The Sun. — London, England, 1840-11-07 00:00:00

EVE:'4 , I iNG 14_,M1 I° ON . at nes, they turned them j against the Egyptians. The. people of Syria, better ud,gee than the people of Franca can be of the nature of the Paella's rule, have everywhere risen against him, and at the date of the last accooats Ibrahim Paclea, with the wreck of his forces, was forced to make a hasty retreat to the moon- • tains. It would be to offer an insult to the French na tion to supose after the complete demolition in a few weeks of the fabric of Egyptian despotism in Syria, that they can any longer hesitate to avow that they have been under the most complete delusion with re spect to the power of the Pacha in Syria, and the character of his rule in that country. The hand ful of English and Austrian marines could not have shaken the power of a Government possessed of any claims to support from its treatment of the people over whom it was placed. The Egyptians have been routed by the Turks and the Syrians. The vete rans of Ibrahim were broken by the raw levies brought only a few weeks ago from Constantinople in British ships. In the interesting account which yesterday ap peared in our columns from our Syrian Correspondent, one fact mentioned by him speaks volumes as to the demoralised state of the Egyptian army. We allude to his coming, when he least expected it, on eight armed Egyiltips in a cut for purposes of irrigation, and con -veyin7these armed men as prisoners on board an English vessel. The people of Syria have determined the question of the title of the Pacha of Egypt to the country. The title of the people of Syria to de cide this question themselves is one which we are sure the French nation, on reflection, will be the last to dispute. When the Belgians, animated by &lee example set by the French in the three glorious days of July, took arms to effect a separation rom Holland, the title of a people to choose their own Government was strenuously contended for by the French, who strongly protested against ail foreign in terference. But we will not insult the fame of one of the best and most liberal Sovereigns of Europe, the late King of the Netherlands, by comparing for an instant his enlightened rule with that of the oppressive des potism of Mehemet Ali. It would be strange, indeed, if what the French themselves claimed and obtained for Belgium in 1830, were to be refused by them to Syria in 1840 1 But the people of England will hail, in the Speech delivered on Thursday at the opening of the Chambers, the prospect of a renewal of the good understand which has so long prevailed between the two countries. The language of the King of the French with regard to Spain leads us to hope that the efforts of the two countries may again be combined to promote the tran quillity and prosperity of that interesting kingdom. We repeat with the King, " May the throne of Isabella 11. and the institutions which should maintain it preserve that noble country from the long and unhappy trials of revolutions:" Bet we would add, may the enlightened Government of France see that one of the most effec tual mean; of preventing fresh revolutions is to inspire the Government with an honest and sincere disposition to proceed in the petals of that constitution which the people have purchased by so many noble efforts. We cannot conclude these few observations without remade lee that the time is now come when justice to Lord Pal merston demands that we should offer our tribute, what ever it telly he worth, to his merits in this Eastern ques tion. He has been assailed in many quarters, and not al war eapported by those who ought to have supported him. Ti'is success which has attended his arrangements with re terea ie to the East, will, we trust, lead those Liberals awho are now organising meetings to condemn all inter tereoce with the affairs of Turkey and Syria, to pause before they commit: themselves further. By- a very •saiefit cependitere of money, and the judicious em ploymerit of the means which the right arm of En;- he navy, place at the command of a British I\f ilisccr,. he has preserved the integrity of the Turk tsit empire, released the people of Syria from a grinding despotism, and, made the power and influ ence of England be fd - , throughout the East. 'The restoration of Syria to the Sultan has been effected by means, too, which must give the Turks con fidence in themselves, and tend greatly to the regene ration of that important empire. Is it nothing, we ask, that a cause of quarrel between the Powers of Europe has, if not been altogether removed, at least reereived to a distance ? But Britain is not confined to this and the neighbouring island. It has arms in every part of the world ; and any attempt to with drew ourselves from the affairs of the world would raise ue enemies against us in every quarter of the globe. Where does English commerce not penetrate? How much have not our merchants suffered by the hostili ties its South America it We repeat, then, it is impos ei:,le to look on the success which has attended the oiler Itions in Svt is without raising our view to the dire , ting mind who planned these opera tions, and had the firmness to pursue his course tli , ough good and h d report. He hay raised the ritrttien et hi - is country ; not hy exciting the jealousy of other net'ons by the exercise of an ill-regulated am bition, ha' by s!lppnrting the cause of truth and justice by how .3t an]. straightforward xns. (From the Times.) The speech of the Kol of the French, which we -rave yesterday in a Second Edition, has realized all our hors and predictions of the becoming spirit in which that dieceurse would he framed, and of the just and up r'-;ht intentions both towards France and towards tirigi,l).Juring Powers which would be manifested therein lie Louis Peilippe. Toe King proclaims his love of Fence. end appe to the Representatives of the French tiateel to alsiit him in the maintenence of a blessing so Jcr , tia! " To the common interests of Europe, to its peonle, and to the progress of eivilizatioe." Nll - further states, that he would equally rely upon the Coembere, " if the honour of France and her rank naleag nations commanded her to make new efforts." This laneuage may be called vague, but it is as pre cise and explanatory as the occasion called for. It woul I undoubtedly hare been less Vague had M. Guizot prepared a clause declaratory of the King's tesoliolen " to raise an additional army of 150,000 non," or in other words to make war upon Europe. The Press of M. Thiers, hoping to persuade the world that the advocates of peace in Franca and else where had gained nothing by the substitution of M. Guizot for M. 'riders, have been insisting ever since the accession of the former Statesman to office, that he could be compelled to " walk in the footsteps of his predecessor," and even that the Royal Speech weal,' be couched in the very terms which, when of fered to his Majesty by M. Thiers, Louis Philippe had disapproeed and repudiated. We took the liberty of representing this anticipation as a slander upon the Kng's good sense and on the good principles of his Mhuster. We expressed a belief that the course of policy about to be pursued by the Qovernment of raace would be pacific ; that it s t one wou ld b e con ciliatory, as its acts would be upright; and that led eller bullying nor brag:jug, nor looseetoregued paeogaca filen to war, would find a piece in the counsels ad dressed by M. Guizot to his Sovereign. The King announces that ho h as " the dignity " of his coun try at heart, as much as its security and repose. Now, does not that imply, quite as clearly as the most definite and offensive menance of 150,0E10 men, that if the exigency required it (but not in an other case), the armed men should be forthcoming ; nod who can blame the King or Government for such en hypothetical intimation ? The European Powers (and England least of all) have not combined for aggressive purposes against the French King or people. Their aim was to curb the growth of evils which, had accomplished much, and threatened iarther irritation and confusion amongst the several - European States—a policy to which France herself had at one time promptly and unreservedly acceded. The real cause of separation, or what has been termed by M. Thiers himself " isolation" from the rest of Europe on the part of France, an , l of all the consequent ill• humour and violence which her late Administration has exhibited, will not 'reave been left doubtful in the minds of many persooe who have watched the political contro versies of Paris during the last three or four days. Once tbat the debates of the French Chambers shall Isasva begun, there will of course be less necessity for meddling with public journals, regarded as the organs of certain p o li t i ca l leaders, because those individuals swill have an accredited and acknowledged channel through which to enforce the sentiments whereby they wish to make it known that they are actuated. We say the necessity will be diminished, but it must still however seldo m , exist, inasmuch as ther are doctrines ' aihich it may su i t the underhand purposes of a cer tain class of politi c i ans to ohavedilintly circulated throughout society, an d withthe impliedit benefit more over of their sanction, which a would t be i by no means decent or even saf e to avow the tribune, and to incur for them a r ecogn i sed res ons trb But now, before the proceedings of the Chambers. have opened, and at a crisis which becomes more anx i ous every hour, these j o urnals which av ow ( without being contradicted) that they do s p eak the fe elings of promi nent public men, may be fairly and usefully Consulted for facts which they could n ot have invente d , and re specting the truth