The Sun. — London, England, 1837-08-18 00:00:00

ATTEMPTS AT ASSASSINATION AND SUICIDE. Yesterday afternoon a Jury, composed of the most re spectable inhabitants of the village of Enfield, Middlesex, was sworn before J. SAWYER, Esq., one of the Coroners for the Duchy of Lancaster, in which jurisdiction the vil lage of Enfield is situated, at the Wheatsheaf Inn, to in quire into the circumstances attendant on the death of Siberal Buisson, a Frenchman, aged thirty, who had in the first instance made a most desperate attempt to assassinate a most respectable widow lady named Pegler, and then blew his own brains out. After the Jury had been sworn it was discovered that the most essential witness was not in attendance, and the Coroner and Jury, feeling that they could come to no satisfactory conclusion in his absence, adjourned the inquiry until this day. From the circum stances that had transpired of this tragical affair, which has created a most lively sensation throughout the village, it ap pears that the deceased had lived for upwards of twelve months as a French teacher at the respectable seminary of Mr. Mears, but had, for some cause or other, left that situa tion about three weeks ago. While there, however, it ap peared he paid particular attention to Mrs Pegler, the widow of an officer who occupied apartments in the esta blishment of Mr. Mears, and who was considered as a parlour boarder, and used frequently to walk out with her, and from his conduct it appeared he conceived a most vio lent attachment towards her. On Wednesday evening, at about six o'clock, he was driven up in the front of Mr. Mears's house in a town cab, and on the door being opened to him he entered the apartment of Mrs. Pegler, and had some conversation with her, and she, in order to avoid his importunities, went into her bedchamber, into which the deceased had forced himself. 'While there he requested to know if she (Mrs. P.) would have him ; and on her re plying in the negative, he forced her down on the ground, and presented two loaded pistols at her head ; but one after the other fortunately missed fire, and as he had drawn the third out his pocket, the cries of his intended victim brought to her assistance the son of Mr. Mears ; but on his rushing into the chamber the deceased presented the pistol at his head, and having fired it the ball carried away part of his right whisker. By this time the inmates of the house became generally alarmed, and the deceased fearing, no doubt, that he would be overpowered, rushed down stairs and got into the lawn at the rear of the house, and perceiving that one of the female domestics had led Mrs. Pegler up stairs, he fired another pistol through one of the back windows, where lie supposed she was passing, and then deliberately drew out another pistol, pre sented it at the left side of his face, fired it off, and the ball, having passed through his left eye, he instantly dropped lifeless on the ground. Mr. INliller, a surgeon in the neigh bourhood, was sent for, but on his arrival life was quite ex tinct, as the ball was found to have passed through the head and come out at the back, so that death must have been instantaneous. Watkins, one of the mounted police, who resides in the village, was here sent for, and on his ar rival he had the holy of the deceased removed to the Wheat Sheaf Inn, and on searching it found in the pockets three 5/. Bank of England notes, four sovereigns, a powder flask, with some powder in it, a mould for casting balls, with seven balls, and a box of percussion caps, together with five pistols, one of which was a double-barrel, and three of which remained loaded and undischarged. On ex amining the cabman he said he took up the deceased at about four o'clock in the precincts of St. Paul's, when he bargained to pay him sixteen shillings for his journey to Enfield and back, but promised ten shillings in addition if he took him quickly. In the first instance he directed to be driven to Furnival's Inn, and on passing up Snow-hill he stopped at a ' rruumaker's shop, where he purchased some pistols and loaded them, and this was all he (the cabman) knew of him. DUBLIN POLICE. " WHAT'S IN A NAME ?—A female, representing the euphonious title of Ledv Frances Mary Catherine Eloisa Flood, appeared before the Dublin Police Magistrates to complain of several indignities with which she had been in sulted by a plow named Anderson, who had the audacity to demand from her the sum of 11. I2s. 4d., which he al icg,c(i was due on account of rent. The complainant, who appeared in a state of great men tal and bodily excitement, was dressed in a white muslin gown, black bonnet, and red boots, with a parasol, which she carried in her hand. The officers of the board-room stated she was of insane mind, and 7us known to the diffe rent police offices from her constant application for a sum of 87,0001., which she asserted had been forcibly taken from her by order of Mr. BLACKER, one cf the Magistrates of that office. Mr. Duffy stated to her that a policeman should be sent afterlierto prevent her from additional insult. Lady Mary—l have been humbugged long enough by those stories (stamping her foOt). Let a man be sent in stantly with me. Mr. BLACKER—My good woman, you shall have every protection. _ - Lady Mary—Hold your tongue, sir, and don't dare ad dre,s me with such language. iNly good woman ! Ah, you old villain, you robbed me of my property, and now you insult me. Mr. Duffy—No one here shall insult you. Lady Mary—You are the only gentleman I have ever met in this office. Will you favour me with your Company to dinner to-day Mr. Duffy--I shall feel great pleasure. Lady Mary (in a whisper)—l see you know and appre ciate my rank, and I will therefore accept the loan.of a pound or thirty shillings from you. Mr. Duffy (smiling)—l regret I have only a few shillings in my purse. Mary—Oh, it's no matter ; give me what you hale. I will repay any trifle at dinner time. Mr. Duffy handed the lady half-a-crown, who requested that he would not forget that eight o'clock was her dinner hour. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The Larkins, Ingram, from Bengal, arrived off the Lizard 14th inst., sailed from Calcutta 18th March, Saugur 29th. Arrived in Table Bay Ist June, and sailed again on the 10th. The Sophia, HinClostan, Stratheden, and Perfect had ar rived at the Cape from England. The Trusty, West, from China to London, was spoken on the Bth of August, lat. 44. 