The Sun. — London, England, 1840-10-28 00:00:00

Zhe itax. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1840. Si ncAe h av e the discussions on railway accidents began it IN repeatedly insisted on the propriety, which to b e ee, obvious, of not allowing the engine -drivers b Y .Each driver should be accompanied 4 f i tte s"er to assist him, or supply his place in case l ' e ltt If the example of stage-coaches be urged, which have only one driver, we must remind the readcr that generally there is a passenger on the box b) the side of the coachman, capable, for a short time, of supplying his place in case of acci dents. Moreover, coaches run on common roads, and it is very rarely that somebody is not at hand to whom a coachman can apply for help if he need it, or who will not be ready to stop the coach if an ac cident happen to him. A coach on the common road is partially under the control of the passengers and of persons on the road ; but a railway carriage, moving on a road which it is almost certain death to approach, is wholly, as it launches forward with lightning speed, beyond the reach of either passen gers or bye-standers. At the recent accident on the Great Western Railway, which has occasioned these remarks, Mr. BRUNEL, the engineer, saw, as the engine passed, that the steam had not been shut off, but he had no power to render the least assistance, or even to warn the people of their danger, much less to control or stop the carriage. These circum stances make a second engine driver indispensible with every machine, though a second coachman inay be dispensed with. At the same time it should be remembered that almost every long stage has a guard who can, in case of accident, supply the place of the coachman, or even remedy the consequences of his negligence. It appears from the evidence of JAMES GEORGE JAMES, that the engine-driver hi the case of the accident on Sunday morning, on the Great 'Wes tern, was a sober steady person, and was perfectly sober ,on the day in question. He gave proper directions to the stoker, as if he were, almost up to the time of the accident, fully alive to his duties. He omitted, however, to shut off the steam at the proper time. The stoker called to him, but re ceived no answer. The unfortunate man, there fore, was either overtaken by sleep, or had fallen into some kind of fit, and for the want of an assis tant or spare driver, his own life and the life of the guard were sacrificed, the four passengers were in jured, and property was destroyed. This case forcibly illustrates the propriety of our recommen dation. A second or spare driver would have pre vented the accident. The Jury returned a verdict of accidental death, adding that no blame what ever could attach to the Great Western Railroad Company. Accidental the death was, but blame there also was. The Company was to blame for not guarding, and every Company is to blame which does not guard, against such accidents as this, by providing every one of its engine-drivers with a person to take his place in case of a misfortune or an accident happening to him. In the case of the South Western the Coroner was in fault for not provoking a thorough examination in to the Corn pany's regulations ; in the case . of the Great Wes tern the Jury were to blame for exonerating the Railway Company. If the public press, if Coro liars and Juries, will honestly and fearlessly and searchingly do their duty, the vast benefits of rail ways will not be much longer marred by either carelessness or cupidity. It ought to be remembered that one of the great advantages of railways—that of being completely the instruments of man's art—enhances the respon sibility of their proprietors and managers. A sudden shift of wind, a strong eddy current, a heavy squall, or a dead calm may render a ship wholly unmanageable, and she may drift on board another, or on rocks, or may founder, without blame being incurred by any human being. Horses, too, may, from natural causes, grow restive and unmanageable. A sudden noise, a sound with which they are not familiar, may terrify them, and they may run off and overturn a coach, in spite of the greatest precaution and the utmost skill. But railways and locomotive engines are little affected by storms, and not at all by currents; and the drivers are never mastered by animal power, excited to madness. The giant strength of steam can be guided and commanded by the arm of an infant. The whole contrivance including the motive power, from bringing the ore, of which the machines are made out of the mine, to raising the steam, and drag ing the train with astonishing rapidity to the end of the journey—is made by the hand of man,, and is under his control. A nail cannot he misplaced or loose, but somebody must have neglected his duty, and should be answerable for it. Though accidents may still occur on railways—for a driver maybe suddenly smitten with apoplexy—they ought to be much fewer than by any other mode of con veyance, and, consequently, Jurors cannot be too slow in returning verdicts of accidental death when life is lost by railway trains. It may have been by an unfortunate accident that the driver was afflicted with some disease at the moment, but it was by design that he was placed alone in a situa tion where his sudden illness caused his own death and that of another, and might have caused the death of a great number of persons. The Direc tors placed him in such a situation alone, and they very generally place a single driver to au engine which drags after it a hundred persons, and for such improper conduct the Directors are answerable to the public and the law. Let Jurors remember this, and do their duty accordingly. The very extraordinary language ascribed to Lord SANDON by the Manchester Conner, quoted in the Morning Herald of Monday, and to which we yesterday attracted attention, was carefully sup pressed, as well as all the speech made by the Noble Lord on proposing " The Church," by the other Tory Journals of the metropolis. Why they should be ashamed of it we cannot conjecture, for it is by far the most ingenious defence of the Church we have yet seen. The progress of the community in knowledge and in wealth has been very great. The Church--meaning the clergy, who so call themselves—has laboured most assidously to pre vent that progress. She has frowned on Mechanics' Institutions ; she has obstinately refused all educa tion, except under her control ; she has repelled science ; she has persecuted and prosecuted freedom of thought and freedom of speech. The free dom of the press is her bane. Freedom of trade she cannot abide. All knowledge and all wis dom are contained, according to her estimation, in the Thirty•nine Articles, and in the books in which she pretends to find the source of her mission and her power. In spite, however, of the Church, the community has gathered knowledge and wisdom from other sources; it has obtained a partial freedom of trade, and a partial freedom of the press ; freedom of thought she has been unable to control ; the domain of science has been extended and education enlarged, just as Catholic Emancipation and abolition of the Test Act were obtained—in spite of the Church. Now if, as Lord SANDON says, the two latter could only have been passed with our Church, and that they prove prodigious meritin her, the whole progress of so ciety may also be said to be her work. She has wanted the power, not the will, to arrest the course of society : the Catholic Church in Spain and Italy has had the power as well as the will, and consequently the weakness of the