The Sun. — London, England, 1840-09-30 00:00:00

V irPN' IVG ED t.TION. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 30, Will be repeated the New Play, in riva Acts, written by James Sheridan Knowles. Esq.. entitled THE BRIDE OF MESSINA. John di Procida, Mr. Moore ; Fernando, Mr. Anderson ; Guiscardo, Mr. Cooper; isoline, Miss Ellen Tree. Alter which, PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. After which will he repeated a New Musical Drama, entitled THE GREEK BOY. Hulas. Madame Vestris ; Doge of Venice, 317. S. Jones ; Count llalveggic, Mr. Diddear ; Silvio, 31r. Keeley ; Claudio, Mr. Binge ; Bernardo. Mr. F. Matthews; Benedetta, Miss Cooper ; Constanza, Miss A. Taylor. On Thursday, The Bride of Messina, with the Greek Boy. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Seccnd Price, 33. 6d.; First and Second Circles. 3s. ; Second Price, =")s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, ; Gallery, Is. Dslors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to imminence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had so'ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bend-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Second Week of 111 r. Kenney's New Tragedy, entitled " The Sicilian Vespers," which has been crowned with complete success, and attracted brilliant overflows. Revival of" Jack Sheppard." THIS EVENING. SEPT. 30. Will be acted a New Tragedy, entitled THE SICILIAN VESPERS. Supported by Messrs. Elton, Saville, Hughes, Neville, Hes. :op, and Johnson, Miss Grant, and Mrs. Vining. To conclude with JACK SHEAPARD. Realizing all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivans. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. LAST WEEK OF THE 1 / 4 EAS , )N! ! MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY NEXT. GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAMPETRES, By Godfrey's unrivalled Band, Including all the Gems of the Season. BEETHOVEN'.S GRAND BATTLE SINFONIA, Ile vast Panorama al Fresco of Iceland and its Volcanoes, by Danson—Breaking up of the Ice—Melting of the Snows— Release and Departure of the Discovery Ship. Carter's astonishing " Koniaphostic," or "Lime Light. Eruption of Mount Hecla, with increased magnificence. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Feeding flour of the Carnivora, Five o'Clock. Concert at Five. Eruption at Eight. TO CORRESPONEIENTS, We cannot publish the letter of " John Bull." It casts a wicked imputation on one party for the purpose of screening at other ,sho has already been justly condemned. The h t er of " W. U." respecting the war between the Times and the Dispatch, enters too much into personalities. IG El W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW, :14 r tt•i: . 7 minutes alter 5 I Evening 24 minutes atter 5. .1 Le Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SUN corn• men,.ed at 10 millutes after Three. ...,:-' '':', l. 2 V • - ',-4 - ,--`C,. -,-- .C.....' m,- .1....., ,: , .if;,.. r .: ....- a \-....;Z: z .,({.( L '0., •,.....„ . ..:..-. 7 , :9 t : _,-;,-..,,..,..„..er-1,-,..,,,,1,,,,,,,„i5tv..7„...„ ZT) e , LONDON: WEDNES3AY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1840 The Morning Post yesterday quoted from the Quarterly Review, and praised it, the following passage, thus giving us the testimony of two Tories, both great authorities amongst the party, in favour of the sentiments expressed : Let landlords plant colonies on their commons, and bags, and mountains ; plant them under their own eye, upon right principles of colonization, in organic bodies, with powers of self-government ; with social privileges ; with the germs of village institutions, especially with that first principle of social life and organization, an effi cient ecclesiastical establishment in the centre. Restore something of the feudal principle into our tenure of land. Raze, if you like, to the ground half an overgrown metropolis, t,n l all the idle, gossiping, gaping, water ing places, where those men who ought to be each in their own parishes, ruling their estates as the re presentative qf the treat estate, the monarchy of the sealm, era fretting away time and money, and dig nity and intellect, is frivolous dissipations. if we are so fond of ruling—and ruling is, indeed, one nt our noblest duties—let us rule each in our appointed sphere. 'That p'rssion, which is now so common, of governing the country, while we neglect our tenants, is at least suspicious. Let each man take care of his own part, and the whole will take care of itself. .Bat without a landlord in every part of the empire.' cat reising faithfully and earnestly and affectionately the duties of a iittle monarch, and so carrying into the minutest details from day to day the principles of a pa►ernal government, the best laws and wisest le gislators, iitttinq as abstractions in the Senate, will only be a mockery. Then give to every landlord the best of coadjutors, appointed for hiss by God, a good reli gious clergyman, and let the Ci - Jurch - draw out 'ner own orgahizatien and machinery to meet the wants of the crisis, and rouse herself to fight her battles with firm ness and zeal, and depth of thought and of learning, without either compromise or intolerance—let all this be done, as it may be done, if each man will do his duty in his own family and his own heart, and we may yet live. 'FiiCSC are the only cures for our evils, the only answer to Mr. Carlyle's question on the condition of England." One of our Contemporaries has expressed some surprise at these sentiments ; to us they seem what may be expected. They quite accord with the principles and policy of the party. The landlords, who are principally Tories, in conjunction with the priests, reluse to allow the inhabitants of the towns to have bread ; and what so natural, there fore, as that they should raze their habitations ? is merciful in the Quarterly Review and the Post to introduce the Irish clearing system into Eng land, and at once put an end to half the inhabi tants of our towns, instead of starving them by de grees. We have had many curious importations from Ireland lately—such as red-hot parsons, half Orangemen, half Papists, who have assumed to be the organs of the once mild and careless Proestantism of England, furious Orange editors, who have become spokes- 1 men for the English clergy ; but this last impor tation of the clearing system, to be applied to the fair towns of England, is the most curious, and most calculated to surprise and even appal the Tories of the towns, who are lending their aid to tho:•.e ho destine them to annihilation. We have lately heard of Societies of Protestant Operatives at Manchester, Brighton, London, &c., but the ha 4 of them would be doomed by the charity of the Tory writers, as the Quarterly Review and the Post, to houseless starvation, like the serfs turned from rite estate of an Irish landlord. 'We are not particularly solicitous to notice the character given of those landowners from whom the regeneration of society is expected to come, but the Reviewer describes them as " fretting away time, and money, and di gn i ty , an d i nte ll ect , i n f r i vo l ous diss..pation ;" but we are solicitous that our readers should notice the wish to restore feudal times in England. Are they aware what this means The Reviewer would re-establish serfdom or pet sonal slavery, every landlord exercising, like a great slave-owner on his plantation, the duties of a little monarch, including the iron collar as a badge of slavery, and thumbkins and whips to make the re fractory slaves execute their due share of toil. We are extremely sol•citous also to draw the reader's attention just now to the coadjutors of those land lords who are to raze their habitations, and turn them licuseless 0:1 the world —coadjutors who, we are told, " are appoin'ed fcr the landow ner b y GOD, good religious clergymen." According to the Tory authority, the clergy are to be the coad jutors of the landlords in this most ruthless, unpre cedented plan of tyrannic destruction, this mad attempt to carry back society to the dark ages. We are not sorry to find such a confirmation of the character we have given to the priesthood in a Tory Journal, and ore should not be sur prised to learn that the [assage was written by a well-know n priest, who is 'highly honoured by lar g e messes of that - nanufacturina population - whose hearths lie would make desolate. We can believ e that such it sine