The Sun. — London, England, 1837-08-11 00:00:00

STATISTICS OF PRUSSIA. The Prussian Government has just pul)l;sh,d the annual xtatise,ical report for the whole kingdoM, from whi:•h we extract the following facts : The kingdom of Pruisia is divided into 25 government 'districts or regicrtervisbezirke. In these 25 districts, dur ing the Course of the year 1836 — The births amounted to . The deaths to The excess of births was, therefore In 1,533 this excess amounted to.. likking an increase in the population, during those two years The population of the kingdom, according to the censut of 1834, wa:;.. 550,622 373,588 175,034 152,272 327,30 G I 3,509,927 The population of Prussia, therefore, exclusive of the principllity of Neufchatel, must, at the ,nd of 1F36, have amounted to 13,537,233 It is thought, however, that the real population is Some what greater, as there is every reason to believe that dur ing these two years the immigrations have considerably ex ceerled the emigrations ; this point will be more postively arzertained by the census thatwill have to be made at the end of 1837. Inking the whole kingdom, the deaths have been 4,076, and births 2,780, for every 100,000 inhabitants. The mortality among infants is strikingly great in the di•.crict of Oppeln, nearly one-firth of the deaths being children of less than one year old, In Kouslin the. pro portion is. only one-seventh. Between the ages of one and 14 the number of deaths in Oppeln is still greater, and yet it does not appear that this tlistrizt has suffered much from the small-pox, only 94 deaths having been occasioned by that disease in Oppeln, and 913 in Gumbinnen. The eanses have not yet been ascertained, though it has now continued for many years past nearly in the same relative proportion. - The number of marriages concluded during 1836 in the whole kingdom of Prussia amounted to 125,391, or 928 for every 100,000 inhabitants ; and here, again, we find the district of Oppeln at the head of the list-8,147 wed dings having been celebrated there, making 1,075 for every 100,000 inhabitants. The smallest number of marriages during the last 17 years (98,673) were concluded in the year 1831, owing pro bably to the panic occasioned b.y the first appearance of the cholera, and which, no doubt, occasioned many marriages already agreed upon to be deferred to more suspicious times. The great subsequent increase in the number of marriages (127,217, in 1832) is less easily accounted for ; but the commercial liberty which has ensued from the abolition of all the ancient guilds and corporations, is supposed by some of the advocates of the good old times, to have contributed greatly to the increase of inconsiderate marriages. Of the 550,622 children born in 1836 there were in wedlock 263,960 males, and 248,500 females—in all, 512,463 ; out of wedlock, 19,460 males, and 18,622 females—in all, 38,162. One in fourteen, therefore, of the children born were illegitimate —a proportion which has observed to continue nearly unaltered for many years past. The greatest number of illegitimate births, in pro portion to the population, is found in the districts of Breslau and Dantzic. Potsdam, in which Berlin is si tuated, is the third in amount.. The smallest - number of illegitimate births occurs in Munster, Coblentz, and Aix-la- Chapelle, TURKEY. CONsTANYiNoPLE, JULY 17.—The Minister of the United States at Paris, General Cass, arrived here with his family from Athens on the 15th instant. The intelli gence of Mehemet Ali Pasha having left Alexandria for the Island of Candia on the 28th ult., which reached Athens at the moment General Cass was preparing to sail for Egypt, led him to alter his original plan of voyage, and to avail himself of the interval between the Viceroy's de parture and return to pay a visit to this capital. After spending a few weeks at Constantinople, General Cuss is to leave for Egypt and Syria, thus, as the Americans say, to complete his tour of inspection in the Levant. The coin cidence of Mehemet Ali's departure from Alexandria, and of the Turkish Admiral's from Constantinople, is looked upon here as a circumstance not of pure hazard, Mehemet Ali having last year requested the Porte to send out Ahmet Ferzee Pasha to Egypt, in order to bring to a set tlement the question of the succession to Egypt, Syria, and Arabia, in the event of the Viceroy's death. The Divan, instead of complying with his demand, entrusted Sarim Effendi with this mission. Whether out of pique for so marked a want of deference on the part of the Divan, or in consequence of his demands being considered unreasonable by the Po r t e , th e m i ss i on o f t h e La t o no resu l t yusitive l y sai d, t h at in consequence of li s ffiat Ali having, through the intermediati on of a fo reign Power, renewed his application to the Sultan directly. Achmet Pasha has been authorised, without the nartoa tion of th e P or t e , to have an interv i m ew with the Pasha of Egypt, and that both parties have chosen Candia as the most cons cnient place of rendezvous. The sudden depar ture for Candia of the Turkish frigate in station at Smyrna, with a functionary from Constantinople, is a circumstance which adds much to the probability of this surmise. The firman for the free exportation of corn from the dominions of the Sultan has been published in the Turkish Government Gazette of last week. The provisoes, however, which fetter the application of this measure are such as to render it almost nugatory. As the Pashas and Governors of the provinces and districts are invested with the faculty of interposing their veto, whenever they shall consider the product not adequate to the home consumption, it is natu ral to infer, from their characteristic rapacity and wayward ness, that they will know how to turn their prerogative into good account for their private treasury. The exportation should, in order to prove a source of advantage to the grower, have been made to depend on the price of the article is; the internal markets. The most melancholy accounts of the ravages of the plague arrive daily from the Provinces both of Asia Minor and European Turkey. The loss of lives which this v_murge has occasioned within the last 12 months is calculated to exceed two millions. The impossibility which the awful de population of the empire has occasioned of supplying the army and navy with the necessary number of Mussulman recruits, has led the Government to order a conscription among the Ps t ialis. Four thousand Greeks hare already been sent en board the fleet ; and although the innovation be much against Turkish habits, Armenians are about being enlisted in the ranks of the army. The disastrous consequences of this depopulation on the revenue and on commerce, are already most painfully felt ; the enormous fall in price which every article of Turkish product has ex perienced from the commercial crisis in Europe, powerfully contributes to embitter the present deplorable condition of affairs. At no period within the memory of man has the prosperity of Tut key sunk so low as at the present moment. The exchange on London was last post at 113. The petition addressed on the Sultan's return by the body of European merchants, requesting measures being taken by the Go sernuient to prevent the ruinous fluctuation in the ex changes, has hitherto led