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P, V V, Nri N " I IN • LITERATURE. 7.- " E TIIANES ANT ITS TRIBUTARIES. 2 Vols. Bentley, Leaden, 1840. As a great portion of these volumes hive already appeared in Bentley's Miscellany, and were spoken of from time to as they came out, in our usual not i ec , s, we nee d no t here expatiate at all Y l ength their merits or otherwise. Suffice it, theref o:e, to state, that they are penned in an arni'Able and unaffected spirit ; are full of gossip ; P.nd not sparingly interspersed with agreeable anec dotes. Some small research is also apparent in th em ---chiefly, however, of such a nature as we meet with in the Guide-books to Watering-places. The author sets out by assuring us that he is going " in search of tui3ciont and of health along the banks of the Thames." Health he has no doubt found in this excursion—at least wt. Dope so—but We question much whether as r-,,gsrds " wisdom" his search has been equally successful, for ce:tainly his Present volume s , a mus: m though they are,exhibit no 'ery remarkabl e tme'es of this quality. For instance, his very first page he says, " man speaks of the moth er - eD - .th fromwhence he came, and whither he r l ; but, after all, the honour of his maternity - ' ° ng , to water." Now, if this be the ease, and eate r be really and truly man's mother, then it fol- S as a necessary logical consequence, which— unlike th e steam-engines on the Eastern Counties p r )e ai lway—cannot be overturned, that man must eith er , a hippopotamus, a crocodile, or a fish ; amid this, we suppose, is the reason why we r-_:/-re in e habi t o f say i ng o f one person , th a t h e is a "l oose Ifish; and of another, that he is an " odd fish I" Our auth or goes on to ask, " what should we be with water ?'' and like the late George the „ 1 , rd, answers th e quest i on hi mse lf as f o ll ows : in We hav e on ly to i mag i ne t h e con di t i on o f t h e w There Cs neither salt water nor fresh in all et ex wonderß that she looks so pale and lo°,e..b°tent No -;one as she sails 0. 1 7 — .1 0 ' the sky, and that rs and poets, ignorant of her peculiar mi.for s'ne, hav e so o f ten as ked her the reason of her rr° " . ." We are not aware that it is a common -c' Practicethe with lovers and with poets to put questions e moon, touching the state of her mind ; but i th ' t be so, they must be egregious asses, seeing t L at-- according to Herschel', who has ascertained tie rate at which sound travels—they could not et an an swer to t h e i r question in less than two ° , ll sand y ears Agair,, we are assured that ; ( ill.- nseidon i n t h e G ree k, and Neptune in the "'an mrtholc ranked among the benevolent g h °ds ' " ffar : a j .a ' s this from being the case, these was no d e ity who was regarded :4 , 7 :nore fear, awe, and distrust than this 1 ) , I ' l / 4 ' Neptune, whose primary attribute was not L 'evelenc e but caprice, as Mr. Mackay must koown, had he been at all versed in the classic reaitnrs• From the above passages, it will, we (l ' , he t oo man if est t h at , i n hi s sea r c h after wis -011, our author has not been quite so successful ,s Could have been wished ; nevertheless, his work an entertaining one ; and so kindly is the spirit n which it is penned, that it is not without reluctance that we have ventured on a quiet at its occasional silliness of remark. We ; 11 U our R - dthor's next volume will be in poetry, tha n PrP;se• He is more at home in the former, thn the latter capacity ; and in his " Hope of y - World," there were not a few passages worthy 'of Goldsmith. T YTLER'S IIIS7'ORY OF SCOTLAND, VoL. VII. Tait, Edinburgh, 1840. Th e present volume of the history of Scotland enThraces the stirring period between the marriage of Mary to Lord Darnlc , ;, end the close of the civil war in 1572—" a potion of our national annals," defor me d by mitroversy, that there is scarcely a ,ainole event 'in it of any importance, which has not been citif:dtioned, or distorted to suit the peculiar view' s of the antagonists or defenders of the Queen of Scots." In order to arrive at as sound conclu ,aions as possible, in judging of the character of these events, Mr. Tytler has consulted a variety of authentic documents, which were either unknown t?, or had escaped the research of pieceding histo- Z"; and by the aid of these valuable materials he p,: i . t een enabled to throw new lights on many im to Show ''t facts in Scottish history ; and, in particular, the that Elizabeth, Cecil, and the leaders of ip t i r °testants, were all, more or less, implicated murder of Rizzio. The volume, as may be f uli gined m the period of which it treats , is of sti f r ro rin g interest. CHIVALRY AND CHARITY. 1 1 i • U. Knight. London, 1840. 8 1) Itol 3 little volume, which is publish ed under the Useful Pcriote n d ence of the S oc i ety f o r the Diffusion ofef v a h. Knowledge, we have the principles of chi bratY and ch ar i ty illustrated in the lives of the cele leb " 4 Bertrand du Guesclin, and the still more ce iated J ohn Howard. The book is very light and elit ertai ning, and will be sure to be popular with yo,, ng people. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. L 4111. ti; John Russell's secret sojourning place has been n'senvered, and after all the puzzling conjectures and 1 , - :. (l , er its as to the Noble Lord's whereabouts, he has been shooting grouse at Loch-an-Eilan, nor in-11unring incoo. through the country, but quietly en- V't'a himself a ' t . Drumlanrig Castle. Will the Re r‘ 1 111 " : s of Scotland, and the men who " profess Libc- S' ll e t , ° ,. Plni "s” in Edinburgh ever forgive the Colonial t ,l et arY for putti ng so grea t a a li g ht upon themselves N il " 'sltheir kind intScoentitland , ons, asl to neverook, near in t one of them, his his first b l l t a .. eri a l v i s i t to "I giv e t h e preference to a Tory Duke'; It is not v jY a r il sate in these times to venture on prophecy, espe tieey c oncerning the doings of men so slippery in prse t.as well as in prin c iple as the Wings ; but our pre tt ti- 'at Lord John would not accept the honour of 'que dinn er in Edinburgh, turns out to be correct. e he in v i tation from Merchants' Hall cannot be ac toePLtmdi the Noble Secretary being in a hurry to return °11 d 01 1" at the commence me n t o f next week"—that probably, yesterday or to-day. Now, if it be true at ' t Lord John arrived at Drumlanrig last Monday, as th 4te d in a Dum:ries Paper, he has been lingering in ! until mansion / t dat e s at least, and yet he has "t h" ttl • his friends, either in Edin burr, tim e to dine with ish or „ L Glasgow, or any where else Must there not ueen some other reason for declining these synupo honoursizal than want of time ? We trust this Drum ., r ig rebuff will be a caution to the clique in future n ot • 0 carry out their cog till it begins to rain kail !" Advertiser. lt Us Our Tory Contemporary afraid that Lord John , i us sell is aiming at the conversion of the Duke of Buc teoureh ?If L , not why should he find fault with his ip for taking 'shelter in any place during the t.,; 46 "°", and preferrin„g shooting grouse and partridges t o illa b ki ng and hearing long speeches ? May there not, b tu ' ' e l some private reasons for his Lordship visiting L ot : lll ,'"ig Castlo, without any reference to party ? .f t "c Tories can form no idea - of friendship apart 4'41 Politics.] k..oftiIECTIONAL POLICE, PARIS.—A young t e h lt e " f i ' i te, .named C.--, was . accused of assault under teo.„(3l,l"mg circumstances ; it appeared that the jeu ne l ‘e - In c'," tiring Paris by the Barriere de l'Etot r, pl'''),, noun on a plendid grey charger which he bad just - a ll , -e ' 4l ° , l, and was not a little proud of. All at once the ~,-•yr..eleus beast made an awkward bound, and struck Mon ..!r h a i. -----, vviao had just got out of an omnibus, a blow 1- 5.5 stomach. lmbecile I" cried the latter, who ee j u u l s d t ts va ~ Ped being throw n to the ground. The cavalier „-"c't,stninach the application of the word either to himself •," 1. nis horse, and forthwith drew his porcelain card, adding,ac 'lf you are offended, there's my address." " dress I" replied Monsieur D Your I do VI , th your address ? You had be'tte'r w k h e a e t p s it ho fe u r l d ile 1 n; nation of your horse." The joke at the expense f fenteloh_o,rse made bad worse, and calling him an insolent 11 , he gave him a cut in the an face with his whip, d galloped away. This manner of settling the affair did not satisfy Monsier D___,, and he called to the gay cavali er to sto been p. Th e car d w hi c h h a d before Neeted was now received, and on the gentleman demanding an exchange, Monsieur D— said " There is no necessity for my giving you a card, you high spirited will . see my addres s at the head ( f the summons you will receive to attend laughed befo re t h e Correctional Police. " He and and rode his arrival away ; but the s ummons h e rece i ve d, on tleman a meetin he said, " I consented to give th i s gen g, a n d t hi s is the field he has selected. " The President expr esse d his satisfaction at finding that the Court of J usti gentleman respßeted so much th e l aws as to appeal to a The def en d ant ex ce in pref erence to accepting a challenge. being in such pressed hi s h orror at a man of his quality a place. Th e P resident told him that if he bad anything to say in his defence, he w s ready to hear it; but he had better refrain from expressions of disrespect towards the Court. The defendant hastily replied that he had nothing more to say, and the President ordered him to pay a fine of 200 francs for the assault. —Gazette de 7 ribunaur. LORD SEYUOUR'S BILL. —Circulars base been sett to all the railways now in operation, requiring copies of all the existing by-law s to be sent to the Board of . . - Trade before the 10:11 of October, and that copies be - • a' .so sent of all future by-ws ; and informin em that f orms to m a k e the trafficla returns required g by th the Act Will shortly be sent to them to fill up.