The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-02 00:00:00

CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.)
This being the firA day of Term, the Lord-Chancellor
took his seat on the Bench, and the Court was occupied.
with cases of no particular interest up to the time of our•
going to presF.
ROLLS' COURT.-cm IS DA
His Lordship, the MASTER of the ROLLS, took his
seat shortly before two o'clock, and proceeded to hear
motions, but no case_ of any interest came before the
Court previous
.to our reporter leaving.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

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Min-Helen Farcit's benefit took place at th's Thee tee
last
house
evening,ias filled
v and long e
before
atrht. T
the rising of the
promised
tragedy the
tragedy of .Nina Sforza, written by Mr. !;ouch Trough-
ton, was - acted . on this occasion. for the first
time, and the anticipations of those `rho,
lished for some time) augured
from a perusal
of this beautiful dramatic poem has been pubs:
(which
play, have been fully real' -
Venice, in the palazzo
Venetian noble,stet!. The scene opens at
(Mr. H. Wallach),
Nina (Miss II I
whose daughter, e en.
Faucit) is
,just
'Wl'sarsting into womanhood. Raphael
Doria (Mr. allack), the son and heir of the
reigning ake of Genoa, accompanied by Ugone
Macready), a noble Genoese, and other
a'itendants, arrive at the palazzo of . Sforza. In
former times there had been a deadly feud between the
' houses of Spinola and Doris, and the father of Spinola
had, in a sedition excited by him, been slain by the par-
tisans of Doria. The houses had subsequently become
sfo:rzstsit success- as' an acting
reconciled, and Ugone Spinola and Raphael Doria
had become bosons friends. Raphael Doria how-
ever, a youth of wayward tastes, who wants but
firmness to be virtuous, is unconsciously a mere tool in
the hands of Spinola, who obtains over him that mastery
which strong minds ever have over weak ones. His
dissipations are encouraged by Spinola—his boyish
freaks magnified into crimes in the eyes of his father,
and the result is that Raphael is sent on his travels for
three years. He takes with hini Spinola as the compa-
nion of his exile. Spinola has, from political motives,
previously sought an alliance with the house of Sforza,
and without Nina's knowledge has asked her
hand from her father. lie tells old Sforza of
Raphael's vices, and warns him to keep his daughter
from the sight of Dos.e. Accident, however, subverts
his schemes. Nina, whose gondolahasbeen u n
canal of Venice
wh rise w
by a vessel in ti,
Doria. Theyis saved by-Raphael
love, are wedded, and the old Duke dying
is smce9(l.ed by Raphael, who takes his young and lovely
bride %sith him to Genoa. " Love and genius," as the
aestor beautifully expresses it, " invest even the meanest
'.nings with princely value," and their life in Genoa for
the first few months is a perfect heaven of love.
Spinola, like Satan of old, inspired by envy, jealousy,
and hate, hovers around this Eden, which he seeks in
vain, to turn into the hell which reigns in his own had heart. •
Messengers arrive from Florence, and .the Duke is sum-.
moned from the arms of Nina to attend the coancil.
Spinola is also summoned to the senate. He .asks, in
reply, " Wherefore he should go there ? To seethe
nobles yawning on their benches, unsnindful of the IniSi-
ness of the State, raekingstheir-Israins for coming lux-
uries." This description of the Genoese senators,
which may apply with equal truth to the doingS- of cer-
tain senators nearer home, was eagerly caught at by the
audience, and loudly applauded. Spinola, however, on
being informed that Doria is eager to go to %vas with
Florence, immediately proceeds to the senate, and
vehemently supports the war policy of Doria, which is
ultimately adopted. Doria leaves Genoa in command of
the troops, is victorious, and returns to Florence, bring-
ing with him a certain Florentine lady and her father,
who have placed themselves under his escort for safety.
This lady is represented as a young, loving, and love-
able dame. The weak-minded Doria is flattered by her
attentions. Spinola sees that his time is at length ar•
rived; as he himself expresses it, " The devil never enters
the heart of man but when his proper weakness leads the
way." Doria's weakness does lead the way, and Spinola
encourages it. On their return to Genoa, Doria's con-
nection with this lady is still kept up, and at length lie
writes to her, appointing an assignation, and con-
fides the letter to Spinola. 'With this letter in
his possession, Spinola seeks Nina. and in a scene
of great power, but which rather too closely resembles
the celebrated scene between Othello and Ingo, he shows
to Nina this damning evidence of her husband's guilt.
At first she spurns him, tells him 'tis a lie, a vile inven-
tion of his own, and declares that were she even to have
ocular proof of Doria's faithlessness, she would tear her
eyes out as perjured witnesses, rather than believe her
husband false. She sees the letter—recognises the writ-
ing as Doria's, and, to put an end to the agony of sus-
pense, consents to accompany Spinola at midnight to a
place from whence she can see her husband enter the
house of her hated rival. Sinking from mental excite-
ment,
overwhelmed with agony, she goes at midnight
on this hated errand ; unseen by him, she watches her
guilty husband stealing through the streets, sees him
enter the residence of his paramour, and falls senseless
into the arms of Spinola. This, which Is by far the
most powerfully. written, and the most intensely.;
exciting scene in the tragedy, was most admirably
played- by Miss , Helen; Faucit, and drew down
thunders of applause. Satz returns to her palace ; Spi-
nola, whose motives she thoroughly appreciates, and
whose presence is hateful to her, forces himself into her
chambers and urges her to administer a slow poison
to Doria, with which he (Spinola) supplies her.
Doria returns to the palace overwhelmed with remorse,
at having proVed false to Nina, and reproaches Spinola
with having encouraged him in his career of vice. He
finds Nina sinking under the mental anguish occasioned.
by his falsehood, but is unconscious of the cause. She
says she is ill, but that a draught she has will soon restore:,
her. She asks her husband to hand it her, be does so,
and she swallows the poison given her by Spinola, but
which, by her contrivance, is administered to her by the
hands of Doria. She immediately quits the Palace, leaving
a letter for Doria, which explains all. Doria, stung to mad-
ness, pursues her, and meets with Spinola, who, a /a Zanga,
tells him his whole course of vengeance, and after dis •
arming him, and informing him that Nina has taken
poison from his own (Doria's) hands, leaves him
writhing on the ground in agony. Doria is aroused by
hearing cries in the wood, Ind finds Nina dying from the
effects of the poison. She forgives him and dies in
his arms.- His attendants ,s enter, and report that
having found Spinola in the wood with Doria's
sword, they concluded he had slain the Duke, and con-
sequently had killed him ; and Doria, snatching a
dagger from one of his attendants, stabs himself, and
fulls dead upon the corpse of Nina. This tragedy,
it will be perceived from the above sketch, although
abounding with passages of great power, is not alto
gether free from defects. In the first place, it is too
long. The first three, acts are almost totally devoid of
incident. Although replete with exquisite poetry—
which, however, was frequently marred by the
sing-song recitative-like declamation, which is the
prevailing characteristic of the Macready school—they
contribute but little towards forwarding the business of
the piece, and might be advantageously compressed into
one. The characters also are evidently copied, not from
nature but from other poets. Spinola, for instance, is a
compound of lago and Zanga. The scene between Doria and
Spinola in the -fifth act is evidently a close imitation of
the fifth act of the Revenge, and Macready, as Spinola,
admirable in the other scenes, seemed too much inclined
to lengthen out the last one. The play would go much
better off if this scene were curtailed. The fourth act,
however, shows that the author is capable of
better things, and therefore it is that we are
thus particular in pointing out what we consider the de-
fects in this his first attempt, which, for a first attempt,
is a wonderful production. Mr. Troughton possesses
genius of a high order ; let him depend hence-
forth upon himself, not upon those who have
preceded him. Let him study books less and the human
heart more, and he cannot fail to achieve for himself a
high place among the dramatists of England. Of all
the young aspirants for dramatic fame, he is by
far the most promising. Miss Helen Paucit,
Macready,' and Wallack, were all called for at
the fall of the curtain, and the piece was announced fur
repetition four times a week without a dissentient.

