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13, Great Marlborough-street. THE REV. R. COBBOLD'S HISTORY Or, MARY ANNE WELLINGTON. Mr. COLBURN begs to acquaint those interested In the above work, and the public in general, that it w:11 appear in the course of a few days ; and all who are desirous of becoming Subscribers, and have not yet sent their names to the Publisher, are requested to do so without delay, to prevent disappointment. Frice, to Sub scribers only, 21s. Henry Colhurn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW NOVEL, Now ready at all the Libraries, MRS. MABERLY'S " LEONTINE. " In 3 vols., post Svo. " A story of the deepest interest, wrought out with an ability and still which we have rarely seen surpassed.—Observer. " lity far the most delightful romance of its class that we have for a long time encountered."—•Naval and Military Gazette. Henry Celburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. DEDICATED (BY PERMISSION) TO HER MAJESTY. blow ready, with Portraits of Henry the Eighth and Charles the First, engraved from Original Pictures in the possession of the Duke of Northumberland, THE TWO CONCLUDING VOLUMES OF SIR HENRY ELLIS'S NEW SERIES of ORIGINAL LETTERS, ILLUSTRATIVE of ENGLISH HISTORY . Vols. I. and 11. may be had of all Booksellers. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. AESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds Imme diately disposed of according to instructions. Offices. Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ti OYA L, LYCEUM. • UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. First Night of a New Burlesque. THIS EVENING Will be performed the popular Farce, entitled SISTER AND I. After which, a New Grand Operatic, Melodramatic. Romantic. Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, founded on the Opera of " Oberon," entitled THE MAGIC HORN. Principal characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Turner, Kinloch, Collier, Yarnold. Bender, Silver, Richards, and Keeley; Miss Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Bromley, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled THE END OF JUNE. Principal characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. Kinloch, Mr. Turner, Mr. Keeley. and Miss Howard. To conclude with the new Farce, entitled LOAN OF A WIFE. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, and Yarnold ; Mrs. Woollidge and JAiss Howard. TiIEATPCE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of PAUL PRY. Colonel /Tardy, Mr. Lambert ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright ; Grasp, Mr. 0. Smith ; Somers, Mr. Worrell ; Mr. Stanley, Mr. Thomas; Harry Stanley, Mr. Boyce, Frank Hardy, Mr. Braid ; Witherton, Mr. Selby ; Mrs. Subtle, Mrs Laws ; Marian, Miss E. Harding ; Phcebe, Miss Ellen Chaplin. After which, a Grand Mythological Burlesque Extravaganza, de nominated THE JUDGM tNT OF PAHIS ; or, The Pas de Pip pins. The characters personated by Messrs. Selby, 0. Smith, Glen naire, Lindon, Waye, Butler, Williamson, Aldridge, Mitchenson, Alderson, Ryan, Wright, Paul Bedford ; Miss Ellen Chaplin, Miss Taylor, Miss Harrison, iss Simpson, Mrs. F. Matthews, &c. To be followed by an original Comic Sketch, called ABRAHAM PARKER. Abraham Parker, Mr. Wright. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakespere's Comedy (with Music) of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Granby; Mr. Ford, Mr. J. Vining; Mr. Page, Mr. Ryder; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Charles 3lathews; Master Slender, Mr. Compton; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Stirling; Anne Page, 3tiss Gcorgiana Smithson. To he followed by an entirely new Ser'o-Comic Drama, entitled A CURIOUS CASE. Mr. Aubrey, Mr. Vining; Twiggieton, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Charles Stanton, Mr. Fisher ; Edward, Mr. Honner ; Mrs. Aubrey, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude with an entirely New Comic Drama, entitled THE BARBER BRAVO ; or, The Inventor of Powder. In which Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Granby, Mr. Wynn, Miss E. Stanley, and Miss Marshall will perform. ASTLEY'a ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal. Immense novelty and entire change. Fresh addition to the Company, and first Week of the highly interest in g Spectacle of " The Merchant Steed." THIS EVENING Will be performed the popular Drama, called THE MERCHANT STEED ; or, The Flight of Damon. Calanthe, Mrs. Merton Brooks; Damon, Mr. J. Harwood ; assisted by the whole of the Company. Double Stud, rare Quadrupeds, &c. After which, magnificent SCENES of the HIPPODROME, by the French, German, and British Professors. The whole concluding with the pleasing Drama, entitled THE NAMELESS. j;oS.ofllce open from eleven till five o'clock. —Doors open at six and commence at seven O'clock. DAVIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. Unrivalled talent for Six Nights only. The distinguished Artistes' Miss Cushman, and her sister, Miss Susaa Cushman, will sustain some of their favourite characters during this Week, being their last performances previous to their departure for the United States. Engagement of Mr. Macarthy, the popular Irish Comedian, for Six Nights. THIS EVENING %VIII be performed Shakespere's Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Miss Cushman; Juliet, Miss Susan Cushman. After which, the popular Farce of THE IRISH VALET. Larry Hoolagtut, Mr. Macarthy. To conclude with the Drama of THE BROKEN HEART ; or. The Farmer's Daughter of the Severn Side. In which Messrs. E. F. Saville, Neville, J. T. Johnson, W. Smith, Heslop ; Miss Rich ardson, and Miss E. Terry will perform. Box Office open from eleven till four o'clock. Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. VIEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC TION of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. A richly ornamented GOTHIC BRIDGE of STATUES has been constructed, which will be brilliantly Illuminated at Night. The PROMENADE CONCERTS, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. CALYPSO'S FAIRY GrtOTTO, representing in the Interior Telemachus relating his adventures to Calypso. The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Sonthby, are on the most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display, Mons. FARINELLI will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in height, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to receive Um, and bear him to his chrystal home. The Glass Conservatory is splendialy ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of Carnivore by gas-light. Feeding of the Carnivore at half-past five; the Pelicans, &c., at six ; Concert at half-past six ; and the Eruption at dusk. Admission, One Shilling. Under the Patronage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambedge. THIS DAY, and TO-MORROW, A GRAND FLORICULTURAL EXHIBITION and BAZAAR DES FLEUR 4. In aid of the Funds for assisting those Nurserymen and Florists who suffered by the late Hail-storm. Extra Bands will attend, in addition to the combined attractions of the Gardens. Admittance, TWO SHILLINGS. Doors open at One. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 22. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 57 ; Highest. 70 ; Noon, 68. BAROMETER, 30 09.—WIND N.W., cloudy. lIILIH WATER AT LONDON-BRIJ)G THIS DAY. Morning •• 15 minutes after 3. I Evening .. 30 minutes after 3. 7 -,,--, -....'-'-':,':-,.,,‘,. , 7 „,., ~, • ,-_,...,..3,...,,:-,2 a, ~,,,-.,, i...4,--5k.,,,,,,,,,„ a a,• , ..„.... , ",_ ~_&....„...,.,... ,•At ' ntgritinff AIA4 LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1846. We thought there had been quite enough of per sonal invective within the walla of Parliament for one session. We should have conceived that the salient discussions which grew out of the charge preferred by Lord GEORGE BENTINCK against Sir ROBERT PEEL, with respect to his political conduct towards Mr. CANNING, would have satiated any ordinary ap petite fur aspersion and defamation. Considering, too, the triumphant and memorable reply which was given by the late Premier to the vituperative attack —a reply which, for its very completeness, drew forth from Lord JOIIN RUSSELL a most honourable enco mium—it might have been expected that a little pru dence would have dictated to Lord G. BENTINCK the policy of not making a similar exhibition of himself, certainly not during the same session. It seems, however, that his Lordship's appetite for calumny is mot easily appeased, and no doubt Mr. WAKLET will one day take leave to inform the aspiring statesman that he has not the phrenological bump of caution largely developed. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK made a rigmarole state ment a few nights since, that Lord LYNDHURST per petrated, or rather participated in, "a job " when Mr. DAVID POLLOCK was appointed Chief Justice of Bombay, with the view of providing for his late secretary, Mr. PERRY, who has recently been made Chief Commissioner of Bankruptcy at Liverpool; and that Lord Rirois had facilitated Mr. PoLLocx's elevation to the Indian bench, in consequence of the ex-Chancellor's having exercised his patronage of the valuable living of Nocton in favour of his nominee. The manner and the matter of this charge elicited from Lord LYNDHURST, in the House of Lords, on Thursday, a most luminous statement of the facts followed up by a most vehement philippic against Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, such as in these days seldom tickles the ears of the Legislature. It is a serious business to charge a late Minister, who filled the office of the big:lest judge cf the realm, with con duct which might justify the iLiputation of his having been actuated by selfish and sordid motives. Little do we wonder, then, that Lord Lrtrpituitsr poured forth his indignation in the withering terms he did. e I do not know how to justify the conduct of the Noble Lord, unless that perhaps he thinks that everything is fair in party tactics, and that he is therefore justified in en deavouring to blacken and traduce the characters of his political opponents by every means in his power. Perhaps he acted on that principle, or perhaps his earlier associations and habits—(Laughter)—have had the effect of inducing him to form so low an opinion of the principles on which mankind acts, that he believes every man, in all the transac tions of public life, is actuated by abase, selfish, and sordid amotive.