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OFFICIAL PECULATION.

The investigation now going on at the Court of
Assize of the Department of the Seine, in revealing
a system of official corruption; in perfection of
plan and completeness of execution, if not in the
amount of money raised from the public, rivals our
Exchequer-bill forgery, and the misdoings of the em-
ployees of the Custom-house. But the inquiry insti-
tuted by the French Government is far more satisfac-
tory in its effect than the investigations made into the
transactions which have so recently thrown a stigma
on the character of two of our own establishments ;
the publicity of the investigation before the Court of
Assize, while it rivals the full extent of criminality
in the accused, does not leave the mind of the public
in that uncertainty in which. it may imagine the
abuses to be greater than they really are • the exte-
nuating circumstances, also, if they can be pleaded,
appear with the accusations, and a far clearer know-
ledge of the .whole mutter is thus attained. The
name which most frequently occurs in the proceedings
is that of M. Hourdequin, who holds an influential
office in the bureau of the Department of the Seine.
through this bureau. passes the business connected
with the alterations and improvements of the city,
which, of course, involve the interests of all the pri-
vate proprietors whose houses are affected. Fermis-
siorfs to = build, or pull down, the payment of the in-
demnity for ground on buildings purchased .by the
city for making improvements, may all, be delayed,
refused; or Witfilierd -hy the influence of the officials
of the " bureau ;" the power thus given, has been
made an instrument for exacting sums f money in
the shape of presents or compliments, or as the French
call them pots de via, which have a marvellous effect in
expediting the movements of official machinery, and
a large portion of these sums seem to have gone to
M. Hourdequin, who occupies in the bureau, the
position of the " Mr. Mother Country" of our Co-
lonial-office, subordinate, but all powerful—the power
behind the Prefect, greater than the Prefect himself.
A tradesman of Regent-street, or Ludgate-hill,
who has sold off his stock to build a new frontage
to his establishment, and having, to wait for official
permission to proceed, his business in the mean
time suffering from every day's delay, may imagine
the feeling of the French proprietaire, compelled to
dance attendance at the bureau of the Prefecture in
vain, till the usual bribe brings the matter to a termi-
nation. This •is a general outline of the subject of
the inquiry ; the details, however, are exceedingly in-
tricate, and withal interesting.
The following specimen of a whole series of similar
transactions, is a fine example of the " insolence of
office," and the " law's delay," in combined action.
The witness is a M. Bornet, who, having been called,
the report in La Seicle says :
" Hardly had the President uttered the first words
of the usual form of oath, than the witness (whose
agitation was extreme) called out, I swear it, I
swear it ; I am a proprietor of the Rue Sainte Mar-
guerite, and an old teacher of drawing.
" The President—You are too hasty ; wait for my
piestions, and reply to each of them distinctly.
M. Bornet--I beg pardon, M. le President, but I
am afflicted with a nervous malady which attacks me
whenever this affair is talked of. (The voice of the
witness was broken, and his limbs seemed agitated and
convulsive with emotion.)
President—Sit down and calm yourself; we will
wait a few moments. Having again put the question,
the President asked if witness knew the accused ?
M. Bornet (turning round)—Yes; I know Hour-
dequin, the scoundrel ! •
President—Do not abuse the accused. Remember
that if ypu have suffered through their means, the
have•now their turn of pain and degradation. Tel
me the truth and all the truth

IRELAND.

RESISTANCE TO ..POOR-RATES.—FATAL
CONFLICT.
Duumr:, Nov. 2:o.—For the first time blood ha
been shed in consequence of resistance to the levy of
the poor-rate in this country. The facts I have re-
cently noticed, resp-cting the growing spirit of hos-
tility to the Poor-laws, especially as manifested by
the tone of Conservative journals, one of which actu-
ally put forward a requisition for a meeting to resist
the payment of the rate—all this must have in some
measure prepared the public for such deplorable events
as the following, from the Cork .L'antilzer of Friday
evening:—

,econd of the unfortunate country people. There
were 63 of the police, under the command of two sub-
inspectors, all directed by. Mr. Gore Jones, engaged
in the conflict on Thursday."

