The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, i 844.

for such energetic effects, as we advocate, in the re-
suscitation of our naval staff, as we will call it, is the
more strongly put by this writer—inasmuch as he
carefully di,plays the opportunities we have already
neglected ; and the positive indications and warn-
ings that have been given of the insidious designs
that were afoot against the supremacy of our flag
upon the seas. He argues that the reduction of this
force, coincidently with a state of affairs obviously
demanding increased vigilance and exertion, is quite
unaccountable ; but that to have passed through the
crisis which so lately overtook us without being in-
volved in hostilities should not blind us to the fact
" that the solid security for peace no longer exists."
" That in more quarters than one, unfriendly feelings
towards us, and an aggressive spirit are plainly appa-
rcnt, whilst questions are already pending, and others
t-o likely to arise, both with France and America,
of which no one can predict the issue."
Now, it is this consideration—this hypothesis of a
possibly approximating conflict, which appears to us
to warrant our recurrence to this all-important sub-
ject. Let us not be charged with lightly or mis-
chievously discussing inflammatory topics on mere
assumptions and visionary data. There have been
overt acts of offensive petulence, and indiscreet
escapades of latent malevolence, and unpremeditated
expressions of rankling' animosity developed
in the proceedings and counsels of some
of our " very good friends," within the
last six months, that do away with all necessity for
any excessive abstinence on our part, in alluding to
the results which they have had a tendency to bring
about. In the face of all these significant intima- '
tions, the Government of a Property-tax Premier
(whose first ambition seems to be a party triumph
over his predecessors, by the eduction of a surplus
revenue, out of the additional taxation, he has most
unconstitutionally imposed upon the people—whose
second, or even some lower pitched ambition on his
easy sliding scale of political principle, is the restora-
tion of the British navy to its former massive strength
and dignity); this Government, we say, has been
guilty of the delinquency imputed to it in the fol-
lowing passage of these " Observations." It would
seem that nine is the cabalistic number with a Tory
Cabinet for line-of-battle ships to be kept in com-

mission. For
"At no period during the last nearly thirty years of
peace, has the aspect of affairt been more menacing, than
it has been of late, whilst it is equally certain that dur-
ing no portion of that time, even in seasons of the most
profound security, had the naval defences of this country
been allowed to fall so low, except indeed under the short
Tory interregnum of 1834, when, from a return made to
Parliament, there appear to have been, as at present,
only nine line-of-battle ships in commission. But when
I say that we have even nine ships of the line in com-
mission, it must not be supposed that muck more than
half that number could by any effort be made available
for combined operations. Three, the Cornwallis, the
Agincourt, and the Illustrious, are the flag-ships on very
distant stations ; a fourth, the Collingwood, is under or-
ders to proceed with the flag of Sir George Seymour to
the Pacific. There remain then, the three flag-ships of
our home ports, viz., the St. Vincent, the Caledonia, and
the Queen ; in the Mediterranean, the Formidable,
blaring the flag of Sir Edward Owen ; and finally, the
Albion, recently also attacked to Sir Edward Owen's
command. It will thus be seen that, without resorting to
the aid of the three guard-ships of our home ports, we
have available for general service in the Mediterranean,
or elsewhere, but two line-of-battle ships ; and that we
could not muster a poor squadron of five sail of the line
without leaving the shores of England unprotected by a
single ship."
It is well to know our own deficiencies. The first,
immeasurably the first maritime Power in the world,
has two line-of-battle ships only in the Mediterra-
nean, and five might be combined into a squadron, by
denuding our great arsenals and ports of their pro-
tecting guard-ships. Now let us see what is the
preparation, and what is the, force of France. "We
find," says the writer, arrayed in the Mediterranean
" A French force of twelve sail of the line, to which a
still further addition of two ships has, we are told,
lately been directed. Is this a position in which it is
safe to leave the country ? We lately heard indeed
from our most passive First Lord of the Admiralty, that
he saw nothing in the equipment of a French squadron
of exercise, which could require the presence of a Bri-
tish fleet in the Mediterranean. A French squadron of
exercise forsooth ! I admit that the name of the thing is
most harmless ; but such misnomers are not new, and
IN hen I see a formidable armament prepared, I care but
little how it may have been christened. This, so called.
squadron of exercise, has not even made a show of as-

