The Sun. — London, England, 1840-11-20 00:00:00

-EVEN ING ED L r ON r TO CORRESPONDENTS. Dili " Factor" state when the report of the case "'right v. Robinson appeared, and what particulars he wants/ MAP OF AT WAR WITH CHINA—WHERE I ' S CHINA ? VERY FEW CAN TELL. Tlte Sun Newspaper will soon answer the question 1 1 publishing a Beautiful, Large, and Highly Cor rect MAP of CHINA, with a Complete History of that Extensive Empire, and its Singular People. Tfl c. MAP will nearly occupy a page of The Sun. It iS got up under the special Superintendence of ,the celebrated Mr. JAMES WYLD, Geographer her MAJESTY the QUEEN. It comprehends • a lso a large portion of India, from the Mouths of the Ganges —the Islands in the Bay of Bengal— nirtnall—Assam—Thibet Nepaul —Cochin Chi " --Canton, and the immense Islands and S ays along the coast of China to PEKIN, situated One Hundred and Twenty Miles inland Th fr ° ll l the confines of the Yellow Sea. e next News from China is expected to be ex eeedingly interesting and decisive. The Island . . °f CHUSAN, the first point of attack by the Expedition, commands the great Bay of Nankin, fic nil which the Imperial Canal communicates with Pekin, the Capital of the Empire. Chusan . 18 about half way between Canton and Pekin. ORDERS FOR 1 "11IE CHINA SUN" " I ‘ T ay Ue given to all News-agents, or sent direct to the 8 61 Office, 112, Strand, London, where Pr°lll l 3l, attention will be paid to each communi .itati°4 in the order it is received, and the Paper forwarded. panics sending Orders should write their Ad. : tires &es distinctly, to prevent mistake. On former °cet sions several letters had been received with , cot eithe r Name or Address. to P rice of the CHINA SUN will only be Z IX PE NC E, which can be sent by post 4,1 1 No EXTRA Charge to Regular Sub .4etibers) who will receive their Papers in the (11811111 course. 14" Office, 112, Str,and, London, Nov. 11, 1840 4 %4, oR "ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. minutes after IL Evening 0 minutes after 0. • libileation of t e Evening Edition of THE Sur' rimmed at 10 minutes after Three. 4 , ---,- , ~....,„ ~ ~~; r .; Zin -:ul_7‘,. LONDON: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1840. , :t • 80 71 • 1 4 " M al* letters reach us complaining of the de •, . i ° delivering letters, that we earnestly and eeo -y request the attention of the Post-office hi 4lt herities t o th e su bj ec t. If they do not wish to t4 g discredit on the Penny postage scheme they 't devise some better plans of sorting, and more 41 4 4 ,4elivery o f th e l et t ers , t h an t h ose now i n use. tt ch London by s i x o ' c l oc k i n t h e morn eieg: 544 are n o t d e l ivere d t ill h a lf- past n i ne, ten, ' Or in the outskirts nearly twelve o'clock. A Vll i i . , : itt-dt tlY takes place in delivering the letters tie . s e o• rea c h ek London by the day mails, about one ' and which are not distributed so as to enable le tn th e l e a nswer them•by the out-going mails of te' L a ute e vening. G rea t complaints, too, continue I ke a 144 d e of the e ar ly hour at which the Post letierac,'Ees) and of the want of facility of sending , liei titett at a l ate r hour by only one p l ace b e i ng ap greet t 4 recei ve t h em . All t h e s e are f e lt to be o,T ectlv eoiences by the public, which the f tt authorities, for the sake of the revenue ' 4. e x i n /'° 't - efice, ought to remedy. It is quite 'f th e 4it in Political science that to spare the time % kiet Publ ie is to in crease th e w e alth of an active t efo ar id the revenue o f t h e S tate . d er' er i te the late great augmentat i on i n t h e num e'llli:tters, caused by the reduction of postage, * ere -1 " 18 of tardy d e li ver y i n th e me tropolis rot) m oron and justifi e d. Since then the ar ivety--te that were to h ave f ac ili tate d the de mode- moletters have either not been brought ar se ' or they have failed in their object. ci f'P tOO much unacquainted with the details a°yil:t-Office management to venture to suggest eire l4ll l4 °veinent, but we think we can point out the ! ta nee whi c h i s t h e ma i n cause o f t h e d e l ay m tolense population congregated in the Post ea di n@rstrict of the metropolis. It is nearly as leou vei n as the whole population of Lan c ashi r e, tit ng th e large towns of Manchester and e4t e e . ,i m ° l -. The endless d e l a y w hi c h wou ld b e ti p ett were all th e l etters f or M anc h ester an d to rt 11M °I, and the whole of Lancashire to be N on their arrival at Manchester instead of ig Sent down in bags for Manchester, Salford, t l .'erpee!, Bury, al d e ver y. ot h er town and village, t lits out on e great cause of the d e l ay i n distributing t i ttrs on their arrival in London. They are all 1 44 :ied to th e G enera l Past-office from all parts, i " f or . all parts of the metropolis, and th ere 4 ttd to be distributed. Salford is as close to h e . • t k i ie ,rmster as the Borough is to the City. To C 11 4,, another instance, Stroud, Rochester, and it ' k 141.11 , are one continuous town ; but there the P l s . 3t •office in each, a mail b ag f or e a ch, and all l loi t ett ers for the continuous train are not shot lat e r g ne heap at R oc h es t er . Th e p l an there kU eh d ing all the lett ers di rec t e d f or a m illi o n 4 4 ' 1 f it i k4alf of people, to one general office, so diffe .oes 41 the pra c ti ce a d opte d i n other cases, is , kid i !! the main cause o f t h e delay in sorting tL lkh e et Z et in them. or this could be obviated or not, by dividing ht ivi Metro i nto ten or twenty districts, an d M g 44ttjec lo cal post-office in each, ti lt lb 4 k rkew making those is fAlice i Courts n, as was . done a day or two ago of districts by the Gazette, and so the otih mg all -It le g persons to which they must direct '‘' lo Cr y pit e rlli and having the mail bags made up in tA t rt of the country for each of those districts, 4 4 c ompetent t o d ec id e; b ut we s h ou ld t hi n k tic 4 e I. N etro b °h som e suc h a pr i nc i ple of dividing ophai wo u ld f ac ili tate t h e delivery of let ' ~ rt t h e. , e ?nrse, means could easily be found to 'rt/ l'oli ß ; tte rs in each local post-o ffi ce of the me -1,4i1y 1 1 :r every part of the empire ; they could as est seta from such offices as from the General ith ‘`'tte th e and could be as easily deposited there 1: '41 41 0 4 1 . 11141 ill the mornin g o f the m a il s , an d i pa te a ., e: Ee sorted, and thence distributed. We 'Ni,lhteotion of following out this scheme into s,. We • only throw out the hint, leaving offi 11(4,,__'t if ii!4.l._equainted with the subject to follow it 7 1 .0 e, Worthy of notice, but assuring the a uthorities that there is a great and p ea i g ve d Of 1. re o e growing discontent with that part of tl'aeir manage ment to which we have adverted. We arc again obliged to the Morning Post for puffing into some notoriety another specimen of the silliness, or the absurdity, of the party which it daily helps down the steep of decay.. It quotes with approbation a passage from the new work of Mr. LOYOLA GLADSTONE, in which it is stated that " some," meaning the Priest and Pusevite patty, " look rather to a traditional than an ideal type,-and are deeply impressed with the conviction that in the oldest way of faith alone are truth and peace to be found." This party expects " felicity to be found," and is willing to coerce the multitude into its way of thinking, " in a patient and submis sive spirit (in the multitude, not in themselves,) assuming the line of ancient and positive revela tion, as the only competent guide of its future pro- gress." Now, what is meant by " ancient revelation," " oldest way of faith ?" Have there been scveraj revelations, and was the 'prentice hand of the Re vealer better than his master hand ? If the oldest be better than the latest revelation, then was this made in vain. To ascend from our own time, the latest revelation believed here is that of Christianity, which superseded the Mosaic, and Mr. GLAD STONE, preferring the most ancient, must in truth be a Hebrew. He repudiates CHRIST. He looks for national felicity to restoring the dominion of " the Lay; and the