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London, England, 1840-10-15 00:00:00

tONDON. ?Mirßgr/AY, OCTOBE

community.
Duties levied for protection are essentially erro‘
neous in principle, and the evidence given before
the Committee contains some very striking illustra-
tions of their mischief. We shall revert to them at
a future day, and content ourselves now with pro-
testing against the principle. Every such duty
makes some other necessary, so that the consequence
of beginning is that the Legislature has to adjust
the various and conflicting claims of every trade and
calling. Human talents cannot accomplish such an
object, and those men must have been bereft of
their senses, or thoroughly ignorant of the conse-
quences of their own actions, who first began the
system of protecting one branch of the national in-
dustry by duties. "Is not every protecting duty,"
asked Mr. VILLIERS, "a misdirection of capital
and labour ?" " Yes," answered Mr. J. D.
HUNIE; " it is tempting parties to embark in a trade
by fictitious support, which, in the end, may prove
a fallacious one. I have often wondered how any
rulers could consent to incur the responsibility of'
such a policy." But ignorant fools, called states-
men, have blindly incurred it ; and with this pithy
observation of this old public servant, acquainted
with all the secrets of the Customs and the Board
olTrade, we will now leave the subject. If the d:n
of war should not scare us from our peaceful labours,
we shall return many times to the valuable evidence
collected by the Imports Committee, and of that
none is more valuable than the sensible and philo-
nhic remarks of Mr. I'. D. HUME.

•
In the Registration Court yesterday Mr. Co.
VENTItY gave a decison, which will increase, we
have no doubt, the zeal of the Bishops and all the
Clergy in procuring new churches. By so doing
they will get a number of additional votes for Mem.

