The Sun. — London, England, 1832-09-18 00:00:00

A TOWER HAMLETS REFORM DINNER. the triumph of Reform was celebrated yesterday, by a Pu blic dinner given by a large body of the electors and Inhabitants of this new borough, at the Mermaid Tavern, Hackney. It was expected that 700 persons would be d:. a ' e nts but we understood th a t about 800 sat d own to ''ner, Four o'clock was mentioned as the dinner hour, but it Was p as t 5 before t h e di nner was on the ta bl e . I n 'tit half an hour after Mr. Hume (the chairman on the ,°°easio n ) entered, accompanied by Mr. Byng, M.P., Mr. Var hurten, MP. fDr. Lusliinon, Colonel L. Stan 'Pe, Mr. Clay, Mr. B. Beau gt mont, Mr. Offer. Mr. i f at ehinsonl,* Mr. Alderman Scales, Major Revell, and ~-, l'. Campbell, who was accompanied by M. Thur, -- ,°irector of the Chancery of Poland. ~, g fter the cloth was removed— e 4 ne CIIAIRM AN gave " The King, and may he never 'Net the principles which placed his family on the L ' l. ,,, a ne," (drunk with three times three, and loud cheers.) co , CHAIRMAN, after a warm eulogy on the political ii -- "'"isten ay and integrity of the Duke of Sussex, gave . the ( 41 % of his Royal Highness, and the Royal Family, re r ' et ired with loud applause, and drunk with three times seste t all T he CHAIRMAN next gave " The people, the source of ;" Power." Some persons, he observed, objected to this i t °44 as meaning only one class ; but in the sense in which in W as here proposed, it meant the nation at large, includ -1 all classes, high, low, and middling. He then went " M observe on the causes which had created the neces ''!')' for, and had brought about, Reform, and contended 'fla t that great measure having been achieved, it now de pen Pided on the people to make the proper use of the pow er tted i n their hands, by sending fit and prop e r p ersons represent them in Parliament, who would have a cheap g l i civer nrnent, cheap law, and a ch ea p c h urc h—(L ou d t a, ,e t )--as far as efficiency in all those departments p!r -th',ll--(Cheers.) The toast was then drunk with t , t ' times three, and loud applause. Gr" Lusurscroar felt great pleasure in proposing "Earl e y „and the rest of his Majesty's Ministers, and thanks Ali s 'ern for their exertions in passing the Reform Bill." a: d ing to th e s t ate o f t h e pu b l i c m i n d d ur i ng the short ;„4'd in which the functions of Ministers were as it were i 4 ; l 4 ended, be observed that every thing seemed paralyzed .. -- „ l° ,e country, and every one seemed as if asking when . hit -" ' d the revolution begin,—for he took it for granted . had Ministers gone out and the Bill been defeated at d me, the nation would have risen up as one man to „ .1 ; 4 8 the Sovereign and the Parliament, which, if with )o,i` °llmediate effect, would have produced a state of p,"gs in which there would be danger that the King ti :ald have tottered on his throne, and the House of Com -1);°I been dismissed by a new species of dissolution.- 10iat such calamities, however, the country had been tdsd by the firmness and integrity of his 11Iajesty's M k' 4 - Adverting to his own situation as a candidate for 4 ' r epresentation o f th e T ower Hamlets, he observed that ' e stured to come forward as wiling to abide by the it t,,af lt public opi n i on . H e next touc h ed on some of the io'lea questions which would to engage the atter]. i ll a, of the new Parliament, and a particularly that of Ire h', and impressed on the meeting the necessity of (a "ing as their representatives only those whom they lotild believe hest qualified to give to those important 'utters, in the issue of which their own interests were so lui.actiliolatio.und up, the most calm and dispassionate consi- Zeth%troast was then drunk with loud cheers, and three 111 • N I r ' CLAY next addressed the meeting, and was very ,lethi r i etei ved- The toast confided to him was, The IN ' of those patriotic Members of both Houses of Par k:" Who supported the cause of the people." The If . ii of dwelt upon many of the . practical results rah" r rns and amongst others mentioned that of the let, aa d English Church—(L ou d cheers)—of which le .111 lie d ec l are d hi mse lf a supporter--(Applause.) be,, t° 4l ° , ° ,.i e d also support Reform i n every department of Tiileoh service. i to ast was then drank with cheer s . lq r ; W „, AntruaTosr returned thanks. IN: i HOM AS CAMPBELL, the Poet, proposed "Poland, l'h t ,Y ',he speedily regain her rank among the nations." lid e ''sst alone would have been sufficient, all other con -1:4,41t4.!°0 apart, to induce him to attend . the . glorious as- Fis a'. w nich stood before him. A distinguished foreigner, Iticirti:i''f director of the Polish Treasury during the im a the Str nggle, sat beside him—a man who had sacrificed, It ' sxo 44 " of liberty, a princely fortune—who was now allo. 1 : in this country, but who rejoiced to see so many 1 11 '11 4 1, 41 „ ,r 1 Met for the good cause—he would return ' t tv t- .7""s for their kindly wishes in behalf of Poland. •ir 4 L a ,', ° rlotis to see such an Assembly unanimous in l'ere,,ule Yearnings towards Poland—that country whose f /1, ,- , 41 ' next to Ireland, came nearest home to the bosoms 4 1 ~— „ ,l 4* He had heard ' it said, that nothing but words ' , 1t i1.. ( 1 . ,' i fr ° ,l l this country to Poland—those words did a ha at b a °f good • they showed the Patriots that Britons t ote t „ h ued with them, and they struck terror to the ' 1 1(4, of the Northern despots The Poles made full !erip l an ce for the pecuniary difficulties under which the al l : of this country laboured, yet they said, though Eng. verit e "'" purses be empty, their hearts are full, and the !'hits of those hearts was all they wanted. The soul of 'ere - W as not dead, it migrated among the English, th t° be quickened and invigorated. With respect h air shameful oppression of Russia of that unhappy Ita I ‘}' he held one opinion, singular though it was, , ttiYa,i,!bat if this country set a few ships of the line to taw at or would send them, the Emperor Nicholas p l . ne br ought to r eason . Th e s hi ps s h oul d not b e t'boanded by a C a p ta i n B rown—nor should they display ii : ornplacency displ a y e d on b oar d t h e T alavera. If 01,1 a been on board th a t vesse l, at the r i sk of be i ng a, ed t or se nt i nto Siberia, he would have told the ria, ar lt Nichol as , t h at t h e tr i dent of England was never 1, 1 4 r1 in favour of tyranny—that its prongs always were tilki " 4 the defence of liberty. He would say, and the h Ambassad or in this country might prosecute him ha e i . Pleas eds that he d es pi se d an d u tt er l y contemned the It tk ; of Rus s i a—t h at he cons i dered him as a monster of kicerat---(lmmense cheering.) He had heard of the a t 4 Ya- -those cann ib a l s t h at d ran k t h e b loo d o f t h e i r vic al' Yet he did not deem them more savage than the mis- N rit Autocrat. The cold-heart e d crue l ty o f a B ur k e it 4 Bishop had been held up to the di.gust of the world; 4,, tle ver was a subj ec t pl ace d i n a di ssect i ng-room that Ils' y 'd such contumely as muc h as t h e savage who styled 'lk e Emperor Emperor of All the Russias. What he said he to t advisedly, and would be responsible for it ; and s t4 Tred the Chairman from any thing that might arise t°LL! re marks.