The Sun. — London, England, 1837-07-29 00:00:00

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ;Bank Stock. •3 ;per p lent. Re,:,.. 9'2% i Ditto Eonels ent. C,4ris 91%%% } South Sea Stock — .24.; per Cer r OM Annnitics Ditto ••••• `-"••• ••• *********** — .7 - . ° Pd. 99.4 100 99f4, New Ditto — liv,?..v 11 . ..."..-.... ' 1.., " e P , ' Cent . .. 99%%%% Spec Cent. Annuities, 1751 — ew , ' ' J per Cent — 1 Exch. Bills, £l,OO O ****** .. 49 51 pm. iSa' rt Le ugAanuitlestoexpire 'Ditto ' , 00......... 49 51 pm. 4 : 4,, . 5, 1860 .....14 15-16 15 1-16 Ditto Small ' 49 51 pm. () Cr. 10. 1859 — Ditto C0mmercia1......... Pm .l7 n. 5,18 fin 14% Ditto Advertised. — —Pm =Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock for Account... ..... April 5, 1880 ........ Jan. 5, 1870 — 'Consols for Acconnt .......... 911 i 'OmMum —Pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Atigtrian Bonds. ........ .......... Belgian Bonds ..•• ...MOHO ........ '...' I 'at° Account •• ;Brazilian Bonds ........... ........ Ditto Account — Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account •••••••••••••••••• Chilli , ii Bonds ••••••••..•.....•..• Di .to Acc0unt........„ .. Co , arnhian 80nd5............. Ditto Account — Columbian 80nd5,1824. 25 Ditto Account binith 80nd5.... Ditta Account — Greek Ronda — Ditto Bonds, 1825 — 'Ditto Account — Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto Account DIV°, 6 per cent. ......•••••• Di ,to Account.....--- Net isilitan THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds ..... nu Ditto Account ........ Portuguese 80nd5.......... — Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds ........ 41 , A t !.; Ditto, 3 per cent. 26U Ditto Account ........... Prussizn Bonds Russian Bonds, Ditto Account.... Ditto Metallic ...... ....... Spanish Bonds Ditto Account ...........«.• — Ditto Bonds, Mit 21% Ditto ACCOLM t — French, 5 per ccnt.......... —f —c. --- 4 per cent. ..... ..... —f. .-..c. --- 3 per cent. —.f. _.., Exchange -...f. c --_ • Dutch , 24 , , cent.......... 52% 3k Dan' , Account Dttto, 5 "er csnt. lol%li Ditto Account DAY AT ONE O'CLCCE. Paid. Per Share 45 5344 g ;on's' 5 1% 3 1 Oh impany 15% 15 414 131,4 175,i kIiGE YESTERDAY. Gibraltar 4B Leghorn 31% Genoa '6 20 'Milan '3l Venice 47 Naples ...,...... ................. .., 38 Palermo 'er oz. 115 Lisbon 49N Oporto 49% Rio Janeiro 24% Bahia Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight l% Cork 1 1,4 PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin CO 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons New Silrer, bars. standard 4 11,3,, PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JULY 27. 3 per Cent. Consols 91% Grand Canal Dei.s. P per cent. PS Ditto Reduced — i Ditto, 4 per cent — 31 per Cent. Stock PB% Hibernian Bank Ditto New, IMO US? , ,, ICity of Dublin Steam Co. 10214 N per Cent. Debentures 91% i National Insurance Co Bank Stock 197% ICity Debentures, 4 per cent... 11 °Yr.1 Canal Stock. Grand Canal Stock 1 i per cent — MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due.l Arrived. Due 2 America 0 1 France ...... ..... 0 0 Listom I “" i1razi1............ 0 0 Guern. &Jersey 0 0 Malta U lluenosAyres.. 0 0 Hamburg ...... .. 0 0 Mexico 0 to Carthagena...... 0 0 Holland 0 0 Ostend.. ..... .... 0 'I Dub1in......... 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden .. U 0 ........ Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0 —____ . HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Morning TOMORROW. "8 minutes atter 0. f Evening 58 minutes after 0 —____ THE AUGUST NUMBER OF COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMOURIST, EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, Esq. Contains, among other Articles by Distinguished Writers : The Gurney Papers. By the The Phantom Ship. By Captain Editor. Marryat. Coafessions of Ralph Restless. The Shovel Hat. By Benson By Captain Marryat. Hill , E sq . Lunacy in France. Najrau and Shircen. By Al- Charity. By the Author of fred Crowquill. " Paul Pry." Recollections of a Mailleraie. Perditus Mutton. By Douglas By Captain Byng Hall. Jerrold, Esq. The Poetry of Early Rising. By Human Zoology—Dogs. the Author of " Glances at Note from a Gentleman who Life." could not help it. By Lantan Improvising to Order. Blanchard, Esq. Visit to a Salt Mine. Ta}.e your Politics hence. By I Memoir of Her Majesty, &c. Haynes Bayly, Esq. ', A ,' The Portrait of her Majel present Number is unavoidably Di to enable the Engraver to do full Henri Colburn, Publisher, sty intended to be given in the referred till Next Month, in order justice to it. 3, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW COMIC PERIODICAL WORK, EDITED BY " ," AN D ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, The August Number (embellished with two 1 - lumourous Illustra tions by George Cruikshank,) of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. Will contain : Song of the Mt nAthm"g other intere.iting article!), 1 llajii Babe's Last Visit to Oliver Tveist,o. IN .- ,b "Boz" ' En land, by llgalltust rated by G. drnikstt, k \ " ZOhrab." the Author of What though we Nv .‘ lri .1 Yore, by Ha ere Rivals of A Chaunt for the Temperance Love. in the City,Yncbmvi3tai!ilYA. tSocieties. of " Stories - 't utuorThe Portrait Callery (No. 111. ), les of Waterloo." Three Notehes from the Devil's Hive." by the author of " The Bee Tale. Song o the Old Bell, by J. A. A C hapter on Laughing. So Why the Wind Blows g Round St. ound St. Nights at Sea (No. 'IV.), by Paul's, by Joyce Jocund. " The Old Sai!or." Midnight lilishaps, by Edward Rather Hard to Take, by Charles Mayhew (illustrated by Geo. 'Whitehead. Cruikshank ) P atty, M organ, the Milkmaid's The Dream. Story, by Thos. Ingoldsby. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.. Orders received by all Bookseller 3. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at minutes past Three o' Clock. -- 7 - ;. - r , -- ~PH'' ~ )=. tr,-- 1 .- - ,, J.;o.' -,--.7\- ---I—l'. -- ". w-.:.% (4(1-1 Ail - z c c , ..,.' ,--41 At. ' - 4-: -/,- 1 4.t. 7% - - , , 14 'AI- i , a ,..,..-,,_, ~..,,, ~.... -,,,.......-„,.. PRICES OF SHARES THIS Great Western Railway Company.... , Brighton Railway Company (Steven: Brighton ( ennie's) 1. 0 -• , ‘" n and Birmingham Rail , ay Ct Ditto Shares Manchester and Birmingham Railwa Anti Dryrnt Company COURSE OF EXCH Amsterdam . ... bittn. at sight Bott..rdam • 2U l2 6% Antwerp.... l2 6 Hart .urg. ...... ........ M.B. 13 15 Altona...„ Par , , 3 days' sight 25 65 Ditto— .... ............ 3M525 95 Marseillef. 26 20 Bourdeaux. Frankfort ott Maine, Ex.M 154 Pctersbingh, ruble 3 Us. 10 Berlin Vienna, effective 11 2M.10 19 Trieste ditto lO 21. Made d 33 , 4 Cadi a.... 34% Bil'Joa ..... ... 34 Barcelona Seville ...... ........