sembling for the practice of evolutions ; it is equipped
and prepared for active service ; a portion of it is ac-
tually employed in active warfare, and is backed by a
powerful reserve, ready to support it, if needful, against
all foreign interference. What, then, is the object of
this great effort of naval preparation on the side of
France ? No such amount of force was required for the
operations in cont.nzpitti,n. agairr,t, Mor-:eo ; vnd lie
must be wilfully blind who does not perceive that it has
uttoeu forth against England alone. Ido not mean
to say, nor do I at all imagine, that this has been done
with any design of coming to an open rupture with us ;
but Ido mean, that the Government of France was de-
termined to take advantage of our weakness, in order to
obtain for itself such superiority at sea, as should ena-
ble it, for the time at least, to bid defiance to British re-
monstrance or intervention,"
The pamphleteer proceeds to show that " every
increase of the fleet of France has been met with a
corresponding reduction of ours." Does France
commission new ships ? We instantly pay off
a corresponding number of ours. That the scale of
our naval establishments is not regulated by financial
considerations alone, he remarks, is shown by the
successive votes on the naval estimates for the last
three years. In 1842-43, with a deficient revenue,
a vote was taken for no less than 32,000 men and
boys, exclusive of marines, for the service of the fleet.
In 1843-44, with an increased revenue (ani taxation),
these numbers were reduced to 28,500 ; and for the
present year, with a still increased surplus revenue, a
vote is taken for only 25,500. The writer thus puts
the other alternative :
" Was the strength of our navy, then to be determined
with any reference to the state of our foreign relations,
or to the amount of force exhibited by other nations ?
This hypothesis, too, must fail us like the last. The
present Government inherited from their predecessors a
fleet of twenty-six ships of the line; an amount of force
leaving ample scope for reduction ; there being no longer
any question pending between this country and France,
since the successful termination of our operations on the
coast of Syria, and the Treaty of 1841 between the Great
Powers and Turkey. In January, 1843, however,
our fleet still numbered eighteen ships of the line; and
even through the autumn of that year, although Lord
Ashburton, ;by his treaty of Washington, had relieved
us from all immediate danger on the side of America,
and when, so far from having anything to dread from
the hostile temper of France, we heard of nothing but
the cordial relations of the two countries, and the affec-
tionate greetings of their two Sovereigns at the Chateau
d'Eu. Yet even in this season of submission, of con-
fidence, and courtship, it appears from the Navy List of
July, 1843, that we retained no less than fifteen line-of-
battle ships in commission. Towards the close of that
year, however, the formidable progress of French in-
trigue in Spain, calculated, one might have thought, to
alarm the vigilance of our Government, and to call for
the presence of a British squadron on the Spanish coast,
seems to have prompted a further reduction of our fleet,
sufficient to give France the absolute command of the
Mediterranean ; and we accordingly find, in the Navy
List of January, 1844, only eleven line-of-battle ships in
commission. Then followed the French outrage in Ota-
heite ; the Prince de Joinville's expedition to the coast
of Morocco • the rapid and menacing equipment of a
large Freud; fleet. and a state of feverish excitement
both in thi, country and in Fiance, that might at any
moment involve us in war. All this, strangely enough,
seems but to have added to the impatience of the Admi-
ralty for the extinction of our fleet. More ships were
hastened home to be paid off ; and we have now left
but five sail of the line available in Europe, against a
French force of twelve or fourteen line-of-battle ships
in the Mediterranean."

And now for the explanation how it happens that
our men of war are so thinly manned, when even
the vote of men and marines, for the present year,
is " effectively smaller than that which enabled the
late Government, in 1838 and 1839, to maintain a
force of eighteen or twenty sail of the line." He says—

" It is not of the want of men, but of their misap-
plication, that we have to complain ; and the public
may learn, with some surprise, that, with a vote for
twenty-five thousand men and boys, scarcely more than
five thousand of this number are now employed in line-
of-battle ships. The remainder are either cooped up
in harbour in the ships in ordinary, or are frittered
away in vessels of inferior classes, stuffed most incon-

veniently full of more men than they can properly em-
ploy or accommodate."

Here, for the present, we must pause. But there
is yet " stuff" enough—and of a good wholesome
kind, too--in the " Observations," to induce us to
commend another " taste " of it in the course of a
day or two.
Whil '

in common with the most enthusiastic of
as friends and admirers, we heartily rejoice at Mr.
O'CoNNELL's liberation from an imprisonment to
which he ought never to have been subjected, and are
quite as anxious as he himself can be, to see the
attention of Government turned in a conciliatory and
considerate spirit towards Ireland, yet we are as far
as ever from approving of his resolution to renew the
:igitation of the Repeal question, more especially
when we bear in mind the announcement made by
Sir ROBERT PEEL towards the close of the last ses-
sion, to the effect that, during the recess, he would de.