Prophets." Perhaps as he is known, by a certain speech in the House of Commons, to be intimately acquainted with Chinese modes of acting, and to approve of them, he prefers the Chinese ancient faith, which is much older, if their records are to be believed, than that of MOSES, and expects to make England happy by introducing here the creed of the tea and well-poisoners. Faith being at all times a sentiment of the mind, must bear the distinguishing characteristics of the mind at any period, and be in proportion to the know ledge of those who believe. Revelation was adapted to the condition of society, and was dif ferent on that account at the time of MOSES and at the time of CHRIST. The former, too, ex pressly adapted his teaching to his people. On this palpable principle the more savage and barba rous a nation, the more savage and barbarous its faith. But all nations, not even excepting the Is raelites, have gone through a regular process of ci vilization, beginning with barbarism, and the far ther back their history is traced, the more rude they appear. The Israelites preserve the tradition of a time when the use of metals was unknown, and fire was nut possessed. Of course, then, the more ancient the faith, the more absurd it must be. Now Mr. GLADSTONE, and we quote him as a type of the whole Tory Priest party, wants to substitute the most ancient and the most barbarous and savage faith for that which knowledge, time, and ages of imps ovement have now implanted and nourished in the heart and mind of man. Or suppose we confine ourselves to the Christian dispensation. Mr. GLADSTONE prefers, on this principle, the Protestantism of HENRY VIII. to that of the Dissenters ; that of the Papacy to Protestantism under HENRY VIII.; the faith of the primitive Christians to that of the, Papacy. Instead of adopting the faith, which an en lightened interpretation of events as well as doc trines has established—which experience has taught, Mr. GLADSTONE ; expects to make men happy, and place society at ease by preaching the coming of the Millenium. Poor classic Mr. GLAD STONE, how many followers will he have I We will back the mother of the new SHILoII against him, and JOHANNA SOUTIICOTE will beat him hollow. There is one point connected with ancient and modern faith which plausible superficial sentence grinders entirely overlook. All that is good in an cient faith or ancient knowledge has been incorpo rated into modern faith aid modern knowledge, and forms a part of the mind of society, or of our social existence. Whatever was really useful and true in the ancient faith was as certainly preserved as what was useful in ancient geometry. Those parts of it which have been found not good or ❑ot true—which have been ascertained to be unsuitable —have been cast out. The mind both of indivi duals, and, speaking generally, of mankind at large, is fed like the body, and like'it throws away much useless and noxious matter, that nevertheless was necessarily imbibed in the youth of both for the health and vigour of the system. Much of the knowledge acquired in youth, both by individuals and societies, is lost or forgotten as they grow old. This is a necessary part of the system. To cast out, in fact, is a necessary consequence of taking in, and one does not exist without the other. When Mr. GLADSTONE, therefore, and that sect of col lege-drilled writers—they do not deserve the name of thinkers, for they only write as other people have thought—ridicule and sneer at modern desires, and modern knowledge, and modern doctrines, they only prove that they are tremendously ignorant of what observation teaches, however learned they may be in the lore of tradition. Modern knowledge, the popular mind of society, contains and includes all chat is yet valuable in the ancient knowledge which Mr. GLADSTONE exclusively adopts. He, how ever, and the other chiffoniers of the Church, gather out of the common sewers the rags and the rubbish of knowledge which the opulence of modern society in- its progress has cast away, and, though they clothe themselves in the luxury of wealth, they insist that the gathered refuse is the only ma terial for clothing the mind of society. It is well known to those acquainted with the habits of the lower classes, that they are much ac customed, however rude their speech, kindly and affectionately to help one another when in distress. To a considerable extent the poor keep the poor. Those who are in extreme need receive help and relief from those who are barely above want. Out of the wages of the industrious when employed, many of the necessitous are maintained. Any thing which checks employment ani degrades wages not only brings more demands on the parish, but it sends forth a horde of paupers into the pub lic streets who have no parish, or refuse to go into the workhouse, to implore the public charity. So we arc inclined to account for the vast number of pitiable objects—very aged women, half-idiotic half-dressed men, young simpletons of girls, and ragged boys—who now infest the public streets, worse, we think, that at any time within our recol lection. Perhaps the number is increased by those who in the summer are scattered over the country, being forced by the inclement season to take refuge in towns ; but we believe the greater number is caused by the most wretched objects no longer being able to find amongst the working classes, by their present poverty and want of employment, that relief and support they obtained in happier times. We might see some compensation for this could we suppose that this extremity of distress would rid so ciety of the feeble and inefficient ; but the same sad process which extinguishes them degrades an addi tional number into their wretched and desperate condition. The distress that is chronicled in sta tistical returns, and appears in the Poor-rates, i s but the smallest portion of what is felt by society. There is a large portion of it below the reach of statistical returns and relieving officers, and in that pvtion all the pants of hunger and sorrow, of rags and bitter recollection, are now intensely felt. They 111 P LONDON, Fill fIA 1, NOVEMBFR 20, 1810. • on,. ! are not' shrieking fkb," and the Corn laws crushes 1 them out of existence, without a murmur being i directed against the real cause. The bread. tax Inot only degrades the labouring classes, and actually starves out of Existence the weak and the sickly of I the poor, it fills our streets at this moment with those hideous forms of wretchedness which conti nually remind us of Portugal or Italy. in another part of The Sun appears a " Letter to the People of England," &c., by the Rev. HENRY ERSKINE HEAD. Though we do not share Mr. HEAD'S opinions in the first part of the letter, favourable to the law-made Church, we much admire his observations on the danger to which it is exposed by the profession of a modified Papacy by many of its members. Other warn ings besides his have been given, but his im pressive warning will not, we tiust, be ne glected. The Church now boasts of several Reformers, and, though some may be more able, none, we believe, are more honest and more sin cere , than Mr. HEAD. His description of the avowed Papists and the disguised Papists of time Church of England is happy, and makes it quite clear that to all the priestly vices of the former the latter add consummate hypocrisy. Blow after blow, then, from without and within, now fall in rapid succession on the Church, reeling from its own intoxication; and though Mr. HEAD protests against its destruction, he will contribute to hasten it. The reform of such a body will come too late —its foundations are thoroughly rotten—no under pinning can keep it aloft ; and whenever it is se riously proposed to amend it, down it must tumble. It will be seen, from a report in another part of the paper, that Sir JAMES DUKE has come for ward as a candidate for the office of Alderman in Farringdorn Ward, and that he will contest it to the last with Mr. BUTTERWORTH, the Tory. It would indeed be a disgrace to the Liverimen in this district, so long represented in the Corm of Alder men by men of Liberal principles, if they were tamely to stand by, while one of that