The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-21 00:00:00

HArixF.as—Alessrs. Glyr., Halifax, Mills, and Co.

The most rational motives to Lsfe Assurance are found in
the plan adopted by this Society; viz. ioined to a secure
provision at death for inheritors of the Atrzred, the Society
affords succour to the Assured himself (proportioned to pre-
vious payments) i , the event of unforeseen reverses.
Annual Division of Profits.

F. FERGUSON CANIRMX, Secretary.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords
the most perfect security in an ample paid-up Capital, and in
the great success which has attended it, since its commence-
ment in 1834.
In 141 the Company declared an addition to the Share-
holders of one-half of tbeii Stock, and also added 2!. per
Cent. per Annum, from the date of the policies to those par-
ties who had insured with Profits.
The Premiums nevertheless are on the most moderate scale,
and only a moiety need be paid for the first five years, where the
Insurance is for life.
The amount of bonus added to policies since the commence-
ment of the Company in March 1834, to the 31st December
1840, is as follows :
Sum Assured. Time Assured. Sums added to Policy.
.£l,OOO 6 Years 10 Months £136 13 4
1,000 4 Years BO 0 0
1,000 3 Years 6O 0 0
1,000 1 Year
Every information will be afforded on application to the
Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd,
Esq., of No. 8. Waterloo place, Pall-mall, London.
Frederick Hale Thomson, Esq., Surgeon, 48, Berners-street,
attends at the Office daily, about Half-past Two o'clock.

WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY
Office-49, Parliament-street, Westminster.
Capital 500,0001; 10,000 Shares, 501. each.
Deposit Si. each Share.
This Society is established for the Assurance of Lives, upon
principles combining economy with perfect security.
DIRECTORs.
H. Edgeworth Bicknell, Esq., 28, Upper Bedford-place.
William Cabell, Esq., Newington-place, Surrey.
Thomas Somers Cocks, jun., Esq.., Charing Cross.
George Henry Drew, Esq., Rermondsey.
William Evans, Esq., Millbank.
,William Freeman, Esq., Millbank-street.
Francis Fuller, Esq., Poultry, London and Croydon.
James Hunt, Esq., Whitehall.
John Arscott Lethbridge, Esq., Greenwich Hospital.
Edmund Lucas, Esq.. Mill Sank-street.
George Kennet Pollock, Esq., Great George-street, West-
minster.
James Lys 'eager, Esq., Millbank.
John Razley White, Esq., 11illbank-atreet, and Swanscombe.
j,,seph Carter Wood, Esq., Artillery Place, Westminster,
Henry Wrench, Esq., King William-street, London Bridge.
TRUCTEES.
William Whateley, Esq. I L. C. Humfrey, Esq.
George Drew, lo sq.
AUDITORS.
Ormus Biddulph, Esq. I John Freeman, Esq.
John Bailey White, jun.. Esq.
CONSULTING COUNSEL—WiIIiam Page Wood, Esq.
CONVEYANCING COUNSEL—SamueI Jay. Esq.
PHYSICIAN—WiIIiam Richard 13asham, Esq., 51. D., 17,
Chester-street, Grosvenor-place.
SUGeorge D. Pollock, Esq.
13AalloKEEORNss--MAelsfsrresd. IC,eo:gkast.t,BEidsdqa.
I;ph, and Co., Charing eross.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. J. L. Bicknell and J. C. Lethbridge,
25, Abingdon-street, Westminster.
TABLE OF PREMIUMS TO ASSURE £lOO FOR THE WHOLE
TERM OF LIFE.

Age %nnual Prem.l Agt. Annual Prem. Age. .nn. Prem.
20 £1 14 2 35 £2 11 0 50 £4 3 3
25 •118 11 40 219 6 55 55 4
30 24 8 45 39 1 !I 60 615 3

The object of this Society is to afford to the Assu•ed all the
benefit.: of Life-Assuranee: at a great reduction in the rates
of Premium.

FOR EXAMPLE.
A person aged 30, may with this Society assure his life for
5001., by the annual payment of 111 3s. 4d., which in a '''ociety
where the Bonus is held out as a main inducement, would cost
him 131. 7s. 44., or, in other words, for the same annual pre-
mium he could at this Offire assure very nearly 6001, whereby
he derives AN IMMEDIATE AND CERTAIN BONUS
OF 100/.

All particulars as to Shares, Loans, Assurances,
&c. may be
obtained on application to the Secretary ; and, if required,
forwarded to the country.
Parties in the country eligible for undertaking Agencies are
requested to apply.
A very liberal Commission allowed to Solicitors and Agents.
EDW. T. RICHARDSON, Actuary and Sec.

Difference .... £22 10 0 pay-able at
death.
Thus on Old System, the higher premium yields 221.
10s. more at death, but on the Modern 221. 9s. id.
present cash in hand, which should purchase at the
Equitable's printed prices 401. 13s. 7d. Bonus, instead
of 221. 10s., a difference fully equal to expectations

dependent on a life now aged 53, surviving decen-
nial periods, and on (Aber circumstances. Thus as to
past, Old has no advantage over Modern System;
whereas for future, the difference between 2/. 13s. 6d.
and 21. 25., is a clear annual saving in favour of
Modern.

