The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-29 00:00:00

AFFAIRS OF THE EAST.

Answer of the Sublime Porte to the pacific representa-
tions of the Austrian and Russian Ambassadors.—( From
the Augsburgh Gazette.)
" The Sultan prefers to the present state of things an ar-
rangement of some kind or another, favourable or unfavour-
able. He can no longer tolerate the insolence of a rebel-
how vassal who tramples under his feet the sacred princi-
ples of Islamism, and shakes the foundation of the
State ; who refuses to acknowledge in the Sultan the
Chief of Islamism, and wishes to supplant him; who makes
no secret of his projects against the Throne and the
cause of religion ; who has the audacity to drive from the
tomb of the Prophet the guardians a; pointed by the Sul-
tan in his quality of Grand Mufti and Calif, and replace
them by men of his own choice. Other measures also
taken by the same person in the four sacred cities are fur-
ther proofs of his criminal deSigns. For several years he
has threatened the Porte, to which he owes his present
power, not to pay the tribute due from him, as if he wished
to make a merit in the eyes of the whole world of the con-
tempt he entertained for the Sultan. He has in his blind-
ness taken upon himself to decide questions affecting the
interests of the territorial sovereignty of the Ottoman Porte,
without waiting for the orders of his legitimate Sovereign
He has bad the audacity to refuse a passage to the troops of
a power allied with the Ottoman Porte in the closest bonds
of amity ( England). As an enemy to the friends of the Porte,
Mehemet has intrigued with the Yeman and Tehamah to
prevent England from gaining possession of Aden and
establishing herself there. He has traversed Arabia
from west to east, carrying war with him, and mark-
ing his course by bloodshed and devastation. After
having seized the islands of Banrein, in the Persian
Gulf, making them the bases of his operations,
he has approached Bassorah and Bsgdad as nearly
as he could (Kurchid may reach Bassorah in fifteen days'
forced marches), and has excited the faithful inhabitants
of these provinces to acts of sedition which could not fail
to alarm the Porte. In all parts he has acted like a traitor,
and as if he was the surrirne chief of Islamism. Tbis state
of things cannot be permitted to exist any longer. The Porte
will never submit to the exaggerated pretensions of the
Pacha, nor will ever take into consideration any of
his erroneous propositions. His duty is to obey ; if
he does not, war must decide. The Porte has sent
an envoy to Alexandria to summon the Pacha to obey
the commands of the Sultan ; and if be refuses, the
Scraskier Hafiz shall make an immediate attack. The
Ot oman Porte will find means of introducing into the
Haouran sufficient forces to assist the faithful Druses
against their tyrant. England will sustain the Porte with
all her power : the Sultan, if be has nut an absolute treaty,
has her word given most unequivocally. The Porte re-
quires from the Viceroy the- unconditional' acceptance of
the following propositions :—A reinstatement of the
guardians of the Prophet's tomb appointed by the Sultan,
and a suppression of the abuses introduced into the sacred
cities, in consequence of the ordonnanccs of the police.
A regular payment of the tribute, and an abstinence in
future from all threats of withhokling it under any pre-
tence whatever. An abstinence front the exercise of all
rights of sovereignty, except those specially delegated,
end, consequently, a complete acknowledgment of the
supreme sovereignty of the Sultan."

