The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-11 00:00:00

FROM TIM EVENING PAPERS OP THIS 14-1.17.

GLOBE,.—The late "Government demonstrated that
taxation had I%,aclied its utmost limit of production, and
that, to endeavour to raise the revenue by addin:.; to the
imposts already existing, 'would be to increase the
burdens of the people, and to diminish, instead of en-
hancing the national income. Hence they proposed an en-
tire revision of the import duties, with a view to their
equalization. This, they contended, would give an impetus
to our paralyzed trade and commerce—provide employ-
ment for the thousands of our operative manufacturers
deprived of employment, and consequently of the means
or adequate subsistence—and thus meet the exigencies
of the State in the only way in which they can be met,
without greatly increasing the distresses and inflaming
the discontents of the people. In this course, in which
prudence enforced the dictates of patriotism, the late
Ministers were opposed and defeated by the combined
forces of the monopolists. The interests of the com-
munity were sacrificed at the shrine of selfishness ; and
thousands of families doomed to privation, and many
more to want verging on starvation, that the class-in-
terests might maintain a doubtful advantage. The tables
before us confirm the views taken by the late Govern-
ment ; and, notwithstanding the rhunsy and ill-timed
grattdations of the Post, will go far to convince the
country that it is approaching a guipli which can only
be avoided by interposing measures similar to those
proposed by the 'late. Government—measures which a
considerable portion of Sir Robert Peel's Government
have expressly denounced, but for which the Premier is
evidently reserving himself. To the Cabinet the an-
nouncement of such intentions will be fatal.

=lent.

STANDARD.—Where was Elliot ? This is a ques-
tion which, a few `weeks ago, would have received an-
swcra from every place in which profitable patronage
could be dispensed, as numerous as those that replied to
the call " Mr. Smith is wanted," in the pit at Drury-
lane. At present our question is more definite, " where
was Elliot ?" we mean the Elliot—the man who sold the
honour of the British name and the fruit of British gal-
lantry and skill fbr certain bags of dollars—the man placed,
as it appears, I'y the late Ministry, in the chief command
of the naval and military forces in the Chinese seas
—where was he on the 21th of May, a clay by the way,
doubly auspicious, as the birth-day of our Queen, and as
the commencement of a series of victories glorious to her
arms? Where was Elliot on the 24th of May, and on
the three following days? As yet we believe no one is
able to answer the question. All we know is, that he was
not where he ought to have been if he was to exercise,
as, unhappily he did exercise, the command of the expe-
dition. He was not with Sir 11. Gough, he was not with
Sir H. Senhouse, he was not with the army or the fleet
that he commanded. He was at some place so distant
that a naval officer had to ride hard a whole night
to carry his communications to the military and
naval commanders. The gentleman in question, it is
true, mistook his road ; but a man used to move by
the compass could not have mistaken it for a lack
niyht unless he had been under the guidance of same
mischievous " Tony Lumphin," which is not pre-
tended. Looking to the event, one is sorry, not
that he missed his way, but that he found it
so soon. But three quarters of an hour later, and
the British flag—the glorious red cross—would have
waved over Canton—not, as the Globe tenderly sug-
gests, at the expense of hewing through solid columns
of human flesh. We wonder where were our con- !
temporary's fine feelings when the explosion at
Acre was announced—not at the expense of hewing
through solid columns of human flesh—the columns
would have found themselves feet soon enough—but with
the advantage of disarming and dispersing some scores
of thousands of enemies that have been permitted to re-
tire with their arms, and in perfect organization, in order
to take up a more favourable position—with the greater
advantage, too, of dictating terms from Canton—terms
which dictated from that place must have been accepted,
and must have put an end to the war. But we repeat
our • question, "where was Elliot ?" Why was he not
wish the expedition that he commanded?
COURIER.—The more remarkable feature in these
revolutionary developments in Spain consists in the cir-
cumstance, which would now seem to be decisively esta-
blished, of the league and united co-operation of the
Carlists with the Christinos. Tlerein is the special peril
for Espartero, for of herself it may truly be said that in
Spain the partisans of Maria Christina are neither
numerous nor powerful of themselves. There is no
principle which theyrepresent, and consequently no com-
mon bond of action. They consist for the most part of
men whose selfish and ambitious views have been dis-
appointed, or whose envy and hatred have been stimu-
lated by the extraordinary advancement and aggrandise-
ment of Espartero, the fortunate soldier, so lately their
equal only, or their inferior in station, and now supreme
Dictator of Spain and the Indies. These, with the in-
termixture of a few adherents to the ex-Regent from
motives of personal regard, and few they are, for her
conduct of late years was. not calculated to increase the
number or retain even all those before attached, con-
stitute the whole of the so-called Christino party. The
Moderado party, as wretchedly represented by men of
tainted character and broken fortunes, or of an ambition
as unprincipled as they are destitute of capacity, such
as the Isturizes and Torenos, can bring no accession
of strength to whatever party they espouse, but on the
reverse must be an element of weakness and discou-
ragement, so odious have they rendered them-
selves in the eyes of the whole nation by their
former career of corrupt misgovernment or scandalous
betrayal of principle. The case is widely different with
the Carlists and the Clergy, embodied privately and
publicly as a united compact mass all over the kingdom,
imbued with the same convictions, animated for contest
by the same passions, prejudices, and interests, with
wrongs to revenge, rout to retrieve, and former ascend-
ancy to regain. Row this most powerful of all Spanish
parties may have been beguiled into strict alliance with
former deadly foes, it is hardly necessary to inquire, for,
in truth, it is no uncommon event in the history of con-
tending parties and civil warfare to find ancient foes
cumUniag to sink mutual jealousies and disputes, and
makingraint-head against the one irresistible power by
whichlealle:nad been vanquished, and were forcibly- held
iuthjection. It is, however, impossible not to suspect
the existence of French agency and intrigue inthe
ot, this singular combination, the quid pro qua of
whichk
r may consist in a pre concerted match between one of
the sons of Louis Philippe and the young-Queen Isabella,
by which the favourite saying of Louis XIV. that
a plus de Pyrennees, might more truly be rendered
a reality than even in the days of the Grand Monarqu
or. it.may be, that the disputed rights of succession
are;
to be merged and amakamated hi the marriage of the
eldest son-
oil Dow. Carlos- with. the little Queen. This,
,
it icknown, Was always.the teeetrite ptltiet of "lea Ber-
mudee,„evrho. we See,. is idol` ett of in thd,Patis Fress as
one of the advisers of Maria Christina.

. ' INT I. A IttBETR:---A deputa-
/ WALKS
PUBLIC h If Kemble, Esq., -M.P.; alaci B. Hawes,
; headet, "'"---- interview with Sirj-arnes Gra-
tam,- , iiiiii a larva
hEl=nkdi*Pla.m.'# I Lincoln this Morning at the Horne-othee,
kit lakin, public walks in the extensive
umathe,ambiert -: i., of Lambeth.
. • „mai, . . metropolitan oo 4
ist earts
the
ed
official interviews
Several of the
morning,in
with Sir Robert Peel this .
resi-
dence of the Right l
lon. Baronet in Downing-street.
DAy. —Considerable ex-
13FtMIITONT, SAT UR.
due on Thursday citeirient. has been caused within the last few days by the
non-arrlval of the Dart steamer,
two or three
morn-
ing. which was increased by the fact of
accidents having lately happened to her machinery.
•
She has at length succeeeed in crossing the Channel.
It appears that she left Diepp.
e about three o'clock
on Wednesday morning, having the mail bags
on board, and about forty
passengers. After beat-
ing about in a tremendous gale for upwards of twelve The
hours she was compelled to put back.
put to having moderated Captain Cheeseman again ptt
yesterday morning between two and three o'clock,_New-
haven Lad a vela, rough. passage. On arriving off
he should not have tide enuugh to reach Brighton
wa.siunniriginto Newhaven harbour, when she struck
agatnst the East Pier, carrying away her paddle box
and
,the cook.house, and shaking the machinery so much
that she was cum 1t I di- The life-boat, manned
• p e e y disabled.
other help succeeded in towing her into the harbour,
where the whole of the passengers were landed in safety.
The Cambridge Chronicle says that above
'20,000 bushels of apples have been shipped within the
last two months from SVisbeach, for the north of England.
Died, Sept. 14, at Cuckfield, Sussex, Mrs. De
Poggi, in her 97th.year. Airs. De Poggi was a descend-
ant of the ancient family of Lewis, of Yorkshire, now
merged into that of the Earl of Huntingdon. She had
known intimately Sir Joshua Reynolds, Garrick, Haznah
More, Paoli, the Corsican patriot, are. ; and her nume-
rous and pleasing anecdotes of these and other cele-
brated characters will lon_g, be remembered by those
who had the privilege of hearing their recit.tl.—Here-
ford Times.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HO USE.

