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THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI, LAST WEEK of the WIZARD of the NORTH working his W ONDERS, 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 NINETEEN 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 lihilosopher. 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 orgiesearlier than the Wizard expected. Come one—Come al! !"_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 one week more be their Living Target. 2 , he Wizard hopes that " Homo Involnerabilis" will still be his motto ; and he pledges himself that he will exert all his powers to please his patrons, and to fill his clagic Temple to the ceiling. *,, 4 ' Remember !—The Last Week—Poz! Boxes, Vs. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price nightly crowded, early application is requisite. N.B. Private Boxes, containing six persons, l/. ss. Doors open at Half-past Seven ; the Wizard appears at Eight o'clock precisely. Half-price at Half-past Nine. THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN IS NOW PUBLISHING. PRICE SIXPENCE. And TO-MORROW, the 24TH, THE LIST OF THE NEW PARLIAMENT Will be REPEATED, with THE QUEEN'S SPEECH ON OPENING THE SESSION. Early Olders are requested to enable us to SA VE POST. THE RAILWAY SUN Is NOW RE-PUBLISHED, PRICE SIXPENCE. Sun Offle;.., 112, Strand. --- MOD WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW sI rning....3lmitilitos afz 2 r 6i E% ening .... f 8 rninute4 aft, 6. tit a FA "n—isr:V4 te ~.#,, clg:7l ..L il►~ ' '~~ f: , ;;) ~;s;~'~; , ' 0 LH*/ ADAIr k/.!, LONDON : MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1841. As the day approaches on which Parliament will be opened for husi:nss by a speech from the Throne, albeit riot delivered by her MAJESTY in person, speculation is very busy with what it will contain and what the parties Will do. We have never for one moment supposed that the Itilinisters would retire till after they had, by some distinct vote, ascertained the sense of the- present House of Commons, on the mea sures they Proposed to the last Parliament. The Tory _journals have indeed threatened them if they remained in office f or th at p ur p os e d but for their bullying there was no groun d, and it could have no effect. It was merely the rail ing .- of disappointment. Ministers will at least endeavour to ascertain the sense of the new Parliament, by the speech from the Throne, and by such an address as shall render it dititealt for the Tories, with all their Parlia mentary tact and their majority, to avoid de claring by a vote what answer the electors have 'ffiveh to the appeal made to them. The speech will not be so bold and uncompromising as we wish, but it will compel the Tories to propose an amendment, and a debate will ensue, which is expected to last all the week. The Tories will, of course, try to shuffle away from any declaration of opinion as to the measures which are necessary for the country. Their tactics are obvious from the language of their journals. As the lafter have railed day after day against . .Liz - lister:4 for relnaining oftice, no the Tories in Parliament will 'turn all the debates on the con duct of the Whigs. They will refer to the vote of v.rant of confidence, and will refuse, if they can, to discuss any question connected with the situation of the country, or with sugar or corn. They will, probably, propose some amendment turning on that vote, and endeavour to prevent any decision concerning the measures of the Ministers. They will make the debate a personal dis.pute; they will say that the appeal made to the electors was, whether they had confidence in • the Whigs, not whether the people want w sp ch • ' ~•od, andall consideration of the measures for the welfare of the country will be • • • ' 4 ~147 r e the purposes of the Tories to age. but tax and oppress it, what claim can it possibl3 have on the obedience of the labourers If, in addition to refusing to do anything fbi them in their present condition, it refuses to in. quire into the causes of their distress—if the ma• jority of the House of Commons shall decide that it cares nothing whatever about them, bu a great deal about placing the Tories in office, how can the House of Commons dream of securing the affection and obedience of the labouring classes, of which it will be so totally undeserving? It is not in human nature, we believe, for the Legislature to com mand obedience, if it do not take instant means to ascertain the causes of the present distress of the working classes, resolved to remedy it. If that be postponed to the petty paltry intrigues of either Whigs or Tories, the power of Parlia ment will speedily come to an end, and all rights, which depend merely on the law of the land, will expire with it. Now that the Conference at Manchester is over, we can venture to estimate its influence and its utility. We rate them both very high. It was composed exclusively of ministers of religion, collected from almost every part of the empire. Its debates were conducted with great order, but they were distinguished by fervour and enthu siasm. The ministers came forward voluntarily ; their's was a labour of love; they put themselves to trouble and expense ; they can get no pecu niary remuneration for theie exertions; and their whole conduct is impressed with the characteris tic of the most devoted sincerity. That circum stance will make their opinions be respected throughout the community. But these ministers are, in all cases, the repre sentatives of their congregations. They spoke not only their own sentiments, but the sentiments tirrt v gitfEe - rtirsTelitinrtuTy, Hauled by such a mass of physical force, is sufficient to produce a moral revolution in the empire. The Conference has already dissipated many errors and established some truths. By merely meeting, it put down at once the assertion that the only persons who sought the abolition of the Corn-laws were greedy manufacturers, who were Intent to beat down the wages of labour, regard less of the poor. The assembled ministers have brought proof from all quarters of the empire that the labourers now are in a most destitute condition, and they expressly advocate the aboli tion of the Corn-laws because that will benefit the poor. In their admirable address to the people of the United Kingdom they say : Our attention has, in the first place, been directed to the principle upon which the Corn and Provision-laws of this country are based. The immediate effect of these laws is to make the food of the people dear. It is de monstrable that this can be done only by rendering food scarce. From the artificial scarcity so created the dif ferent classes of consumers escape, in proportion to their wealth—the evil pressing with accumulating severity upon the humbler classes, exactly in the degree of their inability to sustain the burden. These laws operate with continually aggravating force, in consequence of the natural and inevitable increase in the numbers of the people. However, the Peers contrived to open Parlia ment without the Bishops; and as the attendance of the Prelates is not at all indispensable to the business of legislation, the Church would be a gainer by their being entirely relieved of their legislative functions. In their path to paradise they have too many grave obstacles to contend with, independently of those which beset the foot steps of law-makers. CHRIST deemed a second coat an incumbrance to salvation, and money in the purse a weight sufficient to prevent the soar ing heavenward of an apostolic spirit. The Bishops are bolder men than the