The Sun. — London, England, 1839-10-07 00:00:00

EV N ING EDITION. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. The first Olympic night commenced on Saturday, with the four following pieces, Sons end Syslenis, Faint Heart never Won fair Lady, Patter v. Clatter, and the Loan of a Loren These popular pieces were acted with very few and trifling exceptions, by the same performers at the Olympic, and we observed :to ma terial difference in the effect of the performances, ex cept that the stage being larger, and more distant the didlogue was not so well heard as might be wished, in some parts of the house. Madame Vestris acted with her usual spirit and effect as Duchess of Torrenuova, and Gertrude. She looks as young as ever. The " mounting" of the pieces, and the stage appointments were intended to imitate the style of the Olympic, and they did so, successfully. The pieces went off with spirit, and the house was well attended. Madame Vestris has obtained great credit, and very deservedly, for consulting the public feeling by re ducing the admission to the lower gallery to one shilling. She will be no loser by the change. et, bim to enjoy the sport of pheasant shooting among the extensive covers on those spacious domains. large party to we , I We are most sort yto say that Lady Portman is I reported to be itt the greatest darger.—Leiceskr Journal. The Duke of Cambridge was a passenger on board the Duchess ..of Kent, Ramsgate steam-vessei, on Thursday, on his w ay to pay a visit to the Duke of Wellington, at Wainer Castle. His Royal Highness displayed his usual afrat ility by conversing, in the most agreeable manner, with several of the passengers en board, many of whom recognised him without encroach•. ing on his incognito. GRAND FETES AT Powis CASTLE.—Vis count Clive attains his majority on the sth of No vember, when a series of entertainments will be given at Powis Castle to, ail the branches of that noble family, with the nobility ;sod gentry of the neighbouring coun ties. The whole of the poor of the town of Welch pool, with their families, arc to be feasted in the Town Hall. A new ch urc h i s to b e erecte d by subscription, which is to have at least 300 free seats, to perpetuate the event. Several hundreds of pounds have already been subscribed. The Hon. Sidney Herbert left the Countess of Pembroke's mansion on Ha}-hill on Saturday last, for Stutgardt, intending to proceed to Odessa, on a visit to Count Woronzow, about the close of the next month, The Hon. General Upton leaves town this clay for Paris, on a visit to Count Demideff. The Hon. Mrs. William Cavendish left Bel grave-square on Saturday for Chatsworth. Mr. John Stewart, M. P., left town for Paris on Saturday. The M:Jquis and Marchioness of Thomond will not visit Restelian Castle, in the county Cork, this year. Lard and Lady Beerhaven, the Noble Mar quis's daughter, are at present sojourning at his Lord ship's Baronial Castle. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings, with Lord Rawdon, and the other members of their youthful fmily, are passing the autumn at Donnington Park, Leicestershire. The Noble Marquis does not receive any company beyond his own relatives. PARIS, OCT. 3.—Numhers cf English of rank are expected here for the winter. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury have hired a fine house is the Faubourg St. Honore. Lord and Lady Ches terfield, Mr. and Mrs. Anson, ac., are amongst those expected. CLIFTON WELLS.—Lady Granville, Lady E. Courtenay, Sir T. and Lady Elliot Drake, Sir Ric.hard and Lady Richards, Sir Thomas Clavering, the Hon. Mr. Calthorpe, the Hon. G. and Mrs. Noel, Sir John and Lady Grard, Sir Jamey and Lady Bathurst, &c., have been among our arrivals. Earl Waldegrave and the Hon. C:latain and Mrs. Waldegrave left a few days since. We regret to state that Sir John Rae Reid tact with a very serious accident on Saturday se:might when riding in Hyde -park. Sir John was mounted on a young and high-spirited horse, which took fright, and running away brought the leg of his rider with great vio lence against a wall. The effect. of the concussion was a very deep and extensive wound of the calf of the leg, in consequence of which the Hon. Baronet is still con fined to his apartment. The l 'ow) tess Cadogan and the Ladies Augusta and Honoria Cadogan were to have arrived at Middle ton Park, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Jersey, on Saturday, from Tottenham Park, Wilts, the scat al the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesburv. At Mar Lodge, near Braemar, the Duke of Leeds and a party of sporting friends have had excellent sport, shooting red deer, ptarrnigau, grouse, and black game. His Grace and friends up to the Ist instant had bagged upwards of 900 brace. The Dowager Du chess of Leeds is passing her widowhood with the Duke and Du dless. The' Earl of Eglinton, on leaving Liverpool, proceeded on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Dun more, at Dunmore Park, Falkirk, N.B. The Noble Earl intends going in a few days to Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire. A private letter from Irvine ieforms us that the approaching entertainment to the Noble Earl is likely to be the most magnificent that has ever taken place in that part of Scotland. The Earl of Devon is at Powderham Castle, Devon, passing the autumn. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset hive been visiting the Noble Earl. The Earl and Countess of Granville are ex pected at Devonshire House this evening or to-morrow afternoon, from visits to the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth, and the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, at Lilleshall, Shropshire. The Duke of Manchester arrived at Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire, on Thurserily last. Earl Waldegrave and the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Waldegrave have returned to Str aw b err y -hill, Twickenham, from a trip to Clifton-Wells. Sir Matthew Tierney, Bart., and family have arrived in Bruton-street, from the Continent, and leave town for their residence in Brighton in a few days. Count Nesselrode will shortly take his departure for the Continent. Baron Brunow is likely to remain here some time. The Duke Torlonia left Mivart's Hotel, on Sa turday last, to visit the Earl and Countess of Shrews bury, at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, but is expect( d to return this evening. Lord Lovainc did not accompany the Earl and Countess of Beverley and the Ladies Percy to Italy, His Lordship is on a shooting excursion in Scotland. We understand that the Hon. C. C. Cavendish, M.P., derives an addition of 7,000/. a year to his income, by the death of the Countess Dowager of Pomfret.— slYesbury News. Brevet Major Keappock, of the 22d Regiment, died suddenly a few days ago. This event will give promotion, without purchase, to the senior Lieutenant (Butler) and to the senior Ensign (Gainsford.) Ensign M. G. D. Hall, who was the senior Ensign of this corps, aid who is of three years and a half' stanoing in the army, unfortunately exchanged into the 14th Foot on the 23d of August last, by which he loses his promotion, and goes to the bottom of the list of officers of his rank belonging to that regiment. A rolling stone gathers no moss-- United Service Gazette. Staff-Stugeon S. C. Roe, M.D., who was pro moted from the 38th Regiment on the 17th ult., suc ceeds Dr. Mahoney in medical charge of the London recruitin g district. Dr. Mahony was promoted, on the 80th August last, to be Assistant Inspector-General of Hospitals. His present rank, therefore, renders him ineligible for the appointment, from which he is to be relieved by Dr. Roe.— United Service Gazette. It is with sincere regret we announce the death of Robert George Clarke, Esq., of Parliament -street, printer of the London Gazette. Few men in society were so much respecacd, admired, esteemed, and be loved. His mind was powerful, and extensively in formed, his wit keen, but playful and innocuous, his in tegrity without a stain. By the kindness and tender ness of his feelings and disposition, his decease was evidently accelerated, for about two years ago the loss of an amiable wife overwhelmed him with a sorrow which he e as unable to control, and to which, notwithstanding every effort on the part of his family and friends to con- ' sole him, he has at length fallen a victim. Mr. Clarke died at Brighton, on Saturday, the sth inst., we believe in the 69th or 70th year of his age. In early life he was in one of the public offices, and was afterwards Editor of The Sun Newspaper. COURT GOSSIP.