The Sun. — London, England, 1841-07-27 00:00:00

EV FAN iNC-1 StIN. TUE LEVANT MAIL. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, JULY 6.—Nothing new since the de- Par tare of the Envoys to Constantinople in the Nile tamer, with th e P ac ha's official acceptance of the me -24%1 hatti scheriff. Said Bey, the Paella's younger m a., did pro cee d in the Boulac steamer to Constantino ;-,,91', accompanied by Sami Bey. Valuable presents a r e to be with them, which, no doubt., judiciously ap plied, c e4, will produce an ' alteration in the amount of tri bute. Conjecture is rife as to Said Rey's errand—that he t will be made a Pacha is likely—and:people go so far as o That he will geu one of the Sultan's sisters for a wife. '"at would n o t b e a bad move, in the present position of fairs in Turkey. %tbrahim Pacha is in Alexandria, making a bargain ::Ith some of the merchants for the produce of his lands In the shape of 80,000 ardebs of barley and beans. Free trade is just where it was—in the distance. The Nile Is rising favourably. Plague ceased. ....Latest d a t es —B om b a y, M a y 22 ; London, June 15 ; Marseilles, June 9 1 ; Constantinople and Malta, June 27 . July 5 . The Pacha's steamer Nile left this on the hat ult. with Muhib Effendi and the other Turkish ( dicers, an d 250,000 d o ll ars on accou nt of tribute. His Highnes s gave 1,000 purses to Muhib Effendi, and 300 to his followers. On the Ist inst. the Hadji Baba started also for Constantinople with Said Bey and Sami Bey ( \ L a " of Mehemet Ali). The first to show the Sultan his _, 9 P Pacha's) confidence in him, and the latter to arrange nil minor details. In a few daye a vessel is to be despatched with five Arabian h orses an d a r hi n oceros for the Sultan, and a J ew presents for his Ministers. TURKEY. (From the Journal de Smyrne.) CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 7.—The Egyptian steamer the Nile, announced several days ago, arrived yester . morning, Thursday, having on board his Excel itcy Said Muhib Effendi, Envoy Extraordinary of the Su n blime Porte in Egypt, and Kiamal Effendi, bearer to Alexandria of his Highness's last hatti scheriff. On pass tng before the Pointe du Serail the Nile fired a salute of twenty -one guns, which was returned by an Ottoman fr igate at anchor before Top Kauhe. She afterwards *, anchored at the entrance of the port. In the course of th e day she came to the Lazaretto to land the above named functionaries, who are to go into quarantine twelve days. She then left and took up her station in ,the harbour. 4 .._This steamer had also on board five millions of pins `'."sl, sent by the Paella of Egypt to the Sublime Porte, ° 4 eccount of the annual tribute, and was also commis ned to announce the arrival of the Pacha's son, Said ~ who, accompanied by Sarni Effendi, the Pacha's morning, secretary, came in yesterday, at seven in the Z b rnie ,, , on board the Egyptian Government steamer, ..`ue Rechit. They were received with the usual salute, alld the steamer ran up the Asiatic bank of the Bospho rus to Silvi Bornou, above Couleli, where r ich tents had b een prepared for the suite; who are to perform quaran tine here. Said Be is to present the Sultan some presents from Mehemet Ali . f the greatest magnificence. Amongst other things, several superb Arabian horses; a is also the bearer of rich presents to some of the high fu nctionaries of the empire, who contributed to the solu . It is of the difference between the Sultan and his fathe r. is generally believed that one of the principal objects °` this mission is to obtain the reduction of the tribute ; , 11 e thing is certain, Said Bey is the bearer of a letter 'Coin his father to the Grand Vizier, in answer to that sent him by the latter at the same time as the hatti-sche 1r concerning the Government of - Egypt. In the letter 'teheinet Ali, after an enumeration of the conditions im iped upon him, assures himself determined to conform tereto. in all, and for all, and ends by the greatest pro stations of devotedness and gratitude. 0 11 Friday th e Ministers and the public functionaries of the empire went to the Grand Vizier's house, where Zia met in C ounc il E x tr ao rdi n ary. This meeting, which Z ia not break up till late at night, referred to the de t" of Mehemet Ali on the reduction of the tribute. _ls generally believed that this diminution is a quarter ‘n the total amount of the tribute, fixed now at 3 3 0 1 0°43,000 p iastres instead of 40,000,000. This de.?.isien be r en d ere d pu bli c as soon as i t h as b ee n sanctioned o byhis highness. MALTA. M ALT 'Col ow JULY 15.