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EVENING SUN. arry ? A. Always in the most respectful terms. — Q. Had you ever an idea that your brother had had any interviews with the lady ?A. Never.—Q. Have you been led to suppose that there was a great difference beta e_ei the relations which he had with Maria Capelle and those which he had with Mlle. de Nicolai ? A. Certainly, for he never mentioned to me that he had had an interview with the latter. He merely said that he had danced a aontredanSe with her at a ball given for the benefit of the pensionefi on the Old Civil List.—Q. Nor any correspondence ?A. Never.—Q. It appears, then, from your conversation with your brother, that he had never said anytffing about any kind of correspondence with Mlle. de Nicolai ? A. Yes, Sir.—Q. It'appears, however, that he had repeated interviews with Marie Capelle ? A. Exactly so. M. Corali—Had you any knowledge of the repeated rendezvous given in the Park of Mousseaux ? A. Yes, - he spoke to me about them several times.—Q. Were you also aware of the daily walks of Marie Capelle under the windows of M. Felix Clavet. A. My mother remarked it to me ; she knew that my brother always placed t e greatest.confidence in me.—Q. Do you know whether an epistolary correspondence had still been continued with your brother, and either Marie Capelle or Made moi3elle de Nicolai ?.. A. I believe not.—Q. Was your brother acquainted 'with the family of Maeame de Larochefoucauld ? A. Yes, Sir.—Q. Are you aware of Madame Larochefoucauld having sent a box of any sort to Africa ? A. I think I recollect she did, but I had forgotten the' circumstance.—Q. Does your brother draw. A. No, Sir.—Q. Do you think your brother ever heard any of the details of the affair of the diamonds in Mexico ? A. He only heard from me of the details of the first affair, and I did not go into many particulars. I believe he receives the French journals. The President—Have you received no otherletter from your brother except that you have just communicated ? A. I have received no other, but I expect one. It is possible I have now a letter lying at Toulouse, for I did not direct my letters to be forwarded here to . me. This evidence, which was listened to with great atten tion, w as, as well as the other depositions, summed up by the President, and dictated in an abridged form to the Greffier, who afterwards read it to the Court. The list of witnesses being now exhausted, M Co rali said that, for the regularity of the proceedings, he wished to know whether the Curator of Marie Capelle, who was present, allowed judgment to go by default, or not ? M. Frederic Lacombe,' curator of Madame Laffarge, said be would allow judgment to go by default, as Ma dame Laffarge had refused to plead. The Cuurt then adjourned till the next day, when M. and Madame Leotaud were to be heard as the pc/Hie cioilc, and the requisitions of the Council were to be made. It was expected that the judgment would be delivered at the next sitting. The Gazette des Tribunaux states that the judgment of the Court, whatever it may be, will be signified to Madame Lafiarge immediately it is given, so that, hav ing on4y five days allowed by law to make opposition to it, it is expected that she will take this step by next Friday at latest. " Madame Latfarge," it adds, " has declared that under such circumstances she will come forward supported only by M. Lachaud, if M. Paillet cannot arrive in time. The letter of M. Claivet, read in court, has produced a profound sensation, and on its being notified to her, she exclaimed, The discussion will be a sharp one, and the combat corps a corps. We will see whether in my presence Madame de Leotaud will persist in her system. " Madame Laffarge, on re-entering her prison, still agi tated by the emotion caused by the proceedings in Court, wrote the following : " For the second time since I have come into the world I have been -compelled again to have, as it were, a new existence, and, at the demand of justice, to take my seat once more at the bar of ignominy, before which I have seen sleeping the men who had the disposal of my life and my honour, and who were to bury me a living martyr at twenty-five years of age. To accept this position was to undergo horrible agonies, but, nevertheless, I appeared. I was willing to undergo this agony in order to avert a new act of injustice, and claim my right. Alas ! I had forgotten that the only right left to me was dint of suffering. lam ac cused, and cannot defend myself. lam told that lam a calumniator and a thief, and it is not felt that I require witnesses tb attest my innocence. Letters are spoken of which are, it is said, to overwhelm me, and yet the read ing of letters which would justify me is prohibited. My adversaries call to their aid a man of eloquence and talent, and yet eight times—yes, eight times—in a ques tion lf law and fact, my defender is prevented from speaking. This is very unjust. But if it is intended to sacrifice me to the reputation of a great lady —me, a feeble woman—who have no longer a name nor a future —who have not even the right of breathing the air of heaven without obstacle.—still I will not sink. I will protest to-day, to-morrow, for ever ; I will not only pro test before a tribunal of six men, but I will also protest before the tribunal of the public. I will be acquitted by the great voice of the people, which is the voice of God. Madame de Leotaud, you were not present this morning when my regard might have made your con science tremble before it ; but you are present this even ing, when you have only to hear the language of eulogy for yourself, and words of opprobrium for me. But Ido not envy you. At the bottom of your heart you are forced to respect me, and you know that at the depth of mine I have the right to despise you. Believe me, Marie, I preserved my energy in my love for you, and I will retain it 'in resisting you. Men may prevent me from proving the truth of what they call my calumny ; they cannot give you the power to prove the falsehood of the facts of which I accuse you. I rely on God for strength, and rely on him also for the hour of your re morse." COURT CIRCULAR. IVINDSOR, TGESDAT.—The Queen and Prince Albert enjoyed their usual morning's walk in the Slopes ; and her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an airing in the forenoon and again in the afternoon. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Ca Wylde and Mr. George Edward Anson, drove to the Kennel at Ascot this morning. In the afternoon her Majesty rode out in a pony phae ton, the Prince driving ; the Duchess of Bedford and the Marchioness of Clanricarde following in another open carriage, ; dnd Lady Caroline Somers Cocks, and the Hon. Sarah Mary Cavendish, occupying another phaeton; Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Wylde, the Duke of Bed the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Hon. Charles A. Murray riding on horseback with the Royal party. Lady -(J. Taylour took her departure this morning. This evening the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Hubart, the Marquis d'Har court, and Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt, of St. Leonard's Hill, will have the honour of joining the Royal Circle at the Castle at dinner. Their Rola' highnesses the Duehess of Cambridge and the Pfflicess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset, arrived in town yesterday, from thoir residence' at Kew. In the evening the Royal Duchess and the Princess honoured the Opera House with their presence. M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, trawsacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office ; The Earl of Lichfield had an interview with the Mar quis of Normanby, at the Home-office. - The Marquis of Headfort and the Lady Olivia Tay ]bur atii.ved in town yesterday morning from Windsor Castle ••• The -Right iron. Ifenry Laboliehero arrived in town on Monday evening from Spa. The Hon. Major Keppel arrived in town yesterday f ro m Windsor Castle. __- Despatches from the Governor of Van Dienaen's Land were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. BD,NTLEY'S MISCELLANY FOR AUGUST.