The Sun. — London, England, 1840-09-17 00:00:00

A -- 'ENDING EDITION. THE NEW ORIENTAL ROMANCE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vo's. post Bvo., THE CASHMERE SHAWL. AN EASTERN FICTION. By CHARLES WHITE, Esq., Author of " The King's Page," " Almack's Revisited," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW NOVEL. Just ready, in 3 vels post Svo., THE HISTORY OF A FLIRT. Related by HERSELF. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had at all the Libraries. Immediately, in 3 vols. post Bvo., T HE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE A Story of the Present Day. By MISS ELLEN WALLACE. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. -IFTIS MAJESTY the EMPERO R of _I. AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES. HEINE BROTHERS, at HANIBURGH, Are now SELLING BONDS for the said DISTRIBU PIONS. 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THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION, managed and guaranteed the Austrian Government, contains TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED DIVIDENDS, Amounting to £954,888, The Dividends being £15,000 £6OO £7O 0 £37 10 7,500 300 50 0 37 0 3,800 200 42 0 36 0 1,800 150 40 10 35 0 1,200 100 39 0 HEINE, BROTHERS, having remitted, during a short time, 11.4,000/., 9,0001.. 5,0001., 3,6001., &c. &c. &c., to Lon don ; 3,6001., 8001., 700/., to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley; 3,600/. to Halifax ( Yorkshire); 1,200/. to Portleaven Harbour; 9001., 600/., to Literpool ; 9001. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. to Hull ; 9001., 6001., to Man chester ; 6001. to Bideford; 600/. to Cork ; 6001. to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the said Dis tribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland. The Bonds (which are no Lottery Tickets) can be cashed at s , ery Banker's cennecteri with Germany in every mercantile place in the world. P.S. All those honoring Ilaine Brothers with their kind ordeis (or application, even if not purchasing) may rest as sured that their swishes will be faithfully attended to. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 17, Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy(of THE RIVALS. i....,~ Sir Anthony Absolute, Mr. W. Farren ; Captain Absolute, Mr. Anderson ; Faulkland, Mr. Cooper ; Julia, Mrs. Nisbett; Lydia Languish, Madame Vestris. To conclude with an Original Coinic, Romantic, Operatic, Melodramatic, Fairy Extravaganza, in Three Parts, entitled wnd founded on that popular Nursery Tale, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. The Principal Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining, Mr. J. Bland, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C. !ones, &c. &c. On Friday, the Merry Wives of Windsor, with the Sleep ing Beauty. On Saturday, a New Play by James Sheridan Knowles, Esq. entitled the Bride of Messina, with the Sleeping Beauty., Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6.1. ; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2.5. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, a. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to tommence at Sever o'Clock. Tick:ts and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season 'rickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had so'ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY. GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAMPETIZES, By Godfrey's unrivalled Band. The 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 Hour of the Carnivora, Five o'Clock. Concert at Five. Eruption at Eight. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We regret we cannot insert the letter of " Publins." The word " pr. fligacy" is not correctly used, and as for extravagance, there are many other classes in the country to whom the term would better apply. What does he think of 30,0001. a year with vast patronage for a sinecurist Prelate ? ti LOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 'ID-MORROW. M '2 minutes after 6. I Evening —.... 5 minutes after 7. 3he rublication of the Evening Edition of Tnz Sox com menced at 10 minutes after Three. . ,Y V 7 7 { ~ e' ' - 444 • " .1113 c. LONDON: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1840. The wild cry of Repeal in Ireland naturally at tracts the attention of foreign politicians. The Journal des Debats of Monday has a long article on the subject, of which the following is an extract : Lord Stanley's Bill was withdrawn, but the agitation remains. All the old wounds are opened, all the old preju dices revived. Conquered Ireland stands arrayed against the conquering Normans and Saxons ; the oppressed Catholics bristle up against the oppressing Protestants. They have been outraged in everything which they re gard as the most sacred and most dear. They have been told that the religion handed down to them through many ages of persecution, and adorned in their eyes with all the poetry of mr.rtyrdom, is only a religion of executioners. Their priests have been described as brigands in cassocks and surpliced ruffians. Every time, it is said, that they administer the Sacranicnt, it is as if they were to slay a young child. The Irish are spoken of as an inferior race, and as outcasts, aliens in in blood, language, and manners." After giving this, and a much larger specimen of the manner in which the Irish are treated and spoken of, the Debats give a correct pic.ure of our WINCHILSEAS, STOWELLS, and M'NEILES, and of the insults and outrages they have poured out on their Catholic countrymen. It traces to these injuries and insults the power which Mr. O'CsatarrEer, possesses in rousing the passions of his countrymen in favour of repeal. Another proof of the same fact appears in an article which we abridge frem the Dublin Pilot. Pouncing on a virulent article - wllch recently appeared in the Standard, the Pilot declares, and apparently with good rea son, that it will make that article a text to excite the Irish in favour of repeal. When a nation has been so deeply injured as the Irish, has become sensible of the wrong done it, and strong enough to command redress, to provoke them by taunts and insults is nothing better than gratuitous wicked ness. Such, however, has been the policy of the most pure and most pious Protestants, who claim for themselves a character of great holiness, but whose conduct, if the actions of men are to be judged of by their effects, is far more criminal, than that of vulgar pickpockets and housebreakers. We must say (lest we should be misunderstood) that, in admitting the grievances and wrongs of Ireland, and in condemning the insults which are now heaped on her by foolish and arrogant men, we do not advocate the repeal of the Union. We formerly defended Mr. O'CONNELL against the charge of rebellion in agitating the question, and claimed for him the right to discuss the Union, as he has the right to discuss any other act of the Legislature ; but we condemned his mode of dis cussing it, and charged him with not refle c ti ng on the consequences of his own proposal s . For that we were accused of inconsistency ; and, to guard against a similar charge now, we repeat that we do not advocate the repeal. We think that the lower classes of England have been most partially, most unjustly, nay, most bar barously treated by cur Legislature ; but we have never, therefore, advocated the Charter as a means of remedying their wrongs. We refer, at the same time, to the treatment they have received at the hands of their domestic Legislature as the best an swer which can be found to Mr. O'CoNNELL's de mand for repeal. If the British Parliament have been such a step-mother to the working classes of Britain, what reason has Mr. O'CONNELL to sup pose that a domestic Legislature in Ireland would secure the rights of Irishmen ? As long as the people are ignorant, poor, disunited, and supersti tious, the Legislature, whether it meet in London •r Dublin, will trample on them ; and when they I are intelligent, provident, united, and free their own minds, the Legislature will ' ect their rights, whereverit may meet, and I however it may be composed. A Lmestic 1 Legislature for Ireland wou ld no more do j ustice to the Irish than our Legislature, sitting in London, has done justice to the bulk of