The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, T.HURSDAY,fr'§EPT

IRELAND'.

ADDRESS TO LORD MORPETII FROM THE
. REFORMERS OF IRELAND. •

DUBLIN, SEPT. 14.—This day, at two o'clock, a de-
putation, consisting of at least one thousand gentlemen
of rank and station in the country, proceeded to the
Royal Exchange, for the purpose of presenting to Lord
Morpeth the Address of the Reformers of Ireland,
agreed to at the late aggregate meeting. On the plat-
form we observed the Duke of Leinster, the Lord Bishop
of Derry, Lord Lurgan, Lord Fingal, Count D'A.lton,
Sir William Somerville, Bert., Sir John Kennedy, Bart.,
Colonel H. White, M.P., Right Hon. D. R. Bigot, M.P.,
Samuel White, M.P., James Power, M.P., Cornelius
O'Brien, M.P., M. Blake, M.P., R. M. O'Ferrall, M.P.,
W. V. Stewart, R. M. Bellew, M.P., Sir John Power,
Bart., Sir Percy Nugent, Bart., Colonel Westenra,
Richard Moore, Q.C., Leland Crosthwaite, AL., William
Murphy, Thomas Wyse, Dominick O'Reilly, Thomas
O'Reilly, .James Moran, J. R. Price, Peter Purcell, F.W.
Conway, D. C. Brady, J. W. Fitzpatrick, Norman Mac-
donald, Esqrs., &c.
On the motion of Lord FINoAL, seconded by the
O'CONNOR DoN, M.P., his Grace thi Duke of Leinster
was clled to the Chair amid the applause of the meeting. •
Lord Morpeth here entered the building, and his ap-
pearance was greeted with the most enthusiastic applause,
which continued for some minutes. As soon as silence
was •restored,
The Duke of LEINSTER, addressing Lord Morpeth,
said— My Lord, it gave me- the greatest pleasure to have
the honour of being Chairman at the meeting at which
this address was voted to your Lordship. To this ad-
dress there are two hundred and fifty thousand names
• (Applause)-54 of them are Peers, 29 are Honourables,
25 Baronets, 97 Deputy Lieutenants, 402 Magistrates,
12 Roman Catholic Bishops, together with a consider-
able number of Protestant Dissenting Clergymen of va-
rious denominations.—(Cheers.) A great number of
signatures are still coming up from the country ; some
came this morning, which were not in time to be attached
to the address. I now, my Lord, beg to present you
with this address.— (Renewed cheers.)
The following is the address :
" My Lord—We, the Reformers of Ireland, convened
by public requisition, for the purpose of considering the
most suitable means of manifesting our high respect for
your political character, and our cordial attachment to-
wards yourself personally, cannot permit your Lordship
(with our recollection of recent events) to return to your
official duties in England without tendering to your
Lordship formally the assurance of the profound re-
spect and affection which we, in common with the Irish
nation, entertain towards your Lordship.
" We hold in our grateful remembrance the devoted-
ness with which, in early life—in those dark days of
bondage, when a vast majority of our fellow country-
men were oppressed for conscience sake—your Lord-
ship ranged yourself with the friends of Ireland ; and we
have marked the earnestness with which your 'Lordship
has ever since essayed to impart lite and spirit to the
cold form of civil and religious enfranchisement which
you and others had created.

“During your official career in Ireland, it has been
your happy destiny to assist in those good measures of
policy, whose object has been to raise Ireland to a just
equality with other portions of the empire, and we ven-
ture to affirm, that whenever your official connection
with this country may cease, your mind will derive a
solace in your retirement from the fact, which we now
proclaim, that under the Government of which you have
been a part, the social state of Ireland has continuously
improved, and that a
.more unmixed loyalty and alle-
giance to our gracious and beloved Sovereign have been
established, than existed towards a Monarch at any
former period in history, since the commencement of
British connection.

"To recapitulate the various acts of public service
which your Lordship has accomplished in Ireland would
far exceed the limits prescribed to an occasion like the
present. To enumerate the benificent designs in which
your Lordship has been engaged, but which have been
rendered abortive by the hostility of the enemies of Ire-
land, would still more transcend the boundary which have
defined our immediate purpose. Let your Lordship be
assured, that the people of Ireland treasure in their
hearts the recollection of every benefit designed for the
amelioration of their country.
" To such of us as have en:oyed the opportunity of
personal communication with your Lordship, it may be
permitted to express our fond recollection of the kindli-
ness of disposition, and the frank and courteous demean-
our, which adorn your private intercourse. Eminent,
indeed, must be these qualities to which we, your friends,
advert, when their existence in your person
,receives,
even from your adversaries, a full acknowledgment.
" We cannot retire from your Lordship's presence
without adverting to the recent event which has removed
your Lordship from the House of Commons, and giving
expression to our hope that no temporary impediment
may turn your Lordship from those walks of honour and
public utility in which it has been hitherto your pride to
travel. It may be, my Lord, that in this hope there lurks
some element not entirely free from selfishness—these
are not times, my Lord, when Ireland can spare, from
her friendly ranks, a defender so chivalrous and pure
as she has proved your Lordship in the encounter with
her enemies.

