, and 13 with other minor offences. There are 74 males and 50 females, of whom there are eight between 50 and 60, 22 between 40 and 50, 31 between 30 and 40, 38 between 20 and 30, and 20 between 10 and 20 years of age. Mary Ann 11'eedon, aged 18, a delicate and respectable looking young woman, was found Guilty of stealing a pair of boots, value 75., the property of Joseph Johnson, on the 17th inst. The CHAIRMAN, in sentencing her to transportation for seven years, observed that her case should be recommended to the consideration of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with a view to provide an asylum for her. , John Ramsay and James Rayson, two notorious pick pockets, were found Guilty of stealing a silk handkerchief from the pocket of Mr. Frederick Philpot, a surgeon, at Barnet Race-course on Tuesday last. Upon being taken into custody five pocket-handkerchiefs and a bundle of cigars were found upon them.—They were each sentenced to be trans ported for seven years. GAMING -ROUSER.—Mr. PRENDERGAST applied to the Court (upon affidavit) for leave to pay in the sum of 501., the amount of the recognizances entered into by a Mr. Smith as surety for the appearance of Lewis Lewis, against whom true bills have been found for keeping a common gaming -house, but whom Mr. Smith was unable to produce in Court. The COURT granted the application, and the money was paid into the Treasurer's-office. Just as the Court was about to rise the Grand Jury returned true bills against Wni. Austen and Win. Crochford, of St. James's-street, and Charles. Deboos, of Albemarle -street, for keeping common gaming-houses in the parish of St. James's. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A fish salesman of Billingsgate was summoned befor e the Lord MAYOR for keeping a dog that was disposed to snap at passers-by. A young man stated that about a fortnight ago, as he was passing by the defendant's stall in the market, the dog bit him in the calf of the leg. He shewed his leg to the defen• dant, who sympathized with him. Next day his leg was con siderably worse, and for a week he was wholly unable to work. The defendant refused to give hint any recompence for the in jury he had sustained, although the dog was the defendant's property. The defendant stated that the dog was not his, but any body's dog ; that the animal was one of a hundred that visited the market, and that he, of course, was not responsible for the mischief. A rough voice in the crewd—" Please your Lordship, the dog's a bitch, and she belongs to Mr. Huggitt. I seed him pay for her wittles, and he would'nt do that if she wan't his'n, for he ant a generous man by no means." The Lord MAYOR—Who are you ?—(Laughter.) The man replied that he was one Hopkinson, and he came forward upon a short wooden leg. Defendant—My Lord ; this here man is always a poking at the dog with his wooden leg. The animal don't like to be poked at with such an instrument, and it teaches him to be mischievous. Hopkinson—l'll say all I knows. I did not sec the dog give no bite, but she is always in Mr. Huggit's stall, and he gives her wittles reglar. Defendant—Will your swear that ? Hopkinson—Will I ? Give me the book, and you'll see how I'll swear. Defendant—Then Ibe blessed if I do'nt try you for per jury. Please you, my Lord, they are all jealous of me be cause I manage to get a living, and they want to father the poor animal upon me. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, suppose we order the dog to be killed ? Defendant—My Lord, that might be done, to be sure ; but she is quiet if she's not provoked, and these people are doing all they can to injure me. Hopkinson—There, my Lordship, if the bitch wasn't his'n, he wouldn't care to see her hanged ; for Mr. Huggit is a man wet would like to see another man's hanimal upon the swing.— ( Laughter.) It's a shame to let bitches go about biting off people's legs. She's often had my leg in her teeth, but it's the wooden un. The LORD MAYOR—I have no doubt that the defendant is the owner of the dog, and I shall insist that he remunerate the complainant for the loss of the week's work. Huggit, with some grumbling, consented. GUILDHALL. Yesterday Mary Bragan, an Irishwoman, who supports her self by making up slop goods for tailors, was brought before Alderman KELLY, charged by Mr. Brake, the assistant-over seer of Cripplegate, with running away and leaving her daughter Mary, aged 14, chargeable to the parish. The girl had been in the poorhouse five weeks. Her father separated from her mother a year and a half ago, and now re sided in Dublin. She wished to be sent home to him. She had been out at place, but on leaving the last one her mother refused to receive her, and followed her with a great stick, threatening to beat her half the length of Milton-street. Her mother had taken an oath not to receive her