The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-23 00:00:00

rriE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23 184 4

MR. SALOMONS AND HIS SUP-

PORTERS IN THE PORTSOKEN WARD.
Yesterday Mr. Sslemons entertained a large party of
his friends and supporters in the late contest for the
aldermanie gown of the ward of Portsoken, at the Lon-
don Tavern. Nearly 300 gentlemen sat down to dinner.
Amongst the company who were present were the Baron
A. :de Rothschild, James, Esq. (barrister), James
Thomson, J. S. Hall, Standing, E. James, Lush,
J. Saul, James Kilby, John Kenzie, S. Jutsum, Wm.
Scholey, 11. Child, J. Charles Prior, Randall Glynes,
Wm. Coates, and E. Smith, Esqs., and most of the in-
fluential and wealthy electors and inhabitants of the
ward of Portsoken.

The dinner was of a very costly description, and was
worthy of the long-established fame of Messrs. Bathe
and Breach. The wines were excellent. The portion
of the repast provided for the gentlemen of the Jewish
persuasion was cooked and provided by Messrs. Meyers
and Sons.

The cloth having been removed, and the usual loyal
toasts having been given, and responded to in the most
enthusiastic manner,
The CHAIRMAN proceeded to give " The health of
her Majesty's Ministers." Though he did not seek to
make this a political meeting, yet it partook in some
respects, at least, both of a political and yet a private
meeting. Still there was this distinction, that where in
a meeting at one's own house certain toasts might be
dispensed with, on the present occasion, and on all simi-
lar occasions, he considered they must be anxious to pay
respect to her Majesty's Ministers.—(Cheers.) At the
head of the Administration was placed a Right Hon.
Gentleman, of whom the country ought to be proud—
a gentleman, who was, as it were, but one step removed
from themselves—a gentleman, the son of a manufac-
turer, who had risen by his own industry and skill to
the highest position to which a subject of her Majesty
could aspire.—(Cheers.) Sir Robert Peel was a man of
the highest talent, and of unblemished character, who
applied all his time and his talents to the service of his
country. They ought to try every man by the test of
his own conduct, and there could be no doubt that Sir
Robert Peel and his Ministry had made great advances
in favour of public opinion, and looking to that Right
llon. Gentleman as the head of the Government, he
begged to propose " The Health of Sir Robert Peel and
her Majesty's Ministers."
This toast was responded to with acclamation.
Mr. SeLosioNs again rose and said that, though he
did not wish to make this a party or political meeting,
he must say he had great satisfaction and pleasure in
seeing around him those persons to whom he was in-
-1 debted for having placed him in the position to which
he had aspired in the Court of Aldermen.—(Greatcheer-
ing.) Ho was very much obliged for that display of
generous feeling, though ho stood in the equivocal posi-
tion as to whether lie was an Alderman de facto or de
jure. lie might be described as placed like the tomb of
Mahommecl, between earth and heaven.—(Laughter.)
The men of the ward of Portsoken had done their duty
nobly ; and he was much obliged to them for their un-
bought suffrages, which had placed him in a proud po-
Sition. The lion. Gentleman concluded by giving " The
independent electors of Portsoken, particularly the 168
who had voted for him."

SAMUEL HALL returned thanks in a speech of some
length, in which he acknowledged the high compliment
which had been paid him and his fellow-labourers by
their worthy Alderman—(Cheers)—for such he must
call him until he should be better instructed. Having
repudiated the calumny of the voters having been gained
over by pecuniary considerations, the Hon. Gentleman
concluded by proposing " The Health of David Salo-
mons, Esq., their Alderman."
(Here great cheering followed, in the midst of which,
upon Mr. Salomons rising to respond to the toast, the
toastmaster (Mr. Harker) called out " Silence for the
Alderman 1' and the cheering was then renewed.)
Mr. SaLomoNs said—After the proceedings of the
previous day, he begged his friends to understand that
hejneither had the advantage, nor had be the vanity of
considering himself as their Alderman,—(Cries of " It
must be,")—although he did flatter himself that that
cognomen might shortly be applied to him; nevertheless
he was very much obliged to his friend, Mr. Hall, and
the gentlemen present, for the kind manner in which
they had been pleased to express their feelings towards
himself. Having borne testimony to the zeal and judg-
ment of Mr. Hall, as the chairman of his committee,
Mr. Salomons proceeded in strong terms to repudiate the
malevolent and malignant calumny which had been
spread by his opponents, that the electors of Portsoken
had been unduly influenced by any considerations what-
ever. In his own case, he had been met on one hand
by a legal technicality, and on the other hand by an
attempt equally malignant and malevolent, to make this
matter assume the character of a sort of religious
question. In his opinion, the question of personal
feeling being acceded, it then assumed that of a
moral aspect. Nine years ago, he had presented him-
self to a neighbouring ward, who had considered him
personally fitted to the situation to which he aspired; he
was returned to the Court of Aldermen. Now, the Ame-
rican acceptation of the word " repudiate" was not what
the party would not do, but that it was not convenient
to pay. That expressed more strongly the position in
which he (Mr. Salomons) stood. It was not that he had
not been legally elected, but that it was not convenient
for the Court of Aldermen to admit him, or to elect him.
The Hon. Gentleman here took a lengthened view of the
various Acts of Parliament previous to 1828, which bore
upon the question of disabilities of various deaomina-
Lions. The Act of 1828, the abolition of the Test and
Corporation Acts, had not contemplated the exclusion of
the Jews. The Acts of 1837 and 1838 were made, it
was true, to apply to Quakers, Moravians, and Separatists.
They knew a.Cltuaker often by the shape of his hat—the
Moravian by the cut of his coat—but as to the Separa-
tist, how were they to distinguish him ? The true in-
tent and moaning of these later Acts of Parliament was,
that every man should take that oath which should
be most binding on his conscience. For himself, had
he chosen to enter by the by-door, he might at once
have come into office, but he would not violate his
conscience—he might have attained the object of his
ambition, if he had been willing to assume the cha-
racter of a " Separatist," which he had been advised
indeed to do. Against the highest legal officer of
the Corporation, ho begged to say he made no com-
plaint. The effect of the present law was that many
honest men were kept out of office. In Holland and in
England, the two countries where the Jews enjoyed the
most freedom, commerce and manufactures had
flourished most. After many further observations on
these points, the lion. Gentleman concluded by assuring
his friends that in any and every situation of life in which
he might be placed, he would feel delighted in serving his
fellow-citizens. . _