ENGLISII OPERA-HOUSE.--Mr. Giubilei and
Mr. Stretton had a benefit last night at this theatre. The
house was crowded to the slips or gallery boxes, a just
compliment to the beneficiaires, and to the excellent per-
formances selected. These consisted of Rossini's favourite
opera, La Gazza Lad. a, adapted to the English stage by
Bishop, and called The Maid of Palaiseau ; a concert,
embracing the names of Dorus Gras, Albertazzi, Miss
Bruce, Miss Birch, Miss B. Hawes, Ihlfe, Parry, Iv muff,
&c. ; and amongst the instrumental and vocal performers
were Dulcken, Duehler, (piano), Blagrove (violin),
Richardson (flute), Chatterton (harp), including the Rus-
sian Family. The whole concluded with the admired farce
of the Married Rake, capitally cast. In the opera
Giubilei took the part of Podesta or Justice, and gave the
tine music which belongs to the character, with much
effect; the other characters were well sustained by Franks,
Allen, Stretton, Miss Poole, Mrs. Martyr, (late Miss
Inverarity, who made such a successful debut a few years
ago at Covent-garden, in Cinderella), ably sustained the
part of Annette, the Maid of Palaiseau. Mrs. Martyrs
possesses the same splendid voice, and her singing, if any-
thing, improved in all those qualities dependent upon
practice and riper experience; her execution is perfect,
and hcr taste delicate and rcanod. She was loudly ap-
plauded throughout,

EVENING EDITION.

(ADVERTISEMENT.)
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,— Two facetious reports against an individual
having been taken in by the Times, I sent, on the 12th
of this month, to the Editor a letter for insertion. As. that the simplicity of a Magistrate was as well de-
serv-ng notice es the rhetoric of a Tinies-Bow-strect-
reporting- Commissioner or I extracted—
" The prisoner said, ' I would rather not say anything
at present.'
(S fined) " JAMES ROWLAND MINSIIULL."
Sir, I have the honour to be,
Your obedient Servant,
G. D. LOWNDES. .
4G, Lincoln's Inn-fields, June 28, 1839.

LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, JUNE 28.—Wind W. moderate.—Arrived the
Recovery, Green, from the South Seas; Emerald, Ha-
vannah ; Caroline, Jones, Lisbon.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 28.—Wind W. S.W., fresh breezes
and squally.
PLI mount, JUNE 28.—Wind variable.—Arrived the
Triton, Wakeman, from Odessa.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 27.--Wind variable and light.—Ar-
rived the Amelie, Hodenburg, from Pernambuco; Ex-
press, Mann, Leghorn ; Woodman, Blagdon, Marseilles.
Ott port, the Reform, Lofaur, from Sfngapore.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 28. —Wind N. N. E to N., mode-
rate.—Arrived the Henry, Towson, N.nv Orleans ; Mary-
land, Berry, ditto ; Fortitude, Mobile ; P. H. De,:n,
Smyrna; Cornelius, Botts, Ancona; Mayflower, Lisbon;
Atalanta, Kinco, Rostock; Matilda, Vactz, Dantzic, Dant-
zic packo , Tanner, ditto. OF per., the Cheshire Welsh,
Antigua; Thomas Leitch, Trieste. Sailed, the Rebecca,
I-Lolon, Pernambuco; Cybele, Armstrong, ditto; Ma-
Neckols, New York ; Henry Leeds, Marshall, ditto ;
Gulnare, Burnand, Baltimore ; British Queen, Dudney,
St. John's, New Brunswick ; Tregartha, Tonkin, Seville.