„.. he ri+ LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1837. We have this day to add the large and influential , towns of Leeds and Sheffield—not to mention others of less note—to the list of those constituencies in which the principles of Reform have gained a signal triumph. In the former of these boroughs, Sir WIL LIAM MOLESWORTH, one of the sturdiest Reformers r the kingdom, has ousted Sir JOHN BECKETT, a ha ck -bone Tory ; and in the latter, Mr. WARD, ano thPr unc om p rom i s i ng R e f ormer , h as defeated Mr. „r p r "uNLEy, the pious gentleman who prefers the I Yer•book to the Bible, and who was put forward by -de CI ‘-uurch-and-State people on this religious prin c'Ple• This happy result has been brought about, in a good measure, by the Wesleyan Methodists having g i voU their support to Mr. WARD on constititutional grounds, rather than to a Tory, though a member of their own body. Such conduct is highly honourable to the Wcsleyans. At Manchester, too, the Tories have, we are 'happy to state, been visited with exemplary discom fiture, for their impudence in bringing forward a GL A 13-. STONE. That gentleman, at the close of the poll, was nearly 1,900 behind Mr. POULETT HOMSON, and 1,500 behind Mr. PHILIPPS This is the pro per reward of such presumption. In Scotland, it will be seen, the elections have hitherto, without exception, been in favour of Reform, notwithstanding the vapouringe of the Tories about reaction, and about the irresistible strength of the oppo sition which had been organised against the QUEEN'S Government, and notwithstanding also a most dis creditable interference on the part of some of the fanatical clergy. We sincerely hope that the other Scotch boroughs will follow the admirable example set by Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leith, Stirling, Haddington, Linlithgow, Kirkaldy, and Elgin ; and that the counties will not be behind-hand in giving their most energetic support to the great cause which is now at issue—the cause of freedom and constitu tional Reform. Scotland has made a noble com mencement—let her follow it up with her charac teristic resolution. With respect to the boroughs, we are sorry to say that we have received complaints frot h several quarters of want of energy on the part of the Liberals and that this—whether arising from inso lence or apathy is a matter of little importance—has lost some elections which might have been carried had a little more zeal been manifested. This conduct is much to be lamented, and will, we hope and trust, act as a warning to those who are about to exercise the elect i ve franchi se in the counties. The Reform interest has, rn spite o f t h e most unnreeedented obstacles oppose d to it, ga i ned considerably in the towns ; but it is in the counties that th e greatest strugg l e i s to b e expec t e d. It is th ere t h at the power of the Tory Aristocracy is most felt —it is there that intimidation appears in its must ' f r;glaful form • and it thcre;uce that t h e Reformer's must be prepared to call into action every faculty they can command, to resist and repel the power that will he exerted to put them down. The elections for Middlesex and East Surrey come on early in the next week. Let the electors of these counties set such an example as may be held up to the imitation of the rest of England. In Middle sex this is particularly desirable, for the Tories are making it a matter of life or death to exclude Mr. HuME. We have received accounts from all parts of the country, describing the infamous acts of bribery and intimidation to which the Tories, in the extremity of their desperation, have lately had recourse. At Staf ford—at Hull—at Christchurch—and a hundred other places that we could mention—they have been tam pering with the freedom of election in the most barefaced manner. At the last town, in particu lar, they have been putting in force the system of exclusive dealing, encouraged thereto by a cer tain officious member of the Church of England, who—as our correspondent assures us—not content with " writing scurrilous bills," actually drove over to Southampton " on Sunday, to engage a stage-coach for voters!" We have our eye on this man; we know his name; and shall take care not to lose sight of him. What right has a Christian Minister to be scouring the country for political purposes on the Sabbath, when he should be expounding religious truths from the pulpit ? To be stirring up strife and discord among his flock, when he should be exhorting them to peace and good fellow ship ? Let the man look to it, for he may rely on it his disgraceful conduct shall be thoroughly sifted and exposed. However" out of evil springeth good," and the recent conduct of the Tories and their clerical partizans willgive an impetus to the question of theßallot, greater than any it has yet had. They are furnishing us with arguments in its favour by wholesale. They arc making converts in its favour by wholesale ; and when it is carried—as carried it will be ere long—they will have the satisfaction that they have been its most unan swerable advocates. The whole of the Paris Journals of Thursday have come to hand. The Government had received the fol lowing important telegraphic dispatches from Spain : " Narbonne, July 26, Half-past Four o'clock, p.m. " Oraa, on the 15th, published a bulletin of his victory at Bunol. The band of Frayle was defeated on the 16th near Gatara, and lost some booty. Scrrador has raised the siege of Castillo. On the 18th there were 165 Carlist prisoners and 600 wounded Christino3 at Valencia. Money was scarce in that city. It is believed at Barcelona that the Pretender is marching upon Madrid." " Bourdeaux, July 26. " After the affair of the 15th the Pretender made a precipi. ate retreat by Chelva, Abiguela, and Mangancro, to Sarrion, where he arrived on the 19th. On the 20th he set out again for the Sierra of Linares, in the direction of Mesqueruela. Oraa was in pursuit of the enemy. On the 16th he was at Chalilla. He announces that in the affair of the 15th the loss of Don Carlos was much more important than was at first supposed. The Minister Erro is among the number of the wounded. " It is probable that the Carlist expediticin will direct all their efforts to repass the Ebro,in which they will be protected by the bands that have remained in Lower Arragon." The Carlist expedition has failed most completely. Not a city, town, village, or hamlet has declared for Don CA ItLOS since lie crossed the Ebro, and should he fail escaping back to the Thsques his cause will he utterly ruined. General ORAA has published a second bulletin o f hi s victory of the 15th, in which he states that in his account of the preceding day he greatly underrated the loss sustained by the Carlists. He affirms that the moral force of the Carlists is com- pletely destroyed, whole columns of the enemy having passed over to theQuEEN's ranks. Forty-five waggons of provisions and military stores fell into the hands of the QUEEN'S troops. There is no domestic news of any moment in the Paris Papers of Thursday. The fetes had commenced, but the chief a musements were reserved for Friday and Saturday. The following are extracts from the Journals : Two letters which we have received to day from Bayonne and Pampeluna (rive us some information respecting the bands which has craned the Ebro, near Miranda, under the com mand of Zariateguy. This chief, to raise the spirits of his men, and to induce them to follow him, has thought proper to anncunco to them that he was leading them to Madrid, to he present at the trim - ill - Thal entry of Don Carlos into that capital. The fact is, that the band of Zariateguy, though consistina of 6,000 or 7,000 men, is only fit to appear at a di:tance in a procession. Without artillery or ammunition, or any kind of or ganization, it is incapable cf attempting any thing serious ; it has not even the resources which would be necessary to enable it to join the Pretender on the road to Madrid, if indeed the latter should be suffered to continue his march in that direction. It is thought Zariateguy only wanted to divert the attention of the Queen's Generals, and oblige them to in. terrupt their proceedings against Estella, to go in pursuit of him ; and that when he had succeeded in this, he could return into the Biscayan provinces, which ho has left destitute of Carlist troops. But that plan will not succeed ; for the Vice roy of Navarre, without troubling himself about these de monstrations beyond the Ebro, has left to Escalera, and the Portuguese General Das Antes, the care of pursuing the new expedition, which must evidently terminate, like that of Uranga, towards the Asturias, and is not calcu lated to effect the slightest deviation in the line of march of Espartero ; so that the uneasiness expressed its some journals, has no foundation whatever. Our two corre spondents do not agree respecting the place where the Pretender is. He at Bayonne says that Don Carlos was on the 19th at Camporrobos, some 'leagues from Cuenca, into which the rearg,nard of Espartero had already entered. Our correspondent at Pampeluna says that he had received from Saragossa news that the Pretender was marching , to wards Solimente, on learning that Cuenca was occupied by the Queen's troops : so that, if this be true, he will be now proceeding towards the kingdom of Murcia. What is certain is, that the rout of the Carlists at Chive was complete, and that the country of Ilene has since been bringing in prisoners every day.