to no result whatever. Turkish financiers declare their inability to comprehend the cause of these complaints as to the exchange brought to their no tice by European merchants ; :not, in reply to their obser vations, ask them, " Is not the piaster of the Grand Scignor worth now, as heretnr: , re, forty pants ? As long as the administration of the Mint is confided to individuals profes•ing principles of this description, it is idle to look up fur any amelinration in the :fate of the currency. The financial embarrassment in which, in spite of these and equally wise old saws of Turkish -statesmen, Government is at present situated is such that the division of the fleet which was to sail last week is yet in port, the Capitan Pasha not having been able to " raise the wind." Six months' arrears are due to the fleet. Letters received this day state that the Russians were at the abovementioned date attempting to force their way to Pchiat. The Circassians had mustered about 2,000 men in tits, defiles to oppose them. Large reinforcements were hourly expected from Ahasia. Intelligence of the defeat of the columns ecmmandcd by General Williamineff has been subsequently received. The numerous amorous adventures of the Turkish ladies with the Greek Ras ahs and the handsome Frank shop keepers of Pera, some of which I related in my last ;otter, have lately become so notorious and creat•;,i so m uc h scandal among the steady, sober Ottonr.:;is, that his High. ness the Sultan, with the advice and assistance of the col lected wisdom of the body of iilemas, has deemed it neces hary to legislate on this subject. A grand council was, therefore, assemblea last week, for the purpose of taking into considerati un the great lnxity of morals existing among the Turkish, *omen, and deliberating upon what measures should be, adopted to prevent the spreading of the evil, and to reserve the sanctity of the harem inviolate and unpol luted. The result of these deliberations has been the is. suing a firman, ordering. t} sl, henceforward no shopkeeper, either Turk or 11, 4 , 1 b, i n Constantinople, shall emPloy young men in *sett shops or magazines under the age of 30 rears; an , ..1 to the Frank shopkeepers a Karoush Bashi had been. sent round, warning them not to admit Turkish women Within their doors, under the penalty of being nailed by the Car to the door-post. An order has likewise, it is said, been issued by his Highness, that as the Hakim Bashi has given it as his opinion that it is the luxurious habit of sit ting all day long on ottomans, instead of habituating the body to healthful exercise, which renders the Turks phy iiesthy so much weaker than the Franks, henceforward Turkish rooms arc to be furnished with chairs as well as sofas, and the latter are only to be used to repose on at night. These are the ridiculous frivolities with which the Sultan is now employing the attention of himself and his ministers. A mad dog vvas shot in Hyde Park yesterday Rim ing by the soldiers at the Maiazine barracks. BRUSSELS AND GER31.4.11.-SPERS' BRUSSELS-, AT-74. 9,-110 aVel-fte prices of IT ' bent atl!ti Rye in the weelec, , tiiitg - August 5 1. ilVeVeattfol!ow Wheat 17f. 7e., the .11 f. tile. per:hectolitre. Import, btl c s Dui 21f.. , .L00, respectively% Pei' 1,0 i) kilogranxines. -The . Government li=i l - tteit . iniumed that estretnek rigorous meatt_trt74, ektendiug even to the confis cation oe the ship and the infliction of corporal e , ,,,i,htlitht on the_captain , Wiciatcly..been.aflorted-in Pottttai titaitigt the introduction (without th+datttia n ) 'of coital►! Attic s, partictilarl;' of telneco and soap. t'atlt:tin of vessels have been condemned to .largt - dots -foe having on-board very trifling quantities br tobacco. The produce of the dtities on tobacco aryl soap is farmed to a vontpinty ; is au thorized to employ the most tignrotts liit'ans 14 protect its monopoly. The sum rld by. it having lately been raised very much, the agents or the company are extrcirdr tfliet to prevent the clandestine importation of Mace° and soap. When ships arrive, the capteitia are desired to declare and produce all the tobacco and soap they have on hoard, whether it is part of tilt Cargo, or belongs to tht captain, the crew or the passengers, for their own use. The strictest search is made by the agents of the company, and if they find the smallest quantity of tobacco or soap tint declared, tlfey have a right to execute the lnws with the utmost rigour. HANOVER, Jut.? 31.—1 believe I have alteatly written to you that people here seem to he by nt.means agreed in how extcnive or confined a Iltittt the letters patent of the sth arc to be understood. The following circumstances may serve to prove this uncertainty. The new Minister Schele, in a late full meeting of the Ministers, Voduced new letters patent, nearly of the following terms :--.‘ His Majesty has observed with high displeasure, in what an unworthy manner, unsuited to his paternal intentions, Journalists and other incompetent persons endeavour •to make use of the letters patent of the .sth, and to alarm people's minds, As' if the overturning of the Constitu tion of the country was intended by them, whereas his Majesty meant only to express his doubt re specting the Constitution, and to reserve to him self the right of further resolutions, &c. &c.," In a word, a sort of manifesto against the liberalists, &c. But, as all the other Ministers (Schulte, Wisch,Aller, and Stralenheim) unanimously declared against such a manifesto as unworthy of his Majesty, and of the country, and as they considered such a step, designed to enlighten and tranquil lise public opinion, as likely to mislead, nothing more was said of these new letters patent, M. Lust, Director of the Chamber of Justice at t.'itade, has been here for some days, having been sent for to make use of his eminent ta lents and knowledge of jurisprudence, which he has shown as Counsellor of State to King Jerome, and by his writings on such subjects, - to investigate the ques tion relative to the Constitution and the letters patent. It is said, indeed, that M. Von Schele, who was also Councillor of State to King Jerome, has ever since that time retained a grudge against his former colleague ; the necessity of the case must overcome these scruples, so that the :authority of M. Lust, as a lawyer, is to be used to maintain the letters without being obliged directly to revoke them. A third circumstance which shows that the constitu tional question is not looked upon as solved is, that the Ministry enquired what should be done upon new appoint ments with respect to the official oath ; whether it should be taken according to the Constitution, since the letters patent declared that everything should go on in its old course, or whether on requiring the oath, the Constitution should not be mentioned, seeing that it is at least suspended by the letters patent of the sth. This uncertainty is ac knowledged in a letter from M. V. Schele to the other Ministers, but not removed ; only it is decided, that till the question respecting the Constitution shall be solved, there shall be no new appointments. The solution will, doubtless, be made by the convocation of the Estates, that is, the Estates according to the Constitution, to which the King will submit the modifications of the Constitution which he wishes and thinks necessary, and not, as the letters patent say, to announce them as Royal resolutions, but that the Estates may deliberate on them. But if, which is at least possible, the Estates should disapprove of the pro posed modifications, then it should seem that the Arbitral Tribunal of the Confederation must be applied to. The Constitution is now under consideration, with a view to these modifications. I hear, however, that the most important chapter, the 7th, on finances, is referred to the Department of Finance, that is, to the very same department in which it originated. VIENNA, JULY 31.