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rOILEIGN.

A report prevails at Paris, that the King's sister,
Madame Adelaide has lately given 1,500,000 f. for a
fine estate in Britanny, called Carheil, and has pre-
sented it to her nephew, the Prince de Joinville.
The Frankfort Journal of the 17th inst. states that
a shock of earthquake, accompanied with much noise,
was felt on the evening of the lath at Coblentz. The
shock extended to the neighbourhood of Nieuwied.
On the 12th inst. a fire broke out at Schnoctheim,
in Wurtemberg, which in a short time consumed four-
teen houses.
The King of the French held a Council of Ministers
on Tuesday at St. Cloud.
M. Pa,rot, Minister Plenipotentiary from the
Court of ranee to the United States, has left Paris
for Washington. He is the bearer of books and maps,
sent by the Chamber of Deputies, and the War and
Marine departments, to the American Houses of Le-
gislature and public establishments, in exchange for
those which M. Alexandre Vattemare had received.
In the season of 1840-1841, the produce of silk in
the Lombardo-Venetian country became doubled. It
is calculated that nine-tenths of this produce is ex-
ported. England takes annually about 500,0001b5.
France imports annually from Lombardy and Sardi-
nia, upon an average, about 1,400,0001b5.
The convention between Prussia and Russia, for
the giving up of deserters, has been prolonged for
another year.
The Moniteur Parisien says—" It is asserted that,
independently of the Convention with Belgium, which
is in preparation, commercial negotiations have been
opened with England, Sardinia, and the German Cus-
toms' Union."
The Prince de Joinville and the Due d'Aumale ar-
rived at Brest on the 15th inst.
The Minister of Public Works arrived at Lyons on
the 15th inst. •
Accounts from Leipsic state that during the last
week of September the business of the fair was ex-
tremely active. Upwards of 10,000 foreign dealers
had arrived, but it was difficult to calculate the full
number of buyers. The total number of strangers at
Leipsic was estimated at between 80,000 and 90,000.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Post says, in allusion to the collection of the
Income-tax—" We feel it a duty which we owe to
the Government, as well as to the
.public, to remon-
strate onoe more against the annoying stupidity with
which the preliminary measures of the Income-tax
are carried into effect. It was generally understood,
both from the character of the Government, and some
remarks which fell from the Prime Minister in pro-
posing the tax, that pains would be taken to collect it'
with as much fairness and as little annoyance as pos-
sible. Instead of this, we find, in the process of ob-
taining the preliminary returns, the most stupid ob-
stinacy, and the most unmitigated tax-gathering
effrontery. Surely it is enough if the Treasury ob-
tains the tax, without letting loose stupid people to
worry her Majest's subjects, merely that this taxing-
man or that taxing-man may increase his importance,
or swell his paltry gains. We are really surprised
that the Government does not cause greater attention
to be paid to these details ; for undoubtedly the tax,
which is severe enough, whatever way it may be col
lected, will become utterly odious and detestable if
aggravated by the stupid selfishness of the inferior
people concerned in its collection.".
In reference to the present destitute condition of
the majority of the working-classes, the Herald re-
marks as follows :—" The destitution and misery of
the working classes can no more be removed by a
Poor-law than could London be supplied with water
from the basin in St. James's Park ; permanently
increased parochial rates would in truth only augment
the paralysis under which the country staggers ;
there is much in the New Poor-law that requires
amendment, and many alterations and improvements
might easily be introduced into it to render it more
consonant with constitutional usage, and to deprive it
of u-anecessary severity and wanton cruelty. But
we must look beyond such a minor matter of muni-
cipal administration to get at a remedy for present
and future distress ; and the most satisfactory an-
nouncement that such a remedy has been found and
applied will be,—diminished poor-rates and decreased
attention to poor-laws. It is just as monstrous to
suppose that prosperity and tranquillity can be re-
stored through pauperism, as it was in Lord Brougham
to predicate in 1834 that diminished poor-rates could
improve the morals or stimulate the industry of the
working classes. Yet must something be attempted
to relieve the distress of the industrial population—
to improve their sanitary condition—to re-excite their
patriotism—to teach them sound morality—and, above
all, to Christianise them."