"In conclusion, we assure your Lordship, that the
warmest good wishes of our country will ever accom-
pany you in your future progress through life."
The address was made up on a handsome mahogany
roller, and must be of considerable weight.
Lord Mourrni then came forward, and was again
bailed with the most enthusiastic applause. When it
subsided, he said :—" Aiy Lord Duke and Gentlemen—
It would be wholly unnecessary, even if it were at all
possible, for me to inform you with how deep and pene-
trating a feeling I have listened to the words of such an
Address as that which has just been pronounced, made
so remarkable and so precious by the circumstances of
the time at which it has been presented, and by the
number and character of the parties to its adoption. It
cannot be said to have been merely framed upon trust,
as it truly records that a connection of above six years
has subsisted between us ; it cannot be referred to any
interested motive, as it is addressed to a functionary de-
spoiled of power ; it can hardly be thought to pan-
der to any revolutionary tendency, when it was first
ushered into notice under auspices which combine the
most constitutional patriotism with the loftiest lineage
of the land ; it does not confine itself to aristocratic
sympathies, because I have reason to believe that it has
been affirmed and echoed by the Irish people.
" I trust that the pleasure I could not fail to derive
from the favourable and candid appreciation of the acts
and intentions of the Administration just brought to a
close can only be enhanced and heightened to me when
I reflect how much of the credit assigned to it must be
absorbed by those under whom it has been my privilege
to serve, and by those with whom it has been my good
fortune to act.

" Still, with whomsoever I have shared, I have at
least been surpassed by none in the desire to give both
permanency. and efficacy to every developement 'of the pa-
ramount principle of civil and religious freedom, and the
practical exercise of political and social equality between
man and man, between class and class, between creed
and creed, between country and country. These were
the sentiments which inspired the first accents which I
had publicly an opportunity of uttering in this city be-
fore my official connection with the country had com-
menced. Now that it has closed, it is gratifying for me
to think that they have been familiar to my practice, and
to know that they are close to my heart.
" It is impossible for me to refrain from mentioning,
with humble thankfulness, that the sincere, though im-
perfect, and not wholly unobstructed endeavours to carry
these principles into real operation, have been crowned
with more than corresponding effect in the disposition
and conduct of the nation on whose behalf they were
made ; and I believe that I may affirm, without the risk
of misrepresentation, that at the moment in which we
are called upon to transfer the Government of Ireland
to the charge of our successors, we have the satisfaction
of leaving the country, with respect to internal tran-
quillity- and order, in a more undisturbed and promis-
ing condition than was hardly ever before experienced.
It is my moss earnest hope that the people, by their
perseverance in such courses, may invite and compel a
grateful and and adequate return from any rulers under
whom they may be placed.
__ _

" For all that refers more directly to myself in your
address, I thank you most feelingly. I have found
among you everything that could most excite and rivet
attachment. Through the whole course of my life I
shall seize with alacrity any opportunity that passing
events may supply for evincing it ; and I shall retain
this honoured document as its best memorial and incen-
tive, and as the richest heir-loom I could bequeath to
the name I bear."

were, in the words of Lord Pimil:ct, aprointed to make
laws, not legislatures. They had no intro right to corn-
'nit suicide thszi criminal man Las to put a period to Li:;
own existence. We respcclally ckny dint it was within
the competency of the Irish Pailit.ment to pass the Act
of UniOn.
!`.3. The people of Ireland, by an alriiost universal
votce,-protested against th 6 pissing of that Act. Up-
wards of 700,000 of that pewde actually petitioned the
Irish Parlbgnent. not to. pass. the _Act of Union, while
there were not 6,ooo.petitioners fouild to favour it in any
respect.

4. The Union Act was passed by the most criminal
means—by the direct application of military I;ree, and
by corruption the most extensive and profligate that ever
was practised.

" 5. The Union was passed at a when Ireland
was staggering and exhausted from the ends of a re-
bellioa fomented fur the very purpose of. weakening and
dividing the country, in order that that Act should be
carried into effect_.

" 6. It was passed when the Const:itution.was sus-
pendcd, the Habeas Corprzs Act abrogated, the trial by
jury practically
martial • tiitting in all directions, and consigning to the
abolished, martial-law proclaimed, courts
scaffold the victims of their caprice or bad passions,
whilst property and life were totally insecure, and all con-
stitutional guarantees annihilated.
""7.The Act of 'Union was passed by the suppression
by military violence of all constitutional opposition. The
County Court of the Queen's County, duly convened by
the. High Sheriff, attended by the Magistrates and gen-
try, as well as many other freeholthTs duly convened,
for the purpose of petitioning Parliament against the
Union, was dispersed- by ruffian military force, and a
similar outrage was committed on a similar meeting con-
vened by the High Sheriff of the county of Tipperary.•
" 8. The most profligate corruption and bribery were
used in purchasing the votes of the Members of the Irish
Parliament. More than 3,000,001:1. were expended in
direct bribery ; 1,275,000/. were paid for the purchase
of boroughs, and there was no limit to the open and pro-
fligate offers of bribery, of .every hind, made to those
Members who still remained faithful to their country.
" 9. That all these means were found insufficient to
obtain a majority of the Irish House of Commons to vote
for the measure, but several of those who would not
vote for it were induced by bribes to vacate their seats, I
and those seats (being nomination boroughs) were pur-
chased by the Government, and filled with English and
Scotch officers, who had no property in, and no connec-
tion with, Ireland, save their casual military command
therein.