Church of Eng land, unable to prevent improvement, however much she may have desired it, is a great merit. Lord SANDON has, therefore, found the means to turn the faults and crimes of the Church into public benefits, and we are astonished that his most inge nious defence has not found favour in the eyes of our Tory brethren. We can see only one reason for their dis like of Lord SANDoN ' s language. He makes the merit of the Church consist in its impotency. She has been beneficial, according to him, because she has been unable to attain her ends. But they all speak of her weakness as her only defect. They want to strengthen her. They bawl daily for more Church. They insist on giving her more wealth and power, which, according to Lord SAN DON, would make her as dangerous to our com munity as the Roman Catholic Church has been to Italy and Spain. They do not like Lord SANDON'S speech, and they have suppressed it, because they want to make our Church as strong and as mischievous as the Papacy. We have taken care, however, to preserve the Noble Lord's defence of the Church, and to spread it far and wide. She struggled to keep the Dissenters and the Catholics bound in subserviency to her, and she caused, ac cording to Lord SANDON, the vast benefits she was unable to prevent. We were not before aware that the Noble Lord was such an extremely clever ,ersonage. Our Radical friend, Colonel PERRONET THOMPSON, has undertaken, through the medium of the Leicestershire Mercury, to make as clear as the characters in an old horn-hook to every clod hopp er i n t h e m idl a nd counties, all that is amiss in the Oriental policy of Lord P- ALMER , STON. This is a d u ty which the Gallant Colonel considers is imposed upon him by the dishonesty of the London press, among which he is unable to find a single Journal directly under Radical in fluence ; and perhaps he wishes the good folks of Leicester to believe that to them should the last appeal be made against any measure of foreign policy affecting the tranquillity of the world. Their position, their habits, their pursuits, and their studies, are all so pre-eminently favourable to the exercise of a sound judgment upon foreign politics, that they may, for aught we know to the contrary, conclude no empty compliment is intended in in voking them to determine the guilt or innocence of her MAJESTY'S Ministers in all that has transpired relative to the affairs of Turkey and Egypt. But as we have summoned the Gallant Colonel into court, we ate quite willing that he should be heard in his own person. His complaint, story, appeal, or whatever he pleases to call it, shall be told in his own words : " Tho old peril is upon us. Whether you know it or not, we are at this moment in that condition, where it depends on something like the falling of a die, whether the agitation, uncomfortable enough I dare say to some people, for further reforms in the political and social condition of the community, shall be superseded by in quiries how many French labourers have been killed by how many English, and the balance held out to us as something to burn tallow about, and give thanks in our cathedrals. " And perhaps you think that all this is coming upon us, in defiance of the exertions of the men that are at the helm of affairs ;—that they are as busy as sailors in a storm, doing everything that can keep them from being driven on this dangerous coast, and that if they ever come there, it will be by the act of God, and we may all recover of the underwriters. Nothing of the kind. They are all running down upon the peril with their eyes open, as if determined on trying whether the state ship or the rocks are hardest. You will hear nothing about it from the London daily press, because the Radicals have not a single daily paper that is not under other influence than theirs ; which only makes the obligation of the public greater to the independent men of the provincial press, who are not afraid to touch the question. " You are to go to war. Do you want to go to war ? Such of you as are militarily inclined can always 4 list.' But the rest of you, do you wish for a general war ? Will it better any of you either in substance or in prospect ? As far as I can recollect, the men of Lei cester did not look as if they could be persuaded to it." Before we can admit that The Sun is not wholly under Radical influence we must have a new and better authorized definition of .that distinctive term, than we profess a willingness to accept from the mouth of Colonel THOMPSON, veteran as he is in the ranks of Radicalism. If to assert to the utmost of our ability, the will of the people to be the only source of all legitimate power—if to contend for the right of all men to the untaxed freedom of religious belief and worship--if to lose no opportunity of maintaining the co-equality of the right of popular representation and taxation — if to fight for the abolition of Corn-laws and all other laws imposing restrictions upon trade at home, and commercial intercourse with other coun tries—if to seek to impress Parliament and the country with the justice of abolishing all abuses in the army and navy, and throwing open the door to the highest preferments in both to worth and valour, however humble in its origin —if to condeain sinecure and Court pensions for nominal services, and to insist upon placing the rights of the poor on a more sacred footing than the pretended privileges of a titled aristocracy— if to condemn all wars as ever burthensome to the people, and-disgraceful to humanity—and if, in addition to these things, never to be prevented from rebuking the faults of the people themselves, and recommending to them a sober, firm, bu t peaceable demeanour, a distrust of mere dema• gogues with paper charters, cut and dry in their pockets ;---if such acts, and such coun sels are indicative of a Daily Journal under Radical influence, then is The Sun a truly Radical Journal indeed. But, if by Radicalism is meant adhesion to any political doctrines which a junta of workmen, whether in Lon don or Leicester, may think proper to adopt as the articles of their creed—if by it be meant a resolution to carry into opemation, at all hazards to life, property, and the progress of improvement, some unfledged scheme of Government which is to carry us, one day or other, to the stars—if it be a thing on paper, beau- tiful to listen to when read, but unsuited to the genius and habits of the people for whom it is in tended—then is The Sun not under the influence of Radicalism, and we trust that it never shall be so. But this is self-explanatory and episodical, not un called for, perhaps, but still somewhat beside the question in hand. Return we, therefore, to the Gallant Colonel's charge against the Government. Colonel THOMPSON tells the people of Leicester in express terms that they are to go to war ; adding that from his recollection of their looks they don't much like it. This is somewhat of a left-handed compliment to the men of Leicester, but that is their affair, not our's. If the Gallant Colonel ha rangued them about war, and he observed them white in the gills, we doubt whether some of them will not imprecate the tenaciousness of his memory. He says there will be war ; he says, too, that Ministers wish it, notwithstanding their solemn disavowals of the fact. Here the Gallant Colonel and the Ministers are at issue. It is, a question of personal credibility,so far,between Col. THOMPSON and Lord PALMERSTON. But as the Colonel is not so unreasonable as to expect to be believed here on his bare word, he gives, after COBBETT'S