—The Oriental on the 13 th br ou g ht li e Barnett, the new Consul-General for Egyp t. pro ece The p ,ds to Constantinople and then to Alexandria. Sir John °,lYphe mu G.C.B.,s, from M on his warseilles,ay to on tPersia. he 14th b Sir W. rought eS n°lls, Surveyor to the Navy, also came by the l ental- The above party will have one of her Majesty's ist eamers to convey them to Athens, Constantinople, and Irebisond. The Prometheus is the vessel named. We are glad to observe that our relations with Persia are to be renewed. There was to have been a grand illumination of the Carmelite church this evening, but it was discovered yes terday that the festival plate of the church had been car ried off, value about 8001., and the priests, friars, &c. are all iu commotion. The illumination, &c. will not take P l ace- This church is almost adjoining the Queen Dow ager's new church. Latest dates :—London, sth instant ; Marseilles, 10th; lllihay, 22d May ; Alexandria, 6th instant ; Constan , ul ciae, 7th instant. The Oriental sailed on the 14 th instant, at ten o'clock, P.m. Ma jesty's • , The Right H on . Si r J o h n M'Xeil, G.C.8., her Ma- JtyMinister at the Court of Persia, arrived this morning in the Polyphemus, from Marseilles, and will ceed i n h er t o C ons t an ti no ple on Friday morning s uext, calling at Athens, as will Sir William Symonds, f r . eYor of the navy, who arrived yesterday by the •••rie ntal. Our port is without particular movement. We collect ~ following items of her Majesty's fleet in the Medi terranean tl The Gor go n steam-fri g ate, which left Alexandria on e 5 arrived here on the 10th instant, leaving the Medea ti steam-frigate, the only British vessel of war • er e• The Hazard, from Genoa a nd Le g horn, arrived 0 - Tuesday last. T he Benbow continues at the Pyrmus. 4 , The Ty ne , V esuv i us , Beacon, and Magpie are at Can s, and the Revenge, Inconstant, Wasp, Phcenix, and IStr ombolih, with four Turkish frigates, a co rvette and Roat Beyrout, where there are s tationed, Colonel tai ?se (in command) and six British field . o fficers, Cap ,n Arb u th no t an d several subalterns, sixty art iller y - Z ell with five field pieces, a detachment of en g ineers, d a commissariat. The Car sfort and Weazle were at Corfu on the 7th l kitant. Majesty's steam frigate Gorgon, Captain Render soll, arrived here on Saturday last from Alexandria, Where s h e h as b een sta ti one d f o r three months for diplo stie purposes and protection of British interests at that Port, her Gallant Captain received the most flattering attention from his Highness the Pacha, who exhibited ma ny , 1 proofs of his marked esteem towards him . His igliness has refused to give up the Syrian soldiers _ ordered to do sobyhis master, the Sultan. He has tlered t o put d own t h e insurgents in Candia at a mo •v Inc r i t's notice, by sending 20,0 00 men t o amuse them. e have not heard, however, if this offer has been ac 'epted. Th e officers of the Gorgon gave a splendid fete to the British residents, i n return f or the kind feelings and hos - ita hle conduct evinced towards them now as on ever y former visit, an d w hich forms so prominent a feat ure in the character of that truly hospitable and gay community. L understand the Gorgon is to return so soon as she she has some defects made good, when she anticipates kith much pleasure that that dreadful barrier to social i nt ercourse, plague, will have quite disappeared ; no cases having occurred for some days before her departure . • The Dido arrived at Smyrna from Salonica onthe 28th and left again for Malta on the 2d inst. The Britannia, flag of Admiral Ommanney, Howe and anguard, are expected to sail on Saturday_ next. Their d estination is not known, but is supposed they will pro ceed to Carfu, one of them calling at Sicily. ARRIVALS OF Sun'S OF WAR AND PACKETS July I.—Her Majesty's ship Calcutta, Captain Sir S. Roberts, from Syracuse ; her Majesty's ship Cambridge, Captain E. Barnard, from Syracuse. ' , July 4.—French steam - pac ke t T ancrede , Lieutenant tie Brun, from the Levant. July s.—Neapolitan steamer. Vesuvius. R. Cafiero, • from Naples and Sicily. July 7.--French steam-packet Minos, Lieut. Le Goff, from Marseilles and Italy ; her Ma j est y 's ship Van guard, Captain Sir D Dunn, lrom Goza.. July 10.—The Oriental and Peninsular Company's s teamer Iberia, W. D. Evans, from the lonian Islands ; her Majesty's s teamer Gorgon, W. H. He nderson, Es q ., f rom Alexandria. July 10.—The Oriental and Peninsular Company s • steam er Oriental, J. Soy, Esq., from England and Gib raltar, July 13.—Her Majesty's steamer Polyphemus, Lieut. Evans, from Marseilles • her Majesty s sloop Hazard. C "ininander the Hon. C. G. J. B. Elliot , from Genoa and • L eghorn. DEPARTURES OF SHIPS OF WAR AND PAcKETP. T Julye•i 4.