The Sun. — London, England, 1832-09-04 00:00:00

WEDDING PRESEN I'S OF KINGLEOPOLD TO THE QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS. It is the custom of the Continent for a bridegroom to Present to his lady, on the eve of their union, a harulsome collection of jewels, contained in what is called a enrbeille de sore. The fashion of the corbeilles varies from , eason to season. The corbeille presented by King Leopold to the Princes Louise, consisted of a gothic chest of ebony, inlaid with silver, in a damask pattern, awl studd e d with oriental pearls. This, we must admit, sounds somewhat funeral, but its contents offered an ample apolo2v. In the first place, a magnificent suite of diamonds, consisting of a necklace, comb, and wreath of "heat ears, the latter made so as to take to pieces, and becom e applicable in various other forms; besides a variety of brooches, intended fel. looping up the drapery of Court dresses, and clasping on bouquets. 'A complete suite of different coloured stones, nniunted in gold so lightly that the setting was invisible, and a great variety of wheat ears in emerald, chrvsophrase, jacynths, topazc,, chi yso. liter, and other stones, representing wheat in every shade of its growth. A set of Neapolitan shells, anti another of antique cameos, richly set in gold, besides a peat variety of gold chains, some light, others very massive. Two studs for night dresses, of large single diamonds. Eight eachemere shawls, four being square, and four long. Scarfs in every variety of lace, viz.—Alencon and Brus sels point, Lisle, Mechlin, Valenciennes, Chantilly ; be sides some curious varieties in caehetnere, embroidered 'sith gold, silver, and pearls. A dress of silk muslin (one of the new French stuffs), embroidered in hunches of grapes, of which the fruit was composed of amethysts. A dress of Chinese silk, painted in bouquets of flowers by the hands of the first artist, enclosed in a case of japan, painted in flowers a la Claieoise, and richly gilt. A great variety of what are called Cadeaux de Corbeille, or wedding presents, accompanied this beautiful el est. Amon g others, a set of chimney ornaments, a la Francaise, consisting of clock, candelabra, and vases, composed of oak leaf, green enamel, and gold. A breakist service to match, with a beautiful plateau of the saute. Another breakfast service of silver gilt. A dressing-case, work box, and writing desk, en suite, of crystal and gold, lined wath rich velvet. Several beautiful cases of oriental Japan, filled with birds of Paradise, heron's feathers, mara bout and ostrich feathers, and the richest plumes, in all t heir varieties. Several pieces of velvet, brocade, blonde, gold and silver stuffs, and rich silks of every description ; beside s an infinite variety of trinkets anti ornaments for the embellishment of a dressing-room or boudoir, each con tained in a travelling-case of the richest kind. The toous"au, or weddi ng c l o th es , p resen t e d by Louis Philip his daughter, were of corresponding magnificence, and were f orwarded t o B russe l s some d a y s pr e vious t o th e arriage. DUBLIN, SEPT. I. Yest e rday Thomas P. Vokes, Esq , proceeded, by order ofs Gover nment, to Newc a stl e , i n thi s coun ty, t o h o ld some respectable persons to hail for having been concerned in haßtube meetings.—Limerick Chronicle of Wednesday. 'loch, late te ac h e r i n th e Hib ern i an S oc i ety S c h oo l, .4s been arrested at Curkaguiny, county Isl. , rry, for con apiring to resist the payment of tithes..—/bid. Godf rey Massy, R.q., sen., has been deprived of the Co ded m mission o f t h e P eace of th i s county, for having pre si at an anti-tith e meet i ng Thi s d ay t h e Cl er k o f t h e • eace received the surersedcas from the Crown and Ha paper Office.—lbid. We are requested to publish the following letter from James O'Grady, Esq. : " Limerick, Crescent, Aug. 19, 1932 - . sm,—Findin g that you have discontinued my brother Carew as a Magistrate of this county, upon the wounds stated in the published correspondence between you and him, I beg leave to send you my resignation of the Corn mission of the Peace, which I would have earlier trans /flitted, but wished that it should appear what it lly a d e lib erately considered, and not a hasty act. I rea have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " JAMES O'GRADY. " Hon. Colonel Fitzgibbon." An anti-tithe meeting took place on Saturday last, at Paithlegg, county of Waterford, L. J. Lambert, Esq., in the Ch a i r. Resolutions of a spirited nature were entered into, and a Petition agreed on. The Rev. Mr. Walsh ad dressed the meeting, showed the enormities of the tithe "ems and recommended the strictest observance of peace ?? the part of the people. N. Power, Esq., Deputy- Laeuttnant, was presen t. Waterford Chronicle. CUSTOMS' ACT-IRELAND. sois The Iris els, Is h are m a ki ng a p ro di g i ous no i se respect i ng the out e in th e C ustoms ' A ct of the late Session, allowing w ar a . o bound m erc h an t s hip s t o supp l y t h emse l ves w i th Stores irons the warehouse duty free. As Ireland is the ! ° ! z utty of exaggerat i on , i t wou ld b e aston i sh i ng i f the in iurious consequences of this clause were not exaggerated. At a meeting of the Conservative Society in Dublin, 9 4 Tuesday last, Mr. George A. Hamilton went at great len gt h into this subject, and concluded with moving the aPPointinent of a Committee of twenty-one, to inquire into and report the nature and extent of the evils likely to nFur to t hi s country generally from the unjust and ),(luitous claus e , surreptitiously introduced by one of his al jesty's Ministers into the new Customs' Bill, whereby an important branch of the trade and exports of this country h as already been materially injured, and is likely to be totally destroyed." We have already exposed the injustice of the charge of surreptitious introduction, by showing that the clause al lud d to formed part of the printed Bill on the 19th of June; and that on one occasion the Bill was discussed for eight hours; and which was not passed till the 3d August. Nothin g can be more absurd than the attempt of the Irish Conservatives to make it appear that Ireland is par ticularly injured by this clause. How is it that vessels cannot be provisioned at so cheap a rate now as formerly in Ireland ? Because steam navigation conveys Irish meat directly to the English manufacturing districts, and the price in Ireland will always equal that of England, minus the charges of conveyance. Yet this sapient orator of the Conservatives, shutting his eyes to the fact of the necessary equalization of prices from the facility of com munication, maintains that the clause will produce a de preciation in Ireland to the extent of 35 per cent. " How (he exclaims) will the graziers of Meath, West- Meath, Queen's County, and the rest of Ireland, be able to endure the withdrawal from the market of the demand for the immense quantities of cattle annually consumed in the provision trade? How will they be aisle to sustain the dep rec i at i on of at least 35 per cent ? My Lord, it is impossible they can sustain it." Oue would have sup- Posed that common sense might have suggested to this Conservative orator, that if the prices of the rnid , and ma nufacturing districts forced up the prices of Ireland to their level, so long as the English market is open to Irishmen, prices cannot fall 85 per cent. in Ire land, without falling 35 per cent. also in Eng land. All the tirade about the peculiar adaptation of Ireland to the provision trade is beside the ques tion, because it is that adaptation which leads t he English manufacturer as well as the ship-owner to the Irish market, and the price of provisions generally th roughout the manufacturing districts must fall before 44 3 r particular fall can take place in Ireland. "My Lord (sa ys Mr- Hamilton), the provision trade of Ireland, from t he earliest period of our history, has been deemed one of the most staple .of our national resources, and it has been al ways dealt with as such. Our soil is peculiarly adapted 1 . 