The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-17 00:00:00

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SMUGGLING IN, THE UNITED . TIIE REGISTRY OF DESIGNS. 1
STATE g. —...--.
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Seizetres
, --e------- This is one of tls, 'eery
Goveenmeht accomplished in the late Ses§ioil it is the
andbavl.b.eth 1.1'.'",1e at Boston, New York, Phil-taw food thmg, vrtileb the
stablishment of an office; by Act et Parliarhent (2d tic.
del his. ileitimore of Yorkshire goods,to the amount
e. 17), which enables
,the inYentrir & proprietor of any
of 3'!1e,6001., which had been imported without paying
the amount of dot imposed by the Tari
manassed. to some in-
The fraud new design Caeily all d Cheek:to ettain the eichisive copy-
y
seems to have been i ff.
tight of it for a short period. Upon payment of three gui-
stances fine broad cloth ngey
was wrapped inside of flannel ;
(-teas any design is registered ; and by the Act of regis-
in others cloth was invoiced at half rice in others the
:ration its proprietor has the "sole right" to it, whether
p,
lengths were marked 'only two-thirds of what they it be for a "pattern or print, to be worked into or
,corked on, or printed on or painted on, any article of
really were, and in others, fine woollens were packed in
the middle of worsteds which pass duty free. In these manefacture, being a tissue or textile fabric—except lace
and linens, cottons, &c., which are protected by various
various ways, from one-half to nine-tenths of the duty
was evaded.other Acts ;" or " for the modelling, or casting, or the
The correspondent tsf the Morning Chronicle says embossment, or the chasing, or the engraving, or for any
other kind of impression or ornament, on any acrid. of
that " such *liquifies are destructive of the high cha-
r
meter 'Ol English merchants end manufacturers, ruinous
manufacture, not being a tissue or textile fabric ; or fo
both to the fair exporter in England and the fair im-
the shape or configuration of any article of manufacture.
"
Models, castings, embossments, chasings, and engravings
porter in the States, besides d.esteoyng every chance of
competition for Aineriteen wool-growers and manufactu-
of metal, are protected for three years :other designs
rers, and cheat* the American revenue."
twelve months. No person, without license of the pro-
All hall to the giant smuggler ! He is the Great
orietor, is able to use, print, work, or copy such regie-
tered designs, or any original part thereof ; or to publish
Rogue who corrects the Great Fool, The people of
or sell, or adopt it wholly or partially, by making addi-
England choose to eat dear bread rather than cheap,
Lion to or subtraction from it ; under a penalty of not
and the people of the Ignited States, by way of being a
less than five and not exceeding thirty pounds for every
match for them, Choose to wear dear broad cloth rather
than ch apt They say to us :—" As you will not take offence i which penalty is recoverable by summary pro-
re•
our corn without exacting heavy duties upon its int-
ceeding before justices of the peace.
portation, we shall not take your Yerksldte cloths with-
The monstrous trouble and extravagant cost of ob-
out exacting heavy duties" %letting all the time that raining a patent created a strong necessity for an office
o
it ie they who pay tilt duties, not we, and that it is :a of this kind, which will obviously have a most benefici it
sily sort of revenge to pinch their own backs because influence on the arts. Deservedly and solely will it
we are idiots enough to pinch our bell;ess perplex the Brummagem pirates, who chiefly thrived
They have, however, one great seleantage over U. upon wholesale plagarisms and robberies of other men's
brains. Before the passing of this Act many a rash
The smuggler comes arse! helps them in spite of them-
selves ; !or our get& are more easily portable than their inventor spent thousands of pounds to accomplish that
which his next-door neighbour lay in wait to pirate and
ere, ispi!e even were there nn frauds at their Custom-
reap the fruits of. Although this measure has been in
lienFes, it would be imeossiiile. with a frothier extend-
iee from the shores of Nova Seotta to Lake Superior, operation since the Ist of July, scarcely a single act of
registration has been effected. The public know nothing
er xeep those goods tint. timagh an army of fifl thou
about it, for the Whig officials seem ashamed of the
send men were constantly employed for the purpose.
meritorious deed, which they have kept a profound
They tneetnaliimously resolve to pay forty per cent.
secret. Not a single notice of it, except a solitary and
snore then they need to do for their coats, waistcoats,
unmeaning advertisement, have we seen in any of the
and trousers ; but the smuggler, ever on the alert to
avail himself of the advantages offered by foolish legis-
public papers, though every manufacturing town in the
lation, sees that by a saving to them of twenty per cent, kingdom would rejoice to learn the existence of such an
sad a gain to himself of filesame amount, he can drive office. We, shall keep a watch on its proceedings.—
e thriving trade, and he sets to work accerdingly. Spectator.
The Government of the United States, no doubt,will
punish severely the parties" concerned in the fraud ; but
they reckon without their host if they euppose that they
can thus prevent the introduction of Eaelisli goods
without the exorbitant defies inipoeed by the Tariff.
All the effect produced iiy the prevention of frauds at
the Custom-house will be to give additional encourage-
ment to the " free trailer" on the Canadian borders, and
Congress will at last discover that the amount of duty
imposed ought never to exceed the profit which the
smuggler can obtain, on an average, by a breach of the
law.

