The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

FEIGN INTELLIGE.NCE, FRANCE The Moniteur of Thursday contains a series of royal ordi- One of them calls into active service the reserves of es of recruits of 1834 and 1835 ; and another declares public utility urgently requiring the executing of the on of Paris, the Minister of Public Works was au ceed forthwith to the appropriation of the ► the works of fortification were to be erected, placed at his disposal for the purpose of wners. A third ordinance opens-a credit he Minister of War to meet the expenses ch have already commenced at Mont )enis, Fontenay, &c. real des Debats says, that " the publication of the mdon has not created any new apprehension nor of those which already existed ; that its fears and s continued, because the causes which excited ned in full force. The third article of the treaty the eventuality of the presence of the Russians in rus or Constantinople has been foreseen by the parties. It concludes that there must be some ,bject in view by the English government, or it permit the Russians to enter the Bosphorus, and tnce the French government are bound to watch Ind not to Quit their attitude of defence." .• ----- announces, on the authority of its corre- Le2horn and Genoa, that the rate of commer ; for the East exceeded 20 per cent. A Leghorn o had a vessel ready to sail for Beyrout, and her to be unloaded, so general was the opinion that war was inevitable. e journal publishes the following extract of a :1 Rome, the Bth :—" We have hitherto received ation or denial of the news I gave you in my rrespondence under date the 4th inst., but this has been currently reported here that the English junction with the Turks, seized on Tripoli, Tarsus, naritime points of Syria, and driven the Egyptians oast. This intelligence is said to have arrived by ers from the Levant." _ _ )urnal du Havre mentions a report current in that for some days—namely, that communications had hanged between the governments of France and the States, in the anticipation of a war. This journal he conclusion of an alliance, offensive and defensive, between the two countries SPAIN. been received from Madrid to the 10th instant e tranquillity of Madrid continued undisturbed, though a ling of anxiety prevailed among the population, arising ie present extraordinary aspect of affairs. The pro -1 Government, feeling embarrassed by the want of ted coercive measures to obtain the required :me had been passed requiring all state credi w their debts to the Treasury in the short and in case of non-compliance with this .tare force was to be resorted to in order to compel mitalists of Madrid had also been called advance of 4,500,000 reals ; and a corn _ f the body had been formed to arrange with the pro -31 Government the terms upon which this loan was to nrovid The adhesion of the following town to the insurrectionary movement had been officially announced by the provisional Government :—Toledo, Burgos, Saragossa, Salamanca, Avila, Caceres, Segovia, Soria, Huesca, Granada, Ciudad Real , Cadiz, erida, Carthagena, Malaga, Almeria, Almagro, San tander, and Logrono. Intelligence of the espousal of the same cause by Calatayud, Palencia, and Valladolid had also arrived. Seville was declared in a state of siege. Marote, and several officers who signed the treaty of Bergara, had made an offer of their services to the provisional Government. The junta of Madrid, having learned that the Liberal Alcalde of Murcia had been arrested by the political chief of that pro vince, declared their resolution to adopt measures of reta liation, in case of necessity, against all functionaries who shall oppose the spread of the insurrection. The letter addressed by the Junta to the Queen-Regent, having, our readers are already aware , been returned tin , as aliened by the Queen's Minister for -Foreign Affairs, the Junta have declared the functionary responsible for the act, id have forbidden all persons to hold communication with .ni so long as he continues in the same official position. News had reached Madrid that the Baron del Solar de spinosa had been proclaimed a traitor by the Jnnta of Bur - 'wing made a military demonstration against the - given by him not to commence in spite of a Kornis, tilities EGYPT AND THE EAST. Advices from Alexandria, dated the 31st ult., communicated by the Sentinelle de Toulon, state that the greatest enthu siasm prevailed among the Egyptian population in favour of the policy of the Pasha. In the event of an attack being made on Alexandria, no doubt was entertained but that the entire population would unite in opposing it. Mehemet Ali was, according to these accounts, more firmly resolved than ever to resist the propositions of the four Powers. Another from the same place, of the date of the 29tb, announces 71 a conference which Mehemet Ali had with Rifat Bey, presence of the Consuls of the four Powers, he ex d satisfaction with the arrangement proposed by eaty of London with respect to Egypt, and added that —uld be content with Syria for life. he most positive orders have been given to Ibrahim to :h upon Constantinople as soon as the first cannon shall red ; and it is said that the Russians on their side are llv readv.to advan by the Papin, which reached Toulon from Alexandria on the 12th instant, it appears that Admiral Stopfnrd, being informed of the expected arrival of a French vessel loaded with howitzers for the Pasha of Egypt, !counts b From the Manzari Shark.) —The Leonidas French Government /-rived on the 20th ; she had as passengers the __dish Ambassador to the Court of Greece, M. le Chevalier de Heidenstein, and his lady. _ _ YRNA, AUGUST 29 without any ship of war in the xcepting the Beacon, her Britannic Majesty's aur hip. In consequence of the anniversary of the birth lajesty the King of Rolland, this vessel paid the cus honours, saluting the flag at inid-day with 21 guns. ".xcellency the Prince of Samos quitted our roads on ust., in the French . ;overnment - steiipek Dante, for -iople, where he arrived on the '2sth. steamer Lavoisier arrived here on the 26th, we on the 30th to join the French squadron, 'd sonic days before on a cruise in the gulf. . 22. —The Thunderer and Ganges ar the 13th the Gorgon, from Alexandria, nine, from Malta, on the 21st. .rco-Egyptian brig, laden with She and the Castor had 11 other vessels, all with warlike stores, one of tian man-of-war cutter from Alexandria ; and o .oth, a large Egyptian ship, formerly a e ao guns on hoard, with few men and . The vessels generally were bound to :es and Thunderer were anchored off the u ready for action, as were the Powerful r off the old castle and town. The Gorgon v keeping under sail looking out for captures. 1 00 men at Bevrout, under the command of sl Abbas Pasha left that place on the 18th, , to reinforce the garrison of St. Jean d'Acre. yards of 4,000 Turks incorporated with the v were anxious to return to Constantinople, uch dissatisfied that they had been disarmed, Hers had escaped and got on board the .h consul• Mr. Moore, and family. AUGUST ; and th ,ad detained a Tn Ler warlike store: ails ship. Notwithstanding these events, lin and Lieutenant Shadwell of the Castor passed lolestation through the country to Balbec and Da- Lnd returned only on the 20th ult. MISCELLANY thereof )REIGN AND COLONIAL .—From a review of the commerce -st half-year of 1840, it appears there has in the imports of materials for manufactures, .es, and ii,etais ; while there had been an increase ill and metallic substances, with the exception of cast hich, on the contrary, had decreased. ;ENT OF Nh):s:T BLANc.—On the 26th, 27th, and 28th the Marquis Imperiale Santo Angelo, accompanied by guides, effected the ascent of Mont Blanc , from Chu - —.nest success. The weather was remark e party could be seen with the naked eye thiririg the whole time of the ascent. This ‘s the i , rst Italian who has led a party to the top L tilts mountain and is the first who has been up since in 1838. COMMERCE OF FRANCE with th the valley an is the ti The Swiss Observer of Berne relates the following laments -On the Bth instant, Colonel Rowley, son of went up the mountain called the Harder, near sith two daughters and his son, who was very Ipruclently gone without a guide, the It; years of age, slipped, and fell over a ;he was killed on the spot. Her brother but caught by some grass, and held ley could make a labourer hear his cries, sistance. Some other persons also came, youngest Miss Rowley was carried back his melancholy event has caused universal Iness in the place. whereby s also slip!w on till Colonel Ro ) Inter! • SINGULAR CAUSL: OF DEATH.—Mr. John Smith, ofTyron township, Fayettee county, Pa., died on the 16th instant, fed 31 years. Ile was stung on the back of the neck by ruble bees, while engaged in making hay, and died of lock about three days afterwards.—New York Herald. 'AYS AT HUM E.-At Stockholm it is said to be the if persons of small fortune, who want to enjoy coun ,iece of ground for the season, and pitch town upon it a moveable house. Some of them are two sto ontaining seventeen rooms. M. Blom has a sale manufactory there, .ir, to hire a I CONTAGION CONVEYED DV A LETTER.—The August No. of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences relates a singular instance of a small-pox contagion. Mr. Robert At kinson, of Lancaster, Pa., was seized with the small-pox in December last, and after passim through a severe sickness with the disease, recovered. 'After his recovery, he wrote a letter to his brother, Richard Atkinson, of Wellsville, Ohio, giving an account of his sickness. The letter was written on glazed paper, and sealed with a wafer in the usual manner. Being detained on the road by the great snows which fell about that time, it did not reach Wellsville until two or three weeks after it was written. After receiving the letter, Mr. Richard Atkinson opened it, and carried it in his vest pocket !veral days. About one month afterwards he was taken with the small-pox, and died. There had been no cases :car the place for two years, and no other luction could be assigned than the letter 1V ellsvi. is worthy of remark, that the Queen steam-ship, the last great .treliirecture that has interested the world, ise of Noah's Ark, the first that was set afloat, four thousand years of practical science has done 'rove the dimensions of floating boats first given 'der of the universe ; and if the critical cha itions be duly considered, it may afford -nth of the Scripture narrative. The s one-sixth of the length ; the depth .e length. The British Queen is forty ; stern to stern-post, 243 feet aloft ; &king the square depth twenty-four feet was twice as long as the Queen. BANK. OF ENGLAtill•—The directors mrietors holding a certain amount of are merchants of London, no bankers crequent change is taking place. After .innards of n years, and having my fur" me business, I feel that I have still some if so, then what may be expected of the constituted? They may have inform in which they move; but I do know, after 825, they were in great ignorance of the my late friend, Samuel Thornton, a good ntleman, the father of the directors, who , from Wakefield, too, and who, besides Tchant had a sugar house at Hull, wrote •!.:, if the notes of the country bankers in t . rom hand to hand by indorsement. -L eat ham's Letters on the Currency. ;.