The Sun. — London, England, 1840-09-15 00:00:00

3 - ;hatter. On the folly of the Chartists in seeking to defeat the objects of those who do cot go the full length with them on all points, Dr. Smiles, the editor of the Leeds Times, made soms happy remarks. " The grand point." he says, " .to be kept in view, I think is, to carry out the principle of representation as ra pidly as we can, and to get as many . to join with u in our demands as possible. By this, and oy the close a: d firm union i,f the middle and working classes alone can any thing be gained. Wh y h as the late Universal Suffrage i movement failed? Because the means of effecting such a union lt i • acre cr t e o b . we hopedhol lyne t g h l a e t et t e h d e ; C w ha or r s t e ist th s a w n ii t l hi p s r , o t fi h t e by mo th st e sedulous efforts were made to effect their entire alienation. Th e conduct of those wh o co me to meetin g s such as this, s tealing, in by holes and corners, on purpose to excite dis tui bail e es, is not the conduct calculated to excit e the ap probation of men of any class , and I will assert, least of all of the right-thinking, the shrewd, and the hi g h) miral working class." rebuke here administered to them, and adopt a wiser \ course of conduct in future. THE ARMY. Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon, of the Royal Artillery having proceeded to Scotland, on leave of absence, the duties of Assistant Adjutant-General of Artillery will be performed by Captain Trevor during the Lieute nant-Colonel's absence. Major Wood, of the Royal Artillery, has succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel Bridge in the command of the artillery at Bermuda. Lieutenant-Colonel Walker, of the Royal Engineers, lately in charge of the tngineer department in the Connaught district, has been discontinued on duty in this country, and has left Athlone, having been allowed to retire upon the full pay of his corps from the 13th ult. Major Stretton, of the 64th, has joined and assumed the command of the depot companies of that regiment at Birr ; and Major the Hon. G. A. Browne is ordered to embark to join the service companies which are about to be moved from Jamaica to North America. The first division of the service companies of the 19th Foot embarked at Cove, on the 11th instant, on board her Majesty's ship Vanguard, for Malta. The second division of the service companies of the' 88th Regiment will embark at this port (Dublin) on the 16th instant, per the Arab steam-vessel, for Cork, for final embarkation for Malta. The remaining divi sion (the last) will embark on board the Arab on her return from Cork. On the arrival of the 45th Regiment at Belfast, per her Majesty's steam-vessel Alban, from Cardiff, the 86th Regiment will embark on board this vessel for Dub lin. The first division of the 45th arrived at Belfast on the 11th instant. The Gth and 16th Re;iments of Foot, being under orders to return home from India, the recruiting for those corps is henceforth to be conducted according to the regulations of age and standard applicable to the infantry serving at home. The 6th Foot embarked for foreign service in 1821, and the 16th in 1819. E MING EDITION, nontmously, but prepared with much care and atten tion. This abstract omits much of the evidence that is considered to have no relation to the allegations of the petition of the East India Ccmpany, from which the investigation originated, and to tend rat h e r to embarrass the real ' questions at issue than to illustrate them. On those questions it is full and explicirt, and presents within the compass of a hundred pages, in a condensed and easily accessible form, the whole amount of information contained in ant of these. unwieldy blue-covered folios which Parliament sends forth in such abundance, to be consigned to oblivion or employed as waste paper. The evidence before the Commons is more ample than that given before the Lords on the British re lations with native States, and this branch of the sub ject is of importance to demand extended illustration. in India there are certain native States which are nomi nally independent of the British Gevernment for pur poses of internal administration, but which are avowedly dependent and subordinate in regard to all questions of external policy, and practically in various degrees and under various relations even in regard to internal admi nistration. With special reference to time coffee of the State of Mysore, the question has arisen how the pro ducts of all those States are to be regarded. Are they to be treated as the products of British pus sessions or of foreign countries ? If the former, then. in the case of Mysore coffee. the duty to which it is subject is 6d. per lb. ; and, if the latter, then the duty is 9d. per lb.; and so in other cases that may arise, the difference of duty will be such as essen tially to affect the productive industry of the native States. tbe comfort and well-being of the people, as well as the resources of the native Governments. In order to pronounce upon this question, it is in dispensable to have a clear conception of the position of the British in India. England has in various ways conquered or acquired extensive and populous countries and provinces, which she has brought under her direct and absolute dominion, and which are dovetailed and interlaced with other countries and provinces still in name and forrn subject to the authority of native Princes, rand constituting the native States to which reference has been made. To concede to those States perfect and un qualified independence would be to open the door to com bination from within and to invasion from without, di rected against British authority ; and hence the relation in which they stand and agree to stand to the British Government is that of subsidiary, protected, or tributary States to a paramount power, whose will is law, whose supremacy is universally acknowledged, and which is equally able and ready, when necessary, to repress the strong and to protect the weak. The British territories, .strictly so called, do not form one political system in India, and the native States another ; but both toge ther constitute one political system, the supreme autho rity of which is vested in the head of the British Indian , Government, who wields the power of the entire system, and watches over the general peace. If any State were assailed from without, the paramount Power would in stantly appear in its defence, as if itself attacked. If internal insurrection and anarchy arose, the paramount "Power would interfere to introduce law and order. If the British territories were exposed to external invasion, the paramount Power would not hesitate to avail itself of all the resources of the native States, less restrained in its demangs by the terms of treaties than by the exi gencies of the oswasion and by a sense of justice ; while even in times of puce its control over the internal admi nistration of those Stakes is limited or extended by the same considerations. It foifows by the clearest and strictest construction of international law, that those native States are British territories and possessions, and as such their products arc entitled to all the advantages in British ports which the products of British possessions can claim. It they are not British territories and pos sessions, we request to be informed what they are. There is only one other thing they can be, that is, fo reign countries, and if foreign countries, let us withdraw our trooos from their limits, let us beware of exercising criminal jurisdiction within those limits, let them watch mover own internal peace and external safety, let them no longer be required to relinquish political relations with all other States, to hold no communication with each other except through the British Government, and to submit all their disputes to its arbitration and adjustment. When all this is done, the conse quences will be various and important. We shall .soon discover bow essentially conservative of our Indian empire are the relations that have been established with those native states, and how frail is he tenure of our poser without the support they supply. They will not only have the power and the will to i:npose import duties upon British produce and m.mufactutes whets brought into their own territories, and export duties on their own produce when carried out ; but they' will also have the power and the will to form independent commercial treaties with each other, and with foreign Asiatic, European, and Ame rican Governments, giving them superior advantages to those which are granted to us. Nor would their negotiations be limited to commercial treaties either amongst themselves or with foreign Governments. 