Other ages would give similar results, and of
course with extended effect on larger sums. A Policy
before 1817 would be at a period when fluctuation in
the value of money afforded means of investment
which it would he sheer speculation to expect to recur,
and a more recent Insurance might have no Bonus.
It is notorious that the Equitable has afforded the
greatest actual and comparative Bonuses of which the
system is capable.
It may seem unanswerable, that if Proprietary Com-
panies make a profit, Mutual Assurers without Pro-
prietary must have such profit returned to themselves.
ibis can never he the case—every sound Society will
have a collected fund, to counteract specific contin-
gencies in deaths. Proprietors furnish this by forming
a capital, and the premiums necessary for deaths and
expenses are increased to yield interest to Proprietors for
the use of such capital. But in a Mutual Society, no ca-
pital being present, higher premiums must be charged to
provide a " Reserve Fund," and of course this can
only be founded on such part of the high premium as
deaths and expenses do not consume, consequently
the Assured can never have all the savings returned,
because a portion must be held back to sustain the
reserved fund, and this portion, as above shown, ex-
ceeds in practice what a just Proprietary need re-
quire as profit on subscribed capital. In brief, the
Assured pay to a sound Proprietary excess to yield
mere interest : in Mutual Associations a capital itself
has to be created and sustained from time to time by
excess of premium. It is clear, therefore, that more
must be retained from the Assured to form and sus-
tain a reserved fund, than Proprietors need exact as
interest for a capital already furnished.
The above, more in detail, may be had at the
Asylum-office, on inquiring for Paper on " Bonus
Systems."

GEO. FARREN, Resident Director.
Asylum Life-office, 70, Cornhill, London.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE lIUMDER.-011 Satur-
day evening, the 10th instant, between eight and nine
o'cl9ck, the steam-ship Tiger, for Hamburgh, was pro-
ceeding down the Humber, Captain Knocker himself
being on the paddle-box, and men as usual at the bow on
the look-out, when they suddenly came upon a ballast
lighter, the Venture, of this port, J. Clark, master, laden
with sand for Barton. From the dusk of evening, in-
creased by the smoke and steam descending from the
chimney, which, as the steamer was proceeding only at a
moderate rate, hovered upon her decks and in the air
before her, the wind being upon her stern, the lighter
was not seen in time to avoid a collision. The steamer
struck her, and she began to fill. Two men were upon
her deck, to whom ropes were thrown, and which fell
across the lighter near to the men. It is possible, how
ever, that they did not think their danger so great as it
proved, and perhaps thought of saving themselves in
their own boat, and it is extremely likely they were in
the boat, but had not time to cut the painter before the
lighter sank, which she did immediately, drawing the
boat down with it, which, with the men, instantly disap-
peared. The Tiger put about instantly, and lowered and
manned a boat, but nothing could be found excepting a
man's cap, which Mr. Calvert, the pilot in charge of the
steamer, seeing on the surface of the water, and thinking
it might be the head of one of them just above water,
leaped overboard and swam to, but found nothing but the
cap. The vessel belonged to a widow named Bolton ;
the master, John Clark, has left a widow and three `nail
children ; the name of his man was Atkinson, who, we
was unmarried.—Hull Herald.
ARRIVAL OF HIS IMPERIAL lIIGIINESS THE ARCII•
DUKE FREDERICK FERDINAND OF AUSTRIA.—TheArch •
duke Frederick Ferdinand of Austria, attended by Capt.
Fitzroy, R N., and accompanied by Baron Lebzeltern,
Count Karoyli, Captain Marinovich, Captain Du Mont,
and M. De Kohel, arrived at Mivart's Hotel, by the
South Western Railway, yesterday afternoon, from
Portsmouth. One of her Majesty's carriages was in
waiting at the railway terminus to convey his Imperial
Highness to the above hotel. His Excellency Prince
Paul Esterhazy, the Aust•ian Ambassador, Lis Excel-
lency Baron Nieumann, Special Minister, and the attaches
of the Austrian Embassy, were in attendance to receive
his Imperial Highness at Mivart's. In the evening the
Archduke entertained a distinguished circle at dinner,
the party being confined to the noblemen and gentlemen
in his Imperial Highness's suite, and the members of the

SOIL :--

The Smyrna Jonynal of the 30th of August an-
noupice:: the arrival of M. Mary, the Belgian minhte.
in Greece.

NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
NORWICH, FRIDAY, SEPT. lfi.—The Samson
Agnuistes of Milton, joined with the sublime
strains of Handel, formed the .grand entertain-
ment at the '' festival" this day. The design of
Professor Taylor in the present version ofSantson
will he best expressed in his own words:—
"To the acknowledged and obvious defects of
the, libretto, oa which Handel worked, I have
rneos‘tvoerinnrc, wherever
lieas;!iiredto apply a partial remedy, by
Possible, the text of the
aSrzyrsos7Assonistes; availing myself also of pas-
sages from its uuthor's minor poems, and some-
times (fur mosical effects)
of aid derived from
other sources. I wish it had been possible to
have accomplished a more complete restoration
of the text of Milton ; but in many important
portions of the existing oratorio the music and
the words must be retained or rejected together;
in such cases the words are retained for the sake
of the music. To such additions as have been
made to the firmer libretto I have endeavoured
tol adapt music of Handel, worthy his exalted
reputation, and worthy the association in which
he is placed. One exception occurs, in the piece
which have introduced from the same source
whence Handel hiuiself, with great judgment
and effect, has derived another and similar por-
tion o his- oratorio. Man:; of his best songs
(written 'tor the greatest singers of the age), in
coasequence of their having been composed for
Italian operas, are now consigned to oblivion.
Some of' these have ventured to revive, and the
music of a few chorusses, taken from such of his
oratorios as are never performed entire, have
been added. These deservedly rank among their
author's most successful efforts. Some pieces of
great beauty are added which I believe exist
only in MS.
Whether I have successfully accomplished
the object I had in view must be decided by
others. I engaged in it with a feeling of some-
what more than admiration of the genius of the
poet and of the musician; and after having de-
voted no inconsiderable thought and research to
the present work, I venture, under a just sense
of the resp'insibility I have encountered, to pre-
sent it to my countrymen.
The first scene remains nearly the same as in
the original oratorio, and ushers in the approach-
ing festival to flagon, with " the trumpet's lofty
sound." In the next the text of Milton is adopted,
and thus introduces Samson :
" A little onward lend thy guiding hand
To these dark steps —a little further on;
For yonder bank bath choice of sun or shade.
There am I wont to sit, when any chance
Relieves my
chance of servile toil.
Here
breath fresh blowing :
I feel
e mel
fromieal ,en's
Here leave me to respire.
Then follows that most pathetic appeal_s
tal Eclipse."
Micah's address, like the opening recitative of
Samson, is then, for the first time, connected
with music:—
" 0 change b7ond report, thought, or belief!
Which shall I first bewail,
Thy bondage or lost sight ? Prison within prison,
Inseparably dark ?
The sun to thee, alas! extinct
And silent as the moon
When she deserts the night,
Hid in her vacant interlunar cave."
The music which gives expression to this pas-
sage, as well as to
the song. " In God, your
Father, trust," is in Hander's happiest style. An
• (Nullity g•racetul cantabile, "Lord, let thy mercy
lighten," was expressively sung by Phillips, to
whom was allotted the part of Manoah. The
song of Samson
(g Thesis sightless orbs," is
pregnant with beauty, an
d in the highest degree
interesting. There Is a transition at the words
" my nice of glory's run, and race of shame," as
unexpected as it is expressive.
The morning sacrifice of the .Tews is corn_
meneed with a hymn of
deep solemnity, taken,
like • the
'
like the chorus in a subsequent part of
oratorio, from Cers;ssinti. A quartet of'skilfci
textnre.siteceeds, and, after .the chorns,
will sot long defer to vindicate his name," a
song full of sweet melody, slut,"st by Afidames
ratl ori Alien. Arnowg the other compositions
of Handel which are woven into this act is the
quintet, " Israel, trust in the Lord." This and
the quartet were altogether new to us. The
songs are known in their oriisn"ll forte to those
who are conversant with Handers Italian operas,
but the two
,eoncerted pieces are probably among
his MS. compositions. The act terminates with
the chorus " Immortal Lord," a composition of
unsurpassed majesty. The second act opens with
a beautiful instrumental introduction, taken from
one ofHandel's concertos, to introduce the chorus,
" Before the sapphire-colour'd throne
Of Him who ever rules alone,
Our heavenly-guided soul shall climb :
There, all his earthly grossness quit,
Attied with stars we shall for ever sit,
And triumph over Death and thee, 0 Time !"
The well-known air," Return ,0 God of hosts,"
is then sung by Micah, to which,was now added
the less often performed, but equally beautiful,
chorus, " To dust His glory they would tread."
The approach of Harapha is appropriately an-
nounced by 'the magnificent chorus "-See, the
proud chief advances." Balfe was the Philistine
champion, and went through the scene with
Samson with spirit and effect. Then comes the
majestic invocation of the Jews, which Handel,
with such excellent judgment, transplanted into
his oratoria front Uarissinsi. The scene changes
to the temple of Damon, and the entry of the
priests is announced by
a march of stately and
somewhat martial character. The music now
assumes a lighter and more festive style. The
semi-chorus, " Hear us, 0 flagon," transplanted
from Athalia, is cheerful and graceful, and the
song, " Spirits of mirth and pleasure," ranks
among Handel's best bravuras. There is a fine
and joyous spirit throughout, at which he some-
times aimed without success. We think the ori-
ginal will be found in his
Lotharius. This song
was beautifully sung by Miss Rainforth. Equally
animated is the duet, " Ye gallant youths, ad-
vance," arid its concluding chorus.
Samson is then led in, and the derisive shouts
of the assembled crowd assail him. His invoca-
tion, " 0 Lord, remember, me this once," is ex-
quisite, and equally beautiful was Hobbs's deli-
very of it. The catastrophe now approaches.
The scene is without the temple of flagon, where
Manoah, Micah, and the friends of Samson await
his return. Manoah's expression of gratitude
for their sympathy is interrupted by a sudden
and appalling crash, and, midst the " noise, so
i!orribly loud," are heard the shrieks and cries of
the Philistines, subsiding gradually into perfect
and awful stillness.

