The Sun. — London, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

, THE NEW NOVEL, THE DISCIPLINE of LIFE, IS PUBLISHED THIS DAY, Ey Mr. Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street, And may be had at all the Libraries. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mdlle. JENNY LIND. Tha Nobility, Patrons to the Opera, and the Public are respectfully nformed, that a Grand EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY EVENING, when Mae. JENNY LIND will appear i n a favourite Opera. With various novelties in the Ballet Department, combining the talents of Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, Mdlle. Carolina Rosati, Mdlle. M. Mdlle. Cerito, Sec. Sec. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mdlle. JENNY LIND. THIS EVENING will be performed Bellini's Opera, entitled I PURITANI. Ts conclude with the LE JUGEMENT admired Ballet DiPARIS vertissement, entitled DE . The Free List is snspended„ , the public Press excepted. Pit Tickets may ha obtained as usual at the Box-office ef the Theatre, price 10s. 6d. each, where applications for Boxes, Pit Stalls, and Tickets are to be made. Doors open at halt-past Seven. and commence at Eight o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Cm ter the Manazernent of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. After Which, the Burlesque, entitled TAMING A TARTAR. Count Cracovieninskl, Mr. Worrell ; Kickerwhiski, Mr. Paul Bed ford ; Mazourki, Mr. Wright ; Ivan, Mr. Manyard ; Monsieur Cou pee, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Strelenski, Mr. Cullenford ; Countess Craco vleninski, Miss Woolgar ; Mazourko, Madame Celeste. To concinde with the original tarce, called HOW TO SETTLE Ak 'COUNT:, WITH YOUR LAUNDRESS. Whittington Widgetts, Mr: Wri g ht; Jack Brown, Mr. M•snyard; bquibb, Mr. Redmond ay'A n ; Mary White, Miss Woolgar ; Mdlle. Cherry Bounce, Miss Emma ll:tilling. IRLIsTCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. 33, Old Bond-street. 31. CLOUrS BENEFIT. Last Night but One. TO-MORROW EVENING, The Entertainments will commence at halt-past Seven o'clock when Will be performed LE DOCTEUR ROBIN. After which LE ROMAN DR LA PENSION. To be followed by LE LION ET LE RAT. To conclude with LA S(EUR DE JOCRISSE. a:01(es, bs. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s Bome3 and Stalls may be obtained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 23, Old Bond-street. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ROBERT HOUDIN continues to attract crowded and fashionable audiences at the St. James's Theatre, to witness his extraordinary and original SOIREES FAN TASTIQITES, which he will repeat THIS EVENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings, commencing at Half-past Eight. In consequence of the great demand for places, he will repeat his MATINEES FANTASTIQUES TO-MORROW MORNING, August 2._ Doors epeu at Two o'clock. Boxes and Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33; Old Bond-Areet. X:OVAL SURREY THEATRE. tinder the direction of Mr. Kerschner. Engagement of Mrs. FITZWILLIAM and Mr. BUCKSTONE, for Twelve Nights. THIS EVENING Will be perf:rmed JOSEPHINE, THE CHILD OF THE REGI MENT, in which Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. Euckstone will perform. Alter which, a Comic Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND, in which Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. Euckstone will perform. To conclude %%kr). THE IDIOT OF THE MILL. Manager cml Treasurer, Mr. E. S. Falthrother. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Fltzball's new and completely successful Spectae , e. Unparalleled Equestrian Feats. THIS EVE N NG, Will be performed, the new brilliant Spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated poetical Romance, and entitled MAR DIJON; or, The Battle of l'loddcn Field. To he followed by the inimitable EQUESTRIAN and GYMNAS TIC EXERCISES in the ARENA. To conclude with a Grind Pageant, entitled LADY C.ODIVA AND PEEPING TOat OF COVENTRY; or, Clearing the Toll. Rox.-etllce open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN'S. Attraction unprecedented. JULLIEN and his UNRIVALLED BAND. GRAND MONSTRE CONCERT. New Quadrille, composed expressly for the Gardens. Continuation of the Engagement of Miss HUDDART. Engagement of MISS SARA FLOWER. The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Danson. Superb and Unique MENAGERIE. grand Display of FIREWORKS, by the Messrs. Southby. No Extra Charge. MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY . , THURSDAY, and FRID.IY. View of Rome —Promenade Concerts, Vocal and Instrumental, conducted by Mons. JULLIEN, whose splendid Band of Solo Per formers includes Messrs. Baker, Barrett, Bauman, George and Viotti Collins, Cioffi, Collinet, Kcenig, Lazarn+, Richardson, Sonnenberg, &c.—Two Solos each Evening. —Several favourite Songs by Mies Sara Flower and Miss Iluddart during the Evening.—Also to be seen, during the day, the beautiful Menagerie—ShaksPere's House—The Magic Bridge—and other novelties will be exhibited, the whole concluding with a most magnificent and not to be rivalled display of Fireworks, by the Messrs. Southby, representing the Girandola during the Holy Week at Rome. Gates open at Ten A. 11., Feeding Time Five—Jullien's Concert at Six—Fireworks at Half-past Nine. Admission, as usual, One Shilling. _ TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless aathenti cated by the name anti address of the writer. dejected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 1. THERlnomursr, Lowest, 55; Highest. 72 ; Noon, 64, BAROMETER, 29.48. WIND W.S.W., heavy showers of rain. _ • _ lIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 15 min. after 3 I Evening 37 min. after 3 , • • •; . 7 •74 0 ' RD' 444 1 6. 1 ' V c. • " I.stc.v.miug artit LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1848. LATEST FROM IRELAND. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] DUBLIN, MONDAY, 5 30 P.M. The country all along the line of railway from the south of Ireland is reported quiet. It is stated that, in the conflict which took place betweeen the police and the insurgents at Ballin garry, eighteen of the latter were killed. At a Privy Council held to-day at the Castle, proclamations were issued against the counties of Kerry, Westmeath, South Wexford, Carlow, Queen's County, Kildare, Wicklow, and various other baronies of Cork, King's County, Cavan, and Monaghan. During the conflict with the police on Saturday, two shots were fired at Mr. Smith O'Brien, but neither of them took effect ; but one of the rebels who was standing by O'Brien's side, brandishing a pike, was killed on the spot. Frank Morgan, solicitor of the Dublin Corporation, was arrested at Howth this day. Several other arrests have taken place, amongst which are those of Hyland the pikemaker, at Carlow ; two gunsmiths of Dublin ; Hughes, a fruiterer at Wexford. Ten assistants in the house of Pym and Co. have been committed to Kil mainham gaol as clubbists, and five in another establishment have since fled. The 75th Regiment and two guns, with artillery. men, left Dublin this morning for Thurles. The 35th Regiment (1,100 strong) arrived at Kingstown this morning in the Driver and Cyclops war-steamers ; also forty-five artillerymen, horses, and two guns, per Royal William. The constable who was captured by the rebels, but afterwards released, states the appearance of Mr. Smith O'Brien to be very miserable; but it is said he expresses his determination never to surrender, as he feels his fate would be certain. General Mac donald is close at O'Brien's heels, so that his arrest or fate will doubtless be soon known. The first conflict that has taken place—we trust we may be enabled to say the only conflict during the present insurrection—has proved fatal to the rebel cause. A small body of police, consisting of fifty or sixty men, effectually checked the insurgent army, who, whether intimidated by the unexpected and de termined resistance of so small a force, or persuaded by the prudent exhortations of the Roman Catholic clergymen of the district, speedily dispersed, and abandoned the desperate fortunes of the proclaimed traitors, who had appeared in open arms levying war against their SoTEREIGN. It appears that Mr. BLAKE, County Inspector of Police, having ascertained that SMITH O'BRIEN and his associates had bivouacked on Boulagh Common on Friday evening, determined to attempt his capture, and the suppression of the insurrection. With this object, he arranged that the military and police from the surrounding districts should march on the rebel camp, hoping that a decisive blow might thereby be inflicted. Amongst the parties so noticed to move against the traitors was the police force stationed at Callan, under Sub- Inspector TRANT, amounting in all to fifty or sixty men. This small but determined body arrived first at the field of battle. Their courageous leader find jug that his little troop was in danger of being sur rounded by their opponents, took possession of a slated house in the immediate vicinity, where he re .'a solved ,to resist to the utmost extremity any attempt ---- ' • iht be made to dislodge them. Mr. O'BRIEN induce . these . gallant men I. ''--- 1 . t"i In • vain sought to -•--'—' having„ , n ;?'l-,.:- . ._. 