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PAattssiEer is to be prorogued till the 21st of October; and, as the Order in Council for issuing writs to this effect is silent respecting "the dis patch of business," it is certain that l'arliament will not meet even then. This is exactly what was expected. The undue postponement of the meeting of Parliament has excited universal indignation—an indignation which was endured for a time by Ministers and their supporters in profound silence. 'this was not impolitic. No- thing satisfactory could be said in defence of the postponement, and insufficient palliat?ry statements could only have rendered the discussion more keen and general. But there are cases so very bad that theindignation they excite continues to menace even when unehafed by controversy. So the Ministerial ists, finding they gained nothing by silence, have made a virtue of necessity, put a bold face on it, and begin to defend, or at least extenuate, the reluctance of their patrons to undergo the judgment of the House of Commons, which they called upon the country to return, to decide on their claims to public confidence. The line of defence adopted is characteristic, or (what is the same thing expressed in different words; amusing for its impudence. The evening organ of the DERBY 'Ministry affects utter astonish ment at being told that any person can object to the delay in the meeting of Parliament. It vows that for a new parliament to meet before the customary time of opening the annual session is a thing unheard of. It expatiates on the hardship of calling wearied and jaded members together so soon after the close of a toilsome session. It affects to laugh at the demand for a speedy convocation of Parliament, as the crotchet of a few individuals to which no one pays attention. The matter is not to be got rid of in this off-hand, jocose manner. The attempt of Ministers to stave of to the last moment the meeting of the new Par liament is at once a violation of constitutional prac tice and a breach of personal faith. It is • grave offence on the part of Ministers both in their of and individual capacities. We need not now remind our readers that ever since the Reform Bill Government came into office in le3o, it has been the invariable practice of every Ministry which, after being left in a minority in the House of Commons, has, instead of resigning, ap pealed to the ordeal of a general election, to meet the new Parliament, if possible, on the very day on which the writs were returnable, or if not, as soon after as possible. We have shown on former occa sions that this was the coarse pursued in such cir cumstances by Earl Gary, Sr ROBERT Pen., and Lord NISLBOURNE. The concurrent practice of these statesmen is sufficient to establish the maxim, that a new Parliament, elected in consequence of a dissolu• tion provoked by the Ministers of the day having been outvoted in the House of Commons, ought to meet on the very day for which it is summoned, as part and parcel of the common law of the reformed Parliament. Even the flimsy sophists of the Derbyite ministry will not venture to affirm, that this maxim is in applicable in their case, inasmuch as they were not placed in a minority last session. That a formal vote of want of confidence was not carried against them, was owing solely to their confessing that they were in a minority, and bringing forward no measures of their own. " I know I em in a minority," said Lord Deitity, and begged that the majority would not put themselves to the trouble of proving it by a vote. To rewerd them for their forbearance, he promised to dissolve—to " go to the country"—u soon as the necessary business of the session was concluded. He did more, he introduced—at least he in sisted upon carrying—no measures that had not been prepared to his hand by his predecessors in office. He adopted their bud get; his measures of law reform hs found cut and dry in the pigeon holes of the official desks ; even his precious Militia Bill was little more than an ingenious compound of the worst features of the Pauseesron and Resent. plans. After dodging about the House of Commons to gain time—like the highwayman in the ballad who "traversed the cart," to put off the evil hour of his being suspended— Lord Deane dissolved Parliament, because he was in a minority, on the desperate chance of being able to better his position. The indefinite postponement of the meeting of tlif new Parliament is, therefore, a violation of con stitutional practice. It is another illustration of the reckless manner in which the present Ministers set law and decorum alike atdefianoe when they fancy they can gain anything by it. But, in addition to this, the indefinite postponement of the meeting of Parliament is a breech of promise on the part of Lord DERBY. An English nobleman has broken his plighted word. This is a stain on his scutcheon that he will not find iteasy to wipe off. The promise which Lord Deane has broken was lastingly impressed on the public memory by the reluctance with which he gave it. One night he declared that there should be a short session in autumn for the purpose of taking the opinion of the new Parliament on the claim of Ministers to its eonfidence. Next night Lord DERBY attempted to explain away his words and wriggle out of his rash promise. But the Duke of NEWCASTLE painful him down, and after a discreditable and some of ministerial shuffling, Lord DERBY stated, that though be would not Freesias to hold a short session in July or August, yet he gave his word of honour that Parliament should be assembled to die cuss the ministerial policy, and recognise or reject the claims of Ministers to the country's confidence, time enough to admit of the ordinary business of the ordina ry _ session being set about at the usual time. The indefinite postponement of the Meeting of Parliament betrays the determi nation of Lord DERBY to break his pledge. The position of the present Government is unpre cedented in the annals of this country, since the House of Commons pawned an e ff ective voice on the retention of office by Ministers. For six months have they been in office, and yet no one has been able to elicit from them a distinct and intelligible account of the principles upon which they intend to act, or the measures they intend to promote. No man can say with certainty whether they are Free traders or Protectionists--assertors of a non. intervention or of a warlike and meddling po licy—friends of unsectarian education or abettor, of clerical usurpation. They have " scattered ambi guous voices" to win the support or disarm the dis trust of all, but they have not uttered one clear un mistakeable expression of opinion or purpose. And to enable them to maintain with greater ease this mysterious silence, they wheedled the old Parliament into abstention from all discussions of general prin ciples or policy, and they take are to keep the new one from meeting. For six months have they held office in defiance