ANECDOTE OF A CELEBRATED BUFFO.—In
1777 Volange was an excellent buffo at the opera—he
made his first bow to the public at a fair ; his splendid in-
crease of reputation he (lid not bear with the calmness of a
philosopher. He had been called, by way of eminence,
Geannot. This important personage once was invited by
the Marquis de Bruncas to his hotel, with the view of
entertaining his company. When he was announced,
the Marquis led him to the assembled guests, and said,
" Ladies, gentlemen, here is Geannot, whom I have the
honour of introducing." "My Lord," interrupted the
austere buffo, " I was Geanoot, when I played at the
Boulevards, but at present lam Monsieur Volange." " So
be it," said the Marquis ; " but as we don't choose to have
any but Geannot, let Monsieur Volange be led out of
doors." This Volange was nevertheless a man of great
importance in the theatre. One of the pieces in which he
performed was played twice a day during a whole year 1
His bust was engraved in the fine porcelain of Sevres, and
was the fashionable new year's gift.—Musical. World.
Wednesday an inquest was held at the Shadwell
Dock Ceffee-house, on the body of Catherine Curley, who
died in consequence of injuries she received from her bus-
baud, a coal-whipper, who has absconded. The jury re-
turned a .verdict of " Manslaughter against Joseph Curley,"
for whose apprehension a warrant was issued, and en-
rusted to the police.
DEATH BY LIGHTNING.-011 Wednesday
morninc, last, between eleven and 'twelve o'clock, this
town and neighbourhood were visited by a severe storm of
thunder and lightning, and at Writtle, where it was par-
ticularly heavy, we regret to state that a boy, about six
years old, was struck dead. The child was the sin of
Samuel Bush, in the employ of Messrs. Porter and Butler,
wine-merchants. Mrs. Bush was sitting in her cottage
with her four children, and the boy, who had just returned
from seho..l, was in a chair, leaning across a table under
the window, playing with a pewter spoon, when the light-
ning entered, and striking the unfortunate child, caused
his immediate death. A younger child was playing
under the table, and was slightly burnt on the
foot, whilst the mother, who was at the moment
stooping at the further end of the room, was preci-
pitated to the ground, but was uninjured. The window
curtains were at the same time ignited, and the mother
having picked up the little one who had been playing on
the floor, rushed out of the house, not observing the fate
of the other child, and alarmed the neighbours, but imme-
diately- re-entering with others, the poor boy was foend
upon the floor lifeless. The flames were speedily extin-
guished, and on examining the child, the electric fluid
appeared to have struck him at the back part of the neck,
making a small round orifice, and setting the collar on
fire ; it then passed under the atm to the breast and
down the chest and stomach, which are much dis-
coloured, and proceeded down to the right leg,
scorcaing him to the aucle. The inner clothing
of the child was much burnt, the front of the shirt
being entirely consumed. The fluid appears to
have entered at the back of the cottage, passing in an
angular direction to the sitting room, and forcing its way
out between the top of the window frame and the brick-
work, two panes of glass being also broken by the explo-
sion. The storm was also severely felt in other parts of
the country. At South House Farm, West flanningfield,
a poplar was shattered, and at the same instant the electric
fluid entered the house, and struck Mrs. Blyth upon the
head, and Mr. Blyth felt the shock on the leg; the former
still suffers in a slight degree from its effects.—A man
named Quiller, whilst sitting _in a shed in a field by the
river side, near this town, was similarly struck, and for
a short time rendered insensible, but be has since quite
recovered. At Great Beddow, an ash tree was struck,
and partly stripped of its bark,— Chelmafi,rd Chronicle.
THE CHARTISTS.—In the parts of the Scottish
Highlands, where Gaelic alone is spoken, the Chartists
have not been able to establish a single lodge. The like
holds good with regard to Cardiganshire and Mario
and those parts of Wales who! e the pet ple still con& e
themselves to the language and customs of the Cymri.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER..--
Between three and four o'clock yesterday afternoon Jo-
seph Naughton, aged fifteen years, errand-boy to Messrs.
Lovell and Co., of Gcorge.lane, Botolph-lane, Eastcheap,
importers of foreign fruit, was in the act of stepping from
one barge to another lying in the river eff Fresh Wharf,
London Bridge, when he slipped between them just at the
instant that a steam-vessel, starting from the wharf, heeled
against the outer barge and jammed it against the other
with tremendous force, catching the legs of the unfortu-
nate youth up to the middle of the thighs, He was fortu-
nately saved by a boatman from falling into the water as
the barges receded from each other. The bones of his
legs were, however, crushed in a most dreadful manner.
He was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital.

