The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-21 00:00:00

BUN. On Monday hest will be published, price 2s. sewed, the G RU ONDS AND OBJECTS OF THE BUDGET. Reprinted from No. 148 of the Edinburgh Review. London : Longman, Z!rown, and Co. 13, Great Marlborough-street. TROLLOPE'S' NEW WORK, CHARLES CHESTERFIELD; or, The YOUTH 4/F GENIUS. ___ 3I RS. Complete in 3 vols.,post Bvo., with numerous Illustrations by Phh, will be ready for delivery at all the. Libraries on Wcdnr,sday next, Aug. 25. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW WORK for TOURISTS in FRANCE, On Wednesday next, August 25, in 2 vols. small Bvo., EXCURSIONS IN NORMANDY, Illustrative of The STATE of SOCIETY, the SCENERY, &e. of that INTERESTING PROVINCE of FRANCE. EDITED by FREDERICK SHOBERL, Esq.. Author of " The Word in Miniature," Editor of " The Forget-me-Not," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Maribor ough-street. On the 27th inst., in 3 vols. post Bro., • NEW EDITION OF THE CLOCKMAKER; or. SAYINGS and DOINGS of SAM SLICK 01 SLICK VILLE. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. IS mAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS:, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) o'er many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING BONDS for the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions may receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PROS PECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH DUT DELAY. a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of A:25,000 £6OO £l2O £BO 5,000 400 110 70 1,500 200 100 • 60 1,000 100 90 50 800 150 The largest Dividend of the Distribution of Ist March last : TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS, < was remitted to London and vicinity by HEINE BROTHERS, Rho remitted, during a few years, 22 large Money Dividend!, irom 600/. and upwardi unto 25,000/., besides many Dividends of smaller amounts to England, Ireland, and Scotland. iIOYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER T:IE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAYIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Glorious; success, and nightly overflows—lmmense attraction ! THIS EVENING, AUGUST 21, _ _ Will be acted Lord Byron's Spectacle, called THE WILD HORSE; OR, MAZEPPA, THE CHILD OF THE DESERT. introducing Mr_ Duerow's Magnificent Stad of Forty Horses, highly-trained Palfre t Fairy Baileys, the Equestrians, and Companies yf Loth 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 Felia Carlo, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear. To conclude with THE REIVER'S RANSOM; OR, GILDEROY," THE BONNIE BOY. Gilderiw. Mr. Henry Hughes. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALDISTON. Grand and triumphant success of " Mary Clifford I" Miss Vin cent in a New D.-ama, entitled " Madeline !" and first week of " The Pilot !" THIS EVENING, AUGUST:2I, • The performances will commence with t he New Domestic Drama in Three Acts, called MARY CLIFFORD; THE FOUNDLING APPRENTICE GIRL ! Wiliam Clipson. Mr. E. F. Saville ; Bowling, Mr. Paul ; Robby Benham, Mr. Gardner; Sarah, Mrs. W. West ; and Mary Cliff.ml, :Hiss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. Atter which, the New Musical Romance of MADELINE ; OR, THE POOL OF THE DROWNED ! Charles de Guie, Air. Seaman; Dr. Reecharde, I►lr. Howard; Peter'Mane!, Mr. Gardner; Madeline, Miss Vincent. To conclude with, THE WOOD DEMON. Hardslnnte, Mr. E. F. Saville; Willik;nd, Mr. Gardner; Una, Mrs. W. Welt. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, ls.—Gallery, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes enly, at Half-past Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHT, LAST WEEK of the WIZARD of the NORTH working his WONDERS, and LAST SIX NIGHTS of the SONS of EXTEMPORANEOUS HARMONY—The Lancashire Bell Ringers. All who wish to see the Great Delusionist—or MIRACLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY—must visit the Adelphi during next week, as it will be the only opportunity the lovers ti the marvellous will have of beholding this SON OF DELUSION, whose extraordinary powers have caused all to wonder from the Throne to the Peasant, from the Peasant to the Philosopher. A wonder unparalleled. The Great Wizard, brilds 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 philisn orgies earlier than the Wizard expected. Come one— Come all !"--The Wizard will be found incom prehenib!e as he iA invulnerable. A hunched of the best of the London Sportsmen have tried in vain to wing him, but be is still on the wing, and will for one week more be their Living Target. The Wizard hopes that .• Homo Invidnerabilis" will still be his motto ; and he pledges himself that he will exert all his powers to please his Matrons, and to fill his Magic Temple to the ceiling. . Remember !—The Last Week—Poz! Boxes, 2.5. 6d.; Pit, Is. tid. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price at Half-past Nine o'clock. foxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. Places for the Boxes may be taken from Mr. Swinburn, at the Box-office, between Eleven and Four. Parties are respectfully informed, that as the Dress Circle is nightly crowded, an early application is requisite. N.B. Private Boxes, containing six persons, IL 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 on TUESDAY, the 24TH, THE NEW PARLIAMENT Will be REPEATED, with 'r lIE QUEEN'S SPEECH ON OPENING THE SESSION. Early Ordqs are requested to enable us to SAVE POST. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHED, PRICE: SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand. ; • nwil WATER AT I.ONLIGN BRIDGE Tills DAY. 94,rn,fig. ...... :37 minnt, sitar 4 1 Evening .. 51 minutes aft. r 4. LONDON: SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1841. The Tories having gained nothing by abusing the " sarpliced ruffians" of Ireland, seem now inclined to try what the can win by fa lling foul of the political Dissenters" of England. The Mornieg Post of yesterday said : It seen's proper to notice that the first meeting of this Conference of hypocrites and atheists was signalised by a fierce and disorderly squabble upon the'question whether they should or should not commence, their daily proceed ings by prayer. • This is evidently a false charge. The Dissenting ministers can gain little or nothing by hypocrisy, and in them, whatever may be the case with the clergy, who are tempted by large bribes to be hypocrites, it would be a most gratuitous vice. Some philosophers have doubted the possible existence of an atheist—the Post is quite sure on thepaint; and, to serve a party purpose, calls some of the most religious and. devout ministers of CHRIST in the kingdom atheists. These gentle men have come together to serve the poor, and save the country. Such conduct the Post can not eompr c!i . kend, and as ignorant people always abuse what is strange to them, it calls the Dissent ing ministers hypocrites and atheists. This lan guage exemplifies the consideration in which the Dissen - ters are held by the Tories, who, when they d.. 0 not want aid at elections, cease to dis guise - 41 e antipathy in which they hold the chosen ministers of the people. One part of the paragraph of the Pad, we are told, is positively false. There was, we are in formed, a sujgestion made on the subject of prayer ; some objections were made to the, Con ference beginning their proceedings daily with prayer, because the prayers of one minister might not be strictly acceptable to another, and after - the briefest possible discussion it was quietly settled that the members who chose should as etrible in a ch ape l to pray, before meeting at the c onfeTe n ce. To call that brief and not improper dis cus 6 jorx " a fierce and disorderly squabble," , . is, we are assured, a gross abuse of language: Far from any intemperance having been exhi bited by th'es`e Ministent, eve' can po4tively as sert that their conduct juts been` all that could be wished. Some fears were entertained; and not unnatu rally, that upwards of six hundred gentlemen collected together for the first time from every part of the empire, and of every Christian creed, `in "a novel Conference. having - no precedents to guide them, no well-informed Chairman, long established, to preserve order, and every one of those gentlemen being accustomed to speak from the pulpit ad libitum—some fears were entertained that these gentlemen would fall into wordy contention, and that the Conference would fail in its object. These fears have been most agreeably