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z ,u; t, as exercised, are palpably inconsistent with Magna Charta, the laws and securities of Eduard I. and the petition of right ; and there l ever was a time more favourable to an accurate . ni p just determination of its powers. We cannot Intl in the laws of any age or country a crime which can be committed " under amiable feelings," a nd a jurisdiction which recognises such crimes, :earns to us to require to be corrected and curtailed. Without meaning to insinuate any blame to the :resent CHANCELLOR, we consider this Court :,ad its powers as a general question, worthy of :pecial notice, in a public sense, and with refe wee to the constitutional liberties of the country, and the statutes and usages which protect person 311 J prcperty. Last night, the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, wbose diplomatic knowledge is most respectable, ;toed that he inferred, from the terms of the communication made to France in July, relative to the protocol in April, that a previous com munication had been made, and an answer meived, which sought permission to publish the fact , and he begged to be informed who .i:ez it was not so. Lord GREY replied, that verbal communications had passed. It et!d hence appear that the French Government ma sought permission to make the use of the fact, ticli it so exaggerated in the KING'S Speech. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY then moved :he second reading of his bill, for the augmentation of the incomes of small church livings. Its object to extend the provisions of the Act of Chas. 11. The CHANCELLOR commended. it, and stated that there were from 800 to 1000 small livings, worth not more than £6O per annum. The Bishop of LuNDON, in support, stated that church property would be found not to exceed a third of what it had been represented. [a the Comatoxs, after a long conversation, it 1;35 agreed to sit till six to-day on the Reform ]lill. There will be no sitting on Monday, owing to the festival on opening London Bridge. In the Committee, on the question being put on GciLDFORD, Mr. DENISON moved for two mem b.?rs ; and after fifteen speeches, a division took glace, 186 for his amendment, and 253 for onlyone member. litts - row t was then added to the list. HONIION produced a long speech from Sir G. V.l FIRES DER, but was added. HUNTINODON, after a short debate, was reduced 3t placed in B. I, VIBE found no supporters. L tuNcEsToN was decided upon after speeches from Sir JOHN MALCOLM and Sir H. HARDINOE. LisKRARD followed, and LYME REGIS. LYMINGTON after a short opposition from Messrs. CROIZA and BURRARD. MALDON produced a sharp debate, in which Mr. DICK, Mr. LIENNARD, and Mr. WESTERN rere followed by eight other speakers. A long discussion then took place, relative to :-.leeting to-morrow (this day), when '216 voted for t, and 143 against it. We are indebted to the activity of the Dublin Morning Post this day, for a supplementary edi tion, giving the conclusion of the Mullingar Mains, and the acquittal of all the prisoners on % ulved in the Castlepollard affair ! Our readers Hill find an account of this extraordinary trial in our last page. It would appear that nine of the Jury were for the acquittal, and three on the other side. " Thus it was (observes theMorningßegister) at the inquest at Newtownbarry—one portion of the jury entertained opinions exactly the opposite of the remainder ; and if they had been allowed to de hoerate up to the present moment, there would be :is little chance of an unanimous decision, u when the coroner thought proper to dispense with their smices." This afternoon, the Marquis Of LON DON DER R T av e a grand dejeuni a la fourchette, at his seat near Fulham, to the KING and QuEzw, and a vast Limber of the Nobility, and other persons of dis tEiction. Sir W. F. Elliot, Bart. has intimated to the Yreebolders of Roxburghshire, and those who acquire the elective franchise under the pro \ isions of the Reform Bill, that it is his intention ti take the earliest opportunity, after the Bill ;hall have passed into a law, again to stand for the County, and to solicit the honour of their ff: ages. _ _ One of the most piquant and applicable speeches hich have been delivered in the Committee on the form bill, was spoken on Thursday ninht by Sir H. Doyle, in answer to Mr. Cresset Pelham, who -lid that the disfranchisement of the nomination ' roughs would be the ruin of the Constitution: If," observed the gallant and Honourable eart.