—(Cheers.) In looking at the charges which he ,made, I cannot attribute his conduct to any other principle. It has been said, and said justly, that to be praised by a per son who is himself the subject of praise, adds tenfold to the eulogy—(Hear, hear)—and the same principle applies to calumny, for the best antidote against calumny is often found in the character of the calumniator.—(Cheers and laughter.) With respect to the Noble_Lord's slander, if it is not, as the poet says, sharp as the point of the sword, it is not from want of inclination, but from want of power. If his tongue does not ' out-venom all the worms of Nile,' it is not from want of the will, but from want of ability to instil the poison. A distinguished writer has this allusion with regard to persons unjustly accused, The sting of the wasp may fester and in flame long after the venemous—l should have said vexatious —insect has left its life and its poison in the wound,' and this is the same with regard to such attacks as that which I have been directing the attention of your Lordships to." Lerd G. BENTINCK made another long speech on Friday, by way of rejoinder to his antagonist. We do not enter upon any of the points he sought to esta blish, because, as we have no confidence in the data of one who is constantly retracting and apologising, it might only be a useless waste of time. On Wed nesday the Member for Lynn made a retractation, and an apology to Lord LYNDHURST, with'respect to the living of Nocton. Yesterday he was forced by Mr. S. WORTLEY to go through the same humiliating ceremony in favour of Mr. PERRY, who, it was clearly proved, had not been " dry-nursed" by Mr. Com missioner HOLROYD, as had been stoutly alleged by Lord G. BENTINCK on a previous occasion. We can have no confidence in any averments which come from such a quarter. Besides, it is palpable they have been made, not from a regard to the public in terests, but from a malevolent delight in assailing one of the most powerful members of the late Cabinet, which happily succeeded in' passing the great Corn Bill, and which has had the effect of rendering the pro tectionist leader in the Commons so atrabilious in his Parliamentary warfare. But, as though in despair of the futility of his accusation, the Noble Lord last night cast a new ingredient into his virulent cauldron, in the hope that his distinguished adversary would not escape free from all prejudice. Lord G. BENTINCK asserts that, on the 10th of July last, Lord LYND HURST sent an eminent and respected merchant of the City of London to him, to propose that he should join the colleagues who were in a minority in her MAJESTY'S late Cabinet on the question of the sugar duties. Lord GEORGE dwelt upon this fact to show that his character stood favourably with the ex-Chancellor about six weeks since. The divulging of this political secret may, or may not, lead to a further explanation in the House of Lords. For ourselves, we see nothing objectionable in one politician pro posing a combination with another, both being out of office, upon a question where it was considered their views were parallel. But what might have been Lord LYNDHURST'S opinion of Lord GEORGE on the 10th of July last, and before the gross and vindictive attack levelled at his character, for a corrupt exercise of his official functions, does not necessarily disparage the view which the late Chancellor may I have since formed of his accuser's character, now that it has been exhibited in very different colours. The unbridled license of Lord GEORGE will, we have no doubt, receive another check. We should not be surprised if Mr. GLADSTONE were to administer a wholesome castigation. Experience is a dear school, and before long the Noble Member for Lynn may find the truth flashing across the desert waste of his mind, that there is a certain class of bipeds who will learn in no other. In another part of our impression we give an un paralleled array of volunteer names for a great national object. From six to seven hundred of the licensed victuallers of London alone offering them selves to receive penny subscriptions for a statue to Sir ROBERT PEEL, according to a plan suggested by a correspondent of the Morning Advertiser, under the signature of " ALFRED." As we were among the first to hail the plan and purpose, we will not be the last to rejoice at the triumphant response with which " ALFRED'S" letters have been met. We expect to be able to state that the publicans in the country, especially in the manufacturing districts, will not be less desirous of carrying out the wishes of their customers than their brethren in town. We will gladly aid them in doing so. The cause is well un derstood by all. Not only is this national subscrip tion a proof of gratitude for the past, but an evidence of determination for the future. Every great Minister who will sacrifice place and power to help the nation will be honoured by the nation, whatever his politics may be. Already we hear that more persons have subscribed in the metropolis alone than all the voters for the whole twenty Members of the metropolitan county, cities, and boroughs. This is as it ought to be. Why should not the poor express their opinion by their pennies as well as the com paratively rich ? London has acted nobly, and the licensed victuallers have set an example which their brethren in the country, who well know that free trade could not have been carried for years to come without the self-sacrifice of Sir ROBERT PEEL, would do well to follow. In compliance with an order of the House . of Lords, dated August 3, 1846, a return has just been made of all pensions granted since January 1, 1838. We turn to this document with peculiar interest, anxious to discover that while the national revenue has in no instance been squandered, the national benefactors have not too frequently been forgotten. We have examined this catalogue of pensions on the civil list with the most unaffected and scrutinizing anxiety ; we have risen from its perusal with a mix ture of painful and pleasurable emotions, though, it must be acknowledged, the painful were predominant. We cannot, unquestionably, complain of any extravagant expenditure of the public moneys as far as the sum total is concerned ; but in various particulars we conceive we should be amply justified in cavilling at the selection of some amongst the recipients. Nor is this the only cause of our dissatisfaction in regard to the appropriation of the national funds. While our astonishment is elicited by the bounties lavished upon individuals without the vestige of a claim to become pensioners upon the British ex chequer, our indignation is aroused at the tardy re turn made to some of our most illustrious benefactors, and occasionally at the total omission of very eminent and deserving names. During a period of little better than seven years and a half seventy-nine individuals have been pen sioned with merely 10,7801. per annum. Considering the number of recipients nothing could be more niggardly than this allowance :-10,7801. distributed amongst seventy-nine individuals become splintered into portions but little consonant with the affluence of this great empire, or the manner in which her meritorious and necessitous children should be recom pensed. The highest among these pensions is 1,0001. per annum, of which munificence there is a solitary example; the lowest are 2i1., and even 201., of which there are absolutely seven individual instances ! Is it, we ask, compatible with the dignity of the English Government, with the benevolence of the English laws, with the generosity of the English people, that their servants should be granted, in their hours of af fliction and despondency, such an ignominious bounty as twenty pounds a year ? Does not the very inser tion of a name upon the Civil List constitute an acknowledgment that its owner has a claim upon the gratitude of the population ; and is it not, therefore, disgraceful to that population that such a claim should be satisfied by a pittance so niggardly ? Is it just, is it honest, is it generous to repay our national benefactors—generally persons of refined minds and susceptible feelings—with a pension more miserable than the wages of an ordinary mechanic? It is monstrous to shirk these inquiries on the plea of economy ; as well might a merchant refuse to loosen his purse-strings for one of the most useful persons in his counting-house, on the plea of economy. The relief of the necessities of her more gifted offspring—those whose genius has proved the benefaction cf their fellow creatures—is among the liabilities of a civilised na tion. Liquidate those liabilities before you talk of economy ; but, above all, in GOD'S name, do not reward your benefactors by a lingering