The Sun. — London, England, 1840-10-02 00:00:00

4tvmvt EnprzoiT, '~ . MNlMPoliimmillai l meli n THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. TO-MORROW EVENING, OCT. 3, Will be repeated the New Play, in Five Acts, written by James Sheridan Knowles, Esq., entitled THE BRIDE OF MESSINA. John di Procida, Mr. Moore; Fernando, Mr. Anderson; Guiscardo, Mr. Cooper ; Isoline, Miss Ellen Tree. The Interval p between the Play and the Afterpiece will be oc cuied by (first time) A COMIC SCENE between Mr.CHA entitRLES MATHEWS 1 and Mr. KEELEY, led TWO IN THE MORNING. After which will be repeated a New GREEK Musical Drama, entitled THE . Hylas, Madame Vestris ; Doge of Venice, Mr. S. Jones ; Count Malveggio, Mr. Didclear ; Silvio, Mr. Keeley ; Claudio , Mr. Binge ; Bernardo, Mr. F. Matthews ; .Benedetta, Miss Cooper ; Censtanza, Miss A. Taylor. On Monday, The Bride of Messina, with the Greek Boy. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, lb. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be bad solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bend-street. PEACE OR WAR. (From the Journal des Debsets.) If France arms, whose fault is it ? We were repos ing in full confidence in the alliance with England for the preservation of peace. Who aroused us suddenly from this sleep of confidence by the extraordinary news of a treaty concluded without us, and almost without our knowledge, between Austria, Prussia, Russia, and England, and upon what question ? The question of the East, the question on which the alliance of France and England appeared to be the most necessary, in ' order to check the ambition of Russia !—England allied with Russia ! England detaching herself from France at a moment when the eager eyes of the Mus coVites were more than ever fixed upon Constantinople , which appeared ready to open its gates to them! England, placing herself at the head of a quadruple alliance, which revives such painful reminiscences for France! How was it possible for such unexpected D.ews not to produce a violent commotion amongst 11 3? How could we remain calm and indiffer ent in presence of a treaty which tau g ht us all at once that we were isolated in Europe? Would not a Government, which in such a position had neglected to increase her fleets and her armies in order to be pre pared for events, have been highly culpable? The conseepence of the treaty of London, however re stricted, is the absolute isolation of France. We have not, like England, the ocean for a rampart. Our army arid our fortresses, our National Guard and our ar aerials, these are our ocean. In case of war, the first battle, perhaps, would take place within eighty leagues of Paris, and a defeat might bring the enemy in a' few days to the capital. Four Powers have signed the Treaty of London ; Europe is on one side, and France on the other, alone with the patriotism of her inhabi tants. Supposing even that no intention directly hos tile to France is concealed in the Treaty of London, which, as regards England we are willing to believe, Who can say that this intention may not be deve loped by the course of events ? Are our revolution and our principles looked upon with a favourable eye by all the Powers who have signed the treaty? What would the Times have said if France had signed such a treaty with Russia, Austria, and Prussia? Would not England in that case have adopted the same pre cautions as we have done, notwithstanding her natural rampart, the sea, which surrounds her ? Would she not have cried out treason much louder than we have done? If any nation is desirous for war, it is not France. In this war we should be one to four. A great nation may embark in such a war when her honour compels her to do so, cruelly unequal as the contest would be ; but it does not court it, It would not be courage, it would be madness to rush gaily against Europe, and to provoke at the same time England and Russia, Austria and Prussia. We have something better to do than to waste our blood and our gold upon sterile battles. We have conquests enough to make upon our own aoij, May it please God to enable us to expend the money which balls and cartridges would cost on railways ! Who talked of war and battles in France before the Treaty of the 15th of July ? As to the propaganda, did we not our selves put it down ? The maintenance of peace is no longer, unfortunately, in our hands—we are upon the de fensive. We have not taken, and shall not assume, the offensive. The Times says the preparations made by France are war ; we say they are peace—if the Powers will comprehend the enormous fault they would commit in driving us to extremes. The treaty, by unit ing four Powers against one, has deranged the equili brium of Europe. Let us not be compelled to re-esta blish it by blows. We must, however, admit that the language of our Ministerial journals is but too well cal culated to represent us to Europe as brawlers and mis chief-makers. Not knowing how to be firm and dig nified, they assume the air of braggarts. It is the misfortune, the fatality, the penalty of the Ministers of the Ist of March to have in their train the organs of a party which cannot get rid of their habits of agitation. The Left has made great sacrifices to the French Ministry, but the last thing that a pasty sacrifices is its language. When propagandism, war of principle, universal revolution have been so long the ordinary langu tae of a party, it is difficult to adopt more moderate forms of discussion. The Leit support the Government in the same way as they attacked it. They alribute to it their own ideas, and cover it with their own mask. They art exagge- , rated, violent, and rash, and there is something of fac tion even in their Ministerialism. We must not, how ever, be judge I by our Ministerial Journals. The month of D.cember is approaching, and the Ministry most assemble the Chambers. There it must explain itself, and there also the country will, by its legal re presentatives, declare its true sentiments. We are sure the Chambers Still be as much opposed to the tur bulent and defying tone of the Ministerial Journals as firm in defence of the interests and dignity of France. WEDNESDAY.—" Statesmen here begin to wear longer faces. The positive tidings that the Porte had at once rejected the proposals of Mehemet, without a single foreign envoy's dictating to any of the Dian; with the report that the decision of the EngliAl Cab:net Council had decided on the exe cution of the treaty, end the probability of a Russian fleet at !cast getting out of the Sound, have filled all minds with ans'ety. It all this news be confirmed, we shall lave councils hum tco, discussions, and possibly sesioui results. I have spoken to you of a war and a peace 1 arty in the French Cabinet. M. '.'biers, al though .n England accounted the great war-spirit, holds, on the t ontra y, a middle place between colleagues who would t; 1 rate more than Le, and colleagues who would dare more. Admiral Roussin, removed from his Con stanti opl.: embassy because he was too hostile to Me hemet, wou'd now risk a naval collision to save him. He propose I once to send 20,000 men to Candle, and Tie now stroni:ly censures tae keeping the French fleet in the waters of Athens, instead of having it on de coast of Syria. M. Thiers is anxious, on the contrary, to avoid a naval collision. But Roussin threatens to resign, and should he re sign, assignirg for the cause the inactivity of the French fleet, such an event would precipitate matters, and render the convocation of the Cham hers necessary. I know you think, in England, that the French will attempt nothing. I scarcely think they would, if they had any hopes of getting honourably out of the scrape. But if t'ae proposals of Mehemet be flatly rejected, without any hopes of interior negotiation, ar.d should anything serious or aggravated take place on the coast of Syria, —both very probable contingencies—l fear you must admit the adoption of a strong measure by the French Cabinet as in the range of possibilities Admiral La lande is here. Like most of the French naval men, he speaks in friendly and admiring terms of both Napier and Stopford ; but he is at the same time furnishing the French Cabieet with various plans of the different enterprises which France might undertake and execute, by way of a set-off to the coercion of Mehemet Ali. Should anything of the kind be intended, it must be done before the arrival of the Russian fleet, and there fore immediately. The French will not dare any such thing, you may think. It is better not to be too cer tain on this head, and to be prepared for the worst." ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. This Evening there will be no performance. Mr. Kenney's New Tragedy, entitled " The Sicilian Vespers," in conjunction with Ainsworth's Original " Jack Sheppard," have attracted the most brilliant overflows ever witnessed. This elegant Theatre is nightly crowded to the cieling. TO-MORROW EVENING, OCT. 3. Will be acted a New Tragedy, entitled THE SICILIAN VESPERS. Supported by Messrs. Elton, Saville, Hughes, Neville, Hes :op, and Johnson, Miss Grant, and Mrs. Vining. To conclude with JACK SHEPPARD. Realizing all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivans. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Mr. BUTLER, Sole Lessee of the above Establishment, most respectfully announces to the Nobility and Public in ge neral that the Theatre will OPEN for the SEASON, on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1840. During the recess the Theatre has been re-painted and re decorated, and every attention paid to the comfort of the au dience. The Theatre will open with " GOD SAVE THE QUEEN." After which, a Burletta from the French, entitled MAISON A VENDRE. Versac, Mr. St. John Horton (from the Theatre Royal, Edin burgh, his first appearance) ; Madame Dorval, Mrs. H. Cum mins; and Lisa, Miss Crisp. A Drama, in Three Acts, will succeed, to be entitled STOP HIM WHO CAN! Vapid (a Dramatic Author), Mr. Balls (his first appearance since his return from America); and Marianne (Mrs. H. Beverley (her first appearance here). The whole to conclude with a new Barletta (Never Acted) to be named the RAILROAD STATION. Mr. Sampson Jones, Mr. Samuel Roxby (his first appearance in London) ' • and Mrs. Wm. Smith, Mrs. Garrick. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Olympian Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. Half-price—Dress Circle, 2s. ; Olympian Boxes, Is. 6d ; Pit, Is. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mr, Lowe's communication can only appear as an adver- tis.emenr. " A. B." may address his letters in any way that suits his convenience. We shall not lose sight of the subject to which he adverts. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDUE TO-MORROW M 45 minutes after 6. Evening 13 minutes after 7. . he Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SUN com menced at 20 minutes after Three. • ) ?tl.l dita+ fx,;s-e PRINCE PIERRE NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 30.—Prince Pierre Napoleon Bo naparte has written a letter to the Obscrvateur, in which he says, " Many persons having misunderstood an ar.icle in a Roman paper, think that, by the death of my father, Prince Lucien Bonaparte, my eldest brother inherits, with the title of Prince of Canino, the vast estate bearing that name. If the Pope has given to my brae- er the title of Prince of Canino, which title, however, is not mentioned in my father's will, it is wholly false that my father has made any distinction of fortune or otherwise between his children. The fact is that, after leaving to each of them an equal share, as fixed by the law, he has bequeathed all his property to my mother, the Princess of Canino. LLO YD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT. 2.—Wind this day at noon, light airs from the north westward. DEAD, OCT. I.—Wind W.—Arrived the Mary, Ridg way, Chesser, from New South Wales ; Statira, Bocth, from Jamaica ; Sophia, Barclay, ditto ; Egbert, Paulin, Montserrat ; Honvood, Cole, Rio Janeiro ; Mary Laing, Ellison, Honduras; Ceacs, ditto. LIVERPOOL, OCT. I.—Arrived the Storm King, Gillies, from Lagtsy.a—ssiled 27th July ; Rochdale, Shepherd, St. Vincent's —sailed 16th August; Elizabeth, England, Santa Cruz de Cuba; Margaret, Savanilla—sailed 7th August; Jeanette, Coliy, Mobille ; Maryland;, ditto ; Senator, ditto; Franklin, ditto; Intrinsic, Davidson, New Orleans ; Coburg, Fergusson, St. John's, New Brunswick Pur suit, ditto; Sisters, Jaques, Montreal ; Dee, Wyley, Bonny, sailed 15 . h July; Jane, Faulkner, Cameroons—sailed 29th July; Jane, Reed, Palermo; Ace of Trumps, Ma laga ; Daphne, Thompsou, Bilboa. Sailed the President, King, for New York. Off port, Brigand, Antigua. MILFORD, SEPT. 29 . — Arrived the Edgeeombe, Stale from from Pernambuco ; Xanth us, F rost , Quebec ; and Amity,, Harris, ditto. Coax, &Pr. 27.—Arrived the Tino, Walser, from Larache. The Prudence , Ramser, bound to London, in coming down tho river yesterday, took the ground near Black Rock, and lay over for the tide. She is much strained, and makes much water. 29, —Arrived New. the Eliza, Ranker, from Havannah ; A ctive , cox, foundland ; and Jane, James, Larache. Sailed the John Cooper, Salmon, for . South Australia. HULL, OCT. 1.-- v Wind W. by .—Arrived the Wilson, Jordan, from Pictou. LONDON: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1840. The Times has quietly dropped the ,new bomb by which it was to blow up Lord MELBOURNE. It was probably afraid the contrivance might ex plode in its office, or it grew too hot for even the case-hardened hands of the Times. Perhaps it will condescend to tell its readers—if they are worthy of the least consideration, and are not to be treated as the merest noodles and dupes that have ever learnt to read—what has been done with the wonderful invention for destroying fleets at a dis tance, it announced some time back. For our parts we should not be surprised to learn that the Light ning God had, from the abode of the Thunderer in Printinghouse-square, set fire to the ships at Ply mouth, in order to convince the public of his power. At --Itwer, - mischief the Times and. its protegee seem best capable of achieving. Yesterday the Times, in pursuit of its darling object, of abusing the " Minto Board," adverted to the celebrated quarrel about Nootka Sound, and held up the vigour with which Mr. PITT did busi ness to the admiration of the public. No " shilly shallying then," said the Times : On the sth of May, within a week of the day on which the particulars of the transaction had reached him, the Prime Minister came down with a message to the House of Commons. On the;llth he obtained a vote of credit for 1,000,0001. sterling. Within two months he had a fleet at Spithead. fully manned and fit l'or service, of between 30 and 40 sail of the line. On the 24th of July he obtained a full and formal satisfac tion from Spain for the wrong which had been perpe trated upon British subjects, and for the insult offered to the Crown of England, which satisfaction had at first been stiffly refused by the Spanish Government. Further, on the 28th of October, in less than six months from the date of his Majesty's mcssage to Parliament, a regular and permanent convention was signed at Madrid, providing solid restitution of all rights, privileges, and property of which British subjects had suffered loss or curtailment through the injustice of Spanish function aries, and also establishing fixed regulations for their future security against every species of aggression. This was doing business. This was the consequence of a fleet at Spithead, whose apprehended broadsides riddled the hull of the Escurial, end brought the Spaniard to his senses, although hocked by the)trench National Assembly. which recognised the obligatiuns of the family compact against England. The British Minister of that day was not of the race of Palmerston, Melbourne, or Minto. He was a maa—his name was William Pitt. But what do historians say of this Nootka Sound affair :—" In the month of May, 1790, there was a hot press on the Thames, and all over England," to procure the seamen for the forty sail of the line, The consequence of the hot press was that houses were broken into, vessels boarded and stopped, com merce interrupted, and :tonest citizens carried off and treated like felons. More misery was inflicted on thousands of honest men by that " hot press," which the Times would be glad to sec revived, in a season of peace, when the country was in no danger, than Mr. PITT'S whole thirty years' adminis tration compensated. The business of which the Times boasts was commonly described as a war for a few cats' skins, and it is said to have cost the country 3,000,0001. That was indeed a glorious business; but this generation is so stupid, so insen sible to glory, and to the value of Ministerial vi_ gour, that they would rather allow our merchant seamen peacefully and securely to sleep in their own ships, and rather keep the 3,000,0001. in their pockets, than employ it to bully the Spaniards 01 the French about any such object as getting a few cats' skins. Mr. PITT had at that day, according to the Times, a " system of sound and formidable marine policy," including the hot press on the Thames. " There was no niggardly and beggarly \r parsimony," as our national debt proves. For i . PITT'S extraordinary vigour, and his extraordinary gene rosity with the people's money—which, allow us to tell the Times, he most unrighteously plundered them of —we are now suffering most severely. He bound his successors in money chains, which ham per the whole nation to this hour. " There was not in Mr. PITT'S time," our Con temporary further says, " a general dismissal of hands from that most useful depot of naval strength, the Ordinary." Where was the veteran officer of forty years' standing, who vouched for the fleet-de - VasszL 3 SPOKEN WITII.