•" To-

an instrumental in-
and monrnthl-
The third act bt.ins with
ItlreoAds
preluding
s tArliakni 10-igalseo,,letnnity
pathetic lament for hi,,

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~
Death,
Whi.isitesiallieffe'with
lielinciete'to
the
„awe
well—known
rare as it
is
Iva-
ineagss the gloom
frosst."
~„...
I I ath paid his • ransom trloe,:a,AE:i.al:t.infoo((lii:ii:s'ul(B)lo:lsilipisirCeililt.:,,gaef.ttlei
the
Hopes that late budded !tattering promise
eulogy—and The NNijps‘t
funeral \p c 'ri othet laluebbolsraetg:
Ike!
march, the chorus of
ldxv
anidp.:io.
etrlfla(le,aingisohattttil.illi'll"i eess
hearing solemn music"--
" Let their celestialoefonienedritin_sfl:nale:issrt;7
it'ssame author.
v e
Suchl..Ts : :ln• e roatfo
Samisencsootinin bdnhiasptpiroreansies
oen
come. It is at least an
reproach to which his countrymen have too long
quietly submitted,
assume
mtheeallowed to
speak for him-
ssemblage of
ur.iworthy
fameeisoprraootpto.
proper
Airofp,ilontsoliuttisi.goictiall.al7:lfilintlal'egetilinatilPsstoflic::
self. T y regarded, displays
urea is presented
Handel Every
in its present form as unai oyded
beauty, expression, and
in any similar work of the
the genius of
7 and pieces of con-
tilikisn Everything that
summate beauty have been substituted.• A jealous
regard to his reputation appears throughout, as
well as an extensive knowledge of his works.
When all was so excellent in performance, it
is scarcely necessary to say more in the way of
individual eulogy. All the singers went through
their parts, not with cold correctness, but with
evident ease and pleasure.
Thus closed the musical- performance of the
tvlalosved
seventh triennial Norwich Musical Festival,
which, whether we consider it in a pecuniary or
a musical light, has been most completely suc-
cessful. Already preparations are talked of for
the next, and we doubt not but that before Pro-
fessor Taylor leaves Norwich, some arrangeMent
for the meeting of 1845 will be made, It is dqe
to the Professor to say that he enters heart and

soul into the whole arcana and minutiw of tl►e
business, and he is most liberally supported by
the committee, who, placing in him their full
confidence, do not mar his plans by niggardly,
simple, or cold and lukewarm support. It is no
wonder, theretbre, that the Norwich Festivals
have been successful in the past ; fir the future,
we wish them perpetuity and increased success.
The flincy ball, on Friday night, was attended
by 703 of the haut ton of the country and city.
There was only a thin sprinkling of fancy cha-
racters; but the joyousness of the party was not
damped by this circumstance, and the merry
dance was kept up till about tour o'clock on
Saturday morning. This closed all the amuse-
ments of the Festival.

