The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-24 00:00:00

STATE OF TRAUE•

M
""' (From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.)
IvlANcu ESTER.—The accounts ofthe settlement of the
dispute with China, which reached this town on Mon-
day evening, caused considerable excitement in the mar-
ket yesterday ; and, though no
great amount of busi-
ness was done, higher prices were obtained for most
kinds of manufactured gcods, and
for some kinds
of yarn suitable for the eastern markets. Indeed, the
stocks of both goods and yarn are now so exceedingly
low, and the manufacturers are so
generally working.
to order, that any material increae°of demand is cer-
tain to produce a decidedly
market. favourable effect upon the

—There has been very little change in
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARiET, MONDAY, Nov. 21.
the flannel
market for some weeks past ; the demand has been
quite equal to that of former weelfs, and the prices
obtained about the same.
The wool market has been
dull, and prices stationery.

MANNERS OF THE QUEENS s
spirited sletches offered by
FM rss nee . OF FR ANCE.—The
(late juste npi
puibr
e-
lished) of EVERY Queen of
reign of Childeni) to the coneluinwhether Regent
or Consort, from the earliest '
authentic annals (the
under Napoleon, form toa.nether
sthh e
a gallery of Royal
Portraits, as well as a fund of Court adventure, anec-
dote, and ana, that has rarely, if ever, been put toge-
ther within the same space, unless it be in the admir-
able work to which the
origin. Mrs. Bush's wog, r
present probably owes its
however, possesses the
additional attraction. of being-
completed
ele-
gant little volumes ; and itl will in two
no doubt be deemed
an indispensable acquisition to
every lady's library.
NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR
__We are requested to state OF " PAUL PRY."
that " Phineas Quiddy ;
or, Sheer Industry," by John
" Paul Pry," " Little PedUn t
on Poole, Esq., author of
Bvo., is published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great
g " &c., in 3 vols. post
Marlborough-street, and may
libraries. Mr.
,Colburn has now be had at all the
following popular works of
fialso just published the
Club, by M. 11. Barker, Esq.,
:-1. The Naval
(The Old Sailor)
8,
author of " Tough Yarns," sq"
e,
R
'3 vols.-2. Self De-
votion • or, the History of atharine Randolph, by
the authoress of " The Only Daughter," aughter," edited by
the author of " The Subaltern 3 vols.-3. The
Nabob at Home, by Mr. Ale' ' &e"
xander Campbell, author
of "Life in India," 3
vols
•,--4.., Percival Keene, by
Capt. Marryat, 3 vols.-5. ahe Czarina, an Historical
Romance of the Court of
oer
Russia, by Mrs. Holland,
3 vols.-6. The Manceuvrino•
Mother
of C° The History of a FP- :;, , 3 v
vols.'
b y the authoress
ols.
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This
ti_rho hseai feN
always'
hitherto agta
CARMARTHEN CATTLE FAIR.—At our fair last
Monday
were
hitherto been a very large one ; but this year it IN'as a
greatly l fyewreduced sal
e s
w ere
prices. effecte,
hiasn
very poor one indeed, and but the sha(low of its former
stir and fullness. The falling off was no less remark-
able than lamentable. Cattle could find 110,-
pui•chasers
at any price.— Welshman.

The following is a copy of the letter addressed by
Captain Green, on the 4th instant, to his brother, Mr.
R. Green, of Birchin-lane, one of the owners of the
Reliance, which firrived in town by past on the 16th
instant, but in consequence of that gentleman's ab-
sence at Boulogne remained unopened until Tuesday:
" Reliance at Sea,
" Lat. 48 20 north ; lon. 14 10 west.
" Friday, Nov. 4, 1842.
"My dear Robert,—A ship is near us, which I hope
will be able to supply us with some provisions, and I
send Mr. Walsh on board to try to procure some. We
have been on short allowance for nearly three weeks,
and have on board to-day ten days' provisions at two-
thirds allowance per man, with the exception of flour,
of which we have not an ounce. This, in ordinary
times, would be quite enough, but we have been so
miserably unfortunate with our winds, that I do not con-
sider it right to run the risk of starvation. I have
desired Walsh to procure, if he can, two casks of beef
and two of flour. He will draw on you for payment
if he can get all or any part of the above, which I
will thank you to honour. My passage from Cape
Verd has been the longest I have ever made in
my life. I have never, since I have been at sea, seen
such a continuance of adverse! winds. Each succeeding
change of moon has disappointed us in a chang€, and
for five weeks we have had nothing but easterly gales
-and fresh breezes to contend with—some days making
only 10 miles and never more than 65, except one
day—the day before yesterday—when we made 130,
and I was in full hope that all our miseries were at
an end, the westerly breeze having set in with the
change of the moon ; but after blowing very hard for
eight hours, it moderated and before noon flew round
again to the north-east, having let us enjoy it only 15
hours. lam almost worn out with anxiety, particu-
larly when I remember that the insurance was out on
the Ist of this month ; and I am afraid they will con-
sider us a missing ship, and charge accordingly.
" Our passage up from St. Helena to the Cape Verds
was a beautiful one ; every one was confident that,
even with the usual run of luck, we should be in the
docks by the 22d or 23d of October, whilst now it is
much more likely to be a month later. We are now
about 330 miles from the Lizard, a distance which
we could run easily in two days ; but if we are to go
on as we hwe done these five weeks, it will take us
at least eight, and may be more, for the wind is very
obstinate, east-north-east, and the barometer rising.
" The native seamen feel the cold a good deal, and
at this moment I have twelve men off duty from sick-
ness, whose loss we feel very much.
This is a melancholy ditty ; but I hope to see you
even before you receive it. Remember me affection-
ately to Joseph and all at home.
• I remain your affectionate brother,
" THOMAS GREEN.
" Mr. Robert Green, nirchin-lane, London."
The other letter, written a few hours before the
wreck, and referred to above as having been picked up
on the French coast, is as follows :