MONEY MaikKET and CITY' NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING P.IPERS OF THIS DAY.
CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The intelligence from China of a settle-
ment of our dispute with that country caused a per-
fect panic among all parties interested in the prospect
of affairs in the East. It came so suddenly upon every-
body, that most people, till they had well scrutinized
the contents of the telegraphic dispatch, and the terms
upon which peace is said to have been concluded, ap.
peared rather incredulous ; recollecting most probably
the trick on a former occasion played off by a section
of the French press, in the publication of the fabri-
cated extract of the letter from Marseilles ; which,
although its author was never discovered, has ever
since retained a notoriety of the most questionable
character. 'When, however, due consideration was
given to the communication, there was a change of
opinion, and the dealers in the public Funds dis-
played the feeling with which they were disposed to
receive it, by doing business on an extensive scale for
an advance. The consequence of this was a run upon
the Consol market, where prices improved one-lalf
per cent., the figure for Money and the Account
reaching 94;11. The purchases in the early part of the
morning were general ; it was not the bargains of a
few of the jobbers that influenced quotations, it was
the desire manifested by the majority to come in as
buyers that brought them up to the position they
now maintain. This to a certain extent is strong evi-
dence of the view in which the news is regarded. The
quick transit of it appeared to have been a question
sorely puzzling to several of , the gossips of the City
coffee-houses, but of the possibility and probability of
such a mail coming to hand not the least doubt is en-
tertained, for in certain quarters it was really expected
that intelligence of some description:would be received
from China during the middle of the month by a spe•
cial conveyance overland. The terms which the dis-
patch proposed as forming the basis of the freaty be-
tween the two Powers are regarded in a favourable
light by most commercial men; but disappointment is
expressed by some at the discovery that no provision
has been made for the appointment of a British Resi-
dent at the Court of Pekin. The Government will, it
is on all hands admitted, receive a proportionate re-
turn for the expensive disbursements by the payment
of this 4,500,0001., should it be religiously adhered to,
which, with the sources of trade opened at the new
parts of sNin.9po, Amoy, &c., cannot fail to compensate
the country in some small measure for the long and
harassing warfare in which it has been engaged, leaving
for the while unconsidered the merit of the achieve •
went of the subjection of this nation to terms of equa-
lity with ourselves.

" Through Mr. Hurley, driver of the Skibbereen
coach, we learn the following particulars of a melan-
choly transaction, accompanied with loss of life,
which took place at Skibbereen. It appears that a
party of police, under the command of Captain Gore
Jones, S.M., proceeded about three miles from the
town, to afford protection to the collectors of rates for
that district : but having met with some resistance
from the people, who were labouring under great ex-
citement, they returned to town to augment their
force, which having done, they proceeded once More
to the scene of notion. The people•were now pressing
on them,:and one of them unfortgnately threw a stone
at the police, when, they immediately turned round
and fired on them, when one_'man, whose name we
were not able to learn, -was shot dead, and three others
wounded. We gave the above hurried particulars as
they have just been communicated to us."
A statement of this calamitous occurrence, exactly
similar to the above, appears in the Liinerick Chronicle
of yesterday, with the exception that the locality is
described as Desertserges, about three miles from
Bandon, and not Skibbereen.
DUBLIN, SUNDAY, QUARTER TO FIVE, P.M.—We
copy from the Southern Reporter of yesterday, the
following afflicting details :
"We received at mid-day yesterday, letters from
correspondents at Skibbereen, giving an account of a
most lamentable transaction, of which the neighbour-
hood of that place was the scene, on the preceding
day,
.and in which one man was killed and two badly
wounded.

depend for their prosperity chiefly on their breeding
and feeding cf cattle. Had Sir Robert Peel at once
opened up to British enterprise and industry, the
markets of the world, the increased prosperity of the
country, and the consequent increase of population,
would have led to such an additional demand for the
more perishable articles of agricultural produce, as
would have counterbalanced any reduction in the
price of meat, caused by all the importations we can
have from Norway, Germany, Spain, and even the
wilds of South America. But he did not do so ; at
the bidding of the Duke of Richmond, and other
Dukes, he limited his free trade concessions just
enough to prevent them from doing good to the ma-
nufacturer, but not enough to prevent them from doings
harm to the cattle-breeder.

EPSOM RACES.—N. F. OKEY of the Hero
of Waterloo Inn, Waterloo-bridge-road, begs to inform
his Friends and the public that his FIRST JUVENILE
SWEEP will be DRAWN on TUESDAY NEXT, November 29,
at. Eight, r.at. First horse, 45/. ; Second ditto, 10/.; and 1L
for the other starting horses. Subscription only 10s. 6d.
N.B. Post Office Orders attended to.

" It appears that there has been considerable oppo-
sition, by the country people in that district, to the
collection of the poor-rate, and that it was deemed
necessary to send out a large police force, at the head
of which Mr. Gore Jones, stipendiary magistrate, and
a Mr. Alymer, the nephew and agent of Lord Car-
bery, who resides in that country, placed themselves
in order to enforce the collection.

"It is impossible to accompany any statement which
has been yet received of this affair with an assurance
of its accuracy, and we therefore wait for further ac-
counts from the place, which we may receive in the
course of this day. The letter, which we subjoin, is
from a most respectable gentleman, and was written
with a full reliance that what is stated in it was faith-
fully true; nor is there anything in it, to lead to any
doubt or distrust of its accuracy. Still we wait for
further information

