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London, England, 1841-10-13 00:00:00

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Just published, the Seventh Edition, price 3s. ; and sent free,
on receipt of a Post-office order, for 3s. 6d.,
MANHOOD; die CAUSES of its PRE-
MATURE DECLINE, with plain Directions for
ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those
suffering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence,
Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by 'Observations on
the Treatment of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Gleet, &c., illus-
trated with cases, &c. By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY,
Consulting Surgeons, London.

SEVENTH EDITION.
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street ; Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Pattie. 4, Bridges-
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The following are a few of the numerous testimonials this
popular work has received, and which the limits of an adver-
tisement will only allow of being published :
The rage for books in all departments of 'Science, literature,
and the arts, was, we believe, never so prevalent es at the pre-
sent time. The unavoidable consequence of this •is, that we
meet a very considerable proportion of indifferent, uselea., and
even bad books. With the force of this prejudice on our
minds, we with no little reluctance were induced to peruse
Messrs. Curtis's work, entitled "Manhood ;" nor did it re-
quire much perusal fully to satisfy us that the book was not
one of the common stamp. The scientific views taken by the
authors of the source and origin of many of the most distressing
effects of certain depraved habits, fully establish their claim t's
the character of experienced and judicious surgeons. To
quote passages from the work in proof of our assertion would
be departing from the established rules of the daily press. The
result, however, of our careful perusal of the work, has been
to impress us with a thorough confidence in the talent and
skill of the authors, and to satisfy us that tho:e entrusted with
the care of youth are not a little indebted to them for fur-
nishing them with a means of preventing some of the most
frightful maladies to which flesh is heir.—Old England.
Messrs. Curtis's work, entitled "Manhood," is one of the
few books now coming befor the public on such a subject which
can lay claim to the character of being strictly professional, at
the same time that it is fully intelligible to all who read it.
The moral and medical precepts given in it, render it invalu-
able.—Magnet.

The periisal of Messrs. Curtis's book entitled " Manhood,"
has really astonished us by developing a series of maladies, the
never-failing consequence of the vicious habit of which it
treats'. The clear connexion pointed out between the assigned
cause and the effects is perceptible to every capacity. We
strongly recommend the work.—Age.
The multitude of books daily coming from the press, some,
'nay most of them, of a very questionable tendency, made us ex-
tremely reluctant to take up another. Having, however, been
induced by the character given of this work by an intelligent
friend, we ventured to open its pages, and now feel no hesita-
tion in saying that we arise from its perusal instructed and
edified. The clear exposition of the source of many of those
diseases which proves so fatal to youth; and which are set
down by the every-day observer as the result of common
causes, such as exposure to cold, sudden vicissitudes of tempe-
rature, hereditary taint, &c., is truly convincing and extre-
mely satisfactory. We say " satisfactory," inasmuch as Messrs.
Curtis have shown that many diseases, such as Pulmonary
Consumption, Epilepsy, &c., hitherto the opprobria of medi-
cine, may, when taken in proper time, and submitted to judi-
cious treatment, be brought to as favourable a termluation
as any other class of affections. We do not think we go too
far in saying that society is deeply indebted to the authors for
producing so useful, so much wanted, so valuable, and so truly
moral a book.—Conservative Journal.
We recommend the work entitled " Manhood," &c., to the
careful perusal of persons of all classes. The moral as well as
physical advantages sure to result from such perusal, will be
most readily recognised and felt by these who stand most in
need of them.—Statesman.
Messrs. Curtis and Company are to be consulted daily 'at
their residence, No. 7, Frith-street, Soho-square, London.
Country Patients are requested to be as minute as poisible
in the detail of their cases.—As to the 'duration of the com-
plaint, the symptoms, age, general habits of living, and occu-
pation in life of the party ; the communication must be ac-
companied by the usual consultation fee of U. without which,
no notice whatever can be taken of their application ; and in
all eases the most inviolable seeeesv may be relied on.

•-
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THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.--On Sunday
morning the Duke of Wellington, who was unattended,
proceeded on foot from. the Castle to attend Divine
service at the Chapel of St. George, Windsor. Upon
his Grace arriving in the choir the verger discovered
that the Duke's stall, as one of the Knights of
the Garter (on the north side), was occupied by a
stranger,, who, upon-an intimation being given to him,
immediately retired to another part of the chapel,
and the Duke then took possession of his own stall.
The chaunt for the day was Bennett's (of New College,
Oxford), but upon Dr. Elvey, ,the organist, perceiving
that the Duke was present, he immediately intimated to
the la clerks and choristers that the daunt would be
changed to, that composed by .his Grace's father, Lord
Mornington (which is considered to be one of the finest
pieces of cathedral music extant.). At the conclusion
of the service, the' Duke was met at the
door of the chapel by hil'sWn, Lord Charles Wellesley,
the Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal to her Majesty,
and Lieutenant-Colonel Bouverie, one of the Equerries
to Prince Albert, who accompanied him on his return
to the Castle. The Duke, who wore the ribbon and
jewel of the Order of the Garter, appeared in excellent
health.