— " Richard Savage will prove one o f t h e greate..4 hits " made in Bentley, an d not i without g oo d reason : Charles ,enius, Whitehead, the author, s a man o f no ore. anary g his descriptions t are true to i nature, he Aandles the juve nile haract'er of the hero n a most masterly manner-- the man is discovered in the boy. Ishmael Short, a n d Mr. and Mrs. L'Estrange, are capital person ages, all first-rats parts, as the gentleman _ the .and b us ki n would term them. • r b Lau) , s alma, by Alba n y Poyntz, is a sketch worthy the pencil of Hogarth, and the pen of Boz. For those who love to pore over his torical romance, wrought up to the highest pitch of in terest by a vivid pourtrayal of the character of men, an d the times of the First James, there is ample scope for enjoyment in " Guy Fawkes," which is now drawing to et conclusion. " Merrie England in the Olden Time " :sparkles with rich sayings and laughable antiquities. 'There is an ample supply of good things in the Augirst Number, enough for an epicure, if not for a glutton. In one word, Bentley's Misc e ll an y i s unrive.ried for light rattling and variety.—Shropshire Connrvative. o The following is M. Von itaumer's notice of Eir Robert Peel's latt remarl,,s:—" I have just received," te says, " the last speech wfiich Sir Robert Peel delivered at Tamworth. He xaftly affirms that English commerce is by no means in a hopeless condition, -and that every temporary difficulty oug h t not to b e laid to the charge o f the Cb-rhslaws. this is, however, no justification of these laws. On the contrary, Sir Robert Peel observed, very justly, in Parliament, on the 18th of May, 1841, it may be salutary, in times both of commercial prosperity and adversity, to remove restraints on commerce. The propoqtion that protecting duties arc necessary for corn, Nci.use there are poor-rates, may be answered by an otlef proposition, that poor -rates become necessary and are increased by these protecting duties. Besides, the amount of the protecting duties is in no correct propor tion to the poor-rates,,, Sir Robert Peel says further, by a fixed duty you win be inajatecl with foreign corn in cheap Years, in years'of famine it will be impossi ble to eight shillings. And once taken off, who will av,Ai-, be able to Mimpose the duty ? 1. Now, even as -seining that the same years should be fruitful, bath .in England and the Continent, it is inconceivable that foreign etgrieulturists (who pay the protecting duty and freight) should se m; so much wheat to England precisely in cheap years. ;2. IVith:free trade, and regular cultivation, the dan:;er of famine diminishes extremely. But should such tare case occur, the rule must be suspended, as it has often already been on extraordinary conjunctures. '-It is to us a subject of congratulation that our country knows am Corn-laws, and no discriminating dutie s , an d t h at i n This natural state of things we are strangers to all those bitternesees, the result of this artificial condition, which 90 much convulse England. That this artificial state of things will soon be changed into a more natural state, I do not for a moment doubt ; and what benefits the Eng lish must also be beneficial -to the Germans, connected with them by race and by alliances." Duchess of Hamilton, accompanied by the Marquis of Douglas, arrived on Monday last in Paris. The Duchess goes direct from the French capital to Italy, wthieth.mtahrecoiniste, n w t h io o n of wi n t er i ng i n t h at country ; and meet Fedor , will rnoses rankle% a tour in France, it her Gr ace at - Nice or Flore nce .— rslu~~oty Herald. No. 13, Great Marlborough.street. NEW WORK, EDITED BY BOZ. " THE PIC NIC PAPERS, BY VARIOUS HANDS." Edited by CHARLES DICKENS, Esq. (BOZ). And illustrated with numerous Plates, by GEORGE CRUIK- S HANK, PHIZ, &c., in 3 vols. post Bvo., IS NOW READY FOR DELIVERY At all the Booksellers and Libraries. Henry Colb — u;;;P;1;li;1;er, 13, Great Marlborough-street. CAPTAIN CHAMIER S NEW NAVAL STORY. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., TOM B O W L I N G, A TALE OF THE SEA. By Captain FREDERICK CHAMIER, R.N., Author of " Ben Brace," " The Life of a Sailor," &c. " One of the best novels which has proceeded from Captain Chamier's popular pen. The career of the imaginary hero is made the vehicle for placing before us incidental delineations drawn from the life of several of our most celebrated naval he roes--Nelsen, Collingwood, Jervis, &c., with a variety of other sketches, both real and ideal, forming altogether one of the most characteristic, spirited, and entertaining illustrations of sea-life that our recent literature has furnished."—Naval and. Military Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF . MR. DAVIDGE •.• AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Grand concentration of attraction, and no advance in the price. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 11, Will by. acted Lord Byron's Spectacle, called THE WILD HORSE; OR, MAZEPPA, THE CHILD OF THE DESERT. Introducing Mr. Ducrow's Magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, highly-trained Palfreys, Fairy Psneys, the Equestrians, and Companies of both Theatres. After which, THE SPLENDID 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 Nautical Drama of BEN THE BOATSWAIN. Supported by the strength of the Company. IA C4' „ 4 4 4 • 'mo 5111X . .5' . , No ld "cc, ••••;* T Al o ,, na 0 f' • ROYAL ♦ICTORIA THEATRE._ UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. First week of " Mary Clifford !" increased attraction of " Wo man's Love !" three more nights of " Black Eyed Susan !" and first week of " The Wood Demon THIS EVENING, AUGUST 11. The performances Rill with the New Domestic Drama in Three Acts, called MARY CLIFFORD; THE FOUNDLING APPRENTICE GIRL ! William Clipson, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Bowling, Mr. Paul; Bobby Benham, Mr. Gardner; Sarah, Mrs. W. West; and Mary Clifford, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. _ _ _ After which, the Nautical Drama of BLACK EYED SUSAN. __ William, Mr. i7i.Saville ; Gnatbrain, Mr. Gardner ; Jacob Twig, Mr. Paul; Doggrass, Mr. James; Susan; Mrs. W. West. _ _ _ To conducts with, THE WOOD DEMON. Hardyknute, Mr. E. F. iaville; Willikind, Mr. Gardner ; Una, Mrs. W. West. Boxes, N.—Pit, s.—Gallery, ed. Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. To. morrow, Mary Clifford, Woman's Love, and The Wood Demon. • THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. LAST WEEK BUT ONE of the GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH'S performing in the British Metropotts. Last Six NiLhts of the HARMONIOUS YOUTHS. it is with deep regret that the Wizard puts forth the above announcement, but as preparations are about to be made on an extensive scale 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 onee." During the con cluding twelve nights the Wizard will display all his peculiar powers, mortal and superhuman, which are without parallel in this or any other country. Those who wish to hear the " sweet melody" of the " Bell Ringers," must remember that their Engagement finishes on Saturday, the 14th instant. N.B. No second announcement of " Last Week." Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price at Half.past Nine o'clock. Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. Places for the Boxes may be taken from Mr. Swinburi, at tketox-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 open at Half-past Seven ; the Wizard appears at Eight o'clock precisely. Half-price at Half-past Nine. 4 4 After the conclusion of the Wizard's London Engage ment, he will appear in Brighton and Southampton. R AJLWAY SUN THE IS NOW PUBLISHING, PvICE ONLY SIXPENCE. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " H. D." should, first of all, claim to be rated, and being rated, and his rates paid, should then, if his name be not put in the register, require that to be done by the Revising Barrister. We can give "R.W., Norwich," no more information than is contained in the paragraph and advertisement he referred to. HIGH WATER AT LONDON,BRIDGE TO-MORROW 11, ruing 19 minutes afen 4 1 Evening ": minutes after 9. Z;'kJe LONDON: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 11141. It might have been expected from the com ments of the Tories that the result of the elec tions, so favourable to them, would at once have restored confidence to agriculturi and trade, and at once have revived natio . - a o prosperity. Ac cJrding to them, the f ., - .id of the Whig Ministry should be the be: nning of the national happi ness, but yet no signs of its approach are On the contrary, every day brings more gloomy accounts ; and • Whigs, Tories, and Radicals, in the manufacturing dis tricts, agree in saying they never saw trade so bad. As if to spite the Tories, commercial failures, and almost unexampled manufacturing • distress, have set in, as the Tories are yelling with exultation at their own success. The rising sun of an harmonious Legislature—Peers and Com mons being one—and of a strong and united Go vernment, combining the caution of PEEL with the fervour of STANLEY, and the administrative talents of GRAHAM, backed by the military re putation of the Duke of WELLINGTON and the legalaetunen ofLYNDH unsT,supported, too, by the trading knowledge of ASHBURTON, and the diplo matic skill of AEERDEEN, far from clearing up the horizon, has only made the whole atmos phere look dark and murky, as if a great storm were at hand. We can account for this; to the Tories it must be inexplicable. Though the in office during the last eleven Whigs years, Tory av epolicy has on too many p n prevail e d, and caused all t h e mischief we now suffer, or are threatened with. Restrictions on trade, the Corn-law s , hi g h discriminating duties on s ugar , t h e t i m b er duties, are all Tory regulations ; and if some Whigs objected to the removal of them, the Tories to a man vehemently oppo se d it. They cannot forget, and we believe the public have not forgotten, that they threw out the two mea sures brought forward by Colonel S ALN ,,, y and Lord SYDENHAM, to allow foreign corn t o b e ground in bond, as they opposed and defeated every other measure to lessen the restriction s on trade. Whatever, therefore, might have b een the inclination of Ministers, it is clear that on all que,:tions of free trade they would be deserted by the landlords of their party, and they, therefore, had no alternative but to acquiesce in the laws they could not overturn. They never had the power to repeal the Corn-laws. At present the authors of all the mischievous restrictions on our trade are coming into office; they are in a considerable majority; and hence that bankruptcy, gloom, and alarm which have rapidly extended since the returns were known, and which are only, we are afraid, the heralds of those greater convulsions - which will attend or follow the seizure of the Government by the Tories. However much statesmen may talk about the effect of laws and government, and however eloquent the clergy may be about the fallen na ture of man and the necessity for more religion, the fact is, that the evils of society are all eco nomical or pecuniary, and not to be cured by any cunningly contrived statutes, or any amount of preaching. Starvation is not to be remedied by coercion, unless it proceed so far as speedily to terminate the life which has become almost a burden; but in the present condition of the community, too many lives must be taken to make this a feasible undertaking for any modern HEROD. Religion will not fill men's bellies, and they must be fed before they can be taught. The two nostrums, then, of more law, or more Government, and more Church, to cure our present wants—which are hunger and destitution, low wages, little employment, and scanty profit —whatever may have been their efficacy in other times, are now utterly valueless, and to rely on them in the present danger will be imbecile quackery. The hulk of the people are already sick of the law and the Church, which, existing for their protection and comfort, give them neither. Of what use are they, if they do not secure the people meat, clothes, and fire? 'Without these they cannot live, and these they have not. It will not do to say they have no right to them ; for if they have no right, what right have the law-makers and parsons to possess them in abun dance? We know that there is a great repug nance to enter into a discussion of the rights of the different classes, and more particularly of the rights of property; but these kinds of discus sions are now forced on the people by the vast distress of the industrious classes, and the opu lence of those who pretend to protect them and provide for their welfare. No right will long be safe or respected in such a condition of society, and the sooner men make up their minds to lay aside their squeamishness and look our present danger full in the face, the sooner it will be sur mounted. We had occasion to remark on Wednesday, in an article on a " Passage of the Edinburgh Re view," that, fast as the population has increased since the Revolution, the wealth of the commu nity has increased much faster. But all that in crease of wealth has somehow or other been mo nopolized by the law-makers, by the clergy, and by some few favoured and protected classes, while the bulk of the labourers are worse off than were their ancestors, if that be possible, in respect to the great necessaries of life, meat, clothes, fire, and shelter. The following passage from Mr. J. ASHTON YATES' letter to the land owners and farmers of Carlow confirms this view, and points out some of its consequences on the present condition of trade : Had a more liberal policy prevailed in the councils of the nation towards the working classes,—had the Go vernments of this country been more intent on raising the condition of their own subjects by education and economical and financial reforms, than upon sustaining the ancient systems of feudal domination throughout the other States of Europe, it is probable, that we should not at this moment have been so dependent as we now find ourselves upon foreign countries for the consumption of a large portion of the cottons, woollens, hardwares, &c., which we now produce. It is owing principally, therefore, to the low condition in which our workmen live, that we are subject to those frequent revulsions in trade, which bring want of employment and great privation to the poor, followed by great losses and dangers to the rich and middle classes. For nothing is more clear than that in proportion as you raise the character and condition of the people, you inspire the desire and the power to increase their comforts and en joyments —and that when these improved habits are ac quired, the exchange of their labour and ingenuity for superior clothing, food, and lodging, is continued with equal advantage to the labourer and the landowner—to the farmer and the capitalist—to the artisan and the manufacturer. The best consumers of the produce of our looms and our mines, as well as of our fields, are our own fellow-subjects ; and greatly indeed do those per sons err, who conceive that it is by keeping low wages and a degraded condition of the workmen, that the trade and agriculture of the country are to be made to prosper. But different principles have prevailed ; and those who still maintain them, point to our great advancement in all the arts of civilization, as well as to our steady pro gress in population, as proofs that the system works well. They might as well adduce the vast growth of population and the increase of cultivation in Ireland, as proofs of the goodness of the system ; and that the Irish pea sants must necessarily be very prosperous and happy, because they pay high rents for the bog lands, which they formerly eut for fuel without paying any or the most trifling rents. It is admitted, that the owners of the land have been enormously enriched, that their re venues are three or four times greater in proportion to their acres, than in any other countrie s ; even their stewards and agents, their servants and d r i vers , h ave become potent ords of the soil—by their prudence and ingenuity not unfrequently changing places with their employers ; and it is also true, that by the same sys tem, rich manufacturers and merchants have arisen in numbers from the ranks of the operatives and over seers of the trading community, whose children, becom ing lords of the soil, have vied with the nobles of the land in splendour and power, and at length become Lords of the ascendant by the same talents and perseverance which first raised their families out of their low estate. But the sad reality still remains, that the condition of the bulk of the working classes, especially in agriculture, is worse than it was, both in England and Ireland, previous to this great advance in our national wealth, and the great increase in the value of the lands. Now it will become those gentlemen who bawl for more law and stroeger Government and more Church, to show that the suffering people have not done their duty, and that the law and. the Church have. What is the duty of the working classes? To sustain and nour: * ri community ; and most admirably 1 the formed it. The amount of ave they per itational wealth has gone on increasing: have been suc` • • - oe number of persons who -aimed in absolute idleness, or in what is called unproductive occupations, has be _en vastly and wonderfully augmented. All the other clashes, the owners of rent, the pos sessors a tithes, the recipients of taxes, the re ceivers of profit and interest, have all been amazingly enriched, and that part of the social task which is appropriated to the industrious people has been skilfully, vigilantly, and unex ceptionally performed. What is the duty of the law-makers, of the Executive Government, and the Church? To guide, protect, comfort, and instruct the indus trious classes. Have they done their duty as well as the industrious classes have provided for them? They have not. They are enriched; they wallow in opulence and ease ; and the industrious classes are doomed to penury, ignorance, and great distress. It is unnecessary to go into de tails, useless to trace out the individual acts by which the result has been-brought about, the plain, unanswerable tact is that the law-makers and the Clergy have claimed for themselves the office a protecting, instructing, and comforting the people; and the people are neither protected, instructed, nor comforted. They want the common necessaries of life, and their distress is rt complete proof that the ruling elapses have grossly neglected their duty to the working classes, who so amply provide for them. Some unthinking, unobserving Tory scribblers would have the world believe that the distresn of the people is the consequence of the extension of commerce. But the person least acquainted with the laws of nature is aware that the greater the number of any phenomena embraced in any rule the less is the chance of flue= tuation, and the more steady and undeviating the rule. Why should not this hold good of com merce, and fluctuations decrease as trade ex tends? That, in fact, is the natural course, and trade only fluctuates beyond the fluctuations of the seasons—which are neutralized in proportion as trade includes the whole earth, the average of all being perpetual and undeviating fruitfulness —because it is limited, restrained, and perverted by Tory and other ignorant law-makers. This alleged cause of distress is one of the pretexts by which the Tories seek to hide from the in dustrious classes the wrongs they do them. Some persons seem to suppose that the right of Property stands in the way of the people, and is the cause of their distress. If that be so, it is the duty of the law-makers to alter the right of property, for it behoves them, above all things, to protect the industrious classes. The funda mental idea of a Government is that of one man keeping watch and ward, while an other provides food and clothes. The whole of the cumbrous contrivances of modern Governments have properly no other object than to protect the producing classes while they are engaged in their toils, and in the enjoyment of their produce. If the right of property, as established or sanctioned by the law-maker, stand in the way of the Government performing that great and chief duty, the right of property t Tlll4l SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1141. must be modified. To protect industry, and the industrious classes, is the first duty of the Go vernment. As it is plain that they are not protected, it is equally plain that the ruling classes grossly neg ect their duties. For many years these ruling classes have been Tories, and Tory principles have been followed, and Tories have made the laws. Every Sovereign is at heart, it is said, a Tory, implying that despotism or misrule"and Toryism are one. Owing to the influence of Toryism, industry has been deprived of its rights, and the industrious classes have not been protected. Toryism in fact is now, and has been for the last half century, another name for a system of plundering, instead of protecting those classes. Hence its probable advent to power is seen by them with dismay or horror, and is heralded by deep gloom, numerous bankrupt- Ces, great distress, and—let us solemnly warn that Quack who is at the head of the Tories— still greater apprehension and greater danger. It was not to be expected that the Standard would silently behold the Times mauling and maiming the Protestant Association—that be loved body, with THE Cnisnor.m at its head— and not endeavour to shield it. The Evening Tory is, however, too prudent, or too faint hearted, to quarrel with the Morning Tory, and so it protects the Association, without hitting at the Times. It modestly contents itself with say ing that the Association, the language and con duct of which the Times vituperated, " surely deserves the support of the country." The Times and the country think not, for the Association is fast dwindling into a collection of self-appointed office-bearers. Our Contemporaries are becom ing at variance on so vital a point as the support of Protestantism; and as that will scarcely ad :nit of compromise, we expect to see them, ere 'mg, renew their former animosity. To both, who have lent their columns to the idle and unfounded stories of the Irish Orange Journals, we must say that the tales they record 3f voters being carried off and hunted out, can not be true; for such offences, whether practised by Catholics or Protestants, would be offences at law, and might be severely punished. If, in deed, the voters consented, and the violence were simulated as a means of protecting them from the vengeance of their landlords, for whom the electors would not -vote, and against whom they dared not vote, there would be a good reason why the offenders should not be prosecuted. On no other supposi tion can we account that the numerous pretended outrages recorded in the Irish papers, and thence transferred to the columns of the London Tory prints, have not led to as many complaints and prosecutions by the abducted and outraged vo ters. The law in Ireland is strong and rigorous enough to punish such offences; and to affirm that they are committed without being punished, is to calumniate the Tory electors and the Orange Magistrates, who have the administration of the law in their own hands. A Correspondent, whom we have every reason to believe well informed on such matters, begs we will call attention to the reprehensible and unbecoming liberties which Tory gentlemen, so called, and Tory ladies, we grieve to say, take with her MAJESTY'S name and character. It is a common practice, we are told, particularly in shops, in and where the word of the said Tories, whether he's or she's, must not be contradicted, to lament that VICTORIA. is Queen, ' and to throw out hints that she is unworthy to reign. It is quite sufficient to prevent these Tories from buying an article to be told that it is named VICTORIA. " I will buy nothing," is the remark, " called after the QUEEN, she is a bad woman." Whe ther meant or. not, such insinuations produce a considerable effect on the minds of shopmen, who shake their heads when the QUEEN is spoken of, and shopwomen, who thank their stars they are not like her MAJESTY. It is a gross offence to speak ill of the political dignitary; but to calumniate the woman is in the highest degree offensive. The super-pure Tory ladies and gentlemen who do so cannot be too severely censured. We are prone to believe these state ments, because it is our fervent conviction that the Tories will do anything to get into office, and anything to vent their spite at being kept out. The men and women who do not hesitate to consign thousands of their toiling countrymen and countrywomen to a premat ure d ea th, w ill not stick at such a trifle as calumniating her MAJESTY. We published in The Sun of yesterday, Lord FRANCIS EGERTON'S letter, explaining the cir cumstances of the formation of a corps of yeo manry, attributed to his Lordship. Than the . Noble Lord there is personally no more amiable and enlightened gentleman; but the political Princiiiies which he has now unhappily em braced, and the political party to which he, un fortunately for him, belongs, compel us to say that, as a politician, nothing can be suspected of him which is too bad. The great party of opu lent idle gentlemen, who can combine to with hold food from their labouring fellow-country men, and who annually starve a great number out of existence, must not be surprised at the public readily entertaining. a notion that they would have no hesitation to put those to death by the sword whom they put to death by the law. Before Lord EGERTON'S yeomanry were heard of, we