" East India ship Reliance, English Channel,
November 16.
"My Dear Mother,—lt is with the greatest pleasure
that I take this opportunity of writing a few lines to
be ready to send ashore the first opportunity. In
my last I told you that I expected to be with you the
latter end of September or the beginning of October,
which the Captain fully caldulated upon, but the
fates are against us. We made a long and tedious
voyage of two months and a half from Whampoa to
Batavia, since leaving which we have encountered
nothing but unfavourable gales and light winds for
nearly four weeks. We have been on short allowance,
but I have enjoyed very good health all along. Not
so with the rest ; we have had about 20 on the sick
list. We arrived at St. Helena on the 3d of Sept.,
when I was highly delighted to receive your letter,
also one you wrote me last voyage. We left Whampoa
on April 24, so that we shall make about a seven
months' voyage home. 'We are now, we believe, off
Start Point, but having had it blowing very hard for
the last two days, and very thick weather, we have
not been able to get an observation. But we are in
hopes of getting t pilot to-morrow, and then I shall
have an opportunity of sending this ashore. If the
present wind last I think we shall be in the Downs
about Saturday morning, and in the East India Docks
about IVednesday or Thursday. I will write imme-
diately on my arrival in London. I think I shall
have to stay a day or two to make arrangements for
next voyage, but will lose no time, you may depend,
in hastening to ' canny Newcastle,' where I look for-
ward with great pleasure to meeting you all again in
good health. I hope you will write to me on receipt
of this, telling me how you have all been since I last
heard from you.
" I shall not close this letter till the pilot comes on
board. I shall write to uncle George by the pilot."
(The letter here breaks off.)
The following is the certificate of the Consul as to
.the finding of the above letter :
" I certify this to have been picked up on the coast
off Merliemont on the 15th instant, about twenty miles
to the westward of Boulogne, and claimed by me.
" Witness my hand and seal of office, •
" W. HAMILTON, H.B.M. Consul.
" British Consulate at Boulogne,
One o'Clock, P.M., Nov. 16."

THE RE VEREND DR. WOLFF.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SLh\.
would, through the medium of your
Journal, call the attention of the people of England,
and especially that of the dignitaries of the English
Church, to the present situation and circumstances of
the Rev. Dr. Wolff, whose name is alike familiar to
the prince and the peasant in our own country; and
who, during the long period of eighteen years, has
travelled in the service of Christ through the burning
climes of the East—the gloomy deserts of Arabia and
Persia—the plains of Hindoostan ; the ancient land
of Egypt—and among the half civilised tribes of
Tartary and Affghanistan—this excellent man, whose
feet have stood on Mount Zion, and whose tongue has
proclaimed the glad tidings of salvation from the rising
of the sun to the place of his setting, to Mahomedans,
Heathens. and Jews—who has attracted the attention
of the Bishops of all the Eastern and Western
churches—who has stood in the presence of the Grand
Mogul, and the Kings of Persia and Hindoostan,
and whose great talents and merits have been acknow-
ledged by the University of Dublin, the Episcopal
Church in America, and the Bishop of Exeter, who
addressed him by letter in 1835,—having also
attracted the notice of Mehemet Ali in Egypt, and
Abbas Mirza in Persia—and who has eminently con-
tributed to the success of the Society for the Promotion
of Christianity among the Jews, perhaps more than
any other man—this same Joseph Wolff, notwith-
standing all this, is now condemned to spend his time
and talents as curate in a country village, equally ob-
scure and insignificant, and is thus strangely neglected
by the Church of England, and even envied by many
of its clergy, on account of his curacy at High I loy-
land in Yorkshire.
If the Church of England had distributed her gifts
in proportion to the real greatness, the talents, moral
worth, and services' of those who are the objects of
her favour, Dr. Wolff would long' ago have been not
a mere country curate in an obscure village, but the
honoured pastor of a large and well-endowed church,
if not in a far snore dignified situation.
In the course of a well spent life Dr. Wolff has
acquired all the Oriental and most of the European
languages, and made himself acquainted with the
theology of all religions, and during the time of his
missionary labours has done and suffered more, per-
haps, than any other Christian Missionary, having
often been in the most eminent danger of losing his
life—now being bastinadoed—then sold for a slave in
a strange and savage land—sometimes stripped naked,
and more than once condemned to death—and now

that his impaired constitution permits him no longer
to endure such sufferings in the scenes of his former
labours, and in the service of our ,Redeemer—to the
disgrace of the Established Church of England be it
said he: is altogether neglected, though never to be
forgotten—fur, for many years to come, his name will
be remembered with gratitude and admiration by mil-
lions of men. I a.n, Sir, respectfully yours,
A FRIEND OF THE REV. DR. WOLFF.
November 22, 1842.

