The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-14 00:00:00

10l e 3rd' tbe , iog 00 ) iiii! acl' LOGNE. [ • es , O i l o'l 1 1 ilo ' .01 rne„ s lee Nit"k" .or a nd ;fel I r. I:VENING ED ITI ON. THE LATE ATTEMPT AT BOU- The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the. Boulogne Gazette, by M. Bosson, agent of the Cor4mercial Steam-packet Company at Boulogne : " TO THE EDITOR OF THE BOU LOGNE GAZETTE. " Boulogne-sur-Ater, Monday, 8 p.m. " Sin,--Having just perused in your Gazette of this day the account of the hiring of the City of Edinburgh. belongin g to the Commercial Steam-Packet Company, and the incidents that followed your statements being ill general correct, but, as there are some passages cal culated to convey an erroneous impression of the con duct of the captain, excuse my forwarding for your in formation the real statement of every occurrence from the time the boat was hired till she entered the port of Boulogne. " M. E. Rapello, a member, it is believed, of the Stock Exchange, and whose office is in Angel-court, Thrognfort on-street, hired the City of Edinburgh on the 6th of July. The following is his agreement with the Company : Mr. Rapello agrees to hire the City of Edinburgh for on e month, to go on a party of pleasure wheresoever be and his friends should desire. He will give two days' notice previously to requiring her services. In consi deration of the above, he agrees to pay 1001. a week from the 6th day of July to the 6th day of August. But in case his friends should change their minds, and that the party of pleasure should be deferred, then he agree s to pay 1001. forfeit for not executing this agree bent. The crew and the company on board are to be Provided for according to the orders of Mr. Rapello,tl , :, s expense to be afterwards repaid by him to the Co7„ pa ny.' " In pursuance of the above agreement ivlr. Rapello lave notice for the vessel to be rea' l 4 an Tuesday last. Lady on the morning of that 'Lay nine horses and two carriages were put on board: several gentlemen of the most respectable ar e eararice went on board a little be fore nine, and at nine she started from London. By Order of one of the gentlemen numerous passengers were taken on board at various places as they de rieFnd,:d the river. At Gravesend a French pilot Jalaed them, and the captain was informed that he must obey his orders : he did so, and the vessel was eltr,:rwards steered by his directiOns. " On leaving London the directors and Captain un derstood that the party were bound to Hamburgh. At Gravesend the captain was informed that the gentle %nen had changed their minds and had resolved to visit the coast of France. " On Tuesday evening they arrived at Margate ; they started again at 4 o'clock on Wednesday morning. fate on Wednesday evening they arrived off Vimereux, 11 ,4 1 d the capt a in r ec eived instructions to enter there. 41 4 he refused, pleading his ignorance of the place, and stating also his opinion that there was not a tafficient depth of water for his vessel, but he offered !• 0 enter Boulogne. This was declined, but he was Informed that they would land the next morning at Vitnereux. On this the Captain turned in, giving directions to the ~ate to call him when the gentlemen desired to go on shore. At three o'clock he was called, end his astonishment may be imagined when he saw the whol e party on deck in uniform and armed. They de !tired the boat to be lowered, and were taken on shore for several trips. On their leaving, the Captain asked lot instructi ons . Th e re ply was , When you see a white flag on the pier head of Boulogne, enter the har bour and land the baggage, horses, and carriages.' " About a quarter-past four, seeing the City of Bolt `utgne starting for England, he signalled her to approach, and desired Captain Tune to inform the Compacy Where he was. The steward at the same time t hreat a letter on board of the City of Boulogne, ad dressed to the Secretary, requesting him to inform his (the steward's) wife that he was off Boulogne. When t heY separated he approached the harbour of Boulogne, a nd let go his anchor. Some time after this, a regular pilot, M. H ure t, p u t o ff t o t h em , an d demanded if t etY wish e d t o enter t h e h ar b our . C ap t a i n C r owe re plied that his orders were to remain where he was till Il e saw a white flag hoisted at the pier-head. The pilot en landing came to me, as the agent of the Company, and detailed the conversation that had passed between himself and the captain. Unfortunately I was then tipsily engaged in the performance of my duty in the corps of the National Guard, to which I belong, or I should instantly.have gone off and desired him to enter the harbour. " After some time the captain saw the white flag fly ing at the end of the pier ; he immediately gave orders to get the steam up and raise the anchor, imagining the gentlemen intended to remain. Fearing, however, that there was not sufficient water to enter the har bour, he sent his boat to the pier-head to examine and Teske inquiry. While his crew were executing these orders, the harbour-master went on board, and was re ceived without opposition or suspicion. " It is said the captain refused at first to enter the harbour, and would not obey Captain Pullet. Now, when Captain Pollet went on board, he ordered one of his own men to the helm : this Captain Crowe objected 1 1 ; and, as Captain Pollet does not understand Eng -1314 and Captain Crowe French, and as the latter was A t l aware that he had done anything wrong, and saw no eon why Capt. Pollet should command his vessel, or Man take its helm, it may be easily supposed that in the excited state Capt. Pollet was he would misconstrue the reasons of Capt. Croak's opposition. At last, how ever, Capt. Crowe gave way, he obeyed the orders given, and was entering the harbour, when a discharg e of Ulasketry at the vessel took place, and several b ullets Whiz zed by Captain Crowe's head. He im m e diatel y gave orders to back the vessel ; but on the firing, r o a sing he resumed his course and entered the har u,r• On the Custom-house officers takin g p ossession °f "is vessel, he learned, for the first time, the unlawful use to which it had been applied ; till then he had been I t a loss to understand what was going on. la conclusion, Sir, I am ready to dep ose, in the ,„ '" u st solemn manner, that neither the crew nor the c aptain had the least suspicion that Prince Louis Na r)1"11, nor any other person animated with hostile or _iminal i ntent i ons aga i ns t this country, was on board their vessel. " I am, &c., " A. D. BOSSON, Agent of the Commercial Steam Packet Company.' We find the following in the Paris correspondence of the Journal du Havre : " When the King came to Paris on Sunday his Majesty e 7 travelled with post-horses, but, on arriving at ` 3 t. Denis, bad to stop for some time, the postmaster, Who had rece i v ed no notice, being without horses ; io rtunately, two postilions with return horses happened to come in at the moment, and brought the King to the Tuileries. Such Members of the Cabinet as were remaining in Paris, having been made aware by an expre ss sent from Eu on Saturday of the King's in tention, went to the Palace to be present at the Coun t'. The object of the sitting was to decide whether M. Louis Bonaparte and his accomplices should or should not be sent before the Court of Assizes. T he papers seized on board the Edinburgh Castle have afforded curious information. Last year a rumour Wes current of a project of M. Louis Bonaparte to veize the King and Royal Family, during their annual visit to Eu. _The plan was traced out by M. Crouy Chanel, who went to London to communicate it 4 ? M. Louis Bonaparte. It excited the imagination of l eis young man, who immediately offered M. Crouy Chanel the means of carrying it into execution. This Person required 250,0001., which were given to him. M. Crouy Chanel, as soon as he received the money, Came to Paris, and then the Prefect of Police became acquainted with what was going on. Marshal Gerard ;ens desired to write to M. Louis Bonaparte, to inform aim that all was discovered, and recommend him not to attempt to execute his project, as it would end only in defeat and ridicule. The Government have now proof that M. Crouy Chanel had paid away 100,0001. of the 250,000 f. which he received from M. Louis Bonaparte. It is further said that these discoveries have involved Persons holding high stations in the political world. The Government is likewise said to be in possess'.on of evi dence that a grand dignitary received of M. Louis B onaparte a sum of 30,0001., after an evening passed In his box at the Opera at London." All the sailors of the steamer which brought Prince Louis to the coast of France are under strict confine bent at Boulogne, as a correspondent informs us. They are 19 in number.—Galignani of Welnesday. (From the Charivari.) We could not strike even a prostrate foe with our usual weapons —those of ridicule. A similar want of generosity has been very justly stigmatised by La Fon taine in his elaborate fable. And yet, during the recent event s at Boulogne, the ass found an imitator, viz.