DEATH FROM NOXIOUS VAPOUR.—Last
eveniag an inquest was held at the tap-house belonging to
the brewery of Alesq.s. Manners, Furze, and Marshall, in
Old Castle-street, Whitechapel, before Mr. Baker, on the
body
:of David Field, aged 33 years. From the statement
of Thomas Fanning it appeared that on Wednesday after-
noon the deceased, who was a drayman to the above firm,
was sent to pump a bucket of stale beer from a tank in the
flour about seven feet deep. Finding that he could only
pump up about half the bucket full, and thinking that there
was something the matter with the pump itself, the dcceascd
raised a flap at the end of the tank, and having procured a
ladder descended into the tank, where he was suffccated
from the accumulation of carbonic acid gas, which was ge-
nerated by the late contents of the vessel. He was missed
in about ten minutes afterwards, and the witness Fanning
had very narrowly escaped a similar fate in attempting to
go down the ladder to his assistance. Deceased bad been
for many years employed in the brewery, and was well
aware of the danger consequent on entering a vessel such
as that in which he had lost bis life. The jury without
hesitation returned a verdict to the effect that deceased
bad lost his life by accident and misfortune, and that no one
was to blame in the unfortunate transaction.

The Opera was so full on Thursday evening that.
upwards of one hundred persons were absolutely refused
admittance.

We regret to state that the performances foe the
hem& of the General Theatrical Fund were very thinly
attended at Covent Garden Theatre last night. But as
Mr. Macready gave the free use of the house, and Mr.
Charles Kean presented the institution with fifty pounds,
some addition would be made to the funds of this praise-
worthy institution for the relief of decayed actors.
DEATH FROM DESTITUTION.-011 Thurs-
day evening police-sergeant Coleman of
,the 11 division,
who tray on duty at the station-house in Spitalfields, re-
ceived information that a young woman was lying in the
passage of a house in Rose lane, apparently in a dying
state. He immediately dispatched two policemen to the
spot, who, on their arrival, found tha unfortunate creature
lying in the condition described, and, upon being ques-
tioned, she said that she had been discharged some days
before from the hospital, since which time she had been
wandering about houselcss and destitute, and was then
perishing from want. Her squalid and emaciated appear-
ance bore out her assertion, and the policemen supported
her between them to the station-house, but immediately
after she reached it, before any assistance could be ren-
dered her, she fell back into their arms and expired. The
unfortunate woman, whose name was Elizabeth Billings,
was a wife of a private in the Horse Guards (Blue), but
she lived apart from her husband for several years, and had
lately been compelled to sustain her miserable existence by
prostitut ion.
NATIONAL EDUCATION—The following peti-
tion in favour of the Government plan of National Educa-
tion, to meet a counter-petition sent down from London
for signature, has been respectably signed by the rate-
payers of Claughton. They don't mince matters as will
be seen :—" To the Honourable the Commons of Great
Britain in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of
the undersigned freeholders and rate-payers of Claughton•
in- Lansdale, Lancaster,—Showeth, That your petitioners,
seeing the organizA, mendacious, and unmanly opposition
uniformly given (by a political party) to every proposition.
for national popular education or the improvement of man-
kind, therefore pray your Honourable House, to enact such
laws as will cause the greatest diffusion of knowledge
among children of every growth throughout the British
dominions, without interfering with their or their parents'
faith ha any mode of worshipping the Deity, which their
sense of religion may suggest, as the only means, in the
opinion of your petitioners, of enabling every person to Tee
the knavery of every such unmanly opposition, as well as
the knavery of Popish priestcraft, and of any other fraud
that may be attempted to be practised on their credulity.
And your petitioners will ever pray, Ste."—Lord John
Russell has kindly consented to present the petition, which
he did most likely on the night of the adjourned debate on
the Education' Plan of Government.—Manchester Guar-
dian.