4 'limy parts of Ireland for the fattening of cattle—and is a well-known fact, that our Irish grass-fed beef alone npossesses that firmness and quality which renders meat fit r salting, an d for preservation in long voyages. " It was Irish h these qua li t i es, however, which raised the price of provisions, but, as we have slid, the easy access through steam navigation to th e great markets of Eng land. T he price in h Engli s h mar k et d eterm i nes th e price in th e I r i sh mark t et e ; for no man will supply provi sions to a ship-owner at a rate below that which he can obtain from England, and a lower ra t e th an can he obnt o ain m e a d n will supply England at from the ship-owner. Whether the producers of food, generally, will feel the effects of the c l ause , i s a question ' however" which we shall not enter. I t i s quite clear, that if it affect the Irish, it must affect the English and Scotch, and that the Irish have no separate ground for complaint.— Chronicle. We learn that the most satisfactory accounts have been received from Greece from Colonel BAKER, one of the English Commissioners appointed to arrange the boundary line of the new kingdom, which, it appears, is 8 0 well defined iu the agreement that no sort of practical difficulty is apprehended. It is further stated, that the successful termination of this critical negociation has pro duced the most unbounded joy throughout Greece; from Which fact it is to be hoped that comparative (rider and tr anquillity be may soon restored. ERARD'S collection of pictures by the old masters, unequalled for their number and value in the pos session of any private individual in Paris, were sold by auctio n a few days ago. They produced upward's ti irty-t wo t h ousan d pounds sterling. The most choice atui rare gems were bought on commission to be sent to tughind. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Baron and Baroness Dimsdale. at Crawley's Hotel, Albemarle_ street, from a tour; Major Wright, at Morley's Hotel, Cock spur-street, from Cheltenham ; Wm. Austin, Esq., at ditto, from Oxford; the Marquis of Hertford, at his seat Sudbourn Hall, Woodbridge, Suffblk, from Bayley, Warwickshire; Co l'mel and Mrs. Markham, at the Burlington Hotel, from the Isle of Wight ; IL Barton, Esq., at ditto, from ditto ; H. Des borough, Esq., at ditto, from Huntingdon; Captain Reid, at Paine's Bath Hotel, Arlington-street, from Brighton ; H. J. Sawyer, Esq., at ditto, from Paris; Sir E. Hamilton, Bart., in Nottingham -place, from South Wales; the Rev. Mr. Rob bins, at the Hyde Park Hotel, from Bath ; the Hon. Mr. Col ville, at ditto, from Tunbridge. DEPARTURES. The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, from Arlington street, for Hatfield; Lord and Lady Henry Thynne, from Wilton-crescent, for the Isle of Wight; the Hon. Robert and Mrs. Fitzgibbon and family, for Hastings ; C. H. Tracey, Esq., M.P., Mrs. Tracy and family, from Dover-street, for their seat, Toddington, near Broadway, Worcester; General Crosbie, from the Burlington Hotel, for Hants; D. Daly, Esq., from ditto, for Ipswich; Mr. and Mrs. Fremantle, from Grosvenor-street, for Cheltenham ; Captain Griffiths, from the Royal Hotel, Jermyn. street, for Brighton; W. Glyn, Esq., from ditto, for Ireland; Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, from the British Hotel, Jermyn_street, for Oxford ; Captain Sitwell, from ditto, for Chatham; Wm. Lloyd, Esq., from ditto, for the Isle of Wight. STRAND 1 HEATRE. A comic piece, with music, was last night produced at this theatre, and was named in the bills as a novelty; hut the plot is that of an old English comedy, the scene of which is laid in Spain, and the music consists of a variety of well-known songs, duets, see. ; hut as the story is lively, and the airs not only popular hut deservedly so, the ensemble produced was highly satisfactory, and the conse quence was the complete success of the piece. It is enti tled What is she at? and combines in its cast the who!e strength of the establishment. COBURG THE.I TRE. A new grand serio-historical drama, called the Tower of Nesle, or the Dark Gondola, was produced at this theatre last night. It is a translatio❑ from a French piece, which has had a very popular run at one r.f the Parisian theatres. The main incidents of the story are founded on some of the alleged ga!lantri,s of Margaret of Burgundy, the Queen of Louis X. of France. The fate that awaited many of t',e gallants of Margaret is well known. They were known to have been invited to the Tower of Nesle, but from it none of them were ever seen to return. One exception to this fate was Captainßuridan (Mr. G. nett, 1 ite of Covent-garden theatre), and on his escap, and the means taken by him to avenge the death of his two companions, the chief interest and incidents of the piece rest. In endeavouring to trace the murderers of his friends he discovers that Margaro of Burgundy is the chief actress in the tragic deeds. Pursuing his inquiries further, he learns, to his horror, that Philip d'Aulnay (one of his murdered companions) was the Queen's own son, by himself (Bnridan), who bad formerly been a page in the Court of Robert of Burgundy, and that Gaultier D'Aulmiy, the Queen's chief favourite. is her second son. Possessed of secrets calculated to give him such influence over the Queen, and, through her and her weak husband, over the kingdom, his ambition is fired, and he determines NO to use them as to became First Minister of State. After a variety of plots and counterplots betwem him and his abandoned mistress, whose own father Robert he had by l;er desire murdered, he succeeds in his grand object ; but his success involves the destruction of both, and also of their remaining son, Gaultier. Many of the scenes and incidents arising out of these events are highly dramatic, and of intense interest. The part of Buridan was most ably performed by Mr. Bennett. The whole perform ance was got up with an attention to dress and decoration which does great credit to