23., N., long. 18., W. The Commercial Steam Packet Company, we find, are about to start the splendid steam-ship, Chirftain, of 600 tons, and •?00 horse power, from the Tower, on Wednesday next, with passengers for Southampton, whence it is arranged that this fine vessel will proceed from thence on the Friday following, immediately after the arrival of the London mail of Thursday, for Lisbon, without calling at Falmouth or Oporto. The Chieftain has been fitted com pletely for this station. SALE OF HINDOO IMAGES.—A very interesting Hindoo exhibition, which has been recently brought to this country, and exhibited at St. Katharine's Docks, was yes terday brought to the hammer by Mr. George Robins, at the Auction Mart. The sale was numerously attended by amateurs and connoisseurs, among whom were several foreigners. There were 78 figures as large as life, including the principal images of Hindoo worship, with their peculiar dresses, representing with great accuracy the various people of the principal cities of Hindostan, which ware copied from living objects, including Burmese and Armenians, the de scendants of Tamerlane, and the followers of Zoroaster and of Confucius, the Jew from Jerusalem, and the " mild Hin doo," the whole: being the works of native artists. The chef d'alare in the collection was Doorga, the chief to whom every devotee and Hindoo saint boasts of renouncing all pleasures of life, with all the charms of social intercourse of their fellow-creatures. The whole of the 78 figures (which, it was whispered in the room, originally cost up wards of 3,0001.) were put up in one lot, and, after much competition, produced the sum of 630/. Yesterday morning a quantity of smoke was observed to issue from the shop of a bookseller, named Hone, in Chancery-lane, which was occasioned by a lad, the son of the proprietress, a widow, having commenced amusing him self by pouring a quantity of gunpowder, which was con tained in a tin box, on the top of a lighted lamp, which having ignited, caused the box to fly with great violence into the face of the lad, by which he had it scorched in a shockinc , manner, besides sustaining other injuries. The little sufferer, who is not more than ten years old, was con veyed to Mr. Paulson, chemist, who dressed his wounds, which are not of a dangerous nature. The fond anticipations entertained during the spring months of having, this season, an ample and excellent crop of potatoes, are already being fully realized. To-day they have been selling at the Square and at the Mid-quay, at the low price of 8d per peck. The peculiar disease that destroyed such extensive quantities of the esculent during the last two or three years, and puzzled so many of the agricultural theorists, has this season completely disap peared, and we have now the confident hope of obtaining a more luxuriant potatoe crop than we have had for some years.—Greenock Advertiser. Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Tuesday night a young gentleman, dressed in the first style of fashion, attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river near Waterloo Bridge, under the following melancholy circumstances :—For some weeks past the unhappy youth has been residing with a female at a house of ill-fame in William -street, Waterloo-road, where he spent a consider able sum of money (received from his mother in the country) in visiting the theatres and other places of amusement, but after spending nearly his last penny he was turned into the street, and rather than return home he determined to de stroy himself. Nothing could exceed the gratitude of the misguided youth to his preservers. He stated himself to be a native of Liverpool. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCh- Bank Stock. "11 10 1 A , India 5t0ek„......„ ................ 3 per Cent. :ed. 9-2% % Ditto Bonels 3 per Cent. Cons 9110“;, South Sea Stock 3 per Cent.- ...... 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Due 0 America.......... 1 1 France .. 0 0 Lisbon... ...... ... 0 0 Prazil 0 0 Guern. & Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 0 Buenos Ayres.. 0 I Hamburg 0 0 Mex , co ll 0 Carthagena...... 11 0 Holland 1 Dublin... ....... 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden .. 0 1 Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. lforning . minutes after 4. I Evening...... 29 minutes after 4. TORD MELBOURNE'S HOUSE of COM- A MONS will be exhibited in the SPECTATOR's Lists, to be published next week, price 6d. These TABLES will comprise Alphabetical Lists of Members, with a designation of their political characters. The FINAL STATE of POLLS at the close of every election. TABULAR FORMS, showing the GAINS and LOSSES of each PARTY, &c. Throughout the General Election the Spectator's Tables have been framed with a single eye to truth and fairness, and with a freedom from party bias which no other paper has dared. A liberal allowance to booksellers, hawkers, &c., taking a large number. Advertisements for the wrapper must be sent early to secure insertion. Published by J. Clayton, 7, Windsor-court, Strand. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. ..4-114:0 , 1 -4 ' -:...,-- 2 h'irr.i . , 1;, : e .2 .. !'"4., ,cl a . 4,...,7,, • z=l, 1 • . ' - Z)1)1,V 7 , 1 , LONDON. FRIDAY EVENING. AUGUST 18, 1837 A t a Reform Dinner given the other day by Capt. TOWNSEND to the Liberal electors of Tamworth, some sensible remarks were made by a gentleman named KNIGHT on the subject of the cry of the " Church in Danger," which the Tory parsons have been so diligently getting up during the elections. " For his part," observed the speaker, "he was ashamed of hearing the everlasting complaint that the Church was in danger. What was the meaning of this cry ? Was it meant that the doctrines of Christianity were in clanger ? No ; all that was meant was, the money was in danger." This is strictly the fact. The Tory parsons have little concern for the doctrines : it is for the breeches-pockets of the Establishment that they arc chiefly apprehensive. When, therefore, they tell the people that the Church is in danger, they mean that the Arch ' bishop - of CANTERBURY - S fincen thousand per-an— num is in danger ; that the exorbitant revenues of the unworking Deans and Chapters are in danger ; that the system of pluralities and non-residence is in danger ; in a word, that Reform threatens to hear hard upon their darling temporalities. They hare no other meaning than this, though they would fain persuade the people that their solicitude arose only from spi ritual considerations. But JOHN BULL will not be much longer gulled by these artful devices. The Tory parsons