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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—War and police are necessary evils ;
but there are aggravations of war and police, which
the first free country in the world ought to be the
first to abandon. Two of the worst of these aggra-
vations, post-office espionage, and privateering, have
most unexpectedly found apologists at this period of
the nineteenth century—the one in a French Prince
of the Blood—the other in two Committees of the
British Parliament. We need not say that our refe-
rence is to the privateering Naval Essay of his Royal
Highness the Prince de Joinville, and to the Reports
of the Secret Committees of Lords and Commons, on
the Secret Opening of Letters at the Post.office.
We hold that the English and French public have
each their duty to perform in this matter. They have
each to disclaim and repudiate the doctrines thus ad-
vanced in the highest quarters. We should be puz-
zled to which to award the bad eminence of superior
barbarism. If England had not recognised in her
Horne-office the morals of Vidocq, while France
adopted as her banner the black flag of Paul Jones
(so far as the avowals of high official authorities can
commit either nation), the one would have sunk her-
self, by her apathy or connivance, to an immeasur-
able depth below the moral rank held by the other.
Perphaps it was providentially ordered that France
and England should disgrace themselves, at the
same moment, in the same style; lest either
should feel itself to have lost that comparative
level in self-esteem, the loss of which would have
driven it to war with the other pour avoir
de la consideration. Our attention is recalled to these
subjects by articles in the Westminster Review and
Spectator. The former adduces more evidence than
we had yet seen of the unworthy participation in the
worst vices of the police of foreign countries, into
which our rulers have been led by permitting them-
selves to be made the instruments of the vengeance of
foreign Governments—without a motive—and with
an aggravation—the aggravation of secrecy and per-
fidy. Perfidy is impossible on the part of those Go•
vernments to their malcontent subjects ; because these
malcontents know them too well to repose any confi
dence in their treatment. But in England every
one is free in everything but breach of the laws, and
every one thinks himself safe. It is, therefore, we re-
peat, perfidious in this Government to break the
confidence reposed in its freedom ; and having first,
by that freedom, encouraged foreigners who resort to
our shore to commit themselves, in words and in
writing, by di.closures they never would have ven-
tured elsewhere—it is most perfidious to spy secretly
into those disclosures for the purpose of transmitting
them to the Governments whose vengeance the exiles
have fled from—to whose vengeance their connexions
are still exposed. We do not mean to say that our
Government should take part with the exiles
of other States—or even that it should not arrest
machinations commenced in this country to dis-
turb them. England does not profess herself
a refugium peccatorum for all manner of plotters
—an Archimedean standing room, from which they
may move the world with revolutionary enginery.
But is there no medium between this connivance
with foreign enterprises making our shores their
starting-point —is there no medium between
leaving conspirators and their Governments ig-
lorant that such things are detected (and therefore
putting each on their guard—the one to desist, and
the other to be vigilant)—is there no medium be-
tween this permission of plots and armaments against
friendly neighbours, and the secret communication to
foreign Powers of the secrets of other men—without
warning those men of a danger they could not have
feared in a free country ? This is even something
worse than the old fame of Venice, and her lion's
mouth. It is inveigling men to criminate themselves,
and others, in the confidence of correspondence. It
is leaving them, unwarned, to proceed from wild
words to overt acts, and handing them over, as they
leave our shores—or their friends and connexions on
their own—to the secular arm of their irritated Go-
vernments, whom we have taken into our secret con-
fidence.

STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle has to-
day a long article upon the Writ of Error—an article
full of misrepresentation and malice, but probably
containing no passage more false or malicious than
the following :—" The recognition of this Irishjudge-
made-law of conspiracy, by the court of ultimate ap
peal, would be the establishment of a principle with
which none of the usual modes of political activity in
England could exist. Political societies would be-
come ipso facto conspiracies. Public meetings would be
almost as unsafe as associations, and even parish ves-
tries would have to bridle their tongues. These results,
it would be more proper to say, would happen, if the
Irish conspiracy law could be not only sanc-
tioned but enforced in England. But everybody
knows that it could not be enforced, and that no Mi-
nister would dare to make the attempt. The oppor-
tunity for doing so has been open here as well as at