—Now is the time for those the winter, to lay up, a store of nd put into a dry bottle and corked y may • be kept until winter with ked as soon as the settle is opened, after the air comes to them.—New tiAvAL ARCI ECTU RP es will le purr PEASE THE MAYORALTY OF LONDON. DECLARATION OF THE LIVERY IN OPPOSITION TO THE ELECTION OF ALDERMAN HARMER. (From the Times of Yesterday) The undersigned Liverymen of London wish to apprise their fellow-citizens, that they shall feel it to be their duty, with whatever pain or reluctance, to oppose the election of Alderman Harmer as Lord Mayor of London. In taking a course so unusual, and, to their own feelings, so disagree- _ . able, they desire that the grounds of their oppm:ition should be distinctly understood. Admitting the principle of rotation to be in the main a just and proper one, it is clearly necessary, in attempting any deviation from it, to show that a valid and sufficient cause exists. The undersigned therefore desire to declare in the most emphatic manner — That they desire to bring no charge against Alderman liar mer's private character, nor to resect in any manner on his discharge of his public duties ; still less would they rest their opposition on any consideration of his political views or con nexions ; all reference to which, in the present question, they hold to be utterly inadmissible. Entirely repudiating all views or motives of the above de scriptions, the undersigned do most unreservedly declare, . . ~... , that their whole grou n d o f o pp os iti on t o Alderm a n Harmer concerns his well-known and publicly admitted connexion with the newspaper called the Weekly Dispatch. Of the fact of that connexion there can be no doubt, inas much as by Alderman Harmer himself, at two public meet ings in the present year, it was distinctly admitted. But that connexion, in the judgment of the undersigned, renders him entirely unfit to fill the office of chief magistrate of the city The paper in question can only be appr"opriately described as a public nuisance, and that of the most fearful character. It is a nuisance, not as opposing whig government or tory government, but all govein - mentwhatever ; it is a nuisance, not as advocating an; particular view of the constitution, but as ridiculing alike all systems and all views, and plainly counselling anarchy and confusion ; it is a nuisance, not as opposing the churdb or as preferring dissent, but as scoffing at all kinds and forms of religion whatever. It has personally insulted the sovereign and her consort ; it has broadly and repeatedly recommended the overthrow of the monarchy ; it has extolled and encouraged every instance of rebellion ; and it has constantly and delrberately'reviled the christian faith and its professors of every class and denomination, and given the preference to infidels and blasphemers of every description. Such is the publication of which Mr. Harmer is a chief proprietor, and such has it been through a series of years In . this course of conduct does Mr. Harmer maintain it, and so doing he utterly and unquestionably disqualifies himself, in our view, for holding the office of chief magistrate . . • of this city, But these are weighty and grave accusations, and it is but fitting that evidence should be adduced to establish them. The undersigned say, then— I. That the Weekly Dispatch has repeatedly insulted, and that in the grossest terms, both her Majesty and her illus trious consort. Take the following instances : " The little Queen of nineteen tells the lords and gentlemen, that they are so well acquainted with the duties which de volve upon them in their respective counties, that it is un necessary for her to remind them what they ought to do. What a mockery of common sense is this l The Queen knows no more of the subject than a wax doll."—August 19, 1838. " In the speech delivered by Her Majesty, on Tuesday last, there is such a neutral character, that it is difficult to say whether the folly or the falsehood predominates. These Royal speeches have an excellent moral effect ; for they expose to the people the abominable impudence of Royal preten sions, as well as the folly of Royal institutions. We attach none of our observations to tier Majesty; she, of course, is merely an automaton; and if the people are fools enough to put up with a doll, they have no right to complain that the doll is not of the right gender, or that it has no intellect or anything else respectable. " The Queen is badly advised in appealing to the good sense of the people ; for, if they exercised their good sense, a throne would not exist for three months in this country." —September 1, 1839. " this paragraph in the Queen's speech might be thus put into common sense I have chosen a husband, instead of a husband choosing me. And, as he has neither clothes, nor any thing else, tit for his appearance as a gentleman, accord ing to his rank and station, I expect my faithful Commons to tax the distressed people of England, in order that this GERMAN PAUPER may appear decently in public. " This is the moment at which the Queen calls upon Par liament to tax, and severely tax, the people, to support this PAUPER object of her choice." " Are the people of England to support Royalty at such an enormous expense, and as such a DOLL OR PUPPET ?"- Jan. 19, 1840. " A young girl of 18 governs about four-and-twenty mil lions of people at home, and about an hundred millions in the colonies and India. For this task the young lady takes £871,410 per annum ; and when she marries, she pleads po verty, and calls upon her people, who are in a great state of distress, to support her husband by a further allowance out of the taxes."—Feb. 2, 1840. Such is the language constantly employed in speaking of her Majesty. Even more disgusting, if possible, are the epithets applied to one whose memory the Queen is known to regard with peculiar veneration. King George M. is spoken of, December 23, 1838, as " The HIDEOUS CANINE-MINDED BRUTE SAVAGE that was King of England ;" and, April 15, 1838, as— " That direful infliction upon humanity—that SCOURGE AND DISGRACE OF NATURE, George lII.' But, 11. It has unceasingly reviled the British Constitu tion as a whole, and more particularly the principle of a monarchical government. As, for instance— " The abstract, the monstrous absurdity of Royalty, can no longer be concealed from the public mind." "'To make Royalty any longer respectable is out of the question ; but to render it fora short time longer endurable, it is necessary for all these impositions to be instantly abolished."—Nev. 12, 1837. "It is absolute nonsense to conceal the fact, that the ab surd principles of the British Constitution can no longer he brought into action, if they were ever made to act at all. The idea of three independent, coequal, and hostile branches of the Legislature, is absolute nonsense."—Dec. 30, 1838. " A. mixed Monarchy like ours is always, and under every possible variety of circumstances, the most corrupt of all forms of government."—Oct. 7, 1838. " In the name of Heaven, let us either disclaim our title to rational beings, or get rid of coronations, as one step to getting rid of Royalty."—June 3, 1838. " A coronation is, at best, but a tom-foolery ; the bishops are scoundrels for proclaiming it sacred, and the nation ought to enjoy it as a Saturnalia—a sort of Hockley-in-the-Elole, or Dog-and-Duck, or Chick-lane affair."—May 27, 1838. "The British constitution is the worst that ever existed." —March 11, 1838. " In all countries Royalty is the same—a mass of folly, falsehood, and fraud, maintained at an enormous expense, much to the disgrace as well as to the injury of the people." —Sept. 15, 1839. 111. The constitution and the monarchy being thus held up as things to be " got rid of," let us see by what means they are to be destroyed. And here we find that what is called " the right of rebellion" is constantl2: , advocated : "The tyranny and injustice of the Government have at length driven the people from Lower Canada into a state of armed resistance, vulgarly called rebellion."—Dec. 24, 1837. " The Canadians have justifiably taken up arms." "An appeal to arms ought to be the last, and always must be a deplorable resource ; but where there is no other, and where grievances are so immense, is not rebellion the most sanctified species of warfare ?"—January 14, 1838. " We have always maintained that insurrection or rebellion is inherently a right possessed by the people." " Resistance to authority, and even an armed resistance, may be the first and most sacred duty of a citizen ; it is, however, a desperate remedy, and never to be resorted to but upon probabilities of success. —November, 10; 1839. " The peace of society has been violated by the Chartists, as a necessary consequence of bad government; and our rulers, or rather their predecessors, are the persons that ought to be brought to punishment."—November 17, 1839. " The charges are, that these men (the Birmingham Chartists) attended large and tumultuous meetings, and used language calculated to excite the people to disaffection. There is no offence in this ' • we should rather say it is a case of merit."—August 11, 1839. " The right of insurrection or rebellion is inherent in the people of every country ; and it is in the application of the doctrine, or the exercise of the right, that consists the good or evil." " There is nothing criminal or meritorious in rebellion in the abstract."—January 26, 1840. " This infamous arrangement of the whigs will infallibly produce another revolution in Canada, and, let the rebellion come when it may, I heartily wish success to popular resis tance against such clerical spoliation and villany."—March 29, 1840. IV. A deadly hatred to christianity, however, is the most prominent feature and the chief crime of the Weekly Dis patch. And this is not sectarian, but universal. If, on August 12, 1838, the Bishop of London is reviled for his " hatefully blasphemous coronation sermon," and for " the absolute folly, the perplexities of absurdities and blasphe mies uttered from the pulpA in Westminster Abbey," in the very same paper it is averred that " field preaching and street preaching are abominable nuisances, and ought to be sup pressed by the police." In the same spirit of universal hostility are the following passages written : " The question is, whether the clergy of every denomina tion do not diminish the number and faith of religionists far beyond the proportion natural to the advance of civilization." " Individually and collectively, they make themselves odious in every point of view. They rob the people, not only to excess, but in mo d es , and under pretences, which render their voracious appetite for spoil more hateful than can well be imagined."—Dec. 16, 1838. " The dexterous manner in which the clergy of every de nomination throw religion to the dogs, exceeds all precedent. " The Christian religion in England is hardly better than another name for a set of dice or counters to be thrown upon a political gambling table. The people ought to buckle on their armour, and not suffer themselves to be so egregiously cheated out of all things rational and substantial by a set of knaves that make them pursue phantoms in order to convert them into beasts of burden, or asses to be laughed at." — Dec. 9, 1838. " Protestantism, Catholicism, Methodism, or any other ism, is only a cant term to facilitate the impositions upon the mind, and which impositions are alway s t r i c k s to arrive at th e breeches pocket.' —September 1, 1839. " Religion in England ought always to be allegorized by the figure of a devil incarnate, with a bloody sword in one hand, and a bunch of skeleton keys and implements of house -breaking in the other."