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

iAi' 74I 7HE NEW NOVEL, THE DISCIPLINE of LIFE, Fi PUBLISHED THIS DAT, By Mr. Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-atreet, And may be had at all the Libraries. ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. . 3ldlle. JENNY LIND. Thu Nobility, Patrons to the Opera, and the Public are respectfully ntormed, that a Grand EXTRA. NIGHT will take place on TIIITRSDAY EVENING, when 31dlle. JENNY LLD will appear n s favourite Opera. With various novelties in the Ballet Department, combining tho talents of Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, Mdlle. Carolina Rosati, Mdlle. M. Taglioni, Mdlle. Cerito, Ere. &c. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Lox-of:flee of the Theatre. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mdllo. JENNY LIND. TIIIS EVENING will be performed Be Opera, entitled I PURITAN'. To conclude with the admired Ballet Divertissement, entitled LE JUGEMENT DE PARIS. The Frse List is suspended, the public Press excepted. Pit Tickets may be obtained as usual at the Box-office of the Theatre, price 10s. Gd. each, where applications for Boxes, Pit Stalls, and Tickets are to be made. Doors open at half-past Seven. and commence at Eight o'clock. • MEATRE ROrAL, HAYMARKET. Halet the Martern , nt at Mr. It. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. After which, the Burlesque, entitled TAMING A TARTAR. Count Cracovieninski, Mr. Worrell ; Kickerwhiski ' Mr. Paul Bed ford ; Mazourki, Mr. Wright ; Ivan, Mr. Munyard; Monsieur Con pee, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Strelenski, Mr. Cullentbrd ; Countess Craco vieninsid, Miss Woolgar ; Mazourka, Madame Celeste. To conclnde with the original farce, called HOW TO SETTLE ACCOUNT, \vim YOUR LAUNDRESS. Whittington Widgetts, Mr. INTeght ; Jack Brown, Mr. Mmiyard ; Squibb, Mr. Redmond Ryan; Mary White, Miss Wcolgar ; Mdlle. Cherry Bounce, Miss Enyna Harding. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. 33, Old Bond-street. CLOUP'S BENEFIT. Last Night but One. TO-MORP.OW EVENING, The Entertainments will commence at half-past Seven o'clock when Will be performed LE DOCTEUII 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. i:oxes, 65.; rit, Rd.; Amphitheatre, 35.; Gallery, 2s Boxes and Stalls may be obtain'd at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 3 3, 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 FANTASTIQII ES, which he will repeat THIS EVEN LNG. and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings, commencing at Half-past Eight. I n consequence of the great demand for places, he will repeat his MATINEES FANTASTIQUES TO-MORROW MORNING, August 2. Doors open at Two o'clock. Boxes and Stalls may be secured at 31r. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-Weet. 10YAL SUItItEY TIn:ATEE. Under the direction of:Va. Klerichner. Engagement of Mrs. FITZWILLIAM and Mr. BUCKSTONE, for Twelve Nights. THIS EVENING Vali be per armed JOSEPHINE, THE GUILD OF THE REGI MENT, in which Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. Buckstone will perform. Alter which, a Comic Drama, callcd A ROUGH DIAMOND, in which Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. Bucktone will perform. Io conclude trim THE IDIOT OF THE MILL. Thmager anti Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrether. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Fitzbali's new and completely successful Spectacle. Unparalieli.ql Equestrian Feats. THIS EVENIN•J, Will ha perfhrmed, the new brilliant Spectacle, found& on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated poetical Romance, and entitled MAR MON; or, The Ba:tle of Flodden Field. To he followed hy the inimitable EVESTRTAN and GYMNAS. TIC. EX ErteiriES in the ARENA. To conclude with a Grand Pageant, entitled LADY GODIVA AND YELPING TOM OF COVENTRY; or, Clearing the ToU. box-oftlee open from Eleven till live. : , :age Manager, Mr. W. Welt. ROY Ai. SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Attraction unnrecedented. JULLIEN and his UNRIVALLED BAND. GRAND MONSTRE CONCERT. New Quadrille, composed expressly for the Gardens. Continuation of the Engagement of Miss lIUDDART. Engagement of MISS SARA FLOWER. The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Danson. Superb and Unique MENAGERIE. Brand Display of FIREWORKS, uy the Messrs. Southby. No Extra Charge. MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY. 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, Chilli, Collinet, Koenig, Lazartv, Richardson, Sonnenberg, fcc.