—" We go on this way, from night ti night, during this hot weather, some of us :taking, and others of us listening to, speeches which have been repeated over and over again, and Almost without variation, during the course of the i.reacnt Sessions, I am sure that it will terminate in :be ruin of the constitution of us all." FOUR PERSONS XILLIED IX BALLINROBB.•—• e have seen a private letter, received by a respect al..;e merchant in this city, from a correspondent in Ballinrobe, in the county of Mayo, announcing the tr•elanclioly intelligence of three men and a woman -Aing being shot near that town on Saturday last. !.e v, titer states that the starving peasantry tried to AEI by force 24 carts of meal from a party who were % . .4kiLeting it from Westport for the relief of the .:istrtssed. An altercation ensued, in which three "1 4 ntrymen and a woman were shot, and a con siderable number wounded. Several were taken I , 74otiers and lodged in the gaol of Ballinrobe.— the coroner was proceeding to hold an inquest on the bodies of the deceased, when the writer was cloclig his letter. Freeman's Journal. ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. Our funds are looking up this morning, in the face of the reported Prussian declaration against the Poles, of which nothing official has as yet come to light. Consols which left off yesterday at 82{ i for the account, opened at the same price ; and at present they are 83, with a firm market. Nothing doing 48 yet in the Foreign Market. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols have been during the most part of the morning at 82 i to 83 for the Account, with little doing. The Foreign Market is in a state of stag nation. THREE O'CLOCK. STOCK Excuaxos.—Bank Stock, 2001. Three per Ct. Red. 83/ 6 Three 1 er Ct. Consols, 824 1. Three end a Half pet Cent. 1819, —. Three and a Half per Cent. Red. 911 I. Three and a Half per Cent. New, 901 1. Four per Cent. 1826, 100. Long Annuities, Jan. 1360, 17 3.16;. Annuities, Oct. 1859, An nuities, Jan. 1860, India Stock, • do. Bonds, 3 2 prem. Old Annuities, —. £l OOO Exchequer Bills, —; £5OO do. 16 14 ; £lOO and £2OO do. —. Consols for Account, 821 1. FOUR O'CLOCK—Consols, 821. We hear that the Stock Exchange Committee have decided that there is no holiday on Monday, which is rather singular. Great anxiety is now felt for the next informa tion from Poland, both armies being in such a situation that they cannot remain long without the decisive blow. CHOLERA Monims. According to accounts from Berlin, it appears that the cholera threatens that city ; and most energetic measures for its prevention have been adopted by the Government, some of which have already been put into execu tion. Sixteen hundred families, in the most populous quarter of the city, are immediately to quit their habitations, and take up their residence in the part of the commission sanitaire. The garrison has :deo received orders to be ready, to bivouac in the plain of Charlottenburg. The arsenal and the theatres of exercise are about to be made into hospitals. The King is gone to Toplits to bathe ; his departure has caused some sensation. This information was brought to Brussels by M. Behr, Belgian agent at Berlin, on the 22d July. LIVERPOOL, JULY 28.—There has been a good steady demand for cotton this week. The sales yesterday were 2,500, and to-day 3,000 bags ; but the demand is freely supported by sellers, without any perceptible difference in the price. The expec tation of the new duty being put on almost imme diately, lead some holders to expect rather better prices. THEI I? MAJESTIES. «ixDSOR, FRIDAY. —The Queen entertained the Duchess of Gloucester, Cambridge, and Saxe Weimar, Princess Augusta, and the Laudgravine, the Marchioness of Westmeath, and several other distinguished personages with a fete champetre at Virginia Water on Wednesday. during his Ma jesty's visit to town. An elegant collation was laid out in the centre marquee, which forms the dining-room, and the band of the Ist Life Guards were stationed in a boat on the lake opposite to the marquees. The Royal party remained in this beautiful retreat till seven o'clock, when they returned to the Castle. The King arrived shortly afterwards, escorted from Hounslow by a party of the Life Guards. Earl Howe arrived at the Castle yesterday, on a visit to their Majesties, and left again this morn ing for town. The King took a long airing yes terday in the green drives of the Great Park, accompanied