A person named APNarnara, in whose name an omni-
bus is registered, was summoned by the so'icitor to the
Stamp-office for having carried more pass- ngers than
he was allowed. The defendant had been summoned,
but did not appear, on account of which it was supposed
there was an endeavour to evade the penalty, by putting
forward another person as the party who hired and paid
the coachman. A policeman stated he saw seventeen
passengers, three of them children, but (to the best of
his belief) above eight years of age. •
The Solicitor said, that two children under seven
reckoned as one person only, and the penalty was 51. for
every passenger above the authorised number.

TileLonn—MAYou. ELECT said, that the case was a bad
one, and that he should inflict the penalty of 51. upon
the defendant, and no doubt the gentleman who attended
from the Stamp•office would know how to get the
amount.

Two notorious fellows, who at present go by the
names of Shaw and TVathins, and who have been con-
victed of passing bad money on former occasions, were
seen by a policeman to enter the shop of Mr. Abraham,
a tobacconist. When they came out the policeman spoke
to Mrs. Abrahams, and ascertained that they had passed
a bad half-crown, for which she had %tumid, in change,
2s. 4s. He succeeded in taking them into custody, and,
upon bringing them back to the shop, Watkins snatched
the half-crown from Mrs. Abraham's hand, and swal-
lowed it. The policeman endeav,,ured to prevent him,
but was not successful. •

Mr. Powell, the solicitor to the Mint, did not attend,
upon which the prisoner said, the solicitor knew there
was no case against them, since no bad money was found.

Mr. Hobler intimated that there was a defect in the
law against passing bad coin, by which many infamous
fellows escaped.

The LORD- MAYOR ELECT said that he should send for
Mr. Powell, and consult with him upon the subject of
prosecuting these prisoners, for it was clear, from the
whole of their conduct, that they were perfectly aware
of the money being bad, and the prisoners certainly
should not easily get out of his hands.
They were both remanded.
GUILDHALL.

TVilliam Barrett, a cab-driver, Iran charged on suspi-
cion of stealing a silver watch and gold guard chain,
value 201.

The complainant, who it appeared resides at Brixton,
stated that he hired the defendant's cab on Tuesday even-
ing, to take him to 23, Union-street, Moorfields, where
he intended to pass the night, and ordered him to call
for him at seven o'clock the followinz morning; the man
came at that hour, and was admitted to his bed-room,
but he declined then getting up, and told him to return
in two hours ; the defendant did so, but he was not will-
ing to leave his pillow, and directed him to come again
in another two hours. This he did not do; and when at
last, with reluctance, be left the bed, he missed the
watch, which he had deposited on the table. He added
that nothing suspicious was found at the prisoner's lodg-
ing, and the watch had been traced.

Tine ALDERNIN inquired if the complainant took any
person with him to the house ? The complainant nodded

The ALDERMAN asked if it was a lady ? He nodded
assent again.

The ALDEMIAN wished to know if she was of a cer-
t./An class ? The gentleman, mandaria•like, nodded as-
,
sent once more.

The ALDERMAN inquired if he was a married man ?
Again, with a nod, he acknowledged he was a Benedict.
And are you not ashamed, said the ALDERMAN, of
coming here with a story of having passed the night and
half the-day with a common prostitute ?In such a house
strangers might enter your room while you were asleep.
or your attention is engrossed. The gentleman pleaded
wine, and said, as he saw et) chance of recovering his
wrtch, and was going into the country, he did not wish
to proceed with the matter.
The servant at the house said she saw the watch safe
at seven o'clock, but not afterwards.
The ALDERMAN thought the evidence too weak to
aff.x..t the defendant, and discharged him.
POLICE COMMITTEE, GUILDHALL.
The City Police still continue their harrassing pro-
ceedings against the Licensed Victuallers, in respect of
" harbouring notoriously bad characters." Charles
Vidler, oc the Three Tuns, Bridgewater-gardens, was
summoned for having had 60M43 prostitutes in his house,
knowing them to be such. The case was proved against
him, but he assured the Alderman that he was not desi-
rous of harbouring characters, although from living in a
low neighbourhood he felt himself obliged to receive any
person who conducted themselves properly. The Alder-
mar. advised the policeman to go and tell Mr. Vidler
wh :never he saw bad characters go into the house, as he
could not know them all. It was the policeman's business
t'o take the persons of bad character into custody, if they
did not behave themselves properly. The Alderman
thought lb. case was not perfect, and it was dismissed.
Daniel Parker was summoners for a similar offence.
He contended strongly that he was not to refuse a woman
a pint of porter because shy, was a prostitute..
Alderman LUCAS said he would caution Mr. Parker
not to do 20 in future, and convicted him in a penalty of
40s.—Notice of appeal was immediately given.
BOW-STREET.
W. Traill, a pawnbroker in the Edgeware-road, was
brought up on a warrant, charged with refufing to deli-
ver up a silver watch which had been illegally pledged
at his shop Yor 10s. The defendant had received three
summonses commanding him to attend, but having re-
fused to do so, a warrant was issued for his apprehen-
sion, which being put into execution on Friday night, he
was lodged in the cells until this morning.
Maurice Bernard, a dealer in curiosities, stated that
some weeks past he had occasion to get his watch re-
paired, and for that purpose he left it with a person
named John Vincent, who then kept a watchmaker's
shop in Drury-lane. A few days after he discovered
that Vincent had absconded, taking with him his pro-
perty, and other articles of a similar description which
had been left with him to repair, and upon being charged
at this office with the offence, he was ordered to be sent
to bard labour for three months. Witness having as-
certained that the watch in question had been pawned
e.t the shop of the defendant, lost no time in applying to
him for its restoration, but he refused to comply unless
he was repaid the entire amonnt for which it had been
pawned, together with the interest arising upon it.
Mr. JARDINE inquired of the defendant for any reason
he could assign for not restoring the property to the
complainant ?—The defendant replied that there had
been no prosecution or conviction of the person who had
actually pawned the property in his possession. The
watch was pledged by a man named Jones, in Vincent's

kr:JARDINE said it was not necessary. By the 27th
section of the Metropolitan Police Act it was enacted,
" That if any goods shall be stolen or unlawfully ob-
tained from any person, or being lawfully obtained,
shall be unlawfully deposited, pawned, pledged, sold, or
exchanged, and conAphint shall be made thereof to any
Magistrates, that each goods are in the possession of
any broker, dealer in marine stores, or other dealer in
second-hand ptnperty, or any person who shall have
advanced mor.ey upon the credit of such goods, within
the Metropolitan Police District, it shall be lawful for
such .11'..gistrates to issue a summons or warrant for the
appearance of such broker or dealer, and for the pro-
dtraion of the goods, and to order such goods to be de-
'Avered up to the owner, either without any payment, or
upon paymeut of such sum, and at such time, as the
Magistrate shall think fit ; and every broker, &c., who
being so ordered shall refuse to deliver up the goods, or
who shall dispose of or make away with the same, after
notice that such goods were stolen or unlawfully ob-
tained, shall forfeit to the owner of the goods the full
value thereof, to be declared by the Magistrates." He
(Mr. Jardine) was surprised that the defendant had not
attended before, for it was well known to every
pawnbroker in town that such was the effect of the law.
The defendant said he had sent his assistant to answer
the charge when he received the summons.

Mr. JARDINE considered that the complainant was
entitled to the costs of the entire proceedings.
The defendant said such a circumstance had never
occured to him before, and he thought he was not
transgressing the law, as the party who had pawned the
article had not been convicted.

Mr. JARDINE said that in point of fact it was not ne-
cessary for the person to be convicted. De was not
willing to take any severe measures against the defend-
ant, but he was bound to say that he never know auy
pawnbroker in the neighbourhood of this court refuse to
attend his summons.

The defendant then agreed to give up the property.
The complainant begged to remind the Magistrate
that he •had been put to considerable expense, for he had
paid for fait days 2s. 6d. each clay to a Fe: son for at-
tending to his business in his absence, and he had been
twice to the'defendant's house in a cab, besides the costs
of the summons..
Mr. JAaraNi instantly directed the property to be de-
livered up, upon the third part of the money upon which
it had been pawned, being restored to the defendant, and
he (defendant) should pay the 10s. as costs to the com-
plainant.
The defendant agreed to comply with the order of the
Court, and he was discharged.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
Ann Burton, late a nursery-maid in the service of G.
Palmer, Esq., M.P., 39, Chesharn-place, was charged
with having cruelly ill-treated and beaten R. C. Palmer,
an infant two years of age.
The MAGISTRATE told the defendant that Mr. Palmer
did not wish to punish her provided she acknowledged
her error, and promised not to offend in such a manner again, but had brought her there to show her how wrong '
it was for persons in her position to use violence towards
an infant.
The defendant begged the case to be proceeded '
with, as she had not injured the infant, and others had
the care of ir, as well as herself. " Besides," added the
defendant, "it is necessary that children should be
corrected."

