The Sun. — London, England, 1840-12-15 00:00:00

!IVENING 141D1 r LON THE FUNERAL OF NAPOLEON. (From the Moniteur of Sunday.) The following programme has been issued by the Mi tister of the Interior relative to the funeral ceremony : " The funeral train bearing the mortal remains of the Em peror Napoleon will arrive at Courbevoie on Monday, the 14th of December. " Its arrival will be announced by a salvo of 21 cannon shots fired from the Royal Hotel des Inyalidcs. The great bell of Notre Dame and the bells of all the churches is Paris will toll on Monday evening, the I,4th of December, avid the following day, from the momentlbc procession leaves Ccurbevoie till the end of the funeral service. On Tuesday, the 15th, at nine o'clock in the morn ing, the crew of the Belle Poule will disembark the coffin, and place it upon the Imperial car, which will have been pla.;:ed the previous evening under the funeral temple erec . .ed upon the point of disembarkation. .• At the moment of the procession leaving Courbevoie the artillery will fire a salvo of 21 cannon shots. " At the first shot the procession shall commence its march. The line of march will be as follows: —By the bridge of Neuiily, the Ncuilly road, the Arch of Triumph of l'Etoile, the Avenue tic Neuilly, the Place de la Con corde, the Bridge de la Concorde, the Quai d'Orsay, the Esplanade of the Invalides. " During the whole of the passage of the funeral proces sion, cannon will be fired off every quarter of an hour, and a band of military music will execute funeral marches and symphonies. ....The line of troops will be formed from the bridge of Neuilly up to the Royal Hotel des Invatides by the bat talions of the National Guards, and of the troops of the line who are not employed in the funeral procession. " Alone the wholo line the troops will render military boncurs at the moment tile funeral car passes. " The pro'cession will march in the following order. (The prograro: R e of the order of the procession has already been pubP.;hed.) " The proccssion will continue its march by the Avenue de Neuilly and the Pont de la Concorde. " The military Gynatase Musicale will perform military , tyrttphonies upon the Placa des Invalides. " The car will draw up before the principal entrance of the Royal Hotel des Invalides under a funeral portico. " A salvo o 21 cannon will announce its arrival. The coMn, borne by the crew of the Belle Poule will cross the first court of the hotel, pass under the gate of Louis X I V., and be deposited under a funeral porch erect ed before the great gate of the church. " The horsemen bearing the dG Limners of the departments will take their positions to the right and the left before the great front of the hotel. " Two amphitheatres, erected in the Royal Court and the upper galleries, will receive the invalids, the old soldi. ers of the Imperial Guard who shall have made themselves known, and persons provided with tickets. " Under the dome will be ercc:ed the catafalque. " Th e King and Queen and Princes and Ptincesse3 of the Royal farni.ly will be present at the ceremony. " The interior of the dome will be occupied by the mem bers of the Chambers of Peers, placed upon the tribunes erectcd on the ri.,ht, and the members of the Chhmber of Deputica placed upon those of the lat. " Other tribunes will be reserved for deputations from the d!ff:rent bodies of the State. " The persons who wish to be present must arrive before eleven o'clock in the morning. After this hour no one will be allowed to enter but the persons who form a part of the precession, for r.hom places will be reserved. " Carriages will draw up at the gate of the Boulangcrie, on the Boulevard des lavalides, and persons oa foot will enter by the great entrance. " The clergy will enter by the gate of the garden of the Chmolain of the Invalide3. " Ladies and gentlemen ‘cill only be admitted in deep mourning-. " Persons in uniform or official costume will wear crape on their arms and on their swords. " The coffin will be received under the funeral porch by the Archbishop of Paris and his clergy. " After the sprinkling of the holy water, it will be borne by non-commissioned officers of the Nation al Guards and of the line to the entrance of the dome, where the King will be waiting to receive the body of the Emperor Na poieon, which will be presented to him by his Royal High ness the Prince de Joinville. " The sword of the Emperor, placed upon the coffin, will be borne by Lieutenlnt-General Prechaud. " The coffin will then be raised into the catafalque. At the four corners will be seated the Marshals, Admirals, and Lieutenant- General Bertrand, who will hold the pall during the procession. " The service will be performed by the Archbishop of Paris. " The absolutions will be given by the Archbishop of Paris and by four Bishcps during the Dc Profundis. " A last salvo of 21 cannon shots will announce the end o (the funeral service. " During the ceremony the vessels which shall have served as the catafalque and the other vessels of the fu neral train, covered with mourning, will take up their po sition in the basin of the Seine, before the laivalides, and fire a salvo every quarter of an hour. " After the ceremony a guard of honour will be placed by the side of the catafalque. " Thu next day, and the days following, the public will be admitted into the interior of the Church of the In va!ides." T'se Prefect of Police has lltewiso issued the following ordina&ce cc,neerning the measures of order and public s4fety to be taken upon the Seine upon the occasion of tftt ceremony : - " PARIS, DEC. 10. We, the Councilor of State, Prefect of Police, &c., vor,idering the arrangements made by the Minister of the .interior for the transference of the mortal remains of the Emperor Napoleon, in virtue, &c., order as follows : " Art 1. The navigation upon the Seine shall he inter reptecl during the whole day of Monday, the 14th of De cember, from break of day until the following day, in the whole space between the bridge of Bezons and the bridge of St. Cloud. " The vessels forming part of the funeral procession shall alone be exempt from these regulations. 1. During the 13th all boats or vessels of every kind upon the Seise iii the space pointed out by article 1 shall be fastened in fit places under the direction of either the eiavigation agents or of the twat authorities, in such a manner that they cannot be made use of contrary to the orders contained in that article. ":3. The Sous- Prefet of S:. Denis, the Mayors of the communes upon the bank of the Seine, between the bridge of Bezons and the bridge St. Cloud, the Commander of the Gendarmerie, the engineers of the roads and bridges, and their conductors ; the Inspector-General of the Navi gation, and those under his orders, are directed to see to the execution of the present ordinance. " The Councillor of State, Prefect of Police, "G. DELESSERT." The Grand Referendaire of the Chamber of Peers ad dressed a communication to the Peers, to inform them That the King intended to be present at the ceremony of the interment:of the mortal remains of the Emperor Napo. Icon on the 15th, and being desirous of being surrounded by all the great bodies of the State, measures have been taken for the accommodation of the two Chambers, and that places are reserved for the members of the Chamber of Peers. The Mi n i s t er th en a dd s , t h at t h e P eers are requested to be present at the Invalides by 11 o'clock in the morning, in order to be there to receive his Majesty. The imperial train was received at Mantes on Saturday :morning about 10 o'clock by the clergy in their sacerdotal 'robes ; the mayor, accompanied by the municipal body ; the tribunal and public functionaries of the arrondissement with the Sous-Prefet at their head, The National Guard formed in line on each side of the river, and presented arms as the coffin of the Emperor passed. An immense con course of people was present at the ceremony, which passed over in the greatest order, arid in the midst of the most prefOund respect and devotion. The flotilla, under the orders of the Prince de Joinville, Arrived at Poissy in the course of the same day. The town of St. Germain has had the Bridge du Pecq d evorated, and the authorities and the National Guards of the neighbouring communes will take their station upon it to salute the coffin of the En - :poror as it passes. A band 'of military music is to play a funeral symphony during the passage of the procession. The preparations at tic point of disembarkation at Neuilly are almost finished. On Saturday the skeleton form of the temple erected on the quay of Ceurbe vole was be,inning to be covered. The decorations of the bridge 'of Neuilly arc also in a forward state of progress. The three trophies, formed as emblems of naval combats, and erected upon the parapet of tie bridge towards the Cour bevoie side, wore finished. The gigantic column upon that spot, the base of enich is in the river itself, was also eicarly terminated, The great road was arranged for the procession from Neuilly up to the Arch of Triumph. of The tweltee great mast s w hi c h arc to surroun d the A rc h mid riu . rn 'eh were put o n S a t ur d ay . Th ey arc b ronzed, tte4fte-.r basement is ornamented with painting - s in gilt ':he lette r " N" upon a bronze grotend. .te gre a t statues that line the whole great avenue of NlerChamps Elysees were put up on Friday and S a t ur d a y ; they ar e p l aced from the Place de la Concorde as far as the Rue de Chaillot. Between each of the columns is placed a magnificent tripod of great height, which will be filled with flame s . : • Most of the columns which alternate with the statues l and tks e tripod s , an d are surmountedby an Imperial a are etir:le, are already fixed. T he shields upon which 'scribed the principal French battles, and which are to be hung upon these columns, were likewise being attached during the whole of Saturday. The tricolour fl.gs, in- Acribed with letters of gold, were also being Placed by the side of these military trophies, to try the effect. The pe destals were being placed at the same time ornamented with bas reliefs. The four pyramidical columns which are placed at the end of the Bridge de fa Concorde were dec o _ rated with their gold eagles. Upon the esplanad e of the Invalidee the preparations were nearly terminated ; the Tribunes were finished, and the thirty• two statues of French warriors that line the avenue up to the entrance of the le valides were uncovered to public gaze. - To afford an adequate idea of the spirit of the Iva eai, ev and of the Republicans whom it represents, e copy from that journal the following article, by which it will be seen that their professed respect for the memory of Napoleon is but simulated and used as a vehicle for the expression of tl air rancour at once against the respectable Government that directs the affairs of France, and against this country sod her Allies : Theste,,e month of December was marked, in the life of Nap , e oy a series of events, fortunate or unfortunate, which Powerfully influenced his destinies. 