The Sun. — London, England, 1837-08-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. As several returns have not yet been received from Ireland we cannot complete our election list. All un certainty, however,•is now over ; and the strength of parties in the approaching session may be stated with out difficulty. Scotland has returned 19 Tories and 54 Reformers (not: 20 Tories as stated by the Times, for Mr. Howard, the Member for Sutherland, is a Re former). Out of the Scotch borough the Tories have obtained only one, Mr. Colquhoun, for the Kil marnock district. - Ministers may well be proud of this strong manifestation of public opinion in their favour by . what may be called the whole of the town popula tion of Scotland. , There was a time when England had just cause to complain of the state of the Scotch representation. It was literally a drag on the repre sentation of the southern division of the island, and it sometimes happened that important questions were carried against ae majority of English Members by the aid of Scotch Members who voted generally for the Minister as a matter of course. But the Re form Bill has reversed this state of things, and the Scotch now complain that they cannot derive the benefit which they are entitled to expect from the de fective state of the English representation. "We are not astonished (says the Scotsman) that the Irish should call for a repeal of the Union.' If Scotland had a domestic Legislature, thanks to the public spirit of its inhabitants, the Liberal.Memhers would be to the. Tories as five to three, even as matters stand ; and if our town population had their due weight, as five to one. Every rational reform would be carried with ease. The Peers would be compelled to give in, or be annihilated by our gallant countrymen an pas de charge ! If we - lose the advantages of good govern ment, it is because we are united with the mercenary mass of English borough electors. This state of things calls for further reforms. It is not fit that the portions of the electoral body who do their duty to the public should be sacrificed to the stupidity or venality of their associates. We shall enter upon the xemedial measures by and by." The number of small and venal boroughs in England, with the influence of necessitous freemen in Liverpool, Norwich, Hull, &c., render the Enelish representation much less respectable than the Scotch. But still, in the boroughs alone, Minis ter. hare a considerable majority. However, the Scotch cannot be blamed for complaining of the defective sate of the English representation. With hardly an exception, every enlidihtened town constituency in Eogland.has returned Reformers; and yet such is the extent of corruption in the smaller boroughs (the counties are akogether an affitir of property), that tt itlibut the aid of Scotland and Ireland the Reform Bill would be a mere nullity. In the south and west of England there are Ina:ly boroughs which once were p;aces of comparative impottance, but now are sunk down to absolute insignificance ; while in the north of En7lantl places hardly known half a century ago have aiming up into importance. Manufactures have be takim themselves to the north of E”glaml and Scot -11 ; and white the towns in the south of England hate for the most part either remained stationary or gone to decay, the increase in the towns of the north has been enormous. But the 11 eform Bill d:d not adjust the repi-esontation to the altered circumstances. A town population of 580,000, namely, Edinburgh, Glasgow, - Paisley, Aberdeen. Dundee, Greenock, and Perth, return only ten Members. A town population in the West Riding of Yorkshire and Lancashire of 650,000, namd v, Manchester and Salford, Liverpool, Leeds, and Sheffleki, return only 9 Members, while fifty places in - the south of England can be Lamed which return 100 Members, of which the N 1 hots population little exceeds that of Glasgow, or I'vlenchester, or Liverpool. These anomalies enable the Tories, by means of corruption and intimidation, to counteract the public opinion of the country ; and till the representation hater adjusted to the popula tion of, towns it will be impossible to remedy the evil. Why should not more of the borough representation be given to the large constituencies, and a number of the towns in schedule B. and of those of four, five, and six h,,n4and, be formed into a district to return two .:I,inhers ? The Tories are really as unpopular . in En(r:and as anywhere else, arid they hare men ly themselves of the defects in the representation 1-It by the Reform Bill to defeat public opinion. It is pure gasconade, therefore, on their part to boast of a majority of English Representatives. IThey have a majority of the Members returned by men wh, dare not express an opinion. the unfortunate 501. tenantry-at-will ; and they have a minority of the borough representatives, chiefly consisting of time representatives of small and venal places. England disowns them as well as Scotland and Ireland. These representatives re pr. sent only the shameful parts of the English constituencies. With nearly all the great towns of England in their favour, the whole borough repre sentation of Scotland, and a great majority of Irish Representatives, Ministers may boldly set the Tories at defiance. The Queen% name is a tower of strength ; for no one can doubt that time policy pursued by her Majesty's Ministers receives•her full and entire appro hation. What have the Tories effected with all their corruption and bad practices ? They are as 'far 'as ever from the object they have at heart ; and, indeed, the Reform Ministry must play their • cards very ill to enable the Tories, with all their tactics, to assume the Government of this country. Ministers have nothing to apprehend from them, and may set them at com plete defiance. There is a well-known French work with the title of " Spanish Rhodomontades." The Times seemed yesterday to be trying to beat Spanish rhodomontade. "We see," exclaims our moon-struck (?) contemporary, " an extensive and po pulous region stretching through almost. eight de grees of latitude, rich in all the signs of industry and civilisation, and in the tokens of a venerable antiquity, diversified with noble mansions and busy towns, andbroadgolden corn-fields, and towering cathe drals, and white spires gleaming through village trees —we see the people of that wide and fair country threatened with the overthrow of all that has reared, adorned, and sanctified it, and at once, over hill and valley, by river and plain, we mark them uplifting their voices and their hands to guard their father-land and their mother church, and they have won their triumph tranquilly ; nothing of heat, nothing of ex citement in their demeanour ; no mania—no cry— " • At once they rose ; Their rising all at once was as tho sound Of thunder heard remote.' " But we see something more than this; for we see in all the seats of industry and civilization throughout this extensive region Reformers determined to defend the blessings they enjoy, and identifying themselves with the government of their choice ; and we see at the same time a number of Tories dissatisfied with the ameliorations which our institutions have re ceived, and anxious to plunder their fellow citi zens, driving the unfortunate tenantry-at-will to the polling places like so many serfs to vote against their consciences, intimidating the trades men in the small boroughs, and corrupting . the poor and the necessitous in order that the voice of the inhabitants of. the seats of wealth and industry. may be drowned by their slaves and their hirelings. We see also, in the endeavour to excite dissension between the inhabitants of Ireland and England, an attempt to revive the experiment of converting a great empire into a small one. Thi s w i c k e d , this monstrously wicked attempt, will be scouted by every honest man in the three kingdoms. The Irish representratives represent the opinions, the feelings, and the wishes of a people grateful to a Ministry under whom they have for the first time experienced the blessings of just and equal government. Had Ireland returned as many Tory representatives as she has returned Reformers, the consequences would have been most disastrous. In that case Ireland would have seen no hope, and her despair might have been calamitous to both i.slands. But as it is the Irish representatives will come pol,ver -7"—\,-s " r3 a n aid of ail that is liberal in England ?dud Scot .l.:7lllite- 1. 