After much proper r:buke from the l‘ragistrate, and
sereral stupid, though impertinent, observations by the
dcfendant,

_ .
Augusta Stanley proved that the infant had been
treated ,with violence by the defendant ; and Mr. Pal-
mer then stated that on Sunday last he found thq
child covered with bruises, and with some fuller's earth
in its ear to allay inflammation ; he accordingly called
the defendant into the parlour after afternoon prayers,
and spoke to her as to the impropriety of her conduct ;
but she denied the fact, said "Prove it," and that she
could neither be hanged nor drowned for her conduct,
whatever it might have been. He frequently offered to
forgive the fault if she would acknowledge herself in the
wrong ; but she would not do so, and he therefore dis-
charged her and took the present proceedings.
The Magistrate examined the child, which still ex-
hibited the marks of the fingers.
The defendant made a rambling defence, but did not
mend her case ; and
The MAGISTRATE told her, that but for the express
wish of Mr. Palmer, he would inflict the highest penalty•
of 51., but to oblige him he would only fine her 10s.

STROKE AT THE NEW HOUSES

OF PARLIAMENT.

We are glad to be able to report 'that the masonry
work on this great undertaking is partially resumed. ,
On Friday sixteen men, brought by Mr: Alien out of
Gloucestershire, entered the works by the gate in Pa-
lace-yard without molestation from the Unionists, a
great number of whom had collected. A body of police
were present, and had a seasonable influence upon them;
and all they did was pass rough jukes upon those who
entered ; but yesterday one man entered and took up
his bench again. One man who had struck in common
cause with his fellow workmen had the spirit to recom-
mence his work in defiance of the threats held out if he
did so. This man was not privately solicited ; but, in a
letter which he addressed to the foreman on a previous
day, he gives his motives for coming back, which
are, in substance, that he, with many others, was
averse to the strike . from the first, and that
when Mr. Jackson, the builder, addressed a
meeting of the masons he was one of those who held up
his hand in his (the foreman's) behalf. For doing this
be had since lived the life of a dog. He had worked at
Deptford, but every annoyance that human malevolence
could invent he was subjected to, and he left his employ
with the assurance, not from one mouth, but many, that,
he was "a marked man." The ensuing week will prove
whether others will have the moral courage to follow his
example.
It is expected by the contractors that a considerable
accession to the number already employed will soon take
place, and there is very little doubt of the full comple-
ment being obtained in a very short space of time. It
has been stated in some of the Daily Papers that the con-
tractors had but.a month allowed them to procure fresh
workmen, but this is altogether untrue. No definitive
time was fixed upon, but they (the contractors) had any
reasonable time granted them they required.
We have been informed that forty -eight masons have
been employed (and are paid handsomely for their ser-
vices) to distribute themselves in small bodies and take
their stations at each of the railway terminuses, as also
at the steam-packet wharfs, to stop and lead away all
masons who might come up from the country to obtain
work at the new Houses of Parliament. Now, without
commenting upon the legality or illegality of this stop,
or, to say the least of it, its extreme absurdity, we will
call the attention of the masons to this fact, and let them
one and all consider it deeply. The contractors have
received letters from continental firms, who offer to ob-
tain, and forward immediately, if required, any number
of experienced workmen from France, Belgium, and
Germany, should there be a difficulty in getting
together a sufficient number of native workmen. The
contractors will defer acting upon this proposal to
the latest moment, upon the principle that a build-
ing intended for the holding of British legislative
assemblies should bo erected, and that entirely, by
Beitish. workmen ; but should they be driven to this
step, what will be the consequence ? Foreign work-
mens' mouths will be fed, whilst the English, the mis-
guided English workman, will have the unenviable choke
of the open street or the workhouse to lay his head in.
It is well known to those men, though they have not the
candour to admit it, that the labour is not equal to the
application for it ; therefore, if the step already alluded
to is taken, what can be the result but starvation ? We
are informed that the contractors can readily obtain per-
mission, if it should be their wish, to at once cover in the
whole of the works for the winter, the building being in
that state of forwardness to warrant their taking such a
step. Messrs. Grissel and Peto de not, however, con-
sider it likely they will have to resort to such means,
from the circumstance of their having received so many
assurances from the country of the intention of workmen
to proceed to London ; and it is fully expected that ere
another month is passed there will be far more masons in
London than are required.—Sunday Paper.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 10.—The Dublin, 50, with Rear-
Admiral Thomas's flag on board, for the Pacific, touched
at Madeira Sept. 8, and went next day for Rio Janeiro.
The Scout, 16, Commander Larcom, reached Gibraltar,
on the 19th ult., and left the following day for Malta.
The Rose, 18, Commander Christie, left Pernambuco
for Demerara, on the 2:)th of August.
Her Majesty's brig Partridge left Bahia for Rio on the
15th August ; the Grecian entered Rio harbour on the
Bth. Tha Spider left for England on the. 23d. The
Acorn had sailed for the coast of Africa. The South-
ampton, Sparrow, and Arrow, remained at Rio.
Her Majesty's brig Pelorus was sold out of the ser-
vice at Singapore on the 6th of July last, by order of
Commodore Sir J. G. Bremer, and on the following day
the officers and crew, with the exception of the Acting
Commander (Chambers), were transferred to the brig
Bentinck, which the Commodore had purchased for
6,000 L This brig was fitting for service in China.
Lieut. Chambers returns to England. Mr. R. A. Ban-
kier, as Assistant-Surgeon, and Mr. T. R. Tate, as
Clerk-in-Charge, &c., have joined the Bentinck.
The Snake, 16, has been commissioned this week at
Sheerness.

The Hazard, 18, was re-commissioned on Wednesday,
by Commander Bell. _

- Admiral Sir Edward Codrington shifted his flag on
Tuesday last, to the St. Vincent, 120 guns, taking with
him the following officers:—Captain H. J. Codrington,
C.B. ; Lieutenants C. H. Binstead, N. F. Edwards,
George Woodhouse. and Charles C. Grey (Flag Lieute-
nant); Mr. Robert Yule, Master; Rev. John Falls, Chap-
lain; Mr. J. Drummond. Surgeon; Mr. James Nicholls,
Purser ; and Messrs. W. F. Carter and Alexander
Borthwick, Assistant Surgeons.
The Queen, 110, was taken charge of by Captain Rich,
on Tuesday last, for the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir E.
Owen ; the party of Marines under Captain Fynmore,
remaining in her.

The Vindictive, 50, was masted on Thursday.
The „Illustrious, 72, was taken out of dock on Wed-
nesday.
The _Apollo, troop-ship, Mr. White, Commander, is or-
dered to take detachments of troops (270) Gibraltar,
which will proceed from Chatham to London, and thence
to this port (via the Southampton Railway), where they
will -arrive on the 20th inst., and immediately embark.
The Alban steamer arrived yesterday from Cork,
with the depot companies of the 19th and 29th, which
have disembarked and taken up their quarters at Forton
Barracks.

The Styx, steam frigate, Captain Vidal, is fitting at
Woolwich, to take out Sir Charles Bagot to Canada,
and will be ready to receive his Excellency on Monday
next, when it is expected he will embark.
The Avon steamer sailed yesterday for Plymouth,
with a party of Marines from this division.
'The Ringdove, 16, Hon. Commander Stewart, was paid
off on Monday, and taken into dock on Wednesday. The
Madagascar was taken out of the basin the same day.
The Driver, steam-frigate, will be ready for sea on the
17th instant.

The Comet steam-vessel, Lieut. Chevalier Syer, arrived
at Woolwich from Sheerness on Monday, and left on
Thursday for Sheerness, Portsmouth, and Plymouth,
with Messrs. Lang, Fincham, and Atkins, master ship-
wrights, to examine and report on the state of the whole
of her Majesty's ships in. ordinary at these ports. The
report for the Medway was completed previous to the re-
turn of the Comet to Woolwich.

