The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.
Seamen of the Inscription .
Equipages de Ligno ,

Total Royal Navy 25,000
Seamen of the Inscription employed in
Commerce . 27,000

Total Sailors
Inscription over age, above 50 years B,OOO
Fishermen, &c. 23,000

Navy Sailors •
Mereliaut Sailors

AMERICA.
6,000
61,000

Naval Population
Fishermen, Sze.

83,000

67,000
not known.

•
NEW STEAM-BOAT PIER ON THE ESSEX
COAST.—The delay and danger experienced, owing to
the crowded state of the Thames from Greenwich to
London Bridge, have long suggested the expediency of
providing some convenient place of landing for passen-
gers by the large steamers more especially. With a
view to remedy this admitted inconvenience, a steam-
boat pier and landing wharf are now in progress of erec-
tion at the village of Grays Thurrock, on the Essex
side of the river, situated between Tilbury Fort and Fur-
fleet, and within a short distance of the Blackwall and
Eastern Counties line of railway, to both of which it
is intended there shall be suitable modes of conveyance
at all times. The project has been taken up by a com-
pany of shareholders, who are for the most part con-
nected with the county of Essex ; and although a pri-
vate speculation, it is likely to prove ono of great pub-
lic utility. The pier, which is nearly finished, is 400
feet long, and 8 feet wide. From the indentation of
the coast at this point it offers no obstruction to
the navigation of the river, and is approachable
with perfect safety at low water, even by vessels of
heavy burden. It is built on piles, 20 feet apart, to
which the pathway is united by substantial woodwork,
the whole bound together by strong iron knees and
girders. At the extreme points, or pier-head, there are
two places for landing. approached by flights of stairs,
the platform here extending a distance of GO feet trans-
versely. There are also two hoys, or lobbies, the one
280, the other 140 feet from the shore, both of which
are to be covered over and furnished with benches. At
the land entrance a neat toll-house has been erected, con-
taining waiting-rooms on either side of the roadway and
a spacious saloon attached, for the accommodation of
passengers. The village of Grays, which is contiguous
to the pier, will be approached by an ornamentdroad,
now in progress of formation. Without the appearance
of heaviness, the whole structure seems substantial, and
affords promise of
great durability. The pier was de-
signed. by Mr. Penrin, an architect of Colchester. Mr.
Lomax, of Queen-square, civil engineer, is the contractor.
From the forward state of the works, it is expected that
the whole will be completed by January next, when the
pier will be opened to the public.
POST HASTE, IN THE OLDEN TIME. In a
letter written by the Earl of Essex, about the year 1597,
to the Lord High Admiral at Plymouth, which is still
preserved, there are added to the words " hast, hast, bast
for lyfe !" the expressive symbol of a gallows prepared
with a halter, which could not be well misunderstood by
the meat illiterate Mercuries.

EXPERIMENTAL TRIP WITH
. THE GEYSER STEAM-FRIGATE,

itl/27 WOOLWICH, OCT. 26.—This elegantly-constructedvessel, of l ,060 tons burden, built at Sheerness this
season from a design of Sir William Symonds, and one
of the five vessels of the same class and mould fitted
by Messrs. John and Samuel Seaward and Capel, of
Limehouse, arrived opposite Woolwich Dockyard at
eleven o'clock this forenoon, when Captain Boyes and
Lieutenant Browne, and Mr. Ewart, master engineer of
the dps)liyAed, and several gentlemen went on board.
l'he'Geys-er,,,44lt...being commissioned, was manned by
.strterftltfLowt ind thirty of the crew of the Devas-
, lotion, and amongst others the following naval officers
and gentteefia aceomphanied her from Limehouse :
Captaiiis Piied, Joiles," Johnson, Otway, Plunket, Sir
P. Daniell, Burton, and Stopford ; Captain Northcotte
and Mr. Green, the eminent shipowners; Mr. Mason,
of the Marine Department, East India House ; and a
number of scientific gentlemen.
On leaving Woolwich the vessel 'proceeded down the
river in fine styli-, the tide being in her favour ; and
when opposite the marked ground at Long Reach the
full steam-power was applied, and she accomplished on
the average ten and a half miles per hour, equal to eleven,
if she had been coppered. The engines are substan-
tially constructed, and appeared to work with the
greatest ease at the rate of twenty and a quarter strokes
per minute, and are of 140-horse power each, upon the
same principle as those introduced in the Gorgon.
These engines effect a saving in weight of one-fourth
over the ordinary beam.engines, and a third in space.
The engine-room is only fifty feet long, within which
space she has nine furnaces for her boilers, her engines,
and storeroom for three hundred tons, or fifteen days'
consumption of fuel ut her full power. There is
accommodation on her troop-deck for three hundred
soldiers, with their officers, baggage, and equipments,
besides complete accommodation for her own officers
cod crew. When ready for sea her armament will
consist of two ten-inch guns for carrying hollow shot of
981bs. weight, and four eight-inch guns carrying carry-
ing 68-pound shot.

_ .
The experiment made to-day was highly satisfactory,
and everything went off on board as well as could be
expected, until her return opposite Erith, when a Scotch
brig, the Glasgow packet, of Glasgow, in coming down
'the river with ate tide, with apparently only one person
on deck, notwithstanding the repeated warnings of the
pilot, who endeavoured, as much as possible, to avoid
her, came across the bow of the Geyser, drove off the
keeper, and let 'go the anchor, bringing both vessels to
a standstill. The Scotch br;g was terribly shattered,
and had all her sails torn, and the ropes on one side
nearly all broken, and one of the planks of the Geyser
appeared so much injured that it is probable it will have
to be replaced. The Scotch brig, on being extricated,
cast anchor near to where the accident occurred, and
the Geyser proceeded to Woolwich, where she has been
moored, and will proceed to Sheerness in a few days,
to be coppered and made ready for sea.
Messrs. Seaward and Co. entertained their guests to
a cold collation on their return up the river.
Captain Boyes, of the Vixen, already appointed, and
several other naval officers, who expect to be appointed
to vessels on the same construction, and fitted by the
same engineers, appeared to take a more than ordinary
interest in the experiment.
It is satisfactory to know that although the Styx,
fitted out with great haste to receive on board the Go-
vernor-General of Canada, encountered the late gales in
the English Channel, she worked beautifully, and ac-
complished her voyage when scarcely any other vessel
could remain at sea.

DREADFUL OCCURRENCE IN THE CHAR.
TER-HousE.—On Saturday last Mr. Francis, a brother
in the Charter-house, who had just returned from a visit
of some weeks at a brother's at Peckham, having been
left alone in his room by the nurse, threw himself from
the window, which was on the two pair. He was picked
up in a deplorable condition, and conveyed to his room,
where he died two hours after. On being asked by the
nurse how it happened, he replied that the devil prompted
him to throw himself from the window, and never left
him till he did it. This is the second or third accident
that has occurred at this place.
The measurements made by Mr. Thomas Catley
of this town (Brighton), by his rain guage at his cot-
tage on the Hastings' hill, of the quantity of rain fallen
from the 22A of September to the 21st of October, both
inclusive, being a period of thirty days, during which
period it rained every day except two, was 11:1- inches
and three parts. This shows a considerable quantity
above any corresponding period for a number of years.
The nearest approach to it was the year 1830, when from
the 24th of October to the 21st of November, it rained
every day excepting eight, when the derth of rain was
44 inches and three parts. In 1839, the 30 days of Sep-
tember were all wet excepting six, and then the quan-
tity of rain was 6 inches, and nineteen parts.—Brighton
Guardian.

MUSIC A CURE FOR MADNESS.—Accounts
have recently appeared in various French papers of the
attempt to appeal to the imperfect sympathies and scat-
tored associations of the patients, at the Auxerre Asylum
for the insane, through the medium of music, as a substi-
tute for violence and restraint. The patients are in-
structed, successfully, in the theory and practice of
music, and seventeen of them, under this delightful and
mild discipline, are said to have been cured, and to have
been returned, since the end of last year, to their fami-
lies, in the full re-possession of all their intellectual
faculties.

FINE FOR REFUSING AN OATH•—At Nor-
wich City Sessions, which commenced on Tuesday before
the Recorder, Isaac Jermy, Esq., the Grand Jury were
about being sworn, when Mr. Macro, woollen-draper,
London-street, presented a letter to the Court addressed
to the Recorder. The Town Clerk read the letter, by
which it appeared that Mr. Macro did not think it right
tottake the oath required by a Grand Juryman, and his
objection was, that he read in the Bible, " Swear not at
all." " Above all things, swear not, but let your yea be
yea, and nay nay ;" and that if he kissed the book con-
taining those sentences, his conscience would dictate
that he was doing wrong. The Recorder told Mr.
Macro that he considered his scripttire annotations
totally misapplied, and that if he persisted in refusing to
be sworn, he must be fined. Mr. Macro, however, would
be neither convinced nor threatened into swearing ; he
was consequently fined 501.