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VIOE.CHAIWERY—(THIS DA
NEW COURTS.
(Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
The Committze-rooms of the House of Commons,
which have been appropriated for the accommodation of
the new Vice-Chancellors appointed under the Act
lately passed • for the better administration of justice,
were crowded froM an early hour with persons anxious
to witness their Ilonours taking their seats in their re,
spective Courts. Indeed so great was the throng of
professional. gentlemen and others, that it wit.; (par; a
task to effect an entrance into either Court.
'Whoever were so fortunate as to gain admittance,
might justly say that they.never 'conceived it to be so
difficult to " get into Chancery."
At a few minutes before two o'clock- his lionour Mr.
K. BRUCE entered the Court, and proceeded to hear mo-
tions, in which he was engaged at the time of our going
to press.

(Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.)
His Honour entered his Court at ten minutes before
two o'clock, but in consequence of parties not being pre-
pared in the different motions appointed to be taken
before his Honour to-day, the Court rose at two o'clock.
His Honour will sit to-morrow at ten o'clock, and
take cause petitions.

A. Y.)

QUEEN'S BENCI-1.-01-11S
This being the first
.day of liiichaelmas Term, the
Court was opened with the usual formalities.
The following gentlemen having .been appointed
Queen's- Counsel, were, at the sitting of the Court,
called within the bar :—Messrs. Wakley, Godson, Sut-
ton Sharpe, Knowles, Baines, Austin, and Stuart WOV:tey.
THE QUEEN V.
_JOHN SUEEHAN AND SIB JOHN r.fujEy•

DOYLE.
Mr. TIIESIGER. had been instructed on bt-Italf of Sir
Alexander Grant, M.P. for the town orCarnbridge, to
move for a rule to show causr., why a e:iminal informa-
tion should not be filed against Mr. John Sheehan,
editor of the Crunbridge Press, ati a Sir John Doyle, for
using language calculated to -provbke a breach of the

The COURT, after hmti,..ig the arkuments, granted the
rule.

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EXCHEQUER.---(TRIS. DAY).
The Judges of this Court did not take their scats on
the Bench till near two o'clock. -
Messrs. Whateley, Godson, Sharpe, Knowles,
Baines, and S. Wortley having been appointed
Queen's • Counsel, were called upon to take
their seats' within the bar. Mr. Austin likewise took
his seat within the bar before Mr. Wortley, he haying
obtained a patent of yrecedence.
TEMSDEN V. CLOG.

Mr. ERLE moved for a rule nisi to enter
a nonsuit in. this case, which was tried be-
fore Mr. Justice Maule at the late Exeter As-'
sizes; when. a verdict was found for the plaintiff. It
appeared that there had been many claimants to and
much litigation respecting a property called " The
Four Lords' Land," but that in 1815, by means
of a Chancery suit, the husband of the plaintiff was
declared the owner of three-fourths of it, and another
person got the other portion. The present action was
brought to recover rent for the last portion, and the
plaintiff relied upon an acknowledgment of title
by the defendant in a letter, wherein he said "in
consequence of the long and harassing litigation, he
prayed for mercy, compassion, pity, and recompence,
The Learnwl Gentleman contended that these
words did not .mount to an acknowledgment of title.
The COURT thought that the point was worthy
of further consideration.—Rule nisi granted.

DAINTRY V. HUTCHINSON.
TA.V. KELLY moved for a new trial in this case,
w filch was tried before Mr. Baron Alderson al
the late Cambridge Assizes, when a verdict was passed
for the defendant. The Learned Gentleman said
the action was upon an agreement to run a match with
greyhounds for 1001. a-side. The defendant challenged
the plaintiff to runApoury of three matches with his dog
Grasper, against hi“tlie defendants) dog King Co!e. It
was accepted, and 'an- agreement entered into, in which it
was stipulated - that the said match is to- be run (in the
Wednesday during the Newmarkett, February "Meeting. ih.
1841, P.P. ; and it was upon these words the point-
turned. It was given in evidence, that the. usual prac-
tice'
was for the Stewards to appoint the day of the
February meeting in the previous November, but al-
ways with a proviso that it was fixed, weather permit-
ting ; and that clause was rendered necessary, because it
was impossible for the dogs-to run should frost prevail at
the time fixed. The first- Tuesday in February,
184 i, had been so appointed by the Stewards for the
'commencement of the meeting, but some days previous
to that time, there being a hard frost on the ground,
and no immediate prospect of a change, the
Stewards met and adjourned the day of meeting till the
Tuesday fortnight, and both parties to the action were
present at the time, but, in order to make all sure, the
plaintiff caused a written notice of the fact to be served
upon the defendant. The meeting was held upon Tuesday,
the 16th of February, and the plaintiff attended with his_
dog, prepared to run the match on the Wednesday, but
the defendant did not appear. The plaintiff took ail the
steps usual upon such an occasion, and brought his
action upon the agreement. At the trial the Leained
Judge laid it down that the meeting specified in the.
agreement was the first Tuesday in February, and
• the Jury found fcr the defendant, according
to his directions. He was surprised at the
direction, and would contend that the meeting clearly
" was properly adjourned till the 16th, and that,the meeting
then held was the meeting contemplated in the agreement..
The COURT granted a rule nisi.

BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.
This being the first day of Term his Lordship did not
take his seat on the Bench until half-past one o'clock.
THE QUEEN V. GREEN.—QUO WARRANTO.
Mr. COLE applied for a rule calling upon Mr: Richard
Green, a banker, to shew cause why a writ of quo war-
rant° should not issue; calling upon him to show cause
why he exercised the office of a Town-councillor of the
city of Lichfield. It appeared from the affidavit of
Mr. Brassington, the relator, that the defendant had
been elected a Town-councillor of Lichfield on
the 2d day of November last, and that he had
accepted office on the 6th of. November following, at
which time he was incapable of being elected or of per-
forming the duties ;of :a Town-councillor, inasmuch
as, holding a place of profit under the Corporation, he
was disqualified under the 28th section of the Muni-
cipal Corporation Act. The office he held was that of
treasurer and banker to the corporation, to which office
he had been elected on 20th April, 1838.
Mr. Justice PATTESON--DOeS the affidavit state the
amount of his salary ?
Mr. Cole—No, my Lord, the profits depend on the
amount of business transacted.
Mr. Justice PATTESON—Take a rule nisi.—Application
granted.
ELECTION FOR BRIDGE-HASTER.—THE QUEEN V. LANG-
LEY AND OTHERS.
Mr. GURNEY moved that thOdefendants in this case,
W. Langley, John Lank, Robert Salmon, and
J. Snow, should be brought • up to plead to an
indictment, charging them with conspiracy and perjury
at the late 'election for Bridge-master in the city of Lon-
don. Lank refused to plead, on the ground that he
was wrongly named in the indictment.- The other de-
fendants pleaded not guilty.
THE QUEEN V. COOK.
In this case a rule nisi had been cbtained by Mr. Erle,
calling on the defendant to show cause by what right
he exercised the functions of Coroner for the county of
Oxford. The rule was enlarged to next term by the
consent of all parties.
His Lordship rose at three o'clock.

COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.)
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, Mr. Justice COLTMAN,
Mr. Justice ERSKINE, and Mr. Justice MAULE, took
their seats upon the bench at halF-past one o'clock.
COLLIS v. BROOMS.
In this case, which was tried before the Under-
Sheriff of Warwick, Sir THOMAS WYLDE obtained a
rule nisi to set aside the verdict given for the
plaintiff and to grant a new trial;'' on- the ground
that the cause of action was nof - within , the ju-
risdiction of the Sheriff ; and - secondly, that
the verdict was against evidence. The Learned Sergeant
contended that the defendant was entitled to a nonsuit,
as the ground of action was an alleged breach of con-
tract arising out of the 'hiring of U 'Court, the jurisdic-
tion of the Sheriff extending . only to cases of debt or
demand.