NEW PARISH CONSTABLES' ACT.
Among the Acts of. the British Legislature to
which her Majesty Queen Victoria gave her
Royal assent in person before the prorogation of
Parliament on the 12th of August, was " An
Act tin. the Appointment and Payment of Parish
Constables," (5 and 6 of Victoria, c. 109), which
will effect an important change in the mode of
appointing awl remunerating parish constables.
As the statute is about to come into immediate
operation, and as it affects every parish and
township in England, it may not be amiss to call
public attention to its leading provisions;
The preamble recites, that whereas it will in-
crease the security of persons and property, if'
further provision be made for the appointment
of fit persons to act as constables in the several
parishes of England, and if power be given to
pay them for the performance of their duties;
and it proceeds to enact that after the expiration
of 80 days, and before the expiration of 100 days
next after the passing of the Act, and on some
day after the 24th of March, and before the 9th
of April, in each following year, the Justices of
the Peace of every county in England shall hold
a special petty session of the peace in their
several divisions, for the appointment of paro-
chial constables, of which session. due notice
shall be given to every Justice usually acting in
that division.
The 2d section requires the JuStices within 30
days next after the passing ofthe Act, and within
the first seven days of February in each follow-
ing year, to issue a precept under the hands of
any two of them to the overseers of each parish
within the division, requiring them to make and
return, within 80 days next after the passing of
the Act, and before the 24th of March in each
following year, a list in writing of a competent
number of mesa within their respective parishes
qualified and liable to serve.
By the 31 section it is enacted that the over-
seers of every parish, upon the receipt of such
precept, shall summon a meeting of the inhabit-
ants in vestry, to be held within 14 days after
the receipt of said precept; and the vestry at
such meeting are to make out a list in writing of
such number as shall be stated in the precept of
men residing within their parish who shall be
qualified and liable to serve as constables, with
the Christian name and surname, and with the
true place of abode, the title, quality, calling or
business, of each written at full length; and the
vestry are empowered to annex to the said return
the names of any number of men willing to serve
the office of constable, and whom. the vestry will
recommend to he appointed, although not having
the qualification hereinafter mentioned.
Section 5 enacts, that every able-bodied man
resident within the parish, betvieen the ages of
25 and 55 years, rated to the relief of the poor
or to the county-rate on any tenement of the
net yearly value of -4/. or upwards, except such
persons as shall be exempt or disqualified, as
hereinafter mentioned, shall be qualified and
liable to serve as constable of that parish.
Section 7 enacts, that all licensed victuallers,
and persons licensed to deal in exciseable liquors,
or to sell beer by retail, all game-keepers, and
all persons who have been attainted of any
treason or felony, -or convicted of any inatmous
crime, shall be disqualified from serving the
ottice of constable under this Act.
Section 8 enacts, that the overseers shall make
t true copies of the list so agreed to in vestry;
and whcre any of the persons named in the said
list shall have been chosen to serve, and shall
have served, the office of constable in the said
parish, in person or by substitute, the overseers
shall set against his name in the list the date of
the year of such service, and shall on the three
Sundays next before the day limited for making
their return in this year, and on the first three
Sundays in the month of March
,in each follow-
ing year, fix a true copy of such list upon the
principal door of every church, chapel, and other
public place of religious worship within their
parish, having first subjoined to every such copy
a notice stating that all objections to the list will
be heard by the Justices at a time and place to
be mentioned in such notice, and shall keep a
copy of the list, to be inspected by any inhabitant,
at any reasonable time, during the three weeks
next before the day limited for making their re-
turn in this year, and during the first three
weeks of the month of March in each following
year, without any fee or reward.
Section 9 empowers two Justices to fine the
overseers not more than 5/. for any neglect or
omission of any of the duties herein required.
Section 10 requires the overseers to attend be-
fore the Justices with their lists; and it empowers
the Justices to amend the lisis in their discretion,
and to allow the same.
Section 11 enacts, that the Justices shall choose
from the lists allowed the names of such number
as they shall think necessary to act as constable
within the parish during the year then nextfollow-
in,on. and until other constables shall be chosen
and sworn to act in their stead; but any person
who shall have been chosen and served, in person
or by substitute, shall not be liable to be again
chosen until every other person in the parish,
liable or qualified to serve, shall have served the
office either in person or by substitute.
Section 12 prescribes the form of oath to be
taken by constables so chosen, and enacts that if
persons so chosen shall be unwilling to serve,
they shall find a substitute to be approved by the
Justices.
By section 13 the penalty on any person who
shall refuse to act as constable, or to find a sub-
stitute, shall not exceed 101.; and every person
who after being sworn shall refuse or wilfully
neglect to act in the execution of his office shall
be liable to pay not exceeding 5/. for every
offence.
Section 14 provides for "the publication of the
names of the constables appointed; and section
15 defines the powers or the constables so ap-
pointed. They are within their county, and'
within - all adjoining counties, to have all the
powers, privile!zes,anditmnuni ties,.and to be liable
duties and res
to all the PonsibilitiC4 of a constable
within his constablewick, hurShall not. be bound
to net as a constable beyond the parish for which
they are severally appointed and sworn, without
the special warrant of a Justice of the Peace.
Section 17 empowers the Justices in General
or Quarter Session, with the approbation of the
Secretary of State, to settle tables of fees and
allowances to justices' clerks and constables, and
names the funds from which. they are to be paid.
Section.lB empowers the vestry assembled for
the purpose of making the returns aforemention-
ed to resolve that one or more pall constables
shall be appointed for their parish, and to fix the
amount of his salary.
Section 19 enacts, that if the JusticeA shall be
satisfied with the amount of salary agreed to be
paid, they shall appoint so many paid constables
to act for that parish as shall be agreed to hey the
resolution; or if the same resolution shall Itave
been agreed to by more parishes than one adjoin-
ing each other, may, if they shall think fit, ap.
point the same paid constables to act conjointly'
for all such last-mentioned parishes; and in every
parish in which a paid constable 'trail be appoint-
ed under this Act, the Justices, if they shall
think fit, need not appoint any unpaid constables
or may appoint a smaller number of unpaid con-
stables than they had otherwise resolved on ap-
pointing for that parish; and: every paid consta-
ble shall hold his appointment until he resign or
be dismissed for misconduct by the Justices of
the division in Petty Session assembled, or until
the vestry shall rescind the resolution for his ap-
pointment at any meeting of vestry holden for
finking such return as aforesaid.
Section 20 directs that the salaries ofpaid con-
stables shall be paid by the overseers out of the
poor-rates in their hands.
Section ~.11 pniwis, that after the passing of this
Act no petty constable, headborough, borsholder,
tithingman, or peace-officer of the like descrip-
tion, under any name of Owe, shall be appointed
for any parish, township, or ville within the limits
of this itet3 except for the performance of duties

Sectio'n 22 empowers the Justices in general
or quarter sessions, under certain restrictions, tp
order lock-up houses to be provided, accordiq
to plans approved by a Secretary of State.
Section 2:3. When a lock-up house shall have
been provided; the Justices are to appoint a
superintending constable to have the chargf
thereof, who shall also have the superintendence
of all the parish constables appointed in such
parishes as shall be ordered by the Justices, anal
under such regulations as they shall makel;
every such superintending constable to boll
office until dismissed by the Justices in genet-4
or quarter sessions assembled, and to receive hi'p
salary out of the county rate.