COMPOSITION OF THE ATMOSPHERE.—EX•
periments have lately been made simultaneously at Path,
Berne, and Faulhorn, for the purpose of ascertaining
whether the proportions of oxygen and nitrogen were the
same at all these places. The main result is that, out of
10,000 parts of air at Paris, there were 2,304 parts of
oxygen; at Faulhorn, 2,297; and at Berne 2,295. As the
proportions at one of these places are found to differ much
more than the mean of the three places differs, the con-
clusion is, that the constitution of the air is the same at
all places, and of course it must be a chemical compound
LETTER-CARRYING.--During the past week
the Tribunal has had before it a case of some importance
to the Steam Companies. One of the stokers of the
Commercial Company, was found by a douanier with
some letters upon him for a commercial house in the
town. A process was the result, and although the Com-
pany had dismissed the man, and proved that they had
previously refused to carry letters for the firm from Lon-
don to Boulogne, still the Court condemned them to pay
150 f. fine and the expenses. A process, we understand,
will soon come before the Court, of the Company against
the firm, for damages for employing one of their ser-
vants to commit an illegal act.---Boulogne Gazette.
FATHER CAHILL, OF BORRIS, HELD TO
BAIL FOR A MISDEMEANOR.—On Tuesday last the
Rev. John Cahill, Roman Catholic Curate of Borris,
was held to bail by order of the Attorney-General, to
stand his trial at the next assizes. He is charged with
having headed a mob on the 28th of June last, and with
forcibly carrying away certain freeholders, the tenants
of the Earl of Courtown and Lord Downes, while on
their way. to Carlow. The event has excited great inte-
rest. His securities wore Mr. Michael Rooney, of Bur.
ren-street, and J. Kavanagh, of Graig-ue.—Carlo' Sen-
tinel.

THE MA NUMOTIVE.—A self-propelled chaise
called by this name, the property and invention of Mr.
A. G. Guinness, the Civil Engineer of Dublin, has been
running through our streets, to the great astonishment
and amusement of the inhabitants and visitors' In
appearance it resembles 'an ordinary Bathre chair,
with the exception that the wheels
a
with lv ownhdieerci
iftu
higher than the body. Underneath the seat is a yvaec
in which the machinery is hidden. Its powers of ve.
loc i ty appear to be
lesaw
very
with
great
iitt iins;
North-street
theuotr
tfthahet the mostt
sltiy reet on Friday
p r t
I y
totconnected
turn.
d
We
own the street into. Ca-s. Castle-square, and
madeliapro
e ran
evening.
thence curvetted into East-street at
a most tremendous ;
pace, and with the most perfect ease
doubt, if its powers can be made and we have little
a
acclivi-
ties as they are upon nearly level sroads,available on
will speedily be at a discou Brighton Guardian.
nt.— that railroads
A deputation from the work
employment at the New II men who left their
present visiting the towns in houses of Parliament are at
t
Meet-
ings have already been held inns neighbourhood.
Shields, and one is anno Sunderland and South
(Monday ).—Tyne
Merucnuced for Newcastle this even-
ingSTEEPLE CHASE EXTRry.
AORDINARY.--AS Mr.
Marshall, of the Belle V e u Royal Hotel, Marine-parade,
Aberystwith, and a f •
riend, Webb, Esq., from Here-
ford, were returning in a gig from the Hafod Arms hotel
the afternoon of Sunday last, when
about one hundred yards from the south turnpike-gate, a
portion of the harness gave way, which caused the horse
to start forward, h b • spirited one.
e. being a young and
Mr. Marshall perceiving the danger (the gate being
closed at the time), requested Mr. ebb to sit firm and
place his feet well forward, expecting the horse would
stop' suddenly before the closed gate ; but as they
approached the gate, Mr. Marshall, perceiving it was
the horse's intention to make a leap, he boldly and fear-
lessly gave him the reins, and took all chances, when,
surprising to relate, the horse made boldly for the gate
(being about five feet six inches in height,)broke it
asunder in the centre, and horse; gig, and all passed
through, and continued at racing speed for about three
quarters of a mile, when Mr. Marshall succeeded in pull-
ing up, safe and sound, within a few hundred yards of
Aberystwith. It appears the only fear Mr. Marshall
had, after breaking through the gate, was the soundness
of the reins, but they remained firm ; and by that, and
Mr. Marshall's presence of mind, the party was saved
roin almost inevitable destruction.— Welshman.
The Lord-Chancellor, immediately upon his re-
turn from Turville-park yesterday, repaired to
Bucking-
ham Palace, and was honoured with a long interview by
his Royal Highness Prince Albert,

EVENING SUN

LITERATURE.

THE MIRZA. 3 Vole. Bentley, London, 1841.
IJ isa collectionoL
e Easternbeen
chTiehfley
cM
Persian,irza' supposed to h
residing toldstor stories,
the author, while he was
in the country,
by the Mirza, or favourite poet of the Shah. The
most entertaining of these stories is the one en-
titled " The Foolish Husband and the Virtuous
Wife," which relates the adventur
esaL a beautiful
girl who is married to a rich fool of Ispahan, and
is over-persuaded by him to allow herself to be
seen by the Shah, on whom she makes just the
favourable impression that her conceited and
unprincipled husband had calculated on. The
virtuous Fatmeh, however—such is the young
lady's name resolutely refuses lending an ear
to the Shah's dishonourable proposals; and,
with some difficulty, she succeeds in mak-
ing her , escape from Ispahan, in company
with her brother Ali, who assists her in her
flight. The eunuchs and chief officers of the
Court of course pursue the fiiir fugitive with ail
possible dispatch ; and after a variety of wander-
ings they trace her to the mountain cave of a rob-
ber chief; with whom she and her. brother have
taken refuge. On the Shah's being informed of
this, he sets out for the cavern in question at the
head of a well-appointed body-guard, and corn
mences a desperate assault on the robber's strong
mountain fastness. After one or two fierce at-.
tacks, which were as fiercely repulsed, the royal
troops succeed in capturing the robber chieftain,
who, when asked by the Shah what he had done
with the LadyFatineh, replies, that she is hidden
in the cave, where however she will never be dis-
covered, as she is under the express guardianship
of the goblins and spirits who infest the spot.
This answer does not satisfy the enraged. monarch,
and accordingly .he resolves to search himself
for the runaway, and at the head of his body-
guard enters the cave, which is of vast dimensions,
and] branches off into a hundred labyrinthine
turns and windings. To his infinite surprise and
disappointment, however, his search is altogether
unavailing; no female—nothing even that bears
the semblance of the human formis visible;
and he is just about to pursue his way back, when,
by the red glimmer of the torches which his at-
tendants carry in their hands, he perceives,
in a small nook or recess, something that looks
like a woman. He hastens joyfully towards
it, but on coming close to the figure, finds
that it is a statue of stone, and is awfully per-
suaded by the captive robber, and his own offi-
cers, who are an2libus to get back to the enijoy-
ments of a Court-life at Ispahan, that this is
the Lady Fatmeli, who . has been thus petrified
into stone by the fairy spirits of the cavern,
at her own special request, as she was
anxious to escape the degradation of the
royal harem. The' story concludes with
an allusion to the second successful flight of the
lady and her brother, and their safe arrival at
Bassora. We have here given merely the lead-
ing outlines of the tale ; but may add that seve-
ral of the characters introduced—especially Kaka
Pembeh, the Shah's favourite jester—are spi-
ritedly and naturally drawn, and that a vein of
comic humour, of the quietest and archest sort,
pervades
the narrative, and forms its principal
recommendation.

