The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-03 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

Vittltt Optuton.

" Who runs may read."

ron.racca.
The Ring of the French will embark for England on
Saturday evening, or Sunday morning next. The
Prince de Joinville arrived in Paris on Tuesday.
Count Duchatel, the Minister of the Interior, has left
Paris for Charente Infirieure to perform the last duties
to the remains of his father. Ile will return to Paris
on the 4th.
The Session of the Greek Chambers was opened on
the 19th ult., by the King in person. His Majesty's
speech will be found in another part of the paper.
The Moniteur of Tuesday publishes a table of the
price of corn, which regulates the duty on importation
and exportation of English grain and flour. The highest
is 19f. 92c. the hectolitre, and the lowest 16f. 19c. The
hectolitre is equal to 21 imperial bushels.
The Berlin journals of the 25th ult. give a long account
of the public entry on that day of the King and Queen
of Prussia. They were escorted to the Palace by the
civil and military authorities, and the population
as they passed uttered enthusiastic shouts of wel-
come. Soon after their Majesties had entered the Pa-
lace, they made their appearance on the balcony before
the assembled multitude, who sang the national hymn
in chorus, in token of their delight, and in testimony of
their loyalty.
The Cologne Gazette contains a letter from Berlin, of
the 24th ult., which states that the King intended going
t° Stockholm, to be present at the coronation of King
Oscar, and M. A. de Humboldt was to accompany him.
_The Warsaw papers contain an Edict by the Emperor
91 Russia, by which the division of the kingdom of Po-
land is changed from its present number of governments
to fiv This new division is to be effected by the union
of the government of Sandomir with that of Kielce,
under the denomination of the Government of Radom,
aotfilvof Poldachia with Warsaw, under the denomination
Warsaw the Governments of Plosk, Lublin, and Au-
o_prinee Waldo
, are to remain in their present state.
mar of Prussia, travelling under the title
Coal* de Ilavensberg, left Trieste on the 16th in the
proceed by
aleatner Mahnioudie for Athens, from whence he will
Syria, Alexandria, and the Isthmus of Sues,
and the Red Sea, to the East Indies and China.
The Paris Academy of Fine Arts awarded, on Sunday,
the grand prizes of painting of 1844. The first prize
was obtained by M. Felix Barias, of Paris, aged twenty-
twen
two the second by M. Jules Levepoen, of Angers, aged
ty-five. M. Barias was a conscript, and was obliged
to join his regiment, but received leave of absence, in
order to become a candidate for the grand prize. As
this gives the right of exemption from the army, he will
now be free.
A melancholy accident occurred at Munich, on the
23d ult. About 100 young females had assembled at a
little fete at one of the convents, when a bridge in the
garden, over the canal, on which they were standing,
being rotten with age, gave way, and nearly thirty of
them fell into the water. Assistance was immediately
rendered, but two of the females were drowned.
The Bale Gazette states that M. Bayer, agent of the
French Company charged in the Valais with the works
on the Rhone, has lodged a complaint before the French
Embassy, of the brutal manner in which he was expelled
from the Commune of Granges, where ho resided. He
was assailed with cries of—" No more French 1 If we
have Piedmontes given us, we shall receive them with
BLeasure, but we shall drive away the French I" M.
ayer first applied to an executive Council, but received
as answer that the Communes were sovereign, and that,
in this Circumstance, they had acted according to their
right,