" That your petitioners are ready to prove all their
allegations at the bar of this Honourable House ; and,
' as there is not the'least.rational pretext for saying that
the Union was or could be beneficial to Ireland, may it
therefore please this lldnonrable House, if any doubt be
entertained of the 'allegations of your petitioners, wl:ich
are all of historical truth, to appoint a Select Commit-
tee to report thereon. Or, if these facts be undis-
puted (as they really ought to be), then your peti-
tioners submit that an Act of Parliament, obtained by
such fraudulent and atrocious means, ought not to be
allowed any longer to subsist, but that her Majesty's
most dutiful and truly loyal subjects of Ireland, attached
as they are, from the purest principles of allegiance,
and emotions of respectful gratitude, to the throne and
person of her most gracious Majesty, should be re-
stored
to their legislative and judicial independence, by
the repeal of the cruel and unjust Act of Union."
The motion was carried unanimously.
Mr. O'CONNELL
,then announced that on the next day
of meeting he would bring up a petition on some other
point in which the repeal question might be regarded—
and that petition should be followed by one for the
amendment of the Corporation Bill, which would test
Lord Eliot.—(Cheers.)
The amount of repeal rent for the week was an-
nounced to be 1461. 17s. 11d. ; after which the meeting
adjourned.

PNIONEI7 MARKET and Cll Y NEWS.

FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The Manager of the Nottingham and
Nottinghamshire Banking Company has communicated
the statement made by the London agents of the con-
dition of that Company's account, at the time they re-
fused to pay the bills that fell due on Saturday. His
object is to show that the account was in such a state as
to render the conduct of the agents harsh in the extreme,
and he says that if the agents had but given twenty-
four hours' notice of their intention, no difficulty would
have been experienced.
Th following is the statement referred to :
Draughts accepted £11,400 Balance, cash £6,600
Draughts unaccepted... 8,160 Short bills
Acceptances overdue... 1,480 Received on Saturday,
Acceptances due on Sa- ccsh.
turday, and forwarded 930 Remittances, cash
Notes, &c., paid on Sa-
turday 5OO

£22,5001 £19,260
Assuming that the item of "short bills" is equal to
cash, an assuption which is by no' means granted, the
first glance at this statement would show so small a
diMrence between the two sides of the account, that un-
necessary harshness on the part of the London agents
might be hastily conjectured, since this statement, though
it does contain the actual state of the account, is just
such a statement as is calcula:ed to throw blame on the
agents, the facts which caused them to refuse payment
of the acceptances naturally finding no place in it, while
it is given by way of making out a case favourable to the
Banking Company. In addition to the sums which ap-
pc:a. on the debit side of the account, the London agents,
it appears, have negotiated • for• the Bankin;; Company
foreign hills to the extent of 12,30(1. which they are liable
to pay, although such bills not having been.imesented, the
amounts cannot appear on the debit side. Bills under dis-
count make an additional amount of 8,60 C/. which
likewise cannot appear in a statement like this.
These facts show that the statement by no means gives
the real state of the case between the Banking Company
and their agents, although literally true as far as it goes,
and that the items that cannot appear fully justify the
agents in not making further advances. But even if the
statement were such as to exhibit the relation between
the Nottingham Banking Company and the London
agents, still the request to pay the acceptances that fell
due on Saturday was one with which the agents were by
no means bound to comply. They had not previously
been aware of the existence of such bills, but were, it is
said, first advised of them on the morning of Saturday,
when they were requested to advance 17,20 C/. for the
purpose of meeting them, without being allowed any time
to deliberate, although many of these bills had been
drawn by American houses, and accepted by the Notting-
ham Company. and therefore represented no legitimate
banking transaction. As for the observation that no dif-
ficulty would have been experienced had the Company
had 24 hours' notice (,f their agent's intentions, it may
be remarked, that some months ago the agents sent such
a letter to the Company as could not induce the latter to
believe that there was any great disposition .to assist
them with advances. It is essential to know clearly the
merits of this case, as attempts have been made in va-
rious quarters to rest the condition of the Banking
company solely on the conduct of the London agents,
which, considering how small a concern this was, ap-
pears to have been very prudent and proper.
A letter has been received by a party in the city from
Surra y Bull, the Spanish Minister of Finance,
wherein he states that all rumours of another military
insurrection to restore the Queen Regent are unfounded,
and that the Government possesses the means of preserv-
ing public order. The Cortes having closed, he says he
shall now have more leisure to think on the means of
adopting a plan fcr the settlement of the whole debt and
the reform of the finance administration. He expressly
declares that it is not the intention of the Government
to contract fresh loans, but to adopt such a system of re-
trenchment and economy as shall enable it to meet its
claims.