—The accounts of the health of the Empress are very favourable. BEI GI AN 1. UNDS—Bonsens, Ana. O. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions 9 2 ,3i Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 9934 Society of Commerce, 4 kiper Cent. 137 3 ,4 Bank of Belgium, &per Cent 134 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vussrss, kro. I. Five per Cents. Metalliqucs Four per Cents. Three tier Cents. Bank Shares 13(8 —Ailgemeine Zeilung, Aug. 6 DUTCIA 1' U NDS- AMSTERDAM, Ace. 8. Actual Debt, 214 per ''.. Money. MIN. nt 52. 53 Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A mort syndic, 434 per cent .......... Ditto, ditto, 3)4 per cent 76 76 Commercial Company, 4‘<, per cent ...... Ditto (1P32 and Its) $ per cent ..... Loan 183(, 4 per cent. .............. ....... - — Ditto 1837, 6 per cent. Exchange on London, One ntonth...:- Two months .... l2 0 HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Ana. 5. Bills. Money. Austrian Metelques, 5 per cent 104% 1043 Ditto elito 4 per cent Di.'. ditto 3 per cent. Litto Bank Shares ........... .... ..... 1352 ISSO A nglo.Russian Loan lo6k 106 Paper Inscription. 6 per cent — Russian 5 per cents. Metal. ............. ..... . R.i,siAri Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto, Certificates -. 516)4 L 64 Portuguese Regency Bends, 5 per c en t 4l -. Ditto, 3 per cent. 25% -- Dutch 2)4 per Cents... ...... ............ Ditto 5 per Cents ii; yg Polish Bonds, 3 per cents. New Tickets .. 152 1 ,4 152 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 7O 1334 Norwegian Lean of 111.34, 4 per cents Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents.... .......... Cortes Loan, 5 pe r C ent 2l f 1 Greek 4 percents. 14133, guaranteed by Fran,e 93 li2 % :Z . \ PORTUGAL. ADDRESS OF TIIE CORTES TO THE QUEEN. " The Portuguese nation, in granting to us ample powers for the revision and modification of the fundamental law of the State, solely limited us to the following conditions (im posed on us by a sense of national wisdom)--that we should secure the legal liberty of the people, the prerogatives of the constitutional throne, and that the new social compact should be made to harmonize with the other representa tive monarchies of Europe. This mandate of the nation, which we have scrupul ously commenced executing, and religiously intend to com plete, is vilified by a set of intriguers, who, taking the name of your Majesty in vain, and sacrilegiously invoking the ever beloved memory of your august father and our liberator, have abused the good faith of inexperienced soldiers to incite them t , rebellion. So great is the fidelity of the Portuguese that they are only to be led on to treason under the mask of loyalty, and well do those who have thus abused every thing n hich is held most sacred and holy by the people know this ; as also that the nation at large is undeceived with regard to them and their intentions ; for even among the very soldiers thus deluded, many s tan saw the snare, and turned their backs en the treason towards which they were entered. But the real aim of the anthr;t•s of this revolt is far different front what they process, an obj-et they are ar.are they arc not likely to attain ; the only effect, of their vain efforts may possibly be the provocation of the minds of the people, and eventually I.lnoging the nation into anarchy. This is the revenge, of a horde of barbarians against a na tion which seek; to repel them. " It is our duty as Portuguese and representati% es of Portugal to present ourstll.es b9forc the throne of your Ma jesty, and to declare solemnly, in the face of the nation, that the ennstituent Cortes, faithful to their mission, and fully confiding in the people they represent, are resolved to defrat the machinations of their enemies, to maintain ii bety with order, and to preserve inviolate the :acrid depo sit confided to them, We hope that your Majesty's Government, exerting all necessary energy, will know how to temper the whole some rigour of the law with all necessary prudence, " The liberty of the country can never perish —your Ma jesty's throne is secure in our hearts, but it behoves us to preserve the tranquillity of the country, which is so much wanted to retrieve the sacrifices which have been made for the cause of your Majesty, and for which she is amply re paid by thus bong the means of replacing y our M ajesty on the throne of your ancestors—a beloved pledge of our librrty and independence. " Corte4, July 28, 1837." The Animals' Friend Society has convicted thirteen offenders, during the last two weeks, in London and Gravesend, for greet cruelty to their cattle, and for furious driving ; four of them in very heavy penalties. But we were sorry to find that Alderman Thomas Wood dismissed the charge of cruelty against the omnibus•driver, 263, of having violently lashed the horses whilst going full gallop, with a full load of passengers in a crowded thoroughfare, the Alderman observin g that " he saw no cruelty in the case," and believed that the horses took as much delight in this sort of thing as the d r i vers !" Th e S oc i ety spares no ex pense to redress these evils, but a corresponding exercise of duty in the Magistrates, and liberality in the public, is abso lutely required to obtain the much needed results. In Graves end the Magistrates are exemplary ; and in one of the cases last week the Mayor(— Oakes, Esq.,) conjointly with Mr. Arnold, a member of the Committ ee , was the complainant, and obtained a conviction of 40s. for cruelty to an ass. THE SUN, LONDON., FRI DAN., AUG ITST li, 1837. 47, Paternoster-row. TO the SUBSCRIBERS to HO GARTH'S ORIGINAL WORKS.