The Times observes, in a leading article on the
subject of the workhouse system in Gloucestershire :
—" As a Coroner's inquest on the last victim of the
Northleach prison-system has not yet pronounced its
verdict, we shall abstain from any remarks on that
particular case which might even be imagined capable
of exercising an influence over the expected decision ;
but on the Gloucestershire notions of a proper prison-
discipline, as exhibited in the course of the discussions
at the recent Quarter Sessions, we may be allowed to
say a few words. We regret, then, on the whole, the
tone and spirit displayed by the Gloucestershire
Magistrates throughout that discussion. We should
have hoped to have found among a body of English
country gentlemen, a prevalent feeling of shame and
indignation at the disclosures recently made We
could hardly have imagined that among a large body
of men of opulence and education, many of whom
also were of the clerical profession, no one' would be
found to disclaim with earnestness all cognisance of,
and participation in, such a state of things as has
been brought to light. Instead of which, all is de-
fence and extenuation, with no slight share of attempted
concealment, diversified only by a frothy speech from
a Mr. Bathurst, the drift of which is altogether undis-
coverable, but the motive for making which, appa-
rently, was a valorous resolve to proclaim to the 'vessel
world, his, Mr. Bathurst's, firm determination not
to be afraid of the Times.' Well, Mr. Bathurst has
now declared publicly that he is not afraid.' He
is welcome to any satisfaction he can derive from this
piece of bravery. But we beg to remind him that the
real question is, not whether he is afraid of the
Times,' but whetner there is nothing to snake him
afraid of his own reflections ? Can he—can the other
Magistrates who cheered his demand of Who's
afraid ? '—really so far stifle the voice of conscience,
as to persuade themselves that in all the several cases
which have been brought forward, there was nothing
to regret—nothing involving them in the guilt of pas-
sive participation, at least, in acts of cruelty, shorten-
ing human life ? If so, then all we can say is, that
the practical Christianity of Gloucestershire must be
at a very low ebb."
The following is from the Chronicle :—" The in-
sanity of those who advised the late strike in the ma-
nufacturing districts cannot be more forcibly illus-
trated, than by the present state of the labour market
in Manchester, notwithstanding the strike. The
apprehension is generally entertained that before
Christmas it will be necessary to reduce the time of
the workmen. Would that Manchester were the only
place where labour is in excess. The Messrs.
Marshall, who employ several thousands at Leeds, and
about seven hundred at Shrewsbury, have reduced
their time at both these places to five days a week in-
stead of full time, in consequence of the French tariff.
All the other flax spinners of Leeds have made the
same reduction ; and in Dundee, and the other towns
of the east of Scotland, and in the north of Ireland,
the same course will no doubt be adopted. Lord
Abinger leaves a market for manufactured goods
altogether out of his sublime consideration,
when he makes wages to depend on the price of
food. How, in the name of goodness, can employers
pay more than the prices they obtain for their goods
will allow them to pay, without going into the Ga-
zette? The handloom weaver receives here exactly
the wages which are paid to handloom weavers on the
Continent ; for his employer sustains a competition in
every market with the continental employer. In vain
would the 800,000 souls who depend on handloom
weaving in this country appeal to the employers for
higher wages, on the ground that food in England
costs so much more than on the Continent. The em-
ployers, no doubt, feel for the poor creatures ; but
more they cannot pay without ruining themselves.
The Tory aristocracy, by keeping up artificially the
price of food in this country, and rendering it impos-
sible for our manufacturers to obtain return cargoes,
have afforded every encouragement to the esta-
blishment of manufactures abroad; and now foreign
Governments retaliate on us for our restrictive laws,
by hostile tariffs, which add frightfully to the distress
of the country at this particular time."

MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE.
The ship America, has returned, after an absence of
26 minths, from the Pacific, with tho immense cargo
of 4,700 barrels of oil, 4nd 45,000 pounds of whalebone.

VU3EILIC ZMPROVEIVIENTS.