the other side of the Channel. The Anti-Corn-law !
League is quite as much of s conspiracy as the Re-
peal Association. In one sense it is a more formidable
body, inns nuch as, if permitted to exist, it will cer-
tainly effect its object, which the Irish League is not
likely to do. Moreover, the jury which convicted
Mr. O'Connell would most certainly have convicted
Mr. Cobden, if he could only be brought before them.
But, for all this, nobody has seriously thought of in-
dicting Mr. Cobden, nor is it likely that any
one will, even if the decision of the House of
Lords should be such as to encourage the design."
The answer to this statement lies in a single word ;
it is not for the use of any of the usual modes
of political activity in England, but for the abuse
of nearly all these modes that Mr. O'Connell
and his accomplices have been prosecuted and con-
victed,upon the principle of law, " abusus non tollit
usum," it is obvious that the modes of political ac-
tivity, if innocently and legally resorted to, are wholly
unaffected by the decision in the case of these parties.
Whether the Anti-Corn-law League have or have not
transgressed the legal limits of political activity may
be a question ; but it would appear that the law ad-
visers of the Crown think differently, for it is un-
true that a British Government would not in like cir-
cumstances act as the Government of Ireland has
acted. Witness the prosecution of Henry Hunt and
others, twenty-four years ago; and the more recent
prosecutions of Mr. Peargus O'Connor by the Whig-
Radical Ministers. But whatever may be the posi-
tion of the Leaguers in this respect, it is quite indis-
putable that the limits of legal political activity were
largely transgressed by Mr. 0 Connell and his con-
victed associates. We may admit that the law allows
men to organise political societies to hold multi-
tudinous assemblies of the people, and to express their
political opinions freely and boldly, but it cannot be
exercise pretended o
ft
ahla he l t
tthee these
privileges privileges
o farefreemen
noteeineqo uaarlei fi ed,
qualified,
as the
by the condition that they shall not be exercised to
the injury of the community, or so as to endanger the
established order of law and government. Now
it will hardly be denied by the Morning Chronicle
itself, that the practices of Mr. O'Connell, aid
the other Repealers,, in the last year, and for
many preceding years, grossly violated this con-
dition—the injury occasioned by the unrestrained
repeal agitation is proved more strikingly by nothing
than by the happy change in the social state of Ire-
land, which followed its suppression almost with the
rapidity of a charm. The danger of the agitation
to the established law of order and government was
the daily theme of complaint with all the Whig-
Radical journals and statesmen during the session of
1843. Here, then, we have distinctly marked the
differentia between " modes of political activity"
generally, and " the political conspiracy" prosecuted
at the State Trials in Dublin. " Modes of political
activity" may be harmless or otherwise; but when
they become mischievous and dangerous they be-
come criminal conspiracies. It is, however, to
be conceded, that in a free country " modes
of political activity" that are undesignedly in-
jurious are to be regarded with tenderness, and we
cannot help thinking that the Lancashire conspirators
of 1819 had hard measure, as, notwithstanding the
dangerous tendency of their proceedings, it is diffi-
cult to believe that they designed any permanent
evil. It was certainly right to suppress their con-
spiracy, but the penalties inflicted upon Mr. Hunt,
and some others—penalties threefold greater in
duration, and tenfold more severe in all their
circumstances, than those imposed upon Mr.
O'Connell and his fellow-prisoners—were almost
excessive. The Lancashire conspirators comtem-
plated no great or enduring evil as a means
or as an end, but the utmost extravagance
of charity would fail to acquit the repeal con-
spirators
attainment
of a
orresortei
resorting to
end. Whatcrimina areforlmeansthe
the
means, of employing which they have been dis-
tinctly convicted, not upon doubtful evidence, but
upon evidence supplied by themselves ? These
means were by speeches and writings exciting hatred
between different classes of the people, exciting
hatred also against the laws and the Government,
superseding the authority of the Government by the
establishment of rival courts of justice, endea-
vouring to destroy the power of the Govern-
ment, by debauching the military from their duty,
collecting vast multitudes of the most ignorant and
excitable of the population, frequently in military
array, for the purpose of alarming the Govern-
ment and the well-affected, and encouraging the
disloyal by an illusion of their irresistible strength.
These were the means contemplated—not con-
templated only, but put into extensive action, and
not put into this extensive action upon a single
were occasion,as
and
happenedthese at Manchester, but constantly
and
of the union by intimidation, the Re-
peaters themselves say; or, perhaps, scarcely less than
for
a means successiondire o t
e ofd ? years.
To
And to what end
extort frequently,
a repeal
high treason ; but common sense discovers another,
and, if possible, a much more criminal end—the
wresting of Ireland from the British Crown. These
are facts so obvious and familiar, that it would be but
twaddle to recur to them, if it was not for their im-
portant bearing upon the particular character of the
prosecution,
which, Unlike former legal attempts to
achieve the peace of Ireland, really embraced the
moral merits and the equity, if we may so speak, of
the great question in issue.

THE INDIA MAILS.
ALEXANDRIA, AUGUST 19.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Oriental arrived here this
morning from Malta and England, with 76 passengers
for India, who proceed this evening on their way to
Cairo and Suez.

Telegraphic intelligence has been received that an
English steamer from Bombay arrived at Suez on the
17th instant, in 27 days, with 80 passengers. Should
the steamer have arrived at Suez on the morning of the
17th, there is a chance of the mails reaching Alexan-
dria in the course of the night or to-morrow morning,
in which case the French steamer, which is to leave for
Marseilles early to-morrow, will probably defer her de-
parture until the afternoon, to enable the Indian corres-
pondence to be forwarded by this opportunity ; but
should the mails not be heard of at all to-morrow, the
French steamer must leave before sunset, and the Indian
news will reach Europe only by the English steamer,
that is, about three days later.
AUGUST 20, SEVEN A.M.—lntelligence has been re-
ceived this morning from Cairn, that it was not the
Bombay steamer, but the Bentinck, from Calcutta, that
arrived at Suez on the 17th inst. with 86 passengers. It
was an error committed by the telegraph in announcing
that the Bombay steamer had arrived. The Oriental will
consequently be detained four or five days longer before
leaving for England. Lord Ellenborough was to leave
Calcutta on the 28th of July by the Nemesis, and could
not be expected to reach Suez before the end of this
month, as the monsoons have been very severe. The
Semiramis, from Bombay, had not reached Aden on the
10th, when the Bentinck left, consequently the Bombay
mails cannot reach Suez before the 21st or 22d. Captain
Kellock, of the Benthick, has brought rather important
news from Aden, whei-e it appears that a strong army of
35,000 Arabs is collecting for the purpose of attacking
the place.
The mails of the Bentinck have not yet reached
Alexandria; the above news has been received by express.
The French steamer Caire sails immediately.

