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

YEN INCi EDITION. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) We are av:rse to allowing any error which tends to exasperate the present state of feniin„o. between France and England to pass uncorrected ; and such an error, whether wilful, or caused by ignorance of the English language, appears i❑ Tuesday's National. and, to pro duce more effect, printed in Capitals. The Morning Chronicle of Saturday had inserted the following para graph :—" Letters from Alexandria of the 30th announce, and we have reason to believe with perfect truth, that at the expiration of the first ten days, that is on the 9.Sth, Mehemet Ali called Rifaat Bey, the Envoy of the Porte, as well as the Consuls, and bade him propose to the Sultan that the Pacha would be contented with Egypt in hereditary right, and Syria for life, without Adana or Candi& Rifaat Bey accepted the task of making the pro posal, and had proceeded to Constantinople. Count Wa leivski bad preceded him thither to endeavour to prepare the Sultan and the Divan for the acceptance of Mehe m't's offer. Whatever this may afterwards lead to, k is pretty evident that the offer will be rejected."' The sense of the last sentence is perfectly clear to an English reader ; it points at the possibility of future negotiation arising out of this incident. The National translates it :—" A quelque consequences que cela puisse conduiie plus turd, it est evident que sera rejetee"—" Whatever may be the consequences, it is evident the offer will be rejected." "Every body knows," proceeds the National, "that Fiance alone has urged Mehemet Ali to make con ces3ions ; and already they announce to you with dis dain that these concessions are refused, and that they care little abaut the consequences to which this refusal may lead. . . Europe laughs at our ruler., at their tricks, and their menaces. She is right. No one lifts up the coward who cringes ; he is crushed with con tempt." This is a bullish way of lashing oneself into a rage with one's own tail. The " affront" given by the Chronicle is pretty much on a par with the " affront" given by the Convention. We arc glad to see that the better informed members of the French Press have ceased to retail the anilities of the Morning Herald on an unread treaty. The text of the treaty has furnished them with matter for sounder reflection. (From the Courier.) The Whig journ: - .13 have given up, it would appear, from their silence this week, as a task beyond their skill, all attempts at justifying Ministers for their con duct on the repeal agitation now progressing in Ireland. It would be vastly convenient for them, and save them no inconsiderable share of uneasiness and anxiety, if the responsibility of the movement could by any shift or device be thrown upon their opponents, and accordingly we fiad, whenever any of these journals touch upon the subject, they endeavour to effect this, though the very effort to do so involves a clear and palpable violation of truth. It was with this view the Chronicle on Monday last asked in the simplicity of its heart " why it was possi ble after forty years of legislative union to rally multi tudes round the banner of repeal," wishing to have it inferred from the interrogatory that it was to Tory Government the cause of the " possibility" was to be attributed. With this view, also, Whig journals and Repeal orators concur in referring to Lord Stanley's Bill of last Session for the purification of the Irish registries, as one, if not the chief, cause that has incited afresh to the seditious movement. Now this falsehood (for no milder term would de scribe it), has a two-fold object—to deter Lord Stanley from bringing forward a similar measure early next Session, or to frighten a few timid Conserva tives from supporting it ; and at the same time to create the impression that the renewed agitation for Repeal was partially owing to the irritation felt in Ireland at Lord Stanley's Bill, as well as at the success that attended it. That the expose then made of the abuses engendered and sheltered by the present system of registration in that country was calculated to annoy and irritate those who profited by them we do not pretend to deny. It was but one of the natural consequences of the proposed measure, but that it had anything whatever to do in the way of exciting the people to renew the Repeal cry in Ireland—except affording a miserable pretext for so doing—we most emphatically deny. (From the Slandard.) The entire series of the documents connected with the treaty of July have now come before the public in an authentic form. The London Gazette has, however, added but little to the information which the Morning Herald had enabled us to communicate to our readers. The only discrepancy, indeed, between the unauthorised and official text of the treaty consists of section 7 of the separate Act, which conveys nothing that was not implied in the pre vious articles. The protocol of the Four Powers, and the note of Lord Palmerston to M. Guizot, are now published for the first time. Nothing can be more cour teous or respectful to France than the latter document, which professes simply a desire " to maintain those prin c:.p!es of policy with regard to Turkey, which France has, on more than one occasion, distinctly and emphati cally declared to be her own," and to achieve the " great ot , ject of upholding the existing balance of power in Europe, and averting events which would disturb the general peace." Such is the nature of the pretended insult to France, for which she has hastened to prepare such vast armaments—such the language which has been seized upon as an excuse for the malignantly bras tile tone adopted by the French press towards this country. But supposing the imputation of want of respect to the French nation to have been well fouude(l. why should the whole torrent of French indig nation have been reserved for England ? The affront, if affront it was, was as much the affront of Russia, P. ussia, and Austria, as of England. Why, there fore, stiould she have been called upon to endure the entire brava of French indignation ? Because it suited that Govero:nent at this particular juncture to revive a feud which had all but decayed between France and England, and because no topic could have been broached more gratifying to the worst passions of the French ce,raille than the prospect of gratifying their long hoarded hatred to this country. THE ItEGISTRNTIONS. MA RYLEBONE. Yesterday Mr. FALCONER again resumed his Court, at the, Court-House, St. IVlarylebone, and proceeded wiih the adjourned cases in connection with the lists of that parish. Messrs. Iviiney and Allen were again at their posts as toe representatives of the Borough of Marylebone Reform and Registration Association, to protect and watch over the Liberal interest, and Messrs. Greenwood and Rook for the Conservatives. George Richard Naylor was objected to by the To ries, upon the ground that he had not paid the whole of the ttxes for which he was liable. It appeared that the person objected to had removed from one house to another at Midsummer 1839. and by some mistake, either on his own or the Collector's part, he hlid only been rated from the Michaelmas fol :owmg. whieli rate had been demanded by and paid to the C,i!leetor. Mr. Greenwood argued that Mr. Naylor not having pa L l all the taxes really due in respect of the house, he 1.:ot entitled, under the provisions of the Reform Act. to be placed upon the register. Me. Ivimey defended the party objected to, and con tended that he havinz paid all that was charged by the collector, was quite sufficient to qualify him to vote. It was not the ratepayer who male the rate, and he haviug complied with the demand of the collector, had done all 1 at he could pos,ibly do. Mr. FAccosuu sail the only question he had to con r was, whether the responsibility of payment of the pr.vvr amount of rate, t%'sted with the party objected to cr with the collector, who made the demand upon him. Mr. Greenwood said it was evident that a three quarters' rate was due from the premises, and but one half year had been paid, consequently the one quarter's .a7ears being due precluded Mr. Naylor's right to be on ae register. _ _ _ Mr. FALCONER said lie thought the position of Mr. Ivitvey was right, although there was some difficulty :lbout the ease. It had been said :ruly that Mr. Nay lor had pia all that had been demanded of him, and tiien arose the question if that was all that was required of him. Il e th oug h t h e h a d d one so to the b est of his ability, and that therefore he ought not to be rendered to have his name struck from the register, al t'hou4li he has no doubt still liable for the one quarter's aTrca"F. T;ie latter, however, was not a question it would be his duty to try, and under all the circumstances l e felt bound to disallow the objection. Name retained. ; R, -,pert Hobart was objected to by the Reformers, the ground that his father, John Hobart, was the perotp entitled to be on the register an d not h i m. Tit :, qu,nit ion of identity involving some singular incidents. A witness v•as e xamined on the part of th e R e formers, and