The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-24 00:00:00

MORN' NG SUN This day is published, price :b. sewed, the G ROUNDS AND OBJECTS OF THE BUDGET. Reprinted from No. 148 of the Edinburgh Review. London: Longman, trown, and Co. T HE RED BOOK; or, A PEEP at the PEERS ! " This little book is crammed full of information, and is sold at the low price of fourpence. A few years ago the same work could not be produced at a less cost than half-a-crown. It will shed a strong light upon the way in which the country is drained of its resources, in order to support a useless aristo cracy. We strongly recommend it to the public."—Weekly Dispatch. _ _ " This is a fearless book, by an uncompromising advocate for Radical Reform—Reform social and domestic. The informa tion contained in this cheap little treasure is of the greatest importance to every dweller in this over-taxed nation."—Sun day Times. London : Cleave, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street ; and all Book sellers and Newsmen. 13, Great Alarlborough• street. MRS. :FROLLOPE'S NEW WORK, CHARLES CHESTERFIELD; or, The YOUTH )F GENIUS. I. Complete in 3 vok, post. Bro., with numerous Illustrations by Phiz, will be ready for delivery at all the Libraries on Wednesday next, Aug. 25. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW NOVEL. To-morrow, the 25th instant, in 3 vols. post Bvo., WE D I. 0 C K; OR, YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY. A NOVEL. By the Author of " The IVl‘id's Hu , band," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. Just published, price Is. 6d., Dedicated, by permission, to Thomas Clarkson, Esq. SLAVERY in AMERICA shown to he peculiarly Abominable, both as a Political Anomaly and an Outrage on Christianity. By W.M. DAY. " An accurate, judicious, and spirited publication, deserving to be extensively patronised."—Anti-Slavery Reporter of June 30, 1841. _ _ Publi,hed by Hamilton and Adams, Paternoster-row, and may be had of Mr. J. Soul, 27, New Broad-street, and of all Booksellers. FIIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED a n d GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (thmigh they are NO LOTTERIES) co:Ter many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING BONDS for the said DISTRIBUTIONS. 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THIS EVENING, AUGUST 24, Will be acted Lord Byron's Spectacle, called rHE WILD HORSE; OR, MAZE PI'A, THE CHILD OF THE DESERT. introducing Mr. Ducrow's Magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, highly-trained Palfre%s, Fairy Parleys, the Equestrians, and: Companies of both Theatres. After which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, In the Largest Arena in the World. In which Madame Ducrow, Signor Hillier, the Great Ameri can Rider, the Britith Horseman, Signor Felix Carlo, arid the First Artistes in Europe will appear. To conclude with, THE OLD OAK CHEST. Supported by the entire Dramatic Company. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSHALDISTON. More novelty and attraction at this now the only perfect Minor Theatre in London. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 24, An original Melodrama in Three Acts, founded on the events of a most atrocious murder, even more apealling than that committed on the Mar Family in Ratcliiffe Highway, called .DEEDS and DOINGS of the DARK HOUSE; or, SIMPLE BESS of BILLINGSGATE ! Bradburn, Mr. Dale ; Charles Elford, Mr. Seaman : Davey bubbs, Mr. Gardner; floppy Bob, Mr. Paul; Ann, Mrs. VV. West; Simple Bess, Mrs. G. Lee. After which. THE BEAR HUNTERS. Caribert, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Estevan, Mr. Dale : Larolle, kr. James; Bluebelle, Mr. Gardner; Mine, Mrs. W. West. To conclude with SWEET POLL OF HORSELEYDOWN ! In which Mr. James, Mr. Seaman, Mr. Paid, Mr. Williams, Ale. Gardner, Mr. Cullen, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Howard, &c. &c. will perfurm ..., t ll "es, 2s.—Pit, Is.—Gallery, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes at Half-past Eight. m 0 morrow, The Dark House, The Beal— Hunters, and et Poll. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. LAST WEEK of the WIZARD of the NORTH worlr.,'ng 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 Op THE NINETEENTH CENTURY—roust visit the Adelphi during next week, as it will be the only opportuniti the lovers of the marvellous will have of beholding this SON Op DELUSION, whose extraordinary powers have caused all t ° wonder from the Throne to the Peasant, from the Peasant la the Philosopher. A wonder unparalleled. The Great wizard, by. his individual exertion, has filled the Adelphi Theatre for one hundred nights, and could for three hundred. More, but that he is compelled to make way for the Great Fred. (not Frederick the Great), who will commence his Mephistc- Philian orgies earlier than the Wizard expected. " Come one—Come all !"—The Wizard will be found incom prehensible as he is invulnerable. A hundred of the best (if 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 Tir get. Ihe Wizard hopes that " Homo Invulnerabilis" will still be I ° s motto ; and he pledges himself that he will exert all Isis Powers to please his patrons, and to fill his Magic Temple to the ceiling. 0 Remember !—The Last Week—Poz! Boxes, 2s. 641. ; Pit, is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price at Half.rast Nine o'clt ck. Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. Place s for the Boxes may be taken from Mr. Swinburn, at tke llox-office, between Eleven and Four. Parties are respectfully informed, that as the Dress Oacle is Ilightl y crowded, an carly application is requisite. N.B. Private Boxes, containing six persons, 11. .fis. Doors °Pen at Half-past Seven ; the Wizard appears at Eight o'clock Precisely. Half-price at Half-past Nine. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHED, PRICE SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand. TO CORRESPONDENTS. l he Communication from "G.C. P. will appear in a few day.s. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE HIS DAY. Nft n t nit 31 intnutes attar 6 I Evening TbB minutes after 6, LONDON ; TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1841. A. l thoucrit the Manchester Conference was called with out thinki n the support it was calculated thinking of the Whigs , t° give them, so far SS they promoted just measures, was immediately perceived by the Tory Journals. Accord ingly they directly and unsparingly attacked the Con ference. They were impeded by no consideratio ns o f what is due to truth and justice in their efforts to dispa rage its members. Of that the Conference has no rea son to complain, as it was exalted thereby in public esti mation ; but it cannot look with equal complacency on th e neglect of its friends. If the meeting was calcu lated to serve the Whigs it was not promoted by all the Whig Journals. One of them joined the Spectator in censuring it, and, being afraid, perhaps, like the Times, of having its trade taken out of its hands by the substitution of the sublime principles of mo rality in the policy of nations, for the heartless and short sighted expedkncy of politicians, was anxious to decry the meeting. The Conference has triumphed, however. because it was calculated to promote the best interests of Mankind, in spite of the heartless sneers of opponents, and the cold ignorance of friends. The convocations of the clergy have always for their object the advancement of the clergy