starvation— namely, by a pension of 201. a year ! Either a man deserves no recompense whatever, or he de serves something better than such a death in life." Among the seventy-nine pensioners there are several foreign and many very obscure names, the introduction of which is to us peculiarly anomalous, from our knowledge of eminent personages who, not withstanding their genius and their wants, have been entirely disregarded by Government. Three names in the catalogue convey a grand and affecting moral ; they breathe of the woes of genius and of the in human parsimony of the State ; they are— JANE lIOOD, 100/. ; MARY HAYDON, 50/. ; MARY BANIM, 401. Surely the names of those widows require no comment to enforce the melancholy truths they teach. I We will leave their mere utterance to fructify a feel ing of generosity in the Administrative, and to kindle a sentiment more akin to gratitude in the bosoms of the people. Already we hare spoken of the tardiness evinced in ' tendering a recompense where it is ultimately ac knowledged to be due. Is an evidence re quired ? Here are two. On November 17, 1842, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH was granted a pension of 3001. per annum. On January 28, 1845, PATRICK Feriae TYTLER received a pension of 2001. per annum. Among the most spontaneous recompenses of this description, we must particularly mention JOHN RAMSAY M'CULLOCH, 2001. ; ALFRED TENNY SON, 2001. ; JAMES DAVID FORBES, 2001.; and Dame FLORENTIA SALE, 5001. For such rewards to such individuals, and so offered, we can, as an organ of the people, express our cordial and unbidden grati tude. Could we recognise a similar impartiality and a similar munificence throughout, we should not feel inclined to cavil as we have done at the various items in the catalogue. Surely the most " parsimonious politician provident of coin" (to travestie the language of MILTON) would not raise an outcry of profligate expenditure were these pensions of a more average munificence, and distributed with more discrimination. Many worthier signatures might then appear among these seventy-nine ; a larger sum than 10,7801. might then be announced as thus appropriated ; the number of our illustrious suicides and martyrs of knowledge would be con siderably diminished ; nor would such an arrange ment cause the civilisation and prosperity of this c•untry to retrogress. A letter from Vienna, of the 9th, states that the Papal Nuncio to the Court of Austria has gone to Koningswart, for the purpose of making some im portant communications from the POPE to Prince METTERNICH. The States of Styria have presented an address to the Emperor of AUSTRIA, praying him to abolish lotteries. The King of PRUSSIA has countermanded the grand review which was to have taken place this year between Fraustadt and Guhraw. The reason assigned for this countermand is the scarcity of provisions in the Grand Duchy of Posen, a scarcity which would have been aggravated by the presence of a large body of troops. Ass, Madrid papers of the 15th have arrived. The Heraldo states that Mr. BULWER is about to visit England shortly, but that he will previously , pass a fortnight at St. Sebastian. The Gazette con tains an official contradiction of the rumour that great desertions had taken place in the army sta tioned along the Portuguese frontier. The intelligence from Lisbon contained in these papers is to the effect that the Government had received a telegraphic dispatch announcing the commencement of hostilities by the Miguelites in the provinces of Minho and Tras-os-Montes. El Padre CASHIER°, a fanatical priest, was at the head of the movement, and his troops consist of a numerous band of Spanish and Portuguese smugglers. He announces himself to be the protector of the five wounds of our SAVIOUR, and proclaims the right of Don MIGUEL to the throne. The Portuguese Government had sent the 15th regi ment of the line and a battalion of Chasseurs to the disturbed districts, and were preparing to forward more troops. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The COBDEN dinner is the subject of comment in the Courrier Francais, and we are rejoiced to find from the following observations, that the principles of free-trade have already made so much progress in France, that their ultimate triumph in that country, and that at no distant day, is secure : " Whatever sceptics may say, ideas of peace and liberty are making rapid progress throughout the world. Take free trade for example. Scarcely ten years have passed since those who in England expressed opinions in favour of such a thing were treated as dreamers; and only twelve months ago no one dared venture to require the application of such mea sures in France. Notwithstanding this, free trade is triumphant in England, and will, probably, soon be so in France. Already this liberal idea, which was so long mis understood and scouted amongst U 3, has gained a signal vic tory over the national antipathy. Had we said a year ago that an Englishman would receive an ovation from us, an ovation in which men of all parties would join, members of the constitutional Opposition, Democrats, and Conservatives, no faith would have been placed in our prediction. No one would have credited that a simple cotton-printer from Man chester would have been received in Paris not only with cordiality, but, we may truly say, with an enthusiasm which even crowned heads do not often awaken. It is true that this cotton-printer has accomplished, in less than eight years, a truly gigantic task—in these eight years Cobden, the simple manufacturer, has vanquished, by the force of common sense and sound logic, the richest and most power ful aristocracy in the world—in these eight years Cobden, the simple manufacturer, has done more for the welfare and glory of his country than all his haughty adversaries have done in a century. It is, therefore, a perfectly legitimate ad miration of which the illustrious English Leaguer is the ob ject; it is, assuredly, an admiration as well founded as that with which, in the eighteenth century, France was inspired by the American printer, Franklin. Our forefathers hailed the most active artisan of the freedom of the United States, and we now hail the most active artisan of English freedom. For free trade is not merely a question of political economy ; it is more, and above all, a social question." The Special Committee of the Chamber of Peers, charged to draw up the address in reply to the Speech from the Throne, have appointed M. Oman as their president, and Count PORTALIS as reporter, The Chamber of Deputies still continues occupied with the verification of electoral returns. A letter from Toulon of the 13th, says : "The Dante steamer, which is about to be sent as a pro sent from the French Government to the Bey of Tunis, has just terminated its repairs here, and has been towed out of dock into the harbour. She has been fitt ed out with extra ordinary magnificence, and is in every respect fit for a royal present. A letter from Tunis lately announced that the French Government also intended presenting to the Bey a brig of war. This piece of intelligence appears to be correct, as one of the Algerine vessels taken in 1830 is now being repaired and armed in order to be forthwith sent to Tunis. It would seem that the Bey manifested a desire to possess a ves sel of Algerine construction in preference to any other." The Messager of Wednesday contains the follow ing, which may be considered as the official account of the recent attack upon Huaheine by the French. It fully confirms the statements which had previously appeared in the English papers : _ " The last reports from Captain Bruat which have reached the Government are dated January 29. They state that some acts of hostility having taken place at Huaheine, a small island situated 45 leagues from Otaheite, M. Bruat had felt himself compelled to demand reparation, with guarantees of tranquillity for the future. These conditions having been refused, a debarkation was effected against an assemblage of armed natives. In this action, which was undertaken and continued by our soldiers with their usual valour, but in the midst of great difficulties, from the nature of the ground, we have had to regret the loss of 18 men killed, one of whom was an officer, and 43 wounded. The Government has re ceived no other report, and consequently knows nothing of the incidents which are said to have taken place subse quently at Otaheite." PARIS BOURSE, TIIURSDAY.—The market has been firm to day, both Threes and Fives closing about the quotations of yesterday, the former at 83f. 75c., and the lattter at 122 f. sc. The market closed as follows :---Three per Cents., for cash, 83f. 70c.; for account, 83f. 75c.; Five per Cents., for cash, 1221.; for account, 12:1f. Sc.; Bank of France Shares, 3,4701.; Neapolitan, 101 f. 60c.; Spanish Threes, 362; Ditto, Fives, 33 1 /2 ; New Loan not quoted. RAILWAYS.—The Share Market has also been firm, and many of the lines closed a shade higher. For cash—Paris and Orleans left off at 1,272 f. 50c.; Paris and Rouen, 9601. ; Rouen and Havre, 700 f. ; Avignon, 911 f. 25c. ; Strasburg and Bale, 220 f. ; Northern, 712 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 557 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 526 f. 25c. ; Paris and Strasburg. 497 f. 50c. ; Nantes, 5071. 50c. ; Dieppe, 390 f. ; Vierzon, Boulogne, Montereau, and Fampoux, not quoted. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, A.CGCST 21. Boulogne and Amiens, 123—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie), I'4—Ditto (Espelet e), 114—Ceylon, 5 4 —Direct Bom bay and Madras, —Dutch Rhenish, 6 1 4 —East Indian, %—Great Western Bengal, 4—Luxembourg, 1% —Namur and Liege, 2% —Northern of France Constituted, 12 9 / —Paris and Lyons Con stituted, 5/ 2 —Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 4%—Tournay, Jurbise, Landau, and Hasselt, 5. It is now understood that Parliament will be certainly prorogued on Friday next.—Observer. IMPORTATION OF FLOUR.—OR Thursday afternoon the. Victoria arrived in the St. Katherine Dock from New York, with 3,114 barrels of flour on board, also 600 quarters of Indian corn, 717 barrels of oil-cake, and about 100 barrels of beef. We are enabled to state, and we do so with very great satisfaction, that orders have been sent from Madrid to withdraw the Spanish troops from the frontiers. Thus an end is put to the very menacing state of affairs between Spain and Portugal.—Chronicre. THE CITY CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE.—The office of the City Chamberlain has been closed until the 3d of Sep tember, and during that vacation no City apprentice can be bound. CITY POLICE COMMITTEE.-0a Saturday upwards of twenty men were summoned to the Court and fined by Alderman Wilson for having acted as drovers in Smithfiell market without having been licensed by the clerk of the market. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—CAUTION. On Friday afternoon, between one and two o'clock, another of the very many distressing and fatal accidents which have lately occurred on the river, from persons venturing in small boats, and not knowing how to manage them, took place at Chelsea, which proved fatal to a highly respectable young man, named George James Clarke, residing in the 'York-road. The unfortunate young man and his cousin were rowing up the river in a very small wherry which they had hired at Westminster, and had proceeded in safety as far as Chelsea, when they rowed against a barge that was at anchor, and she instantly filled and went down. Mr. Clarke was seen to catch hold of the barge's cable, but before assistance arrived to him he was forced to let go his hold from exhaus tion and sank. His cousin fortunately clung to the oar with which he was rowing, and by struggling very much kept himself above water until he was rescued in a very exhausted state by a waterman. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY _MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1846. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) During the present week there has been no 4 , , , cline in the Liverpool Cottons Market, and the transacti,.,:is have been to a fair extent, comprising 33,250 bales, or an average of 5,500 per diem, although the Manchester goods' market is very depressed. The stock is 766,000 bales, against 1 ; 031,000 bales at this time last year. Shares were steady yesterday. At Messrs. Larnoral and Co.'s sales yesterday, at the of Commerce, a fair business was done, at previoui rates. The following are the prices which some of the shares sold for : £. s. d. Churnet and Blythe ... 1 16 0 Paris and Strasbourg Constituted Sambre and Meuse... York and Carlisle ... 0 11 0 Reading, Guilford, and Reigate Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston East Indian 0 14 0 London and York London and Manchester, Remington's Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. ....... Manchester and Southampton 1 10 0 South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 3 2 0 South Midland East Lincolnshire Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire London and Blackwell Extension .. Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham . 0 12 0 Shrewsbury and Herefordshire From Upper Canada we are gratified to learn that the ma nufacture of woollens is going on well. Under date of On tario, the 10th July, we are advised thus : " In order to give our agricultural friends an idea of the benefits that are likely to flow from the establishment of the Ontario Mills woollen factory, and to direct attention to the growth of wool, we may state the following facts :—The factory is calculated, when in full operation, to work off' 400 to 500 yards of cloth a week, which, at the general average, will consume as many pounds of wool ; circulating 225/.' a week, or nearly 40,000/. a year, besides the money put in circulation as wages and otherwise, and securing to this and the neighbouring districts the setting afloat the large capi tal necessary for such operations. The wool grown in this district, and disposable, is between 90,000 and 100,0001b5., so that the proprietor is confident that he will be enabled to procure all his supply in this and the district of Prince Edward; and we have the best assurance that it is his intention to purchase his whole stock in Canada—of course conditionally, that the farmers pay proper attention to the culture and preparation of their fleeces; but to render this undertaking doubly advantageous, it is necessary that exertions should be made to improve the growth of wool by the introduction of finer woolled sheep, particularly of the Merino breed ; we recommend the farmers to visit the fac tory, where they will have an opportunity of comparing and testing the different kinds, and receive instructions as to the best methods of washing and cleansing the fleece." Consols for the Account have been pretty firm at from 953 q to 95%, and for Money at precisely the same rates. Very little business is in progress to-day. - Bank Stock opened at 208 1 4, and has since advanced to 209. Exche• quer-bills have only fluctuated from 103. to 13s. premium. India Stock is at 260, and the New Three- and-a-Quarter per Cents. are at 98 1 / , and in demand. About half a dozen bargains have been made in the Foreign Funds this morning,—in Russian at 1131, in the Spanish Three Per Cents. at 364, and the Equador Stock The Railway Share and Scrip Market is heavy this morn ing. East India Scrip, however, is in request, at a slight improvement in prices. ISBITISII FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock ,„ .. 20814 209 209 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 96 96 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. • • 95 % % 95% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 97h, 98% 98% Long Annuities, Expire jan. 5, 1860 10 7-16 India Stock .. 260 260 India Bonds, 1,0001. .. Ditto, under 1,0001. 19 p 19 p Consols for Account .. •. .• 9 5 % % 95% Exchequer Bills. I%d. 1% d. 1,0001... .... 13 10 13 pm. 13 5001. 13 pm• 13 Ditto, Small .... 13 13 ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PI:ICES. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 88% Equador Bonds .. 3% Portuguese Four per Cent Ditto, for the Account .. 41 Russian Bonds 1133{ 113% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 253. Ditto, Three per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account .. 36% 3634 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 59% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 94 Ditto, Bonds .. • • 9314 PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT PRICES. RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. Amber., Notting., Boston, and _ _ ... ... Eastern E Junction .. .. .. 2%.... 1A•••• • • • • • • 114 Birmingham and Gloucester.. ..100 .... ••••• • • • • • 127 Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 5.3 f .••• • • • • . 6 Bristol and Gloucester .. .. .. 30 .... ... .. • • .. 5014 Buckinghamshire 425. .... dis• • • •• dis. Caledonian .„ 20 Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 2 .. • • 1 ,2 .. Chnrnet and Blythe .. .. 2 .. •• ••• • • ..... 1%9 Cornwall .. Direct Northern .. 2% ••••• • •• •• I% Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 10 .... •• ••••• • •• 4ki Eastern Counties .. 141. 165..... ..• • ...... 22% 41 Ditto, York Extension 1N... •O. 2 % East Lancashire) 14 224 2 • • • • • • • • • • 22',4 East Lincolnshire .. .. .. .. 14.. • • .ii ••••• • • • • • Goole, Doncast., and Sheffield, &c. 425. .. .. .., ••••• • • • • • % dis. Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 114 •••••• • • • 3 ,4 Great Soothern & West. (Ireland) 25 • • •• • • ...... 28 Great North of England . —lOO —.228 xd•• • • • ... 228 x d Ditto, New .. „ „ 5 „ „ 59} x d.. 5914 x d Great Western .. .. 85 ....149 147 ex div.. 147 xcl Ditto, Half Shares .. 50 .... 83 ex div B3 x d Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 10 22 ex d. 231 xd. Hull and Selby .. .. 50 ....103 ex div lO3 x d Leeds and Bradford . • • • .. 26 . . 64% Leeds and •• •• Carlisle . • •• Leicester and Bedford 225..... ,% Leicester, Tamworth, &c. 425. •• .. di5....... % dl-. London and Brighton 50 • • . 63% x d...... 63 IA xd London and Croydon • • ..131. 153. 9d .. 23% .... • . .... 23% London ant North-Western . ..100 .... 205 207 x all.. 207 xall Ditto ditto New Shares • • .. .......... 16 p Ditto, Fifths .. 2 .... 21;i x all .... 21 1 A xall London and York .. 214 .... 2% .......... lie Lynn and Ely .. 15 16 Manchester and Leeds.. .. .. 82 .... .......... 115 Ditto, Fifths 3 .... 114.......... Ditto Extension .. 425. ...• 23 p...... • • 2% p Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 .. • • 9 I ,il all. ..... 9 1 A xall Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425..... 1 p p —lOO ... 140 139........ 139 Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 109 115 Newcastle and Darlington Jitnet. 25 .. 43 424 Ditto, New . .. • • 1 .... 11% • ... •• .. 11 34 Newcastle and Berwick .. •• 15 •••• 27 74 .......... 27% Norfolk .. • . .• .• 20 26!44........ 26 3 4 xd Ditto, Extension .. .. • • 2 .......... 2% North British.. .. • • 2 5 . •• • . 38%.... 