Frojects may be con : templated by the priests and the landlords. Their wickedness we ,hall assert, as long as they main ,.. Min laws to starve the pt;ople, is equal to any thing. We must denounce too, as more flagrant Ilasphemy than anything the Times has pre t( nded to find in the Dispatch, ti .e horrible aster- ! tion that the priests are appointed by GOD to be the coadjutors of the landed interest in carrying out the detestable system of annihilation sketched by the Quarterly Review. A more scandalous taking f the Holy name in vain never fell under our notice. One peat advantage, however, will attend it. The Reviewer has put it forth appropriately to warn the Livery London that the party which is appeal ing to their prejudices to keep Mr. HARMER out of the Mayoralty propose to raze half the metro polis ; and they propose to do this in the name of that very GoD whom they call on the Livery to honour and to serve by rejecting Mr. HARMER. Let the Livery, by rejecting him, give strength and support to the terribly fanatical, bigoted, and arro gant crew, who speak through the Times, the Quar terly Review, and the Post, and they will virtually pronounce a sentence of extinction on half the towns of the empire. Nobody now looks for consistency in the Times from week to week, hardly from day to day ; but even that Journal did not till yesterday reach the climax of inconsistency, and make oae column con tradict another. The first leader was on Fiance and the Eastern Question, and seven columns from it there was a leaded article, from a Correspondent, on the same subject. As the doctrines of the Cor respondent were neither disclaimed nor apologised for, they are as valid as those of the leader ; but the two neutralise each other so exactly that no im pression remains after reading both. The gist of the leader is to blame Lord PALNIERSTON for no t agreeir.g with France, to recommend him to adopt the plans of France with respect to Egypt, and to a'A the mediation of France. It contains the two following, amongst other Oa' ssages " The mare we comider the propositions which Mehe met Ali, by Lc advice of France, has been induced to make to the Porte, the more we are convinced not only that it would be madness to reject them, but that they would effect a more advantageous settlement of the Eastern question, even for Turkey herself, than could be obtained by the most complete success to the military operations of the allies, and the utter discom fiture of the Pacha." " No settlement which does not include France can be safe, satisfactory, or lasting. Despise the miserable insolence of the French press and of " Young France :" accept the mediation of her Government, meet her half way, show a disposition, not to succumb to menace or defer to unreasonable pretensions, but to act in a fair spirit of compromise, with a frank and friendly con sideration of the feelings of the French nation, and we may once more return to those relations of amity, the cordiality of which ought never to have been inter rupted, and on the continuance of which depend the peace of Europe and the happiness of mankind." The gist of the letter is to throw the whole blame of the interruption of amicable relations on France, to represent MEFIENIET ALI as a rebel, and his demands as destructive of the balance of power ; to make her actions suspicious to England, and to warn England not to be duped by France, much less place her honour in the hands of France, by soliciting her mediation. It contains amongst others, the following passages " What concern has the degree of rudeness or of courtesy shown to France with the question, whether the integrity of Turkey shall be maintained, and whether a victorious rebel shall be permitted by the great Powera which have pledged themselves for the protection of the Sultan, to tear the territories of that Sovereign piece nleal, and £0 far destroy the equilibrium of Eastern Europe, in preserving which the whole of Europe, west and east, is so deeply and vitally interested ? The con elusion to which every sound mind must come is, that no such breach of etiquette as that complained of by France—cons ruing it in the full latitude assigned to it by France—would, in the eyes of fair reasoners, be a tenable ground for leaving the key provinces of Turkey in the hands of the rebel who had usurped them, and in a state of total disruption from the remaining body of the empire. No one has yet explained the relevancy of these two topics, or shown any sequitur of one from the other. •• There is a torrent of rancorous menace and abuse, poured out upon the Government and people of Great'• Britain,- but addressed to the ..F? click people, whom to cheat would be at once perilous and unprofitable. Which is to be believed? Again, there is yet another test whereby to judge the integrity of the French Minister—a test even more infailible than the violence of his mercenary journals. What arc the acts of the French Government ? Are they pacific' Do we see men of war dismantled ? Seamen discharged ? War contracts discontinued ? Preparations of any kind re laxed ? The direct contrary. Never with;i3 the me mory of the oidest amongst the present generation— never within the traditions of a preceding century, were the nerves of all France so strained, or her preparatory movements so vigoroui and rapid—never was so much done within so short a time towards extending the whole of the war establishments of that great country, as by the existing Government within the last four or six months. If the real policy of France be a pacific policy, why such ill-omened and alarming preparations ? Why a cost se immense, and in that case so gratuitous ?" It will be admitted, we believe, that a Journal which contains such contradictory arguments and recommendations, urged with equal iervour and equal authority, will not have much weight with the public. Such, however, is now the Times. It has still a prodigious circulation, without corresponding influence. The Guildhall yesterday presented an animated scene, and the great crowd which was in favour of Mr. HARMER is, we trust, an augury to his complete success. At the close of the poll he was 150 ahead of Mr. PIRIE, who had 141 votes. I. HARMER, therefore, polled more than twice as many as Mr. PIRIE, who was 5 a-head of Mr. JOHNSON. Let the Livery only exert themselves to-day, and keep, as Mr. STEVENS observed, Mr. HARMER in the same relative situation ahead of his opponents, and the contest will be at an end. The dishonest bigots will give up in despair. Neither Mr. PIRIE nor Mr. JOHNSON coun tenances the vexatious proceeding, and the prime movers of this disgraceful attempt to entrap the Livery into giving a blow to civil and religious liberty remain concealed and ashamed. The Times denies that it is the author of the Declaration of the Livery. Who is, then ? Mr. MEEK, who spoke so well, that the Standard de scribed him as making a rambling speech in support of Mr. HARMER, could never have origi nated the opposition to Mr. HARMER, though he allowed himself to be its instrument. We believe, as well as trust, that the bad men who seek to re vive persecution, and hope to make the presumed prejudices of the people the means of gratifying their personal hatred, will be properly defeated. The notice of HANINIERSLEY'S Bank, which we borrow from the Bankers' Circular, seems to us as instructive as any similar paper we have for a long time met with. It is evidently the production of a person intimately acquainted with the subject, and it throws a flood of light upon the pretensions of many of the bankers to assist the commerce of the country. We are, as our readers must be well aware, in no wise inimical to private bankers ; but just in proportion as their functions, when honestly and properly exercised, are of great public advan tage, will be the tempta.tion to dishonest men to assumetheir s m character, enf and palm themselves off on the world greaa pecuniary means and capabilities. Unfortunately the amount of capi tal embarked in HAMAIERSLEY'S bank is not stated ; but that bank, not many years after com mencing business, got hive lved by a Honiton bank in liabilities to the extent of 280,0001. Mit that accommodation was given in the shape of bills, and by an understoods kept constantly a arrangement 200,000/. of continually borrowed this sort of money fl ow oa e t d . T th h a e t out the publi c knowing spuamrtieosf,thbeetpwuehein th public s without anti it ultimately