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ship ; it is to be hoped, however, the application will
be unsuccessful.

Application has bccn made to the Rev. Dr. Moore
fora summons ggainst the-Morrison who assaulted and
tore the coat of the young man above mentioned,
and, by the advice of that gentleman, proceedings will
be commenced against the party in the county court
for the recovery of damages, after which a summons
for an assault will be issued.
The Mormons, on leaving the town on Sunday
evening, at the close of their service, were attacked
by a party of men and boys, and pelted with stones
and mud for some distance down the Pinchbeck-road.
—Lincolnshire Chronicle.

Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., post Bvo.,
A NOVEL. 0

" The author, we are convinced, is young, otherwise we could
artily see displayed such fresh and enthusiastic sympathy in be-
half of his heroes and heroines. He is a writer of genius, inspired
by a high standard of morality and religien, an 4 by a laudable love
of the purest sort of fame. We gather this from the glowing lan-
guage in which he expresses his feelings, sentiments, and opinions
on the subjects Lust mentioned. There are several chapters, in
which links of the story are dropped, containing most eloquent essays
on matters that are the prima mobilla of the actions which cha-
racterise nature's nobility. The writer evidently belongs, though he
has marked per se peculiarities, to the school of the Disraelis, Man-
nerses, and Smythes."—Observer.
" Silwood' is no ordinary work ; it contains passages of exceed-
ing beatity, and is written in pure and forcible language, with great
good taste and power. It is one of the most interesting and en-
gaging novels which the present season has produced. Of the cha-
racter of Amelia Ross we have already spoken, and the extract we
have given above is the surest voucher of the truth of what we have said. The other ladies who play conspicuous parts in the tale are
Florence Howard, an intellectual beauty; Jessie Gordon, a wild and
impulsivt genius, passionately fond of music and poetry; and Julia
Maitlan , the noblest and best of them all."—Morning Post.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

111.6ATIch ROYAL, thy )(MARKET.
Mr. R. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
Poi a few nights only, Adelphi Company and A.delphi Pieces.
Second Price at Eight o'clock,
THIS EVENING,
Wl#l be performed (2d time) an entirely new Comedy, in Three
Acts, entitled GIRALD.I; or, The Miller's Wife. Philip, Air.
Hughes ; Don Japbet della Tromba, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Don Manual
de Blear, Mr. Boyce ; Gil, Kr. Wright ; the Grand Duchess, Miss
Emma Harding; Giralda, Miss K. Fitzwilliam.
To be followed by BORN TO GOOD LUCK; or, An Irishman's
Fortune. Paudeen O'Rafferty, Mr. Hudson ; Count Mali', Mr. Lam-
bert; Manfredi, Mr. Boyce ; Nina, Miss Woolgar.
After which a home-made Extravaganza, entitled DOMESTIC
ECONOMY. John Grtunly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Grimily, Mrs. F.
Matthews.
To Conclude with JOHN JONES.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Great success of Giralda and the New Farce.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed GIRALDA ; or, the Invisible Husband, sup-
ported by Messrs. Leigh Murray, G. Cooke, W. Farren, jun., Comp-
ton ; Mesdames. Stirling and Leigh Murray, Madiles. Louise and
Adele.

After which (2d time) THE OLDEST INHABITANT, in which
Messrs. W. Farren, Compton, i)iddear, Norton ; Mesdames Bartlett,
Adams, and Ellen Turner will appear.
To conclude with the PRINCESSES IN THE TOWER.

AsTurs ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Great Novelty in the Scenes of the Arena.
First Night of the Equestian Ladies' Fete.
Crowded Houses to witness the attractive and magnificent Spectacle
of Mazeppa, which, with brilliant novelties in the Wonders of the
Arena, form the most varied and attractive Entertainments in the
Mttropolis, which will be continued a few nights longer. Third
Week of the accomplished Vocalist, Miss Annie Hardie.

THIS EVENING,
Will be produced Lord Byron's gorgeous Spectacle of MAZEPPA
sod the WILD HORSE. Mazeppa, Mr. N. T. Hicks.
To be succeeded by the Equestrian Ladles' Fete, the Scenes of the
Circle being performed and conducted exclusively by the highly ta-
lented Female Artists of the Establishment.
To conclude with the popular Melodrama, entitled WARDOCK
RENNELSON.

Box-office open From Eleven till Four
Stage Manager. Mr. W. West.

Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty, his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, toe. &c.
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
MONSTRE DISPLAY 0F FIREWORKS.
LAST WEEK 05' THIS UNRIVALLED EXPIIBITION.
PROM ENA DE 'ON CERTS.
OPEN every MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and
THURSDAY.
Prodigious Suceess of the entirely new-modelled Dioramic Pic-
ture representing the PASSAGE of the ALPS by Napoleon and his
Army I the largest Picture in the World ! with innumerable moving
Figures the size of life. Modelled, painted, and produced by Mr.
Denson and Son, assisted by Messrs. Adams, Wilson, &c. Sec. The
Picture has occupied the Messrs. Danson for many months, and it is
confidently submitted to the Public as a chef-d'oeuvre of art, and not
inferior to any production of the day.
Another splendid Elephant.
The Splendid MENAGERIE has lately been enriched by several
valuable Presents from the Queen.
The Musical Department is conducted by Mr. Godfrey. It will
be the aim of the Establishment to offer for the gratification of the
Subscribers and the Public, the most Splendid Military Band in the
. Kingdom I Selected from the Bands of her Majesty's Horse and
Foot Guards, and the most eminent Artistes in the profession.
The following list of engagements will, It is hoped, convince the
Public, that the long-acknowledged excellence of the Band of this
Establishment will he fully maintained 1 The Repertoire of Music
will be most extensive and varied, arrsnged from the most Popular
Operas in this and other countries. Solo-Players—Messrs. Lazarus,
Prosperre, Egerton, Crozier, Webb, Holt, &c.
Darin; tits evenin; a grand Colossal, Scenic, and Pyrotechnic
Tableau illustrating the celebrated Picture by David, of Buonaparte
Crossing the lips ! Showing a general view if the Region of the
Alps, stretching from the small mountain lake in the foreground to
the distant snow-clad mountains, crowned by the stupendous Mount
St. Bernard and its far-famed Monastery. A portion of the French
Army is firs t seen " en bivouac," presently the drums beat to arms,
and amid the clash of Military Bands and Martial Music, the Troops
commence the Ascent. The Soldiers are seen dragging the Artillery in
Trunks of Trees, now ascending almost Perpendicular Heights, and
traversing the most Terrific Ravines, but all difficulties are overcome,
Ind the Gallant Array is seen pursuing its course to the Fertile
plains of Italy.
The whole to conclude with a Gorgeous Display of Fireworks, by
Messrs. So-athby, introducing, amongst various novelties, the most
admired feux d'artifice of former seasons, jets d'eau, water rockets,
revolving pieces, a magnificent Transparency fifty feet in height,
painted by AZes'irs. Denson, representing Buonaparte on Horseback
cheering on his Troops, surrounded by warlike emblems, insiguia of
honour, flags, trophies, &c., amidst a cerruscation of various coloured
Area.

The complicated and difficult machinery, and the erection of the
picture wider the direction of. Mr. Then Lowe. The extensive gas
littiwrs by Messrs. Botcherby and Dixon, 23, King-street, Covent-
aardall.

Admission. Is.

lIIGII WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE. •
Tills DAY —Morning 12 min. after 11 l Evening 48 min. after 11
To-Moaaovi— Morning 0 min. Lute? 0 j Evening 15 min. after 19

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, SEPT=sMnE& 17,
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
62—highest since noon yesterday.
49—lowest this morning and during the night.
60—this day, at noon.

Repeatedly as we have commented upon the shame-
ess extravagance visible in our dockyards, we can-
not but avail ourselves of every opportunity which
appears to illustrate yet more clearly the fact of this
profligate and useless expenditure. Our pertinacity
upon this subject is attributable to a painful sense of
the energies, of the resources, of the wealth, and of
the intelligence which are squandered about in mere
experiments. A letter addressed to a morning Con-
temporary demonstrates in a rather novel and impres-
sive manner the nature of this enormous evil, proving
more conspicuously than ever the necessity for soma
wholesome and comprehensive supervision. "In
the year 1830," says the anonymous writer,
" I visited Portsmouth Dockyard. The Nep-
tune was then building—a magnificent first-rate
—to carry 136 guns. I looked upon her with awe
and veneration, as a type of our maritime superiority,
destined to carry terror to our enemies, protection to
our commerce, and to renew our ancient glory on the
deep." So much for the first act in the Comedy of
Errors relating to the Neptune. The curtain drops
in the midst of the golden dreams of the spectator. A
considerable period is supposed to have elapsed be-
tween that time and its second rising, for we find the
writer proceeding thus :—" Twenty years after-
wards I again visited Portsmouth Dockyard. I found
my •old acquaintance, the Neptune, in dock repair-
ing, though she had never been to sea. The scales
fell from my eyes, and, with something akin to con-
tempt, I viewed her as one amongst the many means
by which Ministerial candidates secure votes for the
borough of Portsmouth—in plain words—a gross and
gigantic bribe." A miserable lesson is taught by
this reflection, such a lesson as it would be worth
while for the el e c tors t o bear in mind,
when taking into consideration the merits of
a Ministerial candidate. " If," says the
writer of the letter, in conclusion, "I survive another
twenty years, and am able to hobble once again
through the dockyard, I expect to find my old ac-
quaintance, like myself, breaking up." The conjec-
ture is unhappily but too reasonable. Of this the nation
has been already assured by a bitter experience. The
Neptune, though a glaring, is anything but an isolated
instance of such extravagance. For all the good that is
derived from such productions,our shipbuilders might as
reasonably have been employed in constructing flying
machines on the principle of Mr. HENSON, or flying
islands on the plan of Mr. GULLIVER, If such absurdi-
ties are permitted to repeat themselves, when can we
rationally hope to witness either an efficient navy or a
judicious retrenchment ?

