The Sun. — London, England, 1840-10-29 00:00:00

E YEN LING .E DITI ON. PORTUGAL. (From the Morning Chronicle.) We insert below a correspondence which has taken place between our Vice-Consul in Lisbon and the Pre sident of the Senate, which throws some light on ono of the subjects which the Portuguese Legislators—to whose protest or declaration against the British claims, allusion was made by our Lisbon correspondent—made, we understand, one of their chief grievances —viz., the indemnity lately enforced by Lord Palmerston for the illegal capture and condemnation of the British schooner Echo, and respecting which, in some recent debates in the Senate, several very gross misstatements were put forth by Senhor Lopes Rocha—misstatements which were the more culpable, as well as dangerous, from the circumstance that Senhor Lopes Rocha was the judicial authority before whom the case was tried, having been appointed by Dom Pedro to preside over the Special Tribunal of Marine, formed in 1834 for the trial of similar cases, and which, by the way, passed many sen tences of a most unjust and iniquitous character. The assertions of Senhor Rocha, therefore, came forth in vested, not merely with the authority of a Senator, but that of a judge, and were announced as such. His erro neous statements compromised our Vice-Consul, Mr. Meagher, who was also officially acquainted with the circumstances, and who, in default of the ordinary means of contradiction afforded in other countries by the press, addressed a respectful letter to the Duke of Palmella, as President of the Senate, with a view of his making it known in the Senate, and, perhaps, of leading to proper explanations. The Duke, however, it will be seen, refuses to comply with M. Meagher's request, and refers him to M. Lopes Rocha himself, the effect of which recommendation, if followed, would have been to involve him in a very unsuitable contro versy with that veracious personage, while the rest of the senators would remain under the impressions pro duced by the erroneous version of M. Rocha ; and the public, which such statements naturally inflame against us, would never by any chance be disabused. The Duke, however, notwithstanding the usual channels are closed against explanation by the eatire suppression of the press, refused on a point of form to do anything in the matter. The merits of the case are shown by the following correspondence : _ (Copy.) " To his Grace the Duke of Palmella. " Lisbon, Oct. 12, 1840. " My Lord Duke,—Having read in the Diaro cis Governo a report of the debates which took place in the Chamber of Senators, of the 3d instant, on the claims of the British Government recently brought to a settlement by Marshal Saldanha, in which allusion was made to me by M. Lopes Rocha, I feel myself called upon to declare that several of his Excellency's assertions are totally at variance with facts. . ----- M. L. Rocha,. as it appears, proceeded to state as follows : " 1. That the Echo had been captured, navigating without legal papers, and had therefore been condemned. . . 2. That the nature of the cargo was sufficient to condemn her, it having consisted of warlike stores for Dom Miguel. " That there had been no irregularity in the pro ceedings, as the captain, fearful that he would be hung, had jumped overboard from his own vessel. " 4. That the captain's trunks had been deposited at Viana, whence they were sent to Lisbon, and de livered to the English Consul, and that it was only then that he (the Consul) produced the papers in question. " Such a declaration made by M. Lopes Rocha, not only in his senatorial capacity, but accompanied with the declaration of speaking from that knowledge of the subject which he possessed from having been the judge in the case treated of, unless refuted, must naturally be deemed worthy of credit. It is therefore my duty to declare, that the assertions of M. Lopes Rocha on the points in question are not borne nut by facts. " 1. The Echo was seized at Viana on the entrance of the Queen's troops into that place, and was not cap tured navigating at sea. Her papers at the time of seizure were not even demanded by the officer who took possession of her. "2. The Echo's cargo did not consist of warlike stores for Dom Miguel, but entirely of bar-iron, as ap peared from one of the original bills of lading subse quently found in the captain's trunk ; most convincing proofs of this are the facts, that before the Echo sailed from Viana, duties were actually paid to the Queen's authorities upon the quantity which had been landed, to enable the vessel to effect repairs ; as may be seen o■ reference to the custom-house books of that port ; and that the said iron was eventually restored t' its owner. "3. The captain did not. unip overboard from his own vessel. After the Echo had sailed from Viana for this port, the captain was forcibly taken out of her, and conveyed to the Dom Pedro frigate. He was sub sequently, and while the vessel was yet on her voyage, removed to the Eliza corvette, and it was from the last named ship that be jumped overboard ; not from the motive of tear, which M. Lopes Rocha chose to declare, but it was occasioned by the ill-treatment he received, and being compelled to quit his own ship in direct con travention of maritime laws. " 4. The captain's trunks were not deposited at Vi ana ; there was only one trunk, and that was left in the possession of the captain when he was taken from Isis own vessel, and conveyed o❑ board the Dom Pedro, as well as when ho was removed to the Eliza, and he kept it until the moment when he jumped overboard. :lie trunk remained on board the Eliza until that ves sel entered the Tagus, and it was then that it first reached my bands. having on that occasion been called upon, in my official capacity as her Britannic Majesty's acting consul, to open the trunk and make an inventory. I did so, and it was then I found one of the original bills of lading for the cargo of the iron of the Echo, which, although I certified its identity, M. Lopes Rocha refused to admit as evidence of the nature of the cargo, on the plea that it was produced too late. " Lastly--There was irregularity in the proceedings aga t, • st the Echo, and a gross violation of the law. It will be sufficient to point to the fact that they were conducted with closed doors. I beg leave to request that your Grace, as Presi dent of the Chamber of Senators, will be pleased to call on his Excellency M. Lopes Rocha to rectify his state ment, which I am bound to suppose must have been un intentional on the part of his Excellency. " I have the honour to be,with the greatest respect, &c., (Signed) " JEREMIAH MEAGHER. Vicc-Consul." MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. *(WEDNESDAY EVENING.) CHRONICLE. —Money has been scarce to-day. The state of the Exchanges has been the subject of re mark, and led to a rumour that, as the limitation of discounts to bills having sixty-five days to run had not produced the desired effect, the Directors of tt c Bank of England may make the period of time still less, or raise the interest to 6 per cent. In the mean time it is understood that they have obtained a credit to draw on Hamburgh to the extent of one million. Although the tightness of money has not as yet given that favourable turn to the Foreign Exchanges which is desirable, it has checked the export of bullion as a matter of trade, and stopped a chief cause of the pull which has lately been felt on the specie in the Bank coffers. The late political changes in Spain have not had much effect on the value of Spanish Bonds. Their price had become so much depressed in the anticipation of the abdication of the Queen Regent, that the actual occurrence of the event was not attended with much alteration. The effect which this change in the Go vernment of Spain may have upon the rights of the bondholders becomes a matter of importance, and one which merits the attention of her Majesty's Government. The bondholders have certainly good grounds for ex pecting that the Provisional Regency will give an as surance that they will apply their early attention to the consideration of the foreign debt, with the view to a satisfactory settlement. The loss by the non-payment of foreign loans, as has been well remarked by Mr. Willie, " is not confined to the speculator in Stocks, but involves ❑umberless fami lies throughout the United Kingdom in the most serious embarrassment, largely affecting the prosperity of our merchants and manufacturers, and most injuriously up rooting all the principles of public confidence, hitherto held sacred among civilized communities." The question is, indeed, a national one, and the bond holders will look for due attention to their interests. We are not blind to the trials through which Spai❑ has passed. Wo make full allowances for the enormous ex pense which has been incurred in expelling Don Carlos, and in bringing the civil war to a termination. For the dif. ficulties of Spain every consideration should be given, but at the same time we are not to forget the promise made by her statesmen, that when the civil war was ended they would meet their debt to the English bondholder " in perfect good faith." Such being the fact, something should be done by Spain in fulfilment of that solemn engagement. Now is the time for the Liberals in Spain to avail themselves of their possession of the executive and administrative functions of tile State, to make proposals for a treaty of commerce with this country, and to assign to Commissioners, for behoof of the bondholders, a certain portion of the increased cus tom revenues, which would speedily follow the opera tion of a free tariff of imports to the Spanish ports. Besides these available means of increasing the re sources of their country, the Regency have in their power to make over an adequate portion of the national lands in security of the public debt, and they must lay their account with being called upon for a proof of their determination to main tain the national faith. In saying so, we have no wish to take advantage of the necessities of Spain, nor to throw obstacles in the way of the Provisional Regency ; but we feel it a duty we owe to the bondholders to press their just claims upon the attention of our Govern ment, and also to make the Spanish Regency aware that if they really desire to consolidate their own power, and to promote the internal peace of their country, the sure road to success is by remembeing the maxim, that " honesty is the best policy." Let them recollect the conduct of the United States at the end of the war of independence, and emulate their example. POST.