INSURRECTION IN SPAIN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sea—Will you permit me to throw out for your
consideration and that of the public generally, a sug-
gestion connected with the present unnatural insurrec-
tion in that unhappy and afflicted country Spain, one,
which I have delayed doing under the confident ex-
pectation that your daily powerful remarks on this sub-
ject, as well as those of your Contemporaries, would
have stimulated others to have anticipated this appeal,
and whose greater abilities and influence might have
ensured it iet cordial and enthusiastic reception which
so humble an individual as myself has no pretensino to
attempt to realize. In taking a review of the convul-
sive state into which that country has been plunged for
these sis. or sevca years, no one can however
slightly versed in Spanish history, to have his liveliest
sympathies deeply enlisted in her behalf ; his disgust
and shame awakened at the hollow and jesuitical treat-
ment experienced from one of her Quadruple
Allies, whilst his feelings must frequently be
shocked at the too numerous instances of tEc
sanguinary atrocities committed on all sides. Other
points, scarcely less in importance, must equally
arrest the most earnest attention and create the deepest
anxiety. The difficulties and dangers attendant on the
modification of the Spanish Constitution into its pre-
sent tolerably practical form ; the struggles and con-
tentions connected with the Regency ; and the morn
than Herculean labours involved in contending with
the financial exigencies of the country—while justice
compels me to say, were being encountered with
an ability rewarded with all reasonable success—which
greatly redounds to the credit and honour of the Duke
of Victoria and his coadjutors of the present Adminis-
tration. Scarcely, then, is this beautiful country freed
from these fatal intestine convulsions, and flee spirit of
reconciliation rapidly extending itself amongst the late
belligerents, whilst the people generally are animated
with a determined and patriotic resolution to make
every personal sacrifice in order to develop° the latent
resources of their country, inclining the mind rather to
the favourable and charitable conclusion that the mis-
deeds of the past will serve as a beacon and a guarantee
against misfortunes fur the future, when a foul
and unnatural attempt is made to rekindle the
revolutionary torch from one end of the kingdom to
the other, based on motives, and supported by parties,
that the pen almost revolts with horror to record. A,
mother seeking the recovery of her lost power, the
gratification of a disappointed ambition, not only at the
imminent risk of a daughter's throne, but of her chil-
dren's lives—prompted and encouraged by a set of as-
piring, daring, and unpatriotic intriguers and adven-
turers—and countenanced, aided, and excited by one
of the most intriguing Sovereigns in the whole universe,
whom no plots, however sanguinary and frightful—no
warning, however providential—can direct from his un-
principled course in upholding the most atrocious mea-
sures, for the purpose of realising his political calcula-
tions. How frightful, how humiliating is it, to witness
human nature so degraded, so brutalised ! A mother
insensible to every tie of maternity, her fallibility made
the instrument of the present unnatural conflict, by
some of the most exalted personages of Spain ; whilst a
Monarch of one of the finest and most highly civilised
kingdoms in the universe, unblushingly profits by her
failings to work out his political ends. What
would have been the feelings of that unhappy
woman, or even the desperate Royal supporter, had
the late struggle for the abduction of the infant Queen
and her sister from the Palace at Madrid, terminated by
their corpses being placed before her eyes, in her fatal
and uneasy abode at Paris. And was this frightful
catastrophe an impossibility ? The showers of bullets
which pierced into and through the doors of the bed
and dressing-rooms of the youthful Queen and her
sisterls therewill baesfrtiernesdp,onhdowtoe%t,heris doubt.dear—
how-
ever exalted, whom the late Queaeaper sßegentonag e ,now
wcherishes and loves, for the support and sympathy
evinced towards her, that, had
_herchildren been killed,.
havevheubrme
ealaon loved she would not loathe with a horror a thousand times
tdi eooenmp, ea rnt tehw
aconalluisdsheeofeWhilst this unhappy
d?weareadiddehlairvieousacwqiutihreadfflaien-
instantaneous cha • in the • l indignation
champion
which must necessarily have been simultaneously
ex-
pressed throughout Europe. Is it, then, too late, or
the less necessary, because the affliction has been
i.st
pro-
videntially averted, whilst the crime still exists,
that
Europe should not, now express the horror and disgust
with which it la.:s viewed this outrage on humanity- 1.
I am not without the Lox, nay, the confident
hope, Sir, that, from the prompt, energetic,,
ri,sds
unequivocal manner in which the publicwcpz Las
generally -have stigmatized these atrocities as well
capitall
their authors, that it will not be long e.rodiscv
penses the
town in Europe which cultivates
and
nature, will
noble and generous sympathies of. hum
to
evince their abhorrence of the violence committed
civilized community is so
those ties by which the whole Inthisdemon.
safely and sacredly linked together. ie
. . and satisfaction to
strati= it would be source of
pridehad the distinguished
me to reflect upon, if London.
this cause of humanity,
honour of leading the van ince,_
that there is no mer-
chant, I feel thoroughly
convreinan or tradesman, nob!eman
chant, banker, professionalbis
reat and influential metro-
polis,or private gentleman, of t.
gh tct eg csconsolation, as
who would not derive
bead his pillow in after tars, in the re-
flectionhe lays his on
b ted, by his
attendance at a
that he had contri u
London,where •
public meeting in the City of a, the just
indignation of the British people was ex-
and virtuous
d at the present unnatural and _atrocious praseinsur-
rection in Spain,
to create in favour of that country the
influential moral support which should speedily lead to
its prompt and effectual termination, whereby is
guarantee would also be granted to Europe, that the
cause of humanity and civilization could not b •
e exposed
to a similar outrage without drawing u upon the offenders
the universal execration of mankind.
I have the honour to be, Sir, yours, veryCHARLES faithfully,
COCHRANE.
26, Da onshire-place, Friday Oct,
22, 1841.

-7!"7
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAYe—
If the sum of money expended in making the London
and Birmingham Railway was turned into pence, which
14
;he inchesotr,. widethe placed in a line, one
leanugdth of that line would be
31,915 miles, or considerably more than alb circumfer-
ence of the earth. The average weight. of a waggon of
measure
o uhing
goods on the London and Birmingham Railway, is 3.42
tons, and the ratio of goods up to goods down, may be
taken, till the Directurs choose to give the shareholders
better,- information, at 5382 to 506. The fare
of
soldiers on the London and Birminghamßailway is ld.
per mile, or 9s. 4d. for the whole distance, and their
baggage 3d.. per ton per mile, or 28s. for the whole dis-
,
tance.--liadway Journal.

SECOND EDITION

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES)
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock ... India Stock ...... —.243
3 per Cent Red. B7l Ditto Bonds 2 pr
3 per Cent Cons BBl Ditto Old Annuities ... 854
3i per Cent Red 96i Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent 9Bl 'Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 11 pm
New S per Cent
Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small. .
Jan 1860... .12 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct —
Oct 1859 l2 3-16 India Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1660.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgun, 5 per cent ,Ditto, New Ditto 29g
Brazilian 80nd5.......... 58 Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent —. Russian, 5 per cent —
C'hilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic —
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 2Ol
Ditto, 1824. 18i: Ditto, Deferred —
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. ---,,*
Greek, 18u5, 5 per cent — Exchange —t. —(3.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 241 French, 3 percent —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825, Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 511-
Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent

SHARES - -
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid 55
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) 36w
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 8:14-
London and Birmingham (90) ......... ... .. 156
London and South Western
North Midland Railway (100 paid)
Ditto Thirds (10 paid)

APPROACHING ACCOUCHEMENT
OF HER, MAJESTY.
The interesting event for which the nation has been
looking forward with so much anxiety to the month of
November to bring about, may now be almost hourly
expected.
It appears that in the course of Monday afternoon
the Queen found herself indisposed. Her Majesty's
condition was not accompanied by any other symptoms
than such as were to be naturally anticipated from the
interesting state in which her Majesty is at present
known to be.
Under these circumstances, Dr. Locock, on Monday
night,; at the express desire of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, took up his residence in Buckingham
Palace, in order to be ready on the shortest possible
notice to attend upon his Royal Mistress, in the event
of any further accession of symptoms. We understand
the Doctor will not again quit the Palace until another
scion shall have been added to the house of Brunswick.
Her Majesty continued to be poorly throughout yes-
terday. The symptoms of approaching accouchement
had so far increased as to prevent her from attending
the Royal dinner table yesterday evening.
In addition to the precaution already taken at the
earnest desire of the Prince, messengers were despatched
to the nurses and wet nurses, with orders for them to
be in immediate readiness to attend upon the Queen and
Prince or Princess (as the case may be), in the event of
their services being required at any hour of the day or
night.