ADVERTISER—From Canada we have various
items of an interesting, though, perhaps, not important
character. We regret to observe that the boundary busi-
ness is still the fruitful source of local bickering and ill-
feeling.
The excessive drought which had prevailed in Canada
for a considerable time past, began to excite uneasy ap-
prehensions for the coming harvest. The cattle were
said to be suffering severely, the pastures being cOm-
pletely, parched up; and as a natural consequence of the
excessive heat, in several parts of the surrounding coun-
try the woods were on fire. In a letter from St. Anne
de la Perade, it is stated that for ten days previous to
the 23d inst. the bush in that neighbourhood had been
on fire, by which much valuable wood had been de-
stroyed. One individual, who had purchased a large
tract of woodland, from which he expected to derive in
the ensuiug winter 400 cords, had lost all by the devour-
ing element. Several houses are likewise said to have
been burnt in the back part of the parish.
They had likewise. had severe frost in that section of
the country, by which it is stated several fields of .buck-
wheat and potatoes had been frozen ; and the crops,
which up to this period gave promise of a more abundant
return than last year, are said to be suffering much fur
want of rain. Their hay crop was very large, and had
been stacked in good order.
It is stated also that there is much bnrning near Ber-
thier, and that two entire fields of oats had been con-
sumed in that neighbourhood.
POST.—The Columbia steamer, well sustaining the
inco ofn inconclusive niZ in its character which the line has Hitherto borne, has brought
advices from New York to the Ist instant. Ina
Fiscal
com-
mercial point of view the intelligence is but of little im-
portance, although it brings the sanction of the President
en-
actments (ta :B
tiaTtihki
a er
formerl
np to benefitß il
elm,
aandtsou measure
ehe creditor can possibly' there-
sult
t
is so
plan
from it; the debtor alone having the power either to
avail himself of the provisions or to remain under a;.?
old law. The construction of the bank was arraticwi s
to coincide with the views of the lire§id„„sß
e-
deve-
loped in the late Message on the sobjco oft.",Ve4;'
former
solely to be confined to the transactions O. the btv,iinass
Bill. The present establishment, carried into efkt, is
of Government and the Exchanges; local discounts are
to be totally prohibited, its ere also fitreigners front hold-
ing the stock. Persons here ought to view this clause as
a privilege, when it is shown in some of the papers that
on a capital of 62,217,000 dollars paid up on accts-
that
Banks, a depreciation of 56,767,990
h
:as
E
AP
taken place in three years, iodiNitl
The accounts frqzii T,tvqipool had induced several
holders of to submit to a reduction of half a cent,
tlteneted
at wilichlarge purchases had beeii made,‘ both for ship-
ping and home consumption. Flour was on the edvence,
and several parcels had changed hy.nds4
pally for the country.
piinci-
BERALD.--.:ly the C)olumbia, arrived at Liverpool,
Keepunts been received to the Ist instant. from New
tOrk,' the 2d from Boston, and the 4th from Halifax.
The President had given his sanction to the
Bill, which is to take effect from the 14 of February
next. Either purposely pcitlentally it is so
worded
that the partia Wltom it .will affect have the choice of
availlpg themselves of its. provisions, or of the existing
laws of the individual States, so that, —laarupt
to a great

q_I4'MITER 16, 1841.