— Constitutionnel. The accounts from Arenenberg represent the ex-Queen of Holland as still struggling against the complaint which is un dermining her constitution. She has frequent conferences with her chaplain, and shows a reliance in the relic she received from Napoleon, and which is known as the talisman of Char lemagne, of which the following is a brief history : —When the tomb of this great Emperor. at Aix la-Chapelle, was opened, his bones were found enveloped in Roman vestments ; his double crown of France and Germany was on his fleshless brow ; and his pilgrim's wallet was by his side, as well as his good sword, Joyeusc, with which, according to the Monk of St. Denis, lie clove in two a knight clothed in complete armour. His feet rested on a buckler of solid gold, given to him by Popo Leo, and round his neck was suspended the talisman, which rendered him victorious, and which was formed of a piece of the true cross, sent to him by the Empress Irene. It .vas enclosed in en emerald attached to a large chain of golden links. The burghers of Aix-la-Chapelle presented it to Na poleon in 1811, when he entered that town. One day in playful mood he threw it over the neck of Queen Hortense, declaring that he wore it on his breast at the battles of Auster litz and Wagram, as Charlemagne had worn it fur nine years. From that day the precious relic has never been separated from the Duchess de St. Leu.--Monde. FRENCH FU NITS —Pa Kw. JULY t.'7. Five per Cent,. I Ifif 5c t 10f. UK sc. Four and a Half per Cents. 102 f. s'2c. Four per Cents., 101 f. three per Cents., 70f. 79f. Ire. Bank Actions, 2,390 f. 2,395 f itente de Naples, 96f. 25e. Ire. 35e. 50c. 6Cc. 70c. Roman Five per Cents., 10l 6. Spanish Actives, 223 . , 23 % 1 A• Spanish Passives. 5% 1 4. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents. 10231,. Belgian Bank, 1,410 f. 1,417 f. arc. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, tSS, 26 , 4%. EXCHANGE. ON I.osrion. One month, paper, 25c. 40c. • money, —l. —c Three months, paper, 25f. 22 4c. ; money, 25f. 22%c —fours Autkentiaue. LAST PRICES. Eve per Cents., 110 f. 20c. Three per Cents. 79f. 25c. Bank Actions, 2,395 f. Roman Five per Cents., 1011¢. Belgian Loan, 10214. Belgian Bank, 1,417 f. 50c. Portuguese Three per Cents., '2611. Spanish Actives, 23 1 ,4. Spanish Passives ski. Spanish Differes, 71,4. By the Braganza steamer, which arrived at Fal mouth on Thursday, we have received adviccs from Lisbon to the 24th instant. Tranquillity was not then restored, though the Ministers were doing all in their power to put down the insurgents. At their earnest entreaty the QUEEN had published the an nexed proclamation, which is so cautiously Worded that we cannot tell what to make of it : " PROCLAMATION. " Portuguese I It is with grief that I see disturbed the re pose and happiness of my beloved people : the scourge of civil war again thr ea t ens t h e country. S uper i or to th e hatred and passion's of pa r ti es , who improperly make use of my name against the national cause, I perceive in concord and reconci liation alone the means of preserving the country from the pre cipice which is opening before us. Portuguese l I call you to concord end reconciliation, in order not to be obliged to pr 0..,•. ..,•. :•• order and tranquillity, without which no people will i!. happy. " THE QUEEN. " Palace of Necessidades, July 21 ) 1837." GLASGOW ELECTION. (BY EXPRESS.) The citizens of Glasgow have on e more nlbly done their duty. The cause of pci'ce, truth, and liberality have triu riphed in the return of the Right Hon. Lord Wm. Bentincl: and John Dennistoun, Esq. At the close of the Poll on Thursday afternoon at four o'clock the num bers were for— Lord William Bentinck John Dennistoun Robert Monteith 2,062 James Campbell As usual, the Tories, under the hypocritical mask of religion, have used every endeavour, foul or fair, with slandering and coaxing, lying and wheedling, whiskey and gold, but all to no avail ; their disgusting cant and beastly practices never has had, and never will have, any effect upon the intelligent and truly patriotic electors of Glas gow. Had the Reformers of Glasgow chosen to disgrace their good andholy cause by using the filthy weapons of their Bible burning. degraded opponents—had they done so, they could - have made them tell with powerful effect on some of these zealous and holy saints. There are some reminis cences connected with the history and melancholy fate of a girl of the name of Hodge, which might very properly have been brought to the memory of an Elder of the Kirk, who has taken a weighty interest in the last, as well as the present election, for the Cumberland party ; but, thanks to the goodness of their cause, the Reformers require no such aids ; they prefer holding on, in the even tenor of their way, and victory, triumphant victory, is ever their reward. What will our State Church gentry—what will the Agnews —the Colquhouns, and the whole batch of saints say of the conduct of Mr. James Canipbell (of the firm of Church-building notoriety) when we publish the fact that he addressed an imploring letter to a gentleman of the Catholic persuasion, begging him to use his in fluence to procure hint the votes of the Catholic elec tors. We have often admired the cool impudence of these " No Popery" fools ; but we could never have thought the force of impudence could go so far ; the Catholic electors properly rejected his suit ; and we have only now to say to Mr Campbell—" No sutor ultra crepidam." (mom ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.) Having repeatedly seen examples of your exertions to have early information, I have annexed the state of the Glasgow Election.. Three o'Clock. Four o'Cclock. Dennistoun Bentinck Campbell (T.) 2,090 Monteith (T) ANOTHER ACCOUNT. CLOSE OF THE POLL AT FOUR O'CLOCK. Bentinek Dennistoun Monteith Campbell .•. 2,090 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1837. LLOYD'S S HIPPING. -(THIS DAY.) DE4L, JULY 28.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the Braganza steamer, from Malaga—left 18th inst. ; Gibraltar, 18th ; Ca diz, 20th ; Lisbon, 23d ; and off Oporto, 24th. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 28.—Wind W. PLYMOUTH, JULY 27.—Wind W. N. W.—Arrived off port, the Margaret, Wood, Bermuda ; Mary Bell, Brown, Quebec. FALMOUTH, JULY 27.—Wind S. S. W. to W. N. W.—Ar rived the Elizabeth, Kelly, from Miramichi. Off port, the Marion, Pope, from Calcutta ; James Cruickshank, from St. Vincent's ; Madrid, Laur, from Havannah. BRISTOI„ JULY 28.—Arrived the Hercules, Cherry, Antigua. RUAIBLE ROADS, JULY 27.—Arrived the William Crosby, from Miramichi. LIVERPOOL, JUI,Y 27.