Apostles. In the manifestation of their power over the Prince of Darkness, they are indifferent with how much or the world's wealth and superfluities they load triemselves. CHRIST shunned honours; the Bishops seek them. When the Jews. would have made CH RIST a king he fled into the wilderness; the Minister who would escape the daily solicitation of the Prelates for the highest dignities and preferments in the Church would require to fly the country. Such is their confidence in their ability to save souls, that they fearlessly undertake for the salvation of thousands whom they never intend to edify by their example, or to comfort by their ministra tion. CHRIST constantly lashed the vices of the rich and powerful, without regard to their opinions. The Bishops, on the contrary, are never weary of tolerating vice, never tired of traducing, and, as far as they can, of perse cuting opinions. CHRIST judged of opinions by general conduct; the Bishops take opinions as their standard of conduct. CHRIST lauded virtue; the Bishops declare all praiseworthi ness to consist in orthodoxy. CHRIST and his Apostles constantly preached against faults in morals ; the Bishops, when they do preach, inveigh with the greatest bitterness against errors in doctrine. They trouble themselves not about what men do, but about what they be lieve. The most flagrant sinners trouble them a thousand times less than schismatics, heretics, and infidels—viz., persons who think GOD may be worshipped in spirit and in truth without the intervention of Prelacy. Seeing, then, that the religion of CHRIST and the religion of the Bishops are altogether dis tinct, there was surely nothing to shock the moral sense of our Correspondent in the ab sence of the Bishops at prayer-time, on Thurs day last—save in so far as regards their pro fessing to walk in the footsteps of the SA VIOUR —and consequently nothing to evoke the ex pression of an indignant feeling on the part of the Liberal Press. Our Correspondent may rely upon it, that the first levee held by Sir ROBERT PEEL will not want the presence of a Bishop to shed upon it the lustre of an Episcopal approval, however indifferent the Right Reverend Bench were to the character of Thursday's proceedings in the Rouse of Lords. The knees, stiff iu the service of GOD, will he pliant enough at the :Mammon-worship of the Tory Premier. The most painful evidence of the truth of this principle has been laid before us from all parts of the kingdom, proving th e p overty an d privations of the working classes, whose generalfortitude under their augmenting wretchedness has awakened our sympathy, and called for our present interference in their behalf'. In addition to the existence of domestic suffering, often in the most distressing forms of misery and disease, proof of an increased mortality has been forced upon us, and we have had the appalling fact disclosed that famine is already doing its deadly work among the most destitute portions of the community. Such language at once relieves the manufac turers, and especially it relieves the Anti-Corn law League, from the imputationsof selfishly seek ing their own profit, and of wishing to beat down the wages of their workmen, which have been so calumniously heaped on them by the Tories. The Conference has fully and unanswerably established, through the statements of pastors engaged in agricultural as well as manufacturing district::;, that the wages of labourers are at pre sent miserably inadequate. It has, therefore, exonerated the manufacturers, and it has demon strated the necessity of doing something to save the people from perishing. These, however, are but the smallest part of the great services it has rendered to the public. It has pointed out the demoralizing effect of the Corn-laws, and shown that they are contrary to the principles of Christianity. The address above quoted has also this passage : The moral effects of the Corn and Provision-laws have occupied our serious consideration. It has been proved to us that the physical deteriora tion of multitudes of our country men has produced an alarming amount of demoralization. Under this aspect these laws have appeared to us to require the most anxious attention of all who are concerned for the ad vancement of the spiritual and eternal interests of their fellow-creatures. As Christian ministers, prizing above all other considerations the interests of morality and re ligion, we have been unable to anticipate, without appre hension and dread, the growth and development of those passions which are stimulated and called into actio n by hunger and destitution. The petition to the House of COIIIIIIOIiS says-. actinognoiunrtalblele housespiritof heir b a o t ffi y c o e ur wh p e e n ti petitioners remindrs are only your Honourable .hat laws of human legislatures should be framed in strict accordance with the declared will of God and the beneficent designs of- his providence ; and that all laws which contradict his will, and counteract his bounty, must of necessity be wrong in principle, and injurious in their tendency ; and that it is the deliberate and solemn non- Viction of this assembly that this is the unrighteous cha racter of the operation of the provision-laws of this kinfnloM under whose baneful influence our belovcd The conduct of the Metropolitan police veri fies more and more the character which, some twelve months ago, we ascribed to them, and which was repeated at the time amidst loud cheers by Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE in the House ofCommons. We described them as the greatest curse of a free country. We have seen no reason since to alter our opinion. The case of Mr. WILLIAMS, a Common Councilman of the City of London, is fresh in the recollection of our readers. Two of the policemen on that occasion made statements on oath which were incontro vtrtibly refuted, and chiefly from. their own • country is severed from profitable intercourse with other countries which are ready to exchange their products for our manufactures—the skill and labour of the indus trious classes of our countrymen are rendered of less and lass avail to their own subsistence, whilst immense num bers of theni from day to day are thrown out of em ployment, and reduced to a state of utter destitution ; or cast upon the rapidly decreasing resources of the humane and charitable, who, in their tarn, are sinking down into the abject condition of paupers ; and famine, disease, and death are spreading with fearful desolation through• in-,.happy' l an d. snake the debate a persona! dispute. With the out the length and breadth of thi s o nce p rosperous an d House of Commons for judges, and a suit I Your petitioners, therefore, convinced of the sinful stituted between them and the Whigs, they i ness of these laws. which violate the paramount law of will get a . verdict in their favour: But it ‘vill God and restrict the bounty of his providence ; of their not serve the dignity of the House of Com- injurious operation on the domestic comforts, and the mons, nor the interest of the people, to en- social, moral, , and religious con diti on o f t h e peop l e o f gage that assembly in such personal squab- these realms. bles. The bulk of the people are now too observing A great body, then, of Ch r i s ti an m i n i s t ers h ave and have too much knowledge of what the branded the Corn-l aws as con t rary to Ch r i st i- Parliament ought to do, and if they see the in- anity, which will b urn d ee p i n t o t h e m i n d s o f t h e terests of the country continually sacrificed people. All the wit o f a ll th e T ory scr ibbl ers to party objects