2 : ' ' to stare der their arms, .pledging himself for their ( e-.\- c , , . ; ;1i:., person safety, gave the signal of attack, which was • \\:::,,..,1.-,---) • prou tß -- 't and efficiently responded to by the beleaguered ----',,_ __ pdilio. Several shits were fired on both sides, and, A .04 a short but rapid fusillade, the assailants, as• eounded at the unexpected resistance, and seeing e vend of their companions falling under the well- VI R le :#‘ - 1 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY directed volleys of the police, withdrew from the on slaught. In vain their General called upon them to return to the attack. The warm reception they had already received appeared to have quite paralysed their energies, and convinced them of the hopelessness of their enterprise. The prayers and entreaties of their clergymen appear to have confirmed the prudent resolu tion which the resistance of the police had originated, and Mr. O'BRIEN, finding that his ranks were melting away by continued desertions, and that the police force might speedily be in a position to become assailants in their turn, sought safety in flight. Thus ended the battle of Boulagh, where several thousand rebels were successfully repulsed and eventually put to flight by fifty policemen —leaving several of their companions (it is said eighteen in all) hors de combat. Considerable reinforcements of military and police subsequently arrived at the scene of action, but their work had been performed, and no enemy appeared to provoke a contest or to resist their progress. We believe that not a single man of the police was killed, or even seriously wounded ; so that this formidable demonstration was suppressed without the loss of a single man on the side of order, and although the misguided peasantry have suffered in some degree, they have received a valuable lesson, which will teach them the absolute insanity of sup posing for a moment that they could offer any effectual resistance to the overwhelming forces at the disposal of the Government. Indeed it may reasonably bo supposed that it was the knowledge of the gigantic scale on which the preparations had been made for the suppression of the rebellion that discouraged the clubbists, and prevented a much more sanguinary and formidable outbreak. The insurgents may therefore be said to have been defeated rather by moral force ;han by any physical power that was brought against them. Meantime the Government are persevering zea lously and efficiently, and are taking measures to ex tirpate rebellion from the land. New proclamations have been issued placing several other districts under the operation of the recent Act. The counties of Kerry, Westmeath, South Wexford, Carlow, Queen's County, Kildare, and Wicklow were yesterday proclaimed, as well as certain baronies in Cork, King's County, Cavan, and Monaghan. These vigorous proceedings will effectually prevent any temporary 67/lute that might otherwise have taken place. The cause of anarchy has received a blow it will not speedily re cover. The Government now have the game in their own hands, and if it is played out judiciously and discreetly they will have to boast of what no former Ministry could venture to assert, viz., that Ireland has been tranquillised, and that it will no longer pre sent the chief difficulty to any English Government- But how is this desideratum to be attained ? Simply by first effectually suppressing the insurrection and punishing firmly, but temperately, and without cruelty or bloodshed, those who, by their open and advised speaking, and inflammatory writings, have goaded the excitable population to a state of insanity, and then by introducing large and comprehensive measures of relief, by which every well-grounded cause of complaint will be removed, and the Irish people placed on a footing of equality with their English brethren. Let this be done—the waste lands reclaimed—those already under tillage brought into a proper state of cultivation—the fisheries, deep sea, coast, and in land, properly encouraged—the natural capabilities of the country fully developed, and both nations will long have cause to speak of the happy results that succeeded the abortive rebellion of 1846 ; the names of Saxon and Celt will no longer be bandied about as terms of reproach, but English and Irish will be connected together in the bands of amity, and pre sent the appearance of one happy and united people. It is unquestionably the duty of a Ministry to practise a wise and prudent system of economy, to discountenance every unnecessary expenditure, and to resort to every legitimate means to mitigate the enormous burden of taxation under which the indus try of the nation is paralysed. If, however, a wild and reckless extravagance is to be deprecated, there is another extreme that should likewise be avoided. An undue parsimony and meanness is not be fitting the Government of a mighty nation. A just and happy medium should be observed. The national establishments should be main tained in an efficient condition. The public ser vants should be fairly and liberally, but not ex orbitantly, remunerated, and a provision should be made by a grateful country for those who have de• voted their best years to its service, or who, in a private capacity, have refined the public taste or introduced improvements that entitle them to be ranked amongst the national benefactors. The help less dependents on such persons may also justly be assisted in the event of the death of those who had established a claim on their country that could not be liquidated, and which might, therefore, properly be transferred to the credit of their surviving relatives. We venture to say that few Englishmen would be dis posed to cavil at, or object to the application of a fair and moderate sum to such purposes, or desire that any retrenchments should be introduced into that branch of the public expenditure. Every claim should be rigidly scrutinised, but if well founded the British nation should never reject the prayers of the applicants from any paltry or niggardly motives. The grants that are made on behalf of education, or for the support of institutions established for the diffusion of scientific information amongst the great body of the people, by means of lec tures delivered by well-qualified men, or for the fostering of arts and sciences, should be made in a bountiful and liberal spirit. A small assistance may often enable parties successfully to maintain local establishments, calculated to purify and refine the tastes and habits of the people, inducing them to cul tivate new pursuits, directing their energies into the most beneficial channels, enabling them to with stand vulgar temptations by the rational enjoyments thereby opened, and, in fact, becoming bless ings to the surrounding districts. It would ma nifestly be an unwise economy to endeavour to effect some insignificant reduction in the amount of the estimates by withholding or even reducing the aid heretofore extended to those popular institutions ; and yet we regret to say that there are indications of such an intention on the part of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, which may be carried into execution, unless the voice of public opinion should be heard, and indignant remonstrances poured in to the Treasury against the injudicious and impolitic saving. In another column will be found an article ex tracted from the columns of an esteemed contempo rary—the hull Advertiser, in which it is announced that the small sum of 1501. per annum, which had for the last few years been voted for the establishment of a school of design at Newcastle, is about to be with drawn. Our contemporary forcibly points out the vast advantages that have been conferred upon the lc Nility by this trifling assistance ; without