bers of the House of Commons ; and, as the
Bishop of LONDON has lately told us that the in-
ferior Clergy dare not do what the Dean
or the Bishop discountenances, the Bishop
may by and by conic to nominate a respectable
portion of the House of Commons. By Mr. Co-
VENTRY'S decision all the stipendiary curates of the
numerous chapels or district churches which have
been or may be erected, though the
.freehold of
those chapels and churches is expressly reserved to
the Church-building Commissioners, and though the
right to recover the pew-rents isnot in the stipendiary
curate but in the churchwardens and freeholders, Mr.
COVENTRY holds that such a Pew-rent is a profit
derivable from land, and that the stipendiary cu-
rates are raised at once to the rank of landlords.
At the same time, Dissenting ministers are ex-
cluded, because they hold no office in the meaning
of the Reform Act. This is no doubt a very legal
decision, but it will astonish those members
of the curates' congregations, who are
not much addicted to legal niceties, to
learn that pew rents which they pay, are a profit
derivable from land, and are freehold. Such a
decision must be more politically satisfactory than
morally pleasing to the reverend stipendiary curates,
inasmuch as it affixes no value to their preaching,
and declares that pew-rents, instead of being paid
for their services, grow, like turnips, from the soil.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday publish, from
the London Gazette, the official accounts of
the Capture of Beyrout, without making it the ob-
ject of any original remark whatever. Now, in
justice to the reputation of the British officers and
seamen employed in that service, it was the duty
of the French Press to have expressed regret at the
atrocious calumnies to which their correspondents,
through their instrumentality, had previously given
currency relative to the capture of this Syrian for-
tress. They cannot have so soon forgotten that in
their columns, the crews of the British ships before
Beyrout were charged with the indiscriminate mas-
sacre of the innocent inhabitants ; whereas Admiral
STOPFORD and Commodore NAPIER demonstrate
that the preservation of the inhahitantswas, next to the
capture of the fortress, the object of their principal
solicitude, inasmuch as the town itself suffered very
little from the fire of the ships. The French
Journals were further called upon to denounce the
vile trick of having recourse to forgery to blacken
the character for humanity of British seamen, as in
the instance of the pretended note from SOLIMAN
PACHA to the British and Austrian Admirals, re-
counting, with various touches of melodramatic
horror, sundry murderous exploits of cannon-balls,
which wanted but until to make them tragical.
The Journal des Debats is the only Paper
whose tone is not decidedly warlike. The Abbe DE
LANIENNAIS, who, like our own Doctor WADE,
is never so happy as when he is fishing in the
troubled waters of politics, occupies with frantic
nonsense, interlarded with scraps of quotations from
Gibbon's History f the Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire, more than a page of the
Arational of Tuesday, with a view to throw a few
more maddening ingredients into the cauldron of
popular fury. But the final decision'rests with the
Chambers, and with them only. M. TIIIERS,
who meets with little sympathy among the MOLE
or Conservative party, who support the pacific
views of the KING, is prepared to throw himself
into the arms of the left and extreme left,
whose organs are mad for war. It is
expected that the first trial of strength
will take place on tie election of Pre-
sident of the Chamber of Deputies. M.
THIERS' candidate is M. ODILLON BARROT•
The late President, M. SAUZET, will be supported
by the Court. If M. TIIIERS succeed in this first
step, he will next insist on the removal of the four
members of the Cabinet who are for peace. Should
he, on the contrary, be defeated, he will make an-
other effort to retire before the debate on the ad-
dress, in order that he may be more at liberty to
proclaim war not only against the Four Powers,
but the Court.
By the extraordinary despatch, from Paris re-
ceived yesterday evening, we have been enabled to
anticipate most of what appears in the way of news
in Tuesday's papers. The following paragraphs
have not, however, yet appeared :
FORTIFICATIONS OF PARIS.—The wall of enclosure
to the south of Paris is traced to commence from the
last house of the Gate of Ivry. It will cross the roads
of Ivry, Vitry, and Fontainebleau, will pass to the south
of the Maison Blanche, cross the Bievre below Gentilly
and the plain of Montsouris, pass to the south of the
Petit Montrouge, to the west of Vaugirard and Grenelle,
and terminate at the Seine opposite Auteuil, below Beau
Grenelle. By mere chance the embankment of the
Paris and Curbed Railway, on the left hank of the Seine,
becomes a well.constructed and solid rampart, and is
strengthened at the north by a very deep ditch. A great
military road will be formed to the south of Paris, from
the point of the Gare as far as Beau Grenelle, follow-
ing time line of the bastioned rampart. A new bridge
will be thrown over the Seine above Bercy, opposite
the ponts at which the two ramparts of the right and
left banks are to terminate. All the Mayors of the
communes which join the capital have just announced
to the inhabitants, that they are to prepare to receive
in a few days the troops which arc to be quartered upon
them. Most of the contracts for the masonry and other
works have been taken at prices varying from one to
eighteen per cent. under the rates previously fixed on
by Government. The works have begun in the Bois
de Boulogne, at Charenton, and at Belleville.
FRENCH NAVAL AND MILITARY SCHOOLS —lt ap-
pears that in consequence of the augmentation of the
French military and naval forces, Government is
.about
to give great encouragement and facility for pupils
to enter into the military and naval schools. At
the Ecole Polytechnique, instead of 130 pupils,
the usual number annually admitted, there are to
be 165 received, and preparations are making for
lodging the extra number. The naval school is
to admit 120 instead of 60 pupils per annum ;
and if there are not sufficient pupils who have
passed their examinations to be sent on hoard ship,
their places are to he supplied by the hest prepared of
the sub-officers among the crews. At the school of
St. Cyr, where 160 pupils are admitted every year, the
number of admission is to be increased to 500, and
150 of the candidates for the Ecole Polytechnique
have already presented themselves, in consequence of
the notice which we mentioned the other day. Supple-
mentary examinations are to be made in the course of
the year, for pupils not now prepared to undergo the
general one. 'lle price of the pension is to he reduced
at St. Cyr from 1,500 f. to 8001.; the inferior limit of
the age of pupils is to be done away with, and they are
not to be bound by the engagement of military service
on entering the school.
EXPORTATION OF HORSES.—The Cuurrier de la
Moselle asserts that the Prussian -_The
has in-
terdicted the exportation of horses from the 6th inst.
A Frankfort paper mentions that considerable pur-
chases of horses are making for the French Government
in Upper Hesse, in the Wetterau, and in the lower dis-
tricts of the Vogelherg. The animals from those loon•
ties are well suited for the waggon train and artillery