*The failureolifessrs. Bell, Brothers, and Co., a
firm of old and respectable standing in the Irish trade,
was announced on 'Change to-day. Beyond the
mere fact of their stoppage no well authenticated par-
ticulars have transpired.
CHRONICLE.—The decided triumph of Whig
policy, as consutnmated in the important intelligence
received this morning of a treaty of peace with
China has produced great buoyancy in the English
Funds, and is justly looked upon as calculated, be-
yond all other acts of foreign policy, to restore
vitality to trade, and to refresh the springs of our
nafional industry. The immense population of
China—its vast resoures and varied products—its
endless wants and means of paying for them—all
form new elements of trade, boundless in their re-
sults, which cannot fail, at the present low prices, to
raise up a speedy demand for goods, and afford em-
ployment to our manufacturing classes. Several
samples of Chinese tobacco have been lately exhibited
in the City of the very finest quality, and a rather
recent venture of 100 pounds of gold lace, sent to
the flowery land, was sold ant profit of 50 per cent.
to adorn tie State robes of the mandarins. The influx
of 7,000,000 of dollars of specie annually, for three
years, will absolutely glut the coffers of the Bank,
and it is expected that Peel will instantly convene
Parliament to take off the Income-tax, and repeal the
sliding scale, so as to give the country the full benefit
of this glorious change of prospects.
SUN.—The rise in English Stocks noticed in our
Evening Edition has been fully supported, but the spe-
culators are rather disposed to await the confirmation of
the intelligence received by way of Paris, ere they
extend their operations for a further improvement.
Consols for immediate transfer and Thursday brought
941 to 941, closing at 94g. Exchequer Bills re-
mained at 565. to 58s. premium, and India Bonds at
535. preminm. East India Stock improved to 2631
and 264. Bank Stock was dull at 1691; New Three-
and-a-Half per Cents. brought 1011 to 1011 ; Re-
duced, 100/ to 101 ; and the Three per Cents., 934
to 94.

6, , Skibbereen, Nov. 17, 1842.
" ' Our town to-day presents all the appearance of
warfare. On getting into the streets this morning
nothing was to be seen but Magistrates, amongst
whom was Mr. Gore Jones, S.M., police, foot and
mounted, commanded by sub-inspectors, making pre-
parations to proceed to the parishes of Creagh and
Tullagh, to assist in distraining for poor-rates (which
the farmers are determined not to pay). This mo-
ment my attention is arrested by the marching of this
force past my window. I have counted seventy foot
police, four horse, and two sub-inspectors, under the
command of Mr. Gore Jones and Mr. Aylmer, Lord
Carbery's agent. who, I understand, goes out to use
his influence with the people (the greater part of whom
are that nobleman's tenantry) to induce them to pay.
I cannot help pronouncing this step of sending out
large armed forces amongst a quiet peasantry, who
opposition with
h-
are resisting a tax passively (which they imagine is
oppressive), as impolitic, unwise, and uncalled for, and
one only calculated to inereaseeverY
out compassing any object, unless that which I fear
will be the result. Should any unfortunate occur-
rence take place I will inform you. From the bon-
fires
which were last evening lit on all the surroundin
hills, I fear large masses of the people wi,ll show in the
direction of the destination of the pelice.
who was at the scene, and ' Five o' ~clock.
" ' I have this moment got particulars from a gen-
tlemanupon his statement
you may rely. One man,
named Bawn, a widow's;
only son, was shot through the back in the act of run-
ning away, forty yards in the rear of the police,"the
hall passing through his heart. Two others were
shot—the thigh of one dreadfully fractured, and an-
other through the calf of the leg. This took place at
almost the chapel door of the
parish of Rha. The
particulars are stated to be these :
•" ' As 50011 as the police arrived at a place called
Old Court, they were joined by a large
number of
country people, who shouted as they passed. along,
and who, as they proceeded, were joined by crowds,
until the concourse numbered about 2,000 ; and as
they reached Rha, Mr. Aylmer attempted to arrest a
man who had a stick in his hand, and who resisted ;
upon which. a mounted policeman
rode up and made a
cut with his sword at him, when two or three boys
threw stones, and thereupon orders were given to fire,
without a word of expostulation or caution
, advice,
a firing was kept
upon which the police obeyed, and,
up until the face of a being
was not to be seen.
"The Constitution of this morning has the folloiving
version. Of the conduct of the Magistrates as herein
represented, who met on Wednesday, after the ad •
journment of the sessions, and of the resolution to
which to which they are stated to have come, it is
impossible to speak but in approbation and praise ;
and it is greatly to be lamented that the wise and
humane determination to which they came, of using
on Thursday, through
Messrs. Aylmer and Jones
only, on
the attendance of
advice and remonstrance on,
the police, was subsequently so totally departed from
—to which the deplorable results that ensued may
be attributed." _