vise some remedial measures which he trusted would

tend to allay the discontents that have so long been rife
in the sister country. The earnest manner in which the
Premier, usually so cold and reserved, expressed
himself on this subject, and the marked favour with
which his remarks were received by all parties in the
House of Commons, with the exception of a few
' sulky, intolerant Tories ;—these considerations should,
we think, have,had some weight with Mr. O'CONNELL,
and induced him to pause awhile in the work of agi-
tation, until he should have ascertained the extent,
and bearing, and efficiency, of the Ministerial reme-
dies. Sir R. P.ax.r. having once before taken Ireland
by surprise, in the matter of Catholic Emancipation,
who could declare with any•, certainty that he
would not astonish her a second time by the enlarged
nature of his concessions ? At any rate the experiment
of a temporary halt in the Repeal agitation was well
worth making, if only to satisfy the public notions of
equity, by giving Ministers fair play ; and not with-.
standing his emphatic declarations in the Dublin Con-
ciliation Hall on MOnday last, we should not be at
all surprised were . Mr. O'CoNNELL gradually to dis-
continue the Repeal agitation, or if not exactly dis-
continue it, at least moderate its vehemence, until he
should be fully in possession of the remedial measures
of Sir ROBERT PEEL. Difficult as this may appear
to be, on the first view of the case, there is, neverthe-
less, no doubt that it is in Mr. O'CoNNELL's power
to do it, for his countrymen regard him at this mo-
ment with more respect, confidence, and affection, if
possible, than ever, and seem to take a pride in blindly
obeying his commands to the letter, under a strong and
unalterable conviction that he is the best judge of
what is good for their interests, and will never advise
them to adopt any step but such as may be benefi-
cial to them. As regards his proposal of endea-
vouring to procure the impeachment of the Irish
Judges who tried and sentenced him to, what is
now proved to have been an illegal imprison-
ment, we think he acts quite rightly in bringing
the matter under the notice of Parliament ;
indeed, it is his bounden duty to do so, for a great
Constitutional question is involved in the result of
the decision of the House of Commons on the subject.
Not less do we approve of Mr. O'CormELL's inten-
tion to visit in person the principal • towns and cities
of England, a month or two previously to the assem-
bling of Parliament, in order to explain the details of
his case, and show the rank injustice that has been in-
flicted on the " convicted conspirators," as they were
insolently—and as it now appears, falsely—called.
Too much publicity cannot possibly be given to such
harsh and unwarrantable proceedings as the Irish
Judges were geilty of; and hundreds will listen
with avidity to the Honourable and Learned
Gentleman's recapitulation of the circumstances
of the case, who may have perused them with
comparative indifference when recorded in the
columns of the daily, press. In the justice and pro-
priety of these two propositions of Mr. O'CONNELL
we cordially concur ; and we think :we can assure
him that, when he comes among Englishmen ;
explains frankly and boldly. the nature and ex-
tent of the injustice of which he has for
three months past been made the victim ;
and appeals to their cordial sympathies in his favour;
his appeal will be warmly and generally responded to,
even by those who may happen to disapprove of his
politics, for there is nothing that John Bull more
warmly resents than an act of injustice, no matter
how exalted be the authority that perpetrates it, nor
how specious the legal forms under the sanction of
which it is perpetrated.

Madrid papers, of the 6th, have been received. It
is stated in some of them that the convention between
Spain and Morocco, accepted by the QUERN, had been
forwarded to Tangiers, for the signature of the
EMPEROR. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA was to arrive at
Madrid on the 9th. Some apprehensions were enter-
tained of a Carlist movement, and some excitement
caused by the sudden disappearance of General
ZuanANo from his place of retreat, near Logrono.
On the Madridßourse, the Three per Cents. were
quoted at 27i for 60 days, and the Floating Debt
at 611.

The. Paris papers are chiefly occupied with Indian
news, and discussions• on the state of Ireland, and the
Otaheite affair, but the articles in general are desti-
tute, of interest. Preparations are in progress for the
nrney of Louts. Putraarn to England. The Con-
stityti(mnel says=“. Orders have. been given for the
ING'S embarkation at Trep..nt on October 8. The
will remain five days in England, and will be
a, 'ompanied by M. GUM; and probably Marshal
SorLr. We learn from Cherbourg that the Colibri
has arrived there, with the splendid furniture of the
Gomer, for the Kina's use on his voyage to England.'
It is not at all probable, however, that his MAJESTY
%ill be accompanied by Marshal Slum; who is now
old and infirm, and, from all accounts, desirous of
repose. The Duke of MONTPENSIIII will accom-
pany his father, on a special invitation from the Qualm
of England. It is also said, besides GUIZOT, Admiral
MACKAU, Count de MONTALIVET, Baron FAIN, his
MAJESTY'S Secretary, and some general officers, will
form his suite.
Most of the Paris papers:publish the order issued by
Admiral Sir EDWARD OWEN, relative to the letters
which appeared in the Times on the-movements of
the French fleet. The Ministerial journals express
satisfaction at the course adopted '-by the gallant
Admiral, but others, and especially the Commerce
and National, only appear to rise in their demands.
Nothing will satisfy them but the appointment of a
court-martial to try the delinquents. "It now re-
mains to be seen," says that mischievous journal, the
National, " whether this indirect- blame be sufficient.
If they, wish to avoid individual collisions, the French
Government and the English Goverment will no
doubt understand that the just susceptibilities of our
seamen require more. The intention of the Warspite
officers has been to inflict a deep wound on the
honour of the French navy. They must answer for
their dastardly intentions—they must answer for
them before their superiors, or before those whom
they have insulted. If, then, the English Govern-
ment wish to prevent our officers doing themselves
justice it must do it itself, and do it to them fully ;
that is to say, it is its duty to bring to a court-
martial those wretched calumniators, who have not
had even the courage to sign their calumnies. We
shall see."
The following are miscellaneous extracts from the