the English. To curb the power of the lawmaker, to hem him round with restrictions, to prevent him meddling with every relation of life, is the only way to keep him from doing injustice. Should Mr. O'CoNtizr.r. wish the world to believe that an Irish House of Commons, organized by him, would be incapable of perpetrating any enormity, we beg leave to hint that we have seen too much of his conduct in Par liament for one moment to trust him. It is plain, no less from the political demands made by great bodies of the people, than from the reforms in institutions which have been effected, that the " old principles of government" will no longer serve for the guidance of statesmen. The same truth is made abundantly evident by the con tradictory principles which are espoused by different Journalists. One regards those in authority as in fallible, and will not admit of their decision being questioned. Another holds up some forced or fancied rule, to be detected by observing the course of na ture as superior to positive law, and demands that the infallible lawgiver shall fashion his laws by a law under which man already lives and from which he cannot escape. A third balances between the two, insists on the authority of the lawgiver being obeyed, but is himself ever discovering something which the lawgiver has done wrong, and loudly and incessantly demands that it be amended. A fourth as sumes that the Protestant Episcopal Church of Eng land is the immediate and direct offspring of Divine wisdom, the incarnation of the will of GOD, and he requires that every part of society shall b e governed in subserviency to the laws which were made under the influence of that Church, or in its name, a century or more ago. We may find these diversities, and more than these, in the daily press ; and, in the absence of any higher authority (for on such points men will not be ruled by the Bible, and there is as much diversity amongst standard au thors as amongst other Journalists), we must admit that such a want of agreement is a proof that, long as the art of governing has been practised, the principles of government are yet to be discovered. Nor is he the nearest to the desired object who fancies that he grasps it, and blunders forward in darkness, believing that his little lamp is the light of the world. One thing is quite clear, namely, that the maxims of government must be drawn from the present circumstances of society, and cannot be adopted from men who, whatever might have been their wisdom in their own time, had the disadvan tage of living some centuries ago. If there be no occasion, as the Standard says, " to burn our old books, particularly BACON, LOCKE, BLACK STONE, FORTESCUE, and COKE, the records and statutes of Parliament, particularly the Bill of Rights and the Act of Settlement," it will be be cause all those writers and Acts of Parliament, by their words or by their example, recognize in us the power which our ancestors at all times claimed of acting for themselves according to circumstances, not disregarding or forgetting what their ancestors had done, but holding themselves perfectly unbound and unfettered by their decision. " Truth, said Locke, in his Essay on Study in Lord King's Life of Locke, " needs no recommendation, and error is not mended by it ; and in our inquiry after knowledge, it as little concerns us what other men have thought as it does one who is to go from Oxford to London to know what scholars walk quietly on foot in quiring the way, and surveying the country as they went, who rode post after their guide, without minding the way he went, who were carried along, muffled up in a coach with their company, or where one doctor lost or went out of his way, or where another stuck in the mire." "I do net say this," be adds," to undervalue the light we receive from others, or to think there are not those who assist us mightily in our endeavours after knowledge ; perhaps, without books, we should be as ignorant as the Indians, whose minds are as ill clad as their bodies ; but I think it is an idle and useless thing to make it our business to study what have been other men's sentiments in things where reason is only to be judge, on purpose to be furnished with them, and to be able to cite them on all occasions." LOCKE, therefore, is the last man who can be quoted to enforce on us an implicit obedience to his own authority, the authority of any other phi losopher, or the authority of those statesmen who, by his advice, or under the influence of his princi ples, drew up the Bill of Rights and the Act of Settlement. But it must be noted that LoCKE professed and advised this disobedience to what other men have thought, when their thoughts or observations re lated to the material things of creation, and which, whether correctly or not, are supposed to undergo no change, and be regulated by laws that are eternal and the same. It may be said of society, perhaps, that it is regulated by similar laws, but its pheno mena arc not periodical, they are progressive ; and while all that we know of planetary motion might by possibility have been known in the time of LOCKE, it was utterly impossible that he or his predecessors should have possessed our knowledge of society and the laws which regulate it. Since his time much truth has been learnt concerning it, and much more has yet to be learnt. If, therefore, it be unadvisable, in our inquiry after knowledge, to concern ourselves about what other men have thought concerning material objects, how much less advisable must it be to pin our faith on LOCKE, or BACON, Or FORTESCUE, Or COKE, or Lord SONIERS, when the question relates to social objects or principles of government ? These observations will suffice, we think, to show that there is no authority by which we can be guided in matters of government hut the circumstances of the crisis and the principles of justice. The diverging Journalists can be tried by no test but the conflict of the opinions of living men. They have all the attributes for deciding which belonged to LocKE or BACON, saving the individual sagacity which distinguished those illustrious men, and there is no authority above them to say that either he is right Who claims infallibility for the lawgiver and impli cit obLdience from the subject, or he who claims for the subject the right of examining and proving every law, and of refusing obedience to that which is not just. In other words, the principles of govern ment have yet to be discovered ; it is a part of knowledge which demands a diligent inquiry, with out much regard to what other men have thought. We see from a statement in our City Article that the Count LARA had another interviewndhold e y r e s. diesterday with the plundered Spanish Bo came over, according to the accounts put forth at 1 the time, mere ly a s a private gentleman, anxious for the credit of his country, without any authority whatever from his Government. It would appear, however, that after having felt his way, he now puts himself forward as an agent, and yesterday pro duced his credentials from the Spanish Go vernment, authorizing him to make an arrangement with the unfortunate creditors. The terms he pro poses are not at all singular, considering the quarter whence they corne. They are full of pro- I mises and good intentions. He earnestly assured the meeting of the sincerity of his Government to- I wards the Bondholders, proposed to capitalise all ithe long arrears of interest, to pay two•and-a-half per cent. on this funded debt, and to act every way in short for the benefit of those who have been robbed by his Government, on the of course, that he h a d condition,a new loan to enable him to carry his p ro j ect i nto effect. It is said that Messrs. THoux ToN , , WYLL lE, and others, who have so boldly exposed the fraudulent conduct of the Peninsular and South American Governments in their financial transac- tions with money lenders in this country, are dis posed to recommend this plan to the creditors. They are not such dupes,—they know from sad experience that they can place no confidence in the most solemn engagements made with these needy and unprincipled debtors ; that Spain and Portugal, and their offspring across . _ the Atlantic (with one honourable exception), have never shown any wish, even when they had the means, to act