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chase, but unfortunately, when he got within a
few paces of the QUEEN, the crowd pressed upon
him and his worshipful colleagues, and, like a
violent flood, carried them far beyond the Roya
carriage. The Provost tried to push his way
against the current, but in vain; the crowd became
every moment more dense, the Chief Magistrate
gave up the attempt in despair, and putting the
address in his pocket, gazed not in silent astonish-
ment at her MAJESTY, as she drove of and left
the ceremony unperformed. This evinces gross
mismanagement. These honest burghers had
made great preparations for the occasion, erected
triumphal arches, prepared loyal addresses, and
were anxious to have at least one good view of
the QUEEN in their lifetime, yet, from the fault
of some party, were utterly disappointed and ap-
parently treated with contempt. This may af-
ford the Edinburgh Magistrates the consolation
of having companions in affliction, but it will not
create additional respect for Royalty, nor give
these simple-minded people a high idea of the
manners and usages of the upper classes.

THE TRIAL AND SENTENCE OF
THOMAS MUIR FOR SEDITION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I have read with much interest the extracts:'
of " A. M." from the trial of Thomas Muir, as lately
published in the Scotsman, who was transported to
Botany Bay for agitating a Reform of the British
Parliament ; and although these extracts are taken
from Creeche'.i edition of the trial, the publisher for
the party then in power, they cannot, I am sure, be
read without exciting the strongest feelings of indig-
nation at the gross perversion of law and justice they
exhibit.
It seems strange that there should be individuals of
the present day still ready to advocate the Tory prin-
ciples then inculcated, and that it should be urged
against the memory of men who were sacrificed for
advocating a cause now admitted to have been a just
and necessary one, that they suffered under the law
as it then existed. Tyranny exercised under the
cloak and colour of law, is the greatest of all
tyrannies, and under this species of persecution, many
religious and political martyrs, whose blood stained
our native land, were sacrificed.
That Mr. Muir and his fellow-sufferers, to whose
memory the proposed testimony is to be offered, were
men of high talent, and of the purest character in
private life, are facts well established ; but, as it
seems unknown, or at least notacknowledged by those
who oppose a site being granted for the purpose
wanted, I. will (like A. M.) furnish you with a few
extracts from Yarliamentary proceedings in my pos-
session, and collected at the time, that may tend to
put the facts beyond dispute.
In the House of Commons, on 27th January, 1794,
the question as to the legality, of the sentences against
Muir and others, were transiently alluded to by the
late Lord Commissioner of the Jury Court, then Mr.
Adam, upon giving . notice of his intention of intro-
ducing a Bill to assimilate the criminal law of Eng •
land and Scotland upon certain points ; and Mr. Fox
and Mr. Dundas took a part in the discussion, wherein
allusion was made by Mr. Fox to the general opinion
of these sentences being illegal, when Mr. M. Angelo
Taylor begged leave to inform the House—" That he
was in Edinburgh the day after the sentence of trans-
portation was pronounced against Mr. Muir ; that he
conversed with several gentlemen versed in the laws
I of that country, who informed him the sentence was
in every respect illegal, the authority of one of them
(the Hon. Henry Erskine) he would depend upon as
soon as that of any gentleman on the other side of the
House, who had declared in such strong terms the
sentence to be legal; and of his opinion, Mr. Taylor
declared himself to be."—(See Caledonian Mercury
of Ist Feb. 1794.)
In the House of Lords, Earl Stanhope moved, upon
31st January, 1794, an humble address to his Ma-
jesty to stay proceedings against Mr. Muir, who had
been condemned to exile, till the particulars were in-
quired into ; and in the course of his speech he cha-
racterised the proceedings of the Court against Mr.
Muir "to be of the most extraordinary, and, in his
mind, of the most unjustifiable nature that ever came
before a court of justice."
The Earl of Lauderdale warmly expressed a similar
opinion, and was "not surprised that the nation should
look with disgust at the oppressive and illegal pro-
ceedings of the High Court of Justiciary with regard
to these unfortunate sufferers." (See Caledonian
Mercury of 6th Feb. 1794.)
The late Mr. Sheridan presented a petition to the
House of Commons on 24th Feb. 1794. on the part
of the Rev. Fysche Palmer, complaining of an illegal
judgment of the Court of Justiciary of Scotland, and
during the discussion that followed, Mr. Fox gave it
"as his most decided opinion that the sentences of
Messrs. Muir and Palmar were illegal and abhorrent
to every principle of justice that actuates the mind of
man."
" The sentence," said Mr. Sheridan (of Muir and
