The Sun. — London, England, 1840-09-28 00:00:00

RV cNG ED 'PI ON. MARKET DA z -) DESTRUCTRE FIRE IN PLYMOUTH DOCK-YARD. CORN XC. Last week's arriva's wer Ee muderate HANGEof English Grain, of Foreign Wheat, and titer...;.! was an increased fresh ,. N I V I Y of New Wheat, Barl-y, an:! Oats. The runs o o 3 te e ! Wheat being chiefly in tender condition, declined . 1417'neqji.a.rte.r„ while the few dry Wheat fine samples "main ,,4 their value. In Foreign heat transactions - :ere wee 'r, at former prices. ' Barley sold much last g oiii New Beans 23., and OH is per quarter c..,p0. Old a g Peas unaltered, and Grey Is , per quarter . lower. t 2 s. oats suncrted their tel ins, and New sold Flour o as 1, 4 17 quarter below last Monday's quotations._ i-‘ reported. L. " bushel. Winter Tares in demand at 12s. to 13. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT). Plymouth, Sunday Mernitig, Eight &Clock. BURNING OF THE TALAVERA, 74 GUN- SHIP AND IMOGENE FRIGATE. This morulng, about three o'clock, a fire broke out ► in the Dockyard, close adjoining the docks, in which were lying the Talavera 74, Minden 74, and Imogene frigate. Netwithstandiog the utmost exertions the fire communicated to these ships, and the 'Talavera and Imogene arc both totally destroyed. The Minden caught evcral timee, and has sustained serious damage, but the fire is at present extinguished on board that ship. It is, however, raging in other parts of the yard, and has communicated to the pitch loft, so that where the damage will end it is impossible to say. The Bombay, Spartiate, and another ship of the line are towed out clear of all danger, nor is there any present appearance of danger to any of the other vessels. (ANOTHER ACCOUNT.) Devonpoi ! Telegraph Office, Sept. 25. At half-past four this morning an alarm was given to the superintendent of. the dock-yard police. Lieu tenant Williams, that the Talavera line-of-battle ship, in the North Dock, was on fire. All hands were in stantly, on the spot, with the engines, but so terrific were the flames as to give evident proof that the total destruction of the ship was to succeed. The fire-bells were then rung, wed the workmen, with the military, called in. The tide was high, and plenty of water con sequently at hand, but nothing appeared to subdue the fury with which the fire extended southwards, the di rection in which the other docks and building-slips lay, as well as the rigging house, sail loft, and all the store-houses. At a quarter to five o'clock the Ta lavera was one mass of flame, which, communicating with the shed over head, threatened to carry the fire to the extremity of the yard. The Minden line of battle ship, lying at the stern of the Talavera, which took fire ahead, at one time appeared in evitably doomed ; but the wind shifting a point, and by the most strenuous exertions of the engines, the pro gress of the flames astern was stopped ; but what ap peared to be the cause of the prevention of this danger only carried it in another direction, as the roof of the shed adjoining took fie, and the dense volumes of smoke for a time appeared to choke the flame. Beneath this shed were kept. the figure-heads of some of the ships which, having borne the brunt of the battle, were after the peace broken up ; and these slight remembrances of their achievements were kept with a degree of pride. At the eastern end hung the flag of our never-to-be-for gotten naval hero, Nelson, under which he fought the battle of Trafalgar ; and opposite, the flag of Lord Exmouth at the battle of Algiers. An attempt was gallantly made by a young man to save them, but the fire was too fierce, and the attempt given up for the safety of the party who made it. Speedily succeedieg, the firing of this shed, the one adjoining also took flame, in which Was the Imogene frigate. This was also com pletely destroyed. To subdue the flames here appeared to be fruitless, and an attempt was made to prevent a further extension by playing the engines upon the build- ing, opposite, but without success, and the whole range, together with a large pile of timber under a shed, were in flames. Eight o'clock—The fire is still burning, but will not be confined merely to the consumption of the timber and materials. The loss, at a rough estimate, is said to be from 400,0001. to 500,000/. ; this appears to be an extreme amount, but the amount of destruction is immense, there can be no doubt. No account can yet be collected as to the origin of the fire ; no party has been at work on board the ship in which it originated for several weeks ; at four o'clock there was nothing like fire seen, and at half-past five the ship was in a fleme fore and aft. The strictest inquiry will no doubt be in stituted as to the cause, and, ler the credit of the execu tive, it is to be hoped that no want of caution from a false economy has led to this severe national loss. Wheat „._. PRICES ON BOARD OF !",',FIP ~,. \_M old) .... ..'6, 70s Deans, Small ;new' ...... 4 : . 1 3, 1 -- .. .......-zlnite 1d)........00:. • 764; (olti) i ...... .. .4, 3 i 40 s . ed '184 , 1 ~. .., k (new) ............,,.,.% -., ....... ..,..5...)...4. - Ile ( old) 42.. 44.% "........,....... !,' me ............ G's. uis. „pupertine t•Fs (Ss - Harrow (new) • 4 ,'! ' 4 4. ( ''.. ...."--- whq ...... • • • (Gid)....••-•- , 5. `• .............,., e ( 1841 )....5?.5. 65a. - - `till .ne .............63. ii , s. llr.nk , tt--,1.0........P...0.1e..1.2.n...fr.e..e. .......... ii i ( t : , : . . 4 7 6 4: : .......,_ .pertln e...... 725. 74 s. Oats, teed .1.,. • Sy. , 1" 3Js. - Poland ; e w .*..... ...... 2'l. "t e. 5: .......2,7!: ................... 303. R9s. New '0 . %*), ....... i:Altitlg .......... :30s 345, - Pot::toe ki t. . I .ling ............. 38,. 4 c5.i ______- v. , ,, , __s. -s. •.......•'i.y..... ................. 54;s Os .1 - Scorch *l4 3-Is. Peas e ll'exew.. .......... 63,: ,is s. I - Irish 9 45. Di-. :2 , -s. **".....: re Y. New ,• 40s. I Flour Twn (er sack) 1 ,1 2 . i. ( 55 .. ...,,. a1..11.0 New . ...... 4.23, Cl.. I _- Seconds , .t , i-! , :. 5 . ........ ,v.i.te ............. 40, 425. I- -- North ow. ry .....":.4 aiiiii nOilerri... ..... 4 -. 4 . 45 - • Byan ll .12s. Is VA " o F G ..... A - ll.l ' l * N LONDON DURING LAST WEEK. ' 4 Rligh - Wheat 1 l ar ' Oats. now Ilyi o -- , ..... 3,539; I 1 1 07 1 0 e g Y rs. qrs. 4,3:;3 sactzr. ~,".....: . : ..... --- -r " I .!-- 12;194 - NW» ..» isJ:B I 12, 56 _42l rls, - Th e S 3II ITIIFIELD MARKET. the de of Cattle at Market was large, and exceeded c over - e "e t 4 h d ' The inferior and chaice sorts of trad e r. - e decline in price noticed cn Friday, but the 3. Air ev .... 'l°4 ally-''')Ling else was heavy. e d r e s s t c o r t i , p e: a nd i,kied, but coarse Mutton declined I' , r , et dt ' le ' 1/o ‘wns were 2.1. dearer ; Lamb as last n i k od. to Y; V-iil2d. lower ; Pork unaltered. Beef 3s. - 3. to 4 s l : 8 1: ; Mutton " n , S I to 4s. Sd. ; Veal 4s. 4- ..,fi-; cork 4 3s. S(1. d ; Lamb 3s. 10d. to 45. Bd. , su , 3 . 4d. to 5.,. 4 • o 750 • Calves, 421" , 3,5 8 ; Sheep and Lambs, -, . P ; Ns, 58, There 110 P MARKET. Ital. ; 1 7" lets demand for Hops, but prices remained_ la st Ye a',." -e dtlfy was estimated at 30,000/. Fine Hops of -2 0 growth r:ere very scarce, and wanted. Ther o TEA MARKET. ' NG - ' v as a fai r iimount of business transacted in Fri . C ot ' 1 4 nd former rates were fully supported. COlL:pally b g 011; cash, 2s. 41-d per lb. , ?li e , TALLOW MARKET. t Hluesic„,, r emain high for Tallow, but the demand con valet infect, both the sot and to arrive; firs qual v ity -- " 28 . to 525. 3 i il 'n . per c p wt. ; the supplies keep lerbe. Idt. y,. mismaratirassaws , , -TT'S DAY). ° -IF S SHIPPING-( r n Jr weigher SEPT. 27.—.Plea4p sant breezes and very fine 28 th—Light Southerly airs, with rain. 26. - -Wind W.'S. W., fresh breczt s. •4 the Lord William Bentinck, Crow, from Sydney, Kitt, p i th Wales; Greyhound, Hutchinson, Mauritius; p "l`Cormack, River Gambia. 97 —Wind letr,lmUTll SEPT 26.—Wind W. S. W. . Vitecr W:S. W.. Arrived the Moscow, Deane, from ,8 1 „ --1 . Sailed the Florence, Davies, for Madeira. . 'the -e°llll E, SEPT. 25 —.Arrived off port the Catharine, vselien, from Pernambuco. SEPT. 25.—Wind N. to W. N. W. p 26 , th er . teketrigide rto N. W., fresh breezes.—Arrived Tobago pOm Barbadces, sailed 30th July, T Tortola 13 t h , b ki 7th ult, Grenada 9th, St. Kitt's 12th, ortola: 81 1 „1,,''t• Thomas and Porto Rico 15th, Cape Henry 19th; ,i L e","'„‘,ke Packet, Rio Janeiro, sailed 31st July, Pernam 410t p` - ` B _tolt• ; Montrose steamer, Gibraltar, left 17th 4 4yr: , z 18th, Lisbon 21st, Opo . rto 22d, Vigo 23d ; I, er'' Mitchell, and Attweek, Robinson, Odessa ; _Rosy ; hat 3 7 „' rt lV , p hites Taganrog. Sailed the James Todd, Io 0 1 4, ciw n• _,-- 00 1., SEPT. va riable • 27, ditto.— it teilt ieq, 2 6th, the Normandie, from New Orleans; Ct . ..r0%0n %on Peerce Mobile • Fingalton, Quebec ; Wash.:ug h Ijrtto; Surprise, Newfoundland. 