of the constitutional principle, that , no Ministry shall continue in power without the sanction of the Commons of England in Parliament assembled. Their principles, their contemplated policy (assuming that they have either), are un known ; all that Is known of them is, that they have, during their brief tenure of office, contrived to commit more (and more dangerous) blunders, and to job their appointments more grossly than any other ministry—even than the corrupt ministry of WALPoLE or the blundering ministry of BUTE—in mix times the space of time. Their supporters evaded as long as possible the discretion of these damaging topics. And now that they feel this controversy can be no longer evaded what appearance do they present? Not that of a gallant stag turning to stand at bay, but of a mangy lox, skulking through grata and weeds, dragging its brush in the dirt. They have not one word to say is defence of their patrons conduct; 'they can only assume a gawky air and affect not to understand this charger brought against them. FRANCE. WITNESPAT EVLNIMO. The adjourned ball of the dames de la hale came off last night, and has had uo better luck than the illuminations and other features of the fetes of August. The President, to the cruel disappointment of his friends the market ladies, did not make his appearance at all. Between 10 and 11, just at the outset of the entertainment, a violent thunder shower fell, which soon made its way through the canvass roof, and mingled with the waters spouted from the gilded lions of Jean Goujon's fountain. The immense reserved tribunes, which were to have been filled by the elite of Parisian society, and whose slopes of benches were capable of accommodating as many spectators as the ball-room would hold of dancers, contained hardly any person of distiuction, even among the President's friends. Of refresh ments none were to be had for love or money, if I except some trays of biscuits that were curried under military escort to some ladies in a reserved tribune. In fact, the enormous pro vision that had been made for the departmeut of the Douche on Sunday night had to be . given away, while they were eatable, to the soldiers in the various barracks and to the Bureaux de Bienfaisance. All these united disasters produced a general chorus of complaint, which in the midst of so splendid a spec tacle as the ball-room presented would have seemed unreasonable to a stranger. The absence of the Pre sident can be only attributed to the nature of the reports which he received from Pictri, the prefect of police. Even on Saturday the wildest stories were rife among all classes of Guy Fawkes plots, infernal machines, daggers, pistols, and what not ; but not much attention was paid to these rumours„ the usual concomitants of the President's ap pearance on solemn occasion., until the ball was put off on Sunday night. The motive of the adjournment was evidently not fully explained in the prefect a placard ; and the fact of forty arrests having been made on the same night clearly proves the existence of some more satisfactory cause for the postponement of the ball than a high wind, and tho responsibility of exposing the workmen's lives in re placing the canvass blown off. The Parisians say : Autrefois la hallo faisait sauter le gouvernemont; aujourd hui c'est le gouvernement quo fait tauter la halle," but if we are to believe the reports circulated there was a plot "pour faire sauter le gouvernement et la hale" together. Be this as it may, of the ar rests there exists no doubt, and the abrupt and fierce demeanour of the police on duty in that quarter, the immense numbers of sergens de ville, and even sen tries with their knapsacks, who were pacing up and down in the midst of the ball-room, together with the early disappearance of the greater part of the company, countenance the sup position that there was some sinister design on foot. With the ladies of the halle, who profess incre dulity oe the subject of plot, perhaps to give a freer vent to their disappointment, the President has lost much of his popularity by showing this singular mi.- I treat. They are not wanting in pride, and consider it an unpardonable affront in the head of the state to have broken his engagement with them. It was • great sacrifice to those whose stalls were in the Marche des Innoeeas to bo swept away for a week and more from the place of their usual trade, so that their customers could not find them, while the ex pensive theatrical structure was forming about that beautiful piece of risque cento art the fountain of Jean Goon. The presence of M. Persigny was the lesssatisfactory to them as a substitute for the Pro sident, as they complained of the immense number of ticket' winch had been reserved by the minister of the interior for personages entirely strange to the classes for whom the fate was given. The dame de la Halle, who was selected for the honour of dancing with the President of the Re public paid 35,000 fr. for • set of diamonds in the form of an eagle. But this is a small matter com l i - pared with the loss of her partner, which is irrepa rable, while no doubt the Prince would have no objection to indemnify the lady for her loss in making such a spirited demonstration of imperialism. . . . Madame Peraigny did her best to appease the company, by dancing with the lusty husband of one of the market ladies, one Page. The national guards complained that they had to stand two hours in the drenching . rain, which spoiled their bran-new uni forms, waiting for the Prince; and, after this heavy service,could obtain no creature comforts in the shape of wine or viand". The Mfmtkur publishes a list of the presidents, vice-presidents, and secretaries of the councils-gene. ral appointed by the President of the Republic. The Minister of Foreign Atkin., on tho occasion of the file of the 15th, gave a grand dinner to his col leagues and the members of the Fs diplomatique. Monseigneur Garibaldi, the Pa nuncio, Lord Cowley, and the the ministers an charge d'affaires of Austria, Baden, Bavaria, Belgium, Brazil, Den mark, Two SiciliesSpain, Greece, Hanover, Hand. Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, Saxony, Sweden, Norway, Tuscany, Turkey, Uruguay , and Warbles berg, were present. The Papal nuncio, ■ in the mom of the corps, proposed the health of the Priam Peed dent, to which M. Drouyn de Lhuys replied by a toast, "To the sovereigns and governments whose repreeentativeshehadthe honour to see around him." The Constilutionnel says it has received very im portant intelligence from Lisbon relative to a con vention on the point of being concluded between the French, Spanish, and Portuguese governments for the construction of a railway. It is intended to connect the three capitals of France, Spain, and Portugal by a line of railway. For this purpose each government will engage to favour the forma tion of companies commanding the funds a for the execution of this great undertaking e , ce = government as far as it is concerned will guarantee to the companies the execution of the arrangements which may be stipulated for in the convention, and thereby give a really serious, and, in some measure, dada character to the execution of this international line. The railway would unite Paris to Madrid, from whence it would be carried to Lie bon. The Spanish government has already in some measure anticipated the execution of this convention, by undertaking to execute the sec tion of the railway from Madrid to Bidassoa. As far as regards France it remains for her to authorise the execution of the line from Bordeaux to Bayonne, which is already, it is said, the object of several applications for concession. - M. Vieyra, the ex-colonel of the staff of national guard, recently dismissed for reasons with which you are acquainted, has not waited long for a testimony in the highest quarter of that confidence which his comrades withheld from him. He has been appointed superintendent of the tobacco dealers in the district of the Chatunee d'An tin, with a salary of 3001. a year. The Sieck, with the evident object of calling to mind recent proceedings in a court of justice, observes that this post is one of the throe most important of the kind in Paris, and that 240,0001. a year will pass through M. Vieyra's hands. The Archbishop of Paris, who has not leR the me tropolis since his appointment four years ago, is about to make a tour in Germany. On his way to the Rhine he proposes to visit several French bishops in their dioceses. Marshal Jeriane Bonaparte returned to Paris at four o'clock yesterday morning. BELGIUM. A letter from Brussels states that the ultra-liberal ➢arty are using great effbrts to get up an excitement in the Chamber of Representatives, which will ren der it difficult if not absolutely impossible for the Belgian government to carry the proposed measure against literary piracy, which has been stipulated foe by the French government as one of the oonditions of the new international treaty. Large bile have been posted up in Brussels and all the principal towns of Belgium in the form of an address from the Typographic Committee to all persons interested in the printing trade, and indeed to the public generally, 1 calling upon them to protest loudly against a measure which, if adopted, would destroy an important branch of industry in Belgium, and expressing a hope that the example of the representatives of llolland on the same subject will be followed by the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. ITALY. EnitoNT. 'The CWO:frIV Mercantile of Genoa quotes a letter from Turin, of the 13th, iu which it is stated that the resignation of the Minister of the Interior, M.Pcrnati, is spoken of u certain. The reason of this step is believed to be this: that M. Pernati having proposed to his colleagues to prosecute Count Cardenas for his attack in the Arntonia upon the ministerial circular relative to the petitions against the Civil Marriage Bill, and the council of ministers having decided the matter in the negative, M. Pernati had sought an op portunity of resigning. VIE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENiatt, AUGUST 19, 1852.. SPAIN. We have received in due course the Madrid jour nals of the 13th. The Gazette publishes a royal de crec appointing M. Ventura Diaz Glovernor of Madrid, and also a decree placing vessels of the republic of 1 the Equator in Spanish ports on the same footing as to noviga•ion dues as those of Spain, GERMANY. BERLIN, AUGUST 16. The King of Prussia is deriving great benefit from his sea bathing. ()n the 14th inst. he commences his tour of inspection through Pomerania and the provinces West and East Prussia, which will occupy him till the 4th October. Ho has given up the idea of fetching the Queen from held. The King of Sweden, who is at present at Kisseugen, goes, as soon as his course of bathing is over, to visit the Prince of the Netherlands at 3luskau, in Lusatia. The position of M. von der Pfordten seems to be more than critical. According to a correspondent of the Marlehury Gazette, his removal from office must be a settled thing with the court of Munich. lie lately requested permission to repair to Hohen ischwangau and report to the King in person the result of hi s negotiations at Kissingen, but received in reply a notification that his presence was not deemed necessary. A . private visit, which M. von der Pfordten received from the King of Saxony is said to bo made a pretext of letting him fall into disgrace. The most decisive step against him lies, however, in the fact that the Bavarian plenipotentiary, M. von Mcixner, has been despatched to Berlin to resume the conferences, with instructions furnished to him by Professor Doen niges, without awaiting the result of the Stuttgart conference. If this be true, it amounts to an open disavowal of M. von der Pfordten's coalition policy, and the only wonder is, how he could consent to keep his "lode/el/ilk for a day longer after such practices against him. M. von Manteuffel arrived in town yesterday after noon, and held, the same evening, a sitting with the Ministers of Finance and of Commerce, and the Prus sian commissioners at the Zollverein conferences. The reopening of the conferences, which was fixed for to-day, has been postponed till Wednesday, at the request, it is said, of the Hanoverian commissioner. As regards the result of tho coalition's conference at ' Stuttgart, we have, as yet, no positive information. The southern press merely states in general terms, that all the members of the coalition have agreed on a conjoint declaration, which they have couched in very conciliatory terms, and which will succeed, they hope, in reconciling the interests and pretensions both of Prussia and Austria. The Wurtemberg cabinet, it is said, was chiefly instrumental in re storing unanimity amongst the members of the coali tion, and inducing them to adopt a mediating policy. We must wait, therefore, till this declaration makes its appearance. It satisfied, we suppose, tho Austrian ambassador, who conferred with the assembled coali tion ministers. If it also satisfy M. von Manteuffel, it must be a most notable piece of diplomatic dexterity. The Federal Diet has resolved that the free towns, Frankfort, Hamburg, Bremen, and Lubeck, cannot be allowed to give to Jews the same political rights enjoyed by Christians, because they would thereby lose the character of Christian states, inasmuch as the chief functions of government might fall into Jewish hands, and, perhaps, a Jew be sent as plenipoten tiary to the Diet. For the ship of warDentschland, which cost nearly , seventy thousand dialere, a Hamburg merchant has offered six thousand. This not being deemed suf ficient, the vessel will be put up to auction. The other eight vessels of the cs-decant German fleet are to be taken by the Brazilian government, if it should be found practicable to get the smaller steamers, which do not carry more than a week's fuel, across the Atlantic. There