•11--, SPAIN. . :
COEZ tr_4ll, POCVMENI'S.) 7 7
PROCL.A.N4T,I67Iq 'OF THE REGENM
" Basques-Thane whUso often abused your credulity
and good faith, have'•-`sought'to;do- ,so again ; but they
have failed rin realising; their projects. •You, Basques,
having learned to be cautious in the school, of disappoint-
ment, six years of cruel war didUot suffice these Vvretelr•-
ed persons 5 they sotight to 'alliance it anew with the
force left them by the treatrof-Bergara. ---But that the
nation abhors thOso who would again raise the standard
of civil war is seen from the shout of indignation raised
against them in every province, by the repentance of the
troops which they seduced, and the rapidity with which
faithful battalions .fleW 'to. the province to chastise traitors.
No,
.Basqt4s, you must no longer be under the yoke
of a, dozen -.persons, whose interests are not yours.
It is -my, duty to free 3OU from this, and I will do
so. You ought to- be, and shall be, freemen ; and
I promise you shall • be. You shall no longer nourish
with your sweat ~.the sordid class that would have
betrayed-:you to death. On them shall be taken ven-
geance. They detest the Conetitution which your re- •
presentatiVes concurred in' 'forming, because it elevated
.you to tlle rights of freemen, instead of remaining the
patrimony;of a few families. And as it is my duty, as
first magistrate of the nation, to labour for the good of
Spaniards, you who are Spaniards- shall enjoy all those
benefits which the 'fundamental law of the State con-
cedes to all. Without peace there can be no happiness
• for nations. Our country has entered into the path of
prosperity; it will become as great and powerful as it
deserves to be. And I repeat, what ye said to our adored
'Queen, Isabella the Second, the Basques shall contribute,
like all other Spaniards, to the fortunes of the country.
" EL DUQUE DE LA. VICTORIA.
" FACU.N.OO INFANTE.
"'Vittoria, Oct. 23."
CAPTAIN-OENEEALSIIIP OF THE 12TH MILITARY PIS-

TRICT.—ESTADO MAYOR.
" Excellent Sir—ln my communication of the 17th
instant, I informed your Excellency of the position I had
taken up in Andoain, and of my resolution to defend it
as long as possible. There I remained till twelve o'clock
last night, when I received information that three bat-
talions of the revolted regiments of Bourbon and of
Burgos hal advanced as far as Villabona, an hour's dis-
tance from me, and that their intention was to attack me
in the morning.
" I immediately gave my orders to prepare for battle,
and when, at half-past three o'clock in the morning,
the troops were beginnino- to move, Don Jose Maria
Bousingalt, Captain of the Regiment of Toledo (who
had been taken prisoner by the rebels on the night
of the 4th instant, whilst bearing an express from Ber-
-gara to-Bilbao for the Commandant-General of Biscay),
presimted himself to me, and stated that the four batta-
lions, in mass, were determined to re-acknowledge the
legitimate Government of the nation, and to place them-
selves instantly under my orders ; trusting, at the same
time, on my being convinced that they had been led
astray by an act of obedience to the Generals who com-
manded them, and not from nay ill intent, that I would
pardon the irregularity in which they had been mixed up,
seeing that they had not, taken any active part in the in-
surrection, and that they were prepared to wash out the
stain by volunteering to be the first to do battle with the
enemies of the national cause, wherever they might pre-
sent themselves. My situation—the perspective of the
evils which might be averted from my country by grant-
ing the prayur of the petitioners—the entire sub-
mission with which they implored mercy, and the
natural generosity of a liberal and beneficent Go-
vernment—all decided me at the moment to address
to the Chiefs the communication which I enclose to
your Excellent}`-, which I sent to them by Captain
Bousingalt. In conclusion, at ten o'clock in the morn-
ing all the battalions, led by the Lieutenant-Colonel of
the regiment of Bourbon, Don Martin Colmenares,
presented themselves to me, with repeated acclamations
(well replied to) for the Constitution, the queen, his
Highness the Regent of the kingdom, and with all the
proofs of the most extreme enthusiasm.
"Among those soldiers,- who had fought along with
me, and to whom I was personally known, I could per-
ceive a degree of joy lighting up their aspects at our
meeting, which I could well interpret as the true ex-
pression of what was passing in their hearts.
" The Generals Clavaria, Urbistondo, Lardizabal ;
Brigadier Laroblia tW Conde Montemor, the Feral De-
puties,
Pa'aelos and Lardszabal, the chiefs and officials
. ,
of :Alm- ennvinstion Of- Bergara, which were in this
pretVince (and who, with very few exceptions, joined
• the ..reliels), the •Miguelites of Guipuscoa, part
of those of Biscay, and severalall fled chiefs, officers, and pea-
at
sants who adhered to them, out of this city
midnight, in the direction of Pampeluna. It is known
that at noon to-day they passed by Lecumberri, and, as I
supposed they had taken the road to France, I have or-
dered a party of people of the country to cut off their
retreat, and warned the military commandant of Irun to
guard the fro:tier by way of Vera.
"I hope that your Excellency will do me the honour
to snake knoa n. this happy event to his Highness the
Regent of the kingdom, of whom I humbly pray that he
will please to approve my conduct in this matter.
" FRANCISCO DE PAULA ALCALA.
" Cuartel General of Tolosa, 10 o'clock at night; Oct. 20.
" To the Minister of War."
(Enclosure).
" GENERAL ORDER,
" Captain-Generalship of Military District No. 12,
at Andoain, Oct. 20.
Soldiers,—The Regiment of Bourbon, No. 17, and
the Provincials of Burgos, who yesterday stood opposed
to us, and whom we considered as enemies, are now
again amongst us ! If they_ have been led into error by
obedience to the severe rules of discipline, of which un-
grateful Generals availed themselves, and thereby for an
instant withdrew themselves from their obedience to
Government, it has only been until 'an occasion should
arise of enabling them to make known to the whole
nation that those who had spilled their blood in a hun-
I dred combats for the defence of liberty could not be
traitors !
Soldiers, in the name of the Queen and of his Highness
LOffer you a totaloblivion of the past. Already there exists
no yesterday. Already we have no more to think of than
to march and finish with the evil-doers who remain. The
soldiers of the Prince, of Bourbon, -and of Burgos are
already one and the same. We shall all combat unitedly,
and all present ourselves to his Highness the Regent of
the kingdom, as loyal. and worthy to be pointed out as
the soldiers who exterminated the ominous standard of
despotism.

" FRANCISCO DE PAULA ALCALA.
" FRANCISCO ALCALA."
The despatch of the Minister of War contains two
other letters, scarcely less important, viz., one from the
principal administration of the- Correo (Post-office) at
Bilbao, dated the 20th of October, informing the Chief
of the similar department at Burgos "that the city of
Vittoria is now in possession of Brigadier Zurbano, and
that the city of Bilbao has submitted to the Government
of her Majesty Isabel 11., and the Regency of the Duke
of Vittoria," and thereupon praying the correspondence
addressed to Bilbao remaining in Burgos to be for-
warded without delay. - . .
The Postmaster of Burgos, in reply on the 21st inst.,
states that he will the next morning forward all the let-
ters, being obliged to keep the newspapers for the pre-
sent, as such a quantity had accumulated—adding, as
news to what is stated above, " that Munagorri had been
delivered up by the people of the country, and shot ; by
that they consider the communication with France
would, one moment or the other, be entirely set free ;
thus they had already forwarded by
.Vittoria the mails
that arrive by Bayonne, thereby gaining much time over
the Santander route—an object to which the Admini-
strator of the Posts was devoting all his energies. The
Government has published the following Gaceta Extra-
ordinaria, decisive of the fate of the revolt of Oribe :
" OFFICIAL ARTICLE.