27th, Abbotsford, Bombay,' sailed ' from St. Helena, sth ult. ; Pri r ,'!le. Shepherd, St. Vincents ; Robert Pulaford, di tt . '"'e, New Orleans ; Levant, Mobile ; Rt..bert Di r t . ) ; Russia, ditto ; John Mat shall, Virginia ; William Ze;' eed, New York ; Belmont, St. John's, .N. B. ;. tnii.nou • Hope, Orton, Richebucto ; Ann, Girgcnti , ke 4 t" ttil ig, Mediterranean. Sailed, 26th, the Dryad, pll.hte lipt:Y. wparaiso ; Georgiana, Stephenson, Lady Paget, Carthew, Santa Martha ; Independence, New York; ; Delaware, ,thilC-',,iNew, Orleans ; Mary andVaney, ditto; 4- 1:4 0 `4stle, Crowder, St. John's, Jane,N. B. ; Argentina, k,,, 4, monte'Video. Put 27th, _ff port, Royal Capricorn, Santa tti --a ; New England, Baltimore. O r °ln' Jamaica. 1 31 4 4 t0 Sinn'. d S.W.—Arrived the Amity, IJritish n Monarch, Boyd, do. ; St. 4.l ta ll i t i, : d sPi P 34 Zrt j tn a a m ia a , lc N u e ; w Orleans; Ajax, Mediterranean. Adeline and e.ti pt - , ,, th e Cygnet, Dalston, Australia ; nOpki n s , New Orleans. k:teei. 2i.— ndW.—Arrived the Walker, 1 1 5 414,1 sged, the Clio, Christian, for Malaga. d of r) , vonport is on fire ; her Majesty's .. ddl.estro ar ,vera and ie legeue being in deck, arc totally - 4 - 'ael is 'lle Minden's bows are much burnt, but the Cowoteted to b e ei ored. N -u Orte' ' a n ^ VI • 2 0.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Lee, from his T • "(311n *ti ‘ ) R rrived the Druid, Bache, and 114 , from Quebec ; Susan, Coffin tr : 'l n - tb Zsb'sa, gS bound T • 24. —Arrived, the Phant' New York. on, Sanders, oel -01.1nd to Liverpool, was o bl ige d ito throw i" 4 001 sixty t ons o f- c argo, in a gale, on the 16th SEPT.WHtT pi epC 96.—Arrived, the Lightfoot , kie t o % fr°lll Queb 2 15._ d A . 'l ived, the Mary Jane, Taylor, tr_Voinc WtoundiAn M o 'EPT. 25.-05 port, the Ries Effendi, Cross, f r „ Cl _Leerl t : V , 44 -0, sailed .July 21. " 4 1 0,, ztEPT. 27.—,;rrived, the Theodore, Cole, b„" e bee. " Sn . . l !' SEPT. 27 . --The Corsair, Fox, from Lo , ndon, to 4 % , -mt`l A ustrali. "— b, I put in here, whit damage *it C l a te s ri , dc e., having been in contact off • Beacbey H e ead "oner. ther„. ki t SEPT. .)7 The Hutton, Thompson, _ It ttere s ° l l shore ' near - Cumberland Fort, was got off aY, after thro w i ng prt of her cargo, coals, . es P4 l. 4 e rd ' ' a nd proceededto Langston Harbour. . 25 l'e -- e ° II I' , I O , II '„SEPT. 26.—A . . b . oat, marked " Britannia, h W a U u l t 3 3 4 : was fallen in with on the Bth inst., in lat. 'M a , f 3G41. 11. `SEPT . 27 The East Indian, Blom, from l t: -42°, Vlntl ° and abes - having been on shore on . t Sands. cables ' Nicholas, Hetherington, from " 4 rna; 4el, bound to e Plymouth, has also put in here,. with ktetie t " kid foremast run having been run into by a ill° teasel, vess Ie Osallo, from Scrtway to 44 el lthe Goodwin Sands, but assisted off, ex ne „, on ...'doe r 'Led in to-morrow. The Hussar Hall, from M irarnichi ir,proceeding to sea got entangled he inoorine•s H of ti c transport buoys, brokeitangledr has returned- into the harbour to repair. SEPT. 25. —The wreck of a copper b l otte ‘ m a - s e: iti t te t ,:i rt s v, : - tt ,, ; a i p v p ed ar l e , n e t r l e y . about 90 tons bottom upwards, "ta. ) ."`" l ult., in lat. 37. long. ' 31., by the John Lilly, ", SEPT 21.—The Brian O'Lin, Forrester, 14e ock T. Scallaway, and sunk, crew saved.. i Z4 4t reli g o 4- 1 1 ,1, °1 e i ll e v rr y . Assolo, f was driven on shore . at Vei a W. to W. N. W., 19th inst., but o Lt sis tlt :: l .... t° ,, ll .! e v a e ' s e su r s o t ti a m inflno damage. 444110 e Sydney,.ll ea o, se, .(steamer),l Browning, fiorn d here Cvith considerable vtl y, a egle4et°4lltngnLrA ;ul h having a been rrl ve in contact with a large inist , erre. s undom, from C almar to 41) a l a bandoned Svea, 13th inst., str in a sinking state off - t • Vine &I N ent. v Union, Pelham, from Liverprl i , bound to The -ell's Land, has put in here in a sin g s.ate. 24th itia Ayr of St. Ives, was driven under Laiia Bridge, a nd car r i e d awa y h e r mainmast. BRITISH INDIA SUGAR COM= PANY. • (From the Sunday Times.) CITY, SATURDAY.—The extremely advanced prices at present demanded for British Plantation Sugars, is a subject which attracts much discussion in the City, and as it is considered by no means improbable that the West India Colonies will not in future furnish the same quantities as heretofore (owing to the indisposition of the liberated negroes to work as they were compelled to do previously to their emancipation), the attention of many of our capitalists has been turned to the im portant subject of procuring a supply from the East Indies, from whence unlimited quantities may, if the cultivation of the cane is carried on vigorously and sys tematically, be obtained. To effect this great object, and to discourage the use of Sugars produced by slave labour in the Havannah, and elsewhere, a Company is in progress of formation, to be de nominated the " British India Anti-Slavery Sugar Company," which has already met the cordial sup port of numbers of the principal merchants of the City of London, as well as those of Liverpool, Bristol, and other important ports of the United Kingdom. That the most beneficial results must follow the estab lishment of such a Company is doubted by none, whe ther as respects the extension of the cultivation of the soil of India, or obtaining for the people of the United Kingdom an abundant supply of sugar, one of the ne cessaties of life, at a comparatively cheep price. At present fine West India Sugar is as high as 87 to 88 per csvt., or not less than 20 per, cwt. dearer than it was at the.favourable period of last year. That the stocks here are at present very deficient it is true. At the commencement of the present week the quantity of West India Sugar in the warehouses of the port of Lon don was but 20,300 hogsheads and 2,0-10 tierces. On the 21st of September, 1839, the stocks were 40,400 'Aids. and 1,700 tierces. This is a deficiency, which it must be admitted, warranted (the rapid spread of the temperance principle in the British kingdom being considered) holders demanding the high prices at present realised, But the main question is, to what quarter are the people of Great Britain to look for a future adequate supply of Sugar. If it be true as stated, that production in the Mauritius has been already carried to maximum, the East Indies is the only quarter of the world from whence this country can expect to have such a supply of sugar, as is now needed to meet the wants of an increasing population, and an augmented consumption of the staple, unless, indeed, we are to depend upon foreign states, where slave labou rers exist, for it, and that, too, after Great Britain has sacrificed so many millions of her wealth to put down the horrid traffic in human flesh. Upon the ground we have already stated, a confident hope is entertained that the measures about to be taken to extend the cultiva tion of Sugar in the East, Indies will he attended with complete success. Bat tis argued in some quarters, that the supplies front India cannot be made equal to the wants of the United Kingdom, and the present re duced stocks of East India and Mauritius Sugars arc given in proof. It must be recollected that, in conse quence of the requirements of the government of India for ships to transport troops and warlike stores to China, freights at the three Presidencies, and at Port Louis, were so high that the exportation of produce has been most materially checked. Such a circumstance is not very likely to occur again in fu ture years, and with respect to the capabilities of India to produce as much Sugar as Great Britain may require, those best acquainted with the soil of this bright appendage to the British Crown, do not for an instant doubt. Of V% est India Rum the stocks are at present very nearly equal to those of the same period of last year—eiz. about 12,700 puncheons and 980 hogsheads. As exhibiting the resources of the East Indies to produce Rum, we observe that the present stock of this year's imports arc 730 casks. A few years since it was a no velty to receive Rum into this country, the produce of our East Indian possessions. If we advert to the other staple articles of commerce imported from India—viz., Indigo, Rice, Cotton, Saltpetre, &c., there is, it must be considered, a most ample field still open for increasi, the produce of the soil in that immense country, by which not only will great advantages be conferred on its one hundred millions of inhabitants, but the manufec turers and merchants of Great Britain must be bene fited beyond the power of calculation by the improve ment that would follow an extension of the cultivation of Sugar, of Cotton, nod other articles of produce of the East Indies. As a most lively interest is at present taken in all that concerns the welfare of India, we have deemed it proper to call the attention of our readers to the topics embraced under the head of the Commercial Departtnent of the City Article. A fair commedtary on the above is supplied on the subject of slave-produced labour, in the contents of the advices received yesterday from the Havannah, of the qualities of this description of produce shipped from the itlatid from the Ist January to the end of August last. It appears that 43,270 boxes of Sugar in the period stated, were exported to Spain, 43,470 boxes to the United States, 13,035 to Great Britain, 94,156 to the Eastern Markets, 37,543 to the Baltic, 61,669 to Ham burgh and Bremen, 9,119 to Holland, 13,899 to Bel gium, 10,922 to France, 9,302 to Italy, and 2,178 to other ports ; total, 338,565 boxes. The exports of CofEe in the same time were 1,0-15,529 ambits, 83,143 thousands of Cigars, and 496,349 lbs. of leaf Tobacco. With an increased cultivation of Sugar and Coffee in the East Indies, sufficient supplies could be raised to 'w slave-labour out of employment. thro /e) ........... ---E. .. ftdi, 14 1 SATURDAY, SEPT. 26.