Mr. JAMES rose to propose "The health of the Lord
Mayor of London, and the Trade thereof." The Hon.
and Learned Gentleman adverted to the case of Mr.
Salomons, as being one of a very anomalous character,
for whereas a Jew had the right to issue the Queen's
writ, and to fulfil the most important duties, yet it was
said the law held that he should be excluded from muni-
cipal offices in the City of London, as regarded the
Court of Aldermen. Tho declaration which was re-
quired to be made certainly smacked much of Oxford.
The Jews were not hostile to the Established Church ;
on the contrary, he believed the great majority of that
most respectable body held it in high respect ; they
never offended its etiquette. The Jews contributed
largely to the trade, the commerce, and the well-being
of the City of London. Ho hoped that when her most
gracious Majesty visited the City it would be whispered
into her Majesty's ear that a vast body of her loyal sub-
jects were excluded from a fair and equal participation
of their municipal rights.
The CHAIRMAN next proposed " The Health of Mr.
Hall," with high eulogiums on the zeal and activity of that
gentleman.
Mr. HALL returned thanks. .
The next toast was "Mr. Twisdcn Hodges and the
Kent magistracy."
Mr. T. HoDaEs returned thanks, and bore testimony
to the high character and integrity of his brother magis-
trate, Mr..Salomons, whom he supported as an advocate

for the full freedom of religious
Mr. SALomoris proposed " The gentlemen visitors and
non-electors, and especially Mr. Coates."
Mr. COATES returned thanks in a speech which we aro
bound to say evinced much talent.
A variety of other toasts followed, and the company
separated at a late hour.
The ventilation of the splendid room in which the
dinner was given has been very much improved under
the system of Mr. Cubitt. The room, though crowded,
was kept at a comfortable temperature, and the improve-
ment is such that we think it will hereafter induce many
aged valetudinarians to venture again into crowded
rooms to partake of good cheer, without fear of endan-
gering their health.

ASSAULTING THE POLICE •AT WINDSOR CASTLE.
—Yesterday a man, who gave his name John Rose, and
who had been remanded upon two former occasions, was
convicted before the Mayor, Mr. Blunt, and Mr. R.
Tebbott, of a violent assault on James Kinner, ono of
the metropolitan police in constant attendance at the
Castle, on the day of the investiture of the Ring of the
French as a Knight of the Garter. It appeared that
the defendant, a Swede (who spoke French and English
fluently), went to Windsor on speculation, during the
visit of Louis Philippe to her Majesty, to act as inter-
preter and guide to any foreigner who might desire to
employ him in those capacities. In consequence of the
misconduct on former occasions of a set of fellows call-
ing themselves " guides," strict orders had been issued
by the Master of the Household, that none of this fra
ternity should be permitted to approach the Castle
nearer than the Norman gateway. This man, however,
managed to pass through the gateway, and proceeded up
to the tradesmen's entrance ; and, upon being ordered
away by the police, in pursuance of their instructions,
he resisted, and was taken to the station-house. While
there, he became more violent, and during the time he
was being searched (having made a threat that he would
stick a knife into Louis Philippe), he kicked Kinner on
the neck, and bit his hand so severely as to cause the
loss of a considerable quantity of blood. Tho prisoner,
who made a long, rambling, written defence, stated that
he was engaged that morning by a foreign gentleman
to act as interpreter, who had brought a present for
Prince Albert from the Emperor of Russia. He denied
having kicked or bitten the police, but admitted that he
resisted on being taken to the station-house. The pri-
soner was convicted of the assault in the penalty of 40-s.
and cost!, Bs. 6d., and, in default, to be committed to the
House of Correction at Reading for one month. The
man, having no money, was taken to prison.
DANGERS OF CROWDED THOROUGHFARES.—Yes-
terday an elderly gentleman was standing on the kerb-
stone in Newgate-street, when suddenly the wheel of a
truck, heavily laden, ran against him, throwing him
violently into the gutter. Several persons immediately
raised him from the ground, when it was discovered that
he had sustained a dreadful compound fracture of the
left thigh, the hones protruding. A police stretcher was
procured, and
he was convey ad on it to St. Bartholomew's
kiospital,

CHINESE TREATY.
(From the Journal des Debats.)