—There was no important change in the value of the permanent securities. The accounts from I'ari s continuing satisfactory, however, and such as to war rant the expectation of a favourable and early termi nation of the existing crisis of the Government, the quo- tations assumed in the early part of the day a still more buoyant appearance. Consols were at one time firm at 871- (buyers), and the bulls fully calculated on their touching 88 before the close of the market, as would, we dare say, have been the case but for a report—a fabrication, no doubt, of interested persons—which be came prevalent i❑ the course of the afternoon, of Louis Philippe being about to abdicate the throne of France in favour of the Due d'Orleans, and which, though no one seemed to give it credence, had, nevertheless, the effect of lowering the price about per cent. SUN.—The Stock Market was not animated to day, although the intelligence from Paris is favourable again, and the French Rentes are showing a marked tendency to advance, coupled with increased buoyancy. There is one point however which appears still involved in doubt, and this is the formation of the Ministry. It is true that there are parties who confidently speak of Guizot's joining the Cabinet, but we must observe on the other hand that some of the private advices state with equal positiveness, that the arrangements are no nearer completion than they were a day or two since. For immediate transfer Consols have been marked 87 4 to 1, the closing prices being 87-1 to A-, and for the November account 874 to .1, the latest - bargains being at 87i sellers. Exchequer Bills were heavy at 3to 1 discount, and East India Bonds at 12 to 10 discount. Bank Stock remained at 1601 to 161 i, and India Stock advanced from 243 to 244. The New Three-and-a- Half per Cents. were at 974 to 963, and the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 96 to The Old Three-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 96, and the Three per Cent. Reduced 86i to 5. The Foreign Securities were dull. Spanish Actives at 21 to 211 ; Portuguese New at 32'8 5 to 321 ; Co lombian Six per Cents. at 221; Mexican Five per Cents. at 27, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 50 to 50 . 1. There is still scarcely anything doing in the Share Market. To-day the quotation for the Great Western was 13 to 12 ; for the New to 3.1- prem. ; the Fifth Shares remained at 21 to 23 premium. London and Birmingham Shares were 66 to 67 prem., North Midland 23 dis.; B:ackwall, 5 dis. ; and the South Western 113 prem. London and Westminster 13:ink Shares 2 3 , to 23 premium, and Provincial Bank of Ire land 19 prem. THE LATE LORD HOLLAND'S RESIDENCE. Holland House, Kensington, the mansion in which the late Vassall Lord Holland died, has long been a celebrated and well known building. There was some time since, it will probably be well remembered, a lawsuit between Lords Holland and Kensington, which, among other matters, was understood to involve the question of the proprietorship of this splendid and renowned mansion. The death of Lord Holland has, in some quarters, revived rumour and conver sation on that subject ; and an impression is abroad that the law proceeding referred to was adjusted on the understanding that Lord Holland should enjoy the residence for life, but that it should, at his death, pass into the possession of Lord Kensington's family. Such was the rumour at the period ; hut the fact is repre sented to be that the deceased Peer settled the affair by purchasing what was considered to be Lord Kensing ton's interest in the property in dispute. The estate is therefore understood, by that arrangement, to be indis putably settled in the family of the late and lamented Lord ; and it is further stated that the Dowager Lady Holland will reside at this mansion. 'rho house takes its name from Henry Rich, Earl Holland ; it was erected by Sir Walter Cope, that nobleman's father-in law, in 1607. It is acknowledged to be a fine speci men of the Elizabethan style of architecture. As is generally known, the celebrated Joseph Addison be came afterwards its owner, by his marriage with Char lotte, the Dowager Countess of Warwick and Holland. That renowned writer died there, after the well-known and affecting interview with his son-in-law, the Earl of Warwick, to whom he had been tutor, and whose licen tiousness of manners he had anxiously but vainly at tempted to correct. The departing moralist thought that the death-bed scene might produce a beneficial effect on the young nobleman, and therefore sent for him. When the latter arrived and requested to know his relative's commands, he received the memorable answer, " I have sent for you, that you may see with what peace a Christian can die." This Earl of Warwick lived but two years after his highly-gifted father-in-law ; and the regret has been universally expressed that posterity were not acquainted with the result of the magnificent and dignified rebuke of the moral Addison. Upon the death of that young Nobleman , unmarried, in 1721, the estates devolved to the father of the present Lord Ken sington, who was descended, on the mother's side, from• Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick. He sold it in 1762 to the Right Hon. Henry Fox, who shortly afterwards be came Lord Holland. In this mansion was born Charles James Fox, the memorable uncle of the late distin guished proprietor. Though many of the rooms in this residence have been altered at different times, several of them retain their original form and appearance. The house is adorned with numerous busts on pedestals, of i celebrated members of the family, &tr. ; and the library ' is a fine room, 150 feet in letwth, ranging along the whole upper story of the west wing. It was fitted-up by the first Lord Holland as a picture gallery ; and the late Lord converted it into a library, stocking it with a collection of books so large and valuable as to be worthy rsf his well-known talents, acquirements, and literary taste. The spaces between the bookcases and the ceiling are occupied with many celebrated and valuable paintings. The estates attached to this venerable man sion comprehend about 400 acres, of which 63 are con verted to pleasure-grounds. Beautiful views are cog- : mended from several points in the grounds on the no rthern side, which are arranged with great simplicity and good taste. They also contain warm and :cold baths. Over a rural seat in this part of the grounds the following couplet was placed by the late Lord Hol land as an honourable testimony to the merits of his Mlle. Rachel and IVllle Mars alternately fill the friend and constant visitor the Banker Poet and author Theatre Francais each ni ff h t * to overflowing. The young of the " Pleasures of Memory;"— tragedian is, it is said profitable , abou - t to 13 married M M " Here Rogers sat, and here for ever dwell be npoet t i o a M. g . ayer, 'who follows the more' To me those pleasures' which he sang sq *c callin of a t ‘jlor! at St. Etienne, near Lyon s, it better conclusion to this slight sketch cannot b (Translation.) " TO JEREMIAH MEAGHER, ESQ. " I had the honour to receive the letter which you directed to me, dated the 12th instant, containing some observations upon a speech delivered at the sitting of the Senate on the 3d of the present month by the Senator Lopes Rocha, an extract of which appeared in the Diario do Garcia°. "In the quality of President of a Legislative Chamber it does not become me, as you will doubtless perceive, either to serve as a medium for communica tions directed to any of its members, nor to receive re clamations, tending to rectify any assertion made by a senator in the course of the debates. " Declining, for this reason, to comply with the re quest of the British Vice-Consul, without, however, pronouncing any opinion upon the correctness of his re marks, I feel persuaded that if he will direct them at once to Seuhor Antonio da Silva Lopes Rocha he will meet from that illustrious senator every disposition to rectify any mistake that, whether involuntarily on his part, or by any error in publishing the speech, may have occurred relative to the capture and condemna tion of the Echo. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) " DUQUE DE PALMELLA." given than the eulogium passed upon his Lordship by Byron, who, describing his parliamentary eloquence, says—" Holland is impressive from sense and sincerity." SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning chronicle.) We continue to receive numerous letters on the case of Captain R. A. Reynolds. From all parts of the country questions are put to us which we are not in a condition to answer. A very general wish is expressed that an authority should be given to receive subscrip tions on behalf of Captain Reynolds ; and we are satis. fled that if a committee, named by a public meeting, a body of gentlemen advantageously known to the public, were to assume the responsibility of deciding in what mode advantage should be taken of the sympathy with the victim of oppression, the people would everywhere cheerfully attend to the recommendation. In many places subscriptions have already been opened for Captain Reynolds, and in still more places an eagerness has been expressed to know where subscriptions can be received. Under these circumstances, it is time that something positive should be done. Various sums have been transmitted to us, which we are anxious to hand over to some body of gentlemen authorized to manage the subscriptions entered into, either to indeas• nify Captain R. A. Reynolds for the loss of his com mission, or to mark the public detestation of the tyranny of which he has been the victim. (From the Morning Advertiser.) Matters are rapidly approaching a crisis in the Church of England. What the Dissenters have failed to effect, and what most probably they would not have achieved for a considerable time to come, namely, the overthrow of that Church as an establishment, pro mises to be speedily brought about by herself. If the signs of the times are at all to be depended on, she is at this moment in the act of committing suicide. Need we express ourselves in yet plainer language? Well, then, the adoption, by so large a portion of her clergy and people of the Popish doctrines known by the name of Puseyism, cannot fail to prove the prelude to her destruction. It is one of the leading principles of the Puseyites, who swarm in all parts of England, but who are particularly plentiful in Oxford, that the reformation from Roman Catholicism was a great crime; that the outward forms of the Church are essen tial to salvation ; that the State is to be subject to the ecclesiastical power ; and that the Church has a right to control the Monarchy. Such monstrous assumptions, such audacious and despotic pretensions cannot be suffered to be made in a free country. Were the Pu seyite party few in number, and destitute of influence, we might, indeed, be disposed to laugh at them ; but when it is remembered that they are a most numerous, and learned, and influential party, and are daily in creasing in numbers and power, the case assumes a different aspect, and ought to attract the attention both of the Legislature and the country. Unless both Par liament and people are prepared to abandon Pro testantism, and allow Popery again to become the reli gion of the land, something must be done to arrest the progress of Puseyism within the bosom of the Esta blished Church. Do we, with this view, recommend the interference of the civil power in the way of per secution ? Far be the idea from us. But it becomes the bounden duty of Parliament to see that those clergymen who arc paid by the State for preach ing Protestant doctrines, do preach those doctrines, and not the doctrines which were preached before the Reformation, and which are nor embraced and preached by the Church of Rome. If they will persist in inculcating doctrines which lay the axe at the root of Protestantism, it is rather hard that a Protestant people should be made to pay them for so doing. If they are resolved to support the Popish religion, let the Popish religion, on the principle of reciprocity, sup port them. The only effectual way of dealing with these Puseyites will be, by Parliament stopping the supplies. It is true that the simplest and most natural way of pro ceeding with them would be for the really Protestant party in the Church to have excommunicated them at once. But this is not now to be expected. That party has allowed the Puseyites to become too numerous. There is reason, indeed, to believe that the latter con stitute a majority in the Church ;in which case their ex pulsion becomes, as a matter of course, impracticable. But whether Parliament does or does not interfere with the Puseyite party, the existence of that party is destined to prove the destruction of the Church. If the Legislature withhold the payment of their stipends, that will lead to a commotion in the Church which must shiver her to pieces ; if the Legislature do not inters fere, every remaining vestige of Protestantism will vanish, and the result must be an open and perfect union with the Church of Rome. The present state of the English Church furnishes a striking exposition of the evils of religious establishments. Such fearful heresies, such awful corruptions of doctrine, as those which constitute the essence of Puseyism, could never obtain a local habitation or name among the Dissenters. It is a curious and instructive fact, that in no single in k stance has Puseyism effected an entrance among the Dissenters. Were any of their ministers unhappily to be infected with it, the people have the remedy in their own hands, and that remedy they would promptly apply. They would at once shut the pulpit against him. Or if, on the other hand, any of the members were to im bibe the pernicious principles which constitute the Puseyite creed, the Church would at once apply the powerful preventive against its further progress, of final excommunication. (From the Morning Post.) The following description of the political character and position of M. Thiers, which we have received from a Paris Correspondent, will be read with interest : PARIS, OCT. 26.—1 t was, I believe, that facetious Pontiff Benedict XIV. who wondered that France could maintain herself amidst all the elements of corrup tion and decay that he beheld in her. " Need we," said his Holiness, " any other evidence of the exist ence of a Providence than the fact of the kingdom of France prospering under Louis XV. ?" I know not what Benedict's successor thinks of the present aspect of affairs in the Most Christian kingdom, hut he may rest assured that if it extricate itself from the predica ment into which M. Thiers has brought it in eight months only, and without the assistance of the Mar chioness de Pompadour or Countess du Barry, the mercy and beneficence of heaven will sel dom have been more conspicuously manifested. May they be vouchsafed us. M. Thiers un doubtedly is one of the most terrific statesmen upon record. Such a Minister no Court, how ever corrupt, could produce ; and, even with all our experience of French representative assemblies, it could scarcely be anticipated that, amidst internal prosperity and general peace, one would be found de liberately to force upon the country what had hitherto seldom been but the produce of a successful popular commotion. They who take an interest in the state of France (and who does not tha t considers the vast in fluence it has over the fate of other nations ?) will have reason to mourn if, in the Session which is about to open, the conduct of M. Thiers meet with the approba tion of a majority instead of the condemnation it so richly deserves at all hands. It is already lamentable enough that a revolution, which generally turns up some bright characters ami,lst the dregs which it raises to the surface of society, should have yielded no man who has attracted to himself so much political import ance as the one who has just resigned, and that even Casirnii Perier, with talents, energies, and integrity vastly superior, should have been comparatively u e . popular. The admiration bestowed epon M. Thiers tells poorly, indeed, in favour of those whom the interests of this country are entrusted to, and illustrates the adage—" Duns le pays des aveugles les borgnes soot rois." let, it must be owned, until the Ist of March last, when he seized upon the station he had long been striving to attain en maitre, savoir-faire in the uncontrolled managemen t of the pub licM. Thiers had had few opportunities of exh ibitin g his weal. When first promoted to office in October, 183:), he had been checked by the firmness of Marshal Soult, the sense of M. Guizot, and the growing ascen dancy of Louis Philippe. When placed, for the first time, at the head of the Cabinet, in 1836, he h ad still been restrained by the supremacy of the King, which was manifested in the latter's opposition to his pro posed intervention in Spain, and in his consequent resig nation. From his debut in public life to the coalition which so powerfully contributed to giving him his pre sent importance, he had studiously played the part of a lover of order, willing to improve his fortunes in co operating with a Prince and a Government then too strong either to need his services or dread his hostility. . Beneath the fluency of his sparkling language much of his levity, duplicity, and dishonesty, had been con cealed ; and they who heard him, in 1831, withhold all assistance from the Warsaw insurrection, and unmerci fully deny Poland even the right and possibility of ex isting as a nation, could no more foresee that the op pressor of Egypt would have all his sympathy than they could anticipate that he would strive to kindle a gene ral war in Europe ; who heard him, so late as May last, utter the following sentences in his new capa city of a Prime Minister :—" Messieurs, voila vingt cinq ans quo l'Europe est en paix. C'est la trove la plus longue quo Von ait vue. Apres vingt-cinq ens de paix, le sang bouiilonne dans les veines. Eli bien Les grandes nations ne se ruent plus les unes our les au tres, mais elles se portent sur les peuple s h ar b ares . Thus allows s R uesnsesAvigoenricta.