--I\luch rain 11 1 4 tr o Z t a tzling the week ; but reaping has been continued some 11.1,444:!tivity during the intervals of sunshine. .A 1 34 14 sli,, tr ." l l of oats is, however, still standing, .and , in , 1 14 1141.. Ef icts t s eciall in the north-west, reaping is I,er) Lettreittli--"e4,,n..lcesopme weeks of fine . weather are required to I . ;;l'etir i n ..",', ro t ). But, generally speaking, the accounts ~ Profit, 'Presenting the oat crop as almost unexampled . • - ,°tri c c , and the quality very good. Indeed, it is the Zokleye:°PoV'the year, for wheat is extremely t and tOh to In g to the spread of temperance, tad not been i 1 4, b e "Ything, like the usual extent. There can, we PPort td h ° doubt that a large quantity of wheat must be elt, on ; but the deficiency of this crop will be the less e we „ 4 , c eetint of the great abundance and the excellent '-ilre heap oats and P i tta g to:s which, at all events, will se .,lato 4 ,. a 1 ) food for Oor ' cr classes. 'oaf c, -(413 ;, the harvest brea d Will i be lo - Tonake .i n T g oh c fe v c w r h wheatenca itne g n Will w in price ; but much less S tile he consumed.—Dablin Evening Post. Antle m ir) E.--Abont twe l ve o ' c l oc k on Saturday a ark' aro ‘t 'tiglu. sipis head was li terally shattered, t h e w h o l e o f the t h e 4 4 e WU b lown away, an d t h e trun k o f a tree growing tyitt, ; , ) ,ek of the bench an which he had sat was covered lio N , _lie suicide's brains. In his right hand he hell a ntrichPo'setol. The body was remove to St. Martin's Itto vo ti ,e• The deceased appeared to be a man who had h n , n rn_eta respectable sphere of life, but bad a pparently t kut 3: i reduced in circumstances latterly. He was hair, ratilY:airs si age, five feet fire high, has dark auburn touch that r „wig, and a Roman nose. His appearance is frock Coat ° a military man. Ho was dressed in a d4rk up Shoes. 'hack black waistceat, and black silk stock, and Lee third ,e • Ho had one halfpenn in his ockets. On the in h is u_n , ger of his light band ho Y wore a w p eddin . ..ring, and 1 , 4 '44isteoat pockets was a quantity of balls and L ' powder 1 percussion "%do,. ~, The pistol is marked " William!, o r , hi ,,... There wcre no papers of any description found ' .. , ov r „,., , • ..tf __ .0" I'UARDEN THEATRE.—Thc Duchess .1 Irtais7eltoolzrt, who has tAen for the season the proscenium MRS. J.: 11.0 man, John Frost, wilt) is now su . ffer. v -----T.—The friends of that well-inter () le vy E ., ° PPcsite to her Majesty's, his Excellency tioned but misguided . to learn that his much-afflicted tts 1 ~ e ndi, the Turkish Minister, and suite, Viscount i e g ie, i gn ominious exile for his rashness and indiscre . tron, Adretil.rabsigh, Captai n and Lady Geergiana Codrington, will, no doubt, be truly sorry sta , e of helpless and pitiable Si 'w 1 '',vices, Lord Thomas and Lady S. , plia Cecil, widow is now reduced to 1...! aller expense incurred in the defence . Ja;nes, Hon. Captain Murray, R N., and -eve- destitution. The heavy to appeal to the sympa rti,utffieers of the 2d Life Guards and Royal Horse Guards of her husband lies completely exhausted her pecuniary re ;„, 'O. have attended the performances during the last sources, and she is now oblig humane, in order to afford dae_"`" Knowlas's Bride of Messina was acted on &Asir comforts to necessary , ably evenin g to a thin house. The play has been considerr. her a small portion even of those tides of the charitable and the .. ise, Y , curta iled, and it is now performed within two hours which she has hitherto been accustom? evde.n to twenty, are a half. According .• uette the eurtaks of her ' four in number, front the lm mest , to etiquette age of eleven to Her daughters, seek, 44 • , s box have been closely drawn during the week, , forced to leave their now only maternal home, and lel it 'rill not be occupied until after tic intevilu nt o f the i by the honest industry of their own exertions, a compe tency P rincess Augusta: THE LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1840. COURT-MARTIAL ON CAPTAIN R. A. REYNOLDS. BRIGHTON, SATURDAY, TWO O'CLOCK.—At the conclusion of the first day's sitting of the court-martini on Captain Richard Anthony Reynolds, the members I of the Court retired to their respective hotels, and will remain there until the termination of the proceedings. Since the arrival of these distinguished officers the town presents a most agreeable and desirable contrast, both to strangers and to tradesmen, to what it exhibited during the early part of the week, in consequence of the number of military and civil personages who have come hither to take a part in the proceedings. either as friends or witnesses, or from curiosity to hear the evidence throughout. The Marine Parade, on Friday evening, was a scene of much gaiety from the number of equestrians and pedestrians who flecked thither. Among the most prominent figures were Lord and Lady Cardigan, who drove along in their own phaeton. Lord Cardigan's features bore an air of anxiety and impatience which all his sang froid could not entirely conceal. His Lord ship dined with his lady at his residence in Brunswick square, in the evening, and it is understood that he will not join the mess until after the inquiry has terminated. Sergeant Wranesham, his legal adviser, and several confidential friends, were of the dinner party. Captain Reynolds, of course, still continues under arrest at large ; he retired to the Gloucester Hotel; opposite St. Peter's Church, accompanied by his coun sel, Mr. Watson (who, previous to being a barrister, held a commission in the army), and several private friends, amongst whom were several of the sixteen officers, who, as stated by the Morning Herald , h av e quitted the regiment since Lord Cardigan has had the command. The majority of these officers came here from London and various places far the purpose of of speaking in defence of Captain Reynolds, and of the treatment he received by Lord Cardigan at Ca nterbur y . r I . , he line of defence, however, it is now understood , will be entirely changed, the President of the court martial having confined the cross-examination of Lord Cardigan to the fact of Captain Reynolds having sent the objectionable letter of the 28th of August, and having refused the gallant captain an opportunity of showing the treatment he had previously experienced at Lord Cardigan's hands. At eleven o'clock this morning Captain Reynolds, with Mr. Watson and two private friends, was actively engaged for some hours in preparing his defence, and although the gallant captain refused to give any infor mation as to its contents, experienced military men, es pecially those who are well acquainted with the his tory of the Eleventh Hussars during the last four years say that the document will contain facts that will ex cite astonishment. He will not, it is said, attempt to justify the letter itself, but plead in mitigation, the in dignation caused by a series of petty persecutions which his friends assert no gentleman or officer could endure. At half-past-nine this morning, the Eleventh Pius. sirs left their barracks for the race-course on the Downs, where they were reviewed by his Lordship, in the presence of the most distinguished officers of the Com t martial, who appeared on the ground in coloured clothes. There were also present a considerable as semblage of fashionables from Brighton in carriages of all descriptions, besides a number of pedestrians. The troops, alter going through the usual review evolu tions, returned to their barracks at half-past twelve o c'ock. THE ELEVENTH HUSSARS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Lord Cardigan stated at the Court-martial that officers on full pay, by positive orders in the Army, are probibitt'd from communicating on military affairs with the public press. If true, this is new ; and how comes it Lord Cardigan wrote a letter to the Morning chronicle on military affairs—the Snooks concern at Canterbury—and that Captain Inigo Jones has recently written to several London Nexspapers, substituting " tavern" for " public-house"? Yours, &c. A LOVER OF CONSISTENCY. CHURCH-RATE DEFEATED A BOSTON. BOSTON, SEPT. 2.6.