BAROMETER, 30'33.
Wn.r E.Y.E.—fresh breeze and cloudy.

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THE QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS.—The last accounts
of the state of the health of her Majesty the Queen of the
Belgians are much more favourable. Two physicians from
Pal is and her Majesty's ordinary medical attendant have
held a consultation, and have pronounced that the alarming
symptoms have diminished during the last few days.
Auscultation has been adopted, and no imminent symptoms
have
there is been discovered. Her Majesty enjoys good rest, and

THE GEE AT CENTRAL GAB CbMITAILRB' COM..
pAyy._Yesterday a large number. of the shareholders con-
nected with the above-mentioned cempany met at their
works on Bow-common, I.r the purpose of inspecting the
progress of the same, an.] reporting proceedings. Mr. Charles
Pearson, City Solicitor, was present, and also several mem-
bers of the Corporation. The party proceeded to view the
enormous gasometers, four in number, now being prepared
for the supply of the City, and the several subordinate
works, after wh'ch they examined the commodious premises
which it is intended to use for retorts, refining-houses, coal •
sheds, and other necessary appurtenances. The site is close
by the Blackwall (branch) Railway to Bow, from which
point it may be seen to advantage. Ylt was stated upon the
ground that the whole of the pipes for supplying the city of
London are now laid, and that such supply might be expected
in the course of a few days. Both the quantity required and
the quality of the gas have been tested, and the result Las
proved highly satisfactory. The directors retired, highly
pleased with the statements made by the engineer and his
officers, by whom the shareholders were assured that they
would receive their supply of gas by the time specified in
their contract, viz., the 29th inst.

MORE PENNY SUBSCRIPTIONS. —A news-agent of
this town has issued handbills, inviting parties to contribute
to a penny subscription, the object of which is to raise a fund
for erecting a statue in honour of Barclay and Perkins's
drayEcteA —,Liverpool