1 Ass in the month of December, 1799, that the Con sular Government was legally constituted ; the national representation, and with it all our political liberties, were buried and lost in the Conservative Senate. ~ Next year, and nearly on the same day, th e Fi rs t Con -Iti EWSI . I s t ! ti e ss icaise. caped the e ff ects of the inf erna l mac hi ne, i n t h e Rue . ~. .\ ...:„ T - ~ On Rteliven7 Resolution, i D O n e , e December, beearn,, causing himself m h s e e l inflictedthe crownedl ast blow E m . ( ."se.'' Yes=ee Le' on the pomp of past a ges. 44 /t 7 - '' 4 .- 1 peror, with all the r 4 ; , , -.,,- , -.. ~ On the 2d of December, 18, 05, he c l , ar - : . of Austerlitz. 7i `girlgained the battle es , C-s-- s - -(frl 112 re . V " On the 4th of December, 1508, he entered the capital of Spain, where his star began to grow pale. " On the 16th of December, 1809, he divorced Jose phine, in order to form a closer connexion with the old monarchical system, which he had first so valiantly com bated ; he divorced, we may say, with himself and with posterity. " Three years later, on the 20th of December, 1812, leaving his army and his fortune in the ice of Russia, he re-entered Paris as a fugitive. " It is finally in the month of December his mortal re mains return to Paris, after 25 years' exile, to seek a tomb which he so ardently desired on his death bed. His last wish, at least, has been accomplished. " But Fho are the men about to rece i v e his remains ? I ,'; . :iat hands will commit him to the funereal vault ? Strange fatality ! We omit the names we are not allowed to pronounce. We will net either speak of the old peni tent conqueror of Toulouse. He is a mere shadow, and we perceive-behind this too transparent figure the real de positary of the ministerial power, the chief of the Cabinet, M. Guizot. Thus the missioa of laying in his tomb the man of St. Ilelena devolves on the protege of the Abbe Montetquieu, the man of Ghent.' " We have just recapitulated the anniversaries of the Emperor. The man of Ghent has also his own. We shall content ourselves with merely mentioning one, and not heed the others. " It was on the 15th of December, 1815, the Prevotal Courts were instituted, in which M. Guizot, the Secretary- General of the Minister of Justice, acted so conspicuous a part. Now, against whom were sinister tribunals or ganized? Against the Emperor and the remains of the empire. Is it then to commemorate this anniversary of sanguinary memory the man of Ghent has fixed the impe• rial funeral for the 15th of December? The coincidence is deplorable ; it would have been better to have chosen the 2d ; on that day blood also flowed, but it was not shed at the foot of the Prevotal Courts; it was on the field of battle of Austerlitz. " Do what you will, sound your trumpets, fire your cannon, unfold your banners, you will not succeed in im parting to the obsequies of the vanquished of Waterloo a becoming character. Your funeral ceremony will want moral grandeur, you will convert into a theatrical show what ought to be a national solemnity. You are not equal to the accomplishment of such a ceremony. "The moment would be badly chosen to discuss coolly the titles of Napoleon and submit his memory to the pos thumous censure of Egyptian kings; the long agony of St. Helena commands indulgence; but although this terrible expiation has effaced many faults and many re collections, we, the children of the new democracy, let us not forget that, if the conqueror of Austerli.z achieved great feats, the conquerors of the Argonne and Fleurus had likewise achieved as great, and that they made their glory serve the cause of liberty, whilst the empire had placed liberty under the feet of glory. Napoleon appears to us always accompanied by his prefects, his police, his grand dignitaries, and that oppressive and dark adminis tration which still keeps hold of France by its iron grasp. " But let us not recriminate with death, it is not the destroyer of the tribune, the press, and all our public liberties the people of Paris will receive to-morrow at the triumphal arch of l'Etoile, it is the young conqueror of Arcole, Rivoli, of the Pyramids—it is the proud negotiator of Leoben, the great plebeian captain who loved France too well to suffer her to bo dictated to by strangers, and who, to his last hour, was the faithful guardian of the national dignity and honour ; for there were two men in that man—the interior man, who ought to be brought to a severe account by de mocracy, and the exterior man who, unknowingly, and in spite of himself, was one of the most powerful and for midable agents of that very democracy which he so much dreaded ; that is the man whcm we salute with the name of great, whose memory we honour, and whose coffin the winisfre de l'etranyer eonnot contemplate without exposing himself to hear his accusing voice. " No, your France, such as you made her to your image, is not the France he fancied in his island. He be held her still great, and you have lessened her by shaping her to your height, He imagined her brave, generous, in telligent, sympathetic, enthusiastic, as in her heroic days, and you made her a nation of cowards, egotists, petty shop keepers, bowed to the brutal and stupid worship of material interests. During the last 25 years, Europe has held its foot on our throat and its lance on our heart, and that ap pears to you natural and legitimate : you are astonished that hearts should shudder, that civilization should take alarm ; because you feel nothing, you arc heartless, and accordingly cannot conceive any great thoughts ; because, in short, there are no pulsations under your left breast. " Imperial France made up for the absence of liberty by her glory. The France of 1840 has no more glory, and where arc her liberties? The insolence of the Allies ex ceeds all bounds ; they speak to us with irony on their lips ; they have even ceased to threaten us ; they hold us in contempt, Still Ministers were found to accept, to sanction all this ignominy —to justify it from the tribune, in the face of the French nation; and those are the men who, on Tuesday, arc to welcome the illustrious exile I He only required this last affront to complete his torture I It would have been preferable to allow him to rest in peace far from France, which has ceased to be his France, under the shade of an African weeping willow. " What I Ministers of Louis Philippe, you have kissed the boots of the Czar, insulted, shot after the victory the vanquished of Waterloo, and you have not the modesty to decline assisting at a ceremony, where your presence is impossible, and you will dare to follow the cortege ! No, you cannot. Would you not be then under the haute sur veillance of the Allies? They would control your gestures, your looks ; they would net even tolerate the fei g n e d ra thusiasm of a mendacious recantation. We defy you to pass, without looking down on the bridge of Jena, before the street of Austerlitz, names which your ears cannot bear to hear. Prussia and Austria forbid it, and M. de Pahlrn would frown if you presumed to pronounce them. Be par. ticularly cautious not to displease your friend Palmerston, lest he should take it into his head to sweep all that.' " You wish to live with the aid of foreigners ; foreigners will be your destruction, for although you have sunk France ever so low, she will not lend herself tamely to the con summation of her suicide. Let the funeral of the Em peror, then, rekindle the enthusiasm of the country in hearts too long extinct I Napoleon possessed in the high est degree the sentiment of nationality ; he bore it in his heart, it was as it were incarnate in him. That nationality is now in peril ; let us save it. 0 France, if thou be'st not on thy guard, those men will inter it with thy Emperor in the vaults of the Invalides. " Tho kith of December should not remain a sterile day. The people must not assemble round those noble ashes as they would round an ordinary coffin ; they ought to derive from it a great political lesson, and return from the funeral ceremony with that faith in themselves and that invit:eible force which they formerly had, and which they ought never to have lost. If this were not the case, the fitheral of Napoleon would be a vain pomp, and it would be said of us that we were no longer fit for Any thing but to bury our dead." FRANCE. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.