A small draft from the Earl of Harrington's valu-
able stud was brought to the hammer on Monday at
Tattersall's, by direction of the Noble Earl.
The horses were few
_in number, mid the

.A. • •••••
Honourable Henry Stanhope attended the sale
on behalf of the Earl his brother. The
principal lot was his Lordship's well •known roan
gelding, driven for several seasons in the Earl's well-
appointed cab, which, after a spirited competition, was
knocked down to a Mr. Harvey for 150 guineas. A
large draft of bay hunters, described as well known
with the Duke of Grafton's hounds, the property of a
sporting gentleman, was sold at the same time, and
fetched moderate prices.
LlONS.—Within the last twelve years Mr. Womb-
well has bred and reared within the United Kingdom,
upwards of 130 lions.

We have perused this volume with more satis-
faction than any of its predecessors, for, in the
first place, it is less disgustingly egotistical, and,
secondly, the anecdotal matter is more varied
and entertaining. The authoress is so utterly un-
interesting a personage—notwithstanding her
sublime opinion of herself—that we care to know
nothing about her; but it is otherwise with her
sketches and anecdotes of her illustrious contem-
poraries; these possess a charm which will keep
her "Diary" green in public recollection when
her " Evelina" and " Cecilia" are forgotten by
all but trunkmakers and confectioners. In speak-
ing of Burke, whom she frequently met, After
her emancipation from Court servitude, she con-
firms the testimony borne by others of his as-
sociates, as to the extraordinary, indeed, ungo-
vernable excitement he evinced, whenever the
politics of the day were alluded to; and she men-
tions a whimsical anecdote of Charles Fox
having one evening attended a meeting of the
Literary Club, where four High-Church Bishops
were " gathered together," who were of course
horror-struck at the idea of being brought into
surth close contact with an apologist of the French
Revolution! Not the least entertaining portion
of the present volume is devoted to accounts of
those aristocratic advocates of monarchy, who,
it may be remembered, emigrated from France in
droves about the period •of Louis's execution.
Among these was the Due de Liancourt, who
with difficulty escaped from the Jacobins,
and, on landing from a small fishing-boat at
Hastings, went tothe nearestpublic-house, where,
in, order to appear Englisk, hecalled for " une pot
portere !" Being very thirsty, he drank this off
at a draught, and then called for another, which
he also dispatched in style ; but not beinc, suffi-
ciently habituated to such a beverage, his Grace
got dead drunk, which of course completed his
resemblance to a free-born Briton! Madame
D'Arblay tells this story with much unction. By
the bye, she shines, in telling anecdotes of this
sort, and relates with infinite humour the be-
haviour of the Duke of Clarence who, on one oc-
casion—it was George the Third's birth-day—
rushed, half-seas over, into the room where she
sat at dinner with that mean, snuffy, dictatorial
German dowager, Madame Sell wel len berg(whom
Peter Pindar has made such fun of in his
" Lousiad") and insisted on the whole party
getting drunk in honour of the day! Fortu-
nately for their credit's sake, the women ma-
naged to gain exemption, but their male com-
panions were so lustily plied with champagne by
his Royal Highness, that they were soon placed
in a condition which would have justified a Po-
lice Magistrate in exacting five shillings from
them. This Madame Schwellenberg seems to
have sat like an incubus on Madame D'Arblay's
imagination. She was a selfish, irascible, domi-
neering termagant, who fancied that every one
ought to submit unrepining to her caprices, and
who, like most such people, was the veriest syco-
phant to her Royal mistress. Both these amiable
creatures took snuff in prodigious quantities;
both were blessed with astounding appetites—
they could each have digested an ostrich—and
were equally stingy in money matters. We be-
lieve, however, that the Royal Charlotte was the
most avaricious of the two, though Madame
Schwellenberg bore away the palm in point of
ugliness. Of Jemmy Boswell, whom our au-
thoress met frequently in society, she invariably
speaks with contempt and dislike. At first, we
were at a loss to account for such decided aver-
sion ; but when we met with a passage in the Mary,
where the King is represented as expressing his
surprise to Madame D'Arblay that she was so
seldom mentioned in" Boswell's Life of John-
son," we at once came to the conclusion that
wounded vanity—for the lady, as her work
shows, abounded in smooth, simpering self-
conceit—was at the battom of her dislike to
James. In spite, however, of her would-be
contempt for Johnson's truest friend, time—who
is no respector of persons—is fast doing justice to
both parties. Madame D'Arblay, with her
heaps of common-place novels, is all but for-
gotten ; Boswell still lives, and will live for ever.
And most deservedly so, for throughout his in-
imitable biography, he fairly divides attention
with the illustrious Lexicographer; and we
scarcely know which we relish most—the smart
epigrammatic sayings, and sagacious aphorisms of
the one, or time unconscious self-conceit, good-
nature, and exquisite simplicity of character that
the other exhibits in every page. We quote the
following extract descriptive of some of Jemmy
Boswell's diverting peculiarities :
The beautiful chapel of St. George, repaired and
finished by the best artists at an immense expense,
which was now opened after a very long shutting up
for its preparations, brought innumerable strangers to
Windsor, and, among others, Mr. Boswell.