Sir Stratford Canning had an interview with Sir
R. p“), yeaterday morning.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. . .
TIMES.e—lf; in our present dispute with America,
the chance of a serious collision be materially enhanced
by that abstract justness of our cause which must neces-
sarily involve important concessions. on the other side,
there is certainly nothing hi the present temper of the
American, people that .would seem to indicate a wish-on
their part to avert such a calamitous issue. On the .con•
trary, notwithstanding the pacific tone of some of their
leading newspapers,
acting in harmony with most of
their principal statesmen,. he national spleen exhibited
against Great Britain by.the State authorities and popu-
lace of New York would appear to be absolutely frantic.
knowledge . Of , the
Judging from these intemperate demonstrations, if our
Transatlantic character were oniy
superficial, we Should probably have said that
Mr. M`Leod is a doomed man. A councillor
somebody, notorious foi ' his- unscrupulous and indo-
mitable ardour in. securing convictions,_ has ap-
parently been . employed' by the Now Yorkers to
suborn fur the prosecution as ohOice a band of perjured
witnesses as ever earned an infamous livelihood by
selling their polluted eiidence-. 'Judges upon the Re-'
publican bench, disgracing their office by furious par- •
tisanship, were actuallY, giving currency to opinions
before the trial adverse to the prisoner—a procedure,
which, in any civilized country, would cover the, robed
eaballers with merited obloquy' and contempt. At the
instigation, too, -of a 'citizen Leet, now in gaol for
the crime, powder magazines and ordnance stores had
been successfully plimdered by a gang of M`Leod's
chief accusers, for the purpose, it is supposed, of vio-
lently getting possession of his person, and of visiting
him with Lynch law in case of his acquittal. In a
word, in proportion as, the da of trial drew near, all
classes in the State or New
ork were wound up to
the highest pitch of pxeit* 't, • of prejudice. against
M‘Leird;atict of irrational' bitternessiigainst his country,
t
which they very justly anticipate Will both demand satis-
faction for his detention, and, if necessary, avenge
his blood. But, in spite of all this fume and sputter, we
would give the Americans any favourable odds they
please in batting on the security of M'Leod's life. We
know the infirmities of Transatlantic citizenship mode-
rately well. It is astonishing what big talk and what
undaunted temerity they will make use of in a case like
this. They will speak of Great Britain in a tone of con-
temptuous defiance. They will throw out, hints about
the insecurity of our Canadian possessions. They will
remind us that we can neither clothe our women without
their cotton, nor diet our children without their rice.
M'Leod, therefore, at all hazards, shall be brought to
trial. They are quite in earnest about it—rv, far at
least as concerns the parade of a judicial process. The
mock solemnity is ordered to take place at Utica ;
and what will be the result—a - public execution of
the culprit ? No ; for the ballets and
,bayonets of
Great Britain forbid it. A sentence of guilty? No ;
for although the evidence against M`Leod is declared
to be complete, there happens to be a Quaker Jury, who,
strange to say, not being on oath, will utterly disregard
their affirmation to adjust their verdict to the proof.
A pertinacious demand for satisfaction in reference to
the alleged murder of Durfee? No; the clamorous
apparition of that departed patriot must remain un-
appeased. A consequent pretext for war ? No, in-
deed ; all the principal statesmen of America, and
all the accredited organs of Transatlantic opinion,
proclaim an inviolable peace. • On these important
points Mr. INl‘Leod's verdict has been publicly and
unanimously pronounced in America for the last
six months. Not a hair of his head will be injured.
Then, what in all the world have the circumspect
citizens been driving at ? The whole affair, with its busy
ferretting counsel, with its repeated changes of venue,
with its formidable list of witnesses, with its pretended
defiance of the Federal Government, and its portentous
menaces towarls this country, has been puffed and con-
sumed by Jonathan like a mere Havannah cigar, which,
having been smoked till it endangered his own beard,
has at length been virtually flung away. But, what-
ever' the fate of M'Leod, the day of reckoning with
Great Britain remains. If the Americans imagine-that
the equitable settlement of this question depended solely
upon the elaborate farce which they have played off
at Utica, they are • wofully mistaken. This country
cares not a fig for the timid trimming of their broad-
brimmed jury. Of what is due to British subjects
and British interests our ewn Government shall alone
be permitted to judge. Her Majesty's Crown and dig-
nity have sustained an aggravated insult in the person of
M'Leod. Reparation, in some shape or another, can-
not be dispensed with. The liberation of the injured
prisoner offers no indemnity for the past, and no security
for the future. War we do not desire. Nay, short of a
sacrifice of national honour, we would adopt almost any
alternative to avoid it. But Lord Aberdeen does not
stand in need of our humble counsels to direct him in
the path of duty. With such a Minister, equally tem-
perate and uncompromising, we cannot doubt that if
actual hostilities be providentially averted, the Ameri-
cans will at least be taught a lesson which in future will
lead them to a truer estimate of their self-conceit and
arrogance than they yet appear to have formed. Pom-
pous bombast in this quarter of the world has now gone
out of fashion.