fashion, and exactly in COBBETT'S manner, the following version of the O r i en t a l contest A Sultan and a Pacha have quarrelled, in another quarter of the globe. The Sultan and the Pacha would have made up their difference long ago, but the English Ministry sent to them to say they should not be allowed to make up their difference, and that it should only be made up as the Holy Alliance chose. The English Ministry had been parties to an agreement between this Sultan and this Pacha ; which the Sultan broke. And then the English Ministers, instead of endeavouring to restore things to the footing they were on before, saw an opportunity for getting up a war, pushed on, as it would appear, by a mischievous aristo cratical agent they have at Constantinople, who dis likes the Pacha because he has been a good re former, and was • a grocer's son.' Here is let out the reason for the whole. It is to be one of the old-fashioned Holy Alliance wars to put down political improvement. The Pacha of Egypt has made his country safe and powerful, while Turkey is going to the dogs through misgovernment. Russia, who wants Turkey, wants the Pacha destroyed, be cause he is the only strong part of the Turkish empire left ; and, cunningly enough, she asks our Ministers to do it for her because he is • a grocer's son.' France, who was a party with the English Ministry to the first agreement between the Sultan and the Pacha and wil lingly consented to assist in stopping the Pacha, in case, after the convention had been broken, he had tried in his wrath to march to Constantinople, very properly takes it in dudgeon, that this agreement should have been afterwards turned into an agreement to put down the Pacha because he was not legitimate. Frenchmen cannot stand seeing people put down for want of legiti macy, if you can. They know that all the liberty of any kind they have or you, has come by resistance to this very thing which is called legitimacy. And out of all this, our Ministers are nursing a war with France." There are two ways of telling a story, and, with all personal respect for the Gallant Colonel, we hesitate not to say that he has here adopted the wrong one. The following version of it is rather more correct :—The vassal of an Empire whose integrity five of the greatest Powers in Europe deem essential to the peace of the world, by a series of ag gressions strips his master of the most valuable pro vinces of his dominions. Remonstrances are ad dressed to him in vain. Here under the pretext of suppressing heresy—there under pretence of punishing robbery, and exacting tribute to fill the Imperial exchequer, he contrives to carry on a constant and ruinous system of warfare, indirectly against the enemies of order, but in reality against the arms, his master. In s e lf-d e f ence , t h e S ULTAN i s con strainedp a K n o d nia tl b ie , ionntelyrfesraevnecse his o t Fr a nee, toafter take u battle of capital from destruction. A peace is agreed upon, but though kept in Syria by the vassal, it is broken everywhere else. The finest Turkish provinces on the confines of Bagdad, and the banks of the Tigris, are overrun ; the Holy Cities forcibly detained; and though actual war was not carried on in Syria, a system of underhand corruption and intimidation was established, the baneful influence of which extended from the mountains of Lebanon to the shores of the Bosphorus. The SULTAN was as zealous a Reformer as his vassal—he was even more SO ; but the influence of that vassal in Con stantinople was sufficient, by means of such tools as KHOSREW PACHA, the old Vizier, to neu tralize the most meritorious designs of the brave, liberal, but unfortunate IVIA HMUUD. When, therefore, before the battle of Nezib the SULTAN again took the field, he was only ostensibly the ag gressor. 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R; t et s p of t nl h em e _th,e ferocious attributes and amazing muscular, lg_ A z zest monarchs are displayed to the utmost au 'on ion One Shilling_.--- Ctde's of CORRESPONDENTS. a:ty of ~on the election of High Steward for the f or rs t ake ‘-ambridge concur with our own, but as our „ . _ . ...z oti)tbi. little interest in the contest, he will excuse us KtnL'i.l2,tg Isis letter. k ot t he rubheation ef the Evening Edition of THE SUN com rienued at 15 minutes after Three. uses i.fter - THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1840. provoked by the SULTAN. Colonel THOMPSON says that after the defeat at Nezib, the SULTAN and his vassal would have made up their quarrel if England would have let them. No doubt of it. But in what way ? They would have ex changed titles. MAIIMOUD and his heirs would have been declared the vassals of MEHEmET ALI. The Viceroy of EGYPT would have pro claimed himself the independent Sovereign of all his vast conquests, and the Osmanlis would have been suffered, as long as might suit the pleasure of Russia, to reign monarchs of Con stantinople and its vicinity for some twenty miles on . the Stamboul sh ore o f th e Bosphorus. In taking the part she did England never once thought of the obscurity of MEHEMET Am's origin. Whe ther he were the son of a " grocer" or the son of a King made no difference to her ; and indeed the his tory of British dominion in the East is not wanting in proofs that kings' sons have rarely met with more consideration than the offspring of castes less con siderable than the shop-keepers and tax-collectors of Albania. English statesmen are not such fools as not to know that ir.t a country where there is no hereditary aristocracy—where it is office that con fers rank, birth has no more to do with royalty than it has with the motion of the heavenly bodies. It is the mere cant of our deceiving and self-de ceived political astrologers, who assume to them selves the cognomen of Radicals par excellence. Had Colonel THOMPSON undertaken to con vince the people of Leicester that it would have been wiser on the part of our Government to have allowed MEHEMET ALL to seize the Ottoman throne, and reign himself in Constantinople, we would have felt no inclination to quarrel with him. It may be that the dynasty of the Osmaulis is worn out, though the fact cannot be supported by arguments drawn from the conduct of MAHMOUD and ARD-UL•MEDJID. But even in that case, the question did not rest for solution with England. France claims the merit, if such it be, of having saved Constantinople after the battles of Koniali and Nezib from the victorious arms of the VIGE ROY. Then there was Russia ready to pounce upon her prey, at the first approach of the PACHA. England had no choice in the adoption of her present policy, but either to consent to the division of Turkey between Russia and the PACHA, by remaining professedly neutral, or take the part which she has done. The only error of our Go verntnent was in signing the Treaty a little too pre cipitately—an error which, in wounding the self love of France, mainly contributed to the present isolated condition and menacing aspect of that Power. So much for the incorrectness of facts and views which we should have thought Colonel THOMPSON wholly incapable of entertaining, did we not know how apt a set of crochets are to run away with men's wits on questions much easier of clear comprehension than the oriental policy of the Four Powers. The solitary and chivalrous apologist of Lord CARDIGAN, with more zeal than discretion, has this morning given the direct lie to a respectable Contemporary, the Mighlon Heald, and states, as if from high authority, that the address of the Ad jutant-General to the officers of the 