The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-17 00:00:00

Table exhibiting the Additions declared upon Policies for
£l,OOO each, which have been in existence for Seven com-
plete Years.

Age when Sum
I Addition.
Assuredunderl Assured.

Total Sum now payable
in the event of death.

30 £l,OOO £133 7 6 £1,133 7 6
35 1 600 135 19 0 1,135 19 0
40 1,0(X) 138 15 6 1,138 15 6
45 1 000 142 9 0 1,142 9 0
59 1 GOO 148 17 6 1,148 17 6

Thus averaging 14 per cent. in seven years on the sums
assured.

The next divi don will take place in December, 1846.

FIRE INSURANCES effected at the u,ual reduced rates,
and Policies may be transferred to this Office without extra
charge, and on terms very favourable to the Assured.
Special Risks reasonably rated.
Tables of Rates and every information may be had at the
Company's Offices, or of the Agents throughout the kingdom.
449, West Strand, London.

F. G. SMITE-I, Secretary.

CROWN HOTEL AND LANDS AT PENRITH, FOR

SALE,

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, upon the Pre-
mises, on WEPNESDAY, th(‘ 26th of October next, at
Four &Clock in the Afternoon, either together or in the fol-
lowing Lots, as may be thought advisable at the time of Sale:
Lot 1. All that Old-established and umniedious HOTEL
and POSTING-HOUSE, called the NEW CROWN, situate
in Penrith, Cumberland, of modern structure, in excellPnt
repair, and fitted up with every deg.ree of comfort for the ac-
commodation of the Nobility and Gentry (whose approbation
has been fully shown by the extensive patronage bestowed upon
the occupiers for upwards of forty years), and now carried on
by Mr. George Foster, the present tenant. It comprises on
the ground floor, five dining and sitting rooms, bar, servants'
hall, kitchen, sculleries, cella,s and all other requisite conve-
niences. On the second and third stories, spacious assembly
room, news room, three drawing rooms, and twenty best bed
rooms, all suitably arranged, with water closets, &c., and spa-
. clam servants' apartments. Also the coach office and granary
attached thereto, now in the occupation of Mr. John Teather,
as tenant. The out (Aces are well arranged at a convenient
distance, and consist of excellent stabling (with lofts) for fifty
horses, and capital coach houses, &c., &c. Numerous mail
and other coaches arrive and depart daily from the Hotel, and
the Proprietor's interest therein will be transferred to the pur-
chaser, if required.
The Hotel is so well known, as one of the best between Lon-
don and Edinburgh, that any eulogium on it is unnecessary,
and a more favourable opportunity for investment, or realising
a fortune, rarely presents itself.
Lot 2. All those Buildings situate in Netherend, Penrith,
and near to the Hotel, now used as coach horse stables, smith's
shop, &c.
Lot 3. All that most valuable Close, well fenced and watered,
at the Townend,of Penrith, called Townend Close, containing by
admeasurement, 12A. 3a. be., with the buildings now used as
stabl -is, in the occupation of Mr. John Teather, and the wood
yard theron, in the occupation of Mr. Joseph Green, as tenants.
The Purchaser may enter into possession of the whole on the
6th of April next.
The Hotel, &c., may be viewed on application to Mr.
Foster, the tenant, and further particulars may be known on
application to Mr. Teacher, of Alstont-y, near Carlisle, the
owner, or to Messrs. 131eayinire and Son, Solicitors, Pt.nrith.

BARTLEET and SONS (Suc-
cessors to DURN FORD and CO., late of Grace-
church-street. and MANUFACTURERS of NEEDLES
and FISH-HOOKS, at Redditch, inform Merchan►s and
Wholesale Dealers that their Town Warehouse is No. 73, AL-
DERAI ANBURY, where they have a Stock of Goods, includ-
ing their Celebrated OVAL PERFECT-EYED NEEDLES,
tor the manufacture of which W. Bartleet and Sono exclu,ively
possess her Majetty's Royal Letters Patent, a fact that they
deem necessary to announce, as unprincipled persons have made
representations to the contrary.

