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London, England, 1841-03-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH
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No. 15,137.

MON EN M ItH. ET and CITY NEWS.

guinary (for such it would eventuate) a stipulation as Abdul
3lethchid would force upon him. Mehemet Ali has earned_a
title to better treatment in the gt wituile of European huma-
nity and civilisation.

MIDILANDiCIRCUIT—LIvcoLN, MARCH 9.
The commission for this county was opened last Saturday,
and we are happy to say the calendar was very light, there
being but fifteen prisoners in gaol for trial for this very large
county, and those but for minor offences. There were sixteen
causes, four of which were Special Juries.

FROM THE. MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
TIMES.—The feeling at the Stock Exchange, as concerns
business in the public securities, in connexion with the news
that has been received of the state of onr foreign relations,
seems entirely confined to the jobbers and speculators, the
public not having taken any part hi the mks lately made, a
fact gathered from the very few orde.s received by the leading
brokers in the coot se of the last two days. As it is, the sales
that have been made are not of a character to alarm the marl
ket, although some have deemed them prudent, to :,void, as
they say, a greater sacrifice, whisk an adverse state of things
may produce, and it appears it has suffered mere frdat artificial
means than Crum a.ty great amount of stook being offered,
while the indisposition to buy, in this slate of uncertainty, ac-
counts for the drooping tendency of prices. Tu-day's business
was limited, and the Consul-market opened firmer, the money
price shortly afterwards being quoted big to , and the account
price 88 to it.

CHRISTOPHER V. CHRISTOPHER.
This was an aetios of ejectment to recover certain estates in
this county,.now in the posseslioissif the defendant. The pro-
perty in dispute is said to be 15,000/. a-year.
It was ultimately agreed these facts should be put into a
special rase, with ]cave to turn it into a special verdict, in the
meanwhile a verdict to be taken pro forma for the plaintiff,
wills one shilling damages.

1W R7'll ERN CI R CUIT—YORr, MAW' 11.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
CROWTHER V. SCHOLEFIELD.
Mr. CitEsswEtt, in stating the case to the Jury, said that
the plaintiff in this case was a young woman of about 29 years
of age. The defendant was a manufacturer, residing near
Huddersfield, and about four years and a half ago the plain-
tiff went to reside in In's house as housekeeper. About a
3ear and a half ago the plaintiff proved to be pregnant.
The plaintiff's pregnancy was reported to her mother. She
called upon the defendant, and asked him what he meant
to do, and whether it was his intention to marry the plaintiff
or not. He said that he did, and repeated the same declaration
to other members of her family. The defendant himself pro-
cured a license. By his directions preparations were made for
the marriage—wedding clothes were got ready—a breakfast
was prepared, and mutual friends invited ; but the defendant
broke his engagement, and did not appear on the appointed
morning. All this was cruel in the extreme. Time went on,
and the p'aintiff became the mother of a child. The defendant
was informed of this—expressed great pleasure at the fact of
the p'aintiff doing well—and repeated his promise to make her
his wife at an early opportunity. What defence would be set
up it was difficult to say. The plaintiff, no doubt, had some
years before been the mother of a child, but of this the de-
fendant was well aware shortly after the plaintiff came into his
service. He frequently had the child at his house—was very
fOnd of it—and with this full knowledge of the whole of the
plaintiff's history, it was that he had made the promise which
he subsequently had so cruelly broken. The defendant had
ample means of snaking a just compensation, He and his
brother had a mill worth itself about 1,5001., besides the very
considerable capital which would be necessary for carrying it
on. It would appear, indeed, that after the action was brought,
he offered himself to make a compensation to a certain extent.
The stat-ment of the Learned Counsel was borne out by the
evidence adduced, and the Jury found a verdict for tl:e plain-
tiff, damages 2001.

ON WEDNESDAY NEXT (17th Inst.),
being ST. PATRICK'S DAY, A SOLEMN PON-
TIFICAL HIGH MASS vall bw celebrated in the CATHO
LIC CHAPEL, SUTTON-STREET, SOHO, by the Right
Rev. Dr. GRIFFITH. The SERMON will be preached by
the Very Rev. JOHN ROLFE.
Collections will be made in aid of the Funds of the Chapel.
Service to begin at. Eleven o'Clock precisely.

