The Sun. — London, England, 1840-11-03 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION, --- 1 WOOLIVICIL— MONDAY. ROYAL ARTILLERY. Novelty is the order of the day t?.t, this theatre, 1 GENERAL oRDER, OCT. 30. and triuiri succeeds to triumph with the greatest Lieutenant Co'oncl E. T. Mitchell, of the Royal tepidity. This is, indeed, the dramatic " Railroad Artillery, having been ordered to proceed from Spain to Stalion," and, as the play-bills justly boast, not a i the coast of Syria, her Majesty has been pleased to ap single accident has taken place on any of the ti point him to the local rank of Briielier-General on a trains. The novelty of last evening consisted, in i particular servic e. Dated Oct.2.i, 1640. two acts, of English Etiquette, from the pen of I H. D. ROSS, Colonel, Deputy Adjutant-General.. that prince of farce writers, Oxenford. The piece The detachment of Purfloet have been relieved by deotna,chments of Captain Hornsby's company, Ist batta turns on the adventures of M. Achille Townsend and Major Rayne's 'ld battalion. Captain (Mr. St. John Horton), a Frenchman, born of " linrosby and Lieutenant Talbot proceeded with the English parents, who takes Mr. Handel Hib bs detachment. (Balls), a general agent,_ i. e. a quack, a puff - Lieutenant-Gene ra l L or d Bloomfield, G.C.8., has writer, a sort of a Lord /ow everything, as his joined from leave, and resumed the command of the Chesterfield and his Johnson, and is by him ini- garrison at Woolwich. tiated into all the idioms of the English language, Lieutenant-Colonel J. E. Jones, the Assistant Deputy and all the mysteries of English etiquette. The Adjutant-General, has also joined from leave. . is full of fun, hustle, piece and incident, and the The non-commissioned officers off duty . . received in eontre temps which arise in consequence of the structions at the Royal Military Repository during the doings of these worthies, are some of the most lu- Past week. i dicrous we ever witnessed. The house was in a Recruiting parties are ordered to be detached four times a month from the companies in Great Britain and roar during the whole of the piece, and the ai - Ire!aad for the purpose of attending fairs, &c., the re• plause at the fall of the curtain was long, loud, and giment being much in want of men. hearty. Balls, as Handel Hibbs, was cool impu- M..jor Sinclair's company, Bth battalion, relieved Cap dence personified. The perfect sell possession tain Kendal's company, 4th battalion, on Saturday, and w iLil which he extricates himself from the the latter company have rejoined the 4th battalion. scrapes into which the Frenchman's literal obc- REGIMENTAL ORDER, OCT. 30. thence to his injunctions puts them, was rich ex- The Commandant has had great pleasure in receiving ceedingly. the followin , report from Colonel Cleaveland on the efficiency and good conduct of B. Field Battery ; it is `(lr. - St. John Horton has shewn by his adunr- a report most creditable to the officers, non-commis able personification of Achille, that he is decidedly , i in. d officers, and gunners and drivers of Captain Ken and without zornparison th e b e st F renc h man on the dall's company, and an example which the Commandant stage. Since Matthews, we have seen no one to I hopes to see followed by their successors : be compared to him. His is no vulgar over-acted " Field Battery-office, Oct. 30. caricature. It is a carefully studied, and judiciously " SIR,—In obedience to your_ . or . d , ers, I have the elaborated iece of acting. Never, for one instant, honour to report that Captain Kendall s company of the p was he tem field batteries, commanded by Captain Mcc, arc suffi pted b y the roars of laughter which he cientlY advanced in their field exercises to enable them elicited, t o f or g e t that he was a gentleman—never to embark at any moment for foreign-service. Captain did he, during the whole course of the piece, once Mce, with his officers, non-commissioned officers, and " o'erstep the modesty of nature ;" he is a most men, has been most attentive, and the conduct of the judicious 'actor, and must inevitably take a high men has been most praiseworthy. rank in his profession. Balls was called for at the fall " Your obedient servant, of the curtain, and announced the piece for repetition " It. F. F CLEAVELAND, Colonel. every evening ; the announcement was received with " Colonel Sir H. D. Ross, K.C.8." Captain SriH. Chamberlain, Burt., has been or repeat, d rounds of applause. The call for Mr. St. dered to Aberdeen to recruit for the regiment, Cap- John Horton then became loud and general, and lain Pickering having left to join Major Gray's Coln after a short time he came forward, and was greeted parry i n D u bli n. With that loud cheering which his excellent acting NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. had so well deserved. The house was crowded. The William and Mary yacht, Captain Phipps ___ . OLYMPIC THEATRE. In compliance with the general wish expressed at the dams, a gallery waslast night opened at this theatre for the first time. Hornby returned to Woolwich from Sheerness on Sun day afternoon. She was towed by the Firebrand steam vessel, Master S. B. Cook. The workmen in the Royal Arsenal are actively em ployed in finishing guns for the Caledonia, 120-gun ship, commissioned at Plymouth, on Monday last by Captain Henry Eden. 36 handsome 32-pounders have already b 'en labelled, and the others are in a forward state. 15 of the 32-pounder guns for the Indus, 84. gun ship, have also been labelled. and with the others will be completed with all possible dispatch. The de mand for guns from the Royal Arsenal is very great, and fortunately the supply is sufficient to meet any emergency, as the stock on hand is considerable, the country being well prepared in that respect. It is to be hoped that the memorandum which abo lishes the regulations by which out-pensioners of Green wich Hospital were deprived of their hard-earned pen sions wizen serving in the Royal Navy, and grants both of pay and pension, will be followed by an order grant ing a small bdunty to induce seamen to enter the ser vice, as the following ships have bean brought forward for commission by the undernamed officers : The Indus, 84 guns, at Portsmouth ; Captain, Sir James Stirling (1818). The Monarch, 84 guns, at Sheerness ; Captain, S. Chambers (1812). The Vernon, 50 guns, at Sheerness ; Captain, Wil liam Walpole (1819). The Eadyrnion, 38 guns, at Plymouth ; Captain, the Hon. Frederick W. Grey (1828). Time Iris, 28 guns, at Chatham ; Captain, Hugh Nurse (1837). The Pelican, 16 guns, at Chatham ; Commander, Charles George Elers Napier (1838). This officer is the adopted son of Commodore Napier. Lord .Minto, in conveying the information to this young officer's mother, at Merchistoun Hall, near Horndean, took the opportunity of expressing his own, and also of conveying his Sovereign's high approbation of the gallant bearing of her husband on the coast of Syria, as lately exemp.i fied by the operations in that quarter. The Tweed, 20 guns, at Portsmouth ; Commander, H. D. Cameron Douglas (1827). SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Times) The expressions I f respect and confidence applied by all the organs of public opinion in England to M. Guizot on his leaving our shores have actually been converted by the perversity and bad taste of some of the French papers into a ground of attack upon him. lc is iesinuated that a Minister who has acquired the unanimous esteem of the nation to which he was sent c scarcely des rye well of the nation by which he was accredited ; anti that we hope by this means to flatter M. Guizot into making unworthy concessions to the other Powers. There is nothing in the character of the people of England to warrant the suppOsition that their esteem is to be earned by unbecoming compliance on the put even of their opponents : there is nothing, cei tainly, in the character of M. Guizot to support the unfounded notion that he would have sought or accepted the esteem of the people of England on such terms. Vie applaud him freely, because he represented his country wirele. We support Lim with our best hopes, because he avid govern his country well. Whilst he was amongst us he was a stranger to none of those interests of peace and civilization which ought ever to prevail over the ferocity of ruinous and wanton war. He exhi- Lited those qualities on wit ch we set the highest store ; for the plain virtues of truth, integrity, and straightforwardness are held amongst us to be the fairest ornaments of a complete statesman ; and we wil lingly acknowledged in his character and conduct tl.e image of those robust and temperate minds of other ages, b, t of English growth, which his own pen had eloquently pourtrayetl. The severest sarcasm which could he aimed at the writers of the Movement party in France is implied by their own efforts to disavow the moderation and conciliatory bearing of their late Ambassador. In the meantime the dangers which we have already more than once pointed out appear to increase rather than diminish. The promptitude with which Marshal Soult issued his proclamation to the army betrays the secret anxiety of the new Cabinet in that quar ter. The Parliamentary Opposition has already assumed a formidable appearance. A meeting, at tended by titS deputies, took place on Friday at M. Wilton Barroes house, where it was resolved that the support given by that party to M. 