or falsehood of which their patrons must be the individuals of all others the best infor me d. The strife, which daily grows in bitterness, between t h e champions of the Thiers and the Guizotns little try, has prod uce d ar ti c l e s from the former of an indiscretion less than fatal, as illustrations of this imprudent violence i ; and we mu s t add, that it is not merely the policy of M. Thiers, but of a date anterior to his Ministerial existence, which has thus been exposed to eyes not bound to treat it with extraordinary reverence. It is affirmed with some chole r by the journal in question, that when M. Guizot first came to this country he complained that the quar rel between France and England had already gone too far, that eit was too late," "and that he despaired of re-establishing their amicable relations." This was at the first advent of the Thiers Ministry, the Ministry of th e let of March. The quarrel, therefore, must have preceded the month of March. Yet M. Thiers and his p ress h een of stu E nnio l g d us wi h th h tbe h ir e xclamations at the perfidy been stunning us with their exclamations at the Perfid siening a treaty on the 15th o y f Jul fo g rf a ee ' d w a w t s h a e l c g r eo,aoddy will and lost the alliance of a Power y which I. a t variance with her for five or s i x months before. I3sr that mode of reasoning consistent, l e t us as k , w i t h go od faith ? The variance exist e d then, b qt w h at was .. the cause? Was it any shadow of predilection be trayed by Lord Palmerston for Russia, as contra-dis tinguished from France ? No, decidedly ; for, so far from desiring to make a breach with France, or to °s troll-go Great Britain from her alliance, Lord almer ston had offered --nay, pressed upon the French Go vernment, a proposal to risk, to sacrifice everything, for the permanency of that ostensible union, by .:ctually sending a combined fleet into the Sea of Marmora, and employing force to rid both countries of the fears with which the known schemes of Russia had inspired them. But again, France, after the battle of Nezib, says M. Thiers, prevailed upon Ibrahim Paella to relinquish his march to the shores of the Bosphorus, and a vast service, the ex-Minister de clared, had been thereby rendered to Europe. But what M. Thiers forgot to state in either of his pub lished notes to Lord Palmerston was the prodigal and ruinous price which, without consulting either England, her " Ally," or the Porte, which she thus made a merit of protecting, France secretly took upon herself to make Turkey, England, and Europe pay for this much boasted arrest of Ibraham's preparations. The Times two or three weeks ago alleged that the manoeuvres of the French Ministry were altogether unaccountable, except on the belief that France was bound by some secret and self-seeking engagements to Mehemet Ali, without the privity of any one of those four Go vernments with which in the autumn of 1839, she was professing to co-operate. Behind the back of England too, whose signature of a Treaty for the accomplish ment of objects recognised as valuable by the French Government itself did not take place until the summer of 1840, and was then made a subject of reproach to this country, as being the sole origin of a rupture of their formal alliance ! Do we bring forward these facts as charges against any one French Minister or succession of Ministers? Not at all ; but the Constitutionnel has done so—hitting in all directions, eight and left, like a man struck blind with passion. It is with a view to the controversy car ried on between Lord Palmerston and M. Thiers, as respectively the representatives of English and French policy, that we now advert to these disclosures, made within the last eight-and-forty hours. If they prove that England has little, 'on the score of good faith, wherewith to charge herself, they do not certainly go at all to deny that she has a great deal to regret in the absence of that :practical. support and cordial unity of purpose which she hoped atone time would have been the rich fruit of the formidable French and British al liance. It must now be the business of both Govern- meets to obliterate as much as possible these unhappy traces of the past, or to recollect them onlyas lessons of future wisdom. We have no doubt that the signal suc cesses obtained by the joint arms of Britain and Turkey in furthering the cause of :a just and moral policy wi►l have removed from the shoulders of King Louis Phi lippe and of ,his Minister a load of embarrassment not less perplexing than that which the British Government itself must have suffered under had their enterprises faded instead of triumphed. (From the Morning Herald.) 1 As a literary composition the speech of the King of the French is below mediocrity. As a State document it may possibly be indued with recondite wisdom, which is purposely kept at an unfathomable depth below the surface. Like the Vicar of Wakefield's cautious pre. diction, it may mean anything or nothing, just as events happen to turn out ; but he who expected to derive from this emanation of the political genius of the new Cabinet a light to enlighten the future, will find that he has bean plunged in a depth of " mystification" through which it is impossible to catch a glimpse of a solutio❑ of the '• complications of the Levant." The French di plomatist who said that language was given to man to enable him to conceal his thoughts, would have bee❑ de lighted at such a practical illustration of his maxim as that which the Speech of the King of the French pre sents. No specimen of Royal elocutio❑ delivered of late years from the British throne, and combining in its composition the united contributions of the members of the Melbourne Cabinet, has displayed more meagre resources of political ingenuity, or a greater poverty of intellect, than the opening Speech to the French Chambers exhibits. Sure we are that such a Speech cannot please any party, while it is evident that it has been drawn up with a view of giving satisfaction to all. Thus the war party are endeavoured to be con ciliated by the following passage :—" The measures which the Emperor of Austria, the Queen of Great Britain, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of Russia have taken in concert to regulate the rela tions between the Sultan and the Pacha of Egypt, have imposed serious duties upon me. 1 have the dignity of the country at heart as much as its secu rity and repose." Next, both the war and peace parties are addressed together i❑ the ensuing sen tence. " In persevering in this moderate and conciliatory policy, of which we have reaped the fruit for the last ten years, I have plc.ced France in a position to face the chances which the course of events in the East may produce." Then comes another soothing application to the anxious sensibilities of the tremlh•ng capitalists :—" I continue to hope that the general peace will nos be disturbed. It is necessary for the general commit:a interests of Europe, the hap piness of its population, and the progress of civilisa tion. I depend upon you to assist lire to maintain it." Lest 99 pacific an invocation as this might render the war-party utterly disconsolate, notwithstanding the hope which a previous part of the Speech had inspired, a vista of battle and glory is dimly opened in the suc ceeding portion of the sentence, which runs thus : " As I should rely upon you if the honour if France and the rank which she holds among the nations coin wan-led us to make new eArts." Thus the State (factors who compose the doctrinaire Cabinet have pre scribed to the (Lstempered body-politic of France seda tives and stimulants alternately. What operatio❑ these conflicting prescriptions will have remains to lie seen. It is not necessary to follow the Speech in the rapid bathos which it commits in its descent from the ques tion of a European war to a war with the Argentine republic ! This is the second republic with which the Citizen-King has been at war, besides threatening a quasi war, or hermetical blockade of the Swiss republic. Spain, from which both Carlos and Christina have been driven, and where the standard of military rebellion floats triumphantly over the captive child of Ferdinand, comes in, of course, for a share of Royal notice. But, no doubt, Lord Palmerston will have settled the in ternal affairs of that country by the time he shall have settled the " complications of the Levant." (From the Morning Post.) We communicated yesterday to the British public the Speech of the King of the French on the opening of the S2ssion of the Legislature of this country, acce lerated by circumstances in the relations of the Ewe r), an States which had been thought to portend war. Tl , o language about to be employed by the Sovereign of France on so important an occasion could not fail to cxeite among the nations of Europe an nacre:A, gene ral auk/ intense, in proportion to their estimation of the blessings and advantages of peace. We knew that the virtuous and wholesome, the magnanimous and patriotic, love of peace prevailed no where more absolutely than in Great Britain, and we therefare deemed it our spe cial duty to provide with diligence and care the means by which o'ir countrymen should receive with all pos sible celerity a report of what the King of the French had addressed to the Peers and Representatives of France on a crisis so full of interest. The Speech of Louis Philippe is calculated at once to sustain the honour and dignity of his own country, and to gratify every lover of justice and of peace. (From the Morning Advertiser.) In the speech now before our readers of the King of the French, on opening the Chambers, is to be found the most gratifying assurance of the preservation of the public peace, so far