MONEY MARKET and CIT Y NEWS;,
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TEMES.—It was mentioned last week that a con-
signment of indigo and cotton to the value of 112,000
dollars had been made to London for the benefit cif
the holders of Guatemala bonds. It has since been
stated, on authority, that the shipment alluded to Wars
made at Realego, a port in the Pacific, in May last,
on board the Monarch, Captain Lecheur, and that in-
surance has been effected by an eminent firm, which
has received the bills of lading. It is added hat the
shipment results from a large quantity of tobacco,
obtained from the State of Costa Rica, in 1840, by
the exertions of the British Consul there, on condition
of that State being absolved from more than a stipuL
lated share of the original Guatemala debt. Henc
the of the funds to arise from the consign
t
ment above referred to is dependent upon the ConL
sul's instructions, in order that he may secure the
fulfilment of the condition by the bondholders before
the distribution takes place. The whole debt of Gua-
temala does not exceed 160,0001. or 170,0001., bear.'!
ing 6 per cent. interest.
Some correspondents, in respect to railway matters,
ask for an explanation of the advance of the Blackwell
fares before the period mentioned in the report, which
was the Ist of next month. We apprehend that the
only satisfactory explanation able to be given is, that
the Directors wish to prepare themselves against a
falling off in the season's traffic consequent upon the
withdrawal of many of the pleasure steamers now the
fine weather draws to a close, and that they have there-
fore availed themselves of the earliest possible time of
doing so, in the hope of keeping up their receipts near
the amount which they were in the spring.
There are also complaints made of the mode now
practised by Railway Companies charging a cheap
fare for the whole extent of the line, but varying it
in a very disproportionate manner to passengers who
have to alight at intermediate stations. A Corres-,
pondent writes, that in taking a pleasure trip to
Ileadcorn by the South-Eastern Railway he paid
7s. for his passage, but, finding nothing there to
interest him, he made up his mind to return to Rei-
gate. To his great surprise, however, instead of the
3s. Bd. set down in the time-table as the charge for
Reigate, the clerk demanded .ss. 10d., and the result ;
was that as no remonstrance was heeded our Corre-
spondent returned direct to town. Had he acquiesced,
he would, with the 3s. 4d. for the fare from Reigate
to London, have paid 9s. 2d. for his conveyance,
whereas the public, by the representations of the
Company, are made to believe that the charge is but
7s. • These appear to be some of the old tricks of
coach proprietors, who were, in their monopoly, noto-
rious for this manoeuvre of " long and short fares,"
hut in their day it was scarcely tolerated, and we
think will hardly be so now on the. part of corporate
bodies. Shareholders in general should pay much
attention, and see that such questions as these are
properly investigated and settled, for if they are car-
ried on to any great extent, they may prove of incal-
culable mischief to the traffic of any line on which
artifices of the sort are practised.
POST'.—The funds were depressed in a trifling de-
gree this morning. They, indeed, closed rather hea-
vily, in consequence of some rumours that were in
circulation respecting a Dutch loan operation. It ap-
pears that sales of Dutch stock were made towards
the end of the past week in the Amsterdam market,
under the impression that the Government of Hol-
land was desirous of negotiating another small loan,
against the credit voted by the States-General, the,
sum named being 6,000,000 guilders, or half a mil-
lion sterling. Whether or not such is really the ob-
ject of the Dutch Executive seems uncertain, but
it is felt here, assuming the fact to be as stated,
that none of the stock will find its way to the Eng,
lish market, and that the whole will be ab-
sorbed at home. According to some accounts, the
Government of the Hague was about to obtain an-
other instalment of the money due to it from the
Belgian Government under the late arrangement, in
virtue of which Belgium was made chargeable with a
portion of the general debt, as it stood anterior to the
separation of the two countries. It was asserted that
a great capitalist in this city was to make the Belgian
Government a further advance of money for current
purposes, and that the amount contemplated was to
be extended to the sum required to cover the instal-
ment alluded to as payable to the Government of
Holland. The Dutch houses in town do not appear
to have any information on these matters upon which
the public can place reliance, but if there be any new
financial movement in progress in either of the said
kingdoms, it is likely that well authentioated particu-
lars concerning it will be received in the course of a
post or two. It seems that there was at Amsterdam
some disposition to take in stock so long as the belief
existed that a further payment was to be looked for
at the hands of' the Belgian Government, but that
speculation was damped by the less agreeable rumour
which succeeded, and the idea to which it gave rise
of the wants of the Dutch Exchequer being once
more about to be supplied out of Dutch pockets.
CHRONICLE.—.the Ministerial organs, under
their City head, express great surprise this morning
that there ahould have been no further rise in the
National geourities, consequent upon the receipt of
what they term news of considerable importance,
connected with the position of our foreign relations.
The Funds cannot be always rising, and Consols are
already at 93,
which is a very high figure indeed. It
is impossible that the pried of Stocks can always be
on the advance. The speculators bought Stock in ex-
pectation that the funds would improve on the ratifi-
cation of the Boundary Treaty, arid when the event
" (mime off" we suppose they sold.
:The same sort of thing is exhibited in the Foreign Stock. Stock Market as in the English. After a deal of bt-
jectionable mystery and uncertainty the advertising
of the October dividends has also "come off" in
Mexican Bonds, but that particular stock, instead of
rising, has Wien, which is somewhat strange, for
there has been no inducement to make parties sell,
on the notice of the payment of the dividends, to
realize a profit. We have felt called upon several
times of late to notice a want of openness and fair
dealing in regard to Mexican affairs. Everything
connected with them is made a secret of, and kept in
the hands of a few. In regard to the dollars received
from time to time for the dividends, noofficial account
is published. The sums received are communicated
by third parties, and nothing official is made known
to the bondholders regarding the amount at their
s.po.ial.
We are quite aware of the inquiry at the Custom-
house, referred to by Mr. James _Bamford, but
whether our. Correspondent be correct in his state-
ertsehteaeebis
alti,
his nhig-t
meat that the frauds have been committed by im-
porters of foreign-manufactured goods through the
gross misconduct of certain offiince
ment, we do not find that we have sufficient infor-
hr officers
sofstatementtAhet
mation to enable us to give a decisive opinion. Neither
shall we at once at acquiesce
the officers in question have been habitually
Correspondent inure th
possible the e
bribes, although we believe several officers have been
suspended pending the. investigation,
time we fully concur with our
f-inuestgagedreservine
importance of exposing, as far as
who have been illegally and dishonestly n
,parties
the inquiry
these nefarious practices, although w
hush
hlut
pistvheeryafflaikireal
our further judgment until the resuthltateo
there may he
yaltogether. But we
kntoowhnu.
ab en
attemptn
de
do not believe that this will be
Parliament meets the whole beWillneas
Y job. When
should the Government exhibit the fully ex.pisoated,
s
roa..est intention
to withhold full information from
the public. It is certainly as, No lo suspicious circumstance
actively alive to the imprint were at first so
at the first noise of it,
portance of the investigation
Should have become so sud-
denly silent on the subject It will be IPlrssi4le,
however, to screen the parties really guilty from ex-
posure, although every possible attempt may be made
to do so.