PORTUGAL.
We have received letters from Lisbon to the 27th ult.
Senhor Don Luis Gonzalez Bravo, on being presented
to the Queen of Portugal. on the 22d ult., in his capacity
Majesty enough of the man. There are at the Court of Lisbon, delivered a
speech characteristic
of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of
her Catholic
Catholic
references in this fulsome address to a desire, on the
part of the Spanish sovereign (the modest General Nar-
vaez), for more extensive relations with Portugal, and to
reciprocity of interest between the two countries, which
" Providence," through the interpreter of its works and
will (Gonzalez Bravo), it is declared, " created sisters."
A report Has current, that the Envoy y Extraordinary
was the bearer of a mmmunication to the Portuguese
Ministry, from his own Government, offering to place an
army of 40,000 men at the disposal of the Portuguese
sovereign, and stating the readiness of the Spanish
Government to send the troops into Portugal. It
for any
ap-
pears that the Secretary of the Spanish Legation was
dispatched in all haste to Madrid, on the 24th ultimo,
Majesty.
event
with hersimilarity The of the characters of
Narvaez and Cabral, and the identity of their political
views
two days after the amuidgihentcpere?pfatrhee
people Spanish Ambassadorr
which and
might
gjeciveoccupation to men of restless minds,
reckless of consequences—bold and indiscreet—who have
risen to power, in turbulent times, by means of bayonets,
and know no other way of maintaining their power ex-
cept by military force.
The dismissals and resignations of persons holding
judicial offices continue. The Crown Procurador, or
Attorney-General, the first law officer of the Crown, has
resigned his office, on the grounds of the illegality of
the decree of the Ist of August. The law officer next
to him in rank has followed his example. The whole of
the Judges of the Relacao of Oporto, it is said, with one
exception, have protested against the late measure as a
violation of the Constitution. The Marquez de Niza has
also protested against the late decree. The money diffi-
culties continued on the increase, the civil employ‘?s and
pensioners of the Government being now nearly three
months in arrears, with few exceptions.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTN, SEPT. I.—Yesterday morning the Earl
of Haddington left the Admiralty-house, and proceeded
to the Royal Naval College, to hold his adjourned levee,
when the following officers, whose names were on the
list yesterday, were received :
Captains—Strong and P. J. Douglas.
Commanders—Haynes, W. M. N. Douglas, Roche,
C. A. Johnston, and T. H. Mason.

Lieutenants—Hon. T. A. Pakenham and W. Welsh.
Royal Marines—Colonel—M'Cullum.
Major—Moore.
Captain—Calamy.
On the return of their Lordships from the Coiling-
wood (after dining on board with Sir G. Seymour) to the
dockyard on Friday evening, at about ten o'clock, some
blue lights, the invention of Captain Stevens, were
lighted opposite the Admiralty-house, which gave great
satisfaction to all who witnessed the brilliant illumina-
tion. Their Lordships expressed themselves much
pleased with them. They burned eight minutes. Yes-
terday morning, whilst the Earl of Haddington held his
levee, the lion. H. T. L. Corry, and the Hon. Sidney
Herbert, First Secretary to the Board, proceeded round
the dockyard for a general view, after which they em-
barked in the Fanny, the yacht of the Commander-in-
Chief, Sir C. Rowley, and proceeded westward. Sir G.
Cockburn took his departure by the half-past ten
o'clock train yestereay morning. After the levee the
Earl of Haddington went out for a short cruise in the
Black Eagle, for the benefit of his health, and dined in the
evening with Lord Ashburton, at Anglesea. This even-
ing, we believe, his Lordship will dine with the Right
Hon. J. W. Croker, and return to town in time to attend
the Cabinet Council, summoned for one o'clock.

There are no orders issued for commissioning any ships
at this port. Many are being masted, and otherwise ad-
vanced in a forward state ; but this, we believe, is merely
to keep employed the newly entered riggers.
The Collingwood, 80, Captain Smart, will, it is re-
ported, be detained at Spithead for the inspection of her
Majesty.
The Penelope, 22, steam-frigate, Commodore Jones,
arrived at Ascension on the sth July, from St. Helena,
whither she had towed the Tortoise store and guardship
for a supply of water. The Tortoise was expected to
arrive two days after the Penelope, which was expecting
and awaiting the arrival of the Ferret sloop, 6, Com-
mander J. Oake, when she would proceed to Prince's
Island for a further supply of water.
The Wasp, 16, Commander S. H. Usher, arrived at
Ascension, from Bermuda, on the 2d July. When our
letters left she was undergoing refit prior to cruising on
the coast.

The Growler, 6, steam-sloop, Commander, C. Buckle,
which left Rio on the 13th June, arrived at Ascension
on the 4th of July, to assist in the suppression of the
slave trade. Os the same day (4th of July) the Star, 6,
Commander R. J. W. Dunlop, arrived at Ascension to
undergo refit prior to assisting in the suppression of the
slave trade on the south coast. Her officers and crew
had suffered much from fever.

The Cornwallis, 72, Captain Richards, flag of Vice-
Admiral Sir W. Parker, G.C.8., is daily looked for at
Spithead, from the East Indies, to be paid off.
The Emerald returned from cruising off the Sussex
coast on Friday.
The royal yacht, Captain Lord A. Fitzclarence, is in
every respect ready for the reception of her Majesty.
In Harbour—The Victory, Victoria and Albert, Queen,
Excellent, Nautilus, Raven, and steam•vessels Black
Eagle, F. arless, Echo, and Comet.
In Dock—Vindictive, Prince Regent, Scourge, Athol,
and Dwarf steamer.