The Americans, we have said, have a great advan-
tage over us in the lightness of the commodities with
Nhich we can supply them. They have, in the porta-
bility of bales of cloth, and their own wide frontier, the
nest corrective of their own bad legislation. What
,ve want from them is too heavy to be smuggled. The
" free trader" laughs at heavy duties on silk, for his
isk in introducing so light and portable an article is
only ten or twelve and a half per cent. ; but a hundred
per cent. would not cover the risk of smuggling wheat ;
and thus, in the most important article of human wants
our legislature cannot be in-sensed by the great c orrec-
or of other blunders in commercial policy.-IVlanchester

FASHIONABLE AN•D LITERARY

GOSSIP.

The New York Corsair contains another paper from
the pen of N. P. Willis, entitled " Jattings down in
London." Mr. Willis is at the Open, where Taglioni was
performing, and thus gossips about things operatic, things
fashionable, and things literary :—'• Well, I looked at this
marvel of delight, from the same box with a very different
marvel, Lord Brougham ! He came to pay his respects
to the lady who had honoured me with one of her ivory
tickets, and sat out the Cachuca with the delight of less
learned people. He was dressed very young, with a
black stock and no collar, and rattled away at the ope-
.atic gossip very brilliantly and gaily, evidently quite
forgetting both wig and woolsack. From the chat of
himself and others in the box, I learned that Taglioni
was living apart from her husband, who had gambled
away three or four fortunes for her ; that Monsieur
Devoisin (I forget bis name, but it sounds like
that.) was a vaurien altogether ; and that the din-
seuse was, in private life, irreproachable and ad-
mirable. When she was called upon to receive the
ilttnage of titled anti fashionable London at the fall
of the curtain, I could see, in one glance, four persons
plying their gloved hands more industriously, whose
united applause, one would think, might have passed
for a very pretty compliment by itself : Lady Blessing-
ton and D'Orsay in a box opposite, Bulwer just over her
Ladyship's head, and Lord Brougham beside me:
Bulwer and D'Orsay, by the way, seemed to have
formed an alliance to introduce the white cravat, as they
were the only men at the Opera who wore them. They
are no longer domiciled together, the Count having
given up his separate establishment, and now living alto-
tether at Gore House, Lady Blessingson's residence.
D'Orsay's beauty is in high preservation, but he has re-
formed his life altogether, drinks milk, and goes to bed
at ten o'clock (not a.m.) I met him driving, yesterday, I
a very splendid turn-out of a curricle and pair, an in-
crease
of style corresponding to Lady B.'s additional
splendour of equipage. There is a dash of melancholy
grown over D'Orsay's face since I saw him which is
not unbecoming. I would not give much ter what
remains for him to discover in the fields of pleasure,
yet, if ever man was capable of its keenest. zest, it
was le beau D'Orsay' at twenty. Lady Bulwer
and Sir Edward are, as you may know, regularly
separated. She is living at Bath. I can find few who
have ever read her book in the class for which she pro-
bably wrote, and people rather wondered at any curiosity
about it. It has, they say, however, had a great sale
among the tradespeople. Bulwer looks thinner and
more worn than ever, but dresses with much more care
and display than he used to do ; indeed, the rule seems
to be universal, that the frame must be embellished as
the picture decays. Lady C. Bury has, as they say in
London, got herself into a precious mess' with her
Life and Times of George the Fourth.' One or two
of her friends, I was told, made an effort to receive her
after its publication, but it was found that her company
was malsain, and she is now cut altogether. I was ex-
pressing a regret, at a dinner party, that she should
have been so unwise, when a lady of some celebrity pre-
sent objected to the phrase. Why unwise?' she said :
Lady Charlotte was starving in the midst of these 500
friends, who would not have lent her a guinea to save
her life. She had the opportunity of choosing between
these friends and a thousand pounds. Who would
hesitate ?' You see there is a practical way of looking
at things even in high life."