papers :
" The law passed last session relative to the northern
line of railroad having authorised the Minister of Public
Works to treat for one from Boulogne to Amiens, by
Abbeville and Etaples, with pecuniary aid from the Go-
vernment, and stated that all the other conditions should
be regulated by Royal Ordonnance, the Moniteur of this
day publishes an Ordotpance, dated the 9th, announcing
that the clauses and conditions on which the contract is
to be made are drawn up and published, but they are not
-given by the Moniteur. They may, of course, be seen at
the Ministry of Public Works.
" The Minister of Public Works is about to inspect all
the great Government- undertakings in the eastern and
western departments. M. Dumont will be on hii tour
about a month. " •

" A letter from Canton, of June 17, announces that
M. Ratti Menton left China on May 18, to return to
Europe. M. de Jancigny left Macao on the 27th for
Singapore, and thence for Batavia. M. de Lagren6e had
not arrived at the date of this letter. M. de Becourt
was remaining at Macao. Since the departure of M.
de Challaye, no French flag floated over the factory, nor
had any one occupied the. Consider residence. The
season was so far advanced that if M. de Legren‘a did
arrive, the mission of which he was the head, could not
reach Pekin before the end of the year. The American
Minister was at Macao, holding conferences with the
Imperial Commissioner Be-Ying."
We read in the Commerce

" The Sardinian Cabinet has just, it is said, been mo-
dified in the following manner :—M. Gallina, Minister
of Finance and the Interior, leaves the Council, and is
to be appointed President of the Archives ; Chevalier
Revelli will take his place in the Finance Department,
and M. Desembrois in the Interior. In addition, M.
Calvi, who occupied the place of the King's Peocureur-
General, is named Director-General of Customs, and
M. T lion Revel de St. Andrea succeeds him as D rector-
General. This change which took place, it is sad, last
week on the King's return from his seat at Ranonigi,
attracts public attention, particularly when Amami
seeks to get the Customs' Union adopted by the St ties
of Italy. It is not yet known what system the new Mi-
nister, Chevalier Revelli, will follow. M. Gallina sought
to draw closer to France, and it is he who negotiat.td
the treaty of commerce lately concluded between that
country and Sardinia."
The last accounts from Venice announce the ar-
rival there of the Duke DE BORDEAUX, accompanied
by the Count DE LEvis. Several personages of dis-
tinction are stated to have come from France to pay
their respects to his Royal Highness. Among them
,are named Baron HYDE DE NEUVILLE, Minister of
the Marine under the Restoration ; Generals LA Toth
FOIBBAC and D'HauirouL; and the Viscount DE .

SAINT PRIEST; formerly Ambassador from France to
Berlin, and also to Madrid ; all of whom are said to
he lodged by the PRINCB in his own hotel. Ile was
expected to leave Venice for Prochdorf on the
lith inst.

The Universal German Gazette states that Sir R.
GORDON, the British Ambassador at the Court of
Vienna, has followed Prince Mirrniaracu to Trieste.
Count DH FLAitatiT, the French A-Mbassador to Aus-
tria, has returned from the waters of Carlsbad to the
capital, to receive the Princess CLEMENTINE of Or-
leans, who was expected there on her way from Hun-
gary back to France. In the course of her tour her
Royal Highness visited the territories of her father-
in-law, Prince. FERDINAND Of Saxe Gotha. She was
received in Hungary by the whole of the" nobility
with the highest testimonies of esteem.
A letter from Alexandria, of the 29th ult., in the
Semaphore of Marseilles, says :
" The Viceroy is entirely recovered from his indispo-
sition ; he has resumed his habitual serenity, and is
occupied as usual with business in its slightest details ;
he gives a most gracious reception to all those whom he
consents to see. The Consuls are frequently admitted
into his. presence.. His Highness has allowed Ilasloum
Bey, the Eavoy of the Porte, to depart. He left Alex-
andria on the 22d for Constantinople, bearing with him
marks olthe Pacha's munificence. The new Consul of
Russia, M. Folk, has had his official audience with the
customary ceremonies ; but the new functionary, whether
through ignorance, or intentionally, ill responded to the
favourable reception which was given him. It is the
custom, that on the official presentation of a new Consul,
a sabre of honour and a richly-caparisoned horse should
be presented to him from his Highness. This took place
on the reception of M. Folk ; but, on quitting the palace,
this Consul made one of his footmen mount the horse
and gird on the sabre. This impropriety has militated
much against the Consul, who put the finishing bhw to
his want of respect in abandoning to his footmen the
sabre and the horse. Probably tjoe custom will be
speedily abolished. Since my last: letter of the 19th,
other vessels of war have arrived here, with a Russian
brig, and the American frigate the Cumberland. Ibra-
him Pacha has gone to Lower Egypt, to inspect his
estates."