hypocritical party, that insulted them in raising a wicked cla mour against their late Alderman, quietly took possession of his place. The Times, by the impudence, of its assertions this morning, surp3ses itself. " The Conservatives have prosecuted the present Government to a con viction for offences beyond the reach of mercy," and, " there is scarcely a newspaper to be found amongst the various interests of the metropolis which ventures a word in their defence," are speci mens of its unshrinking boldness in making false statements. The only jury before which the Mi nisters have been prosecuted by the Conservatives is the House of Commons, and on every accusation there presented the verdict has been an honour able acquittal. On Sir J. YARDE BuLLER's motion at the beginning of the Ses sion, on Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S motion concerning China, the Conservatives were convicted of bringing false accusations. The abusive articles in the Times have carried complete conviction to the mind of the writer, and as he has accused, without ever noticing either the delence or the ac quittal, he has retained the false and the firm con viction that the Ministers were found guilty. lie is a memorable example of a person, not shut up in Bedlam, reasoning himself into a permanent delu sion., which he perpetually seeks to force on the public. The accusations of the Times have led, we ad mit, to a conviction—but it is of the Times itself. Over and over again it has been convicted of mak ing unfounded asseitions. On the question of the famous new instrument of war, it was convicted of an imposture ; while on the question of the number, size, and completeness of our ships, and of the number of their crews, it was convicted of fac tion and an endeavour unpatriotically to depreciate the navy. It dreams of conviction, and raves of conviction, for " offences beyond the reach of mercy," like asman betrayed by his own conscience, who intimates by one word, though applied to another, the harrowing feelings of his own breast. As to the other assertion, what need have the Ministers of defence ? The only part of their policy now questioned is war or peace, and on that point they are supported by the Conserva tives. They have no more zealous advocates than the ultra-Conservative Standard, and Sir R. PEEL'S organ, the Morning Post. The Times would fain find fault with their policy, but meeting with no sympathy from its party, though it began by scoffing, it ends by praise. If the Ministers have few or no defenders, it is because on this point they are not attacked. They are in opposition to their Radical supporters, who, however, arc now willing to believe that the Ministers are as desirous of preserving peace as themselves, and as resolute in preserving it, though they do not take the same view of the best means of attaining that end, as Sir W. MOLESWORTII and the friends of peace at Manchester. This is clear, too, whatever support they msy re ceive from the Press, is perfectly disinterested. During the anxious time the question of peace or war has been agitated, we cannot trace more than one single fact, one interesting announcement, which the Ministerial press has been made the vehicle of communicating to the public. The Foreign-office has kept all its secrets for itself. The Tory Herald, the Tory Post, and the Tory Times, have first obtained and published every document con cerning these interesting negotiations, except one, which has been laid before the public. Even the announcement that Lord PALMERSTON had signed a commercial treaty with General HA R 'moll as to Texas, so honourable to the Govern ment, was first communicated to the public by the journal which to-day calumniously says of the Ministers, that they have been convicted of offences which leave no hope of mercy. If they find any support from the public journals it is as perfectly disinterested as that which they re ceive from the Standard, the Post, and the Times, on the Franco-Syrian question. 'e have copied from the Liverpool Courier, an account of the wreck of the Lord Nelson, of Mil ford, in the vicinity of that vast emporium of trade, which painfully illustrates the disregard of human suffering which yet exists in some of our greatest and most enlightened hot-beds of commerce. The crew of the wrecked vessel, after being exposed for a whole night to the fury of a tempestons sea, lashed to the ringing of the only remaining mast, were providentially descried by the generous-hearted crew of a river boat, and after the most praise worthy exertions brought, more dead than alive, to the office of the Merchant Seamens' Society for Shipwrecked Mariners in Liverpool. The Se cretary of this institution, deeming the charge ex tra-official, or not being provided with instructions to meet such a case in the way dictated by hu manity, referred the perishing sufferers to the chari table consideration of' the agents at LLOYD'S. These gentlemen were of opinion that the ease came within the province of the Humane Society, and, however painful it might be to their feelin g s to forego the performance of a good wolk, th ey deemed it the most prudent course to refer them to the parish office. Unable to go further, a c oac h was here provided for them, and they were conveyed to the workhouse, where they at last found a tempo orary asylum. The Master of the wrecked vessel and his son, a mere lad of thirteen years of age, were almost in a state of utter insensibility when the workhouse door opened to receive them T. This sad narrative of human suffering on one side, and selfishness on the other, reflects great dis credit upon the mercantile community of Liverpool. That in a town which owes everything to com merce, the famishing crew of a vessel wrecked upon its coast should thus find every door closed against them but that of the workhouse, is a reflection distressingly humiliatitig. Explanations we shall have no doubt, from the persons at whose doors the perishing saiiors knocked in vain, all bearing tes timony to their unbounded charity, benevolence, alacrity in relievin g the distressed, and so forth ; but the only explanatio n which shall satisfy us is the adoption of some measure by the peopl2 of Liverpool for preventing the recurrence of an affair so disgraceful to a civilized, opulent, and Christian community ; and we trust that something more than empty praise will be awarded to the brave boatmen who saved the lives of the crew of the Lord Nelson. The conduct of these gallant fellows almost atones for the inhumanity of their fellow-townsmen. Up to the hour of ou going to press, the French Journals of Wednesday had not arrived. THE MARKETS: --(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. This week's arrivals hare been moderate of both Grain and Flour. The indifference which has lately been com plained of continues to be manifested by our millers, and, in consequence the Wlmat trade remains extremely dull, with a disposition to lower prices. In Barley, Beans, and Pease little doing. Oats held;firmly at Monday's terms, with a moderate demand. SMITHFIELD MARKET. The trade for Beef was good, tho supply being short, and a few good Scots fully realised ss. Mutton was much in demand, and good Downs went off readily. Calves were moderately supplied, and sold well. In Pork there was but little alteration. .13e4sti, 552; Sheep, 3,230; Pigs, 603 ; Calves, 152. Beef,3s. 4d. to 3s. 8 , 3.; prime, 4s. Bd. to ss. ; Mutton, 3s. 4d. to ss. ; Veal, 4s. 4d. to sg. Bd. ; Pork, 3s. Bd. to 5;. COLONIAL MARKET. The public sales went off heavily, and privately little bu siness was done either for home use or export, but in prices no variation of moment took place. The arrivals ke'p small from most parts, but_several ships are near at hand. - TEA MARKET . . The biddings at the public sales were languid, and only a small pact of that offered found buyers at easier rates. Company's Congou flat at 2s. 3%d. cash. TALLOW MARKET. Prices unsettled, and the market in a dull state, and the value of P. Y.C. on the spot was 475. 3d. to 475. tid., and for spring months 48s. to 48s. 3d. per cwt. FRUIT MARkET. The market was dull for both :2urrants and Raisins ; prices on the decline, the su;:i4lcs being small. COI T NTRYMARKETs. Wheat. ! 