the taste of Mr. Davidge. At its conclusion the audience made an almost unanimous call for Mr. Bennett, who come forward, and was most warmly cheered. The house was filled in every part. Mr. BUNN, the manager of Drury-lane Theatre, has made a valuable acquisition to Captain PoL HILL's operatic corps, by engaging Mr. BRAHAM for the whole of the ensuing season. The terms were ratified on Friday. MONCK MASON, it is said, has again availed himself of the services of SEGUIN, and, instead of trusting to himself, is about to despatch thit experienced emissary to the continent to make engagements for him. Mr. POOLE is writing a comedy for LAPORTE, to be produced early in the season. The principal cha racter will be personated by Mr. R. JONES, who is en gaged at 251. a-week. ELLEN TREE will be the heroine. A Noble Lord, who has previously figured in a minor department as a dramatic writer, it is said, is preparing a little comedy for Drury-lane Theatre; the principal character in which (an Irishman) is to be per sonated by POWER. DUCROW has purchased three zebras, which he intends to bring speedily into active service. The price is said to be 600 guineas. It is said that instead of a pantomime, LA-. PORTE intends to give at Christmas a grand ballet of action, serious and comic, interspersed with scenery of the most superb character, and dances by the first Parisian artistes. The genius of pantomine fled with Mother Goose, and it requires a juvenile TO3I DINDIN to revive the magic of her wand. THE SPEAKER.—The Right Honourable CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, and his lady and family, are preparing to take a final leave of the official residence in New Palace-yard, for their delightful retreat at Mistley Thorn, near Manningtree. The Speaker has been de tained in town, in consequence of a determination to ar range and settle the great arrear of business connected with Parliament, so that his successor may be enabled to commence his important task without any obstacle.— Court Journal. It affords us great pleasure to inform our readers, that a requisition to the Mayon. of this tow n is in course of signature for a public meeting to vote an ad dress to Eerl GREY, on his return to the county, and ex pressing our gratitude to his Lordship for originating and conducting to a successful termination the important mea sure of Parliamentary Reform.—Newcustic Chronicle, Sir HOWARD ELPHINSTONE has been ap pointed to the command of the Engineers at Malta, in the room of the late Colonel lIIORSIIEAD, who strvived only three months the marriage of his daughter with the young Earl of ROTHES, an officer in the 7th Fusileere. We understand that Lord NUGENT'S depar ture for Corfu is not likely to take place for six weeks vr two months. His Lordship's successor at the Treasury will not be app , int,d until the return of the Premier to town. Gerd KILLEEN and Mr. ASHLEY WARRE D Mem ber for Hastings, have been mentioned as likely to succeed Lord NUGENT. COWPER went the Oxford circuit with Lord KENYON, the irritability of whose temper involved him in frequent bickerings with the members of the circuit. On one occasion, having exhibited great irritation of manner, the Judge said to him, " Pray, Mr. KENYON, keep your temper." "My Lord (observed Mr. COWPER) you had better recommend him to part with it as soon as he can." AURORA BOREALIS.—O n Wednesday even ing last the Aurora Borealis was unusually vivid and splendid. The passengers on hoard Clef - lig/dander steam boat were much struck with this beautiful phenomenon, which lasted about an hour, and after assuming various striking forms and appearances, terminated in an arch which spanned the whole horizon. We may add that the northern lights have generally been very frequent and bright this season. —lnverness Courier. The total quantity of bolted rice distributed to the poor at the different stations in Bristol, exceeds six thousand pounds weight per day. CHOLERA.—Among the many affecting in stances of breaches made iu families by cholera, the fol lowing is the most affecting we have heard :—ln a small village on the other side of the Moray Frith, a husband and wife, with seven children, were all swept off by the pestilence, within a few days of each other. We have not heard whether or not this unfortunate family consisted of more members.—Elgin Courier. _ _ HERRING F ISHERY .—Th e herring fishing on this coast during the week has been pretty successful, som e of the boats taking as many as thirty-five barrels in the night, while others have had eight or nine. The fish ing on Friday night was an exception, the contents of the boats not exceeding the demand of the hawkers that wait their arrival. In the course of the week they have been sold in the market as low as six a penny.—Belfast News Letter. A good deal of interest has been excited lately in the fa.hionable political woild, by a report that the sister of Don PEDRO, who acted as Regent of Portugal be fore the arrival of Don AIrGuEL, had written a letter to Kiog WILLIAM, in which, after expreeeing great doubts whether, from the rigidity of the treasures adopted by her brother, the letter would find its way, she implores hi, MAJESTY to rescue her from her imprisonment, and take her from a country in which she is clmpelled to witn,ss such cruel despotism. We he'itwe there is truth in the report, and that a Cibriet Council was held on the sub ject; but the result of it has not transpired. It is highly probabl e that the wish of this unfortunate Princess will be complied with.— Court Journal. THE HARVEST.—Shearing is now general throughout the northern counties. From all hands we hear the most cheering accounts of the oats and barley An intelligent agriculturist in Morayshire informs us that he never saw such a season, either for quality or abundance. On some of the richer soils, wheat has suf fered, and become partially rusted and honey-combed. " Six or seven weeks aro," says a gentleman in Slither !andshire, " I told you that we had almost more wheat than could be consumed. Now, however, things wear a different appearance, and my fields will he rather under , han above a❑ average return."—lnverness Conrier. THE PILCHARD FISHERY.—The boiste r,us state of the weather has prevented the taking of any large quantities of fi h during the week, although sue vet y large shoals have been seen off the coast. In Mounts Ray from 200 to 300 hogsheads have been secured by the Mullion scans. I❑ St. Ives Bay two scans were shot en ,dosing about 500 hogsheads, but the weather prevented the securing of them, and the scans received some da mage. On Wednesday evening seven scans were shot near Mevagissey. There is every prospect of a prosperous season, should the weather prove favourable.—Falmouth Packet. At a recent dinner at Dublin Castle, a large number of our resident nobility and gentry were collected. Every thing in the first con,c was going on in the true focon magnifique, when, suilden:y, word was brought to the noble host that one of his servants had been seized with choler'. The sound burst upon the company like a bombshell. 