'Tiers should be withdrawn from M. Guizot, and that the members present would in future support no Government not founded upon their own principles. In short, the existence of the Ministry depends on the adherence of the more moderate fraction of the late Ministerial party, including probably that of M. Thicrs himself. On the other hand, the arrival of Baron Bulow and Prince Esterhazy in London will introduce new elements, and we trust new means, for securing the peace of Europe. It will be impossible to conceal behind any flimsy pre tences the sinister motives that can alone stand in the way of an arrangement to which Austria, Prussia, and every rational man in England arc perfectly ready to agree. To admit that the Emperor of Russia has a vets on measures so essential to the public tranquillity, is to make Lim the arbiter of the fate of Europe ; and it is high time that those Powers which are most inte rested in conciliating Pracce, and putting an end to the dangers and suspense of the crisis, should decide the question, if neoessary, for themselves. (From the Morning Chronicle.) . . THE GREEK CHURCH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—Having felt a great interest in reading a let ter from .' A. Member of the Greek Church," inserted in your Journal, I am induced to offer a few observa tions that have suggested themselves to my mind in consequence. At t time when the Puscyites and Percivals, &c., are putting forward high pretensions for the Apostolical authority of what is called the Church of England, and some are hastily led, in consequence, to run off to Rome, it is refreshing to be able to turn to the Greek Church, which can really boast of the Apostle's plant ing and a true Apostolical succession. I would just point out one circumstance in which the Greeks are more correct than either those of Rome or the Protestants—l mean as to the marriage of their clergy. The Greeks following herein the example of Peter and the other Apostles, permit their priests to have been married. In this they are so far more correct, and follow more closely apostolic usage than the Catholics. On the other hand they properly, and according to all apostolic tranition, do not `permit their priests to marry after they have entered into holy orders, which is so customary among Protestant clergy, who as soon as tiwy get a living, or a chapel, look about for a wife. Nothing is more disgusting to one who has well studied this subject than to see the announcements—" married, Rev. so and so." A great injustice has certainly been perpetrated in the sacrifice of Captain R. A. Reynolds. The glo rious erigerness with which our countrymen have rushed forward to the rescue, from all parts of the empire, cannot have been without its influence on the Horse Guards. From every quarter we receive announce tneuts of meetings, in which all classes participate. Yezeerday we received from one place, Glasgow, 20/. horn four individuals, The lesson cannot be thrown away. The army will see that they are not lost sight of by their fellow-citizens, who, though un willing to interfere unnecessarily, from a sense of what is -due to discipline, are not the less ready to come for ward when they find tyraany and oppression counte nanced in high places, because united with rank and wealth. The services of Courts-martial constituted like that which excluded evidence in extenuation, in the case of Captain Reynolds, and promulgated a dictum repudiated by every honest nature, will be less in re quest hereafter. 'the generous sympathy of the British public will insure a more liberal and gentlemanly treat ment to their gallant defenders. The Cardigans will shrink into their proper dimensions. (From the Morning Post.) Supposing the line of foreign policy determined upon by M. 'Tiers, and recorded in the documents of his office, to be substantialy the same as that which M. Guizot has resolved to act upon, there is yet this dif ference to be observed between the position of the late and that of the present French Administration. The Administration of M. 'Tiers had a given line of policy with a tendency towards a revolutionary and violent means of carrying it out. The •loult-Guizot Adminis tration may adopt the same line of policy, with a ten dency towards Conservative and conciliatory means of carrying it out. Upon such a difference as this niay depend the whole question of peace or war in Europe. We still entertain the opinion that it will so influence this great question as to determine it in favour of peace. (From the Morning Herald.) The warlike disposition of the people of France must lave been greatly exaggerated if a Ministry so com posed as that of which we gave on Saturday the com ponent parts can have influence enough on the Chambers, and in the country, to ensure the preservation of peace. At the head of the new Administration is an old Ge neral of the Empire —a man of unquestioned mili tary talent, but whose former efforts to achieve reputa tion and inspire confidence as a statesman had no p fortunate result. When th e quest i oa i s one of camps and not of calktiets, M ars h al Soult, though fast aies, pr ()aching that period of life w h en the responsibilities of active exertion ought to cease, may yet be capable of rendering s ervice to his country ; but to t w h i e el w d in th d e s baton of that pol itical su p remac y which stills and waves of political excitement, and restores tran quillity and confidence to a State heavin g with the elements of political commotion, is a task b eyond his strength —a task to which he never yet was equal. Soult has never obeyed the suggestions of political am bition, but to show that he wanted the genius for civil command. But the zealous admirers of another mem ber of the new Gthinet will, perhaps, tell us that it i s not on the political talents of Seult they rest their hopes of a successful i•eue to the present ministerial combina tion, but on tho•iP of M. Guizot, the Minister for Foreign Affairs. We shad soon see whether their Ligh expcctatio;:s of his political capacity and courage rest nn su e foundation. Now, Sir, it was always held, till the days of Luther and Calvin, that a priest's marriage, after he had en tered into orderti, was in tact a virtual deposition of himself from the priesthood. The marriage of a priest is sacrilege—his second marriage monstrous. What then are we to think of Cranmer importing a wife from Germany in a barrel ? And what becomes of the claims of the Percivals, Puseyites, &c., to Apos tolic succession, since the marriage of the clergy of the Church of England has long ago broken the link ? It may be interesting to know that the successor of St. Augustine, the monk, in the see of Canterbury, was a Greek. A favourable opportunity of restoring the unity of the Church snapped asunder by Roman ty ranny, or dissolved by Protestant latitudinarianism, might perhaps be afforded through the Greeks. Were their zeal equal to their claims, their undoubted Episco pacy would probably triumph.