134rley. buts. 1"... se Per Quarter. I. s. to s. s. to lg. t. to s. t, to Bath Blandford —5B 6t 30 34 24 ..t• • 4.• Bridport 1;8 —j Chart! 56 66 ':8 32 22 24 44 48 Gloucester 56 64 • '33 37 20 t 8 4‘ . 1 50 Exe Guildford f 8 71 32 37 32 :36 46 AO Newbury —' 45 70 27 42 2 0 32 41 sfi Reading 48 76 j3l 42 t`..l 32 44 53 sdisbury 50 64 28 35 2,1 23 4. Shrrborne 54 62 30 36 22 30 42 50 SheptonMallet' :,2 65 80 40 20 26 40 5 0 Uxbridge 37 43 23 ... 1 8 WAnnifiSter - 6 60 31 43 : 32 48 56 Winchester 1 60 64 treovil 156 60 30 34 22 30 42 30 ••,. to • 41 54 48 52 48 51 40 4E 42 4t; 42 50 44 E 4 LEEDS CORN 51 ARKET.— Nov. 17. Wheat, Norfolk and Sufll,llc„ 6.01 b. ......................... 60s. to 10,1 ............. 5St. to 69- .1 355. to 33, ~... Barley. Yorkshire Norfo l k a ir t ai e dndL and Bil ul L ei ‘l i j i l' l ni c k. oll 6° ls l l i b i ; e -- Grinding . .......... 30g. to 22i. Beans 63lb. ............................ 42t. to 50'. 74: Oats, l'otatoe ........................................................ 252. to :?8. ." Meahng, For. --/1. to—d Eng. 12d. to 13R,d. pet St •ne shelling ' ,os. to 27e. pet load DEVIZES CORN MARKET Per Sack. s. d. I. d. Per Quarter, s. d. s. rt. iirst Wheat II 0 to :33 0 Oats... ......... . ... 'I 0 to 31 0 Second ;29 0 31 0 Beans (per sack)... ;1.) 0 ,1 S 0 Third darley II 0 42 6 Bread (per ga11 .)... j 3 0 MONEY and COMMERCIAL ii.EWS. CITY, TWELV.P, O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY. -- Th e sOes today are 2,500 bags, without change in prie es , all ,to the trade. LIVERPOOL SIIARE LIST, Nov. 19.—Eastern Coun ties, Dcbs., 3/. 16s. to 3/. 15s. ; Grand Junction Quar ter Shares, 52 ; Great Western, 80 ; Half Shares, 4G. ; Fifths, ; Liverpool and Manchester Quarter Shares, 42 ; London and Birmingham 32/. Shares, 45 ; North Midland, 7,4 ; North Union, 74. Extract of a letter from the Persian Gulf, received by the last arrival fro India The arrival of the CI - Ole:lel Binney With a full cargo from Calcutta, has cheered the drooping spirits of the merchants of Bushire. Our market has assumed a very lively and animated appearance, and our town is now filled with speculators from the interior of the country, who eagerly compete with each other in effecting their purchases of sugar, indigo , and sal-ammoniac. The prospect is certainly enc ourag i ng, an d we a ll ex pe c t to reap a handsome profit at th e en d. O se t hi ng I mus t let you into the knowledge of—the unusually tardy arrival of the Calcutta ships at our port has become a subject of general complaint with us all." BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, Nov. 17.—The news more or less disquieting from Paris on the march of events, has caused a slight fall in the Funds. Ardoin's Spanish was very animated, and several purchases were made for houses at Antwerp, neverthe less the prices receded ; after 'Chew hour they re mained at 221 5-16. THE FUNDS. The Belgian Loan contracted for by Messrs. Roths child and Co. of Paris, has been brought into the market, it is said, to the amount of 300,0001. for this country. The following arc the instalments to be paid 20 per cent on the 23d November. 16 do. do. 21st December. 20 do. do. 20th January. 20 do. do. 19th February. 20 do. do. 19th March. 96 issued at It is not known as yet at what price it has been con tracted for ; 4 per cent. will be charged upon those in stalments which are.not duly paid up at the periods above given. Some anxiety is felt in the City at the non-arriv a l of the President packet-ship from New York, which is sup posed to have sailed on the 2d inst. Consols which left off yesterday at 89i, buyers for Portugu ese , same the Account opened at 89 i -4-, both for Money and T une. E xc hequer Bills, 2 discount, p a r ; Bank St oc k , ; 59 160 ; India Stock , 238 24 0. In the Foreign Market little doing except i n S pan i sh Active, which left off at 23a i ; at present, 23a 1, 6i _ as Colombian,Deferred, tiie y lef l t 11 i elf, i as s 5; they Passive,36 T hree per; closed, 251 i ; Mexican, Cents., 22 1 03 ; ; Lot also 2 pe 9 r l C 3 e o nt ; s., B s r o a i zi s lia i n : F 74 ive 7 p s e SIIARES.—Great Western Railway,lB 19 prem. don and Brighton, 131 13 dis. ; 13Iackwall, 4.3. i I dig! . Birmingham, 72 74Soutlmpton, 52,0 631 ; 97 1' 1 17 8 ..a . u d _ o _ Half share ; CroYdon, !Ober share ; Greenwich, 6 is. 7 .• ; r Cents. Dutch per Share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 13 11 dig.- per We do not hear that that the Belgi c L oan ' bears a premium as yet. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. Bristol Paid. Per Share Bristol and Exeter 6O •••••• 344.. . • Great Western o o "- London and Brighton .. •.. . 84 London and South Western . t o 5- London and Croydon (Trunk) l3i ...... 11j..... to 3 JOINT STOCK BANKS. London Joint Stock ... ........ London and Westminster . ..• National of Ireland HALF -P aSr ONE. To the present hour we have no tidings eith er of New York. of the French mail , or the P resident from New York. The Belgian Loan, as yet, has not made much pro. gress in the market, owing -. t o the speculators being rather shy in the purchaseon account of the heavy instalments. During the course l of . a. the morning the -I 1, at presendt 4 .4 Pelt , premium was par, Consols have rather improve Ence the earlier part of the day, and may be quoted at 89-4- for, the Account ; Money the same, have been 89ii, Exch equer all 0 16 dis. • i n • s . par , 2 dis. ; India Bonds .2 p dm Stock 1 239 ; Bank Stock 160. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which was in the morning at 23, may be quoted at present 23i, Deferred 12 ; Portuguese, 36 ; Mexica n 291 . 1 1 , Co lombian 251 ; Belgian 974 9 8 97/ ; Dutch Two-and a. Half per Cent 54 1 ( 1. The Share Market rather improved ; Groat Western 84 ; Bristol and Exeter 34i ; London and Brighton 2Gi.; South Western 52.4. Money is at the rate of 4 per cent. in the House, out of it according to the quality of the paper. lvi:rtecontact with the Two PERSONS DROWNED.—On Saturday even ing last, between four and five o'clock, as three young t men be s ( e b v e e t r w a e i e n n a sixteen fishing floating 'down pier of Bewdley bridge, when the boat upset, and two of them were drowned. The other very narrowly escaped, being eventually saved by the activity of a boy and Mr. boat,and twenty,)ooy came John Lankester. The bodies of the two unfortunate youths had not been found when our account left Bewdley. —Worcester Chronicle. CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.) RAWSON V. SAMULL. Counsel concluded their argumercs in this CtiSe, which occupied the Court the whole of yeEterday, a: well as a Considerable portion of this day. The LORD CHANCELLOR postponed his judgment. ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. IRONMONGERS' COMPANY. The remakider of the day was consumed in hearing counsel in this case, which came before the Court upon an appeal from a decision of the Master of the Rolls, who dismissed the information with cots. The facts of the case were fully and aceuralely reported in The San wilco be fore the Rolls, and it is therefore unnecessary to repeat them now. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The Court resumed the hearing of motions. • HAWKE V. HEMP. Mr. Anbts moved that the defendant as executor, might be ordered to leave with his clerk in Court, the papers and documents ac'ruitted by his answer to be in his poAs,:es. sion, and also to pay into Court a suns of GOA, admitted by hint to be in his hands. Mr. Fot.t.ETT appeared for the executor, and stated that a course had been punated in this case, which he knew would meet with the stro»g disapprobation of the Court. The plaintiff was an annuitant entitled to fifteen shillings a..vireCk, charged upon the testator's property. The executor, by his answer, admitted that WV/. was in his hands, and that he also had certain deeds and papers. The plaintiff's solicitor had given two dis tinct notices of motion ; one for the production of the deeds and papers, and another for the payment of the money into Court ; whereas one notice would have an swered the purpose. The consequence was, that there bad been two notices of motion—two briefs and two appearances, and the costs of course would be double the amount they ought to have been. Had one no tice only been given the executor would have consented to the motion, but as that course had not been pursued he had thought proper to appear and to represent the circum stances to the Court. Mr. Anuns said that the extra costs which had been so grievously complained of could not be very great, for the " briefs" consisted only of one sheet each. The MASTER of the ROLLS observed that there had, however, been two briefs and two appearances, and he thought it was quite fit he should take such a course of proceedings. lie would make early an order upon the two notices, and that order should direct that any addi tional costs, occasioned by_the two notices, should be paid by the plaintiffs. • _ _ A leis- other motions, chiefly of cause, were disposed of, and the Court then proceeded with the cause of THE ATTORMRY—GENERAL V. TOR GOVERNORS OF wisißoßNlc. MINSTER GRAMMAR senooL. This was an information filed by the Attorney-Gc ncral on the certificate of the Charity Commisioners, praying that it mieht be declared that the whole of the tithes of the parish of Winsbourne- Minster ought to be applied to the charitable purposes mentioned. in the charter of Charles the First. The case was being opened by Mr. Pemberton when we went to press. We shall give a full i °port of it to-morrow. QUEEN'S BENCH..-(THIS DAY.) ( Sittings in Banco.) DOE DEII. GRAHAM V. lIkWKINS. The COURT gave judgment in this case, in which a rule fur a new trial bad bcen moved for by Mr. Sergeant Bompas, on a point reserved on tl;e mortmain. The Court granted the rule. • • COMPTON V. NUTT. In this case the COURT rchisecltherule for a new trial. WARNER v. COLTON. In this case, which was an action upon a bond for which the defendant pleaded payment, and obtained a verdict, a rule was obtained for a new trial in the course of last term. The COVET now gave judgment. The pica of the defendant was payment, and although the money happened to be the money of the Leamington Bank, yet it was paid as any other money would have been. The plail..tiW hav ing received the amount for which his bond we.s assigned, the Court saw no reason for disturbing the verdict.—Rule discharged. ENYS V. RENNETTS AND OTHERS. This was an action of trespass tried before Mr. Justice Coleridge, at the last Cornwall Assizes. The declaration charged the defendant with breaking and entering a cer tain close belonging to plaintiff, called Croft Walker. The pleai were first not guilty second, that the plaintiff was not possessed ; third, that Croft Walker was part and parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall, under which the defen dant held as lessee. After a trial of two days, the Jury found for the plaintiff, and a rule was subsequently ob tained by Mr. Sergeant Bompas for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection. Mr. ERIE was yesterday heard at some length against the rule, and the argument was resumed on the same side this morning, by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL. The details which related chiefly to the locality of Croft Walker, the property in dirpiste„ were of no public interest, and occu pied the Court the entire day. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice PATTESCN.) The' Court, aftor hearing mations of course proceeded to hear the arguments in the case the Queen v. the Jus tices of Middlesex, being a case of no public interest, re lating only to the validity of an order of Quarter Sessions for the removal of a pauper. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) The Court this day took the Special Paper. COWAN V. BROADWOOD. This was a demurrer to the plaintiff's replication. The action was brought upon a judgment obtained in a Scotch Court. The defendant pleaded that the judgment was improperly obtained ; the replication went to justify the proceedings, and upon hearing Mr. Ogle for the de fendant's demurrer thereto, the Court without `reference to the replication held that the plea was bad, and the judg ment must be taken to have been rightly given. Dernuirer disallowed, and judgment given for plaintiff. FOWER V. ANSELL. This was an action on a policy of an insurance. Mr. Sergeant CIIANNELL demurred to the declaration, and nobody appearing for the plaintiff, judgment was given for the defendant. ItINE (CLERK) V REYNOLDS (CLERK). This was an action of assumpsit to recover from the defendant the fees, &c., which he has received since 1 his induction into the living of St. James, in the town of Bury, of which the plaintiff claims to be the legal minister. The action is really brought to try whether the nomination to the office in question be in the Bishop of Ely, or in the Corporation of Bury. The case arises from the clause in the Municipal Reform Bill, which requires all Corporations to dispose of all rights of nomination which they might possess at the time of the passing of the Act, to benefices or preferments in the Church. The clause also provides that in the event of a vacancy occurring in any such bene fice or preferment, in the gift of the corporation, after the passing of the Act, and before the sale of such right of nomination, the Bishop of the diocese should fill up the vacancy. But a question in this case arises—is the office a benefice or preferment in the meaning of the Act? The facts are these. In the Church of St. James there arc two ministers totally independent of each other, the one called the " Reader " or " Curate," the other the " Lecturer" cr " Preacher," and they have been variously paid, ky fees, by Royal endowment, and by salary from the Corporation, in which is vested, by charter, the impropriation of the tithes of a monastery on the site 'ot this church, suppressed in the year 1680. , Since "1712, however, the reader has had no other remuneration than fees and Easter offerings, and it had been before, and has been since that time usual, on the appointment of a new reader, to bind him to the performance of certain duties, and to accept certain emoluments (different in different in stances), but the Corporation has only in one case, and then not without the concurrence of the Bishop, taken upon itself to remove one of those ministers. The issue here is whether the appointment of Mr. Rey nolds has not been in violation of the clause referred to in the Municipal Corporations Act. This case was called on at one o'clock, when Mr. Andrews, who was for the defendant, with Mr, Sergeant Bompas, applied to the Court to put off the hearing, as the latter was then speaking in the next Court, and he ( Mr. A) had not prepared himself, being excluded from leading in a new case by the late rule for closing the Court: He understood that Mr. Serjeant Bompas would not have concluded his observations in the 1 other Court within two hours.—( A laugh.) The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—Let him know that we can not delay the causes in the Special paper, and must go on without him. Perhaps-that will induce him to condense his important observations.