VICTORIA THEATRE.
One - of the best pieces we have ever seen at this
Theatre was produced last night, entitled The Wreck of
the Heart, or the Story of Agnes Primrose. The piece
pourtrays a too common occurrence in real life—the
seduction of a young and innocent girl by an aristocratic
villain. The first uct is occupied with the various arts
used to accomplish the ruin of the heroine, and con-
cludes with the elopement. In the second the desertion,
the invariable consequence of the scene of the first act, is
depicted, and the heroine is shown wending her way with
her child to London, there to seek employment. She
arrives in London with but sixpence in her pocket,
having lost her purse on her way up. She wanders
about London, and at length arrives in the neighbour-
hood of the Mint, where she stumbles upon a den of
thieves, dignified by the name of a lodging-house, where-
travellers are taken in and " done for." A scene here
occurs, apparently modelled upon that in Jack Sheppard,
celebrated as containing that once fashionable air, " Nix
my dolly pals." Agnes is now penniless, and the keeper
of this den offers her a guinea if she will get him
change for a 101. note, which, it is needless to say, is a
forged one. The artless girl, without suspicion, takes
the note, and she is given into custody on a
charge of " smashing." This concludes the second
act, and the third opens with the trial at Hertford.
The seducer of Agnes, Who was a law student, and the
son of a Rev. Dean, has been made a Judge, and, by a
singular coincidence, which so strangely occurs in dramas,
he is the very judge before whom Agnes is to be tried.
The trial goes on, but from strange inattention of the
judge the name of the prisoner does not occur to him
till he is about to pass sentence, when he asks the name
of the prisoner ; and then a scene of theatrical recogni-
tion takes place. Agnes is condemned to die, but the
innocent gentleman ChoN had led her to the commission
of the offence is taken to Hertford, and confesses
his share in the transaction, and Agnes is acquitted.
The judge then; in a fit of penitence, declares
Agnes now to be his wife, and the pike con-
cludes. The heroine was beautifully played by
Miss
Vincent, and she was much applauded throughout the
piece. Messrs. Gardner and Paul sustained two very
droll characters, which Were relished much by the audi-
eUce. The piece Was, got up with admirable' scenery
and effect, and Was received with vociferous applause
deislreer)s,s poointedcaoluhnistiro)n,,s
v,‘.lN;eicrhe
t4dites
:acsoniocltuisiorni...e,eSnotip
were eagerly grasped at, and much applauded by . the
audience. The theatre was crowded, which is a
reward the management certainly merits, as neither ex-
pense nor exertion is wanting to deserve it. Miss Vin-
cent takes her first annual benefit this evening, which
will of course be a bumper:' •

" SUPERIOR POLITICAL GOVERNMENT OF ZAMORA.
" MADRID, OCT. 24, 1841.
" Sir—At this instant (4 o'clock in the afternoon) I
bare received a communication from the Commandant-
General of this province, dated yesterday, at Alcanices,
in which he informs me that the traitor, Brigadier Don
Jose Oribe, with 235 men who accompanied him, was dis-
armed in the PLAN of Manacles by ,the Portuguese
authorities, on the evening of the 20th inst., whereupon
the said Commandant-General, with eighteen horse, rode
to Braganza to reclaim and retake the arms, military
chests, and ether effects belonging to the said force.
The public peace has been without the slightest altera-
tion here, a decided proof of the bad reception given to
the traitor Oribe, despite his promises and constant ef-
forts to make proselytes.
" Zamora, Oct. 22, 1841.
" NICHOLAS CALVO Y
" To the Secretary of State."

PORTUGAL.
LISBON, OCT. 25.—The law for abolishing the diffe
rential duties,' or bounty in favour of Portuguese -shipj,
ping, a copy of which I
.subjoin, was published iii the,
Diario do Govern° of Tuesday last. This law will-take'
effect for goods three months from the time of its pilbitu
cation from ports in Europe and North America, and ;site:
passed the .LoWer 11 *Mil filet;
months from all others.an`dYh:ilSiteanryate;
thislias 'titbeien2noL
exclusively occupied in discussing 'the prdjeA' hielli.
poses a tribute of ten per cent. upon the SalttiltftitOfi ttll
p\x‘Nlliibttiillisetacneoffldnpisn/ioCletatisb,
iCehiavli.ilonp%osition
in
the Upp‘r, on
account Of the 4th Article, which also places,* de-
pre a:re an amendment, whereby
de-
cima upon the ' script of the Board of Public :Credit.
rto, as well as- the Senater Manoel Antonio Vellez Caldeira (ei-Ilinister of
State) has protested in the House that should such a
commer-
cial companies, may be su )jected to the same. Little
worthy of notice has occurred in the Chamber of Depu-
ties, if we except the proposal of Count da Taipa for de-
male:
claring vacant the seat of M. Florid° Rodrigues-Perreira
banks'reP al' LI i'S't iCini lalnd-
Perraz, who haS been lately appointed; pro teinpbre, Com-
missary-in-Chief of the Army, in the rodlii-of M. Luiz
Jose Ribeiro, V. ho, as mentioned in my last, has been
dismissed. This proposal Was approved of the House,
but on being sent to a Special Committee, was negatived,
so that M. Florid() retains his seat in the Chamber of
Deputies.. This decision was founded on the recent pre-
cedent of the Minister of Justice, M. Costa Cabral, in
favour of his brother, Jose Bernardo da Silva Cabral,
and Joaquitn Joso Pereira de, Mello.
The discussion of the protect for the sale of national
property in the Azore Islands and Madeira still conti-
nues, and the debate relative the project , which
is to,
decide the fate of the inactive claAes', commences
this day. The Opposition deputy, .11M. Sa Nogueira,
made an interpellation to the Minister of'Finance, in-
quiring whether he intended to .'diSetiss •
the budget or
not ? The Minister answered in theeaffirmative, and ad-
ded, that he had had already severaconferentes with the
Soled Committee of the House, and
expecteeD
_-shortly to
prese • nt the budget as called for. m,•-
. . . ,
The telegraph announcedyestertity;•lbiat'f on Vriday
last a Spanish battalion, A
..,f .'s.llbtrenbn:,,,underl.the.
d of a 13rigadiqlqs0iiirel and 'beyiertti Other
command' '''''',lll-',!' ~,,:pl:ft,-)! "'
-I ~,,{ i of

LORD LisTowEL,—We understand this excel-
lent landlord and.. patriotic Nobleman will arrive on a
visit to his extensive . estates at Listowel on "the 4th of
November.--Cork Southern Reporter.

More rain has fallen during the present month
than in any former October for, more than a quarter of a
century. Bleak and gusty winds have swept over the land,
winnowing our forests, and scattering the fruits from
the trees in out orchards ; whilst the floods have inmany
districts overspread the •meadows destroying the hus-
bandman's hopes of a second crop of hay. In many parts
of the kingdom much of the grain is still abroad —Liver-
pool Chronicle,

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THE SUN, LONDON, TPESDAY, NOVEMIIgit 2. 1841.

