The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-02 00:00:00

N, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2 1844,

MAJOR AND MRS. G. DARBY GRIFFITH.
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bound,
A JOURNEY ACROSS THE DESERT
FROM CEYLON TO MARSEILLES.
Comprising SKETCHES of ADEN, the RED SEA, LOWER
EGYPT, MALTA, SICILY, and ITALY.
By MAJOR and 311t4. GEORGE DARBY GRIFFITH.
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Country Life. By the Author of "Handley Cress," "Jorrock's
Jaunts and Jollities, &c., 3 -ols.
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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 2,
Will be performed Bellini's Opera LA SONN AM BU A. Count
Rodolpho Mr. Stretton; Elvin*, Mr. D. W. King; Arnim, Mies
Romer; Liza, Miss Betts.
After which, THE BEAUTY OF GHENT. Marquis de San
Lucar, M. Albert; Count Malvin°, M. Delfeticr ; Benedict. M.
Desplaces; Beatrice, Mdlle. Adele Durnilatre; Agnes, Mdle. Clara
Webster; Julia, Mdlle. Auguste Delbes ; Diana, Mdlle. Plunkett.
The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six
in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Sta:ls, Places,
and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKLT..
Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 2,
Will be repeated Vanbrugh's Comedy of THE CONFEDERACY.
Adapted to the present Period.
The Principal Characters by Messrs. Strickland, W. Farren,
Buckstone, and C. Mathews, MaJame Vestris, Miss P. Horton,
Mrs. E. Yarnold, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Stanley, and Mrs.
Glover.
Alter which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, founded on
Don Caesarde Baran, entitled AMA TCH FOR A KING.
Charles the Second, Mr. Stuart ; Don Sebastian della Rosa, Mr. C.
Mathews; Mariquita, Miss Julia Rennett.
To conclude with YANKEE LAND, in which Mr. Marble, the
popular delineator of Yankee chacter will perfo.
Orchestra Stalls (which may bera retained the whole of the Even-
ing), ss. each. First Price—Boxes, 55.; Pit, 3s. Gallery, 25.;
Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price at Nine o'Clock-h 'xes, 3s. ; Pit,
25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, Ed. Doors opened at Half past
Six, Pet formance commence at 'even.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each.
Tickets ani Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, at the Box-office,
(coin Ten till Five o'Clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 2,
Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS
STRANGER. Com. t Henry de Beaus')lei!, Mr. Hudson ,• Count
Vanilla, Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ;
Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith.
After which, an entirely New Drama, entitled CESAR DE
BAZAN ; or, Love md Honour. Charles the Second, Mr. Howe;
Caesar de B izan, Mr. Webster ; Maratina, Madame Celeste.
To conclude with a New Eccentric Mythologies' Purlesque, called
TELE MACHUS; or, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss
Woolgar ; Calypso, Mr. Wright; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford; Dinah,
Mr. Cowell.
Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, 'dr Pitt ; Leader of the
Band, Mr. Mellon.—Boa-office open from Eleven till Four. Private
Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the princ;pal Libraries.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OX FORD-ST E ET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. bL MADI)OX.
HIS EVENING, 2,
Will be performT d THE SYREN. NOVEMBER
Principal Characters by Messrs.
Walton, C. Horn, Jun., Leffler, Alle”, and Mdlle. Nau.
To conclude with the New Drama, called DON CESA R DE
BAZAN. Dan Ccesar, Mr. Wallack; Cn tales the Cecont , Mr.
Walton ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling; Counter; di Rotondo, Mrs.
Foibroke.
Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden.
Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL
Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 45. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Half-price at
Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, (*.I.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce.
alum Boxes, Two Guineas and a-HalE Doors to be opened at Half-
pest Six, and the Performances to commence at ‘even o'clock.
The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingh
Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the ,
Theatre.

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM LATE ENGLISH OPERA.
HOUSE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
THIS wovemßea EVENING 2,
Will be performed TWICE KILLED. Cli anters by Mes rs
Collier, Turner, Craven, and Keeley; Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and
Mrs. Keeley.

ro be followed by a New Comedietta. entitled WATCH AND
WARD. Tne characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinloch, and A.
Wigan; Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. A. Wigan.
After which, the Com c Scene, called OUTGENERALED;
or, a Hint to Bachelors. Charles Stanley, Mr. F. Vining ; Mrs.
Bartley, Miss Walcott.
To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASS.ONS
With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal
Characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr.
Craven, and Mr. Keeley; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Weolli Ige, Mrs
A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mr,s James, Miss Arden, Mire Grove, Mae
Fort?scue, and Mrs. Keeley.
PRICES OF A DISII;;SION.—BaIcouy Boxes. Upper
Byes, fis.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2., ;
Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Ft. Private Boxes on the aur,,my Tier
holding eight persons). Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
Pier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private
Boxes on the Pit Fler (holding six persons), One Guiren.
The Box.-.)ftice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc-
ion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent garden Theatre.

STRAND THEATRF.
Lessee. Mr. ROBERTS.
EVENG, NOVEMBER 2,
Willb*performedTHlS NI
DON C/EZAR DE BAZAN. Don Cmsar Mr.
Roberts; King Charles 11., Mr. John Howard; Maritana, Mrs.
Coleman Pope.
Mr. Roberts and Mrs. M ntgomerie will dance their celebrated Polka.
The Kantrowita Family will sing several Russi in ant Polish Airs
After wh'ch, THE MARRIED RAKE. Mr. Flighty, Mr.
RobertsTrictrac. Mrs. C. Po pe; Susan, Mr& Melville.
To conclude with HENRI DE ROCHEM A INE Henri, Mr.
Roberts; Mademoiselle Bois Robert, Mrs. Montgomerie.