This I heard, in my way to the chapel, from Mr.
Turbulent, who overtook me, and mentioned having
met Mr. Boswell at the Bishop of Carlisle's the even-
ing before. He proposed bringing him to call upon
me ; but this I declined, certain how little satisfac-
tion would be given here by the entrance of a man
so famous for compiling anecdotes. But yet I really
wished to see him again, for old acquaintance sake,
and unavoidable amusement from his oddity and good
humour as well as respect for the object of his constant
admiration, my revered Dr. Johnson. I therefore told
Mr. Turbulent I should be extremely glad to speak
with him after the service was over.

Accordingly, at the gate of the choir, Mr. Tur-
bulent brought him to me. We saluted with mutual
glee ; his comic-serious face and manner have lost
nothing of their wonted singularity ; nor yet have
his mind and language, as you will soon confess.

" I am extremely glad to see you indeed," he
cried, " but very sorry to see you here. My dear
ma'am, why do you stay ?—it won't do, ma'am ! you
must resign ! I'Ve can put up with it no longer. I
told my good host the Bishop so last night ; we are all
grown quite outrageous !"

Whether I laughed the most, or stared the most, I
am at a loss to say ; but I hurried away from the
cathedral, not to have such treasonable declarations
overheard, for we were surrounded by a multitude.
He accompanied me, however, not losing one mo-
ment in continuing his exhortations : " If you do not
quit, ma'am, very soon, some violent measures, I as-
sure you will be taken. We shall address Dr. Bur-
ney in a body ; I am ready to make the harangue
myself. We shall fall upon him all at once."
I stopped him to inquire about Sir Joshua ; he said
he saw him very often, and that his spirits were very
good. I asked about Mr. Burke's book. " 0," cried
he, " It will come out next week : 'tis the first book
in the world, except my own, and that'sq coining out
also very soon; only I want your help.
" My help?"
" Yes, madam ; you must give me some of' your
choice little notes of the Doctor's ; we have seen him
long enough upon stilts ; I want to show him in a
new light. Grave Sam, and great Sant, and solemn
Sam, and learned Sain —all these he bath appeared
over and ' over. Now I want to entwine a wreath of
the graces across his brow; I want to show him as
gay Sam, agreeable Sam, pleasant Sam ; so you
mast help me with some of his beautiful billets to
yourself."
I evaded this by declaring I had not any stores at
hand. He proposed a thousand curious expedients to
get at them, but I was invincible.
Then I was hurrying on, lest I should be too late.
He followed eagerly, and again exclaimed, " But,
ma'am, as I tell you, this wont do—you must resign
off-hand ! Why, I would farm you out myself for
double, treble the money ! I wish I had the regula-
tion of such a farm,—yet I am no farmer-general. But
I should like to farm you, and so I will tell Dr. Bur-
ney. I mean to address him; I have a speech ready
for the first opportunity.
He then told me his " Life of Dr. Johnson was
nearly printed, and took a proof-sheet out of his pocket
to show me, with crowds passing and repassing,
knowing me well, and staring well at him; for we
were now at the iron rails of the Queen's Lodge.
I stopped; I could not ask him in : Isaw lie
heix-
pected it, and was reduced to apologise,
and
I must attend the Queen immediately.
He uttered again stronger and stronger exhorta-
tions for my retreat, accompanied by expressions
which I was obliged to check in their bud. But find-
again ing
ahad
th e
gate, ch
andanc es a odr
heen tlevrei
would
reads ds toedm pep a in
parte
of
his
v ek.
There
was no refusing this : and he began with a
letter of Dr. Johnson's to himself. He readit in
strong imitation of the Doctor's manner, very
and not caricature. But Mrs. was
Schwellenbcrg
at her window, a crowd •
was gathering to stand round
the rails, and the
King and Queen and Royal Fa-
mily now approached from the Terrace. I made a
well,