The circumstances which we have here men-
tioned, and which may be relied upon for accuracy,
being founded upon the best possible authority, occasion..
ed considerable bustle and excitement within the walls
of Buckingham Palace. It was to these facts that
the report may be attributed, yesterday so prevale:it
in the vicinity of Pimlico, that her Mrjesty had given
birtis to a Prince—for that the child will be a
Prance the public seem to have made up their minds.
Considerable anxiety has been manifested in many
quarters to know whether, in the event of the birth of
a Prince of Wales, the Park and Tower guns will fire
a double Royal !alute, to announce to the metropolis
the birth of an heir to the throne of these realm/.
We understand that such is likely to be the case.
We trust to be enabled to announce the interesting in-
telligence to the public in our paper, before even that
means of communicating it can be made use of.
Up to the time of our going to press her Majesty
still remained the same—no urgent symptom having
manifested itself.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The particulars given in the Times of this
morning, regarding the forgeries of Exchequer Bills,
are calculated to create a wrong impression as to the
party implicated in the affair, and who, instead of be-
longing to the Exchequer Bill-office, has been long at-
tached to that of the Comptroller-General. The gen-
tlemen in the Exchequer Bill-office are in no way con-
nected with this efflux., except so far as they have one
and all shown considerable zeal in aiding to detect the
parties concerned in it ; and to the incessant energy of
one individual connected with this departmennt--its Ac-
countant, whose inquiries have extended to transactions
of some years back—the discovery of the prime mover of
the fraud may be in a great degree attributed. As there
is allowed to be no reason for concealing the name of the
individual chiefly implicated, as he has confessed his
participation in the transaction, we can have no scruple
in mentioning Mr. Smith, of the Comptroller-General's
office, as the individual alluded to. It is understood that
to such an extent has the system been carried, that he
himself finds it impossible to say whether it is to the
unount of one, two, or three hundred thousand pounds
ffixit Bills are outstanding which have been issued
improperly. The position of Mr. Smith gave
him every facility for the fraud, since it was a
part of his duty to insert the numbers and dates
upon the Bills, which are consequently on the
proper paper, and are in every respect genuine, except
as to the signature, and the improper use that has been
made of them. There are, it is true, three different
persons who have had to perform the duty of signing
the 13i11s, but this arises from the tact that the officer
who is under the Comptroller-General has been once
changed ; but it is the custom only to extend the
power in question to the immediate deputy of the chief
of the department. The slur that has been thrown by
the Times on the Whig Administration, for its blun-
dering management of this department, can only apply
to the Tories, whose system has been merely followed
by their successors ; and it is just as likely to have been
tas@er a Conservative Government that the fraud was
first put in practice, since it. has been continued for se-
veral years, according to the confession of the party
committing it.
COURIER.—The same morning paper which has
habitually held up the whole landed interest and aristo-
cracy of Great Britain as no better than robbers and
murderers, without other exception than the half' score
crackbrained members of the order who herd with the
Anti-Corn-law gang, treats its readers this day with a
temporary relaxation of its remorseless rigours, to the
effect that—" We have no wish to hold up land-
owners to public indignation. Would they remain
contented with the great advantages which they pos-
sess in a country like this, without trenching on the
rights of industry, we might think them fortunate in
belonging to a country I:ke this, but we should respect
them as necessary to the well-being of the social edifice.
Individuate baying been vested by the State with the
ownership of the land, they are of course entitled to
Ten?, regulated according to the principles which de-
termine its amount." There is something profoundly
absurd in the talk about t, individuals having been
vested by the State with the ownership of the land," if
it is meant to be pretended that they are more favoured
by the State in the possession and holding of landed
property than is the proprietor of a power loom, of a
cotton mill, or a modern haberdasheior gin palace.
The paragraph would read to much betterrsyh sense if thus
paraphrased " We have no
w
loan-jobbers to public indignation. Wouldtoh hold up
remain
contented with toe great advantages which the
in country like this, of being able to sell t'leerrPwossrel7
less foreign bonds at enormous premiums, ineurrin: tno
risk or responsibility themselves, without trenching on
the property and rights of industry, we might think
them fortunate in.laclonging to a country like this, but
we should hardly respect them as necessary to the well
class whatever, eel_
being of the social edifice." If the State really does
concede exclusive privileges to any
tainly no class is so highly favouredti as that which loans,
not its own, but the money of. public,invalidity
and is held
law for th.e invalidity or worthlessness
irresponsible by
although industry, represented by the
of the security,
bounde
by law strictly. _to give value Lor
trader, is held
" value received " on a Bill of Exchange.

THE EXCHEQUER BILL AFFAIR
The inquiry at the Horne-office yesterday respecting
the fraudulent issue
in
of Exchequer Bills lasted until
half past seven o'clock the evening. The particulars
of the inquiry are kept a profound
The result, secret ; nothing
'whatever is allowed to transpire.
how-
ever, was, that at the close of the proceedings the
party accused was taken away in the custody of two in-
spectors of police, and we understand will be brought
UP again for further examination this evening or to-
morrow, In the meantime the most searching invest'
Ration is going forward at the Treasury
. and Exchequer
13111.ollIcs; Sir R. Peel, the Caanze;:or of the Exche•
quer,iod Sir Laws Graham attended the examination
of the prisoner, which was taken before Mr. Hall,
Chief Magistrate of Bow•str2et. Lord Monte' 1.. was I
also present at the inquiry info this mysterious affair.
As Vac name of the accused individual is now very ge-
netaily mentioned, perhaps we ought, in justice to ether
it partle3 holding, official situ,:tions, no longer to withheld
• We understand he has been inanv years in the office,
and is most respectably connected-

- _
STATE OF TRADE.
MANCIIES
(From the Manchester Guardian.
in the feelin ) TRIL.--.TLere was no change whatever
with that ofg of the market yesterday, as compared
the preceding week. For yarn, suitable
to
livery, the
there w Ger market, and ready for immediate de-
fair demand, and holders had no
difficulty in making sales at previous rates ; but the
bayers showed very little inclination to make contracts
for future delivery,
or manufactured goods the
anarket continued exceedingly heavy and discouraging,
and fin,/ sales could be effected, exct at prices a shade
lower than those of last week. Two failures have been
announced within the last few days--one of a
manufac-
tnring house in Mosley-street, the engagements of

which are stated to be 21,000/. ; the other of a bleacher
at Bolton, which, we believe, is of smaller importance.
There have been also some failures at Hamburgh ; but
we do not learn that they are likely to have an imme-
diate effect on this market to any serious extent.
ROCEIDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, OCT.
25.—There has been a very fair demand for flannels
to-day, though the market has been but thinly attended.
Prices remain the same : indeed there has been no
change for some weeks back. The wool market has
been more than usually dull ; and, on account of the
prices giving way, the manufacturers buy very sparingly.

LATEST MANCHESTER BETTING.
MANCHESTER—TUESDAY EVENING.
As nothing is required to be said on past events, and
nothing has been done on events to come, we merely
give the following nominal quotations :
THE DERBY.
100 to 5 agst Col. Peel's Hester colt—taken
200 to 5 agst The Mule—taken

THE OLD LADIES OF FRANCE.
When one compares these times with other times,
the society in which we live with the societies which are
no more, and the civilization of our days with that of
preceding periods, one perceives that it has lost an ele-
ment, a hnk, and that someth.ng is wanting to it.
That something is old women.
It is not because the fountain of Jouvence has been
discovered, or that women defend better their faces or
figures from the assaults of time. No : Nature has
abrogated her laws. But, though women still decay,
they no longer grow old.
Formerly, to grow old was an art ; now-a-days it is
but a misfortune. When there existed a society, con-
versation, Lt-arature, bon mots, and drawing-rooms, all
took their respective places, and played their respective
parts. And that of old women was the most amiable.
When a woman, according to the qualities more or
less durable of her beauty, had passed her years of gal-
lantry, she resolutely submitted to her doom, retained
but the reclarches necessary to render old age endur-
able without concealing it, proclaimed herself an old
woman, and fulfilled a mission important and tutelary
to all ages. She presided at renowned circles ; distri-
buted to men and women the reputation of beauty and
wit ; promoted the debut in or exit from the world of
old and Young ; made up marriages ; brought certain
faces and certain books into fashion ; often connected
frivolous with momentous interests ; kept a school of
manners ; maintained good language and politeness by
the authority of tradition, and went to bed late.
Old women exercised great influence. Youth res•
pected those beings of a neutral sex, who retained only
of their first years gracefulness and the habit of pleasing,
by deriving from the lessons of age a taste for serving
and instructing others.

What is there more amiable, more touching than a
fine old woman ? Unless one be a bastard or a monster,
who is it that does not think of his mother, whom he

loves or has lost, on beholding or listening to a woman
whose heart is freed from storms, whose features have
been withered by the pangs or cares of maternity, whose
words are grave and gentle, whose conversation is both
light and instructive, and observations shrewd and just
Of those old women we have no more ; we have only
beings of female human kind who expire without entou-
rages, without attentions, with recollections unprofitable
to all the rest.

After ten or twelve years of eclat and agitation, a wo-
man of our days commences a life of concentrated rage
and slander against mankind. She envies those who
make their debut, and borrows their fashions ; hoping
no more for grandes passions, she runs after humiliating
caprices ; at the masquerade she frisks, her waist being
strangled and made young again with whalebone, and
commences a mental seduction which her face is to des-
troy. In the drawing-room she attacks all bright re-
putations, discusses the beauties of the day, disputes the
teeth and hair of all, proclaims people of merit fools,
surprises and denounces looks, alarms husbands, des-
stroys, ruins, and tears everything about her, and seems
to say, " Here I am." She cannot make up her mind
to growing old. After such desperate efforts to live by
falsehood, rouge and white, false hair and false teeth,
and ill nature, the mature woman soon reaches, not a
happy and cheerful old age, but mournful decripitude,
dejectedness, oblivion, and avarice ; and what do we be-
hold ?

Young men are less polite, less attentive to manners
and propriety, and almost forgetful of family duties.
Young women make their appearance pretty and sought
for ; fashion carries them high ; around them a great neise
of compliments, gallantry, waltzes, and mazourkas is
made ; their heads turn when their wings grow ; they
fly about at random, and without a guide, like young
sparrows without mothers ; and then, on some fine day,
the breeze of scandal knocks them down. Intellectual
people are excluded from the world, because there is co
more conversation, and no exchange of esprit possible,
amidst that stupifying clatter of splendid waltzers and
little coquettes, amidst those women who will vanish the
moment they can no longer frisk about at M. Thorn's ;
who after the pleasure of dancing, know not that of
chatting, and have a day pour recevoir, so far only as
they can accept ball invitations.