'and the combined host of Reformers will triumph .p.7 . 4Y,.7 4.... z., 5 • - ;L* 'he enemies of civil and :eligious liberty. We Ich to Ireland and her representatiyes.—Morn /1# ronzc e. e success of the Conservatives in the recent ions, great as it has been numerically and post s ti‘ely, wilt be found still (Treater if regarded relatively and morally. It is a solid achievement under any cir cumstances ; it is a splendid triumph under those of the present time. The first and chiefest of the advan tages against which the Conservatives have had to 0 contend is, as everybody feels, the accession of office by the Melbourne party under a new, a young, and a female Sovereign. Office is at all times a material point in the- game, but particularly when parties are nearly balanced ; besides its fixed ':influence, which goes almost the whole way to secure the seats at Windsor, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham, and other boroughs where Government is the great local patron and employer, there is an occasional influence also which office must needs possess in every district where there are (and in what district are there not ?) uncon nected voters, looking for some favour from the Go vernment. When either t ' party is very much stronger than its opponent, these self-seekers are of no great importance ; but when the scale hangs at all doubtful, their united forced plumped, in beats down the balance, and weighs out the bargain to the Ministerial buyer. If to all this advantage, fixed and occasional, there be added the reputation of personal favour on the part of the Sovereign to the Ministers, and especially of a Sovereign for whom all classes of the people feel the interest naturally attaching to the innocence of youth and the tenderness of sex, the Cabinet thus aided and honoured might be expected to win, almost without a struggle, the general suffrages of a loyal and confiding people. In point of fact these sentiments are very in fluential, and have done much for the Ministers. We should even have been sorry if they had not had con siderableeffect. We should have been grieved if there had not been found, among those numerous electors who have no very strong political opinions, a willing ness to let the Ministers enjoy the benefit of the new trial awarded to them by the Crown ; still more, if there had not been a prevalent disposition—call it gal lantry, or chivalry, or by whatever other name you will —to sacrifice somewhat of private judgment for the gratification of obeying wimat were supposed, no matter how truly, to be the personal wishes of the Queen. It was a natural and a generous hope, that saw the pre sage of a fairer day in the brightness of the morning star. But this devotion, though generally cherished, has yet been tempered by very powerful considerations. Interests are at stake too great and too sacred to be hazarded for a mere impulse, however chivalrous, of " loyalty to rank and sex." And thus it has htppened, that, in spite of the utmost imaginable combination of favourable circumstances and chances, the Cabinet of the Queen, if it venture upon meeting Parliament at all, will have to encounter, in the House of Commons, an assembled force—more formidable, by far, than even 'that stalwart minority which in the last Parliament of King William opposed a barrier to the-march of Minis terial revolution, reinforced the saving power of the House of Lords, and defeated the hopes and prophe cies of the Republicans, by preserving the Crown un impaired for its young ,and illustrious heiress. How desperate were the efforts of the Whig-Radical party during the last month to pack a House of Commons that :night place her Majesty at their mercy, it will not be easy for any man to estimate who has not witnessed, and that pretty closely, the efforts of the Ministerialists in the elections for Middlesex and for the metropolitan boroughs. There were some notable and noble ex amples indeed of tradesmen, pressed by Government authorities to vote against their Conservative opinions, or to refrain from voting for them, who in stantly and indignantly rejected the allurement, or de fied the menace of the official. But in a vast majority of cases it must be admitted that human nature was found weak—that the influence, or the intimidation, was successful, to the. extent at least of nullifying, if not of converting, tin; vote. We hold as cheap as anybody can hold it, the visionary notion of a large constituency, ,vhere every individual would vote purely upon the Conclusions of his own uninfluenced judg ment. We claim nothzng so fantastical. We are thoroughly aware that a thousand disturbing causes mint always interpose to prevent such a consummation. In all times and places votes will be asked by land lords, employers, and customers, and given accordingly by tenants, workmen, and tradespeople ; so that in the machinery of politics the friction will always befits the theorist. But in discia::ming the expectation - of any Utopian result, we. certainly have a right to expect that to the disturbing causes by which the theory must always be partially discomposed, there shall not be added the undue influence, at least, of that particular party who claim, par excellence, and even exclusively, the title of honest politicians. If a Board, or a Con troller, or a Commissioner, under a Tory Government, had conveyed an intimation to the workpeople or tradesmen in the employ of the department, that a vote in opposition to the Tory Cabinet would he likely to dissolve the relation of master and servant, or of buyer and seller, such a hint would have been proclaimed by everybody's voice bad enough, and too had ; but that the Ministerialists, the saints, and purists of the age, who for more than half a century have been turning up the whites of their eyes, and the palms of their hands, in holy horror at the alleged mal practices of the Tories—that they who, like the two attornies in the Pickwick trial, have " sate up and looked virtuous," should now be caught in the un seemly fact, in the flagrant delinquency, of using the Government influence to stop the electors of Middlesex (and of Westminster) from voting as their consciences would have impelled them, makes a chapter in the " History of the Cabinet who governed without pa tronage," which will bind up most appropriately with the secret memoirs of Whiggery under Sir Robert Walpole, and with some of the most poignant pas sages in the , biography of Seignor Gil Blas, to which instructive compilation may be usefully sub joined, by way of appendix, the recent correspon dence in the Portarlington case, and a cursory notice of the borough of Woodstock, with a dedication to an illustrious Duke, by his gracious permission, to be obtained through the meditun of his private secretary. At no general election before the " compact