—The Traveller, from Clyde to Newfoundland, 20th ult., lat. 49, lon. 2 E., by the Janeiro . e. ntia, Hayden arrived at Waterford; Jessie , Rio stroying power of the coadjutor of the Times, that he did not correct this statement ? The " veteran, to Gaspe, 6th t:lt., lon. 55 ; Transit, Dublin to Quebec, ~ lath ult., lat. 48, lon. 38; Royal Albert, from Miramichi, 2,.d, lat. 49, lon. 21, by the North Star, Curtis, arrived at if he have not lost his faculties, must remern ber what sort of men were employed in the Torquayvetltri: Henry of Maryport, and Glasgow, Clyde to C . ibson a i 3tl alt., lat. 46, lon. 53 ; Countess of Mulgrave, , ”, . ah, lat. 47, lon. 34 ; Volunteer, Hull to Que- ,g ' Ordinary, and, if he be still able to read, he 13( c, 14th, l at . 48 1 `must have laughed as muchpuatbitilciatwillileinlagnah":lteit)lo, t e sten ; G eneral Brock'". 33 by the Urgent, arrived at King l - lay ; 30, lon. 35 o asotse ' tre e m Z : 1 0 t Coast rio el ester, Cadiz to B Sr. J. hn's, N. 8, , ~o passengers dead); Man- 'of naval strength," as the Lo w do 9 n tn, lat. 35, 10-. 30 ; Jame!, Times for lauding as vigorous and Wise the " hot Fanny, arrived lit 09N4e;. ,213 t, lat, 46, 1914 19, by the press " in 1790, to secure a few cats' skins. The per- 111/ 4 1 Pft,„ sons employed in the Ordinary, except the warrant officers, who are still retained, were one and all worn-out and debilitated, wholly unfit for active service. Many of them were not even seamen, but persons almost incapable of labour, who managed to-get borne on the Ordinary for the sake of the provisions. Such was the reason assigned for j abolishing this depot of naval strength, and sub stituting a small number of good hands for a num ber of feeble and worn-out persons. The author of the alteration so severely, and equally unjustly, condemned by the Times, was Sir JAMES GRA HAM ; and there was not, we believe, one Tory in Parliament who did not approve of the change. The Right Hon. Baronet has committed many er rors, particularly since he ratted to the Tories ; but he presided at the Admiralty with much discretion, and was, not many weeks ago, described by the Times as the only administrator that ever belonged to the Whig Government. It was Sir JAMES GRAHAM, SlSO,vvho converted the Preventive Service into a Coast-guard, which is most ignorantly condemned by the Times. What ever the Preventive Service might have done for the Navy, that the Coast-guard is more capable of performing. When the former was broken up, there were, we believe, of 2,500 men of which it consisted, not 800 whose services the Captains of our ships would accept, whereas it is a condition of receiving a man into the Coast guard, that he shall have served on board her MA JESTY'S ships, be yet in full vigour, and shall have behaved well. The appointment is now a reward for service ; and, in case of any emergency, the bulk of the Coast-guard would be ready to serve afloat. It is a singular circumstance, that we who are opposed to Sir JAMES GRAHAM should be obliged to defend his conduct from the attacks of his friends ; but the Times only values men as they are able and willing—like the wonderful inventor — to do mischief to the country, and it loves and ad mires in the Cumberland Baronet only his mis chievous bigotry. Not only the Times, but the other Tory Jour nals, have taken advantage of the disaster at De vonport to sneer at the mode in which the dock yards and ships are guarded. If there were any negligence on such an important matter, no blame would be too severe ; but let us, from some per sonal knowledge on the subject, assure the public that the dockyards were never better watched and guarded than at present. Within a few years a new and a well-organized police has been established in them, and no stranger can enter them without per mission, or go through them, without being fre quently liable to be questioned as to who and what he is. There are ship-keepers, wardens, and sen tinels in almost every part, and every possible pre caution is taken, both to guard against accidents, and prevent all temptation—by not allowing the opportunity—to commit incendiarism. Suspicious as the circumstances at Devonport may be, it is too soon yet to conclude that the destruction of the Talavera was the act of an incendiary. During those vigorous days—and those days of extravagant precaution—praibed by the Times, the dockyards were more than once in a blaze. A man called JACK the Painter, otherwise JAMES AIT KEN, was hanged in 1778, at Gosport, for setting fire to the rope-yard at Portsmouth, and for many years he swung there in chains, equally a memorial of his crime and of the national barbarity. As the Times, and the Tory Journals are anxious to revive old customs, they would probably like to see the several headlands of the Thames, and some of the most conspicuous points in our highways, again or namented with decaying human beings suspended in chains from a gallows, swinging and creaking in the air, and tainting with disease and death the sweet breath of Heaven. Such things with a " hot ‘ sound system" which the Times yesterday held up to admiration. The Livery have not yet, we regret to say, answered our expectations. They Lave not rushed to the poll, to defend their own rights, and the most valuable right of the public—free discussion. Whatyver Mr. HARMER may be, or however his Committee may conduct his election, in his person the right of every Englishman to speak freely, and freely to write what he thinks, is attacked, and the ' Livery ought for their own sake to hasten forward and defend him. They ought to do this, if Mr. HAItMER, instead of being a generous friend and an excellent citizen, were one of the worst men of the day ; a►ud how much more, then, ought they to exert themselves, when they will by the acne act honour private worth and serve the public ! Let them remember that the system attacked in Mr. HA umErt's person is not a monopoly like an exclusive system ; it is not the oppression of any class or condition of men ; it is the system of allowing all equally to speak and write their thoughts. The Liberals claim that for the Tories as well as for themselves. They seek to place no fetters on Tory thoughts, or on the expression of Tory opi nious ; but the Tories require the Livery to place fetters on Liberal opinions. Exercising a sort of Lynclt-la, the Tories in a tumultuous manner knock down and tread on Mr. HARMER, because the Editor of the Dispatch does not write in favour of Christianity. Are we then to be Lynched into Christianity ? Is it of such doubtful benefit, that men will not love it, nor embrace it, unless for some worldly honours with which it i s connected ? Those insult and injure Christianity, who suppose that it cannot bear free discussion ; and religion as well as liberty is assailed by the hypocrites who have arrayed themselves against Mr. HARMER. But it is yet in the power of the independent Livery to save, by electing him, the honour of Christianity, and the liberties of the country. To reject Mr. HARMER, will be to tell the Tories they may pursue their nefarious schemes unopposed. They will use their success in the City, should they achieve it, to inspire their par tisans