The dispatches from China, brought by fast mail, con,
tain intelligence which is important to all nations whose
commerce is preparing to avail itself of the establishment
of the English at Hong-Kong, and of the opening of the
five ports on the Chinese coast. Interesting in a com-
mercial respect, these accounts are equally so in an his-
torical point of view.
The statesmen of the Celestial Empire, although the
last initiated in the difficult science of diplomacy, are
likely to distinguish themselves in it, judging by their
debut. Their coup d'essai is a coup de maitre; for it will
be presently seen that, by a treaty, regularly negotiated,
accepted, and ratified, they have just reconquered for
elusive and haughty
their country—at least very nearly—the position, ex-
made them lose. enough, that an unfortunate war had
It will bo remembered that Sir Henry Pottinger had
been commissioned to negotiate with the Chinese com-
missioners a treaty supplementary to that of Nanking, in
wder to define and limit the commercial relations that
were to be opened with all nations, and especially between
England and China, We published that document some
mouths ago, such as it had been translated in the Official
Gazette of Hong-Kong ; but we had then no data to
appreciate its terms or real scope. It now appears that
that translation was not a correct one, and that Sir Henry
Pottinger had been the victim of a shameful fraud. The
principal interpreter of the British Legation, Mr. J. R.
Morrison, died whilst the articles were being drawn up.
His death, as Sir Henry Pottinger said at the time, was
a national calamity to England, but its consequences
have been still more disastrous than he anticipated, for,
availing themselves of the ignorance of the English pleni-
potentiary both in commercial matters and in the Chinese
language, and of the acrimony that prevailed between him
and the English merchants, who might have given him
advice, the Chinese diplomatists who were opposed to him,
bribed with money the new interpreter, employed from
necessity as a substitute for Mr. Morrison, and Sir
Henry Pottinger happens to have accepted and ratified
in the name of his G•vernment terms that annul, very
nearly, all the advantages obtained by the English at
the cost of so much blood and money, and which will
probably check for a long time to come the rise of the
newly created colony of Hong-Kong.
The fact is, that on comparing the supplementary
treaty, such as it had been submitted to Sir Henry Pot-
tinger by the interpreter whom he had trusted in, with a
second translation made in England by the most learned
professors of the Chinese language, it has just been dis-
covered that the most serious and most deplorable dif-
ferences exist between the two translations. In the ver-
sion submitted to Sir Henry Pottinger, not only has the
meaning of several articles been designedly altered, but
important clauses, and whole paragraphs have been left
out, whilst they remain irrevocably recorded, and have
force of law in the original treaty he signed as pleni-
potentiary.
These alterations and suppressions bear upon the
whole document, but principally upon the 13th and the
17th articles, the immediate effect of which is to annul
the establishment of Hong-Kong; to exclude it from all
participation, by transit or coasting trade, in the trade
of the several nations with the five ports; and lastly, to
restrict, nearly as it was before the war, the commerce
of all nations to the sole port of Canton.
The following are the articles, according to the cor-
rect translation; the italics denote the passages altered
or suppressed in the version submitted to Sir Henry

Pottiuger:—
Art. 1. Henceforward: when the Chinese merchants
shall wish to export goods in order to sell them at Hong-
Kong,t
nthey shall
inone orotherbeginbypaying the duties according
e the wtariff
of the five ports of
Canton, Fouchoo, Amoy, Ningpo, or Shanghao, and by
receiving in exchange passes from one of those localities.
2. When the Chinese merchants shall wish to repair to
Hong-Kong, in order to take in cargoes of European
goods, they shall in the same way present themselves
before the Chinese authorities of the ports of Canton,
Fouchoo, Amoy, Ningpo, or Shanghae, and demand a
permit for the introduction of such goods paying the
required duties. But every Chinese merchant who shall
buy goods at Hong-Kong shall not ship them in any
but Chinese vessels provided with passes delivered
at Hong-Kong. These passes and permits shall be every
time and at every voyaye subscribed (vised) by the cfficers
of the Chinese Custom-house, in order to avoid all contra-
vention.* As for the other ports of the Kwang-Tong,
Fukien, Chekiang, and Kiangsoo, such as Chapoo, &c.,
as they are not authorised factories (comptoirs), the mer-
chants are not permitted to solicitpasses there for Hong-
Kong ; and if from those parts they repair without
permission to Hong-Kong, the English and Chinese
Custom-houses shall make combined efforts to discover
and denounce them.

Art. 17. The small English coasting vessels of every
description, such as schooners, nutters, yawls, &c., have
hitherto paid no, duty. It is now agreed that all those
vessels, whether coming from Hong-Kong to Canton,
whether they return from Canton to Macao (excepting
those exclusively used for correspondence or passengers),
the moment they shall carry the smallest bale of goods,
even only weighing 1001bs., shall thenceforward pay duty
in proportion to their tonnage. Nevertheless, as it would
not be fair to apply to them the same scale as to large
foreign ships, and seeing that they may go to and fro
several times during the month, they shall be thus classi-
fied—the smallest shall be considered of 75 tons (whether
they have or not that tonnage), and the largest shall be
of 150. Both shall pay a " mace" per ton every time they
shall enter the port. All that shall exceed 150 tons shall
be considered as large ships coming from foreign parts, and
according to the new tariff, shall pay Ale mace per ton.t
As for Fouchoe, Amoy, IV ingpo, and Shanykae, as none
of those coasting vessels enter it, it is useless to make any
reyalations on the sulliects
These two articles, adds the Debuts, coincide, and
are linked together with an art that oould not be too
much admired, if their consequences were not equally
detrimental to all flags, by excluding them, or nearly so,
from the four ports so recently opened. In fact, accord-
ing to the wording of these articles, it becomes quite
ruinous to land at Hong-Kong the goods destined for
the Chinese continent, since, in compliance with the 13th
article, their re-exportation can take place but in Chinese
vessels, that is to say in junks, which can sail but with
the monsoon, at tido intervals, always with a good
wind, by quietly keeping close to the coast, and which
thus effect in six months a voyage which an European
coasting vessel would accomplish in a few weeks.
There remains, indeed, the alternative of using English
vessels of above one hundred and fif tons ; but,
ivy such case, with the enormous duty of: five "mace"'
per ton, the cost of freight from Hong-Kong to Amoy (a
distance of some hundreds of miles) is nearly the same
as from Liverpool to Canton (a distance of seven thou-
sand leagues.) Lastly, supposing that a ship directly
goes to the five ports without touching at Hong-Kong,
the owners will have to pay five, six, or even seven
times (if they wish to report a return cargo), that exor-
bitant duty of five " mace " at each port, that is to say,
twenty-five, thirty, or thirty-five " mace " per ton for
the whole voyage, or " much more " (as the Friend of
China, of the 17th of April says) than it would cost to
dispatch, without any other trouble, the goods from Can-
ton, by the canals of the interior. This last method
will, therefore, bo reverted to, for it avoids immense
fatigue, and all the dangers of navigation; or, in other
words, we shall revert to the old system of commerce
exclusively with Canton, where it is always certain to
find return cargoes. Thanks to the wording of the sup-
plementary treaty, the freedom of commerce with the
northern ports is, therefore, perfectly illusory; it is a
mere nominal privilege. It also follows that Hong.
Kong will henceforth be but accidentally visited by such
ships as may require a refuge in bad weather.
• This whole Passage had been suppressed.
t The meaning of this had been given in a very confused
manner.