„KhTiviam the party w ho b uoye d M. les A ng l a i s en Chi ne, nous 'Thiers up to the Presidency of the Council, on the die solution of Marshal Soult's Administration, may with no very bad grace revoke their patronage and admira tion. Whatever apprehension his late elevation pro duced, none c ertainly, not even those who observed his revolutionary language in March last, could foresee that he would bring matters into the alarming state in which he now leaves them. If, with this before their eyes, Gauche and Centre-Gauche still yield him their support, fearful indeed will be the conse quencesmany there are, I a m sorry to : sa y, who w ill not withhold it. I n suc h case his own r predictionthat, they and th ey will be realised, that, after his, no other Administrotion'would be possible. His resignation has restored some calm and revived a little confidence, but • he has retired with the eclat which nobody doubted he would endeavour to invest himself with if he must fall. Though on the Bth of October, lie had surrendered to the Allies Syria, together with Adana, Arabia, and Cendia, and was willing enough to leave his friend, the , " Prince Vassal," to enjoy in Egypt some such triumph as the once.' he is said to have bestowed some years ago upon another idol, the moment he found that his doings had rendered him loathsome beyond endurance to his master, and that concession abroad would not keep him in office at home, ho resumed his warlike tone, and wanted to bully again in the impending Royal speech. Baffled in the attempt, he made his exit as the cham pion of French dignity and honour, leaving a large pro portion of those who are neither for cutting throats abroad nor for having their own throats cut at home, uncertain whether he will not be as formidable out as in the Cabinet. An arduous task it will be to form a durable Administration. Like some animals which in fect all places they sojourn in, he has rendered office un wholesome to all that have not lived in foulness. Ile has stirred up passions which slumbered before him, passions which a fool may kindle, but which men of sense and experience know are not to be so promptly appeased. Abroad he has involved the country in difl• ficulties with Powers who were all friendliness until the ill-fated hour which contaminated diplomacy with his intrigues; and after his armaments, whereupon upwards 'of 1.2,000,000 1 . have already been squadered, ac cording to the avowal of his own hired organs, it will not be easy for his successors to recede from the rash and insolent declarations which he has issued in the name of France. Thus situ ated, Louis Philippe could scarcely do better than summon to his assistance Marshal Soult, who is likely to be, just now, much more efficient than Count Mole, circumstances requiring rather " l'il lustre epee" than " le roseau peint en fer," as the Count has long been denominated. if M. Guizot will join the Marshal, with whom he has already acted in very good harmony, we may still be blest with some postponement of what M. de Talleyrand called "le commenceid dc la fin." (From the Times.) By the resignation of M. Thiers and his colleagues the crisis became one of more intense interest—we hope, of diminished danger, but that remains to be proved. Nothing can be more unquestionable than the cause of that resignation. It was, that M. Thiers demanded of the King his assent to a policy which Louis Philippe considered more offensive and provoking to Europe than prudence on the part of France permitted, or than justice towards the Porte and the Allied Powers called for. The King was more inclined to peace than was his Minister : hence the quarrel. The King, on his being deserted by M. Thiers, or released from him, as the same fact may be construed by different minds, looked for Ministers whom he regarded as more inclined to adopt his views of the public in terests, and he lighted upon Messrs. Soult and Guizot. kVe have a right, therefore, to assume in the first instance, that Louis Philippe, who means France well, considers Marshal Soult and M. Guizot more desirous of peace with Great Britain and her Allies than were the Ministers who retired to make way for them— namely, M. Thiers and Co. That the change of Ministry under such circumstances ought to be felt prima facie as indicating an approximation towards re newed amity with England, we suppose few candid per sons will deny. The consequence of such an admission, in all fair reasoning and all consistent action, would be, that England should hail the accession of those pacific statesmen to office by every suitable display of content and satisfaction, and, still more, that she ought to en courage and facilitate the formation of a Ministry which held out to her the prospect of a successful result to the pending negotiations for peace, by the utmost kindliness of tone and equity in the conditions to be exacted from the Pacha. M. Guizot, we have strong reason for hoping, is ready to become a member of the new French Go vernment, and to support the political measures, both foreign and domestic, of the King, if he finds, on taking a survey of the ground, that he can maintain the high post and the great public interests entrusted to him by means consistent with his own personal honour. That enormous difficulties beset any Minister who may suc ceed M. Thiers at such a moment, and that terrible dangers impend over the Crown, are facts of which a man so observant, with so practised an intelligence, as M. Guizot, cannot fail to be profoundly conscious. M. Guizot must be aware that his embarrassment is two fold. He has to maintain at once the peace of Eu rope and the existence of the French monarchy ; while, unhappily, in proportion as he may be strenu ous and successful in his measures for the security of peace abroad, in the same ratio will he incur the risk of subverting the throne of Louis Philippe. The war faction are bent on war, as a more plausible, though circuitous, path to revolution. Deprive them of that avenue, and they will soon open another, the short cut of rebellion] and of regicide— perhaps also in its event more certain. We fear it must be taken as a datum in these matters that nothing can conciliate the turbulent portion of the French movement faction either to England and her continental allies, or to a constitutional monarchy. The first have too deeply mortified them the second, effectually, though not without trouble restrains them. They pant for foreign aggression, plunCler, and revenge ; they thirst for democratic power at home. Hence the bellowings about war and reform as, both of them, essential to French dignity and honour. It is plain that foreign Governments cannot dream of concessions by which such cravings would be satisfied. It may be, and we fear is, equally plain, that no French Sovereign can, without ceasing to be a Sovereign, yield to the demands of such a faction enough of prerogative or of principle to assuage their violence in any sensible degree. Their eternal hostility, then, until their nature changes, or their life expires, must be granted as an element in all our discussions of this portentous subject. But there remains that part of the French nation which has not yet been bitten by contempt for monarchy or eagerness for revolution. What its numbers may be—what its force, or influence, or power of resistance to anarchy, we know not. It is our business to hope the best, for sure we are that to it alone can Louis Philippe appeal for security, or surrounding Governments for the steady enjoyment of peaceful and neighbourly relations. M. Thiers appears to have ruled, in spite of this, the moral and rational section of the French people. M. Guizot, we believe and trust, purposes to lean upon it for sup port. It becomes, therefore, no less the duty of Great Britain and her allied Governments to aid as much as y and c onc ili a t or y offices the practicable by all friend! ( fforts of the Guizot Ministry for the continuance of peace, as it was to oppose and counteract the mea sures whereby M. Thiers must eventually have disturbed it. The real questice between M. Thiers and Great Britain, though not the ostensible, yet the solid ques tion, in so far as concerned the mere case of Mehemet Ali, was, whether the Pacha should have only a con tingent, or a positive and unconditional, possession of the Pachalic of Egypt, non obstante any degree of stubbornness and desperation in his appliance of the resources of Egypt to the retention of Syria from its Sovereign. It is most fortunate that the present as spect of the war in the last-mentioned province has nearly settled the above disputed point. Syria is ra pidly felling back into the natural occupation of its rightful owner ; and he must be a violent advocate for war who would make war upon the Sultan and his Allies, for the sake of repeating the crime of Mehemet Ali, and wresting the same province again from the Turkish empire, after its restoration, by the measures now in progress, to the Porte. One great occasion of embar rassment, therefore, will at once, we expect, be removed from the road of M. Guizot. And if England can, without any sacrifice of the substantial objects medi tated by the treaty of July, contribute to the unhesi tating entrance of that estimable statesman into office, or to his satisfactory continuance there, sure we are that Lord Palmerston would be grossly blind to the in terests of peace and of humanity