service.
The Hanover Gazette of the 7th instant publishes a
rescript from the Minister of the Interior, forbidding
the exportation of horses under pain of confiscation of
the animals, and a fine of fifty thalers for each horse.
The passage of horses across the Hanoverian territory
is also interdicted.
We have received the following letter :
" TOULON, OCT. 9.—We may now consider it as a
certain fact, that a Russian squadron will shortly arrive
in the Mediterranean. Letters from Leghorn, dated
the sth of October, which have been received this morn-
! ing, announce that the squadron is expected every mo-
ment before that port, and that the house of Mospurgo
has been ordered to supply it with provisions. This
news, which comes to us from :the !best source is very
important in the present state of things.
"The Crocodile steam-boat ancl.ored in the Quaran-
tine road last night. This vessel left Algiers on the
15th with a great many passengers, among whom are—
M. Bors-le-Comte, Aid-de-camp to the Minister of War,
and M. Verdun, intendant of the Ai my of Africa, who
is to fill the same post in the 10th military division
(Toulouse). He will be succeeded in Africa by M.
Appert, Military Sub-intendant at Toulon."
We have received the following letter from Algiers,
dated the sth :
" On the 3d the diligence from Dauera was stopped
between that camp and that of Dely-Ibrahim, by a nu-
merous band of Arabs, who seemed to be conducted . i

French deserters, for the leader spoke our language,
advising the natives to cut the traces, force open the
doors, &c. These banditti commenced their opera-
tions by making the driver and the passengers in the
coupe alight. Among them was M. Massot, military
Sub-intendant, who has been carried up the country,
as well as the driver, and another individual, M. Picot,
who has been killed, and M. Bousquet, who received
a severe wound in the breast from a musket Shot.
While the Arabs were busied in loosening the
horses and forcing the doors of the diligence, which had
six inside passengers, ineludinr, a priest and two women,
the men condemned to hard labour at the port of la
Borne, being informed by the gendarmes who escorted
the carriage, ran to the spot, and though few in num-
ber, put the Arabs to flight, and thus saved a large sum
of money which they had with them.
" The enemy carried off 12,000 or 15,000 francs,
three persons. An investigation into
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BO 1711SE.—PAtos,
First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
Fara 107 50 h 5 per Cents OCT. 13.
... 107 ... 106 106
4% per Cents 95 " 98
4 ~er t env: o./ ... 92 50
3 per Cents 72 75 73 25 72 72 20
I.ok
:Sank S 0 lO,O ...1, 04 in( 0 I 00
5,000 f. Sit
,ulgiart
cliank
Vent,
3 per Cents C4 ”. 04 64 61
iparliFtl ACLIVe
Passive *,; ... 5,4
I'B 27 ... SO 18 18 5
0
Roman ... 97 t 7 97

RAILWAY SHARES.
S:. Germain 555 t 62 50 555 560
B :45 350 345 3 11
L.B.
Arleatts ............... .....•••45.E •.. 11_41 ... 44e 5n 442 50
S:rAsburit to Bale :s3s 235 :t35 31a

On the morning of the 6th inst. General ESl''A R-

TER() left Madrid for Valencia agreeably to the
summons received from the REGENT. His col-
leagues departed for that city at a late hour on the
preceding evening. The following summary of the
only news from Spain received to-day, is extracted
from the correspondence of a Contemporary elated
the 6th hist :

MADatn, OcT. G.—No alteration whatever has
taken place in the constitution or functions of the
Juntas. The President of that of Madrid is Vice• Pr-
esident of the new Ministry. Affairs here in the mean-
time remain perfectly tranquil. The intelligence from
the provinces, also pacific, offers some points of
interest. Senor Sotelo, one of the .Perez de Castro
Ministry—one of those who advised the sanc-
tion of the Municipal Law, has been just imprisoned in
Alicante, where he was taken with a false passport.
He will be detained for trial by the ensuing Cortes
He is the only one of the Castro Ministry who has been
arrested. Arrazola has escaped a second time into
Portugal, from whence he had been brought into Spain
some Portuguese :soldiers, but not being known to
the Spanish authorities was allowed to escape. In
C:adiz the Guarda-costa contract has been dissolved by
the Junta ; in lladajos the derichos tie pucrtas (or ens•
toms received at the wates) have been repealed by the
Junta of that city. These acts of the Juntas, which
many affect to blame, only show the absolute necessity
of a total reform of the fiscal and revenue system of
Spain. General Seoane had been sent for to Alicante
to assume the duties of Captain-General of Murcia and
Valencia, to which he has been appointed by the Queen.
His nomination is one of those far-fetched calculations
of the Camarillo which are now only laughed at. Ge-
neral Infante was promoted for somewhat similarly sage

reasons.
'rue Funds have come down a little to-day, from the
belief that the Regent would leave the country ; they
were last quoted at •?5 13.16ths for cash.