proved c alling at the house No. 12, Shoe' - s t r eet. H e saw a s.nut elderl y man, who said his nails; was .10Ln Hobart, ann. that Robert Hobert was his son, but did not live there, it,: he was a gentleman's servant. Mr. Knight, a poor-rate co llector,corroborated Mr, Gbson's evidence with respect to the appearance of Mr. Hobart, but said he had always been on the rate as R o b er t, even at the house he held in Carlyle -street, from which he removed to his present residence. Mr. Greenwood said that it was Robert, and not John, that was entitled to vote, and that he was a Young man. , a l‘_ l :. Knight denied this, and said i f a y oung man h I: , !ted, he had no right to have done s o. M • FALCONER said there appeared to be consider able doubt as to the identity of the person really entitled to vote • ' and , unless it could be more clearly proved, he could not well come to a decision. Mr. Allen observed , served th at if th e cas e was deferred a snort time, h e could the matter at rest wit P h roduce an elector who would set ing been assented to, respect to that point. This hay .opcned, when a later period of the day the case was re•opcned, n he the person alluded to was produced, and stated that knew R o b er t Hebart,who e n occasionally resided i n cenCar l iy p le ;s s o tr n e . et A ; tbutht the elabset -, : e yed he was servant to G election for Marylebone he was at the Liberal Central Committee-room, when Hobart came and , asked for a cab to be taken up to the poll to vote. IN , hen he got to the poll, however, he voted for the Tory party, and said he was obliged to do so as his master wished it. Mr. Knight said, if' such a person had voted at th e last election, he had personified his father, which he had no right to do. Mr. Ivisney said he could call another witness to prove that it was John, and not Robert Hobart, who occupied, and that even John was not qualified. Mr. John Hayes was then sworn. He said he had called at the house, No. 12, Short -street, and saw a person answering the description given by Mr. Knight. He said his name was John Hobart, and that he was in the Excise, and could not vote. He had a son named Robert, but he lived with General Dyson, and slept over his stables, and that he had nothing whatever to do with the house. Mr. Ivimay submitted that it was quite evident by this testimony that a fraudulent vote had been recorded in favour of the Conservatives at the late election, and it ought to be prevented from recurring. Mr. Greenwood agreed that the witness, not having seen the man Robert Hobart vote himself, the state ment about the cab and Committee-room was no proof that he had voted. Mr. Ivimey said that as there appeared a great deal of difficulty about the identity of the party, he had no objection to Robert Hobart remaining on the register, provided the Learned Barrister would add the words the elder " to his name. Mr. Allen said on the last year's registration he made precisely the same request, owing to the difficulty of identity of the parties, which was granted by the Bar rister. The name, with this addition, was retained. James Ulett was objected to by the Conservatives vviii respect to his occupation of a house, No. 85, Crawford-street, upon the alleged ground that he was not the occupier. The Queen's tax-collector positively asserted that the occupier of the house was a female, Mr. Utett's daugh ter, and that she told him to put her name on his rate book. Mr. Unitt, the poor-rate collector, contradicted this statement, and said that the day before he saw Mr. Ulett in the shop of the house, 83, Crawford-street. He told him he was objected to, and he then said he had occupied the house upwards of 20 years, and that all the daughter had to do with it was that he had let the shop to her. Mr. Ulett subsequently attended the Court in person, and the case being left entirely in the hands of the Learned Barrister, Mr. Ulett, in answer to questions put by him, stated that he had occupied the house for twenty-five years, and he then corroborated the state ment previously made by Mr. Unitt, completely dis proving that of the assessed tax collector.—Objection disallowed. There were no other cases of any general interest as regarded the parish of Marylebone. PARISH OF PADDINGTON. The cases of Messrs. Godwin, Smith, and Tart, ob jected to by the Conservatives, who were the tenants of farmed houses in Cuthbert-street, Mall-park, Padding ton, and which had been deferred from the previous day, in order to prove their cor.sent to be themselves sepa rately rated in respect of their houses in composition, was entered into. Mr. Charles Green, the landlord of the houses in question, stated that he compounded with the parish of Paddington for the above houses. When the tenants took possession, he told them he would qualify them, to which they assented, and he applied to the collector to have them rated separately. In answer to Mr. FALCONER, the witness stated that he was not aware that a separate rating would increase their rates, but be was prepared to have paid all de mands upon him i❑ respect thereof. He had not paid any increased rating. By Mr. Ivimey—All my tenants desired to be quali fied, and when I went to the collector to get them rated, I was prepared to take all the consequences upon myself without raising their rent. Mr. Ivimey said, that as it was for the benefit of the parish that these houses were in composition the ques tion of whether the Vestry chose or not to admit the tenants into a separate rating, the landlord still holding himself responsible for the rates, ought not to be per mitted to damnify their right to be placed upon the Re gister since they could not, even if they wished it, have been separately rated against the consent of the Vestry. The LEARNED BARRISTER said as this was a question of great importance, involving the right to vote of a very large class of persons, he would defer his decision in the case until to-morrow. The correction of the list, as far as possible, was than proceeded with, and the Court did not rise till 6 o'clock, when it was adjourned to 10 o'clock this day, at the St. Pancras Vestry Rooms in Gorden-square, where the lists of that parish will be proceeded with, and the adjourned eases of St. Marylebone and Paddington re sumed . CHARTIS3I. A work has recently been published, entitled "Chartism,a New Organization of the People," em bracing a plan for the education and improvement of the people, politically and socially ; addressed to the working classes of the United Kingdom, and more especially to the advocates of the rights and liberties of the whole people, as set forth in the People's Charter, written in Warwick gaol by Mr. Lovett, cabinet-maker, and John Collins, tool-maker. From chat we make the following extract, in order to inform our readers what is the new organization these deservedly popular leaders propose:—. PROPOSED PLAN, RULES, AND REGULATIONS, OF AN .4S SOCIATION, TO BE ENTITLED, THE NATIONAL ASSO CIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, FOR PROMOTING THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE. Vbilc general or local associations are not wanting for extending in charity the dogmas and exclusiveness of sects, or proclaiming the ostentatiousness of pride— for spreading knowledge and sympathy abroad, while both are greatly needed at home—for the mitigation of the physical and mental ills of life, while the originating causes are neglected—for the acquisition of languages, literature, and professional skill—for refining the tastes and enriching the imaginations of mankind—tot inves tigating the properties of all nature, from the most mi nute object to the must stupendous—and for rendering the pow2rs and uses of every element subservient to the production of wealth ; there seems to be wanting an association paramount in importance to all—one for politically and socially imp-oving the people. To sup ply this great national deficiency, it is proposed that an association be established, and that the following be its objects : First. To unite, in one general body, persons of all creeds, classes, and opinions, who are desirous to pro mote the political and social improvement of the people. Second. To create and extend an enlightened public opinion in favour of the principles of the People's Char ter, and by every just means secure its enactment ; so that the industrious classes may be placed in possession of the franchise, the most important step to all political and social relormation. . . . Third. To erect public halls or schools for the people throughout the kingdom, upon the most approved prin ciples, and in such districts as may be necessary. Such halls to be used during the day as infant, prepara tory, and high schools, in which the children shall be educated on the most approved plans the association can devise ; embracing physical, mental, moral, and po litical instruction ; and used of an evening for public lectures, on physical, moral, and political science ; for reading. discwsions, musical entertainments, dancing, :md such other healthful and rational recreations as may serve to instruct and cheer the indust7ious classes after their hours of