'I he Marquis of —, the Earl of —, Lord —, Colonel --, Mr. A •••••.., Mr. —, to •ay nothing of the ladies, all went like so many Con greve rockets, carrying terror and dismay in their train. The eruption was general, and the better part of an ex cellent dinner left untouched.— Corh Constitution. On the night of Tuesday, a miner, named JOSIAH ThomAs, was attacked with choler.' at the 170 fathoms level of the Consolidated l‘lines. lie was imme diately brought to the surface, and immersed up to the neck, with his bead covered with fl :noel, in the hot water cistern of Bowden's steam•engine, the heat of the mineral being 11=? degrees. After being kept there about a quarter of an hour, the cramp and pains completely left him, and all he complained of was weakness ; he was then bound round the bowels with flannel, and was able to walk to his home, which is more than two miles from the mines. The man is now fast recovering, and is likely to resume his la bows in a few days.—Folnionth Packet. There is now in Abingdon an individual, whose father was either in Ida 16th or 17th year at the death of King CHARLES H. This is no other than Mr. THOMAS PERRYMAN, clone-mason, who may he seen any day following Ins usual avocation, and bustling about in his sleeved waistcoat, as active nearly as the youngest. As he was ascending the ladder the other day, with his usual activity, a gentleman ohseived, " Who would suppose that that man is a son of one who was contemporary with VILLIERS, Duke of BucKINGuAm, Hynr, Earl of CLA RENDON, ALGERNON SYDNEY, and the unfortunate Lord STAFFORD ?" His friend, who was a stranger, found it very difficult to believe the fact —Windsor Express. The following singular and fatal occurrence happened at West Wittering, on Monday. Some children returning from school were hooking into the door of Mr. GEORGE InE's blacksmith's shop, at the time a piece of red-hot iron was on the anvil, a spark of which must have adhered, without being discovered, to the round frock of a boy six years of age, named EMERY, which, in his progress through a lane towards his home, ignited. An alarm of something wrong, from the smoke which arose, causen some persons to proceed to the place, when, at nearly ha:f a mile distant from the spot, the child was found by the side of a pond quite dead. Medical men wtribute his death to sudden fright, as his body was only a little scorched by the fire.—Portsmouth _Herald. We mentioned in our last, that the Hon. Captain Durams, in the Belvidera frigate, with the Ac - tcvon and Scylla, had been sent to Tripoli to protect Mr. HARRINGTON, the English Consul. By the Havre Jour nal of yesterday's dye, we find the presence of this squa dron has been effectual in the attainment of the object it had i❑ view. Mr. HARRINGTON had been compelled to strike his flag and remove on board the Belvidera, be cause the DEY said he could not pay 200,000 dollars lie owed our merchants. The moment 111 r. HARRINGTON had got on board the Belvidera, the De began to think seriously of the matter, and on the following mornin g he sent 177,000 dollars on board the Belvidera, and re quested of Captain DUNDAS a short delay to enable him to pay the remainder. —Hampshire Telegraph. On Saturday the house of Mr. JOHN RAM SLY, farmer, of Wawn, was struck with a ball of fire, about 12 o'clock at noon. It entered the howe by the roof, and descended through a wall into a sleeping room directly over the door, where it stripped, splintered, and , inged the wood to pieces; from thence it ran down to the room below, into a closet, where it injured the wood in the same manner. It struck upon some books in the closet, burnt one to a cinder, and singed several others ; it partially destroyed a sugar canister made of tin. From thence it took a sudden turn through a wall 18 inches thick, into the kitchen, where it struck a gun leaded with powder, discharged it, and melted all the lead about the gun, and split the stock in two. Atter that, the dairy door happening to be open, it escaped through that built).- ing by the window., which was open. The servant girl was placing something on the shelf in the dairy, and was turning to come away, when she saw the ball of fire pass close by her.—Hull Advertiser. THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S TEA SALE. —Y,sterday morning the quarterly sale of teas by the East India Company commenced at the India House. The declaration amounted to 8,400,000ib., b e i ng 100,0001 b. more than was offer , d at the June sale. The quantities of the different descriptions to be offered are as follow—Of 13ohra, 2,000,0001 b. ; of Congou, Campoi, Pekoe, and Soucliong, 5,000,0001 b. ; of Twanka and , l - lyson Ski n, 1,100,0001 b.; and of Hyson, 300, 00011)s. file increase in the present declaration in Boheas is 200,000165., while in the second descriptions there is a decrease of 10 0,00016. The attendance at the sale yes terday m orn i ng was numerous, and the biddings were very animated. The Boheas were the first, as usual, to be put up, and throughout the whole of yesterday were s,ild nearly at front ls, I Id. to Is. Ilid. per lb. This qua lity of tea at the June sale sold at from 2s. to 2s. ()id. per lb., thus rendering it liable to the full duty, as all teas fetching 2s. and upwards per lb. at the Company 's sales pay a duty of 100 per cent., while those selling under 2s. per lb. pay 95 per cent. FRENCH REVENUE.--The Quotidienne has published tile following table of the Annual Budgets of France, from the year 1801 to the year 1831 inclusive ; and from that account it will be perceived how great is the augmentation of the Budget since the Revolution of July. In addition, however, to the regular Budgets since that period, we must add the loans already contracted, and the great deficit concealed by a large issue of Treasury bills:— Francs. 1801 .549,61.0,169 I , o' , 1803 632,279,523 1804 894,431,555 1805 700,000,000 1806 902,148,499 1807 731,725,686 1808 77°,744,445 1809 71,6,740,214 1810 755,060,445 1811 1 ,160,000,000 181" 1 065,014,000 1813 1 ,150,000,000 1814 (the last 9 m ths) 6 09,394,626 1815 798,390,859 1816 895,577,203 Francs. 1817 1,036,810,5 83 1818 ',114,453,7 36 1819 808,312,572 1820 875,342,2 52 1821 882,321,254 182 0 1823 1692,095, 283 1824 951,992,200 18'5 1820 076,948, 9 19 1827 915,729,742 1828 622,711, 602 1829 1021,7.16,9 38 1830 1,177,000, 000 1831 1,172,197,435 Sir EVERARD ' HOME.