disappointed. It was impossible, we understand, for any body of men to behave more temperately and orderly, and their discus sions, as far as we have hitherto heard, would, for order and decorum, have done honour to either House of Parliament, though both of them have a fixed Chairman, and have a long line of precedents to guide them. The paragraph of the Post is the offspring of ignorance and passion, and is full of untruth and asperity. In that Journal, which continually boasts,in a mawkish style, of its devotion to truth, and as continually abuses the Whig-Radicals for not beinv, animated with a similar devotion, it is quite unpardonable. It must be highly gratifying to the working classes to observe, that at present the discussion on the Corn-law has dwindled to one point, namely, its influence on wages. There is a secondary point, indeed, yet undecided, namely, the quantity of land the repeal of the Corn-law would put out of cultivation ; but that is consi dered by the Tories only of importance so far as it would diminish employment for the people, and reduce the rate of wages. Thus the benefit of die working classes has, in fact, according to the opponents of repeal, become the only con sideration for the settlement of the question. That brings the matter to a simple issue, of which the working people are the best judges. We may observe, as to the land going out of cultivation, that it never will, as long as the cus tomers of the agriculturists increase in numbers and in wealth. That the repeal of the Corn laws would increase the number and wealth of the town population there is not the smallest doubt, and that increase would do more to stimu late and extend cultivation than all the Corn laws and agricultural societies that ever existed. What would the farmers do without customers, and what would they not gain by the rapid in crease of their customers? As to wages, the tailors, carpenters, brick layers, shoemakers, &c., of the metropolis and of every town of the empire, are paid weekly wages, the rate of which seldom varies. The same fact is true of porters, clerks, and a great variety of other labourers. It is a plain and palpable ab surdity to assert that their wages have risen or do rise with the price of wheat, which varies be tween 365. and 80s., while the rate of their wages has continued for many years past very nearly the same. When prices are low and wheat abundant they probably get an increase of em ployment, but their payment does not otherwise vary with the price of bread. What proportion such classes form of the whole body of labourers, including servants, &c., we cannot say, but it is very considerable, and completely disproves the assertion, as a general statement, that wages rise and fall with the price of bread. But as the question is now narrowed, we have only to look at the condition of the working classes for its solution. Never was that much worse. In the manufacturing districts they are starving or praying. to be transported, and in the agricultural districts they commit crimes, and deliver themselves up to the law, that they may be sent abroad. There are seven thousand handloom-weavers in Manchester living in cel lars, without a blanket to cover them, or a ves sel to boil their food, while wheat is between 70s. and 80s. the quarter. In some manufacturing districts some workmen receive 55., and in the agricultural districts Bs. per week. The average of wages throughout the empire is barely suffi- . dent to obtain subsistence fora family. IT the fate of the Corn-law is to be decided by its influ ence on wages, the condition of the labouring classes at this moment pronounces against it withering condemnation. We feel grateful to those who have reduced the question to this nar row issue, and we call on the workmen through out the empire to decide it. The choice of the SPEAKER is the only busi ness of importance which has yet occupied the House of Commons. Whatever interest might have attached to that question was extinguished when it was announced that the re-election of Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE was not to be opposed. The whole affair from that moment became a matter of routine, and our Contemporaries must have been much at a loss for subjects to ex patiate on, when they devoted column after column to this bygone event. In fact, the elec tion of the SPEAKER took place when Sir 4. PEEL consulted his friends, and allowed his de termination to be announced that he should not oppose the re-election of Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE. We might as well waste our space in discussing the dissolution or the election, as the re-election of the SPEAKER. The French Journals of Wednesday have all been received, but the• news contained in them was for the most part anticipated in our edi tion of yesterday. The Moniteur, in caution rig the people of the south of France against resisting the taking of the census, says— The census must and will be taken. It is fit that par ties should know that there is in France no obstacle, no embarrassment, sufficiently serious to check the execution of the laws. The Government of July will not allow to perish in its hands, or to be scattered at the pleasure of faction, that strong and glorious national unity which our fathers founded at the price of so many sacrifices, and which for fifty years has constituted our greatness as regards foreign countries and our internal prosperity. In answer to the Moniteur, the following spirited remarks appear in the leading columns of the National:— Who is it hoped to, entrap by this Common-place trash ? Was it the factious who drew up the imperti nent circular of M. llum4nn ? Did they draw up the deliberation s of the Municipal Councils of Toulouse, Paris, Orleans, &c.? Was it the factions who taught the peopl e t h at a country which has a normal Budget of 1,300, and a defi c it o f more th an 900 millions— a c o un t r y to which is given neither glory, nor grandeur, nor prosperity, nor liberty,. and in which' the profligate ex penditure of the publi c m oney is at the cost of the blood and the sw eat 0 r the brow of the people, has a right to call for brace, and to resist new contributions ? Were the people inwant of factions to prove to them that they were suffering ? Is the resistance of the tax-payers to in history ? If revolut e i x o c n e s ss h i ave not always ended in this way, is it not always byve demands a new fact ?witYbobulinsenadnda dyra_iocltiartobrainbtnoetastoywonu, willand _ fin anc i a l ques tions that 3r they ,bu acco mplish your object. you i , y think 'm e t n il c a e t agme that houses will be opened to you, and that you may go over private dwellings in spite of the law and in virtue of your own goo d pleasure, and that our citizens will not remember that our revolutions h ave g iven to the mguarantees which they are bound to defend. Because you have force in your hands, you think you may both use and abuse it with impunity, and you persuade yourselves that you can thus trample upon rights at your caprice. The French nation, so proud of its past, would sink to the last degree of degradation, if it were to bend to your insolence." The Courrier Francais, in general so moderate in its views of domestic policy, is still more vio lent. - We quote an extract from it, which paints in still more glowing colours than have yet ap peared the violent resistance offered to the census in the Southern Departments : Ministers will endeavour in vain by circulars, or the Prefects by proclamations, to put an end to the alarm which their measures have excited. The census is only being made in our southern provinces under the protec - tion of bayonets. It is a true campaign of the Ministry against the tax-payers. The army, which ought to be employed for the defence of the country, is only employed in promoting the extra legal rigours of the Treasury. From Bordeaux to Marseilles, and in the thirty or forty towns which extend from the ocean to the Mediterranean, we see only regiments encamped on the public squares with their cannon and muskets loaded and ready to fire. Barricades are destroyed on one point only to be set up in another, and the peasantry rise with the same impe tuosity as the workmen. It is like a conquered country revolting ag-ainst its conquerors. We find in La Sentinelle de ToulOn that the French gigeti - k‘tEct. Levant, nnd, , r Ilear-Admiral De !,ri Su,se, will consist Hof the tng ship, ; Santi 52'1 32 ; , 10 ;. .; ; I A timer, of 166-lu)r,.. The Ambuscade is on the coast of Syria, and the Fleche at Constantinople. According to a statistical table which we have before us, the department of the Upper Garrone has a population of 454,725 souls ; before 1836, Toulouse had 59,000 in habitants; in 18:16, it had 77,000; and now, in 1841, it has 90,000. The result of this will be, that the General Council of the Upper Garrone, in making their allotment &the taxes, will have to charge the city with a fifth in stead of a seventh of the whole amount to be paid by the department ; the. city will pay more, the commerce less. This is the secret of the resistance of the Municipal Council of Touloitse, the motive of the resistance of all the Municipal Councils. It is local interest, the meanest, the kindest, the most deplorable of all interests, which contends against the distribution ordered by justice and by the laws for the general interest.