ASTL RY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS,
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY.
Open every evening with its unequalled rotation of Equestrian and
Dramatic Entertainments
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 2,.
The Splendid Spectacle from the Poem of the illustrious Sir Walter
41ott, entitled LOCHINVAR; or, The Bridal of Netheroy, and
steed of the Brave.
Entire change of the Scenes of the Circle, and novel feats of Horse.
manship, by the extensive corps of French and Br tish riders.
Po conclude with THE BLOOD-RED KNIGHT; or, The War..
?ion of Palestine.
Acting and stage-mu:lager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.
Box-oilice open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding
Mr. R. Smith daily.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING NOVEMBER
Will be performed THE DEVIL'S BRIDGE. 2, Count Belino,
Mr. Brah.m ; Florian, Mr. Binge; Countess Rosa:vina, Miss
Pearson ; Lauretta, Miss E Terrey.
After which, THE CROWN PRINCE; or, The Buckle of
B ri 'Nan ts.
In the course of the Evening Mr. Charles Brahmin will sing the
Serenade from Doa Pasquale."
To conclude with GRACE CLAIRVILLE; ,
or The Crime at
the Symon's Yat. Grace Clairville, Mrs. Neville.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
Ake, from Eleven to Four.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, NER
Will be performed DON C/ESAR OEOVEMB BAZAN.2, Principal Cha-
racters by Messrs. sbaldiston, Dale, Herbert, and Miss Vincent.
fter which, THE WIDOW OF CORNHILL; or, a Woman
Never Vex% Foster, Mr. Graham ; Agnes Welsted (the Wiuow of
Cornhill), Miss Vincent; Mrs. Foster, Mrs. W. West.
To conclude with THE FAIRY LADY; or, The Cabinet of
Bronze. Elise (the Fairy Lady), Miss Louisa Lyons.
Private Family Boxes, £1 Is. Od. and Al Ils. ert.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
" A Ten Years' Subscriber."—He was born in 1828.

THE WEATHER.—Strza OFFICE, Nov. 1.
TrautmolawrEß, Lowest, 43 ; Highest, 50 ; Noon, 46
Beam:mu, E.S.E.
gar x.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
,-.e.T.lng point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
u ally placed opposite 30. and rain at 29.

HIGH WATER AT LOWDONT-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
4 ',ring 41 minutes after 5 J Evening ... 5 minutes after fl.

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1, treated ! No mile:die-men stand between them and
their employers, except so far as the necessities of
business compel; and in all their more rational amuse-
ments
the master manufacturers join them. The
iconsequence is a continuous and steady elevation of 1
character everywhere. The landowners must bestir
themselves. They, too, have a great part to play in
the national revival which' has begun, and if they do
not enter upon it at once and vigorously, their good
name must suffer."
.Who would have dreamed, but
two short years since, that a high Tory periodical would
have held language like this, and recommended the
example of the manufacturers as worthy to be imitated
by the landowners. The passage is in every respect a
remarkable one, and gives undeniable proof of the
power of events and circumstances to flash conviction
even on the stubborn mind of Toryism. We now
find it admitted by an enemy—a just and conscien-
tious one we must confess—that the great cotton-
lords are by no means the hard, selfish, mer-
-1 cenary wretches that self-complacent Monopoly
has so long represented them to be ; that
they do not stand coldly and haughtily aloof' from
the numerous work-people in their employ, or treat
them as mere senseless machines, fit only to be used
for the purpose of making money ; but, on the con-
trary, that their conduct is so considerate and kindly
—so devoid of all upstart arrogance and assumption—
so marked by an unassuming show of courtesy to-
wards the operatives, and a sincere wish to
elevate them in their own esteem—that the land-
owners cannot possibly do better than adopt the
same just and beneficent course of policy towards the
peasantry on their estates. We cordially agree with
Fraser that the time is at length come when " the
landlords must bestir themselves." They have been
talking of it long enough, they must now set to work
in right earnest. It is not by making showy speeches
in Parliament that they will be able to effec

any substantial good, but by going personally among
the peasantry, acquainting themselves with their little
wants and wishes, treating them with a kindness and
familiarity that shall have nothing of lofty condescen-
sion in its tone, and assisting them to the utmost of
their power whenever they require and deserve assist-
ance. The Allotment system is good, so far as it
goes, but it is an instalment only—and can be re-
garded in no other light—of the heavy debt that the
1 indowners have long owed to the peasantry. The
very forbearance and exemplary patience which the
latter have manifested during their long night of
suffering should plead trumpet-tongued in their favour,
and quicken every generous emotion in the breast of

their superiors. We most fervently hope that the
hour is not far distant when they will in some degree
be compensated for their terrible privations, and be-

come again what they once were, and ought always
to have been, " their country's pride," instead of its

opprobrium.