fell chiefly what p o r n o p the o, . any thing of it , house of HA NOCER SLEY to p a y it. tion of the borril ws d money it used itself, aHd how much it lost by the failure of its partner, we cann ot judge, but we a. pprehend that the sum put dow n i„ 'the circular of 180,0001. is merely nominal, and we doubt if the firm ever had half that sum to lose. The next incident in the career of this bank, lending money to a patent soap manufacturer, who then extended his chemical labours to making the alkali, embarked next in the tallow trade, and finally wound up by engaging in a sort of pri vateering excursion, is as rich a picture of the pro gress of speculation as is to be found in our litera ture. Messrs. HAMMERSLEY are supposed to have lost another 80,000/. by this scheme. Altoge ther the house lost, it is calculated, 260,0001., and yet the same authority which gives us this information tells us that this large sum was " in the course of gradual liquidation from continually accruing profits." The profits from such a business to cover such losses must be immense; and it would appear that the whole means of carrying it on consists in money bor rowed from those who leave deposits with them, or who take their foreign circular notes. The capital embarked in the bank must have been lost, if these statements be true, over and over again ; yet a most flourishing trade was maintained on the con fidence of creditors, and large profits by that con fidence were annually made. The old saying was, money makes money ; the new art is, to make money out of nothing : and those who practice this art, whether in Threadneedle-street or Pall-mall, succeed far better than ever did the plodding usurers who increased their store by using money. and rallied to 73f. 20c. last price, a rise of 75c. The Five per Cents. opened at 106 f. 10c., declined to 103 f. 70c., and recovered to 106 F. 25c., at which they closed, being an improvement of 65c. For Money the Three per Cents. are 25c., and the Five per Cents. 15c. better. The Bank of France, the Belgian, and the Laflitte Bank Shares are as on Saturday. The Belgian Five per Cents. are per cent, higher. The Three per Cents. for the Ac count 63f. 50c., and 63f. 45e. The Spanish Active is per cent. higher ; from 23 it advanced to 24k, and closed at 24. The Passive as on Saturday. The Ver sailles Kight Bank Railway Shares have declined 10f. The Orleans and the Versailles Left Bank 2f. 50e. The Madrid journals received are of the 22d inst. On the sth of October the two QUEENS and EsPARTERO were expected to arrive in the capi tal, which the journals represent as enjoying the most perfect tranquillity. There is no news of importance in the Paris Journals of Monday. The National devotes nearly three of its columns to an examination of the warlike strength of the Great European Powers ; and after an enumeration of their population, extent of territory, debt, and ordinary revenue, arrives a t the conclusion that though France might not be able single-handed to cope with Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, yet that in the con_ test she could and would revolutionize Europe. The following extract from this article will show the spirit in which it is conceived, and the class of passions to which it is addressed : First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price Price Fre,:ch 5 per Cents lei ... 105 10 ... 105 SO ... 106 4}4 per Cents 41rer Cents 9 : , ' ... 95 ... 95 ... 95 3 per Cents 72 80 . 73 IL ... 72 70 ... 73 Ban': o f rudnee 2 irt , ...25('0 ... 27:5 ... 2SCO ~,,,t te flank 5,000 f. Sh ) eigian ISank 5 per Colt.. 3 per Cents 63 50 ... f 3 50 ... tl3 50 ... 63 .C 1 Spanish ACLIVe 1 :7 1% ... '214 ... V.% ... 24 Passive 5% ... *' a ... 5% ... 5 s Neapolitan Roman 9 7% ... 97y4 ... 97 ... 97 RAILWAY SHARES, Versailles, R. B s7o 370 3170 3ro L.B. Orleans ... 435 ... 432 50 ... 432 50 . The Four Powers represent a population of one hun dred and thirty millions, an army of 1,700,000 men, a fleet of 834 vessels, and a general revenue of two mil liards seven hundred and sixty-five millions. It is evi dent that, in the event of a rupture and open struggle with the new coalition, France could not carry on a war of strategy, a war of battalions ; for, independently even of alliances, the game would, not be an equal one. The Revolution and the Empire have shown what miracles France can perform in extreme cases, and what an inexhaustible source of soldiers she possesses within herself'. But there would be great and criminal imprudence in stakinc , our fate upon so hazardous a card. There would be more than impru dence, there would perhaps be treason in the act. France has friends even in the bosom of her enemies. Her right and her duty would be to arm them at once, certain of thus introducing disorder and anarchy in the heterogeneous masses, which violence is in vain en deavouring to bring under one common yoke. Are not the auxiliaries to whom we allude known to every body ? Who has not uttered the names of Ireland, Po land, Italy, the Tyro!, Hungary, Prussian France (we mean Rhenish Prussia), all those oppressed nations which have been reduced to the miserable condition of conquered provinces, and the rousing and liberation of which would be so many armies on our side ? And even the English people, corroded by pauperism, would they a second time give their blood and their gold against that French democracy, which, by the force of things, is be come the palladium of European democracy ? And have not the people of Prussia before their minds the fallacious promises of 1813 and the perjury of 1815 ? There is not a State, even to the hereditary States of the A.ustrhin monarchy, **kit we could .not .'rouse in our feveer'hikr,iiientini, oe,iseliies,'he — teriker< iiii"iese. , thible 'c o nquerors;" tut 'e - illiiiereinrol ' and • lar , otlAciii:' 'As to' Ruisie, - supposing her' to he fe.no.laised by her thirst for conquest, is it probable that Germany ' would, without taking fright, see that power pass over ' her body in order to fall upon us ? If, to the difficulties ' of our position, France compact, free, and independent at home, strong by tier physical position, and still stronger . • by her moral position, and the homogeneousness of the oletuents which constitute it, there will be entire confi dence in ber power and in her good star. Would to God that the men who arrogate to themselves the right of governing her, had the intelligence, or at least the instinct, of her greatness! Happy would it be if they did not immolate her glory and her interests to sordid calculation, and a base ambition !" HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Sun*. 25. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares A zlo-ussian Loan lo7li 11' , 7% Russian 5 per Cent. st! series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Se; ies lO2 Russian 5 per Cent. Hop, and Co. 3d and 9th Series 97% 97 I)itto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pc , Cent 49% 49 Ditto 5 per Cent — - Polish Bondi ES ON LONDON. 142 New I icket Anglo- Danish Loan, 3 per Cers. Norwegian Loan, 15434, 4 per Cen:~, —Two months, 13 2% ... e s w Errf 3 ;x t . ,: c t: 4—A el l l il ts 44 PET BURGH, SEPT. IS. —Two months, 39% pence. Spanish, ST6CeIiuLM, SEPT. IS.—Seventy.five days, 11. 34. B ERL IN, SEPT. 22. —Three months ; 6.16%. HAMBURG, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TOESDAT,t— The transactions to-day have been to a limited extent at previous rates ; the sales 3,000 bags to the trade. LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, SEPT. 29.—astern Coun ties, 20i ; Glasgow 'and Paisley, 19 ; Grand Junction Half Shares, ; Quarter Shares, 56 ; Great Wes tern, 82i 83 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 186 ; South Western Market steady—prices not quite so good as yesterday. New York papers to the Bth September have been received by the racket-ship Roscoe : STATE OF TRADE.—The jobbers of hardware have done, during the month of August, a better business than for several months previous, but not in amount equal to August of last year. The prices of hardware and cutlery are now lower than ever. Stocks are large for the amount of business doing. The dry goods business remains much the same : the great mass of the jobbers arc doing literally nothing, while a small portion are doing good business in the ge neral market. There has been a steady business, with a disposition of improvement in prices. The shipping business begins to slack, as the crops have mostly gone forward ; the cotton crop of the past year has required for its transportation 233,000 tons more than the previous one. Tile growing crops will be less than last year's, perhaps equivalent to 50,000 tons. c have received Montreal Papers to the 6th Sep ember : SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.