at least as the King of the French can give a pledge for the conduct of the nation over which he presides- In reference to the measures taken by the Powers contracting to the Treaty of London, Louis Philippe merely, observes :—" I have the dig nity of our country at heart as much as its security and repose. In persevering in this moderate and con ciliatory policy, of which we have reaped the fruit for the last ten years, I have placed France in a position to face the chances which the course of events in the East may produce. The extraordinary credits which have been opened with this intention will be submitted to you, and you will ap preciate the motives of them. I continue to hope that the general peace will not be disturbed. It is neces sary for the general common interests of Europe, the happiness of its population, and the progress of civilisation. I depend upon you to assist me to main tain it, as I should rely upon it, if the honour of France, and the rank which she holds among nations, com manded us to make new efforts." Here the necessity of peace, and the utter absence of all cause of war, is expressed as broadly as the phraseology of Royal Speeches would at any time admit, even when public feeling were less goaded than it is at present by incendiary stimulants. The King of the French broadly announces to the French people that he de pends upon thorn now to assist him in maintaining peace with as much confidence as ho would, if need required, or, as it is is expressed, " the honour of Fr ance , and the rank which she ho l ds among na tions, coParaanded them to make new efforts." All that Europe looked for, or that the interests of France required, is expressed in this paragraph. Louis Phi lippe, with afra ekness the more commendable, as it may incur a temporaryloss of popularity, and even in crease the d anger of i comm o ti on , boldly pro fesses his adh es i on to te policy of peace. This bold ness, however, i s t h e result of a just discrimination,i not of a rash and wilful impulse. it is a p o li c y i n w hi c h the King of the French will be supported by all that is sane and salutary in the intellectual organisation of France, and by the preponderating influence of every b e s t other state in Europe. In makitnegr tdiaetopnledstrgeat'e, Louis Philippe has, as we shall hereafter consulted his own interest. In the meantime we con gratulate France and Europe on the fact without insti tuting a too close analysis of motives, and we trust that the pacific policy of Louis Philippe will be as success fully responded to by the French people as it is sure t o be by the intelligent portion of every European com munity, E UN, LONDON, sATURIIAY, NOVEMI3ER 7. is-10. PROM TIE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) The great embarrassment experienced by successive French Cabinets with regard to the Eastern question has arisen from the unwise dereliction of the principles of plain and direct dealing committed by them. Honesty is the best policy ; and without imputing, of course, any thing personal in the defect of that qua lity, we must say that some such defect has appeared in the successive phases of this question. We are sorry, for our part, that M. Thiers could not be brought before the Chambers as a Minister. We should have wished to see him compelled by consistency, as responsible Minister, to go on acting upon the principles he had professed, or else compelled by his party connec tions to profess new ones in the face of the Chamber. In the former case he must have followed a pacific policy, quite as much as his successors can possibly do. In the latter case, he must have advanced arguments for a hos tile course inconsistent with his own manifestoes, and the casus belli laid down by himself. In either case the drama would have been acted out without change of parts, and the spectators would have been better able to judge of the whole performance. But M. Thiers was too adroit to " play out the play" to its proper catastrophe. He has placed himself at liberty to assume a new irresponsible part I Spargere voces In vulgum ambiguas, et qucxrere conscius arma. We can only judge at present what that part will be, by the tone of his late organs; and we do not wish prematurely to predict its character. Truth mean while comes out by degrees as to the real origin of the interruption of the Anglo-French alliance, as regards Eastern affairs. That interruption was not occasioned by England separating herself from France, but by France separating herself from England, and playing fast and loose with all Europe. It is not possible for any Power to combine the advantages of isolated action, and European alliances. It is not possible for any Power to contract engagements with opposite parties, and dissemble the one, in order to retain the other—thus with both. The Power that ac ts in this manner can have no right whatever to complain, if she finds her self excluded from councils to which she does not come as a free agent. (From the Standard.) The Royal Speech is of course the one absorbing topic of speculation in the French capital. It does not, it is affirmed, define the casts belli, but refers to it in terms that are expected to satisfy all moderate supporters of the national dignity of France ; it is said to be pacific. Minis ters anticipate a majority of :35. It was rumoured that M. Thiers had been persuaded to become a candidate for the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, but his friends as sert that nothing had been or would be decided on that point till after the contents of the Royal Speech should be known. The Paris journals of Wednesday arc filled with abuse of the new Cabinet. The Constitutionnel confesses " that a formal promise had been made to the Pacha ; it was the word of France given to Mehemet Ali in exchange for his concession of not passing the Taurus." Here we have M. Thiers versus M. Thiers, he having re peatedly declared as Minister that no such compact existed; that his sole objection to the requisition made to the Pacha to surrender Syria was, that it was to be wrested from him by force, should he be inclined to resist the demand. We are disposed to pre fer the assertion of M. Thiers the newspaper col laborateur to that of M. Thiers, the Minister ; we have long entertained a belief that some secret understand ing has existed between the Pacha and France from the first, and that impression has been fully confirmed by subsequent circumstances. The Constitutioni;el further asserts that Louis Philippe sympathised in the indignation excited throughout France by the Treaty of July 15, spoke uncourteously, and even me nacingly, to the Envoys of the Five Powers, and lent his Royal word to increase agitation and re sentment. We do not believe a word of this state ment. It is well known that gross deceptions were prac• tiled on the King by his Ministers, and that, when his signature was obtained to certain ordinances, he was in the dark as to the real circumstances of the case. The apprehension of an emeute has slightly depressed the funds, but should any disturbance be attempted it will be put down wish a high band, as there are enough of troops in Paris to meet any emergency that may arise, and they are all said to be actuated by the best possible feeling. It is rumoured that the Duke de Broglie has declined either to join the Administration or accept the Embassy to London. IMPROVED METROD OF PRINT ING CALICOES, PAPER, &c. During the past week there has been exhibited in Manchester a new machine constructed to facilitate the printing of ca!icoes, mousselines de laine, paper hangings. &c. which has excited considerable interest and atten tion among the trade. The inventor is a Mr. Chassuis, and the patentee who is introducing it to the public is Mr. Richard Beard, of London. The first that has been manufactured from the model is by Messrs. Hous ton, the machine-makers of Manchester. It will be fresh in the recollection of those interested in calico printing, &c., that some few years ago a new machine designed to carry into effect certain improvements in the printing of calicoes, &c., was invented by Monsieur Perrott, of Rouen, and exhibited at the Exposition, in Paris, and subsequently the model was removed to Manchester, from which a number of machines was k constructed by the Messrs. Lockett, of that town, and which are now in full work at a print-works near Bury. This machine of Mr. Beard's, it appears, is a decided improvement upon the Periotive, the latter being only capable of working i - two or three colours, white the Chas suis of Mr. Beard is capable of working, in handsome patterns, in eight different colours ; indeed, it might be so adapted as to print at one time an almost indefinite number, Our Manchester correspondent saw it in full tvcrk last week, in the presence of some of the principal practical calico printers, all of whom acknowledged its great utility, both as regarded the economy of its pro cess and the saving effected in the prices of printing ; I and no doubt was entertained that it is a machine of the highest importance to the country,calculated to advance the prosperity of the art of printing, and one of the most happy and ingenious inventions with which our industry in mechanical art has been blessed. The eight colours alluded to we worked by means of one copper cylinder and one surface roller—a kind of work which, accord ing to the mode of printing now in use, would have re quired four or five copper cylinders, and three or four separate blockings by hand. The principle of the in vention is simple, works with admirable ease, and (what is most important to the calico printer on the old system) it can, at a comparatively small cost, be adapted to the ordinary machines now in use. It