The Sun. — London, England, 1840-11-27 00:00:00

EVF,NING .EDITION. MONE - Y MARKET and CITY NEWS (THURSDAY EVENING.) P 0 ST.—The following notice was posted this morn 'nlg at the Bank:— " Bank of England, Nov. 26, 1840 s" The Governor and Company of the Bank of England tre ready until further notice to receive applications for loans, upon the deposit of approved Bills of Exchange not having mere than six months to run, Exchequer Bills, and East India Bonds; such loans to be repaid on or be fore the lath of January next, with interest at the rate of per cent, per annum, and to be for sums of not less than 2,0001. eaoh." Many persons seem to have been quite unpre pared for such a notice, which they pronounce to be inconsistent vilth the precautionary measures that were *taken by th e Directors during the interval of the last -few inontv A s, in consequence of the adverse state of the - exchan'ges. It is to be recollected, however, that it has been the invariable practice, of late years, to make ad v?.r.ces a short time before the termination of the finan coil quarter, and it is one that has received the sanction V every intelligent man of business in the City, the Abject being to throw back upon the money market just so much of the note circulation as may fill up the vacuum caused in it by the payment into the Exchequer of the heavy amounts of duty which then become due. Without explanation, the public are apt to come at once to the conclusion that a notice like the above is to 'he regarded as the inclination of a desire on the part of the : Directors to give greater expansion to their issues. - - This was settling day in the English stock market. The differences seem to have been paid up without I much difficulty, the account preying, as we had anti cipated would be the case, a Bear account. Soon after the middle of the day the supply of stock was more scanty than bad been experienced for a long time past. The brokers who usually act for the Bank made purchases of a considerable quantity, sup posed to be for account of the institution, but with 'ghat correctness we are unable to determine. If the Directors of necessity parted with public securities some time ago at the high quotations of the day, the operation ascribed to them, in the present instance, mast be allowed to 'be sound and proper, the differ ence affording a profit of which they had every right to take advantage, and the stock purchased, or rather re-purchased, being immediately convertible Into bank -notes, should circumstances arise to render it necessary to act further upon the circulation. Consols welt last quoted 90k to I for Money, and 90i for the opening on the 15th of January ; Ex chequer Bills Is. dis. to Is. prem. ; and Bank Stock at 159 to 160. The transactions in this market were extensive. It was, in fact, an observation among the jobbers and brokers that the arrangements of the Bank bad given a stimulus to their operations which re called to their memories the account days of a former period, when thoughtless speculators, acting upon the extravagancics of M. Thicrs and their Boulogne con nections, would rush into the house as Bears of Con sols. The same party are supposed to have come very indifferently out of the ordeal to which they were sub jected to-day, in connection with the settlement. It seems, indeed, to be a matter of surprise, in quarters where something is known of their movements, that they should have been able to square accounts so readily as they have. FROM TITS MORNINQ PAPERS OF Trirs DAY. (From the Times.) SUN.—We have no tidings of the President yet. This morning the Stock Market opened again under the influence of the loose statements in circulation, and the vague apprehensions inspired by them, which agi tated it during the latter part of yesterday, and conti nued rather flat till about mid-day, when things began to assume a brighter appearance, in consequence of cer tain indications, hot to be mistaken among the more shrewd dealers, of an intention on the part of the Di rectors of the Bank of England, to take in the large amount of Stock which they had allowed to be carried over to the present Account. Consols for immediate transfer gradually rose front 89i to 901 S, at which they closed ; and for the opening in January, from 90i to DOA 4. Toe notice from the Bank gave a good dew td hu;;vancy to the market. Exchequer Bills brought os. discount . to Is. premium, and India /goods 15s. to discount. Bank Stock was steady at 160, and India Stock at 241. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were marked 99i to 984. Tue settlement of tile Clnsol Account went off tolerably well, and showed Lic Bear party to have been the losers, the rise since the 14th ult. having amounted to 3. par cent. Tha Foreign securities were rather duil to-day, and prices underwent no material alteration. Spanish Ac ti,e 13:mds e,,nged from 23i to 23i ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. were at 3.54 ; the Three per Cents. at 2-2 k ; Mexican at 30i to 304 ; Colombian 25k to i ; Brazilian at 731 to ; and Dutah Two and-a-Half per Ceuta at 51:. to There were no bargains in the New Belgian Scrip. The Railway Shares though riot at all animated, were rumird nigher, viz.—Great Western ‘2.1-,1 to 225 ; New 81 ; the Fifths 4 to 44 ; the Birmingham 775 ; the IN,w ea ; and the South We.tern premium. Brigh!on Snares were 124 to 124 dig.; and Colorist .1./ank 11 to prem. sputur of the PUBLIC JOURNALS A rumour was in circulation many weeks, we might loo:1:1;s, tleitt there mould be issued oboe/ this peri,u.' on extensive brevet to the rate and arIIIV o G. eat Britain. teeny is now a rumour as widely cir culated, and as confidently as th e limiter, that • there will rot be a brevet. Oa inquiring what hid produced the fost-mentioned report, and why it reas recently con tradicted, we were told, and in our simplicity were struck with arnezement at hearing. that the ‘. brevet" wes to he caused by the (expected) birth of a Prince of Walee." and that the refusal of it is meant by her M ijeste's Minister= as a compliment to the " Princess d. " N oce,— i Le, us consider for one moment the sort of mmection thus prociaimed between a brevet for the Brornotion of officers and the sex of a Royal infant. Why, the process of causation between Ten terden steeple and Goodwin S lads is wisdom, is philo.ophy, compared with that between an announce ment by any Palace midwife, deciding the .alternative to; " hey" or " girl," and a fitting answer to the question. whether the ships and troops of England shad be well or ill comet-moiled—whether the army and navy of Great Britain be under capable or in , ffieient guidance A brevet is not a toy to be trifled ait h. It is not an empty ceremonial, or, like a silver trumpet or kettle drum, a noisy appendage to Court festivities and pa rades. A brevet is a grave measore of military policy ; it might never to be resorted to but on occasions of Tolitteil necessity. But then, on the known existence of such necessity, nothing should interfere with, or re tard, its adoption for a single hour. A brevet is always, or has been for many years, attended with a certain expense to the nation. But the point to be determined is, whether the be nefit does, or does not, outweigh the cost ? It is a measure in peace time of rare occurrence. Its effect is to promote, according to seniority, to higher rank in the service, whether naval or military. upon which it operates, a given number of officers, and during peace an extremely inconsiderable number, out of the whole lists bearing commissions. A general bre vet usually descends to captains of a certain standing in the army, and to lieutenants in the navy, by promoting the former to the rank of major and the latter to that of commander ; but it, we believe invariably, shuts out all below those respective classes. The necessity for brevet arises from the undue proportion et old and worn• out officers in the upper ranks of either service—men in capacitated by age for the endurance of hardship, or for the exercise of long-continued activity ; and from the consequent want of a sufficient number of younger and more efficient officers. Althsugh the result of a brevet may be in some 'measure to remove dissatisfaction and despon dency from the minds of gentlemen thereby promoted, and of others who thus perceive themselves to be sepa rated from future promotion by a diminished interval, such is not the principal aim or object of a brevet. The reason for a brevet is the exigency of the public service —the absolute want of an accession of energy, activity, and vigour to those classes of officers amongst whom commanders by sea and land must be sought for, and the practicability afforded by this promotion of junior officers to higher ranks of passing by men disqualified . throagh mental an d b odily decline for trusts of high ) mportance, and for severe and trying labours. Those who are intimately acquainted with bothservices, best know the evils entailed upo n them by tile disproportion betweendoe ages of the men , and the s ervices d eu of them as officits, Why, mo re than one half t en ants in the navy have been lieut enants for upwards of 0 0 years, and may now be set down on the avera ge as men of five - and - for t y. Half the commanders have been so for fifteen years, and got their commissions of Lieutenant upwards of thirty years, when the majority of them were in their twentieth year. Yet these gen ticirwn, already advanced in life, are not qualified.v:nr b ya the rules of the service to com mand an y thin g 18-gun sloop of war. When we come to the post- Captains, indeed, who have for the most part gain e d that rank by family interest, we find them junior in years, at well as length of service, to the large majority both of Commanders and Lieutenants. A crying grievance this right of indiscriminate selection, and a marvellous blunder that in that case where selection may be most necessary--viz., where the command of an important l id". may be at issue—the power of selection should cease too of necessity, from the abuse so frequently at tending its exercise among the subordinate ranks, inns m oeh as i t would be intolerable to leave in the hands o f a jobbing First Lord the rig ht of lifting over the heads of olde r officers into the rank of Admiral, a young nepos of a L or d who had already hopped over Lieutenants and Commanders into the saddle of Post-Captain. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The Comm erce of I,V ed n j a sday last has some observa tions on the cond uc t of well Government with re gard to Spain, whi c h are deserving of attention. M. Guizot ought not to despise the advice which is given to him, because it Proceeds from a hostile quar ter. M. G u i zo t, i n hi s speech on the 18th November Lad c omp l a i ne d of the in answer to a speaker who loss of French influence abroad, cited Spain and Switzerland as countries in which the French Go vernment enjoyed credit and consideration. The Commerce turns on M. Guizot, and asks bim if he approves of the revolution directed by Espar tero—if he applauds it, sympathises with it, and views it as an event favourable to the system which governs France ? This is a home question, it being notorious that the revolution is not only not to the taste of the Government of Louis Philippe, but that Chris tina is the victim of the French counsels, to which she has lent but tno ready an ear. We assume that M. G.uizot by no means approves of the departure from the Estatuto Real, and that he is really apprehensive that the movement, in a democratical direction in Spain, will be too rapid. But then we know that he is a man of sense, and we assume also that he must be aware of the folly of disturbing neighbouring nations, because their institutions may not square with the theory of statesmen in another. We know that, when a certain course is determined on, what ever it may be, there is nothing so easy as to find plausible reasons for it. When a state wishes to interfere in the affairs of another, the usual pretext is necessity of preventing the spread of anarchy, &c. Austria put down the revolution in Naples, because a successful revolution in Naples might have led to a re volution in Lombardy. The French invaded Spain to put down her revolution, on the same plea of danger from neighbourhood. But prudence teaches, that as there are times and seasons for everything, so there are times and seasons for inter!erence with the affairs of a neighbouring nation. There was no want of incli nation to interefere with France after the three days of July; but prudence suggested the expediency of remaining passive. Neither was there any want of in clination to assist the King of the Netherlands to keep down the Belgians. But the French sympathy with the Belgians rendered it prudent to put the doctrines of interference once more in abeyance. We will not contest with M. Guizot the proposition, that there are precedents of interference not one whit more justifiable than would be an interference at present with Spain. But precedents ought not to weigh a rusk against pru dence. The invasion of 1823 by France took place in spite of the protest of Mr. Canning. But the question which M. Guizot has to ask himself is, not what France did in 1823, but what she can safely attempt in 1840 ? (From the Morning Post.) The Parisian press of the Thiers and of the revolu tionary party seem to become only more furious in pro . . . portion as the conduct of the majority in the Legisla. lure is ceol and reasonable. We concur in the opinion of those who regard all;this fury as mere affectation and craft. Never was a whole nation more impudently tricked and imposed upon by persons holding high office in the Government than the French nation has been for some months past. A dishonest press was the instru ment of this imposition, this political fraud, for it deserves no lighter appellation. M. Thiers seems to have thought that he could float himself any where upon the rivers of deceit which the journals at his command poured forth. He persuaded the French nation they were insulted, when in very truth that which he repre sented as an insult to France was simply the conviction of himself as a political cheat. Four leading Powers of Europe, after having in vain called upon France to join in a treaty with them, make a treaty without France, and this is proclaimed to the inflammable mind of France by the journals of M. Thiers as a national in sult ! But what is to be said of the insult given by the Minister of France to those four Powers in trying for mouths to trick and cajole them? What is to be said of the insult of pretending to negotiate with the Four Powers for the settlement of the Turco-Egyptian ques- tion, when, by the recent admission of — t 6 F►ench Minister (happily a Minister no longer), his real object was to gain time, and really to do no thing ? Is that a decent manner in which to deal with the leading Governments of Europe ? Ia that consistent with the honour and dignity and sincerity of a first-rate Government, or is it not rather such paltry and despicable tracasserie as the meanest of all Powers might resort to for the pur pose of keeping up a feigned importance ? Whether was it more insulting to make a Treaty without the par ticipation of France, or to endeavour to cheat the Four Powers into such delay as would have prevented any Treaty from beinz made? So far we go upon the ad misssion of P.I. Thiers, but, besides this, Europe has yet to learn what that very honest and respectable per son was doing at Alexandria and Constantinople while he was trying to cajole the Ministers of the Four Power in London into procrastination and inattention. All these things have yet to be brought before the French public, and no wonder the French jour nals which were the instruments of the delusion of that public should resort to all their cunning to turn away public attention from the coming exposure. (From the Morning Advertiser.) St. Jean d'Acre has fallen into the bands of the English and her allies, that fortress which cur gallant countryman Sir Sydney Smith defended against all the power and military skill of Napoleon—thus proving it to be invulnerable in the bands of Eng lishmen, and yet the subject of their successful assault —nay, of the successful assault of another people when led on by the sons of Britain ; and thus have our Ministers, by their wise measures—by their well-judged so!ection of skilful commanders—by their vigilance—by their promptitude, put an end to all just cause fur war with France (with whom may we ever continue at peace!) and upheld ti,e honour of the British Isles. We would even now, notwithstanding our success, wish to see an end put to hostilities, and provided Mehemet Ali would return to Turkey her Let, and give a guarantee that he will not molest Syria and the other parts of the Turkish empire, we should he happy to find NLnistgrs recommending to the Sultan to con tinue Mehemet Ali in the Pachalic of Egypt. At the sane time we uphold, as we have done upon more than one occasion, that, since his rebellion, be has no more right to the possess.on of Egypt than any Governor of a British island to a claim upon its sovereignty. De facto, et de jure, he is justly removed from the com mand entrusted to him ; and if he prove so contuma cious as not at once to restore the Turkish Let, of which he got possession by the grossest bribery and the most infamous treachery, as well as accept the kind and conciliatory terms offered by Lord Palmer ,ton, we trust that there will be no mealy-inouthedeess: respecting his dethrone - Tient. Every indulgence has been shown to him—every resistance to the honest pur poses of the Treaty of the 15th of July has been cffered by him ; and he is now in a position which calls upon him to heg for mercy, instead of that of attempting to assert rights, The news from France is pacific, so far as the reasoning classes are concerned. We cannot con ceive 'low it couid be otherwise if the Government of th at country be composed of sensible raen ; and we are dis• posed to believe that it now is. It would be the height of folly for two nations, in whose hands the liberties of Europe may be said to be placed, to w,nir out their resources in a war with each other. It is now ad ulated by her most enlightened statesmen that France has nothing to complain of Great Britain in entering into the Quadruple Alliance. It was the fault or the will of France that she was not a party to the Treaty. It was not England or the other parties