--Railway Meg. , Ya l ' t he the ,a 0 MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY. The Fourth General Annual Meeting of the Pro prietors of this Company was held in the Board-room of the Station, at Leicester, on Monday; the 31st of August. Thomas Edward Dicey, .F , e‘ r 'nairman of ' the Board of Directors, r d numerous and • . Tl l rem: was a very ...aential body of proprietors present, afc•"!, - , Ivor:n we noticed Jams Oakes, Esq., the De puty Chairman ; Sir W. Heygate,. Bart. (who has been recently elected t o th e B oar d) ; E. IL Farnham, Esq., M.P., of Quorndon House ; T. W. Rathbone, Esq., of Liverpool ; Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., of Liverpool ; Geor?:e Shaw, Esq., M.D., Leicester ; Edward Crop per, Esq., Liverpool ; Hobert Garnett, Esq., Manche - ter ; John Ta)lor, Esq., Leicester ; John Horsfall, Henry Youle, William Hannay, Samuel Bean, and J. C. Wright, E qrs., of Nottingham ; Edward Dawson, Esq., Whatton House, Leicestershire ; John Bright, Esq., of Skeffington Hall ; and Messrs. Alfred Burgess, Thomas Macaulay, and W. Hackett, of Leicester, Cap tain Watts, R.N., of Langton Grange, Darlington, &c. The CHAIRMAN, having read the advertisement calling the meeting, said the first business to be trims acted was to affix the common seal of the Company to the register •of Proprietors. Tnis having been done, The CHAIRMAN announced that 155 shares having become forfeited by the vote of the Board, it rested with the Proprietors to confirm that forfeiture. A resolution was passed confirming the forfeiture of the shares in question. The CHAIR:SIAN said it was now his pleasing duty to call on their Solicitor to read the Report of the Directors for the past year. That report was so clear and satisfactory, with regard to the present condition and prospects of the undertaking, and at the same time expressed his own feelings so fully on every subject re ferred to, that it would be unnecessary for him to de tain the meeting by any observations. When the Report had been read, if it was the wish of the Pro prietors to have further information with re spect to the state of the Company, he would be happy to afford all that it was in his power to communicate; and he assured the meeting that it was the wish of the Directors that nothing should be withheld, confident that the more fully the affairs of the undertaking were investigated, the more would every Shareholder be satisfied that the Directors were actu ated by but one feeling—that of promoting the interests of the Company to the best of their judgment and ability.—(Applause.) A document had been just placed in his hand in reference to the traffic of the line, which he had no doubt would be gratifying to the meeting to hear read, as he was happy to perceive that the returns of the last week exceeded those of any previous week since the opening of the railway. It was as follows Statement of the traffic of the Midland Counties Rail- way for the week ending the 29th of August. Abstract of daily traffic £1,780 17 0 Heavy goods and parcels Traffic to and from the North Midland 115 6 3 Company's Station . . 236 7 0 197 13 6 Londo:i and Midland Counties Stations ... £2,330 3 9 Cr. Midland Counties Stations to London ~.. 327 4 0 Net total £2,002 19 9 The above statement of the traffic of this line ap peared to give much satisfaction to the meeting. Mr. M ACAULAY, the Solicitor to the Company, read the Report. Sir WILLIAM HEYGATE, Bart., had great pleasure in moving the adoption of the Report, to the correctness of a considerable portion of which he could testify from personal experience. He meant that part of it which related to the proceedings connected with the passing of their last Act ; and lie could assure the Proprietors that it was impossible for any body of men to have de voted greater attention to the obtaining of this Act, or to have used more strenuous exertions to prevent clauses injurious to the interests of the Company from being introduced into it, than the Directors had done. —(Hear, hear.) In reference to other questions re ferred to in the Report, be would only express a hope that the present would be the last meeting of the Corn pang at which they should be placed in circumstances so unpleasant ; but at the same time, it was impossible for ar , y man to look at the whole facts of the case, and not perceive the justice and good sense of every sugges tion which it contained. After some discussion, the adoption of the Report was carried unanimously. The following are extracts from the Report : " It will be observed, from the accompanying ac counts, that the gross receipts to the 27th of June were 20,0711. 14s. Bd., and the disbursements, including all the heavy extra items consequent upon the successive openings of the line, arc not more than 11,320/. I its. Bd., and it is with peculiar pleasure that the Directors call attention to the fact that the exact and entire expenses of the locomotive power during the last six months, amount to no more than sixteen pence per mile ; a rate, they believe, below that on any line of the same extent, where the price of coke is as high as they had to pay during the greater part of that period ; and it is now much reduced in price. " The net profit of 8,767/. 17s. amounts to nearly 3 per cent. per arnum on the cost of that portion of the railway on which it has been almost wholly earned. " The audited balance sheets and particulars of the income and expenditure will be submitted to the meeting. " Into any lengthened history of the attempt now making by the Birmingham and Derby Railway Com pany to divert the traffic between London and Derby from this, the direct line originally authorised by Par liament, and to force it along an indirect and circuitous line, possessing no advantages whatever over that of the Midland Counties, but, on the contrary, being about elei en miles further round, the Directors do not think it at all necessary to enter, notwithstanding the un warranted representatiens which have been studiously made with respect to this proceeding, and the entire suppression in the Report just published by the Direc tors of the Birmingham and Derby Company of the ex traordinary means adopted to deprive this Company of part of their traffic. It will suffice to say that the Bir mingham and Derby Company, for the purpose of at tracting to their line, and withdrawing from the natural and direct channel the London and Derby traffic, have adopted the altogether unprecedented course of charg ing in respect of persons travelling between Derby and London, only 2s. for a first class and Is. 6d. for a second class passenger for the whole distance of thirty-eight miles from Derby to Hampton, that is to say, at the rate of two-thirds of a penny on a first and less than a halfpenny per mile on a second class passenger, while they continue to exact from all other passengers, though in the same carriages and going exactly the same dis tance, their original fares of Bs. each for first class, and 6s. for second class passengers !! ! This singular mode of charging, the Directors believe to be as illegal as it is unfair towards the public, and, under the sanction and advice of counsel of high professional eminence, they ap plied to the Court of Chancery for an injunction to re strain the Birmingham and Derby Company from a practice which they are still advised is contrary to law, and which Parliament has certainly taken peculiar pains to prevent. In this application they proved unsuccess ful, but the opinions they have subsequenntly received lead them to believe that a very different result would attend an application to the Court of Queen's Bench in the ensuing term for a mandamus. " In the mean time the Directors conceive that they have but one course to pursue—that of fixing such terms for the conveyance of the traffic of the Midland Counties Railway as may effectually secure it from htirg abstracted by the Birmingham and Derby Corn pany—a course which happily the position of this Rail way enables them to pursue, without descending to the utterly unproductive scale of fares by which alone the Birmingham and Derby Company could have succeeded in the temporary abstraction of any part of it, and, at a full meeting of the Board held on Saturday, the 29th instant, the following resolution was unanimously passed, which the Directors cannot doubt will meet with the decided and cordial approbation of the Proprietors : —' Resolved—That on and after the 14th of Septem ber the fares by this Company between Derby and Lon don be invariably charged at rates not exceeding those charged by the Birmingham and Derby Company.' " Notwithstanding