with new arrogance in every part of the country. Already we are threatened with the most serious calamities by the predominance of bi gotry and Toryism, and to save us from them the Livery must return Mr. HARMER. The one thing needful to reconcile our Irish brethren to us and put down repeal—to reconcile the Chartists to our present institutions, is to convince the world that the middle classes of England are just, honest, and liberal. Let Mr. HARMER, however, be rejected, and all hope of begetting such a conviction will be at an end. For the many evils which will follow the rejection of Mr. HARMER the Livery will be responsible. Some persons treat the proposition to raze half the towns of the empire as a crazy joke. They will not believe that any such project has ever en tered the head of any man, still less the head of a cautious, careful writer. Such persons, however, cannot have read the Post and the Herald, and the Agricultural Journals. They have for months teemed with vituperation of the town population. They have over and over again said that there w o uld be no happiness or safety in England unless the growth of the vicious towns was limited, and the increase of the virtuous rural population en couraged In fact, that is one object of the Corn laws. They a re intended to augment the rural at the expense of the town population. The idea, therefore, o razing half the r:ttropolis, is strictly consistent with Tory doctrines and Tory practices. We ate not in the least surprised at the proposal in A CINDON. rim . AY OCTOBER , 2, Is4lo. the Quarterly Review, but.we shall be very much surprised if the town population, by supporting the Tories, should encourage and enable them to carry their schemes of rasing our towns into execution. The character of the opposition to Alderman HARMER is no longer doubtful. The active sup porters of it are the Exeter Hall fanatics. It is another branch of the crusade against liberty and truth, which the bigots have got up, in order to keep their chains on the minds and the hearts of men. According to the Times, some fools of Dissenters, and some rogues of Whigs, support the fanatics. Miserable mistaken men I they are preparing a rod for their which the Hi g h Ch urc h men an d thrust into p ower b y t h e i r means , ,vn Tories, w n i l l d e e n rs ; will lay on unsparingly. That will be their punish ment ; but it is the duty of the Livery not to allow the liberties of the people to be sacrificed, in order to punish fools and rogues. Madrid Papers, of the 25th ult., have arrived. The capital was perfectly tranquil. No other news of interest. The Paris Journals of Wednesday have all been received. The trial of Prince Lours NAPOLEON was proceeding without exciting, any very, extraor dinary excitement in the public mind. The de fence of the prisoners commenced on Wednesday, when M. BERRYER delivered one of the finest speeches in favour of the deluded Prince ever heard in a French Court of Justice. In the examination of some witnesses relative to the heroic part played by those National Guards of 'Boulogne who fired upon drowning men, without a possibility of de ' fending themselves, the President, Baron PAS. QUIER, suffered some observations to escape him which have justly provoked the severe censure of the French Press, Republican and Royalist. The conduct of the National Guards was as cowardly as cruel, and it was base in a Peer of France, sit ting as a judge, to attempt to defend, much less jus tify it, as Baron PASQUIEIt endeavoured to do. The French are as brave a people as ever lived, and therefore nothing can be more natural than that they should regard with detestation the cowardly act of discharging muskets, by men wearing, or rather disgracing, the uniform of the National Guards, on a few brave fellows swimming for their lives within a few yards of them. On the Cabinet Council held in London on Monday last, we find the following remarks in the Capitole of Wednesday, purporting to be written the previous evening For the last two days the political world has been much interested in the Council extraordinary which was to be held in London. It was known in a vague men der that all the members of the British Cabinet would come to a decisive resolution on the Eastern question. This Council has been held, and its results were known iu Paris at half-past two on Tuesday. Little has transpired concerning the contents of these important dispatches. Nevertheless rumours were spread, and caused a very strong reaction ou the Exchange. Be fore making known the information which we have de rived from, we believe, a very good source, we ought to say a word on the facts anterior to the meeting of the British Council. It will be recollected that the voy age of M. Walewski to Alexandria, had for its object to induce Mehemet Ali to make some concessions to the Porte. The Viceroy made them, and M. Wa leviski set off immediately for .Constantinople, in order to prepare the Divan to• accept them. The Divan showed itself inclined to conciliation, and relied on the good offices of France for definitively concluding its ar rangement with -Mehemet Ali. These inclinations of the Porte being well known both at London and Paris, Lord Palmerston requested the French Cabinet to draw up in writing its definitive resolution upon this new phase of the Eat-tern question. M. Thiess, who had. been duped so many times already, was apprehensive of being so again, and be begged the English Ministry itself to declare its final intentions. Lord Palmerston not dar ing, es he said, to adopt animportant detesroination without consulting his colleagues, promised to 'convoke gnem - si - mcratt .en. i5e0.1.41 cmscsswiLlvas human held, and we have every ground to believe that the reto. lutions adopted at it were, Ist, that the propositions o Mehemet Ali should be rejected ; 2dly, that the execu. tion of the treaty should be carried out to its full ex. tent ; and, 3My, that Admiral Stoprord should be te• priinanded lOr having shown weakness in the execution of the coercive measures. The Gazette de France, the legitimist organ, has the subjoined article on the question of naval pre parations now on foot in both countries : It seems that those are under a great mistake who represent us as able to contend at sea with England. They cannot speak so except on false data. All the navies in the world united together would not now be sufficient to dispossess England of the empire of the seas. It has more men of war that can be fitted out than all the other Powers ; it is the only one which in consequence of the innumerable quantity of its mer chantmen, is able to collect almost instantaneously the number of experienced seamen necessary for its immense armaments. It is the only Power which has Admirals, Captains, Etc., sufficiently skilful, su ffi c i ent l y gu a rantee the repetition of the unpara ll e d successes which it has obtained in all the n ava l engagements s i nce 1789. convinced of their superiority to all the navies o f th e world, to Prudence would require that, in case of war with Eogland,France should collect in two of its principal ports, one on the ocean, the other in the Mediterranean, a strong squadron. From these two points it might threaten, watch and sometimes embarrass the maritime operations of its rival, and cover every sea with its light vessels and privateers to harrass and ruin every where, and as far as it could, the commerce of England. To make a parade with squadrons, and to fight naval battles, would be to prepare the renewal of the dis• asters of Aboukir and Trafalgar ; to cause for the second time the annihilation of our navy. Well ! what does M. 'Tiers think of his dear Spanish revolution, now that it cries Death to the French, and that Espartero threatens to pass the Py renees, and recover Rouslillon. SPANIS H REFUGEES. — The Indicateur dc Bordeaux of the 28th — announces the arrival at Bayonne of Senor Perez de Castro, ex-Pfesideat of the Spanish Cabinet ; Don Ramon Santillan, late Minister of Finance ; the Marquis de Villagarcia, Director-General of the Fi nances ; Baron de Meer, formerly Captain-General of Catalonia ; Senor Bravo Murillo, a Deputy and editor of the Pi/ot ; the Marquis de Santiago, a Spanish Gran• dee ; the Marquis de Cazas Briera ; the Duchess de Monteuria r ; and the Marchioness de Perales. An,m/ RA i , LALANDE.