themselves. The Conference was intended solely for the purpose of promoting the public welfare, and especially the welfare of the poor. It was not tainted, like all the pursuits of the clergy, by any object of personal or sectarian ambition. A meeting to attain such an end would have had our most determined oppo sition. But the Manchester Conference was pure in its origin and aims, and it deserves that success which the single-minded and large-hearted men who promoted it have achieved, despite the neglect of friends and the fierce assault of foes. That Conference will be memora ble in history, when the monopolist Parliament will Le forgotten. The Morning Post yesterday took a great deal of pains to prove that the law-making landowners are as foolish as they are knavish. " They get little or nothing by the . Corn laws," quoth th e P os t. But though they gai n title or nothing, the community loses a great deal. The writer in the Post seems not to be aware that the Corn li.ws cause a much greater loss to the pubic than they confer a gain on the owners of rent. It was not neces sary, we can assure the Post, to prove that - the landlords have not gained by their iniquity. If the Post meant to defend them, it should show that they did not mean solely to benefit themselves, and that they had not jured the community. To prove that they gain nothing by the Corn-laws, is only to show, like the dog in the manger, that they have starved others, and famished themselves. Mr. ARCHDEACON WILBERFORCE has published his Charge to the clergy of the diocese of Surrey, in the year 1841. The worthy man at a former period strongly urged all churchwardens to prosecute the members of a vestry in an Eclesiastical Court who shall refuse to make a church rate. "If the vestry, on being summoned, grant the money required by the parson all is well; if it do not the names," says this charitable minister of the gospel, "of the leaders in opposition should be taken down, and they should be forthwith proceeded against in :he Ecclesiastical Courts." If they refuse to do their duty, the Court will pronounce them contumacious, and the Court of Chancery will commit them to prison. The ecclesiastical Chancery Courts are, according to the Archdeacon, mere instruments fur ex torting money for the behoof of the Church. This Minister of CHRIST, in his present charge, re peats his adjurations to churchwardens to direct the power of the Ecclesiastical Courts against the leaders of the anti-Church party, and he re minds them that, according to an ancient practice, the Archdeacon is authorised to command the church- Nvardens to make a rate, with or without the consent of the parishioners. He is not startled by this being an obsolete law; he declares that he will act on it, and make it be respected. Verily the arrogance of our priesthood is greater than the arrogance of the Church of Rome, and snore offensive. The Romish priesthood were conscious of power, and went straight forward to the object ; they were only smooth: the English priesthood are roughed by opposition, and fret and gall every man with Whom they come into con tact. Of this the Archdeacon is a memorable example. 'To compass his selfish ends he rakes up an old practice, and calls on churchwardens to denounce all the oppo nents of the clerical exactions to the Ecclesiastical Courts. Just and merciful man 1 In another part of our Paper we have pub- Fs lied a document of great interest and import aace. It is the new rate of Sound Dues, which, ace ordiug to a Treaty signed in London, on the . 4th of dune, 1841, the King of DENMARK is to levy on British commerce and navigation on passi n 2- Elsinore. Objecting, as we do, to the exerelse 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 prodigio:as improvement over that accepted by Lord CASTLEREAGH, and that Lord MEL BOURNE'S (3 overnmeat deserves great credit for having so far corrected the mischief of its reck less predecessor. The great merit uf the improvement, how ever, belongs to Mr. • HUTT, formerly Member for Hull, and now for Gateshead. The dili gence and perseverance with which that gentlet man collected the facts of the case of Great Bri+ thin 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? 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, 2Esop's fable of the wolf and the lamb quenching their thirst at the same stream. The Constitutionnel was 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 tween his Highness and Lord PALMERSTON to that effect was seen by somebody, who 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 u 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 French Press, which EEngland can so well afford to laugh at. It is to provoke a 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 Bayazid had been swallowed up by an earthquake ; but this news requires confirmation. . . The Viscount de Chateaubrian hes arrived 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 number.—La Gazette de France. 41 . _.• " • .„ — TVs' i• 4 Ilk s. • e • 'ei, -- 4&; • -40 fa BOURSE-PARIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21. drat Highest Lowest La s t Price Price. Pritu Price French 5 per Cents ll6 40 ... ild 50 ... 1 6 35 ... 116 50 434 per Cents 4 per cents N9 70 99 70 ... 99 70 pp 70 3 per Cent% ex. div 77 3,5 i 7 45 ... 77 35 ... 17 l ' sank of terance ... nl9s ...3195 I...Witte tank 1,1 1 (X0. St arse 114) ...1040 5.0110: stares E,25 ...51 5 ...51:!5 ...5125 Meleinn Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. New Loan il3% ... WI% .. Wall ... lii:i% 3 per Cents 7l 43 .. 71 40 ... 71 49 ... 71 40 Dutch 2h, per Cents. 52%4 ... :•44 ... tiN ... s*/5 4 a v ainsh At; tve ... 0 ... lON ... ION", FOAMY.. 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4 '4 New Deferred Neapolitan Roman ..... 11 , 2% WA .. 102% ... 102% RAILWAY .. ;HAIIEs It Gc rmam Youen 430 450 ...45J ...450 1 480 a BO 478 itnisbure £0 Bale 237 50 ... k 37 50 ... 237 50 .. 237 :.0 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 Contercio, 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 theirliberties, 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 was hunted, pursued, proscribed, and sent to the g alleys 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 13th 24 5-16 for cash, and at 24-} 7-16 n 251-, at different dates. On the 14th they sold for 24* for cash, and 24 9-16 at 60 days. THE LIBERATION OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR. The following letter was received in town yes will no doubt be r ea d w i t h d e li g h t b t e y r d i‘ ai r o and ,eonilor's friends cc T o MR. JOHN CLEAVE. " York Castle, Sunday. "My dear Cleave, —An order has just arrived for my immediate liberation, in consequence of a medical application ; b ut I find that I cannot prudently leave mjr coffin before Monday w ee k, the 30th of August, vvhen at one o'clock I walk out in fustian, cc Yours very sincerely, " F. O'CONNOR." DEATH OF THE DOVAGER COUNTESS OF C.IRRICK.—We this estimable lady, on S atur d ay l as t, in Kingstown, after greatly regret to announce t h e demise of an illness of two days, at the age of 86 years. Her lady ship, as our readers know for several years resided at Orchardton, in the neighbourhood of this city, and her decease will be felt by the numerous objects of her bounty, there and elsewhere, as no ordinary calaraity.