the reduction of charges which were originally fixed upon what was considered to be no more than a fair scale of remuneration proportioned to the then probable amount of traffic, the well-known tendency of a low rate of charge to produce an increase of traffic must not be lost sight of, as some counter balance to the sacrifice ; and even if the anxiety of the Birmingham and Derby Company to obtain business upon any terms should lead them to make still further reductions, and to convey passengers over the line without any charge whatever, the corresponding charge to a passenger between Derby and London over the Midland Counties line would still leave to this Com pany ss. for a first class, and 3s. 6d. for a second class passenger, and in short nothing but a subscription on the part of the Birmingham and Derby Proprietors to pay the London and northern travellers for consenting to he conveyed over their line can possibly reduce the Midland Counties fares to the rates of charge at present fixed by that Company. " Upon the whole, the Directors feel every confi dence that the measures they are about to adopt will spee dily remove the only circumstance of a disagreeable nature which has accompanied the opening of the line, and in the general state and prospects of the undertak ing they see nn cause for distrust, but many increasing grounds of c onfidence in its entire and lasting success." A PROPRIETOR wished to know whether the adop tion of the Report pledged the meeting to support the Directors in the design that had been alluded to—that of reducing the fares, if a necessity arose for it, to the point of nil f The CHAIRMAN, in reply, said the adoption of the Report only pledged‘the meeting as far as the resolu tion went. Even supposing that the Birmingham and Derby Company pushed their hostility so far as to carry for nothing, still it did not follow that, in order to compete with them, their fares should be reduced to nil. The points between which the competition ex isted were Derby and Rugby ; one Company going . t in E SUN, O _DON, THURSDAY, SI 4 ,PrF,MI3ER 3, 184(3. iiound by way of Hampton, the other direct; therefore, give up that portion the utmost th a t the Derby Company could do . ---'-' be to on their ow-- '. ..- O f . ' 1 1: C'oarge for travelling .... one between Derby and Hamp - -Ai ; and even if they gave up all this, still those who went by this route to London would have to pay ss. for the distance from Hampton to Rugby. This, then, would be the minimum that the Midland Counties Company would have to come to, supposing the Derby Company determined to carry passengers on their lir r”ce of all chary. A Pi. SIETOIt asked whether the Directors were quite satisfied that the London and Birmingham Corn. pany would not assist the Derby ? The CHAIRMAN reWied that they had not the least doubt upon the subject. Captain WATTS, in confirmation of the Chairman's opinion, said that at the last meeting of the London and Birmingham Proprietors he put the same question to the Chairman, and he had the distinct avowal of one of the most honourable men in existence, that they would preserve a strict neutrality. In answer to another question by a Proprietor, The CHAIRMAN stated that it was not the intention of the Directors to extend the proposed reduction to Nottingham. R. ROBERTS, Esq., of Manchester, had been most anxious to ascertain whether the Midland Counti , s Directors were or were not culpable in reference to the dispute between the two Companies ; and he confessed that on entering the room that morning his impression was strongly in favour of another course than that rc- commended by the Directors. He was happy, how ever, to SAy, that having, as he believed, beard the true position in which they were placed, and also be lieving that the Directors of this Company were actua ted by feelings alike honourable and fair both to their own proprietors and the proprietors of the Birmingham and Derby line, he hoped the result of what had trans pired would be to induce both parties to meet together at no distant day, and come to an amicable understand ing with each other.—( Hear.) He trusted they would no longer present the spectacle of running like rival coaches, to exhaust their pockets, without satisfaction to the public, and certainly without advantage to them selves. The CHAIRMAN assured the Hon. Proprietors and the meeting, that as they had not provoked hostility so it should never be intentionally kept up. They enter tained no unfriendly feeling towards the Derby Com pany, and the moment they could adopt a different course to that which they recommended with reference to the interests of this Company, they would gladly do so. ERRORS OF THE CHURCH. REVIVAL OF THE LITURGY, &c. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—From many leading articles, letters, &c., that have been inserted in The Sun, and in other Liberal papers, it appears that a spirit of free inquiry is excited in the nation, and that the laity are not so much in clined to be dictated to by priests, or to renounce their reason in matters of religion, as they formerly were. if reason be the gift of Heaven, it is the voice of Heaven speaks. Shall not men hearken to it? Quite enough has been said by able writers, both lay and clerical, to induce any TRUE Protestant to re ject the Nicene and Athanasian creeds ; but, Sir, I ob ject also to that creed which, in the eighth of the Thirty-nine Articles, is stated to be the " commonly called Apostles' creed." I object to it for this reason— there is no satisfactory proof that it was composed by, under the direction of, or even in the time of the Apostles. The word " Catholic," (i. c. universal or general) in it is strong internal evidence that it was written long after the apostolic age ; for I have never understood that any Christians were called Catholics until generations had elapsed after the first preaching of tip:. Gospel. Indeed they could not, with any propriety, be so called in the infancy of the Christian religion, and before it was universally or generally established. Our great Teacher, Jesus Christ, did not encumber his pure system of religion with any long, complicated creeds. He inculcated the belief of one God, whom he taught maakind to address by the endearing name of Our Father." The duties of man he comprised i❑ the love of our beneficent Creator and of our fellow creatures. They are admirably summed up in the fol lowing passage (Mist. 22, 37), " Th ou s h a lt lo v e the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with alt thy mind. This is the first and great com mandment. And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two com mandments hang all the law and the prophets." I will now, Mr. Editor, with your permission, mention a curious mistake in the Church Catechism. The Church of England decidedly rtjects the doctrine of the rea! presence, not taking the words " this is my body, this is my blood," in a literal sense—that is, it does not hold that those substances which are bread and wine beihre consecration, become, truly, really, and sub stantially, the body and blood of Jesus Christ after consecration. Yet in the Catechism it is said " the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's supper." Now, how that can verily and indeed be taken and received which is not verily and indeed there, is a greater mystery than transubstantiation itself. At least, it seems very much like nonsense, " And nonsense never can be understood."—DßYDEN. The Church of England, which calls itself a Pre testant Church—very inconsistently, in my opinion— professes to believe itself the Catholic Church. It has even made that belief an article of faith. It must conse quently be of great importance, and must mean a firm belief in the doctrines taught by this Church. But how can a firm belief or faith exist, unless this Catholic Church be believed to be incapable of error, in other words, infallible ?—a principle utterly at variance with those of Protestantism. But where is this Catholic Church t It cannot be admitted by English Protest ants to be the Church in communion with the Pope or Bishop of Rome, since the dogmas of that Church, ac cording to the homilies of the Church of England, teach " damnable idolatry." Yet this Church is the only one now existing that. has the least pretensions to Catholicity, that is, of being the Church of all ages, and more or less of all nations. The Church of England, or as it is now called " the United Church of England and Ireland," has clearly no claim whatever to the term " Catholic," i. e. of being the Church of all ages and of all countries ; for it is the Church of two countries only, and was established, not three hundred years ago, by an Act of Parliament. It seems extraordinary, therefore, that the compilers of the Liturgy of the Established Church should have re• tained this article of the creed. 