AMERICA.—EIiza Emery warws ail the giris
south and west—hosiirs, bucket':, and all—to Lok out for
her gay, decviving, runaway husband, Davi,l. She says
that he has er,telly left her, and told the folks when he
started, that he was going south atid west to marry a ho-
sier. Eliza thinks he may easily be known, and to prove
=a' s, " David has a scar on his nose where l seraiched it."
—New York Era.

THE DUCHESS OF LANCASTER NEW IRON
STEAM PACKET.—Tiv., Lancaster and Liverpool Steam
Navigation Compauy's ece iron steamer, the Duelifts of
Lancaster, arrived in the Lune on Thursday. This See
new vessel is intended to ply with goods and passenger:,
between the ports of Lancaster and Liverpool, with greater
despatch and punctu tlity than has yet been done. She is
built by Mr. John Laird, of Birkenhead, the maker of
thirty other iron steam vessels. The engines of th.. 7,
Duchess of Lancaster are made by Messrs. G. Forrester
and Co., Liveri,ool, the makers of the Liverpool, trans-
atlantic steam- boat. They are two of 45 horse power
each ; her paddles make :32 strokes yer minute. As soon '
as the Duchess of Lancaster hove to, oposite the Com-
pany's office, great numbers of our townspeople availed
themselves of the opportunity to go on board and inspect
her. There appeared to be but one opinion as to the use-
fulness of the vessel in furthering the mcle and commerce
of the town and port.—Lancaster Guardian.
'CARLISLE AND MARYPORT RAILWAY.—
The Directors of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway held
a meeting at Aspatria, on Saturday week, at which it was
decided that four miles at the west terminus should be
opened during the next month, and that in about a month
afterwards four additional miles shuold likewise be upeo.cd.
At this meeting the site for theMitr)port station was also
determined upon. The place selected is contiguous to
the junction of Ratrick's projected line with that of the
Maryport Company.—Carlisle Patriot.
SURREY ZOOLOGICAL.-011 Friday the large
boa constrictor at the Surrey Zoological Girdena cast his
skin for the first time since his arrival in this country. It
measured 22 feet in length, and 27 inches in eircumfereece,
and was thrown off almost entire in one piece. He fed
immediately afterwards, and swallowed four mints, and a
small pig for his meal I He had not previously eaten any
thing for five months.
The Revenge has been less successful than the
Powerful in enlisting men at . Cork, and we perceive that
the Irish papers have taken up the lament of the want of
seamen, and are ringing the changes on all the calami-
ties to be apprehended on that score. The scarcity of
seamen proceeds from three causes ;—first, that whilst
several line-of-battle ships have been commissioned this,
year, none have been paid off; secondly, the progressive
and vast increase of our trading ships, causing a mere
than ordinary demand, and by raising the wages, inducing
the generality to prefer the merchant service to the Reyal
Navy; and thirdly, the numbers that desert from our
shipping in the ports of British North
.America, and find
their way into the United States, where they meet with
ready employment, for the Americans appear to depend
entirely upon British seamen for the majority of their
crews.—Naval and Military Gazette. _ .