—A vestry meeting was held at Boston on Thursday last, when a rate of 6d. in the pound was proposed, on which an amendment was made, and on a divison carried by at least ten to one. A poll was demanded, which was closed on Saturday afternoon, at .four o'clock, when the Churchwardens declared a majority of 87 against the rate. LOVETT AND COLLINS. __ -~--_ We publish the following extracts from a letter, chiefly for the purpose of reproving a Correspondent, who evidently has not read The Sun with even ordi nary attention. If he were not guilty of an oversight, fir which he blames another, he would have seen in this Journal, so far back as Thursday, that the parties had arrived at Glasgow on Monday, and that they.. marched in procession through the principal streets. He would also have seen on Saturday an article headed " The Chartists at Glasgow," making some observations on the vast assemblage, and ending with these words from the Scots Times—" Chartism is supreme in Glas gow_Monday has settled that?' • TO THE EDITOR dOFE ve THE , .S SUN. Saturay ningept. Stu,—As a constant reader of The Sun, I have been anxiously expecting to see a report in its columns of the mighty movement that is now taking place in Scot land for political freedom. The Sun being the most liberal of the daily papers, I thought I had a right to expect from it such a report. But however, as [mile has appeared, permit me to give you and your readers a brief sketch of the movement, which I think is too important to be passed over in silence by your Jour nal. But it may be that you have not heard of the pro ceedings ; at all events I will gladly attribute your silence to such a cause. From the Vale of Leven Collins proceeded to Glas gow, where on Monday morning the most magnificent political display took place that was ever witnessed in Glasgow. There must 'have been nearly two hundred thousand people, with nearly thirty bands of music, and about a hundred banners, many of which contained por traits of their favourite men, such as Muir, Sir W. Ra leigh, Maedouall, Frost!encircled with:a wreath of roses, Collins, and others. The handkerchief which Wilson dropt as the signal for his execution was also used for a flag, with a beautiful black border. This excited great interest. The procession was most brilliant, the whole being headed and arranged by Captain Miller, City Marshal, under the sanction of the Lord Provost. Macdouall arrived scow after the procession had met Collins, when the mighty mass of human beings moved on to Glasgow Green, where the meeting was held, and where the sacred principle of democrecy was never better advocated. In the evening a grand soiree took place in St. Ann's parish church, which was crammed almost to suffoca tion. Some wry interesting and intelligent females took a prominent part at this soiree by congratulating their guests as men of sterling worth—as patriots in the cause of universal freedom ; also by presenting them with medals and Scotch plaid scarf's. The ad dresses of Messrs. Muir and Lennox, approached in many of its sentiments to touching eloquence, and made a great impression upon the audience. The evening's proceedings passed off well. On Tuesday and Wednesday a Convention sat at Glasgow, composed of Delegates from all parts of Scot land, to devise the best means of forwarding the cause of freedom. Macdouall and Collins attended these sit tings, and en 'Thursday proceeded to Edinburgh, where the proceedings were similar to those which took place at Glasgow. These two men have been invited to up wards of fifty different places in Scotland, and which they intend t) visit before they return to England. Such is a brief sketch of the movement for one week. Yours, &c. E. H. S. UNIVERS INTITELLIGEN CE.Y AND CLERICAL OXFORD, SEFT. 26.—The Dean and Chapter o f st er have ioCollege,l presented the William of wa Va rn uz l l W ate inule Fellow i of Ba borough, Wiltshire, vacated by the Rev. T. Garnier, on his promotion to the deanery. to the i tev. vicarage The Lord Bishop of Saiisbury has admitted J. R. Hope, Esq., Barrister, and Fellow of Merton College to the offices of Vicar-General and Principal Official in the diocese of Sarum. The Rev. G. T. Marsh, late Student of Christ Church, has been presented by her Majesty the Queen. to the rectory of Foxley, Wiltshire, vacated by the Rev. Dr. Shuttloworth, elevated to the Episcopal Bench. Dr. Shuttleworth is a native of Preston, and received Lis early education at the Corporation Grammar School in that town. It used to be the boast of Mr. Shep herd, the master, that he could number amongst his scholars an Earl, a Baronet, and a Judge, but not a Bishop ; had the old gentleman lived he would have attained the sutnmit of his ambition. The trustees of thz, district church of St. Luke's have unanimously elected the Rev. John Haigh, of Queen's College to the incumbency. ---- The agricultural campaign in this county has I opened, it will be seen by a report in our columns to-day, with the first meeting of a new Association, at Avelcy, which, full of generous life-blood, promises to progress vi gorou3ly in the patriotic and benevolent work of improving the agriculture of the kingdom, and improving also the habits, the cumforts,.and the moral tone of the laboining poor. It was gratifying to see that, notwithstanding all the disadvantages of weather, them was a spirit of cheerful interest and earnest feeling running through the wh o l e assembly, from the venerable Baronet at the head of the Association, to the humblest ploughboy who contended for its prizes.— Chelmsford Chronicle. JONATHAN.—The lions sent by the Emperor of Morcceo as a present to Mr. Van. Buren, were to be sold by auction on the 314 of August, end the avails go into the Treasury of the United States. CHARTIST MEETING IN EDINBURGH, On Thursday last Messrs. Collins and M'Douall visited Edinburgh, they dined with a few of their friends 1 in the afternoon, and, agreeably to arrangements pre viously made, they met in the evening with a more numerous body, in Dun-Edin Hall—there might be about six or seven hundred present. Mr. Rankine ' was called to the chair, who announced that the object of the meeting was to present an address to Messrs. Collins and INl'Douall, complimenting them on their unflinching adherence to the principles of the Charter, notwithstanding what they hod personally suffered on its account. After the reading of the address, Mr. M'Douall rose and thanked them for the honour done him, he said he was aware, however, that it was the cause they honoured, and be was glad it was so, for he was devoted to it, he had suffered for it, but he was ready to suffer again, what he had suffered bad only abetted his appetite for more agitation. In prison he had quiet add opportunity enough to study his sub ject, end he had done so, anewas now mote determined than ever to devote his powers, whatever they ought to be, to the accomplishment of his, and their grand ol‘ject, the liberation of Lie industrious and intelligent countrymen from a state of slavery, tyranny, and op pression, Their oppressors, after incarcerating Mr. Collins, himself, and a few others, boasted thatChar tisrn was extinguished ; they had found out their mis take, and it was ready to burst out into a mightier flame than ever ; they, themselves, furnished the combus tible materials, and could it be supposed that the people would submit much longer to have the fruits of their honest industry wrung from them, and their rights usurped by a class of men who were as ignorant as they were unfeeling and tyrannical? Mr. Isl‘Douali dwelt at considerable length on the missry of the working classes in England. He compared their earnings now with what they were a few years ago, which exhibited a falling cif amounting to upwards of 10s, n-week, It was next to impossible for the strong and the healthy, in the best of times, to maintain exis tence, and to provide for old age, or trouble, or the want of employment, was out of the question ; but the law had provided for these cases—Bastiles had beer, erected to receive them, where they were not only se parated from their friends and the world,,but also. from. their nives and children ; they regarded .neither the laws of God nor the tics of 'nature, - every principle is made to give way, and , iii prostrated to the earth to suit the iaterests of our iniquitous rulers. lie asked Low it was possible for the people, an intelligent people—to submit quietly to all this? It was cu rious, he observed, to see bow anxious their oppressors were for the spiritual welfare of the people. They could do nothing for their temporal weal, but every , thing for their spiritual, when it consisted in building churches and endowing priests. The Church—the Established Church in England—formed one grand link in the chain that shackled the people, at the same time that it provided for the undersprouts of the aristocracy, and afforded princely incomes to men who were unfit for any thing else ; if there existed one greater dunce than another in the family of a nobleman, he was fit to be a Bishop. After boxing the whole compass of vice and debauchery, he was installed a fit teacher of the people— a teacher of morality and religion. What did they think the people were? He trusted the people would give them all the credit they deserved for their self-philanthro. pie care. They pretend to teach the Bible, but do they understand it, or do they think nobody can read it but themselves ? Are they not commanded to administer first to the temporal wants of the people, and then to their spiritual ? Did our Saviour preach to the blind s the lame, and the paralytic, before curing them? , D.d he preach to the people on the Mount before feeding them ?" Does not the Bible teem with passages de nouncing the conduct of the rich towards the poor, the orphan, and the widow. Nothing, continued Mr. M'Douall, is to put an cud to this but the Charter, it is the grand panacea, and the only one, for the rancorous diseases which fester in the