extent, the benefit to the public generally will be
greatly curtailed. A more one-sided measure can
scarcely be imagined ; by it the creditor is completely
at the mercy of his debtor, he having the privilege of
declaring himself a bankrupt, and thus clearing scores or
by making an assignment, which is done every day in
America, and then coolly informing his creditors that
not a cent is left foe them, some friend or relation having
Possession of the whole of his property. To-. such an
extent has this swindling been carried that, during the
panic of 1837, a house hre, who had 11,000/. owing to
them by one party, were obliged to accept their share-
of assets, which, in the whole, was but 2601., to pay a
dividend upon.a large amount of debts, while at the same
time it was notorious to all parties interested in the estate
that the debtor had assigned to a favoured few property
more than sufficient to satisfy ,all dermas in full.
A bill for a "fiscal bank," drawn up so as to obviate
the objections made by the President to the similar
measure lately rejected by him was before tee house of
Representatives. Its operations are to be strictly con-
fined • to the transactions of Government business and to
dealings in foreign and domestic exchanges ; local dis-
counts ere to be prohibited. The capital proposed is
21,000,000 dollars, and foreigners are to be precluded
from holding the stock. This clause would appear to be
unnecessary, when it is stated that the shares of the
United States Bank had been sold at 8:1, and that
the larger portion, of them are held by the English.
It may be mentioned incidentally, that aliens
are not prohibited from subscribing to the new
loan ; and in the bill which lately received
the veto, there srvas one clause prohibiting
finepignsrs from becoming subscribers to the Bank, and
another ;permitting the sale of the Stock to any person,
who ndght choose to become a purchaser ; this was
added upon the principle of free trade, the mover of it,
when the absurdity of retaining both was pointed out to
him, using an argument which proved successful—
" Would you prevent a citizen of a free State from dis-
posing of his property to whom he pleased ?" The
Land Bill, after protracted and angry discussions, accom-
panied with much personal recrimination, had passed the
Senate with amendments, which, it acquiesced in by the
House of Representatives, and it was expected that such
would be the result, would render it almost inoperative.
A complete panic had taken place among the holders
of the Stocks of the suspended Banks. United States
Bank Shares had suffered in the greater degree, but had
rallied from q, the lowest point, to 11:I, which was the
highest quotation at the sailing of the packet.
All persons who by any chance have had the -official
handling of the cash, appear to have considered it their
duty to help themselves as largely as possible to the
funds entrusted to their care. The Directors have natur-
ally had the first opportunity—Biddle and his coadjutors
for example, and now that the inferior officers, cashiers
et !we genus• °nine. have been following in their steps,
they are to be held up in terrorent. One among many,
the cashier of the Mineral Point Bank, has been ar-
rested. He was fiiund to be in possession of about
100,000 dollars belonging to the Bank, most ingeniously
secured under the blank or fly leaves of some books.
SUN.—There was a flatness in the Market this after-
noon, in consequence of the tenor of the advices from the
United States ; but as regards ourselves, we think the
depression unfounded, and therefore not likely to be
permanent.
Consols for immediate transfer realised 89* to 4,and
for Account 90* in the early part of the day, but closed
at 801 sellers for Money, and 90 to * for Account, being
a shade lower. • Exchequer Bills were 12s. to 14s. pre-
mium. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. realised
99 to 98*, and the Annuities for thirty years were at 121.
The Market for Foreign Stocks was dull, the only
feature being the settlement of the Account, which went
off without any failures. Spanish Bonds rallied to 214
and 22* ; Mexican were at 25k ; Colombian at 2q; and
Brazilian at CBf. Russian Bonds were firm at 1121 to -a ;
and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., at 51;4 to y.
A moderate business was done in Shares at previous
rates to a slight decline. The Great Western were
marked 141- to 13,;,1 premium ; the Brighton, ,114- to 4 dis-
count ; and the isiorth Midland, 35 discount.
It appears that it is true that Mr. Richard Thornton,
the indefatigable and strenuous supporter of the inte-
rests of the foreign creditors of Spain, has received offi-
cial despatches requesting him to take upon himself the
agency and banking operations for the Spanish Go-
vernment, as far as relates to the due payment of thitt
portion of interest now promised to the bondholders.
We need hardly state that Mr. Thornton will not an-
nounce the payment of any interest until he has the cash
in hand.

The Committee of the Portuguese Bondholders held
a meeting this afternoon, at which it was resolved to ad-
dress a letter to the new Foreign Secretary, the Earl of
requesting Aberdeen, requestin his Lordsip to continue diploma-
tic intercession with the Ministers at Lisbon, for the
purpose of obtaining fur the British holders of Portuguese
Bonds their rights.

THE NEW FIXED LIGHT ON THE

GOODWIN SANDS.
DEAL, SEPT. 15.—The frequent dangers arising from the
Goodwin Sands to the mercantile shipping of all nations has
at length rendered it imperative to neglect the general sifety no
longer, but to e..ect upon them a fixed light, which shall serve
as a guiding beacon, and the accomplishment of which is en-
trusted to Mr. Bush, the civil engineer.
To such readers as are not naval or seafaring, it is nem•
sary to state that a mile westward of Deal is the village of Up-
per Deal, opposite which lies that channel of the sea celled the
Downs. It is a safe and commodious roadstead of about eight
miles in length and six in width, excepting when a W.S. wind
blows in the Goodwin Sands. On the opposite side of this
channel, on a parallel line with Deal, are the Goodwin Sands,
which are divided into two parts, though the channel or swatch
between them is not navigable except by small boats. 'l'lw
length of these sands, from the south sandhead opposite Walmcr
Castle to the north opposite the North Foreland, is nearly 10
miles, and the breadth nearly two. The material of which
they are composed is soft, porous, and tenacious, and tradition-
ary testimony, the records of history,'" and living experience,
all go to show that, should a ship of the largest size stoke on the
Goodivins, it would be so wholly swallowed up by the quick-
sands that in a few days no vestige of it would remain to be seen.
Here millions upon millions of property have been swallowed up,
and thousands of lives lost. When the water is off, these banks be-
come
hard and firm, but the moment the tide begins to cover
them they are again soft, and shift to and fro with the waves,
occasionimg that redness of the water which is plainly discover-
able from the town of Deal and the neighbouring shore. The
immense losses sustained by the commerce of England on the
Goodwins about half a century ago induced the Trinity-house
immediately afterwards to direct their attention to the practi-
cability of erecting a lighthouse upon them. With this view
they sent down several experienced engineers, but these
gentlemen deeming the design impracticable, it was given
over. A floating light was, however, placed at the back of the
North Sandhead, which, although of advantage, still leaves
everything to desire, whether in relation to commerce, Science,
or humanity. It was not, however, till the latter end .of
the past, or the beginning of the present year, that Mr. Bush,
civil engineer, actively engaged in this humane undertaking,
which every lover of his species desires to tee
crowned with success. The idea, which he hopes in a
very short time to see accomplished, had long inceel been
floating in his mind, as will be seen in the evidence given by
him before the Committee on Shipwrecks, of which Mr. J. S.
Buckingham was Chairman; but no practical steps had bet n
taken to put it into action till within the last few montl.s.
When, however, he secured tha favourable attention of the
Duke of Wellington, he commenced in right earnest, and
caused to be made at Thorncliffe Iroaworks, near Rotherham,
in Yorksbi e, the immense base or shaft of the pillar on which
" the Light" is to be placed. Formed of cast iron, and hollow
within, this base or under shaft, on which the column is to be
raised, is 64 feet in height and 90 feet in diameter, and
above 200 feet in circumference. The whole is divided into
three parts with a view to facilitate the transport. The
base is 64 feet long, the column Bd, and the summit, which
is surmounted by a cast-iron statue of her most Gracious
Majesty, is forty feet in length ; the total altitude will there-
fore be 190 feet. The weight of the lower shalt alone is 120
tens ! and it at this moment lies near two Government stea•
roe: s, which arrived here yesterday from Woolwich in order to
to .v it to the North Galloper Sand-head, where Mr. Bush
proposes to sink it thirty feet below the sands, on a chalky
substratum.