— the Government. The gallant and intrepid myrmidons of the Court are now showing their heroism by be !Pattering the defenceless Prince with their billinsgate to the Ministerial journals. They laugh at the aisle of the Prince's proclamation—they, the hungers-on of a Court, while scarce one of the sycophants can speak two words of his own language consecutively. One of these heroes, in the midst of his blushing loyal invec tives against the Prince, accuses him of cowardice. Oh, mon Dieu! If the Court grow fastidious about Courage, whatlan Augrean cleansing of the Tuileries we shall have ! Moreover, it suited these Government journals, after the Strasburg business, to make Louis Napoleon a gigantic Prince, in order to raise him above the level of the law, and now, forsooth, the unprincipled worthies un-Prince him, and dub him plain Monsieur Louis Bonaparte. Within a few days we shall have the journal des Debats talking about the nephew of the Corsican fiend. Should the editor be in want of some insulting epithets against Napoleon, we refer him to the file of his own Paper in 1814 and 1815. He will there find an assort ment of slang at all prices. What renders all these cowardly attacks so doubly disgusting is that they are blazed forth by a parcel of Parasites, who during the last forty years have turned their coats at least forty different times, and who at this ' v ery moment, had the Prince Louis succeeded, would have been the first to lick off the dust from the soles of ttl% boots is which he had marched to Paris. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS., FROM THE enPr.ll4 or Tilts t)AY. :Torn the Meriting Chronic e. ) omission of Lord Lyndhurst's u, , ual surnthing up at the conclusion of the Session is an event of no little siguiticance. It nmotlnts to a confession-, on the part of the Tories, that the Parliamentary proceeliints of the period which has just elapsed t, annot, by the utmost stretch of special pleading ingenuity, be converted into a plausible topic for the accustomed magniloquent boast ings and fierce tirades of the swarm of second-rate oral tors, who strut and fume their little hour at Conserva. tire festivals during the recess. nor once, we agrep with Lord Lyndhurst—Tor once, we admire his tact and taste. There are defeats so notorious ) that the less that is said about them the better ; disgraces so apparent, that any attempt to varnish them over by sophistry, or brave them out by blustering, only serves to enhance their sting. But although a prudent silence respecting the events of the Session may be the best, and indeed the only, policy of the Tory leaders, the nation will not so readily forget their). The prudent, reflecting, sober, and conscientious part of the nation will not so readily forget the scandalous spectacle winch has been exhibited of a numerous, wealthy, and influential party, throwing aside all disguise of moderation, principle, or patriotism, and making the attainment of place the open and avowed object of their efforts and policy. The debate and di vision on Sir James Graham's motion respecting the China questicn, are, above all, calculated to make a deep impression on the public mind. Nobody now doubts, nobody affects ever to deny, that the real object of that motion was to take advantage of an opportunity which appeared to offer itself, ofdisplacing the Ministry, by the assis'ance of a few stray votes seduced from t►.e L.be al ranks by the affectation of a false humanity, de nouncing the wrongs of injured China and the horrors of an opium war. (From the Morning Advertiser.) By the proceedings of the " Loyal National Repeal Association," the last of the many names under which Mr. O'Connell has organised the agitation of his coun try, it will be perceived that a greater amount of acti vity and enthusiasm now pervades the Liberal party in Ireland than has existed at any time since the effort so powerfully instrumental to the success of the Re:- form Bill. Though by no means approving the mode of its direction, we rejoice sincerely in this manifestation ; for, whether its purpose be the most desirable and practicable or not, it wid he cer tain to effect some good, though equally certain to fail in the object at which it more immediately aims. We congratulate Ireland on its present activity, as agitation, even for a purpose of questionable expediency, can never be so dangerous to the liberties of a people as the apathy of repose ; our only regret arises from seeing the energies of Ireland directed to an object in which the sympathies of Great Britain cannot be en listed, and which, in the present state of Legislative re presentation, it is impossible to effect without a convul sion ruinous to both countries. In commenting upon some recent observations which we made on this sub ject, the Pilot, for whose zeal and ability we have the highest respect, endeavoured to explain away the error of judgment which we attributed to Mr. O'Connell, in the mode in which he conducted the experiments which he made as precursive to the present agitation for a repeal of the Union. Ingenious and eloquent as are our Contemporary . s arguments, they altogether tail to make us converts to his opinions. (From the Morning Herald.) O'Connell is busied in preparing for the Rent-day. " Repeal of the Union" is now his cry. He has post poned hoisting the repeal flag, until, in fact, his troops have refused to march under any other ; and by " re peal " these worthies have been good enough to explain that they mean " entire separation from England." It is painful to be compelled to notice the movements of a person, in himself so utterly contemptible as Daniel O'Connell. But the false policy which has, for years, been pursued in regard to the Protestants of Ireland, renders it indispensable that the machinations of the Popish enemies of England should be carefully watched and boldly counteracted by journalists and statesmen in this country. The true antidote to Popish agitation in Ireland, would be agitation on the part of the Protestant friends of the English connection ; but our " Liberal" rulers have taken especial care that the trade of agita tion shall be confined as far as possible to one side. Protestant processions of all sorts are discouraged. Processions of repeaters, under the guise, amongst other things, of tee-totatism, are sanctioned by the Lord Lieu tenant. The Protestant yeomanry are disarmed from the south to the north of Ireland. The repeaters, again, are quietly arming in every direction, as the spread of the crime of stealing arms from dwelling houses too painfully proves. The slightest imprudence on the part of Protestant Magistrates, arising from ex cessive zeal for the maintenance of the English connec _ _ tion, is promptly punished by the Lord Lieutenant as a crime. O'Connell bind his sateliiies again arc perpe tually recommending the formation of some conspiracy or other against the law ;—yet the Lord Lieuienant, and the Ministers of the Crown, bestow upon O'Con nell their sweetest smiles. Nay, let the Papists of an entire district amuse themselves during a whole winter with the assassination of their Protestant neighbours— and the Lord Lieutenant shall be found to moralise on ." Property has its the subject in words like these—' duties, as well as its rights." (From the Times.) Her Majesty has been advised by her Ministers to make to both Houses of Parliament the following de claration :—" I have gladly given my assent to the Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ire land.' With reference to the self.same measure, we quote the following words from a speech delivered on Saturday last at a meeting of rate-payers at the Corn Exchange in Dublin, by the master of her Majesty's Ministers :—" I beg to be distinctly un derstood as not expressing any approval of that Bill, but, on the contrary, consi,lering it is an in sulting and degrad.ng measure, carried in a man ner that is disgraceful to the party that called for it, and insulting to the nation to which it is offered —a vile and swindling deceit—a deception—a con tumely cast upon this country, affording another proof, if any were wanting, of the absolute necessity of having a Parliament of our own." In one of the Ministerial organs of daily intelligence we also find the following : " The Lords have mutilated the measure. They have denied to the people of Ireland the English franchise, and have established a permanent franchise of 101. rated value. They have taken from the councils all interference in the nomination of Sheriffs." How are we to reconcile this difference of senti ment between the Ministers and their Irish rough rider and English journalist ? It will be our business to-day to endeavour to do this, while we redeem our pledge of adverting in detail to the principal amendments made by the Lords in the Irish Corporation Bill. The expression of satisfaction at the passing of this measure which on Tuesday fell from her Majesty's lips was, we doubt not, the pro duction of Lord Melbourne's pen, and conveyed the genuine sentiments of the Premier. Lord Mel bourne is right glad tbat the firm determination of the House of Peers not to