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EVENING SUN. TOf SUNDAY, the 22d of August, will contain THE FETES AT BOULOGNE, " YATES." CONTEST BETA EEN MASON AND JONES, FOR FIFTY POUNDS A-SIDE ; _ _ And ROWE and DONOVAN; bza . Member of the P.R. THE COWES REGATTA. The Opening of Parliaracnt.—The Westminster Dinner to Captain Rous, R.N. , M.P. With all the Sporting, Political, and Domestic News of the Week Office, 20; Catharine-street, Strand, London. Just reaay, 3 Vol!. post Bvo., WEDLOCK; or, YESTERDAY and TODAY. A NOVEL. By the Author of " The 3lisid's Husband," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Mn. AINSWORTH'S NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. GFAWK ES, Iu 3 cols. post SYO. with numerous Illustrations by GecrgeCruikshank, IS NOW READY, and can be had at all the Libraries. For truth to the history of the times, strength of ima gination, and clear d,lineation of character, this romance has scarcely been equalled since the appearance of Old Mortality' or ' Waveriey. "—Limerick Standard. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. AOTAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE NIANAC,ENIENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS TONES. Glorious success, and nightly overt!ows—lmmense attraction ! THIS EVENINO, AUGUST 18, Will be acted Lord Byron's Spectacle, ealled THE WILD HORSE; OR, MAZEPPA, THE CHILD They all subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles, which not two in forty of them agree to receive in the same sense. Even the Bishops are not agreed about them. By some it is pretended that they bind themselves not to contradict them; others subscribe them in any sense agreeable to their Diocesan; some in any sense in which they can reconcile them with the Scriptures ; but the go verning principle with all is, that by subscribing the Articles they qualify themselves for Church preferment. When taking holy orders, they solemnly affirm that they are moved thereto by the HOLY GHOST, when it is as notorious as the sun at noonday that ninety-nine out of every hundred of them are moved by filthy lucre. The spirit which moves a candidate for the priest hood is very different from the Spirit of GOD. Its operations are always regulated with scrupu lous regard to the whims of a patron, and always becomes troublesome when a rich presentation is to be had. Ecclesiastical agencies for the pur chase and exchange of Church livings, are al most as plenty in London as pawnbrokers' shops ; and yet every priest swears, on tak ing possession of a benefice, that he has made no simonical payment, contract, or pro mise, for it, either directly or indirectly; by himself or through any other person, nor will he ever perform any contract entered into by any other person without his consent, in regard to such benefice. Does any person suppose that the priests in general ever trouble their heads about the observance of these oaths? And is it to be wondered at that men, familiar from their infancy with perjury,—who, in their pretensions to rank—in their titles and dignities—in their aspirations after wealth—in the examples of con duet which they set to others—burlesque the sacred injunctions of CHRIST; —is it, we repeat, a matter of surprise that such a body of men should excite the suspicion of every truly reli gious man? The priests are constantly crying out about the progress of infidelity. What they really more dread is the diffusion of the great truths of the Gospel. The infidels cost them less trouble than the humble believers, who, taking the New Testament fbr their guide, attempt to discover an apostolic fisherman and tent-maker in the princely Prelates of CANTERBURY and YORK. The priests may fight as hard as they like for the Tories, but the Tories, by any more bolstering up, will only accelerate the downfal of the crazy ecclesiastical State edifice. The vices of the priests have already made them too conspicuous in the eyes of the people. Their best policy at present is to keep as much out of sight as pos sibie. They are an eye-sore to honest men, and a stumbling-block and a rock of offence to all who inwardly profess the religion taught by the New Testament. As a corporation, they have scandalously and wickedly abused their trust, by perverting the tithes, and every other description of Church property, from the uses to which the mixed piety and superstition of former ages de voted them. This abuse of the trust amounts to a forfeiture and the priests may depend upon it that as surely as the State at the period of the Reformation took it out of Catholic to put it into Protestant hands, so surely will the State again resume its disposal, if they continue to make it what it now is—a vast engine of oppres sion. Let them look to it in time. Instead of shouting in the van of the bread-taxing aris tocracy, it would be well for them to set about putting their house in order. The country is weary of their pride, their avarice, their litigiousness, and their constant intermed dling with the innocent enjoyments of the poor. As mere spiritual incubi the priests might be borne, but they become an intolerable nuisance when they are active, and only active for mischief. A knot of fanatics have taken it into their heads that our Colonies are sadly in want of Bishops. The people of England and Ireland can right well spare them as many as they re quire, without putting his Grace of CANTER BURY to the trouble of additional consecra tions. We have here some Irish Prelates who scarcely once in seven years think of visiting their sees, and of course they would be delighted to obtain such fine fields as the Colo nies for the exercise of their spiritual zeal. As they would be just as useful to the Church of Ireland then as now, they could retain their present preferments, and thus the Colonies would be saved the expense of paying for Bishops. There are also several English Bishops, who manage to get through most of their episcopal functions in London, though their dioceses are some scores of miles distant from the metropolis, and these by an amicable arrangement with their Right Reverend brethren, we could very well _ - afford to ship off, for six or eight months an• nually, to Jamaica and the other West India islands. We have too many Bishops, and by far too much Church. Our surplus of both is more than adequate to supply all the wants of our Colonists. If we had fewer Bishops and less Church, we would have more true religion and Christian piety. In Mr. O'CONNELL'S long letter to the Hon. Mr. SMYTUE, to which we alluded in The Sun of yesterday, an announcement is made which ought to be very gratifying to the Tories, and yet some of their organs are exceedingly an noyed by it. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman, after recapitulating a long list of Irish grievances, for which he has no hopes of redress at the hands of a PEEL Cabinet, and which could not exist in England without provoking a rebellion, adds with some emphasis, that there shall be no re bellion in Ireland while he lives. This statement will be much more gratifying to Sir ROBERT PEEL than to the bulk of his supporters. There are plenty of Tories who would be quite delighted to see the standard of rebellion raised in Ireland —aye, and thousands of them Irish Tories too. This would afford them the only chance they can ever hope to have of repealing the Emancipation Act, and reducing the Catho lics to .the condition of serfs. We do not mean to say that they would succeed—we know that to be now impossible—but their infa.