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and not merely of their labour, sinews, bones, but of
their very hopes and aspirations, their intellectual
energies and moral impulses—that once, forsooth,
having been " farm labourers or hand- loom weavers,"
they never shall become other—higher—richer
abler—better ?—lfsome latent " YOUNG" or "
shall have conceivel, from the rude but continuous
processes connected with the cultivation of his little
allotment, some schemes of general agricultural im-

provement, or for ensuring the multiplication of his
horticultural produce, or for profitably applying some
chemical properties, which he may have silently de-

We are glad to perceive that the subject of land
allotments to the poor is occupying, at length, a con-
siderable share of public attention. There are few
objects of our social economy or domestic policy of a
more vital character. So obvious a principle of
natural equity, irrespective of this important con-
sideration, appears to us to recommend the system of
making these grants, that we shall address ourselves
to the consideration of the matter in respect of its
own merits, and without regard to the political bias
or relations of its advocates or its opponents. It
seems the more necessary to premise this determina-
tion, because the question has already been discussed,
we regret to observe, with manifest reference to per-
sonal.considerations which ought never to be allowed
to interpose themselves in dealing with a topic of
such large and momentous interest.
A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle de-
scribes the controversy on this question- as- beink
chiefly sustained between the economists, with the
Earl of RADNOR at their head ; the manufacturers
and landowners, who are fearful of these allotments
interfering with the work which ought to be done
for them by those in whose favour these allotments
will be made; and a third party, who would that
every man should have his little plot of ground to
cultivate. The writer in question says "Lord
RADNOR boldly declares, and so do the pure econo-
mists, against gardens for the poor." We wish that
the same writer would as "boldly" have declared
against the " pure economists" and Lord RADNOR.
Instead of doing so, he insists that " the true princi-
ple of allotment gardens" should be this—that "the
allotment is neither to be a farm nor a potato patch."
Why not, we beg to ask, if it suit the purposes of
the poor holder to make it the one or the other ?
Why—" it is not to interfere with the dogma of the
economist, nor to create an Ireland." Might he not
have just as well have told us that it was NOT to
control Sir PETER LAURIE'S exuberant equitation
the other day at Temple-bar, on meeting the royal
procession, or to challenge the propriety and good
taste of setting up "Mr. JONES'S" coat of arms (!)
in the same sumptuous edifice which is to enshrine the
heraldic blazonry of such houses as the GRESHAMS
the TUDORS, the STUARTS, and the GUELPHS
Who, in GoD's name, cares one straw whether the
" dogma of an economist" be disturbed or not, when
the mighty question is, how to tranquillise a noble
peasantry ? Who cares to inquire into the proba-
bilities of so figurative a result as the "creating an
Ireland" in England, when the simple practical pro-
position is to allot to each family of the English la-
bouring poor a few roods to two or three acres of
waste land, whereon to raise some portion of their
subsistence ? But the allotment system, it further
appears, "is not even to make market gardeners."
Why not, we ask, if the process of cultivating these
patches creates in the poor cultivator a strong desire
to embark in that most useful and not uninteresting
calling ? " Mercianus" (from whom we have been
quoting) tells us, himself, that the scheme is "to
allow of the converting of waste time and little pro-
ductive land to a profit, NOW lost to the nation and
individuals. The waste time of a man and his
family (not being hired labour) will make the land
more productive, pay the same, OR MORE RENT, should
it be basely exacted)," and afford the cultivator cereal
crops and culinary vegetables. "The profits above
the farming rent and outgoings will be, even to the
unskilful, 51. or 6/. on the quarter of an acre, or
about one-sixth of a labourer's or hand-loom weaver's
wages." Then why, we ask, cripple and clog your
allotments with any drawbacks, or restrict their grant
to the narrow limitations suggested, when the whole
1,500,000 agricultural labourers of England (for it is
of England, including Wales only, that we have to
speak) may be thus largely benefited, and the gene-
ral stock of horticultural production be thus in-
creased ? If it be true " that even the operatives of
manufacturing towns are by little and little gaining
land"—" at Nottingham, in particular, owing to the
discernment and good feeling of a gentleman who is
the Duke of NEWCASTLE'S agent"—why should not
so beneficent a system be much more universally
adopted ? We are shocked to find the reasons thus
stated, and thus justified by our Contemporary's
correspondent. He writes of these reasons thus :
"I have heard some of them" (i.e., the economists
and Lord Itanaroa) say, ".Let the hired labourer—
labour ; the hand-loom weaver=weave f and where
there is no work for them, go to where there is
some." We shall only observe,. that sentiments so
disgustingly sordid as these atrannly adapted for the
meridian of Braliminical institutions, where the base,
servile, and degrading *trines of hereditary serfdom,
and impassable caste is still impressed, as it has been
for three or four thousand years past, on the most
passive and abject bondsmen of the Hindoo races.
But the insolent cruelty of any set of men, in this
happier country, insisting on the devoted children of
pohviecrht y
tcontinuing
atlor e
dw ok
yrs atnk thoseinto the
depths
oin
f
physical and moral destitution, so long as there re- The Journal des Debats announces with evident
mains any work to be had in their own districts, and satisfaction that on Tuesday, the 29th of October, the
then remitting them, unaided, to seek it—to go anniversary of the accession to power of the present
in quest of more misery, and to realise anew a like consummation of wretchedness ;—this is, indeed Ministers, all the Members of the Cabinet dined with
, a the KING at St. Cloud. The Ministry, therefore,
reach of tyrannous selfishness and obduracy to has entered on the fifth year of its existence—an age
which even the social despotism of Oriental which no French Cabinet since the July revolution
policy and governments is as yet a stranger. has attained. The occasion furnishes to the Govern-
We believe the anticipated return of 51 or 61. on a ment journal a good subject for congratulation, and
quarter of an acre to be, in itself, a most exaggerated certainly, when we contrast the excited state of
speculation; but it is ominous, in conjunction with i France at the fall of M. TRIERS and its present
" Lord RADNOR and the economists," when we have peaceful and prosperous condition, everything is in
so lately heard, with unaffected regret, of a noble- favour of M. GinzoT's administration. ,The same
man, a Liberal in politics, publicly avowing that if he journal then adverts to the state of Spain, which
could get 9/. an acre by these allotments of them, in does least honour to the policy of the pre-
roods, or other larger patches, he would be justified sent Cabinet. It was a wanton, underhand inter-
in taking it ; and that his own labourers could not I ference with a neighbouring people, and may yet lead
expect him to deprive himself of such an advantage to the most serious consequences. When that journal
for their benefit. Now, a maxim of this kind, largely I seemed disposed to blame MARTINEZ PE LA ROSA