was urged by some of the calico printers who in spected it, that the objections against it were, that the pattern design should be formed for the machine, and that it would be of by far greater utility to the exten sive printer whose business was of that nature as to be indifferent to his printing 500 pieces of one pattern. The patentee, however, succeeded in showing that there was not one out of 50 of the present designs that the machine would not print, and that it was e qually ser viceable to the small printer as the one in a large way. It has not been decided whether this new system will be immediately adopted by the Manchester printers, but it is admitted that if the patentee can succeed in printing at 3s. 6d. per piece less than the present cost (which he asserts that he can), the printer in his own defence must use it, for the competition in the Man chester trade is at present so keen that the difference of 61. in the cost of a piece of goods is of the utmost hp ' portance. It appears from the Report of the " Irish Island Society," that it now employs 23 Irish and English male and female teachers among the natives of the islands and along an extensive line of coast, almost destitute of moral and religious instruction. The schools contain nearly 700 children, who are receiving a sound Scriptural education. It enjoys the superintendence and active co-operation of twelve clergymen of the Established Church, most of whom could not otherwise have extended their labours to these destitute regions, although residin g in the neigh bourhood of the Society's stations. The Society is pre paring two Collegiates in the University of Dublin, with a view to their entering as Ministers of the Established Church on the long-neglected work of preaching the Gospel to the Irish in their native language. DEATH OF GENERAL BLlGll.—Lieutenant - General the Hon. Edward Bligh died on the 2d instant. He was born in September, 1769, and was grand-uncle of the present Earl of Darnley. a 'The General Steam Navigation Company's packet Ocean, S. Fife, from Rotterdam, arrived at twelve at noon on Thursday, after a favourable passage. Lady Holland is now at West-hill, the villa of the Duke of Sutherland, at Wandsworth, where her Lady ship intends to pass six weeks. Holland House is left by will to Lady Holland for her life, after which it goes to the present Lord. POWER OF THE IMAGINATION.—An honest New England farmer started one very cold day in winter, with his sled and oxen into the forest, a half mile from home, for the purpose of chopping a load of wood. Hav ing felled a tree he drove the team alongside, and com menced chopping it up. By an unlucky hit he brought the whole bit of the axe across his foot, with a sliding stroke. The immense gash so alarmed him as nearly to deprive him of all his strength. He felt the warm blood filling his shoe. With great difficulty he succeeded in rolling himself on the sled and started the oxen for home. As soon as he reached the door, he called eagerly for help. His terrified wifo and daughter with much effort lifted him into the house, as he was wholly unable to help him self, saying his foot was nearly severed from his leg. He was laid carefully on the bed, groaning all the while very bitterly. His wife hastily prepared dressings, and removed the shoe and took, expecting to see the desperate wound, when lo 1 the skin was not even broken. Before going out in the morning he had wrapped his feet in red flannel to protect them from the cold, the gash laid this open to view, and he thought it flesh and blood. His reason not correcting the mistake, all the pain and loss of power which attends a real wound followed. Man often suffers more from imaginary evils, than from real ones.—American Paper. At Barnwell, a village in Northamptonshire, a discovery took place on Friday last, under very curious circumstances. Some labourers were working in a small quarry, when the stone appeared to them to have been re moved and again replaced ; this excited their suspicion, and having worked with great earnestness for about ten minutes, they were no less astonished than delighted by the discovery of a small iron chest, which contained many interesting and rare coins. Many of them are supposed by some of the neighbouring antiquarians to ,be the gold and silver of Charles I. and Cromwell, and to have been hidden during the wars which took place in the reign of t hattulfortunate monarch, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nor. 6. HODGES V. DAVY. Mr. KELLY moved in this case for a rule to show cause why the verdict for the plaintiff should not be set aside, and a now trial had, on the ground of misdirec tion, and the damages being excessive. It was an ac tion for the infringement of the copyright of a work called the Dub/in Dissector, tried before Lord Denman at the last Westminster sittings, when a verdict was had for the plaintiff, damages 2001. Lord DF.NMAN—I certainly thought the damages very heavy. Mr. KELLY—There was no doubt that the plaintiffs were the proprietors of the copyright, and that the de fendant had sold a spurious edition, but the question was whether the Jury had assessed the damages on a right principle. No doubt the defendant had been guilty of very reprehe nsible co n du ct in selling these works, and in writing a very improp er l e tt er to the Dublin,bdoiffiokesuelltletrhiinngtopayi the piper in these cases." Their in which he said "it was a very Lordships, however, were aware that th e d amages mus t n ot contemplate any moralimpropriety of which the defendant had been guilty. There was no proof that more than 130 copies ha d been sold, and the profit upon these could not exceed 20/. Under t hese circumstances he submitted was entitetdhatot tahenedwaintraigael. The Court granted the rule.s were excessive, and that h e THE QUEEN V. THE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAIL WAY COMPANY. In this case, which was tried befor e M r . b aron R o lf e at the last Liverpool Assizes, Mr. Creswell moved for a rule to show cause why judgment should not be en tered for the defendants, notwithstanding some of the issues had been found for the Crown. The Court granted the rule. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 6. EDW•RDS AND ANOTHER V. SCOTT AND ANOTHER. (Continued from our Paper of yesterday.) The COURT was of opinion that the Learned Judge (the Lord Chief Justice) who presided at the trial was supposed by the Jury to have put it to them as a point of law, that a written notice of the assignment of the policy to the Insurance Company was necessary to the validity of the transfer ; whereas he ought to have left it to them to say, whether the notice given by Scott and Co., verbally, through their clerk, was sufficient. For this reason, the rule for a new trial was made ab solute—the costs of this application to follow the ver dict on the second trial. Mr. Sergeant CIIANNELL applied for an order to compel the defendants to " keep the policy alive," by continuing the payments of premium, until the issue of the new trial. Mr. GREENWOOD said of course the defendants would pay the premium, to be re-paid if the plaintiffs again obtained a verdict. The COURT—Of course that must be the under standing. BARRETT V. THE STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAIL. WAY COMPANY. On the application of the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, the argument in this case, which involves an important question of railway tolls, was postponed to Wednesday week next. HATCH V. MURRELL. Mr. Sergeant LuDLow obtained a rule for a new trial, on the ground that the action was taken as unde fended, through misapprehension on the part of the de fendant's attorney, who had been led to suppose that the action was settled, and thus suffered judgment to go by default. HUGRIES v. HANNAN. In this case Mr. Kelly was about to move for a rule, when the Court interrupted him, inquiring whether he was employed in the case before the rule, which con fines the right of making original motions to the Ser geants-at-Law. Mr. KELLY replied that he understood he was re tained, although he could not say actually engaged in the case before the rule. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the rule required that Learned Counsel, not being Sergeants, must have been engaged before the passi❑g of the rule, to entitle them to move. The COURT gave Mr. Kelly until to-morrow (this day) to examine the rule, with the understanding, that if he could not move, the parties should not be preju diced, but that the motion, in that event, might be made through a Sergeant, although the four days ; fixed for motions for new trials, have expired. FERGUSON V. SPENCER. In this case, which involves an important question as to how Jar the operation of certain provisions of the Irish' Binkruptcy Act have force in England, the arguments were adjourned to to-morrow (this day). BAIL COURT, Nov. 6. RA.DFORD V. SIMPSON. Mr. Humphrey was Counsel, and Mr. Branscombe, of Wine Office-court, the Attorney, for the plaintiff; Mr. Platt appeared fcr the defendant. Mr. HumrfittEY said that the plaintiff, for whom he appeared, was a labouring man, a journeyman baker, and that the defendant was an inn.keeper, who kept the Black Lion at Bayswater. On the 14th May the plain tiff, accompanied by a person named Godlyman, went to defendant's house, and had some beer in front of the house. Plaintiff afterwards went up the yard, and placed himself against a pump, near the stable, for a certain purpose, and, while thus engaged, defendant and another person, named Rymes, who was known by the nickname of Chaffy, went up to him, seized him by the legs, and ducked him in the water-butt. In doing this, they dashed him against the side of the butt, and