retrace its steps, has insured the carrying of two propositions, origi ginally his own, but which he had been weak enough to yield to the agitators within and without the Cabinet. These two propositions arc—the establishment of a bona fide 101. constituency in the principal cities and towns in Ireland in which Municipal Corporations are hereafter to exist ; and the vesting in the Crown, un fettered by the interference of the Town Councils, the appointment of Sheriffs. The Lords have established generally, as had been previously done in the Scotch Corporate towns, a 10/. constituency, and, with the laud able view of preventing that amount of perjury which has been abundantly proved to be committed in matter, connected with the Parliamentary franchise, they have thought it right to make the rated value of premises as sessed for the relief of the poor the test of vane or the Municipal franchise. In making this provision the Lords have desired only to accomplish what L'rd Melbourne proposed in 1835, viz., to ascertain whether the premises ;n respect of which any claim to vote may be made are (in the words of Lord Melbourne's Bill) truly and really of the full yearly value of ten pounds or upwards." It is, then, because the Lords have carried out Lord Melbourne s original propositions that the people of Ireland are told by the Ministerial press that " the Lords have mutilated the measure." MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS, (THURSDAY EVENING.) t CH RON IC LE.—The rumour to which we briefly I alluded yesterday, that the Bank of England intended I t o sell the •‘ dead weight" lids been spoken of today I with more confidence, and the weekly meeting of the . Directors was looked to with interest, but nothing ' transpired upon the subject. We have heard, however, that the select committee on banking expressed a strong opinion that the rule of 1832, declaring that the bullion in their coffers should stand in a proportion of one-third to their notes in circulation, ought to be generally adhered to, although there might be occasions under which some deviation might be allowed. One of those occa sions, we presume, may have been the occurrence lof another large importation of grain, such as that flit— they u h e a l l l 'e so, b the coming harvest may be an average one ; but, as has of last year, producing. a drain of bullion to the amount of eight millions sterling ; but it must be re membered that if the directors had adopted the course which prudence dictated when the specie began to leave them, they never would have been in the prostrate con dition in which they were placed, compelled to have re course to an immediate loan on most onerous terms from the Bank of France to preserve them from what appeared at the time something verging upon the edge a e td expectation there of bankruptcy. At present the Exchanges are flit— protpect of an improvement: Money, on the other hand, is east, while there is . no great opportunity of advantageous employment for it. The crops look well ; lately been well reMarked by a correspondent, ~ an eaetnlesoastt,haes wtohowlear:..aenatr—th I average crop is not enough for us ; we want more than f an arverage when we find our populationincreasing at a ratio exceeding one t h ousa nd ;mail per day." stock on hand is limited, but still we are, upon the whole ; in a healti,y state; and we ought; therefore-, to look well Abobt us in drder to be fully pre pared for what may happen. 'lf the Bank parlour, then, were to proceed at present to reduce the Circu lation, so as to bring it gradually dOWn to firi amount equal to One-third of the bullion in their coffers (for we do not see how, instead of that, they could sufficiently increase their bullion under existing circumstances), they would only be doing that in time, and at a period when it could be brought about with the greatest ease to the public, which, if they should put off under the belief that every thing will Cottle round again, and that they limy trust to the fine weather and an abundant harvest, they may find it impossible to accomplish when they may be most desirous to effect. There is nothing, it is true, in the present amount of the circu lation, or in the bullion in the Bank, which abstract edly and of themselves should render any immediate restrictive action on the former requisite, unless the directors anticipate further heavy importations of fo reign grbin ; but there is no system worse than that which procrastinates measures of precaution until the enemy is knocking at the gate. The true policy is the decisive one, and that which meets future evils by present preparations. If the Directors nf the Bank of England trust to the continuance of fine weatht t and an abundant harvest to turn the exchanges, it is most likely they may be right, but it is also possible they may be wrong ; while in squaring the amount of their notes by their bullion they cannot possibly be wrong, but will be acting on a sound commercial principle, which ought never to be lost sight of. It has been mainly by neglecting it that the Bank has been placed in former positions of difficulty, and that the mercantile community have been subjected to those sudden expansions and contractions which, by making money cheap to day and dear again to morrow, have been attended with wide-spread ruin and distress. We observed in yesterday's Chronicle, that the ex change on Paris was lower, and it is ascertained that this depression has ueen aggravated by parties in France who apprehend hostilities, and who have sent over secu rities and bills of exchange, with instructions to make immediate remittances, fearing that if war break out the currency of this country would be depreciated. SUN.—We had the Pigeon packet in today with advices from Rio de Janeiro of 31st May ; by way of New York accounts have reached us to the 4th June. Commerce was brisk and the markets were pretty steady. The exchange on London was 3011 with very little doing, and metals were nominal. A corres pondent writes—" The British Minister and Admiral told me a few days ago, that answers to despatches sent to France arc expected in six weeks, which they think will lead to final arrangements for the peace of Buenos Ayres." The Stock Market was heavy all day. Consols fell from 911 to 90i- ' T 7 ,- for money, and 918 to 90i, closing at for the former, and g for the latter. Exchequer Bills receded to 23 to 25 premium, and India Bonds to 1 premium and 1 discount ; Bank Stock was -1 per cent. lower, the depression being from 173 to 171 : the Reduced Three-and-a Half per Cent. Annuities dropped to 99g ; the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents to 99g- 1, and Three per Cents to 911 :g. Rather a large business was done at the decline. The Foreign Securities were all a trifle lower, but the transactions were unimportant. Span.sh Active Bonds receded from 26g to 258 ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. from 34 to 33g to 34, the Three per Cents. from 224 to 224 ; Mexican Six per Cents. from 291 to 29 ; Colombian Bonds of 1824, from 25g to 25g, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. from 52i to 52, closing at 52g. The Three per Cent. Belgian Bonds were marked 72 to 73. The Railway Share Market has been in a very unset tled state, and prices are all lower to-day. The Great Western Shares, which closed last week at about 38 pre mium, have been down to 26 to-day, owing to the re ports in circulation that more money will be required to coaiplete the line, and also in part to the delay which is likely to arise in the opening of the part between Bath and Bristol, in consequence of the law-suit the Com pany is involved in as to a right of way. London and B.rmingham fell to 75 premium, ex-div., and New Great Western to 111. North Midland were at 3, South Western at 17g, and Blackwall at premium. North Midland were 11i, Northern and Eastern 71, and Brighton 9g discount. London Joint Stock Bank Shares keep steady at 21 premium. NE W S FROM THE MEDITER- RANEAN. MALTA, AUGUST s.