The Sun. — London, England, 1837-07-21 00:00:00

PRICES OE STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CL ,, Ch. hank Stock. !India Stock '256 lA ... :'."I per Cent. Pc& 91y 2 % ,Dltto I , 3ctols 3 per Cent. Cons . 91 1 'South Spa St oc k — 31 , NT C , nt. 11934, Old Annoities ... ...... ...... - Ditto 11%.,1 ......... ..... .. 987';, 9!'k 9 New Ditto ........... ...... ..... New 3I piper Cent 081 , §3i,% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1;51 -- We •', ~ en.. - Exch. Rills, r 1,t , 0 0 ...... .. 46 48 pm BUIE LongAnnuitiestoexpire 1 11itt0...............500 '6 4S poi. -la a. 5, 1830 14 13-16 N Ditto 8 ,- iall C ct.. 10. IBM) .. -- Ditto C0mmercia1......... pm. —fan. 5, 'B6O l4v. Ditto Advertise , ' Pm Jan. 5, IFI.Sfi - Bank Stock for Acc0unt....,,.,. JApril 5, 185 0 ........,.. ..... - Stock for Acc0unt........ an. 5. 1870..... . - t'Ominum Consols for A ccoun t ..... ...... 91 W I b --pm. P' 'RILES OF FOREIGN FUNDS TIIIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds —; Fernylan Bonds ~. ..... .... ...... .. Belgian 11,orls ()its, Account ....,.........•• _ II razitian Bonds ..... ............ .. 81; Ditto ACCOltiAt D'Lto 4V.COUtIt ........... ...... --,. Ditto New Bonds .. 43! 9 ' , 4 !‘"i 2 4 s ( ' , 4 4 -Et' mos 'tyres Bonds Dit ty Account — Ditto, 3 per cent. li —, Ditto Account 2 _ Chilly o Bonds . —; Prussian Bonds •.... .......... .... DI , Co Account .. .... ' R ''' ./' Bond., 182.) . ........ — 1 1-.41.11 CM/ ,nbian Ponds . 2114 , Ditto Account ....... _— C'itto Account .. — Ditto MetaThc ..... ....... Ca onnbian Bonds, :821 2414 Spanish Bonds 'into Account 187 i i, — % Mulish Bonds ...... 19! nitta Account .... • 1 Ditto Account 1 'Greek 80ma ,,,,,,, . .„ ..... -- French, 5 per cent.......... — f f —c : Ditto Bonds, 1825 —f —c Ditto Account ... f. -..,. ..11Ie %lean Bonds, 5 per cent.... Dutch, 2%, rer cent. ...... .....52!i1,4 Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. - n Ex Pe ch r .We t iiroN 1 Ditto Per ....... .2'231 3!a— Dritttt^°•As7eoruncet'it. ! Ditto Account arnanotitan __________ -----_____ PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share 'Brighton Railway Company (Stevenson's) 5 43i% 21,1 0 13 Brighton (Rennie's) LA) Jon and Birmingham Railway Company B5 1 14 Ditto 14 Shares London and Greenwich Aailwav Comppn, 2 1 2 Routh Brighton, Lewes, and Newhave n Railway 2 .7,1 13141 14 __ _ _ MAILS. Arrived, Due Arrived, Due Arrived. Due 0 America . 0 1 Franca ...... y 0 0 Lisbon 1 41 0razi1............ 0 1 Guern• &Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 nuenos Ayres.. 0 0 Hamburg ..... ... 0 I Mex , co ....... 0 Carthagena...... 0 1 Holland . ....... .. 0 0 Ostend 0 I Dublin... ...... 0 0 Jamaica .... ..... 0 0 Sweden 0 1 Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Wverford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 10-MORROW. - Morning ......... 14 minutes after 5. I Evening. ......, S miautes after 5. HEREFORD CITY ELECTION. THIS ELECTION is fixed for MONDAY next, the 24th instant, when all FREEMEN and ELECTORS in the LIBERAL INTEREST are earnestly requested to attend and give their Votes, as the Poll remains open for One Day only, and closes et Four o'Clock. Hereford, July 20, 1837. WESTMINSTER ELECTION. MORLEY'S HOTEL, CHARING CROSS, July 21st, 1837. TCOMMITTEE f or con d uct i ng the 1 ELECTION of Colonel EVANS and Mr. LEADER, announce to their Brother Electors that the DAY for the NONII NATION of the CANDIDATES is fixed for TUESDAY, and the DAY of ELECTION for WEDNESDAY next, the 26th inst. The Committee 11 0 W congratulate the Electors upon the brilliant prospects of success; the state of the Canvass exhibits a determi nation to uphold the renown of Westminster, and to prevent Toryism from obtaining a footing in this seat of Freedom, whence it was triumphantly driven thirty years ago. All Reformers perceive and despise the base slanders by which the Tory party have attempted to injure Colonel Evans; but this flagitious conduct is now meeting with that award which it richly me rite. The Committee earnestly entreat of the Electors not to relax in their endeavours to sink the pretenAions of the Tory party for ever in Westminster by continuing steadily and perseveringly in their la bours until the final close of the Poll on Wednesday. By order of the Central Committee, WILLIAM a'BECKET, Chairman. A PUBLIC MEETING of the ELECTORS of T the Outward of St. GEORGE'S (which Col. Evans and Mr. Leader will attend), will be held at the GUN TAVERN, PIMLICO, TO-MORROW EVENING, at Eight o'Clock. Subscriptions towards defraying the expenses of this Election are received by the Central Committee. FULL REPORTS OF THE NOMINATIONS FOR LONDON AND SOUTHIVARK, WILL BE GIVEN IN "THE SUN" TOMORROW ; AND ON MONDAY, THE NOMINATIONS FOR LAMBETH, TOWER EJAMLETS, FINSBURY, AND Alt YEE 13 ONI E ; ON TUESDAY, WESTIVIINSTER. CLOSE OF THE POLLS ON THE DAYS OF ELECTION. The publication of THR SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. , *4 tTo r• a ,, , nt.„, - ,43m. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1837. We are now on the eve of the most momentous contest in which a nation was ever engaged. If ever there was a time when it was the duty of every sincere friend to his country, whether acting publicly, or in a private and individual capacity, to employ his most strenuous efforts to inform the ignorant, to encourage the fearful, to stimulate the indifferent, to confirm the wavering, and to sustain the weak and the oppressed— that time is the present most important juncture. We may call it an important and critical juncture, because on the result of the present election will mainly depend whether our youthful Sovereign will be enabled to adopt the liberal principles in which she has been happily educated, and to follow them, so much to her own satisfaction, and to the well-being and happiness of her dominions, that they may become her rule of conduct, throughout a reign as long and as prosperous as her most dutiful and loyal subject can desire ; or whether she will turn from them with disgust, and commit herself and her councils to the guidance of that party, from which we have received so large an amount of evil in the past, and from which we can anticipate nothing but evil for the future. It is this party which, with a firmness and unani mity that would adorn a better cause, is widely exert ing itself throughout the country, to arrest and repel the progress of education and intellectual improvement, and the members of which strive to put down religious liberty, by rejecting from their service and employment those who think it their duty to worship their Maker in any other mode than that prescribed by the Church of England, and menace old and faithful servants with dismissal, if they, or the members of their families, are seen in a congregation of Dissenters. It is this party which arms itself with the same base weapons of in timidation to annihilat e the civil liberties of the people, by coercing their votes, and virtually depriving them of their elective franchise ; threatening servants, clerks, and agents with the forfeiture of their places ; trades people and mechanics with the loss of their employ ment ; and tenants with ejection from their farm s , if they do not yield implicit submission to