MECIIPS PAPIER MACIIE. TEA TRAYS
are decidedly the most unique and elegant ever ma-
nufactured. The designs are very various as well as the prices,
and the economical may be suited as easily as those whose
wealth entitles them to seek for the most recherche articles
which art can produce. The Papier Mache Work-tables,
Work-boxe•, Tea Caddies, Writing Cases, Inkstands, Eland-
screens, Card boxes, &c.. are really superb. Mechi has a stock
of Dressing CB.Ol not to be surpassed; also an immense assort-
ment of Writing Desks, Table Cutlery, Sheffield Plated
Ware, &c. flis Cushioned Bagatelle Tables arc renowned for
their superior construction.
Manufactory, 4, Leadenhall-street, London.

VISIT 01' THE COURT TO BRIGIITON.—BRIGIITON,
FRIDAY.—The Lord Chamberlain arrived this morn-
ing at the Palace, and after going over the various
apartments with Mr. Henry Saunders, Inspector of
Palaces, who arrived from town last night, his Lord-
ship returned to his seat, Busted-park. Mr. Saunders
remains at the Palace. We believe that alterations
are to be effected in some of the rooms prior to her
Majesty's visit, which, it is probable, will take place
in the course of next month, but no positive orders
have been received.

THE NABOB AT HOME; OR, THE RETURN TO ENG-
LAND. By TIIF.
AUTHOR OF " LIFE IN INDIA."— This
is another addition to the many valuable books that
have lately arisen out of the society, the pursuits
and the persol
it interests connected with our Nan; •
empire; and is by no means the less valuable for
taking the form of a novel, for while it furnishes '
ample entertainment to the idlest of readers, it con-
veys a large fund of solid information for those who
may need it. The Nabob is first presented to us in
India, jiist as he is preparing -for his departure, the
varied details of which are given with much liveliness
and spirit, and include many important hints, us well
to the Johny Newcome, who has just arrived on the
Indian shores, as to those who are returning thence.
The voyage to England is extremely well related,
and is evidently exactly founded on the experience of
the writer. The chief events of tl e; story occur,
however, at home, and add greatly to the excitement
and interest of the narrative. The number and
variety of the diameters, the striking contrasts they
offer, and the novel nature of much of the scenery,.
render thin work a very attractive- one, particularly
at the present moment, when public attention is so
much occupiel with the East.
SUSPECTED MURDER AT BILLINGSGATE.--0n
Sa-
turdas-, at ebb tide, the body of a man who, for
several years past, has been known at Billingsgate
.Market tinder the cognomen of " Jim Crow, was
discovered lying in the mud between two Dutch eel
butts at Billingsgate. The deceased, when seen laat
liu:sday, was in his usual avocation of visiting the
various boats that arrive at the market stairs, and an
altercation took place between him and two others
concerning some half- peace, when, it is supposed that
the deceased's companions, who, it is stated, have not
been seen since, knocked the deceased overboard, and
he wasdrowned. The body, on being taken out of the
River Thames, was in a dreadful condition, and the
face seeinNlvery much bruised, but whether from-the
effects of being wedged between the boats on the rising
of the tide, or personal violence previous to death, re-
mains fur a Jury to ascertain. . -•

