The Sun. — London, England, 1837-08-22 00:00:00

1. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY Al' ONE O'CLOCK. Tank Stock. Rte 3 210% ;India 5t0ck.....--- 71 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent, Cons 91N g, %T t 'South Sea Sock 3% per Cent ..... ... .............. -- Old Annnities Ditto Red.... ..... ... ......... 100!; 100 ' New Ditto - New 3% per Cent.. ........ . ... 9914% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 — .... Nevi 5 per Cent... ..... - Exch. Bills, .Cl,OOO 49 47 pm. Bank Lori gAnnuitlestoexpire Ditto f.OO 49 47 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 .................... 15% Ditto Small Oct. 10. 1859 ........... 14 15-16 15 Ditto Commercial — pm. Jan. 5 1860 .................... 14 3 4 Ditto Advertised —— pm Jan. 5, m 0............. ....... -- Bank Stock for Account ~ ..... April 5, 1880. ..... .............. -- India Stock for Account.- ...... .--7 9114 Jan. 5, 1 870....... ..... . ........ -- Consols for Account Ornnium ......................... 2594 .. 50 48 pm. RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, Austrian Bonds . ... Peruvian Bonds ........ • ............... Belgian Ditto Account ....... ............ ---: Portuguese Bonds Brazilian Bonds .... .............. 84%) Ditto Accolmt 19 4 8 7% Ditto Account ..... ........ —! Ditto New Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds * ... ...... ..... Ditto, 3 per cent , 2511 4% Chill Ditto Account -.......... ...... Ditto Account Dittoian Bonds .. ................ —, ' Prinsian Bonds. ...... .. ...... Account*: ......... ...... 'Russian Bonds, 182`.2... ...... - Columbian Bonds ................. --; Ditto Account ........ Ditto Account ..... - •« •«" —.j Ditto Metall:c Columbian Bonds, 1824: Ditto account ... ... I Ditto Account .... Danish nds .. ......... *** 73 - i, Ditto It 34 2O 18% • ....•...•. ..... GrDitta Accotint . i Ditto Account — eet nous.... ................ —.... , French, 5 per cent.......... —f. —c. .. ..... ....•..•.... —L —c. ._Ditto Bonds, 1825 .......... '— 4 per cent ..u4to Account ..... : . .......... —f. —c —1 3 per cent. 01exican Bonds, 5 per cent . —f. —c. Ditto Account ... ... ..... —.' Dutch, 24, per cent — - -1 ---- Exchsnge Ditto, 6 per cent . = ....• Ditto Account r4ost,n, Ditto Account .. .• • Ditto, 5 per cent 102%1,', i0htan.......... ......... .................... Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. tandonga Mining Paid. Per Sh are Company 7X, 6 k., Railway Company (Stevenson's) 5 Oh li ..nßhton (Gibbs') Railway I 6 London and Southampton Railway Company 4O 24104 south Brightoa, Lewes, and Newhaven Railway 2 0 Arrived. MAILS. Due. Arrived. D ue . A rr i ved. ? Ameri ca ..... .".. 0 I France ... ...... 0 0 Lisbon ... ; t razil ••• • ... 0 0 Guern. & Jersey 0 0 Malta - —uoooB A " ires.. 0 0 Hamburg ........ 0 0 Mexico ...... I 0 Cirthagena- 0 0 Holland ~ ~. _•"•.0 0 Ostend 0 1 o'' übu n... - .landers ..... .... 0 0 Leeward Islands U I Waterford...—. 0 Month,. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW.--""' • 6 minutes after 7. Evening...... 35 minutes after 7. , -----____ he publication of Tux SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day --- -- --.....--___—______ at 10 min u t es p ast Th ree o ' Clock. LONDON. TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1837. The elections are now completed, and after all the adverse influences against which the liberal cause has . had to contend, there is found in its favour such a ma jority as will enable the QUEEN'S Ministers to pursue t he path of improvement, in defiance of the obstacles ' w hich the advocates of popular ignorance, and the sup porters of despotism have attempted to throw in their W ay. According to the list, which appears in another Part of our Paper, this majority is thirty-six, without taking into the calculation about a dozen seats, the light to which will be determined by Committees of t he House of Commons, but which may be pretty Confidently relied on in addition. But throwing these to the Tories in the meantime as a balance against an y diminution of the existing majority arising from m istake as to the extent of support which one or two 'of the Members, whom we have entered on the Liberal side, may be disposed to give to her MAJESTY'S G overnment—and this is surely an ample allowance-- We still find a result such as ought to inspire the friends of civil and religious liberty with better hopes than they have been warranted to indulge for some years past. Thirty-six, it may be said, is a small number to decide Important questions of national policy ; and, considered merely in a numerical point of view, no doubt it 18 so ; but let those who make this oectio recl lect h ow little benefit the nation derived from majoroi ties against which no such exception c o u ld b e t a k en . Why did not the majority of eielity- s i x on th e I r i s h Corporati on Question insure thata triumphant pas measur e age th rough the House of Lord s ? If num b ers could have done it, here was a majority, in all con science, sufficiently numerous for any purp ose w i t hi n t h e Province of legislation —a majority twice as large as that which in an unreformed Parliament carried the epeal of the Test and Corporation Acts which had been the key-stone of Tory policy for more than a hun dred years. The reason, however, why eighty-six maybe an inefficient majority, and thirty-six an efficient one, is not difficult to be found. Those who refused $0 yield to the former, namely the House of Lords, well knew the game they had to play. They had shuffled the cards so dexterously, that they could al ways calculate on having the odd trump in their hands, and they were therefore under no apprehension as to the result. Aware of their own safety, they set at nought every other consideration. But things are greatly altered since then—quite in a new posi tion. Lord MELBOURNE possesses the entire con fidence and cordial support of the Sovereign whom it he serves so ably. Whatever measure he may feel his duty to recommend her MAJESTY will feel !