—Kilhenny Moderator. r 0 fi '-‘f 0 j op P. 1 - 1-IFI SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 18141. A la AI) lUr "C , ht hc" gd 1 6; V 3 AN D V ttb.itt, . tap into it. " TVIzo runs , may read." FOEEIGN • 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. The Messager 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 heads that England is intriguing to. .prevent a com mercial union between Belgium and France. • of a piece with the fabrication about Lord i'almerston 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 Franca is is as red. hot in favour of the beef-monopoly in France, as the Post is for the bread monop ly 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 Debuts - 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 dotibt 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, Pruisia, Mecklenburg, the ,Hanse'Towns, and Sardinia., are 'to be the first objects of Imperial ven g eance. 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 theabsurd 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 are more credulous, and that a contradiction was necessary to tranquillize the public mind, everywhere so jealous of supposed British influence. „.. The Austrian 11Iinister, 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 Muri to be sup pressed, and herein be 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. PUXULIC - OPINION. 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 rixasure 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 regar d f or lib era l 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 W higs that they delayed their commercial reforms till they had lost by their finality measures the confidence of the country. In their fruitless effOrts to conciliate the To ries they sacrificed 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 h a v e b een carr i e d . 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. Thepolicy 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 beep the entire subjection of both parties to the dictateS 'of a conference, in which a Russian Minister played n o i ns ignifi c an t part. If that sub jection was to be perpetual, or even to-be much 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 :—" 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. Wily, 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. Fe.c's presence •at Washington, while Mr. M'Leod is tried at Utica, will be nothi‘g 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 none prosequi 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 theswquestions? 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 attribtiting to bad laws much of" the 1111= 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 another burden upon his back. What if it break ; or what if the beast cast off its burdens ! 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 wor k of legislation into their own hands, and then their rulers will be glad to make, as they have often done before, a bungling compromise, from which neither party derive a due share of advan tage, and both remain liable 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 represent. The Royal Speech will be delivered early next 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." AG RacuLTunz.L. 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 IYULXTART. More timber, and it fifth gun has been got up from the wreck of the Royal George, To-morrow a charge of 6501b5. 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 ,or 3;1. its., thy.!.d.lerty.oi Wailer, of 4mchester, whose' elr,ployment he had formerly been:' :On Satllrday, ,the same Assizes, not fewer than three different parties were tried for the very common optic',l-now of stabbin i , : with a knife.. then wali , sentenced to be transported for twelve years. - At the Thames Poll.ce-o±lice., on. Satur;,lay, a man of the : name of Langley li'aS 'placed •at the bar, charged with being accessory to the 'minder of jariiies'Dixen, an Eng-• • • fish 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 Hal - rein the custody of two of the superior officers of the l!!rench police, and was retnanded. • TIC -; During the opera s...ason of 1841, which closed on Saturday, twenty-fbUr operas were performAd, in which list, the two novelties were Roberto .I.),ever,eux, kndFausta. s'33 =LTG. The breed of game in, the preserves at Claremont have been well preserved, anii the supplies this year abundant. Pri:tee. Albert leaves W . ,:_itlsor about the Ist of:September to eniey a week's shooting there. • - 7Z:LEC3. ICONEM=ING. The Lord Lieuzenant . has dismissed Mr. Nixon trout the office of High Sheriff of the county 'of Febnanagh. The cause of dismissal was the partisan manner in which Mr. Nixon acted, by forwarding, as • was stated iti The Sun some weeks since, the official return of the elected Members to the Hanaper-office, decorated with Orange ribbOns, and a disgracaful• seal. Mr. Johnson, whose name appeared second on the Judge's list, is now High Sheriff in his stead. IY.:ISCZZLANEOUS. An order from the Home-ounce 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 discovered.. Two men hare 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-cornier,-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 plantations have been directed by good taste, and the new grav e l wa lk s are most agreeable promenades. • The colossal lion and other monument s on th e field of Waterloo, are n o w 'undergoing repair by order of the Belgic 'Goverment.. The members of the " Manchester Young Men's Anti- , Monopoly Association,". which has been established for little 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 he 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 adoptin g an address, to Lo r d M or p e th, in acknowl e d gmen t o f 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 Sta. dey died on Friday last, at Moto/I-hall, Cheshire. He is succeedel 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 Hon. Major Keppell, while bathing in the river, near Romney Weir, on Wednesday week, with Lord Al fred Paget, was almost drowned by the water being drawn froze 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 Bay ou S ara t o N atc h ez, h a d 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. .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 GOO, who had 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 againsi 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 DUlie of Buccleueh'at Langtolrh — laSt Friday: RUIVIOITILS or THE Dalt. A matrimonial alliance is said to be on the lapis between the Prince of Bavaria and the Princess Mary, daughter of Prince or Prussic. COURT CIRCULAR. Wmpsoa, MoNnAr.—The Queen Dowager and his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthall arrived at half-past two o'clock at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty and his Royal Highness, who with the suite received her Majesty on alighting at the Palace. Francis" Lady Clinton and the Earl of Denbigh attended her Mrj?siy, who.remained to lurch, and took her depar ture,•a, c,nipanied by Prince Ernest at four o'clock fir Bushy Park : .