- tuationwould blind them to the guilt and fblly of making the attempt. Fettered and oppressed as she is, it is Ireland that reins in and keeps in cheek-F4Tirst . ,l.4'ot•yisni in England. W e wou ld have bee n Tory. ri ( faen for the last ten years, but for Ireland. But for Ireland, we would have h ß ad no Reform Bill, no Municipal Corporation ill. No wonder that the old boroughnionger- Mg Torie s h ate her, and are constantly on th e alert to as s i st in crushin g her. But for Sir R o - BERT PEEL and Lord STANLEY'S well known hos tility to Ireland, we almost doubt whether they would have a majority in the new Parliament. Dear bread is not of so much importance in the STANLEYrich and do ingpassing y et some good to Ireland. Their liatred of the Irish people, and incessant efforts to oppress them, is evoking a national spirit which is fast •0. classes, and whi c h r • pervading all requires but full development to enable Ireland to laugh at any attempt to restrict - • her liberties. The debate t Irish Disfranchisem e nt upon STANLEY'S 1 1 11311 has led to a more general knowledge of the miser , ably restricted state of the franchise, and so pre pared the Liberal party - in England to support a wide extension of the suffi•age in the sister coun try. Every attempt at opp ression which }ail s i s .of advantage to the nation which is the object of it, because it provokes a patriotic resistance by exhibiting the weakness of the aggressor, and, regarded in this light, Lard STANLEY is a sort of benefactor of Ireland. But Mr. O'Cox- NELL does well to be upon his guard. If the Tories begin by making concilia tory overtures to Ireland, it is because they want to betray her. STANLEY'S hatred of Ireland is deadly and inveterate, nor has he thought of giving up his project for enslaving her. The triumph of the Tories in England is temporary ; Scotland has declared against them; so both their instincts and their revenge point out Ire land as the only around where there exists a chance of re-ercctitig the Tory standard. And here we may 1)e allowed to ask, how is it OF THE DESERT. inteoduoirtg Mr. Ducrow's Magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, highly-trained Palfrels, Fairy Peneys, the Equestrians, and Companies cf both Theatres. After which. TRH SPLENDID SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, I■ the Largest Arena in the World. In which Maikme Ducrow, Signor Hillier, the Great Ameri nen Ritter, tho British Horseman, Signor Felix Carlo, and the First Artistes - in Europe will appear. To conclude with THE REIVER'S RANSOM ; OR, GILDEROY, THE BONNIE BOY. Gilderey, Mr. Henry Hughes. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Grand and triumphant success of " Mary Clitforct !" Miss Via sent in a New Dame, entitled " Madeline !" and first week " Pilot l" THIS EVENING, AUGUST 18, The perfermances will commence with the New Domestic Drama in Three Acts, called MARY CLIFFORD; THE FOUNDLING APPRENTICE GIRL ! Wiliam Clipson, Mr. E. F. Savillo ; Bowling, Mr. Paul ; Robby Benham, Mr. gambler; Sarah, Mrs. W. Nest; and Mary Clifford, &list Vincent, tie acknowledged Heroine •f Domestin Drama. After which, the New Musical Romance of MADELINE ; OR, THE POOL OF THE DROWNED Charles de Guie, Mr. Seaman; Dr. Receharde, Mr. Howard 'Peter Manel, Mr. Gardiner; Madeline, Miss Vincent. To conclude with, THE PILOT. The Pilot, Mr. Dale; Long Tom Coffin, Mr. E. F. Saville Captain hr.-rougheliffe, Mr. Gardner ; Serjeant Drill, Mr, Paul; Catherine Plowdeu, Mrs. G. Lee. Boxes, 2L—Pit, ls.--- Gallery, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. To-morrow, Mary Clifford, Madeline, and The Wood Demon THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. LAST WEEK of the GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH'S performing in the British Metropolts. It is with deep regret that the Wizard puts forth the above announcement, nut as preparations are about to be made on an extensive seal* for the opening of the Adelphi Theatre for its Theatrical Season, the Wizard is compelled prematurely to finish his season of wonderment ; therefore those who wish to see the Wizard and his mighty doings, must not new "stand on the order of going," but "go at once." During the eon chiding twelve nights the Wizard will display all his peculiar powers, mortal and superhuman, which are without parallel in this or any other country. Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price at nalf.past-Nine •'clock. Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. Places for the Boxes may be taken from ➢lr. Swinburn, at the Box-office, between Eleven and Fenn Parties are respectfully informed, that as the Dress Circle is nightly crowded, an early application is requisite. N.B. Private Boxes, containing six persons, l/. ss. Decors open at Half-past Seven ; the Wizard appears at Eight o'clock precisely. Half-price at Half-past Nine. ••• After the conclusion of the Wizard's London Engage ment, he will appear in Brighton and Southampton. TO-MORROW, the 19Tu, AND FRIDAY, the 20TH of AUGUST, WILL BB PUBLISHED, THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN : CONTAINING, AT ONE VIEW, THE NEW PARLIAMENT, Embracing all Particulars of Interest, together with the ELECTION OF SPEAKER, IN TIME FOR POST TO- MORROW V_ENING. And on TUESDAY, the 24TH, THE NEW PARLIAMENT Will be REPEATED, with HE QUEEN'S SPEECH ON OPENING THE SESSION. Early Orders are requested to enable us to SAny POST. PRICE SIXPIINCE. THE RAILWAY SUN I$ NOW RE-PUBLISHED, PRICE SIXPENCE. Smn Office, 112, Strand. HIGH WATER AT LONDON lIRIDGE TO.MORROW K Minutes after 3 I Evening 41 minutes after 3. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, Is4l. The triumph of the Tories at the hustings has exalted the horn of the priests. Their note of exultation is heard everywhere. All their or gans chaunt in chorus the victory achieved by them over the people. Theirs, they cry, is the glory of having defeated' the Whigs. Be it so. They are at least consistent. They but treat the body as they do the soul. Religion is the life of the soul. Not a rite appertains to it to which they have not tagged a tax. We can neither come into the world, nor go out of it; marry, nor give in marriage;, pray, nor abstain from praying, nithout paying the priest's taxes upon relig,ion. Nor have we even the benefit of a sliding scale. Whatever be the dearth of religious consolation at home, we are not allowed to import any with . out - payila? thss- Ina-Maw:l duty. In fighting, then, for deai:bread under the banner of the oli garchy who suppOrt the accursed Corn-laws, they Lave proved themselves as ready to starve the body - as the soul. But they exult rather too loudly. The people are neither so impotent that they can be trampled upon with impunity, nor so infatuated with prieetianity as to confound its grasping, rapacious, insc j ient pretensions with the religion of the lstwly JESUS. The priests cannot take the Sediptures out of their hands; and with the Gospels open before them, it is easy for them to detect these wolves in sheeps' clothing. JESUS, the head of the Christian Church, had not where to lay his head; the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, tite virtual ecclesiastical head of the Church of England as by law established, occupies, as does every member of the Episcopal bench, a Palace. CHRIST and his Apostles were poor and needy ; the Bishops enumerate their wealth by thousands sterling. The Apostles gave all they possessed to the poor; the priests plunder, imprison, and insult them. The Apostles had no money in their purses, and their missionary outfit consisted of one coat, a stair, and a scrip to carry bread; the Bishops visit the House of GOD in coaches, raise lawn-bedecked arms to implore blessings through the merits of Him who washed the feet of fishermen ; and whenever a bank breaks a priest is sure to be one of the principal losers. Bishop BL'RNET, who knew the priests well, tells us that he always believed well of lay men till he saw cause to change his opinion, but that he always suspected a priest to be either a rogue or a Ititpocrite till he was sure of the - con trary. Tisik - is not at all surprising. The educa tion, habits, and pursuits of the State priesthood render them naturally objects of suspicion. In the Universities they contract a habit of false *wearin, which must sip the very basis of true religious feeling. II ardly of obs erv i ng one youth in a thousand ever dre am s the oaths taken to ob serve th e rules and regulations of his College I .