State. Were they . prepared to renew the .struggle for their rights, they need only be firm to the cause to make it triumphant ; he did not talk of physica force—there was no need of it, let them rally in sufficient- numbers, end their physical powers would never be questioned nor opposed ; he would remind them, hOwever, that it was _ their right by the laws of the -land; bad as they-were, 'to - assemble together to state their griavances and remonstrate - agsinst, them. It was also the right of every man:to possess the means' of defending his person and property against aggression, and, ; ' for 'his part, he was deter mined to protect the kw rights he possessed by every means in his power. Mr. M'D. concluded a long and able speech, of which this is a mere outline, by declar ing that he would rather return to the primmval savage state, to hunt iu the woods and drink from the passing stream than remain much longer the slave of tyranny. Mr. M'Douall here sat down amidst the long protracted I clic( rs of the audience. _ • Mr. Collins then i.rescnted himself to the meeting, and addressed them at considerable length ; he went over the same ground - aS the former speaker, atnplify ing on the operation of the Poor Laws, the misery of the working men of England, the inconsistent conduct of the clergy; and.the oppressive and partial operation of the law in g eneraf.'''l - 1 e was loudly cheered throliihout, and begged`ta l AT/triad retire, 'as be had not slept in ,s 1 bad since he earn& to Scotland, and he would require to be up,in•the morning to prepare for the labourS of the day. The meeting was then addressed by Mr. Julian Har ney, after which thanks were voted to Mr. Rankin • for his conduct in the chair, and the meeting dispersed about twelve o'clock .—Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle. FORTIFICATIONS OF PARIS. The following details of the works and other mea sures relative to the fortifications of Paris, are given by the Connnerce CHARENTON.—The engineers stationed at V►n cennes went, yesterday morning to stake out the ground for the redoubts, bastions, curtains, fossts, and glacis, which are to cover this village on the cast and south. " VINCENNES.— ' I'he utmost activity prevails in this fort, which is occupied by infantry, two companies of engineers, the tirailleurs, and the 3d regiment of artil lery. This fine corps is being filled up, and placed upon a war establishment. Within these few days 600 recruits have joined it, and 400 more are expected. It will be carried up to 3,000 men, a strength much greater than ever it had before. The last day's prac tice for the season was to have taken place yesterday, but on account of the weather it was put cif till Satur day. For this 150 bail and grape cartridges have been delivered out. Immediately afterwards two batteries will be sent to St. Cloud and two to Versailles. The engineers lodged in the fort are constantly employed in copying plans, which have been sent to Paris as finished. Tuhe3sfianreteirss,so stationed overcharged here, e re , w a i r t h e m troops, aki ag that hn o t i h e the e recruits prepa rations areobligetdo t n o om m to ak e e nc th e e o m n selv i e o s n b da ed y s t o h f e st t r o a r w ts , a w t h p er a e n v : e:rithey can find a place to lie down. MONTREUIL.—Between this place aad Nova and Fontenay the small forts by which the heights are crowned will be converted into citadels. A barrack camp for 30,000 men is about to be formed in the middle of the plain. Already the farmers are clearing away their crops, engineers are tracing the outlines, and contracts for materials are entered into. From this encampment the men may, in a fox minutes, r eac h the forts at Rosny, Noisy-lc-Sec, Fontenay, cud No gent, and perhaps that of l'Epine, which comniand.l the Faubourg St. Antoine, the materials for which wore got ready six years ago. The 39th Regiment of the Line, in the barracks of the Faubourg St. Antoine, has already beT p ordered 1 L t L o v p ._ re se e feoortipnacnaymopfint„La2tdhiltoergairinceulidiltiol daily Romainvillo, the Butte de Chaumont, and the Bruyerels' to the north of Belleville. . Fresh workmen are engaged. . .4 ST. DENIS:—The officers and men of the Engineers h e ights which will be crowned are daily occupied in taking plans of the town and en virons, so as to form the plan of the immense fortifica. de Montinos ticns with which the placo is to,be entirely surrounded. It will become the advanced guard for protecting the lower part of the river, and the point of junction with it of the canals of St. Denis and St. Martin. In front "'hear:bateau of Ecouen, built affective de owfitShtr.eDdoeunii3sts.therir in the belonging to the Duke d'Aur. ,ut C, is to immense • be fortified, as it commands an .. plain and some very important passes. Its position is so good that very to render it a most r 1 , 6. n t c h y ,eaenndtuiryowby the Constable Anne little will be required fence. " MoNE VALERIEN..--T 11 : wood Whichurr s the couvcnt is being cut down. . . . . . . t h a: x hi ; y tons burden, LAUNCH OF THE LONDON OF NINETY-TWO GUNS, GUNS, AND TUE WAIL . STF:AMER PoLlritEmus. Ti , e e is tzt I p au o n ci el y i a o r t d. the T si h ) e ve p ss o e i l; p will, it is expected, be lau 4 ! . iehed at one o'clock, and the• London at ti , c, o ' c l oc k. ...,cve . ral splendid booths have been erected in the doel;yard. :'or tie. accornmodat;nn of 'l'leilnliutasi:e whichplac the public, and every taken to prevent accident. Prior to the laun.ehing of the vessels four fl m: Purpep.cousui t t . e7h b l o s re b , t m o g s ig i will be hoisted on the those points on the river it will be dangerous for boats to remain, and a party of police will be in attendance to keep announce.d .as follo n w i:y ; the space c'ear. The London was commenced in th e ye ,',. 1827, and has been thirteen }ears building. Her "dimen sions have been offieiallY length, 242 feet ; breadth, 54 eet.3 inches ; glenheit aft 57 feet 6 inches ; he i g h t score, 50 feet 9 inches ; r , ,tl; of lower deck, 205 test (i inches , depth . in hold, 22 feet 5 inches ; and tonnage, 2,60:7,. Her foremast, in length is 115 feet 7 inches; and in di a meter, 37 inches. Her mainmast, in length, 121 fee! 9 inches , a n d 40 i nches i n diameter. Iler mizeurnast 77 feet in length, and 26 inches in diameter; and her bowsprit 76 feet i n l eng th, and 40 inches in diF.incter. She is to carry on her lower deck six 68 pounders, a nd twenty-six 3 2-pounders ; on her upper deck, four 68-pounders and thirty 32-pounders; and cv. her quarter-deck and f o recastle, twenty-six 32-pounders and congrevcs—total , 92. Iler c^rn .:, plernent of men and officers for sea will be 695, —Morning Paper. IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SYRIA. ! FRENCH BEYROUT, AUG, 29.—This port is blockaded by the Powerful, Edinburgh, Thunderer, Ganges, Benbow, Castor, Carysfort, and Gorgon (steamer), within a pistol shot of the town, and all heats and vessels coming in are continually captured by them. Soliman Paella issued the follouing orders of the day on the 27th : " Art. 1. Any individual born in a foreign country who shall introduce a ny writings or pruc'amarions into Syria tending to foment disobedience or revolt shall be punished with death. " Art. 2. Auy individual, whether native or foreigner, who shall distribute any writings or proclamations tend ing to promote disobedience or rebellion shall be pu nished with death. " Art. 3. Any individual, whether native or foreigner, who shall be the bearer or concealer of any proclama tion tending, to foment disobedience or rebellion, shall be punished with imprisonment in irons for a period of from five to twenty years. " Art. 4. Every person shall be considered a con cealer of proclamations who shall not, witbia ten da)s from the date of this order, delver up to local autho rities every writing or proclamation distributed in his village, town, or district. " Art.s. Every individual born in a foriegn country, who shall introduce or distribute arms, ammunition, or provisions, shall be punished with death. " Art. 6. Every individual, whether native or fo reigner, who shall excite the inhabitants to revolt, either by words, writings, or money, shad be punished with death . . " Art. 7. Every foreigner who shall act as a spy shall be punished with death. " Art. S. The composition of the Council of War remains the same. " Art. 9. The sentence of death or the galleys cannot be e3ccuted without the approbation of the Alaj,:sr-General commanding the army. Art. 10. The present order of the day shall be no tified to the Consul 3 of the different Powers, inasmuch as it regards foreigners. " SOLDI PACH A, Major-General." " OF.Dk.r. OF THE DAY. " BEYLOUT, AUG. 27. "The coast of Syria from the heights of Khan Yom toes to the limits of the north of Tarsus is declared in u state of siege. In consequence of this the military authorities will take cognisance of all crimes and offences committed by natives or foreigners. They will likewise take charge of the collection of taxes, and the works of defence will be intrusted to officers of engineers under their orders. Notice of this order is to be given to all the civil and military commanders of the provinces, as well as to the Consuls of the different