toil, and prevent the formation of vicious and intoxicating habits. Such hall; to have two com modious play-grounds, and, where practicable, a plea sure garden, attached to each. Apartments for the teachers, rooms for hot and cold baths, for a small mu seum, a laboratory, and general worksuop, where the children may be taught cxperimsnts in science, as well as the first principles of the most useful trades. Fourth. To establish, in such towns or districts as may be found necessary, normal or teacher's schools, for the purpose of instructing schoolmasters and mistresses in the roost approved syste ms of physical, mental, moral, and political training. Fifth, To establish, on the most approved system, such agricultural and industrial schools as may be re quired, for the education and support of the orphan children of the Association, and for instructing them :n some useful trade or occupation. Sixth. To establish circulating libraries, from a hun dred to two hundred volumes each, containing the most useful works on politics, morals, the sciences, history, - and such instructive and entertaining works as may be generally approved of. Such libraries to vary as much itrsopmototbletfr4wontr: o e, r sch other, and to be sent in rotation f village in the district to another ; there to be placed in the hands of a responsible person, to be lent out according to the rules, and, after a stated ticae, forward a d t o t h e next di str i ct . Seventh, To print, from time to time, such tracts and promotingpaniphlet a it s s th3 , Association may consider necessary for to publish a objects , n; s o n nt ,, J;hen'its organization is com plete,riodical, a; ouartcrly national pc ', . Eighth- To offer premiums, tib whenever it may tae cqn sidered advisable, for of children ; for the best ie description essays on the instruction many t i c missionaries of school-books far infants,. juveniles, and adults promotive of the social and political ." for any other object welfare athe maypep p 1; 1 e a . Ninth. To appoint as m - an deemed ne, , ..a.;sary, to visit the different districts of the kingdom, for the pi.,4 - )ose of explainin g the views of the Association, for promoting 4 4 organization, for lecturing on its different objects, tot efficient-, , =ng the different schools when erected, and otherwise the tentions of the general body are carried into effect fl ect in the several localities, according to the instructions they may receive from the General Board, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1840. "Tenth. To devise, from time to time, the best means by which the members in their several localities may collect subscriptions and donations in a:d of the above objects, may manage the superintendence of the halls and schools of their respective districts, may have due centrol over all the affairs of the Association, and share in all its advantages, wilbout incurring personal risk, or violating the laws of the country. There is nothing in that which can excite any alarm in the most timid. The whole work, in fact, is composed in a sober, yet sustained spirit, well calculated to command for these two men, and the cause they advocate, the .expect and esteem of the public. There seems tc, be no exaggeration and no flattery in the book. It is far less political than educational ; and the following paragraph, would seem to imply that these gentlemen had al most given up their hopes, if they ever entertained any, of much good to tae obtained from universal suffrage : The supposition that Universal Suffrage would give the working classes a preponderating power in the House of Commons, is not borne out by the experi ence of other countries. They are far from possessing such a power even in America, where wealth and rank have far less influence than with us, and where the exercise of the suffrage for more than half a century have given them opportunities to get their rights better represented than they are. But wealth with them, as with us, will alwa 3 s maintain an undue in fluence, till the people are morally and politically in structed; then, indeed, will wealth Secure its just and proper influence, and not, as at present, stand in oppo sition to the claims of industry, intellect, merit, free dom, and happiness. But the great advantages of the suffrage in the interim will be these • it will afford the people general and superior means of instruction ; it will awaken and concentrate human intellect to remove the evils of social life ; and will compel the-representa tives of the people to redress grievances, improve laws, and provide means of happiness in proportion to the enlightened desires of public opinion. Such indeed arc the results we anticipate from the passing of the Peoples Charter. They seem practically to adopt the conclusion of their opponents, and now have for their object to make their fellow-men worthy of political power, when they will be sure to obtain it. We at least adopt the opinion that forms of government and paper constitutions are of comparatively little importance compared to the knowledge and habits of the people. If they be ignorant, universal suf frage can only be an instrument of mischief; if they be enlightened, the more limited suffrage may ensure those laws which the public reason ap proves. To those who ate already Chartists, we need not recommend this book as well worthy of their cause ; to those who are not, we earnestly recommend it, that they may divest themselves of any unfounded fears they have formed of the , croakings of those who predict ultimate failure, the pro jectors of the undertaking are nothing daunted 7, the local Government still gives thereto its countenance and support, and, despite of every impediment, the works constructing are gradually giving to the tidal waters of the river that direction which, it is supposed, will u ti mately sweep away the obstructions refereed to, and thus open to commerce one of the most beautiful anti fertile districts of South Africa. From the accounts given of the Australian settle ments, we cannot doubt but that the country in the ncie , hhourhood of this river is far sup et i o r to any part of t h e i r coas t. The hush of those colonies is frightful, the droughts are more severe than those experienced on this coast, and the soil in general is far inferior. Here the land is ready to receive, and is actually courting the plough. Irrigation is unnecessary,and, in many parts, manure equally so ; while its topographical beauties have been the subject of eulogy by all who have visited this part of our shores, and who could duly appreciate the beauties of nature. Sure we are, that were such a country and such a river to be met with in any of the Australian settlements, a shout of rapture would be raised fromasthwoose who uld have adve n tured speedilybeilean to tho se t distant too at their very a ntipodes. We, as a people, are more modest ; we hold out no false lights, we pourtray things as they really are, we speak of our difficulties as well as our ad vantages, and we offer with confidence, to these who ma y be disposed to quit the father-land, a fine climate, a fertile country, and a hearty welcome.—Graham's T own Journal, of June 23. [Let us remind the read er t h at b y the report of the recently published, th e C ape o f to be th e most h ea l t h y o f all our h e it oo l n t d lite Hope t E h e militaryp. appearssuN.] MADAME LAFFARGE. Everybody here is talking of the verdict against Madame Laffarge, and of the extraordinary disclosure made respecting Madame de Leotaud. The fact of her having been in correspondence with Chive up to Dec., 1839, although she swore at. Brives, that she had held no relations with him after 18:36, throws an air of probability over the declaration of Madame Laffarge that the diamonds had been entrusted to her for the use of Clave, which did not exist previously, and renders the public astonishment at the verdict of the jury on this trial for murder still greater than it would have been, for the supposed antecedents of Madame Laffarge were the greatest point against her. There is a proverb here, "de men/cur, ye/cur; de voleur, assassin," and having once made the jury believe that she was a thief, it was supposed that the Avocat-General would have comparatively little difficulty in bringing them to believe that she was still worse ; but a doubt, and that a very important one, having been thrown upon the charge of theft, people here say that there was an addi tional motive for giving to her the benefit of the doubt and mystery which hung over the affair of Glen dier. There arc not two persons here in a hundred who approve of the verdict which has been given, and of a hundred persons there are not thirty who do not believe her to be innocent of the charge ; but those who think that she is guilty, and those who think the contrary, a!1 agree in saying that she ought to have had the benefit of the doubt which hung over the case, and express a hope that M. Paillet may be able to bring forward circumstances which will induce the Court of Cessation to cancel the sentence, and order a new trial before a more intelligent Jury than could be obtained at Tulle. The conduct of the Avocet- General, and