The Sun. — London, England, 1840-09-03 00:00:00

EVENITNG EDITION. REFORM DINNER AT PARIS. A grand Reform dinner, which had been announced some days by the National, took place on Tuesdir in the grounds of M. Gay, at Chatillon, beyond Mont reoge. 1, Upwards of 6,000 persons assembled, a con siderable number of them wearing the u niform of the National Guard. Thirteen tables of 950 covers each, surrounded by others for smaller n-Aers, were laid on a :vide field commanding a view - 0 . Paris. The Presi dent's table, which was in the centre, was distin guished by r' pol,— , bearing the national colours and wrenthed rail foliage. Captain Recurt, of the National Guards, took the Chair at five o'clock. dinner the following toasts were proposed and drunk in succession, preceded by speeches, and followed by loud acclamations The People?' —" Union between the People and the Army !" (Loud and reiterated cries of " Down with the Treaties o! . 1815" followed this toast.) " The National Guard !" —" Equality of Rights for all !"—" The Nationality o! Fr.mcc 1"—" The Abolition of all Privileges I '—" The °i'riumph of the Democratic Cause, which in 1792 saved 1 . a .ee and Liberty from the coalition of Kings !" " Success to Association'."—The a2mocratie Press!" —" The Revolutionary Principle !"—" A Union of ,01 the elements of Democracy !" " The Army, our yoa%g- army ! . '. — 64 Democracy, which alone can save _Fratic,l'' At the stew.f.rds' table were two old Na i nII Guards who were present at the taking of the ii..t.,:ile in 1789. Benches, placed on the balks which surround the field, were flied with ladies, and every iThlec which commanded the scene was crowded with spec tators. Towards the end of the banquet the President was info-rued that numerous inhabitants of the neighbour hood, and some workmen of Paris, were present, and ' ru red to be admitted to fraternise with the guests. T..e President ordered them to be introduced, an'l et,een 700 and 800 persons, including many women, Ithlreln - d through the meeting, singing the Marseillaise no(i outer songs. A petition in favour of reform was rwards signed by all the guests. In the evening ssernb; ) , broke up, and the crowd marched back to ris in lines of tour abreast, shouting " Vice la Re , erne . 1 " and singing the " Marseillaise." When part ; l,e lomcession had passed through the 13arriere d'! an cfficer of the municipal guard, with ten of his men, who Were mounted, made an attempt to divide the column by placing themselves at the gate ; and e-mmissary of police, with a party of sargens de v lie, held a parley with the reformers ; but the whole body was allowed to pass with- • out interruption. On reaching tae Place St. Michel, reformists divided into several portions. One went to the Place de i'Ecole de Medecine, where it dis pfrsed ; another took the direction of the Rae St. Denis, and a third that of the Faubourg Saint Antoine. Tile 6ingiag of the " Marseillaise,' and cries of " Vine la 11. forme !" continued among the various groups till they finally dispersed. Tne National says the number of tritional gu..rds present was 3,000. The Comnzeree estimates it at 2,000, among whom were twenty-five or th.r.y captains, and 123 other officers. It also asserts that at the barrier, a brigadier of gendarmerie, when the cries of " Vive la Reforme e,re loudest, said to s me of the noisiest, •‘ Your l'aurex mes arnis! vous J'aurcz ! The C'apitok says, that disorders were oceasioned by the retorrners atter entering Paris in seve ral quarters of the capital. The Municipal Guards, it states, were forced to interfere more than once, and st seral of that corps were disa - med. " During the e.euing," it further states, " numerous groups of Na tional Guards, citizens, and workmen, paraded the Bou levards du Temple and Beaumarchais, singing the " Mar sf:laise," and shouting " Vice la Ileji)nne I " At the corner of the Rue St. Denis, a sa!geut de ville was ktecked down by one of the persons of a group, to whom he had gone up, and, on the Place du Chatelet, ..bout, fi`tcen of the mounted Municipal Guards had to eharge the crowd to disperse it. In the Rue Grenetat colision took place with the soldiers on guard there, and several persons were arrested." Perfect tranquil. lity was, however, re-established at eleven o'clock. AFFRAY BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND NATIVE FISHERMEN AT SPITTAL. On Wednesday aft , 3rnoon last an affray, of rather a serious nature took place between the crew of the French fishir'g lugger Josephine, of Fecamp, Detjardins master, now lying in the Tweed at Spittal, and a party of the fisherm - •n of that place. It appears that the crews of the Fn nch vessels have been in the habit of accommodating the Spittal fishermen by taking them c ft' from the shore in the small boats belonging to their vessels to their own fishing boats, which are generally moored near the middle of the river. On the pre sent oceteloo a boat belonging to the above-named tugger, with two Frenchmen and a boy in it, was about putting off from the jetty to the lugger, which was stationed at the distance of 100 yards or more from the shore, when a fisherman of Spittal, named Lough, and another, prepared to go into theboat beside the French men, thinking that the latter would be willing to put them on board their own boat, which lay at an interme diate distance between the French lugger and the beach. The Frenchmen, however, were disinclined to do so, although it would not have cost them the slightest trouble, in consequence of which a disagreement took place between the parties, and it appears that after Lcugh got into the boat, his companion, who remained upon the jetty, slightly splashed some water upon the Frenchmen, who immediately pushed off towards the lug ger; but, on reaching Lough's boat, instead of allowing him to get into it, they insisted on going past it, carryin; him with them towards their own vessel. Laugh resisted this, and it appears took hold of one of their oars to stay the boat in its course, when the Frenchmen became enraged, And taking up the wooden scoop which was in the boat they belaboured him unmercifully with it, and he had his arms severely bruised in endeavouring to pro te,:t his head from their blows. A party of the native fishermen on the shore, seeing Lough abused in this cowardly manner, immediately armed themselves with stones, and, launching a boat, put off towards the lugger, against the crew of which they directed their missiles w th gooi effect, and, on their coming close alongside, a e,u ar boarding fight took place, accompanied with much noise. The Frenchmen had provided themselves fer re sh ce with the loose instruments which lay on deck, one of them bearing an axe, the others boat-hooks and s, sod it is said that some of them brandished knives. it assailants were too determined to be frightened by den onitrations which were meant rather to create a sen snt ion of alarm than to be made effective for the reality of vi„r ; for the native fishermen easily gained a footing on b a•.i, and had scarcely dealt a blow, when the whole ci err, with the exception of ooe man, betook them s_lv.;s in all haste, below the batches. Finding them s Ives thus in possession of the vessel, the native fisher men, with commendable prudence and moderation, re- Ira it ed from any further acts of retaliation, and left the vessel, taking Lough with them, whom they had taus spiritedly rescued from the hands of the foreigners, and thus the affair ended. The captain of the lugger it as not on board his vessel at the time of this occur rence, which was perhaps fortunate, as had a more determined resistance been made by the Frenchmen, a ruggle would have taken place which might have t er rs inated in consequences deeply to be regretted. Nose of the Frenchmen were seriously hurt, and the injuries sustained by Lough did not prevent him going off in pursuit of his occupation on the same evening.— R'r wick Warder. STAMP DUTY ON NEWSPAPERS The following correspondence has taken place be tween the Board of Stamps and Mr. Erredge, a book. seller at Brighton t Stamps and Taxes, London, Aug. 11, 1840. SlR,—The Board having had before them copies of your Postage Advertiser, w hich is published at internals less thin twenty-six days, I am directed to acquaint you that this publication is a newspaper, liable to duty as such, as well as to duty upon the aivertisements contained therein ; and I am to signify that you must immediately enter it as a newspaper, or discontinue the publ Cation therec at intervals less than twenty-six days. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, CHARLES PRESSLY. Mr. J. A. Enedge. 28, We•t-sweet, Br ghton, Aug. 24, 1840. Snt,--.-Should I feel disposed to continue the publica tiJo of the Postage Advertiser at intervals of only a w ek, am I compelled to have each copy stamped as ri newspaper, as I perceive no such Government mark on th- ove s of tl.e weekly numbers of " Humphrey's Cock,' which cor sist of advertising sheets ? I am, Sir Your obedient servant, JOHN ACKERSON ERREDGE Stamps and Taxes, London, Aug. 26, 1840 have submitted to the Board your letter of the 24th instant, and they have directed me to infor m ''u that a paper containing w holly or principally adve air tisetnts, anki i ntervals at not exceeln g days, is a newspaper liable to duty as such ; a n d there fore if you continue the publication of the postage ad vert,en.enti at intervals of a week only, it must be en tered as a newspaper, as intimated in my former letter, and each copy printed upon a newspaper stamp. The publication referred to by you, called " Hum phrey': et( ck," does not contain principally advertise ments, nor does it contain any article of news which rendela it liable to duty as a newspaper. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Mr. J. A. Erredge. CHARLES PRESSLY. Tat LAT E 1L the returns made by the different Insurance Companies relative to the late ex tensive and destructive fires in the rnctropoh3, the foll isq appe ar to be the losses;—At the tire which occurredow on Sunday morning last, at Mr. Edy's, sadler, property to the extent of 1 2001. was dr stroyed. The osi at the fire in Union -street, Southwark, which tor k ; p 1 ice on the same morning, was 400/. At the great fire at Bloomsbury, Which occurred on the toilet% ing day, the less ass 15 0001., partly inburA. The tbstroction at , Hure'i. Wharf, Wapping,ab out 40 , 000/. The fire in Long- L ul u, Bermondsey, 10,0001. ; and the fire in Curaitorl street, Chancery-lane, .500/. T ota l l oss, 67,1001. THE PRITIS H INDIA ANTI•SLAVERY aCGAR COMPANY, for the CULTIVATION of SUGAR, RUM, &c., by FREE-LABOUR in BRITISH INDIA. First Capital, £2.50,000, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each. Deposit, £1 per Share. Further series of Shares to be issued as the success of the Company, and the consequent increased demand, may render necessary ; which Shares shall be offered at par to the original Shareholders, who shall have the option of thus taking them, or participating in the premiums they may produce. To be Empowered, and the responsibility limited, by Royal Charter or Act of Parliament. JOINT SOLICITORS. Messrs. Wilkinson and Page, Guildhall-yard E. M. Elderton, Esq., 40, Queen-square SECRETARY. Josiah Conder, Esq., Member of the Committee of the An ti- Slavery Society. TEMPORARY MANAGE% AND PARLIAMENTARY AGENT. W. S. Isiorthhcuse, Esq., 4, Parliament street. BANKERS. Messrs. Drewett and Fowler, Princes-street Messrs. Twining, Strand It can be proved that the profits of cultivating Sugar in India, by the employment of the liill Coolies in their own country, instead of transporting them to the Mauritius, or other British colonies, will be nesrly cent. per cent., while the adoption of the system on a large scale will tend more to the abolition of slavery, both open and covert, than any other practical plan yet adopted. The Shires are made of small amount, in order that the greatest possible number may be able to possess them, and thus be interested in the sale of Sugar produced by free-labour. Prospectuses, Estimates, the names of the Directors, and any further particulars, may be had on application to the Secre tary or the Solicitors. B RITISH INDIA ANTI-SLAVERY SUGAR COMPANY, . PERSONS having experience in the MANUFACTURE of SUGAR, and being DISPOSED TO GO TO INDIA with liberal engagements, are requested to make speedy application in writing, stating their addresses, ages. qualification, and pre vious employment, with references in London or Liverpool. Address " Directors of the British India Anti-Slavery Sugar Company, Guiltilvill-yard, London." By order of the Court of Directors, WILKINSON and PAGE, Solicitors. DEATH BY RAILWAYS, &c. TO the Foreman, M. Little, and the Hampshire Coroner's Jury, in the case of "W. Ghort," drowned by ‘g Moore's Hoy." On the Matter in Question.—The County Coroner, as the recorder on Death investigations—after his official password ceremonial for imbudying the 12 men by swearing them in un der Oath-pledge of duty—ought to take his seat on the Right hand of the Foreman elect as His recording secretary, other wise Attorney-General of the Crown Court of the County. In which office-capacity the Agent-Coroner, has no shadow of right to check the due sifting of the matter in doubt, by the jurors. The Jury-men being, for the time of their official Ses sion, " wholly and soley" Judges for the weighing in mind, touching " Life and Limb." The proceedings of the inquest, to be made in conclusive force, should have the signature of the youngest jury-man recorded firs'—the others in succession —the name of the President as foreman last : and on the mar ginal " left" below all, the seal and sign-manual of the County Coroner affix'd whereby the validity of the Court-Roll-deed* in reason, becomes all right. In such like form, and style, was this important inquest-examination on Death conducted Laccordin g so the Court-Roll now before the Undersigned] in the year 1433 attested and sealed by " William Coronor of Middlesex in the twenty-second year of the Reign of Henry the Sixth"—which as a model is worthy—and therefore set forth by the Undersign'd unto you, and others for a future (" Rail way guide") in moral, as His legal and Public opinion. Chambers, 5, Swallow-street, Quadrant, 28th August, 1840. Sign'd, CHARLES ACKERLEY—One nu the Rolls of the Peace as Justice (1 Jan., 1837) for Worcester and Middlesex. Also, sole-illustrator of the dial Assign— Node'ial under " Bible record" as the original, for arithmetick and th' tEducation "letter." " On the official execution of this Roll of court : the Coroner can legally claim and Receive out of the County Rates (33 Geo. 2d, 1760) the Expenses of the Enquest—the leading items of which are important. First to every and each of the twelve sworn-in-men—One shilling for the day sitting (three groats )r 12 pence to them due separately, in similitude as trustees of the highest tide of opinion Representing the three Estates, the Queen, the Lords, and the Commons under the term as being " neighbours to the fact" in their behalf, as of the Public weal. Secondly the fee of the county, for affexing the Coro ner's mark to the Writ of Record is in proportional payment for the due transmission of the Parliamentary power to a Jury so embodied, i. e., thirteen shillings and four pence—independ_ antly of the Coroner's travelling expenses guaranteed by the Foreman's signature etc.—Vide Blackstone-Ist Edition, Fee on separate oath pledge, 4d. ITIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of ILA. AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, wnich.(thmigh they are NO LOTTERIES) affer many possibilities of obtaining _ LARGE FORTUNES. HEINE BROTHERS, at HAAIBURGH, Are now SELLING BONDS for the said DIST RIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the next Distribution, may re ceive, PREVIOUS to giving anv order, the PROS''ECT US and PARTICULARS, upon addressing WITHOUT DE LAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION, managed and guaranteed by the Austrian Government, contains TWENTY-FIVE AB OUSAND TWO HUNDRED DIVIDENDS, Amounting to £954,388, The Dividends being £15,000 £6OO £7O 0 £37 10 7,500 300 50 0 37 0 3,800 200 42 0 t 36 0 1,800 150 4U 10 35 0 1,200 100 39 0 HEINE, BROTHERS, having remitted, during a short ;ime, 1F4,000/., 9,0001.. 5.0004, 3,6001., &c. &c. &c., to Lon don; 3,600/., 800/., 700/., to Edinburgh; 3,6001. to Dublin; 3,600/. to Beverley; 3,6001. to Halifax ( Yorkshire); 1,2001. to Portleaven Harbour; 900/., 6001., to Liverpool ; 9001. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne; 900/. to Hull; 9001., 6001., to Man chester ; 600/. to Bideford; 600/. to Cork ; 6001. to Bradford; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the said Dis tribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland. The Bonds (which are no Lottery Tickets) can be cashed at ?very Banker's connected with Germany in every mercantile place in the world. P.-S. All those honoring Mine Brothers with their kind orders (or application, even if not purchasing ) may rest as sured that their wishes will be faithfully attended to. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. 'I e Public is respectfully iuformed that this Theatre will OPEN for the SEASON, On MONDAY NEXT, SEPT. 7, Nhen will be presented Shakspere's Comedy (with Music) of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartley; Master Slender, Mr. C. Ma thews; Ford, 31r. Coop er; lenton Mr. W. Harrison; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Ann Page. Miss Rainforth, Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. C. Jones. Previous to the Comedy " God Save the Queen " will be sung by the whole of the Company. To 'conclude with an Original Comic, Romantic, Operatic, Melodramatic, Fairy Extravaganza, in Three Parts, entitled rod founded on thatpopularDjurseryTale, THE SLEEPINbBEAUTY IN THE WOOD. The Principal Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining, Mr. J. Bland, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C. !ones, &c. &c. Dress Boles, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; 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 had so'ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, !67, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. A New Historical fr;gic Drama, ana Seventh Week of Haines' "Jane of the Hatchet.-; Nightly averflows to witness the grand Tableaux d'action and military evolutions of the hun dred Female Warriors. THIS EVENING. SEPT. 3. Will be acted a New Tragic Drama, entitled SPARTACUS, THE ROMAN G LADIATOR. Illustrating the exercises, superstitions, and wars of the Gla- diators. After which the Grand Historical Spectacle, of unequalled splendour, entitled JANE OF THE HATCHET. Supported by the entire strength of the Company, and One Hundred Female Warriors. To conclude with the Nautical Drama of THE LARBOARD FIN ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY. and THURSDAY. GRAM) PRO.MLNADE MUSICALE ET CHAAIPETRE, By Godfrey's unrivalled Band. Programme of the Concert for Aug. 31, and Sept. 1 and 3. FIRST FART. Grand Overture and Marche Triomphale, composed for the Musical Festival at Cologne, in 183.2, by Ferdinand Ries. Quadrille—Le Neva, Musard•—Pot Pourri sur les Motifs de Les Huguenots, Meyerbeer. New Waltz, Feenivelt, Labitzky. Coro ed Aria, Io vo in Campo (Malek Add), Costa. New Grand March, Fhrenbreitsteiner (first performance in this country) Has:inger. Overture—Guillaume Tell, Rossini. SECOND PART. BEETHOVEN'S GRAND BATTLE SINFONIA, By the augmented Band, with instruments of novel construc tion, and 340 rounds of artillery and musketry, giving the most vivid realization of the events of the Battle of Vittoria. Spanish Chaunt. Fantasia from " Oberon," Weber. Waltz, Philomen, Strauss Quadrille, Le Marriage. Musard. file vast Panorama al Fresco of Iceland and its Volcanoes, by Danson—Breaking up of the Ice—Melting of the Snows—. Release and Departure of the Discovery Ship. Carter's astonishing " Koniaphostic," or " Lime Light. Eruption of Mount Hecla, with increased magnificence. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Feeding Hour of the Carnivora, Five o'Clock. Concert at Half-past Five. Eruption at Half-past Eight. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Reformer" should send his scheme. We cannot promise till we see it HIGH W X l'Elt AT LONDON MUDGE ID -MORROW. ...... 15 minutes after 7. Evenmg.... 41 minute, a•ter Ine Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SuN corn -10 minutes after Three. • ' • ;s..‘ c Err LONDON : THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1840. i We see by the Brigkon Guardian, w hi c h came yesterday, that a deputation of Sussex hop-planters has waited on Mr. DARBY, 'M.P., on the 27 t h ult., to consult as to the best means of procuring a remission of the hop-duty due in N ovember. The result of the interview was a requisition for THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1840. a public meeting, to be held on the 14th inst., of I course to beseech the Government to remit the duty to the hop-growers. Tf it be not remitted, said the deputation, most deplorable consequences would ensue, both to planters and labourers. Whether it be remitted or not, we know most deplorable consequences will ensue. " Where there was a fortnight's hop-picking," writes a friend, " last year, there will not be two days this year for the labourers." Now it is well known that on the hop-picking the labourers throughout the hop districts depend to pay their rent, and to provide for the wants of winter. If they have little or no hop-picking, the farmers and land owners will get no rent for their cottages, and they will have to provide for their labourers. But the labourers will not have this year above one-seventh of their ordinary earnings. Already we hear from those extensive districts, the wealds of Kent and Sussex, the cry of agricultural distress; and the mAn who is to bring it before the public, Mr. DARBY, is one of those who are most strenuous in supporting the Corn-laws, and even in demanding additional duties on foreign productions. A very few words will show how the Corn-laws operate against the hop-growers. The restrictions on the importation of all the produce of the soil, stimulate them to extend the growth of hops, the cultivation of which is almost exclusively carried on by hand. The plants have to be hoed, and the poles to be stuck in the ground by hand. The bines are tied, the gardens are weeded, the fruit is gathered all by hand. All the expense of the cultivation nearly goes in wages for labourers, and requiring so much manual labour it calls into existence a numerous population, who must be supported whether the crops fail or not. In proportion to his capital, few persons expend more on wages than the hop grower, and whatever enhances wages and prices, enhances his expense. Of course, therefore, his expense is increased by the Corn-laws, which raise .he price of everything, and the same laws stimu ate the hop-growers—in expectation of obtaining a igh price for hops, in return for their expense—to lay out large sums in extending the cultivation. A blight comes, as this year, and the hop-growers are plunged into distress, one-third of which, at least, is caused by the increased expense of cultivation occasioned by the Corn-laws. At the same time,'inost of the hop-planters are also corn-growers, and the advantages they derive, or suppose they derive from the Corn-laws should make them bear with patience this little evil conse quence of their own beloved enactment. At any rate, they have no right to obtain relief from the Treasury, for loss, which is mainly caused by their own wrong. Let them be contented with plundering the bread -eaters, without evading their holiest share of the public burdens. It grieves us to see an opposition of interest between the different classes ; but as such an opposition is caused by the Corn laws, we must at once tell the Treasury that the bread eaters of the towns will never forgive it, if it remit to the landed interest, which is prospering, as is said, at the expense of every other interest, a single farthing of the tax which is due. The tax, we must remind our readers, now sought to be evaded, is due on the hops of last year, which have all, probably, been sold and paid for six months ago, not on the deficient growth of the present 3 ear. The great importance of railways, and the great danger which attends them, induces us to copy from the Times, and place it prominently before our readers, a further portion of the leading article of that journal on this subject, which appeared yesterday : But what, after all, is a deodand of 5001. to a com mercial company trading upon a capital of millions ? The public interest requires a very different kind of check, which we hope, but hardly expect, to see sup plied by the machinery of the new Act for the regu lation of railways. Let inspectors be immediately ap pointed, and let those rules which