—AdmiraI Lalonde, who has arrived i n Paris, has already," says the Sieck, " had Wore t han one interview with the President of the Council an d the Minister of the Marine, who, duly ap preciating hi s valuable qaalitics, destine him to a post " 1 which he will be able to render additional services to his country." The Courrier Fran( •sa id 3 000 horses had Francais that , been brought to Dunkirk from Germany ; but the local the Te a lnps a s orderedl2 O 00 t o to b Journals state that only forty' have arrived, and that the same number are expected. Seven out of the first string have been rejected as unfit for serv , ce- A camp ofmen is mentioned by The Phaeton s t eamer sa il e d f ro m 1:3,000 men near Chalons-sur 0n Marne. inst. for th e L evant. Toulon on the 25th BOURSE , n yaRIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30. ~ Highest Lowest Last I n i , r ; -- . price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents . - , ‘ , C ',. . 103 25 ... 104 80 ... 101 80 4 % Per Cent ** .. .. .. ......... GC(/ ' -j ..... 100 4 per Cent5... ..95 95 ... 95 ... 71 65 3 per Cent5.......... ..''' „, az ., "" 72 go ,„ 71 65 ... Bank (A rrinice .. ''''' ,‘" " " . 2 , 300 •••,„ 24-) "i'agoo Lattitte Bank 4,00 a. *** ** •.: 1 005 " . : 1 0. 0 .... , „ 1 -'4,, ••";;Ai n 5,0001. 614 'O - 0 . 507 0 " s' ' '' ..- 85 ... 100 ... iT ., ) , Belgian Bank ** "" '.' "' k 6:, ... £365 ... 0 5 per Cei;;; .............. (. 9 '.5 ... 1)84 ." 98 98% 31.er Cents *********** , 1 8 . 4 5,0 '.. 63 CO ... t 3 50 Spani,h Aciive **************** v 'e - 4 ("" ". 23% .... 23 Li: "' 233. Passive '''''''''''''' -, ;,; 3 ... „,-, 4 ,., ... 5 -... " !,leapolitan '''''''''''''''''''''' lb % :25 ... ..1,,i •" 96 .5 ... f'6 25 Roman ................................. 97% 1 :: -„- ". 117 ... : 0 : RAILWAY SHATIE'' St. Germain 55 0 ... 5 35 ••• "'''' vets:x.lles, R. rs ........................ . 5 ., () •". 360 35° "' 355 LB, ............... ~,"..; 50 ''. .251 50 6.. 2 5 ... '255 140 Orleans . ............. """ - .. 440 Siratbure to .... ........... .. 410 ... „ :1,;0 .., 3,;0 hale ... .......... 330 33 " ... 0^ c D o i i t n to m , ez d c - ni i:o l pan DUTCH FUNDS.—AmsTIO(DAM, SErT. - ..v Mney. Billr. 4,. 504 Actilai Debt, I',„c" per Cent ............ ;!?..-• . ) 7 Ditto ditto 5 per cent. ........................ 9 1 . 5 i iB 7, ... 401 ... A,nott Synclic,4L' per ceni ................ " •7 8'' lL 74 -- 1 2 per cent ....... ..: ............ •', . ....... Ditto (IMS and 1837) 3 5 1001.‘ 10 . ‘s Loan 1837 5 per cent. . . Per • c" . ) . :. ...... . ...... I'3/297 94 , Exchange on London, 071 . e ........ in ... .......... l i t Q; Two months ......... ,' Dutch Papers, Sept, 30. r.ELGIAN l'UNDS—BaUssuts, SEPT. 3 1 1 Actual Debt, N per Cent. ......... ..-.• ..... q.t.% Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ................. ~ Loan of Thirty Millions, .1 ' per Cent.......... 11-3 3 per Cent. : .... .. .. .. .. . 69 '. 'l.s . 4:i . e . ; . Percent.......... .............. ...... 1:;2 it, 7.--e" ( I: i f i t i y f , t y iB .3 3 e 2 v , e 4 n , 91 a . n , of :3ocic,yof Coirom; , tce, 45, 'ert:"- ''''''''''' " B°'' wank of Belgium, ' per Cc. r iit ................••.•• A National Society . ... ............ '...................... 7 Exchange on London (, host ) .................. 11 AN ...Brussels Papers, Sept. 30• 1 .---:—. )er cent.....r............. 109 AUSTRIAN Fo2m3.—INIENNA, Sm. 22, Five per:Cents. Metalliqties • 10634 FONT per Cents. Three par Cents. Rank ;Char, Ol6 —..ditgemeine Zeittmg. Sept. 27 HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, SEPT. 25. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares A nglo- Russian Loan 107% 107 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series lO2 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series 91% 97 Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 49% 49 Ditto 5 per Cent - Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo- Danish Loan, 3 per Ceo' Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent... Spanish, New 3 per Cents. — —. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bsiturr, San. 26. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. ...... ...... 10:354 113 Prussian English Loan, 1830,4 per cent. 10134 1 1% Exchange on London, three months... 6 1741 —Prussian State Gazette, Sept. 27. Another Cabinet Council will be held to-morrow, we believe, to determine the prorogation of Parliament, and we understand it will then be prorogued till No vember 16. 'rhe speech of Lord Ebrington at the inauguration of fie Dublin Magistrates will, we trust, put an end to the absurd charge ot the Orange press that his Lordship is a Repealer. It will also (now that the party have quarrelled with a certain Learned Gentlemen) convince them that the Recorder of Dublin might be better employed in deli vering gaols than delivering speeches in the House of Commons, and that the system which they so long encouraged and supported m'eut be improved by reform. W e have no occasion to advert farther to the remarks made by his Lordship than to state that they exhibit the same sound judgment, good sense, and liberal prin ciples which have ever distinguished Lord Ebrington's public and private conduct. ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR. THIS DAY. The following was the result of the polling : AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Alden man Harmer.. ... ........ 1,626 Alderman Pak Alderman Johnson ONE O'CLOCK- Alderman Harmer.... 1,671 Alderman Pine 000 6. Alderman Johnson ... 2,072 TWO O'CLOCK. Alderman Harmer Alderman Pirie 2,139 Alderman Johnson ... AT THREE O'CLOCK. Alderman Harmer ... 1,745 Alderman Pirie 2,207 Alderma❑ Johnson THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Thcrehave been moderate arrivals of Grain both English and Foreign, this week. So very few buyers attended the market, that scarcely any sales could be effected of either Wheat or Oats ; the former was 2s. and the latter Is per quarter lower than on Monday. In other Grain no variation. Flour met a dull demand. The London ave rages arc now of no consequence. SMITHFIELD MARKET. There was rather a small show of Cattle, and the trade for inferior and middiirg descriptions of meat was very heavy, but the best quality of Beef and Mutton sold rather better; prime Scots advanced 2d. per stone, and prime Downs 4d. en last Friday's Prices. Veal, 2d. lower, and Polk without alteration. Beef, 33. 2d. to 4s. 4d. ; Mutton 3s. 83. to 4s. 10d. ; Veal 43. 4d. to 53.; Pork 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d.—Beasts, 607 ; Sheep and Lambs, 5,030; Pigs, 417 ; Calve., 222. Hay, 41. to Si. ; Clover, 4/ 153. to 6/. ; Straw, Is. 16s. to 2/ COLONIAL MARKET. The public sales went (ff without spirit, but in prices no varitifon of moment took place, spices and rice were the principal:articles offered; by private treaty there was little done either for export or refining under bond. The imports keep light. TEA MARKET. There was a fair business done in free trade, and former rates were fully supported. Company's Congou in re quest at 2s. 4id. cash. TALLOW MARKET. Pikes bad a dovknward tendency for Russian Tallow, and the demand was very limited, both on the spot and to arrive. The stock is much larger than last year. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.—The sales to-day arc 3,500 bags, ebittly Americans, to the trade, mt full prices. LIVERPOOL. SIIA RE LIST, OCT. I.—Our Share Market continues without buoyancy, and prices have a disposition to drop still further. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 29.--The Bourse to-day remained inanimate ; there was nothing doing either in the National Funds or the Foreign ; at the close they were heavy. We copy the following from the Quebec PuFers the 3d of September : The Kingston Herald says, with respect to the union, we thi❑k it will not come into operation for some time, inasmuch as there is a great deal to do before it can be established. We believe the Governor-General intends to act, with the consent of the Special Cour.cils, in Lower Canada as he is still authorised to do. Whether he still intends to appoint these Councils himself for three years, with power of taxation, by bye-laws, to last till he consents to their repeal, as he thought it his duty to recommend in the Bill seat home from To ronto last winter, is not said ; but something of the kind is indeed required to be done, to enable him to pay the interest of the Upper Canada debt. some 60,0001. or 70,0001. pounds a-year, for which debt Messrs. Barings, of London, are the chief con tractors, and the permanent civil list of 8,000/. a-year, all of which he felt it to be his duty to recommend to be paid out of the provincial revenue in preference to other payments for the public use of the province. THE FUNDS, The French Funds coming 11 per cent. lower has had the efT2ct rather to damp the British Funds. Consols, which left off yesterday at 8811 sellers for the Account, opened at 884, at present may be quoted at 88,8, with hale doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 5 7 preen ; India Bondi, 3 6 discount ; Bank Stock, 166 i 1671 ; India Stock, 246 247. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is not so good as it left off, at 22i 23, at present 221 e ; De ferred, 101 ; 118 ; Passive, 511; Portuguese left off at 33i 34, also receded to 331 4 ; Colombian, 221 23 ; Mexican, 251 ; Brazilian, 75 77 ex. div. ; Dutch Two and-a• Half per Cen..s., 501 51 ; Five per Cents., 97 98 cx. div. SIIARES.—Great Western Railway, 17 19 prem. ; London and Brighton, 10i -I die. ; Blackwall, 3 2:1 dis. ; Birmingham 76 78 prem.; Southampton, 52i 53 per share , Croydon, 111 per share ; Greenwich, 6 7 per share. PRICES OF SHARES Tills DAY AT ONE. RAILwaYs. Paid. Per Share. Cheltenham and Great Western. 55 Great Western Ditto New London and Blackwall HALF-PAST ONE. Since the early part of the morning the British Market has become heavy, and Consols receded to 87i 88 for the Account. We understand that this depression does not proceczd from any intelligence having been received of an unfavourable nature, but merely from the private letters received from Paris, stating that the settling of the account there is going off unfavourably ; consequently a further decline is anticipated in the French Funds by the speculators. A good deal of Stock has been sold during the morning, particularly by the Hebrews. Consols at present 87i for the Account ; Money 874 ; Exchequer Bills improved, 7 5 8 premium ; India Bonds, 6 3 dis. In the Foreign Market the chief business doing is in Spanish Active, which ha 3 receded from 221 to 221 ; Portuguese, 334 ; Three per Cents., 213- ; Dutch Two and-a- Half-per Cents., 501 ; Five per Cents , 97i ex dividend. Since the above has been written, it is supposed that the Hebrew party who have been selling have received some unfavourable intelligence from the East. In Shares little or nothing doing. Cheltenham and Great Western, 22 ; Great Western, New, 46i. VIENNA, SEPT. 21.—Prince Metternich is ex , pected here to-morrow or the day after. Count St. Aulaire is to return to-morrow from Marienbad. Count Mahzahn returned on Saturday last. VIENNA, SEPT. 22.—Lord Beauvale arrived here from Bohemia yesterday evening. Among the strangers of distinction now here is the Marquis of Lou d onderry. AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 29.—We have received the following from the Hague, dated yesterday, the 28th : " In spite of the apparent difficulties of the Oriental Ques tion, the diplomatic body entertain the fullest confidence that, however warlike the news from Constantinople may Le, the pe , :ee of Europe will not be in any way disturbed ; nay, that even the commencement of measures of coercion against Mehemet Ali will be the signal for the settlement of the question." His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will take his departure to.moirow for Germany to join the Duchess and Princesses Augusta and Mary. The attention of the Board of Guardians has been recently directed to what appears to us a very flagrant case of misappropriation of charitable funds, which took place in the parish of the Holy Sepulchre some years back, —Cambridge Advertiser. The recent affair about the black bottle, at the mess of the Eleventh Hussars, has been aptly called " the battle of the Moselle." Mr. Gladstone intends, it is said, to retire from the representation of Newark ; end Mr. Thesiger is spoken of as his successor in the Tory interest, he having sLfliciently served the purpose of " warming-pan" at Wood. stock, LAE- COU WINDEMA, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Al bert left the Castle at a quarter past three o'clock this sfternoon, in an open carriage and lbw-, with an escort of Life Guards, for Claremont. Her Majesty's and his Royal Highness's Sui , e consisted of the Dowager Lady Lyttleton, Lady in Waiting, Baroness Lehzen, Lord Poltimore, Lord in Waiting, Hon. C. A. Mur ray, Master of the Household, Hon. Colonel Groy, Equerry in Waiting, and Colonel Wylde, Equerry to his Royal Highness. The Court will remain at Clare mont until the funeral obsequies of the lamented Princess Augusta are over. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady C. Dun day, left for town. Viscount Melbourne left in the morning for town. Colonel Wylde has succeeded Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, as the Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert. The remains of her late Royal Highness the Prin cess Augusta, were removed from Cl trence House, S. James's, at half past seven o'clock last evening, escorted by a detachment of the Ninth Lancers, in the following order : The Carriage of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent; The Carriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia ; The Carriage of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester ; The Carriages of her Majesty the Queen Dowager ; THE HEARSE, _ . Drawn by eight horses, decorated with Escocheons of her Royal Highness's Arms; A Mourning Coach drawn by six horses, in which were Lady Mary Pelham and Miss Wynyard ; A Mourning Coach drawn by four horses, in which were Two Gentlemen of the Lord Chamberlain's Department. A Mourning Coach drawn by four horses, in which were Messrs. Robinson and Chalmers, the Pages, and Miss Wright and Miss Beaumont, the dressers of her late Royal Highness. _ _ Sir William Martins, of the Lord Chamberlain's De partment, and the Rev. J. R. Wood, Chaplain to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended at Clarence House during the mournful ceremony. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas, arrived at her residence Ingestre House, Bel grave-square, yesterday afternoon, from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. Her Royal Highness vi sited the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cam bridge, at Gloucester House. Prince George of Cambridge has arrived in town from Ireland. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Viscount Mel bourne, the Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Clarendon, Marquis of Normanby, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, - Earl of Minto, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Holland, Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Lord Morpeth, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. Viscount Melbourne returned to town yesterday from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Sir Hussey Vivian had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Spanish Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Nv:WMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING. Newmarket, Wednesday Night. Having forwarded from the Heath all the particulars that the races required, we have only to give the betting on the Cesarewitch States to complete our report of the day's proceedings : CESAREWITCII STAKES. Even on the field against six. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Eddison's the Ruler—taken 9 to 1 agst Mr. St Paul's Calypso—taken 10 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Dr. Caius—taken, and afterwards offered 12 to 1 agst Mr. Rids&le's Bloomsbury —taken, and afterwards offered 12 to 1 agst Mr. Treen's Fitzroy—taken 15 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's I-am-not-aware—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Collins's Isaac—taken 20 to 1 agst Captain Williamson's Mervan—taken 20 to 1 agst Duke of Bedford's Perdita 20 to 1 agat Lord Bruce's The Chasseur 25 to 1 agat Mr. Fairlie's The Hydra—taken 12 to 1 apt Chasseur and Isaac—taken 20 to 1 agst Colchicum and Mungo Park—taken Calypso was backed at 8 to 1 for a considerable sum. The * weather continues fine, but there is no increase in the company. A meeting of the Jockey Club will be held in the next ml , eting, to take into consideration the pro priety of confining the October Meetings to two weeks. THURSDAY. The Town Plate of 501, for three-yrs-old ; colts, Bst 716; and fillies, Bst 3;b. D. L General Yate:i's Gibraltar and Mr. Beresford's Bob Peel divided the plate, and Bob Peel walked over. Tke Rueand Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft, for two-}rs old ; colts, Sat 71b, and fillies Bst 31b; the winner of the July or Chesterfield Stakes 7lb extra; all other win ners previous to the day of running 31b extra. From the turn of the lands in. (9 Subs.) Mr. Wreford'a b c Wabab, by Sultan (W. Day) 1 Duke of Grafton's b c Mosque, by Sultan 2 Mr. b c E. 0., by Emilius, out of Ophelia 3 Colonel 11. White's b c Lampos 4 Betting-7 to lon Wallah, and 10 to 1 agst E 0. Wahab made the running, having Mosque and Lampos at his side to the Duke's stand, where the race was left to the first two ; a beautiful set-to up to the cords ended in favour of Wabab by a neck. E. 0. and Lampos were beaten off. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas; for three-yrs-old, 9st 211); four yrs, 10st 7lb ; five yrs, list; six yrs and aged, 1 Ist 41b. R. C. General Yates's Gibraltar, 3 yrs Lord Exeter's Stamboul, 3 yrs 2 Mr. Batson's. Barbakin, 3 yrs 13 to 2 on Gibraltar.—Barbakin male running for two miles and a half, and was then beaded by Stamboul, who lasted to the B. M. pos , , where Gibraltar ran by him, and won in a canter by six lengths. LATEST BETTING. CESAREWITCII STAKES. —9 to 1 each awat Calypso and Fitzroy (laid in one bet), 10 to 1 apt Fitzroy (taken), 14 to 1 agst Feather (taken). DERBY.—After the Rutland Stakes 20 to 1 was offered agst Wallah, 20 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's two (taken), 25 to 1 agst Sir Hans (taken), and 25 to 1 agst Mosque (taken). YORKSIBIZE UNION HUNT CLUB MEETING. WEDNESDAY. The Pony Stakes of 5 SGViI. each, with 10 soya. added, lOst each. Half a mile. (4 subs.) Mr. H. S. Thompson's br m Maid of Skelgate. Walked over. The Gold Cup, with a Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each added ; for maiden horses not thorough-bred. Two miles. (11 subs.) Mr. Bell's Sister to Ferneley, 5 yrs, 11st 121 b 1 Mr. H. S. Thompson's bm by Cetus, 5 yrs, list 121 b 2 Sir C. H. Iblictson's b m Jeannette (11 b) Mr. G. L. Fox nd Turban, aged, 12st 41b 4 2 to 1 on Mr. Bell's mare, who won by a length. The Champagne 'late, given by the Club, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, p. p. ; three-yrs-olds, lOst 41b; four, 11• t 21b; five, 11st 101 b; six and aged, 123 t 21b ; winners in 1839 or 1840, once, slbs ; twice, 71bs extra ; half-bred horses allowed 12Ibs. Mile and three-quarters. (14 Subs.) Mr. Bell's Ferneley, 4 yrs (h b) ...(Capt. Williams) 1 lion. G. W. Fitzwilliamson's Florida, 5 yrs . 2 Capt. Ramsden's The Tiger, 6 yrs (h b) 3 Mr. Wainn , an's b h by Velocipede, aged 4 Lord Miltown's Jamaica, 5 yrs ; Brother to Goldicote, 5 yrs ; and Colonel Thompson's Mazourka, aged, also started, but were not placed. 5t02 on Ferneley. Won by a head. A Cup, or piece of Plate, of 504 by 25 subs, of 2 sots. each, 13r horses not thoroughbred, and that never started, but fcr a Hunter's Stake; I2st each ; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs., &c. On e mile. ... Mr. F. Scott's ch g (Sir C. Ibbetaen) 1 Mr. E H. Reynard's Tidy 2 Mr. H. S. Thompson's Master Wadham Won cleverly. The Union Hunt Club Stake was not run for when t.ur account left. HASTINGS AND ST. LEONARD'S.—TUFSDAT. St. Leonard's Plate of 501. Heats, twice round. Mr. Hortlby's ch g Whalebone, aged,' lOst 61b 1 1 Mr. Dockeray's b c Lyster, 4 yrs, 9st llb 2 2 Mr. Coleman's Kensington, 5 yrs, Bst 81b A good race. _ _ Sweepstakes of 3 sous. each, with 40 added. Mile-and a-half heats. The winner to be sold for 80L, &c. Mr. Cooke's b g Munchausen, 5 yrs, 10At 4!b 0 1 1 Mr. Monk's ch g Nominee, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b 0 4 2 Mr. 13,con's A,canius, 5 yrs, 9st 81b Mr. Higgins's Maid Malian, 6 yrs, 9.t 131 b 1 2 4 Match for 501., 9.4 each, once round.—Captain Cauty's Foreign Lass (WV. Coleman) beat Mr. West's Scisscrs. The Handicap Plate of 251. &c., mile and a dis., was won by Mr. Dockeray's Munchausen, 5 yrs, 93t 10Ib (Hornsby), beating Bris:olian, Sit 9ib ; Nominee, Bit 21b; aad three others, by a neck. The Hurdle Race was won by Mr. Johnston's Imperial (owner) beating Scissors. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--Yesterday, Lord Howard de Walden, the British Minister at the Court of L'sbon, to Lady Hardy, widow of the late Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy. A select circle of friends, relatives of both families, were present at the ceremony. SUDBURY HALL.—Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Earl Howe, Earl Denbigh, and the Countess of Brownlow, arrived shortly after five, on Mon day evening, from town. Her Majesty went to Burtor upon-Trent by railway, at which station a numerous ar ecriblage was congregated ; but, owing to the recent de mise of her Royal Highness Princess Augusta, there was no d. rnonstration on the part of the spectators. A short distance from the Hall a party of Lord Vernon's tenantry met the Royal corkge on horseback, and escorted her Majesty to the Hall. Her Majesty was attired in deep mourning. The Commissioners of the Skinners' Estate, St. Pancras, have succeeded in rooting out sixty or screwy notorious houses which, for a consideraale time, have disgraced the neighbourhood of Hadlow, Lancaster, and Speldharst-strcets, and the names of those streets have been changed to Sandwich, Thanct, and Hastings-streets. Sergeant Dodd, of the E division, and others, have been engaged in collecting evidence to indict a few others re mainir g, against the proprietors of which true bills have been found, and bench warrants will be immediately exe ru ed. A similar experiment is being tried in several streets leading from the Waterloo road, Lambeth. • EVEI4I Nl4. Pin 1 I'HE LATE DUEL at WI:III3LEDO'' TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Slat,--In our report of the examination which took place on Monday last before the Magistrates at W 46 4" worth, concerning the recent duel at Wimbledon, Wit stated that it was positively denied that either Pair the pistols had hair triggers or rifled barrels. I beg to state that Mr. Inspector Busain accomPs" nied by Mr. Dann, brought two pistols on ' Friday 10 tied to the house of Mr. Parker, gunmaker, and fortme that he was desired by his super intendent to he!. them examined by a competent person. • Having conducted the business of Mr. P a rker for repo rt several years, I, in his absence, undertook to upon them, and the following was the result One of the pistols was made by M essrs. John 1 called Maw ton and Son, No. 10,913, and had what is ca . " French" or " fine scratch" rifle barrel, a detented, or what is more commonly known as a hair-trigger, ao bolted lock, and the other pistol was made by " S a rnnel Nock, No. 7,042, and had a sm ooth inside to, the barrel, not rifled, and without hair• tri gg er or boW lock ; it was of the usual duelling . kind, and of the 11 0 man ufacture. As numerous inquiries have been made to aseer4 r whether the statement made to the Inspector was C : net, I have ventured to trouble you w ith the ab°r!' by inserting which you will greatly oblige, Your obedient set vent, JOHN W..P. FIELD, Gunmaker• 233, Holborn, Oct. I. RAILWAY CARRIAG TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUtAlc•ontilt_, Stit,—l hope you will do me the justice o tlict the statement in your paper, that Dr. SPu r g i° devised a plan to prevent Railway carriages the rails. Three years ago, I had petitions to til l vernment, both Houses of Parliament, the Lord MOTs and several public bodies, for Colonnade R3ilwaYs London, and described the Rails and Carriages to ir built on precisely the plan called Dr. Sporgia's lase tion. I wrote also to Alderman Wood, to the. r t . Times, and other papers, recommending this l a° u general adoption ; and on the sth of May, 18 'i gettiecre. PLAN was published in Cleai,e's Gazette. I.Ately , plied to the Lord Mayor, and had a petitio n p reseoK to the Court of Coalition Council, and SPOKE BpOn era and since the recent acc id en t s I have written to soso Papers on the subject. Now, it is "too bad,"6fters' " t hree ma Yc 44 l , (with one or two ex c epti ons ) t o h a ve another . PUBLIC proceedings b e i ng barked" for me of the honour of MY invention, and Pe r44s. - children of their bread. Trusting to your impartiality to do me justic e ' I am, Sir, your constant and admiring Rolder' Surge 14, Wyndham-street, Brya ß ns . to T alsq V ua E re l3 . l3' September 30, 1840.