The Sun. — London, England, 1840-09-19 00:00:00

/7 MORNING EDITION.' that the active sympathy and generous interposition of the Government of the United States should not be witheld from so benevolent .an object, and he has ao co7diaglY directed me to instruct you to employ, should a e occasion arise, all those good offices and efforts v .„ich are compatible with discretion and your official character, to the end that justice and humanity may be .extended to those persecuted people, whose cry of dis tress has relched our shores- I am, Sir, your obedient servar,t, J , Jii n JOIIN FORSYTH. Glidden, Esq., United States Consul at Alex- andria, Egypt. CANADA. The Toronto Examiner of Wednesday last comes to Its in mourning for the death of Lord Durham, with a long and highly eulogistic notice of hi tu . I t says t h at his loss will be severely felt in every part of the British !empire, but in the North American colonies it will be Irretrievable ; that generations yet unborn will be - taught to revere him as the benefactor of their country. Governor Thomson has recently been making a tour In . Upper Canada, a nd a t th e l ast accounts b e was at Niagara Falls. He was received with great cordiality in all places through which he passed, and he appears to be gaining ground in the confidence and affection of the people. An effort has been making to change the seat of Go vernment in Upper Canada from Toronto to Kingston, but it probably will not be successful. Tile Governor is said to have expressed the opinion that Kingston was too , near the. frontier for the purpose. rho electioneering campaign is fairly under way in lIPPer Canada. The Montreal Hera 1 states, that !here are different rumours respecting the time of meet : • I cg of the provincial Parliament. One goes that the Proclamation will take place in January or February, and another, which does not mention the date of the e P r oclamation, but asserts, that the meeting will not take ',....: 'P l ace until after the opening of the navigation next B Prlng, if even then. The Governor-General has power to delay the pro clamation of the Union for fifteen months, from the 23d i _ct . duly l as t. Wi t hi n th i rty days after the proclamation 'e 1 5 obliged to declare the parliamentary limits of the _ e ltlet and towns ; but he is obliged to call the Legisla ture together only withi n s i x mont h s a f ter t h e d ate of the proclam a ti on . Within fourteen days after the scaling of the instrument for summoning the Parlia -Icent writs for the elections must be issued, and re turned before the expiration of fifty days. So that it 4PpearS his Excellency might, by the Union Act, delay Ille assembly of the Legislature for about twenty-eight and a half months reckoned from the 23(1 of July last. But were the proclamation of the Union to be de '''' laved beyond the last day of the last session of the U pper Can a d a P ar li ament , t h at P ar li ament , according to constitutional usage, would have a right to assemble a nd Proceed to business. The provinces are in law, , Its yet, separate, and will continue so until the date of the proclamation of the Union, but it cannot be the in tention of the Governor-General to delay the proclama tion so long as to give life to the old Parliament of tinper Canada, and certainly not to issue new writs for t hat provin ce a l one. S o that practically the procla mation must be made before the end of March—that b eing about th e t i me of the prorogation of the Upper Canada Legislature, if we remember rightly. STATE OF CANADA.—MORE INCENDI- .ARISM. The quiet of this unhapprovice every now and then disturbed by the Frenc y h p Cana n dians. The folloke hag particulars have just reached us of an outrage com mitted at Hemingford, on Tuesday last, the 18th inst. : From the depositions taken on the inquiry which has been instituted, it appears that about two o'clock ' A.R., on the morning aforesaid, the barns of Messrs. Fisher and Mr. Atkinson, of Heminglord, were dis covered to be simultaneously on fire. By the exertions of Mr. Wilsie, justice of the peace, who resides in the vie juitsr, the alarm was qu i c kly g i ven , an d as soon as dayligh t appeared a search commenced, and there being heavy dew upon the ground, the footsteps of three Person s were distinctly traced across the lines ; and such had been the promptness of the pursuit, that they were soon apprehended and taken before Mr. Harden, a ma gistrate of Champlain. The names of the incendiaries are —Jean Baptiste Fournier, Pierre Monclos, dit La Tulippe, and Eustache Seguin. When befbre Mr. Harden, La Tulippe confessed he had participated in the outrage, and by his evidence clearly brought home to his accomplices, to Fournier in particular, the crime of setting fire to the buildings in question ; and stated, moreover, that it had been the intention of the party to set fir e to other barns, which was prevented by the barking of some dogs. " The evidence was so conclusive that Mr. Harden decided upon convicting the villains, but, not wishing to take the sole responsibility of the act upon himself, he called in the advice of Mr. Hubbell, a brother Magis trate and a lawyer. The latter gentleman decided that the laws of the United States could not take cognizance of offences committed in Canada, and instanced the case of Dr. Holmes, the murderer, as one in point, and de eliecd, that th e pr i soners s h ou ld b e forthwith discharged acela4mawtaiosat once acted up on , am id th e c h eers an d ns of the assembled mob. Amongst the Inest cons villain P.euotis of the m o b f or th e re l ease o f th e s were Mr. Bromley, the Custom-house officer, a Mr. Bl a k ely, the road commissioner ; these gen tlnedmen decl are d openly that the act was perfectly Justifiable, and the prisoners consequently guiltless in t he eye of th e l aw. Immediately after th i s summary disposal of the business, as if to add insult to injury, A_warrantstson7werielo i h ss a u d ed against the Messrs. Fisher and bets before stated line with all g whicho over obliged tto g give m evidence to o rec r o t s e s the th e speed to avoid being arrested on the plea of having brought false charges against the miscreants, who have found so much sympathy on the south side of ci th e li ne 43 deg. In the search, which took place at I ,IY, light, one of th e matc h es i nten d e d to b e us ed by the w i vains, and w hi c h L a Tulippe con f esse d to h ave l os t, found near one of the consumed barns. It con sih of t , •_a lo ng p i ece of twisted cotton-w i ck we ll steepe d 1 .. Q 0 turpentin e , an d term i nating in a cartr id ge o f gun - P wder, t o which is appended a roll of cotton similarly i~ e ePed. L a T u li ppe, in the course of his confess i on, ated t h at there would be more burning about the na me tim e in the interior, alluding, probably, to the maatnbly and L'Acadie fires." TRAOItDINARY EXPRESS FROM PARIS. A 7 the aloniterr of Thursday contains a Royal or ofallCe, of calling into active service the reserve A the classe s o f recru i ts o f 1834 an d 1835. nother ordinance declared that public utility ur- V n t.,lY requirin g t h e execution of f ort ifi cat i ons roun d Paris, the Minister of Public Works was authorised to p r oceed forth w i t h to the appropriation of the groun d p° l l which they are to be erected, and a credit for wn It ers purpose was pl ace d at hi s di sposa l to i n d emn if y t h e o . Another ordinance opened a temporary credit of 6,0 00,000 o f f rancs for tile Minister of War to meet the expenses of these works, which had already corn rneti,tiett at Mont Valerien, St. Denis, Fontenayc, &c. irom the accounts b roug h t b y the Papin, which l eft Alexandria on the Ist instant, it appears that Admiral Stopford, on being informed of the ex- Pected arrival of a French vessel loaded with artillery and arnmuition for the Paella, had issued orders for its capture. The French fleet under Admiral Hugon was off Ce rigo on the 30th ult. WINDOW D UTIES. The Morning Post says, the following letter from Mr. Joseph Hume has been forwarded to that paper, by the gentleman to whom it was addressed (Copy.) " Ityde, Sept. 9,1840. " answer to your letter of the 7th instant, I b eg t o inform you that the pledge given by Lord Althorp, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, to me in t he House, at the time one-half the window-duty was taken off, was, that on all houses then built, and where ',°"le windows had b een s h u t u p t o preven t th e c h arge .I°P window-light, there NEVER should be any ADDI 11°NAL charge made for any of those windows that 7 Hi.ght be re-opened, or for any new windows which aught be made in such houses. Tut; rate for window light charged at the time of the repeal was, as I clearly tbluderstood, to be th e grea t es t rate that could afterwards charged for that house. " When the addition of ten per cent. to the window ': gh t duty, and also a new survey, were proposed by e present Chancellor of the Exchequer, I, in my Place in Parliament, claimed for the public the he lfit of th e p l e d ge given by Lord Al t h orp , an d I was acormea by Mr. Baring then, and afterwards in the P . 