—September 2, 1838. " Why cannot the people exercise a little intellect, and select or collate the Bible according to its intrinsic merits, rejecting those parts which are revolting to nature, and ab- horrent to the human species in the present state of society ?" —November 25, 1838. V. Very naturally, therefore, infidelity is coiansintaenetlLexte nuated, or even held up to admiration. For instance " There is no more moral deprwrity in being an infidel than in being a clergyman."—March 15, 1840. " Socialism and Chartism are only the misdirected efforts to throw off the dreadfully intolerable curse of superstitiou • systems."—February 2, 1840. " Blasphemy is a word of no meaning whatever. cunning coinage of priestcraft."—March 15, 1840. " The men most illustrious for genius, the most celebrated for reasoning powers and knowledge, and the most estimable for moral principles, as well as for exalted feelings and amiable natures, have, within the last century, been what are termed INFIDELS."-April 19, 1840. " Whatever creeds Revelation may teach, the CHRISTIANS are invariably found to be among the most immoral of human beings. It is a " The moral virtue: increase moit u in does noatm oie mn n r c e o c u ed n i t n r g ies fr . om the Chris tiar!,Aainidrauprporpoeasctht becoming an infidel. infi nitely superior morals He sees reside t in India a year without the natives; he begins and manners, habits and custcTi h s e , e tt ge t : l eralizes his ideas, and to reflect upon different faiths not tv in want of Chris very, boon becomes of no faith India always observes, ' that India is I.An Englishman in a w l! of Heathenism.' handy, but that Europe is terribly in ou r s s e a : and there " No men or nation ever agreed upon the at was or is the Most fLords to word of God. What one country calls word versa: of God ano ther terms the word of the Devil, and ',je l l is no standard, no court of appeal, no determine which is right and which is wrong. certain it is, that nine-tenths of what we pious Christians call ' the word of God,' the Devil would be ashamed of " According to the history of ages, and to the indisputa 11e state of present relations, the Hindo o sect is b y far the best. " Ile who is worthy of the name of m an knows no distinc tion of sect, whether Deist, Atheist, Christian , Mahomet Jew, or Hindoo."—Sept. 8, 1839. an, The above passages might be multiplied by hundreds, were it necessary. Nor are they merely the independent remarks of casual correspondents. The whole are taken, either from the editorial articles, or from the papers of a regular contri butor, who signs himself " Publicola,'! and who continues a regular contributor to this hour. Such is the tone and character of that journal which boasts of a weekly circulation of 60,000 copies, and of which Mr. Alderman Harmer is a principal proprietor. A greater moral pest or public nuisance it is impossible to conceive. And that a party acknowledging an intimate connexion with it should be elevated to the first official rank among the citizens of London is, we trust, scarcely possible. At all events, in a view of its character, as opposed not only to every institu tion of the country, but even to religion itself, and to the sacred scriptures—the only source of divine truth—we feel that we have no course open to us but that of opposing the election of the chief proprietor of the Dispatch as Lord Mayor of London. In taking this course, many of us do violence to our personal feelings, having receivecLcourtesies or kind nesses at Mr. Harmer's hands ; but the case appears to be one of such extreme criminality, so far as the paper is con cerned, as to compel us utterly to overrule all such considera tions. September 161 h, 1840 SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE CHURCH (From the Times of Yesterday,.) The following important letter has come into our possession ; we have no doubt of its authenticity, and therefore publish it. " Whitehall Gardens, February 23, 1835. " My dear Bsshop of Durham ,—That public busiuess must be of more than ordinary and pressing importance which I did not set aside for tee purpose of reading with earnest at tention a letter from you, and that letter too on a subject of such vital importance as the one on which you have ad dressed me. _ _ . _ _ " I will, with your permission, refer to the political and the religious considerations which it involves. " It is a matter of extreme difficulty to determine when it is the duty of a Minister of the Crown to undertake the interference with ancient usages and venerable institutions, If he determines to do nothing, be may incur the risk of insuring interference by ruder and more hostile hands. If he advises and undertakes interference he appears to the un thinking to be neediessly departing from principle, to be unsettling what it may be very dangerous to disturb, and to be establishing a precedent which may be appealed to against himself by those dangerous innovators whose intervention he wishes to avert. " I know no other guide that he can take to regulate his course amid such difficulties but his deliberate and con scientious conviction of what may be ultimately the beat for the security and permanent interests of the establishments he desires to protect and serve. " The important question connected with the church which was forced upon me, and which required imniediate decision, was this : _ . " Is it prudent and safe on the part of the Crown to de cline all interference with the state of the church, and to leave that question to be disposed of as may seem best to the House of Commons, trustingimplicitly either to the forbear ance and caution of that house, or to the power of the House of Lords to reject what may be injurious ? " I canuot with a safe conscience answer that question in the affirmative. _ _ " I entreat you to look with me at the constitution of the present House of Commons. We have a decided majority of the representatives of both Ireland and Scotland hostile to the church, and I fear no inconsiderable number of the re presentatives of England either unfriendly or indifferent to the interests of the church. " On the first discussion that takes place in the House of Commons, after my appointment as Prime Minister, on the proposal to replace in the chair the late Speaker, who has served the house for IS years, and during seven successive Parliaments, I find my; elf in a minority of ten. " It is in vain for me to disguise from myself that very few of those who voted in that unijority will prove themselves on the day of trial friends to the church. " The minority is composed in great part of members pro fessing the utmost attachment to the church, but all, with few exceptions, requiring the correction of whatever can justly be called an abuse in the establishment. " In that minority Lord Stanley and his friends voted, in creasing of course to the extent of their numbers the force we could brinn., into the tield. At his late election for Lan cashire, Lord Stanley, a declared friend of the church, who sacrificed his office in maintainance of the principle that church property in Ireland should not be applicable to secu lar purposes, delivered those opinions on the subject of church reform : " know also that ecclesiastical reform must come, and that it is certain with regard to two great branches, namely, both as to the temporalities of the church, and also as to her internal discipline. I too, like my hon. friend, would not be a consenting party to abstracting one farthing from the revenues of the clergy, who I believe in my conscience are not overpaid, but as a body are hardly adequate to supply the religious wants of the people. But I do say that it is absolutely necessary to have a different distribution of the revenues of the church, to afford a more equal distribution of the means of religious instruction ; that the abuses of non residence, the abuses of pluralities, and the abuses of the present appropriation of chapter and cathedral property should be got rid of, and that the revenues of the church should be so disposed of as to give the people of England the greatest amount of benefit from the exertion of competently, but not overpaid, ministers.' " Now, looking at the majority and at the constitution of the minority, what course is it prudent for us to take ? Shall we leave church reform in the hands of the House of Com mons, or shall we make an honest bond fide attempt to re serve to the Crown and to advisers selected by the Crown the cautious and deliberate review of a question of such ex treme delicacy and importance ? " Believe me, my dear Lord, that I am acting under the deepest impression that the effort I have made so to reserve that question affords the best (I had almost said the only) prospect of any safe and satisfactory adjustment of it. " So much for the political considerations that are con nected with this subject, and their bearing, not on the poli tical prospects of an administration, but on the vital interests of the church. " May I presume now, with the utmost deference for your superior knowledge, and with unbounded respect for your high and venerable character, to say a word to you on much higher concerns—on the intrinsic merits of the measure I have advised, and its relation to the spiritual welfare of the establishment ? " I admit the force of your observations as to the advantage of cathedral dignities, their tendency to elevate the general character of the profession, their utility (if honestly applied) as retreats for, and encouragement to learning, and I should be the last person to propose any harsh measures of confis cation, or the sudden appropriation of the revenues of deans and chapters (in the absence of all friendly and confidential consultation with them) to objects foreign to their original destination. " But I do earnestly advise a comprehensive and impartial consideration of the whole position of the church, and that our anxiety for one branch of the establishment should not divert our care from other objects of most important and pressing concern. Ido earnestly ask, whether it be fit that the great manufacturing towns and districts of the country should be; left, as to the means of spiritual instruction, in their present state ? Is it right (I ask the question on purely religious grounds) that such a place as Nottingham, for instance, should remain as it has hitherto remained, with no provision for the maintenance of the ministers of the church of England, excepting the scanty means which they can collect from pew rents or Easter dues ? " Is it right that the two parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, with a population of 50,000 souls—pa rishes dependent on the Dean and Chapter of Westminster —in the immediate vicinity of the cathedral church—under the daily eye of parliament, should remain without, in either case, a decent provision for even a single minister of the Church of England ! In these parishes there are additional churches subscribed for, but not built, because there is no endowment ; and dissent is increasing, not on account of hos tility to the church, but because there