-Messrs. BALDWIN and CRADOCK beg to inform the Subscribers that No. 52 of this Splendid Work, to complete their Sets, is NOW READY fir DELIVERY, containing THE WEIGHING-HOUSE. FRONTISPIECES TO TRISTRAM SHANDY. FINIS, OR THE BATHOS, WITH TITLE-PAGE. TABLE OF CONTENTS, &c. Complete Sets, with fine Impressions of the Plates (some of them being copies of Subscribers who had failed to remove their Numbers in the time limited), may be bad of the Publishers in 52 Numbers, price ss. each. /THE SPECTATOR'S COMPLETE LISTS JIL of the NEW HOUSE of COMMONS (with Analytical Tables, showing the strength of Parties, the politics of individual Members, the changes of political feeling in Constituencies since 1535, and other indicia of the 'future Policy of the Government), will be published in THE SPECTATOR of SATURDAY, the 19th instant. It is hoped that this work will be formed nearly as accurate as the aim is to make it impartial. Throughout the General Elec tion now drawing to a close, the Spectator's Tables hare been framed with a single eye to truth and fairness, and with a freedom from party trammels whieh no other Newspaper has dared. The publication of Tna Son NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o'Clock. „or&— Akt, e LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1837. The issue of the few remaining elections may now be anticipated with sufficient accuracy to warrant the assertion, that there will be a working majority of from 20 to 30 on the Liberal side, with which to commence business in the New Parliament. There are not less than a dozen returns in favour of Tory Members which will, to a certainty, be set aside, and which, making a difference of 24 votes, will raise the Ministerial majo rity to about 50. When to these are added the Wa verers who may be expected on this, as on all similar occasions, to join the Ministerial ranks shortly after the meeting of Parliament, we do not over-rate the ultimate result when we state that it will exhibit a preponderance of 60 votes in favour of the QUEEN'S Government. In this calculation we have carefully guarded ourselves against exaggeration, thinking it safer, and, therefore, better, to err on the other side A majority of sixty may not, perhaps, appear to some persons so ample as might have been expected, under all the circumstances of the case, or as might he ,desirable to give an impulse to the tardy march of Reform. Some may say that a Parliament, elected under the auspices of a Liberal Government, should have contained a greater number of Libe rals, and may perhaps wonder that there should not have been a greater difference than at first sight there appears to be, between the PEEL Parlia ment and the MELBOURNE one. This very super ficial difficulty is easily solved. When the last Par liament was elected the Tories were in power, and no one need be told that they made 'a more unscrupulous use of that power than a Government ever did before to influence the elections. They promised, bribed, in timidated, coerced in every direction, sticking at nothing that could secure the return of their creatures. Now these are means to which the principlei of the NIELBOURN E Administration will not allow them to resort. The present Government cannot avail itself of any of those unprincipled and unconstitutional me thods—not even to oppose those who have used them under their very noses—who have drawn their sup- porters even train the offices and establishments of the Government itself. Thus the Ministers may be said, by their adherence to principle, and by their extreme lenity and generosity—unworthily repaid—to have furnished their opponents with weapons against them selves. With respect to the progress of improvement under the new state of things, it must be recollected that if the Ministers have not an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons, they have the Court heartily with them, which they never had before, and this will not be forgotten by the Obstructives in the House of Lords. They may perhaps convince the refractory Peers, that should they shew the same symptoms of opposition to the will of the people As they have done during the last two or three years, there arc ways and means in their power of overcoming that opposition. Th e official declarations of the Polls for South Lan cashire and North Wilts were made—for the former, on Monday last at Manchester ; and for the latter, on Tuesday last at Devizes. Lord FRANCIS EGERTON was the chief speaker at the one place, and Sir FRANCIS BURDETT at the other, and it is curious to observe the striking similarity, in point of sentiment, that e xists between the speeches of the two successful candidates. Both lisp the praises of " our glorious— our unrivalled Constitution in Church and State ;" both a bound in unmeaning professions of liberality ; and both sedulously avoid saying anything definite or positive on the subject of Reform. The speech of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, in particular, is as promising a specimen of unleavened Toryism as we ever met with ; and convinces us that this " faded" patriot is far more at home in advocating the wrong side of the question than ever he was in advocating the right. There is no impugning the sincerity of his present intolerance ; indeed he himself takes special care to remove all grounds for distrust, by boasting, in almost every other tentente, of the exceeding pleasure he has derived hot-Witte tot-eviction of his full and perfect apostacy. Ile exhibits his turned dont with an air of doating, (76110. h -innate " Mark, ! 2entlerneu," be cries, how eit i eetu3lly have succeeded in turning it inside out. Not a stitch—not a rag of its old exterior is anywhere, visible. It is now full as good as new gives ale gnite a respectable appearance ; and will last me for the remainder of my life. I do assure you, gentlemen, I feel quite vain of it. to itv • original state it hung somewhat loosely upon me ; but now tint this defect has been re medied, it is as tight a fit as ever was made. Such is pretty nearly the stun and snbstance of the Honourable Illrotieen speech, with the exception of thtlt pottion of it wherein &hides to O'CoNsF.L.L. Of Stnglernan Sir FRANCIS cannot bring himself to speak with eVen Oftlinary courtesy. He was his fa vourite theme of abuse during th whole of the North Wilts election; a nd even now that he lia4 secured his return", and is recommending conciliation to the elec tors, he, cannot avoid giving him a parting kick.by way Of benediction.- Alas, what a rankling churn O'CON NELL has been, and still is, in the side of this "foolish, faded, :old gentleman He is a cotmtsnt, irri tating blister to his self-conceit, haunting his imagina• tion with the same tenacity with which Lord JOHN RUSSELL haunted the imagination of the poor lunatic, as was stated the other day, in the course of a Commission de Lunntico Inquirendo. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT will never forgive O'CON NELL for hXving presumed to engross a larger share of public attention than himself ; he will never forgive him for his superior capacity as an orator and a states man ; for his having carried, almost single-handed, Catholic Emancipation, when he (Sir FRANCIS) was labouring in vain for years to carry Reform ; and above all, and before all, he will never forgive him for that unflinching steadiness and consistency of purpose, which contrasts so remarkably with the flagrant apos tacy of " Westminster's Pride and England's Glory." It is here the shoe pinches. This is the true secret of the Hon. Baronet's humiliating conversion. He had rather " reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven"—that is to say, be of first-rate importance among the Ultra- Tories, .than be less influential than O'CONNELL among the Reformers. Judging from the rancour with which certain un principled• organs of the Ultra-Tory faction assail Ministers and their friends, whenever they have oc casion to allude to the Poor-law Amendment Act, a stranger to the proceedings of Parliament upon this measure would be led to attribute the alteration in the old system wholly to the Whigs—to conclude, in short, that it was not against the Reform Bill, but the New Poor-law Act, that the Tory aristocracy of Eng land struggled so desperately during the memorable period of the GREY Administration. Now, though we are of opinion