'lse on a question 'put to him by me, that he = mended to keep the pledge given by hisLonDsmr. " I remain your obedient servant, (Signed) "JOSEPH HUME, " To W. Thompson, Esq., Yarrells, Poole." -- - TSHOCKING ACCIDENTS PROM THE FALL OF ER. —O n Th urs d ay afternoon a shocking accident od to man named Bro o k s , i n t h e emp l o y o f M r. B ass, builder, 49, Goswell-street ; he was engaged in the Yard with sotn^.: other men, remov i ng some bl'..,cks of tim ber, when orte of them, which proved ne too weighty for the en to sustain, slipped and. full u p on B roo k s ' ' 6 ' hand m , crushing the ve i ns and sinews a frightf u l man ner He was re move d to S t. Bartholomew's Hospital, ut it is fe4red that amputation of the band, and probably of the arm also, will be obliged to be had recourse to. A fellori-workmen of the unfortunate man very narrowly escaped being crushed to death on the previous day, by the fall of a piece of timber weighing nearly four cwt., under similar circumstances ; as it was, however, he was very seriously injured, but persisted in refusing to be allowed to be taken to the hospital, and he was consequently eon veyed to his own home, where he lies in a very dangerous Seventeen of the political prisoners of Doullens mad e their escape on Sunday h 5 ,, .by a F u bt er ran cous pas.aug,- cornt!,unicating from the intel.ir of the prison to the e;:entim de I oade, item` al host ;omie diately recaptured in the environs of Amiens, and the olio are in Retire pursuit of tho others. FIRE ESCAPES. The Police Com:nittee of the Corporation of London met on Thursday at the Guildhall, for the purpose of taking into consideration the reference made to teem by tic Court of Common Council, upon the motion of Mr. Lott," to consider the best means of providing es cape from fire," in consequence of the late numerous dreadful calamities. Deputy Hicks was in the chair. The Commissioner of the City Police was present, and the Committee was else attended by Mr. Lott, the mover of the refe rence, and a great many respectable persons, who had bumenely devoted their time and talents to the inven doe of machines calculated to effect so highly desirable an object. The names of the individuals who exhibited these designs and models are Mr. Lloyd, Mr..Steill, Mr. Baddeley, Mr. Harris. Mr. Hancock, Mr. Don ington, Mr. Wright, Mr. Winsor, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Wincell, Mr. Baylis, Mr. Smith, Mr. Noe, Mr. Hall, Mr. Hodd, Mr. Davies, Mr. Hampton, Mr. Grant, Mr. Gregory, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Bambcr, Mr. 'fates, Me. Ibblewhite, and Mr. Londe,ll. The ingenious invention of Mr. Foote, of Favers ham, called " th; Fire Detector," was also exhibited, being an apparatus appicable to a common clock, to make an alarm by the. ringing of a hell set in motion by the increase of temperature. This invention is said to be remarkable alone tor sim plicity of construction, and fur the impossibility of failure in its application, being operated upon by nit ral causes, without an intervening medium. The sus ceptibility of the engine is staied to be so delicate, its mode of action being thermometrical, that the heat con tained in a volume of smoke arising from the burning of the smallest piece of furniture will instantly cause it to give the alarm, nor will it relapse into inactivity until the works are destroyed. It may either be attached to a clock or it may stand alone and in either case it can he made to communicate, by means of wires and cranks, with any number of clocks in near or remote parts of the building. It can also be connected in a similar way with a large alarm-bell, such as is seen in the exterior of old mansions, and this will rouse a whole neighbour hood. The apparatus excited a great deal of curiosity. Many of the designs developed much skill, and in the opinion of the Committee were highly creditable to the inventors ; but 115 the Committee were occupied during the whole day in the investigation, and did not come to any determination as to the plan they would finally re commend for adoption, it was not considered by them an act of justice to the parties to particularize the nature of their inventions. The Committee took great interest in the proceed ings, as evinced by the questions put by them to the various exhibitors, to elucidate the principles of their inventions. Simplicity of design in its ready adaptation to the various and sudden emergencies, combined with safety in the descent, appear to be the great requisites; and it is fairly hoped that the Corporation will succeed in accomplishing an object of such paramount import ance, and thus entitle themselves to the most grateful thanks of their fellow-citizens. It is to be hoped that the Directors of the Fire-offices will attend to this subject. The Committee will meet on Tuesday next, and a deputation will proceed to the Society of Arts, to view the models there. The Com mittee, who will spare no pains, will alto meet other parties who have models to exhibit. TRIAL OF MADAME LAFFARGE The Court did not sit this morning. till ten o'clock and then M. Paillet announced that Madame. Marie Laffarge was too ill lo make her appearance ; he there fore prayed that the hearing might be adjourned till the afternoon. To this the Court assented, and conse quently the hearing was postponed till one o'clock. We leam, however, that there is nothing alarming in the state of Madame Laffarge, and that there is every reason to hope that she will be able to sustain till the List the arduous task she has yet to undergo. At half-past one the hearing was resumed, and she took her scat, attended by Dr. Yentejou, her physician. She was pale, and suffering from a violent pain in her head, to which she repeatedly applied her hand, but she ne vertheless retained all her calmness and self-possession. The President delivered over to the Advocate-Ge neral some accounts given in by M. Buffieres, showing the application made of 9.3,000 francs of the money which M. Laffrarge had procured on the signature of his wife. _ _ _ The Advocate• General commenced by asking the prisoner whether she recollected having put anything into the loft de polde and toast and water of her hus- band ? Madame Marie Laffrarge replied that she recollected putting in some gum. She could not specify what packet she took it from, as she had several. The box delivered in by Mademoiselle Pouthier was shown to her, and she acknowledged it to be hers. Mademoiselle Pouthier also recognised the box, and Fleigniat the packet of powder delivered over by him. Mademoiselle Punchier, on a question From one of the jurymen, said she believed the powder in the box to be the same as when she took it. M. Deigniat also believed the powder in the packet to be the same as that which he saw on the night of the death of M. Laffrarge, when his eyes were weak and his mind dis tressed. The box and packet were then delivered to the che mists, who retired to ascertain the nature of their con tents ; and M. Dupuytren afterwards reported, in the name of the commission, that they had dissolved a part of the powder of the box in boiling water. When the gum it contained was dissolved, they perceived a sedi ment of white powder at the bottom of the vessel, which remained indissoluble. This solution was put into Marsh's apparatus, and produced numerous metallic arsenical incrustations, which were collected on a cap sule of porcelain, and which they now delivered over to the Court. This solution had been treated with re actives, and manifested the presence of arsenical acid. M. Dubois, on a question from theAdvocate-General, whether the administration of peroxyde of iron would absorb and neutralize arsenic in the stomach, replied that it would depend on the degree of oxydation of the oxyde employed. Since their report, they had learned there was administered as an antidote some colchotard by calcining to a red heat pure sulphate of iron. It was possible that this oxyde of iron, which would be in a state of peroxyde, might have become combined th the arsenical acid, and have formed an arseniate of iron, insolluble and undecomposable by Marsh's apparatus. In order to found their conviction on more certain bases they had repeated upon the carbonated residium which remained from their filtration all possible experiments, but had not obtained any result. Madamoiselle Pouthier was examined again at consi derable length. Counsel on either side then addressed the Court, after which, Madame de Nicolai was called. The Advocate-Genet al.—We now proceed to another order of facts—the theft. of the diamonds imputed to the prisoner. Madame de. Nicolai (in a loud and sonorous voice) — Gentleman, I have a very bad cold ; I fear I shall not be heard.—(A laugh.) My daughter and I have been summoned, and from respect for justice we have thoy - ,;iit it our duty to attend. Oa the other hand, it gas been said that the defenders of Madame LafFa - rge intended and I request leave .3tnei _ajoe t uimoadi,gehe dasat;oe withdraw.tpaarny to produce here overwhelming prer.‘Ss against us. We think we ought not to be called upon to give evidence, formerly a d , finere n f ( u l os ic: d da e r c ft de that, ete_ as se n A i\ci t e ' a t , e ds r ai w irne a ew r d ad s se expense of the decree of the Court. Madame do Nicolai then withdrew, and th e C our t adjourned to the following day. There are only twelve witnesses more to be beard for the prosecution. Baron Gantt has published a letter contradictine; the statement that M. Foy, the matrimonial agent, had any thing whatever to do with bringing about the marriage between Mademoiselle Marie Capelle and M. Laffarge, who was . introduced to the Baron by a person holding a distinguished station in society. We have received a report of another day's proceed ings of the trial of Madame Laffarge, which is not yet concluded. We can find room for no more than the following paragraph : A letter from Tulle of the 14th, at nine in the morn ing, says—" It is generally thought that nothing will result from the experiments of Messrs. Orfila, Bussey, and Oilivier (d'Angers). The skill of Messrs. Dubois and Dupuytren,and the great care with which they condtyL; e i their operations, seem to have removed all (1 :2 -,; nt . Th e only thing which appears possible that arsenic may Pr', - .-oxide of iron whi c h was be found on decomposing the in the stomach of M. L?fiarge, but this is not con sidered probable. Mad acne Laffarge awaits with calm ness the result of tb- ; experiments. The Lunilies of oT't 3 ' . ...d have left for Brives, where they will remain and aiti o L nti. the trial for the diamonds, which had ;or the '2oth of this month ; but which can not been n ov fixed .take place beforo December, in consequence of the appeal to the Court of Cassation against the judg ment of the Tribunal of Tulle." IRON STEAMERS.