again because she found a strange man in the room with her. Horton, the beadle, understood from the neighbours that her conduct was very incorrect. He had made several inquiries after her, but she kept out of the way. The prisoner denied that she was the immoral character that was represented. She was willing to take care of her child, but it vexed her that she did not keep her places better. Mr. Alderman KELLY sentenced her only to seven days' im prisonment in Bridewell. She seemed astonished at the mildness of the decision. Several pickpockets were brought up and committed. In one case the handkerchief was stolen by two boys, and on se parating to run away, one of them dropped a " life-preserver," that is a murderous instrument, composed of whalebone, about eighteen inches long, with a lump of lead secured to each end of it. Two pickpockets were co mmitted for trial on Friday, for stealing a handkerchief in A IdersgUe:street, and in this case a " life-preserver" had been used with ter rible effect on the head of a person, who stopped one ofrltillee prisoners, and also on the jaw-bone of a parochial officer. instrument was then thrown away in Duke-street , _S m ithfield, and picked up by a little girl, who has not been traced. The . prisoner denied that he had carried it. He was remanded. HATTON-GARDEN young man of Yesterday, Benjamin William Denma n, a miserable appearance, was brought to t his office, charged by Payne, 1 E division, with having created a disturbance, and assaulted him. ,a d n d at beingitn , h The officer, on Saturday after noon last, saw the prisoner walking backwards and forwards in En - attracted by his extraordinary appearance, ust°hs Euston-square, e and proceeded about his business, when the , pris oner f ollowed him, b and said at ~. How dare y ou look me ? ' Witness asked him what he was that he was not to e look e d at ? on which he commenced abusing him, and collect e d a rash. He ordered him from the spot , when he struck him o n the face, and he took him to the station -house. The prisoner, who seemed i much d epressed while the officer w as giving his evidence, continu e d turning over the leaves of the:Now Tes tament : which he laid before him, an d occas i ona lly was intent upon various texts. Mr. BENNETT inquired what he had to say to the charge? —Prisoner.—l thought the officer looked at me in consequence of my mis erable a pp c arance, and I con f ess t h a t it i rr it ate d m y feelings. Mr. BENNETT_V ..ou certainly have a strange appearance, and there was nothing very extraordinary in it if he did look at you. Prisoner---. T-1 .e must allow that he was irritated as well as myself. I . only pu s h e d hi m. As a rel i g i ous man I wou ld no t have struck him without cause Mr. BENNETT How do us 3 e, o . o procure y o ur living ?—Pri soner—When I am d r i ven to misery I sell a few religious tracts. The mother of the prisoner here stated that he was de ranged in his intellects, and he was in the habit of wandering V Z ."I •-r.V\'‘VK:,4l4,.-z,).,, about the streets in the most miserable plight. on her income. Mr. BENNETT then discharged the prisoner, and a Ad / that his friends should take care of him if be was deranged. Caroline Grove, an elderly female, was charged by Mr. William Robinson, residing at 31, Francis-street, St. Pancras, with stealing five 101. notes. On Saturday af ternoon t h e prosecutor, whilst putting a letter into the post-office at Tor rington-place, dropped 1001. in lal. Bank of England notes, and on discovering his loss, he gave information to the E divi sion of police. The property was picked up by Louisa Chen nery, a girl seven years of age, who met with the prisoner cud showed her the notes. She told the girl that they were penny bills, and gave her a penny for five of them, which she con cealed in an old shoe. The girl afterwards gave two of them away to a butcher and a baker residing in the neighbourhood, aad took two of than to her mother, who made inquiries where she got them. On being informed that she found them, and had sold six to the prisoner, and had given others away, she gave information at the station-house, when the prisoner was taken into custody, and the notes produced were found at her lodgings, No. 11, Upper Gower-mews, Torrington-place. The other notes were traced and delivered up immediately, but one 1 01. note is at present missing. The prisoner did not deny having given the girl a penny for the notes, but slid she did not. know they were bank -notes. She was a servant, and left her situation about a month ago in Herefordshire. Mr. LArNG said she had acted a most dishonest part, and the only question with him was whether he would not commit her for trial. He, however, ultimately discharged her, with a severe admonition, advising her to be cautious of her future conduct. Mary Ann Hill was charged by