The Lords of the Treasury have granted a loan of
3,7501. for the formation of two new roads in Kerry.
At the village of Gheel, in Belgium, there is a
colony of not less than 700 lunatics, who are treated
on so admirable a system, that they live and labour
with the inhabitants, and are employed in all kinds of
agriculture and manufactures. Me origin of this
colony dates back to tAp 6th eentury. The Hanwell
lunatic gystem isi Lotidon approaches to this, and the
gencral adoption of these plans in England reed
scarcely be advised,
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STATISTICS&
The main annual mortality of females i various
PMts of the metropolis in the two years and a half
ending December, 1839, shows by comparison that
while at Hackney the deaths were as 1 in 57, they
were in Camberwell, 1 in 65 ; in Islington, 1 in 50;

Lambeth, 1 in 47 ; Kennington,
well, 1 in 38 ; Greenwich, 1 in 38 ; Southwark, I ill
33 ; Whitechapel, 1 in 28.
NAVAL &ND IVIXLITAILT.
The late Sir James Lyon was born in a trans.
port returning from America after the battle of
killed.
Bunker's Hill, where his gallant father Was
He entered lin4s ; Clerken-
the army in 1793, as an ensign in the 25th
foot.

LAW AND POLICE.
Edward John Stephenson, alias John Williams/
was on Thursday committed, at Lambeth-street, on
three charges of conspiring with another to obtfil
goods under false pretences' and also with-.uttering
forged bill of exchange for 69/. .
At Union-hall on Thursday, Edward
clerk in the Custom-house, was charged with int
it
marrying with Mary Ann Bush, his
former vv.to,
f
Eliza, being still.alive. He was ordered to enter In
his own recognizances, in the, sum of 2001., to $PPea
to answer the charge on that, day week.
LITERARY 4N743 SCIENTrrIC. do.
Walter Hawkins, Esg.. has a third time e.nv, s
voured to obtain for the London Electrical Society
live rspecimen of the gymnotus, but has fall" the
animal not surviving the voyage. . Ales'
The private correspondence of the late SP. riand
ander Burnes reached England by the last Pl„), 0
mail, and will be published with a 3 much dishw
possible.

counT---7°..asHicm.anx.E. foto
The Duke of Devonshire returns to town
Chatsorth next week. „,4 v JAIle
The Duke and Duchess of Leinster and T.b.--d vt, to
Fitzgerald, on leaving Carlton-house-terrace, .‘v,eo
Woburn Abbey, and from thence, on a visit 'park,.
Earl and Countess of Harrington, at
Derbyshire. Soy'
The Earl of Chesterfield leaves town f°l. "-
market to-day. -got-
The Earl and Countess Grosvenor leilves,`nest
combe House, Shaftesbury, about the end °L
month, for Eaton Hall.
_rt.; din
The Earl and Countess of Arran have "^--‘
Elverton ‘•
Dublin from Arran Lodge, county Wexford. „for
The Countess Poulett has left Grosvenor-sclua"
Raby Castle. for
the
Count Esterhazy has left Chandos House
Continent. W°l4'
Lord Morpeth arrived in Grosvenor-place on
nesday.
Lord Foley arrived in Grosvenor-square on
nesday from a tour. e er.
Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham. 6'r
petted in town the beginning of the week. t°
Lord and Lady Prudhoe return next wee
Stanwick Park from Alnwick Castle.
"atxscELLANEotro. Afjest)?
It is said that there is no doubt that her -,:i1711)e
will visit Brighton on the Ist of Noven'bm%rriou
alterations are proceeding rapidly. Dr. Bei-the or
on Wednesday to give instructions respecting
tilation.
spy
aia new
The Earl of Denbigh is erecting a sr- I/
mansion in Belgrave-square. tilt
At the meeting of the Bedfordshire Agri del
Society, held this week, T. A. Green, Esq• 61;:d sta:,
the vast quantities of land near Bedford in oit
of cultivation. Mr. William Bennett. attrihu
the insecurity' felt by the tenant, who had i jaiinpr°'
rantee for the outlay of his capital and skill'am °l9;
tected by a lease. Mr. Bennett then quoted u:
servation made to him by John, the late j 3 fas
Bedford :—" Mr. Bennett, I think the 6111 e deed,
approaching when there must be some, and,;r:tenatit',
material alteration in the law of landlord ars. oe 9?
