The Sun. — London, England, 1832-10-09 00:00:00

PARIS, OCT. 6. (From the Times.) Our first army of 25,000 men is already on the extreme northern frontier, ready to enter Belgium. The second army, destined to reinforce the first, is completely formed, and will occupy the fortresses of the department of the North until farther advance be neressaiv. The Cherburg fleet is ready for sra, and will forme a junction with the English fleet. You can have no idea of the ardour of our troops and seamen. Never was the desire for coming to action displayed with more zeal, and if peace should be maintained, a reaction which could not fail to be inconvenient would probably take place. Seven teen years of peace have agglomerated a population which pants to extend itself outward, and enchained ambitions of all kinds, which are impatient to rush forward. If King William is serious in his wish for war, he will precisely play the game of Fiance, at a moment when its Government has a perfectly free attitude, and is completely disembarrassed from all the fetters of party. It is no longer an insane propagandism, a thirst of aggression, or a contri vance to rise imto power on the part of certain per sons, which makes them desire to - resort to arms. They only obey the dictates of the country's in terests, such as they appreciate them, and the dig nity of the position which the nation ought to hold among the Powers of Europe. This opinion is so deeply impressed on the public mind, that no sr rious depreciation of the public funds has followed the announcement of war, and that the progress of trade and manufactures has experienced no check. Your travellers on the continent can tell you what sort of an army we have got. It is quite im possible that there can be one better disciplined, better fitted out, or more eager to distinguish itself. Our materiel is immense and superb. Finally, leave to the expiring faction its talk, and believe me that evreything is improving, and that every day adds to the strength of the Government. Bet the grand difficulty is to form a Ministry for the approaching Session. It is certain that M. Dupin has demanded as an absolute condition the dismissal of M. Montalivet, not being desirous, to use his own words, of the embarrassment of a fa vourite Minister, and that he has made a similar seineletion with regard to M. Sebastiani, whose heath), though undoubtedly improved, is not yet, and probably will never again be, equal to the du ties of the post he occupies. M. Dupin is still at his country house at Rafligny. He has succeeded in resisting the supplications of friends whom he cherishes, and who had been employed to besietre him. For the defence of the Government in the Chambers, M. Dupin would be a most important acquisition ; but will he not be there, either as a De puty or as President ? M. Dupin, whose exalted talent cannot be denied, is of a disposition very dif ficult to deal with, and its inequalitir s will often dis concert expectation at the very moment when his support is most reckoned on. Let us, then, extend our researches, and surely adequate individuals will Le found. But the problem becomes of inextricable difficulty when ti eye researches are confined to the circle of two coteries. It is very strange that whenever a question arses of strengthening the Administration, fit and proper persons are never once thought of, and the Government either forgets, or seems to forget, that if it has not a position in Parliament decided and indispensable, it would be very easy to acquire such a position, by calling to the Ministry indivi duals elected to the Chamber of Peers. It is ridi culous to be continually going from M. Guizot to M. Dupin, and from M. Dupin to M. Guizot. In the mean C.me affairs advance but slowly, cr rather are quite stationary. Though a Minister of the Interior is in existence, yet he rarely gives any signs of life. The bureaus answer a few letters, but the Interior has no administration. Every thing in the department proceeds upon the impulse given by M. Perier, and the system is that of the 13th of March, a • tua warp now nt itS head. litical tottrage. He is more frequently disappointed than encouraged, and more often degraded in th e places he visits than honoured with applause. His is a perverted, or rather insane, ambition. At Lyons a respectable deputy of the juste milieu met him in the midst of his cortege : " Colleague," said he to Mtn. " how I regret to see you surrounded as you are !" The coryphman deputy reddened, and al lowed a sigh to escape from his convulsed breast. It is thought that King Louis Philippe will shortly proceed to the northern frontier. Ifs pre sence is earnestly desired by the people, and no thing could better conduce to still the disturbances which have broken out in the town of Lille,—dis turbances of a demagogic origin. The agents of the society Aide toi Ic Ciel t'aidera has given vent to the resentment excited by the insult which was offered to the three colours by a legitimist journal, La Bousole, who called them the livery of the palfreys of the crapulous Philippe Egalite. Ferdinand VII. has been amusing himself by mystifying our Exchange speculators, and our op position on this subject have opened a great cry against Ministers. They accuse them of falsehood, of deceit, and of under-hand dealing with the stock-jobbers. The poor and absurd opposition party have fallen very low. The public has re marked with regret that M. Laffitte, who owes so much to the King, and who scarce ever goes to the theatres, has thought proper to be pre sent at a representation given at the Vaudeville, for the benefit of the Corsaire, a libellous weekly pub lication, which has been sentenced for having out raged the King ! One hardly knows how to re concile the inconsistencies of these clever men. All parties are now busy in forming their statisti cal calculations upon the approaching session. Up to the last moment they will indulge in vain antci pations. The great majority will undoubtedly be with the Government, and if in the course of the session the dissolution of the Chambers shall hedecided upon, the present opposition will lose at least one-half of its forces. M. Odillon Barrot is compromised and completely humbled in his departmental promenades, and M. Mauguin is entombed in his diplomacy and ;11 the illessager des Chambrcs. of which he is editor and co-partner with M. Aguardo. Among the events of the day, the colossal will of Madame Letitia I3tionaparte occupies a conspicuous place. Nearly 70,000,000 will now be added to the fortune of the eldest of the Buonaparte's, and will consequently render him a very important per sonage. Madame Mere, who was enriched by the gifts of her son, and still more by her own economy and the prudent