the colouring in the summing up of the President are gravely censured ; and all who know anything of the just and merciful character of the English law, s a y, that in England such an outrage upon decency could not have taken place. One of the greatest points in favour of Madame Laffarge, in public opinion, is the personal character of M. Paillet. This gentleman has the rare reputation as an avocat, of being so strictly conscientious, that he would not plead for a criminal ,',hose guilt should be apparent to his own mind. My personal knowledge of this gentleman enables me to say that he is really a conscientious man, and that if he believes Madame Laffarge to be innocent, or the legal proofs against her to have been insufficient to justify a verdict of guilty, his opinion ought to have great weight. Another point in her fa vour is the trial for murder which took place a few months ago at Versailles. Three persons were con demned to death for the murder of a relation, on evi dence which was considered conclusive at the time— not only were motives for the commission of the crime shown, but the circumstantial evidence against them was as strong as such evidence could well be. A snort time before their intended execution, facts came out to raise a doubt of their guilt. They were respited, and an application for a new trial was made and granted. They were tried again, and acquitted on the most positive evidence, and shortly afterwards the real murderers were tried and condemned. The evidence in the case of Madame Laffarge was not half so strong as that which was adduced against these men in the first instance, and therefore it is inferred that' she too may be guiltless of the crime which has been laid to her charge. But the most extraordinary part of this affair is the nature of the verdict. Madame Lafarge is found " guilty," with extenuating circumstances. If guilty, where, I ask, were these circumstances of extenuation ? If she murdered her husband, she did so with all the refinement of cruelty —with all the consummation of hypocrisy. If she was a murderess at all, she was so under the most mon strous aggravations of guilt. Never was criminal so criminal as this woman, if her husband was really poi soned, and poisoned by her hand. What a mockery of human justice, then, is such a verdict ! It can only have been what the French call a transaction de con science. The Jury would not condemn her to death, because they bad still a doubt, perhaps, as to her guilt ; but they would not put into practice chat merciful axiom of the law which declares that the prisoner is to have the benefit of the doubt. If she was guilty she was guilty with all the deepest shades of guilt, and no other sentence than that of death should have been recorded ; for although it is true that the aversion to capital punishment in this country frequently allows the worst criminals to escape that last judgment of human vengeance, it is also true that persons not half so guilty as Madame Laffarge, if she was guilty, are from time to time sent to the guillotine.—Letterjrom IMPROVED WATER-WHEEL. In February last, we not;ced one of those newly patented mills, erected near How-wood, and gave a brief account of its general appearance and advantages. We then stated that, as far upwards as 20 horse power, the principle had been fully tested, but that doubts were entertained by some, whether it would hold equally good, as the power increased. This has now been tried, as far upwards as a 60-horse power, and to this extent the soundness of the principle is as fully proved, as it was with a wheel of one-twentieth of that power. The trial we allude to, was made at Greenock on Wednesday last, in presence of a number of Shareholders in the Shaws Water-works, proprietors and managers of mills on the line of falls, and other distinguished gentlemen of Greenock, interested in the general progress of discovery and improvement. The wheel now under notice, is erected on one of the falls of the Shaws Water Company, on the rising ground above Greenock, and is intended to drive the ma chinery of a wool spinning -mill, nearly ready for the re ception of its machinery, belonging to Messrs. Neil, Fleming, and Reid. The height of fall is thirty feet, and the quantity of water used was, as nearly as may be, 13,000 cubic feet per minute. The power produced by this column of water on an overshot wheel of the best construction, would be about fifty-three horse power ; there is, there fore, a balance of about seven-horse power in favour of the Patent Mill But this does not show its advantages fully. In an undershot mill, where the fall is but three or four feet, the power obtained is only thirty-three per cent. In the more favourable case of a breast mill, with a fall of ten or twelve feet, about sixty per cent. is obtained, and in an overshot wheel of about thirty feet, not more than seventy per cent., under the most favourable cir cumstances, is obtained ; while in the case of the patent mill, the gain is equal to about eighty per cent.. To this may be added, that whether the quantity of water be abundant, with a low fall, or scanty with a high fall, the new mill is calculated to reap alike from both all the derivable advantages. There is another point, too, wherein the patent mill has a very decided advantage over the common water wheel. A water-wheel of thirty feet diameter makes about two revolutions per minute ; hence to bring up the speed necessary for ordinary manufacturing pur poses, a great deal of gearing must be made to inter vene. This will ti - cquently occasion a loss of three or four horse power—a loss which is avoided by giving a revolution of ninety to the first moving shaft, while all the expense of the intervening gearing is saved. The subject of expense is in this, as in most other cases, a question of primary consideration ; and, in this respect, the advantages of the patent mill are still greater than in the case of power. A waterwheel and its arc suited for the woollen m:11 to which we have been referring, would cost about 1,5)01., or, adding the pipes for conveying the water to the wheel, about 1,7001. ; while the price of the patent mill, with its conducting pipes, will not exceed 5001. As the height of the fall increases the advantages of the patent mill increase in a still greater proportion. The four most prominent advantages of the patent mill over the water-wheel, are, first, its first cost is a very great deal less ; second, it produces more power with the same column of water ; third, it is better adapted to every kind of fall ; fourth, it adapts itself by the regulating power of its governor far more effectively to the varying work it may have to perform. Its secondary advantages are, that it is more speedily fitted up ; it requires far less room, inasmuch as its pit may be floored over, and no space lost. The quantity of material being small, it admits of easy removal, mid its simplicity of construction is so great, and its fric tion so little, as to remove almost everything like tear and wear. _ On the whole, we conceive this is one of the most remarkable improvements ever made in the application of water as a moving power. The wasted resources of mountain streams which, both in this and other coup tries, it may bring into useful operation are incalculable ; and we feel we are but doing our humble duty to science in giving it all the publicity we can. The improvement is not speculative ; its practical working may now be seen in this country, from a mill of three horse power up to one of sixty, and from a fall of five feet up to one of thirty ; in all cases the r, sults being in proportion to the weight of the column of water in motion.—Paisley Advertiser. ENTERPRIZE AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. In examining the numerous rivers whose embouchures are on this coast, it has been remarked that nearly all of them have their outlets on the eastern or left banks and which has been attributed, in part, to the retroces sion of the sea, and, in part, to the violence of the south-east gales, which drive lip large quantities of loose sand to the western side of every inlet. A most interesting experiment, on this subject, is now making at the mouth of the bowie. This river, like all others on this coast which we have had the opportunity of in specting, is characterized by being choked up on it:. western shore by banks of sand ; the aim of the projec tors, therefore, is to remove this obstruction, and to prevent the accumulation of such impediments in future. The former part of the task is comparatively easy, but the latter can only be accomplished by means of the power of the river itself, and which, when confined within a narrow channel, will, it is supposed, give such an impe• tus to the receding tide and stream as shall carry out all that loose sand with which, from tame to time, it may be encumbered,—either as the ef fect of the tides, or of those south-east gales to which we have referred. That the effect of following out this principle will be to deepen the channel, those best informed on Vie subject do not entertain a doubt —and of which, indeed, it is said, an example is af forded at the Little Umgszi River, on the Amaponda coast, about 150 rriles further to the eastward. This river presents, on its western shore, a bold and rocky bank, and which continues unbroken until it communi cates with the ocean. The stream has, in conse quence, such force, that the south - east gales are effectually counteracted. The outlet remains on the western side, and is so deep that ,t is said the natives have never known it to be fordable. At the Kuwie, the spirited projectors are endeavour ing to accomplish by art that which—in the above ex ample—has been done by nature. They have, how ey,a, fp clear away the obstructions accumulated during a course of ageo? and which, should their efforts be crowned with success, will a bright example of enterprise, that, if followed up generally, may he at, tended with the most lasting and extensive benefits to the whole colony, 'that an undertaking of thisportance d magnitude should be carried t an o plotion, without the concurrence of un looked-for delays and difficulties—it would be folly to expect. Both have been experienced ; but in a very mitigated degree to what—considering the nature o the opposing powers — might reasonably have f bceti I)otwithstanchag„ however, all the LAW INTELLI6rEN-CE. SHERIFFS COURT, SEPT. ‘).