—Arrived the Ellen, Chadwick; from Odessa ; Isla, Norrics ; Ilepsa, Watson ; end Paragon, Watt, from St. Petersburg ; Diligence, from Dantzic. Off port, the Chandos, from Demerara; Abbotsford, from New Or leans ; Lune, from Quebec. The Venus, bound to Liverpool, was on shore on Navy Island, 21 inst. The Helena, from Bahia to Ilimburg, struck on the Vogel Sands, 24th inst , and sunk ; crew saved. THE FUNDS.- 7 (THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE , O'CLOCK New Brunswick Papers to July 2, state that the Prc vindal Legislature would meet for the dispatch of business in a few days. The principal measure to be laid before the representatives, would be the Civil List Bill, which, in all probability, would pass without opposition from any quarter. The weather for some time past had been very propitious for the labourers and husbandmen, and the re ports from the various parts of the province agreed in re presenting the crop to be very encouraging. His Ex cellency Charles Fitzroy, the new Governor of Prince Edward's Island, had arrived at Charlottetown. Sir E. Head had tailed the Upper Gmada Le isiature to meet on the 19th June. It appears by the 'Toronto papers of the 7th inst., that the banks ;till paid in specie. We have seen private letters from Lisbon, stating that the whole of the garrisons had revolted, but it ail ended in nothing. The capital was perfectly tranquil. THE FUNDS. llla rD) Consols closed yesterday at 91 H both for time and motley ; opened at the same. Exchequer Bills, 48 to 51 ; India Bonds, 48 50 ; Pa k Sock, 2108 ; India do. 058. In the Foreign market Spanish Active closed 2.1-Ccx - Coupons ; with the Coupons, 224 ; opened at 2.23 owing so thir comng highcr from Paris. In PortugueseSto:k nAhins doing as sit ; nominal prices 411 ; Three poi- Cents., 251 261 ; Dutch 21- per Cents., 52;-,1 33 ; Colombian, 241-254 ; Mexican, 231 243. The news published this morning from Lisbon has not bad any effect on the Portuguese Stocks, which are 41i ; ; 1 ; Three per Cents., 24 26-1. Consols are 914. HALF-PAST ONE. During the early part of the morning Consols were 9 for the Account but on the sale of 50,000!. the market receded to 91a since which they have improved to 914 for the Account—Money, same ; Exchequer Bills, 49 51 improved ; India Bonds, 49 52 ; Bank Stock, 210,1 211 ; India Stork, 2531 259. Io the Foreign Market Spanish Active remains st ea d y at 2.2 i 1 2 1 with Coupons, and '2l a without. Up to the present hour the accounts of disturbances in Portugal have scarcely altered the price of Portuguese securities, which are 411 to 3 ; three per cents. 264 ; Spanish Coupons, 44 ; Dutch two and-a-Half par Cents. 528 53 ; Columbian, 25 Mexican, 231 24k. THREE CY CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 91 The new throne upon which her Majesty re ceived several addresses yesterday is fixed in the new Palace. It is a most magnificent piece of furniture, an d does great credit to the skill and taste of Messrs. Dowbiggi n and Co., the eminent upholsterers of Mount-street, who fur nished all the State-rooms of Buckingham-palace. 'rh o platform upon which the gorgeous chair is placed is 16 feet I;,ng by 10, and raised three steps from the floor. It is covered with crimson velvet pile carpeting, over which a canopy i s su pended 18 feet in height, decorated with the rose, thistle, a .d - shamrock, interwoven with foliage, and surmounted with a beautifully- carved crown and cushion. The drapery is com posed of the richest crimson velvet of English manufacture, lined with iutestring of the same tone. The tester is com posed of velvet pannclled with a broad oak leaf and acorn gold lace trimming, with a massive gold rope: similar decorations are used in forming the drapery of the inside valance. The valance on the outside is of a different design, and is trimmed with two rows of gold lace, and finished with a deep gold fringe. The curtains, which aro exceedingly full, are finished in a similar manner, and are looped up with a gold rope and tassels, the whole forming one of the most beautiful structures imaginable. The chair, which was not fiai,hed until a late h ur Thursday night is covered with crimson velvet, and is richly carved and gilt, and embroidered with ro,vs of deep gold lace. The f iotstool corresponds in colour and magnificence with the decorations abs,ve and around the throne. andi::s he LE in i t t e s r i r o ui , )t J io U ns LY of 4 t . h — e I c t o l mn s l p u i n te of icationaf which have c i a ia u v t e io; ( l ); elf, a m n o d n r t h e s d u deprived u s o a u n r d s c ittoy misery,of all m t h e e a n c s h o o l f e r m a ai h n a t s a r i nin e ac ,g h e i d t s and at the very onset is very violent and malignant : 1,500 persons have died in a few days, which is an enormous number when we consider that a fourth of the population of 190,000 had previously fled from the city. All the shops, magazines, coffee-houses, &c., are closed. The consternation is bound less, and the populace have committed numerous excesses. A deputation has formed itself which means to manage the public affairs, and has taken possession of the public coffer, containing 150,000 ounces of money, to support the poor. All ships from Naples are refused admittance : one of the King's ships, which had performed quarantine at Leghorn, was lately refused admission by the Board of Health. The defeat of Sir James Graham in Cumberland is certain. If the men of both extremes are disliked, we may infer, from Worcester, and Cumberland, and St. Andrews, that the Trimmers arc despised. As the celebrated Sir An drew is to be ousted, we shall have, at the end of the elections, to boast of the good sense of the people in rejecting the Pha risees as well as the Trimmers. At Stratford-on-Avon a seizure has been made on the property of a dissenting minister and three others, for a church-rate. The general disapprobation was so strongly expressed throughout the town among churchmen as well as dissenters, that no auctioneer could be got to offer the effects for sale. On Monday a bellman was actually employed to offer a reward to any one who would undertake this disgusting task unsuccessfully. The latest accounts from Vienna continue to speak of the probable visit of some highly illustrious personages to the Turkish capital. A Prussian Prince is also expected to extend his travels through the southern provinces of Russia as far as Constantinople. A Sicilian youth, named Cachillo, is now at Rome, who, although only in his eighth year, can read ten languages. Ile has already given proofs of his extraordinary talent before the King of Sicily and the Apostolic nuncio at that court. It' the talent of this boy be' not overrated, he will share the honours of his youthful compatriot Vito Mangiamele. LITERATURE. THE BASQUE PROVINCES. in 2 VolS. Br FDTVARD ZELL STEPHENS, ESQ. London : Whittaker, 1637. In noticing Mr. E. B. Stephens' sketches of the political state, scenery, and inhabitants of the Basques, we find ourselves in a predicament semething similar to that of the honest Jockey of Pennafior, when Gil Blas made him an offer of his mule fur what, as a man of honour and integrity, he considered the animal to be worth. The Jockey started at the prop oral, and protested that in appealing to his honour an un fair advantage was taken of him, as he piqued himself excessively upon Ins nice sense of what was becoming in a gentleman. An appeal to him as a man of honour was an attack upon his weak side, which his knowledge of the world never enabled him successfully to repel. The dealer in mule-flesh was not more puzzled than we are in undertaking to award the proper raced