—Le Temps. A Journal announces that the garrison of the capital will be almost entirely changed after the breaking up of the camp at Compeigne, which will be formed on the Ist of next month. The Spanish Journal El Hablador Patriota, says.— " We learn that the Government of Morocco is causing a brig of 18 guns,, and a schooner, the destination of which is unknown, to be armed and equipped in the port of Larache. We advise the Spanish Government to have this armament carefully watched.—Le Constitutionnel. BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prig. Price French 5 per Cents ll6 45 ... lid 50 ... 1.6 45 ... 116 45 4 per Cents 99 70 ... 99 70 ... 99 70 ... 99 70 3 per Cent,. ex. div 77 50 ... 77 50 ... 77 40 ... 77 4) flank of Vranc^ 4...ie,an !Sank, New lOlO ...ICIO ...1..10 ...10S) Belgian 5 per Cents. ... New Loan IC4 ... 1.4 ... 103% ... 108% ipanish Active £o ... 403‘ ... 1:0.4 ... I:0% Passive 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4% New Deferred !ieapolitan lO4 N ... lit 4 45 ... 194 ?A ....04 45 Ronian ... 102% ...102% ...10259 RAILWAY SHARES. _ _ St. Germain ____ 720 ... 728 75 ... 721 ... 728 75 Versailles. LB 205 ... 207 50 ... 205 ... 207 : 0 KB .......... Ulan °deaf)* .. Strasblug to Bale ........ 237 50 ... 237 50 ... 237 50 .. 237 50 CHILDREN DOING THE DUTY OF PARENTS.—One of the remarkable things stated at the Manchester Confe rence, of which several instances were given, was, that whole families.are sometimes supported by the labour of one or two children who are fortunate enough to be kept in employment, while their parents and brothers can find nothing to do. There is little demand for the labour of adults, and could not the children find work, whole fa milies would be starved. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. The Stock Market looked steady to-day in the absence of any transactions of magnitude. • The unfunded debt, however, ranged somewhat lower on account of the con tinued demand for accommodation. Consols for imme diate transfer realized 893 to 893, and for Account, 891, was the only quotation. Exchequer Bills felt the influ ence of the scarcity above alluded to, and were not done higher than 12 to 15 prem. East India Bonds 6to 3 prem. ; Bank Stock was dull at 168 to 169; the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. ranged from 981 to I; and the Three per Cent. Reduced from 894 to i f . The Foreign Market presented a slight increase of ac tivity, but this was attended by no rally in the general run of quotations. The Spanish Active Bonds were marked 19% to 1, being scarcely so good as yesterday ; Portuguese New Five per ' Cents., being the first bargain this week were done at 29-i • olombian Stock was at 203 to 4 ; Mexican at 25*, and Brazilian at 67 ; Aus trian Metalliques were at 109, and Dutch Five per Cents. at 102, being firm prices. Shares supported the improved appearance we have noticed for the last two or three days. Great Western Railway shares were 161, the New 63 to 3, the Fifths 43, tho London and Birmingham Thirds 213, the New 213 to 223, the York and North Midland 28 to 273, and the South Western 13 to 13i premium. Brighton Shares were 51 to 53, Greenwich New 23, Manchester and Leeds 14, North Midland 35, and the New 83 discount. Gosport Shares were premium. London Joint Stock Bank Shares were 2i-{ premium. Union of Australia, 53 premium, and National of Ireland 21 discount. The Foreign Exchanges were firm this afternoon, and if anything a shade higher. Bills on Paris were nego tiated at 25f. 623 c. to 673 c., on Amsterdam at, 12 4 to 3, on Hamburgh at 13 9 to 3, on Antwerp at 12 33 to 3, on Frankfort at 1493, and on Trieste at 9,48 to 50. The private advices by the Great Western steamer, will not be delivered till to-morrow. FOREIGN. The Hendrik Hudson, of New York, 1,000 tons bur then, a new line-of-packet ship, commanded by Captain Morgan, arrived on Thursday in the St. Katherine-docks from New York, with a cargo and a great number of passengers. She was locked in after high water. This splendid ship has attracted great and deserved attention. trily 5 r 6\ 7 ' ,e7AlrtnA A r pnE S -LA ‘l6 I V oF 710 AND tHibitt (4.ptuion. " Who runs may read." Adviees from Paris, .of Thursday's date, state that riots in opposition to the taking of the census continue throughout the South of France. The Paris Journals discuss no other topic. The Moniteur has an article stating that resistance to the census is useless. There is in France, says the offi cial Journal, no obstacle, no embarrassment, sufficiently serious to cheek the execution of the laws. The National asks if the resistance by tax-payers to excessive demands be a new fact in history, and contends for the right Of Frenchmen to resist the census. The Constitut ionnel admits that there was no truth in the report that Espartero had refused to renew the lease of the ;Military Hospital at Mahon. We stated from the first that the project for abandoning the hospital was vo luntary on the part of the French Government, and adopted to prevent the establishment of a similar institu tion by the British Government. From Spain the news is of the 12th instant, Conspiracies against the Regency were reported to be organizing at Malaga, Valencia, Seville, and Granada. The partizans of Christina and the Pope are busy in every part of Spain, urging the people to take up arms against usurpation and infidelity. Rumours of a war between Spain and Portugal were current in Madrid. Were he not restrained by a dread of France, Espartero would soon break down the barriers which make two kingdoms of what Nature intended should be one. " tstp 4 ' 4 fe ; ?:c • a-J (1 4 4. 7 " 0 M AGI . ' g i 7 (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 19.—The sales to-day amount to 5,000 bales, at steady prices. There is little alteration since yesterday. 500 have been taken by exporters. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, t tUO. 19.—Rather li mited business has been done at e Stock Exchange this day, and prices are more fluctuating. Midland Counties Quarter Shares, 191 ; London and Birmingham new Shares, 32/., 24 ; Eastern Counties, 7,4; Grand Junc tion Half Shares, 981; South Eastern and Dover, 171. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 17.—There is a marked - improvement in the Share Market, and prices have an upward tendency :—Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 21i ; London and South 'Western, 52i; London and Birmingham,. 160 161 ; North Union, 80 ; - Huddersfield Canal, 26f ; Bank of Manchester, Si. The Hamburgh mail has arrived with the letters and papers of Tuesday's date. No alteration had taken place in exchange, though gold was rather higher. The English Stock Market Continues firm. Consols are now 89} for Money, and 891 for the Account ; Exchequer Bills, 13 15 ; and India Bonds, 5 7 prem.; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89i ; Three-and-a-Ilalf per Cents., 98f1 99 ; Bank Stock, 165 169 ; India Stock, 245 247. Spanish Active Stock, 191 20 ; Passive, 4i ; Deferred, 9i 101 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 294 301 ; Ditto Three per Cents., 11 18+ ; very little bu siness doing. _ _ The business doing in the Stock Exchange has been to a very limited extent. The intelligence received here from the Continent within the last few days is not very gratifying for our commercial interests, since in addition to the proposal set on foot for a Customs Union between France and Belgium, Luxemburgh and Brunswick are reported to be on the eve of joining the Prussian League. The feeling - of the Tea trade as to the inaccuracy of the intelligence purporting to come from China, and to which we bore testimony on the very day the news was published, is sufficiently - tested this morning by the in disposition evinced at the public sales in progress, to offer any advance on the previous quotations. The weather works its.benefits to the poor. Corn is down Is. to 2s. per quarter to-day. Consols for Account, 891 ; October, 891 ; Colom bian, 201 ; Mexican, 25* 26* ; Spanish, 191 CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock .. 