a despotic authority, which tramples under foot the inalienable rights of man. It is, undoubtedly, a serious thing for those, whether ranked with the poor or not, who are dependent on the fruits of their exertions for the maintenance of their families, to encounter the risk of the execution of such threats. But those who yield to them have not merely to suffer the reproaches of their neighbours for their cowardice, and the stings of conscience for their desertion of principle : they must have the bitter reflection that they are addinr , incal culably to the difficulties and hardships of their more conscientious and consistent neighbours. Let them bear in mind that when they condescend to accept the bribes of an unprincipled faction, whether in the form of averted vengeance, or of more degrading favour, they are tamely allowing shackles to be riveted upon their arms, which they will leave as an ignominious in heritance to their offspring. Those, on the other hand, who disdain to yield, yet dread the consequences of resistance, may rest - assured that, if they are firm and united, they will have little to fear. Let each redouble his exertions to render his services more faithful and efficient—the agent proving that he is indispensable to his employer, the tenant that he is invaluable to his landlord. The inevitable result will be, that they will rise in estimation, and that the Tories will be compelled to show their only true conservatism, in retaining for themselves those advan tages for which they can find no substitute, provided the liberal part of the people remain unshaken. Let no man undervalue the importance of his vote, and think that it is of no public consequence which way he may give it, to advance his own private and sordid ends. On the contrary, let every one regard his own as if it were the casting and decisive vote, for the disposal of which he must answer to his country and his conscience. In this quiet, but irresistible course, the mighty power of the people would be exhi bited with unexampled clearness, and its preserving and progressively ennobling tendencies conspicuously displayed. At the Anniversary Dinner of the LicenSed Vic tuallers' Society, which took place yest er d a y, an d for a report of which we are indebted .. . to our Liberal Contemporary, the Morning 4ilvertiser, Mr. LEADER alluded with just severity_ . to the calumnies circulated against him by the Tory fac tion. " Certain papers "he said, " had thought proper to charge him - with being a Destructive—a Revolutionist—and one who would injure property. He begged to deny the charge. It was a calumnious lie, and he believed the parties knew at the time they gave it publicity that it was a lie." NO doubt they did, but when did their knowing a charge to be false, ever prevent the Tories from hazarding it ? Look- at the preposterous lies—which they well know to be lies—which they have spread abroad this very day in the columns of an influential Tory journal I Can anything be more atrocious? But the truth is, the Tories are desperate, and despe ration, as we all know, is not over fastidious. Had these creatures any character to lose, they would act with more respect for appearances, but they have none ; and consequently are perfectly ready—as JONATHAN would say—" to lie thro' a deal board." Dr. JOHNSON used to contend that "the Devil was the first Whig," but we are now morally convinced that he was the first Tory ; and, moreover, that his legitimate offspring have in no respect degenerated from their respected Sire. Yet infamous as are all these Tory lies, we should not have dreamed of alluding to them, had it not been for the purpose of putting well-intentioned, but some what silly, people, on their guard. To all such we would say, make a point of disbelieving whatever the Tories tell you orally, or through the medium of their jour nals ; or if you will not disbelieve, at least suspend your faith for a few hours ; for, rely on it, that their assertion of to-day will be proved to be rank falsehood to-morrow. Look at their conduct towards General EVANS They roundly swore that he had been in strumental in the flo2ging of women ; whereas, it is now proved that he was averse in every instance, even to the flogging of men ! They stuck to it, that he was running away in one part of the country ; when, it is ascertained en the best authority, that he was bravely fighting at the head of his troops in another These are but a few drops in the Tory bucket; wore we to enumerate but one half the lies these scamps have circulated within the last few mouths, the bucket would. not only be full, but running over. And this is the faction, Countr ) men, that now claims your suffrages ; that tells you it has no interests incompatible with yours ; and that if you return it in full force to Parlia ment, it will make no speech, and give no vote, bu t such as you may approve ! Will you believe this lying faction ? Impossible. You will act towards it as lEsop's husbandman did, when he had once fairly got the tiger in his power —pare his claws ; draw his teeth ; and then, to make all sure, knock out his brains. Our attention has been directed to a pamphlet en titled " Parliamentary Representation," by T. W. HELPS, M.A., publi3hed by HOOPER, which, from the importance of the subject of which it treats, is is likely to attract some degree of public notice. As it is well written, and appears to have truth rather. than the triumph of faction for the object of its in quiries, it is calculated to lull the Reformers into a false security—to give them wrong impressions of the sacred duty which the Electoral body are now called upon to fulfil ; and therefore we cannot in justice to our readers, omit pointing out the dangerous political error which the writer so plausibly seeks to inculcate. The sole object of this tract is to impress upon the Electors of the United Kingdom, that they ought not —and that constitutionally they cannot—exact pledges from their Parliament representatives ; an object at all times liable to strong objections, but especially to be deprecated on the eve of a general election, on the re sult of which are suspended the destinies of the British Empire—yea, probably of Europe. The writer's arguments in support of this strange theory, though scattered over fifty-four pages of a closely printed tract, may be summed up in a few words— namely, the obvious mischief of binding a man to fol low a defined course upon a question before he has had the opportunities afforded him by the House of Com mons of considering it in all its bearings. " From a common mortal," he calls upon the electors to " ex tort no such absolute engagement as a pledge. It is not for him to make, for it betrays a presumptuous confidence in his political infallibility. It is not for you to ask, for though it may not bind the representa tive to the elector's opinions, it trenches upon his in dependence in binding him to his own—in fettering his future conduct by his present opinions, whatever change in them or in the aspect of things may chance to take place. I might also venture to say, that it is not fit for our nature, for we cannot tell what a day may bring forth ; but I have no scruple in asserting that it is in open hostility to the spirit of representa tive institutions, for