—Two Solos each Evening. —Several favourite Songs by Miss Sara Flower and Miss Huddart 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, iv the Messrs. Southby, representing the Glrandola daring the Holy Week at Rome. Gates opea at Ten A.M., 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 autheßti cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. TIIE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 1. TILER:IL/MET:MI, L)west, 55; Highest, 72 ; Noon, 64, BAROMETER, 29.48. WIND W.S.W., heavy showers of rain. HIGHWATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .• 15 min. after 3 Evening •. 37 min. after 3 ( *4 > l' , sCti , 14-...- , ; ; , .,4_ l , .--40 t s , zr i. ~,, ~ _ , f, -, At ~ , , — ,7 4 ••.. - ---- • brie - Ma LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1848. LATEST FROM IRELAND. [BY ELECT RIC 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 piko, 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 SOVEREIGN. 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 Iwas the police forc e amountingstat - toned at Callan, under Sub nspector TRANT,in all to fifty or sixty men. This small but dete rmined The. body arrived first at the field of battle. was r in co d urageous leader end ing that his little troop took of being sur rounded by their opponents, possession of a slated house in the immediate vicini t y where he re solved to resist to the utmust extremity any attempt th a t might be made to dislodge them. Mr. O'Baxzert having in vain soug ht to induc e these galla nt men to surrender their ar ms, p led g in g himself for th e i r n personal safety, gave the signal of attack, which was promptly and effi c iently responded to by the beleaguered police. Several shuts were fired on both sides, and, after a shot; but rapid fusillade, the assailants, as. tounded at the unexpected resistance, and seeing everal of fair euteganions falling under the well- ~`; ~~ .__ THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, 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 ccmpanions (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 1) _y 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 than 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. Tllese vigorous proceedings will effectually prevent any temporary eineute 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 bands, 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 1848 ; the names of Saxon and Celt will no longer ba 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 he 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 ou 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 locality 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 11,946/. per annum received by the Duke of GRAFTON for so many years. The heirs of the Duke of SCHOMBEBG, 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 strongest 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 5 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 those 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 imperativa. In a prima facie view the conduct of the POPE, the Parliament, and the people of Rome appears ou the present occasion most extraordinary, and perhaps reprehensible. It appears, to say the least of it, most extraordinary that Pius 11.—Plus 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 rever berated throughout the vi hole 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 facie 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 the 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 citiz3ns. 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 and Peace was the burden of every sentence which fell from LANLIETINE'S eloquent lips, Liberty and Peace is the ruling principle of all the action and all the inaction of Plus. 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 a* 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 Prince; 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 not 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 peoples 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 •ne 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 th• 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 NARVAEZ, 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 tapis, 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 the Deuda Sin Intern, 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, 4 sellers; Five per Cents., 10 to buyers, sellers ; Coupons, 7 buyers ; Passive Debt, 3i buyers, 4 sellers ; Bank Shares not quoted. POST-OFFICE NoTlcE.—The Postmaster•Ceneral has just issued a notice and instructions to postmasters, letter-receivers, &c., and the public, by which the town of Ferryport-on-Craig, in Fifeshiro, North Britain, i s constituted a post town, and the post-office there wi Übe opened for the issue and payment of money-orders on and after the 6th of August inst. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the French papers of yesterday. The news from Lombardy and the probability of an intervention on the part of the Republic in the affairs of Italy are discussed in all of them. The Conslitusionnel 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 Coruna do Rivoli, under Mount Baldo. " 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 Sornma Campagna and Villa Franca. Tho 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 Pirurola maintaining their ground at Bosco. The 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 eentre, 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 Isole, 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 roar. 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 Mineio 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 partial reverse was to be dreaded iu that quarter, but it was probable that Charles Albert would have acted promptly iu 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 the Austrian troopi 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 battle of Villa Franca, we shall anxiously look for further 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. Tho 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 Piedmonteso army really wished to besiege Mantua, it should have concentrated itself at Villa Franca and Iteverbella, abandoned all attempt on the Upper Adige, strongly established his left at Castel Nuovo, near Peschiera, and at Mozembauo, on the Mincio, without pretending to make expeditions towards the Adige; for an 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 ho was prevented from crossing the Adige below Verona, where Marshal Itadetzky marched into Yin cenza— a manceuvre which would have prevented the Austrian general from re-entering Verona, or would have 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 mowing, 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 PERRIER. 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 Natioxial, " 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 having 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. Mauguin pre tend to dictate the future conduct of the Minister? In M. Bastide's place we would seek our counsellor else where. Does he 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 i n see ing 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 BLAB QUI 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-devant Duke PASQUIER, Ex-Chancellor of France. The tribunal has given the following judgment:— in ' t ‘ h l e t R h a e v v i u n e g R h e e t e r n o sp p r e o c tvievde was h a s a t n the ot a do fa c h u r m ic e a n t t io p n u f b o l r ish th ed e t p i u la r t p t o h s e e o i m f p u t t ; t t . a n c t i k o i n n g d i t r h e ec c t ed h a b r y a c m t e . r B o ia f n A g l u . i ß t l o an q ll u, and thatietrect 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 saidagainst A u lgeu Auguste ü ß r i a Jules i I d ' as o chere appear a beforeu' we do Correctional Police, to stand his trial according to the law. " Given at Paris this 18th July, 1848. tdhcecrtereibt4 tribunal ofe (Signed) " HUA. CARRE DE VAUX AND FILHON." Here, then, we have an 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. MALIGUIN 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 callcd upon to answer, and the Assembly, after a few personal explanations, passed to the order of the day. B°MONDAY, JULY 31. THREE same caul© whi c h h as create d Y a fall in the value of Re ntes for the last three days, namely, the Loan and the ne ws f r o m Italy, has had a further influence in the same direction to-day. The ciLtoScExT—The 9 Loin is nearly all subscribed for. The Coupons of the deposits on the new Loan have fallen in value. They opened to-day at 4,400 f., 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 not so great as upon the Government Stocks. The Bons du Treior suffered a further deprecia tion. Vieille Montagne are 25r. lower than on Satur day. For the Account, the French Three per Cents. have fallen 60c. ; Five per Cents. have fallen if. For Money, the Three per Cents. have fallen 25c., and Five per Cents, have fallen 75c. Loan not quoted. Bons du Tr6sor are at 21 discount. Bank of France Shares have fallen 30f. Belgian Fire per Cents. are the same as on Saturday. Spanish Funds not quoted. Roman have fallen 4 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 V. 25c. ; no others are quoted. For Money. Orleans have declined 2. 50c. ; Rouens, 12f. 50c. ; llavres, Northerns, Marseilles, Vierzons. Bor deaux, and Strasburgs, 2f. 50c. each ; Bales and Lyons, lf. 25c. each ; the Versailles (Left Bank) 2f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JULY 31. Boulogne and Amiens, 6% Namur and Liege, 5 Northern of France 5% Orleans and Bourdeaux, GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JULY 25.