11th Hussars did not include a censure on the Noble Lord. We copied, (says the Post,) a few days ago from the Brighton Herald what purported to be a report of the address of the Adjutant• General to the officers of the 11th Hussars. We copied this article in pursuance of our esta blished and inflexible rule never to withhold from our readers anything that bears the semblance of informa tion upon an interesting subject. But we thought it our duty, at the same time, to warn them that some parts of this report ought to be received with suspicion. It is now in cur power to say positively and distinctly that this report of Sir John Macdonald's address, in so far as it included a censure of Lord Cardigan, was abso lutely and entirely false. The whole of the official document, published by permission of the Horse Guards, will be found in another part of The Sun, and our readers, on re ferring to it, will be able to judge for themselves, and say which of the two Journals is really chargeable with making statements " absolutely and entirely false." In the official paper, towards the conclusion, as our Provincial Contemporary as serted, Sir JOHN MACDONALD directed his re marks to the Commanding Officer, and said, " He must recollect that it is expected from him not only to exercise the military command over his regiment, but to give an example of moderation, temper, anti discretion ;" and in the next paragraph adds— " The General Commanding-in-Chief has parti cularly directed me to intimate to his Lordship that this course of conduct (moderation, temper, and discretion, of course) will lead to a far less fre quent reference to his Lordship and the authorities of the Horse Guards, from the 11th Hussars, than has been the case in the last months, and the result will be more creditable to the army." If this is not censure, we know not what is. Mo deration, temper, and discretion, will lead to a far less frequent reference to the Horse Guards, and the result be more creditable to the army. But there have been hosts of complaints and proceed ins little creditable to the army. Therefore, ac cording to Lord HILL, an example of moderation, temper, and discretion has not been shown by Lord CARDIGAN. No syllogism can be more precise or conclusive. We are quite sure, there fore, when our elegant Contemporary studies the document, he will be at no loss to discover to whom the phrase " absolutely and entirely false" ought to apply. We rejoice that this memorandum has been pub lished, because it places on record the conduct of the Horse Guards throughout the whole of these extraordinary and arbitrary proceedings. It pro claims that the regiment is in a state of disobe dience and insubordination, and leaves no doubt to whom all the melancholy and disgraceful results are to be attributed. We, therefore, cordially con cur with a Tory Contemporary, that the only alter native left to the Commanding Officer (not to screen the authorities at the Horse Guards, for that is impossible, but for:the discipline of the regi ment and his own peace), is to resign at once. With such a reproof staring him in the regimental orders, with the stern and ruinous sentence on Capt. REY NOLDS, now exciting the country from one end to the other, and with the triumph that the officers of the 11th Hussars have now ga ined over the Lieu tenant-Colonel, there can be ne ither th at mutual respect nor that cordial obedi ence and f riendship which ought to prevail among the officers of ev ery ° reaiment. The conduct of the authorities at the H orse Guards has been so bad throughout that it i s scarcely necessary to add a word in agg ravat i on ; yet we cannot help referring to a letter in another et: a roion a part of 'lle Sun, contrasting the mild and hum ane t h e warm friend and decisions of the Duke of YORK with that of Lo r d HILL in the case of Capt ain REYNOLDS. The Illustrious Duke, ofs an ex tenuation Captain protector ofjuni or of the offence, officers, admitted n dpiovn the c at case WooD, of the 11th Light Dragoons, the Prince Regent mitigated t h e sentence ~ in consideration of evidence and the previous good character of the prisoner." But n either the most irreproachable character, nor the most intolerable provocation, ' would be admitted by Lord HILL, Lord FITZROY • SOMERSET, and Sir `J OHN MACDONALD, as a REYNOLDS plea for mercy to Cap t ain. inary Express from Paris re ceived in Londonwe were enabled to anticipate the news brought by the ordinary arrival positive news be wanting,' By the Extraordinary taken towards the re-construction of the Cabinet, as M. GUEZOT only arrived in Paris from London of Monday's papers• But yesterday,i f No pooasdi t between the hours of one and two o'clock on Mon- , day afternoon. the vacuum left by it is..ampl,, I filled up with the surmises of Parisian letter-writers. One of these gentlemen addresses to the Times a jeremiad on the present prospect of a ffairs which is charitably in tended to prepare u s for all sorts of horrors, but at the same time properly and candidly reminding us that if we are for war we may now take the start of France. We q uote one paragraph from the letter of this firebrand: — And first, let me tell you candidly, if the interest of Great Britain be to disturb that settlement of European affairs Which took place so much to her benefit and lustre in 1815, slightly modified by what took place since 1830 —t o r i s k a general c onflagration which will necessarily end by the complete prostration of France and the still further aggrandizement“of Russia, or the exaltation of French democracy—if British councils are not already aware that the balance of Europe is on the eve of being I shaken to its foundation, let me tell you candidly that i the moment is come to cross the Rubicon ! France is not ready, materially ready ; her army is incomplete, her energies are not mustered, and it may be wise to dis dain her threats and to curb down her spirit. Have we not said again and again that howev€r the Tories may disguise it, they are mad for war. Can a more convincing proof of this be given than the detestable paragraph which we have just quoted, and which forms the staple of the first leading article in the Times of this morning ? The affectation of a zeal for peace is easily seen through, and we trust will be properly appreciated by the country. The Correspondent of the Herald talks more rationally, albeit he has nothing but surmises to communicate. His exact words are not given, but the Herald, in a leading article, thus sums up their import : Our Correspondent says that is very possible the Speech to be drawn up by Marshat Soult will be less pa&fic than that presented by M. Thiers to the King. M. Thiers, who meant war, or something approaching to it, was willing to use language which would win the Kit.g's favour, and not alarm the country too much ; while Marshal Soult and M. Guizot, who mean peace, and peace only, may safely indulge in a few bombastic expressions to satisfy public opinion, and place the King fairly before the Chambers. M. Thiers and his party will be the sufferers by this manoeuvre. For how can he stand up in the House as an ad vocate for war, when his rivals can show him his own moderate paragraph, and thus condemn him out of his own lips. Had M. Thiers resolutely stood out for his first paragraph, demanding an additional Icvy of 150,000 men, his position before the country would be much better than it now is. But he withdrew that passage to please Louis Philippe, and insisted only on a half bred paragraph, which was neither peace nor war, and which contained