management of her fortune, never seriously assumed the elevated part which unex pected events assigned to her. When she has been urged to increase her household establishment, I have frequently heard her say, " I must be econo• micas; one day or other all these kings will be com ing to ask me for a dinner, and I must manage so as to have something to give them." She was one of the most beautiful women of her time; and Canova's tine statue, which represents her in the costume of Agrippina, conveys a perfect idea of berdiginfied figure, and her noble and serene countenance. I •aw her many years ago at Marseilles, in the midst of her children, and there was something in the interest ing group which seemed to presage the extraordi nary destiny that awdted them. Her two daughters, Pauline and Caroline, afterwards Princess t:f ghese and Queen of Naples, were beautiful en ?attires; the former was then only fifteen, and the latter between twelve and thirteen. El who bore on her feminine shoulders the head and countenance of her immortal brother, was distinguished for her vi vacious and commanding expression. Lucien, who was then in the commissaiiat, had just married the daughter of a wealthy innkeeper at S•. Maximine. His wife was a very interesting woman, and was a model of virtue and gnod conduct. Joseph was ah ent, and Louis and Jerome at college. At this time Napoleon arrived to take the command of the army of Italy. He was extremely thin; his hollow cheeks were overhung with flowing curls, then de nominated oreilles de chien. His uniform was ill 'Lade, and the long skirts of his . coat dareed against the calves of his_legs. He did not sit w•t ll on horse- -..-.........-.,-....-...,_.. back, and his presence altogether occasioned no little dissatisfaction among a division of 12,000 men, whom IS= him command on the plain of St. Michael. A few weeks elapsed, and the hero ap peared a hundred times greater than he had shown himself at the dawn of his career, when he raised the formidable battery' which delivered Toulon. I shall never forget that on the day of that review I had the honour of dining with him.. He took me to the theatre, and from the theatre we adjourned to the Hotel Beauvecin, where he put up. On entering his chamber he went to bed, ordered a bawl of punch to be brought, and he read to me and a friend who accompanied me several passages from some papers which contained his plan of cam paign. His plan terminated with the following re markable sentence :—" Finally, to beat the enemy for the last time, and to conclude peace under the walls of astonished Vienna." We looked at him with a smile, for which I have frequently reproached myself, for his glorious programme was fulfilled. There was at that time in Marseilles an old offietr of the Royal household, who was pos sessed with the mania of being poetical, and who was incessantly reading quotations from a tragedy of his own production, entitled, " Les deux Vied lards, at la vertu vengee." It was a Tartar sub ject. To every person who arrived at Marseilles lie offered a part in this tragedy, and then he spent the nigl:t in creating a new Tartar. General Buonaparte wished also to become a Tartar, and the poet wrote claracter for him. It happened, that every morn ing the part which had been written during the night was lost and condemned, and the unfortunate poet had to commence his task over again. The future conqueror of Italy and Egypt laughed like a child at this repeated mystification. HAMBURG, OCT. 2. Charles X. and his family are still at Rainville's, in Altoria, and the report that he will protract his s►ay in the vicinity of Hamburg seems to gain ground. Several houses have been pointed out as likely to be honoured with his residence, but it does not yet appear that he has fixed on any. His suite is large, consisting of from 40 to 50 individuals, and among the chateaux of our burghers it is not easy to find one large enough for so numerous a party, though many of them are fitted up with great mag nificence. The birthday of the young Duke de Bordeaux, alias the Duke de Chambord, was celebrteed in a quiet family way on Saturday. The young Prince has been to visit all the remarkable places in and near the city. He was on 'Change the other day at the busiest period of the day. On the whole, the ex• Royal Family have ceased to excite much curio sity, and are scat cely spoken,of. The new regulation of sending the mails twice a week by steam works delightfully at present, but many seem to doubt whether the steamers will ever be able to reach even the mouth of the river during the winter months, owing to the quantity of ice then floating there. The entrance to the Eibe is at all times dangerous to mariners not well acquainted with the navigation. However, time will show ; and should the steamers not be able to reach Cuxhaven during the winter months, they will not be worse off than the packets that used till lately to sail fromHar wich, and which frequently were unable to land the mails for five or six weeks consecutively. Indeed, dining the winter the correspondence bet weep Ham burg and London is almost entirely carried on over Holland. While I am upon this subject, I must beg leave to call your attention to an oversight on the part of the English Government, of which I am sorry to see that the Hamburg Senate are most unhandsomely disposed to take advantage. When the packet establishment was at Harwich, the packets used to land the mai!s at Cuxhaven, where they were de• livered over to the English agent, and by him handed over to the Hamburg agent. They were sent then, at the expense of the Hamburg Senate, to Ham letter-carriers. For bringing the letters . fr;im yen to Hamburg, the post-office charged 6d. on each letter, and an additional penny for delivering it in the city. But surely, now that the English Govern ment have taken it upon themselves to deliver the mails at Hamburg, the 6d. postage upon each letter, if levied at all, ought to be handed over to the English Post-office, as a part remuneration to the English Government for the increased expense of forwarding the mails by steam. At all events, the Hamburg Government cannot have the shadow of a pretence - for continuing, us they do, to levy this fax The fairest way would be fur the English Post office to send a confidential agent over to Hamburg, and take the delivery of the letters into their own hands The sixpences on the letters would pay the whole expense of the establishment, and might be attended with considerable economy, as tLe resident postmaster might act at the same time as consul, receiving and forwarding couriers, &c., and thus saving the country the whole expense of a consular establishment. The authorities here would probably remonstrate, and