-STTTIN G OF Dix. 12, CON TINGED. M. Humann, Finance Minister, presenting for legislative sanction, some days ago, the credits effected by ordonnance to the extraordinary expenses of the present year, we did but state, as was comprehended by our prede cessors, the exigencies of a situation which we did not make, but which we have accepted. This situation will necessitate fresh sacr:fices in 1841, it being your wish as ours, that France should watch, with the sentiment of its force, over the preservation of the European balance of power. He was happy to be able to present the project of law respecting the necessity of these credits before the opening of 1841, and flattered himself to deserve approba tion by collecting all the credits into one project of law. The law asked extraordinary credits to the amount of 179,707,433 francs; and while the extension of naval and military armaments were 146,279,000 francs, and the army of Africa 26,836,000, there was also an arrear of 27,073,531 francs. The additional credits to the budget of 1841 were finally as follow : Minister of Justice and Worship 55,000f. Minister of Foreign Affairs Minister of Public Works Minister of War Minister of Marine Minister of Finances 206,780 966 f. This sum did not comprehend any expenses for the fortifi cations of Paris, estimated, in the statement of Marshal Soult just made, at seventy-seven millions. The supple ment demanded by the Justice Minister consisted of 13,000 f. expenses for the new offices, and 40,000 f. for the rent and furniture of the temporary habitation of the Archbishop of Paris. In the Ministry of Pub lic Works, there was 53,806 f., the expense of police and surveillance on railroads. Ten millions are taken from the seventy.two millions allotted to the Public Works during 1541. Of the 135 millions demanded by the War Minister, there are 871 for the army at home, 22i- for the army of Algiers, nearly 25 millions for the augmentation of mritrriel. The expenses of the marine, above stated. may be distributed as follows food, hospitals, 20 millions; materiel for new forts and batteries, eight and a half millions ; fit ting cut ateliers, three millions; buying arms and powder, 880,000 f., &c. &c. The Minister then explained the 29 millions supplementary, demanded for the finance depart ment. Tnis consisted of arrears, and expenses arising from pensions and cautionnemens. Adding to the addi tional sum required for 1841 some special creditors, and subtracting from it the supposed surplus of revenue over ex penditure, M. Ilumann estimated the strap which was want ing to make up the budget of 1841, at 189,902,046 f., and the sum wanting to cover the two years of 1840 and 1841, at 405 millions of francs. This was without the fortifi cations of Paris. The revenue of the sinking fund sup plied 106 millions so meet this; eight millions boni, and sixteen millions taken from public works, would give 130 millions. There remained. 275 millions, for which the Treasury must provide. To meet this M. Humtnn had proposed a suppl.ment of six millions to the credit voted for tile interest o f t h e floating' debt, with th e perm i ss i on to increaseun the amount of Treasury bills in 1841 from ore hd red and fifty to two hundred and fifty millions. This would provide for the current want, of the Treasury, and gi,e time for the successive realization of the special means works. Zr, a shot deficit, required to covers it and to complete the public along with the Bu d e rn t tune of 1842, (the Finance Minister) would, which would complete the l fi B n 4 a 2 n , ci state i s p theseos idispositions ospecial them eparnes: project of law, sent Session. The Minister then read the credits There a t r o e allotted o a t t rn e do amount as follows :—which was tolife2td7g3e:3osfilfBra4nl francs s up t meet the items drawn up in statement A. elementary l. " Art. 2. There are also allotted credits to of 179,563,514 francs on the budget of 1841. " Art. 3. forms the credits to the amount of 143,92 1 f. " Art. 4,5, 6, unimportant. " Art. 7 authorises the issue of Treasury bills to th e amount of 250,000 f. in 1841. " Art. 8 places the reserve of the Sinking Fund at the disposal of the Treasury. THE sUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, _DECEMBER 15, 1810. TORTONI'S, SUNDAY, DEC. 13. HALF-PAST Two.—After the presentation yesterday of financial projects to the Chamber of Deputies, opinion still is that there is not to be a loan for some time. For the Account the Three per Cents. have been done at 771. 30c. and 771. 35c., and the market has been &tn. upon the pilot's putting back. On his refusal they drew I their swords and killed him. About a dozen persons took to the boat to get away from such compnny ; the boat cap sized and they were all drowned. The ship was then run into the Dardanelles, where by last accounts she was still lying. These troops were radii (militia) and not regulars. The Egyptian frigate which lately arrived here full of prisoners was, on the passage from Syria, the scene of dreadful distress. She had 1,400 Egyptians on board be. sides a Turkish crew, and the captain hit upon a most in human manner of getting money. He sold the water, and such of the unhappy wretches as had not money to buy it were left to die of thirst I Out of the number upwards of four hundred thus perished 1 The infamous wretch is to be tried for his life, and will, of course, be condemned ; but what punishment is sufficiently severe? That lie willba beheaded at Topkhane, or strung at the Arsenal, there is no doubt. There ought to have been no want of water, as at no period of the voyage was the ship ever 12 hour's sail from a port where it could have been procured in abundance, if wanted. A small barrel was sold for about three pounds sterling, and this to the men who were 22 months in arrears of pay, and could not be otherwise th a n i n e xtreme destitution. On Saturday evening, being; the 27th of Ramazan, we had the ceremony of Kadir Guedjessi. It is supposed that tile tablets on which is written th e f a t e o f ea ch person for the ensuing year are this night delivered to the ministering angels charged with the execution of the Almighty's and all devout Mussulmans consequently have, on the oc casion, recourse t• earnest prayer. The Sultan went to the Imperial Mosque at Topkhane, which was splendidly illuminated, and joined in the a pp ropr i ate N amaz . After wards fireworks were discharged, and the Sultan withdrew. A salute was fired on his arrival and departure, as usual. It was a holiday at the public offices, and the crowd col lected at Topkhane was immense. The Sultan has, we understand, directed that a splendid brilliant necklace, to be composed entirely of diamonds of the first water, be immediately prepared as a present to her Majesty Queen Victoria. It is intended to be a token o f hi s esteem f o r our beloved Sovereign who has been his Highness's best friend in the hour of need. Wo are most happy to have it in our power to be or testimony of the shining qualities of the young Sultan. Ile is of course indebted to his ministers fur many of the results of expe rience, but in point of natural discrimination, judgment, openness to conviction, and true wisdom, he promises to be much superior to his late father. His hours of recreation, in stead of being spent in useless frivolities, are deviated to in strutive reading. He peruses carefully all despatches, exam ines accounts, and refrains from pronouncing a decision until he has qualified himself to form a sound opinion ou the merits of the subject before hire. The development of his faculties under the career of royalty has been rapid and vigorous ; a becoming dignity is gracefully blended with the good humour of a lively, joyful temperament, and a nice sense of justice is ever apparent in all he says and does. All these recommendations, distinguishable in the charac ter of Sultan Medjid, entitle us to hope that he will ren der his people happy, and be the true regenerator of his beautiful country. TRANSLATION Of a PROCLAMATION addressed to Izzett Mehmed Pacha, Brigadier-General Khalil Pacha, the Colonels and other Superior Officers of the Ottoman Army in Syria. " Ever since my accession to the imperial throne, my first wish, my meat ardent desire, has been for the .me lioration of the condition of my subjects, and to settle the Egyptian question which has been an obstacle to the hap piness and prosperity of the inhabitants of Syria, one of my hereditary possessions. With this view, in union with my allies the Four Powers, I concluded tie Treaty of Lon don, and in order to execute its stipulations, it has been necessary to have recourse to coercive measures. " Scraskier, Generals, Colonels, Officers, and Soldiers! Numerous SUCCCSSCS and brilliant victories have been the fruits of your innate fidelity, your courage, your emulation with the Admirals, Generals, and Officers of the allied forces in heroic gallantry. Your exploits will yet be able to render your Sovereign many honourable services, and I, on my part, shall not fail to requite thorn by distinctions and rewards. It is, therefore, with the greatest pleasure, the most sincere gratification, that I here publicly express my entire satisfaction at the laudable manner in which you have performed your duty ; at the gallantry and good-will of the Admirals, Generale. and other efficers of the allied forces, and at the obedient fidelity of the inhabitants of S)ria. " It is in testim on y o f m y admission that the present proclamation, decorated with the sign -manual, has been issued and sent. Let it be opened and read in the pre sence of all, that my approbation may be declared to the whole army. Every one Kill, lam confident, cheerfully exert himself to the utmost to remove radically, as soon as possible, the destructive will that has debarred the in habitants of Syria from the enjoyment of the security of person and property, the welfare and prosperity, that have been extended to my other subjects. The renewal o! your strenu ous e ff orts to b e i nstruments f or t h e produc tion of this great good will secure you my especial re gard, which will be hourly strengthened and augmented. Conformably to my former orders you will be careful on all occasions to preserve the most amicable relations with the commanders and officers of the allied forces, and to act cordially in union with them. Exert yourselves to