alliance" at Lichfield-house was there ever an avowed coalition between the Whigs and the Destructives. Even after /hat notable arrangement appearances were kept up for a season. The Whigs protested against being ' confounded with their supporters, and argued loudly against the unreasonableness and injustice of identify ing the two sections, merely because the Destructives chose to vote for the measures which the Whigs pro posed ; for, said the Whigs with the utmost innocence, " how can we help their voting with us ?" That was a touching appeal : but what becomes of its effects, when we find that the civility is not only re ceived, but largely returned, and that the Whigs in every contest have been openly voting for, and in many cases avowedly coalescing with, the Destruc tives? Colonel Evans, and Mr. Leader, and Mr. Hume, and a band of other gentlemen who have fairly declared war against almost every institution of the country, are the espoused favourites of the Whigs, and stand forth with them in a common cause. Mr. Byng no longer tells the electors of Middlesex that he stands alone ; but he takes the arm of Mr. Hume, and those others of whom Lord J. Russell testified but three years ago that " their object is to destroy :" and thus we have a regular union —not, as heretofore, a shamefaced, coy, connivance, but an avowed, unblushing coalition be tween the Radical, whos e " o bj ect is unblushing destroy" the institutions of the country, and the Ministers, whose duty is to presesve them I It might be a curious question for an inquisitive mind, on what terms such a coalition may be settled ? Which party finds the mo ney ? And what does the other party find ? Now, we have never peeped into the Committee-room of the Humo-Byngian party ; but we should be ready, to bet a pony (or, adapting ourselves to the formula of the gamesters at the Reform Club, we would " wager a new bat") that the defeated candidate furnished none of the money. He makes it a rule never to gi ve money, and an excellent mule it is, if one could but establish it ; the only difficulty is to bring the world in general to that understanding. But we are told he fur nished the organization, and brought up the majority of the joint votes, through which votes and organiza tion he ended in returning his comrade to his own ex clusion. To this, then, is the boast of the stiffilecked Radicals reduced—that the only purpose to which they can convert their strength is to sell it to a buyer whom they hate ; and to this are the Whig pride and the Whig popularity fallen—that the Court candidate can carry his election only by the aid of the purchased Republicans. " C'est one belle alliance," said' an eminent person, " (pre l'alliance de la Cour et de la canaille.' It is fortunate as a matter of accommu datioe, airl must, no doubt, be grateful as a .matter of feeling, fora genuine Parliamentary Reformer ex chided from a popular representation like that of Middlesex, that there is found across the Irish Chan nel a huge boroughmonger with a close snug seat for him. We give joy to Mr. Hume that his patron has returned him for Kilkenny. We give joy to our countrymen that the freeholders have done their duty in Middlesex. We congratulate her Majesty's Go vernment that their tenure of office is backed by the Priesthood and Papistry of Ireland. We offer our humbler and more respectful congratulations to their Royal mistress, that her throne is guarded against her Ministers and their friends by the resolute strength of Great Britain—by the Church and the State—by the Peers and the people.—Times. We are not of those who look on the slight diminu; , tion which the previous Ministerial majority in the House of Commons has experienced in the late elec tions with gloomy forebodings. We believe, on the contrary, that the eventual and not very distant results of the recent adverse elections will be of most signal service to the cause of Liberalism. One great ad vantage which the Reform interest has already gained from the issues of particalar contests is, that the ne cessity for the vote by ballot is now seen and acknow ledged in quarters where but a few short weeks before one had thought that such necessity would never have been seen, far less admitted. We will not particu larise cases ; but the fact cannot be disputed, that the demand for the ballot has now become so general and urgent that no Ministry will be able, were they so dis posed, any longer to resist it. But we grievously err, indeed, if any such disposition to withhold the protec tion of honest voting be entertained by the Mel bourne Administration. To speak more plainly, we are happily in a condition to pledge ourselves to this fact—that though Ministers may not them selves bring forward any measure for the vote by ballot, the question will be made an open one in the Cabinet. Need we say what will be the result of a discussion on the propriety of the vote by ballot ? And how could it be otherwise, unless men were de termined to shut their eyes to everything that is passing around them ? Where is the man who can any longer question the fact that the elective franchise is, in the existing state of things, a positive curse to a large pro portion of the constituency ? Are they not manifestly reduced to the humiliating alternative of either outrag ing their consciences, and proving the instruments of their own self-degradation, or of ruining themselves, and consigning their families to beggary ? Need we wonder, constituted as human nature is, that when a man's conscience is opposed by the mighty odds of the claims of a wife and family on him, he should suc cumb to the latter ? And ought such a state of things to he any longer tolerated ? Ought the electors of Great 13ritain—especially those in counties and small towns—to be insulted by being called on to come for ward, ostensibly as free men, to vote for the candi dates of their choice, but in reality as much fettered as if their landlords and customers stood with a lash over their heads, just as the masters or overseers of the nesioes used to do in the Wist Indies over the heads of the latter unhappy class of men ? And to aggravate the hardship and humiliation of the con dition in which so large. a portion of the constituencies of this empire is placed, in consequence of the protec tion of the Ballot being withheld, they are insulted in all the addresses of the respective candidates by the phrase " independent electors." Independent, indeed Poor men I I'hc very word is felt by every intelligent person among them to be no better than a solemn mockery. Of the instances of bribery, corruption, and Intimidation, which took place at the elections now concluded, we will not farther speak than to say, that rampant as such things have always been in Tory they have been innneasuralily more luxuriant of late. Nay, so common and barefaced were such expedients among the Conservatives, that in many instances they were as clear as the sun at noon-day. The vote by ballot, instead of giving Ministers a majority of 30, would have given them a msjority of at least 150 at the elections now concluded. It is never too late to learn wisdom. " Give me where to stand," said Archimedes, " and I will move the globe. Give us the sad resting-place of the ballot, and we will not only move Toryism, hut will hurl it into some unheard of planet. The boon of the ballot will not be dearly . ' purchase of the price of the recent Ministerial losses. —Morning Advertiser. • When we accused Mr. Hume of ingratitude towards his friends and supporters, we did so upon his own showing, aui, therefore, upon no light or merely con jectural grounds. Among such of his friends