to the Treaty that isolated France ; but France iso- I hated herself through the agency of her late Cabinet. One good, however, has resulted from the hostile pre paratians of the late French Ministry ; it has put the revilers of our navy and naval resources to shame ; they hide their diminished heads. They are now com pelled to allow that our navy, in the size of the ships, in their armaments, in all their mateliel of war—in skilful and brave commanders — in every requ:site sup - I ply is unsurpassed by the navy of bygone tines—that it I is a navy manned by sailors, not by landsman, or even men accustomed to river craft or to canal boats—but by 1 To/officer sailors, entering of their own free will, neither coerced by impressment, nor inveigled by kidnapping. (From the Morning Herald.) _ _ The Standard has, in our opinion, acted an honour able part—a part which is certainly not calculated to lower the character of the periodical press in the opinion of society, in having declined, even at the re quest or demand of the Duke of Wellington himself, to give up the names of the correspondents, or the name of any one of them, from whom it received informa tion of his Grace having admitted that he had been deceived touching the Irish Municipal Corporations Bill. The Morning Post takes a different view of the subject, and lectures the Standard upon the du ties of a public Journalist in such a matter. All who wish to see the press respectable rather than degraded—independent rather than servile—power ful rather than weak—will prefer the practice of the Standard on this point to the opinion of the Post. A consciousness of having been imposed upon by wilful deception would indeed justify the Standard in complying with the request of tile Duke of Welling ton ; but the editor of that journal disclaims the notion of any wi/fiddeception having been practised upon him ; he, therefore, properly adheres to his rule " not to compromise any friend who has misinformed him, be \cause he kno ws th a t th e m i s i n f orma ti on must be the re sult of err or ." But there are those who move in a high rank i n soc i ety who ought, perhaps, to feel themselves ' h w o h u i n eh d in honour Standard to give the Duke the information feels its e lf b oun d in honour to We withhold. quote from our evening Contemporary the following observations,ar ,v \ in the propriety of which we fully concur : , a do not wi s h t o concea l our opinions," s a y s the Standard, "that sonic of the 1 noblemen who rep orte d , tly with little reserve, and always with a fri e ndlavpp- en the profession (of havin g - been to war d s hi s G race , Duke, ought to give an n deceived) a ppli e d to th e they reported ; but this, hmubly submit, is explanationa of that which for their discretion, not for ours. There has, 1 questionless, been some misund erstanding in the case, which can be cleared up satisfactorily only by with all the particulars. tho se ac quainted Tuo Duke has, by his demand, as it must be understood, disti nctly eor:tra dicted what the No blemen in question have re ported of him. They owe it to their character for veracity to explain the grounds of their misapprehension." We have marked the last sentence in italics to distingui s h i t emphatically as containing the pith of this temperate and THE SUN, I,ON ON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 .840 judicious appeal to the innate honour of high-minded men ;—we can add nothing to strengthen it. Had the Standard stopped there, we should have had no further comment to make. But it proceeds to give a reason for its refusal of the Duke of Wellington's demand, which reason we do not like so well as the refusal itself. No thing can be better than the conduct pursued, and no thing can be worse than the reason given. (From the Globe.) Our readers will remember that a few weeks ago the Rev. Hugh Stowell was reported to have said at a public meeting— " That a gentleman of high respectability in Yorkshire, who presided at our meeting there, told me that a Roman Catholic gentleman, of distinction and honourable conduct in the county, said, in conversation with him, I hope there will be a war with France, and I hope France will conquer England, because then our Church will have a chance of recovering her rights." Knowing the Reverend agitator's character for veracity, we did not make any further inquiry ; but Mr. Ander son, the President of the York Catholic Society, wrote to him requesting to know whether be used the words impnted to him ; and, if so, asking for the names of the Chairman and Catholic gentleman. To this Mr. Stowell replies, in a style which, in a less eminent Pro- testant, would be called jesuitical— ' In answer to your inquiries, I may state generally, that I do not hold myself responsible for what may appear in such reports of my speeches as those given by the Lon don papers of my recent address in Exeter Hall. A few handfuls of broken fragments from a speech of nearly two hours, can only convey a very false impression of its statements." He neither admits nor denies the accuracy of the re port, and he was not asked as to general impressions, but simply the names of two persons about whom there could be no mistake, and for whom he could not be under any restraint of delicacy. If the communication to him was confidential, he was guilty of treachery to his friend in betraying it ; if not, be is guilty towards the country in allowing the " Cath olic gentleman" to re tain his influence after having uttered a wish which, if known, would certainly destroy it. But Mr. Stowell adds 'a At the same time, as I do not at all consider you to be authorised in attempting to interrogate me respecting what I may choose to say in public, I must decline entering into any explanation en the subject of your letter." Now, if Mr. Andersun, as President of the York Catholic Association, is not authorised to inquire into the truth of a statement which, being made against one Yorkshire Catholic gentleman unnamed, applied to all, it would be difficult to say who is. Does Mr. Stowell claim the right of making injurious assertions against any persons, so that he avoids mentioning names ? Should he again venture, after this exposure, to show himself at Exeter Hall, we trust that some one will be found to insist upon an explanation, for the honour of that place. Possibly he may then take a leaf out of the book of his fellow-labourer M'Neile, and say that the chairman of the meeting was metaphorical, and the Catholic gentleman typical and tropical, meaning Je zebel and the Church of Rome. Those who believed one may believe the other. With the public we pre sume the matter is settled, and that no one henceforth will have the busy idleness of inquiring into the truth of any facts which Mr. Stowell may state, merely ob serving that they rest on his authority, which will give them the same currency that a bank-note receives after payment has been refused and a certain ominous word stamped at the corner. (From the Standard.) The news of the reduction of St. Jean d'Acre has rekindled the fury of the anti-English press in Paris. The National has a very angry article upon the sub ject, in which it imputes to this country the design of retaining permanent possession of the place, and Cyprus also, as the keys to Egypt, and as command ing the overland route to India. We believe that in the hands of England, or of any other nation commanding the seas, Acre would be im pregnable. The failure of Napoleon before the place when defended by Sir Sidney Smith with a few sailors and marines, and a force of undisciplined Turks, seems to establish the fact, and Cyprus being an island, would be of course unassailable except by some nation possessing a naval superiority. But what of this? If England obtain possession of either or both, by fair and legitimate means ; and if she cannot use them in any manner injurious to the safety of the status quo in Europe, or to the general interest of mankind, why should she not retain the acquisition ? We know nothing of the intention of our Government in this respect, but we wish the question to be calmly considered, as one of justice and general policy. That the acquisition of Acre and Cyprus would add to the commercial resources and to the defensive strength of the United Kingdom, may be conceded to our French accusers. But what then ? His it been ever before beard that a nation may not lawfully aug ment her commercial resources, and add to her defensive strength by means which are in themselves legitimate, and which infringe nothing upon the rights or interests of others? The advancement of the world in civi;izl don and happiness must remain for ever at a stand, it each nation is to be held in check by the jealousy of its neighbours. From the Courier.) In our paper of the 1,...1th, we adverted to some oc currences that had taken place in the Colonial Com mittee of the Church of Scotland of a complexion to dis gust every man of a truly Christian and liberal spirit. We were not aware when sse wrote our remarks, that the question had been referred from the acting Sub- Committee of that body to the General Committee ; we were under the impression that the matter had be come final ; and that the deed of cruelty and injustice had been ix