it renders debate a delusion, and subverts the supremacy of deliberative wisdom." Let us test the soundness of this pompous theory by a few plain questions intelligible to the humblest member of the electoral body. The writer ob viously falls into the monstrous error of imagining that because men are perpetually changing their ideas respecting the most effectual means of working out first principles, they are equally liable to change their opinions regarding the principles themselves. Sup pose a constituency to ask a candidate on the hustings " Will you, if elected, vote for the punishment of the crime s of perjury, house-breaking, and murder ?" The candidate might differ from the constituency as to the extent of punishment, but it would he ridiculous to imagin e that his mind was not made up on the prin ciple. Suppos e the questions put to a candidate were " Will you vote against any measure for abolishing religious liberty in this country ? Will you vote against any attempt that Parliament may make to de clare the Pope supreme head of the Church ? Will you vote against any Bill that the Crown may intro duce for abolishing tl►e Habeas Corpus Act, the Bill of Rights, and the Act of Settlement ? Will you vote against any Bill for declaring the nation in a Will you vote against the as state of insolvency? sumption of the right of granting the supplies by the House of Lords ?" Now, will any honest person tell us that the gentleman who could not give a direct pledge upon each and all of these questions would be a fit and proper person to send into the House of Commons ? Most assuredly not. The candidate that could not answer one way or other, without a previous acquaintance with the arguments that a Parliamentary opponent might employ, ought to be set down as a fool to all political intents and pur poses ; and the candidate that would not, under the plea of acting without restraint, should be regarded as ' a traitor to his country. The same rule applies t o every question upon which the Reformers demand pledges. They all- involve principles, and it is to the carrying out of these. principles that the electors who are true to their country and themselves seek to bind their repre,sentatives ; leaving them, however, at full liberty to deal with_ the details as may seem best to the wisdom of Parliament. The candidate who cannot or will not pledge himself to advocate the shortening the duration of Parliaments ; the repeal of the Corn laws ; the Reform of the Irish Corporations and Church ; the abolition of Imprisonment for Debt ; the extension .of the Franchise ; and the Reform of the House of Lords is not fit to represent the people in Parliament. The principles involved in these ques tions are as obvious as the principles embodied in the decalogue ; and we would just as soon think of advo cating the appointment of the Gospel Ministry of a person who - professed himself incompetent to deter mine whether it was the duty of children to obey their parents, as we would of supporting the election of a Candidate uncertain as to how he should vote on a Bill for Reform in the House of Lords. The whole of the Paris Journals of 'Wednesday have been received. The Moniteur contains the fol lowing telegraphic despatch from Spain which, with the extracts subjoined, include the only news, foreign or domestic, to be found in them : " BORDEAUX, JULY 17, SEVEN, P. Ni.—The road between Calatayud and Sarragossa being occupied by the bands of Qnilez, Llangostera, and other Carlist Chiefs, the mails from Madrid of the 11th and 12th have not arrived. Letters from Saragossa of the 14th contain nothing important respecting the march of the Pretender." , NEWS FROM VALENCIA.—We have received, by way of Bar celona, news from Valencia to the 9th. On that day the oath to the Constitution was taken, and fetes were given in honour of that event ; while, at the distance of three leagues from Valencia, the Pretender proclaimed himself absolute King of Spain. An English frigate and two French brigs of war were in sight of the port. 250 English, and a detachment of artillery of the same nation, were to be landed on the same day. • The inhabitants are resolved to make the most determined opposition to the expedition. The Commandant, Estella, had received news from Castillon and Vinaroz. An excellent spirit prevailed everywhere, and preparations were making to resist. It was also said that General Oraa had already arrived in the environs of Segorbe.—Le Commerce. The Phare of Bayonne says —" 900 men and 21 officers of the British Legion embarked at St. Sebastian on the 11th, on board the Isabella the Second steam-boat, and a merchantman, which was freighted by Colonel Wyldc. These troops return to England, in consequence of the dissolution of the English Legion." Cady Morgan has arrived at Paris from Italy.—Le Consti tutionnel. FRENCH FUNDS—Psais, Ju'Lr 19. Fore per Cents., 110 f. 110 f. 5c 110 f. Three per Cents. 79f. Bank Actions, .2,3:17f. 5 , c. Rente ne Naples, 117 f. 23e. 30c. 35c. Roman Five per Cents., 101%56. Spanish Actives, 21% Spanish Differes, 7. Spanish l'assives, 434%. Brussels Society, 1,550 f. Belgian Bank, 1,1.7 f. 50c. Portuguese Three per Cents. 23 25. liaytian Loan, 2901. ILXCIIIhNOT!. ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 45c. ; money, '2sf. 42%c. 'three months, paper, 25f. 25e.; money, 25f. 22% e. rs Authentilue. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., I 111. 15c. Three per Cents. 70f. Pie. Bank Actions, 2,3:15f. Roman Five net Vents., Brussels Bank, 1,417 f. 5Cc. Belgian Society, 1,36 r. Portuguese Three per Cents., 25, Ilaytian Loan, 2M , f, Spanish Actives, 2U 4. Spanish Passives 4%. spaiii,.h DitFeres, 0%. New Difibres, 7. Miguelites, 12 Brussels and German Papers have been received, from which extracts will be found in another column. They are more interesting than politically important. Yesterday' morning, at half -past four o'clock, a duel was fought near Chalk-farm, between Hugh Dalton, Es ti and Captain Th omas R e id , R. N. Mr. D. was accompani,;(7 by the Hon. Mr. Price, and Captain R. by Mr. Kennedy. On the signal being given both gentlemen fired ; Mr. D. received the contents of his opponent's pistol in his right shoulder. The parties then separated without coming to any satisfactory explanation. At the Limerick Asi;izcs, on Wednesday, Mary Cooney was found g u ilty o f t h e mur d er of her mistress, Mri Ann Anderson, on th e 6 t h o f M arc h l ast. The prisoner, ‘vho . was a discarded servant of the murdered lady, was sentenced to be hanged on the - ith of August. WESTMINSTER LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION.—The first quarterly general meeting of the above flourishing institution was held last evening at the Infant School in Vincent-square, which was numerously attended by its members and friends. W. P. Wood, Esq., F. R. S., one of the vice-presidents, was called to the chair, when a re port of a most gratifying description was read by Mr. James Hunter, the secretary, from which it appeared that there were 350 members. A library of 500 volumes had been got to gether, without purchase, in three months. Many very libe ral donations had been received ; among others, one of 201. from J. T. Leader, Esq.; 151. from the Right Honourable James Abercromby, Speaker of the House of Comm ons ; 101. from Charles Hindley, E sq . ; 10/. fr o m J. C. W ood, Esq.; 101. from W. Cooper, Esq.; and many other donations in money and books. The balance in favour of the institution was 150/. In the old and densely-populated city of West minster an institution of this kind must have been long wanted, and it is matter of surprise that one has not been es tablished there long before. The opening lecture was de livered by the Rev. H. H. Milm a n, "On the Utility of Literary and Scientific Institutions." Mr. Wilbraham Taylor, nephew of Sir Herbert Taylor, has been appointed Privy Secretary to Sir Henry Wheatley, Privy Purse to her Majesty. We hear that her Majesty has expressed a wish for an ornamental entrance to be made into Buckingham- gar d ens at the lower end of Grosvenor-place, in a line vt ith Eaton squire, and the King's-road. In case her Majesty should be inclined to take an excursion in private down the King's-road, the coach-stand at Buckingham -gate is to he removed to James -street, it being considered that the language of coach men and cads are not appropriate to the inmates of a Royal residence. We are pleased to hear that Mr. Sheriff Montefiore has made a donation to the Newspaper Press Benevolent As sociation, with a view to promote the excellent objects of that Institution, which we last week took occasion to bring under public notice. He has further intimated his assent to become one of the Trustees of the Association. This was more than could have been expected from him, but quite consistent with the whole tenour of the benevolence for which ha is dis tinguished. On Thursday last an inquest was held at the Guild hall, Northampton, on the body of Joseph Walters, a journey man tailor, aged 42 years. The deceased, who resided alone in Bath-square, was last seen alive about six o'clock on Wednesday evening, when he took his tea, and appeared in good health, with the exception of a pain in his head. About three hours afterwards he was found by a woman who occa sionally assisted him, on his shopboard, with his legs crossed (as though at work), quite dead. The deceased was not sub ject to fits, and there being no marks of violence, a verdict was returned, " Died by the visitation of God." —Northamp ton Mercury. The eldest son of the Emperor of Russia is at pre sent making a journey through the dominions of his father, in the course of which he has proceeded as far as Tobolsk, in Siberia. He left the latter city on the 16th ult., to return towards the European provinces. . . Queen Victoria's first levee was the most numerous and brilliant ever held in St. James's Palace, attended as it was by so many noblemen and gentl:men of every grade of politics. All present were delighted with the composure and dignity with which our youthful Queen comported herself on this novel occasion. Above 2,000 presentations took place. The Earl of Mulgrave is expected to take his depar ture for Dublin Castle at the close of the ensuing week. The, Countess will not accompany him to Ireland, in conse quence of her recent appointment to the royal household. The beatiful lake of Chzde, in the Valley of Cha mounv, has entirely disappeared in consequence of an immense mass of earth falling into it from one of the surrounding mountains. In the place of its pure and transparent waters, reflecting the summits of Mont Blanc, nothing now is to be seen but on one side a vast mound of black earth, mingled with rough flints, through which rushes a turbid torrent ; and on the other a mere muddy pond. All that rendered this ro mantic spot so enchanting has disappeared for ever; and yet no great damage has been done to the road which leads to the glaciers. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1537 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS'DAY.) DEAL, JULY 20. —Wind N. W._—Arrived the Trinidad, Beckett, from Trinidad ; Jane, from Africa. PLYMOUTH, JULY 20. Wind W. S. W. FALMOUTH, JULY 19. —Wind W. N. W.—Arrived the 13reseis packet, from Vera Cruz—sailed June 4, from Tampico 8, and Haranna 23. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 20.--Wind N. W., fresh.—Sailed the Madagascar, for Bengal. Bras Tot., JULY 19.—Arrived the Ruby, Westcott, from St. John's, New Brunswick. GLOUCESTER, JULY 20. Arrived Lady Normanby, Odessa. NEWPORT, JULY 20.—Arrived Robert, M' William, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, JULY 19.—Arrived the Amity, from Cam peachy; Echo, and Denmark, Baynes, from New Orleans ; Petrel, from Quebec. CLYDE, JULY 19.—Arrived the Christian, M‘Millage, from Jamaica ; Alexander, Pollock, Antigua,- Greenock, Quebec. WATERFORD, JULY 18.—Arrived the Harmony, Fitzpatrick, from Quebec. . _ _ BELFAST, JULY 18.—Arrived the James Baillie, Oliver, from Quebec ; Shannon, from London. HULL, JULY 20.—Arrived Wilson, Jordan, St. Petersburgh LYNN, JULY 20.—Arrived Harmony, Kemp, St. Petersburgh, Off Scilly, the Mary Ann and Isabella, from Nassau. The Emerald, bound to Liverpool, capsized and sunk at Montreal, 27th ult. The Celia, from Liverpool to Arabia, was on shore on Stettin Island, 28th ult. The William Tdl, from Messina, was on shore on New Orleans Bar, 18th ult. THE MARKETS-(THI§ DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals this week of English Grain and Flour are again moderate. Of Irish Oats there is another good quan tity. Tho scarcity of Wheat has given the factors an oppor tunity of realizing Is. per quaiter advance on Monday's terms. Barley, Beans, and Pease are unaltered. Oats have met a slack demand at former prices. There has been some sale of Flour this week at Monday's advance. A It R IVA L.S. Wheat. llariey. I , _:;gttsh Irish Fareign Oats. I Flour. 1,490 gra 12,7=0 .acks 11,911 1,00 SMITHFIEL: This day's supply was very goo alteration from the prices last qui ' , tucks PEA STONE OF 8L • s. d. to s. rl Interior Beasts 2 4 2 6 Second quality ditto 2 3 3 r, Crime large Oxen 3 2 3 8 I ), ime Scots, &c. Large.coarse Calves 4 0 4 ii :rime small ditto 4 8 4:0 S'ickling Calves each l6 c 31 01 Lamb SUI - FLY AT Beasts. Sheep 62.3 I 9,8'30 3 MARKET ;1, and the gale wa dull at little ,ted: 8. TO SINK THE OFFA LS. s. 41. to Inferiar Sheep 2lO 3 2 Second quality ditto 3 4 3 Coars,4-wgolled ditto.— 310 4 0 Southdown Wcthers Latge Hogs 3 4 4 0 , Small Porkers .. I Quarter old Pig ' each) 12 0 20 C ~ Is 4d. to Zs. 4d. MARKET. I Calves. 215 I Pigs 333 NEWG ATE AND LEA At per stone, Peel, inferi0r.........., s d. to s. d. . 3 2 3 S Mutton, inferior middling ... 3 6 3 S middling.. -- prime large - prime small 310 4 0 York, large Veal Lamb Is 10d. t 9 45. it'd. DENIIA LL MARKETS. by the Carcass. S. si to s (. 