if he failed in his en deavours thus, effectually and honourably, to proaote them. We publish at full length the memorandum referred to yesterday as expressing the sentiments of the Gene ral Co mmanding-in -Chief in the case or " Lord Cardigan versus the officers of the 11th Hussars," and were gra tified to find that we had pretty accurately conjectured the nature of that important document. It begins by expatiating on the duties incumbent on military men of jun►or ranks towards their superiors in the service who are placed immediately over them, and concludes by stating gently yet emphatically, and in the language of distinct, grave, and stern reproof, the reciprocal obligations of commanding officers towards those intrusted to their superintendence. The paper is marked throughout by unexceptionable calm ness, temper, and feeling towards the indivi duals whom it corrects ; and by watchful and habitual zeal for the welt-being and honour of the ser vice. The reprimand to Lord Cardigan is such as none but the most stupid of men can mistake, and none but the roost hardened can ever, if it be for a century, look back upon with neglect or indifference. We retain the impression which was produced upon us yesterday by the first glimmering we had of the spirit and tenour of this production—viz., that while it vindicates the justice and integrity of Lord Hill, and washes him clear of the declamatory charges brought against him for weeks past in the Radical Newspaper., it weighs as heavily against the commanding officer of the regiment as any condem nation ever passed upon a military roan, short of a direct sentence of dismissal by Court-martial. * On the sth June, 1832, when the first great Republi can insurrection broke out at Paris, General Lafayette, who had conspicuously attended General La Nlsrque's funeral, was thrust into a hackney -coac h and dragged in triumph to his house by some fifty deguerrilles, shouting ~ Vtve Lafayette !" The '° hero of th e two worlds" prayed, p ro tested, andgesticulated in va in. The ovation took plac e t o th e grea t amuseme nt of all who witnessed it. So ridicul ous was th e fi gure b e c ut on the occ asion that he never afterwards r ecovere d any political importance- It is affirmed that it was hi s quondam protege, Thiers, who, aware that the Republicans intended to drag hi m home in a splendid style, had the start of them with a gang° of hired r agamu ffi ns , an d t h us marred what would have been a formidable political demonstration. Thiers is stated, in print, to have even exulted in the manceuvre the Hall of Conferences at the Chamber of Dovuties, THE MTN, LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1840. (FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.) (From the Globe.) The rumour of the King of the French contempla ting abdication, on account of the anxiety of mind felt by his royal consort, since the last attempt on his life, is hailed by some of our Paris Contemporaries in a temper which, we doubt not, would convince his Majesty, were any thing wanting to convince him, that he ought not to do any such thing. It is not at all in the character of Louis Philippe to throw a task upon others which he feels to belong to himself ; and he well knows (and his would-be asssassins would do well to consider) that the Monarch who seals with his blood his conscientious convictions, casts an odium on the ideas in whose name he is sacrificed, which deprives their short-lived and violent triumph of all hope of permanence ; even when that triumph is achieved for the moment—as there is no reason to suppose it would be by these insane machinations. The execution of the First Charles assured the re storation of the Second ; and the deliberate murders of Louis the Sixteenth and his family by the Revo lutionists, gave that " baptism of blood" to the Revo lution which soon became a deluge, deprived its cause of the sympathies of Europe, which had been on its side, and paved the way for the French and European re-action which restored Royalty. Crime and violence may establish despotisms, but they cannot establish Republics ; for despotism is the natural chastisement and corrective of crime and violence ; and a Republic is an ideal of Government which presumes an ideal of humanity—a new golden age, when crime and violence shall have ceased to require a curb. The resignation of M. Tillers is more intelligible than the abdication of M. Thiers' Sovereign credible. M. Thiers is the representative of the mobile portion of French mind ; Louis Philippe of the permanent portion of national influences and interests. Both ele ments may be necessary to the perfection of mixed in stitutions ; but it is certainly not for the public welfare that the movement impulse should force the other to partake of its precipitance, and atone for its errors. This is the attempt which a Minister, dependant on popular favour, will very frequently ma k e , an d must make, to keep up his tenure of office. Such a Minister must work the popular impulse which made him Minister :—if that impulse is not towards some grand reformation, which comes once in an age, the popular Minister must satisfy it with fine flourishes and bold demonstrations. (From the Standard.) Lord Palmerston, like the Irish drummer, whether he strikes high or low, is not likely to please some of our Contemporaries, English as well as French. It has, we think, been admitted by all moderate politi cians that the decheance of Mehemet Ali might very well be dispensed with under existing circumstances, provided he submits to the other requisitions of the Treaty of July 15. The despatch which we trans scribed from yesterday's Herald proves that Lord Palmerston is of this opinion, for it recommends that if Mehemet Ali should make submission to the Sultan, withdraw his troops from Syria, and restore the Turkish fleet, he shall not only be reinstated, but have conceded to him the hereditary Pachalic of Egypt. We can easily understand that a proposition which deprives the French war faction of a pretext for the in dulgance of their sanguinaary dispositions should prove unpalatable to them ; but what lovers of peace on this side of the water can find to quarrel with in a document so entirely pacific in its character, we profess ourselves wholly unable to understand. Even those who are of opinion that the British Government has acted unwisely in its policy in regard to the Eastern question hereto fore, ought at least to be gratified by any attempt, how ever late, to bring the dispute to a pacific termination. We confess that we are not of the number who disap prove of the previous policy of Lord Palmerston in re gard to Mehemet Ali and his patrons ; although, we trust, we applaud, without inconsistency, any course which shall deprive the war faction in France of even the slightest pretext for its hostile demonstrations. Be sides, we think it better that Mehemet Ali, tyrant and barbarian as he is admitted to be, had better be rein stated in his pachalic than all Europe should go to loggerheads about him. Looking at the noble conduct of the King of the French at this particular juncture, we feel that it is due to him to make such concessions as will facilitate the desire he professes to maintain peace, and remove every shadow of an obstacle to the success of his exertions which can be achieved without a breach of -the treaty to which we have be come a party, or dishonour to ourselves. We applaud therefore the note to which we gave publicity in yester day's Standard, as tending to such a result, and marvel what any of our peace-loving Contemporaries should see in it to disapprove. It seems far from improbable that Lord Palmerston's recommendation may, through Providence, be the direct means of averting the cala mities through which Europe is at this moment menaced. (From the Courier.) The belief expressed yesterday by our Contemporary, the Post, that the Mcniteur to be received this morn ing would contain the official announcement of a new Ministry, has not been verified by the result, and we question, moreover, whether such an event will be re alized for a few days to come, if at all. Our own ad vices from Paris distinctly state that the Ministerial arrangements were still in nearly the same state, that is, in a state of suspension, and that no progress was likely to be made until M. Guizot could be further con sulted. He arrived on Monday, but nothing could be done in one day. The more especial features of the moment, however, to which we attach im• portance, and would draw attention, as information derived from the best sources, and therefore to be relied upon more than the frequently loose conclusions of the regular correspondents of public journals, may be thus prominently exemplified. The Duke de Broglie, who is the great ministry-maker of the day, has, as we have before stated, made up his mind not to take office himself. But that which we did not know with any - certainty before, whatever might have been our suspicions, is the fact that he does not think M. Guizot ought to take office either. There can be no question that the Duke's opinion must bear great weight with M. Guizot, his intimate friend in private life, and as intimately and sympa thetically sharing his political as well as philosophi cal convictions and opinions in public life. The Duke, moreover, had warmly expostulated with M. Thiers on the disposition he had manifested all along so to govern and shape his course as to conciliate the support and enlist the feeling of the Gauche and Radi cal press in his favour. The President of