—We believe we may state as a fact that Kingston is to be the seat of Government for the Upper Province, or rather, we should say, the mili tary head-quarters. The troops in the Upper Province will be commanded by an officer with local rank of Ma jor -General, who, in addition to his pay, will receive from the Colonial Fund the sum of 1,0001. sterling a year ; he will administer the Civil Go vernment as Lieu tenant or Deputy to the Governor of Canada. Mon treal is to be the seat of the General Government. Comparative State of the Arrivals at the Port of Que- bee in 1839 and 1840. August 28, 1840 ... Vessels 824 Tonnage 257,409 August 28, 1839 More this year Quebec Papers rtceived to, the 3d September ; their contents are unimportant. THE FUNDS. The election for the Lord. Mayor for the ensuing year occupies the general 'attention •in the City this morning, in consequence 'of Which - both commercial aftairs and speculation in the funds are almost neglected. This being'settling day in the Foreign Market the brokers and jobbers are busying in paling and receiving their balances. Up to the" present time we , do not.- epr of and 3inisthief 'nennyrrdiin the , niorket. `''rho British' blitiSFO . Watipotitoo4e this• morning. ' • Console, off , 'yOstercloyi foi, the Account, have improved to 881 ; for •Money 88i 1. Exchequer Bills, 5 7 prem. ; India Stock, 246 248 ; Bank Stock, 166 1671. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has also taken a start, left off at 231 ;at present 22-i. ; De ferred, 11 ; Passive, s ft ; Colombian, 223- 23 ; Bra. zilian, 77 79 ; Mexican, *25- ; Portuguese, 32 33 : 1- ; Portuguese Three per Cents., 2I 221 ; Dutch Two and-Half per Cents. 501 ; Five per Cents. 99 100. Shares—Great Western 18 20 prem. ; London and Brighton, .10i 4dis. ; Blackwall, 31 2,i dis.; Bir mingham 7.5 78 prem.: SOuthainpton .52 54 per share ; Croydon 11f per share ; Greenwich 6 7 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham 14 12 discount. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. The Constitutionnel doubts the accuracy of the intelligence from Alexandria, relative to the depar ture of the Consuls-General of the Four Powers. We have learned from another source that only Colonel HODGES left Alexandria for Beyrout on the 7th instant, and that when the mails left for Marseilles the flags of the Four Powers were still flying over the Consular Establishments. FORTIFICATIONS OF PARIS.--AS far as can bejudged by the lines traced out at several points, particularly to the west and east, the fortifications will be within musket shot of the wall. At other points they will be much fur ther off. These fortifications will be composed of re doubts on every elevated spot, and of intermediate bas tions and curtains, constructed according to the strictest rules. Several of the detached forts will be connected with the inner works. The villages on the right bank of the :fiver, which will be subjected to the consequences of being within a certain distance of a fortified place, are Auteuil, Boulogne, Neuilly, Clichy, Aubervilliers, Pan tin, Romainville, Bagnolet, Montreuil, Vincennes, the half of St. Maude, Confians, and Charenton. As to Passy, Les Tnernes, Les B Itignolles, Clignaneourt, La Chapelle, La Villette, La Petite Villette, Les Pres. Saint-Gervais, Belleville, Menil-Montant, and Cha ronne, they will be annexed to the capital by these fortifications, as well as the other half of Saint Maude and Bercy. Notice has been issued by the Minister of Public Works that tenders will be received to-morrow week from persons wishing to contract, in twenty lots, for making and furnishing huts for the troops to be employed in fortifying Paris. The Havre papers state that the works for repairing and extending the fortifications of that place are going on rapidly, and that the small battery at the Rond Point Vidame, opposite the Tour de Francois Premier at the entrance of the harbour, is nearly finished. The Courrier of the Lower Rhine announced on the authority of private letters, that the Government of Germany had just prohibited the exportation of horses. Tbis statement is not true ; 3,000 horses have already been landed at Dunkirk, several thousands are expected, which are to enter France by the department of the Moselle ; others arc on their way to Hagenan. Before the end of Oe'obcr the contracts will be completed. The letters from the frontiers express this hope. The Governments of Germany have no interest in provoking France. However, if they should forbid the exportation of the horses which we have purchased on the faith of treaties and of the Legislature which is in force on the other side of the Rhine, they would commit an act of hostility against us. This measure would be equivalent to a declaration of war. But Prussia is too prudent to go so far in espousing the quarrels which may arise from the execution of the treaty.—Le Commerce. We are assured that the Minister of War has just given orders to have the barracks at Bastia put into a state to contain 2,000 men. We see with pleasure this first indication of measures for the defence of Corsica, which are extremely necessary.—Temps. The Reparateur de Lyons, of the 26th September, says—" A letter from the department of the Loire in forms us that domiciliary visits have taken place at St. Etienne, at the residences of Messrs. Duchet, Advocate Grangeasse, editor of the Anti des CEuvriers, Blausube, Physician, and of the chief editor of the Journal de St. Etienne ; and at Montbrisson, the residence of M. Nermon, Advocate. These steps have been taken by virtue of authority from M. Zingiacomi, in order to i search for proofs of an affiliation with secret societies, for the purpose of overthrowing the Government. •' It is said MM. Duchett and Nermon hava fle d." The Courier of the Lower Rhine, of the 26th says : " We learn that the Grand Duke of Baden has not only called out the whole of his reserve, but even ap pealed to the discharged veterans who served in the wars against France. Above 1,000 of the latter have en listed." On the other hand, we hear that numerous promotions take place among the Generals in the staff of the Aus trian, Prussian, and Bavarian armies. These facts suf ficiently prove that the German Government are re solved to be prepared against every event.—Le Consti. tutionnel. Bristol and Exeter Eastern Counties Great Western Ditto New Loudon and Blackwall London and South Western COURSE OF EXCH Amsterdam CF. )2 4 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 4i Antwerp ....... ....... 12 4 Hamburg... ...... M.B l3 10 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight 25 30 Ditto, 3 months 25 50 Marseilles ... 25 50 Bourdeaux 50 ...... 26i.. to 23..... 11i to— . 65 . 40 . 20 17i to 381, s3} to 52 53 IGE—(YESTERDAY). [ Gibraltar 4B I Leghorn . Genoa . Milan Venice 47 Naples 4oi Palermo, per oz 1224 Lisbon 521 Oporto 53 Rio Janeiro.. Frankfort on Maine 1491 Petersburg, 3 Us 371 Berlin Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days' sight 461 Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 1 2 Trieste, ditto IO 4 Madrid 34 Cadiz 36i Bilboa Barcelona ............ Seville 36i Philadelphia - 46 PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold Coin £ 8 17 10: Foreign ;Gold, bars 0 0 0 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 11 Silver in Bars 0 0 0 HALF-PAST ONE. From the New York Papers received this morning : " AQUEDUCT BLOWN UP.—The aqueduct of the Welland Canal, which crosses Chippewa Creek, was blown up early on Saturday morning, with a terrible explosion, while two schooners were in it, one of which settled down in the chasm made by the explosion ; the other fell over on her beam ends. The navigation is, of course, stopped until the damage can be repaired. There is every reason to suppose that it was the work of th e miscreant Lett, who recently made his escape, while on his way to the residence of such scoundrels at Auburn." The settling of the Foreign Account appears to be goin g o ff easy to the present hour ; money can be ob tained in th e house at 5 per cent. Consol s con ti n ue very buoyant, and have reached 88 1 -a for th e Account. This improvement is owing to a lett er f rom M e h emet Ali to t h e G ran d Signor, beg. in g of him to grant Syria to him for life. Consols lor Mon e y 88i 2 : Exchequer Bills , 5 7 prem.; Indian Bonds,6 3 di s. 33 / 1 1 ; C o lombi an , 221 Brazili an , 784. In th e F ore i gn M ar k e t Spanish Active has been done at 23 ; Portuguese In Dutch Sto cks nothin g done. In Shares little doing.