—WINDSOR, SATURDAY. — The weather has rather prevented the enjoyment of these beautiful environs by the visitors at the Royal residence, En ravanche, Terpsichore has been the nil, ing deity at the soiries. Not only has her youthful Majesty engaged in the graceful pastime so suited to her age and mirthful flow of spirits, but the whole Court have followed the Royal example. Amongst the waltzers the most accomplished was Lord Palineiston, ',N•ho, in the giddy measure of the waltz, met with gene ral laudation, not excepting that of her Majesty, who does not waltz, no doubt from the close contact it would put her in with her male subjects. A topic of much comment in the secret causcrics has been the marked and unusual attentions paid by all the Royal and Ministerial personages to Count Brunow, the Rus sian Plenipotentiary, when he was at Windsor--atten tions accompanied, very justly, by praise of his Impe rial master for the magnificent present he has sent her gracious Majesty. It would appear that the Emperor had asked the Queen to choose what she would like best in his dominions which he could send as a public mark of his gratitude for the courtesy and hospitality displayed by her towards his representative. Her Majesty having re plied that she left it entirely to his own choice, the Emperor sent her the produce of his country in the shape of a stupendous vase of malachite, so large, in deed, that one must see to believe it, and that some fears were entertained as to the floors being able to bear the superincurnbent pressure. Another topic of much more serious conversation, and one not unat tended with apprehension, is the rumoured conversion of the Duke of' Devonshire to opinions opposite to those of his ancestor:, himself, and, above all, his numerous official relatives, whom he so fondly cherishes, entertain. Some say that the late journey and long absence of his Grace were iv tended to soften down allegethe el ca witht of f lis morei conversion rirobabili to 'Tory trythattbe opi e n b io in n g s e ; others i he h r i s 6 Grace's notions only extends to one or two points of Ministeri a l po li cy, which changeful th at hi s Grace may e policy, by th e bye, is ?o fereSfrom hi s friends without being v r y aware possibly o f it. have d . i 1 1 How ever, by far the most absorbing subje c t i n thi s R oya l neighbourhood is th e arr i val of the Princes of Coburg, nwehxot,. itTirsulyassoeniteedm,ayarzytotbbaet hoenretbe import on Wednesday of the younger Prince's visit, and th e result of hismu c b -talked • of matrimonial negotiation s , t h e f ate of this great empire depends.-21forniny Post. OCT. 4.—Th e BRISTOL SUGAR AI ARKET di-manl for sonars has improved, and a very fcir quan Lteatly Mercury. LONDON AND 11' EST MINSTER RI VIE No. LXI V. Hooper, Lon flon , 1839. The critical and miscellaneous essays of Mr. Carlyle, and more especially his philosophical tenets, some of .which are singular and oliginal enough, form the subject of the first article in this number. The Reviewer, who is an enthusiastic admirer of this gentleman's writinos, discusses them at considerable length, but in his anxiety to explain minutely the scope and bearing of his philosophical system, he not only bewilders himself, but mystifies his reader s a l so . A ssuredly, Mr. Carlyle is a man of much subtle thought, and great intellectual ac tivity ; moreover, he is a staunch Reformer in the most enli g ht ene d an d comprehens i ve sense of the term, riv ing no quarter to pre j u di ce, w h et h er moral, religio us , or political; so far, we can understand his system, for this is its ground-work ; but then he raises on it a superstructure of the most fantastic kind ; deals in the perversest crotchets ; suggests theories as puzzling as the riddle of the Sphynx, and enforces them in a style, quaint, startling, and at times picturesque, but too often utterly unintel ligible. We well remember attempting to read his Sartor Resat tus ;" hut we could make nothing of it, so gave up the task in despair. ; and even now, with the Reviewer's explanatory comments to help us, we find ourselves just as much in the dark as ever. Among Mr. Carlyle's essays, is to be found, it appears, a character of Johnson, alluding to which, the Reviewer thus expresses himself : " For fifty years Johnson has been a perpetual theme of journalists. He is still a sort of venerable name, as of something bigger and more sonorous than other authors of the eighteenth century, not without a shadow of rornance—a something between the Parish School master and the Great Mogul. For a considerable time arter his death he passed, even among ceitivated mere for a rrofound thinker, a teacher of the principles of human life, and the best of authorities in literary criti e'sm ; while, as to his rhetorical ability, the only ques tion seemed to be whether he was great—almost incom parably great—by dint of, or in spite of, his style, Of late years the tide has turned. The habit has grown up of looking wider and deeper in literature than was usual in his day. Men require freedom, energy, pictu resqueness, subtlety, even at the cost of a certain neat ness and full-dress modishness, then thought indispen sable. We have come nearer to reality in all ways, and find, therefore, that we must widen our circle of mental activity as the horizon of nature spreads endlessly around us. Thus the common estimate ofJohnson has changed, and younger, fresher gods have drawn off men's atten tion from the Jove whose shake of his un-ambrosial wig once ruled the world. A prejudiced, emphatic pe dant—is probably the sort of description which would most nearly bit the prevalent opinion about him during the last twenty years. Nor has the teaching of men of high talent been wanting recently to enforce this view of his pretensions. But listen to Mr. Carlyle's voice ; the scene changes with a flash, and Johnson stands be 'ore u - s, revealed in gigantic size, an object for all ages of reverential love." If Mr. Carlyle has written in this " reverential" spirit of Johnson, we give him credit for the good sense and liberality that dictated such a criticism. An " emphatic pedant," indeed ! No, no ; Old Sam is not to be sneered down in this curt, cavalier style. The Reviewer, we presume, is alluding to the objection urged against Johnson by Hazlitt, who should have known better, that he was a mere common-sense critic. Now, granting that this was the case, how does it derogate from his sterling value as a poetical censor. When it is borne in mind how much of common-sense enters into all that is enduring in poetry ; that this great art chiefly affects the imagination through the medium of the understanding ; and that when it does not do this, it is very apt to be mere unmeaning verbiage, like the tropes of orator Phillips ;—it will at once be evident that Johnson's critical qualifications were by no means of a petty or pedantic character. To the unerring sense and strong worldly sagacity of Shakspeare,no man has done ampler justice ; though we grant that, from defect of sympathy, not surely from narrowness of understanding, he was somewhat at a loss to deal with the subtler and more fanciful creations of his pen. Spenser, too, with his teem ing and voluptuous imagination, would have been apt to perplex him for the same reason—for Sam had no business in Fairy-land; but think of his criticisms on Dryden and Pope, on Cowley, and the metaphysical • poets of his day ; an Gray, Savage, and more particularly on Congreve, whose sparkling, pointed, but artificial dialogues he so thoroughly understood, and has so acutely exposed. Let the reader, we say, think of these things, and sure we are that he will scout time Reviewer's dogma that Johnson was merely an " emphatic pedant." Mr. Carlyle's " French Revolution is spoken of, on the whole, in fitting terms of praise, though he is justly blamed for the qualified language which he uses respecting the September massacres. To be sure they were the means, by rousing and alarming. all France, of rescuing it from the Prussian inva sion ; but, gracious Heaven, at what an expense Better, far better, be without 'national reforms, than gain them by the sacrifice of seven thousand persons murdered hr cold blood I The great defect of Carlyle's history is, that Danton is his favourite hero, as much so as Prince Maurice of Saxony is the hero in Robertson's " Charles the Fifth." The chief merits of the work are, that it evinces infinite care and skill in the use of its materials, and omits nothing that may tend to throw the slightest light on the Revolution. We have tracked Mr. Carlyle through many of his authorities, and have been struck with his unwearied diligence, even on the minutest points. The expressive aud pic turesque epithets which he so frequently uses to illustrate the idiosyucracy of a Darton, a Mirabeau, a Robespierre, or a " fiery" Chabot, are no: se lected hap-hazard, but have been carefully chosen as the most apposite, and not without reference to scarce and curious tracts and inemoifs, many of which are unknown even by name to the majority of English readers. " New Translations of the Ara bian Nights" is a graceful and eloquent criticism —a complete labour of love--from the pen of Legli Hunt, who speaks of our old favourites just in the way we would have them spoken of. The intro ductory portiou of this essay is singularly felicitous both in style and spirit ; and the comments on the s li r 'e uc c k an w j i t t l h dg th e, e j t u r s u t t a b n a d n i 7 p art i a l. bare s recent versions of the " Arabian Nights" are, so beenf:tr a s sprightliness li7c d of passage ; , " A vast number of things are romantic, that have no suspicion of being so. Half of the existing age has been romantically mechanical, while,the other half was .poetical. Events have been romantic ; not merely the