the Council was told, and told truly, that to this capital error, to these tortuous machinations, the exist ing embarassments of the Government were alto gether attributable. It was, however, insinuated, that by a change of conduct in this respect the road might be smoothed, and even opened to M. Thiers, for the resumption of his official functions and charac ter. "It is nut - unlikely," observed the well placed and intelligent correspondent, to whom we are occa sionally indebted for important communications, " that the whole crisis will terminate in one of those transac tions, or patched-up arrangements, which are so much in harmony with the present political temperament of French parties and the general state of the country." In a democracy, like that now ascendant in France, the main object is to gain time. Popular feeling is ardent and overpowering, but, in proportion to its intensity in a given direction, more transitory perhaps in its cha ratter. POISONING CHILDREN AT STOCKPORT, On Wednesday last, we noticed the examinations of several witnesses before a Coroner's Jury at Stockport, in reference to the death of Mary Ann Sandys, a child aged four years and five menths, who died under very suspicious circumstances. The inquest was adjourned from Wednesday the 14th, to Saturday the 17th in stant, when the Coroner stated that circumstances had, in the interim come to light, tending to show that the mother of the child was guilty of poisoning, not only Mary Ann, but another of her children (Elizabeth, an intent of six months), who died on the -23 d ult. ; and the body havi ng b een di s i n terred, arsenic w as d e t ecte d ;a its stomach, as well as in that of the child Mary Ann. At first a woman, named Bridget Riley, had been suspected of poisoning the elder child ; but she was subsequently set at liberty, and Robert and Ann Sandys, the parents of the decased children, were taken into custody on the 17th instant, and the inquest adjourned to yesterday to give opportunity for further inquiries. Since then circumstances have transpired which tend to deepen the horror of this most extraordinary case. Suspicions have also attached to George and Honor Sandys, the brother and sister-in-law of Robert Sandys, that they h ave also caused the death of a child of theirs, named Catherine Sandy's, by administering' po son to it. It will be seen from the evidence that the brothers lived in adjoining cellars ; that they had both enrolled the names of their children in burial clubs ; and that, shortly after, the re. latives of the children become entit;ed to funeral money in case of their death. The three children, whose names we have given, had died under circumstances tending to excite great suspicion as to the cause of death. The parents, in each case, received 3/. Bs. (id. burial money. The inquest was resumed yesterday, when, after a long investigation, it was adjourned at ten o'clock in the evening till ten o'clock next morning. Robert Sandys, and Ann his wife, remain in custody an suspicion of having poisoned their children, Eliza beth and Mary Ann. George Sandys, and Honor his wife, also recpain in custody, on suspicion of having poisoned their efild, Cath er i ne , who died on the 17th July last, —Man c h ester Guardian of yesterday. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) Notwithstanding the continued uncertainty in the foreign relations of the country, and the consequent pressure upon the money market, there was a better feeling in our market yesterday than at any time during the preceding week, and considerably more business was done, but without any improvement in prices, either of yarn or goods, with the exception of very good 27- inch printin4 cloth; which was in good demand, in con sequence of the arrival, by the Great Western, of some orders from America. We are glad to learn, by the accounts from all quarters of the United States, that business there is steadily and progressively improving, and that a fair amount of orders for manufactured goods may be shortly expected from thence. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY. OCTO BER 26.—T0-day we have bad not so brisk a de mand for flannels, and the market has worn a more sombre appearance. In prices there is no change. Wool r e mains firm at last week's prices, but not much doing. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, OCT. 27.—This was a comparatively dull market in all descriptions of stock, an unfavourable reaction having taken place, doubtless arising from the state of the money market, and the unsettled political aspect of Europc. Business in the warehouses begins to slacken, and the prospect for winter is more gloomy. The demand was chiefly for heavy woollens. Prices, however, remain much the same. The whole of that beautiful range of sycamore and chesnut trees that ornament Kensington -gardens had a narr ow escape of being destroyed by fi re on Wednesday n ight. The kitchen gardener of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex inhabits a small cottage under the trees near the lodge at the Bayswater gate. About eight o'clock t he chimney was discovered to be on fire ; a large body of dame ascended several yards, and had reached the dry leaves of a lofty tree that spreads its majestic branches over it, when a gentleman who resides opposite, Mr. James Woodhouse, having failed to arouse the inmates, scaled the twelve foot wall, and with the assistance of Mr. Simla. son of the Red Lion, and a porter from the grooer'e -' the corner of Black Lion lane, succeeded in' --' an ing the fire ; and by theirpromptaid -- ' ' 0. cruislV . - destruction....vu the re t es from The King o f , Holland has retired from public affairs with '' • ' v" a private fortune of 168 millions of trancs (above six mill' • ions sterling). William was 25 years King, so that he appears to have saved about seven millions of . francs per annum during d. It is not said what Christina that perm amount her Majesty has saved, but the amount i reported to be considerable.—Paris iVational. The Leeds Intelligencer, Tory paper, says, that Sir Wm. Moleavvorth has been invited to stand for Devon port, and that Mr. Roebuck is spoken of as the " Radical candidates' at the next election for Leeds, in place of Sir William, COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, 0cT.28. IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM MARMAN BROWN. The bankrupt carried on an extensive business as an American merchant, in Skinner's-place, Size-lane. His liabilities amounted to 23,000/. and his assets were estimated at about 3,400/. He appeared to pass his final examination before Mr. COMMISSIONER EVANS, who, upon looking over his balance sheet, expressed his opinion that many of the items required further explanation, and ho should there fore adjourn the examination until the 2d of December, when the bankrupt in the mean time should cause it to be amended. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A well-dressed man, named Thomas Williams, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having stolen a silver table-spoon, in the house of Mr. Simpson, the proprietor of the Three Tuns Tavern, Billingsgate. The complainant said that the prisoner walked into the dining-room, saying that he wanted to look for a friend, and, going over to the sideboard, whipped up a tablespoon, and slipped it into his pocket. One of the gentlemen at the table asked him what he bad got, to which he replied, nothing ; but upon being pressed he delivered up the spoon, and pleaded po verty. Witness did not wish, if the man spoke the truth, to prosecute. The prisoner declared that he had never done a dis honest act before, and that extreme distress drove him to the offence. The Loan MAYOR— What are you ? Prisoner—l am a sheriff officer's man, but have had little work to do of late. I hope for better times though, and believe that I shall have plenty to do next month when our labours begin. The LORD Mnyoß—Then you expect to be em ployed in the law ? Prisoner-1 es, my Lord, no doubt of it. The LORD MAYOR—You would be a very nice man to put in possession of the house of a poor man, whose property would in his distress be at your mercy. Prisoner—l never did anything bad before in my life- The LORD MAYOR-4 must make inquiry about you before we part. If I find that you have been at this work before, you shall be prosecuted. You are, at all events, a most improper person to place in care of pro perty of any kind. The prisoner was remanded for a week. A man, named George Davis, who has been known about the streets as a cad, was charged with having as sisted another person in a robbery. Evans, the active beadle of Candlewick ward, stated that he observed, as he was going round his district, a man going towards Sherburne-lane with a chest of tea, which he carried in a peculiar way, that induced witness to suspect that it was obtained unceremoniously. Wit ness followed the awkward porter, and the prisoner, who walked behind, observing that all was not right, gave a whistle, whereupon the fellow who had the chest threw it down, and ran of. Witness then called to an officer, who was near, to watch the chest, and took hold of the prisoner, through whose means the thief escaped. The chest of tea proved to be the property of a tea-dealer in Martin's lane, who identified it. The prisoner said that he was not aware that he whistled, but if he whistled, it was not to give anybody notice, but because he was in the habit, like other people, of whistling as he walked along the street. Evans said there was no doubt of the object