—Sir EVERARD HOME, whose death we announced on Saturday, was one of the most eminent medical men of his day. He was of Scottish lineage, and at an early age embraced the profes sion of phy,ic, which he practised with great success in the metropolis more than forty years. The publications of the Baronet were very voluminous. Among his works were " Lectures on Comparative Anatomy," in which are explained the preparation s in the llunterian Collection, illustrated by 171 engraving s ; " Hunterian Oration," in honour of surgery, and in memory of those practitioners by whose labours it has been advanced, delivered in the The atre of the College, Feb. 14, 1814; Practical Obser vations on the Treatment of Stricture in the Urethra and in the (Esophagus," 3 vols. Bvo. Besides these, Sir Evg- ILARD contributed largely to the Philosophical Transac tions, and a variety of alry-written articles to the medical periodicals of the day. His late MAJESTY raised him, in 1813, to the dignity of a Baronet, by the title of Sir E. HOME, of Well Manor Farm, Southampton, and also conferred on him the appointment of Sergeant-Surgeon, to which office he was continued by the present KING. Sir EVERAILD was also . Surgeon to Chelsea Hospital, Honorary Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons ; for many years he was elected to the Presi dentship of the College. Sir EVERARD was in his 77th year. H- is succeeded in the Baronetcy by his eldest son, JAMES EVERARD, Commander, R.N. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.-011 TUCS day evening last, the 98th of August. at Camperdown, Forfarshire, Jonsr JAMES ALLEN, Esq. R N. eldest son of JOHN LEE ALLEN, Esq. of Errol Prrk, to the Lafy HENRIETTA DUNDAS DUNCAN, eldest daughter of the Earl Of CAMPERDOWN. After the ceremony, the happy couple set off for Errol Park, Perthshire. On the occasion the new and beautiful mansion of Camperdown became the scene of great festivity; the ball and supper were on a scale of great magnificence—the one including all that as rich, rare, and delicate ; the other every thing that fashion could invent to adorn light hearts and elegant liorres. Dancing continued to a I:te hour, when the gue , ts reluctantly retired, highly &lighted with the hospi tality and ceasel•-ss attentions of the Noble Earl and his Countess. Amnngt the company were—Earl and Coun tess of cAMPERDOWN, Viscount DUNCAN, Lady Erie. DUNCAN, the Earl and Countess of MORAY, the Ladies STUART, Hon. Mr. STUART, the Hon. JANE ANNE and the Master of Gra y , the Hon. M rs . an d t h e Mi sses DUN DAS, JOHN LEE ALLEN, E , q. of Errol, Mr. EDWARD and Miss ALLEN, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Haut:wit:Tom, the Provost of Dundee and family, &tc., YOUNG NAPOLEON.—The following parti culars respecting the late Duke of REICHSTADT have been transmitted to us by an old correspondent :—" About six years since, when young NAPOLEON was about 16 years of age, he come over to this country incog., at. tended by several Germans of rank, but under the espe cial surveillance of one chosen, as was said, for that high trust by the EMPEROR himself. On their arrival this cortege was domiciliated at an hotel in Daver-street. The plan seems to have been a red incog., so far as that should be possible ; in consequence, the young Prince was restricted entirely to German society, and a German gentleman from Hawhurgh, then resident in Rus sell .square, was one of his chief intimates. However, it was soon whispered about, but strange to say, was con fined to the above circles, never finding a single admission into the public prints. The Prince expressing an eager desire to visit and inspect our dock-yards, was in the first instance attended to Woolwich by his German friends and one Englishman. Having being highly gratified by what he had seen, he expressed a desire to proceed further, in whic'a also he was gratified by visits to various parts of our coasts. How he spent his time whilst in the me tropolis I have not heard, nor how long his visit Conti nued."—Bl eininhOrn Journal. The death of the Duke of REICHSTADT will cause a meeting of the whole family of NAPOLEON around their mother at Rome. LUCIEN and JEROME Bo- NAPARTE are already there, as well as the Countess CAME RATA, daughter of the Princess ELIZA BACCIIIOCCHI. Louis, the ex-King of Holland, and Mme. Munar, are hourly expected. Their object is to induce her to make a new will to dispose of her immense property, which she had bequeathed to her deceased grandson. Cardinal FFSCH will, in all probability, make use of his influence to induce his sister to form au equitable distribution. It is said that the confessor of Madame LETITIA is a Jesuit, and that his counsel will probably direct her determina tion. The Russian Ambassador has offered 80,000 Ro man crowns for the palace of JEROME BONAPARTE, in order to form a suitable permanent residence for the Rus sian Embassy. The Court of Rome is flattered by this determination of the EMPEROR. Thus Austria, Russia, and Spain will have suitable residences for their represen tatives, while the Ambassador of France will be lodged in a furnished hotel, like the Envoy of a secondary Power. DISTURBANCE OF PUBLIC WORSHIP.— Vusterday afternoon, during divine service, a disturbance took place at the Rev. JAMES UPTON'S Meeting-house, Church-street, Blackfriars. During the administration or the Lord's Supper, after the bread had been partaken of, and while the Minister was pouring out the wine, accom panied by sonic solemn observations on the death of CHRIST, a young man, named BLYTII, or BLIGII, sud denly jumped from his seat, and with a peculiar expression of countenance, and loud intonation of voice, said, " He will come! He shall reign ! He shall reign for ever tri umphantly." At this instant, ail in the chapel seemed to be thunderstruck ; and while the deacons quietly banded him into the vestry, such a scene of surprize and alarm presented itself as is with difficulty described ; and one lady went into strong fits, and was carried out. The young man, it appears, has lately been studying in the Do/NG school, and is tinged with Millenarian heresy.— Christian Advocate. THE COMET.—The cornet, which is now moving direct and quicker than the earth, will become nearly stationary in the middle of October. On the 27th of November the earth and comet will be barely 60 de grees asunder, and the latter may be expected to be visible to the naked eye nearly the whole of the autumnal quarter. The places of its nodes appear to vary considerably, as its right ascension and declination, without latitude, seem to agree in about 21 (leg. of Cancer, while its ascending node was in S deg. of Sagittarius t having considerable decli nation north a greater part of the time of its visible ap pearance, it will be very much longer above the horizon than beneath it. The rising, soothing, and setting on the 22d of October, it is expected, will not greatly differ from the following calculation :—Right ascension of the comet, 7h. 22m. ; ditto, of the sun, 1311. 49tH. ; comet souths 17h. 33m. ; semi-diurnal arc, for lat. 52. deg. and de clination 26 deg. north, Bh. 40m. ; comet sets, 26h. 13m. The same arc, deducting from the southing Sh. 50m. for its rising. These are calculated from noon, apparent time. The following is the clock time, allowing a little for the different time of (lay in the calculation of the right ascen sions :—Rises, north-east, 9m. past 9 in the evening ; souths, 33m. past 5 in the morning ; sets. north-west, 13:n. past 2 in the afternoon. —Norwich :Mercury. THE HARVEST.