-Her Majesty's ship Rodney, Cap t. R. Maunsel , for the Levant • her Majesty's ship Vang uard, '- : apt. Si r David. Dunn, K.C.8., for the Levant ; h er Ma jesty's ship Cambridge, Capt. E . B arnar d, C. 8., for the 1 "ant ; her Majesty's ship Calcutta, Capt. Sir S . Ro berts, for the Levant ; her Majesty's ship Ganges, Cap t. 13. Reynolds, C.B. for Mahon. July 6.—F It. —French steamer Leonidas, Lieut. Lorin, for Ay and Marseilles. fur Sicily and Naples ; her Majesty's steamer Cyclops , C aptain H. C. Austin, C. 8., for Sicily. B J uly B.—The French steamer Eurotas, Lieut. de Beau - Ste• 0411, fos the Levant. J ulY 13.—The Oriental and Peninsular Company's ~nler Ori en t a l, J. S o y, Esq., for Alexandria. PORT. —The Britannia, 120 (bearing the flag of ',r - Admiral Si r J. A. Ommanney, K.C.8.) ; Ceylon, • ii(oearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir J. Louis, Bart.) ; 104 ; Vanguard, 74 ; Hazard, 18 ; steamers Acheron Al ecto, the Prometheus, Gorgon, Polyphemus ; and French steamers Tancrede and Minos ; and the OH . Lutal and Peninsular Company's steamer Iberia. GOODWOOD RACES.—Bell's Life in London of E.-,'uuday next, August 1, will contain a copious and ori ttPal account of the brilliant meeting at Goodwood, with int , Particul ars o f every race —together with an engrav gof the gold cup, from the manufactory of Messrs. Ga rland.—Bell's Life in London, of Sunday July 25, eoutained engrav i ngs o f t h e Orleans cup, and of the s teward's cup. Price of Bell's Life five pence. It jg re gularly published in time to be sent by the Befit day afternoon railways. The new steamer, Princess Royal, made her P a ssage from Greeno c k to Liverpool on Saturday in 15 ours, and 10 zinutel Leing the quickest on record. SPAIN. OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE LATE ALGESIRAS AFFRAY. The ofli - Aal report of the captain of the felucca Vigi lante, in the attack of the revenue cutter under his com mand, by two smuggling vessels in the bay of Algesiras, is as folio ,vs " The felucca Vigilante, cruising between Tuscara and Santa Barbare, at 9, P.M., perceived in her waters another felucca, accompanied by a smaller craft ; the felucca, on being hailed, gave her name. Her reply to another question was a discharge of fire-arms on the crew of the Vigilate, and at the very moment that the seaman Pedro Porque fell mortally wounded, the following words were distinctly pronounced : ' Let us board and kill all the men of the company.' Ten or twelve men then leapt on board the Vigilante, armed with swords and carbines and in the meanwhile the other craft came up, and the crew shouted aloud Death to all, quarter to none.' I had, says the com mander of the Vigilante, but 11 men on board, and al though we had to deal with 30 men at least, I raised the war-cry of Isabel 11., and my brave men, in answer to my appeal, commenced a terrible struggle—man to man. After a few minutes' affray six smugglers who still re sisted, seeing their comrades fall, asked for quarter, which was instantly granted them. Being thus freed from those who boarded me, I began to give chase to the two ves sels, and I succeeded in capturing the smaller or.e, which was laden with tobacco. The crew succeeded in swim ming ashore, the coast being at no great dis tance. The great felucca escaped, and got into the English waters ; but I heard distinctly the groans of the six wounded men she had on board, and I have since heard that she landed at Gibraltar five men wounded, and three dead bodies. The smugglers kept up a heavy fire of musketry from the shore. The felucca had on board 2,850 lbs. of tobacco, 12 sabres, 10 carbines, one smuggler killed, two grievously wounded, and four prisoners taken on board, for they had all boarded us. We have to deplore the death of the seaman Pedro Porque, and have three slightly wounded. (Signed) " MAUEL MONFILLO. " Countersigned, LLANO ORO Y COMPANIA. " July 11." [This by no means bears out the inference entertained by the Spanish Congress of the English having been a party implicated in what they term the outrage at Al gesiras.] INSURRECTION IN BULGARIA. TRANSLATION OF AN OFFICIAL NOTE ON THE LATE EVENTS IN BULGARIA, DRAWN UP AT THE SUBLIME PORTE. The disturbances lately got up in Nissa, Leskofska, and that neighbourhood, was the work of certain unre flecting Christians, who, unmindful of the quiet and personal tranquillity they enjoyed, foolishly took the path of rebellion, and set out by -various odious and tyrannical acts, which were followed by the murder of respectable Mussulmans and Rayahs, inhabitants of those districts. They next blocked up the highway, menaced the castle of Nice, and sent their families into Servia. In short, an end having been put to all public confidence, and the respectable Rayahs having, by