The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-27 00:00:00

MORNING 5T31.7 Wakley), therefore, entreated the Eight Hon. Baronet to take that odious law into his consideration—and he was most anxious that he should have time for doing so. His Honourable Friend, the Member for Bath, was a democrat, and being so, he asked him to point out any words in that law that had a democratic tendency. The fact was, that it was based on tyranny.—(Hear.) He would without hesitation assert that no Poor-law could be wise that did net give to the parties having the I distribution of the funds, the opportunity of distin guishing between virtue and vice. —(Hear.) The more he thought of it, the more he was convinced that no person could retain power who did not do all in his • power to alter and amend that law.—(Hear, hear.) , The gentlemen of England must be aware how they supported that law.—(Hear, hear.) For if they knew what the hungry man felt, they would consider before they excited their passions. He trusted, there fore, that the Right Honourable Baronet would take the subject of this law into his deliberate and careful consideration.—(Hear, hear.) He did not ask for , the repeal of the law, but only that the Right Hon. Baronet would take the state of the poor man into his consideration. The present Poor-law Bill was su • an odious measure, and the one that had proved the downfal of the present Ministry, for he believed . that had it not been for it, they would have had at the present moment a large majority.—(Hear.) On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON the debate was adjourned till to• morrow, and at Twenty Minutes past Twelve o'Clock the House Adjourned. NEW ROMANCE BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE PRAIRIE," " THE PATHFINDER," &c. On the 4th September next, in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE DEER-SLAYER A ROMANCE. By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER Tili MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Overflowing Houses—Great success of Mazeppa—New Scenes in the Circle. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 27, Wilicelcted Lord Byron's Spectacle, culled THE WILD HORSE; OR, AIAZEPPA, THE CHILD OF THE DESERT. introducing Mr. Duerow's Magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, highly-trained Palfreys, Fairy Peneys, the Equestrians, and Companies of both Theatres. After which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, In the Largest Arena in the World. In which Madame Ducrow, Signor Hillier, the Great Ameri can Rider, the British Horseman, Signor Felix Carlo, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear. To conclude with, THE OLD OAK CHEST. Supported by the entire Dramatic Company. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRb.CTION OF RI R. OSBALDISTON. More novelty and attraction at this now the only perfect Minor Theatre in London. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 27, An original Melodrama in Three Acts, founded on the events of a most atrocious murder, even more apealling than that committed on the Mar Family in Ratcliiffe Highway, called DEEDS and DOINGS of the DARK ROUSE; or, SIMPLE BESS of BILLINGSGATE ! Bradburn, Mr. Dale ; Charles Elford, Mr. Seaman ; Davey Dubbs, Mr. Gardne r. ' • Hoppy Bob, Mr. Paul ; Ann, Mrs. W. West; Simple Bess, Mrs. G. Lee. After which, THE BEAR HUNTERS. Caribert, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Estevan, Mr. Dale ; Larolle, Mr. James ; Bluebelle, Mr. Gardner ; Aline, Mrs. W. West. To conclude with SWEET POLL OF HORSELEYDOWN ! In which Mr. James, Mr. Seaman, Mr. Paul, Mr. Williams, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Cullen, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Howard, &c. &c. will perform. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, I s.—Gallery , 6d. Half-price to the Boxes *illy, at Half-past Eight. To morrow, The Dark House, The Bear Hunters, and Sweet Poll. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL LAST WEEK of the WIZARD of the NORTH working his WONDERS, and LAST SIX NIGHTS of the SONS of EXTEMPORANEOUS HARMONY—The Lancashire Bell Ringers. All who wish to see the Great *Delusionist—or MIRACLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY—must visit the Adelphi during next week, as it will be the only opportunity the lovers of the marvellous will have of beholding this SON OF DELUSION, whose extraordinary powers have caused all to wonder from the Throne to the Peasant, from the Peasant to the Philosopher. A wonder unparalleled. The Great 'Wizard, by his individual exertion, has filled the Adelphi Theatre for one hundred nights, and could for three hundred More, but that he is compelled to make way for the Great Fred. (not Frederick the Great), who will commence his Mephisto- Philian orgies earlier than the Wizard expected. " Come one—Come all !"—The Wizard will be found incom prehensible as he is invulnerable. A hundred of the best of the London Sportsmen have tried in vain to wing him, but he is still on the wing, and will for ono week more be their Living Target. The Wizard hopes that " Homo Invulnerabilis" will still be his motto ; and he pledges himself that he will* exert all his Pnviers to please his patrons, and to fill his Magic Temple to the ceiling. *.* Remember !—The Last Wtkek—Poz! Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price al Half-past Nine eel( ck. Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. Places for the Boxes may be taken from Mr. Swinburn, at tlse Box-office, between Eleven and Four. Parties are respectfully informed, that as the Dress Circle is nightly crowded, an early application is requisite. N.B. Private Boxes, containing six persons, I/. ss. Doors "'en at Half-past Seven ; the Wizard appears at Eight o'clock precisely. Half-price at Half-pad Nine. PARLIAMENTARY SUN. NOTICE.—We have received so many orders for The Parliamentary Sun, that we shall republish it, if possible, on Monday next, or as soon as the Debate is closed, com plete, for the last time. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHED, PRICE SLXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received (as is unfortunately the case on occa sion of any great political excitement) several letters from Subscribers, complaining of the non-arrival of • The Sun with the important Parliamentary intelli gence of Tuesday. We regret these robberies as Touch as our readers, and have used every means to discover the offenders, but without effect. They evidently are committed by persons who have access to the Post offices in London or the country, as the papers are re gularly posted here ; .but if this abominable and dis graceful system of pilfering is continued, the Post office authorities, for the credit of the establishment, must attempt some remedy by offering rewards for in formation, and instituting the strictest investigation. We need not tell our usual readers that a Second Edi tion of The Sun is published every evening in time for post. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. 'milling 19 minutes after 10. I Evening 2 minutes after 11. . \ s ... t'' . 11' , • .. ."-. 4A, '...y,,.., .. . ~ o.u, 4 , • Nit, , 4.... . . , ~„r , ,, ., ,. -.....: . 1 4 1 Vilet h A,,i i , , oc" w—. r - „N,„ ._,-'• .\ ~1 .• " s '-" , • ° 4. 4 - , A 4. ' i • ) (4,437 't p ,it.11.0,1„1.„....:: - - 0 - , - 0 . ~„„„ , :tr mo t`• ' .." , 1 . ~. 0 Foo t ',AO...it, •• ~,,,,,. z , a ,„,,,, , ,,y) , --.- . c. Tht4 LONDON: FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1841. Though the Tories have not spoken much in this de bate, they have said some things especially worthy of public attention. That memorable phrase of the Duke cf RICHMOND, which we yesterday quoted, considered 4 s a complete index to the intentions, and to the very heart of the rent-owners, is one of these things which !ie mast impress on the public. " We," said the Duke, 14 substance, speaking for the landlords, " are about to send you, Sir It PEEL, into office to maintain our mo nopoly, and if you dare to touch it, out of power you shall g 0.,, This brings home to every man's bosom the once of the rent-owners and the slavery of 141 besides. They also claim and possess the Political power of the State ; they determine who shall b° Mi ni sters, and what laws shall be made ; they have, as even Lord MELBOURNE stated, passed a law by Which they are pecuniarly benefited ; and they passed that law, as we assert, exclusively for their own benefit ; and now they tell us, that, whatever may be the neces sities of the people or the Government, this law shall not be altered, and that the Government shall be kept in existence only to maintain their monopoly. It is to be Uothing but the tool of the landowners to do their dis honest work. What does that high-minded statesman, Who owes his all to cotton, say to such a degradation ? But if Sir ROBERT PEEL be willing to be the despica ble tool of despicable men, the public will not submit to a similar degradation. The intelligent but suffering inha bitants of Manchester and Leeds have already begun to i nquire into the titles of the owners of rent and the Usurpers of political power, which they abuse to their "In gratification. It is said aloud and in many places that the land of the empire is common property, and only tusranteed by the public in the possession of individuals for the public advantage. It is concluded, therefore, that IS they use their possession to injure the public they for 'eh their title and the land reverts to the people. t It is s a id, t oo , t h at t h e l and was con f erre d on i n di v id ua l s ° enable them to perform public services. The duty of defending the State, now paid for by a tax on all the People, was annexed to the possession of the soil. It W as„, the p r i ce pa id f or t h e secure possession of rent. That duty the landowners have cast upon the public and maintain possession of the soil without rendering the services for which it was