36 3 8 310 4 0 40 4 4 34 4 2 48 5 2 THE BERKELEY PARLIAMENTARY MONOPOLY. • TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. CHELTENHAM, JULY 18, 1837. Sir,--In your paper of Tuesday, 18th July, you have commented somewhat freely upon the remarks of the Chel tenham Journal of the preceding Monday, on the attempt that has just been made by the noble head of the House of Berkeley to monopolise in that family the representation of FOUR seats in this county, by endeavouring to secure the election of FOUR OF HIS OWN BROTHERS. Had your ob servations been as play as they have been freely made, I should not now have called upon you, as I do, to acknow ledge that I had more than ordinary grounds for charging the Berkeley family with such a violation of the great prin ciple of the Reform Bill—for the maintenance and well working of which measure I have, as a Conservative Re former, at all times contended as anxiously and as ardently as you can possibly have done. I asserted that " the Press had given the Berkeley Parliamentary Monopoly its death blow." And upon this, your brief and unwarranted com ment is in these words :—" Monopoly !' and death-blow!' both the one and the other are creations of our injurious Contemporary." As I take the epithet to be an acknow ledgment that the Cheltenham Journal has been "injurious" to tic Monopoly, I accept it as a compliment, however it was designed. But now for the charge of MONOPOLY. When I have stated to you a few facts, which I defy the Berkeley party to refute, I think you will acknowledge that the " monopoly" was no mere " creation" of a prejuliced mind, but a much-called for exposure of an unconstitutional practice, which every sincere Reformer must in his heart condemn, and you will likewise, I trust, admit that the charge is but too well founded. On the re-election of the lion. Craven Berkeley for this borough, in January 1835, the Reformers of this consti tuency invited him and Lord Segrave to a public dinner, at which his Lordship, in the course'of a long speech addressed to the electors, made a voluntary admission, or rather a boast, which, however extraordinary it must be considered as coming from a Peer of the realm, under any circum stances, was most extraordinary front the lips of a Whig Peer ; a nobleman, too, who had been raised to the Peer age for the express purpose of assisting the Reform Minis try in carrying that very Reform Bill, the main object of which was to do away with the undue and unconstitutional interference and influence of Peers in the election of Com moners. Lord Segrave, then, was reported by the Chel tenham Chronicle (a paper conducted on Reform princi ples) to have said that " to give effect to the Reform Bill, HE had paid the c.rpcnscs q f THREE contested elections, amounting to ?lima, ds FIFTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS!! r And these " three elections" was understood to he con tests in which he had brought forward his owil brothers. Now, Sir, is this undue and unconstitutional interference of a Peer of the realm in the election of Commoners ?—or is it not ? In the last Parliament, Lord Segrave, at such an expense, succeeded in placing THREE of his br3thers in the House of Commons, viz.—the Hon. G. Berkeley for the Western Division of this county ; Capt. F. Berkeley, R.N., for the city of Gloucester ; and the Hon. C. Berkeley, for Chel tenham. And now, his Lordship has brought forward another of his brothers to contest the representation of Bristol. Should he succeed (of which, at present, there does not appear the slightest probability, notwithstanding the proofs his noble brother has given of the lengths to which his interference and influence can be carried, when occasion requires), there will then be r•ivE members of the Berkeley family in Parliament—but their five votes being only just tantamount to ONE, as far as the people are con cerned in the independence of their representatives, how ever they may " tell" in a division. Is not this a mono poly of the representation? But not content even with such attempts, the partizans of Lord Segrave have, within the past week, declared that his Lordship means to start two more of his nominees to contest the representation of the two divisions of the county. Is there no monopoly in this? Or is it as justifiable in a Whig Peer as the pay ment of electioneering expenses . ; or the threat imputed in 1834 to Lord Segrave (and never yet denied) " that he would remove his fox-hounds from Cheltenham, if his bro ther Craven were not returned again !"—I am, Sir, your obedient servant, TDB EDITOR OF THE CERLTENHAM JOURNAL. P.S. I now reiterate the declaration of Monday last, which flie'unabated success of Mr. Peel's canvass up to this hour most strongly confirms :—" In Cheltenham the political domination of the Berkeley family has been shaken to the very centre." e(r xli eap e c_ The e dlnl2 wolves in the country round Vitre, i n B r itt any, are so numerous that upwards of 100 s h eep were devoured by ed the ye d in them in one week. aan d h‘d, :z uirr s nes jh s uao i rfu t e t t sed e cr e . at a ht et b : eesa r n e ns l tui rnf o aal uct a luea r rroe t i fr fi t s aso atne S s, t e seha l r t gee z el e ys r sa mat ss hue ' a ab t t i do e han r h last year a bottle burst in his hand and wounded him severely in the wrist.—Paris Paper. A Jew butcher, of Lille, has just been brought be fore the correctional police, on a charge of having in his pos session an unlawful weapon. The prohibited article in ques tion is a long and very sharp Damascus knife, with which he slaughtered the beasts for the use of his Israelitish brethren, their religion preventing them from eating any meat not killed by a person authorised by the grand rabbi. The tribunal con demned the butcher to a fine of 16f., and confiscated the knife. —French Paper. • It is not, we believe, generally known to the lovers of angling that the East and West India docks afford some most excellent sport, when, like all other fishing, the fish are found to be in good humour to bite. It is true that the pleas ing accompaniments of angling in the country are wanting ; no refreshing verdure or picturesque landscapes delight the eye ; and, in lieu of rural scenery, here we have forests of tall masts,' and the stately forms of shipping from the moat distant parts of the globe. The fish taken in the docks are perch, roach, bream, dace, and eels. Admission to the docks for angling is private; but tickets are to be obtained through the directors or dock-masters. When the water is very high the fishing is bad, as a quantity of fresh food is thereby let into the dock; but this is chiefly applicable to the perch fishing. In an undertaker's shop window in Holborn, ap pears the following placard : —" John Wilson, undertaker and 7 ppraiscr.—N.B. Funerals performed, and diqresses made, in town and country." The country people, we fancy, would rather dispense with his services. Our Sanquhar correspondent apprises us of the distressing fact that two young men lost their lives at Lead hills, on Thursday last, by the rushing in upon them of a part of the mines. The names of the sufferers, or any other parti culars connected with a calamity which must have carried mourning into one of the most praiseworthy communities with which we are acquainted, have not yet reached us.--Dunyi . ies Courier. BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS ST. PRTERSBURGH, JULY 8. —His Excellency Count Orlow, Adjutant-General to his Majesty,Oeft this city to-day on board the steam-boats for Lubeck. We hear that he is commis sioned to congratulate Queen Victoria on her accession to the throne, and to deliver to her the riband of the Order of St. Catherine. General Mansurow, it is said, will go to Hano ver to convey to King Ernest Augustus the congratulations of the Emperor on his accession to the throne. Count Orlow has already arrived at Hamburg, and will embark to-morrow ( Saturday) on board the steam. boat for London.