Palmer), " I affirm in every respect to have been the
most hostile to the principles of the Constitution, and
in its nature the most unjust, illegal, and oppressive
—it is such a sentence that if it had taken place in
England, I should not have been surprised that the
country had risen up in arms to oppose it ; and as
little should I have been surprised if the attempt to
introduce the law on which this sentence is founded
into the country, should have cost the head of that
Minister who should have dared so grossly to insult
the principles of the British Constitution."—(See
Mercury of Ist March, 1794.)
During a renewed debate in the House of Com-
mons, upon 10th March 1794, Mr. Fox said, that "in
examining the trials he could never believe they were
accurately stated until he heard the Lord Advocate
avow the same doctrines which had been attributed to
him—doctrines, which made his blood run chill with
horror ; they must infuse sensations into the breast of
any man who retained his love for liberty or the bles-
sings of social life."
Mr. Grey (now Earl Grey) said, the sentences in
question would have been a disgrace to the tribunals
of this country in the worst periods of our history ;
and he could not conceive how the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman could possibly reconcile to his own mind the
idea of executing these sentences, since these unfortu-
nate gentlemen had stolen every word of their sedi-
tion from what had formerly been stated by the Right
Hon. Gentleman himself (Mr. Pitt) at the Thatched-
house, when he was an advocate for a Parliamentary
reform. He said he was not sure that those unfortu-
nate gentleman had not got into their present distress
in consequence of what he had brought forward on
the subject of a Parliamentary reform. They had
done no more than •every Member of Parliament had
done who was afriend to that Reform."—(See Mercury
of 17th March, 1794.)
The following letter from the late Lord Holland
to Mr. Hume, M.P., shows the opinion which he
entertained of the treatment of these early Parlia-
mentary Reformers :
" South-street, March 7th, 1837.
"DEAR send you my subscription to the
Monuments intended to be erected to the memory of
five persons who were the victims of an iniquitous
sentence in Scotland, in 1793 and 1794. I do so
because it seems to me an unexceptionable method
and a fit opportunity of recording the disgust and
abhorrence which I have always felt at those pro-
ceedings, and at the 'expediency of transporting
men among common felons for political offences,'
which, as Mr. Fox justly observed, was then for the
first time invented.
" If such perversion of law, or such harsh and vin-
dictive exercise of its powers, must remain—and 1
fear they must—a stain upon our annals, it is surely
right that the feelings of indignation they excited in
well-regulated minds, and which have been copfirmed
by deliberate reflection, should also be perpetuated.
Such I conceive to be the object, such I hope will be
the effect, of the Monuments you propose, and I
therefore feel a pleasure in offering my contributio
to the plan.
" The moment seems fortunately chosen ; the Legis-
lature is actually employed on this very day in re-
pealing the barbarous punishment for leasing-making
which was so harshly inflicted on these unfortunate
men ; and the country is every day enjoying, in the
labours of Parliament, and the improvement of its
laws, the benefit of that Reform which they were
persecuted for recommending and promoting.—l am,
Sir, with great regard, your obedient and obliged,
(Signed) " VASSAL HOLLAND.
" Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., &c."
From these excerpts may be gathered the opinions
of the most eminent contemporaries of Mr. Muir and
his associates as to the conduct for which they suf-
fered ; but of all these sufferers Muir was the greatest.
He was sent from his native country into exile for
reasons which the majority of his countrymen, even
of that day, not only considered inadequate, but as
one of the best features of his chgacter. In token of
the justice of that opinion, A the fact that a select
number of his intelligent and independent countrymen
and friends in the United States, at their joint ex-
pense, sent a vessel to rescue him from the ignominy
and suffering of his situation, which was done ; but,
unfortunately the ship was lost upon the Spanish
shores of America, and he was sent a prisoner to Spain.
In the passage the Spanish vessel was taken by an
English ship of war, and Muir, who happened to be
upon deck during the engagement, was severely
wounded, and landed in Spain with the wounded pri-
soners ; and, upon that fact being made known in Paris,
he was sent for, and carried to that capital, as a martyr
in de cause of freedom, where he was treated with
great care and attention till he died.
He thus became a complete martyr to the cause of
Reform ; and the persecutions that were intended to
destroy the cause, only made it more conspicuous, and
ultimately triumphant.—l am, &c.;
W. M., AN OLD REFOAMER.
Edinburgh, Sept. 3, 1842.