Captain W. Hollyar, of her Majesty's ship Southamp-
ton, returned to England from Rio Janeiro, on Tuesday,
in tho Lyra packet:
The boats of the Waterwitch, under charge of Mr.
Willcox, on the 4th of August, after a chase of six
hours, attacked and captured the Portuguese brigantine,
Corisco, with 302 slaves on board. The prize was sent
to St. Helena, in charge of Mr. Sturdce.
The Mates, Midshipmen, and Volunteers of the Bel-
leisle, ordered to bo paid oft at Plymouth, are trans-
ferred to the St. Vincent.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 2. —The Cambrian, 36, Captain H
D. Chads, was undocked, having had her water pipes
fixed, on Friday. The Rapid, 10, Lieut. Tryon, com-
mander, arrived on Saturday from Portsmouth, with vo-
lunteers for the Cambrian and Malabar, and sailed again
for Liverpool. The Tortoise, convict-ship, sailed with
convicts for Van Dieman's Land on Sunday. The
Belleisle, 72, Captain J. T. Nicolas, came into har-
bour on Monday, and is to be laid up in ordinary ;
her crew are to be turned over to the Malabar
and Cambrian ; Captain Nicolas is appointed to
the Vindictive, 50, at Portsmouth. The Bombay, 84,
is di mantling, and the Portland, 50, is ordered to be
dismantled ; both these vessels were fitted as demon-
stration ships. The heavy rains injuring the rigging so
materially is the cause of this order. The crew of the
Impregnable, 104, Captain Forrest, were paid wages this
day, and she will sail for Malta, with the flag of Rear-
Admiral Sir F. Mason, us soon as the wind will permit.
In Harbour—Caledonia, San Josef, Belleisle, Malabar,
Cambrian, Spartan, Nightingale, and Ferrett.
In the Sound—lmpregnable.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
PnostoTroNs.—Mate—JamesWood (1831), to the rank
of Lieutenant.

Assistant-Surgeons—Thomas Keown, of the Panta-
loon ; John Stewart, late Bellerophon ; C. D. Steel,
late Cyclops ; Dr. John Bower, late Caster, to the rank
of Surgeon.

APPOINTMENTS.—Commander—James B. Hay to the
Queen.

Secretary—E. E. Vidal, Esq., to be Secretary to Vice.
Admiral Sir F. Owen.

Lieutenants—Alfred Boyle, James Cannon, Thomas
Fisher, J. C. Catlin, and J. Robinson (Flag) to the
Queen ; G. T. M. Purvis, to the Cambrian; F. Johnson,
and Hamilton, to Queen ; Caldwell to the Ex-
cellent.

Master—J. C. Giles, to the Queen.
2d Master—H. Jackson, to the St. Vincent.
Master's Assistant—R. W. Ward, to t-e Cambrian.
Surgeons—Dr. W. C. Watt, to the Queen, and to be
Deputy Inspector of Hospitals ; A. S. Allen to the Yin-
dictivc ; J. W. Bowler, to the Hazard ; Keown, to
the Snake.

Pursers—G. V. Oughton (from the Hastings) to the
Queen, vice James Nicholly, to the St. Vincent ; Edw.
Owen, to the Hastings, vice Oughton.
Assistant-Surgeons—W. 3PKenzie Saunders, to the
North Star ; George Buttler, to the Driver ; J. E.
Sandy s, and D. R. Fulton, to the Vindictive ; W. Law-
rence, to the Pantaloon.
Mates—B. G. Bowles, to the Devastation ;D. B.
Dawes and Lionel Place, to the Styx ; W. Horton,
J. M. Boyd, and J. C. Snell, to the St, Vincent.
Clerks—li. A. Clarke and C. Lyne, additional, to the
St. Vincent.
Schoolmaster—J. Mallard, to the St. Vincent.
Midshipman—E. D'Ath, to the Dido.
Volunteers, First Class--J. Mackie, T. W. Pratt, T.
W. Hayden, and C. Molesworth, to the Vindictive.
Consequent on the death of Captain Sir H. Le Fleming
Senhouse, it is understood Captain Herbert, C. 8., was
appointed to the Blenheim ; Captain Kuper, to the Cal-
liope ; and Capt. Pritcharzl, to the .Alligator.

:he income of the English rai
averages 100,000/. a week.

Ilway lines now

DINNER at the MANSION-HOUSE

TO lIER MAJESTY'S MINISTERS.

On Saturday a tOendi4 entertainment was given by
the Ilight ion. the Lord Mayor to her Majesty's Mini-
sters.- The entertainment was considered a private one,
and the Lord Mayor accordingly limited the invitations
to meet the members of the Administration to his
brethren of the Court of Aldermen and a few of his most
intimate friends.

We noticed amongst the company Lady Peel and Miss
Best, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Wham-.
cliffe, the Earl of Lincoln, Lord Haddington, Earl of
Ripon, Sir James Graham, Lord Granville Somerset,
Lord Stanley, Mr. Goulburn, Sir George Murray, Sir
Henry Hardinge, Sir Edward Knatchbull, the Hon. E.
Gladstone, Mr. George Dawson Darner, Sir Geo. Clerk,
Sir Thomas Fremantle, Captain Seymour, Sir Lowry
Cole, the Hon. William Gordon, Mr. Alexander Pringle,
Mr. John Young, Mr. Joseph Jones, Mr. Hughes
Hughes, tl!e Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General,
Mr. Laurie, Mr. Cornelius Wilson, Mr. Thomas John-
son, Mr. Charles ;Johnson, Mr. Weston, Dr. &ebbing.
Mr. John Freeman, Sir James Shaw, Mr. Masterman,
M.P. ; Alderman Lucas, Alderman Thonvieson, M.P. for
the county of Westmoreland, Sir John Key, Sir
Peter Laurie, Cowan, Humphery, M.P. for South-
wark, Farebrother, John Johnson, Gibbs, Sir George
Carrol, Farncomb, Wilson, Thomas Wood, Brown, and
the Lord Mayor elect. There•were about 60 present.
The LORD MAYOR, when the cloth was removed, pro-
posed, " The health of her Majesty, Queen Victoria,"
under whose mild and auspicious reign he trusted the
country would enjoy the greatest blessings. The toast
was drunk with applause.
His 'Lonnstur next proposed, "The health of Queen
Adelaide."

The LORD MAYOR then proposed, " The healths of
Prince Albert, the Princess Royal, and the rest of the
Royal Family."—(Applause.)
The L9RD MAeort then rose to propose, "The health
of Sir Robert Peel and her Majesty's Ministers."—.
(Cheers.) His Lordship considered it a very great pri-
vilege that the citizens of London were permitted to
have the honour of entertaining the Ministers of the
Crown, and it was a most gratifying thing to him to see
so many Members of the Administration present. It
was also a consolation to know that her Majesty's Min-
isters were men experienced in the art of governing.—
(Cheers.) He was most happy to see them in power,
and long might they remain.—(Loud cheering.)
Sir R. PEEL rose in his own behalf; and on behalf of
the other Members of her Majesty's Government, to re-
turn their most grateful and respectful acknowledgments
for the compliments the company had been pleased to
pay them. He was not only authorised to return thanks
fur those Members of the Government who were present,
hut also for those absent, and to express the deep re-
gret of the latter that they were prevented from having
the honour of personally thanking the distinguished com-
pany fur the complimente—(Chcers.) One Noble and
Illustrhms Member of the Government—(Cheers)—would
certainly have been present that day if he had not re-
ceived a command from her Majesty to attend at Wind-
sor.—(Cheers.) He (Sir R. Peel) was convinced that no-
thing but that command would have prevented the Noble
Duke from accepting the invitation of the Chief Magis-
trate of the City of London.—(Cheers.) Her Majesty's
Government were deeply impressed with the importance
of the favourable opinion of the City of London, and he
trusted that their exertions for the national benefit would
make them possess and deserve the confidence of the great
community of which the municipal body was the fit re-
presentative.—(Cheers.) He hoped that the Adminis-
tration would be successful in their efforts for the public
good. He wished more strongly than by the expression
of thanks to testify the feelings of himself and his col-
leagues on this occasion, and he could not do it more
agreeably to himself than by proposing "The Health of
the Lord Mayor of London."—(Loud cheers.) He had
had the honour of proposing that toast upon the entrance
of his Lordship upon his high office, and of alluding to
the incident of his Lordship's resolute conduct when a
boy, only fourteen years of age, in shutting the gates of
Chri!e's Hospital against an infuriated mob, as ominous
of the firm and resolute manner in which he had acted in
defence of the law in the after transactions of his life.—
(Cheers.) In the name of himself and his colleagues, he
proposed " The Health of the Lord Mayor, and that long
life and happiness might attend him."
The toast was drunk with much enthusiasm.