,ected, in these labours of his " after hours," in the

disintegration of vegetable substances or earths to
the purposes of manure and dressing, he is to he

arrested in these audacious flights of discovery and
usefulness, that a hand-loom may not stand still for
one minute of its accustomed evolutions, or a single
flail be deserted by the vigorous hands and arms of its
accustomed thresher !

It was calculated, in 1841, that there were abou
3,500,000 acres of the waste lands of England whicl

were susceptible of improvement. Might it not be a
more than expedient, and to a legitimate extent de-
.

cidedly a
„profitable application of such lands by their
owners, to. lose no time in parcelling them out, on a
fair'and equitably arranged system of conditiozis, acd

in convenient allotments for the labouring poor, willing
to avail theniselves of so certain and salutary a
means of improving their own condition by increasing
their supply of food, and raising a sufficient surplus
of edible produce to add sensibly to the limited amount

of their own incomes ? For our own parts, we should
rejoice beyond measure to see them enabled, by such
employment, and such success, to advantageously ex-
change a remove from their present occupations,
wherever these are extremely underpaid, prejudicial
to their health, or distasteful to their wishes and

desires—so far from conditioning, in the first instance,
that " the weaver shall be sumptuously kept—to
weave on still ; and the labouring hind to his farm
labours, without change or promotion."

Madrid journals of the 24th ult. have been received.
They contain an outline of the speech made by
MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, which puts at rest the inventions of a Paris
journal about a reconciliation between the royal
family and Don CARLOS. He declared with much
emphasis that never should Don CARLOS and his
family return to the palace of her MAJESTY through
any intrigue. This declaration must produce the
effect of setting at rest the thousand vague conjectures
which have been hazarded as to the bearing of the
article of the Reform Bill relative to the marriage of
the QUEEN. The Government, he added, were
perfectly well aware that the Exaltados and the
Carlists were conspiring both within and without the
country, but every necessary precaution was taken to
prevent the accomplishment of their designs. He
added, that the Ministry had thought it their duty
not to introduce into the Speech from the Throne
any question which was not a sort of programme
of their official intentions and the steps which
they meant to pursue; they wished thus to
place a barrier to discussion. They hoped to con-
solidate the peace of the country, and to establish
those organic laws of which it stood so much in need-
The intention of the Government, he said, was to seek
for their arms in the arsenal of the laws, and not in
that of revolution. The Government had not consi-
dered it their duty to make any special mention of
the See of Rome, although it should not be supposed
from that that the Government were indifferent to

such a grave subject. Steps had been taken to re-
establish political relations, and relations of a su-
perior order, which it was important to make in a
firm and stable manner, and beyond the influence of
passions and policy, because their character was im-
mutable. These relations ought to exist between the
visible head of the Church and a nation eminently
Catholic. The Government would endeavour by
every means in its power to effect a sincere and ho-
nourable reconciliation, for the Government had two-
fold duties to perform, conciliating at the same time
the rights and wants of the nation with the preroga-
tives of the Crown. He was happy to announce that
those relation: were likely to be established. With
regard to the remarks of an Honourable Member, that
the congratulations on the termination of the affair of
Morncco were premature, he would observe, that the
Emperor of Morocco had given to Spain all the sa-

tisfaction and the indemnities which shehad demanded,
Relative to the same subject, the Minister of
Grace and Justice, and the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, said that it was necessary to remove all hope
from the, partisans of Don CARLOS until they should
have fully submitted themselves to the Government
of the nation.

The Chamber of Deputies did not sit on the 24th,
but in the evening there was a meeting of members
opposed to the new Bill, when they could muster only

Accounts have been received this day from Madrid
of the 25th, but they bring nothing fresh, if we except

a rise in the funds.

Upon the Madrid Exchange of the 24th the Three
per Cents. were at 26k for ready money, and at 26i

at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 20, at 60 days.
On the 25th the Three per Cents. were done at 271 at

60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 20k, at 60 days; and
the Floating Debt of the Treasury at 63i, at 60 days.