169 ' India Stock .. .. . 3 per Cent Red. 89 , 71 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons B9 Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red 99 IDitto New Annuities... New 3 per Cent 9s ',Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 14 p m New 5 per Cent — 1 Ditto 5001 l2 pm Long Annuities to expire 1 Ditt Small l2 pm Jan. 1860 l2 15.16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 l2 India Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. Consols for Acct B9 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent 109 I Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgidn, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.... 67 Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent.... Spanish, 5 per cent l9l Ditto, 1824. ... ..... Ditto, Deferred ... Danish, 3 per cent 79 'French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent Exchange f. c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent. —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2h per cent. ... Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent 102 SHARES Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid s6b Ditto Fifth (4 paid) Gosport Junction Railway (50 pd) Londonland Brighton (50 paid)... London arid Birmingham Railway (90 pd) Ditto Thirds (32 paid) Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd) 171 London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ... .. 56 North Midland Railway (100 paid) Ditto New Shares (40 paid) York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 77h COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 7 Gibraltar ... ... 46 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 7 Genoa . .. 25 80 Antwerp Hamburgh M. B. 13 124 Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 45 Palermo, per oz 118 h Ditto, 3 months 25 70 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 80 Rio Janeiro 27} Frankfort on Maine... 150 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37* Buenos Ayres Berlin-- Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 948 Philadelphia Trieste, ditto OF BULLION, FEB. OZ. Madrid ... .. 361 !Portugal Gold Coln £0 17 5 Cadiz Bilboa Barcelona Seville WINDSOR, AUGUST 19.—A day or two since a lad in the employ of Mr. Henry Adams, butcher, of this town, who has a farm at Datchet, caught a beauti ful blackbird, in one of the fields, which was perfectly white. While in the act of securing it, one of its legs was unfortunately broken, and upon taking it to Windsor the lad killed it, but without in the least injuring its plumage. The Queen having been informed of the cir cumstance, sent a messenger to the boy's master, re questing to see the bird, and that it might be sent to the Castle. The lad, highly delighted, immediately trudged up to the Castle with the bird, which he left, with a humble request that her Majesty would be graciously pleased to condescend to accept of it. The Queen kept the bird, and the " fortunate youth" was dismissed with a handsome present sent to him by her Majesty. The bird has since been sent to London to be stuffed as a curiosity, PAILLZA.PSENTIMILT. The Speaker elect was yesterday presented at the Bar of the House of Lords, when her Majesty, by Commis sion, confirmed the choice of her faithful Commons, and guaranteed them all the privileges they had enjoyed in times heretofore. Both Houses continued to swear in Members, but transacted no other business. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times contains a lengthy article on the Speaker ship, the object of which is to accuse Lord John Russell of inconsistency in having opposed the election- of Mr. Manners Sutton, on the ground of his personal conduct. It also contains another article, referring to a recent dis pute-between Lord Grantley and some of his tenantry. The Chronicle makes the following remarks on the preSent state of the'law of libel :—" Something ought to be done in the way of altering the law of libel, if it be wished that enormous injustice, should not continually be done in the case of newspapers. But, at all events, the justification of a defendant ought to be made less burden some. Connected as all countries are with each other in our day, there is hardly a statement in a newspaper which might not subject it to an action, in which the defence would be attended with enormous expense. If newspapers are to exist, it is of immense importance that they should exist in a state of honest independence." There is no law that requires a more searching revision than the law of libel. As it now exists, it is frequently unintelligible, and always perplexing and vexatious ; and so constructed as to benefit the rogue far more than the honest man. Low, pettifogging attorneys, and their congenial clients are chiefly the parties that gain by it. The late Mr. Justice Bolland asserted that libels lurked in almost every column of a newspaper, for that every thing—according to the existing law—might be consti tuted into a libel which the party referred to might choose to consider such. Surely it is high time that this absurd state of things should be put an end to. The Post compares the Whig-Radical party to the " visionary political projectors" alluded to by Swift in his sarcastic " Gulliver's Travels." The comparison is a laboured one, but inapplicable ; but if our Contempo rary bad gone a few pages further on in the volume, he would have found an account of certain " Strulbugs," whom the Dean represents as a set of prejudiced, bigoted, ignorant men, to whom age brought no toleration, and experience no wisdom—whose leading principle of policy was that everything should stand still—and who, in sh were little better than superannuated imbeciles. In these men our Contemporary—had he been so inclined---might have found many peculiarities that resemble those of the more inveterate Tories. The Cork Southern Reporter remarks that but a few weeks ago, Peel was firm at making no changes, or al lowing of alterations in his prescriptions, "but the harsh outlines of things are softened by perspective, and a near approach has revealed to Sir Robert Peel the stern diffi culties of his position. Heralds of his coming and omens of his power ; Cavalry and Infantry, are marching upon Ireland. Ruined harvests arc deepening the wail of multitudes that starve. Bankruptcy spreads like a plague ; on every side—in every form, the principles of a Tory Government, the principles announced by Sir R. Peel, are proving themselves fraught with horrible wretchedness, as they are marked by monstrous folly." The Doncaster Gazette, alluding to the high testimo nial lately presented to Lord .111orpeth in Ireland, thus continues :—" The 'people of Yorkshire, animated by a similar feeling., intend to present his Lordship with a splendid testimonial--a gold vase, representing the Eme rald Isle in emeralds. For this purpose subscriptions, unlimited in their amount, have already been opened in all the polling districts ; and the sum of 2451. was sub scribed at the Bradford meeting, held yesterday week." The Chelmsford Chronicle says :—" It is well known that we strongly disapprove of the course which the Ministry took on the Corn-laws, but having staked their existence upon the question, they are fully entitled to ask the new Parliament—they could not ask the old— for a distinct and intelligible vote upon the subject." The IViltshire Independent thus aims a stone at the Tory landholders :—" It is many years since the Quar terly Review (a Tory periodical too), warned the aristo cracy and the great gentry against carrying on the culti vation of their estates in too lordly a style, and against aiming to have a race of little lords under them for their tenants. We agree with that warning of the Quarterly Review : for we think the policy it recommended was that of justice and safety and preservation for all classes." MONEY - TRADE-COMMERCE. Horncastle horse fair, the largest in the kingdom, com menced this year a day or two earlier than usual. On Saturday Mr. Elmore bought the little steeple-chase mare Flora for 100 guineas, which Capt. Skipworth sold for 400 guineas. Mr. Whitlam sold two horses for 500 