Powers, as re gards strangers." Soliman Pacha next addressed the following circular to the Consuls of the foreign nations : " General Staff of the Egyptian Armies, " Beyrcut, August 27. " Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that his Royal highness Mehemet Ali has refused the conditions of the arrangements proposed by the Sultan in accord with the Courts of Great Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Those conditions have been communicated to bins by his Excellency Rifat Bey, sent by his Highness conjointly with the Consuls-General of the Four Powers above-mentioned. Ilia Royal Highness replied to this communication, that what he had conquered by force of arms should be wrested from him by force of arms only. I have the honeer to be," &c. A large reward has been offered for the bead of M. Wood, but he is safe on board tile Powerful. The Benbow has 5,000 stand of arms on board. The Carysfort also carries a quantity. Some Arnauts and Turks have deserted the Paella's standard and gone on board the British ships, where they were informed that they would receive per man five piastres, one oke of meat, and three bottles of wine per day. - Correspondence between Mr. Moor, the English Consul at Beyt out, and Soliman Pacha (Col. Selves) : LETTER OF SOLIMAN, FACIIA TO MR. MOOR, ENGLISH CONSUL AT BEYROUT BEYROUT, 28 DJEMREZ EL AKBAR. " M. Lc Consul—The menaces and acts of hostility on the part of your Government before declaration of hostilities have rendered the relations of our respective Governments more and more critical. The intrigues to cause an insurrection amongst the i❑habitants of Le banon, after the negative answer of his Highness Me hemet Ali to the proposals made him, induce him to observe to you that your presence in this town is super fluous,.and that it will be prudent for you to quit it with your fa:oily. If war should break out, which is pro bable, as his Highness cannot accede to such demands, I would invite you, and other English functionaries, to quit this territory. I have ordered all persons exciting sedition and disorder to be arrested, and punished im .. ir.cdiately." LEPLY OF Mi.. MOOR. " BEY ROUT, AUG. 27. " M. le Gencral—l Lave the honour to aeltoowledge the receipt of yours, and must profess my ignorance of any declaration of war between England and Egypt. You have not made any such notification to me ; and until you do order me :o quit Beyrout within a certain time, or until .1 get orders frotti my superiors to that rffcct, will not sibaudou.rny duties here, however su perfluous may thi . tik then. As to your hint that 'My starmis., , hrbe dangerous to myself and family, I can onlyrecall that-I am under •yourprotection and th a t of tiro law, of..uations.. If you tell mo I may not count on that protectiota, and if you ratify to me a declaration of war, I shall seek an asylum on board the vessels of her Britannic Majesty. " I learn that I alone of the four Consuls have re ceived a notification of this kind.—&c. &c. " MOOR." Soliman Paella rejoined, in another letter to Mr. Moor, that he did not know of any declaration of war, but still that the conduct of the English fleet in cutting off all communications was hostile. In such a state of things, the presence of an English Consul at l3eyrout was superfluous. He added that the Consul's remain ing was also dangerous, on acoount of the exasperation of the population against the English agents, who were exciting insurrection. " For example, if one of your proteges was killed by a soldier, and I were to proceed to punish the soldier on the spot, a revolt might take place, and you and your family might be its first vic tims." Soliman then proceeds to assert, that exciting revolt amongst the Syrians is not an honest act, but is a policy of intrigue and corruption. He concludes by saying that he (Soliman Pacha) could not take upon himself to give the English Consul a notice to quit Beyrout. he English Consul, cn receiving this, wrote another letter on the 28th, declaring the foregoing letter vague, and demanding whether he might count on the Gene rat's protection, and upon his own security and that of his fa►nily, as heretofore. Soliman replied, that Mr. Moor and the other Con suls might count on his protection as bezetolore,. which proves the inutility of having. commenced and excited such a correspondence. SIR T. PHILLIPS.—On Wednesday the splen did service of plate, subscrbA for by upwards of 600 in dividuals, and valued at 1,0001., was presented at Newport to Sir Thomas Phillips, in testimony of the valuable ser vices rendered by him in suppressing the Chartist rebel lion in November lut. The proceedings r' were conducted with much ceremony. HOP INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER, SEPT. 25.—At our annual " Great Fair" and Market, held on Saturday last, the 19th instant, the quantity of New Hops pitched for sale did not exceed 40 pockets, and of year. lings and other ages, about 400 pockets. The business done was more limited than is usual at this Fair, which is chiefly to be accounted for from the almost total failure of the new crop, which prevented the attendance of country buyers, the few Hops grown this year not being worth their notice, and the sample very blighted and inferior. The public scale returns show that 22 new pockets, and 132 Yearlings and other ages were sold by the growers on the fair day, besides 7 new and 120 old, weighed during this week. The prices of the new varied (according to quality) from 7/. to 141. per cwt., duty estimated at 1501. Present currency, per cwt. ; —lB39's, from 1403. to 160 s ; fine and choice, 170 s. to 190 s. ; 1837'5, from 1003. to Il3os. ; 1836'4 and 1835'5, from 70 s. to 95 5. Worc ester Herald. On Friday night, about twelve o'clock, an ac cilent happened at Tulley's bazaar, Gravesend, during the performance of the well known gun-trick, which created much alarm among the company assembled. After the gun was loaded and the ball deposited therein, it was handed over to a gentleman present, who was directed to preceed to the farther end of the concert room and fire at theconjuror, who stood upon the platform ready to perpe trate the " wonderful feat of catching the actual ball fired from the gun between his teeth." The gun was handled in a very awkward manner by the party to whom it was presented, and he fired it off. The sleight-of-hand gen tleman caught the ball as a matter of course between his teeth, but at the same moment, to the dismay of the whole company, a violinist, who was stending with his instrument in his hand seven or eight feet distant from the conjuror exclaimed " I am shot," and raised his hands to his lace, from which blood was observed to be trickling down. If the wadding had lodged in his eye instead of above it he would probably have lost his sight. The gun ought not to be entrusted to awkward hands. A few nights ago the wadding struck a lady's bonnet in the same place ; and this and the accident of Friday bight clearly shews there is no ball in the gun when it is fired, although one is dropped into the muzzle and rammed down before the gun is fired, and by some contrivance removed before it goes off. Mr. Fletcher , of Eykc, near Woodbridge, has now in his possession two most extraordi nar y stones, taken out of the intestines of a hackney mare, waich died on Wednesday, the 16th inst:, upwards of twenty years old. The largest resembles the Shape, and is about the size, of an Edam cheese ; it measures eighteen inches Aud a half in circumference , a nd weighs' six pounds. The smdier one is of a triangular form, rnith.the acute corners rounded off, They boor appear very hard; the latter measures • sixteen inches and a half round, and weighs three pounds l and a half. The mare was an excellent worker, and was never known to nil anything till within the last two months, since which time she has been falling off, and died suddenly.