bestowed. Nay, more, While they make us pay for doing that which they re ceive possession of the soil to perform, they make a peat noise about the heavy burdens imposed on them 11 1 order to conceal their malversations. The s camp - , some French Abbe, who used to preach vehement sermons against the petty faults of his congre-! gation, that they might have no time nor inclination to notice his vices, is the type of our landowners ; they cry out bitterly against their burdens, and against the petty' pilfering of the people, that their own great scheme of pilfering by means of law, and their gross neglect of duty, may escape the public observation. They are herein proverbially stupid ; for they live in glass houses, they are surrounded by persons willing to demolish their dwellings, and they begin by casting stones. Another remarkable sentence was uttered by the Duke of WELLINGTON. If any other person but his Grace had said that such a measure as the repeal of the Corn laws required to be preceded by inquiry, we should have been astonished at his impudence; in this frank but old soldier, it was only the forgetfulness of age. Why , the Repealers have besieged the doors of both Houses of Parliament for inquiry, motion after motion has been made to grant inquiry, and the Duke of WELLINGTON and his friends have obstinately resisted them all. Moreover, there have been, as the Marquis of LANsnowsn ob served, a multitude of inquiries into the subject. Yet the Duke of WELLINGTON made it a reproach to the Ministers that there should have been an inquiry, which he had refused before an alteration in the law was pro posed. In any meaner man than the illustrious Duke, such conduct would call forth our severest animadver sions; in him we can only notice it as a striking evidence how much the practices of Parliament, which Noble Lords and Hon. Gentlemen will not have modelled by the precepts of morality and religion, corrupt and pervert the most ingenuous natures. The frank Duke let out, too, a little secret of the par ties or factions who rule the State, which, for the sake of preserving their scheme of humbugging the people, ought to have been only talked over in some secret con clave of Peers or politicians. The Duke found fault with the language of the Queen's Speech, which Vis count MELBOURNE justified by quoting similar words of the Speech of George HI. in 1784. Very true, admitted . the Duke, but the quarrel then was one "in doors." It was wholly confined to privilege and prerogative ; and though many persons took an interest in it, it did not concern the people. That was a family quarrel, and you should be careful, however you may commit the Crown in such quarrels, never so to commit it when the dispute is out of doors and the people interested in it. The frank soldier says, therefore, in substance, you know, brother MELBOURNE, that this farce of QUEEN'S speeches, and meeting of Parliament, &c. &c., is merely intended to humbug the public, and you ought not to turn them to the purpose of serving the people. The Royal power may be used by one faction against the other, as either may chance to get hold of it ; but it must not be used in the service of the people against the oligarchy. That is the sum of the Duke of WELLINGTON'S observa tions, and of the heinous charge he made against Lord MELBOURNE. . The people are at the same time told that they support the pageant of Royalty as a protection for themselves ; that is all a mistake, says the Duke ; it is wholly and solely intended for the " in-door" purposes of the two factions of the aristocracy. We look on the lan guage used by their Graces of RICHMOND and WELLING TON as a kind of revelation to the public of the innermost thoughts of the aristocracy, and on this account we refer to it as worthy of public attention. The happy use made on Wednesday by Mr. P. M. STEW ART of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S writings has caused the Times to rush to the rescue of the Right Hon. Baronet with a " we believe Sir JAMES GRAHAM has expressly denied the authorship of this pamphlet." The Times is mistaken. Sir JAMES has denied being the author of the pamphlet of a " Cumberland Farmer," but " Corn and Currency . ," is not only avowed by Sir JAMES, he has used it to get reputation for himself. The .Times, therefore, is as ignorant as Sir JAMES GRAHAM is inconsistent. Well and truly did Mr. P.:M. STEWART observe, that the Budget which the renegade Baronet is opposing with all his power, as a means of getting back to the Admiralty, was proposed and recommended by Sir JAMES GRAHAM in his pamphlet entitled " Corn and Currency." As the Tory Times, seeking, and unhappily finding, an auxiliary in Lord MELBOURNE, says that he, " in tw•o or three pithy sentences threw overboard all his. Jacobin allies and their arguments," we may be permitted, on the part of those Jacobin allies, meaning the religious and moral men who throughout the empire have lifted up their voices against the Corn-laws, to remind the reader that on this question the authority of Lord MELBOURNE is worth nothing whatever. We shall scarcely, however, be understood, unless we lay the passage from the Times before our readers : It has given us pleasure (says that Journal) to perceive that the Whigs have profited by the lesson which the country has taught them, to this extent at least—that the false pretences, the miserable calumnies, and the blasphemous ribaldry with which they did not scruple to fight their battle out of doors, are now abandoned to the Morning Chronicle and the conven ticle of mock ministers of religion at Manchester. We hear little within the walls of Parliament of cheap bread or mo nopoly, and of the alleged religious bearings of the Corn law question nothing at all. In two or three pithy sen tences, Lord Melbourne threw overboard all his Jacobin allies and their arguments, not without language which bore a close resemblance to indignation, disgust, and contempt. "/ do not charge you, my Lords," said he, " with that charge which is generally brought against you—_l do not charge your Lordships with interested feelings or motives. No man more strongly condemns the language a hick is generally made use of; no man more disapproves the topics and aril's.. meats perpetually introduced in reference to this subject. I do not think these laws are condemned by the Christian reli gion ; I do not think they are contrary to morality ; Ido not think they are laws fit only to be eradicated ; nor do I think they are the work of those who have had nothng else m view but their own interest and their own objects." While avowing that his opinions upon the subject of the Corn-laws had under gone a change (" everybody," he naively observed, "was in the habit of changing opinions." Lord MELBOURNE 15 just as much in error in now throw ing overboard his so called Jacobin allies—they being the ministers of religion throughout the empire—as he was when he denounced as a madman him who should propose to remove all protection, alias, all robbery, by law; a n d just as much in error as when he deprecated agita ting Corn-law repeal as shaking society to its foundations. The real and mischevious agitators are Lord MEL BOURNE and his Tory allies, who pass and uphold laws to violate the right of property in others in order to fill their own pockets. The advocates of the Corn-laws, which set class against class, and not those who seek to get rid of the injustice, are the persons who shake so ciety to its foundation. Lord MELBOURNE may repu diate the leadership of that earnest and masculine party, acting, and resolved to act, on the principles of religion and morality, which is now happily growing up in every part of this morally distracted empire, and which is destined—in spite of frivolous and rapacious noble men, and arrogant, extortionate priests—to redeem it from destruction—Lord MELBOURNE may re pudiate the leadership of this party, of which he is wholly unworthy ; but his indignation, disgust, and contempt, if he expressed such emotions, of which we doubt, will be regarded, like his impatience at the " madmen," and his indignation at " the agitators," as the hasty emotions of a shallow, unreflecting, and, on this subject, very ignorant courtier. Lord MELBOURNE, though placed by chance at the head of our party, was never the depository of its principles, nor worthy of being its leader; and we shall not much regret a change which will at least render it impossible for him again to mis guide a cause he is as far now from comprehending as he was the Session before last. The French journals of Tuesday have all reached us, but most of the important news which they contain was anticipated in the afternoon edition of Wednesday's Sun We have given in another part of this day's impression, a very important speech, delivered by M. GulzoT, at a public dinner given to him by his constituents at Liseux, on:Monday last, which we recommend to the attentive peru sal of our readers. M. GUIZOT glv3s a calm and dignified account of the events which produced the isolation of France, and attributes to the personal feel;ngs of the KING, and the excellence of the French constitution, the maintenance of the peace of Europe. The exceeding mildness with which the French Minister alludes to the conduct of the Great Poivers, and the guarantees which he Offers of the peaceable disposition of France, will produce a very salutary impression on the public mind of Europe. • The journals are still writing about the census, but w, find nothing at all new either in their facts or argu ments. It was rumoured in Paris on Tuesday that Lord ELIOT would succeed Mr. ASTON as ambassador. Such an ap pointment might well alarm ESPARTERO, for who has forgotten Lord ELIOT'S par&isan admiration of Don CARLOS ? _ _ Prince Milosch was received by the Emperor of Austria on the 16th inst. at Schcenbrunn. Prince and Princess Metternich have arrived at Jonannis berg. The Prince is stated to be in excellent health and spin s. The Baron de Barante