by the Legislature, they will will not harden their consciences against this as come first to despise that body, and next they sertion. Their railing will no t ra il th a t sea l o ff will refuse to obey it. Sir RO BE R T P EE L is, w e the law. Branding the l aw as unc h r i st i an, believe, ambitious of exercising power quietly these Christian minister s b ran d a ll i ts supporters through the means of the House of Commons, with the same characteristi c; an d somet hi ng and he is woefully mistaken if he thinks he can must be done by the clergy of the Established afford to destroy its character by engaging it in Church and by the landowners, to demonstrate party disputes, and neglecting the interests of that the law is consistent with Christianity, and the people. that they behave like Christians in supporting it, What is now their state? It is estallisbed, by or the people will treat them as heathens and concurrent testimony from many quarters, that atheists. To have that law stigmatised, and its they are in great distress, and great suffering. supporters, too, by one of the most numerous While their ingenuity and industry are unparal- congregations of Christian ministers which have leled—while the ALMIGHTY gives a favourable for a long period been assembled, must put an .0 answer to their striving by overflowing the land end to all compromise, and ensures us at no with wealth, the average wages of labour is distant day complete success. barely sufficient to keep a family in existence, The Conference will have a still more import and in many instances does not suffice for that ant effect. In taking up the question on the purpose. Thousands of the people are a prey to principles of religion and morality, and in showing-,, famine. The Corn-laws may not be, as the as it has done, that the law which the Conference Tories say, the cause of this deep distress ; but, denounces as unchristian is impolitic, it has done whatever be the cause, the Legislature is bound much towards placing legislation altogether o n to ascertain it, and remedy the distress. a new basis. Expediency is very well when ef- The Parliament passes laws to give a remune fects can be correctly calculated, but modern ex ratiye price to farmers, and it must therefore be bound to ensure remuner atin gwages f or l a b our . It perience has d emons t rate d t h at statesmen are is careful not to allow the income of the clergy much oftener e rroneous t h an correct i n est i mat i ng to be lessened ; it en d eavours t o k ee p u p an d i n - future consequences. It i s p roper l y, t h ere f ore, crease the income of the landlords ;and it must concluded, that no l eg i s l at i ve measures can b e also in consistency keep u p th e w ages of labo ur . ex pedient which are immoral or dishonest. The If it say that it ca nno t—th a t wag es are regulat e d Conference have enf orce d th at pr i nc i p l e i n the strongest manner, and the aboliti on o f th e Corn by the demand s o f th e mar k e t, th e ques ti on w il l, be, why then d oes it i n t er f ere at a ll w i t h t h e di s- law can only be th e commencement o f a re f orm, tribution of property, and above all, w h y d oes it on principles of mora li ty , o f our w h o l e system of direct all its attention t o secur i ng an i ncrease of legislation. We are not deceived, therefore, in our expectations, and th e C on f erence h as turned wealth to the opulent f armers an d l an d owners ? out, as we foretol, one of the ost imprtant Such an answer m i g ht b e accepte d if t h e Legis- and influential Con d ferences that were ever held 'attire did not interfere at all, but, interfering to in this or any othe r coun t ry , i n t hi s or any other keep up the rent o f l an d an d t h e remunerat i on of the farmer, it is also bound by all the princi ples of consistency to interfere with and keep up the wages of labour. If it do not, if it avow that it can and will do nothing for labour The above remarks, written for our morning edition, would have been spared, had we seen, before publishing them, the eloquent valedictory address of Mr. G. THOMPSON. He treats the subject so fully, that our observations derive their chief importance from being in conformity with his views. A Correspondent expresses surprise that so ittle notice has been taken by the Liberal Press of the absence of the Bishops at the opening of Parliament on Thursday last. For our own part, we have but to observe, that there was nothing in the circumstance of our Venerable Prelacy keeping out of the way on such an occasion, in consistent with our ideas of episcopal piety. Had Parliament assembled to discuss a Church Extension Bill, or to grant money for increasing the enormous incomes of the clergy, the Episco pal Bench would have presented a goodly show of most meek and attentive lawn-bedecked oc cupants; but as there was only a prayer to say— a heavenly blessing for the SOVEREIGN, the Par liament, and the Church, to be asked, the Bishops, of course, never troubled their heads about it. And what is there in this to surprise any person conversant with the general conduct of the dignitaries of the Established Church ? Where are they to be found engaged in the simple worship of GOD when such worship is at tended with no worldly profit ? And where does Mammon erect an altar before which they are not to be found prostrate ? Is there one so simple to suppose, that if, instead of saying a prayer, any of the assembled Peers had expected the Bishops to dine with him, that so much as one of the Most. Reverend and Right Reverend Fathers in GOD would have been too late for the first course ? Had the Bishops been expected to do the honours of the table instead of the honours of religion, there would have arisen no difficulty from their absence. Not a chime of the dinner-bell would have escaped their eaaer Ivnat &e -late ever kept a Peer waiting, whose influence was sufficient to obtain a translation to a richer see ? What Chancellor was ever kept waiting who had a living at his disposal, which he was willing to bestow upon the pluralist nephew o son-in-law of a Lord Spiritual? I evidence. A policeman of the name of RUSSELL, .who had been in the habit of making false charges against females, had been repeatedly reprimanded by one of the Magistrates of Bow street Police-office, and, according to an account in the The Sun of . this day, has, after some un accountable delay on the part of the Commis sioners, been at last allowed to 2-esign. We could adduce many other instances of insuffer able conduct but the most atrocious case yet occurred on Friday night, when a gen tleman, long regarded as one of the first merchants in the City, both for his integrity and his knowledge of commercial affairs, who repre sented in Parliament the Tory constituency of the metropolis for four years, and who bears the highest character for domestic virtues, was dragged to a station-house on a false charge made by a policeman. He was obliged to march like a felon through the streets, compelled to find bail, summon medical men to attest to the state of his bodily infirmities, and undergo all the degradation which these imperious guardians of morality and honour and religion choose to in flict. We regret this outrage for the sake of Mr. WARD, but in other respects we rejoice. It will call the attention of the Legislature to a grievance which has long pressed heavily on the lower and middle classes. When they find it touches themselves they will interfere. No man is safe under the present system. Charac ter, honour, and station in society may be blasted by the oath of policemen