of praise to these volumes. The author is, and what is more, professes himself to be, a partizan of Don Carlos—resided for many months at the head-quarters of the Pretender—drew his informa tion on most of the subjects of which he treats from exclusively Carlist sources—not only admits the confidence which the Carlist chiefs reposed in him, hut he glories in it—and to crown all, was the accredited agent of a London Tory journal to the Car hat camp, in which capacity his duty no less than his predilections prompted him to use all his exertions in f tvour of the cause of usurpation and absolutism. Now. having, from the commencement of the civil war in Spain, taken a different view of it from that so ably advocated by Mr. Stephens—having from day to day done all in our power to correct the wrong im pressions likely to be produced by his letters—iae should hold ourselves obliged in decency not to sit in judgment upon the merits of his work, were we not assured that he trusted to our generosity and acknowledged impartiality for an honest verdict. Leav_ then, the political bias of the work cut of th e question ; skipping over all the anecdotes of the great ness, goodness, popularity, and what not, of Don Car los ; the history of the fabricated Epistle in pro , : e and rhyme ; the lianelagh correspondence ; and the Carlist official documents—we have not met with a series of more entertaining and agreeable sketches of the manners and customs of the Basque peasantry. Mr. Stephens displays a quick perception, a liv e ly creative fancy, and a happy art of describing natural scenery, so that a reader of taste may in an instant form in his own mind a panoramic view of every land scape at which the author stops to point out the situa tion and the beauty. Of the Basque peasantry he is an enthusiastic admirer, and no wonder, since they de mand no further concessions than the subjoined, for sufFering an Englishman to travel unmolested through the northern provinces of Spain I : " Speaking merely from my own experience, I can sly that, an Englishman may travel very safely and pleasantly through the Basque Provinces and Navarre, provided he keep his eyes and cars open and his mouth shut, and does not impertinently set himulf up to contradict the popular opinion that Englishmen are all drunkards, who will sell their shirts, shoes, or jackets for a bottle of wine ; and that English women will sell their children for a real (2id.) a piece, or the equivalent thereof, in aguardicnte." Where men arc not suffered to contradict a " popu lar opinion" disgraceful to their nation, they are gene ally obliged to confirm it. Their very silence does as much, allowing that a people so prejudiced against them will permit them to be silent—which is next to impossible. To glance at the details of Mr. Stephen;s book would he only lo give a summary of events in the Basque Provinces since the summer of 1836. The most interesting pa:ts are those personal to himself, descriptive of his midnight mountain rambles in the Pyrenuces. These sketches readers of all parties will peruse wills pleasure. The following extract includes such a beautiful, well-merited eulogium, on the unaf fected piety of the Sisters of Mercy, that we have pleasure in 'giving it a place in our columns:— " The Basque and Navarrcse women appear to make excellent nurses. No false notions of delicacy interfere with their indispensable services : they know that the sur veon must amputate legs and arms—that he wants their nerves, have tl:e) r t e l t: e d y e r s,, i l t do tee f f i Not nt, and tiie woundedn owitig ti all the better tnr their hardiesse. The Sis- I and other nr»!jas, whose rules permit them t ai l - toe s : s rea i s: :. „l : it t ost . t a iitf,t n lcse, e ni‘: e n,Liici Mercy y tend the sick, devote themselves to the task with an earnestness and efficacy which cannot be sufficiently admired. Many of these are educated and highly intelli gent. When they take charge of an hospital, everything is sure to prosper. Their conscientious regularity and be neeolent attention, effect, perhaps, more for their patients, than greater skill seconded by mere mercenary attendance can accomplish in England. Surgeon, apothecary, and pa tient are all confident in the watchful care of the Sister of Mercy. She administers the cup of hope with one hand, and that of resignation with the other. She brings to the sufferer's pillow every attainable earthly comfort and spiri tual consolation ; and in short, if a cure be possible, effects it. These excellent women carefully attended the hospital at Yrache, and were of incalculable benefit to the sufferers in the action of the 13th September, before mentioned ; but as day broke on the morning of the 14th, they found that the enemy was in force descending the heights ; that a fresh combat was in progress at their undefended gates, and that their friends were giving way before them. The Carlist soldiers were at that moment carrying three wounded comrades to the hospital, but. the Lancers of the enemy charging down in numbers, obliged them to fly and leave them on the spot, where they were deliberately cut to pieces by the Christino cavalry. The Carlists in the hospital saw this horrid butchery going on almost under their windows, and all who could leave their beds, rushed down to escape by a postern, expecting similar treatment every moment at the hands of the ferocious victors. The Sisters of Mercy still stood by the beds of the helpless and dying, calmly awaiting their fate—perhaps to be burned alive with them, for the Christinos, wherever they passed during the foray were consuming all the Carlist property they had not time to plunder and carry off, and did not spare the houses that held it. Fortunately the Carlist generals, Francis Garcia and Pablo Sanz, hastening up at the moment with rein forcements, preserved the hospital and all its inmates from the impending destruction. My visit occurred only six days afterwards, when I was a pleased spectator of the quiet but ceaseless devotion of the good sisters, and the attention, order, and neatness which their watchful kindness ensured throughout the establishment, where 120 poor fel lows lay enduring every variety of pain. The gratitude and confidence of the sufferers were not less obvious and delightful, and I left the convent with the conviction that in spirits snt influence r sa e t d ifil rr n e, d s . ep " ruvree /S iir l , a a n nro w ob - a rl s i teiro dr of fe e r civil war h a d not a l toget h er ext i ngu i s h e d Ch r i st i an char i ty l n e doing his utmost to bring a hell upon earth ; b u t th ere were y e t li nger i ng on it g and ne d ( t l, ll for it by h eaven. whose bles ienxl;smdpelsei LORD WESTERN.