was a report on 'Change last Saturday that the Austrian government is about to nogociate a new loan of three quarters of a million sterling, which it hopes to get through the Vienna bankers, without recourse to foreign money markets. A German letter from Trieste, of the 10th, Stye : The night the frigate Novara and the steamboat Cori° left we have, la whisk the smog innoi-ship the &mows Mew as nay resei testa tithe haperial navy. The Wier to papas ftmer arra any arrived here by share rep* an the Oa, sr is ft liars all was ready. The strewn and mat arm rein seaserning the object of this arks an tear la the city. The offloers of the ang haw as es this sub. jeer, as the eausetimi rear* iestnestkos mailer seal, with arm ash to owe the. bra seashieg the high sem One erg hamar, it mow tained, namely, that the imaindate dissinatisn of the needs is the Bight of Cagan, wham MAW. with Turkey are apprehen .ed. The keg sad aril Meld ter:kol: i d:num is divided in two plan e akin sad below , by outlying portion of the Takla der nione, w hich run oat from the berm of the Insaterina Athe •1111, and is tray break as mafteity at the Austrian moiL to ale steersman* of As Austrian governor of Zane, a dolochmant of Toddle mai diem has arrived, with the aspeassi kern at arr. strews batteries on this part of the soma and thus is ream to believe that the weeks are Wendy beim. The Arta cabinet oonnives that it haw*** is elan is the roe. ties of this project, and it is, to ail snowmen, to eregthen the demand which she makes for its immediate renunciation that it has teat them war 'hips to the Dalma tia iota TURKEY. PARIS, WIDNOIDAY. News has been received by express from Constan tinople that Ali Pacha is appointed Grand Vizier, in the room of Reschid Puha. who retires completely from public affairs. Fuad Effendi wiU, it is said, be appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs. Fethi Pacha, the brother-in-law of the Sultan, will also retire. EGYPT. Accounts from Cairo to the Sth have been received. The political situation continued to be very calm, the only thing, indeed, which had occurred was some pro motions in the upper administration—Edhem Pacha to be minister of foreign affairs, Khair-Eddin-Pacha to be minister of commerce, and Abderrhaman Bev, formerly Abderrhaman Effendi, a Maltese by to be chief of the police, under the nominal di rection of Selim Pacha. IChair Eddie Pasha and Abderrhaman Bey are noted for their attachment to England. The opening fete of the Kalidj, which always takes place when the ri s e o f the Nile causes its waters to flow into the interior canal of the city, took place on the Ist. Abbas Pacha went from Benny with a small squadron of steamers ' and at tended tbo ceremonl without landing. He then re turned to his favourite residence. The envoy of the Porte had not arrived ; he was expected with some impatience by the friends of the government. THE GREAT WESTERN DOCKS, PLYMOUTH.— 'On Wednesday morning, at half-past six, the immense iron pontoon, which has been erecting•for some months Millba,v, was launched. This pontoon is to form a dealing pier for the accommodation of atone of the man stamen which daily come into ISE'limy to discharge and receive cargo, and to replenish fuel. It is 300 feet long by 45 feet wide, and will contain 4,000 tons of coal, its depth being 16 feet. It will be moored in a line parallel with the pier, at a distance of about 180 feet Inside , and 160 hoist the shore with which it w ill be con. noted by means of twu iron bridges. Outside the pontoon there will be eighteen feet of water and inside fourteen feet at low tide, and it will actommothite two large Mayne» one on either side. It was math for the Cheat Western Dock Company, on contract, the from being pre pared at the Bridgewater foundry, and conveyed in parts 'to the waterside at Plymouth, and put together. The ' launch, notwithstanding the early hour, was witnessed by a large number of persons. Notwithstanding Us great balk sad enormous weight, it went off easily and well. THE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE ARCTIC. LIVERPOOL, WEI/NMI/A. A telegraphic summary of the following appeared in the .presi yesterday : At noon this day the United States mail steamer Arctic, Captain Luce, entered our river from New York, which port she left on Saturday, the 7th in stant. By this arrival we arc put in possession of three days' later intelligence than that received by the America. The Arctic carries 78 passengers and 136,537 dollars in specie on freight. The Arctic passed the Pacific at 5.50 p.m. on the Bth, steaming up to New York. The Niagara ar rived out at Boston on the evening of the fifth. Among the passengers by the Arctic is Colonel Moore, special bearer of despatches to London, and Richard O'Gorman. The news by this arrival is very uninteresting. The correspondent of tho New York - Journal of Commeree, writing from Washington, under date August 5, says: )sr. Webster and Mr. Crampton have effected a truce in respect to the fishery war. Mr. Crampton would, as lam advised from an authentic source, have himself suspended the orders and withdrawn the naval farce if he had pos sessed the power. But he has written t o government and urged the adoption of that measure. Ile has, in the meantime, requested Admiral Seymour to remain inactive, as ho probably will do, until an answer be received by Mr. Crampton. The colonial authorities seem, however, dis posed to keep up the war, and they make no secret of the tact that their object is to force the adoption by the United States government of the reciprocity measure. Lord Elgin has recently, in a conversation with a high functionary, denied that reciprocity was at all in view, when the orders were given. They were given, he says, in conformity with the urgent petitions of the colonial authorities—petitions continued, but neglected by the government, for 6 or 7 years. From other sources, we arc advised that the British govern meat bad no reference to the premed= of the recipro city measure, in their action, whatever might have been theintentions of the colonial government. But it is hardly necessary to discuss the question whether reciprocity will or will not be insisted upon as the condition on which the United States can enjoy the right of fishing, as heretofore • for very few here ere disposed to tolerate any propositio n looking towards reciprocity, under present circumstances— whether by legialetion or by treaty. It is a matter of an oertainty what course the Derby ministry, which is now firmly seated in power, will take as I. the fishery question. They may condescend to suffer the matter to be further in vestigated. They may be content with an arrangement which will cony into effect the terms of the Convention of 1818, according to the eotemporary understanding and ex position of it, by those who made it. In that cue there will, of course, be no difficulty. But if for this she demand any equivalent —even reciprocity with Canada—it will not be granted