French revolutions, but the times intervening and suc ceeding. Bonaparte's history was a romance, and he one of the most romantic of men, though he took himself for one of the least so. He fancied he should conquer thing?, the minds and wishes of men included, with ills engineering ; and if we look to results, Napoleon, in spite of himself and his purely mathematical genius and military science, stimulated the poetry of his time, like some great unconscious mountain-top of a man—a huge event. In all its events the supposed scientific age— nay, the really and gradually scientific age —was romantic throughout. The hopes were romantic, the despairs romantic, the vicissitudes a romantic as those in the book before us. There is a passage in one of the novels of Voltaire, in which he introduces three or four apparently private gentlemen who have met at dinner in an hotel, and who all turn out to be kings. We forget the details, but he makes cut his case, ;if we remember, kith bringing in Stanislaus of Poland, and Theodore king of Corsica. Those were sorry kings, compared with such as we have seen raised from private life in an our time, and who, including those of old families de throned, might have made a singular dinner-party indeed." The novel of Voltaire to which:A/Ir. Hunt here alludes, is " Candide," absurdly described by Wordsworth, as the " l ong , du product of a scof fer's pen ;" but the incognito kin gs who dinner, were not three, but seven, in number—and a most pitiable figure they cut, as the author in tended they should. " Heads of the people," is a very ordinary sort of criticism, in which occasonal attempts are made at point anll smartness ; but uni formly without success. " Oliver Cromwell" is a clever notice of Mr. Foster's recently puhtished life of this remarkable man, whose character the Reviewer draws with great vigour and skill of por traiture. On the whole, the number is an excel lent one. !7? seemco"u,nhseiii c el d e l i i la k iisl e i l o g overheard a dialogue TIIE PEOPLE.—We lately between two men, apparently artisans, who. had been spending more than they . ought of their we - ek's wages at a neighbouring public-house ; on. Weir way they die. topics y t greathe.y could -, imep agree.rt a n ptinwhir} it did not his back against the post of the toll-gate, " After observed companion supported himself in a similar man ner at the other side—" After all, what can you know of the matter ? sure y . ou are only one of the people." This roused his associate, who, advancing in the way What do you m ean b y calling me "confused" men do when they try to wa lk i n a stra i ght lice, ex c laim e d, names t"—London and Westminster Review. EXTRAORDINARY CASUALTY. Yesterday on extraordinary accident occurred in Byrom -street (Liverpool), happily, but marvellously, unattended by damage to life or limb. It is pretty generally knoWn that Cla) ton-street is one of the steepest of those streets that lead from the upper to the lower part of the .tOwn., Near the top of thi s s t ree t, a b out t h ree o'cloak P 447, terday, one of the heavy carts belonging to Mesrs. Bailey, Brothers, and Co., was taking ina_load , of empty; rz.sin casks. The two chain horses had been,takeb out, that they might not take up too much of the street. Sud denly some person in the vicinity fired a pistolit9,Pr4etice that cannot be too se vere l y repre h en d e d, or too soon put a stop to. The shaft horse, a remarkably l arge and powerful animal, took fright, and irlitnediately, started off at a fearful speed down the bill tOWard s Byrom-strcet. The carter and porters called•to'him but fear had rendered him heedless, and nothing 'Could check his headlong impetuosity, till, arrived at Byro m _ street, he dashed across the pavement, broke the gas . lamp to atoms, and rushed through window, door= posts, stancheons, and every other obstacle, into the shop of Mr. Pain, the hatter, who carries on business directly opposite to Cl a yton-street. Hero finding him self in total darkness (for his own bulk and the cart behind completely shut out every ray of light), he stopped, and was tolerably quiet till the carter came up, and backed him out. Of course Mr. Pain and his assistants were astonished at the sudden and terrific en trance of so novel a visitor, and it i s most wonderful that n o n e o f them w ere injured. It is equally asto nishing, considering the crowded state of Byrom street, and the speed with which the heavy vehicle was dragged across the street, that none of the pedestrians were injured. The masw door-posts a n d thick beams of the windows of Mr. Pain's shop were completely burst away by the shock , and the cast-iron lamp-postwas snapped short off at the root, and lit eral l y shivered to atoms.—Liverpool Times. EXTENSIVE Loss OF SHEEP EY EATING NEW Corm.—Last week, several sheep on Willoughby Farm, Broomfield, were discovered in the morning dead, and many others in a dying state. Immediate recourse was had to suitable remedies , bet the fl oc k continued fallin g un d er th e mi,ehiet, until forty-two di e d . I t ap pears, that by thesarelessnoss of some persons not be longing to the firm, the gate of a recently cut wheat field had been left open, and the raking s not having been carried away, the sheep lad broken in and over-fed themselves, and having also broken i nto an adjoining field of b ar l e y, th e excess of food thus- obtained, led to the serious loss sustained on theft ccasion. Several of the sheep were fat, and most of the ewes in lamb.-- Taunton Courier. • - - - ALARMING FIRE.—On Friday morning, at one o'clock, an alarming fire.broke out on the premises of Mr. Al e xander, baker",'Ne. 112, Hi g h Holborn. The fire commenced in the bakehouse, by a quantity of shay iugsjeiting, which melted the solder of the main gas pipe, and the gas escaping set the lthver premises on fire. The smoke was so dense that the family could not descend the stairs, and they effected their escape by the roof of the house. By the prompt arriv a l of two pow erful sre-to i zino; Iron; 4tiOn, th'ilanieS were extinguished before much damage was done. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING.—Her Majesty at tended Divine Service this morning at St. George's Chapel, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Viscount Melbourne, and Viscount Palmerston, and attended by the Countess of Sandwich, Hon. Mrs. Campbell, Earl of Sandwich, Hon. W. Cowper, Hon. G. Byrg, Hoa. C. Howard, Hon. Col. Grey, Lord Falkland, Hon. Miss Cavendish, and Hon. Miss Cocks. The service was read by the Rev. C. Knyvett ; the Communion service was read by the Hon. and Rev. E. Moore and the Rev. D. F. Markham ; the sermon was preached by the Rev. D. F. Markham, from the Ist chapter of the Epistle of St. James, and the 10th verse. The Te Deem and Jubilate were Travers in ; the Commandments and Creed, Dr. Nares in C ; and the Anthem, Luther's Hymn. The Solo, by Mr. Harris, was beautifully executed. Mr. Elvey, Mus. Bac., pre sided at. the organ ; the close imitation of the thunder had a most imposing effect. Her Majesty promenaded on the Terrace this after noon, accompanied by Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, and the Earl of Slodwich, and attended by the Earl of Surrey, Lady C. Dundas, Lord Falkland, Hon. Hiss Cavendish, and the Hon. Misses Cavendish, Cocks, and Paget. Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta attended Divine worship this mo!ning at the parish church, near Windsor. The following took their departure from the Castle yesterday morning :—L•;rd Edward and Lady Mary Howard, Countess of Surrey, and General Alava, the Spauish Minister. Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent left the Castle for London, attended by Lady Charlotte pandas, and returned to dinner in the evening. Her Majesty left the Castle on horseback, yesterday afternoon, accompanied by her visitors, and attended by a numerous suite, and took an airing in the Great Park. The Hon. Mrs. Campbell, accompanied by the Hon. Miss Cocks, drove to St. Leonard's. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager is expected to arrive at the Castle, in the course of tc.morrow, on a visit to the Queen. The following will join the Royal dinner party . this evening :—Her Royal Hightie.E.; the DuAess of Kr!r i t, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Countess of Sandwich, Mrs. Campbell, Hon. Mss Cavendish, Hon. Mlss . Cocks, H on . Mi ss P aget, V i scount M(.!haurne, Earl of Surrey, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Falkland, lion. Col. Grey, Sir W. Lumley, lion. W. Cowper, Hon. Charles Howard, Earl of Sandwich, Hon. Geo. Byng, and Baroness Lehzen. The Royal dinner party of last evening was composed of the same distinguished personages, with the addition of the Earl of Uxbridge. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas, arrived at Kensington on Saturday morning, from Windsor Castle. Her Royal Highness returned to Windsor Castle in the evening. Count Bjornstjerna, the Swedish Ambassador, arrived at his residence in BeNrave•strect yesterday, from a tour to the spas of Germany. The Countess Bjornstjcrna and family also arrived in Belgrave-street, from Sweden. The Marquis of Normanby left Searthing Moor, Yorkshire, on Saturday, for Brookman's Park, near Hat field, on his way to town. Despatches from the British Minister at the Hague, and also at Brussels, were received yesterday at the Foreign -office. Sir George Grey, the Judge Advocate-General, has left town for Hastings. FASHIONABLE IN TELLIGEN CE ARRIVALS. The Dowager Countess of Sefron and Lady Maria Mo lraeux, the Right Hon. Charles William:l Wynn, Captain Sir Henry and Lady Hart, Sir Francis Pa!grave, Sir Be thel Codrington, Lard Loft's. Lard Alford, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. More O'Ferrall, General and Lady Charlotte Bacon, Charles A. Gure. Lord and DEPARTURES. Lady Montague, for Ditton Park ; the D o w. "per L a d y Brownlow and the Hon. Misses Cust, for `per Park, Ipswich ; Lady Harriet Jones and fa• fniiY. for Paris; Colonel and Mrs. St. Clair, for Chelten ham ; Admiral Sir Edward Codring ton, for Windsor ; Viscount Morpeth, for Morpeth ' • Captain Matthew, M.P. for Sh a f tes b ury ; L a d y H arr i et Garner, for Bedfordshire; Colonel Edward Clive, Grenadier Guards, for Hereford ; Lady Malcolm, for \Varfield Lodge, Berks ; D. Webster, Esq., of the American Synate. from the Brunswick Hotel, 'Hanover-square, on a visit to Lord Ashburton, at his Lord ship's seat, the Grange, Hampshire; Mr. Webster, Mr. and Mrs. Appleton, and Mrs. Paige, from ditto, for the Continent. CHANGES, T. Hon. Colonel and Abs. Browne, at Cheltenham ; Sir William and the Hon. Lady Middleton, at Shrubland Park ; Lord George Bentinek, at Newmarket; Baroness Wenman, at Brighton ; Lady and Miss Wombwell, from Aldborough, Suffolk; Lord and Lady B-!haven, at Edin burgh ; the Duchess de Canizz+.ro. at Dover ; the Hon. Arthur Thellusson, at Rendl+ s:+ant Hall ; Viscount Lake, at Aston L'linton, Bucks; Lady Ca+oline Barri►n:ton. at Datchet ; Lord Jersey, a, Middfetor. Park, from Newmar ket; Lord and Lady Colborne and family, at West Rul ing Hsll, Norfolk ; the Dowager Marchioness of Breadal. bane, at Ta,,nanuth Castle. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, OCT. s. —There will be Congregations on the fdlowing days of the ensuing Michaelmas term : Thursday, Oct. 10, at ten; Wednesday, Oct. 16, et eleven ; Wednesday, Oct. 30, at eleven ; Thursday, Noe. 14, at eleven ; Wednesday, Nov. 27, at eleven ; Wednes day, 1/.:c. 11, at eleven ; Monday, Dec. 16 (end of term, at ten. NEW FELLOWS OF TRINITY COLLEGE. —.On Tuesday last, being the Ist inst., the following gentlemen were elected fellows of that society : —James Hemery, B A. William J. Conybeare, B. A. ; William Gilson tinmphry, B. A. ; Arthur Thacker, B A. • Charles John V aug h an, B. A. ; J o h n G or d on Maitland, ' B. A. The Norrisian Professor of Divinity has given notice that his Lectures will ‘ommence on Wednesday, Oct 23. PREFERRED—The Rev. W. E, L. F au lk n er, M . A., has been elected to the .perpetual curacy of St. James's, S Cl erkenwell, vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas h eppard. This livi ng i s ill the patronage of th e inhabi nts of the parish. The candidates for it were—Mr. Paulkner, and the Rev. Robert Crawford Dillon, D. D. The poll continued for three d ays ; at i ts c l ose t h e num hera were declared to be as follow :—For Mr. Faulkner, 9'231 ; for Mr. Dillon, 1,842 ; majority in f a v o u r o f t l- e /, "' b et- Mr. Fa u lkner, 319. The R ev . B en j am i n B ra d ney "otket t , ALB., of Magdalen Hall, Oxf or d, t o th e v i ce , ia ge of Epsom, Surrey. Patroness, Mrs. Pugh, of Bert 'l;lrd-street and Southborough, Kent. The Rev. George M arshall Holiwell, to the curacy of Caistor, Lincolsbire, I th e appointment of the Rev. G. Watson, vicar. The to *ev• the appointment of Foxton, M. A., curate of Manley, t _ vicarage of St. Peter's, Worcester, with the t rpel ry of Virhittington annexed , vacan t by th e cess i on o f b e Rea. W. Smith, vicar of Overbury. Patrons, the and Chapter of Worce s t er . Th e R ev . H enry J o h n utte to the rector of West Parley, Dorset, void by the 4 death of the Rev. Richard Ness, D. D. Patroness, Mrs. rY Buller, of Landrake, Cornwall. The Rev. Chat rl Bishop, to the ministry of th e c h urc h o f S t. Catha llel Northampton. HE QUEEN.--A Contemporary states from unquestionable authority)" that the Queen does net Int end t o v i s i t B r i g h ton thi s season . We are only e nabled to state that the usual arrangements for the reception of the Queen are being made at the Palace, !Ind that the Royal abode can be in readiness for the r,,eception of her Majesty at a fortnight's notice.— asex Express. T he Queen Dowager, in her purposed visit to ih ew nhato Padd o x, the scat of her Master of the H orse , e Earl o f D en bi g h , i n W arw i c k s hi re , i nten d s, it is 1 11 d, to t ravel thither, wit h h er su i te , b y the Binning eat railroad. His R o y a l Hi g h ness the Duke of S ussex i s I P on a v i s i t to th e E ar l o f S car b oroug h, a t S an db eck Park hi s seat near Doncaster. r Th e i r Royal Highnesses the D u k e an d Duchess 1 1 ) , r Cambrid ge . an d t h e P r i ncess Augusta o f C. im - I?'.ldge. attended by Baron Knesebeck and the Hon. 1 : 8 s Kerr, will l eave W a l me r Castle, to-mirrow morn thg, for Cambrid ge H ouse , a f ter a v i s it of a fe.v days to e Duke o f Wellington. t op is ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE GEORGE H.,CAhttai noE. — We understan d t h at hi s R oya l .or ine " will retur n t o thi s coun t r y at the close of this t e o arly i n the ensuing month. Letters were received celle wn G 1 t en e on Sat ur d ay, from the Noce, who is in ex tinu:st he ah and ,va spirit s . Hi s R o y a l Highness con (wet numerous and di st i ngu i s h e d par t y w ill s h or tly Itutlande at B e l vo i r Castle, the seat of the Duke of T he Earl and Countess of Minto will shortly a_seleet party at Mioto House, near Hawick. ,fi sid t ne Duke of Wellinaton wil.nrocced to Strath s47e tiit; ar4t week inT;ovein-oer% invited a THE SUN, LONDON. MONDAY, OCTOILER 7, 1 '39. .LITERATURE MAR YLEISONE VESTRY THE SURREPTITIOUS ERASURES AND INTERPOLATIONS IN THE PARISH REGISTER. Saturday, the Vestry took into consideration the pro priety of suspending the7payment of the quarterly sti pends of 25/. to the five district rectors :—The Rev. Dr Dibdin, of St. Mary's ; the Rev. James Chichester, of All Soul's ; the Rev. Robert Walpole,,,Of Christ Church, and the Rev. Dr. Penfold ; and the Rev. Dr. Spry, the Rector of the Parish. —Mr. A. Daniell in the chair. Mr. KENSETT observed that it was a duty be owed to the parish, to put to the test the opinions of the Vestry, in reference to the conduct of the five district Rectors, who, it was too well known (and which cir cumstance had been elicited' in an investigation which took place before the committee appointed to inqiire into the charge of the interpolations and erasures in the parochial registers) had been found to have neglected transmitting duplicates of the biptisms and burials, as it was their duty to have done, by Act of Par liament, to Mr. Sheppard, the Bishop's Registrar. In consequence of that discovery Mr. Flood, their vestry clerk, wrote to Mr. Sheppard to knol how long a pe riod it was since he had received any duplicate s from the Rector of the parish, when he sent back an answer that no duplicates had been received from Maryh'bone since the month of April, 1833. When that Vestry was reformed, it was found that the Rectors were paid 80/, for sending up the se cop i es, b ut w hi c h i t was the i r duty to do, independent of any such sum of money being received by them. Upon that being ascertained' by the Vestry, a resolution was agreed to that that . allowance should be discontinued ; bat, what was the conduct of the clergy of the parish on that occasion Why they ceased to send any more duplicates to the I - 3;shop's registra r ; t h e Vestry, howeVer, still supplied the vellum and parchment upon whiclido transcribe the duplicates ; What. had become of .the parchment he could not say, thou g h, as he observed before, perhaps, it had been cut up for tailors' measures:---(Laughter.) He had inquired into that effair, and the iiilhrthatiott' he obtained from Mr. Pau the sexton was, that after the 801. was disallowed (he having for a twelvemonth subsequent to that continued to send duplicates without remuneration), he asked Dr. Spry what he should do, when that Reverend Gentle men told him that he might discontinue sending them, as be, Dr. Spry, would have nothing to 'do with them. He tlien moved " That the - Rectors of the five district churches be required to explain the cause of the monstrous omission of copies °kite registration of bap tisms and burials, agreeable to Act of, Parliament, and that the payment of the regular quarterly salary be suspended until the explanation be given." Mr. GIBSON, in seconding- the motion, .remarked, that upon a subject of such importance the Vestry ought to pause before they allowed the quaiterly sa laries. It was a question of most momentous considera tion to families whose registratiohs were entrusted to them, for, where the records of the lineage of any party happened to be lost, the ruin would be irremediable ; how requisite, therefore, was it, that duplicates should be returned to those parties, to whom, by Act of Par liament, they ought to have been transmitted. It was only within the I:st four weeks, in the district over which he was Churchwarden, that the clerks com menced to draw up duplicate copies, and which was edged on in consequence of the disclosures made by the Committee. The Rev. Dr. DIBDIN complained that Mr. Kensett had not acted fair!) , towards him. He (the Doctor) was informed by Mr. Langley, his clerk, he told hint (Mr. Ken Sett) that duplicates had been sent by,hirn to the Bishop's Registrar up to the year 1837. Mr. KENSETT explained that he stated that the answer of Mr. Sheppard was, that no duplicates had, been s en t f rom M ar yl e bone since April 1833. The Rev. Dr. DIBDIN—Then Mr. Sheppard has not acted fairly towards me. Mr. JOSEPH said that as the subject was then before the Committee, Mr. Kensett ought not to have brought any motion upon it before the Vestry. Mr. RATHBONE also observed, that. at that time the Committee was in correspondence with the Rev. Dr. Spry, and they ought to hhve waited for the result. He had, however, to i remark, that while the Rector had been complained of, the Churchwardens ought to know that it was also their duty to certify. Mr. 