honestly towards their creditors ; and that, if a loan were obtained, the new bondholders would, in less than twelve months, be placed on a footing with those who have been looking in vain, for eighteen years, for either principal or interest. The scheme altogether is so pfbposterous and de ceptive, that we are sure no man of common sense, or common honesty, will be a party to it. The Morning Chronicle of to-day, contains a recommendation to the Directors and Shareholders of the different railways which will make such a Counteracting Society as we ventured to suggest yes terday, additionally necessary. Our Contemporary says— Again, would we suggest the formation, by delega tions from those Boards, of a General Comizzittee. It might combine men of business with men of practical science ; and such legal aid as in the present state of legislation on the subject is peculiarly desirable. As a preparative for matured and wholesome legislation in future, as a means of adding to this great invention all the improvements of which it is susceptible, as a supply for the detects of existing law or prac tice, as a safeguard for common and extensive interests liable to be endangered either by panic or by sinister influence, its speedy appointment is not only desirable, but necessary. Its utility must depend on the spirit in which the several Di rections are disposed to enter into the arrangement. It must be free from the taint of competitive antagonism, jealousy, jobbing, or assumption. And, selected as they have been by the Companies they represent, we cannot but believe the several Boards are rich in the materials of intelligence and character for its formation. At any rate, the experiment ought to be tried, and the sooner the better. For us to suggest the details of the construc tion of such a Committee would be premature. We earnestly hope, however, that it will be promptly brought under the consideration or the different Boards of Ma nagement, and carried forward on a principle of fairness, impartiality, and mutual confidence and co-operation, for a great common good and public benefit. The Railway Companies are opulent and power ful bodies, and if they combine on the plan here sketched out to mature legislation for railways, we may be morally certain that they will, in the first instance, take care of their own interest. So far as that coincides with the interest of the public all will be well, but whenever the two clash, the latter will be sacrificed. Such a suggestion, if acted on, will concentrate enormous power in the hands of the railway capitalists, and render them as for midable to the State as ever was the combination of the monied classes to the Government of the United States. This should be particularly guarded against by the public, because there is very little chance of com peting lines of railways being established, so that the public might look for security in their rivalry. Nor will the scheme in our judgment tend to the improvement of railways. Such a board of delegates would prevent' any very beneficial changes being in troduced in the management on one railway till it could be adopted on all, and so would delay the adoption of improvements. Moreover, Directors, Proprietors, and Engineers being subjected to the control of the Board, would have their zeal lessened, and the progress of improvement would be checked. On these grounds we should doubt the utility of such a Board to the Railway Proprietors, while the pub lic ought to regard it with much jealousy. If it be formed, there must be a corresponding association of Non-Railway Proprietors to protect their inte rests against such a powerful combination. The Herald, in reply to our observations, says it " did not denominate the Corn-law a tax on food." The words of our Contemporary were " taxing foreign corn ;" but surely corn is food, or used to prepare food, and a tax on foreign corn is a tax on food. Our Contemporary must not escape by adhering to the " letter which killeth," from the plain consequence of his own words. The Herald admits that the poor, " in propor tion to their means, eat a great deal more bread than the rich ;" " but the poor," he adds, " are per mitted to eat bread only after they have earned t—and the greater or lesser power of earning bread is the circumstance which, above all others, regu lates the greater or the lesser quantity of bread which the labourer is permitted to consume." Our Contemporary then goes on to assert that the Corn-law secured a wide market for English labour. But that is the main point to be proved. How a law which forbids the labourers in Man chester, Lei ester, Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, &c., from exchanging their products for the food of Poland, Germany, and the United States, except by paying the heavy tax the Corn laws levy on foreign corn—and which forbids our ships from carrying abroad our cottons, and bringing home food, can augment the.market for labour, is one of those far-fetched assertions which common sense requires to have clearly established before it can vouchsafe to credit it, even on the high authority of the Herald. The home market for labour will not be diminished by abolishing the Corn-laws ; and how adding the foreign mar ket to that', can make it less is an arithmetical problem which our teacher never taught us to solve. But our Contemporary has some peculiar notions about a high price for labour, which he insists is seemed, though the quantity of corn given for it is lessened, by the Corn-laws, and though our peasantry, and almost every other class of labourers, are in great poverty and distress. Our Contempo rary, at the same time, has this admission : " Labour," urges our Contemporary, " is chiefly ex changed for corn ;" and " to speak in one breath of both the thing purchased, and the thing purchasing, being dear, is sheer nonsense. , This criticism of our Contemporary would be just, providing there were no tertiunt quid—no third equivalent, for which both corn and labour are commonly exchangeable. But there does happen to be such an equivalent—m oney ; and both corn and labour may, undoubtedly, be, at the same time, dear, in reference to their money-value. But does the Herald require to be informed, whEn nine-tenths of the transactions of this country are carried on without money, that it is no real tertium quid, but only a sign of what the labourer is to receive ? Is a bit of paper, with which the la bourer may be paid, his real reward ? No. He is truly paid by that which he necessarily consumes, and which he employs money to buy, namely, food and clothing, and these are dear to him when he can get only a small portion of food and cloth ing in return for his labour, which the Herald asserts, with us, is now the con dition of our labourers. Our Contemporary therefoie, is on this point wholly mistaken. There is no effective tertium quid. The exchange is food for labour ; and it is as we said before sheer nonsense to say in one breath, that both can be dear. '[he plan, therefore, of securing a high price for labour by raisin g t he price of food, and i s s a u e t r d ‘ w v i c c h h i h s a given by diminishinfgoorytehlare-broequfiurna,enditsitnyaononfsaetbnl equally sle a d s our Contemporary astray. ginroesxschaasngtlelc The Hon. Fox Maule arrived in town on Tues day to resume the discharge of his duties at the Horne-office• It is understood that the Stockton and Hartle poolßailwßaiay Times. lwaywillbe ready for opening early is October. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1840. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. Prices underwent little Variation, but the Markets pre sented a dull appearance, and but few purchases were made by private treaty. The public sales were light. TEA MARKET. The Market was dull for all sorts, but prices were firm. Company's Congou, 2s. nd. cash. TALLOW MARKET. Prices steady, with a dull market. P. Y.C., sls. 9d. on the spot, and to arrive. DRY FRUIT MARKET. There were some inquiries after Currants, and fine Zante sold at 783. a 795. per cwt. Raisins dull of sale, and Valencias may be bought at 453. per cwt. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. There was a moderate supply, and the demand was good. Clover 31. 10s. to 61. ; Meadow Hay 21. 