try hard to keep their sixpences; but if the Duke of Rchwond were to set earnestly about the business, the thing might soon be settled. S s eden, Denmark, Prussia, Hanover, Mecklenburg, arid even Brunswick have their own post-offices in I lamburg ; to refuse a similar concession to England would therefore be a marked insult to a power to which Hamburg owe , 3 its political existence—indeed so gross an insult, that I cannot for a moment con template the possibility of it. Of course there would be a great deal of negotiating arid wheedling on the subject, but, as justice would be so evidently on the side of England, I don't think that any serious oppo sition would be made if it was once seen that the English Government were in earnest. In Berlin, the disgrace of Raunser, the historian of tire Hohenstaufen, excites much interest at the present moment. He was a member of the corn tnittee of literary censors, but the situation is sup posed to have been, in his instance, almost a sine cure, as he was seldom called upon to act as censor. He could not, however, endure to remain long a spectator of the abominable conduct of his more ac tive colleagues, and resolved to deliver himself from . _ that share of responsibility which was thrown upon him by his nominal connection with the odious tri bunal of literary inquisition. He accordingly sent in his resignation, I think somewhere about the early part of the present year. His letter of resignation to the Minister was couched in moderate language, so that though it expressed his individual disappro bation of the conduct of his brothar censors, there was nothing in it that could give offence to the Prus sian Government. Shortly afterwards, however, his letter appeared in a newspaper, but even this cir cumstance did not altogether ruin him at Court, as there was every reason to believe that the publics- Lion of the letter was not occasioned by him, but by a breach of confidence on the part of a clerk in one of the Government offices. But now came the rub. Poland has been the general subject of conversation in Germany for the last two years, and Prussia has reaso❑ to be ashamed of every part of her conduct as connected with unhappy Poland. Raumer, as the first living historian of Germany, vas called upon by the Prus-ian Government to draw up, in a popular form, a sketch of the modern history of Poland, for insertion in one of the annuals. As Runner still held some office under the GJvernment, it was thought unnecessary to point out the spirit in which the sketch in question was to be written; and he, poor simple soul, took it into his head that he was called upon to furnish a " plain unvarnished ' tale," just as if he had been writing for a public of A. D. 2832. His official situation had .given him access to many important state papers connected with the abominable partitions of Poland; and these he unhc..sitatingly made use of, displaying the con duct of the three partitioning Powers, but more par ticularly that of Russia, in all their native hideous ness. When the annual was submitted to the censor, Raumer's article was shuck out, and he hirriseif has now become the object of undi-guised animosity, He was called upon to refund the m one y whic)) had bet n paid him in advance for writiLg the article, bat this he refuses to do. So the matter stands at present. A most abusive article against him, bearing the stamp of a semi-official communi cation, has been inserted in the Allgemeine Zeitung; and I shall be curious to see whether, and in what manner, he will reply. A steam-boat from St. Petersburgh reached Lu- beck yesterday. Mr. Bligh, the new English Am bassador, had arrived at the Russian capital. The Emperor was gone on a journey to Srnolensko. ATTACK ON OPoRTO. (From the Times ) We have received the following official account of the battle fought at Oporto on the 29th ult. Being written in haste by the Marquis de Palmella at the close of the action, it supplies no details ; but what he does state is most important, as it proves the resul7 to have been mere f ivourable to the con stitutional cause than the private accounts warranted us in supposing it to be. We apprehend the friends of Dan Miguel will be disappointed in their expect ation of a renewal of the attack and the destruction of the English and French battalions : " Yesterday, when I forwarded to you intelligence from this city, I did not expect that I should so soon after have occasion to announce the glorious action, the successful result of which I have now the satis faction of communicating. It is true, that some time ago the rebels boasted that they would attack Oporto on Sr. Michael's-day, which they regarded as a period auspicious for their cause; but they have kept their promise mote faithfully than it was sup posed they would. However, they cannot congra white themselves on the manner of the perform ance; for, on the contrary, they have only added one more day of glory to those already numbered by the loyal defenders of the Queen's cause. " The attack commenced at 7 in the morning, by discharges of musket►y from the pickets upon the greater part of our hoe ; but it was soon evident that the enemy's real intention was to force our riet, which rested on the Douro, in order to cut us off completely from the Convent of the Serra, and to penetrate along the river into the city. Between 10 and 11 considerable masses of infantry debouched upon that point, supported by their field artillery, and followed by some squadrons of cavalry. It hap pened that our right was at this time somewhat weakened, and its reserves thinned, by the detach ments of troops which had been draughted for a landing at• Aveiro. This circumstance, and the death of some officers of the corps which occupied the intrenchments in that quarter, favoured the at tack of the rebels, and, in fact . , they penetrated to the last palisade of our works, and obtained a tem porary success. But the opportune arrival of rein forcements, which were, on our part, directed to this quarter, et4tbbd us not only to recover the positions which had been abandoned, but also to drive the enemy from those which he had taken up in front of our line, dislodging him and routing him so corn pkely, that he left in our possession all the field ar- tillery he had brought to that paint, which were two pieces of cannon and one howitzer; we also took a great number of prisoners. While we were thus engaged on our right, the enemy made at the same time an attack, but with less success, on our centre. He was repulsed, and we took some prisoners. Finally, about 4 o'clock in the evening, two sorties were effected, one from the right, and the other from the centre of our line, by which the enemy was thrown into complete con fusion, and his retreat determined. " As I write this letter to you just at the con clusion of the action, no reports have yet been re ceived from ihe Generals. Neither the number of prisoners we have made, nor of the brave men we have lost, is yet known. I may merely say, as an approximate calculation, that the enemy has lost more than fifteen hundred in killed and wounded, about two hundred prisoners, and a great number of deserter=. " Such was the result of the attack of St. Mi chael's•day, in which the enemy employed the whole of his force, and yet was repulsed, notwithstanding tachmeni of our troops; . 