• • Prince Albert, attended by Mr. G. E. Anson and Co lonel Wylde, returned from town at ten minutes past two o'clock this afternoon. The Queen and Prince Albert rode out this afternoon in a pony'phmton, the Price driving, attended by Lord Alfred Paget and Colonel Wylde on horseback, and fol lowed in a carriage and four by the Duchess of Bedford, Lady Caroline 'Somers Cocks, Ron. Sarah Mary Caven dish, and the Earl of Final. The Princess Royal has been taken her usual airings to:day._ The Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, Earl Fitzwilliam, Viscount Morpeth, Lord and Lady John Russell, Viscount Mel. bourne, and Admiral Sir R. Stopford, left the Castle to-day. His: Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr. George Edward Anson, Treasurer of his Household. and Colonol Wylde, Equerry in in Waiting, arrived at the Paddington station of the Great Western Railway, by a special train, yesterday morning, from Windsor Castle. His Royul Highness proceeded to the office of the Duchy of Cornwall in Somerset House, and from thence went at half-past twelve o'clock, to attend a meeting of the School of Design in Somerset House. After the meet ing his Royal Highness returned to Paddington, attended by his suite, and left, by a special train, for Windsor Castle. At. the Privy Council, held at Windsor Castle on Sa turday afternoon, Robert Vernon Smith, Esq., was, by command of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Honour able Privy Council, and took his place at the Board. Viscount Melbourne, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, and Lord and Lady John Russell, returned to town yesterday, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The• Committee on Education of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council held a meeting yesterday afternoon at the Council-office, The Lords present were the Lord President,:the Lord Privy Seal, the Chancel lor of the Exchequer, the Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and the President of the Board of Trade. Their Lordships assembled at one o'clock, and sat until four o'clock. Grand Parliamentary dinner parties were given .last . . evening by Viscount Melbourne And Lord Lord John Russell, at which her Majesty's 'Speech on opening the sessions of Parliament (by Comtnission) this day was read by the two Ministers to their respective guests. The .company, all appeared in Court Costume. • Viscount Melbourne's dinner party was given at his official residence in Downing-streel, and the following were the Peers present : The Earl Sp e ncer an d th e Marquis of Clanricarde, the Mover and Seconder of the Address, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the Dukes of Norfolk, Somerset, Sutherland, and Bedford ; Marquises of Anglesea, Westminster, Lansdowne, Head fort, and Normally ; Earls of Radnor, Fitzbardinge, Cla rendon, Errol, Surrey, Charlemont, Lichfield, Bruce, and Albetharle ; Viscount Duncannon ; Lords Foley, Byron, Vivian, Lilford, Kinnaird,and Potimore. Lord John Russell's dinner party was given at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, to a: large party of c", Members of the House of Commons, including th e E arl of Listowel; Viscounts Ebrington and Palmersto n; L ords Seymour, M. Hill, Dalmenv, and A. Paget ; th e Attor ney-General; Sirs T. Trowbridge, J. Hobhouse, and G. 'Grey ; Right HonourableS G. S. Byr.g, R. L. Shiel, Fox Maule, H. Labouchere, 'l'. B. Macaulay, T. B ar in g and R. Vernon Smith; Hon. W. Cowper ; C o l onels Fox and Anson ; Captains Plumside and Deans Dundas ; Messieurs Tufnell, Rutherford, J. Parker, Pigot, More Horsman, J. Howard, - W. Clay, C. 'Buller, and Bannerman. Messrs. Bowes, Hutt, Wilshere, T. Duncombe, and D. Salomons, had interviews with the Marquis of Nor manby yesterday at the Home-office. A very numerous meeting of Members of the House of Commons was held yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office, at four o'clock. Soon after that hour Lord John Russell arrived at the Foreign-office, and was Shortly . followed by the Chancellor of the Exchquer, Sir George Grey, and Mr. Labouchere. The meeting broke up at half-past four o'clock. The Tories duly record any solitary cheer, how ever faint, with which any of their party may be greeted, We have the satisfaction of stating on the authority of an eye and ear witness that Lord Melbourne, on leav ing the House of Lords on Thursday, was greeted by loud and general cheering, as he passed to his carriage ; and that a considerable number of respectable persons fol lowed th o ON'riilp to Downing-street, to greet his Lordship with similar demonstrations as he entered hi official residence. 310NEY ai.d CO AIIVIE ItC;I L WS CITY, MONDAY EVEN ING . • There was a very dull market for the public Securities to-day. The continuatio n on C o n so l s was rat h er hi gher, viz. pt. cent., and. in one or two instances quotations for October were -made as high as 89k to 90. For immediate transfer Consols were 89k to 4., .and for . account or the settling day on Thursday, the linne. Ex chequer Bilis improVed a little, .having touched 13s. and I6s. premium, and India Bonds were at 3s. to 6s. prern. Bank Stock was worth.l69, and the New Three-and-a- Half per Cents, brought 981 to 9q. The Reduced Three per Cents. were 894 toe. There was rather more business doing in Spanish Stock, but. in the other Securities only. a bargain here and there. The Active Spanish Bonds were steady at 19i to 20 for money, and got nplo 20k and 20f for ac count. Portuguese New Five per. Cents, were dull at 30, and the. Three per Cents, at 18. Colombian Bonds were at 20+ to 201 ; and Mexican at 20 to 20k. The ..:Outch.TWo-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 51 to 51:4, and the Five per Cents, at 1011. With the exception of a decline in Great Western there was no particular alteration in the Share Market_ (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 21.—We have had rather an inoifferent business in the Cotton market to-day, the sales not amounting to more than 3,000 bales, all to the trade. In export or speculation. nothing has been done ; prices remain steady. •• LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 21.—A rather limited business has been transacted at the Stock Ex change this day, but the rates have undergone no altera tion, Eastern Counties, ; ditto Debentures, 8 3-16 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 42; Liverpool and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 44 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 Birmingham, 160 ; Ditto, Old, 321., 53 7 f ; Manchester, .Bolton, and Bury, 55 ; Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 23 ; Lon don and South Western, Tenths, 1/. is. 6d..; Bank of Stockport, 3. The Guiana Times, of the 9th, states that the discredit thrown on the transaction of the Troughtons, by their own statement, is only agravated by what took place at the meeting of yesterday. The attempts of Messrs. Ferguson and Rose to whitewash their friends do not restore him his purity in the eyes of a discerning public. Private advices received from Montreal to the sth in stant, state that money, during the last fortnight, has been unusually scarce, and hardly obtainable on the best town paper. Exchange on London—Bank, 10 per cent. ; private 9. The appearance of agricultural matters being so much more favourable, the Corn Markets, both in this country and in the northern ports, as we learn by the accounts just come . to hand, via Hamburgh, are becoming flatter. Here the decline in English wheat to-day is about Is. per, uarter on Friday's rates, and is 4s. lower than on this day week. The arrivals of foreign wheat and flour are still liberal. In France prices still keep up, and the prospects of the yield do not seem over satisfactory. Belgium already admits wheat duty free. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bulk Stock 169 India Stock • ••• ---. 3 per Cent Red. 89 71 Ditto Bonds 6pm 3 per Cent Cons B9i Ditto Old Annuities ... 