The House of Representatives at Washington
might have better consulted its own dignity, and
the respect due to the chief of the Executive Fe-
deral Government, than by appointing a Select
Committee to inquire into a Report upon the. al-
_

leged abuse of the veto power by Presiden
TvLEn. That the First Magistrate of agrea

Republic should reject in a- period of fifteen
months four Bills of the utmost importance which
had passed the House of Representatives and

Sena;, was rather provoking but English read-
ers are not to suppose, that in doing so, the Pre-
sident acted as absolutely as a British Sovereign
would do in rejecting Bills passed by the two
Houses of Parliament. Here the rejection of a

Bill by the Sovereign is absolute—no explanation
can be demanded, no redress bad, nor any miti-
gation of the evil which it might occasion ob-
tained. Besides, the Sovereign being constitu-
tionally incapable of doing wrong, Ministers
could only be held responsible. But in the
United States the PRESIDENT is as responsible to
the laws, and as open to impeachment, as the
meanest citizen. He can veto no Bill without

stating his reasons for doing so in a message to
both Houses, and if these reasons are judged
foolish, frivolous, or unsatisfactory, the vetoed
Bill becomes a law-by being re-passed by a ma-
jority of two-thh:ds of the Members of the Senate
and House of Representatives. Under these
circumstances we condemn in toto the appoint-
ment of the Select Committee upon the veto
question ; and we still more condemn the intem-
perate Report drawn up its Chairman, JOHN
QUINCY ADAMS, of which the substance appeared
in yesterday's Sun. The more scurrilous por-
tions of that document we carefully excluded
from our columns; and yet enough was given to
show that the Committee were far removed from
that equanimity of temper essential to the form-
ing of an impartial judgment. After the expla-
nation which we have given above of the real
working of the Constitution of the United States
with respect to the veto power, one is almost
tempted to smile at such exaggerated language
in the Report as the following :—" The power of
the present Congress to enact laws essential to the
welfare of the people,hasbeen struckwith apoplexy
by the executive hand. Submission to the. PRESI-
DENT'S will is the only condition upon which he will
permit them to act." Overlooking, as too trifling
for notice, a bad metaphor from the pen of an
ex-President, have we not shown that two-
thirds of the Congress, unanimously agreeing,
can laugh to scorn the whole power of the veto ?
In fact, the PRESIDENT can do nothing to im-
pede legislation on the part of Congress, pro-
vided he is even in so respectable a minority as
that of one-third. The appointment of the Com-
mittee, and the publication of its Report, will not
tend to popularise American institutions in Eu-
rope. For our own part, wishing well to the
Americans, and particularly to Joni.; QUINCY
ADAMS, on account of the excellent services
which he has rendered to the slavery abolition
cause in the Northern States, we deeply re-
gret that any such Report should have ap-
peared. If JoHN TYLER is President by ac-
cident, the blame rests not with him, but
with the framers of the Constitution—the
great fathers of American independence. If
he has taken an unpopular, he has also taken
a bold and manly course. He has truckled to no
party, and,in opposing the Sale of Lands Dis-
tribution Bill, he stated clearly that his object
Was to provide a fund sacred to the discharge of
the public debt. He was moreover the first
to propose to Congress the reduction of the
prerogatives and powers of the President; so
that he had authorised a similar course to that
recommended by the Committee without thus
covering with obloquy the Presidential office.

CENTENARY OF THE GLASGOW
LETTER FOUNDRY.

—— _
At the present moment, when such general agi-
tation pervades the labouring population throughout the
country, it is pleasing to have to record an instance
where masters and workmen are found associated to-
gether in mutual good will. On Saturday last. at Two
Waters, Herts. Mr. Wilson, of the firm of Alexander
Wilson and Sons, letter-founders, Great New-street,
London, gave an excellent dinner to the men in their em-
ploy, to celebrate the centenary of their establishment.
After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts, " The health
of the Messrs. Wilson," and " Prosperity to the Glasgow
Letter Foundry," were proposed and drunk with the ut-
most enthusiasm. Several excellent speeches were made
by the workmen, and the evening was spent with the
greatest hilarity. On the Monday following the boys
counected with the establishment were regaled simi-
lar hearty cheer.—Times.
[We cordially bear our own testimony to the senti-
ments so well expressed above, as to the beneficial
results accruing to the employer and the employed
from a good, straightforward, and reciprocal under-
standing. And we do this the mere readily from
having had the satisfaction of dealing with the highly
respectable house of Alex. Wilson and Sons, for a
long series of years, during which the beauty and finish
of their types have contributed greatly to the useful-
ness, clearness, and even the ornamept, of the varied
printing of The Sun. We should like to see a thousand
such firms celebrating the centenary of their own
prosperity, and the comfort of those whom they employ
on the various arts of this improving age.—En. Sun.;

EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE
Yesterday morning, between nine and ten o'clock,
much alarm was caused amongst the persons assem-
bled in Billingsgate market, by a man being seen
standing on the parapet of the house No. 4, occupied
by Mr. Rous, a fish-salesman, in an extensive way of
business, making gestures, as if he meditated
throwing himself off, and in a second or two after-
wards he precipitated himself head foremost from the
immense height, between 80 and 90 feet from the
street. The man, as he fell, turned over once or
twice, and came down on his back on a linen blind,
of very strong texture, in front of the warehouse. It
was supported by a strong piece of timber, upheld by
stout iron supporters, fixed in iron clamps, but sucti
was the impetus of his descent, that the blind was
torn into ribbons, the timber; beam snapped completely
asunder, and the iron work bent up in a most curious
manner. This check, however, so effectually broke the
force of his fall, that he came into contact with the foot
pavement with not more violence than if he had fallen
only a couple of feet. On being raised up, to the
great astonishment of the persons around him, he
had not apparently sustained any injury, and was
quite sensible. Mr. Rous, who at that instant rushed
out of his house to ascertain what had occurred, im-
mediately recognised the person in question to be a
friend of his, who has been staying since Tuesday last
sit his house on a visit. His name, it appears, is Wm.
Dunnett ; he is about 25 years of age, and an agri-
culturist, residing with his parents at Clopton, near
Ipswich. No cause is known that could induce him
to attempt self-destruction, nor were his intellects in
wayany
affee
previously,
ted.TheY
and
had breakfasted together
but a short time
Mr. Dunnett then
proceeded on to the roof to smoke a cigar and take a
view of the river.
parapet round the roof is
about four feet big' The
h. The youngC
man was ultimately
removed to St. Thomas's Hospital and, as far as the
surgical examination was proceeded with on his ad-
mission, no fracture as discovered, nor even an vtab-
rasion, however slight,
fa
the skin ; it however soon
became apparent that Ie of
had sashtaimin,edansodmheeinbejacraymoef
the head, as his speech failed
delirious, arisins, most probably,' from concussion of
the brain, or injury of the spine. He remains at pre-
sent in a very uncertain state.

-The steam-ship Antwerpen, Captain Jackson, arrived
from Antwerp, yesterday, at St. Katharine's Wharf,
'rower. A thick fog prevailed during the early part of
the morning, but the passage was, notwithstanding, made
within 19 hours. _

The General Steam Navigation Company's mail-
packet Giraffe, Captain It. Stranack arrived yesterday
at the Brunswick wharf, Blackwell, and landed her pas-
sengers and mail twenty-three hours after they had em-
barked at Rotterdam. She made the outward run in the
like short time.
The Nant:,s journals relate that in the afternoon of
Thursday last, as six men were engaged in digging the
foundation of a house, at the corner of the Rue d'Argente,
the earth fell in and buried four of them. The autho-
rities, the military, and other assistance, were immedi-
ately at work for their release. Two of them were
very shortly got out alive and without any fractures,
though severely bruised ; a third was next found dead
from suffocation ; but in consequence of the earth giving
way repeatedly in the operation, it took four hours to
reach and disinter the fourth. This operation required
the more time, as the poor fellow was laid with his
arms fastened behind his back, in such a position that
he could make no effort to help himself. Ho was,-how-
ever, taken out alive, though severely bruised. All the
three survivors were carried to the hospital, where
they are likely to 'recover in a Tory short time.

A few days since, while
party of gentlemen,
friends of the Duke of Buckie,,ahal,i,l, were out shooting
with his Grace, H. Humphreys,
Tlhe'3„ escape was for-
of Buckingham,
shot Captain Dewes accidentally.
for-
tunate, great part of the contents of
gun were received iii the pockets of Ij. Humphreys'
, of
Buckingham,
shoot-
the
•cingham, ex-
int; jacket. Mr. Stone, surgeon
tracted a considerable number of the shot from Mr.
Dewes' person; one was found near the gentleman's eye.

THE SUN, LONDON,
_FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1842.