—Her Majesty's ship Magici- I enne arrived here from England, Gibraltar, and Bar celona, on the 29th ult., after a passage of only sixty four hours from the last-mentioned port ; and the Daphne, on the same day, in forty-four hours from Naples, bringing the official advices of the abolition, on the 21st, of the sulphur monopoly. On the 31st ult., the B >iibow and Implacable, and on the Ist the confiance, o arrived tram Naples, where no British ship of war now remains. The Talbot took her -departure for Constanticople (calling at Vourla) on the 31st ult., to relieve the ado on that station. The Belleisle sailed on the same day for England, and the Daphne on the 2d inst. for Vourla. The latter will be followed shortly by the Benbow, Hazard, and Magicienne, which will increase the British squadron in the East to nine line of batt:e ships, three frigates, five sloops, three brigs, one cutter, and five powerful steam-frigates, matting a total of twenty-six pendants. The Implacable proceeds to Barcelona to receive on board the guns and stores saved from the wreck of the Tribune, after the conveyance of which to Malta she will also proceed to the Levant. The Mccr ' ara arrived with the mails from Greece and the lonian Islands on Monday night, and conveys the same with to-morrow's mail for England to Gibraltar, from whence the Volcano is hourly looked for with the London mails of the 18th ult. The Prometheus, with the overland mail from London of the 4th instant, will be due here about the 12th or 13th, when the Alecto will be despatched to Be!.rout and Alexandria with the mails for Syria, Egypt, India, and China. The Bombay mail of the Ist June, by the Suez route, has not yet reached this. The Acheron, which con veyed a Queen's messenger to the Levant with de spatches for Lord Ponsonby and Sir R. Stopford, is daily looked for, and will most probably return in pra tique, having taken a qqa7antine guard on board. The Hydra, with Rear-Admiral Sir J. Louis and family, is hourly expected from Constantinople and Vourla. The last French mail from Marseilles, owing to the putting back of the Rhameses, was detained at Malta until the 29th ult., and on the 2d instant the Papin ar rived from Alexandria with despatches for Toulon, with which, after coaling, she proceeded yesterday. The Austrian corvette Lepsia came in on the 2d instant from Tunis, whence she sailed on the 9th ult,, and brings accounts of the arrival there of the four French ships of the line which left Toulon on the 14th ult. under Admiral Rosamel. We extract the following from a Toulon letter of the Bth inst. :—" This morning the Pepin steamer came in from Alexandria, whence she took her departure on the 27th ult. with M. Perrier, the French Envoy to the Viceroy, and despatches from M. Cochelet, the Consul, which were immediately forwarded to Paris by estafette. She reached Malta on the 3d, and continued her course the next day. The arrival of M. Perrier at Alexan dria produced great sensation. During his stay in Egypt the Consuls of the different Powers were very active in their intrigues, but his mission was preserved as a profound secret V Rumours of war were in circula tion at Malta. On the 3d Mr. Moore, an English Cabinet courier, arrived in the Minos with despatches for Admiral Stoptord, which he carried on to the Le vant in the Acheron steamer, which the authorities hastened to put at his disposal." . The following are the names of the frigates now tit• Ling out at Toulon :—Uranie, Iphigenie, Circe, Inde pendence, and Melpomene. The works are proceeding with unusual rapidity, and the strictest orders have been liven to have these ships ready by a certain day. Ad leaves of absence for naval officers have been recalled. ANTI. SLAVERY MEETING —We have re ceived a letter from Newcastle describing the " disgraceful conduct of the Chartists and Socialisw at an anti-Slavery meeting" in that town. It appears that on Monday evening an wijourned meeting was held in the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Nelson-street, at which were present the Honourable J. Birnie, and H. B. Stanton, Eq., both from America, and Scoble, Esq., a Missionary, as also the Nev. Wllliam Bunting, and several other gentlemen and Ministers of the Gospel. Mr. John Fenwick, in con sequence of the absence of the Mayor, who was prevented from being present on account of urgent business, was called to the chair. The Chairman then stated the object of the meeting, and introduced the Hon. J. Birnie, of New York, whose address was listened to throughout with but little noise or interruption. An interruption after wards took place, in consequence of some Chartists in sisting or their right to be heard ; and the Chairman was obliged to dissolve the meeting. Our correspondent describes the scene in rather strong language, and applies certain epithets to individuals, which lead us to infer that there was a great deal of party feeling mixed up with the commotion, but that part of his letter we cannot insert. THE EXECUTIONER IN FRANCE.—The situa tion of a public executioner has been in France from time immemorial eagerly sought atter. Notwithstanding that executions have become ccmpsratively rare in that coun try, the candidates for the office of bourrenu are incredibly numerous, and they are, generally speaking, men of sub stance, if not of consideration. " Out of 40 applications for the place of executioner," says the National, " seven were backed by the recommendations of deputies. No doubt those seven candidates were electors. This re minds us of a fact mentioned some time since in a pro vincial paper, the Hon) de Caen, in a town, the name of which we forget ; the executioner was an elector, and the first President of the Royal Court was not." In order duly to appreciate that which we have just written, it should be recollected that the qualification for an elector is, that he should pay of direct taxes 300 f. per annum, and that the whole constituency of France is hardly 200 000. It thence appears that of those 200,000 of the elite of France, one at least in 5,000 desires to become an executioner THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDA Y,.AUGUST 14, 1840. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. A new farce was produced at this theatre last evening . , tinder th e ti t l e o f Lik e T a lker like Son, iVliibh thins upon the mishaps of Lubin Log, jun., son to the wellknown individual of that name, who comes up to London from Yorkshire on an errand of the same nature which had led his father into Yorkshire from Tooley-street some thirty years pre viously, namely, to unite himself in the bonds of hymen to a lady whom he has never seen. The lady, of course, favours the suit of another, a Captain Dashwood (Mr. Fitzjames), who, by the assistance of his servant Glib (Mr. G. Wild), manages to get Lubin, jun. (Mr. Compton), con fined in a private Lunatic Asylum at Kensington, from which, however, he soon makes his escape, and arrives at the house of Sir Toby Toppit, (Granby) the father of his intended. Dashwood, however, succeeds in getting him ejected as an impostor, while he (Dashwood) is received as the genuine Log. The mistake is cleared up, but not until the young lady and Dashwood are united. The incidents are not new, yet the farce went off well, and was announced for repetition every even ing, without a dissentient. The author is indebted for his success to the admirable acting of Compton and Wild. Without at all approaching to a ser vile imitation of Liston, Compton's acting was most thoroughly Listonian. There was the same unctuous humour, the same excess of self-esteem, the same vacant stare, which in Liston were wont to set the Louse in a roar. Lubin Log, junior, is a chip of the old block. It is, indeed, " like father like son." Wild's acting as Glib was exceedingly diverting. In the mad-house scene, which, by the bye, is nearly a translation from that in M. de Pour ceagnac of Moliere, his acting as the Doctor was exquisitely rich. He rattled over his jargon of medical terms, and describes his wonderful cures in admirable style. Compton's look of astonishment at him was one of the richest things of the sort we have seen for many a day. The applause during this scene was vociferous, and well was it merited. Mrs. It. Romer, as Sarsnet, a lady's-maid, sang a ballad entitled " Lovely Night," very beautifully, and was most deservedly rewarded with an encore. Her rich mellow contre alto voice told well in this ballad, which she sang with great taste and feeling. This lady, both in her singing and acting, reminds us strongly of Miss Love, whose place she is quite worthy to occupy. The house, we were happy to see, was well filled. NEW CHARGE AGAINST THE JEWS. A letter from the frontiers of Poland, dated the 24th ult., published in the Universal Gazette of Leipsic, states that " a circumstance which lately took place in the town of Tarnow had created a great sensation, and recalled public attention to the alleged occurrences at Rhodes and Damascus." It would appear, that " on the arrival of the Arch duke Charles in that town there was a general illumi nation erdered, which attracted many peasants from the neighbouring villages ; amongst others was a fine young woman, who wore a handkerchief round her head. She was accosted by a Jew, who pulled off the handkerchief, and ran away with it. She followed him, whom she considered a thief, to the Jews' quarter, where she suddenly found herself surrounded by a num ber of Jews, and from that time she was not heard of for some weeks, nor indeed until she appeared before the commissary of police to make a c omp l a i nt, w hi c h h as been transmitted to the superior Court at Lemberg." She states, that " when she was surrounded by the Jews, she was dragged into a house, and thence into the cellar, where she was bathed in a vat. A Jewish sur geon then came, and having carefully examined her per son, he bled her in the arm and preserved the blood in a vas?. This operation was repeated on several days. The young woman having observed that she was care fully examined by a female to see whether she had any wound, or stain, or blemish on her person before the sur geon bled her, determined to cause one, which she did by rubbing her knee against the bathing tub in which they placed her. The