—Another iron steam-vessel we understand is now nearly ready for launching at the Iron Ship-building and Boilcr-rnsitine• Establishment of length is I Summers, Groves, and Day, at Northam; her artistes,"lls feet between the perpen d i culars, a nd 125 feet over all, 16 feet in beam, and 7 feet 9 inches in depth. The beauty of her model is ackno wled g ed b y ma ny who have inspected her, and equally Si for her seagoing appearance. The engines of 40. horse power, on the oseellating principle, are nearly completed by the same enterprising firm. We understand she is intended fcr the passage between Southampton, the Isle of Wight, a n d Portsmouth, and we prophecy may defy competition in speed to any now afloat in the Southampton waters. WORCESTER HOPS, SEPT. 16.—The first new hops were offered in this market on Saturday, at 161. per cwt., and fur which 131. was refused. The market was dull, and a reduction was made upon the previous week. Weighed—old, 37 pockets; new, 1. During the -.reek, 47. Th:ro are ofkrs against the duty paying 2001. I'rice.s are about—for 1839'5, 112 s. to Si.; choice, 9/ —lB37's, 903. to 120 s. ; choice, 1235,—.4836's and 1835'5, 565. to 95 5.; choice, loos. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1840. of War relative to the attempts of Lombard and Par. quin appeared ridiculous on my part, so little import ance was attached to their proceedings, and Colonel Baron de Varennes told me that I paid too much atten tion to such folly. My duty requires me to inspect my troops ; I took with me th e P re f ect o f t h e North, and dur i ng ourjour ney I apprised him of my interview with Mesonan. The Prefect asked me to allow him to communicate this fact to the Minister of the Interior, and I consented. In this manner the Government was informed of what had taken place, not by m e , b ut b y t h e P re f ect o f th e North with my per m i ss i on . A t my return my a i de- d e - camp apprised me th a t M esonan had called dur i ng my a b sence to complain that he was watched. I immediately told my aide-de-camp what had passed between Mesonan and me, and I forbad him to allow Mesonan to enter my apartment if he should present himself, and at the same time I sent for the commander of the Gendarmerie, and announced to him that Illesonan was an agent of Prince. Louis, and commanded him to arrest him. I went to the King's Attorney-General, and I wrote the same day, the .sth of July, to the Minister of War. I had only returned home when Mesonan, who had passed the guard at my house, and unperceived by my aide-dc camp, presented himself to me. I walked towards him and said, " You shall not overturn the Government; you will lose your head, or rather you have lost it. You are mad. Mak e your escape ; the Gendarmer i e are in search of you. I was your friend, but lam now your enemy, because you wish to overturn the Government which I have sworn to defend." He departed, and I never saw him more. SPAIN. Some of these statements the prisoner Mesonan, to a certain extent contradicted. We shall return to the order of events and place them as they occurred. Towards the end of July the conspirators assembled in London and the neighbourhood. We have endea voured in vain to discover who were consulted on the plan to be pursued. Charles Louis Napoleon, o❑ being interrog,lted, persisted in declaring that he did not consult any one with respect to his plans. How ever, on one occasion he expressed himself thus—" I ought to add, because I ought not to compromise in nocent persona, that Colonel Vaudrey and M. Baechi ochi refused to march with m. 2." This assertion he made, no doubt, through a sentiment of honour and delicacy, but we have reason to believe that Parquin, Voisin,. Lombard, de Quer&lcs, Conneau, Persigny, Bitaille, and Forestier, were amongst those who were particularly in his confidence. No doubt the intention had been formed for some time, because a plan was found amongst Charles Louis Napoleon's effects, drawn up by himself, of the stages to be made on their march through the country, and the regiments and number of men belonging to each. The place for landing had been chosen, and the order of service was drawn up in the handwriting of Colonel Voisin. Arms were proNidcd. The uniform of the general officers was prepared in England, and that of the soldiers i❑ France, except the buttons, which were of English manufacture, and marked " 40," that of a regiment in the neighbourhood of the place of landing. In fine, in the supposition that the conspirators would have taken possession of Boulogne, everything was ar ranged, and a plan of campaign seized in Colonel Voi sin's pocket-book. DOCUMENTS TO BE PRODUCED ON TRIAL OF TIIE PRISONERS.-vOISIN. " No. 1. Enter the port of V--- at high-water— land men and horses—seize the custom-house officers. " Arrest every one met on tho road, and give it to be understood that it is a mission from Dunkirk on Go vernment business. March - against tha Castle, having an advanced guard commanded by Laborde Bataille, aide•de-camp ; Persigny, sergeant-major, and six men. " Captain Dunin will command the rearguard ; he will make the following arrangements : "Shut the Calais gate : establish himself on the esplanade ; shut the Paris gate. " Colonel Vaucirey will assemble all the ancient artillerymen ; he will direct the distribution of arms, and all that bdongs to the artillery. " Colonel Parquin will assemble the cavalry ; he will liareyersi,gny under his arms. - - " Lieutenant -- will form the advanced guard with the 41. This advanced guard will be commanded by Captain Dcjardins. " Major Mesonan, chief of the staff, will send couriers to Calais, Dunkirk, Montreuil, and Hesdin, with orders and proclamations." " On board the City of Edinburgh, August 4, 1840. " Sir,—The Prince Louis Napoleon has appointed you to receive, value, and pay for all the saddle-horses which, conformably with his proclamation, shall be pre sented at --. " These horses must be saddled and equipped fit for service ; and after receiving them you will divide them among the staff officers and the cavalry volunteers. " You vviii have under your orders M." No. 3. " On board " My dear Comradc,—The Prince Louis Napoleon has appointed you to command in chief the artillery. He desires that immediately on the arrival at --, you will cause one or two pieces to be furnished with post or other horses, and to be stationed on the Place de Tintorellcs (I - Fgh-town). " The ammunition for the artillery. " From four to five bombs charged, to serve as pe tards, and the provisions for the infantry. " His Highness desires that all the old cannoneers, whom he summons to present themselves on the Place de l'Hotel de 'Ville (High-town), should be formed in company, and that you should give them a provisional organization. " You will also attend to the distribution of the arms, and receive, for whatever may be necessary for this im portant service, the orders of his Highness. " The head-quarters will be established at the Hotel de Ville (High-town). " The chateau where the arms and ammunition are deposited is in the High-town. " There is also a depot of 500 muskets at the Hotel de Ville. Endorsed, " M., commanding the Artillery." ....—................—_-,............ 9 ,,, very diff,.,rent light; Thor° ' is enueavouring ti which, professing' no political cretop 1 'eh ving• beet subvert order. It is the Liberal par,; w ' l ' ! is no . ansr 4 chiciNl. cabs vexed, and being apprehensive that there i elut not to despotism, has taken up arms, with the rt...s ,ionant-rust to lay them down until they see the throne of yol- r , ~1 jll, b' a re.'.urL :the daughter gecurcd, as well as your Majesty's gegency Constitution of 1837, and the national indepQ. - Ade nce. Men of f or t une , o f note ,. a high responsibility, have been the most urg en t i n th ese d eman d s ; an d w h a t must al, ove all excite attention, is the fact that corps of the army ha: o spontaneously joined them, no doubt because the cry ut tered is that which is impressed upon their hearts, it being for those objects that they have made such heroic efforts, and for which they have presented their breasts with bravery and decision to the bails and the swords of the now vanquished enemies. "ADDRESS OF THE DUKE DE LA VICTORIA , TO THE QUEEN REGENT OF SPAIN. " Madame,—With the frankness and loyalty of a coldicr who has never failed to be entirely devoted to his Queen and his country, I have on different occasions manifested to your Majesty what was expedient for the good of your Majesty's scrvice and for the national prosperity—com bating nobly the enemies of these objects, under whatever form they have conspired against the established order. But a cabal (pundilla) whose reprobate designs I bad suc ceeded in suppressing by my public representations, and by force of signal triumphs in the field of battle, constantly followed up their efforts; employing Machialvelism and dark intrigue in order to deprive me of the just apprecia. tion which your Majesty bad conferred upon me, and thereby succeeding in involving this magnanimous nation in fresh disasters, in fresh sal guinary struggles, when the voice of peace had filled the hearts of all good Spaniards with delight. " I had occasion, on resigning all my commando on the 15th of July last, to express my belief that your Majesty had withdrawn your confidence from me; and although the • President of the Council of Ministers of that period, taking the name of your 'Majesty, pointed out a fact [that of the Duke having been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Guard A], in order to convince me of the contrary, I could not remain satisfied, because the reasons which I gave your Majesty for that resignation acquired a still greater degree of strength from the circumstance of their net having been overruled; at the same time that very Cabinet took upon itself the singular office of notify