'Trey would have independent political relations aizo ; and the object of every political combi nation laud connexion at home or abroad would be ono, and one only—time overthrow of British supre macy, in short, such a loosening of the native States. as we hate su ?posed, from their allegiance to the Bri tish Government as paramount and supreme, would be a voluntary abnegation of our Indian empire, and we have supposed this case solely for the purpose of show ing by a reductio ad absurdum that time opposite is the only tenable ground that can be taken. The native States of India are either British possessions or foreign .countries. They are not, and cannot be permitted to be, considered or treated by themselves or by others as foreign countries. They are, therefore, British posses sioar, although they arc such under certain anomalous circumstances, arising from the anomalous character of our pov'er in India ; and, being such, their prodncts are entitled to free access to our ports as the products of British possessions. ( Fr e es the Morning Advertiser.) The Parliamentary Reform Association, which was lately formed at Leeds, begins to excite attention. To the first general meeting of this Association we have already adverted ; and, in doing so, took occasion to m-er e ecify the leading objects which it coetemplates. The Association promises to be productive of greet good—it promises to give a new impetus to the cause of !siberal ism. There can be no question that the Leeds Asso ciation will be forthwith followed by the formation of einnlareissociarions in all the great towns in the country. And here l-t us whisper to the movement party, that they should not only lose no time in proceeding to the organiz , ition of Reform Associations ; but that they ought to be careful that the principles on which their bocieties are based combine the qualities of the requisite liberality and an enlightened judgment. We have seen association after association fall to pieces without achieving a particle of good, simply because it was too timid or moderate in the principles on which it was founded. 04 the other hand, we have seen a world of mischief produced by associations aiming at the accent -Itisknent of the best and most commendable object=, merely bec4u,e the means employed were of an injudi cious and impracticable nature. To unite liberality of ,object, therefore, with the use of these means which a won() judgment would suggest, is of vital importance in the formation of those Reform Associations which may, now that Leeds has nobly set the example, be ex p. :zeal immediately to spring up in all the populous ,towns and cities of the Imnd. In the future efforts nimich will be made to achieve a reform of our " Re tained" Parliament, there is one grand wirer which the friends of freedom ought most sedulously to guard against. We allude to that of one section .of the movement party, not only detaching them velvt.s from the other sections, but actually interposing every obstacle in their power to the accomplishaient of any good whatever by the latter, merely because they do not happen to go the same lcugth in their y,ewe and plans as those who thus seek to annoy and defeat them. Need we say that we particularly ss'ilude to the Chartists, and the attempts they are in the habit of making to frustrate the efforts of the adeo eates of cheap bread, simply because the latter do not tee it right or expedient to identify themselves with the Charter. We trust that the Chartists have at last begun to discern thy supreme folly of this game, and that we shall not be doomed to endure the mortificatiou of a repetition of it. It i s th e w ild es t an d most irra tional thing is the world fur the Chartists to take their stand on extreme p o i n t s , an d to resolve not to aces pt any amount of reform unless they g i e l t the whole of it. What they ought to do i s t o ta k e a at they Peen try to obtain the r ema i n d er . The Chartists n rt e is a ts clamour,gte, a nd i.'hr example, for universal suff rage . Now there is not O l e most slender probability of their obtaining h present, or for some time. They ought,h tat. , to petition and agitate for household suffrage, whi c h t h ere i e a probability of obtaining. Has it never occurred to ehe advocates of universal suffrage, that if we had once obtained household suffrage they would be in a better condition for wringing unit ersal suffrage from the Legislature ? At the meeting of the Leeds Associa eion, Mr. Middleton made some pertinent remarks on va s subject. He said— ," J believe with our friend Colonel Thompson, that uni versal eoffrage is the only thing that has univerblesal ho t,•e x sty in it ; but I do not expect, nor can any reasena man e pect, we shall be able to obtain universal suffrage at one gram,. It therefore becomes a most important question, what extension of suffrage we can obtain ? Now, Ito feel certs cor_in, if we form ourselves i nto a union, and worktogether Oially, we shall be able to obtain household suffrage, and that very speedily. Now, I will ask my friends who go along suite l ee to universal suffrage, will household suffrage be an advatnage, or a boon, or will it not' If it be not a boon, than I vsou;'d say, would not waste my time in o btaining it; but it will be a boon, and such a boon as Englishmen have sel.iom enjoyed ; and by opposing the agitation for household suffrage now, we shall be placing o urselves in the situati on o f some o f t h e Ch ar ti s ts, who foolishly op posed the the agit a ti on f or t h e repea l o f the Corn-laws , be cause Sir,haihnot obtained their own peculiar me asures. N I say,let go forward with our friend s for household suffrage ; when we have . obtained that, if they we will not go on with us, trust bid theta good bye, and struggle'on with ourselves ' • the if they again wish to unite with us we will give themrmght band of fellowship, ,lift them over the wall, and be delighted to hear their voices pingle with ours in the great victory." This is the only sound rational way of viewing the I CAVALRY. Ist Dragoons.—ThisCOlpshts marched from Edin burgh for Glasgow to relieve the 2d Dragoon Guards, ordered to the former place. 4th Light Dragoons—May be expected to arrive in England from Bombay in May, 1842. The regiment was in good health and full strength at Kirkee on the 22d July. 9th Light Dragoons—Arc to embark for Bombay in June next, to relieve the 4th Light Dragoons. 12th Lancers—Stationed in the Royal Barracks, Dublin, 24 sergeants, 6 trumpeters, 290 rank and file, and 257 troop horses. 13th Light Dragoons—lt is rumoured that this re giment will be made Lancers (in place of the 9th, who go to India to relieve the 4th,) and to be styled Prince George of Cambridge's Lancers. The blue clothing is being made up with great taste, the broad skirt is done away with, and one somewhat sim;lar to that worn by the 17th Lancers substituted, also white passing up the back, and yellow stripes on the overalls. 14th Light Dragoons—ls the regiment selected to relieve the 16th Light Dragoons in Bengal, but we are at present unable to state the precise period for their embarkation. INFANTRY. 2d—We are truly sorry to learn by a private letter from Deesa, of date of the end of June, that this re giment is suffering severely from fever. Two hundred men are in the hospital, and in five weeks fifty gallant soldiers have fallen a victim to the wasting pestilence. Rain had not fallen at the date of the letter, and we can only trust that the merciful dispensations of Providence will ameliorate the pestilence. sth—A draft of this corps arrived at Limerick from Castlebar, escorted by an armed party, Sept. 6, on route for Cork, to embark for the Mediterranean to join the service companies. 6th—The Taptee leaves for Aden to-day with a mail. We anticipate she will not have a very quick passage, and that many parties will reserve their letters for the is reported Company's war steamer Sesostris, which it reported will leave this port for Aden ebout the 15th instant, carrying a wing of this regiment , proceeding thither under Major Pottinger. The only passenger we know of by the Taptee is Lieutenant Curtis, of the Engineer corps, who goes to the appointment vacated by the lamented decease of the late Lieut. Western. We are rather surprised that a wing of this regiment should have been selected to proceed to the Red Sea, as report has asserted that the corps was about to go home after so long a service in India. We believe, however, that the Royal Warwickshire regiment is one of the strongest in the Presidency, and as it was debarred from acquiring a full branch of laurels in the late cam paign of the Indus, it is but fair that it should run the chance of culling a few leaves at Aden. We sincerely wish the corps luck wherever it goes, and should desire no stouter defenders than the distinguished old 6th of the most strictly leagured possession of the British Crown.—Bombay Gazette, July 1. 13th—The ship David Clark is under orders for Calcutta, whither she conveys a detachment of her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry. Our worthy garrison surgeon, we understand, will have medical charge of the detachment during the passage.—Bombay Timer, June 17. 10th—The Vanguard is expected at Cove to em bark a wing of 13 officers and 271 non-commissioned officers and rank and file, for the Mediterranean. On the departure of this corps from Cork. the 19th are to march from Limerick to replace them in Cork barracks. 38th—The service companies, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, sailed from Cork on Saturday, in the Apollo troop-ship, for the Mediter ranean. Her Majesty's ship Vanguard, about to con vey the 19th Regiment to the Mediterranean, will not accommodate any of the officers' ladies, and such offi cers as are desirous to have their ladies on foreign ser ' vice must provide a passage for them at their own expense. Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, previous to the departure of the regiment, most kindly supplied from his own purse money to defray the expense of con veyance of the soldiers' wives left behind to their homes in England and Ireland. -OA—The first division arrived at Cork on Friday morning from Fermoy to replica the 38th. On the ar rival of the Ist division, under the &Graf - nand of Major Macdougall, at Fermoy from Templemore, after being in barracks for two hours, it received the route to pro? coed on to Cork ; it had unpacked the baggage, and the officers had made themselves comfortable in barracks. The head-quarters has also received the route for Cork. Captain Beale'e company arrived at Mitchelstown on Friday, en route for Cork. The original destination, Ferenoy, was changed in consequeliza of the arrival of 1 the Apollo troop-ship, to convey the IsStia La 'bate. The remaiaing seven companies, under a field-officer, marched from fermoy for Cork, on the 11th inst. to Ijoin head-quarters. F3'slth—This corps is daily expeete4 Ki n oton, from Beltasa, per the Alban, Government steamer, 97th—This corps will shortly march from Limeriels for Cork, to embark. for the Mediterranean. The re giment will move on next week. Marine Artillery.—A most generous and noble trait in the conduct of the noncommissioned officers and men of the Royal Marine Artillery who were serving in Spain has just came to our knowledge, and which we have greet' pleasure in giving publicity to. A sergeant of the Artillery of the Legion was killed ip the lines be fore St. Sebastian, leaving a widow, and son thou 4hput ten years old ; the mother dying soon afterwards, left 4estitute ; the Marine Ar tt i h u e e r b y o a y do a pnteodrpthhaisnpuo.tLeor r b lY eitiless and for the last four years have fed and clothed him --,:the non-commis sioned offi cer ; hiking charge of his education,They brought him with them to England ; he is now a fine, handsome, i n t e iligeot youth,. the Marine Artillery and h lately enlisted, with a view of ultimately io!;;:nri; as a trumpeter. A SINGULAR CHARACTER. —Compton, for several years one of the keepers of the New Forest, had a house near the spot where Rufus was slain. He was a molt singular character : he was continually shooting, until he lost his right arm by his gun bursting; after which b . e took to ‘. ell. g At the rear of his dll. mg was a long garden, where he built an aviary, and every morning went with his breakfast-cloth and shook the crabs from it, which brought various birds to the spot, when the gentle creatures wo uld rest on his 00 1 7 arm, a:A receive their footi t,rom his mouth. At his " whistle" they would is most and rest on hi s s h ou lde r as well as his arm ; and it most extraordinary, that, when he died (three years ago), several of the feathered tribe, of various co lours, were found lifeless in the garden.--,Strlisbury Herald. FRENCEI LlBERTY.—According to that school, the only principle of regeneration and improvement is to bring every time-honoured institution to the bed of Pro crustes. Ali that was living, national, local, or provincial, disappeared before the iron hands that were covered with the gloves of liberty. There was to be but one head, nor were any distinctive functions assigned to the siaveral dimhs t one centralizing capitale du monde, regardless whether the world around sunk more and more into death or not. 3.lany of the heroes of liberty, in our own day, know of no y bu li t tt a le flimsyb eings scheme that pre tend of- tend to his inheritance better princip le ; and if even Talle y rand were nothing but a cunning., though broken-down, pupil of th e R oman Macchi h av: ellietrhitewce is isdomofm an nothing the driest b ure aucracy,— Rau4g , 8 Ital y and the Italians. THE SUN, LONDON, TUEM)Avir, (SEPTEMBER 15 1840. MEHEMET ALI AND HIS FAMILY. Ibrahim has had to rc press in Syria several rebellions t especially those of Naplaze and of the Muses. The latter, above ail, was terrible. I hale been an eye witness of its repression, and have closely beheld Ibra him's bravery and his clemency towards the conquered. He cannot be reproached with a single act of inh'.i inanity. Ibrahim is, in reality. very humane, whatever rJalum , nious and anonymous imputations may have sa:.d to the contrary. The establishment of hospitals anO, other charitable institutions has always interested h'.m. He often attaches himself, and his demonstration, of friend ship partake of familiarity. He likes not courtiers and servile flatterers. Among his fir.t moral qualities I shall place his prodigious activity. He is very shrewd, and distinguishes himself by his excessive love of order, mand discipline. Inured to every fatigue, he e d e is o d n a o ins y in that respect every care and precaution ; it is i n p ass i n g the night without shelter everywhere, as a private soldier —sleeping- on the earth in spite of cold, rain, and snow—that he has contracted rheumatic pains. lie is adored by the troops, and exercises over them the magic fascination which the Emperor Napoleon cx ercised over his army. Ibrahim's last achievement was the victory of Nezib. - f - It has finally consolidated in Mithemet AR's family the Ezypto-Syrian viceroyalty, which Ibrahim will worthily uphold when he succeeds to his illustrious father. OTHER PRINCES OF MEHEMET ALI'S FAMILY. Mehemet Ali was born in 1769 at Cavalle, and is therefore noP seventy• one years old.* He is of moderate stature, it exceeding not five feet two inched, of a strong constitution. In his youth his hair and beard were light-coloured ; his forehead pro jects, and is open ; his eyebrow-arches are strongly marked ; his eyes are of a light chestnut colour, and iank in their orbits ; his nose is middle-sized, his mouth small, he has little turned-up mustachios, a white and thin beard, and a light chestnut-coloured complexion. The ensemble of his features forms a countenance in the highest degree pleasing ; lively and moveable, animated with scrutinising looks, it presents a felicitous combina tion of finesse, nobleness. and amiableness. Mehemet Ali has a very pretty hand, and a little foot. He is very well made. His firm gait partakes of military precision and regularity. He holds hlmselt very straight, and has often his hands crossed behind his back. He likes (a remarkable thing, as it is unusual with the Turks) to walk in his apartments. His turban or cap is in general inclined towards the left side. Without ever wearing any insignia, or any of those gold-embroidered garments which the 03manlis prize so much, he carefully attends to his dress. He bas always had the easy and distinguished manners of a Grand Seigneur. The Viceroy is very sharp, very impressionable, and with difficulty conceals his sensations ; he has, there fore, much frankness and honesty, and dissimulation must be painful to him. Touching on the point of honour, religiously faithful to his pledged word, he is incapable of treachery. His generosity is uncommon, and he has carried it sometimes to extravagance. An excellent father, he cherishes his children and lives at home with the simplicity of a good citizen. He has extreme feeling ; I could scarcely have farmed an idea of it, as well as the goodness of his heart, had I not .vitnessed their effects. He has been seen inconsolable for the loss of his children, and to shed tears at the death of his companions in arms. He carries his soli citude unto tenderness for such of his employes as he is attached to. It is with difficulty he can make up his mind to inflict a punishment, and, in general, he forgives and forgets even the most serious offences. Mehemet Ali is enamoured of glory. He thinks much, not only of the tame that now surrounds his life, but also of that which he will leave after his death. He has all the newspapers translated, and reads them : he is not hardened against the calumnios they have often levelled at hie). His activity is beyond any thing that can be said. Not only is he all day occupied, but he sleeps but a few hours at night, and what sleep he gets is most agitated. At four in the morning he is on his legs. He receives every day the reports of his several 'Ministers, and dictates all the answers ; he then reviews the troops, inspects the dockyards, works, fee. Gifted with rare tact for affairs, with sound judgment, and a sure and rapid coup dceil, it is he who, generally, in the most arduous discussions, and even in matters foreign to him, takes the best view of things, and forms of them the most correct opinion. The history of his long political career proves this at every moment. He is an admirable accountant. It is well known that he learnt to read only at the age of 45. That was a bright feature in his life. He next studied history. Those of Alexander and Napoleon have most engaged his atten tion. He is acquainted with no foreign language, but his keenness is such that, in his conversation with Eu ropeans, he often detects in their eyes what they would say before the translation of it is completed. It is a great and real gratification to him to converse with Eu ropeans and men of information. He discusses with them the most exalted questions, and handles them with re markable precision. The Viceroy observes his religion without fanaticism or bigotry. He has always evinced the utmost tolerance 1 for all forms of worship. He is the first Mussulman that has extended a broad protection to Christians, the first that has caused them to be rigidly respected, given them ranks and commands, and