-t. FALSE IMPRISONMENT.— CATO V. HARI)MAN. Mr. Chadwick Jones appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Hervey for the defence. In this action the damages were kid at 501. The plaintiff was a licensed victualler, residing in Jerinyn street, St. James's, and the defendant a valet, in the service of Sir Alexander Grant, of Upper Grosvenor street. The parties met at last Epsom races on the Derby day, where the defendant lost a sum of money, in bet• ting with the plaintiff. Some time afterwards the plain tiff called at Sir Alexander Grant's house, for the pur pose of settling the bet. The defendant paid him the sum lost, and demanded a receipt, which was refused, on the ground that in transactions of this nature a re ceipt is not required. The plaintiff then came away, and was proceeding down Regent -•street towards his re sidence, when the defendant overtook him and accused him of robbery, at the same time calling a policeman, and giving him into custody on a charge of felony. He was then taken to Vine-street station-house, and locked up i❑ a cell, while the defendant went into the Inspec tor's room, to enter the charge on the police-sheet. After about twenty minutes' confinement, he was informed that the Inspector would not entertain the charge, and he wss accordingly released from custody. • The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF having summed up, a verdict was returned for the plaintiff—Damages 40s. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. G UILDHALL. A little boy, named Timothy Armstrong, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing a purse, containing a number of sovereigns, in St. Paul's-church-yard. Mr. George Langdale, a gentleman residing in the Old Jewry, said he saw the prisoner with his hand in a person's pocket who was walking before him. He struck him on the arms with his umbrella, upon which he pulled his hand out, and dropped the purse on the ground. The gentleman who was robbed took it up. Constable 273 said that this person, on going to the station-house, gave a wrong address. Mr. Alderman PIRIE said he much regretted the purse had not beets handed over to the police, as it was the surest means of enforcing the attendance of the prosecutor. The prisoner was remanded to afford an opportu nity of discovering the address of the person robbed. A number of prisoners were brought up for passing counterfeit coin, who had been remanded from day to day to procure the attendance of Mr. Powell, the soli citor to the Mint, when The ALDERMAN said he should not detain per,ons thus for the convenience of any one, and he should therefore order them to be discharged. WORSHIP-STREET. STREET PR E A CIII NG.--Andrew Gardiner, a gro tesque-looking personage who wore a long and shaggy beard, and styled himself a Christian Israelite, was chrrged before Mr. GROVE, with having caused a dis turbance in Tabernacle-square, St. Luke's, to the. great annoyance of the inhabitants. From the evidence of several of the inhabitants of the, square, who came forward to support the charge, it ap— peared that for a considerable time past they had been annoyed to an insufferable degree by a set of illiterate persons calling themselves preachers, who were in the habit of infesting the square twice or thrice a week, and zolleeting mobs ir. front of the houses, to whoa► they held forth for hours together. It occasionally hap pened that two or three of them arrived at the Same time, and as each of them professed different doctrines, some of which were of a most blasphemous tendency, such scenes of riot and uproar ensued in their attempts to bawl each other down that the nuisance could no longer be tolerated. The arena of disputation being seated in the centre of a densely•populated nei:ll - large crowds were in the habit of mustering on such occasions, and not unfre quently the differences between the contending preachers were summarily brought to a close by the disgusted audiences rising upon them both and pelting them off the field. A representation of the grievance was at length forwarded to the Commissioners of Police, by whom orders were tent to the officers of the district to take the authors of it into custody, whenever they were found offending. The charge having* been proved, Mr. GROVE said I have often suspected that some of these pseudo preachers were in league with pick pockets, and got crowds together to enable their accom plices to plunder the silly peopl e who were listening to their nonsense. The Magistrate then told him be must give a pro mise not to offend again or he wou►d be committed. After some hesitation the prisoner gave the required promise, upon which he was allowed to depart. CONG RESS anti Id Lady navtto jeniim aEo liAt haveTSllt R left t and lastly Peel, at Drayton Manor. Th e D utc h Mi n i ster and Mine. Dodd took their departure on Tuesday la s t f ur Drayton Manor, to join the circle now visiting Sir Robert and Lady Peel. Sir Alexander Grant, Bart. M. P., has arrived at Dra3 ton Manor, on a visit to Sir Robert and Lady Peel, who have a numerous circle visiting them at that elegant scat. Sir Henry and Lady Emily Harding , left Whitehall-place on Tuesday last, for Drayton Manor, on a visit to Sir Robert and Lady Peel. A BRACE OF NINNIES.—Two rough fellows (cabmen) with their faces coveted with blood and bruises, were charged on Wednesday, at Marlborough -street, with having fought in the streets. Mr. Henry—What did you quarrel about? First cabman—l aint got no quarrel vith him, as I knows on. Second Cabman—And I silo gut no quarrel vith hint. Mr. Henry—Then what did )ou fight about? First Cabman—Vy, I vos coming down Condick-street, ven he sings out to my boss, " Wo." "Ge arp," says 1. " Who are you ?" says he. " Who are You?" says I. " Don't come it too strong,'' says I. " Will you have a;:y of this ?" says he, pulling off his c ,at. " You can't gim me none," says I; so at it ve vent, till the pleseman came up snd stalked both on us off. Mit ssistrate—You had no business to quarrel in the public •strect. First Cabman (Wiping, his left eye, whici ap peared to be nearly knocked out)—Ve vor always wery good friend s up to this here, aad ve shall be good friends again, shalt us? Second Cabman (holding his lip, which had Lian;been split, together)—l dont vont to bear masity.l'mworry goad frianda with you. Mr. Henry—Ca away this time ; but if you fall out again, and ire brought here, I will hold both of you to bail. " WHERE DO LAWYERS COME FRoM ?" Elia , in one of his delightful e ssays, has said, " Lawyers were children once, I suppose ?" and, no doubt, in the mere liter a l sense, they really w ere ; but y our g enuine un adulterated lawyer, even in .his lacteal days , only simu . latcdintancy ; he was younaa but knew not youth. It were no v i o l ent freak of fancy to paint Charles Phillips a. rolicking, roaring boy ; one might imagine Lyndhurst knuckling down at marbles ; but your attorney, your issuer of writs, and drawer of cognovils, your mortgage maker--h e was never a boy. P oe ts, it is said, are born, not made. May it riot be that lawyers are not born ? I put it to a ny lady in the land, from Mrs. Edwards, who lately had four children at a birth, to her Most Gra cious Majesty, whether she would suckle a lawyer ? In the name of the whole sex I answer "No !" There have, probably, been women that would. Mrs. Brown rieg, who had a fine taste for cruelty, might have thine it; Mrs. Bateman, perhaps ; but F °land, in 1840, contains •n -no such women. I see, front my wincluvs, a chubby cherub, nestling in the arms of a beauteous mother. The young spirit, fresh from the presence of his Maker, breathes of heaven ; purity is heartened in him. Will any one tell ine that it is only a sucking lawyer ? The thougtit .s mon ' strous ! In our early days, it is deemed prudent by mothers and nurses to maintain as a m ystery the mean s b y which little humanities come noon earth. 