: This passage had been completely suppressed.

[The French papers in general show the most deplor-
able ignorance of the state of affairs in China and India,
and we have published the preceding article, not that we
attach any importance to it, but solely from the respect-
ability of the journal in whioh it appears. But that
journal, as on a former occasion, had trusted to its cor-
respondent in the East, who has one great merit—that
of invention.—ED. Sun.]

AN ASSEMBLY OF GREEDY GLUTTONS.--An Ostend
newspaper, which yesterday reached our office, relates
the following anecdote of an Englishman, who appears
to entertain but little respect for temperance and " total
abstinence" pledges:—" A few days ago (says our infor-
mant) this person, who has been long resident at Ostend,
being desirous of giving a feast to sundry masons and
carpenters, amounting in number to 45, employed in al.
tering his house, ordered a supper to be prepared, con-
sisting, besides several entremets, of ten largo pieces of
roast beef, weighing altogether about 108 kilogrammes
(2391 b.), and ten puddings, in which, besides 30 bottles
of rum, were distributed an enormous quantity of Corin-
thian raisins, sugar, spices, and eggs, &c. Theseud-
dings weighed altoge. tier about 112 kilogrammes (248i1b.)
The beverage provided to wash down this Brobdigna-
gian meal was exclusively confined to rum punch. There
not being any plates at hand sufficiently large, our Eng-
lishman had ordered to be brought as many plates as
there were guests.
i The feast was served up by 15 ser-
vants. The state n which the 45 artisan reached home,
after their libations of punch, may be easily conceived.
There was, it is said, an immense demand the following
day for iced soda-water and other refrigerating drinks 1"
FATAL ACCIDENT.-0B Thursday morning, James
Lindley, an operative joiner, employed in erecting an
addition (about sixty yards long and eight stories
high) to the mill of. Mr. James Fernley, Albion-
street, now occupied by Messrs. James Stuttard and
Co., fell from the seventh story of the new erec-
tion to the ground floor. Ile was immediately conveyed
to the Royal Infirmary, where it was found that he had
received a severe fracture of the base of the skull,
of which injury he died about twenty minutes after
he was admitted. An inquest was held yester-
day before Mr. Chapman, and it was stated in evi-
dence that the deceased was attempting to land some
joists for the roofing, which were being hoisted up by
means of a pulley, when the joists came in contact
with a plank, upon which he was standing, and the con-
sequence was that he fell as stated, without coming in
contact with anything until he reached the ground floor.
The occurrence seemed purely accidental, and the jury
returned a verdict to that effect. The deceased was
twenty-four years of age, and was unmarried. Ho was
engaged to be married in a fortnight.—Manchester
Guardian.

THE WHEAT SOWlNG.—During the last week the
weather has been tolerably dry, and very no for the
season of the year, so that the preparing of the land for
wheat sowing and the sowing itself have proceeded pros-
perously. The land films up in excellent condition, and
insures a dry bed and a safe germination for the seed.
This is of the utmost consequence, as it secures the plant
from injury during the most critical period of its growth.
—Liverpool Times.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.--The Queen and Prince Al-
bert walked for some time this morning in the
pleasure-grounds adjoining the Castle.
In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal High-
ness again promenaded in the Home Park.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
he Princess Royal were taken for their accustomed
exercise in the forenoon on the Castle terrace and the
pleasure-grounds.
The Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Hardwicke,
Sir Henry Pottinger, and Sir Henry Wheatley,
took their departure from the Castle to-day.
This afternoon the Royal Family were taken
airings in the Home Park.

Lady Portman has arrived at the Castle, and has
succeeded the Countess of Gainsborough as Lady in
Waiting on the Queen.
The lion. Captain Duncombe has also arrived at
the Castle, and has succeeded Sir Frederick Stovin as
the Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. ,

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, arrived in town
yesterday morning, from Kew. Their Royal High-
nesses left Cambridge House in the afternoon, on their
return to Kew.

A deputation on the Buxton Railway, consisting
of Mr. Henry Tootal, Deputy-Chairman of the Bux-
ton Railway, Mr. David Waddington, Deputy Chair-
man of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway
Company, Mr. John Lowe, engineer, Mr. James
Wheeler, and Mr. Grahame had an interview with
the Earl of Dalhousie 'yesterday, at the office of the
Board of Trade,
His Excellency M. Dedel had an interview with
Lord Aberdeen at the Foreign- office yesterday.
A deputation from the Monmouthshire Canal Com-
pany, consisting of Mr. Blakemore, M.P., Mr. Mor-
gan, M.P., Mr. Phillips, Mr. Mostyn, solicitor, Mr.
Carter, chief clerk, Mr. Marsh, engineer, and Mr.
Hayward, Parliamentary agent, had an interview yes-
terday with the Earl of Dalhousie, at the Board of
Trade.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.