The North Galloper is situate midway between the North.
and• South Sand-head, about twelve miles distant from the
North Foreland, and three miles from the Gull Steam Light.
hi this shaft there is a cell large enough to hold 100 men, with
provisions, store-houses, magazines, &c. ; and in the npper
portion or capital, if it may be so called, there is room for
twenty men, whose atte..dance will he constantly necessary to
manage the light.
Preparations at at this moment actively going on fur its ffe-
part ut e. For the last twenty-four hours the gr. atcst possible
bustle has prevailed in the town of Deal, and not a bed was
last night to be had at the hotel for love or money. the Go-
vernment anti Trinity steamers are not the only hart s whicht.
will .• at'endai.t sail" on Mr. Bush. 1 here arc a couple o
yachts row floating their canvass to the breeze in order to share
in his hoped-for triumph, and partake of his gale.
The Deal boatmen sport. many different opinions as to the
probability of Mr. Bush's success. Some of them think his
lighthouse will undo their trade, and they therefore interestedly
rail against it. About sixty men ore now engaged, with all
appliances and means to boot, in getting the light afloat, SQ
that it may be lashed between the steamers. The low state s'
the tide has hitherto opposed a slight obstacle to this under-
taking, but in about an hour this feat will be surely, though
slowly, accomplished.
There is a large party of seamen here, who see some sort of
goodness in things evil, and who contend that the Goodwin
Sands are not without their uses. It is probably owing
their position in reference to the Downs that the lat'
-of 13 SO
:.msidered as a
excellent a roadstead. The Goodwins may be c
and even at high-
pier or break -water in all the easterly windy
water and in the stormiest weather, thO heaviest sea cannot
pass over them without being broken and dispersed.
At 12 o'clock yesterday the weather, wh---;"..t, had been threaten-
ing for some time previously, suddenly ;soanged. The rain fell in
torrents, accompanied by syvers
• claps of thunder, but, never-
theless, the workmen cors.i.
rimed joyously at their labour, and
about half-past ele':en o'clock the base of the light was got
afloat, and. •'moored off the pier-head exactly at twelve. • The
rain Continuing, however, to fall in torrents, with somr hazi-
nr.ss, it vitt deemed safer and better to postpone the floating
1,41 otl.4oVfioW, when it will take place at nine o'clock in the
tipping. Thousands of spectators were to-day saturated with
wet in witnessing the getting afloat, but their enthusiasm was
in no degree damped, and they hailed the mooring to the Oar-
heacl with three distinat rounds of applause.
The Government steamers Fearless and Sheerwnter assisted
at the opuraiion ; the former got on shore, but this contretemps
was soon remedied by the skill and science of Captain Bullock.

" See Somner's Roman Ports," p. 20. " Lewis's Thanet,"
P. 16$,

The late Hon. Alfred Assheton Harbord, who
died in the East Indies on the 9th of June last, was
second son of the late Lord Suffield by his first marriage
with the Hon. Georgiana Vernon, onlydaughter and heiress
of George, second Lord Vernon. He was brother of the
present Lord Suffield and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, wife of
Mr. George E. Anson, and was born 29th January, 1819.
The deceased was serving in the 3d Light Dragoons, in
which regiment he was Cornet.
CAB ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, about
twelve o'clock, as a cab was about to pass through Vic-
toria-gate, Bayswater, a boy named I'hwaites, between
nine and ten years of age, attempted to jump up behind,
but failing to do so, his right leg became entangled in
one of the wheels of the cab, and the limb was broken
in three or four places. The poor boy was conveyed to
St. George's Hospital.

DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS.

TFIE HAGUE, SEPT 11.—In the sitting of the Second
Chamber of the States-General to-day, the Central Sec-
tion presented its Report on the Project of Law for con-
verting the Defined into Active Debt ; and also its Report
on the Project of Law fur the Redemption of Debt in
If4l.