was to leave Cronstadt on the 20th inst. in the Danae frigate, and is expected to arrive . in Paris about September 5. A Berlin correspondent of the Leipsic Gazelle says that M. Thiers has visited most of the literary celebrities of the capital, especially Messrs. Schlegal, Savigny, and Rauch. Count Bresson had given a grand dinner, to which most of the eminent days ntt.m. r literary ago, h rar i y er an s. d scientific men of the capital were'invited to as a party of students were passing in a boat through one of the locks of the canal of the Manse, near saint- Maur, a young female, who was with them, becoming sud denly giddy, fell into the water and disappeared in the eddies of the lock stream. A medical student, heedless of danger to himself, immediately jumped overboard and succeeded, by plunging several times, in rescuing her from a watery grave. She was senseless; but on being taken into a neighbouring house, and carefully attended to, was restored to life. The son of M. K., an engraver of merit, after leading a dissipated life in Paris went abroad, and had not been heard of for a long time, till a few days ago his father received a letter frcm him, dated Valparaiso, in which the young man stated that, overwhelmed with shame and repentance, he had entered a Dominican convent in that city. M. K. was so deeply affected by this intelligence that he became melancholy, and two (lays after walked to a distance from Paris, and when in the middle of a field shot himself dead with a pistol. The official part of the Moniteur to-day publishes an ordi nance announcing various nominations in several Courts of Justice. We have received this morning the Moniteur Algerian of the 16th of August. It publishes the following decree : " The Lieutenant-General Governor-General of Algeira. " DECREE. " Art. I. Hadj Mustapha Ouled Osman Bey is appointed Bey of Mostaganem and Mascada ; and in th►s quality shall enjoy the honour and prerogatives attached to the dignity which is conferred on him. "2. In the territorial limits which shall be fixed he shall govern the Arabs in the name of the King of the French, and under the direction of the Generals who shall be invested with the military command. "3. He shall form a troop of regular cavalry, consisting of chosen men. The Wikahlias on horseback, deserters from the regular cavalry of Abd-el-Kader, should be admitted into it. The corps may be raised to an effective force of 300 men. He is likewise authorised to form a battalion of infantry, into which the regular foot soldiers of the Emir shall in like manner be admitted. The battalion may consist of 800 men. "4. His irregular cavalry shall be formed of horsemen of the Boodjiahs and Medjihars, who are encamped before Mos taganem. These horsemen shall be treated in the same man ner as the Dorines and the Smelas now are. The Bey may add to them, with the approbation of the Governor-General, the horsemen of the tr►bes who shall come and place themselves under his column. " 5. No chatige is made in the situation of the Dorines and the Smelas, they shall continue to enjoy the advantages stipu lated in the convocation which they made with General Rezil, and shall be always commanded by General M istapha Ben " Mostaganem, August 9, 1841. Signed " BUGEAUD." " By another decree of the same day Ibrahim Ouled Osman Bey, is appointed Klialifa to Mustapha Ouled Osman Bey.".— Lc BOURSE-PARIS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24. First Highest Lowest Last Price fqice. Prick - Price French 5 per Cams ll6 30 ... no 30 ... 1 . 6 20 ... 116 20 4% per Cents 4 per Cents 99 70 ... 99 70 ... 99 70 .., 99 70 3 per Cents. ex. div 77 30 77 35 ... 77 20 ... 7 7 2 0 Rank of trance Laflitte Bank I,ooof. Shares 1040 ...IC4O ...Dl° ...1040 5,000 f. Shares 513.1 ...5131 —.513 ) ...5139 Belgian Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. 3 per Cents 7l 63 ... 71 60 ... 71 60 ... 71 60 ipanish Active ..... ....• 20% ... 20% ... 20% ... t. 0% Passive ... 4% ... 4% New Deferred 10 ... 10 ... 10 Neapolitan Roman .... 102% ... 102% ... 102% ...102% HALLWAY sHAREb. 3t. Germain Versailles. L.R 2OB 73 ... 208 75 ... 20C 75 ... 208 75 R. 8............. Rouen 4.52 50 ... 452 50 ... 452 5J ... 452 50 Orleans . 478 75 ... 478 75 ... 478 75 ... 480 MONEY and COM VIERCIAL NEWS. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. The Bear party, upon the settlement of the account to-day, were found to have the market for the English Securities in their favour, Stock being sufficiently plentiful, but with no very animated demand for it. The continuation, or rate of interest, for the n?.xt six weeks, was under 1 per lent. For immediate transfer, Consols were quoted 89/ to I, and for Account 89f to 1. Exchequer Bills remained steady at 15s. to 17s. prem., and India Bonds were at 3s. prem. Bank Stock was dull at 168, the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. realised 981 to 1, the Three per Cent. Annuities 89f to 1, and the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 98f to /. There were not a dozen bargains altogether in the Foreign Market. Active Spanish Bonds remained at 19/ to 20 ; New Portuguese were marked 30, and the Old Five per Cents. 58 to 57. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were 51f to 1, and the Five per Cents. 10l e. The Share Market here, like that at Liverpool, wears a firm wearance, though there is not much business doing. Great Western were at 15, the New at 51, and the Fifths at 4 to / premium. The Brighton were sfi to 5, the Blackwell 10, the Midland Counties 23, the Manchester and Birmingham 191, the North Midland 35, the New 8, and the Thirds / discount. London and Westminster Bank New Shares were 2 premium, and Provincial Bank of Ireland 15 to f premium. (From The Sun of Last Night. ) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 25. —Rather a better business has been done in the Cotton Market, the sales amount ing to 3,500 bales, of which exporters have taken 300 bales American, at our last prices. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—The following comprise the transactions as reported at the close of the Stock Exchange : Grand Junction, 2011 ; Great Western, New Shares, 55 ; Li verpool and Manchester, Half Shares, 931; London and Bir mingham, 1554 ; Do. New Shares, 24. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 25.—There con tinues to be an improving demand for Share property.—Hull and Selby, 354 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 55 ; Man chester and Leeds, Half Shares, 23i ; Midland Counties, 80; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10. Consols opened at 891 1 for Money, and 893 for the Ac count; Exchequer Bills, 15 17 premium ; India Bonds, 2 5. Spanish Active Stock 19; 204 ; Portuguese Five per . Cents., 293 301 ; Three per Cents., 173 181. This being settling day in the English Stock Market, the brokers and jobbers have been chiefly engaged in arranging their accounts. The fluctuation has been one per cent. during the Account. Money is rather easier to-day, and the Hebrews are taking off stock. Consols are now 891 1 for Money, and 893 for the October Account ; Exchequer Bills, 15 17 prem. ; Bank Stock 168. In the Foreign Securities there have been but two bargains doing; Spanish Active Stock is now quoted at 20; and the Passive Bonds, 43. Very little business doing in Shares. Great W es t ern New are now quoted at 55 ; ditto Fifths, tih 1 ; London and Brighton, 451 : North Midland, 65. The expected early dissolution of Parliament occupies the attention of all parties in the City, hut there is also another contemplated " dissolution," which among the parties it interests excites greater anxiety—viz., that of the British Iron Com pany. The meeting at the London-tavern to-day is, perhaps, one of the largest ever held by the shareholders in this Company, and from the fact of there being two parties, the stickers in office and the opposition, the debates have been mere animated than usual of meetings of this kind. The decision that may be come to is certainly important, and will probably influence the policy of many similar losing or doubtful concerns with whom the ques tion is " to be or not to be." Consols, Money, 891 1; Account, 893. Colombian, 20%3 ; Mexican, 253 26i ; Spanish, 193 20k. Markets steady, andlittle doing . CLOSING PRICES.: BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock .. 168 ' India Stock • ••• 3 per Cent Red. 893 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons B9l Ditto Old Annuiti es ... 3i per Cent Red.. 983 Ditto New Annuities... New 33 per Cent 9t43 {Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 15 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 l7 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditt Small lB pm Jan. 1860 .. 12-1 i Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 l2l Intlia Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. l2/ I Consols for. Acct 893 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian , per cent Chili= 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic Colombi -- an, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto, 1824. — D i tt o , Deferred ... Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825, Dutch, 23 per cent. ... 513 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent 1011 SHARES Great Western Railway (65 paid) ...... 80 Ditto New Shares (50 paid 553 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) 8 London and Brighton (50 paid) 45 London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 15 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ...... 77 North Midland Railway (100 paid) THE SUN, LONDON. FRIDAY, AUGUST' 2,', iB4l. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Last night found the stage of the English Opera House devoted to a purpose widely different from any for which it has heretofore been employed. The con certs and the gay promenaders had ceased their pleasan tries : the season of the regular drama had closed, and the stage was consequently left as a bare platform, upon which a trial of strength was to have issue, and which was to be productive of an ultimate decision with the public as to whether a play—and by inference, plays—which had by the censors and managers of the Theatres Royal been adjudged as unactable, were or were not; standing upon the base of their own naked excellence, calculated to attract an audience, or exact applause. Martinuzzi, or the Patriot, from the pen of Mr. George Stephens, was the drama put forward to stand the test, and great expenditure was made to supply the rich rob ings and apparel, as well as the scenery. Cardinal Mar tinuzsi, the leading character, and about whom all the (vents of the drama wheel, is gifted with the same superabundance of that priestly Jesuitry which has in all ages distinguished the pontiff of the scarlet hat. The events on which the drama is founded have all their origin in his deep-laid serpent-policy, and the roots of ambition in bis heart. The cradle of the regal house of Austria is, shortly after the birth of the child by the Empress of. Duke John, imposed upon by the wily Car dinal ; the rightful male heir is brought to his own Palace :at Ermstadt, while a changeling, his own daughter, is substituted in the young Prince's stead ; the girl, of course, being reared as the future Queen of Transylvania. These things are all, as the Cardinal hopes, hid in trusty darkness, and the disco very of certain documents wbich passed between him self and his coadjutors at Court at the time, and which come subsequently into the hands of the Queen and King of Hungary, alone unravel the nefarious designs of the arch prelate, and ultimately defeat his schemes. For his own aggrandizement, he had premeditated marriage between the soi-disant Czarina of Hungary (Miss Maywood), his daughter, and the young King Sigismund (Miss Fitz waiter), his ward ; but a rapid blasting of his political prospects takes place, and, at th e marr i age scene , po i son is secretly administered him by the Queen Isabella (Mrs. Warner), who feigns to pledge him in a brimming cup; Castaldo (Mr. Elton), whose plans have been thwarted by the Cardinal, stabs, by mistake, his daughter, whom he was embracing, and the curtain falls, like a fu neral pall, over the life and designs of Martinuzzi. Martinuzzi, of the characters, is undoubtedly the ablest drawn. The quick intuitions of the jesuitical priests— the clearness which his own quick apprehension possesses of piercing into the souls of others —the subtle and enthralling webs which his crafty policy have wove around himself, and the dread earthquakes of spirit experienced on the frustration of his schemes, were represented by Mr. Phelps with great tragedial ability. The gorgeous Queen-Mother, per sonated b e y Mrs. Warner, was 'an imperious part, and capable ot power. It certainly might be cried out upon as a vexation that intermediate song and music should spoil the con tinuous current of the drama, as was the ease last night by compulsion, butt it must, nevertheless, be confessed, that Miss Collett rendered it an intrusion far more pleasant than offensive. The play, on the whole, abounds with scatterings of poesy and good thought : it is throughout flowery as the fields of Enna, perhaps to an over-luxuriance—a fault altogether on the right side. The house was very fully attended, and the play was encouraged with marked ap. plause. The entertainments concluded with a burletta in one act, entitled the Cloak and the Bonnet. S FA MARY OF NEWS D PtthttZ 41)01110M " Who runs may read." reItEIGN. The speech of M. Guizot at the grand dinner given to him by his constituents at Liseux, on Monday lust, is producing a great sensation in France. One passage in it contrasts advantageously for the philosophic character of the French statesman with the intemperate allusion to France in Lord Palmerston's address to the electors of Tiverton. M. Guizot, with equal good sense, good feel-. ing, and good taste says :—" I could not forgive . Myself were I to let drop one word which might ferment, or keep up between France and England, or between France and Europe, worn-out prejudices or bitter feelings. , To every sensible man, to every sincere friend of European peace, such language must appear a grievous wrong. Situated as I am, it would be to sin against justice, pru dence, and tact. I will not incur the reproach." Such conciliatory language from the mouth of a French Minister of M. Guizot's high character, will greatly tend 'o allay those suspicions which the warlike preparations of France have for some time awakened in the public mind of Europe. _ The ltioniteur Parisien states that it has reason to believe the Government will not prosecute the Journals seized at the Post-office on Sunday. This is a strange announcement, and speaks strongly for the conduct of the Ministry. Either the Journals seized were guilty of a breach of the laws, or they were not. If they were guilty it is the duty of the Government to punish them, not by seizure, but by prosecution before the ordinary tribunals ; if they were not guilty against the laws then was it a most tyrannical stretch of the Crown preroga tive to seize them on any pretext whatever. The Commerce has a rumour to which we attach no credit, that Baron Pasquier, President of the Chamber of Peers, has resisted the taking of the census in his private domicile. M. Pasquier is an old rat, capable of no such stretch of public virtue. When he is found opposing any measure of the Government it may be taken for granted that another royal sun is about to break upon and illumine the poli tical 'horizon of France. When M. Pasquier deserts the Court the Orleans House will, indeed, be tumbling about the cars of its supporters. The King and Queen of the Belgians left Ostend on Tuesday for the Chateau of Eu, in Normandy, where the Royal family of France is staying. The two Courts were to proceed to Paris, and thence to St. Cloud. King Leopold wishes to arrange with his father-in-law the basis of a commercial treaty between France and Bel gium, and to talk over some projected family alliances. Letters from Constantinople of the 4th instant state positively that the insurrection in Candi& is entirely suppressed. _ lii a letter from Alexandria of the 25th July we find the following statement:—" Trade here is in a sad state. On one side proprietors have had their strongest and most able workmen taken away to be employed in the fortifications, under pretence that they belong to the Pacha and Ibr a hi m . Th e resu l t i s, t h at the landed pro prietors cannot even get in their harvest." PARLIAMENTARY. • The Peers did not meet yesterday. In the Commons Mr. Roebuck asked five questions re lative to M'Lleod, all of which were satisfactorily an swered by Lord Palmerston's reading an instruction from Mr. Webster, the American Secretary of State, to the Attorney-General of the United States, in which the declamation of our Government, in relation to M'Leod, is fully acknowledged and set forth. It is also stated that the President felt himself called on to interfere to stop all proceeding:4 So far as the Federal Government can it will protect 31‘Leod. The question of the destruction of the Caroline will then be discussed and settled by the two Govern ments. The power of the State of New York, in Tela tion to the Federal Government, the Americans must decide. In reply to Sir C. Napier, Lord Palmerston stated that the inhabitants of Syria are to be compensated for the loss of their property. Sir M. Wood's Committee on the Metropolitan Im provements was reappointed. Dr. Bowring obtained some returns to illustrate the working of the Quarantine-laws. The adjourned debate was renewed by Lord San don. He was followed by Mr. Milner Gibson, and a very dull debate occupied the whole evening. The principal speakers were Mr. Borthwick, Mr. O'Brien, Colonel Sib thorpe, whose uncouthness still provoked a smile, Mr. Escott, , the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who dis cussed finance, Mr. Goulburn, who refuted what the Chancellor said, and Mr. Wakley, who com plained of the mystical manner in which the pub lic accounts are kept, so that rival Chancellors can draw from them any deduction they pleased. The Hon. Member was less happy than usual, but he did to wards the end turn a joke or two against Lord John Russell, now become a metropolitan demagogue. Our space will not allow us to r e p ea t th e Hon. Gentleman's jokes, and our readers will find them elsewhere. Not withstanding the extreme dullness of the debate, the Members were exemplary in their attendance and atten tion ; and, from their patience, we infer that it is.pos sible for the debate to last another week. The opinion that it would close last night, was never countenanced by the appearance of the House. On Mr. Wakley's re suming his seat, the debate was adjourned till this day. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times is slowly waking to the discovery that electioneering corruption is notorious, and that a prompt and decisive stop should be put to such an ini quitous system. If our contemporary grounds his as sertion on the bribery that took place at the Late elec tions under the especial patronage of the Tories, he has ample warrant for what he says, and we cordially agree with him in the truth of these remarks :—"fhere never was a House of Commons, in the election of which bribery was so universal. The greater part of the electors—the whole, in truth, of the electoral body created by the boasted Parliamentary Reform— consider the elective franchise as the mere means of serving themselves and their families—as an article for sale, to be obtained by the highest bidder. The awful crime of perjury has been thought nothing of." This is giving the Tories as hearty a slap in the face as Mr. Roebuck gave them the other night in the Com mons. But this is not the first, nor will it be the last, blow that the Times will give the Tories. It is noto riously a slippery party organ ; has strange fits, not of manly independence, but of capricious waywardness ; and will leave its friends in the lurch at the time that they most calculate on its support. As the Baron of Bradwardine said to his guests, " Beware the bear !" so we say to the Tories, " Beware the Times !" The Morning Post accuses the Liberal party of being divided among . themselves, and hints at the same time at the unanimity that exists among the Tories. The unanimity of these latter is yet to be proved. As yet they have bad no time to exhibit discord. But' when Lord Stanley comes prominently into action with some pet crotchet or other, such as his absurd " Irish Arms Bill," we shall confidently expect to see some very pretty quar relling among the Tories. The following are our Contem porary's words :—" While the Conservative body are re proached with having divisions among them, but exhibit none, the party which takes the liberty of making the re proach is palpably and practically divided upon what is at present considered the great question of the day, namely, the law which restricts the importation of foreign corn. It would be great injustice to some of the opponents of the present Corn-law to confound them with the rabble of revolutionary blasphemers who make such a noise about ' repeal,' and yet when Ministerialists sum up their forces they reckon all sorts of opponents of the Corn-laws as belonging to their party." The Chronicl3 says :—" It is a palpable fallacy that the displacement of the present by a Tory Ministry is essential to the satisfactory results' of a legislative deliberation' on the Corn-laws. Those results cannot be rendered one jot more or less satisfactory by the Chris tian name of a Secretary of State being Robert instead of John. The satisfactoriness must be, if anywhere, in the results themselves. If those results be wise, just, and useful; if they tend to revive trade, to promote steadiness of price and demand, and to exonerate the commu nity from the class impositions of monopoly, then they will be sat'eactory, whatever Ministers be in ; and it not, then they will be unsatisfactory, whatever parties be out. No Government can make a heavily taxed loaf satisfactory to the toiling mil lions. No confidence' can feed th e half-famishing." We agree with the spirit of the above remarks, that a Ministry should be tested by its measures rather than by its men ; but if these latter, from mingled prejudice or self-interest, are notoriouslyincornpetent to the task of just and enlightened legislation, then it is fair to pre same that the measures they bring forward will partake of their own incompetency. Men do not gather grapes from thorns, nor figs from thistles, nor can a liberal re form in the Corn-laws be expected from a Ministry whose majority was gained by the Chandos clause, and whose chief supporters are those who are entrusted, in maintaining the abuses of the Corn-laws. The following is from thfaiercild That portion of the Queen's Speech which emanates from the Foreign qffice is quite characteristic of Lord Palmerston. Its chief assertion is a stupid, because a notorious, falsehood. The temporary estrangement of France is not at an end, and the best understanding does not prevail among all the great Powers of . Europe. Lord Pal merston deals only with verbal declarations or written assurances, while the rest of mankind look to actions and realities, and judge from practical and material results. That Marshal Soult and M. Guizot desire to place France on terms of perfect amity with England we have no doubt ; but were the greatest obstacle thereto removed—which is the savage and hos tile feeling, revived by the Treaty of July, towards this country, entertained by nearly all cl asses of Frenchmen—there would still remain an insuperable difficulty, and that is—Lord Palmerston himself.". The Worcester Chronicle thus alludes to the late Man chester Conference :—" Prayer meetings' may engage a due share of attention, but there is leisure also for Corn law Conferences.' No one, except such as profit by the corn monopoly, who has read the valuable report of the proceedings of this Conference in the Morning Chronicle can justly accuse the ministers who composed it of misap plying their time, or hint that they had better been em ployed in prayer. Action is the test of sincerity." The Stafford Gazette, alluding to the Queen's Speech, says, " Ministers have, in the Royal Speech, raised the question of the budget. They have, in that Speech, presumed to dictate measures to the nation, th oug h b y the angry voice of that nation they have b een pro nouncedo f guidiguiding unworthythe reins f confidence, Government. an d utterly object 3 incapable , of this hitherto unheard-of proceeding is the hope of embarrass ing the Conservatives in the formation of their reply." ELECTIONEERING. According to the resolution of last session for rcgu. lating the order in v. , hich electign petitions.. should_ be taken into consideration ' the names of the places w ere drawn in th e H or - e of Commons on Wednesday night from a boy. They stand-Great Marlow, Nottingham and Weymouth. • At Bradford, the two candidates in the field are Mr. W. Busfield, of Upwood, who represented the borough in the last Parliament on Whig principles ; and Mr. W. Wilberforce, Conservative, late Member for Hull. Mr. Busfield was only four votes lower on the poll than the late Mr. Lister. AGRICULTURAL. The accounts of the Maidstone Hop plantations still continue unfavourable. Though the goldings are full of bine in the Weald, yet the grapes on the heavy soils are short. The crops are, for the most part, expected to be small. At Brenchley. however, Horsuaonden, Watering bury, and Farnham, the crops will be rich if some sunny days ensue. In Berkshire, on the high and light lands, an immense breadth of oats has been cut and carried ; so also the wheats, which are pretty free from smut. In Somersetshire, the heavy rains of late have greatly rotted the teasel crop ; so that good judges say there will not be a peck per acre cut, and those will be of wretched quality. LAW AND POLICE. .Caroline Williams, a woman of dissolute habits was brought before the Magistrate it Marlborough-street Police-office on Wednesday, on a serious charge of assault . - ing a girl of the name of Seymour, in Oxford-street, be tween four and five that morning. The poor creature's dress was saturated with blood, and as she was scarcely able to speak from exhaustion, Mr. Maltby directed that she should be conveyed to a surgeon's shop in the neigh bourhood, whither he proceeded, and took down her de positions. It appeared a petty quarrel about a glass of gin, provoked by.the prisoner, had led to the melancholy result. The surgeon considered her in extreme danger from internal hzemorrhage, and the prisoner was re manded till Wednesday. At the Liverpool Assizes an action was brought against the proprietors of the Woodside Ferry by Walker and others,. Birmingham jewellers ; for damage caused to a quantity of jewellery, weighing some hundreds of pound), and of the value of 8,0001., concealed in the trunk of a carriage, which on being landed at the slip at Liverpool, ran hack into the water. The salt water had got into the trunk, and seriously injured the watches and jewellery, causing a loss of 2041., and besides 71. 10e. for. injury done to the carriage. Verdict for the plaintiff, damages 2111. 10s. TREA.TILXCAL. The erection of a bust or statue to the memory of the late Mrs. Siddons, in Westminster Abbey, will, it i s hoped, be soon effected. - Subscription-books are open for the purpose at all the chief bankers. COURT-FASHIONABLE. The Duke of Montrose arrived in Belgrave-square, on Monday last, from Scotland. - Viscount Morpeth will leave town in the course of the ensuing week for Dublin. Viscount Howick has joined his Viscountess at Howick PIA Northumberland. Viscount 13eresford's attack of paralysis was no better on Wednesday, and Drs. Watson, Latham, and Brodie, were in attendance. MISCELLANEOTJS. A correspondent in the Morning Advertiser states as a positive fact, that two hundred people die annually of starvation in London alone Yesterday was the anniversary of the birth of Prince Al bert, who completes his twenty-second year, having.been born in 1819. It is the anniversary also of the celebrated battle of Cressy, which was fought in 1346. On Tuesday the Collingwood, of 80 guns, was launched from the Royal dockyard at Pembroke. She is built on the same principle as the Vanguard, but is six feet longer. The vessel was.ehristened by Lady Jackson. Two officers of the Life Guards were on Weduesday fined 51. each by the BrentfOrd Magistrates, for throwing detonating balls from the windows of a carriage, while passing through that town ! This is a strikinc , exem plification of the march of mind in the upper classes. The sixth anniversary festival of the East Surrey Conservative Society was celebrated on Wednesday at the Horns, Kennington. The speeches were of average dull ness and prolixity. The steam-boats brought down nearly a thousand persons to Margate on Saturday last. On Wednesday morning a destructive fire broke out in some farm-buildings on the land of Mr. Miller, at Lovel Heath, near Crawley, by which seven horses were de stroyed. RUMOURS or THE DAY. Sir James Graham is to resume the place which he at one time held under the Whigs, and become First Lord of the Admiralty ; and Sir William Follett will be Attorney-General. Sir Frederick Pollock, of course, must be provided for. Has Lord Abinger been keeping the chief seat in the Court of Exchequer warm for him to the annoyance of his son-in-law ? It is stated that Sir Thomas Troubridge, who for several years past has upheld the Ministerial cause at Sandwich, is about to vacate his seat, upon his appoint ment to the government of South Australia. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY.—The census is being taken in Paris and other great towns very quietly, the dumb op position of closed doors being passed over without notice by the Commissioners. It is reported that an Ex-Deputy at Lille had been arrested for some act of an anti-census nature. The speech delivered at Lisieux, by M. Guizot„is much animadverted on by the Paris papers. The Courrier Francais states that M. Huma.nn was determined to bring out the loan in October. M. Tobler, the Consul of Toscany in Algiers, had failed for a sum ofBoo,ooo florins. M. Guizot had been elected President *of the Council General of Calvados. The Council General of the mouths of the Rhine had declared in favour of the legality of the census. PARIS, AUGUST 25.--,Three per Cents., 77f. 30c. ; Spanish, 20i. SPAIN. From Madrid we learn by letters of the 18th, that no insurrection in favour of Queen Christina has ever been thought of, and that sho has no longer any political im portance in the country. The total abolition of tithes in Spain will ruin many of the great families. Madrid Bourse. —Five per Cent. 231 cash. THE LEVANT MAIL. We have received the Levant mail, with Constanti nople, Alexandria, and Smyrna dates of the 7th, and of Malta, of the 16th. It is officially announced that the Candian insurrection is at an end, the insurgents having accepted the amnesty offered by Tahir Pacha, and sur rendered to Mustapha Pacha. A new militia has been organised at Constantinople, by which one hundred thousand men are added to the effective force of the em pire. The expedition for Tunis and Tripoli is nearly ready for sea, several troops having been embarked. Our private letters state that the destination of the fleet is positively for Tunis, and that much difficulty is antici pated on the part of the French Government. The latest intelligence &mil Candia, brought by the Malta papers of the 15th, comes down to the 4th. A few insurgents still held out in the mountains of Sphakia, but the rest of the island had submitted. The Sultan had reduced the tribute to be paid by Me hemet Ali from 40,000,000 to 30,000,000 of piastres. Said Bey, the grandson of the Pacha, continued to be the object of the most delicate attention. The Sultan's health was improving, and .he had of late frequently appeared in public. Ali Bey, an Attache of the Ottoman Lep tion in London, arrived at Constantinople on the 4th in stant, having been sent thither by Chekib Effendi with the protocol signed by the Conference on the 13th of July, which was to have been immediately ratified and returned to London. A British man of war, the Implacable, has been sent from Malta to observe the French Reet at Tunis. A case of plague had been reported at Pent. Sir John M'Neil has sailed for Trebisond. Colonel Barnett and Mr. Drummond Hay are daily expected to sail for Alex andria. EGYPT. Our private correspondent in Alexandria writes on the 6th, that the tribute had been reduced to 15,000,000 of piastres. The Calcutta and Rodney were still off Alex andria, exercising the crews at their guns. The Pacha was alarmed at their presence, but had declared that he would not surrender the Syrian soldiers to Colonel Napier without a direct order from the Sultan. There appeared to be no disposition at Alexandria to execute the [last hatti-scheriff, or that of Gulhane, the strictest monopoly existing in all commercial transactions. SYRIA. The Smyrna Journal of the 9th describes Syria as completely pacified, but our direct advices from Beyrout of the 24th ult. represent the country as in a state of complete anarchy. In Lebanon the various Emirs were contending for sovereignty . ; part of the people had de clared against Emir Kasim, in favour of the Emirs Abbas or Soliman, while others insisted on the recal of the old Emir Beschir. There were two British ships of war of the line, two frigates, one brig, and two steamers before Beyrout, on the 24th. Trade was at a complete stand. The Bedouins: near Aleppo had plun dered a caravan, which was conveying provisions and other necessaries to the two English steamers in the Euphrates. M. Bourra, the French Consul dismissed by M. Thiers, had returned to Beyrout. Letters from Smyrna of the 9th announce the arrival of M. Lynch, Commander of the Euphrates expedition, on his way to Beles. The number of houses consumed by the fire of the 20th ult. exceeded 12,000, and the loss was estimated at 2,000,000/. sterling. GREECE. They write to us from Athens on the 10th inst. that the new Ministry having threatened to resign, the Ring had agreed to some concessions. M. Piscatory, the French Envoy, returned from Constantinople on the 9th. The Candiot insurrection being considered at an end, the revolutionary Committee formed at Spezzia had been dissolved. Lords Desart and Ranelagh left for Constantinople on the Bth. Admiral Ommanney still remained at Corfu on the 10th with the Britannia, Howe, and Vanguard, but was shortly expected to sail for Athens. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week eliding August 23, 1841 : Passengers £99B 7 5 blerehandize 487 7 6 1,485 14 11 • Darlington, Aug. 25. D. O'BRIEN, Secretary. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY--The birthday of his Royal Highness Prince Albert was celebrated by the band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards performing a se renade under his Royal Highness's window, and soon afterwards a Royal salute was fired in the Bachelor's-acre, the peals of bells ringing merrily. At twelve o'Clock the 72d Highlanders fired a feu de joie in the Home Park, under the East Terrace, and at two o'clock the Queen and Prince Albert lunched at Adelaide Cottage, and heard a serenade performed by Messrs. Harris, Elvey, Turner, French, &c. The follow ing rode down to the Cottage to pay their respecis to his Royal Highness after lunch :—The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Viscount Melbourne, the Duchess of Bedford. Lady Caroline Somers Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Earl of Fingal], Hon. C. A. Murray, and Col. Wylde. The town will be brilliantly illuminated this evening, and several dinners will take place in honour of the day, at the inns. r rhe Queen and Prince Albert enjoyed their usual walk in the forenoon, and in the afternoon her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort rode out, attended by the suite, in a pony phaeton, the Prince driving. The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, the Ladies Eleanora and Countess Paget, Lord Paget. Lieutenant- Colonel and Mrs. Bouverie, the Rev. Lord W. Russell, and Mr. George Edward Anson, will have the honour of joining the Royal dinner party this evening. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal, and attended by the Hon. Miss Mitchell, left her resi dence, Marlborough House, Pall-m a ll, a t one o ' c l oc k , yesterday afternoon, in an open carridge and four, for Kew, where her Majesty and his Serene Highness lunched with their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Du chess of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cam bridge. Her Majesty returned to town in the evening. A Committee Meeting of the Lords of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council was held yesterday after noon at the Council-office, to take into consideration the grant of a charter to Huddersfield. The Lords present were, the Lord President, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the First Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, and the Chief Secretary for Ireland. The Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Gosford, and Mr. Brown, M.P., (Kerry), had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home-office. Mr. Wallace, M.P., had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resi dence, in Downing-street. Mr. Herbert Jones had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial-office. THEODORE HOOK, ESQ. We regret to have to record the death of this eminent wit and novelist, which, we understand, took place on the night of Tuesday last. Mr. Hook's father was a well known musical composer, and much of his ready talent appears to have been inherited by his son, who, even in early youth, was remarkable for his facility of im provising songs, which he would furnish also with extem pore words, and sing at the piano with a skill and an expression that made him a general favourite in the fashionable circles. He first came before the public, we believe, as a writer of melodrames and farces ; but he was by no means excellent as a dramatist, for his Tekeli, though it attained a certain popularity, is sad stuff ; and his Killing No Murder owed its success almost entirely to the admirable acting of Liston. Mr. Hook's next efforts were political. He was one of the chief contributors to the John Bull at the period of its first establishment, and much of its popularity was owing to his humourous prose and verse, which he wrote with great spirit and ease, though there was at times a rancorous personality about his writings, which cannot be too severely reprobated. Tired of politics, which he understood but superficially, and never cordially en tered into, Mr. Hook next turned his attention to prose fiction, for which his social habits and quick apprehension of peculiarities in character eminently qualified him. He is the author of upwards of a dozen tales or more, all of which evince great knowledge of town life, great powers of caricature, great ease and spirit of style, and, it must ' be added also, great negligence, both in the disposition of incident, and the construction of plot. His " Jack Brag" is perhaps his master•piece ; at any rate, the chief cha racter is drawn with more breadth and vigour than its author ever evinced before or since ; and will give the reader a clearer insight into his peculiar turn of mind than any of his other productions. We have said that Mr. Hook was a discerning judge of character ; we wish we could add that he was a kindly and profound one. But he seldom pierced below the surface ; it was with manners rather than with emotions that he