—(Great applause.) i t Is it4.erapaniedconclusion b the toast was drank with loud cheer y waving of hats, &c. ' 4 4,1 t i ti t uns ex-director o f th e Ch ancery of Poland, re- Ishi ct an t" in a sh or t b ut elegant address in French, . 4 titt r '' a fter expr ess i ng t h e heartfelt gratitude of his tili„ Yotpi, fo r t h e sympathy expressed in the fate of their 4 natin, he said Poland existed now only in name. As ft nation, all its institutions were destro 'ed, and it had 10 ttilv ra , toe hope, still cherished by many of its exiled kti o ! , that at ,hope, future day a chanc e of their restoration tal4",t, arises which might be embraced with better suc 44`liall that of their late struggle. In conclusion, he 'ap e his ardent prayer that England might long con kt to flourish amidst her free institutions, and that her ki Ot,,e ,ght never feel the p ang o f b anishment from their 4.4'4 their political opinions._(Cheers.) l ' S lat. .th , Wool) gave the " Liberty of the Press," ~I "As drank with cheers. kites °°o L. ki. ty iti , STANHOPE proposed " Civil and religious .t it th, 4 , 1 over the World " He then went on to point ‘11 ) silty of if I '4, wh . every honest Member sent to the new Par: k, 7 92 'eh Was, to reduce the expenditure to the scale . 1 „ ,t o A "Poi oestroy the corn monopoly, the East India ' 1) , t Y; and the church monopoly.—(Loud cheers.) li t ; 1 r, 1 , , ;c 4 t was drank with loud cheers. alb, l ell, ! E a' gave--" The independence of the Tower o,,,,,h(ywnidlinlay they be represented in Parliament by 1. ' 1 4 4 . 41 th e egneenregr'uti'ca.llY support the principles of Re f ,i,e,,Ll with s oul , remat,okt:reenstfs. enforcing n g le" which he the practical results thk.lZ'n eenn 'Y, and cheap Government. ‘l tii.lnioN, gave kr, ' nutril " The greatest happiness to the itii,t44ezed, aiffeor,rdaednd for the longest timer a toast which, a happy contrast to the system under t ) , 0 . shad t; Obs "dr which was founded on the greatest ;. , 4 e great s st number, and for a very long time. I ' . : ' t a , t c a Z i ctu NaoN gave " The people of Scotland and Iran'bay they receive their full share of political ~t, , tiuk with cheers. '4l l tvi t h lE gave " Ch urc h R e f orm, " w hi c h was re -oia loud che er i ng , It Was, he contended, abso- O 5 'Ponsible that the people of this country could con ,t't+ta,leaYa for regim ents of so - ldiers and parks of artillery, k f,,, sinecure cl e r gy to extract a few pounds of )tar,) art impoverished and unwilling peasantry.- 111111a.r..arizeo proposed the healths of the Members .k tl'ilese3c, which he prefaced with an eloquent eulo '„tk Fl the public services of each. The toast was , I. t ll. b i th loud cheering, : 1 04: 1 °n. Members returned thanks, and each avowed `,2lotion of again presenting himself to the electors al 4,.‘t election.—(Cheers.) 'l ( ti a lt - etin g did not separate till a late Lour. 1 ,t,,ilitorle tmhe el representation ot th e 'll whose nries are u . ithi n the brackets are ower Hamlets. ; COURT CIRCULAR. The Baron de MAKEUIL, the French Minister, had an interview with Viscount PALMERSTON at the Foreign office yestertity. Their MAJESTIES honoured the Earl of ALBEMARLE with their company at dinner yesterday, at the Stud•bouse. The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND and a select party were present to meet the KING and QUEEN. Sir JAMES LYON, the Governor of Barbadoes, and Sir CHARLES :MARSHALL, recently appointed Chief Justice of Ceylon, transacted business at the Office of the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department yesterday. Viscount PALMERSTON visited Sir JAMES GRAHAM yesterday at the Admiralty. Despatches from Barbadoes were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Arrival—Viscount MELBOURNE yesterday, from the seat of Earl COWPER, at Panshanger, Herts. Their MAJESTIES will arrive to-morrow at half-past one o'clock, from Windsor, at St. James's Palace, when his MAJESTY will give audiences to the nobility now in town. Lord FITZROY SOMERSET held a military levee, this day, at the Horse Guards, which was well at tended. Despatches were received this forenoon at the Foreign-office, from Paris, and at the Colonial-office, from St. Lucia. Lord and Lady HOWICK are expected to arrive at Alnwick on Monday. We understand the Loan CHANCELLOR, Lord ALTHORP, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and other distinguished characters, are shortly expected on a visit to Earl GREY, at Howick. —Newcastle Chronicle. The Literary Union has, we hear, been com pelled to abandon for the present its purposed removal to Mr. PONSONBY'S house, in St. James's-square. A large meeting of the electors of the Northern Division of Devon was held at Snuthmolton, on Thursday last, when it was agreed by a large majority to support the Hon. NEWTON FELLOWES aa a candidate. An express arrived from Sir T. ACLAND, whilst the meeting was holding, declining to stand. About twenty gentlemen after wards dined together, and a handsome piece of plate was presented to Lord EBRlNGTON.—Sherborne Journal. Captain POPHAM HILL, who commands the Marines on board the Donna Maria, raised above 200 men for the service of the young QUEEN, principally from his own tenantry in the Isle of Wight. Lord JOHN RUSSELL has experienced a severe attack of cholera during the past week, at Dart. mouth, but we are happy to say he was recovering when the last accounts came away.—Devonport Telegraph. Lord JOHN RUSSELL is strongly opposed by the Torie=, in Devonshire, who were even ready to have supported the other Reform Candidate, Mr. BULTELL, in preference to his Lordship. The Reformers, however, have taken melaures for the purpose of preventing the suc cess of any such project. The clergy will never forgive Lord JOHN, for taking up the cause of the Dissenters, and leading that cause to a triumphant result. They do not hesitate to say, that the repeal of the Test Act led to the Emancipation of the Catholics, and the freedom of both to Parliamentary Reform, which, they are well aware, must he followed up by a commutation of Tithes and the Reform of the Church.— Christian Advocate. A report was very generally circulated in the city at 'Change time yesterday of the arrival of an ex press with intelligence that Lord JONII RUSSELL had died of cholera.