of the whistle. The prisoner had, he. added, been seen about Martin's-lane just before the chest was stolen. The prisoner was remanded. A lad named George Hyde Hanbly, was charged by the solicitor to the Excise with having had in his pos session a quantity of silk and cotton gloves and mittens, of foreign manufacture, on board the City of Boulogne steam-vessel, and with having denied the fact. An Excise officer stated that upwards of 200 persons came over in the above-named vessel from Boulogne, and landed at Fresh Wharf. Witness suspecting from the bulky appearance of the defendant that he had some contraband goods about him, asked him whether he was in possession of any, to which he replied in the nega tive. Witness then proceeded to search him, and found upon him some cotton mits. He then desired the lad to stand aside until the other passengers should pass out, and soon after returned to him, and found in his possession a handkerchief containing silk gloves. The defendant said that the cotton mits were his certainly, and he thought there was no barm in having an article of the kind which was of no value. As for the silk gloves in the handkerchief, while he was stand ing aside in the steam-vessel by the direction of the officer, a person asked him to take care of the hand kerchief, and he took charge of it without knowing any thing of its contents. The Loan MAYOR and Sir J. COWAN said that they did not think the evidence, as to the valuable part of the seizure, was sufficient to justify them in convict ing the defendant, as regarded that part. The Solicitor did not press for a conviction for the whole. The value, he said, of the cotton mitts was seven shillings and three-pence. The Magistrate then convicted the defendant in the penalty of twenty-one shillings and nine-pence, being three times the amount of the value of the property he smuggled. The silk gloves were, of course, condemned with the other property. The father of the defendant, on paying the penalty, said that his boy had, for the first time, gone over the water, and never had any notion of contraband dealing. Sir JOHN COWAN—He could have got as good arti cles as these in London for less money than he paid at Boulogne, and advised him not to go so far again for a bargain. It is certain that ten times more contraband traffic is now carried on than used to exist, and that hundreds of smugglers arrive in steamers daily. The ladies are particularly clever at this work. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE IR- WELL.-SEVEN MEN DROWNED. It is our melancholy and painful duty to record the most extensively fatal accident that has occurred on the river Irwell, at least in the neighbourhood of this town, since twelve workmen were drowned while crossing the river in a boat, during the erection of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Bridge, in April, 1830. The circumstances preceding and accompanying this melancholy catastrophe, are the following : The Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company (the Old Quay Company), as our Manchester readers are aware, have had a number of men employed for some few weeks past in deepening the navigation of the river from the New Bailey Bridge to Hunt's Bank. The earth, stones, and gravel got up by excavation and dredging, were removed in an ice-boat belonging to the Company—a square-sided boat about thirty feet in length and fifteen feet in width, very shallow, being not more than about two feet from the gunwale to the bottom. This boat, laden with gravel, &c., had drifted on Monday evening last from the place where the excavations were progressing to Throstle Nest, about two miles lower down the river, where there is a weir, near the paper manufactory of Messrs. Smith and In le. The captain of one of the trading fiats on the river, on seeing this, proceeded with several labourers to lighten the boat by throwing out the earth and gravel. The ice-boat thus becoming light, and there being a flood in the river in consequence of the rains, the current dragged her onwards with so much force, that the rope, by which the flat was attached to a tree, broke ; and, of course, the ice-boat began her down ward course over the weir. There were then upon this boat, including Captain Clare, nine men, seven of whom attempted to save themselves by jump ing into a small boat by which they had been conveyed on board the ice-boat. Five of the seven succeeded in getting into the boat ; but the other two, in their haste and confusion, fell ihto the river, and were, we believe, immediately swept over the weir and drowned. The five men in the small boat were also hurried over the weir ; the boat was capsized, and all the men were drowned. Two men remained on board the ice -boat, having failed getting into the small boat in time ; they were carried over the weir, but very fortunately the now lightened boat came up and again righted, below the weir, and they, having clung fast t o h er , were saved. The alarm and dismay that the shocking event caused spread ra pidly through the neighbourhood, and every effort was made to recover the bodies without delay ; but we un derstand that some time elapsed before any of them were taken "out of the water ; and up to last evening, we are informed, only four had been found. The) were got out of the wa t er a b out two hours after the se cident, and were conveyed to the Britannia public' Ouse, OrdsaMane, Salford, where they are now lying, and will rem "tin until the Coroner's inquest has been held. All the unfortunate men were in the service of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company ; all of them, with the exception of Captain Clare, were " navigators" or excavators ; and al of them have left widows and one or more elaildren, save one man, a widowen who has left three orphans ; another has left a widow and eight children ; a third, a widow and seven children.—Man - Chester Guardian. SHIPPING IhTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) VESSEL% SPOKEN !VIVA. —The Carleton, of Aberdeen, and Helen, from Liverpool, both for Quebec, 26th ult., lat. 46, lon. 17; Raisborough, Quebec to Leith, 19th inst. lon 16, by the Wilsons, SiouP, arrived at Liverpool. John and William, Chili to Swansea. Bth inst., lat. 38, lon. Si 3 ; Morgiana, Miramichi to Belfast, 20th, lat. 48, lon. 16 ; Christiana, Quebec to London, 21st, by the Per sian, Edington, arrived at Liverpool. Lady Bute (out 73 days) and Magistrate, Bombay Londo, B ut Auk. lat, 36, lon. 22 E., by Kr spay Caithness, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope. Rival, Liverpool to Maranbarn, 20th inst., lat. 46, lon. 10, by the Law, Ogilby, a rr i ve d at Liverpl, Dykes, from Maryp ort, Doris, from Lon _ don, and Recovery from Sligo, all for Quebec, sth inst. off the Bird Islands. Ant, London to Miramichi, 7th, o ff Cape North, by the Ma r y Muir, Paine, arrived at Liverpool. EVENING EDITION. THE DISTRESSED POLES. The Corporation Corporation of London having unanimously granted the use of the 'Guildhall to Lord Dudley Coutte Stuart and the rest of the Council of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland , for a ball and concert in aid of the fu nds for retieing the starving Polish exiles, a very num erous and influential meeting took place at Guildhall on Monday last, for the purpose of making preliminary arrangements. Ver much to the honour of the Committee appointed by the Court, a Committee s consisting, in faCt, of every mew ber of the Corporation, .the number• assembled was much greater than ever met upon any former occasion, them together on this. The' even in aid of the benevolent object which brouglit Courts, and of various and conflicting political opinions, here appeared to be animated by one feeling, and they P proceeded to business with an energy which distinguished success to the cause. to the Mr. Peacock was unanimously appointed Chair, and Mr. Carr was appointed Secretary:s°a; tions in which these gentlemen have been accustonieu to act for the service of the unfortunate exiles, wig' have leading Tagil' of both suffered se vere privations since the last generous efrort, _,.., of the Corporation for their relief. The mee ti ng f e lt and expressed the feeling, that the failure of all the experiments made since last winter by the warm friends and advocates o f the exiles a dded iin'' measurably to the claims upon the compassion of th ose to whom they had never lo , ked i n vain, and w h o se la' hours had never yet proved unava ilin g or unproductivs in their cause. It was determined that the ball should take place n Tuesday, the 17th of November, in order that the p r of parations, which are to be upon the most maguifierst scale, may be completed to the satisfaction of the oeug judges ; and, notwithstanding the fact that eaoir.o_ as s remiums were given last year for tickets of achnotaiin; the night approached, the price on the splendida"sei A occasion will be the same as it way when so p the company at that period came forward to support C zirity. It was at the same time resolved that sncittm limit should be placed to the issue of, tickets 0 wo o l .. prevent the chance of an interference with the sa e tnotion and comfort of the visitors. tal T en h t e in c L am on m d i o t n te . perintendence of Professor Taylor, whose musical Wei The Concert, it was arranged will be under the I . ll ' rience will ensure the aid of the most emit:len t " Gil co nsidera ble a be most minute attention, in their anxiety Committee were occupied for time in the numerous details, to which th e Y Patietst traction even greater th bad fi lled t " • an t at w le A 01'10 to thee Hall before, when ' • similar appeals were humanit • 5• eff day 14 We expect to be able to announce in a f 'a 00 0 1 long list of names of the most distinguished Pe the nation as patrons. _--........, to render,t heir CORN AVERAGES -....!1•111,10.1.11...01, nil c ogs., • OEIsIERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF 8R1T1,..