3} per Cent Red.. New 3i per Cent 96i (Ea, Bills, 1,000/....21c1 14 pm New 5 per Cent — j Ditto 500/ l5 pm Long Annuities toe x pi re I I)itt Small l6 pm Jan. 1860 .. 12 15.16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 18.59 — India Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. i ',The Foreign Funds show no alteration. BELGIAN I, UN DS—Bousaims, Auc. 21. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan ' 5 per C:r• Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 93 Sper Cent. 71% .(1,:40) lOll Loan of City, P;32, 4 per Cent. ........ 91 Society of Comms.rce, 4 per Cent 93% Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.. ......... 74 NationalSsciety. Exchange on London (short) ». ..11 95 —Brussels Papers, Aug. 21. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, AM. 12 Fiveper Cents. Metalliques Foal per Three wir Cents. ..... ..... .. 7r% Bank Shares :584 Zeliung, Aug. 18 HA SIBU 1113 BORSENHALLE, Auo. 20. Bills. Money A ustnan per Cents. Bank Shares ill: 95 Anolo.ltussian Loan 1 0 ,14 Ars% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Se.:l , s lO2 101% Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series 93 97,i; Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840) 86% 3i 0; fin Dutch , s ctual Debt, 2;.6 pe, Cent LO.4 Ditto 5 per Ce. , t Polish Bonds New Picket Anglu.Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 75% 75% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. H smatnio. At *.• 0 —l3 514.—Tw0 months, 13 :33g RIGA. AUG. 12. —Three Months, 393¢. l'oToissourtcri, AUG. 13.—Two months, 39 pence PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— Boman, AUG. 1". Bids Mrney St. Schuld. Sch., 4 1 ,,, per cent. 114% 103 , r Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 101 Ts, NI% Exchange on London, three months 6 17% —Prussian State Gazette. Aug. 18. Thirty.seven, WEEKLY STATEMENT OF LON DON LETTERS, AUG. 23, 1841. THROUGH THE GENERAL POST. Four weeks ending Aug. 21, 1841 Corresponding period of 1840 Ditto as nearly as can be given of 1839 Increase since 1840 on the four weeks' letters 1,499,738 Ditto 1839, ditto 3,869,029 THVOUGH THE DISTRICT POST._ Four weeks ending Aug. 21, 1841 Corresponding period of 1840 Ditto as nearly as can be given of 1839 Increase since 1840 on the four weeks' letters 138,924 Ditto 1839 ditto 574,278 THE SOCIALISTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sra—The Central Board of the Universal Community Society of Rational Religionists have had their attention called to a leading article in your paper of Saturday, wlurein you state that several Socialist preachers pr::- sented themselves at the Manchester Conference as Christian ministers, and, being known, were refused admittance ; and you then proceed to assert that this re fusal was proper, as the Socialists, if admitted, would on all occasions, have propounded their own nostrums as a remedy for the admitted distress. As these remarks are calculated so seriously to mislead the public, with regard to the facts of the case, the Board rely on your impartiality, as a public journalist, for the insertion of the following explanation of the subject :—The ministers sent to the Manchester Conference by our Society were persons who had been compelled, contrary to their wishes, to take the oaths necessary to constitute them Dissenting ministers, and went for the purpose of ascer taining whether the true spirit of Christian charity would be manifested by the preachers of all denomina tions, to the extent laid down in the address which called the meeting. Had the persons sent by this So ciety been admitted to the Conference the Board have every reason to believe their conduct would have been such as would have shown to the public that the Society is actuated solely by the desire to relieve the distress which now exists to such a lamentable extent, and that, although they would not have attributed every existing evil to the Corn-laws,they would have been prepared to support measures, not only for the total abolition of those laws, but also of every other existing monopoly. With re gard to the state of the working classes, and the confi dence they have of relief from any proposed measures hitherto submitted to their consideration, the Board be lieve their delegates would have been enabled to bring strong evidence which would have been highly valuable to the Conference. In conclusion, the Board are desirous of stating they would regret that any part of their proceedings should show, even momentarily, to the public a desire to im pede the general progress of commercial freedom. By order of the Board, WM. GALPIN, V.P. Central Board Office, 57, Pall-mall, Aug. 23, 1841. SHOCKING ACClDENT.,—Saturday morning, be— tween three and four o'clock, Benjamin Farley, a-market gardener, who was coming up to Farringdon-market with a waggon loaded with fruit, fell off the shafts, on which he had .been riding, in the New Kent-road, and one of the wheels passed over his cheek. He was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, but is not expected to survive. • SUlClDE.—Yesterday Mr. Higgs, the Co roner :fur - Westminster, received information of the 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 was 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 hours ; and, on his return home went up stairs to bed, without taking his supper, which was a most unu sual circumstance. At four the next morring, the boy who sleeps in the shop, and who had heard his master• walking about during the night, saw him come in, and pace up and down for some minutes, but said nothing. He returned to his bed-room, and not coming down at 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 medical assistance procured, but he was quite dead. We regret to state that the Hon. Lieutenant- Colonel Molyneux expired yesterday at his house in Arlington-street. On Saturday his disorder assumed such a serious aspect that expresses were forwarded to the Dowager Countess of Sefton, at Stoke Farm, and in the afternoon the Countess and the Ladies Molyneux arrived in Dover-street. The Hon. and Gallant Gen tleman has been gradually losing his strength since Sir Benjamin Brodie perfarmed the operation, and although that eminent surgeon and Dr. Chambers have been in constant altendance on him, his complaint has defied their skill. HAMBURG, AUGUST 20.—The corn is all got in in Southern Germany. The Bavarian farmers boast how rich they have become. Only in the Pala tinal the harvest is not remarkable for abundauce or good quality. EXCURSION TO SHEERNESS.