is a religious feeling which the Church of England will not conciliate towards herself. " Apart from all popular clamour, from all political con siderations, is it better for the Church of England, for the interest of that faith the propagation and maintenance of which is surely the primary object of her establishment, to continue the old method of disposing of all the prebends of Westminster as sinecure dignities, or to make a certain num ber of them iustrumental in removing such a scandal from the church, as that which two great neglected parishes in the heart of the metropolis, and in immediate connexion with the chapter, are exhibiting at this hour ! " Let me take another case—that of Colne, a parish in Lancashire, the centre of a large manufacturing district. It contains about 18,000 inhabitants, has one minister with a stipend of about £l6O. a year, £lOO. of which is raised by Easter dues, paid with the utmost reluctance and ill will, each cottager having to pay 51d. a head, and frequently re sisting payment until after an order of a magistrate, which increases the charge tenfold. " 1 have mentioned three examples of parishes —one in the metropolis, one in a large town, one in a great manufac turing district; and they are not unfair instances of the miserable provision made for divine worship in very many parishes similarly circumstanced. Can we reconcile it to ourselves in a religious point of view that these things should remain as they are? If we cannot, if we must admit that they are wrong, is there the shadow of a hope that parliament will be content merely to supply the deficiency—will leave cathedral dignities and cathedral revenues precisely on their present footing, and make provision out of the public funds for the increase of all livings inadequately provided for? Suppose there were a vacancy to-morrow in the deanery of Durham, would it he prudent for me, either as a minister or as a conscientious friend of the church, to advise the king to fill up the appointment, leaving it with its present emolu of £9OOO a year, and with no other spiritual functions than those which belong properly to the dean? There would cer tainly be, on the one hand, the advantage of strict adherence to the letter at least of the statutes of the chapter, there would be the gain to the minister of a great aristocratic ap pointment which might possibly be well bestowed on some man of pre-eminent worth and extraordinary learning ; but would such advantages compensate for the alienation of thou sands from the church, who would witness this appointment, with all its emoluments intact, devOlving on an individual, and at the same time populous districts in the neighbourhood of Durham overrun with dissent from no other cause than that there is no adequate provision for the performance of the rites of the church of England ? " If the deanery of Durham were retained with all its functions, and with ample emoluments for the station, and if at the same time some mode could be devised for making a portion of the revenues (surely the excessive revenues) now attached to the deanery instrumental in planting a new bishopric in the north of England, and relieving the see of Chester from some portion of labours above human strength, could it be truly said that this would be undermining the foundations of the church ? prebend a opopun \ l- N aT 7 t o iy u oon l nfe d ,(Ds a oeulrre n he l teath Durham (selecting, if fps o lui fcc application this n rectory of kind, o eo emolumentsar s the a attachment o ta f c h s m eow e f n ea t a of spt rl pre bend bend to the spirit la u ap a t i iioec i rni m nfpooa p ofgr rovement of immense masses of property er i ot any ne tyrl greater r oeaft chapter tehr e violation byho possible, h i go b ei rd l epl, purpose principlecr thoseia)ols ties)—would e w os f)ht endowing do a n tohu r w e el ns agslueacnhofatcht connected es uni versity, or the attachment of prebends to the professorships in that university ? " Does any reasonable man complain that a prebend of Lichfield has been attached t o an unendowed parish in Birmingham, or doubt the advanta ge t o t h e church, to the temporal as well as the spiritual interests of the church, of such an application of it ? " Under any circumstances, I should say not; but under the present circumstances the practical question for decision is this,—shall these precedents be cautiously acted upon by friends of the church for the bona fide purpose of extending the influence of the church, or shall church reform be left to reckless innovators and undisguised enemies ? " I have written this letter amid so many interruptions, and so hastily, that I ought, perhaps, to apologize to you for an apparent abruptness and peremptoriness in the manner and tone of it—perhaps for its unconnectedness and want of clearness. " 1 have been obliged to hav e it re-co p ied, that I might not inflict upon you the double p enalt y of a tedious an d an illegible letter. — I " Most faithfully y our s , " ROBERT PEEL. " P.S.—I omitted to state in my letter that I entirel y con- IrNiav7eiththteb honour lon g reatest ou r to esteem, be,mydear Lord, " con cur in your opinion that it could not be politic or just, under any circumstances, to contract the means of the chapter of Durham to give effect in the fullest degree to their wise and liberal intentions in respect to the university which has been founded under their auspices. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY I INTELLIGENCE f The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Terese (From the Oxford Herald.) of Hohenlohe Schellingsfurst, came to town yesterday, from PROMOTIONS. Windsor Castle, and visited the Princess Augusta, at Cla • • We have heard, with pleasure, that the Rev. T. Garrett, rence House, St. James's. The royal duchess had an inter- B.A. of Queen's College, Cambridge, a native of Shaftesbury, view with the :- a gentleman of high literary attainments, has been presented Her Majesty the Queen .1.A.... 6 ,..., to a church, value £4OO. per annum, in Jamaica, by the Right Gloucester, also paid visits, yesterday, to the a . Rev. the Bishop of that island.—Salisbury Herald. gusts, and spent some time with her royal highness. Rev. Charles Yate, 8.D., Fellow of St. John's College, The following account of her royal highness's health was Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Holme, in Spalding Moor, issued yesterday :—" The Princess Augusta, in the early Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Very Rev. Dr. Cal- part of the night, was restless, and suffered some pain ; but vert ; patrons, th e M a ster and Fellows of St. John's College. her royal highness has this morning had some refreshing Rev. John Booth, Perpetual Curate of Stanford Bishop sleep, and continues in the same state as yesterday.—Cla and Wacton, Herefordshire, to be one of the Six Divinity ranee House, September 17." Lecturers founded in the Church of Bromyard, vacant by the At intervals, during the day, the princess suffered from death of the Rev. J. Wood Duppa, M.A. of Christ Church. pain, but last evening her royal highness became composed. Rev. Mr. Penny, son of the Rev. Mr. Penny, of Fox Hall, The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Theresa. of Ho- Cubetsty, Essex, to the Curacy of Romford, vacant by the henlohe, on leaving Clarence House, yesterday, went to resignation of the Rev. J. \Via. Marlborough House and partook of a dejeune with her Ma- Rev. Henry Nicholson Burrows, M.A. of Trinity College, jesty the Queen Dowager. The royal duchess and the Prin- i Cambridge, and late Principal of Hull College, to be one of cess Therese left Marlborough House soon after three o'clock, per share for the nn..-, _ the Domestic Chaplains to the Duke of Sutherland. in a chariot and four horses with outriders, on their return said to be rapidly improving. to 'Windsor Castle. transpired. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the Coun- GLASGOW AND PAISLEY JOINT RAILWAY. — We have teas Brownlow and Lady Bedingfield, took an airing yester- received the following analysis of the traffic on this line day afternoon, in the Regent's Park and Hyde Park, in an during the first 50 working days, ending the Bth instant ; and open barouche and four. as they resolve some interesting problems as to a The Duke of Cambridge spent the day yesterday, shooting f ares on the different classes, we read'' at Coomb Wood, returning to Cambridge House in the columns : will be ready for opening early in October. PRESTON AND WYRE RAILwAY.--The number of pas sengers conveyed on this line during the week ending on Wednesday. was—first class, 682& ; second class, 918 ; third princess rtass, zoool : malting a WWI WI 21 VI HUM. AND SELBY RAILWAY.--' tember 7 to September 13, inclusiv Passengers (4044,) parcels, tk:( Goods, ,reels, sheep, &c NORTH MIDLAND RAILWA ek ending 12th September. WORKING OF THE CORN AVERAGES Traffic returns from Sep- £482 5 253 7 e effect of TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCOTTISH STANDARD. EDINBURGH, Sept. 15, 1840. SIR,—I cannot but think it due to you to state, even through your own columns, that ever since you have come amongAt us, you have distinguished yourself, by taking up 1 and fully discussing every subject that you could consider of ' Amount, including cash for small parcels £3,444 importance to the country. In the department of agricul- SATURDAY. Average passengers per diem ture you have been particularly assiduous—and I think not The Princess Augusta experienced a severe attack on Ditto cash ditto in vain; nor do you seem to omit any opportunity of defend- Thursday night. Recepts per mile per diem ing the outworks of the system you have endeavoured to Her Majesty the Queen Dowager came to Clarence-house, Of the passengers carried there were — establish. It is upon this subject I now wish to address you, and remained tiil 1 o'clock yesterday morning. First class, at ls., 13,581, or about 13.42 per ceni. and 1 shall endeavour to convey what I have to say in as few ' The following account of the health of her Royal Highness Second class, at 9d., 43,696, or about 43.18 per cent. words as possible. was issued yesterday forenoon : Third class, at Gd., 43,915, or about 43.38 per cent. The last great operation of the corn importers for the " The Princess Augusta is not suffering so much pain this The amount received, excluding small parcels and a few half fear, has just been completed; and it has been for them morning, but her Royal Highness's symptoms have not im- fares, was — most triumphant—most disastrous for the country. In the proved. First class, £679 Is Od, or about 19.73 per cent. port of London alone about a million of quarters have been " Clarence-house, Sept. 18." Second class, £1,638 12s Od, or about 47.61 per cent. let loose upon the last occasion. Even in Leith seventy Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Sussex and Cain- Third class, £1,097 178 6d, or about 31.88 per cent. thousand quarters have been released, as you correctly state. bridge paid visits to the Princess yesterday morning, and re- —lt will thus be seen that the first and second class passen- Your contemporaries have stated it at twenty-six, but this mained some time. gers equal 56.6 per cent., and the cash received from theirs is to content themselves with recording only the operations Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and her Royal Highness 67.34 of the whole. These are high ratios compared with of one day. All the other ports included, the release cannot the Duchess of Gloucester came several times to Clarence- some of the returns on the English lines, and prove that in have been of less than two millions five hundred thousand house in the course of the day, and had also interviews with fixing the cares at the present rates, the directors have acted quarters; and this, be it remembered, upon this single her Royal Highness. upon sound principles, both in accommodation and price. occasion. Sir Henry Halford attended the Princess again last even- The second class appears to be the most productive, but, in Now, what will be the conduct of the corn-importers? ing, and Mr. Moore is in constant attendance at Clarence- considering the expense of conveyance, various important They have not released all their stores—that might have house. Lady Mary Pelham and Miss Wynyard are both in elements must be kept in view, which raise the profit on the caused a real fall of price. They have released what to the close attendance on the Royal sufferer. better classes ; one of these need only be attended to at pre best of their judgment may be left free, without the risk of MONDAY. sent, viz., the tax, which is nearly 8 per cent. on the Ist, and causing any considerable depression. ' The Princess Augusta is reduced to a verydistresingstte, 15 per cent. on the 3rd class.