Lady Dodd and family, in Wimpole-street, from Li-
verpool; James M'Taggert, Esq., and Mrs. Meraggert,
at Marsall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square, from
Lyndhurst, Hants; George Farley, Esq., and Mrs. Far-
ley, at ditto; Cotton, Esq., at ditto; Pomroy, Esq.,
at ditto; Carain and Mrs. Mundy Pole, at ditto, from
the Continent; Manning, Esq., and Mrs. Manning, at
ditto; W. Lowndes, Esq., at Nelson's Hotel, Portland-
place, from Birmingham; Edward Brown, Esq., at ditto;
D. J. Thompson, Esq., and Mrs. Thompson, at ditto,
from Portugal; E. M. White, Esq., and Mrs. White, at
ditto; H. M. Morgan, Esq., at ditto, from Iloughton
Lodge, Stockbridge.
DEPARTURES.

J. Fairlie, Esq., from Marshall Thompson's Hotel,
Cavendish-square, for Newmarket; Mrs. and Miss Phi-
lips, from ditto, for Brighton; Alfred Gill, Esq., from
Nelson's Hotel, Portland-place; W. Walker, Esq., and
Mrs. Walker, from ditto, for Hastings; T. Lomas, Esq.,
from ditto, for Bury, Lancashire; James Brown, Esq.,
M.P., from ditto, for County Mayo; 11. W. Dallas, Esq.,
from ditto; Rev. C. Borrer, Mrs. Borrer, and family,
from ditto; A. A. Browne, Esq.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT to the CITY.
Yesterday the following proclamation was issued
by the Lord Mayor,_ for the purpose of keeping the
streets clear on Monday next

" MAGNAY, MAYOR.
"Mansion-house, Oct. 22, 1844.
"Her most gracious Majesty haying graciously
signified her intention of being present at the opening
of the Royal Exchange on Monday next, the 28th
instant, the Lord Mayor hereby directs that
no carriages, carts, or other vehicles, nor
cattle of any description, will be allowed to pass over
Blackfriars-bridge, or through any streets or thorough-
fares in the line of procession from Temple-bar to the
New Exchange, between the hours of ten o'clock in
the morning and six o'clock in the afternoon ; and
that the police have directions to see that the above
orders are complied with.
" By order, " S. GOODMAN, Clerk."
In pursuance of the above order, and for the
purpose of better carrying out his Lordship's direc-
tions, workmen were yesterday employed in fixing
up barriers at the end of all the streets in the City
through which the royal procession will pass. Similar
measures will be adopted outside the City, under the
direction of the Metropolitan police, a considerable
number from each division having )een ordered to
keep the line clear from Buckingham Palace to
Temple-bar, assisted by the two Regiments of Horse
Guards.

At the Royal Exchange there are to be four
entrances for the general company, in addition to the
principal entrance at the western front. These were
:completed yesterday, and are situate two in Cornhill,
and two in Bartholomew-lane.

In the area around St. Paul's, seats capable of con-
taining from 10,000 to 15,000 persons, and extending
from the north-west to the north-east side, are in the
course of erection. These are to be covered in, and
lined inside with pink and white drapery, with simi-
lar decorations as those used in 1837. At some of the
shops in Cheapside the goods have been removed from
the windows, and seats fitted up in lieu of them. In
the neighbourhood of the Exchange as much as five
guineas is asked for a single seat, whilst throughout
the whole line not one is to bp obtained under 10s. Gd.

THE POOR MAN'S CHURCH.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

- -
am not generally in the habit of reading
novels or romances, but I have lately been induced to
read on of each class ; the first a novel by Mrs.
Trollope, entitled " The Vicar of Wrexhill ;" the
second a romance by the Rev. W. G. Ward, Fellow
of Balliol College, Oxford, rightly named, " An
Ideal Church." I have made several extracts from
pages 420, 421, 422, and 426, which are at your ser-
ice for publication, should you deem them worthy of
notice, on the principle that no reasonable roan
would hesitate to stoop to pick a sovereign out of a
gutter.—l am, Sir, yours, &c.
Ilfracombe, Oct. 22. A PROTESTANT.