_t her d uty to adopt, not with reluctant acqueiescence, but zealous concurrence ; and whatever opposition is Fiven to those measures, so far from being supposed to b e in unison with the feelings of the Court, will be Understood to be in direct hostility to its proclaimed think it a p er f ect l y l eg i t i mate one—is, that with ;Ile present majority, small as it is in one sense, b ut gr eat when taken in conjunction with the more fav ourable position of the MELBOURNE Administra tion at head- quarters, Ministers will be able to accom plishmore for R e f orm t h an they have been enabled to ° Since th ey were re-installed in their places by the 'ioice of the people, and in spite of the personal anti- Aathies of the Court. Varli _ m isters have ver y w i se l y d eterm i ne d on meeting amens It o before Ch r i s t mas ; an d we d o earnestly Pe, that when once the business of the Session has "rnmenced, it will be carried on in a spirit of uncom -I"rni3ing energy. We have experienced great delays 41: ""gb many of th em , we grant, h ave b een un :„°4lable and it i s now f u ll t i me t h at a more vigo -113 end decid e d course o f conduct should be resolved "n• Above all, Ministers must not think of making ;fly attempts to conciliate the Tories, for every act of our teousness on their parts on l y paves t h e way Pre (4 a more energ e ti c oppos i t i on. M easures must be T°P ar ed so as to suit the wants and wishes of the un trY, not tr eated with a v i ew t o t h e i r b e i ng tolerantly Meanby th e f act i on. T here are quite sufficient s a t the command of Government, if they only , w m , Pl coy them i n a fitting manner, for the country is t hem, th oug h the Tories, by means of the most v.aricia ma noeuvres, have b een en d eavouring, but in 2 1 : 1 1 , 4, to make it appear otherwise. Ministers then, we "ealtatingly affirm, will h ave no excuse, if they do lint act g a bold an d manly part, and carry forward the reat busin ess o f Reform without having the slightest d efer cence to the prejudices of the PEEL party in the ma ns, or the more infatuated LYNDHURST party t"e Lords. This last will, of course, set their 48Ie8 against all rational improvements quite as strenu- Yas ever; but with a working majority in the th e llee of Commons which may be securely relied on ; tid e People on their side, and the Court also on their tii . e ; Ministers need not fear the most desperate hos thltY---and desperate it will most assuredly be—of e titled Incapables. b e ll e n whol e of Ti;;Tci:7,;;;;i7 of Sunday have ,tiet receiv e d . They bring but little news from Spain, that littl e is unfavourable to the constitutional Gauzeetted According to the latest despatches communi failed i t° it.he Government, General ORAA signally bei, u _ ,:" 8 Plan for preventing a junction of the re , nu r the Chiefs SANZ and TOLLADA with the Inti m A: • . pretender 'Ammon of the insurgents commanded by the . () n thel,t.th % instant the Pretender was • •••6 • vflfv proceeding in the direction of the capital, his division being flanked by the bands of the Chiefs QUILEZ and CABRERA. By spreading false alarms in all direc tions, the Carlists had made a fool of General 13uERENs, who, from the Bth to the 13th, marched to►vards every point but the one occupied by the enemy ; and when at last he discovered his error the Pretender was nearly three days march in advance of him. In other quarters matters were not more favourable. Baron DE MEER was on the Lower Ebro, but up to the 16th had not compelled the Carlists to raise the siege of Mora, which was not expected to hold out much longer. Another band of Carlists were besieging Seu d'Urgel. The authorities of Barcelona and Valencia were engaged in petty squabbles, inweftd of exerting themselves against the insurgents. Of the 10,000 volunteers offered to DE MEER not a company has been organized, nor has a single real been raised of the subsidy which a patriotic junta was to have placed at the disposal of the Government r In this way ar patriotic pledges fulfilled in Spain. From Madrid we have no news whatever, and would be folly to speculate on the progress of events of which the next mails will detail the exact occur rence. The evacuation of Segovia by the Carlists on the appearance of General MENDEZ VIGO, PUIG SA . NIPER, and Brigadier O'DONNELL, is reported by the Spanish correspondents of the French Papers. The Carlists are said to have retreated towards Soria, where they expected to be joined by Don CARLOS. We give this as a current rumour, without vouching for its correctness. In our opinion credit is not due to it. The Government, however, has given positive orders for dislodging the Carlists at any sacrifice, from every place where they presume to execute the func tions of local Administration. Generals ESCALERA and JAREGUY have been directed to disperse the Car list Junta at San Leonardo, by which step all commu nication between the insurgents at Cantavieja and Segovia will be cut off. The Junta at San Leonardo has only 500 rebels to protect it. Of domestic intelligence the following paragraphs from the Droit supply all that is worthy of remark in the Paris Papers of Sunday : "On Thursday, about half-past five in the afternoon,'at the moment when Louis Philip left the Tuileries by the gate opposite the Pont Royal, an elegantly dressed-man let a pistol fall which he had concealed behind his coat. He was immediately arrested by the agents of the police, and conveyed to the Prefecture de Police, where his arrival, however, has been kept secret. He is about 28 years of age, we are told, and of middling stature?' This very mysterious pistol-dropping affair excited no attention whatever in Paris. It looks very like the brain-creation of one of those marvel-mongering gen tlemen, whose connection with the Press is almost as slight as their own revelations with matters of fact. Whether the annexed paragraph, from the same Journal, relates to the pistol-dropper, or to some other disciple of the wretch ALIBAUD, we will not take upon us to determine : " For some days past vague reports have been in circu lation relative to the arrest of an individual, who is said to have manifested the intention of attempting the life of the King. We have endeavoured to trace out the origin of this report, and the following are the details upon the sub ject which we are able to present to our readers. A painter of the name of C--. employed some time ago, in his workshop a man of the name of Sergent, whom he was obliged afterwards to dismiss, on account of his extreme ill conduct. Sergent, it appears, had, in consequence, threat ened to murder his former master and all his family ; and Mr. C. finding himself constantly pursued by this fellow in the streets, and considering his life in danger, made a complaint to the police. From the investigation which took place in consequence, the agents of the police discovered that Sergent had not only threatened his master's life, but at different times defended the conduct of Alibaud and others, who had made attempts on the life of the King, and declared that he would go down to posterity in following their glorious example. Sergent was then arrested, and a sharp poignard found upon him. All the examinations which have taken place, however, have gone to prove that he was a stranger to all political opinion whatever, and be longed to no party, and that nothing existed in the violent expressions of which he had made use, but the vain words of a passionate and bad man." The KING'S life is no danger at present; not would it ever have been in danger but for the apostacy of the Government and the blunders of the police. Never was system of espionage so bunglingly conducted as that of France since the accession of Louis PHI LIPPE. Under NAPOLEON things were differently managed; the EMPEROR'S person was a thousand times better protected ; the police were a million of times more vigilant; and yet there was no noise—no ridiculous outcry about the plots of journeymen painters, and tailors, and carpenters, and shoeblacks—no proclamations of kitchen and garret conspiracies. NAPOLEON'S police knew their business, and what was more to the purpose, they knew the dangers conse quent upon a bungling and brawling performance of it. Not so the present tools of the Minister of the Interior. They are dangerous obstructives in the path of the Government. The Duchess of ORLEANS is pronounced enciente. The joy of the Royal Family is therefore unbounded. The certain appearance of the cholera at Marseilles has created considerable alarm in France. Hopes are entertained that the sanatory regulations, so promptly adopted, will prevent the spreading of the contagion. We regret to state that the cholera is at present raging in Berlin. The following are extracts from the French Papers : TOULON, AUG. 16.