'FitEosata, a barrister, said that the stipend proposed to be suspended arose out of the pew-rent from the • several district churches, and the amount from which was placed in the custody of the Vestry as its depository. It was, le fact, the money of the dif ferent Rectos, the disposition of which was not with the Vestry. Mr. KENSETT, in reply, maintained that the money being placed in the possession of tho- Vestry, was a suf ficient answer to the last speaker, that the Vestry had power over it. He did not wish to impute any wilful ne glect to any one ; all he wished for was an explanation. One Reverend Gentleman had stated that up to the year 1837 his clerk had sent duplicates ; he wished to ask the Reverend Doctor if he had signed the duplicates ? The Rev. Dr. DIBDIN replied that he had not. Mr. KENSETT—Then it was your duty to have sigoed them according to Act of Parliament. Mr. FLOOD remarked that the Act of Parliament re ferring to the registration of births, &c., excluded dupli cates, in reference to marriages. Mr. KENSETT proceeded to call on the Vestry to support' him, observing, that in consequence' of the ex, traordinary dereliction of duty on the part of the clergy of their parish, great mischief might have been done. He considered that the Vestry would not be doing its duty if the motion Was not carried. For the resolution, 6—Against U,26. Mr. KENSETT then moved that the quarterly salary of 251. allowed to the Rev. Dr. Spry be suspended until he attended the Committee, to give an explana tion in reference to the non transmission of duplicates to the Bishop's Registrar. He observed that the Rev. Doctor had placed himself in a position far different to that in which any of the other Rectors were placed. Mr. RA.THBoNE said that the 25/. objected to be paid were subscriptions from the different renters, in lieu of Easter offerings which Dr. Spry claimed from them. Mr. SODEN saw less excuse for Dr. Spry than for any other of the district clergy. There were several other members who addressed the Chair, when, on the .question being put, there appeared 15 for, and 11 against th e mo ti on . Mr. JOSEPH then gave notice that he should oppose the confirmation of that minute. Mr. Pau (sexton) applied to the Vestry for its per mission to re-inscribe the name of a person of the name of Turner upon a tombstone. Mr. KENSETT--DO you apply as executor to the deceased ? Mr. PAu—No; at the request of the widow. The stone is almost gone to decay, and the names on it obliterated. If he were allowed to superintend the inscription on a new stone, he would see that the names were exactly transcribed. The Vestry gave him permission. THE EVIL EYE. A few nights since two gentlemen were seen speaking to each other in the grand foyer of the Academic Roy ale, at Paris. One of them, an Englishman, was called away by a friend of his, an Italian, a man of the world, sensible and well informed, with whom the Englishman was most intimat e , and on wh ose j u d gment he placed a great reliance. "You must not speak to that man,'' said the It a li an . " W hy not ?" demanded the Englisll- man. " Because he is notorious in every part of Italy, and he will soon become so here." " You alarm me !" replied the Englishman. "Ishe a spy —a political agent —a person of Immoral--" "No: he is a most respectable man of good family, and of good princi ples ; but he is a person to be shunned, and I trust you will never take his arm again." "Explain yourself, my dear fellow." " Listen, then. That is the Count de Rivoli, so well known in every town in Italy as a jettet-tore, or the evil eye.' Wherever he is seen misfortunes are sure to occur, and there is not a family at Milan, Rome, or Naples, who will receive him." " Nonsense," said the Englishman, " these are nursery tales to amuse children with. The evil eye in our clays!" " My dear fellow, I will tell you a few facts," replied the Italian, " and then you can judge for yourself. You must know that the Count de Rivoli is a great musician. and fond of the society of artists: He is, therefore, anxious to become acquainted with the most celebrated foreign singers, as his reputation is so well known that none of our native school will make his acquaintance. He was at Naples when poor Nourrit arrived there. He paid Naurrit a visit, and two days after the unfor tunate maa %visa . dead. Hd 'went to the theatre at Ve nice a month or two after that event, and a fire broke "oust "half an • . hour after h e was seen i n th e h ouse . He came to Paris ...m e t Lablache in the street—addressed him,. and in a week after the beautiful daughter of Lablach e was a corpse. He paid a visit of condolence to Madame Nourrit, then in this capital. Three da y s after war d s s h e was in the grave. He was introduced to the M arqu i s d e Custine, and invited to a ball., The moment he entered, the centre lamp fell, and broke the'head of the master of the house. He went to the grand ope ra , to h ear Mdile. Falcon. That night she lost her. voice, and has'not appeared since. He looked at Paganini, as that great man was ravishing all ears with the sound of his violin. The arm of the master seemed withered by the shock, and you know his present dreadful state of health. It was said be was at Man. cheater when poor Malibran died. He spoke to Lafont the day before he set out on that journey in which La font lost his life. In Short there are ten thousand in stances where his presence seemed to announce dire mis fortune, because 'as certain as he appeared dire mis fortune does occur." " What you tell me is very curious," said the Englishmman, " but I remark that his influence proves only fatal to artists and professors." " Yes, that is the case," replied the Italian, "and you tnay congra tulate yourself that you are not, nor ever have been. a musician by profession." The Englishman appeared for a moment tonfuSed. "It is very ridiculous," said he, " but you must know that at the age of eighteen I ran away from my father and family, and supported myself in the country by giving lessons on the flute, of which I am a great enthusiast. lam now restored to my then position in life, and would have forgotten my former folly if your words had not revived it." The Englishman went home. His servant opened the door with a countenance expressive of great woe. " What is the matter ?" said the master. " Oh, Sir, my dear young lady is taken suddenly ill. At nine o'clock she dropped down in a fit, and the doctor is apprehensive for her life." Such is the evil eye. THE LANDLORDS AN]) THE HARVEST. '(From the Brighton Herald.) Even the landlords are staggered at the disastrous .effents of the late bad weather upon the harvest ; they care little that people should be comielled to buy bread at 10d. and Is. the quartern ; hut that the farmer should have little or none to sell at that price --that the speculaters in foreign corn alone should reap benefit from kws made exclusively for themselves—this is vexa liens in the extreme. Sir James Graham deplores the harsh decree of Providence. " Never," be said last week at the Netherby Agricultural Association, .‘ was there a year of greater promise than the present. He had travelled through the greater part of:England and the south of Scotland,and never had he seen more abundant crops on the ground. The declaration that had been made against working was rescinded' ; the cultivator ofthe soil no longer feared his crops would spoil for want of reapers the foolish and wicked decree of man (alluding to the Chartists' 'sacred month') prevailed not. But mark the stern decree of Providence. The crops were plen teous ; the sickle was prepared ; and the reapers were* willing to work ; but the elements prevented them from gathering in the ripened harvest. This was a striking —an awful warning, which he hoped would not be thrown away upon the people of this country." We do not think it will be thrown away upon the people of this country. It proves by a fearful demonstration—the threatened starvation of millions—that our landholders, with all the assistance of laws which enable them to bring into corn-cultivation land never intended for such a purpose, cannot raise sufficient food for the mainten ance of the people. Again, as last year, we must have recourse to a foreign market, where, our deny:nil beim; unexpected and unprovided for, we must pay the highest prices. CLOTH MAKING WITHOUT SPINNING OR WEAVING.