are most necessary for the public protection be immediately made, and guarded against violation by such penalties as the ex isting state of the law may enable inspectors or ma gistrates to enforce. Some of those rules are suggested by the evidence in the present case. Let no company be allowed to open any portion of new road until both lines of rails are completed and fit for use ; nor even then till the construction of the road has been thoroughly examined and approved by the public inspectors. Let no com• pany be suffered to run engines in opposite directions on the same rails, except occasionally at the stations, for the purpose of turning. Some limit should be fixed to speed, having regard to the construction of the engine and the width between the rails ; and a heavy penalty ought to be imposed on the company for every case in which this limit is exceeded. No person should be su f fered to act as engine-driver till he has gone through a stated course of probation, and no train should be allowed to start till the driver had been furnished with a printed copy of general instructions ap plicable to the whole of the line to be traversed, and a written copy of any particular instructions which, upon special occasions, it may be found necessary or expedient to issue. If rules such as these had been in force previously to Thursday week, we are persuaded that the lamentable accident on which we have been commenting would never have occurred. If the Act for the regulation of Railways does not warrant such rules as these, no time ought to be lost after the com mencement of the next Session in applying to Par liament for further powers. The concern of Parliament for the public safety ought not to be fettered by any provisions which may have been unguardedly introduced into any of the Railway Acts already passed ; and we think there are some grounds for complaining that, in framing the clauses of Lord Seymour's Act, too great regard was shown to private, and rather too little to public, inte rests. We shrewdly suspect that if the Directors of any Railway Company are disposed to offer an obsti nate resistance to suggestions proceeding (under that Act) from the Board of Trade, or from the public inspectors, it will be found impossible, without some further improvement in the machinery, to ..xereine a ny , control over their pmccedings. All these suggestions are worthy of considera tion, and to several of them—one agreeing with a suggestion of our own—we give our cordial appro bation. 'We think, however, that some doubt may arise as to one leading principle of our Contem porary's remarks. He would have Government in spectors, he is anxious for more legislation on the subject, and he requires other machinery if the Directors of railways offer obstinate resistance to suggestions from the Board of Trade. If we hesi tate in demanding further legislation, more inter ference of the Board of Trade, additional inspectors, etc., etc., i: is not from any slackness in a desire to see the public duly and properly protected against danger, but from a doubt whether such be the best means of attaining the object. The necessity, for example, of having a skilful and approved driver, who has been brought up to the business, in which our Contemporary agrees with us, is a point which has been quite overlooked by our legislators. So we believe has the neces sity for a spare driver always to accompany the ac tual driver been also overlooked. In fact, railways are altogether a novel mode of conveying passen sengers, improvements in the management of them may be expected evei y day, and it seems quite unapprop! iate, therefore, to make minute rules for the guidancu of those who own them. Before a man sets up for a legislator on rail ways (the humblest individual may suggest what is useful), he should make himself minutely ac quainted with their economy. He should live on a railroad for at least a ear. No one of our law makers will, or can, submit to such an apprentice ship. The consequence will be, that any laws they make will be either the crude suggestions of their own ignor ance , or the one-sided suggestions of some half informed and interested persons, who will be under no responsibility for what they recommend. Over the Legislature, if it make bad laws, the public has only a remote control, and the laws cannot be im mediately altered: over the Directors of railways it has an immediate control, and their regulations may be, if necessary, amended from day to day• Ihe public can inflict no inconsiderable degree o f punishment on them, by abstaining—though at great inconvenience, from using any particular railway, and the control over them by the public is more direct, im mediate, and powerful, than over the Legislature. At the same time, the Directors, or their servants, are always on the spot, are always learning some thingnew about their own operat i ons , an d we th therefore are, on the whole, inclined to look to the Directors rather than to the L eg i s l ature , f or the due and safe transmission of passengers. We know that the Directors are supposed to have an interest adverse to that of the passengers ; t while the Legislature is equally s u pp ose d t o h a v e nothing in view but the public g oo d. I t i s , how ever, plain that the same accid en t w hi c h, b y run ning a train off the rails, wou n d s or kill s the breaks the car passengers, loss.e strictly s c a The safe besidesally damatheges Railway e engi nes , riags deodand w hi c h may b e levied, and,u coincident e with h the Compa n y grea t pecu niary conveyance o f p assengers i s pecuniary interest of the Company, and so far as that is concerned, the public should rather rely on the foresight and self interest of the Directors, than on the regulations of the gentlemen at Westminster. There are some other points, such as conveying passengers within a promised period, and in carriages sufficiently guarded against the weather, in which the interference of the Legislature, or rather the law, to compel the Directors to fulfil a specified or implied contract, may be necessary. On such points, the Directors may have an interest adverse to the public ; but, as to conveying passengers safely, their interest and that of the public is the same, and to that we would leave the guidance of their conduct. As b the other supposition, that the Legisla ture has nothing in view but the public good, and may therefore be more trusted than the Directors to proide for the public safety, we are constrained to deny its accuracy. With the Corn-laws every clay bringing home to us a conviction that the Le gislature, protected by this supposition and embol dened by impunity, sacrifices the public welfare to the presumed advantage of its members, killing, crippling, and maiming every year more people than railways will destroy in a century, we cannot place any confidence in its professions of consulting only the public good. One or two busy Directors of railways, particularly if a few Peers or Bishops—no unlikely matter—should have a pe cuniary interest in the concern, might procure the passing of some laws' which should exonerate the Directors from the consequence of their own negli gence, or save them from the fines of an enlightened Coroner's jury. We cannot, therefore, go along with our Contemporary in advising the public to look for protection from the Legislature, and we should rather counsel them to look for it to their own energy and to the control they can, through the pecuniary interest of the proprietors of railways, exercise directly over them. Another consideration which weighs with us is, that betwixt the Legislature and the Directors— betwixt the inspectors of the former and the ser vants of the latter, the responsibility will be divided, and we would have it weigh exclu sively on one. Allow either the Legislature or the Directors to control, direct, and manage the whole, but do not endow both with a i w b oh il ri i dc t he y r , i sa so ntoo t t b h h l a : : m; t e h ow e ri p m u tnh b ea l i n c i acci dentl m it e a t y . e 4 )b t h e n e it D i unable e.ote i i r en e u to g C r t sr r e s S supA m dogn a ne y s ference of the Inspector may make the Directors Inspector may direct one thing, ' suppose that they may sleep, and accidents will then be sure to occur. We lay it down, therefore, as a principle, that there