• 0 -, ,u, .. , ,„„., -__AN.4l.lt. \o-hg ,4-ZAtit. TI-I K SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1841 that Mr. O'CoNNELL has thought proper to ad dress a long exposition of Ireland's wrongs to the Hon. Mr. SMYTHE ? Does he hope to make a convert of the Hon. Member for the city of Can terbury to the cause of Ireland; or is this long letter an overture to the new PREMIER ? We ask these questions, because there seems to us some thing strange in the proceeding, and because we know that Mr. O'CONNELL can have no wish to leave his real views at all doubtful. It will be seen from our report of the proceed ings at the Croydon Assizes yesterday that a poor man, after an arduous and protracted con test, has at last defeated a Lord. The poor man, whose name is PUNTER, was turned out of his cottage by Lord GRANTLEY. He considered he had as much right to the freehold as his Lord ship, and, with the assistance of sonic neighbours, who took an interest in the case, and the ex cellent advocacy of Sergeant SHEA, he has tri umphed. What will the renegade Tory Judge who once tried the case, say to this ? On that occasion he summed up in fitvour of the Noble Lord, and treated the claims of the plaintiff with contempt. The Jury yesterday were of a diffe rent opinion ; they were guided, too, by a Judge who has always been consistent, and who is an honour to the Bench, and they returned a ver dict in favour of the plaintiff, for the amount claimed. If the tenure by which certain Noble Lords and Ladles hold their vast estates were to be tried by the same rule which the CIIIEP BARON laid down for the decision of PUN. TER'S claim, one half of -them would be dispos sessed of their property. Many of them have no title deeds to show; they claim, like PUN TER, right from continued possession; and a discreet Judge, therefore, would not have mooted a question which involves such fearful consequences. But upstart Peers and renegade politicians are dangerous counsellors, and .so the Jury thought when they returned a - Verdict directly opposed to the decision Of Lord ABINGER. We anticipated in our afternoon edition of yes terday the news contained in the French Jour nals of Monday. The following details of the riot at Bordeaux, from the Memorial Bordelais of the 14th inst., are sufficiently interesting to claim insertion in our columns : " Disturbances, of which it is impossible to appreciate the true character, took place here (Bordeaux) in the night of the 12th inst. Some say that they had their origin at the theatre ; others assert that for some clays past certain persons had been endeavouring to excite them, and that the vote of the Municipal Council on the subject of the census was considered by them as admi rably suited to their purpose. We regret to say that these persons found a great number disposed to listen to them, and for an instant there was reason to fear that the tranquility of our city was seriously menaced. Groups assembled on different points, and uttered cries in the front of the houses of some of the municipal councillors; their doors were also violently struck, and stones were said to have been thrown at the windows, the pertur bators withdrew only in presence of an armed force. The disturbances were renewed yesterday evening, and the number of the rioters was greater than on the preceding night. Lamps were broken, doors were forced open, and dreadful menaces were made against the members of the Municipal Council. All these dis turbances lasted for a long time before the armed force interposed. We hope the authorities will in future dis tribute their force better, and adopt all necessary mea sures to prevent a recurrence of such tumults." The same journal states that a disturbance took place at the theatre on the evening of the 12th instant, on the occa sion of the debut of a young performer. " After listening patiently during the first two acts of Lucie, the public," says the Memorial Bordelais, " rose en masse to protest against the t oo ev id ent want o f power o f the de b utant. We do not know what the stage manager came forward and said at the commencement of the third act, for the noise was so great that it was impossible to hear any thing. A Commissary of Police thought fit to order the theatre to be cleared. We think the public had a right to express their disapprobation, and are not surprised at hearing that the subscribers intend to protest against the conduct of the Commissary on this occasion." The people of Germany appear to evince some curiosity to inspect the person of the warlike M. THIERS, who is now sojourning among them. The following graphic description of his inter view with M. HOFPMANN, is from the Journal de Frankfort:— . THE BANKS OF Tilt MAINE, AVG. 13.—M. - Thiers met at Cologne M. Ernest Emile Hoffmann, deputy of Hesse Darmstadt. M. Hoffmann invited him to dine at the table d'hote, saying that all were de s i ro u s o f see i ng hi m . He answered " But, Sir, I do not travel to show myself." " It is true, said the Deputy, " but others travel to see you. You are a Frenchman, and as such you should be polite, and not withdraw. M. Hoffmann had engaged M. Thiers to change his plan of travelling, and pass by Arnsberg and Cassel. He told him he was deceiving himself, if he thought any propaganda would dispose the Rhenish population to a union with France. Be assured, said he, in case of a war, we will all march, and I among the first, against France. Whoever has told you the contrary, has told an untruth. We like to see France great, and the friend of Germany, but we will not submit to her despotism. Revolutions are not spontaneous, they are brought on forcibly by the tyranny of Governments. There remains much to be desired in Germany, but we expect all in time. Loyal men repudiate revolutionary means, and all Germany partake their opinion. It is mine. You have had the prudence to keep silence, and you only listen." M. Thiers smiled, but did not speak. M. Hoffmann fur nished every body with an opportunity to speak to M. Thiers, and all were delighted with his language and mannors. The Courier Francais has a querulous article on Spanish ingratitude and English busy bodyism. This Journal says that ESPARTERO refused to renew the lease of the little island of Del Rey at Mahon, where the French have an hospital. Of course, our Gallic Contemporary makes the discovery that ESPBRTERO'S refusal was dictated by Lord PALMERSTON. Unfortu nately for the veracity of the Courier, M. GUIzOT did not ask for a renewal of the lease, ESPARTERO did not, there fore refuse it, and consequently Lord PAL MERSTON could not have dictated such refusal. France chooses rather to abandon Del Rey than to witness the establishment of an English hos pital in one of the Balearic Isles. In this the French Government acts a wise and a prudent part. The following are extracts from these Papers :-- - A letter of the Bth inst., from Meiningen, informs us that the beech-tree, planted on the 6th of May, 1521, on the spot where, on the preceding day, Martin Luther was arrested by five horsemen in disguise, and carried to the Castle of Wartburg, has been blown down by a vio lent storm. The tree, though it had existed more than three centuries, was still vigorous, and bore wide-ex tended flourishing branches. Some pieces have been de posited in the vault of the church at Steinach, with a ceremony at which three of the descendants of Luther, living at Moeha, the village in which the father of the Reformer was born, were present. The Duke of Saxe- Meiningen has ordered a monumental fountain,, in the Goalie style, to'be erected where Luther's beech stood, to be surrounded by a grove of trees, and to bear an appro priate inscription. Amongst the numerous improvements for which Denmark ig indebted to her present King, the publica tion of the budget is one of the most essential. That for 1841 has appeared, being the first document of the kind ever exposed to the people at large. The excess of the revenue over the expenditure for the year is 702,120 fix-dollars, or 3,482,515 francs. According to modifications which the King proposes to make in the different branches of the Administration, this surplus will annually increase. The army is from 15,000 to 20,000 strong, and the navy is composed of G ships of the line, 6 frigates, and a proportionate number of corvettes, brigs, schooners, and cutters. The expense of the army and navy is put down in the budget at 3,562,600 rix -dollars, or 17,640,496 francs. The Camera° of Madrid says :—" We have re ceived intelligence, via Cuba, that on. the Ist and 2(1 of June the inhabitants of Port au Prince were surprised by a sudden inundation of all the small rivers in the surrounding country, by which upwards of 500 families were submerged, and several of them drowned. The disaster would have been greater still, but for the gene rous devotion of some citizens, who risked their own Iry to save their fellow-creatures." The German Journal of Frankfort announces the suicide at Baden Baden of an extraordinary maniac, named Rummers. It says—" Fur twenty years this person had been in the habit every six months of ordering a coffin, but always differed with the maker of it as to the fit.' lie would have the coffin placed against the wall, and, getting into • it, would complain like a dandy t o hi s tailor that it was too lar , e h ere or too sma ll t h ere ; that i t was too t i g h t over the arms, or to loose over the body. At length a coffin having b een ma de to hi s m i n d , he swallowed poison, having previously 'summoned his friends and acquaint ances to attend him. When they were assembled, he in formed them at the point of death that he died happy, as lie had at length succeeded in obtaining a proper garment for his appearance in the next world." The Ilanau Gazette contains the following from Hanover, of the 7th inst.:—"The Government has just addressed a certain number of copies of the proclamation concerning the dissolution of the States to the ecclesias tics of the consistorial district of Hanover, accompanied by a letter dated 27th alt., which is thus conceived : The Government is convinced that the clergy will ,not fail in the mission i mposed upon it by the obligation to, recommend to the faithful the obedience and respect whiCh they owe to the Sovereign, and to warn them against the seductions and errors of the spirit of party. It has, nevertheless, thought proper to send to the eccle siastics several copies of the proclumatioU of July 14, in , order that they may distribute them, but they are not to ' read the proclamation from the pulpit or in the schools. The Government hopes they will emploY all the means in their power to accomplish this object.' " The price of bread is fixed at 33 centimes the kilo gramme for the remainder of this month.