The new Royal Stables and Ridinrines °
Windsor have just been completed from the desier the
the late Sir Jeffrey Wyatville, at somewhat nn
Parliamentary grant of 70,0001.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING• fresh
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loon,

LONDON, OCT. 21.—Wind this day at 111
northerly breeze, fine clear weather.
e 4
DEAL,- OCT. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. T.Yll,l,yetiec.
ney ; Clifton, Singapore ; Pactolus, Lloyd, 'at °'
Sld. Union, Todd, New Zealand, and greater f"-
the outward bound.
.IS-' AA.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 20.—Wind W N
to
W. to ---,et
Arrd. her Majesty's steamer Volcano, 1,0.n0r.
Ski. St. George, Norie, New South Wales.lsabella,
Geale,merara. s strong
es.
brezesand FALMOUTH,squally.—Off
OCT.oaly.--0I 19.--ff
pWorintpd N. to
SWANSEA, OCT. 19.—Arrd.laCriobin°rm°017rei' ePP:'
Content, Reid, Quebec. at ni 00"
•
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 20.—Wind variable an Mac
rate.—Arrd. Gentoo, Dodd, Calcutta;Le_f3l:Csibell
lean, Demerara; Agnes, Hutchen,- rw-7 105'
Sailed Cordelia, Madras ; Wilton Wood'
Monte Video.
SHIELDS, Ocr. 18.—Arrd. Naney,' izF
tou • Saphire, Hall, Quebec. • IsPn,
CORK OCT. 18.—Arrd Lightning, 3"..rie' 13r011
Video ; 'Woodstock, Taber, St. John's, .L'''iTti'rgerol3:
N'ivihceko.closOiaff, rence;,
ipearttntßheivel;:asli.aLnta,wSewelillunerv,,
John's ; Lamport, Quebec.
SALCOMBE, OCT. 18....-.4off port the F-411,, n
Launceston ; Harriet, Valpaiai„; C oronatt'
chardson, Quebec ; Stephani, Flor, New Itr""crit#4
BRIDGEWATER, OCT. 1 B.—Arni. British
Quebec. fro 0
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 20.—The Jane Augos,'airair,
Quebec, which was aground in the river Ye,.slc, ,
came off on the flood, and was brow{ht into aren,
SHIELDS, OCT. 19.—The Orient, of Aber4, 011
taking the bar this morning, got ou the Herd • 0
was assisted off, and proceeded up the river, 0011 „
The British Queen, arrived. at Bridgewa:te!,a, rod
v'''„
on the Bth inst., in lat. 50, lon. 11, the Donfoinic,e,r, v
Jamaica to London, short of provisions and vi• 010.
of the crew dead, and supplied her with pre visfloug if
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.----Sarrifiel, Sca rb°v,
Sydney, sth ult.; lat. 13, lon. 24 W.; Ji.•Pe'rrifii to
to Falmouth ; Dale Park and Harriet, ~th i 9.1;
London, and Libra, Oporto to London, I.,`;ali" PO,
by her Majesty's brig Ranger, arrived at -Li I etc era
Platoff, Calcutta to London, 6th inst. ; Da`e'ol oft,h,
pool to New Orleans; Naples Packet, Lielox LI
Naples,lsth, by the Marlborough,arrived ofr Li,
Puella, Liverpool to Trieste 6th i-ost, off A gl'
it J Ehe
Vincent, by the Breeze, arrived off Falmouth'
Bristol to Jamaica, 10th inst., lon. 8
Pactolus, arrived in the Downs. KentuckY, ifrbe
t
to Boston, 21st ult., by the Enfield, arrived Or ;of
Transport, No. 26, 22d ult., lat. 48, lon. 23liai
British Queen, arrived at Bridge water.