POST.—The dealings in the public securities were not,
until a late hour in the clay, of a nature to call for much com-
ment. The jobbers had abstained from almost all speadative
tran•actions for the moment, under the impression that the next
arrival from the United States might bring advises of a more
decisive character than ail that have yet come to haul in rela-
tion t ) the M'Leod ease. The Royal mail steamer Columbia,
was to leave Boston on the Ist, and Halifax on the 3d inst. ;
and she may reach Liverpool, it is coesldered, on Monday or
Tuesday next. It is doubtful whether or not this vessel will
have any news of importance from the Canadian frontier.
It is the opinion of some that disturbances viii have taken
place in that part of the Union in anticipation of the
measures of the Central Government, and that of these, if
such were the fact, we shall lean something by the
Colombia. Of the earlier proceedings of the new Ad
ministration, however, we shall hear nothing until the
succeeding steamer (The President) shall reach Engl:nd.
That vessel was to have New York for Liverpool on the 10th
inst. (two days "Igo), and it is to her we have to look fur an
account of the inauguration of the new Chief Magistrate ( Har-
rison) and the subsequent proceedings in Congress down to
the time of her departure. The utmost interest is accordingly
attached, and this verb naturally andju•tly, by our commercial
men of every trade, to the report of political events occurring
between the 4th and 10th of the pees sit month, of which the
steamer in question will be the bearer. Consols were all day
up near:y to the cl, se of the markt.ts 8S (Alternately buyer= and
sellers) for the account. with nothing whatever doing in them,
except the little that took place between the s, eculators of the
house, and this was very trifling. Subsequently there was a
report in circulation of France having at length becon e a
party to the settlement of the eastern question, which produced
an advance of hto per cent , Consols closing 87& buyers,
money, and 88/; too for Account; Exchequer Bills 9s. to
I Is. prem.

THE BEST HAVANNAH CIGARS in
LONDON to be obtained at lIORISON'S, 194,
STRAND, six doors from the Crown and Anchor.

TO COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.
ACOMMISSION to he given to a GEN-
TLEMAN, TRAVELLING through ENGLAND and
WALES twice or three times a year. Unexceptionable re-
ferences required.
For particulars, apply by letter, post paid, addressed A. Z.,
9, Chapel-street, Pentonville.

FRENCH and ITALIAN ACADEMY,
30, GREEK-STREET, SOHO.
Classes are now forming at the above Academy for the
tuition of the French and Italian Languages. The method is
simple, yet admirably adapted to facilitate the pupil's pro-
gress in the theory and practice of those' useful branches of
oducation. A portion of each lesson is exclusively devoted to
conversation.

TEACHERS.
M. D. M. AIRD, Author of " The Student's Self-In-
struct:ng French Grammar," &c.
SIGNOR DE GRANDIS, Member of the Academies of
Rome and Lucca ; and Author of " Il Viaggio al Tempio
della Fama,"

TERMS PER MONTH.
Private Tuition (two lessons a week), French, Iss. ; Ita-
lian, 11.
In Classes, French, ss. ; Italian, Eis.
Ladies' Class—Mondays and Wednesdays from Ha'f-past
Six o'Clock till Eight.
Gentlemen's Class—Mondays and Wednesdays from Half-
past Eight till Ten.
Juvenile Class—Mondays and Wednesdays from Ten till
Twelve A. M.
Schools and private Families attended.

SYRIA.

THE TURKS, JEWS, AND CHRISTIANS,
AT DAMASCUS.

