The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-25 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE FRANCE. ?aris are no sooner ordered than corn re already at work in the plains of Boulogne, and in a few days at least iployed. Louis Philip, accompanied Generals Dode and Vaillant, and the :o the projected works on Sunday last, Court Newsman, expressed himself the plans. Indeed, it is evident that he French government to be prepared threat, as the Couiyier Francais and official papers, give a summary of what to be done, which looks as formidable, Duke d'Aurna Istitnti There are 1000 field-pieces of •••,• - • The army, ••., at the end of October, ),000 men. The cavalry will be effec to the number of 60,000. Manufac- M. `Vale And all other military necessaries, cpeue. sulphur, iron, brass, and cop !d in large quantities, and the founde in full activity. These preparations, w in construction at Paris, and the the fortresses of the Fence has nodom in an .t, come what may , e government papers. after this re tie high toned, contain a great deal that though France is prepared for sire that calamity. She has wade and is willing still to do all that is a importance to do. This is the war but if we turn the reverse, we find a The Temps having stated that the negociation pledged France to es lehemet Ali, in case his propositions to :ed, the Courrier Francais, on behalf of ties the inference, and asserts that the .t full liberty to act as it thinks proper, it s'avisera." The Courrier Francais. denies the allegations contained in the • relative to a misunderstanding between Thiers, and defies the Univers to sub nt. SPAIN I.3.—ispartern's manifesto has created ition here, and the town has been bril -1 consequence. Divers bands of musi the streets, playing the most patriotic irse, were followed by great crowds, and saluted by vehement cheers of " Espar ess to the army and the constitution !" overnment, which wishes to see affairs Tect, has sent off a courier to Valencia, ke some arrangement with her Majesty nt crisis. _ _ fhe town is pe wails. The et be received in a couple of days to suppose that it will be favour- troops forming our garri,on have an 837,591 rials since the 7th of this 6f Fina tly tranquil—that is to say, no disorder siasm of those who are chaunting forth ero is rather noisy, it must be owned. :rest reason to rejoice at having nothing i4.—The last despatches from Valencia, end to the crisis and restore order, have to the situation of the capital ; and the Ministry, although quite in the liberal give satisfaction. The near ministers President of the Council and Minister of General Infante, Minister of War; M. of the Interior; M. Domingo Ximenes, ce ; M. Capaz, Minister of Marine ; and a, Minister of Justice. ministry ALGIERS. also contain a telegraphic despatch from f 10,0001 The CI " Algiers, Sept. 13. attacked the troops of Abd-el-Kader, at tiff. The regular battalion was destroyed —ll5 dead remained on the ground, and a large number of wounded. We had I 4 wounded. The enemy has abandoned ieral Galbois was to arrive on the 7th. Algiers is tranquil." ND COLONIAL MISCELLANY rest has promised to marry her lover, ison is elected President. The way it for " whig principles" isn't slow. THE CONTINENT. — The Paris races MD day. They will he resumed on Thursday. day next. On the last day the grand royal for four year olds" will be run. presented as quietly waiting events, and its making for the arrival of the Eng )n of the erection of some batteries, and :roops. Detachment: of soldiers were irincipally from Chaouchoo, to protect but not in numbers of any consequence. aid to have been produced by the priest iple having produced an egg which he a cock ! Thii was looked upon as a nen, and had produced great consterna- Reted € victinn TIE J froM ME liberat driven from urn in i. s Gaut 'FT.—Living is remarkably cheap at lan who had lately taken up his resi d an excellent house and that he • of land, for which he paid but £2O n of the vineyard alone paid the rent. hotel, including lodging, board, and per day, and that was considered ra- island has not been inundated with Id he the case, the natural consequence and everything else will rise in fourfold 0 Madeira, 80 PurrrcoaTs.—A few days since, a handsomely dressed in half mourning, Alanners and beauty of person, entered Chatham-street, and after flirting with who was in attendance, purchased two nail notions* To discharge this debt, the ,at appeared to be a twenty dollar bill of 7er Company, in exchange for which she dollars of good current city bills. Sbe was bowed out of the store, and the next day ill was discovered to be a two in disguise. sn,. tu. ner, it appeared, had to alter its appearance, so that a very deceived. Of course the store-keeper tune of eighteen dollars, and he has females in half mourning who have We put the fact on .e of a warning to all dry goods men and Yew York Paper. his store since AT DAM ASCUS. — The following is the text of he governor of Damascus, issued by Mehemet Ling the Jews of that city :—" A memorial Hoses Nlontefiore and Cremienx has been laid s, containing their hopes and wishes. They to ns as delegates from the whole of that part of Europe who profess the religion of Moses. to order the liberation of such members of have been arrested, and to ensure tranquility n as have taken flight, in consequence of the We disappearance of Father Thomas and his in, in the month Dzy'l Idge, 1255. We have t it will be worthy of us to accede to the hopes deputies from a people so numerous. In con rrder that all those Jews who have been impri set at liberty ; and as to those who have been ,eir homes, 1 command that they be permitted Tfect safety. Each may resume his trade or 1 apply himself to his usual occupations. We you take such measures that no one of them ne object of any ill treatment from whomsoever. hey shall be in full and entire security from all whatsoever, as before the above-mentioned abject of ki 1 the tickets some time. lgth. M. B ted in the years— .... 27,362,742 lbs 19,446,059 Lde and expected 13,551,795 8,897,421 5,859,716 13 Clarer 14 St. Tt' ). East adon... aos. Val 16 St. Doroth 17 St. Mary Di Port Royal 252,020 1,573.875 '9 9 8,502 586,125 162,750 16,500 39,000 307,500 180,750 318,707 668,716 44,250 189,950 547,091 4,500 s ri IN FRANCF..—WhiIst indulging in the hope, dong expressed, that peace may not be ruptured, duty to lay before our readers two facts, which our knowledge, and which , however unimpor appear, ought not to be passed over with con irst circumstance communicated to us was in etter from Paris . (received a few days ago) in ter (a gentleman connected with the British at city) expressed great fears as to the result of isis, intimating, at the same time, that he had &c, in readiness, in order that his family might land on the briefest notice of a rupture. Now written by an individual attached to the British 1., we think, altogether unworthy of notice. The o this effect—that the English consul, in a cer n the north-western coast of France, reported, ice, that he had recived instructions from his o be ready to leave within ten days or a fort this, coupled with the known circumstance, of time granted to Mehemet Ali to resolve on intends pursuing will shortly expire, would seem e the fears of war entertained by certain parties. itity of sugar will be exported from Calcutta ►as ever been recorded before. It will amount ‘t least ; and in a few days this quantity will the capabilities of the country are boundless. rhe Philadelphia Ledger recommends that a course of lectures on and says that the ladies It . would really be au irate- nt to go about giving lectures upon such a esnecially if the lecturers were allowed to illustrations. MADAME LAFFARGE.—Madame Laffarge's med on the 17th at the assizes of Tulle, the sufficiently recovered to attend the court, into conveyed in a chair. She appeared dreadfully alm and collected. After a short discussion )rtila, the last who examined the body, and M. deposed` in -the first instance there was no 7ho gave way to M. Orfila's experiment, the :ral summed up the case for the prosecution, lie act of accusation against the prisoner. In )1 her fat;gue an adjournment took place in the her counsel, M. Paillet, in the midst of pro imenced her defence. He told the history toted letters from the Margnis of Mornay, e, and sou-in-law of Marshal Soult ; from ; the Countess de Valence, Marshal Gerard ; from Marshal Gerard r letters from persons of distinction, to and uniform good conduct of Madame )od upwards. On the 18th the sitting his speech, w hi c h was M. Paillet continuing The advocate-general would c would reply again for the sum up on the 20th (Sunday), AS expected to be-given. J ANI Al C A.—The following is an ab.. coffee made and expected for the deficit of 3,007,635 lbs. from last 5 09,786 A few properties have, even yet, made no return—but the addition would be so small as scarcely bo augment the aggre. gate.—Royal Gareth,. the Por M. Guizot at stantiate its s' \IADRID, SEPT ,e, of col An a and tht able to rated QUADRUPLE TREATY, (Prom the Morning Herald of Wednesday.) The London Gazette of last night contains the text of the quadruple treaty, which we were enabled exclusively to lay before the public on the 14th instant, just nine days since The only difference between the treaty contained in the Her ald and that now pnblished "by authority," is the insertion of a clause between the 6th and 7th paragraphs of the separ ate act, to the effect that if the proposed arrangement be re fused by the Pasha, the Sultan shall bo at liberty to pro ceed against him as he shall think fit. There is also an additional protocol of a conference held since the first publication of the treaty. - CLAUSE HITHERTO NOT INSERTED IN THE TREATY " SECTION 7 •` If, at the expiration► of the period of twenty days after the communication shall have been made to him (according to the stipulation of section 2) Mehemet Ali shall not accede to the proposed arrangement, and shall not accept the here ditary Pachalic of Egypt, the Sultan shall consider him self at liberty to withdraw that offer, and to follow in conse quence, such ulterior course as his own interests, and the counsels of his allies may suggest to him. " PROTOCOL OF A CONFERENCE HELD AT LONDON THE 17TH SEPTEMBER, 1840 :- " Present—The plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, Austria Prussia, Russia, and Turkey. 