—(A laugh.) Mr. Sergeant STEPHEN then proceeded to set forth the particulars, of which we have just given an outline), and to argue from authorities on ecclesiastical law, and from the history of this foundation, that the offices are benc h ces or ecclesiastical preferments in the meaning of the Municp al Corporations Act. He cited from Burns and ether writers on ecclesiastical law that a perpetual curacy is a benefice in ecclesiastical phra seology. A perpetual curate is a minister appointed by a lay impropriator in a parish in which there is no rector. A perpetual curate must be in priest's orders, and be licensed by the bishop; and is removable wily on the same grounds as a rector ; whereas, the assistant curate, under a spiritual rector, who must be licensed by the bishop, need only have rece;ved deacon's orders, and is removable at the will of the rector. There could be no question that a perpetual cure was a benefice ; but he believed it would be contended on the other side, that the minister of St. James, Bury, was not a perpetual curate, but only a sort of chaplain to the corporation, and no more needed the licence of the Bishop, than the chaplain of an Inn of Court, or of a nobleman. In rep'y to the Court, it was here stated that two cases of interference by the Bishop were admitted. Mr.:S(r„eant STEPHEN proceeded to argue that whatever might have been the fact, in law the license of the bishop was require& and the office was a perpetual cure, and the incumbent was not removable from the incumbency. But if the Court were not with him in this respect it was not eaereial to his case; for the minister of St. Joints migl t be what is ecclesiastically termed a " free curate," for he was the only minister in his parish, and had no spiritual superior there. If t h o minister were only the chaplain of the corperatio i, there would be no ( u e ( f souls in this parish. But, in fact, he was. to all intents and purposes, a parochial minister, and performed all the offices of such a minister in his own right, 'naming, bar tising, burying, and administering the Sacrament. The Learned Gentleman proceeded at length through the authorities on this point. (This case was not concluded when we went to press.) STRAWBERRIES.—Fine ripe strawberries, grown in the open air, were gathered last wee; in the garden of Mr. Dalby, of Linton-on.Wharie, which is rather a sin gular circumstance at this late season of the year. IVIAIILB;;ROUGH-STREET. DAY.) IV,n. Fenton, a man of very respectable appearance, was charged before Mr. Dyer, the presiding Magistrate, with stealing a promisscry note fur 50. 7 .., the property of the Stavmakcrs' 13cricfit Society. Police constable E division, stated that between eigi:t and eine.o'cloek last evening, the prisoner, in breathless haste, entcred the l'oiice station in Vine -street, Piccadilly, and sAid he cattle there on pin - pose to be taken into cus tody, as ho had stolen 1.;:e note in question, which he pro duced. lie was accordingly d e t a i r , c d . Mr. Wm. Woottco,seeretary to the Stay maker's Benefit Society, said last night the officers of the:Society were de positing some money in the st rong b ox when the prisoner contrived to take the promissory note in question out of it, unperceived by any person, and with which he instantly ran out of the room. Ile was afterwards found in custody at the station-house. The prisoner stated that he had done so for the purp:,se of bringing the case before the Magistrate, as the society had refued. him justice in sharing the funds. Mr. DYER said, that under all the circumstance; of the case the charge of felony could not be sustained. Ile should therefore discharge the prisoner. LLO VD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON. Nov. 20.—Wind this day at noon, a moderate breeze at W. N W. an 4 line. DEAL, Nov. 19.—Wind N. E., strong breczL—Sailed the outward bound. LIVELPOOI, Nov. 19.—Wind N. E., fresh.—Arrived the Glengarry, from Quebec. Sailed the outward bound. The Bransby, Been, from Newport to this port, is on shore at RavinglasF, cargo discharging. The Luna, from Leith, is on shore near Mockbeggar, and nearly full of w ater. HASTINGS, Nov. 19,—Off port. the Shannon, Taylor, from Quebec, with loss of boats, bulwarks, sails, &c. PoUTsatouTU, Nov. 19.-IYind E. N. E.—Sailed the outward bound. Off port, the Beet, Mitchell, Quebec. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 19.—Wind E.N. E., strong gales.— Put back, the Kerswell., Cover, for Demerara, with loss of boats, bulwarks, &c, It has blown a heavy gale at S.W. The Eliza, Purda.q, has boon obliged to run aground, under Lambuay Poira, after parting one anchor and slipping the other. FALmotiTn, Nov. 18. —Wind E. S. E. to W. S. W.— Sailed •-be Sheldrake packet, for Havannah, Belize, and ; Ranger packet, West Indies. The gale abated abcut ten last night, when it backed to E. S. E., and blew :.irong until one p.m. to-day, when it veered to W. S. W. MILFORD, Nov. 18 —lt has blown very hard all night at west. A large smack, supposed the I3oddle, of Pwll - is wrecked in Freshwater Bay. LYMINGTON, Nov. 19. —The Sir Bourchier Wray, from London to Lisbon, broke her hawser during the gale, 1 7th, drifted on the mud, and must be lightened to be got off. CORK, Nov. 17.—Arrived the Penelope, Foreman, from Honduras. Hum., Nov. 19.--\Sind N. N. E.—Arrived the George, Berridge, from Quebec. PORT TALBOT, Nov. IB.—A small part of the deck of a North American vessel was driven on shore at the entrance of the harbcur last night, supposed from the vessel wrecked near Bideford on the 9th instant. It is blowing a heavy gale at N. E. GRAVESEND, Nov. 19.—The Eleanor, Turney, bound to Barbadoes, has put back to the Lower Hope with loss of anchor and cable ; the Caroline, for Jamaica, lost anchor and cable, but proceeded. TILE BANK OF BURY.—This morning (Tues day), a rather serious disturbance took place at a house which has been lately erecied by the East of England Banking Company, at the corner of Chequer-square and Crown-street. Stones had been projected from the windows of the first floor for balconies; and the Paving Commissioners considering them to be encroachments, required them to be removed. This requisition not being complied with, workmen were sent this mora ing, under the Cemmissioners' orders, to remove them. The TACO employed in the building, however, posted therase;ives in the upper floor, and poured down upon the Cominiss4mers' men some grouting, or similar liquid, and thee,, began pelting them with bricks and pieces of timber-, by which several considerable wounds were in flicted. The men were at length obliged to leave the work, and returned the attack with a shower of brick-hats, which speedily cleared the rooms. Some gentlemen then interposed, and warned the men within of the legal conse quences which might ensue, after which the stones of the two windows projecting into Crown-street were removed without further resistance.—Bury Post. NARROW ESCAPE OF WORDSWOR.TII, TIIE POET. —On Wednesday afternoon last, between two and three o'clock, as William Wordsworth, Esq., the cele brated poet, in company with his son, the Rev. Jahn Wordsworth, rector of Brigham, were on their way home to Rydal- mount, from a visit to the Earl of Lonsdale, at Whitchaven Castle, they had a narrow escape from destruction. The venerable and highly-esteemed bard arid his worthy son were riding in a one-horse gig, and had just reached Ruffa-bridge, about three miles from Keswick, on the Ambleside.road, when they ob served the mail coach coaling upon them at a rattling pace. Owing to the sharp turn in the road at the top of the ascent which leads down to the bridge the mail could not be seen until within seventy or eighty yards of that dangerous place, but in the few moments' notice they had of its approach, the rev. gentleman succeeded in draw. in; his horse close up to the side of the road, which is very narrow, but, nevertheless, wide enough far the coach to have passed in safety under ordinary eiresmstances It unfortunately happened, however,-that the off side wheeler, which we arc told is in the habit of holding the bridle bit in his teeth, and resisting the utmost exertions of the driver, was, at the moment, of meeting indulging in this dangerous practice, arid refused to obey the rein. Owing to this circumstance the coach came with great violence against the gig, which it sent against the adjoining wall with such force that both the horse and the gig and the two riders were thrown, with part of the wall, into the adjoining plantation ! Fortunately the traces and shafts of the gig both broke near the body of the vehicle, which set the affrighted animal at liberty; and it no sooner gained its feet than it leaped over the broken wall, and, having regained the road, set off at a frightful pace, with the gig shafts attached to the harness. Such was the affrighted state of the horse, owing to the sudden shock it had received, an d t h e c l a tt er i ng o f the shafts sus pended by its side, that every attempt to step it was fruit less, and it dashed on at this furious pace for nearly nine miles, and was eventually stopped at the toll-bar entering Grassmere, by the owner closing the gate, which be dread ed the animal, notwithstanding his endeavours, would have attempted to leap. Bat to return to Mr. Wordsworth and his son, whose escape, under all the attendant circumstan ces, was truly providential. They were both found entirely unhurt : the only visible injury received by either from this dangerous collision was a slight scratch on the finger of the poet. We da not learn that the :slightest blame could be attributed to the driver of the conch, who did h:s utmost to bring the unmanageable animal under his control to the near side of the road. MR. JUSTICE NORTON.