SUN.—The chief business done to-day was in specu-
lative or time bargains, th? bona fide, nr money transac-
t:on', being on a very limited scale. Up to a la'e her
of the day, the market wore a heavy sppearane but b:-
fore the close of business a rely oceurrei.
Consols opened at 871, but got up afterwards to 87j,
and closed at 874 buyers, for money, on account of a re-
port that the affair of the East bad been definitively ar-
ranged, so as to admit France into the Convention with
the Allied Pose e. For account the range of Flees was
from 87i to 881 to /. Exchequer Bills were at Ils. to
9!. premium, and India Bonds at 20'. to 15'. discount.
The New Tlaree.and-a- Half Fer Cent,. brought only 96i
to 961.
There was but a limited business done in the Foreign
Bonds, which gere!ally !acre a very !Tar), value. Spanish
Ac'ives ranged from 23i to 231; Portuguese New Five
per Cents. from 30k to 31 ; Mexican from 271 to 27k ;
I3raziliAn were 71, a trivial rise on yesterday's pries;
Peruvial 18; Duch Two-and-a-lialf per Cents. 50k .0
k and Belgian B nds 99/.
The Shire Market was rather brisk, but pri,-ea ruled
lower. Great Western brought 211 ; the New 101 to / ;
tlse F:f.hs, 51 ; London and Birmingham 74 to 75 ; the
South-Western 16k to i; and the Greenwich Scrip 11
premium ; Brighton Shares were 7/ to 1 ; Blackest lt. 51;
Manchester and Leeds 3 ; the New 2 ; and the North
Midland 30 discount. London Joint•stock Bank S'lares
were 21 to 2;54 premium.
The Foreign Exchange; were steady this afternoon.
Three months' paper was most currently negotiated as fel-
laws :—Paris 251 621 e. to 65e. ; Ams.t srdam 12 31 to 1;
Hunburgh 13 7/ t r 8; Antwerp 12 21 to 3 ; Frankfurt
1481 to I; on Trie t: 10 1 to 10 2.

DAMASCUS JAN. 15.

Ever since the departure of Ibrahim from this city,
the Christians are exposed to the fanaticism of the
Turks and Jews, which is carried to such an extent
that they will soon be obliged to emigrate, unless some
eaergetic and powerful protection be afforded them.
A. few days after the departure of the Egyptian
General-in-Chief the provisional authorities proceeded
to n.eet some of the definitive Ma&istrates appointed
by the Porte. They had scarcely left the Own when
disorder commenced ; the Turks, incited by the Jews,
began to attack the police-officers ; seve al persons were
murdered and divers houses plaged. This was done
with the view of occasioning a general rise against the
Christians, who were dreadfully beaten wherever they
were found. A Greek, of the name of Lidaouni,
I:a%ing made some resistance, was murdered most
atrociously, and expired te.leath the blows of fifty Ls-

BLACKWALL RAILWAY.
WOOLWICH BOATS.
The Public are respectfully informed, • that on and after
SUNDAY, the 14th March, BOATS will run every Half-hour
between the Brunswick Pier, Blacksall, and Charlton and
Woolwich.

FARES.
By the Railway—First Class, 6d. ; Second Class, 4d.
By the Boats-6d. on Sundays, and 4d. on every other day.
In a few dais arrangement. will be made for running Boats
for each of the Quarter Hour Trains to and from the Railway.

ATANCHESTER and BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY.
TENDERS FOR LOANS.
The DIRECTORS of the MANCHESTER and BIR-
MINGHAM RAILWAY COMPANY are now prepared
to GRANT MORTGAGES (under the powers of their Ac
of Parliament) of the TOLLS and WORKS of their un-
dertaking, as a security for Loans of Money, in sums of not
less than 5001. on each mortgage, anal for the periods of
four, five, six, and seven years, at the option of the lender.
Interest warrants, calculated at the rate of 5/. per cent. per
annum, and payable at the Company's bankers, in London or
Manchester, on the half-yearly days on which the interest will
become due during the whole period of the Loan, will be de-
livered to the Leader with the mortgages.
Particulars, explaining the peculiar eligibility of this secu-
rity, may be obtained at the Company's Offices, No. 43, Pic-
cadilly ; or at the office, of Slater and Heelis, Princess-street,
Manchester. THOMAS ASHTON, Chairman.
Manchester, January 12th, 1841.