next time the surgeon came he av ti 9 wound, and declared (according to the Jewish phraseology) that she was unclean, and on the same night she was carried to, and left in, the churchyard, where she was found the following day.' This is the young woman's account. She has iden tified the Jewish surgeon who bled her, and the young woman who examined her person, and the cicatrice where she was bled is visible. The criminal court has not yet decided on the case. The young woman has no witnesses, and the accused declare that the charge is. false. . We have before us the details of a somewhat similar occurrence at Iwaniska, in the palatinate of Sandomir, in Poland, some years since, and transmitted to us with the foregoing, in which, however, the alleged victim was a Christian boy, three years old, and who had been mur dered. The narrator, however, states a circumstance irreconcileable with the k,tory given in the LeipsieGazetle, namely, that the parties guilty of or accessory to the murder required that the victim should be of the male sex. NATIONAL EDUCATION. The following is a copy of a circular addressed by the Rev. John Sinclair, M.A., Secretary of the National Society, to the Managers of Schools aided by Public Grants through the Lords of the Treasury, and there fore not liable to inspection : " National Society's Office, Sanctuary, Westminster, Aug. 12, 11330. " Reverend Sir—l have thr honour to inform you that, in consequence of communications between the Lord President of the Council and his Grace the Arch bishop of Canterbury, the Committee of Council have laid before Parliament the following Minute, preparatory to the vote for Education thin year : " ' 1. That before any person is recommended to the Queen in Council to be appointed to inspect schools receiving aid from the public, the promoters of which state themselves to be in connection with the Na tional Society, or the Church of England, the Arch bishops of Canterbury and York be consulted by the Committee of the Privy Council, each with regard to his own province, and that they be at liberty to sug. gest any person or persons for the office of inspector, and that no person be appointed without their con currence. " ' 2, That the inspectors of such schools shall be ap pointed during pleasure ; and that it shall be in the power of each Archbishop at all times, with regard to his own province, to withdraw his concurrence in such appointment, whereupon the authority of the inspector shall cease, and a fresh appointment shall take place. "' 3. That the instructions to the inspectors, with regard to religious instruction, shall be framed by the Archbishops, and form part of the general instructions to the inspectors of such schools, and that the general instructions shall be communicated to the Archbishops before they are finally sanctioned. " ' That each inspector shall at the same time that he presents any report relating to the said schools to the Cotetnittee of the Privy Council, transmit a duplicate thereof to the Archbishops, and shall also se n d a copy to the Bishop of the dio cese in which the school issi y - Cas si tuate, for his informati on. , ~ ,4, Teat the grants of money be in p ro p ort i on to the number of ch ildren educated, a nd the amount of money raised by pr ivate contributio n ; with the power tw)fhich will making be "' 5. That a m inute te embracing these points be laid before Parliament..' exceptionsstateci in to t hecertain annual returns to Parliament. tl.e grounds of Highness Prince—Albert, who pos sesses, many accomplishments, a very sound p4inting, is exceedingly taken with our Eng lish school of landscape, and on Wednesday last sent for Mr. J. W. Allen, whom he has commissioned to paint an other landscape. BRITISII STEAMERS ON TH E N ILE.— Th e Oriental Steam Company have purch ase d t h e i ron steamer Dahlia, which is on the point of starting from England to ply on the Nile, under license of the Pacha, to convey the East India mails and passengers th roug h Egypt. THE CRors.--A friend who t rave ll e d from Ne wcastle to Edinburg h on Monday, says_" The state of the crops in Northumb erland, Berwickshire, and East - Lothian , is nearly the same. . n A few fields of b ar l ey are ready for act o a f have wag made an im mense progress d warm sunny weat h er. If th i s i g l l e be squaregeneral i n t h ese counties in yard of cor n was l o d ge d, the behind eh; i then dhe barley; wha t sickle, e an many m ore are with in a fortnight of being at in so me part is coloured. b u t i s a goo d d eal oats are everywh ere green. All the Westmor and, a n d N orthumberland, was ctt crops hhourenreit ne hig na l wuy otecohharvest Not r t h i t ne y n, , n ear its close, an d t h e crop about an ) average."—Scot s man. ts a sndayswill though heavy bow ers have i fallen since th e ear was fi lle d . In It C u is ni n be o r t l , we and believe, generally known w hy pub licans have the chequers painted on th e i r d oor-posts. The following anecdot e will, however, show i t ;—The arms of the Earl of. Wa rren and Surrey were the ch equers. This family being all ied to William the Con queror , had from him the exclusive p ower of grantin g li censes for selling malt liquor, and t o enable their a g ents to collect the con sideration money more readily, the door-pints were painted with their arms, which practice has been handed down to the present day. This privilege is s a id to h ave b een exer t i cised by their descendants, the Earls of Arundel, as late as the reign of Philip and Mary. THE CONDITION OF T;::f; POOR. (From the Somersetshire Gazette.) " The tale of misery . ' related in this journal a few weeks ago, has created quite a sensation. It has been copied into almost eery newspaper published in Great Britain, and has been the text of leading articles in numerable, from the thunder of the great Times. to the mewing of an obscure Scotch print. As usual, it has been turned to very opposite purposes, according to the preconceived views of the writers. The Times and its followers wielded it against the Poor-law ; The Sun and the other Anti-Corn-law papers quoted it as an argument against the Corn-laws. But not only has the public press interested itself in this case, but private individuals in remote parts of the country have written to ascertain more of the facts, and some have directed relief to be given. At home, atten tion has been directed to it, and private friends inquiries whether correspondents have besieged us with whether all be true that we stated—if the case had not been over-coloured :—figures have been produced to us showing the amount received by the family in ques tion from the parish at various periods ; which were, doubtless, correct, but did not meet the case : some have insinuated doubts as to the character and habits of a man who could not earn enough to maintain his family, and we have been reminded that:we (that is, the Editor of this paper) were guardian for the parish to which the family belonged at the time when we first discovered their miserable plight. And, finally, a few have told us, by way of making the case lighter, that this is not one of peculiar hardship, but that hundreds of others are quite as badly off. All this is perfectly true, and it is because these facts can co-exist with the condition we have described, that we are glad public attention has been called to the case, as illustrating thepresent condition of the labourers, and the presence of some bad laws somewhere, which could not only create so unnatural a state of things, but for bid a remedy being applied to them. But before we proceed further with comment, we must justify our ori ginal statement, which has been questioned by some. Of course there is nu other evidence procurable than that of the sufferers, and as none know what sufferings are endured by the family so well as the mother, we have taken her statement of the case from her own lips, merely meting it into a readable form. Ann Woodbury, wife of John Woodbury, says—My husband is a labourer ; in November last 1 had five children living, the eldest was 16, the second 12, the third seven, the fourth 6, the fifth 3 years ; my hus band lost one finger and part of another about seven years ago, and about fourteen weeks before that he lost his left eye whilst cracking stones ; in November he was confined to his house by a fall in which he broke his ribs and injured his shoulder, and then he was seized with inflammation of the eyes—he had been laid up nearly nine months ; the eldest girl was laid up in con sumption for three months, when she died ; in Decem ber my husband got a little better and went to work on the road cracking stones ; he earned about four or five shillings a-week ; I was near my confinement and un able to earn anything ; we had 2s. Gd. a•week and ta o loaves from the parish ; I could not get the eldest girl into work, and was obliged to send her to crack stones on the road to prevent our starving ; we got no assis tance at that time from societies, but got some broth or broken victuals sometimes. When Mr. Cox first found us out our income was this—my husband and two children earned together, by cracking