384 Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • • 8 % •• • • 13 .. Ditto, Carlisle Extension • • 1x.... 4!fi ...... Northern and Eastern .. • • 50 ..... Ditto, New • • .. • • • • I •• .. 21 ... • 21 North Staffordshire 428. • 3%46 p 3 P Oxford,Worcest., & Wolverhmptn. 12 % 8 —.. X4 B JA Portsmouth Direct • • • • • • 3 •• • • 5 Richmond .. • • • • Scottish Central .. • •• 12 % •• 19 1 4 14i Ditto New . .. • • .. ••2..... 954.......... 9'4 ShreZiaury and Birmingham • • 2k/ .... 234 ........ 2X Shropshire Union .. .. • • • 425.... . 4 % clls dls. Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junction .. 2% „ 2 South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33% .. •• 43 43 4 Ditto, New (isa. at 321.) No. I. 20 ... 25% 25% Do., New (d 0.33/. 65.8 d.) .No. 2. 12 .... 17 t, „„ „ vl7 Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2% 3%14 3 South Wales .. . • • • • • • • 5 •• • • 4% ...... 4 Swans. & Loughor & Cameron's.. 2 .......... Taw Vale Extension .. • . .. 2 . Vale of Neath .. • • • • • • 2 .• •. „„ „ 1 Welsh Midland .. • • • • • • 2 % •• • • X „ Nest Riding Union .. 425. 2% p........ 27 p York and Carlisle .. • • • • • • 23 .4 •• • • • York arld North Midland . • • • 52 • •••- Ditto, Half Shares .. • • •• 25 •••• •• •- ...... 4G Ditto. Extension • • • • •• 20 ••• • ••• • • • .... 39 Do. E, and W. Riding Exten.• • I ••• - 12 ........ 121, FOREIGN' RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian .. • • • • • • Bord.,Ttoo, ditto ul.,&C(eEttsepe(illeltne) .. cketizie) 2 2 pI 2% D D l e r m ec e t ra ß r o a mbay .. and.. Madras ras .. — 54 Dutch Rhenish .. • • • • • • 6 •• • • 6% 6 „•• 6 East In . .. • • ss. .... 34 T._ 3 / 4 Great Western Bengal . • .. ss. 14 Namur and Liege • • • • • • 6 .... 2 7s 3..• 3 Northern of France Constituted.. 5 12% •••• • • • • 12 7 s Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 5 , 4 Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 .... 4% . ........ 4X, JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London Joint-Stock • • .. .. 10 .... 15 .......... 15 Union of Australia .. 25 .... 25 .......• • - 25 MINES. Real del Monte. Unregistered 3% • • •• •• •• • 3 34 British Iron .. .. 10 .... 16% ••••• • •• 16% DUTCH MAIL. AhISTERDAM, Aue. 20.—The Handelsblad gives tables population 18n04f4 and th 1845. o the several provincesnthe l of the of Jan.hek ing- d o o f the tn,in the 1846, the total amount of the population in the provinces was 3,019,766 souls. On the Ist of January, 1845, the population was 2,987,576. Increase in the year 1845, 32,190. THE HAGUE, AUG. 20.—His Excellency the English Ambassador will leave the Hague to meet her Majesty the Queen Dowager of Great Britain, Rho is expected here on Monday next. The ratification of the treaty of navigation and com merce between the Netherlands and Belgium, which was signed on the 29th of July by the plenipotentiaries of the two countries, have been exchanged to-day. We have received to-day the melancholy news of the death of Baroa Von Dedel, Ambassador of the Nether lands at the Court of Great Britain, on the 17th of this month. The Minister of Finance acquaints the public that the opportunity of sending letters direct from this kingdom and Great Britain, is increased by a regular steam com munication once a week, between Rotterdam and Yar mouth. This steam-boat will leave Rotterdam every Friday, and Yarmouth every Wednesday. On the 4th of May last the closing of the pert of Cn raga°, which had not taken place since 1634, was once more effected, in the presence of tho Governor. Early in the morning the inhabitants were attracted to the port, by the extraordi nary movement of the garrison. The neceszary preparations for the operation having been made, and the chains fastened to the rafts, and the garrison being under arms, soon after seven o'clock, orders were given for closing the mouth of the harbour, and in twelve wi nutes after the order was given, the chains were stretched, and the mouth of the harbour closed. The Governor and his aide-de-camp, and several officers, ie two war-boats, rowed alongside the chain to the Riffort, and then back to the town. During the operations the cannon of the batteries of the port kept up a brisk cross-fire. The infantry were drawn up during this time in order of battle on both sides of the port. At ten minutes past eight o'clock the firing ceased, the troops retired, and in six minutes' time the port was again opened. A great number of spectators were pre sent at this operation, which was executed with the greatest skill ; which affords another satisfactory proof that, in case of net.d, the port of Curacao may be closed and vigorously defended.—Dutch Papers, Aug. 22. NEWSVENDERS' BENEVOLENT AND PROVIDENT INSTI TUTION.—This truly excellent charity, established in 1839, for granting permanent assistance and temporary relief to masters and servants engaged as venders o f news p a p ers, who, from a ge, infi r mity, or distress, may require the aid of the benevolent, has a benefit at Vaushad Gardens on Tues day next, for which a " bill of fare" has been provided by the spirited proprietors that cannot fail proving most attractive. COURT CIRCULAR. THE ROYAL VIC FORIA AND ALBERT YACHT. THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 —The Qu, ea and P:ince Albert left IVeymolvh, r:L six a.m., and proceeded to sea, kept thug the coast laying to c:: Lyme Regis, Sidrnouth, fatbaccimb Bay, pa,:sing Torb::y and round to thir.ino ; her ..:dc:jesty passing the night at anchor in the River Dar. Her Majesty anchored at a quarter a.fter tlirr , e p.m. The weather was very wet, and there was a great deal of wind. FRIDAY, AUGUST 21.—Her Majesty and her fif , sal Consort left Dartmoth at six o'clock, a.m., and a -r.ved at Plymouth, at half-past nine o'clock. The Admiral, the Commander of the Forces, and all the principal naval and military authorities came on board, and paid their respects to the Queen. The Countess of Mount Edgecumbe also came off from Mount Edgecumbe to pay her respects to her Majesty. The Queen and Prince Albert embarked on the Fairy at half-past one o'clock, f .r an excursion up the Tamer. Her Majesty Proceeded as lar as Cothele, an 61d mansion of the Mount Edgecumbe family, where her Majesty and the Prince disembarked, and walked up to the old house. Her Majesty returned to Barn Pool at half-past five o'clock, having inspected the newly launched frigate, Thetis, on her way. The Earl and Countess of Mount Edgecumbe joined the royal party at dinner on board the yacht. SATURDAY, AUG. 22.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert left Plymouth at 7 A.M., on a visit to Dartmoor Forest. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort will honour the Earl and Countess of Mount Edgecumbe with their com pany at luncheon. A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock on Sa turday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Lord John Itusell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpith, the Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis of Clauricarde, and the Right Hon. 11. Labouchere. The Council sat an hour and a half. Prince Castelcicals, the Neapolitan Minister, had an interview with Lord Palmerston at the Foreign-office on Saturday. A deputation on the Salvage Bill, consisting of Ad miral Dundas, M.P.; M,jor Beresford, M.P.; Mr. Samuel Palmer, Mayor of Great Yarmouth ; Mr. W. T. Clarke, and Mr. Saunders, had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon, on Saturday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. The mortal remains of the late much-esteemed Baron Dedel, Minister of the Netherlands at this Court since 1833, were conveyed on Saturday from his former resi dence in Wilton-crescent, to the St. Katherine's Wharf, in order to be transported from thence the next day by the Dutch steamer the Batavier, to Holland, in confer, mity with his express wish. The burial of the Baron is to be strictly privato, and takes place near the village of Loarduynen, in the vicinity of the Hague. The tune; al eoridge was followed by his son, chief mourner ; M. Stratenu,- Councillor to the Legation ; and by Mr. May, the Netherlands Consul-General. Mr. Henry Boyd, Charl,4 d'Affaires of the United States (ad interim), has removed the office of the Lega tion from Harley-street, to No. 7, St. James's. place. The Bishop of Jamaica had an interview with Earl Grey on Saturday, at the Colonial-office. Dr. Bowring and Dr. Gilkrest had en interview with the Earl of Clarendon on Saturday, at the Board of Trade. The Chairman of the Customs had also an in terview with the Noble Earl on Saturday. The Ministerial white. bait dinner took place on Satur day at Greenwich. Dispatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. The Duke of Wel:ington, Lord Wynford, Lord G. Paulet, and Sir F. Trench, attended the early service yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The s , r mon was preached by the Rev. J. C. Haden. A t the daily service, the prayers were read by the Rev. I'. Helmore, and the lessons by the Rev. J. Haden. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The nthem was " Thou, 0 God, art praised in Sion " (Greene). Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The Marquis of Winchester, Lards Fortescue, Listowel, and Granville, were among the nobility present. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. CHATHAM, AUG. 21.