should be undivided re sponsibility, and as the Legislature cannot possibly be charged with all the details of railways, we would place that responsibility on the Directors. For several years the Times has day after day been writing down the New Poor-law, Mr. O'CON NELL, and the Ministers. Has it succeeded ? Are the Ministers turned out? Has Mr. O'CON NELL lost the confidence of his countrymen, and is the New Poor-law repealed ? To each of these questions the answers must be No. The Times, which once boasted that it could stifle a regiment of Guards with its wet sheets, as they came from the press, has completely failed in each and all these objects. To possess power is to provoke envy and excite malignity. For one friend that a 'Minister rewards he disap points twenty, and makes a corresponding number of enemies. It is in the nature of things, therefore, that any and every Ministry must gradually become weak and be at length destroyed. That the present Ministers have survived so long, and to many per sons so unexpectedly, is mainly due to the furious and ungenerous hostility of the Times. In like manner, its abuse of Mr. O'CoNNELL has continu ally recommended him to the Irish, and has pre served his influence. Its own bitter and unmea sured hatred compels it now, day after day, to de vote column after column to Mr. O'CONNELL'S, as we think, foolish proceedings to obtain the repeal of the Union, while the Journals of his party out of Ireland take little or no notice of them. So, too, its persevering comments on the New Poor-law seem only to make its merits better known, and to force it into more general and energetic operation. It may b e very skillful, but in attaining its political ends it is singularly unsuccessful. W e call attention to o. leader we have extracted from the Advertiser of this morning, and the Times of yesterday, on the vast advantages of investing capital i n B r i t i sh India, as t h e B r i t i s h I ndia Anti- Slavery S ugar Company are preparing to do. This is the true way of getting rid of slavery and open ing new markets for British manufactures. Our extracts from the Paris Journals of Tuesday, and the accounts which we publish of the military preparation s making by the Sublime Porte to co operate with the Four Powers against MEHEMET ALI, should the Viceroy persist in rejecting the ultimatum of the London Conference, are not likely to diminish the interest excited by the complicated state of th e E astern que stion. Not that the lan guage of the F renc h P r ess is more warlike than previously, or t h at t h er e is anything very extra ordinary in the military preparations of the Porte to take part in a struggle which involves the itde pendence of Turkey. But every day which now passes in which nothing has been done towards the pacific settlement of t his question—every arrival from Constantinople and Ale xandria which brin g s no intelligence of a cessation of hostile p re p aration s —every commurication from Paris which repre sents the F renc h G o vernment as determin ed to stand alo o f f rom t h e ot her Powers , i ns t ea d of either frankly j o i n i ng t h em , or assuming the functions of s r a medi a t or b etween t h e PACLIA and the Four Powers, i ncreases t h e i n t e rest with which we re gard the p ro b a bl e resu lt of an appeal to the wtoicrlde. Theattributed Revue tothe det pen of iv l l eu il x on m des i , Gli T in E, alon g a the philosophi ca l hi stor i an of the first Fren c h Revolution, iHigßs,en a u n m d era t t l e ie M. a t great length the diffi. intimate friend of culties of e xecut i ng t h e Treaty of London. Thi s is a work o f su p ere rogation. England never imagined that the Treaty could be executed without difficulty. Obstacles the most formidable present themselves at every step, but they were all fore seen, and what precautions were possible taken to MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) Insreetor Beresford, of the C division, on laying before Mr. LONG, the presiding. Magistrate, the sheet containing the names of nightly disorderlies, informed it him that he had a young female in his charge, volunta rily so on her own part, and about whom he wished to have Mr. Long's advice. On seeing from her com plexion that she was a country girl, and so young, he inquired of her when she came to the station-house who had sent her there ? She replied " I came by the up lumber train on the Southampton Railroad, expect ing to find a person, as I had previously been pro mised, but no one was there. I waited for some hours hut finding no one accosted me, and being a stranger and without means of communicating with my friends and having a distrust from what I had read of the true friendly- feeling about London, I merely asked a female o,hom I met in widow's weeds ; she told me I had utter apply to the first police-station I came to, and I did so." A person present in the office stepped forward and :ated that he was a eheesemonger, residing in Silver seet, Golden-square, and that from the account that iio had heard, was ready at that instant to take the pri soner into the service of his family, feeling quite satis fied that her statement was correct. Inspector Beresford said that he knew the party in question was a moral man, and had a large family, wi-.ich for many years he had brought up in unquestionable respectability. Mr. LONG said he was most happy that the unfor ,tinate girl had come into such good hands. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY. LONDON, SEPT. 3. —Wind this day, at noon, mode rate, southerly breeze, and hazy weather. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 2.—Wind E. N. E.—Off port the Druid, Thomas, from Dominica. SWANSEA, SEPT. I.—Arrived the Alexander, Deans, from Cuba. DARTMOUTH, SEPT. I.—Off port the Minerva, Innis ; From Para. DUBLIN, A VG. 31.—Arrived the Betsey Black, Jones, 'rom Trinidad. STOCKTON. AUG. 31.—Arrived the Pollock, Huntley, from Quebec; Caroline, Brown, Miramichi ; Queen of the Isles, Madgwick, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick. HULL, SEPT. 2. Wind variable.—Arrived the Hope, Bennington, from Riga. DEAL, SEPT. 2. Wind W. S. W.—Sailed the Sir E. Paget, Campbell, from Bombay ; Catherine, Berry, New York. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 2.—Wind variable.--Arrived the George, M'Grindell, from St. John's, New Brunswick. Sailed the Chalco, Dickenson, for Monte Video; Mary Ellen, Joy, Bahia; Broad Oak, M'Kay, ditto; Louisa, Snow, Boston. The Cora, from St. John's, New Bruns wick, to Milford, was spoken with off New Harbour, wa terlogged, having struck on Sable Island Bar, and was en deavouring to make a port. A British schooner from Granada was lost on Grand Key tl►c 29th of July ; crew drowned. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. There was little business done by private treaty, and the public sales were unimportant. Holders, however, dig played firmness, and former rates were supported. The imports were to a fair extent from all quarters. Some important public sales were declared. TEA MARKET. Pries fair for Free Trade, but the market presented a tranquil appearance. Some auctions were declared, which caused the consumers to operate with caution. Com pany's Congou dull 2s. 3d. for cash. TALLOW MARKET. There was a fair business done, and former rates were fully supported ; for Russian, 525. 9d. to 535. was asked for first quality. The supply of Home produce is small. HArM . ARKET. There was only a moderbte supply ; the demand was good and prices firm. Clover Hay, 41. 10s. to 6/. ; Meadow ditto, 31. 103. to 5/. ; Straw, 1/. 13s. 6d. to 1/. 16s. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The sales to-day are 4,000 bags, out of which 200 have been taken for export prices steady. LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, SEPT. 2. Eastern Counties Grand Junction 219 London and Birmingham, quarter _ Shares _ 26-1- South Western 54 North Union 791- South Eastern Our market continues to wear the same depressed character which has prevailed the ►ast week. The proposition of the Eastern Counties Directors to issue new shares at 181. dis., 251. paid, has caused this stock to deolitso ; and wo (dose sellers at 131 dis. A better feeling prevails in South Western, in consequence of the increase in the traffic. Arrivals this morning. —French and Ostend mails Ship letters from Para. We have received the Antwerp papers of the 2.1 o September. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, AUG. 31.—Although the liquidation of the national funds was calm and without variation, the prices acquired a new firmness. In Ar doin's Spanish there was not much doing, but they con tinued firm. Accounts from Berlin of the 25th of August state that the Government, on the advice of the Council of Posen, has issued an ordinance which may be regarded as a first step towards the emancipation of the numerous population of the Israelites of that country. The first article states thAt the free-born or naturalized Jews are admitted to fulfil the functions of members in the municipal councils of the town and the localities where they are domiciled ; their election or nomination for the offices is subject to the same conditions as the Christians. enable her to surmount them. Of these difficulties the most to be dreaded is the occupation of Con- I stantinople by a Russian army, under an y p re t ex t whatever; as Lord PALMERSTON is no stranger to the general indignation which such an occupa tion would excite in every British bosom, we cannot but be persuaded that it is one of the first for the removal of which the Government has taken the most decided measures. General as is the desire of the people. of England to uphold the Ottoman empire, we really believe that we speak the opinions of nine-tenths of all who have re flected on the subject, when we assert that they would rather hear of the occupation of Constan tinople by MEHEMET ALI as a conqueror, than by the Emperor NICHOLAS as a friend and ally to the young SULTAN. Now it is upon this important point that the French Journals all mistake us. They app€ar to entertain a conviction that England has been bamboozled into a belief of the amicable professions of Russia towards the Porte. Nothing can be more unfounded. England knows as well now as she did at any past period in her history, that Rus sia has no object more at heart than the subversion of the Ottoman Empire ; but she is likewise sen sible that she possesses no means of counteracting the policy of Russia more effectual than that afforded by the Treaty of London. We shall take an early opportunity of entering more at length into • the details of this very interesting view of the I question. Besides the political articles in the French Journals, to which we have above alluded, and the account of a Republican dinner in Paris on Mon day, which will be found in another column, the following extracts include the only news of any mo ment in these Papers : A dinner was given to M. Odillon Barrot on the 27th ult. by the electors of Crecy, in the Aisne. In acknowledging the toast to his health, M. Odin( n Barrot alluded as follows to the existing difflrences be tween France and the other great Powers : " I am a great partisan of peace, and should see with deep:regret the present movement of civilisation checked ; but France cannot consent to give way ; lot with her resources to give way would be to degrade herself.—(Loud cheers.) One general feeling should at this moment absorb all others. It will be found in the following toast : To the maintenance of the dignity of the French name in the world, although to maintain it we should have to renew the great struggle in which so many brave men fell!' " This toast ;vas received with great enthusiasm, and was followed by loud cries of " Vive la France ! Vive l'honneur du nom Francais ! Vive Odillon Barrot !" As we have announced, M. Casimer Perier really set out on Saturday evening for Havre, where he will embark for St. Petersburg. We persist in saying that he will act as Charge d'Affaires at St. Petersburg in the room of M. de Barante, our Ambassador. The Mi nistry on its side bad reason to say that M. de Barante would not be recalled. The fact is, that the Ambas dor will depart some time before the arrival of M. Pcrier, under the pretext of leave of absence, and that he will not return to St. Petersburg. The sudden ar rival of Madame de Barante is a symptom of the speedy return of her husband. We have received the following letter : " GIBRALTAR, AUG. 15.—Our arsenal, which has been so long dormant, is suddenly roused into action, ant! extraordinary activity now prevails in that esta blishment. A fr;gate, after taking on board 15,000 muskets and some Artillerymen, put out to sea ; its destination is not positively known, but it is supposed to be the Levant. " To-day a ship of the line under the English colours passed the Straits, and pursued its course without stop ping, to the Levant. Within these few days two Eng lish frigates also passed. It seems that England is send ing all the naval force that can be spared to the Levant." The Pressc, the connection of which with the Palace is well known, attacks and contradicts in the most ener getic manner the warlike disposition attributed to the Court, and the unreasonable speeches, as it justly ob serves, put into the King's mouth against Lord Palmer ston and Prince Metternich. It is certain that a King who should complain in these terms of Foreign Ministers would be doing an injury to personal dignity, and we cannot understand how the Ministerial Journals can have become the echoes and the approvers of sallies so contrary to the calm dignity of a crowned head.—Lc Commerce. The trial of Louis Napoleon will not comm ence till the Ist of October. The meeting of the 15th will be for the purpose of reading the act of accusation, but the prisoners will not be brought to trial until the d above named. General Excelmans has refused to be present at the trial. We have Madrid and Barcelona letters of the 25th. The arrival of the Queen at Valencia was known. The Queen Regent wished to reduce the military force in every part o f Spain to 80,000 men, but Espartero will not consent to lower the estimate below 130,000. BO UR S PARIS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 1. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents ll2 95 ... 113 112 50 ... 113 5(9 3 per Cents 7911.10 79 SO 79 70 ... 79 70 Bank of France 3170 ...3170 ...3170 ...3170 Latfitte Bank I,ooof. 811 1063 75 ...1063 75 ...1063 75 ...1063 75 5,000 L Sh 5150 ...5150 —.5150 .51:0 Belgian Bank 5 per Cents 3; cc Cents Aciive ......... :25 ... 25 ... 254 Passive SX .. Sri ... 5X ... 5X Neapolitan Clornan IGO 1 100!8 I 1t40% RAILWAY SHARES, i% Germain Versailles, It. B 4tio .., 460 ... 410 ... 460 L.B. ... 292 50 Orleans .. Strasburg to Bale 347 50 ... 347 50:...:347 50 ... 317150 BELO; AN 1. U NOS—BRUSSELS, SEPT. I. Actual Debt, 21.4 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 993 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. ---- 3 per Cent. --Thirty.seven Loan of City, 1t.+31, 3 per Cent — Society of Commerce, 4!•4 per Cent lO9 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent B3N National Society . Exchange on London (short) •-•••• B 7 ussels Papers, Sept. 1. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, AEG. 21. Five per:Cents. Metalliques • 107% Emir per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares —Allgemeine Zeitring, Aug. 29, DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDASI, Aug. 31. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 'l% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. 9. ., 14 1(10 A 11101 t Syndic, 4 per cent...... ............ Ditto, ditto, 4', per cent 74X 75% Commercial Company, •1!.. 2 per cent I6S4 169 Ditto (1635 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... Loan 111117, 5 per cent.. 96 963 E Exchange on London, One rrbitith ll 95 Two months Dutch Papers, Aug. 29. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, Ann. 28. Bills. Money. St,. Sehitid. S' h. 5 it,per cent. 104,4 103% PiLtssian Engiish Loan, 18;30, 4 pet tent 102 , 4 if; xChange on Landon ; three montk,..„ 6 .17% —Prussian State Gazelle, Aug. 29. f The aficottnts (torn ripairi state that a tircular has been addressed by the political chief of Seville to the authorities of the other provinces, stating that he has received infortnation, bn which reliance i can be placed, that the authorities of that town had received by a eourier a communication from the Committee of the Club at Madrid to hoist the standard of revolution, and as the Duke of Victoria having separated himself from the political line to which it was thought he was attached, it was now the time to put the projects into execution, and it was hoped that the army would support them. Emissaries were to leave Madrid for the various pro vinces. His Excellency said that he should he on his guard, and brave all danger to maintain tranquillity. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, (rilts bAy.) IN RE ISRAEL MOSES VAN BERGH. This case, which had been thquently investigated previnusly, at length adjourned sine die, because of the unsatisfactory state of the bankrupt's abcounts, was again brought before Mr. Ponblanque for the purpose of effecting a dividend of his estate. The bankrupt had been a general merchant in Le man-street, Crutched.friars i and incurred considerable liabilities, Most or the details have already appeared before the public. After paying the law expenses incident to taking Out the fi it of bankruptcy, there will be scared,- any bank rupt ' s estate i n the hands of the assitace: be of th e coming availabl e t o t h e creditors. THE PEOVER. MURDER. --A. man and woman have been a p pre h ended on suspicion of having been eon: corned in th e murder of the aged farmer and his wife. It appears the officers have been for some days on the look. out for them. When taken on Sunday a bundle of rags was all that was found in their possession. On seeing the officer the man said, " I know what you want me for—it is about the Peover murder." He also, when in the " luck -up," uttered some rather suspicious expressions, and gave but a very poor account of himself. The witness( s who appeared against them did not establish their guilt. The prisoners, who were in a destitute situation, having only a few pence in their pockets, were remanded. A Correspondent of the Times says that an Irishman has been taken into custody at Cavan, of whose guilt there is but little doubt, THE FUNDS. Consols may be quoted at 90 to 90i for the Account ; money 89i 6, with little doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 17 19 prem.; India Bonds, 5 3 dis. ; Bank Stock, 169 170 ; In&a. Stock, 249 230 ; Three per Cents. Re duced, shut ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, also shut. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 24i ; Deterred, 111 ; Passive, 5i 6 ; Portuguese 341 ; Three per Cents., 22i ; Brazilian, 791 801; Colom bian, 23i 24i ; Mexican, 281 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 51i 52 ; Five per Cents., 104 102. Shares—Great Western Railway, 22 23 premium ; London and Brighton, 9i discount ; Black wall, to discount; Birmingham, 76 78 premium ; Southamp ton, 531 541; per share ; Croydon, 11 I per share ; Greenwich, 61 71 per share ; Manchester and Bir mingham, 13 11 discount. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exeter 5O ...... 26i.. to Eastern Counties Great Western Ditto New ... London and Birmingham 9O Ditto New Shares London and South Western 3Bl 53 Manchester and Leeds - Ditto New Share. North Midland Ditto New South Eastern and Dover PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, SEPT. 1. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half . Stock 97i ' Grand Canal Stock . 18 Ditto Reduced ... 97 Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... 87A Ditto New, 1830 ...... 97i Ditto 4 per cent ... 58i 3„ per Cert. Dcbs HALF-PAST ONE. During the whole of the morning the Consol Market has been very inactive, with alternately buyers and sel lers at 90/. for the Account ; Money, 89- ; Exche quer Bills, 17 19 prem.; India Bonds, 3 5 dis. ; Bank Stock, 1691 ; India Stock, 249. The Foreign Market is in the same state as that of the British Market, scarce a bargain doing ; Spanish Active, 241 ; Deferred, 11 j; Passive, 5i 651 j. ; Portuguese, 34i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51i ; Five per Cents., 102. In Shares rather more business doing, but the prices are still heavy. Great Western declined to 221 prem.; London and Birmingham to 771 prem. ; North Mid land to 17 dis, We have no intelligence as yet of the overland ex press from India. Th© Dutch mail not yet arrived. .HAPA Notice p os t e d at th e Bank of LF- EnglandS T TWO. " The Governor and Company 6f the Bank of Eng land are ready, until further notice, to receive applica tions for loans upon the deposit of approved bills of ex change, not having more than six months to run ; Ex chequer Bills and East India Bonds. Such loans to be repaid on or before the 21st of October next, with in terest at the rate of .5/. per cent. per annum, and to be for sums of not less than 2,0001. each. " Bank of England Sept. 3, 1840." FAcT$ FOR BACHELORS.—Of 169 convicts in the Connecticut 'tats prison, i,3-! were never married ; and of the r es id ue , 11 had lost their wives, Att.! P 2 had which carri e d t h em to prison, parted from tb e i r tio efirrie,s Mere committed who at the ti me o f leaving only (aat Of 164) their fall remained within the influence of the conjugal relation. Further, of the whole number, 103 were intemperate, 7$ sold liquors, 92 left their pa reivs under twenty-one years of age, 32 had been sailors, and 12 had been soldiers. Coloured, 44,—New York Journal. Combustibles, such as lucifer matches, &c., are prohibited, by section 62 of the last Postage Act (3 and 4 Victoria, c. 29), from being forwarded by post. BLACKFRIAR'S-BRIDGE. — The paving of this costly bridge is now nearly completed, and a truly beau tiful and substantial piece of read pavement it is. The fine broad sweep of the footway at either end is highly tasteful and creditable to the architects, and when tho roughly completed it will be many years ere any further repairs arc required. Of course the cost has been ex ceedingly heavy, and the public inc9nrenience very great. EVENING EDITION. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen, the Q' T l eeS Dowager, and the Princess of Holien;9he, rode out in at phaeton-and-four at half-past four o'clock this afternooa, up the Long Walk, into the Great Par:' an d Tha Drive. T urt.e open carriages and four follo:ve d • first was occupied by the Duchess of Kent, the .D n h che c s : Ida of Saxe Weimar, and the Princess Theresa ; cand by the Countess of Charlemont and Bareel Spaeth ; and the last by the Viscountess Barrington AP Lady C. Dundas. • His Royal Highness Prince Albert and the Noble; men and Gentlemen in the Castle, including the E ' )s 4 of Denbigh, Earl of Surrey, Viscount Palmerston, Ler; Lilford, Sir Henry Wheatley, Sir Edward BOWater, Forest . W. Lumley, and Mr. Francis Seymour, nneamP anie the Royal Party on horseback. Baron and Baroness Poelnitz, and Lord John itaS` sell arrived to-day. Colonel Bouveric took his departure from the Ca c ' 4 ' s this mornin. The Prov g ost of Eton, the Hon. G. Liddell,and Nls* and the Hon. Mrs. An s ,:n will have the honour of jl i r s : ing the Royal Dinner l'4:ty to-day ; and the Let ue t Eleanora and Constance Page;•. will join the Ma circle at the Castle i the evenin -, The Queen Dowager n walked out for* some time thi s evening. The Duke of Cambridge will leave the Castle at all early hour to-morrow morning. Last evening, at a quarter past six o'clock , t he P -° ibe Party took a drive, the first carriage containiol‘i the Queen, the Queen Dowager, Prince Albert, an $ Duke of Cambridge, followed by most of th e vial and suite. Tevening he Royal dinner party this coogris. a ke the Queen Dowager, the Duchess of Kent, the t o of Cambridge, the Duchess Ida of Saxe Wein:if'', 1 P Princess of Hohenlohe, the Princess Therese , rt r i ,,. 0 e Denbigh, Surrey, and Uxbridge, Viscounts geleri3s. and Palmerston, Lord John Russell, Barons r glip al roness Poelnitz, Sir H. Wheatley, the Provost 6 , 1 1 . ,"d; Mr. George and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, lion. L' ii ' n " ) . 0 dell, Colonel Jones, Countess of Charlemont, Visc ° , 3 l3 t y Barrington, Lady C. Dundas, Baroness SPoet.,:eic roness Lehzen, Hon. Miss Pitt, Hoe. Miss,'",,,ri o l ool Rice, Lord Lilford, Hon. Sir W. Lumley ti .;„ -- cis Wemyss, General Sir E. Bowater, and Mr. ' J.'