it the school could never have been opened, and if it should now be discontinued, the establish ment must immediately be closed, and 104 stu dents deprived of the instruction they are now receiving. It is not by such a course that the people will be satisfied, or believe that their interests are duly attended to in the Imperial Parliament. If a real desire exists to reduce the public burdens, there are many charges that may altogether be lopped off, and others in which extensive reductions may be made. How many " Schools of Design" could be maintained for the 11,9461. per annum received by the Duke of GRAFTON for so many years. The heirs of the Duke of SCHOMBERG, of DE GIN KELL, of the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, and a host of other hereditary pensioners, may justly be called upon to show cause why they should still be permitted to levy contributions on the over-toiled operatives. Here, indeed, is an ample field for economy and re trenchment. To show what amounts have already been extracted from the national Exchequer by claimants of this character, we shall select one case, as affording the strangest illustration. In 1675, the then Monarch, CHARLES the SECOND, granted two pensions to his natural son, whom he created Duke of GRAFTON, and to his heirs for ever, the one of 8,5391., charged on the Excise duties ; the other of 3,4071., charged on the Post-office revenues. Those pensions, amounting together to 11,9461., have been paid ever since, during a period of 173 years. These payments have, therefore, altogether amounted to more than two million pounds sterling, without any allowance whatever being made for interest. If, however, compound interest should be calculated, it will appear that the support of that single peerage has cost the nation upwards of twelve hundred millions sterling, or one-half more than the National Debt. This may appear incredible, but it will easily be ascertained by calculating what a single hundred pounds per annum would amount to in that period, taking the rate of interest for the entire period at 6 per cent., which was far below the average. This simple fact, will, we trust, not be lost sight of, but will direct the attention of our Legislators to those crying grievances which have so long reflected discredit on Ithose entrusted with the management of the national finances. The new Roman Parliament has shown little hesi tation in following out the principles which they re cently set forth in their inaugural address. That ad dress, as we remarked on its first publication, not only breathed a spirit of nationality and independence, but it also manifested the existence of an indomitable resolution which should triumphantly vindicate that nationality and assert that independence. The pro mises of the Roman Parliament have been realised, their words have been followed by their actions. The POPE'S Government having failed to take those steps which the Parliament and the people deemed neces sary for the preservation of their national indepen dence, the Parliament and the people have themselves appointed a Provisional Ministry to assist them in carrying out such measures as the imminence of the danger impending over Italy renders immediately imperative. In a prima facie view the conduct of the PorE, the Parliament, and the people of Rome appears on the present occasion most extraordinary, and perhaps reprehensible. It appears, to say the least of it, most extraordinary that Pius IX.—Pius IX., whose hand gave the first impetus to the crusade of constitutional liberalism, whose voice was the first to give utterance to the popular yearnings, an utter ance which, awakening long silent echoes, has refer berated throughout the whole European continent—it appears extraordinary, and well nigh incomprehen sible, that Pius should for one instant swerve from that liberal and patriotic course on which he had nobly and voluntarily en tered. Thus, as we have said, the conduct of the POPE in a prima facie view—in a prima face view, be it well remembered, appears most extraordi nary and almost reprehensible. And the same may, without doubt, be said of the conduct of the Roman Parliament and the Roman people—the Roman people, indebted to Pius for so many benefits, the Roman people, who have already received such innu merable proofs of the tenderness of his paternal affec tion for his temporal subjects and spiritual children, and the Roman Parliament, inaugurated under his auspices, and in fact .indebted to his enlightened pa triotism for their very existence. It appears extraordi nary and most reprehensible for a people so deeply indebted to their Prince to take upon themselves the task of appointing his advisers ; but let us examine a little closer the conduct of tho POPE and his people, and the anomaly disappears. Recent events only give us new cause to admire the excellence of Pius, and to sympathise with the patriotism of the Romans. The great re volution of 1848, although, unhappily, it has been defiled with blood, is essentially of a pacific nature— its principles have been most beautifully and truthfully set forth by one of its noblest apostles, ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE, when he pro claimed not only "Liberty and Equality," but " Fraternity " and Peace among nations and citizens. These principles, however inadequately they may have been recently carried out, are essential characteristics of the spirit of the present age, and these principles, in their highest beauty and sub limity, have been worthily impersonated in the Roman Prince and the French Republican. Li. berty anti Peace was the burden of every sentence which fell from LAMARTINE'S eloquent lips, Liberty and Peace is the ruling principle of all the action and all the inaction of Pius. Zealous in the cause of liberty, the liberal Prince has voluntarily bestowed upon his subjects privileges which, without his instigation, those subjects would never have sought ; but also zealous in the cause of peace, the Christian Prelate refuses to sanction even an in dubitably legitimate war. The number is very few who do not consider the Italian war of independence as a just and almost a holy war, but their number is yet fewer who do not consider the pacific resolution of Pius as honourable and becoming to a Christian Priest. In ancient days it was too often a matter of scandal that the Pope was forgotten in the Priitco, the rulers of the Vatican seemed to consider it of more importance to aggrandize their temporal than their spiritual dominions, and a similar spirit occasionally animating the lower orders of the clergy, the crosier has not unfrequently been laid aside for the sword. What a striking and noble contrast does the conduct of Pius offer to such acts as these ! He is ready when brought to the trial to sacrifice his civil to his spiritual duties, or rather he has found a means of reconciling those apparently antagonistic claims. Me individually refuses to sanction the war, but he suffers his people in this matter to act as their patriotism impels them. The people have understood him, they have readily and gratefully availed themselves of the implied permission, and relieved their Prince from his onerous burden. The Parliament chosen by the people have, with the con sent and co-operation of the people, appointed a Mi nistry net opposed to or independent of Pius, but only opposed to his pacific views, and independent of him in the carrying on of peace or war. The apparent insubordination of the Roman people, strange as it may appear, is not an evidence of dis loyalty. Their insurrection is strictly loyal. So at least it has been pronounced by a high authority in such matters ; for the Minister of Police declared to the Parliament that he had received notice of the popular demonstration the day before it took place, but that, as it was per fectly legal, he had not thought proper to interfere. We shall await with anxiety the result of these somewhat extraordinary proceedings. At present we cannot but regard them as fresh instances of the pa cific and Christian spirit of Pius IX., and of the patriotism of the Italians, and hence these events only augment our admiration and our sympathy for Pius and his people, and increase our anxious aspirations for the speedy emancipation of all Italy from a foreign yoke, and her consolidation, as one free and inde pendent nation, under the auspices of him who has shown himself in every way worthy of the high and holy duties imposed upon him. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 26th ult. have arrived. The QUEEN is expected to return from La Granja immediately, in consequence of the spirit of insu bordination which has become manifest among the troops quartered there. It appears that a soldier of the Engineer Regiment was ordered to recive twenty blows with a stick, by an officer who was inspecting a portion of that force, for some act of insubordina tion when on parade; and the company to which the soldier belonged immediately mutinied and took part with him. The officer reported this to the Minister of War, who, with General SNARVAEZ, soon presented themselves with other forces, and the company was disarmed. A plan for the settlement of the debt is said to be on the tapic, and to be as follows : " The overdue Coupons of interest to be exchanged in the proportion of 100 of Coupons for 40 of Three per Cent. Stock. " The Five per Cent. Stock to be exchanged thus : For each 100 of Five per Cent. Stock 30 of Three per Cent. Stock to be given, and 70 of tho Deuda Siu Intone, in other words Passive Debt. " The interest on the New Three per Cents. to com mence in January, 1850." The Deuda Sin Interes is receivable for the pur chase of some kinds of national property, should the sales go on. The interest offered is equal to rather more than 1 per cent. on the Coupons, and rather less than 1 per Cent. on the Fives, after 18 months' time. The Funds are again somewhat lower. Three per Cents., 181 buyers, 1 sellers; Five per Cents., 10 to k buyers, k sellers ; Coupons, 7 buyers ; Passive Debt, 3; buyers, 4 sellers; Bank Shares not quoted. POST. OFFICE NOTICE.—The Postmaster-General has just issued a notice and instructions to postmasters, letter-receivers, tv., and the public, by which the t own i of Ferryport-on-Craig, n Fifeshire, North Britain, i s constituted a post town, and the post-office there viillbe opened for the issue and payment of money-orders on and after tits eh of August inst. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Fren3h papers of yesterday. The news from Lombardy and the probability of an intervention on the part cf the Republic in the affairs of Italy are discussed is all of them. The Cousiitutionnel thus comments on the probable results, military and political, of the drawn battle fought at Villa Franca between CHARLES ALBERT and the Austrians : " Without giving a decided opinion as to the result of the battle, we think we are able to point out the general plan of it. The importance of the event, the multiplicity of the trifling skirmishes, and the wide extent of the theatre of war should induce our readers to turn to a chart of Upper Italy. "It is known that the Austrians had taken, as the basis of their defensive operations, the double line of the Mincio and the Adige; that the first had been forced at Goito, a little above Mantua, by the Piedmontese troops, and that since that time the two armies had occupied the following positions :—The Austrian masses concentrated in Verona and Mantua, with detached forts on the right, to maintain the communication with the Tyrol, and on the left towards Ferrara. The Piedmontese army ex tended from the left bank of the Po, which had even been crossed near the lake of Garda, blockading Mantua, threatening Verona, having its head-quarters at Villa Franca, and its left on the famous position of the Corona de Rivoli, under Moaat Battle. The intention of the AuStrian general had been to take advantage of the concentration of his forces in Ve rona and Mantua, in order to act at once against the left and the centre of his enemy, and to break through his too extended line. For this purpose two attacks were combined, the one on the left wing of the Pied montese, to drive them to the foot on the heights, and the other to drive back, in a contrary direction, the corps posted at Somme Campagna and Villa Franca. The first operation was attended with a certain degree of success. A strong body of Austrian forces made their appearance, on the 23d, on the Plateau of Rivoli, drove the Piedmontese from it, after three hours' fight ing, and were only stopped by the brigade of Pinerola maintaining their ground at Bosco. Tho threatened wing, however, fell back towards Peschiera, and did not lose its communication with the centre. The second attack was directed by Radetzky in person, but led to no marked result, as the Austrians could not succeed in reaching the Mincio to throw a bridge across, and thus effect the separation of the Piedmontese army. "Charles Albert, who immediately repaired to the centre, sent pressing orders to his right wing, a strong column, detached from the blockading force of Mantua, immediately put itself in march, and on the 24th made its appearance between Villa Franca and bole, in the rear of Radetzky. The position of the Austrian General became very critical ; his corps was placed between three fires, since the troops which he had attacked in front still held their ground against him, and the division of the right wing of the Piedmontese were now ready to attack him in the rear. Radetzky had already ex perienced severe loss. The whole success of the move ment he had made depended on the fate which attended the division which had gained the Mincio near Salvenge. As it was preparing to make a rapid movement on the rear of the extreme left of the Italians, where a body of Lombardians were stationed, a pirtial reverse was to be dreaded in that quarter, but it was probable that Charles Albert would have acted promptly in that quarter by the bridge of Goito, and leave the enemy no alternative but to persist in an unequal struggle or to lay down its arms. The offensive movements of tho Austrian troops will not have been confined to this fruitless attack of the Mincio ; the report is that other affairs took place on the same day, the greater part ending in favour of the Italians. On this subject, and on that of the nettle of Villa Franca, we shall anxiously look for farther in formation." The Journal des Debats says : "It results from all this that Marshal Radetzky, wish ing to put an end to the blockade of Mantua, has just assumed the offensive against the centre and the lett of the Italian army, threatening to carry the war into Lombardy. In presence of the feats of arms which Charles Albert has already performed, and of the incon testable proofs of skill which he has given in conducting military operations, we shall not hesitate to make an ob servation which can in no way injure his reputation as a general. The line occupied by the Piedmontese army was too extended, since it reached over a space of 20 leagues from Corona, to the south of the lake of Mantua. At the moment that Radetzky, leaving Verona with his army en masse, wished to fall on the centre of the Ita lians at Villa Franca, he drove them forcibly back on the Mincio, and he, at the same time, compelled the left wing to fall back on Peschiera, and the right wing to weaken the blockading force of Mantua, in order to as sist the centre. This is, in fact, what has happened. "If the Piedmontese army really wished to besiege Mantua, it should have concentrated itself at Villa Franca and Reverbella, abandoned all attempt on 'the Upper Adige, strongly established his left at Castel Nuovo, near Peschiera, and at Mozembano, en the Mincio, without pretending to make expeditions towards the Adige; for at operation like the seige of Mantua is of sufficient consequence to employ all the forces of an army. Now that Marshal Radetzky, roused from his long inaction, shows an intention to keep the field, and he has received considerable reinforcements, Charles Albert must watch closely to maintain his ascendancy. This Prince has sometimes entertained plans which his generals would not entertain. It is thus, for instance, that he was prevented from crossing the Adige below Verona, where Marshal Radetzky marched into Vin cenza—a manoeuvre which would have prevented the Austrian general from re-entering Verona, or would bare forced him to a battle under very disadvantageous circumstances. If the King should again contemplate any of those decisive steps, we hope that the generals will be able to comprehend their meaning, and we counsel them not to spread their troops over too vast an extent of ground, but to concentrate their efforts to some grand operation without wasting time in trifling episodes." The general opinion appears to be that no interven tion will take place if intervention can possibly be avoided, although it is not at all improbable that a French corps d' armee may take temporary possession of Ancona, or some