TAB BOURSE—Txuasmor, SEPT. 12.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
Frenchriveperesats,exdly 119 SO •• 119 SO .. 119 SO .. 119 80
Four-and-a-Half.... 111 75 .. ll] 75 .. 11l 75 •• 11l 75
Fours., ex div...... 102 40 .. 102 40 .. 102 40 .. 102 40
Three per Cents..... 81 70 .. 81 70 .. 81 60 .. 81 65
Bank of France
Loftin. Bank, I,ooof. Shares I CBO ..1080 ..1080 ..1080

5,000 t. Bharess9ss ••5055 ..5055 ..5055
Belgian Bank. . :
Belgian Fives, 1840 1051 .. 1051 1051 .. 1051
1842 •••••..• 108 .. 108 .. 108 .. 108
Spanish Threes •• . 341 311 .. 341 341
Active •• ••••• •• .• •• 311 .. 32 .. 311 .. 32
POlll'o ••• •• 61 .. 61 .. 61 .. 61
Neapolitai• • .. 98 be .. 98 50 98 50 .. 98 58
Roman ' .. 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Verss.llles,R.B. 387 50 .. 387 50 •• 387 50 .. 387 50
L.B •.. . ...
Rouen •• •• ••••••• .•
Rosen to Havre
Orleans ...... • 900 .. 990 •• 987 50 .. 987 50
Strasburg to • •• 257 50 .. 267 50 •• 253 75 .. 253 75
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, SEPTEMBER 15.
St. Germain
Versailles, N.B. • • .... „ 390 390 .. 387 SO . • 387 50
255 .. 255 .. 255 .. 255
Rotten .••• 990 990 .. 987 50 • 987 50
Rosen to Havre 755 .. 755 • •• 752 50 .. 752 50
Orleans •• • • •• ..... •• •• •• •• 987 50 .. 987 50 .. 986 25 .. 986 25
Strasburg to Bale 257 60 .. 257 50 .. 252 50 .. 253 75
Avignon to Marseilles— .•

AMERICAN NEWS

ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA.
By the arrivaref the Royal Mail steam-ship Acadia,
Captain Harrison, we have New York papers to the
Ist, and Boston to the 2d inst., inclusive. She brings
about fifty passengers. The Acadia left this port on
4th of August, and arrived ai Boston, after a passage
of constant head winds, in thirteen days. We are
much pleased to find, from the Boston Daily Adver-
tiser, that the passengers, on their arrival at Boston,
presented the Acadia's new captain with a handsome
tea service of plate, which was accompanied by a
complimentary- letter, signed by all the passengers,
and headed by ex-Governor Davies, of America, one
of the passengers. We are additionally pleased to
find that he has been honoured with a similar compli-
ment by his passengers on his homeward passage.
The Acadia sailed again for Liverpool on the
Ist of September, about one o'clock, passed and
boarded the Hibernia, off the Lighthouse, at
two, and obtained a copy of Willson and Smith's
European Times," which contained the news of
Queen Victoria's accouchement, and the movement of
France upon Tangiers. The Hibernia would reach
Boston at three o'clock, in a twelve days'
passage, and as there were two engine expresses
in readiness at Boston, the one for New York and
the other for Montreal, the -news which the-
tijbernia toolCout (August 20) would be published in
New York, with that ne the Great
(August 17), as Adams and Co.'s express, per the
Acadia, reported that, up to five P. nt. on Saturday,
nothing had been heard of the Great Western being
off New York. The arrival of these two steam-ships
on this occasion, had, for some days past, excited great
interest in New York and Boston.
When in lat. 50 deg. 2 min. N.,10n. 32 deg. 6 min.
W., on Monday night, about nine o'clock, passed the
Britannia hence, for Boston:; exchanged rocket and
blueolight signals, and a salute of gun,. She was
running with a fair wind, light sea, and was then
five days out.
The political news brought by the Acadia is .not
important. Mr. President Tyler had withdrawn from
contesting the next Presidency, and had thrown his
influence into the democratic scale, which, however,
will, it is believed, have but little effect in the result of
the approaching contest. Large meetings are now
holding in all parts of the Union, and the general
opinion is that Clay will occupy the Chair for the
ensuing term ; it will not, however, be obtained without
being purchased at the sacrifice of a large amount of
cash and principles.
It is reported at New York, upon the authority of
the Washington correspondent of the Sun, that, at a
meeting of the Cabinet yesterday, it had been de-
termined upon to call an extra session of Congress.
It is further stated that England has taken the
4,000,000 dollars loan of Mexico, for the purpose of
facilitating a war between the two Governments.
This is given as a reason for calling the extra session.
Captain Barstow, of the Cambridge, from Liver-
pool,picking
Honfleur, France,
up the crew of a
Frenchat
fishingN e w Yschooner
o Ar, t
enr,of
on the 12th of August, in kit. 44 36, lon. 53. They
had been separated from their vessel thirty-six hours,
by a violent gale of wind and thick fog. When they
boarded the Cambridge, they judged themselves to be
sixty miles from their vessel. They were utterly
destitute of provisions and water.
We deeply regret to report two distressing acci-
dents at the Falls of Niagara. The P
one, in the death
Philadelphia named
company with a
named Thompson.
ofH ea
wasgentleman
on
n a f r
visito m
at
t thehi Falls,
friend of ours, resident in Liverpool, who returned in
the Acadia. Mr. Thompson disappeared suddenly,
and is supposed to have perished in the cataract. In
company with one or two other Ipntlemen, he had
passed behind the sheet of water, and, on coming out,
lingered about the rock which overhangs the abyss.
He was heard to say that he wished to go where no
one else had ever been. He was soon missed, and all
search proved unavailing. It is conjectured that a
sudden dash of water swept him from the dangerous
position to which he had ventured;
The other relates to the unfortunate death of a
young lady. She was in company with a party of
friends and relatives, and while attempting to gather
some shrubs growing on the brink of the precipice
near the Museum, lost her balance, and with a loud
shriek fell. When taken up she was alive, but in-
sensible. Able medical aid, which was promptly
rendered, was unavailing; and she died in about three
hours.

