The Sun. — London, England, 1840-09-25 00:00:00

- 2VENTING RDI.9IIOW. fensive message, because a bottle of Moselle had I been placed before him in a black or green bottle at the mess-table, on the occasion of Major-General Sleigh, 1 who had inspected the regiment, dining there. On 1 another, we find him at a police-effice, charged with a most serious offence against the laws of his country, which at least ought to be as binding on the obedience of legislator and Peer of the realm as the articles of war. The "bottle-treason" of the Dublin Theatre made a great noise formerly, and we think that the black-bottle scene of military " insubordination" at Brighton will not soon 1),. `o gotten. Ihe matter seems too farcical in itself to be deserving of being treated seriously ; and yet, in its consequences, it assumes an aspect of very grave i-npor!ance. The refusal of redress and inquiry to Captain Reynolds, under all the circumstances, appears to us to be wholly inconsistent with the exerciee of that just authority which is a better preservative of discipline in an army than any arrogation of arbitrary and capricious power. LORD DUDLEY STD A AND THE POLISH REFUGEES. EXTRACT PROM THE POLISH PERIODICAL, CALLED " MLODA POLSKA," OF THE 10TH SEPTEMBER, 1840, PUBLISHED AT PARIS. [TRANSLATED FROM THE POLISH.] On this occasion let us be allowed to pay due homage to the invaluable devotion of Lord Dudley Stuart for the Poles. While sonic blind or malicious men arc every day calumniating his character and good inten• tions—while they rep! esent him in the eyes of their less informed countrymen in France as a partisan of the treaty of Vienna, as a support e r o f th e exclusive designs of one Polish party—this invaluable and inde fatigable friend of our country exerts himself continu ally in favour of the Polish refugees, with an admirable patience, and without any personal motive. What is most praiseworthy in his conduct is, that where it is impossible to do aril thing of great importance, he is content to achieve what little there is to be done, with out abating for one moment in his efforts. His extra nrdinary activity, his eloquence coming from the heart, and his good example, win numerous friends to the cause ; attentive to the changes of public opinion, he takes advantage of every chance, connects himself with political men, and does not neglect the journals of any party. In collecting subscriptions he takes no notice of the egotistical habits of the fashionable world, but finds his way to every house, and is never discouraged by a cold reception. Owing to his charac ter and his station, all matters concerning the Poles, or those who only assurne that title, are referred to him by the public, which is of great importance for the inainte nence of our ,gooil name in England. In the midst of his roost sincere efforts in our favour, Lord Dudley Stuart has met more than once with injustice, or some painful injury on the part of the Poles. Many in his place would have retired in anger, but Lord Dudley is the first himself to excuse the guilty in the eyes of the friends of Poland. On the other hand, no person can appreciate more fully any proof of attachment he re ceives from the Poles. When, a few months ago, they presented him with a ring, he was heard to repeat everywhere. " Tiiis is my orler." Let those who have ever applied to the Association for relief, declare whether Lord Stuart ever asked them to what opinion or what party in the emigration they belonged Every Pole in need of assistance finds in him his protector, and meets always with the kindest reception. If pri vate connections attached him more to one party than another, did he ever show himself unjust or violent on that account? It is unreasonable to believe that Lord Dudley should desire the restoration of the kingdom of the Congress of Vienna. Would it be natural in any person, who sees his friend labouring under a disease which affects the entire body, to wish that one part of it only should recover ? As to those who attribute to Lord Dudley Stuart a des:re of gaining a name by his exertions for Poland, they only prove thereby their profound ignorance. It is certainly very laudable to earn a glorious name by serving a righteous cause ; but at this moment no celebrity awaits those who devote themselves tor Poland! Our long misfortunes have wearied even patience itself : the time when our efforts and victories were received with enthusiasm by Europe is over ; those who stick to us at present are looked on by the common herd of Europe as sentimentalists and theorists. There is no doubt that Poland will, at some future day, when she be comes free, find laurels and honours, and a hearty wel come for her faithful friends ; but that day is too re mote to warm with its rays those who are now working for Poland. But particularly as regards Lord Dudley, his youth, character, and connections opened a wide field for his ambition ; and by this time he might have been in the enjoyment of some high office ; it was for Poland that he renounced all those prospects, the gay world, and even the habits of his younger years. How should the Poles tail to appreciate sufficiently all those noble sacrifices! On his death-bed, at Dresden, Ge neral Woyczynski invoked the blessing of God on the head of Lord Dudley Stuart ; while a Polish lady, equally distinguished for -li.r intelligence and virtues vhe Countess Claudine Potoeka), in her last hour commended him to the protection of the Almighty At this moment every Pole who is not blinded by party spirit, loves and esteems him, and sends up prayers to heaven for his prosperity. LORD PALM ERSTON'S POLICY (From Galignani's Messenger.) We extract the folowing article from the Presse. is curious, as being a sort of defence of the policy of Lord Palmerston on the question of the East ; for whilst nearly afl the other journals, in their ignorance of the state of public feeling in England, or with their unfounded suspicions of the political integrity of Lord Palmerston, have charged him with having sacrified the interests of England to Russia, the Presse declares that the policy of Lord Palmerston is wisely calculated to preserve England, which, of all countries, would suffer most from Russian preponderance, against the effect of any ambitious designs which the Czar may entertain. The Presse, which is an anti-English journal, dues not, indeed, defend Lord Palmerston in the language of a partisan, and attributes to feelings towards France which, in all probability, he never entertained. The object of the Presse in defending the English Minister appears to be solely to attack M. Thiers ; but in doing this it places some points, which had been in ignorance or ill.natuie misrepresented by the other journals, in a true light. It says Lord Palmerston saw if England did not unite with Russia, that power would aet alone in the East, without his being able to prevent her, and that circumstances might arise in which Russia would act conjointly wish France—the latter exercising a protectorship over Egypt, and the former reserving to herself the protec torship of Turkey. With incontestable tact and ability lie perceived that the most propitious moment for ren dering such a connection impossible, was that in which the French Cabinet had at its head a President bound to the alliance with England by a speech, the impru dence of which can be effaced by no act of his life. Lord Palmerston thought thus—Either the French Cabinet, under M. Thicrs, will content itself with de claring its neutrality, or it will protest against the treaty, and exclaim that England has betrayed France. In the first case England, without sacrifice or danger, will corn gel Mehemet Ali to expiate the resistance which he has always opposed to the pretensions of England over the Isthmus of Suez ; in the second case, England has not to fear reprisals from France, and an offer to join with Russia in a treaty from which En2,land should be excluded, it being impossible for M. Tniers, after his speech of the I4th January in favour of the alli ance with France. Lord Palmerston saw that the mo ment was propitious for lowering Mehemet Ali ; that if France should remain neutral, this would be unat tended with the slightest obstacle ; but that if she should protest against the treaty, and unsheath the sword in a contest of one against four, she must necessarily close the doors of her manufactories, cut short the progress of her trade, leaving her roads and canals unfinished, re main with mere patches of railways, and divert public credit. which was so powerful and fruitful in peace. to the murderous and sterile purposes of war. Lord Pal merston felt that England had nothing to lose, and much to gain." - Yesterday the reporter was favoured at the ma nufactory of Messrs Taprell and Holland, upholsterers to her late it0:,,l Ili4 s i s the Princess Augusta, with a view of the inner cutfinn' vshich the remains of her Royal Highness are to he enclosed. milacture. formed of thefiri , andis an e Spanish mahogany, exqui- It is of the most costly ma -3 tely polished . inch and a half thick. The in s de is beautifully lined with the richest white satin, closely fluted. There are to he three coffi . —ns v , z., on e o f mass i ve lead, then another of fine Spanish any, and lastly the outer coffin , also of fine polished mahog studded w i t h silver.gilt nails , with the ricllest crimson velvet, w