—Hamburg Correspondent, July 14. WARSAW, JULY 7.—The cholera hospitals are again fitted for the reception of patients suffering under that disorder. General Rozmiezki, Member of the Council of State, is gone to St. Petersburg. HAMBURG, JULY 14.—Tho captains of ships who arrived at Archangel in the middle of June, say that there is much ice in the White Sea, which is reported to have done much da mage. The English ship Nary, Captain Brown, brought to Archangel the crew of theship Se o li a , C apta i n D . Wingate, which was lost off Suraotuinas, and ;it is feared that several other ships are in danger of a similar fete. HANOVER, JULY 14.—His Majesty the King of Hano ver has given the Grand Cross of the Guelphic Order to Sir Joseph Planta, member of the Privy Council of h er M a j esty the Queen of Great Britain, the cross of Commander to Ma jor -General Von Lepel, in the service of the Elector of Hesse, and the Knight's Cross to Lieut. Gordon, of the British navy, and to Captain Von Egloppstein, Chamberlain to the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. HANOVER, JULY I.s.—Just now, at a quarter past two o'clock in the afternoon, her Majesty the Queen and his Royal High ness the Crown Prince, have entered the city amidst the firing of the cannon, and the acclamations of the inhabitants. A detachment of the body guard opened the' procession; then followed his Majesty the King, on horseback, who had gone yesterday to Derneberg to meet hit august - consort. Several aides-de-camp and staff officers accompanied:his Majesty. Next came her Majesty and the Crown Prince, in an open car riage, with her Majesty's suite. The burgher guard was posted on both sides of the triumphal car. Her Majesty was received by the magistrates, and addressed by M. 'Zeman!), the Burgomaster. Her Majesty proceeded to the Royal Pa lace of Herremhausen, half a league from Hanover, where she will reside for the present. The city will be illuminated this evening. We hear that the Duchess of Cambridge will leave this city early to-morrow morning for Rumpenheim. The Duke of Cambridge, after taking the waters at Wiesbaden, where he is expected by the 21st, will go from that place to Rumpenheim, as well as Prince George, who is expected from London in about a fortnight. FRANKFORT, JULY 12.—We hear that the Duke of Cam bridge leaves Rumpenheim this morning for Kissingen, whither several distinguished visitors have resorted this season. His Royal Highness's stay at Kissinger will probably be short, as he is expected back at Rumpenjaeim next week, and will then go to Weisbaden. BRUSSELS, 19.—Average prices of Wheat and Rye in the second week of July :—Wheat, 17f. 16c., Rye, 1 lf. 79c. per Hectolitre : Import duies, 37f. 50c., and 21f. 50c. per thousand Kilogrammes respectively. The Marquis of Sligo and family arrived at Antwerp on the 17th onboard the Princess Victoria steam-boat, which brought 70 passengers and 18 carriages. Pb c IndependentLpositively contradicts the sta'ernents of some Paris Journal,iof a clandestine visit of King Leopold to England, and announces that his Majesty will leave Paris on the 20th to return to Brussels. BELGIAN k UNDS—Bmissms JuLti 19 Actual Debt 234 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. III% Loan of Thirty Millions 92.4 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. 99 hi Society of Commerce, 45,i per Cent. IISX, Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent - 1;8)% 1 —Brussels Papers, July 20. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--VIENNA; JON 11. Five per Cents. Mstalliques Fear per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 137 —Allgemeine Zeitung, July 16. HA NIBURU BORSEN HALLE, Just 18. hills. Money. Austrian Meta Piques, 5 per cent. Ditto ditto 4 per cent Dirt_ ditto 3 per cent. Ditto Bank Shares 1357 MI Anglo-Russian Loan 1034 3.5% Paper Inscription, 6 per cent Russian 5 per cents. Metal Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto, Certificates Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto, 3 per cent. 27 Dutch .4 2 per Cents. 521 52 Ditto 5 per Cents — Polish Bonds, 3 per cents. New Tickers 151% . 151 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per scuts 70% 70 Norwegian Loan of 1%4, 1 pi..r cents Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cent. Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent l'o Greek 4 per cents. 1633, guaranteed by France 93 92 1 ,( EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, JULY 18. —l3 11% ; two months, 13 9% CHIUKTIANI4. JULY 8 —Three months, 5 4 Berturr. JULY 15.—I'llrce m•n' hs, 6.2:%. STocatimm, JULY 11.—Two months, 12 i 4. —Hamburg Papers, July 18. 1110% 100 THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. (Posted at the North and South American Coffee-house.) FALMOUTII, JULY 19.—The Briseis has just arrived from Mexico, twenty-six days from Havannah—freight 300,000 dollars, on merchants account ; six passengers; all well. Our arrivals this morning being very few, there is a great dearth of information in the City, up to the present hour. Tfiß FUNDS This being settling day in the British Funds, the chief busi ness doing is settling the Account. The extreme fluctuation during the Account has been about two per cent.,_ which is not of that magnitude to cause any failure, and there is no doubt that it will go off well. _ _ _ Consols, which - closed yeste. day at 921 a for the Account, opened at the same price this morning ; Money, 91 to k. Ex chequer Bills, 45 47 p,rem. ; India Bonds, 45 47 ; Bank Stock, 208 209 ; India Stock, 256 257. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which closed at 191, have been done at 20 201 ; Portuguese, 391 401 ; Spa nish Passive, 44 5 ; Deferred, 71 i ; Dutch, 524 s ; Co lombian, 244. The weekly meeting of the Bank Directors, which took place yesterday, passed over as usual with their regular 'nisi ness. It is stated that the Bank discounted freely; in conse quence of which, money is more easy than for several days past. We do not perceive much bustle in the city for the approach ing election for the City Member. This day a meeting takes place, and it is generally thought that the former representa tives will be re-elected. HALF-PAST ONE. It is now positively stated that the courier who left Paris on the 11th inst. for Madrid, took with him the contract signed at Paris, of the New Spanish 4oart, which has been for some time past in negotiation in the above capital ; and in connection with this subject we can add, from good authority, that the commercial treaty between England and Spain is ac tually completed, by which British cottons will be admitted into Spain on a moderate duty. A large sale of East India and other cottons are now goirg on very brisk ; about ten thousand bales will be offered to tie trade. The settling of the account is going off well, which proves to be a bear account. They are short of money stock. Con sols, which were in the course of the morning at 92} reached 924; must be quoted at present 911 ex-dividend ; money, 91 ; Exchequer Bills improved, 46 48 premium ; .India Bonds, 48 46 ; Bank Stock, 208 k. In the Foreign Market there is an improvement since the morning •in Spanish Active, which may be quoted at 201 1, owing to the prevailing opinion that Don Carlos will not be able to take Valencia; also that the Spanish Government have succeeded in the contract for a new loan. Portuguese, 40k; Dutch Two.and•a-Ilalf per Cents., 521 ; Colombian, 24 ; Brazilian, 84. It is reported that Mr. Horsley Palmer will have a majority against him of 1,400. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. • Consols for the Account, 91k. • The copious showers that have this week fallen in many parts have put quite a different appearance on vegetation, and we believe they arc not come too late to improve the oats and barley very much; the wheat scarcely wanted it, but yet it will assist in filling the car. The turnips were growing better than could have been expected befure the rain came, and we see several pieces now quite safe from the fly. Peas are getting ripe in many situations, and the fallow in the Weald will now work well ;- though we hope we may soon have to report more rain, fur in this county we have not had sufficient.—Brighton Gazette. About daybreak on Monday morning, the post gig, with the Glasgow mail bag for Lanark, after leaving Airdrie, had to pass through a mob of colliers, by which it was at tacked and grievously maltreated. While some stopped and held the horse, others cut part of the harness and overturned the gig. The post-boy, with an acquaintance seated beside him, were severely bruised by the fall, and the mail bags scat tered on the road. The horse then furiously set off, dragging the vehicle or, its side, while the post-boy's dog gave instant battle to the colliers, and after tearing some of them, put them all to flight. There seemed to have been no intention of rob bery--the att ac k b e i ng mere l y an act o f r i otous m ischief. A statement of the circumstances was immediately despatched to the Postmaster General in Edinburgh.—Scots Times Yesterday morning, a lad named Hugh Logg a habit and repute housebreaker and thief, was apprehended by a policeman at Fountainbridge, with a number of articles of male and female wearing apparel, which it is suspected he must have recently stolen. One of the linen shirts is marked " J. Rodger."—Scotsman. POLITICAL BANKS.—There can be no reason w h y the cashier of a bublic bank should not take a part in political contests like any other public individual ; but what shall we say of such a person sending directions to the agents of that bank in country towns, to canvass or recruit for votes to a candi date ?—no matter whether that candidate is Whig or Tory. What is this, but perverting a commercial establishment into a political engine, abusing its influence, bringing odium upon it, and sacrificing the interest of the shareholders to the private partialities of their servant? We are not describing an ima ginary case. —Scotsman All the Tories have been most properly omitted in the re appointments of the Lords in Waiting. The Earl of Surrey will be the Treasurer of the Household, and among the new Equerries are Ccl. Grey, Lord Alfred Paget, and Col, Buckley, son-in-law of the Earl of Radnor. IRELAND. DUBLIN, JULY 19. The Pilot of this day states positively that Mr. R. Hutton will stand for the city on the Liberal interest, and that of his return, by an immense majority, not the slightest doubt exists. Our patriotic contemporary, in congratulating his fellow citizens on the selection of so excellent a candidate, says : " Mr. R. Hutton is a Protestant in religion, and a Liberal in politics. His liberality is not of a recent date. * * A partner in one of the longest established and most respecta ble of the mercantile concerns of the metropolis—he is highly qualified to represent the commercial interests of his native city, and it would not be possible to find a man more likely to conciliate the good will of all classes and parties." iNir. O'Connell is the second candidate. The Freeman inclines to the belief that after all there will be no contest. THE FRANCHISE.—It is impossible to overrate the import ance of the decision to 'which we alluded yesterday. Byron Richards, recent exposition, at the Assizes of Sligo, of the in tention of the Reform Act, respecting the' JO/ franchise, will be attended with the happiest results on the elections. Two issues were put to the Jury. The first, es to whether the claimant had a beneficial interest to the amount of 10/., according to the liberal construction of thr Act; the second was, whether a solvent tenant could afford to pay 10/. a year in addition to the rent. On the - first the jury found in the affirmative, on the latter in the negative. At the King's County Assizes yesterday the individuals charged with the murder of Hogan ( Phil Ry;:n's assistant at the Dunkerrin affair) were put upon their trial and acquitted. They, with others, will he again arraigned for a riot and assault. GENERAL ASSOCIATION.—At the meeting of this body ycF terday Mr. O'Connell read the following Address to the Queen:— " TO TILE QUEEN'S MOST EXCEI.LENT MAJESTY. " We, the undersigned electors and other inhabitants of the city of Dublin, beg leave to approach your Alajesty with the tender of our most dutiful and unalterable allegiance to your Majesty's person and Government. 1(;ok forward with confidence to the cheering prospect which lies before us of a long reign of prosperity to all parts of the empire, and of happiness and glory to our revered So vereign. " But that prosperity can never reach your Majesty's most faithful and dutiful sajects, the people of Ireland, and that happiness must be interrupted, and the lustre of that glory dimmed, unless the efforts of a powerful, long-cherished, but most malignant faction to continue a system of oppression, partiality, and injustice in Ireland be effectually counteracted and ended. " All that your faithful people of Ireland ask for and de sire is a system of equal laws, privileges, and political institu tions with the rest of the British empire ; they wish for no more, and they would not deserve your Majesty's gracious protection if they could be content with less. They have ever been amongst the foremost in every battle and 'in every struggle against the foreign and domestic enemies of the throne and Constitution. But w hil s t th e i r exertions have been recognized, and their services admitted by all the wise and the just, they are still deprived of many of the most va luable rights, privileges, and franchises enjoyed by their brethren and fellow-subjects in England and in Scotland, and they are daily oppressed and made the victims of a ruth less and too often sanguinary faction. " We respectfully solicit your gracious Ma;esty to under rand that the univers a l p eo pl e of Ireland turn with hope to the throne which .you now so happily occupy ; they look with just expectation to that Government which is honoured with your confidence, and they anticipate from your sway the diffusion over all parts of your dominions of equal laws, rights, and liberts. In this conviction they have determined to bring to the attention of your Majesty all just cans.. cf complaint that have arisen since your Majesty's accessi.m to the throne, or that may hereafter ar:se tl rough the ma:hinations of the ma ligtaant faction which they have such ample grounds to im. peach. _• " They beg most respectfully to state that since your ac cession to the throne two