rpetrated. It appears, however, from an Edinburgh paper now before us—the Observer—that the question of cancelling the appointment of the gen tleman who had at one time been so unanimously and warmly recommended, had ben left over to a meeting of the Genera! Committee which took place on the 17th inst. at Edinburgh. At this meeting it was taken up ; and the appointment objected to by Mr. Dunlop and Mr. Candlish, on the distinct ground that the gentleman —a Mr. Duff—had attended the ministrations of one of the suspended ministers of Strathbogie, in whose parish be held the office of parochial schoolmaster. It was intimated by Principal Macfarlane, the venerable convener of the Clinnuttee, that relying on the high approbation which he had received from the Committees both in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Mr. Duff had actu ally proceeded to Berbice. the scene of his future labours ; and Principal Macfarlane and others im plored the Committee not to permit their party politics to interfere under such circumstances with the appoint ment of a young man highly qualified, and earnestly desired by the Presbyterian population in Berbice. All in vain ! Mr. Duff had attended the ministrations of Mr. Afirdyee ; and on a rote of sonic forty to five! the Colonial Committee refused to sanction his appoint ment ! We need scarcely add, that one of the first fruits of a proceeding so outrageous of all decency has been the retirement of Principal Macfarlane from all further concern in the management of the Committee's affairs; and we arc given to understand that the very public a state ment of the reasons which have compelled hurt to take this step. POST-OFFICE INJUSTICE TO SCOTLAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Kelly, Monday, Nov. 23, 1840. SIR,—You had the kindness to publish very lately a communication from me on the absurd and highly im politic detention of the Foreign Mails for Scotland, between Saturday night and Monday morning in London, and if the report in The Sun of the 21st turns out to be well-founded, the fact will be verified in a very striking manner. It is there stated that a rumour was prevalent of the acquiescence of Mehemet Ali in the demands of the Four Great Powers, having reached London as on Sa turday, being the 21st, in which case my prediction will have been verified as to the question of peace or war having been hung up in the London Post-office for a longer space of time than would be required to bring the very welcome news to us in Scotland by our own mail-coaches, which are, nevertheless, sent empty towards us at their usual s peed. This intelligence, so interesting to all, and especially to a manufacturing population struggling for its ex istence, instead of being confirmed by the mail which will arrive this afternoon, or that which will come in to-morrow morning so opportunely at the hour at which business commences, cannot be confirmed until the af ternoon of Tuesday, and that at an hour after which little business is transacted. Is not this an intolerable abuse of power by the Post master-General, for which I firmly believe there is no law to support him, but m erely an inveterate custom of extending a system of indulgence to the servants of the public in the London Post-office, which is denied to the same class of men all over the rest of the empire.? In thus accusing the present Postmaster -General, it is but fair to say that in this respect he is merely follow ing in the same old-fashioned beaten track as his prede cessors have done. This being admitted, however, does not mend the matter, but merely shows that our titled aristocracy do not sympathize with the feelings and ne cessities of the great body of the people ; they do not mix with them—they cannot comprehend the intense interest which the mercantile community feel in peace or war ; or the consequences to this manufacturing country, having their correspondence and their foreign Prices Current forwarded with the utmost despatch ; and thus the old slovenly system is continued at this day in the General Post•otficc of London, as if Day Mails and Penny Postage had not yet been forced upon it. I have thought it right to offer proof of the manifest injustice of keeping back the foreign mails for Scotland, although all ready for being despatched in mail coaches, which are so empty for want of them, and this must plead ray excuse for writing so soon on the same subject. I am, Sir, your obedient, servant, ROBART WALLACE. POPERY AND PROTESTANTISM TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN Is Catholicism what she is represented to be ? Sts,—That Catholicism bears the stigma of cruelty is an undoubted fact ; that they are taxed with it at all the public meetings of the opposite party is equally a fact. It is a subject that the lecturers of the opposite party delight to expatiate upon, to dwell upon with an intensity of feeling and enthusiasm astonishing to the hearer upon that subject; they exert all their eloquence and depict it in the most dark and loathsome shape, forgetting the while the cruelties those of their own persuasion have committed. They forget those institutions of bigotry and intolerance — I allude to the Star Chamber and High Commission Court, whose walls have rung with the shrieks and groans of their dying victims ; they forget the scenes of Charles the First, with its pillories and executioners, that man whose memory, instead of being revered, ought rather to be ac cursed in the sight of Englishmen ; they forget the arbi trary measures that were adopted, the numberless beings deprived of their members and their existence for a simple act or expression, and yet they prate about the Inquisition I I do not defend the individual acts of men ; I defend the creed they profess, and deny that Catholism inculcates such principles. The actions of Titus Oates and his ac complices are too glaring to be passed over without a few comments. That man, if ever man was a disgrace to human nature he was, as historical facts will prove—num bers of men were deprived either of their existence or fined to a great extent, the only evidence of their guilt being the oath of a most abandoned character, Titus Oates. For his praiseworthy efforts in the cause of Protes tantism, he was allowed a pension of 1,2001. a year, with a mansion situate at the back of Whitehall, his accomplices being provided for equally the same. When they blazon forth the actions of Guido Faux and the conspirators of the sth of November, they do not consider that those men wete the victims of the most determined cruelty and oppression that could be thought of or invented. The penal laws that were made by the pre decessors of James 1., and which had been suffered to lie dormant, were upon his accession enforced with the utmost rigour against those men whose religion was their only crime—a price was set upon the heads of all Catholic cler'cal personages, according to the post they commanded —every man should attend the parish church or be fined a heavy sum—no man dare educate his children in the tenets of his creed—if any man went to hear mass, for two offences Ise was heavily fined, and it detected the third time, the punishment wasdeath—and, in fact, to sum up, their whole lit'e was a misery to them. Can we blame men who would try to rid themselv-s of their oppressors? The Circassiatis are callei heroes, and the Greeks brave men, for ridding themselves of oppression and injustice, and have not this others equally a right to rid themselves of oppr ss;on. Th icere ince, and, as men, subject to men's pa,sion. The only difference betAeen the two in ridding themselves of injustice, was the means— one used powdtr in one shape and the other in a different one, the same desire animstsd tie whole equally alike. Tracing history to a later period, and glancing at the scenes of blood and rapine, under the auspices of that most pious and exemplary Prince, George the Third, when men's homes were made desolate, and themselves turned out to die on a cold wintry night—when the flames shut up to the sky with lurid glare from their hitherto peaceful dwaliings, and the inmates forced from them arn,clA the brutal insults of a lawless soldie r y. These are scenes that excite men's passions, change their v er y nature , an d re duce them to the level of the brute ; but the crime rests upon the heads of the oppressors. I might ask who has guided those men to com.nit the actions I have described ? true an —Men who new preach against Catholics on account of their cruekies, forgetting their own ; those mild and Chris tian-like simple shepherds, who could Iced the pastors, ll those u s kct so f thesoldiery d while they fired upon th,. wretched violins. I point to those seen, sat Rath eermac. Such scenes as those are carefully concealed, while the actions of Catholics are blazoned forth to the world by such harbingers as Stowell and Co. I remain, your's respectfully, Nov. 25, 1840. J. MEGINNIS. SOUTH EAS7IEI,N RAILWAY MBgirtNG. The Half-yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in the above Company took 'place yesterday at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, at one o'clock, T. F. Tyn- dale, Esq., in the chair. The Secretary having read the advertisement conven ing the meeting, from