The Sun. — London, England, 1837-08-01 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX ELECTION. MEETING AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR. Last night a numerous meeting of freeholders and friends of Mr. Byng and Mr. Hume was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, for the purpose of promoting the interests of those gentlemen at the ensuing election for the county of Middlesex. Lord WILLIAM RUSSELL, on the motion of Mr. Warburton, was voted to the Chair. Mr. WARBURTON then opened the business of the meet ing by eulogising the conduct of Messrs. Byng and Hume in Parliament. Notwithstanding the efforts made by Mr. Hume in the cause of freedom, a body of men--he would not call them Englishmen—he believed they were navi gators—had that day lent themselves at Brentford to the Tory party, and conducted themselves in a disorderly, disgraceful manner.—(Cry of " Shame.") Mr. War burton concluded by moving that Mr. Byng and Mr. Hume, the late Members for the county of Middlesex, had deserved the support of the freeholders in the ensuing election. Mr. BYNG addressed the meeting, and begged leave to say the whole of his political life had been devoted to the sup port of the principles of the Constitution. He did not dis tinguish the different shades of character which marked the modern parties. His object had ever been to serve his constituents. The same desire and the same motives would actuate him to the last hour of his existence.—(Cheers.) Mr. HUME said he considered both Whigs and Radicals bound to agree for the purpose of keeping off the Tories, their common enemies.—(Cheers.) It was a question of principle which all Reformers should observe. He had read the speech of Lord John Russell, at Stroud, and was de lighted to find the spirit of Reform progressing. Lord John Russell had done much by the Municipal. Reform Bill. He had made the rate-payers in boroughs independent. With respect to the election for the county of Middlesex, he could not see how electors could be justified in withholding their votes. He knew there were some who, rather than offend cer tain parties, would not vote at all. The exercise of the elec tion franchise was a sacred right, and the man who did not use it was unworthy to possess it.—(Cheering.) He knew that a class of persons, by inuendoes and private letters,had been holding him up as an enemy to the Church. They en deavoured to influence persons piously disposed, to give their votes in opposition to him ; but he would ask the electors who felt the pressure of church-rates and tithes, whether Reform was not necessary in the Church, as well as in other de partments? He was happy to see their young and amiable Queen resolved to follow the footsteps of her father. If she wanted any stimulus she had a mother, who knew what was due to the people.—(Cheering.) Mr. Hume, in allusion to the body of navigators who had been that day hired to oppose him, expressed his deep re gret that men should be found so degraded as to lend them selves to oppose men who had so long been the advocates of public liberty. He concluded by calling upon the elec tors to come forward on Thursday and Friday, and by supporting himself and Mr. Byng keep out the Tories, whose conduct was then personified with the King of Hanover. After some further remarks, Mr. Hume sat down amidst loud cheering and demonstrations of respect. Mr. PITT said Mr. Hume had one excellent quality which had not been mentioned to the electors. Mr. Hume had always been found in his place in the House of Com mons whenever any public or private question interesting to his constituents was to be agitated.—(Loud cheering.) Mr. Pitt concluded by proposing three cheers for Messrs. Byng and Hume, which were given in a general and hearty manner. Mr. LAWLESS then a lclresied the meeting. It was a blessing, be said, to see in the C:iair a Nobleman reated to Lord John Russell, who had done so much for the people of Ireland and England in the way of reform. They were all obliged to the King of Hanover, who, by opposing the laws of England, had shown himself the promoter of public liberty. Every Reformer ought to rally round Messrs. Byng and Hume, and return those gentlemen to the House of Commons. The resolution was then put, ant carried by a general show of hands. O❑ the motion of Mr. HOME, thanks were voted to the Noble Chairman fur his excellent conduct in the Chair. I.lrd W. RUSSELL briefly returned thanks, and the meeting- separated. Before they left Cie room. they were invited to attend the poll on Timrsday and Friday, otherwise the Tories would take all advantages.. MR. O'CONNELL-KILDARE. E. RUTH EN, Mr. O'Connell has addressed a letter to the 10/. electors and labourers of the county of Kildare, cautioning them against the insidious attempt of Mr. Edward Ruthven to delude them. In this letter Mr. O'Connell says :—" Out of respect to his father's memory I first expostulated with him in private. I told him that we could not possibly coun tenance his again canvassing the county of Kildare. I told him that he stood convicted of crimes which were in the eyes, not only of gentlemen, but of every honest man, how ever humble, of the most disgraceful nature—that Lord Howth, I think it was, Colonel Westenra, and Mr. John Maher, men of the highest honour and integrity, had con victed him of a crime nothing short of swindiing and false swearing—that they had published a book which was cir culated amongst all the Members of the House of Com mons, distinctly finding him guilty of having substituted one, if not two, horses for the proper ones, merely to win other persons money—that it was believed that he had qualified on oath one, if not both, of these horses—that if he were unjustly accused, he had then the opportunity to vindicate his character, by bringing an action against the publishers of the book, but if he did not do so, he must stand for ever tarnished in the public mind. He totally declined to bring any such action, but he pleaded that his means were limited and that he suffered much in the public cause." Mr. O'Connell then proceeds to state the trouble he took to obtain for Mr. Ruthven some Colonial appointment. In this object, however, the Learned Gentleman says he could not succeed. He then endeavoured to obtain from the new candidates for Kildare some compensation for Mr. Ruthven's losses and expenses at former elections. Mr. O'Connell says, " I found, however, that I could not get him one shilling for such compensation ; and I concluded by informing hint very distinctly, that if