that the Poor-law Amendment Bill is one of the best measures that human ingenuity could have devised for promoting the social welfare of this country, we cannot claim for the Whigs all the merit of carrying it into a law. No equally good measure was ever before so cordially supported by the Tories. The Conservatives in the House of Commons congratulated the Cabinet upon the introduction of so excellent a measure ; and, as for the Tory Peers, they vied with each other in accelerating its progress through the Upper House. To attack as a purely Whig-Radical measure a Bill supported in the Commons by Sir R. PEEL, and in the House of Peers by Lords .LYND HURST and WINCHILSEA, and the Dukes of CUM BERLAND,WELLINGTON, and NORTHUMBERLAND, is not however inconsistent with the dishonest tricks to which the Tory organs have recourse when labouring to excite a popular clamour against Ministers. The Poor Law Amendment Act is as much a Tory as it is a Whig measure—as much the Duke of WELLING TON'S concoction as Lord MELBOURNE'S. It is not a party question, and has never been regarded in the light of one by any journal possessing a particle of political honesty, or the shadow of a regard for prin ciple. We' would not now allude to the calumnies of the Tories on this subject, did we not learn that in some parts of the country a ridiculous impression ex ists among persons hostile to the new system, that the the return of the Tories to office would be the signal for a repeal of the Poor Law Amendment Act. Upon this point it may be as well to undeceive them at once. The leaders of the Tory party are warmer admirers of the operation of the Poor Law Amend ment Bill than are even those members :of her MA JESTY'S Government who took the most active part in recommending it to the adoption of the Legislature. This is a fact the correctness of which neither Sir ROBERT PEEL, the Duke of WELLINGTON, Lord LYNDHURST, nor any other Conservative leader in the United Kingdom, will attempt to question. F rt/NDS.—PA ANIL 9. F vc per Colts., :10f. -10 e. ..5e Four and a Half per Cents. la 1. force per I v;lts. eq. .2 c. Bank Actions, haute et Naples ' 97f. 5)(11 9:ic 971 10c. , 25c. Roman Five pi,Cents.„ 101 1 4 101. Spanish Actives, 23 1 .4 21. Spanish Passives, B ian Loan. Five per Cents . 103. Brussels Society, I,4liff. Belgian flank, 1,43;1 1,43.? f. Are. Porttigne, Three ner C.ent, .211. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 5231. Daytian Loan. 325 f. 320 f. ILX en AMC K oNr ONIION. One month, plier,.l7if„3;l4c„; money, 11:a. JS Iliree months, pa;-er, 251 211 r.; inoncY. —l. —C. yt I„4.sr PRICES. Five per Cents. ' I Int: hOe. Three per Cents. ittf. 41c. - Batik Actions, •2,41f0. Boman Five per Cents , 101. Belgian Loan, 203 Belgian Bank. I,4Wf see. Belgian Society, htir)of. Portuguese Three per Cents., 2tig. Hayti.in Loan, Spanish Actives, 23. Spanish Passives 5%. ,Spanish Differes 7. We hare received the whole of the Paris Journals of Wednesday. Their contents are, of no political importance. The KING and Royal Family are pass ing their time very agreeably in Normandy, and the country is more tranquil than jt has been at any period within the last quarter of a century. -From Spain the following intelligence had been communicated by tele graph to the Government : TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES. " BORDEAUX, AUG. 7, 6 P.M.—The Governor . of Sl ragossa announces on the 3d that the Pretender was on the Ist at Villarluengo, Lacanado, and Tronchon ; and that Espartero arrived on the 31st at Iglesuela. The Carlist expedition, which has passed the Ebro and entered Cas tile, was on the 29th between Cobarrubias and ArandA. Its ulterior direction was not known. Since the 27th of July, on which day Acalla arrived at Lerma, nothing has been known as to his movements, nor as to those of Es calera." " BAYONNF AUG. 7 8 P.m.—According to accounts from Saragossa of the 4th, am Carlos and the Infante were still at Iglesuela del Cid, and the main body of his, army at Cantavieja, cutting off the roads and preparing a vigorous resistance. Tristan• had drawn to the Ebro, near (luta. It is not believed to be his intention to favour the return of Don Carlos into Catalonia. Guergue has re-en tered Navarre, leaving on the 30th, at Lerma, Z triategui with 10,000 men. It is believed that Guergue is gone to prepare a new expedition." _ The private correspondence of the most influential of the Paris papers represents the condition of Don CARLOS as desperate. His ambition is now confined to the effecting a retreat into the Basques. This he cannot accomplish, if the QUEEN'S Generals do their duty. He is now virtually at their mercy. (From the French Papers.) It is now evident that the expedition of Don Carlos has failed ; it is no longer in force to march against Madrid, or to take Valencia, or to form a solid establishment in the mountains of Catalonia, where it was predicted that the Pretender would fix so many resources for his army, and so much sympathy for his cause. Don Carlos would now be happy to maintain his ground for some time in the moun tains of Cantavieja. This . position is difficult of access ; it commands the basins of the Ebro, the Tagus, and the GUa. dalquiver. If he could fortify himself there, he might be able to undertake some enterprise which would raise a little the spirits of the partisans of absolute power ; but if the mountains of Cantavieja are easily to be defended, they afford scarcely any resource for the subsistence of the troops. The Pretender can find in this place, therefore, only a means to halt, to wait for the partial expeditions which have orders to join the principal expedition. Th e military ascendancy is now with the Constitutionalists. Orders have been given to the Carlist General Uranga and the juntas of Navarre, Biscay, Guipuscoa and Alava, to enroll all the young men who are of age to bear arms. The Christino troops now in Navarre are preparing to attack the several points fortified by the C ar li sts. The junta of Castile has ordered two squadrons ofcavalry They are too to be formed at Algua (Guipuscoa.) consist f 200 men destined for Castile. An agent is sent to pur chase horses. On the 31st the Carlists c a pt ure d a great num b er o f loaded mules on the line cf Zubiri. Two mere battalions embarked on the 31st at St. Se bastian for Santander. The political chief of Sounder writes t) at the Cg list chief expedition under Guergue and Elio had advanced to Brimlir. between Briviesca and Bur gos ; but burl been forced hy want of provisions to put hack to the mountains of Santander. Great alarm seems to have been felt whit., waiting the to-rival of the troops that were tole:lye St. Schastio.ri on the Ist .kug.—Le . Commerce. Brussels and German Papers have been received with advices from Constantinople to the 20th ult., ex tracts from which will be found in another part of The Sun. CLARE _ELECirriOL (FROM A i'RIVATE CAIREEPONDENt,) . • ENNIS, TCEIP : M . , county was )'. -- Aer(l4,n ;eWi Major Maenamara and Corneliu s O'Brien tare re 'elected without the shadow of opposition ; end the whole promilints of the day were conducted in the h es t tefepce Ott tetl4ls. - .