ing to me the non-admission of that resignation, notwith standing that I pointed out in that act that your Majesty had been disposed to replace the said Cabinet by another more calculated to satisfy the feelings of the people, thereby averting the evils which were intimated by various circumstances and expressed opinions. " I felt bound to make another sacrifice for my Queen and my country, by resigning myself to continue at the head of the forces, since it was considered necessary that I should so, although I then had but a very weak hope that my gloomy predictions would be averted. " The most. important places in the monarchy, through their corporations, and the national militia at various points, had applied to mc, because they considered that the glo rious events by which the throne of your august daughter had been consolidated might have conferred on me the faculty of nicking representations for the general good, which would be favourably received. Their only desire was that the Constitution of 1837 should not be deteriorated or infringed upon by a Government from which, seeing the course it was pursuing, it had reason to:fear everything; a Government notorious for its scandalous removals of putdie functionaries—bar the undue dissolution of a Cortes which had just become constituted—for its interference in the election of the new deputies—and for the organic laws submitted for their deliberation. " To these authentic demonstrations were joined the knowledge which my position permitted me to possess of the state of affairs, their relative position, and necessary consequences ; and being thereby convinced of the impe rious necessity for impeding misfortunes, I pointed out to your Majesty that it was expedient, in virtue of your pre rogative, that you should appoint another Cabinet, capa ble of saving the vessel of the state—an opinion which your Majesty adopted under the compromise that I should ac cept the Presidency of the Council, which I did not de cline, wishing to see public tranquillity secured, and the unanimous desire satisfied of good Spaniards, of which the immense majority of the nation is composed. " My programme having been rejected—no doubt, be cause its principal lasses consisted in the dissolution of the present Cortes, and that the projects of law which had been presented to them should be annulled by withholding the Royal sanction—your Majesty knows that, actuated by the best and most anxious wishes, in the different con ferences to which your Majesty was pleased to admit me, as soon as the war against the armed rebels had been glo riously terminated, your Majesty made known to me your desire that I should come to Barcelona. I particularly dwell upon the expediency of not sanctioning the munici pal law, because, as it was contrary to what in expressly provided for in the Constitution sworn to, I feared my prognostics would be realized, should that sanction be given. " The obstinate determination of your Majesty's cowardly counsellers, by their imprudent and precipitate measure cthe Royal sanction of the Municipal law A), lighted up the torch of discord which placed this indus trious capital in combustion ; but they took good care to save themselves from any danger by abandoning their posts, in order to go to a foreign country, to shed the poison of calumny, by giving out that the cause of the evil was the person who had prevented it, and, who, it is now made manifest warded off the terrible consequences which they doubtless provoked, and which were also de sired by those vile and spurious Spaniards who, hypo critically professing adherence to the fundamental law of the State, consider it to be a crime to proclaim that prin ciple, and who were desirous of the blood of its faithful supporters, under the pretext of their being anarchists—a pretext basely concocted in the club to which those un worthy Spaniards are affiliated. " Your Majes'y, in those critical moments, must have been solely impelled by your natural goodness in favour of a people worthy, on account of their virtues and their remarkable sacrifices, of all consideration, and of having their just demands satisfied. This was believed to be the case on seeing the Royal decrees, containing the nomina tion for new Ministers of persons of well-known Spanish feelings, attached to ,the Constitution they had sworn to— to the throne of your August Daughter, and to your Ma jesty's Regency; and, with the exception of one, who de clined accepting office, the whole made the serious sacri fice of accepting it, and proceeded immediately to offer their noble efforts to the Crown, for whose lustre they were anxious, as well as for the prosperity of the State. Their principles were well known, and it was not possible that against those principles and their own convictions they could follow the crocked course of their predecessors. Therefo:c the nation gave itself up to the pleasing con fidence that the happy lot for which all sighed was at hand. " For this reason, Madame, in the public manifestos, the movement of Barcelona was considered as a means of salvation, and was reprobated solely by the enemies of your Majesty and of the Constitution, and by those in whose breasts the feeling of national independence, which is des tined to constitute our felicity, does not exist. The pro gramme which the Ministers elect presented to your Ma jesty could not be either more just or more moderate, but the days which passed during its consideration allowed the selfish and criminal cabal to put fresh springs in motion, and caused your Majesty to believe that you cught to cap ry out the system which cast down the former Ministry ; and no consideration, no reasonings, however eloquently offered, could produce the adoption of the bases pointed out. " Resignations consequently took place, and the nation remained without a constituted government after so pro longed a crisis. Other appointments were made, and the antecedents of some of the parties—all, Madame, was a ' signal of alarm in the capital of the kingdom, an alarm which has found an echo in Saragossa, and which will very probably break cut in other provinces. " I enclose to your Majesty a copy of the communica tions addressed to me by Don Joaquim Maria Ferrer, whe has been nominated President of the Provisional Junta of government of the province of Madrid ; also of the answer I have considered it necessary to return. In the pro nouncement which - !has now taken place, but little blood has been shed. The object of this movement (pronwzcia mento), as I am informed, is no other than to support un touched the throne of Isabella 11., the Regency of your Majesty, the Constitution of the State, and the national , independence. I believe, Madame, that such are the principles professed by your Majesty; but in a representa tive Government, all the counsellors of the Crown being responsible for its acts, it is necessary that they should offer those securities which have been looked forward to so anxiously ; and it being a fact that those who have been chosen since the accepted resignation of the Perez de Castro Cabinet, and who might have satisfied that anxiety, were obliged to retire because they could not subscribe to the promulgation of the municipal law, which is contrary to the Constitution, the motive is clear which has impelled the lamentable movement that has placed your Majesty in conflict, and which affects my heart, although long ago I foresaw it. The Ministers who arc at your Majesty's side conceive that the means of repressing this movement arc, to make use of the force of the army, according to the Royal order communicated to me under date of the sth inst., and to that effect lam called upon—l, who have not left untried any means for avoiding the arrival of the day of such a terrible trial, which might for ever compromise social order, cause tor rents of blood to be shed, dislocate an army which renders us respectable, and deprive us of the fruits of the signal glories which have annihilated the hosts with which the rebel Don Carlos hoped to usurp the throne, and raise up scaffolds to sacrifice those who defended that throne, and obtained victory. For this reason, and because your Ma testy, in your autograph letter of the same date, which I have had the honour to receive, intimates that on account of these events your Majesty has been induced to believe hat the throne is in danger, I conceive it to be my sacred duty to tranquillize your Majesty's mind in this res p ect, by ' making with nobleness, and with all my accustomed honest feeling, such observations as are suggested to me by my loyalty and patriotism ; in the hope of so inclining your Majesty's mind, that, placing faith in my words, you may accord those means of salvation which it appears to me are the only ones which ought to be adopted. " From what has been stated in this representation, it is evident, without recurring to antecedents, that the direction of affairs has not borne the stamp of that pru dence or of that impartial justice which alone render Go vernments strong and respectable. Ever since the dis solving of the late Cortes, the decided object has con stantly been to discredit the Liberal party, denominated of Progress, establishing a system of exclusive protection in favour of the other party, called Moderado, which it is endeavoured to augment with persons of suspicious pre• cedents, this fraction making a patrimony for itself of a ll the principal employments of the State. Thus, Madame, there cannot exist either harmony or confidence, nor can peace be so solidly established as was to be hoped after the termination of the civil war. Besides this, the Libe ral party has been calumniated by the supporters of the other party, under the pretext that tile former were con spiring against the Throne and the Constitution, and that they arc nothing more than anarchical enemies of social ore der ; and frequently riots and mutinies have b een fomented to corsoborate this iniquitous