sassins.
On the evening of this day of blood and anarchy, the
Turkish authorities made their entry into the town,
went through the principal quarters, escorted by a de-
tachmeat of Turkish soldiers, and jn'the evening pub-
lished a proclamation, which gave some hope that dis-
order woe' I be repressed ; but the persecution planned
between the Jews and Mussulmans against the Chris-
tians, was soon to manifest itself in the very acts of the
authoritic3 themselves.
Three days after the nomination of the members of
the Divan took place, the same members were re It lected.
At the eery first sitting it was decreed that the Chris-
tians were no longer to be mounted, were to possess no
slaves, and were not to wear a white turban. Mr. John
Anhouri, a member of the Divan, and the representa-
tive of the Greek Catholics, begged that the execution
cf the decree should be delayed for a fortnight. A
week's delay only was granted, and the decree was im-
mediately posted round the town.
From this moment every species of insult was con-
sidered practicable against the Christians, and the white
turban was pulled oil the heads of several.
Com; hints w ere addressed to the Governor by a
great many individuals. The Governor received very
kindly all those who called on him ; he promised to
see into the matter immediatsly, and, in fact, convoked
all the members of the Divan, declaring that he did
not recognise the measures which they had adopted
respi clieg the Christians, and informed them that he
intended to forward a detailed account of the affair to
the Government.
On this the members of the Divan. who had been the
foremost in proposing the aforesaid measures, began to
remble for the consequences of their behaviour, pro-
pored Ic lying unexecuted what they had decreed against
the Christians, and withdrew quite disconcert d. But
in awating orders from Constantinople, the Christians
remain under the weight of the reprobation that the de-
cisions of the Divan have excited against them in the
minds of the people. Under such circumstances, the
members of the different Christian worships have bat-
tened to address to the Consuls residing at Damascus
a circul ir which, although written with the reserve that
their situation demands, is nevertheless sufficient to at-
tract public attention to the present situation of Chris-
tians in this country. '•
" CIRCULAR ADDRESSED TO THE CONSULS AT DA-
MASCUS, BY THE PRELATES OF THE DIFFERENT
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES.
" Mi.ssieura les Consuls—We have the honour of in-
forming you, that on Thursday last some Jews took the
liberty to insult and grossly outrage the Christians, by
making them undergo every kind of humiliation.
" Several Christians called on us to complain of the
wicked conduct of the Jess, an abominable conduct,
which humiliates the Christians in general.
"In your quality of representatives of the great
Christian powers, you will not allow, MeEsieurs les
Consul., religion to be further insulted by malefactors,
which is contrary to the wishes and orders of his Ex-
cellency the Patha and to those of the Government
of the Sublime Porte, which tends, in harmony with
the European Posers, to promote the improvement
and civilisation of these countries, by extending its be-
nefits and justice to all its subject,. We address this
letter to you in order that you may as.t conformably,
and that you may support us with kind protection.—
We have the honour to be, &e.
(Signed) "The Vicar of the Greek Patriarch, the
Vicar of the Hely Lard, the Vicar
of the Catholic Patriarch, Joseph
Marrani, a priest ; Bishop Jacob, a
Syrian ; the Armenian Vartabiet,
the Armenian Catholics.