hi c h in wi a l h l t o gany, covered massive silver-gilt handles, - and other ap propriate ornaments. The inner coffin was removed last evening in a hearse f rom Messrs. Taprell and H o ll an d' s premises to Clarenc e House, St. James's P a l ace. We can conridcntly state that , up toga late hour last evening Royal Highnesss funeral wa s not defirri: the day for her Roy tively fixed upoo. —Morning Herald. TIIE VERDICT IN MADAME LAFFARQE'S C A sa—t , poi respect for the Jury," says the Siecle '• makes us deeply regret that a trial, which was followed thruughout with so much anxiety by the entire of France, a , uuld a g ain present t:ie extravagant anomaly of an affir mative decision upon a charge involving the most terrible of all crimes, committed, according to the accusation, with an atr.cious 1-Ailment of cruelty and perfidy, yet accom panied, nevertheless, by the declaration that there were extenuatin g circumstances I It is in vain that such a ver _, Ei„ is recorded ; the p consience will not acce ith er the cr i me has been ublic proved, c and in that hypoth e s i s it appears surrounded render it monstrous, with all the circumstances that can of the Jury, and all or a doubt has entered into the minds ti , ,n of ext---I sc all will agree that it is not by a declara- i m ., n;feve r u n l li on mg circumstances that a doubt should be l an occasion." :according to such Anivole a Milan letter in eie rJournal de Fcanhjor p t, Count with the rineess d e mu Demidoff, upon his marriage of widowhood, an annual settled on his lady, in case joint property is to be enjoyedincome of '250,000f. The p cr annum is to be paid to he in common, and 25,000 f. Princess as pin money. PATERNAL ADVICE FROM THE FRENCH CAMARILLA TO THE SPANISH REGENCY. (From the Charivari.) My dear Regent,—lt is with the deepest emotion we learn that you are afflicted with misfortunes. Alas ! who is not in this world below ? We ourselves but this moment have lost a piece of .50 centimes in the street. You are at odds with your people. So far there is no bartn ; there is no king whose reign has been of any duration but easily makes up his mind to this, from long custom. It is the especial attribute of such Govern merits as arc founded on unanimuus suffrage. But the I dissension has a more decided character than in its ordi- nary state. The municipality of Madrid, your capital, bag, in your absence, invested itself with authority, and, supported by the troops as well as by the adhesion of the principal towns of Spain, continues to exercise it without you, and even begins to do so against you. This is vexatious, and for our part we sympathise most strongly, for who knows what fate may await him to morrow But how the devil, dearest Regent, have you ma naged to get yourself driven into so unfortunate a posi tion ! Not to agree with the nation is a matter of daily occurrence ; that the nation should desire one thing while one is anxious for the very reverse, constantly happens, even in the most unobjectionable monarchies ; the nation strives, with more or less energy, to accom plish its wishes, while we resist this impulse with equal cunning, and such a struggle is admitted in every good Constitutional Government. Should the nation allow itself in the least degree to become apathetical, we immediately press forward with all our weight, and thus gain ground ; if, on the contrary, the nation becomes too urgent, we yield adroitly, and seize the opportunity of a re-action to regain the ascendant. This perpetual motion to and fro is, in gubernatorial language, termed the play of the national institutions. It is less old, but much more amusing, than the Royal Game of Goose. Now, this piece of mechanism, plied by skilful heeds, becomes most valuable. In France, a Government, when supported by ingenious systems, will make it last about fifteen years. When we sent it by our Ambas sadors to be employed by you, together with directions how to use it, we reckoned that it would work for a space of thirty years in Spain, where the strings of it are still new. We are, however, mistaken ; you must have forced the machinery. After having for a long time weighed heavily on the Spanish nation, for, Heaven be praised, your's was no sparing hand (we may remark here that you have even gone too far, albeit our indulgence is great for that kind of venial sin) —after this, we say, when the Spanish nation, wearied out, begins to make a few encroachments on your ground, you have thought proper to oppose your utmost resistance. What do I say ? You swell every vein ; you strain every nerve to increase your resistance ? Have a care, Regent, or you may meet the same fate as the frog in the fable. Have you then lost those rules of conduct which we had laid down with so much minuteness, that you allow yourself to be hemmed in at Valencia by blustering municipalities, who are openly leagued against you, and impose conditions on you ? They arc the very rules which guide us at Paris, and we, to say the least, are as stanch anti-revolutionists as you can ever be in Spain. Yet observe what a difference in our positions ? Our unanimous suffrage is radiant with good living, while yours is frightfully emaciated. No, no, Friend Regent, you are no adept at making the representative pot boil ; you heat it till it burts—a scalding job. Have you not known, then, how to employ your se cret funds in rallying to your standard, both from the press and from the people, disinterested servants ? Have you not known how to decompose a majority, by giving a place to this Deputy, a ribband to that one, by addressing an invitation to one, a flattering word to the other, and lastly, by familiarly dragging the most obdurate into a window recess for a quarter of an hour's conversation ? I had particularly recom mended window recesses. You cannot imagine how many convictions have been laid aside through them ; window recesses throw a new light on circumstances, and many a conscience has been suddenly enlightened merely by having retired for a few minutes into one of them. Have you not been able, when a majority was too compact to allow of being broken up by fragments —have you not been able to decompose it constitution ally, by a well-timed dissolution, that it might be re organised by some skilful hand? Yet we had sent you a skilful hand, and one modelled exactly on that of our Montalivet. Perhaps, mistaken as to its use, have you employed it in emptying the state coffers? When the discontented public threaten a legal ex plosion that might plunge you into a tangle of diffi culties, do you not know how to get up a small con spiracy ? how to bring about a gentle riot to frighten the goednatured citizens, and produce a reaction in fa vour of public order ? If the jury are to be feared, have recourse to the Court of Peers. You do not seem to be perfectly aware what advantages may be derived from a Court of Peers. It has been objected that these Courts are in general worthless ; yet, bad as they are, some use can he made of them—a further reason for employing them, since it is the only purpose they are fit for. You have then forgotten—but we forget ourselves that you are in difficulties, and that therefore this is no time for finding fault. Instead of lecturing you, let us consider how you may be saved. What is most urgent sit pre sen' is to save you from drowning, after which we shall have time enough to make complaints. The fact is, you must quit the position which you have taken, for we frankly assure you it is not tenable. For of what consists the monarchial state? Money and power. The King is the type of human happiness, for be is the man who has the greatest power and the most money. Now, dearest Regent, these elements are far from plentiful with you. As for power, already more than half Spain has gone over to the Madrid Junta. which is so little disposed to obey you, that its com mands are death to whoever shall execute a single order of yours. If you allow this state of things to con tinue, your sway will soon be limited to Valencia and its suburbs. As for money, your receipts will follow the same descending course as your power. 