who were peculiarly singled out by the Hon. Member for Kilkenny, as having been worse than lukewarm in his cause, were those in the City of London, who were denounced from the hustings at Brentford as guilty of little short of downright treachery. This charge seems to have been, and naturally enough, too much for the parties thus unjustly accused to bear; and Mr. Anderson, the chairman of Mr. Hume's London Com mittee, has very properly come forward with a plain unvarnished statement, which not only proves Mr. Hume's accusation against his city friends to be wholly unfounded, but that he was there served with a degree of zeal almost unparalleled, and worthy of a better cause and a more grateful object. There are, we be lieve, few instances upon record in which all parties have been more zealously assisted by their friends than has fallen to the lot of both parties during the late Middlesex election. On both sides, perhaps in some few instances, zeal may have outrun discretion ; but this, if excusable in any case, must be so considered in one which was evidently a point of vital interest to both parties. Well the battle has been fought, and the victory decided and decisive. That Mr. Hume should be mortified at the result, no one can be sur prised ; but that he should turn round upon his friends and upbraid them with his ill success, instead of attri buting it to its true cause, is singular enough, and affords, at all events, a tolerable answer to those who have the extreme folly of talking about a different result " next time." Mr. Hume's " next time" at a Middlesex election will never come ; and if there could be any doubt about it, his own injudicious attack upon his friends must have at once settled the matter. Should Mr. Hume ever venture to mention " the next time," such zealous and active partisans as Mr. Anderson will be apt to reply, " No, no, we remember the last time' too well." Most objects acquire a force by contrast ; and on this very subject no stronger contrast can exist that the marked difference there is between the conduct of the two losing candidates, Messrs. Hume and Pownall, upon the occasion. Mr. Pownall had every reason to suppose (which Mr. Hume had not) that his election was secure. Mr. Pownall has, however, been defeated by the very same cause which swelled Mr. Hume's mi nority to full one-third more than it would otherwise have been—we mean the very excusable, if not lauda ble, attachment of so many of the electors to the private worth and long-tried public services of Mr. Byng. Yet, thus unexpectedly defeated, we hear of no angry vituperation on the part of Mr. Pownall towards either friends or foes. He is grateful to every body, satisfied with every body, and exults in his colleague's success as much as if it were his own. Such conduct cannot be lost upon those who witness it ; and while Mr. Hume may look to " next time" with despair, Mr. Pownall may fairly look to it with every reasonable promise of success.—Morning Herald. The Whig-Radical party, not feeling quite satisfied with what the people have done towards rendering the composition of the House of Commons congenial with their character, and favourable to their objects, are, it appears, seeking consolation in the hope that, under favour of the Sovereign, they may be more fortunate in respect to the Upper Branch of the Legislature. The rumours which the Ministerial organs propagate with mu c h indu s try upon this subject have appeared so unfounded and idle to us that we have seldom thought it necessary to notice their momentary existence. They are mere bubbles, which are no sooner blown than they burst, and disappear. We were told the other day that no less than four new Whig Dukes, and we know not how many, not less, as we recollect, than twenty, bran span new Whig Peers, were forthwith to be cre ated. But this is a mere trifle compared with the swarm with which the provincial journals threaten us. To judge from these authorities, it would seem that the Royal prerogative of creating Peers had been instituted for no other purpose than that of consoling country gentlemen of lauded property who sustain the THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1831 misfortune and mortification of being defeated at the elections for their several counties. We have scarcely taken up a country newspaper in the interest of Mi nisters for the last week without discovering that the Whig gentleman whom the Constituency of his county have thought unfit or unworthy to represent them in the House of Commons is, of all the gentlemen of England, the most fit and worthy to be selected by her Majesty for a Member of the House of Peers ; for a permanent Councillor of the Crown ; for one of the ornaments and supports of the British Throne. This claim to the Peerage, founded on the rejection of the people, whimsical as it appears when preferred by those who arrogate to themselves an affection peculiar and exclusive to the principles of liberal and popular Government, might, no doubt, have been successful, so far as Ministerial influence can prevail, had the number of claimants been somewhat less considerable. But, unfortunately, the number of claimants upon this special ground is so large as to make the claim an in convenient one. The Ministers have such a multi tude of friends whom the electors of our counties have been so blind and foolish as to think unfit and un worthy to represent them in the House of Commons that the claims of the rejected, merely as such—and we hear little of any other claims—become exceed ingly perplexing. In this respect her Majesty's Mi nisters must be afflicted by "Pembarras de ri chesses." Then there are the great and wealthy men of their party who have spent, and spent in vain, large sums of money, in order to per suade the electors of various counties that the wisest and most patriotic thing they could do would be to elect the Whig-Radical candidate. With scarcely a single exception these profuse money-spenders of the Whig-Radical faction are expecting to be in cluded in the batch or batches of Peers, whose eleva tion is to assist in securing to the accession of Queen Victoria honourable mention in British history. And, after all, there is a third class of Peers expectant, whose pretensions the Whig-Radical Administration, if it could have its own way, would, perhaps, of all others be the most disposed to favour. We mean the class of Whig-Radical gentlemen, who have been lucky enough to gain their election to seats in the House of Commons, but who, being unfortunately of no use there, the Ministers would be glad to draft off into the Upper House, in order to supply their places in the House of Commons by more serviceable men. There is, in fact, no end to the number and variety of the claims to the Peerage or of the motives of Ministers to aeknowledge these claims. They are infinite in number and indistinguishable in value. Ought they to be indiscriminately allowed ? This would imply a prodigality and degradation of ho nour which even the present Ministers of the Crown, levellers as they have sometimes shown themselves, can scarcely be prepared to recommend. Upon what prin ciple, then, is the selection of new Peers to be made, if, as we do not deny, there ought to be a creation, amidst the infinite multiplication and variety of Whig- Radical claims ? This is the Gordian knot which a Queen of England, and more especially a youthful Queen, may cut amidst the acclamations of her unani mous subjects. There are very feet Coalmoners in England who, on account of any services rendered to the State, have a claim to the Peerage. Of the few that there are a very small proportion are