in consequence several of his ribs were broken. He was confined in consequence for six weeks, and his doctor's hill amounted to ten guineas, and it wi.s to recover compensation for the irjuries he had sustained that this action was brought. The Learned Counsel then called Godlyman, who deposed to the circumstances detailed in the speech ; he swore distinctly that he accompanied the plaintiff from the front of the house into the yard, leaving three loaves and the pot of beer on the table, in the front of the house, without any person to watch them, that he went to the usual convenience, and which was only calculated to hold one person, and the plaintiff went to the pump, a place which he (witness) had used frequently before for such a purpose, and that he saw the defendant and Chaffy throw plaintiff violently against the butt, and that there was no woman near the place the whole time ; plaintiff he said was drunk. A medical man named Wheeler was also called, who attended the plaintiff. Mr. PLATT for the defence said, he should prove that no assault whatever had been committed, and that the plaintiff had in the most beastly manner exposed his person, and was remonstrated with on the subject, and that in staggering he had fallen against the side of the tub, and thus bad fractured his tibia He then called a Mrs. Ward, who deposed that she was at the pump at the time plaintiff came up drunk, and exposed his person; she was much disgusted, and called her husband, who was in the yard at the time. Godlvman was not in the yard at all. The husband, Ward, corroborated his wife's testimony, and zaid that he came immediately and " blew Radford up about it," and defendant also came out of the stable on hearing the row, and told plain tiff he ought to be ashamed of himself. Plaintiff, in attempting to button himself up, staggered and fell against the tub, and his hat fell into the water. Witness took it up, put it on his head, and was leading him out of the yard when he met Chaffy, to whom he delivered him up, and led him out to the table where Godlyman was sta nding. On his cross-examination he denied that he had ever told Mr. Wheeler, the surgeon, that his master and himself had served plaintiff out. Four other witnesses corroborated this test;mony ; and one witness, who was standing at the bar •of the Black Lion, which commanded a view of the table in front of the house, swore that Godlyman remained at the table during the whole time plaintiff was absent. Mr. Wheel er , the surgeon, was recalled to coniradic Ward, w h en he was submitted to a rigorous cross-exa mination ; in the course of which he admitted that he had taken the benefit of the Insolvent Act, and that he could not tell how many times he had been in prison. Mr. Justice PATTESON, in summing up, said there was gross perjury somewhere, and it was for the Jury to s ay what set of witnesses they believed. The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANS/ON-HO USE. A man who was dressed like a sailor, and who said that his name was Joh n Smith, and that he came from Boston, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having committed most audacious robberies in the shops of watchmakers and jewellers. The prisoner, wh o i s one of t h e m ost impudent thieves that ever app eare d b efore a Magistrate, went i n to the shop of Mr. Alf red Dodd, i n L ea denhall-street, on Thursday evening at about six o'clock, and asked to see some gold watches. At the same moment in walked another mao, who was no doubt an accomplice, to ask to see some wedding-rings, with the view of dis tracting the attention of the proprietor. The prisoner instantly snatched up a watc h o f t h e v alue of 101 . from the" counter, and ran ou t o f t h e s hop, c alling "Stop thief I" He was, how ever , stoppe d by a policeman. Here the prisoner to sse d hi s h ea d about, and loudly declared that he bad paid for the watch with ten sove reigns, and that never was a gentleman wbo went to purchase of a tradesman so ill-used, for the policeman who took the liberty of app re h en ding him handc uff e d him behind his back, as if h e h a d c ommitted a robb er y . The LORD MAYOR—Then you persevere in sa y in g that you paid for the w a t c h ? The prisoner — To be sure I did. My word is as good, I should think, as this man's. And as for the policeman, ever y one knows what a set of rascally thieves they are. Two -thirds of them live by plunder. John Lewis (City policeman, No. 581), said that he caught the prisoner, who had two watches in his hand, one of which be had stolen in a similar manner in the shop of Mr. Gibson, the silversmith, in Bishops_ g ate-street, ehnut half flu hour before 11 walked into Mr. Gibson's shop and desired to see a old watch. The watch having :been handed to him • f rom the window, in walked another man, and asked to see some wedding rings. Mr. Gibson, however, as he bad no assistant in the shop, said that he could not servo the latter, who, thereupon, walked out of the shop, leaving the door wide open. The prisoner then bolted, with the watch in his hand. The LORD MAYOR—What do you say to this? The prisoner—What do I say ? Why, that it's a lie. I bought that second watch of a boatswain. I suppose my word is as good as any other gentleman's. lam a respectable man, and I come from Boston, and I paid for these articles with my hard cash. The prisoner had walked into Mr. Jones's shop on Cornhill at a little after five o'clock, and asked whether there were any watches, value about 4/. a-piece, for sale, as he wanted to speculate a little in watches at the Havannah. Immediately afterwards another men walked in and asked for some wedding-rings. As both, however, were suspected, neither were served, and they went sway without havinghadan opportunity to plunder. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, prisoner, you deny this too, I suppose. The prisoner (laughing)—Pooh ! I never was in the shop at all. It's all a lie. The policeman said that a more desperate ruffian than the prisoner he had never seen. No doubt, whatever, if the prisoner had had a knife, for which he very much wished, to cut open witness, he would have used it. The prisoner—l consider that 1 was used d—d badly, but what could a gentleman expect from the rascally police. They are all thieves. The LORD MAYOR—Let every inquiry be made about the prisoner. I have no doubt that many shop keepers have been robbed in this sudden way by him. Inspector Brake said he believed the prisoner to be a returned transport. The prisoner, who is a clean looking fellow, and re sembles in appearance the steward of a steam-vessel, was then remanded till Wednesday next, when a crowd of plundered shopkeepers may be expected to attend. The LoRD MAYOR expressed a hope that the ;united exertions of the persons robbed by the prisoner would have the effect of transporting him for life. A young man of genteel appearance, named Robert Pakenham, was charged with having stolen a Taglioni cloak in the Langburne Coffee-house in Lombard-street. The niece of Mr. Bache, the proprietor of the coffee house, stated, that on Monday week the prisoner entered the coffee-room and had a cup of coffee and a muffin, and, on going out, took away with him a Taglioni cloak which belonged to another person, and which lay upon the umbrella-stand. Mr. Cuffiing, the owner of the cloak, stated, that he had left it on the stand on going into the coffee-house, and that it was quite new, and had cost him 31. los. The prisoner said that he took away no cloak except his own Mackintosh, which he had left on the stand. It should, he added, be recollected that there were three other gentlemen in the box in which he sat. Mr. Bache's sister said that she had taken the prison er's order and money upon his entrance into the coffee house, and that he had neither Mackintosh nor other c10...k with him. She remarked that he had upon him a suit of black, and she had observed that he remained in the house one evening till ten o'clock, apparently on the look-out for something. The LORD MAYOR—Prisoner, this is a serious charge. The prisoner—lt is, my Lord, a very serious charge. But I assure you it is a mistake as regards me. It is not likely that if I took a coat that did not belong to me, I should think of returning to this coffee-house, which I did. The females were convinced that they were not mis taken, The LORD MAYOR—What are you? (to the pri soner.) The prisoner—l dent in tea, which I purchase at Mr. Ridgeway's, in King William-street. I buy 3/. or 4/. worth at a time, and I dispose of it to private fatnilies.