10,000,000 are yearly allotted to you to reign over all Spain, which contains 500 towns ; if now but 200 towns remain affected to you, you will only receive 4 000,000 ; and as each town detaches itself from your alliance, your pit tance will suffer an equivalent diminution, and that so effectually, that when your sway is restricted, as it pro bably will be, to Toboso (Dulcinea's native town), your civil list will be reduced to 39f. 40c., a sum bearing the same ratio to the 10,000,000 that Toboso does to Spain. A dreary prospect, Regent, a dreary prospect ! Well, from these straits it is easy to escape, you have only to follow our advice. Spain pronounces decidedly in favour of the Exaltados, against the law of Ayuntamientos and the present Cortes. Yield ! yield I dear Regent, in stead of resisting with that blind and unthinking obsti nacy fit only for walls and mules. They desire that you should dismiss your Constitu tional Ministry ! Dismiss! dismiss ! For less than that did we not dismiss our Mole? They desire that you should renounce the law of Ayuntamieutos. Renounce ! renounce! Did not we renounce our detached forts and our apanages ? They desire that you should appoint Ministers horn the Ex altados ? Appoint ! appoint ! We, too, did we not consent to appoint Parliamentary Ministers, so called, and who were forced on us from hatred to our personal government ? They desire that you should publish a Radical mani festo. Publish! publish! We, too, did we not publish our Hotel deVille programme? And when you shall have thus yielded, when you are thus surrounded by Ministers forced on you by an adverse opinion, do not conceive yourself to be checkmated and conquered. Fatal mis take! Your position will be thereby strengthened. The malcontents, satisfied with your submission, will lay down their arms, and will even clap their hands in applause. Then either of the following conse quences will ensue :—Either these new Ministers will be conscientious individuals, and will take their radical mission in a literal sense, in which case, firmly reinstated in your throne, and rebellion once sub sided, being no longer an object of fear, you will purely and simply dismiss them, as we, in a similar case, dismissed Lafayette, Laffitte, and Dupont (de l'Eure). Or they will be men of ambitious views, who have only served a party that they might the better come to power, in which case they will espouse your cause ; they will restore the same Cortes ; they will repass the law of Ayuntamientos ; they will even lend you their assistance in punishing the rebellion of their former partisans. Look at Thiess, both a Parliamentary Minister and re storer of the Ist of March. In both cases you will have recovered your former ad vantage, and your situation will have acquired new strength ; this you will gain by yielding, whereas by re sisting you will lose all. Ruse, dearest Regent, is more effectual than brute force, and the people are as easily taken by their gullibility as rabbits by the ears. Try it, my dear Christina, and tell us what you think of it. But observe, when you do tell us pray pay the postage. We know how to make a sacrifice to circum stances, and to circumstances alone. Believe us, yours, &c. CA MA RILL A. oLympic.—This theatre, which twill bere opened on T hursday next, under the management of Mr . Butl er , h as b een completely re-decorated, and will present a light an d elegant appearance. The spirit and liberality displayed in the management last season, as well as the numerous successful novelties produced, afford a gratifying augury of future exertion and prosperity. Mr. Butler, we understand, has already secured a galaxy of female beauty and talent, among which may be enumerated, Miss M. Glover, Miss Jane Mordaunt, Miss Shcarstnith, (a young, lady, it is said, of considerable musical promise), oar old favourites Mrs. Carrick, Mrs. Beverley, Mrs. 11. Cummins, &c. Among the actors are the subjoined—besides Mr. Butler himself—Balls, from Drury Lane, S. Roxby, as low comedian, Brookes, capital in old men, and Baker who resumes his former station, as stage-manager, to the satis faction, preparation, believe, of all p ar ti es. Novelties we hear are in but on this head secrecy is at present ob by the sobri quetserved. sometimes ricLculousl /to • (having been o M. TilLieTAs'diGninoi:terran ). Chance Government is is (bars o n am o n : quizzical. term e din — 3I C a /ra h ? . ilvaasrt MEHEMET ALI AND THE TURK- ISH AND ARABIAN RACES. (An article from the Revue des Deux Monde:, by M. St. Marc Girardin.) Mehemet Ali has numerous admirers in Enrope, who laud him for the numerous things which he has borrowed from Europe. I admire him, on the contrary, as one who has preserved the best qualities of the East. Ore great theme of praise with his admirers is Mehemet Ali's having founded an Arabic empire. M. Clot Bey espe cially applauds him for this, and quotes from Napoleon's memorial of St. Helena an approbation of the attempt to form an Arabic empire in Africa. Unfortunately, Mehemet Ali has done the very contrary of what Napo leon has recommended. Thus, he has raised soldiers in Egypt. but he has not appointed a single Egyptian offi cer. Command is everywhere in the hands of Turks or Mamelukes. He never placed authority in the hands of the natives of the country ; on the contrary, he has ruled like a Turk, by Turks, and has declared himself an obedient servant of the Ottoman Porte. . Mehemet Ali is a Turk ; he speaks no other language than Turkish, and has alwas s intrusted his authority to Turks ; it is not from any love ofthe Turks that be has acted in this minuet, but from a just appreciation of the state of Egypt, and of the character of the divers na tions which inhabit it. I know not how strong Egyptian nationality might have been under the Pnaroahs, but since their time it has never existed. Egypt, conquered by all the nations who have played a great part on earth, has for a long time lost the habit of being independent. Many races of conquerore, conquered and enslaved in their turn, inhabit Egypt. The Turks are its last con querors. There is no race in Egypt, save the Cop tish, perhaps, which can pretend to be the na tional one. Similar, indeed, is the state of all the East--an old land, occupied by all nations—a care vansera in which all nations have lodged, with no better title one than the other. In these countries of continued conquests, the difference of race is every thing, and it is this difference which divides the inhabitants into maste:s and subjects. The Turks in Egypt form the military race, accustomed to command, and possessed of talents for Government. The Turks have an intelligence less quick and less ardent than the Arabs ; but their character is more resolute and more persevering, and a Government is better di- rected by character than by intelligence. It is a truth already proved in the East, and which will be proved by degrees in the West. 'l'he difference between the Turkish and Arabic race in Egypt is a curious subject of study and reflection. The Arabs, taken individually, are superior to the Turks. But in the struggle between nations the supe riority of individuals is nothing ; what gives ascendancy is tire quality, not of the individual but of the mass ; it is the spirit of ensemble the aptitude to command or to obey, which, after all is the same thing. In this point of view the Arab is inferior to the Turk. Enthusiastic, witty, de'icate, made for poesy and adventure, sober, inured to fatigue, as gay and as variable as the Turk is serious and grave, the Arabic race is still what we see it in history, and such as are still the Arabs of Grenada and Cor dova. But when, forgetting for a moment the bright ness of their conquests, we closely examine, even in history, the character of the Arab race, what do we see? A race whose religious enthusiasm created an army ra ther than a nation, and incapable of founding an empire as the Romans had done, it gave rise to I know not how many empires, and how short-lived. How many dynasties heaped upon one another ! What a chaos, and in this chaos what a rapid and tumultuous motion. Unity and duration were ever wanting in the govern ments created by the Arab race. Children of the south, these governments enjoyed the life of the plants of their own climate, brilliant and brief ; whilst children of the north, the Turkish race, has founded an empire, now expiring indeed, but which has, lasted 500 years and more. For an empire in the cast, 500 years' duration is eternity. Thus history agrees with the judgment of 'Mehemet Ali. Even in its best days, the Arab race was not made for command. Degraded in Egypt by long slavery, it has none of the qualities requisite for govern ment. 'We need no proof beyond the words of M. Clot Bey. M. Clot Bey is very favourable to the Arabs. He enumerates with complaisance all that Mehemet Ali has done to regenerate the Arabic race, and he praises him much for it ; and then he continues —" The Egyptians have not the instinct of command ; this is the reason why the Viceroy has not been able to entrust them with the first employment. Although very intelligent, if they are not directed they can accom plish nothing. The Turks, on the contrary, accus tomed to superiority, have that conduct, that dignity and confidence in themselves necessary to those who govern." I will add to the testimony of M. Clot Bey another testimony, which will still more confirm the justness of the system of Mehemet Ali with respect to the Arabs. 'The Land the arce country, y e r t recruited hey are amongst monks np of h tthe inh abitants e Hoy e i all Europeans ; and when some one asked the cause of their exclusion, " YoU can never dePend upon an Arab," observed one of the Fatheri. 