which it appeared that in addi tion to the business brought forward at the usual half yearly meeting, the present meeting would also have to consider of the agreement proposed to be entered into with the Croydon and Brighton Companies for a share in the terminus at London Bridge, and for other matters agreeably to the provisions of the Act of last Session, for which purpose the present meeting was to be con sidered a special one, and the usual preliminary busi ness having been gone through, The CHAIRMAN proposed that the common seal of the Company be affixed to the register of the Proprietors. Mr. TYRRELL said that the Chairman had held up a book it was true, but how were they to know it was a register of Proprietors ? He should wish to have some intormation relating to the register before he proceeded further. The CHAIRMAN said the book was on the table, and any Proprietor might look at it, and acquire auy infor- tuition for himself. Mr. TYRRELL would wish to know how many shares the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman held ? The DEPEITY CHAIRMAN—I hold between 200 and 300, and my friend next me holds considerably more. A PROPRIETOR—How many does Mr. Tyrrell hold? The CHAIRMAN—Five shares. He purchased five shares just previously to the last meeting, and the day after the meeting he sold them again ; on the day pre vious to the books closing before this meeting he again purchased five shares, which he now holds.—(Cheers, laughter, and cries of " Shame.") The SECRETARY then read the 100th section of the Act, requiring the seal to be affixed to the register, and the motion was then put and agreed to, with one dis sentient only. The CHAIRMAN said that as the Report of the Directors had been printed and circulated amongst the Proprietors, he should not detain them by offering any obervations on it, but merely state that after the read ing of that Report, the Report of Mr. Cubitt, the en gineer of the Company, would be laid before them. Mr. TYRRELL wished toe minutes of the last meeting • ' to be read, and made a motion to that effect, which was seconded by— Mr. DOWDESWELL, who, not having been present at the last meeting, wished to know what the proceedings had been. Tnis was resisted by several Proprietors on account of the great loss of time which it would occasion, and it was suggested that those Proprietors who wished infor mation as to the proceedings of former meetings should take measures to inform themselves thereof without taking up the time of those who were already in posses sion of such information. 'The motion of Mr. TYRRELL was then put and lost by an overwhelming majority. The following Report was then read by the Secretary : Since the half-yearly meeting in May last, material pro gress has been made in the prosecution of this undertaking. The whole of the land throughout the line is now (with the exception of eight acres, for which the treaties are in progress) purchased upon satisfactory terms, and the greater portion paid for and conveyed to the Company. In the Godstone district, extending from the junction with the Brighton Railway to Bough Beech, the works arc in course of execution in eight separate contracts. From Bough Beech to Tunbridge the works are in a very advanced state. Part of that division will be com plete in the present year; and the cuttings at Penshurst and Leigh, and the corresponding embankment in the :Medway Valley, in the next summer; and the Directors have much satisfaction in stating, that the cost of the works in ti►e Tunbridge district will be considerably below the amount stated in Mr. Cubitt's Report of November last. From Tunbridge eastward to the turnpike road at Sia plehurst (fifty miles from London, and an important centre for the traffic of Kent and East Sussex) a large portion of the earthwork is done; other works have been contracted for, aitd arrangements are made for putting the whole in hand as soon as the weather will admit. The works in this additional length are light, and easy of construction; they may be completed at a comparatively small cost per mile, and this portion of the line opened at the same time with that to Tunbridge, or very soon after wards. _ _ The works in progress between Dover and Folkestone have continued to advance steadily and in a satisfactory manner; but, as the gre it object of the Directors is to complete the line to Staplehurst in the first instance, those works are only kept in such a state of progression as will admit of their being completed simultaneously with the lighter intermediate district between Folkestone and Sta• plehurst. Contracts for the supply of iron rails have been entered into at reasonable prices. Tne shares, which, by the Resolutions of the general and spechl general meetings of the 26th May and 16th July last were declared forfeited, were disposed of by public tender on the 9th June and the 28th July, and the purchase-money was duly paid and carried to account, and forms part of the receipts stated in the annexed account. Since that time the Directors have, by resolutions under date of the 21st of July last, declared certain shares for fcitad for nun-payment of calls. Payments in redemption of the forfeiture to a considerable extent have been made, but there are caste where there is no prospect of obtaining such redemption, and the Directors submit to this meeting to confirm the forfeiture of such shares. In their last Report the Directors adverted to the state of the Proceedings before Parliament on the subject of the station at London-bridge. These proceedings terminated in giving powers to the Greenwich Railway Company to coostruct two additional lines of rails to the south of the present line, from London-bridge to Corbett's lane, where the Croydon diverges from the Greenwich Railway : au thority was also given to the Greenwich and Croydon Companies to exchange stations; and the latter Company 's, by another Act of the same Session, empowered, either in conjunction with the Brighton and South-Eastern Com panies, or without, to procure an additional space for a sta tion beyond that which the Greenwich Company are to provide, in exchange for the Croydon station. The Directors have considered it desirable for the inte rests of th's Company to co-operate with the other two Companies in effecting these objects, and they have for some time been engaged in maturing the arrangements necessary for this purpose. Three members of each Board have net weekly on the subject, and an agreement has been framed for carrying into effect the proposed arrange ments, subject to the sanction of this meeting, which is made special for the purpose of considering it. The sub stance of the agreament is, that a station, covering the present Greenwich Railway station, with some other ground adjoining, and sufficient for the purposes of the South-Eastern, Brighton, and Croydon Companies, as a City terminus in the centre of London, shall be built at the joint cost of the three Companies. By these arrange ments this Company will secure to itself the advantages of a good and established station, at one-third of the cost, under a control in which their interests will be fairly re oreseeted and protected. It will be. seen by the statement of accounts appended to this Report, that some expenses have already been incur red for this purpose. By this expenditure, amongst other advantages, the Directors have obtained an abatement of 50 per cent. on the additional toll claimed by the Green wich Company for the use of their line. A further ex penditure will necessarily be required ; but the Directors do not at present intend to call on the Proprietors to put in force the powers granted to them by the Legislature, of raising an additional capital for the station. The best feel ing is entertained by the three Boards towards each other ; and your Directors look forward to the beneficial results which must arise from the cordial union of the three par ties, in carrying into effect an object of so much import ance to their common interests. The state of the accounts to the Ist of October last ap pears by the balance sheet annexed, showing a balance of 4.1,184/. 12s. 7d. at the disposal of the Company. STATEMENT OF RECEI?TS AND EXTENDITURE TO BE ?RE SENTED TO THE HALF•YEARLY CENEEAL MEETING OF FROPRIETORS TO BE HELD Nov. 26, 1840. RECEIPTS. s. d. S. d. Amount received per Account presented to last Half-Yearly Meeting, May 26, 1940 258,524 8 6 Do. from April 2 to Oct. 1, 1840, on account of Capital 149,292 12 6 Do., do., interest 713 12 7 Do., do., Land re-sold 459 10 0 408,990 3 7 Expimnixtr RE. Amount expended per Account presented last Half-Yearly Meeting, May 26, 1840 244,253 2 4 Do. from April 2 to Oct 1, 1840, viz. : Advertisements, Printing, En graving, and Stationery 4Bl 12 11 Engineering. Surveying..... Valuation of Land. Works ............. Land and Compens ation 50,173 8 1 Parliamentary Agents, session 328 6 10 1840 Solicitor, to March, 1840 2,055 3 4 Direction, for three quarters of a year.... 862 10 0 Salaries to secretaries and clerk! 492 10 0 Office Expenses, including Rent, Taxes, Repairs, Tra yelling, and Incidental Ex penses . . 484 3 9 Police 124 3 3 Interest on paid-up Capital to April 30, 1840 3,674 19 7 South-East Canterbury Rail way Company, Balance of Liabilities ... London-bridge Station, on Ac count.. . ..... 