promote the Cause of your Sovereign, and every one of you will become the praise and admiration of future ages." The son of the Commander-in-Chief Izzett Pacha, Ata Bey, who brought the despatches acquainting the Porte with the fall of Acre, is about to be appointed to an honour able and lucrative post. The Ministerial dinners usually given during the Rams zan have taken place, and the dragomans of the foreign mis sions have come in for their share of Turkish hospitality. Letters from Bucharest mention the discovery in Walla chia of a conspiracy that had been formed for the purpose of assassinating the present Prince, upsetting the whole system of Government, and introducing in its stead a constitution. A nephew of the hospodar, Prince F:li pc:•co, was in the plot, and we hear that M. Valliant, a very clever Frenchman, drew up the charte. We arc further told that a national council was intended to be as sembied, at who-c head was to be placed the celebrated Walliichian patriot, Col. Camptniano, who ha: long been hostile tv toc existing form of Government. lsztt Pacha has ✓ finally been withdrawn from Syria, being appointed Mushir of Adrianople, and hii post as Pacha of Acre, &c., Governor pro tempore of Egy pt, and Seraskier of the army in Syria, has been conferred on Zekeria Pacha, late Rumeli Valessi and commander of the troops in Asia Minor. The new Rumeli Valessi is Said Paca, Mushir of Nanina, who is again repheed by Osman Pacha, late of Adrianople. Until the arrival of Zekeria Pacha at the theatre of war Lieut.-Gen. Sclim Pacha will have command of the troops. Salami Effendi, the musteshar of the army, has been raised in rank to a functionary of the first order. LLO YD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. I.s.—Wind this day at noon, fresh breezes front E. to N. E., with snow. DEAL, DEC. 14.—Wind E., fresh breeze. Sailed the Chase. ttitchie, for Pernambuco ; British Monarch, Park, Jamaica. The Sophia, Strombeek, from Gifle to Har fleur, is wrecked on the Kentish Knock, crew saved. GRAVESEND, DEC. 14.' .The Nledora, Lawson, bound to Banff, whilst at anchor below here, was run into by the Eliz ibeth Bentley, Harot, bound to Savannah, and lost her bowsprit, &c. LIVERPOOL, DEC 14 —Sailed the Veita, Sheen, for Rio Janeiro ; Atne.ia, Teesdale, ditto ; Britannia, Atchc son, Mobile. The Hector, from Calcutta to this port, was on shore at Diamond Harbour sth October. The Cayman, hence to Demerara, which put into Dundalk, pricked on her anchor on the night of the 11th instant, and filled. The Lochinwar, Ailcn, hence to Trinidad, has put into Waterford, with damage. Th e S now d on steamer took fire this morning in the Clarence Dock, but it was extinguished without doing any serious damage. Tho Scotland, from Quebec, on shore near the Magazines, was got off yesterday, and into dock. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 14.—Wind E. N. E., strong breeze and squally.—Arrived the Port Glasgow, Frost, from Que bec, s a il e d 17 t h u l t. Th e O ld Maid, from Quebec to Yarmouth, was abandoned 28th ult., in let. 46, lon. 41, being water-logged ; the master, mate, and six men were taken on board the Lady Gordon, from Bay Chalcur to Cumberland, and six on board the Port Glasgow arrived here. Cod as, Dec. 14.—Siiled the Cuba, Kissock, for Syd ney, New South Wales. Baixitax, Dec. 14.—The Europe, Welburne, from London to Sines, on shore in Torbay, bas become a total wreck. Far.stotltt, Dec, 13.—Wind N. E. to E. N. E., strong breezes. ---Arrived the Septima, Gutterson, from Quebec, with loss of bulwarks, &o. ; Lady Wood, Salmond, X, and i s ramichi, di tto and leaky. Sailed the Hebe, Douglas, Ber bice. Th e Osleo, Solflnk, from Odessa to this port, was m 4 09, thu long.t o Van 6: were Di Dig_ man's La n d,. abandon e d It sta with twelve feet water in her hold —crew saved by th e Laddy on R 9 a le put on boa r d t h e Ankathor, arrived here PLYMOUTH, D EC. 14 . .--.,Wend N. g. s a il e d t h e Twhaaki . The B e ll e Alliance, (steamer), Wi s b art, f or Syd ney , N ew South Jepson, from Antw erp to S t . Übes, on sh ore i n Bigbury Bay, has b een got off, and came in here to re p s k, e n ' s instant , , in in P l o ar Portsmouth s SWASsa, Dec. 13.—Arrived, the Janet, Wilson, from Valparaiso. PORT TALBOT, 1:66 . 13 ....,..the Bravo, Brown, from Quebec, sniffed fur Neatti, yesterday, to discharge the re mainder of her eargoLand lad up for the winter. OW. De, 12 . —The British C,lu( en, from Dublin, to Newcastle ; is on s h ore on the N . W. polnt of Seruba, part Zit materials saved. ll AR'"t,lliall. 14.-..:.'11ie Sophie, ot Goole, has heed assisted off the Pye Sand, waterlogged and abindoned, and carried Into Panikeet Water: soutovaLb, D ec. 1 4 —The stern o t a h oat , martail Gorsail, 11 John .- , enn ," quarter board mark ed " Triune, o f Sunderlyand," p a eabin-dotir painted green , and marked 'l'. 1-1. The o , here been picked up off hire. DEPTH of th e EPTH OF TH E N, — (Front Attlet;Call 18th Sovember.)—The sea was recentl y sour de 1 by l ea d and l ine in lat. 5 7 d eg . south; and 83 d g. min. west lon g , f rom P aris, b y t h e ofticers of the Vrerich ship Venus, during h er voyage o f discovery, at a depth of 3470 yards, or o miles, no bottom was foun d. The wea ther was very serene, and it is said that hauling in the lead took sixty sailors upwards of two hours. In another p lace in till Pacific Ocean no bottom was found at the depth of 4,140 yards. THE AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY.--The number of vessels engaged in this fishery in 1834 was 434, whose total value was 1 and employing 0,130,000 dollars, about 10,900 men. Of the common oil taken in that year, about one half found a market in Europe, one quarter in the West Indies, and the remainder in the United States. The greater part of the sperm oil is used in the United States in steam-boat and other machinery. The Ameri cans are able to bring to this country the sperm oil at a duty of 25/ per ton, although at that high rate they are still g ainers. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. We understand that the Great North of England Railway will be ready for the conveyance of coals on the 4th of January next. —. Railway Times. THE LATE ADMIRAL DRURY• TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUE. Sut—Having seen in your Paper of the Bth instant, which was brought under my. notice last evening, a most unfounded charge against the memory of as distin guished, brave, and zealous an officer as the navy had ; distinguished in particular at Lord Duncan's action off Camperdown, where, as Captain of the Powerful, he contributed in no small degree to the happy results of that day, and being now his only representative in the navy, I feel that I have a right to expect you will insert the following statements of facts in your Paper relative to the expedition to China in 1808. Admiral Drury, whose flag-lieutenant I then was—a situation which gave me ample opportunity of knowing all that passed—was ordered by Sir Edward Pellew (afterwards Lord Exmouth, who then commanded in India), to China (his flag in the Russell), taking under his orders the Dover, Captain, now Sir Edward Tucker, K.C.11. ; Phtwon, Captain, now the Hon. Sir F. Pal lew ; and a brig, with 400 of the 30th regiment, for the purpose of occupying Macao, in trust for the Portu guese, which service was performed, and the trade with China stopped in consequence. A lengthened correspondence between the local au thorities then took place through the supercargoes,re lative to the re-opening of the trade. I beg it to be observed, that after the occupation of Macao, Admiral Drury's further movements, of course, in a great measure depended on the recommendation of the supercargoes. After several months of inaction, by ne means agree able to an officer of Admiral Drury's decided charac ter, an official communication was addressed to him, saying that several millions of dollars belonging to the East India Company were detained, and requesting the Admiral to take some steps to enforce the payment. In pursuance of this requisitiou, the Adnera-1 ad vanced in boats with a force of about 1,000 men to Canton, but was met on the way by all the Chinese navy, moored across the river, who commenced a fire the moment the boats appeared. However, from their guns being fired at a fixed elevation, the beats soon got within the range without the loss of a man, fortunate) , fur their junks ! A few bnat.s under C.ptain Pellew's orders were then sent on to el ar a passage (the fire being still kept up), which was •ffacted without even a show of resistance. The Admiral then proceeded to Canton ; the money was instantly given up, and hiving performed all that was required—Canton at his mercy. and the Chinese utterly astounded, he returned to his ship. Under all these circumstances, I cannot but feel that it is very unfair (to say the least of it) to charge the memory of so gallant an officer as the late Admiral Drury with pusillanimity, especially against such con temptible opponents as the Chinese. If, however, as is probable, the meaning of the expression in your Paper of the Bth is to charge my late uncle with a want of moral courage and energy in his transactions with the Chinese, the injust►ce of the charge is equally great, for Admiral Drury was bound by his duty to attend to the wishes of the supercargoes, as far as was in his judg ment prudent ; for, let it be remembered, that the occu patio❑ of Macao (on such terms) was not considered then of . such moment as to risk an open rupture with China, and, consequently, a lengthened stoppage of all trade. In point of fact, he did fully comply with all their requisitions, and what more could he do ? XVith the political and commercial results of the means adopted I have nothing to do. I merely step forward to clear the memory of my gallant relation from an attack which, on reading the above, to the truth of which I pledge myself, I feel sure, you will admit to have been unjust to the memory of a merito rious officer. The troops were withdrawn at the re ) quest of the supercargoes, the trade re-opened, and nil quiet, and the Dover, Captain Tucker, left on the Ad miral returning to assume the chief command in India, which was ample force, not only to protect the trade, but to have destroyed the forts at the Bogue, and all the junks on the Chinese waters, in a very few hours. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, H. DRURY, Commander R.N. Elizabeth-place, near Gosport, Dac. 13. [Captain Drury's zeal in wresting the memory of his gallant relative from unmerited obloquy is highly praiseworthy ; but the misrepresentation, if such it be, of which he complains originated not with us. There is nothing which we hold in greater abhorrence on the part of the public press. nor against which we endeavour to guard more carefully, than the circulation of any calumny painful to the feelings of the living, or injurious to the memory of the dead. Therefore, in charac terizing the conduct of Admiral Drury in China as morally, not physically, 6' pusillanimous," we were guided by the following passage, which Captain Drury will find in Mr. Davis' book on China, pub lished by Charles Knight, under the superinten dence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Mr. Davis having been Chief Com missioner of the British Trade in Chinn, and inti mately acquainted with the whole history of our traffic with the Chinese, we were fully justified in assuming, from his high character, that his state ments were not only substantially correct, - but that where he felt himself constrained to blame the conduct of British officers, he did so with some thing like a leaning in their favour We quote from the last, one volume edition, column 2, pp. 36 and 37, leaving the public to judge as it pleases of our impartiality, and of the relative value of the two statements now before it.—ED. Sun. EXTRACT FROM DAVIS' CHINA : " Early in 1808 information reached India of the pro bability of ambitious views being entertained by France towards the East, and of the danger to which Macao might be exposed by the vicinity of Manilla, if the French should make that Spanish colony their own. In consideration of Treaties by which Eugland was pledged to protect Portugal and its settlements against aggression, as well as of the interests which the English themselves bad at stake in the neighbourhood of Can ton, Lord Minto having garrisoned the colony of Goa, by a convention with the Governor of that place, deemed it fit to send an expedition for the protection of Macao, which, he apprehended, might be threatened by an enemy's fleet. It might reasonably be questioned how far such a measure was well advised. Alter the expe rience of the similar expedition just six years before, when it plainly appeared that the Chinese treated Macao as a portion of their empire, and the Portuguese as mere tenants at will ; the result at least was an utter failure. " The Portuguese Governor of Macao, with his two or three hundred starved blacks, could of course pre tend to offer no opposition ; he, in fact, soon received an order from Goa to admit the troops ; hut, under a thin veil of compliance and affected friendship, it soon appeared that the Portuguese were doing everything in secret to misrepresent the designs of the English to their Chinese masters, by whom they were forbidden to admit any force into Macao without permission pre viously obtained. It being determined, however, by the President of the Committee, and by Admiral Drury, who commanded the naval force, that the troops should land, a convention was signed on the 21st of September, and they were disembarked quietly on the same day. An order soon came from the Viceroy for the troops to depart ; and when this was not complied with, the trade at Canton was stopped, said provisions denied both to the Indiamen and to the squadron of his Ma jesty's ships. An edict of the Chinese observed. Knowing, as you ought to know, that the Portuguese inhabit a territory belonging to the Celestial Empire, how could you suppose that the French would ever ven ture to molest them. If they dared, our warlike troops should attack, defeat, and chase them from the face of the coentry. 3 " The Admiral (Drury" proposed to the Viceroy by letter that they should have an audience at Canton to accommodate matters ; no answer whatever was re turned. All British subjects were soon after ords red to jdin theif fe§fiectite Vesgelg, and his Majesty's ships were removed higher up the river . As the fteroy still refused an audience to Admiral Drury, and declared that he knew no English authority but the Company's Chief, the Adrrilral proteeded to Canton in person, a n d insisted on an interview, saying, he would tie in the city in the course of half an hour. The Viceroy persisted in declining the visit, and the Admiral, instead of verse tiering in his intent:ollf, returned to his strip. s o me time after this, the hosts of all the men-of *dr and Indiamen were manned, and ariVid, for the purpose of proceeding an t 4 second visit to Canton, and fbecing their way through the line at Chinese vessels rwhich were mooted tit f 0,14 the ritier, filled wdli soldiers in order to prevent the Admiral's appooth. On teaching tfig litiei he pulled up in his own boat to add' ess the prin. tipal Mandarin, through the medium of a Portuguese Priest, who acted as . interpreter ; no parley, however, Was admitted, dnd after being fired at for some time, one elf the Admirals men was wounded, whop he wdered the signal to be made for attack. The signal was not ob served, and ordered not to be repeated. The Admiral Men declared his intention not to _force the Chblese tine. and returned With Me boats to the fleet. Tnouih a man of undisputed courage. as onser%ed in the evidence before the House of Commons in 1830, Aebni to/ Drury ' seems not to have possessed that cool and deliberate judgment which was essential to the success (1 the business he had been engaged in.' The attempt to proceed to Canton in the boats ought either never to have been made, or it should have been carried through. A Pagoda was built by the Chinese on the spot, to com memorate their victory over the English. " The trade still continued at a stand, and the Vice roy issued an edict to repeat, that while a single sol dier remained at Macao no commerce could be allowed. On the Bth of December, it was therefore determined to act on a document lately received from the Emperor, 1 which afforded a fair pretext for relinquishing the point in debate. A convention was concluded in a few days after at Macao ; the troops were embarked, and Ad miral Drury sailed away in the Russell for Bengal on the 22d of December. Thus, after a fruitless discus. THE JEWS IN TURKEY. Copy of a Letter from H. de Castro, Esq., President of the London Committee of Deputies of the British Jews, to the Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston, Princi pal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. " 19, South-street, Finsbury-square, Dec 1, 1840. "My Lord—l have the honour and extreme gratifica tion to transmit to your Lordship the accompanying docu ments yesterday received from Sir Moses Montefiore ; they consist of an address presented by Sir Moses to his Imperial Majesty the Sultan, of the Sultan's reply thereto, and of his Imperial Majesty's firman expressive of his opi nion of the falsity of the charges made against the Jews and their religion, and declaring the rights of his subjects professing the Jewish faith. " This firman, so satisfactory in its nature, so evidently important to the welfare of our co-religionists in the East, is equally honourable to the Porte as it is delightful to ourselves. We attribute the success of the mission to the East, under the gracious providence of Almighty God, first, to the generous and powerful aid afforded to Sir Moses and his coadjutors by your Lordship, by her Ma.- jesty's Government, by Lord Ponsonby and the British Embassy at the Porte, and by Colonel Hodges, late the British representative at Alexandria ; and next, to the in defatigable exertions of our honoured representative. " I am deputed by the Board of Deputies of the British Jews to offer to your Lordship our heartfelt gratitude for the sympathy which your Lordship has evinced, and the important services that your Lordship has rendered ; and permit me to observe, that we feel convinced that your Lordship will ever revert to your exertions in this good cause, with the satisfaction arising from the consciousness of having effectually protected innocence against oppres sion, and weakness against lawless power. " I have the honour to remair, &c., (Signed) "H. DE CASTRO, President. " To the Right Hon. Viscount P,ltnerston, &c." (Copy of the reply to the above letter.) " Foreign-office, Dec. 3, 1840. '• Sir—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston to con vey to you his Lordship's thanks for your communication of the Ist instant, ineloeing a copy of an address pre sented by Sir Moses Montefiore to the Sultan, and his Highness's reply thereto, together with a firman expressive of the Sultan's opinion of the falsity of the charges made against the Jews and their religion, and declaring the rights of his subjects professing the Jewish religion. " I am further directed to express to you Lord Palmer ston's sincere satisfaction at this gratifying result of the journey of Sir Moses Montefiore, and to assure you that her Majesty's Gore' nment feel great pleasure at having been able to afford Sir Moses Montefiore any assistance towards the attainment of the objects he had in view. " I am, &c. (Signed) "J. BACKHOUSE." " To Hanancl de Castro, &e." AFFAIRS OF THE EAST. PaveouT, Nov. 21.