,3aol 1u e.p4.

officers, entered Braganza, as refugees ; these, it
/would appear, are compromised in the . late Christina
movements, and their entrance into this country_
was caused by their finding no sympathy at Zamora
and Toro, whence they were driven by the National
Guard. The men were disarmed by the Portuguese
authorities, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs here
has officially communicated to the Spanish Envoy at this
Court, M. Aguilar, that orders have been given to re-
move them all into the interior.
The revenue of the Lisbon Custom-house and Ricise-
office, and Custom-house of Oporto, for the month of
September last, paid in debentures, ex-paper money, and
coin, amounts conjointly to 304,018,987 reis (equal to
69,671/. 05..4d. sterling), showing a decrease on the pre-
ceding month of August, of 13,9141. 4s. sd. sterling.
Exchange upon London, at 30 days' sight, 53d. to 54d.
per milrei.
M. Joaquim Ferreira Borges goes by this packet, as
Portuguese Envoy to St. Petersburgh.
" FINANCE OFFICE—THIRD DEPARTMENT.
" Donna Maria,, by the grace of God, and by the Con-
stitution of the Monarchy, Queen of Portugal and Al-
garves, Make InoWn to all our subjects, that the
General CorteS ,have decreed, and we have sanctioned,
the following law :-•
" Article 1. The premium of 15 per cent. granted by
the first article of the decree of the 16th January, 1837,
upon goods, merchandise, and manufactures imported in
Portuguese resSelS 'admissible into the custom-houses of
the kingdom andislands adjacent, is hereby abolished.
" Par. 1. The goods, merchandise, and manufactures
shipped in places or ports where the Portuguese flag is
not admitted, imported and cleared for consumption,
shall pay the respective entry, and further, one-fifth of
the amount of the said duties.
" Par. 2. line goods, merchandise, and manufactures,
shipped in places or ports where the Portuguese flag
shall be admitted, and not be subjected to differential
duties, imported in foreign vessels not belonging to the
place where the goods, merchandise, and manufactures
are produced, upon clearance for consumption shall alsO
pay the respective duties, and further, one-fifth part of
the amount of the said duties.
"Par. 3. The goods, merchandise, and manufactures
shipped in places or ports where the Portuguese flag
shall be subject to differential duties, imported in foreign
vessels and cleared for consumption, shall pay the re-
spective duties, and as much more as the Government
may be under the necessity of imposing, in accordance
with the Bth article of the General Custom-house
duties, established according to the Act of the 11 th
of March, 1841.
" Art. 2. The provisions of the present law shall come
into operation three months after its publication, as re-
gards goods, merchandise, and manufactures imported
in vessels coming from the ports of Europe and North
America ; and in six months as respects all other ports.
" Art. 3. All other laws to the contrary are hereby
revoked.
" We, therefore, command that all authorities to whom
the cognizance and execution of the said law may be-
long, will fulfil and act upon it, and cause it to be ful-
filled and acted upon, according to the full intent and
meaning thereof.
" The Minister of Finance shall cause the same to be
printed, published, and distributed.
" Given at the Palace of Necessidades on the 18th o
October, 1841.

TRIAL OF ~THE NATIONAL."
THIRD PROSECUTION.
When the. Assize Court was opened the President bade
the Advocate- General, M. Nauguier, speak.-- He began,
as usual, by reading the article which was the object of
the present action ; it was an article written on the day
after the late acquittal of that paper by the jury. The
article was as follows :
" We, with all France, .have been present at the trial
which has just taken place in the Court of Assizes. We
do not say so from a personal sentiment, nor to flatter
our advocates ; but because the discussion which took
place, and which the President has so rightly called
eloquent and animated, has presented to the public, as
well as to the Government, all the interest of the greatest
political question. The article submitted to the Jury
was published in the month of December last. The
trial had been several times adjourned, on account of
the painful illness of our gerant, M. Delaroche ; but,
if the article is old, the question it treats of
is always new. The National, witness of the re-
crimination of M. Guizot against M. Tillers, and of
M. Thiers against M. Guizot, thought it might
repeat, in its turn, what every one has said, what the
orators of the Chamber, and papers of every opinion had
The National thought it might attribute to
.enuence of personal government the cause of that
policy which seemed to us to debase and ruin the coun-
try. Tho article accused had no other sense. Its ex-
pression was melancholy, but firm. It said to M. GiLizet
and M. Thiers, and to all those who have held the reins
of State, " You ate all accomplices, but we know who
is really the gui4 one. France knows it also, and pos-
terity will name hiln." It is in that article, and par-
ticularly in those words; that the public accuser has seen
two offences—an offence against the person of the King,
and a breach of the King's irresponsibility.
" M. Partarieu Lafosse developed' with -.great talent the
constitutional principle of ' Royal inviolability ; he
showed its necessity, and after having established
that this principle had been created, not, only. in the
interest of Royalty, but in the general interest
of order and public peace, he took up the :National,
and proved that the pith of the article might be said
in a few words, viz., 'That the policy which had been
followed since ten years was one of shame, de-
basement, and ruin. But the ',ten who' have had the
man2gement of affairs were not responsible ; they were
only accomplices. The guilty person is the .King.'
The Advocate-General then easily showed that the Na-
tional had committed the double offence imputed to it.
Then seeking to anticipate and refute beforehand the
system of our defender, he. pretended that M. Marie
would seek refuge in equivocation and miserable sub-
terfuges ; that lie would try to prove that, the King
not being named, no offence had been committed ; that
this offence was the result of the inferences of the public
Ministry, and that it was an offence by inference. M.
Partarieu Lafosse spent much logic in refating a priori
this system of defence, which lie had found very easy
to foresee, and which lie triumphed over so easily.
But it was pains throwii away. It did not suit either
the character of the advocate nor the dignity of our jour-
' to shelter ourselves behind a discussion without
`y and without truth. What we meant was evi-
. , our expressions plainly showed it. It was the
icing we spoke of, and our readers could not but know it.
A denial of it would have been a real insult to the good
sense and intelligence of the jury ; it would have been a
lie on our part. In supposing such an intention, M.
Partarieu Lafosse denied at once the sincerity of our
i!
principles and the consci ntious- habits of our defender.
Yes, it was the King we' ke of, and all the circum-
stances in which we were p aced when the article was
published gave us the right to do so, and justified the at-
tack. This is the thesis which M. Marie has developed
with a power of reasoning, an agglomeration of facts, and
an elevation of thought which bore conviction to all minds.
This doctrine was sincere and bold, and for that very
reason it became perilous. But, whatever danger there
might be siaco the occasion presented itself for discussing
before the justice of the country that burning ques-
tion of personal government, it was necessary that
justice shculd be interrogated with sincerity, and that
it also should answer with sincerity. The answer was
complete. The Jury, after ten minutes deliberation,
brought in a verdict of acquittal on every point. We
declare, with entire good faith, that if we are rejoiced in
our own interest, we are much more so in the interest of
the public. Must not Government remain within the
limits which have been traced for it ? Does the law,
which forbids us to attack the inviolability c,f the
King, permit our adversaries to present the King
continually as the author of a system? Is the
irresponsibility of the Royal person a dogma with-
-out condition? Will M. Guizot be alldwed to say
that it is the King. Who has decided the Eastern
question, who has wished for peace, and who is to
have the glory of it? And are we to be forbidden
to declare, that if this question has been ill re-
solved, if peace brings a shame, it is to the King
that the responsibility is left ? If there is a party which
goes on its knees to personal government, which praises
and adores it, is it not lawful for another party to attack
that Government, and to prove to what misfortune and
disorders it may bring us ? If the public, finally, leaves
unpunished all those who uncover royalty, who make it
descend to the level of political realities, can it loyally
demand the punishment of a paper which applies respon-
sibility, when the author of such an act or system of go-
vernment is shown ? Either the law is unequal, and,
then it loses the character which commands
obedience ; or it is equal, and than it obliges every
body, those who like monarchy, and those who do
sot. Either those who violate it must be made- to ob-
Serve it, or it must be suffered that those who have fol-
lowed your example should find in the equity of the
Jury the justice which you haVe refused. All these
thoughts have been developed by M. Marie in that
admirable pleading which left no hold fer doubt, no re-
source for a reply. He gave in a„fewr words the history'
Of the last years. That personal government attacked
by us, he has shown attacked by M. Guizot, M. Thiers,
M. Barret, and all the political men who took an active
part in those irritating debates."
The rest of the article,- and the pleadings which fol-
lowed it, were nothing more than developments of its
leading idea. The question then went to the Jury, who
Without hesitation,- returned a verdict of " Not Guilty.,
- .. • '

sinceri

" THE QUEEN.
" ANTONIO JOZE

THE DISTRES
ONDDN
SE PRINTERS OF
LO.

