The Sun. — London, England, 1840-11-04 00:00:00

!:VENING EDITION. 'nothing but casuistry could justify, and nothing could ! countenance from the State. While such superstitions maintain them but the improper vesting of power in , formerly were agreeable to the general mind of society, the hands of those who do not represent the fair in- t h ey were no t publicly or generally laughed at, but terests of the commun i ty at large—(Applause.) He ; looked on with reverence and awe, and were not only would net consent to be the advocate of the landed in- l countenanced by the State, but frequently made the iciest ; for he eould not join in the opinion that they basis of enactments , and w e re enforced by the terror of were entitled to any protection; nor did he see how I the sword. Individu als ma y still, li ke &r Thoma s then could claim it. It was always his wish that this the More, believe in the Real Presence, but no State in 'question should not be discussed as a manufacturing tor an agricultural question. It was in fact a question I Europe would now behead a man fur either denying or of the free labour of this country against the landed entertaining such a belief. What was formerly the ge interest of this country ; and he never felt more con- neral rule is now the exception, and the Reviewer, cap vinced of anything than that this great question was tivated apparently by leis own striking illustrations, con es() more a tenant's question than a question of parties eludes from the exception, in the teeth of many facts, living in another planet. The interest of the tenant that the rule still holds good. Here is one great error. wes ejee interest of the consumer ; for though a producer, Now, let us notice a general fact with which his doctrine be viTa after all a consumer. It had been asked by our is incompatible. opponents, " What is to become of this country if we are He says _ to become dependent to any extent for the necessaries of " One reservation indeed must be made. The books life upon foreign countries ?" His answer to that was, and traditions of a sect may contain, with propositions to tell the parties to look at our cotton trade.—( Hear, strictly theological, other propositions, purporting to rest 'bear.) Not more than one-fifth of the cotton eon on the same authority, which relate to physics. If new *tamed in this country was of the growth of British colo discoseries should throw discredit on the physical propo enes ; the rest came from foreign countries; d an sitions, the theological propositions, unless the) can be what had those individuals done in Parliament who separated from the physical propositions, will share iu that talked so much against our depending upon foreign coup- discredit. Ia this way, undoubtedly, the pregn so of scieece tries? A case came to his (Mr. Phillips') own know ledge last year, exemplifying the feelings with which may indirectly serve the cause of religions troth. The Ilin other Governments regarded us. A great number of doe mythology, for example, is bound up with a most ab surdgeography.eorap4hy. Every young Brahmin, therefore, who English merchants at Naples, bearing that wheat was learns geography in our celleges learns to mile at the rising in England, and finding that there was a surplus Hindoo mythology." stock there, entered into negotiations to purchase on He also H .+ The geograplucal frontier between the two religions says— 'contract a very considerable quantity of w h ea t, to b e shipped for this country. The wheat was rea dy t o b e shipped, when in stepped the Gov ernment , an d sa id, " No, has continued to run almost precisely where it ran at the ' you are a nuisance; you shall not s en d thi s w h eat awa y. What close of the Thirty Years War ;7 nor has Protestantism are we to do when it is gone? Y ea h ave ra i se d t h e pr i ce of given any roofs of that expansive ,power which has bean wheat' already." The w h ea t was actua ll y stoppe d ; the ascribed to it. But the Protestant . ; lioasts, and most justly, merchants applied to him (M r . Phili ps ), an d h e wentthat wealthand intelligence have increased wea civilization , far more on , the northern than onthe southern side of the eo Oevernment upon the subject, accompanying a that bounda, v ; that countries so little 'favoured by nature as deputation of the me rc h an t s , t o s t ate t h e i r l oss ; Scotland and Prussia are now among the most flourishing but to this hour not a single bush e l of esxample of the nuisance that our Corn-laws were to other palaces of Greece are deserted—while banditti infest the beautiful shores of Campania—while the fertile sea-coast Jnations.--s( Hear, hear.) Instead of taking corn of them of the Pontifical state is abandoned to buffaloes and wild readily and steadily, like any other article of commerce, boars. It cannot be doubted that since the I.6tti century we exclude it for leisg periods, and then go to these coon- the Protestant nations—fair allowance being made for tries by sudden plunges from time to time, and so arc voted physical disadvantages—have made decidedly greater pro fs nuisance from one end of Europe to the other. The eress than their neighbours The progress made by foreign trade of this country was becoming daily more those nations in which Protestantism, though net aid more jeopardized ; the free exercise of capital was finally successful, yet maintained a long struggle and easeorsting d a ily more an d more restricted; and, here we left permament traces has generally been c insiderable. were, with all th e means and appliances to boot, that any But when we come to the Catholic land, to the civilised nation could require, yet, for want of that free part of Europe in which the first spark of Reformation agency *at we had a right to possess, to buy and sell was trodden out as soon as it appeared, and from which where we please, we were allowing our foreign trade proceeded the impulse which drove Protestantism back, to be lost, particularly with the continent of Europe, we find best,very Iprogress, and m the at a E )%ir which was supplying itself with those commodities whole a retrogression. Compare Denmark and Portugal. whiel; we formerly supplied and might j et do, if we had When Luther began to preach, the superiority of the Danes that which all the, advocates of free trade so earn estly desire.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He " , . , 4" , was unquestionable. At present the interiority ot• the :act with au argument so curious, that he must mention it Danes is no less so. Compare Edinburgh and Florence. before ho sat down. One Honourable Member had Edinburgh has owed less to climate, to soil, and to the - argued—and to look at him an fostering care of rulers, than any capital, Protestant or y one would have su posed Catholic. In all these respects Florence has been singu 4iirn to be serious—that if the Corn-law should be littered, lady happy, yet whoever knows what Florence and Edin it would be a serious evil, for we should be short of straw ! burgh were in the generation preceding the Reformation --(Laughter.) We should convert arable land into pas and what they are now, will acknowledge that sonic great sure land ; and although we might find that we could ini port foreign wheat, it did not follow that we could import cause has during the last three centuries operated to raise straw with it.—(Laughter.) The people must inform one part of the European family, and to depress the other. Compare the History of England and Spain, curing the themselves on these subjects, and not rely on their repro- last century. In arms, arts, sciences, letters, commerce, sentatives, reauy of whom they must always suspect— agriculture, the contrast is most striking. The distinc ( Laughter)—and if their representatives could not get a non is not confined to this side of the Atlantic. The 'nearing it, the House of Commons, the people must make of these petitions, and the numbers signing them, in their own voice heard there by their petitions.--( Hear.) colonies planted by England in America have immeasure- Ile had great pleasure in seeing the progress in the num- ably overgrown in power those planted by Spain, yet we have no reason to believe that at the beginning of the '4):::* sixteenth century, the Castilian was in any respect in- Teferenee to the repeal of the Corn-laws. la the Session farior to the Englishman. Our firm belief is. that the of 1669 lie had Lad the honour of presenting a petition North owes its great civilization and prosperity chiefly 1 from Olenchester, signed by 39,679 individuals. —( Hear. ) to he: moral effects of the Protestant Reformation, and To mark the progress . which had been made with refs that the decay of the Southern countries of Europe, rence to this question In the public mind since that time, i to be mainly ascribed to the great Catholic revival." lee might state that in the Session recently closed he had We have in the first of these two passages an admit p' emated another petition from Manchester, signed by .56.765 persons.