report, but which have dcpro duced no effect, because men h ave, from frequent un ceptions, penetrated the origin and tendency of those pre texts. These abortions have been a necessary conlsoquebninac.., because the want of motive has rendered genera i c l o t m ie in_ tion impossible, inasmuch as they were too little t f, ' lest they tercets of the instigators to be made tria the disturb should be turned against themselves. ancea of Madrid artiSeville in the latter m T o h n u A t s l s of the year 1838 failed, arid my representations to yourhall,aejecsotynvoifntcheed 28th October and 6th September m m o rs t nose disturbances your Majesty as to the hand by wsoe were directed, and what was the end to wid h they ten ded. On that occasion disobedience was p r actised with e_ut any pretext towards the over nment of your constituted G Majesty, and at a time when the civil war was at its great est height ; whereby the efforts of the defenders of the just cause might have been inutilized, and the triumph of the rebel bands might have ensued. I consider the present pronouncements, as demonstated up to this time, in a " Oa the other hand, I have not received any account of those violences and crimes having been committed which mark the progress of disorder and anarchy. These considerations, and many others which I omit in order not to distract too much your Majesty's attention, I imagine should be weighed, before advancing to an extreme out break, in which children against parent, brother against brother, Spaniards against Spaniards, might be impelled to renew sanguinary struggles for cne and the same prin ciples, after having consented to embrace each other upon being freed from the common enemy, who sustained the fierce strife for seven years. And who can say what would happen even if blind obedience should lead the in dividual commanding the troops to so afflicting a combat? Has what happened to General Latre, when he was pro ceeding to Andalusia, been forgotten? Has not the garrison of Madrid just joined the inhabitants of that city, abandoning their Captain- General? And if the same thing should occur with the corps' which might be sent thither, what would become of dis cipline ? What of the stray ? If I should march to 10a drid, I should be uneasy as to what might happen with regard to the rest of the troops, in the present state of fer mentation on the part of the people. If I should smd thither a General possessing my confidence, his compro mise would be terrible, and it is very doubtful whether the soldiers would fight against compatriots who will present themselves with open arms, saying, ' the cause for which I am struggling is the same as that for which you have shed your blood, and for which you have suffered the un exampled toils which render your names glorious.' " Your Mqjesty says to me that, in order to regain your confidence more than ever, the pledge will he, that I come to the decision of defending the throne, ,thus freeing my country from the evils with which it is threatened. " M - adame—l have never deserved to have your Majesty's confidence withdrawn from me. Does my blood shed in battle, my constant anxiety for, and my whole existence devoted to, the consolidation of the Throne and to the happiness of my country; and, in short, the history of my military life—do these circumstances count for nothing in your Majesty's opinion ? Is it necessary that I should now give a proof of my fidelity to what I have sworn to, by gratifying, perhaps, the base desires of those hen who, bereft of the titles which I am proud of holding, have in duced your Majesty to turn a deaf ear to my warnings, and to listen to their insidious projects? " I believe, Madame, that the Throne of my Queen is in no danger, and I feel persuaded that the misfortunes of my country may be averted by the appreciation of the counsels which, in order to avoid those evils, I considered it to be my duty to offer to your Majesty. Madame, there may still be time for this. Madame, a frank manifesto from your Majesty, declaring that the Constitution shall not be deteriorated, that the present Cortes shall be dis solved, and that the laws they voted shall be submitted to the deliberation of the Legislature to be newly convoked, will tranquillize the public mind, if at the same time your Majesty should select six advisers of the Crown of liberal, pure, just, and wise reputation. In that case, your Ma jesty may be persuaded that all those who have pronounced themselves as dissidents would quit their hostile attitude, and would acknowledge with enthusiasm the goodness of your Majesty, who has always been the mother of Spa niards ; there will neither be bloodshed nor misfortunes— peace will be ensured—the ever-virtuous army will pre serve its discipline, and will maintain order and respect for the laws—it will be a strong shield for the constitutional throne, and our independence will be respected ; whilst that period of prosperity will commence which this af flicted nation requires. in recompense of its generous sacri fices and its heroic efforts. " But if these means of salvation should not be adopted without a moment's loss, it will be difficult to calculate upon the course of events, and as to the point at which their effects may arrive ; for a revolution, however sacred may be the object that produces it, may perchance be drawn into another channel by the perversity of some in dividuals who would put the masses of the public in motion for the purpose of accomplishing criminal and anarchical projects. " May your Majesty deign to fix your entire considera tion upon what I have said, in order that your decision may be the most just and felicitous under such difficult circum starzces.—Bncelona, ith September, IS-10. " Placing. myself at the feet of your Majesty, (Signed) " The Diike do la VICTORIA." TURKEY. CON STA NTINOPLE, AUG. 27.—8 y the French steamer of the 24th we have advices from Egypt to the 16th, but they show no alteration in the resolution of the Pacha. Confiding in the valour of his Arab army, and in the strength of the fortifications which defend his capital, he seems determined to abide by the last alternative; and as rceotuse to this is, therefore, now inevitable, all hope may be consiiered at an end of a termination of the affair without bloodshed. Immediately on the arrival of the Cyclops steamer with the news of the convention with the Four Powers, Mehemet Ali, it is stated, had quitted Alexandria to make a short tour through Lower Egypt; the object of his absenting himself at such a moment being partly to avoid conferences with the European Consuls, but principally to endeavour by his own presence to reuse the fanaticism of the Bedouin tribes, and facilitate the raising of his new levies. Ac cording to a letter in the Echo de l'Orient, three regi ments of the Yemen :army have already arrived at Alex andria, and had received orders to march to El Arich, the first town cn the Syrian coast, probably intended as a corps de reserve, in the event of the defeat of Ibrahim Pacha. The remainder of the troops daily expected were to form a camp at Damanhour, into which also would be thrown a corps of Bedouins of two thousand strong, under the corn mend of Abmet Pacha and Ibrahim Kutchuk Pacha. But the arm on which Mehemet Ali appears chiefly to rely, is the fanaticism of the population of the Asiatic provinces, which his numerous agents are most busy in exciting— holding them up as the defenders of Islamism, which the Giaours, they give out, are endeavouring to subvert. The recent disturbances in Asia Minor, to which I alluded in a former letter, and numerous outbreaks of a more tri vial nature which have occurred subsequently, are known to have been fomented by the agents of the Pacha ; and the Porte, in order to counteract this, has deemed it necessary to publish a manifesto, laying before its sub jects a statement of affairs from the commencement of the quarrel up to the present period, and proving to them, by the. clearest arguments, that the Pacha himself is the enemy of their religion, and that the object he is aiming at is to dethrone the Sultan, and warning them, under the severest punishment, against receiving and cir culating the doctrines he is preaching to them. This do cument has been publicly read in the Mosques of the ca pital on several days during the last week, and has been also transmitted, for the same purpose to the Governors of the provinces of Asia Minor. I doubt of its effect being such as is desired. Where the sway of the Pacha has been already felt, the means he has adopted will avail him little ; but where the tyranny of his Government is yet unknown, namely, in the provinces which arc still under the dominion of the Porte, and where general discontent is known to exist in consequence of the reforms which have been latterly introduced, an appeal to the fanaticism of the Mussulman population will, I fear, be listened to but too eagerly. The communication to the Porte from the French Am bassador, to which I alluded in my last letter, has given rise, it would appear, to a most serious misunderstanding, and has formed the subject of discussion during the whole week before the four Ambassadors and the Reis Effendi. Delivered by the Dragoman in a harsh tone, perhaps more so than it was intended it should have been, it had, it would seem, been misinterpreted by the Pacha into a declaration of war on the part of France in the event of the Convention being executed by the Porte, and was transmitted by him as such to the Ambassadors of the Powers. Against this construction which had been put upon his words, M. Pontois thought fit to protest, putting into writing his former communication, and accompany ing it, at the same time by an official note, the language of which was most violent. To this the Porte returned no answer, and M. Pontois, in consequence, has become quite furious, denouncing Reschid Pacha to his colleagues in office as the most determined enemy to his country and religion, and he is now endeavouring 13,) , every means in his power to displace both him a nd Ahmet Pacha. This ab surd conduct of the Fre nch Ambassador has made him th e iotbjeecatnofnogyvenberealnroidileounlge,eranddontbhteedmotrhea t s o h , e of w i c ll ou n r o s t e, b a e s su pp or ted in it by his own been the intention of t he French Government,Governmer.Hadi ts fi li h ne tin e g 'f di it of France had better it would have been for the igni y policy would have been obviously a different one, and her motives and reasons for supror she at once decided on so doing, and a a vo d w e e s d po o t pe l n ik ly e whole question, endeavouring Mehemet Ali. Her shufilino.gbydiipntorrgauceygatnh d r O b U y g t h h o ell most Bah r will bring on her i 'thal to the noblest motives, has not uavnodwer,liparnedtemndeannos, t o achieve an object she w 8. 