LIVERPOOL AUTUMN MEETING.—MoSt of
our reiders will be aware, that the Earl of Wilton, '.:axing
determined upon a voyage to the Mediterranean,
time since announced that the races which have hecil
hitherto run at Heaton Park would be transferred to Li-
verpool. His Lordship, in making known this change,
promised a continuance of his support and influence in
endeavouring to make the races at Aintree as attractive as
when run over his own grounds. Accordingly he prevailed
upon the Earl of Chesterfield to become one of the stew-
ards, and itds sporting Lord has the Earl of Sefton for his
coadjuii,.. The high estimation in nhich the Earl of
Chesterfield i. in all the sporting circles, the indefa-
tigable ardour ,pith which he enters into all business con-
nected with the turf, and the zealous co-operation to be
expected from the other Noble'steward, who has always
been a zealous supporter of the Aintree course, give assu-
rance of a most attractive meeting. The races will com-
mence next Wednesday week, the 25th instant. Tee
entry list contains the names of nearly all the most distin-
guished horses of the day, and several three years' old will,
doubtless, he present whose running in the St. Leger will
most likely give increased. interest to their performances
here. Hosts of distinguished visitors have been invited to
Croxteth and Knowsley, at the former of which a race ball
will be given on Friday. A ball will also be given at the
Wellington rooms, on the Wednesday, under the patronage
of the stewards of the races. On the Tuesday evening
preceding the races, a meeting will be held at Mr. Lyrin's,
Waterloo Hotel, for the purpose of naming the steward,
and arranging the stakes for the year NO.—Liverpool
Albion.

EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—On Friday
week ac a person was walking in the beautiful grounds of
Henry Cowper, Eeq., of Twain Water, he chanced to look
alto one of the highly ornamented vase-, ( which stand in
front of the drawing room window, for the purpose of con-
tainingT fliaers), when to his great astonishment he per-
ceived inside of it the nest of a small bird, with three eggs
in it, which seemed quite fresh, though so very late in the
‘ear. It is, indeed, one of the most singular instances of
he kind which has been remembered in rh:it part of the
county for some years, as the aperture which admitted the
bird is not more than three-quarters of an inch in breadth.
—Herts County Press.
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WEYMOUTH, SEPT.I2.—A grandrowing match
having ueeu announced to take place this day, between
lour-oared bo.ts, io six hews, under the management of
Horsford, Esq. (the mayor.) and Mr. Harbin for a
purse of sovereigns, at two o'clock the band of the Dragon
Guards took their statian en the esplanade, while the nu-
merous }acing hoist.‘d their colours, and a ei tnal gut
having been fired from the Pier Head, a few minutes after
two, the above two gentlemen, in a welt-mantled, sir •oared
galley, crossed ;he bay to the place of startir.g ; and at
half-past two the first heat commenced by a contest between
two beautiful four-oared gigs, the Royal George, and
Mary, which was admirably rowed across the hay to the Pier
H .ad and hick to the plat., of starting, the laver coming in
rat by two lengths only. The second, third, aul fourth heats
were rowed in g;gs equally well mann, d, ant at fire o'cloA
the fifth heat commenced by a contest b'tveen the faur un-
successful boats in the first four heats,which, after a desperate
struggle, was won by the Royal George; but the crew
were too much knocked up to c(ratend for the prize, in the
sixth heat, and a few minutes before six, the four firs' boats
in the previous heats on the firing of a pistol started, and a
more beautiful match was never seen on this part of the
coast, for they all continued nearly abreast of etch other
till within a quarter of a mile from the place of starting,
when, by extraordinary strength on the part of the crew of
the Arrow, she came in about half a length a head of her
opponen.s, amidst the firing of guns and the greeting of
the assembled multitude. The weather was most propi-
tious, and this town has seldom appeared to greater ad-
vantage than it did on this occasion, the rank and fa•hion
of the neighbourhood havi, g assembled on the esplanade
and sands, and the splendid band of the 1/.ago.n Guards
lendted much to anirn .te the enlivening scene.