At Spithead—The Collingwood.
DEVONPORT, Atm. 30.—The Clio, 16, Commander
Fitzjames, has arrived in the Sound from the East In-
dies to be paid off. She has been upwards of five years
in commission, during Is hich time she has had three

commanders.
The Semiramis, an old 44, built about forty years, is
ordered to be broken up at this dockyard.
The Vanguard, 80, advance-ship, sister to the Colling-
wood, is masted and ready for commission.
The Royal Adelaide, 104, advance•ship, is alongside
the jetty for massing, after having her copper examined
and cleaned. _ _ _ _ . _ _

The San Josef, 110, Captain H. M. Dickson, flag of
Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Pym, K.C.8., was paid wages
to six months on Tuesday.
The Superb, 80, was masted yesterday, and is ready
for commission.

The Amethyst, 26.—An extra number of hands have
been put upon this vessel to expedite her launching, her
slip being wanted on which to lay down the timbers of
the Avenger, first class steam-frigate.
The Stromboli, steam sloop, Commander the ion. E:
Plunkett, is ordered to the Mediterranean station.
Mr. Richard Way, leader of shipwrights, is appointed
inspector, vice Cooper, deceased ; and Mr. John Walker,
shipwright, to be leader, vice Way, promoted.
An order has been received to enter 15 hired ship-
wrights at this yard, for service at Deptford ; 20s. each
man will be allowed for travelling expelpes.
Since the order has arrived to enter men for " general
service" very few have offered. The genuine " Jack "
will not enter for general service as long as he can help
it. He prefers to choose his own craft and his own cap-
tain ; and this he will do, unless driven to the alterna-
tive by sheer necessity.
Mr. P. C. Beattie, engineer of this port, is appointed
to the Tortoise store-ship at Ascension, to superintend
the repair of her Majesty's steam-vessels on the coast of
Africa.

In Harbour—San Josef, Conflance, and Stromboli.
In the Sound—St. Vincent, flag-ship pro tern.
SHEERNESS, Auc. 30.—The Vernon, 50, is being
brought forward for commission.

The Achille, 76, was masted on Wednesday, and the
Asia, 84, was taken into the basin for the same purpose
yesterday. The Waterloo, 120, the Monarch, 84, and
the London, 92, are also to be masted.
The Vulture steam-sloop, is still in the basin. She
has been ready for the pendant some time.
The Alarm frigate, 26, will be pushed forward for
launching this year.
The Amazon, razee, 24, is ready for the pendant in
the basin.

Several officers of long standing, and high on the
list in the service, are already named as likely to suc-
ceed to the command of the ordinary and superinten-
dence of the dockyard at this port, vacant by the sud-
den death of Captain Peter Fisher, but we decline
giving their names, from motives that they cannot but
appreciate.
The Ocean, 80.—Mr. Joseph Reed, gunner of this
ship, died suddenly in an apoplectic fit on Sunday last.
In Harbour--The Ocean, Hag ship pro tem., and Afri-
caine steamer.

In the Basin—The Vulture, the Asia, the Crocodile,
and the Amazon.

_ __...
In Dock—The Vernon, the Monarch, the Herald, and
the Beagle.

PROMOTIONS.

Cammander—T. Gallaway, to be retired Captain.
Lieutenants—H. C. Otter, J. B. Marsh, J. Sankey, G.
Wodehouse, G. M. Hunter, and P. H. Dyke, to the rank
of Commander.

Mates—C. Sullivan, W. Mooney, T. Cochrrn, J. C.
Bailey, H. de Lisle, T. Miller, and J. B. Rice, to be
Lieutenants.

APPOINTMENTS.
Captain—• Richard Arthur (1810), to the Victory, with
the charge of the Portsmouth ordinary, vice Henderson,
period of service expired.
Commander—W. G. B. Estcourt, to the Eclair steam-
sloop; Edward Barnett, to the Thunder.
Lieutenants—P. A. Halkett, to the Eclair; C. Sulli-
van, additional, to the Formidable; W. Mooney, to the
Thunder; 11. Ainslie, to the Stromboli; T. B. Christo-
pher, to the Excellent; F. B. P. Seymour, to be Flag of
Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymour, Collingwood; Wil-
liam Peel, to the Thalia; S. B. Dalling, to be Agent for
Mails; T. Belgrave, to the Eclair, from the Excellent;
H. G. Austen, to the Excellent.
Mate—ll. West, to the Excellent.
Masters—H. D. Burney, to the Eclair; J. Scott (act-
ing), to the Thunder.
Surgeons—J. Ferrier, to the Thunder; A. C. Macle-
roy, to be Surgeon-Superintendent of the Phoebe con.
vict ship.
Chaplain—Rev. J. W. Dickson, to the Inconstant,
from the Madagascar.
Paymasters and Pursers—T. R. Hallett, to the Eclair;
S. Wadland, to the Excellent; W. H. Dutton, to the
Thunder.

Assistant-Surgeons--F. M. Rayner, to the Thunder;
C. M‘Shane (additional acting), to the St. Vincent.
Master's Assistant—J. Gowan, to the Excellent.

Clerks—C. Mills, to the Eclair; T. W. Gottlieb, of
Devonport, to be Chief Clerk of Chatham Dockyard,
vice Hart, superannuated; W. Thompson, of Woolwich,
to the first class at Devonport, vice Gottlieb, promoted;
W. Woods, of the third class at Chatham, to the second
class at Woolwich, vice Thompson, promoted; Mr. W.
Binstead (acting), in the Director of Works department
at Chatham, to be Foreman of Joiners at Chatham.
Salary 180'. per annum.
Midshipmen—F. W. Gough and A. C. Birtwhistle, to
the Excellent.