—Among the many extraordinary and truly wonderful inventions of the present times, is a machine for the making of broad or narrow woollen cloths with out spinning or weaving, and from our acquaintance with the staple manufacture of this district, after an inspection of patterns of the cloth, wo should say there is every probability of this fabric superseding the usual mode of making cloth by spinning and weaving. The machines are patented in this and every other manufac turing nation. The inventor is an American, and ap pears to have a certain prospect of realising an ample fortune by the. sale of his patent right. We understand patterns of this cloth, as well as a drawing of the machinery, have been shown to many of our principal merchants and manufacturers, none of whom have expressed a doubt but that the machinery appears capable of making low cloths which require a good ' substance. Should it succeed to anything near the ex pectation of the patentees, its abridgment of labour, as well manual as by machinery, will be very great. We find that means are already taken to introduce this ma chine among our continental rivals ; a company of eleven gentlemen, in London, have deposited five thou sand pounds with the Patentees, who have ordered a machine for them ; when finished they are to try it for one month, and if at the end of that time they think it will succeed, they are to pay twenty thousand pounds for the patent right in the kingdom of Belgium, and it will of course be worked there. We are there fore bound, in duty to our country, and her manufac turing interests, to adopt such facilities as will prevent us from falling into a position below our rivals in other countries. We are informed the necessary machinery for the production of this patent woollen felted cloth vviA be tried here in a week or two, under the superinten dente of the inventor, by a cloth merchant who has an exclusive license, but is about to associate with him twenty other respectable business men, for the purpose of sharing the expenses of giving the invention a fair It is .calculated that one set of machinery, not costing more than six hundred ,pounds,. will be capable et producing six hundred yards of 'woollen cloth, thirty innheS in width, per day of tavelve hours. --Leeds PotiaE.--The daily reports of the pr . & ending - 4 in the Police Courts show a great activity On", sho part .of the Metropolitan force in carrying into ,the fullest effect •certain provisions of 'the new Act. Scarcelya day occurs but some constable enjoys the triumph of locking up some hungry, houseless wan derer, and of consigning her the next morning, upon hisindividual testimony, to a prison. Then, again, the proprietors of respectable hotels, such, for instance, as that of Mr. Evans, of Covent-garden, are fined ; and, going farther afield, the tradesman who, after having attended the morning Divine service in London, takes his wife and children to breathe the fresh air on Hampstead-heath, must not refresh them even with a crust of bread and cheese at that ancient resort, " Jack Straw's Castle." If he do, the police will be witnesses against him, the wife, and children, and woe betide the landlord. Ac knowledging thus far the extreme activity of the police in these matters, we ask, in common with many correspondents, why it is that no step has yet been taken to abate the most destructive nuisance which it is possible to bring under the cognizance of the police in any country ? The gambling-houses which abound in every street in the vicinity of St. James's, and which are most appropriately called " Hells," do not merely pursue their course uninterruptedly, but we have good reason for knowing that the apathy of the police has been mistaken for an implied sanction, and that at this moment some respectable persons —per sons, we mean, of station—are actually engaged in the fitting up of splendid mansions for gambling-hous es or clubs, and that the apathy of the police is their uctl vaunted socarity.-4:o:)server. MR. }EARGUS O'CONNOR.—This gentleman states that his visit to Ireland, whither he has gone suddenly, will be short, and is undertaken for the pur. pose of establishing Radical Associations there. He says :—" The elections of Ireland have died a natural death. I gave political existence to many constituencies in 1832, and I now find that the whole of the aristo cratic influence in the county of Cork is arrayed otaiost the people. They are afraid to renew the fran chise, and complain that they have no support. I go to help them." OMNIBUS L OITERING.—The driver of Ben• nett's Mile•end and Chelsea omnibus, No. 2, 95 . 5, was summoned on Friday to Marlborough -street by the po lice, for having improperly loitered at the Black Horse booking-office, Coventry -street. Mr. Lewis Bennett's lawyer took many technical objections, which were over ruled by Mr. Long, the Magistrate, who imposed a fine of 10s., with costs. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. (FLOM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) (From the Morning Chronicle.) Amongst the ways and means of the Tories for ac complishing the only purpose—that of the resumptio n of power—which holds the party together, one is, the support of a wholesale manufactory of political tracts. Speeches and proceedings are reprinted at a rapid rate for cheap or gratuitous distribution. We have lots of Lyndhurst and bales of Brougham, gluts of Graham and pennyworths of Peel, in quick succession. Perhaps this is one of the most innocent things the party does ; whatever may be thought of its consistency with the atrocities of ;their Six Acts, and the legal terrors formerly levelled at • twopenny trash. Still we do not think it decent that the Judges of the land should be found amongst the labourers in this propa gandist mission ; nor can we pass without com ment such an item in the twopenny catalogue as that of the " Address of Lord Abinger to the Grand Jury at the late Leicester Assizes." What business has a Judge's charge amongst the paper pellets of party ammunition ? Lord Abinger has .an unquestionable right to hold the tenets of the Toryism to which Sir James Scarlett apostatized. He has the right also to teach those tenets and promote them as a partizan— every where, save on the bench of justice. There the privilege of the politician stops. Nor will we affirm that his Lordship had any purpose to overpass the boundary. If not, then the indecency is trans ferred to the Tory tract mongers, whose moral obli quity is such, that they deem it better to have Judges for their partizans than to sustain the purity end impartiality of the judgment seat. The party is in this dilemma ; in claiming credit for Lord Abinger, it discredits Lord Abinger's sense of judicial decency. They may settle it between them. In the " Address" itself, we do not see much to be made so much of. The mischief is rather in the use which has been made of it by the Tory Press anal at Tory din ners, than in the thing itself. It chiefly consists of a tissue of common-place cant about the .Constitution : rather imprrtinent in a Judge, whose business is to administer the lairs as he finds them ; and certainly tending, as was probably intended, to throw odium on Reformers as impracticable theorists ; but still so (ffete, jejune, and contradictory, as to be tolerably innocuous. His Lordship Bolds that " the liberty of an Englishman is English liberty ;" and that "no true Englishman can be attached to any 'other sort of liberty." The first of these propositions we sup pose nobody will deny. The second is contingent upon the definition of a " true Englishman ;" al though it manifestly excludes from that honourable cha racter every Tory who is not content with the liberty he enjoys under a Whig Administration, but is " at tached to" the further liberty of having his own fingers in the public purse. By the judgment of their own judge, the Tories are no " true Englishmen." Nor is this the only hit which the ermined lecturer uncon sciously makes at his own faction. Appealing to her Majesty's proclamation against vice and immorality, he _lays the late disturbances at the door of the local aris tocracy. " Indeed I will venture to say, that if every gentleman would strictly adhere, in his own sphere, and within the circle of his own influence, .to the injunctions contained in this, her Majesty's proclamation, the neces sity of providing gaols and new systems of prison dis cipline would be greatly diminished." It is to be hoped that the squirearchy will take the hint, and avert from the country the calamity of ally reform " theory," as applied to imprisonment and punishment. (From the Morning Advertiser.) INDUSTRY V. ARISTOCRACY is the great action new pending before the political tribunal of Great Britain. Into this grand question do all minor causes resolve themselves. On the extreme flanks of the