LAW AND POLICII.
Sir Charles Williams, in the Bankruptcy Court, granted
a warrant for the apprehension of J. Hunter, an luso' vent, who, having obtained his discharge from prison,
neglected to appear in Court.
In the Insolvent Court a rule nisi was granted, calling
upon Thomas John Husband, the landlord of the Gerard
Hotel, Basing-lane, to show cause why he should not pay
in full the debts from which he had been relieved by the
Court in the year 1817, he being now in a condition
' to do so.
A long inquiry was gone into at the Mansion-house,iralmnn:
before Sir Peter Laurie as to the conduct of A . s
the surgeon, in causing a Dr. Tapley to be incarcerated
in a lunatic asylum, and in detaining certain
as
thatdocumite,an,tass,
the property of the Doctor. The result
admitted that Mr. Salmon was justified in acting as
a
s ho
s
had done, for. the Doctor was undoubtedly mad ; and
for the documents, they had been handed over by Mr.
Salmon to the Doctor's brother-in-law.
At Queen-square, Charles Lowing,h
Hatton,of
fking
near Hounslow, was charged with
hay
without a license, whereby he had incurred aeahapenearlfteyetloyf
10L Mr. Bond observed he should like t
satisfied in his own mind before he convictedo. underp this
highly penal Act, in which
As this
oispwowaser
mitigate the pens ty.given him to
thewfirst case of the
sort that had ever some before hi
lawm,he should adjourn
for a week, in order to refer tothe hookao
ntthe
si
u b .t
ject. Defendant was liberated on entering into his own
reeogniaances to appear on Wednesday
Mr. John Goodwin Barnaby, residing awthoNod.e4s,crSibeeyd-
mour-plece North, Euston-square, an
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hsste as an " author," was charged before Mr. Ka
linso at Marylebone, on a warrant, with having inde-
cently assaulted Hannah Snelgrove, a pretty looking
girl, his servant. The appearance of defendant was
singular in the extreme ; his hair was of extraordinary
length, and from his chin a sandy-coloured beard shot
forth, which reached nearly as low as the top button of
kis waistcoat; he wore a white hat, and a shirt collar a /a
Byron ; his wife was present during the delicate inves-
tigation. The defendant, who is a Socialist, denied the
charge. , The prosecutris., however, swore positively to
the assault, and as neither of the parties had any wit-
nesses to produce, Mr. Rawlinson ordered the defendant
to enter into his own recognisances in 201. to appear at
• the sessions, in the event of complainant thinking fit to
indict him,
Alfred Edwards, the young man charged with having
administered poison to a young woman named Jane
Gregory, which caused her death, and against whom a
verdict of " Wilful Murder" had been returned at the
coroner's inquest, was 'placed at the bar at Worshi
street, before Mr. Broughton for final
examination p-
on
the charge, and fully committed.
William Johnson, a well-dressed man, was charged at
Union-hall with stealing two silver table-spoons, the
property of Mrs. Jane Hubbard, a confectioner, in
. Queen's Head-row, Newington. He had been served
with a bason of soup in the refreshment-room, and when
he left the spoons were missed. into a pawnbroker's in the The waiter, on going
The
caught the
Prisonerthan
in
the the act of pledging Ow spoons. A policeman
stated prisoner had shaved off his whiskers to
disguise himself; that he was tried some time since, for
robberies of a similar description, convicted, and sen-
tenced to imprisonment. That since he had come out
of gaol he had commenced his old practices, and that if
he was now remanded, he (the policeman) had no doubt
he should be enabled ,to bring forward other charges
against him. He was remanded accordingly.
Ann Smith, alias Watson, alias Mary Anne Stow, a
'dressmaker, carrying on business in Brand-street,
Greenwich, was fully committed from the police-court
of that place, on six different charges of shoplifting.
A man named Thomas Wood, about forty years of
age, who was formerly a foreman in the docks, and
latterly a labourer in the employ of Messrs. Ditchburn
and Mare, at Blackwell, was fully committed from the
Thames-office, on a charge of highway robbery. He
had knocked down an old man in Bow-lane, and robbed
him of a bundle and other articles.
OLTILT--PAISSIOWALIMIL
The Duchess of Kent arrived at Frogrnore House on
Wednesday evening, from Witley Court, at a few
minutes before seven o'clock. Her Royal Highness tra-
velled by the Birmingham Railway to the Watford
stateion, and posted thence to Uxbridge, where the
1)u les' horses and carriage were in waiting to convey
her Royal Highness and suite to Frogmore. Her Royal
Highness was accompanied by the Countess ,
Wratislaw, and attended by Lad y Charlotte Josephine
Dundasana
Colonel Sir George Cowper.
The Duke of Cambridge arrived at Edinburgh on
Monday.
The Duke of Wellington, accompanied by the Right
Hon. Charles Arbuthnot, arrived at Apsley House, yes-
terday, from Walraer Castle. His Grace is not expected
to return to the Castle until after his Majesty the King
of the French shall have closed his approaching visit to
the Queen. Lady Charles Wellesley also arrived at
Apsley House, yesterday, from the Right Hon. H.
Pierrepont's, Conhalt Park, Hants, to meet Lord Charles,
. who is expected to arrive to-day in her Majesty's suite,
in the Royal Victoria and Albert yacht, from Dundee.
The Duke and Duchess of Lemster, and Lady Jane
Fitzgerald have arrived at Caston House, near Maynooth.
The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans have arrived at
Brighton from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Mor-
ley, in Devonshire.
His Excellency Baron Brunnow entertained at dinner
on Wednesday evening, the Prince and Princess Radzi-
vill, Baron and
Count Baroness Gersdorff, Baron Talleyrand,
rode. Jarnac, and M. Loganoff, to meet Count Nessel-
The Baroness Seebach and Count Dmitry Nessel-
rode
Exc were also included in the circle.
Ts evening Excellency gives a farewell entertainment in honourhis of
Count Nesselrode, which it is expected will be honoured
with the presence of several of the Cabinet Ministers.
His Excellency the Count de St. Aulaire, with the
Countess and suite, were expected to arrive in Man-
chester-square, from the Continent, to-day.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose have arrived at
Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, where their Graces will
receive a succession of visitants during the hunting season.
Lord and Lady Francis Egerton and the Misses Eger-
ton are expected to arrive in Belgrave-square on Wed-
nesday next, from Worsley Hall, near Manchester.
Professor Liebig is expected in Scotland soon, and the
magistrates of Edinburgh have resolved to confer the
freedom of the metropolis on that eminent chemist, in
consideration of his important discoveries in science.
71CLISCIISZLANNIOUS.
tes
The '
accounts from Dublin of the state of Lady Hey-
burys health are very
ho unfavourable, and but little
pe is entertained of her recovery.
On Wednesday a special meeting of the commissioners
of pavement was held at Gravesend, for the purpose of
memorialising the Homeasffice to remove certain per-
sons from the commission of the peace for this borough,
on the ground that they notoriously desecrated the Sab-
bathy
by employing touters in the Star Packet-office
On the
'(the being themselves directors of the Star Company)
mate Sundays during divine service. After an ani-
d discussion a Committee was appointed to draw
tip a memorial to Sir James Graham for the removal
rum the commission of the gentlemen in question.
Between Oxford-street and Holborn, the new line of