guineas, and a great number of horses fetched from 100 to 200 guineas each. The fair ends to-day. At Manchester the demand for yarn is better, and a fair amount of business done, though no advance on the already low rates. The goods' market is very limited, and sales made at only ruinous prices. At Nottingham the cut-up hosiery and drawer branch seem the most depressed. The full-fashioned hosiery branch, though extremely dull, feels the depression less than many other branches of the hosiery manufacture. As this branch is mostly carried on in the villages, the harvest will give them some relief, as great numbers of the stockingers know how to shear wheat, and are usually employed at this season in that occupation. The siik glove and silk hose trade is extremely flat. A new American ship, the Hendrick Hudson, made her first appearance on Thursday in our river. She was built of fir at New York, and is of 1,000 tons burden— the largest liner that has ever been in a London port. LAW AND POLICE. The uncertainty of the arsenic tests is again apparent in the case . of a widow lady named Rawle, who lately died at Newport. Two surgeons considered that death was brought on by poison, but could not certify as to arsenic ; and Mr. Herapath asserted that what appeared to be metallic arsenic was carbon, arising from animal matter. Further medical examination is to be made, and the inquest was adjourned till to-day. Charles 'Webb, who, thirteen years ago, stole a Post ' office letter, containing from 600/. to 700/., after eluding the utmost vigilance of every officer, though 4,000/. were expended in seeking to, apprehend him, was last week recognised in this country, and brought before the Bir mingham authorities. His trial will immediately take place. Five men were convicted at the Liverpool Assizes on Wednesday, of burglary with violence. A sixth, who turned approver, gave evidence against his accomplices, and his evidence was confirmed in many particulars by other witnesses. Judgment was deferred, there being five more indictinents against the gang for similar offences. At the same assize, an action of trover was brought to recover the value of two horses. The plaintiff; a horse dealer, had put them on board a steamer that plies be tween Liverpool and Birkenhead, and paid the fare ; but the proprietor, not wishing to take them, turned them out, and, as the owner of the horses would have nothing to do with them, they were allowed to go at large, when they were found by the brother of the defendant, and kept in a field till they had " eaten their heads off." They were afterwards sold for three or four pounds. Verdict for plaintiff—damages 30/. On Thursday Wm. Harnett, late manager of Messrs. Herbert and Co.'s carrying establishment, in Moorfields, was. re-examined on the charge of embezzling, upwards of 2,000/., and remanded for a fortnight. At Bow-street, 'William Fraser, a Barrister, and Thomas Aldridge, a short-hand writer, charged with obtaining a quantity of hosiery and other articles, to the amount of 71. 17s. 6d., under false pretences, were held to bail to answer the charge at the Sessions. SPOTLTING. An extraordinary cricket-match was played on Mon- atisT:tr . _ ilay aryl ryiiesdff'last, at Hall's Cricket-ground, heiween the (•!4•-prrn and one-leg pensioners .or Greenwich and Che:sea hu-.pitals. On this -oa.asipti the,,,Nitry heat_ the Army, the Chels pensioners i:eoringi Only nineteen runs, and the Greenwich tars _ 176. Considering that -ticket, more than any other game, requires the f u ll complement of arms and legs, this match must have been as ridiculous a one as the translation of Don Quixotte, which was proposed to be undertaken some years ago, by two !gentlemen, one of whom did not understand a word of Spanish, while the other was equally ignorant of English I At Easton, in Nottingham, a single cricket match was played by two Commodores, both wooden-legged, which proved a source of great amusement. Pearmain hopped thirteen runs ; Moreton twelve, when he was cleverly caught out by his opponent, who was hailed victor of the " subscription purse." 113E11.TRTCAL. The English Opera-house has, we understand, been taken for a limited period by Mr. Heraud and his friends, for the purpose of testing the merits of the unacted drama. Messrs. Elton, Phelps, Mrs. Warner, and se veral other performers of note, have been engaged. The house will open on Thursday, with an adaptation of Mr. Stephens's " Hungarian Daughter," to be followed by a new farce from the pen of Captain Marryatt. COURT-PASHIONAIME. The Dowager Lady Glenlyon's mansion, in White hall-gardens, which adjoins Sir Robert Peel's, has been taken by the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, M.P., for a term. A great number of persons of rank and fashion were among the numerous passengers who left London for Antwerp and the Rhine on Sunday last, by the steam ship Princess Victoria. The Duke of Cambridge arrived in town on Thursday morning.froni.Kew.i Lord Melbourne left town on Thursday on a visit to her Majesty. The Earl of Winchelsea arrived in town on Thursday from Sussex. At the suggestion of Prince Albert, a beautiful grotto and waterfall are being constructed in the Royal plea sire-grounds at Windsor. MISCELLANEOUS. Among the ruins at the fire at Blackheath, much valuable plate has been recovered, and it is expected when the drawing room is reached, many jewels will be raked up. A meeting of the Blackwell Railway Proprietors was held on Thursday, at the London Tavern, when Mr. Alder man Humphery explained the circumstances under which he had sold certain shares in the Company, and in con sequence of which he had resigned his Directorship. Mr. Rennie was elected to fill the vacancy. On the 25th of August the statue of De Ruyter will be uncovered at Flushing. Thursday the Rev. W. R. Cobbold, the incumbent of Selbourw', Hants, died at the Belle Sauvage Inn, in con sequence of injuries received from having been run over on Friday evening by one of the mail carts. "Last Saturday evening," says the Nottingham Reviev, the demand for bread was so unusually great in various parts of the town, owing to the almost certainty of a rise in the price on the following Monday, that many of the baker's shops are completely emptied." A Morning Contemporary states, that in the House of Commons on Thursday " every eye was directed to Sir R. Peel ; and when he rose to speak, an almost death like silence prevailed." If the silence was as marked as that which the Right Hon. Baronet has maintained on the subject of his remedies, it must indeed have been " a death-like" one ! 'rho Chronicle states that :—" The Duke of Welling ton, passing through Canterbury last Saturday, on his way to town from Walmer, stopped to change horses at Wright's. He asked Mr. Wright to show him the Can terburl corn letter of that day (being market day), when he observed wheat quoted as having fetched 86s. He asked was it true that that price had been obtained in that day's market, and being replied to in the affirma tive, observed, 'lndeed! then something must be done.' " Mr. O'Connell has accepted an invitation to a public dinner at Highbury Barn on the 30th. During the late Glasgow election, a publican resident in the suburbs, received a letter by the post, purporting to have issued from the Tory candidate, authorizing him to keep open house till the election was over. The land lord was of course in extacies ; threw open his doors ; spread his tables with his best viands, and called on every passing Tory voter to come and eat and drink as much as he pleased. At the close of the election he went to the Tory Committee-room, and presented to the candi date a bill as heavy as one of Dr. Philpotts's pamphlets. or Sir James Graham's speeches ; when, lo ! to his in expressible astonishment he learned that the letter was a forgery ! He has since been all but broken-hearted, and hates the very mention of the word " Tory" as much as the Devil is said to hate holy water. The Post contains the following important intelli gence :—" Yesterday the Duke of Wellington and Sir R. Peel walked arm-in-arm to the Houses of Parliament ; and Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham came together to the House of Commons on foot !" This is, indeed, a momentous sign of the time ! No wonder our Contem porary records it with special particularity. RUMOURS OF THE DAY. The Conservative prints assert that the flight Hon. J. C. Herries will come forward for Bradford, vacant by the death of Mr. Lister. We understand that upwards of five pounds worth of mob were hired on Thursday by the Carlton Club Com mittee for the express purpose of cheering Sir Robert Peel. It is rumoured that the Tamworth quack-doctor in tends to adopt the homoeopathic principle—that is to say, to prescribe infinitessimal doses of reform by way of remedy for John Bull's malady. LINES ADDRESSED TO THE RIGHT HON. SHAW LEFEVRE, UNANIMOUSLY CHOSEN BY BOTH PARTIES TO THE SPEAKERSHIP OF THE ROUSE OF COMMONS. " The greater was his respect for the character of the Right lion. Gentleman, who then filled the Chair, for the manner in which he had performed the duties of his office, for though he was elected by one side of the House he had succeeded in earning the esteem of both."