—His Lordship concludes a let ter, addressed to the E'litor of the Chelmsford Chronicle avowing his approval of the New Poor-law, the Commutation of Tithes Bill, and those other liberal measures charged against her Majesty's Ministers as crimes, in the following terms :—" Ministers, I hope and trust, and confidently believe, will continue courageously to act upon those principles which have hitherto governed them, neither shrinking from the at tacks of their Conservative opponents, or giving way to the suggestions of their Radical supporters ; this course they have hitherto pursued. It is not a popular course. It is the most trying and difficult possible to maintain. I entreat them to adhere to it strictly, and whatever may be the consequence, it will have established for them golden opinions in the eyes of all wise men living and hereafter." Lord Western, clinging to his " order," bestows praise on Ministers for their repeated resistance to an organic change in that branch of the Legisla ture, where the necessity of Reform has been long recognized by a majority of the people in the United Kingdom. It is natural, perhaps, that his Lordship should stand by his " order ;" but it is not less imperative on the country at large to provide against an oligarchical obstruction to the enactment of wholesome laws, opposition to a wise policy, and resistance to the principles of good government. A novel, commodious, and elegant description of omnibus is about to make its appearance in Paris, offering to each passenger the advantage of an arm-chair, with an elastic cushion, which, in summer, will be replaced by a cane seat. In the winter, the passengers will have heated plates of iron under their feet. Independently of the tax laid upon every public carriage, the inventors of the new vehicle offer to the city of Paris and the' hospitals a contribution which in a few years, will amount to ttbiut 400,000 francs. It is, conscquntly, expected that the Prefect of Police will allow the new vehicle to be started immediately. .• THE KING OF HANOVER AND MR. PLANTA. FROM THE RIGHT HON. JOSEPH PLANTA TO THE ruin- PENDENT ELECTORS OF HASTINGS AND ST. LEONARD'S. GENTLEMEN—My attention having been called to a placard just issued, and headed " Toryism Unmasked," 1 consider it to be a duty which I owe to you, and I think it also due to m y se lf, t o contra di c t f ort h w i t h i n th e most dis tinct and positive terms, the foul calumnies against me which that paper rather insinuates than exprestes, and to place before you in its true light the transaction by which the Guelphic Order has been conferred unon me. As written documents are stubborn things, the proper dc count of this matter will best be found in the following cor respondence : NO. 1.-EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRIVATE SE- CRETARY OF HIS MAJESTY KING WILLIAM IV., DATED BRIGHTON, FEB. 24, 1837. " The King has ordered me to assure you, that he w•iI1 have much pleasure in conferring the Grand Cross of the Guelphic Order upon you." NO. IL-ANSWER OF MR. PLANTA TO THE KING'S PRIVATE SECRETARY, DATED FAIRLIGHT-PLACE, FEB. 26, 1837. " Your very' kind letter of the 9.4 th did not reach me un til this morning, or I should sooner have requested you to lay me at the King's feet with the most earnest expressions of my humble but 'very sincere and heartfelt gratitude for the highly gracious manner in which his Majesty haz been pleased to signify to me, through you, his royal intention of conferring upon me the d'stinguished honour of the Grand Cross of the Guelphic Order. As to the time at which his Majesty m ty be pleased to bestow this honour, that remains entirely in his own breast ; and I can only hope that I may be permitted to add, without presumption, that this distin guished badge of the royal favour will never be conferred on one more sincerely, and, in his humble way, more devotedly attached to his Majesty, his royal family, and his service, than the individual who now subscribes himself, " Your very faithful and ob►iged servant, "JOSEPH PLANTA." NO. 111.--LETTER FROM THE lIANOVERIAN MINISTER IN ENGLAND TO MR. PLANTA, DATED 44, GROSVENOR• PLACE, JULY 11, 1837. " Sir,—lt gives me great pleasure . to have to inform you that his Majesty the King of Hanover has most gra ciously been pleased to nominate and appoint you a Knight Grand Cross (civil) of the Royal Hanoverian Guclphie Order. " Being, at the same time, directed to transmit to you the decorations thereof, I regret that I am not able to do so immediately, as I had caused the decorations of the said order, formerly under my care, to be sent off to Hanover, from whence that destined for you, Sir, will be returned in a short time, and duly forwarded to you. " I remain, &c." NO. IV.---ANSWER OF MR. PLANTA TO THE HANOVERIAN MINISTER, DATED FAIRLIGIIT-PLACE, HASTINGS, JULY 14, 1837. " Sir,—l have had the honour to receive your Excel- Icncy's letter of the 1 lth acquainting me that his Ma jesty the King of Hanover has been most graciously pleased to nominate me a Knight Grand Cross (civil) of the Royal Hanoverian Guelpbic Order. " I intreat your Excellency to lose not a moment in lay ing before his Majesty the King of Hanover the expression of my deep gratitude on receiving this very distinguished honour ; and I cannot resist also asking your Excellency to submit to the King my especial thanks, for the very con descending kindness which has induced his Majesty so soon to fulfil, in this respect, the intentions of his Majesty's Royal brother, our late most lamented Sovereign. " I have the honour to be, &c., JOSEPH PLANTA." These letters indisputably prove that the honour con ferred upon me was allotted to me by his Majesty King William the Fourth, our late dearly beloved and much lamented Sovereign ; and that those intentions have been carried into effect by the King of Hanover, who became, by the death of his Majesty, Sovereign of the order in question. The last time I was in the presence of his royal highness, the then Duke of Cumberland, was on the 2.4 th of May last, at the ball given by his late Majesty at St. James's Palacc, in honour of the birthday of the Princess Victoria, now our most gracious Queen ; and this fact is perhaps the best answer to the statements of secret consultations and secret services mentioned in the placard, and most falsely imputed to me. I havo the honour to be, with great res pect, Gentlemen. Your most ob.:dient faidiful servant, Marino Hotel, July 29. JOSEPH PLANTA. On Thursday last Lord Morpth and Sir George Strickland terminated at Halifax their canvassing tour through this extensive Riding. The nomination, it will be seen, takes place on Monday next; and the ,days appointed for the final and decisive struggle are the following Thursday and Friday. Throughout the whole of their progress, with, we believe, only one draw back, the reception of the Reform candidates has been as warm an.i cordial, as it is animating ani encou raging ; and the expression of their political views and opinions at this important crisis has also met with as approving a res ponse as the warmest friends of the Queen and of the adminis tration of Lord Melbourne could have desired. In no place more so than in Doncaster have there been evinced in their favour those demonstrations of public feeling, which, while they present a striking contrast to that of Mr. Wortley on Saturday last, arc indicative of a triumphant result.—Don caster Gazette. At a book-stall in Paltlington•street may be seen a volume labelled " Essays on Rite and Rong," and a bill in a window in East-street adjoining, is thus classically got up : " A gude jack mange! to Be souk!, with a hexlent couneck shun." In the county of Hereford the apple crop does not promise to be large, but the corn is looking extremely troll, and is in many places nearly ripe. The hops every where leek troll. TWELVE TooLs.—EARI , OF POWIS.—The dawn of a new era is visible in Shropshire. This wealthy and beautiful county will no longer bear t.be stamp upon its fore head as the Cain of liberal principles among the towns and counties of England. Shropshire elects twelve Members to Parliament, and the most indecent taunt, and sneers have been thrown against the population because they have su'Jmitted to be represented by the alleged " Twelve Tools" of the Lord Lieutenant, the Earl of Poblis, whose ancestor was a Whig. Each and every Member in Shropshire has voted against each and ovcry reform : incidentally some of them have been, from prudence, Conformers, and that is all. The " Twelve Tools" have, in various publications, been called by the Lord Lieu tenant, his " Twelve Apostles." These twelve partners are now dissolved ; for it will be seen that the triumphs in Lud low, Bridgnortb, and Shrewsbury, have reduced the partner ship to nine : and it only requires equal efforts in the county to exempt itself from the unjust odium cast upon it. The Northern and Southern Divisions of this County are now fairly opened to contests. The conduct of the electors in Ludlow surpasses all praise ; and . so confident were Mr. Pig,ot'a friends in Bridgnorth, that his chair was actually pre pared.