have cried " Wolf !" so often that the cry has lost half its effect, and in a short time will be totally unheeded. Captain TOWNSEND, who followed Mr. KNIGHT, bore similar testimony to the strict con scientiousness of priestcraft. Speaking of a certain Tam worth clergyman, the Rev. Mr. BLit K, he said, " About forty-three years ago he was promoted to a handsome living by his (Captain TowssEND's) grandfather. In consequence of the kindness shown by his family to this gentleman during that long course of years, he had received a very large sum of motley, so that it might have been supposed that some small remnant, some solitary emotion of grateful feeling might have actuated his conduct towards the descendant of his benefactor. But this Clergyman was not content with mere neutrality, or conducting his opposition in an honourable manner; but he sent for men who had pro mised to vote for him (Captain TOWNSEND), and by every means endeavoured to persuade them to break their word—to commit a breach of common truth and honesty by violating their promises." This is a rich trait of character in a Tory parson. But it is not characteristic of one member only, but of the entire Tory parsonie frater nity. During the elections, BLICKS abounded in every county and city in the kingdom, exerting their malign, unconstitutional influence, without the slightest regard to propriety. But the best portion of Captain TOWNSEND'S speech was reserved for Sir ROBERT PEEL, whom he lashed without mercy, and with a point and spirit that must sting that Right Hon. Ba ronet to the quick. It was but the other day that Sir ROBERT—who, by the bye, is greatly addicted to the bepraising of himself by inuendo—spoke in high terms of the candid way—are we never to have done with this Tory-Jesuit's professions of candour ?—in which he had acted towards the Tam worth electors. He would not coerce one for the world ! Not he ! GOD forbid he should ever even dream of tampering with the freedom of election ! He left all Tamworth to vote just as it pleased, for he was above trickery—above having recourse to uncon stitutional influences. On the honour of a gentleman he could say that his hands were clean. There was no damning spot on them. Such is Sir ROBERT'S account of himself. Let us hear now what Captain TOWNSEND says. "He stood free from the charges of duplicity—from those violations of honour, of principle, and of truth, which, so long as the eternal distinctions between right and wrong remained unconfounded, would affix a stigma upon Sir ROBERT PEEL which could never be wiped off. The means which Sir RO BERT PEEL and his party had adopted to prevent his his (CAPTAIN TOWSEND'S) return were in the highest degree disgraceful. He asserted this to Sir ROBERT'S face on the hustings, and he would re-as sert it to the world—it should go forth that where ever the name of Sir ROBERT PEEL had reached, the disgrace which he had incurred should accompany it, and, if possible, meet him in every direction, and touch him at every point, and look him in the face on every occasion. The proofs were as clear as daylight, that Sir ROBERT PEEL, under the mask of secrecy, had exerted his utmost powers to effect the return of Captain A'Coußr, and to prevent his ; and he had done this in utter contempt of reiterated declarations and promises, solemnly and publicly made." We are not in the slightest degree surprised at this Jesuitical conduct on the part of the Right Hon. Baronet. On the contrary, we fully anticipated it, for he is the most consummate master of political legerdemain now THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1837. in existence. No one can be so candid in speech, so tricky in act. His powers of plausibility are really miraculous, for how else could he have duped the Tam worth electors into a belief that he had no wish to interfere with them, when all the time he was se cretly—at least so says Captain TOWNSEND, and we place the most implicit reliance on every syllable of his statement—tampering with their consciences ? Sir ROBERT PEEL, you are, it must be confessed, a great man, but dare to be open and manly in your po litical character, and, rely on it, you will become a much greater one. Try for once in your life to be straight-forward—if only by way of novelty. You have really no idea what a sensation such a change of cha racter would excite ! People would stare at you, thus metamorphosed, as a wonder ; and no longer give the Liberal party credit for possessing every political recommendation for which you have, for so many years of your life, been deficient. The public organs of that patriotic party who prefer Hanoverian to English policy and the interests of King ERNEST to those of Queen VICTORIA, are now be ginning to discover that their patrons, after an election eering career in which they have gone beyond anything , and everything hitherto acomplishhed by the most un principled profligacy, are as far from their darling ob ject as they were when they entered upon that des perate course. They now find that the intimidation and coercion which they have exercised over their mise rable serfs in the agricultural districts of England, the bribery which they have practised to so unex ampled an extent in the boroughs, and the awful de moralization which, by these and other means, they have let loose among the people, have, instead of pro moting their main purpose, tended greatly to defeat it. Not only has the notoriety which accompanies the undisguised and universal prostration of every moral principle before the unhallowed idol of political ascer dancy deprived their few successes of all that could give them any value in public estimation ; but these very successes thus gained in England, in violation of everything sacred, have had the effect of rousing the patriotism of the people of Ireland ard Scotland to an unprecedented degree. The exertions which the Reformers have made in those divisions 3f the empire are above all praise, and will in their result, numerically counter-balance, while in all other respects they infinitely outweigh the vaunted gains, of the de pendants of a Foreign despot. Scotland has sent, cr will ultimately send, to Parliament, nearly three-fourths of her representatives to advocate the cause of the QUEEN and Reform, while Ireland will furnish al almost equal proportion of her Members to the Liberal phalanx. This result is as gratifying to the friends as it is galling to the enemies of improvement. To find se great a sacrifice of principle made in vain—to have lost so much character, without