Saturtlai next, the '2lst instant, being St.
Matthew's bay, the Lord Mayor, Alderine,i, and Sheriff,.
with th, Governors of the several Itby al Ho-piton. will
attend divine service at Christ's Church. /sl-svgate-street,
vhere a sermon will be preached by the Rev. Edwari
Rice, D D., H.,:idroastf.r of Christ's Hospital, pr, ocher
to the Philanthropic Society, and vicar of Horley, Surrey;
atter which they will repair to the G-,at Hail, iu Christ's
Hospital where two orations on the benefits of the Royal
Hospitals, will he delisered, according to annual custom,
by the two senior scholars, who are about to proceed to
Cambridge ; the one in Latin, by George Henry Farr;
the other, in English by Robert Andrews. Five poems
will alai be recited by others of the senior sclillarn, viz, a
Greek Sapphic Odeon " Britannia," by Hugo D. Harper ;
a Latin Alcaic Ode on " the Praise of Commerce," by
ilenryNewport ; Greek lambics on " Napoleon at St.
Helena," by Samuel Phillips ; Latin Hexameters on
3403 es conducting the Israelites," by John A. L. Airey;
a, English Poem on " Christ's Hospital," by H, J.
Suinner ALAine.

THE STEAM-SHIP LIVERPOOL.—We are
happy to learn, that every berth on board that favourite
steamer, the Liverpool, has been engaged for some time
past, and upwards of forty applicants have necessarily been
disappointed. Some slight inconvenience having been sus-
tained, last voyage, by the ietting of the main saloon sofas
to gentlemen who would take no refusal, in their anxiety
to proceed by the Liverpool, the Directors, this voyage,
etsrionhieounatntigdiai rfbykoeiparfnrtpoutgaphrisii
have declined to let one, notwithstanding the most pi-es-
n
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Her cargo, we hear, will be a very valuable one. Numers.
state-rooms
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obukseae officerssi bamtglhl their determiwation to do all in
her fourth voyage.—Liverpool Albion.
MEETING OF THE PROPRIETORS OF THE
BANK of LIVERTooL.—On Friday the annual meeting et
the Proprietors of the Bank of Liverpool took place at the
Clarendon-rooms, South John street, T. Sands, Esq., in
the chair. The Report began by alluding to the continued
prosperity of the establishment at the close of another year.
No additional shares had been issued. Tile paid-up capital
of the Company, on the 30th of June. amounted to
467,8251., and the net profits of the year. after paament of
current expenses, and provisions for bad and deubtful
debts, realized 53,6091. Bs. 7d., from which the Pr, prn.-
tors have received two half-yearly dividends cf the per
cent. ca,h—amounting to. 47,662/. 165., leaving a surplus
of 5,926/. 18s. 7d. to be carried to the reserved surplus
fund, which fund now amounted to 109:6021. 7d,
The Report then alluded to the present monetary pie-sure,
partly i
which the Directors attributed partly tothe adverse acme.
of a deficient harvest last year on the foreign exchanges.
to a w
al)a.r,gaen
d partly to heavy invest.e mount of capt'al from it,
laz.
legitimate channels of trade to invested in tire fat our
able
undertakingsthdrawofalof
the• day,
rrents in foreign secut ides, withdrawn in like manner fron-,
mercantile capital. On the whole, Cr,. Rcoort gave satin
faction to the Proprietors.—.LiverpoolPaper.
BATH.—The colossal head of Jupiter, sculp-
tured from a block of Bath stone, weighing upwards of
six tons, by the late Mr. Osborn, a native of Bath, has
been offered to and accepted by the Victoria Park Com-
mittee. This colossal head, which exceeds in dimension=
that of Memnon in the British Museum, is a very strikill:
achievement. The Bath Chronicle is eloquent in its
praise. The features are strictly ideal ; the expression n
sublime. The severe grandeur, me-jesty, and placid clia
meter of the physiognomy remind us of the statutes or
.I::piter as represented by the Greek sculptors in the
purest period of art ; but we are assured, on good autho.
that this remarkable work is not a copy. The artist
was at great expense in working out his bold conception,
which was exicuted under circumstances of difficulty which
would have crushed the spirit of enterprise in any common
mind. After the accomplishment of his wishes, a long
and most afflicting sickness, which resulted in dech, en,
tirely exhausted his means. His widow and family are
left destitute, with but, for their sole possession, this
colossal bust. ‘Ve trust that by securing this noble one,.
inent for the Park, the generous public will subscribe ~
sum that will preserve the artist's widow and family floe.
immediate want.
The Castellano of Madrid states, that whet,
Espartero and Maroto were negociating the Convention,
a French Envoy, who was present, proposed to give a,
account of the arrangement to his Government whirl,
would guarantee the treaty ; but that Espartero risinfr
from his seat and offering his hand to Maroto, said—" Is
my word of honour, which I pledge solemnly, a sufficient
guarantee for you ? If you are satisfied with it, we el(
not require any other security. In the contrary ease, let
the affair be decided by our armies." Maroto is reporter-.
to have replied—" Your word of honour, as a General, is
for me a greater guarantee than that of France. Ido no
require any other." And the zrei,ty was t:, en