like those who swear falsely against unfortunate females, and who take the most atrocious means of affixing a stigma on the most honourable of men for an imaginary insult. In another part of our Paper we have pub lished a document of great interest and import ance. It is the new rate of Sound Dues, which, according to a Treaty signed iu London, on the 4th of June, 1841, the King of DENMARK is to levy on British commerce and navigation on passing Elsinore. Objecting, as we do, to the exercise. of any such rights on the part of Den mark, and denouncing, as we ever shall, the conduct of the Tory Government, which, in 1815, sanctioned the pretensions of the King of DENMARK to this barbarous and scandalous ex action, we must still admit that the new tariff is a prodigious improvement over that accepted by Lord CASTLEREAGH, and that Lord NIEL BOURNE'S Government deserves great credit for having so far corrected the mischief of its reck less predecessor. The great merit of the improvement, how ever, belongs to Mr. HUTT, formerly Member for Hull, and now for Gateshead. The dili gence and perseverance with which that gentle man collected the facts of the case of Great Bri tain against the Danish Government, and the able and spirited manner in which he developed it in the House of Commons, we have before noticed with approbation. What were the mer chants of Hull about when they allowed Mr. HUTT to look elsewhere for a seat in Parliament? hands, and - then their rulers will be glad to make, as they have often clone before, a bungling compromise, from which neither party derive a due share of advrn- , tage, and both r ema i n li a bl e to an accession of difficulty and danger." "Parliament has assembled,"says the Edinburgh Chro nicle," the most extraordinary Parliament which, perhaps, was ever elected. Its character and objects are well un derstood to be the very opposites of the character and objects of the people it pretends to reprexent. The Royal Speech will be delivered early naxt week, and if it turn out what it is expected to be, the novelty will be presented of the Sovereign speaking the sense of the public against the mind, and in spite of the bitter opposition of the people's representatives. Should the newly-hatched Par liament, on chipping the egg, prove itself such a cocka trice as appearances seem to indicate it will, we may safely predict that its existence will be short. 11 G3ZICULT1TR.&Z. The fine harvest weather during the week, occurring at so critical a period of the harvest, has had a most be neficial effect on the crops at Dublin, and the accounts from the country are of a very improved character. NAVAL AND /VIZLZTATILT. More timber, and a fifth gun has been got up from the wreck of the Royal George. On Wednesday nest, the 25th, a charge of Gsolbs. will be fired at three o'clock. LAW AND POLICE. At the Liverpool Assizes on Friday, a man of respect able appearance, named Davis, was convicted of stealing a money-letter, containing a 101. note and a bill of ex change for 371. 10s., the property of Messrs. Waller, of •Manchester, in whose employment he had formerly been, On Saturday, at the same Assizes, not fewer than , three different parties were tried for the very common offence now of stabbing with a knife. One of them was sentenced to be transported for twelve years. At the Thames Police-office on Saturday, a man of the name of Langley was placed at the bar, charged with being accessory to the murder of James Dixon, an Eng lish sailor, on board a foreign vessel bound from Monte Video to Havre. The deceased had been run through the body by the Captain, a Frenchman. The prisoner was brought from liavre in the custody of two of the superior officers of the French police, and was remanded. FRANCE. TMM.A.TZXC-S.L. During the opera season of 1841, .which closed 01 Saturday, twenty-four operas were perfgoecl, in whic] list, the two novelties were Roberto Devereux, and Fausta SPORTn7G. The breed of game in the preserves at Claremont have been well preserved, and the supplies this year abundant. Prince Albert leaves Windsor about the Ist of September to enjoy a week's shooting there. ELECTIONIZZIZING. The Lord Lieutenant has dismissed Mr. Nixon from the office of High Sheriff of the county of Fermanagh. The cause of dismissal was the partisan manner in which Mr. Nixon acted, by forwarding, as was stated in -The Sun some weeks since, the official return of the elected Members to the Hanaper-office, decorated with Oranie ribbons, and a disgraceful seal. Mr. Johnson, whose name appeared second on the Judge's list, is noyi - ,High Sheriff in his stead. COUR T — PASITION.III3I.E. His Royal Highness Prince Albert came to town this morning to attend a meeting of the School of Design in Somerset House. His Royal Highness arrived at the Paddington Station of the Great Western Railway, in a special train, from Slough, in 33 minutes. Half-past twelve o'clock was the hour appointed for the meeting, but five minutes before that time the Prince arrived, and was loudly cheered by a large body of spectators as sembled at the entrance. Sir Robert Inglis, M.P., and Colonel Fox were among the Gentlemen present at the meeting. The Prince will return to Windsor Castle this afternoon, by a special train from Paddington. Viscount Melbourne gives a grand dress entertain ment in South -street this evening, when the mover and seconder of the Address in the House of Lords, the Marquis of Clanricarde and Earl Spencer, with a large party of Peers, dine with the Noble Premier. Lord John Russell entertains a numerous party at Downing -street this evening, when the Royal Address will be read by his Lordship. GREECE. According to letters from Athens, of the 10th, th e tr.w Ministry was already in a state of dissolution. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK• The Guiana Times, of the 9th, states that the discredit thrown on the transaction of the Troughtons, by the own statement, is only agravated by w h a t took place !t the meeting of yesterday. The attempts of Ilitess'': Ferguson and R ose t o w hit ewas h t h e i r f r i e nds do 0. 19 " restore him his purity in the eyes o f a di scern ing Plibhe' ME FUNDS. A n Consols opened at 89 il- for Money, and 891 i v ,, , fo d the October Account ; Exchequer Bills, 12 1 4 , 1 7.. India Bonds, 3 6 prem. ; Portuguese Five per C 4lll l 9 94 3(14 ; Ditto Threes 174 181 ; Spanish Active stoc 191, 20. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT 01 4 :E" RAILWAYS. Paid. Per .Share` Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths ..... to • b!.. London and Brighton Midland Counties . . 100 North Midland - ...... Ditto Thirds - York and North Midland... 