• Mr. Steele; ('chi h aiiieiniier er the Cambridge Senate,. and n el l 3tilYt'ff - ttiat University, also a member of the Birmingham Union, and London Institution, of . Civil En gineer?, in seeondiel the nonl;nlition of Mr. ti linen; mace h A wr€ll l - iii gredt Ildwe. k h. l 4 ferentt 4 . tik - 111 thost happy state of nib edit pitv tauter the sway of our youthful, beautiful, and grarious Queen, with the awfully volvanie state of the empire, and of IrAtntl In particul t, under Ike reiem or her predeee sors. H e conc l u d e d hi s speec h, attilist peals or rieelettiaL tion, and shnet e Mel save Queen Victoria," by tuovinr that a deputation should be sent from Clare, to wait on her Majesty in London, with an address congratulating her on her ausnie:otts dttes!ion to the Throne, expressing confidence in her Ministry, and gratitude for the truly royal sentiments expressed in Lord John Russell's letter to Lord Mulgrave. On 1..0td Nlnigrave himself, Mr. Steele passed a concise hut noble eulogy. • The - gentlemen named by the speaker iteit—thg high SherifT; the two County Members ► the Member for the Borough of Enni s t the Protestant and Catholic Bishops the Meister of the Rolls, a Clare man ; the Attorney-Ge neral, a Clare man•; Baron Richards, connected with Clare by marriage with ti Clare lady, and by property ; William Smith O'Brien, M.P., a Clare man ; William Roche. and David Roche, the Members for Limerick, but haying estates in Clare ; John O'Brien; of Elmvale, late High Sheriff of the county, the first Catholic High Sheriff made in Ireland under the Relief Bill ; ant the Gentleman who had the honour of presiding at the dinner given to , Lord Mulgrave in Limerick. Mr. Steele stated that he had in Dublin asked O'Connell, the admitted Representative of Ireland, but peculiarly identified with Clare, by the Clare elections of 1828 and 1829, if he would. permit him to propose him as a member of the deputation, and that he Instantly assented. This announcement was received in the Court-house with peals of acclamation and huzzaing. The High Sheriff, a Catholic gentleman of the county, the County and Borough Members; and Mr. O'Brien, of Elmvale, instantly promised to go to London ;. and the High Sheriff has written to their Lordships the two Bishops, and the other gentlemen, to request their attendance. • Another proposition of Mr. Steels's was carried, amidst renewed shouts of " God save Queen Victoria,"—That the High Sheriff of the County Clare should present her Ma jesty with a crown of roses, enwreathed with shamrocks and thistles, as an emblem of the union to. be created in the em pire by her reign. The whole of the new oratorio of St. Paul is to be performed by the Sacred Harmonic Society in Exeter Hall, on the 12th of September, for the second time in London, The performance will be conducted by the composer, F. Mendelsohn Bartholdy, who will arrive in town from Ger many previous to that time. His• Majesty the King of Wuttemhurg, accompanied by Count Mendelsloh, will leave town in a few days for a tour throughout the manufncttiring districts. John Reeve is going on as favourably as his friends can wish, and if no relapse take place he may be pronounce .1 entirely out of danger. His physician, Dr. Rlberts; is in daily attendance on him, at his residence in Bridge-street, Blackfriars. " Glorious John," it is hoped, will be soon enabled to resume his duties at the Surrey and Adelphi theatres. A PLAYING MAN.—Ile himself, with all his judg ment in bets, would have betted any man in England against himself for self-murder. Yet, after having been supposed the sharpest genius of his time, he, by all that appears, shot himself in the distress of his circumstances. * * * He lost twelve hundred a year by Lord Albetnarle's death, and four by Lord Gage's. The same day he asked im mediately for the government of Virginia, or the fox-hound ; and pressed for an answer with an eagerness that surprised the Duke of —, who never had a notion of pinnin g down the relief of his own or any other man's wants to a day. Yet that seems to have been the case of ****, who deter mined to throw the die of life or death, Tuesday was se'n night, on the answer he was to receive 'from the Court, which did not prove favourable. He consulted indirectly, and at last directly, several people on the easiest method of finishing life ; and seems to have thought he had been too explicit, for he invited company to dinner for the day of his death, and ordered a supper at White's, where he supped, too, the night before. He played at whist till it was one in the morning : it was New Year's morning. Lord Bertie drank to him a happy new year. He clapped to ins •yes. In the morning he had a lawyer and three witnesses, and executed his will, which he made them read twice over, paragraph by paragraph ; and then, asking the lawyer if that would stand good thongh a man were to shoot himself, and being assured that it would, he said, " Pray stay while I step into the next room," and shot himself. He clapped the pistol so close to his head that they heard no report.—Lord Or ford's Letters. THE LATE GLASGOW MURDER.—The autho rities have been most indefatigable in their endeavours to discover the villain who shot Smith, the cotton-spinner, in Anderston, on Saturday night, the 22d of July ; and in the course of a most careful examination by Mr. Salmond of the members of the spinners' committee (who are still in custody), and others, the name of a spinner, M'Lean, became so bound up, and seemingly so deeply implicated, in the horrid deed, as to leave very little doubt that, could he be got, the crime might in all probability be brought home to him. In consequence of this every exertion was made to discover him, and on Thursday morning last a young man, of the name of Roberton, who is frequently employed by Captain Miller, and who has been exceedingly success ful in discovering delinquents, happened to see the mother of iNPLean, whom he previously knew, walking along the road in the direction of CadJer. Roberton immediately suspected that when the mother was there the son might not be far off; and, having given information of the fact to the superintendent, Donald M'Lean, one of our criminal officers, was dispatched, along with Roberton, to do their best to discover the suspected individual. After cautious inquiry at almost every house in the district, Roberton on Sabbath forenoon observed M‘Lean's father smoking his pipe on the road near Lilyburn; and the party having se parated and secreted themselves they dogged the man to his home, into which they all instantly followed. Having seized and secured the prisoner, he was safely lodged in the police office on Sunday night. We understand he displays much confidence and self-possessioa ; but from all we have been able to gather there is a chain of circumstances con necting hint tvith the late assassination of the most extraor dinary description.