—Speech of the Noble Lord the Member for Lancashire. " Homo factus ad unguem." Homo ad unguem factus—to express That pregnant phrase with fitting happiness Long Francis* toiled, but owned it passed his wit, 'Twas untranslateable—'twas exquisite : Most simple phrase, yet phrase whose sense combines All that adorns true manhood or refines ; Paints to the mind those manners pure and chaste Which elder Athens so supremely graced— Shadowing forth that case of mode and mien So truly winning, yet so seldom seen. Speaking a mind well-watered—and the which Blooms with fair fruits, and smiles wittl virtues rich— Fulfilling all that golden Homer sung Of Hybla flowing from his heroes' tongue— The suavid air—the beauteous graciousness Which youth so covetst and which old men bless. Such in mine eye the true translation seemed, And therefore Horace, I methought, had dreamed : They too ethereal and transcendent were To make, for this gross world, a character— All seemed too finely perfected for earth— Were but the poet's love—his fancy's birth. Such was with me—with all—the full belief (To poor humanity's rebuke and grief,) Till yesternoon before our knights and princes Felt like a truth that every mind convinces— All swore these graces still on earth to be— E'en foes, LEFEVRE, found them all in thee. 0 best of worthies !—worthiest to be The best-beloved by all earth's company, Of fame unflawed without a spot or stain ! Could Horace rise in this Augustan reign,— Thee would he own, and fold in high embrace, — The perfect transcript of his visioned grace. Long be thy life—long shine thou as the glass Whence men may form and fashion as they pass ; Till in one wreath aboie thy honour'd tomb, " Virtue " and " Goodness ' round " Lefvre " bloom. * The elegant translator of Horace. - - - -• • - Lord Worsley particularly dwelt upon "the readiness with which he (Mr. Lefevre), had afforded his advice to Ho nourable Members, either in private Committees or othervvise, especially to young Members.—See Election of Speaker. THE SUCCESSORS OF PETER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stu,—lt gave me great pleasure to observe, and deeply to consider the observations, made in your Jour nal of yesterday respecting the clergy. Among your other observations, to be brief, you say, "Christ, the founder of our holy religion, had not where to lay his head." Why was that ? Not for lack of means at his disposal, when heaven was his throne, and earth his footstool, but to set us an example to humble our natural pride and ignorance. Why do not his successors, if they are true shepherds, do likewise ? Let, for instance, the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose ,throne is Canterbury, and his' footstool Lambeth, humble himself in a similar manner, as an example to us of the present day, and dispose of his revenues for the benefit of the poor and needy, instead of puffing up the natural pride of his brethren by feastings at La:nbeth. Let me also ask the public this question,—lf we were to see the Archbishops and Bishops humbly walking throughout the streets and roads, relieving in their path the numerous objects that would present themselves to their view, instead of rollirr , themselves along in the splendour they do now, what kind of respect would be shown them, and where would the sceptic appear ! and how would it act towards humbling the pride of others? Would not such conduct convince us that they were genuine followers of their great master, Christ, and show them to be the good shepherds, and not the hire lings or wolves in sheeps' clothing of whom he so often cautioned us to beware. I remain, your constant reader, T. W. T. C. Aug. 19, 1841. .IAB WI L OF THE GREAT WESTERN. BRISTOL, THURSDAY. The Great Western steam-ship, Captain Hos kins, Commander, arrived at King Road, Bristol, this morning, from New York, hav ing made the homeward passage in 12 days, 10 hours. She brings New York papers of the 7th instant, and about sixty pas sengers. This is the quickest passage ever made between New York and Bristol with the excep tion of a former voyage of the Great Western. The case of Mr. M'Leod was attracting consi derable attention, in relation with the change of the English Cabinet. In the meantime his trial was fixed to take place at Utica on the 19th of September. Opinions were greatly di vided as to the result. Some of our Trans atlantic Contemporaries, who possess the rat instinct for avoiding filling houses, though far removed from either the danger or the dust,, attack the Whigs now that they are quitting office for not adopting a more energetic tone towards the Yankees in M'Leod's case. Still peace between England and America is pre dicted, not because the latter will release M'Leod ' in accordance with the law of nations, but be cause England dare not go to war with her in the present attitude of France and Russia ! The following are the remarks of the New Yorh Herald—no high authority certainly upon State affairs—upon this subject : The late extraordinary revolution of parties in Eng land; and the accession of Sir Robert Peel and the Con servativeS to power, have created a great deal of curiosity and inquiry in this country, respecting the probable issue of the unsettled questions now - pending between the United States and Great Britain. These questions are, Ist. The North-Eastern Boundary 2d. The North-Western'Boundary. 3d. The case of the Caroline and M'Leod ; 4th. The seizures of American vessels 'on the coast of Africa. The bearing which the temper and policy of the Pee' Ministry may hare upon these questions, are highly im portant at this time, both in a commercial and politica' point of view. . _ - In all the negotiations of late years between this country and England, it has been evident that there was a sad want of moral courage in the Melbourne Cabinet to take that position which their feelings indicated. They wished peace and harmony with the United States, because they feared that Russia and France were watch .ing the moment of rupture with great satisfaction and hope. But the dread of the Tory opposition, and the fear of being charged with truckling to the ".Mo del Republic," prevented them from assuming their natu ral position. Accordingly, the policy of the Whig Mi nistry towards this country has been saucy and cringing by turns. We have every reason to believe that our negotiations with the Peel Ministry will be managed with more promptitude, decision, calmness, dignity, and success. If Sir Charles Vaughan (as supposed) is to be ap pointed in the place of Mr. Fox, who will be recalled, that diplomatist will conduct the negotiations with this country with less bluster and bravado than Mr. Fox, but with more amenity, justice, and success. Such we have heard from the best sources—and such we believe. In the mean time M‘Leod, it is now ordered, will be tried in Utica, on the 19th of September ; and if every statement is to be credited, an acquittal will settle that question finally, and leave the Governments to arrange amicably the other points of difference. But, at all events. Sir Robert Peel will never permit any variance to spring up between England and the United States, whilst Russia and France occupy their present attitude in Europe. Another panic was felt in the United States Bank Shares. They declined to 14, at which few buyers were to be found. Transactions in sterling bills in Wall-street, on the 7th, for the. Great Western, were very animated, arid firm at 9 per cent. premium. Several extensive failures were anticipated, some of them of houses largely engaged in mercantile transac tions with this country. The cotton trade was dull, and the crop expected to be very abund ant this year. The following are extracts from the papers : THE LATE MEASURES IN CONGRESS. The apathy which exists in the public mind, while Congress is busy passing its five celebrated financial