—One of the Demerara papers, received by the West India packet that arrived yesterday, says that in consequence of the Home Govern m nt having cancel!ed an order of the Governor of Deme rara relative to the exclusion of two British subjects, of Dwell origin, from the electoral college of the colony, Mr. Justice Norton, who advised the Governor to issue it, has resigned his appointment. At the ball for the benefit of the Poles on Tues day last, we were glad to see their oldest and stanchest friend, Mr. Thomas Campbell, author of " The Pleasures of Hope," though his name was omitted in the published recounts. lie has, perhaps, done more fur their cause than any other man in England, and we feared, from what we had heard, that illness might have kept him , away • . but it seems that in spite of cold and rheumatism he would not be absent, lest any notion should be encouraged that his zeal for the unfortunate Poles had in the slightest de gree abated. AWFUL AND STRIKING EVENT.—DING WALL. Nov. 22.—1 n consequence of the resignation and non-acceptance of several Councillors, the annual election of Magistrates for the Burgh was pestpoued till to day. The Council met at two o'clock, and the clergyman having offered up a prayer, the clerk was proceeding to swear in the new Councillors, when Bailie Chas. Stewart, the presiding Magistrate, was suddenly taken ill, and the meeting was, in consequence, thrown into great confusion and dismay. He was prevented from falling by Mr. Davidson of Tulloch, who Eat beside him, and others who rushed to his assistance, and medical aid having been promptly obtained, an attempt was made to bleed him, and restoratives applied, but in vain. In less than half an hour Mr. Stewart was stretched a lifeless corpse upon the Court-room table. The whole Councillors and others present immediately left the Court room, while the body of Mr. Stewart was conveyed to his own house. The deceased was a generous and kind hearted man, much and justly esteemed by his fellow townsmen He took a keen interest in every thieg con nected with the burgh and its affairs, and has been con nected with the Magistracy and Council of Dingnall for the last thirty-five years. After recovering from the ex citement thus occasioned, the Councillors—for there is now no Magistracy—met at five o'clock in the Caledonian Hotel, and resolved to adjourn the election of otlice-bearers for a fortnight. Thursday an inquest was held on the body of Mr. Swan, who on Wednesday morning threw himself out of window, breaking his ribs and occasioning other dread ful injuries, as already detailed in The suit."' He was a writer to the signet and Parliamentary agent. The cause of self-destruction was assigned to pressure of busi ness, and the Jury accordingly returned a verdict of " Tem porary insanity." As Mr. John Beddoe, jun., of this town, was proceeding with his father's vessel up the river early on Wednesday morning last, the vessel was met by another coming down 'the stream, and the concussion was such as to throw Mr. 13eddoe overboard ; and having a very heavy flannel frock on, and tho river being very rapid, he w a - s . seen no more. SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF ENGLAND. iecial int erest The children of the Sovereigns of England (says Clam belayne), are called the sons and daughte rs of Eegl'and: because all the subjects of England hav e a s honours, rents, and in them. The eldest son is born Duke of as t o that duchy, and all the l an d s is upon his birth ,Cornwall, and other revenues belonging there unte day presumed, and by law taken to ;ho be, of full age. He is afterwards created Prince of Wales, token of a cap of State was formerly performed by imposition and the investiture and coronet on his head, as a : putting into his hand a vergeod of principality, and he must be " husbandof gold, the emblem of Go vernment, and a ring of children." From the day his country and father t he i r s to " his finger, to intimate that of his birth the eldest child commonly styled Prince titles arc usually bestowedol Wales, and patent. Edward 11. was the first . upEnglishhimPrince who bore the dignity of Prince of N YCII Castle, April 23, 1814. Vales, and he was born in s other Curler nluerteerrsou EVENkNG PDITION% COURT CI}tCULAIt The Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buckin , ham Palace. • t, Prince Esterbazy, Ambassador Extraordinary, and Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of Austria, had an audience of her Mjesty upon his return after a tempo rary al,smce. His Excellency was introduced by Vis count Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's Principal Se cretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies. Her Majesty was attended by Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting. and Sir Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting. The Princess Sophi a Alwilda visited her Majesty, ycs: erday. Viscount Melbourne had an audience ycsterdayof thu Queen. 'Tie Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evening: included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Earl of Albemarle, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Lord Robert Grosvenor, and Baron de Stockmar. The Band of the second Regiment of Life Guards were in attendance during dinner, in the evening. Prince Esterhazy had en interview with his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, on his rat urn to this Court. His Excellency was presented Lry Viscount Palmerston. The Princess Sophia Matilda visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday. Prince Esterhazy, after having had an audience of her 'Majesty yesterday, went to Ingestre House, Bel grave-square, to pay his respects to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. Baron do Moncorvo, the Por tuguese Minister, also paid his respects to her Royal 11 ighness yesterday. A Deputation of Licensed V;ctuallers of the Tower Hamlets had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing-street, on the subject of the Window Duty. The deputation consisted of Messrs. J. J. Horner, Greggs, Bingley, Pritchard, Stevens, Dunn, and R. L. Jecks. Sir George Grey had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Downing -street. The Military Secretary to the Commander of the Forces and Mr. Watts had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office. THE LATE GENERAL STRATON.—OH :MOD day last the remains of the late Lieut.-General Sir Joseph Straton, of Kirkside, which had been brought here from London on Friday, were conveyed hence to the family vault in St. Cyrus lower churchyard, accompanied by a few of his private friends. The funeral was met at Kirk side by the whole of the Kirkside and Fiddes tenantry, with the factors on the estate. The General has died pos sessed of immense wealth, and, although we are not pos. sessed of minute information regarding his settlement, we think it displays ut once his characturistie discrimination and laudable anxiety to promote the best interests of the communities with which he was connected. To the Magistrates and two Kirk-sessions of Mouteose he has be queathed 7001. for the purpose of education; and to the former body 5001., to be divided amongst the various chari ties here, such as the Ladies' Clothing Society, the Soup Kitchen, &c. To the Montrose Royal Infirmary ad. To the Kirk Session of St. Cyrus 500/ , for the purposes of education, and for the benefit cf the poor ; end a propor tionate sum for like purposes, to Kineff parish, in which the estate of Fiddes is situated. There are numerous bequests in favour of particular friends, the legacy duty ap plicable to which, as well as the public bequests, he directs to be paid out of the residue of his funds; and the re mainder of his large fJrtune goes into the hands of the Senattis Academicus of Edinburgh, fur the advance ment of the literature of the country. We have great pleasure in adding that the Gener-I,in the deed, w as not forgetful of his rural tenantry, having made a b e qu es t to each of them equal to the remission of one-ball year's rent. — Montrose Review. CHATSWORTII.