5O - .. • Ditto New Shares HALF-PAST OA . I ' , . The business doing in both the English and F( ,reign Securities continues to be very limited. Consuls ar e novr 89i1 for Money, and 89i for the present Ac.,ount ; Exchequer Bills, 14 ; India Bonds, 3 6 prem.; Colom bian Bonds, 204- ; Spanish, 19-4 ; Dutch TA (3• and-a d D c i t o t un o, F a i e f s t,s 7 , 9 8 ; Half per Cents., 51:7 ; Ditto. Fives, 1014.. Very little business doing in Shares. Great receded 'Western t r o i . g 7 .h B tQ ; n l ) . i r t t e o 4 , 4Nter;v ,Msisdfan ; i hf n e dona.d B York and North 'Midland, New Shares, .l,}. The liamburgh mail h as j ust arrived, with the letters and papers of Friday. No alteration had taken place in the rate of exchange ; gold had further advanced to 430. P IVZISCELLATZEOUS. An order from the Home office for the immediate re lease of Mr. F. O'Connor arrived at York Castle on Sun day morning. A murder committed eleven years ago, near Hutton Rudby, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, has just been liscovered. Two men have been committed to York Castle charged with the crime, one of whom, of the name of Grundy, committed suicide in his cell last week. The upper part of the Green Park, at the entrance near Hyde Park-corner, which was marshy, and incon venient to pass in winter and rainy weather, from the trampling of the cows, has been just repaired, and the long complained of inconvenience removed. Seats are now erected in the Green Park, the nlanfotinno oy good and the new gravel walks are most agreeable promenades. The colossal lion and other monuments on the field of Waterloo, are now uudergoing repair by order of the Belgic Goverment. The members of the " Manchester Young Men's Anti- Monopoly Association," which has been established for litte more than a month, and already numbers fifteen hundred subscribers, gave a tea-party, in the Corn Ex change, Manchester, on Thursday evening, in honour of the Ministerial Conference on the Corn-laws. More than 800 persons were present. A meeting was held on Saturday in the County of Clare, convened by requisition to the High Sheriff, for the purpose of addressing the Queen, and imploring her parental protection against the threatened Orange domi nation. An address was read, and unanimously re solved to be presented. A handsome chain pier is about to be erected on the Middlesex side of Vauxhall-bridge by Mr. Cubitt. The line of road from Belgrave-square to the foot of this bridge is completed. Lord Campbell left Dublin on Thursday evening, and the Great Seal is committed to the Chief Baron, Judge Perrin, and Baron Richards. On Thursday last a meeting was held at Limerick, for the purpose of adopting an address, to Lord Morpeth, in acknowledgment of his official services, and also to invite his Lordship to a public entertainment in that city. The resolutions were seconded and passed unanimously. Sir Thomas Stanley Massey Stanley died on Friday last, at Hooton•hall, Cheshire. He is succeeded in the family honours by his eldest son, Mr. William Massey Stanley, the late M.P. for Pontefract. Vice -Admiral Sir Patrick Campbell, K.C.8., expired at Leamington, on the 13th instant. The Duke of Wellington gives a grand banquet this evening, at Apsley House, to about 60 of his Grace's political supporters. The Hon. Major ICeppell, while bathing in the river, near Romney Weir, on Wednesday week, with Lord Al fred Paget, - was almost drowned by the water being drawn from the weir creating a violent current. A waterman, named Joseph Cannon, however, seeing his danger, rowed towards him, and grasped him as he rose for the third time. The public meeting for the Wilkie Memorial is to be held on Saturday next, at the Thatched House Tavern, Sir Robert Peel, as Chairman, will, it is said, be sup ported by Lord John Russell and Lord Francis Egerton, with the Dukes of Wellington,Buccleuch, and Sutherland. An event; has transpired in the Southern States of America which has caused a great sensation in that country. The negro slaves on the estates extending along the Mississippi from Bayou Sara to Natchez, had lately formed a plot to murder their masters. The plot was discovered ;"the ringleaders were instantly tried ; and the most conspicuous of them, it is said, were . executed. 'rivate advices received from Montreal to the sth in stant, state that money, during the last fortnight, has been unusually scarce, and hardly obtainable on th.e best town paper. Exchange on London—Bank, 10 per cent. ; private 9. QUARTER TO THR4?.g. The appearance of agricultural matters beii kg so much more favourable, the Corn Markets, b o th In this country and in the northern ports, as wi, learn by the accounts just come to hand, via Han burg h• are becoming flatter. I n ver y extens i ve dis'xicts •°I North Germany, and also in parts of Denmark, the rye , rapeseed, and other minor crops have beau bet ter than was expected, but the wheat cannot yet be co! ifl dently spoken of. Here the decline in English wheat to day is about Is. per quarter on Friday's rates, and is 4s. lower than on this day week. The arrivals of f00.ig,1, 1 wheat and flour are still lib era l. I n F rance pr i ces: s ti ll keep up, and the prospects of the yield do not seem. Du et' satisfactory. Belgium already admits wheat duty I ree• Consols, Money and Account, 891 ; October, 89 r 90 ; Exchequer Bills, 14s. to 16s. Colombian, 20 ; Mexican, 26,+ ; Spanish,. 201 CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DA 3(-) The Sessions at the Old Bailey commenced this woor'l ing before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, A.l , 3er Pelf Recorder, Sheriffs, and other civil authorities. It was ten o'clock before the Recorder entered the Court, but more than an hour elapsed before the I ' hole . of the Grand Jury wer e sworn . Th e names o f the (;Trend Jury having been called over, The RECORDER delivered his charge to the foil, A ir:ng effect :—The interval that had occurred between tt .e .last and the present session had caused the calendar to be , in point of number, unusually large ; but the cases. in ge neral were of an ordinary description. There w ere, however, some exceptions. There was a charg e of : :ape under peculiar circumstances, a charge of t h e set inns crime of murder, and a charge of unnattrral offi nee . There were also cases in the calendar of %tabbing and cutting, in two of which hi thoue.t the :tarts would be satisfactorily proved. Tl'.ere was also a charge not of frequent occurrence, vir •,. that of child-stealing., and he would call their attention to the statute and its provisions re;arding these ( tases. If it was proved that the object Was to withdraw • the child permanently from its parents, that is sufficie: it to charge came under, and under which they must pro. E_ constitute a larceny. The Act which the pr, sent c w o a r s d e t the e then9th George read h l a V t . s , ec e. ti 3 on l, o s. f 3 the Act, which I w . h ea ie rn h e s d : .es 1 i t eo c c i ten years, with intent to deprive the parenthorp. or that if any person should detain a child under the par, a . .. i . or any other person having the care of suc c hild, s acia a with intent to steal any article from such child, be se , j. years, or to of seven ject to be transported for the term exceeding two Yeas . s . party should be deemed guilty of a felony, and be imprisoned fbr any term . no because the evidence, i n tion to the form of the statute, withdrew the el to Id this case proved that t f he party (the Recorder) hae I al the apparel, as a He (the Recorder) thought i i is t righ t par parents, to s d , r a l w v i - th their a a: .wa from the protection 0 to stealinc , a to be missing v rhea the child was found. f rape, and the most impoi ta t al luded to the charge . t , portion of" it was a case in which it r n this description , , was case of was portion child under the ag,e of ten years had been al!eged that a In the course of the last year the : iftten. • carnally known.. 