1,000 0 0 364,405 11 0 Balance.. ............ £44,584 12 7 The Report of Mr. W. Cubitt, the engineer to the Company, was then read, dated 2Gth N ovember, 1840, from which it appeared that the works at Tewdly were in a state of active progress ; and that at Tunbridge they were nearly completed, so as to be ready for the laying down of the permanent way; while at Staple hurst they were all fenced off. He calculated that in the spring of 1842, the railway would be open to Tun bridge, and to Staplehurst, twelve miles beyond, in the summer of the same yea r. It was desirable to com plete this line to the Ashford station in the same time, as it might be done at lass proportional cost than si,p ing short either at Tunbridge or Staplehurst. The works at Folkstone and Dover were rapidly progress ing, the two Shakspere tunnels were completed, the sea wall erected. The works here were in such a state of progress, that this portion of the line might be com pleted as soon as the line to Ashford was open, cr, if found desirable to open it sooner, it might be dote. From the experience of the past year, he had been able to revise the data upon which he had calculated his estimates for 1839, and the following had been the re sult of such revision : GODSTONE DISTRICT OF 13 MILES. Estimate of 1839.... £248,406 Revised estimate, 1840 .. £646 Increase TUNBRIDGE DISTRICT, 15 Estimate, 1839 Revised estimate, 1840 Diminution £83,931 ASHFORD DISTRICT, 23i MILES. Estimate, 1839 Revised estimate, 1840 Diminution £4,508 DOVER DISTRICT, 13i MILES. Estimate, 1839 Revised estimate, 1840 Increase Making, upon the whop line, a diminution of 22,9681, upon the estimate of 1839 ; s' that, making every al lowance for contingencies, it appeared certain that the total expense of the works would not exceed the es timate of November 1839. In the Tunbridge district the works would cost upwards of _Bo,oool. less ban Mid been estimated, this diminution could be ac• counted for from various causes, one of which was, the great talent and efficiency which had been exhi bited by the resident engineers at the different parts of the line, to whose great merits he thought it his duty to bear this testimony.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the Report. Mr TYRRELL wished some explanation of the ac counts. He then proceeded to ask in a low tone of voice a string of questions, to which The CHAIRMAN replied that he was at a loss to com prehend what Mr. Tyrrell wanted or required. He was willing to give every explanation to the Company as to its transactions. It was well known that some time since the Company had been in Jifficulties, those it had surmounted, but at that ,time they had been obliged to issue shares at 12 discount, and, of course, they bad occasioned a deficiency. A PROPRIETOR said Mr. Tyrrell had frequently been answered at former meetings when he had asked those questions, and really it was unnecessarily occupying the time of the meeting; he would therefore move that he be not answered . Mr. TYRRELL himself, amidst loud laughter, se. cooled the motion. _ _ _ The CHAIRMAN wished it to b*i understood that he distinctly denied ever having refused to give any intor nrition. Mr. Tyrrell would understand to what he alluded. . . . Tne question was then put and carried unanimously. Mr. DODSWELL wished to know the amount realised by the shares declared forfeited and disposed of by public tender. The SECRETARY.-43,359./. 123. 6d. A PROPRIETOR wished to know the amount paid for land. The SECRETARY-205,0001, to be paid, of which sum 117,953/. is paid, and there are 128 acres of land to re-sell. The CHAIRMAN—The cost of land for the whol 6 miles will be under '200,000/. A PROPRIETOR—Does Mr. Cubitt's Report include the works necessary to complete the stations ? CHAIRMAN—Yes, including the large station at Tunbridge. In answer to the observation of a Proprietor, Mr. CUBITT said that he considered the expense of the plant for the whole line would not exceed 100,0001. Mr. PARCELS suggested an alteration in the mode of making out the accounts to be laid before the half. yearly meetings, with a view to simplify them. The CHAIRMAN was obliged by the suggestion ; which should be adopted. Mr. PARCELS also suggested that for the future Mr. Cubitt's report should be printed, and circulated with the report of the Directors, previous to the general half-yearly meeting ; which, after some little discus sion, as agreed to. In answer to an observation of a proprietor, as to the probability of the Brighton line being open in 1841, and the South-Eastern not being open until 1842, Mr. CUBITT said that if the money was forthcoming the work would be done, and he could have done double the work he had done if he had had double the money. The SECRETARY observed that if the Proprietors had paid up the calls properly, much greater progress would have been made. The time of the completion of the line depended on themselves. The Report was then agreed to. The CHAIRMAN then moved that the resolution of the Board of Directors of the lOth of April last, de claring certain shares forfeited, be confirmed. The shares declared forfeited at the last meeting bad, in conformity with the resolution, been cold as mentioned in the Report ; he should presently have a similar reso lution to propose with regard to shares declared forfeited by the Daectors on the 16th July last ; while there was any chance of obtaining payment of the arrears the Di rectors would not declare such shares forfeited, but in the present instance there was no such chance. The total number of shares proposed to be forfeited was 509, and no more. Mr. TYRRELL wished to know who the shareholders were whose share' it was proposed to forfeit ? Tne SECRETARY would also be glad to know who they were, and it was only because he did not in many instances know who they were, or where they wero to be found, that be proposed to forfeit the shares. The resolution was then agreed to. A resolution was then proposed confirmatory of the forfeitures declared by the Directors on the 26th July. Tile SECRETARY said that of the Shares proposed to forfeited, '25 stood in the name of John Russell, who was nowhere to be found ; 400 stood in the names of seven Proprietors who had become either bankrupt or insolvent. Against two judgments had been ob teined, but there was no finding them to execute the judgments. Two shares belonged to one Proprietor who had died leaving no representative, and four Pro prietors bad forfeited the shares, but no loss would be entailed upon the Company by such forfeiture. With regard to these last, in answer to questions from Mr. Dodsa'ell, the Secretary stated that those parties were solvent, and had entered into a binding contract to take an equal number of shares with those declared forfeited, Mr. DODSWELL could not understand why, if they were solvent, they should. be released from the liability by the forfeiture of the shares. The SECRETARY said the case was this—Suppose a party had sold his shares, and executed a transfer to a person who did not choose to register, the seller had no legal title to such shares, and the Company could only assist such persons by declaring the shares forfeited and re-assigning them to the parties, but the Company would not do this without stipulating that the parties thus assisted, should take them at the full value, so as that the Company should sustain no loss. 'rho resolution was then agreed to. In answer to a question from Mr. PARCELS, The SEcnr,TART stated that the average amount due upon each share was 9/. ; 18/. had been paid up upon most of them. The CHAIRMAN then moved that the epitome of the agreement proposed to be entered into between the Croydon Company, the Brighton Company, and the South Eastern Company for their joint property in the station at London-bridge, should be read. They would recollect that during the last Session of Parlia ment, great apprehension had been expressed of the occurrence of dangerous collisions of the Brighton, the Croydon, and the South-Eastern Railways, were all to terminate at London-bridge, at the Greenwich terminus, apprehensions not without grounds, as the Greenwich trains ran every quarter of an hour, and some times every five minutes, Parliament interfered. The Greenwich Com pany presented a Bill, authorizing them to construct other lines of rails to the south, so as to avoid any colli sion with the Croydon or Brighton trains ; this, after a struggle, they obtained. The Croydon Company also obtained an Act, authorizing an exchange of stations with the Greenwich Company, so that now the Croy don Company possessed the terminus near Lon don -bridge, and they were empowered, either con jointly with the Brighton and South-Eastern Com panies, or without their assistance, to enlarge the station, which they have obtained from the Greenwich Company. The estimated expense of this was 111,5001., which would be 37,136/. Is. 4d. for each Company. Parliament had empowered them to issue additional shares to carry this arrangement into effect, but the Directors did not at present purpose to avail theniselves of that power, and he trusted it would not be necessary. The epitome of the agreement was then read, from which it appeared that