—1 n consequence of the con tinued indisposition of his MAJESTY, the return of the Court from Innspruck to Vienna is again postponed. The ARCHDUKE REGENT will therefore remain here for the present. There was a stormy debate in the Diet yesterday between the Minister of Justice, Dr. BAcn, and M. RIGER, 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 PILLERSDO ItFF. The Hungarian Miniterial President, Count BAT THYANY, who arrived here yesterday, and whose sen timents in, regard to Hungary ure Well known, was honoured 'by the Magjiirs With a grand torchlight procession, at which Col. Count APFONY, and several officers of the Alexander Regiment, were present. Count BATTHYANY, 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 MIEROSLAWSKI has been permitted to retire into Belgium. HUNGARY. Our intelligence from Lower Hungary confirm the report that the Magyars have sustained a very serious defeat by the Borderers. At Grosz, Beskesetch, they were beaten, on the 17th, 18th, and 19th. The Ser vians were hastening by thousands to assist the enemy. The speech made by KOPTJTII 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 16th 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%Naar/eh/en 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 }lumber 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. WURTEMBURG. The Suabian Mei.cury says that the Bavarian Privy councillor, Vox NIETHAMMER, 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, &LEI.. MAN PAULA, late Ambassadar 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 vernment 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 RADETZKT at Villa Franca, nothing is known with certainty. We have as yet had only Italian accounts, and even they, in 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 Piedmontese Gazette of the 26th contains the following official announcement on the subject of this battle : " Head-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 fora° from Verona, attacked the position of San Guiline, Oftania del Bosco, Sons, and Somme. Campagna, and re p u l se d t h e 2 d 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 attack e d a t t en a . m . thi s d a y. 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 thirgs 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 th© river at Ponton. The line facing Verona being also weakened cannot resist an attack. (Signed) " SONNAZ." " Head-quarters of Villa Franca, July 24, 1 I , P.M. "This day a battle has taken place betwcea (Aston and Somme. Campagna. The King had given General Bava the command of several bodies, that have co-ope rated in the movement of cutting off the retreat of the Austrians to Verona. The latter had on the preceding AUGUST 1, 1848. day risked an attack upon the positions at Rivoli and advanced upon the Mincio, showing an intention to cross it. _lnformed of these projects the King yester— day concentrated at Villa Franca several bcdies 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 Saleanza, a feat which the enemy could hardly have been able to accomplish in the face of a victorious army. The Ventidue Marzio 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 22d 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 Somme. Campagna and Villafranca. 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 its ground at the Bosco, and drove back the enemy n ith some loss. On this news reaching the King at head quarters, he immediately gave orders for the whole army to advance on Villafranca, 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 front Verona took up a splendid position on the surrounding heights. Yester day, at four o'clock the Piedmoutese army advance d in three columns with the intention of dislodging theni, and in fact (eel infatti), 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 2Gth 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 WELDERN and the Provisional Governm en t i n 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 ItADETZKY, 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 Pore applied to form a new Ministry on the resig nation of MAMMIANI 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. &lc/tn.—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 Benarts at 38s Gd to 435. Privately several transactions have taken place for refining, tho 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. in 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 st( ck 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. linal.—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, 19 hhds, and ex ported 58 puns, 68 hhds. The stock in the same places is 18,386 puns, 2,738 hhds. RICE.