REPAIR OF] HIGHWAYS AND THE POOR-
RATES.—It has been decided at the County Petty Sessions.
held at Salisbury, that the practice of employing aged men,
instead of able-bodied labourers, to repair the roads, with
a view of lessening the amount contributed to the support
of the poor, and thereby, in fact, increasing the way rate,
is Mega', and ,that an order on a filmier to contrihote an
u: reasonable sum, chi-aged to him in common with the
(Aber inhabitants, for highway repairs could in t be sus-
tained. The case in question was an Nppeal entered against
the way-rate by Mr. W. Hurnhy, farmer, of West Harp.
bam, near Salisbury.

THE BEER hliL.

TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD BROUGHAM.

My LORD,—I can refrain no longer from addressing
you on a subject which not only concerns myself, but
thousands of others in the same situation. You will par-
don me if, through ignorance, I may make any remark
that may be offensive to your Lordship. You, my Lord,
have taken a deal of trouble to ruin forty-five thousand
families, by your hatred to the Beer Bill. Now, my
Lord, the business of a beer-seller, you know little of, or
you never would have stigmatized forty-five thousand, as
being the lowest of the low; you say a deal table, a
bench, and a broken mug are all that is necessary to begin
business with. My Lord, whoever gave your Lordship
this information, deceives you, and should your Lord-
ship come to this part of the country, I should
like to take your Lordship by the hand; and
show you a number of neat, and clean little
rooms, with bright fire-irons, mahogany chairs and
tables, and much better furniture than many low
licenced houses under the old system ; and, my Lord,
perhaps ten or twelve respectable mechanics, reading Lord
Brougham's speech on the Liberty of the Subject, the Free
Trade System, &c. &c. Now, my Lord, as everything
has been said, which can serve to lower the honest beer
seller in the estimation of the world, give me leave to ex-
plain a few things to your Lordship concerning the
situation in which a beer seller is placed :—Ten
o'clock (or what hour the Magistrates choose to name)
comes; here we are under the Magistrate's orders, and in
five minutes after the given time, two policemen come to
your door and window shut, to demand if any one is in the
house, and to search the same if they think proper and pass
on Now, my Lord, a few doors beyond shall be an old
licensed house—fiddling, dancing, windows and doers
open, gas flaring bright as the sun at midday; but the po-
lice pass on, they have no orders to go into these houses.
My Lord, are these houses licensed under the old system,
for midnight brawls? If they were put on the same foot-
ing as the beer-sellers, and a regular time fixed for open-
ing and closing, the Magistrates would soon be able to
ascertain which were the most proper persons to keep a
public-house. Is it not notorious that the Brewers and
Maltsters frequently put pugilists, the swell mob, pick-
pockets, and such persons into public-houses, because
curiosity will bring customers, to see the notorious
characters ?

Now, my Lord, I shall finish this my first letter, by
informing your Lordship that I read your speech in
the House of Lords, on the third reading of the
Beer Bill, and bad any person in my house used such lan-
guage to another customer, as your Lordship did to Lord
Melbourne and the Bench of Bishops, he would have been
put up and tried by the strong beer act, and no doubt fined
four or six tankards of strong beer; and yet these are the
places your Lordship calls meetings of the pests of society.
My Lord, your great and comprehensive mind must
feel that this comes from one who has some feeling
for himself and others, and who consider he acts on your
Lordship's principles, which, from all I ever heard of your
Lordship, are these—That a sparrow has as much right to
sing as a nightingale, and a poor man has as much right to
vindicate his character as a Duke.
I remain, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient servant,
W. M. MATTHEWS.

Lime Kiln•lane, Bristol.

ADDRESS FROM THE ANTI-CORN
LAW LEAGUE. TO THE CENTRAL AGRI
CULTURAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRI
TAIN.