street is rapidly progressing towards completion. A
sewer has been constructed for the whole distance, and
is now being connected with the Oxford-street'and Tot-
tenham-court-road sewers. It is about 1,800 feet in
length, and in depth from the surface fifteen feet, and
has been about two months in execution. The workmen
are now forming the footpaths on each side of the way,
and shortly the gravel which has been excavated in the
course of the formation of the sewer will be removed. It
is exneeted that in a few weeks the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests will issue their proposals for the
erection of the new houses, for which purpose the whole
distance will be divided into separate plots of ground.
The improvements which have been commenced in Pic-
cadilly were authorised by an Act passed on the 9th of
August last, by wkieh it is provided that the space be-
tween Bolton-street in the east, and Park-lane on the
west, should we widened and improved, and that a por-
tion of the Green Park should be appropriated for that
purpose. Power is given to the Commissioners of Woods
and Forests to obtain possession of any property re-
quired to carry out the intention of the Act, and in the
schedule, the mansion occupied by Baro❑ Rothschild,
and belonging to the Crown, is mentioned as requisite
for the improvements.
On Wednesday a Court of the Governors and Sub-
scribers to the Scottish Hospital was held at the Hall of
the Scottish Hospital, Crane•court, Fleet-street, to re-
ceive and confirm the by-laws, &e., Mr. Nisbet in the
Chair. A proposition, moved at the previous Court, to
insure the picture of King William the Fourth (by
Wilkie) for 3001., another of Mary Queen of Scots for
300/., and the whole of them for 6001., was agreed to.
Professor Donaldson moved that at a future Court they
should insure the pictures for seven years, which would
effect a great saving to the hospital. Tho by-law were
confirmed and adopted.
Th• inquest on the bodies of the sufferers by the fatal
explosion at the Haswell colliery was resumed on Tues-
day, and again adjourned.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TUE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