10s. to 5/. per load. Straw steady at 32,. to 365. per load. tVIONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. L IYE RPCOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.— We have bad a better demand for Cotton tc-d.iy, and prices have a tendency upwards ; the sales 4,000 bags to the trade. LIVERPoOI. SHARE LIST, SEPT. 16.—Eastern Counties 10i ; Glasgow and Paisley IN ; Grand Junction Half Shales 95 ; Quarter Shares 57 ; Great Western Half Shares 464 ; London and Birmingham 162 ; South Western 53,i. A slight improvement has taken place in Grea Western shares ; the other Stock prices remain mucl the same. We copy the following from a New Brunswick paper : PORT OF ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK —Gene rally yearly statements of the imports and exports of any country must necessarily vary greatly each year, but it is pleasing to notice that the trade of this colony is constantly on the advance, though vast losses by fire in St. John's, and severe monetary, difficulties forced back on the province from Great Britain, owing to the deficiency of her late crops, and consequent pressure in her Money Market, will, during 1840, rather check in individuals a perhaps too eager desire to extend their transactions. If we allow that the port of Saint Andrews and its out bays has one-fifteenth in amount of the imports, and consequently exports of St. John's, and that the population of the province may now reach 130,000 souls, we shall have the astonishing fact presented that the export is equal to 10/. 9.i.8d sterling for every hu man being—a circumstance probably unequalled by any other country. . Imported total, 1839 .R1,433,474 Exported, 1839 SHIPS OUTWARDS IN 1839. Vessels. Tons. For Great Britain British Colonies United States 283 26,407 Foreign State. 1 ll2 Total 9 ;605 SHIPS INWARDS IN 1839 Vessels. Tons. From Great Britain 542 198.165 British Colonies United States Foreign States 36 8,014 381,577 Total 2,594 342,501 Tho Batavier has arrived of the date of the Isth of September, bringing the Amsterdam prices of the 14th Sept. There was a general panic there in all the various funds. No accounts have as yet been received of the arrival of the President, from New York, and as it is now 17 days since she started for England, some anxiety his been excited among the merchants dealing with the United States. Although we have no French mail or express from Pa ris as yet, the British funds continue buoyant, owii g to a report late yesterday afternoon, that the French funds came much higher. The boisterous state of the weather during last night, and more particularly so on our coast, it is feared will prevent us from receiving any intelli gence from Paris this day. THE FUNDS. Consols, which left uff yesterday at 881 for the Ac count, have been done this morning at 8813-, at present not quite so good, and may be quoted 881 a for Mons y, 881 1 ; Exchequer Bills ; 4 6 prem. ; India Stock, 246 248 ; Bank Stock for the opening, 168 170. Spanish Active also improved ; left off at 218 221 ; at present 228 8 ; Deferred, 104 11 ; Passive, 5a ; Portuguese improved to 321 1 ; Three per Cents. 211 24 ; Colom bian, 211 21 ; Mexican, 241 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 491 50 ; Five per Cents, 98 99. SUARES.—Great Western, 17 19 prem. ; London and Brighton, 101 dis.; Blackwall, 21 11 dis. ; Bir mingham, 73 5 prem. ; Southampton, 53i 54i per share ;Croydon, 11 I per share ; Greenwich, 6 7 per share. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester BO ...... 66 Cheltenham and Great Western. 55 Great Western Ditto New London and Brighton London and Blackwall London and Birmingham 90 165 London and South Western Londdn and Croydon (Trunk)... 13.1 ll ...... to -g South Eastern and Dover 23 - to RALF- PAS T ONE. Consols in the early part of the morning had a lively appearance, with an improving market, and were done at 881 for the Account, since which the Ma•ket is not so firm,and has rather given way, it is supposed owing to parties having realized at the high price of the morning. Up to the present time we do not hear of any arrivals either from the Continent or the United States. Consols may be quoted at present 881 ; Money, 88-1,- ; India Stock, 246 ; India Bonds, 10 dis. ; Exchequer Bills, 5 7 premium. In the Foreign Market little doing, except in Spanish Active, which fell from 22i. „z i to ; De ferred, 11 ; Passive, 5i ; Portuguese improved, reached 324, at present seceded to 32' ; Thre per Cents., 22.9 ; Columbian, 221 ; Dutch Two•and-half per Cents., 501 ; Five per Cents, 99. • In Shares scarce anything doing. Birrrikgham and Gloucester, 66 ; Great Western, 85 ; London and Brighton, 294 30 ; London and Birmingham, 165 ; South Western, 531 ex. div. ; Croydon, 11i. SOCIALIST PROCLAMATION.—Yesterday, a person who stated his name to be Rigby, applied to the Magistrates sitting at the Police- Court, to know what authority the policemen had for pulling do e n some r The inidaudc ce o bi na l s a eb y gn o ud r e e s n a ft rl i ; d e , ta it uu authorised i st t eh h te e i opinion tphu eb piic, 1 im o c f ei the o. bills which had been posted by a sccicty of which he w ea M an a l a d g e g , aji that ha t m r tae a e t t d n' e t s b it .o e e t r yp hat the bills do that which he (Mr. R ) complained of. Mr. R said that was quite satisfactory, and he must now appeal !o higher Courts relative to this transaction. The bill a b ove a ilcded to was one put porting to he a proclamation of the c nb -, ress of a society of Rational Religionists, ( assem bl e d in Leeds, in May last), and is addresstd to all s e cts, c l as ses, and parties. It represented the necessity there is for a vevolution to be brought about by reason, and for the subve -sion of the present state of society, and the institution of a;:other social system on quite a different basis. It also stated that this revolution must he brought about immediately, as the people cannot endure the great improvements which , are daily making in machinery, an.l the consequent depression of manual labour and means of obtaining food. It concluded by calling on all to join in effecting this alteration, and was signed Robert Owen, as the Secretary of the Society.-111111 Observer. THE rAcKETs.—It is understood that the West India mail contractors are dissatisfied with the pre. ference given to Dartmouth by the Packet Harbour Com mittee, and have memorialized the Admiralty against that port being fixed on as the station for landing and despatch ing the m a il s . Th e plea is chiefly that the approaches are dangerous, and th a t it would be impossible for any disabled steamer to snak e f or tsat harbour wi t h an y confidence, owing to th e " out l y i ng deneere," which are more par. titularly alluded to by the Packet Committee in their report of the 6th August. Meanwhile, the greatest efforts aro brought into action to support the claims of Dartmouth. Public meetings have been held at Exeter and T o t nes , and strong in terest is makin g to con firm the C o m m i ttee s re p o rt. At Falmou th a str ong feel ing has be en exc i te d , an d a counter - me m o ria l has been forwarded to the Ad m iralty, pointing out the inconsisten cies in the Packet Harbour Com mittee's re p ort as re g ards that harbou r . Th e Government have not yet decided the there was no r oom f or b ot h Point, for the pa c k e t s sta.( cont i n ue to touch at Falmouth for the mail s . I t i s ev id en t that the Committee set their feces from th e fi rst aga i nst Devonport, under the idea that tree packets and the national establishments i n t hi s h ar b o ur, a notion that we are confi dent is err oneous, an d means are now t akin g to re p resent the case to th e Ad m i ra l ty , though the probability of suc cess is much weakened by the Committee not having even . he i . v, noticed , the t great e.T iobai d Mathew, advantageepossessed by this po rt. —De , vomport T e l egraph. i en route to Athlone, w as met at ,S of Clanrica r d e , w h o ' conve yed the ap ostle of tem p erance in her car r i age to P on ` u mna, whe nce he p roceeded to and,Athlone,,Shannon Har bour b y the Marchiones after preac 'ling there on Sunday , adminis. tered the pled ge at t h e B at torios the same afternoon, and the entire of Monday, to tens o f thousands who con g re • gated about hi m , H e was accompanied by his brother. ir law, William Dunbar, Esq., of this city, Mrs. Dunbar, end Mrs. H a ckett, i r i s s i sters . The Rev . Gentlem an distri buted 1001. at Mb lone, Upwar ds of ten thousand p ersons took the pledge at Bruff, of crossing on Thursday, from the Rev. Mr. Mathew.