1 could point out several other important things which serious and reflecting persons disapprove of in the doctrines of the Church of England, but I :rust not transgress your limits. In fact the Law-Church is very improperly called a Protestant Church ; for its public Liturgy is merely a new edition of the old Roman Prayer Book, with altera tions, omissions, and additions. The great Lord Chat ham used to say that we have a Papist Prayer Book, Calvinistic Articles, and an Armenian Clergy. It is much to be lamented that our ecclesiastical rulers so obstinately refuse to have the Book of Com mon Prayer revised. They must certainly think the original compilers of the Liturgy (men selected by the Government of the day) were infallible. This reformation, however, must take place ere long, so as to meet the increasing intelligence of the age, or the Church will inevitably fall. Indeed it would stand a very short time longer, if it were not supported by the Government for political purposes, and by the Aristocracy for the maintenance of some of their younger sons ; for a least three-fourths of the people of the United Kingdom (including the Catho lics) are now Dissenters,—or dissatisfied with the Esta blished Church as it now exists, and Lhui, numbers rapidly augmenting. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A FRIEND TO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. Bath, Aug. 31, 1840. THE EASTERN QUESTION. r WARLIKE PREPARATIONS OF THE PORTE. The King of the Belgians intends, it is said, proceeding from Weisbaden, where he is at present, to Vienna,— Globe. THE NEW STEAM-SHIP INDIA. —The fittings up and arrangements of this magni ficent vessel, now lying in the East India Dock, which is intended to perform the whole voyage between England aad India by steam, are fast drawing towards completion, and the question of steam navigation between those two great countries, which has so long occupied the attention of the Legislature and the public, will shortly be reduced to practice, and science and ingenuity will determine whether the plans which have been submitted far its accomplishment are either vague in principle or visionary in theory. The India is a new ves sel, built at Greenock, at a cost of 70,0001., and is allowed by all judges of naval architecture to be one of the finest specimens of that art that ever left a builder's dock. The extreme length from the figure to the taffrail is 200 feet, and the deck is flush from stern to stern, affording a pro menade to passengers free from the slightest interruption. The saloon is truly a noble apartment, being 44 feet in length and 24 in width. The engines arc of 400 horse power. It is calculated that a ton and a half of coal will be consumed per hour, and that the voyage to the Cape of Good Hope will be accomplished, at the farthest, within a month from the time of sailing, where a flesh supply of coal will be taken in, and that;the whole voyage from thence to Calcutta will occupy about a month more. THEDREADNouGHT.—She looks like a mighty Leviathan—now no longer carrying terror and dismay into the hearts of the enemies of " Old England"—but holding out " the calumet of peace," and generously offering a corn. fortable asylum to the sick, wounded, or disabied seamen of all nations. This colossal ship Lffords accommodation to no fewer than 400 invalids. How delightful is it to contemplate so extraordinary a memento of human skill and ingenuity— perfect and well appointed in every part— fitted at once to stern the perils of the ocean, and to carry Britannia's thunders to distant lands—peopled by active, brave, and intelligent beings, who can at will govern and control the motions of the mighty machine ! Under such circumstances, it is impossible not to feel, with Campbell, that— Britar,nia needs no bulwark, - No towers along the steep-- Her mar-h is o'er the mountain-waves, Her home is on the deep. —A Summer's Dazi at Greenwich. SPIRIT OF THE PARIS JOURNALS Or: TUESDAY. These is nothing in the leading articles of the Paris Journals of Tuesday on the eastern question, which is in fact almost the only subject on which they comment, to threw any new light over it, or remove any portion of the veil by which it is at present obscured. The tone of the Ministerial Journals is certainly not more warlike than it has been, ne i t h er i s it mo re pacific. The Debuts says that for f ear o f ma ki ng an y mistake, one m sa i s , • c s i owohlapt preventing n o t t i l n i other eitheru 11 says,‘‘ confidenceehic oirs Journal, comm en ti ng on t h e d es p a t c h, a nnouncing that aal arconvenient the Pacha of Egypt will repel force by force, which it observes is without date, and less comprehensible than it might have been made, if the Ministry had pleased, says, that if the Paella means that he will not consider a blockade as the prelude of more serious hostilities, but will wait for more decisive acts before he shall order Ibrahim to advance, such a course would be a new gua rantee for the maintenance of peace. " If we are not mistaken," adds the Dcbets," the following are the intentions of the English Government. The relations of the Powers who have entered into a treaty with the Sultan, are said to he the same as those which existed in the quadruple treaty between France, England, Portugal, and Spain. One of the first Mea sun s was the blockade of the maritime provinces by which Don Carlos received supplies. The Four Powers will, in the same way, begin by blockading the ports of Syria, but this blockade will in no degree interfere with the operation s of commerce. Its only object would be to prevent a communication by sea between the Pacha of Egypt and his army in Syria. If this be the plan, and it be not exceeded, it may he presumed that the Pacha will merely defend himself, without committing any act of aggression. The army of Ibrahim can exist in Syria without convoys from Egypt, or the Pacha can send supplies into Syria by the desert ; with more diffi culty indeed, but it will be remembered that the French army tsok this route. The declaration of Mehemet Ali may then be regarded as favourable to the mainte• nance of general peace, It does not indeed contain anything like a solution of the difference—far irons it ; but it is an adjournment, and an adjournment may open the door to an arrangement." The Debats, alluding to the article of the Revue de Paris, which we' gave yesterday, relative to a note, which is said to have been sent to the French Cabinet by the English Government, and, according to which, an adjournment of the present question will take place, and a Congress be held at Vionna,says— " The journal which has given circulation to this statement, and passes for the most confidential echo of the President of the Council, makes no comment upon is, and therefore adopts it ; but another journal which is also frequently honoured with the same confidence, gives it for the purpose of contradiction. We will simply ask, which of these journals is the true organ— that which appears to believe, or that which does not believe the statement ? In such grave questions as these everybody will be of opinion that the Ministry should enforce a little more discipline on its three or four journals. The two evening rectifiers, which have nothing else to do, might have taken the trouble to ex plain what was meant by their colleagues, if they under stood them, unless, indeed, the Ministry knows more than its organs, which possibly is the case." The Constitulionnel has the following in reference to the article of the Univers, respecting the language which was said to have been used by the King to the Prussian and Austrian Ambassadors . " Although our own information was pretty much like the version of the Univers, we could not affirm that the King had used such words ; but at a moment when the immense majority of the country bad pronounced itself with so much energy against the treaty of London, and when nobody was willing to accept of peace at the price of humiliation, it appeared to us to be useful to the country, and even to Europe, to show that the King sympathised fully with the national feelings, and that he concurred spontaneously in the policy and the acts of his Government. To identify the King with the na tionel will, and demonstrate the firmness of his attitude as regards foreign powers, is to do honour to the Throne, and to give to it strength. This is why we copied the words which the Univers had put into the mouth of the King. There was undoubtedly more than one inaccuracy in the statement of the Univers, but what does that signify if it is proved to us that such are the sentiments of the King `e" The official evening paper, the Messa,ger, replying to one of the Opposition papers, says—" The policy of the French Cabinet is to maintain the equilibrium of Europe on the basis of the independence and integrity of the Ot toman empire. Everybody now knows what the French Government means by the words integrity of the Otto manwith Russia, empire. It means that all the Turkish territory should be in Turkish hands." 