he stood for the county of Kildare, he must expect all the opposition I can give him." The letter concludes in the following terms : " I now only act from a conscientious sense of public duty when I tell you I am convinced Edward Ruthven is in the interest of the Orange faction, and is an enemy to the peo ple of Ireland. His recent conduct leaves no room to doubt this. His address, full as it is of topics calculated only to irritate and injure others without serving even his pretended purposes, is alone sufficient to prove to my mind, that Edward Ruthven is in the interest of, and is the tool of; the Orange faction. Labourers of Kildare, do not con fide in him. Do not attend to any summons or call of his— he is not your friend—but the contrary—he is your enemy, doing the dirty work, as he is doing—of th e O range party . Is thre a single man amongst you who would have con fidence with a person, in your own class, who had been de clared to be guilty of dishonesty or any kind of swindling ? lam sure there is not. You would be ashamed to keep any such company. Do not, then, keep company with Edward Ruthven, or assemble any where at his bidding. Electors of the County of Kildare—l am convinced he calumniates you when he says he has the confidence of any of you. There is not a single voter in Kildare who would not disgrace himself by voting for this unhappy man. You are honest—vote for honest men. You are just and true —vote for the just and true Archbold and O'Ferrall. Above all, do not degrade yourselves by listening one mo ment to a man whose canvass, as a candidate for your county, is directly and obviously calculated to injure the popular and honest candidates, O'Ferrall and Archbold, and to aid the interests of the Orange faction—the unmi tigated enemies of the religion and the liberties of the people of Ireland." MR. GLEIG's " HUSSAR."—We are glad to see that a second edition of this new work, by the celebrated author of " The Subaltern," is just published. Of all the records of personal military adventures that we have read, we certainly think " The Hussar" the most curious and interest ing. The interest is so engrossing, and the variety of adven ture so great, and of so impressive a character, that no one who takes up the book will willingly lay it down until he has read it from beginning to end. - - - - - - An inquest was held yesterday on the body of Hugh Quinn, a child only four mouths old. The mother at tended, and stated that on Wednesday morning about one o'clock, she went to bed with the deceased, her husband being already in bed. She placed the child on her right arm and fell asleep. Between six and seven she awoke and found the deceased as she had placed it quite dead. She was sober on going to bed, but her husband was rather tipsy. The deceased had a fall last Monday, but was not very much hurt, and was very well when they went to bed, though he had sighed a good deal ever since he got the fall.—Mr. W. Callon, surgeon, stated that he had opened the body of th e d ecease d , and from the appearance of the lungs, he was of opinion that the de ceased died from suffocation.—Verdict accordingly.—Liver pool Chronicle. Mrs. Gore's new novel of " Stokeshill Place" is said to pourtray the society of the county of Kent in the same piquant style in which " Mrs. Armitage" displayed the pecu liarities of Yorkshire. The election scenes at Westerton are supposed to be sketches after nature. Our predictions have been verified, and Bristol has been retrieved from the disgrace inflicted on her by the results of the last two elections. After the severest struggle perhaps ever recorded in the annals of electioneering contests, the Liberal cause has once again triumphed, and the city has been released from a thraldom, the most degrading, the most op pressive that an English town has ever groaned under. And the conquest is not more important, than the means have been honourable by which the victory has been achieved.—Bristol Mercury. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1837. The election of Members for the Southern Division of Essex is fixed for Thursday next, and it is the firm opinion of all who are acquainted with the real state of political matters in that quarter, that if the electors screw their courage to the sticking-place—if they dare to fulfil the promises they have given Mr. BRANFILL— the liberal candidate will be returned. We know well the difficulties against which the Reformers of South Essex have to contend. We know the ingrained tyranny of disposition resident in the Essex Tory, who allows no man over whom he posseises influence to act or even think for himself in politics or religion, without visit ing him with the penalty, in such cases made and pro vided—the penalty of vengeance in every form in which malignity can embody persecution. Such is the benign spirit of Toryism as it is developed in the squirearchy of this district ; and to do the clergy justice they are far from being behind the laity in the bitterneis of their political and religious preju dices. They rather, indeed, go beyond them in their hatred of every thing liberal, making up by their good will what they want in actual power. It will hardly be believed, were not the fact notorious, that the clergyman of the parish in which Mr. BRANFILL resides, has made his pulpit the vehicle of such personal abuse of that gentleman, that he and his family have been actually compelled to ab sent themselves for the present from that worship which they prefer, and to join a dissenting congre gation ; where if they miss a little p omp and cere mony, they have not their religious feelings wounded, by seeing the place consecrated to piety and charity prostituted to the gratification of the worst passions of human nature. In a county so ridden by squires and priests it is delightful to see that a spirit has been roused which promises, if not to root out, at least to repel and keep in check these violent aggressors on the civil and re ligious rights of their countrymen. A band of sturdy yeomen have rallied round Mr. BRANEILL, who has for the third time reared the standard of independence, determined to return him to Parliament, and to return him, as every popular representative ought to be—free of expence. With the lofty energy and perseverance which they have hitherto displayed in spite of all ob stacles, and which is well expressed in the motto ex hibited on the one of their banners at the no mination— ___. Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won." with this noble spirit prompting them to exertion, and setting at defiance the threats of " the little tyrant of their fields," the electors of South Essex will achieve a glorious victory, and set a memorable example to their countrymen who are engaged in a similar struggle. The men of Essex could not have selected a better man than Mr.BRANFILL, to oppose to the tools of the Hanoverian faction. He is a sound Reformer—an enemy to change merely for the sake of change ; but anxious to strengthen our national institutions by cau tiously clearing away all that is rotten in them—all that is decayed through time, or corrupted through abuse—all, in short, that has ceased to be useful ; and by engrafting on the old foundation such improvements cs may suit the improved state of society, and bring them into harmony with the spirit of the times. No one can object to Mr. BR ANFIL L that he is not the friend of the agriculturist. Being himself a considerable landed proprietor and a most intelli gent man, this might safely be taken for granted ;, but his opinions on this subject are no secret to the far mers of Essex. They have not forgotten with what zeal he espoused their cause, and with what ability he publicly fought their battle last year, when their interests were at stake during the discussion of the Tithe Commutation Bill. The supporters of Hano verian policy naturally resort to Hanoverian means for carrying it into effect : we are therefore not sur prised at any baseness of which they are guilty. What, for instance, can be more unprincipled—more innately CUMBERLAND—than for them to bring it as a publie charge against a political opponent, that he is an approver of the new Poor-law ? The knaves know well enough that the Tories supported the Poor Law in its passage through Par liament with all their might—though it has since been made manifest that it was not from principle they did so, but from the lowest and most sordid motives ; and now these wretches, forsaken of all decency, who, but for this very law would themselves have been by this time paupers, halloo on the mob against every person, not of their own kidney, who approves of it T. This insensate cry will, we are well assured, have no effect upon the minds of the South Essex electors. They have seen with their own eyes the benefits which have resulted to all classes, and most of all to the poor, from the law in :question ; and they know that Mr. BRANFILL has declared his readiness to amend any of its provisions which may be found not to work so well in practice as its authors intended. The electors of this important district have now a duty to perform which involves an awful responsibility We trust they will discharge it with corresponding con-' scientiousness. Their own best interests, as well as those of succeeding generations, are suspended on the issue of the conflict which is now raging from the one end of the kingdom to the other. We would particularly in voke the aid of those well-meaning persons who who have embraced what are called " Conservative" opinions, under the impression that these opinions im plied something different from Toryism—something claiming an alliance with liberty, with improvement, with the Constitution. We implore them to open their eyes and their understandings to the infamous de ception which has deen practised upon them by a set of rogues whose trade it is to pass themselves off for what they are not. We do not ask them to puzzle their brains with any intricate process of reasoning, in order to detect the artifice by which they have been deluded. We merely wish them to meditate upon one single fact—we entreat them to bear in mind that the Head of the " Conservative" party—the Conservative of Conservatives—has given an earnest of what that party would do in England, were they in power, in the destruction—it was his first public act—of the Consti tution of Hanover. Does not this show at a glance the length, the breadth, and the depth of " Conser vatism ?" The Apostate BURDETT imagines, even at the eleventh hour, that he has a chance of coining in for North Wiltshire. His Committee, we understand, are scour ing the county in all directioty, bribing some—intimi dating others—and hoaxing all the electors who will listen to them. We have heard strange accounts of these gentlemen's proceedings, but forbear to notice them, from a conviction that all their efforts will be unavailing. BURDETT, his Committee may rely on it, will never be returned for North Wilts. The honest electors in that divis:on know him too well, and will scorn to accept the Rejected of Westminster. That the Baronet himself—notwithstanding his sanguine anticipations—has some dim idea of this, is evident from the letter which he penned the other day to Mr. ESTCOURT, wherein he has recourse to the same maudlin, sentimental clap-trap which he found so successful with the softer-headed and tenderer hearted of the Westminster electors. "I do promise," says he, " that in case you, the Wilts Constituency, order me, in tl►is great cause and crisis, dead or alive, I will be with you." We have no patience with this sickening sentimentality. It is worse than the worst that appears in a fashionable novel. Did not Sir FRA NCIS make use of the same drivelling cant at Westminster? Did he not say—with a view to entrap the sympathies of the electors—that he feared he should never quit the hustings alive ; and was he not quite well enough a few days afterwards to make the most violent anti-Reform speech in the House of Commons that had been made during the Session ? Electors of North Wilts, act by Sir FRANCIS BURDETT as Wigton has acted by Sir ANDREW AGNEW. Kick him out ; for depend on it, there is little or no difference between the two Ba ronets. The one is a puritanical, the other a senti mental twaddler. Both are Tories, and both hate the principles of Constitutional freedom as the Devil hates holy water. But the English Baronet—it is doing him no more than justice to say—is a thousand times worse than the Scotch one ; wherefore, we re peat, kick him out—Electors of North Wilts, kick him out by all means. Think what a stigma it would attach to you as a Reform constituency, were you to return as your Representative the rankest apostate in in all Britain. As you value consistency, then, kick out BURDETT. As you wish well to the principles of progressive Reform, kick out BURDETT. As you prefer manhood to dotage, sincerity to hypocrisy, a Liberal to a Tory—choose METHUEN, and kick out BURDETT. Stand on no ceremony with him, but de sire him to quit the hustings and turn his horses' heads towards London as soon as possible, and the sooner the better. Think you, if he betrayed Westminster, he will not betray you ? No—no--once a Judas, always a Judas. But if, notwithstanding your hints, he per sist in going to the poll, ask him these questions : Ask him what has become of the principles which he advocated in the meridian vigour of his manhood ; what has become of his hatred to the Tories, which he swore should never cease but with his life?