had pointed out the exist ence of an armed body of men exclu sively under the control of the owners of rent—and no better than serfs in all political questions—as. giving Ahem a fearful preponde rance, and as being intended to enable them to sustain their system of plunder. Suppose that Lord FRANCIS EGEItTON had done exactly what the 2lfanches trio Tintre and the Liverpool Mercury describe,. he would only have acted consis ' tently with the principles of his party and his , omen He cannot complain of that being MULL buted to him which he would be ready to do, and what his friends and eonipatdOni glory in, namely, arming themselves to maintain the supremacy of the law s and to 00HW uhedience to it 3 though that law be the Devil's law, and the law which withholds food from the people; The following letter, Noett ri , otti the Ewa ; and inserted In that- pittiia.l lrl large type s with= out an.y date=-and trier 010 WiriWr iettef on the =sate Eiiiijectt with the same signature has been described by more than one of bill' Ocntelii poraries as the pittztvte Of Printinglhotise= square —must be taken to Speak the sentiments of the editors of the i§ Wliirt4.ot hUtie as an ititiOk hi thei? and to public opinion TO THE EDITOR OF THE Sir,—l congratulate you oti the tbi+Ota bf which the public•Ai t olt hAig has brought upon you fresrok 'th%zt, 'f Liberal" papers. The fact is, they *Wilt to keep all liberality to themselves; and tire dreadfully annoyed when they see si u tt ia filter fering in th e i r p ro f esse d "'MU ill. Tll4 knbw full well, that should you adopt the biitifSe I i'eittufed to recommend, their " kvettpatibii Would , 030;" for I hesttatt Mit jibE,l3% *ill fatly tititi support any Government that will satis factorily settle this vexata questio of the Corn-laws, and, what is more, that no Government who shall oppose such a settlement can by any possibility remain long in power, whatever may be their present numerical ma jority. Hence, Sir, the rage and wrath of your Con temporaries, lest you should by your powerful efforts, now put forth, prevail on the Conservative party to play this golden card. Sir, the constituencies, in giving such a majority to the Conservatives, di I it, not because they would at all hazards maintain the existing Corn-laws--no, but because they mistrusted the Whigs ; were tired of them and their do-nothing policy ; suspect ed their motives in their proposed , measures I doubted their honesty in carrying them out, and de termined that they would have the Governinent of affilirs placed in other and abler hands, such as they could trust and implicitly rely upon ; and, Sir, having effected this object, they are, doubtless, pre pared to give their support to such a Government in' carrying uut whatever measures they shall recom mend, ay, even though they shall be more liberal than those proposed by th e Whigs, Let Sir Robert Peel look fairly into the various departments of the national affairs—come forward, ttnd - tell us honestly the true state of the case; and such will be the confidence placed in his statement, that, as I said before, whatever may be necessary the people will support him in effecting. But let him do less than this—let him lean a little to this or that party in order to meet their views —adhere inflexibly to the favourite sliding scale of some, or the "No surrender" of others, and he will have lost, I will not say the confidence of the country, but the op portunity of conferring as a gracious benefit what will one day or other be extorted as a right. I trust, Sir, I have said enough to induce you to give the Conservative party at large the benefit of your own views on this matt er , f u ll y assure d t h at, coming Into power as they do without a single pledge, in spite of all the fish ing and pumping of their opponents, there never was such an opportunity for a Government to work out the salva tion of a people, and no one is so able to strike out the path they should take as yourself. You have led the people of England before—do so again, remembering that to do so eff ec t ua lly you must go wit': the stream of public opinion, and not against it. Only settle this Corn law question on such a basis as to cause it to become an article of regular commerce, like other things, and such will be the relief given to commerce—such the benefit accruing to the revenue—such the employment given to the operative, that I do not believe it would be possible to get up an agitation on any other subject whatever. But, on the other hand, neglect or refuse to do this, and every other grievance, real or imaginary, gives force to each and all, and their combined pressure may become intolerable. I beg pardon for thus trespassing on your space, and conclude, as I commenced, by subscribing myself, CONS - ERVAtOII. Our fellow-labourers in the cause of Corn•law repeal, will rejoice to hear that, in the opinion of the Times, no Government can remain long in power, whatever its majority, which refuses to settle the Corn-law question. But how settle it ? " By making corn a regular article of commerce," says the Times, like other things, that is doing away the sliding scale, which is to give relief to commerce and improve the revenue. It is to supply employment also, and to render agitation on, all other topics —even the new Poor-law—impossible. We would say nothi'ig more favourable to the Ministerial scheme, of which the Times thus avows itself a defender. It takes this view, also, because that is coinci dent with the stream of public opinion, —because the bulk of the people will rally round a Govern ment which adopts this course, though that is the course the Tories and the Times have for months zealously opposed, when recommended by Ministers. This letter, therefore, short though it be, will be an infusible conductor to carry away harmless into the ocean of oblivion all the thunder-bolts which the Times has been hurling against the Ministers for the last few months. . But can Sir R. PEEL act on the principles Of the Times ? Impossible, without confessing himself to be the most stupid and ignorant, or the most knavish politician that ever pre tended to guide the affairs of a State. Against settling the Corn-laws in the sense of the Times Sir ROBERT PEEL has ar gued over and over again, and no person has shown more forcibly than he has the mischief of a fixed duty. He cannot come into office to settle the question in that way, without making a complete wreck of his yet float ing though half dismantled hulk. Nei ther can he • propose the total abolition of Corn-laws, though there is less in his way to that end than Lord MELBOURNE'S, without forsaking and destroying his party. Nevertheless, in spite of 'both these leaders—in spite of the landed aristocracy—in spite of all the ruling powers of the State, we have no hesita tion in now saying that the total abolition of the Corn-laws must be granted ; and whether that be undertaken by Sir R. PEEL or Lord JOHN RUSSELL, whoever proposes it shall have our support. Another thing, too, is quite certain, namely, that the Times cannot and will not sup port Sir R. PEEL unless he swim with the stream, and settle the Corn-law question, by making corn an article of (free, qy.) coinmerce. The express from Paris published in the after noon Edition of The Sun of yesterday, antici pated much of the news contained in the French Journals of Monday. The reported death of the SULTAN, though not generally credited, created some stir in the French capital. His High ness was supposed to be much worse, and as some eminent physicians have given it as their opinion that the habits in which he indulged would soon put a period to his life, the question naturally occurs, what is to be done with the Ottoman Empire? The heir-apparent is a mere boy, who will require by law to be many years older before he can be permitted to sway the Im perial sceptre. A Regency is therefore inevitable, and among the candidates for that office already in the field are HAUL PACHA and MEHEMET ALI. The Viceroy of Egypt has purchased powerful friends in the Divan, including some members of the Imperial family, and could he but overcome the scruples of the Moollahs, there is little doubt that the great bulk of the Turks would be delighted to see him invested with the Regency. But would the ambi tion of the wily Albanian soar no higher? Would he with the sword of the Prophet within his grasp hesitate to enrobe him self in the Imperial mantle? Would the mur derer of the Mamclukes scruple for an instant