-- Bristol and Exeter, 26i ; Easter n Counties ;,11 I Great Western New Shares, 46i ; L on d on and Blackvva ll, 174- in Jame s-stree t , his morning, at one fi h r ours, destroying —..................-----__ T DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. o'clock, a fire broke out in the drying-rooms belonging to Messes. Taylor and Richards , wadding-manufacturers, residing it Camberwell New-road, near Kennington.common, which, from the extensive stock of combustible goods, burnt with unabated fury for three sisting of council- room originated from the overheating of the drying-rooms by p ipes. The damage sustained is considerable, both in stock and premises , w hi c h ar e insured. An a great portion of the buildings. The ornamental building in the Swiss style, con room brides , and keeper's cottage, is now building in St. J ames' s Park, for the Ornithological Society of London. The site is nearly opposite the Horse Guards. On Saturday as Mr. Francis White, son of Lieu tenant-Colonel White, of Swanage. Dorsetshire, was in the act of loading a double-barrelled rifle, it unfortunately exploded, and the ball, together with the iron ramrod, entered his mouth and passed out at the upper part of the back of his h ea d . T h i s am i a ble and gifted young man, who was so suddenly hurried into eternity, was paying a farewell .., visit to his relations and friends, previous to his departure for Australia. His afflicted mother is not ex pected to survive the dreadful shock. PONTIFICAL STATEs.---A Toulon Corre spondent of the Courrier Francais, in mentioning the reported disturbances in the p a pal States, says that the Pontifical Government has demanded the intervention of Austria. Major Stuart, an English o ffi cer in the ser vice of the Pope, is stated by a letter of the 12th instant, from Rome to have left that city f o r Civita Vecchia, with three other engineer officers, to direct and superintend the repairing of the citadel, which it is estimated will cost 15,000 scudi-78,750 francs. THE HEIDELBERG TUN. —A fatal accident occurred net many days since at Heidelberg, when a large pat ty of soldiers having gone to see the famous tun, many of them mounted to the top, and, the balustrade ;jiving way, several of th em were precipitated to the ground and much injured, while one was killed on the spot. BO LASE,—PARIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 28. HALF-PAST TIIREE,—The rumours circulated on Sa turday not having bee . : confir med , the French stocks, with little done except near to the close, when there Walt a little business, have rallied. For the Account the Three per Cents, opened at 721. 80e., declined to 72f. 500., THE MN, LONDON, WEDN_ERn NY, SEPTEMBER 30, IP.4n. THIS DAY. COkN EXCHANGE ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR. The polling commenced this morning at nine, and has been carried on with great spirit. The following is the state of the poll up to three o'clock : STATE OF THE POLL AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Alderman Harmer ... 705 Alderman Pine .Alderman Johnson... AT ONE O'CLOCK. Alderman Harmer . Alderman Pirie Alderman Johnson... AT TWO O'CLOCK. Alderman Harmer.. Alderman Pirie Alderman Johnson AT THREE O'CLOCK. Alderman Harmer Alderman Pirie.... Alderman Johnson 863 905 908 ..... ... 1,014 1,105 1,104 ..._ 1,147 1,261 1,257 THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) Since Monday the fresh supplies of Grain have been moderate. There was little done in the Wheat trade. Oats were somewhat cheaper, but other Grain as on Monday. The millers have reduced the top price 'of Flour to 60s. The probable duty on Wheat will be 18s. Bd. In the Hop and Seed trade very little done. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. There was rather a large supply, the demand was inac tive, and prices with difficulty supported. Beef, 2s. Bd. to 3s. 10d. ; Mutton, 3s. to 43. ; Lamb, 4s. to ss. ; Veal, 33. Bd. to ss. ; Pork, 3s. 6.1. to ss..per stone of 81b. All kinds of Game and Poultry in very large supply, trade very dull, and prices rather lower. Fine large Geese were offering at 63., and inferior 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. ; Tutkeys, 2s. 6d. to ss. 6d. ; Ducks, Is. 9d. to 23. 6d. ; Chickens, Is. to ls. 6d. ; tame and wild Rabbits from 9d. to Is. 6d. ; Pigeons, 2d. to 6d. ; Leverets, ls. 6d. to 2s. 6d. ; Hares, 21. 6d. to 4s. ; Partridges, Is. to Is. 9,1. each. Eggs dull of sale at 4s. 6d : _to_7s.yer 120. COLONIAL MARKET. There was hitte life in the market, the public sales were unimportant, and, by private treaty, there was little done either for home use or export. Prices, however, were firm for all articles. TEA MARKET. A good demand existed for Free Trade, and farmer rates were fully supported. Company's Congou in request at 2s. 41d, 2s. 4p._cash. SPIRIT MARKET. ilium dull of sale, and prices on the decline. Brandy in good requerit, and prices on the advance. Corn Spirts dull at 10s. 2d. per gallon. TALLOW MARKET. The operations in Russian 'Fallow were en a small scale, but pikes were not lower. P. Y. Candle on the spot 525. to b 23. 6d. per cwt. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY DEAL, SEPT. 29.—find W. S.W.—Arrived the Hobe, Wishart, from Valparaiso; Lady Fitzherbert, Quebec. LIVERPCOI., SEPT. 29.—Wind N.W., blowing hard. — Arrived the Roscoe, Huttlestone, from New York. Sailed on the 7th inst. the Perthshire, Jones, Jamaica; Narragan set, Croker, Boston. Sailed 9th inst., Jessie, Webster, Pictou ; Silburn, Clark, Alexandria. Off port the Lan cashire, from Mobile. COWES, SEPT. 29.—Arrived the Psyche, Wilson, from Java; Fanny, Hallett, Rio Janeiro; Sarah, Mills, New foundland. RAMSGATE, SEer. 29.—The Nicholas, Hetherington, from Archangel to Plymouth, which put in here on the 26th inst. leaky, has been surveyed, and must discharge part of her cargo. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 29.—The Franconia, from New Orlcars to this port, was assisted into Havannah on the 19th ult., with her cargo on fire, having been struck by lightning, and was scuttled. The cargo was being dis charged on the 23d ult. in a dangerous state. Ht'LL, SEPT. 29.—A sloop's mast was seen this morning at Easington, sunk in about five fathoms of water. She is supposed to have been loaded with shingle. It blew very heavy last night at S. WV. to S. S. W. HARWICH, SEPT. 29.—A foreign schooner, with loss of rudeer, and leaky, name unknown, is outside the harbour, in tow of the Scout, Revenue cutter. The Raven has arrived at Conway, from Liverpool, in a le2kv state, bout,d to Aberavan. The Paris, steamer, from Hamburgh to Havre, WAS seen on the 28th inst. putting back to the Elbe, appa rently with but one engine working, Heligoland bearing east, distant 21 miles. We have given a report in the last page of the dinner to the Marquis of Breadalbane, on Friday last. The speeches seem to have been a compound of vagueness and tameness. The dissensions existing in the ranks of the Non-lntrusionists made the orators afraid to speak out, and this rendered the meeting a very dull affair. Mr. Robert Monteith, having obtained leave of absence from hia-leatirec , Urquhart; appeared amongst the Veto ' tate, but his eloquence hes not inspired•the pens-of the re porters—he " spoke at the further end of the room, and was rather imperfectly heard at the other end." What has befallen the ot,ce stentorian lungs of Mr. Robert Mon teith ? The comr any assembled were, with a few exceF tions, Tories.— Glasgow Argus, METEOR.—Fr;day afternoon, between two and three o'clock, while a gentleman was proceeding:to Granton Pier, and passing by Golden Acre, he observed a brilliant meteor shot from a hazy cloud, which fluated at no great height in the atmosphere, in the direction of Newhaven. The course of the meteor was vertically down; the length of it, as it appeared to the eye, was about a yard, of a pear shape, and the colour of the light that of burnished brass. Its meteor form distinguished it at once from a thunder bolt ; besides, no audible report accompanied the pheno menon. The sun shone brilliantly at the time, and the clouds generally consisted of isolated masses, with con siderable spaces between them; that from which the meteor darted seemed to occupy a lower stratum of the atmosphere, and was of a less dense and more hazy ap pearance.