contending parties we see hereditary slave- and hereditary senatot s —men destined from their birth to labour, others to legislate—one class " hewers of wood and drawers of water," another, fashioners of laws, and as rrcent laws have been, founders of new schemes of social nuisance. The question may be stated in a variety 01 ways, viz : INDUSTRY V. ARTSTOcTIACY, PERSONS v. POSSESSIONS, COMMERCE u. MONOPOLY. These are the essential elements under which mav be classified the antagonistic forces operating on our social system. We aave an aristocracy rejecting the claims of industry —a property class refusin g to give consie.era tion to personal claims—and monopoly usurping the rights of tree commercial intercourse. This is the state ment of affairs in the abstract, at which we presume no offence can be taken by any party professedly patriotic. But when we proceed to partidulars—when we exhibit the aristocracy pressing, as throu g h th e C orn -l aws , lik e an incubus upon th e industry of the country--when_ he I protest against property usurping uncontrolled influence in the State without reference to the rights of person— and when we denounce 'monopoly in every shape and form wherein it may militata against g eneral commerce— from every locality-as from a nest of hornets there springs up a host of waspish assailants, whose industrial_ exertion seems to have been renewed only to give more venom to their sting. 'What will become of the landed interest 1 is the question with which is constantly met the proposition for the repeal cf the Corn-laws. But we never hear any inquiries after the thousands of operatives who arc doomed to be inhumed in workhouses in conse quence of those laws preventing the sale of their pro ducts abroad, and the supply of independent provision to themselves at home. Our legislators, in their more than religious veneration for the rights of property, forget the rights of persons, and hence aristocracy, property, and monopoly are permitted to "Lord" it over industry, persons, and commerce, and thus will it continue until the reflective industrial classes, which embrace all honest and worthy members of society,. combine for their own protection, and rescue the country on one side from intolerant despots, and En the other from incendiary demagogues. (From the Times.) One of the most remarkable cases on record arising out of the Slave Trade is exciting at this moment the greatest interest in the United States. The Amistad, a schooner from Cuba, with a number of slaves on board, had recently been run into and stranded off Suffolk County, Long Island, where the crew, all blacks but two, commenced taking in fresh water and purchasing provisions. As they appeared to have abundance of money, and altogether the circumstances of such a crew and vessel had something suspicious about them, a good deal of curiosity was excited amongst the people on shore, who at length, not withstanding the precautions of the blacks, who sought jealously to cut off all intercourse with the vessel, succeeded in getting alongside, when two white men, Spaniards. presented themselves on deck, im ploring protection. This being reported to the au thorities, measures were taken, and the schooner taken possession of. From the Spaniards thus libe rated, and from the vessel's papers, the following details were gathered :—About two months before, the Amistad sailed from Havannah with an assorted cargo of various kinds of goods, and the slaves on hoard, lb; another part of Cuba, close by the plan tations of Senor Ruiz tiro owner, one of the - Spa- Iniards thus found. The blacks were captives recently imported into the island of Cuba from the coast of Africa, who, after a few day's residence in the bars• cones or slave-market of Havannah, were purchased and shipped on board the schooner. A short time after leaving that port, the slaves, headed by a resolute man amon g them o f t h e name o f Ci ngucs, rose and murder e d the captain with all the crew, except Ruiz and soother Spaniard nameak -Mentes. Their: lives were ' spared for the sake of nAvigating the vessel. The ne woes desired only to return to. their own country, b ut of th e course to b e pursued for putt end they and their leader understood no more t - iia u n,_: that it lay eastward. Early each morning thei tfiengielves took the helm and steered in the direction of the rising sun, that is east ward, or compelled Montes to take that direction with unnazes, and sometimes, on well-founded suspicion of treachery, with blows and wounds. .--. .I.,siqrtesiit _ . __ , During the night, however, Montes with his UNWELCOME OR SUSPICIOUS Sl6l l ltg ‘-4 ~ companion as regula r ly . changed the schooner sweep , course, so as t o b r i ng h er ,a l most to the same er s sweep or baker pressing through a crowd ; orange ilieos point thrown on the foot-path ; a working man' whO b e e t* , where she stood in the morning. In this manner, every h ats, hour in f ear o f d eat h , on several occasions meeting yes- dangling loose.; a workhouse funeral almost without ie wearily., his best every day ; a woman's hoOtala6 se's which the blacks comp e ll e d th em to avo id , an d hay- tendants ; a rich man's funeral blocking up th e street ' ; ing end eavoure d on more than one occasion to run the schooner on s h ore w h en i n s igh t of it, but always (rug. two men fighting a pitched battle on a' Sunday a r t _ noon, w i t h a l arg e attendance of' men and'Vfoinen ; 'a. trated, th e Sp an i ar d s state d that they had been driving about. Methodist parson holding forth with stent or i an l ungs o for t wo mont h s , w h en at length they were a ree individuals ; a servant waiting at table with' dirty enabled to effect their aim and strand her off Long bands; a justice fining persons for getting drunk, who Island. When discovered, Montes, who seems to have frequently gets " fresh" himself ; a drunken coachman been m ore pecul i arly the object of suspicion with the driving his horses at full g a ll o p d own a narrow street ; blacks, was in a deplorable state, with several dangerous a woman slipping in at the back door of a public-house, wounds inflict e d w ith Sp an i s h knives. Ruiz, the owner , with a little jug at tea time ; a p oor raggl d wife seek on the contrary, had been treated with uniform kindness. ing her husband at twelve on Saturday night ; a man exceedingly drunk and noisy at a temperance weeting On these facts becoming known, the vessel was taken pos session of, and the blacks, for safe custody, removed a tee-totaller coming out of a "tom and jerry'' wiping to Newhaven, where they were placed in confinement, his month. but, as it appears, treated with attention and humanity. The General Steam Navigation Coiripstny ' g There they were to remain for trial en a charge of pi- Steam Ship, Giraffe, Captain R. Stranack, arrived off them by the racy on the high seas, brought against ., , the Custom -house from Rotterdam, on Sunday,'after a 1 owner, and on this trial hinge many contested points, favourable , . passage. both of jurisdiction of the Court of the . United States, THREE MEN KlLLED—Yesterday niorning .and with reference to the nature of the crimes of mur. rid - der and pi rac y charged, and the right of property in the (F a 3), while Mr. Andrew King assisting at the excavation of the earth at Shedden Hill, blacks, claimed as slaves by the Spanish. Consul . on . was .engaged in near Paisley, the mass gave way, and being on , the toe of international law, the part of the asserted owner. These . points involve, of course, important questions at the time, he was precipitated to the bottom of the Stogie-street, which were earnestly engrossing the attention of the railway line. He was so severely injured that he did legal authorities in the United States. The process of not speak a word, and . died . sh , o d rtly ire a i f a ter s w to a circumstance until ' for recovery of the blacks under the designat ion wa s carried home to his allite i te the w " property" was considered to be so invalid, and so un his reaching the house. 'What who . was not . made aware o within a few minutes of likely to succeed in the civil courts, that the criminal prosecution for murder and piracy was preferred by child on last Sahhatly—s l pain ,h,mei`jilicie_d•ednartof makes fire circumstance very distressing is, that she was delivered of her first-bornltuiz and Montes for the purpose of gaining time fora formal interference in their behalf for the restoration . tuida Y o ne of t iy h , e thcaratn.aesfteatr 9 _ ll ll .ff lr e . r :•aa: .r sey' ' ., , t l , w a y, and in its fall struck one of the slaves as property. It is difficult to understand morning, quarry, Ferguslie, Pl e v vere .. r , k,rea how the charge of murder can be supported in the ease of the w o rkme e n x s t o m s orning —Monday' last, of the of Cingues, more particularly challenged as the ,one who 3, on : the Railway . near Bishootne the earth, preparatory PtoGhlan.rsi4ll);.; actually slew the captain, as be had been seized, made a men slave, and as such was being foreibly.carried away from l excaEati riit a h p piles, the whole miss fell ti Havannah by that captain, against the well-known laws ; I t i s a S e vi a i t ' h was instantan . nons. Another wo p r o k n maZ . w 4- h r ia d of the very country where these acts were taking place. j egip l a y. e d, .Atith the deceased,. ciasuf.,aareenly No other possible means. existing to procure liberty- "`" escaped the same fate.