's and the Holy Sec could not entrust sacerdotal authority to them." Thus Mehemet Ali and the Pope form the same judg ment with respect to the Arabic race. They both find in this race talent and intelligence, but, nevertheless, regard it as incapable of being its own guide, either in civil or religious matters. I must explain, en passant, why M. Clot hey is favourable to the Arab race. M. Clot Bey is Director-General of the Medical De partment in Egypt. He has founded the school of Me dicine in that country ; he has bad Arabs for pupils, and, as all those who have taught Arabs, he was struck with their facility for learning. A few attentive observers have thought that the Arab race possessed especially that fa culty of imitation which characterises the Sclavonic race, but without the intelligence which makes science its own, and renders it fertile by labour. Memory is, among the Arabs, more active than their judgment ; they learn quickly and forget quickly. This facility of learning naturally deceives those entrusted with their education ; especially if they be foreigners, spending a certain num ber of years in the country, and then going away with out waiting to see whether the effect of their lessons is efficacious and durable. If this observation respecting the imitative faculties of the Arabic race be exact, it is curious to see how Europe has, if I may use the expres sion, at its two extremities, north and south, two races, the one the Sclavonian race, the other the Arabic, destined by their special nature to inherit European civilization without increasing it, and to take of this civilization all that was mechanical and external, that is, its science and arts of luxury, without taking that which forms its essence and its virtue. These races are sent by Providence during epochs of transition, to pre serve and transmit the precious deposit of civi lization, without adding to it either a new science or a new idea. I might add, that at the epochs when these races prevailed a general levelling takes place of intellect and information, when all that is abstruse is explained, and the generality come very near in understanding to the learned few. This is the epoch in which every one has wit, in which all things explain themselves gracefully, easily ; in which everything is understood, in which every one seems to have genius, either in politics or in literature, because memory serves as thought, and expression as knowledge ; in short, it is the epoch of journals and journalists. But in thus extending itself; this civilisation diminishes, and by thus weakening itself prepares and proportions itself to the spirit of the imitative races which are to become its depositaries. By putting the Arabian in the background and the Turkish race in the front, Mehemet Ali has not only followed the custom and habit, he has obeyed good and philosophical reasons. Mehemet Ali made no theory re specting the inferiority of the Arabic to the Turkish one; he merely felt it, and this was enough. " I have done," said he to a French traveller, " in Egypt what the English did in the Indies. Their Indian soldiers are commanded by English officers, as yours must be by French officers if you form Algerine regiments. The Turk is much fitter for war and for command than an Arabian ; he feels that be is made for it, and the Arabian, in his pre sence, feels that he is made for obeying. I once saw an assemblage of 3,000 Arabians ; it seemed as if they were going to destroy everything. I sent one of my officers with thirty Turks, and all this multitude was dispersed. In the war of 1832 the Arabs fought well, because they followed their officers. All my art is to get Turkish officers. Luckily for me the Sultan does not give good pay ; I give better, and by that means the officers come to me. I had then to ensure their fidelity ; I fhund the way by preventing their becoming landed proprietors, or getting personal influence amongst the people." Mehemet Ali is a Turk, not only because he makes use of Turks for governing ; but he is a Turk, espe cially because he: wishes to be a Pacha belonging to the Turkish empire ; he is a Turk by his sub mission towards the Ottoman Porte. To Europeans this submission seems a mockery. It is a singular sort of subjection, that of a Pacha, who in two years twice makes war on his Sovereign, and tears away provinces from his empire. But, in the East, this does not pre vent Mehemet from being the slave of the most glorious Sultan. 'Fire slave may beat the master ; but this neither astonishes nor embarrasses the Orientals. Nor in the West wore we more particular two hundred years ego. Have we not seen for a long time, under the feu dal system, vassals making war on their Sovereign, and even under Louis XIV., the Prince of Conde making war upon the King, without, on that account, thinking that he had broken every tic between him and his So. vereign ? War did not destroy the titles of vassality or sovereignty. The two attributes of sovereignty in the East are, prayer and justice. Prayer, in Egypt, is made in the name of the Sultan, and justice in the same manner. M. Clot Bey says that the Sultan sends every year to Grand Cairo a Grand Cadi, whose jurisdiction extends all over Egypt. Mehemet Ali has never let pass an op portunity of showing his respect for the Sultan ; he sands to felicitate him on the birth of his children ; he employs on every occasio❑ the tone of a subject towards his toaster, and I think that tone sincere. Mehemet Ali wishes to govern his pachalics absolutely, and of these he wishes to have many ; but in the East, autho- P - 11 Ei PUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, MO, rity, even delegated, is absolute. A Pacha is master in his own province. He is not a p re f ec t, w h o reecivc.'s directions from a Minister ; he is a man who com mands at his own risks and perils. Mehemet Ali wishes to hive many pacholics, in order to be more powerful, but not in order to be independent, in the same manner as our ancient vassals sought to have the most fiefs they could. None of these kinds of pretensions shock the ideas of the Orientals. ; He would shock them if he proclaimed his independ ence, because in the East, religion and the state being but one, if he proclaimed his independence a schism would be created, and the Orientals detest schism. Mehemet Ali has often declared, that if he has not de clared himself independent, it has been from regard to the advice and wishes of France. This is politeness, not truth. Mehemet has not declared himself inde pendent, out of regard to the East, not to us. He neither wishes nor requires to be independent. An idea which often occurred to Mehemet Ali, one. which greatly astonished Europeans, and which seems very simple, and very natural to Orientals, is the idea of his coming to Constantinople, and getting himself made Vizier. I recollect that last year, at Constantinople, after the death of the Sultan Mahmoud, every one thought that Mehemet Ali was coming, and no one doubted but that he would lyt received with enthusiasm by all the popu lat ion ready to salute him as the only Mussulman who could pretend to glory or grandeur. I asked 66 What will he do with the young Sultan ?" "He will be his Vizier and his tutor," was the reply. " But some bright morning will not the tutor make away with the pupil ?" People did not uaderstand me. They might have done so had I said, " I feared the Sultan would some day strangle this troublesom e Vizier ;" hut that the Vizier should kill the Sultan seemed to them impossible, so strongly is the legitimacy of the Ottoman race rooted in their minds ! One of the characteristics of Mehemet Ali's Govern ment is, to have mingled the cares of policy with those of agriculture and commerce. Ho is the only pro prietor and trader of Egypt. The fellahs cultivate for him, gather the crops for him, and he sells himself the corn and cotton of his vast domain. He has based an empire on a farm. Egypt is this great Lam, and the country is admirably suited for cultivation in the mass ; it is even the only culture which it is caps• ble of. The necessity of keeping up the canals, which distribute the waters of the Nile during the in undation, supposes a central power. This great agri cultural exploitation requires unity. Divide Egypt amongst petty cultivators, soma lazy, some ignorant, one indifferent to the other, and all incapable of agreeing, the canals conveying the water of the Nile from the higher to the lower soils would be stopped up , and sterility so swift to come in a hot climate would soon invade Egypt. Mehemet Ali, by taking on himself the culti vation, has perfectly understood the nature of Egypt ; but his wish would be to apply the same agricultural ge nius, which he has shown in Egypt, to Turkey. His son seems animated with the same opinions, and one of the most curious traits of this new Egyptian dynasty is the curious combination of war and culture—of agricultural and military enterprises. Have not at all times production and destruction been the great employments of human activity ? Have not agriculture and war been at all times the favourite projects of strong and powerful nations? The mixture of military and agricultural institutions which characterises the GOvernment of Mehemet Ali is a simple and natural idea, and for that reason more suitable to the East, which, in despite of its antiquity, has remained more true to nature than our West. This activity of the Egyptian Govern ment forms a striking contrast with the dullness of the Turkish Government. This was visible after the conquest of Syria. He was scarcely master of the country when Mehemet Ali tried the culture of coffee, cotton, and indigo ; 3,000 olive trees were planted in the environs of St. Jean d'Acre. This barrenness, which seems, since the middle age, to be the lot of the land of Asia, displeases Mehemet Ali. He wishes to utilise this old garden of the human race, left desert and barren by the misfortune of times. Mehemet Ali is not a warrior and a conqueror, although he knows haw to make war ; he is chiefly at: administrator : he is, and his word renders best my thought, although it renders it in a bad sense, an exploitcteur ; he has the qualities of one, but he has also his faults : lie is active, intelligent, and full of good sense ; and out of innnmerable projects brought to him by the mounte bank genius of Europe, he has chosen, with some me vitable exception, none but those which are practicable. At the same time he is hard-hearted, he has a fiscal spirit, -he likes money as a Turk does, and that is saying everything. What he seems most to reproach Turkish Government with is, that it does nothing itself, and prevents him who wishes to do something. Lost good makes him indignant. What is the Pa chalic of :Bagdad worth to the Sultan ? He says no thing. " Give it to me, and I will pay a large tribute." FRENCH AND ENGLISH WAR STEAMERS.! 