to crush the spark of life out of a child stand ing between him and the attainment of the very summit of human ambition? Reports of con spiracies among the great officers of State to in vest him with the command of the Ottoman army and fleet during the life-time of the SUL TAN, and .so place the Regency entirely at his disposal, have for some time been rife at Con stantinople. They may be unfounded, but they advance the interests of the Vassal, by making the public ear 'familiar with his pros pective greatness. Thus everything indicates the commencement of a new era in Oriental politics. The Toulouse affair has had its clay, and the Rarisians begin to get sick of it. They want something fresh, and Madame LAFFARGE sup plies the newest topic of conversation. Not that they take any deep interest in her fate, but they have nothing else just now to talk about. A re port of the trial, so far as it has proceeded, will be found in another part of The Sun. The Courricr Francaise of Monday has rather an extraordinary article on the state of Europe, the purport of which is to demonstrate that every nation. is going to the dogs but ratie e?, It will be difficult to make the starving poor of Franke believe thig: ,1 - - - he Eithhei:l3llibnbitoitibtisti Stait'S theti 111 ens sequence Of thkaffki.ei tif Hs regPetisible &liter; the pitb licatidu of the tliilitaire has been M the iittirnettt sirs= puttied:. 24; Arzac had been summoned to giVe efi4iineW concerning the disturbances before the competent autho rities:. 'Flits jotifilolittyitibes an angry document from, its tespotisible . editofj IVl:!liiiitlet; iPiio ie detained in the pfl;tdit of l46. t SettetiOl in that terns (the warrant fur his arrest hafatig . ii6eii .. !iitiilifoid intd it *Orrint ef deten= = it tion); prdtesting in strong terms age the Vidgeedinge adopted akditist him: The Journal de Toulouse, of the sth instant; Akts that numerous arrests were simultane ously,.effected diet rito niitt In - Potions parts of the town, hut NO lib iiiit.SliEeitt t • fetk.hig thnq aprehendpti. I AliirM . it dimi trii Mieseilles lids decided, by a rnajdritk df fent' to too ; that a repreAtitdiliftl shertild be mu !e al WU biiiiefiof titithikities; requesting that the ileW iiithishieg ediieerflin g Me issBsment sheuld be pilt an end td, since they apii6Lirel id file Connell not alb= formable to the formalities established by the laws and regulations with regard to the direct taxes. = 'file • iliti+i*H• d' tnelre-et•Loire asserts that at Nevers and 'Olifg ilitist tit iliti itibellitents have refused to admit intd their hdtigeS the iiseal itgeno tittlfged with concitiaili the 81116* tif th 6 Cetistis: ----- TN MdifFird 40 i iiii .g(6 . .i iiiiCilofi* II Stthie Video, of May 27th, which stat 4 LA Pb*MiN Hie t'dei with his squadron of six ships, had attacked o,ciiiialt4l l :ife Brown, of the Buenos Ayres navy, who had only three ships ; but after an obstinate battle of upwards of three hours, Coe received so much damage that he was obliged to return into port, with twelve men killed and twenty wounded. The Argentine artillery and crews are sail to have been much superior to those of Monte Video. The Armoricain of Brest states that the military and naval authorities have become so fully aware of the tremendous effects produced by the guns a la Paixhans upon batteries of all kinds, as shown during the late operations in Syria, that they have determined on mounting all the batteries in the ports of France with artillery upon this plan. It has also been found neces sary, it adds, to change the position of the powder-ma gazines, and they will all be put under ground, or under works casomated in an extra manner, since common bomb-proof masonry' is not proof against Paixhans'. shot. The actual magazines of Brest, it observes, would all he immediately bloWn up, and the upper town de stroyed, if au attack were now to be made with such artillery. ~.- The Gazette du Midi states that General Changer pier pas!.!d through that city a, few days ago, from Al gierp,- on his way to Paris. - , ~, 'COireipondent of the.-Presse, Writing yen& L;on stantiiipple„ Rti the 17th ult., asserts that a Conspiracy has been detected in the capital for calling► Mehemet Ali to the Ottoman capital, and creating for him a post com bining the functions of Grand Vizier Seraskier, or Com mander-in-Chief of the Army, and Capitan Pacha, or Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, so that, in case of the Sultan dying, he might assume the post of Regent at once. It is added, that several persons in high places were concerned in this plan, but that no proceedings have been adopted against them. Advices from Aleppo of the lzt ult. in the Augs burg Gazette, state that Zekariah Pacha, governor of that district, had succeeded, at the head of six thousand Al banian troops, in putting down some insurrectionary movements which had broken out in the district of Orfa, but that tranquillity was not yet fully re-established in that of Diabekir. A letter from Alexandria, of 19th ult., in the Augs burg Gazette, quotes advices from Beyrout to the 14th, according to which numerous mountain tribes have broken out into open revolt, and have not only refused all payment of tribute, but have claimed 300,000 pias tres ; which they advanced to the Porte last year. ACCIDENT TO THE DUKE DE BORDEAUX.-A letter from the from the frontiers of Austria, of 30th ult., states that the Duke of Bordeaux, while riding, on the 18th, near Kirchberg, met a waggon full of peasants and covered with a cloth top. His Royal Htghness's horse was frightened at the cloth, reared, fell on the Prince, and broke his thigh in the upper part. The physicians and surgeons assure that the fracture is only a simple one, and that there is no danger. Two surgeons were sent for from Vienna, to aid the usual attendant of the Royal Family. The family of the Duke de Blacas, M. de Levy, M. Ducayla, and the Count de Montbel were at Kirchberg. M. Guizot left Paris for Eu, on Saturday evening. The Havre Journal mentions that, about two months ago, a gentleman and lady, having all the appearance of respectability, went across in the steam-boat from Havre to Honfleur, and there abandoned a little girl only three years old, whom they had with them. The child, though able to talk, could give no account of her parentage, nor even give her name, and, no trace of those who brought her being dis Covered, she was placed in the Hospice. Fortunatey for the poor deserted creature, a M. and Mme . Carreau, of Paris, being in easy circumstances, but childless, happening to be at Honfleur, have adopted the foundling, and engaged to bring- it up as their own. On Thursday last the following accident occurred on the line of the Paris and Rouen Railway, between Rolleboise and Bonnieres. Three. men were being drawn up in a basket from a shaft 320 feet deep, and had just reached the surface, when it was perceived that a young man, also a labourer in the shaft, had, from fool , hardiness, and unknown to the men in the basket, clung to the under part. of it. lie was so exhausted that be fore he could be taken off, he lost his hold, and fell to the bottom of the shaft, where he was instantly killed. On being taken out it was found that nearly all his bones were broken. "M. Humann," observes the Siecle, "appears de termined not to carry into effect before the end of the year the loan which was authorised last session. It is even possible, so report says, that the Minister may wait for the meeting of the Chambers in order to present to them'a new plan combined with a positive augmentation of the taxes. The treasury is in no want of funds; specu lators for a fall will get tired, and the loan, if it is mdis pensable,.will be contracted for on conditions favourable to public credit." The Augsburg Gazette, quoting its Paris correspon dence, says :—" The marriage of the Princess Clemen tine with . the hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg is fully decided on. The trosseau is in active preparation, and it is said that an application to the Chambers for a dower for the Princess, as in the case of the Queen of the Bel gians, will be made next session." We find, in an article of the Quotidienne, the fol lowing on Mr. O'Connell :—" Mr. O'Connell astonishes us by the efforts of his genius, but, whatever may be his zeal, we think he errs frequently. He errs when he se parates the Catholic Royalists of France and Spain ; he errs when he takes us for bigots, who offer up their prayers to kings before God; he errs when he makes ab straction of political authority as the fundamental condi tion of the liberty of nations ; lie errs when he mixes up the defence of the Church with the cries of a faction against the Rings of the earth ; he errs when he lightly provokes their anger, and when he instils into the hearts of the people sentimena of hatred and revolt. This is not Christianity; at least it is not the Christianity of the old Bishops, or of the Pope, or of those Prelates of Ger many who have just set such great examples of courage and dignity." BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, AUGUST 9. first Higheit Lowest Price Prace. Price. Prier Frei.ch 5 vcr Cents ll6 70 ... 