it was proposed that the pro perty of the station should be in the three Companies, to be vested in the Croydon Company as trustees, The payment of the 37,1361. Is. 4d. to be made in the following manner by the Brighton and South-Eastern Companies :-5,0001. on the Ist of December next ; 5,0001. on the sixth month after ; 5,000/. in twelve months, and the remainder, 22.1661., to six ,ears : the money outstanding, after the first payment, to be at do interest of Five per cents, per annum. The Croydon Company, in default of any of the payments, to declare all former share of such defaulting Company, toge ther with ti former deposits, forfeited. The manag ement of tile _ e station to be delegated to nine persons , three to . b named by each Company. The- Managers to receive an annual salary of 1,000/. Three Managersby the s to be a i quorum. Each Manager to be e removal m o e nmtp toan y b e appointing b y h m a epaaencyire,snit t the lse man re signation, or death of whose Manager ha,,y have occa sioned it. All expenses of the station to be jointly borne by the, three Companies. Either Company making de fault in payment, the other two Companies to declare CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. James Wheeler, a sailor, aged 36, was indicted for felo niously stabbing and w,,unding William Adams, upon the high seas, and within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, with intent to maim and disable or to do him some grievious bodily harm. Mr. CHAMBERS defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that the transaction in question took place on the lith of September The pro secutor (who could not attend to give evic! •ccc) was the mate of a barque called the Duke of Wellington, and on the day in question the vessel was sailing off Newfound land, when a squabble took place between the prosecutor and the prisoner on account of the latter refusing to do something that he was ordered, and as the prosecutor was descending from the rigging, with a marling spike in his hand, the prisoner said, " If )ou have got a marling spike, I have got a knife," and at the same moment he drew a sharp-pointed knife from a sheath hanging by his side, and he stuck it into the prosecutor's belly. It appeared the Captain called upon the prisoner to surrender himself, but be refused, and upon.the Captain presenting a pistol at him, he drew his knife again, and told him that if he missed with the pistol, he (prisoner) would not miss him. The prisoner, how ever, was ultimately secured, and placed in restraint. The prosecutor, it appeared, although severely wounded, speed ily recovered from the injury he received, and had left the vessel, and it was not known where he had gone to. Mr. CHAMBERS, in his address to the jury, commented upon the Asence of the prosecutor, and submitted that as he had not thought fit to come forward, the prisoner ought not to be convicted. The RECORDER summed up the evidence, and the jury after a long deliberation, found the prisoner guilty of the assault with intent do the prosecutor some grievous bodily harm. The RECORDER sentenced the prisoner to be transported for fifteen years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A DRUNKEN WATCHNIAN.-Jarnes Clarke, a private watchman, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Long, the presiding Magistrate, charged with being drunk and dis orderly. Police constable No. 43, C division, stated that between 2 and 3 o'clock this morning, while proceeding on his duty along Leicester-square, he met the defendant, whom he knew to be a private watchman there, evidently very far gone in liquor and staggering along crying " half past JO." On telling him of the mistake he was making as to the hour, he persisted he was right, and went on. In about half an hour afterwards, witness again met him calling " half-past five, " and in a quarter of an hour afterwards, witness found him extended, snoring, on the footway-pavement, opposite to Saville house, resting on his lantern, in which the candle was still burning, by way of pillow. Witness aroused him, but finding he was quite incapable of taking care of himself, took him to the station-house. Mr. LoNe asked the defendant whether he thought him self a fit person to be entrusted as a watchman. The defendant said he was quite ashamed of himself, but the fact was, that he had been drinking with a friend, which he had not seen for twenty years, and had not kept so strict a watch upon himself as he ought. Mr. LONG said he should discharge the defendant as most probably he would lose his situation through his folly. CLERICAL INFECLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The R••v. Alexander Armand, to the perpetual curacy of Road, near Northampton, vacant by the death of the 11,v. W. Butlin. The Rcv. John Fox, M A., to the perpetual curacy of Kit by Beliars, I.,:icestersluire. Patron, Sir F. Burdett, Bart. The Rev. Arthur Nugent Buckerid ge to the rectory cf Kennerleigh, Devon, void by the resignation of the Rev. W. John Kirkne3s. The Rt v. Richard Blackmore, to the rectory of Charles. near Southmolton, void by the death of the Rev. William H. Vivian. The Rev. Thomas Young, to the perpetual curacy of Salcombe, void by the death of the Rev. Robert Lane. The Rev. W. Berm, B. A , curate of Bolton, to the rec tory of Corney, Cumberland, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Harrison. The Rev. Henry Walton, to the curacy of Kirkby Ireleth, Lancashire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Robert Ash burner. Patron, the Rev. J. T. Kirkbank. The Rev, Thomas Hooper, Clerk, A. 8., to the rectory of Elkstone, in the county of Gloucester, vacant by the death of the Rev. Fulwar Craven Fowle. The Re v . A . Irwin, Secretary to the Curate ' s F un d So ciety, to be pri vate secretary to t h e L or d P r i ma t e of Ireland. The R ev . Mr. Hughes, M. A., to be curate of East bourne, Sussex. K. - The Rev. F. Baddieorn, M. A., F. A. S (late Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge), has been appointed per petual cur ate of the pßrish and principal of the Clerical College of St. Bees 1 11 t he room of the late Rev. Dr. Ainger. The Lord L . ir venatit of Ireland has presented to the newly constituted recto r y of Portglenone, the Rev. John Leslie Nevin s; sou of theßev. Jamei Nevins. At his father's OBITUARY. hous e near Merthyr Tydvil, Glamor ganshire, the ill" . Morgan Watkins, B. A., vicar of the parish of Southwell and Bleasby, Nottinghamshire, in the 41st year of his a ge. At the house of his uncle, in Suffolk, where he had gone for the benefit cf his health, th e Rev. W. S. Sinclair, in t he 36th year of hi s age, leaving a widow and one chil d (in Cambridge) unprovided for, to lament their loss. SPORTING INTELLI64ENCE. bal: absencebacked dfor a, several t o ri f fiea T ATT E RSKL 12 S_YEsTEspaT. In consequence scribers at the Northampton Steeple Chase, the . attend.. ance yesterday afternoon was thin and the betting flat. t l 7 to o f l t .h 7 ei to su b t i and for 1,000 even against Cameleon, but had a decided call The Rosalie colt w in subsequentorders ; the 1,1 00 to 1,000 ou Ca:Deleon Arainst Eringo, can scarcely be taker, as indicating their relative po sitions; 20 to 1 was taken'three or four times about Eringo, and 18 to 1 offered about the other, who was not ba cked out right ; we should say th a t at the' finish they were even favourites. Marshal Soult was in favour at 20 to 1, taken to a thousand pounds; the few other engagements do not require any notice beyond what is contained in the fol lowing list of the latest of prices : 17 to 1 agst Rosalie colt 18 to 1 agst Camelion 20 to 1 agst Marshall Soult—taken 20 to 1 agst Eringo—taken 30 to 1 gst Sir Hans 33 to 1 apt Wahab—taken 50 to I agst Sitneon—taken 2000 to 30 agst Gammon Box—taken 1000 to 15 agst Finchley 1000 to 14 agst Ermengardis--taken 1000 to 10 agst Traffic —taken 200 on Sir Hans against each of the following►, one bet : —Rosalie, Eringo, Coronation, Camelion, Marshal Soult, Ralph, Prince Caradoc, Joachim, brother to Tom, and Wahab. 200 on Prince Caradoc agst each of ten in one bet, and the same horses taken except Prince Caradoe and Wahab, for whom the Duke of Wellington and Knight of the Whistle were substituted 1000 even Rosalie agst Caruelior, 1100 to 1000 on Cameleou agst Eringo—taken EVE*l\il:N, 6- Ers - t T 1 ON: , . _ .... ---- -- the share of such Company so making ' 5l "-th ' l ' 4 ult forf,ited. Neither the Brighton n or the Soi..`o"East4 rn to ert .et Companies to make application to Parliament or any terminus within half a m ile of Lotlon-bri(lite, to make any new railway witho ut g ivin g the Cro.Ydi )" 4 Company the refusal of joining in such new prop( ‘si ra ilway. In case of any disagre etm.nt betwern t 'lle three Companies, application to be made to the Pr( dent of of the Board of Trade to name arbitrators ; at. 