stones, about ss. per week ; his health was so bad he could not work at it regularly and in all weathers; the parish allowed us 2s. 6d: and two loaves ; six of us were to be maintained and clothed with this ; our rent was Is. 6d. per week, I bought half-a-dozen of bread at 9d. per loaf, which costs 65., and some oatmeal ; was obliged to let my rent run behind as I had no means of paying it ; bought bread as being more nourishing than pota toes ; bought about a quarter of a peck or sometimes half a peck of potatoes in a week, which cost 3id. or 7d. ; had a halfpenny worth of milk every day ; bought halt a hundred of coal at 6d. and picked sticks for fire ; Miss Pattens used to give me a jug of broth every Thursday morning ; had no money to buy tea, but we drank water in which burnt bread was soaked ; had no money to buy clothes, and was obliged to pawn what I had before ; the children never had a bellyful, even of dry bread, they always craved for more ; the children had water coloured with milk and dry bread for break fast, sometimes potatoes, and sometimes dry bread for dinner, and oatmeal for supper; nevergot butchers meat ; now and then I bought some roasting fat to fry the potatoes with ; never got enough to eat myself, nor did my husband ; we never got a drop of ale nor conld we afford to buy tea ; was obliged to go in debt for several things and to pawn all but what we stood upright in ; many a time I have trembled for want of sufficient food, and have been fit to drop going upstairs ; the children's growth was stopped for want of food ; was much bet ter off when bread was lower. The children had no change of clothes, I used to wash and mend their things after they went to bed, and have staid up many a Satur day night to do it ; was not able to send them to a Sunday school or to church b cause they had nothing deunt to wear : my husband and myself have been unable to go to church or chapel for the same reason. Since we have been married, my husband has been a very sober and industrious man ; he has borne a good character; he worked for nearly seven years before he lost his eye for Mr. Fowler, mason ; he had never been had before the Magistrates for any offence ; it was i-npossible, with the present prices of provisions, to maintain six persons on 7s. 6d. per week and two loaves ; a great many times list winter my poor children cried for bread, and I had none to give them. When I was confined, in January last, I had Is. and a loaf per week extra for four weeks; my husband was then laid up, and unable to earn anything ; my se cond daughter had . then got work in the factory, and earned fitteen-pence per week ; the weather was so very wet, that the children could not crack stones as before. At that time (viz. during January, the month of my confinement), our income was ss. and five loaves from the parish, and Is. 3d. earned by the child ; but she was not well, and some weeks she earned only 6d.; a benevolent society al lowed me Is. per week, and sometimes Is 6d.,altogether 7s. 3d. and five loaves to maintain seven of us. In ad dition to the expenses stated above, was obliged to pay a woman to do for the family ; was obliged to have a fire for the baby all day and part of the night, and coal cost Is. per week, and then had half an ounce of tea per week for myself, which cost 31d., and bought three quarters of a pound of sugar a week at Gd. for the baby ; during this time we bought only four or five loaves of bread per week. Our house consists of only two rooms ; we all sleep in the same bed-room ; my husband aad myself sleep in one bed and the little boy sleeps at our feet in the same bed ; all the rest of the children sleep in the other bed, which is very small ; they have no night-clothes : they had nothing in the winter to cover them but on old sheet and an old blanket not worth twopence. When my husband was able to work again he went as mason's tender and had 9s. per week ; we then re ceivc'l nothing from the parish Our income then was —husband's earnings 95., child's ditto Is. 3d. It was spent in this manner — Seven loaves of bread .. . 5 3 Half a bag of potatoes Coal, half a hundred 0 6 Milk, per week 1 oz. of tea 0 4 Soap, /Ib., candles, ilb 4 Roasting fat or suet 9 111 leaving only 'Bid. per week for rent, clothes, and sun* dries ; the only assistance during this time (viz., in the months of April, May, and June) we received was some broken victuals occasionally from one gentleman's house. This was our condition when we had no illness and my husband was earning full wages ; we could not then pay rent or buy clothes. In June we got a place for the eldest girl, and this relieved us a little. In the beginning of July the four children at home were taken ill in the measles ; all lay in one room, three in the same bed; the parish then allowed us two loaves but no money ; was obliged to take the eldest girl from her place to nurse the rest ; the parish doctor, Mr. Norris, attended them and was very kind and attentive ; we had run in debt in the winter, and the persons we owed money to pressed for it ; we had pinched to pay them, and when the sickness came the girl who worked at the fietory was laid up, and we lost her earn ings. Before I applied to Mr. Cox again for assistance we had not food enough, and no money to buy potatoes, so I bought two quarts of horse beans, at Mr. Kings bury's, paying 2d. per quart for them, and boiled them in water and eat them with salt without bread, but gave the children a slice of bread after it ; this lasted us for two days. Soon after they were taken with the mea sles ; I then applied to a gentleman, who gave me some food and money ; one of the children died, two got bet ter, and the boy was very ill ; we took him from the bed where his sister was dying, and laid him on the table down stairs ; the corpse was then put on a chest and the sick children put back into the bed. The parish allowed us nothing but a coffin to bury it, no money at all, and only the two loaves as before ; the children are now better, but not able to work yet ; they are weak because they have not proper food to support them. At this, time we have only the Os. per week my husband earnss and the two loaves allowed by the parish, and with this six of us are to be maintained and clothed. But since our case has been talked about some gentlemen have relieved us. Except as regards the sickness we have had, our ease is not worse than others ; all the labourers I know who have families are most as bad off as ourselves ; you may depend upon it, Sir, they have not food enough to keep themselves in health. Now from this a great deal is to be learned.. Here we have a particular description of the.condition of the family at three different periods. first,—when the parent was ill and they existed wholly upon the parish allowance. Secondly,—when all were well and the father and one child were earning full wages. Thirdly,— when the father was in full work, but all the children were ill. The first thing that must strike every reader is, that in neither of the three conditions was their income suffi cient to maintain them in vigour and decency : their most ros ~;.meat, or clothes,us condition did not enable, them to buy butchers' pp: bedding, or pay for the stye they pig in. And yet nine shillings per week are higher wages than the generality of labourers receive. What is the conclusion ? That the labourer cannot live with the pressnt prices of all the necessaries of life? We know that we shall be met by the assertion that he does live—that he makes it do—that he does not starve or go naked. True—he lives, but how ? As a man working twelve hours a day ought to live? Does he live as well as our beasts of burden ? Is he so well fed---s 6 well lodged as the horse and the cow? Let the Woodburys answer. He does not starve, you say. Alas I every medica' man will tell us that starvation does not consist alone in having nothing at all to eat. A deficiency of nourishing food starves by slow de grees—it produces a multitude of diseases which waste the wretched being out of life, and the death is num bered among the ravages of the disease that was the immediate, not of the starvation that was the remote cause of it. But we must pause now, though there is yet much to say on this subject. It is one of solemn interest, more important than any party question, and, for the sake of all of us, it ought to be probed to the bottom. The condition of the poor has not sufficiently engaged the attention of the newspapers, because the poor are not the readers of newspapers, and the theme is painful, and therefore distasteful, to the other classes ; but we shou!d be ashamed of ourselves if we permitted per sonal interest to interfere with the discharge of a solemn duty. [ln borrowing this statement from our able provincial Contemporary we shall make no remark on it, but merely remind the reader that the Corn-law is in exist ence. Whatever else it may effect, th.►t law does not secure the poor against cala pities like those sufferel by the Woodburys.