1 "The plenipotentiaries of the courts of Great Britain, Aus tria, Prussia, and Russia, after hating exchanged the ratifica tions of the convention concluded on the 15th July last, have resolved, in order to place in its true light the disinterested ness which has guided their courts in the conclusion of that act, to declare formally— " That in the execution of the engagements relating to the contracting powers from the above mentioned convention, those powers will seek no augmentation of territory, no exclu sive influence, no commercial advantage for their subjects, which those of every other nation may not actually obtain. " The plenipotentiaries of the courts above mentioned have resolved to record this declaration in the present protocol. " The plenipotentiary of the Ottoman" Porte, in paying a just tribute to the good faith and disinterested policy of the allied courts, has taken cognizance of the declaration con tained in the present protocol, and has undertaken to trans mit it to his court. (Signed " PALMERSTON " NIEUMANN. " SCHLEINITZ. " BRUNNOW. " CIIEKIB." In addition to the above, in order to complete the series of documents connected with the treaty of the 15th July, we now publish the note from Lord Palmerston to the French ambassador, by which it was accompanied : " The undersigned had the honour on the 17th of July to inform his Excellency M. Guizot that a convention upon the affairs of Turkey had been signed, on the 15th of that ►nonth, by the plenipotentiaries of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, on the one hand, and by the plenipotentiary of the Porte on jthe other. The ratifications of that conven tion having now been exchanged, the undersigned has the honour of transmitting to his Excellency M. Guizot, for the information of the French government, a copy of the con vention and of its annexes. " The undersigned cannot make this communication to his Excellency M. Guizot, without again expressing to him the very sincere regrets of her Majesty's government, that the objections which the French government has felt to tak ing any share in the mg-sures for the execution of which this convention provides have created an obstacle which has prevented France from being a contracting party to this compact. But her Majesty's government feel confident that the cabinet of the Tuileries will see, in the four provisions of this convention, indisputable proofs that the four powers, in undertaking the engagements which it contains, have been animated by a disinterested desire to maintain those princi ples of policy with regard to Turkey which France has, on more than one occasion, distinctly and emphatically declared to be her own, that they do not seek to obta►n, by the arrange ments which they have ►n view, any exclusive advantage for themselves, and that the great object of their aim to uphold the existing balance of power in Europe, and to avert events which would disturb the general peace. (Signed) " PALMERSTON " Foreign-office, Sept. 16, 1840." THE REAL SPIRIT OF POPERY A POPISH PRIEST versus A PROTESTANT CLERGYMAN (From the Edinburgh Evening Post) We have observed in the English newspapers an account of a trial. in which Priest Hearne, of Manchester, prosecuted an eminent clergyman of the same place, the Rev. Hugh Stowell, for an alleged libel. It would appear that, at a Pro testant meeting, to oppose the parliamentary grant to May nooth, Mr. Stowell read a paper, which had been put into his hands, stating that Mr. Hearne had enjoined on one of his penitents, as a preliminary to the sacrament, a penance which consisted in walking on all fours, for several days, a certain number of hours night and morning on the streets of Manchester. The penitent said he was a worker in a factory for twelve hours a-day, and had, notwithstanding, to creep in the manner described for four hours daily. This was de nied by Mr. Hearne, "and, in the face of Mr. Stowell's de fence, a jury at the Liverpool assizes gave forty shillings da- mages. This is a brief outline of a trial which must greatly interest Protestants of every denomination. The parties are both clergymen in Manchester ; and in passing we may remark that Lancashire is the paradise of Papists : while heresy in other quarters has slain its thousands, it has here slain its tens of thousands. This district swarms with the busy per tinacious officials of the papacy. It contains, besides other articles of Romish ware, a Jesuit's college, where the order, no doubt with great care;traiall* their emissaries, the mis sionaries, foTconverting this country to the old religion, an event for which the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Spencer prays very devoutly. To this seminary belongs the adjoining manor, and, we believe, other property ; so that its heads, in addi tion to the spiritual influence they may derive from the arts of their religion and rule, possess the influence which pro perty gives its possessors. For resisting the encroachments of Popery—of that bold, unscrupulous, religions, and political system—the highest wisdom conceived it necessary that, along with the privilege of employing the weapons of that reason and argument which prove Popery to be a delusion and a cheat, there should exist certain wholesome restrictions, which, without invading what is genuine liberty of consci-nce, prevent melt di.t.ctie.a —devotedly attached—to a foreign prince, and arbitrary spi iltuat tyrant, from having any political power in a country essentially Protestant. These restrictions are now removed, but as yet a liberty to wield the powers of argument is left to Protestants. That there are cases in which the vices of many of the Romish priesthood ought to be referred to, no rational person, acquainted with their system, could probably gain say. Some of these grow out of, and are fostered by, their system. In contact with it the latent and inherent bad qua lities of humanity are evolved. and take a determinate shape —a shape often fatal to the morals of the people, and grossly derogatory to the sacredness of the Christian ministry. But generally there is little occasion to refer to the character of the men by whom the apparatus of Popery is worked : it is with the system itself that the war should be maintained, and in the struggle every rule of good faith, honesty, and candour should be punctiliously regarded. Holding these sentiments we yet viewed with astonishment the prosecution of Mr. Stowell, and the verdict of the jury. No doubt a libel may be uttered against the professional doings of a man : a lawyer may be charged with fraud in dealing with his client; a physician with emitting a mon strously unsuitable recipe, or a Romish priest with an out rageous stretch of spiritual authority. Thus, as regards the latter case, it is possible to suppose a priest grossly libelled in being represented by a public journal as dictating a course of penance which would inevitably terminate in the death of the penitent, or to find him calumniated as having recom mended the despairing sinner to give the first born of his body for the sin of his soul. Here the man would be directly charged with heinous crimes, and ought to have a sufficient remedy ; but to prosecute a person for reading a paper in which a minister of the Church of Rome is charged with dictating certslin genuflections, appears to us extraordinary indeed, and in material form, at least, wearing much of the appearance of vindictiveness. Mr. Hearne's resort lay in the next published newspaper. To it he should have sent a denial of the charge, from that paper it would have been copied into others, and his vindication, especially with the additional circumstance of offered or given evidence, would have been complete. What Mr. Hearne was charged with has certainly not the invidiousness of singularity as respects his church. Did Mr. Hearne forget the Stations in Ireland upon whose flinty stones the devotees leave the flesh and blood of their prostrate bodies, or did he argrie that a practice which, ha bitually followed up, renders a man a little saint in the sister island, would have been considered so horrible in Manchester that he required to prosecute the man who unwillingly stated that in one instance he had enjoined it. What has been one great distinction of the Romish Church but penances—what has possessed it of so many of its saints but voluntarily in flicted tortures—what supplied a stock of supererogatary merit to the Pope, which he could apply at pleasure for a consideration, but penances, and those the most revolting ? Penances enter peculiarly into the character of sanctity to which an erring church, in its wild and egregious ignorance, attaches an_ overwhelming importance. In acting upon the sentiments he had characteristically imbibed, the future hero of the Romish Calendar numbered almost every hour, day, and night by acts of mortification. The body in which dwelt a spirit tamed down to abject suppleness by the church, was tormented in every possible way, mutilated, disfigured, wasted by fasts which consumed the physical capabilities, the appetite was disgusted with nauseous food and drink, the flesh was wounded by the scourge, and the wounds so created, were rendered more tormenting by additional instruments of torture, bandages of wires and bristles occasionally girt round the embryo saint, and sometimes a dress of iron was substi tute4i for the ordinary habiliments of the day. St. Dominic was called the cuirassier from the last mentioned conceit ; but in addition to such tournament-like panoply he flogged himself day and night with a scourge in each hand. Ran dolph of Villars, in Brabant, had the ingenuity to devise for himself, and the courage to wear an under waistcoat, not certainly of wool, but of the rather forbidding material of hedge-hog's skins, five of which ministered their comfortable appliances to his back, and six to his front and sides. Such were Romish penances, and the imperfect detail may be completed when we mention pilgrimages. " It seems