anything like an adc quate return in power or pelf, or even in the most dis tant prospect of the advent of these adorable Divini ties, is, it must be confessed, calculated to try the temper and to mortify the spirit of a Tory. We are afraid we can hold out no topic of consolation to the party—we sec nothing in their present state, and not even a speck in the horizon—on which they can found a hope, or even the shadow of a hope, if we may be allowed so to express ourselves. But assuredly they derive no benefit from attempting, as some of their scribbling gentry are doing, to depreciate the value of the additions made to the Liberal cause, because they are Irish or Scotch. The time is pne by, when the British public could have any sympathy with these ille beral, exclusive, and, we will add, anti-national senti ments. It may suit the views of a party, one main object of whose policy has always been to oppress and grind, and degrade the people of Ireland, as if they were "aliens" not only from the English, but from mankind— it may suit this base faction to cast a stigma upon the repre:.:entatives of the Sister Island ; but they will find no response in the hearts of Englishmen. The only abettors of such opinions, the only encouragers of such feelings, are to be found among the English subjects of the King of HANOVER—the despicable outcasts from their country's society, and depreciators of their country's honour. We copy from the Morning Chronicle of to-day an admirable refutation of the foul calumnies of the Tories respecting the representation of Ireland, to which we have pleasure in calling public attention. According to the apostate Times, and the apostolical, unblushing Standard, and the fashionable crim.-con.-narrating Post, the strait-laced Protestantisin of the House of Commons is swamped by a flood of Popery from the bogs of the Sister Kingdom. But this assertion, like all others made by the unprincipled organs of the Tory faction, is proved by the Chronicle to be wholly and absolutely false—that Ireland, instead of increasing the number of her Cabolic re presentatives, is sessionally diminishing them—and that while Reform has obtained ten additional champions by the late election in Ireland, the Catholics have al lowed seven Representatives of their own religious communion to be replaced by Members of the Esta blished Church. This is a conclusive proof that Ire land seeks good government, and not the triumph of a creed—that while in reality Protestant England dis plays bigotry in its most hateful form, Catholic Ireland manifests a toleration and a patriotism which would reflect credit on the most civilised nation in the world. We have news from Madrid to the evening of the 11th inst., though we have only received journals to the 9th. The report of the evacuation of Segovia by the Carlists on the morning of the sth, proves to he unfounded. The rebels were in possession of the town on the Bth, and had received orders from Don CARLOS to hold it at all hazards till reinforcements would arrive, as he proposed making it the seat, pro tempore, of his Court and Government. It was fur ther rumoured that QUILEZ, at the head of a division of 6,000 Carlists, had left the Ebro by forced marches for Segovia. On the 11th a band of rebels appeared within three leagues of the capital ; but on some companies of National Guards marching out to attack them, they fled to the mountains. Es- PARTERO has been ordered by the Government to repair in all haste for the protection of Madrid. He arrived at Guadalaxara on the 12th, at the head of nineteen battalions, leaving ORAA in the neighbour hood of Chive, where he was engaged in plans for the prevention of a junction of the reinforcement s of the Carlist chiefs, SANZ and TOLLADA, with the main division of the enemy under Don CARLOS. Nor have the successes in New Castile been the only ad vantages recently gained by the Pretender. They have taken the fortress of Lacava, on the right bank of the Ebro ; they are besieging Mora ; and they have cut o ff all communication between Tortosa and the Mediter ranean. These successes have all been gained, almost within sight of Baron DE MEER, who, with AYERBE, is astonishingly busy doing nothing, or worse than nothing on the left bank of the river I On no rational grounds, short of imputing treason as well as incapacity to the QUIEN'S Generals, can we account for so many reverses at a moment when Europe anticipated the glorious triumph of the Con stitutional standard in the Peninsula. Madrid boasts of from ten to fifteen thousand National Guards, all to a man prepared to spill their blood for the QUEEN and Constitution ; General IVIENDEZ VIGO and Bri gadier A SPI ROS have between them near ten thousand troops of the line ; and yet the whole Carlist force opposed to this numerically formidable array of heroism and patriotism, consists of only five thousand infantry and two hundred horse !—or one rebel to four or five of these trumpet-tongued warriors of the Prado. But though they have all that could inspire heroism urging them on to instant victory—though they take up arms under circumstances which would make women valiant —the protection of their QUEEN—of the Cortes—of the Government—of the liberties of a nation--of their domestic hearths—of all that commands duty, inspires awe, and conduces to the promotion of general and individual happiness—yet so little can they be depended upon, that ESPARTERO is ordered from the Ebro to cover the capital ! Thus Don CARLOS is left to choose his own route, after all the blustering of the Christino Commander-in-chief, and his no less blus tering compeers ORAA and DE MEER. Nor can the Government be so infatuated as not to have per ceived by this time, that it cannot rely upon the united fidelity and capacity of its military agents. It is morally impossible that it could remain ignorant of a fact known to all who are in the habit of paying any regard to the progress of events in the Peninsula. In our columns of this day will be found a letter from the Correspondent of a Morning Contemporary at San Sebastian directly taxing ESPARTERO with treason able designs and practices ; and we find the same charge in almost every communication from the same quarter. The incapacity of the QUEEN'S Generals is now uni versally admitted. Even the author of the " Policy of England towards Spain," whose opinions were re ceived with so much respect by the House of Com mons, and so virulently attacked in the Quarterly Re view, in a Pamphlet just published, entitled, " The Sequel of