by the Princess Augusta. The Queen's saddle horses were ordered to be in attend ance at five o'clock, but the heavy thunder storm that began about that hour prevented her Majesty from enjoying her favourite exercise. This day their Majesties took their usual airings; but the afternoon being showery, they confined their drives to the vicinity of the Castle. To-morrow, after luncheon, their Majesties and the rest of the Court will leave the Castle for Rose bank, near Fulham, to honour with their presence the fete given there by the Marquis and Marchio ness of Londonderry. From Rosebank there Ma jesties go to St. James's Palace. The Landgravine of Hesse Homberg will not accompany their Ma jesties to Rosebank or St. James's Palace, but will continue to reside at the Castle during their ab sence. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria, attended by Lady Catherine Jenkinson, Baroness Lelia.; and Sir John Conroy, left Kensington Palace yesterday for North Castle, in the Isle of Wight. The French and Dutch Ambassadors had long interviews, yesterday, with Viscount Palmerston at the Foreign Office. Lord Ponsonby transacted business yesterday at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Viscount Palmerston bad an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Treasury. Sir James Graham visited Lord Altborp yester day at the Treasury. IMPORTANT Naw REVENUL REG LATIONS The Irish Stamp Office is to be removed forthwith to the Custom-House. It is intended to remove thither as many of the government departments, dispersed through Dublin, except the Post-Office, as can be accommodated, and the Stamp Office, be ing a revenue department, its officers are to move first, as the present government are anxious to get the revenue departments into as close contact as pos sible, without delay, very important alterations in the system of management being in con templation. It is thought that the present boards will be got rid of, and that in lieu of them, there will be one board of practical men, acquainted with the commercial and financial interests of the three countries. This board will manage all the revenue departments, except the Post Office ; and the enormous expenditure occa sioned by separate departments will be avoided. ' Instead of there being three or four collectors of revenue in every large town, there will be but one collector and one establishment of revenue officers. All the working officers of the several departments will thus be combined ; all the rest will be dispensed with ; and one system of collecting re venue, and of granting bounties and drawbacks, will pervade the United Kingdom—Dublin Morn ing Register. The new pier and stairs to Hungerford Market are proceeding with rapidity. SECOND EDITION. STAR OFFICE, SEVEN o'CLocK. A rumour was prevalent to-day, that there will be another and immediate dissolution of Parliament. The factious opposition of the Boroughmongers certainly justifies such a proceeding; and there is good authority for believing, that it is by no means necessary to bring even that part of the Reform Bill, already settled in the Com mons, before the Lords, to legalize the dis franchisement of the Boroughs in schedule A, or the new Constitution of the Boroughs in schedule B. The concurrence of the Lords in certain measures maturely and deliberately settled by the Commons, is now found to be a matter of courtesy—not of Law ; and adissolution,afterthepreliminary clauses of the Bill have passed the present Committee, would at once uproot the influence of the Borough faction, and give to the popular interests the rower of returning a new and reformed Parliament, in which the further details of the bill, and other ne cessary provisions, would be debated, and, if found expedient, adopted, without the perpetual and har ragging obstacles which the routed faction seem de tennined recklessly to throw in the way ofthe public business of the country. Nothing as to the cer tainty of a dissolution, however, or as to the tine it may take place, has transpired at the latest post hour ; but as the affair has assumed an imposing and credible appearance, we deem it proper to lay this account of it before our readers. In our preceding columns will - Lie found the rea sons for an emly meeting of Parliament this after noon. Both Houses—particularly the Commons —were crowded to excess ; and an unusual appea rance of seriousness:and solemnity seemed to per vade the proceedings. At two o'clock