The Sun. — London, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

EVEN LNG EDITION._ FRENCH HARBOURS. CHERBOURG, SEPT. 17.—1 believe that the very enlightened few who live in this town and its environs are sincerely desirous of peace, but the artisans, the workmen, the small shopkeepers, and the great mass of the lower orders, would not be sorry to see war break out anew. This, though at first sight it may appear extraordir.ary, is not after all so much to be wondered at. In a time of war, or of preparation for war, the whole of the population is employed, and gaining money. The porter militaires are places of entrepot and transmission, and thousands of the work ing classes, the most numerous in every nation, gain their bread by the production, the transportation, and the fabrication of articles which are always needed when a rupture of the peace is imminent. Besides, it should always be remembered that this is not a commercial town, but a great arsenal, and the small share of commerce which it had formerly has ge nerally not increased, and in some particulars has nota bly diminished. For instance, there was formerly a very considerable tonnage engaged in the whale and cod fish eries, which fisheries are sow, as far as relates to Cber bourg, totally abandoned. At the period, too, when France had colonial possessions of some importance in tire West Indies, there was a great exportation of mules from Cherbourg ; but now, having but Martinique, Gua deloupe, and Mariegalante, this commerce is necessarily much diminished. The trade to Chandernagore, the Isle of Bourbon, and the Indian Ocean, always inconsi derable, is monopolised by Marseilles and Bordeaux ; while that of Guiana, Goree, Senegal, St. Pierre, and Miquelon, as well as the great American commerce, falls to the lot of Havre. Cherbourg, instead therefore of being a port of export, is in reality a port of consump tion. On an average of the last few years the exporta tions have been made in 60 French bottoms, amounting in measurement to 2,250 tons, while the importations have been made in 66 foreign vessels, averaging a mea surement of 20,000 tons. The value of articles im ported in French bottoms amounts on an average to 75,000 f., While the imports in foreign ships represents a value of 1,200,000 f. The annual value of the exports, in which 320 ves sels are engaged, measuring in the whole 5,500 tons amounts to 1 ,900,000 f. The coasting trade of Cherbourg employs about r-lirteen vessels, of 1,300 tons tonnage, manrcd by 80 n. The smalier coasting trade cmp!oys from 100 to 110 vessels, of 3,503 tons, which are manned by 44.5 men. There are 92 fishing vessels, whose crews amouflt to 370 men, and the produce of whose industry pres.crs so small a sum as 60,000 E. The number of vessels annuady entering the port is about 1,600. Two-thirds of this number run in here, howeuer, as a mere harbour of refuge, which caused Vauban to say that " Cher bourg was the hotel of the French Channel." No in considerable porticn of the exports are to England ; one article, I mean eggs, you will be amazed at the an nual exportation The quantity of eggs sent to London alone amounts in value to more than 1,000,000 f. per year. The custom-house duties are as follows : Frarcs. Ist. On importations 93,000 2d. On exportations 22,000 3d. Le Droit et denti-droit de tonnage Total Now all these sums sink into insignificance in matter of receipt and disbursement when compared with the outlay in the arsenal in time of war, coupled with the sums which have been within a few years expended in completing the Diane. From 1819 to 1837 there was disbursed on these public works no less a sum than 1,700,000 f. In the budget of 1838 a further sum of 600,0001. was granted ; and it was estimated that 800,000 f additional will be required at the least for the completion of the harbour and its dependencies. When, therefore, I tell you that the inhabitants are only 20,000 in number, that 15,000 at least among them are daily labourers, that there is little for the trade and no manufactures worth speaking of, that they are very nearly as obstinate, as narrow-minded and litigious as their ancestors were a century ago, (for the proverb says Processif comme un Normand, or Guerre au Nor mand, to designate dtsputaciousness) ; that they arc often sottish, and occasionally sullen ; that they live on barley bread and buck wheat porridge, with a bit of pork about once in the week—you will not be surprised that one should occasionally find among them a fool who thinks his own condition would be bettered if all his neigh hours were engaged in fisty cuffs, he" knows not why and cares not wherefore." It is, after all, however, very ' immaterial how beings so wholly null and unintelligent think and feel. I merely advert to the patent desire for war as one fact which strikes the passing stranger, and which might be tortured into a kind of popular opinion, prevalent through the whole country, if it were not explained and accounted for from extrinsic and other circumstances. There is, however, some excuse for these peasants. Their opinions are altogether tradi tionary ; and when it is remembered that our cluntry men twice set fire to the town, and in 1758, just 82 years ago, completely sacked it, levying contributions at right and at left, it is not wonderful that time has not altogether extinguished a hatred which heretofore burned irr Eereely„ l',Ere is also considerable excuse to be made for subordinate emploses in the dockyards (whose opi nions are certainly bellicose), %hen I tell you, that in the Marine Budget for the present year, in the esti mate of Edifices Ande a Terre et a la slier, I find an increase in the estimate of 30,000 0001.—(Compte Ma teriel de la Marine, session 1840.) The following is the actual value of provisions at this moment in store here :—Wheat, comprising flour, biscuit, &c., 49,459 f.; mess beef and other meat, in barrels and otherwise, 213,470 f. ; assaisonnements, 6,957 f. ; wood, candles, and oil, 3,0711.; small objects, 3,9631. ; making a total of 270,9221. The amount of the wages of the work men at Cherbourg in the last budget wi's 46,237 f., making a total of 317,1591. The mess beef and mutton in this estimate is now prepared at Morlaix by a new chemical process. The chief authorities here are the Contre Admiral commanding, who is also Maritime Prefect, and the Commissaire- General of the Marine. The Rear-Ad- Taira' is M. de Martineng, who formerly performed these high functions at Toulon, and I am bold enough to say that no sovereign in Europe possesses a more able, a more intelligent, or a more admirable ad ministrator. Of the blandest and most winning man ners, easy, approachable, frank, and communicative, Monsieur le Contre-Admiral Martincng unites to these gentle, fascinating, and social qualities, the highest scientific attainments in his honourable pro fession. I have rarely met a min with whom I was so captivated : " Il a plus que tout le monde l'esprit Tie tout le monde a." This excellent public servant was for some years a prisoner in England. He spent 11 :nonths at Merton, and the rest of the time at Stapleton, near Bristol. He does not forgrt in his prosperity the attentions he received from the Duke of Beaufort and others during his captivity in England. The Commissary-General of the Marine is M. le Baron de la Gretinerie, who, as well as the Admiral, is a native of the south of France. As an administrator be has no rival, and I believe him to be now one of the most experienced public servants attached to the marine. In times of urgency the restoration as well as the revolution have taken counsel of him. He was here in /827, when the Duchess d'Angouleme was at Cherbourg ; in 1830, when Charles X. bade a final adieu to the land of his birth ; and he bas been ,within the last fortnight removed from Bayonne to this place, because of his immense experience and ex tensive knowledge. He is beloved by all classes, high and low. Though only of middle age, he is altogether .a the vielle roche, and gives one the idea as well as the Admiral, of what old Brantome calls a tres digne e moult parfait cavalier. Sir Philip Syd ne y, per h aps, expresses the idea more intelligibly, at least to an Xneishman, when he describes such a being as pos. seeming " lofty thoughts seated in a heart of honour and courtesy." The maritime Prefect or is