1. titre had been drawn - . vn to o ffenc e s a tion of the g Le- is a and it had been found He e e f . don, deemed expedie ni; tA this descrip ... ns with respect other provisions to the punishnteat fol.' make sort. The alter.] tion cs o fthis , made in the pur.iv h i p e nt o ff e ne that the Legislature conceived the ' - r was not puni4hment o• A .!ath exceeded the offence, but i t had been consider ed . that a punishment short of death might probably lead to punishment being applied in proper cases, and there' ' ).,%. further the purposes of justice as regarded co . nvictic. u. Therefore, to obtain the object, it was deemed advisab la to withdraw the capital punishment. The Learned R, 1 cjrder then read the Act as amended by the 4th and 51 ti of Victoria • Regarding the punishment of *kat' 1 , it was also enacted that this Act ~ h ould commer ce and tike effect on the Ist of October, it 1841, the re' -, on was nut at present in operation. At the same tim ~ he' had noticed, that in the Circuits where cases of th'..l (ll scription had occurred, this Act had been taken ',4 - .'aT.F. tap Of as regarded the sentence of death. He 4 ,lrmg it it right to explain to them that, although this A A 1 , 04 not in operation at present, yet it seemed tha'., it Irad been acted upon by the constituted authorities. He had alluded to the cases of manslaughter, and to ca:Fers of en tting and stabbing. In many of the cases of manslaughter death had been caused by a single blow, and it was to be I hoped a chance blow. In two instances there was some previous provocation. With respect to the charge of cutting and stabbing, it appeared that the parties had been engaged in a squabble, and one of theta having possessed himself of a knife, attacked a person who had taken no part in the transaction, and wounded hiin with the knife. The other was a case of an unfortunate fe.• male—unfortunate in this case—who had been incited to this act by.jealousy. The circumstance might naturally -lead them to suppose that the, act was cORI EXPRESS FROM PARTS. The Temps of yesterday announces that the Cabinet had ordered the census to be suspended throughout France. The Moniteur and the" other Ministerial Jour nals make no allusion to this resolution of the Cabinet, nor is there any truth in the statement of the Temps respecting the census, which the government is deter mined to carry into effect by every means in its power. The opposition to the measure was however becoming more and more general. At Lisle the people continued to resist its execution, and on the 20th assailed with stones the troops who escorted the revenue officers, and wounded the Central Commissary of Police. The King and Queen of the Belgians were expected at the Chateau d'Eu, where Louis Philippe intends - to prolong his stay until the latter end of the month. The price of wheat again decreased in Paris on Sa turday. The intelligence from the departments wits most cheering. The weather had set in favourable, and the apprehensions relative to the surety of the crops was beginning to subside. Extensive purchases for England had been made at Havre, Caen, Nantes, and Bordeaux. General Bugeaud returned to Algiers on the 14th inst., accompanied by the brother of the Sheik of a powerful tribe of the province of Oran, who had submitted to the French. The Semaphore announces, under Toulon, the 17th, that a telegraphic despatch from Paris had en joined the sixteen ships anchored in the roads to hold themselves in readiness to put to sea. A letter from Toulon of the 18th, quoted by the Commerce, states that they were to proceed to the Dardanelles, and there ba joined by an English fleet. The Courrier Francais be-- liefes that this naval force was intended for the coast of Spain.' Several steamers had lately sailed from Toulon to bring back to France the sick and wounded still remain ing in the hospital on the Island dcl Rey. No business doing at the Cafe de Paris on Sandal' Last prices of Saturday evening, 77f. 50c. SPAIN. Accounts from Madrid of the 15th mention that I° Government wcs I.kely to obtain an advance of 60,0 00 0 60 of realF. GERMAN Y. The Austrian Obsertvr of the 14th inst. announces that the insurrectionary movement at 13raila had been suppressed by the Wallachian troops. The Stutgardt Gazette states, under date "Vienna' the 14th, that the finances of Austria were in :0 11 °s t e - barrassed situation, and that all commercial eaterprize was completely paralysed. : The B rn "Breslau Ga ze tt e o f t h e 10th inst. - eniions that the King of P russ i a h a d accepted the invitation o f the Municipal Council of that city. LIVERPOOL COTTON . MARKET, AUG. 21.—We have' had rather an indifferent business in the Cotton marls" to-day, the sales not amounting to more than 3,0 00 " bales, all to the trade. I n ex p ort or specu l at i on nothing has been done ; prices remain steady. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 21.—A rash(.' limited business has been transacted at the Stock E change this day, but the rates have undergone no altera tion, Eastern Counties, ; ditto Debentures, 8 3- '. 6 ; Edinburgh a nd Glasgow, 42; Liverpool and Manche iter, Quarter Shares, 46:1. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 21.—There is rather an improved prospect for business, and_ . prices are steady, particularly for the finished lines which, in some cases, are improved. London and Birmirghanil 160 ; Ditto, Old, 321., 53f ; Manchester, Boltcn, “ 11 "" Bury, 55i ; Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 23 ; Lon don and South W es t ern , T ent h s , 1 1 . 7s . 6d, ; Bank of Stockport, 3. L 9 n V,il SWE a E 2,4 - p el. tir VIV.n. kijt The whole of the French Journals of Friday and Saturday have reached us. The French Government press appears resolved to realise, with regard to Spain, isop's fable of the wolf and the lamb quenching their thirst at the same stream. The Constitutionnelwas last week com pelled to admit the falsehood of the charge against ESPARTERO of expelling the wounded soldiers of France from an hospital; but now the Presse comes down with the discovery that though the REGENT did nothing of the sort, he certainly intended it ! Nay, the correspondence be- ween his Highness and Lord PA LMERSTON to that effect was seen by somebody, told it somebody, who repeated it where it could not fail to reach the cars of the Editor of the Presse ! Then, again, England is accused of intriguing with Spain to wheedle France into the ruinous meshes of a commercial treaty with Belgium ! Can human absurdity surpass this, or can national jealousy descend to the utterance of more unmitigated nonsense? What extrava gant ideas the French Journalists must entertain of the gullibility of their readers ! Spain, however, has something to fear from those arrant misrepresentatiOns of the Fron _Prgss_ 3,K,lbicll tEnglanci. cYAckveld counter-revolution at Madrid that the French Journals thus indulge in all sorts of calumnies. ESPARTERO has, indeed, the greatest need to be, upon his guard. France wants to degrade Spain to the condition of a French province. The following extracts from these journals will be found interesting. News of the date of the 17th of July have been re ceived from Tiflis , which says that the Turkish city of AUGUST rriFrio 21 . 1,0„ Bayazid had been swallowed up by an earthquake ; but this news requires confirmation. The Viscount de Chateaubrian has arriv ed at Paris, The nomination of some new Peers is spoken of, among whom Admiral Laland, Marshal Sebastiana, and M. Fould, are mentioned. M. Cochin, lately deceased, was to have been one of the ntunher--La Gazette de France. Lowest last BOURSE—Pmus, pli S riri A cset TUlt a r e S i A rgih l; e:s: French 5 per Cents ll6 40 ... lid 50 ... 1 6 35 ... 1 16 50 43 per Cents _,.. 105 50 ... 105 SO ... 105 50 ... 105 50 4 per Cents 99 70 ... 99 70 ... "8 70 .. 99 70 3 per Cent,. ex. die 77 35 . 77 45 ... 77 35 ... 17 45 Bank of Prance Latlitte Bank 1,600 t. St ares 1i•40 ...1('-10 ~,11 40 ...it4o 5,01:01. Stares 5,25 •••51 ) 5 -.51:5 ...5/25 Roman Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. ... loayi .. itsq New Loan 11 3% ••• 1 ' 3 % .. lea ... 1 , 3% 3 per Cent., 7l 49 ... 71 40 ... 