Gunner—W. Huish, to the Eclair.
Boatswain—J. Warren, to the Eclair.
Carpenter—E. Crowther, to the Eclair.

EXTRAORDINARY SPEED BY THE GREAT WESTERN
Rein WAY.—( From a Correspondent.)—His Royal High-
ness Prince William of Prussia, who left Bristol on Sa-
turday afternoon, at seven minutes before four o'clock,
in a special train, arrived at the Slough station en route
to Windsor, upon a visit to the Queen, in two hours
and seven minutes, the distance being exactly 100 miles!
The Proserpine engine attached to the three carriages
comprising the special train, which was driven by Mr.
Gooch, the chief superintendent of the locomotive de-
partment of the Great Western Railway Company, pro-
ceeded along some portions of the line at the rste of
sixty-five miles an hour! His Royal Highness reieched
the Castle, from Slough, in one of the Queen's carriages,
and was in the presence of her Majesty and the Prince
Consort within two hours and a half from the period-of
his departtire from the J3riatol termini.

MEHEMET ALI.
(From the Examiner.)
,osi
Mehemet.itti
ohilrfet lgl
r(pa rtat
Ali,? nr juvenileka affright.
,hrialaga,sh),
tfes.rdi
of
fihbitytiehsdeatsniai
egoelid,
French,ei gia Highness,
tot,: imsdrsi
,adhnabt
have
cfetii)tgrtAihstethy3de'
Nestor of the Mediterranean, went to a party, committed
an excess, and got so uproarious and extravagant, that no
Irishman, before the invention of teetotalism, ever
equalled it. He beat his women, cuffed his Minister,
cursed his physician, broke his pipe. and flung his fez
out of the window. At last he sent for 250,000 purses,
and flinging himself into a boat, set sail, or oars, for
Cairo, bent on a spree, but acquainting his vi orthy
Alexandria subjects that he was bound for Mecca. The
old sinner ! Sh-ridan, dead drunk, acquainting the '
watchmen who picked him up that he was no other
than Mr. Wilberforce, lied not more comically than Me-
hemet Ali, when he said lie was going to Mecca. I

But we much fear that we could never let our readers
into the mysteries of the Oriental ergie, nor describe,
except in metaphor, a Turkish jollification. 'We can
merely imitate those artists who condescend but
to sketch, who draw a line here, daub a shade
there, and leave every one to fill up the pic-
ture for himself. The feast in question was
given by Mehemet's daughter, the widow of
Defterdar Bey ; in honour, too, of the wedding of one of
the family. The old Pacha was invited, and was served,
of course, alone, with viands the most spicy, and drinks
the most exciting. The drink was not wine, for that is
forbidden by the prophet. -It rather resembled that
drink at Irish temperance halls, where whiskey is pro-
hibited, but where cordials concocted of alcohol dis-
guised with ginger and pimento, are swallowed, as not
only compatible with the pledge, but highly honouring
it. So Mehemet's tipple was more of the spicy than the
spirituous. And instead of making him good-natured
its his cups, it made his Highness very much the con-
trary ; for he set about beating all the women, to the
horror of eunuchs, black and white. He then made off,
as we have described, in a tangent, Ibrahim going to all
sorts of devices to send his physicians after him ; smug-
gling them first into the house, and then into the boat.
Such is a magre and true outline of an event which
has much alarmed politicians, and even the Alexandrians,
although their affright was considerably intermixed with
laughter. There was neither conspiracy nor revolution.
It was not a deep-laid plot of Ibrahim's, nor yet of the
Marquis of Lavalette, French Consul, nor yet of any
hostile Turk. It was simply the political effect of a
social orgie.