3. ashamed to Europe. it is supposed he t only ne seeanrdoe of finthtehewhcoolmepolfetest failure, but rveamnoaiinngs in his former position, being pevented from ad. by the want of supplies, and the general disor ganization of the whole of his army. The Porte, in the meanwhile, is fast preparing, and will be ready to meet him w i t h a formidable force, in the event of his venturing on a forward movement. In addition to the camp which I al luded to at Koniall, another is being formed in the neigh bourhood of the capital' which will chiefly be composed of Albanian troops. The troops, it` s here rep orte d, arc to be placed unde r the command o General Jochmus, who arrived on Monday with despatches from England, having b ee n sent out for this special service. If thi s report be corr ect, the only remark that can possibly b e ma d e is, that In° and t G have been esu chos. u e t n the G p d n e l e r i r i o a n d l ajofiethtmernsiancleivldideunaml cmonunldd and he also di ot the e t h A e b G a n r a e n k a i r o a l e u t t e i r o ,n , s perfectly ti n a g c o q i u s h a l e n s e h i al a s ' e t in the war in Spain. The trial of the ex-Vizier, Khosrcff Pacha, on the first charges which had been bre:tight against him, for defalca tions in his public accounts, was brought to a termination on Sunday, and he is condemned to be exiled for three years. He is still to be tried on another indictment, and that of a character far more serious, viz., that o f p lotting for the overth row o f t h e Government,, but it is not known when the trial will commence. Admiral Walker sailed on Thursday last with the Turkish fleet, following in the wake of the transports which had already taken their departure for the Syrian coast. The place of rendezvous is the island of Cyprus, where the whole of this force will be collected, and in readiness to act when the definitive resolution of Mehemet 1 Ali shall have been received, or the twenty days' ce al_ ) lowed him shall have expired. Mr. R. Colquhoun, h er M a j esty ' s Consul-Gent ral in Bucharest, arrived on W e d nesday last, his presence having been required by Lord Ponsonby, whose pati e n ce i s at length exhausted by the reiterated slights and affronts which the petty tyrant of Wallachia has dared to put upon the British flag. Prince Ghika, pluming himself upon the protection of Russia, whose ame demise he is. not - onteated with trampling under foot the much-van nted eglement organique, and, exercising the most unmitigated t , Tanny over kis own miserable subjects, endeavours to ex t,. Id the same lawless oppression over the subjects of other pc:3, vers, and particularly the lonian proteges of Great tam. His Lordship will, no doubt, address the n ecessary - istrances to the Porte, and demand, not only ample remit); satisfa, ?lion for past offences, but proper security fo r t h e -nod conduct of the Wallachian Hospodar. future heg "albot, Captain Cod r ington, reli e ved, on S a t ur d a y, T the Dido, on our station. Geners brie, .m, tocbmus arrived yesterday by the French steamer, Mg. despatches from Downing-street to Lord Ponsonby. R e found Ad m i ra l W a lk er at th e Dardan e ll es . with one ship of the line, one frigate, one corvette, and thirty trroops, haTLig on board between five and six thousand transports, t :nder thn command of Selim Pacha; from thence h e was tcr Lave cadet!, yesterday morning, for the island of Cyprus. They con:mut:jewel-I with the steamer from Alexandria, which gave _intelligence that Mehemet Ali h a d rtfused to accept the co editions which Riffat Pacha was authorised to offer him. The coast of Syria is already blockaded by ships of the Briti. . 11 squadron , and several Briti s h o ffi cers o f rank are expeets d to di rec t the operations of th e l an d troops when i t shall b e f oun d necessary to commend hostilities. It seems, like wise, to be certain that a corps of British troops will be :cunt to co operate with the Turkish army. The Prince of ;,‘.3amos arrived by the same steamer, his presence at Corot:anti ntple having been required by the Sultan. TURKISH MANIFESTO. " TRAN SLATION OF AK ARTICLE FROM THE MONITECIt OTr TOMAN OF THE 2D AUGOST. I[Read by erder of the Sultan, in all the Mosques during i Divine Service, for f."..e information of the people.) " From the first occurrence of the di;putes and differ ences that have arisen between the Sublime Porte and Mehemet Ali, the European Powers have not ceased to. show a sincere desire to bring their differences to a con clusion suit Ale to the honor and interests of the Porte r ! and to the rights of the Sultan, Not only was this I friendly wish a natural result of the amiable ties and an gi„...nt relations so happily existin7, but from the extent of t h e possessions of the Sublime Porte in Europe, she has been ,ncounted as one of the European Powers, and that w i nnevm • effects her interests is regarded cs concerning. all E urope. Subsequent to the occurrence o f th e dis putes to, and after the reverses experienced, as known to sit ;he wo r ld, t h e A m b assa d ors o f t h e G rea t Posters resident u.t Constantinople, in a collective offi cial rote, declared, L Mat their Governments were unani mously agreed upon tak.,lig measures to arrange the said. differences, and the SublITCO Porte,with a view of put ting a step to the effusion of :_Ta , isulman blood, and to. the various evils which would arise .(t,irn a renewal of hos- Powers. tilities, accepted the intervention of 1.11 great e - ~ His Excellency Shekib Effendi, the I.3e:ye kgi, was, there fore, 'sent the bu ne i n Lon despatched es plenipotentiary to refire blime Porte at the conferences which took k -c Lon don for the purpose in question. The object the the great Poweis, as well as of the Ottoman Governmeeltr was to bring. about a satisfactory and suitable arrangement, b" eci on principles of justice, and conformable in every t to the honour and dignity of the Porte and the I:lt'' . rests of the Sultan. Every effort to accomplish ti. ` l b . having been fruitless, Mehemet Ali Pacha has conceive i• the vain idea of acquiring all he aspires to, • Totally unmindful that he was nothing, and forgetting under whose auspices he has risen to the power and fame he enjoys, he has set his mind on dividing the Otto man empire with his Sovereign ; and to conceal his ambi tious projects, he has recourse to language calculated to deceive only the unwary. He always commences by say ing that the sole motive of his demanding so much for him-- self and his descendants, is, for the preservation of the Mussulman faith, notwithstanding that it is known to every one, that the wish of the Sultan is to uphold our holy re ligion of which he is the spiritual chief, and that the con stant and unceasing efforts of his Highness arc directed to that end. Let no one be deceived by the stratagems of the Paella. " It having been felt that all the zealous labours of the conferences of London in the settlement of tile Pacha's pretensions were useless, and that the only public way was to have recourse to coercive measures to reduce him to obedience in case be persisted in not listening to, pacific overtures, the Powers have, together with the , Ottoman Plenipotentiary, drawn up and signed a treaty, whereby the Sultan offers the Pacha the hereditary Go vernment of Egypt, and of all that part of Syria extending from the head of the gulf of Suez to the lake of Tiberias, together with the province of Acre for life; the Pacha on his part evacuating all the other parts of the Sultan's do minions, now occupied by him, and returning the Ottoman fleet. A certain space of time has been granted h;m to accede to these terms, and as the proposals of the Sultan and his allies, the Four Powers, do not admit of any change or qualification, if the Paella refuse to accede to them, it is evident that the evil consequences to fall upon him will be attributable solely to his own fault. His Exceller.cy, faat Bey', Mustcshar for Foreign Affairs, has been de spatched to Alexandria in a Govtrnment steamer, to com municate their ultimatum to the Pacha. . Now, were it absolutely neecisiry to give to the Paella, his children, and descendants, he extent of terri- tory (the origin of the dispute) that he wants, the Otto man empire would at once be divided into two parts. The distinction between suliket and Sovereign would be merely nominal, and from a rivalship between two equal powers various evils would arise. It would not only fail in giving strength to Islamism, but, on the contrary, would be a means of shaking and loosening it. To make a mere governor a partner in the sacred rights of the Sultan, by giving him such extensive territory, and such vast power, is so contrary to the principles of government, and the usage of its subjects, that it could at no period be admis sible. /f the wish'ef the Pacha be to provide for his children and descendants, the slightest reflection will con• vince every one that the hereditary Government of Egypt would suffice for that purpose. SYRIA. Extract of a private letter, dated Mount Lebanon, August 20, 1840 : " Five