always either a Vice-Adrni mat)(Vice-Amiral pavili on quarre au grand or a Rear A i d (c a o rt ntre-amiral qui port le ae.itlon quarre a u mat His fu nc ti ons „correspond with th ose of inwn) Port_Admiral . i n E ngland. The maritime Prefe cts received, when ogee, 18,0001. or 7201. per annum; and no th t ere are employed extra at .allowances, which amount occasionally to about 17,000 f. ;additional. To the commissary -general of marine, sem ewl , at similar to our commissioner resident at Portsmouth,. is intrusted the supervision , audit, and control of a ll that is going on within the dockyards ; and you may judge sot the responsibility which weighs on his shoulders, when I state to you the value of the materiel of the marine at present is these establishments of Cherbourg. In the hospitals, 173,769 f. ; in provisions of all sorts, Z86,5,53f. ; in naval materials, 25,279,683 f. ; in marine ...artillery, 3,771,961 f. ; in Travaux Hydrauliques and - buildings for the use of clerks, 83,545,49.21.; in scien. tific objects, such as maps, plans, and instruments, 18,838 f., making a grand total of 113,176,298 f. There !is not an anchor, ground-tackle, yard, sail block rigger, spar, sail, bolt, or caulking iron, of which he must not be able to render an account, and I must admit the system of control and comptabilite is strict and ad mirable. While I am recapitulating these warlike materials, I , v as w e ll state to you that a per; nof a vast quantity 46. ;n pigs shipped from England to Havre by steam_ lias bee n recently transferred here. It is recorded of the Dutch, that they sold to Louis XIV. gunpowder, with which h e b lew up their own towns. I will not say that the English are so " fat witted" as to do this, but it is nevertheless within the range of possibility that this lead may be used against u s . I should also state to you, that all the vessels now ,f tti ng out here are furnished with ovens a la Wilkin son, doubtless manufactured in some part of Engl an d. The cannons which have been recently transported 'hither from the forges an,l f3undries of Rude, Sievers, Ch assan d e, evers, c., ar e so toistructed, th at matches are no longer necessary. The piece its sew discharged by the striking of a hammer, a con trivancepresenting at the same moment safety and celerity.. The preparations for this war, which most probab ly will never take place, are carried on with unceas ing . activity. Since I last wrote, t he . cutter Levrier, com manded by a lieutenant de vaisseau, has arrived here from Havre. The weather has been most stormy, wet, and boisterous, but nevertheless the labours at the Digne and dockyar ds went on without interruption. In the former case it was so much time and trouble lost, for the wind and waves have carried away all that had been done on these days and for some days before. Though the gales have ceased to-day, and the sun shines out warmly, the engineers are wise enough after the experience of Monday, not Co recommence opera tions, nor will they, I believe, till Monday next, when the waters will, and the swell have, it is hoped, ceased. The levies of sailors continue with unabated vigour. They are now extended from those who have served three to those who have served four years. Agriculture is decidedly improving in this part of Normandy. The potato is new much cultivated where buck was formerly-sown, and much of the small pota toes, as well as the famous Norman butter-milk, is used to fatten pigs for the use of the navy. Much waste and fallow is new within the dominion of the plough, and there is no want of green-meat for cattle, since clover and lucerne are so much cultivated. The roads are also is course of improvement, but still in this and in other respects there is much progress to make. The country, however, was improving daily, and would con tinue to improve, if this martial din were suffered to die away. Alas! that the jealousies, susceptibilities, and vanity of two very ordinary men should sow discord between the inhabitants of the two most civilized coun tries in the world I The Abbe St. Pierre, the author of a project for prpctual peace, was a native of this place. Could he rise from his gra% c and again " revisit the glimpses of the moon," how his simple soul must be amazed to hear the din of preparation for this " much ado about nothing" war ! Beaucoup de bruit et peu de fruit, as the proverb says, and %Lich also runs well in Lord Bicon ' s translation of " much bruit and little fruit." Cherbourg has scarcely given birth to a celebrated character, if I except the Abbe Beauvais. Ile it was ' who came to interrupt the slavish repose of the French pulpit, and to tell truth to the King in the hearing the people. In the midst of the cor rupt and libertine Court of Louis XV. be alone dared to awaken the King to a sense of his duty by these bold and manly wards,—" Sire, my duty as a n - ,inistcr of God imperiously compels me to tell you that your people are in misery and distress ; that you are the cause el that misery and distress ; and that the crowd of cringing courtiers who cling around you conceal from you the truth." It was in the year following- this di,course that he preached before the King on the subject of the list supper. His text was, Encore quarante jours et Ninive sera detruite." This apostrophe to the Monarch was so powerful and per sonal, that it was supposed to have caused his death. Louis survived the sermon forty days, when the elo quent author was called on to pronounce what had always been the posthumous panegyric of the defunct King. In the presence of his successor the preacher exclaimed, "Le rileuce des peuples cst la lecon des llois." Just and memorable words; produced at second hand afterwards with as terrible effect by that extraor dinary and incomprehensible Marquis de Riquetti, com monly called Mirabeau.—Correspondent of the Times. NEWS FROM THE MEDITER- NEAN. (From the Malta Times of Sept. 5 ) The Phoenix steam-frigate, Commodore It. F. Stop fjrd, took her departure hence for Alexandria, on the Ist instant, with despatches for Admiral Stopford, and letters of the Let received by the London mail of the 15th ult. The Prometheus steam-packet, Lieut.-Com. Spark, left for Marseilles on the Ist instant with a mail from India, despatched from Bombay on July 24. She may be expected back on the 12th instant with the London mails of the 4th. The Megtera steam-packet, Lieut.-Com. Goldsmith, proceeded to Gibraltar on the 3d instant, with mails for England. The Alecto steam-packet. Lieut.-Corn. Hoseason, proceeded on the 3d instant with mails for the lonian Islands and Greece. The Cambridge, 78, Captain E. Barnard, is hourly expected to arrive here from England, last from Genoa. The Tyne, 26, Captain J. Toe nshend, was lying at Corfu on the 28th ult. The Hazard, 18, Commander the Hon. C. G. J. B. Elliot, sailed from Smyrna on the 20th ult. with despat ches from Lord Ponsonby for Admiral Stopford. The Beacon, surveying vessel, Lieutenant Comman der Graves, was lying at Smyrna on the 29th ult. The Implacable and Hastings had left BAsika Bay, and it is supposed that the Hydra conveyed orders for these ships and also the Dido (which had kit Constan tineple, having been relieved by the Talbot) to proceed forthwith to join Admiral Stopford The imperial corvette Cesarea sailed from Smyrna, the 24th ult., to join Admiral Bandiera off Alexandria. (From Beyrout to the 22d August.) The Thunderer and Ganges arrived off Beyrout on the 13th, the Gorgon, from Alexandria, on the 14th ; and the Magicienne, from Malta, on the 21st. The Gorgon had detained a Turco-Egyptian brig, laden with arms and other warlike stores. She and the Castor had captured several other vessels, all with warlike stores, one of them an Egyptian man-ot-war cutter, from Alexan• dria, and tho Castor, on the 26th,a large Egyptian ship, formerly a 60-gun frigate, but no guns on board, with few men and some warlike stores. The vessels generally were bound to Tripoli. The Ganges and Thunderer were anchored off :he Egyptian camp, all ready for action, as were the Powerful and Edinburgh cff the Old Castle and Town. The Gorgon and Castor were keeping under sail looking out for captures. There were 12,000 men at Beyrout, under the command of Soliman Pacha. Abbas Pacha left that place on the 18th, with 4,000 men to reinforce the garrison of St. Jean d'Acre. There were upwards of 4,000 Turks in corporated with the Egyptians, who were anxious to re turn to Constantinople, and were so much dissatisfied that they had been disarmed, and some of the officers had escaped and got on board the Powerful. The British Consul, Mr. Moore, and family, were on board of this ship. Notwithstanding these events, the Chaplain and Lieutenant Snadwell of the Castor passed, without mo lestation, through the country to Balbcc and Damascus, and returned only on the 20th ult. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKETS. There was little done privately, and the auctions were unimportant ; prices, however, were firm for all articles. The arrivals keep small from all parts. The auctions de clared were of little moment. TEA MARKET. The prices of this article were well supported at the public sales, and the larger proportion of the quantity put up was sold chiefly for actual consumption. Common Free Trade Congou 2s. 3id. to 2s. 4id. per lb. In the Company's Congou a large business was done at 2s. 40. per lb. cash. TALLOW MARKET. Russian Tallow sold slowly, but prices were firm at 525. to 525. 6d. on the spot and to arrive. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. There was a largo supply of Hay, and the demand was brisk, prices gave way a little. Clover 31. to 31. 15s. ; Meadow Hay 21. 103 to 4/. 16s. per load ; Straw also in good supply, and town prices lower, 325. to 243. per cwt. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY). LONDON, SEPT. 22.—Wind this day at noon, light W. N. Westerly airs, with much rain. LIVERPOOL, SEPT 21.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Betsey,. from Monte Video. Off port the Winscales, from Quebec ; Alexander Edmond, ditto ; and Mountaineer, Rio de Is Hoche. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 21.—Wind W. S. W.—Sailed the Ontario, Bradish, for New York. RAMSGATE, SEPT. 21.—The Isabella, Lovell, from Har tlepo 1 to Weymouth, was lost on the Kentish Knock, 19i.h inst., the mister drifted from boy the o a . e n s e -e — l itthie est alt th r eloug boat ; one passer,g, , r and a saved. The Bella Clara, Love', from Drontheim to Barcelona, has come into harbour, after having been en tangled with the Gunfleet and Barrow Sands. HOLYHEAD, SEPT. 20.—The Francis, Davis, from New port to Liverpool, w hich was on shore on Harry furlong's Rocks, has drifted off the main shore. About half of the cargo (iron) has been landed, and the remainder is ex. peeled to be saved. ELSINORE, SEPT. 15.—The Bruce, Campbell, from Ko nigaberg to Liverpool, was driven on shore on the SWC, rtSh CO+St, near Fakenbury, and is expected to become a ,p w por i o t r h ct total wreck. P.rt of the cargo has been saved. The Louisa, Dolby, of Halifax, put in here the 13th inst., con . .act with the Sarah, Barry, in the roads. The latter BREMEN, SEPT. 1 5.—The Union, Dowell, firm this was on shore near Wrem2rtress, but has f uee C li t• g x o n t :v n E . N, SErr. 19.-1 t blew very hard from S. S. W proceeded without tphooui bowspr it ap a p n a d r e i n ° : e d n a : s a t : e l: rung, having been in to W. S W. on the 17th and lath instant, but is toda; moderate from SEPT. S.E. iIA 18.—It bl ew a heavy gala on the 16tliL Bu dl n i c t i l i l instant from the south westward. (FROM A CO Rll ESPONDENT.) —For many years the poor. house 3 situated in Willesden Church-yard, Middlesex, were inhabited by r,ged widows, until the Rev. H. J. K na pp became vicar of the parish ; it was then thought proper by him to send them to the Hendon Union Workhouse, and in the houses which they previ fhame i p li i c a s c . ed the be a dl e and sexton, w ou it s h ly th h e a i d r iwnhiva.ebsitaendd, The Hon. William Cowper and .G„rge Tier.r ney, Esq., Commissioners , and Mr. Lethbrit: sec tary, cf the Greenwich Hospi tal, have been sojourning, for some dais, at IlYston House, and inspevi , :: tates in the noigi,bourhood belonging to that os,;l c , tutioc, Living prtykusly exAmined into the condition of those in the mining district near Alston.— Tyne Pilot. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA.Y, SEPTEMBER 22. 1840. To the ALDERMEN, the COMMON COUNCIL, and I LIVERY of LONDON, &c., &c., &c. FELLOW-CITIZENS, N the eve of ciferrig, myself to you as a Can didate for the highest honour that a member of a free community can receive—the honour of the Chief Magistracy of the Metropolis of the British Empire, and virtually the emporium and metropolis of the world ; my election is op posed by a public journal from the most unworthy of motives, and on grounds entirely false, and many of which, if true, have been supported by the most illustrious of our coun trymen. This prostitution of a public journal to private malice, party purposes, and the rivalry of business, will never induce a great and intelligent constituency to violate its In stitutions, in order to deprive an individual of honours which, like others, he has aspired to through the medium of long and arduous public services, the faithful performtnce of which are acknowledged by his bitterest adversaries. Kaovvn to my fellow-citizens from my earliest youth by the intercourse of friendly society, and by public business, my principles are the same as they were when I had the honour of being elected a Common Councilman, a Sheriff, and an Alderman of the most populous and influential ward of my native city. I am, as I ever have been, a warm friend to the Esta blished Church, but an equally zealous advocate fur the sacredness of conscience and the - rights of opinion, of dis cussion, and of personal respect, with the integrity of property to all classes. lam a friend to the Throne, to the Constitution, to the laws and institutions of our country, but I ever will be favourable so an examina tion and di. cussion of these subjects, and an advocate for those reforms which are consistent with tranquillity, and which being essential to the progress of society are the best and only security for the Constitution, and all the benefits that may emanate from it. The great feature of the age is dis-aisoaiation of public functions from private convic tions of conscience, or that principle of granting all social rights and eligibility to all offices without distinction of sect—a principle which Sir Robt. Peel and the Duke of Wellington have the immortal honour of establishing as the law and the basis of our Constitution. The integi ity of my private life and the zeal, uprightness, and utility of my public career are left un disputed. Attempts are made to identify me with opinions set forth for tree discussion in a paper of which I am a part proprietor, and which by its candour and equal justice to all sects and par ties has become the most popular of public engines. A reverse course, a system of prostituting all principles and opinions, political, religious, and moral. to the state of factions, and to temporary interests, has ruined the character, and has otherwise seriously injur , d a rival journal, which now hopes, by opposing my election, to stigmatize a tri umphant competitor in the market. An opposition in trade ought not to invade the public rights of a city like London. If a part proprietor is to be identified n ith ail the opinions which a journal may throw out for discussion, either all tne pro prietors, however numerous, must agree on all subjects, or otherwise copartnerships must be disallowed even in journals, the nature of which implies the necessity of an union of capital. The Times disclaims Personal notices, and yet, haring perpetually assailed me will; every epithet of the most coal se abuse, calls upon you to visit the opinions of the Dispatch "in the person of the chief and reponsible proprietor," whom in the same article it designates as "an encourager of atrocities." Polnical motives are equally disclaimed, and yet political doctrines are (falsely) attributed to me, which would, if true, render it au imperative duty in every Journal to oppose me on political grounds. The trick of misquoting passages of garbled extracts, of giving sentences without the co itext, and without mentioning the m scope and intention of the general argument, has too often been played to be longer serviceable to any party. The religious opinions attributed to me are absurdly false, and cannot be sup ported Fellow-citizens, were this a personal question, I should not thus address you, but the election involves the Corporate principle in general, and especially the rights and privi leges of the City of London. Within the last few years great, and sorry am I say, successful inroads have been made on the Civic Corporate rights of our country, but the City of London has successfully resisted the innovation, and I am proud to say that the Paper, of which I am a part proprietor, lent all its force to this righteous cause. Hay ing thus secured its charter, the citizens of London will not prostrate to a faction, the rights which they have re cently defended against the Crown and Houses of Par:iament. If the established rotation is thus disturbed, that which is now an innovation will soon become a practice, and the character of these elections will be totally and disadvantageously changed. I atn, &c , Fellow-Citizens, your faithful Servant, JAMES HARMER. THE « Tlillus" AND THE DISPATCH." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Slit,—ln a very powerful leading article of Monday evening I , st, on the sabject of the attacks made by the Times on the Weekly hispa:cli, in order to defeat the election of one of its proprietors to the mayoralty of London, you are pleased to say, " //ere is a violent personal enmity between a conspicuous writer in the Dispatch and a conductor of the Tunes." If this, Sir, alludes to me, permit me to experience your usual can dour by inserting this contradiction. I have not, and never have had, any violent personal enmity, or any enmity whatever, against any conductor or conductors -of the Times. I have abhorred the morale of its private management, and I have denounced the prostitutions of a paper which, in seven years, sup ported five opposite parties, using in all cases the same course of private slander and of public vitu peration. I have always quoted chapter and verse for the basis of my attacks on the Tin-es, but I never made the slightest allusion to the private habits or do— mestic affairs of any person connected with that paper, until it assailed me on private grounds, under the pre tences of .religion and morals, and by means of most shamefully talsifying reports of law proceedings. It was the Times that reduced me to the most unpleasant necessity of adopting its style of both attack and de fence, with respect to introducing private affairs into a newspaper. I remain , Sir, Your obedient servant, PUBLICOLA. REGISTRATIONS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY OF LONDON. Mr. Mylnc this morning went through the lists of householders of the parishes of Allhallows, Honey-lane, St. Benet Fink, St. Botolph Bill;ngsgate, St. Botolph Without Aldersgate, St. Botoloph Without Aldgate, St. Botolph Without Biehopsgate, Bridewell Precinct, and St. Bride. Several cases of objections and claims, in which the parties were not prepared with evidence, were ordered to stand over to one o'clock to-morrow. Mr. MYLNE said that the parish officers of St. Bo tolph Without, Aldersgate, bad not only handed him the lists for the city of London, but also the lists from Glasshouse-yard, for the borough of Finsbury, and that for the county of Middlesex. Now the revision for the borough of Finsbury was over, he wished to kn,,w whether these lists had been presented to the R:vising Barrister ? The parish officer said they had ; that several lists had been prepared. Mr. MYLNE then handed back the lists for Finsbury and Middlesex to the parish officer. Mr. Trott, the agent for the Liberal party, asked the Revisirg Barrister if he had on his list of objections cer tain names which he read. Mr. MYLNE said he had not. Mr. Trutt then called a witness, who proved that be had served the objections in question on Mr. Wood, 120, Aldersgate-street, and that. he had asked that gentleman if he was the overseer, and that Mr. Wood had replied he was, upon which he had served the ob jection on him. As they had not been posted on the church door, Mr. Mylne refused to go into them. . _ In the parish -lof St. Botoiph Without Bishopote, William Buck, Thomas Buck, and Charles Buck, were objected to by the agent for the Conservatives. Mr. W. Buck, who appeared in Court, complained of the great hardship of being dragged year after year before the Court to support his vote. It had been objected to two years ago and allowed, and he was now in precisely the same situation as to the qualification as he was then. He and his sons were joint tenants of a house in Devonshire.strect, at a rent of 301. per annum ; his sons had been objected to last year, and had been struck off because the joint te nancy had not continued for a sufficient period, but it had now lasted for upwards of two years. Mr. Trott was about to address the Court in support of the votes, when Mr. MYLNE said he should like to hear wbat could be urged in objection to them. Mr Quin contended that there was not sufficient proof of joint tenancy, inasmuch as there was no proof that the landlord was at all aware of the alteration in the tenancy from Wm. Buck alone to Wm. Buck, Thos. Buck, and Chas. Buck. Mr. MYLNE, however, was of a different opinion, and directed that the names should be retained. EAST LONDON CHARTIST TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATION —We have receiv-..d a letter f.on: a member of this Society, with a short account of a rnee:ing held on We, nesday last, together with the rules and o jf , ct- of the Association. The Chartists ought to know that cele rity is a matter of the very first importance in business, and tnsoicoui score, nrh, C i toghar:ritenst hispht the e n yh d atr e tpue n pir t ee ,s i a s ra, t 4t h hod t i ce r bh t i ! ei f v o rdee r rr e gaeudw l r i r i oe b i isi,y)ptewy; special licmgrnod: good dr i i e t . i es o ,e n nNfv ; e n er t and t nee i der s judgment for such an institution. The following is the ll' a i c n h tox nl it e •a n t ' i b n e g r l x u e n e t p a t r i I p y r e c s o c n r i s b e e n d t t P o k a d b g s t e a i t ' t k f e r o n 11' by each by a medical person ; and as temperance applies to al; things, I renounce the use of tobacco as a common habit, injurious alike to health and good mora's, and pledge myself not to use it, except as a medicine ; and do fur ther declare that I will use all moral and lawful u cans to cause the People's Charter to become the law of the land." THE ELEVENTH HUSsARS.—A good many strangers came into Brighton on Monday, curious to wit ness the opening of the Court martial on Capt. Reynolds, but they have been disappointed, for the proceedin 4 s, not withstanding the announcement made in the local papers last week, were not intended to conitn,.rice )esterday, but are fixed for Monday next. The President of the Court will be General Sir Hercules Pakenham, Commandant at Portsmouth. He will be ascistcd by rfficers from Woolwich, Chatham, and London. Lord Cardigan's legal adviser is already with his noble client, preparing their side of the case. Captain Reynolds is now freed from arrest. He lives in Brighton. lie has never had his quarters in the regimental barracks , which are about a mile off, on the road to Lewes. A L —AnTh Irish pape r , a dd ress i ng its correspondents, The last Day' h as mer i t as a ONG D A says, Y 7 poem, but is totally inadmissible from its great length " The Lincoln Standard says, " Th e w ild, yet melodious tunes of the Highland bagpipe" (played through the streets of ti.at town f) two , t , cotehmeri) " transport our imagivatioo to the rugged scenery of our sister isle I" rrHE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CXLV. ADVEiITISF.MENTS intended for insertion in this forth cornin,..; Number of the EDIN BU RGH REVIEW are re quested' to be sent to the Publishers on or before TUESDAY, Sept. 29; and BILLS on or before FRIDAY, Oct. 2. 39, Paternoster-row. ERECIITHEIUM CLUB. THE COMMITTEE having taken the MANSION in ST. JAMES'S-SQUARE, corner of YORK-STREET, lately in the occupation of the Earl of Romney, for the CLUB -HOUSE of this Society, it will be opened for the use of the Members as soon as the necessary alterations are completed, of which due notice will be given. (Signed) JOHN DEAN PAUL, Chairman. London, Sept. 18,1840. THE NEW NOVEL. NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. In 3 vols. post THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE A Story of the Present Day. By MISS ELLEN WALLACE. Richard Bentley, N?w Burlington -street. if IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of B:_11 AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (thnt , :th they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtag LARGE FO RTUNES. HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Are now SELLING BONDS for the said DIST RIBU noNs. Persons desirous to purchase for the next Distribution, may re calve, PREVIOUS to giv in g an y ord er , the PROSACTUS and PAR TICULARS, upon addressing WITHOUT DE LAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURetH. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION, managed and guaranteed the Austrian Government, contains TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND TW 0 HUNDRED DIVIDENDS, Amounting to £954,888, The Dividends being £15,000 £ 6OO £ 7O 0 £37 10 7,500 300 50 0 37 0 3,800 200 42 36 0 1,800 150 44 10 35 0 1.200 100 39 0 HEINE, BROTHEItS, having remitted, during a short :ime, 14,000/., 9,0001.. 5.000/., 3,6001., &c. &e. &c., to Lon don ; 3,600/., 8001., 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,600/. to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley ; 3,600/. to Halifax ( Yorkshire); 1,200/. to Portleaven Harbour; 9001., 6001., to Liverpool ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 9001. to Hull ; 9001., 6001., to Man chester ; 6001. to Bideford; 600/. to Cork ; 600/. to Bradford ; 'hey shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the said Dis tribution to England, Ireland, cm , . Scotland. The Bones (which are no Lottery Tickets) can be cashed at ?rery Banker's co tincetcti with Germany in every mercantile pl , :ce in the world. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VEiTRIS. TIII EVENING, SEPT. 22, NV,II be repeated the New Play, in rive Acts, written by James Sheridan Knowles, Esq.. entitled 'HE BRIDE OF 11ESSINA. John di Pracida, Mr. Moore; Fernando, Mr. Anderson; Guiscardo, Mr. Cooper; Isoline, Miss Ellen Tree. To conclude with av Original Comic, Romantic, Operatic, Melodramatic, Fairy Extravaganza, in Three Parts, entitle(' rnd founded on that popular Nursery Tale, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. --- The Principal Characters by Mr: Harley, Mr. J. Vining, Alr. J. Band, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C ones, &c. Dres , . llaxes., is. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circli ,, ; Second Price, 2s. Gd. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 7, 1 1. ; Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to ommenec at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and place.; for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Second NightWtfittl‘SieiiianVespeis," a New Tragedy in Five Acts, written by J. Kenney, Esq. Tenth Week of Haines' "Jane of the Hatchet," with its grand Tableaux d'action, and the military evolutions of the hundred Female Warriors. Second Week of " The Italian Hu-band," and Second Night of Mr. Elton's Engagement. THIS EVENING. SEPT. 22. Will be acted a New Tragedy, entitled THE SICILIAN VESPERS. Supported by Messrs. Elton, Saville, Hughes, Neville, Hes. lop, and Johnson, Miss Grant, and Mrs. Vining. After which the Grand Historical Spectacle, of unequalled . . splendour, entitled JANE OF THE HATCHET. Supported by the entire strength of the Company, and One Hundred Female Warriors. To conclude with THE ITALIAN HUSBAND. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY. GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAMPETRES, By Gotlfrey's unrivalled Band. Programme of the Concert fur Sept. 21, 22, and 24. FIRST PART. Overtures—Midsummer Night's Dream, Mendessolm. Qua drille—Le Damois, Musard. Pot Pourri on Russian National Airs, with Solos, Labitzky. Waltz—Die Bergeister, Strauss. Introduction, Child ef the Air, Barnet. New Austrian March, Lanzeubrechen, Ilaslinger. Overture—Waverley, Berlioz. SECOND PART. BEETHOVEN'S GRAND BATTLE SINFONIA, By the augmented Band, with instruments of novel construc tion, and 340 rounds of artillery and musketry, giving the most vivid realization of the events of the Battle of Vittoria. Terzetto, Che fai que con questo, Ricci. Pot Pourri sur des Motifs de Fra Diavolo, Autwr. Waltz—Souvenirs de la Pa lais de St. Petersburg, Labitzky. Quadrille avec chceurs, Les Gondoliers Nenitiens, Musard. I he vast Panorama al Fresco of Iceland and its Volcanoes, by Danson—Breakine up of the Ice—Melting of the Snows— Release and Departure of the Discovery Ship. Carter's astonishing " Koniaphostic," or "Lime Light. Eruption of Mount Hecla, with increased magnificence. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Feeding Hour of the Carnivora, Five o'Clock. Concert at Five. Eruption at Eight. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW Mar .ing 0 minutes after 0 1 Evening 0 3 minutes after 11 The Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SUE com menced at 45 m►nutes after Three. - •. y. ,IXT 4 roa• 7% 7 1t,trifp44. 3 , / , '4) twe - • - ,11*43,44',U'Mr unjust and unwarrantable conduct of the aristocracy and the priesthood, and the Dis patch was one of the Journals which took the head of the current and continued there. At present it is the organ of an immense multitude of persons scattered through every part of the kingdom. Each of the sixty thousand copies it is said to circulate weekly is, on an average, probably read by five per sons, so that its sentiments, whatever they may be, are in accordance with those of a larger number of persons than any other Journal. Mr. Alderman HARMER has had little to do, we believe, in either promoting such sentiments in the public, or minis tering to them. He found the Dispatch a Radical and Anti-Church Journal, and it is not to be ex• petted that he should sacrifice his property and de stroy the character of his Journal for consistency by advocating, when he had the prospect of attaining the civic chair, the principles of the aristocracy and the priesthood. Whether the opinions expounded by the Dispatch be true or false, we know of no proved example that it has incited to a single crime. It 'my, in fact, be asserted, that those who can find excite ment from strong political writing, can have no stomach for those vulgar crimes which are the pest • of society. We infer that it has had a moral rather than an immoral tendency, from the well known fact that ordinary crimes always diminish when any strong political sentiment seizes hold of the people• At the same time it expresses opinions that are in many respects opposed to those commonly adopted; but if we are to punish novel opinions, we place a ban on improvement. The Catholic priest hood did no worse when they imprisoned GA LILEo, not for what was false, but for expounding what was uew. If it could be said of the Dispatch that it had begun by being a thorough Radical, and ended by being a Tory ; if it had at one time eloquently de nounced the Church, and at another as elcquently denounced all who opposed it ; if it had at one tine stigmatised the Tories as the duck legged drummers of politics, and at another, described them as our only safe guides ; if it had at one time laid bare the vices of the Monarchy, and, by a startling exposure of a Pension List, held it up to contumely and scorn, and at another told us to look to it for safety ; if it had at one time ex horted the people to violence, and at another up braided them with a decent exertion of an indepen dent spirit ; if it had by the most outrageous abuse excited sedition, and then mocked those it had roused ; if, on the vital question of feeding the people, it was known to entertain a very strong opi nion, and when the question was agitating the country, had preserved an almost religious silence to please its party ;—if the Dispatch had done all these things, it might indeed have been called a teacher of immorality, a pander to the worst of ins , sions, a base ticne-serving Journal, which corrupted the public both by its writings and example. If, in addition to all these changes, each one could be traced to some personal motive, the hope of a seat in Parliament, the disap• pointment of a Baronetcy, the refusal of a Comis sionership, the desire to merit the approbation of the landed Squirarchy, into the nominal ranks of which a man may force himself, by abusing them through the Press, without being admitted confidentially into their socisty ; and if the