'To this the France replies—'• The Pacha then, it seems, has as much right as the Sultan t o possess t he empire. This empire may be portioned out into a heap of hereditary pachalicks. With such i nte r pr etations we can easily understand that contradictions may be given to the memorandums and protocols , but n ob o d y will be the dupe of such sophistry." The Courricr _Francais has the following on the treaty of commerce between England and France , wh i c h is now in negotiation :—" The treaty of commerce m ust destroy and virtually annul the 'treaty of July 15 . I t will hkb .e g a upon h levterotsoe violent tbep men eace who party preach i n England,upan al a lin e n a dn c. even at the price of war, in order to con tend France, which they represent as the eternal enemy of the English name. If there are still in Eng land any old hatreds or inveterate prejudices, to pre vent the people, or a portion of the people, from declar ing openly against the policy of Lord Palmerston, the conclusion of the treaty of commerce must remove them. If the opposition which the Noble Lord has met with in his projects in England has already deranged them, what strength will not that resistance acquire when we shall have shown by a decisive act of sympathy, that France has a natural desire for peace, and will only, when impelled by a sense of duty, go to war ': The Revue des Deux blondes again attacks with singular virulence the quadruple treaty of the 10th of July, and tries to demonstrate that it is impossible to fulfil that treaty, and that ultimately it will have no sa tisfactory results : It matters little to France, (says the Revise,) whether Mehemet Ali chooses to resign Syria, and even Egypt to the Sultan, or to give up his political existence, and retire into private life, or whether the Viceroy decides upon a vigorous defence. As long as it is the Ottoman Porte alone that acts against him, France can have nothing to say. The part of France will be that of an armed observer. The policy of France is well known—it is disinterested and dignified. She asks for nothing, but she will not allow the balance of power in Europe to be infringed, and, if the day of battle should come, she will choose her own field for action, and not have it marked down by others. But let us now examine the " coercive measures" that are about to be taken against Mehemet Ali. Will you blockade Syria ? But England has main tained in the Spanish question, that neutrals could not be made to admit the blockade of a friendly power. Syria is a province of the Ottoman empire. England cannot, therefore, blockade the p orts of her ally, and the Porte cannot blockade itself. The Sultan, it is exce ption, but in that ca se againsttcs , can, ov every ti as a measurewithout o f policy, close any of his ports the Sultan's forces alone m ust be allowed to act. Will you bombard Alexa ndria ? It would be a sin gular way of rendering se rvice to the Sultan to burn his f! r gol e oe e sa t t ; fi v p i o t ro l o , our that g o A f eni t tg l i i el e os_ 1 1 3 01 a fu c s l ts i h a i a'o empire. It would b e a sn affection for th e young, a nd destroy o ne o f t h e Sultan. s, will not Mehemet Ali order his son t o p a ss the Taurus and W,ll. suppose you do both these thing march upon Constantinople? What will the British ships do then ? They will be employed in conveying cargoes of Russian troops to Egypt and Syria, while the Muscovite army will be on its way to Constantinople to oppose Ibrahim. It is to be hoped that nothing of all this will take place, but if such things are now probable, it is Lord Palmerston's policy that is to be thanked for it. Hitherto the peace of the world de p ended on t he Europ ean Cabinets, or rather on the Governments of France and England. But now it lies at th e mercy o f a T ur k , of a Pacha, who, in a corner of Africa is calculating re reprobating a o t n i n a Russian intervention is now, all the chances of the general conflagration of the east o a f jaaitted. Whigs, Tories, wad and west ; and, doubtless, he would not neglect those chances. how- The ever, un e i n v o e r r m sa i l t l y y Radi cals, in England, allemploy mentgthteheresultsf of Russian troops as a coercive measure. Austria and Prussia begin such interference, an d are far from consenting to it. Russia-herself does not seem in a hurry to act. In short, at this moment no one dares to employ t o o p agreeen theirin Russia in the execution of the treaty. Then what becomes of this so famous convention of Lord Palmerston, for which he has not hesitated to sa crifice the alliance of France ? Lords Palmerston and Ponsonby cling to one hope —perhaps the insurrection of Syria. British and Rus sian agents are no doubt at work to stir up the popula tion of that province, and arming th em i n a use l ess re bellion against th e warlike soldiers of the Viceroy. The rebellion will only tend to render the tyranny of Mehe met Ali more fearful and more oppressive to the unfor tunate inhabitants. But what of that ? as long as it can be said that the Anglo-Russian treaty is not a dead letter, and that its fruits arc seen. But, alas ! what fruits ! VF c can foresee a deal of misery an d con f us i on , b u t no political or reasonable results. Therefore, let us hope that the good sense of the English nation, the evident interests of Austria and Prussia, and the mode ration of France, may yet avert the storms that threaten to disturb the peace of the world. But words are not sufficient to avert it ; a powerful and persevering atti tude alone can do so. Such an attitude as the French Cabinet, with the consent of the King, has taken and will uphold, and is ready to render still more powerful and dreaded. (Flom the Correspondence 61 tile Morning Chronicle.) CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 12.—The dominion at the Pacha, according to the plan of the Four Powers, is not to extend beyond the line of Acre, and does not include either Arabia or Candia. Egypt alone is to be heredi tary in his family, and the province of Acre to be consi dered as a pachalik, to be governed by his son • during his lifetime, but afterwards to depend on the will of the Porte ; and even this latter is only to be granted to him on the condition of his accepting these terms and deli vering up the Ottoman fleet within the period of ten days. In the event of his not doing so, this pachalik is to be cut off. Egypt alone is to be then offered,with another ten days for him to deliberate on it before actual force be em ployed against him. The manner, however, of applying the force, should he refuse to comply with these terms—whe ther a simple blockade is to be established on the coast, or whether his capital is to be bombarded an d his armies attacked in the Syrian provinces—is a point which still remains to be learned ; nor does a note delivered yes terday by the four Ambassadors, in answer to a ques tion put to them by the Porte, as to the plan to be adopted in such an event, throw the least light on this subject. It simply states that provision had been made, and there was no necessity for the Divan alarming itself about any contingency that might afterwards arise But the Porte, notwithstanding, seems preparing for a struggle ; and the bustle and activity which have pre vailed here since affairs have taken their present turn have been such as to excite universal astonishment. Eight thousand troops have already left to join the camp to be formed at Kutaya. Upwards of forty vessels have been chartered by the Government to convey troops and stores to the Syrian coast ; and two first-rates and three frigates, the sad remains of the Sultan's fleet, are to sail immediately in the same direction, to be under the command of Capt. Walker. Two other vessels also, just launched, are to be got ready with all despatch. In addition to the employment of its marine force, Austria furnishes 15,000 men, who are also to proceed to the coast of Syria, and will augment her numbers in case of need ; and Russia is to furnish an army in the event of Ibrahim's advancing on the capital. Blood will be doubtless shed before affairs be brought to a conclusion. To add to the difficulties Turkey is already involved in to meet tite contingencies of a fresh war, and ere the disturbances in the capital are hardly quieted, another affair has now occurred to call for exertion on the part of the Porte, viz., a serious revolt in the Tonat provinces. The cause assigned for this outbreak is the general dis content of the Turks of the interior at the new measures lately introduced, which place them on a footing with the Rayah subjects ; and, determined to resist them to the utmost of their power, they had risen en masse, strangled the Governor, and committed excesses of every kind. The accounts received of the spreading of disaffection have been considered by the Government to be so alarming, that the Austrian steamer was instantly chartered and despatched yesterday to Sampsoon, with 1,500 Alba nian troops, and another steamer with the same num ber will leave tonight for that port. This promptness and energy on the part of the Government, unparalleled in former instances, will doubtless be followed by the desired result ; and, in addition to the quelling of the present disturbance, the more sold advantage will like wise be obtained of inspiring the people with a whole some terror, and teaching them for the future to respect the laws. . . We have letters from Tabreez to the 20th ultimo, which left the Shah at Hamadan, where he was col lecting an imposing force, but nothing was known of his future mcvements. Affairs, however, throughout the country were assuming, it is stated, a threatening aspect, and, according to the opinion generally enter tained, a long period would not elapse ere Persia be came the scene of great events. A shock of an earth quake has been felt at Tabreez, which had seriously damaged several buildings, and, according to the ac counts received there, it had been felt severely at other places. Several villages were completely destroyed, and even part of Mount Ararat, had been thrown down, overwhelming and crushing the villages at its base. (From the Correspondence of the Morning Post ) CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 2.