~93,.„ :011Prd,
from Cork, out 33 days, off the Banks of Arc,
land, by the Woodstock, arrived at Cork. 1,4
from Aritwerp, lat. 53, lon. 4, Ilith inst., bY "Trii 1050
steamer, arrived at Hull. Peihin, Clyde ul,-,-u„3,,t ecost,
12th ult., lat. 44, lon. 53; England, '4'4 41 of
Liverpool, 10th inst., lon. 12 ; Chieftain , of a s'r
from Quebec, 16th ult., lat. 46, lon. 48, V th
arrived at Cork. Barque Carib, 12th irist.,]t ptV"
12; Woodstock, 14th, by the Jubilee, arrives
ar
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ERRATUM.—In our notice yesterday' ofDr ;'he
lecture at the Polytechnic Institution, • for
re beol
traction of cohesion has, in a great mett,:lat, " re's
occasioned by the expansive power of "eOp
" overcome."
Were
SERIOUS DISTURBANCE IN MINI-- ho
Saturday evening, while two of the soldier_esv ~i 1
50
off duty were returning to their billet for then
they got entangled with a knot of trades lo"s. o••• 0
a manner, that it ultimately came to .t lid
soldiers had no chance with fifty or Silk it ;140
ruffians, and the less so that they were the G' ofif
their cups. The officers, who reside in apt bi
Inn, seeing the mob mallrefe.lng their nie'esot Je 3:00
rushed down to their rescue, but were occo aid
the mob with groans and hisses, and d
outito veto
with stones. The guard was then turne, of
the street, which they speedily- did, and -001
retired to the inn. A short while after
et.,;:ry rows,
12cted in greater numbers, and showed „oat
thc
tion to riot. They broke several of the inn ¢o to° 'idler
and might have proceeded to extremities,
11
Sheriff lu,kily arrived and read the
the stree
which a piquet of the 42d patrolled. elf
.5-
Sunday morning.
ed 11 holr
SLEEP-SEEKERS.—MaeIIiSh often coaxed 0, Afie
at o-6sol
ze
eenp
timesb 3, re,p eaantdi nga
gentleman,somcil licnnowo ( 'hi.
the
,t"fiNi
ford, has learned to fall asleep at Will, 11;4..1% her
eyes in one direction for a few minutes. ke till the
having
son :
ibnkagnn odNtrh.
sreui arb s
soporl
to have foe
ladyhhaeirr
efoo whont
combed
eda oftenndi
srteomaaulin2snyaw.pflae:_avel
itohl
Philips, the poet, delighted, when a boy, ;
office performed for hours together; o 00011),,,
Vossius was so critica:ity curious ler "lier
that he preferred its performance or °t'ing
He liked to have it done by barbers
_coon
persons skilled in prosody, so that their
sPesze, to
,_°1:0
movements might imitate iambics, trochee !ober t,r!ect
great delight. In these cases, reverie the epee,
sleep was produced ; but in other instanf'o,,:ii
is that of a simple narcotic. Thus, Si', by °Rd
the architect was regularly put to sg.,eP _d
combed' 015
the hair at the back of his head cot e of
wirithNtohßemPaoulms oEfEtLh.e—hoainl d
food jilt. itO
the largest, if not the largest, eels e`•°` stet °5 in
Tly was captured at inchyra. Tins_ee 7 jociket it
species weighs 36ilbs., measuras pari4o• 0,
length, and 20 inches in girth the.stn':rtrhull`d to
lied with the flowing of the tide, t
S—atNurecdtaiycal
in itP so serille
landed behind a mud bank, where
a_ to forged
enjoy itself by floundering about,, :jog F,toPeted
likelihood of its return to the river
50,5 comet,died
the ebbing of the tide. Several it, wfl'ible,
fltornoon tbe
with the river police, who had observesinvos,oo4
upon the beach until they
531Ve`'e'ipllsticit vet'
when they immediately attacked „tble
io,
other weapons, and, after consicl.era„: ,ent tivd, of
came this great giant of his `
visitedbV cirdif'
Perth, where he hts since b' pn
people at Mr. Bu'st's yard, a
curt'. V. tergate•