—The Lords of the Admiralty, at the request of Mr. Northhouse, have given permission to the Star Steamer to lay alongside of the Camperdown, and inspect the Trafalgar and the other ships at the Nore, on Thursday next, or colditcit of a provi s i on b e i ng ma d e out o f tip ppqppeds, for the benefit of the poor inf4nt borit:Ou houtt. the Star on the 19th ult. A SUBSCRIBER. MEN OF DIFFERENT COLOURS, Viz.:-1 Green, 1 Grey, 1 Scarlett, 2 Browne, 1 White, and 1 SoMbre. BIRDS AND BEASTS, as will be presently seen, and, TAYLORS and BODKINS, 8:c, &c. The disposition of the electors seems to have been as strangely various : for example, those of Barnstaple, Sligo, New Ross, and North Salop, were most sangui , . nary. all of them crying out successfully for Gore, while those of Shoreham were for Goring. On the other hand, the voice of the Tories for Middlesex and Breck nockshire, and of the Liberals of London, Southwark, Halifax, and Kendal, is peaceably - echoed th roug h t h e Woods. Th e wishes of the Dorsetshire people repose quietly on Bashes;' those of the' Fermanagh Burghers float upon a Brook; tho'se of the Wick. Burgh ers are reflected in a Loch; and the iiihabitantS.of,F.ve sham and North Salop look pleasantly towards the Hills: The Elgin Burghers are delighted to have got in their Hay this season, as they had lost it for several Years. The electors of Frome 'are very appropriately under the guidance of a Sheppard. The good citizens of Waterford trust some to a Reade, whilst others look consdently to Christmas for the accomplishireut of their wishes. The_people of West Norfolk, in the true spirit of Cern- Servatism, have put their interests in a Bagye—those of Stamford trust them to their Clerk—those of Bridge water to their Forman —those of Cirencester to their Master. The votes of Newark and North Leicester were caught by winning Manners. The electors of Radnor have their Price. Hertfordshire employs a Ryder, Bury a Wailer, and Nest Surrey a Trotter. The Member for Cashel re mains Stock still. North and West Worcester return really Knights of the shire. Winchester looks vigilantly to the East, Dublin to the West, and South Durham watches the Vane. Cambridge refers its matters to LAW. Corrickfergus confides in its KIRK. The Tories of South Northumberland were summoned by a Bell, and have agreed to concentrate their voice in its clapper. York sends forth its new Member, Mr. Yorke, with the premonitory counsel, " Remember, I am York to." North Devon, Bath, and Newcastle, are respectively represented by a Buck, a Roebuck, and a Hinde. A Bear (Bruen) dances in front of Carlow, a Hogg bristles up for Beverley, and a Fox has stolen into the Tower Hamlets. Tewkesbury, Galway, and Newport have chosen Mar. tins to twitter in their behalf. The electors of Dudley have sent up Hawkes to pounce upon their opponents. Peterborough has chosen from its swamps a long-necked Heron, and the amphibious folks of Dartmouth a Seale. Tlpt sportsmen of South Leicestershire let loose again their Tory Packe in the purlieus of St. Stephen. Tipperary has shut up her interest in a Cave, and the temperance men of Kilkenny have not yet discharged their Butl!r. Foreign influence would seem to have intrigued itself into some parts of the empire ; else, why should a Fliming sit for Hants —why should Roscommon throw herself under French protection, or Hastings under that of 11(11»cd ? The men of Carnarronshire have raised their Pennant, Westminster has chose a Leader, and Wexford, though weak in numbers, displays Power. Scarborough has guarded itself with a Trench. Gateshead takes shelter beneath a Hutt Guildford behind a Wait , Linlithgowshire, Maidstone, and Weymouth, each trusts to a Hope. North Wilts (of Green-cheese celebrity), and Maldon have been guided in their choice by the dimensions of their Representatives, quality bein g o f m i nor considera tion, so they have selected one. Long, the other Round. Christchurch is proud of having sent the only flower to Parliament—a blushing Rose. The imprudent constituents of Wigan, Bradford, and Worcester must have a care to the disposition of their Members. The first is Crosse, the second Hardy, and the third WWe. None of these qualities are suitable to the steady purpose of legislation. The §yeaker, whether conservative or Liberal,, who, may have to control so heterogenous a mass as that or which the abdve is a sample, will need every particle of wit that lies under his big wig. G. C. P. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. ROME C l RCUlT—Croydon, August 23. (Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL and a Common Jury.) SHILLIBEER V. THE GREENWICH RAILWAY CO3IPANY. The plaintiff in this action sought to recover compensa tion for having been compelled, as the declaration stated, to walk along the railway, and there not being suffi cient light and protection for the prevention of an acci dent, that he had fallen upon the iron rails, and had thereby injured himself severely. The defendants pleaded, firstly, ' Not Guilty, and secondly, that the plaintiff had been warned that it was dangerous to walk along the railway, but that he had persisted in doing it, and had brought the accident upon himself. Evidence was given, and the Lord Chief Justice hav ing addressed the Jury,- they returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages 251. An elderly retired officer was returning home, two evenings ago, after dining with a friend at Neuilly, when he fancied he saw his wife walking arm in arch with a young man who was a stranger to him. Impelled by jealousy, and perhaps somewhat excited by the good cheer he had been partaking of, he instantly seized the lady by the arm, and uttered a violent interjection. The lady screamed, an d at once t h e o ffi cer found he was mis taken, but, before lie could make any apology, the gm p tleman who was with h er h a d k noc k e d hi m down. T he passers-by, as hasty a s th e f a ll en veteran, seized the , young man, and were a b ou t t o commi t him to the cus tody of the police, when the first offender recovered his senses, and stopped them by saying that the gentleman had only done what be himself would undersimilar cir cumstances, and that he was too happy in finding he deceived himself to entertain any resentment. He' then got into a coach and went home, but the irritation occa sioned by what had passed was so sever e th at i t b rought on a severe attack of paralysis, and the old officer now lies in a deplorable state of helplessness. The Havre Journal mentions an incident which occurred to some whal e -fi s h ers during a recent voyage, which, it observes, would be incredible, if it were not attested by the Captain and his men. Captain Deglos, of the Gustave whaler, was fishing off the coasts of New Holland, and was giving chase in a boat with five men to a large cachalot whale, which they soon came up with and harpooned. The animal, as soon as he felt the instrument, went down perpendicularly, and carried out a great quantity of line. The crew remained with their oars raised waiting for his re-appearance, when on a sudden they saw an enormous jaw rise ou each side of the boat, far above the gunwale, which was thus caught in the mouth of the whale, and was ready to be crushed in an instant ! The men were so parlysed by fear, that they could not obey the Captain's orders to get out their saws and work away at the an i ma l' s mouth ; but gra d ua ll y t h e j aw s began to sink, and a f ter giving th e b oat ' s s id e a terr ibl e grating disappeared be neath the water. One of the : men fainted away on his seat when all was over. The whale was taken, an d pro duced 75 barrels of oil and spermaceti, and the boat still bears the marks of his jaws ! The Federal of Geneva states that the Count de Bombelles,Austrian Minister in Switzerland, has recently received further dispatches from Prince Metternich, in structing him to recommend the Confederation to ob serve punctually the terms of the Federal Compact, and not to follow a radical line of policy, which may lead to the destruction of the Confederation. The remonstrances of Austria, on the affair of the convent of Muri, are not renewed for the moment, because that Power is confi dent, the Prince says, .that the Diet will not allow the convent to be suppressed. But if the Federal power should be too weak to cause the compact and the law to be observed by Argau, then the Emperor will feel him self obliged to us e a ll