ADVERTISER.—The mendacious conduct of Sir
Robert Peel, in breaking to a nation's hope the promise
which he held to its ear before his accession to power,
has not yet been held up to public scorn so clearly and
forcibly as the profligacy of the case demands. The
very moment he has fairly passed the precincts of office,
he comes coolly forward and demands an indefinite time
to mature his measures for the relief of the suffering
masses; thus practically proclaiming in the public ear,
that, as yet, he has no measures to propose. Why, let
us ask, did the Tory Premier, if he knew of no panacea
for the evils under which the country is groaning; why
did he allow the perishing population of our large
towns to live in ignorance of the fact, and thus aggra-
vate the wretchedness of their condition by exciting
hopes which were only doomed to be blasted? Was
there common honesty in this ? Would any man,
whose bosom is familiar with the generous impulses
of our nature have been a consenting party to so
heartless a delusion ? Would any person of ordi-
nary humanity have suffered the famishing people of
England to cling to the fond conviction that he had both
the means and the disposition to achieVe some wonderful
deliverance for them, from their deep distress, when he
neither meant to do anything, nor knew the way in which
anything could be done. No man, possessing a spark of
humanity in his breast, would have suffered so dreadful
a delusion to be perpetuated for even one little hour.
Honesty, humanity,. every better feeling of our common
nature would have forbidden it. But bad as this is, worse
remains-behind. Sir Robert Peel has subjected himself
to a yet more grave and grievous charge than that of
suffering a delusion to exist, which had only the effect
of solemnly mocking a people's miseries, and which
he could have dissipated with the breath of his
mouth ; he stands convicted of the enormous
crime of having studiously and systematically fostered
that delusion wherever it previously existed, and of
creating it where it did not. This is a serious charge,
and ought not to be preferred on slender or insufficient
grounds. What, then, are the grounds on which we pre-
fer so grave an accusation against the First Minister of
this country ? Our readers shall learn. First of all,
the very circumstances of his coming forward to defeat
the measures of the Melbourne Ministry, for the relief
of the trade and commerce of the country, and proposing
their ejection from office on account of those measures,
was to commit a gross fraud on the nation, if he knew of
no,other mode by which the existing distress could be re-
lived. On what principle of justice or decency could Sir
Robert Peel demand of Parliament the dismissal of Mi-
nisters, for failing to do what he, all the while, felt
himself incompetent to accomplish ? The very fact of
his pronouncing their weakness inadequate to the com-
mercial and financial crisis which had overtaken the
country, and of seeking their ejection from power, in
order that their successors might bring forward the
...measures which the exigencies' of the case required
—this very fact was of itself calculated to inspire,
and did inspire, a hope in the nation's. breast, that '
a
if the Tory Premier did not posseia knowledge
of an infallible remedy for the national disease, he
at least laid the flattering unction to his soul that
such remedy was in his actual possession. What
then must be the measure of that nation's in-
dignation, and how ample its cause for indignation,
when the Tamworth Baronet comes forward and coolly
announces that-he neither knows in what way the exist-
ing distress is to be diminished, nor means for.several
months to propose any measures of relief. And the de-
lusion which Sir Robert Peel thus created by his actions,
where it did not previously. exist, and stiengtliened
where it did, he has since had the unredeemed heart-
lessness deliberately to confirmby his, words. In,his
memorable and miserable Tainworth oraii9fi, he this-tinctly stated—and we are , surprised that our con-
temporaries should not have laid more stress Ivor' the
fact—in that oration, in the midst of -one of his
passages, and _
when affecting
to
himselfjosoicnneot bringing forward ionic. recipe for
justifyponderously
the national evils, he exclaimed, "Prescribe for the dis-
tress of the country ! Why, wait until regularly
called in It will then be for me to give my pre-
scriptions " Though the night Hon. Baronet had
the wretched taste and still worse feeling to indulge •
in jokes about his being the physician of the State,
at the very time that vast masses of the people were
reer to ,
before undertake
the
down_
the
n.
enduring all the horrors of want— just as Nero fid-
dled while Rome was in flames—the meaning of his
language was as plain as words could make it, that
he did at that moment know of a specific for the
ills of the country, and that the very instant he was
summoned
management
by
ofhis
th
e Government
affairs, that specific
would be forthcoming. And, as if afraid lest his actions
in the first instance, and his words in the second, should
not sufficiently spread the delusion that he meant to pro-
pose measures for the national relief, immediately on his
accession to power, the Tory Premier,
fal of the Melbourne Ministry, repeatedly urged in Par-
liament, and it was repeated times without number by
his minions of the press, that his only reason for not
then naming the measures which lie meant to propose
for remedying the existing evils, was, that if he were to
do so, the Melbourne Ministry would play the part of
felons, and unblushingly bring forward those very mea-
sures as their own. Here, then, is an accumulation of
damning. proof that Sir Robert Peel has paltered with
the nation at a crisis of the most fearful kind.
HERALD.—It is in vain for the Whig and Radical
Press to defend Captain Elliot ; hie sumiatendeace of

, Lord Palmerston's ()pima war has produced nothing but
disgrace and—five millions of dollars to the nation. The
blanderi.lg I.),:epotentiary, it seems to be now forgotten
has, been condemned, up to the period of his former con-
vention, by his own friends, who, as soon as they. re-
ceived intelligence of his first treaty, repudiated it, and
' -sent out Sir Henry Pottinger to superSede him sans ce-
remonie ; and the only part of his conduct which can,
therefore, be now a subject of discussion, is .the last
affair before Canton. That affair may literally be
thrust into a nut-shell. Canton—we use the impres-
sive language of the lamented Sir H. Le Fleming Sen-
. house, in his dispatch to Sir Gordon Bremer, dated from
" Heights above Canton, May 29"—" one of the first
cities of the Chinese empire, whose. population of
one million two hundred thousand, defended by forty
thousand soldiers, in and without the walls, whose de-
fences had been now a whole year in preparation, strong
in its natural position, and approachable only by an in-
tricate and uncertain navigation, near one hundred miles
inland," fell " before a force- of not more than 3,500
men, soldiers, royal marines, and seamen," and Captain
Elliot sold the fallen city for five millions of dollars, and
withdrew the gallant expedition to the mouth of the
Canton river, without having made one stipulation likely
to lead to the object of all wars—a secure peace. This
Conduct admits of but two excuses ; either that there
Were overwhelming local reasons for this sale, or that
Captain Elliot obeyed the general tenour of his instruc-
tions in negotiating it. The former excuse is wholly
negatived by the opinions of both the military and naval
chiefs of the expedition, as disclosed in Sir H. Fleming
Senhouse's despatch from which we have already quoted
" The terms were in opposition to the opinions of the
Major-General and myself, as they left the troops in a
precarious position for some days, when the conduct of
the Chinese hitherto was considered, with whom delay
had always been used to strengthen their defences, the
result of which had alwaia been a breach of faith. • It
gave another fair opening for Chinese treachery to work,
and it took away the apparent symbol of capture, which
would have been prevented by seeing the British banner
floating within the city walls, and those walls lying
crumbling before it. The fortified heights in the city
once gained, the Chinese troops may have marched out
and laid down their arms, and not a British soldier had
any occasion to enter the populous part of the town."
If the latter excuse is to exonerate Captain Elliot
from the responsibility of his own act, it will only
more deeply condemn Lord Palmerston, from whom
his instructions proceeded.. If the Captain is blame-
less, then, indeed, there are no terms in which the No-
ble Lord can be too severely censured. It has been
stated that Captain Elliot's instructions directed the
keeping open of the tea market at all hazards, and
made the indemnification of the opium smugglers the
first object of all military operations. But even if such
were the primary directions of his ignoble instructions,
they will only secure his more certain condemnation.
Had the British flag waned over Canton, the facilities of
procuring tea must have been increased, and not dimin-
ished ; because the obstacles to exportation proceed, not
from the Chinese people or merchants, but from the Im-
perial authorities, whose power over public opinion would
have been thereby lessened ; for not denying the hos-
tility of all classes of the Chinese to the British, still their
cupidity and necessity would have rendered their
hatred subservient to their interest. And as it is, Cap-
tain Elliot having got his treasury chest filled, still
warns British merchant-ships waiting for cargoes that
it is not safe to ascend the river ; so that his ignomi-
nious conduct has, in all probability, wholly closed the
exportation of tea. Then, as to the so anxiously-
sought indemnity, it i; clear that the Plenipotentiary
might have had both his much-loved dollars and the
command of Canton at the same time ; and then again
he has defeated, by an excess of diplomatic strategy,
the valour of British ar,hs, and realised the old pro-
verb so often quoted to the disparagement of British
convention-makers.