other Italian town, as was done on a former occasion. by the Ministry of CASIMIR PBRRIER. It is said that M. L. MURAT, who left Paris on Sunday night, has been dispatched to the Courts of Turin and of Rome on a mission connected with this Matter, and that General OUDINOT is en gaged in choosing the troops that are to be employed in this special service. It will be recollected that M. MAUGUIN gave notice of certain interpellations on the subject of foreign af fairs on Monday. The National thinks any dis cussion on the subject at the present moment inop- portune. " We do not understand," says the National, " what interest so pressing, at the very moment when so many questions are in suspense, and are agitated like particles in the mortar of a chemist, before baying obeyed their law of affinity—what interest, we say, the Chamber would have in commencing a useless or compromising discussion—for there is no choice—across the events. The policy of the Republic is not mysterious; and we know as much of the facts as the Government itself. It cannot, therefore, be from curiosity that persons wish to discuss with the Ministry. Does M. Nlauguin pre tend to dictate the future conduct of the Minister? In M. Bastide's place we would seek our counsellor else where. Does be wish to criticise the past? So be it. But as we have much to complain of our position in Europe, perhaps the blame of M. Mauguin will find no very strong echo in the Assembly. As regards the pre sent, we repeat that there would be imprudence in the actual state of affairs in bringing on a debate. The As sembly is too mindful of its dignity, too careful of its time, to open a career for vain words, and to use a sitting in seeing a joust of orators; at the same time it is too wise, too intelligent, to consent to the Government com promising negotiations commenced on the demand of any Member whatsoever. It is, therefore, possible that these interpellations will end in an indefinite adjourn ment. For our part, we shall not be either discon tented or surprised at such a result." Our readers remember the furious rage of BLANQUI at the accusation brought against him, in the Revue Re trospective, that he had been at the very time he was professing the reddest republicanism a spy of the Orleans Government. In consequence of the furi ous attacks of BLANQUI on M. TASCHEREAU, the editor of the Revue, the latter brought an action for libel, and in the course of the trial it was satisfactorily proved that the document, on which the accusation was grounded, was in the hand-writing of M. LA LANDE, secretary to the ci-desoant Duke PASQUIER, Ex-Chancellor of France. The tribunal has given the following judgment : "It having been proved that the document published in the Revue Retrospective was not a fabrication for the purpose of attacking the character of M. Blanqui, and that the imputation directed by M. Blanqui to that effect against the plaintiff is completely devoid of truth ; it having also been sufficiently proved that A. Blanqui has rendered himself guilty of libel and public injuries , against le Sieur Jules Taschereau, we do decree that the I said Auguste Blanqui do appear before the tribunal of Correctional Police, to stand his trial according to the law. " Given at Paris this 18th July, 1848. (Signed) " lIUA. CAREE DE VAUX AND FILIION." Here, then, we have a* additional proof of the complicity existing between the Communists and the Royalists—between the ignorant and those who would fain keep them ,ignorant in order to exploiter them. At the sitting of the National Assembly yesterday M. MAUGUIN persisted in spite of all remonstrances in delivering himself of his speech on foreign affairs, the which M. BASTIDE had previously declared he should not under present circumstances feel himself called upon to answer, and the Assembly, after a few personal explanations, passed to the order of the day. BOURSE.—PAnss, MONDAY, JULY 31. THREE O'CLOCK.—Tho same cause which has created a fall in the value of Rentea for the last three days, namely, the Loan and the news from Italy, has had a further influence in the same direction to-day. The Loan is nearly all subscribed for. The Coupons of the EVENING, AUGUST GERMANY AND AU STRIA. deposits on the new Loan have fallen in value. They opened to-day at 4,4001., but their last price was only 3,800 f. Italian Funds all declined, espe cially the Roman. Railway Shares were weak, but the fall is net so great as upon the Government Stocks. The Bons du Trtor suffered a further deprecia tion. Vieille Montagne are 25f. lower than on Satur day. For the Account, the French Three per Cents. have fallen 60c. ; Five per Cents. have fallen 11. For Money, the Three per Cents. have fallen 25c., and Five per Cents. have fallen 75c. Loan not quoted. Bons du Tor are at 21 discount. Bank of France Shares have fallen 30f. Belgian Five per Cents. are the same as on Saturday. Spanish Funds not quoted. Roman have fallen per cent. • Rothschild's Receipts have fallen per cent. Exchange on London, 30 days, 25 35 ; ditto, 90 days, 25 27k. Railway Shares for the Account, Set tling of 15th August—Northerns have come down 3f. 50f., and Lyons If. 25c. ; no others aro quoted. For Money. Orleans have declined 2r. 50c. ; Rouens, 121. 50e. ; Havres, Northerns, Marseilles, Vierzons, Bor deaux, and Strasburgs, 21. 50c. each Bales and Lyons, If. 25c. each ; the Versailles (Left Bank) 2f. 50c. --- BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JULY 31. Boulogne and Amiens, 6 1 ,‘ --Namur and Liege, 5 Northern of France s%—Orleans and Bourdeaux, THE NORTHERN STATES. VIENNA, JULY 2.5.—1 n consequence of the con tinued indisposition of his MAJESTY, the return of the Court from Innspruck to Vienna is again postponed. The ARC UDUKE REGENT will therefore remain here for the present. There was a stormy debate in the Diet yesterday between the Minister of Justice, Dr. BAcx, and M. RIG ER, Deputy of Prague, who designated the raising► of the blockade of that city by Prince WINDISCHGRATZ as a mere form. A new recruiting law was discussed. The Committee of Public Security had a hot debate yesterday with the Deputies of the City Committee, in regard to their union. The fact of its future ex istence is to be referred to the Diet. The audacity with which this Committee of Security and the De mocratic. Club continue to act plainly indicates that the new Ministry , is inclined to tread in the footsteps of that of Baron VON PILLERSDORFF. The llungarian Ministerial President, Count BAT THYANY, who arrived here yesterday, and whose sen timents in regard to Hungary are well known, was honoured by the Magyars with a grand torchlight procession, at which Col. Count APPONT, and several officers of the Alexander Regiment, were present. Count BATTHTANY, as we have before stated, has come hither to negotiate with the Croation Deputies. FRANKFORT. The German Parliament was occupied during the sitting of the 28th in arranging their standing orders. PRUSSIA. The official journal of Berlin, of the 28th of July, announces that the negotiations with Denmark are broken off, and that the truce is at an end. It is re • ported that AIIEROSLAWSKI has been permitted to retire into Belgium. HUN GARY. Our intelligence from Lower Hungary confirm the report that the Magyars have sustained a very serious defeat by the Borderers. At Grosz, Beskeselch, they were be - aten, on the 17th, 18th, and 19th. The Ser vians were hastening by thousands to assist the enemy. The speech made by KoruTu in the Hun garian Diet, respecting the Italian question, has made a very powerful impression here, although he scarcely more than hinted at negotiating with Croatia. It is an evident appeal to the Italians to offer resistance.— Berliner Nachrichten, July 28. The Hungarian Parliament has resolved to send 50,000 troops to assist Austria in the Italian war. Such, at least, is the assertion of a correspondent of the Cologne Gazette. Letters from Szaszka of the IGth of July, in the Oestereichischen Zeitung, state that a battle has been fought at Berlas, in which the insurgents were de feated. The Hungarian Ministry have ordered their troops to attack the insurgents wherever they find them, and a large army of 60,000 men is about to be concentrated on the frontiers of the Banat. POLAND. FROM THE POLISH FRONTIER, JULY 19.