nothing but words. Therefore, our Correspondent argues that M. Thiers has been taken by surprise, as he can scarcely claim the sympathies of the violent part of the community, when his successors show that all he demanded was such a phrase as this:—" In guarding against the eventualities which might arise from the treaty of the 15th of July, we have taken such measures as the interests and ho nour of a great nation demanded." For ourselves, we have no new opinion to offei upon the French Ministerial crisis as it is called, neither have we any peculiar sources of information open to us whereby we might learn not the words but the thoughts of public men in France. We persist in regarding the prorogation of the Cham bers till the sth of November as most important in the way of quieting the public mind in France. The Post thinks that " it was only a necessary consequence of the non-arrival of M. GUIZOT in Paris on Sunday." But why was not M. GUIZOT in Paris on Sunday ? There was time enough for him to he there on that day, after receiving the Royal summons. But the KING wanted a pretext for proroguing the Chambers, and M. GUIZOT was courtier enough to supply it. He did wisely in so doing. The friends of peace owe him their gratitude for travelling so slowly. The miscellaneous news in the French Journals of Monday, and the Royal ordinance convoking the Chambers, will be found in another part of The Sun. The impression in the best-informed circles in Paris on Monday afternoon was, that SOULT would find no difficulty in forming a Cabinet, to sup port the pacific policy of the Court. THE RUSSIAN FLEET. We have received the following news in a letter from St. Petershurgh, dated Oct. 13 : " Tho Russian fleet of twenty-three sail, namely, nine ships of the line and fourteen frigates, is to sail to-morrow. Part of the ships will go to Copenhagen, and part to Plymouth, to await the course of events." This information, which we receive from the best authority, will excite some sensation. It is evident that Russia sends its fleet out of the Baltic that it may be able to make use of it during the winter, and that it may not be blocked up by the ice in the port of Cron stadt. This squadron may join that of the Black Sea, making together an effective force of thirty ships of the line, besides the frigates and smaller vessels. Its pre sence in the port of Plymouth is a menace suspended over us. And while this is passing the French Go vernment appears to yield. It should seem that on learning the sailing of the Russian filet the Government ought to re-inforce our squadron in the Mediterranean. It does just the con trary. If our information is correct, advantage is taken of the resignation of the Ministry to interrupt the armaments. Admiral Duperre, who was to command our squadron, will not repair to his post, and the fleet will be dispersed. What more could be done if it were intended to disarm us and expose us to an aggression?— Le Courrier Francais. BOURSE-PARIS, MONDAY, OCT. 26, HALF PAST TIIkEE.-The market has been brisk, and, under the it.fluence of the arrival of M. Guizot, and the postponement of the meeting of the Chambers, prices have improved. For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at 72f. 80e., advanced to 74f. 60e., and closed at 74f. 45e., a rise of If. 50c. The Five per Cents., from 1061. rose to 107 f. 40c., and closed at 1071. 30c., a rise of if. 20c. on Saturday's last quotation. For Money the Three per Cents. arc if. 40c., the Five per Cents. If. loc. higher. Some great houses aro said to have made large purchases. The Bank of France Shares are .501. better, the Laflitte Bank I,ooof, Shares 51. and the Bel gian Bank Shares 121 . .50c. The Belgian Five per Cents. have advanced 1 per cent., and the Three per Cents. 2f. 25c. For the. Account the latter 651. 25c., 66f. 75c. The Spanish Active is as on Saturday ; from 22 it advanced to 221, and dropped to close at 22. The Passive has not varied. Neapolitan Bonds 35c., and the Roman lif. higher. Railway Shares in general are better; the St. Germain 25f ; Versailles Left Bank 10f. ; the Orleans 51. The Versailles Right Bank closed as on Saturday. The Strasburg to Bale has dropped sf. t irst Highest Lowest Lass Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents 4 1 ,4 per Cents 9,, ... 91 ••• 93 — 9B 4 per Cents 9l 25 ... 91 50 ... 91 25 ~. 91 50 3 per CC111.3 ILPIs or trance 2875 —2OOO ~.2875 ... 2900 EA:lliac I:tank I,UOOt. Sh lOlO ...1070 ... 1010 ...MO us,ignas Bank 5 ;ser Cents ;a per Cents 65 ... 66 75 ... 65 ... 63 75 Sp.nii.sh Aclivc l'2 ... 22 1 .4 ... 22 ... ..::, Passive 5.!,G ••• 5.. y ... 5.i ... 51,1, - -- - • New Deferred 1',9 75 Ku ... 99 75 iOO Neapolitan Roman 9S 100 118 99% RAILWAY SHARES, St. Germain Versailles, It. B 3;.0 35U ... 345 350 L.B. Orleans . S.:asburs to Bale OB5 ... 355 ... M 7 LO ... 380 AUS'I'ItIAN FUNDS.—Vilirou, OCT. 17. rive per Cents. Metalliques • lO l l4 Four per Cents 97% Three p‘r Cents. _ Bank Sham; :506 ...Allgeotteitie Zcitung. Oct. :22 Some additional interestings news from the Eas will be found in another part of The Sun. ST. JEAN D'ACRE.—Mr. Wyld, of Charing-cross, has just published a small map of the town, fortifica tions, and bay of Acre. This is the strongest point on the coast of Syria, and as Ibrahim Paella has shut himself up in the place with a number of troops, there is every probability that he will make a determined resistance. This plan will, therefore, be found useful in reading the accounts of the operations along that part of the coast. ALDERMAN HARMER.—His friends, in deference to the wishes of the worthy Alderman, have relinquished the intention of a public dinner, but they have re solved that the occasion shall not pass without their presenting to him a distinct and especial mark of their es teem. Accordingly an active subscription has already commenced for the purchase of a piece of plate, to the acceptance of which the same objections cannot apply •as were, we must say too fastidiously, urged by the Alderman against a public dinner ; and therefore wo trust that every effort will be made by those who re spect public and private rectitude of action, to make the present worthy of the Livery of London, and of him whom they intend to honour. In this we recognise an auspicious promise that when the opportunity ar rives, the election of Alderman Harmer to that Chair, from which, to the disgrace of London, he was recently excluded, will obliterate the blot which the Livery has allowed hypocrisy and fraud to inflict upon its escutcheon. —Morning Advertiser. TILE " LONG VACATION."—The long vaca tion terminated on Saturday, though term does not begin until Monday next. All law proceedings bad slept from the 10th of August until Saturday, and on that day the lawyers and their clerks seemed roused from their lethargy —they rejoiced in putting the law in force against those who, in their opinion, had treated their " services" of writs with silent contempt. All xas activity, and by this time a number of persons know that they bad not been " for gotten." In the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday there were no fewer than 792 declarations filed in actions in which the defendants had not appeared, and it is sup posed that as many were on that eventful day delivered to attorneys who bad entered •' appearances" for their clients. In the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer the num bers were equally large, so that a good deal of business may be expected for some time. From the 10th of August to the 24th of October a plaintiff can take no further step than the set vice of a copy of a writ, and a great many actions which would otherwise have been brought in the superior Courts arc for the cessation in those Courts brought in the Palace Court, which has jurisdiction within twelve miles from Whitehall, in which Court the proceed ings arc more expeditious, and cheaper than in the others. EASTERN LUXURY IN DRESS. -- Horace, speaking of Lucuilus (who had pillaged Asia. and first introduced Asiatic refinements among the Romans), says ;hat, some persons waited on him to request the loan of a hundred suits out of his wardrobe, for the Roman stage, he exclaimed.