as ea equivalent. After all this storm shall blow over, and the free trade principle shall be better un derstood and established in this country, it is very probable that some system of mutually beneficial reciprocity will be adopted. _ . The steam-ship Albatross had arrived at New York on the 3rd from Halifax, and by her accounts we observe that two vessels have already hem fitted out at New Brunswick, for the express purpose of check ing the encroachments of the French fishermen. It would thus appear that the Americans are not to be the only ones driven from the ground. Indeed, judging from the tone of the provincial press, as well as tho official documents, the sole cause of the trouble with our neighbours on the other side of the St. Lawrence was their anxious desire for reciprocal trade with us, combined with their opposition to the French fishermen. It will be seen that the inhabitants of the pro vinces are particularly desirous, in their petition to the Queen on the subct, that the Americans should continue to fish in t he waters thereabout; but, at the same time, they avoid alluding to the French, from whom they derive no advantage in the gray of trade ; while, on the other hand, it is a well esta blished fac t they reap many perquisites from the Americans, by the sale of produoe, the right of curing fish on shore, &c., in addition to which a I very large number of them gain a livelihood by being employed on board of our vessels. They seem to understand perfectly well that the withdrawal of the American fishermen from their coasts will really be an almost insurmountable loss to them. A despatch from Com. Perry, dated Eastport, Me., states that ho has been collecting information rela tive to the fishery difficulty, and that he thinks the result of the controversy will be favourable to the Americans. The commodore was to sail for St. John, N. 8., on the 12th inst. Tlie debits in the Senate on the Fisheries' ques tion was received on the .ith inst., but was adjourned for a week to afford time for the printing of the documents. The excitement regarding the burning of the Henry Clay has subsided. The coroner's jury have rendered their verdict, and the parties declared guilty of the " culpable negligence and criminal recklessness" by which the fire occurred on board the Henry Clay, and from which all " the deaths ensued," have been turned over to the care of tho I district attorney of Westchester county, to be in 'dieted by the grand jury. The returns of the recent State elections comp in very slowly. From North Carolina only two coun ties have been heard from, and they show a gain for J. S. Kerr, the whig nominee for Governor. Nothing definite luis yet been received from Missouri, but enough is known to render it pretty sure that demo cratic state officers have been chosen, and that Hon. Thomas H. Benton has been elected to Congress. Both the democratic candidates for Congress in lowa, it is thought, have been returned. In Arkan sas, a democratic Governor has probably been chosen, although the returns received indicate that parties are somewhat split up on the legislative ticket. In deed, from the present position of affairs, it is im• possible, at present, to even surmise what will be the result of the coming contest between Pierce and Scott in any of these states. The extradition case regarding Thomas Keine has not as yet been decided. It was possible that it would be decided that he should not be given up. His cue had been removed from New York city to Oswego county, New York state. A national reform meeting was held on the 4th instant at Military-hall. The proposed objget of the meeting was to scare the democratic majority of the Senate of the United States into the passing of the homestead bill; but the secret design was to affect the Presidential election, by giving the land reform vote to Scott. This is the alternative held out to the Senate in the event of their refusing or neglecting to pass the bill, while the leaders of the land reform party know very well that the Senate will not peas 6. One of the speakers said there was an impres• sion that it was a whig meeting, and he seemed to think that the speakers had given ground for it. General Scott was lauded and Pierce d . One of the speakers boasted that they had 16,000 votes in the state of New York, and that this balance of power would carry the election. Three sets of re solutions were passed, each differing more or less from the others. The yellow (over was still prevailing with great fatality at Port an Prince, and other p or t s in the island of Hayti, on the 16th ult. Some sixty or seventy buildings were destroyed by fire in Savannah, on the 3rd hut., in consequence of which a large number of persons are rendered destitute and homeless. According to a despatch from New Orleans, in formation has been received from Texas which con firms the report of the massacre of Captain Marcy and him mon ' by tho Indians, on th e p l a i ns . Wh at authority there is for tl'o announcement that an ex press had arrived at Port Smith, with the intelli gence that the captain and hie command are safe, we have not learned. Fears are entertained that it is a hoax. The American papers contain accounts of tho pro gress and ravages of the cholera throughout the country. Although the di sease i s unusually malig nant, it is pleasinic to know that it does not prevail to within anything like the extent it did in former years, and that most of the eases occur in isolated instances, whore there is a want of proper ventilation and cleanliness. The malady bas already rapidly dimi nished in Buffalo and Rochester, and will probably entirely disappear from those places in a few days. A heavy storm on the 6th deluged the vicinity of Medina, New York State. A house, containing • family, was swept off, and two children wore drowned. The New York Herald contains the following : It appears that the precipitancy of Mr. Webster in Mining his codfish proclamation from Manhaelil, did not meet the approval of the President, it being somewhat out of the usual order of the business of the state department, which generally bears the endorsement, " By the Presi dent," before the signature of the Sectstery of State. And so the President has requested his seseetasy to return to Washington, and proceed to business In a business-MA way, which, it is said, in a few days he intends to do Meantime, the executive has notified Congress of the des patch of the Mississippi war-steamer to the fishing banks— has sent up ell the documents; and they have had a warlike discussion over them in the Senate, including the note of Mr. Crampton, giving notice of the presence of • British protective fleet in the disputed waters. At the same time, we continue to hear of occasional seizures by the British cruisers of American vessels, for violating the &Biala construction of the treaty. This state of things may continue fur some time without bloodshed ; but ft is a hazardous business. We fear that if, between