111,44 • .+1:11/0111,1 , , The Presse publishes A list of the war- steam-bouti belonging to the British and French navies, and says that an erroneous opinion prevails in France, that in case of war between the two countries, the steam navy of Great Britain could not resist that of France. To destroy this erroneous impression it thinks it does a great public service by giving an exact list of the boats in either service, from which it appears that Great Britain possesses 79 steam-boats, and France but 34, and it is to be remarked that. 31 of the English steam• boats gives a force of 5,900 horse power, and that the 34 French war-steamers give only a force of 5,120 horse power. The following is the list of the French war-steamers, with their power : The Lavoisier, 220 horse-power ; Veloce, 220 ; Cha meleon, 220 ; Gassendi, 220 ; Mageur, 160 ; Sphinx, 160 ; Ardent, 160 ; Crocodile, 160 ; Fulton, 160 ; Ch:mere, 160 ; Styx, 160 ; Meteor, 160 ; Vulture, 160 ; Phare, 160 ; Acheron, 160 ; Papin, 160 ; Cer berus, 160 ; Tartar, 160 ; Etna, 160 ; Brandon, 160 ; Cocytes, 160 ; Phaeton, 160 ; Tonnere, 160 ; Eu phrates, 160 ; Gregerois, 160 ; Grondeur, 160 ; Ra mier, 150 ; Castor, 150 ; Brasier, 100 ; Coureur, SO ; Flambeau, 80 ; Coursier, 60 ; Erebus, 60 ; African, 40. To these are to be added seven other boats, at present on the stocks—the Asmodrus, Pluto, Infernal, Gomere, Tonare, Cuvier, and Chaptal ; but, even if these seven boats were completed, they would give France only an effective of 41 steam-boats, whilst the English have nearly twice as many. It is necessary to remark, that the Gomere will be of 450-horse power, and will carry 34 guns under a covered battery, and the Infernal, 320-horse power. On the other hand, the English have the Cyclops, which can mount 16 long 32's on swivils. It has four pieces of 48 on its quarter-deck, and two of 96, in all 22 guns. It can embark coal for 25 days, take 1,000 soldiers on its deck, 400 troops across the Atlantic, or 300 to India. Its usual rate of sailing is 11 knots an hour. It beat in sailing without its engine, and in a passage of 300 miles, the Pantaloon, the fastest brig in England. Its crew is composed of 220 seamen in time of war, and 173 during peace. - - - . Independent of these war steam-boats, Great 13ritan possesses immense resources in the commercial steam navy. She has 899 steam-boats, giving a total force of 68,145 hors"! power. Amongst these arc 33 steam boats, of from 450 to 700 horse power, which trade to the United States, South America, and India. It cannot, therefore, be repeated too often, that an impru dent confidence in her strength might cost France dear. THE RUSSIAN FLEET. (From the Ministerial Cannier Francais of Wednesday.) Russia evidently desires to accustom us to the idea of seeing; her Baltic fleet enter the Mediterranean. The Elbeifeld Gazelle, a Prussian paper, informs us that eighteen vessels of the line are about to quit Cronstadt, and sail for the Archipelago. This is the sceond time in the course of a week that the same news has been put in circulation. This perseverance seems to prove that if it bst not already true, that it will soon be so. Russia is not in the habit of abandoning the projects she has conceived. It is not written down in the treaty of London that the Russian fleet shall enter the Mediterranean : it can not enter it without giving outrage to Eegland, who certainly wou ld w i tness w ith much uneasiness this formid a bl e co-operation. Mr. Canning would not allow th e R uss i an squa d ron previous to the battle of Naverino to exceed a certain number of vessels. Will Lord Pahnerston dare to pursue another line of conduct n ow t h at t h e R us sian fleet is more redoubt able than it was ? Wh at prudent Englishman would ever pardon hi m f or l ett i ng eighteen Russian ships enter the Mediterranean when it can send out an equal num , her from the Black Sea, and when the English squa dron, scarcely sixteen vessels strong, might thus be placed between two fires? Let England, however, make herself uneasy about it or not ; France ought to consider the arrival of so con siderable a Russian fleet in the Mediterranean as a me nace, ard we trust that the Alinistry will take up the matter. P.S. We have just received a letter from St. Peters burgh which permits of our rectifying,the ElbedMl Gazette, and stating the case more coca. the news given by rately. The Emderor Nicholas has ordered nine vessels of the line to be armed immediately, the most solid and best constructed of his fleet ; to these are to be added an equal number of frigates, and twelve light sail, cutters or brig s . The fleet will thus consist of thirty sail. As soon as it is armed, it is to sail for Revel, and there wait for further orders. At Eu, last wee k, a girl wa s h a ad cc r u e s s e o d lve o d f up h o a n vi t i i i i g e u n t , t i e m m p p p t y e d g i t r o l , poison il c e d e r b ta y i n i :s a o lo k u l i s e y r: of the garrison. Th e destruction of h e rs e lf an d her lover by poison ; and f or this purpose prepared an omelette, which she served to him and s evera l o f hi s companions. Fortunately, how ever, the d ose i nten d e d f or two persons being divided among sever a l, a j l u l r y w thanh opatrhe omelettetooskickonfestsheandpa in w escap e d hicil re with no other in. suited from its effects on the stomach. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch of a Teat deal of public business. PRINCE ALBERT, AND TINE DINNER AT THE MANSION- HOUSE. Mr. KING, the Chairman of the City Lands Com- mittee, having brought up the Report relative to the fitting up of the Guildhall on the day of the presenta tion of the freedom to Prince Albert, Mr. STEVENS begged to put a question to the Lord Mayor, relative to the dinner to which it appeared his Lordship had invited his Royal Highness. It was re ported very currently that the Prince had declined the invitation of his Lordship, although his Royal Highness had in the first instance accepted it, and that the reason was that the Lord Mayor had not invited her Majesty's Ministers, and other individuals of the highest rank in the country to the entertainment. Now he (Mr. Stevens) was very desirous of being informed whether there was any truth in the report ?—(Hear, hear.) The Loan MAYOR said that he would, as an act of courtesy, answer the question of Mr. Stevens. It was true that Prince Albert had accepted the invitation to (line at the Mansion House, and it was true also that his Royal Highness subsequently declined, but his Royal Highness's reason for declining was certainly because the Princess Augusta was in such a state, that her decease was expected every moment. The Prince had in the strongest terms expressed his regret that he could not be a guest on that day, at the Mansion•house.—( Hear, hear.) He (the Lord Mayor) would also inform Mr. Stevens that he did not invite her Majesty's Ministers on that day, for it would be recollected when the Queen's Ministers dined with him and the Sheriffs at the Guild hall, what sort of reception they met with. He did not wish for a repetition of any thing of that kind. He had, upon this occasion, invited the Archbishop of Can terbury, the Bishop of London, and other distinguished individuals to meet his Royal Highness, but, in fact, almost every body was out of The Prince had over and over again expressed himself delighted at what bad taken place, but his Royal Highness would not have attended then had not he (the Lord Ma) or) set off from London upon hearing that his Royal Highness had resolved not to come to the City on ac count of the serious condition of his aunt.—(Hear.) Here the conversation dropped. PRESENTATION OF PIECES OF PLATE TO THE SHE. RIFFS FOR THEIR LATE CONDUCT. The names of Sheriffs Evans and Wheelton having been called, and these gentlemen having appeared in the Court, The LORD MAYOR rose to present them with the pieces of plate which were unanimously voted to them by the Corporation for their conduct in the case of the House of Commons and the Sheriffs of London. All the members and officers of the Court stood during the presentation. The LORD MAYOR said that it was a source of high gratification to him to be appointed by the Court of Common Council to present to the Sheriffs, at the close of their year of office, a testimonal of the sense enter tained of their conduct upon an occasion of no ordinary difficulty, and under circumstaacrs which called for the exercise of peculiar deliberation and firmness. The ser vices which they had rendered, and for which they had been visited with punishment, were so well known to the Corporation, and indeed to the nation at large, that it was quite unnecessary for him to occupy the time of the Court in detailing particulars. Their felloW-citizens were impressed with the deepest gratitude for their spirited and able vindication of the law exemplified in the course which they had resolutely pursued, and the Court requested their acceptance of this testimonial, and wished them, in their retirement from their office, the duties of which they had so admirably discharged, every prosperity and happiness.