~Y

NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
• NORWICH, SEPT: 13.—The preparations for this
festival, which commenced on Tuesday, have been on
a most extensive seal', and not less judicious than
liberal. The entire vocal and instrumental band con-
sists of four hundred performers ! The choral band is
composed of 268 voices, divided into 80 trebles, 50
altos, 64 tenors, and 74 basses ; proportions which are
found to be excellent, balancing admirably the weight
'of each of the four parts of which choral harmony is
made up. The instrumental orchestra contains 115
performers; 44 violins, equally divided into first and
second ; 20 violas and 10 violoncellos, also equally
divided ; and five double basses. The wind and brass
instruments are all doubled, there being four in place
of two of each, and six trombones instead of three.
The principal vocal performers are Madame Caradori
Allan, Miss Rainforth, Miss Hawes, and Signora
Pacini; Messrs. Hobbs, Phillips, Balfe, Bradbury,
Young, Walton, and Rubini. The leader of the band
is Mr. F. Cramer, the organist is Mr. Turle, and the
conductor is Professor Taylor. All the performances,
both morning and evening, are in the same place, St.
Andrew's Hall, a structure at once spacious, beauti-
ful, and venerable for its antiquity. It is singularly
well fitted for occasions of this nature, and its capa-
bilities have been judiciously turned to account in the
disposition of the orchestra. The organ, in place of
coming forward, as in most other places, and cutting
the performers into two divisions, a great part of
whom can neither see nor Near each other, is com-
pletely behind the orchestra, so that the whole host of
performers, choristers, and instrumentalists, form one
united body, all animated by the same impulse, and
all acted upon by the slightest movement of the con-
ductor.
Yesterday and to-day the general rehearsals took
place, of which there are always two at Norwich ins
stead of only one, as every where else. This is an
advantage gained at the expense of the performance,
which in other towns takes place on the Tuesday
morning, and the pecuniary proceeds of the festival
must thereby be to that extent lessened. But at
Norwich there are not only the two general re-
hearsals, but the new works are put into a course of
study and preparation for months before the festival.
Above two hundred of the chorus-singers are people
of this town and neighbourhood, who form a choral
society, and, in the course of their regular meetings,
occupy themselves in practising thie forthcoming
novelties. The instrumental band consists almost
entirely of London performers ; and they, in the
course of the summer, have been repeatedly assembled
in the Hanover=square Rooms, along with the prin-
cipal vocalists, fOr the purpose of studying and re-
hearsing Spohr's new oratorio, and the'new version of
the oratorio of Samson.
TUESDAY EVENING.—The concert this evening
was well attended. The patron's gallery was graced
by a numerous body of the nobility and gentry of this
part of the country, among whom were—the Bishop
of Norwich and Mrs. Stanley, the Marquis of
Northampton and the Hon. Miss Compton, Lord and
Lady Colborne, Lord Ebrington, Major. and Lady
E. Wathen, Sir John Boileau, Bart.; Sir William
B. Proctor, Bart. ; Sir William Foster, Sir James
and Lady Flower, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Irby and
family, Lady Foulkes and family, Mrs. E. bacon,
Daniel Gurney, Esq.; E. Wodehouse, Esq., M.P.
The concert opened with the pastorale symphony of
Beethoven, and the magnificent band played it to per-
fection. This was followed by " God save the Queen,"
our national anthem, sung and played by the whole
orchestra, and in the usual extraordinary style, at
once an evidence of our standard of musical taste, and
John Bull's determination to exercise his high privi-
lege of the liberty of doing what he will in the ex-
pression of his loyalty and fealty to his Lady Sove-
reign the Queen. The attractive solos' of the vocal
music were those sang by Rubini, Madame Caradori
Allan, and Miss Rainforth. Rubini, in his two
song from the Pirata of Bellini and the Briganti of
Mercadante, was enthusiastically applauded, and com-
pelled to repeat them. The singing of Rubini is the new
school, resulting from the style of Bellini, who added the
surprising charm of a warm, voluptuous, and yet melan-
choly expression to that school of music which was
originally the invention of the lively and versatile
Rossini. Curioni, Donzelli, and the great tenors be-
fore Rubini, were elegant, and facile vocalists, but
passionate they could not be, since Rossini is without
that feeling. Bellini has created the style, and
the style gives Europe a Rubini. Miss Raiforth
was also warmly encored. Mr. Phillips substituted
The "Angel of Life" for a song of Dibdm's. Mr.
Hobbs sang a national song of his own composition,
and Miss Hawes sang twice a song also of her com-
position. Mr. Balfe sang very finely a song from the
Sonnambula of Bellini, and
from L' Banana in Algiera. The instrumental per-
formances were the overture to Anacreon, by Cheru-
bini, and, a concerto composed and played by the ve-
teran Lindley, who, at its termination, was greeted,
with, deserved acclamations.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14.—The selection for this
morning's performance commenced with the least
known, and yet the best of Handers Coronation An-
thems, "My heart is inditing." The verses, " King's
daughters," and " Upon thy right hand," are in Han-
del's happiest style of part writing ; and the.conclud-
ing chorus, " Kings shall be thy nursing fathers,"
has all his fire and animation. Why is the compara-
tively vulgar and positively hacknied " Zadock the
priest,"
always preferred to this Coronation Anthem ?
Miss Hawes sang an excellent song by Ciampi (a con-
temporary of Handel) with taste and expression, and
Mr. Young was equally successful in the very pleasing
romanza from Mehul's Joseph. Then came Purcell's
glorious anthem,
t a festival for i! () give thanks," which we heard
he first time in our lives. Our Eng-
lish Orpheus has certainly experienced but scurvy
treatment from the hands of festival conductors. Are
they afraid to grapple with him, or why are sacred
compositions, so abundant in all the attributes of genius
and the resources of learning, habitually neglected ?
Handers anthem, we have said, is in his happiest style,
but measured against that of Purcell, it is like a trans-
lation compared with an original. The quartet,
" Remember me, 0 Lord," is one of the most expres-
sive and touching appeals that music has ever con-
veyed, and it lost none of its beauty in the hands of
the Westminster choir, who sang it. A portion of
the Stabat Mater of Rossini followed, and the act ter-
minated with the last chorus from the Dettingen Te
Deum.
The remainder of the morning was devoted to tho
performance of Haydn s Creation.
The performance was, on the whole, the most satis-
factory first place, to every
character
single representative, and an
w e
was ever
g hiveean rd
a. In the
efficient one. We had not two Gabriels and three
Raphaels, but one. Madame Caradori Allan was the
Gabriel, Hobbs the Uriel, and Phillips the Raphael ;
the parts of Adam and Eve being sustained by Balfe
and Miss Rainforth. The dramatic character of the
oratio was thus properly preserved. Again, the time
of many portions of the work was correctly taken—
that is, if we allow those who played and sang Crea-
tion under Haydn to be arbiters. The haste in which
the oratorio was at first produced in this country, and
the want of any accurate standard of time in the
German score, led to the adoption of many errors,
which custom and precedent have retained ; these,
for the first time, we have heard corrected. The per-
fect performance of every principal vocal part con-
tributed its share to the result we have mentioned.
Madame Caradori Allan, though evidently indisposed,
sang with her accustomed taste and a perfect know-
ledge of her business ; the duets of Adam and Eve
were finished specimens of singing; but the most ad-
mirable and the most polished specimen of the vocal
art was Hobbs's "In native worth."
The hall was more numerously filled than on any
preceding first morning's performance. The great
attraction of the Festival is,to-morrow morning, when
an immense attendance is anticipated. In this remote
corner persons are congregated
from all parts of the
kingdom, and we have conversed with professors of
eminence who have m
hroerrmAalititej
c o
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est3itshdeoTinhitnec Fallioonsein forfoorgie:Ztor distant parts of
i hear the first per-
_