- -
AN APPEAL TO THE NOBILITY, GENTRY, &c.
" When sorrows come they come not in single pairs,
But in battalions."
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR—In soliciting the favour of insertion in your
Journal of the following observations, I trust the pressing
urgency of the subject herein discussed will be read not
as mere matter of detail, but one that shall receive at
the hands of the public generally that benevolent atten-
tion which its appeal so justly entitles it to :
" Gentlemen—The humble individual who has taken
upon himself the onorous task of submitting a few plain
remarks to your candid perusal, is one who belongs to
that numerous but depressed body styled Letterpress
Printers. It is no supposititious averment when I say,
Ond hundreds can attest the fact), that during the
lengthed period of the art of printing (about four can-
turies), there never has occurred a time in which such
distress from the want of employment has been felt
amongst its members as in the present year, 1841. Like
other trades, there is always a portion of the year in
which work is scarce, particularly when; Parliament
is not sitting ; but for the whole of the lasCsiac months
the Letterpress Printers have boen driven neqly,to their
wit's end by a stagnation in their calling the;oldest mangy
among-them never remembered before.
" As a working body, they are the first to respond to
the calls of charity, whether amongst their individual
members, or to those who belong to other professions;
but as it respects themselves, they sensitively flinch from
appeals to public sympathy—not from a feeling of pride,
but of honest endurance of ills, which they fondly hoped
time and circumstances would have ameliorated. But
hope has proved delusive ; yet, while they make no ob-
trusive claims upon the benevolence of any, they may be
allowed to say, without being chargeable with presump-
tion—

6` The mercy Ito OTHERS show,
That mercy show to ME.'
Even in the year 1826, a season which presented-a
'nest. tragic picture of destitution amongst the printing
profession, yet it fell infinitely short in the number of
cases of absolute' want, as well as the period of its dura-
tion, when compared with the present time. One fact
will illustrate it—that all the time of the present dearth
nothing has been done in the shape of pecuniary relief.
Thin it received almost immediatd anent
on;-
hich was
extended to FORTY WEEKS' SUBSCRIPTION from those in
employ, which.produced 9481. 6s. 104 d.; from the master
printers in the metropolis, 315/. ; from masters and
Journeymen in the country, 4301. 14s. Id.; two excursions
to the Nore, 491. 15s. 100. ;. benefit at the Cobourg
Theatre, 531. 155.; ditto concert at Crown and Anchor,
7L ls. ; public donations and subscriptions, 332/. Ils. ;
total, 2,1371. 12s. 101 d. This was a notable offering at
the altar of benevolence; may a kindred feeling again
be shown.
" But how stands the matter now, when four-fifths
are destitute, and when the appeal is made, most must
be ready to say 'my poverty, not my compels me
to refuse my mite. That they have commenced a sub-
scription among themselves, and will make a public ap-
peal, is, true ;
,bup only look at the following statistics:—
The number . of kturneynen compositors in Londcin is
stated to be 'Ankle 2,500, besides apprentices, at the
present' perio“b.bout one-fourth more than in 1826) ;
the number of Tressmen about 1,000, many of whom
are as destitute of employment as the compositors, the
one depending upon the work which the other prepares
to his hands. In the composing branch upwards of 1,000
are seeking employment in vain, besides about 500 ave-
raging about 10s. a week. This deplorable state of
things must astound every lover of literature, but who
may scarcely think it possible, while he is feasting his
mind with his ever-swelling stores, that London has.
such a plague-spot.
" At this stage of the discussion, it may not be out of
place to say, that there is not an individual member -of
civilized society but who owes much, very much as to
what.ihe as, to the handicraft labours of the press, con-
trasted with what he MIGHT have been had the art of
printing
.not been the agency for improving his mental,
meral, and social condition. Then, as the benefits of
this mighty engine have been so widely diffused, en-
lightening and refreshing in its influence all upon whom
it sheds its radiant beams, and as they find the highest
mental gratification they can freely indulge in to arise
from the compensating power of literature, in all its
rich and luxurious variety of incident, let them by all
means satiate themselves in this feast of reason and
flow of soul,' but in the mean time give a practical de-
monstration of that heavenly injunction, which is an
epitome of benevolence Freely ye have received,
freely give.'
"The art of printing is none other than the key which
has unlocked the gate of knowledge ; it is the sun of the
moral system, which has dispersed the mists of ignorance,
that, like the Egyptian gloom, is a darkness which
might be felt ;' and, as one of its noblest features, it has
taught man his duties and responsibilities to his Creator
and to his fellow man. Ere the dawn of this effulgent
luminary, darkness covered the earth, and gross dark-
ness the people.'
" Will any one then apathetically, sit down content
with a barren admiration of this mighty lever, which
moveth all things, HIMSELF EXCEPTED, and permit this
humble statement (if they have the means to do good
and to communicate'), to evaporate into the callous con-
duct of the priest and Levite of old, rather than cherish
a Samaritan feeling, by binding up the wounds of those
who are stricken with penury, and too weak to help
them Selves ? The thought is too harrowing to be in-
dulged—nay, it is a libel upon human nature—nay, more,
it is an insult to the generous dispositions of English
amen l Shall the whirlwind moans of distress be wafted
iacross the ocean from foreiom shores, and find an entrance
'both-into their hearts and their purse,' and no listening
ear and helping hand be lent to the necessitous letter-
press printers; who are now completely identified with
the very age and body of the times, .its FORM and
PRESSURE,' ready to perish at our very doors ? It can-
not be 1 The benevolent people of England must change i
their natures ere they can erase what is- so indelibly en-
graven upon their hearts, and exemplified in their general
conduct, that mercy

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin—l request that you will be so good as publish the
folloWing in your Paper :
For several years previous to 1839, especially while
residing in Greenock, I was greatly molested by certain
persons making themselves busy in asking, " Why did
you leave the Kirk of Scotland?" telling me "You are an
apostate and a traitor to the Kirk of Scotland." And
to my remark that I got a discharge from the Kirk of
Scotland, it was replied, " And you got a diploma along
with it." " You cannot prove a negative," was gravely
retorted, on my denial of a grievous revived slander,
insinuated in a very artful, though apparently careless
manner. These persons manifested a great anxiety that
I should attend the Established Kirk, and keep silence
on the cause of leaving it. Compliance in this point
would have been a virtual acknowledgment of the truth
of grievous slanders in the shape of Kirk censure, to
which I had fallen a victim many years before. The
case was a very flagrant breach of the usual rules of
judicial procedure in the Kirk of Scotland. These cen-
sures were contained in a discourse delivered in the
parish Kirk of Keith, in the county of Banff, and
Presbytery of Strathbogie, Scotland, by the Rev. Mr. •
Findlater, Minister of the adjacent parish of Carnie, in
the course of Divine Service on the Sabbath day. The
following passages of Scripture formed rather the sub-
stance than the subject of the said discourse i—Rom. i.
28 (regarding the preceding verses I am not confident.),
ii. 1 to 6, 17 to 24, xii. 9 to 18; Heb. x. 26 to 31, Psalm
1. 16 to end ; the lii. Psalm 107 was sung, and a para-
phrase Rom. ii. from verse 4. These passages Were in-
terspersed with these, and the like sentences, " 0 man,"
" 0 Christian," " He has given thee wealth, which thou
appliest to thy sinful gratification, and yet thou art net
satisfied ;". " Thy blasphemies, thy lies, thy talebearings,
and thy uncharitable judgments, thy treachery, and
fraud 1" and the passages of Scripture reprobating these
e
impious arts and practices of Simon Magus. All th
put beyond a doubt the intention of applying the dis-
course to an individual. I was not questioned on any
of these counts by any Elder or Minister, or
I would
have declared (as I do now) that of these impious arts
and practices, or of any other of the same nature, b
ot
y
wish, word, or deed, or of any of those agencies n
human or common, reputed to be resorted to with impi-
ous intention, lam and was entirely ignorant and inno-
cent ; and also that the alleged breach of the seventh
Commandment was entirely false and groundless. These
two are a sample of the falsehood of the others. Mr.
M'Lean, the parish Minister of Keith at that time,
denied any knowledge of any such transaction, or of any
records regarding it. His letter has been thrice pub-
lished. Dr. M‘Farlane, of Greenock, when a member
of the .Commission, refused tureceiVe a memorial which
I preferred to him. A solicitor-at-law in Edinburgh; 'Mr.
Mickle, disadvised any application to the Kirk authori-
ties ; and so I have no other resource but to apply to get
this published, in order that I may for the future be re-
,lieved from those insults and injuries from which I have
suffered so much in time past (as I believe),lrom a mis-
ignoraKußecellithoA,foNthrleee'ranocerikts:fe
taken motive of religion, and
1 the
case.la,e ffic. 'ei,E''o'lf,lExeisNeViAnLßSulicklierl, E ,