— and, above all, what has become of those written plans for Universal Suffrage, Annual Parliaments, and the Ballot, which he used to carry about with him in his coat-pocket, and read once a-year to the Westminster electors at the Crown and Anchor Tavern ? Put these questions to him, and if he decline answering them—as he surely will—tell him that you would just as soon think of electing the weathercock on the steeple of Devizes' Church, as the man who in his old age shamelessly apostatizes from every principle that he held most sacred in his manhood. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, M.P., for North Wilts ? Impossible I The electors can never so indelibly disgrace themselves. What will Ireland do ?—what support will she give to a Government whose motto is equal rights ?—what proof of loyal devotion will she offer to the first British Sovereign that ever commenced a reign with thanking a patriotic Lord Lieutenant for governing her agreeably with the wishes of her native population ?—are ques tions which are daily heard amid the din and bustle of English borough elections, and to which we have no doubt the Irish Reformers will return satisfactory answers. For ourselves, we are confident that Ireland will do her duty—promptly, disinterestedly, and effi ciently. She did it before under discouraging aus pices : she will not—she cannot do less now, when the first fruits of the victory are by the common consent of England and Scotland made over to her. On almost all previous occasions, Ireland fought the battles of the British people with scarcely a hope of bettering her own condition in the struggle ; she now enters the field to revenge her own wrongs—to requite her poli tical sufferings upon the heads of those who rivetted of her her fetters—and to assert the indefeasibility PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLUCIS.. Bank Stock. — llndia 5t0ek......... 3 per Cent. Red.......... ........ 92 1 4% iDitto Bonds 52 51 pm. 3 per Cent. Cont 91%% ISouth Sea Stock 3% per Cent..........-- ........ -- Old Annuities - Ditto Red 99% 100 , New Ditto .... •• New 334 per Cent. 9936% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... New 5 per Cent.. ....... ..... ...«. -- 1 Exch. Bills, Xl,OOO 5l 53 pm. Bank LongAbinuitlestoexpire ;Ditto 500 51 53 pm. Jan. 5, 18(10 Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial pm. Jan. 5, 1860 l4 11-16% Ditto Advertised pm. Jan. 5, isal — . Bank Stock for Acc0unt.........Acc0unt......... April 5, 1880 ....... .- — India Stock for Account 1..... 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Due 0 America 0 1 France ..... ....... 0 0 Lisbon 1 0 Prazi1....... ..... 0 0 Guern.&Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 0 rotenos Ayres.. 0 0 Hamburg ..... ... 0 0 Mexico 0 0 C irthagena...... 0 1 Holland 0 0 Ostend.. ...... ... 0 I Dublin... ...... 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden .. 0 0 Flanders ..... .... 0 I, Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. minutes after I Evening 9 minutes after 3. EAST SURREY ELECTION. ALL PERSONS who have any CLAIMS or DEMAND on the CENTRAL COMMITTEE for con ducting the ELECTION of KING and ANGERSTEIN are requested to forward them on or before SATURDAY next to the Elephant and Castle Tavern, Newington, where they will be ex amined and discharged. SAMUEL PALMER, Chairman. August 1, 1837. EAST SUFFOLK ELECTION. THE COMMITTEE for conducting the ELEC TION of LORD HENNIKER and SIR. CHARLES BROKE VERE, lose no time in announcing that Mr. ADAIR and Mr. GARDEN have withdrawn their Opposition, and that the promised attendance of the numerous friends of Lord Henniker and Sir Charles Broke Vere at the poll is rendered unnecessary. WM. F. F. MIDDLETON, Ipswich, July 31, 1937. Chairman. NORTH WILTS ELECTION. The LONDON COMMITTEE for conducting the ELEC TION of PAUL 3IETITUEN, Esq., SIT DAILY at 32, Bed ford-row. All Electors desirous to secure his return may obtain every information as to the polling places, &c., on application to Messrs Williams, Vaux, Fennell, and Williams, solicitors, Bed • ford-raw. The Election is fixed to take place on MONDAY, the 7th, and TUESDAY, the Bth of August seat. THE NEW COMIC P] EDITED B The August Number (embellishe Lions by George BENTLEY'S Contains among other Son,.; of the Mooth. 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Richard Bentley, Ne• Orders received The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 20 minutes past Three o' Clock. A sa - r, . + L.. , • 1 - 0 , F( ' - • • • ." • Zfxe un+ THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1837. right to equal civil and religious privileges with Eng land and Scotland. Circumstances the most momen tous concur in ensuring her a glorious triumph. Her old enemy, the Duke of CUMBERLAND, is politically prostrate in Hanover. The seed of KENT has crushed the head of the serpent whose venom incited to deeds of violence the members of those haunts of treason—the Orange Lodges. The Government is avowedly on her side, and the QUEEN in thanking Lord MULGRAVE for governing Ireland in the spirit of the British Constitution, and in harmony with the wishes of her long-oppressed inhabitants, has given adequate expression to her Royal intention of co operating with her Ministers in the removal of every grievance of which the Reformers of the Sister Country complain. Now, therefore, is the time for Ireland to bestir herself, if she would take advantage of the oppor tune concurrence of so many signal circumstances in her favour. She must bear in mind that the sincerity of her complaints, as well as the sufficiency of the grounds for them, will be tested by the result of the present General Election. The return of an absolute majority of honest Reformers for the entire kingdom will not satisfy us—will not realize the expectations of any of the British friends of equal rights to Ireland. Three fourths of the representation of the country are ex pected to be vested in Liberal hands ; and certainly two-thirds will be required to make up for the shameful falling-off in the Radical representation of the English