—(Private correspondence of Le Commerce.)—Notwithstanding the pains taken by the Governor-General that the treaty which he proposes to Achmet Bey may be kept secret, certain reports were in circulation at Bona which seemed not to be without form -lotion. The following are the proposals made to Achmet y General Damremond 1. The Bey to recognize the supreme authority of France, and to pay a tribute, to be settled in such a manner that the French garrisons in the provinces of Con stantine shall be no longer a charge on the country. 2. He shall cede to us Boujia and its territory (an ex tent of two leagues from the walls,) Bona and its territory, which shall extend to La Calle, and be bounded on the west by the Se)bonne to the distance of seven or eight leagues from the shore. Guelma therefore would be abandoned and La Calle and its environs. All the rest of the province to belong to Achmet, under the guarantee of France, which would be bound to supply him with means to contend with the Arabs, who are hostile to him. 3. There shall be an exchange of prisoners on an extradition, but every one shall remain in his own territory, and the French shall not go into the interior of the province. 4. The trade on the coast to be free, but Achmet to be supplied with powder and muskets by France. These certainly are proposals very alluring to Achmet, and sufficiently humiliating to France ; yet every body is persuaded that the former will reject them. The letters from Bona agree that it is absurd to think of peace till we have proved to Achmet the superiority of our arms and our power.—Le Commerce. The legitimatise journals had announced that the Kng of Piedmont, on hearing that the cholera had manifested it: elf in Genoa, had hastened thither to order the necessary sena tory measures. We stated, on the contrary, that Charles Albert had undertaken the journey for political motives. The Gazette du Midi, in its number of the 15th, is obliged to acknowledge that " this visit had for its object to ascer tain how public service was performed more than anything else, and that the King had held several military reviews, and commanded grand manoeuvres."—Le Commerce. A letter from Madrid, dated the 13th, 5 o'clock A.m., al leged to have been received in Paris, stated that the Car lists had evacuated Segovia in all haste, and retired with their rich booty in the direction of Soria. The Junta of Castile was installed in the famous convent of San Leo nardo, under the protection of 500 men. The Carlists were, it is said, determined on concentrating their forces round this place. The Journal des Debals likewise an- San Leo nar d o, nounces that t h e Castile Junta had directed the town of in Soria, to be fortified. Advices from Pam peluna of the 14th mention that General Escalera had been ordered to march to Soria, disperse the Carlist Junta, and place himself on the road between Catatayud and Soria. The General was authorized to take ten battalions of Jauregui's army for that expedition. ST. PETERSBURGIT, AUG. 3.---The Emperor will lease this on the 15th, an d repa i r directly to Warsaw, where he is, however, only to stop for a few days. Field-Marshal Paskewitsch will accompany the Em peror to Wosnesensk. The Empress and the Imperial THE SUNT, LONDON, TVESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1837 Family, together with the Grand Duke Michael, will pro ceed to Kiev'', where they are to be joined by the Emperor. General Count de Witt has been appointed Commander in-Chief of all the troops assembled at Wosnesensk, and General Hepansa is to be Governor-General of the place during the manceuvres. Grand entertainment s are to lie given at Odessa, at which the Emperor and his family and the Foreign Princes invited to the camp will assist. It is stated that several concerts and dramatical performances are to take place at Wosnesensk. While these festive preparations are in progress others are making for the war against the Circassians. 40,000 men are now ready to march against them. It is hoped that this force will be sufficient to pacify Abasia ; but it is not thought that it can subdue the Czeczenians and the Ava rians, two mountain tribes composed of nobles and serfs, and remarkable for their extraordinary intrepidity. I ❑ June last they passed the Tereck, put to flight the regular Cossacks, and levied contributions in several villages. l'he Czeczenians subsequently entered Buinaki, and the Ara rilns menaced Derbend. These two tribes are the most implacable enemies of Russia.—Journal dcs Dcbcds. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY The RECORDER, attended by the Sheriffs, took his seat t!iis morning in the Court, for the purpose of sentencin g the various prisoners convicted during the present Session. Proclamation having been made in the usual form, the Recorder proceeded to pass sentence— To be Transported for Life—Edward Pownal. The Learned JUDGE intimated that in consequence of the youth of the prisoner, and the strong recommendation to mercy from the jury and prosecutor, if the twelve months spent in the Penitentiary merited it, the sentence of trans portation would be remitted. To be Transported for Life—William Cochrane, Robert Smith, William Countryman, Joseph Jackson, George Ro binson, William Wilkinson, William Bayley, Edward Wil liams, Samuel Greenfield, John Morris alias Wilkins, Richard Sta n l e y, Mi c h ae l D unn, John Newcomb, Henry \\icker, Robert Wicker, and Edward Adams. To IA Transported for Fourteen Years—Joseph Scott, Matthew Ryan, Richard Davis, William Smith, and Wil liam Walker. To be Transported for Fourteen Years, seven for each offence—John Giffen. To be Transported for Ten Years (under the new Aci -John Watson. To be Transported for Seven Years—William Wood man, William H. Hares, Robert Reynolds, Thomas Dow ling, John Leon, Joseph Wilson, Samuel Taylor, John Barker, Robert Bright, John Devereux, Thomas Bland, Henry Ship, George Coulson, William Tilley, James Phipps, James Langley, Patrick Walsh, John Shirtcliff, Henry Ambridge, James Swain, John Brown, Thomas Preston, John Price, William Mills, David Jones, John Hall, Henry Harris alias Hurst, and William Williams. Georgiana Hall, Mary Sullivan, Susan Emmerton, Charlotte Stevens, Ellen Honor, Eliza Pollards, Margaret Talfourd, Sarah Birchett, Jane Green, Anne Crumley, Mary Anne Highley, Anne Collis, and Ellen Smith. Several other prisoners were sentenced to various terms of i:nprisonment, after which the Court adjourned to Mon day the 18th September. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.—(At per Lout of 36 Trusses.) CUMBER] AND. .:oaree heavy Lowland Meadow Hay...... .£4 5 to 24 10 New Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto Eine Upland Meadow and Ilye.grasa Hay......... Clover,Hays 0 510 Oat Straw £2 oto .22 2 f Wheat Straw 2 4 t I SMITH Coarse hea v y L ow l and Meadow Hay FIELD. 14 II to £4 lb New Meadow Hay 4 b 4 15 Useful Old Ditto 5 a 5 5 Fine Upland M ea d ow and Rye grass Hay 5 7 510 Clover Hay extra fine , 6 10 Generally .. 20 2 2 oat Straw £: 18 t ..£2 0 I Wheat Straw WHITECHAPEL. C )arse Meadow Hay £4 II to £4 5 New Meadow Hay Uceful Old Ditto 4 10 4 15 F:ne Upland Mca4ow and Ilye. g ra as H a y 5 6 Clover Ha y Old Straw . £2l to £2 21 Wheat Straw IS 3 2 4 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. DEAL, Auc. 21.—Wind S. W. by %V.—Arrived the Inglis, Wise, and Euphrates, Bucklam, from Canton ; Penyard Park, from liavannah ; and William, Reed, from Palermo. POR Ts MOUTH, A no. 21. —Arrived her Majesty's ship Raven, from Sierra Leone. Off po r t th e R o b ar t s , an d 'Bolton. Comp ton, from Calcutta ; and President, Chadwick, New York. Cows, AUG. 21.—Arrived the Johannes, Gazzo, from Buenos Ayres. Poona, AUG. 21. —Arrived the Cornhill, Medus, and Jessie Harvey, from Newfoundland. DARTMOUTH, Ana. 21.—Arrived the Christian, Thorsoe, rrom Havannah. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 21.—Wind S. W.—No arrivals. FALmotrrn, Auc. 0 0.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the Ran ger Packet, frcm Rio Janeiro, sailed the 27th June, Bahia the 6th ult., and Pernambuco the 13th - Linnet Packet, f rom Rio Janeiro, sail e d th e 4 t h u l t., Bahia the 16th, and Pernam buco the 21st; Experiment, from Sierra Leone, sailed the 6th June ; Snowdrop, Trevawas, from Cephalonia; Adrastus, Day, from Licata, sailed 15th June; and her Majesty's ketck Sparrow, from Portsmouth. BRISTOL, AUG. 2 1.—Arrived the Joseph Daly, Palter, from South Africa ; Bornby, Allen, from Barb a d oes ; Kutersoff, Taylor, from N ew Y or k ; Dui:, of Gloucester, Ravenna, from Qlcbcc ; Mary, Mitcheson, from Mirarnichi ; Allen, Ker, from Mirimachi. SWANSEA, AUG. 21.—Arrived the Cabanna, Bambridge front St. Jago da Cuba ; M e l an th o , Si mpson, from do. - LIVERPOOL, AUG. 20.—Arrived the Dement, Nash, from Singapore ; M e lby, f rom th e B raz il s ; B etty Hall, from Bue nos Ayres ; St an d ar d, f rom d o . ; F ran k , Seawright, from Ja maica; Adrian a , f rom B ar b a d oes ; J ane, from Campeachy ; Clifton, Ravely, f rom Af r i ca; J o h n P orter, f rom Halifax; Corsair, from d o . ; Eli za B r i ar , f rom N ova Scotia ; Alcoyn e , Muir, Dari e n, G eorge , an d D empsey , f rom Quebec ; John, from d o . ; B ro th ers , front do. ; Superb, from St. John's, Newßrunsvvick ; Sophia, from Cadiz. .HULL, AuG. 21.—Arrived the Caled on ia, H arr i son, from Quebec ; Osp re y, f rom C a di z; H e b e , f rom S t. Petersburg ; Amelia Sophia, fro m St oc kt on ; an d J anus , f rom Ri ga. MILFORD, AUG. 20.—Arrived th e A n d es , Wiggins, Quebec. ABERDEEN, AUG. 19.—Arrived the Acorn, Cunningham, from Oporto. Off Falmouth, the Mary, Halket, from Tag ouroy, The William the Fourth, of Halifax, bou n d to Quebec was wrecked near the reef of Prince Edward' s Island, pre., vious to the 15th ult. The Velocity, from Pernambuco to Aricata, was on shore, about seventy leagues to the north of Scara, on the 13;1 ult., and abandoned by most of the crew. The Dalmatia, bound to Mobile, was struck by lightning, at Boston, on the 16th ult, and totally consumed. The Mary Ann, from St. John's to St. Domingo, was lost on the Square Handkerchief, the 28th June—crew saved. The Don Juan, from Barbadoes, struck against the Pier_ head in Dorking yesterday afternoon, drove her anchors through her bows, and was laid on the Gridiron with eight feet water in the hold. PERNAMBUCO:JUNE 19.—1 t is reported that a corsair, with the flag of the Republic proclaimed in the Province of Rio Grande do Sol, has made her appearance in the seas of Cape Trio, and has plundered a Bazilian smack. W. Daniel, Esq., R.A., died on the 16th, at Breck nock-terrace, New Camden Town, after four months of extreme suffering. In him the Academy has lost one of its brightest ornaments, and society a most amiable and kind-hearted man. To his indefatigable industry and ver satile talents, the Literary Gazette has ever borne ample testimony. His pictures, in the last exhibition of the Royal Academy, have never been surpassed by any of his best performances. His exertions on that occasion were great, and met with deserved approbation. Besides the Pano rama of Madras, painted conjointly with Mr. Parris, and that of the Island of Ceylon, and the Capture of the Elephant by himself, the works of Mr. Daniel, in " The Oriental Annual," and other publications, are before the public, to a greater extent than those of any other member of the Royal Academy, with the exception of the late Thomas Stothard ; and, like him, his talents were the union of grace and design. His age was 68. His uncle, who is now living, is 88.—Literary Gazette. LAUGHTER.—If you were to ask a learned physi cian to explain to you the peculiar sensation termed laughter, it is more than likely he would astonish you with an amazing profundity of erudition, ending in the sage con clusion that he knows nothing more about the matter than that it is a very natural emotion of the senses, generally o - iginating with a good joke, and not unfreqwmtly terminat ing in a fit of indigestion. If he happened to be (as there are many) a priggish quack, it is not unlikely he would add as a sequel, that it was a most injurious and unmannerly in dulgence, particularly favouring a determination of blood t) the head, and decidedly calculated to injure the fine nerves of the facial organ. If, on the contrary, ho should be a good, honest follower of Galen, he would not fail to pronounce it the most fearful enemy to his profession, as being altogether incompatible with physic and the blues, and, by way of illustration, he might go so far as to read a chapter of Tom Hood's best, in order to prove the strength of his position. Laughter —good, hearty, cheerful-hearted laughter—is the echo of a happy spirit, the attribute of a cloudless mind. Life without it were without hope, for it is the exuberance of hope. It is an emotion possessed by man alone—the happy light that relieves the dark picture of life.—Bentley's Miscellany for August. FRUIT.--It is almost worth a day's travel to visit our fruit market on Fridays this month ; the variety is so extensive, the quantity so abundant, and the price so very low. Those who are accustomed t o p ay fi vepence an d six penc a pint for strawberries will be surprised to learn that, they are selling in our green market as low as two pints for three halfpnce ! Gooseberries and blaeberries are equally cheap.