free fishing and free trade, the two parties cannot soon come to some understanding, some unlucky blow will be struck on the fishing grounds which will put a peremptory stop to the negotiations. Mr. Webster must met, if raeo is his object. The slow motions of old-tashioned diplomacy will not answer for the ligherman. They must know their limits, or they will take the responsibility. Where is Mr. Webster ? COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. New Youe, Afro. 7. There has been to-day a little more inquiry fur foreign Exchange, but the market has been swept of all prime ster ling 00 day bills at 1101, and buyers are unwilling to pay 1101 at which molt drawer' are now firm. It has been as certained that gold at the present market value in London, is hardly equal, as a remittance, to prime bills at 1101. We quote: London, 1101 to 1101 S ; Paris, 5.15 tn 6.131; Am sterdam, 401 to 411 ; Frankfort, 401 to 41; Hamburg, 361 to 361; Bremen, 791 to 791. Unless more exchange olfen within the next week or two, prices must rule still higher. The Arctic, which sails to-morrow, has now 200,000 dole in gold engaged, and it is thought will have still more. Notwithstanding Oro arrivals of British goods during the week, the importations of dry goods do not show a very ma terial increase over the total fur the corresponding week of last year. There was a favourable reaction in the stock market this morning, and the bulls have taken hold with a good deal of spirit. Reeding Railroad was the great card, and more then five thousand shares were sold, at an advance ranging from one to one and a quarter per cent. The movement in this stock is certainly astonishing. It will break down one of these days, and carry some of the larger holders with it. It is now selling for double its intrinsic value. Harlem, Erie, and Hudson /liver Railroad were in demand t,-day at better prices. At the first board Erie bonds, 1871, ad vanced 1 per cent. ; N. A. Trust, 1; Canton Company, 1 ; Montgomery Mining, 1 ; Penn. Coal Co., 1; Florence and l ards Ke7port, ;N. J. Zinc, 1; Nicaragua, 1; Huds o n Riv er Railroad, ; Long Island, 1. Norwich and W o rce s t e r declined per cent. The market war buoyaat. and between prices were fully maintained. If this is not the commencement of the fall rise, we must soon look fin it. At the mond hoard there was a gen eral improvement and considerable activity. Hudson River Railroad went up to 11 per cent; Erie Railroad, 1 ; N. A. Trust, 1; Eric bonds, 1871, 1; Hudson river Railroad, se cond mortgage, 1 ; Harlem tad Reading closed at prices curreat in the morning. Then was a good feeling at the clue, and the tendedcy was upward. Corrox.—The market is firm with a good dem',nd at very full prices. Tho sales to-day were 1.600 bales; for three days, 6,500; and for six days, 10,500—a large portion for home consumption. We quote— _._ , Atlantic. Florida. CalTKta. Inferior Ord. low to good Mid. low to guud Mid. fair to law lO4 to II —to ... 114 to 11 Fullyfair to good do —to ... —to .. —to Good and fine The exports of domestic cottons from this to foreign ports for the week ending August 5 have been as follows : Value. Quantity. To China 2,475 40 To 6t. Domingo 1,5.51 24 To Africa 1,273 23 To Dutch West lodise 446 7 To Central America 213 5 To New Groan& 42 1 Total for the week Della, 5,994 pkp. 100 Previously reported Total since Jan. 1 Same time in 1851 Some time in 1860 S.ime time in 1849 Same time in 1848 From Boston for the week do. 2,384 Previously reported Total sines Jan. 1 Same time in 1851 Same time in 1850 Same time in 1849 ASKR/L—There has been more activity; 200 bbla. of pots were sold at 4 dole. 75c. to 4 dole. 811 c., and somo lots of pearls at 5 dela. 561 e. ; 200 bbls. Canadian pots were sold last night for export. thseaDervers.—There is a good eastern demand for fresh ground State at 3 dolt. 871 e. to 3 dole. 931 c. ; and we notice, also for shipment, an increased business in fancy and extra Ohio, but at rather easier rates. The sales are 10,609 bbla. Southern flour is hardly as firm, with sales of 1,100 bbls. at 4 dole. s7lc. to 4 dole. 431 c. Cana. dian flour is unchanged, with sales of 1,200 bbls. meetly at 3 dolt. 871 e. in bond, delivered along side. Rye flour remains quiet at 3 dole. 311 e to 3 dole. 371 e. Corn meal continues waive at 3 dole. 370., (or Jersey. Wheat is still drooping, and the market is en favour of the buyer ; prime piaci Ls, however, are in demand at the re duced prices; the sales include 3,000 bushels handsome mixed Oblo at 93; 4,000 Canadian at 93 to 95, the latter for 1,500 bushels very handsome white; a cargo of very handsome white Ohio at about 96; and some other parcels, most of which were ascertained to be damaged, and the sales cancelled. Rye is dull, and may be quoted at 76 to 761. Oats arc held at 45 to 46 for good state, but less brisk. Corn is in better supply, and for western mixed the late outsides rates are not sustained ; the sales are 40,000 bushels at 60 to 63 for heated and damaged, and 631 to 641 for good sound ; southern white is worth 63 to 70. NAVAL STOSSEIL—Crude turpentine is held at 3 dole. for Wilmington, and 3 dole. 1214. for North county. About 230 barrels spirits sold at 371 c. to 381 e. for largo and small parcels. . . • Pnovistoste.—Pork is generally held at 20 dole. for mess and 17 doh. 76c. for prime, at which some sales have been made • a few parcels may have been purchased a trifle be low &se figures; we n•4ioe also small sales of ricer at 22 dole. • rumps are held at 17 doh. 2.5 e. to 17 dole. 50c. Beef is irm at 15 doh. 60c. to 18 doll. 60c. for mess, and 8 dole. to 9 doh, for old prime ; prime mess and beef hams are scarce. Cut meats are firm at 101 c. to 101 c. for hams, and 8:c. to Sc. for shoulders. Lard sell§ freely at 111 c. to to 11:c. for barrels and times, and Ille. to 111 c. for k e gs. Butter is plenty at 12c. to 14c. for Ohio store, 13c. to 17c. for common to goo d States, and 18e. to 19c. for eatra ditto. Cheese, Be. to 6 . ir Funfa's.— o London, 20 bhds. of tobacco were taken at 22e. &I. ; and 60 tons oil cake, at 17s. 6d. To Liverpool there is no c h ange. A vessel was chartered from St. John's to Liverpool, at 66e. r deals; one of 243 tons, to Sicily and back, at 3,000 doh. the round voyage, port charges paid; one to Rio and back, at 1,00 dole. ; one to Lisbon, at 14 doh, for heavy, and 12 dole. for light pipe staves ; one to Newcastle, at 2.. for naval stores; one to London on private terms ; and several others for various quarters at about pre vious rates. There is a fair business offering for California, ' without &map in price. Naw ORLIANS, AllO UST 6. Cotton sales during the last three days have been only 400 bales, at nominal prices. The Niagara's news was re ceivedkit night, but produced no effect. All other markets are dull. WOOL FROM THE VEGETABLE BISODOM.