TIMES.—The probable invasion of the Punjaub
occupies a prominent place in our India news of this
month. Hostilities, it is said, are meditated there,
and this invasion is one of self-defence on the side of
this country. Another statement of the case is more
simple, and subjects the territory of the Punjaub to
what is called the law of extension on the part of the
Indian empire. The two statements may probably
be combined. Want of order and government in a
native district takes the form of anti-English out-
breaks ; and the Indian empire outside is a pressure
always at hand to make its way through any channel
opened to it, as air rushes into a vacuum. The result
is the combination we mention—native States act the
assailant, and English empire extends. The case of
the Punjaub is one of a class. No new moral or
political hypothesis has to be invented for it. One
casuistical mould fits all the stages of our Indian
progress from the first. The mould was made
under Lord Clive and Warren Hastings; and it still
remains in the Government workshop, and forms
the foreign policy of one Governor-General after
another. Lord Ellenborough and Sir Henry Har-
dinge are individually as different men, perhaps, as
could be found to succeed each other; but their po-
licy is the same. Their policy is the same, because it
is neither's own policy. Sir H. Hardinge finds his
course cut out for him as soon as ever he gets to
India. He hears as soon as he lands that he is to
invade the Punjaub, and has his lesson given him,
' his line laid down for him—just as a soldier comes
to be drilled. The Governor-Generals act, in this
respect, one like another. The Indian policy is a
Procrustean one with respect to its conductors; and
requires spirit and activity rather than originality
in the latter. Here, in fact, is the old story again,
which recurs like a dream. We heard of Sinde two
years ago and Lord Ellenborough; now of the Pun-
jaub and Sir Henry Hardinge. The internal con-
dition of this State has been one of the greatest
confusion and anarchy for a long time. The chiefs
live by plunder, and amuse themselves with perpetual
feuds ; a weak minor of questionable legitimacy sits
on the throne, and cannot control them. The Sikhs,
a powerful military race, not unlike the Ma-
melukes of Egypt in position, are filled with
-
a spirit of hostility to the Indian Govern-
ment. Dost Mahomed and his son, Akbar Kban,
with a third, Yar Mehemet, the usurper of Herat.,
have, it is said, formed an alliance, and made arrange-
ments with Lieera Singh and the Sikhs, in prepara-
tion for an attack on the English territories. These
intrigues are well known, and Sir Henry Hardinge,
it is thought, will make use of his knowledge, and
anticipate their invasion by an invasion of his own.
A singular unanimity is said to pervade the opera-
tions of the chiefs of the alliance; and they exhibit
altogether a more formidable frontage than a native
attack has often presented. Lord Ellenborough
showed some acuteness, though an acuteness not con-
sistent with the rules of the Company's service,
in the undisguised and bold partiality with which
he treated the military department as opposed
to the civil. Lord Ellenborough seemed to
foresee the line which things were taking, and
saw that the military were the department to
he attended to and complimented. India was bright-
ening up a little from its grave commercial character
into the belligerent one ; and foreign relations were
taking the place of internal. His Lordship took the
camp accordingly, and sank the :Hon. Company's ser-
vant in the gallant man of arms. He took a regular
taste for a soldier's life, acted the comrade, and looked
forward to being the favourite and admired of the
Indian army—their great man. We rather question
whether, if his Lordship had had the veteran experi-
ence of a full-blown general, he would have found his
enthusiasm so great, and whether the charm of novelty
was not a considerable ingredient in the mixture of at-
tractions which connected Lord Ellenborough with the
military department. But so it was. "The only regret
I feel,' says his Lordship in his farewell speech at
the dinner given him by the military society at Cal-
cutta, " the only regret I feel at leaving India, is that
of being separated from the army. The most agree-
able, the most interesting part of my life, has been
that which I have passed here, in cantonments and iii
camp." According as Indian policy takes the foreign
direction, the military acquire more and more im-
portance. If they have a great deal to do, they must
be complimented, cheered, and courted. The late
Governor-General did this; and though he did it in
a way invidious to the civil service, and contrary tt
rule, there was some point in the adoption of the
line. Sir H. Hardinge has now a fair field before.
him. He goes out with apparently fewer difficul-
ties than his predecessor; with a line well marked
out for him, and a thoroughly understood Indian
policy to carry out. According to the account
of our correspondent he has started well, and suc-
ceeded—though there is a disparaging proverb as to
such early successes—in creating a meet favourable
impression of himself in the eyes especially of the na-
tive gentry. He will not have the temptation of a