—Glasgow Papei% Yesterday afternoon the waggon of Robert Barton, Esq., of Little Hendon, was robbed in going from the New Bell Inn, Parringdon-street, to the Rose and Crown, Hol born, of a hale of goods, containing several articles to the value of 2.71. and upwards. The robber made use of the following ingenious stratagem :—A man in a smock-frock rendered him-self so very active in loading the waggon at the New Bell, that the people of the yard supposed him to beleng to - the waggon ; and the waggoner, on the other hand, iniegined he was connected with the inn. At the time the teneeon was being loaded another waggon belong ing to Mr. 13e ton entered the yard, a nd was sent to a house in the City to take in some sugar. The first-mentioned waggon, while proceeding from the Bell to the Rose and Crowu, was overtaken by the stranger that had so mate rially assisted in loading, who, in apparently great agitation, addressed the waggoner, saying " A sad accident had hap pened to his feilow-servant by the falling of a hogshead of sugar upon hint, and that the driver of the first waggon was to go and take charge of the second, while he (the speaker) proceeded on to Hendon with the first. This ruse sue c :eded. The carter went 63 desired, and during his ab sence the waggon was robbed as above. It is almost un necessary to observe that no accident of the kind mentioned had happened to the waggoner. Lest night, between nine and ten o'clock, the fol lowing dreadful and melancholy stage-coach accident occurred at the Golden Cross inn, Charing-cross, to a ' , nun ; ; man, 30 years of ego, of the name of William Gatten, formerly a guard to a coach, who arrived on the Brunswick Star, Portsmouth night coach, at the Golden Cross-inn, Charing-cross, for the purpose of proceeding out of London. The unfortunate man, in endeavouring to descend from the front of the coach before the horses were stopped, missed his footing, and he was instantly precipitated to the ground, when, unfortunately, the front and hind wheels passed over both his legs, which were frightfully fractured before the coachman could pos sibly pull his horses up. Assistance was immediately procured, and he was raised from off the ground. From the dreadful injuries he had sustained his screams were terrific. A shutter being procured a bed from the ins was placed on it, and the poor sufferer removed to the Charing -cross Hospital, when, on an examination of the injuries he had sustained, it is feared that amputation must be performed. The coach was particularly heavily laden with insi.le and outside passengers, besides a quan tity of luggage. It is established that the glaciers which lie heaped upon each other upon the gorges and sides of Mont Blanc reach to the height of 8,000 feet perrendicular, and that the snows of the upper part occupy an additional space of 4,000 feet perpendicular, thus making together a mass of 12,000 feet of ice and snow, without including the irregu larities of the surface. In the county of Hereford the apple crop d oes not promise to be large, but the corn is looking extremely well, and is in many places pearly ripe, The hops look well, . . , I ; IiIC,ES tY,t , 5T1', 1 1.,...*ii Tl 4 Is 13A.1* Al'ON P C't'l , i 3t tom. , 0314 k .1 - ;191.1k. ..... ... -- .J 1 . .... . .... ~,, In.iia Sui-n... ....... ...,,, ..... aut.,. •at' .., riper Cent. ,et 4 per C4ill, Cons ...:,... •• - 91,VA South S:,-, - , S. ,, ck .....•••• •• ...... 3,( 2 pc+ rent. ...;.....:;..:::;; ,-, -- Old ,ftoliti ,, Vitt!! 1t0.1.....: ...... t!.•....1YA:4 ' tie tfl'ttli ~..... ...... v ,:: — New 3 1 ,i ?er Cc 7 t • 9 0 54.N44 3 I•er Cesit. %firm:hes, Fro— New 5 per C0nt............ ........ Extl , . liiii,, E 1, 4, l7 49 oin B int: Lena 4 - ... - initie..toes; ire .DAto..„„_,„ ~54- o . 47 49 2.rn. Jan. 5, !MO l5 1-93 1 4 Ditto Snail' QCt. 10 '1V19.......-.11i..... --, , Ditto Commercial _.- pin lifi. 5. !5;79iii...1:1 :i...,:::1! 117( 13 , ..t0 Ad.?ettll~ . Jan. 5, F" , 30............ ...... --- Bank Stock rot Aie,itiiii 4,:iii ----''' April 5, lftv' „..».. , India, Stock for Account,. ....» -- 4:r `• 2 ,"," ?TT , ........ ..I --- ..., Conan' , for Acconnt .... ...... 9 15 ;. thnniu Y 1 . ' _ PRICES . OF FollEtOtt ftitittfl ttlttl D.AY . I, I T Q!4 O'CLOCK. Au:Allan 13(ituts .. ..... .„..,;;;... . ..;.;. Peru lattridi ......Islniiiciii ~. Re'ri /Hi 13:iittiS •" ••"• • • • 102',4' Ditto Account Ditto Ac6, - iiii4::: ..... ... ;a :: --;:, Fortugtiese 130nd5.......... Br i zilian Bonds .. .. ..... .......0 '''. Ditto AccotAnt ....... ...... -7 Ditto' Account ........ ........ —; DIG , !le* vf , i 4 e't " . — _ B terms Ayres flonds • —.! Ditto, P. per cent :Mtn account ....... ........ i Ditto Account ... e ,,, . T ' '25 4 !.; A !,ilii.-.11 ndts4s ..I .......i.,...... 29 P-,1,51,1' Honda Ditth Arenutll ....,;iu;„; „ ..7 . -.' Itutminn aontla, IN2 ~. „.. :,',umbian 80114 ......15..:1 1 4 =, fpli :i3 f,'• .4,V., ettn..±111..„......- ,. Ditto Accout,t ...... .: . ...... —a, ..Ittl 4 .lliF. .M.,:“:“.114 .... Cal Columbia n Bonds, 1821.... ..... „.. -- • Spanie, lloni;i .......i..l4.isiwn -f- Ditto Account ....„........... Ditto Account ... ....... ..,- Li nish gfit!ti9 111 k 0....c...141 ..... 1 Ditto Bonds, Is3l — Ditto Account .......<.......a. -,, 1 Piot.p Accotint 'l 1 A % Greek 80nd5....................... —' French, ti eft Utq1.......... —f_ --, l'itto Bonds, 1825 —' ------ 4 per cent. Ditto Account „. ........ ...... —-- 3 per cent. ...... Mevean f10ti014,5 per c,nt.... —: --. Exchange ..... Ditto Account ...... ...... .... .... notch, 24 per cent ..... 5214 N l' itto, 0 per cent ..»...».. —: DlttO ACCf.ltint ;,<... 5244 Ditto Account .... ...... .... Ditto. S per cent Lis 1C171 , ,15i N,w,htzn........ .. ............. ... Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THlti DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK . Paid< rer Share randonga Mining Company 'll4 7 K i.i 1 del _ lonte Mining Co., Registered &M. 105.64. MU ° O ntegistered Unitchi Mexican (issued at W. poi.) Brighton (Rennie's) Van °lemon's Land Agricultural Company l7 log !et PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN AUGUST S. 30er Cent. Consols Ditto Reduced — Ditto, 4 per crnt b9 3 qper Cent. Stock 99 Hibernian Ditto New, Item 94% City of Dublin Steam Co. ...... - 3 , per Cent. Ot be Iturcs - , National Insurance Co .... ..... B aik Stock 199 City Debentures, 4 per cent... - Royal Canal Stosk .. ---• ; Ballast Office Debentures, 4 dr :lid Canal Stock - , per cent. MAILS. • Arrived. Due Arrived. Due.'Arrive& . Du 0 America.......... 0 I France.. .. ...... 0 0 Lic ,on 1 0 Prazi1............ 0 0 Guern . &Jersey 0 0 Malta ....... ... . 0 Buenos Ayres.. 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 Mexico 0 0 Cirthagena ..... 0 0 Holland 0 0 Ostend.. ...... ... 0 I lliblin... ...... 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden .. 0 0 Flanders ......... 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. vf0rning......... G minutes after 10. I Evening......4S minutes after 10 ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) Lord LANGDALE did not come into Court this morning until eleven o'clock, his Lordship having had to attend the Lord Chancellor's Court with the Vice-Chancellor, for the purpose of giving judgment in the Downing College case, which, it will be recollected, was argued before those three Learned Judges. KENT V. PICKERING.