'the consequence of whicl expedition will he most important, if reinforcements arrive in sufficient time to enable us to assume the offensive in our operations. " During the action his Imperial Majesty the Duke of Braganza, according to his custom, took his station in a central point of the line, whence he could conveniently give the necessary orders to the Count de Villa Flor, who was always at the ad vanced points, and where the danger was greatest. " Our loss is considerable, not so much in killed as in wounded, because our officers, superior in this respect as in every other to the enemy's, always headed their corps, and are eager to shed their blood for the cause they support. The Conde da Bem posts, the Emperor's aide-de-camp, and the com mander of the French battalion, are wounded se verely. Adjutant-General Valdez, General Pul harez, and many others whose names I do not yet know, are also among the wounded. Neither pri soners nor stragglers are to be numbered in our loss, and as for deserters we have not to reckon a single one. " We have this day received accounts from Ad miral Sartorius, who has now his squadron united, and is making every effort to come up with the er emy and bring him to action. " The immediate departure of the packet obliges me to write in haste, that I may not lose the oppor tunity of giving you the first account of so important an event. " Marquez de PAL MELLA. " Palace, Oporto, Sept. 29, 10 at night. " To Senhor Luiz Antonio de Abreu e Lima." The brave defence of Oporto on the 29th ult. has carried mourning into many a family in this coun try. As the cause of Don PEDRO has been espoused by the friends of liberty here and elsewhere, while the warmth with which the cause of Mtn trim i: espoused by the priests, were there no other proof of his tyranny, stamps the cha racter of his Government as hostile to the best interests of mankind, the people of England are called on to go all the lengths in support of the former which are compatible with the law. Though we cannot do all that may be wished, in furtherance of the cause of Don PEDRO by open assistance, from the observinces required by international law, we are under no such restraint in the case of the widows and children of the brave men who have fallen at Oporto. Why not open a subscription for them ? We trust a hint of this kind is only necessary to awaken the generosity of our countrymen. The intelligence of such a manifestation of feeling would have the best effects; and the most scrupulous individual in the country could not object to it. . We understand that when AdmiralSAßToßms first anchored near the British fleet in the Tagus, Admiral PARKER declined returning the salute of the flag of Donna MARIA. SARTORIUS went to sea for about three weeks, and upon his return he again saluted the British Admiral. The Asia (Admiral PARKER'S ship) return• d the salute of 21 guns, but instead of a solitary gun at the list, he fired a whole broadside. There is every reason to believe that Admiral PARKER declined saluting the flag of Donna MARIA until he'had received instructions to that tffect from the Admiralty. There was plenty of time for the reference between the first and second salute. The apprehensions we were led to entertain with respect to the cause of Don PEDRO, from the ac counts received of the affair of the 29,:h, have been in some measure removed by the assurances we have received that abundant supplies of in: n and materiel had been dis patched from this c , ointry almost in time to allow of their arrival immediately after the assault. So enthusiastic are the young men of this country in the cause of Don PEotto, that recruits can be obtained in any number, whilst the East India Company's recruiting officers are baldly able to obtain a man. Upwards of 3,000 men are now ready for embaikation in the Sister Kingdom.__ Morning Chronicle. On Tuesday last, about noon, a most distres sing event happened at Mudeferd House, near Christ church, the seat of Sir GEORGE SHE; Bart., whose lady was found in the fish-pond quite dead. It is generally supposed the departed lady fell into the pond in a fit ; her loss will be long and deeply deplored. Sir GEORGE'S feel ings, on the melancholy event, can be better conceived than described.—Hanipshire . Telegraph. The recent alterations in the game laws have not tended to diminish the number of poachers. The House of Correction, near Dev;zes, is fast filling with this description of offenders. No less than 12 have been com mitted during last wick.---Devizes Gazette. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, at Colonel Peel's seat, Buckingham-house, Norfolk, from Newmarket ; the Marquis of Northampton and family, at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley.square, from their seat, Castle Ashby, Northamp tonshire; Dickins, Esq., and Lady Elizabeth Dickins, at ditto, from Brighton; Mrs. Francis and Miss Francis, at ditto, from a tour; Sir Theodore and the Hon. Lady Broadhead and family, at ditto, from Stanenhow Park, Welwin ; Mr. and Mrs. Newton, at the British Hotel, Jermyn.street, from Cheltenham; J. Burroughs, Esq., at ditto, from ditto; Sir Charles Saxton, Bart., at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Kent; Captain and Mrs. Jones, at Brook-street, from Cheltenham; Sir T. Arbuthnot, Bart., and Captain Corkran, at Long Dit ton, Surrey, from Ireland; Messrs. Belfons, at Fenton's Ho t€l, St. James's-street, from a tour; G. F. Heneage, Esq., M.P., and Edward Heneage, Esq., at Raggett's Hotel, Dover_ street, from Hainton Hall, Lincolnshire; Hon. William Dun comb, at Crawley's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from his seat, Yorkshire; C. Bunbury, Esq., at Batt's Hotel, Dover street, from a tour; Mr and Mrs. J. Hill, at Grosvenor street, from Ramsgate; Major and Lady Hancock, at their house, Regent street, from Cheltenham; John Robbins, Esq., Char:es Pearce, Esq., and Lady Anne Pierce, at the Orleans Hotel, Jermyn. street, from Bath; G. Stevenson, Esq., at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, from York; Mr. and Mrs. Hains, at ditto, from Derbyshire ; Lord Sidney Osborne, at ditto, from Cam bridgeshire ; W. Ransom, Esq., at ditto, from Norfolk ; G. Steel, Esq., at ditto, from ditto; Mr. C. Wood, Secretary to the Treasury, from the North. DEPARTURES. Lord Farnborough, from Whitehall-gardens, for his seat, Bromley.hill, Kent; Wm. Abbot, Esq., from Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street, for his seat, Wharnford-park, Hants; Mr. and Madame Armit and family, from Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, for Brighton; Ford Bowes, Esq., from the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, on a tour ; E. B. Hartopp, Esq., and Captain Cheslyn, from Symmons's Hotel, St. James's street, for Dalby house, Melton Mowbray; Captain Knox, from the British lintel, for Brighton; Edward Morton, Esq., from ditto for Cambridge ; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jackson, for their seat in Es sex ; Major Hinde, and the Misses Hinde, from Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, for Brighton ; Earl of Yarmouth, from ditto, for Suffolk; H. Galton, Esq., from ditto for Naples; Miss Strutt, from ditto, for ditto; Wm. Hunt, Esq., from ditto, for France ; S. Paul, Esq., from ditto, for Brighton ; T. Wilson, Esq., from ditto, for ditto; Captain Hibbert, from ditto, for Berkshire ; Captain M. Gray, from ditto, for Dorset shire ; John Scard, Esq., from Bernard street, Russell-square, for his seat in Hampshire. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. The betting yesterday was confined to the Garden Stakes (at Newmarket on Monday next,) and the principal favourites for the Derby. The prices averaged as follow : GARDEN STAKES. 2 to 1 agst. Colonel Peel's Archibald, p p. (taken) 3 to I agst. Mr. Stonehewer's Variation, p.p. (offered) 4 to 1 agst. Mr. Payne's Sluggard, p.p. (taken) DERBY. 12 to 1 agst. Lord Cleveland's Muley colt 13 to 1 agst. Mr. Rawlinson's Revenge (taken) 13 to 1 agst. Mr. Hunter's Forester 16 to 1 agst. General Grosv.mor's Glaucus 20 to 1 agst. Sir M. Wood's Brother to Margrave (taken) 25 to 1 agst. Mr. Roberts's Brother to Cloudesley 1,400 to 500 agst. Muley, Revenge, Forester, and Glaucus (taken) All Lord Exeter's horses in training will be put up for sale in the Newmarket Houghton meeting. Newm alret Second October meeting commences on Monday next. Several important stakes will be run. The racing season will terminate with the Houghton meeting, which is fixed for the 29th instant. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. ➢IONDAY.—Mr. Thornhill's Farce agst Mr. Gully's Carlton, first half Ab. M. 100, h. ft. THURSDAY.—Lord Mountebarles's Minster, 3 yrs. agst Mr. Henry's Tarn o'Shanter, 4 yrs. T.Y.C. 100, h. ft. Sir M. Wood's Camarine, 4 yrs. agst Mr. Gully's Mar grave, 3 yrs. A. F. 300, h. ft. FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1834. No day mentioned. Lord Orford's f. by Lamplighter, agst the Duke of Portland's f. by Lamplighter. T. Y. C. 100. ASCOT HEATH, 1834. FIRST DAY.—Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. for colts and fillies, then 3 yrs. old. The winner of the Derby and Gillis to carry 61b. extra. The second for either 31b. N , w Mile. Lord Lichfield's Brother to Terry Alt. Lord Burlington's br. c. by Bizarre—Mouse. Gen. Grosvenor's Dick, by Lamplighter—Blue Stockings. Mr. Greatrex's br. c. by Lottery—Lady Neville. Mr. Nevill's Amado, by Sultan. Mr. Rawlinson's Resolute, sister to Revenge, by Fungus. - • • - nrcrJeisey'; f. by Godolphin—Sister to Cobweb. Lord Warwick's 1 by Filho da Puta—Double Intendre. Duke of Grafton's c. by Reveller—Whizgig. Epsom October Meeting takes place to•morrow and Thursday ; 10 horses are entered for the Epsom Plate to morrow; 15 for a Sweepstakes to-morrow; and 15 for a Sweepstakes on Thursday. Plenty of good sport is anti cipated. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The Carlisle Harriers kept at Red Dial, Westward, meet on Wednesday, Oct. 10, at Wreay Hall ; and on Friday, Oct. 12, at Islekirk. The Brighton Harriers have already been exercised, and this day, or Wednesday next, will witness the commencement of the sport. The East Sussex Fox Hounds are said to be in expellent con dition, and will shortly take the field for the season. Mr. Portman's hounds meet on Friday, Oct. 12, at Sparkford Inn ; and Saturday, Oct. 13, at Thornhill House—each day at half-past 10. Mr. Phillips's Hounds will meet on Thursday, Oct. 11, at Chapmanswell—at 10. The Blackmoor Vale Harriers meet (weather permitting) on Friday, Oct. 12, at Marsh Common. The North Somerset Fox Hounds meet on Friday, at Churchill hotel—at half-past 10. The Carmarthenshire Harriers meet on Friday, Oct. 12, at Pibwrwengate--at 10. Earl Fitzwilliam's Fox Hounds meet on Wednesday, Oct. 10, at Keppel's Common; Thursday, Oct. 11, at Conisbrough—each day at 10. The York and Ainsty Fox Hounds meet on Thurday, Oct. 11 at Hag-bridge, and Saturday, Oct. 13, at Whixley—each morn. ing at half-past 10. CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. ._ New Cases in Great Britai❑ reported this day 406 Deaths 173 Recoveries 195 (signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary The cholera, we are extremely sorry to say, bas been on the increase during this week in Glasgow. On the 28th of September, the day of the Jubilee, there were only 15 new cases and 10 deaths, and had nothing in tervened it might have soon disappeared ; but, as was anti cipated, there has been a large spread of the disease since. On Tuesday there were 58 new cases and 27 deaths ; Wedne , day, 56 new cases and 19 deaths; and yesterday (Thursday), 45 new cases and 23 deaths.— Glasgow Herald. CANAL PROPERTY.—The statement given below exhibits the great increase in value of canal property in this country. Whilst a few of these have been the ar teries, as it were, maintaining the circulation between im portant portions of the United Kingdom, the greater part undoubtedly owe their success to their connection with large manufacturing towns. ORIGINAL SHARES WERE Coventry Canal 100 100 cMreornaseryoiadnd Ir w ell . Leeds and Liverpool lOO Monmouthshire Tent and Mersey (1 share).. 50 Oxford 470 195 650 550 Loughborough 142 17 0 d o 2200 Glamorgans hire W arw ick and Napton St rou dwatcr Neath Shrewsbury Birmingham (I share) Stafford and Worcester l4O ... do 550 A manufacturer of goods need not take out a hawker's license, and both he and his servants may sell such goods in any mart, market, or fair, and in every city, borough, town corporate, and market -town. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY EVENING, OCT. 7. --Arrived the Caledonian, and the Mount Stuart Elphinstone, from Bombay ; the Seamander, from Makers ; the Chieftain, from Queb ec ; the Bona Fide, --. and the Chieftain, Napier, from Londonderry ; from St. John's, New Brunswick; the Lion, and the Isle, and the Birmingham, " :91 8 a ' mrock, the Mersey, L ro e t o n; old Archangel. fro ; In th G e ,e ./ n a oa m es theL the Richard and Jane, from Fewey ; the Sally, from the e e Lm Roberte r a l dI sI Drogheda ; the Herald, from Cork ; the Marchioness tfromhe Dolphi n, Dut,li n Wellesley, from Wexford; the Archibald, and the Hibernia, from Belfast. Sailed, the H ump h rey, for New York. Off the port the British brig Planter. The Gipsy, from hence, has arrived at Bombay. The States man sailed from Bombay for this port of the 10th of Jur e. COURT CIRCULAR. . Admiral Sir PULTENEY LCOL3I ai rived in town from Portsmouth, and had an interview with Sir JA3IES GRAHAM yesterday at the Admiralty. Sir JamEs after war is visited Viscount PA LAIERSTON at the Foreign-office, and also visited Viscount ALTHORP. Earl GREY arrived at his residence at Eist Sheen, about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Howick-ball. The Belgian Minister, M. VAN DE WEYER, had an interview with Viscount PALMERSTON yesterday after noon, at the Foreign-office. Lord AUCKLAND and the First Secretary to the French Embassy transacted business yesterday at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Viscount Howicx is expected to arrive this day at the seat of his father-in-law, Sir JOSEPH CO?LEY, at Sprot borough, Yorkshire, from the north. Princess LIEVEN, we understand, is at pre, sent indisposed. The Duke of WELLINGTON is expected in town to-morrow. His Grace has been for some days en tertaining a distinguished party at Walmer C istle, consist ing of Earl ROSSLYN, the Earl of WINCHILSEA, Lord and Lady BURGHERSH, Mr. and Mrs. ARBUTHNOT, &C. Mr. STANLEY may be expected in town in ►he course of a day or two from Ireland, to attend the C.- binet Council summoned to meet on Thursday. The Right Hon. T. SPRING RICE, the present Secretary of the Treasury, it is understood, will be the Government candidate for the Speakerahip of the re formed Parliament.—Linierich Herald. We understand that Mr. and Mrs. LOCK HART, accompanied by Miss Scow, have left Abbotsford for itokeby, the seat of Mr. MARIOTT, an old and valued friend of Sir WALTER Scorr.—Edin. Evening Courant. MEETING OF THE CITIZENS OF CORK ON THE WALLSTOWN MASSACRE.—A meeting of the citizens of Cork is advertised to be holden in that city, on Monday, the Bth inst., "to address his MAJESTY on the subject of the recent carnage at Wallstown."—Dublin Freeman's Journal. THE PARLIAMENT.—Both Houses of Par liament, and the Committee and other rooms connected with them, are filled with workmen promoting the altera tions, the renovations, &c. ; and these labours are pro ceeding upon a much more extensive scale than usual. All the matting, &c., even in the passages, has been removed. The KING'S entrance, the new gallery, the Painted Chamber, along which the Sovereign passes to enter the House of Lords, are now closed, being occupied with workmen painting, washing, and repairing. Workmen are also engaged in arranging the forms for spectators in the new gallery, the Painted Chamber, &c. so that all may be ready, should further prorogation or dissolution take place within any limited period. The Parliament at present stands prorogued till the 16th instant; the period of further prorogation or speedy dissolution is expected to be settled by the Cabinet Council to. morrow. Lord WHARNCLIFFE and Mr. TUNNO, the joint proprietors of the ex-borough of BoFainey, have caused notice to quit to be served on all their tenants of that place, to the no small annoyance of those who had houses and lands at a nominal rent, on the easy condition of returning whoever was nominated by the joint patrons, who, having no further use for them in that line, are de sirous of ridding themselves of such incumbrances. We learn that the great tithes of the parish of Tintagel were held in the same way.— West Briton. By letters received on Saturday, from New Yotk, it appears that Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE and his daughter, Miss FANNY, arrived on the sth of September, and were preparing to make their appearance on the boards of the Park Theatre. WALLACK had arrived, and had acted Rolla, and other of his favourite characters, with great success, and to very crowded houses. HARRY WALLacx (in opposition to his brother) had announced himself to ploy Rolla, at the Bowery Theatre, as " Mr. WALLACK," sinking the H. ; the ruse de guerre did not, however,succeed,for the house was but indifferently attended. MiSS SMITHSON was sufficiently recovered from her indisposition last night to appear at the Hay market in the character of Desdemona. We understand that this exemplary and meritorious young lady will shortly proceed to the Continent, having received several offers of engagement in France. The return of Mr. RICHARD JONES to Covent-garden (the theatre in which he first acted in talent, will, v n: Zi a lb :p a r!: ;et the present aear, London), u u t a t e f a t e t r t. a n t a t advantageous to the establishment of LAPORTE. There is not any performer on the English stage superior, hardly any equal, to Mr. JONES, in the peculiar and most useful department of the drama which that gentleman his hitherto sustained. There are several novelties in preparation at Covent-Garden Theatre. Besides the revival of SHAK SPEARE'S Comedy of All's Well that Ends Well, to which LACY has put some very delightful music, "com posed, selected, and arranged," there is a new Fares by PEAKE, and a new Play by the author of The Hunchback. At the close of the Adelphi Theatre, in Ediri burgh, yesterday week, after a successful season, Mr. MURRAY, the manager, in alluding, in his farewell ad• dress, to the lamentable demise of Sir WALTER SCOTT, Bart., thus expressed himself:—" I would now, Ladies and Gentlemen, conclude, did I not feel that I have a de licate, a painful duty to discharge, and in the performance of which I must throw myself upon your kindness and con sideration. It is well known that at one period the Edin burg!' Theatre owed its existence to the success of what were called The Waverley Dramas,' and my silence upon the recent loss our country has sustained might be. misin terpreted. That great man, whose name now fills ev, ry mouth, from the peer to the peasant, was peculi irly the object of reverential regard to the members of the Scottish stage; for, to the success which attended the dramatic adaptations from his splendid works, aided by his powerful influence and personal assistance, we owe the establish ment of that fund, the first anniversary of which he im mortalised by declaring himself the author of W iverley, and to which the poor, sick, and disabled actor, when in capacitated from fretting his brief hour upon the stage, can alone look for subsistence. To eulogise