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FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
( From. the Morning Chronicle.)
It is with questions of religious liberty as with those of civil
Aberty. If the people be driven back a single step, as by Lord
Stanley's invasion of the Irish suffrage, other encroachments
will pron ptly follow. Should the Church-rate discussion end
in wrestii g from a vestry majority its right of resisting a rate,
a signal gill have been given for other abridgments of reli-
gious freedom. We quoted lately the Puseyite dictum,
that " dlssent ought not to exist." The expression is a
pithy one of the feelings of those who, like Professor Sewell,
look bac!: regretfully to the good old times of intolerance,
and remind their juvenile dise:ples that the State
" recommends, and till lately it would even compel you to
take the Church for Aur instructor, and would prohibit
others from drawing you away elsewhere, and would punish
them for leading, and you for following." A Tory journal
adopts this " Church principle, that di,sent ought not to ex-
ist ;' an I defends it as analogous to the assertion that " crime
ought not to exist." We Lope Disset.ters perceive the beauty
of the I arallel, and the quantum of inevitable toleration to
which they would be reduce.', should power be ever in the
hands of the advocates of this " Church Trinciple." The na-
tional Church of Great Britain cannot hold any such prin-
ciple, whatever may be the wishes of a bigoted and sordid
section of the priesthood, which has lent itself to the tempo-
rary purposes of a political faction. Nor is hostility to the
Church-rate imp-sition merely a dissenting question.
Is not a Churchman interested, and deeply interested,
in the restoration of peace and kindliness in his neigh-
bourhood, and the • deliverance of social intercomee from
an annual infusion of strife and bitterness ?—in the cessation of
legal contests, carried from Court to Court at enormous ex-
pense of money and good feeling, and threatening to become
interminable?—in the change of a system which, for its great pro-
fessed purpose of keeping in comely order the ancient edifices of
religion, has never worked well even from the time of the Refor-
mation ?—in the abolition of jobbery and negligence, and in-
efficiency, and partiality, as well as of desecration ?—and in the
revival of a in oral power over the community, which no
Church can retain that is perpetually in a struggle for the en-
forcement of a pitiful exaction upon unwilling contributors,
and even upon hostile majorities ? These are considerations
that go for something with a really religious Churchman.
(From the Times.)
In the present staoe of our relations, not with Europe only,
but with the United States of America, when a European
rupture has hardly yet been warded off, and one with the
Transaslareic Republicans is, if not begun, at least impend-
ing, that man must have had his faculties choked with more
than human ma•ice who could fiercely and recklessly, under
one blind impulse of revenge, have wilfully obstructed a final
settlement of fends, from prolonging which would arise a cer-
tainty for England of war in both hemispheres at the
same moment. Lord Ponsonby, if not utterly stupefied
by rancour towards the Pacha, must have seen at a
glance, that, with a re opening of the question between
Turkey and Mehemet Ali, through the imposition upon the
latter of terms which any brave man would lather perish than
submit to, every dispute by which the nations of Europe have
been agitated for twice months back, embracing interests far
dearer and more extensive than any affecting the Mahometan
world only, would be unavoidably revived and aggravated, and
the peace of earth and ocean once more imperilled. Words,
therefore, can scarcely describe the opprobrium which ought to
be affixed to the name of that narrow-minded, perverse,
troublesome, and incapable being, who, from motives on the
part of the British Government which none can fathom,
and for the production of evils which none have ever desired,
A Court of Sewers for the City and Liberties of West- has, during so many of the most anxious and dangerous years
minster was yesterday held at the office of the Commissioners, that the present generation of Englishman have witnessed,
Greek-street, Soho, Thomas Levater Donaldson, Esq., in the been left in a seemingly uncontrolled exercise of mere power
Chair. Before proceeding to the regular business on the payer, that could rightfully fall to the share of any diplomatic func-
it was stated that in consequence of the resolution come to by tionary under the Crown of England—on that -pit where the
the Court on the last court-day but one, the opinion of Dr. m'sapplication of power might prove more serious, the access
Phillimore had been taken as to the power of the Commissioners of danger more formidable, arid the fruits of ignorance, or
'to make a levy on ecclesiastical property. rashness, or ob!tinacy, more irreparable than at any other post
The opinion was then read as follows :—" Although the in the service of the British Government.
question respecting the validity of the Sewer-rate cannot be (From the Morning Post.)
directly raised in the Ecclesiastical Courts still churches and Nothing can be more absurd and contemptible than the re-
church-yards being " inter res sacras," and the property im- marks which the Whig-Radical coteries and newspapers have
mediately connected with them being consecrated and set apart been making about Sir R. Peel's speech of Thursday evening
from all p.ofane uses, lam of opinion that any person who for Because the Right lion. Baronet spoke in a benevolent and
any purpose whatever might attempt to violate property of this kindly tone about the recreations and amusements of the com-
description would render himself liable to be articled against mon people, an attempt is made to separate him in this respect