—The weather in the North has this week been unfavourable for the harvest. We have had two incurs of rain at Leeds during the week, and in Lancashire the weather has been as unfavourable as in Yorkshire. Still we hope not much injury has been done, as the wicd has been northward and the weather cold. From the South our accounts are extremely grati fying. A gentleman who is a very competent judge, and who travels through the counties of Cambridge, Herts, Huntingdon, and Bedford, writes thus to his friend in Leeds:—" Hors' is your harvest going on ? We are ap proaching the close of the finest in the memory of man, I b:dieve, both as regards quantity rind quality, of every de• seription of grain, excepting peas; arid as regards the suitable weather for fathering it in, one of our farmers, a large miller in this neighbourhood, assured us the crop of wheat this season was in every respect a most abundant one, and that he never saw handsomer grain, or a harvest gathered so well. The yield per acre will be very great ; there will be many instances where large fields will ave rage forty bushels per acre. We hope that suitable wea ther wilt be continued for gathering in the late harvest to the north of you. It does appear to me that this abun dant harvest should be received by us, as a nation, with feelings of devout thankfulness to the Divine bestower of it. It appears peculiarly suitable to us, after the losses and privations of the landed interest the last four years, which hag so much affected tire natio❑ at large."—Leeds Mercury. OUR ARISTOCRACY.—It is not easy to find in history a phenomenon of larger political depravity than our own Tory party. Their genius for oppression can only be measured by parallels of latitude ; and the baseness of its nature is in some degree dignified by the principle that. directs it. Tyranny .vherever it exists, no matter of what climate or country, of what religion or colour, an cient or modern, is taken to their bosom. AidcuEL, FER DINAND, WILLIAM, NICHOLAS, Portugal, Spain, Bel gium, Poland, Greece, Negro Slavery, South America, all show an universality of love which might turn AdEs• SAUNA herself pale with envy. There has been nothing like it under the sun. SOLOMON, had be been deferred to our times, would have acknowledged the existence of one new thing, and all his wisdom would have been puzzled with the prospect. The Lacedxmonians and Athenians were the respective patrons of aristocracy and democracy. O❑ this ground they interfered in the do. mestic corners of ancient cities, and modelled the govern ment according to one or other of the two forms. But our Tory party recoils from extending the British consti tution. Their passion is to abolish whatever attempts to imitate it. Pure unmixed despotism is the object of their admiration. The cruelty, extortion, and poverty which it occasions,—th e foul and fetid cancer of vice that makes its body a mass of deformed disease—cannot destroy their appetite. At this moment, not only their own country, but every state in the world which seeks to recover its freedom, or to maintain it, dreads their return to power. Their enmity to the happiness of man is as universal as man himself.— 'Westminster Review. A very extraordinary execution took place here on Thursday morning, in the person of a criminal of the name of BE NOIT . H e b e l onge d to a re spectable family, had'himself received a very good education, and was only 22 years of age. B ENOIT was f oun d gu ilty, on presumptive evidence, of having murdered his own mother about two y ears a g o, and subsequently an intimate friend of his, who was a cqua i nte d with the f act , i n order to p revent his divulging it. There was no positive proof of either of these murders against young BM"; but an infinite variety of circumstances brought them so completely home to him, that it was not possible to withstand their force. BENorr, however, denied h wing comtnitted the crimes up to his list moment, and faced death like one who was tlteadfully terrified by its aspect. The guillotine had been set up at the Barriere St. Jacques (an unusual part of the town for executions), and at half-past 7 in the morning BENOIT was brought on a hurdle from the prison of I3icetre. His clothing consisted only of a white sheet, covering his person from the neck to the feet, which were left naked. His head and face were concealed in black crape, so tightened behind the neck as to afford no obstacle to the execution of the knife. This singular costume of criminals about to be executed is still reserved to parri cides by the laws of France. BENOIT screamed most piteously the whole time that his sentence was being read to him on the scaffold and the executioners were employed in tying him on the fatal plank. His cries only ceased +when he ceased to live.— Times Paris Correspondent. NEW AMERICAN PACKET SHIPS.— e have been much gratified by a visit to the Huntsville, a new American packet-ship, now lying in George's Dock. This vessel which has been built in New York, is one of the most splendid specimens of naval architecture which, even in these days of improvement, have visited our port. Her cabin is fitted up in the most elegant and approved style, comprising in its furniture and adornments almost every thing that can charm the eye or amuse the fancy. The cabins of the American packet-ships have long been remarkable for their elegance and superiority over those of British construction. This is owing, not so much per haps to the style of the workmanship (although in this tbe Americans appear to be unrivalled), as in the mate rials, which the forests of America furnish duty free to the hands of the mechanic. These consist of the maple. satin-wood, rosewood, root of ash, mahogany, and other ornamental woods, which are polished and inlaid with the utmost skill and beauty. The descent to the cabins from the main decks is by two or three steps only, the quarter deck being raised several feet, an arrangement which ad. tnil3 of a window or port in each state-room, an object long desired by passengers. We may mention, as a speci men of the elegance of the vessel's furniture, that the handles of the cabins and state-rooms are all of cut chrystal, and that the joints, hinges, &c. the doors are of plated silver. She is commauded by Captain STOD Dann, a seaman of considerable experience in maritime affairs, and of the most courteous and gentlemanly man ners. The Creole, which sailed from this port on Mon day last, belongs to the same proprietors, and is fitted up in tire same style of elegance.