—The prisoner was remanded. Henry Evans, a Welch milkman, was charged with having pocketed a Times newspaper in the Cambridge Coffee-house, in Bishopsgate-street. Mr. Hall, the proprietor, said that his coffee-room was frequently robbed of newspapers and publications on Fridays. The prisoner was in the habit of going to the house, and was suspected and accused that morning. Without much hesitation he pulled the Time! grit of his pocket. The inconvenience experienced by such rob bery was often very great, and witness was determined to expose and punish every future case of the kind if any should occur. The prisoner said that he had never taken a paper before, and that he did not mean to keep that. He only meant to read a bit to his old woman. The Loan MAYOR (to the complainant)—Perhaps you will consider that the disgrace is punishment enough. The complainant—l am satisfied upon this occasion, at your Lordship's suggestion. The LORD MAYOR then reprimanded the milkman, and discharged him. In a case connected with the dues of the Corporation of London, one of the officers of the Corporation took occasion to mention that on Saturday last, Robert Erridge, master of the ship John Barker, laden with coals, from Newcastle, was summoned before Mr. Bal lantine, the Thames Police Magistrate, for having broken bulk, and discharged his cargo, without paying the City dues ; that the Magistrate said he had hitherto levied only a small portion of the penalty, in the hope that that would be sufficient to check the system ; but find ing that the lenity had not the desired effect, he should levy a larger fine of 10/. ; and, if the practice continued, he would in all cases inflict the full penalty of 25i., for the protection of the City and the fair trader. The Loan MAYOR said that he had received several communications within the last few days on the very inportant subject of fires, to which he considered it would be prudent to call the attention of his fellow citizens, especially those who were filling parochial offices. The following was amongst them : " My Lord,—Before your Lordship vacates the chair, I would invite your notice to a matter connected with fire, which I conceive to be not unworthy of con sideration. Amongst the numerous plans and sugges tions which have been brought before your Lordship re lating to fire, the importance of procuring at the first outbreak an instantaneous supply of water, has been especially dwelt upon, and it is to this point I would now briefly advert. " It has been my aim, ever since I have been called to the performance of my parochial duties, to facilitate, as far as I have been able, the supply of water in the event of a conflagration in my neighbourhood, and I have succeeded in establishing the principle of supply ing the elevated plugs in fire-posts from the main, and having the screws thereof put into good trim ; but having ascertained that the calibre of these does not correspond with the screws of the Brigade, I have, in order to render the paramount assistance of that body available in my parish in case of emergency, caused a double screw to be constructed, similar tothe one kept in the Brigade establishments, so as to enable them to b ear on the plugs ad libitum, and thereby save them selves the time and labour of resorting to the surface semi " My motive for troubling your Lordship is, that the several parishes in the metropolis and elsewhere, may, through your instrumentality, bestir themselves to possess, if it be necessary, the double screw I have adverted to, as a simple but powerful means of defence against fire, and as a demonstration that such success ful auxiliary can be promptly used in any invention for escape, that may now or hereafter be introduced. I have the honour to submit myself, " Your Lordship's obedient servant, " A CHURCHWARDEN." The LORD MAYOR, in alluding to fires, said that the improvements in modes of escape did not appear to him to bear proportion to the improvements in other matters, but he had great dependence upon the active labours of the Police Committee, whom he know were indefatigable. BOW-STREET. Henry Mien, an errand-boy in the service of Mr. Hollis, who keeps a receiving-house for the postage of letters, in Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, was yester day brought before Mr. Jardine by Sergeant Otway, A division, charged with stealing a letter containing a gold diamond ring. Mr. Peacock conducted the prosecution. Mr. INP Arthur, residing at 17, Mount-street, stated that on Monday the 26th October he wrote a letter to Miss Eliza Russell, 40, Lower-street, Deal, enclosing a diamond ring in a small box, which having sealed and directed, he took 'to the receiving-office kept by Mr. Hollis, in Mount-street. It was then about half-past four o'clock in the afternoon ; and having waited for a length of time without hearing anything of it, he wrote, but received no answer ; which caused him to write a second time on Tuesday night last, and he received an answer on Thursday morning, that neither his former communication, nor the contents, had ever come to hand. The ring, box, and envelope were the same he had sent. Charles Otway took the prisoner into custody at the house of his master, and he received the property pro duced from the prisoner's father, who voluntarily gave them up. The prisoner then said that he had stolen the letter suspecting it contained money, and finding that it only contained a ring, he tore it in pieces, and threw it away as he went along the street, but the ring he gave to his taother, telling her that he ,found it in the Park. Mr. Hollis proved that the prisoner was usually em ployed in his shop, but he was never suffered to have anything to do with the letters, which were never entrusted to him, and he must have taken the letter produced surreptitiously, either off the counter or from the bag. A letter posted at four o'clock in the after noon, ought in the regular course to be forwarded at five o'clock to the General Post-office. The box in which the letters were kept was usually locked, but the key might have remained in it, and it would be possible for the prisoner to have taken a letter from it, or from the counter, during the time of sorting. On Thursday wit ness mentioned the less of the ring to the prisoner's father, in his (prisoner's) presence, and on saying that a gentleman had been inquiring about it, he charged the prisoner with having taken it, when he admitted the fact. The prisoner being cautioned, said a little before twelve o'clock I went to the box to empty it for delivery, and , }n taking the letters to rTiy n 1 1"r, me for so doing, The letter produced was amen them, and supposing that it contained money, I took it. Shortly after I went home to dinner, and on passing through Hyde Park I opened the letter and tore it up, and seeing the !mall box and ring, I brought it to my mother, and told her that I picked them up in the Park. After dinner I returned to Mount-street, and my mother told me she would show what I told her I had found. Tile prisoner having signed his declaration, the wit nesses were bound over, and he was fully committed for trial. He was again charged with stealing a letter contain ing a 5/. Bank of England note, the property of Mrs. Herbert, of Leeds. Win. Cockerham, house-painter, residing at 8, John street, Grosvenor-mews, stated that on the 10th of October, he wrote a letter to Leeds, enclosing a 5/. Bank of England note, No. 40,6:21, June 2d, 1840, which he wafered and directed " Mrs. Herbert, 36, Upper Head-row, Leeds." Having done so, he took it to the shop of Mr. Hollis, in Mount-street, and tell ing him what it contained, he asked it it would go safe. There was a lad in the shop at the time, and Mr. Hollis said if the witness wished to risk it, he ' might drop the letter in the box. Witness immediately went outside, and dropped it in the box ; and on the 16th October be received a letter, intimating that his letter had never been received. The note produced was the same he had inclosed. Mr. Wm. Porter, foreman to Mr. Sweet, law book seller of Chancery-lane, proved that on the 13th Oc tober he received a 5/. note, in payment for " Sugden's Law of Vendors and Purchasers," the price of which was 21. 14s. 6d. He asked the person who bought it what name he should put on it, and he said, " White, bookseller, Piccadilly." Witness believed that the prisoner was the person from whom he had received the note. Mr. Hollis proved that he carried on the business of bookseller at his house, and he recollected on the 13th October sending the prisoner to purchase a new edition of the book mentioned by the last witness, to pay for which he gave him gold, and not a note. On the 12th October the witness Cockerham came to his shop while the prisoner was present, saying that he had a money letter to send to Leeds, and making inquiries if it would go safe, but he did not produce the letter. Witness told him that it would not be sate to send notes, as there had been so many losses of late through the Post-office, and strongly recommended him not to send the money by post. The prisoner might have heard the conversa tion, and Mr. Cockerham went away, but witness did not know if he had put the letter in the box. On Thursday the prisoner was charged with stealing the letter, which he at first made no reply to, but subse quently he admitted it. Witness said to him " where was I then," and he replied you had gone up stairs. Previous to his confession he said he had got 4/. 