acted on by the landed gentry and nobility of Eng-
land—this sort of intimation to reckless pauper can-
didates for the holding of little plots of land, that, let
their eagerness push them to offer what improvident
terms it might, the disadvantage and loss to them-
selves must be their look out, and were no matter
for the consideration of landlords ;—such a course
of proceeding would, indeed, soon " create an Ireland"
in England, with all its squalid potato-ground hold-
ing, half-naked, and utterly destitute small tenantry.
We will do the landed interest of England, with
all their faults, the justice of avowing that we
have not the remotest fear that so heartless an avowal
—so utter a repudiation of the late Mr. Secretary
DRUMMOND'S apothegm, "that property has its duties
as well as its rights"—will find half a dozen imitators
in the same rank or station of society as his who gave
it utterance ;—half a dozen followers in the attempt
at what " Mercianus" terms " thus basely exact-
ing" exorbitant rents for inferior land from those
least capable of paying it." But we cannot dismiss
the subject without touching on the views of that
writer himself. After reproving the manufacturers
for their fears "that allotments may interfere with
the employers' time ;" and the alarms of "the more
n'ggardly and timid farmers," that " the man will
waste his strength before he comes to work ; the
man will keep his grown-up sons at home ; he will
steal corn (if he grows it he cannot be dis-
covered);"—and here let us assure the reader
we are accurately quoting these shameful
and intolerable assumptions to the discredit of the
labourer, with verbal minuteness ; the correspondent
of our Contemporary declares that " the object should
be to leave him a labourer or a hand-loom weaver,
and to give him the means only of producing what he
consumes himself." Why should he not raise more
—aye, and sell it, too, at a good profit, we ask, if he
can ? "He is then," continues the writer, " de-
pendent on no market, and wastes no time in specu-
lation." Admirable solicitude ! Excessive sympathy
for the laborious improver of his meagre portion of
leisure. Do the great employers, then—whether
manufacturers or landowners—really look, as they
have often been used to do, upon their workmen
and servants as beasts of burden—as brute animals,
or mere bipe.l locomotive machines, which you
may feed, and even keep at rest occasionally,
up to a certain point, but no farther ? Have they
the fee-simple of these men's bones, sinews, labour—

FLANDERS and HAMBURGH MAIL

BRUSSELS, OCT. 29.—The average price of Wheat
last week was 18f. 84c., and that of Rye 10f. 77c. per
iectolitre.

The Chamber of Representatives, in its sitting to-day,
resumed the debate on the project of law relative to the
settlement and relief of the poor.
ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 6.—A great Council has been
held at Cairo, at which Ibrahim Said Akbar Sherif and
Ahmet Paella, with several other persons high in office,
were present. Among other matters, it was resolved
that, as we hear, that the purchase of lands should be
allowed on the payment of a certain tax to the Go►ern-
ment, and that the villages should be relieved from
the debt.

A person in the service of the engineer, Galli Bey,
was accused of having betrayed to the English the plan
of the new fortifications of this city, for which he was
arrested,. and afterwards expelled from the country
Some say he stole the original plan ; others that he only
furnished the English with a copy.
The proposals of the English respecting the transit to
India were rejected by Mehemet Ali, who said that he
would himself provide for a certain fixed tariff, but that
the English should be at liberty, if they pleased, to have
every convoy accompanied by their own conductor and
postilions, but with respect to the rate of charges he
could not grant them any advantage above other nations.
Mr. Bourne is now engaged in organising the post in the
interior.

ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 6.—The last steamer from Syria,
which arrived on the 3d, brought his Royal Highness
Prince Waldermar of Prussia ; he forbid all ceremonies.
flaying viewed what is remarkable in this city he went
yesterday by the steamer to Cairo. It is uncertain
whether the Prince will be able to proceed on his voyage
to Calcutta with the next steamer ; 130 passengers
Living already entered their names, so that it is possible
there will be no room for the Prince.—A//3emeine
Zeitung, Oct. 23.

HAMBITRGIT, OCT. 26.—Dr. John Frederick Lorenz
Meyr, oue of the oldest German writers (being born in
January, 1760), was buried to-day.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausszts. Ocr.
Actua Debt, 13 per Cent.,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent 11121,4
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent..........., 9B•X
Three per Cent. •••.« ••••
Thirty-seven Millions, ditto . ...... ..... 78%
Itt3
11;44..•••••••••••• 00 11••••••••••••••••••••••••• 104
Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent— . 102
Society of Commerce, Four and ada per Cent.

Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 60%
issue of .... .... . .... .......
—Brussels. Papers. Oct. 30:
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE. OCT. 29.

_
Bs:
Austrian 5 per Cents. ll3 Money.
Bank Shares 1640 1630
Anglo_Russian Loan 1143(
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 1053 105
Inscription, Ist series ....
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
99% --
Ditto In Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (1840)
Dutch Actual Debt, 23 per Cent ... ..... 6. % 6134
Ditto 5 per Cont. —
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent.
Spanish. New 5 per Cents.
..... ..... 16)
Polish Bonds —
New Tickets
.... —.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AusTEspear, Oct, 25.
Money. 62%
Ditto, Ar,tuil Debt, '214 per Cent. 62% 62%
Ditto, ditto, 3 per Cent.
Ditto, ditto, 4 per Cent.
DA i
ziltdo,,tusiyt tnod
itfle.sir cet
percent
£9% 90%
Ditto, ditto, 3Si per cast —
Commercial Company, .1.3;, per cent....., 247 14754
Loan 18:17, 5 per cent
Exchange on Londex, Onemonth
Two months l2 G 7
Hamburgh, One msnth
Two months 35 43 7-la
Dutch Papers, Ott. 27.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS....BERLIN.

80% St. Schuld Sch., 34 per cent.
99 X
Prussian English Bonds, 1630, 4 per cent.
Exchange on London
Prussian Slate Gazette, Oct. 20.
AUSTRIAN PUNDS.—Visiora, Om 23.
Five per Cents. Metalliques

- -
- 35 43 7-10

og
Four per WK.
100
Three per Cents. '7s
Bank Shares . ••••4•••••••. •• •••••• 1004
Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 26.