English men-of-war and one steamer are at Beyrout, and have blockaded that port, and we hear that Sidon, with all the seaports on the coast, if not so already, are immediately to be blockaded. The steamer and two frigates are cruising about, and seizing every vessel be longing to the Pacha which they caa lay hold of. Five or six have already been captured, the last of which was quite a prize, having on board two hundred Arnaoots ( Albanians), one hundred Nizams, and eighteen Moun taineers, captives, on their way to the Looman. The Consuls of the Four Powers with their families have gone on board the ships ; and our Consul sent to the merchants requesting them to leave likewise, but they have accompanied us to the mountains where we hope to remain in peace. The poor Fellaheen are quite rejoiced at the prospect of being delivered from their bondage, yet seem as yet timid to rise again. The Emir Beshir outwardly opposes the English, but it is the general opinion that he will join his people when be sees a strong force sent against him. If he does continue .on the other side, I fear he will soon lose his head, as he is hated as much as 'Mehemet Ali. To him do the Druses at tribute their last failure, and they look upon him as being the cause of allthe misery which reigns throughout Lebanon —many, many poor wretches have been torn from their homes by his order, among whom are many who took no part in the revolution, but against whom he had some private grudge. You can little conceive the sFe . every ted nes o : m house ry I have el latelyinwhichwitnessed. we e I h r ay s e i d do n s o o t m r e ei t l i i m e m es b er evens e isni x s o i c a k e ie w m it a h t o c u s t . on lt e, is tw th o and :, t s h a r m ee e , throughout the mountains. Some of these poor wi!etches have scarcely a rag to cover their nakedness, an'i not a morsel of bread to cat. A woman here was delivered of twins on the road, and no sooner were they bot n than she was obliged to take them up, and escape from the fury of the barbarous Albanians. " Things are growing worse and worse, and I just now bear that all the Christians have left Bev r out, alad that the Paella's soldiers arc plundering the houses as fast as they can, many of the Franks are leaving the country, and I now fear we shall be obliged to follow." AUSTRIAN CENSORSHIP. —Printed books are divided into four classes: Ist. adniittitur, may freely pass : 2d, transece may be sold, but not auvertised or exhibited for sale : 3d, era scltcdani, may be delivered to safe and trustworthy persons ; 4th, damnatur, prohibited. The Fame classification holds good with respect to manuscripts, for which, however, there is a fifth class : " foam nova meretur, unworthy of being printed." " In this class." says: the law, " arc included those wretched worthless 13:/oks, and e lettersq uest question the subject of which is without interest, and at variance- with all good sense, as well as other miserable productions which violate good taste, the rules of style, and the purity of allowed of language.' A catalogue of the newspapers to be imported is yearly drawn up w hich those Vienna papers are held up as a model y_ The law says. of the interior are to fashion themselves. circumspect," " They ought to be attractive, tru . e a , and a strict censor- The theatres also are subje e e d t th l 'at must not be pev ship, since much may be print n ieces must be re at bieanPacra, and the formed. Sanguinary and inhuman P dances, anti jected, and modesty is enjoined m there be a good and just the principal character, un counteract the evil impres3io king in the same piece, to Fi rive copies must be delivered of costumes. A worthless king must produced by the former. allowed to cause any work to be lunstgnot be presented as each book. No one e'sountrv. Thi s prohibition extends printed in a foreign m foreign u stbe referrednewspapers o a n a d s u p p e 0. - 5 on e cclesiastical law and ecclesiastical riodicals. B o oks on to the Bishops ; but otht r theolo gical are nco__,Tioug writings are submitted to them for gical and I r li i ease of a difference of opinion between them also r t o o , a articles n and the censors, Raumer's Italy. nor authority. ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT ON THI MIDLAND RAII,WAY.—We have just heard that Thorns Elliot and John Wallis, masons, in Mr. Jackson's employ at Amber Gate Station, were knocked down by a Pilo engine yesterday morning as they were going to break fast. It is supposed their attention was occupied by coac h passing on the highway as the engine was comic u p, and they, in consequence, did not observe its approacl One was killed on the spot, and of the other no hopes al entertained. One has a wife and two children, the otb: • a wife and three children. The inquest is expected to 1 bcid this day (Thursday. )Derby Reportsr. PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON. REPORT PRESENTED TO THE COURT OF PEERS BY M. PERSIL, BY VIRTUE OF THE ROYAL ORDINANCE OF AUGUST 0, 1840. This State Paper, which was read to the Peers on Tuesday by the Procureur du Roi, is of enormous length, giving full details of the examination of some fifty persons, together with comments. The following are the only extracts interesting to the public : One of the answers of the principal conspirator, Prince Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, in reply to the President of the Examining Committee, has thrown light upon the original idea and first preparations of the insurrection. His words were, "It is not more than a year or eighteen months since I recommenced my correspondence and relations with France. As long as I thought that honour forbade me from attempting anything against the Government I remained quiet, but when I was persecuted in Switzerland, under the pre text that I was planning a conspiracy (which was then false), I from that moment began to renew my former projects." You will judge of the truth of this answer on learning the fact that Louis Napoleon had scarcely arrived in London from the United States when he published and distributed (with the aid of his constant accomplice Persigny) a pamphlet intended as an apology of the Strasburg insurrection, showing the possibility of its suc cess and of its chances at a future period. He had previously, in the month of February, addressed a letter to the Commandant Mesonan, whom the Government had placed on the retired list ; Prince Louis Napoleon was anxious to take advantage of the discontent which that officer had expressed in the public journals. At that period he had not returned to Switzerland, and the Government could not demand his expulsion, which was not decided upon until it had full evidence of his guilty projects in that country. In the prosecution of these plans he left no effort untried. The preparations made for this new attempt are the same asthose put in motion for the Strasburg affair. As a matter of course, he had re course to the press, that mighty engine of modern times for influencing public opinion, the first and most essential link in the chain of all such enterprise. It was put under contribution in all forms, Journals large and small, pamphlets of various sizes, Next came the emissaries sent into the different departments, with di rections to take up their residence in the garrison towns, the army being the chief support on which Prince Louis Napoleon counted. His agents were instructed to watch and turn to advantage every symptom of dis coneent ; the soldiery were tempted with promises of increased pay, decorations and promotion ; and to the officers still greater allurements were held out ; it was even proposed to form a sort of depot for, or even to en gage as servants, all the old discontented soldiers that could be found, and who were likely to join their cause, either through indigence or from having been dismissed in consequence of misconduct. In the same interrogatory Prince Louis Napoleon admitted " that he had expended large sums of money to establish and support in France certain journals to advocate his cause ;" he refused to name those prints, or state the amount paid to them, or the persons with whom he kept up a correspondence, but his discretion in this particular was the less to be regretted, as the inquiry had brought to light important information on this head. In consequence of the imputation against M. Crony- Chanel of having received from the Prince 250,000£. for a criminal purpose, nud the contradiction given to that injurious report, M. Crouy-Chanel was examined before the Committee ; he declared that in 1839, at the period when the journal called the Capitols was established, he received from Prince Louis Napoleon the sum of 140,000 E, which were expended upon that paper, or for different. commissions which required no concealment; that their connexion continued for only three months. Their attention should he particularly directed to the Prince's communication with the Commandant Mesos non. This officer's ambition was not merely to gain over simple soldiers, but he hoped to be able to seduce a Field-Marshal. in the person of the Commandant of the Department of the Nord, and if so, he would consider himself master of the frontier in the very quarter in which the landing was to be effected. It was highly probable that the numerous garrisons under his orders would folloW the example of their commander: On being questioned by the President relative to this project, Mesonan gave the following answer :—" I had a long conversation on politics with a General ; he opened his heart to me, having been irritated by certain promotions which had taken place. He even spoke with warmth on the subject. I did not conceal from him that I was going to England, and that I should see Prince Louis Napoleon there, but I made no proposal to him on the part of the Prince." In reply to the President, Alesonan stated that the officer in question was General igagnan. The Examining Committee thought it their