The debates of those Projects of Law are to take place
after that on the General Chamber, which is fixed on
Monday next.
tiEPT 12.—1 t is now known that the French steamer
stranded on the sth of this month, between Yellin
and Calantroog, was the Neva, Capt. Tercapol. It is
deeply imbedded in the sand.

is affirmed that Rear-Admiral Pillachielsen is ap-
pointed Commander of his Majesty's naval force in the
East Indies, and Inspector of the Marine in that country.
13.—The debates on the project of law relative
to the General Chamber of Accounts commenced in the
Second Chamber to-day. Nine Members spoke. The
debate will be continued to morrow.
BEnLIN, SEPT. 4.—Two couriers from the Emperor
of Russia have already arrived, and it is confidently ex •
pected that his Majesty will pay a visit to our King be-
tire the end ef the reviews in Siberia, The Grand Duke
and Duchess of Saxe Wien.= left the Palace at Potsdam
this morning, where they had stopped to recover the
fatigues of a stormy passage by sea, which seems espe-
cially to affect the Grand Duchess. Their daughter,
Princess Charlotte, follows them to Weimar the day af-
ter to-morrow. Her Royal Highness the Princess of
Russia will also pass some days there on her return to
Berlin, after taking the waters, while her august consort '
goes to Austria for the inspection of the contingent which
has been so often spoken of.
We learn, from good authority, that one Power un-
willingly consented to the reciproCal inspection in the
manner now arranged.
It is added that Count Von Munich Bellinghausen,
President of the German Diet, has rendered essential
services to all the States of the Confederation, in the
drawing up of the document on this subject. All the
Generals to whom the inspection is confided are posi-
tively -forbidden,to express any blame on the spot, or to
require alterations ; but they may state their objections
solely in a general report on the inspection, to be com-
municated directly to the Military Committee of the
German Confederation.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 9.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AESTERDAM, SEPT. 14.
onet. bills
Actual Eight, ‘2.5i per Cent M 51% :,.‘.l .
Jittn, ditto 5 per cent.
A inwi t nyndic, -14 per cent 91% 02
Ditto, ditto, 3j per cent 75L4, :5N
Commercial Company, 414 her cent 1551,1. Ibti%
Ditto (MIS and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan IFili, 5 per cont.
Exchange on London, One month l2 ON
Two months
Hamburgh, One month 35 75
Two months 35 5)
•
Dutch Papers, Sept. 15.
BELGIAN I! UNDs—riaussELd, SEPT. 11.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C,nt Jul
Loan of Thirty Milions, 4 per Cent. 93
3 per Cent,

----.Thirty.seven . -- 7134
----- (1-40) • 10134
Loan of City, 1:::',2, 4 per Cent. 90%
Society of Cornea, rce, 45a per Cent 03.4
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent. ............ 74 4
NationalSaciety.
Exchange on LondoN (shalt)
—Brussels Papers, Sept. 14.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, SEPT. 6
f ire per Cants. Metalliques
Foist per Cents. 97%
Three inx Cent5.............................._._._.., 75:;/
B. nk :Altus /572
•—/Inkerneine Zeitung, Sept. II
11 AMBU tIG BO!(ENHALLE, Serr.ll.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares l6OO
A uglo.ltussian Loan lO-i 10855
If tr,sian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cc.rtilicate
Inscription, Ist Se: les 1024 102
ktus,:ian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 98% 93
Ditto in Certificates
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 864 66
Dutch actual Debt, i 5 pe Cent 1034 zog
Ditto 5 per Cent - _
Polish Bonds
New picket
Anglo-tianish Loan, 3 per Cce. 17534 753
Nstwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent...
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. l6

THE COMMISSIONERS OF
SEWERS AND TEIL BLA CK WALL RAILWAY
CO3IPANY.