the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, and the Duke of RICHMOND took their seats as his Mai sszv's Commissioners, when The Royal Assent was given to the Abolition of Oaths before the Lord Steward's Bill ; the Reduc tion of Salary of the Master of the Mint's Bill— the Customs and Excise Abolition Oath Bill—Wi dows of Writers to the Signet of Scotland's Bill ; Bolton and Leigh Railway Bill ; Southampton Pier Bill; Ferrybridge Commons Inclosure Bill; and upwards of fifty other public and private Bills. The Queen'. Dowry Bill was then real a third time and passed. Mr. Beaus'. and others brought up five private bills, which were read a first time. Viscount DUNCANNON brought up the Dean Fo rests' Bill, and General Steam Navigation and Corporations' Bill. Mr. DUNDAS brought up the Edinburgh Improvement Bill. Lord ANNANDALE having made good his claim to the Peerage, took the oaths and his seat. The House then adjourned to Tuesday. In the House of Commons, the SPEAKER, took the Chair, at a Quarter before 2 o'Clock, when after some immaterial preliminary proceedings —among which was the presentation of a petition from a place in the County of Chester by Mr. Hv NT fora repeal of the Corn Laws, A message arrived from the Lords, summoning the House to attend, to hear the royal assent given to the various Bills which we have enumerated above. A long discussion took place whether the House should go into the Reform Committee—a measure, as usual, keenly contested by the Boroughmongers ; but it was ultimately resolved to proceed, and the first question was, that NI alines bury should stand part of Schedule B. After a few words from Mr. BARING, the question was agreed to. The Borough of Marlborough was next similarly disposed of, after the usual opposition by Mr.ESTCOURT, Mr. W. BANKES, and Sir C. WETHERELL. The Borough of Great Marlow, and Oakbampton were then plated in schedule B, as was likewise that of Ryegate. The house was proeeeding in this manner at the latest post hour. Serious apprehensions appear to be entertained in certain quarters lest the conduct of Prussia, with regard to Poland, should lead to a declara tion of war on the part of France against the former power. Our apprehensions, however, are the very reverse. Wo fear that France will not declare war against Prussia : but, at the same time, we must say that, if the French government do not take some effectual steps to enforce the neutrality of that nation, they will prove them selves the veriest poltroons that ever were placed at the head of a great people. The same remarks will apply, though not, perhaps, with equal force, to our Cabinet, should they quietly suffer the ag gressions of Prussia against Poland. Dr. BADLY, of Chelmsford, died on Monday, aged eighty-eight, having practised medicine for fifty years there ; during which time he contrived, by industry and frugality, to lay up a very com fortable maintenance. He has left a very singular provision in his will—that he is to be buried by torchlight at midnight on Monday next. A correspondent asks whether we know any thing of a French expedition going to Oporto, as it is rumoured in Paris that it is intended to revive an old plan, and root up all the vineyards in the Douro. We acknowledge that we have no infor mation upon this subject ; but it would doubtless meet Mr. Poulett Thompson's ideas ; as then, un der the new regulations, we should be obliged to drink claret instead of port. The idea of rooting up the vineyards of the Douro originated with Count Subterra (Pamplona), the agent and tool of the French, and it forms a leading feature in his memorable manifesto, which nearly raised the northern provinces of Portugal against the French. —Post. There has been invented at Boston, in America, a machine for sweeping streets by horse power ; one man and a horse are sufficient, with this ma chine, to sweep all the streets in a city in a com paratively short time. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS HERALD.