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. CIIANGES.—Lord Prudhoe and the Hon. Mr. Herbert, at Milan, from Vienna ; Captain and Miss Codring ton, from FrankiTt, for Baden Baden; the Earl of Ashburn ham, from Tunbridge Wells, for Asliburnham-place ; Lieut.- General Sir Gordon Drummond, fur his shooting quarters, in Perthshire; the Earl and Countess of Normanton and family, at Somerley-park, near Fording-bridge ; the Earl of Leices ter, at Holkham-hall, from Lynn; the Hon. Major Keppel, at ditto, from ditto; Viscount Combermcre and the Hon. Staple ton Cotton, at Leamington, from a tour; Lord and Lady Bolton, at flickwood Park ; Count and Countess Flahault and family, at Paris, from Dieppe; Lord and Lady Crofton, at the Mote Park, Roscommon, from a tour ; the Earl and Countess of Meath, at Dublin, from the Continent ; Colonel and Lady Arabella Arden, at Brighton ; Lord and Lady Hood, from \Vhitley-hall, on a continental tour ; Lord Cantalupe, from Helstone, Cornwall ; Lord John Thynne, at Glastonbury rectory, from Bath. _ . _ There is an advertisement in our paper of a plan for a railway mail, which, according to the projector, is to traval at the rate of 120 miles in the hour. If ever this project should be realised, we may set out from Liverpool to London after breakfast, and return home before dinner !—LiverpoolMercurg. Lettars arrived at Paris announce a rising of the slaves in Dutch Guiana. Severe punishments, it is said, had been indicted on some of the revolters who had been made pri soners, and terrible reprisals were exercised by the negroes on the soldiers who fell into their power. It is said, that amongst their soldiers were some officers. _ . Oa inquiry at Sir lt °hen Peel's house in Privy Gardens this morning, we were informed that the latest ac counts from Tamworth conveyed the pleasing intelligence of the Right Honourable Baronet daily improving in health. A letter was received from Sir Robert the b-ginning of the pre sent week, containing instructions for his sons (who were spending the vacation in Hertfordshire), to be conveyed to school. In that letter the Right flea. Baronet stated he was considerably better, and entertained full confidence of being shortly restored to health. The dissatisfaction felt by the Liberal party in North Warwickshire at the very equivocal line of conduct pursued by Sir E. Wilmot in the last Parliament, has called up two opposing candidates on the Reform interest in Sir G. Skip with, and C. H. Braeebridge, Eig. Sir Eardley and Mr. Dugdale appear now to be almost equally identified as friends of the Tory party. —Coventry Herald. FLOWERS.—Three acres of flowers and a regiment of gardeners bring no more pleasure than a sufficiency. Be sides which, in the smaller possession there is more room for the mental pleasure to step is, and refine all that which is sensual. We become acquainted, as it were, and even form friendships with individual flowers. \V bestow more care upon their bringing up and progress. They sensible of seem Urns o ur favour, absolutely to enjoy it, and make et l pleasing by their beauty, health, and s weetness* thi s returns by tsr e do respect hundred thousand roses, whi c h we look at i n masse, not identify themselves with us in the same manner as even a very ama 1 border ; and h ence, if thec . ottager's mind is properly attuned, the little co t tage gar den may give him more real de light than belongs to the owner of a thousand aeres.—Dius tratiols of Human Lffe. THE AMAKOSA CAFFR The people who inhabit these fair regions—the Amakosa —arc among the finest specimens of the human race—tall, straight-limbed, and active ; their every attitude is graceful, and every motion is performed with ease. The head of the Amakosa is well developed, and his expanded forehead shows considerable intellectual capacity. The hair i; woolly, the nose is tolerably prominent, and though in gene ral round in some there is a tendency to an acquiline shape ; the lips are inclined to fulness, the teeth are beautifully white, and the large eye, ever restless, shows deep cunning, is easily lighted up with a gani2e, yet often flashes with re lentless cruelty when the evil p;ssions arc at work within. The colour of the skin is a liebt etheecolate, and though this is often concealed with a coat of greaaa' and-red clay, to pre serve it from the effects of the sun, thw pirsons of the Ama kosa are not disagreeable. The chest is . not so broad mne arc the arms so strong as these of Eurepearte, for the Chffre males perform little 'manual labour, but thet haver limbs arc muscular in the extreme. The trousers of - s e .hy Euro peans are . large enough for the brawny Caffre Chia h ; the legs are really " pillars of Hercules." I'he Amakosa d.sdains to wear any covering on the haed which is occasionally ornamented by the females, who eon: it closely with red ochre into smell knots about the size of a pea. In war a band of leather encircles the brows. and front it stand erect on both sides the long wings of the blae crane, giving the head a demoniacal appearance. From the shoulder hangs the ungoobo, kaross, or mantle of softened hide, worn with the hair next the body, and fastened with a thong at th e nec k. Th e C a ff res near th e co l on y a re begin ning to change their leather covering for one of cloth, which is not so heavy, and is warmer in wet weather than hide. The chiefs and counsellors wear karosses of leopard t khas, neatly vandyked at the neck and skirt, and worn so as to show a part of the closely-spotted hair. In stalking the open kaross displays the whole of the naked body, and the Caffre is without sense of decency. The adoption of the kilt, which would not confine the linde a would be a great step towards weaning them from the sa vage exposure of person. In one car a few beads are com monly worn, of which the fashionable colour of 1835 was white with a narrow pink stripe. The Tambookies, the French of South Africa, set the fashions for dress and otna meet. Round the neck are a rote of garnet and white spotted heads, with occasionally pieces of s;vect-scented wood ; leopards' teeth, / ither reel or imitated in brass ; and a long needle in a leather sheath. From the neck of the kaross hangs, by a thong covered with brass rings, a mall tot toise-shel, filled with bruised wild celery-seed, with which to perfume the person. When a Caffre has his head dressed, aid his scent-box hang; down his back, he looks as if lie wore a red wig with a ghttcring cue. Round his loinS is a double thong, also thickly set with brass rings. This is regarded as a great ornament in South Africa, and it also serves as a girdle of famine to confine the stomach, if on a journey food runs short. On these occasions, indeed, the Caffre often adopts a more useful ornament. Pieces of hide with some flesh attached are worn as bracelets on the left wrist, to be applied to oc casionally for sustenance. Brass and ivory rings are gene rally worn on the arm. The feet are frequently cased in brown leather buskins, particularly in mountain paths and on stony ground. But the straps are so ccutrived