boroughs. Ireland's success will mainly depend upon the cor diality of the union subsisting between all classes of Reformers. If she would witness the deplorable consequences of petty political rivalry among Libe rals—if she would behold the danger to which she will expose herself, by permittiag the elec tors to be made the dupes of men who, under the mask of spurious liberalism, seek only their own personal and family aggrandisement—she has only to look to the result of the borough elections in Eng land. Let there be no personal rivalries—no unneces sary multiplication of honest and tried candidates—no splittings of the Reform interest to gratify personal va nity ; and the etiumph'of the Irish Reformers will be as signal as it must be certain. In the mean time it is greatly to be regretted that in spite of all that can be done to rouse them, many of the Irish landlords, pro fessedly liberal in their opinions, do not exert them selves sufficiently to qualify their tenants for exercising the elective franchise. In the county of Donegal, for example, the liberal aristocracy have been shamefully remiss. Had they only given their tenantry fair play, Colonel Sir CHARLES STYLES would most assuredly be returned at the ensuing election in the room of Sir EDWARD HAYES, the late Tory Member, and one of the present Candidates whose success is deemed certain. Reformers of Ireland I Now is your time to prove yourselves worthy of the rights for which you have so long and so bravely struggled. England and Scotland are witnesses of your every movement. Under the safe gui dance of your excellent leader, O'CoNNELL, you may hope to command the respect and admiration of your fellow-subjects to the remotest extremity of the British empire. You have now no Crown influence to fight against—no Castle corruption to overcome—no ram pant Orangeism insolently boasting of a fellowship with a Royal traitor, to taunt you with the disgrace of be ing aliens in the land of your fathers. Your So vE REIGN desires no greater happiness than to promote your social and moral welfare : your Chief Governor is a man after the heart of whoever is most honest and patriotic among you : and Parliament has branded with the foul mark of treason the boasted devotion to the House of Brunswich of the quondam subjects of the Tory King of HANOVER. What the Government could do has been accomplished—what remains to be done must be mainly effected by yourselves. Do you want equal municipal rights with England ? Do you seek for relief from the exactions of an alien dominant Church ? Do you wish to be freed from the tyranny of the agents of an absentee landed aristocracy ? Do you, in a word, aim at placing Ireland on a permanent, physical, intellectual, and moral equality with Eng land and Scotland ? You do. Then attend to the only means of effecting these glorious objects, now happily within your reach. Send Liberals—men approved of by your tried and trusty friend Mr. O'CONNELL—to represent you in the ensuing Parliament. The Paris Papers of Sunday have been received Of domestic news they contain nothing of any interest The Government had received the following importan news from Spain : . " BoRDEAux, July 28, Half-past Six, P.M. " Reports received at Saragossa on the 25th of July, state positively the arrival of Don Carlos at Aliaga and Camarillas : General Oraa, also was at Mora de Rubielos, Espartaro at Santa Eulalia, and Buerens at Blaucas. In consequence, the expedition which had been marching to ward Daroca, has now taken the road to the right and gone in the direction of Cantavieja, always showing a strong disposition to regain the line of the Ebro. Desertion is continual." " BORDEAUX, JULY 29. " Don Carlos arrived on the 22d at Cantavieja, with a few troops. The rest were quartered in the neighbourhood of Camarillas. On the same day Espartero was at Santa Eulalia, Oraa at Mora, and Buerena marching towards Teruel. Four hundred Carlists, wounded in the affair of the 20th on the banks of the Ebro, have arrived at Estella." Cantavieja is on the right bank of the Ebro, so that Don CARLOS will have little difficulty in repassing the river should he not have to contend with a Chris tine force on the other side. Thus has the ex pedition entirely failed in realizing any of the objects which the Pretender had in view. The Valeucians have for ever abjured his cause, and wherever he moves the excesses of his followers bring down upon them the execrations of the populace. The July fetes were not interrupted or disgraced by disturbance or outrage of any kind. Everything passed off quietly and decorously. The following is from the papers : The Moniteur and most of the Paris journals have not been received this morning. We have received the Algerine Moniteur of the 21st July:—" A very honourable combat took place on the 16th of this month between the troops of the Camp at Ghelma and the Arabs of the Bey of Constantine. Colonel Du viviar having observed, at day-break, the enemy on the heights to the south of Ghelma, sallied from the camp with 600 infantry, 120 cavalry, and two howitzers. He overtook the enemy two leagues from Ghelma, and immediately at tacked them ; they were about 5,000 men, and relying on their great superiority, they surrounded our troops, but could not break them. Seeing that the Arabs were setting fire to everything arouad them, Col. Duvivier, after having caused them to sustain great losses,returned towards the camp. His retreat was executed in the greatest order. We had four men killed and sixty-four wounded ; among them are three officers slightly. All were brought back to Guilma, and nothing whatever remained in the hands of the enemy. The Arabs have not been more fortunate in their attempts against the tribes our allies beyond Ghelma—Col. Duvi nier had promised to protect them, and he has kept his word ; they have had ample time to put their families, their cattle, and their tents in a place of safety. Accounts received at Algiers by land, inform us that the Arabs were commanded by Bodgis, one of the Chiefs most devoted to Achmet Bey, and that their loss was con siderable. The action does great honour to the troops at Ghelma, and adds to the reputation which they gained in the affairs of May 24 and June 26.—Le Commerce. FIRE.