Star. — London, England, 1831-08-03 00:00:00

LONDON. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3. This afternoon the KING held a Levee at St. . l iines's Palace; after which there was a Privy at which his MAJESTY presided, at .cljed by the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Marquis LANsoowNE, Earl GREY, Viscounts MEL.. *);•lcNr., PALMERSTON, GODERICH, and At .filoitr, the Earl of CARLISLE. the Honourable lI:LES GRANT, Lord HOLLAND, Lord DUR ,! o! , the Duke of RICHMOND, and Mr. STAN- ',EY. This day Mr. HIBDERT, Mr. CoLvILLE, Mr. L I V ING , and two other Gentlemen, had an inter view p ith Lord GoDEnxcii, at the Colonial Office, 3 deputation from the West India Merchants. Ile:;idcs Lord GODERICH, there were present E3TI GREY, Lord Viscount ALTHO !IP , and Lord .11-cKLAN D. Private letters from Paris, received by a Com .:alci%l establishment in the city, affirm that M. I.‘rirTE has retired from the contest for the Prettientship of the Chamber of Deputies. We I.t.r, no other Continental intelligence this day ve-thy of notice. The HOUSE of LORDS yesterday presented a I ) , lstitng and splendid appearance, owing to her NIAJLSTY'S attendance to receive and thank Parliament for the settlement of her dower.— She preceded the KING, in state, and his MA .lrsrY followed in a quarter of an hour. She t ntered separately, took her seat on the right of the KING'S chair, and his MAJESTY entered .t,out twenty-five minutes after. The SPEAKER -.nd the CONXIONS then attended, the bill was presented, and, on receiving the Royal assent, her MAJESTY'S thanks were expressed by three formal obeisances to the two Houses. The House then adjourned till five o'clock, when Lord GitEY presented a Message from the KING, claiming a more suitable provision for the Duchess of KLNI. and her daughter, the Princess ALEX AV DATA VICTORIA, the heiress presumptive to the Throne. Lord ABERDEEN then gave notice of a motion for Monday on the political state of the Azores. Ir. the House of Commons the Committee on the Urent Grimsby Election declared the last election owing to the proofs of treating. Petitions from Monmouthshire and Birmingham were presented, craving greater dispatch in for warding the Reform Bill. The first was received, hut the language of the latter, though in accord ance with public feeling, was deemed disrespectful to the House, and withdrawn. Sir R. VYVTAN then proposed to make observations upon it, but r3S not permitted. Petitions were then presented against further :rants to the Kildare-street Society for Irish edu cation ; and also against the Irish tythe system. Mr. ATTWOOD contended that the present wine duties were collected without provision of law, and :aye notice of a motion for accounts. Alderman WOOD obtained leave to bring in a Al to :regulate the speed of steam-vessels in the l'ort of London. In the Committee on the Reform Bill, Lord AL- IfUnr stated that he found the Hamlet of Balling tc.o did not constitute part of Sudbury, which alone Lad rot 4000 inhabitants; ho therefore moved that it stand in B. Fifteen speeches then followed, and Jirision of 157 for B, and 108 against it. On the question that Totness stand in B, Mr. BALDwiN contended that it had 4383 inhabitants, and 213 houses of ElO, and Mr. Cot:RTNEY eon •idercd Bridgeton as Fart of it; but Lord J. Rvs nu. replied, and it was confirmed in the list. On its being moved that the second clause as 'amended stand part of the Bill, no lees than 20 speeches pro and con were made, 14 against it, Ail six in its favour, some of them, as Sir E. S c. DEN'S. Mr. CROKER'S and Mr. BARING'S at i;reat length ; but it vas agreed to without a .~tl'l3loll. The Committee then proceeded to schedule C, huh includes the great tor.r.s that are to be en francliind and return tr. - G members. MAticuctrrut stood first in the list, but Mr. WoRTLET moved that Salford should be joined to it, instead of haring k seperate representation. This led to a debate, in which the original motion wls supported by Mr. HUNT, Mr. HEYWOOD, Mr. FERGUSON, Mr. SLANET, and Mr. Ew RT, and the amendment by Mr. PELF A a, and partly by Sir R. PEEL, when the amendment was withdrawn. On re-putting the riuestion 011 MANCHESTER, Sir R. PEEL did not object to enfranchising Man chester, Birmingham, and Leeds, but objected to the other enfranchisements proposed in the clause. Lord J. SUMIELL replied, and other speeches fol- Nvcd between Sir R. PEEL and Lord JOHN ; Mr. 11 us; Sir C. WETHERELL, Lord ALTHORP, and Su It. ENG Lis followed, when, without a divi ',IOU, MANCHESTER AND ITS TOWNSHIPS WERE (ONTIRMED IN SCHEDULE C. The question wa , ; then put OD BIRMINGHAM, to Which ASTON was added, and carried without t)ppoeition. The question was then put on the Borough and liberty of LEEDS, and carried without a dissenting vusce. Thus the glorious and. all•important work of ENFRANCHISESIENT is begun, and the positive good will be more felt by the people than the negative one of striking off the dead carcases of the rotten boroughs. This was a necessary duty ; but as it interfered with so many ancient vested interests, it created opposition and delay. As there will be none to oppose the conferring of new rights, Schedule C. may therefore be expected to be finished at another sitting. The following are the other places in the Schedule ; but there is reason to believe that others will be added, from Schedule D, in consequence of population, and of represen tations, some of which have been made with effect :—GIIEENWICII, SHEFFIELD, SUNDER LAND. DRYONPORT, WOLY ERR &UPTON, TOWER HAMLETS, FINSBURY, WIRY-LE-BONE, and LAMBETH. Schedule C.