in the Ecclesiastical Court, and to be punished by Ecclesias- from his party. 0, how wonderful ! they cry, that all this
tical censures. Of course this immunity would not extend to should proceed from the leader of the Tory party ! How un-
proprietary or unconsecrated chapels or burial-grounds. like the rest of the Tories ! Why, who is there beyond the '1
" JOSEPH PHILLIMORE." vulgarest among the vulgar that does not know the opinions
" Doctors' Commons, March 10, 1841." of Sir Robert Peel upon these matters to •be shared by
After a short discussion, it was resolved that the opinion the great bulk of the nobility and gentry of England,
should be printed for the use of the Commissioners, and that and therefore by the Tory party? Sir Robert Peel expressed
it should be taken into consideration by the Court on Friday ro more than that which the Tory nobility and gentry through-
next. out the land are continually carrying into practice. The
Or, the question that the account for 1840 be audited, speech of the Right Hon. Baronet was a very good speech, as
Mr. LESLIE suggested that the accounts should be printed, his speeches generally are, but no one knows better than him-
so that each Commissioner might have an opportunity of exa. self that there was nothing new in it. No one knows better
mining them befue proceeding to the audit; which in that case than he does that the good feel ng towards the common people,
would be really an efficient one. and the desire to improve their condition in every respect—to
Mr. WlLLouGnnv thought the present was not the time to make them more comfortable, more happy, more intelligent,
ropose any alteration in the manner of auditing the accounts. more religious—prevail among his political ft iends, and form
They had been summoned for a particular purpose, and should the business of the lives of a great many of them.
proceed in the accustomed manner. ( From the Morning Herald.)
Mr. Lusete would take no part in the audit if he could not Whatever may be the honest differences of men's opinions, in
enter into certain objections he had to make as to the manner Europe, i n the subject of Mehemet Ali's domestic government,
in which the accounts were kept. He objected to the die- there can be no doubt that the foreign policy which he has
tribution of the disbursements according to the rental; the steadily pursued for so many years has advanced Egypt two
consequence was, that the Western District laid half the ex- centuries in the march of civilisation, and been of n ore effect
gooses of the Commission. in renewing and permanently establishing her relations with
The CLERK had distributed the d'shursements according to Asia and Europe than any efforts which have been made in
the plan usually adopted ; and, as an officer of the Court, he that quarter since the most prosperous reigns of the most meg.
could not take upon himself to alter the system which had nificent of the Saracenic Caliphs. '1 hanks to Mehemet Ali,
been in use for so long a time, without special instructions from the passage of a desert has been Macadamised to European
the Court to that effect. communications ; and the modern traveller moves from Europe
The CHAIAMAN—Do you know, Mr. Hentslet, why the into Asia, or crosses into Africa, and again reaches Asia —or re-
plan was adopted? I turns from Asia or from Africa into Europe, with a celerity, a
Mr. HENTSLET (the Clerk) —Mr. Saunders adopted it, be- safety, a degree of precision, which leave lio tie to be desired in in-
crease of practical speed and safety, or little, at any ra'e, that
cause, in the long run, he was convinced it was the fairest.
Mr. WlLLouenev did not approve of any alteration taking the enterprise and perseverance of Mr. Waghorn under the
place in the present system. I continued auspices of the Sultan, would
not effect for us. The
Mr. UNWIN suggested that the state of the balance' should I Pacha has entered into the organizationeni
andofi that i
these
tha constancy of
us
h sn wouldosibplerit had
s
to
be laid on the table every month. commerce, civilisation,
lhla
honour
nsour an
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a nodns g
improvement,
o fenterprise with
The audit then commenced. The books havine been exa- I purpose, as
unrivalled a 3
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re-
mined and found correct, were signed by the Chairman and ee
passed. he not Lot exceeded the merit even of these exertions by
A statement of the accounts of the several districts for the a -steady adherence to his engagements—a liberal and truly
year 1 philosophic sacrifice of personal resentments to the public
840, with an estimate of the moneys required in the years
1841 and 1842,was ordered to be printed. good, which European princes have seldom exhibited, and
'A communication was read from Mr. Fox Maule, requiring might always be proud to imitate. When the Pacha's
the Commissioners to furnish the Home-office with copies of forces were worsted in Syria—when his life and his
the decrees for imposing the rates on the Ranelagh and Coun- throne had been already disposed of at Constanoinople
tern Creek Districts, in order that the same might be laid be- --when disaffection raged among his troops at home, and fo-
fore the House of Commons ; and the Clerk reported that copies reign countries despatched hostile armaments to invest the
of the decrees had been furnished to Mt% Fox Maule on the coasts of his dominions, he never violated his personal pledges
9th March. to the European merchant or traveller, but kept open the com-
The Court then adjourned to Tuesday next at two o'clock. munications he had once established, and continued to respect
the lives, property, and comforts (even of British travellers),
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MRS. GORE.—Mothers and Daughters, The Soldier of
Lyons.