The LORD MAYOR, in returning thanks, said that he
entered upon the office with doubt upon his mind as to
his ability to perform the duties effectively ; but the
important assistance he had received from his brother
magistrates had made his task an easy one comparatively
with his approhensions.—(Cheers.) His Lordship then
proposed, " The Army and Navy."—(Loud cheers.)
Lord HADDINGTON returned thanks upon the part of
the service to which he had the honour to belong. Op-
portunities had of late years very seldom presented them-
selves for the exertions of the naval strength of this coun-
try, but whenever any opportunity did present itself, the
British seaman discharged his duty to the admiration of
the world.—(Cheers). It was scarcely necessary to ad-
vert to the recent occurrences on the coast of Syria,where
proofs were given under the able command of Sir Robert
Stopford of the bravery and skill of the service, and
where the seamen showed that, whether ashore or afloat,
they were ready to spill their blood for their country.
—(Loud cheers.) If the necessities of the country re-
quired that theßritish navy should again sweep the seas,
he was convinced that the same spirit, energy, and valour
would be exhibited.--(Loud cheers,)
Lord WHARNCLIFFE proposed the health of the Lady
Mayoress. •
The LORD Mayon returned thanks, and expressed
her Ladyship's gratitude for the honour done her by the
attendance of so numerous a body of her Majeety s Mi-
nisters. ills Lordship next proposed the health of the
Lord Mayor Elect.—(Cheers.)
Alderman PIaTE returned thanks in a few expressive
words. He had been placed by the livery of London in
a situation which would soon introduce him to the chair
which the Lord Mayor so ably filled, and he should eh-
deareue to follow so admirable an example.— (Cheer's.)

Sir C. S. HUNTF,a, in returning thanks for the toast
of the aldermen who had passed the chair, said that they
had been looking forward to the incident they now wit-
nessed, in seeing the present men in power with great
anxiety.—(lmmense cheering.) • It was now thirty years
since he had sat in the chair which was so well filled by
the Lord Mayor, and it delighted him to see the return
of the good old feeling of the country.—(Cheers.) He
hailed the prosperous calm which the nation was about
to enjoy, after the storm to which it had been so long
exposed, and, as he was now the father of the City, he
begged leave, in the name of his young gentlemen, to
return thinks for the very distinguished honour.

Alderman T. WOOD returned 'thanks for the toast of
" The Aldermen below the Chair." He trusted, that
after the great struggle which had taken place, peace and
happiness would pervade the land.
The LORD Myron. then rose to propose the health of
the Duke of Wellington, which he knew the company
would not think of separating without doing honour to.
—(Great cheering.)

His LORDSHIP said he felt great pleasure in proposing
" The Representatives of the City.'
Mr. :YIASTERMAN, M.P., returned thanks. He assured
the company, that ; having been placed by the consti-
tuency in the proud situation of one of their reprzsentn-
fives, he should do all in his power to merit their confi-
dence.—(Cheers.) Ire could not help saying that he re-
joiced in being in Parliament time enough to form one of
the glorious majority of 91 that voted a denial of confi-
dence in the then existing ik.ininistration,—(ltrtmense
cheering.) He rejoiced, too, that her Mtkiesty hail ac-
commodated her feelings to what he really believed to be
the sincere wish of the nation at large,.— (Great cheers.)
The LORD MaToa proposed the Bheriff.s Mr. Magnay
and Mr. Rogers, and the former returned thanks.
The company began to move away at half-past ten, and
at eleven the last carriage left the door.

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A MELANCHOLY ACCtrokleteee-TMI At&
DROWNED.—On Thursday fetettOtti, a fishing-boat from
Broughty Ferry, while coming up the rim., was upset at
a short distartet from the harbour, by sudden squalls of
wind, Four men, William and George Gauls AleXender
Lorimer, and John Jonaldson, were within her at thetime. William Gaul and LOl`free► hid had the fMiiiie;
with the assistance of GeOrge Whil WM all excel-
lent swimmer, to get WA tlt the oars, and were
thus enabled to suppett themselves till assistance was
given ; bttt George Gaul and Lorimer, having laid
hold of one of the fish boxes, which was illeapable
of suppeeting them above water, Mutt to rise to
more. George Gaul was a tatted Man- and has
two children ; Donaldstm is umnaVeleet. thul and
Lorimer, alter remaining. Acute tithe it 3 the water, were
, taken up by a boat itseteotring. to David Knight, at
Droughty Ferry, vehieie immediately bore down to the
spot where the Accident occurred. At the moment of
the accident, a boat, with Captain Hale on board, be=
longing to the American ship Mariposa, passed within a
short cable-length of the drowning men ; and according
to the account of the survivors, although those on board
the American boat saw tho accident, and must have
Ileard the cries for assistance, Captain Hale left the tin-
' fortunate men to their fate. Captain Hale addressed e
letter to the Dundee Advertiser, stating that he tried to
save the unfortunate men, but his vessel was so heavily
laden, that had he persevered she would have been
swamped.—Dundee Chronicle.
On Saturday at the lirentford Petty Sessions,
Thomas Bulpit was brought up before George Baillie,
Esq., and Charles Turner, Esq., the sitting Magistrates,
for the fourth time, to be examined on a charge of cutting
and wounding., with intent to kill, Mr. James Peto, a
farmer, residing at Sutton, near Hounslow. It appeared
that on the 27th of August la:st the prisoner, having been
reapir'r for 21r. Peto, was told that he should be paid
on the following morning, in consequences of a dispute
as to the amount. The prisoner said he would not leave
the spot, and high words ensued, upon which the prisoner,
raising a large hot, swore he would knockMr.Petci s brains
out. Mr. Peto ran in and closed with him ; they both fell,
and upon assistance coining' Mr. Peto rose up and
iestantly exclaimed that the prisoner had struck him with
a reaping-hook. The blood was then flowing from a
most severe wound in the leg. Since that time Mr.
Peto has been lying in a most dangerous state, and is not
yet out of danger ; the risoner, therefore, has been for
the present remanded. sir. Peto's depositions have been
taken, and it' he should not' be able to attend on the 23d
instant, the case would be fully gone into, and the pri-
soner will bo committed to Newk,,ate for trial on the
capital charge at the sessions of the Central Criminal
Court. The prisoner is a most determined and ferocious
character, and has before been in custody for biting off
a man's ear at Ealing. On another occasion he also
bit a man's eye nearly out, and likewise nearly decapi-
tated another with a scythe.
The celebrated Musard is engaged to conduct
the orchestra of the Royal AcadenlY
of Music in Paris
CA", t his stay in London will, there- 1
fore' be of a very short duration. Novelties at the Eng-
lish Opera are the order of the day, and the attendance
is nightly respectable and numerous, . .

THE TAMWORTH PETITION
.70 TILL .EDITOR OF THE SUIV.
Podmore Cottage, Higher Ardwiek,
Manchester, Bth 0,4., 1841.

SlR—The Parliamentary proee .dings of W,Ancrday,
with reference to the petition from the people of Tam.
worth to the Queen, have given additional interest to
the fact that upwards of two-thirds of the entire adult
population of the rotten electoral borough of the Pre-
mier have prayed the Sovereign to interpose between
suffering millions, and a few thousands of heartless and
reckless bread-taxers.