new soldier to set up the military above the civil, and
make invidious distinctions. With respect to the
Punjaub—there is no reason why he should wait
for a positive invasion from that quarter before com-
mencing proceedings, provided he can satis-
factorily make out that an invasion is threatened.
The ordinary rules of self-defence allow an anticipa-
tion of the attack, provided the intention of attack
can fairly be proved. But there should be this proo
Even our Indian policy, not a very straightlaced
one, should have its evidence to bring forward on
this head. We have alluded to the subject of the
Indian army; we will mention one point—the prac-
tice of military flogging, which is, it is said, to be
revived there, having been dropped ever since Lord
William Bentinck's Governor-Generalship. The dis-
cipline in some of the native regiments seems bad
enough, certainly; but this is not the proper mode of
remedying it. Flogging never reclaimed a mutineer ;
and a recurrence to the practice will be a much more
odious thing than the original practice itself. The
fault in the native regiments seems to be the want of
officers, not of modes of punishment. With the
present inadequate establishment the routine work of
the army, on which so much depends, is necessarily
ill done. We shall be disappointed if the addition of
an extra captain to each regiment will not supersede
the proposed cat-o'-nine-tails. At all events, we hope
the experiment will be tried first.
CHRONICLE.—From Lord Ellenborough's cha-
racter it might easily have been anticipated that he
could not quit the Indian stage without committing
some of those strange antics which must immortalise
him as a hero of political melodrame. Still, his
quiet retirement to private life, and the failure of all
attempts at Calcutta to get him the usual ovation paid
to departing Governors, led us to hope that the award
of such abrupt dismissal had recalled him to a sense
of dignity, and of the respect due to the high office
which he held, as well as to those from whom he de-
rived it ; and although a rumour reached us by the
last mail of his having sat and talked in solemn
banquet with the military chiefs whom he pa-
tronised, casting insult and defiance at the cavil
authorities of the Indian Government, we did not
credit behaviour so marked with spite, disgrace, and
impollcy. If there is a country in the world in which
Europeans of all classes should be taught to hold ami-
cably and equally together, it is India, where they
are so insignificant in numbers and eminent in posi-
tion. If there is a country where civilian rule and
political prudence ought to be made to predominate
over brute ideas of violence and conquest, it is again
India, where the material force of the European is as
nothing compared with his moral predominance—
where wealth and revenue, instead of being co-existent
with empire, is found generally in the inverse propor-
tion of extent, and where glory's a dear and idle gain,
too distant to affect our character with our true rivals,
and calculated to awe merely the subject or semi-
subject races of Asia. Hence all the great men
who have ruled and conquered Hindostan,
gladly embraced every opportunity of sinking
the soldier in the statesman, considering
administrative reform and organization achieve-
ments more difficult and more glorious than
routing or crushing barbarian hordes. As to Lord
Ellenborough, if he was sent to India with any
specific views at all, it was as the representative of
these ideas. He went out enthusiastically, obstinately,
perversely civilian, and his first act was to "snub"
his predecessor, in a proclamation, for having sent
armies across the Indus. The smell of gunpowder
was, however, too much for the weak brains of the
new Governor, and no sooner did he taste of " pomp,
pride, circumstance of glorious war," than all his ideas
of India, of its wants, of his own duties, and of his
employers' wishes, changed as if by the touch of a
magician's wand. Whatever censure such unwarranted
and sudden change may deserve, it certainly is
matter of amazement that his Lordship should
not have been prepared for the strong disap-
probation which hie whisk round to a war-
policy must have excited in England. We
are not now gOing to discuss the merit of the
battle They
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the merelygrea
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is7antionin.
were glories, because won over enemies equal or su-
perior to us in number's, enraged and emboldened by
our own rashness and injustice. We perilled success,
where a slight degree of prudence would have ren-
dered it so certain, that neither Scindia nor Mahratta
durst have offered resistance. They were battles
fought, not for the security of India or the mainte-
nance of rights, but for the glorification of Lord El-
lenborough, and the illustration of his military friends.
That these friends should have feted him •
excites
neither our surprise Tier our censure. But no words
can convey condemnation strong eno hug upon an
individual, placed in the rank of th Q c ueen's vice-
regent and representative in India, who would he
represented as exclusively delighted with all he
had seen in camps—who, having undertaken such
high, such immense administrative and political
1 duties. confi. _ _