person to please whom all these changes had been made, and by whom they were dictated, should offer himself to public approbation, without any other merit than being the proprietor and dictator of such a base Journal, we should hold the public to be fully jus tified in declaring against such a man, and in care fully shutting him out from every public office. It nothing can be said against Mr. Alderman LIAR :4ER but what can be traced to the spleen and dis appointment of such a man and such a Journal, we shall think the Livery eternally disgraced if they begin an odious system of political persecution at its in stigation. Bit every one knows that in these re marks we have indicated the Times, and the Livery scarcely require to be informed that the scheme of punishing Alderman HARMER for the opinions of the Dispatch originated with the Times. We reveal no secrets, for the facts have been stated over and over again in both papers, when we further say that there is a violent personal enmity between a conspicuous writer in the Dispatch and a conductor of the Times. They have in print re ciprocally accused each other of great offences. They have long carried on a paper war, and while these writers have a personal quarrel, the Journals are rivals in trade as well as in politics. The Dispatch is not without political influence, and the particular turn taken by the Southwark election sharpened the asperity of the Times. We hint reluctantly at these private motives for the vile attack wh'.cla. the Times has made on free discussion through the side of Mr. Alderman HA RM ER ; but we feel bound to do what lies in our power to prevent the Livery from lending themselves to a gross act of persecution, which would disgrace the tri umphant days of the Inquisition. We care no thing about what are the opinions of the Dispech though we may remark that they are backed by no power or influence to make them weigh a single grain more than they are worth. We care, how ever, very much about cherishing the right, and enforcing the duty, of public writers openly and honestly stating their opinions ; and that right is attacked, and that duty is disparaged, by the base attempt of a base Journal to inflict a civic disgrace on Mr. Alderman HARMER for the opinions ex pressed ill the Dispatch. The singular coincidence of one Captain R EY- Not,Ds being about to be tried by a court-martial for challenging the Earl of CARDIGAN, while the case of another Captain REYNOLDS, who has quarrelled with the Earl of CARDIGAN is filling the public papers, has given rise to much confusion. Our observations yesterday, and the paragraph we copy from the Hampshire Tele graph; will set the public right on the subject, and inform it, that the Noble Earl, after wounding one officer in a duel, has still two affai-s, with two distinct Captain It Evit,Ds, on his hands. As the materials for judging of one of these are I efore the public, and as the approaching Court-martial will supply materials for forming an opinion on the other, we shall, like our Contemporaries, abstain, at present, from saying a single word about the Earl of CARDIGAN. His time to be publicly tried and publicly judged will speedily Come; et present our business is with the Horse Guards. There is one port of the REYNO L D S correspon dence which calls loudly for explanation or denial. If the Horse Chards wish t 9 stand weld with the public—if it wish the public to believe that die government of the Army i 3 honestly, fairly, and justly conducted, it shouted not have allowed an hour to Elapse withutit giting that part of Captain REYNOLDS' statement an indignant denial. As it has not done so, we are compelled to believe that it is true ; and, believing it to be true, we shad hold the conduct of the Horse Guards up to the reprobation we think it deserves. It has long been stated that there is kept both at the Horse Guards and the Admiralty what is called a Black Book, in which the names of officers who may have chanced to give offence are inscribed; and that such officers, however meritorious their con. duct, continually find obstacks thrown in the way of their promotion. It has long been stated, teo, that peraons of influence privately lodge complaints, or carry tales to both places ; and many an officer has experienced, without knowing why, that thcre was a prejudice against him at head-quarters. No explanation is ever to be got, but let him do what he may, or ask vs hat he may, he always receives cold blooded neglect, bordering on insult. N ow this state ment is countenanced by the information which Cap tain REYNOLDS has laid be:ore the public, and which goes to fix on the Horse Guards the disgrace of listening to the tattle of one officer against another, and of gratifying a favourite at the expense of justice. On the 22d of May Captain REYNOLDS was officially informed that the matter was not reported to the Horse Guards, but that the Earl of CAR DIGAN was going to London that night, and would lay everything before Lord HILL. On a subsequent day Captain REYNOLDS had a memorandum read to him by the Earl Of CARDIGAN, his accuser, which begins by stating familiarly that " Lord CARDI GAN, having rAmtioned to the Adjutant- General the circumstances which caused the placing Captain JOHN REYNOLDS under arrest," &c., and then the memorandum goes on to condeam Captain REYNOLDS. Here then we have it proved that it is customary at the Horse Guards to pass sentence on officers on the unsupported statements of those who can obtain the ear of the Adjutant-General, or may perchance be an old crony of the Secretary to the Commander-in- Chief. Without calling on Captain REYNOLDS for an explanation, or without requiring a mitten statement from his accuser by which he might be bound, without bringing the ac cused and the accuser face to face, the Adjutant- General and Lord HILL, on the mere verbal, ex parte statement of Lord CARDIGAN, pronounced sentence against Captain REYNOLDS. After that we can believe anything of the Horse Guards. We believe that it is a common practice for favour ites, like the Earl of CARDIGAN, to whisper away the character and reputation of deserving men, and we believe that by such a disgraceful, backbiting, abominable practice many an officer has been driven from a service he was calculated to honour. If such be the principle on which the Army is habitually governed, it cannot be too soon corrected ; if it be the practice only of the present heads of the Army, they cannot he too soon removed. If Lord HILL and the Adju tant-General be not dismissed, the public will justly conclude that such practices are of long standing, and the government of the Army is and has long been most partial, unjust, and dis honourable. There is not much interesting news in the Paris Journals of Sunday. The Coustitutionnel quotes from the Courrier, Francais the ultimatum of MEHEMET ALI, delivered to RIFAT BEY, who left Alexandria for Constantinople on the 9th inst. In that ultimatum the PACHA says that he will accept the sovereignty of Syria for life, and submit the rest to the magnanimity of his Sovereign. Both the Constitutionnel and the Journal des Debals assert that this is the utmost concession to be ex pected from the Viceroy ; while we believe it to be still more certain that the Four Powers, to whom this ultimatum must be submitted by the Porte, will not accept it. Before the signing of the Treaty of London, such a proposition would have been admissible ; but it is so no longer. Nor ought its rejection to give France any uneasiness. The duration of the PACHA'S life can hardly exceed five years, so that the rejection of his Highness's proposal takes nothing from his family, and very little from himself. The Four Powers did not enter into a solemn treaty as a mere preliminary step to a niggling negotiation with a rebellious vassal. We are aware that M. TRIERS is doing all in his power to detach Austria and Prus sia from the other Powers, on the plea of pre serving the peace of Europe. The President of the Council is not able to persuade Prince METTERNICH that Austria has not a greai in terest in the conservation of the Ottoman empire, but he points to Italy, Poland, and the Danubian Provinces, and asks what would be the fate of Austria if France were compelled to raise the stan dard of sans-culottism in Lombardy and on the Rhine ? But does M. THIERS seriously con