—Yestorday a note, signed by the Ministers of England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia, was delivered to the Porte, in answer to a circular which had been addressed to them by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, demanding to be informed what were the ulterior measures in contemplation, should Mehemet Ali refuse to comply with the condi tions dictated to him by the convention of London. The contents of the note in question were, I under stand, couched in very general and evasive terms, such as diplomacy usually avails itself of when it is at a loss to reply categorically to a proposition, and most liberal of professions and assurances signifying nothing. One thing that we may positively conclude from this inter change of notes is, that no definite and combined plan of operations has been preconcerted between the Porte and its allies for the chastisement of its rebellious: satrap, should he still prove refractory. Five regiments of infantry, consisting of 8,000 men, have beep ordered from the capital to Kutaya, and part of them were shipped yesterday in two steamers to Nicomedia. The remainder will follow to-morrow. One thousand five hundred Albanians were also des patched yesterday by steamer to Sampsoon, to quell the disturbances which have broken out in that quarter. - The people of Tocat, it appears, entertain anything but a grateful sense of the blessings accruing to them from the Hatti Scheriff, and, by way of expressing their opinions unequivocally, have strangled the Mouhassil. Similar excesses have been committed at Amasia, _and the ,disaffectiOtx TV said to !lave spretia t PaCllatik af',A'rehisond. ,A flotilla,, consisting of two line-or-battle ships and three frigates, will leave the Bosphorus to-morrow, under the nominal command of the Reale Bey, who, however, has instructions to be guided implicitly in his movements by Captain Walker, R, N. These vessels are doubt lessly intended to represent the Turkish naval force now in durance at Alexandria, and to form a portion iof the combined fleet, which, to make good that resignation, hag also been joitied by ta o Austrian frigates under Admiral Bandiera. It is also re ported that twelve Russian ships are expected in the Mediterranean from Cronstadt. Till they arrive, the whole brunt of the armed intervention, as far as maritime operations are required, will fall al most exclusively on our fleet, augmented to fifteen ships of the line, and supposed to be now on its way to Alexandria. The French fleet, under Admiral Hugon (for Admiral Lalande has just been recalled) is still anchored in two divisions at Smyrna and Vourla. (From the Correspondence of the Herald.) CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 12.—1 was prepared to doubt very strongly that Mehemet Ali would not ac cede to the propositions of the Quadruple Convention, but the Pacha of Egypt has saved us the trouble even of doubting. Before the behests of the Four Powers could be made to him through an official chan nel, the Convention had reached his ears, and, without waiting for any formal intimation, he publishes to the world a manifesto, which bids defiance to this formidable coalition. In this document he premises that he had sent Sami Bey to congratu late the Sultan on the late addition to his family, and that lie had every reason to be satisfied with the friendly reception which that officer had met with at Constanti nople, and the distinction with which he had been treated during his residence there. He then goes on to say, that flattered by this, and encouraged by the removal of his enemy, Khosrew Pacha, from public affairs, he had come to a determination to restore the fleet, and was actually on the point of sending it off, i when he received intelligence of the convention which had been concluded at London. This convention he stigmatises as being of the most iniquitous character, depriving h'm of territories of which he is de facto possessor, and which possession is confirmed by treaty, and declares that he will never surrender any part of these territories, but, trusting to God and the justice of his cause, he will resist to the uttermost every at tempt to wrest them from him. Such is the language of Mehemet AU, and fortunate will it be if he remain on the defensive, and confine him self to resisting any attack made upon him ; for, if he should order Ibrahim Pacha to march upon Constanti nople, all the force the Porte could oppose to him would scarcely cause him the loss of a single day's march. It is believed that Ibrahitn Pacha, without weakening the occupation of Syria, might advance at the head of 30,000 men, and 20 days' march would bring him close upon the Bosphorus. Now, seeing that the Turks are incapable of defence, I should like to know what force the Four Powers have in petto to secure Constantinople against such a coup de main. The movement of a Russian corps from the frontiers of Georgia, upon the flank of Ibrahim Pacha, would probably stop his movement in advance ; but have the consequences of the entrance of Russian troops into Asia Minor been duly weighed by the other powers ? A division of the third Russian corps has been marched into Bessarabia, and another into the Crimea, but in the present circumstances none of these troops could arrive in time to save Constanti nople, though they might easily succeed in retaking it, which would, perhaps, suit the purposes of Russia fully better. For several days back public illuminations have taken place, for a double reason—namely, in honour of the birth of another Imperial infant and to celebrate the nuptials of the Sultan's sister. The presents will be carried in procession to-day. and likewise the corps diplomatique and other distinguished personages have been invited by the Sultan to a grand entertainment, at the palace of Dolma Bakehe. 1 io tigl SUGAR DUTIES.—(FRONI A CORRESPOND ENT. )--A gentleman who was present in the Park when the Queen prorogued Parliament, overheard a conversation between two humble but sensible housewives, on the sub ject of the high duties en sugar. The fact is, said the first speaker, " there are at present a number of planters in the House who care for nobody but themselves, and lay it on just as they please." The remark was true and. to the point, and might with equal justice be applied to the Corn. law planters, who only care ter their own selfish interest, and " lay it on as they please." PRUSSIA. The Prussian State Zeitung has the following article : —" The Courrier Francais appeals to the German j ou iagls, instancing the Hamburgh Correspondent, the Leipsig Attge;zine Zeitung, the Swabian Mercury, the Augsburg Allgemeinr: Zeitung, to prove, or at least to excite a belief that, throughoz:t Germany, there is but one movement in favour of Franco, which, says the Courricr, has never manifested more got;',l faith and moderation. Germany knows too little of t::: cause of the diplomatic negotiations which have hitherto been carried on, to decide whether France has mani fested good faith ; but on which side moderation has been shown no reasonable person can doubt, after read ing the propagandist rhodomantade, and the threats hurled at the Rhenish provinces in the French Journals. Whatever diversities there may be in the national spirit in different parts of Germany, we believe that we may safely assert that the Courtier Francais has looked through discoloured spectacles, when it fancies that it saw in the above-mentioned Journals that the German organs of public opinion spoke in favour of a nation Whose tactics in the late times of arrogance, and whose plans Wore an affront to the national feelings of Germany." WAR IN CHI CASSIA. TUERAPIA, AUG. 9.—1 wrote to you A few days ago, mentioning the success gained by the Lesghis over the Russians. The following is the true account :—On the 13th of May, General Golofiefi', with ten battalions, two regiments of cavalry, and ten guns, advanced from the fortress of Unezapnaya, situated about twenty miles south of the Terck, a river which falls into the Caspian, into the Lesghi country. At about fifteen versts from the fortress he was attacked by Shemel, the chief of the tribe, and after several affairs, driven back into it. Shemel then advanced into the country of the Tshechintses, in which the Russians had about fifteen years ago established military colonies, destroyed them, punished the Russian partisans, and was joined by the above-named tribe. To prevent this mischief the Russians again advanced from their strong hold on the 14th of June, and were again driven back with considerable loss. Encouraged by this success, the Lesghis have crossed the Terck, and this account left them ravaging the country up to the Caspian. The effect of this his been, that General Grabbe, who com manded a corps at Havanopol destined to attack the western Caucacus, has been obliged to proceed in all haste to relieve his comrade, surrounded by the victori ous Lesgbis, and if possible drive those back who have passed the Tcrck, thus completely disorganizing the plan of the campaign. The name of the tribe which joined the Lesghis is Czeczyncy—in English, " Tshechintsy." The fortress Wnczapnaia (in English, Unezapnaya) is situate at the southern bank of the Terck, at the distance of about 20 miles from this river, and of 4L, miles from the Caspian. SPAIN. EVACUATION OF PASSAGES, AUG. '27.