The Dutch and German papers received last
night contain no news of importance. Accounts
from Berlin state that the reserves of the Prussian
army had been allowed to retire to their homes for
the winter.

DUTCH EU NDF,—ASIsTERDAM, OCT. 13, •
Money. Rine.
Actual Debt, `:.% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A mot t S,lniic,,V,,i per cent 82%, F 3,4
Ditto, ditto, *4 per cent CB'll 63%
Commercial Company, 11., per cent 156%1 1.155%
Ditto (1&35 and 8537) 5 per cent.
Loan 1637,, 5 per cent. OO 91)4
Exchange on London, One month._ ll 9714
Twin months
ti Dutch Papers, Oct. 14. 1n: lir.;
11: nELGIAN k UNDS—BRUFALLS. OCT. 14. • et
Actual Del t, 2% per Cent. ............
~,,
` Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C,nt ..................... tY3 ''r
I
Iv Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. — , ;fit,
3 per Cent.
, -I --Thirty.seven -- , t 1
C2N
' - Loan of City, 1532, 4 per Cent, SD
Society of Commerce, 454 per Cent lO9
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 7l

National Society.
Exchange on London (short)
—Brawls Papers, Oct. 14.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, 0(T. 5
Five per Colts. Metalliques . ILN
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents. ... 7ti}.4
Bank shares ... •555
....Allgenieine Ztiiting, Oct. Id.
PRUSSIAN FUN W.z.— MALIN, OCT. 9.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4!., per cent. lO3 10214
Prit.,,ran Enghsh Loan, Is:lo, 4 per cent 1001,i
iixchange on London, three months.— 6 I6N
—Prussian State Gazette, Oct. JO.

THE INFERNAL Al A CIIINE.—Tho Times for weeks,
wrote articles of great length and great solemnity
about some mysterious engine, which, in the hands of
any one who knew bow to use it, could destroy in a
twinkling the most powerful fleet in the world. It
pressed on Lord Melbourne the absolute necessity of
purchasing the invention in order that England might
not by one unforeseen blow lose the mastery of the seas,
and when the lazy Premier took no notice of these
timely warnings, and continued to dine at Windsor
Castle and enjoy himself as usual, a furious outcry
was attempted to be raised against him, and the First
Lord of the Admiralty, as if they were traitors to
their country. For many days not a word has been
written about either impeachment or the infernal ma-
chine, and for the best reason in the world. The
writer now knows that had been boaxed. We have just
seen a letter from a Naval Officer of high rank, stating
that the Solicitor by whom the Times had been de-
ceived, himself now admits that the machine wont
work, and that the best way is to let the imposture dig
a quiet death—regritescat igilur.

COURT MARTIAL ON CAPTAIN
R. A. REYNOLDS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.
beg leave to request that you will insert in
your next Paper the following observations and com-
mands of his Majesty King George the Fourth, on the
sentence of a Court-martial upon an officer of the 921,
in the year 1824. What the senter.ce upon Captain R.
A. Reynolds may be, no one yet knows ; but it it be
dismissal from the service, as some persons have fancied,
it will, of course, not be Approved nor confirmed by her
Majesty. 1 am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A. B.

‘. That the Court have proceeded to judgment in this
case ulider an entire misconstruction and a total mis-
conception of the meaning of the articles of war ; that
these articles expressly describe a dismissal from the ser-
vice only in cases when an officer is charged with scan-
dalous and infamous conduct, unbecoming the character
of an officer and a gentleman ;' and where, under a
charge of that grave and serious nature, facts arc dis-
tinctly proved in evidence against such officer, clearly
giving him scandal and infamy, so that he is rendered
unfit to associate with his brother officers as men of
honour:l