10s. (3(1. belonging to his mother, and on searching him, witness found that amount upon him. Sergeant Otway, on taking the prisoner into custody. received the sums in question from the last witness ; and, in answer to questions put by the prisoner, he said it was the produce of the note which was then shown to him. When at the Post-office, he said he took the note from the letter in the absence of his master, which he afterwards changed at the house of Mr. Sweet, in Chancery-lane. Mr. Hollis said that the prisoner had formerly lived with him, and had left to enter the service of Mr. White, bookseller, Piccadilly, and having had a second trial of him, he never had reason to suspect him for dishonesty. In answer to the charge, the prisoner made a full confession of having stolen the letter, confirming the ac count given by each of the witnesses. Mr. JARDINE ordered hira to be fully committed for MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of November 6.) SUGAR. —The market for West India Muscovadoes Sugar has presented a tranquil appearance all the week, the grocers have bought with caution, and only sufficient for their immediate wants, for refining purposes the demand has been very limited, the private sales for the three market days have amounted to only 1,050 hhds and tres—good and fine yellow descriptions have brought former rates, the supply being small, but for other qualities a reduction of Gd per cwt has been submitted to ; for low brown Berbice for which about three weeks ago 78s was refused, 76s is now o nly offered ; Demerara of low middling very soft quality h a s been sold at 795, middling yellow from the same co lony and Dominica 81s to 82s. Jamaica strong grey Bls do and Antigua 83s to 84s 6d, good and 6d, good midoLng fine 85s to 574. At public sale on Tuesday 106 hhds Barbadoes we'e osed of at previous rates, but they went off beavi:7, fine 84s yellow fetched an d gt ;f,Kl to 85s per 85s 6d to 86s, middling cwt. Some holders are still sanguine in ;heir expectations and keep their samples out of ti. 3 market, antinating that the trade ere long must be compelled to purchase more freely, they being scantily supplied in both town and coll.:- try. The arrivals since last Friday have been only .550 hhds, &c. The Gazette average price is 57s 7d, in 1839 it was 37s ld, and in 1838 31s 7d per cwt. The stock is now 24,646 hhds and tres less than last season at this time : the importation this year has not been equal to :hat of 1839 by 25,170 labds, and 2,210 tres. The deliveries have been 800 hhds, &c., larger than last year. To-day the operations were on a small scale, both grocers and refiners purchasing with much caution, and only 200 hhds and tres were disposed of, at prices in favour of buyers. The sales for the week arc 1,350 hhds, &c., and the reduction Is per cwt., excepting for fine yellow kinds, which have supported former rates within 6d, few samples being in the market. For auction on Tuesday 100 hhds Barbadoes are declared. REF INED. —ln the value of Refined goods little variation has taken place this week, but the home trade have evinced little desire to do business, and the demand has been limited for all sorts. Standard Lumps 1003 6d to 101 s, low brown Lumps 91s to 965, good and fine 97s to 100 s; Ti'alers and Hambro Loaves 102 s to 106 s. The better kinds of Treacle have been in excellent request, and prices arc firmer. Patent has been fetching 42s to 42s 6d. Best old make and golden Syrup 44s to 45s 6d. Bastards common at 65s to 68s, middling and fine 69s to 775. Pieces, fine and very fine have fetched 83s to 87s, and other sorts 78s to 81s. Bonded Loaves, 61:)s. at 425, 10 lbs. 38s to 395, and 14 lbs. 37s 6d a 38s. Crushed Sugar at 33s a 33s 3d. Treacle at 15s 3d to 153 6d. Pieces and Bas tards 20s to 28s. Dutch Crushed Sugar at 318 3d. MAURITIUS.—In prices no variation has taken place. There has been no public sale, but 4,700 bags are declared for Tuesday. 12,973 bags have arrived since last Friday. EAST INDlA.—White descriptions of Bengal at previous rates. Bright quality at 72s to 74s 6d, lumpy 62s to 70s, low heavy dark 55s 6d to 57s 6d, 170 bags middling sound bright yellow 82s to 83s id. Siam at 25s to 28s Gd for low and fine white. Java prices have been sup ported. FOREIGN —ln the value of Brazil no variation has taken place this week, and prices have been fully supported ; the supply is short. There has been no public sale. Yellow Havannah good quality at 24as 6d, and ordinary 23s 6d. For white previous rates are asked. COFFEE —The arrivals of Coffee from the Cape having been large since our last report, and the principal part being well adapted for home consumption, consisting of Java, Cuba, St, Domingo, and Porto Rico, have caused the trade to operate with caution in British Plantation : for mid clean kinds the demand has been very limited, and the principal part offered consisting of those sorts, holders have heen compelled to submit to a reduction on former rates of 2s a 3s to dispose of even small quantities. This afternoon the operations in the home consumption Coffee market were confined to public sales, consisting of 558 bags Ceylon, 134 casks 168 bags 2 barrels British Plantation, and 283 bags Cape. Ceylon sold rather cheaper, viz , good ord even at 80sto Us 6d, good ord pale but mixed 79s to 80s. The British Plantation was nearly all unclean, and mostly taken in at easier rates; a few lots find ord Demerara went at 82s. Cape taken in at 41s to 42s for pale good ordinary Rio. TALLOW.—The market for Russian Tallow has pre sented a dull aspect all the week. Holders have been anxious to realize, and have submitted to a reduction of 2s. per cwt. Petersburgh yellow candle at 495. For deliveay prices have declined from 48s 9d to 495. For Spring months, 49s dcl ; South American at lower rates. Town Tallow cheaper. This afternoon South American sold at 45s to 47s 3d for fair and good quality. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS. —There has been an active demand for all descriptions of West India Rum, principally from the home Trade, importers have displayed increased firmness, and have obtained an advance on for mer rates of Id for strong, and id for common descrip tions. Of Jamaica the sales have amounted to 200 puns, 28 to 33 per cent over proof at 5s Ild to 6s 2d, 34 to 36 over 6s 3d to 6s sd,stronger and favorite marks Gs 9d to 7s 3d. The transactions in Lecwards have amounted to 283 puns, proofs at 2s 21c1 to 3s 3d, 2 to 3 per cent over proof 3s 3id to 3s 4d, 5 to 18 over 3s 4id to 4s 4d, 22 to 33 over 4s 7d to 5s 4d, 36 to 40 over 5s 6d to 6s 2d. A Govern. ment contract for 100,000 gallons, is declared for next Thursday), the produce of British Pos sessions, not less than one-half from the West India Colonies. Since this day week 650 lihds &c. have arrived. The stock of Rum is 600 puns less than it was last year at this time. The arrivals have been 4,100 puus less than in 1839. The deliveries for home use end export, however, have not been equal to those of last year by 6,800 puns. Brandy has been in brisk request, and prices are firm. Cognac first brands of the vintage of 1836 and 5s Id to 5s 3d in puns and hhds, 1837 4s lid to bs id, 1838 4s 9d to 4s I Id, 1839 4s 6d to 4s Bd. Geneva has been disposed of to a fair extent at is I Id to 2s, and fine quality for home use at 2s 5d to 26 6d. British Corn Spirits have been in brisk request at lOs 2d cash. Rim—The good and fine white descriptions of Bengal have been much sought after at 13s to 14s 6d. For Caro lina fair demand has existed for home use at 34s to 36s per cwt. This afternoon the shippers evinced little desire to buy Java at a public sale of 3,367 bags, a small part only was disposed of lOs 6d to 12s for middling and good bold white ; ordinary was taken in 9s 6d, being the full value. SPICES.--Pimento has maintained its former value. For Sumatra Pepper there continues to be a fair demand privately, and prices are firm. Ginger is held firmly. This afternoon at auction, 50 bags Pimento sold at steady prices viz. 3d to 3 d per lb for fair quality 'RUIT.—This afternoon 106 butts, 28 caroteels da maged Patras Currants, 13 butts, 10 caroteels, Zante ditto, and 700 drums Turkey Figs, 61 barrels black Smyrna Raisins, 72 half, 360 quarter, 219 onc.eighth cartoons Imperial French Plums were offered at auction, Patras Currants sold at 69s to 745, Zanto 70s ; damaged Figs 60s; Smyrna Raisins, withdrawn; Plums sold, half cartoons, at 61, qr-do 51 12s to 71, one-eighth 71 lOs • TEA.-..1n the early part of the we‘k tratl , were de. sirous to purchase Free Trade Tea, aad large purchases were made in Congou and Twankay at an improvement of id to per lb; the former of common quality in large parcels at 2s 3id to 23 4d, and the latter at 2s 3d to 31d, cash, upon which terms several parties were not disposed to sell. but during the last two days there has been less life in the market, still holders evince fit ITUICSS, anticipating that the accounts from China will de of a rely warlik.9 a t ture, and they will not sell excepting at former rates, bu few parcels are offering for sale: the clearances from t.‘lB warehouies have been extensive since our last report. Op. Monday and Tuesday there was much activity in then speculative market, and prices a dv 2 anc od to 2s aid , cash,_s for Company's CorTou and 4 1 d to 8 , preempts, but since then there has not been much business done, but prices arc firm. The public sales declareedl7th are large ; 27,000 pkgs fur the 10 th , and 5,000 for th inst. The stock in the kingdom , including all t he le t arrivals, amounts to 5 0,500 , 000 lbs. Accounts from Chiusr by the Overland Mail, are hourly and anxiously looked for by all parties connected with the Tea trade. To-day the market for Free Trade Tea pres ented a d qu i e t aspect ; the large parcels declared for auction cause the trade to operate with caution ; but holders were firm+ and in prices little variation occurred—Common Congou() g° for cash was not to be purchased unde r 2s SW. The P e ' rations in Company's Congou were trifling , and there were sellere on 'Change for cash at 2s 3d per lb. The arrivals have been large during the last ten boy s; 20,173 chests, 16,242 chests, 1,924 1 0 catty et 1,095 15 ten catty boxes, 1,170 pkgs &c. Tea have bet received from China; 1,621 chests from Calcutta; pkgs from the Cape; 20 0 chests fro m Bombay ; J'a c hests, 285 do from Sydney ; and 59 ches ts Assam 11e'rea:t COCOA —This afternoon 7 0 3 bags 109 barrels India were offered at auction , and all so ld at steady Priccsci Trinidad, low mid grey and red fetche d 53s to 5 1 " per cwt. auc tion OILS.--This afternoon 133 tens Palm Oil at were all bought in at 36/ for good and fine quality. other descriptions of Oil little variation. PRICE OF BREAD. 0. 4 117. The highest trite of 'ire di i the Mettopolis is 934c 1 for Loaf. Gatti Bread may be had at 73itl. PRICES OF SEEDS. Per Cwt. 1 Per Quarter. ~ 1.8 56s 706 New Ei,gl sit Red Clover...sos 80s St. Fein .. . Oldl,ittt; Ditto ... ...... -s -6 -6 Rye G ass .. ...... .... ....s -I': New Foreign Ditt0......-3 50s 75s Pacey Grass ......... .. ....... 4 55 ?.;!. 011 Ditto Ditto -s --s -s Linseed, for fettling ~......$ 0, it! . :•ew White Clover 45s ses COs Dit o, for sowing ....