—Greenock Advertiser. But if any considerable importations should be ventured ar on by INTRUDERS, they would immediately sink the averages, that by raising the duty they may have the market sealed against all releases capable of interrupting their profits. This is precisely the state of things pointed out seven years ago, by a writer who.has since become one of your most in dustrious correspondents. He then spoke as follows : " Supposing the cheap corn of Poland introduced at a shil ling or two shillings a quarter, the merchant, after all charges, has probably a power of profit of from thirteen to fifteen shil lings, because the British farmer cannot produce at less than leaves this difference. To all this extent, therefore, the mer chant can dally with his subject, and by means of a very small stock of foreign corn, command the markets and the produce of the native farmer at his own price ; for the mer chant, so circumstanced, can sell with profit where the far mer cannot ; and the farmer necessarily prefers selling to the merchant to competing with him in the market, because he cannot compete with him without ruin. Thus the farmer is robbed because he fancies he has a protection. and acts ac- - cordingly, and he has no protection. The treasury is not enriched, for it receives in general only the lowest duty pos sible ; yet the article is not lowered to the country, for the whole grain imported and native is kept as high as possible, so that the country is every way injured in its private as well as in its public capacity, in every one to whom the grain is kept dear, as well as in its treasury, to which the lowest pos sible duties are paid."--Importance of Agriculture, by D afternoon geri carried give it a place in ou )ecome a most exhausted 11_ pain an, 101,192 £6812 0 10 2 0 RAILWAY FROM ENGLAND TO SCOTLAND.-Sir F. SIT The members of the royal family, with affectionate solicitude, the government commissioner, after inspecting ~._ evince their anxiety by their frequent visits and attention to coast line, arrived at Newcastle on Tuesday. He has no% their afflicted relative. completed his inspection ; for the proposed west line not The Hon. Lieut.-Col. Grey, equerry in waiting on the having been surveyed he could do nothing there, and the Queen, came from Windsdr Castle at an early hour yester- midland line he examined on his way to Edinburgh. He will day morning, by command of her Majesty, to learn the state shortly, therefore, make his report. The opinion he will of her royal highness ; and Capt. Seymour, by command of offer as to the best line cannot, of course, be known yet, but his royal highness Prince Albert, also came to Clarence it will be looked for with some anxiety by the projectors of House. Both gentlemen, after receiving from the medical the two competing lines. The engineer of the midland.line, gentlemen in attendance an account of the health of the we understand, has proposed a branch to Glasgoii from some princess, left town on their return to Windsor Castle. point near Melrose, up the Twecd and down the Clyde, and • measures are already being taken to have it surveyed ; but Me Duchess of Gloucester, who throughout the long pe :. .. the commissioner had no opportunity of examining that part Hod of the princess's illness, now extending to the term of several months, has constantly visited her royal highness daily, continued in attendance on the princess both yester day and on Saturday. The Queen Dowager also spent the greater part of both days at Clarence _House. Yesterday _ _ of their project, though lie may probably do so or occasion.—Scattish Standard. ne of the Newcastle and North Shields Railway was forenoon, her Majesty and the Duchess of Gloucester attende( prayers in the drawing-room of Clarence House ; the Rev J. a. Wood, chaplain to the Queen Dowager officiating. ste :day inspected by the crown commissioners, :k Smith and Professor Barlow, and by Mr. , . Their royal highnesses the Dukes of Sussex and Cambridge paid visits to her royal highness, yesterday, and on Saturday: wo accounts of the health of the princess were issued yesterday ; one in the middle of the day, the other at five o'clock p.m. The former was as follows : " The Princess Augusta experienced a considerable return of pain early this morning, bnt there has since been a miti gation of her sufferings, and her royal highness, though very , weak, is now in a more comfortable state. I 1 this " Clarence House, Sept. 20, 119" . ' 10." Sir Frede- Alderman Thompson, M.P. The directors, with marked courtesy, fitted out a special train for the occasion, and the distin guished strangers were pleesed to express their unqualifitd approbation of the works, as well as with all the arrangements of the line.—Newcastle Journal. Bain. The state of things here so strongly depicted seven years ago, is in no single point altered at this moment, except that, instead of a gain of from 13s. to 15s. a quarter, it wi year be nearly of twice that amount ! Thus, supposing corn purchased on the continent per quarter ; in many instances it is greatly less,—and if it is higher, (and in some places it is habitually double,) it is held by English capitalists for their certain London dupes ; and supposing 20s. to be added for charges, which is the highest ever estimated, the total expense of a quarter of this corn, including a duty of 2s. Bd. may safely be stated under And the price in the market, in order to reduce the average to the proper point, was lately t-past account in the afternoon was as follows free from pain during the day. " Five o'clock." The following account was issued on Saturday : "The Princess Augusta continues in a weak and suffering state, but there is no material change in her royal highness's symptoms since yesterday. " Clarence House, Sept. 19 -half-past 12 o'clock 3 12 0 JOURNAL OF THE MONEY MARKET. 1 10 0 THURSDAY EVENING.—The unfavourable state of the weather last evening off Dover has prevented the arrival of any Preach mail to-day, but notwithstanding the absence of news so general appears to be the impression iu favour of a pacific turn in affairs, so far as the disagreements with France, and so strong the confidence of speculators for the rise, that the funds continued to advance and the improved quotations were firmly maintained as they took place. Tqe rise in Con- On 2,500.000 quarters for the merchants Loss to the country in purchasing 2,500,000 quarters at the supposed price of 20s. Shipping and other charges of import, duty, &c. being so much misapplied 3,750,000 0 0 2,500,000 0 0 2,750,000 0 0 Capital lost ar►d misapplied by transactions to the amount of 2,500,000 quarters Of which directly lost to the country, the purchase price at 20s. cols was* per cent. on the closing pricespf yesterd 9,000,000 0 0 left off at7gBi to for money and 88 to for account. chequer Bills ss. to 7s. for account. There was considerable 2,500,000 0 0 anitilation also in the Foreign Market, with an almost general rally in prices. Spanish Active with the overdue Coupons were 22t to 3. Portuguese Five per Cents 324 to 3, the Three per Cents 22 to 4. Brazilian 78 to 80. Mexican Old Bonds 244 to 5, the New 254 to 64. Colombian 22 to 4. If it is more (and it is often 48s cordingly. the loss is increased ac- That the purchase money of all corn imported, !s lost to the state, is now nearly universally admitted ; as foreigners es pecially want our money, and do not want our goods, and therefore receive money only in return for corn. The neces sity for this is indeed demonstrated in very few words by the authority from which I have already quoted. " It may be said that anew market would be opened (says Mr. B.) by every cargo of grain received. But is this cer tain ? And if certain, then to what extent ? We know that no where is the raiser of grain the sole proprietor of the soil, He has rent to pay, and therefore at the utmost can only re ceive his own part in goods ; and that is everywhere more trivial than it is at home. In most of the corn countries, indeed, the peasant is a slave and can purchase little." And as he states elsewhere, (though 1 cannot at the moment find the passage) " the owners of these slaves have tastes for other than English goods ; for silks from France or Persia ; jewels and arms from other countries, often such as we cannot fur nish at all, or if we could furnish them, then never at such a price ; money for horses and useless attendants,—and even for a barbarous hospitality." See, then, the effect of diverting only nine millions annually (supposing that to be equal to the transactions in corn for a whole year,) from our own agriculture and agriculturalists ! It is this—to repress by that much the cultivation of land, and the production of all the usual results of agriculture ; not only corn and straw, but beef and mutton, bacon and poultry, tallow, wool, and leather, and above all, vegetables. It m..y almost be said to be a national loss to the whole extent of the misapplication ; for if the merchant applied his profits as the farmer would his, he merely receives and expends the money; he adds nothing to the national wealth as the farmer does. But the merchant does not so expend his profits. He uses many foreign luxuries, and in that way employs again a class, that instead of producing to the country, is like himself throwing its capital away ; and by far the greatest part of his profits, the importer of corn expends in conducting transac tions abroad ; in encouraging the agriculture of other coun tries instead of his Own ; in building quays, h ar bours and warehouses there, for the convenience of their commerce ; and perhaps assisting their governments by loans, that are to be applied in combating his own country in other fields than even that of industry. In short, the importer of corn unne cessarily is in every light an antipatriot ; and the whole ten dency of his operations is, to render the import, at first un necessary, every year greater. It has therefore occurred to me—and this is the great point in this letter, and to which I beg leave to call the attention of all who may see it—lt has occurred to me, that some such scheme as the following should be adopted First.