—The Duke of Devonshire is expected early in the ensuing week from ircland. His Grad's annual sale of fat cattle takes place the that week in ❑ext month. The Earl of Uxbridge, accompanied by Ladies Eleanor and Constance Paget, has arrived at Beaudesert, Lichfield, the seat of his father, the Marquis of Anglesey, from Cumberland Lodge, near Windsor. Tile Earl and Countess of Surrey, accompanied by Ladies Mary and Adeliza Howard, have arrived at Forri ham, near Bury St. Edmund's, on a visit to his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, from the Rookery, his Lordship's seat, near Dorking. HI NDOO BEA UTY.--ikially of the I-lindoo women (colour excepted) present the beau ideal of beauty —the long flawing hair, the large and melting eye, th e wed-formed nose and mouth, the graceful neck, and bust —but here we must stop, and, throwing the waving snow. white " douputtah" over the left shoulder, to conceal charms which it half discovers, we wind it round her slender waist and well-rounded hips, and allowing it to d i ese id e o n o d half way down the leg, the simple to:iet o f the " lir is complete, who, in point of grace raid loveliness, might vie with the gorgeous, jewelled, and more artificial beauties of a European saloon.—Napier's Scenes and Sports. We arc enabled to state, upon authority, that various intentions existed respectitig the appointment to the vacant sec of Meath. Dr. Dickinson, was, h,;wever, under all the proposed arrangements, to have been con sidered. The appointment of Dr. Saner to the Bishopric was mooted, and had it taken place, Dr. Dickinson would have succeeded hint in the Provustship ! This would have been, if possible, a more dangerous appointment than the one which has been actually dfcetcd. The mysterious postponement of Dr. Sadlier's claims is thus simply ac counted for—on the death of the present Bishop of York, who is now at a very great age, the Archbishop of Dublin is to be translated to that see, and Dr. Sadlier to be ap pointed to the vacant Archbishopric of Dublin.—Dublin Statesman. Loss OF TUE PHENIx.—NVe are glad to per ceive that it is the determination of the friends of the steward and stewardess of the above steam-vessel to get up a hem& at the Victoria Theatre, with the view of rais. tug a subscription to defray the losses which they met with in consequence of the accident. FATAL ACCIDENTS TO CIIILDREN.—Thurs day morning Richard Ruth, four years ()rage, was brought into Guy's Hospital, having been dreadfully burned by his clot Les taking fire whilst lift in a room by himself. And soon after another child, only three years of age, who was scalded in a shocking manner by his pulling a pail of bailing water over him, which was placed in a chair within his reach. The little sufferers were conveyed to the above hospital in a state of great agony, and both expired a few minutes after their adm•ssion. Leigh, where a great number of hand-loom weavers are usually employed, is the scene of wide-spread and severe distress. We hear that more than 1.500 weavers are now out of employ.—Manchester Chron;c/e. ALARM OF FIRE AT ST. THOMAS'S HOS- PlTAL—Yesterday evening much alarm was created among the inmates of St. Thomas's Hospital from a report that flames were issuing out of one of the chimneys of that extensive building. It was first noticed by Mr. Archer, the messenger of Guy's Hospital, who gave imme diate notice, when it was discovered that the names pro ceeded from the chimney of the bath, on account of the furnace being over heated. By the prompt exertions of a number cf men, and the quantity of water contiguous. the fire was extinguished, to the great gratification of the numerous inmates, and before the arrival of any engines. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE'SOUTII-WESTERN RAII.WAY.—An inquest was held last evening, at Gay's Hospital, before Mr. Payne, on the body of Thomas Wil liams, who died in St. Thomas's Hospital, owing to injuries he received on the above railway on Tuesday last. It will be recollected that there had been a dislocation of the right arm, another of the hip joint on the same side, and a frac ture of the left foot. Mr. Tyrrell, though considering it an extremely hopeless case, thought it expedient to ampu tate the injured arm. He never rallied, and expired at five o'clock on the following morning. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." REPEAL IN AMERICA.—The Poston Pilot Great l Britain of ,• The Friends of Ireland." And states that a Society ui idlre f l o a r the nd has, i b e e p e e n a I formedof the . Union i n t b e -be ci t t t y vee o n f Bosun, under . the f a t h r a e t s a o t lu at erecting ng behalf he l d o f "Justice 'rtjc c ri; :n n cr I fi Ze i p u e n a o l' f ' w t a h s e at S lo o p c t i e e d. Notice, also, it is said, was given by the Chairm a n of a ty motion to be made at the next meeting for the adoption of the following resolutions:_" Resolv.id—That the mem bers of the • Friends of Ireland,' in I3astan, do now pledge themselves to discontinu- the use of English manufaca tures, so long as England refuses to Ireland the Repeal of the illegal, unjust, and unholy Union. Resolved—That we recommend to the friends of Ireland in every State and territory in this immense and free country, to adopt the foregoing resolution." In the reign of Charles the First, the Mayor of Norwich actually sent a man to prison for saying that the Prince of \Vales was born without a shirt to his back. MENTAL D ELUSIONS.---A person named Flick, and his wife, living at Saverne, in the Bas Rhin, property put i n t o t h e hands ofmaenliznbietitieeevsi.no have been decl are d l unat i cs, and bad themselves and their t l h ' ; h it ey th a e r y e both affected w i t h a re li g i ous are to be taken up into heaven alive. The woman one day placed herself in a mattress in the garden, expecting the hour of her ascension, and would not be removed till the Mayor carne and persuadad her to go in doors. Tim woman was attacked with a malady, and after a time her husband. They have been removed to Stepbansfield, leaving behind them several children who bad nearly been sacrificed to their infatuation, which induced them to imagine that total abstinence from food was the only way to heaven. usEtsati'llepveeityreceffiticer iil the service of YultSucnill::::l76 . Oli Friday, as Mr. Maynard's hounds were past in„ sAirl'lFE.SALCoH:mialuiallis.,y illg along Stavely-lane , near Ringwood Hall, a carter's dog suddenly started off at top speed, when away went the whole pack after him in full cry. They chased him dowa to Ringwocd Hall, nbere the pursuers found out their this ancient error; not before, however, they bad afforded hearty laughter to those engaged in the sport. While it lasted. a L:tter hunt could not be.—Daby. Mercury. and excellent in s titution was left without a treasurer. ci a —By ST t . li e CLEMENT recentdea tll Wednesday evening last a very numerous meeting of the BARON DE CER trustees took place at the school-house, when D av id I AMR The Rev. Alarie Joseph de Geramb,,Superior and I '--". 'reels reur-General of the Trappist monks, departed w e l3 ; a elc D ° i b i e r b E : Y h e A t i o r T : fill ffy r o l u s t q h on e g : e o o r n f Td e a r l o y S i I'b w days ago. Born of a family originally of this life a Lyons, he Austria, wherein a near relation of his high rank. The Rev. Father, then name still holds visited this country during the wa B aron de Germ! ) , r readers will, no doubt, recollect th war , and many of our tics of his deportment, as well us e eclat and eecentrici which in Hyde.park rivalled his alittering collide, equipage. the attractions of Mr. Coates's ied II; 0