—The Archbishop of Canterbury's Bill for confirming and perpetuating the augmentations made by ecclesiastical persons to small vicarages and curacies—in short, for improving the condition of th e inferior clergy—will be hailed with satisfaction by every well wisher of the esta blishment. Though thsre are many parts of out Church government which require, and will, no doubt, experience revision in the reforming spirit of these times, there is no part of it respecting which the demand for alteration was so pressing, as that which relates to the almost destitute condition of the possessors of small curacies and livings. We are glad to find not only that this subject has been taken up, but that it has been taker: up in the proper quarter—by the church itself. It is of great importance to know that those who fill the highest stations, and exercise the greatest influence, in the establishment are anxious to meet improvement half way, instead of taking measures to oppose an unavailing resistance to the wishes of the people ; for it is by giving up what is bad that we shall best preserve what is worth preserving in church as well as in state. The outrageous contrast observable in the provision for the higher and the lower clergy was always one of the great blots upon the system. By adding to the comforts of that respectable class of men, who are entitled, by the natute of their office and the extent of their education, to the respect of the cont. munity, we shall have done something towards the removal of so great an evil. We shall not only have begun improve. ment but begun it at that end which, on the score of huma nity, was entitled to the first attention. But lest we should appear to exaggerate what is proposed to be effected by the measure, we wish to be understood as estimating its chief value from its principles, which is that of reform. POST.—The Whig Radicals, seeing that the moment of popular delusion has paned, and that the people, so artfully and unnaturally excited in favour of revolution, under the specious guise of reform, are daily more and more returning to their senses, begin to despair of being able to carry their atrocious project. They have therefore resolved upon a new desperate expedient, every way worthy of their cause, and in perfectly due keeping with their obvious designs. The de. bates in parliament upon the revolutionary bill have served so completely to undeceive the public upon this most momentous of all questions, that the revolutionists, in their ca. geraess to destroy the Constitution, do not hesitate to re sort to the most unconstitutional means to accomplish their purpose, and they have accordingly determined to petition parliament to stifle all further discussion upon the subject, and to adopt every means of coming to an immediate deci sion upon the question. Such is the evident purport of a requisition addressed to the Lord Mayor by the city radicals, to convene a common hall, to express the sense entertained by the livery of London of the delays in passing the reform bill, and of the vexatious and prolonged opposition raised against it." This of itself affords a tolerable specimen of the kind of freedom of discussion and justice of decision to be expected from the proposed revolutionary system ; and we hope and trust that such additional exposition of the deep laid plans of our reformers will serve still further to expose their iniquity to public view, and show the necessity of In creased exertion on the part of the friends of the Constitu tion to counteract such infamous designs. TlMES.—There are 40 boroughs in schedule B. Sir Robert Peel had made a motion the previous evening, on the success of which he pledged himself should depend the fate of all the remaining boroughs. He moved that, in stead of one member, each borough in schedule B. should have two, giving It clearly to be understood, that if he should be beaten on that point, he would offer no trouble in the case of individual boroughs. What has happened since ? Why, that there is scarcely a borough yet named in the list which has not brought up two or three orators, on the most stale and frivolous pretences (with one or two exceptions) for inducing Parliament to do that very thing seriatim, which, on Sir Robert Peel's motion, it had within 40 hours refused to do in the bulk,—namely, expunge the name of this and that specific nuisance from the schetkle, by perpetuating its Iwo repre sentatives. The Opposition evidently take for their fa vourite watch-words—delay, and the chapter of accidents. They are besides, we grieve to admit, entitled to the praise of perfect union—of admirable discipline—of alertness, dili gence, pertinacity, and boldness, in their general conduct of the war. The habit of service and the consequent promptness of obedience goes for much, and, however lamentable, it is curious at least to find the volunteer camp of Sir Robert Peel more adroit in manceuvre and more re solute in battle than that of the regular and royal force opposed