'ls twice bless'd,
It blesses him that gives, and him that takes.'
" With the humble hope that the above stateent of
;acts may receive your humane and prorapt considmeration
" I beg leave to subscribe myself, gentlemen,
" Your most obedient svant,
J. P. S er.
BICKNELL.

" 63, Barbican, Nov. 1, 1841.
" N.B. A general meeting of the trade was held
-b on the
28th ult., at the Mechanics' Institute, Southamptonuild
ings, Holborn, and a Committee formed for the purpose
of receiving subscriptions and relieving the unemployed.
" Committee-room, Red Lion, Red Lion-court, Fleet.
street."

..... ......-----
~,, -- 0.
BLAKESLEY THE CONVICT:--Since his con-
viction, Blakesley's conduct has been such as is com-
patible with his awful situation. He does not impugn
the justice of his sentence, or indulge hope. of its not.
being exocuted, but persists that he had no
meention 'of
murdering Mr. Burdon, whose untimely end le Much.
deplores. The Rev. Mr. Carver, the, ordinary, isohis
companion daily for several hours,. at 'his own request,
and he listens attentivcly to .the _advice ant instruction
of that pious divine• lie is. frequently visited by the
Sheriffs (partieularly- 'Mr:' Sheriff Togers," `Whose
atten-
tion to his official duties in the prison,. as elsewhere, is
ca,2st4r.emitting), who art,El4l9U3 to afford him every
ednifert in their power, both physical and mental. . At
present no day is fixed fot th 4 'law being executed, -but
the probability is, that it will be Ilib3eClA9llt W,t1;(0 9th of
,Novenaber,_ iam.,y,,istis-,4rlu ovnit „.„1-3._..„1,i,,..,

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THE BARK
SHIPWRECK 01‘
\'E LIVES LOST.
AMANDA.—FORTY-01
:ette., 0ct.4.)
-e. informed our readers
(From the Quebec ax
In the Gazette of Friday last s
..to all appearance, was
that Captain Buchanan, of the sl tip Scotland, had seen
off Metis a ship on shore, which,
a total wreck. Yesterday that repot -t was received in a
letter by. Messrs. W. Price and Co., of this city, from
which we have been favoured with the following extract:
"46kietis, ,Sept. 29,1841.
"I have to inform you of the loss of the bark Amanda,
Captain Davis, from Limerick, which can;" dshore at
Little /sleds Point at five o'clock on the 26th :inst. She
had forty passengers and a crew of eighteen. The cap-
tain, two seamen, and two apprerctices, were amongst
those saved."
A. C. Buchanan, Esq., Emigrant Agent, has kindly
favoured us with the following list of the passengers and

crew.
List of the passengers and crew of the bark Amanda,
Solomon Davis, Master, bound for Quebec; cleared on
the 17th .of August, and sailed on the 22d. of August
from Limerick :-L•
Passengers saved. James O'Neal and Catharine
O'Neal, of the county of Clare ; Patrick Hardan, county
Kerry; Timothy Murphy, Michael Hall, Maurice
Philip Sarsfield, James Nevill, and Margaret Maloney,of
county of Limerick; and Ann O'Neal, of the county of
Cork. Total of passengers saved, 10.
Passsengers lost Stephen Rennals, county of Clare ;
James Slattery, Patrick Chtucy, Ann Murray, Mary. Hall,
levy Hall (aged 60), John Hinchey, Margaret Hinc:ley,
llinehey, Maria Einchey, Frederick Harden,
hauler Carney, Margaret Carney, James Carney, Mary
Carney,
.....r)aniel Carney, Jeremiah Connors, Catharine
Eustace, of Limerick; John O'Brien, of county of Clare;
Mary Cummins, Bridget Cummins, Ann Cummins, Ca-
tharme Cummins, ond Michael Cummins, of the county
and Patrick O'Neil, of Clare;
of Galwa ; Julia erMyleY
and Thomas Kennedy, of Dingle-29.
Male adults lost, 1 female adults lost, 12 ; total
adults, 23; children lost, 6; .otal passengers lost, 29.
Crew saved. Solomon Pavis, master ; Edward
Boundy, 2d mate ; Timothy Be'lane, seainan ; Patrick
O'Brien and John Donnelly, aW:rentices ; also one
seaman name not known. Total, 6.
Crew lost.—Patrick Beake, Ist mate ; James Wlndry,
carFenter ; Michael Higerty, cook ; John Riley,
steward ; David Keefe, John Harper, John Graham,
Thomas Allen, Patrick. Shannon, Thomas Harte, and
John Hynes, seamen ; James Cusack and Francis John-
son, apprentices.,. Total crew lost, 12.
The Limedel; passenger ships have been peculiarly
unfortunate this season. It was only in May last that
we had to record the loss of ti:. Minstrel from that port,
with about 160 passengers, 'when 137 of them, with 11
of the crew unfortunately perished.
(Correspondence of the Rochester Daily Democrat.)
PROBABLE SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE
ON LAKE ONTARIO.
Charlotte, Oct. 6.
Gentleman—The severe gale of the 27th has, no doubt,
been more severe on the Lake than was supposed. The
late northerly winds have driven ashore at or near the
mouth of :the Genesee river, fragments*Of a vessel; such
deek, plank,' and beams, bulwarks, scuttle-hatch, ike.
Also, a quantity of pipe states, marked D. X. and J.Y.;
and yesterday fire tarpaulin hats were found, which
leaves no doubt that a vessel has foundered, and all hands
were lost.. From the paint of the bulwarks there is no•
doubt but it was a British vessel loaded with staves, bound
;o Long Island, Canada. Yours
Ply.tru, . .
A SMITH.

COURT CIRCULAR.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, last
evening, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Exeter,
and the Earl of Listowel.
The Band of the First Regiment of Life Guards was
in attendance at the Palace during the evening.
Colonel Arbuthnot has relieved Lord Charles Welles-
ley (Clerk Marshal) in the duties of Equerry in Wait-
ing on her Majesty ; and Colonel Wyld has relieved
Colonel Bouverie as the Equerry in Waiting on his
Royal Highness Prince Albert.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has passed a restless
night, occasioned by the frequency of her cough ; but
there is no material alteration in her Majesty's symptoms
this (Sunday) morning.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited.the
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House.
The Duke of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday
morning from his residence at Kew, and paid a visit to
the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. His
Royal Highness, attended by Major Stephens, left town
at half-past twelve o'clock, to honour the Duke-of Rut-
land with a visit at his seat, Chevely Park, Cambridge-

Mr. George A. Fleming, of Leeds, and a deputation
from the 'West lading of Yorkshire, had an interview
with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, trans-
acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Despates were sent oirlast evening from the Colonial-
office for the Governor of the West India Colonies.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield ; the Lord
Chancellor, Lady Lyndhurst, and Miss Copley, in
George-street, Hanover-square, from Turville Park,
Henley-on-Thames ; Lord Ilinton, son of the Earl and
Countess Ponlett, from Sotncrsetshire ; Lady Elizabeth
Fielding, Mr. Henry Fox Talbot, and Miss Fielding, in
Sackville-street, from Tunbridge Wells ; the Hon. Col.
Fulke Grevitle Howard, in Grosvenor-sq., from a tour.
CHANGES.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, on a visit' to the
Earlend.Countess of Leicester, at Holkham Hall, Nor-
folk, frOlii NeWmarket ; Earl Spencer, at Trulkham Hall,
from ,Althorpa Park, :Northamptonshire ; Sir John and
Lady Anne Beckett, at Sowerby Park, near Gainsbo-
rough, in Lincolnshire, from Lowther Castle ; Mr. and
Mrs. Lysley and family, at Mimwood, Herti, from
North Wales.