ses that hA never Got hi... is

THE S" [N, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER A, 1844.

as in cantonments and camps, and that he leaves
behind him in India no thing or person worthy
his regret., save the military What a member of a
British cabinet, or of the Senate of a constitutional
country We exclaim loudly against Frenchmen,
even against Napoleon, for his changing France into
a barrack. We denounce the present admirals and
generals of France, who sacrifice the peace and inde-
pendence of nations to the hoisting of a flag, to the
shade of conquest, or to a bulletin recording a feat of
military success. But our Lord Ellenborough out-
Frenchifies any Frenchman that ever wore sabre.
And, indeed, when we hear of his feats, read his pro-
clamations, and listen to his account of what he loves
best and alone, we cannot believe that he is an
Englishman; for sentiments and conduct so un-
English, so at variance with English reserve, English
taste, and English dignity, are not to be met with in
biography or history. It will be noted with pleasure
that Sir IL Hardinge declined attending the military
dinner at which hispredecessor made such an unseemly
display. Not the most unseemly part of that display
was the assurance given that Sir Henry Hardinge,
under the advice of the Duke of Wellington, would
" take a correct view of the real interests ohndia."
This correct view his Lordship explained to be to
continue the system of liberality, kind consideration,
and favour towards the troops in India. High ex-
pectations/are accordingly formed of what the mili-
tary intimate of the Duke of Wellington will do,
when his civilian Imategi did so much. New regi-
ments are spoken of as likely to be raised, one captain
to be added to each of the actual regiments. These,
and the re-establishment of military flogging for the
sepoys, are announced as Sir Henry Hardinge's acts
of inauguration. Were such rumours as these to be
realised, then, indeed Lord Ellenborough's threat,
conveyed through his old organ, the EngliAman,
may not prove idle, viz., that Sir Henry Hardinge's
sword,though more polished than Lord Ellenborough's,
would still cut as keenly against the policy and the
interest of the Indian Directors and of the civilian
service. We shall, however, not pass judgment on
Sir Henry Hardinge from hearsay.

CHURCH PREFERMENT.
THE ADVOWSON TO ST. NEOTS.

We called the attention of our readers a few days
since to the circumstance of the intended sale of a
valuable rectory in Suffolk, on the 17th inst. The
printed particulars are now in due course of dis-
tribution. This has afforded us the opportunity to
glean a little from Mr. George Robins's original
remarks on Church property; but our present in-
tention is simply to notice an interesting record con-
nected with the living, which his research has
discovered in White's "_History of Suffolk," and which
we annex to this short statement, observing that in
times like the present, when there is not the least
chance of war, it is not very easy to provide satisfac-
torily for a family; however profitable trade may be,
a man of family cannot sacrifice his son to become a
tradesman. " What then is open to him?" We rejoin,
nothing but the Church, and the natural consequence
that seems to arise is, that Church property is now in
the ascendant. The annual value is about 8801.
DESCRIPTION OF THE SITUATION WHEREIN
THE LIVING IS PLACED.

OPENING OF THE SESSION OF

THE GREEK CHAMBERS.