—MANCHESTER, BIRMINGHAM, LE EDS.—A greed to. While the public are holding meetings to com plain of delay, Ministers are doing every thing possible to accelerate progress. A meeting of mem bers has been convened at Lord ALTHORP'S, in which be conjured those who had proposed amend ments to wave them for the sake of despatch ; and, as a stimulus, stated that Parliament would not be adjourned till the Bill was passed, if it were till Christmas next, or even CHRISTMAS TMRLPE mown' ! This advise was well received; but Lord MILTON seemed unwilling to abandon his two amendments, conceiving that the mea sure ought at once to be made as perfect as possible. The meeting, its object, and the lan guage of Lord ALTHORP, must, however, satisfy' the public that Ministers are not merely in earnest, but are themselves no cause of past delay. Saturday evening, in consequence of a request to the Home Department from some of the authorities in Oxford, a number of troops was sent from town in waggons, &c. for that City, with strict injunc tions not to halt on their way thither. ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. We understand that this day or to morrow a loan will be contracted for Don Pedro, by which means he will endeavour to place the young Queen on the throne of Portugal. Consols, which left off yesterday 82 if for ac count, opened at the same price, and continue so at present with little doing. The foreign market is not worth observation as yet. We have no arrivals this morning, not even a ship letter. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols have been the whole of the morning at 82i I, with little or nothing doing. We bavo no remarks to make on the Foreign Market ; prices much the same as yesterday. HER O'CLOCK. STOCI Excnxwas.—Bank Stook, Tß 20%. Three, per Ct. Red. 834 14. Three per Ct. Consols, 824 44. Three and a Half per Cent. let 1, 914. Three and a Half per Ct. Rod. 90}_ 14. Three and $ Half p e r C e n t . N ew , 904 4. Four per Cent. 1526, 904 f 4. Anauldes, Jan. 1860, 17 5.16 5-16. Annuities, Oct. 17 3.16. Annuities, Jan. 1860, India Stock, 900; do. Bonds, 1 pron. Old Annuities, —. ElOOO Exchequer Bills, 11 13; C5OO do. IS ; .ClOO and 4200 do. 12 13. Consols for Account, 821 FOUR O'CLOCK—Consols, 82 I. LIVERPOOL, Auo. I.—The Belem Castle is arrived from Lisbon; sailed on the 17th ult. in company with the packet for Falmouth. The French squadron had taken eight sail of the Por tuguese fleet, and had sent the crews on shore. The accounts from Warsaw by the Dutch steamer to the 22d July, state, that on the 17th the Russians had only completed half of the bridge at Vreszawa, and 4,000 of them had passed over on that day. Owing to the heavy rains which had fallen for several days, nothing decisive bad taken place. It was assured that the Russians bad aban doned the redoubts which they bad raised at tho head of the bridge, and retired to the right side of the Vistula. It was also stated that General Golowin had repassed the Bug, and the remains of his corps were collecting at Biala. The Gazette of Warsaw says—" We have no further news of the movements of our army. From those already published, in regard to the operations of the grand Russian army, it does not appear that they have entirely passed to the left side of the Vistula. All the reports agree in stating that after the advanced guard, composed of some thousands of men, passed the Vistula on pontoons, the rest of the army was waiting for a second bridge to be thrown over the Vistula ; and the division stationed on the left side of the Vis tula, advanced to Wlozlawek, were driven out from that town by our landwehr." The Canton Register of the 19th Feb. has also been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. MecAo.—The President and Select Committee having had formal intimation made to them, by his Excellency the Portuguese Governor of Macao, that he had received orders from the existing go vernment of Portugal to prohibit the future resi dence of all individuals, foreign (including British) merchants, who have not the previous sanction of of the council of Lisbon, in Macao. We have lost no time in communicating this information to his Excellency the Governor General of India, as well as to the authorities in England. BRITISH FACTORY, MACAO, FEB. 14.- 1 COMMERCIAL RIIMARILS.