--The report we believe to be without founda tion. We know that arrangements had been made for his Lordship' reception at Modbury the beginning of last week, and that he was prevented by indisposition from attending, which will account naturally enough for the origin of the rumour. We also know that his Lordship subsequently continued his electioneering tour through South Devon ; that on Wednesday he visited Teignmouth, where he was sufficiently recovered to encounter Mr. PRAED in debate, and leave him the worst of the argu ment; that on Thursday he reached Newton, where he again explained his views respecting the Tithes and the Corn Laws ; and that, on being warned by the Board of Health of the existence of cholera at the town of Ash burton, he postponed his intended visit, and retired to Endersleigb, the seat of his Grace the Duke of BEDFORD. The unfavourable statements were so contradictory in their particulars, that we may hope, though without po sitive evidence, to maintain our speculation that the re port will turn out to be incorrect. It is unnecessary for us to state that great anxiety was manifested on the occa sion. The feelings of our readers will bo a sufficient tes timony to that fact. name. AN INDEPENDENT ELECTOR.—Mr. 11M, FORD, when on his canvass, was asked by one of his father's tenants whether he approved of and would sup- port the union of the church and state. " Certainly," said the candidate. " Then," was the honest reply of the the farmer, "I will not give you my vote; I will support the man who will strive to separate the two as soon as possible."—Leicester Chronicle. Admiral CODRINGTON, who is a candidate for Devonport and Stonehouse, received last week an invi tation to mortal combat from a gentleman of the name of WOOLCOMBE, who had taken offence at something which had been written or spoken by Sir EDWARD. The hero of Navar:no, however, had no taste for this mode of set tling a dispute, and, at a dinner given to him a few days afterwards, he alluded to the affair as follows It might, perhaps, be thought that he was fond of fighting, but there was no man who liked it less ; and he never in his life took his ship's company into action without feeling a heavy responsibility a to the necessity of risking their lives. He thought the Town-hall the proper place for settling a dispute like that between Mr. WOOLCOMBE and himself, and he should be glad to meet him there, and the constituency would then be able to judge who was in the wrong." A Noble Marquis is said to have broken up his game preserves in consequence of having lost his boroughs. If such be the case, we can only say that it will have been one happy result of the Reform Bill, which even its most sanguine friends had not anticipated. ZOIIRAB, THE HOSTAGE.—We are re quested to state, that this new work, by the author of " Haiji Baba," will be published on Saturday next by RICHARD BENTLEY, New Burlington street, and may be had of all respectable booksellers, and at all the principal libraries in the kingdom. Orders should, therefore, be given immediately to ensure early copies of the work. Agents for Scotland, Messrs. BELL and BRADFUTE, Edin burgh ; and for Ireland, Mr. JOHN CUMMING, Dublin. A circular has just been sent to all the incum bents, by the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty's letters patent under the Great Seal, to inquire into the revenues of all ecclesiastical benefices, donatives, perpetual curacies, and ehapelriea. The circu!ar contains 32 articles of inquiry relative to each incumbency, to which answers are desired. —Exeter Gazette. OPENING THE WIGAN AND NEWTON RAILWAY.—On Monday this railway was opened. The length of the railway is seven miles. The Leeds, Liver pool, and Manchester canals are crossed by two iron bridges. There is no perceptible change from the level throughout the line. The average time required to perform the dis tance with four carriages and 23 passengers is 15 minutes. Birmingham Journal. We hear that active steps are being taken to carry the projected railway from Brighton to London into effect. It is intended to apply to Parliament for a Bill.— This scheme will unquestionably meet with strenuous opposition from the coachmasters and others concerned in the transit of passengers and goods. A calculation has been made that the railway will cost 180,0001. Passengers will be able, should the project succeed, to be convoyed to London in two hours.—Brighton Paper. COLONEL GEORGE LLOYD HODGES.— This gallant gentleman, who distinguished himself in the late struggles in Portugal (as was stated in a Limerick Contemporary), is a "true born Irishman." He is the son of the late GEORGE HODGES, El. of Old Abbey, in the county of Limerick, brother of Mrs. DOCTOR LLOYD, of Limerick, and brother-in-law to Counsellor FARRELL, the assistant barrister for Kilkenny. Colonel Honces en tered the British army at an early age, as an ensign in the 61st foot, and soon after exchanged into the 3d Dragoons, in which regiment he served in all the Peninsular catn paigns—but for a considerable part of that interesting pe riod, he served on the personal Staff of the late Major-Ge neral SONTAG, and also in the Staff of Major-General Cox, then Governor of the fortress of Almeida ; he still held at unattached rank in the British army, and it was during his sojourn in Portugal during the late war, that he made that collection of Portugue•e music, so much ad mired, and lately published under the head of " Portuguese Melodies ; " and until he lately went to Portugal, at the head of the British Volunteers, he was the editor and principal conductor of the Court Journal published in London. Colon e l HODGES is the intimate and personal friend of Mr. 0. CAVE, the Member for this county.— Tipperary Free Press. ALARMING CASE OF CIIOLERA.—A young man, named CHARLES FELTHAM, an officer of the F. division, No. 86, was last evening at the station-house, Covent-garden, apparently in the enjoyment of the most robast health, performing his duty, and was conversing with his brother officers in a cheerful manner, when he was seized with spasms and cramps in his hovels and legs. He was instantly conveyed home by direction of Mr. THOMAS, the superintendent, and was attended by medi cal gentlemen, who pronounced it a case of the most de cided cholera, and notwithstanding every means were used to save him, he expired in a few hours. FELTHAM Was a very powerful man, 26 years of age,—his strength was so extraordinary that he has lifted a 14-stone man from the ground on the palm of his right hand. He was a most temperate man, of exceedingly regular habits, and, having a very florid 'complexion, had the appearance of csegntryman. His sudden death has excited a great deal of alarm in the division, which had previously lost three of their most powerful and healthy men. At an early hour on