S 14
LUDLOW REFORM BANQUET. 'r
A dinner and presentation of plate to Colonel.
Salwey, which we have already. alluded to elsewhere,
took place on Tuesday last at the Golden Lion, Ludsii
low. In the course of the 'evening the Gull
Colonel delivered a speech, from 'ralaiialk- we 'make
following extract 10, S. S %1311
" I venture to say (said Colonel a wey. in -address-
ing his constituents and friends assembled) that the
b feelin... which has induced you to reward my services
so far beyond my merits, is highly honourable to
I yourselves, because it proves that a fearless and
steady adherence to principle is more valued in your
estimation than abilities or talents: of the most splen
did °Ha% I endeavoured during my career in Par-
liament to follow out those principles which induced
you to honour me with your confidence, and to elect
me as your representative in 1837.• 1 trust I have
not betrayed that confidence. W hen I see wealthy
candidates running from one constituency to another,
invading freedom of election, polluting the fingers of
voters with bribes, and wasting thousands upon thou-
sands in corrupting and demoralizing the people, I
coni%ss it does appear to me that such
men ;,.an have but one object in view—that
of making Parliament a stepping-stone to their own
aggrandizement, and seeking their own elevation in life.
The glorions,xesult of the election of 1837 is still
fresh in the momory of every one here present, in-
spiring the reformers of Ludlow, and every friend to
civil and religious 3lberty, with enthusiastic hopes for
the future. On the removal of my then Noble Col-
league to the House of Lords in 1839, the field was
again open for another contest, and I shall ever cons
Sider that the course pursued at that election struck
a most heavy and disastrous blow at the Liberal
interests of this borough.--(Cheers.) A system of
unparalleled bribery was then introduced by the one
side, and I regret to add, at length adopted by tha
other, and this evidence of gross • political •
Prostitution being laid before Parliament, a void
election was the natural and inevitable result.
The stormy debates and frequent divisions which en-
sued in Parliament against issuing the writ will not
be readily erased from the memory of those more.
immediately interested. Should any stranger be de-
sirous of informing himself of the baneful influence
and demoralising tendency of such a system of elec-
tion, let him open the
pages of the Blue Book or
Evidence taken before the Ludlow Committee, and I
would especially draw his attention to the Dinhan,
House ..scenes, as strongly emblematical of Tv:,
tactics. Ludlow had now obtained an unenv;.,thje
notoriety. The contest of 1840 was, however, looked
forward to as one which would redeem the 'character
of the borough. The Reformers unPAmously re-
solved to mark their abhorrence of the late disrepu-
table proceedings, and try the issue of public prin-
ciple against corruption. The dissolution of Perlia-
went took place, and never at any general election.
were you • called upon to move in a cause sc.
peculiarly affecting the interests of the people.
You again determined not to swerve from the paths
of purity and honour; but the basest and most open
corruption defeated all our efforts, and Ludlow now;.
sends to Parliament two monopolists —followen
of the most unprincipled band of apostates that fever
seized the reins of this or any other Governiaient.
And yet this was commemorated as a great and
triumphant victory ! A triumph over what ? A.
triumph of political profligacy over political truth—of
fraud and hypocrisy over honour and independence!
But nobly and honourably did the gallant band •of
Ludlow I.iberals perform their dutp—out-numberedi
by the monopolists, there were yet found 156, includ-
ing many of the humblest class of voters, who, trete
to the best interests of their country—undeterred
by the threats of the clergy and the apers of
aristocracy, and scorning the temptations of Torr
gold—resolutely stood firm in the cause of politic.:d
tcoo
rsiiteu
pc itiiloante omni
which
fearfulprelai
leedffecatst otfh
et h ei
virtue and the people's rights. It is impossible
'.ittn.
ast
Already is the country writhing, wide-spreade
eetio.
mailer the hateful
yoke of Tory government, with all its attendant evik
of tyranny, taxation, and terror.: 'The Legislature
has sunk into thorough and universal contempt—the
mass of the people are alienated' from our institutions
in Church and State—public men are regarded with
the greatest distrust. rho present House of Com-
mons is appropriately characterised as the Bribery.
Parliament ; and, indeed, ask any person whether it
is reasonable to expect national morality with a Le-
gislature which has lost all claim to the respect tnd
confidence of the people ? I know nothing which so
strongly indicates the fallen condition of the country
than to see the vessel of State now in the hands of a„
man who never advocated a cause which he has if,,t
betrayed, associated too as he is with his Home See-te.
tary—the most unblushing apostate of modern days."