—Limerick Chronicl e. THE CROSSING AT H YD E PARK -CORN ER . —For some dap a number of iF orkmen have been en gaged in excavating the ground in the centre leading from St. George's Hospital, at the top of Gros venor-place, to the west gate o f Hyde Park, for the erec tion of an obelisk, to be surmounted by a gaslight, which will obviate the long-complained of incon7enience and danger in crossing the road at that spot. It will consist of a massive column of Portland stone, the base ,f which is already fixed, and the whole will be finished .;n the course of the week. A similar one, it is said, will be erected on the crossing from Apsley House. BANK OF ENGLAND-(THIS DAY.) 1 Tile Quarterly General Court of the Directors and Proprietors of the Bank of England, took place this day, at twelve o'clock. T. A. Curtis, Esq., Deputy- Governor, in the Chair. The minutes of the last quarterly meeting having been read, The DEPUTY-GOVERNOR said the present was one of tl.e Quarterly General Courts according to the provisions of the Bank Charter, and was also one of the half- yearly meetings to consider of a dividend. Previously to going into business, he had to apologize to the meet ing for the absence of Sir John Rae Reid, the Guyer- nor, who had been recently married.—( Hear, hear.) Ihe first question for the consideration of the Court was, the dividend, and he proposed that it should be resolved that the Court of Directors having considered the state of the Bank accounts, a dividend he declared of 34 per Cent. interest and profits for the half year ending October next. He presumed that he would be asked how the rest stood, and he would now state that it omounted, up to the day when the accounts were made up, to 2,852,0301. In April, 1840, it amounted to 2,867,2851. consequently they would take from the rest the sum of 15,2551. for the present dividend. That was a very small amount to take from the rest, considering the casual circumstances that had occurred in the course of the year, and he would call the attention of the Court to the fact that the rest was on the 10th of October, 1838, when they began to pay seven per cent., 2,775,802/., while it was at present 2,852,030/. There was, therefore, an increase in the amount of the rest, after deducting the dividend of seven per cent., of 77,000/. Therefore the Directors were warranted in presuming that there would be no diminution in the amount of the dividend of seven per cent. for the fu ture.—(Hear, hear.) Having said that much, he would put the question that the Court do approve of a divi dend of three and a half per cent. for the half year ending the 10th of October. Mr. SELWYN returned his thanks to the Deputy Governor for the very candid manner in which he had opened the business on the present occasion, and he could not help noticin g c , it as a gr a d ua l i m p rovemen t in the proceedings of former Courts.—(Hear hear.) It was not until a very few year s ago , h e believed, when Mr. Patteson happened to be Governor of the Bank, that they then heard for the first time what was the amount of the rest, but that was not until an interro gatory had been administered to the worthy Governor to extract the information. To. day that declaration had been volunteered by their Deputy- Governor, end he could not help saying, that to his mind that was a de cided improvement on the former practice. As the amount of the rest approached so very nearly what it was when the former dividend was declared, and as the amount of the dividend was not to be less than at the last bal!'-yearly meeting, he felt much pleasure in seconding the resolution.— (Hear, hear.) With regard to the cause of the absence of the worthy Governor, on that question they were all united—(Hear, and a laugh)—and he had no doubt they were all agreed in wishing him multos et fe het's winos in_ his new situation.—(Hear.) He did not wish, however, to depart from his ancient practice, and he should therefore try to ask a question or two of the D. puty Governor. He wished in the first place to know whether since their last half-yearly meeting their had been any disposition of that part of their property entitled " the dead weight r The DEPUTY-GOVERNOR—None whatever. Mr. SELWYN—Has there been any agreement or new arrangement with any parties for the sale of any part of that property ? The DE PUTY- GOVERNOR—None. Mr. SELWYN—I now proceed to inquire whether there has been any alteration in the system of the branch banks ? The DEPUTY-GOVERNOR—None whatever. Mr. SELWYN —And whether the system of branch banks continues, as former Governors assured us, to furnish a fair source of profit to the concern ? The DE PUT Y- GOVERNOR— Decidedly. Mr. SELWYN—Then I beg to move that a dividend of 31 per cent. be agreed to. Mr. WILLIAMS seconded the motion. Mr. COOK said a printed extract had been forwarded to hire, and why it had been sent to him alone he really did not know, far he could not find that that any other Proprietor had received a similar document. The extract was taken from the Morning Herold of the 15th June. The purport of it was to hold out to the Pro prietors the prebability of the Bank Stock being reduced to 120, and to lead the Proprietors to believe that they ought to be satisfied with that amount. He must pro test against such a course, which would occasion the Proprietors a loss of half their property. He was anxious to know whether they could have the report of the Committee of the House of Commons, which sat upon Joint Stock Banks, in order that they might know what was likely to be the fate of their institution, so far as the ultimatum of the Committee was concerned. He did not know whether it was their intention to maintain this institution as an institution of issue and of deposit, or if it were intended to deprive them of one half of their capital by depriving them of their privileges ; but having received such a document he felt it his duty to state that he was convinced that the Bank Pro frie tors would be roost justly entitled to compensation if the business were struck from under them. The interest of the Proprietors did not rest upon the same principle as that of the proprietors of other stock ; it rested upon a Royal charter—it rested upon the munificence of the Crown, accorded to them in gratitude for money !cnt to the Crown in its last extremity. Therefore in whatever point of view the subject was considered, the Proprietors were entitled to col - ripens itlon. 'Play had a lease of the premises, they had erected !hey had entered into engagements upon the faith of this ; and be would ask if it were just of any Government, more pa. titularly of such a Government as the pre sent, to sir cep all their property into the lap of the joint-stock banks without awarding them compensation? Mr. YOUNG rose to order—The question before the Csurt was the question of the dividend that was not yet carried. Mr. COOK—Before it is carried-- Mr. YOUNG would inquire of the Hon. Proprietor if he meant to oppose the motion ? If he did not he con ceived that he was raising a discussion on a most dan gerous question, and one which was liable to be misun derstood out of doors. They stood upon the charter, and there could be no doubt that until the expiration of the charter, it was not in the power of the Legisla ture to make any alteration. 'Fire question from this discussion might be misunderstood, and it ought to be distinctly understood, that the Proprietors were under no fears of any such alteration taking place. The DEPUTY-GOVERNOR said that unless the lion. Proprietor intended to propose an amendment, his observations were clearly out,of order. Mr. Conic was about to propose a resolution. The DEPUTY-GOVERNOR said the question before the Court must be first disposed of, and after that it would be perfectly competent for the Hon. Proprietor to-propose his resolution. The DEPUTY-GOVERNOR then put the question, that the dividend be 31 per cent., which was agreed to. Mr. Coots said that perhaps now was the time for him to make his observations; and, in the first place, he would reply to the observations of Mr. Young, by saying that the Bank Proprietors had already suffered loss in consequence of these proceedings. Mr. Young's opinion of stock might be judged of from the fact, that formerly he used to see two stars opposite that gentle man's name, and now he saw but one ; so satisfied was Mr. Young with regard to Bank stock.