These sad events throw a damp over the visitors,
who are very numerous at this interesting spot.
TREMENDOUS HURRICANE AND FLOOD IN WIS-
CONSIN TERRITORY.—We learn from the Green Bay
Republican that on the Bth instant a hurricane, ac-
companied with rain and hail, swept over Brown and
Calmut counties with such fury, that in the space of
twenty minutes property was destroyed to the value
of 20,000 dollars. Houses, barns, bridges, fences and
trees were scattered and tossed about like chaff; and
in many places the crops of every kind were flattened
and destroyed. Trees,
four and five inches in dia-
meter, were twisted off at Duck Creek, and at
Suamico River all the large trees, for the distance of
half a mile in the direction of the Bay shore were
either torn up or blown down. Every bridge between
Twin Rivers and Gray
swept away.
In business matters the appearance was generally
favourable. The imports at New York during the
Bay and Fond du Luc, were
month of August was greater than ever known, and
the heavy, stock of imported goods had already
lowered prices.
In the staple article of cotton we annex a report,
published by .a New York broker' for transmission
by the Acadia, dated August 29:—The unsettled
tone of our market, alluded to, in my last circular,
per Caledonia, of 14th inst., continued until WQ were
placed in possession.of dates from Liverpool to 4th
inst., per Acadia, on the 19th inst. Holders assumed
a firmer position, on the receipt of these advices, and
generally demanded a small advance; this, however,
was not acceded to by purchasers, and the business
transacted consequently was limited ; the market was
again fully supplied at previous rates on the second
day, and some disposition to press sales was mani-
fested; this has resulted in a reduction of one-eighth
to a quarter of a cent. on the lower grades, with
which the market has been more fully supplied.

Holders of finer cottons are generally unwilling
sellers, even at the above extreme quotations,
and some factors still refuse to submit a bale at
present rates, considering that the coming crop does
Eo'. present indications of a very large yield, although
the plant is unusually strong and forward. Sales for
the week ending 17th instant, 2,800 bales ; for the
week ending 24th instant, 3,800 bales ; since, to this
date, 2,400, with a firmer tone, at the present quota-
tions. Receipts of the new crop at New Orleans,
640 bales up to 20th instant ; a few small parcels have
also reached this city, from Charleston.
P.S.—The inquiry, which has been moderate, has
resulted in sales to the extent of 1,400 bales, since
noon of Thursday, and has been freely met by holders
in small parcels, there being hut few lists in the mar-
ket, which are held rather firmly, at quotations.
Freights are still tending upwards ; some few en-
gagements were made yesterday at 5-16 d. for square
bales to Liverpool, and as the packet of the 6th is
full, and the succeeding one nearly so, the rate will
not probably be lower.
The Grain market, also, exhibits very little change.
Prices of Flour and 'Wheat are firm, but sales
are small. The crop of Western New York is more
abundant than ever before. Western Flour is selling
at 4,12 f to 4,25 dolls, per bbl.; and Southern a shade
higher. At Buffalo, a great Wheat market, 70 and
71 cents. is paid for wheat.