template defeating the policy of the Four Power's by diplomacy ? Or is he resolved, in the event of failing, to have recourse to war ? We hold a nega tive opinion. All this blustering is meant to pre vent the noise of the fortifications of Paris from reaching the ears of the French people. While the President of the Council invokes their earnest attention to what is going on at Alexandria, Con stantinople, and London, and now and then tells them boastingly of the strength of his fleets, the prowess of his armies, and the inexhaustibility of his purse, credit, and offensive and defensive re sources, Paris is suddenly environed with strong fortifications, and wide-mouthed ordnance, from the battlements of inaccessible towers, impose silent submission to despotism upon the far-famed but short-sighted heroes of July. How the world will hereafter laugh at the folly of these French pa triots, In their eagerness for war with the most truly liberal Government and people in the world, they suffer unheeded a Citizen-Sovereign and an ex journalist to reimpose chains upon them, which it cost them the horrors of the most direful revolu tion that the world ever witnessed to cast from them. That the descendants of the populace who announced the knell of despotism in the noise of the falling battlements of the Bastile, should suffer twenty Bastiles to rise around them under the auspices of a Bourbon King, would be inexplicable did we not know that thoughtless inconsistency forms one of the leading characteristics of the French people. To-day the French people are omnipotent. But let the chain of Bass tiles be raised and garrisoned, and there will be but one sovereign power in France —that of the Monarch. If it be the wish of other nations to maintain peace, they will only have to invoke the personal inclinations of the K LNG ; and to provoke war they must not only hurl defiance at France, but insult the Royal dig nity. The KING will then be everything at home and abroad, and the people nothing. The erection of these fortifications leaves us without a word to say in layour of the boasted capacity of the French people for the duties of self-government. For to talk about defending Paris against a foreign enemy iti so glaring an absurdity, that only fools could swallow it, The memorandum of M. GLIL.7,OT in answer to Lotd PALMERSTON's note of the 1:it ' ll of July, is seterely criticised in the PreSSC and the Conzznerce. We need not repeat our opinion of it. One fact concerning it is oulyof importance, and that is, that it fully establidies tie charges brought against the prmnt Government of Prance. Except the flute tools of the President of the Council, the journals all admit that they were shatnef'ully duped document in ht:h-ig in authoris,ed to appeal tiiumpliantl) to that justification of the hostdc atii.ude as sumed by France. GuizoT AND TI lET{S.--Tho Univers states that serious differences exist between M. Thicrs and M. Guiznt. The latter maintains that the present dif ficulties have arisen solely from M. Tbiers not paying any attention to the Ambassador's despatches from London, hat amusing himself with subaltern intrigues. Very warm explanations thcro hi . td not licen open bad taken pla ce between the INlinister and M. Guizot,ni,d if collision, it Walt; only on acconht of the nheeAsities of the state of rzfhirs; but ether dillerences, adds the Univers, must lead to a Apeody rupture before the Chambers EVENING ED I/ lON-, meet, when M. Guizot will leave his post, not to re turn. The Univers concludes by saving, t h a t a terial modification will become inevitable. On the one, hand, M. Guizot and the members of the former majo rity (the 221) will demand a change, to have a larger share for the Conservatives in the Cabinet ; and, on the other band, the Ltft (o.lilon Barrot), finding that M. 'niers ought not to be alone, will ask also to be intro- Cuced into his Ministry. INSURGENTS.—The Tribunal of Correctional Police on Saturday condemned twenty individuals to terms of imprisonment from fifteen to eight days, for not imme diately dispersing, after the second summons from the authorities, in the assemblages of the 6th inst. CABRERA.—The Mode announces that, in conse quence of Cabrera's state of health, which daily becomes more alarming, the French Government had agreed that he should be transferred from Lille to a town in the south of France. The King arrived at the Tuileries yesterday at noon, at one o'clock ; he bad a conference with the President of the Council, and at half-past one the ether Ministers arrived to attend the Council, at which tks King presided. The Council of Ministers sat till a quarter past five. A great many persons were heard at the C ouncil. First, Messrs. De Broglie, Gerard, and Montalivet, then M. Dade de la Bruncrio and the principal Mem bers of the Committee of Fortification ; and then C la om stly the Duke of Orleans, to whose residence th e mittee of Fortifications went in the first instance.- Le Constitutionnel. We extract the following from the Toulon journals of the 16th ; The Fulton, steamer, has just received orders to put to sea immediately on a secret mission. This yes d sel, which is doubtless going to Alexandria, depa rte this evening. t h e The Circe corvette left the basin yesterday , and Plia3ton entered it. The supply of provision s for the Ocean and Marengo are preparing with all poss ible el' pedition. A letter from Corsica says that an English ship of SO guns, bound for the Levant, passed the whole of last Friday and part of Saturday in s'ght of the port °, Bastia. What had this ship to do before a French town, and why did it stay there so long ? Does the English Government mean to watch our coasts a nd oue,. colonies; taking advantage, with its usual dexterity, et the last moments of its alliance w ith France ?-"L e Commerce. vsn, The Madrid Journals received are of the 14th inst. The following extract from the surVie rn L ent to the Madrid Gazette of that date shows ill what way the Junta thought proper to deal with the l i r pointment of the new Cabinet. We reserve all OP' went upon this affair for another occasion :-- "PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT Or MADRID. [OFFICIAL.] " Last night, at half-past eight o'clock, the posttnesil of this city delivered to this Junta five sealed' commentr cations, conveyed from Valencia by express, and ad cations, dressed to the following individuals :—Don Vincente Sancho, Don Alvarez Gomez Becerra ' Don Dionisto Capaz, Don Fecund° Infante, and Don Doming° Zt. menes. " All communicatian with the active Government Valencia being prohibited by the 2d article of the Pl:° - elamation issued by this Junta on the 1 2 th instant, tP6 above individuals were summoned officially to aPP ear before the Junta ; and having arrived, and in the pre sauce of Generals the Mar us of Rodil , Don go" Lore with Lorenzo, and Don Narcisso Lopez, the afo resaid corn-- the re quest' munications were delivered to them, that they would open them before the Junta a nd the preceding officers, or that they would state the coat a• " The communications being opened as r e q uested, It appeared from them that her Majesty, by Royal dec.l rae had been pleased to appoint Den Vincente S ancho, ter of Foreign Affairs, with the Presidency of the Cade.ci Don Alvarez Gomez Beceria, of Grace and Jastice In Don Dionisio Capaz, of Marine • Don Facu n ce , ndo fante, of war ; and Don Domino Zi m enes, of T ina with Don Francisco Cabello, of the Interior. " The Junta resolved not to lay down their ane w _ till they see the national will satisfied by such g uB" ,is tees as render any reaction for ever impossible, rub" in all its force and conditions the programme the exposition of the 4th instant, addresseLd, to the and insist anew upon their unalter.aL"cL.,l munition of that programme being carried in to 1"; 01n . feet : upon which the Junta, having riceiv el . "i IC. muoieation whatever, the above - nam individua s • h had been tired, taking with themeachthe letters wive delivered to them. " FERANDO CORRADI, SeCretarY. " Madrid, Sept. 14, 1840." insertedtble ze,in LONDON: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1840. A new species of persecution is set on foot in the City of London. The citizens are called on to ex clude a gentleman from the Mayoralty on 'account, not of his own opinions, but of those of other