—(Loud cries of " Order, order.") The DEPUTY-GOVERNOR—Order, order. Mr. Coors wzls about to continue his observations, when he was interrupted by The DEPUTY-GOVERNOR—I am decidedly of opinion that no Proprietor has any right to allude to the pri vate concerns of another. Mr. Coos would submit that the document was a public one, and he had a perfect right to allude to it. Suppose that two-thirds of the proprietors had but one star and the remaining one-third held two stars, they ° might be overwhelmed and swamped. The moment he had received that document be said that he could not concur in it. He stated then that he was c?rtain the Bank Proprietors were eatit•ed to compensation ; he had sent in a claim for compensation to the Chancellor of the Exchcqu r. The Chancellor of the Excheqer said that the app ication mutt be made through the Directors ; he had done so, and he wished to kaow wh arsser had been received. The pre sent might not I e the proper time for discussing the question, but he was prepared to go before any men with lawyers' heads upon their shoulders, and contend that the Bank Proprietors were entitled to compensa tion for the loss they might suffer. He was prepared to contend for that proposition before any of the Judges in Westminster Hall. The Committee sitting on Bank affairs ought to be made acquainted with the views of the Bank Proprietors on this question. They were entitled to it now, as they had already come to a reso lution diminishing their profits one-half per cent. He had now done his duty. He knew others who parti cipated in his opinions, but who were restrained from giving utterance to them through false delicacy. He felt bound say on this state of flings he thought the Proprietors had a right to demand that Bank stock should be placed in a fair state, and not given over to the joint-stock banks, as was proposed most improperly by a Minister of the Crown. Mr. TEIOMSON believed that they held a considerable sum of money in annuities, which would elapse in 1860. With respect to that, he wished to know what was done with the surplusage, whether it was invested in the Funds, or what was done with it ? The DEPUTY-GOVERNOR said it was employed i n discounting bills, making advances to the Government, and other things. Mr. TitosisoN wished also to know how the rest, which consisted of annuities _for a term of years, was employed. The DEPUTY-GOVERNOR said that was also em ployed, among other things, in discounting bills and making advances to the Government. Mr. THOMSON observed that he had that morning taken a retrospective glance of the affairs of the Company for the last 25 years, and he felt bound to say that the present state of their circumstances was calculated more to engender fear than encouragement. The dividend to the Proprietors, which had originally been ten per cent., had been reduced to eight, and then to seven. Their losses had been very considerable, and yet that which appeared to him to be very astonish ing was, that notwithstanding those losses, notwith standing their profits had diminished, they could find money to send Directors to France to borrow money from the Bank of France. How were the mighty fal len ! The Directors could also give money to the building of churches, and they could also find the means of twisting and turning about the building in which their business was carried on just as if it was a piece of brown paper. For years workmen had been employed in making erections about the building which were a dis grace to the country. He should have been more happy if the resolution he had to propose bad been brought forward by any other Proprietor ; but lie leaped he should live to see the day when that Court would be as open as the India House. He thought a seven years' apprenticeship to the Westminster Bank would be a good qualification to a Director of the Bank of England. The Resolution he had to propose was— " That in consequence of the diminution of the profits of the establishment, the salaries of the Directors be re duced half, the Governor one-third, and the Deputy- Governor one-fifth."—(" Oh, oh," and Hear, hear.) Mr. SELWYN said that, thirty-six years ago, the salaries of the Directors had been doubled, and it oc curred to him that, as the profits decreased, it might be reasonable that the Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Directors, should participate in that reduction.—(Hear, hear.) He thought, however, at the same time, that it would be but fair that those officers should have a half year's notice.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. THOMSON observed that their last Governor did not give the Pi oprietors six months' notice that he was going to reduce their dividends.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. SELWYN still thought it was but fair and equi table to give a reasonable notice, as it was possible that in consequence of the increase of the salaries of the Di rectors some of them had set up an additional chaise, and therefore he for one must object to the motion if it was pressed. Mr. Cools was very much surprised that th e Pro prietors had not received notice when the dividends were first lowered. Some years aco, when the Bank dividends were lowered from ten to eight per cent., the Proprietors had regular notice. A PROPRIETOR felt anxious that it should be known to the public that the Proprietors did not receive more than six per cent. upon their actual capital—not in cluding the rest. The GOVERNOR called his attention to the question before the Court. It was the reduction of the salaries of the Governor, the Deputy Governor, and the Dii ectors. Mr. SOLOMONS begged to be allowed to defend the character of a gentleman whose character had been at tacked—he meant Mr. Cochrane, the architect to the Bank. He thought the character of that gentleman had been unnecessarily sneered at, and he could not allow it to pass without bearing his testimony to the abilities of that gentleman, who was so es teemed that he had been elected to the office of Professor of Architecture in the Royal Academy. He was one of the most talented individuals in his profession in the country.--(Cheers.) As to the mo tion before the Court, -he thought the manner in which it had been brought forward was much wanting in de licacy to the Direction ; had he stood in their position he would have felt great pain at the manner in which it had been brought forward, as well as the matter con tained in the motion.—(Hear, hear.) No one ac quainted with the business of the metropolis but must know that a vast deal of responsibility rested upon the shoulders of the Governor and Directors.—(Hear.) He objected to the principle laid down by the mover of the motion, that the Directors should be paid according to the profits of the establishment. It was a most vicious principle, and one which lie hoped his brother Proprietors would not agree to.—(Cheers.) He objected to such a motion being brought on without uolice—it was so important it ought to be discussed argu mentatively, which they were not prepared to do. When they compared the duties and responsibility of the Gover nor and Directors with those of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, and also compared their respective sala ries, •he did not think they would consider their Direc tion overpaid.