M. Bornet—l purchased, in 1824, the house which
forms the angle of .the Rue St. Marguerite and the
Rue du Pour; in 1830 I wished to make some re-
pairs, but was prevented doing so by the employees of
the city, who made me undergo all sorts of vexations.
They afterwards sent to me a certain individual, who
proposed to purchase my house of me, but I refused
his offer; after this 1 could not obtain leave to make
the slightest alteration. Wearied out with all this, I
resolved to go myself to the Prefect; there I was
told, " You have an easy mode of bringing all you
complain of to an end ; your property is much
wanted; offer it to the city." I would not sell it; in
despair, I asked permission to rebuild my house en-
tirely ; I was nut-more fortunate in this either. and it
was .only after the most interminable delays that
got any answer at all. Thus I was continually ex-
posed to the most cruel uncertainty with respect to
my position and my rights. After having ex-
hausted all means of procuring justice, I at last
decided on selling the house, and for this
purpose was recommended to a surgeon, who
said, " I have the honour to represant the
city; how much do you ask for your house ?" I
replied, that I was not accustomed to dispose of
houses, but that I would refer him to the law. He
said, " Your property is not actually of much use to
the city, do not then be too exorbitant in your de-
mands." Seeing that they could not bring me to
favourable conditions, this scoundrel, Irourdequin, by
machinations which I never could penetrate, con-
cluded by signifying to me that my house would
pass into the alignement, would he publicly sold and
abolished. He did even more, M. le President, he
got this resolution approved by the Municipal Council,
for he was so decorated, and so powerful from his po-
sition, that nothing was done but by his order. To
get out of this condition, I resolved in 1840, to de-
mand an indemnity; but I wrote repeatedly to the
Prefect without ever receiving an answer. When I
did it was. always Hourdequin who replied, just as he
thought proper. You perceive how embarrassed was
my position, and the whole affair has ended by re-
ducing me to the state of ruin in which you behold
me, and which. obliges me to retire from Paris, and
reside in the country. These gentlemen left me no
repose, they changed their plans at their pleasure,
suppressed them, or told me now one thing, now
another. In short, in that bureau, there was a mys-
tery that might terrify any one—a mystery repug-
nant to every honest man.
In another case, a Mme. Blanchet proved that the loss
caused her by the city amounted to 200,000 f. When re-
called, she stated that she had been assured by M.
Maillet, that a M. Combes said to him, " Money is
wanted for M. Hourdequin, and if it does not exceed
500 francs, you had better add to it a present for
Madame."

In the Foreign market business continued active as
regards the Spanish and Mexican investments. The
former closed at the extreme decline of the day, 18 to Iv
for the Five per Cents., and 22f I for the Threes, while
the latter advanced to 33f and 33/, in consequence of
a report that important advices by the Clyde packet
have reached our. Government in reference to media-
tion between the hostile republics. Portuguese New
Five per Cents. were at 37/, and the Three per Cents.
at 23. Brazil Stock touched 65/, but left off at 651.
Colombian was steady at 214 to 211 ; Buenos Ayres
at 22f to 23 ; Russian at 113*; and Dutch Two-and-
a-Half per Cents. at 52f to 53f.
Shares did not participate in the improvement in
Stocks, but the transfers were not on an extended
scale, being this afternoon in the Bristol and Exeter
at 251 discount, the Manchester and Leeds at 1/,
South Eastern at 26f, and the Scrip 1a discount.
Great Western, New, were 11k, Eastern Counties,
New, were 2f, and Northern and Eastern Scrip 31 to
f premium. London Joint Stock Bank Shares were
3f; Provincial of Ireland, 171; and Union of Aus-
tralia, New, 21 premium.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.
Yesterday, at four o'clock, Mr. Higgs, the Coro-
. ner for the City of Westtninster, held an inquest at
the Rising Sun, Charles-street, Grosvenor-square,
upon the body of Sarah Addy, aged 32.
Frederick Hart, 7, Pitt-street, Fitzroy-square, said
that he knew the deceased, who had lived with Mr.
Phillips, carpet-warehouseman, of Lower.. Brook-
street, and had left upon the 25th of last month in
consequence of a quarrel with her mistress.. Witness
had heard that she (deceased) was discovered coming
out of one of the gentlemen lodgers'. bed-rooms at a
late hour of the evening,. and that Mrs. Phillips repri-
manded her for it. Had also heard that deceased had
threatened to drown herself, and thinks that, as she
was not seen after the 25th, she had gone then and
thrown herself into the river.
No other evidence being forthcoming the Jury re-
turned a verdict—" Found drowned."
Another inquest was taken before the same Coroner
on the body of 'William Bolton, a workman in the
employment of Mr. Binder, builder, 75, Park-street,
Grosvenor-square.
Mr. Binder said that the deceased had come to his
Workshop for some materials required at a house in
Paddington, where he was on that day engaged, and
while going with witness to a back part of the pre-
mises, he (deceased) stumbled, and fell into a pit
where mortar, &c., was kept. The depth might be
about eight or nine feet. Witness called some of the
workmen to his assistance, and descending, found the
deceased lying nearly insensible. When assisted to
rise, he was found to be very seriously injured, and a
cab being procured, he was driven without loss of
time to St. George's Hospital.
Mr. Davis, house surgeon, said the deceased was
admitted upon the 11th, and died upon the 18th inst.,
his thigh and three of his ribs were broken, one of
which had punctured the lungs, producing inflamma-
tion.—Verdict—" Accidental death."