mea sures, does not surprise any one acquainted with the condition of the country, or the progress of good sense. If these measures had been in the same process of de bate in 1837 that they are now, the whole community would have been in a paroxysm of excitement on the arrival of the news each morning. Now the matter is all changed. The great mass of the business community are in a state of repose. They care not what Congress pass. They are regardless of banks, loans, or lands. They have long since seen the folly of expecting any good to trade and commerce from the schemes of poli• t iei ans and. President makers. The principal interest, therefore, felt about the move ments of Congress, is seen among the speculators, stock jobbers, and their agents from Europe. Among that small class; including perchance the office-seekers, there is a great deal of curiosity and doubt felt towards the President. They are not sure of him—hence the half coaxings, lthlf-denuneiations of that portion of the news paper press in the stock jobbing interest. Yet this apathy towards these measures ought not to exist. They will, if all passed, become the groundwork of a new system—a fresh union between politics and finance, founded on principles that operate very unequally upon the great mass of the nation. What are those measures ? We have already enumerated them-Ist, a new Bank ; 2d, a Bankrupt Law ; 3d, a new Loan • 4th, a Revenue Law ; sth,• Distribution of the proceeds of the public lands. The character of all these measures is broadly enough stamped upon their face. They are identical and homogeneous, and present one of the finest pieces of machinery for taxing the poor for the benefit of the rich—for taking away the 'property of the real owner, and giving it to the speculator—that ever was devised. The revenue law will increase the price of the poor man's coffee, tea, and other necessaries, in order that the magnificent London stock jobbers may save the money they have loaned to the States. The stocks of several of the States maybe aided a little, but very little—in the ratio of three--while the poor man's tax is increased in the ratio of eight. Other • branches of this singularly constructed financial system have other effects. The money of the capitalist will be sought for, and got, in order that it may be borrowed by the specu lator just escaped through the bankrupt law. Such being the general character of the new system, it may be asked, " Ought it to pass?" " Oh ! yes, cer tainly." It is a fresh experiment—a new expedient—a novel combination between politics and banking—and we may as well submit as not. It won't last four years, that's certain. _ A vessel arrivad at New York from the Havannah, brings intelligence of the failure of the house of Hopper, Weiderman, and Co., of St. Jago de Cuba; the liabilities of the concern are said to be very large. The yellow fever continued to rage with unmitigated violence in the Ha vannah. There is a defaleation.in the New Orleans Canal Bank to a very large amount. (From the New York Herald of Aug. 7.) MONEY MARKET. FRIDAY, AUG. 6. SIX This has been bill day for the Great Western, which takes her departure to-morrow. The transactions in sterling bills were very animated, and closed firm at 9 per cent. prem. The demand is mostly for remittance on account of Illinois and Pennsylvania interest, which fell due on the Ist inst. The supply of bills is by no means large. A fair proportion are Canada and Southern bills, large amounts of which, particularly Bank of Mobile, en dorsed by J. J. Palmer, have been sold by the house of Cammann, Whitehouse, and Co., at 9 per cent. . French bills sell at 5 25 to 5 274- dollars ; Amsterdam, 39-3. to 40 ; Hamburg, 351 to 351 ; Bremen, 77+ to 77i. Some specie will be shipped at these rates. In this state of the bill market we see the effects of the burrowing system. The demand for bills on mercantile account is not greater than would be readily supplied by legitimate bills, with out resort to specie. Just at the close of the year, how ever, produce bills are nearly exhausted. The demand to pay interest, or tribute, to England, for the sums she lent to feed former extravagance, raises the prices, and parries off the coin, not to be returned in the shape of goodS, but without an equivalent ; and this is the case to the extent of ten to twelve million dollars yearly, a most severe tax upon our industry. State Stocks have been declining in value for the last thirty days, although but very small transactions have taken place. A large sale of the Stocks of the different States has been advertised for Monday next on account of the free banks. This may have had some effect upon the market. The following is a table of the rates L recent transactions compared with those by the last -4: packet : SALZat AT WHICH THE LATEST TRANSACTIONS IN STATI' STOCKS HAVE TAKEN PLACE. New Yord State Canal 5 ... 1858 ....hIB6IY 16 ... Aug. 6. par New York Canal (new) 6's 1860 ' 41 „ u 5 ... 1845 ••• ' O2 :1 - 46 1853 ••• a 0 e 5 a 8 4t •••• 85 aB6 city water 5 ... 56 a 57 52a54 6 • ' 1 1 8 6 87 g ... 53§- a5B 54 ..• 5 1860 •••• 5 3 i a 56 55i 5 .. sterling 55i 55, 1864 93 6 ... 94 5 1850 ... 82i 6 1856 ... 95 Illinois Itidiana Ohio -- Tennesse " 6 ... 50 years— 85 aB7 ... 85 Kentucky " 6 ... 1868 ... 57a 69 .. 56a60 Arkansas " 5 ..• 185 8 ...77a 78._ 78 Pennsylvania 6 " —• ia i Treasury Notes dknn MO 52 5 after 1844... ... ... par ... U. St , .?tes Stock s . I A s , 000 ---: 000 bi „ 1844... ... par p a yment of her interest. P enns yl van i a , a Indiana has not been able to do an y thin g furth er in the before, has suet hers by squeez i ng i t out regard we n t e o n t t i of insolvent banks. We would take this occasion to remind our English readers, that many of the statements published in theWall r p a pers on the eve of the d e p ar t ure of a b oa t for t England, are manufactured expr ess ly t o produce an y s eff Ee e e ct tn favourable to the parties interested there. The New MOlt NI NG OVN York American is supported avowedly,ferThis parpese, and ‘be have only to refer to the publications in thotie prints ; last fall and winter, in reference to. the, United States Bank and State Stock, to make the ::offering stockholder aware of the truth °four assertions. A system jigs been long practised of manufacturing public opinion in this way. The London Morning Chronic le has been , the to ol and echo of th ese p ersons on the other side, andihe ruin I and misery of thousands of innocent individuals has been the result. We trust the statements of those papers be received with proper caution. Up to this moment nothing definitive has been received from Washington in regard to the Bank Bill. Letters received from very high authority state that.tho.rhance s are stronger now than ever that the Bank Bill,llevenue Bill, and Land Bill will all fail ; they hang one upon the other, and it is known that the President is opposed to all three under existing circumstances. Ile has taken strong ground, and is not easily to be moved. It is within the limits of possibility,, however, that he may be induced to.sauction all three. The probabilities are, how ever, that they will all fail, and Congress adjourn next week amid a general explosion of the dominant party, and break up of the Cabinet. In a mercantile. point of view, it is much to be hoped that the Bank Bill` fail, and for many reasons. If the bank should be chartered, two or three years of distress and confusioe, attendant upon its going into operation, will be inevitable, and after having got und er wa y, it s move ments will be of very doubtful utility. It will be a constant bone of con tention between political parties. Already the dein' cratic party have raised th e s t an d ar d o f repeals and that object will be pursued' with all the unity energy, and perseverance that have ever distinguished them. . • n- The Supreme Court of the United States, as now en stituted has a majority that have repeatedly deelarenu themselves opposed to a National Bank on the questiois of constitutionality. With these facts before it, it in vain to contemplate any return to that stat.e of r epos: and steadiness in financial affairs, which alone security to property and prosperity in commercial atatlii; It is in vain to deny the fact that the great to o as f rri l s o ni i u lo rfP p iy American people are deadly opposed to the bank. On this question of a bank, General. Jackson. as. triumphantly returned at his second presidential l. tion. On this•same,question Martin Van Buren rd to vated to the Chair of the Chief. Magistrate ple4 e ffies carry out the views of his predecessor. With tbe s , l u that before him, President Tyler, in.his; st4ite— the people of th e U n it e d S ta t es . h a d tw i ce. coadeln, ne ap ! national bank ; and now , w h et h er Presiden4P t e n r , 'of ma pyrev find that itfr t o h m e people may - concern yet a proves or disapp roves o f a new batik, the .