the Policy of England towards Spain," ac knowledges that he was not prepared for the uniform incapacity or treachery displayed by the constitutional commanders. He denounces the conduct of ORAA at Barbastro, when he allowed the enemy—with all their wounded and baggage—to cross unmo lested ; to cross a rapid river, when he might have cut them off to a man, as " unpardonable ;" he marks as liable to strong suspicion the proceedings of DE MEER at Gra, and on the banks of the Cuenca and the Ebro, where he suffered the Carlists to slip unmolested through his fingers ; and he distinctly avers that had " ESPARTERO displayed the commonest energy or activity, he might at this moment have brought the whole of the insurgent country to a state of perfect tranquillity." _ _ The debates in the Cortes on the 7th and Bth inst. were very stormy, but on both occasions the Cabinet obtained a triumph. The subjects under discussion were the progress of the war, and the proclaiming of New Castile in a state of siege. We anticipate more energetic measures from the patriotic firmness evinced by the Cortes under circumstances so well calculated to test their zeal. The whole of the Paris Papers of Wednesday have been received. The Moniteur contains the following telegraphic despatch from Spain : " BAYONNE, AUG. 14, EIGHT O'CLOCK,' P.M. " THE AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE TO THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " On the 11th, at four o'clock in the afternoon, the state of siege (martial law) continues. The advanced posts of the Carlistg in possession of Segovia appeared last night within five leagues and a half of Madrid. The National Guard is under arms. The enemy disappeared in the morning. Espartero, at the head. of 10,000 or 12,000 me n, will be to-morrow in the environs of the capital. Madrid is tranquil." • The other - news from Spain contained in these Papers is embodied in our article on the progress of events in the Peninsula. The domestic news in the Paris Papers is confined to the announcement of the return of the Royal Family from Normandy to Paris. Annexed are extracts : The Tordonnais, of the 11th, says It is believed that the expedition to Constantine will take place in the beginning of September. It is certain that if it is to take place it cannot be put off for a longer time, without again running the risk of the same disasters as last year : it is, therefore, to be hoped, that the lesson will not be entirely thrown away." The Tonlonnais gives the following news of the sth of August, which differs a little from that in the Alyerine Mo nitcur of the same date :—" Hitherto the treaty of the Tafna is a dead letter for us ; the actions fought in the East had brought back to our markets the Arabs from that side : we have not seen any others. Those of the South and West remain in a hostile attitude ; they cannot lire any musket shot, because our troops do not visit their en campments, but they set fire to vast tracts of the plain. " Abd el Kadcr is in no haste to come to explain the treaty to the Arabs of the provinces ; meantime we are hemmed in more closely than we have been before. " M. Pellison, aide-dc-camp to the Minister of War, has rrturned to this place, and is to go to Bona to join the Governor-General, and to carry to him despatches and in structions. We do not know whether they relate to the expedition to Constantine, or to the treaty of the Tafna. However, it is certain that we dare not occupy Blida, which is ceded to us by the treaty ; and yet before the peace, General Datnremont thought of putting a garrison into that place, and believed that the Government would autho rise him to do so. We are impatient for the end of all Commerce. FRENCH FUNDS -Pam , . Aunear 16. Five per Cents., 110 f. Sc.W 55c. 65c. 7i c. Four per Cents., 102 f. Three per Cents., 79f. 20e. Bank Actions, 9,414 f. Rente de Naples, 96f. 90c. 85c. 9Cc. Roman Five per Cents., 101. Spanish Actives, 22 21A,%. Spanish Difleres, 7q. Spanish Passives, 4Y%. Belgian lean, Fire per Cents, 103. Belgian Bank, 1,495 f. 1,420 f. 1,415 f. Portuguese Loan. Three per Cents, 25? 4 . Itaytian Loan, 310 f. .I.3Ct. EICNANGP. ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25c. 37 4c.; money, 2M. 35c. Three mouths, paper, 25f. 25c. ; money, 25f. 9.2.iC -Count Authentigue. LAST PRICES, Five per Cents., 110 f. 70c. Three per Cents. 79f. 20c. Rank Actions, 2,410 f. Roman Five per Cents., 101. Belgian Loan, 103. Belgian Bank, 1,4151. Belgian Society, 1,600 f. Portuguese Three per Cents., 25k. Haytian Loan, 330 f. .vanish Actives, 2114. Spanish Passives 4N. New Differes, " Sic ITuß."—The proprietor or inventor of one of the new-fangled cabs has christened his concern " Boz." There are already " Pickwick chintzes," and " Wells corduroys." One of the most distinguished medical practitioners used to say that he considered a fee so necessary to give weight to an opinion, that when he looked at his own tongue in the glass, he slipped a guinea from one pocket into the other.—New York Examiner. _ Wednesday morning, about nine o'clock, a dog, evidently in a rabid state, was observed running across Smithfield, his tongue protruding, and covered with saliva and dust. After taking refuge in the shop of Mr. Fenton, plumber, and creating great alarm, he was speedily ejected, and followed by a crowd, ran into the cellar of a cook shop in Giltspur-street, where two policemen speedily despatched him. A court-martial assembled on board her Majesty's ship Britannia, 120, flag-ship, on Saturday last, and conti nued by adjournment to yesterday afternoon, for the trial of Mr. Henry Argot, late Assistant-gurgeon of the steam vessel Carron, on the West India station, on charges of repeated drunkenness and various acts of insubordination. The sentence of the court was, that he be severely admo nished, and be put at the bottom of the list of Assistant- Surgeons of the Royal Navy.—Brighton Gazette. More than 7,000 visiters are now sojourning at Wiesbaden Baths. Ribenck, the palace of the Duke of Nassau, is within a short drive of the baths. Among the English visiters of distinction are the Duke of Cambridge and suite, Earl and Countess Craven, Countess Stanhope and her daughter, Lord and Lady Albert Conyngham, Hon. Francis Molyneux, Lord George Beresford, Mr. and Lady C. Tumour; also the Duke and Duchess de Fitz james. The Princess Victoria steam-ship, John Britton commander, arrived yesterday morning from Antwerp in 20 hours. She had among her passengers his Excellency the Baron de Cetto, &c. Count Anastasius Raczinski, a Pole by birth, is appointed Ambassador from the Court of Prussia to that of Spain. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.- There has been a fair demand for Cotton to-day, but upon the whole rather a quiet market. The sales amount to 3,500 bags, consisting of 100 Egyptian Bd. to W. ;, 150 0 Maranhams, Bd. to 80. ; a few Bahias, 9. ; 30. to ; and the rest, A mer i c ans, of which 200 are for export. 150 Surat, BRIGHTON LYRICS. BY A YOUNG GIRL, NOT YET THIRTEEN. THE SEA. Behold the ocean in its might ! Is there a nobler—finer sight ? What, in all nature, is so free, As the glorious bright blue sea, When, in a storm, its billows rise, Foaming and dashing tow'rds the skies ? Or when, again, 'tis still as sleep— The bright moon shining o'er the deep, Presents a sight so grand—so free— Each wave exclaims—" Sweet Liberty !" TO THE SUN SETTING ON THE WATERS. Behold the glorious setting Sun ! At length his daily race is run. As he sinks to rest in the bright green sea, The sight is nearly as grand as he. But while he sinks—with the brightest gold Grandly he paints the ocean bold ! And now do both the sea and the sky With all the rainbow's colours vie! Now, now he's gone !—Farewell to thee, Sun of the heavens—Star of the sea ! Thou art gone to rest in the waters deep, And there till morn thou wilt soundly sleep. A. Y. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY. CORN EXCHANGE. In the present week the supplies of Wheat and Flour, also of Foreign Wheat and Oats have been good, of other grain the quantities have been moderate. The continuance of fine weather occasions great dulness in the trade for every article. Wheat has met so few buyers that to effect sales Is. to 2s. per quarter reduction on Monday's prices have been taken, and some quantity is left unsold. Barley is scarce, and the prices firm. Beans and Pease are dull, and hardly maintain last quotations. Oats have sold slowly, at the rates of Monday last. In Flour there is scarcely any trade, as prices are ex pected lower. A tR VALS. Barley. I Oats. Flour. KO qrs. 2.260 qrs 5,840 sacks 5,420 12,870 Wheel. English Irish Foreign 5,1E10 720 MARKET 1, arid the sale wa dull at little ted : S. TO SINE TIIE OFFALS. 5. d. to 5. 4 . Inferior Sheep 1 0 3 2 Second quality ditto 3 4 3 6 Coarse.vr4olled ditto..... 3 8 310 southclown Wethers 4 0 4 4 Large Hogs 9 6 4 • Small Porkers ....... ...... 4 6 419 Quarter old Pig teach) 12 9 20 ~ 4s Od. to i.e. Od. MARKET. Calves. 210 I Pies 314 SMITHFIELD This day's supply was very goo alteration from the prices last quc ?meas. rER ATONE OF Sr s. to s. Interior Beasts lt (1 3 ft Second quality ditto 2lO 8 4 Prime large Oxen 3 6 4 0 Prime Scots, &c 4 4 4 6 Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6 Prime small ditto 4 8 5 0 s.ickling Calves each —l6 33 01 Lamb SUPPLY AT Beasts. I Sheep. 694 70'02 NEWGATE AND LEA . At per stone, 1 s. d. to s. d reef, inferior 3 4 middling ...... 3 -- prime large prime mail 3 14 Veal .......... • Lamb ENHALL MARKETS. py the Carcass. 3 6 Mutton, inferior S middling 2 10 prime 4 0 Pork, large 4 8 —small 3s 10d. to 4s. S. d. to s 3 a 3lt ,„ 310 4 0 42 4 4 ~ MO 4 4 ~ 4 6 6 0 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, AUG. 17. Wind S. S. E.—No arrivals. Dryad, Herd, for Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 17.—Wind E. S. E.—No arrivals. COWES, AUG. 17.—Arrived the Agen Storr, Matanza. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 17.—Wind E.—Arrived the Trevor, Lind, from Trieste; Emma, Mains, from Licata. Off port, his Majesty's ship Lynx, from the Cape of Good Hope ; Su rinam, Ruander,, from Surinam ; Auxilier, Patterson, from Quebec ; Waverley, Ward, from Salem ; Crosby, Golder, from Seville; Planet, Strachan, from Cadiz. FALMOUTH, Arc.. 16.—Wind E. S. E., moderate.—Ar rived the Matilda, from Galipoli. Off port the Princels Marianne, from Batavia ; Verdant, from Port au Prince ; Leonidi, Tuste, from Havannah ; Stephens, from Richebucto. PF,N Z ANUS, AUG. 16.—Off port the Larkins, Ingram, from Calcutta ; Burney, Hopkins, from Matanzas ; Formica, Jur geson, from St. Thomas's ; Thomas, Donner, from St. Tho mas's; Zebra, from New York. NEWPORT, Arc. 16.—Arrived the Kingston, Key, Quebec. GLOSTER, AUG. 17.—Arrived Fence, Wilson, Konigsburg. LIVERMOI„ AUG. 16.—Arrived the Alfred, Chever, from New York ; and the Arab, —, from New Orleans. CLYDE, AUG. 15.—Arrived the Hanover, Carfrae, Jamaica. DUBLIN, AUG. 15.—Arrived Royal William (st.) London. WATERFORD, AUG. 15.—Arrived the David, Cannon, from New Orleans. Sailed the lIULL, AUG. I6.—Arrived the Maria Leeverts, from Kiel; Demuth, —, from Stettin ; Maria, Überg, from Gefle ; and the Frow Mine. —, from St. Petersburg. Off the Start, the Edmund, from Matanzas. The Jessie, Clcet, of Shields, was on shore on Sigewell Beach yesterday, and bilged. The Amphitrite, of Memel, was abandoned by the crew in lat. 49, long. 18. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received Cape of Good Hope Papers to June 8. They convey no news of importance from the frontiers. The post from the interior was delayed nearly an entire day by the rains and the swelling of the rivers. THE FUNDS. During yesterday there was very little doing in the Bri tish Funds ; but in the course of the day Consols were buoyant at 92 to In the afternoon the market rather declined, and Consols closed at 914 s for the Account— opened this morning at the latter price ; Money the same. Exchequer Bills 47 49 prem. ; India Bonds 48 50 prem. ; Bank Stock 210 f 214 ; India Stock 2581 2591. The Bank Directors' usual weekly meeting took place yesterday, but, nothing of an extraordinary nature took place. Commercial affairs are much improved, and the demand for produce is more extensive. Spanish Active continues to droop, and is heavy this morning ; closed at 20i with out coupons ; at present 20 -a 1 with coupons ; Portuguese closed 39A-, now 39 ; 3 per Cents., 244 ; Dutch 2 4 per Cents., 33,1. HALF-PAST ONE. The general topic of conversation in the City entirely relates to the affairs of Spain, and the near approach of the Carlists to • Madrid, which has caused the Spanish bond holders great alarm. _ . Spanish Active was very heavy in the early part of the morning, and done at with the Coupons—since which a re-action has taken place, and Spanish is at present 201 owing to a report of higher prices in Paris. Consols receded in the course of the morning, from 914 -4- to 91 4, at present may be quoted 911 for Ac count ; Money 91ra, with little doing ; Exchequer Bills 47 49 prem. ; India Bonds 48 50 prem. ; Bank Stock ; India Stock 25812594. Consols for the Account, 911. THREE O'CLOCK ANECDOTE OF TIIE QUEEN.