I had the honour of originatirg, that petition at the
largest meeting which had ever been held in that bo-
rough, and at which meeting (immediately after the re-
cent election) such petition was unanimously adopted.
When, however, anxious to test the popularity of Sir
Robert Peel in his own locality, I announced that the
petition would lie for signature the greeter portion of
the ensuing day, I was interrupted by a poor man in the
crowd, who exclahned—" Many dare not sign if, as
they would be persecuted until driven out of the town."
Nevertheless, the document lay for signature at the
houses of six of the inhabitenti, and within twelve hours
received the names of 2,058 adults!
On receiving the petition, for presentation to the
Qicen, Sir James Graham, as Home Secretary, re-
mitted it to the Mayor of Taneworth, for inquiry into
the validity of the signatures. Would Sir J. Graham
have taken such step if the petition had prayed the
Queen to euppert the views of the bread-taxing admi-
nistration? If nor, the course adopted was a gratuitous
insult to the starving masses, and an official subservi-
oncy to a salish and factious oligarchy.
We have been told over and over again that there
shad be no inquiry into the condition of the oppressed
and plundered people—that there is not t via ler inves-
tigation. Yet the velidity of the signatures to the free-
trade petition from Tamworth was worthy inquiry—ic-
restigatioa was necessary—end time seas found for the
business. But to whom was the (lets' of inquiring
as-
signed, and bow was it discharge!? Was it desired Oast
the investigation should be impartially conductei, or
fail), and fairly prcsecuted ? We shall see.
The Mayor of Tamworth is a notorious partisan of
Sir Robert Peel. Shortly previous to the recent elec-
tion (at which he was the returning officer), this func-
tionary signed an address to the P, emier, advising him
not to inconvenience himself by a personal attendance
on that occasion, and pledging his utmost efforts to pro-
mote and secure the Right lion. Baronet's re-election.
It is to this political partisan that Sir James Graham
refers the adverse petition of the inhabitants of Tana-
worth. The partiee concerned in obtaining or receiving
the signatures were net consulted on the subject, nor
ever apprised of the investigation. They were earnestly
desirous of a searching inquiry, so that it hod been im-
partially conducted, and they are fully prepared to
establish the substantial Ihet, that the petition has been
sign ed by more than two-thirds of all the adults within
the electoral borough ; but a real inquiry was not
wanted either by the Mester Minister nr the Man Mi-
nister, and the Mayor of Tamworth was just the sort of
tool with which to work out their purposes ; at least
they seam to have so considered him.
Having repaired to Tamworth on hearing a rumour
of this most unprecedented proceeding of the Home
Secretary, I am not ignorant of the mean and dastardly
conduct of the various agents of Sir Robert with re-
ference to this matter, although it can scarcely be ex-
pected that I should be prepared with answers to, or
explanations of, the particular statements embodied ii.
tae letter of the Mayor to Sir Junes Graham. Ad-
mitting that some may have signed the petition at
more than one place, this is an accident to which such
documents are always liable, and prevee at any rate the
zeal (unwise and mischievous ce,tainly) with which
some of the Premier's ve'ghhours oppose his less wise
and more mischieveus ailv)eaey of a bread aetx and in-
difference to the necessities of the people ; I know the
Peelitee at Tamworth have charged as a forgery one
case in which the daughter signed for her father under
his direction. I know of another case where a poor
man was charged with the offence of signing his name
by the relieving officer, and who denied having done
so lest his pauper alloa acre should he stepped, in-
etently repaired to the party who had charge of the
sheet bearieg his name, to implore his silence on the
subject. If any of the petitioners he in gaol (and I
doubt the fact from my knowledge of the time-serving
enemies of the parties), it is possible that the bread-
tax hoe driven teem to the catching of a hare, and that
the game laws of the bread-taxers have made a crime
of the necessity they had created ; and, in which case,
it is not unlikely that the bereaved and hungered wife
may have perpetrated the pious fraud in the mother's
anxiety to obtain more bread for ber orphaned little ones.
But I leave this disgusting proceeding of Sir Ro-
bert Peel, Sir James Graham, and the Mayor and Re-
lieving Officer of Tamworth, for the present, that I tray
call public attention to one or two circumstances not
less atrocious and directly connected with the matter
in question, viz., the petition to the Queen.
One of the six small tradesmen to whom the sheets
were entrusted for signature was a shoemaker, named
Clement. For thirty years he has been the paid singer
at Tamworth church, and from this situation the Vicar
has discharged him—refusing to assign other reason
than that he was dissatisfied with his conduct !
There is in Tamworth a Grammar School, founded
by Sir Robert's father, for tho gratuitous education of
the children of the inhabitants so long as a Peel shalt
represent the borough ; and I am credibly informed
that the master (Savage by name, and, as it should
seem, servile by nature), informed the boys a few days
sine© that he had received a letter from the Prime
Minister, ordering him to discharge the children of all
those who had signed the petition ! The way being
thus prepared, the Relieving Officer and his colleagues
went round to the patents of the children to " inquire"
if they had signed that important document. And the
public may believe that some disclaimers were the con-
sequence.
Quern deus volt perdere prius dementat.
And when the Premier and Home Secretary of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland are
driven to shifty expedients and heartless persecution
such as I have here hurriedly attempted to describe, I
cannot but anticipate the speedy destruction of our
common elierny, and the otettein and early repeal (how
is comparatively immaterial) of the itibutnac, uu-Chris.
tian, and iniquitous bread-tax.
Should the threats of the Peelite bread-taxers of
Tamworth be executed upon the poor inhat;:!anti of
that place, I shall unhesitatingly appeal to public sync:
pithy in their protection ; and in the hope that the
publicity of such determination may arrest the uplifted
aria of the oppressor, I beg to subscribe myself, Sir,
your obliged and humble servant,

JAMES ACLAND.

P.S. The reuse' of Sir James Graham, last night, to
state upon whose authority he returned the petition to
Tarcworth, was, I doubt not, extremely prudent on his
part ; as the chapter of accidents may relieve him from
such necessity. At rll events, the people can better af-
ford to wait five months in this respect than in th at of
the bread-loaf.

rLORADA.
(From the National Intelligeneor.)
tXTRACT OF A tETTIM FROM AN OFFICER
t? FLORIDA.

In my last hurrted note to you I mentioned having
witnessed a scene here a faw days before, which, in my
humble jtidgentint; put Vie tamed story of Damon and
Pythias quite in the shade. I will now give you sumo
of the particulars
A piety 6f Indiani Wei reeentlY disedvefed by soth
of our troops, who succeeded in capturing threti at
their warriors ; the rest of the party, consisting of three
men, and women; and children; numbering in all about
{L d, The daptivei were hi-Might to this place,
where they were interrogated by the Colonel (Colonel
Worth)l daring Which it *as diseoiered that two of them
had been concerned in killing and bidding d mdil tidef
some time in March last. They were told that for this
cruel act of theirs, they would be hung in fifteen days,
unless within that. time the rest of their people should
come in, liltcy were then placed in chains; and were
permitted to acrid nut the third man of their patty; with
a talk, to bring ir. the rest of their fietTinf while they
were committed to the guard. The man thus sent out
returned in five days, bringing with him a warrior by
by the !lathe or 11)late rodeo, and softie women and
children, among whom were the mother and glitef of
one of the prisoners, whose name is TAM Hadjo;
The scene which to!lows may be drittatiSeci thiis
Scene, an open court in front of the Commanding
Offices quarter-4ndians are discovered seated under
the trees, among them Holate Fixico (Pythias) on the
grass, in ele Indian posture—Talof Hadjo (Damon)
in chains, on a bench, his head resting against the
truck of a tree, looking towards the heavens, with a
countenance indicative of resignation—his mother and
sister lying upon the grass at his feet, the mother weer.
ing at the fate which awaits her son—the Colimal and
other officers are discovered at a distance from the
group of Indians.

- Colonel, to Hohte Ex'co—Wher.,-, are the rest of
the people sent for ?

liehle—They are 3epa7.00.1, and caleot be found.
Your troops bare scattered then), and they have taken
different paths.

Colonel—Know you not that unless they aro brought
in, those men (pointing to the prisoners) win he hung ?
—(A pause. The Indians disconsolate, but apparently
resigned.) If I send you out for the people will you
h. ins them in, in time to rave their lives ?
Ilellte=—They have goon off, and I know not
wl:ere to look for them. Like the frightened deer,
they have fled at the presence of your troops.
Colonel —lndian can find Indian. If they are not
here in ten days, these men will surely die.
Holate—Tne track of the Indian is covered ; his
path is hidden ; and cannot be found in ten suns.
Colonel to Ta!of—Have von a wife ?
'folof--My wife and child are with the people. I
ish them here that I may take leave of them hef.nrc
I die.

Colonel--Do you love your wife and child?
Talof—The clog ig fond of its kind, and I love my
own blood.

Colonel—Could you find the people that are out ?
Talof—They are scattered and may not be found.
Colonel—Do ou deiire your freedom ?
Talof—l see the pelple going to and fro, and wish
t,) be with them. lam tired of my ebgins.
Colonel.—lf I rein Ise you will you bring in the people
within the time fixed ? . _

Talof—You will nit trust me. Yet I would try.
Colonel—lf Holate Fixico will consent to teke your
chains and be hung in your place if you should not re-
turn, you may go.—(A. long pause. "LILA continues
throughout the rceno with his eyes fixed on the heavens
—his mother and sister now cast imploring locks to-
wards Holate, who, during the last few questions, has
struggled to maintain his composure, evincing, by the
heaving of his breast and his gapping, as though the
rope was already about his neck, that he is ill at ease—
all eyes are turned towards him—he recovers, and, with
the utmost composure and firmness replies—)
Holate—l have nn wife, or child, or motile-. It is
more fit that he should live than I. I consent to take
his chains, and abide his fate. Let him go.
Colonel—Be it so. But do not deceive yourselves.
So sure as Talof Hadjo brings not in the people within
ten days Holate dies the death of a dog.
With the utmost solemnity the two Indians were
then marched to the armory where their chains
were transferred, and in fifteen minutes after Tainf
was on his journey. Yesterday a messenger arrived
brieging intelligence that Talof Hadjo was on his way
in, with his people, and might be expected here to-
morrow or next. day.
Teem is more truth than poetry in the fore-
go:eg. And what 'cakes it more meat kable, when
compared with the story of Damon and Pythias is,
that in one case a strong and devoted friendship ex-
isted between the parties, while in thc other there ap-
pears no such feeling, but the sacrifice offered by
Fichte' arose from a purely noble and disinterested mo-
tve ; a desire tor save the life of one whom he coosi-
dvred of more consequence than himself. Pythias
pieced the utmost faith in the promise of his fciend to
return at the appointed time. The noble Holate had
no such assurance given him. On the contrary, he well
knew it was barely probable that Talof would return
with his people to save his life.