• Our readers may recollect the affair of the butcher of the Rue des Mathurins Saint Jacques, named Martin, who, in January last, after ill-treating his wife, and being reproached for it by his man Souliet, was supposed to have challenged the latter, and to have been shot by ) him in a duel near the Barriiire du Maine, and for which Souliet was committed to take his trial. This trial took place on Saturday, when a person named Maginot, sup posed to have been Soulict's second, was arraigned with him. The evidence, however, was so vague and indefi nite, that the Advocate-General abandoned the prosecu tion, and, upon the recommendation of the Court, the Jury acquitted both prisoners. A letter from Catania, in Sicily, quoted by the Univers. of the 2d inst., represents the beat there to have been suffocating, and that from the 15th to the 20th of July the thermometer, though placed i❑ the shade, and facing the north, mounted to 34 degrees of Reaumur, 1081 Fahrenheit. The town, never very much animated, appeared to be perfectly deserted. Every inhabitant re mained all day in his chamber with the shutters closed, and the brick or stone floors kept constantly watered ; others cooled themselves with ices. The leaves of the vines and others trees were parched and shrivelled, and the gardens were as devoid of vegetation as in the depth of winter. The heat is represented as having been much snore intense than for many years past. • A few days ago the owner of a woollen manufac tory at Amsterdam, who was endeavouring to prevent a young girl from approaching the wheel of some steam machinery, was himself caught by it, and torn to pieces before he could be extricated. A Correspondent of the National at Algiers, who formed part of the last expedition under General Bara guay d'Hilliers, asserts that on one occasion the troops marched from four o'clock one morning to four the next morning, with hardly any rest, over a very difficult moun tain district, in the midst of a burning heat ; and that the men suffered so severely that 17 committed suicide, and 34 were taken by the Arabs and decapitated, within the twenty-four hours in question. We have seen no thing to confirm this very improbable statement in any other quarter. Baron Von Hofmann, Minister of Finance to the Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt, died a few days since of water on the chest. Ills loss is much felt in the Duchy, where he was greatly esteemed by his Sovereign and by all classes. The Empress of Russia has remitted to the Muni cipality of Charlottenburg 20,000 crowns, being part of her Majesty's inheritance from the late King of Prussia, for establishing an hospital for foundlings. The inventory of the property of M. Lehon the ex notary is terminated, there is a deficiency of 8,000,000 francs. M. Lehon is !still detained in the Conciergerie, where he awaits the preliminary proceedings for his trial. A Legitimist Journal says!—" Yesterday a mass was celebrated in the church of the Petits Peres, at which a great number of Royalists attended to return thanks to Heaven for having preserved the life of the Duke of Bordeaux." The Municipal Council of Lyons voted on the 12th a sum of 10,000 francs, to be employed in defraying the expense of the reception of the Duke of Autnale.—L e Constitutionnel. We have the following letter from Algiers, of Bth August :—" The troops are still employed on the works for the defence of the place, several colonists hare been to examine these works, and on their return have brought forward great projects for colonization. It seems that, in the month of September, some establish ments will be formed on the place of the Mitidja. The Tartare brings us excellent news from the Western posts. The tribes are abandoning Abd-el-Kader even in the province where his power seemed to be the most solidly established. General Bugeaud has embarked in all haste on board the Phare, for Mostaganem. lie appeared to be in high spirits, and is resolved to direct in person the defection which has manifested itself in the province of Oran. If all that we hear is true the power of Abd-el- Kader is drawing to an end, and the occupation of Mas cara will prove as fatal to the Emir as that of Constan tine was to Achmed Bey."—Le Courrier Francais. BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, AUGUST 16. tlret Highest 4Loweit Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents ll6 60 ... 116 60 ... 1.6 45 ... 116 45 4% per Cents ...... 4 per Cents 99 70 ... 99 70 ... 911 70 .... 99 70 3 per Cents. ex. div 77 65 -. 77 15 ... 77 60 ... 77 6) sank of !''ranee Laffitte Bank 1,0001. Shares 1040 ...1040 ...ICAO ...1040 5,000 f. Snares 5115 ...5115 ...5115 ...5I I 5 Releian Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. New Loan 103% ... 1.3% ... 103% ... 10.3% ipanish Active ....».. 10% ... 20% ... 20% ... 20% Passive 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4% Dutch 254 per Cents. 52% ... 52 3 4 ... 52% ... 511% Neapolitan ..» lO4 19 ... 104 10 ... 1 . 114 10 ... 104 10 Roman.... ...... ......... ..... RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain .... 715 720 ... 717 59 ... 720 Versaille4.L.B..... ..... 207 50 207 50 ... an 50 ... 207 !O R. B 322 50 322 50 ... 322 50 ... 322.50 Montpellier to Cette ....... 2.5 ... 225 ... 225 2415 Imam ........ 452 59 ... 452 50 ... 452 50 ... 452 50 Orleans itrasbure to Bale ........ 238 75 ... 233 75 ... 238 75 ... 238 75 EXPRESS FROM PARIS. FRANCE. We have received news from Paris of yesterday's date. The Semaphore of Marseilles reached Paris on Tuesday morning, and contains the same Chinese intelli gence which we gave yesterday, and says that it was.re ceived from its Correspondent at Alexandria. Several English cargoes landed on the 10th were seized by the Chinese police, in violation of the Treaty con cluded with Captain Eliot and the other commanders. The census continues to create much opposition from the municipal councils throughout France. Orleans and Montpelier have protested. against it ; the Municipal Council of Paris had entered a resolution to the same effect. At Agen a riotous tumult broke out on the 12th; the hotel of the Prefect had been attacked by a consider able mob, but well defended by the military. The Memorial Bordelais states that order was again disturbed in Bordeaux in the evening of the 14th instant. The rioters broke a number of lamps, and wounded seve ral soldiers with stones. The National Guard reluct antly turned out, and restored order. A telegraphic despatch received in Paris on M on d a y announce that everything was perfectly quiet in Bor deaux on the 15th, in consequence of efficient measures having been taken by the authorities. At Cahors the people resisted on the 12th the execu • tion of the fiscal measures ordered by M. Humann, and the revenue officers, although assisted by the Mayor, were obliged to discontinue their operations. The census, which was to have been resumed in Tou louse on the 16th, had been postponed on account of the unfavourable intelligence received from Agen, Cahors, and the neighbouring districts. In Libourne, the Director of the Taxes, assisted by a Commissary of the Police from Bordeaux, and escorted by a troop of Hussars, recommenced his operations, but out of the 111 houses, composing the quarter he began with, only seventeen were opened. No actual disorder took place, but it was feared that the rest of the inhabi tants would follow the example set them, and oppose the regular execution of the census. Accounts from Paris confirm the statement that the French Government was about withdrawing the sick and wounded from the Hospital del hey (Minorca), with an intention of doing altogether, away with it but that it was not true that France had asked of the Spanish Go vernment a renewal of the lease of that island. The French fleet, under Admiral Hugon, returned to TNIon on the 14th inst. PARIS, AUG. la.