Alderman Gibbs, the Lord Mayor elect, will giv
al sumptuous banquet this evening at the London
Tavern, in I3ishopsgate-street, to a large party of his
friends and adherents.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—The bleak and high moun-
tain of Llanhithel, above the Crumlin, was, on the night
of Sunday last, the scene of the lonely death of Mr. Wil-
liams, late a much-respected inhabitant of Llanvrechva.
How the unfortunate gentleman met this melancholy
fate there is yet no circumstance to indicate; but it is
supposed that at night, on the desolate and dreary moun-
tain, with no human succour nigh, he was suddenly at-
tacked by an apoplectic or other flt, and expired. The
corpse was found next morning, stark and stiff; and the
horse—whose rider lay dead on the heath--,yes quietly
standing near at hand. There were no marks of violence
on the person of the deceased, and money to a consi-
derable amount was found in his pockets, by those who
had gone in search of the unfortunate gentleman. He
was the father of a large and respectable family, who
now lament their disastrous lossi ao vats highly ps-
teemed in his dealings as an intelligent and extensive
farmer and dealer in the parish of Llanyrechva, arid
other districts in this county.—Monmouthshire Merlin,

-
' and NAEVAEZ for remodelling the Constitution, and l MO NTE7 A NT fl CO Wir ER CI A Ir, NE WS
especially for abolishing that part of it which ac- -.co
knowledged the sovereignty of the people, we attached CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.The Stock Market being closed, we have no quotations
not the slightest importance to its remarks. It was
to give. all for the purpose of keeping up a show of impar- There was no alteration in the rat., of exchange on
tiality till the proper time should come for recognising Frankfort, Hamburgh, or Antwerp. Paris advance 1 a
the new measure. That time appears to have arrived, little, and Amsterdam and Trieste wiry not quite to
and the Ministerial journal, though ostensibly not high.
much in love with the new Charter, yet lets the affair 1 (From The Sun of Last Night.)
drop away quietly, by saying that " after all, the 1 The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000
Spaniards ought to be the best judges of their own , bales, viz., 800 Egyptian, at 54d. to 64-d. ; 600 Surat, at
affairs." It at the same time asserts, that *the pre- 214. to 3d. ; and the rest, mostly American, at 3d. to
tended treaty between the POPE and Queen CHRIS- 4
5-Id per lb. The market was flat.—Shares had improved
, for Grand Junction, Great Western, and the smaller
TINA, which we copied from the National, isa " mere
fable." We thought as much at the time. Fabri- French lines. Dovers closed heavily. Bristol and GI( u-
, tester, 102 ; Chester and Wrexham, 1q ; Direct
cated documents may effect their object in a despotic
Northern, 2Z 9s. ; Dublin and Cashel, 9 ; Eastern
Government, such as that of NAPOLEON, where no ! Counties, 131 ; Glasgow and Ayr, 61f ; Ditto and
contradictions were allowed. In these days the '
1 Greenock, 12f ; Grand Junction, 209 ; Ditto, One-half,
National will find the effect very different, and by ! 104 f ; Lancaster and Preston, 424 ; Liverpool and Man-.
such mendacious arts only merit a title which all 1 chester, New, 32f ; Ditto, One-half, 99f ; London and
honest, and even d:shonest, men abhor. The follow- , Birmingham, 214 ; Ditto 32L Shares, 364 ; Ditto and
I
ing are the remarks in the Journal des Debats, to York, 32- ; North Union, 128 f ; Sheffield and Man;
which we refer:— chester, 98 ; South-Eastern, 42 ; Ditto, New. 15f ;
" The Committees in the two Spanish Chambers have York and Selby, 54 ; Lyons and Avignon, 21. 6s. 6d. ;
proceedel seriously and quietly to discuss the newly Paris and Rouen, 39f ; Ditto and Strasburg, 24 ; Or-
propored constitutional reform. Out of doors the same leans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 31. 1 ls. 6d.
tranquillity prevails, notwithstanding all the endeavours
The accounts received from Halifax yesterday refer
made to disturb it. We have no more admiration to-
day than we had yesterday of what is passing in Spain ; to the plan proposed to be carried out of a new road be-
but, after all, the Spaniards ought to be the best judges tween Quebec and Halifax. A saving of about eighty our
of their own affairs, and it appears to be certain that the ninety miles in the proposed route would be effected,
Bil presented by the Government will be passed by a but still there are many objections raised to it ; one of
large majority. We may naturally expect a number of
exaggerated reports as to the state of the public mind, the most prominent is, that it passes so near the frontier
that were war to take place again with America, our
particularly in the provinces, to be put in circulation ;
but hitherto all attempts to excite agitation have com- troops would be placed in disadvantageous posi-
pletely failed. Projects of reaction are attributed to the dons frequently. The discussion that had been
Spanish Government, which, if they had any foundatiou, raised upon the subject, will at least, it is ex-
would be most insensate, and a French journal goes so
petted, have one beneficial result—that of nec
far as to publish the articles of a treaty which it pre •
at-
tends to have been concluded between the present Go-
tracting attention to improvements in the pre-
vernment and Don Carlos, on the occasion of the pre- sent routes, should the Government determine to adhere