—(Applause.) Then there was a classthat theological. doctrine or superstition will be sion a which always had his sympathy—the unfortunate hand- destroyed by the progress of knowledge~ if loom weavers. From them, in 1839, he had received a posed to physical truth , and • we have in the second petition signed, he thought, by upwards of 4,000 passage a collection of proofs that the Papacy, or the w ravers. In the last Session he presented another, Catholic Church, is inimical to the most important of which was signed by 5,144, being an increase of about all truths, the physical welfare of man. Such proofs sop signatures in that body since the preceding year. w ill an d must continually accumulate, and the reserve -( Hear, bear.) He was sure that what had induced time mentioned by the Reviewer will, in the progress of so many of our fellow-townsmen to sign petitions society, teach all men to laugh at the pretensions of the against the Corn-laws, had been that appalling state of Papacy or the priesthood. We can no more believe distress by which they bad been surrounded since that that such facts will not make men reject the dominion great question was mooted two years ago in that place. He thought that already privation had reached a point be- o P f the riesthood, than we can believe that the different you'd which any one with a heart would be anxious it should seasons have no influence on making them wear clothing. act go —( Hear, hear.) It was a question, then, which Our hope of that alternate and no very distant result seam(' home to every individual who earned his livelihood is strengthened by some observations made by the writer by the sweat oa r his brow, and which must come home to of the first article in the Review. In the notice of every working man throughout the whole of the British M. de Tocqueville's Democracy in AMerica, it is satis- Island : and the sooner we could revert to a sound and factorily proved that there is a progress towards demo butithy state of things, the sooner we might expect to see cracy or equality in all the societies of the civilized a happy and contented people. world. In fact, nature has created mankind with a illr. J. C. DYER proposed " The Anti-Corn-law Asso- rough equality, and her laws to preserve her creations ciatlons;" and the toast was responded to by Mr. LAW- P iave a continual tendency to put an end to the mono- Reece HEYWORTII; but the length at which we have re- ,plies and , . . potted the previous proceedings, precludes us from giving usurpation w u s hi di the ambition of individuals even an outline of their speeches. and classes prompts them to erect. Democracy or equa- The whole of the proceedings passed off with great Pity is congenial to her laws, and must, however Inter order and regularity. We have never seen an assemblage rupted, in the long run prevail. It is at the same of between 800 and 900 persons conducted so quietly, time proved, both by Nl.de Tocqueville and theßeviewer, during a long evening ; and this, which has now become that " a democratic state of society evidently tends to a distinguishing feature of the great Anti-Corn-law meet- give the strongest impulse to the taste for physical well ings, is highly credit to all concerned, aryl must have its being." Thus society has a democratic tendency ; weight in influencing public opinion, as to the cause itself. the democratic tendency strengthens the desire fur physical enjoyment, and the Papacy or the priest hood, being inimical to social prosperity, must be continually in collision with knowledge. In those circumstances we find one of the strongest passions of mankind—in fact, the very passion which prompts the priesthood in their exertions—enlisted against their dominion. That passion is itself a very im portant physical truth opposed to the dominion of the Papacy, and, like every other passion, it will be richly suggestive of minor truths, directly contradictory of those propositions on which the Papacy seeks to per petuate and strengthen its dominion. We rely on the influence of these truths, and believe that they will in the end be more powerful than the Papacy. On these grounds we demur to the doctrines of the Reviewer. The Papacy has not stood its ground since the days of Elizabeth, and the doctrines it teaches, on the Reviewer's chewing, are contradicted by some of the most important and most influential moral truths. There is good reason, therefore, to hope that the Papacy or priestcreft is destined at no distant day to perish, nor is it difficult to conceive in what way. We have thought it our duty to overturn, as far as we can, the basis of the distrust, and the de spair of the ultimate triumph of human reason, on which the Reviewer has erected a system of scepti cism favourable to the continuance of superstition. Now that we have briefly performed our task, we may express a hope that the enlightened Secretary at War, to whose pen the review is, we believe, justly attri buted, will never be a party to chaining man to a system of superstition, lest liberty should make him wild. With the narrower question, at least narrower in terms, which the Reviewer discusses between Protes tantism and Catholicism, we have no desire to meddle Protcstantistn, whether it be Church of Englandism, Presbyterianism, Wesleyism, Baptistism, or any other of the various isms into which the dissent from the Pa pacy has branched, is, in the essential quality of subdu ing and mastering the mind of other men to those who teach certain doctrines, appealing to our future hopes and fears—or in priestcratt, in no case distinguishable from the Papacy, except that the latter had a far better organised system of government than all the others. Its polity is described by the Reviewer " as the very masterpiece of human wisdom." Nevertheless it has, like all things human, gone to decay. Its opponents have contributed to the progress of opulence, by want ing its power. They have been obliged to shut their eyes to what they regarded as heresies, because they could not, like it, aided by the State, persecute men unto death. Not their doctrines but their enforced tole ! ration, nothing positive in their dogmas but their latitu• dinarianism, has been favourable to the development of knowledge and of wealth. In these circumstances, there is a negative recommendation of Protestaotism, which, wanting the arrogance of infallible assurance as claimed by the Church of Rome, has a less hold of the mind than that Church, but can otherwise find nothing in the progress of intelligence to add to its power. We are rather pleased than otherwise to see it proved in the Review that Protestantism has not extended while the Papacy has surely gone to decay. At pre sent, all that recommends Protestantism to enlightened people—its freedom, its latitudinarianism, its toleration —is discarded by our priesthood. The Church of En E , , land, like the Church of Rome, has had a revival, of which Dr. Blornfield is the Caraffa, and Mr. Gladstone the Loyola. At the end of three centuries the Re viewer can demonstrate that the revived and purified Papacy has been greatly inimical to human welfare ; but so long a time will not elapse before our people become convinced that the present holy zeal of our Caraffas and Loyolas, and of all our Church-building and Church-ex tending Jesuits, lay and clerical, is no more beneficial to society than was the zeal which revived, purified, and extended the Papacy after the first blush of Luther's great success. THE UNFOUNDED DESPAIR OF THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. On a somewhat more careful examination of" the spirited and eloquent notice of Ranke's History of the Popes," in the late number of the Edinburgh Review, to which we adverted on the 23d instant, we find a passage, or rather, a train of reasonings, more brilliant than sound, the fallacy of which requires to be noticed, and exposed. The Reviewer, as we then mentioned, maintains that the " Papacy is not in decay—not a mere antique, but full of lite and youthful vigour." " The Catholic Church," he boldly assures us, "is sill sending forth to the furthest ends of the earth missionaries as zealous as those who landed in Kent with Augu,tine ; and still confronting hostile kings with the same spirit with which she confronted Atila. The number of her children is greater than in any former age. The mem bers of her communion are certainly not fewer than a hun dred and fifty millions ; and it will be difficult to show that all the otherChristisn sects united amount to a hundred and twenty millions. Nor do we see any sign which indicates that the te. mof her long dominion is approaching. She saw the commencement of all the Governments, and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world ; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the cud of them all." is we then said, these remarks are just with a re :servation. The Papacy itself is no longer the Papacy of the oarly ages. The Catholic Church is no longer the gersecuting fire-and-faggot body against which our forefathers fought. She has no longer any temporal power, which, united with her spiritual power, made her more than a match for the surrounding States. She is eon a spiritual power only, depending for her existence on the success of her unaided appeal to the hopes and fears of a future life. The words Papacy and Catholic Church, as used by the Reviewer, mean, the rat, less Che Pope of Rome, and the long order of priests - who acknowledge him as their head, than priestcraft in general, ►raving a strong worldly interest in founding and anaintaining a dominion over men's minds, and ever an live in seeking means of aggrandisement ; and the second, less that Church than religion in general —the ignorance of man—and therefore his vague lopes and fears of a future life, which has been :from the beginning and will be to the end of time. To tell us that priestcraft was before the Saxon set foot in Britain, and religion " may exist in undiminiihed vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall in the luidst of a vast solitude