There has been a difference of opinion of late between
the City Commissioners of Sewers for the City of Lon-
don and the Directors of the Blackwell Railway Com-
pany, which has caused a great deal of conversation and
conjecture in the. East-end of the town, and it is ex-
pected that very shortly the subject will come before the
public through the agreeable medium of a Court of Law,
The following is a pretty fair version of the two sides
of the case. It is known that in the Court of Common
Council a vigorous opposition was made to the intro-
duction of the railway into the City via Iklineries upon
the ground of the injury likely to arise from the passing
of the trains through the heart of a populous neighbour-
hood and from other objectionable circumstances con-
nected with the speculation, and that the inhabitants of
Portsoken ward argued strongly against the formation
of a terminus in the Minories, It is also known that a
further extension of the railway through Crutchedfriars
and Cooper's lane, terminating in the immediate vicinity
of Fenohureh-street, was, after a considerable struggle,
carried against the voice of the inhabitants, and that one
of the objections started to the undertaking was the
annoyance to which the people in that part of the City
would be exposed from the noise of the engines and the
hubbub of the numerous passengers at all the busy hours
of the day.
For the purpose of meeting those objections on the
line of extension, the Blackwall Railway Company de-
unnined to raise a wall with skylights from the Mino-
Iries to the terminus next to Fenchurch-street, a distance
of upwards of 300 yards, by means of which they might
smother the sound of the steam apparatus, and enable
the merchants and traders in the locality to transact their
business in perfect quiet, and without apprehension of
being overwhelmed, in the event of any mismanagement
or unavoidable contingency as to the locomotive power.
A short time ago the whole of the covered way, which
had been considered by the Company not only to be cal-
culated to remedy the evil dreaded by the opposers of
the prqject, but to be a very great additional benefit to
the passengers, was opened to the public, and, it is said,
that the proposed object of the Company has been fully
answered. .
The matter, it appears, is not, however, likely to be
so easily settled. The Commissioners of Sewers, in going
the rounds of the City, for the purpose of ascertaining
whether surveyors and builders were interfering with the
public health, fixed upon this very inclosed portion of
the line of railroad as an exceedingly dangerous check
to the ventilation of this dense neighbourhood, and ac-
cordingly presented an indictment to the Grand Jury,
representing it as a nuisance, and as directly opposed to
the provisions of a Bill introduced by Lord Norrnanby to
Parliament to secure the health of the citizens of Lon-
don. The bill of indictment was, after the statements of
the witnesses in favour of it, thrown out by the Grand
Jury, but the Commissioners of Sewers being determined
to have a legal investigation into the merits of the ques-
tion, have stated their intention to commit a trespass
upon the inclosed portion of the line, in order that SP Im-
portant a matter should meet with titte deliberafton from
the highest authorities.
It is whispered that the inhabtants of Portsoken
Ward, who at first complained so bitterly of the esta-
blishment of a terminus 4.71 tile Alinories, had been made
by use so far reconciled to it, that they are now actually
enraged at its removal to the immediate neighbourhood
of Fenchurch- street,
The Blackwell Railway Company are, it is said, will-
ing to try the question before any authority, convinced
that they have done no mischief by raising a wall which
may have the effect of partially shutting out the salu-
brious breezes of Petticoat-lane and other fragrant loca-
lities.

We find the following in the Quotidienne, rela-
tive to the Cafe Valois, in the Palais Royal :---4"rhis
Cafe, the stock and furniture of which have just been
sold off, in consequence of failure, had been established
sixty-eight years, and existed ten years before the gal-
lery of which it subsequently formed part. Its first
denii-tases were served under the secular chestnut-trees
planted by tho Cardinal de Richelieu, and the name of
Valois was assumed after that borne by the present King
of the French until he was 12 years of age. In the great
Revolution the Cafe Valois was the rendezvous of the
Royalists who frequented thePalais Royal, and the head-
quarters of the newsmanfvers, after Dr. Metra, the physi-
cian, had takoo retlige there, when the famous Art,ei tie
Cracovie, wider the shade of which he had 40
drown plans of battles in sand had be r years
cut down. Dr. Metra was succeeded at the
Cafel:ttlois by the brave and
eard, known by his Agonie de
witty Journiac de
(1....1•1t1g the dreadful massacres of the
trente-six heures,
month of Se-',,ern er, and still better as the President of
b
the S, • 1 :etc des G o e-, !ouches, of which he was the
. ~under. Saint-Meard, who was a Chevalier de Saint
Louis, and a Captain in the Ring's Regiment, made the
fortune of the Cafe de Velois, by the gaiety of his cha-
racter and his originality up to his death in 1827. After
the 18th Brumaire, the Cafe Valois became the rendez-
vous of the returned emigrants, and the remnant of the
army of Conde ; and, under the Empire, was a sort of
branch establishment to the Faubourg St. Germain by
its opposition to Bonaparte. Under the Restoration it
was the place of meeting to the Royalists, and was often
exposed to outrage from the liberal canaille. The Revo-
lution of July was fatal to the Cafe Valois, and the name
of the Prince of Orleans, under whose patronage it had
first become celebrated, could not preserve it from de-
sertion and ruity'

A gentleman writes from Bombay that he
reached India from Spithead in thirty-fou; and a half
days, and found the trip, as far as Suez, very pleasant.
At Suez, however, the heat was awful, and no air stir-
ring ; the number of passengers also, going and coming,
had eaten and drank up everything ; a bottle of Bom-
bay water was retailed from an Arab dow at half a
rupee.. Through Jabal Straits and the Red Sea, as far
as Aden, every one slept on deck until run-rise, when
the whole were obkr,ed to go below, where the thermo-
meter stood at 100 deg. They were obli.;ed also to take
nineteen additional passengers, left behind by the former
steamer; which increase of numbers pressed sorely upon
food, and when the steamer reached Bombay, the eat-
ables and drinkables were entirely exhausted.—liamp-
shire Telegraph. •
FATAL A ccinENT.--Bni sT or, SEPT. 14.--
A dreadful accident happened this morning on our quay.
Seine very heavy steam machinery, engines, and boilers,
were shipping on board the Great Britain for Trieste, and
while a large part (weighing about 16 tons) was sus-
pended by the shears, one of the chains parted, and the
whole came down upon the deck of the vessel, and,
melantcheosl3o,nt oorfe relate,
fishmonger mate,
ta) f ehriys
port, WAS respectable youngliterally
man, the
crushed to atoms.—Shippiny Gazette.