--lam, Sir, Your obedient servant, SIGMA. Oct. 31, 1840. BAPTISM AND BURIAL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—The circumstances narrated in your paper of Friday last, of a cicrg) man refusing to bury a child, be cause baptised by a Wesleyan Methodist Minister, is somewhat similar to the celebrated case of Kemp v. Wickes, Clerk, but which, however, came to a trial in the Arches' Court, before Sir John Nichol!, who decided that such a baptism was efficient and legal, to all Christian and civil purposes. This case has happily settled the civil law on that subject, howsoever intolerant Ecclesiastics may rage, to whatsoever extent High Church prejudices may forbid, and how furiously soever that hybrid faction, the Pu se3ite party, may oppose with their Papist and un-Pro testant-like principles. For the sake of illustration, suppose that a Dissenter or Wesleyan Methodist's baptism be invalid, see to what consequences this very opposing party is exposed, and to what absurdity they reduce themselves if their principles be carried out, ignorance of which, for their own sakes, can only be pleaded in their defence. Seeker, Archbishop of Canterbury, was the son of a Dissenting minister, born 1693, and baptised after the form of that Church, studied at three Dissenting schools successively, until nineteen years of age, when he entered the communion of the Church of England. He in 1732 nominated one of the chaplains of the King ; in 1733 was appointed Rector of St. James's ; 1734, was elevated to . the bishopric of Bristol ; to that of Oxford in 1737 ; in 1750 exchanged the prebend of Durham and rectory of St. James's for the deanery of St. Paul's ; and in 1758 was named and confirmed to th e archbishopric of Canterbury. He officiated at the funeral of George the Second ; and at the proclamation of George the Third, whom he had baptised when Rector of St. James, and whom with hi s Q ueen he married and crowned, 1761 ; and September 8, 1762, he baptised the Prince of Wales, hi e s b r ptim nothin g : were of his no and aft erwar d s several of their Majesties ' children. We ta evercrhhiajiianng, efficient, been re-baptize, bapl tiim, conse quent ! f y he could not bap tise or confer orders, eallow baptism te hut he did both. N ow, were we to h anti ! Christian and d angerous doctrine, that no either efficient br le ga l b ut that which is conferredb is Popish priest, or a cler gyman of the Church of 3'Eng land, then these monstrosities and abominations would follow. George 111. was no Christian, forbew asba tiesd by a person who was n ever hi mself baptised, and be was no rightful Sovereign, for he was consecrated by a man who was no Christian and add e d to all this, the true succession in the Church is interrupted and broke n for all the bap tisms and ordinations of Archbishop' Seeker, not only while presiding in the see of Canter he was a country bury, but also while clergyman,. and Bristol and Oxford, were rd successively Bishop ofinvalid and anti-Christian, and all the ecclesiastics and High Church dignitaries which have descended through that Fix, il cienn zc II CA VAL RY. —A letter from Valen " sa ).—" Th e prohibition of the German Govern ments against th here. After being exportation of horses will he sensibly felt received on Tuegsondtgayoseveral days without any arrivals we sixty horses, and are informed that 500 have been us ; but after this we are the frontier, and will soon reach thenare not to expect any more. In insteadtliis case f weth the shall s ,o haveoo C received only 1,000 and odd, promised. We are told, however, that the draught were of this part of France, destined for thz: artillery, w ili ri Z brought from the Ar dennes and the neighbourhood to Valenciennes, and re ceived by the Committee for the remount, with General Pant!! e, its President. THE SUN, LONMON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, IMO. line are spurious, and the whole state of the English R. A. RE YN OLDS, ESQ., LATE SE- Church is unsettled and corrupt? NIOR. CAPTAIN OF THE IITH HUSSARS, '-1118 h A e ' A r i It :N. r :G O E Y N A I L I ,' N ( T x) o v r E syi N A I T .)G AN A I I E w I E 'E N STP.I -- ` , . f . This notice of Archbishop Seeker is taken from a ' %Val be repeated, B , ..auxiont. and Fletcher's Comedy of Dl' TA THIS EVENING, .NOV. 3. Learned LL.D.'s works. (From th., Ti mes.) THE SPANISH CURATE. Butler, Bishop of Durham, the celebrated author of Cooper; Thri Juan, Mr. Aniers fThe following is a nohle-pirited letter, and must the " Analogy," &c., was a schoolfellow of the Arch- excite universal respect for its writer •:--] Farreu ; Bat-lulus, Bartley ; Mr. Keeley ; Auaa bishop's,. educated a Dissenter, and baptised in that TO THE EDITOIt OF THE TIMES. Lepair:ldiroi,l7linir-.igaa2llNriathews ; Lopez (the Curate), Mr. W . . rante, Madarne Vestris; Jacintha, Mrs. W. West. communion ; consequently the same observations will to form the channel of a respect- Sir,—l have to request you will do me the favour apply to his baptising and ordinations as to the Arch- to to make to the public. cupied by The Interval between the Play and the Afterpiece will be oe bishop's.A COMIC SCENE between Mr. CHARLES 'MATHEWS t ful o allow communication and Mr. KEELEY, entitled May not this bigoted clergyman's baptism, and even I have been given to understand from various quer- TWO IN THE MORNING. his; vaunted episcopal ordination, have come through ters, that subscriptions have been set on foot to sewn this disjointed channel, as well as that of the heads and pc by the sentence FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. favourers of the Puseyite heresy? If so they unwittingly n;e me for the loss I have sustained lof Court-martial, and also that addresses are in Wraps- After which will be repeated the New Petite Comedy, entitled Sir Thomas Oldton, Mr. W. Farren ; Nix, Mr. Chas. Ma partake of an ordination not far removed from a direct 'ration to her Majesty soliciting her Majesty's gracious thews . Captain Maitland, Mr. J. V ining ; David Suremar, Dissenting ordioation, inasmuch as one act was neces- clemency in my behalf. Mr. Bartley ; Mrs. Maitland, Madame Vestris; Mrs. Doro sary to make it completely and entirely Episcopal, that I have most earnestly to request that every well- thy More, Mrs. Humby. of thesEpiscopal baptism of the Bishop ordaining. wisher to msself and to the b es t i n t e rests of the On liedu esd Spanish The eR h,• l Rivals, Curate,witli Fashionablev‘itii Fashionable Arrivals. By inserting this you will greatly oblige A r service to which, alss !I no l onger belong, will ()n Thursday, Yours truly, refrain from joining in either of the above measures, ivals. r On Friday, The Critic, with Fashionable Arrivals, and The INVESTIGATOR. I for the following reasons the first place, I Beggar's Opera. cannot, I dare not, as an officer brought tip in her Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 61; First and Second Majesty's service, lay my hand on my heart, and C7ireles ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price , say that I have not g riev ously offended the laws es. ; dallery, Is. established for the government of the army. It will not Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to be expected of me, lam sure, to acknowledge that the err , rence at Seven o'Clolc. l3 o _to be taken of Mr. Grogan sentence passed upon my offence was not a severe one. at the k ro x a r o l t P e lea forces ni l e e n till Four, where Season Tickets God knows I feel it to be such, and no one who has not yoe had - upon application. loved his p ro fession as 1 have done, in all its details, rimy Boxes to be had so'ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller can imagine_ the misery which I suffer in being thus di- !G7, New Bond-street. vorced from its noble duties. But I should feel quite unworthy of the generous sympathy which has been so universally expressed, were I, by any act of my own, or by countenancing any act on the part of the public, to afford the smallest reason for its being supposed that 1 do not submit patiently to the punishment which my own indiscretion has brought upon me. Still less would it be consistent with the principles which have guided all my actions, were I either directly in my own person, or indirectly through the instrumentality of the public sympathy, to imply that I distrusted the perfect up rightnesss of purpose of the gallant officers assembled to judge my conduct. It would be absurd in me to say that I consider their verdict a right one, culpable though 1 admit myself to have been ; but I am so thoroughly persuaded that all the members of the Court acted conscientiously, and with no object but the maintenance of military discipline, that I should grieve exceedingly, on military as well as on private grounds, at any occurrence which should cast