71 40 ... 71 40 i Dutch 21y, per Cents. SN ••• L 2% ... 5254 ... 5v1, 4 ,i , ...Histi At Ave .l ... 21 ... ...0, ... •.(N Palenvp 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4 , 4 New DeferrNi Neapolitan Boman -•• ' 12 % - INN ... 102% ... 1C2% ktAILWAI ...1-I,i'lift, 3t Germain 'tousa Orte.di, . Strasbure to Bale 237 5 .. %37 50 ... 237 50 . 237 50 t Madrid Papers of the 14th inst. have reached us. In the Senate the different items of the Budget were voted without opposition. The re ceipts of the revenues for the month of July show a balance ,of income over the expenditure to the amount of 4,032,756 reals. The Eco del Comercio, after denouncing to the indig nation of the Spanish people the culpable manoeuvres of the " ridiculous and lachrymose Court of the Palace of Christina, in the Rue de Courcelles," and plans and in trigues of the ex-Queen against their liberties, adds, "Let us consider the personages who were present. at the first levee held by the ex -guardian, and it will be found that they were all ardent absolutists, and that the plans which they are concocting, but which their very folly will fortunately render abortive, have for their object to bring us back to the wild times of 1814 and 1823, when every firm and courageous Liberal I was hunted, pursued, pros cr ib e d, an d sent to the galleys or to the garotte. We should bear in mind that shameful period, and be on our guard, in order to defeat the projects of the absolutists of every de scription, and preserve the country and our institutions from evils which they are again seeking to entail on Spain." The Five per Cents. were done on the I3th 24 5-16 for cash, and at 244 7-16 25k, at different dates. Or. the 14th they sold for 24i for cash, and 24 9-16 at 60 days. THE LIBERATION OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR. The following letter was received in town this morning, and will no doubt be read with delight by Mr. O'Connor's friends : " TO MR. JOHN CLEAVE. " York Castle, Sunday. "My dear Cleave,—An order has just arrived for my immediate liberation, in consequence of a medical application ; but I find that I cannot prudently leave my coffin before Monday week, the 30th of August, ‘vhe,i at one o'cbck I walk out in fustian. " Yours very sincerely, " F. O'CONNOR." ----- . THE REGISTRATION.--It SIMUId not be for gotten that Wednesday next, Aug. 25, will be the last day for leaving with the overseers objections to county electors. The Tories bestow much attention on those matters ; and the friends of Reibrm should not suffer themselves to ha surpassed by their political adversaries. It is known to our readers that Lord Walde grave and Captain Duff have been sentenced to impri sonment in the Queen's Bench prison for a violent outrage on a policeman. A few days since a statement appeared in a Morning Co-temporary, embodying affidavits in tended to prove that Captain Duff had no active part in 1 the cruel outrage ; and upon such representations a me morial to her Majesty, praying a remission of sentence, was founded. 'We understand that the prayer of the . memorial has not been granted, the Secretary of State for the Home Department having, upon a full considera tion of all the circumstances, declined to interfere with the sentence of the Court.—Observer. AND Z3tCblic " 117io runs null read." FOIZIEXGN. - - Public opinion in Paris is still occupied by the Census, and the progress of events in the Peninsula. The Minis terial journals state that the Government has triumphed in the South. Th e M essager announces officially that the census is now taken with little or no opposition at Ceret, at Perpignan, at Saint Livrade, at Toulouse, at Villefranehe, at Bordeaux, at Lille, and at Evreux. The correspondence of the Liberal journals from several of these towns proves the incorrectness of. the official statement. Some of the French papers have got it into their head 3 that England is intriguing to prevent a com mercial union between Belgium and France. This is of a piece with the fabrication about Lord Palmerston compelling Espartero to expel the French from the Island Del Rey (Minorca). But it serves for an excuse for the expectoration of fresh venom against England. The Courrier Francais is as red• hot in favour of th e beef -monopoly in France, as the Post is for the bread monop ily in England. There are seasons when all good Catholics eschew the sinfulness of eating beef, but the Courrier stoutly contends for the iniquity of eating cheap beef at any season. The Journal des Debats renews its attacks upon the Spanish Regency, and, to the utmost of its power, tries to bring about a revolution in Spain in favour of Queen Christina. There can be no doubt that these attacks on the Regency are made with the entire concurrence of the French Court. The Emperor of Morocco is preparing to kick up a a bobbery in the Mediterranean. His Majesty has armed a fleet of two brigs and as many schooners, which are to make war on the flags of all nations who are not represented at the Court of Fez. Russia, Prussia, Mecklenburg, the Hanse Towns, and Sardinia, are to be the first objects of Imperial vengeance. It is a pity that so puissant a naval power as Morocco is prevented by treaties from attacking Russia in the Black Sea. The appearance of the two brigs and two schooners off Odessa, in presence of Russia's twenty sail.of the line, would doubtless con tribute more to the • mirth than the terror of the inhabi tants. The Spanish Government has taken the very unneces sary- trouble to contradict officially the absurd rumour that Espartero had addressed to Lord Palmerston the letter which we some time since quoted as a Carlist fiction from a French Legitimist Journal. For our selves, we denounced the letter from the outset as a very poor hoax, and so, without exception, did the whole of our Contemporaries. But we suppose that in Spain Journalists arc more credulous, and that a contradiction was necessary to tranquillize the public mind, everywhere so jealous of supposed British influence. The Austrian Minister, Count de Bombelles, has been ordered by Prince Metternich to inform the Swiss Diet that the disputes of the Cantons, if continued, will end in breaking up the Federal compact. His Imperial Ma jesty will not allow the Convent of Muni to be sup pressed, and herein he is supported by Russia, Prus sia, and France. Of all independent States Switzerland has the least share in regulating either its external or internal policy. It is never out of the harness of one or other of the great Continental Powers. PUBLIC 01:-.22VION. The Chronicle, in a long article interspersed with quo tations from Tory and Tory-Radical Journals, says— "By one set of politicians the Whigs are blamed for not having come forward with the repeal of the Corn-law during the ten years of their ministry; and by another they are blamed for bringing forward at all a measure calculated to ruin them as a party. These two sets of politicians may both be said to be in the wrong. The Whigs, aware of the difficulties attending the corn mono poly, might wish to bring it forward only when the gene ral conviction of the impolicy of the law might facilitate its abolition ; but when they found not only po litical economists, bank directors, and leading merchants expressing the opinion that the corn mono poly was ruinous to the country, and threatened a Bank suspension ; but the manufacturers throughout England and Scotland *complaining of the ruin which hung over their heads, they may have deemed it irreconcileable with their duty to hesitate any longer to propose a liberal budget. This is the fair