Alton Towers, Towers, the noble seat of the Earl of Shrews-
bury, is at the present time the scene of great festivi-
ties ; his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, accom-
panied by the Duchess of Inverness, arrived on Friday
last, and has remained ever since, to enjoy this princely
mansion, and visit the delightful and romantic scenery
for which this neighbourhood is so remarkable. Among
the numerous company NA ho have had the honour of
meeting his Royal highness, may be mentioned—
Prince and Princess Doria Pamphili, Lord and Lady
Dormer, Sir Charles and MiSs Tempest, General and
Madame d'Haine, Hon. Mr., Mrs., and Miss Bertie
Percy, &c. We are happy to add that his Royal High-
ness is in the enjoyment of excellent health.
ORIGIN OF TUE TERM YANKEE.—The current
American term, y„kee, was a cant or favourite word
with one Jonathan Hastings, a settler at Cambridge,
North America, about the year 1713. The inventor used
it to express excellency. For instance, a " Yankee good
horse," or " Yankee cider," mean an excellent horse and
excellent cider. The students of a neighbouring. college
were accustomed to hire horses of Jonathan; their inter-
course with him, and his use of the word on all occa-
sions, led them to adopt it, and they gave him the name
-of " Yankee Jonathan." It was dispersed by the colle-
gians throughout New England, until it became a settled
term of reproach to all New Englanders, and eventually
to all North Americans.
His Excellency Earl De Grey and suite, Colonel
Barnard and family, and Sir F. Palgrave, arrived in
London yesterday, by the General Steam Navigation
Company's steam-ship Wilberforce, Capt. J. Stranack,
from Antwerp.
TRADE or HULL.—There is an evident improve-
.nent in the shipping and general business of this port,
but still there arc a large number of British bottoms in
the dooks which have as yet had no employment since
last back end, or having made one voyage, are already
laid up for the 'next winter.
Mr. SERGEANT NIURPIIIi, I‘l.l".—Our senior re-
_presentative, Mr. Sergeant Murphy,. arrived this day in
1
Cork, by the Dublin mail. The Hon. and Learned Gen-
tleman seems little the worse of his Parliamentary and
professional labours.—Cork Examiner.