; rity of a well-informed correspondent of the
• colonial Gazette, a vote of the Assembly hos-
' tile to the provincial administration. TheSe
autielpations hava 'been completely realised, in-
. asumell as a vote of want of confidence was pi o-
posed as an amendment on the address in
answer to the Governor-General's speech. The
news that this amendment was under discussion,
with a certainty of being carried, arrived a few
days ago, in company with the unpleasant intel-
ligence that Sir Charles Bagot's attempts to
saengthen his Government by a tardy and im-
perfect offer of office to the leaders of the Re-
Mriners of both Upper and Lower Canada, had
laded; and that a period of temporary confusion
!night be apprehended from the impossibility of
forming a strong Government. The news brought
by the Halifax packet yesterday is most
gratifying. It appears that, Sir Charles Bagot
renewed his offers to Messrs. Baldwin
and Lafontaine, and that those gentlemen
have consented to join a portion of the
present provincial administration, as Attor-
ney-Generals for the two divisions • of
Caoada, in place of Messrs. Ogden and Draper,
the two representatives' of the old Tory party,
who retire. fu addition, Mr. Girouard, one of
the most eminent leaders of the French Cana-
dians, is also to take office. The Executive
Council, as now constituted, is completely
Liberal, and will probably command a decided
majority in the Assembly. When we express
our great satisfaction at this result, it is not, we
must confess, at the individuals whom their in-
fluence in the Assembly has thus brought into
office. Mr. Baldwin is a very honest, but not a
very skilful or practical politician. Mr. Lafon-
taine is a gentleman of great pretensions, but,
we suspect, little solidity of judgment; and his
reputation for political virtue is by no means
above suspicion. Mr. Girouard, who was im-
prisoned during the insurrection of 1837, and
suffered greatly on account of unjust suspicions
of disloyalty, is, from all we hear, much the
ablest of those who have joined he Govern-
ment. The men of greatest practical talent in
the Executive Council are the old members,
Messrs. Hinch, Daly, and Harrison : and the
change is valuable because the Provincial Minis-
try, in place of its former anomalous and hetero-
geneous character, is now completely Liberal
complexion, and will probably- pursue a
consistent and vigorous Liberal policy. But the
great subject of gratification is the complete
triumph of Lord Durham's principle of respon-
silde Government, which the recent change re-
cognizes and establishes. The members of the
present Provincial Government are the persons
in the province the most 'obnoxious to the old
Tory party. It cannot be supposed that Sir
Charleasßagot has selected them fimn any par-
ticulsr partiality to their views. It is obvious
that •he has taken them into office solely on ac-
count of their possessing the confidence of the
majority of the Assembly. The rational system
of representative Government is, therefore, ,esta-
bushed in Canada in the :cost marked manner.
The men in Ivhom probably ofall in the province
the Government confides the least are taken by
him to direct his policy because they are those
in whom the people confide the most. A vote
of the Legislature in Canada, as in the mother
country, now determines who shall wield execu-
tive authority. This has been the great subject
of conflict hitherto between the Tory and Liberal
politicians of the province. It is now decided in
favour of the latter.. We may be allowed almost
• to express a regret that such a consumination
has been brought about by a Tory Governor-
General. But this, after all, is only one of many
proofs of the fact that Government, in the pre-
sent day, tvliether in the hands of Tories or of
Liberals, must be carried on on Liberal prin-
ciples. Nevertheless, it must be said that this
adoption of Lord nurhains admirable principle
does great honour to Sir Charles Bagot. His
must he regarded as no imperfect or insincere
adoption of it. Unwilling., in the first place, it
may have been ; but since he saw that lie must •
adopt it, he has gone into it thoroughly and
cheerfully. We have only to wish that his ex-
cellent intentions may not be counteracted by
orders from home ; and that he may be allowed
to carry out thoroughly and consistently the ad-
mirable career which, to his honour, he has
commenced. Strange that, after all the outcry
against Lord Durham's Canadian Government,
and his Report, the great Liberal principle Of
that Report should he now first fully realised by
a Tory Government! We do not pretend to
predict that the Provincial Government now con-
stituted will be of long duration, or do much
service. We shall be content if its establish-
ment satisfies the majority for a while, and if,
when ihe majority turns against it, it shall make
way for those who shall then possess the public
cootidence. But sure we are that nothing can
ensure good government in Canada but a prin-
ciple which shall thus adapt the constitution of
the esescutive to the variations of public opinion.
It was Otis principle which Lord Durham main-
tained in his Report, anti this principle which
circumstances compel even his opponents to
maintain in practice.
TIMES.—The intelligence which has just ar-
rived from Canada comprises an announcement
which presents at first sight *somewhat startling
appearaace. Sir C. Bagot, the Governor-Ge-
neral, after declaring that " the desire," long
etiter!;Ained by him, " of uniting to the aid of,
and cordial co-operation with, his Government,
;he population of French origin in Lower
Canada, is unabated," has proceeded to offer the
post of Attorney-General of Lower Canada,
with a seat at the Executive Council, to Mr.
Lafinitaine, a noted democrat of that province,
allraing tis the sole ground of the appoiuttnent
the French origin of that gentleman, and his
influence with that class of the population. Act-
on the same pri ticiples the Governor-General
has appointed Mr. Girouard, also a violent poli-
tical partisan, to a lucrative office and a scat in
the Council. It is, -we believe, as notorious as
it is undeniable, that. Mr. Lafontaine was ac-
tively -enattged in the rebellion of 1837, and
tlait Lord Seaton offered a reward of 51)0/.
his apprehension. Mr. Girouard . was
likewise engaged, or, as it is now deli..
catchy .expressed, was " campromised," in the
tunic insurrection. Now, these are facts which
certainly demand explanation. IVe entirely
agree with the Governor-General in the abstract
doctrine which, apparently, he holds, that the
accident of a man's part:wage or descent should,
supposing him to be admittedly a natural-born
subject and citizen of the State, neither qualify
nor disqualify hint for the possession of civil
rights or privileges, or forahe tenure of office.
one .who is confessedly neither denizen nor
alien, but entitled by law to citizenship, is also
true, lofta4 obedient, and well qualified, we can
see no earthly reason for his rejection frmn office
in the fact'of his. descent from parents ivho were
once aliens. It' he possess the above very regal-
sitespersynal qualities, we cannot see why he
should be excluded, though his parents were
Hottentots • or Hindoos. s We :are no up-
hold/1-s of distinctions of caste. But if
this is so; equally and undeniably true it is that
when a man has no such personal qualifica-
tioos, and; much inure, when
.lie' has - personal
dis-qualifications, he ought as certainly to be re-
ligiously excluded from office—and that, though
he were descended, not from the Hindoo or the
Hottentot, but from Solon or Lycurgus; and, at
any rate, his 'Endo() parentage should be no
rerommendaiion to him, when otherwise mifit,
however strongly it be insisted on that such
descent should be no this-qualification. Now,
Sir C. Bagot lots, so far a' hitherto appears,
chosen two very infelicitous instances for exem-
plifying- this doctrine about the abolition of caste.
Do not exclude Frenclimeu as such;—but, on
the other land, do not promote proscribed trai-
tors, merely because they happen to be ofFrench
extraction. There is a very large and-numerous
class of peopte:--very numerous, we believe, ever
since she days of King James the First—who
would, doubtless, think it 'very hard and
un;ust to exclude every Scotchman from
stations of emolument in England. But it
would have bet;u thOught (150 years since, what-
ever it nibsitt .be..now) rather au extraordinary
w;iv of tMviating t.bis injustice to have ap-
pointed certain fanatical and rebellions Cove-
nanters, who had had a price put upon their
heads, to posts of authority in England. merely
in' order- to show a just impartiality towards
I Scotchmen. And in the same way it Might be

The Standard, it is true, employs its powers of
reasoning to show that the writer of the " hurried
letter" lied been " misinformed ; and that his
melancholy statement is either aliogeher ground-
less, or the gross exaggeration of some trilling
reverse." This, we take leave to 'say, so far from
justifying our too credulous Contemporary in
giving Circulation through his columns to
an apocryphal and, as we think, wholly
unfounded communication, is at once the
strongest iwaginable condemnation of so utter
a perversion of the newspaper press. Had
our Contemporary, on returning. the MS. to
the party by whom it was transmitted, assigned
his reasons for -refusing to pub!ish such a commu-
nication, he might have destroyed its claims to
credence in the estimation of the family of Major
Messiter, and prevented its publication. Or had
he found in some contemporary print—if, indeed,
rely journal would have so for risked its reputa-
tion with the public, as to have given such an un-
supported document insertion—then the Stan-
dard's argument, showing the improbability ofthe
statement having its origin iti truth, would have
been worthy of respect. It is no less the duty
than it is the interest of the public press, to pre-
serve the public feeling from those alarms phich
credulity, ignorance, or cupidity may occasion-
ally excite, than it Is to aid the public mind in
its endeavours to arrive at a right judgment upon
important ascertained facts. Bat that a journal
possessed of those qualities which form the bases
of public confidence in matters pertaining to facts,
arid such facts as involve the fate of au army and
it (possible safety of an empire, should publish
'an extract of "a hastily written letter,"
giving intelligence which must create most
distressing apprehensions in the minds of the fa-
mily connections of the regiment- stated to have
been " cut to pieces;" causing'scarcely less painfid
suspeuse throughout a wider circle, made up of
those whose husbands, sons, and brotlwrs are in
the " interior," from which it is vaguely, but not
would produce general alarm,
"„cost disastrous news [have] arrived"—while it
on that account less alarmingly, stated that
if not immedi-
ately met with a demonstration of its utter
destitution of truth—appears to us to be a course.
so new, so strange, and so mischievously
cruel,
that we only anticipate the
justly-merited cen-
sure of the introduction of the unfounded and
absurd statement to the columns of
the Standard,
when we express a decided Opinion - that its
publication—even upon our Contemporary's
own showing—was utterly uncalled for: it could
do no good, and might do much evil. The Times
thus remarks upon the folly and mischief of cir-
culating false intelligence on such subjects:—
" Rumours of such disasters, however vaguely
stated, and however improbable in themselves, receive
such ready credence while
the public
painfully excited as at present,
poignant distress to those' represented to be cut ofT,
that we feel peculiar pleasure in being enabled, from
the best informed sources, to contradict this painful
let
report."
Happily, in the present aelblie
occasionleled iss such
ease, the " hastily-
written letter," ascribed to Major Messiter, con-
tains internal evidence which renders the mis-
chievous tendency of the statement perfectly
ineffectual. The latter
professes to be written
from Bombay, Aug,. 27, an official letter from
the highest authority in
13onibav
2S, giving " the latest news " front Candahar,
makes no allusion to the report of such an oe-
currerice; nor is there
the slightest allusion
even to, the rumour ofsuch an event in the Indian
journals. The most satisfactory evidence of the
lictioit,ls, however, derived from " the Major's"
"w"ft"tement• The writer represents himself
as bong about to assume a command, in conse-
quence of events of which thoSe from whom the
orders under which he represented he was about
to act could alone eat
deserving
mate," were altogether 'elm-
r,, no we also are favoured WI tit a communication :
not the extract of a " hurried letter," but taken
from one written with coolness, and containing
of credit, but
iorti.fierriiiitiiLi(etioriei
Tne letter from which we
give the followitig extract is from Captain
Wetherall, of the 41st 1te.,.;
winent---which the
liiirtontcen.lerelY
and is addressed to Mr.
p(irresents as " cut to
The letter is dated
1/iteczeitz,b/Led:;shCooirsrienspeo,::ldlentilatur(et
a detachment of
;!Slill'is.ts-B:
r7ii ilgt:i.bil‘et'VlYeimil 11
oiAtinuesarotgtsol,nlis:ittufli‘2‘ti.ll:llt:e::3l.s:e,onoqo)le:: n
i. We are about to make an attack on Hyderabad
under Sir C.
Napier. I shall have about 400 or 500 men of the
40th and 41st, I expect, under my
command. Tl.e
wealth, and the
11)\ :lieceee, l's
though.ar e:
1014, the walls being very high, but weakened by
pstorsosnesgsekl o
for
it:aitlinvi n
native:;,
being. so much loop -holed. eseannot resist cannon
We expect to
go from
this about the 10th of September."
We understand that the letter stated to have
been written by Major :ltessiter, is treated with
unmixed ridicule in all military circles.
STANDARD.—It must not be concealed that
the late arrangement in the Governments of Ca-
nada have caused considerable dissatisfactioh ill
this coun try, as well as among the British
party in
die province:: more immediately
Concerned. Tiais
dissatisfactiou ought to surprise no one; hut
before we condemn Sir Charles Bit_
got for what
seems, prima facie, a violation of the rules of
common policy, and au outrage upon n political
morality, let us fairly inquire whether he is a
voluntary agent. 1t is useless and unjust to
say tliar the late Canada appointments are merely
cases of the miserable and ever-failints concilia-
tion policy, and to ask, as some of our friends
have asked, what would lw thought of removing
Sir Frederick Pollock to make room for Air.
Feargus O'Connor, in the hope of tzi% in_
g satis-
faction to the Chartists ? There is no parallelism
in the - respective conditiims of Canadand
England. If unhappily. there were_if, au„.
happily for us, the division of the Conser-
vative party were so violent, or the strength
of the Radical party so formidable, as to give
to the latter an ascendancy iiiParNament, why
we might even expect to see Mr. Feargais O'Con-
nor, or any other of their favourites, usurping the
office of the first law officer of the Crown. The
Constitution given by the WI i
---Ig-Iladical Go-
vernment i
to the Canadas has, in fact, given to
the legislative body the same complete control
over the Government possessed by the House
of Commons in this country ; and it was
the purpose of the Whig-itadical Minis-
ters to produce this effect, for they
avowedly laboured
_to establish what is
called " a responsible Government " in the colo-
nies—that is, a Government not responsible to
England, but responsible to the local Legisla-
ture.
This is a
new
,experiment, and it is a
fearful one. An Executive responsible only to

The holders of Foreign Securities generally are
beginning to feel the importance of forming a "Fo-
reign Loan Association," for the purpose of getting
back the large sums of money that have been ad-
vanced on different occasions. Hit answered no other
end, it would at any rate form a centre for the col-
lection of information on the subject. The neglect
into which the claims against several of the South
American States, especially Buenos Ayres, have
fallen, seems to have given a great stimulus to the
notion. The list of debts due from the Peninsula
and from North and South America, many of them
dishonoured with the most flagrant want of faith,
gives a melancholy picture, and the concentrated
energies of the numerous creditors to this one subject
could not fail of having a beneficial effect. The coun-
tries whose existence almost has been owing to-the
confidence of the English capitalists, should at least
be taught that these are earliest in their demands, and
the negligence of contractors shows that it is their
own exertions on which they must depend.
The Tay steamer, bringing the West India mail,
has made a quick passage, not being a day behind the
Period allowed fur her arrival, a fact worthy of notice,
as showing that it was, after all, the want of expe-
rience, as much as anything else, which produced

those delays hitherto occurring.
By the advices from Jamaica it appears that the
commercial prospects of the island are daily becoming
more disheartening, the great causes being the dis-
trust of capitalists and the deficiency of labour. As
some remedy to this discouraging state of things, the
merchants contemplate the reduction of the freight
of sugar to ls. per cwt.; and it was expected that a
meeting would be called on the subject. The pre-
sent rate of freight from Jamaica nearly doubles
that from Havannah, and it is said exceeds that
from the East Indies. A lighthouse has been
erected on Morant-point, and will be illuminated on
the Ist of November, with a revolving light. The
tower is painted white, and stands 103 feet above the
level of the sea, the centre of the light being 96 feet,
and distinguishable at the distance of 21 miles, in
clear weather. The arrival of a native of St. Do-
mingo, who called himself a brother of the late King
of Hayti, had afforded much amusement at Jamaica.
le came with a company of young negroes, and took
up his abode in a most respectable lodging-house. A
black levee was held every day, and the appearance
of loyalty was kept up, when at last the landlord
applied for payment, and was informed that the
Prince wished the claim to be deferred till he had
received the sum of 40,000/. due to him from the
British Government. The whole affair ended with
the mock Prince being sent to the House of Correc-
tion. The Portuguese are said to be carrying on the
slave-trade as assiduously as ever, in spite of all the
efforts of this country to restrain them.

SPECIAL COMMISSIONS.
STAFFORD, THURSDAY NIGHT.
The following trials have taken place since our last :
(Belbre Chief Justice TINDAL.)