-JUDGMENT. In this case a balance was found to be due from two executors to the testator's estate. One of the executors was a creditor, and he claimed to be entitled to be paid the amount of his debt out of the balance found due from the two. Lord LANGDALE, on coming into Court this morning gave judgment, and said the reasons•on which the right of one executor to retain his ow•n debt out of the testator's estate in his hands were founded, were applicable to the case its which the assets were in the hands of both, and the debt due to one only. One, therefore, could not sue the other. and each had a right to pay off or release the debt ; and supposing the balance was in the power of the two jointly, the executor, who was not a creditor, could not dispose of the balance without the concurrence of his co-executor, the creditor. His Lordship after going through the authorities that had been cited, thought there was a right of retainer by one executor out of the balance due to the two. NIAS V. NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. TINNEY this morning commenced his address on be half of the defendants. The case is likely to occupy the whole of the day. _ The charter of the Rolls mill not sit again after to-day, until the first dny of Michaelmas term. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, ALIO. 10.—Wind N. E.—Arrived the Derwent, Rid del, from New South Wales. Sailed the Lady Emma, for South Australia ; Richebucto, and Sir William Bensley, for Quebec; and Sarah, for Cadiz. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 10.—Wind S. E.—No arrivals. Sailed the Carnatic, for Bombay ; Wellington, for New York ; and her Majesty's ship Pearl, for Plymouth. FALMOUTH, AUG. 9. —Wind E. S. E.—Arrived the Blanche, from Rouen. WEYMOUTH, AUG. 10.—Arrived the Diana, Dalt, Cadiz. DARTMOUTH, AUG. 10.—Arrived De Begone, Havannals• BRISTOL, Auo. 10.—Arrived the Earl of Liverpool, Nevis, GLOUCESTER, AUG. 10..--Arrived the Edward Woodhouse, from Terra Nova. MARGATE, AUG. 10.—Off port the Mary, from Memel. BELFAST, AUG. B. —Arrived the Hero, Gibson, Alert, White, and Shannon steamer, from London. ABERDEEN, AUG. B. —Arrived the Allendale, Elliot, from Richebucto. SHIELDS, AUG. 9. Arrived the Robert Scourfield, Sicily. Extract of a letter from the agent at Genoa, dated Au gust 8 : Our Sanatory Board continues to grant bilis of health with the note stated in our last, although cases of cholera morbus have happened is the city for the last four days. Some cases, however, have manifested themselves in Corniglianio, and Port Tino, on the West and East coast. The Board in their sitting yesterday, decreed that vessels from Leghorn and Marseilles shall be subject to ten slays' quarantine." ' THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Cunsol Market was during yesterday in a declining , state, although there was no intelligence to cause the Market to he heavy. Yesterday the weekly meeting of the Bank Directors took place, and to the present time we do not hear that they came to any result respecting the lowering of the rate of interest on discounts. Consols closed yesterday at 911 for the Account, and 911 for Money ; opened this morning at 911 ; Exche quer Bills, 47 prem. 49 ; India Bonds, 48 60 prem. 49 ; Bank Stock, 210 ; India Stock, 2581. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 211 Ex-Coupons ; opened at 211 1 ; Portuguese plosed at 40 ; opened 40 to ; Three per Cents., 254 ; - JDatch Two and-a-Half per Cents., 521 ; Columbian, 241. HALF-PAST ONE. . _ The general topic of conversation eritiielT , relatestOtho disturbed state of Portugal ; and the merchants trading to Lisbon are very anxious for further information, which is not expected until the middle of next week, by the Don Juan steamer. Consols which were during the morning at 91i may 1 e quoted at present 91i 4 for the Account ; Money, 911 ; Exchequer Bills, 47 49 prem. ; India Bonds, 47 49 prem. ; Bank Stock, 2101- ; India ditto, 2581. In the Foreign Market scarce any business doing. Spanish Active 214 ex-Coupons ; Portuguese rather lower, 39 ;t ; Three per Cents, 2.54 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 52i 4. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 111 i THE WILTS VICTORY. —Referring to the lives sacrificed, and to means made use of by the Tory agents at the North Wilts election, the Independent says, " a time will come when the blood of those victims will rise up in judgment against those who planned, and sanctioned, the base proceedings on the day of nomination." 'Adding, "is the flush of victory the expense is little thought of ; and were the expense confined to money, would be of little im portance ; but when we contemplate the amount of vice and misery which has been the consequence of the means adopted to gain this victors, we shudder at the thought." The return of Mr. Dunlop, the Liberal candidate for Ayrshire is certain. On the first day, he had a gross majority of 143 ; and, although we have not yet received the details of the second day's poll, we are assured that be w ill h a ve a majority of upwards of 200.—Scotsman. Th e new;v-elected Tory representatives of We)'-. mouth have fixed pn Thursday next for regaling their sup porters with a dinner, to celebrate their return to Parlia ment.. It would seem that there is not that unanimity "in the camp" as was anticipated, and they would fain make be lief of----as it is reported that not all of " Mine Hosts" have accepted the boon of opening a house on the occasion► with good entertainment, for less than twice " Twelve honest men and free !!"—Sherbo: ►►e Journal. We were speaking in a 'company a few evenings ago about the miraculous conversion of the fi s h es b y t h e preach ing of some saintin the Ro t ni s h ca l en d ar. " There ' i nothing uncommon about. it," said a friend from Kilmarnock. The eloquence of Mr. Colqulioun, when he was with ar, lured the whole Finnic tribe from the cause of Reform. Seats Tinics. We have heard some members of the fine new con- stituency of Kilmarnock affect to speak of the Rutherglen voters as retaining some of the old bearers of the close fp toin. At the recent election Rutherglen lies nobly vindi cated itself from the charge, and may now turn the tables on its critics. Poor Kilmarnock ! Even Inverness, newly emancipated from tho Tory, with all the airs of a kept ma" dam who has just been made an honest woman of, points the finger at her.—Argos. In the Court of Chancery yesterday morning, the Lord Chancellor intimated that he would appoint some day, next week on w hi c h h e wou ld g i ve j u d gmen t i n sev eral cases which were still undecided. Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. Stirling, Coroner, at the Triumph public-house, Somers -town, on tho body of Thomas Gibbs, who hung himself last Tuesday. It appeared the deceased was a carpenter, 57 years of AO formerly in good circumstances, but for the last five yearS had suffered bodily ill health, and mentally from his misfor4 tunes and the ungrateful neglect of his son. During the absence of his wife out at work, he suspended himself from the bedstead post with a rope. Verdict--" Temporal Insanity. Several large covies of young birds have been seen in this neighbourhood strong upon the wing. Pheasant' are said to have brooded well, and will be plentiful Oil season. Hares are also spoken of as very numerous al g plentiful, so that sportsmen may anticipate with confidence unusually good sport as soon as the time will adinitelf (4l.l kin Luminary. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR Of " STORIES OF WATERLOO." In 3 vols. post BYo., T" BIVOUAC; sr, STORIES of the PENINSULAR WAR. By W. H. MAXWELL, Esq. Anther of "'Stories of Waterloo," " My Life," &c. IS NOW READY. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. ' 4 l / 4