—Eo. SuN.] STATUES TO LORD DURHAM AND LORD BYRON. The following letters on this subject appear in a Morn ing Contemporary:— THE LATE LORD DURHAM. Sir,—l hope a monument will be erected for the honest patliot, Lord Durham, who, through life, never deviated one step from the people's rights, aid as a Member of the House of Commons his speeches ought to be written in gold I shall b.: h; ppy to subscribe five or ten guineas to wards the above, and, whenever wanted, write me for it. I remain, your's respectfully, WM. BACK. Stratford St. Mary, Suff.llk, Aug. 8, 1840. LORD BYRON. TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN CAM HOIHIOUSE, BART. Sir,—Some time having elapsed since the refusal of the Dean and Chapter to allow the statue of the late Lord Byron to be placed in Westminster Abbey, and no other place having yet been selected, I would suggest to your self and the other Trustees the propriety of presenting it to the University of Cambridge, to be placed by the autho rities of that body either in the Senate-house, - .Museum, or some other public building calculated to perpetuate the fame of so splendid a genius, and at the same time do ho nour to that University of which he was so distinguished a member. Your obedient servant, JOHN WILLIAM MILLS. Inner Temple, August 10 TRADE WITH CHINA. In the future conduct of the trade, it would be most desirable to obtai❑ a commercial treaty with the Chinese admitting— First. Admission not only to Canton, but to cer tain ports to the northward, say Amoy, Fuh-cho foci, Ningpo, and the Lang-che-keang and K wan chou,.situated between 29 and 30 deg. north lati tude, near the silk, nankin, and tea districts, and it is on this coast that the chief demand for British woollens, long•ells, and camlets exists. Second. Commercial relations to be maintained at these places, or at Canton, generally with the Chinese natives ; but if the trade be limited to certain longs, which we most strongly deprecate, then the Government to be guarantees of the sol vency of such parties so chosen by it. Third. That British subjects in China carrying on a legitimate trade, shall not be treated by the Government or its officials as inferiors, but be left free, in their social and domestic relations, to adopt European customs, to possess warehouses, and to have their wives and families with them, and to be under the protection of the Chinese laws from insult and oppression. Fourth. That a tariff' of duties, inwards and out wards, be fixed and agreed upon by the British and Chinese Governments, and no alteration be made but by mutual consent. Fifth. That the Queen's Representative, as Su. perintendent of the trade, be allowed direct com munication with the Emperor and his Ministers, as well as with the local authorities ; and that he be permitted to reside at Pekin, or at a given port, for the protection of British subjects, and the regu lation of the trade. Sixth. That in the event of any infraction of the Chinese laws, the punishment for the same shall be confined to the offender ; and British subjects shall not be considered responsible for the arts of each other, but each man for his own—the innocent not being confounded with the guilty. Seventh. That supposing the Chinese to refuse opening their ports generally, the cession, by pur chase or otherwise, of an island be obtained, upon which a British fictory could be established. Upon terms such as these, the British trade with China could, we think, be carried on with credit and advantage to this country ; and if force must be used to obtain them, we cannot believe that ihe people of Great Britain and the European com munity in general, would offer any objection to its exercise ; at least we humbly suggest that the adop- .ion of this course is worth the trial ; for i 2 it be not Followed, the only alternative seems to be the aban- donment of this important and glowing commerce to smugglers and to piracy.—Plan suggested by the East India and China Association. POPULA PION IN CHINA. The Chinese lcirns from his infancy that a small quantity of money will purchase a great many comforts, and even some luxuries ; and this has taught him to set a value upon it, which makes him eager to earn it, and frugal in its use. In this country a poor man some• times holds up a small piece of money and asks, " What can I do with it ?" In China, shops are stored to overflowing with every article of food or clothing at a low price, to answer that question. The man can, when hungry, go to a stall and get as much vermicelli, rice and boiled duck as he can cat, and finish with a basin of jelly by way of desert, for less than a penny. The multitude of hands is the cause of this cheapness. Population thus becomes a blessing. In China marriage is honourable. The wealthy, in the language of oontucius, "study night and day" tiil they have found matches for their children. The poor, who cannot bestow a dowry, leave the matter in the hands of their offspring. Still the mother often discharges the duties of the household, and allows her daughter to appear neat and gay, in hope that her fair looks may attract some youth to marry her. The poor lad who has to make his fortune by good conduct, and is obliged to maintain his parents. if old, is assiduous at labour, and parsimonious in spending, that he may lay by something to furnish a house and to buy withal a beauti ful wife. For the dowry in China is like the " dowry" of the Patriarchs and the Mosaic law—something given for, and not with, the bride. Population is the result of these early marriages, which are so greatly encouraged by the ease with which a family may be maintained. There is a beautiful reciprocation between the cheapness of provisions and early marriages. If it be asked why people marry so early in China, the answer is, because provisions are cheap. Again, if it be asked wh3 provi sions are cheap, the answer is, because men marry be times, and thus a rapid increase takes place in the nun:- her of labourers. If you visit a country, let the natural resources be what they will, where there is but here and there an inhabitant, you find nothing to soothe or embellish life. If you go to China, where the natives have scarcely room to move, you find e verything. An extensive view of China and other countries, upon the principles of in ductive philosophy, would show us to a demonstration, that there was never a greater bug•bear than that dreaded thing, increase of population, when clothed in the awful garb of geometrical progression. Had our political economists made a voyage round the world, and reflected impartially upon what they had seen, they would have concluded that a country can never reach i ts highest pitch of prosperity till th e inhabitants are . densely crowded together.—Evening Paper Pa • . WAR WITH FRANCE. —By all who entertain the slightest appre hms.ion of a war with France on account of the Quadruple Treaty for the settlement of affairs bc tween Turkey and Egypt, the speech of Lord Palmerston on Thursday will be read with unmixed satisfaction. It is at once a courteous and dignified reply to the slander and invective of the French 'Press, and a clear and able vindication of the line of policy adopted by England.— Scotsman. ANIMAL. HEAT.—Dutrochet has found that the temperature of the frog in the open air is 1 deg. C. lower than that of the surrounding atmosphere; but that when immersed in water, its temperature is .03 to .05 C• higher than the surrounding air. The temperature of the grey 1 zard was 0 18 deg. lower than that of the atmos phere. 'The' temperature of the carp whe n plunged i n water is the came as that of the liquid. The leech and snails are colder than the atmosphere. EVENING EDITION. CAPABILITIES OF THE WES INDIES. I,lw. The Corentyn coact, the most windward district of Guiana, was originally divided into eighty lots of five hundred acres each, with hack lands to any extent re quired ; as, however, it is the fashion to deny that good cotton will grow at any great distance from the sea, I will confine myself to double depths. Now, at one period, seventy of these lots were in cotton, and, had the supply of labour been continued either free or in dentLd, each lot would have produced at least three hundred hales, and a sufficient supply of provisions, cattle, poultry, &c., both for the planters and labourers. Thus seventy estates alone would have furnished 21,000 bales of cotton ! But the remaining ten, no doubt, would, under favourable circumstances, have also been brought into cultivation, which, at the above average, would have increased the crop to 24,000 bales ! The question may here, perhaps, be with propriety asked, low many labourers would have been required to ef fret this ? To which I reply, after deliberate calcula tion, and consulting many practical colonists- 8 , 000 ac tual working people. The crop thus supposed to he it may be added, is barely one-half of that which is generally produced ; but to avoid controversy throughout this mere matter-of-fact statement, I adopt the lowest average. The next part of Guiana to which reference is made, is the east coast of Berbice. This agaia contains pre cisely eighty lots of land, of equal capabilities with the last, and under similar circumstances would also con s:quently produce 24,000 bales of cotton. The west coast, extending from the Berbice river to the Abary, consists of fifty-four lots, all at one time, with one excep tion, in cotton, and that one solely abandoned for want of labourers ; making an addition of 16,200 bales. From the Mary to the Mahaienny. a distance of six miles, (which, not being able to speak positively as to the ex act number of lots, I shall estimate by the usual calcu lation of four lots to a mile) there arc twenty-four es tates, yielding an additional 7,200 b tiles. From the Nlahaicony to the nihaica, a distance of twelve miles, or double the latter, there are, of course, forty-eight estates, producing 14,400 bales. From Alahaica to George Town the breadth of the estates varies very much, but the depth exceeds that of any other part of the colony. I will, therefore, take the above moderate calculation of four to a mile, which, the distance being twenty-five miles, gives 100 estates, Or 30,000 bales. j The above is about on , -half of the acknowledged cotton-growing portion of Guiana, but is quite sufficient to answer the object proposed—namely, to prove the capabilities of the soil to meet the demands of the home market. The summary is as follows, each bale yielding 3001bs. net : BALES. LES. The Corentyn cons!... . 