—On Thursday morning the extensive cloth manufactory of Messrs. Shaven, Brithers, in Aire-street, Leeds, was completely burned to the ground. The fire com menced near the boilinf,, , house on the second floor. The damage, which will amount to 15,0001. or 16,0001., is fully covered by an insurance. —Halifax Guardian. I n the Southern Division of our county (we re gret to say it, but the truth shall be told) there is a lack of real independence, and the Tori es ma y t h ere f ore su cceed in re turning Hanoverians to the next Parliament ; but in North Derbyshire we are not to be " cowel"—North Derbyshire Chronic!e. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(TELIS DAY.) DEAL, JULY 31.—Wind W. S. W., moderate.—Arrived the Exmouth, from Quebec ; and Rother, from Odessa. DOVER, JULY 31.—Arrived off port, the Middleburg, from Batavia ; and Stet Schocnderbrandt, from Batavia. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 31.—Arrived Union, San Sebastian. PLYMOUTH, JULY 31.—Wind S. W.—Sailed the Turk, from Malaga; and Duke of Bedford, from Calcutta. POOLE.—Arrived the Frederick, Tunck, from Memel. SHOREHAM, JULY 31.—Arrived Earl Bathurst, from Quebec. TORBAY, JULY 30.—Arrived off port, the Seankey, Read, from Havannah ; Corinthian, M'Kenzie, from Quebec; and packet Josephine, from Pernambuco. DARTMOUTH.—Arrived the Ellen, Yeoman, from Llanelly, leaky, bound to Jamaica ; and Sutherland, from Memel. FALMOUTH, JULY 30.—Arrived the Express, Hodgson, Ca tania, part of her cargo thrown overboard, having grounded on a shoal off Cape Passara, and the Rosalind, Harvey, from Rio Janeiro. Sailed the Brazilian, for Rio Janeiro, and Liverpool steamer, for Lisbon. PENZANCE, JULY 30.—Arrived the Queen, Robinson, from Miramichi. BarsroL, JULY 30.—Arrived the Eleanor, Rees, from De merara, Broughton, Bell, from Barbadoes, and Thomas Ritchie, from Quebec. GLOUCESTER, JULY 31.—Arrived the John, Jerard, Riga. LIVERPOOL, JULY 30.—Arrived the Macedonia, Week, from Charleston ; Neptune, Parker, from Newfoundland, and Mary Anne and Martha, from ditto. Arrived off the Superb, from Charleston, and Rothschild, from Miramichi. DOVER, JULY 31.—The Margaret, of Shields, was prepar ing to quit Hythe Beach on Saturday when the gale came on. She drifted along the shore, and has received great damage. COWES, JULY 31.—Arrived the Slurfusten, from Stockholm, lost maintop mizen mast, &c., bound to Marseilles. BRISTOL, JULY 31.—The Clifton, which sailed hence on the 24th inst., for Calcutta, returned yesterday, having sprung her mainmast. HELIGOLAND, JULY 27.—A small quantity of the cargo, and some of the materials of the Helena, from Bahia to Ham burgh, wrecked in the Elbe, have been brought here. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Hinda, of Liverpool, for China, May 5, lat. 36, long. 23, by the Arab, arrived at Cork ; Augusta Jessie, Edinburgh and London, bound to Sydney, June 26, lat. 31, long. 14, by the Aquaforte, arrived at Vienna; Cumberland, Jamaica to Whitehaven, June 17, off Cape Antonia ; Monarch, Havannah to St. Petersburgh, 4th ult., lat. 40, long. 6 ; Mary, Leith to the Mauritius, 24th ult., lat. 50, long. 12 ; Buchanan, bound to New York 14th ult., lat. 46, long. 43 ; Cambrian, of Hull, Memel to New York, lat. 39, long. 65 ; Regalia, Cork to Quebec, 9th ult., lat. 35, long. 52; Warrior, from Bay Chaleur, 9th ult., lat. 35, long. 52. Off the Ormes Head, the Pensylvania, from New York. The Caroline, from Quebec, has arrived in Miramichi Bay the sth ult., leaky. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.—(At per Lout of 36 Trusses.) CUMBER.I.AND. Costae heavy Lowland Meadow Hay...,. XI, 5 t,. 14 10 New Meadow Hay 4 b 5 0 Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay Clover 'Hay 6 0 6 15 Oat Straw £2 0t• ..£2 2 1 Wheat Straw 2 4 2 6 SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay l4 10 to £4 15 t‘Tvw Meadow Hay 4 4 4 15 Useful Old Ditto 5 0 5 5 Fkne Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay Claver Hay (extra tine ......,t7 0 --- . ...Generally 6 10 6 15 Oat Straw 12 ot 9 £2 2 I Wheat Straw 2 3 2 5 WHITECHAPEL. CJarse Meadow Hay ..C4 () to £4 5 New Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto ,....... 4 10 4 lo Fine Upland Meadow and Ilye.grasii Flay t lovcr flay 5 15 6 IS 0!d Straw _ X 2 t 2 to £2 41 Wheat Straw THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received Charleston papers to the 27th June, from which we give the subjoined extracts from Tallahassee, dated 17th June : _ _ . " The transport schooner Sarah arrived at St. Mark's on Monday last, direct from Tampa Bay, with public stores. The captain states that these stores have been sent to St. Mark's, and that all the Indians and negroes have refused to emigrate, and left General Jessup. He has totally given up every expectation of their removal this summer, and until forced by another campaign." The New York packet-ship is off Liverpool, of the Bth ult. ; but the papers have not yet been received. EAST SITICREY. (SECOND DAY.) STATE OF THE POLL AT 12 O'CLOCK. Reigate, Poll not in Kingston, not after Eleven King Angerstein Aisager Kensble ONE O'CLOCK. Reigate not included Croydon to Ten o'Clock Kingston to Twelve o'Clock King Angerstein Alsager Kemble STATE OF POLLS, AND NAMES OF MEMBERS RETURNED. `WEST SUSSEX..—(By Express.) FIRST DAY'S POLL. FOUR O'CLOCK. The Reformers are doing their duty well here, and are at the head of the poll in every district but Petworth. The fol lowing is the total of the districts : Lord J. G. Lennox (R) 738 I Major-Geneneral Wynd- Earl of Surrey (R) 7ll ham (T) . 556 HAMPSHIRE (N. D.), JuLv 31. Sir W. lleathcote (T) I Charles Shaw Lefevere (R) Without opposition. HEREFORDSHIRE, JULY 31. The nomination for this county took place yesterday. No opposition being offered, the late Members were declared duly elected—Mr. K. Hoskins, Sir Robert Price, and Mr. E. T. Foley. The two first Whigs, the latter a Conservative. SOMERSET (WEST). FOUR O'CLOCK ( YESTERDAY). Acland Dickinson EAST SURREY.—FOUR O'CLOCK. Locke King Angerstein 1,4061 Kemble STAFFORDSHIRE (NORTH), JULY 31. State of the poll at the under-mentioned places : Baring. Buller. Mosley. (T) (R) (R) Leek Uttoxeter Burton-or-Trent 248 ... 348 ... 237 802 596 WORCESTER (W.D), JULY 31. 