raised them to the dig nity of Bey. In order thus to place himself above the most rooted prejudices, he has to stand with courage the censure of his Court and people, whose jealousy was kindled by the favours bestowed upon foreigners. As I have already said, Mehemet Ali leads a plain life at home. He indulges in the simplest and most harmless amusements. He likes much chess and draughts, wherein he is expert. He unsffectedly plays with officers of inferior rank—sometimes even with private soldiers. I have several times had the honour of playing at cards with him. He likes to ride on horseback, and manages his steed with gracefulness and elegance. I have not mentioned the Viceroy's warlike quali ties. It seems &Ilse that on that point his history, which exhibits him rising from the ranks of the army and attaining by hi 9 bravery and merit the highest station, says quite enough. I might hase added that courage, carried unto rashness, not only in war but also in the most ordinary circumstances of life, has ever been one of the most striking features in the character of Mehemet Ali. It would seem as if fear were utterly unknown to him. At the beginning of his career he dared all perils. Was he not seen !last year to under take, despite of his age, a journey to Fazaglou, which is six hundred leagues from his capital, to venture upon the Nile's shoals, shatter his boat, plunge and swim, and accomplish upon a dromedary and through the de sert a large portion of that long and dangerous route ? The political crisis which at this moment attracts the attention of Europe to the East has exalted Me hemet Ali still more. Never had that extraordinary man found himself in such momentous circumstances upon so vast a theatre of operations. For a year past the space wherein his influence was felt, has extended till it has embraced all Europe. As the ancient Roman, he holds war or peace in a fold of his toga ; upon him de pends the European equilibrium. Now, at this momen tous juncture, be has placed himself by practical saga city, and his prudent and generous moderation. more still than he would have done by coups d'eclat, on a level with the most consummate statesman of the West. Wise and reserved as all good politicians should be in the pacific times we live in, he has proved that his pru dence is not pusillanimity, and, displaying with vigour unexpected resources, he has guessed with his instinc tive sagacity the old maxim, " Si via pacent, para bel lum." Alone, he foresees everything, and provides for everything. Let it not be thought that he finds any very powerful support in his Ministers. Some of them are no doubt men capable of giving him good counsel, but, in so arduous a situation, they would not venture to take upon themselves the responsibility , for so important a determination. The Viceroy finds his resources in himself only, and seeks his inspiration in his intelligence and heart only. It may therefore be affirmed, without exaggeration that in every respect Mehemet Ali is a most remarkable genius, and one of the greatest that he East has produced. Mehemet Ali's second son was Toussoun Pacha, born at Cavelle. He has died, leaving a son, Abbas Pacha, born in 1813, and now Governor of Cairo. Mehemet Ali had also at Cavalle, of the same wife, Ismael Pacha, who fell in the Sennaar war, without leaving any children ; and a daughter, now forty years old. She is the widow of Mehemet Defterdar Bey. Unwilling to remarry, she spends her life in acts of be nevolence, for which she is much beloved. Mehemet Ali has had a large number of children in Egypt. The oldest of those who survive is Said Bey, born in 1822. He has received a bright education. After studying the Oriental languages, he applied him self to mathematics, drawing, navigation, and received all the instruction suited to naval officers. He has risen in that branch of the service through every rank. He speaks French like a Frenchman. Said Bey i s probably destined to be placed at the head of the Egyptian navy, either as Minister or Admiral. Mehemet Ali's other children are a daughter, born in 1824 ; Hussein Bey, born in 1825 ; Halim Bey, in 1826 ; Mehemet Ali Bey in 1833. Ibrahim Pacha has three sons, the eldest of whom was born in 1825 ; the second, Ismael Bey, in 1830 ~ and the third Mustapha By, in 1832. I shall men tion as briefly the other members of Mehemet Ali's nu merous family, for their position does not doom them to enact first-rate parts. They are nephews of the Vice roy—Ahmed Bey, Governor of Mecca, aged forty ; Ibraham Pacha, a Lieutenant-Generai ; Ismael Pacha, Governor of Aleppo, thirty-two years old ; Hussein Bey, fortytwo years old ; and two other rather young nephews. • Th;s autobiographical article is extracted from " L'Egypte," a work just published at Paris, by Dr. Clot, who has been eighteen years in the service of Mehemet by whom he has been made a Bey and chief of his medical staff. Cot Bey's panegyrics upon his patron must therefore be received with some distrust. The doc tor's humanity would, moreover, not appear to be such as to entitle him to judge of that of Mehemet and Ibrahim. t We know that in a letter addressed to a a well known General more celebrated for his military knowledge than for his success in the field, the French renegade Sel ves, alias Soliman Bey, has ascribed to himself the whole merit of the mancsuvres which secured the victory of Ne zib to the Egyptian arms. THE METAMORPHOSES OF ME HEMET ALI-A PENDANT FOR THOSE OF OVID. (From the Charivari.) Two months since, when power serenely smiled at the notion of war, and had an interest in stimulating Mehe met Ali to resistance, the Constitutionne/ called him " a sublime old man." Ten days afterwards, as this warlike effervescence evaporated, the Constitutionnel qualified the epithet down to " an august old m An." Becoming more and more indisposed to war, the Con stitutionnel dubbed him " a remarkable old man.", Less and less warlike still, 20 days after the signing of the treaty you wot of, the Constitutionnel called Me hemet Ali " that honourable old man." Toree weeks ago he was nothing more than " cc feriae vieillard." The Government, approximating still closer to pacific views, and consequently dreading the ob,tinate charac ter of Mehemet Ali he received no higher title than that of " old man of the East." The juste-milieu being still more resolutely bent on the maintenance of peace, on whatever terms, 'Mehemet Ali became last week " an obstinate old man." ...... ...... The following day he was " a rash, wrong-headed old man." Three days since he was " a mulish, visionary old man." Beware to-morrow of ee viellard stupide I PROJECTED FORTIFICATIONS AT PARIS. The French Government have determined on raising fortifications about Paris, for which purpose a sum of 4,000,0001. is shortly to be demanded of the Legisla ture. This revival of a favourite scheme, which the violent oppositioe it encountered compelled Louis Philippe to relinquish a few 'ears ago, is founded upon the warlike aspect of affairs, and represented, moreover, as another tribute to the memory of one who has be come the idol of the day, though he twice suffered a foreign foe to take possession of his capital. " The Ad ministration," says an official organ, " who have re. stored the ashes of Napoleon to France are anxious to fulfil the last wish expressed in his will." That Paris can be tbrtified in such manner as to pre vent the occupation of that capital by such armies as captured it in 1814 and 1815 few military men, we be lieve, will be disposed to maintain; but that it will be a very sagacious measure in other respects all will agree who are acquainted with the history of France in the last fifty years, and the extraordinary ascendancy which her capital has obtained in the same eventful period. For such, however, as may doubt that the fate of Fr a n ce de pendsisa isoentirely distinguished rg u , p u o i n sh t e h d e f: i t e e m o b f er Pa o r f is Chamber, we sutijoi o subjoin the the testimony of one of the ablest writ ers o f t h e day, who Deputies. M. de Cormenin's literary popularity and political vogue rest chiefly upon his biographical sketches of the living orators of France, and more still upon his pamphlets against the civil list, the last of which so powerfully contributed to the severe defeat which de prived the Duke de Nemours of his " dotation," and his Highness's father of the services of Marshal Sault's Cabinet, M. de Cornienin has, however, secured more substantial claims to the reputation lie enjoys by his " Droit Administratif." It is in the preface to the recent fifth edition of this work that we find the sub joined lively passages upon Ow overwhelming influence, polio; al and moral, of the French capital. If in the turbulent dispositions it has far some time past mani fested Louis Philippe can contrive to overawe is, so as to be no longer " ice clef*, klOn of business, and humble servent," he surely will have as much reason to congra tulate himself as Mal•moud and Mehernet Ali had when they dispatched the Janissaries and Marneltllces and the haeardous restoration of the 4shea of Napoleon w ill h e re o pliet iby tha pious compliance with the " last Trish expressed in his will :" " France is admirably situated for attacking without and defending herself against her enemies within, She has no immense frozen or over flowing eteemes ; no thoeintio nl pt ',op