We have no transactions of any importance to no-
tice in Ashes. The prices are as last quoted—for Pots
4 184, and 4 50 dolls. fur Pearls.
In Provisions a very dull business was transacted,
at prices ranging as yesterday. We quote Mess Pork
9 621 dolls. ; Prime 8a 8 121 dolls. ; Mess Beef
5 25 a 5 621 dolls., and Prime 3 25 dolls.

The prices of Stocks during the last fortnight have
been subject to some fluctuation, but they are not
materially changed, not now that the season with its
heat, and the absence from the city of many business
men would warrant. Indeed, all dividend paying
stocks are firm.

the Executive power for aid to alleviate their neces-
sities. 'We hope that the Government will come
promptly and generously to the rescue.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left
town on Saturday morning, on a visit to her Majesty
the Queen Dowager at Witley Court, Worcester-
shire. Her Royal Highness left her residence Cla-
rence House, St. James's, for the Euston-square
terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway at
a quarter past nine o'clock, and took her departure
from the station attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas,
the Countess Wratislaw, and Sir George Couper, Bart.
Miss PEEL.—Accounts were received in town on
Saturday morning from Drayton Manor, that this
young lady was going on favourably. Further ac-
counts were received yesterday that Miss Peel was
very much better.
Dispatches frem the Governor of the Mauritius
were received at the Colonial-office on Saturday.
Lord Stanley has arrived at Wisetan, near Bawtry,
on a visit to Earl Spencer, from Knowsley Hall,
Lancashire.

The Marquis of Granby, the.. Earl of Effingham,
and Viscount liawarden, attended Divine service
yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
[he Rev. Dr. Wesley preached the sermon.
Dispatches from the Governors of Jamaica and the
other West India colonies, from the Governor of
Canada and the other North American provinces,
from the Governor of New South Wales, from the
Governor of the Mauritius, and also from the Go
vernor of Sierra Leone, were received yesterday at
the Colonial-office.

THE PIMLICO SLATE WORKS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—A little misapprehension appears to hare
arisen as regards the report of the " Pimlico Slate
Works" in your paper of the 11th instant, which it
seems Mr. Magnus is anxious should be corrected. It
should be clearly understood it is not his works that
I have to sell, but the Cwmorthin, Slate Quarry, in
Merionethshire, which is under the control of Mr.
Chorley, with whom this mistake entirely rests.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
GEORGE ROBINS.
Covent-garden, Sept. 14, 1844.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE ~ LONDON

GAZETTE."

A Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday,
which was published on Saturday evening, contains
the Orders in Council for carrying into effect the
treaties of commerce with Austria, Hanover, Olden-
burgh, Mecklenburgh Schewrin, and Mecklenburgh
Strelitz—and also Orders in Council creating certain
" districts for spiritual purposes" under the provisions
of the " Act to make better provision for the spiritual
care of populous places."

NORTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION.
(From the Liverpool Mercury.)
The removal of Lord Stanley to the House of
Peers has created a vacancy in the representation of
the northern division of the county of Lancaster.
The move is a sudden one, but not wholly unloolsed
for. Lord Stanley has long been evidently in the
shade, and waning " into the sear and yellow leaf "
on the Treasury benches. All parties have antici-
pated for him, sooner or later, the fate of a Brougham,
from the moment when he first abjured his Whig
principles, and took the apostate's chance with. his
Tory enemies : and this career the inmates of the
Derby Dilly have well nigh run. Between Sir James
Graham and his Lordship there has been a rivalry
of recanting, an "alacrity in sinking," as Falstaff
would say. Shade after shade has gone over the
bright fame of Lord Stanley, until the whole has
deepened into Tartarian black. Brow-beaten, muzzled,
repressed to the third rank by Peel, forced to play
second fiddle to Mr. Gladstone, what is Lord Stanley
now ? A man, avoided and distrusted by his party,
without the gravity, solidity, or self-control of a
statesman, fit only to waste his energies in exhibitions
of harmless impotence or spite in the House of Lords.
It has long been no secret that Sir Robert Peel
wished to get rid of him, as heartily, at least, as he
did to get quit of Lord Ellenborough. Both ge-
niuses kept the Premier in constant uneasiness, and a
state of nervousness which, whenever the Noble Se.
cretary fur the Colonies was on his legs in the House
of Commons, was painfully visible to all, notwith-
standing every attempt to conceal it.
Lord Stanley's career has clearly proved that it is
folly to expect to work out democratic reforms by
aristocratic instruments. The Liberalism of early
youth with them is not an earnest deep• seated love
of freedom, but a showy sentimentality,—half vanity,
half love of popularity. With men like Lord Stan-
ley, Sir Francis Burdett, and Sir James Graham,
the more worldly feelings soon preponderate, or mo-
tives even of pique acquire an undue ascendancy over
their minds. The secession of Lord Stanley from the
Whig Cabinet can only be attributed to these feelings,
as was evident from the bitterness with which he as-
sailed his former colleagues. During the greater part
of last session he was condemned to inglorious silence,
or confined to squabbling with West Indians about
Coolies and African immigrants.
Lancashire has got rid of him, and we congratulate
its electors. We hope that the Parliamentary con-
nexion, which his Lordship tells us is only suspended,
may be totally severed, for we lament that the county
should ever have countenanced by its support political
aspostacy in its representative. His Lordship's part-
ing address to the electors shows that his family in-
terest will be bestowed upon a supporter of monopoly,
the corn-laws, and Toryism generally, and it magna-
nimously denounces a hitherto undiscovered sect of
innovators, who court change merely for its own sake,
and without the slightest prospective view of benefit.
Mr. Talbot Clifton is the candidate whom the
Tories have been graciously pleased to palm upon the
electors of the northern division. To judge from this
gentleman's address, he will be all things to all men :
a champion of agriculture, an enlightened friend of
commerce and manufactures, a patron to the poor,
whom he "regards equally with their wealthy neigh-
bours," and a devoted servant of the Church. Who is
there that can find fault with such a representative ?
What class is left out of his calculations ? Simply,
the people ! How does he propose to confer such
inestimable blessings ? Simply, by keeping things as
they are ! But things as they are do not, unfor-
tunately, operate in the manner desiderated, and,
therefore, there is a hole in Mr. Clifton's logic. The
fact is, the address is a very milk-and-water affair,
worthy of the character of its author. No one would
suspect from it that Mr. Clifton is an ex- Catholic, an
ex-Liberal, or, at all events, the son of a Liberal. He
has made as many turns as Lord Stanley, and may
" turn and turn again," if he gets into Parliament.
North Lancashire will become notorious as a spindle
for weathercocks.
The Tory candidate comes recommended by two
influences which of all others deserve to be repressed
in this county—by religious bigotry and commercial
monopoly. Whoever remembers that the Catholic
communion numbers in its ranks more than one hun-
dred millions of souls, probably more than all other
Christian churches together, ought not, in the pre-
sent state of Ireland, to sanction a sentence of pro-
scription against them by the election of their enemies
to be Members of Parliament. Is it righteous to for-
get that Time, the greatest of reformers, has exerted
his silent, purifying power on the Catholics as well
as on ourselves ?
Monopoly is the exclusive privilege of one mat
over all others to buy or to sell. In whatever co an-
try it exists it produces nothing but devastation.
Exclusive privileges ruin the old and the new world.
In the midst of several millions of unfortunate
wretches there arises the proud heads of some extor-
tioners, gorged with riches, and exulting over the
misery of all. We ask how long we are to be ex-
posed to the contempt and ridicule of our neighbours
for our corn-laws ? Let the men of Lancashire look
at the small numbers of the agriculturists given in
the new census, and say whether they will consent-to
be the victims of a declining minority, if there is the
smallest chance of raising a champion in their favour.
We have not yet heard whether the Liberals in-
tend to bring forward a candidate at all to oppose Mr.
Clifton. Application has been made to Mr. Charles
Towneley, bat the result was not known in Liver-
pool when we went to press. The register is in such
an unfavourable position that, in all probability, the
Tory will be allowed to walk over the course. Had
the new register come into operation, the result world
have been different ; and, no doubt, Lord Stanley had
an eye to that circumstance by timing his retirement as
he did just before the prorogation. One day latex,
and there could have been no election till February, or,.
at all events, until the meeting of Parliament.
The nomination will take place on Friday next, the
20th instant, in the Shire-hall at Lancaster.

that MAJESTY'S VOYAGE.—(Extract of a private
letter from a gentleman on board the Royal Victoria and
Albert yacht, dated " Off Dundee, Wednesday morning,
Sept. 11," and received at Windsor yesterday afternoon.)
—" We arrived here this morning shortly before four
o'clock, after a moat delightful trip from Woolwich. Her
Majesty, thank God, is in excellent health, with her
spirits as buoyant as the noble barque which brought us
safely to Scotia's shores. Her Majesty and the Princess
Royal enjoyed the voyage amazingly. I cannot say as
much, I regret to observe, for the Prince. His Royal
Highness suffered considerably from the effects of sea-
sickness ; a visitation which the Prince Consort is rarely
exempt from while at sea. It is rather unfortunate, the
Court being still in mourning for the Prince's father,
that her Majesty will not be enabled to compliment her
Scottish subjects by wearing the Tartan."
THE ATTEMPT AT MURDER ON THE ESTATE OF
SIR F. BATHURST.—A description of George Whitlock,
alias llead, and George Head, was on Friday forwarded
to the police at Bow-street, those parties having lately
shot at, and wounded, Stephen Whitlock, woodman to
Sir F. 11. 11. Bathurst, Bart., while returning from Salis-
bury to Fitton, and when near Clarendon-wood, A re
ward of 51. is offered for their apprehension.