1 had two little sisters whom the doctor broucht ; surely la w y ers are creatures whom —some one else brings."---ileads of the People. OXENDON, ESSEX. Another of those Agri cultural Associations, so beneficial to the farmer and the labourer, is established for this district, under the patronage of Sir Thomas B. Lennard. The first field-day took place on Tuesday, and although the weather was unpro pitious, the hardy yeomen contended for the prizes. After the business of the morning, which was in all respects Sir tisfaztory, aboqt %Pi) gentlemen partook of su eticellent dinner in the park, under a commodious marquee, erected by Mr. Benjamin Edgington, 3, Duke.s treet, Southwark and, althou g h the rain descended in unrelenting storms, the company were kept quite dry and free from any incon. venience. Sir Thomas gave three fine bucks, and Mr. Francis a noble baron of beef for the dinner. Too much praise cannot be given to the Committee for the general 1 arrangements, and Mr. Cook's viands, wines, &c., were unexceptionable, CANNING IN RETIREMENT. The period which he spent at Hinckley, during the interval which elapsed between his retirement from office after the duel with Lord Castlereagh, and his entrance upon. the Lisbon embassy,was a remarkable epoch in his life. It was with him undoubtedly a season of corn paratWe'seelusion; brio it was one , ulso of great and sue- Cessfut-preparatiow, •• Re-lived , at Burbach, a little *Wage distant about a • toile • from, town, which he had sought mainly for the benefit of his eldest son, whose health was in a most precarious condition, and whom he had placed under the care of the well-known Mr. Chesshyre. But this interval, though spent in retirement, was fraught with preparation. There is a walk, as beautiful as it is secluded, stretching from Burbach towards the village of Stoke Golding, known as Canning's walk. Along this he was seen, morning after morning, wending his way, always alone, absorbed in thought, and not un frequently thinking aloud. He invariably declined hav ing a companion for his walk, disliked amazingly being interrupted in the progress of it, and to any chance sa lutation by the way, his invariable reply was a silent bow. It was his hour of study. He was then forging wea pons for the coming fight, inspecting his stores, and po lishing his armoury. No weather deterred him. Through shower and sunshine he paced rapidly on. What sub jects might not these long silent walks elobrace! In them how many a topic, argument, simile, invective, re buke, was deliberately sought out and carefully laid up. Of the exquisite and elaborate finish bestowed on many of his speeches, who shall show how much may be traced to the severe scrutiny and repeated revision of his soli tary rambles I The music of his periods, the easy flowing language with which he rounded the most un manageable details, the remark of caustic irony. and the flash of cutting sarcasm, the epigrammatic point of a crushing reply, when a word more or less would have marred its lorce,—these are excellencies which could not have been attained, in the perfection which he pos sessed them, without long and severe study. Was this his workshop _ _ _ About a mile and a half from Burbach stands an old hall to which soma interest attaches as being the resi dence which peculiarly attracted Canning's attention, and which he was most desirous to purchase as " an asylum for his old age." Alas ! Th,! offers which he made to induce tiro, infatuated possessor to part with it were beyond its value, aad can be justified only by the extraordinary predilection which Mr. Canning had conceived for it. The more you examine Wy ken Hall, the greater difficulty you experi ence in discovering its attractions for the statesman. It is a quaint old building in the Elizabethan style, with huge and somewhat unshapely wings, much dilapi dated by time, and when I saw it, rapidly sinking to decay from continued and undeserved neglect. Ir stands close upon the horse-road leading to Stoke Golding, in an exposed and rather bleak situation. On each side of the principal entrance are two yew trees of prodigious growth and great age, which throw a sombre air over the building, and materially darken the lower rooms. A plantation rises on one side, and some unsightly farm- buildings on the tither. In the back ground is the straggling, fithy, poaching village of Stoke Go.din,;, perched on the sonntnit of a high hid, !oppcd with itb handsome church and spleml:d spire. In the feregrour.d is a home view of pasture land, skirted to the left by Burbach Wood, and embracing to the right the tow❑ of Hinckley, its parish church and tapering spire. \Vyken Hall is now a farm-house ; the little lawn be fore the prineip tl entrance Is converted into a fold yard. Poultry ravage the pleasure garden—weeds fl9urish ad libitum in the plantation—the litter of a large farm is scattered thickly around the premises ; and not one feature does it present, within or without, to corrobo rate the fact that it was once the coveted residence of one of the most accomplished of British statesmen.— Metropolitan. BARITES MANUFACTORY.---1.11 the midst of the sublime and romantic scenery of the Glen of Sannox, Arran, and on the edge of a precipitous rivulet of the same name, has been discovered a rich vein of barites. Last year a manufactory for the article was erected on the spot. The quarry is about a hundred yards up the rivulet, whence the ore is brought to the manufactory on a wooden railway. The ore is first washed from any mixture of earth, by means of a stream formed by some rude stones placed across a water. fall, and it is then ground into a fine pulp. It is afterwards put into square wooden frames, where it is again well washed, when it is rem ,ved to the b:,ilers, where, being mixed with sulphuric acid, it is boiled with steam, and the ferruginous scum which arises in the process is carefully removed. It is then run off into troughs, and dried in a drying-house, kept at a high tempera ture, till it becomes so solid that it can be cut into an oblong brick form. It is then removed into a cooler house, where it is dried thoroughly, when it is ready for packing into barrels, or removed to the dyeing-house to be dyed to any shade which may be desired. The machinery erected for the tnanufactory cost upwards of 3,0001., and with its aid, ten workmen are enabled to turn out about four torts of pre pared barites daily. This rov t teriai is now c:itensively used instead of white lead to form the body of paints, and for r•tany purposes is preferable. At about a quarter of a mile front the manufactory is the cooperage, close on the sea shore, whore three men are employed in making barrels for packing the barites; and close beside it workmen were busily engaged in making a jetty into the sea, for the pur pose of forming a quay, by which the managers will be enabled to load vessels to convey their manufacture to the mainland, without the present teoublesome sys.t?w pr;• having recourse to small boats to carry it otAt to the deep water.—,fCilmarnoo Journal, • • WESTMINSTER COURT OF REQUESTS. MEASURE FOR MEASURE-SHUCK V. RATTLE. " Mrs. Shuck," shouted the cryer. " Here I am," said Mrs. S. " And Mrs. Rattle, where is 51!C inquired the officer. She's also here," said that lady. The ladies took their respective boxes, and " looking mad eyes" at each other, settled themeslves down very comfortably on their own opinions for the approaching dispute. ;‘ State your case, Mrs. Shuck," said a Commis sioner. Mrs. Shuck dropped a rapid curtsey, and commencd —Last Sunday was a week was my son James's buff (birth) day, and his father gave him a new suit of clothes. which he put on the first time that very morn ing. While father was gone to fetch uncle as lives in the square, I sent Jemmy out to take a walk up and down the street. " Just to aggrawate my youngest son Tom," said Mrs. Rattle, " whose birf-day is on the very identical morning as Mrs. Shuck's spoilt one's is." " My spoilt son r exclaimed Mrs. Shuck, " you envious wretch ! The whole street knows that your youngest son is the most misehievousest young rascal." A COMMISSIONER—Be quiet, be quiet, my gold woman. No doubt both your sons are perfect angels, pure white crows ; bur we would rather not hear any thing of their virtues. Be good enough, Mrs. Shuck, to proceed with your statement. Mrs. Shuck dropped another rapid curtesy and re sumed—Well, gentlemen, as I was a looking out of the window I saw Mrs. Rattle's son Tom come and stand at his mother's door and look at my son Jemmy as he walked up and down. " It was that as aggrawated Toni," observed Mr. Rattle. Mrs. Shuck—And then I saw him run up to my Jemmy, and take hold of the buttons of his tunic. My son then came to our door, and Mrs. Rattle's boy fol lowed him, and wanted to cut off the buttons. " Oh, you false woman," grinned Mrs. Rattle," my son wanted to do nothing of the sort, he's got plenty of but tons at home." " Plenty on 'em, oneers and twicers,' said Tom, a determined•looking little dog, thrusting his head between the plaintiff and defendant. " Jemmy Shuck's father's a tailor. and I wins all his buttons. " Did you want to cut a button off his tunic, my