—The celebration of the Chinese new year produces a perfect stagnation in business, and since our last very few transactions have occurred in any branch of commerce. We omit the publication of a price current, as the prices would be merely nominal. Cotton in stock is now 93,634 bales, which ex ceeds the stock last year at the same period ; 15,000 bales of opium. Since our last publication there has been very little alteration in our market. The scarcity of cash usual at the new year has occasioned a decline in the price. The arrival of the Red Rover has not produced any effect. No sales of new opium has been made. Private advice. from Warsaw of the 21st ult. state, that the reports in circulation of the city being in great alarm is unfounded, bat, on the con trary, they feel perfectly secure from any attack from the Russians. To show the tranquillity of the place, there were balls taking place nightly. M CORONATION.—COURT OF CLAIMS. A Council, consisting of the Marquis a/Lansdowne (Pre sident), Earl Grey, Viscount Lord Auddand, Lord Dover, the Marquis of Clanticude, and Mr. M. A. Taylor, again assembled yesterday at the Treasury Chant. bets, Whitehall, to hear and determine claims relating to the approaching coronation As we have already noticed, the claimants are few cam. wed with the last coronation, on account of the ceremony being confined to the Abbey. The Council have declined entettaining any application for suit or service that has not reference to what win transpire within that sacred edifice. The first application now made was on the part of the Baron of Stafford, who claims the right of exercising the office of High Constable to the King. The Council did not, however, finally decide on the claim, en account of the absence of SOON proceedings had before the Attorney-General, and whose report thereon had not been made. This ease is to be again brought before the Council. The Hon. bliss FeHowes had a petition presented, praying to be appointed Flower-strewer. The petition, it was or dered, should be presented to the Privy CounciL The petition of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, to support his Majesty in the Abbey, was presented and allowed. The Bishop of Durham is the other supporter, but his petition has not yet been preferred. The next ease was a petition on behalf of Lady Guy de Ruthven, to present, by deputy, the gold spurs to his Ala jut,. In this cue the application was also allowed. The Council then broke up, the Court having been de. clued adjourned sine die. EVENING STAR. SIGNOR LANZA'S SOIREE. There ate, perhaps. no set 61 speculators more deserving of the public sympathy, when unsuccessful, than those who engage in gratifying, and we may say improving, the public taste for music and the drama. Signor Lanza is an instance of such misfortune. He engaged his all, not long ago, in an attempt to establish a little Theatre, as a kind of His trionic and Musical School, In which musical and operatic pieces might be read and cultivated; but it met rot with that success which the plan and genius of the Signor merited and he wu, in consequence, ruined in his fi nances. T he public will have an opportunity of marking their sympathy for this Gentleman, by encouraging his " Soirée Musicale'. this evening, at the King's Theatre, at which Pasta, Messrs. Rigondi, De Begnis, La Blache, and other favourites, will perform. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Between the Farces of The Padlock and Hipls Life below Stairs a new Comedy of superior pretensions, entitled Madam du Barry ; or a Glance at a Court, the work of the ever-successful Poot.z, was acted for the first time. It is of French origin, but has been Anglicised with much more of talent than has of late been exercised on similar works, and its great merit is that in the acting It appears as though it was originally conceived and written for the English stage. The language is throughout good, and in many instances first-rate in elegance and point. The plot, which we shall describe more fully in a second notice, turns on the intrigues of the Court of Louis XV. and brings m minently forward the celebrated Madame du Barry. The part of Leiria was sensibly acted by H. Wau.aex, and the other principal characters by COOPER, BRIRDAL, and :Wessxxs, the former of whom contributed not a little to the general effect of the piece. Miss TaYLos personated Madame du Barry. and although her perform. 