-4,900 bags, 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 6d for 12 to 6 per cent. refraction, being above the market value. SPICES.-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 cwl for old, upon the spot. Town is 44s 6d. TEA.—The market has been quiet. EAT DIAZICETS. - - SMITIIFIELD.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 to 3/ 155; New ditto, 215 s to 318 s; Old Clover, 41 to 4/ 15s; New ditto, 31 lOs to 4/ ; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 11 lOs per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND. Old Meadow Hay, 31 to 31 15s; New ditto, 21 5s to. 31 8s; Old Clover, 41 to 41 12s; New ditto, 31 10s to 4l ss; and Straw, 11 5s to 1/ lOs per load. Supply moderate, and trade firm. WitrrEcEtAPEL.—Old Meadow Hay, 3/ to 3/15s; New ditto, 21 5 s to 3/ 7s; Old Clover, 4/ to 5/ ; New ditto, 31 5s to 41 10s; and Straw, 11 4s to 11 108 per load. Trade dull, at barely last week's prices. COAL MARK E'. Bate's West Hartley 14s Odi Buddle's W. Hartley 14s 6d Carr's Hartley Charlotte Davison'sWest Hartley 14s 64 East Adairs Main...., 12s 3 lledley's Hartley Hasting's Hartley l4s 6st" New Tanfield 133 00 North Percy Hartley 143 Od Ord's Redheugh Percy Bensham l4s Od South Peareth Tanfield Moor .... Tanfield Moor Butes l2s 6d Townley l3s 6d Walker's Primrose Wylam West Hartley Wall's End, &c Acorn Close Bewicke and Co. Brown's l3s 9a Clarke and Co. Framwell Gate lss Od Gosforth ..... Hedley Harton Hotspur l4s 3d Hilda Killingworth lss Od Northumberland Riddell's ..... ... ...... Wharncliffo I'.— YESTERDAY. Eden Main ...... ... l5B 6d Lambton Primrose lss 9d Belmont lss 9d Braddvll's Hetton l6s 3d Bell aswell l6s 9d Hetton . Jonassohns l4s 6tl Latnbton Morrison lss 0(1 Russell's Hettoa Shotten Stewart's Caradoc Hartlepool Hudson's Hartlepool 153 Od Heugh Hall Kelloe 153 9,: South Hartlepool Thornley Adelaide Tees Denison Seymour Tees South Durham lss 3d Tees West Cornforth .. lss Od West Tees l4s 6d West Hetton lis 3d Cowpen Hartley DerwentwaterHartley I4s Od Howard's W. 11. Neth l4s 6',1 Hartley Ships at market 172. 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 were 802/. 14s. 2d., and the assets about 112/. His HONOUR said this bankrupt had been bankrupt and insolvent before, and had also compounded with his creditors. His balance-sheet commenced Ist January, 1843, with a capital of 471. 12e. 10d., which he accounted for by calculating that it was the difference between the sum he paid for his own stuck 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 consideration when he applied for his certificate. SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.) (13vfore THOMAS PUCKLE, Esq., and a bench of Mn- gistratee.) 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 Woodhall. Mr. Cumaiocx, who was engaged to defend him, said, that after looking at the filets 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. Ile had formerly been in business as a silk-mercer, in Southampton, where he failed, but had since been supported luxuriously by his family. lie 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 N hope 4 that-the-Gleerreivetkl-he-mereiftri-to-hina. The CHAIRMAN asked Mr. Keene, the governor .of the gaol, whether the prisuner 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 be 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 anti 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 Haelegrave, as also Policeman P 338, to prove the same. The policeman said that prisoner, on hii way to the station house, said to prosecutor that he (the prosecutor) had signed his death warrant. The prisoner, in answer to the magistrate, said he was first asaulted. Mr. ELLIOTT said he should require the prisoner to find bail in two sureties of 51. each, for six months. The prisoner will be imprisoned until the bail is found. CONFLICT WITH BURGLARS. A most daring and severe conflict took place .on Thursday morning in the back green of a gentleman's house in Moray-place, between one of the servants and two burglars, who had invaded the premises for the purpose of pillage. .It appears that about half-past one o'clock in the morning the butler, William Clarke, while proceeding down stairs to his bed-room, heard a peculiar noise,,as if created by the scraping and wrenching of iron bars. He immediately proceeded to his room, and having armed himself with the spear of a sword staff, he opened the back-door to the green behind the house. All was quiet; but observing the door of a water-closet, which is on the outside, shut, as it seldom was, he sits pected something was wrong. On pushing it up, a man sprung from within, and aissed , a blow at him. Clarke, in return, 'plunged the spear into the fellow's thigh. The blackguard then