. • .
.
ON THE HEALTH OF BOJJY.AND
rtForbes Winslow, Esq., M. IL.e. S.; London;
uhor of " The Anatomy of Suicide," .sit'c.',ll_2)oj. -81;0.
Renshaw,
bct can be of
nsshuaw London
greater impartinice to our
worldly comforts than the health of the body
and mind, and of the various branches into
which it may be divided, there is none of greater
interest or greater difficulty than that which
subject
, 84 2 . ;
treats of insanity or the. diseases of the mind.
So limited are the data from which conclusions
can be drawn, so refilled and abstruse the process
by which any clear results can ,be arrived at,
that until of late years it had lain comparatively
neglected in medical science, as though hun#
skill could do little or nothing towards curing
such distressing affections. A person demented
was considered as fit only to be at once removed
from society, to herd With others in the same
unfortunate condition as himself; and there to be
tended and treated more like a . beast -of the
field than a human being. Little or no
inquiry was made into the causes that had in-
duced the calamity. Little* or nothing had been
previously done to avert it. The mind was
affected; the body was healthy, the common
animal functions were performed with regularity,
and so the patient was left almost to him-
self, to recover or not, as the case might be.
Of late years, however, a most material change
has taken place ; the treatment has been im-
proved; attention has been paid to the bodily
health; and the result has been, if not a dimi-
nution in the number of cases of mental disease,
at least a very great increase in the proportion
of those who have been restored to the possession
of their reason. These observations have occurred
to us from the perusal of a work which
has been recently published under the title of
" Diseases of the Body and Mind," by Forbes
Winslow, the author of " The Anatomy of Sui-
cide," and which consists of a variety of essays
upon the subject of health generally, but more
especially upon that which we regard as the most
important, viz. insanity. to that branch the
author appears to have chiefly devoted himself,
and extensive experience, aided by acute ob-
servation, has enabled him to lay down many
principles with regard to insanity, and particu-
larly as to the treatment of the premonitory
symptoms, which we doubt not will, if attended
to, check many an incipient case in the outset,
and facilitate the cure of those which, either
from neglect or the violence of their character,
have advanced to what is commonly termed actual
madness. The leading principle of the author
is, that it may generally be traced to some de-
rangement of the bodily functions ; and that
only by careful treatment for the correction .of
that derangement, can any cure be effected.
That such, however, %%ill be the result in most
cases, and when it is but in an incipient stage
that it may be altogether arrested, is proved by
the author in a great variety of instances to
which he refers. The essays on mental influ-
ence and the first indications of insanity, are
those to which he would direct especial atten-
tion in reference to this subject; but all the
essays abound in highly useful information and
suggestions, and are so replete with fact and.
anecdote as to make them suited to the general
reader, besides being most valuable to the pro-
fessional practitioner. We give the following
extract as a specimen of Mr. Winslow's work.
It refers to the connection between suicide and
bodily disease. Mr. Winslow observes :
" The notion that the suicidal impulse is in the ma- '
jority of cases a purely mental act, unconnected with
physical disease, has been productive of the most
melancholy and fatal consequences. Medical men,
and the public generally, have, with a few exceptions,
been too much disposed to consider this subject as one
coming almost exclusively within the domains of the
metaphysician. The bodily disease which almost
uniformly gives origin to the morbid perversion of
the natural instinct ofsclf-preservation; has been over-
looked, and the unhappy person has been allowed, un-
protected, to end by his own hands his miserable
existence. Where no disease is suspected, no remedy
will be sought. Tell a man who has attempted to slay
himself, that he is perfectly sane—that his judgment;
is Sound—that his will is not perverted—that the
impulse which drives him to the commis3ion of suicide
is not associated with any deviation from corporeal
health—and you inculcate ideas not only ildlacious,
but most pernicious in their character and tendency.
We might with as much truth tell a person playing
with a lighted taper at the edge of a barrel of gun-
powder, that his life is not in jeopardy, as to say to a
person disposed to cut his throat, blow out his brains,
poison or hang himself, that he is in the perfect enjoy-
ment of health, and requires no moral or medical
treatment. It may be laid down as an indisputable
axiom, that in every case of this kind, bodily disease
may, upon a careful examination, be detected. I never
yet saw a case where a desire to commit suicide was
present, in -which there was not corporeal indisposi-
tion.--' Instead of inculcating the notion that this
morbid propensity is independent of material lesion,
it should he our constant endeavour, and, in fact,
it is our duty, to establish the necessity of obtain-
ing medical advice directly the idea of self-destruction
takes possession ofthe mind. I have seen the most happy
results ensue from adopting such a course of procedure.
Patients have consulted me, complaining of being
haunted by a desire to kill themselves, and I have in-
variably found them to labour under latent physical
disease. To know ourselves diseased is half our
cure,' is a wise maxim when applied to this subject.
It ought to be our object to persuade those so unhap-
pily afflicted, that the unnatural propensity is but the
consequence of physical ailments, which are amenable
to those medical principles which direct the practi-
tioner in the treatment of other diseases. We. ought
t
aocietfamhnitnieetomp:.
vreNpeavffudhcHeltecsiien-etf
to diffuse through society generally the notion that i
is a matter of essential importance, that the patient
whose mind is haunted by the idea of suicide should
abdominali
yl ascertaincsisi
)iiinhotfievoreszoeolntlp:uradnes
should
lseaobei
dt,uacellodisl
fuln,
Nenfiah,
isaillc,
informed
ecetaera
an disorder,
epnedl
elti
toemltnl
apparently
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nenunfhhi
judgment
his
sala
shnitmf:telees rees.raotnlTilo:3uncontrollable
afe:thilmedicalscaheeiata:l
isrpystomerhi
nboybeaeni
physician,
sl suicidalil
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dcohnitoge.stiolnn otifiethnel
majority
orar °lova
pre-
sent in this class of patients. The condition of the
cases that organ will be found in a morbid condition.
Much may be done by medical treatment in cases of
insanity attended by this sympton."