take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul," is trier* to clothe in rhetorical phrases the admitted and undoubted fact, that pricstcraft has always prevailed, and that man will always be prone to worship, from his immovable ignorance of the life after death. But the Reviewer, not contented with stating in his zrhetorical way that man will always be religious, though onvernments change and empires pass away, goes on to express Isis doubts whether the mind will ever throw off the dominion of priesteraft, and comes to the despairing conclusion," that the progress of knowledge will not be neceeserily fatal to the Papacy (meaning, as tie under srand, priestcraft), which has stood its ground in spite of the immense progress which has been made since the ide7s of queen Elizabeth." He adds— " During the last seven centuries the public mind of Europe has made constant progress in every department of secular knowledge. But in religion we can trace no constant progress. The ecclesiastical history of that long 'period is a history of movement to and fro. Four times since the authority of the Church of Rome was established in Western Christendom has the human intellect risen sip against h er y o k e . T w i ce she remained completely victorious. Twice she came forth from the conflict bear iag the marks of cruel wounds, but with the principle of life gill strong within her. . When we reflect on the tre mendous as cults she has sun tired, we find It difficult to con ceive in what way she is to perish." Such a conciwiott is calculated to disheart en those who look forward to emancipate the human mind from priesteraft, and struggle to arrive at that goal. It seems a duty, therefore, in those who have more Confid ence titan the Reviewer in human reason, and brighter hope of thefuture, to state the grounds of the faith that is in Lem. L: t us first observe that the Papacy, whether the Word lei taken mean priest sose or to in its restricted ( 'raft, has nat stood its ground since thee both. I t i s not yet comp l ete l y swe pt away, day's uotf has acceded a considerable distance towards annihilation. The po.ve r of the griesthoed every where questioned, s ome countri es over th rown , in most despoiled of the a dependent property it once enjoyed, and reduced to dependen ce on the State, is undoubtedly in every part of Europe ileiuelt less than it was in the days of Elizabeth. The iestinces which the Reviewer quotes of n:odern arperstition, " the prophecies of Brothers, the miracles •1 Prince Hohenlohe, the success of Johanna South tote, the vagaries of Mr. Irving and his friends, have tbi , to distinguish them from similar examples of super /6w times, that they ..re the exceptions to tie gcne e l l, condition of the mind of society ; they are pc blicly laughed at by the majority, and receive 1p Lord Segrave gives a grand entertainment at Pe keley Castle, Gloucestershire, to-day, to the Glou cester and Berkeley troops of Yeomanry Cavalry. On Friday his Lordship leaves for his villa at Cheltenham, for the bu nt i ng season. His Lordship's stagbounds removed Loin Berkeley Cas tle to Cheltenham on Saturday last. ELECTRICA L CLOCK.—A German artist now in London isaboutto take out a patent for tile invention ft of a clock w orked only of a pendulum, luY m by electricity. Th e machine, whi c h is remarkabl e chic f or its ext r e me s i mp li c ity, i s compose d su o e n h e a large wheel, two escapements and a quadrat ure . , suppose, howeve r , t h at a great see pinion a n d a w h ee l f orm t h e corn re the visible parts. We must a . w h e T e l h e a n pendulumd the qua d a r t a t e u a r e c h , munication betwe en t hi s v t h i b o r u a g t i h o a t h e c s a e a s e e r : e a n n o e t o t o b e r the escapements to advance th e I great wheel one tooth, which we find, on exa rthis mov e m en t h as a As pause, making the dead secon d .there is n o me t a lli c i mov;ng power to set the machine going, supply m i n i n u, what keeps up the motion tthe pendulu m ( which is almo st out of p ro p orti on with th e clock) de scends into a c ase, and there, at each vibration, the b a ll or body, •Allich is furnished with a conduetor, approaches pl alternately two po les, to which voltaic piles sot m lizt e t an tl s ic ort n h d e ul e u l ra cc , tr w ic hiPtey alter _ n y oncetheir putlti portion uiciioitioeille,ertertiaciiy, it by re t ains nately drawn from the two poles. THE SUN, LONDON', WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1810. ponsibility for the generals, superior officers, and others, who would not remedy the evil by proceeding instantly against the perturbators. Notice is given of all that pre cedes to this corps d'armee, in order that the present order may be of full effect. The slightest infraction of the injunctions, which have for object to preserve union between every corps of the army, will not be tolerated. The superior officers are expressly commanded to take care that no dissension is created amongst the troops, and that 110 one be allowed to canvass the different line of con duct pursued under such and such circumstances by such and such a corps d'armee. If, forgetting the respect which is due to the orders of the General-in-Chief, any one I dared to foment dissension or to excite one body against I another, the General commanding is to cause the offender to be incarcerated in the nearest fortress to the place where the regiment may be stationed, and to forward a report thereof forthwith. ."BARTHOLOME GAYMAN, "` Col. and Adjt.-Gencral.'" MANIFESTO OF THE INFANTE DON FRAN CISCO DE PAULA. Spaniards,—As scon as her Majesty the Queen Donna Maria Christina, my well-beloved sister, resigned the Re gency into the hands of the Council of Ministet's, and re commended ber august daughters my nieces to the pro tection of Spanish loyalty—the double duty which the Constitution conferred,upon me, the tics of blood and the interests of the nation, imposed an obligation upon me hich I could not postpone, and which it is not con sistent with my character to dofer—l cannot but ac knowledge the sacred obligation which the Government of the State and the future:destiny of the Royal or phant7, which the nation reveres as the holy ark of peace, and of its future prosperity, which the voice of nature claims, the laws decree, and public Convenience points nut to me. I formerly renounced with as much confidence as I now reclaim this office, though I had received from my infancy so many proofs of the love and fidelity of my coun t—illicit. Natural law does not deprive the children of Kings of the benefits of the common law. The obligation which the same Constitution assigns as a principle to ap point them guardians, proves in an incontestible manner the course to be pursued, for it would be contrary to all principles that the Royal family should be denied the rights which belong to all other citizens. The national guar dianship is an affectionate expression of loyalty, and not the exercise of a mere trust. The duties of a guardian ought to be effective, and the rights which are conferred by guardianship arc placed under the safeguard and indi vidual responsibility. It is not less clear that the right I have to reclaim the guardianship of my august nieces, Qdeen Isabella 11. and the Infanta Donna Maria Luisa, is specific and declared so by law. Those who drew up the Constitution of 18.37, and , with such a laudable solicitation framed our poiitical sys tem, did not foresee the possibility of the present case. They determined the modifications of the supreme autho rity according to the different stations of the persons in vested with it, but they did not point out with whom the guardianship of the daughters of the late King should re main, fans,. the Recency between the cessation of the functions of the guardian and the assembling of the Cortes. but, it the CuThstitution has not provithid for this con- cingency, our •ancient and venerable laws supply the defi cicncy, and may be considered the necessary complement to our political code. By those laws lam by ►ight the legitima . te guardian, until - the Cortes, in the exercise of their privileges, shall have declared who has a right to ex crcise that duty. The law 23, title 16th, part 7, declares that the nearest relative is entitled to be the guardian of an urphan. The text of the law 3d, in the same title, is still inure explicit—" We command," declares this law, " that the nearest relative shall be entrusted with the guardian ship of the persons and properties of orphans." In fine, the law 11 sums up in a clear and expressive manner the entire spirit of the laws relating to guardians in the fol. lowing words :—" If there arc sevoial guardians to au orphan, and if disputes should arise amongst them, we de clare that one of them shall be appointed by the Judge to act for the others." It would amount to more than a personal animosity against me to deprive me of the right which the law has given me. The Council of Ministers, which now exer cise the functions of guardians to her Majesty the Queen Isabella and the Infanta Donna Luisa, cannot reunite the duties of guardian and Regent, because the Consti tution forbids that the duties of guardian and Regent should be intrusted to the same person. My exclusion would resound through Europe as a proof that a stain has been endeavoured to be attached to my name, and from which Providence has preserved me in tact. I confess I am animated by a personal desire to obtain a national victory over my defamers. This, together with my love for my family, stimulates me to give publicity