dealt ; the human heart was a mystery that escaped his penetration, and which apparently he did not much care to solve. The spirit that pervades his tales—disguised though it is beneath a show of broad drollery—is one of utter scepticism, as re spects the more elevated and generous feelings of huma nity. He is a decided satirist, quick and eager to point ,out the follies and vices of human nature, but slow to believe in the existence of its good qualities. We may add, by way of wind-up, that Mr. Hook was a max of little or no reading, but of considerable conversational ta lent ; full of anecdote and arch repartee ; and in habits of familiar intercourse with many of the most distin guished men of his day. Those who have had the good fortune to be in his company, will long_ remember the vivacity of his manner, and the arch twinkle of his eye, when relating a droll story, and the heartiness with which he enjoyed the wit and humour of others. FINE ARTS. The Presentation of a Newly Elected Chief of the Huron Tribe is the subject of a picture painted by Mr. H. D. Thieleke, which has acquired some celebrity in Canada. It has been lithographed, and on judging from the impression before us, the picture does honour to the artist. We were struck with the resemblance of the Chief to some of the heads of our greatest men. The ex planation which accompanies the plate informs us that he is Robert Symes„Esq., a British born subject—our won der ceased. The countenances of the surrounding In dians are much better than we had expected ; they are all of a mixed breed. One portrait is introduced of a young Indian, the only one, we are told, remaining, " having no admixture of white blood." " The picturi," says the Quebec Gazette, will, in after times, be an interesting memorial of the remains of a nation which once mus tered 60,000 warriors, but is now dwindled away, before European civilization, to a few scattered remnants of which the Wyandotes, west of the Great Lakes, and the Lorette Indians are the chief." Accompanied by the explanation of the picture is an interesting memorial also of Indian names, as well as features and costume. One is called A-non-cha-wauchratte, i e., one who passes over the tops oj houses. Another is Tza-wan-ho-hi, i.e., one who plunges things into the water. A third is Tzo ha-his-sen, one who is near the road. A fourth is Ta hour-han-chi, the dawn of morning. A fifth is, Oh-da wan-hont, he has the river in his mouth; and one who quickly mounts an eminence, is called Ah-ret-him ha. The characters are painted in the grand cos tume of the tribe, as at present worn, and, placed along side West's " Death of Wolfe," enables us at a glance, by looking at the warriors there, to note several of the changes which the Europeans have wrought in the Indians. M. Thielcke's picture is valuable, both as a work of art and of history. It is a graphic memo rial of changes already effected in an interesting people who are passing away. DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, AUG. 24.—A letter from Zwolle, of the 21st of this month, gives the most satisfactory account of the crops in that neighbourhood. The rye has suffered hardlyany injury; the wind has dried it ; and the wheat promises an abundant harvest within a fortnight. AMSTERDAM, AUG. 24.—The sixty-ninth anniversary of the birth-day of his Majesty the Count of Nassau, was celebrated here to-day, with the ceremonies usual for the members of the Royal family. DUTCH FUNDS.—Antrranuast, Ave. 24 Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 61 52 b 2 Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. •••••••••••••••••••••••• 10J% 101 Almost Syndic, 4% per cent .... 9l 915 i Ditto, ditto, 3y4 per cent 75 54 76 Commercial Company, 4K, per cent 155 155( Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. 101)6 102 Loan 1837, 5 per cent 117 9734 Exchange on London, One month 12 07 Two months ll 97 Hamburgh, One month 35 81 . Two months 35 56 k Dutch Papers, Aug. 25. BELGIAN 1. UNDS—Baussits. Auc. 24. Actual Debt, 254 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOl4 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 93 ---- 3 per Cent. - ---.Thirty.seven--- ......... 71% (1840) lOl% Loan of City, 1V32, 4 per Cent. ........ Society of Commerce, 4%per Cent ......... Bank of Belgium , 5 per Cent."... ...... National Society. ........ ................ ....... Exchange on London (short) .............. ll 95 —Brussels Papers, Aug. 24. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Viessa., Am . 16 !limper Cents. Metalliques ......« ....... .. .... 105/ Foar per Cents. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ... " ..... 0.7,7 •••••••••••••• 4.1 A Three per Cents. •••••••••••••••••••••• ....... Ile Bank Shares ...................... ............ ."'"'"'"" , . 7 „. °) i .—Allgenseine Wrong, Aug. 21, ....... •••••••••• A... HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Ave. 21. Austrian 5 per Cents. ....... Bills. Money ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 107 .21...."' Dank Shares ...... ..... ................. AngloAtussian L0an........... .. .... "'"'"'“ ..... ,7.1 1 rr 5 % Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series,(;:, ..... iiie",,Te”.*:::: 103 3 ; - Inscription, Ist Series . . ...... 101 3 Russian 5 per Cent. Hop e "'"; ......... •'. ...... ••••• I ° 2 and Co. 3 d and 4th Series ........ gg 97X .. ..... .•..•...... .... -- Ditto in Certificates . . .. -----"""*"*".. 98 97 New 4 per Cent. (1849) . ....." — " * " * """' ***** " . " *. 88/ 68 :t . tt . D .. ............... pe i : e . r ; ........................................ 50% 40% Dutch a ctual ...........•............. Polish Bonds 148 ..... New ticket .......................... ......................_...-. 158 ... SpanishNA ng , l v o .. e ri. Norwegian c i L s w l o i a5 1.. n " p 0 , .......................................................................................... 1 7 0 . 5 2 3 4 % 1 7 0 5 2 t 15% THE WEATHER.—NOON, AUGUST 26. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Barometer ................. 30.27 In. Thermometer... 69 1 Highest 69 j Lowest ..... 46 Wind S.W.—Froesing Point 32 Deg. VAUXHALL GARDENS.—The last Masquerade that can ever take place in this popular scene of entertainment is to be given to-morrow, on a scale of great splendour. The Gardens are to be sold and closed for ever next week. The Queen has been pleased to appoint, by letters patent under the Great Seal of Ireland, the Right Hon. Francis William Earl of Charlemont to be Custos Rotulorum of the county of Tyrone, in the room of the Earl of Winton, deceased. FRACAS IN PALL MALL.—A personal colli sion took place on Wednesday afternoon in front of the United Service Club, between Mr. Sheppard and Captain Fitz Roy, the candidates 'at the last election for the city of Durham. It appears that Mr. Sheppard, accompanied by two gentlemen stepped before Captain Fitz Roy, and, shaking his whip over his head, stated that, though he would not strike him, he must consider himself horsewhipped, upon which Capt. Fitz Roy struck Mr. Sheppard. A scuffle then ensued, which terminated by Capt. Fitz Roy knocking Mr. Sheppard down, who fell on his back on the pavement, when the bystanders interfered, and the parties were separated. Some matters connected with the Durham election are said to have been the cause of this unpleasant affair. MORNING SUN . LITERATURE. THE RED BOOK, or a PEEP AT THE PEE RS, This is a picture of the hereditary wisdom drawn by the author of the " Black Book," and published at the small charge of fourpence by Mr. Cleave. It gives the title, age, marriage, Church patronage, pensions and pay in the army, navy, or civil offices, of each Peer, together with the income of the different branches of the Royal family, and a fearful picture it is. Some parts of it may be overcharged, and the com ments occasionally too severe, but it contains too much truth, and shows that the Upper House, in the division of the people's money, has taken the lion's share. One has a snug pension of 9,789/. 17s. 4d., another has 2,0891., Ins brother 5,4961., with the odd shillings and pence; a fourth has pensions to the third generation, and some few have immortal pensions. King Ernest's share, independent of what he takes from his own subjects, is thus described " Has received an annuity of 15,000/. for sixty-three years, 945,000/. ; has received another annuity of 6,0001. for forty-four years, 210,0001. His son, Prince George of Cumberland, has an annuity of 6,0001. which he has received for thirteen years, 78,000/. ; making a total cost to the country of one million two hundred and thirty three thousand pounds sterling ! ! The enormous incomes, and still more enor mous patronage of the successors of the apos tles, are also carefully chronicled. Only think of one of this lowly race having an annual in come of 19,0001. a-year, with two palaces ; the patronage of 172 livings, with prebends, preach erships, and other ships out of number. Some few of the fighting Lords have pensions for ser vices rendered to the country, and one or two civil Lords have resigned theirs, when their own private property became too enormous to be concealed. This does not apply to the Marquis of Camden; and the compiler, therefore, justly selects him from " the proud throng,a with the following well-merited tribute : " CAMDEN, M. OF.—George Charles Pratt, (four other titles) b. 1799 ; mar. dau. of Bp. of Rochester, 1,459 L ; Vice-Admiral and Deputy-Lieu. of Kent. This noble man's father was one of the tellers of the Exchequer, at a salary of 2,7001. In 1817, he resigned to the Public Treasury the fees of the office, amounting to 25,000/. per annum ; for which he received a vote of thanks from the Commons. He then retired on a pension, 3,683/. for the remainder of his life. The present Marquis has returned the money received as fees since his father's death, and has nobly resigned all clai m t o f u t ure f ees . H e h o ld s 12,000 acres of woodland in Kent. Patron of Llanspy thid, V., Brecon, 100/." PRESTON AND WYRE RAILWAY HARBOUR AND DOCK COMPANY. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUG. 21, 1841. PASSENGERS. Ist Class. 2d Class. 3d Class. 1,043 1,593 4,439 Goods Total 7,075 £638 18 11 130 4 2 £769 3 1 At Paris. a young woman, passing over the Pont d'Austerlitz, instead of the sou she ought to have paid, deposited, with an air of absence of mind, her cambric pocket handkerchief at the money-taker's seat, and walked on. The invalid on guard walked after her with it, and mentioning her mistake, abe took a sou from her pocket and received back her handkerchief. The man was about to return to his seat, be* reflecting that she might have some sinister intentions, changed his mind, followed her, and was just coming ap to her when she stopped, raised her hands and eyes to heaven, and sprung over the parapet into the river. He immediately gave a n alarm, and some men in a boat succeeded in bringing her to shore before life was extinct, but the shock she had received was so great that she died in half an hour. Her body was taken to the Morgue, where it was recognised as that of a young milliner, who had been deserted by:a faithless seducer. A man named Belin was tried before the Court of Assize at Paris, two days ago, for an assault under the following circumstances. On March 30, a y oung man knocked at the door of a person named Belin, employed by the Stockbrokers at the Exchange, and finding, or rather knowing beforehand, that he was not at home, gained entrance under pretence of having a message. Getting Mme. Belin into a room by herself, he seized her by the throat, and, draw ing a knife, threatened with violent imprecations to murder her if she did not give him all her money. She .made so stout a resistance that she dragged her assailant to the landing-place and there called for assistance. Upon this the rebher at tempted to make his escape, but was followed and brought back. To the astonishment of Mme. Belin, who, during the struggle had not recognised him—he proved to be Paul Bolin, a nephew of her husband, scarcely twenty years of age, who had been aiong time discarded by his family for misconduct, and only lately released from prison. where he had been con fined on a conviction of forgery. The circumstances of the case were proved, and the prisoner acknowled his guilt, but at tributed it to the instigation of two malefactors with whom }•,e had made acquaintance in prison, and who, in f ac t, accorr.pa nied him to his uncl e 's house, hen he committed the P ssau It, but effected their escape. Paul Belin was found grf;ttv with extenuating circumstances, and sentenced to hard ( ;.pour at the hulks for ten years, and to be exposed on the 'glory. The upper part of the site of ancient Car thage has received the name of Mount/Louis Philippe, since the donation made to the King la:st year by the Bey of Tunis, of a tract of land west of the Goletta, between the sea to the north, and the Roman apd Carthaginian ruins to the south. On this spot has beer, erected the chapel which the King has dedicated to the memory of St. Louis, who died there on 25th August, 1270. The fi rs t s t one o f the intended edifice was laid some time age by a French priest of Tunis, with much ceremony, and the edifice has since been built of the stone called Soliman's Marble, fitted in with the Tufa, which forms the bed of the bay of Carthage, and vaulted with Genoa bricks, coated with stucco. The principal entrance into the chapel faces the sea, and over it is a bronze tablet, on which are to be inscribed in French :—" Chapel of Saint Louis. Louis Philippe L;King of the French, has erected the monu ment on the spot where his ancestor, the King Saint' L ou i s , expired.-1841." On a pediment, the border of which is of an oriental character, is to be the following inscription in Ara bic :—" Here died the magnificent and just Sultan, Louis, son of Louis, King of France. May God be merciful to him! This ground was granted in perpetuity to the Sultan of the French, by the illustrious Emir Ahmed Bey. Whoso re spects this monument, God will bless him." The fall in the prices of corn in the market of Brussels has at length enabled the burgomaster and Magistrates of their city to lower the price of bread. BRUSSELS, Auo. 23.—The Belgian schooner Rembrandt, Capt. Gasling, has sailed for Antwerp, with a full cargo of military stores, bombs, and cannons, f or Al exan d r i a ; it is another portion of th e articles ordered of the Royal foundry at Liege, for Mehemet Ali. The department of the interior has just received for the foreign department the new Portu guese tariff of customs, mentioned by a Royal decree of the 14th of March, 1841. - VIENNA, AUG. 16.--His Majesty sets out to morrow on his journey to Styria. On this occasion the new road to Styria will be opened and used for the first time, by which the steep ascent over the Semering is wholly avoided. Near to the great bridge, which is built over a deep s'oyss, forming a communication below 'granite rocks, the 11 1r)st re markable point in this new road, a triumphal arch hr.s lately been erected, where his Majesty will be received by an Aus trian and Styrian deputation. Preparations are likewise mak ing at Gratz for the splendid reception of their Majesties. Prince Molosch of Servia has had to-day the honour of an audience of the Emperor at Schonbrunn. M. Firmot, coach -master at Vaugirard, two evenings ago sent his son, a boy about twelve years old, to the stables, to see if the horses had been properly Ted. As the lad remained away an unreasonable time, the father went to see what he was about, when, on entering the stable, he found him hanging by a halter from the rack of one of the horses. His senses were gone, but, as his feet rested upon the manger, life was not extinct, and, due means being instantly taken, he was recovered. On being questioned as to the motive of this desperate act, the boy declared that he had done so from no other than a sudden and irresistible impulse, for which he could not account. THUNDER STORM.—On Saturday morning this city was visited with a severe thunder storm, and heavy rains; it was previously heard in a westerly direction for se veral hours ; at eight o'clock we were nearly in a state of dark vitreibsuteta.rnrymstoorerazs, and serious which was apprehensionsrender ed more r were awful entertained the vivid that theig h t a n r g k , watery cloud would burst over us. From the rapid rise in the we have had been h b e e a en rd m o o f re an s y ev a er c e cid 9 .e n nt th ? e r having struck several trees.—York Courant. dstructiou of property in the vicinity, except the electric fluid A. HOAX. Considerable amusement was ex: but th N e V cited among some of our towns m en by an occurr e nce which took place on Sunday las t. Ab ou t elevd opposite the P en o'cl o ck on t h a t_lough day Hotel, and on inq uiry a number of persons wer e con g r egate we found some poor simpleten was within who had bee_n advertising for a wife in one of th e L on d on that some of our young sparks, a b o ut equa ll y PaPeni and simple himself, had, by maintaining afeigned correspond ence, i n duced him t o come to Cheltenham to obtain an &ni g _ na tion. When here, through imprudence on th e p ar t o f hi s tormentors, the plot exploded, a n d th e p oor d upe ma d e hi s ex i t about twelve o'clock, amid the jeers of those assembled.._. Cheltenham Examiner. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The half yearly meeting of the Proprietors of this railway was held at Bristol yesterday, when a lengthened report was read. It ap.. pears that it is the intention of the Directors to raise an addi tional capital, to the amount of half a million, by creation of loan notes. The Directors express a firm conviction that this sum will be sufficient, and that the cost of the line altogether will not exceed 6,250,0001. The dividend is settled at PA per cent. on the half-year, to be paid in proportion to the sums called on,the respective shares at the former half-yearly meeting, and which obtained the sanction of the Proprietors as being the most equitable. M r . B rune l appends an able do cumentto the report, which explains in detail all the matters in reference to which so much difference of opinion has existed. It is in contemplation to erect a large number of house at Swindon, also an hotel, engine-houses, goods' depots, &c. ; in fact, to render the entire establishment the most complete in the kingdom. A VESSEL NEARLY DESTROYED BY FIRE AT SEA.—SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.-011 Friday the following particulars were received by the various insur ance offices in the City, relative to the brig Ant, master Captain Paine, belonging to Liverpool, which w as nearly destroyed by fire on the morning of Monday last, supposed to have originated from the spontaneous combustion of some damp straw in a crate of hard ware, stowed amongst the cargo in the after-part of thee vessel. It appears that the Ant, which is a fine-built vessel, sailed on Saturday fortnight from Liverpool for Milford, and on Sunday night arrived off the har bour at that port, and the master, Captain Paine, having safely moored the vessel retired to bed, as did the crew. At about two o'clock in the morning a pilot, narn(A Phillip, in sailing past the vessel in his smack, the Mray Ellen, was greatly surprised in discovering,flames brast ing forth through the deck, and apparently no one en board of her. At ono time the destruction of the vessel appeared certain, as the flames communicated to the mainsail boom, and the greater part of the rigging. was enveloped in a blaze. On the following day the agent; of Lloyd's, quartered at Milford, inspected th e burnt vessel, as well as examined the master and the crew, and from the report they have forwarded to the authorities in the City, there appears no doubt but that the damp straw stowed in a crate, as above alluded to, was the cause of the accident.