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ROBBERY AND Loss OF L
lowing is extracted from the Memorial des
" On the night of the 3d instant a man and woman, in the
absence of the owners of the forgo at tirdos, introduced
, together with
themselves into the garden attached to the house, and
carried off a large quantity of vegetables. They
ceeded to the sheepfold and caught a sheep,
thrust alive into a sack. The plunderers, decamping with
their booty, endeavoured to cross a canal adjoining the
garden. For this purpose it was necessary to pass over a
very narrow plank, and their feet slipping under their heavy
burdens, they fell into the water and were drowned. On
praying for
hop duty.
to the Treasury,
growers was held at 'rice-
tthheeAfsotolmllo,,weneirittrignopgdoaryzoytfropb.odies were found
burst on Thursday, for the purpose of hearing the answer
tao
postponement
pmonememoreiraal duty.
and
dhe room was crowded
with Loi.-growers from Sussex
eKent, by
whom the
greatest anxiety was shown en b i subject. Sir S. B. P.
Micklethwaite, Bart, baying 11 the motion of Lord
Nevill, called to the chair, proceededth October, to read the copy of a
Treasury minute, dated -._
refused. After
1840, in which the
oreictehnotlhyo
request of the memorialists is
ading of which After a discussion
on the above minute, there
ein the produced a great
sensation, a conversation arose, course of which Mr.
d that the different hop.
Darby suggested Tcasury on the effect
parishes
should memorialize the effect which the
oduce
failure of the hops would pr t
ton the labourers, if the
were. no pos poned,
pay .Went of the duty a point on which
a silent. On the •
the above minute was E. Fuller, E motion of Mr.
Noakes, seconded by A.
which
sq., this suggestion
was embodied in a resolution,.was put and carried ;
was then appointed to prepare the me-
and a Committee
morials,—Brighton GaZtile. .
Cambridge Advertiser states that the Re-
Theformers of that borough havßeca majority of thirteen upon
the recent Parliamentary_ gistration, and
that inde-
pendently of the cases which came under the cognizance of
the Barristers, the new lists may be considered as highly
favourable to the Liberal party.
ok, TENIPER —.ANCE.—
PROGRESS A Ballinasloe
correspondent informs us—and h c has taken pains to be ac-
curate—that the entire consumption of whiskey, at the
recent fair of Ballinasloe,
heretofore
onlyeight
gallons. The
average consumption
.was from eight to twelve
puncheons.—Dublin Paper
Th
CATTLE TRA.IN
Scl. b thee public curiosity has
beets very much attracte
any
Thursdays and ...,atur- '
13,
which are often drawn by three and four engines, sad
contain more than fifty carriages laden with oxen, sheep,
and pigs.

REGISTRATION.-MIDDLES7EX.
(TIM DAY)

The BARRISTER this day revised the City Parochial
Lists in alphabetical order, down to the letter L.
No case of interest occurred before Mr. COVENTRY
up to the time of our going to press.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

COLONIAL MARKET.

Tlie public sales were unimportant, and by private treaty
there was little business done either for home use or ex-
port ; prices, however, were firm for all the leading ar-
ticles. The arrivals keep light.
TEA MARKET.

Tht-re was no material variation in prices ; there was a
amount of business done in all kinds.

TALLOW MARKET.

Prices did not give way, but the trade bought with cau-
tion both on the spot and for delivery. We quote fine
quality 525. to 523. 6d. per cat.
SPIRIT MARKET. _ _

The Rum market was dull, and prices on the dcelino
B:andy rather lower.
HAY MARLET.

A good demand and the supply was moderate. Clover
41. to 6/. ; Meadow, 3/. to b/. ; Straw, 11. 13s. to U. 16i'

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-('PHIS DAY.)

LONDON, OCT. 15.—Wind this day at noan, light
west.south-westerly airs.
DEAL, OCT. 14.—Wind N. W.—Sailed the Grecian,
Richards, for Hobart Town ; Zenobia, Owen, Calcutta;
Charlotte Wylie, Walker, Sierra Leone.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 14 —Wind N. E.—Arrived the
Elizabeth Keith, Walker, from St. John's, New Brims-
wick ; Ann, Alexandria ; Otez, Barbarina, Galatz ; Hot-
spur, M'Moritray, Odessa. Sailed the Betsy, Hamilton,
Monte Video.

STARCROSS, OCT. 14.—The Swallow, Wilson, from
Stockton, which was on shore near this port, came off on
the flood after throwing part of the cargo (coals) over-
iioard, and has come into the harbour with apparent little
damage.
BKIDLINGTON, OCT. 14.—The Siren of Lynn, and two
other vessels belonging to the same port, ran on the rocks
near Flamborough Head yesterday, the two last got off the
same tide, the Siren remained during last night, het is not
to h^ seen this morning. It is supposed she got off early
in the morning, and proceeded northward.