CHRONICLE.-- -The Tory papers continue their in-
decent attacks upon Captain Elliot. Although not one
line has been published, and therefore, we presume, not
received from Captain Elliot by the last overland mail—
although every one of his assailants plead utter igno-
rance of his motives, still do they persevere in the most
unmeasured abuse, not only of his official conduct, but of
himself personally. By one writer, who professes to
take " a calm and dispassionate view of his conduct," he
is denounced as " a lunatic ;" while another recGgnises
the justice of " dismissing the Commissioner until he
shall be present to account" for his acts ; and yet in the
very article in which he does so, designates him as "the
man who) sold the honour of the British name, and the
fruit of British gallantry and skill for certain bags of
dollars." Now, in what respect has the conduct of
' Capt. Elliot compromised the success of the operations
in the Canton river ? It is not by the coarse abuse
heaped upon that functionary, that the public will be in-
duced to believe that no political or commercial advan •
tare has been gained because Canton is not in possession
of our troops. In a political point of view these opera-
tions are highly important, as they must convince the
Chinese how impossible it is for them to resist us with
success ; and the advantages gained by our small force
over a large Chinese army, for it seems thero were
nearly forty thousand men in and about Canton, and
many of them Tartar troops, must inspire even the
Emperor and his Council at Pekin with a proper sense
of the power of Great Britain. It might be well if those
who so energetically condemn the conduct of Captain
Elliot were to ask themselves what were the objects for
which the Chinese expedition was sent. These objects
were twofold, embracing indemaity for the past and
security for the future. The first of these objects Cap-
tain Elliot accomplished in part, by exacting an imme-
diate payment of six millions of dollars, because that
sum will go far to compensate the merchants for the
opium which was extorted from .them-as the ransom for
their lives. It is all very well to rail at Captain Elliot
for accepting " certain bags of dollar," but it should not
be forgotten that those who now find fault with him for
having done so, are the very parties by whom we used
to be told that we should never get a single dollar from
the Chinese, and that in regard to compensation our ex-
pedition was sure to fail. But the full success of the ex-

p‘ edition could not be accomplished without the formal
acquiescence of the Emperor in our demands, and that
acquiescence is very unlikely to be obtained by any
operations, however brilliant or successful, if confined
to the province of Canton. For this reason Lord Auck-

land aid the late Government at home had deter
mined that operations should be carried on further to the
northward ; and, accordingly, at the very moment when
the late attack upon Canton was found to be necessary,
the British troops in the Canton river were actually em-
barked, and on the point of starting for Amoy. Now, if
that force had been locked up in Canton by the occupa-
tion of that city, all operations to the northward must
have been abandoned, unless a much larger force had
been sent from India, which, without adverting to the
additional expense, it might not have been convenient to
detach. We cannot see, therefore, how, Captain El-
liot could have turned our successes at Canton to
better account. In one week he obtained from
the Chinese six millions of dollars to go towards
paying the compensation to the opium holders;
while at the same time he has managed to keep
the whole British force, naval and military, free for any
further operations which the Government at home and
the Governor-General of India may have ordered. lied
we occupied Canton, it is very unlikely that we should
have accomplished more than obtaining six millions of
dollars, while we should have been prevented from doing
anything else. The occupation of Canton might, indeed,
have been useful on one supposition—that we meant to
make a permanent conquest of any part of the main land
of China. But as our Government had no intention of
attempting to annex Canton to the British dominions,
we cannot see how Captain Elliot erred in withdrawing
our forces.

POST.—We should deeply regret if the great ques-
tion of Church restoration or Church extension were
brought down from the high position where it ought to
stand, by mixing it up with a minor controversy as to the
expedienee of looking for pecuniary aid to the State.
The remarks which an influential contemporary has made
on this latter question are put forward with characteris-
tic boldness and ingenuity. It is not our purpose to find
fault with them, or to answer them. To some extent we
cordially agree with them ; as, for instance, that it would
be quite monstrous to have the support of the Church, or
any considerable part of its Ministration, dependent upon
an annual grant from Parliament, and therefore upon the
relative strength in the House of Commons of rival poli-
tical leaders. We hope the Church will never be placed in
such a position, than which absolute poverty would, in
our opinion, be far better. But, still, supposing circum-
stances favourable, we do not see why the State might
not fulfil a great duty by giving large donations to the
Church in aid of its efforts to promote and preserve reli-
gion among the people. This is not to be expected when
the Exchequer is in an impoverished condition, and bur-
thened with greater charges than the whole amount of
the public income will defray ; but if under a more care-
ful and diligent stewardship the financial concerns of the
State should prosper, and a surplus be found in the Ex-
chequer, then we think that largo donations to the
Church would be the reasonable duty of the State.
We do not mean to assert anything arrogantly, but
merely to advance what, we think, a not unreason.
able opinion, when we say that if again, as in
1829, the annual public income should exceed
the annual expenditure by four millions sterling, it
would be better, instead of knocking off three mil-
lions a year in beer-tax at one blow, to spend a few mil-
lions in building commodious churches and noble cathe-
drals to the honour and glory of God, and in making
permanent endowments for the decent but not ostenta-
tious support of additional clergy. We really do not see
why the State should not be considered as having, at
least in some degree, that respo isibility as to the use of
its wealth which all Christians allow to belong to indi-
vidual persons. Mr. Gresley, in his tract on Church
restoration, suggests the revival of the ancient scriptural
practice of exhorting the people to set apart on the first
day of each week a portion of neir means as an offering
to God. Now, supposing the State to hare any surplus
means of which to dispose, might it not ho fairly ex-
pected that a portion should now and then be " set
apart" for the sacred purpose above stated ?
GLOBE.—We thought it no very good omen for the
Liberal cause in England, th it the accession of the Tories
to power was hailed with ds'ight in France by that por-
tion of the Parisian prose in which, under the specious
pretext of a necessity for firmness, the most unpopular
measures, tending to place strong restrictions on liberty,
are openly recommended t) the adoption of the French
GoTerumont. it Way be true that among a population