such a name as Sir WALTER SCOTT'S is unnecessary—were it, this is not the place, nor am I the person competent to do so; but the moment rapidly approaches when the Edinburgh Theatre will size the opportunity of testifying by mote than words its affectionate respect for the memory of its illustrious benefactor." The Board of Customs at Copenhagen has directed th it a white flag, with blue perpendicular stripes, shall be hoisted on the top of the light-house at Skagen, when there is danger for vessels arising from large masses of floating ice in the Cattegat during the winter. The Journal de Francfort has the following, dated Coburg, Sept. 26 :—" Lately, a journeyman black smith clandestinely broke into and entered the vault in which are deposited the mortal remains of the Dukes of S,xe•Coburg. His object, as he confesses, was to take from one of the Princesses buried there a necklace, to make a present of it to his mistress ; but on reaching the bottom of the vault, he was seized by fear, and could not accom plish his design. His only thought was to get out , f this repository for the dead as speedily as possible. Ur fortu nately for him, he could not, it, spite of all his efforts, reach the aperture by which he had entered, as he proba bly was not aware of the depth previously to his letting himself down. His cries and groans were only herd on the evening of the next day, when he was delivered from his horrible situation. His bands were bloody, bis torn off, and his whole person like a corpse on his being taken to prison. His crime was considered sacrilege, and condemned as such. The Duke of SAxx-Conuttc, how ever, has constituted the punishment, i❑ consideration of the agony of death which he must have felt. He was set at liberty, but being a stranger to the duchy, he was obliged to quit C.,burg. THE HARVEST.—The harvest may now be considered as brought to a conclusion generally, the little yet in the field in the uplands in Wales and the north of England being comparatively of minor importance. Upon the whole the weather was favourable. A cemsi derabie quantity of sprouted corn appears in those districts where the crops were out during the fortnight of wet wea ther which we experienced. The barley crop has suffered considerably. It is believed that no more than a fifth of the whole was secured, and that two fifths of the remainder was cut, and under the weather ; the remaining part wtich stood until after the rain, will not be materially injured, although its colour will be changed, and a pretext afforded for depressing the prices. The bulk will be large, although some must have been lost by the process of repeated turning in the field to prevent sprouting. Oats being a more hardy grain have suffered little. The accounts from Ire land now pronounce the crops of all kinds to be a full average one. The repotts from the Continent are, upon the whole, to the same effect, and all concur most re mit; katily in describing the samples as being exceedingly variable in quality. The markets every where are declin ing. In Ireland prices will be lower than have been known for many years. Large quantities of oats have been already sold for delivery at 14s, per quarter,—Nkc (*afield Courier, LETTER from SIR JOHN SCOTT LILLIE to his GRACE the DUKE of WELLINGTON. MY Loan DUKE,—I did myself the honour to address a letter to your Grace on the 24th ult. requesting to be informed if a certain letter of which I enclosed a copy, • and which had been published a few days before in all the London papers, h-id been writen by your Grace, or whether it was a fabrication, as I then supposed it to have been. Not having been favoured with any reply (although a fortnight has elapsed), I must now conclude that your Grace was the author of that letter; and as it contained an allusion to my name of a libellous tendency, I conceive it to be incumbent upon me to do that justice to myself, which I had hoped to have received at your Grace's hands ; the more especially as certain newspapers have since then assumed those libelous insinuations to have been well founded, and have co►nment:d upon them in A manner tending not only to aggravate this injury, but likewise to reflect upon my military services, while I had the honour to serve under your Grace's command. Your Grace's apparent object in writing this letter must have been either to serve the individual to whom it was addressed, or to injure me. I shall accordingly en deavour to prove how ill calculated that letter was to ac complish the first of these two objects ; and as to the latter, it is not for me to say how far it has been accom plished, although I can scarcely believe it possible you could have any such intention. The individual to whom your Grace addressed this letter appears, according to his own statement, to have been promised a Commission, about twelve months ago, in the service of the elder branch of the House of Braganza, by a gentleman whom be specifies by name ; and to have complained that this gentleman was con siderably in his debt for the services he had then ren dered, and the expenses he had incurred. The gentleman iu question admits the fact of his having employed this man, but denies that he is in this man's debt, and offers to produce his receipt for all demands up to the period of his services being discontinued. Now, my Lord Duke, it has not appeared by the evidence of either party that I had employed this man, or that he had ever alleged that he had any claim upon me ; nevertheless, a letter is produced, purporting to be from your Grace, wherein this man is re commended to " complain to a Magistrate against me, or whoever had taken him in." This gratuitous introduction of my name,associated as it has been with the latter observation, is what I humbly conceive I have just cause to complain of—the more especially as your Grace has not been pleased to state upon what authority this allusion was made. I am ready to admit, my Lord Duke, that the Repre sentatives of the Queen of Portugal had it last year in contemplation to form a Brigade for the sup port of the cause of legitimacy and constitutional free dom - in Portugal, against that of usurpation and absolute power ; and that they bad offered me the command of that Brigade, with which, had it been formed, it is pos sible I might have now been in Lisbon. But, my Lord Duke, the partizat,s of Don Miguel is this country (as you may be, perhaps, already aware) threw so many obstacles in the way of this expedition, by the seizure of fillips, &c. &c., as to occasion a want of suffi cient funds for the formation of this Brigade; and I con sequently perceived, with considerable regret, the impas sibility of my taking that part in this enterprise, which had been offered me; for without an