Charles Hambury, the beadle of St. Peter's Church, Saffron-hill, with being drunk and dis turbing the congregation. She was ordered to find bail. MARLB OR 0 U GH- STREET. Ann Middlebank was yesterday brought before Mr. CONANT, charged with having concealed the birth of her child. After the whole evidence had been taken, the Bench decided upon sending the prisoner to be tried for the offence. QUEEN- S Q UA RE . William Harris and . Henry Gr ange were yesterday placed at the bar, charged with having forged a check on the firm of Herries, Farquhar, and Co., for the sum of eight guineas. As regarded Grange, there was no case against him, but he had been found in the company of the other prisoner. On in quiry it was ascertained that the prisoner h a d gone to the banking-house in the morning, and had asked for a fresh check book for his master, who cashed there. The depositio ns were taken against the prisoner Harris for his commitment, but he was remanded, in consequence of the absence of a witness. TV OR SHIP- STREET. Yesterday Edward Matthews, a dealer in crockery, and John Matthews, his brother, a scavenger's labourer, were placed at the bar before Messrs. GROVE and TWYFORD, charged, the former with assaulting the police, and the latter with attempting to rescue him while in custody. Edward Matthews was fined 5/. or two months' imprison ment ; and John Matthews was fined ss. John Matthews had been twelve years in the employ of Mr. Bateman, Holywell lane, scavenger, who went to the station-house to be bail for him ; but it being contrary to the Police Act, under the cir cumstances, bail was refused. A temple of the Doric order of architecture is now being erected at Kew ; it will not occupy much space, but will be of a height sufficient, like the pagoda, to form a pleasing object from distant parts of the surrounding country. We are glad to learn that Lord Fitzwilliam is grant ing leases to such an extent in Wicklow as will render com pletely hopeless any designs of the Tories upon its future re presentation. Eighteen members of the Bristol Corporation, con sisting of an equal number of Conservatives and Liberals, were unanimously nominated, at a meeting of the Town Council of Tuesday, as charity trustees for Bristol. There are a number of cases of small-pox at present both in Newcastle and several of the neighbouring places. Two or three deaths have recently occurred from this dreadful disease.—Berwick Advertiser. HORTICULTURAL PHENOMENON.—It was men- tioned in 1834 that in a body found on opening the ancient British Tumulus, near Maiden Castle, there was a mass of seeds discovered in the viscera ; they have been set by Pro fessor Lindly, who has reared several plants of common rasp berry, now bearing fine fruit. This proves that this plant was known at a very early period in England.—Dorset County Chronicle. There are in Glasgow and its suburbs 310 steam engines, viz., 176 employed in manufactories; 59 in collieries; 7 in stone quarries ; and 68 in steam-boats. Average power of engines, 20 46-100th; total horses' power, 6,406. A public meeting.* was held at the Town-hall, De vonport, on Tuesday, the 13th of September, for the purpose of forming a Reform Registration Association, to secure the practical benefit of the Reform Act by preserving freedom and purity of election, and protecting the independence of the electors in the exercise of their franchise. At Avon Bridge mines, by Hamilton, the little Low Hill clerk office being occupied by a quiet old man, a female robin often paid him a visit, and when he was at leisure he fed it. He might be occasionally seen, with his feathered charge at his elbow, or sitting on his shoulder. In spring she got a husband, and, in a short time, be was as social as his mate. They went to work, and, in a short time, constructed a house for themselves, on the wall-head inside the office door, where they might safely bring forth their young, and were daily fed and watched, lest harm came near their dwelling. They have now brought forth two families, which may be seen flying around the head of their benefactor, as flies do in summer. They have been visited by both Peer and peasant.—. Glasgow Chronicle. A curious circumstance recently occurred to Mr. Rutherford, of Wingerworth, near Chesterfield. About eleven weeks ago he experienced great pain between the shoulder and the elbow of his left arm, accompanied by a pricking sensa tion ; and after enduring it for some time, and finding it as acute as ever, he consulted a medical gentleman, who supplied him with an ointment to rub over the affected part, under the supposition that some of the muscles of the arm had by some means received injury. This mode of treatment occasioning an increase of pain, Mr. Rutherford discontinued it, and pur chased a drawing plaster at the druggist's, which he himself applied to the arm. Last week he removed the plaster, and a needle an inch and a half long was found on it, extracted from the arm. Mr. Rutherford cannot account for the manner in which the needle got into his arm, but he is now entirely freed from pain. —Derbyshire Courier, Ai Bristol it is anticipated that the advantages of the railway from that place to London will be immense to the agricultural interest. The minimum velocity is to be 40 miles an hour, and therefore, at the slowest rate of travelling, cattle landed at Bristol at five in the morning may be in Smithfield market when the clock strikes eight. TIIE NAPOLEON WILLOW.