that with them (the Romish communion)—says Dr. South—a man sometimes cannot be penitent unless he also turn vaga bond and foot it to Jerusalem, or wanders over this or that part of the world to visit the shrine of such and such a pre tended saint, though perhaps in his lifetime ten times more ridiculous than themselves : thus that which wa s C a i n ' s curse is become their religion." With such appendages to his creed, Mr. Hearne did not require to prosecute Mr. Stowell, as if a charge of novel, unauthorised, and un-Ro inish practices endangered his status and emoluments in the church. Much as we respect the trial by jury as a noble adjunct of British jurisprudence, we cannot help thinking that on this occasion the jury were at fault. The damages are not heavy, but the expenses may amount to a pretty round sum ; be sides, the pecuniary award implies that Mr. Stowell is held by the jury as a libeller. The judge on the trial said justly, that no one had a right to come to a public meeting to say anything libellous of an individual, and then justify ,, it by Saying " Some one put the statement into my hand. In this we fully agree. No character would be safe if the num bers to whom a libel were addressed exonerated the libeller from legal responsibility ; but it is certainly somewhat ex traordinary to call it libellous for a man unwittingly to say of a Romish priest, that he had enjoined at Manchester a penance substantially the same as that regarded as merito rious iu Ireland —that he had commanded something which agrees n h reveredowwu iotgrhili sean( we di u p ob ! b r et i tea t ortt o si fi t iorel f t as h ti.hii ; i s sin e a tci a eihi c I t tai s hrnacht, of t a tieh u re s . te acquiredrit v s N t v i n h g i c 1 fame jury at Liverpool were influenced by such a s en ti ment, . yet there exists at pre sent in numerous minds a factitious sympathy for Roman Catholics. One great cause of tliisi theis are scircumstanceidentified. made, ad , a Thisi c u r thatocurious s liberal politics and ROman Catholicism junction is even, when every allowance one. Whether the slave of spiritual despotism can be the hearty advocate of ultra-popular governments is a question which we do not intend to discuss ; but in good truth there is something passing strange in finding the bawlers for not only liberty of conscience, but extreme liberty of pen and speech, assorted in harmonious fellowship with the crouching sub jects of that stern ruthless power whose iron -hearted policy has ever been employed in stifling free inquiry —trampling upon the just rights of conscience, and fettering down iu the dark and narrow cell of intellectual slavery, the finest spirits the world ever produced. JOURNAL OF THE MONEY MARKET MONDAY EVENING.—As a whole, the transactions in the departments of the Stock Exchange have not been extensive, and the markets closed with gloomy appearances. In the English funds, the first movement of the day was upwards, the advices from Paris, and the improved state of the French Rentes, adding to the growing confidence of the speculators for the rise. At one o'clock the quotation of Consols for money was 881 to;, and for the account 881 to i; but the sudden re-action in the foreign market in the latter part of business caused a decline of I per cent., making the last price for money 881 to 1, and for the account 881 to 1. Still this is an advance upon the latest prices of Saturday. Bank Stock has borne the quotation of 1661 to 1671 all day, and Exchequer Bills Gs to Ss premium. TUESDAY EVENISG. — In English stocks the operations to -day were of no great extent, or character. but, under the influence of the downward tendency of the Peninsular secu rities, prices gave way per cent., and the market closed very dull. Consols for money were marked 88k to I, and for the account, 88,1 to Bank Stock has not sustained its previous value, being now quoted 166 to 167. Money is fairly easy, and Exchequer Bills remain 6s. to Bs. prem. WEDNESDAY EVENING.—A further decline in the value of Consols, of about per cent., took place to-day, and the offers of Stock At the lower prices were large. The decline appears to have been the effect of the pause in business on the Paris Bourse, and the apprehensions of the jobbers of the result of the present critical position of continental affairs. Consols for money closed 88, and for the account 88 to A. The adverse turn the exchanges have taken tends also to depress the market. Bank Stock is quoted a shade higher, 1661 to 1674. Exchequer Bills continue 6s. to Bs. premium. The letters from Madrid, setting forth the proceedings of the provisional junta, the continuation of the insurrectionary movement, and the dissatisfaction expressed by the popular party at the conduct of the Queen of Spain, operated unfa vourably on the prices of Spanish Securities, and the market, in the course of the day was overwhelmed with Stock. Spa nish Actives shut at 214 to 24. Portuguese Stock was, of course, influenced to a certain extent, the Five per Cents were last quoted 32 to 4, and the Three per Cents 21 to 4. Other Foreign Stocks are likewise quoted rather lower. Co lombian 224 to 23. Mexican Old 25 to 4 ; Ditto New 26 to 27. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 504 to 4, and the Five per Cents 100 to 4. In the Share Market there was a falling off in business. and most descriptions experienced a depreciation. North Midland are at 16 to 14 dis., New do. 1 to 3 pm., Blackwell 34 to 3 dis., Brighton 11 to 104 dis., Great Western 18 to 20 pin., and South Western 524 to 34 per share. DEATH OF HER ROYAL••HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS AUGUSTA COURT CIRCULAR.—WxDNEsDAI The Princess Augusta expired at 17 minutes past nine o'clock, last night, at Clarence House, St. James's, after a long and very trying illuesS, which her royal highness bore with the utmost patience and meekness. Throughout the pro gress of her painful malady her royal highness exhibited the greatest resignation, fulfilling, in the interval of freedom from suffering, her religious and devotional duties. With the exception of a few hours previous to her decease, the princess retained her consciousness to the last, or at least was easily roused to a state of consciousness, and during this painful trial her royal highness constantly ►maintained that amiability of temper which always characterised her. The last moments of the princess were attended by all the royal family in town—viz., the Queen Dowager, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Sophia, the Duke of Sussex, and the Duke of Cambridge, and also by her royal highness's medical attendants, Sir Henry Halford and Mr. Moore, together with the Rev. J. R. Wood, Chaplain to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. All the royal family had been in anxious attendance on their relative from an early hour yesterday morning, re maining to the last by the bedside of her royal highness. Immediately after the melancholy event, the Duke of Sus sex despatched one of his equerries, Col. S►r A. Macdonald, to Windsor Castle, to convey the melancholy tidings to her Majesty. Information was also forwarded to the Princess Sophia Matilda, at Broadstairs. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and the other members of the royal family took their departure from Clarence House at half-past ten o'clock. THURSDAY The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundee, arrived in town, soon after one o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Windsor Castle. Her royal highness v►s►ted her Majesty the Queen Dowager at Marlborough House. The royal duchess, attended by Lady C. Dundas, left her resi dence. lngestre House, Belgrave-square, at three o'clock, for Kensington, and afterwards left the residence of the Princess Sophia, at Kensington. for Windsor Castle. The Duke of Sussex and the Duke of Cambridge attended at Clarence House, St. James's, yesterday morning. Capt. Seymour groom in waiting on Prince Albert, arrived in town from Windsor Castle, and had an interview with their royal highnesses. The Queen Dowager came to Clarence House in the forenoon. In the afternoon, a meeting of medical gentlemen took place at Clarence House ; there were pre sent Sir Henry Halford, Mr. Keate, and Mr. Moore. Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, equerry in waiting on Prince Albert, arrived in town from Windsor Castle in the afternoon, and had an interview with the Duke of Sussex at Clarence House. . The Lord Chamberlain called frequently at Clarence House, in the course of the day. Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Sussex and Cam bridge took their departures in the afternoon, and went to Gloucester House. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday morning. Hcr Majesty also paid visit, in the afternoon, to the Princess Sophia, at her resi dence at Kensington, attended by the Countess Brownlow and Lady Bedingfeld. Captain Seymour. after his arrival in town from Windsor Castle, yesterday morning, waited upon her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at Marlborough House. Several of the foreign ministers and a numerous list of the nobility and gentry called yesterday at Gloucester House, to make inquiries after the health of the Duchess of Gloucester, and left their names for her royal highness . A deputation, headed by Mr. Grote, M.P., and including Messrs. Kilby, Clegg. and - Clarke, had an interview with Viscount Palmerston on Tuesday, at the Foreign-office. The Right Hon. H. Labouchere left town yesterday, for his residence, Ovesstowry. HER LATE ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS AUGUSTA Supplement to the London Gazette, Tuesday, Sept. 23. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 23, 1840. Yesterday evening, at twenty minutes past nine o'clock, departed this life, at Clarence House, St. James's Palace. after a long and painful illness, her Royal Highness the Prin cess Augusta Sophia, aunt to her Most Gracious Majesty, to the great grief of all the Royal Family. ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO MURDER NEAR BEESTON. (From the Chester Courant.) In ail probability this county will speedily obtain a horrid notoriety for the commission of a crime of the worst descrip tion—we mean that of wilful and premedidated murder, as since our last publication, an attempt, at least, has been made to sacrifice another individual to the lust of plunder. The attempt was made in the immediate vicinity of the place where the murder of lienshall, as recorded in our last, was perpetrated. It has been long known to the police autho rities of the county, that for a district of several miles round, there are numbers of ruffians to be found, who are ever ready to commit a larceny or a murder, as occasion may best suit. The individual whose life was in this instance placed in jeopardy, is Mr, William Bower, manager of some brick works at Wardle, where he resides, and son-in-law to Mr. David Skellet, a master brickmaker, of Beeston. It appears that Mr. Skellet has a contract with Messrs. Jackson and Bean, railway contractors, and is engaged by them to do a certain portion of Work, his brick-kilns at Wardle being managed by his son-in-law, Mr. Bower. The latter indivi dual was in the habit of going once or twice a fortnight to Mr. Skellet to obtain money to pay the brickmaker's wages, and the knowledge of this fact by some parties, it would ap pear, had instigated the murderous attack. On Tuesday evening last, Mr. Bower visited his father-in-law, though not in this instance to receive money to pay wages with, and returned home about half-past seven o'clock at night. On passing through Crimes - lane , a gun was fired at h im from behind a hedge on the road side, the ball of which passed through his hat, about four inches below the crown, and car ried it off a distance of several yards. Mr. Bower thus pro videntially escaped unhurt, and picking up his hat, he imme diately hastened home, in a state of the greatest agitation of mind, and without any knowledge of the parties implicated in the murderous attack. It has been generally reported that a second ball was fired, but this statement turns out to be incorrect. On the following morning, information of the occurrence was sent from Mr. Dumville, solicitor, of Tarporley, to Mr. Hill, superintendent of the poliee in this city, who has since been indefatigable in his exertions to discover the perpetra tors of the atrocious deed, but hitherto without success. Indeed, we are informed that such is the terror exercised over the minds of the farmers and cottagers in the neigh bourhood generally, by the lawless ruffians who infest that part of the countfy, that information in such matters is ex tremely difficult to be procured. It is stated, however, that two men, who are not supposed to be known, were overheard conversing near the spot, by a cottager living in the neigh bourhood, about the propriety of getting into the field, or re maining by the road side. While Mr. Hill was engaged in searching some houses in the neighbourhood, he discovered in those three men, named Thomas Guest, William Huxley, and - Dean, some property belonging to the Chester and Crewe Railway Company, and they were, on Saturday last, committed for trial for stealing it. In the house were also found guns, which belonged to themselves. The investiga tion will be pursued with the greatest activly, and we sin cerely hope that the perpetrators of the attempt on Mr. Bower's life may yet be brought to justice. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, SEPT. 23 . _ Orders for the court's going into mourning, on Sunday next, the 27th instant, for her late Royal Highness the Prin cess Augusta Sophia, aunt to her Majesty, viz.— The ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white gloves, necklaces and ear-rings, black or white shoes, fans and tippets. The gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed or plain linen, black swords and buckles. The court to change the mourning on Sunday, the 11th day of October next, viz.— The ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribands, fans, and tippets, or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuffs, with black ribands. The gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waistcoats, full trimmed, coloured swords and buckles. And on Sunday, the 18th day of October next, the court to go out of mourning. Horse Guards, September 23 It is not required that the officers of the army shall wear any other mourning, on the present melancholy occasion of the death of her late Royal Highness the Princess Augusta Sophia, than a black crape round the left arm, with their uni forms.—By command of the Right Hon. General Lord Hill, commanding in chief, J. MACDONALD, Adjutant-General. Admiralty, September 23 Her Majesty does not require that the officers of the fleet or marines should wear any other mourning, on the present melancholy occasion of the death of her late Royal Highness the Princess Augusta Sophia, than a black crape round the left arm, with their uniforms. J. MOORE O'FERRALL Her royal highness was in her 72d year, having been born on the Bth November, 1768. She was the sixth child and second daughter of George 111. and Queen Charlotte. The event of the Princess Augusta's birth gave the corporation of the city of London an opportunity of approach ing his majesty George 111, which they did with a better grace than on some preceding occasions, steering clear of political animadversions, and confining themselves to the gratula tions on the happy event, mingled with becoming loyalty—a circumstance which afforded the king great satisfaction, as was marked by the manner in which he received and answer ed their addresses at the levee. The sweet temper and amiable disposition of her royal high ness, bothin childhood and after life, made her at all times a favorite with the various branches of the royal family ; and during the unhappy differences which existed between George IV and Queen Caroline, when the princess royal was mar ried to the King of Wirtemberg, the Princess Augusta was called upon to preside with his majesty at the levees and drawing-rooms. Within a few weeks of her death she presented all her do mestics who were much attached to her royal highness, with a copy of her portrait, as the last acknowledgment which she should make of their atteutione- - , Connected with the event of her royal highness's birth, amidst the usual reception of the public to royal cake and candle on Sunday, the 13th November, a curious incident oc curred at the palace. Two young ladies, having drunk plen tifully of caudle, were detected in carrying off a large quan tity of cake and some of the cups in which the caudle had been served. They were allowed, however, to escape with a severe reprimand, after begging pardon on their knees for so disgraceful an act. It is generally understood that her royal highness made a will previously to her illness coming to the worst. The bulk of her property the princess has left to the children of the King of Hanover and the Duke of Cambridge; and the re mainder has been divided as legacies among her attendants and domestics, not one of whom, it is said, has been omitted. Her royal highness also, a few days before her decease, sent tokens of remembrance to all the branches of the royal family. STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The demand for yarn was about the same as for several weeks past ; and as a conside rable proportion of 'the spinners are now under contracts for the remainder of the shipping season, it is not probable that any material change will take place for the present. The goods market was upon the whole flat, and rather lower prices were accepted in some cases, both for light and strong fa brics. _ _ _ ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—The flannel market has been very lively to-day, and goods of every description have me t w ith a ready sale ; but there is little or no change of the prices. In the wool market there is no alteration, and prices remain firm. H u DE asrimu , TUESDAY. — There is little change to no tice in this market, unless it be that business is mostly con fined to heavy woollens, of which a large quantity was cleared. in other descriptions of goods there was not much done. The inquiry for wool was considera ble, and p rices were a shade were difficult to p urc h ase ahtiglhaeter quotation t l i o o w n • e s r . sortsß Business especiallyinessin thewarehouses contin ues t o exhibit a fair autumn average. EXPLOSION or GAS.—On Monday last, about seven o'clock p.m. as two men were engaged in repairing the gas pipes of the lower part of the premises of Mr. Macdowall, printer, in Pemberton-row, Gough-square, Fleet-street, Lon don, through the defect of a pipe, both men were blown to a distance of several yards from where they were at work. The men and a female servant were dreadfully scorched about the fade, hands, and arms. INSULTS TO THE ENGLISH IN FRANCE (From Galignani's Messenger.) In inserting the following communication from Brest, it is but right to remind the reader that the practice of prohi biting the entrance of strangers into the great dockyards is as strictly acted upon in England as in - trance, and that at a period of activity like the present the inspection of the works going forward at Woolwich or Portsmouth, by a French officer, without a regular permission, would lead to very unpleasant comments in either of those places. The accident which led to this breach of order is, in the present case, satisfactorily explained, and the respectability of the gallant officer enables him to smile at the suspicions to which he has been subject ; and it would be unreasonable to look for indulgence abroad which is denied not only to foreigners but to Englishmen at home. We must add, however, that the admiral in command appears to have been more brusque than the occasion, as is described below, demanded : " Sir,—An English post-captain, R.N. (Captain Gordon), who has been travelling for his amusement, arrived here a day or two ago, and soon afterwards called upon the vice consul, like all other strangers. He asked for a per missio►► to see the dockyard, which the consul informed him he should have in a few hours, or the following morning. Daring that day Captain Gordon walked about and around the town, and re-entered, as he thought, by one of the