efficient force of this description I did not contemplate that succe,s I should otherwise have anticipated. I have the less hesitation in tnakiog.this admission to your Grace, being aware that by the Foreign Enlistment Act I should have been as much at liberty to exercise my discretion in aid of one cause, as your Grace, or any other British Officer who held a commission from the late King of Portugal, would have been, if disposed to aid the opposite cause. Your Grace having been a Member of the Go vernment by which the Foreign Enlistment Act was in troduced, cannot but be aware of its details; and you must have consequently known, that bad this man acted on the advice given him by your Grace, be would have been ex posing himself to the penalties of a law, from which others are protected ;—or it his claim was only an alleged debt, it was equally evident that a Police Office was hot the pro per tribunal for adjudicating in cases of this description. Had I advised this man to have committed himselfin this mane tier before a Magistrate, I should consider that I had, in reality, exposed myself to the inference implied by your Latter ; for what was evidently unintentional on the part of your Grace, might have been attributed to another in a different manner. I have thus endeavoured, my Lord Duke, to show how little calculated your Letter was to benefit the indi vidual to whom it was addressed, and how ►manifestly it tended to reflect upon me; and I shall now endeavour to prove what little foundation there was for those Newspaper comments which emanated from that Letter, as regards my military services under your Grace's command ; in so doing, I must again advert to the cause of legitimacy against usurpation in Portugal; for the object of the first expedition with which I had the honour to serve under your Grace, was that of restoring the Head of the Braganza Fa►nily to the Throne of Portu gal in the year 1808. On that occasion the British army succeeded in overcoming the power that had usurped the government of Portugal, and in restoring the legitimate Sovereign to his Throne. After the victory of Vitnieires I continued to serve in the army under your command un. til the conclusion of the war in 1814, and was pre sent at the subsequent battles of Bussacco, Sala manca, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, the Nivele, the N►ve, Orthes, and Toulouse ; during which pe• riod I had the misfortune to have been several times wounded, but so severely on the latter occasion, as to have prevented my removal from the field of battle for forty-eight hours. On some of the above occasions I had the honour to act under your Grace's immediate die rections. At Salatnanca you sent me orders by the Duke of Richmond to take possession of one of the Aripiles, and the services of the detachment I commanded were noticed in your Grace's despatches. In your subsequent dspatches, giving an account of the attack on the enemy's main position in the Pyrenees, on the 30th of July, 1813, you were pleased to particularize the 7th Cassadores as having led that attack, and you described the position " as one of the strongest and most difficult of access that you had sees occupied by troops." This battalion, your Grace nail recollect, was commanded by me, and I likewise, en that occasion, received my orders from your Grace through the Duke of Richmond, who returned to ma during the engagement to express your appobation at the manner in which this Portuguese battalion (without any su pport whatsoever) dislodged a French force, superior in num° hers, from an intermediate hill between the two posi tions (while both armies were passive spectators of the conflict). This battalion again succeeded, s° your Grace may recollect, in retaining possession of that bill, when it was afterwards attacked by a French brigade, until the 11th Portuguese, and 40th regiments, which you subsequently ordered to its supports had arrived. The Duke of Richmond has been sinc e pleased to bear his testimony in writing of the honour con ferred upon me by your• Grace on that occasion ; in ad dition to which the badges of distinction, and the Order of the Bath with which his Majesty has been pleased to honour me, in commetnoration of that, and the subsequo t e qotfou ebtengagementsye uwffioa ucrgi s uffi cient t n t o s mer i tedilwhich evidencet coeu I rt ah c n6j o yt m rma m i ciyie l s n sie d irau e vpu d ipse r t e o b sb i this bat talion, oti oth e,ac i nsinu ationsnotni e cis o moo u sn g tisho li ts; t contrary effect. Having thus terminated my military services in the canoe of Portuguese legitimacy, I now see no reason to alter 14 opinions in this respect, as some may have done; neithe r 4111 I aware of ever having, since then, manifested the slightest disrespect for your Grace's high military chars& ter. It is true, however, that in my more humble ova; city as a freeholder of the county of Middlesex, I WO ventnred to express my political sentiments in behalf of the constitution a l rights of the people of this country, when proposing, on more than one occasion, a Member for the county; and likewise in proposing resolutions at other county meetings connected w i t h t h e same su bj ect. On one of those occasions, I certainly felt peculiar satisfaction at ha ving been called upon by my brother freeholders to pro pose a res‘ilution expressive of the thanks and gratitude Of the metropolitan county ta his Majesty for having accepted of the resignation of his late Ministers, as I felt satisfied that the measures adopted on that occasion by his MajeetY saved the nation from the impending horrors of revolution and civil war. Conceiving, my Lord Duke, that the condnct of those who thus supported his ithjesty's Government at the gm' portant crisis in question, is less deserving of animadver sion than that of those who were opposed to the Government, I cannot suppose it possible that gnY humble exertions on those occasions could have been Ut your recollection when you wrote this letter, or that you could have been induced thereby not to reply to the letter which I did myself the honour to address to you on th e 24th ultimo. However, as you have not thought proper either to deny your having been the author of the letter in question, or even to admit the possibility of your having been mistaken in the construction you put upon the sub' feet to which it referred—l have had no alternative but that of assuming it to have been written by your Grace, and consequenty of entering into the foregoing detail!, to order to refute the multiplicity of libellous insinu ations and n e w s p a p er comments, w hi ch h ave eman ated therefrom—dictated as they evidently have been by th e hostility of party spirit and of political feelings. Having i