—'three: per Cents., 77f. 50c. ; Spa. nish, 20. SPAIN. Accounts from Madrid of the 10th inst., mention that a concentration of troops was taking place round Ma drid, and in the valley of Menia, on the frontiers of Biscay. A very uneasy feeling prevails at Madrid. The veinment is aware ofthe fact that distributions of money are made at Barcelona, Valencia, Tarragona, and other places, in order to bring about a rising. The roads in Spain are becoming again infested with robbers ;fl banditti. The Five per Cents. were done at 234 for cash, ane 24 1-16 k at 60 clays. POUTUGAL. The Marquis de Saldanha has been appointed by Queen Dona Maria Ambassador of Portugal at the Court of Vienna. The Regent Espartero keeps a watchful eye on what is going on at Lisbon. He suspects the Government of Pena Maria of trying to foment a religious civil war in Spain. A s ecre t A ssoc i at i on , sty l e d o f the Faith, has been formed at Lisbon;-and one of its clubs accompanied the Court to Cintra. This association is represented as hostile to Spain, and among its members are said to be the Dukes of Palmella • and Terceira, Count de Villa Real, and other personages who have great influence on public affairs. The representatives of the Holy Alliance were daily expected at Lisbon, when it was supposed 31inisters would feel themselves well supportod in their intended aggressionn - upon Spain. SUMMARY OF MEWS AND tittlatit aptntott. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The Levant mail brings ad - •ices from Constan nople of the 27th of July, from Alexandria of the 261 from Smyrna of the 30th, from Beyrout of the 16th, al from Candia of the 24th of the same month. Said Bey and Sami Bey, the Egyptian Envoys, were publicly presented to the Sultan on the 26th. Ith Highness gave them a most flattering reception. Sir John APNeill, British Ambassador to the Court of Teheran, and Colonel Barnell, British Consul at Alexandria, arrived at Constantinople on the 22d of July. On the 29th the Ambassador was to proceed tc. Trebisonde. There was a rumour -at Constantinople that the Sultan entertained thoughts of bestowing the Puhalie of Syria upon Mehemet Ali ! Surely there can be no truth in this. Syria iS in a most disturbed state. In all the mountainous districts the inhabitants have set the power of the Porte" at defiance. French emissaries instigate them to the commission of these acts of rebellion. The riots at Bourdeaux broke out a second time on the 14th' inst. The National Guards suppressed them, but with manifest reluctance. On the 15th the town was tranquil. -- The taking the census was not resumed in Tou louse,on the 16th, in consequence of riots at Calais on the 12th. -- The people of Lilbourne barred their doors, and re fused to admit the officers appointed to take the census. . The. Spanish Government was on the 10th con centrating a strong military force in the immediate vicinity of Madrid. Espartero's manifesto had rendered the priests so unpopular that they could not appear in the streets without being insulted. If the superstitious mob of Madrid join Espartero against the Pope he is safe. France is about to abandon the military hospiti at Mahon, rather than allow England to establish a si- milar institution in one of the Balearic Isles. The Queen of Portugal has appointed the Mar. quis of Saldanha Ambassador to the Court of Lisbon. PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicle contains some interesting comments on a cheap penny tract that has lately been published by a working man, entitled " Oppression, or the effects of Monopoly on' Expenditure," the object of which is to show, that where one shilling is taken from the widow and her orphans by the State, nine are taken by the Buck inghamites and Peelites ! In another article,'speaking of the present condition of Ireland, our Contemporary remarks :—" Sir Robert Peel, as Irish Secretary, had put it utterly beyond the power of the people of Ireland to place any trust in him as a Minister. This was only two short years ago ; but now it seems to Sir Robert, if not to others, that the difficulty has vanished. Is such, in reality, the fact ? If it be so, it must be that either the man that was detested, or the people that detested him, have undergone a marvellous change. We know something of Ireland, and per haps a little more of Sir Robert, and we can fearlessly assert that in him no visible signs of a change for the better have appeared. For Ireland and for the empire he continues to this hour the same frigid, mechanical small-souled, circumlocutory politician that he has ever been." Unless Sir R. Peel change the whole spirit of his policy towards Ireland—and by so doing he will be com pelled to admit that it has been wrong throughout—he will never satisfy that country. But we doubt whether he can so change his system ; and if he can, whether h e will be allowed to do so. The Stanleyites, and those who, like Sir R. Inglis, belong to the High Church party, are united in their dislike of Ireland ; and unaided by these, he cannot stir a step. Under a Tory Cabinet, the sister-country will ever continue to be a thorn in the side of England. The Herald, reverting to the question of the Corn laws, says:—" To suppose, as the Morning Chronicle as serts, that there is only one cause for our existing embar rassments, and that the Corn-laws, is perfectly childish. All that is alleged by the manufacturers against these laws is, that, under their operation, they cannot compete in a few articles of hosiery and coarse cotton goods, against foreign producers." The manufacturers regard the Corn-laws in no such partial and ridiculous light. On the contrary, they boldly and broadly declare that -this grinding impost Affects more or less the entire domestic trade of the country, and even reacts on its foreign com merce; that it palsies the right arm of industry and en terprize ; and slowly, but surely, tends to dry up the foun tain head of national prosperity. The Post, notwithstanding the direct announcement that Dr. Locock has interposed his veto against her Ma jesty opening Parliament in person, observes . " The truth is; and all the Queen's subjects will re joice to hear 'it, that her Majesty is in such excellent health at present that she would not have had any thing to apprehend from the anxiety or fatigue inci dent to opening the Session of Parliament in person ; but the good taste and Constitutional feelings of the Sovereign revolted from the task which her worthless • Ministers would have imposed upon her Majesty, of sanc tioning the questionable principles which they have de termined to propound in the Queen's Speech, by permit ting that speech to pass through the Royal lips." This is indirectly'asserting that her Majesty's medical adviser —who may be presumed to know more about her state of health than the Post—has officiously and impertinently interposed a veto, where there was not the slightest oc casion for it ! The Advertiser states, with reference to the present position of Sir R. Peel—" The clamorous applicationS by which he is hourly beset from all quarters for situation , in and under his embryo Government, would of themselves be sufficient to worry the strongest and most philosophic mind. We verily believe that from this cause alone the Right Honourable Gentle. man's existence is embittered . beyond endurance," The Tories, we all know, are ravenous from long absti nence from office, and are not likely to stand on ceremony with one so completely at their mercy as Sir R. Peel. Sir ,Francis Burdett was with him the other day—no doubt worrying him to death for a Peerage; and when he was got rid of, down went Croker—a perfect cormorant, and the very last man of all others to take "No" for a denial. Then there are the Goulburns, the Dawsons, the Knatch bulls, &c., to be provided for; and with these, and adozen more such, tugging constantly at his skirts, Sir R. Peel's existence—as our Contemporary observes—must be em bittered beyond endurance. The Times is quite facetious at the idea that the To ries