that the buskins can be kicked off if a rapid and unencumbered retreat is necessary, when the kaross is then also thrown away or twisted round the loins. The natural arms of the South African Caffres are assegais (hnkonta) rr javelins. These arc tied up with two thongs in a bundle of seven or eight together, with a walking staff to keep them straight. The shafts of the Amahossa assegais are slender, five feet long, and taper off to the butt, in order that they may quiver in the air, and in passing through the object at which they are thrown. The blades arc of various shapes. The ceminon •one (ingola ) is shaped like a laurel leaf, with a smooth round neck, which is let into the wood of the -haft, and neatly tied round with wetted thong. The elephant assegai (intshuntshe) has a blade.eightecn inches long ; the ingairla is shaped like a long spike, and used both as a pro jectile and for making holes in sewing the kaross or milk skins ; tied the izaka, or man-killer, has a jagged neck, and iull•cts a most dangerous wound. Common assegai w oun d s aro not difficult of cure ; not so that of the izaka, which is only used in the most deadly and vindictive strite, Tied u p with the assegais is commonly a short stout stick, with a large knobbed head, called by the Caffres themselves in dooko, and by us keerie. The oval shield, intonlra, which completes the equipment of a Calico warrior, is of hide of all colours, five feet in height, and is bound to . a stick a little longer. This shield covers the warrior in fight ing with men and lions : when set on edge it shelters him at his tire from the wind ; and is a roof under which he sleeps with his comrades, closely together, in a field. To frighten their antagonists, the Caffres spring about, shaking their light shields, and beating them with their knees. Holding this defensive weapon with the bundle of assegais and keerie in the left hand, they quiver a single ass gain the right, uttering short cries of rege and defiance, nd ;vith their horned head-gear and waving mantle they line rally a very savage and warlike apasarance. The C &hes - balance and quiver the assegli !,efore throwing it, c buil it a distance of seventy or eighty yards through the air, are certain of their aim at fifty ,-arils, and at a dis tauce of fifteen or twenty yards, throw it so sharply under handed that it is impossible to ice or parry the blow. Who they wish to stab at close querters, they break off the blade from the shaft. Some of the Amatembie and Atnap.ala javelins of this kind are barbed like a harpoon, ate! the Zuolas use a stout stabbing assegai, engage hand to hind, think it cowardly to throw their - ecapon at a dis tance and from under cover, and are much dreaded by their neiglil)ours in consequence of their desperate onsets. 111sny hundred of the border Caffres had British muskete s purchased from the Hottentots or traders of low character, or stolen from the farmers ; and as the shield is no protec tion against a bullet, the Amakosa, in fighting with our people, generally disencumbered themselves of that ineffec tual defence. - Formerly a Caffre would fly from the sight of a musket, and a stock, even without a barrel, would ef fectually intimidate him ; now lie has no such fear : and the use of fire-arms, together with the recent introduction of l.ergc bodies of mounted men among them, has converted them into formidable foes. The young Caffre females are generally tall, well formed, and plump ; their features are regular and pleasing; and their teeth and eyes very good. Unlike the Dutch "end vroutuen," who singly are sometimes a waggon-load, the old women of the Caffres get skinny and deeply wrinkled, and when with brandished assegai or keerie they dance and eerawn, and en courage the men to war and plunder, they look like the at tendants of the infernal Hecate. In full dress the females wear a broad and high cap of the valuable blue buckskin, with the hair inwards, and outwardly ornamented with white and blue beads, sewn closely on it. Half-a-dozen oug stripes of skin are twisted round the brows, which are thus begirt with a hendsoate turban. The breasts are con cealed by a little leather api-on fringed with heath ; the kaross, fixed closely round the waist. descends below the knee ; and the same garment is occasionally drawn over the shoulders, between which hangs a long flip of leather, orna mented with rows of flat and round buttons. In the bush, and in war-time, the women always display their glittering flips to save themselves fsom being shot at. They have necklaces and braCelets of beads and brass, much the same as the men ; and wear under their kaross a small sn-dlow-tailed apron, covered with white and blue beads. The women are as studious to conceal their persons, as the men are savagely proud and shameless in the exposure of theirs. Infants arc tied in the folds of the mother's kaross which is brought across the breasts for this purpose ; and thus the beauty of their shape is destroyed.—Captabt Aica ca Narrative of Western Africa. A STREET SKF,ICII, BY Boz.—Oliver Twist was stopped at last. A clever blow that. He's down upon the pavextent, and the crowd eagerly gather round him ; each new coiner jostling and struggling with the others to catch te „ glimpse. " Stand aside l" " Give him a l i t tle air ! " Nonsense 1 ho don't deserve it." " Whcre':; the gentle man?" " Here he is coming down the street." " Make room there for the gentleman l" "Is this the boy, Sir?" " Yes." Oliver lay covered with mud and dust, and bleeding from the mouth, looking wildly round upon the heap of faces that surrounded bins, when the.old gentleman was officiously dragged and pushed into the circle by the foremost of the pursuers, and made this reply to' their anxious inquiries. Yes." said the gentleman in a benevolent voice, " I am afraid it is." " Afraid r murmured thegnt,e ie roz o d: ; " " t good un." " Poor fellow I" said the . hurt himself." " I did that, Sir," sa id a great l o bb cr l y f e ll ow that's t' s has a slepinng forward, " and preciously cut my knuckle aria' his g w m e it ' i s t t i h a an . grin, a n i : s e t e s o x e p i i r : n e e g c d t i h n i g ni t;orri S c li' th f h o e r hfeisllo lehbeodt his him with an exp res si on o f di sgust , l oo k e d the o h l a d t anxiously round, as if he contemplated t t.uning away himself; which it is very possible he might have attempted to do, and thus afford another chase, had not a police cfficer (who is al ways the last person to arrive in such cases) at that moment made his ,vay through the crowd and seiz , d Oliver by the col lar. " Come, get up," said the mar, roughly. "It wasn't me indeed, Sir. Indeed, indeed, it was two other boys," said Oliver, clasping his hands passionately, and looking round ; " they are here somewhere." " Oh no, they ain't," said the officer. lie meant this to he ironical; hut it vas true be s:deF, fur the Dodger and Charley Bates had filed off down the first convenient court they came to. " Come, get up." " Don't hurt him," said the old gentleman compascionately. " Oh no, I won't hurt him," ie d licd the c,fficer, tearing his jacket half off his back in proof thereof. " Come, I kn o w you, it woi,';, do. Will you stand upon your logs, you young devil?" Olive, who could hardly stand, made a shift to raise himself upon his feet, and was at once lugged along the streets by the jacket collar at a rapid pace. The gentle man walked on with them by the officer's side r and as many of the crowd as cs..uld, got a little a-head, and stared back at Oliver from time to time. The boys shouted in triumph, and on they went —Oliver Twist, in Bentley's Miscellany.