the Hessian multitude, the Parliament of that Elec- 1 THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
torate has since the period of its organization in 1831 I
retained the exclusive pi ivil, ge of voting
the annual supplies to the Government, pre-
cisely as in the case of our own House of
Commons. Against this supreme, or rather funda-
mental right, the ELECTOR has long betrayed a horror
as complete as that of CHARLES I. of England. In
order to gratify his hatred of the privilege, and, if
possible, to bring about its ultimate dissipation, he has
at length entered upon a course of proceeding as wild
and ;nse nsate, as violent and, we believe, as disastrous,
as that adopted by CHARLES X. of France. Having
convoked the popular Assembly at as late a period in
the year as possible, the Elector of HESSE caused his
Ministerial advisers to submit to the Chamber the
annual demand for supplies, refusing, at the same
time, to lay before the Parliament the customary ac-
counts and estimates. Of course any vote such as
was required by the Cabinet was indignantly withheld
by the Assembly, and the result was soon discovered
by its abrupt dissolution.
So far the ELECTOR ventured to go, aided and
abetted in his arbitrary decisions by his con-
genial servant, the Prime Minister HA SS ENPFLUG•
But they went further. The demand for
supplies, rejected by the Chamber, was sub-
mitted to the Committee—that being a body
which, according to the judicious contrivance of the
constitution, is entrusted with Parliamentary func-
tions at all times between the dissolution and the re-
assembling of Parliament. The Committee showed
itself worthy of exercising those Parliamentary
functions ; it refused the vote of supplies as
indignantly and resolutely as the Assembly.
Thereupon, HASSENPFLUG, acting in accord-
ance with the arbitrary wishes of his master,
proceeded boldly to extremities. On the sth
of September he issued a declaratory ordinance for
the collection of the taxes, commanding that all direct
and indirect imposts should be levied in the absence of
any legal budget. This was followed on the 7th of
September by another ordinance, placing the whole
country in a state of siege. Since the publication of
those despotic and illegal documents the Electorate
has been subjected to military jurisdiction. All the
institutions of the state, civil and military, ex-
cepting only the courts of justice, have been
placed under the command of a military
dictator. Journals have been suppressed, placards
torn from the walls, meetings prohibited. The whole
land has groaned under the affliction of a sort of po-
litical interdict. Meanwhile the people of Hesse have
by their conduct proved themselves worthy of
the liberties guaranteed to them by their constitution.
The popular Committee, declaring itself "in perma-
nence," has brought to bear against the unpopular
Minister the whole force of its constitutional
opposition. They have already, in fact, gone so far
as to decree his apprehension and impeachment; while
the ordinances of the Court and the Cabinet have been
formally declared illegal by a judgment of the
chief civil court of the Electorate. Such is the suc-
cess of the constitutional party in Hesse, so complete
is the political checkmate, that the obnoxious ELEC-
TOR, accompanied by the unpopular HASSENPELIIO
and several of his Ministerial colleagues, have aban-
doned the field to their adversaries, escaping
from the strong hand of the law by a flight
both precipitate and ignominious. Alluding to
these occurrences, the 'Journal des Debate i
observes, very justly and sententiously, that the popu-
lation, indignant at such a gratuitous violation of the
National Charter, adopted, with a patience worthy of
a better cause, as a means of crushing the treasonous
enterprize, all the constitutional (and only the consti-
tutional) weapons of resistance. Without an insur-
rectionary movement, without an outbreak of any kind
whatever, thepeople have triumphed over their arbitrary
ELECTOR, and have vindicated the merits of their liberal
and enlightened constitution. Nevertheless, the danger
to the state is very far indeed from having been alto-
gether avoided. Intervention is still imminent on
the part of some other and more powerful princi-
pality. The ELECTOR may be brought back by the
bayonets of his allies, and thrust with his ob-
noxious policy upon the unwilling acceptance of the
Hessian multitude. This calamity, be it observed, is
rendered possible by the existing system of relation-
ship organised among the states of Germany—a
system as detrimental to the interests, and
as prejudicial to the liberties of each
respective principality, as it is injurious
to the cause, the glory, and the power of the whole
Germanic Confederation. It is earnestly to be hoped
that a new and powerful incentive may be given to
the labours of the Central Diet by the late importan
struggle between the Hessians and their Governmen