t h e means i n his power for enforc ing his rights with regard to this convent. Prussia, Rus sia, and France support this note. In the evening of the 17th inst., the day of the Duk e d'A uma l e ' s arr i va l with his regiment at Va lence, the Municipality gave his Royal Highness a grand ball, and the town wa:, illuminated. On the Duke's ar riving in the town, his Royal Highness received compli mentary addresses from the Mayor and the Prefect. The Prince's replies were as follow :—" M. le AN N , do not accept for myself the eulogiums which yen A m pleased to bestow, but I will accept them for the 'l7th regiment, which has so well merited them by its labours and com bats in Africa, I hope in time to merit them in my turn, and thus to justify your hopes and my own. I am, however, very grateful to you for the sentiments whiob you have just expressed in the name of Ow inhabitants of Valence." "M. le Preftt,....)Vp ape. as you say, in our family, friAn foli t ql IA on, devoted to France. Our Sole de§ilti=ltill 4 4 Mute also—is to do somethi ng f or h a p, 4mi we sha I be happy to shed our blood in her ser vice. In the name of the 17th light infantry, I thank you for the flattering things which you have said." The Constitutimd 4latesi that M. Humann has deekle4 01l preventing, ka W 1104.0 Totsible, the melting down, by money-changers knd others, of the five-franc Pieces of particular coinage, which contain a small portion of gold, and performing the same operation for the public benefit. According to the Constitutionne/, private s necuNeg a 1-01143 realised not less than t wenty bf francs from melting down these five franc pieces, but there are still enough in circulation to yield a profit of twelve to fifteen millions to the Treasury, by a similar operation. • . :TORY MIS-STATEMEW TS. TO TEE EDITOR OF TEE SUN. Sin—Will yon allow me to draw your attention to a gross mis-statement (to use a mild term) put forth in 1.1 icku•ood's Mugazoie for July, and also in the alunial Magazine; in both of - which a table of the comparative rate of daily wages in England and - Other countries (care fully - excluaingArnerica) is liven, and the wages of An English - agricultural labourer Stated - to be - 15.._101, or • I is, .a week. • The waifes in thi4 county (DeronShire) are and there has been. no- variation during the - last five years, though corn -has varied in - price from 40s. to 80s. (so much for cheap - corn making -low wages). In some other counties, it is well known, the wages are only Bs., and even less. Perhaps the constructors of the table in question will mention the counties in which wages are 13s. and 14s. a week, which they must be, to make the average I Is. The statement that the millions in this country, who are d e p en d ent on agriculture, use on an average LI worth of manufactured goods each annually, is too absurd to impose on the most credulous. I am, Sir, yours,'Ste., THE NEW PARLIAMENT. The follouing brief analysis exhibits the strange va riety of character contained in the newly-elected Parlia ment of the United Kingdom. It is as great a curiosity in its kind as Noah's Ark, or the Tower of Babel. We find in it— - MORNING SUN MADAME LAFFARGE. We extract the following from the Gazette des Tri bunaux :—As we have already announced, the affair of Madame Lafarge is already decided, and unless the ap peal .she has made to the Court of Cessation be admit ted, the judgment against her bt• default i s a b so l ute l y confirmed. Th e y. wrote to us from Tulle, on the 19th, that all the witnesses have quitted the town. M. Brissot -Thivars has forwarded to us the following letter, dated Guadalaxara, 17th February, with a request that we would insert it : "My dear Sister —lt appears that- you have been sadly tormented on my account, in the prosecution of Madame Laffarge. Who could ever have guessed that this woman would set up such a defence ! For my part, I cannot conceive how - any advocate could take upon himself to bring forward such evident calum- Mes. I have no fear that my reputation will sutler on this account. It results from my letter, since they have done me the honour to read it on the trial, that Mdile. Capelle was the inventor of an itrigue, in which she showed a nascent talent. AS to poor Mine. de Leotaud, she remained a long time foreign to it ; as soon as Elie became acquainted with it, she immediately entreated me to think no more about her, and craved my pardon for having been the innuedut cause of vexation to me. During the whole of the title I passed in Africa, I never heard the names of the two ladies mentioned, except that that they were married, and then I was so ignorant of the name of the husband of Marie Capelle, that I paid little attention to the murder of M. Lafferge. Could I imagine that matter would arise out of it to bring me before the public ? This has given me but little concern on my own account, but I suffer from the idea that Mme. de Leotaud should be tor mented for me, who have never thought of her but with sentiments of the deepest respect, without hopes, without delusive expectations. It is so long since we have spoken to or seen each other, that I never could have expected that we should be reminded of each other in a manner so unpleasant Nevertheless, no persons of understanding will suffer themselves to be deceived by this calumny, and M. de Leotaud, as I learn from France, conducts himself with perfect propriety towards his wife. In this he does well, for nothing can be more worthy ofour respect than a young woman unjustly calumniated. If we -lived in a more frank and loyal age, when the purest sentiments were not unworthily perverted, I should . have yielded to the first dictates of my heart, and le," written to the husband of this unfortunate lady, ing that his w if e was worthy of his love, an" . deserved all his affection. But would" . he 'have li`,cened to my words ? Might he not have replied—W',y do you inter fere? What right have you to defend P. person with whom e': efore suffered things you have no connexion ? I 6 attempt at her justifi to take their course, thinkingli.„ ) .- cation by me would dov M, 'came de Leotaud mere harm than my silence. Ciec'emstances speak so plainly for themselves, that none but people of bad faith can doubt, and lam satisfied that my silence will be rightly con strued. What aiei,earance can my asking money to in sure my silence have, if I had a right to claim a different recompense ? As if love could pass away so quick, and so far become degraded, as to barter with its object for a bag of piastres ? This may have been believed by those who know me not, and the contempt I have ever felt for riches. Ido not mean to say by this that Ido not wish for money, but I love it only as it would raise me to the rank .of . her I aspired to, and not that it should place be tween her and me the insurmountable barrier of con tempt. However, my ambition has been gratified in a strange manner. I have sought for fame, and calumny has answered me from the depths of a dungeon, while Poesy looked on smiling in pity.—FELIX CLAVET." DUBLIN, AUGUST 21.—A lucrative appoint.. ment has become vacant this day by the death of Max well Blacker, Esq., Chairman of the County Dublin, and one of the Counsel to the Excise. The chairmanship was worth about 1,2001. a year, and the other situation about 5001. It is generally supposed that Mr. Monaghan, late Counsel to the Castle, will be nominated to these several appointments. " The rains," says the Courrier Francais, " have had the effect of . pushing vegetables in some in• stances to a monstrous size. In the plain of St. Denis onions have been gathered weighing a pound each, and roots of beet of 101bs. each, which will yield half a pound of sugar."