24 000 or 7 200,000 The cast coast of Berb ce ..... 24.000 7.200 000 The we.t coast of eitto From the Abary to Mahaicony From the Mahaicony to Ma , laiea 14,400 4,320 000 From Mahaica t 9 Gcorge TO‘N n 30.000 9,000,000 115.800 -34,740,000 This, doubled, amounts to t 231,600 bales! or 69.450,000 'tbs. and, by the previous calculation with respect to labour, would require a working population of 77,200—n0t the amount of the annual sacrifice of human li!e in the Brazilian slave trade alone I—lsaac son on the West India Colonies. BORDER GAMES IN SCOTLAND The St. Ronan's Club tor the encouragement o gymnastic exercises among the youth of the Scottish Border, held their fourteenth annual meeting at Inner leithen, a watering town on the banks of the Tweed, on Monday, the 3d instant. About eleven o'clock the competitors began to assem ble round the ring, and after appointing William Steuart, Esq., of Glenormiston, John Wilson, jun., Esq., Gloucester-place, Edinburgh, and Francis Harper, Esq., Belecs, umpires of the games, the sports of the day commenced with quoit-playing for a gold medal, the gift of the Laird ot Leithen House. The prize was ultimately gained by W. Fleming, Edinburgh. The prize, a gold medal, the gift of William John- ston, Esq., St. Andrew's-square, Edinburgh, for run nine, hop-step-andleap, was well contested , end gaine d by 'Henry Galbraith, Daikeith, distance 40 feet 10 itches. This, however, is a sad falling off since the days of " Leyden," who leaped at the St. Ronan's Games, in 1835, 46 feet 1 inch, the greatest distance ever achieved at any gymnastic games in Scotland, and, iu all probability, the greatest on record. For standing hop-step-and-leap, the prize was carried off by Alexander Eutnan, Innerleithen, distance 29 feet. The prize for a running leap, as also the high leap with a race, were both gained by William Little, Den holm. The long race for a beautiful shepherd's plaid, a border bonnet, and a staff, the gift of Lord Napier, was admirably contested, and gained by George Armstron4, shepherd, near Lilliesleaf. For this prize shepherds only were allowed to run. A second and a third long race followed, in succes sion, for two gold medals, the gift of the inhabitants of Auld Reale, who are natives of the border counties, as also those who have been accustomed to inhale annually the health-giving breeze of St. Ronan, both of ta , fich were beautifully contested; the second gained by Wm, Laidlaw, shepherd, Ashicsteel, and third by Ge o rg e Armstrong, who won the first long race. Both medals were restricted to competitors from the border counties. Putting the Heavy Ball succeeded, for a medal, the gift ot W. F. Mackenzie, Esq , M.P. for Peebleshire A ball, weighing 221 b., was thrown, in admirable style thirty-two feet seven inches, by John M'Kay, Esq., re siding at Juniper Bank, which well entitled him to the priie. A ball of 131 b. was also thrown by Mr. Mtliay in a style in some measure peculiar to himself; forty-fix feet eleven inches, being several feet farther than any of his opponents, consequently securing for him the prizes. Wrestling followed for a gold medal, the gift of .T. Harrieman, Esq., from Cumberland, and after a despe rate struggle, was gained by James Adair, Mayfield Toll, Edinburgh. The prize for the second wrestle was car ried off by Wm. Little, Denholm. The Steeple Chase for a Gold Medal, the gift of the Earl of Traquair, the Patron of the Club, created con siderable interest, on account of so many crack runners having enlisted themselves in the contest ; and after one of the best disputed fields we have seen, the prizo was again carried off by Andrew Laidlaw, shepherd near Selkirk, a relation of the Ettrick Shepherd, and a 3:lseendatit of Auld Wull o' Phaup, so long cel,.bratcl in Ettrick Forest for his feats of agility. The sports of the day were concluded by a game at football, the south side of the Tweed against the north, and, after the most determined struggle we have wit nessed since the days of Carterhaugh football, victory was decided in favour of the Sons of St. Ronan. On Tuesday, the day following, the Bowmen of the Border met on the hanks of the Tweed to compete for the Marchmont Arrow, which was gained in beautiful style by John Haldane, Esq., Selkirk. Rifle shooting followed. Two medals were given for this delightful exercise, the first by Lady Elibank, and, after a contest such as we never before witnessed, the medal was awarded to Francis Thomson, Esq., Dud dingston. The other medal, the gift of Mrs. Ballan• tyne of Holylee, was gained by William Steuart, Esq , Glencrmiston, who was not a competitor for the first medal. The medal given by Lord Elibank for curling upon Mr. Cameron's artificial board, was numerously contested, and ultimately gained by Mr. David Noble, road-contractor, Traquair.—Scolch Paper.l CHEAP LAW.-Advertisements with this in viting pia fix, we see, have lately made their appearance in several country, as well as London newspapers—a fact from which some persons might obtain profit and all would de rive pleasure, if unhappily it were not too well known that law_English law, with its glorious uncertainty, its oppres sive cruelties, its flagrant abuses, and its pernicious absurdi ti,s, is so bad, that it is dear at any price. But there is no such thing as cheap law in England, it is always a very costly commodity in this country, and what is worse, its forms, and mandates, and proceedings. are not unfrequently as repugnant to common sense as contrary to common justice. There is too, not seldom, one law for the rich, another for the poor, it is also notoriously bought a nd sold in cur Courts, at prices so exorbitant, as to exclude the poor from all sufficient legal protection, whilst it furnishes to the wealthy weapons which "an be wielded with such fearful force, that no victim can withstand their destructive operation. The law works well enough for the law-makers, it works admirably too for its officers, ifor the judges, coun sellors, and attorneys, who batten on the profitable mystery. Bat for others, for the poor and honest man, it is a terrible engine of oppression, Out of every hundred of ruined men, if tot ninety-nine, a large proportion have been re duced to hopeless wretchedness by the Ag, e ney - of that law of which, like the " wisdom of our ancestors," it has bun 1 the fashion to boast of as a blessing peculiarly Bi :tish• Noce long will it be before its abuses are universally ex;crated as a curse? THE SIAMESE TWlNS.—There are very few persons who know what has I @come of Chang and Eng, or where they are. They may be gratified to learn that they have " settled down fur life." on a fine farm in Trapp Hill, a post-town in \Vacs county, NC. They write us that they are delighted with the ir farming operatDions, and are as happy as lords.--Boston 7'ra/is:Tip'. oes their mother know they're out? Why don't :hey send for her, the little oddities ?—New Ynrk Comoercial Advertiser. i rn is , 1 CORN-LAWS. -What tne l aw on tne . portation of bread made from foreign corn into this coun try ? For instance, it has been suggested that, in the event of during another Session of Parliament the Corn laws remain unaltered, a company should be established, with a floating apparatus lying off the Nore, or some other part of the Channel (a hick might easily be accom plished), to make bread freni foreign corn. On Wednesday, all the intesiot fittings of the Temple Church were sold by private contract ; the ela borately carved pulpit, the magnificent organ screen, and the grand altar-piece, each and all of which had for ye,ars been the admiration of visitors, were said to be purchased at the large price of 1,200 gu;ner.s, to be placed in the Christian church, now erecting, at Jerusalem, the origi nal Temple Church having been built after a model of the Holy Church by the Knights Templars, on their re turn from their crusade against the:lnfidels,