}?f such woacefu goingß Operation. O‘T ed, On the other hand, s h ou ld t h e bank e,charter nt4,10.:L Q . ° on what will be the result ? Why - , b • W s ' • usiaess„. . lot to increase on a cash basis, as it has ; for t" w er• four years, undisturbed. by any new financial Vdiex. The Southern banks, as. tress Oceikay ,A ll P w ili a be tions must resume, and exchangestAmd,Abe,,curr en k ' ru pt restored simply by thatoperatilm,a Exhe....ww 1) ,“'1„ its. law, although it does not include bankS, will; an operation sweep out a large 'portion, of b at ik asset%,. compel them to close their affairs simply by l be them of all show of resources. This - operation w gradual and inevitabl e , an d w ill no t disturb the co. a sst 1 of business that has, du r ing th e p a st four years lated the policy of the late Administration. d. The Operation of the B an kr u pt Law is to be d read in Some of those who have interested themselves most procuring its passage, estimate the number of bankroPts, at 500,000, and that they hold 1 000 dollars average 7: property each. The law is to go into operation NO' r. when application will be immediately made by thes?opie_ sons, and prop er ty to th e ex tent of 500,000,000 d will change hands in the course of the next' etiSdin e g iit "". years. This may make a fearful change, and the cr his who realizes 1,000 dollars under the law may fin u sr . other property depreciated 2,000 dollar; by-the ° P e l i s t tion, and himself, in consequence, swelling the larg e of bankrupts. CANADA. We have received accounts from Canada, som e , in terest ; to the 3d from Montreal, and to the Ist 11*(0 Kingston. • Governor Sydenham, it seems, has great 'di' t.ficolt.Y with the Provincial Parliament ; and it is pro bable 013 ., in consequence of the state of parties, all his: priu ci P„,d measures will fail. His bank scheme has been n e g ate in a Committee ; although re-considered next day. has It is supposed, however, that this state of thingsGa been produced , by the revolution in England. The p e el nadian people expect. a new Governor from t he.„ Ministry, and hence their reluctance to do anything a' they know how the wind blows. tot- M‘Leod will be tried at Utica on the 19th of Aug it The Canadian papers are now quiet on this case ; bu t u s is supposed that some of the Canadian patriots on to_ . side of the frontier are preparing to make a demonsfitrja Lion in the event of his acquittal. Four or five i ' a ls pieces have been stolen recently from he public arse!. at Auburn and other places. This lis t considered s 13 '" omen. (i'AialTly:e.work" The following arc extracts :-.-- - 3. h the " PARLIAMENTARY PROCE satisfaction of announcing that businessis steal and reso ing its way through both Houses. RepOrtS Metnbers. ble . lotions are as rife as speeches of Honoura lture, :21 4 o 0 N s. lia . E w A re L , Bills for facilating the advancement of commerce, travelling, litigation, and for the iller oed of all other desirable luxuries, are getting impelled through their different stages by the high•pressurc ex; ertions of our legislators. In the Assembly Mr. Day 5 Bill for the establishment of a Provincial Board of Works , and that of Mr. Harrison for the Naturalization ofAliens, have both passed their third reading, and been sent to, the upper house. The Court of Requests Bill has passe ( ' agricu ease through its second reading amidst opposition. The Census Bill and Municipal District Bill have been Post poned. Mr. Harrison hasintroduced a Bill to regulate the disposal 'of the public lands on a new system- fin. other bill of Mr. Haerison's.for purchasing the privat e shares of the Welland Canal Company was discussed in Committee on its second reading. " The Government Bank of issue scheme, submitted to the Currency Committee was at first rejected by theM r ; but on the following clay, being reconsidered at the del of Mr. Simpson, who had been absent from the .1"t: Meeting, it - was carried through Committee by the e s _, ing vote of the Chairman, Mr. Aincks, the divisiu being 7 to 7." • . • REPORT of the Great Western, Lieutenant 1 1661 ‘ ei t l i; R.N., Commander, sailed from New York on th e ',,f of August, and arrived at Bristol on the 20th August. kfort• August 7, 3 P.M.—Passed American ship Fra n off Sandy Hook, botind eastward. August 8, 2 P.M.—Exchanged colours with Me rl 4 0 ship Columbus, lat. 40 deg. 10 min. N., lon. 69 d e g' min. W., becalmed, head to the S.W. August 10.—Exchanged colours with her lUai est k 's schooner, standing southward, lat. 41 deg. 30 Mil : ;le; lon. GO deg. 20 min. W., showin g .telegraph " 3," -11 Union Jack August 7, P. 31.—A l t iE l M b. A 3 R 0 K m S . passed the. Batt ed 3h. 30m. pilot left, outside the Hook ; light breeze we Dm fine ather. Wind S., variable. bold August B.—Light airs ; at times calm • short * , sea. Variable, calm. A he ad August 9.—Light airs ; at times calm ; si lo " - seas. Calm, westerly. r/C August 10.—Light breezes and fine ; light southe • swell. Westerly. ligh t August 11.—Moderate and cloudy, with r ain breezes ; fog at times. Westerly, variable. . August 12.—Calm and hazy ; moderate breezes' rain and fog at times. Calm, S. westerly. nort h e rly August 13.—Light breezes and fuggy • long northetv swell ; breeze freshening, and rain at W• l4 * W.S.W. August 14.—Fresh breezes, and dark cloudy weathers with rain moderated to light breezes, and hazy, at tin' W.S.W., variable. August 15.—Light breezes, and dark cloudy well!libere! light breezes and hazy, with rain. N. easterly, r'a ei s, August 16.—Light ; increased to moderate breF - • westerly, and cloudy ; fresh breezes and cloudy. N westerly. August 17.—Strong breezes, and fi ne weathers! squally, and dark cloudy weather ; westerly swel l ' wes august 18.—Strong breezes, and ha z y ;at time 0 S.S.W. ; August 19.—Fresh breezes and hazy ;at time 11 fog °, at 4 A.M. passed Cape Clear ; 9 P. M. took a p ilot Lundy. S.S.W. d fine. Easterly August 20.—Moderate breezes, an . . • twelve days two nours to The passage was made in a ., Lundy, and twelve days It and a , Ii• u Yorks to King wing :New road, time commencing on leo, ___.---------- _ _ LIST OF PASSENGERS. M. A'Azerrr.anTieun.-G;oin.l.dlßjx. nlet,treifilibyn.ko,Ailiiie:' Mi ss L uca s an d servant ; Captain Duffill, RN,, Lieu it ti c ath, Mr. Linace, , N E lr . . i L ;r e a e d , f tenant 11. Crawford, Rev. B. Chase, Mrs. Pl a yter, f' Von Rapff, N. 11• Echerman, M. de Salavar, M. Steinbreuner, D. Fihnman, N. L. 1)„ff F il b C. Turnbull, F. Rodew° Mr. Stone, Urbach, H. IV. Livingston, Henry Rogers Mr. I3alfour, Bradford, G• G al) . 11 : 1 ; 1 1 : E. C. Delius, L. A. Boner, J. Thomas Cole, Colonel and Mrs.ll tS r Lieutenant Wilder, R.A., Mr. Whiteside, Ross, :and serva ~ r , Power, L. Brierwith, .H. Kerr, Al .lt. Duckworth, James Hadwi Anthoine, R. Burge, A. -A n, S. James, S. S. Smith, S. Jones, S. Hill, J. Shipley, n l3 ', G. Hollands, S. Willialo M. Y. Parifee, S. E. ~Mr. Fearing, W. Feariff! Michael, C. . Mo • instreii, B. F. Macquirmap, fr, and Mrs. "ls' F. Wood,:W. A. Dawson, 3 ' Batts, and two servants. I EX PRESS rnom PAW FRANCE. o f An extraordinary express brings news from Par"' ¢• yesterday's date. DisturbanCes of a very serious %Poo racter, in resisting the census, took place at Aubo on the 15th. e s' At Caret the people opposed the execution of the 93-0,1 sure, wounding an officer of the gendarmes and We of his men who escorted the revenue officers. so ° At Bordeaux order had been restored , bu t 194 Per )0 had been arrested, and excitement still prevailed. lb, Tg oin goulouse the operation of the census was '4:l,,tlf out overt opposition. The inhabitants remained tl°/„,V at home, but refused to open their doors to the Coai-jed sioners. The town was guarded as in war time ; I° s . e cannon were planted in the chief square ; affairs wel a stand ; many shops closed. t t he The Emanciput:on of the 16th announc es tha tot census was resumed at Toulouse on that day, an d &li the authorities had made on the occa sion an extra° " 00, nary display of military force. The cit y was Ince the people being satisfied to oppose a passive resi itioj 454 15% tS ItIJA 1 4 1 IT, 11 7i;iir i b rit; ' 1(1 9d ' 1 4th I ,