Make up your mind never to be outdone. liv a
boaster. It' such-a-one says, with an air of strieriority,
that he keeps a yacht, directly affirm that N. nu have a.
man-of-war of your own private prol;erty. it. is uquallN
serviceable to drop as much belc;w the mark as to Kota'
above it ; and when yott-hear a " fine" man at an eve-
ning party lamenting; aloud that "Ids fellow hPol—not
brought Ills cab," be very polite, and tell him yott,,expe,t
your private truck every moment, when part tq' it, is
entirely at hit service.
SAI,r. or Font:o:N OxEs.—The 39 trip t, which
were landed at Falmouth, on Wednesday se'itnight,
Corunna, were sold by auction in the rope-wall:
Messrs. Clurtio, the importers, last Weo.nesday. None
exceeded 7tX) in weight, and he averarie was about Loo..
They were all either cream or fawn colour, and about
tho head, looked much like the buffalo. They were very
deep in the shoulder, but thin in the hind quarter,
Rd!
realised about MA a head. The highest price given ws*
141. as., and the lowest being about 408. per cwt.— -
Cornwall :Ad ver. Ilse r.

INCENDIARY FIRE, AT I3RADFIELD ST. GEORGE
A.hout eleven o'clock on Wednesday night, a tire. was
; discovered on the premises of Mrs. Laite, of Bradfield
St. George, the barn, which stood alongside 'ate road,
being completely enveloped in Barnes. Ilesi,:te.s a large
quantity of wheat and corn the little stal),e, in which
was a pony, burnt to death ; two sows, in p:;g, went
i both burnt to dc.::11), and a number of' fowls. The
stock ancl crops were insured in the Suflblk Mre-office
to the amount of 300/. ; but the amount of property
destroyed will most likely prove to be 6001. or 700/.
The premises were the property of the Rev. R. Davers.
It is generally believed to be the diabolical act of an
incendiary.—Essex Herald,
CORK CITY SESSIONS, SEPT. 16.—CliARGE OF
STARRING.—Mr. John Wilson, one of the Proprietors
of the Steam Saw Mills in King-street, the gentleman at whose prosecution four sawyers were convicted, at
the last assizes, of the crime of vitriol throwing, was
given in charge to the Jury for having, on the evening
of the 9th of August, on the first count, maliciously
assaulted Edward Towel!, with intent to endanger his
life ; in the second, with maliciously assaulting him with
intent to do him grievous bodily injury ; and in the
third, for a common assault. After a lengthened exa-
mination of witnesses, the Jury retired at three o'clock.
and after an hour's absence, intimated that there was
not the smallest chance of their agreeing to a verdict ;
whereupon, with consent of Counsel and agents at both
sides, they were discharged, and the prisoner was held
out on his recognizance, to take trial, if called upon, at
the next sitting of the Court.
THE COTTON MARKET: THE CROP.—This market
has not, during the week, shown any signs of recovering
from the state of depression into which it was thrown,.i,turin a
month ago, by the disturbances in the maniuta •
districts. Indeed, until tranquillity shall lamicec,benegn
restored in those districts and work
hre"lex eel tc 1.,.
material improvement can reasonably
__
the
p
The accounts by the Britannia speak of
Phis,L yi.eld. 4ot-
Is 'net.
cotton being likely to be extremely large.
up
improbable, from the state of the weather
‘.. te, the
harvest
latest dates ; it must be remembered, :Am eve', tli?..'t some
twenty-
time must eapse before the actual result of q:,
can be correctly ascertained. A frost for oup.7,
four hours would materially change the astik.e.t or ~,:ngs,
and reduce a superabundant to an averhage. t,......0_. • "'I
p Still, IN
63 'tanned demand
the present state of manufactures and. t
which now exists for goods, there is ....uo._
much reason to
suppose, that even an
averagevTrage crop wittm.n, 1..1,
I with the stock
on hand, afford a
sufficient supp,•••
i for the next twelve. months.—Liverpool Albion.
seen`ETRAORDINARY BROCO t rp,
in.i.nere is now to be
in the garden of a eot;;;
e Abenlylais, a plant
of this kind, which has r.ricalicled
wiii . . the surprising. height
of six feet, six inches, here is not yet any 1. 'tr-
ance of flower; but it '.
, is of the. F.rencli sort,'an.pdPre;o-
bably may not spreacr. before Christmas.—Cambrian.
ABERYSTWITII.----ThiS much frequented, fashion-
able, and favourite watering place was never, in the
memory of the old, watering
inhabitant, known to be so full
of
Tvinsitt:oris,Aß.TStit -ittt present.—Cambrian.
of Mr. Curq •ISTER IN CHANCERY.—The demise
will, in all probability lead to the set-
tlement of the College Election question, as it is pro-
bable Mr.
Mr. Litton will get the vacant Mastership, and Smith go in for Coleraine.—CorA, Southern Re-
porter,*
THE' CLOUD.---During the French Revolution, a
nobleman who was unwilling to comply with the de-
cree for caking his arms from his carriage, caused a
painter to surround them with a light cloud, through
which they still remained visible, and underneath he
wrote, "It will pass over."—The Commandant of the
district, however, put the carriage into the hands of
another painter, who totally effaced the armorial
bearings, leaving in their place this motto--" It has
passed over."
"I believe one reason," observes Sir -Walter Scott,
"why such numerous instances of erudition occur
among the lower ranks is, that, with the same powers
of mind, the poor student is limited to a narrower
circle for indulging his passion for books, and must.
necessarily make himself master of the few he post sesses, before he can acquire more."
The library of the late M. Sismondi, which is goparticularly rich in historical works, is 'bequeathed to
Professor Rossi, of Pan's, after the death of Madiune
Sismondi.
In the event of the death of a young Chinese woman
under 19 years of age, says Mr. Davis, a paper effigy
is made by the parents, and the intended
re-
ceives the effi wit
home to his house, htisbxntl
'h the bridal
gy
rites, he then burns the effigy, and erects a tablet to
her memory.