1 sore was not free from those blemishes which we have' en previous occasions regretted in our notices of her, her con. option and execution of so difficult a part was highly:credit able. Mrs. Ashton imparted all that interest to the thane ter of Florins which was necessary to its proper effect. We have seldom seen her to more advantage. The acting in ge neral, added to the high merits of the piece as to its con struction and writing, was such as to render it, though but little aided by clap-trap illusions to passing events, and still less by the telling breadth of farce, completely success ful throughout the three acts. ARRIVAL of Her MAJESTY DONNA MARIA. The ex-Emperor and Empress of Brazil, accom panied by Donna Maria, arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, Old Bond street, about ten minutes put five yesterday afternoon, from the Continent. The Royal cortege comprised four carriages and four, containing, exclusive of Don Pedro, the ex-Em press, and the young Queen, the Marquis de Re zende, Major Webster, M. Gomez e Silva, and se veral Ladies in Waiting. The Royal party were conveyed from Cherbourg to Portsmouth by his Majesty's steam-vessel Lightning, which had been placed the disc ' the - •Emperor at . :posal of Orders having arrived to receive Donna Maria with the honours due to a crowned head, prepara tions were accordingly made at Portsmouth for her reception; and, on the appearance of the Lightning, salutes were fired from the ships at Spithead, and, on the steamer passing them, they manned yards, which compliment was acknowledged by the Lightning. Admiral Sir Thomas Foley, the Port Admiral, and his lady, were awaiting the ar rival of her Majesty, and on landing she was saluted with 21 guns from the garrison. A guard of honour from the Royal Marine Artillery was also in attendance, and the baud of the same corps re ceived the royal party playing the National Anthem. Major-General Sir Colin Campbell, the Cowman j der-in-chief also waited on the young Queen, in order to congratulate her on her arrival. Her Ma jesty, accompanied by her royal parent and step. mother, having entered the Admiral and General's carriages, drove up the High-street, the troops, con sisting of the royal marine artillery, and the 90th and 91st regiments, who were on either side of the street, presenting arms. Her Majesty wa3 received at the George Inn by a guard and band of the 90th regiment. The troops, having formed in open columns, led by Sir C. Campbell and staff, marched by the George Inn in slow time, with bands play ing and colours flying. The troops then marched borne, and the principal families of distinction io the town and vicinity subsequently paid their res pects to the youthful monarch. They departed from Portsmouth at 11 o'Clock yesterday morning, and proceeded to the metropolis at the rapid rate of 12 miles an hour. The Royal party, on alight ing at the Clarendon, were received by Mr. Chap ' lin , the proprietor, who conducted them to a splen jdid suit of apartments which had been prepared for their reception. Donna Maria has grown so considerably since she quitted her tranquil abode at Laleham, in 1829, that, although she has not yet completed her thirteenth year, she has the appearance of having attained the age of eighteen. The ex-Empress, who is about twelve years younger than her illustrious husband, is extremely graceful and prepossessing. It is said that she con verses fluently in French and English ; in the course of three or four months it is expected that her Majesty will present Don Pedro with a pledge of their mutual affection. Don Pedro, who it is derstood intends to fix his residence in England, at least for the present, has engaged an establishment of English servants, exclusive of his ex-Majesty's foreign attendants. The arrival of the royal party was announced to Viscount Palmerston within half an hour after they alighted at the Clarendon. Smart work at the Kilkenny assizes ! Two per sons, in the rank of gentlemen, are tried for a con spiracy to compel a parson to lower his tithes. The prosecution is one instituted by the Attorney- General. The traversers are Catholics. The jury are Protestants exclusively. The traversers are convicted; and for the conspiracy to induce the parson to lower his tithes, the judge (Johnson) sentences them to twelve months' imprisonment, and a fine of 501. each. Smart work this ! -Morn ing Register. ~• WEYMOUTH ELECTION. State of the poll, eighth day, Monday, August t, at two o'clock : Mr. Baring Wall .. Mr. Prendergast l6O Majority for Mr. Wall Mr. Prendergast left at two o'clock this morning. The poll will close at three this afternoon, and Wall be im mediately chaired. SPIRIT 07 THE JoUR7VALS. TIMES.—Last night " the bill" made some progress through the committee, though its pace was slow, and its march interrupted. Tomes* and Sudbury, which had en. joyed a respite of two days beyond their companions in ache. dole B, were finally consigned to their proper class—the latter after a useless division. The wbole of the boroughs in schedule B, as well as those in schedule A, ate now disposed of; and the anti.reformers, like unwilling scholars, have been carried forward to the third letter of the reform alphabet. We heard some days ago of the Paganinis of the house harp. ing upon one string, and occupying the time of Parliament and of the country with lens agreeable notes than those of their Italian namesake. Some of them may have read of a celebrated ancient musician, who was as great in his day as Paganini is in ours, and whose movements we expect them to imitate. Of this celebrated ancient Paganini "it is said Sr sung"— mmtommg.. Slope velut qui Carrebat fugiens hostan ; persape velut qui " AMODIO sacra ferret —The processional march, with the sacra Junonis, or, in other words, the funeral procession of the rotten boroughs, has been slow if not solemn enough : let us now hope that our great parliamentary artists will indulge in their more rapid paces, in their emerging caprice. If we could expect any consistent system for such pertpns, we should be entitled to calculate on this result. They resisted the total or partial disfranchisement of the condemned boroughs, because they considered this part of the bill as an infliction of pains and penalties, "or a corporation robbery," or something else equally alarm. bug to the ingaghsatioe ; but they have now a more cheerful and safe task. They have now not to take away privileges, but to give them—not to perpetrate a robbery, but to confer a favour. Last night the house entered on this more grateful duty, and enfranchised 3of our great manufac turing towns—Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds, which, on any sound principle of representation, ought long ago to have sent members to Parliament, possessing, as they do, more wealth, population, and industry, than all the hundred and odd places in the two schedules, over which the borough. mongers have made such doleful lamentations. HERALD—The anxious interest which the Duke of Wellington and his political friends appear to take in the fate of Portugal would do them great credit if they were ac tuated by the generous motive of a faithful adherence to an "ancient ally" in adversity; but surely the Noble Duke and his partisans must presume upon a very gross degree of stu pidity or ignorance in the people of this country to make it possible for them to mistake the interests of the usurper for those of the nation on whose sights he tramples, and to confound the claims of Don Miguel with the cause of Portugal. There is no doubt that Portugal is one of the most ancient allies of this country, if not the most faithful. Before the era of Cromwell our commerce and connection enjoyed certain privileges from the Government of that State, by the grace and favour of its Kings. In the Protectorate of Cromwell our alliance with Portugal was more closely drawn, and the commercial advantages which we enjoyed more accurately defined by the treaty into which that great politician and successful negotiator entered with John IV. subsequently the marriage of Charles 11. with the Infants Catherine, by which the Crown of England first became pos sessed of Bombay in the East Indies, made the connection still more intimate; and the treaty of Queen Anne with Pedro 11, by which mutual advantages were stipulated on each side—on the one for British woollens, and on the other for Portuguese wines, completed the connection which bad sub sisted with but very little interruption to the moment when Don Miguel, in violation of his solemn oath, and of every principle of morality and justi ce . overturned the Coostitu. tion which be had pledged himself to protect, and stole the diadem which had been placed with him in trust. If that Constitution bad remained unsubverted, and the Crown of Portugal bad been placed upon the brows to which it right. fully belonged, we ask if the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Aberdeen, and others of that class of Statesmen, would have expressed the same tender sympathies which they now affect to feel for the fate of Por tugal, or allude, in the language of pathetic interest, to our treaties with our " ancient ally ?" HERALD.—We have some reason to believe that the Ministers are more than half-convinced that their proposed alteration in the duty on Cape wines will not adds shilling to the revenue. For our part, we are quite satisfied that so far from the change, if carried into effect, adding to the re venue, it will produce the opposite effect. We assert this without any reference to the ruin which it will bring about in the colony, and the consequent falling off of the co lonial taxes. Upon this subject the South stlfriean observes that, " to enable the farmer to bear up against the pro. posed alterations, taxes to the amount of 30,0001. or 40,0001. must be remitted. Since England cannot afford to protect our staple commodity, she must be content to re ceive a smaller price for her human exports. We can no more afford to pay so high a premium on the importation of labeurers, to the great discouragement of the native produce of the colony. The salaries of governors, secretaries, dolts, judges, and all other labourers imported from the mother country, must be reduced in the sante ratio as the duties on our wines are raised ; and, if this deteriorate the quality of the article, we must contrive to grow at home. If minis ters cut up our trade, they must look somewhere else for the exercise of their patronage. Then, for the means of defence, we must have an open Council, where the real state of the country shall be honestly declared and held before the eyes of the public, its resources explained, and the voice of the people listened to and obeyed. No