—Suplk Cironicle. DUTIES. The Monilcur of Saturday contaiLs the following important report and Royal ordcnnance, modifying the French customs'. duties : " Sire,—The project of law relative to the customs, which v. c presented this year to the Chambers, accord ing to the orders of your Majesty, was not able to be brought to debate. The termination of the Session has again cathed the adjournment of several questions, many of which are of importance, and of the adoption of measures which, although they occupy only a secondary place in the project, are none the less impatiently ex pected by the parties interested. These different dispositions, Sire, have been the ob ject of profound examination on the part of one of the Committees of the Chamber of Deputies. Its report has been distributed, and may, at the commencement of the next Session, be submitted to legislative deliberation. Consequently the time when a definitive decision will be given upon the modifications which we have pro posed cannot be a very distant one. " Nevertheless we have not considered that the brevity of their delay dispensed us from making use of the powers bestowed upon the Government by law to satisfy provisionally the necessities of trade and industry. When the Chambers found themselves in the impossi bility to proceed to a revision of the tariffs of the cus toms, so changeable in their very nature, it became the duty of the Government to supply this deficiency to the extent of its rowers in taking measures relative to the necessities which appear evident to it. " By the ordinances of the 23d of July and sth of August last, your Majesty has supplied some of the measures the most earnestly demanded by the commer cial interests, and I now submit to your Majesty other dispositions, which, by their nature and their utility, are iiieleoled also in the provisions of the law of the 17th of December, 1814. " The actual tariff of the rough cast-iron (Antes brutes) acts in a repulsive manner upon certain pro ducts. The German cast-iron, for instance, takes a very insufficient part in our consumption, in proportion to this wants of many branches of cur industry. We propose to your Majesty to yield to the reclamations which have been made for a long time upon this point, by reducing to four francs per 100 kilogrammes (the rate laid upon the northern frontier) the duty of six francs which is now laid upon the eastern frontier. Other diminutions, equally conformable to the project of law, might be granted for the following ob jects : " Filaceous vegetable products used in making paper. " The reeds of French Guiana, which might replace in several articles of Parisian manufacture the reeds de rived from India. " Scented woods, angica wood, and box en bilks, of which so great a use is made in our toy-work. " Our aim would not be completely attained if, at the same time that we moderate the tariff upon exotic matters, the importation of which can in no way injure the interests concerned in the national productions of the same kind, we were not to make, in the case of a moderate protection, the modifications demanded upon those objects which the French manufactures are called upon to supply in competition with foreign maculae tures. And thus we consider it proper to fix at eight francs per kilogramme the duty upon needles, and at two francs that upon fishhooks. " These two articles have not as yet any special duty in the tariff. The first is rated at that of fine merecry, which, being only at the rate of two francs per kilo gramme, evidently cannot exercise a sufficiently pro tecting influence upon our manufactures ; and the fish hooks are put among the common mercery, the duty of which (one franc per kilogramme) is evidently too weak. The new duties which it is proposed to esta blish will not affect the value of needles at a greater proportion than of from 10 to 11 per cent., and that of fishhooks in a still less proportion. We consider it im possible to be more moderate in the establishment of a protecting tariff ; and we trust the neighbouring ccun tries with whom we have a commercial intercourse in these articles will find in the moderation we evince a new proof of our conciliatory disposition with respect to them. " Your Majesty will regret, doubtless, with us not to sec placed among the number of the objects regulated by the ordonnance two measures which excite an almost universal solicitude in France. I mean all that con cerns the use of fire machinery for international naviga tion, and the adoption of a new tariff for the threads and linens. The first of these measures, however, goes beyond the powers granted to ordonnances by article 34 of the law of the 17th of December, 1814. And we have refrained from taking the second from motives which I am about to have the honour of laying before your Majesty. " When the project of law relative to the customs was to have been submitted to the Chamber of Depu ties, the Government, rho considered it necessary to extend the duty to about ten per cent. upon threads, thought it proper to defer ail increase of the tariff upon linens until the affect of the new taxes upon threads had been tried, and more especial)/ until the commercial negotiations commenced were terminated. " The opinion was shared by the Committee of the Chamber of Deputies charged with the examination of the project of law. In the deeply investigating dis cussion which it devoted to that subject, and the rd suits of which we find in its report, it maintained, on the one hand, that it was necessary to fix the tariff upon threads at more than ten per cent. ; and, on the other, that it was necessary to raise the tariff upon inens in the same augmentation as that made upon threads. " The Government cannot renounce its opinion upon the first point. After having taken the advice of the. most competent personages, it persists in believing that duty equivalent in value to ten per cent , would form a sufficient protection to the thread manufactories. And as to the tariff upon linens, without refusing to acknow ledge all the force of the arguments presented by the Committee, we are bound to say that some et theta do not altogether agree with the last facts relative to the importation of them. " In fact, in order that the balance between the pre sent tariff upon threads and that upon linens were such that the one could not be modified without putting im mediately and integrally the quota of this modification upon the other, it would be necessary that the decrease which for some past has manifested itself in the number of the importations of linen should not exceed the pro portion of increase which has taken place in the impor tations of thread. Now, if such were the case in 1839 (since then a million of kilogrammes of thread more having arrived, there was a reduction of a similar quan tity in the linens which arrived), it was by no means the same thing in 1840. In spite of the inducements which apparently were given to the introduction of threads by the probability of a speedy increase of duty, the introduction ceased to increase. There was, even during the first eight months of this exercise, a slight diminution of 16,707 kilogrammes ; and the importation of linens fluctuated 611,955 kilogrammes,* an amount to which must be added, in order to calculate the im portance in threads, the 15 per cent. diminution which relate to the conversion of threads into linens, so much so that, in fact, the importation of these two foreign products (linens and threads), which progressively aug mented in 1838, and which, in 1839, had upon the whole remained stationary, is at the present time in a state of diminution. 4s Besides this new and remarkable fact rendering settlement less urgent, we may be allowed to conclude that the necessity which the Committee conceived there was of maintaining intact the actual proportion between the two tariffs, in raising equally one with the other, is not a point so well established that a decision ought to be taken before the approaching discussion which will take place in the Chambers. ' Wc will add that, according to the opinion of the Committee, the increase which it proposes ought to be effected at the same time as another measure intended to compensate the inconveniences of more or less weight which all augmentations of duty almost always bring upon commercial transactions. This measure is one which should consist in giving back (in the form of drawback) to the exportation of linens the duties levied upon the entry of threads. Now, a disposition of this kind is not one of those which it is possible to put in vi gour by an ordonnance. " But if, under these circumstances, Sire, it did not appear to us that any change ought to be effected by ordonnance in the ensemble of the tariff upon threads and linens, we consider it our duty to propose to you to make immediately two m odifications, upon the propriety and utility of which all parties are agreed. I mean the application— " First—Of the duty upon linen threads to tow threads per (Ells mea suring more than 6,000 metres No. 10 English and above), k l i s io t g r r e a t i o il tt r p ne e) ( be cause both the one and the other terve for the same purposes, and it is difficult for the custom-house officers to distinguish between them. " Second —Of the tariff upon plain linens t o wor k e d and figured tab le-linens of fine quality, which, b y an error in the legislation, are charged less duty than the plain present tariff. tariff. in W of e shallfi l e d,c obtain tnz e li nen s of the sante quality. t i €€ These two meas ures will p u t an end to some of I e the e i I,tepo„tetivaicrliyi ca d n ee i s of tlr in pouring nin w hich, forming . upon an average nearly • two-fifths of the; gene ral importation of thrcads,t take th e ' place in our consumption, to the great prejutiice of our agriculture, and our spinning of the common threadso abundantly produced in the departments of the We shall thus have made a firstwest and north-west. step towards the solu tion of the very complicated questions of which the ex pose of the motives of the project of law and the report of the committee have fixe " Twhichhe ordonnance the limits. have the honour to sub mit to your Molest , ' i s terminated by certain disposi tions relative to the navigation tariff, which will facii 7 and along the mov e m ents o f our merchant vessels a b roa d along the coast, as well as the transactions relative to the property of vessels. They will be bailed by our commerce with the liveliest gratitude. " I am with respect, Sire, your Majesty's very humble, very devoted, and very faithful servant, " The Minister Secretary of State of Agriculture and Commerce, " A. GoulN. EVENING EDITION. " ORDONNANCE OF THE KING. " For all present and to come, salut. " Seeing the article 34 of the law of the 17th of December, 1814 ; " Seeing the project of law relative to the customs presented in our name on the 23d May last to the Chamber of Deputies ; " Seeing the Report of the Committee of the said Chamber charged with the examination of this project of law ; " Upon the Report of our Ministers Secretaries of State in the Department of Agriculture and Commerce and the Department of Finance, " We have ordained, and we ordain, as follows : " TARIFF OF CUSTOM-HOUSE DUTIES. " Art. 1. The tariff of the euitem-Louse duties shall be modified and established, for the objects hereafter mentioned, in the following manner : " SECTION 1.