—The Bulldog] steam sloop Commander Davis. Workmen are still employed i❑ fitting her for sea ; the painters have commenced paint ing her cabins, &c. She will not be out of the hands of the dockyard before the end of the month, when it is ex pected that her first duty will be to convey troops to the Cape of Good Hope. The Duck, Savage master, and Aid, Smallmnn mas ter, arrived yesterday, the former with stores from Ports mouth, and the latter with stores from Plymouth. The Good Will, Pledge master, remains loading with stores for Sheerness. Samuel Lash, leading man of sailmakers, is superan nuated on a pension of 341. per annum. The Captain-Superintendent Captain W. 11. Shirreff, accompanied by Colonel Charles Menzies, K.H., second in command of the Chatham division of Royal Marines, with Commander G. Benton, of the Poictiers guard • ship, and Commander Davis, of the Bulldog, Captain Mould, R.E., Director of Works at this yard, and Dr. W. Rae, Deputy Inspector of Hospitals, embarked from the Queen-stairs at eleven o'clock a.m. yesterday, on board the Chatham yacht, to meet the Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty at Sheerness, their Lordships being expected to pay an official visit to that yard. PORTSMOU TH, FRIDAY.—The America, 50, Captain the Hon. John Gordon, came into harbour yesterday morning to discharge her freight, 1,800,000 dollars, which were sent up by South Western Railway, and con signed to Messrs. Shaw and Maxwell, of London. The Gladiator steam frigate, Captain Robb, is refit ting, and will, when ready, convey part of the 74th Highlanders to Dundee. Three companies of this regiment embark early to-morrow, on board the Athol troop-ship. The Admiral Superintendent has kindly allowed Mr. Lees, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, to remast his yacht, the Maude, at the sheers in this yard. The Maude, a very beautiful schooner, carried away her foremast in a squall at Spithead a short time ago. The new boat-house in the dock-yard is being rapidly finished. The roof and flooring are to be of cast iron, and supported by pillars of the same metal. The mast pond which adjoins this building, and which will be now used as a chamber or basin for boats, is connected with the harbour by a tunnel bored under the principal thoroughfare in the dock-yard. At Spithead, the Columbine, 16, and Alfred, India man, Commander Booth. In Harbour—The Excellent, gunnery ship, Captain Chads, (1.8., with the flag of the Port Admiral, Sir Charles Ogle, Bart.; the Victory, 104, Captain Pascoe, with the flag of Rear Admiral Superintendent Parker, C. 8.; the America, 50, Captain Hon. John Gordon, the Gladiator, steam frigate , Captain Robh , refitting; the Athol, troop-ship, Master Commander Yearn, preparing for sea. _ _ At the Jetty—The Penelope, steam frigate, fitting for the pendant. In the Basin—The Amphitrite, 26, and Trincomalee, 26, ready for commissioning. In Dock—The Cambrian, 42, repairing; the Naiad, altering into a coal depot; the Prince Regent, 120, razeeing to a ninety gun ship o❑ two deck-_•; the Rat tlesnake, repairing and altering, and the Edinburgh, on being made a steam block ship. Building—The Royal Frederic, 110 ; the. Princess Royal, 110; the Leander, 50; and the Dauntless, 28, and Arrogant, 42, steam frigates, on the screw-propelling principle. ROYAL MARlNES.—Lientenant Giles is ordered to Plymouth for duty. Lieutenants Cox, Wilson, Langley, and Hadfield, have been granted a month's leave of ab sence, the last officer on a medical cer►ificate. The North Star, 26, Captain Sir J. E. Home, Bart., arrived at Ascension on the 24th of June, en route to England, to be paid off. She will be paid off at Chat ham, without removing her bulkheads or interior fittings. The Espoir, 10, Commander Hand, arrived at St. Helena from Ascension on the 21st of June. The Retribution steam frigate, Captain Lushington. and the Terrible steam-frigate, Captain Ramsay, arrived at Gibraltar on the 6th inst., en route to Corfu, to convey the Rifle Brigade thence to Gibraltar, for embarkation for the Cape of Good Hope. The Orestes, 18, Commander Cannon, has also arrived at Gibraltar, on her way home to be paid off. She has been in commission since August, 1842. The Brill,ant, 22, Captain Watson, has returned to Cork from the Azores, and on completing provisi , ms and stores, will take dispatches and letters to the Channel Fleet. The Trident, steam packet, Lieutenant Commander Rigge, again damaged her machinery, on her passage to Devonport, whitth being repaired, she sailed for the Mediterranean on Sun+lay. The Rite, steam vessel, which has been some time offered for sale, without finding a purchaser, was towed from Sheer ness to Woolwich on Tuesday, to be fitted for commission as a surveying vessel. The Thetis, 36 gun frigate, on the design of the committee of the School of Naval Architecture, will be launched at Devonport, on the 31st. instant. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Aug. 22. —Wind N.N.W., moderate breeze, and fine. DEAL, Aug. 21.—Wind N. to N.W. —Amt. Geo ge, Lockwood, Quebec ; British Queen, Page, Batavia; Ellen, St. John's, New Brunswick; Friend, Brown, Quebec. Arrd. from the river, Superior, Bell, Jamaica ; Mason, Apshur, Boston ; Planter, Chester, Quebec. Sid. all the outward-bound. 'the Stakesby, which put back after being in contact with the Luzon (not the Susan, as reparte , l), s; , rung her bowsprit, lost jibboom, ant is dainaiNd about the head and cut wat.er. The Luzon lost bowsprit, and sustained very considerable damage. ENLARGEMENT OF SMITHFIELD MARKET.--()n Fr - day the material of twenty houses between Smithfield and Charterbouse•street were sold by auction, to enlarge the sheep market, the portion asAgned to which in Smithfieht has been quite in•adr:quate. '1 he site which will thus be cleared will afford accommodation for nearly one thol“and extra sheep, and it is well known that from that number to fifteen hundred had every market day to be accommodated in different inn-yards and other places until the first- in the market were sold. STOCKPORT MANUFACTURERS' A SSOCIATION. —A meeting of the Manufacturers' Association wa held at the Warren Bulkeley Arms Inn, on Monday last It is generall% believed that the object of the meeting must have bad soin'e reference to a contemplated working of short time, and this conviction is strengthened by a knowledge i f the fact that one firm in Stockport, extensively engaged in the cotton manufacture, has already reduced its wravers to short time. This fact coming in connexion with the present temporary depression of trade, and the example to the same etr.:ct set by the manufacturers of Blackburn, may have had the effect of determining the manufacturers of Stockport to the adoption of a similar course. Wa trust, for the sake of both manufac turers and operatives, that the event may prove that the general supposition is unfounded.—Manchester PENSIONS ON THE CIVIL LIST. return to en ord,Jt - of the nonce ef L_:de, d.aed for a return of all po,sions granted Anee January ), 1838, - with the resnec ive amount of any permanent place under Government Lid by the party at the date of the grant : DATE. N ME. A7sIOUNT. 1838. Marc:, 14 April 7 Wm. CV"ailace, died April 28, 1843 • 300 June 20 Sarah Mears ... 40 December 17 klhiaa Gibbous Gibbons . • I saint:el Gibbons ... JoLn Gibbons ... Catherine Gibbons 1839. - January 17 March 25 (Vied Dec. 27, 1815) ... ... 200 April 23 June 18 Mary Banitn 40 November 20 February, 1843) ... 1,000 December 31 .Aldridge ... 25 1840. April 23 Mary Lander ... ... 75 James Browne, LL.D. ... ... 100 July 23 Rev. Henry Barez 100 Guiseppe Guazzaroni ... 50 John Bernard Sale ..: ... 100 Thomas Steward ... ... 100 Francoise Grandineare ... 100 Lucy Anderson ... 100 Sarah Matilda Bourdin ... 20 September 9 Henry Williams ~. ... 20 ...... Thomas Walker ... 20 .. Edward Morgan ... 1841. March 17 ... ... 100 June 7 100 ... Anua Maria Kennedy ... J Thomas Webster, died Dec. 26, 1844 50 ...... Rev. Thomas Kidd, M.A. . 100 June 17 Benjamin Thorpe ... ... 40 July 23 August 3 August 30 Dame Catherine Jeremie ... 200 John Anster, LL.D. ... ... 150 - ..... Rev. Henry Francis Cary (died August 14, 1844) ... 200 Apgust 31... Eliza Ann James ... „.. 100 Margaret Clapperton ... 60 1842. September 21 Louisa Baroness Lehzen ... 400 November 17 Elizabeth Devereux Kennedy, addi tional pension (see June 7, 1841) 100 Anna Maria Kennedy ... 100 William Wordsworth ... 300 November 25 John Curtis ... ... 100 ...... 1843. September 14 Anna Eliza Maria Drummond ... 200 Robert Brown 200 November 16 1844. April 27 .. Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Knt., M.A., Astronomer Royal for 1845. January 28 .... Patrick Fraser Tytler ... 200 Jane Hood ... ... 100 Susan 'Robertson ... 1.0 Mary Robertson ... 50 Eleanor Robertson 50 January 31 Frances Ague, Stoddart 75 March 5 June 81 Clara Maria Susanna Lowe .. ... 50 July pension) ... 500 September 30 4, 1846) 200 October 14 James David Forbes, Profes,or of Natural Philosophy in the Uni versity of Edinburgh (salary from the public, 301. per annum) ... 2CO 1846. April 22 June 30 Mary Archer Shee ... 200 Eliza Jane Archer Shea ... Christian M‘Caskill 50 Jessie ll':.'askill ••• ..• •• ••• 50 Rev. Samuel Bloomfield, D.D. ... 200 Berrard Barton ... 100 Catherine Taylor ... 50 ..... John Ramey M`Cnlloch, Comp troller of the Stationery Office, salary 9001. per annum ... ... 200 July 4 July 6 John Lloyd ... ... 25 Total amount ... £10,780 J. PARKER. Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, Arlo-. 