way of viewing the question, and we can understand why a Tory should misrepresent their motives ; but we cannot so easily un derstand why a paper professing a regard for liberal commercial principles, should gloat, as it were, with evident satisfaction on their failure to accomplish a praise - - worthy object." What is most culpable in the conduct of the Whigs is, that they delayed their commercial reforms till they had lost by their finalit3 - measures the confidence of the _ .nelr fr";. , ." ' ries they sn,”•;n,-,,,t that trust which the people repOsed in them as the authors and champions of the Reform Bill. Had Ministers brought forward their present measures five years ago, they would have been carried with a shout of triumph which would have resounded from the banks of the Thames to those of the Mississippi. The Times, which only a few weeks ago lauded to the skies Lord Palmerston's Oriental policy, now blames his Lordship for keeping so far aloof from the counsels of France. The Times forgets its own lessons of a few days back, about the delicacy due to successors in office by an expiring Cabinet. Referring to the reconci liation of the Porte and the Pacha, the Times observes:— " The reconciliation of the Porte and the Pacha is perhaps not so sincere as it seems the former is not so con fiding, nor the latter so weak, as to lay aside all mistrust and all precautions. The chance of Me hemet's death may have some weight at Constanti nople, and the probability of the young Sultan's pre mature decay is not without interest at Alexandria. But it is impossible that the Divan should fail to perceive that the union of the forces of the empire is the sole means by which its internal authority and its external security can be maintained. The policy of Rus sia first contrived to instigate the Pacha against the Ports, and then to assist the Porte against the Pacha ; and the consequence has been the entire subjection of both parties to the dictates of a conference, in which a Russian Minister played no insignificant part. If that sub jection was to be perpetual, or even to be mach prolonged, the moral power of the Ottomans would have been en tirely dissipated ; the disaffection and 'rebellion of the dependent races in the various provinces would have broken out into general revolution ; and the dissensions arising out of the melancholy condition of the empire must have hastened the advancement of Russia's designs. To these disastrous consequences the union of the Sultan and his powerful vassal appears to us to offer the only real mode of resistance. The mutual interest of Turkey and of Egypt is obviously to support each other." The Morning Herald, which on all occasions deems itself especially called upon to watch with jealous vigi lance the honour of the British Crown, has the follow ing remarks on the question of M'Leod's trial at Utica by the authorities of the State of New York : 7 -." Mr. Fox is instructed to demand his passport only in the event of the authorities of New York daring to carry any judgment on Mr. M'Leod into effect. Why, the impri sonment and the trial constitute the outrage on the ho nour of Great Britain ; the application of any punish ment awarded against Mr. M'Leod is a purely personal matter. The breach of British rights and the viola tion of international law have been made, and Mr. Fox's presence at Washington, while Mr. M'Leod is tried at Utica, will be nothing less than an invitation to hang and galvanise that unfortunate gentleman "Mr: Fox has demanded Mr. M'Leod's immediate re lease ; Mr. Webster has declared that if he possessed the power he would comply with that demand ; and by the latest advices it appears that the latter has entreated the Governor of the State of New York to deliver his prisoner into the custody of the Supreme Court of the United States ; on compliance with which a nolle prosegui would be at once entered, and Mr. M'Leod thereon discharged. The material questions, then, are, will the British Crown bow before the Majesty of the State of New York ? Or will it assert in practice the dignity of the public law in regard to the relations of the union with foreign States so ably laid down by Mr. Fox in his note of March 12, 1841 ?" Of whom does the Herald ask these questions? Of Lord Melbourne or Sir Robert Peel ? If of the former will the Tories consent to forego office till the Whig Premier can give effect to his answer ? The Morning Advertiser, which follows in the wake of The Sun, in attributing to bad laws much of the mi series of the working classes, says :—" Pauperism exists to a frightful extent. What of that ? Enact Poor-laws, and billet the victims of unjust legislation on the industry which survives accumulated wrong. Not a word about measures to decrease the infernal evil. The people are doubly taxed and half paid ; a sense of wrong inflames them, as at Dudley, last week ; not a thought of dispers ing the inflammation : strike it inward, by calling out the police, and bringing in the dragoons. Because the beast is restive under his heavy load, clap ancii7 er burden upon his back. What if it break ; or what if the beast cast off its burdens I No matter, "That will not happen in our time, our successors must look to that." And so goes on legislation at the wrong end ; and there is no end to Wrong -end legislation. Never ending, still beginning ; but the upshot will be, that the people will at length take the work of legislation into their own Another event has also excited much interest in that quarter, from the daring conduct of a marauding party of slaves and stray Indians, amounting to 600, who hack taken up their abode on the frontiers of Arkansas and Missouri. Three troops of dragoons and a company of infantry, with two guns, were sent against them ; and after a severe contest captured or killed nearly the whole of them. The foundation of the monument to the memory of the late Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, was laid by the Duke of Buccleuch at Langholm last Friday. varractuns or THE DAY. A matrimonial alliance is said to be on the lapis between the Prince of Bavaria and the- Princess Mary, daughter of Prince William of Prussia. . SUICIDE.—This morning Mr. Higgs the gCo roner for Westminster, received information of the b suicide of Mr. J. B. Toussaint, wax candle manufacturer to the Queen, at present residing at 3, King-street, St. James's It appears that Mr. Toussaint va; rebuilding his premises on a very extensive scale, and had taken the house in King -street as a temporary occupation. On Friday evening he went out walking for about two boars ; and, on his return home went up stairs to bed, with out t a ki ng hi s supper , w hich was a most unu sual circumst ance . A t f our the next morring, th e b oy who sl ee p s i n t h e s h op, an d who had . heard hi s master .. down iii and not Cow i n walking about d ur i ng t h e night, saw him come in, and pace up an d d own for r,ome minutes, but said nothing. He retur ne d to hi s b e d- ro om, ,„ the usual hour one of the servants went to call him at eight o'clock, but receiving no answer the door was opened, and he - was found suspended to the bedstead by two silk handkerchiefs. He was cut down, and me di ca l I , assistance procured, but he was quite dead. ... -..........A1. , EVENING SUN. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1841 EVENING SUN - T 1 L. ro] fron :for ;Ither 'ewe, „„ C'or , Y. 112 ZI Sc stem b un th e Pr will ditto eaps pert topir, Xaoll Grei, Th of c brisk, 4Ltd, trad e zad I .4s 11 ¶to ss. Th to rea Pri Ats. : t I °t• d Th stead fine e , `a s firm- estim Roy Melt