—AbOIIt eight or nine years ago the Duchess of Kent had requested the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Lincoln to come to Kensington Palace, for the purpose of examining into the proficiency of the youthful Princess in her education, and of asking such questions as they thought fit. One of the Right Reverend Prelates, observing that the Princess had been lately reading the History of England, said to her, " Pray tell me what opinion you have formed of Queen Elizabeth ?" The Princess, with the modesty and timid deference belonging to her character, answered, " I think that Queen Elizabeth was a very great Queen, but I am not quite so sure that she was so good a woman."—(Extracted from a speech lately made by the Bishop of Worcester, at the Guildhall in that city.) RYE AND BOULOGNE.—On Tuesday, the Bth instant, a party of gentlemen embarked from Rye Harbour in the Royal George, a Dover steam-packet, for Boulogne. Their object was to ascertain if the voyage from Rye to Boulogne could be performed in the same tide, which most persons doubted. The Royal George, though a good boat to stand a heavy sea, is a very slow one. They left at half-past one o'clock, and although there was a violent wind and heavy sea against them (so much so that the London packet for Boulogne could not get round the North Foreland that day), they arrived at Boulogne at seven that evening, in time to save the tide by about 20 minutes. They left Boulogne at one o'clock on Wednes day, and came into Rye harbour at twenty minutes past five. If they had had one of the fast packets, there is no doubt they wou ld h ave d o ne it in an hour less time both ways. It is contemplated, next year, to establish a steam communication between Rye and Boulogne , as Rye is ten miles nearer London than Dover, and also thirty-five miles nearer Hastings and Brighton, much nearer to Maid stone as well as Tunbridge Wells.—Brighton Gazette. ALARMING FlRE.—Last Wednesday night, be tv; een ten and eleven o'clock, a fire bloke out in a cellar under the shop of Mr. Lloyd, an oilman and tallow-melter, Fore-street, Cripplegate. Several of the ward watchmen hurried to the spot to render assistance, previous to which a report had been spread that gunpowder was deposited in the shop, which prevented many persons from entering the house to extinguish the fire, and in all probability great de struction of property would have been the result but for the timely arrival of the London Establishment and West of England engines and firemen, when the groundlessness of the report was made known to them, and they, with the assistance of several auxiliaries, fortunately confined the damage to the lower part of Mr. Lloyd's premises, who is insured in the Phamix and Sun fire-offices. Bedford county gaol is at this time without a debtor. CRIIVIINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.—John Hall, a very respectable looking young man, who was indicted for stealing letters, this morning pleaded guilty to the Gth count of the indict ment, which charged him simply with stealing letters, not stating their contents. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, who appeared for the vo secution, stated that it was the opinion of the authoritists at the Post-office that the ends of justice would be an swered by his pleading guilty to the 6th count of the in dictment, which would subject him to seven years' trans portation. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS—Then, I suppose, you have no objection to take an acquittal on the other count. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—By all means ; but, per haps, it would be better to enter a noli prosequi. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS concurred in this arrangement. Mr. PHILLIPS, who appeared as Counsel for the pri soner, observed that he considered the authorities of the Post-office had dealt most leniently towards the prisoner. Willi am s, a young man, also in the employ of the Post-office, pleaded Guilty to three indictments, charging him with stealing letters. MINT PROSECUTIONS.—SamueI Greenfield, an ill-looking fellow, was convicted of uttering base coin to a Mrs. Peck. John Morris, who had been previously convicted, was indicted for uttering two counterfeit half-crowns. Mr. SCARLETT and Mr. BODKIN appeared on behalf of the Mint. Mr. HAWKINS proved the conviction of the prisoner on the 23d of August, 1835, when he was sentenced to be imprisoned for six months, and kept to hard labour. A boy, named Adams, in the employ of a person named Law, stated that on the 15th of July, he was sent by his master with an account of 17s. 6d., to Mr. Hyde, White.- chapel, who paid him in seven half-crowns. On going towards his master's house, he heard the prisoner ask a lad to give him two half-a-crowns for five shillings, and if he would he offered to give him a penny for his trouble. Witness then said that he could oblige him with change, on which he pulled out the seven half-crowns, when the prisoner said " Let me have two old half-crowns," the greater part being new ones. The prisoner then put the two half-crowns into his pocket, and after keeping his hand on his pocket a few seconds, he said, " Oh, dear, I have lost my five-shilling piece, but naver mind, here is your two half-crowns back, and the penny I promised to give you." The prisoner then said he would give him ano ther penny if he would go and inquire for a person of the name of Bolton. He accordingly went to the place pointed out by the prisoner, but found no such person there. On his return he informed the prisoner he did not live there, when he gave the witness another penny. On his return home he gave his master the money, when he told him that he had got two bad half-crowns. On the 17th of last month the witness was standing by Norton Polgate Theatre when the prisoner passed. He looked him full in the face, ex pecting the prisoner would strike him. He called to two other boys, when the prisoner ran away. He cried out " - Stop thief," and the prisoner was taken, at which time he threw away some bad half-crowns. The Jury without hesitation found the prisoner Guilty. Neil Thompson, aged 35, the mate of the Heroine, was indicted for feloniously attempting to discharge a loaded. gun at Henry Kemp, with intent to murder him, during the time the vessel was upon the high seas, within the jurisdic tion of the Admiralty of England. Henry Kemp deposed