—We doubt these weights. A letter of the 30th ult., from Bucharest, in the Moniteur Parisien, gives the following particulars of the late disturbances at Braila :—"Parties of Bulgarians and Servians, united in arms under a leader named Datitsch, declared to the authorities of Wallachia their determina tion to cross the Danube and give succour to their fel low-counfiymen, who had been ill-treated by the Turks. Notwithstanding the opposition of the magistrates, these men raised a standard, issued proclamations, and began to conduct themselves in a manner which threw the whole of the inhabitants into a state of terror. The troops of the garrison not being sufficiently strong to re press the insurrection, the people of the country were called in, and they came armed with all kinds of rude weapons. The magistrates, thus finding themselves am ply reinforced, informed the insurgents that th e y were at liberty to g o over t h e river in aGreek vessel pointed out to them. They accordingly marched down to the shore, and thus lost their vantage-ground. They had necessarily to pass th roug h t h e quarantine building, and when they .were once•within it the gates were closed be hind them. On reaching the vessel they were unable to make use of it, as her sails and tackle were all taken out, and in fact they were caught in a trap. The troops and their irregular auxiliaries fell upon the deluded party, and they were soon entirely subdued, with the loss of - about twenty killed and wounded." 'A fine *tun; by Rubens, from the Royal col lection at Munich, was sent some time since to a porce lain manufactory at that place to be copied. It was be lieved to have been Stolen from thence, and had certainly disappeared. The :police, h owever, ma d e a strict search, and found that one of the:persons connected with the establishment had taken it out of the frame, and secreted it under the flour of a garret in the building. Fortu nately the picture was uninjured, and the thief has been sent to prison. A New York Journal states that a boy hav ing got his father's snuff box, indulged so immoderately in the titillating dust that lie sneezed himsdf to pieces. His remains having been gathered up, a Coroner's In quest was held over them, when the enlightened Jury returned a verdict of " Snuffed out." A physician of Narbonne, named Gautier, was a few days siii3e returning in a cabriolet, from a country house on the Canal de la Bobine, with his wife, her bro ther, and child, when the horse suddenly took fright, backed, and fell into the canal, dragging with him the carriage, and all who were in it. Dr. Gautier, being in front, easily gained the land, and the infant, which floated. by its long clothes, was taken out of the water without injury ; but Madame Gautier, who was only 25, and her brother 17, were drowned, and their bodies were not discovered till next morning. The horse was stifled in the mud. A letter from Geneva states,—On the 31st ult. several Communes of Soleure.held a grand festival, commemoration of the anniversary of the adoption of the Bernese Constitution. The provisions for the feast were taken to the summit of a mountain. An immense bonfire was made in the evening, which, however, occa sioned a lamentable accident. As the Mimes began to subside, a blacksmith, named Girard, remarked for his violent Radicalism, raised One of the brands which had fallen from the heap, and kicked it with his foot into the fire, exclaiming, "So would I have every aristocrat served !"' In doing this, his foot slipped, and he felt back over a precipice 300 feet deep. Ile was killed on, the spot--leaving a widow with three children, and a fourth in expectancy, whom the aristocrats he reviled will have to maintain." • According to our advices from Beyrout, which are dated the 14th ult., says the Temps—" The Porte was disposed to grant the people of the Libanus the pri vileges they claim, and reduce their tribute to 3,000 purses (375,000 f.), viz., 1700 as a tribute to the Sultan. and 1,300 for the expenses of the Emir and the Govern ment. The mountaineers were then quiet. An Austrian' ship of war had arrived a few days before at Beyrout, bringing to Selim Pacha a sabre, richly ornamented, as a present from the Archduke Frederick, who was his companion in arms at the capture of Saida. The Aus trian Consul received by the same conveyance a med--5, and the insignia of an order, which were deliverd to hint when on his death-bed. The Captain of the Adstrian ship afterwards•went to Lebanon with the Consul's dra gothan, and delivered to the Pacha from the Archduke 100,000 f., half of which is to be applied in repairing the churches, and the other distributed among such inhabit ants as have most suffered from the late war. Advices from St. Petersburgh state that ',m ere has not been a single day o f ra i n t h ere for the, l ast two months. The drought h as b een so great, that in two thirds of Russia th e corn w i ll be parchr,d up and unpro ductive. According to the census of the population of Naples made for last year, the iP l Aabitants of the capital amounted, on the Ist of January last, to 337,865. The births had been 13,916,, and deaths, 13,465. Among the latter was that of a woman at 103, and those of 1 9 9 other persons between 90 and 100. As the mail wr.; passing, on Sunday l ast, tween Bordeaux and Toulouse, the horses to;li. fright at precipice, killed the & elver and the horses, a some enrts, near Toulouse, ran awai, dragged t h e car radgthea courier's le; , , The bags were s en t on to i n e b r over oke Toulouse, but not till ar.',,er considerable delay. M. Rey s Cure of Gonceliti in the Isere, waR tried, on 'le 13th inst., before the assize for the depart gregation, s a id th at t h e revolution of 1793 was iitehi, fur having, in the e xerc i se o f his ministry, and be fore a con sanguinary, but produced great good in abolishing the noblesse • that he had ma d e vows for a similar revolution because the rich would become servants to the poor, and that all would be brought to the level of equality. Ile had also said, " The bad King who governs us is a Ci tizen King, but is in accord with the rich to crush the people, and you po or people must unite with the clergy this new (fur the clergy are al so part of the people), and then King, this Citizen King, will fall like the others, and we shall become the Government." The Jury re turned a verdict of guilty, and the Cure was sen t ence d to six months' i mprisonment, a fine of 6001'., and to pay the costs of the prosecution. ' A FORGER IN TUNIS,--A letter from Tunis gives the following Recount of the punishment for forgery, i n t h e sale of some p ro p erty of a person of som e note, performing there similar functions to thou of a notary in France. Immediately after con viction of the offence, his right hand was cut oir, rather dexterously, and the wrist was dipped in boiling pitch to check the Weeding. This being done, he was placed upon an ass, with his face turned towards the tail, and the saverecl hand suspended over his back, and paraded through the streets of Tunis, after which he was taken to his house, without having lost public consideration, as., amongst the Mussulmans, the infamy of the crime does not outlive the punishment~ , Galignuni's Messenger es