TSE HARVEST-PROSPECTS OF

THE COUNTRY.

Tile harvest is now generally secured, with the ex-
ception, perhaps, of a few out-lying patchts of oats in
SeotLiad and the north of England and Irclind, and
from the " thrashing out:. which has already t:lcon
place, data have been obtaned to form a tolerable no-
tion of its general results. The following contains the
most precise and authentic information we can at pre-
sent meet with :

THE WHEAT Crop.—The Bankers' Circular con'f,
tains an elaborate and careful calculation of Vie produce
of the present harvest, in which the writer arrives at the
I.llexing results :—That, as compared with the harvest
for 1840, the present harvest will be deficient in the
average quantity of wheat. and its quality for yielding
good fl3ur, equal to 2,400,000 quarters. To meet this
enormous failing off, a greatly increased quantity of
land has this year been brought into wheat cultivation
in Eeeland, Scotland, and Ireland, yielding an increase
of 1,050,000 quarters more than 18W. Added to this
000,0(10 quarters of foreign corn have this year been
liberated more than last year, leaving the ultimate defi-
ciency 800,000 quarters, and no more. Then, the pre-
see.t harvest is fully a fortnight later than the harvest of
lart year, so that the supply has not to extend over so
:ong a period of consumption, and the writer, therefore,
concludes that there is now in the kingdom a sufficient
supply until the Ist of October, 1842.
The Mark Line Express of Monday says :
" Teough the utmost exertions were used by farmers
in all parts of the country to get in the remainder of
their crop during the fi to weather experienced the first
three weeks in September, sonic quantity of corn was
still abroad alien ta return of rain interrupted their la-
beers ; indeed, it appears from the reports which have
reael'el us since our last, that there is more grain re-
maining in the fields in some of the backward districts
than we were disposed to believe, and as the weather
has this week been of a very unfavourable nature, we
fear that serious injury has been done. The humid
state of the atmosphere is likewise greatly deteriorating
the condition of the corn in stack, and prevents farmers
thrashing out freely. We sincerely trust, therefore,
that the change which has taken place to-day (the wea-
ther having been bright and clear since last night) may
continue. The accounts received respecting the yield
of wheat are increasingly unfavourable, and though it
is certain that a larger breadth of ground was under this
grain than was ever known before, the total produce
will prove decidedly short of an usual average ; in most
of the best wheat-growing counties the deficiency per
acre is estimated at one eighth, and in less favoured
districts the falling eff will, we fear, prove still greater.
Independent of the actual loss in measure, the inferio-
rity of the quality, and the difference in weight (the
samples which have hitherto appeared averaging three
to four pounds par bushel less than the produce of
1840) will materially add to the total deficiency ; not•
withstanding, therefore, the large quantity of foreign
wheat which has just been cleared for home consump-
tion,- it is probable that a further ccnsiderable impor-
tation will be required before the autumn of 1842, and
many weli-inforrued parties expect to see a !ow duty
early in spring. The trade in wheat has maintained
a very firm ,tone at the principal provincial markets
held during the week, but no change of importance has
occurred in prices."
Tee following is a copy of the Monthly Circular,
issued on Thursday by the Messrs. Sturge, of Bir-
mingham
" Birmingham, 10th month, 6th.

During the latter part of the past month, the
weather was unfavourable for securing the late harvest;
and, although in the midland counties little remains out,
except beans, there is yet a considerable quantity unse-
cured, not only in the north of England, Scotland, and
Ireland, but on the hills in Wales, and some of the
western counties of England.

" The yield of the -new crop is, without exception,
more or less complained of, and we believe it to be a
much worse produce than last year, probably fully one-
fifth below an average per acre ; and, as the weight and
quality are also inferior, there will be a still greater de-
ficiency in the produce _of flour from it. 1,900,000
quarters of wheat and flour were liberated at the
Is. duty, and we believe at least 2,000,000 quarters
more will be freed at from 2e. Bd. to 10s. Bd. per
enerter, being the greatest quantity ever realised in so
eeriod.
short a
" The farn.,:ra have brought their new wheat to mar-
ket freely ; but as :here is scarcely any old English left,
and the new from its and condition requiring a
as been no disposition to
large ntlinixture of old, there
give way in price, notwithstanding the above enormous
supply of foreign ; and as it is rapidly
sumption,the opinion is general that improve,: into con-
rates will
shortly be realised,
especially as it is evident the,, Ire-
land will requ;;-e far more wheat and flour than her own
pro uce, the crop taree being also deficient in most dis
d
triers of that country, anti the consumption of wheat
and flour rapidly increasing.
" Although the diatrces of the labor ring population
of England and Scotland may compel them in many
ease,, to substitute potatoes for bread, there is every
reason to suppose, that most of the foreign wheat will
go Into consumption during the present year, and that
a further importation of from 1,000,000 to :2,000,000 of
quarters will be required before another harvest ; and,
were it not for the inferior quality of the English
wheat, the duty might possibly be again low in De.
dember ; notwithstanding, it wit exceed 20s. per quar-
tet hefOre the end of the present month. Purchasers
are at pft'aistit tantions in sending out foreign orders ;
but there is teCh u general expectation that further
supi lies will be required, and that the duty will again
be Is. early in the spring, that many arc only waiting to
sea bow far prices Will recede at the different foreign
;hipping ports: New English wheat sells at 7s. to Bs.;
old, Lis. 51d: to Ss. ; Spanish red and white, Bs. 6d.
to B'. Bd. ; Valtie red, Bs. 6d. to Bs. Bd. ; French, Bs.
4d. to Is. Gd. per 6216. bate ; Dantzig and Baltic white,
Bs. Gd. to Bs. 9d. ; Odessa had, 7s. 90. ; soft, 7s. 9d.
to 83. Id. per 601 b. at Gloucester'., 38,000 quarters
were released at Gloucester at ls. duty, but little of
which remains in first band. •
" We have had a free sale for malting and grinding
barle::, cad good suppl es of both hare rather ailva.:oQd
in price. The crop is likely to prove, in every respect,
below en average; and a great part has been much
ittipaired by the weather. Malting in worth 365. to 425.
YGf ioioti,4 quarter; grinding, 30$. to 325. per 3921b5.
at Birmingham.
" Our supplies of oats have been moderate, and the
price of old firmly maintained. There are, at present,
geattely any in Gloucester ; and we are aware of but
very few shipments on the passage. The new Irish are
very inferior to last year : this will, of course, cause an
increased demand for all for some months to come.
Wo quote old I,IICIE at 22e. 6d, ; white, 235. to 245. ;
new black, 51s: per 8121bs. at Gloucester.
The large vantity ttf Zgyptian beans offering, free
and in bourl, has reduced the prk't about Z.. per quar-
ter on old descriptions. New
isng;i at 153. to
1(35.; old, 16s. to 17s. ; 14,. te, :53 per
1931b5. hem
" The few peas on the market are held at 15,1, 61
pc. 100113, at Gloucester:"
im
These three sources of itiftirthstion Madly aura In
the tone which pervades them.. tile liar:frees Circular
is a paper in the monopolist interest, highly fiti•ontable
to the most flirt, ring view of the state of affairs, inc
Mark Lane Express is a very well-informed paper,
strongly attached to the bread•taxing interest, ant':
which, until very lately, has held out the harvest as•
have al-
more gloomy
likely to be a full average, Messrs. St
Urge
ways been disposed to take a tatherview
of the state of things.

Nevertheless, they all agree that there will be a very
great deficiency.
We believe the Duke of Wellilvton is not insensible
t H,! !err, or
iii 3 y:e:{iing on the qucst:on of the Carn-laws. He
declares that he will not be "intitnidatetl"--o.iPh he
has done twice before on two memorable eccasiona when
he was preparing to give way. He repudiates the no,

tion that he means to make no alteration in the Cc" 1•
.
IaWF, and the I)uki:, of Richmond explams
tio.cat to twin :Nlinisters out tvas contingent. not r
gencr,liv, init only On 8:. duty. But vre
:Oust sAy we d,sp4ir of anything like vigorous or c
o",
rn t;
on-senFe views iron) them() e nowin power.--tiverp
Journal. that t.