principal gates, which took him through a part of the dockyard which apparently was not private. (Any one acquainted with Brest will easily understand this.) The fol lowing morning it was all over the town that an English offi cer had arrived ; that he was a spy, and had already been over the docks without a permission. This report soon reached Captain Gordon, who instantly went to the consul, and with him proceeded to the admiral, and explained to him how it had happened that he had passed through part of the dockyard without being aware of it. His explanation was of no use, for the admiral instantly, and in the most public manner, is sued orders that no Englishman be allowed to visit the ar senal. Thus a most meritorious officer had been stamped by the admiral as a spy. The day before yesterday the Harriet yacht, with Lords Granby and Ranelagh, came into the roads, and were detained a whole day in quarantine, for no other purpose than that of annoying them. They were both refused permission to see the dockyard yesterday. Most sin cerely do I hope that the British government are well aware of the preparations going on here and in all the other dock• yards. In ten days seven or eight large frigates will be ready for sea, in addition to the large number of ships that have already left the port. —Yours, &c, " AN ENGLISHMAN. " Brest, Sept. 15." THE INDIA, STEAM-SHIP, This beautiful specimen of naval architecture took an ex perimental trip on Tuesday, from Blackwell to Sea Reach, for the purpose of trying her machinery, prior to her depar • ture on Saturday (to-morrow) for another hemisphere. The India has been more than once described, and it will be only necessary, therefore, for us to say, that alterations have been effected by throwing a portion of the width of the saloon into the private cabins, and making them drawing-rooms in miniature, rather than mere ante-rooms for the passengers. The deck has been raised nearly two feet, and thus the saloon is the loftiest we remember to have seen, and the cabin, or, as oar East India friends would term it, the caddy, is the most airy apartment in the vessel. The day was unpropitious for such a trip ; it was, in fact, a regular soaker. Popes were entertained that at noon the sun would burst through the clouds which impaired its bril liancy, and that a glorious evening might compensate for the disappointment of the morning : it was not to be ;—rain, un pitying and unrelenting, interfered with the contemplated arrangements, and ultimately no less than 60 or 70 gentle ' men were compelled to amuse themselves as they best might beneath the spacious decks, which, under more favourable auspices, would have been a delightful promenade. The experiments were upon the whole satisfactory. The vessel maintained the average speed which she ought to have kept up had she been laden, and the inspection of the ma chinery afforded the greatest gratification to the gentlemen present, most of whom joined the company at breakfast on Tuesday morning. • On arriving in Sea Reach, various manoeuvres were re sorted to, with a view to test the capabilities of the India, and all of them were attended with a satisfactory result ; to use a nautical phrase " She behaved herself well." A very handsome entertainment was given by Captain Henderson, on the return to town. Several gentlemen ad dressed the company on the importance of steam communi cation with India, and their sentiments were warmly re sponded to by the meeting. The conviviality was kept up until a late hour, when the vessel returned to Blackwell. We have only to add that there were many gentlemen on board who had served as officers in India. Those gentle men spoke in the most indignant terms of the conduct of Lord Cardigan, in applying the term " Indian officer" to any one as a term of contumely, and their observations were cordially responded to by the meeting.—Morning Herald. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE The Ballyshauvon Herald states that two men, named Smith and Carr, have been arrested for the murder of,Samuel The Board of Works is about to expend LIO,OOO in re decorating the entire suite of state apartments at St. James's The fixed income of the Deanery of Durham, under the new law, is £3OOO, and the Dean required to be in residence eight months out of the twelve. INLAND COALS.—We understand that in the course of this week a quantity of coals from Clay Cross, Derbyshire, will be brought to the London market. They are said to be equal to the best Wallsend, and can be bought at a cheaper rate.—llill paper. A gentleman resident in this town received a day or two ago, through the medium of the penny post, a living viper, from the foot of Cadcr Idris, in North Wales ! It arrived safely, and was not at all the worse for its journey.—Here ford Journal. MAN'S LAUGHTER.—A verdict was lately found by a jury in Worcestershire, upon a prisoner who was convicted of hav ing tickled another man till he burst into a tit of hysterical mirth so violent that he died. The verdict was man's laugh ter. This is genuine.—John Bull. The Earl of Eglington has had a magnificent candelabrum presented to him by 300 citizens of Glasgow, as the inscrip tion states, " as a tribute of respect, and in acknowledgment of the courtesy which distinguished him as Lord of the Tour- nament, held at Eglington Castle, in August, 1839." SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. HUGH HAMNIERISLEY THE BANKER.—This gentleman died very suddenly on Saturday evening last. He had been walking in the park and returned to his residence at a quarter past six, when he was immedi ately taken ill, and was dead at seven. DEATH OE LADY CATHERINE MACARTN EY. - Her ladyship, who was widow of the late Sir John Macartney, Bart., died on Thursday. The deceased lady, who was second daughter to the late Right Hon. Walter H. Burgh, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, was in the 70th year of her age. THAMES TUNNEL-ITS NEAR COMPLETION Those who are in the habit of passing up and down the river must have observed, that a little below the tunnel pier a portion of what is called Wapping Wall has lately been cleared of its wharfs and warehouses ; and that an embank ment has been carried out for some thirty feet into the river beyond the point to which the wharfs before extended. This clearing has been effected for the purpose of making room to sink a shaft at the Middlesex end of the Thames Tunnel, which is now rapidly approaching towards completion ; every obstacle and difficulty, by the perseverance and scientific skill of Mr. Brunel, having been at length overcome. All that remain now to be done to open this great under taking to the public, is plain and straight-forward work, pre senting neither difficulty nor danger. But a few details of the process of completing the work may not prove uninterest ing to the public, who have always manifested a lively inte rest in the completion of the arduous task which it is the glory of Mr. Brunel, not only to have undertaken, but to have accomplished. As soon, then, as the river portion of the tunnel had been brought to within thirty feet of the per pendicular of the old frontage of Wapping Wall, or to the line of the new embankment, the works were then stopped for the purpose of commencing the shaft ; it not being deemed prudent to carry the tunnel too near the site of the intended shaft, as cavities might thereby he formed, and a sinking of earth the result. The first step was to get permission from the Navigation Committee to form an embankment, which having been given, piles were driven, and the whole " puddled in" from a depth of three feet below low-water mark to the level of the street in Wapping. This has been nearly completed, and the sink ing of the shaft will commence almost immediately. An iron " curb," 55 feet in diameter, and about four and a half in height, has been prepared t'or this purpose. It consists of a circular apparatus, like a large tank without a bottom, and comprises forty-eight segments of iron, strongly bolted to gether. From the interior sides of this " curb," or circle of iron, at about one-third of its height from the bottom, project strong iron brackets, 'upon which are laid 'some timbers of American elm (remarkable for their strength and durability), extending three feet five inches towards the centre, the timbers being attached by strong iron bolts to the brackets below. These timbers form a platform or founda tion upon which the wall of the shaft will be built ; and the breadth of this platform will be the thickness of the wall. As the building proceeds, this apparatus, termed " the curb," will descend by its own weight (and the weight of the brick-work, which will rest upon it), as the earth is gradually dug from under it, and brought to the surface. This process of simultaneously building and undermining, and the con sequent sinking of the " curb," with its superincumbent mass of brickwork, contiues until the whole depth of shaft required is obtained, and the work is thus accomplished. In shaft sinking the " curb" is sometimes so tightly gripped by the surrounding earth that it is found necessary to load it with many tons weight, in addition to the shaft walls, in order to force it downwards. In the centre of this shaft will be a second or temporary shaft sunk simultaneoesly or a little in advance of the other, by means of a " curb," twenty feet in diameter, for the pur poses of drainage ; and from it the water will be pumped up to the surface by a steam-engine, to be erected at the shaft's mouth, and passing up through a flexible tube, will run off into the river. The shaft above lalluded to is intended for the use of foot passengers, and wi 1 be ascended and descended by an easy spiral staircase. This is expected to be completed and opened to the public by the beginning of March. The car riage entrance to the tunnel will be nearly four times the dimensions of that already described, namely, 200 feet in diameter, and will be made to the north of Wapping, and near the London docks, at the point where now stands a large granary. The carriage -way of the tunnel will aiso be spiral, and not an inclined plane, as was by some supposed. The gradients of this road-way will be about 1 in 25, forming an inclination which will not be found by any means inconveniently steep, indeed less so than many of our London streets. The premises removed to make way for the shaft were formerly in the occupation of Sir William Curtis. Much more ground will ultimately be cleared, to make room for the approaches to the tunnel's mouth, on both sides of the river. An American ship now at Cowes, built of spruce and white oak sixteen years ago, has all her original timbers and planks in the most perfect state of preservation and soundness, ow ing to her having been, while on the stocks, tilled up between the timbers with salt, and whenever she has been opened for examination, filled up again. DovEn, SEPT. 19.