rear a height ; no defiles where civil war can maintain and conceal itself. Our north and south touch one another, not by the degrees of the meridian, but by the abundance and facility of ccirivey 'Aces. Napoleon made nething of sending a hundred thousand men from the Rhine to the Pyrenees, and from the Pyrenees to the Rhine. In what part of the world have armies—those immense masses—ever tra velled with such easy rapidity ; and does not France de. serve to be called the first Power of Europe, if it be true that power consista opt i 4.) touch in the greatness of ; masses as in the ability fo m oving them? Now, France is, of all the States of Europe, that which can, with most swiftness and certainty, convey to a given point most men, money, and means of warfare. At the same moment the Government wills, the Minister orders, the Prefect . transmits, the Mayor executes, the regiments move, the I fleets advance, the tocsin rings, the cannon roars, and France is up, • " But if France can hurl her battalions and fleets at the enemy by a thousand apertures, if she is strong for conquest. sh e i s geogra phically feeble against invasion. Placed at the confluences of despotism, accessible by her shores, vulnerable by her frontiers, s urrounded on all sides by the enemies of her principle, France has need . to summon all her children, to keep them around her, ever drawn close together, ever r eady, and to watch over them continually from the height of her greatness. " Nevertheless, it is not only to her redoubts, to her • men-of-war, to her infantry, to her gunners, and to her sailors that she is indebted for her mighty nationality, it , is also, it is above all, to her character and spirit. very nation has its peculiar character and spirit, I MaY almoft say it§ temper, Ours tends to unity. One would thinle th at we k e l b y a sor t of instinct our weak,, tress es individuals,, and our stre ngth as a nation, ger heerts touch ewe: . another, and beat with the same puls ttien s ; oar hands, when they unite, chafe ; our minds kindle at the same spar k ; we rapidly melt into one another, and soon form but one soul and one body. With' us, in an hour, in less than that, it is not a suburb that rises and descends into the streets, it is a whole city ; it is no longer some battalions that march, it i s a w h o l e army. This is what reveals the secret of our French fury in the onset and in victory, and of our panic terrors in defeats, for we are then no longee an arroy, a a , 1( 1, a mato, a 1. 30 4 ,1 .' ?e `Wk`olliit again ib'dividuali. • Ihia explains also, 'why We §. O . rap;dly propeed from deliberation to action, from words to arms, from clubs to riots, an d from VOA to revolutions I and why the latter are effected astd do not endure.— " 111:q earn iutiuct -...,, urges us to the generali za tion of systems, to the method o f our b oo k s, to th r his flag on heard the three-decker Ocean, which elification of our laws, and to the homogeneousness of now bears the flag of Admiral Rosamel. 'ail branches of the public service. The Genercux of the line puts to sea this evenin.4 " As soon as we have crossed the frontier, and for Port Vendre, where it will take on board troops stepped among a conquered people, we set about organ- for Oran. ising their int anal go vernment, p o liti es ], a d m i n i s t ra ti v e, The Trident takes nine hundred men at Marseilles civil, military ; their municipalities. tribunals, schools. for Philippeville. fries, theatres, fashions, and even the details and course The Scipion is to convey an Ambassador. of their domestic affairs. «e mingle and meddle with "By repeating," says the Commerce, " what our cor everything, we f a miliarise with those w h o were f ore i gne rs respondent writes to us above, we must declare that we the day before, we lead their lives, and make them l e ad are quite ignorant what Ambassador is meant ; at all ours ; we assimilate them to us in every respect, as well, events, we regret to see the squadron dispersed." as completely, as if they were of old France. "It is therefore not surprising that we should have been called the people de la propaganda. " A curious thing, on the contrary': The Austrians, Prussians, Russians, and English long occupied our territory, and yet they never so much as thought of touching in the slightest respect our political or muni cipal system. They lived not with us, they were only encamped. " Thus, by war or by ideas, we always revolutionise some parts, and without her wishing, knowing, or say ing it, France leads the whole world. " Among the causes of centralisation must not he reckoned for little the prodigious increase of Paris. which, from all antiquity, and as it were, by a tacit homage, has been acknowledged the queen and mistress of other cities, the adoptive country of science, arts, and letters, the light of civilisation, the seat of Govern ment, the entrepot of the produce of the north and south, the abode of princes, the arbitress of taste, luxury, and fashions. " Paris receives much, but gives much. It con sumes, but to consume is to produce. It sells dear, but buys dear, and pays well. It fills like a river, but flaws hack to its source. It concentrates its light, but reflects it. It has a trunk of prodigious size, but it returns the sap it aspires, and the extremities of its thousand boughs bend under their golden fruit. It vivifies with its breath all it touches, and crushes with its weight all that resists it. It commences revolutions and it finishes them. It makes kings and undoes them. It awards glory, liberty, and power. " Without Paris would the Convention have strug gled against Europe? Without Paris the revolutions of 1789 and 1830 would haw, degenerated into civil wars. Without Paris, the Executive, transferred to Versailles, Bourges, Tours, Orleans, Lyons, Toulouse, or Bordeaux, would not be obeyed. The Govern.. meat is but the organ of Paris ; it is but its clerk, its man of business, its humble servant. Paris would keep in check the rest (f France, and from its gates, as from those of ancient Memphis, several armies would siozultaneously rush. " Paris has a material force without any possible de finition, almost without a measure, and without a coun terpoise. Paris has not the largest number of men in France, but it has the largest number collected to gether. It has what centralization confers, it is cen tralization itself'. " Athens was more polished, Rome more warlike ; London is more commercial, Pekin is more vast, but Paris is more homogeneous. Paris has but a million of men, but, if need were, that million of men would be but one man. " London is the capital of England, Vienna of Aus tria, Madrid of Spain, Constantinople of Turkey, Rome of Catholicism ; but Paris is the metropolis of mankind. " Compared with Paris every other place is a hamlet, a little town, a village. Everything ends at Paris— roads, canals, and telegraphs. Everything leaves and re-enters it. Like a feudal giant, it keeps the depart ments in a species of voluntary vassalage, and all the provincial towns stationed around Paris, like so many satellites, are lighted and warmed by the rays of its sun. " Paris sleeps not, rests not. Winter and summer, day and night, its brain thinks, its arm works, its eyes watch, and its legs arc in motion. " Its intellectual strength is greater still than its ma terial strength. The French idea is wholly in Paris Paris is the most exalted expression of our wants, feel ings,.passions, caprices, interests ; of our policy, litera ture, power, and genius. " Paris congaing Generals enough to command.in•chief the armies of Russia, Austria, and England ; it contains enough of men of intelligence to stir up the whole world, and enough statesmen to govern it. " To the eyes of foreigners Paris is everything ; Paris is the capital, not of Europe, if you choose, but of Europeans. Who says Paris says France. Paris is what a large kingdom would be in a small one. Paris is the head, and the provinces are but the feet. Now. it is the feet that walk, but it is the head that leads. " Nor must we omit to take into account that lan gu4ge of our country, as frank as its name, so marvel lous in the popular naivete of its turns, so didactic in the expression of thought, at the same time so abstracted and so clear that it suffices to philosophers, and is un derstood and spoken almost as well by the people As by grammarians ; so ingenious, so decent, so polished, and so circumspect, that it has glided into the Courts of foreign Kings, into the chanceries of their ambassadors, into the plays of their theatres, into their drawing-rooms, into their travels and fetes, and that it has reduced the use of their national idiom to the wants of the common est things ; and, :lastly, so triumphant that it has achieved abroad more conquests than our armies, and has contrived to secure them." TRIAL OF ELIZABIDE FOR MURDER. The Bordeaux journals bring us the account of the first di3's proceedings in the case of this atrocious cri. minal. The trial commenced on Wednesday, and, from the interest which ithad exlited at Bordeaux, the Court was crowded to excess. The counsel for the prisoner was M. Gergeres, sen. The prisoner was brought in soon after ten o'clock ; his face was pale, but he ap neared cairn ; his dress was decent, but had nothing remarkable in it. After the usual preliminary proceedings, in which the prisoner stated his name to be Pierre Vincent Elizabide, his age 30, his occupation that of a te,icher, and his hirth-place Nlauleon, in the I3ass-s Pyrenees, the Pre sident ordered the indictment to he read. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR. The melancholy and cruel murder of the bov, Joseph Anizat, at La Villette, and of his mother and sister, at Artigues, near Bordeaux, one of the moat cold-blooded and disgusting pictures of unprovoked crime and hypo crisy ever recorded, have been so fully detailed by us. and are so fresh in the recollections or our readers, that we shall not go into the details of the indictment, which does nothing more than collect the circumstances into one body, and pace them i■ their full light. It fully appears from this document that Elizabide's sole ohject, first of all, in murdering on the 14th of March the poor boy entrusted to his charge, was to get pos session of 100 f., which he had brought with him, as also to avoid the expense of maintaining him ; and next, in committing the same dreadful crime upon the mother and sister, to get rid of them, after lie had obtained 140 f. from her at Bordeaux, immediately on his arrival from Paris, as also to prevent detection of his first crime. The letters that he wrote to Marie Anizat flora Paris, after the murder of her boy, in which he pretended to give her news of her son, are quoted in the indictment, and give a striking exemplifiCation of the assassins' hypocrisy, equalled only by that which he had pre viously shown in inviting her to send her boy to Paris to his care. When he had arrived at Bor deaux, on the Sth May, and had spent a day with his two intended victims, he left them for the greater part of the 9th, and went to inspect the ground which he had chosen in his mind as a good place to destroy them upon. On the evening of that day he took them with him, pretending to go t• his sisters, and get ting them into the wood near Artigues, after leaving their conveyance, perpetrated his crime. The prisoner on being interrogated by the Court, opposed no dene gations to any of the facts alleged against him, but en r deavoured to account for the crime by being subject to evil fits and mauvais moments. He declared that the idea of killing the poor boy was one that entered his head only at the moment of his committing the crime ; a fact disproved by his having bought the hammer to murder him with during the morning of the 14th March, after meeting him at the diligence, and dining with him. The Court appeared to set no weight whatever on this kind of defence or explanation which he at tempted to make. During his interrogation he re peatedly pressed his hands to his forehead, and teemed confused and staggered in his ideas. The first witness called was the young woman from Pau, who brought the boy, Joseph Anizat, to Paris, and gave him into Elizabide's care ; her testimony, as well as that of the Mayor of Artigues, relative to the finding of the body of Marie Anizat, and her daughter, and that of the innkeeper at Bordeaux, to whose house Elixabide returned after the murder at Artigues, were fully eon firmatory of all the essential facts of the case, for did anything whatever come out to invalidate what they de posed. Other witnesses, twenty-two in number, de posed to minor facts all corrobora►t' t ve of the main cir cumstance. A friend of Marie Anizat at Pau gave bet a most excellent eharaeAer ; stated that she had first become acquainted. with Rizabide from her child having been sent to tile seminary at Betharram and placed under 11 ; :s tuition. Marie Anizat was a most exemplary awl. Industrious woman, and left Pau for Paris on the repeated solicitations of Elizabide and his promises to marry her. The Court adjourned at four o'clock till Thursday. [At the sitting of the 10th before the Court of As size at Bourdeaux, the examination of all the witnesses was concluded.' The Advocate. General then addressed the Court, and M. Gergere s father defended the prisoner, being offici ally charged therewith. After the pleadings the sitting broke up at half-past five, and was adjourned till the following day, in order to hear the Advocate-General's reply, should there be any, and for the summing up of the President and the Jury's decision. During the trial one of the Jurymen was taken ill : he was replaced im mediately by a supplementary Juryman. THE LATE THOMAS SIMPSON, (From the Commerce of Sunday.) TOULON, SEPT. B.—An estafet.te arrived yesterday, with very urgent despatches for the steamer Castor, which the telegraph kept at its disposal for an impor tant mission. The Castor proceeds to Coustantinople. The despatches were immediately taken on board the steamer, and she put to sea at ten o'clock, being the bearer of despatches for M. de Pontois and Rear-Ad miral Hugon. Another telegraphic despatch was addressed yester day to Vice-Admiral Rosamel, commanding the reserve squadron at Toulon. The report which was in circula tion this morning is, that that despatch relates to the vessels which the Admiral has under his orders. Those ssels are ready, and can leave immediately. It is positively stated that the frigate Melpomene the command of which has just been given to Captain Garibon, is not in condition to ho armed. She is in completely rotten state, and would require a total the rough repair. However, she had been represented us being enabled to put to sea, since the Minister of Ma rine had ordered her to be immediately equipped. If she had been inspected with care, and properly attended to, the Minister would nut experience such mistakes,, and this will not be the List which he will have to en counter. ESQUIRE. " The Montreal Gazette, of Tuesday, publishes P . letter, dated St. Peter's, Fort Snelling, 20th July, l8:}0, which, we regret to say, corroborates the first ttreadful version of the death of Mr. Simpson, neplYew of Go vernor Simpson, of Hudson's B4y, and of his two com panions. The letter in the Gazette is written by Mr. Peter M‘Leod, formerly of Montreal. It was very cir cumstantial in its details, wllich are substantially the same as formerly given. St. Peter's is about 400 miles nearer the scene where the horrible event took place than St. Louis, from whence the first account of the tragedy was reeeive(l. _ _ Nothing has been dune to the Inilependante, another frigate whose armament is e.:dered. It is much feared that its state of decay from length of service, caused by the earclrisness of those who have the superintend enc.) and maintenance of the fleet, will cause it to be adjudged not seaworthy. At all events her repairs will take a length of time, and it will be impossible to get her ready by the period named by the Minister. Anat'aer mistake. The 82d company of Marines, which were on board the corvette Victovieuse, stationed at the Belcaric landi, Vtilta htutled to-day, in order to be transferred to the line,al-hattle ship Ville de Marseille. It will be replaced on the Victorieuse by Marines that are in scribed. Great activity is displayed in the division of the crews of line-of battle ships, formed from the 18 provisional companies its which the 2,500 men which the recruiting d:pariment furnishes this year to the navy are to be in corporated. The line-of-battle ship Ville de Marseille received her lower masts today. No mention has been made about bringing out of dock the three-decker Souverain. The vessels which are to be made use of for the 4,000 and some hu•Ared men who are intended to be sal ors on hoard the line-of-battle ships, and for the 3d regiment of Marines, arc in active preparation. Today numerous detachments of recruits arrived which are intended for the c.ews of vessels of the line, for the 3d regiment of Marines, the 6th Leger, and the foreivo Legion. The Minister of Marine, in a despatch of yesterday, wrote to the Prefect-Admiral to give orders to the super intende[ t of naval const:uctions to suspend imme diately the works of the two frigates Poursuivante and Zenobie, which were to be launched for sea in a very short period. The Minister states in that despatch that the number of frigates is more than sufficient to answer all contingencies. Consequently war will not take place. However, notwithstanding all those appearances of consolidated peace, marine insurances have continued to rise for some length of time. The levy of sailors of the different classes has not been very productive for more than a month. The exact number is 570,000 men, all included. This levy is, however, going on, but produces little. It is the same with the workmen. In the beginning the result was pretty favourable, but at this moment none arrive but from a distance, and the business will be much delayed. The warehouses in the port receive daily supplies of provisions. Several contracts have been effected latterly, and the delivery thereof is to be made with the shortest possible delay. An inspector-general of artillery has been at Toulon for the last two days. He inspected yesterday the Marine establishments, in company with the Prefect- Admiral. " You will recollect that for the past two years, Mr. Dease and Mr. Simpson (nephew of Governor Simpson) of the Hudson'►► Bay Company, have been employed in the prosecution of arctic discovery, by older of the Company'. Some time in February or March last, these gentlemen returned, on their way to England, with reports of their discoveries, &c. Mr. Dease went by the