—Corn at 695. per quarter would, according to the best computations, give the four-pound loaf at 6-1(1., including the baker's profit ; and sixpence half-penny is considered a moderate price. Second.—One million of pounds placed in the hands of government, would at any time produce one million of quar ters of corn, at the fair price where corn ought to be sought. Third.—Let the agricultural interest allow themselves to be assessed to the extent of raising a sum of one or two millions, to be placed in the hands of government for the following purpose—namely, of importing corn, as soon as corn shall rise above 60s. or 635. in the fair market ;—but except such importation in guarantee, LET ALL DEALING IN FOREIGN CORN CEASE. _ _ Dutch Ts;o-and:a-Half per Ce - nts, 504 to 11, the Five per Cents 99 to 100. Belgian 97 to 9. Danish 76 to 8. Railway Sharys are still on the improving order. London and Bir- ham were extern South Western 53 to 4 per share. North Midland Old Shares 17 to 15 discount, the New Ito 3 premium. Brighton 10 to 94. Blackwall 2to 14 discount. FRIDAY EVENING.—The consol market opened firm this morning, with a disposition to rise till nearly the latter part of the day. The opening price for the account was 864, and there was a purchase made at 89. Late in the afternoon the intelligence that Admiral Stopford had issued orders for the capture pf a French ship gave a new turn to the market. Consols fell to 884'to 4, at which price they closed, and at 881 for immediate delivery. Exchequer-bills are 6s. to Bs. premium. The Spanish market was affected at the same time as the English, having till then been firm. The Actives had been done as high as 24, but left off 234 to 4 ; Dutch 24 per cents. are 504 to ; Portuguese stock has improved, the 5 per cents. being 334 to 4 ; also South American securities —Colombian being 23+ to ; Mexican, 254 to 6. The share-market is somewhat improving. Birmingham are quoted 75 to 7 premium ; Great Western, 19 to 20 premium ; Brighton, 104 to 4 discount ; Blackwall, 24 to 2 discount. There was a considerable demand for bills upon Paris and Hamburgh to-day, and, the supply not being by any means adequate to meet it, there was a consequent depression in the rates of exchange upon those places. Amsterdam may be considered much the'same as last post. SATURDAY EvKNlNG,—Compared with the closing prices of yesterday, the English funds are rather higher, but never theless firmness is wanting in the market, and the fluctuation of the day seem to indicate a rather uneasy feeling amongst the speculators ; the bargains made in consols at the opening of the market were at 881 for time, and afterwards the price advanced to 881 buyers, but an extensive operation made by a Bear, towards the shutting of the market, produced the lower quotation of 884 to 4 or rather 884 buyers. The money ' price was 884 tot Exchequer bills have continued steady at 6to 8 premium. The only foreign security in which-busi ness of any extent was transacted was Spanish stock, which closed at the advanced price 234 to 44. Dutch stock has been firm at 504 to 51 for the two-and-half per cents, and 994 for the five per cents. In the Transatlantic Securities there is more firmness, Mexican is quoted 254 to 4 and the New Stock 274 to 284. Colombian is 24 to 34. Portuguese five per cents. remain 334 to 4, and the three per cents 22 to 4. A slight advance in the quotations of the shares of the leading lines of railway in the market has taken place, and though the business was far from being extensive, public attention is somewhat occupied with them as a species of investment. Birmingham closed at 7G to 78 prem.; Black wall, 24 to 2 dis.; North Midland, 16 to 14 dis. ; ditto New, 2 to 3 prem. •, Great Western, 194 to 204 prem.; and Brigh ton, 10-4 to 10 clis. FRIGHTFUL MURDER AT NEWCASTLE (From the Sta f fordshire Gazette) PLYMOUTH AND EXETER RAILWA _ an account of Mr. Renders plan fora railway from Plymouth to Exeter, to join the Bristol and Exeter. and thus commu nicate with the metropolis. The length of the line will be about 421 miles, and the estimate is £674,138. We need Of course.there must then be no forestalling of markets,. by corn merchants dabbling in corn. There could be no temptation, for the article must not be sold in the British market at a price exceeding 60s. or 63s.—and yet the farmer would receive a surer profit than he draws at present, high as the prices of corn occasionally at present go to. This, I believe, would give a steady price to corn—certainly a moderate one. Agriculturists being thus chargeable with the supply of the market, would of course be entitled to have the proceeds of their assessment managed by a board acting strictly for them. The supply of the deficiency could not by any chance cost the country, through the agriculturists, the sum it annually costs the country at present as a general matter ;—while the farmer has taken out of his pocket, not merely the actual price of the corn imported, but is conti nually met in the market, and beat down in every direction, by the holder of foreign corn competing with him as a sys tem ;—and therefore he may be said to lose, not only the price of the foreign corn, but all the profits of the merchant. I am, sir, your obedient servant, AGRESTIS. 'e have receiv The attention of the inhabitants of Church-street were aroused about ten o'clock on Thursday morning, by the shutter and door of the house occupied by an aged widow, who keeps a small cook shop, named Keeling, not being opened as usual. The police were informed, who proceeded to the house, and ?ound her stranieed in bed ; she was lying with her head partly off the bed, with marks of violence on her skull. A box, which she was known to have money in, was broken open, and the contents gone. She lived by her self, with the exception of one lodger, a travelling shoemaker. The police shortly discovered that he had that morning, at four o'clock, called up a 'Mr. Jackson, a tailor and clothes dealer, and purchased from him a pilot cloth shooting-jacket, and had left behind him the coat he had worn the previous day. Wm. Mason, Esq., Mayor, and Robert Hall, Esq.. attended at the police-office, to assist the police in investi gating the affair, and shortly sufficient evidence was adduced to leave no doubt but that the lodger was the murderer. A tramp passing through the town was interrogated, Who stated that about six o'clock, that morning, he had met a man on the Stafford road, answering the description. Mr. Cottrill, the chief officer of police, immediately pursued in that di rection ; on finding that the suspected person had not taken the railroad at Stafford, Mr. Cottrill proceeded to WTolver• hampton, and giving the necessary instructions to the police there, proceeded-to Wallsall to intercept the 'other. line of road, while the mayor dispatched officers in other directions. The victim of this foul murder is about sixty years of age, and has been a widow about ten years ; she formerly kept an inn in Chester, since which time she was cook at the hotel, at Dr. M`Kenzies, and at the Castle, where she was known to have saved a little money, which has been the cause of this dreadful and atrocious murder. She had one daughter, the wife of the sergeant-major of the 67th Regiment of Foot, in Lower Canada, North America. The inquest will be holden this day, at four o'clock. The murderer is about 22 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, slender made, by trade a shoe maker; he stated he was a native of Northwich, Cheshire ; and has been in Newcastle about 14 days. He was dressed in a pilot cloth coat, baragon trousers, and a cloth cap. Four old fashioned silver tea-spoons, engraved all the length of the shanks, are missing from the house. (From another Correspondent.) The prevalence of the crime of murder has lately increased to a fearful extent; scarcely a week elapses without some addition to the horrible calendar. This town has been the scene of a most cold-blooded offence of that character. On Thursday morning an aged female, named Martha Keeling, was discovered murdered in her house, in Church - stree t, having been strangled in bed. Her throat was fearfully dis coloured, the assassin gripe having completely broke through the flesh, which presented a horrid spectacle. All day long crowds gathered round the scene of the murder. Suspicion attaches to a man, aged 25 years, who is described as being 5 feet 8 inches high, rather light complexion, marked with the small pox, slender frame ; was dressed in a blue pilot cloth shooting-coat, with large embossed horn buttons, bound with black worsted braid, much worn. He is supposed to be a native of Northwich, is a shoemaker by trade, and lodged with the murdered woman. The ruffian is supposed to have carried away £2O in money, and four old-fashioned silver tea-spoons, engraved the whole length of the shanks. The police are in active search, and little doubt is entertained of the speedy apprehension of the fellow. PUBLIC SPlRlT.—Joseph Strutt, Esq., has given a grant of land to the inhabitants of Derby, to be the ground for a public arboretum, for ever. Next Wednesday these grounds are to be opened by a public procession of the corporation and inhabitants, the Mechanics' Institute, the trades, &c. This retreat, consisting of eleven acres, and the walks ex tending to upwards of 6,000 feet, will be invaluable to per sons living in confined situations, in the midst of a dense population, who are almost cut off from the enjoyment arising from walks through green fields, by the stoppage of all the foot-paths in the country, in the vicinity of the town. We understand that her majesty has been graciously pleased to issue a royal letter, ordering collections to made in all churches throughout England and Wales, in behalf of the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Es4blished Church.— Timms. STATE :OF -TRADE Lzzns.—There was a considerable 'amount of business done in the cloth halls on Saturday, but on Tuesday, owing to the limited supply of fresh goods occasioned by the wetness of the preceding day, the purchases were far from extensive. The stocks of bale goods in both the halls are very limited ; scarcely ever were they known to be so low. BRADFORD MARKET.—The attendance of buyers at this market on Thursday was limited, occasioned by two causes, the wetness of the morning and the cup race at Doncaster. Nevertheless there was a fair business done, and prices were firm, the supply of manufactured goods principally in request being very limited. In the yarn market the sales were brisk at former rates. The wool market did not, however, partake of the general animation ; the transactions were few, and there was no improvement in prices. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.—The demand for heavy winter goods still continues brisk, and a fair general trade was done on Tuesday in most descriptions of woollens. Light fancies are not quite so much in request as is usually the case at this season. Prices remain firm, but do not improve. In wools there was a fair demand, at late.prices. Business in the warehouses during the week has been satisfactory. WAKEFIELD WooL MARKET, Sept. 18.