was required, in order to effect a "point of union."
for the opposing interests of the States, the Debuts
proceeds thus :—" It is in fact this want of unity
which is the weak side of the Prussian monarchy.
The different provinces which compose the kingdom
have naturally divergent tendencies, and sometimes
even opposite ones. The interests of Rhenan and
Catholic Prussia, for instance, are not the same as
those of the Eastern and Protestant part of the king-
dom. In this respeot, therefore, the creation of a
Committee of the States, in place of being a step
towards a representative Government, would rather
have the effect of strengthening the Royal autho-
rity. The mode in which the Committee is formed
certainly serves to correct that tendency to a lo-
calisation of interests which is almost inherent in
the elective system ; but as the Committee is to
exercise the functions of deliberating, without pos-
sessing the right of voting, it is nothing else than a
more ready instrument of government in the King's
hands. This is the only point of view in which the
establishment of a Central Committee of the States
can possess a political character. By itself, it is no-
thing else than an administrative measure, for it is not
invested with any legislative faculty, being simply
and purely a consulting body, charged at most with
the task of shaping out laws, whilst the power of de-
ciding on the carrying them into execution rests ex-
clusively in the hands of the King. This discretionary
power of the King is not in conformity with our
ideas ; but that does not prove that it may not be
very wisely placed. We prefer, for our own parts,
the constitutional system, such as we ourselves pos-
sess ; but as far as forms of Government are con-
cerned, what is truth on this side of the Rhine, may
be error beyond it. It is with Constitutions, in fact,
as with certain plants, which only grow in a soil pro-
perly preparedqo receive them. Now it would be
unjust to deny that, under this uncontrolled exercise
of the Royal authority, Prussia has not made very
considerable progress towards liberal institutions
during the last 25 years. In 1806, the career of
re-
form commenced by the abolition of serfs and feudal
service, as well as by the suppression of the privileges
of the'nobility. In 1808, came the regulation estab-
lishing municipal liberties on the basis of election, and
allowing the government of towns by the burgesses.
Then followed in succession the liberty of trades, the
admission of burgesses to the rank of officers, and to
high civil employments, and the democratic organisa-
tion of the Landwehr."
The Debats attributes all those changes to the liberal
ideas which spread themselves through Europe at the
time of the French Revolution. The German Sove-
reigns, it says, held out to their subjects hopes of com-
plete emancipation, in order to induce them to stand
firmly against foreign invasion; but when once the
danger had blown over, they made every effort to re-
press the impetus which they had themselves given to
democratic ideas. It then says,—" The Constitutions
promised by the Act of Confederation were extorted
from the Sovereigns with the utmost difficulty, and
the late King of Prussia, for his part, never executed
the solemn engagement which he had made, to insti-
tute States- General. Something was indeed ceded
from time to time, but the establishment of a general
represqntation of the kingdom was indefinitely ad-
journed, and the present King does not appear more
disposed to grant it than his predecessor. But with
the exception of this breach of faith, Prussia has no
reason to complain of the use made of the discretionary
power placed in the King's hands, for she is one of the
best administered States in Europe, and it has been
asserted truly enough, that the maxim of the Prussian
Government appears to be, ''All for the people, but
nothing by the people.' "
The Moniteur Algerien says nothing of the arrival
of Colonel Scott in the roads of Algiers, and our Minis-
terial journals of the South are equally reserved.
A letter on the subject, communicated to the Ga-
zette du Midi, has the following passage :
" Nothing is talked of here but the landing of an
English Consul, who arrived on board a merchant-
man, and of his detention on board the vessel stationed
here, on account of a position, which is mysterious
and rather irregular. However, this arrest, made
quite recently, and without the knowledge of M.
Guizot, lasted only a few hours, thanks to Mr. St.
John, the English Consul-General, who has not ap-
plied for the exequatur of Louis Philip. The Consul,
with the haughtiness with which you are acquainted,
came, and had the Consul released by his own autho-
rity. It is presumed that the Colonel is going to
Abd-el-Kader, and that he came to Algiers only to
see the air of the country."--Commeree, 14th.
• BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14.
First Highest Lowest Last.
Price. Price. Price. Price
French Fives (ex div.) 118 80... 118 90... 118 80... 118 85
3 per Cents 80 25... 80 25... 80 20... 80 25
Bank of France 3260 ...3262 50...3260 .. 3262 50
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1035 ..1035 ...1035 ...1035
Belgian Bank 7BO ... 780 ... 780 ... 780
Belgian Fives lO4l 1041 ... 1041 ... 1041
Spanish Active .. 214 ... 22* ... 211 ... 22*
Roman
RAILWAY. SHARES:. "
Versailles, R.B ... 250 ... 252 50... 250 ... 251 25.
Rouen
Orleans.... 582 50... 582 50... 580 ... 580
Strasburg to Bale 2lO ... 210 ... 208 75... 208 75