usual route, via the Lakes. Mr. Simpson (for what reason I have not learned) separated from his companion, and determined upon proceeding to England via the United States. By the way, perhaps he deemed it the most expeditous route. His party consisted of three men and a boy. A few days after their departure from the colony, Mr. Simpson tkowed symptons of a deranged mind, and, in fact, ordered his men to turn with him, and go back to the colony. They did so, and returned seventy miles. Again, he ordered he ordered his men to wheel about and come southward, requesting them to hasten their horses, in order to overtake a party of colonists, with whom they set out in the first instance. They were proceeding thus, when, on the evening of the 14th, just after the moon rose, and while the men were employed about their horses, and prep.tring the encampment, Mr. Simpson, without any provocation (as reported to me). took his double-barrelled gun, and first shot John Bird dead, and then fired the second barrel at Lc Gross, a Canadian, who fed, and survived but a few moments. The boy was a son of Le Gross, and he, and the other person, a young man named Bruce, without any interference on the part of Mr. Simpson took two of the horses, and set out to overtake the party of colonists, whom they came up with that night. The next day six men returned to the scene of the disaster, and discovered Mr. Simpson's tent extended on the ground, and, supposing him to be under it, they were afraid to approach too close until they were certain where he was. They. therefore, fired two volleys over where they supposed him to be lying. Immediately afterwards the report of a gun was heard from between where the two carts stood. Upon going to the plane they found Mr. Simpson extended near his tratrass, with the upper part of his head completely blown off. He had placed the muzzle of his gun immediately between his eyes. The nightcap he wore is much blackened and burned. Having buried these three unfortunate men in the plain, the colonists proceeded to this place, where they arrived a few days ago. No reasons have been assigned for Mr. Simpson's conduct but one ; and, from all I can learn, he must have been labouring under a melancholy aber ration of intellect, and supposed that Bird and Lo Gross intended killing him for the purpose of getting posses sion of his papers.' " DUEL BETWEEN THE EARL OF CARDIGAN AND LIEUT. TUCKETT. Two hundred and seventy military were landed this morning. Of that number about twenty were conveyed upon stretchers in the most desperate state. One of these unfortunate men expired at the landing-place of the arsenal. A very great number were supported by their comrades, and could hardly walk. This long file of soldiers in a dying state was dreadful trloo4 r k t. Marshal has issued orderp . (:19.y.qiescqlt raen for k,rance.. Alie'o,ikas.rs t who, ATe tR a worso state, a're' to sent ttl the Balearic , Islands, in order- 4 —"' Wien arc al in the French ix) oe et been ennstruet_. ‘ ,..al which has ju s t date. - —ow is it that the Governor's man wnich are dictated by a praiseworthy sentiment of humanity, are not executed. P.S. It is stated that Vice-Admiral Baudin will In consequence of the Earl of Cardigan having as certained that certain letters published recently in the Morning Chronicle, reflecting, as his Lordship sup posed, on his character as an officer and a gentleman, were written by Lieutenant Tuckett, late of the same regiment (the 11th Dragoons, of which his Lordship is Lieutenant-Colonel), the Noble Lord sent him, through Captain Douglas of the llth, a challenge. This was of course accepted, and Captain Wain wright, of the half-pay, was the friend selected by Mr. Tuckett to arrange the preliminaries. An apology was demanded by the Noble Lord, to which the reply was, that if he would deny the allega tions contained in the letters referred to, it should be given. Lord Cardigan declared that certain p,orticalsotthese letters were true, but that greater part werq Ca lumnies. QP, 044 iha ;patav way rorysed , c.Qcoequevtoe. It took MAP.. and a meeting was Cam-- on Saturday afternoon, on Wimbledon The first shot was ineffectual on both sides ; on the second fire Mr. Tuckett received his adversary's ball in the back part of the lower ribs, v‘hich traversed round to the spine. The ball has been extracted, and Mr. Tuckett is do ing well, having been pron ounced out of •danger. E VP; N N • 14: ; T toURT CJRCUI. WINDSOR, MoNnaY.—Colonel Cooper expected at the Castle to join the Ittyal circle at dinner this evening. Lord John Itissell took his departure this morning for town. Throughout the morning the weather has been un favourable for the Royal party taking their usual rides and drives in the Park. The Royal Dinner party this evening is expected to include her Royal Highness the Duchess o f Kent, their Serene Highnesses the Princesses Hohenlohe Lang e ' burg and Therese of Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst, Viscount Melbourne, Earl of Surrey, - Mr. .rieorge Edward An son, Colonel Couper, Countess of Charlernont, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Hon. Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Ca vendish, Baroness Spaeth, Mademoiselle de Huge l, Baroness Lehzen, Lord Lilford, General the Hon. Sir W. Lumley, Colonel Wemyss, Major-General Sir Ed' ward Bowater, and Mr. Francis Seymour. The Bands of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, and that of the Rifle Corps, played for two hours yes terday afternoon on the Parterre of the Castle, was thronged with company, principally visitors. "er Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, with the Prince ss Hohenlohe Langenburg and the Princess Therese, tb6 he ended by several Ladies of the Court, came on Inner lerrace immediately beneath the Castle, and tnenaded there some time. PKriiH,nnetee,rss.pll,l4::hljeeeesrsteysseo,atnci attended P oh r e in n c i o e i eA Divine l L he a r n t so. , eetr.rhvbeiticre, u ac e d ss t, t r er ro u b l morning in St. George's Chapel. The Rev. I.‘ir e ! preached the Sermon. Sir W. Colebrooke had an interview vritn Lord Joll a Russell yesterday, at the Colonial-lffice. Lord John Russell arrived in town yesterday, frog visit to her Majesty, at Wind , or Castle. The Hon. Mrs. Steuart Mackenzie, lady of th e GI o- The of Ceylon, has arrived by the Persia, from CeY"' °- ; from which colony she sailed on the 7th May las t. Pa % Mackenzie has taken up her residence at Farrah Hotel, Belgrave-street. re- L Despatches from the Governor of Gibraltar were ceived yesterday, at te Coloniffice. or d Adolphus Fit h zclarence al-o has left Dublin, °n 1. visit to the Earl of Charleville, at his residence at Tu lamore. THE PRINCESS AUGUSTA. Her Majesty the Q u e en D owager and her 11°Y, Highness the Duchess of Gl ouces t e r, had int ervie % with the Princess August a y es t er day, at C lare i n i e c a House, St. James's. The Duke of Cambridge C 1 yesterday to visit her yaighness. The following account l ot the health of her 1 1 °Y al Highness was issuA yesterday : " T Princess Augusta has passed a tranquil ni e' and her Royal Highness is consequently more °n3.--t. able to-day. " Clarence House, September 14." Her Royal Highness continu es ve ry w eak. A lila ff the inquiries yesterday at Cl arence House, St.-Tame:- were the Bavarian Minister, the Austrian Minister 011 a Special Mission, the Duchess of Inverness, Mi che l: Dowager of Marlborough, Countess of Erroll , % 3m 3 11 7, . 0 Ida Hay, Countess of Tank ervi ll e , Countess of . norris, Lord John Russ e ll, L or d Radstock, L aul° )! e Wynyard, Lord E. Howard, Rev. Dr. Foord Br: Lieutenant-Colonel Bouverie, Mr. Sheriff Wh eeit° d; Mr. and Lady Mary Ross, Lier t.-Colonel and La . Susan North, Miss Sylvia Doyle, and the General. Solicitor FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCI ARRIVALS. Sir Alexander Grant, Ho n . Ch ar les A. Gore, t he B no te isll % of Jamaica, and Mrs. Lu scom b e , the Earl and Ce e Craven and family, Randal Wilbraham, Esq. at th ditto; lington Hotel; Sir Th omas an d L a dy Phillips, a " ou tbf James Hamilton, Esq ,at ditto ; the Earl of F al Tit Lord Strangford ; Sir John Kennedy, Bart., and f D u b, at English's Royal Hotel, St. James's-street, from lin; William Paul, Esq., and family, at ditto , from:sul _; burgh ; Morrison. Esq., at ditto, from Cliche jo r ' sep is lion. Wm. Maul e, at ditto, from Vienna • Wi l L liani L a moritv Myers, Esq., at ditto, front Liverpool; Joh n '— Esq., at ditto, from ditto. DEPARTURES. ,h e Our' Mr. sad the Misses Oliver Gas coigne; from • -- Nf i v are. lington Hotel, for Dover; Earl of Luzan, from ells, for Hotel, for Mayo ; Mr. and Mrs. spencer Ric:i c e : m ing- Dowton House, Bucks • Major Markham, for ' n - d Rev' ton Spa; Captain M adder,, for ditto; the H 0 0; Lora the Dean of Norwich and Mrs. Pellew, for w, t 'li o dsoor and Lady Stanley (of Alderley ), for ditto; Lady Hotel, . for ditto; the Earl of Oxford; from the Blen h lßev• Vir. for Eywood House, Herefordshire ; the Hon. IT Hoy detto Talbot, for Leamington Spa; Lord and Lit u Y from Hereford-street, for Dover; Mr. Thesig e, " Sir r. for ditto; Captain Rose, for Tunbridge Wells; g N., and Mr. Laurie, for Brighton; Captain Campbell. ow for Brighton; the Hon. Mr. Justice Ball, from t he i a., lington Hotel, for the Continent ; C. E. O'Ferrall, from English's Royal