" It has been so generally professed of late years,
that a Christian society is bound to be a Poor Man's
Church,' and that it is the high and peculiar preroga-
tive of the Church to alleviate the misery of the
humble and oppressed, that the task seems incumbent
on ma—however ungracious—of estimating the praises
heaped on the English system by this standard. Let
me ask, then, while all the frightful and accumulated
mass of misery which now oppresses our land was
gradually, during the last sixty years, growing to
head, where was the voice of the National Church
heard drawing attention to its growth ? That the
civil Government, who are obliged_ to cope, day by
day, with present and passing emergencies, should
not have had the leisure or the thought to take a de-
liberate and far-seeing view of our social condition,
this is hardly a matter of blame : but where was the
Poor Man's Church ?' How is it conceivable that
she can, at that time, have really thought or eared
for the poor, without becoming cognisant of the fatal
disease in progress, and loudly proclaiming its exist-
ence to the country and to the world ? What other
appellation than that of grossly and miserably corrupt
can we give to a system under which such monstrous
neglect was so much as possible ? Well—at length,
through no agency of hers, the attention of the whole
nation has been called, in some insufficient measure to
the perils under which we lie; all honour to Lord
Ashley, and his precursors and coa ljutors in the noble
task ! Has the English Church at least exhibited the
grace of humiliation and repentance ? Has the blush
of shame been visible on our cheek ? Have her
ministers sorrowfully and contritely confessed their
sinful and unpardonable dereliction of duty, and taken
on themselves bitter shame, as fact after fact was
brought to light ?—facts which it was their bounden
duty long since to have dragged into the face of day,
and which place in still stronger colours the godless-
ness and depravity of vast portions of her flock. In- '
credible as it might have appeared, the very con-
ception would seem never to have occurred to them :
with unruffled brow and complacent voice they have still
repeated their insane watchwords, pure and aisosto-
heal," holy and venerable' Church, and have dared to
speak of the corruptions of other Christian bodies, when
they should rather have been in lowly and penitential
abasement, mourning those of their own. By what
process of effrontery can we bring ourselves so much
as to breathe the name of the 'Poor Man's Church' in
connexion with our system, if we are compelled to •
acknowledge that nothing like this has been the case ?
For more than ten years the great principle has been
echoed from mouth to mouth, that our Church is no
creature of the State, that she derives her duties and
her privileges from a far Higher and more August
Authority. Has the zeal displayed for this principle
been only caused by our desire of having something
to say which shall close the mouth of Roman Catholic
and Dissenter? Or, if not so, how is it that we have
failed to see, that the more triumphantly we vindi-
cate No great truth, the more plainly we publish our
own shame ? For if it be directly by God, and not
by the State, that the poor are committed to our
charge, no supineness or neglect of our civil gover-
nors can do ought but even aggravate our own guilt,
in that we did not compensate for their slackness and
insensibility, by a double measure of zeal and watch-
fulness. When members of a Church, which has thus
basely betrayed her trust, find it difficult to conceive
that sonic among their brethren can, without the
most serious moral delinquency, abhor and denounce
the system under which such betrayal was possible ;
when they accuse us of violence, eccentricity, and
paradox, because we cannot consider a Church pure
which neither bears witness against wealth, nor pro-
tects poverty, I can only say, that our hatred of the
existing system cannot more offend them than their
toleration, nay, admiration of it, perplexes and asto-
mashes

"To be lukewarm, to be insensible of her own cor-
ruptions, to be loud in her own praise, are the notes
given in Scripture of that Church, which our blessed
Lord will spue out of his mouth.'—(Rev. iii., 16,
17.) What is His judgment of our Church's practical
system ?—a, system under which she tolerates almost
every variety of condemned and branded heresy ; and
under which her authorities seem really offended and
disgusted at only one class of opinions, those which
speak of her present condition as corrupt and almost
apostate. The closest approximation to denial of our
Lord is permitted without prqtest, much more, with-
out condemnation ; but an imputation on nnasELF.she
eannotforgive." .

ILLEGAL DETENTION OF THE
BRITISH CUTTER HERON.

GIBRALTAR, OCT. 12.—Mr. hay, her Majesty's
Consul-General at Tangiers, has officially intimated,
in a letter dated the Bth, from Ceuta, where he had
accompanied, in the Spanish steamer Andaluz, Mr.
Beramend ,i the Spanish Charge d'Affaires and Consul-
General, that in the terms of the late treaty between
Spain and Morocco, the Spanish lines, which extend
to several miles beyond Ceuta, and which, previous
to 1837, had been occupied by Spain for such a
ltingth of time, have again been established.
The Governor of Ceuta, Don Antonio Ordonez,
with the Sheick of the district of Augera, as well as
Mr. Hay and Mr. I3eramendi, were present on the
occasion. The very marked attention and politeness
of the Governor are spoken of in high terms, and the
fine appearance and martial bearing of the Spanish
military, employed in the re-occupation of the lines
(which was effected without any untoward popular
demonstration) would have done credit to the best
drilled troops in Europe.
The case of the Heron, British cutter, formerly
possessed by the Hon. Captain Ponsonby, which came
here the day before yesterday, after her liberation
from Almeria, is the last among many instances of the
galling surveillance, illegal detention, and, to use no
harsher term, unjust confiscation of cargo practised
on our regular traders, and it can therefore be a
matter of little surprise if, in the protection of our
commerce, accidents occur similar to what befel the
Spanish war-schooner last week, more particularly
when, as in that instance, the aggression was com-
mitted with such barefaced audacity under the very
guns of the batteries.
The Heron sailed from this port on the sth of last
month, with a general cargo, and her papers regularly
made out for Algiers • when on the 9th, about 30 to
40 miles south of darthagena, she was chased and
searched by a vessel of the Spanish coast-guard, which,
after some hesitation and delay, ultimately conveyed
her to Almeria, where her cargo was landed, and
placed in the Government store.
'On the circumstance being communicated to the
owners here, and formal application made by them in
the proper quarter, the Warspite, which was about to
proceed to Barcelona and Malta, received instructions
to call at Almeria to demand her liberation ; but the
authorities there anticipating, it is conjectured, the
unwelcome visit, released her the day before the War-
spite arrived, and she only reached this the day before
yesterday (the 10th), of course with the loss of her
cargo, which, before it is given up, will entail legal
and other expenses, equal, it may be, to the value of
the seizure.

A company of 68 men of the Royal Sappers and
Miners arrived here yesterday by the Royal Tar
steamer; and Captain Gordon's company (the 6th),
which has been stationed in this garrison since 1837,
being now relieved, will embark for England by the
same vessel to-morrow.