—The Duke of Wellington keeps close at Walmer Castle, seldom going far abroad. His grace is in excellent health and spirits, and seems, with his select party, to enjoy the salubrious air of this delightful locality. Lord Albert Conyngliam, in taking leave of the representa tion of Canterbury, solely on the ground of his continuing ill-health, has caused it to be distinctly intimated to the liberal electors that it is his intention, should his health be restored, to solicit their suffrages again.—Government paper. EARLY SNOW.—We hear from Ambleside, that tbe moun tain tops in the neighbourhood of Keswick were covered with snow, which fell on Tuesday night. Our Wray correspon dent states, that Ingleborough was completely covered with snow on Wednesday morning; which, however, melted away before night.—Lancaster Guardian. COUNTY OF SLIGO REGISTRY.—During the past year the conservatives have registered in this county 42 new votes, and 141 of the old registry. The radicals registered only 4 new votes, and 40 of the old registry, thus leaving the con servative party s clear majority of 38 new votes, and of 101 on the registry.—Sligo Journal. THE EGYPTIAN FLEET.—It is confidently reported, that Rear Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, better known in the naval world as Lord Cochrane, has submitted to the Ad miralty a plan for destroying the Egyptian fleet in the har bour of Alexandria. This is the same officer who conceived, and so ably executed, the design for destroying the French i fleet in Basque-roads, in 1808 ; and his name will revive some awkward reminiscences in the minds of our blustering neighbours.---Naval and Military Gazette. SNOWDON.—It is rumoured that the oxide of titanium has been found in some plenty on old Snowdon. If this be so, an important and scarcely procurable chemical agent will shortly be thrown into the market, and the capabilities of the laboratory will be enlarged. We have seen a sample, but have had no opportunity hitherto of testing it, either with reference to its acid or its metalic base. It exhibits the ap pearance of small laminar ruby-coloured crystals, and has a vitreous fracture.— Carnarvon Herald. Captain Reynolds, of the 11th Prince Albert's hussars, whose case is the prevailing topic of conversation in military circles, entered the army as cornet, by purchase, 19th Jan., 1826 ' • lieutenant, without purchase, 25th June, 1829 ; cap tain, 14th April, 1837. The gallant officer is brother to Cap tain John Williams Reynolds, of the same regiment, and both officers served with the regiment when it was on the India establishment, and distinguished itself at the capture of Bhurtpore, &c. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE .-A gentleman named Freydell, a commercial traveller of Tottenham-court-road, London, in crossing the sands to Ulverston on Sunday evening, unfor tunately lost his way ; and, had he not providentially made Chapel Island, must in all human probability have been drowned. Here, on this barren rock, without shelter for himself or horse, he remained during the whole of a stormy night, until the return of daylight and the receding of the tide permitted him to make the shore in safety.—Lancaster Guardian. LARGE CASTING OF BRASS GUNS.—In the early part of the week, the largest furnace in the Royal Arsenal, Wool wich, was charged with upwards of 15 tons of brass ; and at ten o'clock on Thursday night the tire was lighted, and at eleven o'clock yesterday forenoon the metal, having been brought to a proper state of fusion, was run into the moulds constructed for eight 24-pounders, and four 12-pounder howitzers. The day fixed for the casting was not generally known, so that the spectators were not so numerous as on former occasions. THE VACCINATION ACT.—This act will, in all probability, e inoperative, inasmuch as that no powers are given to the ,00r.law guardians to pay the necessary expenses to the me- r dical officers from the poor-rates. Another difficulty has been started. If the payment for vaccination is defrayed out of that fund, that being, no doubt, the intention of the legislature, then the parent of every child so vaccinated will be a pauper, and become disfranchised as a parliamentary or municipal elector. Consequently there will be another job for the law-makers next session, to pass " an act to amend an act."—Yorkshire Gazette. A PRETTY PLAYTILING.—Grown-up people have their toys as well as children : the following is one of them :--At Burton Constable, the seat of Sir Clifford Constable, in Yorkshire, has lately arrived from Paris, a new and most ornamental piece of furniture, viz., a mechanical orange tree, in full size, as you meet them on the continent. The leaves are of bronze, the flowers of Sevre china; the oranges are yellow glass lamps, and there are seven birds, of the finest plumage, which sing, move their wings and bodies, and hop all over the tree from branch to branch. There is a nest with three young ones in it, which open their mouths, and the old ones appear to feed them. The works are in the tub of the orange tree. THE Mooas.—The continued daily arrival of game boxes by the highland coaches, confirms the verbal statements we have received of the continued good success of the sports men. After the first brush is past, the tenants of the well preserved grounds usually restrict themselves to a certain number of birds daily ; and the abundance of the birds this year enables them to do so without the sacrifice of either time or enjoyment. Grouse shooting is likely to be pro tracted to a later period than usual in the north, in conse quence of the lateness of the harvest in the low country preventing partridge shooting being generally followed as hitherto. Covies of the latter are said to he more numerous and plentiful this year, and the birds remarkably strong on the wing.—Perth paper. THE PAPISTS AT BIBLE MEETINGS.—An ingenious plan has recently been adopted by the Roman Catholics for the . . dissemination of the peculiar doctrines of their church. In formation is given to a set of persons in London of the pro posed meetings of the Bible Societies, and two or three wen are sent in order to distribute tracts, which are generally placed in covers similar to those used by the Society for Pro moting Christian Knowledge. In some cases these men in terrupt the proceedings by opposing the resolutions, and moving amendments totally subversive of the objects of the meeting. This plan is most frequently resorted to in country towns and villages, where the people are not so alive to the pernicious doctrines of Popery as they are in the metropolis. Sc PPOSED MURDER IN YORK. — Considerable excitement has prevailed in this city during the last fortnight, owing to the mysterious disappearance of a young man named Robert Hesp, who was a servant to Mr. Judd, of the Black Swan Hotel; and after many inquiries had been made, it was sup posed that he had fallen into the river Foss, near Castle Mills Bridge, in going to Mr. Judd's farm, on the Fulford-road, whilst he was in a state of intoxication. On Saturday last, however, this supposition was proved to have been errone ous ; for the body was then found in the river Ouse, about two miles from the city, in the direction of Huntingdon. The manner in which the unfortunate young man met his death is unknown ; but a suspicion prevails, grounded on some portion of the evidence adduced before the coroner's inquest, that he had been murdered, and then thrown into the river. SUSPENSION OF BUSINESS AT HAMMERSLEY'S BANK. — A report was on Monday in circulation at the west end of the town, that the house known as the bank of Messrs. Hammersleys and Co., 69, Pall Mall, had stopped payment. It appears, however, that, although business has been en tirely suspended, the house has not stopped payment from want of resources, but from the fact of the firm being de funct through the death of Mr. Hugh Hammersley, who was the only surviving partner, and that, in consequence of his decease, there is not at present any person having authority to carry on the concerns of the establishment. The follow ing notice was posted at the door of the banking-house this morning at the usual hour of commencing business :—" In consequence of the death of Mr. Hammersley, the only sur viving partner, business is necessarily suspended for the pre sent.—Globe. THE Hops.—Great quantities of hops are picked, and with few exceptions the weight has not fallen far short of the pre vious computation. Such as are now standing are no doubt going backwards alike in weight and quality. A grower near Canterbury has picked upwards of six tons from sixty four acres, and another grower, who a season or two since gathered nearly twenty tons from his grounds, does not out of the same plantations pick two this year. The price is said to have been overlaid at £26 and £27 per cwt., and has pre vented many of the dealers from venturing to offer terms. Those who suppose they can see a great way into futurity consider the present price of new hops as much lower than the sum they will realize after the duty is published. Odds are given that the duty will not greatly exceed £31,000. — Kentish Gazette. PARYS MINE.