—The trade still remains in a very dull state; it is, however, recovering from its late torpidity, though slowly. In the better sorts there is a slight improvement in price. ROCHD ALE FLANNEL MARKET, Sept. 14.—The flitnnel market has been quite as brisk to-day as on the preceding Mondays. The demand remains steady, but there is no advance in price. In the wool market there is no change. LktecAsurng.—The cotton spinning and power-loom weavers at Stockport have more work than they had a few weeks ago, and the machinery in nearly all the cotton mills is in full operation, but, on account of the late turn-outs, many factory operatives resident in the town have not yet been able to get employment ; strangers from other places have got their work, at wages from ten to fifteen per cent. lower than they were twelve months ago. The cotton trade at Hyde, Ashton-under-Lyne, Stayley-bridge, Newton-moor, &c., is much the same as we stated a few weeks since : the machinery in the mills is generally running full time. The hand-loom weavers of counterpanes and fancy quiltings at Bolton have for many months past been in distressed circum stances, both on account of the scarcity of work and low wages paid to the operatives ; but things have now rather a better appearance. Many persons are of opinion that the late Chartist agitations have injured the trade, both here and in other towns ; it is a fact that operatives have had more work in those towns where Chartism has been regarded as a delusion. The woollen trade of Bury is in a moderately healthy state, but mechanics and machine makers are slack of work. The calico block printing at two large shops is not so brisk; operatives, likewise, have less work than they had last week. The various trades in those towns we mentioned in our last are much the same, except stone-masons anal house-carpenters, whose work is now becoming more seem. COURT CIRCULAR.-FRIDAY £735 12 11 Traffic returns for the Passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, and mai' Merchandise and Minerals previous week ... 2792 0 101 434 0 10 AYLESBURY RAILWAY.—On Thursday the half-yearly meeting of this company was held, when a dividend of Bs. ar was neciarea. .tne imam was Nothing else of interest ay that such a line would be of to prove profitable ; while it int to the intermediate lines and Exeter, th, Great V By the junction with ti: tern, Bris HE NORTHERN the 15th, this railwa3 OPENING Of —On Tuesday D EAST v Times was opened t nineteet the public as far as Broxbourne, in Hertfordst miles and a quarter. It branches off from the eastern coun ties, at Stratford, and follows the course of the river Lea passing through Lea Bridge, Tottenham, Edmonton, Pon der's End, and Waltham, at each of which places is a station. It is one of the most level lines out of London, and by the general agreement of all who have been upon it, one of the easiest for travelling. The stations are pretty, without being expensive, and the works seem to have been carefully exe cuted. Some delay occurred in one of the trains, arising from the deficiency in the number of locomotives and car riages supplied by the contractors, so that the running of the evening train has been necessarily suspended for the present. RAILWAY INVENTION. — We understand that a very sim ple but very imptirtant invention is about to be patented by some eminent engineers, relative to the propulsion of railway carriages. LOMBARDO-VENETIAN RAILWAY This work is to corn ) yards. or above two miles long, over the lagoons. It is to consistof 252 arches, is to carry the railway, paths for foot-passengers, an aque duct, and the gas pipe. The expense is estimated at £lBO,OOO and a large revenue is expected from it. Three short tunnel: ... RUSSIAN RAILWAYS .—General Tcheffkine, head of the rtment in Russia. is now over here mining engineering d nto the E te►n. He is sure to meet with every facility in his inquiries, and we trust that the results will be beneficial to our manu facturing interest, as rails, locomotives, &c., will be wanted. The General is desirous of being acquainted with our engi neers, as he has a commission to engage engineers for the great railway from St. Pctersburgh to-Moscow. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE DONCASTER RACES, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16. SWEEPSTAKES of 206 sons. each, h. ft. for two-years-old fillies, Bst. 31b. each.—Red-house in. (3 subs.) Col. Anson's bay, La Gitana, by Ishmael Lord Eglinton's bay, Chivalry, by Muley Moloch (Nat) 1 THE SELLING STAK . ES of 10 sous. each, with 30 added ly the Corporation ; three-year - olds , fist. 121 b. ; four, fist. five, Bst. 71b. ; six and aged , B st. 101b.—St. Leger Course The winner to be sold for 200 sovs. if demanded, &c. subs.) Mr. Clark's b. c. Alonzo, by Mulatto, 3 yrs .... (Francis) 1 Mr. Fairlie's ch. h. Abraham Newland, by Malek, 6 yrs 2 THE DONCASTER STAKES of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added by the Corporation, for horses, &c. bona fide the property of the subscriber or his confederate ; three-year-olds, 6st. 101 b. ; four, Bst. ; five, Bst. 91b. ; six and aged, 9,t.—Two (7 subs.) Duke of Cleveland's b. c. Sampson, by Cetus, 4 yrs (T. Lye) 1 Mr. Bowes's ch. h. Epirus. by Langar, 6 yrs.. Mr. Orde's b. f. Queen Bee, by Liverpool, 3 yrs Mr. Stephenson's b. f. Panacea, by Physician, 3 yrs THE FOAL STAKES of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. for thi ee-vear-olds, colts, Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 31b.—Mile and a hall.—(10 subs,) Mr. Bowes's br. c: Black Beck, by - Mulatto .. (walked over) THE CORPORATION PLATE of £6O, for three-year-olds, 6st. 101 b. ; four, 7st. 12th. ; five, Bst. 51b. ; six and aged, Bst. 121 b. Mares allowed 31b. The second to receive 24gs. —Heats, two miles Mr. Heseltine's b. f. The Shadow, 4 yrs... (Heseltine) 1 1 Mr. Milner's b. h. 'Humphrey, by Sandbeck, 5 yrs.... 6 2 Mr. Fairlie's ch. h. Abraham Newland, by Malek, 6 yrs 5 3 Mr. S. King's bl. c. Tom, by Tomboy, 3 yrs Mr. Osbaldeston's gr. c. by The Saddler, 3 yrs Colonel Synge's b. c. Polydorus, by Priam, 3 yrs THURSDAY, SEPT. 17 The GASCOIGNE STAKES of 100 soya. each, 30 ft. for three year-olds, colts, Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 21b. The winner of the St. Leger to carry 51b. extra.—Leger Course. (3 subs.) Lord Westminster's b. c. Maroon, by Mulatto (walked over) A Cur, or PIECE Or PLATE, given by the Stewards, with 50 sous. added by the Corporation ; three-yr-clds, 7st ; four, Bst. 31b. ; five, Bst. 101 b. ; six and aged, 9st. The winner of the St. Leger Stakes 31b. extra. From the Red House, and once round. Two miles five furlongs. Mr. Orde's Bee's-wing, by Dr. Syntax, aged (Cartwright) 1 Col. Cradock's b. c. The Provost, by The Saddirr, 4 yrs 2 Mr. Johnstone's br. c. Charles XII., 'by Voltaire 4 yrs 3 Lord Westminster's b. c. Maroon, by Mulatto, 3 yrs 4 Duke of Cleveland's b. c. Sampson, 4 yrs 5 Mr. Thompson's ch. f. Vermillion, by Bedlamite, 3 yrs 6 Won cleverly by a length. _ SWEEPSTAKES of 200 sots. each, h. ft., for three-year-olds, colts, Bst. 71b ; fillies, Bst. 31b. St. Leger Course. Mr. Bt w&s's br. c. Black Beck, by Mulatto 1 Lord Chesterfield'a br. c. Mohneux, by Mulatto Black Beck took the lead, was never headed, and won easy. SWEEPSTAKES of 20 sovs. each, for two-year-olds, colts, .Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 41b. T.Y.C. Mr. Allen's ch. c. Belgrade, by ,Belshazzar, out of Alice 1 Col. Crauford's br.:f.Erpengardis, by Langar 2 Mr. Bell's b. c. Thirsk, by Voltaire, dam. by . Whisker 0 Lord Westminster's b. c. Satirist, by Pantaloon 0 Gen. Yate's br. C. Simoorn, brother to Siroc, by Camel 0 Mr. Wrather's gr. f. by Belshazzar, out of Hackfall's dam 0 WOn by half a head BEE'S WING.-7-Thts petformance of this extraordinary mare are equal to those of her celebrated sire, the " Old Doctor." tier winnings are as follow :—ln 1835, at twe years old twic 1838, seven 839, el en ; and this year, ninc—r,making thirty-seven times. Out of this number, reckoning the Queen's Plates, Gold Shield, Silver Waggon, and Gold Cups;' she has won an equivalent to 22 cups. Her sire (Dr. Syntax) from the year 1814 to 1823, started 49 times, won 36, lost 13, and out of the 36 times winning gamed 20 gold cups. It is 62 years since a seven year old won the Doncaster Cup, when it was carried away by Lord Rockingham's Phocion. FRIDAY iVe subjoin a list of the last day's sport : The SCARBOROUGH STAKES of 30 sous. each. 10 ft., for three year old colts, Bst. 71b., and fillies Bst. 41b. ; the winner of the St. Leger to have carried 71b. extra. One mile. Sixteen subs. General Yates's Gibraltar, bro. to Tarick by Muley (Nat.) 1 Mr. Bowes's Black Beck, by Mulatto 2 The HoRNBY CASTLE STAKES of 20 sovs. each, with 50 ad ded by the Corporation, three year olds, 7st.; four, Bst. 1113. ; five, Bst. 101 b.; six and aged, 9st. ; three year old fillies allowed 31b., and the beaten horses of the meeting allowed 31b. ;the winner of the St. Leger to have carried 51b. extra. Two miles. Three subs. - Lord Westminster's b. c. Maroon by Mulatto, 3 yrs. (Nat.) 1 Duke of Cleveland's ch. c. by Langar—Emigrant's dam, 3 yrs. The PARK HILL STAKES of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for three year old fillies, Bst. 41b. each ; the second receives 100 sovs. Out of the stakes. St. tegei Course. Twenty-four Mr. St. Paul's Calypsdby Liverpool ...... (Templeman) 1 Mr. Orde's Queen Bee by Liverpool Lord G. Bentinek's Rosa Bianca Mr. Osbaldeston's Mountain Sylph 4 Lord Chesterfield's f. by Priam, out of Rowton's dam 0 The TowN PLATE of £100; for three year olds, 7st. 51b. ; 'four, list. 71b. ; five, 9st. ; six and aged, 9st, 31b. ; maiden colts allowed 2lb and maiden fillies 31b. The second re- I .. .• • • , 0%.,..,/ 41“..• --- ceives 39 guinea s . Two miles, h ea t s . .M. •.." Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Gambia, by l'he Colonel, 3 yrs. (Nat) Mr. Bowes's ch. te. Mickleton Maid, 4 yrs. 1 2 2 Mr. Bell's b. f. La Femme Sage, 4 yrs. Colonel Synge's b. c. Polydorus, 3 yrs. PITENOMENON.—A very unusual phenomenon was ob served at Oswestry and Shrewsbury on the evening of Sun day last. About twenty minutes after sunset, a rainbow was seen extending from east to south, that quarter of the heavens being set with dark clouds. Suddenly their hue was changed to a resplendent crimson, which flashed as it were from the horizon to the zenitb. The rainbow then assumed an appear ance most singularly beautiful from the high colouring of the atmosphere. Many persons who witnessed it, declared they had never before seen any thing so sublime and imposing. It had a duration of eight or nine minutes ; and the western horizon was, during the time, slightly tinged with red.—[An appearance somewhat similar was visible, at the same time, from the neighbourhood of Liverpool.] DOMESTIC - INTELLIGENCE Hamilton, the British vice consul, died at An- to be ti Mereull Tt .st with Stamford Lich in 180 was - ..