—The name A vegetable wool has been applied to a fibrous mate rial e hick the ingenuity of M. Pannewits has succeeded in extracting horn leaves of the fir. A manufactory of this material has for some time past existed near Breslau, in Bilesia, in a district termed the " Prairie of Humboldt." The species of pine there operated upon is the pima sykestrii, or wild pine; but it would seem that every member of the fir and pine tribe might be turned to similar account. The leaves of these trees, if examined, will be found to be made up of a fibrous material, held together by a resinous substance. The latter may be dissolved out by means of alkalies, leaving the woolly matter behind. Coverlets, blankets, and other articles made of vegetable wool have long been employ ed in Austria, Vienna especially, in some of the charitable institutions. The materials are warm, durable, and agreeable to the eye; moreover they enjoy the excellent quality of preserving a certain balsamic and rather agreeable smell, which nevertheless is so inimi cal to insects that they never harbour in it. In the Sile sian manufactory the resinous matter holding the woolly fibres together is also turned to account, medicinal baths being made with it as a basis, and which are found to be useful in missy chronic diseases. ROYAL COLLEGE Or SUROEONS.—The following members of the College were admitted to the fellowship, under the provisions of the recent charter, at the last meeting of the council: Messrs. J. R. Atkins, Stoke New ington; IL W. Bailey, Thetford, Norfolk ; W. Blatb wayte, Louth, Lincolns hire; 0. B. Blenkins, Whitehead's grove, Chelsea; T. L. Blundell, New Br oad-street; P. Boseey, Woolwich ; R. Brown, Preston, Lanceshire ; P. H. Chasms*, Birmingham ; It. R. Cheyne Berners-street ; T. F. Chilver, New Burlington-street; J. Courteney, Ar tillery-plaee , H. Curling, Ramsgate; J. S. Daniel, Rams gate; E. Doulueday, Blackfriors-road ; A. W. Damville, Manchester; E. Dunkerley, Oldham; R. Liasquet, Huston place; C. M. Gibson, Norwich; H. Greenwood, Horsley down.lane ; J. Hainsworth, late of Lincoln; S. Hare, Langham-place ; W. Harris, Clapham-road; W. Ile ane , Bury St. Edmund's ,• F. E. Hicks,lleurietta-street, Caven dish-square; C. Hogg Finsbury-place South; W. B. Hutchinson Guilford-street; H. D. Jones, Soho-square; W. Jones,Weston-super-Mare; G. Kelson, Seveneaks ; E. Lacy, Poole; J. Lavies, Gr ea t George-street ; W. Lloyd, Army and Navy Club; C. J. Milton, Upper Seymour street; M. Marley, Cork-street; T. L. Matthews, Crean terrace, Hyde - par k; T. Mellor, Manchester; J. Nicholls, Saville-row; G. Ord, Brixton-hill; J. Phillips, Bethnal g een ; L. Powell, John-street, Berkeley-square; D. Price, Margate: T. Radford, Manchester; G. Rawbone, Chelsea; 0. 8. Snowden, ltamsgate ; W. Solt, St. Neots; C. T. Staunton, 'Loyal Artillery, Woolwich; T. Stevenson, Upper Grosvenor-street; It. Stokoe, Peckham-rye; F. Symonds, Oxford ; W. Thomas, Pembroke Dock ; C. Tona/cy Mill brook-pinee ' • T. Ward, Southg a t e; li . W atson, HaliMoon street ; G, Weheter, Busses-gardens, and W. C. West, Great Malvern. COMMITTAL OP A SERGEANT OP POLICE.—At Croydon l'etty Sessions on Tuesday, Thomas Morris, a see geant in the P division of police, wu committed for trial, with his wife and dtughter, on a charge of stealing a consi derable quantity of household furniture. Vbe Court. The Queen held • Privy Council at half-past one o'clock yesterday at Ot , borne. The Council was attended by l'rince Albert, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Ikrby, tho Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, th e Earl of Malmeshury, Sir John Pakington, the Chan. cellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Nortnumber. land, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Right Hon.!. C. lies:ries, and the Marquis of Exeter. At the Council the I'arliament was ordered to h e prorogued to the 21st day of October. The lion. William Bathurst was Clerk of the Council in waiting. The Earl of Derby had an audience of her Majesty. Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malinesbury, Sir John Pakington, the Chains-llor of the Each°. quer, the Right Hon. J. C. 'ferries, and the Marquis of Exeter left town at haf-past nine o'clo:k by q special train on the South M'estena Railway, l'h e train took up the Lord Chancellor at Kingston. The Earl of Derby and the Marquis of Salisbury joined their concaves at Farnbomugh, having travelled from St. Leonard's. The train reached Southampton at half-past 11 o'clock. The ministers crossed in the Fairy Queen yacht, and arrived at Osborne at a quarter-past ono o'clock. The Earl of Hardwick° joined his colleagues at the Isle of Wight. The Fairy Queen, with the ministers on board, left Osborne at a quarter-past three, end arrived at Southampton at 20 minutes past four o'clock. Immediately on reaching the railway terminus the ministers left by I special train for London. The Earl of Derby and the Marquis of Salisbury stopped at Farnborough to pro. coed to St. Leonard's, and the Lord Chancellor re mained at Kingston. The Duke of Northumberland accompanied hts colleagues from Osborne. OSBOR.N Wl!ltto:soar. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal party, arrived yesterday at Osborne, at one o'clock, from the yacht. The Duke of Northumberland remained Lod night on a visit to the Queen, and will leave to-chav after the Privy Council, appointed to be held at one o'clock. The Countess of Gainslairvigh al , o remained on a visit, having been succeeded by the Countess of Desert as Lady Waiting to her Majesty. The Cambridge University Commission had a meeting yesterday at the official residence of the First Lonl of the Treenail, in Downing -street. Pres, nt—The Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Ely, Professor Sedgwiek, and the Rev. W. 11. Bateson (secretary). Despatches were received at the Colonial-office on TUC,. day night, from the Governors of the West India Islands. TILE ROYAL JOERNEY To BALMORAL—II is derstood that her Majesty and the royal family wilt again spend a night at llolyrood Palace, to rule to Balmoral, and preparations aro accordingly being mode there for her re. ceptien. Intimation hu been received at Balmoral that the court will arrive there on Wednesday, the lit of Septemb t r, so that the illustrious party will probably reach Ilolyrood on the evening of Tuesdar, the 31st of August, departing next morning on their northward journey. —North Briton Daily Mail. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. The following order in council appeared in a sup. plement to the London Gazettc of la.t night : " At the Court at Osborne-house, Isle of Wight, the Itth day of August, 1852, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.