SEIZURES FOR TITHES.
[We publish the following a 3 a good speoitneg, Of
the working of the State Church.] •

Mr. Lyon, (No. 407.)
Reat.charge due to the lcstee of the Vicar of Catty
berweli, on the first of July, 1841,
according to tile
price of corn, 15s. lid.
Mr. C. Jones, lawyer, of Spital-square, tacoomPani
by Mr. Harrison, broker, of the Old Kent-road, this,
day . distrained upon the premises of persons,
either from conscientious scruples, or from the *ell
that the demand was illegal, refused to paY
some cases he took plate, in my own two halt 014'.11,
were taken for
Tithes lss. lid.

Cost of distress
The value of one chair might have fully satisfied tl7
demand, had it been other than a religious one. • •
For the year 1840 the cost of refusing to Fel sits--
Tithe £0 7 5
Distress
Lawyer's expenses 10 12 0
4 II
This cxperienee Las taught me that the Srl
Church, b icked e.-.th the cavil power, is strong enoug
to ruin any one who may dispute its anti-Christi t!'
demands.
18W was the first year of this demand--nnsPP°l..)f
ti(xime.nt of the tithes having been made by virtuoi
the Statute of the 6th and 7th William J. elip --1
by which Act the landowners of Camberwelll
jog the example cf the landowners of Great 13ritaia, the
their Corn-law) have exempted themselves fo1l:1E10
payment of tithes and imposed it on the occupiers'
have not any voice in the matter, but who roust 5:-
mit quietly to the oppression if they wish to avoid rul1;
Last year the Vicar informed his parishioners 5
!mter, that an apportionment of tithe had been marletll,,t
fearing that the collecting might bring him into trsPr;
sant contact with some of them, ho had leased, 'I,
loss, his just demand to Mr. C. J. Jones, a lawyer (".
it must be supposed would have no cornpancti°;ft pip
forcing the demand), and hoped it would be paid clu—rd-lits
The iniquity of the transaction is more 0130,1cis
when, us in my own casc., the neiv tax is letii!;• re
houses and land which have not paid any tithe fot '0
•
than thirty years.
I am informed
by Mr. Jones that the apportioorsl
is bad, and must be abandoned—and that a now i 41:1$
w-11 he made—teling me, at the same time, that if
mvself oppressed I must attend at the time of makiill..bS
as.iied him "that, as I was not a landowner, would
listened to ?" he answered "he thought not." 9400
him "if there was any chance of my having retil.nopl
what had been illegally taken from me ?" °u' •
not the slightest." -
rib°

If the Dissenters object to pay Church-rates,
°Pr
;ire on?), tor keeping the building in repair, and iv
ing, the extras, hoe much more should they refill° stilt
payment of tithe to the preacher, without svh°rfitd?
budding, surpl;cec, wine, &c., would not be regture „a'
It will be perceived by reading the notice of de t 3;
that the income of the State parson varies With r¢
price of corn, thus making it his interest to have ""

in this country at its highe-st possibl e price.
Corn can only be kept dear by stinting the OP th.
The landowners' Corn-law does this, by preventhiOijo,
importation of corn, until our own has reached a 0
11
which enables the owner of land and tithe to via- opt
luxury, but which causes distress and starvation on°
the working ponulation of the country. urebs
To call the Church of England a Christian C" rr
what a mons.rous absurdity ! If it followed tbabPO4
cepts of the Founder of Christianity, should we pc.?
this continual fight for the pounds, shillings, soj,P4,
3. A. Ll'
St. Mary-le-Strand Howe, Old •
Camberwell, Oct. 4, 1841.
• ht
THE WEATHER.—During the last elk ;$
an unusually large quantity of rain has fallen in 1::i teor
adjoininge counties, accompanied with cold t'll,,4o'w
pestuous ; in one instance the rain came u" 0°
torrents, as if a water-spout had burst over Exeter. .
rivers have, in several instances, overflown the' •
00.
biulP-
and hundreds' r
of acres of the low lands have.beel3loo
dated, causing great inconvenience and injury',
of cattle in several places.—North Devon Journal: m.f. of
BIRMINGHAM AS IT IS.—At a Meeif':eol(l:
the Birmingham Anti-Corn-law Association last -is.o
Mr. Sansum, house-agent and collector of rent!' 'OS
an appalling picture of the distress in the tnii'r/, 0134
said he weekly visited the dwellings of between 's!, the
seven hundred families, and he could declare ti 0.3101
most solemn manner, that anything equal oeifeelt
wretchedness he daily beheld could not be con
toric.
During the last week seven men applied to him Scitolre,
their furniture for the rent they owed, in order Cunt
vent them from being seized by the bailiffs of the
of Requests for food He called at one hous,e:f°llr leloW
and the poor woman said, " Rent, my dear °.,:r declare'
can I pay ? Look at these two children. fq;
truly I have not had more to buy food for then) an
self than 15d. during the last fortnight." ge
Sansurn) knew not what to do with these poor l'e'"iorf
Within the last six weeks he gave away more re"
than he received. h
A Reverend Rector in a Durham parish.
Sunday, the 26th of September, gave out his tex-tt 101".•
suddenly stopped, as if' he had forgotten some very ,t
portant matter, and said—" 'I here will be Divine se It
on St. Michael's day (next Wednesday), but, ne Ido
commonly known to be Michaelmas day, therefore 00.
not think that many will attend, as that is a,deffes.
which the landlords always expect their rents;
ei,'s Times.
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the Public tn.:
t he has just had the honour of revs'
subjoined letter fr.'m the Admiralty :
(Copy.) f 184 NO
-" Admiralty, 29th September, of '
v
" Sir—The annual trial oi chronometers fort roe cu", •
Majesty's Government having pow terminated, A -to isle"'
mended by my Lords Commissioner.' of the Admiraltya
you that. their Lordships have direete,a me to porch sloctla7
lowing chronometers at the various prices .specified sir
respectively, viz. :
Dent, No. 1,571 B5ll uln,,eagas
Dent, No. 1,606 4O gli,.ll„ -0 is, the
Dent, No. 5,621 (pocket) 3O gt:");‘, nsar".,lll
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superior performance of 1,571, to assign to it a POI .;
enclosed price to that usually given.
t, or•
" I am, Sir, your most obedient serves opit
" F. BEAUFORT, Hydry by
" To Mr. Dent, Chronometer Maker, 82, Straouveiteote
Out of 80 Chronometers, by various Makers, *ft. of
_J.
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others, enables Mr. Dent to affirm that he believes fof
year supplied their Lordships with more Chronollt sbans'.!
use of the Royal Navy than have been furnisheu
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BIRTHS. Bedforu"" ' ,-4
On the 10th insf., at 37, Great James-street,
_if, .;.
Mrs. M‘Christie, of a son. lady iscll ul .',
On the Ath inst., in Upper Grosvenor-street, t
,A 4. th°
W. Hogg, Esq., M.P., of daugster. an,a-Oe'"—.'' ..
On the ith inst., at Great Alie-street, Goodin opt:
lady of Mr. Michae Meyers, of a son. ,,rs' Robert 4 .
On the Bth inst. l,
at Upton, Essex, P'
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MARRIED. n 0. seAg''
On the 2d in!t., in Lyme Regis Church, G- —jaughta ::'',,
Colonel Sir Dudley M. Leger Hill, K. C.8...e. C,
Templer, Esq., to Caroline Willielmina, eldest: ; ' ar-
rso t
On the 9th inst., at St. George's Church, Kamer"
O. •"S
if,,
Sir. Hugh flume Campbell, of illarchmont, Da4,.... • .011 ;,..t,
Juliana Rebecca, only daughter of Lieutenant-
Joseph Full ;r, G. C. H.

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On the 3d inst„ at Stevenson House near ...-- V ~,;.-1
Oa the 7th 1.,:5t.,
Mr'.
%.`.lary Buchan, relict of John Cadell; Esq., of C°4 i 4; ~,:f
Mouton,(liliseawgetAh3olf.
August,
aged 84. i
the Right Hon. Frederick JGht i ,',.11,..#;',
On the 30th ult., at Frank:2'l- EA'
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at Calcutta. It Davi $ ' ibe ..
of Samuel Stiebel, Esq., of lluss,
on-the-on Jalle' "i'. Jr
11-square.
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On the 3d inst., at Whiteharen, re:er 11--."5° ' ' ''';',
10 '
of the Corom:s for the county of dumbe
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On the 4th inst., :.! Belford, Elizabeth, ?.e 1 i. ;Oil! e
Pratt, Esq., of Bells Hitt. :•Torthumberland, II pir: •"'",i
-land.
On the 6th inst., at York-te,Tace, Cam b:100 .L44-.4
John Edward Abbott, Esq., solicitor, aged 40. 0C1147 4`4,
On the 6th inst., at Southampton, Selina, yowl . 0,41,-, .
ter of the late Andrew Plimer, Esq.,
On the Bth inst., in Aldersgate-street, villmll
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