DEPAR TURES.
The Earl of Beauchamp, from Portman-square, for
Lincolnshire ; the Dowager Lady Ellenboroug,,h, from
Stratford-place, on a visit to Lord and Lady Colville, at
Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Dering, from Chapel-street,
G rosvenor- square, for the Hon. Mrs. Ward's 8(11104 Kett.

Some idea of the extent of the corrancrojel dist
tress which has prevailed in this, district dying the last
year, may, be formed from the circumstance of the
debtors' prisons in Newcastle, Durham, Lancaster, &c.,
being crowded to excess. At the approaching Courts
for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, to be -held in this
and the neighbouring counties in the early part of. No-
vember, there are a greater number of petitioners than
has been known for many years ; and in addition the
gaols contain already a considerable number who, unfor-
tunately, having been arrested too late to file their peti-
tions to be heard in November, must remain incarcerated
till February next—Northei n Advertiser. •
DISTRESS IN CARLISLE.-1 know families
in Carlisle, of five aria six of a family, who are compelled
to live on 4s. or ss. per week, who have nothing but a
pallet of straw to sleep upon, with little or no covering ;
anti in order to keep in life, and that each daybe as
miserable as another, when they divide their scanty
vie
tuals over the week they sometimes have just FIYE
POTATO
ES for each meal, and six human g
beat s for them !
.
—Letter of a Worki»g Man to the Editor of the Carlisle
Journal.
PEEL'S GENEROSITY.—Sir Robert Peel has
generously subscribed 501. to the contribution towards
the relief of the starving population of Paisley. That
borough is robbed for the, amount of-400,0001.,a4 ear by
the Corn and Provision-laws which Sir Robert upholds,
and he returns to it a two7thousautith part of the amount
of the robbery! His munificent. contribution is;exactly
equivalent to the amount of the unjust tax inflicted per
annum on five families. Some fifty or sixty years ago
there used to be some exceedingly generous highway-
men, V% ho after having stopped a coach and taken all the
gold and jewels of those which it contained, most liberally
returned them us much as would pay for their dinner at
the next inn. " What a delightful man Duval is," said a
lady once; "he has robbed my husband of 1,000/., and me
of my diairiend necklace,-bnrile- has returned me, and
with such a gallant air; MY icredding ring!" The parallel
is in favour of- Duval.. Duval -robbed the rich of their
rouleaus of guineas, leaving theM the shillings and ttolie
copper. Peel helps the-rrelt to rob the poor o 2,0001 a•
bf bread, and leaves' them llb. out bf the 2,0001 h. to keeP
them- from starvation.— Ma nchcster Times. zits,
MURDER. ACCORDING TO LAND°W.,t of
Ith.w.—On Monday an inquest was held, at thean.Le Win-
Man public house, Blackburp, on the body of J r_
dle, the infant daughter of Catherine Ilindle,
that the
tied woman. It apPeared from the evideto.her
was
child had been ill for some time, and
thethatt: v
child with a
in.great poverty, and unable to furnish
other only earned
proper degree of nourishment The ines
not so much as
four shillings per week (and sometime
Shilling per week
that); out a 'Which she had to pay an unina
of bed on some chairs.
and forithe child she made a sortlwdee
cased had died from
for lodgings.. She had not been
The verdict returned was that t
Belton Free Press.
want of proper nourishmenwt.---
eathcr the last few ilays
YARMOUTII.--The in boend for several weeks,
and some tremendous
interrupted succession
tor
tresent the happiness to record
gales, though we have at
Some of the roads -in the
rain, and
have had an almost un-
bee°en rendered almost impassable.—
somthel4n2amar7M6:far2k6ed3
AND CRIME. ---Tile calinitir for
,
11:aos abeeecidneinntossot
oN
EDucATI
niiejisgul,iibochuErli,yoio,
prisoners,
cunable either to read' or' write, A fty can read
as being iixty-four can read and write imperfectly ;
imperfect y,.s
d and write well, and one i- notmarked.
only six can rea .
on . . also thirty-two persons charged with inisde-
the Salford Ibiaurno.dedredwiStbesfseiolenesyc oenft
.t.tlNinb
There al e a
The educational acquirements of three of
mennours.
not stated. "seventeen cart neither read nor write,
them are
' ht can read imperfectly, and .only three can read and
eight '
write well.—Liverpool Chronicle.
DAMAGE BY THE LATE STORM.-1.11telli•
ence of disasters by the late dreadful hurricane
g • con-
tinnaii 'to pour. in upon us. We do not hesitate to say
that two millions of dollars will not more than cover the
aggregate loss sustained on our coast. Many lives were
neighbourhood have
ns
isio;uivaren c h ° I .:
lost, and we shall probably never know the full extent
of the damage done. New York Herald. Oct. 11.'
cadlieedxamthiilnlitnogaitl,aisvayider,
LAWYERS- AND PAINTERS.--A sign-painter
,o, nDceo foryo up aeyxmAtt.
anyTe
pl
aaiwnyieerrs,
:Will go to heaven if they make such charges as these ?"
-"I neverlAard of lint one who went," said the painter,
"-and'he behaved so.bad .tl4 determined to turn him
out, but there being no lawyer present to draw up a writ
of,ejectment, he tenigianed."—Bosts Post. - -

101) B 11118 '"P.CIORRA:TES.
-I''''-' TdVII..E EDITOR OF THE SUN.
i
t.. - Stepney-green-terrace, Oct. 30, 184
,; ; ;.. •
Sin--71,, am much pleased to see the subject of the
equalisation .of the Poor-rates taken up in the City. It
is one orthe many heavy burdens we, at the East end of
London, have to complain of, the burden of the Poor-raks:
Now-it is once begun to be agitated, I trust it wilWt-
be suffered to die until it is equalised throughout the
whole county of Middlesex. 'the parish of Islington
pays only sd. in the pound, and some other parishes pay
little or nothing, while Spitalfields, Bethnal-green, and
other parishes adjoining pay four rates in the year, at is.
to Is. 3d. in the pound each rate, varying only a little,
summer or winter. Although the complaint has begun
in the City, I trust it will not end there, but will be el-
tended to the whole of London and its vicinity—yea,t.
to the whole of England if necessary—and not ceatiseeonill.
it is altered and equalised throughout. Should ye!
'rider with us that a general equalisation of this
tnhoisticreatiet
'ought to be effected, you will be so good as to
in your valuable paper, by calling public to the
:ill coder a be-
equalisation of the poor. rates ; and 3:0, ,
__rittrilhturible
besiacs j
neilt -di, • many -it rate-payer, 7,, imADER.
A CONST,A.I\ J. .
setvant. -
1 d de-
., . .
predations in the cemeteries of
g _man employed by. the
tiocureo
One of . the men who aavie,alraistehlays
and brought to trial. A 3
head gardener of the Cime
Crec
day brought before
Nviacsteesd i
no f
bronzestealiligan
consequence of his p
tented only to six won tional Tril:uninaln,lland con-
Alontmartberecuwaaisse:tevsetreerd.
n yn
ree
iainn decorations
pat e or
ref , tombs,
cups,
isz,suce.h
inisi
_ rep o:, sing3oporizdt;irahareanett.er, he was sea-