dear ?" said his mother endearingly to him. " I didn't want to cut a button off nuthink," answered Tom, giving a wicked look at Mrs. Shucks son Jemmy, who quickly slunk behind the shelter of his mother's umbrella. Mrs. Shuck--You young villain, what will become of you ? I stood at the window and heard you say you'd do it, I did. " I was only frightening on him," said the boy laughing. " Nothing of the kind, gentlemen," intimated Mrs. Shuck, " I saw him try to pull off one of the buttons, and I could not stand it-no longer, and so I took up one of my husband's measures and run out, and give the young villain a good basting— " Yes, you nasty cabbage-faced hussey," said Mrs. Rattle, " and I slouced you well for it, I did. It will teach you to beat people's children again after aggra wating 'em with your nasty upstart dressed little varmint, a sending him in his spangles and filligrees to walk up and down before other people's doors." A COMMISSIONER—UnIess you leave off this alter cation, we shall dismiss the case. Finish your story, Mrs. Shuck. Mrs. Shuck—Well, gentlemen, while I was correct ing Mrs. Rattle's son, Mrs. Rattle, who lives just oppo site me, runs out with a quart pot in her hand, dips it in the water as runs from the dyer's at the corner of the street, and begins throwing it over me and my son, and spoilt my son's new clothes. - " I did, I did," vociferated Mrs. Rattle, dapping her hands. " You nasty, filthy wretcb," screamed Mrs. Shuck. And they would certainly have gone at it tooth and nail, bad the Court not interfered. A neighbour, who had witnessed the whole of the affair, and happened to be in Court, stepped forward as a witness, to the great relief of the Court. " In truth, gentlemen," said the neighbour, " Mrs. Shuck and Mrs. Rattle are a pest to our neighbour hood. They are for ever quarrelling about their chil dren, Jemmy and Tom. You have not been told the whole of the case. The fact is that Mrs. Shuck, as I learned from her herself, when she was at fisty-cuffs with Mrs. Rattle, sent her son Jemmy, in his new clothes, to walk up and down before Mrs. Rattle's door to aggravate her. Mrs. Rattle, as she admitted during the bout at fisty-cuffs, sent her son out to roll Jemmy in the dirt. I suppose when he saw Mrs. Shuck at her window, he was afraid to do it. When Mrs. Rattle threw the water over Mrs. Shuck with the quart pot, the latter left off beating the son, and began basting the mother. , They were at it for several minutes, Mrs. Rattle ladling the' dyer's water from the kennel over Mrs. Shuck with the quart pot, and Mrs. Shuck basting Mrs. Rattle with her husband's rule or Yard. " It was measure for measure, at any rate," said a COMMISSIONER. Each of the good ladies was now desirous of explain ing, but the Commissioners dismissed the case, much to the mortification of the tailor's wife, who was thus obliged to put up with the damages of the suit as awarded by Mrs. Rattle, without obtaining the costs thereof at the hands of the Jury ; and she left the Court with unsuitable maledictions against her dexte rous quart-pot-handling neighbour. The latter tbrea. tened, "as sure as she lived, to put Mrs. Shuck into the Ekkelsheharstikal Court." KILRUSH PETTY SESSIONS. g , Wake, dearest, wake 1" TILE SEVEN SLEEPERS.—Sam Weller has rendered immortal the " twopenny-rope" substitute for beds for the houseless wanderers in London. Be it our lot to place on record the straw-strewn sanctum that called Mrs. Collopy owner. In a tumble-down sort of concern " situate, lying, and being" in Malt-house-lane, stands this " Free and Easy when the winds are abroad they appear to meet here, as if by common consent, for a blow-in, and the rain comes, like Sheridan's paraphrase of Coleridge's line— ," Drip 1 drip! drip I —there's nothing here bat dripping I" Rather unpleasant to ho sure,—however, be that as it will, there, in a room 10 feet by 8, is a floor littered with straw, on which any of her Majesty's subjects, not having a better roosting place, and being possessed of the whole sum of one penny ! " Sleep like banners for Pd." The strolling rag-man and the feather-picker—the ped lar—the tinker—the poor woman " wid six father less orphins an' herself in the fallin' sickness, an' the damsel sthrivin' to live be her own honest industherin' thro' the manes ov a basket ov apples" here do congregate ; for Mrs. Collopy's caravansera, like love, knows no distinctions ; " the long-remem bered beggar is her guest," and " tip and go !" as Din would say, is the word. But Kit Kinnane is waiting. MAGISTRATE—WeII, what's your complaint? On the above expressive query reaching Mr. Kin nane's ears he affected, for effect's sake, to take it in another sen s e, and accordingly, leaning heavily on his iron-shod staff, for a tottering, cadaverous, miserable looking little Kinnane he was, he called up a rueful expression of countenance, and commenced a chest shaking cough that would have charmed the auricular nerves of an expectant heir, " Mrs. Molowny—(ugh! ugh !)—oh, murdher in I rish, (ugh! ug•ii !) this thievin' could. What's; toy complaint, is id Oa ! (ugh ! ugh !) Eh thin (hiccup) I have a power of complaints, I yez (ugh !) Mrs. Molowny, God help us, I wish (a heavy fit of cow , hing) I wish i had a dispinsary ticket, for I'm sure I'll spit open ut_last.'" 7 -(A laugh.) . - " Well, well," observed his Worship, you were as saulted by this woman, how did it occur ?" Kit kinnane lifted up his stiff as it invoking the genius of truth, or, as a bystander more poetically re marked, " jest as if he was coin' to the clerk a polthogue on the side ov the head wid id," and declare: he only " teched Mrs. Molowny ever so slightly whin he was startin' from Mts. Collopy's hotel i❑ the mornin'." The accused, a woman of slashing dimensions, now came forward, and admitted that she had given, " Mis ther Kinnane a dawsy shove, because he was full o' thricks an' fidgetty sleep-walkin', so he was, not to ton. Lion singin' through his (in-Imes an' whin she gev him the shove he couldn't stop himself, only stumbiin' over others, an' they plunged at him till he spun out o' the room."—(Great laughter.) Ugh ! ugh ! an' roe so quiet an' peaceable," mut tered Kit Kinnane. " You wor a throuhlesome bligard that time, any how," returned Mrs. Malow n y, g i v i ng h er " b eggars ' cloak , a shake—" Here, get u p," says h e , " y o ur worchip, , an' brill' me a well-aired s hi r t, an ' me dres sin -ease, an' hot wather, till I take a walk be fore breakfast." " Arra, lave off your capers, an' let us take our lawful sleep we're payin' for, honest man,'' says I. Well, your honor, he stud eazy for a minit or so afth er th a t. " E th en , let me out o' this, says he again (he was beteune meselt an' the wall, an' there was a free-stone man acrass our feet). " Let me out o' this, Mrs. Molowny," says he, " an' snore away, then, you're sick a grate hand at id ; you'd sleep wid any man."—(Great laughter.) Kit Kirmane-011 ! rnurdher (ugh ! ugh !) the d—l lam side ways wid you, for one could see the meanin' sh© puts on id. Sure the world knows (Oh ! murdher, who'll giv me a dispinsary ticket ?) thst I only meant she'd bear repose like any man, an"twas thrue for T.. MAGISTRATE—Go away. both of you. " Thank your riverince," simpered, 2.1,1i.5. Malowny; " I'm only sorry you can't hea t ,lad letting out his profession in his sleep, singfri " I am a ol,:'oeggarman, illy. wallet and wattle is all you can see;, , airy an' free ; No riot do I pay, or resave at each :loose, An' I nab a sthray duck now An' then, to be sure. An' its oro wiesha NOV asthore f"—( Laughter.) DUTCH MAIL. GoTTINGEN, SEPT. 16.—The town of Gottiugeu. sent on the 11th of this month, a congratulatory address_ to his Majesty, our most gracious King, on occasion of the happily perforated operation on the Crown Priflat which has filled the town and the whole country with joy. The address concludes with expressing the fervent e wishes of the Magistrates, that the operati on may attended with the most favourable consequen ces, acid thst his Royal Highness may speedily recove r the complete use of his eyes.—Hawburg Borsenlialle, S.pt. 1 9 . FRANKFORT, SEPT. 19.—A Berlin corresp ondent of the Elbeifeld Journal, communicates the following letter, dated St. Petersburg,, the 2d of Septem ber The imperial rescript which orders eighteen AO of the line to sail from Cronstadt, and p roceed to the Archipelago, will doubtless cause some surprisWe ia foreign countries, but that is not the case here. h().." ever has considered with some attention the course followed by our Government, will not be astonished at this measure. This fleet, which has 'seen stationed or f some months in the Baltic, plainly indicated the Wen' tion of the Emperor. In the midst of peace we u h av n e secured the means of making war, as h as uee- f done in Prussia and Austria, by the the Landwehr. Our fleet with respect to the numb er and equipment of the vessels, and the skill of the_ crews in performing their evolutions, has made more progress in the last ten years than in a whole caul preceding. The naval magazine and arsenals ore cent filled with stores, and the sailors and marines attiresl" admirable condition. As for the land troops, it req., much more time to assemble them on the points tbstf system 0 are threatened, on account of the immense e xtent ° the empire. eve This inconvenience has been obviated by Bev. measures, for, independently of the corps of the army that are always moveable in the several provinces, formidable army has been assembled for these two Yet which is supported by the great military colonies' an ready to march in any direction. , S2veral changes have been made among the naval officers ; all those whose health is not vigorous %Ye been removed trom active service and place d in ; depots.