suspi cion on my perfect good faith in making this asser tion. My loss has, indeed, been a bitter one, but it is not of a nature to be alleviated by pecuniary compensa tion ; and it would certain!yr be augmented by any pro ceeding which might be construed into an admission on my part that the Members of the lion. Court meant any ,thing but rigid and necessary justice. I have paid too close an attention to my duties as an officer, not to know that military subordination must be enforced ; and, although I cannot subscribe to the sweeping doctrine, that no degree of' provocation can ever justify a subordinate in breaking from the strict line of respectful submission, I feel that I um much too deeply and too personally interested on this occasion to consider myself a fair witness as to the nature and degree of mercy, which, with safety to the well being of the army, might have been extended to me. Such being my views of this matter, I hope and trust that my assertion will be received as sincere, when I state it as my most anxious desire that no sub scription of any kind be entered into on my account- But I am, if' possible, even more anxious that no at tempt should be made to influence the Crown in my behalf. I have said already, and I repeat it with the most unaffected sincerity, that I am not a fair judge in my own cause, neither do I conceive that the pub lic can he so. At all events I feel that my unhappy fortunes stand a far better chance for amelioration if left to the genuine uninfluenced consideration of nay Royal Mistress, to whom all the circumstances must be as fully known in all their bearings as they could possibly be made were every hand in the empire to subscribe a petition for my restoration td the army. •My gracious Sovereign knows that 1 h ave served her in all climates for a period of fifteen years, dueieg which (with one exception) I have endea voured to do, and I hope have done, my duty as became her devoted ser emit. The Queen knows that I have acquired in that time the good opinion of some of her , with which I served h b e c s A a it n oa d j eb b se trayar testimony it o mo ffi roo e nr e ye r s at „ os who the b s o o zeal lr e cheerfully come for ward"nd to the invariable purity of my character as a gentleman., 1 cannot doubt that these circumstances will eventually have their due weight, whatever that may be, in the generous e.2nsi deration of her Majesty, who knows that soldiers, like the rest of' mankind, are liable to err from imperfections of two very distinct kinds—infirmities of temper, and defects of character ; and assuredly, if her Majesty shall have reason from perusing the proceedings of the recent Court-martial, or from any other cause, to sup pose, or even to suspect for an instant, that my charac ter is such that I am not worthy to hold her commis sion, I should be the last man in her Majesty's, domi nions to seek the Royal favour on such terms: "But if, as I trust may be the case, her gracious Majeity may see in her always faithful servant only the rash ness—the transient rashness—of a temper too finely sharpened in her service to bear with patience what he considered a reflection on his honour, she may yet deem his band worthy to bear again the sword which he has so long carried in defence of his Queen and country. I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, RICHARD ANTHONY REYNOLDS. Paxton-hall, St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire, Oct. 31, 1840. Nov. 2, 1840. MUNICIPAL ELLCTIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stu—For some weeks past the Tories of this bo rough have been secretly preparing for a grand struggle at the municipal election of this day. The first indication of their purpose was a hand-bill, signed by several individuals, purporting to contain abstracts from the accounts of the Council, and charging them with having spent 3,455/. 6s. 9d. during the last five years in an extravagant manner, but like most of their productions, this was false, and charged the Council with spending 973/. 65.. I Id., more than they actually had; this was speedily and tri umphantly answered in a small pamphlet ; but no sooner was one falsehood disposed of than ano ther was quickly forged. Their tools have been busily employed for some days past in en deavouring to trick the electors, one stratagem among the ignorant (where they found they had signed the voting papers of the Reformers) was, that they must sign the voting papers of both parties ; but they were to call at the Tory rendezvous as they went to vote. But in spite of their bullying, trickery, and lying, the electors of blaldon have come boldly forward and maintained that character forindependence theyso justly deserve, returning again to the Council with a triumphant majority the four Reformers who hitherto have en joyed their confidence. This is the second attempt that the Tories have made to get into the Council, but all their efforts have been unsuccessful, and cur Coun cil can boast, although situated in the heart of a Tory county, and surrounded by parsons, landlords, and Tory farmers, that not one Tory is in the Council, or is ever likely to be. Annexed is a statement of the poll at its close.—l am, Sir, your's respectfully, ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF Mr. BUTLER. THIS EVENING, NOV. 3, Will be 'shown to the Public, for the second time, Two Acts of ENGLISH ETIQUETTE. Mr. Handel Hibbs, Mr. Balls; Achille Townsend, Mr. St. John Horton ; Miss Agatha Bloomington, Mrs. Garrick; Peggy, Mrs. H. Beverley. After which, A SLIGHT MISTAKE. Mr. Timoshy Toddle, Mr. Samuel Roxby ; Miss Tomkins, Mrs. Garrick. To which will be added the Ncw Piece, entitled A LAST DAY. Tom Brisk, Mr. Balls; Sam, Mr. Samuel Roxby Emma ; Miss Seymour ; Fanny, Miss Shearsmith. After which will be reFeateA (last time), the WRITINGS OF MY GRANDMOTHER'S ESTATE. Mr. Bouchier, Mr. St. John Horton ; Lady Emily Bouchier, Miss J. Mordaunt. Dress Boxes, 4s.—Olympian Boxes, 3s.—Pit, 2s. —Gallery, Is. Half-price—Dress Circle, 2s. ; Olympian Boxes, Is. 6d ; Pit, Is. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Mr. ELIA SON begs leave most respectfully to announce that the above Theatre is now OPEN EVERY EVENING with the Grand Musical Entertainments, entitled THE CONCERTS D'HIVER. A CONSTANT SUBSCRIBER. Mahlon, Essex, Nov. 2. Reformers. Tories. Harridane, Henry, lBB Hurt.°ll, Charles, ... 128 May, Alfred, Wilmshurst, John, 162 Ranson Sadd, John, jun. Leader, .Mons. NADAUD—Conductor, Mons. IIUSARD PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING, NOV. 3. PART FIRST. Overture—Le Domino Nair. Valseg—Die Naehtwandler—Strauss. Overture—lphigenie en Aulide—Gluck. New Quadrille—Rendezvous de Chasse—Musard. Second Grand Fantasia from " Les Huguenots"—arranged by Musard. Solo Flageolet by Mons. Collinet. First grand Selection from the Mes lab, arranged by Alusard. GREAT YARMOUTH.—MuNuny. Half-past Four P.M. WHIGS. PART SECOND. North Ward Sherrington and Doughty. Market Ward Regent Ward St. George Ward Nelson Ward • St. Andrew's Ward.. Barth and Palmer. The Poll for this Ward is— WHIGS. Solemnelle Grand Overture and Triumphal March, composed for the Musical Festival at Cologne (1832) by F. flies. Cent Suisse—Quadrille, M S.—Solo, Cornet a Pistons, Her Koenig—Solo, Trombone. Mons. Dantonet—Musard. Grand Overture—Zampa—Herold. New Quadrille--I Puritani—Musard. Galop Militafre—Trumpet Soho, Herr Muller—Muller. Prices of Admission :—To the Promenade, is. ; Dress role, 2s. 6d. ; Upper Boxes, is. 6d. Visitors to the Boxes have the privilege of passing to and from the Promenade. TORIES. Bayley Cupaude B9 Cory The Alderman and one of the assessors being Whigs Bayley and Cupaude will be returned. COURT CIRCULAR. Wirinsoa, MosnAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Al.. belt, attended by the Countess of Sandwich, Hon. Miss Anson, Hon. Miss Paget, Lady Charlotte Dun das, Earl of Listhwel, Sir Fraderick Stovin, and Lord Alfred Paget, took an airing this afternoon, immediately after which the Queen and Prince Albert, with the ladies of the suite, walked out to view the improve ments going on in the Home•park. Viscount Melbourne, and Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Brand, took their departure kern the Castle to-day. The lion. Charles A. Murr,3y also left for Oxford. Earl of Erroll is also exPeCtelftoarrive on a visit to her Majesty. The Earl of Uxbridge will have the honour of dining with the Royal dinner party this evening. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knese beck, le:t town yesterday morning for Coombe Wood. His Royal Highness returned to Gloucester House in the afternoon. Viscount Melbourne arrived in town at four o'clock yesterday afternoon from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Mr. J. Adamson, D.D., had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial Office. The Lord Mayor elect, and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, visited several of the Cabinet Ministers yesterday, at their respective residences. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived at bis residence, Lansdowne House, Berkeley -square, yesterday after noon, from his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. Despatches from the Governor of the Mauritius, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. Doors open at half-past Seven o'Clock, to commence at Eight precisely. Private Boxes can only be procured of Mr. Mitchell, Royal Library, No. 33, Old Bond street, and at the Box-office of the Thea:re. Prices, 10s. 6d., 1/. Is., and 1/. Ils. 6d. Boxes and Places in the Dress and Upper Circles may be secured on application to Mr. Parsons, at the Box-office, daily, from Ten ill Four o'Clock, and those in the Dress Circle will be kept during the whole of the evening, if required. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her Majesty's Immediate Patronage. highly popular and interesting resort is OPEN DAILY from Tea till Dusk. The Menagerie, which is unequalled in the number, variety, and beauty of the specimens it contains, occupies several spa cious and elegant buildings comfortably heated, and arranged with the nearest possible assimilation to the natural habits of the animals. The most important additions recently received are the rare and beautiful black Leopard, le Mignon Elephant, a pair of the scarce Curassows ; called Cushew Birds, the Sacred Ibis, the Bush Cow (the only specimen in Europe), a pair of Cossowaries, the Monster Boa (the largest ever seen in confine ment), &c. The splendid collection of Carnivora are fed at Four o'Clock, at which time the ferocious attributes and amazing muscular powers of these forest monarchs are displayed to the utmost ad vantage. Admission, One Shilling HIGH WATER AT LONDON RRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning. 55 Minutes after 8 I Evening 24 minutes 4fter 9 ne Publication of the Evening Edition of THR SUN corn• menced at 30 minutes after Three. SHREWSBURY-TUESDAY. The election of Town Councillors here has ended this day in the return of eight Tories and two Whigs, in the room of six Tories and four Whigs, who went out of office. The Tory party of the town and ne:gh bourhood had long been using their efforts in preparing for this election, by fixing the Register, by any means, with names of dependants who never before contri buted to the public burthens ; and who can have no voice in our Parliamentary elections, which is not at all affected by the apparent and temporary success of their tactics in the present instance. One only of the five wards was actually contested by the Whig Candidates, in which, in spite of the efforts of their Opponents, they were successful. . Liberal candi dates were in the first instance proposed for three other wards ; one of whom, the son of Mr. W. Haziedine, one of the most influential persons in this locality, withdrew on account of his lather's death. After this, five of the other Liberal Candidates resolved to persevere in the contest, but their Committees in two wards kept open the poll this day, and rendered the requisite assistance to the voluntary and uncorrupted voters who wished to record their votes. The Welsh Ward in this town has been very efficiently and - faith.: fully represented since the first municipal election by Mr. Watton, the proprietor of the Shrewsbury Chro• nide, a paper of great circulation, and which has' for '4O years consistently supported sound Helot rn principles, never crouching to powbr nor inciting or extenuating popular violence. This gentleman has the honour to be much disliked by the little gentry of Shropshire for his firm, unflinching opposition to their bigoted Toryism, and every means of corruption and intimidation has been for some time resorted to, to prevent his re-election, and on his discovering that it could not take place without ex posing many tradesmen and creditab!e mechanics to ma terial injury, he withdrew, reluctantly permitting his Committee to retain his name as a candidate. It is, perhaps, well that the Tory party have kept the majority in the Council a little longer ; for, in the twelvemonths which have elapsed since they recovered their authority here, they have incurred a Chancery suit, by attempting to renew their old system of alienat ing public property, which is now pending. HASTINGS.—Nov. 2. EAST WARD. William Duke, Esq. (Reformer). W. S. Yates (Reformer). James Emary (Reformer). Jos. B. Hart (Tory). These four elected without a contest, the second Tory (Foster) having withdrawn. WEST WARD. Charles Deudney (Reformer) 94 Stephen Putland (Reformer) 79 J. H. Southall (Tory) James Troup (Tory) The two Reformers elected, after a severe struggle, and the use of the most unfair means by the Tories. 138 polled—the largest number yet known ; so that the Reformers have returned this year five out of six to the Council. CAPTAIN RE YN OLDS. The general sympathy excited by the oppressive sen tence upon Captain Reynolds is almost unparalleled We never remember a case of an individual becoming in so short a time, the object of such general interest. With the feeling now existing in his favour, it is im possible that the affair can stop where i tnow is. To the House of Commons the people will look for jus tice. No other power in this country has the right of removing or punishing an unjust Juke, and it is to our own representatives that we shall have to turn for satisfaction in this matter. Lord Hll, we hope and trust, will receive at their hands the mercy he has dealt to others. While we admit that it may have been the duty of the Court-martial, in some way, to punish Captain Reynolds for his hasty epistle to his Commanding-officer, we entirely repudiate the ungentlemanlike and un-English doctrine pro mulgated in their postscript. We maintain, that in many cases a soldier is not only excused, but justified, in resenting, in a proper manner, the conduct of his superior officer. With our opinions on the subject of duelling, we blame Captain Reynolds for having written a challenge at all, but we blame more the spirit in which that challenge was written. The sum and sub stance of his guilt, in the public eye, is, that, under high provocation, and smarting under a sense of injury, he did not pen precisely such a letter as a cool observer would have dictated for him ; and for this he has been degraded from his rank, and fined to an amount which, if he be a poor man, may ruin his prospects for ever. And Lord Cardigan, the origin of all this evil, the aristocratic gentleman who gives the lie to his subordinate gentlemen, and then commands them to have no communication with him, esee s )t offi cially, what was been the measure of justice accorded to him ? He has been gently admonished ; told that all this could not have happened without some fault on his part ; and left free to break a few more Captains and ruin a few more families who have no hereditary claims of sympathy from the Commander-in-Chief. The Memorandum of Lord Hill, now officially pub lished, is bad altogether. The forced admission of the culpability of the Lieutenant-Colonel is a peculiarly bad accompaniment to the assurance, that no complaints of his conduct will be heard. It shows more and more strongly the resolution of Lord Hill to maintain the Earl of Cardigan through good or evil report. Rank covers a :multitude of sins at the Horse Guards.— Liverpool Albion. We are informed that an impostor has anew been endeavouring to levy contributions on the philanthrepic and credulous by representing himself as the son of Mr. Cham bers, the banker. That the soi-disant kinsman of this un fortunate gentleman was in a late attempt, and which has only just reached us, wholly unsuccessf u l, we h ave ever y reason to believe, and a description of his person, which ay lead, if not to his has discovery, i b s e c e o n v forwarded ery7to a t l e ast t o the the police, m non -renewal of this truly im pudent imposture. On Monday the second inst. a General Assem bly of the Academicians was he l d at the Royal Academy onchfiAratrd R sinTedrgafr.ialvgea, and Mr. Thomas Webster, were elected r - s quare, when Mr. Charles B arr y, M r . Associates of that Institution. ARRIVALS. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose, in Belgravc square, from Buchanan Castle, N. B. ; Lord and Lady Pau L yndhurst, in G eorge -street, Hanover-square, from Get. many ; his Excellency Baron Bulow, in Lower Berkeley_ street, fro m B erlin ; Sir Broo k e T ay l or, at t h e Burling ton Hotel, C or k -street, f rom a t our; th e E ar l o f S an d w i c h , at ditto, from lii nch inlsrook, Huntingdonshire; the Hon. Mr.C. O'Call ag h an, M. P. at ditto, f rom Ireland ; the Hon. Pa; the Ongley, from Cambridgeshire; Sir W. Follett, from milton P ar k , at Mivart's Hotel, Brook-street, from their seat in H ants ; Mr. Round, Dowa ger L a d y B eauc hamp ; Mr. and Mrs. H a _ 51 P., and Mrs. Round, a t dßerkeley • tto, fro m a continental tour ; Viscount Vill i ers, M.P., in square, from C am bridgeshire; Baron and 13i.r 0 . ness Dimsdale and Mrs. Henry Manning, at Mivart's Hotel, from Camfield-pl ace , B erts ; Sir Sandford Graham, Bart., and Lady Graham, in Portland-p'ace, from the Continent ; Lord Clifford and the lion. Hugh Clifford, from Devon shire ; Mr. and Mrs. Mart n, in Whitehall -gardens, from a tour ; Lord Mu k from Cheltenham Countess of Mount Edcumbe, from Buxton. Derbyshire ; Deal Castle, Kent; Colonel and Lady Captain Clifford, from America; Lord Lyttelton, from his s erry, ; the Earl and Maryborough, at scat in Worcestershire ; Sir Charles Bagot, Bart., in Ea ton-square,Arlington-street, from Wroxton Abbey, Oxon.Susan North, in DEPARTURES. Lord and Lady F arnham, from Mivart ' s H o t e l, Brook for Livermere, ne ar B ury St. Edmund ' s; Viscount Conti street, for their seat i n Ireland ; Lady L e Despen cer , from ditto ; Capt a i n and Hon. Mrs. Rams d en , from ditto, lupe, from Grosvenor -street, for Buckhu rst Park, Sus sex ; the Earl an d Countess of Sefton, fr om Arlin g ton _ street, for Cr ox t et h , L ancashire; the Right Hon. C. D'Eyncourt, from th e B urlington Hote l, Cork-street, for Lincolnshire • Mr. liolford, f rom ditto, for Rendlesham Hall, Suffolk% Lady Webster and Mr. Web ster, from ditto, for New Battle Abbey, Sussex ; the Hon. Jud g e Ball, from ditto, for Ireland; the Viec-Chancellor of Cam bi idge University, an d d eputation, from ditto, for Cam bridge; Lord and L a d y Ki nnaird, f rom ditto, for Salt hill ; the Hon. Mr. C orry, f rom ditto, on a tour ; Mar guise de Nadaillae, f rom C harles.s t r ect. Berkeley-square, for Paris. Lord de Tabley arrived, on Sunday, - -- Hotel, from Genoa, wh ere hi s L or d s hip left her Lady ship and family, in excell en t h ea l t h . at Mivart's The Marquis St, Angelo and suite have arrived at Mivart's Hotel, from Naples, with the intention of stay ing some time in this country, it being the Noble Mar quis's first visit. The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, accom panied by Master and Miss Talbot, arrived at Mivart's Hotel on Saturday last, from Alton Towers, Stafford shire, on their way to Rome, where they intend to pass the winter. The Earl and Countess of Verulain have re turned to Gorhambury, Herts, Grimston, AL P., and family. accom panied by Viscount PRINCESS' THEATRE, OXFORD -STREET. This splendid Theatre is OPEN EVERY EVENING with PROMENADE CONCERTS, Under the Direction of Mr. WILLY. THIS EVENING, NOV. 3.—PROGRAMME. First Movement, Symphony Haydn. Overture—Preciosa—C. M. Von Weber.- • Grand Fantasio from Meyerbeer's Opera, Les Huguenots. Duett, Ccrnet a Pistons—Mr. M'Farlanc and Mr. Keightly. Duet Concertante, Flutes—Messrs. Carte and Minasi. Quadrilles —Prince Albeit, La Comiqnc. Waltzes—Victoria, Sophien, Labyrinth. Solo on the Cornet a Pistons, Mr. M'Farlane. To conclude with Beethoven's Grand Battle Symphony, for which an addition has been made to the already numerous and efficient orchestra. Promenade, Is.—Dress Circle, 2s.—Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. Private Boxes, 11. Is. and 10s. 6d. each, may be had at the Box-office, and of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street. LIOYAL SURREY THEATRE. Extraordinary Novelty—Second appearance in Eutope of the astonishing Negro Melodist, Yankee Smith. THIS EVENING, NOV 3, Will be acted the New Nautical Drama, entitled - THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL' GEORGE; • '•• OR, THE SEAMAN'S CHEST. Preceded by a Gram! Pictorial and Scenic Induction, repre senting a Cruise rortd the Coast, and depicting the awful Ca 'amity, with the sinking of the Vessel, &c. ' obe followed by the astonishing Negro Melodist, Yankee Smith, in a celebrated Extravaganza, called JIM ALONG JOSEY, n which he will introduce hie " Long Island Break Down, and also the Mississippi Melody, " Zircon." In this part of the performance, the extraordinary Picca ninny, Colman, will appear in the Old Kentuckian Grape Vine Twist. _ To conclude with (last week) BOZ'S OLIVER TWIST. Realizing all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivans. TO CORRESPONDENTS We are obliged to a " Commercial Traveller," who writes from Sunderland. Before his letter reachedus, we had misgivings as to the character of the parties, but they will be watched. " A Constant Reader."—Lord Brudenell did not resign, but was removed from the command of the 15th Hussars, by order of William IV., and placed on half-pay.--A passport is not necessary. " D. F. D , Abergavenny," is informed, that all the cir cun-.stances of the case were given correctly in The Sun on the day after the articles were discovered. The contradiction should be sent to the papers that inserted the incorrect account We have received 3s. from " A Mother," for the cabman No. 1,161, and if we can find room the letter will appear to-morrow. "sr . . .f) 0 ..7.,f, ),, , . •- • (".' r i . -;1:' O.Y.' ; . \ :;1 1Y 7/- I 'c, ' 1 4 ..; , g/e s .._:.z i' ,, -?', ~ _ - ;..... .• L , 7at -111-It LONDON: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3. 1840. The Moniteur Parisien of Sunday night, re ceived this morning by extraordinary express, brings the subjoined highly important news from Syria. These despatches are exceedingly well-timed, as there will be just time enough for the influence of the intelligence they convey being fully appreciated in the political circles of Paris before the meeting of the Chambers on the sth inst.:— " Toulon, Oct. 31, Six, P M. " Alexandria, Oct. 17, "THE CONSUL-GENERAL TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " Mehemet Ali's affairs in Syria are assuming a desperate aspect. Beyrout has been occupied by the Anglo-Turks. They are fortifying Seyde. The Emir Bechir has gone there, and has deter mined to abandon the cause of Mehemet Ali. The in surrection is iapidly progressing: in the mountains. Ibrahim is about to concentrate the whole of his forces." " Toulon, Oct. 31, Half-past Five, P.M. "Malta, Oct. 27. " The English Government steamer the Cyclops ar rived here this morning from Seyde, which place she left on the 21st ult. She has on board the Emir Bechir with fifteen members of his family, and 115 persons of his suite, with whom he is proceeding to England. " The captain of the Cyclo p s confirms the accounts of the rising th roug h out nearly the whole mountains." We may fairly presume that these despatches constitute but a small part of the news actually brought from Alexandria, and now in the hands of the French Government. It is snore than probable that the VICEROY has addressed a second note to the French Government, in which, unlike the last, he acknowledges a willingness to be content with the hereditary Government of Egypt, and invokes in his behalf the good offices of the French Govern, ment. In a note addressed to the French Ministry fiStnr•ter,ux fiy ' otir le e clays fro::: lat he had ships, guns, Falrliiil.lliitiOt enough to unaid , f,i a dc:!ci ~t~{fL^ f r tl t:• ,he Foul Powers for f:vi 1 i ac. ;hut nor Beyrout were then occupied by the British '-via rines, and the Earth. BECHIR, who it was then said was at the head of fifteen thousand men, was safe among the Syrian mountains. The news of the surrender of the Em lit, and the open revolt of the Christian population of Lebanon, has doubt less produced a great change in