••• . 425 4 !: Old Ditto Ditto -s -s -s Ditto, for crushittg ....-- .60 4z' Old,ew 'Fre oil -s s : - .. l B s s s 4 7 2 0 : 1 Hemp ...- 6 ti o . 906 Ititto -e 20s 388 Canary .... ................. .---6 'Jr foliinn Per Bushel..., „0 . 46 0 5 E• glish Carraway -s 50s 511,Wkite Mustard..., 146 oa ''' 196 1 1 Foreign Ditto 1 Coriander ... -s 12s 16s,Tarc.s . 76 6,11°11 PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown, per ton 39 I ° Ditto, refined Linseed Oil j4 14 Lins ed Oil Cake at the Mill (i , er 1000) 7 0 Rai e t aloe, per too ....... PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, Sec. per 1121 b.. . 0 Town Tallow ..,............£^ 15 6 Melting Stuff .............I F, Yellow Rossi White 0 C Graves ........ , ................ 5 u Soap Ditto 0 0 0 Good Dregs ..............• PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 151 1 ) 0 . 9s . I}i' L Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters).... ...... 1 5 6 Bell's Primrose .............. Walls End Hetton ........... Walls End Lambton .......... vv,dis End Lyons.. ............ ! Walls End Stewart's ....... .23 ° Walls End Hart1ep001........ kValls End Kelloe ..........•• •l Pennant's Hartlepool ••• ... . 2 1 Walls End :Barrington Pe" ‘2.2 Walls End C0unti0n,.........; Walla End Seymour Tees" COAL MARKET. Ships arrived:since last market-day, 2. s. d.[ Adair's Puddle's West Hartley l9 0 Hebburn Main '2l 9 Orig , nal Windsor's Pontoo Pl 6 Pontop Windsor icussell's High Main _ „ Willington 2.) 0 Ntialls E d andC 22 0 Walls End Clennell Walls r'nd Heaton 2l 91 Walls End Hotspur Walls End Icillingworth . ..„ 11 9 COUNTRY CORN rcase•_, Wheat. Barley. Oats. Besans. s Per Quarter. to S. S. to s. s. to S. s. to a• Ai 'lt' At in ion 56 76 30 4 C 26 34 44 52 A ndover 44 63 33 41 t:6 34 Banbury 56 30 40 25 Basingstoke 88 70 27 38 26 3•1 48 Cirencester.., 53 6 34 36 '29 32 40 42 10 Coventry — 36 26 35 46 raventry 63 72 38 44 28 34 30 44 Derby 63 10 32 '33 24 23 51 5 2 How& n — 72 24 40 42 39 46 46 Hungerford 50 62 32 58 25 33 44 b`'..! Mallon (B 76 35 38 22 33 ;2 Maidenhead 52 76 35 40 25 34 43 50 Nottingham 51 69 37 40 25 35 47 5 A Wantage 64 80 34 40 26 22 36 46 Warwick 31 40 29 38 Winchester 70 30 29 -- 43 York 6O 32 46 28 30 Per Bushel s.d. s.d. s.d. s . d . s . d . s. d. s. d, s, d. 0. 7 Birmingham '7 0 84 3 9 58 4 491 5 6 f 8 6 " EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.--ect. , tca ps. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Yea s., Oct , First B4s. Od. 37a.62. 2f s Btl 50s. Od. 4 6 1, S:cond 6B 0 31 0 " , 3 * 4C 6 ;, 0 Third Average price of Wheat 3l. 5s 6 0 PRICES OF PROVISIONS &C. t. to E'er Bushel. s.d. s.d. s. d. s. d. s. cl. s. (LI 5.d, s• d• Birmingham 70 84, 3 9 58 40 4 9 5 6 0 8 EDINBURGH CORN - 51 A RKET.—ect, ccS First Wheat. Barley. 'MI. Oats. I = l. Second 6B 0 31 0 23 ') 4e 6 Third Average price of Wheat 3l. 5s 6 I. PRICES OF PROVISIONS &C . 1.12ef, pert, ........, Os. sd. to 08.7 d. Freshßutter, Its. Is.ol. t° r . g o ' , „Litt...N....ft__ 0 5 0 7 Salt Ditto------ 011 100 A Vea1....,,,.,,.,,, 0 8 010 Ditto, per ca t• ...91, 0 0 J Pork----..... 0 5 oi , E g gs, per dos... 0 0 11 A Larno, per qr. ..... 2 0 5 0 OatStrawtkpl.),..- 6 6 8 ~ fallow, cwt.......... 43 0 45 I Wheat Ditto.-- 5 , 11/ 7 0 " Quartern L0af.,...,. U 9 0 9i• B ar ley Ditto ~..... 6 u 1 Potatoes, 141 b..... 0 41 0 0 flay, per 5t............ W • EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET. --Nov• 3 . „.., I 0 Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal X 1 17 0 First Oatmea l . ..... ••••••' 0 1 0 Second ditto Barlcymeal. .... I 10 II Barleyreeal ......... .....---• 0 l'easemeal Pot Barley from 325. to t,2s. per sack. CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. I Barley. I 0a 1. .... 0 1t -------- \a. d. to e. (I. s. d. to s. d. I I. d. to 6. ci ; fruro 0 8 4 0 461 • 3 , Hehtene St. Austell 0 90- 0 4t: 0 2 11 Bodmin , 0 6 6 0 4 4 0 '..iskeard 8 9 9 0 3 9 43 0 a 9 3 Launceston ';amplforl .. 2enzarce nth MINING INTELLIGEW CE. Tons.- rvot 0 Quantity of Copper ores sold at Itedrath Ist week... 3,70 Avsrage Produce Q lantit v 01 tine Copper Antolini of sale, 22,762 . 17s. 1 2 A 73 /. 1 1 25115 . vu-10. r e ' We are sorry to hear that Charles Kern')le Is den; maining very unwell at the Hummum s, in Covent-,g ar . de. rs'il the operation which Liston was to h a v e performed 16' ce laycd in consequence ; he is sadly altered in app e and those who witnessed his performance last 9e1,501/ Covent-garden Theatre, would now scarcely know bi ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. — The ordinary ra°lllfter.• meeting for general business was held on Thursday noon, B. Bond Cabbell, Esq., F. R. S. , Vice-Prsl',:ere in the chair. The reports for the last three m onths b e en read by Mr. Yarrell fur the Secretary, there haring, 0,0 no meeting since July. The balance in band in JnlY•oco 1,485/. I Is. 6d., and there had been received le of 1,7651. Is. 2d. besides what was obtained by the se i f tis 5001. of Exchequer Bills. The total expenditure boj 3,042/ Is. 2d., and there remains a balancein need of 7141. ss. 6d. Various donations we re annc°the to the museum from the Duchess o f Kent,' la 10', Earl of Derby, Hon. Sir Edward Cost, 80"„tce' able collections of birds and skins were nrili`-inwifli from the Neilgherry-hills, Cuba, and Australl3' ov ot some new species from Port Essingto n, , over by Captain Owen Stanley, of her MajestY'd Britomart. The total number of visiters was 63 3, 8 ,, sums received but 61. Bs. The chief additions to th 4 rn Sir gerie were several rare monkeys, a moriffiore fr n rf ofn Augustus Foster, of Berlin, and a boa constrictor uot. Colonel Macleod, the Governor of Trinidad. T 1 „ 1 0 )6 5 : ber of visiters in August was 16 248,fr0m whom 61i,,,en was received ; in September 10,283, the sum rec- re' being 399/. 17 5 ; and in October 6,714, t'llialea ccipts being 235/. 7s. The report next a ',""tlil to the death of N. A. Vigors, Esq., M.P., si nc A - bte cl last meeting, to whom the Society was greatly in' e d to for his zeal and activity in its formation, striatioo whose munificence the Museum owes a large P ni - eri°,_ of its collection. As a testimony of respect to hi d and attainments the meeting for scientific business '' cot. should have taken place o n the p revious Taesday, oss,,Pirea poned. It appeared from a conversation which trall'iibsis that the corresponding receipts of this year were less tatio' the last, and that no arrangemeiz t had been mad e for t th e ther building for the museum, although the leas e °, for present expires at Lady-day, the offer of several l it , e p - e sP' the purpose having been declined by the Coo lo " t .ese st pointed on the subject. The inconvenience of the P o . f house is now greatly increased by the pulling dow n , cote three adjoining houses which were known as J - Hotel. The meeting adjourned to December 3d. 1311 6. REGISTER STOVES, 8 ft. wide, ‘248.; wee, Poles for Window Curtains, Is. 3d. per foot. Regist ef 1. 40 4 ' Scl. per inch; elliptic stoves, 4d. per inch; register °-otio with bright fronts, bright and black bars, bronzed ornOtter, Ioos. ; brass poles for window curtains, inch 416 1 t 6 Is. 3d. per foot • 2 inches, Is. Bd. ; a 2 inch pile S . 19 0 ' inches long, with ends, rings, and brackets, eemplete:r. i e in Catalogues gratis, containing the price of *very article ironmongery. RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxford-scree ---- - i B I R TS. On the 31st ult., at Thicket P ri ory, Yorkshire , the I'6l° Or the Rea. J. Dunnington, o f a daughter. DO On the Ist inst., at Clapham-rise, the lady of G. - ' Esq., of a daughter. of 3 On the 4th inst., Mrs. Mosgroee, Finsbury-terrace' daughter. , goll• On the sth inst., at Guy's Hospital, Mrs. J. Stocker : "':f J. On the 6th inst., at Upper Brook-street, the 1 01 Bonser, Esq., of Polesden, Surrey, of a dauot.r. M. o C‘ tile' At Clapham, Mr. James ARRIED Harvey, of Wandsvvorth,,tweiwyo, rine Mary, only daughter of the late J. Barker, 0' deba t, Herts. On the 23th ult., at St. Omer, Colonel Louis C ita .. of 5 ' Commander of the Legion of Honour, to Eliza, daughtes Brooke, Esq., late of Finchley, Middlesex. t en , M' valier de Sainte Marie, Chateau d'Allemagne , On the 3d inst., at Brighton, Henri, second son of Nor' Inandy, to Ellen, second dauEliter of the late fil e Bigb Harris, Madras Civil Service, second son of Gener al t Hon. Lord Harris, G. C. 8., &c. cieorg . On the :3(1 inst., at St. George's, Hanover _ s quarei . rat tles Thompson, Esq., to Susanna, daughter of the late Esq., of the Hon. East India:Company's Civil Service. of t bo On the sth inst., at Rolston, Captain George C'e,!,,eliet Elizabetn Hon. East India Company's Service, to Mary of thelate A. C. Orme Esq.,ofthe Inner Teriaple , - - BIND. 00, ° s ' near Cam. ,ri On the 2d ult., at sea, on board the Amelia Thnleirlicalth, his way from Madras to England for the recovery °f his 10" Lieutenant E. H. L. Moore, 33d Regiment 31a , tra l''' fan Onaged 23. .. _ B S• On the 14th of September, at Ascension, Captain Tinklar, Royal Marine.s, Commandant of the islanvd;ovr of t he On te 2d inst at Arundel, Martha Eugenia, 5',.," and last ' V. late J. Saltar, Esq ' ., of Eittleworth, Sussex, ag v. .. ur eiv . On the 2d inst. William Frederick, only son ~.,e ,aged ing child of Mr. Lester, ' of Amwell-street, Pento in ~ snitre, Esq. ° l- On the 6th inst., H. Al. Webster, Esq., of r On the 4th inst., at Cheltenham, J. G. Lema E i born. a f ilMeawri•lnialealstiC,TinrineW........" , N Of -------------------ir;11 () YO U ai , Lo don : Printed aad Published by Al _.' , ~ ,:trmil , o. 112, Sara":. at 7.7:r ":,.'7nt Ofaj• I .\ c'• ',_ - 7 WO. *Novemeer the county of Middlegex.—Sator da y , place , EVENiNG ED 1T1ON•