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

PARIS, SEPT.IS.—The papers to-day are with-
out interest, but the Levant mail has arrived
with Constantinople letters of the 27th," Alexan-
dria news of the 26th, and Malta news of the sth.
There was every assurance of a termination of
the Persian and Turkish differences, in despite of
rumours of engagements.
The Porte awaits the return of Selim Bey to
fulfil the promises made by it to Lord Ponsonby
respecting Syria. Some fears were entertained
of outbreaks, in Thessaly and on the side of Servia.
The Porte has collected troops iu both quarters,
by way of precaution. .
The salt monopoly is to be done away with.
Izzet still holds his ground, and may now con-
tinue to do. so.

No progress has been made with the Grecian
treaty Christides opposing everything that
Mavrocordato has a hand in.

The Paella's fleet had come out of the harbour
of Alexandria. there was a rumour of Egytian
troops going to El Arish, but it was little crc-

dited.

Madrid letters of the Bth mention the deter-
mination of Senor Calatrava to resist the de-
mands of the contractors. It was a holiday at
the Bourse.

MONE Y and' COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The money market has been in the most inactive
condition to-day, with scarcely a transaction to note.
Consols remain at 92i buyers for Money, and 93 for
the Account, with rather more firmness than at the
close of business yesterday afternoon ; New Three-
and-a-Half per Cents., 101* ; India Stock, 250 251;
India Bonds, 36 38 ; xchequer Bills, 51 prem.
In Foreign Securities the price of Brazilian Bonds
has advanced to 68 ; Dutch are also a shade higher,
the Five per Cents. being 100 k, and the Three per
Cents. 52i 521.
i
The quotation for Mexican s again lower,being3s,i.
Beyond a purchase in Great Western at 82, and
the Half-shares at 591, but a shade higher than yes-
terday, there . has been no business in the Share
Market.
The Bonds quoted to-day are—Colombian, 20 ;
Spanish Five per Cents, 16i ; the Three per Cents,
20i for Money, and 21* for the Account.
A letter from a highly intelligent gentleman, re-
sident in Texas, furnishes some valuable information
as to the present condition of that country. Presi-
dent Houston, at the same time that he is fully pre-
pared to resist aggression from Mexico, is quite as
anxious to preserve peace, being fully convinced, as
he has stated,. that tranquillity will prove the only
way by which the independence and prosperity of the
republic can be maintained. The convention entered
into between them, for England to act as a
mediator, has already had its effect, and although
it could not be acted upon until ratified and
exchanged, which was done in June last, the
principles upon which it is based were well known
long since, and therefore but few obstacles will oppose
its successful execution. And it may be noticed,
upon very high authority, that our own Government
wi!l not lose any opportunity for the preservation of
the independence of Texas, upon the ground of its
importance politically, and the necessity that such
should be the case. It is further stated that com-
mercial prospects are improving, and that the crops
would, it was expected, be much more abundant than
had been hitherto known.
PRICES OF SHARES TS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid HI.
Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto New ...... ......... 50 -
JOINT TOCK BANKS.
Union of London lO . 9i to
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT l4.—The
character of our Market to-day is dull :—Dublin and
Drogheda, 164 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 221 to
24 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 31 to 311 ; South
Eastern and Dover, 22 to 221 ; Ditto Scrip, 6il to 64;
South Lancashire Bank, 61. 6s.- 6d.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 15.—Nro
improvement has taken place to-day in our Market :
—Liverpool and Manchester, 180 to 181 ; London
and Birmingham, 182 to 183 ; Ditto Thirds, 60 to
60k ; Ditto Quarters, 47* to 48 ; Eastern Counties,
81 to 84 ; Manchester and Leeds, 72 to 74; Ditto
Quarters, 4* to 44. .
_

Mr. M'Christie, the Revising Barrister appointed
by the Lord Chief Juitice to revise the lists of voters for
the City of London, will open his Court for that purpose
at Guildhall en Tuesday next, the 20th instant.