drew a pistol, and fired it at bis antagonist ; but Clarke, nothing daunted, made a se cond thrust with the spear, which, however, struck the wall, and snapped. The combatants then closed. Clarice seized the man with his right hand, and the burglar grasped him by the throat. In the struggle the butler drew a clasp-knife from his pocket, and cut the villain across the arm; he then threw him down, and standing over him, was proceeding to bind his victim with his braces, when' an accomplice leaped from the roof of the water-closet (la Clarke's back. Though he still retained his hold, yet the shock was so great that the fellow be" Death him was enabled to get up, and the two ran amiss the back green together. Clarke followed, but had not advanced far when the discharge of a second pistol show how well prepared the ruffians were for any deadly encounter. Fortunately, like the previous dis• charge, the shot did not take effect. The alarm hav ing been raised, several policemen were speedily on the spot; and on examining the premises some blood wsts observed on the walls and floor of the water-closet, and the kuife which Clarke held in his hand was nearly covered with the same substance. Blood marks were also observed in a hen-house at the place of the wall where the burglars had escaped ; but, notwithstanding the most minute search, no trace has been discovered of the point of the spear, so that there is little doubt that when the burglar who fought so stoutly decamped, he carried two or three inches of the weapon sticking in his limb. Ite, part of the spear which was sn app e d i n t h e wa ll was f oun d along with the pistol first discharged. Clarjee his escaped unhurt, except with a contusion in the forehead, and his side slightly bruised with gunpowder. The wadding of the shot was found in his coat side-pocket ; but although a ball has also been found, it is not stir posed to be the one discharged from the pistol. The most active measures have been taken by the police to discover the daring thieves. All the members of the medical profession have been communicated with, and placards have been posted with the view of making the event known, in order that the depredates-3 may be .die' covered.—Edinburgh Advertiser. SUSPENSION BRIDGE at NIAGARA FALLS. It is contemplated to have the foot bridge at the PP ready for crossing on the 4th of July. This will be a great curiosity, and many will avail themselves of 01 adventure. The following is to be the composition ' Ol the railroad bridge:—Number of cables for bridge, number of strands in each cable, 600 ; ultim a t e t e nsion', 6,500 tons ; capacity of the bridge, 500 tens ; numbe r s ; of strands in the ferry cable, 37; diameter of the cable f inch; height of stone tower 68 f ee t 1 i nc h ; h e i g ht wood tower or ferry, 50 feet; base of the tower, 7 f; square feet; size at the top, tl square feet; span of . the bridge, 800 feet; whole weight of the bridge, 650 toes height from the water, 230 feet; depth of water under . the bridge, 250 f ee t. Thi s suspens i on b r id ge i s the mk t sublime work of art on the continent. It makes the be dizzy to look at it, and yet it is traversed with as rla° security as any other bridge of the same width. W° were present while the workmen were engaged in bang' ing the planks over the fearful chasm. It looked like . 1 work of peril, but it was prosecuted with entire safety Not an accident has happened since the tirst cord w' carried accross the river at the tail of a kite. It is possible to give the reader a clear idea of the grandee , of the work. Imagine a foot bridge 800 feet in length' hung in the air, at the hei g ht o f 230 f ee t, over a 1" 1 " ° , body of water rushing through a narrow gorge at t o ' rate of 30 miles an hour. If you are b e l ow i t , it 100 like a strip of paper suspended by a cobweb. When tb : wind is strong the frail, gossam er -l oo ki ng strunto._„," sways to and fro as if ready to start f rom i ts f asten ing" and it shakes from extremity to centre under the fill!, tread of the pedestrian. But there is no danger. $ pass over it with perfect safety, while the head of IP"' timid looker-on swims with apprehension. W e s aw fl first person pass over it—Mr. Ellet, the builder. -VI:, cou rageous wife soon followed him, an d f or two fiki; hundreds, attracted by the novelty of th e t hi ng, t oo' the tearful journey. It is worth a trip to the Falls r see this great work, although it is not probable that .I i ll 20 will have the nerve to cross u p on i t. For, strange 7 d , it may seem, there w ere th ose who had no hesitation to slide over the awful c h asm i n a basket, upon a got wire cable, who could not b e i nduced to walk over t he bridge. And this aerial excursion is thrillingly exciting; A seat on a locomotive, travelling at the rate of 60 mil e an hour, is nothing to it. When you find yourself 8 01 : pended in the air, with the roaring, rushing, beili o e Niagara 250 feet below you, if your heart don't nutter, you will have nerve enough to swing over Vesetu k s ; And yet th e sensat i on is not altogether unpleasant. 