of the poli tical party or opinions that would recommend them to the present Ministers of the Crown. There is no pretence, in short, for any creation of Peers but what is incidental to the accession of Queen Victoria. To illustrate and dignify that event Peers are to be created, if created at all. We say that there should be a creation, because the event is one to which all honour ought to be paid. But since the accession is the only pretence for any creation we say that the creation should be a regal act, apart from, and alto gether independent of, Ministerial authority and influ ence. What man is there in all England who doubts that the Queen, young as she is, inexperienced as she must needs be, unsophisticated, artless, and noble, as we delight to believe her, is better qualified to select from the princely commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, men fitted to sustain and exalt the rank of a British Peer than either Mr. Spring Rice or Mr. Poulett Thomson—than either Lord Mulgrave or Mr. O'Connell ? If her Majesty wishes to take time to look around her, in order to make a suitable selection, she is, we hope at liberty to do so. The country with one voice will proclaim that there need be no.haste. Should any one presume to hurry her she will naturally believe that he who would precipitate her decisions upon a matter so important seeks his own sinister purposes rather than the glory and prosperity of her reign. A rid when she avows this belief the whole nation, as one man, will applaud her discrimination and her spirit. It is, we understand, very much the fashion of the Whig-Radical party to speak of their position as if the Queen of England were a baby in their hands, with whom they may do just as they please. They know that this representation is untrue, but they know that they must, in present circumstances, do and say some thing to sustain the drooping spirits of their party. Her Majesty, who fortunately inherits the free and noble spirit of her ancestors, will not permit them to have entirely their own way, upon questions with respect to which it is her right and her duty to pronounce an individual and an independent opinion. Amongst the first of these questions is that of the Peerage creations in honour of her accession. The slightest reflection must have taught her IVlajesty that the creation of Peers, unless for acknow ledged public services, is a transfer pro tanto of the regal power into the hands of the Administration by which the creation is recommended. Her Majesty can not have failed to perceive, therefore, how much it is her Royal interest to be tardy and abstemious in this matter, and how much it is the interest of her present Ministers to be prodigal and hasty. Let it, above all things, be recollected that here the undivided right is in the Queen. The Constitution of England knows of no such thing as a permanent accession of strength and influence to a political party because it happened by accident to be in power at the moment of an accession. The Ministry which seeks to obtain such a party ad vantage from such an accident, shows that it prefers its own party objects alike to the permanent interests of the Crown and to the personal feelings of the reigning Sovereign.—Morning Post. As the two Liberal M.P.'s for Wigan were travel ling, the other day, from their constituency, en their way to Manchester, they halted at Chowbent, when a concourse of people soon assembled round their carriage. Both gentle men wore their favours, blue and white, which ware mis taken for the favours of Egerton and Wilbraham. One man, justly celebrated for his intelligence, but much more for his Conservative loyalty, a slink butcher of the nick name of Bill Dougan, would manifest his attachment to the holy cause by procuring a glass of port wine for each of the two "blues," who, he said, were on 1.1: side. The Hon. M.P.'s (perceiving the mistake into which the knight of the cleaver had unluckily fallen) good humouredly drank their glasses, not forgetting better health and more discri mation to the bellowing butcher, who then vociferated loud and long in favour of honest Toryism. Some one, however, in the assembly whispered into Bill's ear that the " blues" were no other than the two " Rads," Potter and Standish, from Wigan ; upon which, Bill, with a voice to which Pluto's thunder would be a mere whisper, bellowed out for ve ngeance upon the heads of the " blues," whose sides were well nigh cracked at the joke. This further exasperated Bill, who immediately made his way into the public4touse, and returned, puffing and blowing, with a huge Tom cat, which he hurled, with all his might and main, at the two Members of St. Stephen's. No damage, however, was sustained, and Tom was supposed to possess more sense on political matters than Bill, which fortunately saved the skins of the " blues" from laceration. Mr. Standish face tiously observed, that he had often heard of M.P.'s going a ratting," but this was the first time he had heard of them going a " catting."—Bolton Free Press. On Monday last was found drowned, at Lambstown, Wexford, Miss Bridget Power, daughter of a respectable farmer. The facts of this lamentable death are these : The young woman had been some time previous in fever. On Sunday night she must have made her escape from her father's house, as early on Monday morning she was missed by her mother. The alarm became general in the neigh bourhood—every trace of her being lost till those persons in search of her arrived at a marble hole, when they dis covered some marks of a human foot at the edge. At once the preparations for search commenced, and, melan choly to relate, the body of this oncehlooming young woman w as taken out a corpse. Th e f ee li ngs o f th e parents on this occasion may be more easily conceived than described. She was conveyed to her father's house to await the result of a coroner's inquest, but the verdict has not come to our know ledge.—Freentan's Journal. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUG. 1.5. Number Dividend Price -- ;11 - -. 'Wz: .-- CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share. 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton and Oldham....Average 97/. 18s. sh. 135 1,482 41. Ashby-de-le-Zouch Average 113/. sh. 65 ‘,260 Basingstoke lOO/ sh. 51 1,005 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny lso'. sh. 100 8,000 I-16sh. 91.65. Birmingham, I-16th share B l ,. & 711. 218 4.000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...l2s/ sh . 100 pd 26 600 . Bridgewater and Taunton -.1001. sh. all pd 64 400 4/. Cheliner and Blackwater 1001. sh. 102 500 481. Coventry 100/ sh. 700 4,545 Croydon Average 31/. 2s. 10d. sb. 3 2,060; 41. Os. Dudley lOO/. sh. 84 600 71. Derby 'OW. sh. 133 20,000 3,5751 Si. Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331. sh. SO 231 40/. Erewash lOW. en. '7OO 1,297 281. Forth and Clyde Average 44101.154. O. 610 11,900 121. Grand Junction 1001. sh. 200 2,849 j 11. 'Grand Union 1001.8 h. 25 1,500 Grand Surrey 20,000/. 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOO/. '7O 3,696 Grand Western 600 13/. 12s. 04. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. 4d. 230 749 10i. Grantham 150/. sh. 202 6,238 21. Os. Huddersfield Average 57/. 6s. 6d. sh. 361 100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 10 25,328 11. 2s. Kennet i.nd Avon, Average 39/.188.10d. sh. 241 2,3971 24/. Leeds and Liverpool 1001. oh. 590 545; 131: Leicester l4Ol. sh. 225 1,897 4/. 10s. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 43/. Ins. 85 2,400 10/. Monmouthshire 100/. sh. 200 150 10/. Melton Mowbray 1001. sh. 200 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 570 3,000 11. 