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MARRIAGE.
By the Author of "The Inheritance," "Destiny," &c.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.
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COURT OF SEWERS FOR WEST.
MINSTER AND PART OF MIDDLESEX.

Damascus, Jan. 4."
Previous to receivlng this circulsr, several of the
Consuls had repaired t' the Governor to demand justice
for acts of violence committed on their proteBes. The
English Consul had succeeded in having a man punished
for having pulled off the turban of Mr. Selina ; but all
the efforts of the European represeetathes hate ob-
tained no red reparation for such revolting fuet,, and
consequently have inspired no respect for the Christian
na rte.
Since the arrival of Ali Pacha, who entered this city
at the head of 6,000 men, the Christians have con-
tinued to suffer the most vexatious treatment, especially
from the Jews. Bands of Jews from without hate pa-
raded the town, and, under pretext of rejoicing, have
fruitsthat and the
been
fallen on the Christians and insulted them grievously,
currrsiit:egseaaloruedthCehrfiisrst,t
the
cross, priests.reaped at
Damascus from the departure of the Egyptian autho-
rities, that, sluing so many years, had maintsiced
such excellent order, and had inspired respect for every
kind of worship by extending their protection to all
alike.

LORD PALMERSTON 1N A NEW

CHAR ACTER.

An article on "Sand-drift," in the 59d numbe
of the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, jus
published, places Lord Palmerston in a new light,
and shows that his Lordship does not allow his
foreign policy to divert his attention from a sys-
tem of agricultural improvement alike calculated
to benefit himself and the country. Sand-drift,
it is well-known, causes great destruction of pro-
perty on many parts of our sea-coast, covering
arable land sometimes for miles together, and
even burying whole parishes. On the east
coast of Aberdeenshire a deplorable event
of this kind occurred some two hundred
years ago; the sand swept over a space five
miles in length by a mile and a half
broad, along the coast, and nearly the whole
parish still remains covered with enormous sand-
hills liable to be affected by every strong wind.
On Lord Palmerston's estate in the west e-
land there formerly was a tract of similar sand-
hills which, by a very simple process, has been
reclaimed, and so well has the plan succeeded,
that an extensive waste, which in 1829 would
scarcely have supported a goat, now grazes 112
cattle and '2OO sheep. This has been accomplished
by planting tufts of bent (arundo arenaria),
a species of grass, or reed, generally
found in
abundance in such localities. The plants are
half each,
cut up into bunches of a pound and a
d then placed
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firmly belten down with the foot so as to resist
the wind. They should be paced about three feet
asunder, on the side of the sandy hillocks next
to the point from which the wind blows most
prevalently, so as to arrest its drifting- power over
the rest of the ground. When the bent spreads
it effectually checks the sand-drift, and the na-
tural grasses, such as white clover, bird's-foot,
and trefoil, come up in great profusion. In this
way has Mr. Lynch, his Lordship's resident factor
at Cliffony, reclaimed about SOO imperial acres.
Lord Palmerston, however, proposes to carry the
improvement still further, by planting belts in
different places, with a particular kind of fir, im-
ported from the south of France. Along the Bay
of Biscay, and particularly at the embouchure
of the Garonne, sand-drift, like a pestilence,
swallowed thousands of square miles of the coast
lands of France, about the beginning of the last
century. The calamity arrested the attention of
Government, and was ultimately stayed by one
of its most eminent engineers, who, with the aid
of troops, succeeded in planting a great belt of
this fir (Pinus maritima major), which has ever
since checked the progress of the sand-drift, while
it has clothed the desert with wood highly useful
for many purposes. The Foreign Secretary,
therefore, impressed with the importance of this
subject, has imported a considerable quantity of
the cones of the maritime pine from Bordeaux,
which are now preparing in his nursery near
Ballyshannon, and it is to be hoped, adds the
writer, " that by the patriotic exertions and ex-
ample of his Lordship, the extensive sand-drifts
which are every where to be met with, may be
exchanged for grass lands or thriving wood." In
the same Number there are two interesting, ar-
ticles on similar subjects, " The Importance of
Agriculture," and Sir A. Fitzherbert's " Boke of
Husbandrye and the early English Farmers."