On the 19th of September the Greek Chambers
opened their session, when King Otho proceeded in
state to the Chamber of Representatives, and read
the subjoined speech :
" Gentlemen of the Chamber of Representatives and
Senate,
" Through the joint exertions of the Crown and
nation the foundations of the constitution have been laid.
Through the same exertions the institutions of the
country will be lawfully developed and improved. May
Providence protect and defend our joint labours.
" The relations existing between Foreign Powers and
me are most amicable, and it is a great satisfaction to me
to be enabled to inform you of it ; but we are particu-
larly indebted to the Powers that have zealously seconded
us in our struggles, that have afforded us real support,
and effected and protected our independence. My Mi-
nisters will lay before you a report upon the state of the
administration and finances ; and, whilst observing the
utmost economy, they will demand of you the means of
carrying on the public service, and of securing our future
welfare.

" We shall not neglect the claims of our glorious past.
We shall likevrise duly provide for the splendour of our
holy religion. We shall uphold it, and develop it as
well as public instruction by a complete organisation.
We shall also bestow due attention on the completing
and improving the army in such a way as may best
insure the safety of the state, and the execution of the
laws.

" It will be your province, Gentlemen, to assist my
Government by affording it those lawful moans, so that
the administration of the affairs of the State may not
encounter difficulties detrimental both to public and pri-
vate interests.

" Laws will be submitted to your consideration, the
object of which will be to render individual liberty invio-
late, and to confer on our flag the respect due to us. My
Ministers will also submit to your attentive considera-
tion laws calculated to improve agriculture, commerce,
and our shipping.
" The development of the code of laws, and the adap-
tation of them to the state of the nation, will be the first
object you will have to attend to in the present session.
" Believe me, Gentlemen, I feel the deepest and most
patriotic emotion on this solemn day, when I consider
the great importance of the questions that are about, to
engage your attention, and the immense influence your
decisions will exercise over the welfare of Greece.

"Rattlesden is a large village, in a picturesque valley,
on one of the sources of the river Gipping, five miles
W. of Stowmarket, and nine miles E.S.E. of Bury
St. Edmund's, has in its parish 1,142 souls, and about
3,200 acres of land, generally having a fertile clayey
soil, and including ,a small enclosed fen, several open
greens or commons, and the hamlet of Poy-street-
green and Hightown-green, from one to two miles.
S., and Clopton-green, one mile N. of the village.
The greater part of the open fields, &0., were enclosed
about ten years ago, and the fen about seventy years
ago. Clopton Hall, with the estate attached to it, is
the seat and manor of Captain Windsor Parker, and
was long the residence of the Clopton family. John
Mosely, Esq., is Lord of the Manor of Rattlesden,
which was held by the Bishop of Ely until the
fourth of Elizabeth, and was granted, in the second
of James the First to Philip The and William
Blake. It passed to the Moseleys in the early
part of last century, together with the Adeowson of
the Rectory. The Cocksedge, Boldero, Mudd,
Winson, Canham, Eaton, Firnian, Pettit, and some
other families, have estates in the parish, and the soil
is mostly freehold. The church (St. Nicholas) is a
neat edifice, with a tower containing five bells, and
iurmounted by a spire. The rectory, valued in K. 13.
at 201. Os. 2id., has about 50 acres of glebe, and a
yearly modus of 7801. awarded, in 1840, in lieu-of
tithes. The Rev. James Oakes is the incumbent, and
John Barney, Esq., is patron, and has the next pre-
sentation. The Baptists have a chapel here, built in
1808, and rebuilt in 1823." Vide "White's History
of Suffolk."

The glebe extends to 44 acres, and the land is
exceedingly good. There is a capital garden, and
all the auxiliaries essential to comfort. The incum-
bent is seventy-five, but the on dits affirm he is nearer
to eighty.
The parsonage-house will afford the new purchaser
an opportunity to display his taste in alterations and
improvements. This will employ his leisure time when
he succeeds to the living, and try his pocket to the
extent of a few hundreds.

" Let us, therefore, by acting together with sincerity
and prudence, strive to maintain and improve that which
you have won by your heroic deeds and immense sa-
crifices.

DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Last evening, shortly before
five o'clock, the lucifer-match factory, belonging to Mr.
['yams, situate in Princes-square, Wilson-street, Fins-
bury, was discovered to be on fire. The 'factory is a
large one, and is surrounded by numerous other build-
ings. The fire originated in what is technically termed
the " stove," a building fitted up with wooden racks, and
used for drying the goods. When first perceived the
flames had obtained the complete possession of the entire
stock in the place. The parties connected with the
works endeavoured, as did also several of the neighbours,
to extinguish the flames by means of buckets of water,
but owing to the overpowering nature of the effluvium
emitted from the matches as they became ignited, the
persons were compelled to desist, and send for the as-
sistance of the fire-engines. Engines from Whitecross-
street, Jeffrey-Square, and Watling-street brigade sta-
tions, were speedily at the scene, and being aided by
plenty of water, the firemen succeeded in putting the fire
out before it had done greater damage than consuming the
building in which it originated. The damage, notwith-
standing, is very considerable. The origin of the fire
could not be explained, but there is no doubt it arose
from over beat. Unfortunately, Mr. flyams is unin-
sured.

" Let us endeavour to obliterate all recollection of
past melancholy events; let only emulation, a laudable
and patriotic emulation, to promote the prosperity of
our country survive them, and, with a persevering will,
let us pursue the right and regular course, which can
alone lead our beloved country unto felicity and glory.
" Such is the ardent wish of my heart; my whole life
shall be devoted to the defence of our liberties, and the
advancement of the welfare of the nation; in the accom-
plishment of which exalted task I claim your co-opera-
tion. Let us all implore the Almighty to vouchsafe his
support to our common efforts.
•' I now declare the session of the Chambers for the
present year opened."

We understand a somewhat interesting native of
India, " Mohem Lal," arrived in London by the last
overland mail, He is the same who travelled in Central
Asia in disguise, with the late Sir Alexander Burnes,
and subsequently published his journal in Calcutta. Since
that period he has been devoted to British interests, and
was greatly instrumental in effecting the deliverance of
our prisoners in Afghanistan. We hear he has been re-
ceived with marked attention by the Chairman of the East
India Company, who, after honouring him with a visit,
invited him to dinner at his residence. He will shortly
proceed to Scotland, to meet the parents of his late la-
mented friend Sir Alexander Burnes.—Post.
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BRIGHTON, OCT. 2.—The Magnet steamer arrived
here yesterday from Dieppe, having made the passage in
seven hours. Among her numerous passengers was a
courier, the bearer of dispatches from M. Guizot, who,
immediately after landing, Proceeded by a special train
to London. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset have
taken one of the largest mansions at the west end of
the town for the winter, but are not expected to arrive
till the latter end of the month. The Duke of St. Alban's
has taken a house at Kemp Town from the Ist of
October, but is not expected to arrive till next week.
The Countess and the Ladies Cadogan took their de-
parture yesterday from the Marine-parade, for London.
Lady Harle7, Mr. and Lady Goding, Sir Samuel Clarke
Jervoise, Sir Charles Des Nrceux' General Sir Arthur
Upton, Sir F. Hankey, and Mr. Blackstone, M.P., are
among our arrivals. Lord and Lady Lurgan have taken
their departure from the Norfolk Hotel, for Ireland.
Mr. Sergeant Goulburn has taken a house on the Ma-
rine-parade, where the Learned Sergeant has arrived
with his family. M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Am-
bassador, after a short stay, has taken his departure for
London.

Ax
ENIGMA.—The 11Rja Moorshebadai once
asked what that was, that did not happen last year, has
not happened this year, and will not happen next year?
And the chiefs and the merchants, the astrologcre, and
the hakims, could give no answer; but a poor horseman
stepped forth, and, having kissed the ground, and put
his forehead to the earth, rose, and, folding his arms,
exclaimed, "May your Highness's shadow never be less,
and may you live a thousand years—as long as your
father, the sun, and your brother, the moon; but your
Highness did not pay your servants last year, you have
not paid them this. year, and your Highness's people
cannot expect, therefore, to be paid next year ; ' and,
with a low salaam, the man retired, expecting, doubtless,
to lose his ears ; but on the contrary, the Raja ordered
him a khelat (dress of honour), nod that year he raid the