18, 1446. POST-OFFICE NOTICE. On Saturday the following notice was placarded in the vestibule of the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le Grande:— On Monday evening will be dispatched the next mails for the Meuiterraucan, Egypt, India, and China, viii Marseilles. A mail bag: for Madeira, Lisbon, Spain, and Gibraltar, will be made up on Thursday next, the 27th instant, and on the 7th, 17th, and 27th of every succeeding month. For Sydney, New. South Wales, a mail will be made up and dispatched the last day of this and every suc ceeding month. For Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Mediter ranean, Egypt, India, and China, on the moroing of the 4th of the ensuing month. For Mexico. Honduras, and Havannah, on the 21 of next and each succeeding month only. For Bermuda, San Juan de Nicaragua, New Granada, Chili, and Peru, on the 17th of every month only. For Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China, on the 3d and 20th of every month. The Peninsular steam-packet will not call at Corunna, either on the outward or homeward voyage during the winter months of November, December, January, and February next, commencinz from the 7th of November. FRANCE,-IVIINES AND STEAM POWER. The Journul des Debats, in recent numbers, has pub lished two remarkable articles on the mineral resources and steam power of France, probably from the pen of M. Michel Chevalier, some of the chief details of which are here extracted. The statistics are founded on the year 184 4. France, it is said, in the order ofimport ance in coal. mining wealth takes the third rank ; that is, comes after England and Belgium. In iron she oc cupies the second place. The absolute and relative con sumption of iron and coal in those states in which it is officially known is thus stated : Coal. Iron. England 23,500,000 1, 9 00,000 France 5,400.000 480,000 Beleium 3,200,000 120,000 Ze lverein These figures give the consumption per head, England, at 870 kilog. 4O kilog. 75 13 , ,Igitun BOO „ 3O „ France 154 „ l3 „ 71 Zollverein lO7 „ ...10 „ 71 In 1844 France reckoned 425 mines of coal, covering about 450,000 hectares ; 252 were in work, and 173 re mained still in inactivity. The working of the 252 mines, the greater part of which were distributed among twelve principal basins, employed in 1844, 29,554 workmen, and produced 3.055,000 metrical tons of coal, 580,000 of anthracite, and 141,000 of lignite ; total of cAnbutible material,3,7B3,ooo tons, or in kilograrnmes,3,7B3,ooo,ooo. This was about the seventh of the production of Eng land, and a little less than the total Belgian extraction. For, it must be noted, that, in addition to the quantity consumed at home, as before stated, Belgium exported in that year 1,300,000 tons. Since 1839 the number of the mines worked in France had increased only as 6 to 8, but the extraction advanced from 28 to 30 per cent. Pro duction, however, was still so much in arrear of consump tion as to require from Belgium and England 1,756,000 tons more. Iris as yesterday only, so to say, that steam has been employed as a moving power, and yet it already jurniehes the globe with a force estimated at more than 10.000,000 of horses, or 60,000,000 of men. Th• actual effective of steam engines in France is thus stated:— For purposes of industry the number is 3,645, serving 4,214 establishments and manufactories, and represent ing 45,781 steam horse -tower, or, at three draught purses per steam-horse, 137.340 draught horses. Since 1839 this mechanical material had increased in the pro- portion of 45 to .50 per cent. The steam-engines em ployed in navigation form a total of 382, applied to 238 vessels, with a collective force of 12,789 s team-horses. Ile increase under this special head, in six years, has only been from 25 to 30 per cent. The number of passengers transported in 1844 by steam vessels was 3,287.000, and of merchandise 1,082,000 tons. The number of the first compared with 1843 was about stationary, and for the latter in decrease. The competitionof railways would account for the fact. The locomotive machines gave, in 1844, a total of 292, serving 16 lines of rail way. Of this number 168 were of French workman ship, and 124 of foreign origin. This was an increase of 46 machines upon 184 . 3, and of 88 upon 1842. In total, France possessed, in 1844, 4,319 s t eam eng i nes of all sorts, of tie collective steam horse force of 62,950, or of 188,847 draught horses ; or, a t th e rate of about, six men ito one draught hor s e, o f 1,321 ,920 men. Such is the industrial army whi c h s t eam now furnishes to France, and, whatever may be written ag a i ns t mac h inery, we do not find that . the emplo ) wen t o f t hi s mechanical power has yet left the people bereft of work. Since the last four or five years, ae numb( r of s t eam machines eue in Fea,n ve , rnynts rapidly and vet, it is nece ssar y t o sly, it represents scare, ly the twelfth of the mechanical pow,. r employed in England. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' PROTECTION SOCIETY.— At a special meeting of the committee of the above society, held at the Aire, 90, Fatring&in-street, on Friday, the 21st inst., Mr. T. R. Eft in the chair, the following sums were awarded:—To Francis Badenham, 223 11, a gratuity of one guinea, for his activity and perseverance in apprehending John Collins, for committing an assault and outage in the house of Mrs. Taylor, Coachmakers' Arms, Bryanston-street, Portman-square. At a previous meeting, the following sums were also E',:bert Westfield, 329 K; Alexander Mitchell, 400 K; and William 'ash, K— half a guinea each, for coming to the aid and assistance of Mr. Finney, Queen's high street, Poplar, in a case of assault and outrage conunitted upon him. To Sergeant Emery, 8 C, one guinea, for apprehending Jane Smith and Miry Thompson, for robbing M. Jenkins, t.)atherine Wheel, Little St. Jame -.'s-street, St. J,mes's, of a pewter pot. To Margaret lies', a marii;estore-?ruler, one guinea, f>r causing the apprehension of Mary Bartlett Mr robbing Mr. Noble, Mount-row, Latru.eth, of a giass; and to James ,iturrell, vant t,, Mr. Rouse, of White Conduit Tavern, P.!ntonville, a gratuity of half a guinea, for detecting a woman in robbing hig employer of a pewter pot. IMPERIAL PA T f" . ; T. 7,. 17 ; I .2. Lord SIIAFTESB:I:t7 took his seat no the Wcoi.ack at a Quarter -east Two o'clock. Several Bills were vanced a stage. LORD LYNOiIiMST'S EXPLANA"i Lord LYND HUReia rose and .aid, Yet=i is incue , bent upon - me to call peer Lo dshies' at vu ion to a sestter personal to rays. if. Ac inany Noble Lo-de may not he aware of the cireurestaeee‘, I will hris fly call your attention to the case. In consequence or tie reercsentations reads by a Noble Lord last night in the ocher House, I tecl it my duty to make some exp , anations. When the late Government went out of office I thought that, from the particular p, sition in which I stood when it was known that I was . rio longer a candidate for official appointment, I might endeavour to ffec• a reconciliation of the parties wi , hout is . being supposed that I had any personal ntfect in view. In consequence of this, I, communicated with several of my friends in the other House of Parliament. I told them what I was desirous of accomplishing. I thought it a matter of great importance that the various differences sho id be fo, gotten now that the great measures which had caused these differences had been passed, and that the parties should ;gain be reconciled to each other. I did not make the proposition wish a view to any measure or to any set of nr,ea sores ; my object was only that the Conservative party should again be formed, and that when formed they might take such steps with reference to any measures as might be considered necessary ; and I made known to every person whose co-operation I was anxious for the course I meant to pursue. I called upon my Right Hon. Friend who was at the head of the lee Ministry, and stated to him what I intended to do. I called upon l.im not to obtain any opinion from him. I did not wait upon him to obtain his concurrence. My sole object im calling upon him was for the purpose of stating the course I was pursuing and intended to pursue. I stated upon that occasion the course I meant to pursue, and also what I stated to every other person whom I consulted upon the subject, namely —that what I was doing had no reference whatever to any particular measure, or to any particular set of measures. —(Hear, hear.) I was only desirous of putting an end to the existing differences, and of again uniting the party. I made the same communication to the late Right Hon. Secre tary of State (Sir J. Graham), almost in the same words, and with precisely the same qualification. While this was going on, and after I had seen several friends upon the subject, a gentle man with whom I was much acquainted, but intercourse with whom had been suspended, in consequence of recent political differences, called upon me on the subject. I communi cated to him the course I meant to pursue, and he did not ob ject to it. I found it, however, impossible to communicate with individuals who had entertained feelings hostile to myself and to the late Gove:nmect, to any sufficient ex tent to accomplish the objet I had in view. Lord Stanley was absent from London at a considerable dis tance. and it occurred to me as the best course to pursues under the circumstances, to open a communication w ith the Noble Lord, who, had been selected as the leader of the protee tionest party in the other House of Parliament, Lord G. Ben tinck. I accordingly sent a simple message requesting to know whether he would see me, for the purpose of considering whether the differences between the different parties could not be amicably settled. I sent that message by the gentleman to whom reference has been made. It was a mere message, nothing was said in it about the Sugar nor did it once enter into my contemplatio n