written representations drawn up in due form, prayed that measures might be resorted to to punish the guilty parties, and ensure the return of the previously existing tranquillity, deputies were sent to remonstrate with the rebels, to invite them to sub mission, and to assure them that their wishes, whatever they were, should be made known to the Government, in order that a suitable arrangement in their favour might take place. They, however, refused to lis ten to all such remonstrances, seized the deputies, loaded them with chains and subjected them to a series of indignities, in consequence of which it became absolutely necessary to send against them a body of Albanian troops. for th( purpose of restoring order. These deplorable events occurring within the space of a few days, there was no time for the Government to march regular troops to the spot. On the receipt at Constantinople of the report sent on the affair, the authorities had no choice but a t once to attack and punish the rebels. The Albanians used for this purpose were not content with doing so according to the law of nations, but with their accustomed turbu lence and indiscipline they, very much to the regret of the Sultan, had the audacity to burn the villages, plunder property, take captives, and otherwise behave in a most disgraceful manner. When this' unhappy occurrence came to the knowledge of his Highness, it was a source of the deepest sorrow to him, for although in every country the punishment of rebels is a matter of imperious necessity, still the firing of villages, the plundering of pro perty, and the taking of captives were altogether con trary to law and civilized practices. It was of course indispensable first to put the rebels completely down, and Yacoub Pacha, the Governor of Adrianople, was instructed to repair to the spot and effect this without bloodshed. One of the high officers of the Porte was at the same time especially charged to see that the property and captives taken by the Albanians, were im mediately restored. Certain malicious persons having spread reports that the rebellion was the result of the tyranny and injustice of the local authorities and their bad administration, the facts are stated in order that it may be seen that there is no foundation whatever for such rumours. The truth of the matter is as above described—viz., a disorderly set among the Rayahs themselves, of the districts alluded to, pretending to represent the feelings of the whole Christian population, presented here and there (i. e. not to the Government) petitions with a view of justifying their conduct, obtaining sympathy in their favour, and furthering their own ends, and were exeeed ingly active in making statements totally at variance with facts. Supposing even that the authorities under whom they were placed had, by their conduct, indisposed the population towards the Porte, and that the taxes were heavier than could be borne, was it not reasonable that before they had recourse to rebellion, they should have presented their case to the Government ? Should they not, at least once before revolting, have laid the matter before the Porte and seen whether their demands were granted or not ? They did not, however, per form this duty ; their very first step was rebellion, they pointed their muskets at the authorities, as well as at r espectable Mussulmans and Rayahs, and by: assassination and sundry other atrocities disturbed the peace and tranquillity of the country. Was not this acting con trary to all obedience and subjection ? The hatti-scheriff of Gulhane is ample proof that his Highness the Sultan has, from the commencement of his reign up to the present moment, devoted himself to ameliorate the condition of every class of his subjects, se as to increase their individual happiness. The very principle and basis of that document is the security of persons and property—the preservation of the honour and reputation of all his subjects without distinction. These sacred rights are now shared equally by all. When ever any of the authorities have acted contrary to the principles consecrated in the hatti-scheriff alluded to, they have, without loss of time, been brought to trial, and punished. Sabri Pacha, the Governor of Nice, hav ing been remiss in some respect, although many of the statements in the petition of the Rayahs on the subject of his conduct are palpable exaggerations, or altogether false, the undoubted inventions of a few evil-disposed men, whose sole object was to excite and exasperate the public mind ; yet as some of them are to a certain extent true, it has been judged proper that a suitable examina tion should take place. For this purpose, and particu larly on account of his inability to restrain