Sin,—On behalf the Council of the Anti- Corn-law
League, I trouble you as the Chairman of the Special
Meeting of the superintending Committee of the Central
Agricultural Society of Great Britain and Ireland, which
was held on the 6th instant, at 34, Manchester-street,
Manchester-square, London, for the purpose of replying
publicly to an address from that meeting to the landed in-
terest of the United Kingdom.
The Council have read with astonishment in that Ad-
dress, the subjoined paragraph :
" The designs of the Anti-Corn-law League being now
fully before the country, the Committee of this Society are
desirous of calling attention to means which are required
to counteract these designs, as there can no longer be a
doubt that it is the aim of the free trade party to destroy
agriculture in the British islands, and to throw this great
nation upon the precarious supply of foreign and hostile
1 markets "
1 It is truly stated that the " designs" of the Anti- Corn-
law League are fully before the public. They were an-
nounced in the Report of the Delegates, dated Brown's
Hotel, Westminster, 19th March, 1839, and which Report
was printed and widely circulated, and advertized in the
newspapers. Your attention is called to the following
extract from that documen•.:—
" In seeking to destroy this and every other monopoly-
which prevents the free exchange of our commodities, for
the productions of other countries, the Delegates are so far
from wishing to promote the interests of one portion of the
community at the expense of the rest, that they are willing
and desirous that the protection given to home manufac.
tures should be simultaneously withdrawn, and that every
one of their countrymen should be allowed freely to
exchange the fruits of his labour for the productions of all
other countries."
From the general accuracy with which the proceedings
of our body, from its origin, are detailed in your
address, I cannot but assume your previous acquaint-
ance with the extract from our Report to which I have
called your particular attention. The Delegates, having
thus disclaimed the privilege of compelling the rest of
the community to purchase their cottons, woollens,
silks, linens, hardwares, &c., from them, were entitled
to expect a reciprocal disclaimer in return ; but they are
told, in your address, that such a principle involves the de-
struction of British agricuiture. Does not your objection
to their equitable proposal imply an avowal, that the agri-
culture of this country owes its prosperity less to its own
resplecca than to compulsory support from the rest of the
community ? Such is the inevitable conclusion from the
terms of your address; but to suppose it possible that any
considerable portion of the landowners of this empire would
submit to hold their property upon a tenure so obviously
iunjust and lamentably degrading, were to affix the brand of
pauperism upon a class which has always assumed to oc-
cupy the most exalted and least dependent station in the
community.
But whatever may be the position of the landowners, it
must not be supposed to be identical with that of the agri-
culturists, than which no two interests, regarding them in
connection with the Corn.laws, can be more distinct.
It is to be regretted for the seke of truth, the interests
of justice, and in order to a clear understanding of
this question, that the terms used in its discussion have
been so vague and indiscriminate. The Council hope
the definitions now submitted to your attention, mar,
by removing all ambiguity on this point, render the
future argument on the subject more safe and satis-
factory than it has hitherto been. " LANDOWNER"
and " AGRICULTCkIST"—words so pertinaciously con-
founded—imply distinct occupations, and (as affected
by the Corn-law) diverse interests. It is the interests of
the landowner, if a landlord, to obtain the highest possible
rent for his land, whilst it is equally the interest of the
latter, if a tenant, to obtain the land he cultivates on the
lowest possible terms. And as it is the value of the pro-
duce which rules the value of the soil itself, any law
which enhances the price of the produce must necessarily
ncrease the rental of the land. How, then, in the face of
such such truisms, can it for a moment be pretended, that
these two classes possess a common interest in the Corn.
law ?
As to that far more numerous class of agriculturists, the
farm-labourers ; whilst their interests are intimately allied
with those of the farmer, they are no more connected in
interest with the landowner than with any other class of
the community. It may seem trite to observe, and yet it is
necessary to add, that the term agriculturists (vide any
dictionary) means the cultivator or tiller of the sail, which
it will not be pretended is a true description of the land-
owner as a landlord. The term " landed interest,"adopted
in your address, and which we find so frequently used in
the discussion of this question, could only be applied with
propriety to inhabitants of Earth, by the beings of some
other element. It is unmeaning, and it may be questioned
whether it be English.
It is to the LEGISLATIVE LANDOWNER, and to him alone,
that we oppose ourselves in this righteous struggle. For
his exclusive and transient benefit were the Corn-laws
devised. We are therefore entitled, upon every principle
of common sense and common interest, to claim, and we
do claim, the co-operation of the agriculturists, "con_
vinced," to use the language of the Delegates in their
Report already quoted, " that the agriculturists have suffered
as great moral and pecuniary injuries from the Corn-laws
as any other class, and that the support given to those
laws by ;he farmers and labourers, is owing solely to Inis-
taken views of their operation upon their own particular
interests."
On these grounds the Council of the League have made
their appeal to public opinion, and by the result they will
be content to abide; and they are prepared, before that
tribunal, to meet airy opponent who may venture to gut s-
tion the great principles of truth and justice upon which
they have taken their stand, and of this ultimate triumph
of which it were impiety to doubt.
I have the honour, &c.,
G. WILSON,
Manchester, Jnne 22f.:nairman of Executive Council
, 1831).