duty to cite the General before them, and the following is his deposition : " About the end of March, 1849, a person named Lombard, an ex-surgeon, implicated in the Strasburg affe.ir, was staying at Lille, and in communication with some officers of the garrison, whom I shall not name. The King, on being informed by the Minister of War and by me of their wild conduct, was pleased to extend his indulgence to them. On the 6th of April, 1840, I informed the Minister of Wear that the ex-Commandant Parquin, one of the ringleaders in the Strasburg °lien tat, had arrived at Lille, and that although I had no un easiness as to his attempts, 1 thought it prudent to assemble the officers of the garrison and acquaint them with the presence of Parquin. The latter remained only four-and-twenty hours in Lille ; on the evening previous ' to his departure he went to the theatre and entered the box occupied by a Major of Cuirassiers, Commandant Granget, who immediately retired, and went tosome other part of the house. About the same period Commandant Mesonan arrived at Lille, and called on an old friend of his, Captain Cabourduche, belonging to the staff, and also visited the Colonel of the 60th Regiment. The Colonel told him that he could not ask him to dine, as he was engaged to dinner at General Magnan's, and said that if he called on the General, he would no doubt ask him to dine. The Commandant Mesonan paid me a visit. I formerly knew him at Brest, in 1829, and as he was an old friend of Lieutenant-General Bourck's, I invited him to dine. There were also pre sent General Count Corbineau, Viscount St. Algnan, the Prefect of the Nord, the Colonel of the 60th Re a,iment, and several superior officers of the garrison. After dinner I asked Commandant Alesonan, in the pre sence of several, what brought him to Lille, and where he was going to. He replied that he was proceeding to Ghent to see some old friends. He then asked me for some information •relative to some persons in the lat ter city. He also said that it was his intention to go to England, to sec a merchant who had been a priso ner with hiin in England. I introdlaced him to the Lieutenant-General Commander of the division and to the Prefect, and a game o f w hi st was got up, an d Mc sonan retired the vast of the company. He called on the fo','“owine; morning, and was conducted to mY s'.,utly by the aide-de , camp. lie spoke of his leaving been placed on the retired list at the mo w.ant 'co expected promotion, and spoke a good deal of his past services. I saw that he was a discontented man, but he said nothing of his connexion with Prince Louis. I told him that I blamed his (Mesonan's) con duct in Belgium, and that he ought to consider himself very fortunate to have been placed on the retired list. On a subsequent visit he handed me a letter, commenc ing, " My dear Commandant Mesonan—You will offer him, on my part, 100,0001. and 300,300 f. which I will lodge with any banker in Paris whom he may appoint, in case he should lose his appointment." I stopped, my indignation was roused, I turned over the leaf, and I found the letter was signed " Napoleon Louis." I returned the letter to the Major, telling him that I thought he ought to have esteemed me too highly to have dared to make me such an offer ; that my motto was, " Do your duty, no matter what results ;" that 1 had never violated nay oath, even in 1815, and that, not wishing to serve during the first restoration, from hold ing the rank of captain in the Imperial Guard, and offi cer of the Legion of Honour, I became clerk to a no tary ; that my veneration for the memory of the Empe ror would not induce me to violate my oath ; that he (Alcsonan) was a madman to take the nephew's side, which I considered was ridiculous and desperate. I added, and if' I were so base as to take the Prince's 400,000 f. it would be a robbery on my part, for if I were to present myself to-morrow before the garrison of Lille, and to weak any language but that of fidelity to our oaths, the most inferior corporal would put his hand on my throat and arrest me- s -such is the sentiment of honour which animates the army. I said to Mesonan, " 1 ought to arrest you, and send your letter to Paris, but it would be unworthy of me to denounce the man to whom I offered hospitality, and I will not do it. Make your escape—you have still time—preserve the esteem of your comrades by giving up this plan, and let the army remain ignorant of what you have attempted." Mesonan wished to reply. I opened the door of the room and put him out, saying at the same time, " Go and get yourself hanged somewhere else." In taking leave of him I said, that if he would quit Lille, and did not return, that I would not disclose his infamous pro posals. . The affair at present regarded me alone ; but that I 'should act otherwise if' any of the officers under my orders should complain to me of any attempt on the part of Mesonan to corrupt them. Mesonan told me that lie would leave Lille that evening, and would not return. After his departure I recollected the book he had given me the evening before, and on examining it I found it was called Letters ji•ont London. I banded it to Colonel Paer, of the Ist Cuirassiers, in order that he rnfAt examine whether such a book had been dis tributed amongst his men, and to make the same in,. quiry of the other Cotoncls of the garrison. Thi s work had, in fact, been distributed the evening pre ceding in the barracks of the 46th Regiment. Colo nel Salleyx, who commanded this regiment, reported so to me, and I transmitted his report to the Minister of War. 'Tile same day, the 26th of June, I write 13 nlandors of paces under my orders to warn teem against Bonapartist agents. The first communication that I made to the Minister No. 4. " On board the City of ilinburgh, Aug. 4, 1840. " The Colonel Laborde—The Prince Napoleon has appointed you to form and command a battalion of vo lunteers. His desire is that you should organise in com panies of 100 men the volunteers who present them selves on the Place d'Armes in front of the Hotel de Ville of Boulogne (High-town). To expedite as much as possible the formation of these companies, you will immediately name two or three captains to form and command them, and the volunteers will appoint by acclamation their sub-officers, one sublieutenant, and one lieutenant. ---- The effective, fixed at 100 men, will comprise one sergeant-major, four sergeants, and eight corporals. You will cause a list of names to be made out, and at the side of each you will state whether the bearer has ever before served. As soon as a company s h a ll b e formed, it is to be conducted to the Chateau to receive arms, and then placed on the vehicles, which , w i ' o il n l s b . e found collected on the Place des Tintorelles. " His Highness directs your attention to the neces sity of operating with extreme celerity ; and, moreover, desires you to maintain the strictest discipline among those placed under your government, as letthe yleoaustkdnoisw order might compromise the success of our good cause. The Colonel Montauban and the Commandant De i ar e. dins ni e s have. The a duty composition similar o t ro its yours.stag will N t b ) teet;:etzihgeTiel gene raloti,tbe7emes'tp- oaf effective of the battalion is fixed at ulterior decisions, to be adopted on your " The column will not stay more than fourg Boulogne. I mention this in order to hours at what time you will have at your disposal, " For the Prince, and by his order." No. 5. “ On board the City of Edinburgh, Aug. 4,1810. appointed y ou t o ,—The Prince has a per " io N r l m on t s h ie c ur fo o llo r , s , i ing will demand from the Major hint to the guard of the troop assembled in the High " 1. You will arrest the 'S—ous-Prefect, an d comm i t town. " 0. Yea will seize the different public chests, taking You will act with you for this purpose such . persons belonging to the place as shall he indicated to y ou . When about to and will afterwards return to head-quarters in the nig •toy 7 .n. " For the Prince, and by his order." , G i et perform i h ir al rigour t t l h l ies anti forceduty despatch,n ) e r essa i r y to assist y ou , (To be continued.) Mr. John Fenton, M VEALTHY These gentlemen I DEATHS OF \ L . NT AT Rocrr- DAT,E.—Within the last five months, three of the wealthiest moil in Rochdale have died; and it is said that the pro perty they have bequeathed .atnounts in the aggregate t w o ere nea lll ly r. h st e e r rlin o g i . M. P. ), who i s r eported to have left 500,0001.; Mr. Law, whose property is said to have been 900,0001. ; and Mr. Jonathan Fildes, who was interred on Friday week, and whose property. 15 stated at 162,0001. The last-named gentleman was a bachelor; his nearest relation, a cousin of . the same . name, was a labourer, with a wife and eight children, . and living, till the recent death of his onFeentmouilliofat wealthy . relative, in a small cot tage. The bequest to him includes th e greater part of the testator's property, amounting t o nearly 100,000/. Mr. Clement Royds,th, executor, gave th e l a b ourer the pos session of his relative's mansion two days after the death of the testator. The late Mr. Fildes has also bequeathed I the following sums :--2,000/. i to i the Manchester Roy a l In firmary, 1,0001, to the Rocnuale Dis pensary, 1,000/. to I the Rochdale Ladies' Charity, 1,0001. to the Rochdale National School, 2,0001. (1001. per annum) to St. Cie. ment's Church, R oe hda . le ; and the like bequest to St. John's Church, Smallbridge, making an amount of 0,000/. in bequestsfor charitable purposes. _ Manchester Guardian. Yates returned from , Paris, wh ere h e h as b een some weeks on the !ook.out .tor novelty, on T ues d ay last. It seems that the A leloln Theatre it se lf h as not been tuached ii, the alterations that have b e e n in grogresi; but the approaches to the boxes, pit,. and gallery, a nd the yen ' tilation of the theatre, are much Improved. 1, MORNING EDITION. !: . .