10.0. Macclesfield 100/. sh. all pd. 54 247 171. Meath 100/. sh. 325 1,788 30/, Oxford 100/. sh. 528 2,400 5/. Peak Forest Average about 78/. oh. 114 1,418 12s. Regent's (or London) Ave r . $3l. 16s. Bd. sh. ;5 / 5,669 6/. per cent. nochdale Average U. s}'. 10 500 81. Shropshire I'l S 5/. sh. 138 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 14S 3,000/. 4j per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. las. shh. llf 700 40/. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. . 710 500 94 Shrewsbury ll5l. sh. 243 300 9/. Stourbridge 145: sh. 250 2,647 21. C , s. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791. 9s. Id. sh. 50 533 12/. Swansea 100/. sh. 220 3,762 11. 15s. Severn and ‘Vye and Railway ...Av. 35/. sh. 261 2,601 in. 321. 10s. Treat and Mersey, f share 100/. sh. 560 6,149 ......... Thames...n.l Medway...Aver, 19/. ss. 6d. sh. 2 1,0005h.1 15/_ Warwick a.rd Birmingham 100/. sh 2e I,oWlsh. SAO 111.. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. 180 6,000 4/.os. Worcest"r and Birmingham... Av. 78/. Bs. sh. 81 5,000 225. Wilts an,, Berks. .. Average 67/. 10s. Bd. sh. 22 800 31. Wyrley and Essington 1251. sh 75 126 Wisbeach 905 U. Wey and Arun llOl. sh. 2: f DOCKS. 2,600 & /2p. e. Commercial 1 00 1 . sh. 55 1,06515 h 493,6670. 6 per ct. East India Stock 110 3,238,3101/. 505. p. ot. London Stock 53 Ditto Bonds 1,380,000/. 4,1/. p. et. West India 2,20.1 2/. I Os. Bristol 68,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3 1,851,751 If percent. St. Katharine Stuck 90 500,000 44 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years 99 Shoreham liar bour 2.500 .... .... Deptford Pier 0 01. sh. 31. BRIDGES. 1,600 Vs. Hammersmiti • ........,. 501. sh. 221 7,231 Southwark, OW Av. 631. 2s. Bd. sh. 2. 1,700 IL 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. SOL ch. 14 5,000 ... ...... W a terloo 5,000 Ws. Sd. Ditto, Old Annuities of vi. 6Ol. pd ISI 5,000 16s. 41. Ditto, New Ditto of 7/ 4Ol. pd 151 80,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds ll9 5,816 14s Vauxhall Av,rage 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 17 ASAJRANCE COMPAN:ES. ._. . 2,001 31 105 Albion 5001. sh. 501 pd SI 110,000 { 5 / , e ,:i MI Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 1011. pd 121 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/..h. Si. rid 5; 24.000 € l per sh. Atlas 501. sh. Si. pd 131 1,200 ;sh. 61. Birmingham 1 ire 2501. sh. 55/. pd 105 20,000 41 per cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 501. pd 41 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 501. sh. 5/. pd 61 5,000 61. per cent. Clerical, sledi, al,&c. Life, lull. sh. 12/10s pd 4 4,000 2/ 10s County 1001. sh. 101. pd 42 20,009 se. Eagle 5O/. sh. Si. pd 6; ~,,A r 5 per cent. Economic Lile / `"' land 30/ hs. j 10001. sh. 2501. pd 375 2,271 225. per cent. European Liar 2O/. oh. all pd 22 60,000 2s. Ditto, New 204 sh. 21. 1).1 If 1,000,00.1. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 1431 20,000 51. Guardian lOOl. sli. 271/ pd 33 40,000 6s. 6d. Hope 50!. sh. 51. pd si , 2,400 it 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 500/ sh. 50/. pd 121 7,500 Os. Imperial Lite 1001. sh. 101. pd 10 13,45$ 4!. per cent. Indemnity Alftrine 11'0/. oh. 8/. pal 161 2,0'20 31 100 Kent Fire 50!. sh. all pd 82 51. Ditto Life. 79 10,000 16s. Law Life 5 000 10s. London, Fir., .5/ sh. 121. 10s. p 3 158 3,900 los. London, Slup "Si sh. 12/. 10s. lid 151 30,090 U. per cent. Palladium Lit,. 5(11. oh. 21. pil 21 8 s Dot 50,003 Protector Fu i• "0!. sh. 21. pal :Ss Cd 2,500 11, Provident Die 11'0!. sh. IN. pd 29 100,000 ss. Rock Life 201. sh. 24 pd FA 699,220/ 5/. per cent. Royal Excll.Aige Sto-k•.• -• ..„.. 6,000 6 per cent. University Ltfii lOOl. sh. 5/. Pd 51 50,000 4 per cent. United KinTian) Lift 24 pd JOINT STUCK BANKS 25,000 8 per cent. Agric anti Comm. of Ireland 25/. sh. 10/. pd 14 5,000 Australa'ia 4Ol. sit. 401. pd 58: 10,000 10 per cent. Bank of BO mingliam 5ll. sh. 101. pd 13 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 14 30,000 5 per cent. Lon Jon anti Westminster...loo/ sh. 20/. pd 20 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster..... 100/. sh. '2 1. pd zio 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 101. } d 171 50,000 71 per cent. Manchester and Liverpool/ 100/. sh. 15/ pd 20 Discount 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester lOO/. sh. 251 pd 27 20,000 Provincial Bank of lreland 100/. sh. 25/. pd 39 2(1,'00 National Bank of Ireland 5, ,1. sh 1711. pd 144 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. lOO/. sh. 351. pd 33 19,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 101. pd 20 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 501. sh. 51. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 115 s 611 Bath 9 0/. sh. VI. pd 24 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 16/. pi 21 c5/.percent. l 5 , 000 hand 8 .. 5 .3 Ditto Provincial 9 0/. sh. 19 pd22l 928 Cl 10. Birmingham 504 sb. 94 4,250 2/ Os Bristol 2O . sh. 36 1,500 3' lOs Brighton '2ol. sh. 11 750 31 lea Ditto, New 2Ol. alt. 181. pd 1, 2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 201. sh. all pd 17 4,01)0 41. Continental Cansolidated lOOl. 625!. pd 85 1,000 101. City 01 London IOW. sh. all IA 130 i,la 6!. Ditto, New 4,000 4/. lOs. Equitable 10,000 21 per cent. Imperial 5Ol. sh. 441 SOO 5.'. per cent. Isle of Thanet 9 54 sh. 201. pd 20 2,350 6/. per cent. Independent V/. sh. all pd 49 9,000 31. per cent. Phoenix .. 5O/. sh. 391. pd 29 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratclitf • 100/. sh. SO!. pd 55 4,0410 South Metropolitan 5O/. sh. 19/. pd 17 8,200 Cl. per cent. United General 5O/. eh. 46/. pd 25 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 5(11. sh. 50 400 101. per cent Wakefield • 251. sh. 421 11,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 5l/. sh. 10/. pd 9 860 Yarmouth 9 0!. sh. 181. pd 9 WATER WORKS. 4,800 Is. Birmingham 25/. sh. 25/. pd 241 1,434 6/. East London lOO/. sh. 1401 45,500 21 10. Grand Junction ....Average 411. ISt. 4d. sh. 51 2,000 2/. Kent 100/. sh. 4:3 372 10/. Liverpool !tootle 2201. sh. 526 1,500 2/ 10. New 'River London Bridge Water Annuities 58 6,486 1/ 154 Manchester and Salford lOO/. eh. 531 1,000 4 per cent. South London 1001. sh. 8 3 8,294 311. West Middlesex ....Average 631. 12s. 9d. sh. 80 1.360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,000 Birmingham and Derby lO/. pd 11 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 101 pd 11 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction 01 15, 1 410 Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 10 pd 61 660 Calcutta and Saugur 501. sh. 2/. pd 0; 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western...loo/. sh. 71/. 5 3,000 Clarence lOOl. sh. 100/. pd 40 12,000 6,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 1001. sh. 21 pd 05 60,000 Eastern Counties 251 sh. '2l. pd 01 Grand Junction 1001. sh. 85/. p 1 165 Great North of England 7l pd 51 05,600 Great Western lOO/. sh. 45/. lid 53 2,000 Hartlepool 1001 A 1001. pil 100 8,000 Hull and Selby 5O/. sh. 51. pd 01 10,000 Leeds and Manchester 1004 sh. 5/. pd 14 2,100 31 per cent. Leeds and Selby ... .. lOO sh. 41 1,500 I/.55. Leicester and Swannington ....501. sh. all pd '7O 8,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...lo(4 sh. 100/. pd 2(12 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares '2sl. pd 61 10,000 45,000 Ditto ditto (Gibbs'! -.201 eh. 1/. pd 01 16,000 Ditto ditto (Ren.nie)...sol. sh. 3/. p 4 01 8,000 Ditto ditto (Cunsly)...loo/. sh. 31. pd 01 12,000 London and Elackwall 501. sh 31 pd 20,000 8 pet cent. London and Greenwich 2O/. sk. .201. pd 13, 25,000 London and Birmingham -.100/. sh. 90/.