—(Cheers.) Mr. YOUNG thought it would be a matter of pru dence to allow the matter to drop, and go at once to a show of hands, but as their proceedings would go before the public, he felt bound to say that he considered the motion as most injurious to the interest of the establish ment by weakening the confidence of the country in their Directors. He would move as an amendment— " That this Court continue to place unlimited confi dence in the conduct of the Directors, and return them our best thanks for their attendance to the concerns of the establishment." Mr. GOLDSMID seconded the amendment. Mr. Cools believing that the privileges of the Bank had not been supported as they might have been, and feeling that there had been a lack of legal advice, could not join in the vote of thanks. He was of opinion that the salaries of the Directors ought to be reduced, were it only to put them on the pi vice. In hii opi nion the Proptietors Were entitled to compensation for the loss they had suffered, and if they gave the Direc tors the six months' notice they would be far more generous than themselves. Mr. WILLIAMS was sorry that such a personal at tack should have been made on the Directors, solely because they had not been able to produce a half-yearly dividend of four per cent.—( Hear.) Were they to be blamed because business had been withdrawn ? Ho had the utmost confidence in the Directors, and he thought it redounded to their credit that they had been able to produce so large a dividend. If retrenchment was the object, why did not the Hon. Proprietor submit a general motion, and propose a reduction of all the salaries?—(Hear.) Mr. THOMSON observed that probably the Hon. Gentleman was not aware the salaries of the Bank clerks had not been increased, while many of their per quisites had been withdrawn. The Directors, however, had not seduced their own salaries. He thought a great deal of unnecessary expense . had been created by alterations and enlargements of offices, for the esta blishment was large enough during the war, when ten times the a mount of business was transacted. The D E PUTY-GOVERNOR would make but a few ob servations upon the notion and the amendment that had been submitted. Mr. Thomson had stated that the capital bad been reduced one half. He (the Deputy-Governor) knew of no such reduction. The capital was still 14,500,0001. Then Mr. Thomson had stated the profits had been diminished. No doubt that had been the case, but such diminution was easily ac counted for when the Government had borrowed money upon Exchequer Bills at 31d. a-day, but were now pay ing only 14. cl a•day. That was a very good re: son why the profits of the Bank were less.--( Hear, hear.) At that time, too, one and two pound notes were issued, but now gold was substituted.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the reduction of the salaries of the Directors, lie would observe that every one must be aware the Directors did not take upon themselves the management of the affairs of the Bank merely for their salaries.—(Hear, hear.) A labourer was worthy of his hire ; and he could only say, what no doubt every gentleman present was aware of, that the labours of the Directors at the present moment were ten times greater than during the period of the Restriction Act. They had to provide for cash pay ment;, avid to convert their notes into gold, which was a source of great anxiety to the Court in general.— (Hear, hear.) If he had the honour of being in the Glair next year, which was almost a matter of course, with the permission of the Proprietors, although he could assure them he was not all desirous of the situa tion, the anxiety in his mind would he greater than any emolument he might receive would recompense. Whatever the Court might resolve, whether they gave him 4001. a year, as at present, or reduced it to 1001., be should fulfil the duties of his situation to the best of his ability, and he should be very glad if they could find any other more efficient person to discharge it.—(Hear, hear.) He forgot to mention another reason why the dividend should be reduced. Ti ei had been for the last two years paying the Govern ment 100,0001. per annum, which was pretty nearly equal to one per cent. Mr. COOK—That was a most unjust transaction. The DEPUTY-GOVERNOR—It is a contract. Mr. BLACKBURN objected to the words " unlimited confidence" in theamendment, which,coming as it did from a gentleman who over and over again had put questions, some of which had been answered, and some refused to be disclosed, appeared to him the very limbo of arro gance.—( A laugh.) He objected to such terms being applied by the owners of property to those who held that property in trust for them.—(A Proprietor—The word " unlimited" is not in the amendment.) He complained of the house list system, and the house instead of system ; and he understood that , of their Directors being the first merchants of the City of London, they were now the cadets and supporters of the leading merchants only. So much for the house list and the house character. He did n o t a pp rove o f th e ir paying the Directors with sweet honeyed words, and thereby covering over the mis management of the institution ; and he thought there was fair ground in the altered value of money now, as fixed, for with the period when these salaries were for reducing their present amount. The amendment of a vote of thanks to the Directors was then put by the Chairman , a nd carried with three dissentients. The DEPUTY-GoVERNOR then announced that the di v id en d warrants would be paid on Mon day, the, 12th of October ; and previously _to reading the minutes, be be gg ed to ac q uaint them that the minutes of evidence taken before the Select Com mittee of the House o f Commons for investigating into Banks of Issue, had been publ7shed, and he wished to know whether it Was the pleasure of the Court EVENING EDITION. to have copies. It was very voluminous, aod would cost 9s. each for 3,300 Proprietors. Several Proprietors objected to the ex p anse, and the question was dropped. In answer to a Proprietor The DEPUTY-GovEasoa' said the Government bad borrowed 13,000,0001. from the Bank, which a bou t paid re paid by sums of 585,74 01 . annually, and a 9,500,000/. was now due to th. The P ROP RIETOR wished to em know what rate of in. ter e est was paid by the Government. The DEPUTY GOVERNOR-41. 25. per cent. The minutes of the meeting were then read, and the Court adjourned. . ________--. .-- ---------- EXTENSIVE ROBBERY Oil 1 110. FRENCH TREASURY. -48 f. The disappearance of the Sieur Matheo with nor',' Tr 2,000,000 of francs, abstracted from the 'treasury of France, gave rise to great public scandal in the Yc cr 1821. Msthco was in that same year condemned by default to twenty years at the galleys , and to pay tb,,ee sum of 400,000 francs, and enter into se curity to '- amount of 100,000 francs. Mather) was rcocu L LY ir.' rested at Wurtcmberg, with the conse nt of the v;uri temberg Government. and on Saturday l ast he was tr ie at the Court of As-izes of the Seine. Oa being introduced by the guard, he stated, je all ° ; swer to the President, that he was born at MaYci that he was sixty years of age, and reside s at Stet°. as a professor of languages. w hich it The act of accusation was then read, from " .0 appeared, that in December, 1817, Mather) g al '''' painted cashier of the specie in the Royal 'r as u r Y c i In this situation a vast deal of specie rev through his hands. Not content w ith tu's 1•8 I crative office, he devoted himself to conner?ifr speculations. Presently he announced to his acqu alti n d ances that in these he had been extremely successful ; l' re he commenced an excessive system of egP enditu ar: which was maintained by embezzlement upon an error" mous scale. On the 21st of November, 1 80 ' be I r the Pao c of ceived from the Director-General of Department, an order to pa • into the bank the su re b , 500,000 f. But the large sums which tracted from the Treasury rendered this . ~ e t the On the 22.1 of November he presented birnsen De foe Treasury at nine o'clock, according to castor!. let ter ten o'clock struck he left the office, leaving 3 • c h behind him for M. Piscatory, central cashi er ' b n i d vihi he excused himself from attendance on the grec;,l,- of the health. Medico did not appear ag , in I ' ll ti'v 1 111 . 