--4 sercleen Herald. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received Montreal papers to the 23d of July, and Quebec to the 20th of July. We extract the fol lowing : " UPPER CANADA.—T HE BANK.--As considerable anxiety is felt respecting the course which the Banks will pursue, we have obtained the followi ng i n f ormat i on on t h e subject :—The Directors of the Bank of Upper Canada passed resolutions declining to avail themselves of the pro visions of the Act, and resolving to continue specie pay ments. The Directors of the Commercial Bank, on the contrary, have resolved to avail themselves of the Act, and accordingly forwarded their application to his Excellency ; hot owing to some informality it was sent back refused. The President sailed for Toronto in the William the Funith, in order to bring the application before the Lieutenant- Governor and Council. If it be granted, the Commercial Bank will immediately take up the whole of the remaining debentures, for the Kingston and Napanee Macadamized Road, and the work will be completed forthwith. None of our Banks have as yet applied to his Excellency and Council, for the privilege of suspending specie payments. " THE WEATHER.—The late favourable change in the weather has generally revived the before drooping hopes of the farmers, and should it continue, the province will be blessed with abundance ; but we arc greatly concerned to hear that much dulness prevails in the back townships. One shilling is now the price of a 41b: loaf in Toronto. " We are happy to announce that a requisition is signed for the meeting of the Loyalists at Three Rivers on the 25th inst.—another proof that the spirit of counter-action is awakening." We have received a New York paper, one day later, of the 25th of July. We quote the subjoined : " EMIGRATION.—There arrived at this port on Satur day, Sunday, and yesterday, 2,364 passengers, and the amount of gold brought with them exceeds seven thousand sovereigns." (From New Orleans of the 27th July.) " It is stated that one of the suspended Banks is about o resume specie payments. Bank Shares, United States [ 15i." Quebec papers of the 17th July have the following : " The Montreal papers of Saturday, and reports by the steamer of yesterday, speak of troubles in the county of Two Mountains, and of the march of troops in support of the civil power. We apprehend that the latter piece of news relates to the removal of some troops from Montreal to Bingtown, the barracks at the former place not being sufficient for the troeps in garrison ; as to disturbances, we believe they are greatly exaggerated." We hear that the Pi esident, packet ship from New York, has brought 200,000 dollars. The Quebec Papers give the following statement of the number of emigrants arrived to the 15th July.... 15,854 To a corresponing period last year ........ . 17,572 I Difference in favour of 1836 1,718 A Montreal Paper states that the symptoms of change in the minds of the French Canadians, in the city of Quebec and in the parishes around, are as unequivocal as those exhibited by the same class in Montreal and in many of the neighbouring parishes. The reception Mr. Papineau has met with in many of the counties in the district of Quebec, is very different from what he anticipated. The accounts by the private letters from New York of July 15th are rather of a more favourable nature, but business was at a stand for the present. Exchange about 20 per cent. Canton Papers have been received to the 15th of March. They say, " We have no local news of importance to im part to our readers. The opium question appears to be at a standstill for the present ; and the only report that has reached our ear is the bursting of some large pieces of heavy ordnance at the Bogue Fort, which circumstance forms the subject matter of an imperial edict, dated on the 13th day of the new moon, 20th December, 1836. It is rumoured that measures of active warfare against the Lintin fleet are in contemplation by the local Government." (From the Canton Price Current of March 14.) " COTTON.—We cannot notice any improvement ; sales during the week are reported to have been made of 2,000 bales of Madras, at about tales 8 to 7, and of 1,000 bales Bengal at 9 per pecul. No demand for Bombay, Staple Cotton piece goods continue in request. " Ortust.—Several sales have been made in the last few days, but at declining prices. The trade is in a very un certain state, pending the discussion of the Government on the question of the drug being admitted to duty, and much . doubt is entertained whether such an arrangement will take place —reports being current to the effect that the Viceroy has determined on resorting to severe preventive measures for one year. Deliveries to the Bth inst :—Patna, old, 29 ; new, 31 ; Benares, old, 23, new, 4 ; Malwa, old, 1601, new, 65 ; total, 314. A chests. " WOOLLENS maintain a steady demand." THE FUNDS. Consols, which left off yesterday, 91i for the Account, opened this morning at 91 ; Money same. Exchequer B:Ps 49 prem. ; India Bonds 48 50 prem. ; Bank Stock 2101- 211 ; India Sto c k 259 260. 2 In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 201, Ex Coupons, opened at 9.04 ; Portuguese closed at 394- ; opened at the same; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., .531 ; Colombian, 24i 25 ; Mexican, 241 25 ; Spanish Passive, .5i 5 ; Deferred, 77 n._ - HALF-PAST ONE. We have received Singapore papers to the 24th March. By the Amelia, which arrived on the 21st inst. from Bata via, we have received the Java Courant from the 15th February to the Ist inst. Prince William Frederick, the third son of the Prince of Orange, arrived at Batavia on the 9th, on board the Belona frigate , and landed on the 10th under a salute due to hi s rank. The weather at Batavia has been for some time very boisterous. Rain had fallen almost incessantly since De cember, and the communication with the shipping in the roads had been frequently interrupted for several days, and a great part of the town had been flooded. Consols have been during the morning at 911, for Ac count ; Money same, with little doing ; Exchequer Bills lower, 47 prem. ; India Bonds lower, 48 prem. ; Bank Stock, 210 i. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active heavy, 191. ex. Coupons ; Portuguese heavy, 3SB ; Three per Cents., 24.1 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53k ; Columbian, 24i Brazilian, 841 ; Danish, 73i. THREE O'CLOCk. Consols arc steady at 914. Lord Melbourne is expected to leave town this day 'or his seat, Brocket Hall, Herts. Lord and Lady Lyndhurst arrived in Strasburgh on Wednesday last, on their way to Baden, in excellent health. By an Act of Parliament, which came into force on he Ist., it is provided that foreign newspapers, addressed o a person, who has removed, are to be forwarded free. Lady Drummond, whose funeral took place on Thursday last, at Lee, in Kent, has left the splendid be quest of t►venty thousand pounds, to be divided among four of our most humane and charitable institutions in the city of London. A perfect manuscript copy of the Edrisi, lately dis covered in the Royal Library at Paris, consists of 260 leaves, and is dated in the 74 fth year of the Hegira, the 1343 d of our era. It was written at Almeria in Spain, in the Arabic characters used by the Moors in Africa, and which are very ugly. A journeyman hairdresser, named Lewis, while bathing in the Thames, near some barges lying at New Crane, Shadwell, last week, was carried under them by the current, and although a very good swimmer, was drowned. The body has since been found at King Edward Stairs, and an inquest was held upon it at the Town of Ramsgate public-house, in Wapping, when a verdict of " Acci dentally Drowned" was returned. We hear that there is a revival in the iron trade ; an advance of 1/. per ton took place last Monday. —Bristol Mercury. The King's attorney at Brussels has for some days been engaged in the investigation of a rather delicate affair. It is a kind of swindling in which some Englishmen of dis tinction have practised ; among them is one J. K. It seems that the son of Mr. W. was taken to a tavern, where he was made drunk and induced to play, in which he lost about 70,000 francs. This K. is a kind of duelist, well known for his skill in such matters, and is said to have threatened his victim if he did not pay. We arc curious to learn what justice will decide in this dirty affair.—Lytt.r. A gentleman at Marseilles having, a few days since, received a challenge for some slight offence, re quired his adversary, before they went into the field, to guarantee him against any damages he might be called upon to pay in case the appellant was killed. This was answered by sufficient proof that the latter was Pius ?Willis, and, therefore, there was no one in existence invested with any rights to make such a claim. The person challenged next demanded that, in case he fell, his adversary would show that he had sufficient means to indemnify his family for his loss. This indemnity was produced to an ample amount. " New," continued the business•like offender, " you must obtain from the Procureur-Gcneral of the Royal Court at Aix a formal permission to fight, so that, whether I stand or fall, I may not be liable to any criminal prosecution." This stipulation being impossible to be complied with, not only was the duel abandoned, but a reconciliation took place, and the antagonists have become sworn friends. The beautiful grounds on the borders of Virginia Water are e..w in a high state of perfection and rural beauty, to which the public have access. Several persons are empl o y e d i n decorating and refreshing the painting 0., the fishing temple, which was a favourite retreat of. George the Fourth. LITERATURE. 'OGHLAN'S NEW GUIDE TO BELGIUM. MEMOIRS OF THE AIOS7'EMINENT LIVING POLITICAL REFORMERS. PART I. Saunders, London, 1837. These memoirs are written tersely and spiritedly; the writer is evidently a Reformer, but he has too much practical good sense to be an enthusiast, and accordingly discharges his biographical duties in a correct and scrupulously impartial manner. The Number is accompanied by three Portraits, the best executed of which is that of Mr. Roebuck. ELEMENTS OF GEOLOGY AND PHYSICAL GE 0 GRAPH r Br WILLIAM RHIN)), M. R. C S., 6-c. London, Smith, Elder, and Co. We regard this as the simplest and best elementary work that has yet appeared for the direction of stu dents in the science of geology. It is embellished with a map, and a number of very well executed wood-cut engravings. The author is evidently a man of intelli gence, and understands the art of communicating in. formation in a manner the most unobtrusively inte- resting. THE RECENT CRIMINAL STATUTES. BY J. F. ARCHBOLD, ESQ , Barrister-at-Law. London, Shaw and Sons, 1837. This little work, which is published in a, form equally cheap and convenient, contains the Nine Acts for the Reform of the Criminal Code of this country, which obtained the sanction of the Legislature during the last Session of Parliament. Had Lord John Rus sell conferred no greater boon upon the nation than he did in preparing and being instrumental in carrying these important measures, for the reform of the Cri minal Law of the United Kingdom, his Lordship would have established a claim to the eternal gratitude of his ,fellow-subjects. The fruitlessness of the last Session of Parliament is a subject of general com plaint : have any of those who indulge in it ever looked into those Statutes ? We arc confident they have not. To have passed these Acts is the best possible proof of the devotion of Parliament to the best and highest interests of the country. Their publication is well timed ; and as the learned Editor has annexed a num ber of valuable notes, and taken great pains to facili tate a reference to the provisions and penalties of each Act, we anticipate for this very important little work an extensive circulation. To all Justices of the Peace and other Magistrates it is indispensable. STOICESHILL-PLACE ; OR, THE MAN OP BUSINESS. Br' THE AUTHORESS OF " MRS. ARIIITTAGE," O. In 3 vols. London, Henry Colburn, 1837. No writer of the present day possesses to an equal extent with Mrs. Gore the faculty of pourtraying the individual foibles and peculiarities which render per sons painfully conspicuous in NY a t is called the best society. Her fidelity in the delineation of those weaknesses which border upon vices, and which are the results rather of a defective education and a false position than of any inherent or studied worthlessness of character, is a qualification for novel-writing which is pre-eminently conspicuous in all Mrs. Gore's tales ; and let us add, in none more than in the " Man of Business." In the plot and incidents of this novel there is nothing at all remarkable. Mr. Barnsley, a hard working, shrewd, young attorney, without money or connexions, contrives to worm himself into the good graces of an eccentric old merchant, whose only daughter he marries without the trouble of a courtship, and thus in a moment finds himself at the top of Fortune's wheel. He purchases an estate in Kent, to which he retires ; becomes a widower, and the father of an interesting daughter ; tries for a seat in Parliament for the nearest borough, and succeeds by dint of corrupt influence. A season in London, in the course of which Peers propose for the . . hand of Miss Barnsley, and are rejected, only serves to fill the ex-Attorney's brain with visions of greater honours to be achieved, when suddenly the failure of a country bank involves him in ruin. After a temporary sojourn in Brussels, and a variety of adventures more interesting than probable, Mr. Barnsley discovers what he ought to have known from the commencement—namely, that true happiness consists in contentment and the testimony of a good conscience; and Miss Barnsley is happily married. But the charm of this novel is not to be sought for in the plot or incidents, but in the marked