And why do young men desert society, and neglect
duty and traditions?

Because there are no more old women to guide them,
to honour or excuse them in their amusements and plea-
sures ; and because of young women and young men,
they prefer those who sup, shout, and do not call them
ange da ma vie.

Why are young women so easily and so promptly
compromised ?

Because they are not propped by the authority, cor-
rected by the experience, and defended by the devoted-
ness of old women.

Why is esprit no longer but a trade, and not a relaxa-
tion ? Why have we no longer any soirees but those where
a Tolbecque or a Rubini figure—and no more of those
long hours filled up with conversation and intellectual
flanerie ?

Because there are no more old women who have a
salon, a circle, influence, and a taste for esprit. Be-
cause there is not a woman who would, now-a-days, dare
utter about her youth, what Madame du Deffant so
charmingly said, " Autrefois, quand j'etais femme."—
Nouvelles a la Main.

TAE COTTAGES IN NORHAM,
NORTHUMBERLAND.
Norham is divided into eleven townships, and con-
tains 174 cottages, which are held on the hinding sys-
tem, (I am not including the free cottages, or those
which are hired at their own discretion by daytal la-
bourers): 83 of these, or nearly one half, have changed
inmates within the last two years, 145 within the last
seven years, and 156 within the last ten years. That
is to say, out of 174 families occupying the cottages
which are reserved for hinds, seventeen only have re-
mained stationary for more than ten years—seventeen
families only are to be found on the hearths, around
which they were sitting in the beginning of the year
1831. This is only a sample of the "flitting" which is
going on elsewhere. . . . . .
01 the eighty-three tenements in Norham which have
changed inhabitants within the last two years, fifty-four
are buildings deficient in all that is necessary to conve-
nience,and cleanliness, and yet the greater part are oc-
cupied.by families, who have done all they can to give
them a decent and comfortable appearance. Some of
them are mere hovels, absolutely unfit for the peasantry
of a civilized country, and threatening to tumble down
about their ears. In many, human beings and cows are
littered together under the same roof. Of the whole
number, 174, which I am discussing, there are but 27
which have two rooms each, and which are supplied
with that convenience which is indispensably necessary
to c'eanliness and decency.—Extract from an unpnb•
asked Pamphlet of Dr. Gilly, in the Berwick Advertiser.

Lord IVlonteagle had a long interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, this morning, in Downing-
itreet.

Lord Stanley, we are happy to say, is nearly
recovered. His Lordship again attends to his official
Whitehall-gardens duties in Downing-street.
Sir
o'clock YesterdayMURDERER
i afternoonhal Court returned
rnGerda nad
tJruureybsi sitting i
na-t
dictment a
Mr. Burdo_,n t lobert Blakesley, for the murder of
in thelandlordEastche of the King's Head public-
house,l place to-morrow oralFri.nd his trial is expected to take
I son, chief constable o. f day. Last week Captain Robert-
. Hitchin constable who Hertfordshire, on behalf of the
interview with Sir Jameasprhended Blakesley, had an
the Home Department, aham, Secretary of State for
offered by the Lords of threesT .ting the reward of 100/.
that his application would
be taken •
reasurY, and was informed
communication has since been into consideration: a
the claim could not be entertainedreceived announcing that
as the prisoner had voluntarily surrendered by the Government,
the police ; but that after the trial a himself to
m
be given as an encouragement to the man,
reward would
AN HONEST MAN !—The other d
Zandman went into the shop of h aas
a y a High-
her i
High-street, Perth, and requested a sightaberd of n the
I buttons. A drawer fllled with packages was P Sornie Yellow-
aced be-
fore him, and-titer s i much trouble he was nduced to fi
w iina a particular kind, of which he bought the rec if • x
number for a coat. On paying for them, Donaldcal:titt a '
wistful look into the glittering drawer, and he felt an ex‘--
ceding inclination to become the possessor of a whole
package, without value. Accordingly he commenced a
second bargain with the merchant for a vest quantity,
and by dint of manoeuvring got his back turned, when in
a twinkling he had a package safely deposited in his
breast pocket. " The tail o' the merchant's e'e," how-
ever, noticed the act, but paying no attention to it, the
bargain was concluded, and Donald paid for the buttons
for his waistcoat. " A's paid noo,, ' he said, as he laid
down the money. " Na, no yet," replied the merchant,
" that package in your breast-pocket's no paid." " Od,
I had nae mind o't,' said Donald taking it out and laying
it on the counter. " What's the price o't ?" "Twelve
shillings," was the reply. " That's ower dear," said
Donald, " I'll hae naething to do wi't. Deil tak the
man's conscience, wad he rob an honest man I" and so
saying he hurried out of the shop amidst roars of laugh-
ter from the shopmen,who had 1. • been 'sterling to the
colloquy.—Dundee Courier.

AMERICAN NEWS.
(Further Extracts from the American papers.)
WATERSPOUT ON LAKE ERIE.

On Friday evening last, between five and six o'clock,
our citizens enjoyed the sight of a rare and imposing
exhibition in the natural world, commonly known as a
"waterspout," which passed in front of the town
within a mile of the beacon light. It seems that what
we call a whirlwind upon the land causes a waterspout
at sea, when the aerial forces are sufficiently powerful
to raise water. These whirls or whirlwinds in the at-
mosphere result from the meeting of different cur-
rents of air, and form a vortex, in the same manner as
eddies are madein running water by obstructions or coun-
ter-currents. On Friday the wind blew strong from
the rorth-east until about 5 o'clock P.M., when it
changed suddenly to west, still blowing a gale and
bringing onward a dark pnd threatening storm. A
few minutes before the change of wind the whirl which
caused the spout came off the land, two miles west of
the pier, producing a great agitation of the water, rising
and driving about the spray with great fury, the sea
running high at the time. In a short time a portion of
the low black cloud which lay directly over the troub!ed
portion of the water descended in the form of a sack,
half way to the surface cf the lake. It was apparently
of the size of a large hay-stank, hollow, dnd the spray
or vapour of which it was composed had a spiral and
upward motion around the cavity of the column. It
proceeded from the shore in a north-easterly direction,
not in a regular track, but with constant ane. sudden
deviations, perhaps two miles ; the portion descending
from the clouds at times almost dispersed the strength
of the gale. If the sun bad not been obscured, and
the air darkened by the storm in the west (immediately
behind it), the whole of the spout would no doubt have
been distinctlyteen.
When opposite the harbour its direction became
more southerly, its colour changed from the dark cast of
a heavy cloud to the whiteness of spray of falling rain,
and it took the form of an inverted cone with regular ele-
ments, its vortex resting on the water (not larger then
a hogshead), its base surrounded by moving clouds.
Very little rain fell while it was in sight, and whether
this proceeded from the water elevated by the whirl-
wind could not be ascertained. As it travelled east-
ward before the wind it approached the shore a mile
east of the city, changing shape continually, and causing
as it passed a great commotion in the already agitated
waters. Here a fresh gust seemed to break up the
column and it vanished. Fortunately no boats or
vessels were i❑ its route, or damage might have
ensued. Among the numerous displays of the
grandeur of storms which our water affords, we
have witnessed none more varied or sublime
than this. It was not considered a large spout
when compared with those which occur on the broad
ocean, to the wonder and alarm of the mariner, but
seems to have been perfectly formed, though upon a
limited scale.

We are informed that three of them occurred at the
same moment about 25 miles west of this place a few
years since, and passed among some vessels without
coming in contact with any of them. It may be very
long before another makes its appearance here.—Cleve-
land Herald.

ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE UNITED STATES
STEAM FRIGATE FULTON.

On Tuesday the steam-frigate Fultorrproceeded to
the lower bay for the purpose of trying the strength
of a " reamed up -421b..gun," to carry a 641 b. shot
or shell. The trial was commenced by using 10ib.
charges with single shot-10 shot were fired with
this charge, when the charge was increased to
121 b. powder ; at the Gth shot the gun burst, carrying
terrible destruction with it, killing Samuel Snow-
man, seaman ; and Joseph Philbrook, ordinary seaman ;
and dreadfully wounding Joshua Wyman, quarter gun-
ner ; Russell Smith, carpenter's mate ; Levi Lawson,
seaman ; Thomas Smith, ordinary seaman ; Richard
Bell, landsman ; and John Cooper, seaman. The gun
broke in two outside of the carriage, and split in the
breech—the two parts of the breech taking different
directions, one landed on the starboard side (the gun
was on the larboard), the other went forty feet aft, car-
rying away the dispessary and purser's store-rooms,
and iron stanchions, and then staving in both starboard
steam-chimnies, which added to the horror of the scene
by filling the ship with steam. The spar deck is all
knocked up. Lieutenant Strong was thrown fifteen feet
in the air, falling on the hammock netting, without ma-
terial injury. The utmost care was taken by Captain
Newton, Lieutenant Chatard (the first lieutenant),
and all the officers of the ship, to prevent an accident,
which the officers greatly feared. The officers kept the
men back, placing themselves between the gun and the
men, and then firing the gun with a slow match. In
examining the scene of the disaster, it is only astonish-
ing that more were not killed,, although there was not
a man within thirty feet of the gun on its discharge.—
New York Herald.