the resolution of the PACHA, and considerably moderated those ex pectations which at the outset he alleged to be en tertained by his family. But whatever effect this news may have bad upon MEHENIET ALI, it is impossible for it not to make a deep impression upon the SOULT-GUIZOT Cabinet. It now only remains for France to say that MEHEMET AEI shall be content with Egypt, and the question is settled—the events in Syria hav ing proved that the dominion of the PACII N over that country was the sway of a tyrant over slaves. This is the answer which the Government can now make to the party—to those fierce Republicans, who are for overthrowing all Governments not based on the affections of the people. Not that we regard the attachment of the Syrian mountaineers, whether Maronites or Muses, to any form of government as peculiarly strong. But the sway of the PACHA over them was that of brutalizing force—that which imparted to their character all the vices of civilization without an atom of its advantages. Under the SULTAN they were as free as the winds, on the payment of a trifling tax, which was never exacted with a tithe of the severity which MEHENIET ALI employs in fleecing his unhappy subjects. Conscriptions were unknown among them, and all religious creeds enjoyed toleration in its utmost latitude. We are, therefore, not sur prised at the avidity with which they have grasped the helping hand held out to them by the Four Powers. This, we repeat, is the most conclusive answer that the French Government can give to the wild outcry of the war - party. The general news in the French journals of Sunday is not of much interest. The Journal des Debals has a long and able article, in which the state of France at the accession and retirement of the Cabinet of the Ist of March is alluded to, and a firm, but moderate line of policy recom mended. The Debals observes that the Govern ment must give up the two systems of its predecec sor—one for without and another for within—one for the friends of peace, and another for the advo cates of war. This advice is wholesome, and we trust will be taken by the new Cabinet. It was the misfortune of M. THIERS to be distrusted by friends and enemies. 11e failed in the first requi site of a great Minister—that of inspiring confi dence. The Revue des Deux .blondes and the Con.stitutionnel, without directly attacking the new Ministry, contend for the wisdom and moderation vi sible in all the acts of the Tit lEns' Administration. There is certainly one act of the THIERS' Cabinet which we are disposed to regard most favourably s —we allude to its retirement from office beTore actually applying the match to the materia!s of European conflagration which it had collected to gether with so much industry. We have no wish to bear hardly upon M. THIERS, whose re turn to office we regard as an ultimate certainty ; but as a clamour is raised in France, which has been re-echoed by one English Journal, of the sterility of talent in the new Ministry, we avail ourselves of a comparison between the late and present Cabinet instituted by the Paris Corre spondent of the Morning Post, to place the ques tion fairly before the English public : As regards capacity, the new Cabinet can stand at favourable comparison with the one it succeeds. The name of Marshal Sault will surely figure as respectably at the head of the Administration as that of M. Tillers, whilst it is calculated to exercise more influence over the army than the obscure one of General Cubieres. M. Guizot's grave and impressive oratory may weh compete with M. Thiers' glittering verbiage, and though this is the first time he is entrusted with the management of foreign affairs, his superior years, his experience in other departments of the public ser vice, and late diplomatic residence at the English Court. may certainly entitle him to be rated at least as high as his predecessor, even without taking into account the morality; rectitude, and honour which so greatly distinguish him from the late Premier. M. Duchatet has already superintended the departments of Com merce and the Finances, and will prove quite as able it that of the Interior, which he has also occupied, as Al de Itimusat, who has much less aplomb, and cannot boast superior oratory. M. Humann's qualifications for the Finances, which he has already held above three years, nobody will (luny, not even they who are friendly enough to M. Pelet (de la Lozere) to detect any talent in him. A litterateur succeeds to another in Public Instruction, and M. Villemain I reckon a much better speaker than his philosophic predecessor, M. Cousin. The same preference I give to M. Martin over M. Vivien in the Ministry of Justice ; the former,having. moreover, displayed no little firmness, as Attoraey-General, in checking.the licentiousness of the press. Admiral Du perre has long been considered one of the most brillant officers of the navy, and is, from the experience he has already acquired in it, fully as adequate as Admiral Rous sin to the Marine Department, which the latter leave, with the highest promotion. Public works and com merce, as well as the finances, long remember the Cabinet of the Ist of March, the former for its erec tion of the Paris fortifications, the two latter for the alarm it has spread, and its profligate expenditure of the public money ; yet, though MM. Jaubert and Gouin will come in for their share of this unen viable celebrity, I know nothing of their abilities cal culated to eclipse MM. Teste and Cunin-Gridaine, unless it be that the admirers of M. Thiers' elo quence may prefer M. Jaubert's lively speech to the less sparkling , copiousness of M. Teste's forensic ora tory. To these combined forces are to be added, last not least, the wits of Louis Philippe, who, you may be assured of it, will now make another desperate ef fort to recover that ascendancy in his councils which he has long possessed, but which has of late been dis puted with a ranscour that bodes littlo success to the cause of a Citizen-King's prerogative. It is, therefore with abilities at least equal to those of their predeces sors, and views far more honourable, that the new Mi. nisters have taken office. The following extracts include all the general gossip in the Paris Journals of Sunday, and the Moniteur Parisien of Sunday night : THE NEW MINISTRY.—The Monitcur Parisien of Sunday night, contains the result of the election of a Deputy for Corbeil. It we may consider this as a fair indication of the present state of feelin g i n F rance, the present Ministry are in . a fair way to obt a i n a trium phant majority. M. niters' friend, M. Leon Faucher, the editor of the Courrier Francais, had only 38 votes out of 409, whilst M. Darblay, who may be looked upon as representing the Soult-Guizot Ministry, ob tained 294 votes. M. Darblay was declared to be duly elected. FRENCH FUNDS—The Journals des Debals pub lishes the following statement, showing the prices at which the Five per Cents. were sold during the most remarkable periods of mode: n history : " In 1799 the average price was In 1800 In 1804 In 1806 In 1807 In 1812 In 1814 In 1815 In 1815 when Napoleon was in Paris, 731. 57c. On Louis X VIII.'s return In 1822 In 1827 In 1831 In 1832 " Since the Treaty of the 15th of July they have been sold at 1101. 60c., and 1001. .50c." THE EASTERN QUESTION.—Letters from Vienna of the 24th ult., announce that Prince Paul Es terhazy had left for Paris on a confidential mission to the King of the French. Admirals Stopford and Bandiera had both written to Archduke Charles to congratulate him on the bravery displayed by his son, Archduke Frederick, in the military opera tions along the coast of Syria. The Epp‘ian question was beginning to assume a more pacific aspect. Prince Metternich had constant interviews with Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, and the exchange of couriers with London', Paris, and St. Petersburgh, w as more active than ever. CARTE A PAYER DU MINISTRE TfirEas.--Financial situation on the accession of the Ministry of the 29th of October :—The Ministry of the Ist of March re. V It e ' II: 11 I 'I r- y t.:l s'y~ (!li( r as tiep :u~rd :5 US. ~~ . Y t"..