--A cor respondent of the Berliner,Nachrichten states that numerous German families have arrived at Strasburg, Grunberg, Thorn, Krelin, and Bromberg, who have been compelled to quit the kingdom of Poland. They state that in the latter part of June the Go vernment had discovered a conspiracy among the military at Warsaw ; that from 25 to 30 Polish and Courland officers were already in confinement at the Alexander citadel at Warsaw, and as many more had been shut up as conspirators in the dungeons of the same place. The procedure of the Government to the resident Polish Nobles is very vacillating. In May, after the proclamation of the EMPEROR against the constitu tional endeavours of the inhabitants of the west of Europe, they were loaded with flatteries and caresses, but within the last few weeks it has returned to its ancient system of severity. The Poles who were engaged in the former revolution, and who, by virtue of the Imperial ukase, have been pardoned, and have now been recalled from Siberia , are not permitted to return to their own kingdom, but residences have been assigned them in the cities of Podolia and Volhynia, and pensions given them from the treasury of the imperial domain. Their amnesty, therefore, is only partial, and by no means so comprehensive as the tenor of the above ukase led one to expect. Indeed, the Russian Go vernment is sensible that a residence of some years in Siberia is by no means calculated to inspire loyalty and devotion. The immense sum which has accrued to the Rus sian treasury from the sequestered domains of the Poles may be inferred from the report of the finances of the Imperial Minister of domains. The Humber of sequestered estates of Nobles was 290 on the Ist of January (a similar number having been given away as presents), the number of serfs on these 290 estates being 76,309 persons of both sexes. Accord ing to the last taxation the ground rent amounted to 9,750,650 silver roubles. The accumulated debt upon the same being nearly three millions and a quarter. The net income during the last year, which was pretty abundant, was 694,690 silver roubles, after de ducting all the expenses of agriculture and adminis tration. W URTEMB URG. The Suabian Mercury says that the Bavarian Privy councillor, VON NIETIIANMER, has been here for some days past, charged with a mission by his Go vernment to negotiate with the Minister of Finance for railway communication between Bavaria and Wurtemburg. These negotiations have already led to an agreement respecting the basis of the compact of the two Governments. TURKEY AND WALLACHIA. Letters from Constantinople, of the 12th July, state that an army of 20,000 men was on its march to Wallachia. The Minister of Commerce, SULEI MAN PACIIA, late Arnbassadar at Paris, was to pro ceed to that province as Commissioner Extraordinary. The Augsburg Gazette has the following extract from a letter, dated Bucharest, July 6 : " The Pacha of Jassy . has officially informed the Go- Ternment that the Turkish troops will enter the princi palities simultaneously with the Russian army, in order to re-establish order and tranquillity." ITALY. LOMBARDY. Beyond the fact that a battle has taken place be tween CHARLES ALBERT and RADETZKY at Villa Franca, nothing is known with certainty. We have• as yet had only Italian accounts, and even they, i n the first instance, declared that the Austrians had gained a victory. Since those accounts were pub lished, however, they have claimed the victory for the Piedmontese. The Pieclxwntese Gazette of the 26th contains the following official announcement on the subject of this battle : " Ilead-quarters of Villa Franca, July 23. " The 2d corps of the Piedmontese army was attacked yesterday by an imposing force in the positions of Lo rena, Ferrara, and Rivoli. The troops, though inferior in number, defended themselves well. In the course of the day the enemy, with a strong force from Verona, attacked the position of San Guiline, Oftania del Bosco, Sona, and Somma Campagna, and repulsed the 2d corps of Piedmontese towards Castel Novo. While this was operating on the left, the King ordered the 4th division of reserve, under the Duke of Genoa, and the Ist bri gade Aosta, and the division of cavalry, to concentrate themselves between Villa Franca and Mozzecona. The King remained at his head-quarters at Villa Franca. (Signed) "SALASCO." "Rivoli, July 22, 10 P.M. " The Piedmontese troops stationed at Rivoli and Corona were attacked at ten A.M. this day. On the side of Montebaldo, another large force obliged the six com panies stationed at Ferraja and Corona to retire, but without much loss. A reinforcement of 1,300 infantry and half a battery of artillery, retrieved the state of things on that side. As the enemy galled us with his battery of Mount Pastello, I ordered a retreat to the position of Colmasano, Cavagon, and Affi. The enemy also threatens to cross the river at Penton. Tho lino facing Verona being also weakened cannot ,,soN N re A sis z t .,, an attack. (Signed) _ " Head-quarters Of *illaTranca, July 24, 11 P.M. "This day a battle has taken place between Costosa and Somma Campagna. The King had given General Bava the command of several bodies, that have co-ope rated in the movement of cutting oil the retreat of the Aultriana to Verona. The latter had on the preceding 1, 1818. day risked an attack upon the positions at Rivoli and I advanced upon the Mincio, showing an intention to cross it. Informed of these projects the King yester day concentrated at Villa Franca several bodies of troops and attacked the enemy with complete success. The Austrians have been obliged to abandon very strong po sitions on the hills, notwithstanding an obstinate resist ance. Six hundred prisoners and a standard have been taken. The loss of the Austrians have been greater than that of the Piedmontese. But I am sorry to in form you that the enemy has succeeded in throwing a bridge over the Mincio, and crossing it at Salcanza; his strength is not yet known. I hope this operation will be prejudicial to him. Our troops are animated by the best spirit; they are everywhere victorious, unless over powered by numbers. (Signed) " SALASCO." It will be seen that this last bulletin, although it declares that the Piedmontese were every where vic torious, adds this somewhat compendious exception, " unless where overpowered by numbers," and that it admits that the enemy had succeeded in throwing a bridge over the Mincio, and crossing it at Salcanza, a feat which the enemy could hardly have been able to accomplish in the face of a victorious army. The rentidue Jfarzio of Milan, of the 25th, publishes the following in the official part : "The official dispatches received late last night from the camp, state that on the night between the 221 and 23d, the enemy attacked our lines with superior forces simultaneously on two points, namely, at the Monte della Corona di Rivoli, and in the wood (al Bosco) between Somma Campagna and Villafranea. The heights of Rivoli were abandoned by our troops, after a fight of three hours' duration, owing to the overpowering numbers of the enemy . Pineralo's brigade, however, kept ground at the Bosco, and drove ba c k th e enem y' With .. some loss. On this news reaching the King at head quarters, he immediately gave orders for the whole army to advance on Villafrauca, leaving the blockade of Mantua in charge of the Lombards and a small body of Piedmontese. " Yesterday morning, the 24th of July, the enemy, twenty-five thousand strong, occupied the environs of Somma Campagna and Oliosi, their outposts stretching as far as Custoza. " Our army had scarcely reached the field when every preparation was made to give battle to the Austrian. " By order of the Provisional Government, "G. CARCANO, Segretario." The non-official part contains the following an nouncement : The Germans having issued from Verona took up a splendid position on the surrounding heights. Yester day, ut four o'clock the Piedmontese army advanad in three columns with the intention of dislodging them, and in fact (ed infatii), after a hard fought struggle, suc ceeded in driving them back, cutting off their retreat to Verona, thus holding out the hopes of their complete defeat, it being impossible for them to return to Verona." On the 26th a Member of the Provisional Go vernment of Milan announced from the balcony of the hotel of the Government that the Austrians had been defeated, with the loss of 2,000 men, 50 pieces of cannon, and seven pairs of colours, but he ad mitted at the same time that he had received no official news from the camp. Until we shall have re ceived the official bulletins of both sides it will be impossible to ascertain the true state of affairs. VENICE. By the Convention concluded between General VON IVELDERN And the Provisional Government in Venice, all the families of Treviso now in Venice will return, and the hostages be mutually exchanged. Austria hereby receives back Field Marshal ST. LUDOLF 25 officers, and 221 men, while Venice re ceives all the hostages belonging to the Venetian fleet. The English and' French steamers have the charge. of the transports. The 1,200 Austrian prisoners of war have addressed a letter of thanks to their beloved paternal friend, Field Marshal V,ADETZKY, for sending to them a con siderable sum of money which he had collected. ROME. The accounts which we gave yesterday of the nomination of a Provisional Government at Rome are confirmed, but no additional particulars are mentioned, except that the person to whom the Porn applied to form a new Ministry on the resig nation of INIAsasuANI and his colleagues was Count PESOLANI, and that he refused unless he was permitted to declare war, in the name of Rome, against the Austrians. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL. SUGAR.—A rather improved demand has again been experienced for British Plantation, and 480 hhds have been disposed of at previous prices. The public sales have comprised 1,400 bags Mauritius, and 3,000 bags Bengal. About half the Mauritius was disposed of at rather higher prices, the remainder being bought in considerably above the value. Bengal sold with spirit at full rates; low to fine white Benares at 38s 6d to 435. Privately several transactions have taken place for refining, the principal being 100 cases low brown Bahia, and 2,000 bags Manilla, the for mer at 36s 6d, and the latter at 365, duty paid ; also a cargo of about 300 hogsheads Porto Rico, afloat, deliverable here at 18s . 6d per cwt. iu bond. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 2,939 hhds 248 tierces 867 barrels. There were taken for home consumption 984 hhds 136 tierces 240 barrels. The stock in the same places is 19,691 hhds 2,483 tierces 4,937 barrels. COFFEE.-530 bags Plantation Ceylon at auction nearly all sold at full rates. Rl:rm.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 539 puns, 31 hhds ; there were taken for home consumption 250 puns, 11 hhds, and ex. ported 58 puns, 68 hhds. The stock in the same places is 18,386 puns, 2,738 hhds. ExcE.-4,900 bugs, 1,000 pockets Bengal, and 1,130 bags Madras was only partially disposed of, at prices establishing a decline of is to is 6d per cwt ; Bengal at lls to 12s for mid to good white ; Madras at 8s 6d to lOs for low to good pinky grain. SALTPETRE.-320 bags Bengal at auction were all taken in at 24s 8d for 12 to 6 per cent. refraction, being above the market value. SPICEB.-620 bags Pimento chiefly sold at 4d per lb, being the full value. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 44s 6d for new, and 44s per cwt for old, upon the spot. Town is 44s 6d. TEA.—The market has been quiet. HAT VICAR/LETS. SMITHFIELD.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 to 31 15s; Now ditto, 21 5s to 3l 8s; Old Clover, 4/ to 41 Its; New ditto, 31 10s to 41; and Straw, 11 4s to 11 lOs per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND. Old Meadow Hay, 31 to 32 15s; New ditto, 2l 5s to 3/ 8s; Old Clover, 41 to 41 123; New ditto, 31 lOs to 4155; and Straw, 11 53 to 1/ 103 per load. Supply moderate, and trade firm. WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow Hay, 3/ to 31155; New ditto, 21 5s to 3/ 7s; Old Clover, 41 to 51 ; New ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 10 s; and Stra w, 1/ 4s to 11 lO s per load. Trade dull, at barely last week's prices. COAL MARKE' Bate's West Hartley 14s Od Buddle's W. Hartley 14s 6d Carr's Hartley Charlotte ...... 148 Od, Davison'sWestHartley 14s 6 East Adairs Main l2s 3 Hedley's Hartley Ilasting's Hartley l4s 64' New Tanfield l3s Od North Percy Hartley l4s 00 .-YESTERDAT. Eden Main Lambton Primrose Belmont .... lss 9d Braddyll's Elettun l6s 3d Bell paswell l6s 9d lietton Fonassohns• l4s 6d 16s 3d a o t o o n n 15s Od Russell's Hetton 16s 31 Shotten Stewart's Caradoc ..... Hartlepool l6s 6d Hudson's Hartlepool lss Oct Heu gh Hall ... 15s 9d 'South Hartlepool Thornley Adelaide Tees Denison Seymour Tees South Durham lss 3fil Tees West Cornforth West Tees ... 14s 6d West Hetton lss 3d Cowpen Hartley Derwentwater Hartley 14s Od Howard's W. H. Neth. 14s 6tl Hartley ........... 14s Od Ships at market 172. Ord's Redh - eugh - 12s 6 . (1 1 Percy Bensham l4s Od l ' South Peareth Tanfield Moor I Tanfield Moor Butes l2B 6d Townley l3s 6d' Walker's Primrose Wylam West Hartley Wall's End, &c. 1 Acorn Close Bewicke and Co. Brown's l3s 9d Clarke and Co. Framwell Gate ...... 15s Od Gosforth Hedley .......... Harton Hotspur l4s 3d Hilda l4s 6d Killingwerth lss Od Northumberland Riddell's ..... ...... 15s Od Wharncliffe ... 15s Od BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.) IN RE STANLEY. This bankrupt was an ironmonger in the Blackfriars road, and came up to pass his last examination. The debts wero 8021. 14s. 2d., and the assets about 112/. His HONOUR said this bankrupt bad been bankrupt and insolvent before, and had also compounded with his creditors. His balance-sheet commenced Ist January, 1843, with a capital of 471. 12s. 10d., which he accounted for by calculating that it was the difference between the sum he paid for his own stock with borrowed money and the real value of the property. His Honour said that it did not appear that a better account could be made out, and the bankrupt might pass his examination ' • but his conduct would. be taken into considerati on w h en he applied for his certificate. SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.' (Before ThoMAS PUCRIE, Esq. ! and a bench of Ma'. gistrates.) George Bishop, a gentlemanly-looking elderly man, with gray hair, was brought up on three indictments: the first charging him with stealing a book, the pro perty of Henry Ellis; the second with stealing a blouse, the property of Richard Gay; and the third with stealing a yard and a half of cashmere, the pro perty of Abner Woodhull. Mr. CIIARNOCK, who was engaged to defend him, said, that after looking at the facts of the case, he thought it advisable to suggest to the prisoner the propriety of withdrawing his plea of not guilty, and of pleading guilty. The prisoner was a highly respectable man, and connected with some of the first families. He had formerly been in business as a silk-mercer, in Southampton, where he failed, but had since been supported luxuriously by his family. Se was at times partially deranged, and at the time he committed the robbery he was under the influ ence of liquor, which deprived him of reason. He, there fore, hoped that the Court would be merciful to him. The CHAIRMAN asked Mr. Keene, the governor of the gaol, whether the prisoner exhibited symptoms of insanity while under his care ? Mr. Keene replied that the surgeon had examined the prisoner, and he did not think there was anything the matter with him. He had been twice in custody before in June, 1847, and about three months ago, but had been discharged. A number of gentlemen came forward and spoke to the prisoner's former character, as a gentleman of great respectability. The CHAIRMAN told the prisoner that however painful it might bo to the Court, they should not be doing their duty, unless they punished him with great severity. The : offence was much aggravated by his position in life and the defence attempted to be set up; therefore the Court saw no reason for mitigation. The sentence of the Court was, that he be imprisoned six months in Brixton House of Correction, with hard labour. LAMBETH.