113 day ; the key of his strong box had b l een left '' At in the possession of the porter of the Treas ur %„tiott three o'clock, Mather) not appearing, an wasexalm; to was ordered to be made ; and the result of this the funde i t° t his discover that he had embezzled the public amount of 1,860,000 f. (74,0001. sterling.) ' l3l d bf sum was included 333,5051. (13,3001.) subtraCte him on the day of' his disappearance. ina tiortt After the prisoner had undergone a long ex° ill ifieec ce . h the President described the style of range he Self et wit er which the:accused had lived , in a splendid house seven or eight horses in his * stable, keeping n° fewer than three mistresses, and having a splendid cou ii . house at Charonne. Upon this latter house a loe. o e had laid out 100,0001., furnishing and decor` wi,„%a lu ory After style of the utmost magnificence. Your monstrous expenditure (added the Pres ident) O s ruining you, led you to the commission of the c with which you stand charged. rui n ' Prisoner— Speculations in the funds causetil, The le 6s. President—This did not make your PI" ;,„- i OP Public functionaries cannot, without a cting o '7 ° oo make use of the funds of the State to forwer u t or speculations in the funds. The President fartbcr bo tinned the fact that Matheo, while at Wurternberg!so been condemned to two y sustain ears and a h ail Extent 411Pri with hard labour, for forgery. in l II° Twenty-seven witnesses w e re called to . coy charge, but eleven of them were deceased ; " 1 ' 4113 04 es e ; s i % sequence of extreme age, were incapa ble of themselves in Court ; eight could no t be found,eots only were examined, and fully bore ou t the stater in the act of accusation. c lie 00 Mettle() was found guilty and sentenced to I .' ' O , of imprisonment with hard labour,' an d to the P ar a sum of 200,000 francs. ht DEATH OF LADY DACRES.--H Lao s a er Eic her who was widow of the late Vice-Admiral S ir , a f t er a n Dacres, G. C. H., died at Beth, on Monday lila" illness of sea eral weeks. ealleY THE VICAR OF GEDNEY LOST were in Long Sutton, Lutton, and the neighbourhoonf satardelf dreadful state of excitement during the w hele the nl Y "e' se Sunday, and Monday week, in consequene e , nr v wbo rious absence of the far-famed Vicar of Ge°, le ',: s day, a n seen to go down the river in a boat on the Dal" Sin was not afterwards heard of. It was feared that ° l o t o day the parishioners would be deprived of the be ba d public worship, or be left to the mercy of the sexten;oool luckily, the Rector of Long Sutton being en lies sob visit to his parish, his Curate was at liberty to; r — n ths; the unhappy flock at Gedney. We are happy to nr i !se a the " lost is found," but his adventures by sea Ita - e . would fill a volume: he and a friend were driven C )ti.° the German Ocean I —Lincoln Gazette. A 0' CHRISTENING EXTRAORDINARY. On -11 ' day se'nnight, at Bayton Church, the liev. christened no less than nine children belonging ` n ar enta Hancock, stonemason, of Bayton. The happy r oue' have only been married nine years.— Worcester C r o w? THE LATE JAMES SMITH AND '''c r avell; D'ORSAY.—Count D'Orsay set me down la s saying street. " What was all that Madame Guiceio li to you just now ?" he inquired. She Wa s tell if A her apartments are in the Rue de Rivoli , and tetaforget visited the French capital she hoped I would to PO her address." " What !it took her all that time that ? Ah, Smeeth, you old humbug that wea l James Smith's Memoirs, 6-c. i nil l B /1 The epidemic amongst the cattle i ? co a t ' s a te r .bo gor er ::: on the increase ; beasts, as well as pigs, Burton Goggles, Easton, Witham, and several n ," vi ith lages in the neighbourhood, have been attack en and a great many of them die. CORONER'S INQUEST.-011 TtleSuaYat dee-S an inquest was held at the Coach and Ilorses Ru7,ty before Mr, Woods, one of the Coroners foe the c ° as ioav Surrey, upon the body of George Saunders, autoestaioeSs_ who was killed ea Sunday evening last. driver of her Majesty's mail.cart from Windsor e a tb o Stain °, s $ the deceased left Windsor with the mail, for It aPP ear la state of intoxication, about six o'clock that evenilio hi° took gin and beer several times upon the roed . ter sbeg: return from Staines, where he delivered the l et he lf-1/ 8 he was observed to pass by Egham, at abou t . 0 boor: seven o'clock, driving at the rate of twenty miles ! to e s' When oosite the winning-stand on the raees en h oli e ", Runymeie, he ran the mail.eart with considerau., (ebv knee against the chaise of Mr. Sexton, of Chertsretvoief was returning from Windsor with his wife), e ve ad Oat his cart, and throwing himself out into the r . .... j0 g great force. Mr. Sexton observing the reckless do the deceased, had driven his chaise close to one ; o gee the road, and both he and his wife providentialliegeagee unhurt. His chaise sustained only some trifling _eate o The man was conveyed in an aarently- lifeless %or the Coach and Horses, and medicalp assistance coots diately procured, but he never spoke a fter the °f ie aid nor exhibited the least sign of consc : ousn ess. " loel lb° of concussion of the brain at half - past eleven n'e.aeoe' same night. The Jury, who strongly condemned W.. it 0 duct of those who intrusted the deceased, when: Ay drunken state, with the mail , retu rned a verdict 0. cidental desth, with a deodand of is. on the cart , vsoe TESTIMONIAL TO. THOMAS 1 7 011',1G1 1 , 4 ,/ RECEIVER-GENERAL TO TOE POST OFFIC LONV%iog It being known that Mr. Young is at present sojOurodstl for a short period with Mr. Dickson, en eminent 14n r esv merc hant, who has taken Woodhall for a summer ore deuce, the Town Council of Kireudbright resolved on ' 0 a senting Mr. Young with the freedom of the burg b e' the mark of respect fur the h i g h character ho holds sa;000 ability with which he has discharged the duties of va r Oil important and confidential public situations. c os ° having been communicated to that gentlemen, b il e. re et by appointment yesterday afternoon to Pscieeef bright, accompanied by his distaiguished 'ooerf Mr. M'Culloch, Comptroller of the Slat'el-eiglr Office, London :who is at present in this bourhood), and also by Mr. Maitland, of Barcaple; 001 Russ, of Culgruff; Mr. Bell, of Gribtrae, and ( I:0d other gentleman, when the Magistrates and - t *elt ef ; waited on him and presented him with the, burg ess Mr. Young acknowledged the compliment ' in we r ! bto t ; and appropriate terms, and it is but dues to the inu n , - , 4 1 1,10" of Kirkcudbright to state that tho; (cern to sYr n ial ir e very warmly in the mark of respect so handsomelY 00" propriately paid by the Town Council to one of the offita popular and respected public men in London.---Pu dcte c ; Courier. [ln this description we were puzzled tasvorthlt Lord Melbourne's late private secretary, a aa n e gt e le, and honourable man, well known to many , in no degree a public man.)—Ep. SUN. Si te The Co THE ATTITUDE OF FRANCE.- - tutionnel insinuates that France does not meet' tv" the offensive, excepting in the event of a partitionobjebr East by the Four Powers—a contingency th an o re r ' or M. Thiers is perfectly aware, nothing can be l op, e o probable. There is not a syllable in the Con/entheeatirn has one single circumstance transpired th roughout. t we in' progress of the negotiations, which can je,tify sli c e Oeta' ference. It is to prevent the dismemberment o f the, be man empire, an object to which France has professoisuelieso self favourable, and not to partition it among th e r bond ° , ll , that the exertions of the parties to the treaty °' hat eee have been directed. To affirm, therefore, t""elent' will is to maintain an offensive position oiilY in teheeo. confessinto a stateth a t of France excitement, of circumstances which fee never Rely to haPreerer bartce for s o , herself, without the shadow of a reason. ble exeu ndo l g, el has atrhidroiwyrnipustehde large ele heaa on doing. A man who takes an offensive posture, andieins, in loud and acrimonious language to tilts° ern w hich tech t ° e ' have publicly and solemnly disclaimed, and the pretext that he suspects them of an intention sy._ s o o n! w hich c aw; them tog out at variance with the object that has drawls and who then declares that lie never meant , to eelY4teee e insolent menaces, unless some improbable c rclet! lia ble should occur which might call for his interpc,sitioo 2 . .' e gas to be If to be regarded in no other light than that. of a 131 `' co ock conading brawler, whose courtesies am onlY hated by a contemptuous disregard of Isis d, tbc the assertion of the Constitutionnel its to bo is n ot vr a position of France at the present moment " more dignified or imposing. —Eveni"9 p a per. ,iriar tet . ll , CORN.—Nearly thirty-two thousatio •_%r, a of w heat no rier lek wheat, and fourteen thousand cwt. duty at this port during the last week...*GlosOwt