RAlLWAY.—Measures are in active progress for
opening a communication through Bury, from the
Norwich and Brandon line, at Thetford, to the Northern
and Eastern at Newport. This line will place Bury
within about sixty-five miles of London,-and be shorter
from Norwich than by Ely by about tenty-two miles, and
by Colchester by about eighteen :miles. A prospectus
will be issued without any unnecessary delay, but not
until everything in connexion with it is fully and finally
arraned.--Norfolk Chronicle.
A WELCOME DISCOVERY.—A week or two ago,
while a boat's crew were at work at Loch Ryan, fishing
—not for fins, but sweet-smelling seaweed, to be applied
as manure—the drag grappled some harder substance,
which, when raised to the surface, resembled strongly a
batch of oysters. This species of shell-fish abounds in
one of the loveliest marine lakes in Scotland, stretching
for leagues, shaped like a fan, rippling opposite short s,
including Glenapp, and leading directly to Ailsa Craig.
Oysters, like muscles, and the whole barnacle tribe, cling
tenaciously to every firm substance, particularly buoys,
which in some situations are dragged downwards to an
extent that they require to be cleaned, painted, and re-
floated from their sand-bank moorings once a year.
In the present case, the unknown article was taken on
board, and when freed by scraping from a thick coating
of shell fish, a kernel stood revealed, in the welcnme
form of a large jar of excellent cognac brandy. The
fishermen, as may be supposed, were quite overjoyed to
find both meat and drink thus unexpectedly provided ;
knives were in immediate requisition, and, after lunching
heartily on oysters, each man received a bumper noggin,
to stimulate or quicken the process of digestion, and put
him in good humour for further exertion. How long the
jar had lain in brine, shallow atthe side, or by what accident
it was placed in such a position,lire questions which it is
easier to put than answer ; but we suppose the piscators
would have no objection to a similar windfall every time
they put to sea, whether in netting herrings or dragging
for dulce and tangle.—Greenock Journal.
DEWSBURY.—COMICAL ADVENTURES.—Monday last
being Brewster sessions, at Wakefield, and likely to be
the last there for the Dewsbury publicans to attend in
that town (Dewsbury being about to have a district
sessions for all purposes), the stout landlords and their
dames, mostly " fat, fair, and forty," along with a num-
ber of their friends, must needs pay the farewell Brews-
ter visit. Conveyances of all sorts and sizes were in re-
quisition and obtained, well loaded with the owners of
the beer barrel and representatives of the bung hole, who
in a short time were jogging their journey to Wakefield.
Some fine sport took place on the road. One unlucky
boniface had the mishap to drop one of his legs on the
road, without, however, the least pain, or the loss of one
drop of blood; the limb was in a very rigid state, and
the owner did not feel his loss until on getting off
the coach at Wakefield he fell into the street. A
doctor (alias joiner) was immediately sent for, who fur-
nished the deficient man with crutches, and ordered
him into his surgery until he provided him with a
new leg. On his way to the " doctor's" shop he met a
person in a light cart vigorously holding up the unlucky.
forlorn-looking leg, and which he handed to the bereaved
owner, who, after having sundry repairs done to it,
placed it on a more secure footing alongside his fleshy
companion. After the Brewster busine-s was done, and
the glorious dinners dispatched, general attention was
devoted to the department of liquors, and deep drinking
was the order of the day. In a few hours the convey-
ances were ordered out for the return ; but the ascent
of the coaches was not so easy a task ; the natural equi-
librium was lost, and ladders were therefore obtained,
and " sich a gittia' up stairs we never did see." Some
were literally carried up the ladders and laid en the
coaches, and those who were not so far gone had enough
to do to keep them from rolling off. On arriving
home, three neighbour landlords had lost all power of
locomotion, and in order to dismount them a wag sug
gested that a plank should be obtained on which to slide
them down as heavy luggage. The vehicles ran against
each other several times on the return, but no serious
accident occurred.

THE QUEEN'S CONTEMPLATED PROGRESSES.-It 13
the intention of the Queen to embark on board the Royal
yacht Victoria and Albert to-morrow week, the 9th
instant, and proceed direct to Scotland. Lord Glenlyon
having placed Blair Castle at the disposal of her Ma-
jesty, she will occupy it for a few weeks, together with
the Royal Establishment ; but the precise period of the
Queen's stay in the highlands has not been determined
on. This visit of her Majesty to Scotland is to be a pri-
vate, and not what is called a state one.—• Observer.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday afternoon, as
William Carson, servant to Lieutenant Swinton, of the
4th battalion of the Royal Artillery, was returning from
on board the Sir Robert Peel, convict-ship, lying off the
Arsenal, Woolwich, he stepped into a wherry at the
moment a steamer was passing, the swell from which
caused the boat to roll heavily, and losing his balance,
he fell overboard and sunk. The drags were imme-
diately resorted to, but nothing whatever -of the de-
ceased has been discovered. The deceased, who bore an
excellent character in the garrison, has left a wife and
seven children to deplore his untimely end.
DEATH FROM LIGHTNING.—Dtning a thunder-
storm, on Saturday evening last, three persons were
struck by the electric fluid on Sandford-hill, in the parish
of Widscombe, Somerset ; one of them, a lad, about
eighteen years of age, named George Hares, was killed
on the spot ; the poor fellow's clothes, including his hat
and shoes, were literally torn to pieces and scattered on
the ground. A man, named William Adams, who was
near him at the time, had an exceedingly narrow escape,
the sole of one of his boots being completely torn away
without injury to him further than blistering his foot.
The track of the electric fluid is visible on the ground
for about thirty yards, in some places on the surface, and
at others dipping a few inches under.—Bristol Gazette.
On Tuesday, as one of the assistant priests in the
parish of St. Severin, was proceeding to the church
who,
to
say mass, he was accosted by a young
with an open poinard knife in his hand, loaded him
Some with
ii
abuse, and appeared determined to stab
workman,
in
passers-by interfered, and persuaded the young' man to
go away. Ile returned, however, some minutes after,
armed with a razor, and this time he was arrested, and
the priest
.
taken to a neighbouring post. He thereewagainsta declared that
he had had a grudge for a long time
making
his first com-
munion, frame of mind.
for having prevented him from
munion, not finding him, as he said,
in a
of
Slues' STORES.—The Hoard of Customs. having
had under consideration a representation Messrs.
Finnis and Fisher, shipping and provision agents, corn
•
plaining of the delay and inconvenience which is ex-
p,rienced in consequence of all tobacco and cigars re-
moved by lighters for exportation as stores, being re-
quired by the Board's minute of 1843 to be accompanied
by a tidewaiter ; and it appearing, from the reports of
the practical officers, and the practice of sending a tide-
waiter in charge of tobacco, removed for shipment as
stores, may be dispensed with,
except when the quan-
y large, or when the searcher clearirtg for
have reason to.suspect fraud, and provided
gt iotyo,diss vine rayy
that the shippers of tobacco as stores from the bonding
warehouses, or entitled to drawback, be required to. pro-
duce to the clearing searcher the official document, for
the same, signed by the tidewaiter, if any be on board
the vessel, and if not, by the master or mate, in proof of
the receipt of goods on board the vessel, and that the
searcher shall not clear the vessel until such receipt
upon the official document alluded to be delivered to him,
orders have been issued to the officers at the several
departments and stations to govern themselves in future
accordingly, care being taken that the regulations of the
minute of August, 1843,' respecting the shipoieut.of
stores, be most strictly adhered to.