IRON MANUFACTURE IN PENN-

SYLVANIA.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The several Pennsylvania furnaces in blast with an-
thracite coal have continuel to answer the most san-

guine expectations of their owners, improving both in
the quantity and quality of the metal. The first fur-
nace built at Pittsville, for the purpose of testing the
experiment, has changed hands, and is now in success-
ful operation, using only the coal and ore of that region,
and, which is exceedingly intereal log to me, she is real-
ising all the calculations as to the quantity of the raw
material and the quality of the metal produeel I have
hitherto made. Several puddling furnaces are also in
operation, giving great satisfaction to their proprie-
tors, and particularly to the labourers who are em-
ployed to work them. The saving in the various
processes of refinement is about 25 per cent., though
an evict estimate cannot be made, in consequence
of their recent construction. The fact, however,
is, that wherever the c( al can be procurei the propre-
tors are changing to the nes plan ; and it is generally
believed that the quality of the iron is much improved
where the entire process is effected with anthracite coal.
The state of our monetary affairs, and the excitement
anteri..r to our Presidential election, have retarded the
operations we anticipated in the be;inning. The sus-
pension of our banks, the non-payment of dividends,
with the necessary curtailment of all trades and pro-
fessions, have so locked up our capitalists, that they
are really unable or unwi:ling t 3 look at any project,
however brilliant or c!e ir, until the vexed ques-
tion is settled, and the banks have again resumed
their business. This event being now certain, we
have every day strong evidences of realising our hopes :
and, from the report of this morning, the belief is that
the business has begun in earnest. By letters it ap-
pears that large purchases have been made in that re-
gion, where furnaces and rolling mills arc to be imme-
diately commenced, and that the parties have all the
experience and capital necessary to the prosecution
of
the work. This, if true, will turn ail eyes to the spot ;
and, as we have no business that presents so many ad-
vantage', we may look for immediate and large opera- ,
tions. The subject of iron already occupies the btiention
of a very large portion of our citizens ; and every day some
tew object to which it can be applied benefic;ally, or some
new development, is presented to their notice. Yesterday
I witnessed an experiment in casting butt hinges, in
which the operator made two per minute, and in ap-
pearance ar,tl strength much superior to the imported
article. The importance of this discovery may be in-
ferred from the fact that we import about one pi 1 ion and
a half of dollars' worth per annum, and that the work-
man can produce fifteen t) one ever the old mode of casting
. .

in the sand. He also exhibited sash we;gbts, waggon
boxes, &c., which will interfere with if not drive out all
that are wade on the old plan. By a somewhat similar

invention door-locks are made, which promise to supply
a large portion of the demand in the United St rtes.
But this interference with the imported article is not
equal to the many new objects to which iron, when re-
duced in price, will be applied ; and in renewing the
subject 1 am strongly impressed with the belief that
the recent developments in the iron trade of our country
offer the safest and most sure objects for investment
that have )tt been presented.
Philadelphia, Nov. 24.