•pd 132! 20,1100 London and Southampton -.501. sh. 401. d 20, 7,000 12,000 London Grand Junction 51. sh. 5/. pd 2 10,000 North Midland 1001. sh. 15/. pd 15. Northern and Eastern lOOl. sh. 61. pd 0 ; 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 04 pd 26,000 South Eastern and Dover 71. pd 3, 1,000 10/. per Cent. Stockton and Darlington IOW. sh. 240 9,000 1,400 . ..... ... Westminster and Greenwich 501. sh. 2!. pd 0, 6,000 York and North Midland 5O . sh. 31. pd 0 ; MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5/. sh. 351. pd 12 4,000 11. 54. Alten 151. sh. 121. 10. ?LI 105 tom° ... Anglo Mexican, iss. 51. pm.... 100/. sh. all pd 31 Ditto Subscription 150/. sh qsal/I pa 2855 4 2,000 10/. BolanosBs 10,000 11. 101 Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm 95/. sh. 201. i 6,0,0 ... ...... Macatthas az Cocaes United 25/. sh. 231/. pd 8 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. 9/. pd 21 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 20/. sh. '2Ol. pd S 10,000 ......... Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. 8/. pd 6 20,000 ... ...... British Iron 501. sh. 501 pd 361 6,000 British Copper 5/. Os. 451. pc! 1 Cata Branca 64/. pd 61 Candonga 7/1. pd 6 11 Copiapo 2O/, sh 1211 pd 14 Columbian, iss. 5/. pm. SI. English General Mining Association...2o/. sh. 15/. pd 9 Mexican Company 1001. sh 5514 pd 01 Polberou Consols ...., 10/. sh. 81. pd 7 Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes 1501.1x1 1121 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2pm ...AO/. sh. all pd 1 1 DIM. Scrip ll Ditto New Scrip 5l pd 11 West Cork 50/. sh. 501. pd 38 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 20; 1,500 London University 1001. sh. all pd 23 5 700 Russell 9 5gs. sk. 9 King' College lOO/. pd 23 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,001 15s. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh. 2011. pd 34 6,000 41. per cent. British American Land Company 23/. pd 12: 10,000 al. per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 241. pd 531 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan 9B City Bonds, 4 per cent ..... X ......... 101 15,000 1/. 6s. General Steam Navigation ...15/ sh. 13/. pd 23 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 11. London Coin. Sale Rooms Ay. 751. sh. 19 8,000 Caoutchouc Company 25/. sh. 21/. pd 1 1 15 New Brunswick Land Cempa , sy ......434 pd 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest Soc.-1001. sh. 100/. pd 126 2,633 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100 /. sh. 701. p d 86 4,000 10,000 Ss. Van Die.ner.'s Land 1001. sh. 17/. pd 9 10,000 8,500 2,850 20,000 6,155 3,000 11,500 LIST OF SCOT' JULY ( n B II . I 3, I:ANIES' PRICES. BANKS. ' t Scotland 831. 68 &1. sh. all pd lwir. 1.500'0". Bt P. et. Ban ' of Scotland 100/, sh. all pd 157/. 500.0)(3. 8 p. ct. Brit's . . 1 2,000,0 X 5001 sh 100/ pd i 7 5. /. 51 p. ct. Royal 3,000,00 e/. 6/. p. ct. Commercial British Linen Company 100/. sh :.11 pd !23/ . 100/ sh. 10/. pd I 5 v . 5.)0 0 '' a. ' p. ct Ni.tional . Glasgow Union '250/. sh. 50. pd 74. , 2 1: °° 00 ‘ {;:704 6 4 1. p - . . c ct. We of Scotland ' , OOl. sh 30/ / . pd 39/ . INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250,0005 h. 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 20/. ch. 1/, pd 458 - ,50 0 61 p. ct. Hercules lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 131 15s. 10 0,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....10/, sh. all pd 8-1/. 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd U/. 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 101. pd 1615, 5,000 6p. et. Edinburgh Life.- ~.,.100/. sh. 10/. p..! 141 lOs 100,0011 SI p. et. West of Scotland lO/. pd 7/ Cs MISCELLANEOUS 4,810 Edin. and Glas. Un. Czn.a1...50/. sh. all pd 224 Ditto Allocated .901. sh. all pd 651. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb.:Joint Stock Water.... 25/. sh. all pd 351. Carron Iron Company 250/, sh. all pd 401. 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Founclery 50/.sh 3q,t, [A 450. 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh Sc Leith glass „, N. ph. 16{. pd 81. 4,500 10 per cent. Editil/nrgh Coal Gas , 25/, sh. all pd 621. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 251, sh. all pd 01 ? 750 7i per cent. Leal.] Coal Ga. fl9l. sh. ail pd 411, 1,200 Edinb urg h an d Dalktith Itallway...soksb• 551 ' 3,000 5 per cl llll . Equitable Loan Corepany 251.5 h, 01. pd 104. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Tuesday.) SUCIAR.—The British Plantation Market during the past week has been extremely brisk ; the grocers have purchased freely of all descriptions ; from the refiner there has been a very steady demand, and the price of both brown and yellow qualities have improved 6d. to Is. ; the private purchases have amounted to 3,200 hhds. and trs., besides two public sales of Barbadoes, containing 261 hhds., which went off readily at prices fully equal to those of the previous sale, mid. and fine selling at 58s. 6d. This afternoon prices continued very firm, and goods were extremely scarce ; the grocers were free buyers ; export descriptions are in demand; fine Hamburgh Loaves have been sold for packing at 81s., and ord. at 745., delivered in a fortnight and three weeks ; double Crushed is held for 325. MAURITIUS.—There has been a brisk demand by private contract, and very low soft brown, which were bought in at the late public sales at 425., have been sold at 435. EAST INDIA.—Of Bengal there have been no public sales; from the grocers there has been a good demand privately for those subject to the low rate of duty, and previous prices have been fully supported ; 1,887 bags are announced for auction on Thursday ; the shippers purchase sparingly of those at the 365. duty, but the supply continuing short former prices have been supported. . _ _ FOREIGN.—There have been no public sales of any descrip tion, but the holders of white Havannah being generally now sellers at the late reduction has led to a great demand pri vately, and the purchases have amounted to 1,800 boxes pri vately at 455. to 475. for good, and some at 40s. to 425. for ord. COFFEE.—British Plantation has been in good demand by the grocers, particularly mid. and good clean descriptions, and previous rates have been fully maintained for all qualities. This afternoon the only public sale was that of 51 casks 10 barrels of Jamaica, which went at steady prices ; low and good mid. at 102 s. to 111 s , fine ord. 925. to 941. 6d. The total deliveries of Coffee from the warehouses for home consumption, for the week ending August the 12th, are 107,056 lbs. of East India, and 164,929 lbs. of West India. Rum, BRANDY, AND HottaNDs.