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so easily excited as our neighbours continually prove
themselves to be, the reins of authority must be
held occasionally with a lightened hand ; but in a coun-
try like our own, where a love of order is strongly inhe-
rent in every class, it is not necessary to exceed the
limits of power that the constitution has vested in the
Ministry. When, therefore, a peculiar sympathy is
manifested by the Absolutist party abroad for the
Government lately ,placed over us at home, we
may infer that it is of a nature more adapted for a
nation where there is scarcely a choice between anarchy
and despotism, than for a people amongst whom respect
fur the laws is no less powerful than their lore for
liberty. At the time when Sir Robert Peel was installed
at the Treasury, his organs were in the habit of
quoting with pride the articles from the Parisian papers
of the day, in which favourable, opinions were express-
ed with regard to the newly formed English Ministry.,
When it is remembered that these were the journals in
which Louis Philippe was advised to revive the cen-
sorship of the press, and a coercive policy recommended,
which, even if necessary for the revolutionary ten-
dencies of France, is wholly unsuited to the calmness
and good sense of England—when it is recollected that
those who applauded the formation of a Tory Cabinet
did so because they recognised in the Members compos-
ing it a predilection for arbitrary rule—such praise as
the Ministers were the other day proud to boast of can
be no recommendation to them here, where obedience to
power is the result of a very different feeling from that
of slavish submission to over-stretched authority.
STANDARD.—It is an old characteristic of the party
now happily in opposition—indeed, it has been the cha-
racteristic of all traitor parties from /Eschines down-
nard—to exult in the difficulties and repine at the pros-
perity of their country. No one, therefore, can have read
the following paragraph of last eight's Globe with any
surprise, except the surprise
~expited by .its matchless
follyeand effrontery :
" With all the appliances and means' to which we
have alluded, with the application of the screw by the
collectors of the revenue to an unprecedented extent of
severity, the increase upon the year amounts to the small
sum of 248,1481.—a rather cheerless matter for contem-
plation to the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, while
collecting materials for the budget of next year." •
The present Ministers had been on Sunday last less
than six weeks in office, that is, they had been in
office for less than the last half of the last quarter,
and we find the result of the accounts to be that,
whereas the increase of the revenue for tat' whole
year is 248,1481., the increase upon the quarter,
less than one-half of which the3Conservatiees
were in office, amounts to no less than 241,741/.,
leaving to the three quarters in which the
Whig-Radicals held undivided sway the splendid sum of
6,4001. sterling, We have no means of distributing be-
tween the governments which divided the last quarter
between them their respective shares of the large increase;
but according to the analogy of the nine months preced-
ing, the -Whig-Radicals might claim credit for sixteen hun-
dred pounds—the Conservatives for about two hundred
and forty thousands. With a Conservative Administra-
tion still in office, and likely to remain in office, there is
not, therefore, much reason to despond. But, says the
GlJbe, the increase upon the Customs of 74,000/. in the
last quarter would have been an increase of half a million,
if the Bs. duty upon foreign wheat had been imposed, as the
late Ministers designed. No doubt of it, and the poor
would have paid-the additional 460,000/. in the higher
price for their bread. The additional 460,000/. do we say?
No; an additional million or two, if the Morning Chro-
nicle's argument be correct, that the price of bread mul-
tiplies two or three fold in proportion to the augmenta-
tion of the price of grain. The Bs. duty was not im-
posed, and therefore, at a time when they most needed
relief, the people have been relieved to the extent of
millions. But it is quite certain that the 74,0001. in-
crease upon the last quarter is altogether due to the im-
portation of foreign grain, at duties fluctuating from Is.
to 3s. or 45.? Then there must be a good supply of
grain in the country ; for, if we are not mistaken, some
grain, and not a little, was imported in the quarter
ending October 10, 1840 ; and if this 74,000/. is
all to he ascribed to Corn-duties between Is. and 45., in
what a prodigious degree must the importation of the
last quarter exceed the importation of the corresponding
quarter in the preceding year. Perhaps the Sugar-
duties may have something to do with the increase, as
Mr. Goulburn in May last predicted that they would.
COURIER.--We did think, we confess, that with no
class of our Contemporaries could the, unaccountably
insane and wickedly mercenary conduct of Captain
Elliot before Canton find apologists, much less defenders.
We did think that his unworthy interference with the
commander of the expedition just at the moment when a
decisive blow was about being struck—that the huxtering
spirit of his arrangement with the Chinese authorities—
that, in a word, the whole tenor ofhis conduct, betrayed such
utter imbecility-such total insensibility to what
was due to the character of the country of which be
was the representative—and such a want of per-
ception of the real objects of the expedition in which
he was engaged, as to have for ever excluded him
from all share in the 'sympathies of Englishmen. We
were aware that criminality on a colossal scale might
meet with apologists,' nay, admirers, the dazzling bril-
liancy of great achievements blinding mens' minds to
their enormous atrocity ; but, in the case of Plenipo-
tentiary Elliot, the enormity of his offence is heightened
by the meanness of his motives. We defy the keen
eye of favouritism himself—we defy the sharpest-sighted
relatives amongst the whole tribe of Elliots
and we believe those of them in the service
of the State make up a tolerably round num-
ber—to discover, or point out one solitary, isolated
accidental act of the British Superintendent in China
worthy of the nation, whose interests have been, in an
unlucky hour, committed to his care, or calculated te,
secure the objects of the expedition, and realise the ex-
pectations of those who advised it. Has his condext not
been one unvarying series of shuffling and prOcrastina-
tion, frustrating the combined efforts of the highest
military skill and bravery, and prodUr.;tive of a wicked,
because fruitless, expenditure of blood and treasure? But
what say his apologists? by Weat juggle of words, or
by what seeming pretexts, (1.0 they endeavour to defend
the Tinto protege, or milli the storm of universal scorn
and execration which ttie recent intelligence from China,
has excited against him, as the base betrayer of his
country's honour? We are really ashamed of the sub-
terfuges, of the muffled falsehoods, resorted to for the
purpose, not of proving that Captain Elliot had acted in
a manner becoming his position—that were impossible—
but of attempting to propagate the belief that he had
acted in the spirit of his instructions, and upon large and
comprehensive views of what appeared to him most
likely to crown the China expedition with success.