THE COTTON CROP.—The Savannah Republican
of the 27th ult. gives a long catalogue of the destruc-
tion of crops, mills, bridges, and various descriptions
of property, occasioned by the recent freshet, which
extended throughout the State. At Columbus several
bridges, mills, and mill-damp, were swept away. At
Forsyth it rained from Wednesday night to Thursday
afternoon without intermission. The water-courses wore
swollen to an extraordinary height, and nearly all the
bridges destroyed. At Washington (Wills county) the
storm was more violent than ever known before : bridges
ware carried off, and scarcely a mill remains un.
injured. The fields have been swept of whatever grew
upon them, and the cotton has everywhere been so much
injured as to be entirely worthless. The weter in the
Ocmulgee rose within eighteen inches, as high as it did
at the great freshet of March last. Much damage was
done to the corn and cotton on the river lands
and in some cases individuals have lost nearly their
entire crop. The railroads hare escaped uninjured,
with the exception of the Georgia-road, which was
slightly injured, causing a serious accident, by which
oae of the passengers was killed, and considerable
damage done to the locomotive.

The Natchez Free Trader of Sept. 14 gives a
gloomy account of the cotton crop of Mississippi, but
says the corn crop is turning out better than was expected.
ALABAMA.—The Mobile Journal of the 24th ult.,
alluding to the report of recent injuries to the cotton
crop in that State, and which it credits to some extent,
says, " Nevertheless, we believe firmly that the crop
will still be a full average one, and, as we have ft e-
quently before remarked, with seasonable weather and
late frosts, it will turn something more."

ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PU-
NISHMENTS IN AMERICA.
It is highly gratifying to find on every hand the pro-
gress of those benign principles which recognise the
sacredness of human life. It is true, there are in all
countries some who, from an attachment to old cus-
toms, and a timidity at approaching any point of
" moral geography " which to them appears newly dis-
covered, still advocate the use of the gibbet and the
axe, forgetful that whatever a man sows that also shall
he reap—that as, throughout all nature, like produces
like, so whatever is brutal can only beget brutality—that
evil, in fact, can never be the immediate source of good.
Such reasoners we refer at once to those statistics
already widely diffused on the subject for the beat con-
futation of their views ; because facts rather than the-
ory, we imagine, will to them be by far the most salu-
tary. Sufficient we are sure has been published from
time to time to prove that just in the ratio in which
those laws, which control the morals of the people, have
been kept free from any sanguinary stain, the people
have kept themselves free in return from the commis-
sloe of dark and sanguinary crimes.
Under these circu►nstances, it must afford great plea •
sure to those enlightened people who have taken their
stand upon these facts, and argued eloquently for the
inviolability of human life, to see that the Legislature
o! New York has countenanced a very advanced step
in their favour. The following extract of a letter from
a highly respectable member of the Society of Friends
to a gentleman in Sheffield,who for the last half-century
had been active in the cause, explains precisely the
state of the case :
" Esteemed Friend—l have the satisfaction to state
that a Select Committee of the House of Assembly of
New York, in the recent Session, reported in favour of
the abolition of capital punishment in the only three
remaining.cases—treason, murder, and arson of the first
degree. What is more, the Bill which was thereupon
introduced, very nearly triumphed, being lost by only
five votes, and in its final stage. The same Bill is to be
introduced in the coming Session. lam respectfully
and sincerely thine, .6
" P.S. The Report' (p. 151) mentions that. at a
trial for murder, Ten jurymen were excused on the
ground of conscientious objections to finding a verdict
of guilty in any capital case."
When it is remembered with what opposition these
principles were met on their first promulgation, the
above tvill be considered very important and cheering
news, and cannot fail to have great influence in all parts
of the civilized world.—Sizejicld Iris.
0

un POPULATION.—The circumstances of
Great Britain are very peculiar. Its agricultural popu-
lation is actually declining it numbtrt: in spite of all the
attempts of the Legislature to encourage it, whilst its
manufacturing population is increasing rapidly, in spite
of dear food and every discournernent. On the whole,
the population of this country is increasing rapidly,
for not only is there an addition of upwards of two
millions to our own population during the last ten years,
but also we have sent forth in that period at least half a
tish America, South Africa, and Australia. If our wise
million emigrants, principally persons in the prime of.
life, to increase the population of the United States,
Bra-
Legisla
ture would have allowed the food of other court-
a
tries to be freely imported, a large portion of these in-
voluntary exiles would have remained and married in
Great Britain ; but the artificial scarcity produced by
the landed aristocracy has driven them out of the coun-
try, to recruit the numbers of American citizens, or to
subdue the wildernesses of Canada, South Africa, and
Australia. Had it not been for this insane and suicidal
policy, the population of Great Britain and Ireland
would probably have been considerably more than thirty
millions at the present time, and its condition infinitely
more prosperous.—Liverpool Times.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT..

Joseph Parker, the brother of the above defendant,
was then indicted for conspiring, with him, to defraud
Messrs. Fame and. Laws, merchants, of goods to the
amount of 500/.-

Mr. PHILLIPS said that the defendant having only
been taken into custody within the last few days, was
entitled to traverse the indictment, and he therefore ap-
plied to the Court to allow him to be liberated upon
bail. The defendant having pleaded not guilty.
The RECORDER ordered him to enter into his own re-
cognizances in 5,0001., and to find two sureties in the
sum of 1,0001. each.

The defendants were then removed from the bar, and
the trial of the other indictments will stand over until
the next session.

Shortly afterwards, Roe, the officer, accompanied by
a metropolitan police constable entered the Court, and it
was intimated to the Recorder that the party who had
pleaded and who had traversed in the name of Joseph
Parker, was the wrong person, and that it was not
against him that the indictment had been found. The
real party, another brother, was brought into Court in
their custody.

Mr. PAYNE said there was the most extraordinary
likeness between the two brothers, and he therefore
wished that the matter should be set right by the Court.
The two brothers were placed at the bar, and there
certainly was a most extraordinary likeness between
them. Two or three witnesses were examined, how-
ever, who identified the one that had just been brought
into Court as the person against whom the bill of indict-
ment had been found.

Mr. BALLANTINE said, that as it was admitted that
the wrong man had been ordered to find hail, he should
move that he be discharged from custody, as there was
no charge against him.
The REconDEll said he did not see how he could do
this. The party had chosen to plead to an indictment
in the name of .in.seph Parker, and he had traversed the
indictment, and the Court ought not to be called upon
to prove the question of his identity. He had brought
the inconvenience entirely upon hire self, and had involved
the Court in its present difficulty, and he must take the
consequences.

Mr. BALLANTINE said ha did not think, if the real
circumstances of the case were made known, that the
Court would entertain this opinion.
After a lengthened discussion had taken place, the
Court ultimately directed that the brother who had
pleaded should be discharged upon his entering into his
own recognizance in 1,0001., to appear to answer any
charge that might be preferred against him at the next
Sessions ; and the officer was ordered to take the other
man before Mr. Justice Wightman, under whose warrant
he had been apprehended, in order that the Learned
Judge might deal with the case as he should think fit.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

Yesterday William Biggs, a clerk, and Joseph Pay-
buddy, a butcher, were brought before Mr. Jardine for
further examination, charged with forgery, and uttering
a number of forged cheques, purporting to be drawn by
Mr. Robert Wynne Williams, a solicitor, residing in
Paper-buildings, Temple, with intent to defraud Messrs.
Snow, Paul, and Co., bankers.
The prisoner Biggs being first placed at the bar, was
charged with having on the 9th inst. presented a cheque
for 2001. at the banking-house of Messrs. Snow and
Paul, and their evidence taken at the last examination
being, read over,
317. Charles Ward, clerk in the firm, stated that he re-
membered the prisoner presenting the cheque produced;
ha asked him what sort of money he wished it to
be cashed in, and having gone into a room where
Sir John Paul was sitting, he related the circumstance,
and on the prisoner being introdueed, a constab!e was
sent for; he was taken into custody, having first attempted
to make his escape.
Sir John Paul proved that when the last witness
brought the cheque to him, he sent for the prisoner, and
told him ho should consider himself in custody for for-
gery, upon which he said witness dare not detain him, as
he had clone nothing, and when he offered to send for
Mr. Williams, the prisoner replied it was of no use as
he was not in town. Witness said " you commit yourself;
fur the: cheque appears
,to be accepted to-day," and he
then attempted to run away, but was prevented by the
clerks. On searching him, a note was found which had
been obtained with a forged cheque on a former oc-
casion.

The prisoner declined making any defence, and the
witnesses being bound over, he was committed for trial,
and removed from the bar.