—Mr. Loudon's in quiry about the St. Helena willow has elicited extensive infor mation on that important subject. We have already gives the letters of several correspondents, and we have since been in formed that a slip from the large willow-tree which droops over the grave of the late Emperor Napoleon was brought to this country in the year 1831 from St. Helena, in the Rouge frigate, by Corporal Thomas Hague, of the Royal Marines, and presented by him to his old officer, Captain George Desbrowe, 10, King-street, St. James's, in whose garden it may now be seen a vigorous and flourishing plant, affording a cooling shade to a spring of the purest water. A very fine slip is in full vigor in the Surrey Zoological Gardens, but the proprietor of that popular place of amusement does not choose that the circumstance should be generally known, as it might prove fatal to the safety of the plant. There is also a very beautiful specimen (of the weeping species) at 11, Brompton_ grove. A correspondent, who signs . himself . " Botani cus, " explains the reason why so great a difference in the appear ance of the different plants shown in this country as the veri table Napoleon willow. He says that " there are several sorts of willows growing in the valley where Napoleon's tomb is situated ; and vi,e t e h p a i t n , g th w ou rl g lo h w s , o m yete ofthtahte s o e th ar e e rs th a e re Sa t l h ix e Bsaaltlyix -INo, i , o n a, r nA theN AISDthDE instant,R . atn FROMYeII; Osier." s n i e E r . " inquDesEtAvrTasoHrtaken by Mr. St3elbTbEcarOe,r Binstead, on the body of Chas. Munday. The deceased was in the habit of travelling about the country employed in the destruction of vermin, and on the 13th inst., accompanied one of the keepers of the Holt Forest to the Lodge, to request permission to catch snakes and adders in the Forest. At that time he had seven adders, which he kept in his cap on his head, and had exhibited them to the servants, occasionally ex citing them to bite his coat, and immediately after rendering them perfectly passive or playful only, by passing his hand over them, on which he had apparently rubbed some oily es sence. On their return from the Lodge, the deceased caught an adder, and a slow worm, which he also put in his cap, and shortly afterwards told the keeper he thought he had been bitten, and requested him to examine the back part of his head, which the keeper did, and found a small wound, like the prick of a pin, from which the blood was issuing. The de ceased then requested him to squeeze the wound hard, and to rub in some oily preparation which he carried in a bottle, and which he said would prevent any mischief, as be had been bit ten before, and used the same remedy. After this had been done, he expressed himself satisfied; but in less than a quarter of an hour he was seized with vomiting, complaining of great lassitude, and laid down on the ground, and the keeper finding him unable to walk, and apparently very ill, went as quick as he could to the village, and sent two young men to his assist ance ; but on their arrival, about ten minutes after, they found him dead, and his face and tongue very black and much swol len.—Verdict, " Accidental Death."—Heats Advertiser. FERTILITY of Frstr.—ln consequence df the great breadth and depth of the pasture of fish, as compared with the pasture of land animals, their numbers, and their powers of keeping up those numbers, are correspondingly great. The shoals of some of the surface fishes, and also some of the ground ones —as, for instance, the common her ring and cod—are numerous beyond all the power of arith metic ; and their fertility corresponds, for a single individual of the cod produces four millions at a birth, and there are many other species scarcely less productive ; while land ani mals, whether mammalia or birds, arc reckoned exceedingly prolific if they average a dozen, and some of the more im portant and highly developed races have very rarely indeed more than one.— The Naturalist. One day last week, the gamekeeper of Robert De venish, Esq., of Charininster, shot a female hare, which proved to be gravid, and on being opened was found to contain the unusual number of five young ones. —Northampton Herald. ~C) ~J