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT.b.MIIIIIIJ.7_ 109

SUMMARY.

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The Woke of List etetiltigi §lVakitig of OA
entertained abrdad respecting the general Wiley of Go-
vernthenti Says i•—" It sloes so happen that foreign ob-
servers of English politics—lookers 'ens who sometimes
may see Mord Of the gattte than these relic play, do
differ very widely from certain disinterested domestic
oracles in the estimate which they give of the recent
tenor of our Administration. The graver portion of
French politicians and publicists, Liberal and Conserva-
tive, have not discovered that imbecility in the course
of English Administration which those Sir Oracles
who would rule the realm so much better, are so fond
of announcing. On the contrary, they have much more
often afforded their testimony (and if sometimes in a
spirit only half friendly; it is so much the stronger)
to the comprehensive and enlightened policy dis-
played in the conduct of our affairs. Whether they
acknowledge the attention to popular wants and feel
ings manifested in the adoption of the bold experi-
ment_of the penny postage, and the establishment of
steam-packet lines for drawing closer our communica-
tions with all our Transatlantic colonies, and ulti-
mately with all the great ports of North and South Ame-
rica—whether they look at the spread of our colonization
on the Indus and Ganges, its extension in Australia and
the surrounding archipelago, the prompt military move-
ments that have disconcerted encroachment in Asia, or the
faithful and consistent alliances that have reconciled peace
and progress in Europe—we do not go too far in saying
that the language of respect for our policy is all but
_ _

invariably expressed, whet-her with or without cordial
approval, by the most authentic organs of opinion
amongst our nearest neighbours. We must be per-
mitted to set this testimony, with some degree of
pride in its justice, against the, splenetic and monoto-
nous railings from notorious quarters at home. It is
not, however, merely for the purpose of recording such
testimonies, but to mark a peculiarity in their nature,
that we note them at present. While the self-styled
champions of Church and State, of rank and of religion,
at home are charging on the policy of the present Ad-
ministration a covert, and insidious, and ever-to-be-
dreaded propensity to undermine all that is orthodox,
venerable, and established, observers on the Continent
ascribe to the Melbourne Ministry an earnest solicitude
to uphold the integrity of existing institutions by the
eotwession. and proposition of practical objects of ex-
.
ternj Ani ;rit:-irnal improvement,