'cl, in case of his refusal, to the Chairman of the ondc P and Birmingham Railway Company ; the decLision lf such arbitrators so appointed to be final. In answer to questions from various Proprietors, Toe CHAIRMAN stated that b y the agreement am Company not only. acquired a property in th e Croych at term us, but in certain houses adjacent, and that by 'i° in outlay of 1,0001. in watching the Parliameatar. Y V.: ''''o; ceedings they had succeeded in r educin g the to1i • l' G for by the Greenwich Company from 3d. down to lit pass'ng over the lne. The agreement i was then confirmed. Thanks Vi er : then voted to the Directors, and the meetin g sepal 'o'99' THE LALTE STORMS. (From the Brighton Gazette.) All the bodies, except that of one o f the crew, o in eis number, of the Friends, of Sunderland,Wright mss ter , bound with a cargo of potatoes to Jersey, and wre cked' e i t d Eastbourne, have come on shore, and ha ve been eeeusti, it4terred by the parish officers. A large quantity of cuss 1 8 and potatoes have been picked up along shore , ~ le r t r e d from Eastbourne that on Tuesday se'nnight a ens ele i vessel passed up Channel in sight of land, and that the lb e " boat presented to that place by the late John Fuller', Esql of Rose-hill, put off to her assistance. The roughnes et the f waves, however, prevented the crew of the , life-tok portrom t getting e n w e a a a r erto desertedh er t h h y a nt the crew.bailing distance. ey 0° tin Great damage appears to have been done in the el ht 41 Levels and at Boenor. On the Frida there was so Mu' j t w o a r t.; r m o a u id t, f t o h r a t t h t e h e ' d e i g L h o t n d a t o n F a o i n and Bo g n ° y r co ach w In Chichester and Langston P e h a a m rbo also, ou ch injur r has b,..en done. The tide from Lau sutrosn't. to Fishbourne st,' said to have been the highest ever regm.embeeed, th e °ate waste the gars filling the ground-floors of the houses, laying t Hira bro ix d a ens, and damaging mill-ponds and fences •A al n a d o F o ishbourne the road was for a time impassable. Altw„roewa occurred at Dell Quay, probably hec first & Ter '7, for there. The brig Dove, of Waterford, laden with ea— 41 dise barg ar e . Chichester, was lying at the quay, where she had the whole of her cat go, with the exception of about °l;l:cks ters ; and her sides having stove in by repeated 14-wev.t as obligt against i the quay during the violence of the storm, abe ,d 3a down. There is some novelty in a vessel being viree't a channel, which at low-water is less than a foot deeP 4 The Sir John Seale, which was wrecke d just beyoa• Kenip Town. has been sold by auction, by Mr. G• A ttreer. The hull and cargo were put up on the beach on SaturdaYte. and we: e purchased by Mr. W. Blaber for 90/. produced. s he rig''. ging was sold on Monday, at Rottingdean, ° l4Ol. Is. C beese— eronaTaertaitila.oiJino,:hdn, Son, a u n fe d ocre Sbelonging to Messrs. d teen man iusan, G. n. ty w n e f at w he h r t i e d h re at fearst set , ba d g b e aa te tine into the Downs. csa S f h rel e has since arrivedth sbore harbour. Lid esars• Tie " good ship, Conservative," belonging t io. ° Wh 05 H.llmati and Egles, of Lewes, which went out uf - o . e h ". tore harbour a short time ago, was among the vessels. i .-- l an tly up against the perils of the late storm , and rode; gat New, and safely to anchor. She was bound rom Shields to A haven, and was off Brighton with the Mary, of sum _ cl e er p la t er; Lind and the crew made a praiseworthy and the other two vessels wrecked on our coast. sav e-a* 't,'be effort tc' whilst vessel, and succeeded in running past Beachy lles ci ' i , ber the Friends, of Sunderland, which had been folios* vii, for some time, became a perfect wreck, and lost tbe . ea ehY of her crew. After the captain had rounded 1 1 ro , O des. Head, he cheered his crew ; and the vessel ran to gate, where she rode safely at anchor, after a m° Bt ",.. a ks perate struggle. We understand that the C a s b r - v , bis in terms of great praise of the courage evinc e ' ito crew, and particularly of a boy, who had never been', sea before, but who remained firm y' and undaunted Bur wa this perilous voyage. WEALTH OF AN IRISH 818 0 P.. On announcing the demise of the late Dr. A,le' s t l; der, we ventured to anticipate —looking to tile ,', 63 _ 6 „,,„, of time during which he had had an opportunity ofte."'__, mutating, as well as to the reputation of the Irish Bishops for hoarding wealth—that his Lordship must b ale we enormously and disgracefully rich. But we ow n , his were not prepared for the tremendous amount ot savings. The following is from a Tory Journal :--- rich, " The late Bishop of Meath died immeuselY dyed The property he has left amo unts to several bun thousand pounds.—Leinster ;,rpress.. rob, Here is a picture of the Irish Established Chu about whose poverty and sufferings, and plundered re:: nues, we have heard so much during the past five Ye a ..., Whilst the Catholic tithe•payers had been enctessourirtos to shift some portion of the enormous burden e„ f ; taxation on their shoulders, one member of the ' e e ?rip% archy of that Church, after having lived like —feasting most sumptuously eve r y da y —dies wart' " several hundred thousand pounds!" What f ee ling ar peals were made throughout England for the s tarving Clergy of Ireland, who had, for the good of religion, refused to avail themselves of the money voted by Par• lisment, and what tfforts were made to rouse the spiv pathy of Englishmen, in order to obtain xubscriptions• But a single &shop in Ireland could, in the meantime, have given from his superfluities much more than th e entire sum collected, and still have remained a Crcesua in wealth. Jr would be curious to ascertain the amount c ontri.• buted by Dr. Alexander to the rel ief of the starvinf poor, during the many famines that prevailed in Irela n . whilst this Christian Bishop had bee n fulfilling his ri? ol6 ls: sinn, inculcating the blessings of po vert y , and amasw.:,. Eveto " several hundred thousand pounds."—Ppounds."—Publicsws Post, THE MARKETS. COUNTRY MARKETS• Oti hea• Barley. ! Oats, i~c~n;. _~--~' sr pms t 4$ -- --- --:-------, r'er , j.tarret s. to 3. s. to s. !' s. to s. ! . te 60 Oath Blantithrd - P•riclport ....-- — 08 —I C. ~r, .—...—s 56 66 2$ 32 122 24 44 ~g Gloucester 56 6.4 28 37 20 '2B 4 4 .. Exe er Guildford Newbury , 45 70 27 42 ',O 32 41 " Reading........, 4B 78 31 42 ".2 3.2 44 .;',. t Salisbury ...-- 5O 04 28 35 22 29 .42`1: 50 Shirborne 34 62 30 3.; 22 30 1, L'2. Shepton Mallet 1.2 65 30 40 00 20 '," _— Uxbridge —.— 27 43 23 QS ' A ,, tti W,tnninster I 6 66 31 43 : .25 31 '"" --- 50 --'I Winchester ,60 64 ..._ _ -- 2 'Nova I v e, 5 ,7 .. 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SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, No. v, - -tueeba' nwiistm MUSlCAL p beautifully ng p finished, E cao S nnav o ea f yc high qual i y . the ,-. nose A Catalogue of the various Airiengu,grOatevhyee.rtiudreeaso, f & t c h : :: : :: e 2 12 381 gratis, or will be forwarded, post free, the prices of the Boxes is now ' published, a nd nlaY "i Fa iti application. T. COX SAVORY, fr doors Goldsmith and Silversmith. 47, Cornhill (Seven Graschurch-street), London. equal in TABLE CANDLESTICKS, OOP for durability,in answer to a Po appearan inches high, 7s. per pair) 9 inches high, 9s. ; l 0 inches , i si, per pair; ditto, with rich shell mountings, 9 inches high] co . Ta s i u ll p e er c i per pair; snuffer trays, with shell mountings anti chase%,s tre, 4s. each. The particular metal of which the fo rs eat variety of other articles are made, can only.be tola silver by reference to the stamp. Catalogues gist's t. RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, ( a n t r i d lte°s ti S ' 1 livieolir -- a W d e a a u t g h h er t h er e . ad, of a d,: aughteßr. IRTHS. A i " . On the 24th inst., at Albio n Villas, Liverpool-road, at On the 25th inst., Airs. S. F. Mil ler, of Sackville-stree ' On the 25th inst.at Church House, Regent's-Par ks l‘frs. Denman Whatley, of a son. MARRIED. k On the 26th inst., at the parish church of West flac - 1 7 e3 ,, William Russell, Esq., to Miss Mary Ann Mathews, an° Middl e sex. at St. Botolph's Church, Aldersgates,t Le Goner, h sq., of the Chateau de Bondy , near Paris. tolUsiJ Jane Keble , onl y surviving daughter of the late R. Saunders, Esq., of Southend, Kent. Mr. On the 26th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, T. Allison, of London, to Annie, only daughter of Mr. Palter, of Brighton. On the 26th at St. George's, Hanover-square, J. Sitneoni Esq., eldest son of Sir R. Simeon, Bart., of Swainstons Isle; Wight, to Jane Maria, only daughter f the late Sir F. Baker, Bart., of Loventor, Devot On the 27th inst., at St. Mary's. Marylebone, BonamY P s ' bree. Esq. , of Gteat Cumberland-street, Hyde-park, to Etquare on' s ' fourth daughter of N. S. Chauney, E f B yanston.s :I I ::: . On the 16th inst., at The)obald's.road, Mr. Henry 11 " Mags aft :J r :t i t: la :2: deeply lamented by his famil • and friends, aged 29. W Rings. illness borne boArbneeley: friends, aped ,an resignation, On the 21th inst., at Dover, Caroline, daughter of gr. J. Squire, of Rodney-street, Pentonvillc, ages 37. 'gent' On the 25th inst., at Webb's County terrace, New road, Mi.. A. C. Machin, of the Stock Exchange. Mary On, the 25th inst., at Pilton, Somersetshire, bliss the Rev. John Hamwood, ages 55. On the 25th inst., at Kew, Surrey, J. Watson imnemr."..ryzern=1:119...133 ,4 . •..1. - - Lemon. Printed an Published by MORD° YOUG..p a l No. 11'2, Straud, at .i'he Sun ()dice, io. 112 Str N , . 18 aod, the county of Middleim—Friday, November 27, 40 Esq• 2 . 44. 4 „ ,