116 70 ... 1 6 f 0 ... 116 60 4% per Cents 105 50 106 50 ... 105 50 ... 105 50 4 per Celltd 99 90 ... 94) 90 99 90 99 99 3 per Cent!. ex. div 77 70 77 75 ... 77 0 ... 17 75 'lank of prance Lattitte Bank 1,0001. Shares 1040 ...le4o ...11'40 ...NW 5,000 f. Shares "5 —.5105 ...5105 ...5016 • 'cdpian Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. New Loan ll3l ... 1 3L 10,4 spanish Active SOS4 ... SOS Q PA1131.04%... 4% 4'si ... 4% New Defernd leapolitan itoman RAILWAY SHARKS. st. Germatn Versailles, 907 50 ... 910 ... 206 25 .. 210 R. B 335 ... 3'5 ... :32 :>0 :32 50 lotion 455 ... 455 ... 455 ... 455 ,),i ..n. Mulhausen to Thann ..... 412 511 ... 412 50'... 412 50 ... 412 5O strA.uunt to Bale 238 75 ... t 35 75 ... 238 75 .. 2 8 75 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Visnrct, JULY 31 fiveper Cents. Metalliques Fohir per Cents. 97 Three'', Cents . Bank Shares l5lB ....411fermine Zeilung. Aug. 5 . EXPRESS FROM PARIS. FRANCE. The llfoniteur announces that General Rulhicres re viewed the troops at Toulouse on Sunday, in presence of an immense eoncourse of people. The muskets given up by the National Guard amounted on that day to upwards of 2,000. ' The municipal authorities of St. Omer, St. Quentin, and Dijon, bad protested against the fiscal measures of M. Humann. At Tours and Nevers the inhabitants having refused to admit the revenue officers into their houses, the operations of the census were suspended. The Members of the Committee of Armament of the northern coast of France, placed under the presidency of General Lahitte, had arrived at Havre, after inspecting the whole line of coast between that harbour and Dunkirk. The French fleet, under Admiral Hugon, consisting of twelve sail of the line, a frigate, and a corvette, anchored on the morning of the 2d instant in the roads of Algiers. The Friedland, 120 gun ship, arrived at Toulon from Cherbourg on the 6th. The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the 7th inst. states that an extraordinary courier of the Spanish Government had passed through Bayonne for Paris, who was said to be the bearer of an invitation to the French Cabinet to evacuate the military hospital established in the Balearic Islands. PARIS BOURSE.—Five per Cents., 116 f. 75c. ; Three per Cents., 77f. 70c. ; Spanish, 204. SPAIN. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH. - - BAYONNE, AUG. 9.—" The official Gazette of Madrid of the sth, publishes the manifesto of the Regent, the protest and the letter of the Queen Mother, and a decree of partial disbandment of the Royal guard. The body guard, two regiments of foot, two of cavalry, the artil lery, and the militia o€ the guard, are disbanded." Discontent prevails in the Spanish army. The Vice roy of Navarre and the Captain-General of Valencia, had informed the Government that they could not depend on the troops under their command. Letters from Madrid of the. 3d inst. state that the widow of General Mina had accepted the office of governess to the Queen ; M. Martin de los Heros had been appointed Intendent of the Royal Household ; and a Nobleman, and a Maid of Honour, lately sent from Paris by Queen Chri6tina to attend on her daughter, had been dismissed by M. Arguelles. A protest forwarded by General Francisco Narvaez tfpFititist the proceedings of the Senate in the case of the gttafdialishipf had been indignantly received by that Assembly, anti f4retred to a Committee. Advices from Madrid of the 6th state that the Regent had published a most energetic manifesto against the l'ap's allocution, which he regards as a declaration 6'f Itaf against Spain. A lettef from Tolosa of the 4th states that M. Gon zales had ititivotted to the, deputations of the Basque provinces that if they did . not send - commissioners to Madrid before the 10th hotant to regulate the fueros question, the Government would sabmtt a project of its own to the Cortes. Le Temps adds to what it has already stated on the rovolution preparing in Spain, that three Spanish Gene rals of Chrißtina's party had lately left Paris for the frontier, and that a movement is to be attempted in Catalonia. Little or no business was transacted on the Bourse. Only four bargains had been concluded for 2,000,000 of reals at 231 for cash, and 24 at 60 days. RUSSIA. the Augstmfgh Gazette of the 6th announces that the nussittn efOvernment bad contracted a loan of 5,000,000 of silver roubles, by authorizing the banks of St. Petersburgh and Moscow to issue bonds of 60 roubles each, to the amount of 30 , 000,000 . An I m p erial ukase raisPri the stamp duties on paper from 30 to 60 silver kapecs, and foreigners are iipreafter to pay two silver roubles for permits of residence. TURKEY. All the aenunts received from Asiatic Turkey concur in describing the harvest as the most abundant remem bered for several years. The Christian population of Braila revolted against the Turkish authorities on the 24th ultimo, and it be came neces:f.ary to demand assistance from the neigh bouring Paellas. TUE IVEATHER.—NOON, AUGUST 11. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, A.DELATDE-STREET. Barometer 29'32 In. Hi g h es t 65 1 Low es t . Th ermome ter... 63 1 Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. ..... 48 On Sunday a Sermon, in aid of th e R oya l Dispensary forlast, Diseasesas of the Ear, wa s p reac h e d i n S t. Bride's Church, before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and the Governors, by the Rev. Edward Thompson, of Chapel, Pimlico. Many f ac t s were a dd uce d Gentleman to show th e va l ue o f t h e institu tion..bCyhatrhleo Rey'. t Si e tceits establishment, twenty-five years ago, upwards of 12,000 pertons afflicted with deafness and other diseases of the ear have been cured or relieved through its instrumentality. EVENING SUN. SURIF` Aillf OF NEWS AND liubftt Opinion. " Who runs may 7 cad." FOREIGN. Two thousand muskets had been delivered u p on Sunday by the National Guards of Toulouse. This in. dicates a sweeping system of disarmament, and must in crease the popular disaffection. - The towns of St. Omer, St. Quentin, Dijon, Tours, and Nevers, have declared against the imposition of ad ditional taxes. They have compelled the authorities to suspend the taking of the census. L- All the fortresses on the coast of France are pre paring to mount Paixhan's guns. The destruction ef fected by them on the coast of Syria has induced the War Minister to employ them in all fortifications pure defensive. We shall next h e ar of th e ir being mount ed upon the walls of Paris. The Regent of Spain has published a manifesto in answer to the protest of Queen Christina relative to the guardianship of Queen Isabella and her Royal si ster ; We shall publish, perhaps to-morrow, a translation of this document. The Spanish Government has ordered the Por tisl disbanding of the Royal guard. This is an excellent measure. The army in Spain is enormously dispropor tioned to the resources of the country, and ought to diminished by at least one third. Spain wants bu s ' headmen and artisans, not soldiers. An enterpris ing' merchant is of more value to Spain than a score of he r decorated Generals. Espartero has hurled defiance at the head of the Pope, and in the provinces the priests are preaching another civil war. The French Government connives'; every attempt to overthrow the Regent. The embers ° rebellion begin to emit dangerous sparks in Spain. Discontent prevails extensively among the Chris tain population of Turkey. This morning We news of an insurrectionary mo vemen t i n Syria `-e agents of France are hard at work in that quarter. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Adv er ti ser urges Mi n i s t ers to take opportunity of,recommending in the Queen'sSP eec .