intended to govern Ireland on the iron principle of conquest. If they do not do so, it is simply because they lack- the power, not because they arc deficient in the in clination. The Dublin Pilot thus addresses itself to the ex pectant Premier :—"Who can believe anything you say, swear, or predict ? Either your present boasts - of all ,you will effect, in power are fallacious, or your predig tions of evil were absurd ; and now, to finish your be sotted career, you take office as the supporter of mono poly, while every drOp of rain pattering at your window tells that one of your first acts of power must be to falsify all the pretences under which it was obtained ! But you shall be ejected from office in double quick time !" The Cambridge Advertiser handles rather ungently the Tory landholders and monopolists:—" These men," it says, " the owners of the soil, the monopolist majo rity of the House of Commons, are prepared to resist to the utmost of their power (and unfortunately that power is, from circumstances, great) the claims of British commerce and trade ; and to sacrifice to their own sel fishness the prosperity of our empire, and the demands of humanity and justice. We say not that the will of these rent-tyrants shall have its way. Firm, steady, and in its degree wonderful, will be the opposition offered to it, even in the House where they have the majority. Of the five hundred landed proprietors in the House of Commons, all are not of the same grasping, rapacious, short-sighted nature we have described." GERMANY. The Frankfort Journal publishes a letter from Vienna of the Bth inst., stating that there was every hope of the Duke de Bordeaux not being lamed by his accident. According to the Augsburg Gazette, the Director of the Customs of Denmark is now at Berlin negotiating the admission of the Danish Duchies into the Germatt Customs Union, which it was reported the free cities of Hamburg, Bremen, and Ltibeck intended also to join. DESTINY. BY THE CELEBRATED AUTHOR OF "MARRIAGE," AND "INHERITANCE." FORMING THE NEW VOLUME OF " THE STANDARD NOVELS AND Ito- DIANCES."— The boldness and finish of the author's por traits, her spirit and faithfulness of the Scotch dialogue, her fine touches of humour, and delicate strokes of satire, are too well known to reqUire to be here enforced ; yet there is a praise above even what her talents as an agreeable writer entitle her to, Which is pre-eminently her due—the praise of inculcating in all her works the purest morality, the sweetest and most kindly sen timents of genuine Christianity. A romance which all may read with pl easure an d w i t h profit, stamped as it is by public approbation : and well worthy of being regis tered as one of " The British Classics," is one which we may justly congratulate Mr. Bentley in having added to his cheap and e l egant co ll ect i on o f "Standard Novel s ." —Morning P os t. MA RRI On the 16th inst., at White chapel Church, M. James Davies, -second son of the late Mr. Davies, of the North and South American Coffee house, to .Sustuittah, eldest daughter of Mr. Thorn, far mer,.Epsom, Surrey. .MONEY -TRADE-COMMERCE. The accounts - from Newcastle-under-iyne, respect ing the depression of trade, are most painful. No town possesses greater advantages for the carrying on of busi ness which requires abundance of fuel, such as the iron, pottery, and Blass trades ; yet in all these, nevertheless, there is almost absolute stagnation. The Newcastle Commercial Banking Company re solved, at their annual meeting on Friday last, to pay a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the paid up capital of the Company, which is now 75,0001. It appears that the` losses of the Bank, during the five years it has been in business, have not exceeded 1551. Bs. - The Paisley 'operatives, unemployed and in dis tress, held a meeting at the Philosophical Hall, Paisley, on the 10th of August, when they passed a series of resolutions proposing that an appeal be made to the Queen and Government, and in which they state their intention of emigrating to Port Philip or Sydney, sup plicating at the same time her Majesty to forward their aim by supplying them with clothes, as a local appeal on the subject would be vain. They compute that at 41. a head, and counting 250 Its the complement of one ship, 1,0001. would be' required. •• AGRICULTUNLAii. The Galway, Derry, and Tuam papers state that rain has fallen, for the last week, at least, in torrents. Great alarm prevails among the farmers. —We understand, from the British Mirror, that the crops of potatoes were never known to be more abundant than they are at present. On Monday and yesterday two large fields of wheat were reaped at Brentford. " In Dublin," says the Piot, " the weather has been most unpropitious of late, every day wearing at its outset a bright promising brow, but the noon and evening bring ing, for the most part, rain and storm." LAW AND POLICE, The Liverpool Assizes commenced on Monday. The calendar is very heavy, the number of prisoners amounting to 98, of whom not fewer than semi are charged with murder, thirteen With manslaughter, and seven with cutting and maiming. What a frightful con trast to the late calendars for the. Assizes in a country where the Tory prints say there is no security for life; or property. At the Croydon Assizes yesterday the long pending suit of Punter v. Grantley was decided, when the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with 2751. damages. —Mr. Vinning, an insolvent, father of the Infant Sappho, underwent a long examination yesterday, in the Insolvent Debtor's Court. The ground of the opposition was the disposal of a diamond pin which had been pre sented to his daughter by her Majesty, as well as a defective balance sheet, and the bail was enlarged until the 4th of October, in order that it might be amended. Two cab drivers were fined 10s. each, at Union Hall yesterday, at the instance of the Directors of the Brighton Railroad, for refusing to produce their badges. Several passengers had been overcharged for the hire of cabs to the London terminus, and the Directors, wish mg to check the practice, had given directions that the numbers of all cabs bringing passengers should be taken down. The parties in question refused. The Act of Parliament for making non-parochial registers evidence in Courts of Justice, came jute opera tion on the 10th instant. Parties may obtain a certified copy of any extract, with the seal of office, by applying to the liegistrar-General's-office, Somerset-house. SPOILTraVG. The London and Westminster Iron Steam-boat Company having given a purse of sovereigns to be rowed for,.eight watermen were selected. Yesterday Maynard and Campbell, both of Lambeth, won the first heat, and Kell3 , of Putney, and Connoway, of Iforsleydown, the second. The grand heat took place at seven, when Campbell, of Lambeth, sprang in first. COURT-FASHIONABLE. Mr. O'Connell and his family visited the new and beautiful ship Belle-isle on Saturday, and after inspec tion of the different departments, partook of a splendid dejeune in the cabin. It was understood that the Lord Lieutenant and Countess Fortescue would visit the vessel on Sunday. The birthday of the Earl of Yarborough was cele brated by the Noble Earl's principal tenantry on his estates in Lincolnshire and at Appuldercombe yesterday week with the accustomed hospitality. The Noble Earl entered his 61st year on that day.' Great rejoicings took place on Tuesday last at Windsor, in celebration of her Majesty's accession, and the Duchess of Kent's birth-day. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town yester-. day afternoon. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset left Park-lane on Saturday for Wimbledon. Viscount Lowther arrived in Carlton-gardens on Monday from the Continent. -- Lord Stanley left Buxton on Friday for Manchester. Lord Morpeth has arrived in town from Dublin. MISCELLANEOUS. Colonel Clitherow, Chairman Of the Brentford Petty Sessions, has resigned, in consequence of the state of his health; and yesterday his brother Magistrates presented their sincere thanks to the Colonel for the ability and zeal with which he had long filled the office. Last week a young gentleman of the name of Clarke, while standing on the brink of a rock at Grene de Lec, Jersey, in company with two friends, was swept off by a wave which dashed in from the sea, when he sank to rise no more. Sir Francis Burdett is announced to take the chair at the Tory dinner to be given next Friday to Captain Rous at Drury-lane Theatre. This silly old renegade has only to turn Chartist, and then he will have boxed the political compass. The following ridiculous mistake occurs in a Morn ing Contemporary :—".A surgeon was caught last week in the Severn, weighing seventy pounds." This surgeon must have been an odd fish, and as much out of his ele ment as the Tamworth quack-doctor is likely to be on the Treasury Bench. The Post, in a letter addressed to Sir R. Peel on the subject of literature, proposes that " a Poet's Order should be established," observing, " there arc orders of knighthood for the warrior and the renowned, and why not an order exclusively for the poet ?" The best order Sir R. Peel could confer on a poet, would be an order on his banker for the production of a new poem. Yesterday morning a young woman attempted sui cide by poison. When asked what had induced her to do so, she said that she " wished to go to heaven !" The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel has been appointed one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to her Majesty. . On Friday last, while on his way to the Derbyshire moors, Sir Robert Peel was so overcome by sleep, that instead of getting out of the railway carriage at the Amber-gate Station, he was hurried on to Chesterfield. We have no doubt that this heavy 41umber was induced by the Right Hon. Baronet's perusing one of the Church articles in the Times. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 17.—A good demand has again been made in the Cotton trade to-day, although Tuesday being market-day at Manchester is considered a blank day ; the sales are 3,000 bales, a few of which have been taken for export and on speculation ; the Market closed firmly. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 17.—A moderate business has been transacted at the Stock Exchange this day. Eastern Counties, 8 ; Liverpool and Manchester One-Half Shares, 93 ; London and Birmingham Thirty two-Pound Shares, 24 ; Midland Counties, 791 ; North Midland Third Shares, 91. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 17.—The improved state of the weather has tended to strongthen the Share Market, and prices are stiffer :—Manchester and Leeds, 51 52 ; ditto, Halves, 201 21 ' • Manchester and Birmingham, 211 . ; London and South Western, 511; London and Birmingham, 160 ; North Midland, Thirds, 9. The only later arrival to-day is from Launceston, Van Dieman's Land, the papers from thence being up to the 16th April, but they contain no news of importance. Holders of wheat appear more anxious to sell than they have been for some past - it realises from es. t o 7 s . p er bushel, but there are only a few buyers. Sugar is 364 per ton, and Tea 12/. per chest. THE FUNDS. The English Securities have recovered from the which took place yesterday.. Consols opened firm at 84- 1 for Money, and 89-1 ifor the . Account; the Three per Cents. Reduced, 8911-; 'Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 98999 ; Bank Stock, .164 169 - ; Exchequer Bills, 14 16. Spanish Active Stock, 191 ; Passive, qs ; De ferred, 9 1 1 10 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 291 301 ; Ditto Three per Cents., 1711 Not much business doing. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. 'Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto Fifths . London andßrighton • London and Birmingham......... 90 l6l ._... to lidland Counties North Midland Ditto New Ditto Thirds York and North Midland Ditto New Shares H ALF-PAST ON E. The Launceston papers received this morning, containing accounts from Port Philip to the 9th April, state that the monetary depression, which has been for some time past felt so much, continues without much amendment, and consequently the Markets are in the same state. Sugar continues looking up, owing to a great scarcity of the article, and a supply is anxiously looked for. There is little or no business deing in the Stock Ex change. Money is very scarce in the English Market, it being 6to 7 per cent., but upon short loans. Consols are steady at 89i i for Money, and 89 -a for the Ac count ; Bank Ste•-k, 168 ; Indian ditto, 2161. The fel-- lowing are the only Securities that hare been dealt in ; lin the Foreign Market, Brazilian, 67k ; Spanish, 1?;'; Deferred, 10 ; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents., 511 i ~4 1 , The Share Market has also been inactive,- but a_s_l!, 7 ! improvement has taken place. Great Western, h( 'l are 81.; .London and Brighton, 431 ; Londotnh 1 dMidland Bir mingham, 161 ; Midland Counties, 80 ; . Ic P., r )o. N ow , 2.2. New, 31i ; York and North Midland, 771 ; -I , , c.LOCK• TWO 0 . - Nothing doing, and no alteration to n otice. The Batavier steamer, due to-day, TO THREE. . g in The auspicious and truly gra! itflYressation changeo activity the weather has already caused a party has not ye t arrived. QUARTER o ix h the arrivals from in the Corn Market, and in reality abroad continue large, the bu a s o i l f t n i f e i h s - doing 's 0 :3 1. late operations il the lim ited. The effect, however, - jobbers, coupled with the wea ther which. prevailed a week or two back, has not Yet b ee n felt in its full ext en t, and the official average le which ' regulates the duty m ust yet advance, toof the domestic growers whom the sliding scale is injury pretc nded to benefit. It is prob a bl e 4 . - that some of the orders for corn abroad will now be countermanded. - 891 1 'October, 89i 90 ; Consols for Account,. h, OA 2.' Spanish, 8. • . Mexican, 25i 26 ; No business whatever doing . ISLE OF THANET.—The crops in this island are very good, harvest is in full operation, and, if the weather continues favourable, most of the wheat, barley, and oats, • ibe carried by the end of the ensuing week. EVENING LONDON GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.) The half-yearly meeting of the Directors and Proprie tors of the London Grand Junction Railway Company, took place this day at the Company's . office,6F4Cheapsid e, Mr. Cash in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said nothing had occurred since their last meeting calling for any partieidar remark. - The Company was at present in abeyance, and the Directors did not feel themselves warranted in putting the PrJprie tors to any expense under the present circumstances. The Report, which merely detailed the expenditure for the last half year, was then read and a. l _opted -by the meeting. In answer to questions from Mr. Staunton and other Proprietors, the CHAIRMAN said the sum charged for solicitors'. expenses 0000 arose from their being cern , pelled to take legal proceedings against several of the I Proprietors for non-payment of ca.lls upon shares. There was a balance of 3,900/. in hand, and their liabilities were very small, and they had reduced the expenditure as much as they pcssibly could. They had paid 1,500/. as compensation to the parties with Idiom they had been in negotiation for the purchase of the laud. They had, on the suggestion ocsome of the Pro prietors, employed Mr. Rastrick, the engineer, to pro pose some plans, but owing to the ditli!ulty of raising the necessary funds, and the opinion then prevalent that short lines of railway would not pay, the; nad taken no further steps. The SECRETARY, in answer to Mr. Porltins, slid the number of registered shares was 9,360—i of there 7, 605 had paid up all the calls that had been waio on them, and 1,510 had been forfeited. Mr. STAUNTON inquired how long the Company was to continue in its present stat e ? The CHAIRMAN said by the Act of Incorporation the 3 Company was to - continue in existence till ,4 11 Y: and after that period they would be defunct, 'nfl'e s-- d the mean time the project was revived by partiesiTh° ~ sufficient capital to carry it on. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman a nd Direc tors, and the meeting broke up. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . (THIS DAY.) middle,se: s The adjourned Sessions for the county of for the present month were this day held at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell-green, before Mr. Sergeants cia n : l . ,„ o gis the Chairman, and a bench of Magistrates. 