no allusion of any description was made. It was a mere mes sage. The short, simple answer to which, that I received , was that he was disposed to decline the proposition, because be wished any communication of that nature to be made rather to Lord Stanley, who sat in this House, than to him. Nothing further passed upon the subject. The gentleman who bore the mee•ssige was not known to me ; I had not seen him before. I know nothing: 4 what passed on the occasion ; and with reference to the cir cumstances the only thing which passed that I am cognizant of was the return of the messege to which I have alluded. I s l°W" my Lords, it is said that th e o bj ec t o f see ki ng t hi s un i o n we, for the purpose of opposing the Sugar Bill. I can vahr your Lordships that, so far as I am concerned, nothing n's t said upon the subject, nor was it in the most distant manner even alluded to. I have only seen the gentleman aelr, carried that message once since the occasion referre d to. I sent the message, I received the answers and I dismissed the subject. at once from my e mind. I, twice, in two or threee quarters, b ut I found so much bitterness of feel.ng, so much pero na hostility, that I abandoned the task, and took no further steps in the matter. I made no concealmtest of the course I wanted to pursue. I stated it to the Noble Lord I 1)04 site, whem I have now in my eye (Lord Cl -.Tendon). pull him, that I found there was so much hostility among the par ties that it was impossible to accomplish it, and I therefore aban doned it.—(" Hear, hear," from Lord Clarendon.) The story built upon this was, that I wanted to raise a fa!' tious opposition to the Sugar Bill. My Lords, I took no part in the discussion, I did not vote upon the occasion ; th e course I adopted had no reference whatever to the "matter. It is also insinuated that I was desirous of forming Bentinck was with the party of which Lord George Ben into the leader, in order that I might come that office with them. My Lords,, everybody knows that at time ng time I was no longer a candidate for office ; everybody I° ` hence of office has been acquainted with the fact that, in consequ._ ants a late severe illness, office has been a roost irkscun e l i e ie , a nd that I have been anxious to retire from publi e t an d in pass the remainder of my life in retire sTa e t:ver would the bosom of my family, and nothing v"- - t oc casion an union have dragged me forth upon the Pr e9e % een made except the virulent attack which bas other House. upon me by a Noble Lord in the tleman who acted as messenger on the occasion q we __ Now I thought it right to communicate with. thue'isgtieon; and that gentleman has authorised me to state what rif . the real facts of the case. I have taken the s!atetnEn of this gentleman down in writing, from his own dic tation, and it is as follows 1. stated to Lord George Bentinck that I had come with a message from Lord Lyndhurst , the object of which was to express a desire on the part of Lora Lyndhurst that the Conservative party, amongst which an unfortunate split had taken place, should b e re-united ; and with the view of taking steps to accont• plish that object, Lord Lyndhurst would be WY_ to come into personal communication upon the subj ect with Lord George Bentinck, either at his own house, or at altbo house of Lord George Bentinek." The reply that wa s was, " That Lord George Bentinck was acting under L obe Stanley, who, like Lord Lyndhurst, was a Member of it Upper House of Parliament, and he though,t oul d better that all communication on the subject " ban pass between Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Stanley, With "ban pass he himself was in full and cordial co-operation.' The g e " se a man who acted as the messenger said this was all that Po l upon the occasion, and for myself I can undertake to " that it is a correct representation of what passed 39 far s a i d was concerned.—( Hear, hear.) Now, with r e ,gd. to the assumption that I was desirous ef ing office under, or with Lord George Ben' l "; a ti their Lordship s would see from the document he had just r P n stn that there was no t t h e s li g ht es t f oun d a ti on f or s uch en fo e tation. Indeed, from what had occurred within the lastflger months, must have satisfied them that he was no anxious to hold or accept office, but, on the e rn ' _he was most desirous of retiring into private at es. He had thought it due to their Lord s hips to make ti con . planation—due also to himself. There was nothing O n . es sistent in the state men t h e h a d m ad e —nothing inconsiste ;re discreditable in the course he had pursued. One wor d r e f t he 0 he had received a com mun i ca i on from the Chief Bar el li ai to Exchequer this mo rn i ng , an d h e was a uthoris'd by " ov er state that the office of Chi e f J us ti ce of Bombay other was pressed upon his brother either by himself or inl a id a person, and that until after the appointment be never la say word to his brother upon the subject that what be A im in then was only that he thought his brother had i n fer. accepting the office. Their Lordships were awda°r:ethnaitstions ences had been attempted to be drawn from the conatnu e bi to On' he had made to Lord George Bentinek, di sc redit hitch wer e self ; and it was to repel those unjust inference s w The err Lord attempted to be made, that he had felt it due t° reason ships and to himself to make that statement* that one of h is he sent the gentleman alluded to was, bec ause he was private secretaries, to whom be had i n timated unea , no one unacquainted with Lord George Bentinck, and tided him v v.-- who was acquainted with that Nobleman, recommended L as or a d pe G ts e o n n rg al e f ß ri e e i n t d in o n f k h_is rv ii n e , ar w . h h o ea w r. a ) s also acquainted The Duke of GRAFTON thought when c har g es and stn ,: t „ b menus were made against members of t h at House, vin' called forth counter-statemen t s , it was the duty of the‘,„, Lordships either to express their feelings of satisfaction cr div a ' tisfaction at such counter-statements. For himself, he begg e d to state that he was perfectly satisfied with the Noble e- Learned Lord.—( Cheers.) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was sure the Neble an Learned Lord did not m a k e hi s statement w i t h any s uch i 0 b a d tion, and for himself he differed with the Noble Duke who to just sat down, for he considered discussions on these stateasen ant r ought not to take place.—hear.) r out Lord LYNDHURST said he did not make the staL e with the view of calling forth any discussion upon it. The matter then dropped. The New Zealand Loan Act went through was ordered to be reported on Monday. The Steam Navigation Act was reported. (Reli ed) The Commons Inclosure Bill, the Public Works j ob Road 9 r sl Bill, the Spirit Licenses Bill, the Turnpike , e ve the Public Works Commission (Ireland) Bill, an u other Bills, were read a third time and pampa. nioc eSso Several Bills were brought up from the House of C e ., tittle; were read a first time, and ordered to be read a secnlT, 011, among which were the Consolidated Fund'. (8,000,0 0 for and the Constabulary Force (Ireland) Bill, and the F° o " ployment (Ireland) Bill. Committee, and he last ' The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, with respect to t A r ead' Bill, stated that he should on Monday move the see° °- to i ta ng of that Bill, and call the attention of their Lordship general provisions. Their Lordships then adjourned. " () USE OF gip, (Ey s, August 2 2 ' The SPEAKER tnok the Chair at Twelve o'clock. LEGAL QUAYS (LONDON). the The Lords' ame n d men t s to t hi s Bill were adopted e° motion of Mr. BROTH ERTON. BRITISH INTERESTS IN MEXICO. for the Lord G. BENTINCK gave no t ice th a t, on the moll" apse first order of the day, he shou'd call the attention o f th ;: to this subject, in consequence of the war now exists S tween Mexico and the United States. DISFRANCHISEMENT OF VO r Ens- p r 001: Mr. VAKLEY presented a petition from the I° w `d of b'" lets, complaining that the petitiouer had been deprive , .., 0 ;9•• vote. in consequence of not having paid an increase rate, ' rate, although be was placed sin the register. PRIVATE BILLS BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. ON) 1311'1' • CONSOLIDATED FUNDS ( APPROPRIAT I This Bill was read a third time and passed. ECCLESIASTICAL PATRONAGE 131 Lt"" This Bill was also read a third time and passed' CONSTABULARY (IRELAND) On the motion for the third reading of thi4 , to et 3ll Mr. HUME said that he thought it was a bad thiPg a ii c e ene set of laws for Ireland with respect to the o res the It be another for England. He (lid not wish to illoPe t-e paid t of the Bill, but he would just noint the,out that if thel id go in to police from the Consolidated Fund, profit Ice, Gov irre'l the pockets of the landed gentry. He would w arn trl.e . ano ther ment that next sessi o n th e y would have to bring m lii l to mem' it. f the Sir R. lERGUSON complained of tne Bill, but would be quite ready to hear his share of t" fot Ce. if he, with the other landowners, had the contrporiino; Mr. B. ESCOTT would also raise his voice 1 , see whY t of the principle of this Mil, or he could I.o'7:eeallp:oseT: le b ee : °P;:111?:; e aa landed g. tory of Itelaiiii should be relieved from t° the constabu ary force—a force which was rendered with by the conduct of these gentry themselves. II cu a t iproleition for five years to the cry of those wthagy_"_."a the Treasury benches !or equal law between t D ei land. But was this equal law? Certainly no 3 derelisutene,i ther