The Courier makes the following comments on Lord
Palinerston's Foreign policy :—" It has bect7.'
much the fashion with a large portion of the public
press to abuse Lord Palmerston, that it need excite no
wonder if a large portion of the public at times forget
the important services which he has rendered to his
country, or the persevering zeal with which he has
laboured to promote the cause of civil and religious
liberty throughout the world. On his accession
to office in 1830, there were few public
meu in any part of Europe who believed it pos-
sible to maintain the general peace. A popular revolu-
tion in France had just led to the ejection of one dy-
nasty and the enthronement of another, but the insepar-
able consequences of successful insurrection had begun
to manifest themselves, Many were feverishly anxious
for yet greater changes, and the ease with which one
popular triumph had been achieved, encouraged the
belief that further popular movements need but be at-
tempted, to be certain of equal success. Such a state
of feeling in France was felt to be dangerous to the re-
pose of all adjoining countries, and it is scarcely to be
wondered at that Germany, after what she had suf-
fered from one French revolution, should deem it neces-
sary to be prepared for war, if the revolutionary spirit of
France should again make war unavoidable. Both coun-
tries accordingly prepared their armaments, and there
is little doubt that had the temperate appeals of England
not been made, menaces would have led to acts of hos-
tility ; and in the excited state in which all Europe
then was, it is impossible to say to what fearful ex-
tremes the zeal of contending principles might not have
been carried. To the Cabinet of Earl Grey, in which
Cabinet Lord Palmerston held the same distinguished
office he now holds, all Europe is indebted for her pre-
servation from a war in which all existing institutions
would have been destroyed, but from which it is very
doubtful whether anything better than military des-
potism would have emerged."
The Standard, commenting on some remarks in the
Gibraltar Chronicle, respecting the aspect of affairs in
England, observes as follows :—" What effect the
changes in the recent Cabinet will have in improving
the condition of these rarious and important interests
remains to be seen. Mr. Baring will be a better
financier than we have ever given him credit for if
tie is able to reduce the chaotic confusion into which
the ei-devant Mr. Spring Rice has plunged the
country to anything like order. That Mr. Poulett
Thomson will diminish the necessity for the large mi-
litary force that is at present stationed in that country
is denied by those perfectly well acquainted with the
necessities of the Canadas ; but. that he will render
an applicatibn for a still larger military force
indispensable appears more than probable to all
who are acquainted with his avowed principles.
and the bitterness of his hostility to those mea-
sures on which the prosperity of the people he
is gone to govern chiefly depends. With such a
Governor General, and Lord Normanky for a Colonial
Secretary, it does not indeed seem very likely that
the state of affairs in Canada or any other British
colony will improve. How the commerce of the
country is to be restored to its accustomed vigour by
Mr. It. L. Shiel ; or the Turko-Egyptian question
adjusted by Lord Palmerston ; we leave it to the ad-
mirers of those distinguished coadjutors of Lord Mel 7
bourne to explain. The affairs of the East are not
only not settled, but are farther from any probable
chance of amicable adjustment than ever. The only
annoyance that really seems likely to be terminated, is
the war in Spain ; and that by a course of policy which
must ever cast an indelible stain on the honour of
England."