--Edinburgh Courant. The Duke of Modena, who has just lost his consort, has set out for Austria in all baste to sec his mother, who is at the point of death. COALITION OF FRENCH OPERATIVES.— The Reparateur of Lyons says that several domiciliary visits have been made by the police at St. Etienne to ad vocates and literary men, on a warrant from M. Zingia comi, suspected of being implicated in the late coalition of workmen in Paris. THE NATIONAL IN THE TUSCAN STATES.— The police of Florence has interdicted the circulation of the National iii that city. It has taken away all copies from the coffee-houses and reading-rooms, and forbidden the postmaster to deliver any that may arrive. SUNDAY TRAVELLING ON ItAILWAYS.—AII agitation" is getting- up at Cheltenham against Sunday, travelling on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway. At the head of the party is the Rev. Mr. Close, who in the local papers has addresed his townsmen on the sub j, -et, his most prominent argument being the apprehended injury to the prospects of Cheltenham as a place of fashionable resort, should facilities be afforded to the canaille of Birmingham and Worcester to pay it a Sunday visit I This is the reasoning of Messrs. Sturge and Black. borne reproduced once more. Mr. Close is one of those popular preachers who are the idols of fusliirmable congre gations—and in his anxiety for the temporal prosperity of t h e town, is modest enough to lose sight of the spiritual benefit which the Sunday visitors might possibly receive from his own apostolical labours.—Railway Times. LATE SUICIDE IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.—Last evening an inquest was held before Mr. Higgs, at the Crown, Green -street, Leicester-square, on the body of George Ellis Inman, aged 26, a merchant's clerk. Po lice-constable 130 A said that at 12 o'clock on Saturday night last he Has on duty in the Mall, St. James's Park, when he heard the report of a pistol. He went imme diately in the direction of the report, and in the corner of the third seat from the Duke of York's column he found deceased with his brains blown out, and a pistol that had been recently discharged in his hand. No person was near deceased at the time. His hat was at some distance from hint, and the ball had perforated the right side of it, just above the rim, carrying away the right side of his head. It appeared further, from the evidence of a fellow-lodger, that he lodged at No. 13, Arundel-street, Strand, and that for the last twelve months he was nearly insane at intervals, and that a small quantity of honor or the smoking of three or four cigars would render him unconscious of what he was doing. His employers were Messrs. Borsean and Co., Champagne merchants, of C r utched-friars, with whom he was on good tennis, but at whose office he had not appeared since the Tuesday the before dated Gravesend, was received from him, containing a 25/. bill of exchange, which he might have got cashed if he had chosen. He was not a gambler, and had not embezzled any of his employer's property. He had not been married, and was attached to no female. He was a well educated man, and spoke three or four languages. Verdict—" Temporary insanity." • . Lord Alvanley, who has been for several months at the Court of Mehemet Ali, left Cairo about the end of August for Constantinople, where he is expected to re rult:n three months. The last letters from his Lordship rr present his health to be perfectly re-established. Lieutenant-General Baron Fririon, Cotnmandant of the Hotel Royal des Invalides, died on Friday. His funeral took place on Saturday in the church t f that edifice. Hyde Park on Tuesday presented rather a fashionable feature, for there were more equipages of rank there than have been seen for a month past ; and among the number was Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, in his team. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE TERMINUS OF THE Loam: AND BLACK WALL RATLWAY,—Yes!erday, at noon, an inquest was held by Mr. Baker at the London Hospital, on the body of John Hile, aged 44, a ca-penler, the particulars of whose melancholy death have before ap peared in The Sun, The accident was caused by the swivel breaking at the connecting bar, the metal forming which was defective. A new sort of swivel had been substituted, which as yet answers effetually. There were twelve guards to every train, and each train had a junior guard, apprenticed to the company, to b ecome hereafter a chief guard. The breaking of a rope or swivel could not by any possible means cause injury to the passengers on the line. The only effect such breakage could produce would be to stop the train. The carriages had six wheels each, and neither the breaking o f a rope or axle could throw them off the rril. Verdict, Acci d, D,ath." A gentleman belonging to the Company said the Directors would take into their liberal considera tion the case of deceased's widow COURT CIRCULAirt WIND3OR, FRlDAY.—fheir Serene Highnesses the Princesses Hohenlohe Langenbourg, Princess Therese, and Prince Phillip Ernest of Holeniobe Sehillingsfurst took their departure from the Castle this morning, en route to Dover, where their Serene Highnesses will embark for Germany. Captain Seymour attended the distingui-hed party to Dover. His Royal Highness Prince Albert drove the Queen in a pony phaeton for an airing in the Park this after noon. In anothercariiiga were the Duchess of Kent and the Princes Victor and Cledwig of Hohenlohe Schil lingsfurt. Major•Gener:al Sir E. Bawater attended her Majesty and Prince Albert on horseback. Her Majesty put on mourning for the late Princess Augusta the day after the demise of her Royal High ness, and will continue to wear it for three months. The Court mourning le, according to precedent, for three weeks. The Earl of Erroll is prevented by the illness of his daughter, Lady Ida I - lay, from joining the distinguished guests at the Castle. Viscount Melbourne is expected to return to the Castle this evening from town. The Duke of Sussex is slightly indisposed at Ken sington Palace, with a cold. The Duke of Cambridge attended yesterday at Cla rence House, St. James's. The Duchess of Gloucester took an airing yestereoy in a carriage. A Deputation, consistinZ of the Earl of Brecknock, Mr. Hodges, M.P., Sir Edward Fanner, M.P., Mr. Darby, M.P., Mr. Whitaker, from Kent, and Mr. Haviland, from Sussex, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing street, to request the postponement of the instalment of the Hop Duty to November 1841. Viscount Melbourne left town yesterday on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Sir Harris Nicholas had an interview with Lord J. Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Right Hon. H. Labouchere left town yesterday for Stowey, Somersetshire. Lord Morpeth has arrived in town. Viscount Palmzrston had a select party at dinner on Monday evening, at his residence in Carlton-house Terrace. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. Sheridan Knowles's new play, the Bride of Messina, was followed last evening by a new musi cal drama, in two acts, from the pen of Mr. S. Lover, who has also composed the accompanying music, which is exceedingly sweet and beautiful. The following is an outline of the story — Count Claudio Valmonte (Binge), a noble Ve netian, has been taken prisoner by the Turks in the Holy War, and is supposed dead ; in conse quence of which, Malveggio (Diddear), has inhe rited his lands. Claudio, however, by the assist ance of a Greek boy, Hylas (Madame Vestris), escapes from captivity, and returns to Venice, where he assumes the disguise of a goldsmith, and Hylas works at that trade for their mutual support. At this period the action of the piece commences. Claudio, however, frequently visits in his own cha racter Constanza (Miss A. Taylor), and in one of these visits he is discovered by her father, who in his rage declares she shall never wed, except she is married with the same ring with which the Doge on the morrow is to wed the Adriatic. Malveggio, in the mean time, who suspects that Claudio lives, has caused his gondolier to be followed by ruffians, who take Silvio (Keeley), the coxcombical son of a notary, prisoner, by mistake, for Claudio, and consign him to a dungeon until he shall sign a bond giving up half his lands to Malveggio. The notary who is to witness this bond turns out to be Silvio's father, and this mistake gives rise to some exquisitely comic scenes. Hylas, in the meantime, procures certain jewels from Benedetto, the (laughter of a goldsmith, with whom he is in love, and for whom he manufactures a ring similar to that with which the Doge weds the Adriatic ; and on producing it, Claudio, who has been recognised by Visconti, his old general, and, through his interest with the Doge restored to his rights, weds Constanza, and Hylas at the same time pairs off with Benedetto. The scenery was exquisitely beautiful, and there were some pretty incidental dances introduced. Madame Vestris, who has completely recovered from her hoarseness, sang several beautiful melodies, with her usual ex quisite taste. One of them, " Gondolier Row," ought to find a place on every music table in the kingdom. The piece was completely successful, and will probably have•a good run. The house was crowded. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Last night Macklin's admirable comedy of the Man of the World was revived at this theatre, for the purpose of intrcducing Mr. Maywood, on his return from Ame rica, in his first appearance as Sir Pertinax MacSyco pliant. If we recollect rightly, this comedy has not been presented on the London boards since 1825, when Young having,in the previous year, outstripped all his for mer reputation by his masterly performance of logo to Kean's Othello, at Drury-lane, essayed, with rather doubtful success, the embodiment of Macklin's anti pathy to the Scotch in the " booing" baronet. The part is not only one of very great difficulty in itself, but, from the want of incident in the piece, and the absence of interest or sympathy in the character, it is especially arduous and hazardous for a debut. Mr. Maywood however from the first scene (in which he was very warmly received) to the close kept the attention of the audience alive, so that not a point was missed, and not a happy touch failed to be observed, and to elicit the merited applause. His personation of Sir Pertinax is, in our opinion, superior to Young's, in this, that it has greater breadth, or it may be greater coarseness, whereas Young in this, as in most things, was el borately re fined. He made the cringing and unprincipled—the ut terly base and despisab!eold trafficker in love and politics, toa much of a gentleman. May wood, on the contrary,gives full expres,ion to the essential vulgarity of such a cha racter, at the same time that his carriage and demeanour have sufficiently the mark of good society, without that polish which depends more upon sentiment than habit. The debut was eminently successful. At the fall of the curtain Maywood was called for, and, on his ap pearing, was greeted in a manner which seemed deeply to affect him. The play was given out for repetition this evening by Mr. J. Webster, amidst great applause ; and there can be ❑o doubt, from the admirable cast, and the excellence, not only of the principal actor, but of Mrs. Stirling and Mr. Strickland, as Lady Ro dolpha and Lord Lumbercourt, that it will have a long run. IRELAND. DUBLIN, SETT. 28. FATHER MATHEW IN DUBLIN.—On this day, at a quarter to twelve o'clock, the Very Reverend Gentle man commenced administering the temperance pledge. The multitude which congregated around him on his previous visit was great ; but nothing of the enthusiasm which ss then witnessed could have prepared us for the scene which we witnessed to-day, and the myriads which throughout the day maniflsted their eagerness to take from his lips and hands the pledge which tends to hap piness and comfort, and prepares them for eternal welfare. The numbers who have taken the pledge up to this hour (half -past three o'clock), amount to about 8,000, and still the multitude forces in with a zeal which shows their interest has not abated, and that numbers who are still unpledged, are eager to take upon them the so lemn obligation.—Pilot. Mr. BIDDULPIL—The following is from a Corres pondent of the Evehing Mail, and will consequently be estimated at its proper value by all those who know what false statements have been made about Rib bonistu " Frankford, Sunday. " Sin,—Your statement of Friday is correct in all its essentials. But you can give your readers no idea of the excitement and terror winch the frightful at tempt has created throughout the whole county. It is fully equal to that produced by the murder of Lord Norbury —if it do not exceed. No man feels himself safe. Every one is in continual appprehension for the life of his neighbour. The people openly say that Biddulph shad not live. " His crime is, that he appealed to the laws of his country, and that a jury of his countrymen gave him his rights at the last assizes for this county. The ver dict has disposssed people who had, for thirty years, succeeded in concealing the termina ion (by the demise of the last life) of a lea,e. Not content with the rob bery of this votleinan for thirty years, a wicked con spiracy dooms him to suffer death as the penalty for the recovery of his rights. Since the awlui occurrence, the Magistrates have been engaged day and night in taking - informations. They have cormnitt , 2d three men on strong suspicion ; but as ad the peasantry in Mr. Biddulph's neighbour hood are sworn, there is little hope, or chance, I tear, of securing the ends of justice. All disguise is thrown . off. The Ribbon conspiracy rei g ns without a mask.' Mr. Ayshford Wise has arrived at the Hotel from his seat Clcaton Magna, Staffordshire. We are authorised to state that the paragraph going the round of the papers, to the (fleet of Lady Georgians Russell's intended marriage to Lord Alford, is destitute of foundation. A PROPII FCY.—The cleansing of the sanc tuary—al:At is, the completion of the whole period from Daniel to the commencement of the millenium, 2,360 years—will take place in 1843.—Episcopal Magazine. lington Burl' EVENING ED ',ETIOII. TO THE LIVERY OF LONDOI4. Listen to an old man whose hair is grey in the OOP of freedom. Know you the real object of this contest about the Mayoralty ? Know you the orc.,bablc results of a victory over Alderman flarmer ? Know you that by such a vict o ry the best buttresses of that Christian ity, the name of which is invoked egainst its spirit, would be laid low in the hearts and principles of 00 victors? I will show you. Christianity owes its triumphs to free discussion...." Protestantism owes its triumphs to free discussion...." Christ's kingdom is fixed upon a rack, aril cannot be moved. But why ?—Because it is tru e. The greater the discussion, the more beautiful has it ever appeared. " Search all things, prove all things, hold fast Oft which is good," is the maxim of its most plidee°Phic advocate—of one who knew best its nature—who kn e t that in having " a reason for the hope that is in Usi consisted the distinguishing characteristi c of Christian. ity above all other religions. Yet how car. we search - '; how can we read " all things," unless a ll things be 9'; loved to be written ? And is not the avowed sOO ostensible opposition to Alderman Harmer founded upon the principle, that " all things" ought n ot Lel!' either written or read ? "What laughed sneeringly when he aske d, truth ?" and would not wait lor an answer. The eel of the Jews towards Christ was " Crucify him, e nni ! him," but hear him not. The goldsruala Doneir,"l, would allow no words to be beard but " Gre a % t - Diana." The Pop,: and the Romish Church WA"' to silence Luther, the energetic Calvin, the mild itir lancthon, and the learned Erasmus"by bulls a nd chit not arguments and facts. John Milton s aw the good to Christianity of free discussion , a nd penned his celebrated " Apology for Unlicensed Printing.' JereulY Taylor, in the same spirit, wrote his " Liberty of 6I rr° , ' phesyiug." The great and the good of all age° 40 nations have shown their confidnce in their JO opinions by calling for " free discussion." tb° nriP The very foundation of Protestantism was toe test issued by the Lutheran Princes against eeo of their superior, Charles the Fifth, commanding , to conform to the. Church of Rome—hen ce the 110°31 , Protestant," a name to perpetuate the