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MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS'
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
' CHRONICLE,—The Tories have been a few weeks
only in office, and already we have had the comforts of
an attempt to add 5,000,0001. to the public debt, and to-
day the whole moneyed interest in the City has been in
a state of agitation and alarm, from the position of our
Peninsular and American relations. There have been
greater excitement and more " panic" on the Stock Ex-
change on Saturday and to-day, than was experienced,
we believe (we speak from memory), during all the ten
or eleven years of Whig Government. The " smoke
from the shores of France" during the Thiers adminis-
tration was nothing in comparison. At that period the public knew that the Noble Viscount who then held the
important office of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
was more than a match for the Frenchman ; but
now the case is very different, and besides this,
the " good Prince" is now strongly suspected to
have been " aiding and abetting," as the lawyers have
it, in the insurrection in the Spanish provinces ; so
that it may bc necessary for the Regent of Spain
to demand the removal of Christina, the ex-Queen Re-
gent, from Paris. Such are the fears which have
caused much fluctuation and a further fall of fully 1:- per
cent. in Consols on the opening price of the day. It
was at first supposed that despatches had heen received
by the Government from Mr. Fox, to the effect that he
had made a specific demand for Mr. M'Leod's release or
his passports, but this report soon died away.
The organ of the Bank Parlour is on his " last legs."
After a rapsody to-day about Canton, Treasury Bonds,
the Duke of Wellington, and Captain Elliot, " as the
incapable tool of an incapable Ministry," he finally, we
trust, informs his readers " that he had no intention
whatever of proceeding upon the unchristian principle
of kicking a dead ass." The only notice we take of this,
is by exercising the Christian principle of recommending
our unfortunate Contemporary to the immediate care and
attention of his friends.
POST.—The failure of two Portuguese firms was an-
nounced in the course of the morning. One of them is
in correspondence with a Hamburgh house, on account
of which it had come under heavy acceptances. The im-
mediate cause of embarrassment is said to be the seizure
of five vessels belonging to the connection on a charge
of slave-trading. It is not known that any stoppage has
occurred at Hamburg-h.
The Committee of Spanish American Bondholders held
a meeting to-day, at which it transpired that official com-
munications had been made on the part of the Mexican
Government. They are to the effect that the Congress
and Senate had passed a decree which was long under
consideratioe_ for consolidating the over-due Coupons,
and for Prating the bondholders upon the more favour-
able fo'uting of giving them one-fifth instead of one-
sixth of the customs revenue. The packet Alert, arrived
o
at Falmouth with dates to September 17, brings 16,000
dollars on account of the dividends, making a total 0_
l,
,tf
53,000 brought by her and the Penguin, h
which arrived last week. The late political
sut , ltienaspacket
movemente
is considered likely to produce a good re
as it will revive the the customs at Vera Cruz,
stop to the smuggling system w hich has interfered so
much with the Exchequer,
Messrs. Wheelton and Evans
have,we find, retired
from the direction of the London and County Bank,
and put a
Lombard-street.
ere
early
rel vye n i nt h ae
day a complete panic seized the market, and what is the
more T ri‘pl eEr tSu. r—b
e dh e state Stock
t
hAafnarkoentssatotu-drdayayw;
more remarkable,
a veil
of mystery still hangs over it.
ptySaorme, view it
b being fa
asg
theirou
-nireere speculative movement of a
f the moment, in connexion dby the
nitiikrolifteirceailgne xrceiltaetminennsto,
have
exerted
Somethemselves
endeavour to theto find
utmost
at
soeln tmakeinn it bearthe
upon them. in
M'Leod affair, some in the aspect of affairs at North
Africa, while others assume the sweeping opinion that

the present state of affairs is radically bad, and thus seek
or a common cause to account for the panic in the
Stock Markets, and the recent failures Lath in the com-
mercial and banking departments. The more feasible
opinion appears to be, however, that the insurrection
in Spain in favour of Queen Christina is the
real cause of the excitement, since it is apprehended
that France is connected with that insurrection, and that
it may ultimately lead to an European conflict. That
this apprehension is the cause of the decline in the va-
lue of the Securities is corroborated by the great fall in
Spanish Stock which has accompanied that of the Eng-
lish Securities. The markets It ere subject to severe
fluctuations throughout the day, the result of which
was two failures--viz., that of Mr. Howe and that of
Mr. D. Cohen, the latter of whom is expected to pay
his differences in full ; and had it not,been that a certain
influential party had upheld prices with some energy, it
was fully expected that the decline would even have been
greater than it has proved to be. They were not, how-
ever, enabled to give the market any great strength. and
what was afforded was only of a temporary nature.
Money has for the last week or so been scarce and dear,
and this, in all probability, has helped to weaken the
market. It was feared during the rapid fluctuations
that the Stock Exchange members were about to en-
' counter another of those periodical panics which have so
often prostrated the speculators in Public Securities.
It was announced on 'Change to-day on the Portuguese
walk, and in some circles was previously known, that
Messrs. Soares, merchants, of some celebrity, though
now not so extensively engaged as formerly, had been
obliged to stop payment. Their liabilities are said to be
considerable, and their connexion with Portuguese firms
of high standing numerous. No particulars are as yet
known, and indeed the announcement took those who
might be supposed most intimately acquainted with the
affairs of the concern, by surprise. With respect to the
plan now, as well as on other occasions adopted by this
journal, of publishing to the world the names of parties
who are reduced to the necessity of suspending payment,
it has met with approbation in the very highest quar-
ters, since it is considered that while anonymous allu-
sions to failures conceal from the public what ought to
be known, they at the same time throw a discredit 'on
the whole branch of business with which the defaulter
is concerned. '