that the prisoner was mate of the Heroine, and a most able seaman. On the 26th of May, 1826, the vessel was !ying off the coast of Africa. On: the night of that day the prisoner called up all hands, sa ying that the vessel was adrift. Witness jumped up to assist at the sails, when the prisoner pointed a loaded gun at his head, and pulled the trigger. As the gun did not go off, the prisoner struck witness with the butt end of the gun over the head, from the blow of which he became insensible, and remained in that condition till the next day, when he was hardly able to move ; his mouth was cut, and one of his teeth was hanging by a piece of the gum ; his left eye was very much cut, his face was swollen, and the back part of the head was much injured. The prisoner afterwards continued to ill-treat the witness, till he was remonstrated with by the crew, when he sent up about half a pint of gin, saying that would cure all their heads. On the following morning the Captain, whose name was Murray, came on board, when witness stated to him what occurred, and he sent up two men to dress his head. Witness kept his berth for a month. On his cross-examination by Mr. CLARKSOIV. the wit ness stated that the vessel, which was about a mile and a half from the land, was laden with different species of goods, to the value of nearly 7,0001. The vessel had had a good voyage to Africa, with the exception of encountering a. heavy gale in the Channel, when everything was swept from the deck. Two able men and a boy constituted the crew. Witness had not received orders from the pri soner to keep a sharp look out on the night of the 25th - he had no watch to keep that night, there being enough him. The crew were all on deck in the day time, when a good deal of liquor was drunk. Witness did not hear the prisoner say that the main and foresails were shivering in the wind, and that two men were to go aloft. There was no danger of the vessel running ashore if the anchor had given way. Never heard the mate say that he would forgive them all if they would behave better on going home. There was no fight between Captain Murray and the prisoner. The prisoner caught the captain by the collar on one occasion, and threw him down when wit ness and the cook went to his assistance, when the pri soner was put in irons and kept in them for three months. Never heard the prisoner speak of the insubordination of the crew. Re-examined by Mr. BODKIN—The prisoner had asked him to make it up, and on his saying he would not, the pri soner said he should not have anything to dress his head with. On reaching England, witness went before a Magis trate. By Mr. Justice . WILLIANts—Had never had any guar relwith the prisoner. _ . . John Andrew, one of the crew of the Heroine, corro borated the evidence of the last witness. On his cross examination the witness stated that he had frequently quar relled with the prisoner. Several other witnesses also cor roborated the evidence of the prosecutor. Mr. CLARKSON addressed the Jury on behalf of the pri soner at some length. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS summed up the evidence. The Jury, after retiring for half an hour, returned a ver dict of Guilty against the prisoner, of doing bodily harm, but recommended him to mercy on account of the absence of his witnesses. NEW COURT. Henry Ambrid,gc, 19, was indicted for stealing 16 yards of silk, a shawl, 3 handkerchiefs, a pair of silk stockings, and other articles, the property of Dominick Cuthbertson. The prosecutor, who is an extensive linen-draper in the borough, deposed that the prisoner had been for some time in his employment as shopman, and in consequence of some suspicions, the prisoner was watched, and the articles now produced were found in a house in John -street, Waterloo road, where he was in the habit of visiting. Sarah Wright, a young Cyprian, apparently not more than 12 or 13 years old, deposed that the prisoner was in the habit of visiting her, and had ,presented her with the ar ticles found in her room.—Guilty. The prosecutor stated that he had been compelled to pro secute another of his young men a few months ago for a si" milar offence. John Shirtchp was indicted for stealing a tea-pot, a pair of candlesticks, and other articles of plate, the property of T. Bradbury, silversmith, Fleet -street, his master. The prisoner was also indicted for embezzling various sums of money, the property of his employer. He pleaded guilty to all the charges, and the Learned Sergeant told him that his plea wou ld no t a vail him much, as such conti nuous acts of dishonesty must be s everely . punished. Alexander Duncan and George Sincla i r, two soldiers of the Foot Guards, were indicted for stealing a watch, value 40/., a chain and seal, value 101 : , and a p urse conta i n ing some money, the property of Elliot Boyd Davis, a young surgeon, from his person. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor that on the night of the 26th of July he had been drinkin g to ex cess at a tavern, and on passing th roug h t h e Strand he met the prisoners, and asked them to have some drink. He afterwards found himself getting v ery and requested them to tak e care o f his watch an d money. He had no recollection of their giv in g him their names. Th e watc h man at Coutts ' ban k s aw the prisoners running up B e df or d- street, and the prosec utor was found lying very drunk in the mud. The property' was next morning found by the Serjeant on the persons ° i the prisoners. The defence was, that the property had been given to them by the prosecutor to take care of, and after gi v i n s' him their names they were obliged to go away, as their leave of absence had expired.—Not Guilty. The COMMON-SERJEANT said he could not allow the prosecutor his expenses. When gentlemen took it into their he a d s t o ge t stup idly d run k, an d go an d drink p ith common soldiers, they must abide by the consequenc es ; The prisoners had had a very merciful jury, and he hope's it would be a caution to them for the rest of their lives. ' A FRIEND.—" Who goes there ?" said an Irish i s sentry of the British Legion at St. Sebastian.—" A friend:ci was the prompt reply.—" Then stand where you are," s al . a Pat, " for by the powers you are the first I've met this murthering country." The King of Denmark, who was considered to be . i' l s great danger, i s now , it a pp ears , e nti re ly recov ered from to ~n illness. He was present on the 3d at thq inaegurlti,,n of the Royal Rifle-shooting Society—called the " I)4ni° Fraternity."—Paris Paper. i