sumed marriage between Queen Isabella and the Prince to them for a time.
of the Asturias. According to our own information, we.
msy safely af , The commercial accounts received this morning from
firm that there has not been any idea of
India and China are not so satisfactory as had been
such a union, and, consequently, that this pretended
a treaty is a mere fable. On the contrary, it should seem anticipated. The plethora in the stock of gOods on hand
that the Congress Committee has proposed, in accordance hail suffered but little abatement. However, there was
with the Government, to add to the Bill an article ex- an increased degree of confidence in the markets of the
pressly precluding the Sovereign from contracting mar- Celestial Empire now open to our trade. As money was
riage with any person directly excludtd from the sue- becoming rather more plentiful hopes were entertained
cession to the Croan. In truth, the Bill is already.
strong enough without the addition of any factitious mat- that in a short time the business would considerably re-
ter, and attempting to render it worse than it is, will only 'rive. The exportation of teas was previously known to
make it appear the better." have been very large, hence the depression which has pre-
The National has another furious article against vailed in our market for the leaf. The total, according
the new Spanish Constitution, and throws all the to the most authentic accounts of leaf shipped off, was
49,250,0001bs.hisbeing a close holiday in the Stock Exchange, as
blame on M. GUIZOT. What absurdity in this
journal to come in after the death, without making
T
the slightest attempt to vindicate the independence usual on the Ist November, we have not any fresh quo-
of refugees Shares.
from France. Its national vanity, no doubt, was The public are thronging in thousands to view the
soothed by seeing Frenchmen exert such influence in New Royal Exchange. This is stated to be the last
Spain ; and now it attacks M. GUIZOT, not from any day that it will be open by tickets. Surely the au-
generous impulse in favour of freedom, for of that it thorities ought to grant more time to the people to
is incapable, but solely to annoy a Government view the fittings up, &c.—the more so, as the most
that has the honesty and skill to keep it and other perfect regularity and order have hitherto- been ob-
firebrands under salutary control. These papers conserved by the merchants who have passed through the
-
tain no domestic news. In fact, France is at present new building'
perhaps, the most peaceful and contented nation in MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 31.—We
Eurove nothing new to note to-day. There is still a
wood
pe. Lon:s PHILIPPEPIarup and his Cabinet may, wood
p doing, and our quotations are :—Barnsley
therefore, look back on the last four years with no Junction, 54 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 11 ; Churnet
ordinary feelings of joy and exultation.
Valley, 34 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, lf and 1 pre-
THE BOITESE--WEDNESDAY, OCT.
mium; Leeds and Thirsk, 4k; London and York, 3 1-16;
First 30. *
Last Lancaster and Preston, Quarter Shares, London and
Highest Lowest
Price. Price. Price. Price Birmingham, Quarters, 25 ; Manchester, and Leeds,
French Five per Cmta.... 118 70 .. 118 70 •• 118 70 .. 118 70 Halves, 471 ; Manchester and Buxton, 2 1-16; Sheffield
Three per Cents..... 82 20 .. 82 20 .. 82 .. 52 05 and Lincoln, 2 ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters,
Bank of France .• tO7O ..3070 ..3070 —3070 134 • ; West Yorkshire, 91 ; Union Bank, 10.
Datlitte Bank, I,ooof Shares 1 050 1065 ..1050 ..1065
5,000( Sharessooo ..8005 ..5000 ..5005
, COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Belgian Bank • •
655 655 ..
655 ..65;'i Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Gibraltar —
Belgian Fives, 1840 ........ 1031 .. 1031 .. 1031 .. 10,
1842 .• •••••• 1051 .. 1051 .. 1051 .. 1031 Ditto,
_at sight l2 4 Leghorn 3O 50
:Spanish Threes.... —•••• •• 35 .. 35 .. 341 .. 241 Rotterdam 2U.12 6i Genoa 25 85
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 53 .. 53 .• 53 .• 53 Antwerp 25 95 Milan —
Neap01itan.........• •• •.•9875..9875.•98 75 .. 98 75 flamburgh M.B. 13 13 Venice ....
Roman ..
RAILWAY SHARES.
Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 65 Palermo, per oz llB
St. Germain........• •••• 917 50 •• 917 50 .. 917 50 .. 917 50 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon 55
Versailles, R. 8..• .... •••• 400 .• 400 ••• 400 .. 400 Marseilles ... .25 95 Oorto
L. 8... •• —•• ••.. 286 25 . 287 50 .. 286 25 .• 286 25 p 55Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 23
Rouen ••••
Frankf rt
Rouen to Havre•• ••
Orleans •• ••
,svarnon to Marseilles-- 810 . 810 • • 805 -. 805 Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 953 Philadelphia _
RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, SETTLING, OVEMBEE 4 Trieste, ditto
St. Germain ••••••• • • • • • • • 920 .. 520 .• 920 .. 920 Hadrid i Foreign Gold, bars.l.3 17 9
Versailles, R.B•• •• —••• • .. 405 .. 405 • • 397 50 .. 397 50 Cadiz
L. 8.•• —— •• •••• 286 25 .. 286 25 .. 286 25 .. 286 25 Rilbao 36 New Doubloons-- 00 0
Rouen .. .. ..
Rouen to Havre.. ....... ... 772 50 .. 772 50 .• 770 .• 771 25
Orleans ......... .• •• ....1023 75 ..1023 75 —lOl7 50 ..1017 50 Seville — Silver in Bars O4 11
Strasburg to Bale •• •• 277 50 .• 277 50 .. 275 .. 276 25 ......—.........
Avignon to Marseilles 805 .. 805 .. 805 • 805 _ _