PETITION TO THE QUEEN.
We have great pleasure in laying the follo..*g
.peti.
tion.to.her qtybefore.--,ete-Yetsiefl. IF was tarried
by a very largo majority at tt public' meeting at the King's
Arms Tavern, Philip-lane, Vood.street, and it does
great honour to the gentlemen assembled upon that
occasion :
TO THE QUEEN'S I•681' IaCELLitIiT MUMMY.
The Petition of certain Merchants, Manufacturers, and
others, agreed to at a public meeting, held at Cie
King's Arms Tavern, Philip-lane, in the City of
London, on Saturday, the 9th, of October, Is4l,
Most Humbly Showeth,
That your Majesty's petitioners, with hearts full of
gratitude for your Majesty's expressed sympathy for
your suffering people, have learned with sorrow, alarm,
and indignation, that the Parliament has adjourned with-
out taking into its consideration the humane and wise
suggestions so earnestly recommended in your Majesty's
gracious speech on the assembling of the present Par-
liament.

From our daily pursuits, being all engaged in, and
depending upon trade, your petitioners can, of our own
knowledge, bear witness that there is a large portion of
your Majesty's subjects, and--that the most productive
and deserving, unable to obtain a sufficiency of the neces-
saries of life, in consequence of the artificial price to
which they have been raised by unjust legal enactments,
and the great reduction that has been m de, of late
years, in the price of human labour.
Your petitioners, with the.', perfect kn. ledge that
there are hundreds of thousands of our fellow-subjects
in a condition bordering on starvation, and that daily
numbers are dying from actual want, cannot contemplate
the coming of winter without the most painful fears.
Your petitioners, therefore, humbly and most earnestly
pray your Majesty, that your Majesty will be graciously
pleased to use your Royal authority;and dismiss the pre-
sent unfeeling House of Commons, the majority of which
has not faithfully represented the desires and wants -of
iour Majesty's people; but, to the great dishonour and
njury of the nation, has disregarded alike their prayers
and your Majesty's benevolent and just recommendation.
Your petitioners earnestly pray your Majesty to call
together a new Parliament, that the cause of the present
wide-spread and still spreading misery be immediatel7
considered, and some remedy found for your people s
sufferings, that they die not for want, surrounded by
plenty, the gift of an all-bountiful Providence, and the
results of their own industry; nor, like a neighbouring
nation in the last century, be goaded by hunger and in-
justice into revolt against the institutions of their
country ; institutions which your petitioners believe
capable, if administered by your Parliament in the spirit
of justice, of giving protection, encouragement, and hap-
piness to all living under them.
Fervently imploring the God of all to bless your MA-
jesty's efforts for the good of your people,
Your petitioners will ever pray.

INSURRECTION--IN SPAIN.
It has been ascertained that the whole is the work
of secret French agency ; the Commerce taxes, not M.
Guizot only, but another higher persouravl with having
counselled the movement.
The latest telegraphic despatch. says that O'Don-
nell had already begun cannonriting Pampeluna, and
that the city not being able *to resist the attack,
had declared for him. At Vitoria no struggle at
all took place. The Marqu;_s de la Alameda and Ge-
neral Piquero declared, ,or• Christina on receiving an
order brought by SenQr Egaua, and probably emanating
from the provincial deputations. At Riboa the same
determination was shown ; this city is one of the strong-
holds of the Modern! do party.
St. Sebastian stlll held out for Espartero, and General
Alcala, corranirddant there, having gone on towards Ber-
gara to sup press a movement, on his way to succour
Ribero, Inzrograded to Tolosa on receiving a telegraphic
despata.
Ylunagorri, according to the Moniteur Parisien, has
espoused the cause of the insurrection. Dort Carlos ...."
shortly to publish a proclamation to his partisans, enjoin-
ing them to strict neutrality in this quarrel, which was
not their's. But it is not the less certain that a great
number of the officers who have rallied since the Ber-
gara convention, already follow the banner of O'Donnell.
The Gazette de France states that the Trench Go-
vernment had received hostile communications from
Madrid, and that, in consequence, troops were sent off
on Saturday to the Pyrennees, immediately after a
Council of Ministers.
The Bayonne Journal, the Sentinelle des Pyrenees,
dates up to the 7th, and states that on Sunday, the
3d, two hundred men of the 12th Light Infantry
entered the citadel of Pampeluna to reinforce O'Don-
nell. In the afternoon a squadron of lancers and
half a company of infantry, the garrison of Tafalla,
five leagues from Pampeluna, reinforced General
Ribero. On the same day a convoy of rations was
intercepted; it was sent by the Alcade of Los Arcos
to O'Donnell, with a letter, offering him that he might
have all he wanted. O'Donnell then intimated to the
Captain-General that if his communications were inter-
cepted he would bombard the city; but the Captain-Gene-
ral on his side sent for the relatives of Senores Carriquiri
and Ribeo, merchants at Pampeluna, and who had retired
to the citadel with O'Donnell, and told them that they
should answer with their lives for any harm that should
come to the city.
On the 4th a battalion of about 500 strong from the
regiment of Gironne came to augment the garrison of
Pampeluna. It remained twenty-four hours at Villaba, two
kilometres from Pampeluna, undecided whether to de-
clare for Christina or for Espartero; but a detachment
from the same regiment persuaded them to return to
duty. On the same day several officers, amongst whom
was O'Donnell's brother, entered the citadel.
According to correspondence from Beurdeaux, Gene-
ral Leon was to proclaim the Regency of Christina at
atM Viadrid,toria. whilst General Piquero should do the same
One of O'Donnell's first acts was to hoist a standard
on the citadel, bearing the device—" Isabella the Second
for ever, and the Regency of her august Mother." It
appear that this is the preconcerted cry of war. •
General Ribero has ordered all the detachments of
Valcarlos, Ronceyaux, Urdax, Zugarramurdi, Elisondo,
and others in the five towns to concentrate their force
on Pampeluna.
The citadel of Pampeluna was built by Philippe
the Second to keep the Navarrese in lubittlnd 'on
is one of the strongest in Europe, beingston; with
a rock, and having fire bastions of ltch is
ditches, lunettes, tenailles, and ravelins; ,_
rounded. In the midst of the citadel Jibe had with
whence by five streets communication Y
cpsjuato lodge 10,000
the five bastions, which have casema--it is separated
everyif arsenal,
men with three months' ammunr•
oh leaves the cannon
from the city by an esplanade,
full room to play upon the city,shes, which render ap-
country it is surrounded by mar
which leaves
the open
proaches impracticable.
_______,.........