—lt is this day ordered by her Mapsti in Council, that the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of that part of the Unit,..l Kingdom called Great Britain, do issue writs for proroguing the psrliarneat. which was appointed to meet on Friday the 20th day of August instant, to Thursday the 21st day of October next; and also for proroguing the ...invocations of the provinces of Canterbury and York, from Saturday the 21st day of Aa• gust instant, to Friday the 22nd day of October next." I ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA. COWES, WEDNESDAY. The good people of Cowes, as was predicted, are not to be this year deprived of the presence of her I..lesty on the occasion of this great annual regatta, for shortly after my communication of yesterday was dispatched, the booming of the guns from the platform battery at Ports mouth, as well as those of the men ..f war lying at Spithcad, announced the arrival of her Majesty in the Channel, on her return from the marine excuroon to Antwerp. All was soon bustle and activity, and in about an hour after. wards the firing of a royal salute in the Solent announced that her Majesty bad landed at Osborne House. About an bone from this time the royal steam yacht Victoria and Al bert, the Fairy steam-tender, the Black Eagle, Master Com mander Pettey, the Odin, steam frigate, 16, Captain Hen derson, and the Itarracouta 6, steam sloop, Captain the icon. S. T. Carnegie, came down the Solent, and after an exchange of signals, blew off their steam, and cnchored in the West Cowes Roads. m iheteisliitiCti;ubt that her Majesty will patronise the ri t t u ta rs w d i a t y h a h a ll t z t ese ur z i e y i:r . h t arni on both of the grand days Lord Adolphus Fitsclaterite, on the Victoria and Albert lying to abreast of West Coxes Castle, came ashore and visited the Club-house. The race (or her Majesty's Cup hod not concluded at the time of my last communication being despatched, but, as was anticipated by several persons at an early period of the race, the Arrow succeeded in recovering the position she appeared temporarily to have lost on going towards ltyde, for she passed the station•vessel at Cowes as under h. m. sec. Arrow The other two vessels appeared to be almost et this point out of the race, but on passing Cowes they were timed as follows: b. m. sec. Lavrotk 2 19 4 Aurora They then proceeded fur the rest of the course to the vessel moored off Yarmouth, but on reaching Ezypt the Aurora struck her flag and gave up all further share in the contest, leaving the race virtually to the Arrow alone. The great difference in the time of the arrival of the two last vessels, it is stated, is accounted for in this way : On doing down towards the Nab Light, the Arrow throughout kept to the northward, whilst the Aurora and Levi:rick were closer under the island. When abreast of St. Helen's, with a breeze blowing strong from the north-east, she cought it up, made a bog reach and rounded tne Nob, whilst the two others, being under the island, weut fast to the leeward. This difference of position will, therefore, account for the disparity between the arrival of the Arrow and the Aurora and Lavrock. After passing Hume% hay the Arrow kad it entirely her own way, rounded the station at Yarmouth, and arrived off the starting vessel at Cowes as ander : h. m. s. Arrow The Lavrock, on her return from Yarmouth, experienced the effects of a very heavy storm of thunder and lightniog with hail and rain, but on this passing over, the wind dropped and a perfect calm ensued. la this becalmed state she remained for two hours, during which she dritted back several miles with the tide. She eventually managed to pick up a light breeze, and got back to Cowes at the time undermentioned : h. us. s. Lavroek The Arrow was therefore declared to be the winner of her Majesty's cup ; being the second gift of her Majesty won by Mr. Cbamberlayne with that vessel this season. The war steamers got under weigh last evening, bitweea seven and eight o'clock, and proewestoi to Bpithead, salutiag her Majesty as they respectively prold °kerne Rouse. DEATH OF ML HARTLAND, TILE COMIDIAN. Yesterday evening Mr. W. J. Payne, the deputy earner, held an inquest at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the body of Mr. Hartland, the once celebrated comedian and panto. mimist, whose death was caused by the falling of a portion of a scaffold in Mount•street, Westminster-bridge...read, oa Monday afternoon. Mr. Walter Tyler, comedian, and Mr. George Knowles, butcher, detailed the particulars of the accident:—lt appeared from their evidence that a large number of persons had collected just under the scaffoldiag in question, their attention being attracted by a splendid carriage and four fa hand which had just drawn up oppo site. Suddenly an alarm was raised that a portion of the scaffolding wee falling , ane the people dispersed. Mr. Hartland appeared not to hear the cry of alarm, or at all events took no notice of it, and in another moment he was struck down by a falling pole, with a plank and jittiterat tached to it. Ile died before reaching the hospital. The last named witness (Mr. Knowles) stated that I c remained behind to examine the scaffolding that had fella, and finding the t e hat the labourers were eery ultimo w remove pole and plank, he inai•ted upon putting his name on them in order to enable him to idea ttfy them, as on examination he found the 'tole was crap pletely rotten and unfit for use.—Mr. John Down, foreman to Mr. Kelk, the builder, and superintendent of the woeks in Mount street, said he examined the scaffold after it woo pat up, and found it all safe, but he could not answir as to the pole. He did not think there was anything anti,s with the pole. It might be a little rotten, but he should not he sitate to put half a dozen men on it to-morrow. A onl had been driven into it some time ago just at the spit where it had since broken, and that might have caused dtmpner and consequent rottenneas.—Seeeral persons in court said it was a pity the pole could not be brought forward for the inspection of the jury, for it was thoroughly rotten SOll3O other evidence having been offered, the jury thond' verdict of Accidental death," and added to it an express sion of their opinion that blame attached to the supelllP tondent of works for not seeing that the scaffolding sto not snore aware. Ihe deceased was in his 70th year. A THUNDERSTORM broke over Manchester and its neighbourhood on Tuesday night, a )on after Its which continued with great violence till near mblnight. The rain fell in torrents. The lightning was ete reelinglf vivid, and was almost i ncessan t, an d t h e peals o f thunilst exceedingly loud and of long continuance. The lightning struck a shopkeeper at his door, end rendered hint Inset able for a short time, but be recovered subsequently. with an the =Mut, hooker have t which times I withov At labouri interpo the exa The j The I deairab tained Latfan'l upon w to have Capt. which e better t premien concern The l da,irou , that th guidaa( led to t The I the spec tecident ----- Capta the leas know if he we that be fact, be fhel bey Capts they a b queatior from Cr Perhaps a safe a several An auxi meonvm was not press at Suggest, en i two eng Capt. from an doubted) pull up I little nai pilot at f Serous p Thee bad atfor the Jury, LoND Return ",au ßei Tot a l. raj