to my wishes, because my silence might afford an opportu nity for equivocal interpretations. I protest against being stimulated by any ambitious motives. My sole object is to fulfil a sacred duty with zeal and patriotism. My object is to surround my well-beloved nieces with an affectionate and anxious attention to their wishes, to supply the place of a father to them, and to unite myself to my country in closer bonds, and by those means to merit th e confidence KHIVA. October, 1840:) of the nation, of which it has been attempted to deprive me by a malignant influence. My intentions arc pure ;no paltry ambition animates my breast. I am governed by those principles of justice and freedom which have been my spring of action during my entire life. In fine, Spaniards, I reclaim the guardianship of my august nieces as a duty which the tics of kindred impose upon me, and a right which the laws of the country have conferred upon me. I reclaim it in order to devote all my energies to the service of my Queen and of my country. I claim it because my exclusion would be a direct offence to me. I claim it because my conscience assures me, as a Spaniard and a Prir.ce, that I have always endeavoured to deserve the confidence of the people. Condemned by a cruel fatality to inaction, I have seen myself removed from the field of action, where I might have partaken of the perils and the triumphs of my countrymen. The new era which opens for all would appear to be closed against rne. My resolution to enter it is a sacrifice which I make, and this sacrifice i , the best proof of the purity of my intentions. FRANCISCO DE PAULA ANTONIO. Paris, Oct. 25, 1840. No violence, no gesture, but a simple exclamation with Due I voice of " Silence I" put an end to what was probably in tended as a political demonstration. The second circumstance may be called the striking episode of the evening, for it was a fracas in which the well-known Emile de Girardin, the editor of the Presse, received before the whole audience some slaps on the face from Bsrgeron, of pistol-shot notoriety. An ex planation of the cause of this strange exhibition is neces sary. The day after the last attempt on the King's life, the Presse (and with some reason) attributed the atro cious act of Darmes to the incendiary writings of the re volutionary Journals. It asked how was it possible to be a stonished at such abominable assassins appearing again on the scene when Bergeron was one of the writers of the Siecle? The Siecle is, you are aware, the organ of M. Odilon Barret, or the Left, and Bergeron writes in that paper under the signature of Jules Pages, as also in the IVational, the republican print. I need scarcely add that you must remember Bergeron as having been tried and ac quitted for firing a pistol shot at Louis Philippe, being the first essay on that Monarch's life. Bergeron escaped through the Jury putting a charitable construction as to whether the pistol contained a bullet. M. Bergeron, feel ing himself aggrieved at the article in the Presse, e hich he considered to be a public denunciation of him, sent two of his friends to demand satisfaction. M. Emile de Girardin, in a letter to the seconds of Bergeron, re fused the meeting on the ground that the editor had simply stated a fact, and that he had not exceeded the le gitimate grounds of fair discussion, Here the matter rested till last night, Bergeron, however, giving out to his friends that he would chastise Girardin on the first occa sion. This presented itself last night at the musical fes tival held at the Opera. M. Emile de Girardin was in the galcrie, on the cote droit, looking at the stage. By his side sat his clever wife, who writes under a male sign:- ture the witty feuillelons of the Presse. M. Bergeron was seen to enter, and he slapped M. Girardin on each side of his face. Some persons said that it was only a gentle tap. This reminds me of the person who said to an anti-duellist that his kicking around his own park should be very gentle. " Gentle kicking !" retorts he ; "my park is five miles around." M. Bergeron's tap might have been gentle, but it was in the presence of royalty, rank, and fashion. The Duke do Montpcnsier, Louis Philippe's youngest son, was a spectator of the scene. Madame Girardin screamed and fell upon M. Bergeron, calling him an assassin, a lecke, &c. Many persons, mistaking the identity of Bergeron, said, " What a frightful spectacle, a wife beating her own husband 1" I, in common with half the house, rushed to the rear of the galerie. Berge ron bad rushed off "Ii s'est sauve," was the universal cry. Then followed a confusion of tongues which is in describable. Political passions were roused, and mutual defiances were exchanged. An individual affair became menacing, and a general row was at one moment feared. Calm was at length restored, and the assault began to be to be coolly canvassed. There was little sympathy ex pressed for Girardin in the foyer. He killed the unf,n'tu nate Armand Carrel in a duel, a man who died lamented by men of all parties, a stern Republican, but a noble heart. The attack of Bergeron was not defended. It is termed a yuetapens, or surprise, at which Frenchmen are always very indignant. The importance of thisfracas is that it will revive the most deadly passions between rival editors„ and there will be personal conflicts arising out of disputes in the political arena. The Presse represents the Court party, and champions of the Republicans will not be wanting to provoke hostile meet ings. It is said that Girardin intends to appeal to the laws for redress—he will not give a meeting to Bergeron. You may regard this episode as being more of a farce than of a tragedy, but here it is looked tipo4 in a very serious light. By way of postscript, I must add that the Duke d'Au male, as well as the Duke de Montpensier, were present at the assault on M. de Girardin. Thiers and Remusat, the ex-Ministers, were also in the boxes ; and Count Mon talivet, the Intendant of the Civil List, was insulted by Bergeron's friends. Nothing is talked of in Paris but this fracas. M. Girardin has declared that if Bergeron will give Lim his word of honour that he did not intend to fire at the King he will give him the meeting. This is impossible, as Bergeron boasts always among his friends of the pistol shot-affzir. (From the Journal de St Petersburgh of the 12th (24th) The Aide-de-Camp, General Perowsky, has caused the following notification to be published at Orenbourg, on the re-establishment of our relations with Khiva:— " The declaration put forth on the 14th November, 1539, exposed the motives which determined the Emperor to undertake a military expedition against Khiva. This expedition bad for its object to compel the Khivans, by force of arms, to satisfy the just demands of the Imperial Government—to give up the Russian prisoners retained in slavery at Khiva—to put an end to the depredations and excesses committed upon the confines of the empire, and to protect for the future the rights aad interests of Russian subjects from all aggression. " This measure of repression,even before it was entirely accomplished, sufficed to show the Khivans that a longer obstinacy in their hostility towards Russia would necessa rily bring upon them the most disagreeable results for their country. Appreciating from that time in their true light the real interests of his territory, the Khan of Khiva hastened to submit to the magnanimity of the Emperor, after having first of all satisfied, without any conditions, the principal demands of Russia. In the month of July last he published a firman, forbidding the various tribes under his authority, on pain of severe punishment, to com mit any act of brigandage or violence upon the frontiers of the empire, or to detain any Russian subjects in captivity. " The Khan, at the same time, sent into Russia one of our officers who had been arrested at Khiva, declaring for mally to that person that he was ready to offer all the re paration demanded by the Emperor. In token of the sincerity of his intentions, he also assembled awl set at liberty the Russian prisoners dispersed over his territory, granted them pecuniary relief, and sent them into Russia accompanied by an ambassador. The prisoners and the Khivan ambassador, Ataniaz-Hodja-Reiss, strived at Gourieff on the 12th of September. " Learning that the Khivans had thus purely and simply satisfied the principal object of our demands, his Imperial Majesty condescended to admit the Khivan ambassador into St. Petersburg, to release the Khivan merchants ar rested in Russia, to restore their goods which had been sequestrated, to grant to such of them as were in want the necessary pecuniary means to enable them to return into their own country, and to authorise the re-establish ment of commercial relations with Khiva, which had been for some time interrupted. As regards the measures ne cessary to be taken to place the security of this commerce upon a firmer basis, they will be considered hereafter, on the termination of the negotiations which are about to be opened between the Imperial Government and the Khan of Khiva. •' I have made it my duty to make these intentions of his Imperial Majesty known to the inhabitants of the provinces confided to me. (Signed) " The Military Governor of Orenbourg. " TheAid-de-Camp General PEROWSKY." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,-I take the liberty of addressing a few lines to you, as the public friend of humanity, and cnclo;e a small subscription for the humane cabman, No. 1,161, mentioned in your Sun, of Friday, Oct. 30, 1840, which forms such a strong contrast to the unchristian conduct of the " Westminster Hospital," tne medical " shop in Tothill-street," " the Lying-in Hospital in the York-road, Lambeth," " the Lambeth Workhouse," the " St. James's Workhouse," and the " Institution in Portugal -street, Lincoln's-Inn-fields." At last this humane cabman met with the Christian Inspector Medlicott at the Bow-street station-house, who in stantly dispatched a constable to St. Giles's workhouse, where the poor suffering woman was at last admittted, but not till the poor little infant had died for want of kindness and proper assistance. Had this case occurred in some island inhabited by what are sometimes called savages, England's kind hearted people would be the first to send a missionary to such an ignorant, unfortunate island, but as this has occurred in the very centre of the metropolis of bene volent England, I hope it may lead to the erection of another of the many noble institutions which make my beloved country so justly dear to all her inhabitants. May I venture to suggest, through the medium of your excellent paper, the erection and endowment of a free institution, similar to that excellent one, " The Sailor's Home " I would call it " The Mother's Home," where nurses, &c., should be provided for all individuals requiring similar care to the poor woman named " Griffin. I wish the Bishop of London would take this subject into consideration, as I am sure it would be a great blessing to his good City of London, and would tend to prevent one of the most distressing of crimes— that of destroying little infants—when the unhappy mothers, from distress of mind and body, suffer a tem porary insanity. Hoping your benevolent feelings will excuse ray tres passing so long on your time, I am, Sir, (For the last two months) Your Constant Reader, A MOTHER. Subscriptions received by the Editor of the Sun Newspaper, for the benevolent Cabman No. 1,161 A mother A Grandmother 1 0 A Daughter I also felt much grieved for a poor lady, " sister to a Captain in the Army," who was sent " to prison for being accused of begging, and seen selling pencils in the street. Surely some other place of refuge might have been found for such a Foor distressed stranger from our sister island—she came from Belfast. The account was headed Marlborough -street PolicoiOffic.r, I think. DRAYTON MANOR —The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, B er t., M . P ., and Lady Pcei take their &- picture this week for town. The Hen. Baronet will not be absent beyond ten days, and shortly after a party will meet for the Christmas, PREVENTION OF STEAM-PACKET COLLI SIONS.—Tne Corporation of the Trinity House has deemed it right to frame and promulgate the following rules, •• which, on communication with the Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty, the Elder Brethren find have Leon already adopted in respect of steam-vessels in her Majesty's service." Rule first—" When steam-vessels on different courses must unavoidably or necessarily cross so near that by continuing their respective courses there would be a risk of coming into collision, each vessel shall put her helm to port,' so as always to pass on the Icl3-.l.ird side of each other." Rule second—" A steam-vessel passing another in a narrow channel must always leave the vessel she is passing on the larboard hand." FRANCE. (From the French Papers of Monday.) The Courrier Francais mentions an on slit that the Duke de Broglie is to succeed M. Guizot in the embassy to the Court of St. James's. _ . The Presse states that Count Mathieu de la Reclorte is recalled from his embassy to Madrid, and is to be replaced by a Charge d'Affaires, that being the title of the Spanish diplomatic agent accredited to the French Government. The Constitutionnel mentions a rumour of M. Salvandy being nominated to this -post. The Marquis de Lavalette, who was recently charged with two diplomatic missions to London, has been made an officer of the Legion of Honour. We quote the following from the Gazette des Deu.r !blondes :—" It is said that the vacancy in the Vice-Ad mirals, occasioned by the promotion of Baron Roussin to the rank of Admiral, will not be filled up till after the creation of a reserve corps in the navy, similar to that which already exists in the army. There will then be five vacancies, and consequently as many promotions, at • the disposal of the Minister of the Marine. Baron Rous sin would unquestionably have the command of the Me diterranean fleet, if the squadrons now in that sea were united ; basing for the chief of his staff Vice-Admiral Baudin, under whose orders there would be three divisions, commanded by Rear-Admirals Hugon, La Susse, atol Lalonde. A fourth division would he got ready in two or three months, and placed under the orders of the Prince de Juinviiic, who, on his return from St. Helena, is ex pected to be created a vice-admiral. Thus France would have afloat in the Mediterranean, early in January, twenty two ships of the line and fifteen frigates. A letter from Trieste of the 20th ultimo, in the Austrian , Observer, notices the receipt of communications from Alexandria dated the Gth, Beyrout the 9th, and Athens the 11th, announcing that the whole coast of Syria, in cluding Bey rout, but with the exception of Saint Jean d'Acre, where, it is said, Ibrahim Pacha was, has fallen into the hands of the Allies. "On receiving intelligence of their success," it is added, " Mehemet Ali sent his son, Said Bcy, to Cairo to induce the National Guard of that city to march upon Syria. Not only did thin corps object to move, but even refused to comply with the demand of Said Bey to deliver up to him the arms it bad received from the Pacha. The Vi:eroy was rendered so uneasy by this conduct, that be had determined to go in person to Cairo, being mistrustful of the commander of the National Guard, and therefore anxious to disarm the population." THE EVENTS IN SYRIA. ( From Galiguani's Messenger.) Yesterday having been All- &ints'-day, several of the Paris journals do not appear this morning, and in those which do appear there are no leading articles of import ance. The National makes the news of the progress of the insurrection in Syria the ground of a new and vio lent attack upon the late as well as the present Govern ment for abandoning Mehemet Ali to his own resources, after having spoken of him as an ally, and led him to expect support, and sees, in the announcement of the Emir Li:schir's departure from Syria for England, an indication that the English are rt solved to turn the tide of event in Syria to their own account, by exercising over it the control of conquerors. As the circumstance:, which led to the forced or voluntary expatriation of the Emir Beschir arc not stated is the telegraphic despatch, it is really impossible to form a correct opinion as to thy part taken by the English in this affair ; consequently the observations of the National may be regarded as premature. The possibility is, that the Emir having remained faithful to the cause of Mehemet Ali, and the insurrection amongst the tribes over which he ruled hiuing gained ground, he has been compelled to take refuge in the camp of the Al. lies against the popular reaction, and being at the same time exposed to the vengeance of the Sultan, whose firmer he had disregarded, his absence from Syria became necessary for his own 'safety. Why he should have chosen so diAdni a point as England for his place of residence does indeed appear singular ; but speculation upon his motives is hardly permitted whilst we are ignorant of all but thi main fact of his loss of power and his flight. The Consti tutionnel makes no other comment upon the last news from Syria than by observing that the success cif the Allies there is a fortunate event for M. Guizot, in his determination to avoid a war in Europe, and that, on the other hand, a victory by Ibr:him Pacha would be to him a source of great embarrassment in the policy which he has laid down as his guide. The Debats has the following on this event. The Debats, it will he seen, attributes the departure of the Emir Beschir to treason, and this may be the truth; but whether his defection was a spontaneous one, or forced upon him by the insurrection of his tribes, we have yet to learn : " This is the first real success obtained by the Allies on the coast of Syria; this is not a victory, it is not the taking of a fortified town, it is an act of treason. The Emir Beschir, who, in 1823, owed his life and the main tenance of his rank to the generous protection of Mehemet Ali, has gone over to the Allies. Hitherto the troops oi the Alliance had obtained only advantages of slight im portance, but treason has now delivered up to them the keys of Syria, and as Ibrahim can no longer reckon upon sickness or the winter season for the defence of this pro vince, he has now no other hope than in a decisive victory, the first elements of which have perhaps been wrested from himiby the insurrection of the country." The Courrier Francais gives the telegraphic dispatches without comment. TEIE FRENCH NAVY. - Our readers will remember that Admiral Roussin grounded in tilt.. Council his opposition to a war on the unsatisfactory state of our maritime ap pointments, which he declared insufficient for two years of war. In effect the consumptian of wood in time of war is double what is consumed in time of peace. If we are well-informed, the following is Admiral Roussin•s calcu. 