WAVERLEY NOVELS.—ABBOTSFORD
EDITION.
The present Part forms the fifteenth of this
issue, and proceeds with that portion of the " An-
tiquary," included within the thirty-third and
forty-fourth chapters. The history of Lord
Glenallan's family, and the circumstances relat-
ing to the birth of Evelhie Neville, are at pre-
sent involved in mystery, but appear to be gra-
dually clearing up, through the instrumentality
and evidence of Elspie the beldame, Edie
Ochil-
tree, and the pains-taking inquiries of Mr. Old-
buck. The numerous engravings which embellish
the Number, are of a very superior order; that
which represents the Vale of Manor Water, in
Peebles-shire, is as pleasing a plate as the eye
could desire.

ANOTHER OF THE 24,000 SUMMARY PUNISH-
MENTS INFLICTED IN ENGLAND IN GNP,
Win. Bartlett, a married man living in Wootton, was
brought up by one of the Duke of 'Marlborough's
gamekeepers, before the Rev. Thomas Currne, charged
with having, in company with a man named Hull,
chased a rabbit in a public highway called the Green
lane, and which is the accustomed road leading from
Wootton to Woodstock. It appeared in evidence that
Bartlett and Hull (who has since absconded) saw a
rabbit in
the prize. t
the roa d,a nd that
r dI aat
tntge td ht
up stones to throw at the rabbit and shouldhasuthcceel took
in capturing e
k
acnaudgdhetmi tani fdehde
the rabbit; could.
bit Tileb;
leleu rpp:ounced upon Bull
ran away. Mr. Curme fined Bartlett itttldsZnincalunddinigt
costs, for being in company with the man who caught
et hoem rnal
ibtbt
ei td to
. Bartlett
rt he' totuln)et
gaol for afortnight. ing u ab e t o i)ay th e fine,
Charles
was
Gubbins, the Wootton constable, told Mr. Curme that
y
Bartlett was an honest, industrious, good labourer,
and had never before been broug,htbefore a Magistrate.
ATTEMPT TO RAISE A CHURCH RATE AT LEIGH.—
In accordance with a notice, a meeting of the rate-
plyers of Leigh and the neighbourhood assembled on
Thursday last. After a preliminary address by the
Vicar, showing that by legal enactment a rate was
justly levied on all property, it was moved by Mr.
Marsh, and seconded by Mr. Selby, that a rate of one
halfpenny in the pound should be granted. An
amendment was made that no rate should be allowed.
but, for want of a seconder, was not proposed by the
Chairman. Upon w hich, it was moved by the Rev.
Dr. Harrison, of Atherton, that the meeting be ad-
journed to that day twelvemonths. This amendment
was immediately seconded, and seemed, from the loud
plaudits with which it was greeted, to be accordant with
the feelings of the majority. The Vicar, however, refused
to put the amendment; asserting, amid shouts of dis-
approbation, that, unless the motion for no rate was
seconded, he should pronounce the rate of one-half-
pmny in the pound agreed upon. After much con
Fusion and most decided indications of dissatisfaction,
the Vicar vacated the chair. Mr. John Fletcher, or
Leigh, was requested to take the chair. The amend-
ment was moved and carried, with only one disssent-
ing voice• aLcr which the meeting dispersed quietly
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Jack—the destruction of the Pirate's vessel by fire—
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"We may import," he added, ten times the quan-
tity of china and silk that we do now, in return for
our exports; we may have silk gowns as cheap as
cotton gowns, if the raw silk becomes as cheap as the
raw cotton ; but what will that benefit us ? lam not
aware that the possession of a silk gown will make a
poor cottager the least bit better, happier, or better
fed. In this way it will be an amazing benefit to us
—if we can take the silk, china, tea, or other produce
of China, to other countries, and exchange the surplus
of these or other luxuries which we cannot consume
ourselves, for food—(Hear and applause)—then the
opening the trade to China will be an amazing boon
to this country ; the population will he fed; and as
soon as they are fed, then the cottager's wife will
he able to buy a silk gown and to enjoy it.—(Hear.)
Then the people will be able to buy tea and sugar,
and then these luxuries will be a blessing to them. But,
as long as they have no food to eat, no accumulation of
luxuries can benefit the poor.—(Hear.) This point,
so viewed, is of so much importance, that I consider it
to form the whole basis of our restrictive laws upon
the importation of food. You cannot benefit' the mass
of the people without increasing the quantity of
food."

THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1842.

RELEASE OF THE CAUBUL
PRISONERS.