country can bear to be repeatedly ruined. li'e have had quite enough of ruin since 1806; but what security have we, or can we have, in the present state of our institutions,that we may not be ruined as often as we have any thing to lose ? Is it not a wild and monstrous thing to see the necessity of reducing the salaries of public servants as the colony grows larger and more po. pulous? The last Governor, for instance, drew 10,0001. for about twelve years. Surely, had this been a reasonable sum, and had the colony prospered as it might have done during that period, it would not have been necessary to bring down this particular salary to 7,0001. But it was found to be an um reasonable sum ; and now, year after year, we discover that we are less and less able to meet even this reduced demand ; and, when 11133 shall come, we shall find that even half of thus sum will be more than we can well afford. Unfortu nately, the government and the people are at present utter strangers to each other. Every step we have made since 1823 has been openly or covertly resisted by the Government of the day. We maintain that the present foono of Government is opposed to reason end common sense; that it neither does, no can, work favourably to the colony ; that free institutions are essential not only to our well-being, but to our very ex istence; and that the first thing we should demand from the new mini-try is polit era! freedom' We perftctly agree with these observations ; and we hope and trust that the ministry of Lord Grey will not only give free ingtitutions to the Cape colts- Lists, but that it will abandon the proposed tax on their wines. —We alluded yesterday to the Report of " the Cape Com mercial Both," and recommended it to the serious antztiod of his 3lajisty's Ministers ; and we now bug to call the attention of 'Members of Parliament to this document.—We have only room for a short extract. ;peaking of the pro pond duty on Cape wine, the " Report" points out the " injustice and inhumanity of destroying so extensive a branch of colonial industry as the growing of this wine, as well as the inconsistency of putting this colony out of the pale of the general system of protection granted to all the rest of the possessions of Great Britain. So long as the sugars of the West Indies and the Mauritius are admitted at Vs. per cwt. whilst foreign pay fits; Jamaica Rum at 9s. per gallon. when foreign spirits pay 11. 2s. ; coffee, lid. per lb. foreign, Is. to Is. 3d. there can be no just reason for excluding protection to Cape wine." Mr. Green's a balloon r r scen e at five minutes T'lT past five on Monday afternoon, in the parish of Charlwood, 29 miles from London, on a field called the Eight Acres, in the occupation of Mr. Morley. Mr. Green and his companion were received in the most hospitable manner by the worthy rector of the parish, the Rev. S. Porter, who kindly furnished horses to convey Mr. Green and his companion, Mr. Richard Crawshay, who, Mr. Green states, showed greater confidence and self-possession than any of his previous compa nions, to the King's Head, at Horky, on the Brighton road, front whence the aeronauts pro ceeded yesterday morning for London. i ~r,~-, DISTRESS IN IRELAND. ~~ ,Y TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. I request as a favour, rile SA being inserted in your Paper. D. 3/, Wet.. i .grrt, JO) , 2i. " COUNTRYMEN,—For the purpose of milechlt evrry one with the means, as much as in me to al! nine for the support of our suffering countrymen and iSII.I. lies of the sister kingdom, I beg, through the favour of thi, medium, to state, that being impressed with a strong feelii.e, for the calamitous state of the poor Irish, I tent arstung,t them a few weeks ago, into the %Vest of lrelane. I opened .t soup-roorn, wherein I have been feeding, daily, 550 chi!. dren, at the small cost of £1 rer diem. I feed them on tic spot, under my own superintendence, to avoid the thuusai.o impositions these demoralized beings practis: in a tithe I fame of famine. I knew the appetite could not falsify , though the tongue might, therefore I filled ti.e stomat;i ; whilst some of the other soup.rooms, by delivering it wit, were Ntliaiss, In many cases, only supplying the ho : ;'s trough, &c. " But now, since the press of the famine is over, I turned my attention to a more permanent good than were!, feeding. I have selected 80 of the elder girls from those my establishment, and clothed th2i: worse than Indiso nakedness, to beget in them the virtue of decency, and bay them now at work, sewing, spinning, knitting, &z. inculcate the good order and ingenuity of empinyment, i have adopted this scheme, to do away with their rosortic,.; to begging, and as a plan of practical morality; since the Priests will not hear of any thing in the shape of education, fearing religious conversion among the children. " The system has already been productive of cot,sidcraL!: change in the character of the girls ; for, from • practice squatting in gruupes round a huddle, or manure hill, chat. tering, musing, or dreaming their time away into idiot. 