to it. There Is no parallel for such subordina. Lion in circumstances thus untoward, butsthat which Milton has described so powerfully in the first book of Me great poem, where the defeated snaty of a certain chief are pic tured as maintaining, in the depths of irretrievable ruin, that same spirit of combined though desperate action which had encouraged him and them to the prosecution of their bad enterprise. For these qualities then, the borough. mongers are far more conspicuous than their oppo. nents. But what of that? How often have we been forced to remind the minister that he has all England at his back ! And how deplorable will it be if the people of England, instead of being content to follow the King's Minister, shall find themselves compelled to take the advance of him ! There was nothing more true than the statement which we gave a few weeks ago of the perfect organization which reigned, and still rusts, throughout what may be justly called the insurgent force of the borough mongers. The head-quarters may have been transferred from Buckingham-house Pall-mall, and the oligarch stan. dard painted on sonic leis elevated station, but the cote mittee still exists and nets. The morning plot is developed by the evening's execution ; the 14 members of the corn. mince, with Sir It. Peel for the chairman, the 14 squads of nightly combatants, each instructed by its own drill-serjeant from the committee, who is responsible for the muster, and for the manouvres of his men ; all these preparatives be speak an organization as complete as that of our old friends the United Irishmen, and for a purpose almost as praise worthy as theirs. To the committee belongs the task of fixing on topics for the night's perfor. liance,—what point of the bill shall be carped at, and by whom,—when matters shall be pushed to a division, on what pound, and so forth. We wish it could be confidently added, that the Government were equally well equipped, in any thing but numbers, for the contest. It must, however, be confessed that Lord Althorp's unfortunate, though pos sibly very amiable, habit of suffering the shrewd old hands on the opposite bench to seraphim by extolling his lordship's candour, his good temper, his liberality, fee. &e. appears more th an once to have distracted his lordship's attention from the one thing needful—“ the bill, and nothing but the bill." The country witnesses with contempt these combings. down across the table : should it find them invariably fol. lowed by a grant of somejurther delay, contempt would be swallowed up in indignation. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Juty 28. - . The deservedly high estimation in which George Silvertop, Esq. of Minster• Acres, the present High Sheriff of Northumberland, is held, was unequi vocally manifested yesterday, by the very nume rous and brilliant cortige, which accompanied him in his state procession from the Northumberland Courts, to receive and welcome his Majesty's Judges of Assize, at the wind place, the Cannon, in the county of Durham. The train of carriages amounted to nearly forty—several of which wete splendid equipages and four ; and the number of gentlemen on horseback, which included a large portion of the respectability of the county, must have been at least 600 or 700. Ihe late members of the Bywell Yeomanry Cavalry, headed by John Jobbling, Esq. of Newton-Hall, and which were formerly under the command of the High Sheriff, attended in the procession as a aFecial mark of respect. The state-carriage of the High Sheriff was drawn by six beautiful bays, and the liveries being all new, the set-out was every way handsome and attractive. The worthy High Sheriff himself, who looked remarkably well, rode a fine chesnut horse, being attended, according to ancient fashion, by two Pages of Honour—one at each stirrup. Percival Fenwick, Esq. who officiated as Under Sheriff, headed the procession. Between eight and nine the procession returned to Newcastle with the Judges, when the commissions were opened at the respective Courts in the usual manner. It bas been observed that there are few martins (hirundo urbica,) and no wrynecks (lynx torquilla) this year, while swallows, (hirundo rustica) are particularly numerous. OPINING OF LONDON BRIDGE. The preparations are in a state of wordeeul forwareln.ss considering the short period since the commencement of the task. The w:;rknich have already cut cracted the ii 'al table in the tent prepared for his Maj•sty. Tee thitme