We have great ple=re in publishing the fol.
lowing gratifying intelligence. All the prisoners
c:,eopt one, have been restored. What will the
p:•ophets say now, who foretold that AKBAR
K HAN would murder every prisoner the moment
the forces marched on Caubul?
SUPPLEMENT TO THE GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY OF THE
30-rit SEPTEMBER, 1842..
bead-quarts s, Simla, sth Oct. 1842.

Since the public notification of the 30th ult., the
GOVERNOR-GENEIIAL has received the gratify-
ing intelligence of the safety of all the European
prisoners but one, in the following extract from
eommuuicr.tion from Major-General POLLOCK,
C,11., dated the 21st ultimo :
.17 tract from a letter to the GOVERNOR-GI:Nut:AL
front Major-General POLLOCK, C. 8., dated
Camp, Caubul, 21st Sept., 1842.
" LORD
,—lt gives me great gratification to
be enabled to state that the whole of the Euro-
pe;la pr ropers are now quite free from the hands
7,l•Auomzro AKBAR, except Captain BYGRAVE.
T make my official report on this subject
wl_liever they reach my camp, which will no
dolibt be to-morrow. I sent a lightly equipped
tbr..e, under Sir IL SALE, to meet teem; and the

these truths must be steadfastly remembered,
otherwise the hopes and expectations of an ex-
tended trade may paralyze the exertions of the
League to get rid of the real cause of our diffi-
culties. An increase of trade with China will
benefit both countries, but nothing can rescue
the people of England from want and pauperism
but a completely free trade in all the articles of
human subsistence.
The noble meeting at Manchester has inspired
us, we must say, with renewed hopes that this
object is not far off. As the perception of the
manufacturers there, of the ruin which hereafter
awaits them, grows clearer, their language be-
comes bolder, ands their contributions larmer.
e, We have already adverted to their subscriptions.
To notice their language, it was well said by Mr.
B. GREG that "rent is not a necessary ingredient
in the cultivation of the soil." That is, we do
not need landowners to provide
society with
to means
obtainof
thatsu 1)
prime
s i s te n c
end and
e . . Theon classes required
iobject of all social
institutions are the actual cultivators of the soil.
The receivers or rent perform no part of the in-
dispensible,operation. If they will persist in in-
creasing their rent by a law, therefore, ruining
trade and starving a portion of thepeople, they will
so impress on the community a conviction that
they are useless as landowners, and mischievous
as law-makers, as by and by to compel it to
cAst them aside and trample them down as a
perfect nuisance. Unless they do justice, and
allow the community to have as much food, and
We publish this day some additional dispatches have it as cheap as possible, they may he assured
d'erl'ing the gallant conduct of the British that merchants, manufacturers, artisans, and la-
f"'Tes in Mfghanistan and China. The dispatch bourers, now that such men as Mr. GREG have
of General P
- °I-LO.CIC, giving an account of the begun to speak out, will not long submit to be
battle with AxaAa
KHAN at Tezeen, and the impoverished or starved by those who are mere
triumphant entry
of the troops into Caubul, a ornaments to society, and ibrm no portion of its
place associated with such painful recollections, essential elements.
will be read with much interest. Every regi- We have other reasons for anticipating a
ment, Indian as well as British, displayed the complete and not distant success. Sir ROBERT
uteiost gallantry, and, thou
,hthe injuriousness
gil fighting under an PEEL has shown so effectually
ietensely hot sun, and exposed to
of the ground,
great dif- of a fixed duty on corn, that lie never can advo-
fical ties, from the nature
vied with each other in aTenging the death cate that system. His sliding scale has turned
of out more injurious to his own friends than the
tliiiiir slaughtered countrymen. On their way one be abolished. He has endeavoured, slyly,
through Ole passes they were moved to fury by to open a free trade in corn with the United
vi witnessing the white bones or the unfortunate States, only directing it through Canada. He
etials or treachery, and after collecting them must go on, and be cannot stop at a fixed duty.
together, and burying them with as much care We anticipate,'' therefore and we urge the
at; iitne would permit, -they met the Affethau League not to relax its exertions—that Sir H.
ar,llY, ccmmandcd by time he=ns in of Sir IVir,- - PEEL will, ere long Lt , give the country a free trade
ee: ~,TereNemnrce, in the voile;.-of Tezeen, and in food.
gal,: ;:d .a complete victory. On the following Tile landowners themselves are coming round
d''Y `!ley et zered the city, when the British to this doctrine. At Ilminster, on Wednesday
.8.a•(;(1a!'d was Loisted, the band stmek up ',lSt, Mr. BICKHAM ESCOTT, 'who represents
.;on !ave the QUEEN," a :Royal salute Winchester by the Duke of BUCKINGHAM'S in-
the
whole
of
the troops terest, and is supposed to speak the Duke's senti-
wete fired, and
ments, sportcd such good free-trade doctrines as
g%iv:' three. cheers. How different. would have
been the sceae, au ,1 how these, with more of tilebrave same sort
:
men would have considered Lb/easel-ye.- Irid Ge- " I will venture to say that if ever a death-blow is
neral POLLOCK marched back inglo';'-ioucsly to to be struck at the agriculture of .England it ill be
Lidia, and left the cause of his country ?viten Me trade and commere,e,
and his Ifem an
~ me. / irreparable decline."
ofthec-ou Wry' has suf-
mur&red comrades unavenged t The dispatches I 4, I have, he tells us, " come to a conclusion, after
a Admiral PARKER and Sir Huoll ,-:,
though not of a.yery late date, give inte"re°sutGlinlig I
the
ensidering the whole bearings
great protective power of the of the subject, that
cultural classes
de!eils of the operations at Woosung aud in the renewed prosperity of its
river Yante:tze-Keang. The silence of the !of the country rests 411 the
Itrade and commerce.
French Papers in the interest of the Government i .
of a Corn-law? It is to protect the growers
" We are not bound to a Corn-law. What is the
on all these important results is certainly remark- ;-object
'bread; by encouraging the home growth
of the people s
able. Little for nothing is said in any of them
of our country; but if the home growth is 7.0 t su the
yes- the course France will pursue, when cient for the consumption of the people, where is the