Saturday morning, as the gardener in the employ of WAKEFIELD, Esq., of Bury-street, Upper Edmonton, was engaged in the grounds in front of his master's residence, he saw some object sus pended from the lamp-iron above the gate ; on a nearer approach it proved to be a young and interesting woman, who still exhibited signs of life. Fortunately the man had his pruning -knife in his hand, with which he instantly cut her down ; and, surgical assistance being promptly obtained, in a few hours she was completely resuscitated. She was the same day conveyed before the local authorities of the place, and, in answer to the interrogatories put to her, she stated that having been seduced and subsequently deserted by a married gentleman residing at Edmonton, she had been driven by despair to make the rash attempt on her life, which, in consequence of the conduct of her seducer, had become insupportable to her. She was, after a suitable admonition, ordered to be taken care of in the poor-house. On the night prior to the attempt the un happy creature, whose name we understand is JONES, was seen wandering about the neighbourhood in a state of mind bordering on distraction. THE FLEET.—We learn with much regret that the Fleet will take a final leave of our harbour on Sunday next. Yesterday Sir P. MALCOLM arrived in this City, and was shortly afterwards waited on by the Mayor, the Mayor elect, the Sheriffs, and a Deputation, consisting of SAMUEL LANE, Esq., President of the Com mittee of Merchants, R. SAINTHILL, Esq., and GEORGE ATKINS, Esq. Secretary, who presented the gallant Ad miral with the Memorial from the County and City of Cork, to the Admiralty, praying for the restoration of the Naval Flag and Arsenal at Cove. The deputation were received in the most kind manner by Sir PULTENEY, who gave them to understand that arrangements were in con templation, which, if they did not go to the full extent of the wishes of the inhabitants of Cork, would, at least, go very far in affording em ployment to the distressed artisans, who have already suffered in consequence of this decision of the Go vernment. It is stated that in future naval stores will he kept on board vessels in the harbour, to facilitate the re pairs of the ships of war on the Irish station. The vessels to remain at present are, the Stag, S nake, Tr inculo, Onyx, Jupiter,and the Messenger steamer, which will be joined by the Nimrod, when she returns from Dublin, whither she has been sent with despatches. CHEPSTOW.—Considerable excitement was caused here on Sunday evening, by the Sheriff's officers and assistants having blockaded the house of Mrs. ARUN DEL, in Bridge-street, for the caption of the Rev. RICH ARD KELLY. It appears that Mr. KELLY had been the priest of a parish near London, about four years ago, and had some money transactions with an aged lady named BARNES, of his congregation, in which he is alleged to 'iave lodged 5,0001. in his own, instead of the lady's Proceedings were commenced to recover the amount, and KELLY filed a bill in Chancery against Mrs. BARNES and the bankers. Some time since Mrs. BARNES obtained 2,000/., and it was submitted that the matter should be left to arbitration. Mr. CAMPBELL, the bar rister (as arbitrator), decided that KELLY was indebted to Mrs. BARNES in 2,9881., and upon non-payment an at tachment directed to this Sheriff of the county issued, and this led to the surrounding of Mrs. ARUNDEL'S house, as stated above. As the officers could not make the cap tion on the Sabbath, they determined to watch and follow the defendant till midnight, and he, being informed of this, proceeded to the Beaufort Arms Inn, about 11 o'clock, followed by the officers, and soon after 12 one of the Un der-sheriff's clerks arrested him, and immediately pro ceeded to the county gaol, where he was safely lodged soon after 3 o'clock on Monday morning. —Monmouth GREAT NATURAL CURIOSITY.—On board the brig Charles, Captain DEvEasux, of Boston, which arrived at New York last Sunday, from Buenos Ayres, was brought a great natural curiosity, being an amphibi ous male animal, of the size of a young heifer, and in ap pearance partaking of three species of animals, the elephant, the hog, and the jackass. He was taken on one of the large rivers, about 1,000 miles north-west of the city of Buenos Ayres, by some of the inhabitants of the country. Having been seen to leave the river, and go upon land some distance, twenty men on horseback divided themselves into four parties, to intercept him on his return. One party fell in with and succeeded in capturing him with the " lasso" (a noose of hide), with which those countrymen are very expert. The animal is remarkably swift and powerful, but quite docile. A letter from a gentleman many years a resident in Buenos Ayres and Brazil, repre sents this animal as very curious and rare, and an inhabi tant of the interior of South America. The owner, who intends the animal for exhibition, is a man of large landed property, but at present unacquainted with the English language. The merchants to whom he is consigned intend to have him brought in the brig to this city, where he ' will first be exhibited. 'The denomination given by natu ralists to this animal is the " Tapit."—Boston Patriot. The great Birmingham meeting of the 7th May last was postponed to the last moment, not that any one of us regarded the feelings or the opinions of the Ministers, but solely because we expected daily to receive accounts of the creation of Peers, which would have rendered our meeting of the 7th of May unnecessary. It has always been my policy, and that of the excellent friends with whom I am associated, never to expose our brave and patriotic countrymen to the trouble and loss of attend ing these great meetings unless the urgent necessity of our country required it. This was the reason, and the sole reason, why our meeting of the 7th May was delayed so long ; but the very moment we found it probable that the Peers would not be created, we produced instantly two hundred thousand men at the foot of New Hall Hill, and within the next ten days—viz. on the 10th and the 16th of May —w e produced two other meetings of nearly equal ❑umbers on the same spot. With what effect these meetings were attended I leave the country to decide. I did not, however, content myself with those exhibitions of public feeling and determination ; but being convinced that the liberty of the country was in danger, and that ex treme measures were necessary to prevent anarchy, I thought it my duty to participate in operations in Lon don, which would have produced a meeting of eight hundred thousand Persons upon Hampstead Heath within another week, had it not been that the retirement of the Duke of WELLINGTON rendered such an extreme measure unnecessary. The meeting upon Hampstead Heath was abondoned because the Duke retired. The meeting upon New Hall Hill on the 7th of May would also have been abandoned if the Peers had been created. I have never shown such a love of public meetings as to hold them without necessity, nor such a fear of their consequences as to shrink from holding them whenever the ❑ecessity arose. With regard to Mr. COBBETT'S assertion that the Decla ration against the Duke of WELLINGTON was drawn up at the instance of Ministers, I have only to say, that the subject of it was known to no one out of the Birmingham Council, until it appeared in print. It was our intention to get that declaration signed by three millions of men, and we should have done so, if the Duke hail taken office; not that we desired to serve Lord GREY and his administration, but that we desired to break down the spirit of despotism in England, and throughout Europe.