Hotel, St. James's-street, Messy' land ; Henry Paul, Esq.,- fi orn ditto, on a tour ; Ate'",. Kinnear and Balfour, from ditto, for Edinburgh; `1, 6 Misses Phibbs, from ditto, far Dublin; Francis Donslr Esq., from ditto, for Drogheda; J. S. Crawford, Escl'' from ditto, for IBRAHIM PACHA. Ibrahim Pacha is Mehemet Ali's eldest son. It has been erroneously stated that he was bu t the Vicero y 's adoptive son. He was born in 1789 at Cavalle, two years alter his father's marriage. Ibrahim Pacha is therefore 51 years of age. He is of middle size (about five feet two inches) and strongly constituted. The fatigues of war early blanched his hair and beard, which were of a blond ardent. His face is long ; his nose long and thin ; his eyes are grey, and his face is marked with the smallpox. He is naturally serious, though at times he indulges in gaiety. His voice is strong He has not the pleas ing manners of his father ; his aspect, though neither harsh nor disagreeable, intimidates. Ibrahim has received such education as was given In his time to Eastern Princes. He knows the Turkish, Pegian, and Arabic languages, which he speaks, reads, and write: Pii e! He is well acquainted w:th Eastern history. At the early age of sixteen he was entrusted with the command of troops and the government of provinces. If asieg pep so soon applied to practical business, it will be easily puripeivell thcit affairs Wive become fami liar to him, that he has learnt all the details of the Government of Egypt, and that experience has sugs R ested to him abundant positive notions of public ad miniptration. In lb its ha was placed at the head of an expedition a gainst the Wahabites, which hP Vipppgsfully qpcorp, plished. and at the return from which his victories yielded him a triumphant reception at Cairo. Whoa his father bsgan organising his troops in the European style, Ibrahim ?debit was among the first to instruct them in military esereiaca tied tpangiuvres, which he was subsequently to superintend as Oenerals in-Chief. He learnt everything, from the first manual esereiaes to the most complex evolutions. He was thus prepared when ha was appointed commander of the ex pedition to the Mona. It wits during that expedition that the newspapers, deceived by their 4051 In A noble cause, falsely represented him as a ferocious and san guinary man. It is impossible to adduce a proved fact to justify Isis alleged cruelty. Such a feeling, besides, is inconsistent with the calm and generous bravery ac nowledged in Ibrahim Pacha. The Mores expedition afforded him a useful school. He found himself there in critical situations, and his presumption of a young General asse4stomed to conquer, and deeming victory always at his cotrup4o, '4FF,yf!d lessons which, in pro secuting war under aspeCts unknown tn him, have yielded their fruit by maturing his judgment. Sh o rtly 4 ar.r hid return from Greece, Ibrahim com menced the expeditiQi tp §yFia ! Eycrybody knows what lustre that conquest and the sietariei by obtained shed upon his talents and courage. This warlike conquest being achieved, Ibrahim Paella undnrton4 another, which, though of less splendour, was not the less difficult clod heneuralsile, He completely organised the conquered country, subjecting all Syria to a unity of g overnment and to a central Administration. He freed it from numberless petty kudal chiefs, who wer e so many tyrants, and who kept up in that great and rich country perpetual anarchy. He disarmed all the tribes who ts - . seci their arms but against one another, and endangered public tranquility. It is by such tants sures, and the firmness with which he has enforced them, that he has imparted to Syria a security till then unknown, and which Mehemet Ali, by the vigour of his government, has introduced into every country over which he has extended big rule. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• DONCASTER RACES. Doncaster, Sunday night, 11 o'clock. 4 Scott's lot arrived this afternoon; it consisted of La unc t, Maroon, Gambia, enjamin, Eirus, Mornng Star, Sa tjr ; Duke of Wellington ß and Lampoo p n. By fresh arrivals the Da vi , son string is increased to ten ; it contains Doctor CRIU9• n r. hag i wath, Calypso, The Young a'n, Charles the 12th, Abcali Ne,iland, St. Bennett, Bangui), Chivalry, and Assag . n 4 Dunstan, Neptune, f by Physician, out of Vol taire's damp '- several others for plates. ST. LEGER BETTING. 6 to 4 agst Launcelot—(take 13 to 8.) 3 to 1 agst Gibraltar 6 to 1 agst Maroon 15 to 1 agst Calypso 18 to 1 agst Trustee—(taken) 25 to 1 agst Broadwath—(taken) 1,000 to 10 agst Gambia. THE CUP. 5 to 1 agst Charles XII. 5 to 1 agst Bee's • vring (offers to take) 6 to 1 agr,t Sleight-of-Hand. The betting not over when our account was made uP• le An immense number ha ve reac h e d the town in the nnud the the day, by the trains from London, Birmingham, 5,001' north, and appearan c e s warran t an ex pectation tim e the _ocie;yejO auce will be very full. The last train from town w" t ints 911 considerable time near the Belper station, by the line occasioned by an axletree having broken in 00 ncl osar Fre 10 carriages in the train to Derby ; one poor fellow, a was killed on the spot, and three or four others much 1 1 T . ,,, ea rlf consequence of which, we did not reads the town en!" ; ta ut an o bstrun e oft be nine o'clock this evening, which must excuse the breviti report. 1 )0 CURRAGH SEPTEMBER MEETING—Tgc;SOIIOI Her Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. for three yrs old' co 1 51b ; fillies, Sat 21b ; two miles. (Roge rs) g Mr. Maher's b c Johnny ......... ......... ..... Mr. Knox's b c Mayboy .................................. * Mr. She r lo c k' s b c R or y O'M len gore ....................... •••tii„.. Two others started. Won cleverly by flute FRIDAY.: Her Majesty's Plate of 100 gs . for mares ; wt for, % - ,t yrs old, Sst; four yrs old, 9st 41b; five yrs 01 ' , six and aged, lost; four miles. (Lint) S me..b s fbfF'aMustard,r Fairy (4 4 11 e y e r n s , 4 yrs r •••••• Hoi• • • • • • .... .. ..... Four others started. gpy Sweepstakes 10 sovs. h ft for two yrs old --A ngles ey - Mr. Whittle's b c Tearaway, by Voltaire, Bst 10Ib gs •••„1,„ t S Mr. Nuke's b c Shepherd, Fitzorville, Shepherdess, ..... Colonel Westenra's c by Vestris, lambic, Bst 71b •••• . Three others started. „. sec° Sweepstakes 10 ser., h ft, 25 sovs. added, for a ll age A._ Pee horse saved his stake ; one mile and a quart er on to' course. ..... Mr. St. George's ch h Barebonee, aged, Bst 41b •• .. Mr. Dale's ch c Harry Lorrequer, 4 yrs, 7st 1.9.1 b •• Mr. Maker's c out of Helen, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b. Three others started. gt• The Duke and Duchess of Argyll gave a ' s eri' ball at Campbelton, on Wednesday last, to their he v n o . previous to their departure for Inverary Castle. ir,12,,0i, • and Duchess were to leave on Friday for Ibrox 1.1,1,014 visit to Mr. M'Call, accompanied by the Marquie 'GOY and e r i t y m L ar o r u i i a s g a e c b ra e v tw en e , e d n au S g i h r te F r and Lady Emma Campbell. The Duke will be' goy, during the meeting of the British Assee"irinNartas wa ger d to „ and sister of the Earl Craven, will not be soletolvli til November. • * The Earl of Shre b buildolg..o Shrews bur intends h i § 07_, beautiful Catholic chapel at Cheadle, entirely a t -tO 7 wellme l e e n : . Intow known the interior ia N nitl o e b rti l oo e ur r E iott a f r s l Ai i nl s t causing ons tacff aosrt dl eg e b x i rcaeanv. a s t u i o c: n icee s ely r 01:, teresting relics of by-gone days have already .c.f.Tsletni- 3stoone, mi,sai covered. a oin re ( It is untrue that Mr. Philpotts is to be aPPiece °- to the vacant canonry in Exeter Cathedral ; this - or ies , preferment is to be divided between the twoarchdegc ueo,./ under the sanction of the Ecclesiastical Cornmissto Exeter Times. •ele to The Duke said Duchess of St. Albans 0 o w. have left Redbourne Hall, near Brigg, yesterday, fu r , :n g of , fli eeti.... , gow, his Grace intending to be present at the the British Association. e 1 1119' M. de Berg, the principal Secretary of the y ' fa elan Embassy, will leave Ashburnham H ouse. t°",ggeot Ire: St. Petersburgh, and, it is understood , will be ° Lolls° . veral months. He will be the bearer of ."` despatches for the Russian Government. ~u're". T H E LATE FIRR IN MILTON-ST/s- tolf firettle • 13 Last evening an inquest was held on the bodies w hie unfortunate individuals who olice b.,;:oke out in Milton-street on Sunday morning. an d a boa man stated thP_', he was on duty in Milton-street, an c i t he • - obser 0 lost their lives in the lt twent y minutes past one on Sunday morning. notes , 0 , 3 .ovver part of the Jacob's Well public-house " In the °g il l tried to alarm the inmates, and then ran for .ifill sup p . l and turncock. The engines arrived, and a plenl under were of water being at hand, the flames were r esses w ere about an hour and a half. A number of w't n th t he pe: examined, but they only gave at greater leng red in T iff ticulars of the unfortunate accident, which aPPe c e o _ st o t atio ro r h Sun of yesterday. The Jury, after a short '' burnt to death in the house No. 46, Aliltou._ bratot they considered, if proper care had been taken . ll' isaye bee returnee' the ramming verdict—,4 That the dic.esittrSeced:;l! saved." proper lagers earlier, that their lives mign ' V r lis ( ja( 4 titt Azt t it V