'tvi, ride itself, as the old lady said about skinning eels, „ nothing when y ou get use d to i t. " Another new attrit . lion at the F a ll s i s t h e excurs i on from the site o f the suspension bridge, to within a few rods of the Bog; shoe F a ll s i n the little steamer Maid of the Mist. d no other mode can the visitor obtain so grand a view 0 the great Cataract. Every one makes the trip, and 8 0 express the same sentiment, that the Falls are not Se e l , in all their sublimity and grandeur, except from the elec of the Maid of th e Mi s t. Th e run i s ma d e w i t h pe rfect safety.—Albany Journal. LINCOLNSHIRE.—The seed and hay harvest is Bye pended in consequence of the almost daily rains. fear that they will p rove very i n j ur i ous to the crops. 'lO regret to find that the disease is again showing itself , a very fearful ext en t amongst t h e potato crops in 04 neighbourhood ; and the extremely wet weather, it feared, will tend to quicken its spread.—Lincolnsll Chronicle. NEW USE OP WASTII STEAM.- - p manufacture r : who has a steam- engi ne w hi c h di sc h arges much vros" steam, conceived the idea of using it to raise pine-aPK O The steam was introduced under the roots of plant and the heat and mo i s t ure un i te d acted so poil_Ae'; fully, that the pine-apples soon r ip ene d, w hil e the bow of the plant being exposed all day to the open air, r ii ; sumes a healthy and agreeable taste, which renders fruit far superior to those which have been ripened hothouses. MATHS. of This morning, at Cricklewood. Middlesex, the wife Adam Rivers Steele, Esq., of a daughter. At Leithfield Cottage, Kincardineshire, on the 26th the lady of J. Arnott, Esq., of Leithfield, of a son. 101 On the 28th ult., at Widmore, Bromley, Kent, Mrs. Elms, of a son. In Eaton-place, on the 29th ult., th e w if e o f Major JeffreP° 88th Regiment, f a eon. On the 30th ult., the lady of William D. Bruce, K.C.S., F.S.A., of a daughter. AGIRRIED. On the 27th ult., at St. Michael's. Pimlico, John R. bull, Esq., of Windsor Castle, to Ann, eldest daughter of Oliver, Esq., High-street, Pimlico. On the 27th ult., at All Saints' Church, Southampton , co P. H. Ussh er , E sq., R .M., third son of the late Admiral °eat T. Ussh er , K.C.H., to Charlotte M ar i a , youn g daughter f the Rev. E. Duke, of Lake-house, Wilts. pir, On the 29th ult., a t St. M argaret ' s , Westminster, gr;ciot Stones, late of New Zealand, to Mary Valentina, e' daughter of Mr. J. Waterlow. of Peckham. J. On the 29th ult., at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, the Ile ,! tor , Lowther, third son of W. Hodg son , o f Houghton- r ,hu ro t, Cumberland, to Jane Eleanor, widow of the late J. R ot Houghton-hall, in the same county. DIED. tit On the 25th ult., at Wath, Cumberla n d, Di c ki n son Bir —e k Esq., of Wbitehaven, Cumberland, aged 53. ar f On the 25th ult., at North-crescent, Bedford-square, —tti Anne, daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel James 800 of Loughborough, Leicestershire. Dule* On the 26th ult., Elizabeth Winteregill, w ife of W. 1 Esq On ~ of Oldston-house, Devon. wife of tho 28th ult., at Kentish-town, Caroline Maria, lc' Ca On the 28th ult., at Norfolk-street, Strand, aged 8 2, P a Leslie, Etq., formerly of Crown-court, Broad-street. On the 28th ult.. at Marlborough, aged 19, Martha beth Mary, eldest child of Mr. T. B. Merriman. icevr' On the 29th ult., at. Rollin-cottage, Counter _ cross, Captain J. Short, formerly of the East India Servi'w. On the 30th ult., at Brighton-road, Croydoup / 311 " Wilson, late f Cheshunt, Herts ag&l 75. be i s to At Myrtle- o cottage, Lee, Kent, Maria, daughter of t W. Woolcombe, Esq London: Printed and Published by IVIURDO YOUN G ' 11 1 No. 112, Strand, Print er , at The Sun Office, rio• Strand, in the Precin c t of the Savoy, in the coali t Y • Middlesex, Tuesday, August 1, 1848. .ci:t OIL The 'of tho ,notice - they e Contrf PILC at. the th; •:tAI6~ racy, 5it , ..4 T y Netter s the p eg the co P' against late of 'teas:xl en 1 0 r debts 1 of the s ta:v -la /11s4s, Cheroot Leeree M rnake TiPpron Person.. tarya hone of Iments. transac reigrdn j Theo from TI d f; ‘X P'or ottlOcm "Fr, - ; 6, f 6%, 7, 7 frftra ,6.111 Rim es. T s . Passai matted t. Omni] • every qu /50.1. T Vbrep 13 . ackets ; t i Brunswi For Pi - church-a , ATTIte 1 01. . . , ; tin ' Lt th t.Qi t . 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