The inspection of the different regiments in the
garrison by his Excellency the Governor, which had
lasted during the greater part of the week, terminated
to-day with that of the 79th Highlanders. Although
the hour was early a considerable assemblage of spec-
tators was on the ground, and among strangers of all
different nations, not a few of our fair countrywomen
appeared to grace with their presence the inspection of
this highly-disciplined crack corps. The general ap-
pearance of the regiment was picturesque in the ex-
treme, and the fine bearing of the men, who are all
young, as well as the faultless precision of their varied
evolutions, excited a general and almost enthusiastic
admiration. The military display of the day termi-
nated with artillery practice from the saluting bat-
tery, on the Almeida, when three rounds of shot and
two of shell were fired from 25 guns, at a buoy placed
at a considerable distance out in the bay. Although
the buoy was not actually destroyed, so very correct
was the firing, that had any small vessel occupied .
ts
place, almost every shot would have told with certain
effect.

The Gazette of last night contains a Treasury
Warrant, dated the 18th instant, directing that, on and
after the sth of next month, British and Colonial news-
papers'will be taken in packet-boat to Venezuela, in South
America, free of postage ; but if in private ship, they
will be subjected to a charge of Id. each. A similar
permission is granted to Venezuelan newspapers brought
to England or the British colonies.
MONDAY'S HOLIDA.Y.—THE BANKS. —At a meet-
ing of the Committee of Bankers, held on Monday last,
A. W. Robarts, Esq. in the chair, it was resolved,—
" That from the unavoidable obstruction to business
which must necessarily takepelace on Monday, Oct. 28,
Queen the day appointed by the for attending the open-
ing of the Royal Exchange, it will be desirable, in con-
currence with the Bank of England, to close the severe; at twelve that day. The Committee,
therefore, recommend the adoption.pf such regulation."

THE NEW AUSTRIAN AMBAS-
SADOR TO GREAT BRITAIN.
Count Moritz Dietrichstein,_ who has been lately
appointed Austrian Ambassador at: the British. Court
(says the Constitutionnel) belongs to one of the most
distinguished families of the. Austrian hierarchy. His
• father, a former Minister of Francis 11., was Go-
vernor to the Duke of Reichstadli, with whom the
new Ambassador passed his childhood.
Count Morita Dietrichstein is a very young man
for the eminent post to which he has been appointed.
He cannot be yet forty years of age. For many
years he occupied the post of Charge d'Affaires at the
Court of King Leopold, who received him on terms
of friendship and intimacy. His nomination may be
looked ution as a symptom of the decline of Prince
Metternich's influence at the Court of Vienna. The
Count's father, in fact, ranks among the pretenders to
the political heritage of the- Prince Chancellor, with
whom, moreover, he. has been in some degree of
rivalry ever since the Prince has refused to give one
of his daughters in marriage to the new Ambassador.
Apropos of the Waterloo sword which the Duke of
Wellington is said to have worn at the ceremony of
tl e Order. of the Garter, one of . the French journals
offers the following details respecting a sword belong-
lag to NapoleOn with which his Grace was also con-
nected :
" Napoleon had always kept, until 1811, the sword
which he wore on the day of his coronation. At that
period the remark was. trade -to him that the sword
was not in harmony with the jniperial costume. Ile
summoned, therefore, M. Regnault Nitot, his gold.
.smith, and demanded a model for a sword of cere-
mony. The Model was designee, approved by the
Emperor, and executed. The Regent diamond, which
was on the hilt of the first sword, was taken from it ;
end the rest, as well as the blade, were valued, and
left in the jeweller's hands as a part of the payment.
In 1815 the Emperor -was desirous of having back
this sword, and Nitot was employed to put it into a
fit state, but the Hundred Days came to a conclusion
before Napoleon's, orders could be executed, and M.
Nitot remained -legitimate possessor of the Imperial
sword ; it was a well-known fact, and he himself had
mentioned it to an English lady. One day he re-
ceived a visit from a stranger, who asked him whether
it was true that-the sword was in his possession, and
in that case whether he would dispose of it. The price
was left at his own discretion.
" At this period of invasion individual right had no
very sure guarantees, and M. Nitot, who had no wish
to give up his precious relic, persisted in denying that
he had it in his possession. The stranger used every
possible entreaty, but without success ; and at last,
appearing to comprehend the noble sentiment which
dictated the refusal of the jeweller, he expressed his
esteem for his conduct in the warmest terms, and,
presenting his card, took his leave. It was the Duke
of Wellington. The fact is curious, inasmuch as it
proves that if the English General really took, as is
pretended, Napoleon's battle sword in the imperial
carriage at Waterloo, his fancy to possess another was
singular enough. M. Regnault Nitot, who still lives
in the neighbourhood of Corbeil, has kept the Em-
peror's sword s% ith the greatest care, with the inten-
tion of leaving it•to the Invalides at his death."
The Journal Flu Loiret publishes a letter in refe-
rence to the amnesty lately published, which describes
in very strong colours the sufferings of the prisoners
excluded from its benefit. It mentions, among other
political prisoners now detained on account of ill
health in the hospital of Tours, Laure Gronvelle, as
having been driven mad by his imprisonment ; and
Hubert and Blanqui as victims to diseases contracted
in the damp prisons of Mont St. Michel.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

THE LATE MURDER ON THE RIVER.