facts have occurred most afflictive to the people of Ireland, but at the same time highly significant of the disposition and attentions of the faction inimical to that people. The one fact is of a civil, the other of a criminal nature. " The first fact relates to a Bill brought into the House of Commons to remedy an admitted evil. It is this :—lt has been found by experience that the Irish Reform Bill did not provide for a sufficient number of polling-places to allow all the electors to vote. The Bill did no more than empower the sherdrs to provide a sufficient number of polling-places for the electors. " This Bill, in this form, was passed by an unanimous vote of the House of Commons. " The faction of which we complain caused this bill to be rejected by a large majority in the House of Lords. " The bill did one act of justice to the people of Ireland ; it was, may it please your Majesty to understand, rejected on that account through the machinations of the faction of which we complain. " The second fact is as simple as it is heart-rending in its details. " On the evening of the 28th of June, the eve of the festival of Cie holy apostles St. Peter and St. Paul—it was a lovely evening—and some Catholic children had, at a place called Mollyash, in the county of Monaghan, lighted a bonfire, ac cording to an ancient and innocent practice. '• 1 hey were, most gracious lady,—the children were in their cheerful gaiety, sporting inoffensively and innocently round the lire, when, as the dusk covered the approach of the assassins, a shot was heard, and, behold ! one of the children— his name was Devine—fell dead ; a second shot, and the brother of the slain lay murdered at his side; a third shot but we have stated details more than suffif7ient. " Besides the wcunded, the mother of the Devines, aho sent out her children healthy and merry to play, had them laid on the hearthstone bloody and stiffended corpses. If she be not mad, it is not that she expects justice from man— for the faction is po►verful in that county—but she does, we hope, feel the mercy of that God who, sooner or later, punishes the shedders of human blood, and always affords the consolation of divine mercy to the desolate and to the broken-hearted. " Never, in the savage wilds of North America, was a more foul murder done by the uncivilized Indians. Never, by the barbarous Caffres, was the blood of innocent children so cru elly, so wantonly, so diabolically shed. " All that we implore, most gracious Sovereign—all that we humbly and most respectfully implore of your Majesty—is to protect your mcst faithful and dutiful people of Ireland and their children from the machinations of that faction whose in fluence procured the noon-day . irjustice in the House of Lords, anti the evening slaughter of your juvenile subjects in the county of Monaghan. ‘• Let us not, gracious Sovereign, be misunderstood—we do not seek, we totally disclaim seeking, that you should in terfere with the decision of the House of Lords. All that we humbly desire is, that you will be pleased, everywhere, and in everything, to discourage and discountenance a faction whose minions are capable of perpetrating the plainest in justice and the most terrific crimes. " So may your gracious Majesty exceed in length of reign any of your royal predecessors; and may that reign behold the increasing prosperity and ever-secured freedom of all the people of yeur dominions, and the always accumulating hap piness and glory of your royal person and throne—the un doubted Sovereign, as you are, of the first nation on the fact of the earth." The inimitable John Reeve is, we regret to an nounce, on a sick-bed, having unfortunately, on Wednesday morning laSt, at five o'clock, burst a blood-vessel. During the whole of that day he was considered in great danger, and attended by three medical gentlemen ; but, from inquiries made yesterday evening, "the immortal John" is considered much better, although it is feared that it will be long ere ho will again resume his professional duties. The circumstance has occasioned a considerable sensation in the theatrical world. Mr. W. Smith has kindly undertaken to perform the parts at the Surrey Theatre lately sustained by the invalid. AT TORQUAY, IN SOUTH DEVON.—This de lightful watering-place is progressing very fast in public fa vour, and is now full of the best society. It is only during the few last years that the public have appreciated its various attributes—the society who pass the summer there are of a different character to those who sojourn during the winter, and it is doubtful if the latter do not preponderate both in quality and quantity. The south of France is now accounted a work of supererogation for those who labour under complaints of the chest. The climate is so mild that orange trees and all tender plants live triumphantly, through frost and snow, without the auxiliary of a conservatory to protect them. The little village of Babbicombe, within a short distance, claims from its romantic situation, to be preferred even to Torquay; in England it cannot be surpassed. We will quote only a few lines, in token of some of its leading features, from the pen of Mr. Robins, who has the control of one of its most imposing features next month : We believe we do not exaggerate in stating that nothing more recherche in the shape of a vill a can be fouu.d in Devon. It is called Beech Cottage,' and is situate in the romantic village of 13abbicombe, a.spot which even those accustomed to the varied loveliness of this beautiful county, universally admit to be the Garden of South Devon ; it is completely embedded in its own wild luxuriant grounds of about six acres; it stands in need of no auxiliary beauties, for nature hath most liberally gifted it ; it is inaccessible to the sight, save only from the sea, upon which it peeps, and obtains a view of the limpid bay of Babbicounbe, which has been with great t rut h and j ust i ce likened to theßay of Na ples ;' it may, indeed, be safely asserted, that no spot through out the world can surpass the sweetness and salubrity of situa tion in which this delightful little retratt has been placed." WESTMINSTER ELECTION.—TIic returns to the Committees of General Evans and Mr. Leader, up to yester day, were very favourable, so far as the electors have been can vassed. In St. James's they have a majority of GO in their favour; in St. Martin's parish, 60 ; iu Covent-garden, 50; St. Ann's, Soho, 80 ; St. Clement Danes, 30. In St. George's, Hanover-square, Sir Francis Burdett had Lis chief support, but his majority there, so far as relates to the present Tory candidat e , i s re d uce d t o a mere cypher. Sir George Murray chiefly relies fur support on St. George's and St. James's. The contest will be sharp, but the Reformers arc confident of obtaining a victory. The canvassers fJr Sir George Murray very kindly place the doubtful, and those electors who will not promise, to bi 3 account. Sir Thomas Lethbridge, who was charged with presenting the address from the county of Somerset, arrive I too late is London for the levee on Wednesday, and etiquette forbidding its being presented at the drawing-teem on Thurs day, the lion. Baronet carried the same to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who will lay it before her Majesty. .