which was prcirred for ill .n the 9th of Nevem ber will, it is btlieved, be placed in this splendid spot mem. in which the great N :taste re of State. tht• the Foreign Ambassador, end those who will accompany their Majesties, and as it were form the Cruet, will nit down to the fess:. .kiready the ceiling is brilliantly deco. rated with flags of all nations, commemorative of the sueces* of the British anna by tea aid lard. The Royal Sable will b e laid for 18 persons. Below the Royal tent, at each eide of tl,e wide pass throu,:li which the proxseioa is te s ta. are two tiers of table* occupying a space of npssates of 2'1 0 ,K) feet. Those tables will extend along th bridge more than 500 leer. floe aldermen and their ladies well occupy the tables nearest to the. King's tent en each side. Below these tables the common councilmen and their ladies will take their places; and the rest of the company will be vcommedeted In the 'en:: line, but lower down. The Lord Mayor, Aldermen. and London Bridge Committee, will meet their 3lnjestie• on the steps of the grand western entrance front She Tt mugs, abd above the stems will be stationed a guard of honour. ',heir Majesties will, upon reaching the top of the grand stair., Le con !lofted along the broad passage front the Royal lent to the Sou.it. wark extremity. Upon returning from tile tioud.wark cx re ality of the Iridge their Majesties will proceed to the Royal tent, and partake of the hospitality of the King's faithful subjects of the City of London. It Is that the procession will be at an end at about half -part four, and it is believed that the King and Queen will not apart until between seven and eight, when their Majesties *lll • n.baric en board the royal bur, and ri tura to Sont.rset-licuse. From the roof of the long tent, on the outside, will sees up. winds of 150 flags, and in the centre will myrir the royal standard. At each of the four corners of the Royal tent a man will stand in a full suit of atts.tir, four tat the most splendid suits having been brought from the tower for the oc casion. As soon as their Majesties reach the extremity (tithe awning, Mr. Green, the aeronaut, will ascend wit h his balloon, Medals to commemorate the en:ening of Lenden Bridge are, it is said, to Ito struck in gold and bronco. The front side is to represent the joint effigies of their Majesties, as on the coins of IVilliant and Mary, and on tf:e obverse a well-executed view of the bridge, with a tuitable tin in Latin. Around the rim there is to be the deer and the name of the Lord Mayor. EXPORTATION OF BULLION. The subject of our great exportation of bullion to the con tinent is again beginning to draw atter.tion In the city. par ticularly as it is consithred that the stock io the country, both of gold and silver, is undoubtedly lower shim has been the case fist a long time past. %Yid) tespcct to silver. dol lars, which are the great conotunci..l tredium, have almost wholly disappeared from the n'arket ; and to that in bars, it is supposed to consist chit lly of that which has been reduced into that state by the Bulk, out of the +wr ens of the coin in circulation. Of 0-e arise of gold we know nothing, nor ever shall, whir pt, .y stem at the Bank is suffered to go or. Yet the quairi.y in its coffers cannot be superabundant, or the loss of mehir.g the silver coinage —which, as before shown, is toll twelve per cent.—would not have been inet.rr d ; the 11111 , 1 o')jeet of that measure being. as is 'now pretty well Lod. r• tort!, to save the stock of gold front being carried out of the coon,ry, and to keep tp the rates of the forrigr t-xeha M. Al hat renders the case the more serious is, that with .ii this large exportation of bullion, they are barely sum). rtsd at par, a. d have an evident tendency to sink below it. The extent f that exportation will be better comprehended when it is stated, that for the last four months it has seldom fallen short of 00,0001. weekly. In the present week, by a calculation we have seen, made by individuals who have good means of information on the subject, It has not ices le,s than 300,0001. It is a matter of very curious speculation among many persons, what the real cause can be of this colitioutal drain of the precious metals, which is not sufficiently to le accounted for by the state of our commercial ttaratac Some imagine that the sovereigns of Europe, who fo-ma a crisis of great difficulty and danger, I.re secretly treparing. for it, by providing a supply of that which in