TREMENDOUS THUNDER STORM AT PERTH.
—We were visited on Sabbath afternoon, with one of the
most tremendous thunder storms experienced in this quart
ter for many years. For some days previous, the weather
was very rainy ; and on Sabbath forenoon there were several
;bowers, the appearance of the clouds indicating that the
atmosphere was full of electricity. Shortly after four
o'clock in the afternoon, the sky became fearfully overcast
—the darkness increasing to an extent that made us more
than once imagine night was about to usurp, prema
turely, the place of day. There was a stillness in the air
that was absolutely oppressive—not a leaf moved ;
in the west, the sky was filled with huge masses of black
and lurid clouds, broken up into innumerable fantastic
shapes, whence quickly issued, flash after flash, and peal
I von peal, of the most vivid lightning and the loudest
thunder that we have seen or heard of for a long time.
The very windows in the houses shook and rattled with
the reverberation of the thunder, as if in a tempest of wind.
The rain poured in torrents, and between four and five
o'clock, was succeeded by a shower cf hail that may truly
be described as of unparalleled severity at this period of
the year. The pieces were extraordinarily large, and they
fell so thickly and rapidly, that the eye could hardly
discern through them an object a few yards distance.
What with the washing noise of the hail, the gleaming
lightning, and the rolling of the thunder, explosions fol-
lowing each other with almost the rapidity of thought, and
the darkness overshadowing all, it was one of the mos-
appalling scenes we have ever witnessed.—Aelso Chronicle.
THE WORLE MURDER.—The Dorset County
Chronicle publishes a letter written a few days before his
execution by Charles Wakeley, the murderer of the poor
girl at Worle. A few sentences will serve to show the
strain in which the epistle of this cold-blooded ruffian is
written :—" My dear Father and Mother—l now write to
take my last farewell of you in this world, which I leave in
:he hopes and assurance of meeting you in the world to
come in everlasting bliss. • • lam very well in my
oody, and my mind has been very much relieved by
he visits of two very worthy clergymen, by whose
assistance and with the grace of God I hope to meet
any Saviour in Heaven, and to be at his right hand
in glory. I hope and trust that you will be found with
ail in your lamps, and dressed in the wedding garment, I
'lope we may be all found so that when we stand at the
,uogment bar of our Maker, and that when 1-1, comes in all
the power, might, majesty, and glory, to judge the world,
se may be found amongst His flock, and be received with
trim into everlasting happiness, into a land that flows with
,nilk and honey. • • My dear parents, a few days
note, and I shall cease to live in this world ; yet some-
hing seems to tell me that I shall enter into the bosom of
ny Saviour in Heaven, and then, my dear parents, sisters,
And brothers, I will pray fur you until we meet in Heaven.
I now bid farewell to this world, and all you my dearest
,riends, and I now hope to enter into the joys of my Lord,
and commence an everlasting Sabbath."
FLORENCE, AUG. 31.—Cardinal Lambrus-
chini has issued a circular letter to tbe Chancellors of the
iionian Universities, by which the Professors are forbid-
len not only to visit Pisa during the meeting of the natu-
-alists in that city, but even to have any correspondence
with the learned men assembled there. The letter is as
:—" Sir, It hatdoubtless come to your knowledge
that, in the month of October next, there is to be a meet-
ing of the Italian men of learning at Pisa, the necessary
invitations having been already printed and circulated.
As the Government of the Holy See has good and power-
`ill reasons to hinder the subjects of his Holiness not only
from going to that place, but also from entering into any
Ititten correspondence with that meeting, you are hereby
.nformed that you may take measures to convey this inti-
mation to the Professors of the Universities, the Directoi
of the Cabinets of Natural History, and of the Botanic
Gardens, and the other men of learning who are under
your jurisdiction: Firmly trusting that you will take such
measures as your acknowledged prudence and wisdom
shall suggest. I remain with the highest respect, L. Car-
dinal LAMIRUSCHINI."

LISBON, SEPT. 9.—The following instance of
the romance of real life appears in the form of an adver-
tisement in the journals of this city, Ardrew An-
tonio Fernandes, of St. Übes, makes it public, that, on
the 26th of August last his ward and nephew, Manoel
Antonio Fernandes, aged twelve years, ise., was clandes-
tinely abstracted from his care. There are strong grounds
for suspicion that his mother Gertrude Rosa has consented
that the thread of his life shall be cut, and therefore all
medical men who may have to examine his body, in case
,f his sudden death, are requested to ascertain. if possible,
Thet4r p6ison may have beea admiaisterea to him."