distinctions and more striking peculiariaties of the several charac ters introduced. Here the authoress is quite at home, and appears to the greatest advantage. Who, that have had any intercourse with persons of rank, can question the fidelity of the following transcript of the feelings inspired by the first visit ? " Among the things that puzzled her most in the course of her first week at the Abbey, was her own previous in sensibility to the importance of Lord Shoreham. It had never entered her head to conjecture whether he were tall or short, amiable or unamiable ; but now, the consequence she saw assigned to his most trifling inclinations by his mother and sisters, convinced her that he must be a highly interesting personage. Every thing, and every body, at Wynnex, was referred to his oracular judgment. • " lam not fond of yellow, though it is certainly the best candle-light colour; observed Lady Shoreham ; ' but I chose yellow hangings for the saloon, because Shoreham thinks it becoming.' " Do not let any more figs be served,' said she, another day, to the maitre•d'hotcl, when the dessert was put on the table, Lord Shoreham is particularly fond of ripe figs ; and I fear there will not be enough to last out the season.' " The servants were, of course, still more servile. Twenty times a day, Margaret overheard one or other of them expressing his terrors to his lady, lest the workmen should not have finished their operations before my lord came down ; that the new cooks would not have arrived before my lord came down ; that certain missing cases of still Sillery champagne would not make their appearance before my lord came down ; that the off-wheeler of her ladyship's set of greys would not get over its lameness be fore my lord came down. My lord' was the object of their hourly and half-hourly solicitude !" Another brief extract is all for which wecan find space. We recommend it to the serious attention of those to whom the authoress addresses it. Mrs. Gore's sen timents are in the most perfect unison with our own : " If women could but know, par pa;•entheve, h ow com pletely they disfigure themselves by talking politics !—lf they would but believe how unfitted to the texture of a woman's mind and the habits of her education, is a subject demanding the assiduous study even of a vigorous, manly understanding! It is not a few phrases pirated from the pamphlets of the day, or the conversation - of those public men who deign to accept, in their political night-gown and slippers, the incense of a circle of fair votaresses that suffice to qualify We dissertations into which we hear these would be Aspasias plunge headlong, like SAM Patch into the Fall of Niagara !—Lady Walmer, always beautiful, often bril liant, and endowed with -a thousand womanly attractions, little dreamed how immeksureably she sank in the estima- Bailey, London, 1837. This is the fullest and completes: Guide Book we have met with for a long time. It furnishes us with minute particulars of the whole of the Belgic towns ; of the best and cheapest routes by Antwerp, Ostend, and Calais to Brussels ; and of all the objects worth seeing in those excursions. The names, too, of the most convenient hotels are given, together with a map of Belgium and Holland, in which the different public roads are traced out with remarkable accuracy. At the present season, when travelling on the Continent is all the rage, and Waterloo is sure to have its thousands of English visitors, such a work as the present, so cheap in price, and containing such a mass of well digested, practical information, cannot fail to prove acceptable ; the more especially as it is a mere pocket volume, and can in nowise encumber the tourist. The account of the battle of Waterloo, and of the present condition of that memorable district, is drawn up with a skill and accuracy by no means common with works of this class. COWES. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA. NIONDA Y, AUG. 21.—His late Majesty's Cup, value 100 guireas. The following yachts started at eleven o'clock pre cisely, when the Noble Commodore, the Earl of Yarborough, fired the gun. The four vessels swung round to their course, with springs on their cables. in beautiful style, viz. : Names. Tons. Commanders. Distinguishing Flags. Amulet Wili-o'-the- Wisp 40 Sir R. Harland, Bart. nute , f Flag Turk I.ord of the Isles 45 James Weld, Esq.... Red,WhiteCross The wind blowing a strong breeze from W. S. W., they pro ceeded round the Noll L;ght vessel, and back to the west ward past Cowes (at 2 p.m.) close together. The Amulet having struck her gaff topsail and topmast (the others keeping theirs up), gained on the others, and patted about 50 fathoms to windward of the Will-o'-the-Wisp (the second in the race), the Turk about the same distance astern, and the Lord of the Isles half a mile astern. At this time it was a snot beautitul and interesting race. They passed on to the westward round a station-vessel off Yarmouth, and back again between the Commodore's yacht and Cowes Castle (the goal of decision), as follows : Amulet Will-o'-the-Wisp 4 50 30 Turk 4 52 46 The Amulet was built by Mr. Michael Ratsey, builder, of this port. The roads and harbour are a forest of masts ; the parade crowded with rank and fashion. To-night a grand display of fireworks; to morrow the Royal Yacht Squadron annual dinner. On Wednesday the schooner yachts sail for a Cup of .501. On Friday the second (and last this season) Royal Yacht Squadron ball. On Saturday the yachts from 45 to 55 tons will sail for a Cup of 50/. THE LATE MR. LAWLESS A PRO- TESTANT! A letter appeared in Friday evening's Standard, copied from the Dublin Record, under the signature of " G. W. R." This letter stated, or at least would wish to have it in ferred, that Mr. Lawless died a Protestant. This was not the fact ; but such was the unexpectedness of Mr. Law less',; demise, that the necessary consolations of his own religion could not be procured before the sad event took place. If, however, this was not the case, and there had been time for the procurement of such consolations ; but more particularly if the writer of that letter was so anxious, as he appears to have been, that Mr. Lawless should die a recreant from the faith in which he lived, why did this zeal ous individual, in the teeth of the injunctions of his own creed, neglect to procure the attendance of a Protestant clergyman ? But the whole thing is a flimsy pretence : the object of the narrow-minded writer is obvious—it is evidently to wound the feelings of the surviving relations and friends of th e d ecease d—h u t i t i s frustrated by its own malignity. Then, this writer chucklingly says, that Orange men closed his eyes : this may possibly he the fact, for Mr. Lawless was a universal favourite with all, Orangemen as well as Catholics—parsons as well as priests. But I wonder the sapient writer did not say that Mr. Law less died an Orangeman ! This would have been quite as fair an inference as that he died a Protestant, because the attendance of one of his own