SCENE
"..
----'."""-.'''----...''.--7-------1----.. I 1 , E I-. 'criticism FLAG-
A ' ON
ColonelßOAßD THE
of
the Turkish troops on
SHIP AT ACRE.—A
way
to the divan, which I
board shortly found his
; The latter lit the chibouk
negro boy, carrying hisipsepwe.as accompanied by a little
with due form, and P
l witnessing what I think may be
lesented it to his master, when I
had again occupied.
had an opportunityi
to
oer Late politeness in the Turk. It is
a compliment .
after he has himself taken a few
proof whichof a Turk always pays to an equal
moment like this, when one was not
but at a
whiffs ; head on his shoulders from one minute to
sure of the
it was hardly to be expected if any body lit a
the other,
hould go to such lengths as to think of doing so
pipe hoethser.
on the contrary, my friend offered it me
offermed hima
his pipe,
tbrhaenw'ould have done at any other time ; and, I doubt
nasot, would have been alike offended had I refused him
the compliment of accepting it. The little negro boy
was still more cool and unconcerned than his master.
The Colonel having been called away to attend upon
Selim Pacha, who was on the poop, young Sambo at
once scrambled on the divan, as far as possible out of
the window, impressed apparently with a great desire to
see what all the noise was about outside. A stream of
shot, during the action, continued to pis' ploughing up
the water a few yards astern of
the ship. The shot
striking in the water and rebounding upwards again,
seemed to amuse the little negro vastly, and I could not but envy his ignorant equanimity, when, as frequently
happened, one would come nearer than usual to where
we were sitting, and the little fellow would rub his
hands and show his teeth from ear to ear with delight.
After an hour's firing a gun in the fortress of very large
dimensions, was observed to be solely directed at our
ship, and a shot, which had severely wounded the main-
mast, was thought to have been fired from it. Captaia
Lane and Mr. Walton pointed against it several of the
main deck guns, and which shortly had the e'ect of
Soviets Journal.
silenciug its fire.—. United

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE

- .
AND MR. WILLIS 'JONES.
Crowded Houses. " Blenheim" a greater hit than the " Bat-
tle of Waterloo.," Splendid New Scenes in the Circle, and,
by desire, the Polley Races One Week more.
THIS EVENING. OCT. 13
Will be presented the successful Equestrian Spectacle, called
THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM ; OR, IHE HORSE
OF THE DISINHERITED; introducing Mr. Duerow'smag-
nifieent Stud of Forty Horses, highlly-trained Palfreys, Fairy
Poner, Equestrian Troop, and Companies of both Theatres;
embracing all the Military Exploits of the Great Duke of
Marlborough, G: and Reviews, Battlei, and Glorious Victories.
After which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in the
Largest Arena in the World, in which Madame Ducrow, Sig-
nor Hillier, the Great American Rider, the British Horseman,
Signor Felix Carlo, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear.
To conclude with THE SEVEN CLERKS.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDIST ON.
Continued success of " Susan Hopley !" Revival of " The
Black Domino," and of " Madeline !" and third week of
" The Flying Dutchman," with Childe's Phantasmagorical
Representation of the Spectral Ship in full sail.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 13,
The highly interesting and pathetic Domestic Drama, called
SUSAN HOPLEY ; OR THE TRIALS AND VICISSI-
TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL. William Dean, Mr. E.
F. Saville ; Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged
Heroine of Domestic. Drama.
After which, THE BLACK DOMINO ; OR, THE MYS-
TERY.—Don Sylvio, Mr. Osbaldiston; Juliano, Mr. Seaman;
Gil Perez, Mr. Gardner; Le Compte Voisey, Mr. Howard;
the Black Domino, Miss Vincent.
To conclude with THE FLYING DUTCHMAN ; OR
THE PHANTOM SHlP.—Vanderclecken, Mr. Dale ; Toby
Varnish, Mr. Seaman ; Peter Von Hummel, Mr. Gardner ;
Lestelle, Mrs. Lee; Lucy, Mrs. Howard.
Boxes, 2.s.—Pit, tid. Half-price to the Boxes
only, at Half-past Eight.
To. morrow, Susan Hopley, with Madeline, and the Flying
Dutchman.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE,WEnNesnAir, Om 13.
The Public are respectfully informed, that though
a small portion of the Gallery Staircase unfortunately
gave way last evening, the Management truly con-
gratulates itself that not one serious accident has occured,
every facility having been given to render the most powerful
and willing assistance. Throughout the past night competent
workmen have been employed, under judicious directors; and
the Gallery doors will be left open during the whole of the day,
that all parties may satisfy themselves of the soundness and
substantiality of the present arrangements. The best proof of
the correctness of the above announcement is the subsequent
filling of the Theatre in every part, and the plauditory manner
in which the performances were received.
D. W. OSBALDISTON, Director.