„ decided measures of llepresentatii e re f orm an d cial amelioration. " Whatever (adds our Contempor ar l ) Ministers mean to do for the redemption of their cha rac ; ters, and the furtherance of the popular cause, they t eu i s v do quickly. In three weeks they will be comparat i ' e Z powerless for good. If they suffer the Queen's sr ec .,;;; and the discussion to which it will give rise, to pass out identifying themselves with one or more poP u T ii measures, they will neglect the only opportunity ` c hi % will ever be afforded them of regaining the good opi elp of their countrymen, and of promoting the pr inciP l l es on which their Government professes to have been lo se ' They will perpetuate for ever their own exclusion o°lll offioe, and sink, as Statesmen, into utter insignifican ce ' e The Post professes to be quite shocked at the o bili d which the Liberal party is pouring forth on the clec c ' eh te , head of Sir Robert Peel, and says—" We call upon , reasonableness and the good feeling of this countrY meet such a torrent of malignity—such a depraved °,,„. pouring of sel fi sh hatred and party spite—as it des er/— t to be met. And we feel satisfied that we shall P° make the appeal in vain. Englishmen, at all events , not so mentally constituted as to look on with aPP I 7, at the paltry and detestable warfare which is carrieu— against the proximate Minister. They will demand fal e ll and a judgment upon his Ministerial acts, and these i te ' calumnies of the defeated party will recoil upon themselv es :, Sir Robert Peel has certainly a right to demand 4 ` 1* " . (...1 play" from the country ; but why does not he hus set the example of " fair play ? " Wherefore alt studied reserve and mystery on the subject of his 01 1ie : dial measures ? has his patient no right to, et leas o', the promise of a speedy cure of the malady that st fil ! c e f him ? Is it " fair play" to keep him in all the torture suspense when he is daily growing worse ? ne w 1 3 John Bull have faith in a physician who, when he on him to exp!ain the nature of his prescription, gr 3l . c ,, shakes his head and says nothing ? It is neith er . nor fitting that the " fair play"—like Irish reciproelC% should be all on one side. ab - The Herald contains a lengthy article on the 5 n ject of colonial sugar, which ends as it begins, " 11 5 egregious sophism: le n s - The Chronicle observes :—" The Corn -law t tion is truly a religious question, if we ar e to take -' our h a rd religion from the New Testament. Our Saviour ly ever opens his mouth in the Evangelists, w i t h o nt Man': festing his anxiety for the support of the poor. To fee ° the poor, as well as to instruct them, was his co nstant theme. Indeed, with all due submission to. Mr. W . ' Gladstone and the Puseyites, who look with sue i ; disdain on the simple beginnings of Christianity, and fasten their eyes on the hierarchical and worldly struc tures which have been raised on them, the collection and distribution of the funds for the support of the po ° was long the chief business of the successo rs of t he Apostle." The Corn-law question being, as a Coe temporary justly calls it, " a religious question," we 4 surprised that it has not yet received the sup Po ll r those pious Evangelists, the Bishops. What is Es t about ? Why does he noticome forward with a ps o ri c i let in its behalf ? And Lonclon, too ; surely he O ti f be much better employed in advocating the abolition '3 this monopoly, than in summoning Middlesex ne t° before him, for sitting in their drawing-rooms reading Stl_drii day newspapers, with their legs cocked up on the wie ciu 7 ledge? elr The Times puts forth a remarkable article, we ject of which is to exhort the proximate Ministers is stick, like wax, to Mother Church. The Whigi, 59 our Contemporary, fell, because they treated 0 ° ° if lady with rudeness ; and, the Tories will fall, t °° ,' they be guilty of the like incivility. Mother Ch n '", is now all in all with the Times. He is never '! e of preaching in her praise. In his pious eyes she i 5 50 paragon of perfection. Our Contemporary has be e , h i t often converted and re-converted in the c ourse . 1 weathercock career, that we should not be at all sur prised if his next conversion were to be to rank. '";: t .thodism ! From the subjoined paragraph, it would 4 0 7_ appear that he was qualifying for an Indian Missionari ; be "India is a heathen country; and we, who profess t° Christians, not merely, tolerate (for that we are he the to do), but we .cherish, honour, and all but worship ,; idolatries of the most abjectly submissive population 'ley ' the face of the earth. So far from attempting t he ! n conversion to Christianity, we throw direct obstacles s,. the way of it ; reviling, and even persecuting (bY di t - missing from public employments), tho few con ver t who are made. This state of things, we repeat, 0311 1 1 0 cease, or there can be no moral support given bi .1 Church of England to a Conservative Ministry." „ The Brighton Guardian, speculating on the P . :l bable conduct of the' Tories, says :—" Sir Robert l'eh has not the character of being a bold politician, arl d . is nothing of a schemer. His friends want the ert)°;to ment of place, not its annoyances. They want exercise freely their little spites and their petty es ta . ,,,' Lions. They will be for amusing themselves with t o ing out this man and putting in that, getting thi s 00 ; to resign that some other may have his place ; old s o nestling themselves and their dependents snugly go possible vacancies. They would be startled and ann o y' by a novel proposition, or a large plan of any des ell if i tion ; it would give trouble, and its consequences cott._e not be foreseen. Thus the wishes and dispositio n of tn Tories, as well as Sir Robert's own character, forbid " to expect a bold' or comprehensive policy." , The Cambridge Advertiser says, " After htrfi r4 secured power by the aid of the people's worst e neod e t Sir Robert's next object will be to obtain just that degrete. of popularity which wi ll enable him to make use of the power he possesses. The imposture of a P te ' s_ tended great discovery in finance will be exposed on h i first assumption of office, and for a time he will endetr your to amuse the people with pirated copies of the° measures which his predecessors have introduced." ,4 The Dublin Pi lot, referrin g to the recent proceeditic in Exeter Hall, makes the following remark :--" Robert Peel was of opinion, some two years ago, till ' Ireland was the chief difficulty in the way of his tic : cepting office. He fancies h e h as go t ove r the difficulty but he will find, before he is a month in Downitir street, that the Orange Associations of Ireland, an d t h e associated slanderers and f ana ti cs of England , wi ls the chief difficulty in th e wa y o f his retaining it. b .. The Tyne Mercury thus expresses itself on the su ct ject of Tory statesmanship :—" A more blind or bigote race than the prese n t T o ries, from their representatii: in high rank and in the newspapers, we never yet se.",°d, heard of, p and at the resent day c ould not have exp ee ' e We had looked for a change in Toryism ; we see at ?re sent no signs of any favourable alteration." AGRICULTIMILX. Reports from Essex say that the stock of wheat on hand there is so short, as to be sufficient for only thr ee. week's consumption. On Friday last an individual showed in the market a sample of fine new wheat, of which ha offered to deliver 120 quarters. He was offered VI . fi load, which he refused. The past week at Co rk has been one of alternate rain and sunshine, with h i g h winds ; but though here and there a field is laid, no extensive damage has bee ll done. ex perien ce A Correspondent o f the Chronicle, corn - m erchant, writing from Woolsley, t h us rer l34rk in a letter on the pr os p ects of the wheat crop:--- • I have taken a ridethis place w ith a view of 6 " i v ing how the' lopss look, L and find them much m oo b6c --5 H E E R A 1 1 Of SUNDAY NEXT, the 15th of August, Will a spirited, accurate, and exclusive Account of THE CONTEST BETWEEN BRASSEY AND TASSPARKER. FOR TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, By" VATES." Boulogne Races—The Trip to France—With all the General and Sporting News of the Week. To be had of all News Agents in Town and Country. Office, 20, Catharine-street, Strand. ANIMAL MAGNETISM. Now ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., STU R M A TALE OF MESMERISM, &e. E R. By ISABELLA F. ROMER. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. th t in