FOREIGN CATTLE.
(From the Aberdeen Herald.)
Yesterday, the foreign cattle, the arrival of which
we noticed in last week's paper, were exposed to sale
by public roup. The prices obtained for both cows
and oxen varied from 101. to 12/. ; and although con-
sidered low, looking at the appearance of the cattle, it
is quite well understood that the importers have not
allowed a single beast to leave them except at a fair
remunerating profit. We mentioned last week that
rumour made the average price of each animal set
down in Aberdeen as low as 6/. A sort of contradic-
tion has since been published ; and it is quite possible
that 6/. may be rather less than the actual cost, al-
thongh it is certain that one of the importers consi-
dered that his would not average more.
We have no wish to pry unnecessarily into the
affairs of our neighbours, nor do we desire to create a
feeling of alarm among the agriculturists ; but we
cannot help repeating our conviction that the cargo
of cattle imported into Aberdeen, considering all the
circumstances—the difficulty attending a first specu-
lation, and the expense of sending out a special pur-
chaser, instead of employing an agent on the spot—
affords sufficient evidence that those parties were
in error who imagined that Sir Robert Peel's promises
of a reduction in the price of meat would not be ful-
filled.

The Constitution's account is this tt of particulars we are not in possession, but all
that prudent men could do was done by the Magis-
trates to induce a quiet compliance with the law.
After the adjournment of the petty sessions court on
‘Nrades
A.d P.
Aylmer,the
following
D.
gentlemen—A. O'Driscoll,
O'Donovan,
Lawton, Richard 11.
IL Becher Michael Gal-
way, ,:ponovan, and Gore Jones,
'
S.M. Esqrs.—retired to their private room, accom-
panied by G. B. Drew, EN., and William Gardiner,
Esq., Sub-Inspector. Under
the command of the
latter, there had been assembled in Skibbereen a large
portion of police for the purpose of levying the rate due
off a portion of the estate. of Lord Carbery, near Bal-
timore, ar.d where, on the 7th‘ inst., the police were
resisted and assaulted. The object of the meeting of
Magistrates was to confer on the best means of exe-
cuting the law without recourse to force. and we un-
derstand the following humane resolution was unani-
mously adopted :

OLONIAL ESTABLISHMENTS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR-I am sorry to observe that excellent Re-
brmer, Mr. Gisborne, after describing at Derby
n a masterly style, those most degraded of
iuman beings, Conservative operatives, condemn-
ng 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 arc invaluable, and i
would be desirable to treat them as integrat
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
mu not like Lord Howick and many of the
Whigs, who would not have corn and provisions
at low rates from Canada, because they cannot
have them from Europe on the same conditions.
Let us take what we can get. If we arc not to
have a free trade in 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 were properly
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, that nothing short of the destruc-
tion of class legislation can save this country.
Free trade may do much, but it will be insuffi-
cient of itself to restore us to 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
(ifit be 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 fbllowers (who, by-the-bye,
ought to have suspected him after the slippery
trick be played the Church bigots on the Ca-
tholic question), be doubtless will not spare the
aristocracy, who placed him iu office to serve
them as a tool to retain their unjust privileges
Tor them. I have great confidence in him, forhe
has the good sense to feel that nothing but ho-
nest legislation, disagreeable as it is to himself
personally, will extricate the country from the
deranged state into which it has been brought by a
long course ofmisrule.—l am, Sir, your obedieu
servant, A REFORMER.
Hull, Nov. W, 1842.

CO VENT GARDEN THEATRE.

It is to be hoped, that such hearsay evidence at
two removes, is not a fair example of the testimony
received in French criminal proceedings. The pe-
culiarity- of the present case may excuse it. In the
sitting of the 15th we find that,
" The President said—M. Le Comte Darn, one of
the Directors of the Orleans Railway, was at present
travelling in England, but that his written declara-
tion was as follows :---` I have often heard the heads
of our department say in our presence, your business
with the city will never succeed unless you give
money to the bureau of the Seine ; without thatyour
affairs will never terminate ; every one does it, and
why should not you ?
M. Senac (one of the Directors)—Such conversa-
tions were never held in my preence.
The President—Have you ever heard it said in
your presence, that it was impossible to buy anything
of the city, if you did not distribute money in the
bureau ?

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nine
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ceed, on Friday, the 18th, and put the
nvYolunteering to
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in our possession."
more, were wounded. Particulars
"REPORTER OFFICE, ONE o'CLocr.--At this hour
the coach which left Skibbereen at a very early hour
this morning has arrived, but we have received no fur-
ther account from any correspondent there.
" A sergeant of police, however, who
came up by
this conveyance, and was the bearer of letters for the
police department here, states that up to last night
the ascertained number of persons who had suffered
in the melancholy fray was two killed and four
severely wounded. Two troops of hussars, from
I3allincollig, passed through Bandon last evening, en
route for Skibbereen, and further reinforcements are
required from Cork. The Coroner, Franklin Bald-
win, Esq., has gone down this morning, to make ar-
rangements for the inquest on Monday. The scene
of the fatal affair was about five-and-a• half miles from
Skibbereen, in the direction of Baltimore.
" HALF-PAST ONE 0'0:00C—A dispatch has just
been received by the police authorities here, directing
the immediate transmission of an officer
.and thirty
men of the East Riding constabulary force, to Skib-
bereen. The messenger states that the country for
miles round continues to be greatly excited. A. re-
port reached Skibbereen last night of the death of a 1

The sudden indisposition of Miss Adelaide Kemble
yesterday morning, 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 :

M. Banes (another Director)—l have heard vague
conversations, but I know not to whom to attribute
them. They occurred on the occasion of some unsuc-
cessful treaty in which we were engaged with the
city about four years ago.
The President recalled the witness Rondy, and
asked him Vile did not at one time offer the post of
Keeper of the Records in the Chamber of Peers to
Jaconbet ?