- Re tail , , in the j fa) %W F v o he r eek t a l t le en W di eek 'ended Oct. 23, 1840, made IT from . n pglan the Inspectors in the different Cities and Tow"' 0 Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Beans ............. .J. 625. scl I Oats ......... 23i. Id. I Bea n- .. .....4 7,,, Barley 36s Id. 1 Rye - 111 I ?ease.. ending VWEHREAATG.E BARLEY.S OF TM E OLAAT:.T iM g y W E. X X IS. ,:: ..! BRAN .4* ........"' 41 .--.--.... --•---. .....-...."..". 45 (i i n i Sept. 18 64 2 36 8 25 10 38 . 45 . 3 ..' 5 25 64 1 36 2 24 10 31 7 ~.. 7 3 ~ Oct. 2 ... 9 ...... 16 63 3 36 5 23 3 37 , a , i 4 " . 3 6 I 4 1, i i 23 62 5 36 1 23 - 1 3 6 •• f ;v,rit•'••; o 3, IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF VAS 5 ' w ilis.' fi ii, Wheat cis. 9d, 1 Oats .......... 24, sd. ‘ eanS•••••". .. ' Barley, '-6 3 33. I Rye ......... 375. Id., 1 rease•••"' • aa, DUTIES ON FOREIGN r.:(fitts• Wheat 23s Bcl I Oats Barley '7s. 10d 1 Rye 1104:.. 11 0_____.. . I gi,7:7...........554;:,0(1, rot: THE MARKETS. B A u d d a d ir l ' e s , COAL MAUKET. S. d ,, Ships arrived since las. market -dab. 55 ' ‘l 4 "A s West Hartley S. a. 1 1 1 ' 9 81 0 00 Walls W Walls s Carr's Hartley T O a r n ig ti i e n i a d l l‘ W ioo in r dst . :r's , Pontoo IS 6. Walls End ... • 1.1 lywell Ma n 2O o Walls End Caradoc ....... 9 4 9 Ord's 11 ed h ugh 22 0 Tennant's Hartlepool ....... 0 9 Vest Hartley.... Wyla. 19 (; Walls End Cventwood 0 0 Walls End Josforth End n n ddd La S vy t C n i i btawri .................. &:: 1 4 ;: Walls End Hilda ....... ... Walls End Hotspur ..' Tees." 0.4 i 1 6 wall , End Serin o " - ~.- 6 Walls End Killingworth Walls End Riddell's. 22 6 Walls End Tees Beto n 'l y Walls:End Belmont Walls End Haswell Walls End Hetton 23 9 Locbgelly Great ...••N' 2 2 3 3 HC00wwpaernd,....14,e..t0.,....e..rt..0..; ......................... 0 COUNTRY CORN MARYSE I, Wheat. I Barley. I Oat -- . ; Sego. ~...!:'4 ..• ~ i 4 6 -I-- ---------- a , 30 4 4 Per Quarter. s. to s. e. to N. ii. to s. to . 4 0 . Beaton Braintree 59 68 32 39 5'6 34 3 6 i• R e 3c 4 .4 ' . Brighton 59 6 9 30 39 24 29 40 % 1 ...., 4,11 Cambridge., - 62 - 36 ...., 23 -- : o ...- 4 6 Chichester - 61 - 32 -= 221 - - ',l' 44 ~.4 Dunmow 54 68 36 40 26 34 38 11 " 0 , .0* Grantham - . -7 - • .411 Grimsby l4 • 58 70 35 39 22 26 43 7, 4 .•••• ~.! HailShalll Hitchin 36 68 32 42 24. 32 28 ",, ,38' si Ipswich 62 70 30 32 24 23 38 'i , ' ~4 .. - 40 Lewes 6.1 69 - 26 20 26 34 46, . Lynn 64 68 36 99 21 28 43 /A e_ ',. Maidstone 69 76 36 39 26 32 40 50 .'", 4 5 Norwich Petworth Rom ford Sandwich 60 56 6 7 3 7 34 34 3 4 7 3 2 2 4 7 g -' ) 2 ' 13 .71• Tnetford Wishech ....__ 61 66 36 42 214 30 44 . 45 -.- * Ii Witham 5B 68 32 39 28 32 45. 40 1 41 9 .- Yarmouth ,62 70 33 35 .26 3 2 3 4 40 0 LIVERPOOL CORN M k/tKET.....001. 27 10' 8 WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. ~842 tt o 9 ‘ 6 , -- Red 4 2 ~ -- Scotch, Welch, and Manx 6 1 0 8 - Irish, White '' -- 7 5 6 g 6 , ....... 6 JO Red 9 7 9 5 4 4 - Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b .. ........ 2 0 0 0 - Irish ... . • '' " 0 d 49 a - Foreign , .. „, a 4 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. guar' ,er......... 0 .,' 0 . 9 -- Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. .... ~ •...... ; 6 V - Feeding 4B 6 45 1 0 1 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 44 4 10 - Irish, &c. - --- Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter - v 42 60 0 -- Foreign 00 FLOUR, English, per 280113. - Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per „.... .................... ‘ ,l 0 ; y fej INDIAN CORN, IN r 4801 b. "........ ................ OW ,s . 0 , 0-101bs ......... .. '• 0 4 6 4 0 RYE, per Imperial quarter ~.. ...................... ' 4 7 ) 0 Uu MALT, per Imperial quarter . ~. ........................... HULI, Wheat, White (per i co tarter) .................. ...,.. ~,r..IW' Red ........ ...„,_ ............. 465• 6 ‘l" - . -- . 044. Foreign..... ............................ 41° ' 345. 91315. CORN MA RK ET. .., o s a . 70.‘• Barley, Malting ~„ ........... 48. 03.. vor G ritei r is i gh ti n. di . r : g ......... . ........................... le e 45. 0 984. 5 ,,, / (15. VA Oats, 2 5 . '''' 0 tin bond) ................. - 4 . 0 . Beans ........... lna st. .j. • ............................................. iig; . ;:i i. Pease, GI:" .. ............................... . , is. 4 2 3 , 9s. Bitve and White .......................... .... 4 425 4e4 4 0, Linseed ..... ." - .4 44 ' (11 ............................ „....s. Flour per sack) ......... - .. ... ......................• ~„„/, 55 4 Rapes,.ed (per 10 quarters) ........................ d tc '' . 7 CHELTENHAM MARKETS', ' 6 / Pet Bushel. a. d. to s. d, Per ..*. „,..• 6 ' Wheat darley O:As 4 6 5 0 Veal ....................... ~. ,i 0 !leans 5 0 6 6 ( Pork ... ................ ....... !"ease 4 3 5 9 ( t ) ) 87detietft.0”n................. ....................... t . , 1 , 1 8 6 0 8 I Lamb ............. per " n* Hay 44. 10s. to u ...- 4 . rt ET. s. t° CANTEPBLI RI MA.-,,,,,,..... --. to ...7 . .; Wheat, white...--- 65 a. to 735. ',--- "--. to •*--„, - red---.---....- Via to 64,, „......--"" 01d..! . oz.. ms s ..o ey Malting -....- `32.: to 39 ,. ~..,,,,„„ Grn" . ,.... „,' ' .....4... 0 30.. Oats Old,. s o .g o Beans Whe P a e t a , 'e NVhTte 55 ------ -.. 444. to -5....-,- ~ .. 26 t° 4 1 CI-lELMSFORD 31...8•gc:i• .. ........ 40 4 4 -.......... 36 n s to 465: ........ 0, 1 ; e 1 ;'',,_., 19 4 . t lted Barley White .... ~..•• so • ...... 36 39 - ..... 63 to 71 Oats ..or.. ................... : : Beans, Tick ..... ......... Grinding , ........ 30 84 Masgig an •' ••••r" TO f a t iimmi.y__._ l9l vc !ruit- i o. ROOF OF GOTHIC ARca lr- t t . , Col a ent G uiLDIIALL. -Notice is to be given in a toaqild' Common Council of a motion to subs tittite f . the A e t) Gothic. in the place of the present root °;_ buroe m o ftb . ball. The original roof of the Guildhall vor 9 _ o pt _. e at by the great fire of London, and the librar I I c ,',, be pro, ;01 , roof, which is of modern style, building says that the loss was irreparabl .e. ' n ova 'OO porary covering, and is considered by arc' itit c ts _a to _ f oe 00" to the noble buildin b hit has been woo.; jor g w ic red t ° dl o rf shadow for so long a time. It has occur sn ieti ~0 was intend. Ad e ns ae s s disg o r v e City lAthorities that at a period when I mob r 0 01.7,1(1. provements have been :Accomplished, and crb e c o n o for u° in progress, the constructio n of the Got hie ' hall would be capable of being achieved. D ior do' ad : - c lo. SPOONS, FIJRKS, &c., superio rto ° For kt, 001 rability, equal in a Table Spo aos or , vi dles' b iolt ppearance. hie 1 - 1 f 0 Id Dessert, 10s. ; Tea Spoons, ss. per dotets ; Ta b 11 °to t° 8 inches high , 78. per pair ; the par •Licular 10 _ o pil . .. l OW these articles a re ma d e i s so like silver, .that it ca" i s les' from it by the stamp; every article ma Ale in silver • e., , tured in this material by for ti-stre 10 RIPPON and BURTON, Wells- street , Ox ,„ t heft° . Who, to prevent imposition, confine tl 3 s sale of it wool'ooooo Catalogues of price 5 gratis• tarmsar ,-..., ~ of BIR TII 11 ; , cer,- 0 I 4 On the 27th inst., the lady of a, . DP ° Westcross House, Swansea, of a dr 'eStP MA RR IED. MN ge f her rieor On the 17th inst., at Florence aighter. a, at the house 0 - ,y, .. - tiogh Minister Plenipotentiary at tl je Stephen, Gough, K.C. only 5, in o f Major - Gen un til of to Gough, K. C. 13 , C S., ft at{ . grown H o use, c,•., erleY' o f perary, commanding the My , , or , ,district of the Illicp,ilfserf of .arid e • s t ‘ e . . Sarah Elizabeth, daughter 0 Lieutenant 11. C. Comragli, Waterford, Irel• and., C urt yr d OP On the 24th inst., at St. James's, Westtninlienf osforge'es Moore, son of the l'Ae C. . Moore, of of the the city °- l a te • 1° Caroline Emma Ballard. cond daughter . ile ijrl ( Bullard, Esq., 1 or ° On the 27th inst., at a ' da r l histle Church. Il atig h ter Dundas Made an, 95th Re ¢. tw to Eleanor, onlY the late Rev. Z. a c ar '. -1 ment ' of Carlisle. --------------.. e, Chancellor - int lii4 On the 26th inst., at D/Nn. a rles , On the 23d inst., at H affiel , Herefordshire, Ch t sari of William Charles I . d M D. it°b‘r On the 26th inst., denry, 1 Middlespc, Tyler, E m n . Esq., - • D. , ag' at Stoke Nei,vingtom O I I C o l u o Inc; 1 ... S ' lv 1' C. A s P re atO On the 26th inst. at Bow-common, John Jones , 7 of the firm of Polhill W. Drayson, Eso d Jones,Hirrh-street. Boroug_ ,J. li On the 27th inst., in 0 ntissir 0• e Booth, Esq. at Chester. terrace, Be ss . • Sten sbi" Mitch m Alice, wife of Mr. ~,„., I On the 27th hist at Floore-field House, Northatril_. to On the 27th i icst. at Rugby, F. Spar es , e °11 3 ,,;d /2. , i i, of the late O. 1-' latch, ' Esq., of EIY-Place, Lendoe , o :-.. , ,ul. IV. On the 28th ... London . P r i n t New Kent -r a •Lw. .ust. at thParagon, ler, Esq., aged.,. ! Th. „ 11 1 11 :‘ i :Ltely High Sheriff of that co d' r . rnaI.F . ATIR E moolion- ---- yotl , - d, 0 , , SO° No- I t' , ' .4 at The : orice, i‘ , . •• -- ' 640. _ qtr 4,, ,:. • , t' October 9 .9, a "te county q I Tiliddlescs.—Th ursda y , ed and Published by lIIIIRDO