—General Smith is in Beyrout, with all his Staff; also General Jochmus. There are upwards of 13,000 Turks concentrated in the city. A company of artillery have to-day arrived from Malta, under command of, Colonel Colquhoun. The Emir 13eschir has 3,000 infantry and 300 cavalry under arms at Harnana. Ibrahim's forces, it appears, are fast coming up, and he is concentrating- the whole of them around him in Z icchally. According to the Emir's in formation, the Pacha has received no additional artillery during the period which has elapsed since I was present at a reconnaissance of his camp. He has lately published a proclamation, declaring that Acre has been retaken, and also four of our line-of battle ships captured. These shifts cannot last him long, and it is the worst policy he could have pursued. 'Pee trocps of the enemy have retired from Jerusalem as they have done, indeed, from all the strong places in Syria. Jerusalem has been taken possession of by a body of mountaineers, and the mountaineers are accumulated in force over the whole of that side of Syria, but the inform ation respecting them is not yet precise. Hassan Pacha (General of Brigade) has succeeded Izzet Mehemet Pacha in Beyrout, thanks to the good sense of the chiefs at Constantinople, far Izzet, as a governor, is the worst Pacha the Turks have got. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE MALTA, DEC. 2, 1840.—The past wei is ills been rather a busy one in the naval movements of our port. Despatches have arrived from the metropolis for Admiral Sir R. Stop. ford, and also for Lord Ponsonby, and from " the Land of Eg)pt " for Lord Palmerston. 0,1 the 27th ult. the French steam-packet Dante arrived from Marseilles, bringing Mr. Tod (formerly a man of some consequence in Malta, as se cretary of the Commission of Inquiry,) bearer of des• patches from England for Sir R. Stopford and for Lord Pononby. With the latter, the same individual pro ceedcd, on the 26th, in the Minos French steamer, for Constantinople, and with the fora er the Megasra steam packet was despatched for the coast of Syria on the 29th. On the 26th, the French steam-packet Scamandre arrived from Constantinople, bringing a despatch from her Bri tannic Majesty's Vice-Consul at Alexandria for the Go vernaielit of Malta, to forwaid to Lord Palmerston. This was sent on in charge of Mr. Frederick Sedley of the Chief Secretary's Office, who took his departure for Mar seilles in the Mentor on the 23th, on which day the Wasp arrived, followed on the 30th by the Castor, both from St. Jean d'Acre, sent down to rep". damages sotE.rqd in the late bombardment of that place. On the 29th the Hecate, war steamer, arrived from England and Gibraltar, bring ing Lieutenant-Colonels Mitchell and Rose, Major Alder son, Captains Wilbraham, Scott, Harvey, Robe, and Churchill, and a party of Royal Marines, Sappers and Miners, all prcceeding to Syria. She has also a vast quantity of ordnance stores for the same destination, with which she proceeds to- rnorrovv. On the 30th the contract packet yacht Emmctje (Leis_ tenant Gore, R. N., in charge of the mails) arrived with despatches from Beyrout and Alexandria, and the French Government steamer Phaeton from Toulon with despatches for Alexandria, with which she proceeded yesterday ; and finally, on the 30th, at three r. at., the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company's packet, Oriental (Lieutenant Hancock, R. N., in charge of the mails) from Alexandria, bringing the India maildcspatched to Sucz by the Victoria from Bombay, on the 31st of October, and despatches from Commodore Napier to the Admiralty, with which she pro ceeded at six yesterday evening. The Alecto steam-packet left for Marseilles with the despatches from that part of China, India, and Alexandria mails intended for the overland route, and will return about the 13th with the London overland mails of the 4th instant. The Acheron steam packet has just arrived with the London mails of the;l4th ultimo from Gibraltar, and the contract steam packet City of Dublin (Lieutenant Green, R. N., in charge of the mails) proceeded with the mails for the lonian Islands and Greece this afternoon. _ The Magpie surveying cutter arrived from Levant this morning. On the 20:h the Riala Bey, accompanied by two cap tains of the Ottoman fleet, and thirty-eight seamen, de serted and got on board the Revenge in two brrgcs, when they made known that Mehemet Ali had positively, in a moment of passion the week proceeding, ordered sixteen sail cf the line out, to give battle to the British blockading force. On the 22d the boats of the Medea saved a boat of the Rodney from swamping. Captain Davies of the Dido, which vessel left Alexandria on the 20th, with des. patches for the Admiral, has had the misfortune to lose three of his lingers in letting go with his own hands the topsail haulyards. The Egyptian and Ottoman fleets, which look ex tremely well, are now dismantled for the winter.' On the 22d of November the Princess Charlotte, Belle.. rophon, Thundcrer, Benbow, Gorgon, Hydra, and Zebra, the Medea, Guerrier, and another Austrian vessel of war, an Ottoman corvette, and a French brig of war were at anchor at Beyrout. The Pique, Hazard, and Vesuvius remained at Acre. The Magicienno was off the souther.t coast, The seamen were badly off for coals. The force off Alexandria en the 26th ult. consisted of the Powerful, Rodney, Revenge, Cambridge, Ganges, Vanguard, Carysfort, and Prometheus, and the Medea in port. Her Majesty's ship Scorpion was lying at Gibraltar on the 24th ultimo, and her Majesty's ship Tyne, at Corfu, on the 21st Her Majesty's troop ship Apollo arrived at Gibraltar on the 24th ult. in thirty-one days from Malta. DEC s.—The Hecate left for Syria with the troops and officers from England on the 3d inst. The Beacon arrived from Athens yesterday, and during the night the Madea from Alexandria (left the 28th), bringing the convention, signed on the 26th, which is despatched by a special mes senger to Lord Palmerston and Earl Minto this evening, in the Acheron, for Marseilles. The Prometheus left Alexandria on the 28th for Syria, with an Egyptian General and another officer, bearers of despatches to Ibrahim Pacha, ordering him to evacuate Syria. He also conveyed the Rietla Bey, two captains, and thirty-eight seamen, deserters from Ottoman ships at Alexandtia. Commodore Napier intended taking in the Powerful and the Carysfort, and the other ships likewise, if sufficient depth of water was found in the Channel. The French Consul was not a little annoyed at the ter mination of affairs. TURKEY. _&NSTANTINOrI.I, Nov. 24. (From the Manzari Shark ) On the 18th Admiral Walker was presented to the Sultan on his return from Syria. His decoration appro priate to the rank of Rear -Admiral was exchanged for that of Vice-Admiral, his present rank. The sultan was extremely affable, and, after making many flattering com pliments, concluded by pl ac i ng a h an d some diamon d snuff. box in the hands of the g a ll ant Admiral, who will leave Constantinople to take hie station before Alexandria as soon as his ships can be got teach) which will be in a few days. Count Medea and M. Wagner, late Russian and , the honour of being ptesenttti t o the Sultan. Prussian Consuls-General in V.R.I nt, on the 19J), bad also On the 21st her Britannic Majesty's frigate Talbot arrived here from Acre : She brought about 100 Egyp tian prisoners, 9 7. d among the rest we are told some tine young gent,',, rnan ly officers. On'~na22d, a new Parisian Ambassador arrived hero Ind was complimented by the Porte in the usual manner. There is some talk of the nomination of a person of high rank to go as Ottoman Ambassado r to Paris, to assist at deliberations to take place regarding the arrangement of the Egyptian question. We have not yet heard who is likely to be appointed on this mission. Dr. Morpurgo leaves for Paris by the next French steam-boat. We are sorry to hear that one of the Turkish transports, loaded with troops for the coast of Syria, has put hack to the Dardanelles under curious circumstances. It appears that the troops., being unaccustomed to the sea, became alarmed ate soon as rough weather came on, and insisted sion of three months, the Chinese ended in gaining their point—the withdrawal of the troops ; and their success was calculated to increase the arrogance with which they had always been sufficiently distinguished."] MR. DUNCOMBE, M.P., AND THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USE FUL KNOWLEDGE. (No. 1.) The Albany, July 8, 1840. My Lords and Gcntlemen,—l feel it due to the pub'ic, as well as to the great and independent constituency which I have the honour to represent, to lay before you a circum stance that has recently come to my knowledge, and which I consider not less disgraceful to the individual concerned in it, than, if unnoticed, would prove injurious to the in terests of that Society over which you preside ; and if I am correct in supposing that the principal Object of your Society is to promote the instruction and improvement of the people, lam confident you will not for an instant permit its influence or patronage to he exercised to the detriment sof any tradesman you en ploy, and merely be cause that tradesman, in his capacity of an elector, is too high-minded and iedependent to allow himself Lo be made the electioneering tool of any selfish, vain, and hypocri tical candidate for a scat in Parliament. The individual of whose conduct I feel it my duty to complain is Mr. William Tooke, who . I am credibly in. formed. has used the influence he possesses as your talc. surer to induce your tradesmen to pledge themselves in writing to give }Jim their active and zealous support at the ntxt election for the borough of Finsbury, contrary, as he is well aware, not only to - heir previous course of voting, but to their declared wishes and intentions as to the future. How far Mr. William Tooke may, in di3 own opinion, feel himself justified thus to threaten, insult, avid de.grade tradesmen in his private employ, I will not now diseass (however disgraceful I should consider such conilftet to be, especially in one professing to be a Reformer and ad vocate for the Vote by Ballot); but when I hear of the influence and resources of a great and noble institution like the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge perverteu to base electioneering purposes, I think I should fail in my duty to you and to the public did I hesitate to call your attention to the subject, believing that as ruck dishonourable conduct on the part of your Treasurer is wirhout your sanction, it will meet with your immediate and unqualified repr .bation. I have the homier to be. my Lords and Gentlemen, Your obedient humble servant, THOMAS S. DUNCOMB E. To the Committee of rbe Society for the Diffu aion of Uavful Knowtedge, &c. &e. ( No. 2 ) 59, LinColn's-Inn fi7 , lds, July 9, 1840. Sir—l lail before the Committee of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledce your letter of yesterday's date, complaining that Mr. Tooke ha exercised his ►n fluence as Treasurer of the Suci ty for the purpose of inducing tradesmen to pledge thereselv. s to support him at the next election for the borough of Finslrry. I am directed to inform you that inasmuch as the allegations contained in your letter arc entirely unsup ported by any statement of particular facts, the Com mittee cannot entertain the charge. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your very obedient. s , •rvant, THOS. COATES. T. S. Duncowbe, Esq., M. P., &e. (No. 3 ) Albany, July 9, 1840. Sir—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, informing me that inasmuch as the allega tions contained in my letter of yesterday's date are entirely unsapported by any statement of particular facts, the Committee cannot entertain the charge. I will thank you to inform me whether, upon the charge being communicated to Mr. Tooke, l►c admitted or denied its truth. Your obedient servant, &c. THOS. S. DUNCOMBE. Thor. Coates, Esq., arc. (NO. 4 ) 9, Litcoln's- fan fields, July 9, 1840. Sir—The only answer which I can give to the note which I have just had the honour of receiving from you is, that I do not feel myself authorised to state what passed at any meeting of the Committee, unless directed by the Committee to do so. I remain, Sir, Your very faithful and obedient servant, THOMAS COATES. T. S. Dancombe, Esq., M.P., &c. (No. 5 ) The Albany, July 9, 1840. Sir—l regret, Cr the credit of the Society for the Dif- fusion of Useful Knowledge, that you were not authorised by the Committee last evening to inform me whether its Treasurer admittea or denied the truth of the charge which I felt it my duty to make in defence of the free and inde pendent exercise of the franchise of my constituents. It appears to me that had the charge been unfounded, an innocent man would have immediately and indignantly repelled the accusation and called for instantaneous in quiry. Mr. Tooke may have done so; but if lea did, why this mystery ? At all events, I beg to state that lam pre pared to go into the Ch6e, and bring proofs in support of the charges I have made, whenever the Committee shall think fit to app , int a day for that purpose. Yours, &c., T. S. DUNCOMBE. Thomas Coates, Esq., &c., &c. (No 6 ) 59, Lincoln's Jun-fields, July 11, 1840. Sir,--With reference to that part of your second nate to me of the 9:h instant, which states that you are " pre. pared to go into the cave, and bring proofs in support of the truth of the charges you have made, whenever the Committee shall think fi to appoiht a dAy ,or that pur pose," I think it ina be convenient o inform you that there will not 13 , - an oidinary nweting of the Corn mitts, before the second Wednesday in August, and that I am nut authorised to summon an extraurd.oary meeting unless by desire of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, or Treasurer. I will, however, lay before the Committee, when they meet, your notes of the 9th instant, together with any further communication which you may be pleased to make to me. I would also beg leave to remind you that it was be cause your charge against Mr. Tooke was not specific, or capable of being rebutted by evidence, that the Coo;mittee declined to entertain :.!•• I have the honour to ;,.:•Sir, faithfully yours, &c. T. COATES. T. S. Duncombe, Esq , M. (No. 7.) The Albany, July ; IL 1840. Sir,—l have just received your letter of this day 'a date, from which I learn that you are not authorised to sumh2on a special meeting of the Committee, unless desired so to do by either the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, or Treasurer; and that unless one of these parties should so authorise you, no meeting can take place until the second Wednesday in Augnat. Under the peculiar and urgent circumstances c.f the case, I have to request that you will be good enough immediately to apply to the Treasurer for his sanction to enable you to call, without less of time, a special meeting of the Committee, for the purposes contained in my second letter to you of the 9th instant, and I shall be obliged to you to inform me as early as possible of the result of your application to the Treasurer. I have the honour to he your obedient servant, &c., THOMAS S. DUNCOMBE. Thomas Coates, EN. (No. 6.) .59, Lincoln's Inn-fields, July 14, 1840. have laid your note of the I I th inst., isefore the Treasurer, who is of opinion that, adverting to the minute of the Committee on the Bth inst., communicated to you by me on the following day, he cannot direct a special meeting of the Committee to be convened to consider the charge against him, unless there shall havo been previously sent to me a statement of the particular facts upon sshich that charge is f o unded. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your very obedient servant, THOS. COATES. T. S, Duncombe, Esq., M.P., &c. (No. 9.) The Albany, July 14, 1840. Sir,—l am this moment favoured with your letter, s,hei eta you st:.te that Mr. Tooke declines to call a spe cial meeting of the Committee to investigate the charges which I have made against him, and that he assigns as the ground of his refui,al my not having been sufficiently spe cific in my accus..tion. In my former liAter of the Bth inst. I stated that "Mr. Tooke had urea the influence he possessed as your trea surer, to induce your tradesmen to pledge thernselv.,s in writing to give him their active and zealous support at the next clectionjor the borough of Finsbury, cowl ary, as he was wellaware, not only to t!,tir previous course of vot ing, but to their declared wishes and intentions as to the future " I also stated in my second letter of the 9th in stunt. that I was prepared to briny proofs in support of that charge, whenever the Committee should think fit to ap point a day fir the purpose H I how repiat my charge. and I al*o rep.ai nly ri_lsoities to prose it, and as I have been told that Mr. l'trohe denies the truth of it, I the inure earnestly call upon y uu t.) apply to the (Mailman or the Vice-Chairman to sanction your calling upon an early day a :Twat Meeting of the Committee, in order that my ac ctositiou may by fairly and fully investigated. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS S. DUNCOMBIZ. Tooruas Coates, Eby : , I,,etete,y, &c. (No. 10.) 59. Lincoln'. luu-fields, July 16, 1840. Sir,-1 have transmitted a copy o: your letter to me of the 14Th (which was delivered here yestrrnay ) to the Chairman of the Society, ho directs me to inform you that he tunedrs with Mr. Tooke in the opinion that the Luce., is clititleif_ to have .n intimstion of the particular iact ti upon which your charge is fouaed, be. Ore is a Commit tee edited to investigate tha cwage. Nevertheless, as Mr. 'Cooke is willing to waive this right, the Chairman has requested Mr. Duckworth, Mr. George C. Lewis, and the Honourable J. Wrottcsley to form a Sub• Committee to investigate the charge, and he has directed me to lay our correspondence betore them. I have summoned this Sub-Committee uato meet M here our on Tuesday next, the 21st instant, at a q rter ore f o'clock, and I request the f a vour of roofs attendance here at four o'clock precisely, with such p . as you may pos sess. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your very faithful servant, ITHONIAS COATES. (No. 11.) Albany, July 18, 1840. Sir,—As Ido not know whether it will be your duty to attend officially at the meeting of the Sub-Committee on Monday next, I th ink it right to inform you that I shall . require your testimony sypport of my charge against EVENING ED;TION. --- Mr. Tooke, etho I take for granted will not fail to atten , I have the honour to be your obedient servant. Sce. T. Coates, Esq , &c T. S. DUNCONIBE• On the 20th July, at the time fixed, Mr. Duncemba attended with his proofs at the office of the Society, a h e° he was informed that the Trereu er would not be present; and having inquired whether Mr. Tooke had seen h is note of the 18th, and was aware of the meeting. an being answered by the Secretary m the affirmative, remarked that he thought the absence of the Treasurer neither e spectful to the Committee nor creditab le to Mr. Tooke and although he regretted he was not present to meet him 't face to face, yet he could not say, after the tipini" th he had formed of Mr. Tooke, that he was altogether sur.. prised at it. Mr. Duncombe then rea d a letter signe,d, " William Tooke," dated the 29th of Februery, 184 0, ° 1 dressed to Thomas Wileon, Esq., Higlibury.place, 1514.; ton, and stated that in consequence of this 'etc calle daer ies : l in the newspapers, many re spectable constitue nts had uon him to say " that they considered the rrquisition ei luded to in that letter a fraud upon the electors generaliY• as it was evident Mr. Tooke wished the public to believ.o. that such requisition was the spontaneous act of a constio tuency desirous of having his services in Perliarnent, 0_ account of his superior piety and integrity ; and being con_ vinccd as they were that such was far from the truthe-seme, ing also the unjustifiable means which Mr. Tooke ic"seiled ploying