1 lation : In 1837 there were in our arsenals 148,000 steres or cubic metres (each rather more than a cubic yard English measure). In 1838 there were consumed 25,000 stems, while there were hut 18,000 received, the contracts for 1838, 1839, and 1840 having been only for ant quantity per annum. In 1859 there were, however, consumed 40,000 steres, and the first months of 1840 consumed 25,000. From this it would result that the provision in wood for our marine is no more at the present day than 78,000 steres, which is below the quantity necessary for a single year of war, 40,000 steres being taken as the basis on a footing of peace. Such a state of things is calculated to inspire but little confidence. It is the more necessary to seek to provide a remedy, since several years are always required to trans port to our ports wood cut down in the forests in the inte rior. The necessity is increased, since in these same fo rests the trees suited, either by the quality of the timber or by their dimensions, to the scantling of our large ships of war, have become extremely scarce. Up to the present period, our marine has always refused to admit wood from foreign countries, but the facts which we have submitted to our readers demonstrate the neces sity of changing our system in this regard. The impro vidence with which this important branch of our military power has been administered since 1830 must be replaced at last by an active, and above all, by a prcvoyante direc tion.-- Univers. SPAIN. (From the Madrid Gazette of October 26. ) " TO THE INHABITANTS OF TIIE PROVINCE OF MADRID. " The Junta, in relinquishing the tune:ions of Govern ment which it has fulfilled up to the present time through the will of the nation, would be wanting in its duty if it did not evince its gratitude and admiration to the he roic population of Madrid, to the brave National Guard, and to the valiant garrison for their intrepidity, the firmness and sympathy with which they co-operated in the triumph of the most glorious manifestation, which is consigned to the political history of nations. The mem bers of this Junta, have the) responded to the con fidence of their fellow-citizens, in the midst of critical circumstances? It is not for us to decide it. The facts exist and speak for themselves; the whole nation has been an eye-witness to them, and we submit to its irrevocable decree. Although the Junta does not doubt that the men who have been called upon to rule over the destinies of the country, and who are sincere in their ho. nourable professions of faith of long standing, will crown the work of our political regeneration, which has been commenced under such fortunate auspices, it will never. theless continue to assemble in order to watch over the rights of the people until the programme which has been accepted by the Ministry shall be fulfilled in every sense. " Madrid, Oct. 25. 1840. " PEDRO BE ROGIN, President. " PIO LABORDA, JOSE PORTILLA, Members, " VALENTIN LLANOS, " Fernando Corradi, Secretary of the Junta." VALENCIA, OCT. 18. " Alt 111 Y OF OPERATIONS. -GENERAL ORDER OF THE 17TH OF OCTOBER,--HEAD QUARTERS AT VALENCIA. "The Captain-General of the United Army, the Duke de la Vittoria, has transmitted the following to the Cap. tair-General of this kingdom, commanding the second corps d'armec : " The Spanish army, which, during seven years, hero ically fought in order to consolidate the throne of Isabella II , the political rights of the nation, and its independence, has acquired claims to the admiration of every population by the constancy with which it triumphed over the fatigues of war, by its valour in battle, and its rigo rous discipline in the midst of privation. Being seasoned to war and tractable, it must be invincible; ard I call to mind with pride the numerous days of glory which it gave the Queen and the country until the destruction of the rebel faction that wished to usurp the throne, and ensure the yoke of tyranny. Spain, freed from the hor rors of civil war, might have enjoyed the happiness that peace offered if certain men by abusing power had not provoked fresh calamities, by causing the nation to pro nounce itself for the integrity of the principles defended by the army at the cost of so many torrents of blood,, and of the extraordinary sacrifices of populations. A revolu tion inspired by such sacred objects could not be repulsed, and those corps which rallied round the manifestation have done their duty by maintaining that which they had sworn to, and by giving the support which circumstances demanded in order to avoid the bad example which perversity is in the habit of provoking in political re actions. Those who did not rally round the manifesta tions have equally fulfilled their duty ; but it would not be surprising if those different positions were made tools of by the enemies of our union and of public tranquillity, who would seek to create shameful rivalry. Consequently, I command you to order all generals end superior and other officers of the corps d'arrnee under your command to watch zealously that no question be mooted which may re lax discipline, and that paltry grievances be not canvassed every time that fractions or bodies of tro o p s th a t may be placed in a different situation, owing to the imperiousness of circumstances, be brought together; for all must have been animated with the same views, as such must have been the case in an army where all fou g h t un d er t h e b anner of independence and liberty. Now , more than ever, this strong pillar of the State must resist every effort of our enemies. Let us pursue union and co ncord , i n or d er that we may ensure the happiness of our country, exhausted if (what will not happen undoubtedly) some provocative agent should show himself, Theie would be a res. GREECE. ATHENS, OCT. 8. The French fleet is now at anchor in the Bay of Sala mis, and, having been joined two days since by the Jena, from Toulon, now consists of eleven sail of the line and one broken-down steamer. Since this fleet has been in these waters the French Admirals have had no communi cations with the coast of Syria, except through the usual line of Post-office steamers, between the Piraeus, Syra, and Alexandria. It may be assumed from this fact that the orders must be very distinct to the French Admirals not to move except in consequence of orders from France, what ever events may take place. The general impression . here is, that war between France and the other Eu ropean Powers will be avoided, not from any disinclina tion of the French to come to tlows, but because the naval force displayed in the Levant by the English is most: imposing, not to say tremendous, notwithstanding what has been said to the contrary in some of the English uewsi (Tess ; besides which E ng li s h l i ne.of-battle ships and steam-frigates are still constantly arriving from Eng land to juin the fleet on the coasts of Egypt and Syria. M. and Madame Lagrene arrived here by the Jena, M. Lagrene returning to his post as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Greece. Lady Lyons and Mr. Lyons ar rived here this morning by the Austrian steamer frem Italy. Public attention has been again recently attracted to a most horrible case of torture inflicted here by the Greek Government on a Turkish /subject named Panajotti, who under the merb suspicion of having committed a robbery, has been subjected to the most diabolical tortures for up wards of twenty days, and which have only come to light from the victim's having fortunately escaped from prison, and taken refuge in the house of the Turkish Minister Ple nipotentiary at Athens, who has at once made the strongest representations to the Greek Government on the subject. The minute details of the excruciating tortures inflicted by these fiends, acting under the orders (Oh shame!) of King Otho, are the subject of universal execration ; but, with out attempting to enumerate them, suffice it to say that the victim was first tied up with cords into the form of a ball, beaten with buffalo thongs on the body, and bastina doed on the feet. At another time he was suspended by the legs from th e ro of of his dungeon with his head d ownwards in which position he was swung to and fro, and so d ) ing, whe n h e was cu t down suddenly, and, f a ll ing severely beaten that it was thought he was on his head, nearly fractured his skull, and became in. nsible. W i ll i t b e b e li eve d t h a t, a f ter twenty d ays of these unparalleled torments, it was discovered, and admitted, that the victim was innocent ; but these hell-hounds retained him in prison, fearing that, if they released him, the recital of his sufferings corroborated by the state of his lacerated body, would stir up the feel trigs of t h e populace to an uncontrollable pitch, and cause them t o take summary vengeance on the perpetrators thereof. Unhapp which are too true, and arc only a revival or continuation of similar atrocities Greece l h y ie t h her h e av a e ppea be r fo s n re o doubt beenthat the ab ove perpetr a t e d i n and recorded, although it was attempted at the time to palliate and even to deny their truth. It is alr ea d y generally known that the e ff orts made by Mr. Wri g h t and M. Eynard to establish a b an k i n Greece have, fr om one cause or other, always fa i led of success, and it wo u ld appear that King Otho is determined nhis power to to do everythi ng i prevent capital, and es pecially E ng li s h capital, from being circu l ate d i n G reece, as he has re cent l y refused to sanction the esta bli s h ment of a joint-stock b an k at Athens and Patras, although most o f the members of the Government, and the