Mr. Howard (M.P Carlisle) has
paired cif from the Ist until the lath of July, with Mr. C.
Codring ton, M. P. for East Gloucestershire.
NATIONAL BEVERAGES.—The love of the
. Hibernian for Whiskey, the Scotsman his Usquebaugh,
awl the Welshman his Ale, have been the theme of many
a pleasing " ditty ;" hut E. and T. Taylor's British Wines,
spld at 17, Low. r Holborn, are so popular and deservedly
celebrated, that they bid fair to become the pride and
boast of Old England, as they combine all the brilliancy
of the growth of genuine Foreign Wine, at one third the
cost; while health sparkles in the glass, and the palate
rejoices in the most delicately flavoured juice of the grape,
grow:* on English soil.
We are happy lo find the observations which
have been made, from time to time, by ourselves, and
Contemporaries, with reference to the custom of interring
the dead in the midst of a dense population, has had a
hen, ficial effect. We are induced to make this remark
from a visit to the South Metropolitan Cemetry, at Nor-
wood, where interments are daily taking place. The ex-
e Peding beauty of the surrounding country, and of the
espot itself, added to the imposing appearance of the
chapels and buildings, render it one of the most attractive
of public works in the neighbourhood of London. Severs
of the Bishops and many of the Nobility, have already i-
spected it, from whom it has received unqualified praise.n
By her last trip to New York, which she per-
formed in the almost incredibly short space of thirteen
days, the Great Western has more than maintained the
high character she had previously acquired. Considering
all the circumstances of such a voyage,
we believe this
passage surpasses any thing yet achieved in the way of
steam navigation.

'FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 25, 1839.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to nominate and ap-
Eoint Arthur Aston, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's
mbassy at Paris, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of Spain.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to nominate
and appoint Henry Lytton Bulwer, Esq. now Secretary to
her Majesty's Embassy at St. Petersburgh, to be Secretary to
her Majesty's Embassy at Paris.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to nominate 'and
appoint the Hon. John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, now Secre-
tary to her Majesty's Legation at Stockholm, to be Secretary
to her Majesty's Embassy at St. Petersburgh.
CROWN-OF Fl CE, JUNE 28.

MEMBER RRTURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR,

LIAMENT.

CITY OF GLAsnow.—James Oswald, Esq., merchant, in
Glasgow, in the room of Lord William Bentinck, who has ac-
cepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

WHITEHALL, JUNE '25.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Atkins, of Sars•
den, in the count• of Oxford. Gent., to be a Master Extraor•
(Unary in the Nigh Court of Chancery.

WHITEHALL, Ju NE 24.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Cronhelm, of
Leeds, in the county of York, Gent., to be a Master Extraor-
dinary in the High Court of Chancery.
The Lord Chancellor has also appointed William John
Lyne, of Woodhouse, in the county of Cumberland, Gent., to
be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.