—(Loud cheers.) Sheriff EvArts—My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen of the Corporation—We receive with most grateful feel ings this splendid testimony of your approbation of our conduct as Sheriff of London and Sheriff of Middlesex. I shall leave my worthy colleague to speak for himself on this pleasing occasion, and confine myself to the ex pression of my own sentiments. On being elected to this honourable office, I stated my desire and determi nation to fulfil the duties attached to it with integrity and fidelity ; and, on resigning the important trust into the hands of my successor, I flatter myself, from the kind manner in which you, my Lord, have been pleased to express yourself, that I have in some degree redeemed that pledge, and have not disappointed the expectations of my. fallow-citizens. The peculiar cir cumstances to which you, my Lord Mayor, have ad verted, placed me in considerable difficulty ; but, acting in strict accordance with the oath I had taken, it is most gratifying to find that the course I pursued on that memorableoccasion has met generally with theapprobation of my fellow-countrymen.—(Cheers.) On retiring again into private life, this magnificent work of your approval of my public conduct will always be to me a source of the highest satisfaction, and I cannot do jus tice to my feelings, without taking this opportunity of expressing my warmest thanks for the uniform kindness 1 have at all times received from your Lordship, and indeed from every member of the Corporation since I have bad the honour of being connected with them. I beg, my Lord, and Gentlemen, once more to thank you most sincerely and respectklly.-(Loud cheers.) Sheriff WIIEELTON also expressed his thanks. He acknowledged the gratification be felt at the sympathy and kind feeling so frequently expressed by so rn.eiy members of the Court, as well as at the confi dence they placed in the Sheriffs, whilst so unexpectedly ' imprisoned by the House of Commons, for obedience to the laws, a due regard to the importance of the oath imposed upon them by their fellow-citizens, and the obligations they were under to them in redeeming the pledge to maintain inviolate the rights and privileges of the citizens of London, uphold its dignity, and upon re tiring, surrender into the hands of their successors the several trusts committed to their care unsullied and unimpaired.—(Cheers.) " I embrace," said the She riff, " the present opportunity also of stating to the Honourable Court, that, instead of being opposed to the rights and privileges of the House of Commons, I have ever been one of its firmest supporters, and whilst I am ready to concede to that Honourable House the power it possesses of incarceration whenever, a breach of privilege is committed, I claim to myself the right which I possess of obeying the dictates of my own conscience in supporting the established laws of the country, and in manifesting a consistent regard for the solemnity of an oath—(Cheers) —and I do feel that had I acted otherwise, I should have been guilty not only of a compromise of principle, but also of violat ing the oath and obligations I am under to my fellow citizens, nor could I have retired from office with the sa tisfaction I feel that I shall do in having upheld the dig nity of the law, and in so doing supporting the dignity of this Honourable Corporation."—(Cheers.) The testimonials, of which a description was given some time ago, and which were extremely beautiful, were executed by Mr. Metcalf Hopgood, of Bishopsgate street. They excited very great admiration. The Address of the Lard Mayor and the Answers of the Sheriffs were ordered to be entered on the Journals of the Court. NORMAL SCHOOLS FOR PROMOTING THE MORAL AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF THE POOR. Alderman Thomas WOOD presented petitions from Mr. Tooke, Mr. Samuel Gurney, Mr. F. Brewin, Mr. Joseph Foster, and others, high in the class of philan thropists, praying for the aid of the Corporation to esta blish a Normal School. The petition was read at length, and then referred to a Committee. TEIE PRINCESS AUGUSTA.--Her Royal High ness was in her 72d year, having been born on the Bth November, 1768. She wat, the sixth child and second daughter of George 111. and Queen Charlotte. The event of the Princess Augusta's birth gave the corpora. tion of the City of London an opportunity of approaching his Majesty George 111., which they did with a better grace than on some preceding occasions, steering clear of political animadversions, and confining themselves to the gratulations on the happy event, mingled with becoming loyalty—a circumstance which afforded the King great satisfaction, as was marked by the manner in which he received and answered their addresses at the levee. The sweet temper and amiable disposition of her Royal Highness, both in childhood and after-life, made her at all times a favourite with the various branches of the Royal Family; and during the unhappy differences which existed oetween George IV. and Queen Caroline. when the Prin. cess Royal was married to the King of Wirternberg, the Princess Augusta was called upon to preside with his Ma jesty at the levees and drawing-rooms. Within a few weeks of her death she presented all her domestics, who were much attached to her Royal Highness, with a copy of her lortrait, as the last acknowl e dg ment w hi ch she could make of their attentions. It is generally under stood that her Royal Highness made a will previously to her illness coming to the worst. The bulk of her pro perty the Princess has left to the children of the King of Hanover and the Duke of Cambridge ; and the remainder has been divided as legacies among her attendants and do mestics, not one of whom, it is said, has been omitted. Her Royal Highn ess a l so , a f ew days before her decease,' sent tokens of r emem b rance to all the branches of the Royal Family. NAPOLEON Al' ELBA.--The next Number of Mr. Colburn's United Service Journal, which will appear iin a few days, will contain, we understand, a complete narrative of the embarication and conveyance of Napoleon from Frejus to Elba, in the Undaunted frigate, with per. sonal anecdotes and opinions of the ex Emperor on the voyage, and during his residence on that island. This narrative, which is from the pen of Sir Thomas Usher, the Captain of the Undaunted, will fill up, perhaps, the only blank in the history of the most extraordinary mat. of modern times ; and must, therefore, prove highly accept. able, not only to the readers of the above excellent peri odical, but also to the public at large, more especially at the present moment, when the remains of Napoleon are about to be removed from St. Helena to Europe—th e theatre of his exploits. TITE CONSERVATIVE PRESS.—Four journals of stanch Tory politics in this county are now in the market. The proprietors of each have passed through the Gazette.—Preston Chronicle. The present year has witnessed the death of two of the oldest female members of the Aristocracy—th e vene rable Countess of Cork in her 93d, and the equally me _ rabic Counter , . of Dysart in her 96th year. MR. ALDERMAN HARMER. Yesterday a meeting of Liverymen, resident at the West End, was held at the Golden Cross Hotel, when the following resolution was passed unanimously : Resolved,—That, in the opinion of this meeting, the opposition to Mr. Alderman Harmer's election for Lord Mayor proceeds from political motives, and is contrary to the usual course of proceedings ; this meet ing is determined to exert themselves amongst their brother Liverymen to support by every means in their power that gentleman at the ensuing election. THE EARL OF CARDIGAN. TO 7'HE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—In your Paper of the 21st inst. you state that Lord Cardigan was dismissed from the army by the Court-martial held in Ireland, some years since. In this you are quite wrong ; had he been dismissed he could not have been brought into the 11th. All the state ments which have Lately appeared in the Papers are only intended to prejudge the public against his Lordship, which: is very unfair. Bristol, Sept. 24th, 1840. [The Signature is illegible.] Has our Correspondent forgotten the case of Sir Ro bert Wilson, who was dis:nissed from the army, restored by William the Fourth, and is now Colonel of the 15th Hussars, the very regiment from which Lord Brudenell was removed ? We had no intention to prejudge the public against his Lordship ; we gave, to the best of our belief, a correct description of the two parties, and our impression was that Lord Brudencll had been dis missed from the army. On referring, however, to the finding of the Court-martial, and to the order of the King in accordance with that verdiet,we perceive that his Lord ship was only removed from the command of the 15th Hussars. We will therefore give his Lordship the benefit of the difference, as thus expressed in his Majesty's com mands, which were ordered to be read at the head of every regiment in the army : " Although it would appear upon an attentive perusal of the whole proceedings, that some parts of