Whatever journalists may say, there can be no
doubt that the opening of this new trade has created
an immense sensation among our agriculturists.
Yesterday, we are assured, there were not fewer
than a thousand people present at the sale ; and
the anxiety to obtain a glimpse of the beasts, as
they were set up, caused so much confusion that it
was hardly possible to know what was going on.
Just when the excitement had nearly reached its
highest point, it received an additional impulse by
the announcement that another vessel, with forty
cattle, had arrived. This was found to be the Frederick
et Marie of Aalborg, of the burden of 60 tons, with a
cargo of forty cattle, consigned to a gentleman in
town. This additional proof of the activity shown
by our merchants in taking advantage of the new
tariff seemed anything but pleasing to the farmers
who so unexpectedly met with it.
It has been alleged that our object and that of
other newspapers which have noticed the progress of
cattle importation, is to excite an unjust feeling
.of
indignation against Sir Robert Peel, among the agri-
culturists, with the factious view of bringing the
Whigs again into favour. Now, we must solemnly
protest against any such conclusion. We say now,
and have always said, that Sir Robert Peel, in so far
as he has adopted the principles of " Free Trade," has
done right, and deserves the gratitude of every liberal
and enlightened man. We say now, and have always
said, that the agricultural interest of this country has
nothing to fear from the fullest adoption of sound prin-
ciples of commercial policy; but, at the same time,
we say now, as we have always said, that the provi-
sions of the new tariff, as regards the importation of
cattle, unaccompanied as they have been by pro-
visions for admitting bread, the prime necessary of
life, at an equally low duty, must prove highly
injurious to those Scotch and Irish counties which

M. Jaconbet---M. Rondy did not offer me the place
in the name of M. Hourdequin ; he came to me and
said (not officially but officiously, and without autho-
rity) that the place was vacant, and that I might very
well obtain it.

The distinction between offering a bribe " offici-
ally and officiously," is rather good ; many of the de-
tails are, indeed, as amusing in effect as they are de-
plorable in their illustration of the state of official
honour and honesty. The bribes which have been
taken are very various in kind and different in value,
from sums of money counted by thousands of francs,
down to cases of wine, and there is one instance of
the presentation of a plate of fish ! All was good that
came to the official drag-net.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)

" Theatre Royal, Covent-Gm den, Monday, Nov. 21,
1842, two o'clock. The Public is respectfully informed,
that inconsequence 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,
Mond, Nov. 21, 182.
" Sir,--I have visited `M
iss Kemayble this aftern4oon,
and consider ber incapable of undertaking her profes-
sional duties this evening.
" JAMES ARTHUR WILSON, M.D.
" To the Manager of Covent-Garden Theatre."

MUNIFICENT BEQUEST.—Robert Malcolm, Esq.,
whose recent death has caused a vacancy in the office
of surgeon to the Surrey county gaol, has bequeathed
the sum of 1,0004 to be paid at the demise of his
wife, to the Royal Naval School at Camberwell, to
found a scholarship or exhibition, to be entitled the
" Malcolm Exhibition." Mr. Malcolm, who was a
surgeon in the navy, was one of the council of the
Royal Naval School, and was much respected by his
olleagues.

Loss OF THE RELIANCE.—Some further par-
ticulars respecting the loss of this vessel were re-
ceived yesterday, though there appears to be little
probability that there will, for some days at least, be
anything like a detailed account of the melancholy
disaster made public. It has transpired from one of
the survivors that a short time previous to the ship
grounding, Captain Tucker, who it will be recol-
lected was one of the passengers, went into the mizen
rigging, and told Captain Green that he thought he
saw a light on the larboard beam. This, it is stated
by nautical men, goes to prove that the Reliance was
reckoned to be off the English coast. It is also
known that the lead had been kept going during the
night, and the man in the chains was heaving it at
the moment the keel of the vessel struck the sand.
The body of Mr. Blake, one of the midshipmen, was
washed ashore on Friday, and interred at Boalogne.
The bodies of Mr. Walsh,the chief officer, Mr. John
Green, the second officer, and Captain Tucker, have
not yet been found. The remains of the wreck have
been already sold. The damaged tea has been adver-
tised for sale on the 25th inst.