-(THIS DAY.) Thomas Sutton was charged by Benjamin Woods with threatening to stab him. The prosecutor swore he was in danger of his life, and brought forward a witness named Haslegrave, as also Policeman P 338; to prove the same. The policeman said that prisoner, on his way to the statiou , house, said to prosecutor that he (the prosecutor) had signed his death warrant. The prisoner, in answer to the magistrate, said he was first assaulted. _ _ Mr. ELLIOTT said he should require the prisoner to find bait in tw•o sureties of 51. each, for six months. The isoner AM be imprisoned until the bail is found. -,t tiYIPERIAL PARLIAMENT. rt (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve`o'clock. Mr. REYNOLDS presented a petition from forty-four master bakers in the city of Dublin against the Sale of Bread' Bill. On the motion of Mr. MASTERMAN; it was ordered that it be an instruction to the Committee of Selection to appoint the Committee on the London (City) Small Debts Bill to meet forthwith, if they shall so think fit. SUGAR DUTIES. The report upon the Sugar Duties was brought up and agreed to. SUPPLY. - The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up and agreed to. , STEAM NAVIGATION. The House went into Committee upon this Bill. Mr. LABOUCHEIIE, in propoili'ng the resolutions to the Committee, said this Bill was br3tight in for the better regulation of steam navigation in thle country, and for limiting in certain cases the number of passengers to be carried by steam-boats. In the Bill all steam-boats were required to have their machinery inspected by competent_ persons twice a year, and re ports were to be made regularly to the Board of Trade. Under the present law, while seagoing vessels were liable to a penalty if they went upon a voyage without such examination having taken place, no penalties were imposed upon vessels navigating our rivers, and he thought it was as necessary that some restriction should be placed upon them as upon seagoing vessels, because great competition existed among river steam-boats. The principal object of the Bill was one which he thought was very desirable. The Board of Trade were to fix the maximum number of passengers to be carried by steam-vessels, but, in ordinary circumstances, he thought it would be a vexatious exercise of that power to carry it out with regard to seagoing vessels. It was, however, notorious that some of the steam-boats navigating our rivers, especially the river Thames, owing to the great competition which existed and the desire to carry pas sengers at the lowest possible fares, were occasionally so crowded with passengers that the safety of the pub lic was placed iu great danger. It was, therefore, most improper that such a practice should continue, and it became necessary that some check should be placed upon the parties who had the management of those boats, and that the Board of Trade should have the power to fix the maximum number of passengers to be carried by each boat. Those were simply the objects of the Bill which ho had to propose to the Rouse, and which he trusted would receive its sanction. Mr. STAFFORD agreed with the Hon. Gentleman that a great necessity existed to regulate the number of persons that steam-boats should be allowed to carry; but he could not help observing that the time was not far distant when the doctrine of non-interference, and leaving enough to competition would be the great prin ciple of the Government.—(Oh, ob i ) Mr. LABOUCHERE denied that that had ever been a ruling principle—no sane person would advocate the doctrine of non-interference. The Bill would not interfere with the rate of fares.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HENLEY said the people derived the utmost advantage from the cheap rate of conveyance on the Thames. They should take care not so to limit the number of passengers as to take away an undue amount of the profit of the proprietors of boats. No very serious accident had occurred in consequence of over-crowding. Mr. LABOUCHERE said the proprietors of boats would not be unfairly dealt with. The Hon. Gentleman might recollect that the Lord Mayor stated the, other day, when a case was before him, that the matter was not ripe for legislation, and that nothing would be done until a boat went down, and five hundred persons were drowned. The resolution was agreed to, the House resumed, and the Bill was ordered to be brought in. FARMERS ESTATE BILL. Tho House went into Committee on this Bill. Mr. R. PALMER proposed several technical amend ments, which were agreed to. Colonel DUN NE proposed an amendment to the effect that tenants evicted should receive compensation from the county. Mr. M'CULLOCH feared that this Bill would lead to au extreme system of eviction of special persons, like those eight which were granted. No one could boy land which had not poor tenants, and if the Bill were passed, they would be driven from the land which the Company bought. Many located themselves on estates on the faith of the former owner.—(Hear, hear.) Colonel THOMPSON did not like looking into Irish mysteries ; but it appeared to him that this Bill would enable the Company to buy incumbered estates from their landlords, and enable them thereby to get rid of their small tenants. This would be a poor panacea during the present excited state of the country, and, w ould so exasperate the unfortunat e p ersons ev i cte d an d driven to seek shelter beneath hedges, that assassination would become again rife.—(Hear.) Mr. STAFFORD defended the BilL Sir G. GREY said the object of the Bill was not to. promote eviction, but t o st i mu l ate the emp l oyment o f people upon it, by sinking capital in it. The clause, as it stood, ought not to be passed by the Committee. After a few words from Sir W. SOMERVILLE, who said that the poor -rates could not be easily collected, Mr. R. M. FOX said the company would not be likely to purchase lands which were much incumbered by te nants in an extreme state of poverty. He considered that the rates could be easily collected. Mr. REYNOLDS was favourable to the clause ; bat it appeared that no provision was made as to the parties who were to wake rates for the support of evicted poor' The company must clear the land of paupers ; there was no other alternative.— (Hear, hear.) He believed the company was a purely mercantile and not purely benevolent one. It was right that there Should be no hypocrisy about it—(Laughter)—and he trusted that other mercantile speculations with reaped to the laud of Ireland would be started. After a few words from Mr. HENLEY, Sir G. GREY said the company was to be compelled to support those evicted for five years. If Hon. Gentlemen would put the clause in the hands of any legal gentle'. man they would find that this was so. (LEFT SITTING.) NEW USE OF WASTE STEAM.-A manufacturer , who has a steam- engine which discharges much waste steam, conceived the idea of using it to raise pine-apples• The steam was introduced under the roots of the plant and the heat and moisture united acted so power' fully, that the pine-apples soon ripened, while the body of the plant being exposed all day to the open air, as' sumes a healthy and agreeable taste, which renders the fruit far superior to those which have been ripened in hothouses. BIRTBS. This morning, at Cricklewood, Middlesex, the wife of Adam Rivers Steele, Esq., of a daughter. At Leithfield Cottage, Kincardineshire, on the 26th ult.. the lady of J. Arnott, Esq., of Leithfield, of a son. On the 28th ult., at Widmore, Bromley, Kent, Mrs. /id Elms, of a son. In Eaton-place, on the 29th ult., the wife of Major jeffrert 88th Regiment, of a son. On the 30th ult., the lady of William D. Bruce, FA" K.C.S., F. S.A., of a daughter. AGIRRIED. On the 27th ult., at St. Michael's, Pimlico, John R. UM' bull, Esq., of Windsor Castle, to Ann, eldest daughter of 11 ' Oliver, Esq., High-street, Pimlico. On the 27th ult., at All Saints' Church, Southampton, P. H. Ussher, Esq., R.M., third son of the late Admiral Si T. Ussher, K.C.H., to Charlotte Maria, younge st daughter of the Rev. E. Duke, of Lake-house, Wilts. On the 29th ult., a t St. M argare t' s , W es t m i ns t er , Mr. " t Stones, late of New Zealand, to Mary Val e ntina, Od es daughter of Mr. J. Waterlow. of Peckham. J. On the 29th ult., at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, the Re. Lowther, third son of W. Hodgson, of Houghtonrho u l: Cumberland, to Jane Eleanor, widow of the late J. R. GSa of .Houghton-hall, in the same county. DIED. On the 25th ult., at Wath, Cumberland, Dickinson Birketh Esq., of Whitehaven, Cumberland, aged 53. On the 25th ult., at North -crescent, Bedford-square, WTI Anne, daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel James 13 0 ' 4 of Loughborough, Leicestershire. On the 26th ult., Elizabeth Wintersgill, wife of W. Dial er ' Esq., of Oldston-house, Devon. of On the 2Kentish-town, Bth ult., at Caroline Maria, Wif e Captain Brownlow H. ixiyard, aged 24. trick On the 28th ult., at Norfolk-street, Strand, aged 82, P a. "' Leslie, EN., formerly of Crown-court, Broad-street. On the 28th ult., at Marlborough, aged 19, Martha Eliza beth Mary, eldest child of Mr. T. B. Merriman. On the 29th ult. at Roslin-cottage, Counter•hill, NOP. (mos.?, Captain J. Short, formerly of the East India Service. ws On the 30th ult., at Brighton-road, Croydon, M r. Wilson, late of Cheshunt, I - lerts, aged 75. At Myrtle-cottage, Lee, Kent, Maria, daughter of the Ist* W. Woolcombe, Esq. 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