420 Gen. lion. H. B. Lygon (T) 1 H. J. Winnington, Esq. (R) Unopposed. SHROPSHIRE (N. D.), JCLY 31. Sir R. Hill (T) 1 W. 0. Gore, Esq. (T) Without opposition. SCOTCH ELECTIONS. INVERNESS BURGHS, JULY 28. CLOSE OF THE POLL. The election has terminated in favour of the Reform cartdi• date, Mr. Macleod, of Cadboll. The following is the state of the poll : Macleod (R.) Mackenzie (T.) Inverness 55 75 Forms Nairn 14 - ortrose TIIE FUNDS. Consols were buoyant during the morning of yesterday, and at one period reached 91i for the Account ; but in the afternoon they were not quite so good, and closed at Money continues abundant, at an easy rate of discount. _ Consols opened this morning at the above price ; for Money the same ; at present, 914 - ; Money, 91 Exchequer Bills, 50 52 prem. ; India Bonds, 50 52 prem. ; Bank Stock, 210 211. Spanish Bonds, which closed at 211 ex-coupons, opened at 23 with the coupons ; Passive, 5i ; Deferred, 8 to 8* ; Portuguese,4l to 41k ; Three per Cents., 26i; Dutch Two and a Half, .53i 4. The settlement of the Foreign Account, which took place yesterday, has gone off well, there being no failure. Indeed, so very little credit is given, with the exception of the first-rate members of the house, that it is generally a very easy settlement. RALF-PAST ONE. Notwithstanding half a million of money stock was thrown on the market in the course of last week, Consols continue very firm to the present time, and may be quoted at 914 ; buyers for Money, 911 ; Exchequer Bills, 51 53 prem. , India Bonds, 52 51 prem. ; Bank Stock, 210 211 ; India Stock, 2581. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active Stock is also very buoyant, owing to two circumstances—first, the re treat of Don Carlos, closely followed by General Oraa ; second, to a general report in circulation of a commercial treaty with Spain, having for its object a loan of two or three millions sterling, guaranteed by the British Govern ment, to be repaid by a duty of 20 per cent. on British ma nufacture entering into the ports of Spain ; such duties to he paid in England on the shipment of the goods. Spanish Active Stock firm at 231 with Coupons ; Portuguese 41 ; 3 per Cents., 26/ ; Colombian 25 ; Dutch 2 4 per Cents., 53 * THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for the Account, 1014. On Monday night last, Thomas Kermode, aged 21, engineer at the Mersey iron and steel works, belonging to Messrs. Tomlinson, Horsfall, and Co., met with a sudden and shocking death. A forgeman, named Adam Billing, having gone into the engine-room, found the deceased with his right leg fast jammed between the fly wheel and the engine pit. The wheel was going round, and every spoke of it struck against his head as it passed. An alarm being given, the engine was stopped, but the wall had to be taken down before he could be got out. He was of course quite dead. The body was thee taken to the house of his father in Com , berrnere-street, where an inquest was held upon it on Thurs day.—Liverpool Chronicle. The salmon fishing in the Tay, although somewhat improved of late, has, on the whole, been successful ; but on Monday last there was a take on the station betwixt the Friar ton and the mouth of the Earn quite unexampled for many years. In the course of the morning of that day nearly 4,000 salmon and grilses were taken on the station within the places mentioned, a distance little more than three miles I At the Earl of Wemyss's fishings alone about 1,200 were caught. This week, on the lower stations, great numbers continue to be caught ; but the upper stations are suffering from the foul ness of the river, caused by the recent rains, which prevent the fish getting far up.—Berwick Advertiser. The " golden influences," so rife now in this coun - try, have prevailed in the ancient borough of Brecknock. Mr. Morgan, the late Tory Member, has been returned by a majo rity of 54—a number never even calculated upon by the most strenuous adherents—paid or unpaid—of his party. Treachery has aided the cause of injustice.—Silurian. Within the past week Leicester has signalized itself by a triumph which will go far towards atoning for the political corruption for which the Tory party have of late years made it disgracefully eminent among the most infamous municipal bodies in the country. A blow has been struck in this town, the report of which will reverberate to the utmost limits of the United kingdom, and will carry encouragement and joy to every patriotic subject in the realm. The corruptors and the corrupted, the slave driver and the slave, have been mingled in a total and final overthrow.—Leicestershire Mercury. A fatal occurrence, leading to the loss of two lives, happened at Little Malvern, on Saturday last. The unfortu nate sufferers were two labourers engaged in the improvements of the road now in progress over the Wych in that parish. It seems that having laid a train of powder for the blasting of a portion of the rock, it did not ignite so readily as they ex pected, and they had approached to ascertain the cause, when the mine suddenly exploded, scattering the rock in all direc tions. T. Cox, one of the men, had his skull fractured, and was killed on the spot, and the other man was so seriously injured, that he died in three hours after the accident. —Worcester Herald. • THE TEA TRADE (MONDAY.) —The deliveries last week were only 383,500 lbs. The private trade sales will conclude to-morrow. They have gone off with much heaviness. At Aberdeen the herring fishery exceeds that of last year, and premises to be most abundant. At the other stations on the east coast the fishing is much about an average o f what it has been for the last two years at this tine—rather, if any thing deficient, perhaps. At Wick an abundant fishing is anticipated. There are GOO boats employed there in the trade ; some of them have been very suceessful.—ilberdeen Herald. A certain parson at Peterhead has been making him self rather ridiculous , within these few days, by attacking some of of hTishmeertbeeforsnonfesressosironfor Truro intend supportin g t - o Sir ) Leithn present t hef their a . t e i talentedie of p ec Member, a mbers a small oftheir high ,W. Esq.,R. S., with a ln. and o e piece of his character as a gent l eman and a man . honour,of lih admiration and of his talents and integrity as their representative in Par liament. Majority for Macleod l9 INVERBERVIE BURGHS, JULY 29. P. Chalmers Esq. ELECTIONS FIXED. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (Nonm).--Auguit 4, T. Houlds. worth, Esq. (T.) ; H. G. Knight, Esq. (T.) ; G. S. Fol. jambe, Esq. (R.) WATERFORD ( COUNTY).—August 9. EDINBURGHSHIRE.—August I arid 2. Sir G. Clerk (T.) W. G. Craig, Esq. (R.) THE EAIIL OF DERBY.