A serious revolt has broken out in the interior or
Tripoli, which threatens alarming consequences. Up-.
wards of 6 OCO men from Iffreen, Kikkeli, and Ray-
ana, have taken up arms. Their leader is 3iilud,
Shah, ex-Minister of the depot ed Mahinudi family
who have taken refuge in Constantinople, but who
have recently repaired to Sefax, and thence to the
mountains of Gebal, where they are spreading the
flames of revolution.

"The principal cause of the revolution," says a
letter from Tripoli, "is the heavy taxation which
directly and indirectly gravitates upon those tribes.
The present Pacha's administration is doubtlessly in
clever hands, but it ought to be managed with less
precipitancy, and the taxation be more proportionate
to individual income. The zeal for raising and for-
warding money to Constantinople is what occasions
stores to he empty, baggages deficient, and, conse-
quently, the marching of troops delayed until ammu-
nition stores are prepared:, Such loss of time may
benefit the Miludi mountaineers, who are sufficiently
wise so as to avail of it, and take the offensive. Thus
may the revolution be further prOpagated, and the
rebels rendered more daring."
The principal point of attack by the rebels is the
Castle of liTren, s hick has been recently built by the
Turks, but which is supposed to be too strong for
their resources. According to a letter from Tripoli
of the 7th of August, which is published by the Malta
papers, the rebels are supported by some neighbouring
Powers, and it will increase Lord Aberdeen's confi-
dence in the good faith of the French in Africa to
find that they are not without suspicion of being at
the bottom of this revolt:—

"The Bey of Tunis," says the letter in question,
"is desirous of weakening the Ottoman Power on his
frontiers, and the French have more particular reasons
to provoke disturbances and civil war at TripOli, and
undermine the Ottoman Power. This will greatly
facilitate their conquering the territories of Sauf and
Tuggurt, under the colour of philanthropic policy,
and then claim the thanks of Europe for their having
occupied that country. In my lust I had foreseen
what the French might do, and the events novfseem
to justify my prophecy, thOngh many at -first had
taxed it with exaggeration."
Later accounts state that the Castle of Iffren it
suffering from want of water and provisions, and all
communication having been cut off with it by the
rebels, the Pacha was making all efforts to send rein-
forcements to the fortress, but without success. The
following is the latest information we have on the
suhject :

TRIPOLI, AuG. 11.—Many more camels have
been loaded at the Castle, this morning, with ammu-
nition stores, and sent into the interior. Two couriers
are arrived, and bring the intelligence that the horse-
men sent by the Pacha to open by force the passage
to the Castle of lffren, have been beaten and re-
pulsed. It is said that the mountaineers had opposed
a more numerous cavalry than the Turkish; which
is hardly' possible. They not using horses at
all—they must have been supplied by the tribes of
Naei and Argutna belonging to the regency of Tunis.
I understand that the Turkish expedition will march
off on the 13th. Gold is rising—the Mahboub in
gold is willingly received at nine piasters of Tripoli
—a higher price than ordinary. The weekly nprkets
are abandoned—the Arabs are afraid.
" AUGUST 12.—The rumour of the loss of Ismail
Bey, colonel of the regular cavalry, seems to be con-
firmed, but it is not ascertained if killed or taken
prisoner. The Pacha's son will set out immediately
for Bengazy in a man of war.
.A rumour is in town
that some Europeans are among the mountaineers to
direct their military movements. They can be no
other people than French, if true. I have sufficiently
intimated in my preceding correspondence, that eter-
nal disquietude is at the bottom of this affair. The
French Consul is angry at this fact being published,
at the moment of its execution. It is irksome to the
French to find people less stupid than their arrogance
will let them believe."

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN SHERBORNE.—About eight
o'clock on Wednesday night the extensive coach factory
of Mr. Hill, on Green-hill, was discovered to be in
flames. In less than an hour the factory, with all its
contents, ..as entirely consumed. The dwelling-house
was next consumed, and a house on the opposite side,
tenanted by Mr. Bustard, a Wesleyan minister, was very
much damaged, as were also several tenements in the
rear of the factory, belonging to poor families. A por-
tion of the furniture was removed to the houses opposite.
—Sherbosne Journal.

An inhabitant of St. Denis, who was evidently
insane, lately committed suicide in a strange manner.
He had for some time employed himself in endeavouring
to imitate an egg in pasteboard. Ile took this egg,
filled it with gunpowder, placed it in his mouth, and
then with a match which he had got from his wife, as if
ter light a cigar, touched the powder, and with the explo-
sion blew his brains out.