1 1- the trates assembled at ten o'clock. The business ° n an d paper consisted exclusi ve ly o f a pp ea l s ai d p e titions , r ing the Court was engaged th e w h o l e morn i ng in lie none appeals in cases of disput e d se ttl em e nt o f vaupers , - of which presented any features of interest. MARLBOROUGH STREET• TT'illiamßin, a ( m TH as l te S r DAY. unl. place, Carnaby-street, G o ld en - square , w a s charge l :.,h or ) residing in rioglio; suspicion of stealing a w a lki ng - s ti c k fi s hing rod, °, 1 1, r - A e . value of 135., the p r op er ty o f M r . Wilii am Mann, o f 13, Haymarket, boot and shoemaker. It appeared that the prosecutor is a member of t ll6 Philanthropic Anglers' Society, and that on the first Monday in July last he was present at the Society's Annual dinner, at the Welch Harp Tavern, in th° Hendon-road. The prisoner, to whom the Pr °se i ; cutor was a customer, was also there, although he is not a member of the Society. In the course of the t afternoon the fishing rod in question tcas stolen from ou of a parlour to which no person but tho:4e belonging* t° The circumstance was mentioned the dinner party. or the servants of the ilouse. had ac cess. the company, the prosecutor stating at the that, a several rods had been stolen from him in a similar ow l " ner, he was determined to give into custody any person in whose possession he should find the stolen p i: opfrq• Yesteiday the prosecutor's son called at the pris°n el : s house on business, and espying the fishing-rod In a corner, directly claimed it as his father's, uPT gener;lly before which the prisoner said that it had been. lett there by a friend of his. •On being informed of ths the prosecutor went directly to the prisoner, and on reques,' ing the rod to be given up to him, the prisoner said request.' the party who left the rod with him had called only a fe w r minutes previously and fetched it away. then gave the prisoner in charge, upon which his w l t° said she would go .and get the fishing rod, and af!el being absent a few minutes, her daughter returned you' it, and gave it into the charge of the police constable- 0 The prisoner in his defence said, that a few days g i he was on a fishing excursion with an acquaintance ,0_ his, a young man of the name of Edwards, at the riv.e.r_ The prosecut.e. Bren 4 near to the Welsh Harp Tavern, and that 1 ,, 5 companion there purchased the rod of a stranger for 2t On Monday night, after having been o ut fishing' uit, l l Edwards, the latter left the rod at his hou se, for it, and took it away but a feiv minut es before lar Mann came. t o the could Several highly respectable tradesmen spoke I S no t prisoner's respectability and integrity, and the y believe that he would be guilty of such au acti on- Mr. MALTBY said that in order to give liim tore produce the young man, Edwards. and also his daught he should remand him until Saturday next. and calT. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS m dsodafiat ) l e LONDON, AUG. 18.—Wind at noon, steady , breeze at W.N.W., with dark heavy pas sin g clou times. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 1 7.—Wind W. to S.W.--Arrived her Majesty's steamer, Samaran,,.• from Dfacao, sailed 29th March, Mauritius 23 d May , St. Helena • 2d ult., and Ascension 7th ; Aurelia, Forbes, Quebec. Sailed the Warrior, Danthwaite , for Calcutta. • COWES, AUG. .17.—Arrived the James Freeman, Ilindmarsh, from Matanzas. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 17.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Olive Branch, Lindsay, from Bombay ; Courtenay, Brown, Mobile ; Emerald, Fligg, Montreal ; Northern Conference, Jude, Quebec. Sailed the Alert, Barr, for Jamaica. Put back Bonausa,_ for Buenos Ayres. DARTMOUTH, AUG. 17.—The Mermaid, of Bri*haw , for Guernsey, is reported to have been run into. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 17. Wind W.S.W.—Sailed the Calcutta, Chalmers, for Hobart Town ; Ida, Passraore, Jamaica • Victoria, Quebec ; Concord, Lobb , ditto Twins. ditto. FALMOUTH, AUG. 16.—Wind W. to W.S.W.—Sa ile d the Harvest Home, Thompson, Miramichi. Off port the Indian, Carr, from Launceston,Sailed April 22. MILFORD, AUG. IG.—Sailed the Maria, Corrigoll,- for Quebec; Pembroke Castle, Stansbury, do. DUBLIN, AUG. 14.—Arrived the Emerald M'Claude, from St. Sebastian. Sailed the Lord Seaton, Talbot., for Quebec. Coax, AUG. 15.- - Arrived the Belle Barbrie, Barr °ll ' from Hondurae-, sailed June 28 ; Henry and . Mary Ann , Charles, Newfoundland, sailed Ist inst. SHIELDS, AUG. 16.—Sailed the Imopme, Calcutta. B a ssett, for COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.--The Queen and Prince Albert enjoyed their usual walk in the forenoon, and the Pria cess Royal was taken an airing twice to-day. In the afternoon her Majesty T ' and the Prince rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal Hi g h nes s driving. the Earl of Fingal, Colonel Buckley, and Colonel W r following either in a carriage or on horseback, t"nr The Earl of Fingal has succeeded the Marfl,,i;, Headfort as the Lord in Waiting on the Qneen. 1 Hon. Mr. Howard has arrived to succeed Major the ; l ion' George Keppel. Mr. Partridge had'the honour to-day o fsubmitting' t'9"submitting, the Queen and Prince Albert the portraits of her Majesty" and his Royal Highness, painted by command, and 19 " tended .as birth-day presents to herßoyal Highness the Duchess . Of Kent. To-day, at twelve o'clock, the 72d Highlanders fired s fee.dejote in the Little Park, in honour of the chess of Kent's. birth-day, and afterwards went throughDu inauY field movements in beautiful order. The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge , the'Ladies Elea- Bora and Constance Paget, Lord Puget,' a y" Lady Caroline Barrington, and Mr. George Edward Anson, will h thelionour of dining With her Majesty at the Castle this evening. Yesterday was the birthday 1)-uthess of Twat. and 1,,T: ..-vre rung at - liensingtcL" at..an early hour, and also at intervals during , the day, ", of her Royal Higline,ss the honour of .the event.. The tradesmen of her 'Boy.ft:; llihness dined together to .celelitate the day, 4 0 t t !l ie King's Arms Tavern, Mr. Brameld in the chair. _ l i, L iu evening the tradesmen of the Royal Duel,iosess, bo I from a town and Kensington, illuminated their-Iv:l'i .. , vis l it 'h t e o li lte u r ke ll o oy f a ( "i (i.loucester, ii ,ss came - to - town at Bagshot Park. His Roy I a - lli g h--- to New. Prince aobgrhiicliegseslitaislereptutireihicel..st 0; yesterday, and returned in the afternoon yesterday, from Kew, i • w Stevenson, the American His Excellency Andrew • . . tie George of Cambridge also came to town .. terda):, and on Mondayi.,,J o hn Ifarvey, Minister, transacted business at Foreign - office yes- Major-General S WI Lord, John Russell yesterday, at the Colo de departure p to the (3 overn-.• meta of Newfoundland. rumbeld had an interview ; 1 b AT •• f Mr. . w-ta t-e ~,ttrquis 0-'. by yesterday, at the Home-otliee. Norman ~ , vial-office , to take leave, on his . The Marquis Of Lansdowne arrived in town yesterday . o i e r ; s e t :iv. has with Lord ari.iv e J d ol i - i n n afternoon from Dover : Captain Mindy, Sir John Seale, and Mr. Pritchard" town : r e r l ro y m es i t ) e t r i i d )i a i 3 l :,. at the Colonial -office. . • DM r. Shaw , • • Dir. J. Lefel it; has arrived in townfrom Ripon:. , hajdjoitn.ctie: WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVIWING.—TLiS -daY herthe annual revel in hon our o f h er INl a jesty's accesswn to the throne, and in commemora ti on o f th e birth-day f" . Majesty's august mother, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, was held by the bachelors of Windsor and their friends. At an early hour in the morning the auspicious day was ushered in with the discharge O f several pieces of artillerv,,which was continued at inter vals until the evening. About nine, A.M., the Bachelors perambulated the boundaries of the Acre, and walked in procession through the principal streets of the town, pre'. ceded by a band of music. A variety - of rustic sports , 'consisting of matches at cricket, back-swording, wrest ling, &c., afterwards took place, and for which suitable prizes were awarded to the successful competitors. noon the Highlanders were marched into the Ilome Park, and reviewed by Lieut.-Colonel Arbuth not, the commanding officer. The celebration was concluded at nine o'clock in the evening with a gr and display of fire worksin the presence of several thou .sands of the t o wT s .people and visitors from the surrounding districts. The bells of the parish church and St.: George's Chapelwere rung almost unceasingly throughout the en tire day. the subscriptions for the above .fete will this ,year amount to nearly 100 L, and includes dOnations from the boron.?.. and county Members, and, the resident nobility and ge 147 of the neighbourhood. " rad the at bri kr M r Mr kr, to ca r, 4 a kr: r. kr . 11 , has lu in• quit( I', 4