— Extract of a letter from Mr. ATTWOOD in the Morn. Citron. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday an inqui sition was taken before Mr. STIRLING, at the Chalk-farm Tavern, on the body of Mr. CHARLES PEARSON HORM E, aged 49, an artist, of No. 33, Hernies-street, Re gent's Park, who destroyed himself by swallowing a quantify of laudanum. JAMES DopswEcr., a waiter at Chalk-farm, stated that the deceased, who was quite a stranger to him, came to the house about half-past four o'clock on Friday afternoon. Tie sat down in one of the boxes, and called for a glass of warm gin and water. Wit ness served him, and he paid for it. In about ten minutes he called for a second glass, and shortly after for a third, all of which he paid for. The deceased then went into another box, where he was more out of sight, and lie heard no more of him till he heard that he had taken laudanum. Another waiter stated, that he found the deceased in a state of insensibility in the box. A surgeon was immedi ately sent for, who used the stomach-pump, and adminis tered medicine, but without effect. Mr. W. BYE, of 22, May-street, Camden-town, stated that he had known the deceased about six years; he was a very strict punctual man in all his dealings. He called upon witness about two days ago to pay a bill, but he did not notice anything particular about him at the time. He had a brother, who was a Lieutenant in the army, who committed suicide a few years ago. The verdict of the Jury was, that the deceased had destroyed himself in a fit of temporary in sanity. SECON ' ll EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock, THE LONDON GAZETTE THIS EVENING. FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. IS. The King has been graciously pleased to appoint the Hon. William Temple, late Secretary of his Majesty's Embassy at the Court of St. Petersburgh, to be his Majesty's Minister Plenipo tentiary to the King of Saxony. COmmissions by the Lord Lieutent of the County of Worcester. Worcestershire Militia. Ensign Jones, jun. to be Lieutenant, vice B. Albrecht re signed. C. Hughes, Gent. to be Ensign, Vice B. Jones, jun. promoted. E. C. Jones, Gent. to be ditto, vice B. Jones, sen. resigned ; September 11. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of North umberland. Northumberland and Newcastle Yeomanry Cavalry.—Lieut. It. Hedley to be Captain, vice Algood, resigned • Cornet S. Parker to be Lieutenant, vice Halley, promoted; W. Cuthbert, Gent, to be Cornet, vice Parkes, promoted, May 31. DECLARATIONS GEORGE MACFARRFN, OF flowland-street, INSOLVENCY. St. Pancras, bookseller. BENJAMIN FLIGHT and JOSEPH ROBSON, St. Mar tin's-lane, organ-budders. JOSEPH WIDDOWSON, Fleet-street, jeweller. WILLIAM JONES and WILLIAM BAUCUTT, Soho. square, silk.merchants. BA JOHN CLARKE, Marga N r KRUPTS. et-street, Spa-fields, ginger beer dealer, to surrender Oct. 5, at two, and 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Wilson, Red Lion-square; Green, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, official assignee. JOHN BLACKETT STANLEY, King-street, Tower-hill, ship-chandler, Sept. 26, at eleven, and Oct. 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. King, Horselydown-lane, Southwark ; Cannon, Lothbury, official assignee. WILLIAM DUNSTAN, Penryss, Cornwall, flour-factor, Sept. 26 and Oct. 30, at twelve, at the Fountain Inn, Ports mouth. JAMES STONEHILL, Wit ney, Oxfordshire, slater, Sept. 26, and Oct. 30, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Witney. Close, Furnivars-Inn, Holborn. GEORGE WOODS, Portsea, Southampton, sadler, Sept. 26, and October 30, at two, at Totternell's Commercial Hotel, St. George's-square, Portsea. Solicitors, Mr. Joseph Ivimey, Har pur-street, Red Lion-square; Mr. Archibald Low, St. George's square, Portsea. WILLIAM ROWLEY, Great Queen's-street, Lincoln's Inn_ fields, saddlers'-ironmonger, Oct. 5, at one, and Oct. 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edmund, \ ‘alker, and Rickards, Lincoln's Inn-fields; Kitchener, Lothbury, official assignee. EDWARD LEIGH, Ashton.under-Lyne, Lancashire, cot ton-spinner, Oct. 4,5, a nd 30, a t two, at the York Hotel, 'Man chester. Willis, Watson, Bower, and Willis, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury, London; Joynson, Manchester. ALEXANDER BACK, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, corn. dealer, Oct. 1 and 30, at ten, at the offices of Messrs. Whitehead and Robinson, Huddersfield. Clarke, Richards and Medcalf, Lincoln's Inn.fields, London; Whitehead and Robinson, Hud dersfield. JOHN HASLAM, New Basford, Nottinghamshire, lace-ma nufacturer, Sept. 26 and Oct. 30, at eleven, at the George the Fourth, Nottingham. J o h nson and ' Wesherall, Temple, London ; Fearnhead and Campbell, Nottingham. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. E. B. Lovell and J. Stubbs, Birmingham, bankers. W. Brown and T. Howard, Whiston, Lancashire, brewers. W. Prosser and W. H. P. Prosser, Mitre-court, Milk-street, wine -merchants. It. Sowdon and L. Cross, Old Kent road, haberdashers. F. Flower and S. Rogers, Strand, wine-merchants. The Werneth Colliery Company, Oldham and Manchester, so far as regards J. Schofield, of Hollingwood. D. Dale, R. Dale, and W. Dale, Liverpool, tea-dealers. J. Spencer and W. Allen, Hatton garden, linen-drapers. F. W. James, sen. and jun., and R. Felton, jun., Worcester, hop-merchants. S. S. Tremain, E. Seccombe, and J. Vian, Plymouth, linen_ drapers. J. Wills and T. F. Evans, jun., Spital-square, Bishopsgate street, coke.contractors. P. Wright and J. Oates, Sheffield, file-manufacturers. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. D ONCASTER MEETING. DONCASTER, SUNDAY motile Several arrivals have taken place in the course of the last four-and -twenty hours, and, without being so full as we could have wished or expected, the town is rapidly as suming the bustle and animation consequent upon a great Racing Meeting. No exertions have been spared to pro mote the comfort and convenience of the visitors, and no means neglected of affording accommodation and pro tection on the race-course, which, by Mr. Lockwood's efforts, is brought into beautiful order for running. Inde pendent of the racing there will be plenty to occupy as well the votaries of pleasure as the man of business. The Theatre will be open every evening with the Hunchback, kc. The race balls will be on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday; and on Thursday the visitors will be gratified with a " magnificent balloon" ascent. The sales of racing stock will be unusually numerous. The entire stud of the Hon. E. Petre will be sold on Thursday, and on that and the previous day the annual Underley stud sale will take place ; altogether nearly a hundred lots of blood-stock are advertised. The new Betting Rooms are opened with still greater splendour than usual, and have al ready received a long list of subscriptions ; they form the centre-point to sporting gentlemen from all parts of the country, and are admirably adapted, by their immense size and extent of accommodation, to all the purposes re• quired. The attendance this afternoon was highly re spectable, and some interesting betting took place; pre viously to quoting it, however, we may be allowed to make a few remarks on the all-absorbing race of the week. It is allowed by those conversant with racing matters that the ensuing St. Leger has seldom, if ever, been surpassed in the character of the horses engaged. That it has been a remarkably good b-tting race may be collected from the quotations during the last three or four months ; no less than thirteen horses have been backed at odds varying from 9 to 2 to 13 to 1, and several others at no less than 20 to 1. Altogether the odds have been taken ; about 40 horses out of the '73 entered, so that those who have been betting round without suffering " fancies" to interfere must have made capital books. Nor can we call to mind any St. Leger wherein horses have met upon such equal terms, for nearly all have proved themselves good public runners, the north country ones especially. Retainer's running is excellent, save and except his race with Nito cris and Lady Barbara; Margrave's pretensions rest upon his two-year-old performances, which were very promis ing, and were supported by Archibald's running in the spring; he ran fourth for the Derby, and it is said made no effort for the race, as St. Giles (who was in the same stable) had it all his own way. Nitocris was defea.ed in the Spring, and beat Retainer in the August Meeting : she is much fancied in the north, and is own sister to a St. Le ger winner (Memnon.) Julius has never yet been beaten, and stands high in favour, but he does not appear to be in the very best favour possible. Ludlow is a remarkably fine colt, and goes like an Eclipse. Birdcatcher, Byzantium, Rustic, and Physican, look in excellent trim ; and Fang, of whose merits her friends speak somewhat loudly, continues to be looked upon as one of the best public horses in the race. The last new favourite, brother to Marie, has been backed freely for some days past, but for what reason we know not ; his performance in the York Spring Meeting was very indifferent. The sums given, and reported to have been given, for some of the favourites are quite unprecedented, and will serve to show the esti mation in which they are held, at the same time that the prices quoted are outrageously extravagant. At two years old Fang was purchased for 3,300 guineas, with condi tions which made the price equal to 4,000: at the same age Conrad was bought for 2,000 guineas, and Francesca for 1,200 guineas, half the Champagne Stakes, and other provisos fivourable to the seller. Margrave cost 2,500 guineas, Trustee 2,000, and Gratis 1,000 guineas! The ott flits are that Lord Exeter refused 5,000 guineas for Beirain, before it was decided not to send him to the north ; that 4,000 were off red for Nitocris, 1,000 for Ludlow, and 6,000 for Retainer ! !—and yet people talk of the bad ness of the throes. The field on Tuesday will, numerically, be much smaller than usual ; this is in consequence of the Stakes being for the first time assimilated to the Derby, and the effect of which is to keep out horses who would otherwise be started solely for the purpose of creating an artificial field (and thereby winning bets on the number), or perhaps from still less honourable motives. DONCASTER, MONDAY' MORNING. At the Rooms last night, Mr. Beardsworth formally declared that he had not sold Ludlow, and that he meant to run him to win, but that, in the meantime, he was open to a purchaser, his price being 5,0001. (the sum re ported to have been given by the Fang party.) Confi dence, however, is far from being restored, and betting is remarkably dull in consequence. We give the odds up to the post time. 7 to 1 agst Lord Kelburne's Retainer 7 to 1 agst Mr. Richardson's Fang 7 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Brother to Maria 9 to 2 west Mr. Watts's Nitocris 10 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Margrave 12 to 1 agst Sir R. Bulkeley's Birdcatcher 12 to I agst Lord Cleveland's Trustee 14 to 1 agst Mr. Skipsey's Physician 16 to 1 agst lord Exeter's Byzantium 17 to 1 agst Mr. Beardsworth's Ludlow 18 to I agst Mr. S. L Fox's Julius Extract of a letter from Gibraltar, dated 27th August__" In August, 1827, a flagrant branch of inter national law was committed under the guns of this garri son, in the capture of the Lord Rawdon, a vessel belong ing to this port, and sailing under a British pass and sag. After a lapse of five years, the commander of the flotilla which took the Lord Rawdon was arrested in this town on the 24th inst. on a charge of piracy, and committed to the felons' prison. The master of the Lord Rawdon, and another person belonging to her, have been incarcerated in Cadiz ever since her capture, and are under sentence of transportation to Ceuta." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. In a letter from (we take for granted) a military correspondent, under the signature of " Veteranus," sonic strictures are levelled against abuses in the administration of the army —a subject always, and very deservedly, of im portance in the eyes of Englishmen. Hopes are expressed by our correspondent, that among the projected plans of Reform, those called for in the military service of the country will not be for gotten ;—of course, we reply, they will not. It is said by this writer, that of late years the list of King's aides-de-camp has undergone an en ormous increase since the time of George the present number amounting to between 50 and 60 I If the rate of augmentation be, as re presented by this gentleman, it is no doubt something altogether monstrous, and may well provoke a strict inquiry, and a severe repression: but we confess that, without further evidence, the fact appears to us incredible ; and our persua sion is, that our correspondent must have re ceived erroneous intelligence, whatever quarter he may have consulted. During the reign of George IV., a period of military glitter and os tentation, the number of King's aides-de-camp may have experienced some increase from 12, at which, says " Veteranus," they stood under the preceding Monarch. But sure we are, they never reached one-half of either 50 or 60. Since the above sentences were written, an army list for last May has been placed before us ; and sure enough the gross number of King's aides-de-camp is nothing short of 51. Part of this catalogue, in deed, explains itself, and other parts may possibly admit of explanation ; but there will remain, we fear, no small portion of it to which no other description is applicable than that of abuse of patronage. There are, it is to be remembered, eleven of the King's aides-de-camp who have nothing to do with the army, and of whom, therefore, the army at least (we say nothing of the country) has no title to complain. These are colonels of militia regiments and of yeo manry corps, whose accession to the honour of King's aides-de-camp may have been designed by his Majesty as a cheap compliment to those amphibious—that is to say, half civil, half mili tary—bodies. Again, we find upon the list of aides-de-camp the names of several officers who were formerly upon the household staff of George IV. It does not appear whether the rank of aide-de-camp to William IV. is more than nominal in such cases, as the entree at Court is sometimes given to persons in official attendance there, and not withdrawn when they retire from office. The mischief, it is true—if the thing be mischievous—has been already done ; all such gentlemen, who were lifted into aides-de-camp of George IV., having at the time obtained their rank of colonel in the army, which, generally speaking, is not extinguishable, but for improper conduct—thus opening a sort of back stairs for favourites to the higher walks of the profession. Still, if these protkes of George IV. merely continue to hold the name of aide-de-camp without pay or privilege an nexed to it, King William's effective roll will pro bably be diminished by a dozen further names. Nevertheless, sufficient lurks behind to call for grave censures on the practice of establishing this Royal and partial road to fortune in behalf of a few minions of the Court. We have looked over the array of them, and, with the exception of Dickson Jones, of the Engineers, and two or three others, we can find no names that would recommend their bearers to such an exclusive and decisive preference over the great body of the profession as is indicated by this title of aide-de-camp to the King. The observation, moreover, applies to a list of more than thirty officers. But why should rank be conferred at all by virtue of such an office ? These irregular short cuts to station are always invidious, and discouraging to men without interest,—that is, to nine-tenths of the British army. Rank, by purchase, has its advantages, even for those who cannot purchase, and is accessible to every man with money, good character, and a certain, though very ordinary, education. Rank, through selection for distinguished services performed, is undoubtedly the best bestowed of all, but the service ought to be specified in the same Gazette which publishes the promotion—invariably so in instances where an officer is hoisted over the heads of a multitude of others long senior to himself— and still more especially, where the step conferred is so eminent and important as that of a full Colonel in the army. The " duties" of aide- de-camp to the King are a farce ; they are at least so trivial, as not to admit of being in any manner associated with, or introductory to, a warrior's promotion. If Court influence distri .. butes favo . urs, let them be favours suitable to the Court, embroidery, feathers, diamonds, gilt sticks, pretty sounding names, betokening cer tain kinds of Court attendance, and so forth ; but to annex or tab to an individual at his en _ ;ranee on a fashion - able ball-room routine a title which naturally belongs to, and ought to follow, the performance of gallant exploits before an enemy, is of all things the most preposterous and inconsistent. If an officer be deemed worthy of a valuable step over the heads of his fellow soldiers, we repeat that the promotion, and the species of merit - wherein it originates, ought to be gazetted as a military, not a Courtly transac tion, nor made a resting-pl Ace for an idle and inefficient fine gentleman, or a sop for some restive member of the aristocracy. Among the present King's aides-de-camp, there are eight or nine Lords and " Honourables," all made Colonels, to the necessary postponement of the claims of their superior officers. It would be in vidious to mention names ; and as we war with sys tems only, let our readers find the application. It appears to us that the rank of Colonel ought no longer to be obtained as an appendage to the ap pointment of King's aide-de-camp. The exist• mg usage affords such a temptation to abuse, that the abuse is unavoidable, and we doubt not will, ere long, be abolished. Another topic re ferred to by our correspondent, is that of the Foot Guards, against which he objects that the intermediate stages between ensign and colonel are too few, each promotion, in fact, giving two steps at the same time, S and thus prematurely filling the list of general officers with Guardsmen. The Foot Guards we admit to be an efficient corps, but their chief merit is not found among the commissioned officers, nor is it produced by their exertions. The non-commissioned officers of the Guards are they who form the soldiers, and who maintain their discipline. The Guards, it is true, are not exposed to the vicissitudes of colonial service, and they enjoy other exemp tions and advantages unknown to the regiments of the line. Yet, strange to say, whether the duty of these troops be more severe and frequent, or whether it be that the princi pal scenes of it lie in the two dissipated capitals of the United Kingdom, the fact is undoubted, that the mortality of the Guards ex ceeds considerably that of any other regiment. However, to meet more directly the objections usually brought against the organization and continuance of these regiments, we may remark hat our ()Yin objection to their actual state does ► not affect so much the more rapid advance of f the officer, the superior pay of the soldier, or the exemption of both from colonial and other irk ' some service, as the original composition ~ f the whole of the Household troops. A select corps they are, and a select corps they ought to be. Their