-e Seymour. tba The Princess Augusta was visited yesterday blded t Duchess of Gloucester. Sir Henry Hallor a her Royal Highness yesterday morning, and g atloor. r•„ 1 ‘ the was in constant attendance on the Princess durwo whole of the day. gigiv The following was the account of her Royal "" ness's health issued yesterday : Is " The Princess Augusta continues much in the state. " Clarence House, Sept. 2." . T er Among the inquirers after her Royal Niel s- i:0 terday, were the American Minister. the Ne t- fi eri hs gs Minister and Madame Dedel, the 'Brazilian v— h r- si d'Affaires, o and Madame Marques Lisboa, the P t : c o:a' f Inverness, the Duke of Dorset, the Duchess 05 p a nizzaro, Viscount Templetown, Lady F. Somers et ' a Lady Pulteney. vt ter' The Duke of Sussex was pleased to inspect stern day .o morning , in Kensington Palace, two of Mr. eV d iph s newly-invented writing machines, mode l)/ c 11 . a mand of his Royal Highness It the Princess Seilighl. and the Crown Prince of Hanover. His Roya l ''- ness was pleased to express his aP robatiorf. Foreign' Mr. Backhouse arrived yesterday P at the office from Rotterdam, by the General Steam Iv' hie tion Company's vessel the y Ocean, Ocean o n his return 01 family from Germany, where he has been on les f " absence for the benefit of his health. tits Despatches from the Governor-Ge Oret (I'l4 c li Canadas were received yesterday at the C olonial'eP. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGEN CE' ARRIVALS. T. 0. Gascoigne, Esq., at the Burlington tel; bete l ' and Lady Harriet Drummond, at the Clarencl2.ll,o3oo' the Duke of Dorset, in Harley-street ; Lord (- 5 _% , fro.. in Grosvenor -street; the Hon. Major Wedebonr. Dublin ; Mrs. Huskisson, in e n s ßarlton - gar d Mrs. A. Hope, at ditto ; Lady Limerick, i 1Y!,,,..,00 1 1% . street ; Lord Charles Fitzroy, from Cletver.,e7c7, Lord Ossulston, from Mount Felix, Surrey ; Yor k ' G. Cholmondelcy, 43d Light Infantry, front DEPARTURES. t..osstle The Earl of Miltown, for R us borougP a Miss ' Wyndham, for Petworth • Sir Theophilu, L a dy Cbarl CW dulph, for Leamington Spa; Lord and for dit t° ' Paulet, for ditto ; the Misses Manners Sutton'Brightons Sir Charles and the Hon. Lady Cockerel' , for gicardit Lady and the Misses Montague ; Mr. and M rs ' Wei Sir D. and Lady M acleod, for Cheltenham • the aa s of Winchester, for Amport-house • Lord Kilo ol e LO. - .1 the Hon. James Browne. for daulstone-house; 000 Blayney, for Bath ; the Earl of Harrowby and the „ for Granville Ryder, for Jersey ; Lord and Lady Fita."' Arundel-castle. OPENING OF THE TEMPERAPIC° HALL, IPSWICH. This beautiful building was erected at the Ae le f e a S o s pense of our excellent townsman, a philanthropist 0 Os common order, Richard Dykes Alexander, ESt'a President of the Ipswich Temperance SocietY , * ; c ei' situated in Crown-street, St. Matthew's. As a PIO: men of architecture there is nothing in the to wo 't sa d wich to compare with it. Its exterior is an eleg°l.xiiicis chaste representation of a Grecian Doric ternP le. jaint order is preserved with much correctness , c' ui t , d is neatness with propriety and beauty, and front and on the west end by iron railings• two entrances by a flight of steps running the who' e r : o orti t of the front, next Crown-street, and a third at th di, s ifts' end. The interior is fitted up with every reg al. ~,,on,c; plicity and comfort, and has very much the a P P- of t' of a Friends' meeting-house, with the exception at kel s • lecture-table . A platform is raised for the sPe B ~f e r Cr leo_ v a the south end, and a table for the chairman three windows at this end being ornamented with js. st' t ll t i3o glass, which produces a very pleasing e ffect. , o eoll y other end of the room is a gallery capable ei IS a misdating 150 persons seated ; and underneist"o to Committee room, having sliding-shutters, e_rool throw it in to form part of the Hall or Lee is protecree when necessary. The seats in the Hall, ind e P en e d P er ' the Committee-room, arc sufficint for six ho ldr sons ; and the lobbies and Committee-roorn hav b e in i tb° ing space for two hundred and fifty more. rebind D chair is lo the motto : a rtb, r Glory to God, in the highest, and ou good-will, towards men." - Under which, on the right, is the I " TEE-TOTAL PLEDGD• x r iak s o „ e g fci " I promise to abstain from all intoxicating- u - - cept under medical advice or in religious ordina'troce' to discountenance the causes and practice of integ 9 P And on the left, the will „ APOSTOLIC PLEDGE., a I .4 66 Wherefore if m e at ma k e my brother to one° ' Ice „ s , cat no fern while the wo r ld st a ndeth, lest I il l "' o a brother to offend-1 Cor. viii. 13." A variety of . other and similar inscriptionsd the sides. The Hall was opened on Al °t ':al f i r° ,, lll • great splendour, as we learn from ,the bu f " he ll' which we have taken the above description with Express. for tl'is sut there lif be - bile; REP country, REPEAL.—Happy, f A ist L hae . perverse stormt i a popf ingenuity e it n a u t indeed, agitation yn couldv vou el would 3 i s ; _ or e a vi e 4 f d e t__O nia bly•F to baffle every hope of quiet. Thanks to 1 . 1 0 0; 41 01 we have now an agitation roaming abroad- -tbe t suee ess be which sar or d Sta n d extinguisher of tithes has proved himself a 11,°*-. nae ll, ~f extinguisher of peace. Far beyond Mr. o ', (l h ° off ect possesses a power over Irishmen, which, lik e - e " los. d summer and rain upon the leaf— • T e.. s.- u " Makes the green blood to dance within thou' sea° there -,fir Up to the beginning of the present year, o d ri- is almost total cessation of political agitation• r g . r i tta c : fp ley's Bill came—the most daring and ins u i lt f'hei:'sa lf be designated on the rights and feelings of the peoP e " t a lie o l.6l ol ' designated as perjurers, and treated a s ; r oue; Oa slaves—like the seed of Jacob, they were to be e ase '''' ie. the mire of the way. What followed ? The " an d P e e ls people exclaimed against the foul imputation, d...,04fir vasion of their rights—agitation r ecomme nce o w au' 0 ( 0 was again in the ascen d an t, Will the Tories motet° ° our question ? Who a r e the real friends and P r t ea I;() Repeal ?—Dublin Eveniny Post, arres te d bp FORGERY.—The unfortunate man i a . MorPont Saturday, on a charge of forgery, is Mr. /olio. to . ale and beer brewer, of Gloucester-street. lri „ wo rtial , to Saturday last ho presented a draft for 570/., l' i n 'Tralb°, l ,!l,ll. be that of a Mr. Hogan, in favour of W. ''' w ee " an al , the teller ill Latouche's bank. He signed his n.,, pint J. Talbot," was paid the money, and went a ef ;,soti n "(l afterwards the fraud was discovered by olose i Y in ageth e 00 the signature, and informations were at onop i , h - r ,,, oi t 0 0 a warrant granted for his apprehension. 1 :wd Erna' be notes for 100/. each were identified as having, rd. sad 0,, him to one of the clerks of the Bails of Ir e :!;: t ed the is is fully identified as the person who Itcg n if nott to Another for 1001. was exchanged for s' ns „. o o ranunt another commercial house. An application ' n t• Oa - 0 1 i. admit him to bail in sureties double the amou nt '6, ° s l ed obtained, but the Magistrates refused to listen t o tied , : a s; f e u a r t t io h n er , j a n s fo h r e ma w t aLe s om w m er i e tte il d , c f o o u r re f e M o th f e b r e c ii, x g ana ta l k n eo a v g e l e stt C bit „et' him. The banking-h ot ,ze of Latouchc and --. P r in• large , sums lataly by similar m e .;,:ls, and on° of the pa. clerks was deprived of hie situatbn f° ,.. l :' 'll' At. examining the signatures to the forged dreu-•, y o n— r , s r A female servant of Mr. Ward, it ue ' le I c°-- ( . 0 3, i, A er committed suicide lest night, by burning. eh ar w cau l " red „th-'no l. p rePs 6 ' b s sequence of disappointment in love. mad the cool manner in which the u nhappy g i ` o 'ona l l t oo and executed her design. For one week Pr' en , ,`or ic sr was employed in washing up and ironing her l'" ides • ,0 ho r° 9 40 purpose ot transmitting it to her m other, b e wr t er Forges-lcs-E , ,ux. She then caused a letter to - c i to b •,-, be PBI fn to her master, requesting her wage s ,_, e fo r.. 01 , mother, and the linen forwarded. A ports Every ea: in filled with charcoal, was lighted in her room. l' up , an'l he that could admit the air was carefully stopP c cor oe. h ' iog the morning, on opening her door, she wa,s e a rois , reac on i t s had provided for the occasion a new Chemise fine iclo down to her heels, and had put on a pair or onhe outl of the bed.—Galignani. stockings, in which state she was exunded ~~Y ~~