—Paisley Advertiser. s T r ‘tt E VEN 'NG EDIriON • 7 7. but by violence, no other verdict et‘W be returned honest jury but justifiable homicidek .1.;: - ss' (From the Morning Pbst.yittL : - , We exposed in our Saturday's paplistilittilialtbulA4 blundering stupidity of the " regulations" which it has pleased some of the Lords of her Majesty's Council to send forth upon the subject of grants of public money in aid of schools for public education. The folly of these people is evident upon the face of their doing or sayi ng . own docum ent . Th ey seem not to know what they are And yet th e y are pompous l y metho d leaf too; witness the solemn provision in rule No. 5, that in the plans of school-houses on behalf of which any application is entertained not less than sir - square ,acct shall be provid e d f or each child ! This—if we may ftbe excused the verb a l contrad i ction—is carrying super cial philosophy to a very great height indeed. No I doubt the education must be of the most enlarged de scription, and suitable to the fattest capacity, when, by the wisdom of the Lords, of the Council, six square feet shall have been provided for each infant pupil. A ranting parasite of these education quacks proclaims that in the schools both of the National and the British 1 and Foreign School Societies " there is wide space for improvement." Doubtless their Lordships intend that for the future the space shall be still wider--six square feet at. the least ! Another sublime regulatio n is, that for et ery ten shillings to be granted by their Lordships' Committee the mewls of educating one child (at least) shall be provided. Exquisite wisdom! Surely Doctor Lardner and Joseph Hume must have been the coun cillors of this Council. No other men could have sug gested such bright ideas upon the philosophy of educa tion. Under all circumstances, whether in dear Mid dlesex or cheap Merionethshire, their Lord Ships rtre willing to entertain the project of education at half' a I sovereign per head, and in a space of six square feet for each two•legged urchin ; but should the rate of • half ! a-guinea be :proposed, or only five and a half square feet of superficial space, in which to imbibe :fresh air and the rudiments of literature, then there is to be no help, or hope of help, from their sapient Lordships of the Privy Council! Perish education, rather than vary sixpence a head in the allowance for it, or give it in less i than six square feet of space! (From the'Morning Herald.) Why will the Irish Conservatives indulge in the, self delusiou that Lord Ebrington, or any other Viceroy of Ireland appoint e d by th e M e lb ourne -O'Donnell Cabinet. will or can act independently of the anti-Conseniative and anti-Protestant influence by which the whole and every part of the empire must continue to Les governed as long as that Cal;inet continues, by the belp Dfll - sh tail and bed-chamber petticOat, to drag tv its wretched and degraded existence ? Irish 'Coi.sset vatism wants to be roused not lulled. Greatly do sve tear that if the well-wishers to the Church and narchy in Ireland get the notion in their heads t f - 1 that Lord Eh r i ng t on i s d o i ng t h e wor k , not o f hi s political creator—the tyrant demagogue—hot of the rational, sober, loyal, honest supporters of - British connection and constitutional principles—the cone quence will be that Irish Conservatives, already too de ficient in vigour, vigilance, and energy, will bereme more tame than ever. Why should they put themselves to any trouble about their dearest interests as members of a Protestant community who have the good fortsine to find in O'Connell's chosen Viceroy a guardian of rhos interests—a protector of those principles which O'Con. nell himselflabours incessantly to break down and destrcy. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY. li (From the Globe.) ' I, Lord John Russell's note to Lord Glenelg, dated I bth of last January, and on which are founded the. I . changes adopted subsequently in our Transportation system, is a highly interesting paper, and opens views on the subject combining, as we think, justness of Theory 1 with caution in practice, and pointing out how the por tion of good which undoubtedly has been realised (for characters detrimeetal at home have been got rid of, end prosperous colonies founded) may be separated from the evils of the system, or rather total want of system. The Report of the Transportation Committee set those evils in so clear a light, that neither the ptiblic nor the Government could view them any longer with apathy. It has become evident that the benefits of • cheap riddance of a certain number of criminals, and cheap labour to a certain number of colonists, are not sufficient to counterbalance, in the view of morality and sound policy, the corruptions propagated and pet-petuated by the present (or rather past) treatment of con victi. It is, however, the part of bad workmen to throw mealy their tools ; and though the total abolition of the syst.em of transportation might be naturally suggested by a review of its preceding abuses, such a measure would not hove been justified CDpractical grotolds. It has i n d ee d b een said, and said with justice, that colonization and trans. ! portatien should not be mixed up' together—that, the I resort of enterprise or of indigence _should not be dis graced by association with crime. T h . , ohjection is applicable, in the fullest force, to the old s:stern, under which the very ponishment allotted to crime v. faS turaod 1 into a new lottery, in which the chances of esca,:le ill- 1.1 i cnricl meet were multiplied to the hopes of tho FRI 1 guine, and the arts of the clever convict. = -3i, .!* P. O i t 1 .1t (From tho Courie r .) - - : : t The state of affairs in the Money Market in London 'l and in the Utited States, has caused the arrival of :the i !Great West ern f rom N ew Y ork to be looked forward to with very great anx sty. The a.. - li, ices which sft:r ti ine will, no d o ubt, af f or d temporary, relief i n prffe quarters (not that we attach any importan ce to the driblet of 117,051/. in specic . ;'; but it is not what the: Great Western has brought, nor' all thet many sucees- f sive Grer.t Westerns can bring, that will suflicot o .e- I move the difficulty under which the monetary .systems ! in London' and in America reciprocally labour. ' It I may be useful on this occasion, when the ,publie mind is anxiously directed ito the mono ) affairs of the two countries; to call the attention of our readers' to the rapid growth of trade in America, and to the conseq4nt necessity of - bullion to represent occasionally a pare ; of its eaten - tied monetary operations. To attempt to 'go deeply into this subject, would far exceed the limitsl of a newspaper article ; all that we ,can pretend to (14 is from ti me to ti me as the occasio n offers, to endeavour to bring before our readers a few brief remarks oil the main points of the question. Our cpinion is, that the monetary system of this country, and of America, is wrong ; that it is pretended to be established on a fotm. dation thst does not exist; that the fiction of the paper circulation of the two countries being the representative of gold is a fallacy ; and that it is the obstinate per sistence in this error that is the main cause of the periodical derangements of the currenpy with which every man must now be familiar. . . , (From the Stand ar d.) We have rece i ve d l etters f rom var i ous parts, of Canada by the Great Western. They confirm Our assertion that the statement of the Morning Ckronkle, !bat Sir John Colborne himself applied for the separation or the Governor Generalship from the command of the forces, was a pure fabricatian ; palmed, we have little doubt, on our Contemporary for the purpose of staving off some of the indigna tion which the appointment of Mr. Poulett Thomson was so well calculated to create. There 'MHO, however, no other confirmation than the fact, . tbat the instant Sir John Colborne was required to resign the Governor Generalship of the Canadas to Ali. P. Thomson. he determined to give up his commend:elk and Sir Richard Downes Jackson was eppeinted,tii's c ceed Ilia). With every other honest man who has ever li d the misfortune to be connected with Lord Melbourn 's Administration, Sir John Colborne is thoroughl , :.ti d of them, and is probably not dissatisfied . - t e opportunity which they have afforded him ;if . jiFtitig• w p an end to it. From the accounts which we hai4 l ? 'Ativkd this mornin7, from our Bristol CorrespondeKkVotild seem that the most disastrous consequences hrd"tb4t4i pated from the imposition of Mr. Poulett ThOtritOli pn the Canadas as Governor General. The rumour Isles regarded in the first instance as so perfectly alisiard ass!o outrage credibility, but when the authentic news - of is appointment shall arrive, we may expect the pul!g : in dignation to bel even' more vehement. `' pes Ike the ant on ual pes icor' igll cl), ,vo jer l id ad 'at i ~~. t , ..~ ~~~~