We have to announce the death of Mr. Francis
Bailey, F.R.S., President of the Royal Astronomical
Society, who expired on Friday ltst,.at his residence in
'ravistock-place, Russell-square, in the 71st year of his
age. His scientific attainments were of the lighest
order t' he was a doctor of civil law, member of the
Royal Irish Academy, a fellow of the Linnean and
Geological Societies, and a fellow of the Royal Society,
having been elected of that body in 1821. lie was cor-
respondent for several learned and scientific societies
abroad, amongst others—the Royal Institute of Paris,
and the Academy Royal at Berlin. His death will be
regretted by a large circle of friends and acquaintances,
by whom he was deservedly esteemed.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.—The Lord Mayor has
issued the following notice for regulating the closing of
the various stalls, booths, &c., on each night of the con-
tinuance of Bartholomew Fair. " Magnay, Mayor—
Notice is hereby given, that Bartholomew Fair is ordered
to be closed on the night of Tuesday, the 3d, the day of
paoclamation, at 11 o clock ; of Wednesday. the 4th of
September, the first day, at 11 o'clock ; of Thursday, the
.501, the second day, at 11 ; and on Friday, the 6th, the
the third day, at t, n o'clock. And any pt-rson keeping
open any exhibition, booth, or stall, after those hours
will 190' proceeded against for the same. By order of the
Lord Mayor.—S. R. GOODMAN."
SIR IlunsoN LowE.—The will and codicils of the
late Sir Hudson Lowe, Governor of St. Helena when
the Emperor Napoleon was there, have been just proved
in Doctors' Commons, by Edwaid William Delaney
Lowe, Esq., one of the children of the deceased, the
other executor, Sir Thomas Reade, having declined
proving. The will is dated in tBl6, and contains no
legacy of public interest, inasmuch as the whole of the
property is left to his wife and children ; but in the
second codicil, which is in the deceased's handwriting,
the following remarkable passage occurs :—" I trust my
wife will apply to the King for a pension (which I was
led to expect) of not less than 1,5001. a year, and that at
her death a pension of half that amount be granted to
my children. I also wish her to apply for the expenses
of my outfit to St. Helena, about 2,0001." This codicil
is dated from an hotel in Paris in the year 1824. The
personal property has been sworn under 3,0001.
THE GREAT SWIMMING MATCH FOR FIFTY
POUNDS.. AstDe.—Yesterday the great contest bet Ween
Pewters (the London champion) and Hounslow (the Oxford
champion), came off in the Serpentine, Hyde Park, in the
presence of a great number of spectators of the highest re-
spectability. Both men having obtained so much notoriety
as first-rate swimmers, any comment would be superfluous.
The conditions of the match were—to swim once across the
Serpentine to a flag, and return to the starting-place. In
betting, both competitors were freely backed at even ; and
the signal for starting being given, the men plunged into the
water, and swam away with great swiftness, and kept an
equal position for some distance. Pewters was the first who
reached the opposite side; the men walked out of the water to
the flag, and immediately returned, for the winning goal,
both making strenuous exertions, Pewters slightly in ad-
vance
; and, after an admirable contest, Pewters came in the
winner by twenty yards. The match created great interest
among the promoters and admirers of this useful science ;
and although the race came off as early as seven o'clock,
there was not less than 800 persons present. The distance,
which is about 900 yards, was swam in five minutes.
The British and North American Royal mail
steam-ship Britannia leaves Liverpool on Wednesday, for.
Halifax and Boston.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has to acknow-
ledge the receipt of 100/., to be placed to the credit of the
nation, transmitted to him in a letter signed " Peecavi."—
Downing-street, August 31, 1844.
SMUGGLING FROM HER MAJESTY S SHIP THUNDER,
iAs lluenn, oofnlas l%ito N‘n.edtafiv, tdhiere2c6tetlas
—The Board Of Customs, upon • receipt of the depositions
against J. Ruffels, a waterman of Chatham, taken before'
onit., and fO, Rochester,ai)p d The eare
Mr. W. Sawyers, the collector of customs at Rochester, to
proceed against the prisoner, and a;si, the gun-room steward
of the ship, tinder the 49th and 85th
William IV., cap. 53. fir ft.sec. of the 3d and 4th
p-naltv in each case of 100/.
The case was ac-orli ng• ly investigated before
the Mayor end
other Magistrates for thi;, borought'if Rod
was lined in the full penalty (,f
1001., and
steward in the mitigated penalty of 251..
rHE
OF FINE ARTS AT WESTMINSTM
TI. LL.-011 Saturday, the exhibition at Westminster Hall„.
of the cartoons, fresco • painting, and sculpture, finally closed,
having been on view two months. During that period, from
the Ist to the 15th of July, visitors were admitted by the
payment f a shilling each person, and for the last six weeks,
with the excepti,n of the Saturdays, the exhibition was
free, and many thousands were present each day. Theres
were one hundred and eighty-three works of art, of which 4
eighty-four were specimens of fresco painting and cartoons,
and 99 of sculpture, there being 58 contributors of the
former, and 69 of the latter. Last year the number of
competitors was one hundred and thirty-two, who forwarded
one hundred and forty cartoons. Of these twenty-one re,-
ceived rewards, Lot sixteen of them have only appearedl
brfore the this year. Above a hundred of the con,-
tributors on the last occasion, have sent in no specimens..
The whole of the works insist be removed in a. few days..
Owing to the activity of the police, who were daily on duty,.
we have not heard of any robberies taking place.
RAILWAYS AND CANALS.—Mr. Laing, of the Board
of Trade, stated in his evidenr.‘e before the Select Cole-
miltee, his opinion that as yet the average profit on tail-
ways has not, boon higher than that en cane's. In a
subsequent part of his evidence, Mr. Laing *aid he did
not think it probable that railway property would ever
attain the same height of prosperity as some canals,
unless Parliament should grant the former an immunity
from competition. He said he had known 100/. canal.
shares sold for- 3,000/, whereas the highest price ftvt:
railway shares of the same amount had been about .`lO/,
--Railway Record,