7, they have become excited, by the spur of labour. to cnii:Ll.: our English industry. " However, I fear my establishment is on too small scale to become a ItaIlona! examp!c, which has been tny object from the first. and therefore I appeal to the benn.,. lest to assist me with funds, according to their imam, to extend its scale. " Their contributiens may be sent through the IZeli. Committee, Castlebar, county Mayo, and applied under tlaJr inspection. " I am, yours, &c "DAVID MATTHEWS. Binvit.—Airs. Petch, wife of William Pete!.. Esq. of Pratt-place, Camden Town, of a son. The new London Bridge was again an object of' considerable interest yesterday. An announcl. - merit from the committee that the carriage -wry would not be thrown open for some dila, but thit. the public would be allowed to view the decorations and fittings up for the royal visit, between six o'clock in the morning and seven at night, drew together a dense multitude of spectators, who were much gratified by the inspection of the royal pavilion, which they were thus enabled to obtain. The committee did not think it necessary to impose any restrictions as to the quality of the cloth, or the cleanliness of the linen which shotUrr entitle the wearer to the privilege of the entre( • all being admitted indiscriminately, without quo. , - Lion or examination. The few regulations which it was thought necessary to impose were in general cordially acquiesced in ; but, nevertheless, one o , • two whimsical collisions took place between the constables on duty and the female portion of the spectators. Impelled by the irresistible curiosity of the sex, several fair damsels strayed from the public path-way, and protested against the inter ference of the officers who endeavoured to tontine them within the prescribed limits. These latter functionaries, however, seemed to entertain as little respect for the doctrines of non-intei run - tion as has been manifested in other quarters, ar:,l finding that neither promises nor threats lia.l any influence on the determination of the ad verse party, they began to show their authority, and to elevate their truncheons around their heads. The ladies merely dared them to strike, pushed forward, and entrenched themselves behind the side tables. Here the aspect of affairs began to look serious —a hostile force was pressing on the men in office from behind, when one amongst them, suddenly bethinking himself of the " three great days," caught up a form, pieced it across the passage, and piling two or three others upon i:, formed a very tolerable barricade a la Fru la trise. The pertinacious malcontents, thus deprieed assistance from without, were compelled at length to surrender at discretion. The awnings, flags, &e. on the bridge will remain for public inspection until seven o'clock this evening. ExTE SI VE Fl RE.— Yesterday evening, as early as half past five o'clock, the upper part of the premises of Messrs. Stewart and Snibben, sugar bakers, Dock -street, East Smithfield, were disco vered to be on fire. A great number of persons employed in the extensive building, immediately rendered every assistance to stop its progress, hnt without effect, for so rapid were the flames, that the entire of the upper story was in less than half an hour in one body of fire. From the density of the neighbourhood great consternation prevailed, fears being entertained that the opposite as well as the adjoining buildings would fall a prey to ill,. flames. It being found impossible to stop thy• progress of the tire, a number of urea were e‘ t to work to save as much of the property as possible. For this purpose about six individuals entered the counting-house adjoining, n hich led to the building on fire. While thus employed, the gable end of the immense pile gave way, and foil with a tremendous crash on the root of the counting-!.ruse. Nutuithstanding every individual was et the time in the counting-house, and more or less buried in the ruins, a ith the ex ception of one, a fireman of the name of Gardner, the yarole escaped with only a few slight bruises. Gardner, who belongs to the Atlas, was severely injured on the head, and he Wi.b conveyed to the hospital. The Phmnix engine was the first to ar rive on the spot. and being shortly joined by two others, their hoses were conveyed to the upper par t of the building, and the branches brought to bear immediately on the body of the fire. The men, however, had not long been placed iu their re spective positions before a portion of the building gave way, and they were obliged to make a pre cipitate retreat, leaving their branches behind them. The flames rapidly extended downwards, and the extensive premises were in about an hour and a half one mass of tire. By great perse verance on the part cf the firmer), the conflagra tion was confined to telessre. Stewart and Co.'s premises ; but at a late hour hat night the flames were not entirely subdutel. The lees of prortity must have been immense. •