The prisoner Payboddy was then placed it the bar,
charged with being concerned in uttering several cheques
in company with the other prisoner, well knowing them
to be forged.•

After a lengthened investigation, the prisoner was
ordered to be again brought up on Saturday week.
MARLBOROUGH STI?E.E7'.
Yesterday the police summoned before Mr. HARD-.
WICK a person named Castellano, the alleged proprietor
of the Saloon in Lcicestet-squlro, for " knowingly per-
mitting prostitutes to meet and assemble at his house."

Mr: Robinson attended for the defendant, and
Ashdown came forward as the representative of Castel-
lano, who was said to be out of England.
Inspector Baker proved that on Friday morning',
about two o'clock, he went to the Saloon in Leicester-
square, and found a number of well-dressed parsons as-
sembled there, dancing to music. Some of the women
he knew to be prostitutes.
Mr. Robinson asked the inspector if it was his opi-
nion, from what he witnessed of the company and their
conduct, that a stranger going into the room would have
taken the women to be loose characters? Inspector
Baker said he saw no disorderly or improper conduct
while he was present.

Mr. Robinson submitted that this declaration put an
and to the case, for the defendant was charged with
having knowingly permitted prostitutes to assemble.
Now, if a stranger would not " know " the parties to be
prostitutes from their behaviour, it was hard to expect
the landlord of a house should be called upon to make
himself acquainted with the private character of his
customers.

Mr. HARDWICK said it would be idle for a person to
pretend not to know the sort of customers who fre-
quented his house. He had yesterday given his opi-
nion on that point in the case of the Piccadilly Saloon.
He had agreed with the opinion expressed at the Mid-
dlesex Sessions in the case of the Worship-street Magis-
trates, that prostitutes icing found in a house taking
refreshment, and remaining there perhaps only a few
minutes, during which time the landlord might be else-
where engaged, was not such a case of " knowingly
harbouring" prostitutes as the law contemplated.
But where prostitutes were found dancing to music, as
in this instince, the case assumed a totally different
complexion.

Mr. Robinson contended there was no disorderly
conduct proved.

Mr. HARDWICK held a different opinion. It was
an offence to suffer music and dancing without a li-
cence, and as the defendant had permitted both, being
unlicensed, that was quite sufficient to establish the
charge of disorderly conduct.

Mr. Robinson remarked that music and dancing took
place at the London Tavern and other great taverns,
which were equally unlicensed, and yet no prosecutions
took place.

Mr. HARDWICK was of opinion that the Act of Par-
liament was specially intended to meet cases similir to
the one before the Court. He had decided that the
mere assembling of prostitutes in a house of public re-
sort for the purpose of refreshment, where neither
drunkenness nor disorderderly conduct was exhibited,
was not an offence against the law, but he would not
carry the principle one jot further.
Mr. Robinson said if the Magistrate would consent
to dismiss the summons he would undertake that both
music and dancing should cease for the future.
Mr. HARDWICK could not consent to this course.
The defendant had been fined only a few days back for
cllowing drunkenness in his house, and it was further
necessary to put down the proceedings which nightly
took place.
The fine of 3/. and costs was then inflicted.

THE NEMESIS WAR-STEAMER.
Most of our readers a-e aware of the important ser-
vices rendered in the present China war by the Nemesis
steamer. Her gallant Commander is a native of Ber-
wick-upon-Tweed, but was educated in Leith. He is the
eldest surviving son of the late Mr. Will'am Hall, whom
we well remember upwards of thirty years ago, as
the worthy and respectable captain of the Edinburgh
Packet, one of that excellent class of vessels (the
Berwick smacks) by which the communication be-
tween London and Leith was principally carried
on, before the introduction of steam navigation.
Captain Hall, of the Nemesis, entered the navy at
an early period of life as a midshipman, and has
seen much set.vice in different quarters of the
world. Having been with his namesake, the intrepid
and scientific Capt. Basil Hall, in the Lyra, during his
memorable voyage to Corea and the island of Loo Choo,
he was, independently of his other qualifications, pecu-
liarly fitted for command in the China seas. The nautical
kill and undaunted courage displayed by Captain Hall
in the Nemesis, during the present war, make us
proud of him as our countryman, and will no doubt re-
commend him to the favourable notice of the Adrni-
; alty. In the last affair with the Chinese, Capt. Hall
destroyed no less than forty of their war junks in the
course of a few hours, but was himself, we are sorry to
say, wounded :n the action, though not dangerously.—
Correspondent of the Edinburgh Observer.