•S~~t~O any Lim,einment. inimadcr, to prodigality in the el* ton.l]tuie, imprudence, disorder, confusion, abuse of the power of authorising, by ordinances extraordinary an i supplementary credits, illusion in the ways nod riled" pointed out. Such is rcsuit of als difficult rcd" . • It is to be ~h served, that ill the amount of the extra ordin,ry credits the year s 1839 and 1841 are not iv cind,(l, though hvu tvtnol, Jr, apt unimportant. It must be observed, that d t"— credits come down only to the 21st of Septe m ber, do a , that, however, provisions must be made for the increase expences of the negotiations of the treasury, in Ca w ' quence of the rise in th , ., interest of capital for the ev peaces of the fortiliaa•ions of Paris, fur whic h I/ twelve millions have been granted by ordinance, natio mention the Pxtraordinary credit which the new net will not deny itself any more than that to whic h succeeds ; but. it may even now be shown that for 1 84 ! ) alone the CYCCSS of expenditure above the r evenue " above 300,000,000 for the part belonging to the nistry of the Ist of March. b Up to the 21st of September the ,um 3 the Cabinet of the Ist of March without the vote: the Chambers amount to - - 249, 929 °lf 7; Add the ordinary budget - 1.158,073,4 000 t. • .--•"'"" *°.°. ot* 1.465,5'2 1 , 51- r' 1,173,284,2221' 292,0 7,974 , And the budget of Public Works - 57.5 1 9 {; ... q"..~•.. Totd • Ways and Means - - DLficiency - —Gazette du Havre. The Gazelle enumerates, in chronolog the sums granted by ordinances, on which the Pr e " tog statement is founded. Tile Commerce of the Ist of November, after quotil the principal part of the above, adds—" We had wril i b e , thus far when we received, late yesterday evening' , t ho Bulletin of the Law,' No. 770, which contains 'i t financial adieux of the Ministry of the Ist of Mn ie n : at the same time that it promulgates the ordinancessr pointing its successors. " Without speaking of two ordinances which gi ve order , It the Department of Public Works credit to the anru-s -of 12,030 ; 000, representing the portion of the credit 1„; caiployi.d in 1838 and 1839, an d a num ber or b r t nances for small amounts, we find in this bulletin eigof ordinances, granting various sums, the total ann ual which is about 10,000,000. _ll t! The ordinance rai s ing M. S e b es ti an i to the our tit - , of Marshal of France, worthily conc l u d e s this ba llet t' Commerce. „ FRANKFORT, OCT. 28.—Hi s E xce ll enc y Par °- iniet. Scholer, representative of P russ i a i n th e German - t' died yesterday morning, aft e r a l ong an d painful il'netee in the sixty-fifth year of his age, to the very gr,e lg o k, gret of his colleagues and nu merous f r :ende.---t r !" fort Ober Postamts Zcitung. The French GovernmEnt published on Sa ri night the following telegraphic despatch fr°°l Spain : BAYONNE, Nov. I.—Th e Q ueen an d the Infant: arrived at Madrid on the 28th o f O c t o b e r. E'P l lr e b t s attended them on hors/ back close to the ca rriage., ya cries of Viva. la Reyna ! were f ew , an d those o f Rspartero ! extremely rare. the This news will restore th e goa d humour 0. - French Camarilla. If Queen IsABELLA °''s re' lceived with few s houts o f we l come by the Ma populace, ESPA RTER O was we l com ed with s till fewer demonstrations of an overflowing 1; Royalty is still as p o p u l ar as va l our in the. Spanish capital. Tile following is an extract from a letter, dated A i r siras,l7th ult.:— " The coast-guard bo a t V o l ez was anchored 37-1 ei 0. day morning within pi s t o l- s h ot o f Mayorga, : / r e • s i t about nine o'clock, a b oa t, d e t ac h e d from a P r- war-brig, stationed on the coas t, an d commande d by as officer, boarded the ve sse l, an d summone d the C 3 P tai sb i s follow him, and to bring with him his crew and PoPe rs e c c ee t captain refused to obey that order, and the British ow l having returned to the brig, the latter soon eft erwa d. came up, placed himself by the side of the c oast-10 0 boat, and threatened to sink her if the first s umac p hs• was not immediately attended to. In this situation, og Captain of the Veloz being taken unawares, an d ver wishing to incur the responsibility of the loss of his 0 . deemed it prudent to retire ashore with all hi s gli b r ig His surprise, however, was great when he saw tbe taking the Velez in tow, and bringing her off to 9 i : b ll, tar. This extraordinary act must soon be caVa: i, r;e3.' but hitherto no cause has been assigned to joi t " r l id We only' suppose that the Englisfi - were anxioug to tjt themselves of a surveillance which interfered w ith t b commercial smuggling on that part of the coast." The Court-martial on Mr. HENTY at Shee r ness has terminated in exonerating him from all charges, except that of having made a false reficb to his superior officer, for which he was 0 411 '7 nished. The read e r w ill a d m i re , as we (I°, 1 contrast which the Court-martial supplies to that 1:e , at Brighton. " I cannot conclude," says th e porter of the Chronicle, '6 without remarking 'Vi00ol': the admirable anti most fair manner in whi chl whole inquiry was conducted. The interest of r th si prisoner, the service of the public, and the g ene .. principles of justice, were alike the subjects of ,be most minute and searching observation and Did any man ever dream of passing such as gium on the Court-martial which, for a t ri i. e , and most provoked breach of m ilitary dis ci l ).l . p passed the heaviest s en t ence on Captain R he a Nom:is they had the p ower t o i n flict? If 116 knocked the Earl of CARDIGAN down ° ,_ l parade, be might have bee n s en t en ced to tlea t ' i ha that is the only punishment, beyond ca shietingt ies t Court could inflict. F ar f rom s t u dying the inte g be of the prisone r , th e serv i ce o f t h e public' ? r ' Pt - . general principl es o f j ust i ce , t h e Court-mall s Brighton trampled these all under foot. Whence is the source of the difference , as The, Courts were composed of men of honour ? wee t Court at Sheerness had to inquire into a a u ' i . which in no wise concern e d th e au thority ° f Sa p id riot officers. They w e r e no t p ar ti e s inter este d:n, the result. The setting fire to the ComP er tso was not an insult to then. Th oug h it slw uki t I : e n unpunished, it would in no wise - their authority, or be an example of st lec ss ,'rV ful resistance to tyranny. The office rs , sembled at Sheerness, th ere f ore , i nq uired care;ludad%.l4 and decided impartially t o t h e b es t of th eir gllt * "' ' ment. At Brighton all thi s was re versed. d to out of the members were li a bl e to be e al it ie account, if they acted i m p ro p er ly, as Captai n S a e. NOLDS had called the Earl of. CARDIGAN t°.• count, and their feelings enlisted their jtl4/1 in 4, against Captain REYNOLD S . They wer e t he , ' manner trying their own cause. At Sheellt ess e investigation was into a matter of fact. Ile nc h - et iett contrast in the course of the proceedings,an d ," - hl on ' the deep discontent of the public with the 1 311 gT. s s verdict, and th e i r p er f ect conv i ct i on of the fturlie ' of that at Sheerness. no de The case we qu o t e d y ester d a y, must ha -e t he v our readers acquainted with the fact, th il A t „ . * Commander-in-Chi e f i s accus t o med to to der Court-martial to re-consider ,their pPle erclin in The Duke of W E LLINGTON did that weft fact, it is continually done. It was in th e ° 0 ~ therefore, of Lord HILL to have done so• ijr" not. He, therefore, made the finding of the "f tio i - his own, and he is responsible for it, P r". ve unjust though it be. He even seems to to adopted it as eagerly as he pounced on C e lt s ', REYNOLDS' letter, which he never asked the cirev lant Captain to withdraw, as the Duke of " t ; LINGTON asked an Honourable Lieutefian,e Colonel to withdraw an improper lett er e " -j had written, and as soon as possible be e° 96 , r1 : 1 11 .. the finding of the Court. He also praised Lord'-re, DIGAN'S activity and zeal. Lend HILL, th ereto i i, 0 41 has entirely absolved Lord CARDIGAN and and has made himself, as we have before said, an sw ai i r+ , able for all the faults of Lord CAtteaGAN t'" d f ots Court-martial. We do not suppose that he . so. ; violated any of the usages of the, a°l9 -g . is we know that some military men approveale ‘,. clu conduct ; and the public, thereforeonO t that scandalous partiality and gross injustice B.' grO. T , r, customary in the g overnment of the wry-- it t , • army .in well known, in fact. that such is the case,, of,tt is rarely that the public have the evidence . so foreibly brought under their no tice. That Sell :y ver y a nd m ade Rates J Of