-- THE NAVY. 7'o THE EDITOR OF THI? suiv• as article Stu—Observing in The Sun of the 25th inst., in : a n i a li v o a n l gs fa t re o e th i e a r ti t ie hin N g ie s copied from the Times of the same day, in assertedour" Cli is terran can to cope ssi 'se, of France, on account of the inferiority, in point o f s' se, our line-of-battle ships themselves, and of the snl e naval officer number of their crews, I am induced,es as a the unfitness of r engaged in two of the severest general actions &lig: the last war, besides sundry other minor affair!, to ° o a few observations upon the subject, and though by, II :. means of opinion that our present or former naval Ali. n.strations since the peace have been faultless, I ain.n e . tg e unnotice.k. ling to permit exaggerated statements to pass For a century at least, if not for a longer period, In:, French marine has exceeded that of Britain i n bol a : 'th that o f respeCts alluded to by the Tinics, and, moreovertha had the advantage in number of ship' emplorou : in very many general engagements, and r.et how few of these occasions has it not been slga4 defeated ? I will content myself with instancing t'L, most decisive battle fought during the last war, thilitZ the Nile, when, with the single exception of gh°,7o notaur (if even she were so), there was not 13 r, 1 " 0 „, ship of the line present of equal size to the 13r i ° , 0 which the Times selects as being ca/unazious/y cabe"-i: all the rest being seventy-fours' of their smallest eras, These were on the model of the old Arrogant. posed to L'Orient, of 120 guns, Le Tonnant, Tell, and Franklin (which, long after their cap tinued tinued the largest two-deckers in our service)' T; 00 other ships of 80 guns, and the remainder seventrlee, of the largest class, and yet did any British two-deco/os, even including the pigmy Leander, of 50 mere P°l oo l shrank from encountering such superior, SUC H : ? opponents, or was ever victory more net" - e r e e sher would not willingly or unnecessarily expose MY' brother tars to combat against fearful odds ; "h ut Yla iii o from past experience, and believing that the,' :- 44, neither deteriorated in bravery nor s kill, 1 :of ' dently anticipate an equally glorious result,' s" -10 i our Gallic neighbours venture u.lon ent l " 9 le l ttrieesesaartnearqou. Butarter, constituted nsteitxiustteicilgasditstplearrittvy in altide s t : ::7 oo, ol:* p vessels of the two nations was in a gre a t mauve avoidableoldahle for so complete had been the a nn ibilatict ' g the French navy during the late war, that its 1 3 .7 h 0s one is comparatively of new creation, ds ;40 - f already observed, the French have long , given o war superior dimensions to curs, and it is 1 „ -e i s a the . present Surveyor-General of the Navy t s has hc e e . ofn?e, that we have equalled, if not exceeded, nations in this respect (for this the Times, an d °t- ol Opposition Journals have not failed to charge the ° gi lt' administration with profusion and ex travaguac e ),; t he the conclusion of the late war, on the other Ivo" ail a navy of Britain outnumbered all others collectivelhoo was composed of a heterogenous assemblage c'f, L e e of all nations, dimensions, and descriptions , and It 411 1 wise policy, if not a matter of necessity, to wear out such as were sea-worthy, whilst a navy better calanaa to compete with the constantly increasing dinle,tin,si°,llo4 the vessels of rival nations was gradually foo t "' IVO, this system having been followed since the Pean, e .'„ - , 0 of are at present few old Benbows or under- size ° 7. - o ld war of any rate in the British navy and the rac e - 0 - url or seventy twos (as they ; have been speedily extinct had not a few seve ntr f t i gates, constructed of that very durable ma teriel , to be bcen built in India, or sent in frame from theoee bol t. set up in this country. The possibility of a yi n able , are now designated) g) tea k, ever, having rendered a change of system ales, pill 00 the Howe, Britannia, and Adelaide, first speedily reinforce the Mediterranean fleet , an a l /4 001- such powerful two-deckers as the Vanguard ana l 00 cutta shall have relieved such peace-estillishmectli do as the Benbow and Hastings, the French fl eet 010° 1 0 well to consult its safety by seeking a r efuge IP c i to .a if a war should ensue, lest they should be subjecfe w i t h repetition of the battle of the Nile. Iso far egr ee „, e o. the Times as to be of opinion that the crews or-war should be increased with their dimensons's; that the present peace establidiment is inadegoSteoue. war complement : indeed, had the finances of the to try admitted thereof, I think it would hav e been•sv is tl 0 have kept all our war-going ships fully manned, anaapt. practised by the Americans, tat their number af , missioned officers should have been conside rahl creased. But still, ships may be over - ma nned, eye shiptbst the French ones are ; and firmly bel" a " t ied the necessarily increased slaughter . in over-er.o6 decks has the e ff ect of dispiriti n g their I'o4 viving companions, and in disposing t hem to postage resistance. With respect to the present conll3°%,' itjf of our crews, however , I a m dec i de dl y at issue" Jae the Times ; they are infinitely more efficient tha p elf ring the war, when a large pr o po r ti on of then, o com posed of landsmen, many of them t he s weeping° our jails ; and the boys, thoug h less numerous then,be present, were chiefly mere children , s u pp lied by the Marine Society ; whereas, at present, many of thenl older and stouter then numbers who we re rated W lanar men during the war ; whilst, till very recently, i a men were invariably refused to be received on boar° %, men. ot-war, so that the great majority of their eet u Pio (Tient of blue jackets are actually seamen, and t hwl 'itt• case of need, each ship has a sufficiency of th at "j ob able l class to form the nucleus of two crews. Th e fli b t so a so, are much better instructed in gu nnery - ,eso during . former wars, when little. attention 00, paid thereto, and yet they could alweYsh„cugh quer French ships of superior force, al t " - ,100 pori s - ck numbering amongst their crews a considerabl of well-trained gunners. There is, moreover, c° „Eitl of seamen in the country, and whenever the ne e "„ - e ls, of a considerable increase to our naval force c °glir di ett as' it inevitably will, the Admiralty to offer to sc a- 00 . what it has never hitherto done, a bounty m gr „r, , e r , 0 mensurate with what was paid during the late s ;: l ee the merest ploughboys enlisting in the army, fall no fears of a fleet, sufficient to cope with t hose our maritime rivals collectively, being speedily nte?„4,o.. without the smallest nec e ssity of resorting to the nical and unconstituti o na l system of impressment, w • must, on all bands, be depd. VETERAN OF recate THE LAST grAg' Sept. 28, 1840. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN PLY. MOUTH DOCKYARD. 1110 ;red (From the Plymoulle Journal of yester,-. • t in reto ten o'clock lait night, nothing bud ference to the cans' , of th:s lamentable a of Si: iel investigation has :wen going . on in the c ou " - ett the day, as well as on the previous one, in th e P r , e , se - n e o of the Solicitor for the Crown, and two gentl em— u b tieY here by the Admiralty. What the result of this scrutiny will be, a few days possibl d y etermine. co o We ar c less disposed, however to ittrihute the c , of the fire to the act of an incendiary,' from th e n nc' t h ' e trausPi;.ar!ir, ledge of the following fact, and which bears 111 3 b - o-possibility possibility of its Icing produced by spontaneous C l i or eir t:on. A kw years since, the sweepings of the s ,, oni c which were placed in a cart, to be conveyed fo;con. distant part of the yard, took fire spontan eously,4" sumed a considerable pile of timber. The last. fire in the Dockyard, of a n y e n tirourti curred in 1812, when the rope-house was stroyQd ; and was supposed to hav e origi na ted ir spontaneous ignition. importanc!' oiee: