The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEAIBER 22; 184.2.

COURT CIRCULAR.
His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke
of Alecklenhurgh Strelitz has retUrried to the resi-
dence of the Duke of C6.nihridge at Kew-from a visit.
Mr. De.,an, Chairman of the Customs, had an inter-
view With the Earl of Eipon yesterday at the office
of the Board of Trade.
The Committee of Customs' Inquiry had a meeting
yesterday at Gwydyr House, Whitehall. The meeting
was held at twelve o'clock. Thefe were present—
Lord Granville Somerset, Right Hon. W. E. Glad-
stone, Mr. Bingham Baring, Mr. Pringle, &c.
Lord Lowther, Postmaster-General, had an inter-
view yesterday with the Earl of Ripon at the Board
of Trade. , . .
Dispatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yesterday
from the seat of Lord iladdo at St. Leenard's•hill,
near Windsor.
Lord Melgund has left Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-
street, fur Ninto Castle, Scotland.

CO VENT GARDEN THEATRE,
The sudden indisposition of Miss Adelaide Kemble
Yesterday porniog, was the cause of the theatre
being closed at night, and at the hour of three in the
afternoon, the following notice was posted on the
walls of the theatre :
" Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, Monday, Nov. 21,
1842, two o'clock. The Public is respectfully informed,
that in consequence of the sudden indisposition 'of
Miss Adelaide Kemble, the theatre is unavoidably
closed this evening."
The following • certificate has been received from
Miss Kemble's physician :
" Dover-street, Piccadilly,
" Monday, Nov. 21, 1842.
" Sir,—l have visited Miss Kemple this afternOon,
and consider her incapable of undertaking her profes-
sional duties this evening.
" JAMES ARTHUR WILSON, M.D.
" To the Manager of Covent-Garden Theatre."

COLONIAL ESTABLISHMENTS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR-I am sorry to observe that excellent Re-
former, Mr. Gisborne, after describing at Derby
in a masterly style, those most degraded of
human beings Conservative operatives, condemn-
ing the retention of Malta, Gibraltar, and our
other dependencies. That our colonies are ren-
dered subservient to our aristocracy, and conse-
quently made less useful to the nation at large
than they otherwise would be, cannot be denied;
but which of our institutions is not? Are there
more abuses, numerous and abominable as they
unquestionably are, in the colonies, than in the
army, navy, church, law, or even in the mo-
narchy itself; and would Mr. Gisborne destroy
all, or any of these? I think with Sir Robert
Peel, that Our colonies. are 'invaluable, and it
would be desirable to treat them as integra
parts of the British empire. Let us have free
trade with them,as Sir Robert wishes us to have,
and we shall soon have it with all the world. I
am not like Lord llowick and many of the
Whigs, who would not have corn and provisions
at low rates frdm Canada, because they cannot
have them from Europe on the same conditions.
Let us take what we can get. If we are not to
have a free trade:hi' corn and provisions, it is de-
sirable to favour Canada, as an inducement for
our surplus population to go there instead of se-
parating themselves from the British Crown. In
his differential duties Sir Robert Peel has shown
himself to be a statesman, and if he wereproperly
backed by the middle and working-classes, I be-
lieve he would not scruple • to reduce the power
of the aristocracy; for a clear-sighted man like
him must see,,thacnothing•
sl port of the destruc-
tion of class k,7.ititi:tiOn-fr-Aisave this country.
Free trade may.:!Of math, ut it will be insuffi-
cient of itself t01iV.,.i61 td prosperity; there-
fore, do not let US deceive ourselves. The aris-
tocracy must bear their share of the public bur-
thens; they must pay the land-tax in an honest
manner; they 'must subject their estates to the
legacy-tax like the tradesman's hard-earned pro-
perty; they must have an equitable income-tax
(if it he necessary to have one at all), which will
make a distinction in the rate on incomes from
realized property and from trades and profes-
sions. It has come to this, that our aristocracy
must either let us have honest legislation or lose
their estates, and lam glad of it. Sir Robert is
without gratitude, and having sacrificed the
most rabid of his followers (who, by-the-bye,
ought to have suspected him after the slippery
trick he played the Church bigots on the Ca-
tholic question), he doubtless will not spare the
aristocracy, who placed him in office to serve
them as a tool to retain their unjust privileges
for them. I have great confidence in him, for he
-has the good sense to feel that nothing but ho-
nest legislation, disagreeable as it is to himself
pet sonally, will extricate the country from the
• .
deranged state into winch has been brought by a
long course ofmisrule.—l am, Sir, your obedient
servant, '• • A REFORMER.
Hull, Nov. ID, 1842.

THE CONVOCATION.
, Copy of a note addressed to the Chairman :
The Reporters of the Edinburgh Evening Courant,
Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh Advertiser, and Ob-
server newspapers, not having received tickets of ad-
mission to the Convocation, beg respectfully to re-
quest the Chairman of the meeting to Inform them if
they can be admitted, for the purpose of furnishing
to their respective journals a Report of the pro-
ceedings.
Edinburgh, 17th Nov., 1842.
GENTLEMEN,—The Chairman of the meeting has
the honour of informing you that it is private.—
Aberdeen Herald.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING_

LONDON, Nov. 21.—Wind thist day , at noon,
N. to N.E., fresh breeze, and fine clear weath:r.
- Nov. 20.—Wind N.E., moderate..—Arrd.
Fairlie, India; Vulcan ofiDtrudee ; Louisa of Boston;
Emily (brig), Uraguay ; sloop Medora of Halifax. •
Ski. Sussex; John. Pirie ; John Handy; John Pink,
Morebeaud ; Mina, Jamaica; Industry, Trinidad;
Ruckers, St. Vincent's ; Lydford, Jamaica;
Enmore, Port Phillip; . Phoebe, New Zealand;
Anne, Tobago; Isabella, Brown, Barbadoes ; Nia-
gara, Boston ;
.Donald, Demerara; Brazil packet, St.
Thomas's ; Elizabek. Cape' of Good Hope; -Media-
tor, New fork; Uvcretta, Sydney; John Graham,
Ceylon ; and all the outward hound.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 19.—Wind SM; fresh breeze,
N.N.E. 'to E_—Arrd. h^r Majesty's• ship Dolphin,
Africa, left Ascension 14th ult. • Sovereign and Nau-
tilus (transports), Quebec. §lll. her Majesty's ship
Curacao, eastward.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 19.—The Forest, from Portland
to Havannah was fallen in with 11th ult., waterlogged
and the crew taken off by the Alice Jane, arrived here
from Laguna, which experienced a hurricane Bth ult.,
in lat. 32, lon. 74, and was thrown on her beam en.ds.
B.AiusEy, • Ism,: OF • MAN, • Nov. 1.9.—A piece of
wreck, marked Royal Albert, in gilt letters, was
washed ashore 9th instant, and yesterday rimming
some hatches, apparently belonging to a large flat,
came ashore near here.

HULL, Nov. 19.—The Manchester, Armstrong,
from St. Petersburgh to hull, was stranded 9th inst.
on the coast of Norway, crew saved.
LIVERPOOL, Nov.. 19.—Wind ,W.S.W., fresh.
20. E.S.E., light. Arrd. Aden, Ponsonby,
Singapore; Tigris, Al' G ill, Calcutta, sailed
from St. Helena September 96 ; Universe,
Ritchie, Bombay, left Cape of Good Hope Sept. 14;
Huddersfield, Young, Bonny, sailed August 21,
Fernando Po 25 • Royal Archer, Scott, and Broad
Axe, M'Coy,Bahla ; Alice Jane, Laguna, sld. Sept.
11 ; Virginia, Eaton, Charleston ; Severn, Driscoll,
St. John's, Now Brunswick ; New York packet,
Downing, Bombay. Arrd. oft; Thomas Miller, Per-
nambuco; Evergreen, St:John's, New Brunswick.
Sid. Columbia packet, Boston ; Dryad, Singapore ;
Forester, Monte Video ; Bland, Calcutta; Antonio,
Rio Janeiro; Agnes, St. Thomas; Ulveston, New
Orleans; Vanguard, Sierra Leone.
KINGSTOWN, Nov. 19.—Arrd. Astrea, Quebec.
NEWRY, Nov. 16.—Arrd. Tagus,Bathurst.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 20.—Arid.-Rainbow, Que-
bec • Liverpool packet, with Mediterranean .mails.
Orr MARGATE, Nov. 19.—Twenty-ninth May,
Bieuveau, Valparaiso; Artemis, Goulburn, Moulmein.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 20.—Ski. Vernon, Madeira.
Arrd off—lndian, English, Calcutta.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 19.—Wind S. S. W. to W., fresh
gales. 20, fresh breeze.—Arrd. John George, and
lda, Thompson, Calcutta, sld. from St. Helena, 2d ult.
GUERNSEY, Nov. 18.—Arrd. Hero, Rio Janeiro.
BELFAST, Nov. 17.—Sid. J. T. Dobree, Demerara.
CORK, Nov. 17.—S1d. Xarifa, Barbadoes.
JERSEY, Nov. 17.—Sld. Hebe, Hazard, and Des-
landes,
SHIELDS, Nov. 17.—Arrd. Harvest Home, Thom-
son, Miramichi. Sld. Henriette, Rio Janeiro ; Norma,
Sierra Leone.

FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, Nov. 18.—M. Dujardin, one of the
negotiators of the treaty with Holland, has returned
from the Hague.
On occasion of this treaty, the two Belgian Pleni-
potentiaries received from King William, General
Prisse the order of the Oak or Crown of the first
class, and M. Dujardin that of Commander of the
order of the Netherlands' Lion.
The Independant adds, that the first class of this
latter order has been given to two of our Ministers,
namely, M. Nothomb and Count de Briey.
A letter from Amsterdam says, we are sincerely
glad of the distinctions conferred by our King on
some Belgian functionaries, and by the Ring of the
Belgians on some Dutch functionaries. This is the
first time that orders of Knighthood of one country
have been conferred on subjects of the other, and it is,
therefore, considered as a sign of friendship and good
neighbourhood.
The persons accused of favouring the escape of
Gencral Vandersmissen appeared before the Tribunal
yesterday. M. Van Latham declared that he had no
knowledge of the plans of his fellow-prisoner, but he
confessed having said that nothing was more easy than
to escape from the Petits Cannes. With respect to
Ernest Vandersmissen, his Counsel insisted on the
duties of filial affection, and observed that on the escape
Lavaletteotofi,Viac.coun g questioned, de-
clared
horses. thatA hes fo:his father's
t.T hishe ywoifuenagndrndaanu, daughter had not been called
of
fhat he was
orders, and only obeyed him when be ordered the
theof
the s same e manner.
wasT hseensteennteeendc
to
was ignorant
sfii
iegxtnehmoseor
months'
h si
'tribunal
hfu,etnOh 1
ticielobnwefajenss reasonsstehcia t
the
keepers
present and assisted, and that if another similar occa-
sion should occur, he should think it his duty to act in
and the two sons, of
prison should be acquitted, except oanned, w'hcon-
demned Madame Vandeismissen
whom only Ernest, 'is in Belgium, to twenty-four
hours' imprisonment; and a fine of sixteen francs.
. —...4...........---

RAORDINALLY."--A •.1110St deter-
GIN DRINKING EXT
Oundle, in- this cocuosntty,
mined. act of felony and drunkenness occurred at
which has nearly
characters residing Nightingale, JohnliV.l.l
but should he survive, one of the depredators his life,
the smell of gin again
it is imagined he will never re-
lish Allen, contrived to again as long as be exists. The
following are theg - during the past week, and
a two gallon bottl filled and Tibbitts, brewers,
epnatre. particulars c
tuhl aer3s,ar :--Fourd,oi, m well-knowneasr s.
sm iSmith
the above town, named John
ortle, James Coles, and Samuel
The bottle was then saedc.rineiteeddwiituh gin,
ihi):
Oundle, and to steal there-
fromawphoicfh:eidplhaocpsed,
on a waggon to be conveyed with other articles to
Thurning early on Friday morning, the 11th instant.
named Fox was entrusted
dis-
patched to convey it to a
the evening of the sloein adjoining, Wthheer es
secret, and
remainedan d till
day, when a fifth person
hovel
house. There the five assembled, and in the absence
of
of a corkscrew the top
fonrea a r
gtlhases. union work
the bottle was knocked off,
and a half pint pot substituted
sat and regaled themselves till they finished the two
gallons. Wortley was in such a beastly state of in-
toxication that he could
scarcely
hovel.
walk they left ot be conveyed home, and
lest he should lead to their
detection, although some of
the others could
ditch contiguous to the ,him in a
for the Oundle division
Ovel. Here he was disco-
vered by Mr. Ambridge, the superintendent of police
Darker and another of
, and with the assistance of
the force he was wheeled to
the Bridewell in a harrow,
cer-
tain whether he was liein
Mr. Watson,r dead, and on medical
aid being procured,
' surgeon, instantly
applied the stomach-pump
ne other prisoners were
night,ap-
prehendedneat gin were ejected.
he Confessed to the whole of the and the following morn-
ing (Saturday), including Fox, who was taken into
the same
custody also as an accessory. After the apprehension
of Nightingale
, exceptioncir-
cumstances
the
debilitated state of Wortley
the case was FeMaDded.
PARIS RAILROADS, -_The
Herald.
gineers, under the direction-e Commerce says, " En-
for laying a continuous
railroad completely en
of the Minister of Public
Works, have formed a plancirclng It is to run at
a certain distance from the continuous wall, and form
I Paris.
of
in the whole an extent 40,000,000 metres. The
cost is estimated at 12,000
000 f. at the least. Its ob-
ject is to establish a direct
between all the railroads,v'thian d rapid communication
which sooner or later will
The
diverge from the capital. eeplan, it appears, is to be x
submitted to an immediate examination so that an
application may be made to thearn
Chambers during the
next session for a grant to earry it into execution."
The lifoniteur Parmien; in alle to this statement,
observes, "We think the abovel" is an error. This
plan, which was long since proposed as a private spe-
culation, is not comprised by the Minister of Public
Works in the railroad plans under the consideration
of the Government"-
We have heard it rumoured that a woman, who
died this week at Brimington, fore death made the
horrid confession that her
be
husband, who about 14
years ago was found one morning.eved to have with his throat
cut from ear to ear, and was believed
com-
mitted suicide, came by his death by her hands, and
that she placed
him, after the
tion in which he was found. he
went to live with another man. Dshortly after the t
erbysh •re Chron.
CHURCII-RATE REFUSED.—Airn
eeting of the parish-
ioners; called by the Churchwardens, was held in the
Vestry, parish of All Saints, cn Xhursday, Nov. 17,
1842, for the purpose of laying a Church-rate, when
a proposal for a sixpenny rate
was negatived by
amendment, only three hands being held up for the
motion, out of a crowded vestry,—Leicestershire
Mercury.
Several large failures are 0 rel?rted to have taken
place here during the last few days, and it is believed
figure that others, who presently as great men, are so
deeply involved that it will be hard for them to keep
up.—Dundee Herald.
HUNG FOR Fu x.—The last Tennessee Review
states that the Grand Jury of c am hell county, Ten-
nessee,' has found a true bill against George Smith,
John H. Todd, Loft
Duke,
James Loftin
Leroy Brown, for the murder of Pearce, and
t
John Miller. They bad all got
into slave belonging to
l
a drunken spree,
and under the influence of 1;quo1. enticed the negro
into a loft, and hung him for fun, intending to cut
him
down in a moment or two before life should be
extinct. Their drunken frolic wa carried too far—
the negro died, and a similar death, or a long and
s
painful imprisonment, awaits the __perpetrators of the
act. Like niany other frolics 0 f the same kind, it
costs dear in the en

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, Nov. 14.—Affairs here are i"ar from being
in a satisfactory state. There is dang er f tom two
sides : the old revolutionary party is at work, and on
the other hand it would not surprise me ware a body
of troops to march to the Palace and denia nd the dis-
missal of M. Dietz. An incendiary paper, written in
an-out-and-out revolutionary spirit, I'AS been pub-
lished under the name of " Letters fro m Gracchus to
Tullia," in which the Court is rer ainded, among
other things, that " from the Necessi, Jades Palace to
the Caes de Tojo (the place of execution) it is a
straight line," and the destruction of Royalty alto-
gether is counselled, as being both expensive and
useless. The ravings of the revolutionary party
would, however, be merely contemptible in so Mo-
narchical a country as Portugal, were it not for the
dissatisfaction that exists among a large portion of the
garrison here, who have become, in a great measure,
alienated from the Court by the conduct it has unfor-
tunately pursued since the late restoration. M. Dietz,
is a very honest man, and sincerely attached to the
Royal family, and the late reforms Irt has effected in
the interior of the Palace have beer, very useful, but
still he is disliked by all parties, r.nd has no friends :
the Opposition papers are glad to seize hold of the
recent proclamation against him , and to attribute it to
the " Cabralistas," in order to aid the intrigue against
Costa Cabral at Court, but no one says a word in
favour of Dietz.

The affairs in contest with the Pope are very likely
to bring the Court here into trouble; there is no
party which could make a tolerable show in the
Cortes that would not oppose the encroachments
which Romish policy is ever trying to make, where-
ever it has room enough in the beginning to thrust in
the end of the wedge. Whether it be Costa Cabral,
or R. F. Magalhaes, or So. da Bandeira, there is no
one that will give way to the demands of M. Ca-
paccina, while the Court, it is said, is mightily afraid
of coming to a rupture with him, and would go a
great way towards sacrificing the rights of the Crown
and the Church rather than do so. M. Dietz is sup-
posed to support these views, which find little echo in
Portugal except among some old women of both sexes,
and others who hope to convert the schism that results
from Capaccini's doings into apolitical engine in favour
of Don Miguel, or some other scheme of the kind.

With respect to the tariff question, there are reports
here that the English Government has rejected the
last offers of Portugal ; but no communication has
yet been made on the subject, and that instead of
eithe7 at once accepting or rejecting their proposaL,
it is much more likely that some further propositkri
will be made by our Government to that of Portugal,
whose last proposition must be considered as unsa-
tlsfactory ; and it will then remain with the latter to
purchase the very considerable advantages oflbred by
our Government in exchange for reductions on our
manufactures, or to keep things for the present as
they are.
A small loan has, it is reported, been. negotiated in
England, in order to work out the system of Exche-
quer bills! The efforts of the moneyed corporations
who are opposed to these papers, assisted by the op-
position papers, who, of course, decry any plan which
gives resources to the Government, arellirected to
prevent the circulation of these bills, which it is re-
presented will never be paid, &c. Now, the Board
of Public Credit, it is decreed, is to discount them, if
required ; and it was necessary to raise funds for the
purpose, which it appears has been done in London to
the amount of 200,0001.

The effects of the late flood here have been iingu-
lar enough. At Collares the devastating effects were
very great; and at Celleiros, on the MATra road from
Cintra, many vineyards were destroyed. The Island
of Madeira was visited with a similar: infliction to-
wards the end of the last month, ar.d the damage at
Funchal alone is estimated by the Civil Government
at 500 contos of reis, or above 100,0001. A woman
and two children were drowned. The American brig
Creole went aground in the gale and was lost
but the crew were saved; the English schooner
Wave was lost, crew saved ; the Portuguese
vessel Novo Beijinho went aground, and three of the
crew were drowned; and the English brig Dart also
was driven ashore, but all the crew were saved ; the
Sardinian polacca Gloria was lost with all her crew.
There had been heavy rains for some time, and, on the
24th, a deluge bf rain came on with a heavy gale of
wind, and torrents of water rushed down from the
mountains, carrying large masses of stone along with
them, and great part of the town of Funchal was
overflowed. The inhabitants in the streets of Balcoes
and Santa Maria had to save themselves in boats,

getting out by the windows. In the neighbouring
streets some houses fell down, and many were greatly
injured. Wine stores and shops were destroyed, and
the neighbouring vineyards completely ruined. The
water rose to the height of twelve feet in the Pra9a
do Pelourinho, where . two wine stores and many
pipes of vine were lost; and. the same occurred in
many other districts, according to the official report
of the civil Governor. A large piano was washed
out of the drawing room of Senhor Monteiro, carried
over a passage and a garden, and deposited in one of
the rooms of the municipal Chamber. The water rose
to the height of seven feet and a half in Mr. Short-
ridge's wine stores.
The Recolucao says that the city, situate under-
neath the mountains, is watered by three rivers, which
descend from the heights, and which by five P.M. had
overflowed their banks, destroying every thing before
them, and that more than 200 houses were thrown
down or completely ruined ; the pintas were reduced
to a bare rock, and most of the year's vintage, which
was in the stores where the inundation reached, was
entirely lost. The English steamer Dee arrived safe
with fifty-two passengers, on the 24th. It was in a
gale on the 26th that the other vessels went ashore.
The French Princes returned from their tour on
Thursday last, and the Due d'Aumale left in the
Asmodie steam-frigate yesterday, for Gibraltar and
Algiers. The Prince de Joinville, remains here at
present, with the Belle Poule and other vessels.
The long pending case of " Shortridge v. Manoel
Jose d'Oliveira," has been decided in the Court of
Relacao here, in Mr. Shortridge's favour. The sentence
annuls all that had previously been done in the case,
which M. Jose d'Oliveira must now, if he chooses to
go on with it, commence again de novo.
Senhor Jose da Silva Cabral is about to prosecute
the Nacional, for the assertion that he was the author
of the proclamation against AL Dietz, in which, not-
withstanding his protests to the contrary, the National
appears still to persist.
News have been received from Goa of the arrival
there of the new Governor-General Conde das Antas,
who had issued a proclamation to the inhabitants on
taking possession of the government, dated from the
Palace at Pangein, 19th September last, congratula-
ting them on the state of tranquillity in which he finds
them, and announcing his determination to observe
strict economy, and direct all his attention to repair
their finances, which are in a most disastrous state.
The Customs of Lisbon and Oporto, and the Sete
Casaeof Lisbon, brought in 367 contos of reis in the
last month, or near 90,0001.

THE NIGER EXPEDITION.
Extract from a letter dated Cape Coast Castle,
Sept. 26, 1842 :
" The Wilberforce, you will recollect, was here in
March last, at which time Captain W. Allen was pre-
paring to re-ascend the Niger, to look ufter the
Model Farm' people, and if possible to do something
to retrieve the fame of the expedition. He proceeded
hence
.to Fernando Po, to fit out the Soudan, to ac-
company him. While he was still lying there the
Kite steamer arrived with orders from Government
that only one vessel was to go up the river, and that
she was only to have on board four or five white
men at. Most. Her only object in going up was to
be the bringing back the people left at the farm.
On receiving these orders Captain Allen and most of
his officers and crew went on board the Rite for
a passage to England. The other Commissioner
(Cook) went home by the Golden Spring. The Wil•
berforce, under charge of her present commander
(Lieutenant Webb), proceeded up the river, and
found the Model Farm a very perfect model of
disorganisation. The blacks who had been left at it,
having plenty of cowries (a species of India shell used
as money) and goods, voted themselves to be inde-
pendent country gentlemen, and managed to get hold
of a lot of natives, whom they very coolly made slaves
of, and whom they compelled to work on the fares,
each gentleman being provided with a cat, or slay,,-
driver's whip, the better to enforce obedience. The
model farmer himself (Carr, brother of the Chiet
Justice of Sierra Leone) has never been heard of, and
had, as it afterwards appeared, been killed somewhere
near the mouth of the river. The Wilberforce
brought away farm implements, people and all, and
those of the latter belonging to this place are now
being discharged here. The steamer got on a rock in
the river, where she remained five days, and came
ddvn with a hole in her bottom, which now compels
her to go home. So much for the last speech and
dying words of the far-famed Niger expedition. A
more)ltii4inanaged piece of business from beginning
to enV-Cis net, I will venture to say, to be found re-
corded in any history."

Sits),DEN : DEATHS OF TWO GREENWICH PEN..
SIONERS.--011 Saturday two inquests were held at
Greenwich, on view of the bodies of Thomas Stevens,
aged 74, and Job Heatly, aged 84, who died sud-
denly in the hospital on Thursday evening. The
surgeon deposed that both the deceased had died of
npoplexy, Stevens being seized whilst in bed, and
dying almost instantaneously; and Heatly, as he was
going down the steps fell head foremost to the bottom,
and died very shortly afterwards. 'Verdicts of Na-
tural death were returned.
PRICE OF BUTCHER'S MEAT.—Boiled beef com-
manded eightpence the largeplate, and there were
some small transactions at sixpence. Mutton in pies
(sinking the offal) was to be had rather sparingly, at
twopence the patty; but there was a decided mixture
of inferior animals.--Punch

AYRSHIRE COLLIERS' STRIKE.
(From the Ayr Advertiser of Thursday.)
ONE MAN STABBED AND TEN OTHERS SEVERELY

BEATEN.
A further outrage has taken place, attended with
the most lamentable results. Last night, about seven
o'clock, an attack was made on a number of the
new workers in a house in Foundry-lane, ancY
the whole of them have been severely. maltreated,
and one of them has been stabbed in the left'
thigh, besides having his arm broken, and other
severe lacerated w;,unds on the head. It appears
from what we could glean upon the si ot, from
the information of one of the watchmen usually sta-
tioned there, that about seven o'clock, Crawford,!the
watchman, came from %Thitletts, as an escort to the
men above alluded to, some of whom were strangers,
and had not commenced work. They were shown
into one of the empty houses, and Crawford proceeded
to procure them firing; but the instant he left the
house, he was surrounded by a body Of men who had
their hats slouched Aer their faces, their coats but-
toned up to their throats, and were otherwise dis-
guised. They numbered two hundred, and had
managed to elude the vigilance of a guard are* with
guns, by concealing themselves in Lockhart's field
adjacent, till, the moment of the general assault. They
compelled Crawford to stand, and one of the party
presented. .a pistol at him, threatening at the same time
that "if he did not stand still it would be worse for
him." This man then took his station beside the ad-
jacemt wall, and kept the pistol presented at him ; mean-
tir.ie about 20 proceeded immediately towards the house
in which the strangers had been placed, the others
taking their stations round it. In about a minute or
. so afterwards, Crawford heard a cry of murder from
the house, and made an instinctive motion to run for-
ward, when his guard instantly advanced, and again
presenting his weapon, threatened him to stir at the
peril of his life. He was thus kept at bay while the
bloody assault was being committed, and several times
heard cries of murder from the assailed, and shouts,
oaths, and execrations from the assailants. He also
heard what he supposed a pistol fired off. After
being kept in this manner for a few minutes, a rush
was madr:, into the fields by the party who remained
outside the house as a guard, and Crawford, taking
advantage of the commotion, made off and effected
his .ascape. Before reaching the highway, which
is 'about four hundred yards from the houses,
met a boy running towards him, who had been at-
, tracted by the shrieks of murder, whom he sent back
to alarm the yeomanry, while he ran with all speed
to 117hitletts to apprise the manager of the works,
and others, of the outrage. Meanwhile the yeomanry
sent out by Colonel Crawford appeared on the
ground, but all was quiet. Subjoined is the sub-
stance of a statement made to us last night by two of
the men who were assaulted, and who, on the de-
parture of their assailants, ran across the fiields to-
wards the Ayr road—along which they came under
the pretence of being travellers—to get a doctor for the
poor fellows whom they had left, as they supposed,
murdered. These men on escaping across the bridge
were taken to Ayr Police-office, and after having had
their bruises dressed, were furnished with beds by the
Magistrates. They stated that immediately after
going into the house, about a dozen men entered, va-
rously armed, some bearing heavy bludgeons, others
bearing bars of iron, and such other lethal weapons,
with which, without saying anything but, " Now,
you , we'll have at ye now," they commenced
an indiscriminate attack on the strangers, whom they
belaboured so severely on the heads and bodies;

- -
that the blood literally spouted from them in streams.
By the time medical assistance arrived, some time
had elapsed, Drs. Whiteside, Gibson, Sloan, and
Craig, were in attendance, and gave the necessary
assistance. We went to the spot as soon as the
rumour reached us ; and by the time we arrived—
half-past ten o'clock—the medical gentlemen had
nearly finished dressing the wounded. One man, whom
we saw in the hands of the doctors, had his head cut
across in several directions—the wounds appearing to
be deep, and some of them extending across the scalp.
Another—Dawson—was dressed, and was lying among
some straw in a fainting state; at intervals groaning
heavily. The two individuals most severely injured
are Peter Burns, who, besides bruises, has a stab in
his thigh about two inches deep, supposed to be by a
bayonet, pitchfork, or other such weapon, and is in a
dangerous state ; and John Dawson, who is also
badly wounded. 'The others who have sustained cuts,
blows, and bruises, are Robert Liddell, William
Clark, Charles Donelly, Michael Bradley, Bernard
Boyle, William Blair, James Wallace, and Thomas
Reid. The only one of the unfortunate party who
altogether escaped was James Divine, who happened
to have gone out for a drink of water. Through-
out the night and this morning the yeomanry
and police were diligent in attempting to discover the
guilty parties. Lieutenant Boswell and a detachment
of the Yeomanry last night pursued to Maybole five
suspected men, who were reported to have taken that
road shortly after the outrage, but were not success-
ful in capturing them. In all, six individuals have
been apprehended and lodged in prison this morning,
and farther arrests are being made. The Yeomanry
have received reinforcements—the additional officers
being Capt. Hunter, of Hunterstone, and Lieutenant
Warner, of Ardeer. There are about 140 men at
present engaged at work in Mr. Gordon's pits, the
most of whom are new hands; and as men ;continue

to pour in daily, the prospects of the success of " the
strike" diminish.

lIMMOUSE AND Co.'s BANKRUPTCY.—The total
debts now proved against the joint estates of Messrs.
Ifobhouse and Company, the late Bath bankers, amount
to 248,6791. 13s. Bd. ; and the total assets realised by

the a,signees for the benefit of the creditors amount
to 39,743/. 14s. 3d. The creditors of two of the
partners have received 20s. in the pound; and those of
the remaining partner have received 9s. Two divi-
dends of ss. and 2s. in the pound to all creditors of
the bank have also been declared; and a sum remains
in hand for a third dividend, but that will be very
small.

A DUEL IN FRANCE.--The Correctional Tribunal
of Corbeil was engaged on Friday in the trial of M.
Granier de Cassagnac for wounding M. Lacrosse, in
the duel between them, the affa;,- having been referred
to by the Court of Cassation, in deciding on the appeal
made by M. Granier de Cassagnac, on the ground
that accusations founded on duelling were not within
the jurisdiction of Correctional Tribunals. but amen-
able only to Courts of Assize. The tribunal was
crowded, and many ladies were present. When M.
Granier de Cassagnac had answered the usual interro-
gatories, M. Lacrosse and M. Lechevallier, chief editor
of the Globe, were called as witnesses, but neither of
them appeared. The Procureur du Roi thereupon
read a letter from M. Lacrosse, stating that, being of
necessity detained at Brest, it was impossible for him
to attend, and M. Granier de Cassagnac informed the
Court that M. Lechevallier did not appear, be-
cause he had been assured that the jurisdiction of the
tribunal would be again objected to, and the merits of
the case would not be entered upon ; therefore his at-
tendance would be nnnecessary. The other formal
documents being read, M. Bachiere, as counsel for M.
Granier de Cassagnac, and that gentleman himself,
again argued against the jurisdiction of the tribunal,
which, however, overruled their objections. Upon
this, M. Granier de Cassagnac made default, and AN as
condemned to pay a fine of 100 f. and the costs. The
Court excused M. Lacrosse for his non-attendance,
but ordered M. Lechevallier to pay a penalty of 10f.

A SPECIMEN OF THE TWENTY-FOtlt THOUS AND
SUMMARY PUNISHMENTS INFLICTED
ENGLAND.--We find the following paragraph YEAR IN
THOUSAND
SUMMARY
ar
ley's Bristol Journal of Saturday last :-7PA servant
named Mary Morgan, was brought before the
Cheltenham Magistrates for running away from lam
service. She had been hired at Cirencester 'mop' •for
a year certain on lith October, and went away two
days after. Her excuse was, that she did not like
' the ways of the house." Why ?' said the Magis-
trate's clerk. After some coyness, and because I
Mori t like such ways,' came out 'because I had to go
through the man's bedroom to my room !' Very con-
trary to our expectation, Mr. Ballinger said, 'This is
a common thing! in farmhouses,' and the girl was
gent to Northleach gaol for 14 days." Viewing the
girl's fault in its worst aspect, supposing she quitted
the house from some indefinable feeling of dislike,
from caprice, because "she did not like its ways,"
how enormously disproportioned is the penalty to the
error. Recent disclosures haveitaught us that a fort-
night's confinement in Northleach gaol may involve a
large amount of personal suffering. But, in the case
of this poor girl, the physical pain she may suffer will
most likely prove the lightest part of her sentence.
Her imprisonment may be her ruin. Who will em-
ploy a female just released from gaol, where she must
have associated with the most depraved and abandoned
characters ? Her good name is lost for ever, and
witkit her means of subsistence. Fourteen days' im-
prisonment in the worst gaol in the kingdom Ia a sen-
tence so utterly disproportioned to the trivial charge
Made against her, that we trust the case will not be
suffered to pass over without inquiry.—Britannia.
The Treasury Commission of Inquiry into the mode
and expense of collecting the public revenue of the
country, having Lord Granville Somerset at its head,
is about to take into its consideration the late disclo-
sures of malversation in the Customs' Department of
London. It will meet to-day at Gwydyr House, White-
hall, and has already requested the attendance of two
officers of the Customs, who are deeply implicated in
the frauds, and ten gentlemen who are no longer in the
service, they having undergone the severest punish-
ment which the censure of the Board could inflict.
MONROE EDWARDS.-The rascality of this accom-
pplarisahleledl.scoounndTreul
Tuesday
to
was
discovered
it b e ene
sa
thatnd withoutbe
had
cheated his lawyer, John W. Edmonds, by exhibiting
to him a forged
exleetteetr of credit on a house at New
rntipig
Orleans.
of the State
prison by forging a
chnreolt
etok.hear that he has got out
Seward.--ao pardon from Governor

THE SLAVE-TRADE TREATII %S.
There is something very incomprehensible .iti the
bustle in which the French press.: have taken 27j) a
notion, which they have almost niagnified into r :re-
port, that there is a disposition in the English G. 1-
vernment to release their nation fr om the obligatioii
of the slave-trade treaties of 1831 and 1833. Into
' these arrangements the French Government entered
with forwardness and cordiality —1 t was one of the
first, if not the first, to suggest thug desirabkness of
a further treaty, embracing all the great Powers of
Europe, and somewhat enlarging the powers mutu-
ally given by former stipulations for the repression of
that trsffie. All went on in the Jnost aniicabe and
satisfactoi7 way. The only question was, who should
be most zealous in the good work, until the :supposed
affront offered by the Treaty of July at once :int an
end to the hearty good feeling which- before existed,
and set every Frenchman.thinking how he can hest
avenge or retaliate the slight. America suggests an oc-
casion, by refusing to be party toany such arrangement
as France had eonsentedto. The American Minister ;.n
Paris writes a pamphlet to abuse England and defend
slavery ; and the whole French nation—all at least
w meddle in politics lose no time in beginning, like
a population of wild cats, to howl and shriek forth.
their wrath against Great Britain, which had deceived,
.),Triftio Ministry who had betrayed, them in sanc-
tioning aft act of generosity, and in exacting from its
rni,T, an instant f:dsification of all the pledges by
which, not only in tile sight of, but first and at the
ut, all continent:a Towers, they had distinctly
and unreservedly bound thezaselves. Thanks to pre-
vious treaties, the breach of faith is as inoperative as
it is disgraceful, and the French find themselves in

the position of a mob, which, having with great fury
and enthusiasm, and labour, and menlee, burst open
a stout oak door, find nothing but a. stouter is on-hate
inside, and are reduced, as before, to stand " with
their noses in the air," wishing that the porter would
come with his keys. In such a disconcerted position, it is
'vighly natural that ary wag should receive ready .cre-
dence who professes to hear a jingle inside, and the
French public appear to be a no less easy prcv to
any idler who will put up a cry that Lord Aberdeeit
is going to concede the slave-trade treaties, At pm-
! sent they are in full cry on the subject, and that on
-rounds (if any) almost inconceivable to a plain
• Englishman who is in the habit of reasoning. First,
me treaty—the actual concluded treaty—'will cer-
tainly be repealed, because England claims no right
to enforce the same provisions on America, who ,has
-...onsistently and from the beginning rejected them;
.text, because Lord Aberdeen has written to Lord.
liaddington that British sailors have been exceeding
"heir powers on part of the coast of Africa ; and by
this tune, we suppose, there is some third, and equally
logical reason, afloat.
Now, we, know how reports are got up in private
life; we know the swift growth of positiveness of
which a statement is capable that is fathered by a
hearty wish. The short but rapid stages by which,
3 lie travels are certainly not long in raising it from
the very lowest degree of conjecture to the highest
degree of certainty—from " I shouldn't be much sur-
prised if," to " I know from the best authority that
the Bank will stop payment' to-morrow." But still,
with all our experience of human gullibility, it does
astonish us that a whole nation of newspapers—even
some of the Ministerial and Conservative ones, whn
know better—should conspire to fly off upon a notion
which not one of them at any time has had any the
smallest reason to suppose in any degree founded on
fact—a notion which is simply the preposterous crea-
tion of their own brains—an idea standing on no-
thing, which they have embraced merely because it
iris presented itself, or because some random conjec-
ture has pitched it, forth " for want of thought," as an
idle pot-boy tosses his cap into the air. And, now
before these people can be made to understand what
absurdity they have been talking, they will have talked
it so long as to fancy they have gained a kind of
vested right in their fancy, and will think themselves
ill-treated by the discovery of the unchanged matter

of fact.
It is necessary, therefore, to go on repeating, lest
our silence, however temporary, should be taken for
assent—that there is not the smallest possibility of a
relinquishment by England of the old basis of 1831
ind 1833. We have the best reason to know that

such a proposal would not be entertained for one mo-
ment by our present Government, and we will ven-
ture a prediction, that in spite of the :manifestations
the French Ministerialist papers, no French Mi-
nister who really wishes a good understanding be-
tween the two countries will venture to risk it by so.
insulting a result. For to what would it amount ?
what principle must the request be made ? It is;
scarce pretended (much less shown), at least by the
French Government, that the arrangement is in any
legree unseasonable or inconvenient. A few abuses
may have occurred and will be restrained ; but
the treaty, on the whole, has now had about
years' trial, and, we say fearlessly, has
'peen found to work with fairness. We should
be asked to annul this solemn engagement,
entered upon gravely and with deliberation between
two powerful countries, for an honourable purpose,
and with results considered for at least nine years to
be most unobjectionable, in submission to a mere
childish whim, for it is no more, of a certain part of
the French nation.; nay, more, we should' be cane&
upon to make this sacrifice in deference to a fancy
which has fur its direct and avowed object the frus-
tration of our suppo,-od policy, and the humiliation of
)nr nation, and whiich, if true to itself, would take
iome other equally- ridiculous and more inconvenient
Shape, the moment it appeared, as it would do, that
their victory did not in the most remote degree affect
our strength or prosperity. To recede would be a
')umiliating desertion of a generous cause; but it
would also be an act of utter and inexcusable folly if
lone with the notion of pacifying France.
One word with reference to a different subject,
,while we are still upon foreign politics. A Whig
Contemporary, who not so inconceivably tries to affect
.1 certain degree of belief in these French dreams,
has picked up a set of analogous legends concerning
our relations with Turkey. Sir Stratford Canning,
it informs us, has lost all influence at the Porte—has,
on one occasion, nearly carried his point by a menace,
but has been compelled by a reprimand from the
Foreign-office to draw in his horns, and play the
humble servant again. All this comes on the simple,
unsupported authority, of an anonymous writer in
the Morning Chronicle. We meet these assertions
in their own way. We take upon ourselves to declare
broadly and confidently, that they are simply untrue.
Sir S. Canning is happily in full possession of all that
influence which is due to a representative of Great
Britain. His advice is followed, his friendship courted
by Prince and Ministers. He has had no occasion to
resort to menace. He has had no reprimand, by con-
sequence, for such a resort. He has acquitted his
important task with ability, and to the satisfaction of
those to whom he is responsible; though he may not
have trodden in the footsteps of his reckless and
shortsighted pree.eceesor.
The truth of the matter is this !—The Whigs
wrested Syria from the hands of the only man, rebel
as he was, wl-o has ever kept it in order. To do so,
they armed every robber in the country, and encou-
raged him in a warfare (the only one which circum-
stances allowed) murderous and irregular. They
disorganise the country, they destroy the force which
could and did keep it in order, and they re-deliver it,
'armed and unruly, to the worst of tyrannies—to the
tyranny which is terrified at once b, its opponents
and its ministers, and is equally fearful ofexerdrc:sitnhge
leniency towards the one or discipline tu
twf aAb ec ar i
at
as
s
ofrtuhietr:. Ts
y heirra mustpolicy p
pays
y fornow the
s
be
Hindoitan has done for those of Ghuznee ; and the
authors of the evil are anxiously casting about for
friinunni:ipgh s oo
come means of laying at the door of their successors
the obvious and necessary result of their own infatua-
tion. This is the long and short of the attack on Sir
Stratford Canning.—Times.

The Earl of Eglinton, with Mr. Campbell (of Sad-
del), and Mr. Fairlie, during the past week had two
fme were bagged.
days' excellent shooting on his Lordship's preserves at
Aucochnasnast.nrAdlaoyre,
atth atnhe2ub3Oxherad o
idge Pettyl' Sessions, two
men, named George Potter and Wm. Cooper, were
rl ii
eare Ignea
n of .
having
i ap-
peared committed for trial by Sir W. S. Wiseman, Bart ,
committed
Magistrates,maittedneahvioofientssauTt on
o n a c
a
p o
that on Sunday week Rigarlsford, T 170,
,duty n at `Vest Drayton,
thest
spot„wherheearbein
tur b while
a noc enfound a grtehae tw
o
prisoners dis-
turbance, i s.
prisoners and another (not in
custody.), the latter
lying on the
ground
in pretended drunkenness. The
constable, knowing them to be bad characters, told
them to go home • quietly, but at the same instant the
one on the ground sprang up and struck the officer
on the head with some instrument, and inflicted a
frightful cut over the right eye. His arms were then
pinioned from behind by one of the prisoners, and
the other two beat him until he was insensible.
Rigarlsford was afterwards found weltering in blood,
and was conveyed to a neighbouring surgeon's, where
his wounds were dressed and he was taken home.
Subsequently the prisoners were apprehended, but the
third had escaped. One of the prisoners was convicted
last year of a violent assault on the same constable,
and was fined 51.
On Sunday last, William Lees, a water-keeper,
was murdered in the parish of Artrea, near Cough,
in the county of Antrim. The deceased attempted
to prevent three men from fishing for salmon in the
Ballinderry river, when they set upon him and beat
him severely, fracturing his skull, from the effects cf
which he died on Tuesday evening. The murderers
have succeeded in escaping from the country. It is
said that the peasantry have nearly destroyed all the
Isalmon and trout in the principal rivers leading into
Lough Neagh by killing them during the spawning
Iseason, and that they look upon the interference of
I the water-bailiffs as the illegal employment of arbi-
trary power, and accordingly entertain bitter feelings
) of hostility towards theme—bilk Tort 'Per'