THE QUEEN'S VISIT to the CITY,
The Lord Mayor received the following communi-
cation from Sir James Graham :
" Whitehall, Oct. 30, 1844.
" MY LORD ALLYOR,-I have received her Majesty's
commands to make known to your Lordship and the
Gresham Committee, and to the Civic authorities
charged with the arrangements for the reception of her
Majesty at the Royal Exchange on Monday last, the
gratification which her Majesty and the Prince, her
Royal Consort, experienced on that day.
" The loyalty of the assembled multitude, the splendid
hospitality of the City of London, the order and good
feeling which universally prevailed, have left on the
minds of her Majesty and of the Prince the most pleas.
ing impressions, and I am commanded to convey this
assurance to your Lordship in the name of the Queen
and of the Prince.--I have the honour to be, my Lord
Mayor, your faithful servant,

" J. R. G. GRAHAM.
" To the Right Hon. Sir William Magnay, Bart., &c.,
Lord Mayor of London."

The Lord Mayor communicated the letter to the
Gresham Committee yesterday.

We are gratified to learn that Lord Granville
Somerset, the Chancellor of the Duchy, has nominated
Mr. Horace Twiss Vice-Chancellor of the County Pala-
tine of Lancaster, in the room of the late Mr. Holt, with
' a seat in her Majesty's council of the Duchy. It is not
by his professional brethren alone that any distinction
bestowed upon Mr. Twiss will be heard of with pleasure.
Politicians of all parties, and literary men of all ranks,
will derive satisfaction from the success of a gentlercae,
who, in times of the greatest party heats and strife, could
firmly and consistently maintain his own principles with-
out asperity or wilful injustice to opponents ; and who
has just crowned a literary life more laborious and more
important in its labours than the world is perhaps aware
of, by a biographical work,
,which, in point of interest
and permanent value, is not surpassed by any of the class
to which it belongs.--11forning Chronicle.
MARRIAGE (NOT) ALA MODE.--A. very ludicrous
scene took place at St. Mary's Church, yesterday, when
a well-known character, named Ben Wilson, appeared
with his betrothed, in order to enter into that happy state
which is experienced by bachelors when they " tie a
knot with their hands, which they cannot untie with
their teeth." The ceremony having been concluded,
there was a subsequent part of the performance to go
through, not unimportant to the clergyman or his
clerk, and that was the payment of the marriage fees.
When the sum was demanded, Ben dived with
his fist to the bottom of his pocket, turned the
" browns" over and over again, and at length proved
" a defaulter." The hippy smiles of the bride were
changed to clouds of confusion, and Ben scratched his
head (but there was nothing in that), and an I 0 U
would have been useless in such a place as a church, espe-
cially on a wedding day. Ben, who had been just " tied
up," was therefore detained a prisoner in the sacred edi-
fice (to the no small laughter of the gossips assembled)
until the clergyman at length forgave him the fees, and
released him from his whimsical situation. sen, having
thus early experienced the sours of matrimony, departed
with his rib to enjoy the sweets of the honeymoon.—
Bury Farmer's Journal.
RAILWAY "mom WINDSOR TO LONDON.--A meeting
of the Provisional Committee of the Windsor Junction
Railway Company took place on Thursday morning, at the
Windsor Bank, for the purpose of receiving the report of
the engineer, Mr. Page, and adopting a resolution
thereon, as to the most eligible line to be determined
upon, previously to the various details being submitted
to her Majesty. Amongst the members of tho-Provi-
sional Committee present were Colonel Reid (Ist Life
Guards), Captain Copeland, R.N., Captain Forbes, Mr.
EL Seymour, Mr. R. Carter, Mr. J. T. Bedborough Mr.
J. Tighe, Mr. Alderman Snowden, &c. The following
resolution was unanimously adopted, subject, of course,
to its being confirmed at a general meeting of the sub-
scribers for shares, which is expected to take place on
Monday next :—" That the proposed lines of railway
shall be from Windsor to the Great Western Railway at
Slough, and from Windsor to Staines, thereby connect-
ing Staines with Windsor and the Great Western." A
copy of this resolution was transmitted yesterday after-
noon to Mr. G. E. Anson, her Majesty's private secre-
tary, for the purpose of being submitted to the Queen.
It is fully expected that the consent of the Crown will
not be withheld from the proposed undertaking, from
which it is anticipated that the royal town of Windsor
will derive great and permanent advantages. Nearly
1,000 shares have already been subscribed for by parties
residing within the immediate neighbourhood of Wind-
sor. We should mention that Mr. Page's report has
also been submitted for the inspection of her Majesty,
embodying the three lines which have received the sanc-
tion of the Provisional Committee. The main line is
intended to commence in Datchet-lane, within a few
stone's throw of Windsor-bridge, proceeding to Datchet,
and thence to the metropolis, through Colnbrook,
Hounslow, Brentford, and Hammersmith. A branch
line is intended to peoce.ed from Datchet to Staines,
there to join the Richmond and Staines Junction Rail-
way. A second branch line is also contemplated from
Datchet to join the Great Western Railway somewhere
between the Slough and West Drayton stationet The
terminus to the main line will be a Millbank, whence a
railway will bp eopstructecl, according to
m the Arrange-
ents at present contemplated, for the exclusive use of
her Majesty and the Court, direct to Rockingham
Palace, thus bringing Windsor cqitlo within 35 minutes'
journey of the royal residenoe “t Pimlico.