- population in Upper . Canada, 05,190, is now about 450,000. The population of Toronto in his cc ted character peared at tl Bill Buzzbottle, in the Bill Sticker The handsome corporation hall at Stockton is expected to be opened on the Ist of October next Trentham Hall, whic :h is now rebuilding, will, when finish- The calcula iorn is, that although 1 1 ;00 men are employed, it will take ano ther year to complete it. stalk growing in his garden, which measures - 61 inches incir cumference the garden of J. Jefferson, Esq., of Hawkrigg, near Wigton, seven holyoak plants, mea suring separately, thirteen feet in length. The flowers on each are double, and of different colours on each plant. Thcre I sod, deputy grand master, has been ap f the freemasons, in the place of The Marquis of Salisbury is to ithat considerable orders have few days from France for the lreadv had the !xecution of which has a in that article of nearly £2 per ton, emain unexecuted in consequence of rf of Durham effect of causing a REPRESENTATION OF NEWCASTLE.—A requisition is noW in course of signature in this borough, and has received be ssas names, requesting Edmund ster, to offer himself as a candidate Mr. Buckley is a conservative.—Staf- Buckley, Esq., of Man( at the ne ford Ad HIGHWAY Ro About one o'clock on Tuesday morning, a ►nan named Leech, residing at Rcchdale, was re turning from a journey, when he was attacked at Buersill, between Royton and Rochdale, by four men, who robbed him of £4 lOs and then made their escape over the fields. The Lady Isabella Mary Smythe, who died at Deer Park, near Honiton, on Thursday last, was eldest daughter of the late and sister of the present Earl of Wicklow. The deceased was born on the 2d of November, 1791, and in August, 1815, married Mr, William Meade Smythe, by whom she had no family . k. few days John Mounse Buckholm Lodge, the well eener to the Earl of Lonsdale, in the Lake of f perch, and four 7rlisle Patriot ho for twenty-ono Northampto►►shire Farn►- .ting a pri the annual meeting of which was to Mr. J. C. of advice : xy, in Ares following ►aconic piec,. take this cup, and remember always to .—lt may not be unimportant to the persons ortion of the army to know that the staffs iiment, t f removing those . . duty. This is a preparatory lacing this force on the most )thing of which having been ae period comes due next year [dopted the following novel ages of the waiiP, catching them in an ingenious them up in row re about - to be insr brought to one and t 1 mode of pi He destroy lecting 1 the frt and plum I :ted to ar ig without a bit aged h on them, and leaves )y the peach, apricot, not intend to offer again for tht There is fur Live against any padd whict Fitts Independent e, Es 9 k, and Mr. Th '-General, Sir Tlibmas Nil Frederic )r Newark sitina hi 6 v,h, as the recent expo embers ed by the 1 )eyoud redemption• r. Gladstone intends ;with, Esq., of London, the patentee, has pub nge, for 1,000 guineas, to run the Archimedes steamer in the kingdom, the pov, , er '• The t►:ia! must take place on the ce of one or five hundred miles, and ;ea, over a (its the 15th of nc NATURAL GA .ctively (but without any Spontaneous Gas Company" lore fuss) proseeuti:l their unprece casting ; and, ere many weeks weastle and North Shields Rail: iehted from the great natural Gateshead Observer. dented project. Pipe have passed away, tl way will, i❑ all pr .voir of gas at Wallsend IMPORTANT 70 HER MAJESTY'S MINISTERS. — T he . , patent aquatic life hat now exhibiting on the Serpentine, ul i " daily at the Polytechnic Institution, is calcula,ted to become extremely fashionable in the distressed manufacturing dis' tricts, and not less so with her Majesty's ministers, as it pro fesses to b edy for keeping the head above hibiting at Bradford two children which are prodigie 9lbs. Hi , and weighs is seven year s sh is very muscular, firm! s and legs he may compete with an,) to other is three years old, and weighs e weight. They are of Irish parentage. LONGEVITY- - One of those fine old specimens of " a healthier age," named Violet Harkness, at present residing at Cleator, and whose venerable head has been whitened bI the snows of one hundred and two winters, turned out int°, the harvest field one day last week, and cut no less than 11 stooks of grain, which , at three half-yenee a stook, amount eu to Is..9d.—WAitehaven Herald. • A WELCOME INTRUDER.—On Friday-night last, abovs seven o'clock, as , & veer, iNether by-street, LOnfr town, was, assi uy his wife, busy serving custorner .6 .4 l their shop, to their great surprise something came flying a loud whirr through the shop and into a back room. Baxter immediately followed the self-invited guest, and dis covered it to be a good plump well-grown partridge. It l a supposed that the partridge had been chased by a hawk, 11. was attracted by the light from the candle burning in FP" —Carlisle Patriot. CURIOUS RACF Mr. Baxtf —On Thursday last, at a tavern in th is t k-side was bet between a coal merchan t nd a race was to decide the ownership ° •-•.5...5. The preliminaries were these, that w e should be allowed a yard at start, and that they toss for choice of. ground. The bricksetter won the toss, apd immediately took up the chimney, and went to the top ; and as his antagonist, the coal merchant, did not choo se , him, it was decided by the company present t hat Preston Chronicle. .own", a sovereigt: bricksetter to foil the bricksetter had won the race STRANGE PHENOMENON —Within the last four or five months a rather strange phenomenon has occurred in the Severn, close to the little harbour of Lydney, where a largl sand-bank, of very many acres in extent, which interfe re with the navigation of that side of the river, suddenly diser t peared, leaving the river deep enough for ships of the large burden, as it was some forty years before. This immen se . body of sand does not appear to have merely shifted to so eiv other part of the channel, but has been entirely swept atoll it is thought, by the violent storms and rain in January el l Fsbruary.—Wilts Standard. BILL SWINDLERS.—We have had sent to us this week , $ circular from an apparently new firm of dealers in fictitiool bills, calling themselves T. and W. Thornton, Free School' street, Dock-head, London, who very kindly offer temporarY assistance to persons in want of money, and at the same t iro tender their assistance in the sale of goods for ready money ' Of course, there are not many persons who need to be to lot that, if their goods, their money, or their bills, get into the hands of these people, there is very little chance that the)" will see them again,—except, indeed, in the case of thqe own hills, which will no doubt come back for payment. 1/ ‘ find from another circular, that the old firm of bill-traffie lv ers, originally established by John Kinnear, and carried 0 by other parties since he had the misfortune to be tone' ported, is now called " A. and T. Smith, Albany-road, Lot r don ."—Manchester Guardia A SOARING ARTIS ...—On Wednesday last, much alar,"; and curiosity were excited in the neighbourhood of t"; Strand, and hundreds of persons were attracted to the a! e d nue that leads to Hungerford Market and its vicinity, gazil l a with fear and wonder upon an adventurous wight, who bs, contrived to mount into the belfry of St. Martin's c hurel and had lowered himself by means of a single rope, f a ster' e; from above, into the very narrow space between the two an t , facing Pall-mall and the Strand ; and there he remained at e height of at least 150 feet from the ground, upwards of tb re hours, making sketches, with as much composure and aPP O rent unconcern as it he had been using a crayon in Ilia ow atelier. SUDDEN DEATH IN THE DONCASTER BETTING BOOggii —On Wednesday evening last, Mr. William Tomlinson: ° this town, an individual well known on the turf, was pla9 ll l at hazard, in the upper betting room at Doncaster, and he just won £l5, and was again shaking the dice, when his 8 ' was observed to move slowly and feebly. H e threw secenj and,immediately turning to a friend, said he was ill, a ° , o requested to be taken down stairs. This was done, anti V t or three chairs were placed together for him to lie upon ; e s', he expired in two or three minutes. His friend then , mined the deceased's pockets, and, finding the £l5, wiTpPr e it up in paper, and (somewhat indiscreetly) replaced it 1P tu., deceased's waistcoat pocket. As might be expected, the it/ port of Mr. Tomlinson's death soon attracted a crowd persons round his body ; and some dexterous thief contrive,'' to abstract the £l5 from his pocket, and the deceased " Macintosh" coat, with which booty he escaped undetecte d ' —Manchester Guardian CURIOUS CAS OF BURGLARY.—About two o 'c l oc k OO ,„ a female servant to the house of Mr. K. ",„; Ao. J, Cecil Terrace, Greenhey s , wa s alarmed,4 hearing, as she thought, some person coming up stairs. immediately called out " Who is there ?" and, in a inornetc, afterwards, a loud crash was heard on the staircase, 8 011 , / the lobby at the bottom, as if some heavy bodies had fan ,,," down stairs. This noise alarmed the family ; and aso n 2, Mr. Slack's sprung out of bed, and went down stairs. his way in I'o he was conscious of some hurried movement c e il ' parties the sitting room belo w ; but before he could O f that room, they had succeeded in making their escape oilt" the window, which st oo d o p en . Wh en a li g ht was procure 4 it was found that the unbidden visitors, after packing UP : the property they could lay their hands upon, had been P r fd paring to enjoy th emse l ves , f or th r ee c hai rs bad been plac i `j v at the table, an d a w hi s ky b o ttl e , w ith th ree g l ass e s pailierr filled, were standing upon it. It would seem that, in ord„ to enjoy their carouse in security, they had placed chairs 11 '; the landing of the stairs in such a manner, that if any of t h o family had been alarmed, and had attempted to come de w y stairs, they would be sure to fall over the chairs, and ther e give warning to the topers, and enable them to provide fq r their own safety. But the wicked are often taken in tb e i l o own snare ; and so it proved on this occasion, for one of 1,0 robbers who had gone up stairs, and had been alarmed by 1 . 1 , 1 4 calling out of the servant, had evidently tumbled over onthe the chairs in making his retreat, and rolled headlong to es bottom, together with the chair, which was broken to Pl ec ,:e by the fall. This had caused the loud noise that alarmed I ,R 0 family, and which was considerably increased by the fall 01 poker with which the man had no doubt armed himself wil e , he went up stairs. Although-a number of articles had bee n packed up in a table-cloth, and even the chimney-glass tak e n down, ready for removal, nothing had been actually to is away. From the appearance of the premises, no doubt he entertained that one of the robbers hail been concealed in t ag house prior to the family retiring to rest, and had afterva lr o o admitted his accomplices at the cellar window, which t h e properly secured the preceding evening, and none of h ' at fastenings had been broken or forced. It is quite clear the robbers were no novices in their profession ; for, altbougo Mr. Slack had an excellent little house-dog, it never 038 it any noise during the night, and, after the robbers had fie , % r , was found shut up in one of the cellars, in a state of stuto having evidently been drugged by some means ; and that ho also the case with a dog belonging to Mr. Drummond , - . 0 . resides at the next door. We understand, that several .10„ stances of parties endeavouring to secrete themselves houses, during the evening, have recontly been detected; it therefore behoves all' parties to be on their guard aga l P o , that mode of committing robberies.—Manchester Guare" Friday morning Slack