—It i s quite true tijat this patriotic nobleman would feel obliged by his tenants voting for the Reform candidates for the county, and that Mr. Statter, his agent, wrote a letter to that effect to Mr. Peet, of Orms kirk ; it is equally true that the publication of the letter was not authorized by Mr. Statter, who has indeed complained of that circumstance. Still Lord Derby and his tenants are for- Stanley and Towneley. —Liverpool Albion. Very extensive alterations and improvements are now being made in the Welch School, Gray's Inn-road, with a view to the reception of a larger number of children, natives of the Principality, or descendants of such, into this excellent institution, which is one of the best conducted and most ex tensively patronised of the charitable establishments in the metroplis. On Wednesday morning last the body of Mr. Johm Richardson, clerk at the Lambton Coal Staiths, at this pore, was found in the river Wear, near this town, Sunder/a; sit Chronicle. The action for calumny brought by Mr. WilF. am Long Wellesley against M. D ons Saints will be tried on Saturday, August 5, before the Court of Assize of the; pro vince of Brabant, which will be held at Brussels. P,y what we can learn the proceedings will be interesting.— russels Paper. There is a strange article in yesterday's Observer, accusing Mr. Hume, Mr. Crawford, and Colonel 7.'hompson, of a secret and disgraceful compact with the Gomrnment, to deprive constituencies of a free choice of Members. We are surprised that our Liberal contemporary could, lend the smallest countenance to a charge so obviously unjust and groundless. It twenty years of unbought and faithful servicie to the country, cannot protect Mr. Hume from such an imps - tation, all confidence in public men is at an end. Scotsman.. If the crack-brained conduct of the monster Kind; of just one million of divided Hanoverians had not opened t tt e t e h y e es sc o e f ne e s ve w ry hi T ch or t y oo d k up p e lac w e ho th c is ou w l e d ek ea a r t n th h e is etaton fordihone t stl? ; borough of Merthyr Tydfil, would do much to forward aco - summation so " devoutly to be wished."--Silurian. Liverpool is, indeed, disgraced : she stands on .a bad pre-eminence amongst all the large constituencies of th, e land, as retrograding towards the darkness from which yr fondly thought that she was emancipated for ever. On Friday upward s of one hundred and eighty smai I whales, averaging from fifteen to twenty-two feet in length , were captured near Ardmaddy, the Marquis of Breadalbane residence in Argyleshire. They were pursued by a numb" ,r of boats for several miles up and down the Sound of Seil, and were at last driven into a narrow part, within a hum" t ed yards of the very place where a whale, eighty feet long,. w as taken three years ago. Here the boats closed upon then", and not one was allowed to escape. With the exception o' f two men who were slightly hurt, and a boat which one of the); argest of the whales broke to pieces with its tail, the car.tors ca me off scathless. The chase, whilst it lasted, was truly excitie g, and was witnessed by the Marchioness of Bread:albane, a .nd her sister Miss Baillie, who happened to be out in a bars a at the time. —Kelso Chronicle. A trotting match for 5/. aside came off ant Friday last, on the turnpike road leading from Crooklands to Kirkby Lonsdale, betwixt a dun pony belonging to a gentlt man of Melling, and a grey mare from Middleton : distal ,ce two miles. The odds at starting were on the mare, but, iowever, to the complete discomfiture of the knowing ones, the! lan ) , beat her by 100 yards. LEITI-I.—DEATII OF 64 DUCK MAITTE:: singular half-witted being, so well known at Leith as Duck Maitie, has at last paid the debt of nature. Marge .ret Sed ley, who having perambulated its shores for more • than half a century, earn e d th e so b r i quet o f D uck, or Doe) Maitie, from her const an t p rac ti ce o f wan d er i ng about the t Jocks, was a strange compou n d o f s i mp li c i ty an d shrewdne ss , qua int humour and stupidity. Sh e ma d e a li ve li hood by picking up old ropes, rags, &c., and was an immense favotto; ite with the sailors, being held by them in superstitious reveres' ce; so that her good opinion was always secured by presents ., __ . m fsalt c p broken biscuit, or other sea stores. Mathes a s in g, hen.- come . e o s ' g t, hmep luckless orta importance bbeafrokr,o, or m e : g ard o e o i d u e s hkiip ;ventured to refusethe b . wad be seen to any ship that wad crew and that who te or the soup of to auld Maitie, that. Dr. Johnston, worthy tn c hristened d sibe e re p e ir ‘ t aN e ' na d ds oev atsot testis's gravely traced re lei tag minded putting e attsoo l n i o at si u iewe s a e of raltc'ht,G,mooAfudenpkl'o'iaoeur:Ads some eii tffolk many eo,sl,ak4nt,l a ihetz a set h il ; tpg..m, bue • nt k . zwdwiateaiide a t awee; it wasna the stoutest ship that stood the star m l'" short, Maine go fightwrou upon the fears and supersti times of before would Margarets ay In the sailors, that few e pert fared better." —Scotsni an. On Sunday morning a very alarming fire broke out in the Bromley starch mills, near Bow, in Essex, -which spread with frightful rapidity, and but for its timely die cove/ would have occasioned a loss of some thousands of p, punch. Information was forwarded to the station-house of the MI police at Bow, an d the parish eng i ne was set to work, 4a aided by a. good supply of water at hand, succeeded ins cm, e what arresting the progress of the devastating element tii ti 8 arrival of the London engines when, by the combined e;xer - tions of the firemen and the valuable assistance afforded them ' the fire was fortunately extinguished, before it reached th machinery. The day watchman, it appears, first discovery , the fire, which originated through the overheating of n. ing-stove in one of the warehouses. On Friday week a hasty of gentlemen, composed ' Mr. E. B. Hawker, son of General Hawker, Dr. Reid °f London, M r. Mi les I ,of London, Mr. D. T ay l or, and 6 Tilbury, jun., em b ar k e d at G uernsey on b oard a small ya , called the Louisa, and went over to the island of Sark on pleasure. On their return, about eight o'clock in the ev• ing, and when off l'lle des Marchands, Mr. Hawker, who vas standing near the rigging, saw some sea-gulls hovering abs ' L. III the vessel, and called out t o one o f t h e gentlemen to shoot t be birds, with this remark__" I do not think there are any sh, itg in the gun." Upon his saying so, one of the company to , )it,' held of the gun by the muzz l e and raised it in an inclini•si direction, as if to ascertain whether there were any shots i1t. 51 • or not, and at that moment it exploded ; and, as Mr. Hawk' ,r had his arm raised at the time, the whole of the conte' lodged in the pit of the right arm, and he fell a lifeless co , ps o into the arms of Mr. Tilbury. The deceased was abor t 15 years of age, and was married to Major Johnstone's da,r ghtef in November last, 317 336 I