—Liverpool Chronicle. A copy of a very singular diplomatic note has been forwarded to the Belgian Government by M. Van der WEYER. The Emperor NICHOLAS has addressed a circular letter to the Courts of London and Paris, in which, after praising himself fur consentiwz to the independence of Belgium, he states that he views with great dissatisfac tien the entry of several Polish officers into the army of King LEOPOLD, and that he calls on England and France to take such steps as may cause the proscribed exiles to be dismissed from their present service. England has as yet returned no answer to the Autocrat, but gave to the Bel gian Plenipotentiary nfficieusentent a copy of the circular. This I construe into a tacit wish that LEOPOLD should dis miss the Poles, and appease the Russian. Lord PALstitit sTos durst not openly put into execution the wishes of tl.e CZAR, but the all-obliging M. Van der WEYER. is employed as the go•b,tween, and it is hoped that LEoror.n will once more humiliate this country and save the English Minister from a serious dilemma. France, I sin told, ex hibited more firmness—she refused interfering. It is im possible to say what line of conduct our Ministry intend adopting; but the report at present is that the KING will offer letters of naturalisation to all the Poles in his service, and, as such, claim them as his subjects. I doubt very much that this project will succeed. I have spoken to some of the Polish Chiefs, and they decidedly refuse to change their country. They say they glory in their posi tion as exiled Poles, and, having sacrificed so much al ready-for their country, they will not. sell it for the purpos of fighting tinder a foreign banner. The conduct of our Ministry will be narrowly watched in this business, and, whatever may be the wishes of the Government to assist Lord PALMERSTON, I do not think they will have the te merity to dismiss the Polish patriots. We have about thirty Poles in the service; they are chiefly men of rank, and superior military talent. —Brussels Letter. The following narrative is going the round of the French papers :—" Ten years ago M. JOSEPH STRASZEWICH, a young Lithuanian enjoying a very large fortune, made a visit of pleasure to Paris, and lodged at the Hotel des Bains, in the Rue St. Thomas du Louvre. One morning, as he was on the point of going out to keep an appointment, a young min of interesting appearance, in a state of great agitation, came into his apartment, and said, You are a Pole ; I have served with yom brave countrymen under Napoleon; I know that they never refuse to render a service when it is in their power. With this confidence I come to tell you that I am suffering from an unexpected loss. I have immediate need of a sum of money (which he named). To you this is a trifle ; to me it will rescue my wife and children from despair.' The sum, though not considerable, was too much to give to a man who had no claims, and who did not even mention his name. M. STRASZEWICH hesitated a moment, but the next humanity overcame prudence, and be placed it in the hand of the supplicant. Upou the recent insurrection in Poland, M. DE STRASZEWICH took up arms in the caul.. of his country ; this being lost, his estates were confis cated, and himself again in Paris, as a refugee. A few days ago a gentleman entered his lodgings, and asked him if be recollected his person. M. STRASZEWICH answered in the negative, and the visitor then declared himself to be the person whom he had formerly saved from ruin, and said' Though you may have forgot that act of benevolence, I have not. I know your misfortunes, and am come to repay the money so kindly advanced, with interest,' at the same time placing upon the table a sum amounting to about double that which had been so generously ad vanced. The visitor then declared that he was M. L—, at the head of a commercial house at Bordeaux, in great prosperity, which he owed entirely to M. SmaszEwicri. M. L— then urged his benefactor to come to visit his family, who would receive him with open arms. 111. STRASZEWICH accepted the original sum advanced, hut refused the interest, declaring that he could never make up his mind to derive any profit from money laid out under the circumstances. He expressed his acknowledgments for such invitation to Bordeaux, but declined it, resolved maintain his independence. This noble-minded Pole is the author of the beautiful work, with engraving., enti tled Les Polonais et les Polonaises. A CONSERVATIVE CHAMBERMAID. - A few weeks ago, as a candidate in the self-styled liberal interest was canvassing a certain northern burgh, that stands within a hundred miles of the field on which the BRUCE was victorious over COMYNE Earl of Buchan, he met with a rebuff from an unexpected quarter, which very speedily put him to the route. The hon. candidate had harangued the people on the stock subjects of corruption, boroughmongering, independence, and liberality; and havirg perceived that the mention of " liberality" pro duced such deafening cheers as rendered it advisable to give some practical proof that such a thing really existed, he invited a dozen or two of the loudest cheerers to take a glass of summut with him in the principle inn. A sup ply of whisky was soon placed on the table, and was di luted with the due proportion of excellent spring water before the candidate discovered that although his compa nions were all in favour of " the bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill," they unhappily belonged to the un enfranchised portion of the community. The honourable aspirant to Parliamentary honours thought it would be hard to give so much good whisky for empty huzzas, and knowing that the landlord possessed the necessary " quali fication," lie rung the bell, and desired the waiting-maid to tell her master to come and get a glass of grog. In an instant the woman returned and bawled into the room, " Ma maister bade me tell you that he's bizzy jist e'enow, an' canna come." Shortly after the bell was again rung by the embryo representative, and a message despatched to the landlord, requesting his attendance to take a glass of wine 1 In a few minutes he popped his bead into the room, but alter taking a survey of the company he as speedily drew it out again, and shut the door with a slam that made the grog-glasses rattle on the table. This was a new subject of wonderment! The would-be legis. lator looked doubly dismal, and the grog guzzlers could do nothing to unravel the mystery. The bell was once more applied to, and when the girl appeared she was asked what had become of her master. "In troth, Sir," said the woman, " ma maister says he wadna be seen sittin' in sic company." " Insolent," said the enraged candidate; " your master never could have presumed to send me such a message !" " Nae matter," replied the damsel, " whe ther he sent siccan a message or no. The trouth's the trouth—and mair than that, he says gin he had seen the crew that was hallooing at your tail, the deil ane o' them sud hae darkened his doors." " Woman !" screamed the infuriated friend of free principles, " leave the room in stantly, and order my horses to be got ready." "Wt el a teat," said the woman, "ye sanna be tang o' gettin' your hoist's. The back seams o' your hose will he a perfick cor dial ; but gude sake, Sir, I won'er that the likes o' y. does na keep better company !" When the horses were got ready, the worthy candidate threw down money to pay his bill, slammed himself into his carriage, and set off in such hot haste that be actually forgot to wait for his chanyeo.-Aberdeen Observer. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. In the course of the last week there have been two meetings in Yorkshire—one at York, and the other at Hull—on the subject of Poland. Count Plater, the Polish patriot, whose energy in behalf of his country has not been subdued by her misfortunes, appeared at both meetings, and, by his eloquence, even in our foreign lan uage, contributed much to the triumph of the noble cause, of which, having fought and bled in its defence, he is a fitting representative. When we talk of triumph, as associated with the name of Poland, of course we mean the triumph of reason and principle and feeling ; for, thanks to 'he cold-blooded politicians of our day, Poland was left to her fate at a moment when her atti tude and her exploits astonished all Europe. If ever a people had a right to expect the aid general sympathy and remonstrance, the Poles were that people. Their cause was the cause of mankind, not merely because it involved die great interests of liberty and civilization in the principle for which they contended so nobly, but because the place which their country occu pied in the map, and their people in the history, of Europe, pointed them out as the barrier against that irruption of despotism with which the world has been lone threatened. Europe, therefore, had an interest in the cause of Poland, to say nothing of gene rosity, of humanity, or of those other `eelings which certain philosophers decry as mere instincts that reason ought to combat rather than encourage, because they have no founda tion in the selfishness of the human heart. Europe had this interest ; France and England, on the part of Europe, were bound to assert it ; but what with the hesitating Councils of one Cabinet, and the calculating fears of another, die opportunity was allowed to pass away, and we are not without living convincing proofs al ready that Poland is not the only country which is likely to suffer, nay, which actually has suf fered, from the effects of that culpable neglect. It was not the soft and courtly whispers of such a Minister as Lord Pahnerston that should have spoken the mind of England to the Russian Autocrat when murder was at the gates of Warsaw. No ; France and England should have spoken out, or England should have spoken out alone if' France had refused to join her.. " But that would have led to a war," say the ad vocates of the Palmerston policy. 'We deny it. If England had spoken out in the tone that be came her, there would have been a response, or rather a faithful echo, if not from every Govern ment, from every enlightened people in Europe, (he depth and universality of which would have scared the tyrant from his purpose. There s fallacy and cant in this cry of war, as the bug tear that should frighten us away from justice. Remonstrance—strong, energetic, fearless, open remonstrance—was toe language that England ought to have used ; anti as for war, it may be brought on by backwardness as well as by bold ness, and by backwardness rather than by hohf !less when the Power with whom we are at issue happens to be in every thing the reverse and an tipode of magnanimity. But the Autocrat him self is making up for the deficiency of the Cabi oets in arousing the feelings of mankind. The atrocities to which he has been encouraged by success—the banishment of heroes—the perse cution of women—the captivity of babes— have thrilled through the heart of Christendom, and the people are beginning to cry out shame upon their Governments for the apathy with which they have been looking on at such scenes. A system of cruelty was never attempted in the world like that by which Nicholas is now endea vouring to obliterate the existence of Poland. It is the wantonness and wickedness of this system that has produced those meetings, whicn, we doubt not, will spread far and wide, unless the perpetrator takes warning in time, and consents to relax his brutal experiment. What Lord Dur ham may accomplish, or what he is endeavouring to accomplish, we know nothing about ; but the . most successful negotiator against the project of Nicholas we take to be Nicholas himself.— Morning Herald. The printers of the House of Commons seem to take a malicious kind of pleasure in postponing the means of public information, and in sporting with the feelings of public curiosity, on questions of vital importance to the nation. The Bank Committee ended its sittings in the beginning of August, and must have delivered over its evidence and documents to the Par liamentary printers some time previous to the prorogation of Parliament. The Committee on East India affairs, as it was equally dili gent in its inquiries, was equally attentive to the means of making the public acquainted with the result of its labours—but no report at all from the former, and no recent report from the latter, have yet been delivered to the Members of the House, or to the public. We are quite aware of the quantity of trash every year ordered to be printed by Parliament— raising the expense of our legislative printing to the amount of the revenue of some considera ble states; but surely the quantity ought not to prevent selection as to quality, or, if the copying of estimates on roads and rai;ways must proceed pari passu, in the King's printing-office, with that of the evidence taken before Committees on our two most celebrated monopolies,—then some other method should be devised to throw off the whole at a shorter interval. We have been wait ing with impatience for a copy of the evidence taken before the Bank Committee for the last three weeks, and we are quite certain that the depositions must have been printed a fortnight ago, from the appearance of certain parts of the examinations of Mr. Harman, Mr. Palmer, and Mr. Ward, in the Metropolitan Magazine for the present month. In alluding to this latter circumstance, we by no means complain of the favour shown to a particular monthly publication, but we complain that in any article of Parlia mentary interest, the daily press should be be hind the monthly, when all ought to have been served at the same time, and with the same punctuality. The evidence of the three gentle men to whom we have alluded, published in our paper of yesterday, shows the impossi bility of renewing the Bank Charter with the pre sent privileges of the Corporation, or without a more efficient control of the public over its pro ceedings. These three gentlemen are, or were, all either Governors or Directors of the great Threadneedle-street establishment at critical times. They are all intimately acquainted with he principles of its conduct, or the maxims on which its issues are directed. They all know the history of its past transactions, and the gains —toe alai suss de signs contemplated by Government in its variou s and yet t:xv recommendations to the Bank parlour. They y oo a r t mg e s ir , that com cud the triumphs tile tiaig. clangers s f i a m n p d er tfi c e red t ; i 1 by their depositions admit, directly • I • • or es, pi creoimic ference, that the action of the Bank on thecur iY)leisteel command, e n y d, have d that public th cr edit ey ca can i I