:ciie of the party is with him, with the Ibllow-
in2; exceptions, who have already reached my

C :np:—

cc ,d or PpTTIN.,'

DEn, arrived this morning.

" Captain JOHNSON, ditto.
" Irs. TaEvart and eight children.
" Captain and MIS. ANDERSON, and three

children.

" Captain MOTIF' and Dr. CAMPBELL.
One European woman and four privates.
" By Ofdcr of the Right Honourable the Go-
VERNOa ENT.RAL of India,
(Signed) - "T. H. HADDOCK,
"Secretary to the Government of India,
- with the Governor-General."

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commerce, and, probably, for a good reason,
MEMOIRS OF
The war was condemn
THE LITERARY LADIES ed by French writers, the
OF ENGLAND. ultimate defeat c 1. the British was pronounced all
By MRS. ELWOOD. but certain, and few of then), therefore, can
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to which their country contributed nothing. Two
or three of the Opposition journals certainly claim
an equal right with the English to the commer-
cial fruits of the victory,but that affair they must
settle with the "Bright Eye," who will probably
tell them that one "barbarian "is quite sufficient.

The cheering news from China and Affghan-
istan, particularly from the former, is extremely
well calculated to inspire our merchants and
manufacturers with hopes of a new and a more
extensive trade. We rejoice much with them at
the prospects of future commercial prosperity
which opening four new ports in China to our
shipping, and opening a road into the countries
beyond the Indus, hold out to our people. At
the same time, we cannot admit that the two
wars now so I►appily and so gloriously concluded,
have had much, if any effect, in interrupting our
trade, or causing our present commercial embar-

rassment.
With respect to China, Sir ROBERT PEEL at-
tempted to make {se of that argument last ses-
sion, but was driven from his position by Mr.
Ins Tin, and obliged to acknowledge that he was
in error. Our chief import from China is tea, a
full supply of which we have always obtained,
and we have always paid for it with our own
produce. Canton has remained open to our
ships during this singular war. Though we
share, therefore, the cheering hope that
the peace with China will much extend
our trade, which GOD grant, we must
remind our readers that the extension will
be a new trade, not the revival of an old and in-
terrupted trade.
As to the trade with Affghanistan, though the
war there has interrupted the communication
which that country had with India and with
other neighbouring countries, in Alt trade the
interests of our merchants and manufacturers
was extremely small. The presence of our army
in Affghanistan may lead hereafter to consider-
able traffic with that country, but the war there
has been of the smallest conceivable influence
in producing the present distress in Great Britain.
It is of importance to remind the public of
these circumstances, because the writer of the
City article in the Morning Chronicle, with a
want of consideration which we should not have
expected in a journal so devoted to Lord
PALMERSTON, yesterday, after alluding to the
peace with China; and the brilliant success of the
British arms by the re-capture of Gliuznee and
Caubul, said—
" The tone of despondency which has been
so long general as regards our trade and ma-
nufactures, has given way also to confidence,
and all men engaged in business look forward
to an early revival (7f commercial enterprise. The
moral eact of the news will be great at home awl
,abroad; it will put new life into the hearts of our
manufacturing capitalists and their workmen, While
it will cause British influence and power to be re-
spected as they should be by all foreign nations."
As might be expected, the evening organ
of the Tories seizes on these words, and holds the
passage up as admitting that the war, by " ob-
structing our trade, has had a most injurious
effect on our manufacturing industry." It goes,
in fact, to relieve the Corn-law from the blame of
the national sufferings, and throws it on the war
with China. The writer does not mean that, but
his language implies, as the peace is to " revive
commercial enterprise," that the war had inter-
rupted it. Such was not the fact, and the peace
will, we hope, call a new trade into being, and '
extend the old, not revive an interrupted trade.
We agree with Mr. R. GREG, that as this war
did not cause our difficulties, putting an end to it
will not relieve them. "To open the empire of
China to our trade," he said at the great meeting
on Tuesday, " would give no effectual relief, in
conjunction with our present system of Corn-
laws."