to procure signatures to the requiiitioe, thee c _ of upon him (Mr. Duncombe) to protect the independenctehey the borough, by inqnirine i n t o certain facts whic h ha d would lay before him." This he (Mr. Duncombe). rous d s an bein convinced of their truth, he was -eJ ia ny to submit d them g to the gentlemen present, more eseee had as lie had uedersteod that their treasurer, Mr T""iliee solemnly denied at a meeting of the General Col, for that there was any troth in the charges which he hal jef .. the foregoing reasons. feit it his imperative duty t pr,t: e f ieh Mr. Lethton, of the firm of Leighton and le r o f bookbiuders, Exmouth-street, Cerkenwell, an e leet° ,..o . the borough of Finsbury - , was then called in a nd oi , ged mined. lie stated the.; the firm to which lie hel eae og was employed by the Society as bookbinders, having been so employed in consequence of their tende r toi l al l on Mr. Coates, the Secretary, on business con"' been accepted by the Committee. Had o ccaoi" d h ete d him a the Society, in May last, when Mr. Coates show s Too ke paper, which he said was a requisition inviting Mr' for . t ee to stand as a candidate at the next general cleeti'"' s elf had borough of Finsbury, and which Mr. Toeke hi" try . she kft with him, and requested bins to get sigr el ad or tradesmen employed by the Society. Did "° t td e so, sign the paper. Told Mr. Coates he would no onia „ as he was perf. ctly satisfied with his pre set rePr e co ,, t os tves, and shou!d vote for them as Vlore. M r i „eed did not then press him, but said he him, in order to fulfil Mr. Tooke's reqmue"ste. Y C al e. a short time afterwards on the S"c ret " rl o hits the amount of his account ; the Secretary gars hit and it d oing Mr• an er on th Treurer said, ord " Recollect e as when you, take. this t _ ° r.as eed Tooke'you probably will be canvassed for your v ote t; ,iettroan to sign the requisition." As an .independeot 1-' "rotated, he felt so annoyed at the possibility of being th s u o s: hia s on that to avoid it, instead of going himsel f he Tooke, corn' with the order, who, on his return from Mr t extremely in• municated to him what had passed. Fe' t c i - , o h a d bee dignant, and told several of his friends h°l m e . \Voile. insulted by Mr. Tooke; amongst o thers and throug h him of the Architectural Library in Holborn, Bn. he believes the circumstance was corn 4 and asked Duncombe, who afterwards called on wit ne ' - ' , Wit wg true- . if what he (Mr. Duncombe) had heard fleet v f whit be ness replied it was, and that it „„ to the e "r Tooke never eye had now stated to the Committee. ''''. W a klee• ploycd him ; nor did Mr. Duncombr or Mr.% tnined--Had Mr. Coates, the Secretary, wag then e a d believed it' heard the evidence given by Mr. Leightos:, A n . ' 13elleved that as far as he was concerned, to be correct. which Mr. municated to Mr. the following was a true copy of the requisitioel Tooke had given him to get signed : t) "To Wm. Tooke, Esq., F."' h o f Fins. " We, the undersigned electors of the borouurg üblic con' bury, duly appreciating the consistency h confidence inspired your long residence among us, do, in t" e cc) lf at the neo by those qualities, invite you to offer yourse ~_ par , duet, and the integrity of your private°l garacPter aortas election as a candidate to represent such borough in o estrous e. liarnent, and in that event we hereby tender Live and realons support towards promoting accordingly. your) ol " FEBRUARY, 1840. " Name. Had seen Mr. Tooke very often previAoudds r t e o lub s ecie t g e f o r r .l Leighton in May, and frequently conversed vrith ge r 4 the subject of his being a candidate for the borotur:,_; Finsbury. Had been a,ked by Mr. Tooke who the _a b l ot men of the Society were previous to Mr. Tooke gt g to sig a the r. quisition. Had requested another tradesmaß . 1 _ en . it, Mr. Henshall, of Cloudesley.terrace, one ot_stl:,„(t. gravers to the Society, who signed it afterward, Tooke's office. Informed Mr. Tooke of Leigh.on,„' fusel to s'gn the requisitioa ; declined stating to the Come mittce what were Mr. Tooke's observations uP" . to Leighton's refusal and intent i o ns being communicate a lled him. Mr. Leighton, jun. , called i n and examln ed h upon Mr. Tooke at his office in Bedforj-ro vr . Coates's order for the amount of L ei g hton: and ne'", account, due from the Society for the Diffusio,i of Useful Knowledge. White Mr. Tooke was writing the cheek, he said, •' So I hear that your father prefers Mr. Do n ; combe and Mr. Wakley's politics to mine." Replied 0.," he did not know what his father's opinions were. I; Tooke then said, " I suppose that the truth is, that yo,th father is in the habit of receiving more money from i N !' r c i Duncornhe and Mr. Wakley than from myself." ReP,'„ e d " I was sure that my father's vote would not be influn--1, by any , such motives." Mr. Tooke then gave him a chec k • on Drummond's bank for the amount of his fatlld' count, and witness left the room. Mr. Tooke's renobru, were made in a very contemptuous tone—not in a serious manner. Informed his father oniehsitsinrel,u,."; horns of what bad passed, and he seemed extremelY and indignant. Witness's m enner to Mr. Tookewas Iry lt respectful throughout the interview. (No. 12.) og, Lincoln's Inn fields , Aug. 7, 1 84 t t he Sir,—By the direction of t he General Committee o Society for the Diffusion of U seful Knowledge, I bes of a leave to transmit to you the accompanying O' minute, made by them on Wednesday last. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your very obedient servant, THOMAS COATEP. T. S. Duncombe, sq., M.P. C o g Resolution.) General Committee, August 5, 1840. Resolved , That it is the o p inion of the Committee that no officer of the Society, or member of the Committee,' ouzht to use his influence, as such of fi cer or member, with any person employed by e th e Society, concerning any met ter relating to clsctions,or otherwise foreign to the objectl of the Society. THOMAS COATES, Secretary, 69, Lincoln' s Inn-fields, August 7, 1840. (No. 13.) The Albany, Augu st 10, 1840. My L or ds and Gentlemen, --I have the honour to ad . - knowledge the receipt of a col, of the resolution which_ was a greed to on the sth inst., at the general meeting fol the Committee of the Society for the Diffusion of Use a Knowledge ; but I am disappointed in not receiving, et" same time, a copy of the report of the Sub-Committee. ur " with which it /was distinctly unders tood I was to be f nished when your Secretary submitted to me the names pf the gentlemen whom Lord Brougham had selected to la' vestigate my charges against your Tr had tribuni and arrangement, I beg to o bserve, to which I most chee, r ,T fully acceded—and those present at the investigation 01" rec ollect I referred to that arrangement at the commenc`e. ment of the proceedings. In the truth of your resolutioa• as an abstract principle, every friend to the free a nd un biassad exercise of the elective franchise must c oncur ; but I wish to observe that, having brought under your netiee a particular case, and having adduced evidence jo support of that case, I consider it necessary, and beg, f °r the honour and credit of the Society over which you Pre' side, to be informed whether you sanction or condemn the conduct pursued upon that occasion by your Treasurer/ Mr. William Tooke? I have the honour to be, my Lords and Gen tlemerh vent YourT M obedient s, HOAS o S. DUNCONIBE. To the Committee of the Secicty for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. (No. 14.) 59, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Nov. 12, WO. r Sia,—l beg leave to inform you that I laid your lette of the 10:h of August before the Committee y o ur ( 1611 that being the first meeting since your letter reached nr; I am directed to inform you that they have it still un cle their consideration. I have the h o nour to be, Sir, Your very faithful ~ervant, THONIA.6 COATES. Thomas Duncombe, M.P. (No. 15.) Lincoln's inn Fields, Dec. 10, . 184° .: o te Sir, —The Committee reconsidered yesterday yen** l ie , of the 10th August, wher.!in you ask to be informed Ti thcr they sanction or condemn the conduct of their T s urer in the cas e submitted by you to their inveitig a tion• , lam directed to inform you, that the Committee rat that in two cases the influence of the Society hag b e used in a matter foreign to the objects of the Sociecti i. that the Society was in no way its influence, and has expressed an opinion upon the 5 ' eh ject, which it hopes will preclude the recurrence of ° L% an event. I have the honour to be, Sir, cognizant of sulli u s 0, 0 . Your very obedient servan t, THOMAS COATES- T. S. Duncombe, Esq., M P. n b b, c A h ar c r e iv v e e d n, a f t ro C n , Sir Frederick instono hilce, Lad ainirkelay. y raosC L :fi o vioj u erudr i , s istl a rhdy, r J . LO,t o .ni 1 1 e cs :it 1 corfc: The body o f a abl etb:e n l yP a . Sands on Tueed,ty tide. It was ' • n ot C last, having been left there by th e entirely naked, with the exceptio . ~ stocking its - on one leg. On Thursday another bode itou‘ head was found near the same spot.— Pori of n ne Pilot. Captain WRECK IN DUBLIN BA BY. Perthshire, Jones, with a general cargo, sailed from oyer. pool, on Wednesday, bound to the Havannah; day she struck on the Codlin-bank, near the Kish -light' and bilged. The crew saved themselves in th© long-be at ' and arrived in Howth. —Dublin Evening Post. tThere is evidently among the gentry a con fede. racy—a conspiracy it may more properly be called --t.? baffle all attempts at making the burden of the poor 4 . 11 where it ought to fall ; not on the poor themselves, as itl l , l . a great measure does just now, hut on the wealthy, ban have, in reality, no better titles to their possessions , the infirm and destitute have to receive support. Many of the clergy and their kirk-sessions, we are sorry tray, ar deep in this confederacy.--Edin bur9l4 00 Thurf ' --- Weekly ic e. it; ii.t