Last evening, at six o'clock, the investigation,
ad-
journed from Tuesday last, relative to the death of
a man unknown, whose body was found in the Thames
on the morning of Sunday week last, with five mortal
stabs about it, was resumed before Mr. Higgs, the
Coroner for Westminster, at the Pine Apple Tavern,
Ilungerford-street, Strand.
George 'Wicks, one of the toll-collectors at Vaux-
hall-bridge, stated that about a quarter before twelve
on the night of Friday week last, a gentleman, who
passed over the bridge from the Surrey side, asked if
there was not a policeman on the bridge ? 'Witness
replied that there was one there about every half
hour. The gentleman added, that it was a pity there
%N as not one there' then, as there was a party of swells
ill-using a poor man. 'Witness said it was a pity he
had not stopped and seen him righted. A few
minutes afterwards, witness received the same in-
formation from another gentleman, with two ladies,
passing over the bridge. Shortly afterwards, In-
spector Taylor, of the B division, came to the toll-
house with a basket he had found on the bridge; it
contained some carpenters' chips, crumbs of bread and
cheese, and a printed shop-bill of the prices of car-
penters' tools. Witness observed the next morning on
the centre of the bridge a quantity of blood.
Mr. Deputy Superintendent Lewis, or the Thames
Police, said he had made inaluiries on the river, and
could not learn that any person was missing. He
had examined the marks of blood on the bridge, and
saw that there were several spots on the buttresses,
and on the balustrades were the marks of three

Woody fingers.
Mr. Bainbridge, the surgeon, said this could not
refer to the body of the deceased, as the body had
been in the water several days. He had no doubt
whatever but the wounds had been inflicted during
life.

The jury, after a brief consultation, returned a ver-
dict of " Wilful murder against some person or per-
sons unknown."

WINTLR ASSIZES.—It is now definitively fixed
that a winter gaol delivery shall take place ; but it is
believed that the subsidiary arrangements will not be
made till the be inning of term.
EXCURSION TRAINS ON RAILWAYS.—The Board of

Trade has just issued a circular to the several railway
companies, calling their attention to the danger of the
plan adopted on some railways of running excursion
trains drawn by several engines. They state that the
opinion of several of the most experienced practical men
has been taken, and that they all state the present mode
of working the excursion trains to be extremely dan-
gerous ; and the Board of Trade recommend that these
excursion trains should be divided into sections, so that
no more than two engines should be used with any one
train of carriages. They also point out the extreme
danger likely to arise from the want of punctuality in
the arrival of these excursion trains, arising from their
great weight ; and they strongly urge upon the com-
panies to adopt a different mode of working the excur-
sion trains in order to avoid the danger of the present
method. It ought to be observed that very few com-
panies have adopted these " monster trains," and it is to
be hoped that those which have adopted them will alter
their arrangements to such as are more compatible with
safety. _

AN- EXTRAORDINARY BAROMETER.—The mate of
the brig Grand Turk received a few years since a severe
blow with a club over the left eye : the skull was pro-
bably slightly fractured, and is so tender as to indicate,
with unfailing accuracy, any change in the weather.
The Captain of the brig says—" Generally about six
hours before the commencement of a gale his head begins
to ache with more or less violence, as the case may be,
the position higher or lower on the head, and the degree
of pain denoting squall or gale, moderate or severe ; and
so peculiar are the sensations, and so infallible in their
indications, that he is able to foretel the commencement,
and generally the duration and severity, of a gale with a
greater degree of accuracy than I have ever known a ba-
rometer to do."—American Paper.
AFFAIRS or JERSEY.—Mr. Roebuck, M.P. for
Bath, who has been staying this summer in Jersey, and
who is generally understood to have taken an active part
in the discussions which arise between the Government and
the Channel Island authorities, returned a few days since
from a visit to the Lieutenant-Governor at Haviland
Ball.—Le Pilote, Guernsey paper.
FIRE ON USHER'S QUAY, DUBLIN.—Just as we
were going to press we learned that the building occu-
pied by the White Quakers, formerly Holmes's Hotel,
was burned to the ground.--Pilot.
A letter from Algiers of the 10th states that the
annual Jewish fete terminated by a sort of disturbance
in the synagogue. It is the custom of the chief of the
congregation to proceed to the synagogue of Ben Naray
to adjudge the privilege of reading the Bible for that day
to the highest bidder, the sum obtained being appro-
priated to the use of the synagogue. When on this oc-
casion the chief came forward, he was greeted byT thehe
persons present with hooting and cries. So
most turbulent declared that they e
extent of liberty under the Frenehneveedrnmtheeenut of the
shalleni
n attemptedth e g
end
atrom
e rturngendarmerie.
As the Government
himd d nooutt, waanndt
he
eh eie
wcahs
obligTedheytoh
office, his. application
was attended
to
,aadrecaobgonuitsetlfty of tn e rioters were
arrlesfotev A SCOTIA.—RIGHT REV. DR. WALSII.--ThiS
arrested. The matter is under investigation.
estimable prelate has arrived in London, on his way
from Rome to America. We are enabled to state, on
good authority, that the religious affairs of Nova Scotia
have been arranged by the Holy See in such a manner
as to afford satisfaction to all the parties concerned,
whilst it promises the brightest hopes for the future suc-
cess of our holy faith in that important mission. 'phe
immense diocese of Nova Scotia has been divided by a
decision of his Holiness the Pope Doctor Frazer re•
mains bishop in the eastern part of the province and the
island of Cape Breton. Doctor Walsh is appointed to
the exclusive administration of the western, or Halifax
district, including the islands of Bermuda.—Pilot.
After twelve trials in smooth water of her Ma.
'lst screw et:w:
iplerosppe el steam-shiplrehr,outrhß.eataTtvlheerer,afletted up with Mr. Smith's
Rattlerspeed i s gained6b 8
tons, wa
anutt
horse power ; and her sister ship, the Prometheus,
similar similar to her in every respect with the exception of
having paddle-wheels, only reached el knots an hour.
The Rattler has got her masts on board, and is to be
fitted for sea immediately ; and, in consequence of ber
success, the Admiralty have given orders for six other
steam-ships, of a large class, to be forthwith constructed
on the same principle.—Liverpool Stattjard.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has to acknow•
ledge the receipt of 501., stated ig be " for the
for taxes probably omitted,",

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