triunaPhl° free discussion. a 4. Are you Protestants, are y ou Christians, - ao ' you oppose James Harmer, because Lis Jono al , t t i c al casional times has entered into political or pm, — discussions upon sides or views which you -d a. ",lbs, prove ? Pray where would the Church of Eogle n : t h i r, been, had a similar spirit pervaded society whet ) fljw . ,. - • i e g and Cranmer, and Latimer, and Ridley were upt their fearless arguments ? Where the Church 0 1 : 1 0 1 land, when John Knox was daring in the cause 0 , his Queen to her teeth ? Where the princiPles:r. at berty, when the bold b the arons un constitut furled its onal sov bar'°"tif Runnymede ? Where constitutional England, when Somers and his associates depose and enthroned William? " extent, but you o approve o e f lt fr e e n e t d it isc ra us t : s i° : ft AY._ aerialsa lct go." Oh, my friends, this is a dangerous doctrine+, b finitely more dangerous than any of the mitl r e b i o W i ll s ic to modern Titans can hurl at our Olympus he ga. define the exact limits of that discussion Ask the honaetan. He will say, " You may search the but go no farther—there is but one God, You may is his prophet." Ask the Jew, he sa " be a Pharisee, or Sadducee, w, nay,e Es Y s ' ese ; u u ". yond that you must not go." Ask thea conscientleu',7r ponents of Alderman Harmer, whose zeal blinds 'bear eyes to the real causes and the real results of the 7P°. sition, and in what respect will their answer differ My friends, we are pett beings on a hill, called " the world." y We ' are surrounded erg vaster habitations, doubtless filled with brighter iPtetios gences ; yet how do we act ? There are at least be hundred different sects of Christianity ; there O°D only one truth. Yet does not each member of l e ' o e t sect claim to himself that he has that truth? IseAlm iit,nbty 99 chances to one that he has it not ? eQI has '' chalked no sect on the back," nor g i ven to heti a patent right of exclusive knowledge. Wi t t our should we persecute each other ? Why saY - - 1 .• t he brother man, " Go, lam wiser than thou?" If candidate whose right by custom it is to miserable 811 , Magistrate of the greatest city of the civiliz es)n4 a s Christianized world be refused that right, w : " - ; - ' c an. charge against his moral character, his Pre,. °) e u s " o leli duct, or his personal fitness for the office, nt!' 4 ,40 because a Journal in which he has an interO l tii We discussion, or advocates opinions, to an esten"`fLas? do not approve, what will our children . 6 ,,,. ° ;; •! * sal What will future John Miltons and Je remy * 1 of this generation ? ?DEN' JOHN HAS" THE HORSE-GUARDS alp JUNIOR OFFICERS. . . , . -411. TO THE EDITOR OF THE S (I. l v g ,' 0, I RAMSGATE, .SETT. 28, your remarks upon the administralg ro the army by the present ; authorities' at the P. : ° ,o‘ Guards, you seem inclined to attribute its fall,P t be partly to the pusillanimity and want of spirit 1 !,, be subalterns of the army, in allowing themselves to te thus browbeaten and ill-t rea t e d. M uc h as I de,P7 l - ir the system pursued at present, both of the privrlA ports and of the invariable support of staperiorrcear (whether right or wrong) against their i n fe a r b io je ts: or l ins i: o d i not agree with you in attributing this to the 1,4 e - p t . 01 the latter. Either Parliament or the Goverl irn- briag the country, are the only parties really about a change of system ; for, unless any ye:l n g o') OP bathemple of ustice were brought forwa n° t ; bi g , fat House of Commons, it would beei4s. ally or any inferior ranks in the army, either indivia"_lued collectively, to combat with success any by the authorities set over them in their P. ° p art* The consequence of any such steps, on th eir f i' p ettb' would be set down as factious and guilty fa; ordination—that they would be deprived oi_ctiollioed tura promotion, and, perhaps, entirely u i al ni fy to from the service. This might not muc h g o ierell the aristocratic part of the army, who Ler o rs serve in it in order to amuse themselves until i t t u tc , l s ystem Pr es i s io. yo put in possession of any hereditary honours ; 13 1 ir pre' diers of fortune, and who intend to make it t r e n rou°' fession for life, this deprivation of all chance ol j a d e 14 tion, by setting themselves against any r ales w ro blia. their superiors, must be no slight eoasideratioo , .. o, arta, opinion being directed to the badness of the sY 1 110 0 of its defects being openly exposed by the publ ic ,. 0 01 0 the country, are two very probable m eans t he °' ment being forced upon it. befu re - It may be pretty certain, in the case now , have public, that the .‘ Horse Guards" would o k ./. Or. stifled all public inquiry into the case of CaPt; 2eyo ol o Reynolds, and merely allowed the other CaPt• v ' r e onr ° to be brought to a Court•martial, unless they We re of a verdict against the latter, and of th us A; g ira a. decided victory to their favourite, Lord Cari"hat 6 The fact cannot be doubted in the least, t!' s 0 4 case of the Captain Reynolds, now under trial, I 5 eoa' as much prejudged as that of the officer Wh°,v"iiphle denmed unheard, and who (for making a Jusaliall complaint against his commanding officer) wa s T I T reprimanded before his own regiment. bl As the former was a question of redress C L lA :s r ,: i f , an injerior against a superior o ffi cer, there 10ilif course, no chance of such being granted by who is only afraid of hurting the discipline of th e a by showing equal justice to all branches of it. .i, j ppY The Commander-in-Chief seetns at present ° r l o the in his selection of persons for high commaa°!;beee' army. Both the Earl of Cardigan and the vel% Csl l ral Officer himself, who conveyed this re ima° u ' 0 1 " pr taro Reynolds, have been pronounced by lA t, °“ th be ep himself as unfit for command ! and they 11 3 0,., : u f; 01 f °r ' disgraced in a manner which, with any 50.!"',."., - ,fata re tune, would have totally precluded them•froM,PJ. command. , 11 POLYTECHN ljrri°l4‘ I. ----- -C 7 s r jor Two models of new ybe e i n n v t e i e n p L o o s n i t s e , (l a t connec t th e ° p a p :i l y i t b ti v t at , 1 : 1 0, water, subj ect have recent) all-absorbing Institut' of travelling by steam on t o t " ce boie de i„ l ion' in Regent-street. One of these iS 2 i ' e j . . (by Dr. Spurgin, for preventing engines an° i ic h railway locomotion is exposed. The alteration Pri°cP.tive, ll y: d t e inventor appears to be at once simple, e t t ' s efg' c , 1 practicable. By elevating the line of rail 13 . c to ..(:nt height above the ground, room will h e /43 0 ii r c ar. permit a large portion of the body of the egg v°, beirs riage to go below the wheels on which they trave" by affixed to their sides instead of undernea°:o be this arrangement the centre of grasitY wiresent, much nearer the rail than it is tit P f - tor and a great portion of the danger ° a livos t heavy impetus be avoided, as it will be „, e t of a physical impossibility for a train thus the rails. This improvement ought to be 10 1° ,1: Tha mediately, as, if effectual, it is certainly practical' "' e on!' other model exhibits a scientific alter.ation in th ° opt b u ilt to b o 0 , mon paddle-wheel of a :team-boat, and, assaininf, the inventive genius should direct its energies t.°`%'3ro`f pro' i mprovement of this always ch,ctionable mean s ~, o re i : Lvi t sn t t c o r r , , , ll fl i o r :iris pulsion, instead of assisting ;O lt & discover a new end ' doe perleet method, we should thatis ',reat cred i f t , i u lao, to. thistl e like no I i or each coincides with the other; in fact, it is dOVC-fr'inie IS so much as aventilator in a win common . SULICIIOO _ g door. The • founded • 1 strict.y on theory, and that it Poss c— ter or Stevens,t i s e a yo s e l gliVe7:ll of I * I"' .and greatest propelling ,ff, without „ brickw'l• kg Let, ri 3 for six w ce vibratory motion. ' [he Institution closes ni,derahlo on Saturday, in order to allow time for e o i additions --_--- - An opera, by Frederick the 6rat , cal k ' d l o l le ll s et Pastore, and which was f d for the tiot l i iu st per oral- bag J the Rilace. ei; . Charlottenbotirg ill August,•l74"•Cie'''. !Tom published at Berlin, It is said to be adles' ve r Y Fre.. producti , u, and to contain some beautiful nieloo of bii derick the Great had prohibited the 1)111)11°6°e' ' ,lO pro' musical productions, and , u p to the present tim bibition had been respected.