—" A hundred suits how is it possible for me to furnish such a number? However, I will look over them, and send you what I have." After some time he writes a note and tells them he had five thousand, to the whole or part of which they were welcome.—The Art of Needlework, ky the Countess of Wilton. THE LATE CONTEST FOR THE MAYORALTY. (FRONI A CORRESPONDENT.) Aldermen Johnson and Pirie's Committee, although they have been applied to, have not paid, nor is it likely they will, the expenses of the fittings-up, and other matters consequent upon the contest. I believe the Secondaries cannot proceed by action for th 3 reco very of the amount. Are you aware that Johnson, knowing his infirmity, would not consent to be put in nomination, unless S;r Peter Laurie and Alderman Wilson would sit for him at the Mansion -house on certain days of the week ? LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS Y ). LONDON, OCT. 28.—Wind this day at noon, light Southerly breeze and clear weather. DEAL, OCT. 27. —Wind W.—Put back the Lady Kilda, Argyle, for Glaphyra. Arrived .the Pigeon, frcm the Cape of Good Hope. STANGATE CREEK, OCT. 27.—Arrived the Conserva tive, *Lachlan, from Constantinople; and Bezalice p Hockin, Vostizza. DOVER, Oct.-27.--Off port the Elizabeth Antoaia, Vere, from Batavia P6RTSMOUTII, OCT. 27.—Wind W. N. W.—Arrived the Horatio packet, from Halifax. _ _ . - WEYMOUTH, OCT. 27.—Arrived the Viola, Langstaff, from Quebec. PLYNIOUTII, OCT. 27.—Wind W.N. W.—Arrived the Nestor, Smith, from Quebec. FALMOUTH, OCT. 26 —Wind W. to S. W., fresh breezes. —Arrived the William Ash, Morris's, from Miramichi. Sailed the Bragarag steamer, Lewis, for Vigo, &c. 05 port the Betsey Robertson, Christie, from Rio Janeiro, sailed the 17th August. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 27.—Wind N. W., fresh bretze.— Arrived the Persian, Ellington, from Calcutta ; Higgin son, Bombay; Britannia, Honduras; Cistemis, Kerry, Jamaica, sailed 27th August ; Wilsons, Stoup, Montreal; Francis the First, St. Joseph's ; England, Quebec ; St. Andrew, ditto; Oberon, ditto; Martha Harrison, Har wood, Newfoundland ; Samuel, St. John's, New Bruns wick; May, Brown, Africa; . Lord Ogilby, Morris, Smyrna; Pet, ditto; awl Effort, Cephalonia. MARGATE, OCT. 27.—Off port the Ann Elizabeth, Cockerel, from St. John's, New Brunswick. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals were small except of Irish Oats. Wheat mainta;ncd Monday's prices; Barley, Beans, and Peas, unvaried. The demand for Oats very limited; new par cels were difficult to quit, and the rates of Monday could not be easily obtained. Flour as last reported. NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL. There was a very good supply at market, ►radc dull, and prices without alteration. Prices were study for nearly all descriptions of Poultry and Game ; trade inactive, and the supplies to a fair extent ; CUffS at former rates. EVENING EDITION. COLONIAL MARKET. There was little life in the market, the private sales were on a small scale, and the auctions were of little mo ment ; prices, however, were firm for all the principal ar ticles. The arrivals were small from all quarters, and the number of vessels off the coast trivial. TEA MARKET. The biddings were languid at the public bales, and only a small part of that offered was disposed of at rather lower rates. The speculative market was dull, and Company's Congou offered at 2s. 3d. money. TALLOW MARKET. The Market in a dull state, and prices on the decline. 51s. 3d. to 51s. Gd. was the nearest quotation on the spot, and Ms. 3d. for delivery up to the end of the year. Large supplies arc near at hand. FRUIT MARKET. Currants in good demand, and in Raisins large pur chases have been made, The arrivals have been consider able during the last few days. Figs sold freely. METAL MARKET. _ The Market was dull for all articles, and prices lower for Iron and Lead ; Copper firm. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS• CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—The sales in Cotton to. day arc 3,500 to 4,000 bags, chiefly Ameri cans, without material chance in prices. LIVERPOOL SIIARE LlST.—Eastern Counties, 9 debs. 275. 6d. 30s ; Great Western, Fifth Shares, 6sl; Bir ming ham United ditto, 26; South Western, 50 : f. Our Market continues to show symptoms of improvement. THE FUNDS. Up to the present hour both the British and Foreign Markets are in a stagnant state. Consols, which left off yesterday at 87a for the Ac count, are a shade higher at present, and may be quoted at 87.1 1 4. for the Account; _stoney, 871 Money continues rather tight at the rate of 5 to 5 i per cent. In the House 4 per cent. Exchequer Bills 3 1 discount ; Bank Stock 160 162; India Stock 243 244. la the Foreign Market Spanish Active is the same as . _ _ _ it left off, 214 il, ; Deferred 101 i; Passive 51 i ; Portu guese 324 33 ; Three per Cents. 214 i-; Colombian 224 ; Brezilian 73 75 ; Danish 74 76 ; Chilian 48 50 ; Mexi can, 263 . - 27 ; Russian 109 111 ; Dutch Two-and-a. Il&lf per Cents. 501 ; Five per Ccrits. 95k. SHARES. —Great Western 12i 134 prem. ; London and Brighton 134 13 dis. ; Blackwall 41 dis. ; Birmingham 66 68 prem. ; Southampton 50 51 per share ; Croydon 101 :1 1 - per share ; Greenwich 6 7 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham 17 15 dis. We are very du'l in the City at present. PRICES OF SIIARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto Fifths . London and Blackwall North Midland - JOINT STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster .... .. 20 Union of London COURSE OF EXCHANGE--(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 5 I Gibraltar 4B Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 54 Genoa Antwerp ....... ....... 12 45 Milan Hamburg... ...... Al.B. 13 11 Venice 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 ?,0 Palermo, per oz 1224 Ditto, 3 months 25 55 Lisbon 5215 Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine ...1484 ' Bahia Petersburg, 3 Us 37 Buenos Ayres Berlin Vienna, effec. fl. 31‘1 lO 3 IPhiladelphia Trieste, ditto lO 4 I PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid 36 Portugal Gold Coin £0 0 0 Cadiz 36 Foreign Gold, bars 3 17 104 Bilboa Barcelona 36 New Dollars 0 4 11 Seville ... .. 