the evi dence might reasonably bear a constru2tion less unfa vourable to the prosecutor than that which the Court htive thought it their duty to place upon them, yet upon a full consideration of the case, his Majesty has been pleased to order that Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Bru denell shall be removed from the command of the 15th Hussars." BLACK BOOK SYSTEM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Sin,—The strictures upon the black-book system, which is supposed to be carried on at the Horse Guards, copied into your paper from The Sun, call to my mind a precisely parallel instance of the grossest injustice acted upon in this University. Here, too, the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors keep a black book, which is handed down from year to year, and in which the veriest scandal, catered by any tell tale tradesman, informer, or " bull dog" to those digni taries, is duly registered and believed to be t rue. When the unfortunate victim of these libels applies for te.ti monials for his degree or for holy orders, the Right Re verend the Vice-Chancellor turns to Ledger A, page B, and shows him a host of these accusations, lodged against him perhaps two or three years back. He has no chance of rebutting them, as the proctor of that year is very likely " turned out to grass" in a snug living in Devonshire. And thus the sufferer by this paltry and disgraceful system goes through life with the uncom fortable feeling that his name is mixed up with all kinds of absurd charges, some of which he scarcely knor,•s of, and much less has had the opportunity of refuting. As I have observed you take a great interest in endeavour. ing to correct all abuses at Oxford, by admitting re marks from the head-quarters, I beg to ask, through the medium of your paper, whether the public does not say " non placer to such a system as this ?—I remain, &c., Oxford, Sept. 23. OXONIENSIS. TORYISM AT THE HORSE GUARDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. London, Sept. 23, 1840. SIR---The few friends the present executive at the Horse Guards have, usually fence any strictures on my Lord Hill's misgovernment there with—" His Lord ship is a most good-natured man, but his hands are tied." I will endeavour to undeceive you with reference to the nature of his Lordship's goodness. By a copy of a letter from a commanding officer, of no Tory interest, in favour of a most meritorious officer, the answer was, as is'usual in applications in favour of merit unaided by Tory mediation, viz.—" His Lordship regrets, &c. &c., he has not in his power" ( ?) The officer in whose behalf the accompanying appli cation was made is still a captain in his regimen!, and was most unjustifiably passed over on the removal of his regiment to India in 1835, because, forsooth, the Major, whose promotion to the extra Lieut.-Colonelcy on removal to India, and which would have made the vacancy, was of too brief a stAnding to " permit his Lord ship to recommend him." The consequence of which was, the promotion of the senior Captain (the subject of the following letter) was stopped. Had his Lordship compared his own services with those of the Captain, he would have found no great excess on his side—the one is now The Right Hon. General Lord Hill, G.C.B. G.C. Commander of the Forces, Colonel of the Royal Horse-Guards, Governor of Plymouth, a Commissioner of the Royal Military College, and of .the Royal Mili tary Asylum, Gold Stick in _Waiting, &c., &c., &c. And the other is, Captain Barnewell of the 9th Regt. of Infantry! I ! ! I am, with gratitude for your praiseworthy exposure of the shameful administration at the Horse-Guards, Your most obedient, humble servant, SAYE AND SEAL. (Copy.) Chinsurab, Bengal, Sept, 9, 1836. My Lord,—Entirely unsolicited I am induced to ad dress you in behalf of an old and meritorious officer, Captain Barnewell, senior of his rank in the regiment under my command, and to request that you will be pleased to bring his name under the notice of the Gene ral-Commanding-in-Chief, in the hop e th a t hi s L or d s hi p will be disposed ° favourably to regard his claims, and take an opportunity of rewarding his services, which have been of a character to obtain for him the approv ing testimonials of many general and other distinguished officers under whose oinervation his gallant conduct in the field, his zeal and intelligence have been conspicu ously and honourably displayed. Tue case of Captain Barnewell excites the more in terest, that he has that delicacy of feeling, so unob trusive and unpretending, as to claims, that he never makes mention of any, but gives his cheerful and unre mitting attention to all his duties, which he performs with the most scrupulous exactness. This officer obtained his first commission in the 45th Regiment, in July, 1807, and in the following year em barked with the force under his Grace the Duke of Wellington for the Peninsula, where for six years un interruptedly, until the peace, he shared in all the various and arduous services under the Commander. in -Chief, being present at " Roleia," " Vimiera," " Busaco," in the retreat of the army into Por tugal, the affairs of " Sabugal," and others, during Massena's retreat ; also at the battles of " Fuentes d'Onor," " first siege of Badajos," at the affair of " El Bodon," at the " siege and storming of Badajoz," the battles of " Salamanca," at the " surrender of Rsteiro at Madrid," and the retreat of the army from thence into Portugal, at the battle of " Vittoria," investment of " Painpeluna," battles of the " Pyrenees," " Nive," " Nivelle," and neighbourhood of " Bayonne," the affairs of " Vic Bygore" and " Tarbes," and at the battles of " Orthes" and " Toulouse." I have the honour to be, my Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient servant, (Si- a ned) J. M'CASKILL, Lt.-Col. commanding 9th Regt. of Foot To Major-General Lord Fitzroy Somerset, K.C.8., &e. &c., Military Secretary, Horse-Guards. BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL. THURSDAY EVENING.—The theatre last night was bril liantly attended, to witness and hear La Gazza Ladra, compressed into one act, and also La Prova d'un Opera Seria, similarly abridged. Such a concentration of talent was, perhaps, never before collected in Bir mingham. The performance this morning con sisted exclusively of The Messiah, and the interest excited exceeded that at all the previous performances. As early us 8 o'clock the doors of the hall were besieged by persons anxious lo obtain good seats, and, upon the opening of the hall, in an incredibly short space of time every unsecured seat was filled. Tickets were sold in many instances at double their, price, and some hundreds of persons, after toiling as well as paying for admission, were unable to get their heads within the walls of the building. Madame Durus has satisfactorily explained the mistake for which she was rebuked by the audience. The weather to-day has been again unfavourable, but the suc cess r.f the Festival is now placed b4ond doubt. REPRESENTATION OF MANCHESTER.—The report that Mr. Cobden ass to come forward as a candi date for the representation of Manchester has been contra dicted, at the same time it is said that an invitation has been given to Mr. Milner Gioson, on th:• part of the Re form Association, to visit Manchester, end explain his po litical sentiments to the electors. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Thursday were married at Slindon House, Sussex, the seat of Anne Countess of Newburgh, Miss Rosamond Clifford, a near relative of Lord Clifford, and of Sir Clifford Constable, Bart., of Buron• Constable, and niece of the late Cardi nal Weld, of Lulworth Castle, to Theophilus William Strachey, Esq., of the 29th regiment of Madras native infantry, nephew of Sir Henry Strachey, Bart., of Sutton Court, Somersetshire. The ceremony was performed in the chapel of Slindon House, amidst a number of the rela tives of both families. Immediately after the ceremony the happy couple proceeded to Bognor, from wlence they will sh or tly &part on a tour of visits to the north previous to their departure for India. The bride is distinguished, not only for her beauty, but for talents which have already given celebrity t) their possessor. EVIINING COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAIj Their Serene Highnesses the Princes of .Hoheniohe Schiliingsfurst, returned t° the Castle yesterday evenin ,, to dinner. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by S . ir , Edward Bowater, left the Castle at ha lf- p ast ten o'clock this morning for town, and returned about three o'clock to the Castle. The Hon. C. N. Murray arrived at the Code thisnf terTheno. on Royal dinner party this cvedn will eon.sist only of the visitors and Royal suite at the Castle. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended Wu Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, arrived i n to w° yesterday morning from Witinter Castle, and pa id visit of condolence to the Duchess of Gloucester! 