men. Alderman HARMER does not write in the Dispatch, but he partly owns it, The opinions professed in that Journal, as an organ of public sentiment, are dis tasteful to some persons in the City, and therefore they propose to cast a slight, a stigma, a degradation, on Alderman HARMER. He has served all the City offices with credit. He has worked his way up to the threshold of the Mayoralty, he is next in succession to the Civic Chair, and it is now pro posed t o set hi m as id e , because of the opinions advo cate d b y t h e Di spa t c h. Our countryme n very o f ten express muc h an d j us t indig na ti on zlainst th e censors hi p exercised over the press in others, do surpassesn , foreign c ountr i es, b ut t h e censors hi p propose d i n the City of punishingnl a robni one man a m r a i forss and the follyop i nions of o the censorship of the Continent. W i t h o u t making of HARMER'S claims to the Mayora l ty of such a the Dispatch , we are bound to protest against course be tried by his proceeding. Let Mr. Alderman civic services. If. he be a worse citizen than Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL, or Mr. Alderman COPELAND, or Sir PETER LAURIE , or the gene ral run of Ald ermen, let him b e exc luded ; but let not the Liv er y j o i n i n an intereste d persecution, et on foot by a rival Journal , and b y an g r y priests, and th row att i nsult an d an injury on a respectable citi zen b ecause h e i s t he proprietor of a public Journal, the opinions of which are not in accordance with their s . The Livery showed their confidence in him when they elected him to be Sheriff---his fellow-wardmen knew of his connexion with the Dispatch wh en t h e y made him an Alder man, and now to brand hi m , by setting him aside, will be, in fact, to stigmatise their oivn former conduct. We may, perhaps, help them to come to a right decision, by stating what we remember of the Dispatch, and of Ald erma n HARMER s connec tion with it. H e did not , we believe, establish that Jo urna l, b ut b ecame a propr i e tor of it after it I had acquir e d cons id era b le success , a nd after it had I taken th e li ne o f pol i tic- to w hi c h it has since steadily adh ere d, t h ough, as the pu blic sentiments ' have .v become stronger, it has advance d further . He was, however, at great e xpense in pushing it 1 into extensive ci rcu l at i on, an d soon afterwards it set earnestly about discountenancing boxing, which, partly by its exertions, has fallen into discredit. In that respect it has improve the contributed to morals of the people. An impetuous current of p o lVerd f'cilinlz afterwards ,et in, urged 011 by the CrOng writings o f the Times, and still more powerfully urged by the 1 tVION EY and COMMERCIAL NE Vfl 6 CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.--.WC haVe bad an active demand for Cotton to-day, an I t.n adyanco of id. per pound on the lower qualities has ben ob tained. Sales 8,000 bags, of which 3,0)0 Fare been taken on speculation. LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, SEPT. 21.—Eastern Cow ties 10i ; Edinburgh and Glasgow 293 ; Great Western 87 861 ; Half Shares 483 I- 1-5 4 ; Lon de and Birmingham 32/. Shares 473 ; Quarter Share! 253 ; South Western 543 ; North Midland 85 ; Soot" Eastern 5. Our Market continues firm, and prices maintain thew.; selves. Stock is rather more in demand, with few° sellers than at the close of the last week. THE FUNDS. Consols, which left eff yesterday at 881 1 Account, opened this morning rather lower, 881 , „ s s inc z which they may be quoted 884 -i- ; for Money, i 3 q e . with little doing. The speculators are shy of act i " n s - fore the arrival of the pigeons with the prices fro Paris. Exchequer 8i115,6 8 prem. ; Bank Stock , 1661 1671 ; India Stock, 247 249. • in In the Foreign Market, the only operation 3„144 Spanish Active, which left off yesterday at 221 1 ;'," l ' ° : which has receded to 221 i-- ; Deferred, 10i 'i; Passive, 54 -i- ; Portuguese, also lower, left off at 33/ " Cnit ) 9 “ l : at present 3`2 33 ; Three per Cents., 21/ 2 2 ; for th.: hian, 221 231- ; Mexican, 2.51 i ; Brazilian, 77 . 7 pe r Dutch Two-and-Half per Cents 50 2 ,51- 1 -* Fi ve .1 4 4 ' Cents. 100 101. xiond°' SHARES.—Great Western, 9 1 23 prem. ; and Brighton, 10i 10 dis. ; Blackwall,— 3 2-- dis:,; L a o ir ; mingham, 80 8Z prem. ; Southampton, 5 4 34 34 ,., 3 'per e share ; Croydon, 111 :I- per share ; Greenwicfi, 6 ' share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 13 12 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT 00. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Coun:ies k London 0000Inn:Dittoddpd Ditto 0000 nrnnt Great Western aaa N ; J : in, Junction wi Shares t ir i . a o: gc n hk wt 4O .... .... .... ....... .... 4 8 3 1 9 3 1 .... .... .... ............ tt t o : : , 8 : a n l l Birmingham .. .. ............ .................. t t t G oo 29_ 1 7i n i 5 ..... 27 •••••• to London a o r u e t s h Western 1 3 00 E4 ............ 5 2 !i i .................. t tt : o ..... -- ..-- e. North Midland . JOINT STOCK BANKS. Union of Australia.. BALF-PA'S ONPiei We hear that the banking-house of Mr. Hani " ers has sufficient funds to meet all demands. The Money Market continues in a dull state. ez. sots, which :were in the early part of t he day a' B "' se• for the Account, may be quoted a t Pr 0 ent 11 I die. Exchequer Bills 6 8 preit. In India Bonds, Stock, and Bank Stock, nothing done. at In the Foreign Market Spanish fictive 10 . °1 23 22i ; Deferred, 1 ; Belgian, 99 ; o n 4 Cc' ts. , Portuguese, 32i ; Dutch Two - and - a -Half per 51 ; Five per Cents., nothing done. 11 iliglY SHARES—Rather more business doing in —3 ent pi' Shares, and in some of the lines an improvem/ ion_ taken place. Great Western, 87, New, an d don and Brighton, 291 ; Blackwell, 17,4 ; ! doL on n tici . Birmingham, 171 ; South Western, 53i ; North 1 ‘ land, 85k. 1 but We have Monte Video papers of the 6th of j O -1 , they do not contain any news of consequence. --- .. to TILE PRINCESS A ----- U . C. , USTA ----- .--VV r- e re g re' verY state that her Royal Highness still lies in 5 distressed state. She has had little r:tst •cr the night, and her sufferings are very grew: , 0 • too DOVER, SEP. 19.—The Duke of Welling d, keeps close at Walmer Castle, seldom going les, l ',, b , r o ° ol a I, His Grace is in excellent health and spirits, aft" - - i - de' with his select party, to enjoy the salubrJs air of ti: a 60 lightful locality. A few days since his Grace an d , b . Right Hon. Charles Arbuthnott paid a visit to the 0vg,,.. bouring village of Eastry, and inspected the union work er house, with all the arrang,ements of which, as well 35 „.„1 comfortable condition of the pauper inmates, be esP rc '‘ t y himself highly gratified. His Grace had a dinner Fri,. on Wednesday, at which were F. Thesiger, E ,( 1" , 1‘ ;;:a , (who is now residing at Dover), Henshaw Latham , ' 4 7' dUrtoo one of our county Magistrates, and a select few uti l -5 ; Have passed through here for the Continent within i11,'7, few days--Lord George Lennox, Lord and LW': ~ Meade, Lord Lowther and suite, Lord Monson a nd au' t-9 Count Gilke, Lord Howden and Lady, C. S tan dish, 1' 5 . .. e c 1 . ' M.P., Monsieur Laporte, of the Ital ian Opera II"' Monsieur Tamburini, Quintin Dick, Esq. exc. A CHINESE PRISON.--Persons li Ito bac° money to spend can be accommodated with private e n s ments, cards, servants, and every luxury, in the pri 3°ss • the Celestial Empire. The prisoner's chains ao:i fettertl are removed from their bodies, suspended against the "„-„,, till the hour of going the round occurs. After the cerea°,' is over, But those who have not the weans of bribing the kee,P e i r :: the fetters arc again olaccd where they hurt nob° P are even in a woful coeition. Not only is every al! u , o f tion of their suffering removed, but actually punishment is added of paper to the god of the gaol, as the phrase runst.o,ruu., this ;•urpose the rrisoners are tied up, or rather 11 . . .9,: and dogged : at night they are fettered to a bo - .t'd D.Y, ,i. ,,.. neck, wrsts, and aixl(: ,. , a :nid , i c rdar, rne, !.4,iroilb,s ! li.e ir,:ts,'unmoi. wed, ate permitted to 1-; 1 ' 04 t h ." r di ll s* . This plaee of torments is pruyczbiaily c.iluti. irl -ar ass of speech, Teynck—a tom equivalent 0 41. OOP& l e the word hell. , i:,11;ct! t_s lo ~...1 .4 pR4