—Sunday all the British co-operative forces will have been with drawn from this coast. This day the Comet steamer, Commander R. S. Gordon, and the Etna transport, will leave this with about. '250 of the Royal Marines. This will leave about '2OO, with a detachment of Royal Marine Artillery, under Captain Castieu. The Sala mander, Captain Dacres, leaves on Saturday ; and his Lordship's ship the North Star, and the Savage, Com mander the Hon. Mr. Plunket, will leave on Sunday. 'rho French frigate the Hernzione, which has been lying in this port for the last five or six years, will be towed out by the steamers Cameleon and Meteor, and as she is found not to be sea-worthy, will be accompanied by these steamers to Toulon. It is really very gratifying to be able to state that the good feeling which has so long subsisted between Lord John Hay and the Viceroy of Navarre has, in the most handsome manner, been displayed by the conduct not only of the Viceroy, who has addressed a letter to Lord John Hay, returning him his personal thanks, and thanking his Lordship, in the name of those who have defended the cause of Isabella the Second, for the effi cient services of the squadron on this coast, but also by General Alcala, captain general of this province. Ge neral Alcala personally called on Lord John Hay to pay his farewell visit yesterday. His Excellency the Viceroy has sent word that he will wait upon Lord John this day for the same purpose. The following is a copy of the embarkation return, or rather an extract from it : Per Etna transport-1 captain, 2 lieutenants, 12 sergeants, 8 dr. 169 r. f. Per Comet-4 lieutenants, 3 sergeants, 1 dr., 37 r. Total-1 captain, 6 lieutenants, 15 sergeants, 9 dr., 206, r. f. Officers' names—Captain Leyton, Lieutenant J. 0. Travers, and Lieutenant Symonds, per Etna. Lieutenant F. A. Campbell, W. Langford, D. A. Doratt, and G. B. Rodney. Letter from his Excellency General Don Philip Ribero, Viceroy of Navarre, &c. &c., to his Excellency the Right Honourable Lord John Hay, Commander of her Britannic Majesty's Naval Forces on the North Coast of Spain. " Most Excellent Sir,—By the esteemed communi cation of your Excellency's letter, of yesterday's date, 1 am informed that orders have been received by yon, from your Government, directing the return to England of the forces under your Excellency's command. " The co-operation which these troops have lent durin g the six years of the now happily - terminat ed civil -- , !Lar-ii-4air; their heroic deeds, and splendid military conduct upori - afe - many- occasions at which they were present ; and, above all, the creditable attachment of your Excellency to the cause of the Throne of Isabella 11., win be ever most gratefully and indelibly remem bered by all Spaniards. I assure your Excellency that I am highly gratified, although at the same time I but fulfil my duty in acknowledging, in the most frank and sincere manner, those sentiments of gratitude which the British forcea so well merit from Spaniards, particularly that portion of them under the able command of your Excellency, which for so long have assisted to sustain the war on this coast during the period of six years. " I beg that your Excellency will be pleased to ac cept my acknowledgment of these feelings, and of the 1 particular estimation I have for yourself personally, and I beseech God for your happy voyage, and that your va luable life may be preserved for very many years, &c. ( Signed) " FELIPE RIBERO." " To his Excellency the Right Honourable Lord John Hay, K.C.8., K.G.C.C., K.G.S.F., &c., &c , her Britannic Majesty's frigate, North Star, Passages." EVENING EDITION. SECOND EDITION' THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES) BRITISH FUNDS. 13ank Stock ........... ... 169 4 India Stock .• • ..249 3 per Cent. Red......... Ditto Bonds — ..... 5 dis. 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 89i Ditto Old Annuities ... 3 per Cent Red........ Ditto New Annuities... New 3} per Cent ...... 98i Ex. Bills, 1,000/...2d... 19 pm New 5 per sent ••••••••• Ditto 500/ 39 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1860, — Bank Stock for 0pg....170 Oct. 1859 ... ...... 13„ India Stock for Acct... 15 Jan. 1860 l3 5:16 Consols for Acct 9 o li FOREION FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent... PerOlguese, 5 per cent. _ Pruss i an, ,5 per cent — per rent. Belgian, 5 per cent lOO Ditto, ,New Ditto 34i Brazilian 80w15... .. .. BucnosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic . ... — Colomban, 6 per cent — Spanish, b per rent...... ___ Ditto, 1824 24 Ditto, Deferred ....... ... Ili Danish, 3 per cent.... French,s per cent... —f. Greek, 1825, 5 percent. Exchange .. ......... —f. ___ e j Mexican, 5 per cent — French, 3 per cent.. —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 — Dutch, 24 per cent...—. 514 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct — Ditto, 5 per cent... •, .. 102 SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway Bristol and Exeter Eastern Counties Railway Great Western Railway Ditto New Shares 4ts London and Brighton Railway 254 London and Birmingham Railway ....., Ditto New Shares. . London and South Western Railway .... 54 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) Manchester and Leeds Railway Ditto New Shares 0 91: North Midland Railway • Ditto New Shares 4O South Eastern and Dover ....... .. .. 64 BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, AUG. 30.—Yesterday the Marquis de Rumigny, Ambassador of the King of the French, had an audience of the King to deliver his credentials. His Excellency was accompanied by the gentlemen at tached to the Legation. The .Monileur contains a long report addressed to the King by M. Rogier, Minister of Public Works in the Royal Academy of the Fine Arts at Antwerp, re commanding certain measures for the encouragement of that establishment. To this report is subjoined a Royal ordinance founded on it. " We, Leopold, &c., " On the report of our Minister of Public Works. have decreed— " 1. Our Minister of Public Works is instructed to lay before us a plan for the complete re-organization of the Academy of Antwerp, founded on the importance of that establisment, and what is required for the pur poses of instruction in the higher branches of the art. "2. Independently of the sum allowed by the city of Antwerp, an annual sum of 25,000 francs, to be charged on the budget of the State, alkali be employed in defraying the expences of the Royal Academy and Museum of Antwerp." It is said that the King will pass several weeks in Germany. Contrary to his usual custom, he will on this occasion have part of his equipages with him, which will set out to-morrow to precede him. It is affirmed that the Queen will accompany his Majesty to Wiesbaden, which will not be the only city that they will visit together. We do not know whether this journey has any political o bject.—Observateur. BRUSSELS, SEPT. I.—Enim Pacha, General of Artil lery in the Ottoman army, arrived at Liege on the 30th , of August. - D R OWNING CAUSED Bl Sunday an d •••=110•••••1•1•111••••• Fletcher ° n morning week, two men, a n m t e A d DOG. —Op -- dog w Salford. They bad a la r g e y oun g William Hoyle, were bathing in the Irwell, with tern, near Ho h dge. lane, which jumped into the w ater, and swam to Hoyle, who was in mi ddle of the river. The dog knew on an islandt he him, and he played wit th ag ain, paws the dog after him. It snatched hit some time. He en Jumped into the water paws upon him, and held him done.at his head, put its Fletcher, who had got out and was standing on the batik, endeavoured to call the dog off; but, as it would not come, b e went into t h e water to H oyle's assistance. Hoy le then sunk, and the dog swam to Fletcher, and put his paws upon him in the same manner. Another man, named Wi lli am Ullan, of Brown. street, Salford, who had alto got into the water to assist Hoyle, called out to Fletch:‘r to go under the water, and at the same time got hold of the dog, and pulled him oil ; and Fletcher, by di%ing, succeeded in getting out. The dog was then secured, and Ullan then tried to find Hoyle, but could not , and half an hour elapsed before he was got out, when he was quite dead. An inquest was held on the body before .111,. Rutter, the Coroner for the county, on Tuesday week, when the above circumstances were stated; and Fletcher said the deceased was a mechanic, and the dog belonged to witness's brother, and had followed them that morning. It was a very powerful one, but not vicious.—Accidental death. FRACAS IN THE UNDERWRITERS' ROONIS. We understand that an extraordinary fracas took place in the Underwriters' Rooms on Monday, between Mr. RN bertson Gladstone and Lieutenant Collins, of the Navy, in the course of which Mr. Gladstone struck the Lieute nant in the face. The parties ha7e been bound over to keep the peace ; and the probability is that Mr. Gladstone will have to an s wer for his conduct in a cou rt of law. e understand that the quarrel arose out of some difference as to the conduct of Lieutenant Collins's son, who is in the service of Mr. Gladstone, —Liverpool Tirpes. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENII“.. PAFEES OF THIS DAT. (From the Globe.) The iVlanifestation Reforiniil.e, us the National calls it, in an open-air banquet neariPaijs, though no doubt e xaggerated in regard to numbers, as ell these " mani festations" are by their friendly reporters, contains some curious matter in the several spee ches,ill ve of the very different point of view fro m which po,:tics are regarded by John Bull and his nearest neighb.aurs. English agitators never can do much by topics of foreign policy—witness Messrs. Urquhart, C. Att wood, and Co. French agitators can do nothing by anything else ; and have only to tru m p up a tals ot . trahison on the part of their own authorities. of " in solent coalitions of Kings," and frontiers menaced by the barbares du nord, to bring together an easily excit able audience, whom they could not have brought toge ther by any theme of domestic policy. One element of this is doubtless the love of adventure, and the lurking hope of gainful adventure engendered by the wars of the Revolution. The ill-employed or ill-satis fied portion of the French population have never for batten the times when the sword opened every treasury i n :;:rope—when Equality equalised »ieuin and tuner, and Liber:.y made free with all pockets. What is for gotten is the ts;:_imate balance against the spoilers ; rather, that is only a .:_membered with a fierce impatience to " redress the balansss." and to " tear the treaties (to borrow their phrase) 'or' .1815." To do battle for the common good of mankind--,:sot forgetting the ex tension of the French frontiers—is the ardent aspira tion of these choice spirits. (From the Standard.) We regret to have incurred the censure of the Korn lug Herald by the opinions which we have avowed on the Eastern question. \V have no right to complain, and we do not complain, that our respected Contempo rary differs from us, but we think that we are ss little hardly dealt with, when, in defiance of our constant profession that we off,:r no opinions but our own, st! arc called an evening organ of Tory opinions, a.-id when accused of a predilection for the Russian al liance, and described as the panegyrist of that alliance. With reference to the Russian alliance, we have merely- to remind our readers of the line taken by this journal since its first establishment. They are welt aware that we have uninterruptedly warned o ur coun trymen against the danger threatened to the civilised world, and more particularly to this empire, by Russian ambition ; that we have exposed the intrigues of Rus sian diplomacy in quarters where they were least sus pected ; that we have in every case exhorted to main tain the power of France, Austria, and Prussia, as the proper balance against the increasing preponderance of the Czar—in short, that we have been, as we stiff,' are, thoroughly anti-Russian. If the Morning Heald eauCut reconcile this thoroughly anti-Russian feeling with the part which we are now acting, we shall endeavour to set our selves right at least with others ; and we engage in the attempt the more readily, because we believe that good must always result from the canvassing of princi p/es. Europe is already in some measure governed by popular opinion, and will be governed by the same in fluence in a still greater measure as we advance, hut it is by the temperate and candid investigation of priti ciple,c, that a sound popular opinion is best fornied: The diplomatists and red-tapists of our ate, ind , cd. would, in imitation of the theologians of times past, deter us from the exercise of private judgment, by de scribing the duties and obligations of public policy as something too intricate and obscure for the understand ings of humble men. The motive for this is as otivsous in the case of the diplomatists and red-tapists, as in the case of the theologians--the wish to keep mankind In subjection to their own order. This, however, they can do no longer. (From the COW icr.) The spiritual independence of the Church, and its inviolate preservation from all civil interference and con tamination, is the object for which Dr. Chalmers. in his last, tells us that he and his friends are ready to sacrifice everything they possess. This spiritual inde pendence the Church•is now putting forth in her pro- Leediess against a portion of her own clerical body : and the uicil Courts of Scotland, a, we hate been, tering - tor the protection of the clergymen so dealt ~lt. ktew ) i ir l , I,y the Church, Each of the contending part ire w,ri be looking around them, %%litre they are to find support in the positions which they have mutually taken up ; and the Churchmen, as is very natural, are quoting the law and practice as expounded and followed by the first re formers of the Kirk, in defence of what they are now &lug. Did they go a little beyond the period at which these reformers lived, and did they, moreover, regard a state of affairs with which these reformers certainly were not particularly enamoured, they would be at no loss to find precedents for the course they are now pursuing ; and we shall not send them beyond the Council of Trent, in case they should think we are putting them to too much trouble. But when they tell us, as we see the Witness does, that the spiritual independence now claimed, is " peculiarly the doctrine of Knox," we won der if we can have read aright the annals of the Re formation in Scotland. An accident occurred to the Inverness mail coming south on the morning of Thursday last, between :1 and 4 o'clock. about 19 miles on this side of Inverness. turning a sharp corner of the road one of the leaders shied at some women who were sitting round a tire smok ing, and immediately knocked the other leader off the road, by which means the ; coach gave a swing to, ono side, and pitched two outside passengers, the guard, and coachman, in all directions, who, strange to say, escaped unhurt, with the exception of the guard, who was much bruised. Upon being freed of the top weight, the coach immediately righted, and the horses set off at a fearful rate with the coach towards the Bridge of Carr. There e re two inside passengers—a .-entleman to Edinburgh, cud a young boy , who bein g well aware of the locality, and the imminent danger to which they were every moment hurrying, from the vicinity of the dangerous turn at the bridge, resolved upon leaping out. The gentleman, however, fell on his back, and was much bruised, and had his anele sevetely sprained. The boy was picked up insensible, but afterwards recovered, and both, we under stand, arc now in a fair way. The coach and horses, after running about two miles, were stopped within a short dis tance of the bridge of Carr by the presence of mind of am inhabitant of the place, who, seeing the terrific approach of the coach, drew a loaded cart of wood across the road, which brought the horses up, only injuring the leaders.... Caledonian Mercury. THE MODERN ICA:Ws.—A man, carrying sl large bundle, applied some days since to the keeper the column in the Place Vendome, i permission to go up to the top of the column. He was requested to leave his Lundle with the keeper, but this request so (16'4:needed him that he retired in disgust to the Pantheon, when the same request was preferred, and the same conditions met with the same ebullition of anger. Upon this the man returned home, took out his large great coat, under which he contrived to conceal his bundle, and de/ manded admission to the towers of Notre Dame. The ke e per accordingly accompanied him to the to of tilt cathedral towers, and as soon as he arrived there lae askei in which direction lay Montmartre. The keeper pointed it out to him, and the man, suddenly pulling aside the laypett of his coat, revealed the bundle, and tapping it mystFrieusly be said, " Should you be surprised if I were to alight oia the top heights of Montmatre within ten minutes ?" Tb( keeper replied in the affirmative. " Say not a word," cop tinued the intrepid aeronaut, " and I will take you wit; me." The keeper, however, respectfully, but firmly, de cline(' the invitation, and exhausted all his persuasiv. you took owkil out g o , f ta h k, , 0 powers attempting to induce the maniac to abandon h i aerial expedition, but all t o no p urpose. At length tit k m e e e p w e i r t h e 3 x , e d ou."T, h e " rn SN a ' n e i l a l , c t e then, immediatelysince bundle some large straps and feathers, and commence, with great gravity to strap them on his shoulders like pair of wings. He then seized the keeper round tl • waist but the keeper returned the compliment, an d au, ceeded in bring in g down his bird, and detaining him un' • assistance was procured. The man proved t o b e a car pe, ter who had frequently given indications of mental abe ration, but, being gentle and harmless, had been allow to remain at large. Colonel Wynd ham, durin g hi s recent v i s i t to I e states in the count ies of Cla re an d Li mer i c k , h as gi, upwards of 5001 . to different charities for promoting welfare of the poorer classes. It is not generally kno that the Gallant Colonel had given, in the two pre vi years, nearly 1,5001, to the local c haritable instituti: and clergymen. 00 dee! pro the ,tcr Sty c oo', i l ia ,p ligir a l ' vigr il' i : .n 0` th . faC"3. ie ° co cei 00 04 1 ' Ili''