0, Gloucester House. His Royal Highness also her M,,jcsty the Queen Dowager at Marlboroogl House, and their Royal Highnesses the DukeS Sussex and Cambridge at Clarence House, St. Jam es e i Prince Albert, attended by Sir E. Bowater , retura to Windsor Castle hi the afternoon. The Duchess of Gloucester visited her Mole st, ' Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough Ti oustbe e' 0 , The Dukes of Sussex and Cambridge acendeciAYtebo terday at Clarence House, and afterwards vilit e " - Queen Dowager at Marlborough House. tp The Hon. Charles Augustus Murray arrived to „ yesterday from the Continent. too Despatches from the Governor of South • --5 t he and New Zealand were received yesterday at - visited. Colonial Office. *Jeo cd Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence has left the res l of the I .rl of Mayo, Palmerston House, Oa visis - t 41 the Earl of Wilton. CLERICAL IN TELLIGIiNC' PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.--.The Pe'bas LiN‘nsilale, M.A., Chaplain to the Brentford been elected Head Master of the St. George. il an- pir square, Commercial School, in connection with the cesan Board of Education. a tea The Rev. George Browne, IVLA , has been p re e o by the Lord Chancell o r t o the vicarage of Leer; $f Nottingham, void by th e d ea th o f the late Pe ' . Cresswell, M.A. , e s'if The Rev. P. C. Nich o l son , C ura t e of St. Je i sl, Leeds, has been pr esen t e d to t h e i ncu mbency jt fig James's, Mytholnaroyd, near Hebden-bridg e r parish of Halifax. job The 11.,:v, Charles Yate, B.D , Fellow of St;,.; io College, Cambridge, to the vicaracr. of ID u ltbe Spalding Moor, Yorkshire, vacant by° t h e death °. very Rev. Dr. Calvert. . of The Rev. Henry Nicholson Burrows, N."itioll Trinity College, Cambridge, and late Princip al ° t l , the College, to be one of the domestic chapito es - Duke of Sutherland. OBITL7 ev.—At his residence, Minster-1 1 ' ra ' l' r i g °; coin, after a painful illness, aged 33, the Re; ~ c6 „ l. , Barton, Clerk, A.M., of Brasennose College, tiff At his curacy, Rusper, Sussex, in his 41st Yet,.' jab Rev. Thomas Smith, M.A., eldest son of 'lliornai Esq., of Saffron Walden, Essex. ite g At his residence in Union-place, New -ready Park, the Rev. Thomas Cricklow y 6 e11 . . Suddenly, at Dover, the R ev . Charles Pal mer. ithe Aged 22, the Rev. W. Hopper, B.A curate is parish church, Bowden,Yorkshire.e. e , tb . In Dublin, of consumpti on in the prime 0 ' Rev. D. Woods, M.A. SPORTING INTELLIGENC°. TA TT E RSAL L'S—YEsTERDAY . , no b eS There were but f ew mem b ers p resen t, aud, owl ° made viz. :25 to 1 agst Sir Hans. LIVERPOOL AUTUMN 3f;EETIN G. WEDN LSDAY, r t wo-1 4 The Eglintou Stakes of 50 sovs. h ft. ; 1 ,1. Y. old colts, Bat 71b; and fillle s , B s t bib. ' (3 Subs.) Joel) 0 Mr. Fowler's eh c Sunfimer ........ . ........... (` Lord Eglinton's eh c iamiel ................•••••••... 4 to 1 on Zsmiel, who was beaten easily by 1 lef,°lo (1, The Palatine Stakes with 200 added by the Members of the P la° for all ages. Two miles. (34 Subs.) 131 6 Lord Chesterfield's b h Prizeflower (h b) 6 Y rs ,'l l b . Lord Eglinton's hr h St. Bennett, 6 yrs, bit ......... . sst 3 16 ...... 0 (Handicap) of 25 soh eae.u. Mr. Pease's eh c The Lord Mayor, 4 yrs. Lord Miltown's m Cruiskeen, 6 yrs, Bst 21/) .... 0 Mr. Herbert's b c Clarion, 4 yrs, Bst 11b. ............... 0 Mr.. Goodman's b g Pi c k w i c k 6 yrs, 7s'. 131 " ........... 0 Mr. Lynn nd b f Orelia, 4 yrs, 7st 6I 1 .) ......... ... ... 0 Mr. Loy's b c Ararat, 4 yrs, 7st 51 1 ., ..... • ............... 0 Mr. Graydon's hr c Roscius, 4 yr:„ 7st ....•.... .... ...... Mr. J. Osborne's ch c Little 3 Y/ 5 ."" &UM . 21 ./0 r Ot. &tting-5 to 2 agst Pri z•ctower P , ' 4to I I g - d di 6 to 1 agst Clarion, 6 to 1 agst Orelia, 10 t o 6 1- Bennett, and 10 to 1 ags".. the Lord Mayor. the running to the first t urn , w h ere Prizeflowe r niese and, after a fine race, with St. Bennett from tits won by half a length. Nothing near the first thre e. Me.teh for tool., h ft. T. Y. C. AØr Lord Zetlatal's f Diavolina, Bst (Nat), b e at bolo ley's b c Sybarite. 6t04 on Diavolina. Won by a length. The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sous. each, with 6 0"•je for three yrs ofd colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Sat 5 1 h', and three quart er s. (9 S u b s .) . ) Sir R. W. Bulkelcy' s b c , by Physician (Dillisf. Mr. Palmer's br c Priamu s , by . Priain ..................... Mr. Fowle.l's br c Mogul, by S aracen ••••• 7 to 4 on the bay colt, which made all the rulolo°- won easily by a length. 50 bl The SAling Stakes of 10 soya. each, h ft, witt in g,' t° - The second horse to receive 10L, and the p ub s.) 1 sold for 2001. Mile-and-a-half, heats. ( 7 0 I dr Mr. Langshaw's be by Muley, 3 yrs, 7st 21b 4 0 Lord Eglinton's ch f Amulet, 3 yrs, Est 13Ib 1 3 dr Mr. Mciltiam's hl c Bushranger, 3 yrs, 7st 21b 6 4 dr Mr. Osborne's b f Anna, 3 yrs, 6st I3lb 3 dr Sir R. Bulkeley's br f, by Birdcatcber, 3Y' 2 the lush° In consequence of e t c h o e n d b a w d a s s a t a t dead f h t e h a e t . vr e a morning the attenance was small. BEDFORD RACES—WEDNEsD AY 'oiIer• Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Thr e ti e c oers) $ Mr. Beresl Jr d' s B G b P ee l , 3 yrs, 7st 111 b (S' i` °' .. .• Duke of Gr a f ton ' s Currency, 3 yrs, 7st 1 115 " '''' " 4 Mr. Booth's Isabella, 5 yrs, 9st 9112 ....................... • g Mr. Garrard' s D rome d ary, 3 yrs , 7st 111 b., ..... .. • di/ • Mr. Hussey's ch g Harkaway, 6 yrs, lOst ........... Mr. Coleman' s C ar l os , 3 y rs , 7 st 111 b ............... j. Ja e ' Won easy. „ 201. The Two-yrs-old Stakes of 10 sous . each, w"- h 1 Three-quarters of a mile. (6 Su b t ... ." $ O Duke of Bedford' s Si s t er t o Ki ng of the P" ...... ." Mr. .. Williams's Anvil, B s t 71b .......................... Ilimore's Finis, Sat 71b ........................ Won by a neck. The Duke of Bedford' s Purse of 501., for tbr 1 Once round and a distance. a c gelli Mr. Key's b f Marialva, Bat 41b ............ (S. " .„.•• 5 Duke of Bedford's f Billow, Bst 41b. ......••••"'' , ,. .••''' 4 Mr. Coleman's Carlos, Bst 71b.........•....... ....... Mr. Kingston's Fug!email, Sat Mr. Shelley's Hellespont, Bst 71b.. ................... Won easy. s , to 191 The Woburn St a ke s o f 10 sous , eac h. He st 9r (8 Subs.) ill , 1 1 $ Lord Sandwi c h' s f Grasshopper, 3 yrs, 6.t 5 g 3 Mr. Kingston's Appleton Lass, 4 yrs, 7st 1 31 " 6 Mr. Higgins's Clernithes, 4yrs, Bst 21b ......... g u' Mr. Booth's Isabella, 5 yrs, B s t 111 b •••••• ... .... 3 i c o . Mr. Hussey's ch g H ar k away, 6 yrs , 9st 2 1 u "‘ 4 ' Mr. Tollemache's Chemist, 5 yrs, 95t.......... Won very easily, f D I OSWESTRY RACE s......Tolg" t i s oill° - do • Sir W. NV. Wy nn ' s C up o f 50 / ., a dd e d to a A pee 15 soya, each, 10 ft, and 5 only if decla re "; . I and a half. (8 S u b s . s o f whom declared. /0400/ S Mr. T. Walter' s Ch an till y , 4 yrs, 7st 2.5•••0) ...... Mr. Pr:ce's Capt a i n P o p;, 5 yrs, Bst 21b .......... ... N''' Sir R. Hill nd Miss Fit . 550z?,_ 3 yrs, a feathe r •' 1,1 Won easysso ous; The Cavalry Race, one mile and a half' dierth Cornet Jones's Didim us , 4 y r s, beating three ° ft, s c c.• The Shropshire Stakes of 20 sous. each, h subs,...) 50 added. Mile and a half heats. ( 7 „ ; $ Mr. T. Walter's Chantilly, 4 yrs, 7st 41b .... ••' . dr Mr. Price's Lady Abbess, 4 yrs , E st 121 b • ....... ;dr Sir T. Stanley' s Marruaduke, 4 yrs, 6st 8 I b •• • ... The County Membe rs ' Rate of 50/, added half heel; 1 stakes of 5 sous. eac h, b ft. Mile an d 4 ) ;af dr Mr. Price's P r i nce Alb ert , 5 yrs .. ......... (° tB " . „ Mr. Corbett'. Jenny Jones, 4 yrs ................. Sir 'l'. Stanley's Apothecary, 4 yrs .............. RE DD ITCH RA CE S. —MOO it s od $ tli c ot The Cavalry Cup ; 12st each. Twice r uun . Mr. T. Holyoakes bl g Sir Harry .............. Adel. 0 04 The Unwell Stakes of 5 sous. each, wilco 40 0 . u . .. ic 0 r° winner to be sold for 1501., &c. ts, g° and a dis. (4 Subs.) 1 2 M M r r . . INyiiinlmtoolitt,s'sbor 2 dl Mr. Moss's b m Frailty, a l ' i Pa l u t r y stl , 7 i n y e3 r e s 'Y , r 5 83 s'Yt batr S s l 3 . 1 ! 1 . 1 )9.•......... .. .. j9k3 Mr. Page's b m Query, 5 yrs, 8A 91b ....... V A !, Tr A Match for 251. was won by Mr. Milwarcl.. t 7112. in list, beating Mr. Pratt's bl m Quicksilver, 1 ° . ' 0 , 0 11 0 0 The Hack Stakes, once round and a dis"bestingt two heats by Mr. Moss's Louisa, 4 yrs , l lst ' with others. , dlus' The Hurdle Race Sweepstakes of 3 segs• five ba r added. Once round and a dis., Ov er 1 (4 Subs.) 4 1 Mr. Davies's Barclay, 6 yrs, 12st. ................ 2 4 5 Mr. T. Holyoake's Si r Hairy, aged, I st 71134 3 3 clt Mr. Humphrey's br g Ploughboy. 6 yrs , 1I ,t 1 71 b 2 Mr. J. Wad!ow'sb n u Mary Woo - d, yrs, 11 3 .DEATII or LORD KENMURE.--J Viscount Keurnure, ln,l ---- L - ------ °lll Se G 0 r J o Ci t c il i : Peers e, died " e a,. r Lore .•,.,on the 21st instant, in his 91st 3 been fo Lord o ship's titles were restored in 1894, hav i "ais V ra A . felted by his grandfather, the sixth Viscount. .-- O ,b, Au illp married in 1781 Mi ss NI e. who di e d in la' o bey, by whom be had i or- , 3". db • hi s ner tbe r o no ssue. He is succeeded ) , :s bro Lieutenant Adam Gordon, U. N., eldest son of!" P oehinvar, itt Ow. iii. Adam Gordon, who died in 1806. . c hief RAILROAD PROMOTIONS. --M. Jallie"topett engineer of the Paris and Orleans Railroad,l4obeefogioecr a member of the Legion of Honour. M. Cl 3 r k „ e ,.'„ - e , of t b° for the mate: iel of the same line, and 1V1• De"':.. - - uo de r ' Ports et ChausNes, who have been ofeupied on t'" Tb ° taking, have also received. decoraticns a the 0 , 4 er '61 Il i° t. first CIO latter gentleman has aLT. been raised to ta --- '' grade in the Ponts et Chaussetr.