-ENTIIY. " Rough Cait•iron, in Masses, importod.—From Blancisseron, at Mont. G,mevre, exclusively, 4f. the 100 kilogrammes ; from all other points, the present duty. " Nickel Metallique.-01 one melting, sf. per 100 kilogrammes. Mixed with other metals (,rgentan)— In mass, .50f. ; flattened or urawn nut, 100 f. " Cork.—Raw, cove:cd with its bark, broken up into planks, or fragments of all dimensions, 6r. Rasped— In planks or fragments of all dimensions, 9f. ; worked, present duties. " Stalks or Filaments of the Banana tree, Aloe Fibres, Manilla Hemp (Abaco), Phormium Trees, and other filaccous vegetable productions not specialy men tioned.—Row, or simply deprived of their outer coat ing—From the French colonies, 10c. per 100 kilo grammes ; from elsewhere, 40c. Bleached or prepared for paper-making—From the . French colonies, If. ; from elsewhere, 2f. _ _ " Canes and Reeds of French Guiana (ways),—The same duties the European reeds in whole stalks. " Sewing Needies.-Bf. the kilogramme. " Fishing-hooks.—The duty upon fine mercery. " Box en billet, or sewed more than three decim. thickness.—Hall the present duties. " Hempen Threads, or Linen Threads of simple raw Etoupc, furnishing more than 6,000 metres per kilo gramme.—The same duties as other linen or hempen threads simples ecrus. " All other.—The present duty. " The ills detoupc furnishing 6,030 metres or less per kilogramme can only be imported by the ports d'ortrepot reel, by the following land frontier offices " Armentieres, Ha!loin, Lille, Baisrcux, Conde, Blaneisveron, Sierch, Forbad), Strasbourg, Pont de Beauvoisin, Entre deux Guiers, St. Laurent du Var. " In order to facilitate the distinction of the _fits arcioape which remains importable according to the duty fixed by the law of the :,7th July, 1822, a samplo of the number forming the point of difference between this thread and that which is assimilated by the present ordonnance to the hernien and linen threads shall be deposited at each bm•cau open to its importation. This sample, which shall be placed under the double seal of the departtmnts of Commerce and Fi nance, shall serve as type in the levying of the duties, savirg, the appeal, in case of contestation, to the arbi trators appointed by the law of the 27th July, 1822. " The threads of every kind 3,N blch shall have received any degree of bleaching shall be reckoned as bleached threads. " Table-liner in pieces, worked or figured, within the space of five miliimetres.-16 threads or less, present duty ; 17, 18, 19, 20, or more than 20 thread a, same duty as tbe plain linens of linen and hemp, according to the kind and quality. " The coarse crossed linens, called trellis, shall pay • _ liltc the plain linens of h'ss than eight threads. " No liner:; shell be admitted as raw cilia shall have rmceir•cd any di ;fee of bleaching eiihtr before or after being wove, qnd which retain the decided raw colour. AcotaL , of Iron.—Liquid, sf. the 100 kilogrammes; conc.intrated to any deer; e, 40f. ditto. " Acid of Arsnc.—lt2f. the 100 kilogrammes. " Firewood.—ln logs, sc. the stare, in faggots, sc. the hundred. " Scented Woods.—Sassafras . , by French vessels, from countries out of Europe, sf. the 100 kilogratutnes ; elsi.where, 10f. ditto ; by foreign vessels, 161. ditto ; other deseliptions, by French vessels, from countries out of Eurcpe, 25f. ditto; elsewhere, 30f. ditto ; by foreign vessels, ditto. ‘. Angiea Wood.—Saine duty as the boil de gaiac. " Nuttts or Trcsses of Wil;te Wood wed:ed.—Same duty as the tresses of wood of 7 millimetres or less in k.-r7gtll. " Jarossc (podsecd)—Sime duty as forage. " I\lllltt Sta!ks for making brooms.-10?.. per 100 amines. " nctaille Piates of Iron.-100f. per 100 kiio- Mi. , .IIIIIICS. " AlmAnacki Fluted in foreign languages.—The sarna daty a.; French works printed in other countries. Printed, engraved, or coloured Catds (cliqueltes). —Same duty as lithographic drawing, or ornamental engravings. " Florence Iris.—ln root, two-thirds of the present duty ; worked up in pills or balls for hygcsts or uphol sterers, the duty of men:ay. " Lambs end kids shall only he admitted as sue)) when young animals, weighing less than eight kilogrammes ; and snail[]; p:gs only nhen young animals, weighing IcsLi than 1.5 kik:Grammes. " SECTION 11.-EXPORT. " Focider.—Hay, straw, grass of every kind, in cludif,g the jarosses (pawed), tcn cents. per 100 kilo grammes ; common sand or gravzl one cent. the 100 kilogrammes. " TARIFF OF THE NAVIGATION DUTIES. Art. 2. Tire cxemi,tion frem the duties of tonnage and expedition granted' by the law of the 27th Ventre-. miaire, An. 2, and by our ordonnance of the 23d July, 1838, to French vessels coming from 11,hing from foreign countries, or from a port within the kingdom, shall be extended also to those arriving from the French pos sessions beyond seas. " The permission duty of 50 cents., established by article 37 of the same law of the 27th Vendemiaire, An. 2, shall be replaced with respect to all French cargoes, except those destined for foreign countries or which ariivcd from them, by the stamp of 5 cents. pre scribed by the article 19 of the law of the 28th of April, ISI6. The duty of 6f. established by article 17 of the law of the 27th Vendernialre, An. 2, for the inscription on the back of Act of Franchise, for the sales of the whole or p arts of vessels, shall no longer be levied. " Art. 3. Our Ministers Secretaries of State in the Department of the Finances and in the Department of Agriculture nnd Commerce are charged, each in what concerns him, with the execution of the present or dounance. " Done at the Palace of St. Cloud, Sept. '2.4, 1840. " Louts PIILIPPE." (By the King) " '1 he Minister Secretary of State in the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, " GOUIN." • Upon an importation which had been made of 3,175,773 kilogrammes during the corresponding period in 1839. t In 1838-2,519,253 kilogrammes upon a twat importation of In 1539-2,534,355 6 757,491 1810—(firs! seven months)-1,599,628 MADAME LAFFARGE. (From the Querdientle's Ca. series.) The trial of Madame Laffargo, that great absorbing topic, which, for seventeen days, has not allowed Europe to occupy herself with anything else than the pleadings of the Court of Assizes of Tulle, has just been brought to a close . Ileac will, therefore , be a su s p ense ofju dicial occupations, and the i Parisian coterie will be ( nabkd to emerge from that circle at whieh it was restrained during the Glandier drama. From the be ginnin4 of the month the greate,t interests have boon effaced for the sympathy or repugnance which Marie Capelle inspired ; the London memorandums and the Madrid Ayuntamientos, the fate of the Pacha of Egypt, and that of the Queen of Spain, Beyrout, and the detached forts, found no place in the Journals, and Paris the first, that angular stone of the periodical press, was put aside for Ma dame Laffarge's letters, and for M. Orfila's report. Elizabide was passed over as a vul4,ar assassin ; and even the Bourse, that receptacle for egotism and ava rice, which is astounded at nothinc , foreign to a rise or tali, has caused an i nnovat i on in the course of its pre mums and reports, in order to be taken up with Marie Capelle's fate. Prince Louis Napoleon was very for tunate in not being tried in the very heat of our judi cial fever ; he would not have excited more attention than Mathee, and ail M. Pasquier's eloquence would have been eclipsed by M. Decous's oratory; the simar of the Chaucellor of Franc would have disappeared ' behind the gown of the Advocate-General of M. de Pourceaugnai's country ; and, such has been the parox ysm of curiosity and interest with which all Pars th has t , been seized for a fortnight, that it is very certain had Napoleon's remains arrived at that moment, they a I would have excited less attention t han those of Pouch Laffirge. thing ; abundant, and that therew i s fil a a ,p s It may be well imagined that in that omnatetveerrywgiut profound knowledge, therefore, in admiring M. 0 diversion caused by the I fift was found in Laffarge's bod anomalous arsenic whicid. and stated with also a gr y ; that prince of science, as. ihehuiosnrderacaldletwhdi,lpltahareltrloeowfwamagserastionomode: Raspail, who is and on this subject uffirmed body,that arsenic was always . e t a : quite scientific conviction, If lf find in hs it, I pledge n.ysea to . body as much arsenic as. he found in that of Laffarge." ebbeetl'ouuisitid. 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