service ought to be confined to its present theatres, and their pay ought to be superior to that of other regiments, because a metropolis is a dearer quarter than most others. But we would have the Guards selected on different principles from those which now regulate their composi tion. The officer ought not to be chosen for high connection, or strong interest, nor the men for size. Both ought to be selected for military merit, and that alone. The best officers throughout the whole line, and the most meri torious and exemplary of the troops, ought to be the favoured candidates for admission into the three regiments of Guards. This household corps ought to be held up as the point to which individual ambition throughout the whole army should aspire. A reception into it ought to he set forth for the profession as an eminent and ennobling military honour, and thus not merely choice and perfect body of troops would be easily formed for home service, but a feeling of emulation would pervade the entire army, and each individual officer and soldier of the march ing regiments would say to himself, " Perhaps next year I may have the luck to be promoted into the Guards." The French Guard under Napoleon, the flower unquestionably of his long victorious armies, was, if not exclusively, in great part formed on this principle of draughting from the other regiments; and the selection was always made in favour of the most distinguished officers and soldiers throughout the service. The change deserves to be well considered ; it would, in our judgment, super-. , ede the necessity for a reduction of the Foot Guards to the level of the line, and would be more than an equivalent for such a supposed re formation.—Times. In our paper of yesterday we brought down the commercial operations which influence the foreign exchanges and practice of banking to the close of the year 1815, by showing that from the commencement of the war, in 1793, down to that time, the exports from Great Britain to Europe, the Americas, and Africa, had ex ceeded the imports from thence to an amount approximating, in the aggregate of the 23 years, to 400,000,000/., which amount had been equal ized in mercantile account, by a corresponding amount of bills draws in difl•erent parts of the world, on account of the British Government, for subsidies, espionage, and supply of the fleets and armies every where distributed. The effect which these combined operations had upon the rate of exchange we will now explain. The rate of exchange between any two places which con stitutes the par is that amount of the current money of account or of exchange which is equal to a given weight of gold or silver, whichever constitutes the standard of value in the several countries. In Hamburg and in Paris silver (as it is in almost every commercial country of the world, xcept England) is the standard of value ; in the former city, 13. 156. marks of account, and in Paris 25 francs 22 centimes, will, at all times, command as much silver as will be equal to 1/. in London ; 13.156 in Hamburg and 25.22 in Paris, are, therefore, the pars respectively be tween those two places and London. Yet Mr. Rothschild, before the Bank Committee, in answer to question 4,786, said there was no par—implying that he was either wilfully indis posed to answer the question honestly, or that he • is ignorant of what is really meant by the term par. However, as the transmission of bullion, whether in gold or in silver, involves both a risk and expense, which bills do not, the commercial oar is as much either under or over the above rates, which may be designated the intrinsic pars, as will be equal to the expense of risk and conveyance from one place to another. This, it will be perceived, is liable to vary from contin gent circumstances, although in times of unin terrupted intercourse it may be reduced to the nearest point of exactitude. Bills of exchange ire generally drawn at two or three months' date, ►nd the interest of the money may generally be considered equal to the expense of transmission ~f the metals; and it is probable that the prevail ing usances, or time at which bills are usually drawn, were originally fixed in reference to that expense. Be that as it may, the intrinsic pars of 13.156 in Hamburg and 25.22 in Paris will suffice for our purpose of illustration. It will ire remembered by all commercial men con versant with the period from 1793 downwards, that in 1809, when all the gold which had been nit into circulation from 1663 down to the then ime, had totally disappeared, and the stock in he Bank of England had been reduced from 7,855,470/. in 1808, to 3,652,4801. in 1809, that a ridiculous alarm prevailed in regard to n•hat was then, as now, termed an unfavourable rate of exchange ; the rate in Hamburg having altered from 13.156 to 10.687, and in Paris •rom 25.22 to 19.30. These rates of exchange making the guinea of 215., then the standard coin of the realm, worth as metal from 245. to 255., • he coin, as a matter of course, was all converted into bullion, and an article of merchandise. The excitement at length became so great, that in February, 1810, a Committee of Parliament was appointed to inquire " into the cause of the high price of gold bullion, and to take into con•. sideration the state of the circulating medium, and of the exchanges between Great Britain and fbreign parts." Of this Committee Mr. F. Horner was chairman, who appears to have had in his day I reputation for financial ability, to which he seems to have been just about as much entitled as Sir H. Parnell or the present Chancellor of the Exche quer are in theirs. The Committee sat, at intervals, rro m the 22d of February to the 25th of May, 1810, during which time they examined 30 per suns—then printed the questions and answers, with a report ; neither one nor the other of which contains a single word explanatory of the cause which it was the purport of the Committee to find out, although it might have been stated in 4 single line, it having been neither more nor less, wholly and exclusively, than the forced issue of the 400,000,000/. in amount of bills above stated. The utility, the foresight of that nota ble Committee, and the wisdom of those who gave evidence before it, will be best tested by the fact that the rate of exchange in Hamburg, which in 1809 had altered from 13.1 4 6 to 10.687, in 1811 further altered to 8.81, mid in Paris from 19.30 to 17.30, and gold in London from 90s. to 111 s. per oz., when the excitement abated. Such was the effect of forcing 20 to 25 millions of amount o f Government bills annu ally into circulation in foreign parts. Let us see, then, whether these great alterations in the rates of exchange and price of gold were unfit vourable or otherwise : the effect was, to enable the producer or dealer in British products, when