clergymen could not be procured. The fact was, Mr. Lawless' friends were under the impression that he was in Bath on a visit to Mr. Roebuck, he having stated his intention of proceeding thither. Indeed, so convinced were his friends of his absence, that the Rev. Mr. Dowling, an intimate friend of the deceased, and who was greatly attached to him, and who had just arrived from the Continent, did not call at his lodgings, but awaited his supposed return from Bath. Immediately, however, on receivinc , the totally un expected information of Mr. Lawless' death, Mr. Dowling repaired to the lodgings of the deceased, and offered up over the body the prayers suitable to such a melancholy oc casion. The above-mentioned will, it is hoped, sufficiently account for the want of religious consolations which the la mented individual experienced on his death-bed, and which seems to serve " G. W. R." as a handle for aspersing Mr. Lawless' friends, and wounding their feelings. It may be added that the funeral service was performed by a zealous Catholic, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Spencer, which, with other circumstances, tends to show that no such recreancy was committed by Mr. Lawless as that of repudiating the faith in defence of which he exerted his ta lented energies through a long and a well-spent life. J. J. D. Lord Morpeth has been on a visit at Holkar Hall to his friend the Earl of Burlington. SURREY THEATRE,—A new drama was produced at this theatre last night, and was, deservedly, so successful as to be announced for repetition every evening till further notice. It is, somewhat vaguely, entitled The Law of the Land, or Landon in the Last Century ; and has for its groundwork the fate of Dr. Dodd, but the details of the piece have the least possible connection with the circum stances of that melancholy event. The general sombreness of the piece is enlivened by several very amusing scenes and characters. Nym Nabs, a gentlemanly highwayman, is a personage most pleasantly imagined, and done full justice to by Mr. R. Flonner. Davidge himself is exceedingly enter taining in Sir Peregrine Platitude. Miss Martin is a very lively lady's maid, and subsequent milliner ; and Mr. W. Smith, as Solomon Snail, a special constable, con soles us, as much as we can well be consoled, for the ab sence of " Glorious John." Mr. Cooper, who, it appears, has been expressly engaged to represent Abel Dodsworth, does ample credit to the selection ; and he is effectively sueported in the serious parts by Mrs. R. Ilonner and Mr. Lyon. A pleasant idea of introducing Dr. Johnson and Fielding as actors in the scene gave a sort of personal inte r:!st to the thing, and answered quite as well as could be ex pected. The attention to costume, &c., is exceedingly cre ditable, and there is but little doubt but the piece will have a long run. The house was crowded in every part. Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was taken before Mr. Stirling, at the Elephant and Castle, King's-road, St. Pancras, on view of the body of a fine young girl, unknown, about fourteen years of age, who was found in the Regent's Canal, near the Hampstead-road, under the following cir cumstances :—Thomas Barnet, a bargeman, said that on Friday evening, about seven o'clock, he was entering Hawly lock, near the bridge in the Hampstead-road, which passes across the Regent Canal, when Williams, the lock-keeper, directed his attention to the deceased, who was in the water. He took the body out with a hitcher, and placed it on a barge ; a man by his side recognised her as the girl that he gave some victuals to on Wednesday last, on the Hamp stead-road. She was of full face and tall, and appeared about fourteen years of age. She had no shawl nor bonnet. A policeman took possession of the body. There were no marks of violence.—Anne Barry, a fruitwoman, deposed that, on Wednesday last, the deceased was on the bridge; witness seeing her in trouble spoke to her, when she ob served, that if she had a halfpenny she would have some of witness's gooseberries, since she had not had anything to eat for two days, and d ur i ng th e l as t two n i g h ts she had been wandering about the streets. Witness said that. she could not afford to give much, but she would give her a penny to buy a lo a f with. The deceased had half of it, and eat most ravenously. She appeared a tidy modest girl, and stated that she had been turned away from home by her uncle and aunt. She had no father nor mother ; her uncle and aunt lived somewhere in Lambeth. Some man hear ing that she was starved, gave her some meat he had in his hand for his dinner. Witness told her that if she would call the next day, she would get a place in some respect able family. She had on laced boots, a brown stuff bon net, and a whittle. Verdict—" Found drowned." The high encomium bestowed by Lord F. Egerton on the electioneering influence of the females of South Lan eaThire, and the compliments paid by a Mr. Atkinson to the jovial Conservative zeal of the gin•drinking wolien of Sal ford, appear to have been no more than they merit. Female Conservative politicians are on the increase, and it behoves the Reformers to be incessantly on the look-out as to their movements. During the past week the wives of the Oldham operative Conservatives—or as one of our local political stars designates them—journeymen Tories, have been de monstrating their love for the Tory cause by taking tea, drinking drams of liquor, and dancing to the loyal strains o the church vocalists, on Tuesday evening, at the Shakspe Inn, Glodwick. The prospects of the Oldham oper:it: Conservatives are at a low ebb when it becomes nece:sa to call in the aid of dram-drinking females. —. 2 anchesie Times. Tile splendid scenery of the Isle of %Vight is dtaw ing a vast concourse of visitors this season. Since the esta bhlnent of steam-boats to the island—from Portsmouth four times a day, from Lymington three times, and from Southampton three times, at a moderate charge—the visi tors have doubled. Persons who have S , .vitzerland declare that the beauty of the Islard exceeds, in miwy parts, all that they ever saw. On Wedn,!sday last three fine lads were bathing in Sand Down Fort, when, v:mtu ring too fir into the sea, two of them, named Arnold and Plomer, were drowned. The-parents were in a state of distraction. tian of every man of sense, when indulging in as that with which she was boring Sir Henr Political tirades were scarcely endurable from Madame de Stael, and are but an unmeaning n fom those of any other woman. Such attem o .e, not of Helen smiling gracefully in the arnim but. of Venus rapping her delicate knuckles by the anvil of Vulcan !" Stokeshill Place is, taken altogether, one of the very best novels published this season. The readers are few indeed who may not find amusement or instruc- tio i in its pages. - ' - 'f\ ;\ 6 II N c- k- 7 \ --5 1-.. 4..4' -. , ••• la ' tiA2146 1 s _,i\-1: 1 ? , i 4td44,1'; . t . Z '''ll.6r-'4":"11;:. t ;c.t! kre l 4.i. ,M IC * VS: 0 11 ;461 , :___ ilitSVaSla)4l i