-
We have received the Paris journals of yester.l.T.
The following article appears in the acknowledged
organ of the Ministry, the Constitutionnel. It relates
to the supposed consequences of the reconciliation of
the two branches of the House of Bourbon on the
prospects of the PRESIDENT, and, as seriously pointing
out the policy which, under these altered circum-
stances, the PRESIDENT and his Ministers deem it
advisable to pursue, it may be considered as of im-
portance. The Constitutionnel says—
" In desiring the triumph of their principles, and pre •
cisely to bring it about, the honest, intelligent, and mo-
derate men of the Legitimatist party feel that they ought
nut to act as revolutionists. Certainly, if they believed
a restoration at present possible, they would attempt it;
but if such an attempt appears to them impracticable
and insensate, they will give the hand to the mainte-
nance, provisionally at least, of the President, because
his fall would be the triumph of the terrorists. The,
moderation of the President, his religious and con-
servative principles, his devotedness to order will, in the
end, ameliorate the monarchical question. This is what
the reasonable, practical, honest Legitimatists perfectly
understand. They would overthrow the President if they
believed they would succeed him, but they will maintain
him if, in overthrowing him, they see they will give him
terrorism or even Orleimism for a successor. Their
first suffrage is naturally for the Comte do Chambord,
but the second is for Louis Napoleon. Such is the pri-
vate opinion of the most important and most practical
men of the Legitimatist party. The hostile, separated,
exclusive line of policy, which appears to have been po-
sitively resolved on at Wiesbaden, is subjected to the
possibility of an immediate or very early success: but if
the party cannot effect a Legitimatist restoration it will
not throw itself into revolutionary agitation. This
course, condemned in advance, and disavowed by the
chiefs, will be left to the violent and vain men who are
to be found in all parties. The death of King Louis
Philippe was naturally destined to create, and has
created, a new situation to the old Conservatives, com-
prised under the general name of Orleanists. The
most important men of this party, the most moderate,
the most practical, those who have conducted its
affairs for the longest period, and with most eclat,
consider, like the late King, that there is great utility
as regards the future in a sincere union of the two
branches of the House of Bourbon. But they feel shat
nations are no longer transmitted by the private ar
rangements of princes, and that the House of Bourbon
can never, whatever may be done, be anything else than
a distant port, in which France will have the privilege
of voluntarily seeking shelter, if ever her repose and
prosi.erity should require it. The authority which
Louis Philippe exercised over his family was immense,
and whatever may be the empire which is exercised by
his memory, it is very difficult to believe that certain
germs cf division formerly existing will not break
forth. The men devoted to the arrangement of which
the Duchess d'Orleans and the Count de Paris would
form the basis, have naturally at present more em-
pire; and whatever be the reserve and the prudence
of the young princes, the democratic penthans which
one of them is supposed to entertain will assuredly
be more strongly excited. Oa the other hand, the
union of the two branches of the House of Bourbon,
even if it were intimately established, would not
the less cause profound divisions in the Conserva-
tive party. Public conscience revolts, in these days,
against the transmission of a nation by means of endorse-
ments and 6i:l:leaped paper. France has the profound
conviction that: she belongs to herself, and that no one
can dispose, or shall with impunity be allowed to dispose
of her without her free consent. It is then an immense
disadvantage Cor all the arrangements prepared, or in
way of arrange went between the two branches, to have
the air of being effected with the view of taking posses.
sion of the ceuntry. And besides can it be believed
that if the two b.canches arc cot absolutely irrecoricile-
able, certain po'.itical men are so? It has been found
impossible to c ateee the Orleanists to live well together;
can it be believed possible to cause Orleanists and Legi-
tinautists to do so? Is it in human nature to forget 20 years
of fierce strugg:.e , insult, calumny, and persecution? Our
readers see then that a man must live in chimerical re-
gions to believe that the union of the two branches of
the House of Bourbon, even if it were intimate and im-
mediate, would ca use the union, much more d,ffiatit and
much more impor taut, of old parties, and would offer to
France au early, serious, efficacious solution of the im-
mense problem laid down in the public conscience."
It would appear from the contents of the Legiti-
matist journals that there are no "honest, intelligent
moderate men," in the Constitutionnel sense of the
phrase, among th e journalists of that party, for, with
one accord, without even the exception of the Union,
they protest as vehemently as the most democratic of
the Republican journals against any attempt to pro-
long the presidential. powers of Louis NAPOLEON
BONAPARTE, at tel call as loudly for a rigid investiga
lion into the cc natitution and aims of the Society of
the 10th Decem Ler.
We find the ro.llowing in the Asatinklie Nationale :
" The three gre at Parliamentary clubs were founded
during the last sea iion. One which met at the Palais
d'Orsay, another i a the Rue de Rivoli, and the third at
the Hotel Frasc eti . In consequence of the ideas of con-
ciliation express ec. by the Count de Chambord at Wies-
baden, these the en clubs are now united under the name
of the Gavle du Droit lVati.nal."
Although the "fusion of the two branches of the
Houses of Bourb m " is pompously announced in the
Legitimatist joint nals, and the restoration of the reign
of the parti-preir e, and a crusade against liberty, and
an intimate Istussi .an alliance declared to be a necessary
consequence, it does not appear certain that the said
fusion has taken place. M. Tunas, who has shown
much greater Sji rewdness and foresight than any of
the other sisters of Louis PHILIPPE,' is deci-
dedly opposed 'co any such fusion on any condi,
tions, and the Duchess of ORLEANS, who has not
yet signified fo rte tally her assent to this project of
fusion, has been always hitherto guided by the advice
of M. TRIERS.

The Mayor AZ id Municipal Council of Rochefort
have decided o.a presenting an address to the PRESI
DENT of the Rep üblic, begging him to honour that
port with his p •sence at the launch of the -Ville-
de-Paris, line- of -battle ship, on the 6th of next
month.
Little businvez was transacted on the Bourse, owing
to the absence t7f the Israelite bankers and specula-
tors. The Five per Cents. opened at 93f. 75c., and
closed at 93f. 6i sc. ; the Three per Centi. closed at
58f. sc. ; Orlen s Railroad Shares, 780 f. ; Rouen,
592 f. 50c.; (.311 :eat Northern, 4621. 50e. ; Vierzon,
3501. ; Bade, 118 f. 75c.; Bordeaux, 393 f. 175 e. ;
Paris and Stri is burg, 3421. 50e. ; Tours and Nantes
240 f. ; the Ne'r? Roman Loan, 78i. ,
BUSINESS DO N E IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 16.
Boulogne and Amiens, 7% ex div.—Dutch Rhonish,2%—
Luxembourg, I! 4•--Northern of France, 1,1% Orleans and
Bordeaur., F aris and Rouen, 24—Rouen and itavre, 10
--Sambre and M e7ase, 2%.