influential com mercial natives, are most decidedly in favour of it, seeing, beyond doubt, that such an establishment, offering as it would undoubt e d security in all its transac ti ons , would most materially a ss i st commercial operat i ons , and c er t a i n l y effect areduction i n t h e present existing high rate of interest on money. What King Otho's object can be inso obsti nately setting his face against any proposal, be it what it may, to improve the social condition of Greece who can tell ? But that such is the fact the whole course of his reign amply testifies. POLITICAL FRACAS AT THE FRENCH OPERA. ( From the Correspondent of thc Morning Post.) PARIS, MONDAY, Nov. 2. I was witness last night to two very curious circum stances at the Academie Royale de Musique, which have some political Imp or t ance at the present mo ment. A mu sical festival was held, a t w hi ch t h e pr i ces were consider ably raised, and th e h ouse was completely filled. It is, therefore, fair to presume that a more than usually respect able audience was collected. Towards the conclusion of the second part an attempt was made to call for the Marseillaise." It signally f a il e d. I never witnessed a more determined a t t i tu d e on the part of an audien ce not to allow an obj, , c ti ona bl e a i r to be given. It was a decided spont aneous putt i ng down of the Propagandist perturbato rs . S ure l y this may be taken as some evidence of the current of public feeling. Here was an assemblage of all the notabilities of Paris, en audience of the middle and upper classes, almost unani. mos in rejecting the appeal for the retolutieuery hyntu, Now ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo., 21s. bound, R AUMER'S ITALY AND THE ITALIANS. " A writer, who has visited Italy expressly for the purpose of examining the social and political state of its inhabitants, and who, at the risk of repelling ordinary readers by statistical de tails, has had the courage to fill the greater part of his volumes with the very kind of information in which both his country men and ours are most deficient."—Edinhurgh Review. " By:far the best and most entertaining book on Italy that has been published in our Own day."-New Monthly. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. UPS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIOi:S of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (tboo7h they are NO LOTTERIES) Stier many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES. HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Are now SELLING BONDS for the said DISTRIBiI TIO . NS• Persons desirous to purchase for the next Distribution, may re ceive, PREVIOUS to; iving any order, the PROS')ECTUS Ind PAR TICUL ARS, upon addressing WITHOUT DE LAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. • THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION, managed and guaranteed by the Austrian Government, contains TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED DIVIDENDS, Amounting to £954,888, The Dividends being £15,000 1.:6C0 £7O 0 £37 10 7,500 300 50 0 37 0 3,800 200 42 0 36 0 1,800 150 S 0 10 35 0 1,200 100 39 0 THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. TIIIS EVENING. NOV. 4. Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir Anthony Absolt;e,lllr. W. Farren ; Captain Absolute, Mr. Anderson ; Faulkland, Mr. Cooper ; Julia, Mrs. Nisbett; Lydia Languish, Madame Vestris. After which will be repeated the New Petite Comedy, entitled FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. Sir Thomas - 61Won,1 11 r. W. Fairen ; Nix, Mr. Chas. Ma thews ; Captain Maitland, Mr. J. Vining ; David Sureman, Mr. Bartley ; Mrs. Maitland, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Doro thy More, Mrs. Humby. On Thursday, The Spanish Curate, with Fashionable Ar rivals. On Friday, The Critic, with Fashionable Arrivals, and The Beggar's Opera. On Saturday, The Spanish Curate, with Fashionable Ar rivals. On Monday, The Merry Wives of Windsor, with Fashionable Arrivals. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, :Is. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 25.; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six--the performances to romence at Seven o'Clock. T . vikets and pia( 93 for the Box,- , to be taken of Mr. Grogan itc. the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may ne had upon application. I'rivate Boxes to be had so'ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, :67, New Bond-street. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF Mr. BUTLER. THIS EVENING, NOV. 4. Will be shown to the Public, for the third time, Two Acts of ENGLISH ETIQUETTE. Mr. Handel Hibbs, Mr. Balls ; Achille Townsend, Mr. St. John Horton ; Miss Agatha Bloomington, Mrs. Garrick ; Peggy, Mrs. H. Beverley. After which, a Drama, in three Acts, entitled WALDBOURG. Waldbourg, ➢lr. Butler ; the Countess Waldbourg, Miss J, Mordaunt. To which will be added the Ncw Piece, entitled A LAST DAY. Tom Brisk, Mr. Balls ; Sam, Mr. Samuel Roxby ; Emma, Miss Seymour ; Fanny, Miss Shearsmith. Dress Boxes, 4s.—Olympian Boxes, 3s.—Pit, 2s —Gallery, Is. Half-price—Dress Circle, 2s. ; Olympian Boxes, Is. 6d ; Pit, Is. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Mr. ELIAON begs leave most respectfully to announce that the above Theatre is now OPEN EVERY EVENING with the Grand Musical Entertainments, entitled THE CONCERTS D'HIVER. . Leader, Mons. NADAUD—Conductor, Mons. MIJSARD, PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING, NOV* 4. PART FIRST. Overture—Le Domino Noir. Valses—Die Nachtwandler—Strauss. Overture—lphigenic eu Aulide—Gluck. New Quadrille—Rendezvous de Chasse—Musard. Second Grand Fantasia from " Les Huguenots"—arranged by Musard. Solo Flageolet by Mons. Collinet. First grand Selection from the Mes-iah, arranged by Musard. PART SECOND. Solemnelle Grand Overture and Triumphal March, composed for the Musical Festival at Cologne (1832) by F. [ties. Cent Suisse—Quadrille, M S.—Solo, Cornet a Pistons, Her Koenig—Solo, Trombone. Mons. Dantonet—Musard. Grand Overture—Zampa—Herold. New Quadrille--I Puritani—Nlusard. Galop Militaire—Trumpet Sole, Herr Muller—Muller. Prices of Admission :—To the Promenade, Is. ; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. Visitors to the Boxes have the privilege of passing to and from the Promenade. Doors open at half-past Seven o'Clock, to commence at Eight precisely. Private Boxes can only be procured of Mr. Mitchell, Royal Library, No. 33, Old Bond-street, and at the Box-office of the Theatre. Prices, 10s. 6d., I/. Is., and 1 /. Ils. 6 d. Boxes and Places in the Dress and Upper Circles may be secured on application to Mr. Parsons, at the Box-office, daily, from Ten ill Four o'Clock, and those in the Dress Circle will be kept during the whole of the evening, if required. PRINCESS' THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. This splendid Theatre is OPEN EVERY EVENING with PROMENADE CONCERTS, Under the Direction of Mr. WILLY. THIS EVENING, NOV. 4.—PROGRAMME. First Movement, Symphony—Haydn. Overture—Preciosa—C. M. Von Weber. Grand Fantasio from Meverbeer's Opera, Les Iluguenots. Duett, Ccrnet a Pistons—Mr. M'Farlanc and Mr. Keightly. Duet Concertante, Flutes—Messrs. Carte and Minasi. Quadrilles—Prince Albert, La Comique. Waltzes—Victoria, Sophien, Labyrinth. Solo on the Cornet a Pistons, Mr. M‘Farlane. To conclude with Beethoven's Grand Battle Symphony, for which an addition has been made to the already numerous and efficient orchestra. Promenade, Is.—Dress Circle, 2s.—Upper Boxes, ls. 6d. Private Boxes, 1/. Is. and 10s. 6d. each, may be had at the Box-office, and of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Extraordinary Novelty—Third' appearance in Eui ope of the astonishing Negro Melodist, Yankee Smith. THIS EVENING, NOV. 4, Will be acted the New Nautical Drama, entitled THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL, GEORGE ; OR, THE SEAMAN'S CHEST. Preceded by a Grand Pictorial and Scenic Induction, repre senting a Cruise round the Coast, and depicting the awlul ca 'amity, with the sinking of the Vessel, &c. To be followed by the astonishing Negro Melodist, Yankee Smith, in a celebrated Extravaganza, called JIM ALONG JOSE Y, In which he will introduce his " Long Island Break Down," and also the Mississippi Melody, " Zipcoon." In this part of the performance, the extraordinary Picca ninny, Colman, will appear in the Old Kentuckian Grape Vine Twist. .- _ .._..... To conclude with (last week) BOZ'S OLIVER TWIST. Realizing all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivans. THEATRE ROYAL VICTORIA. THIS EVENING, Nov. 4, Will be performed, THE WIZARD OF THE WAVE; OR, THE SHIP OF THE AVENGER. After which the performancesof CA STR 0 on the Corde Volante. To conclude with VALENTINE AND ORSON ; OR, THE WILD MAN OF THE WOODS, Thus strongly cast:—.Valentine, Mr. Blanchard; Orson, Mr. Howell, T.R.D.L. ; Green Knight, Mr. Asbury ; Hugo, Mr. Attwood ; and Princess Eglantine, .11!iss E. Montague. Boxes, °s.: Pit, is. ; Gallery, 6d. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her Majesty's Immediate Patronage. highly popular and interesting resort is OPEN DAILY from Ten till Dusk. The Menagerie, which is unequalled in the number, variety, and beauty of the specimens it contains, occupies several spa cious and elegant buildings comfortably heated, and arranged with the nearest possible assimilation to the natural habits of the animals. The most important additions recently received are the rare and beautiful black Leopard, le Mignon Elephant, a pair of the scarce Curassovrs, called Cushew Birds, the Sacred Ibis, the Bush Cow (the only specimen in Europe), a pair of Cossowaries, the Monster Boa (the largest ever seen in confine ment), &c. The splendid collection of Carnivora are fed at Four o'Clock, at which time the ferocious attributes and amazing muscular Dowers of these forest monarchs are displayed to the utmost ad vantage. Admission, One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Correspondent who inquires " What Ministry was it that introduced the Malt Bill one night, and rescinded it the next night," must allude, we presume, to the cir cumstance, that during Lord Grey's Ministry, when Lord Althorp was Chancellor of the Exchequer, a motion was made to Repeal the Malt Tax, which was carried against him, but that vote was a few evenings afterwards, on the motion of Lord Althorp, rescinded. He consistently opposed the motion in the first instance, but he was only able to overturn the first vote by the assistance of Sir R. Peel and his friends, against the other Tories on the second occasion. We remember no other incident at all corresponding to the inquiry made by our Correspondent. -THIGH WATER AT LONDON RRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning. .51 minutes after 9 Evening 24 minutes atter 10. ~e Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SUN COM. menced at 30 minutes after Three. ..,;,,,-,-; --- Ifi ..o, :li e l ~..ge4 <4:•-• ri • , x---;:- tr - ''', (.64'2,.-0' - _,s,v'NJ , .;;;,,•I_,' 4 r , , ~./ r Y., ~., Zbg ;,-.,n3.x. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1840. Mr., lately Captain, RNOLDS, has respect fully communicated to the public his earnest wish that they will refrain from subscribing to recotn pence him f or th e loss he has sustained, and from taking any measures to solicit his restoration. He EVENtNG acknowledges that he has grievously offended the laws established for the government of the army, and he believes i., the perfect uprightness of pur pose in his judges. He is thoroughly persuaded that the Court acted conscientiously, and meant nothing but rigid and conscientious justice. He does not subscribe to the sweeping doctrine that no degree of provocation can ever justify a subordi nate in breaking from the strict line of respectful submission. He does not admit that the verdict was a right one, but he seems to limit its error solely to degree. He thinks it too severe, but he proclaims over and over again that the Court wa s upright and conscientious. He kisses the rod which smites him. He is full of love for the, army ; lie is still devoted to the noble profession and therefore he respectfully prays that the pUhl ic will not interfere in his behalf. Mr. REYNOLDS thinks he has a better chance to be restored, if his case be left to the genuine, uninfluenced consideration of hi s Royal Mistress, than by the public interference. Ile prefers the smiles of the Court to the heartfelt ar: probation of millions of his fellow-creatures. hopes that her Gracious MAJESTY may yet dee t : ll his hand worthy to bear again the sword whic h " d e. has long carried in defence of his Q ueen an country. In that hope, he repudiates th e aid and almost the sympathy of the public. The Times calls his letter a noble one -- P e rhaP s it is for a soldier ; but it has strengthened o ur on i : victioa immeasurably, that the very pr inci p les he which the Army is governed need reform. 't public with one voice have stigmatized the 0 1° . proceedings as fraught with injustice. They °for demn, first, the order of Lord CARDIGAN Mr. REYNOLDS not to address private lett ers him ; secondly, the mode in which the • CI, martial was constituted, chiefly of superin f cers ; thirdly, the limitation of the inve i gation into the second letter exclusiveivi:, fourthly, the refusal to hear evidence tha t te REYNOLDS was incapable of being insub ordi nt; unless improperly provoked ; fifthly, the Sege the of the sentence ; and, lastly, the brand in g h olding witnesses for an expression of opinion, an d them up to the displeasure of the Horse G na But Mr. REYNOLDS, deeply imbued with the an he tary spirit, holds all these separate iniquities Inhich just, and submissively submits to the power w the has inflicted them—the Horse Guards for the name of her MAJESTY is a mer 3 cover ---in bleu hope that it may condescend, if he be very hn itt int i to restore him to the service. We believe 1 to Mr. REYNOLDS' conduct is according in , the most approved military rule, but it iris dicates, in our apprehension, a s ubdued a P i*e , in our officers, a want of discrimination tlion twixt right and wrong, and a thorough substitu the of the laws of an arbitrary military code , f , a , he r laws of morality, which make it doubtful vin e " of they are worthy to be trusted with t he defencetho freemen. Who shall assure the communitY t those who so readjly submit to injustice w ill 11 , 0 readily inflict it ; or the they will not as vvillingyo, the tools of a tyrant as tbe defenders of freed ° le d The public see with horror that they ere compe l le pay and honour men trained to be s laves. O tl : en We cannot separate this case ftP" the which have occurred in the 11th Hussar.:'• c CAR' officers have been removed since the Earl 0. _ fore DIGAN joined the regiment. It i s now theo• 0101' emphatically named the Earl of CARDIGAN Lod' Are the public to pay for a regime nt which e HILL has pronounced to be inefficient, bec ause belongs to Lord CARDIGAN ? T hen there of. the other Captain REYNOLDS, who w as guilty o no military offence, but drank Moselle w ine °u tO , a black bottle ; he was reprimanded in a 111 05 t gentlemanly manner ; he vented some indignat i ' on the bearer of the ungentlemanly message; was verbally reported, that is, calumniated, at ti c Horse Guards, placed under arrest, refus ed : . Court-martial, and denied all redress. C a P ts.° 0 REYNOLDS, like Mr. REYNOLDS, sub this, and is still a Captain in the Eleventh , Y es g i ; we are afraid, to draw his swor d on Por own people, or on an enemy, at the c° et mand of Lord CARDIGAN, though the o.ll°oo might be provoked into some temporary ebolblitic • of feeling at his extravagant and ariswelhe conduct, and the partiality shown to him b Ydf4 Horse Guards. Taking these things with : -. 0 - REYNOLDS' " noble" letter, we ar e Coto° n f that the situation of the subaltern officers as -- they army is unworthy of free men, and as longS t w are kept in such degradation, the army 0 1 0 0' either, as chance may direct, the defence of freed or instrument of tyranny. Mr. REYNOLDS, however, refuses the . Is oo' sympathy and the public subscriptions. 14 ! ° looks to the Horse Guards for rrotection , as, :0 10 case of Mr. BRENT, he received it through h' bees . Commander. Bu: the public feeling h as s ub" roused, and the public money has be en 5 is scribed. Both, so far as Mr. REYN°LWh3t concerned, are now without an object. be is to be done ? Shall the 1 11 ° e i We 1 returned ? Shall the feeling be wasted' the think not. It is plain that the governme nt ° , / e 1 Army much needs reform. What is w P r c l iss, those who have taken an active part in the b tisl i to ol and who have already subscribed their mon e y' p ro' constituting themselves into a Committee top ' e,' cure the reform of the Army ? In spite °f the heads of that army flogging has been muc h 11/11- t ieo if not extinguished. To effect its total exti°l° might be one object. The Army is goeern e r ' r itS• the will of the Sovereign ; to frame just law s ' ° ; ",ht government, by the authority of Parliament, lit'sl be another object. At present promotion g, he st purchase, merit remains unnoticed, and the bi g e fit posts are very often filled by persons uttel l ,. l of G for their duties. " I know not," said the Pft-sis, CHATHAM " -, on looking at a list of our ene:hat when he wanted one fur some command, Dot effect these gentlemen may have on the enen t P i they make me tremble." To requite the Lefsritf • lure to establish promotion as the reward of Ine" so procure talent at the head of the , t hes and so make it the servant of the public , 11° E ; ie et instrument of the aristocracy, is another ,:$ll to which such a Committee might have in viw. On these points, or on the subordinate one . remove these 0 1 P Lord HILL trotn the government of t he a r • the Committee might prepare petitions, 3 0 " ganise that public feeling which has been rt1u50,36. till some good be achieved. Now tha t e jt ife ri nyt s t an ces have directed public attention to the in and thrown much light on the mode of g°v ern d h it, the opportunity of effecting improvement nti° not to be wantonly thrown away. Not two months hav 4zi e ' yet elapsed since ` le i e. signated Lord ELIOT as lending himself to a de signated lusion, by taking a prominent part in the . 0 146 ,,, E ki: E o L w D led p a r e o d mp Zealand Cornmitt.ee. At a meeting o f the vi e ~ ted. justice Zealand Company at Plymouth , on Friday, be ac - mitring bwog' 0 that he had only acted as Mr. , ~d the of our accusation, b ad" i c0 1 ", . 0 Oro iit At the former period we endeavotirecr t . _ ii ; ; w t that weekly the r that the whole of the proceedings of the Commit' and 01 ) were directed against Lord JOHN R.OSSELLt. an . , tbel!, - , 1 gNaenws, Zealandboasted -ofCaangPreala'r vi-tchtroarYug(i'v'e",..ol, „. Noble Lord. They were then making war on,,ft!i ii ; o l : ' .:2 but at the meeting on Friday the health .of I .lr y ' Colonial Minister was proposed 'by Lord Al' "r" - - 4111181 114 8 1 t lkt th e , °ugh' 1 t he sup it b