36 Silver in Bars 0 5 0' HALF-PAST ONE. We have received a Price Current from the Cape of Good Hope of Aug. 14. Exchange on London—Bills on the Treasury, thirty days' sight, O f per cent, premium ; Private Bills, par, 11 premium ; on Holland, thirty days' sight, 18 pence the guilder. The French ship Le Cygne, from Granville, bound to the Mauritius, and Bourbon, with a cargo of 63 mules, and in want of forage and water, having, after dark, entered Table Bay, was stranded on Paurden Island, on August 8. The crew, during the night, saved themselves on a raft, with the exception of one man, drowned. The mules were all brought safe on shore. The vessel being new, and on her first voyage, hopes were entertained of her being got off. The late gales appear to have taken an extensive sweep, and to have done more damage than was at first supposed. Consols have been fluctuating during the morning, 87 at present 87/, with little doing, but the market appears firm ; Exchequer Bills 3 1 dis. ; India Boads 12 11 dia. ; India Stock, 244 ; Bank Stock 164. In the Foreign Market also very little doing►. Spanish Active 214 ; Portuguese 324 ; Colombian 221 ; Portu guese Three per Cents 212 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 504 I. Scarce any thing doing in the Share market. Great Western, fifths, .942; London and Blackwell 15 ; North Midland 77. THE REPORTED DEATH OF MR. SERGEANT bones, which there was no doubt belonged to white men. JACKSON.—The Cork Standard of Friday, and the Lime- It. was only by threats at last, after a lengthened in_ rick Chronicle of Saturday, mention a report circulating ter-course, that the natives bruught down three skulls, through Cork of the sudden death of Mr. Sergeant Jack- which they said were belonging to the white men. son; but at the same time state their inability either to Although they were unable to distinguish them, they deny or to corroborate it. We have reason to bel ieve that said that the y were the remains of two bodice sought for, the rumour has no foundation in fact, as the papers from and of another white man, of whose death no record had I: i v t e ys cl ea:s nCotr.pPrt.o bCaa'irltiielt enver, ofm more ee remains Favourite, existed fel t as ti received here to-day contain neither confirmation i b ih e „e e fi n c_d, p t r b e a se t of, or allusion to, tke rumour. TIIE AFRICAN LIONESS.—On Monday, per- t chan F ,. .. c ro o n f la ( n ) g t o a r . loved their fish-hooks too well to miss the San, oas, Wher s e e , ar s t u h r: obtaining there, by allowing a single bone to want to public advertisement, the celebrated African escape their t c h o e m n m s a e n t de sa r :l o f in ot ee t rs h: lioness, which had just arrived, per the Renshaw, Captain oti T heiided ves s elby the 1 Nuthall, from Mogadore, was said by Messrs. Southey and crew and Son, at Garraway's Co ffee-house, Chan g e-alle y. civet and o d deploredf her Majesty's vessel, .wept over by his rela- She was origin& • Ily a present from the Emperor of M the o - hear d by the thousands of Samoans who had. Gospel from his lips, the ashes of the venerated recce to Captain Rielly, the celebrated traveller, and was missionary Williams end his companion wore committed valued by him at 4,000 crowns (8,0001. British money), to the dust. and was sent to England in conse q uence of th at gentle- , man's death. So amiab le was her disposition that she [IVO LIVES LOST.—A melancholy and fatal was led about the str eets of Mogadore, and not - the accident occurred in connection with the works of the South Eastern Railway, on Friday evening , about seven s li g htest danger was apprehen ded, though the streets wer e very narrow. She was but three years old, and when at o'clock, by which two poor old sailors, named Sbillito and full growth would be the largest ever seen in England. Bayley, were unfortunately drowned. The two veteran She was sold for the freight home, m r , ye a t eas , wiih two lads, were engaged in transporting from Y ITIS) , of Cornhill) ultimately offered 50 guineas, • Dover. Harbour, in a small boat, bricks, &c., to the abave and it wasbeyon d knocked down to him.named works. When they bad go le a little way Shakspeart.'s Cliff, in the datknebs of the night, their tiny LARGE PROPERTY IN ABEY AN CE.--We have bark, which was heavily laden, struck on a rock, and in authority for stating, that a large reversion • +I ' u k The boys saved themselves by swimming, estate in Ica sten. s n . reversionary , once the property of an Irish family of but I ) h the acci dent happened only a few yards from tune, remains at this moment unclaimed eat rank and for- land,t rolu!c; neither s hillito nor Bayley were able to gain the cl , in one of the richest counties in the Sister Kin'eOtne of the bays, named Hall, on gaining the beach, g dom . The lands are tenanted under an order made bshore .nbark towards the spot where the boat sunk, and as authority. They were offered for r — s a u t l p resent l a com p etent s " i e s.e t d the other boy on shore. While doing this, it is said, no legal title to dispose of them could ebenot made e ng s t i . ne . c , l, b b o u u t B; ley, who was struggling in the water, laid hold of the the year 1683, two brothers named " Comnnaell,,o,uthe right- t boy Y flail, and had well-W gh Cragged him and his corn fel owners, possessed them. Theysuddenly left Irelandpinio n to the bottom ; but on Ilall using remonstrance and . under distressing (political) 1) circum stance, , .t o get free, he (Bayley) let go hi exertion lea with James the Second, as it was believed - The bath boys attained the shore. bodies of Bayley and at the tim e . Some 'ears after wards a descendant settled in Dum b artonshir e, )-1 Shillito have beer. found. whose o ff spring are still l• • in Scotland. This some - o Yeswunt Row Rajey Serkey, Bliu Row were were not connected with that now existinin Kerr who Wiitcl, M. Rangebur Bappoojee, P. L. De Monte, a•id 1 arc called " O'Connell," being descen de d also f rom ' a suite, from Bombay, accompanied by C • V .' • • Captain inters, venerable race, although not claiming royal, or even noble Secretary to the Legation, visited the extensive Glass ancestry. The crest of their unostentatious, but distin- i Works of Mr. Aps'ey Pellatt, in Holland-street, BI ack guished armorial bearings, was an humble Bee—the motto friars, yesterday, . and witnessed the various opera -" Non sibi." A Lieutenant of the same name, about , tions of G.ass.bio:•ing, Stearn-cutting, and Engraving, twenty ye ars p as t, l a id claim to these estates on returning with considerable interest. In the extensive show rooms from fo re i gn serv i ce , but he died suddenly, leaving no they particularly noticed the engraving of the Queen's issue. —Correspondent of the Scottish Standard. , plate, and other specimens of art. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Princo Albert, attended by Colonel Wylde, Ilon. C. A. Murray, and Captain Seymour, left the Castle this morning at te n o ' c l oc k, on a visit and shooting excursion to S:r Gore Ouseley. Royal Highncss returned between three and four o'clock. The Countess of Sandwich has arrived to day, and has succeeded the Dowager Lady Lyttelton as the Lady in Waiting on her Majesty. The Dowager Lady Lyttelton has taken her departure. The Earl of Lis towel arrived to-day, and has succeeded the Earl of Aboyne (who remains on a visit) as the Lord in Wait ing on her Majesty. Sir Frederick Swvin arrived to day, and has succeeded Sir Robert Otway as the Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. Sir Robert has left. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady C. Dundas, arrived this afternoon on a visit to the Queen. Her Majesty honoured Mr. Partridge with another sitting for her portrait to-day. The companion portrait of Prince Albert, for which his Royal Highness has honoured Mr. Partridge with a series of sittings, is nearly completed. The Marquis of Normanby is detained at his seat Mu!grave Castle, by severe indisposition. A PASSAGE AT ARMS. An exquisite comic interlude was enacted at the Dublin Conservative Society last Monday (the 19th). Mr. Butt was haranguing the club with much energy, to the effect that they must pronounce an opinion on Repeal. " I call on you," says he, " and not I ; your country calls on you," when just at that moment the maggot bit the redoubted Alderman Archer to interject, "The Trimmers call on us." The Trimmers ! They who have read history arc aware of what a sensation was created once upon a time, when " A was an Archer and shot at a frog ;" but the shock produced on this occasion was equal to anything of either ancient cr modern occurrence. The torrent of eloquence broke off in the middle ; a dread silence ensued— " The convocation gap'd, but could not speak ;" Each man stared by instinct, first at his neighbour, and then at the Alderman, who all the while sat chuckling and looking wise, as one proudly conscious of having made a very palpable hit. But Butt, the astonished Butt, at last confronted the offender. "Am I," said he with solemn intonation, "Am I a Trimmer?" The crisis was fearful ; one moment more, and the whole assembly would have been in an uproar; hut hap pily the Alderman (as kindred animals are said to see the wind), discerned the coming tornado, and with a pre sence of mind scarcely inferior to mother wit, stopped it before his antagonist could gather his wrath together. " I assure the Learned Gentleman," cried Alderma 1 Archer, " I did not mean anything." So soft an answer did the thing in a twinkling. Butt was mollified by it as soft as butter, yet not so as to suffer the interruption he had endured to go altogether un punished. On the contrary, he gave the worthy Alderman an extremely teat tap on the nuckles, which will be a warning to him how he throws in his expletives hereafter. " Let MC give one advice," quoth the professor, " to the worthy Alderman ; when next he means nothing, it w ul 1 be much better if he said nothing." This, as we have said, is neat—" mighty nate" Mr. Crawler' would call it—but the sentence is too severe ; for if Aldermen must keep saying nothing until they can put meaning into what they say, they may as well join the Trappists at once.—Chronicle CARLSRUHE, OCT. 18.—The exportation of horses is to be prohibited. HAT TON-GARDEN.—Yesterday, James Lilac ton, alias Shammas, was again placed at the bar before Mr. Combe, charged with the wilful murder of Mary Nichols. Thomas Saunders, of No. 2, Hampshire li yard, St. Giles's, stated that on Sunday night, the ISth instant, between nine and ten o'clock, he retired to rest, and, after being asleep two or three hours, he was awoke by the prisoner going up stabs and swearing at the de. eased, when he heard heavy blows and the deceased beg ging of the prisoner to leave off beating her, or he would murder her. Ellen Saunders, the wife of the last witness, corroborated his evidence. Grace Conn, a lodger in the ssmc house, proved having fund the deceased intoxicated en the above night, and assisting her to her room, when she left her in bed with an old woman named Ward. On the following morning witness saw her covered with blood and marks of violence, aad she was taken to the Middlesex Hospital, where she died on the following Wednesday. The prisoner requested witness to wash the mom, and the sheets, which were stained with blood. The deceased worn the gown (now produced) marked with blood on the same night. Further particulars of the case were given, but the substance of them has already appeared. The prisoner was fully committed to take his trial for the wilful murder of the deceased; and the whole of the witnesses already examined were bound to prosecute. HARVEST IN THE HIGHLANDS.—We be lieve we may now safely record the completion of harvest even on the latest si i ations. The weather during the present week has been dry and cold, with strong northerly gales, and corn which was only cut last week has been safely housed this. Our agricultural report next week will, we hope, be able to speak more authoritatively as to results. The turnips have swelled so finely during the last month, that in some situations they arc lifting and storing the early stilts in order to get the seed wheat put into the ground in its present fine state—an indication of the sea son which has seldom been experienced in this climate. Some few fields after potatoes have been sown, so that the breadth of the autumn sown wheat is likely to be greater than for many successive seasons by-past. DREADFUL STORM IN SHETLAND.—The gen tleman in whesz house I spent last night has lost no fewer than twelve of his tenants by the hurricane of last Wednes day night sc'nnight ; and his loss is comparative small. I visited a family yesterday, consisting of father, mother, and five daughters, whose sole livelihood depended on the ex ertions of the eldest brother, who with five others of the most able seamen of the whole island perished. In another house close by tha father and son have perished, leaving a large number of children in the most helpless condition. There are, indeed, fourteen whole families deprived of their lie Th ri e d s w , h a o nd l e c o a f s tand unprotected o Shetland ifull u ll of lamentation an and woo ; all mirth has deserted the islands ; the appearance of almost every countenance is totally different from what it was last week. The bravest seamen and the best fishers have lost all courage—they have no heart to ven ture to sea again, and no hope of success if they do. The storm of 1432, in which eighteen boats and upwards of 100 men were lost, was not at all so strong and terrible as this. When at Mosabank I lodged with a pout widow, whose husband and son left their house in a b.at, and, twenty minutes after their departure, were overtaken by a gale, perishing, with five others, in presence of the wife and family, but a short distance from their own door. In another place, at Buxta, the laird had four sons and a ne phew (a cle,g; man), uho, with the servant, all perished in crossing the sound in front of their house, while returning from a party of friends. But the havoc of the storm was by no meats confined to the sea, for the injury by land is of a very distressing nature. I was on Monday se'nnight over one of the islands of the west, where I saw whole fields of corn completely destroyed. You would have imagined that every e..,r had IK en purposely cut off by means of some par ticular instiument, for the whole field had precisely that appearance.—Letter in the Glasgow Reformer's Gazette. THE MISSIONARY WILLIAMS.—By private letters received from Australia it appears that her Ma jesty's ship Favourite, which sailed from Sydney on the Ist of February to search for the remains of the Missionaries Williams and Harris, has been successful in the object. The expedition was accompanied by Mr. Cunningham, the survivor of the massacre, attended by a Samoan chief, to act as interpreter. At the fatal Naputi Bav, in the island of Erumango, several natives attended the landing of the boats, who fled precipi tately, but being called to by the interpreters, returned, when a negotiation commenced. The natives said that but few bones remained, that two heads were at the west ef the bay, and a few bones to the east. Various temptations were offered to procure the whole, but these were ineffectual, the natives declaring they had made a feast of the bodies at the edge of the brook. and had cast away several of the bones into the lagoon. It was not their custom to pre serve any part on such occasions, except the arm and leg bones, of which they farmed tools and made fish hooks. The natives stated, however, that another tribe bad made an incursion upon them, and had taken away the whole or most of the clothes. By dint of presents the natives were at last induced to bring down to the beats some human