—For Rum there has been a brisk and general demand, and previous rates have been fully maintained ; the purchases have amounted to 700 puns. This afternoon Rum was in good c'emand ; a sale of 100 puns. strong Demerara at 3s. ed. COTTON. —The prices of East India continue very firm, and there has been a steady demand principally for exportation ; the purchases privately have been 750 bales Surat at 3fd. to sd. ; 100 Bengal, 41-d. to 4id. ; and 530 Madras, 41d. to 31d. A public sale of 2,303 bales Surat takes place on Fridry next. On Wednesday afternoon, as a train of nine wag gons was proceeding on the railway from Manchester to Liverpool, the engineer slackened pace, on arriving at the Barton embankment, in passing over some newly.laid rails. As is usual on the engine suddenly slackening ita speed, the waggons came successively more closely in contact with each other, and a man named David Blair, attempting to take advantage of this circumstance to get out of the second into the third waggon, was just in the act of doing so, when the engine again quickened its pace, and the waggon from which he was stepping being suddenly drawn to a greater distance from the succeeding one, he fell between them. The whole of the succeeding waggon wheels on one side of the rails passed over his right arm, and when the train was stopped, and persons went to his assistance, the arm was found to hare been severed above the elbow, and carried to a distance of nearly twenty feet from his body. The poor fellow was otherwise severely hurt. He was subsequently brought to the Manchester Infirmary, where he lingered till the following day, when death put a period to his suf ferings. An inquest was held upon the body in the course of the day, when a verdict of " Accidental Death" was returned. An inquest was held at the Blue Bell Inn, Barton-- on-Humber, by George Marris, gent., coroner, upon the bo3y of Catherine Foster, aged 21, who on the previous Wednesday destroyed herself by taking a large quantity of arsenic (nearly 3 oz.) It appears she was goaded by jea lousy to commit the rash act. She had for some time co habited with a young man, and having heard of his walking with another female a day or two before, she was heard to say that " she would not trouble him long." No blame at taches to the two druggists of whom she procured the deadly drug, as she was closely questioned by them as to its intended use, and her answers were quite satisfactory. The act of suicide was not discovered till two hours afterwards, when medical aid was promptly afforded, but too late, as the poison had already made awful progress in its work of death. She expired in agonies too horrible to describe, within six hours after taking it. The jury returned a very diet of felo de se, and the body was interred the same night at nine o'clock, without any funeral service.—Hull Rock ingham. Monday afternoon, just as the Nymph Woolwich steamer was proceeding on her trip, and was abreast of the hulks, a drunken stoker, or fireman, who had just been discharged from her Majesty's ship the Kite, fell over board, and, notwithstanding every exertion was made to save him, both by Captain Cunningham and his crew, ho sunk within about 50 yards of the shore. Captain Cun ningham seemed exceedingly hurt at the disaster but his conduct was most prompt and praiseworthy. The Nymph's paddles were immediately reversed, and a boat lowered, but ►n doing so the bow tackles of the boat became entangled, and she immediately filled with water, and Charles Strea tham, the cabin-boy, was immersed in the stream ; the poor boy sustained himself by swimming until he reached a rope of the Nymph, and he was hauled on board. The whole of the passengers on board testified their highest satisfaction at the conduct of Captain Cunningham and his crew. The deceased, whose body is not yet found, was a native of Dub lin, and unmarried. Four privates of the 2d battalion of Colditrearn Guards were tried by a District Court-Martial at the Port man-street barracks, on Monday last, for mutinous conduit, drunkenness, Etc. They were found guilty, and the great est offender was sentenced to receive 150 lashes, which punishment was inflicted on Tuesday in the barrack-yard. previously to the regiment mounting guard at St. James's Palace. The culprit bore his punishment without a mur mur. The other three were severally sentenced to ail , four, and three months' imprisonment, with hard labour. The Abbe Calas, vicar of Fauch, in the Tarn, has been brought before the Tribunal of Correctional Police Of the district for insulting a:Magistrate. On the 4th of June, after vespers, a dispute arose between two of the inha bitants respecting the municipal elections, into which the vicar entered with some warmth. The deputy-Mayor j u te!' fered, but not being listened to, he exposed his scarf as the emblem of his office, which, however, the excited Abbe treated with contempt, and shook his prayer-book in his face in return. For this he has been condemned by the Tribunal to pay a fine of 50 francs, with all the costs. At the assizes of the Upper Garonne on the Sa inst., Bardinia, a smuggler, was tried for assaulting $' Oliva, a merchant of Toulouse, with intent to kill him. He was prompted to thi s act b y the sight of a large sum °`, money that M. Oliva happened to receive in his presence , and he inflicted several severe but not fatal wounds o n his head with a blunt instrument. The facts of the case wer e clearly proved, and the prisoner was condemned to har d labour at the hulks for life, and to wear an iron collar round his neck. The Hanoverian army has hitherto worn a uniform scarcely to be distinguished from that of the British artill , with whom the Hanoverians have on so many glorious oc casions fought side by side. The uniform is dear to the Hanoverians, and it seems to be matter of very general re gret, both among the officers and men, that his Majesti King Ernest has determined on abolishing it, and s ubsti tuting that of Prussia. Since his arrival in Hanover it hei been observed that his 'Majesty has never appeared in pub lic in the Hanoverian but always in the Prussian uniforts. The Queen of H anover an d th e D uc h ess o f C am brOg e have both done all in their power to prevail on his Majesty to consent to retain the present scarlet uniform. CRUET FRAMES, Plated with Silver Edges, .an d Seven Cut Glass Cruets are offered, price T wo G u i neas e ach, variety of Patterns. Epergnes with one rich Cut Glass 0, 5 '; price Five Guineas each, or, with four arms supporting Four Div e . - beside the Centre, Seven Guineas each. Th e t h ree Show Roo"'" are fitted up expressly for the displ ay o f a l arge assortment of S i - VER PLATE, and Plated Good s . T . COX SAVORY, W o rk' ing Gold and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, London. B 11? TR S. On the 12th inst., at Nottingham -place, the lady of Fredtr i4 Huth, jun., Esq., of a son. On the 13th inst., at Bruce-grove, Tottenham, the lady of Dodds, Esq., of a son. On the 12th i ns t., a t S t. George's, Tombland, Norwic h , Mrs- John Blake, of a daughter. On the 12th inst., the lady of Thos. L. Walker, Esq., archit64 Great Russell-stret, Bloomsat the Recburoy, of a son. he R el. On the 17th ult. e , try, Rugby, th e l a dy of t J. Moultrie, of a daughter. On the 13th i nst., Mrs. Henry Smith, of Fottess-terrace, icor tish-town, of a son. ARRIE. At St. Panc ras Church, M on the 15th in st., William Mellor m- M : ig t h il e ' Esq., of Sh e lt on , S taffordshire, to Miss Eliza Goodman , °I Gothic Cottage, Kentish Town. iis fi e tt , On the 10th i ns t., a t O spr i nge, t h e R ev. J ames Hughes iiter by his father, the Rev. C. H. Hallett, of Higham, near ;, ott eS bury, to M ary F rances , d aug h ter o f Li eut.-Genera l Si r I ' l G. Montresor, of Ospringe House, Kent. lED. On the lath inst., at Wellbu D ry, near Hitchin, the Rev' Lynch Burroughs, of Offley-place, Herts. in On the 12th inst., in Waketleld-st ree t, H. G. Crop, s 4 his 70th year. O k A . On the 12th inst., i n C um b er l an d -terrace, Regeut's-Par' i Elliott, wife of T. J esson , E sq., l ate o f HiliTark, Kent. , of ''' On the 14th inst., i n Cl arges - s t ree t, Mary.flancock, wi fe r St Oaracoin, aged 36. On the lath i ns t., i n G reat Coram-street, Eliza, eldest ilgugl4e of the lato S. Palmer, Esq., of the Barrack Departro, London : P r i nte d an d Published by AIURDO YOUNG:3couet 112, Stand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, ill tb - of Middlesei.—Wednesday, August 16; 1837.