—We are happy to find that the late gloomy aspect of these mines is exhibiting strong signs of dispersion. Captain C. B. Dyer has discovered that the application of lime to the copper water precipitates the sulphuric acid in the form of sulphate of lime, thereby increasing the quantity of slime or paint, known by the name of ochre. An appli cation of one ton of lime will cause to precipitate an increase of four tons of ochre. The general annual export of ochre from these mines amounted to about 100 tons. We are happy to find that, through the experiments of Capt. Dyer, upwards of 1,000 tons will be realized this year. It gives us much pleasure to notice, that extensive buildings, with ne cessary apparatus, are about erecting in th ese m ines for ma nufacturing sulphuric acid. All the waste heaps which have lain dormant since the first working of th ese m ines, contain ing an immense quantity of sulphur, will be thoroughly .ex amined and required to give up their treasure. The im provements which are taking place in these mines will be of vital interest i n th e emp l oyment o f t h e poor , an d will accom plish no contracted benefit for its spirited proprietors.— Carnarvon Herald. THE ENgUING CYMREIGYDDION.—We hear that the spe chnens of Welsh woollen sent in for competition at the ap proaching Eisteddfod infinitely excel all former. The Moun tain looms are now busily engaged in making every variety of the national patterns for cloaks, dresses, waistcoats, and pantaloons, as the demand now begins to be brisk in conse quence of the approach of the Eisteddfod, when all are anxious to sport some new article of clothing from the Gwent and Morganwg shuttles. Inquiries for lodging in Abergavenny are commencing, and we hope the inhabitants will study their best interest, and the character of their town (whose name is now so high in the annals of Eisteddfodau) and not be exorbitant in their charges, and thus shut out all persons of moderate income from participating in their Bardic festival. Among those, who, we understand, intend honouring it with their presence, beside his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, and the learned Archdeacon Williams, the Mayor of Liverpool, and Lady Waloasley are expected, whose magnificent hospitality to the Welsh, at the Liverpool Eisteddfod, was of so princely a description. The spirited president, Mr. Rolls, was to inspect the building erecting for this occasion this week, with some other gentlemen, to see that every arrangement is made for comfort and convenience. --Merlin. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL Fifth Night of the FRENCH COMPANY OF PERFORMERS, From the Prince's Theatre, (late St. James's,) London, who are engaged for a limited period, and will appear in a va riety of French Dramas ; the principal characters in which will be sustained by the following Performyeirom the Parisian Theatres : Messrs. ARMAND, Mesdames B - dLIN, TOU trams, p /PILATI, ISIDORE, VICTORINE, EUGENE. DE RUEL, AUGUSTE, CLEMENCE, CHARLES. CLOTILDE. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MADAME PILAW, On which occasion she will sustain the character of Kate O'Brien, in the English Drama of " Perfection." THIS present FRIDAY, September 25, 1840, the Enter tainments will commence with the Operetta of N 0. _ _ After which, will be repeated, (in consequence of its enthu siastic reception, by a fashionable audience, on Tuesday Evening,) MAURICE; OU, LE MEDECIN DE CAMPAGNE. The characters by the French Company. To which will be added, the petit Comedy of PERFECTION. Kate O'Brien Madame Pilati, In which she will sing a Tyrolese Song, composed by Stock hausen, and " Kate Kearney." To conclude with ROBERT MACAIRE; OU, L'AUDERGE DES ADRETS. Melo-Drain Comique. By the French Company. - ---- - On MONDAY next, Sept. 28, the Musical Play of THE SLAVE.—After which, UN MARI CHARMONT. By the French Company.—To conclude with (by particular de sire) the Vaudeville, in one act, which was received with shouts of laughter and applause on Wednesday Evening, called PASSE MINUIT. Scene Nocturne Parisienne. By the French Company. THE LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION... , " HE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION ofthe T LIVERPOOL ACADEMY of WORKS of MODERN ARTISTS IS NOW OPEN for the Season, frfn Nine until Dusk. Admission, ls. Catalogue, ls. Season Ticket, ss. SAMUEL EGLINGTON, Secretary to the Academy. Exhibition Rooms, Postoffice-place, September 14, 1840. - EXHIBITION. THE LAST WEEK BUT ONE. CAPTAIN SIBORN' S MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. THE celebrated MODEL OF THE BATT LE OF WATERLOO is NOW OPEN for EXHIBITION at the GALLERY OF THE UNION ROOMS, Slater street, Bold-street. Open from Ten in the Morning till Ten at Night. Ad mission, One Shilling each. MOVING PANORAMA. LAIDEAW'S well known and universally admired moving PANORAMA of a Sail up the Bay and a Visit round the City of NEW YORK, is every day and evening exhibited in the large new Building erected on purpose, Newington Bridge, near Bold-street. and next to the Clarendon Hotel. The interior of the Building is tastefully decorated. Day Exhibition, punctually at One o'clock ; in the Evening at Seven, and again at Half past Eight o'clock. Admission—Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit Is. Children, Half price. Gallery, 6d. each person. The views of the Huddersfield, rescuinz 116 persons from the Huskisson, as also of the late Fire of York Minster. and the Rock and Bay of Gibraltar are exhibited along with the Panorama of New York. FINE ARTS NOt\hVe magnificent EXlilT PAINTING 0 L j 2 z B a o n I d . n E 1 7 71 ;T y , GILLARD,) which has commanded the admiration of thou sands, amongst whom may be named the first Judges of Pictures in England. Doors open from Ten in the Morning till Nine at Night. At the request of several Families of distinction the Room will be Lighted with Gas during the whole of TO-MORROW, (Saturday,) the 2Gth instant, and every succeeding TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY. ADMISSION—SIXPENCE. ON SALE. Size of the Picture, 11 feet by 8. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. / THE Subscribers and the Public are most' respectfully .1 informed, that the FRIDAY'S REPRESENTATION OF THE BOMBARDMENT OF ALGIERS IS DIS CONTINUED for this Season. The Fotir last Exhibitions of this Splendid BOMBARDM ENT commenced on Monday. the 14th, and will be repeated on MONDAY next, the 21st instant ; to be continued the following Monday. Admittance. One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We shall probably be able to answer the queries of " A Con stant Reader" in our next. The note of "J. P." is libellous. We do not question its truth. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25. 1840 We have received a file of the Guiana Times to the oth of August, inclusive. The Georgetown had just rrived out with a very important piece of intelligence. The Governor of Sierra Leone had received instruc tions to facilitate the deportation of labourers from that colony to Jamaica, British Guiana, and Trinidad. The Times states that this information is well authentica ted. We sincerely hope that such is the case. If the news should prove to be well founded we shall have every reason to congratulate the planters of British Guiana upon the success of their agitation for free substitute, makes room for a fresh slave on a foreign soil." In other days, the present critical position of such an important portion of the British dominions as the West Indies would have rendered necessary the im mediate assembling of Parliament, in order to apply remedy to the evils of which we have so long com plained. The present ministry, however, appear to be utterly regardless of the commercial interests of the country; and it is in vain that the ruined planters look to them for assistance. They will never interfere until driven to do so by the irresistible demands of the people. Let the people of England, therefore. demand " justice to the West Indies." This is the only waY to procure a supply of cheap sugar. This is the only way to annihilate slavery. The note of preparation for the approaching muni cipal elections has already been sounded on both sides. Meetings have already been held in several wards, and others are announced to take place in the course of the present and ensuing weeks. This is as it should be. It is highly necessary that the candidates should be fixed upon, and that they should have an opportunity of stating in public their political sentiments. It is equally necessary that arrangements should be entered into, as speedily as possible, for carrying on an active canvass among the electors. We rejoice to find that our advice has not been thrown away upon the conser vatives of Liverpool, and that they seem determined to fight in earnest for the ascendancy in our municipal council. The time has arrived when the people of Li verpool seem resolved to get rid of the Radical incubus that has so long oppressed the " good old town." As very little time now remains for the work of pre paration for the approaching contest, we sincerely trust that our conservative friends will turn every moment to the best account. The corporate functionaries—the paid canvassers of the Market and other Committees-- are busily at work, straining every nerve to serve their masters, and using all those arts of cajolery and inti midation which long practice has rendered so familiar to them, in order to secure as many votes as possible. The greatest vigilance and activity are, therefore, in dispens.able. The enemy must not be suffered to steal a march upon us. We must not slumber at our posts. Above all, let there be no more bungling on the part of the Conservative ward committees. We have alreadY lost too much by " mistakes." The atrabilious editor of the Liverpool Albion ill very severe in some of his strictures on the proceed- , - rigs of the recent great meeting of the Diocesan Board {Education. It - was not to be expected that such $ lecided and uncompromising enemy of the Established . _ church, as the editor of the Albion, should pass by hese proceedings without giving vent to his feelings• While the Albion affects, in a tone of mawkish fibers- ity, to give credit to the members of the Diocesan Society, for honesty of purpose and purity of motive► he takes good care to neutralise the effect of such an extraordinary concession, by imputing to the most zealous and active amongst the friends of the society