—Journal de 1 ,1 1 ankfort, Sept. 20. EVENING EDITIO- THE QUASI SYSTEM• • (From the Gazette de France.) , e When Louis Philipp e ' s G overnmen t was ton s ' et; harassed, his Conservative supporters discovered r p , • phrase, with which they sou g ht to reconcile all difli ca ties—quasi legitimacy. This we arc told to accept as a qu asi benefit; It': being " la reine de monde," reigning over though; ;,"" well as language, and over ev e nt s as well as princire a " o f For ten years we have had a ll the consequ ene fo s i this quasi benefit—a quasi peace, a quasi libertY,aV prosperity. This quasi is an odd p os itio n , appertaining tnotiii;,, in this, that its supporters are n ot altogether la fa v of good, and in fact h a ve n o thi ng decided in their licy. The result w a s, th ere f ore , perfectly na , t ry; They were irresistibly imp e ll e d t owa rds the P cun. which their secret inclinations tended. • hag Revolution has at length prevailed, and since I_2.t come to power we are beset by the following P ia " . A quasi war. A quasi emeute, A quasi dictatorship. A quasi propagandism. A quasi terrorism. A quasi republic, in one word. tweet ) It will thus be seen th a t a j u ste Milieu be- ; 01 . good and evil is a mo ra l c hi mera a nd a downright • possibility. n osit° The faculty of imm o bility b e t we en two ° Pr t he principles—rival bundles of hay—was only g iven t° ass in the fable. h'eb If it be desired that this dangerous quas. , ,, w- 1 , 1 oa ld. all that separates us now from absolute ev" , 6- a - i• cease to trouble France, let us return at once to ~ all Live good. But in the names of reason and logic , ° _,. or o our common rights and interests, let us have oo quasi I • HINT TO COCKNEY SPORTSII-- t at ch At the last meetin g o f t h e B enc h of Maes tri"' ea at,. • Croydon, a person n ame d Th omas Hills was by an information laid under the Game 7. itb Gut• lawfully trespassing upon the lands 01 Mr• teridge, a farmer at Croydon, in pursuit of k nni „," . a t the Mr. Gutteridge being sworn, s t a t e d that — a d the defendant with another person, upon his lan'ra,. da me• defendant had a dog .and gun When he spoke to him he produced his a ddr ess certie at the same time gave Li s r i g ht name an d d London. The other party nanl eiln gave a fa l se dress, and could not be found, and was beating and. .d he •hitl. The defendant- in answer to the charge, s aid to t hain come down from London to a friend's at Strear6sl, have a day's shooting, but not finding any sport, to the request of th e ot h er p erson , w h om h e me t sal' tally, and who was a total stranger to him, went pP Mr. Gutteridge's land, but he declared he hid not " a ( a w n h y Te t n l i : i e n m g . G and, Magistrates utt i e n r i t d a g c e t , saidsaw w a s him. The looking for game at this system vi - l ieadi ' going from London and trespassing 11 - fte it: g p a ie me was a great annoyance to farmers, a nd ai must be put a s t o p t o . A s the offence in quo 0 tto P. been clearly ma d e out t h ey should inflict upon th° fendant th e f u ll pena l ty of forty shillings o d ctlde„. e iva amounting altogether to the sum of two pounds tw .The defendant. shillings and sixpetp cis ion of the BP.nch, and said he hoped the Magi sti l e y would mitiro.ce the penalty, but they told him t would net eigo s appeared terribly annoyed at the...ae:eg reduce the fine one penny. The Aefendant then threw down three sorer eipt , and up or, rece i v i ng th e difference he a t idsked for a rce sca lk to e Tie Chairman told him that a permissin n d out o; the Court was the only receipt he w as • en that to, and the defenant then walked away, declar i ttber I .le would take ve d ry good ► care not to have s uch a day's sport. THE MARKETS• io ns. 49 .t. ;A 46 44 41 0 44 „„„ COUNTRY MARKETS, " heat. Barley. ( Oats. r;eat.s. eel- Quarter. s. to s. Bath ....... ti 4 72 Blandlord --: 60 64 Bridport 68 Chard sfi ( . 8 Gloucester (iB 72 Exe•er Guildford -- 18 el Newbury :I) 74 Reading -- ,50 80 Salisbury 52 69 ShErhorne ,66 72 Shepton Mallet 48 72 Uxbridge W ester 144 70 Winchester 64 71; S. S. 1. to S. 32 39 ar 38 ! 33 36 18 j s tO 50 1 . 6 „ 50 30 ?Ai 32 46 111 27 34 32 37 31 44 32 42 30 36 1 3 , 1 31 30 40 37 43 i fN 33 30 34 26 M , 21 28 32 he 25 33 21 35 24 39 26 30 21 V 4 26 32 32 35 av 46 .5 ° 50 '— 53 34 , 42, f ", 44 .5••• 43 52 3S ieovil 5 6 68 136 40 30 36 i 34 - LEEDS CORN MARKET.— Sept. '2 .2 . .. .0,.• 1 4 7 5 to ? I st Wheat, Norfolk and Suttblk, 601 b. ......................... ni i, • to 71s. •d, York. and Litivoln. 661 b. 13arley, Norfolk and Suffolk ................................... 4 , !: to .his. r . ., , - Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ........................ .; , g 5 ., to ~,c;. 70 , , .. Grinding j. ,.. to •' 4 Beans 63lb. ............................ 4. 5 . ~, :74.. „ 295. , u t0 r,../ Oats, Potatoc --Mealing, I or. —d. to—d Eng. 134• in .''''' ' pet li r , :helling 3ss. to 373. I if. DEVIZES CORN MARKET'. S. 0 a A. Per Sack. s. 4. s. d. P er Q uarter. 5. ",, to , 3 4 0 , iirst 'Wheat ......... 3.") 0 to :-.6 0 Oats 23 . 0 Second - 0 ~ ,53 ird Barley 0 42 0 Bread (per gall. L.. 1 ... :0 11r ~..................... _A . ‘ ar a ie t, t h y e: :f m e a x ny cc o l f le t n h t ep7teet To carefullyGOLtiDnisiSw.VdAsTecConHti_EhaSn. TtGA '' v old accor d a nce with the latest tast e, with Gold Dials, Je'l , s,, a &c., are offered fur s election, p rice Eight Guineas ea. printed warranty will be given. At T. CO .3AVORI"S, co ol* 'Watchmaker, Gold and :•,,ilver,inith, 47, - . Cornhill (' doors from Grac“.lm:ch-street), London. L i e N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased in exctTABLE CANDLESTICKS, snpe7•Torto i 3 for durability, equal in appearance. Table candlesticilso„ inches high, is. per pair; 9 inches high, R 3.; 10 in e' , .. e t . 1:Y • r• per pair ; ditto, with rich shell mountins, 9 inche s ' ll ga c ell' silver i v ,. ,_ great ti I li s i ;trri t ( 7 ,, a fti 7 yrr l i t a . ,ornf) 71'olt'iitIF.,eetirt BURTON, it p aij a 7 r s(i t )l(a i :lN c ine u : l p a ali r vr per pair , snuffer trays, with shell moo ii.ings and ch a ' e and * €: ': iti -1 .: s e . a, .t, i t t :a a tei l ro:g o ectit f :en \ so N; ffo l xr ! oi_:......,_..!lo,Cfailiid,b.te..lsltte::3,e_eitel ft::: the 20th inst., at the Recd 1 1 _OZMINEIII_ 111 W,ISOMMINNIMI 10/1.;•.. ...i...llll.lnrrr"."'"" - .1 11 ' On ory, Bel brorq, ~., of Woodgate. of a son. 7 ice, On the 23d inst., the tadof Dr. D t d ' Ps" y D. urran . a son. , •fe ° I i•I On the 24th inst., at Collegh-terrace Il• ton, the , s tng , t/' T. C. Renshaw, Esq., of Lmeoln'c-inn, of a con. Mro• On the 24th inst., in Theberton-street, Islington, W. Hepworth, of a, daughter. - MARRIED. . , foll'' t-hton, I'l's. G. T 0),;%, la , On the 2Gth of May, at the Mauritius, F. Lieutenant in her Majesty's 12th Regiment, sh ier of f u.' ss r . W Colonel Tidy, C.F,., to Charlotte, only daugt ° West Esq, of P. ie Vale, inst., at Mauritius. a 13 ' On , . the Hie., alland Church , Cernttli,.arlette to t oco rtiot' Kempthor.re, Esq., Lieutenant Indian Na v y . Louisa, etc:est daughter of G. Woolcock, Esq'' House, Bodmin. o f Gren l3l ON the 22d inst., at Glasgow, Tr . Begg. E'cl'' 0 11, anti London, to Agnes, youngest daughter of J. Pe a Gl3 igow. Snli tl ` + Esq., of Calcutta, and of the Priory, ' On the 23d inst ,at Egg Buckland Church, CarsA Jape' Kew , to uth. i youngest daughter of Captain Denman, R•N•9 P l Y ifi o ° , 01 J. '' t On the 23d inst., at Kirkburton, Arthur, s econd s 0 ,40 Ley, Esq., of Durrant House, Devon, to Caroline, Y daughter of T. Hardy, Esq of Birksgate, Yorkshirc-c..prd, On the 24th inst., at St..9Giles'g, Camberwell, S- _ l a te W' , Esq., of Camberwell, to Rose, third daughter o f the liarraud, Esq., of Champion -hill. • h'll ...------ p_ John /D. Otitl le 18 t h i ns t., i n Char D lott ß e-street, Potiland-P lace, L, tewis, Esq., a ge d tit'. On the 20th i ns t., a t S ou th en d, Essex, J. 31iteb ell ' .'ci.' of stree t ' Waterloo-place, Lambeth ,aged 81. On the 22c1 inst., at Feltham-hill, 11.1iddl csex, l' , c , a 69 ' On the 22d inst , Mary, the wife of Mr. :Peirce, Fsegrayner tho wife of Sir Charles Payne, Bart. ri r neY , - -, . e the On the 24th inst., at Walworth, Mrs. f ., • ‘-"' L 'sarall , Ga ,y e e , 4a. On the 24th inst., at Ilorsernonger-lane wife of Mr. J. Keene Governor of that prison, a.. " London 7Trinted and Published by yo 1 i• No. 112. Strand, at ?he Off, ,e, No. f i t 2Als 0,10. , : -' the county of Middles2x.—Friday , ! Pl )tetnber ' MOW) r„ stLir: s(?:°' • i Plitt 10 11 , 844 ob,