such timer. CAD alone avail; others, that the practice of hoarding is for tl e same reason beginning to prevail among individuals ; and a third party, that the large standing armies which hare n formed on the continent have luincipal:y caused ft., by the large additional circulation requited fare the'r maintenance. • Perhaps the real cause may bra compound all these. it at all events, reached an extent which makes the aubjfc: aell worthy of attention, and it is catain, too, that it is a auhj , et of uneasiness with many reflecting men. Our e•cape from the danger depends without doubt on the restoration of tra•- quillity and confidence on the continent. REFUGE FOR THB DESTITUTE. The Half-yearly General Court of the G,overnorfi of Li -s Institution was held on Thursday, at tl:e Male anent, Holton, EDWARD Fosssra, Seq. Treasurer, in It e Chair. The Rev. %V. F. Vance, Smeltery, ant! Chaplain, r t:t d the Report of the Committee, chic h staled th:4,. in cm, ducting the business of the Refuge, it e Committee continued to keep in mind that the pr . maty object of the Postititrion au the moral and tel Riot s re-forma. tion of young persons intrusted to thtir e. re ; to this end their efforts had been principally dir.cted, and they trusted, under the Davie E blessing, mi without coc sidenable success. The admission of ohj , eta drying the lut six niorrhs, which had been limited to •he tante description of persons as heretofore, was as 'eel ws :-- Adotiasion of males fro•te January 31 to Jurc 30. 1831 ; convicted and judge eat respited, 4 ; trom the Douse et Correction. 15; from Surrey Asylum. 1 ; front Ma , elstone Gaol, 5; from Brigivon, 2; from Read•o?, I—to al, 211. Discharged to he apprenticed, 12 ; to go to sea. 2 ; to the Comities aimechanies. 2 ; other employments, 3; incorrigi ble, 2; absconded, 5 ; illness. 1 ; at their own request, 7 total, discharged. 34 ; leaving 99 inmates of the tuale establishment. The state of the female Lranch was as follows :--Admitted from the 31st of January to June ; From the Old Bailey, 3 ; front the Itlegistrau s of Woe. ship-street, 2; ditto of Lambeth- street, I ; Deptford. I ; criminals not prosecuted, 14; House of Corrrcion 10; Borough Gaol, 1 ; Totbilfiehls I ; B ixton. 1 ; atone, ; the 11entlicity Society, 1— twal, received, 37. Discharged to go to service, 21 ; to their parents, 13 ; st their own request, 5; to their parishes, I ; to the Peni• tentiary 1, died 1, absconded I—total discharged 43; Low remaining in the institution 63. The total number of malea received from the commencement, in the year 18(15. Witt 1,772; females 2,188, making together 3.960. The incoere of the last six moaths was te ,3321. 12e. 1 Id. of whirl 6741. 6s. 10d. gm produced by the labour of the males, at 7061. 16s. 7d. by the females. The expenditure sat 3,0571. 9s. 2d. leaving a balance due to the Treasurer of 1,1741. 16.. 3d. which, added to an old balance, le ft tie in. stitution 3,4041. 3s. Gd. in debt. It was also stated that :ha subscribers had fallen off considerable, and were it not :t r the annual parliamentary grant of 3 0001. the jostler; ion would not be able to exist. The Rev. J. A 211113 moved the adoption of die report, which was seconded by the Rev. D. 11 I 1.L1A318, and una nimously agreed to. After which, thanks king vcad to the Chairman, the meeting separated. The thermometer in Essex on Wednesday and Thursday the 27th and 28th instant, was above 80 deg. and the barometer up nt 30. 20. tt ith N.W. wind; the almost calm, which is very re markable, however, is, that during the prevalence of the present 'anew', vegetation 68 entirely ceased, and there is little or no good fruit—a cir cumstance which shews how much atmcsplieve is concerned in its production. ell ELMSTO D RACES. Itaccs took piece on Tuesday, Wednesday, and today (Thursday). They have been very badly attended this year, and though the running was good, yet there were very few persons on the ground the first day compared with former )ears. The leal cause of this was the vast extent to which an in flammatory epidemic prevails in Essex, ty which prudent people are kept at home. Ihe mutt effi cient remedy has been found to be low dkt and opening medicine; but it is certain also that those who are racist in the open air bidet the most tic - verely, the cause being entirely it the air, or prevailing tnaladia. Dr. Forsterloss just published a Treatise on this subject, in which lie has trAreoll the course of numerous epidemics over the country. 1