motives of a different and totally opposite character. While he expresses his conviction that the majority of those who attended at the Amphitheatre had the real good of society and the advancement of religion At heart, he sneeringly insinuates that "it is not impos- Bible that the whole proceeding, and even the societY itself, may produce results exactly the reverse." Then follows the cunningly devised and most jesuitical ob' jection that the Diocesan Society has made " religion the antagonist of knowledge." This charge is plainly implied in the remarks of the Albion, though it is no t expressed. A more glaringly false insinuation Was never indulged in. The editor of the Albion knovis full well that the Diocesan Society does not oppose re' ligion to knowledge. It only wishes to render know ledge subservient to religion. It seeks to persuade the public that religion is the highest species of knowledge to which the human understanding can aspire serts that, unless religion be made the foundation 013 which all human wisdom is to rest, knowledge is no longer a blessing, but rather a curse, to the great fa' mily of mankind. The Albion asserts that " science is only another term for truth." We must demur to this propositioa . What is considered demonstrably true, on strictly sC' entitle principles, in one age, proves frequently, iP -41 " - next age, to be utterly false. Look at the innumerable changes and vicissitudes to which what is called ence" :has been subjected, from one generation t ° another, and then inform us, good Albion, how it come s to pass that what you call " truth" so frequently ton' tradicts itself. We have always regarded the Albion as, in some degree at least, the organ of the dissenters—we mea n the orthodox dissenters—of Liverpool. We believe its editor either is, or was, in the habit of frequenting an Independent Chapel in town. We now find that we have been labouring under a very erroneous ita" pression. From an expression in the Albion of Mon' day we are irresistibly led to the conclusion that the . editor is a disciple of that school of pigmy geologi cal philosophers, who profess their disbelief in the Pate' tench. Unless the Albion belongs to this semi-infide l sect, how can we account for the strange declaratio n that " the better informed among divines have learned that Moses and geology are not quite so irreconcileabl e as was, at first, by themselves asserted." We poi' tively deny that ally well-informed divine has learned any such thing. The so-culled science of geology is utterly at variance with scripture—we mean, of course , in its chronological speculations. \Ve do not deny tha t Moses has furnished us with a history which fully ac counts for all the facts which the geologists have been endeavouring to generalise into a scientific system ; but we deny most emphatically that any consistent di' vine of the Church of England has ever allowed that the " system" of modern geology is reconcileable svitb the chronology of Moses. We are aware that the Albion can quote against us the names of several cler gymen who have avowed their belief in the ante-diltr vian dreams of the geologists ; but we deny that sue t clergymen have any pretensions whatever to the cha racter of well-informed " divines." They know just as inuch about theology as the editor of the Albion does about the objects of the Diocesan Society. The Albion then accuses the Diocesan Society 01 entertaining " a dislike to knowledge not in the Church." The society acts upon no such feeling. I t professes an anxious desire that religious instruction should proceed pari passu with secular education ; but what man is there who is so insane as to imagine that this profession implies anything like an abstract hatred of knowledge " not in the Church ?" Does the Aibio o believe that the members of the Diocesan Society have any dislike to the admirable parochial school system 0 1 the Church of Scotland ? Is he prepared to maintail) that the clergymen whoassembled at the Amphitheatre have any hatred towards the knowledge communicated in the various Dissenting Sunday Schools throughout the kingdom—the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures ? We feel convinced that the editor of the Albion must be constrained to answer in the negative : and yet the knowledge thus communicated is not in the church. The Albion ridicules the idea of " godless know ledge," as "an absolute nonentity, a thing devoid 0 1 existence, (the tautology is not ours,) and one of those airy nothings which inhabit unhealthy brains." Ac cording to the sage of the Albion " godless know ledge" is "an unknown monster, a palpable contra diction in terr - I." The only reason, if reason it can be called, wh.,'.l the Albion adduces in support of these assertions, is, that " knowledge is another name for God himself"' While we admit that the " knowledge which maketh wise unto salvation" may, in a modified sense, justify the expression which we have quoted from our contemporary, we cannot acknowledge the truth of the remark as applied to knowledge in general- Indeed, it appears to us to fall little short of absolute blasphemy. The devil possesses knowledge, but are' we to worship that knowledge as the Deity ? The in fidel philosopher, who denies the very existence of God, may boast of his extensive acquaintance with the arts and sciences ; but are we to identify his knowledge with the sacred name of the Deity ? The thing is manifestly absurd. The Albion surely cannot mean to assert that the knowledge of the mechanism of a steam engine or a watch is but " another name for God." We cannot pass by one remark riade by the Albion without expressing our astonishment at the consunr mate ignorance of the writer of the article on which we arc commenting. We allude to the extraordinary de claration that " Protestantism," in the opinion - of the editor of the Albion, "had so much confidence in reli. ,hour immigration. The permission to remove fro the' neighbourhood of Sierra Leone to the West Indies will prove a boon of inestimable to the African ne groes, whose condition will be greatly improved by the change It is with infinite satisfaction that we refer to a powerful leading article which appeared in the columns of the Times of Wednesday last, and which we have transferred to our own columns, on the present state and future prospects of our West India Colonies. The Times remarks with great force that the present state of the West India Colonies " is a subject which engages the attention of every British statesman and philanthropist." The truth of this remark it would be folly to attempt to deny ; and yet how little notice, comparatively speaking, has been bestowed upon this important subject by the public press of the country. If all the factories of Lancashire and Yorkshire were unemployed, and tumbling into ruin, we should find the whole of the press busily employed in tracing out the causes of such a ruinous depression of trade, and in suggesting such remedies as might meet the emergency of the case. But the West Indies, which are of far greater value to this country than the fac tories in Yorkshire and Lancashire, are fast hastening to poverty and ruin, and that in consequence of mea sures adopted by this country; and yet we hardly find a word upon the subject in the columns of nine-tenths of the newspapers of Great Britain and Ireland. One might have imagined that the present high prices of the principal articles of colonial produce would have elicited a few occasional remarks on a topic of such general interest. But we find that even self-interest is not powerful enough to cause this topic to be agitated. We hope, however, that the powerful advocacy of the Times will induce the conservative journals in general to take up the question without delay. It is seldom that the Times takes up any subject in earnest without giving the tone to the expression of public opinion. We trust that the notice which that influential journal has bestowed on West India affairs will not prove an exception to the general rule. The first point to which the Times adverts is, the diminished production and high prices of West India sugar. The statistical details which it furnishes on this subject have already appeared more than once in the columns of the STANDARD. They remain un contradicted up to the present hour, and give the lie direct to the glowing exparte statements of the Anti- Slavery agitators. It is of no avail to quote, in oppo sition to these official returns, the high prices recently given in British Guiana for several large estates. Those high prices have been notoriously given in anticipation of increased facilities for the immigration of free labourers into the colony. Remove the present restrictions on the importation of the Hill Coolies and of African labourers, and the prices of properties in the West Indies will soon be doubled. If we contrast the produce of the West Indies with that of Mauritius, in the article of sugar, we shall find that the latter Colony has already experienced the benefits arising from an adequate supply of labour. If the West Indies had beei placed upon the same foot ing this country would riot now have been under the necessity of paying such a high price for sugar. The remarks of the Times on the present actual con dition and future prospects of the West India Colo nies are characterised by sound sense and great moderation ; while its censure of the government for its quiescence and inactivity in reference to the subject will, we feel assured, be echoed by every unprejudiced person in the United Kingdom. We particularly wish to direct the attention of our readers to the very pertinent observations of the Times on theinfluence which the present state of the West India Colonies must have in confirming slavery, and increasing the slave trade in other countries. We can never properly estimate the importance of the West In dia question without viewing it in connection with the existence of slave labour in foreign countries. We must either encourage slavery and the slave trade, or we must encourage free labour in our own colonies. We ' should ever remember that " Every .hand abstracted from sugar cultivation in our own colonies without a