SELF DEVOTION, OR THE HISTORY OF KATHARINE
RANDOLPH, by the Authoress of "The Only Dough-
ter," edited by the Author of " The Subaltern."—
The remarkable talent manifested in this work, no
less than the touching circumstances under which it
is given to the world, tends to render it the most at-
tractive production of its class that has been recently
produced. The Literary Gazette with justice observes
w
that it is "a tale of rare merit and engrossing interest;
displaying in every page great power,
rect and beautiful taste. The story is as told
as a cor-
with infi-
nite skill from first to last; incident arising out of in-
cident with such propriety, that you are never for a
moment induced to ask how such and such an event
could have come to pass. And the style is so pure,
so vigorous, yet so full of poetry, that you linger over
the descriptions of places with the same sort of
delight
very descriptions
which
you would gaze upon the scenes
themselves were they spread out visibly before you.
Self Devotion' is entitled to take a high place among
modern works of fiction."
Lord Melgrund has left Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-
street, for it into Castle, Scotland.

THE LATE STORM AT MADEIRA.
The following letter contains, probably, the best
account that has hitherto appeared of the storm whiCh
has devastated Madeira :
FUNCHAL, OCT. 29.—T0 enable you to enter into
the statement I am about to make, it is necessary that
you should call to mind the physical character of the
island of Madeira, which may be described as a chain
of volcanic hills, ascending one above another, to a
height of about 6,000 feet, and intersected in all di-
rections by precipitous ravines, into which thousands
of mountain-streams find their way, and are thus con-
, ducted to the sea in torrents, varying at different sea-
sons in size and velocity. Of these large ravines three
pass directly through the town of Funchal, and have
bridges thrown over them at:suitable-distanceS. They
are called " ribeiras," and are distinguished by the
names of St. John, San Luizia, and Our Lady of
Calhao. In the more elevated parts of the mountains
these ravines, or - fissures, are many hundred feet in
depth, but as the hills decreaSe in height the ravines
' diminish in depth. In .the upper . parts of Funchal
they may be 30 or 40 feet deep; while in the lower
they come out on a level with the shore, which is
strewed with boulders brought down from the moun-
tains during successive centuries. . These are well
rounded by the long journiee they. have made, and by
the buffetings of the angry torrents which originally
disturbed them from their natural beds, and which
are ever unceasingly, 'though gradually, propelling
them onward towards the sea.--
After a heavy fall of rain
_the torrents rise with as-
tonishing rapidity, though, as their depth is great and
the. fall so rapid, they can dispose of almost any ordi-
nary
quantity of - water which may flow into them
from the mountains. To forth an estimate of how
great this quantity must sometimes be, you should.
remember, first, that in this semi-tropical climate all
the rain falls at particular seasons, those seasons
being singularly short and the loins proportionately
heavy while they last ; and, secondly, that from the
nature of the country, whose rocks resist the infiltra-
tion of water, nearly the whole cti antity of rain
diffueed over a .surface of about thifty square miles
is brought into these three_ ravines passing through
. _ ......
the to NU.
Funchal stands on the sea-shore, facing the south,
and climbs the amphitheatre of hills which rise about
it majestically with - bold and angular outlines. The
streets, following the slopes of the hills, are all more
or less. steep. They are narrow; and paved with large
shingle pebbles, slightly inclined from the sides to the
centre, to conduct the water from one street to another,
till it finds a suitable egress in a ravine or in the sea.
Through several of the principal streets, partly in na-
tural fissures of the ruck, and partly in artificial oon-
duks, some of the clearest and purest of the mountain
streams are conducted underground, for the supply of
the town. In summer these " levadas," or aqueduets,
are always abundantly supplied; and, after rain, the
rush of water through them is sometimes terrific.
The rainy season, which generally lasts three or
four weeks, set in on the 13th inst., since which rain
has fallen
.for several hours every day. On the 17th
and 18th it fell in torrents, accompanied by stornistof
thunder and lightning. During the three following
days we had intervals of sunslune ; but the ribeiras
had already swollen into rivers, which rushed with
angry vehemence along their stony beds, forming a
succession of foaming waves and cataracts. It was
reserved, however, for Saturday, the 22d inst., to con-
vince us, by terrific example, of the mighty power
latent in that element by which the world was de-
luged, and ever ready to be exerted when it pleases
God to " open the floodgates of Heaven." From
snorning till night, and from night till morning, the
rain fell almost perpendicularly in steady, heavy
streams. During Sunday and Sunday night there
was little or no intermission. The sun and the moon
were darkened. There were no clouds, but the slat
was veiled in a mantle of waters. There was no tbk,,
yet the sea before us, and the mountains immediately
above, were, even in the day-time, hidden from our
view, fbr the rays of light passed through fulling
streams of water. If anything beyond our windows
were visible, it was rather in the night than the day,
when the liquid fire ran from peak to peak, mimicking
in its jagged course the rugged outlines which it re-
vealed—but revealed only for a moment, to be again
enveloped in their shroud of waters and of thunder
clouds.
On the morning of Monday, the 24th, hope was
still deferred. The sky, which had been discharging
itself for 48 hours, yet lowered heavily, and the rain
descended without intermission. The barometer con- e,
tinued to fall, and gave indications of something
worse yet to come. Apprehensions now began to be,
excited. All were on the alarm. In some less pro-
tected parts of the town destruction had already com-
menced its work. In the higher quarters most of the
windows and many of the roofs of the houses proved
an insufficient protection against the wet : in the
lower, the ground floors were under water, and all
moveables were stowed in the higher stories.
Through the day the flood of waters continued.
Alarm was converted into terror, and fear into the
assurance of heavy calamity. In the afterioon, as
the crisis approached, it was impossible to apply the
mind to any casual occupation. The war .of elements
increased, and we could scarcely avert our eyes from
the windows, where the indistinctness of all we
saw enhanced the terrors of the scene. About
four o'clock the fury of the rain reached its climax,.
and never surely was the assurance conveyed by
God's covenant bow more needed than now. For
nearly three days it had rained in torrents, but now
seas of war descended from the sky. It was no
casual and passing waterspout, whose violence is
quickly spent, and its effects, however dreadful, as
speedily known; it was rather one continuous fall
with the violence of successive water-spouts pro-
longed through several hours. It seemed as though:
the fountains of the great deep had been broken up,
and inverted over our heads. Nature's self was dis-
organized. The air was exchanged for an atmosphere
of water, and this fair portion of God's creation, this
bright oasis in the watery waste of the Atlantic, was
threatened with dissolution—with being once again
submerged under the ocean - from which it issued at
the fiat of the Eternal. The horrors of this awful day
were enhanced by the unnatural sounds which met
our ears. The noise of the water was deafening, as it:
poured into the streets from the elevated spouts on,
the roofs of some thousands of houses. The wind
howled as it rushed down from the mountains and
whirled round the corners of the buildings ; while the
torrents in the ribeiras thundered, as they rolled impe-
tuously down their inclined and rugged planes with
the velocity, and almost with the precipitousness, of
waterfalls. Not a human being was to be seen, ex - cept where a drowning • man, whose house was under
water, fled to a neighbouring abode for succour, or
where a half frantic parent was hurrying in wild and
fruitless search after his missing child. In these rare
case the contest was short and decisive. Human
strength was quickly prostrated in combat with the
elements ; and the sea above, and the sea below, soon
drove back the venturous sufferer to his miserable-
dwelling.
In the course of the night a sudden rise of water
in the streets took place, not- to be accounted for even
by the continuous rain ; and the destruction of the
lower part of the town seemed inevitable. The cause
was soon too obvious. • The immense pressure or
water in the' levadas, or subterranean acqueducts.
above referred to, had caused them to burst, carrying
away the pavement and the walls of several houses,
and leaving, instead of streets, deep chasms partially .
filled up by huge stones and fragments of fallen
buildings. At the same time one of the ribeiras, that
of Calhao, no longer able to contain the accumulating
water, broke away the thick parapets raised on the
surface on its rocky natural barrier, near the embou-
chure, and inundated the lower portion of the town.
Imagination can ill conceive, much less can words
describe, the terrors of this moment. Whole streets
of houses were evacuated. Their occupants fled to
' the roofs, and saw their property carried Off into the
sea. The warehouses (or, as they are called, stores)
of some of the merchants participated in the generat
destruction, and pipes of wine floated along the streets.
One gentleman is said to have lost 50, but no estimate
can as yet be formed of the total loss of property.
A subscription 'for the sufferers was immediately
set on foot, in which the English are the chief movers.
Many of our countrymen have contributed up to, if
not beyond, their ability; and, though only2oo or
300 in number, they have subscribed, up to the pre-
sent hour, six times-as much as the whole
Portuguese
gentry and middling classes; who, however, It is to
be hoped, will follow their liberal
example. Such a
calamity has never been known in the island, nor any
thing approaching to it, within the last forty years.
In the early part of this century an inundation oc-
curred, ever since known by the name of " the Flood,"
in which more lives were lost, and some entire houses
carried into the sea; but an Englishman who has
lived here more than half a century, told me that the
fury of the elements was less on that occasion than
on this ' • and that if the town had now been con-
structed as it was then, not a vestige of it could
have survived. In those days the rtbeiras were nar-
row, and no drains existed to convey into them the
water from the streets; the houses were built of wood,
and plantations of trees stood within the limits, or in
the immediate vicinity,- of the town. These, beinr4i
carried down the ribeiras, and encountering masses of
rock, formed embankments, which early dammed up
the beds of the torrents. Thus a comparatively small
quantity of rain made them overflow their banks, and
the wooden houses, severed from their foundations,
were floated bodily into the sea, and traced by their
lights (for it was night) as they gradually sank lower
and lower into the devouring eletnent. .

Letters from Paris announce that the new Post.of-
fice treaty between France and England bad been
signed, as well as a treaty for regulating the cod fish-
eries of the two countries.
Lord Francis Egerton has been re-elected Lord Rec-
tor of Aberdeen University -