It appears from a curious article in the last
Quailed:l Review, that but for the Act of Succession,
the Crown of these realms must have been worn at
present by the Hereditary Prince of Modena—and that,
failing that Prince and his immediate branch, the right
would have pulled next to Louis Philippe, King of the
French. Th..' same article shows, that, supposing the
descendants 'of the Electress of Hanover to be extin-
guished--who, however, as the Reviewer says, are "fere
innumerabiles "—and the other descendants of Charles I.
and James I. to remain excluded by reason of their
Romanism—the heirship general of the houses of Plan-
tagenet and Tndor would vest in the Duke of Bucking-
ham and Chandos
; and that. of the house of Stuart in '
the Duke of Hamilton ; the former being descended from
the second daughter of King Henry Vll.—the latter
from a daughter of King James 111. of Scotland. The
male blood of all the three old Royal families is extinct.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, OCT. 20, 1841.
The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord
Forester, to appoint John Lewis Lamotte, Esq., one of her
Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice
Constable, retired.
WHITEHALL, OCT, 23.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, appoint-
ing the Right Honourable William Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci,
her Majesty's Commissioner for the Affairs of India.
CROWN-OFFICE, Om 26.
MEMBER RETU RNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT.
County of Linlithgow.-The Hon. Charles Hope.
WAR-OFFICE, OCT. 26.
Ist Regiment of Life Guards-Lieut. the Hon. W. H. S.
Cotton, from the 7th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Brooke, who
exchanges, Oct. 26.
2(1 Regiment of Dragoon Guards-Capt. W. N. Custance,
from the 46th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice H. Boys, who re-
verts to half-pay, Oct. 26.
sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards-Lieut. J. I. Blackburne
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hovenden, whe retires;
Cornet W. N. A. Hill to he Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Blackburn'. ; C. Holder, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Hill, Oct. 26.
12th Regiment of Light Dragoons-Cornet E. R. Wood to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Scott, who retires; J. Wil-
liams, ,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Wood, Oct. 26.
3d Regiment of Foot-Ensign W. G. Meacham to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Lacy, deceaied, July 11 ; F. N.
Dore, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Meacham, Oct. 26.
sth Foot-Lieutenant C. M. Dawson to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Robinson who retires ; Second Lieutenant W.
C. Master to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dawson;
J. H. Wagner, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Master, Oct. 26.
6th Foot-Capt. G. Anderson, from the 22d Foot, to be
Captain, vice Brevet. Major Murphy, who exchanges, Aug. 2.
7th Foot-Lieut. R. Brooke, trom the Ist Regiment of Life
Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Cotton, who exchanges, Oct. 26.
Bth Foot-Brevet Major H. W. Hartley to be Major, by
purchase, vice Baynes, promoted; Lieut. F. S. Holmes to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Hartley ; Ensign C. F. B. G.
Dickenson, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Holmes ;
Gentleman Cadet R. Hartley, from the Royal Military Col-
lege, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dickenson, Oct. 26.
9th Foot-Lieut. A. Borton to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Ker, deceased; Ensign A. Taylor to be Lieutenant,
vice Borten, July 30 ; Serjeant-Major W. Burden to be Ensign,
vice Taylor, Oct. 26.
21st Foot-H. F. Evans, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Whitehurst, whose appointment has been
cancelled, Oct. 26.
22d Foot-Brevet Major G. H. E. Murphy, from the 6th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Anderson, who exchanges, August 2.
27th Foot-J. Grant, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Fry, deceased, Oct. 12.
29th Foot-Captain R. P. Douglas, to be Major, without
purchase, vice Sharrock, who retires upon full-pay, Oct. 26 ;
Captain E. G. Nicolay, from the 3d West India Regiment, to
be Captain, vice Douglas, Oct. 27 ; Ensign F. Coventry to be
Lieut., by purchase, vice Nicolay, promoted; T. H. Breedon,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Coventry, Oct. 26.
31st Foot-Ensign D. S. Robertson to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Le Conteur, deceased, July :30.
34th Foot-Lieut. A. C. Goodenough, to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Hamond, who retires ; Ensign W. B. Money,
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Goodenough ; W. J.
Blake, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Money, Oct. 26.
36th Foot-Capt. R. S. Ridge, from half-pay Unattached,
to be Captain, vice A. Nugent, who exchanges, Oct. 26.
39th Foot-Captain W. B. Bernard to be Major, without
purchase, vice Fitzgerald, deceased; Lieut. B. G. Layard to
be Captain, vice Bernard ; Ensign P. Flynn to be Lieut.
vice Layard, June 17 ; Ensign H. G. Colville to be Lieut.,
without purchase, vice Flynn, whose promotion, on the 3d
August, has been cancelled, August 3 ; T. Scarman, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Colville, Oct. 26.
40th Foot-Ensign E. H. Eager to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Valiant, deceased, July 16 ; Ensign M. R. L.
Meason to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Eager, whose
promotion, by purchase, has been cancelled ; Serjeant-Major
S. Snelling to be Ensign, vice Meason, Oct. 26.
41st Foot-R. A. Logan, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Hessing, deceased, Oct. 26.
42d Foot-Ensign H. S. Douglas to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Hon. J. 0. Grant, who retires; J. W. Wcdder-
burn, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Douglas, Oct. 26.
46th Foot-Captain J. Richardson, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Captain, vice J. Taylor, who exchanges, Oct. 26.
52d Foot-Capt. H. Morton, from half-pay of the 14th
Foot, to be Captain, vice French, deceased ; Lieut. C. A.
Denison to be Captain, by purchase, vice Morton, who retires ;
Ensign R. 0. Cuming to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Brownrigg, appointed Adjutant ; Gentleman Cadet J.
C. E. C. Read, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Cuming ; Lieut. H. M. Brown-
rigg to be Adjutant, vice Denison, promoted, Oct. 26.
55th Foot-Ensign T. 0. G. Rogers to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Warren, who retires ; L. Skynner, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Rogers, Oct. 26.
62d Foot-Ensign W. F. Dickson to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Harris, deceased, July 5; Ensign H. M. Ha-
milton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dickson, whose
promotion, by purchase, has been cancelled ; Ensign J. A.
Macdougall, from the 70th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Hamilton,
Oct. 26.
63d Foot-George Le Mesurier Lane, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Cameron, deceased, Oct. 26.
66th Foot-Assistant-Surgeon John Grogan, M. 8., from
the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Linton, promoted to
be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, Oct. 26.
71st Foot-Henry Loftus, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Douglas, promoted in the 97th Foot, Oct. 26.
72d Foot-Assistant-Surgeon C. G. Logie, from the Staff,
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Malcolm, promoted to be Staff-
Surgeon of the Second Class, Oct. 26.
74th Foot-Capt. J. Campbell, from half-pay of the Bth
West India Regiment, to be Captain, vice Alves, promoted;
Lieut. G. T. Evans to be Captain, by purchase, vice Camp-
bell, who retires ; Ensign J. Duff to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Evans ; R. P. Smith, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Duff, Oct. 26.
86th Foot-Captain E. Brown, from half-pay Unattached,
to be Captain, vice IL S. Stephens, who exchanges, receiving
the difference, Oct. 26.
94th Foot-Ensign G. Mahon to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Burke, deceased, July 24 ; T. 11. Stoddard,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Mahon, Oct. 26.
97th Foot-Major H. F. Lockyer to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase, vice Campbell, who retires upon full-pay ;
Brevet-Major W. Cannon to be Major, vice Lockyer : Lieu-
tenant J. M'Caskill to be Captain, vice Cannon ; Ensign L.
Douglas, from the 71st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice M'Cas-
kill ; Oct. 26, 1841.
3d West India Regiment-Lieut. E. G. Nicolay, from the
29th Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Taylor, who re-
tires, Oct. 26.
Royal Newfoundland Veteran Companies-Lieut. R. Saun-
ders to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet Lieut.. Col.
Sall, who retires upon full pay, Oct. 26.
UNATTACHED.-Major S. Baynes, from the Bth Foot, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, Oct. 26.
HOSPITAL STAFF`.-Assistant-Surgeon J. S. Graves, from
the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second
Class, July 2.
BREVET.-Captain John Campbell, of the 74th Regiment
of Foot, to be Major in the Army, July 22, 1830; Captain
Harcourt, of the 52d Regiment of Foot, to be Major in the
Army, Jan. 10, l $37.
111Em3aarrnum.-The date of the promotion of Ensign and
Adjutant John M'Courts to the rank of Lieutenant, in the Ist
Foot, is " 18th August, 1841," and not ".10th September,
1841," as stated in the Gazette of 15th October, 1841.
Major-General Sir J. G. Woodford, K.C.8., has been per-
mitted to retire from the Army, by the sale of an Unattached
Lieutenant-Colonelcy, Oct. 26.
Erratum in the Gazette of 15th Oct.
For Lieutenant the Honourable Charles Lennox Fitzroy
from the 60th Regiment of Foot, to be Ensign and Lieutenant.
Sm. in the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, read Lieu-
tenant the Honourable " Augustus" Charles Lennox Fitzroy
&c.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, OCT. 25.
Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Second Captain T. A. Shone
to be Adjutant, vice Spinner, who resigns the Adjutantcy
only, April 3.

tarps of Royal Engineers.—First Lieutenant G. Borgmann
to be Second Captain ; First Lieutenant E. Aldrich to be
Second Capt., vice Dalton, retired on full pay ; Second Lieut.
J. Bayly, to be First Lieutenant, vice Aldrich ; Sept. 30
ORDNANCE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Temporary Assis-
tant-Surgeon J. Duggan, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon,
Oct. 19.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire.
Queen's Own Regiment of Worcestershire Yeomanry Ca.
valry—Cornet Cope, to be Lieutenant, vice Wheeley, re•
signed; W. Hunt, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Cope, promoted,
Oct 22.

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 26.

With reference to the Gazette Extraordinary of the Bth inst.,
and to the Gazette of the 15th inst., the following additional
Naval promotions of Officers who served with the Army in
taking the Heights at Canton, from the 23d to the 30th of
May, has taken place.
Lieut. C. C. Dawkins, her Majesty's ship Blenheim, to be
Commander ; Lieut. W. C. Metcalfe, her Majesty's ship
Blonde, to he Commander ; Lord A. W. Beauclerk, Mate, her
Majesty's ship Blenheim, to be Lieutenant ; George Walker,
Mate, her Majesty's ship Blonde, to be Lieutenant ; W. R.
Itolland, Mate, her Majesty's ship Blonde, to be Lieutenant ;
A. C. C. Denny, Mate, her Majesty's ship Blenheim, to be
Lieutenant ; W. H. Symons, Mate, her Majesty's ship Blen-
heim, to be Lieutenant.
DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
THOMAS PILBEAM, smith, Parker-street, Drury-lane.
JOHN FOWKES, hosier, Leicester.
JOSEPH EDWARD WORRELL, licenced victualler,
Sussex-street, Tottenham-court-road.
JOHN WORRELL, licensed victualler, Sussex-street,
Tottenham-court-road.

ROBERT HARRIS, chemist and druggist, Crickhotvell,
Breconshire.

BANKRUPTS.

JAMES ,EBENEZER SAUNDERS, jun., fish •factor,
Upper Thames-street, London, to surrender, Nov. 3, at twelve,
and Dec. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy; Lacking-
ton, official assignee, Coleman-street Buildings; Walters and
Reeve, Basinghall-street.
JOHN HALL and SAMUEL VINCENT, tea and coffee-
dealers, St. Mary Axe, Nov. 5 and Dec. 7, at the Court of
Bankruptcy; Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old
Jewry ; Hughes, Kearsey, and Alasterman, Bucklersbury.
JOHN TOMES WATSON, linen draper, Worcester, Nov.
11, and Dec. 7, at twelve, at the offices of Messrs. Hydes and
Tymbs, Worcester. Hardwick and Davidson, Cateaton-street,
London ; Hydes and Tymbs, Worcester.
PELLEGRINO ROSSELLI, merchant, Lime-street, City,
Nov. 2, at one, and Dec. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Green, Aldermanbury, official assignee; Ruck, Minc-
ing-lane.

JAMES ALEXANDER SMITH, and WILLIAM MON-
TEATH, linen-drapers, Oxford-street, Nov. 2, at eleven, and
Dec. 7, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green,
Aldermanbury, official assignee; Lloyd, Cheapside.
JOHN LUFF FREELAND, innkeeper, Worcester, Nov.
4, and Dec. 7, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Worcester. lie -
ford, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Bedford and Pidcock, Wor-
cester.

IIENRY BUDD, tobacco merchant, Birmingham, Nov.
9, and Dec. 7. at eleven, at the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham.
Shaw, Ely-place, Helbrorn, London ; Thorney, Kingston-
upon-Hull. _

WILLIAM PLAYNE, saddler and harness-maker, Glou-
cester, Nov. 4 and Dec. 7, at twelve, at the office of Air.
Bailey, Gloucester. Bailey, Gloucester; Poole and Gamlin,
Gray's Inn, London.
EDWARD RAINE and JOHN RAINE, carpet manufac-
turers, Barnard Castle, Durham, Nov. 9, and Dec. 7, at
eleven, at the King's Head Inn, Barnard Castle. Richardson,
Barnard Castle ; Tyas, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London.