the Alba nians, and put a stop to their abominable proceedings when he employed them to reduce the insurgent Rayahs, his Highness has been pleased to remove him from his post, and has ordered him to Constantinople to take his trial ; and Lieutenant-General Ismet Pacha, a man cele brated for his protection of the people, has been ap pointed to his place, with the strictest instructions to attend to his duty with respect to the protection of the subjects of the Porte under all circumstances. He has been further ordered to look to the adjustment of the causes which served as a pretext for the late insurrection. The strongest injunctions have, moreover, been sent to all the authorities throughout the empire, to be careful in protecting the Christian population, and in preserving, in fact, their honour and reputation. Besides that his Highness, determined to shield all his subjects from the effects of every sort of injustice and suffering, has sent a suitable sum of money to be distributed among the inha bitants of the Tillage of Raili, who had never joined the rebels, to indemnity them for the wrongs and losses they experienced from the Albanians. From the above details it will be perceived by every one who reads the statement with attention and impartiality (conscience), that the sole origin of the insurrection was the turbulence of certain unreflecting and refractory Ray ahs; that although very improper and deplorable conse quences were the result,theyproceeded,from causes not only beyond the control of the Porte, but entirely against its wishes ; and that such steps were immediately taken to repair the evil as were dictated by prudence and justice ; facts shown by the official documents of the Govern ment. There is no foundation whatever, therefore, for the vague rumours disparaging the reformed regulations of the Porte, to which certain foreign newspapers have given currency. The determination of the Government to pursue its reforms, is placed beyond the reach of doubt, and it is hoped that persons of sense and impar tiality will not give credit to the malicious statements circulated to the contrary effect. MANUFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE— THEIR PAUPERISING PROPERTIES COMPARED.—The fol lowing piece of information, extracted from the Inquiry into the Condition of the Hand-loom Weavers, is im portant at this time, wh3a the value of the manufacturing interest is being run down by the Tory press :—" The most pauperised counties of England are not the manu facturing, but the agricultural counties ; and it is re markable that our best corn lands are more pauperised than the grazing districts. In the corn-growing coun ties of Bedford, Buckingham, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Hertfordshire. the Poor's-rat for the year ending March 25th, 1837, averaged Bs e . 6id. per head. In manufacturing Lancashire, the Poor's-rate amounted to but 2s. 9d. per head ; although Lancashire had not, up to that time, enjoyed the benefits of the economical ar rangements of the Poor-law Amendment Bill, which had been carried into effect in the agricultural counties. Lancashire, moreover, supports a population of 1,336,854 persons, equal to the combined population of the whole of the six counties named." And yet in the face of all this, the fools and knaves of Toryism would have the people believe that a free trade with foreign nations ' by which manufactures in England would be encoura g ed, by which wages, from the greater demand for labour, would be increased, and pauperism, as shown above, diminished—they would make the world believe if they could, that such a free trade would be the greatest curse that could befal the country.—Gateshead Observer. JONATHISM.--A traveller by one of the lines of railway went so fast, that on stopping to water it took three minutes for the shadow to overtake the train. A fellow who wrote a wretched band, and made almost as bad a fist at spelling and grammar, gave as an excuse for the deficiencies of education, " that he never went to school, but one afternoon, and then his master wasn't there. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PATERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—We shall not imitate those who enter into discussions upon the personal composition of a Cabinet yet unformed ; yet we gladly avail ourselves of the op portunity which that circumstance affords to make one or two observations upon the great importance of a con sistent selection of individuals for office. The country looks much, and justly, to the characters of individuals, and does not sympathise with the doctrine which draws a broad line of distinction between public and private morality. The nation, of course, is not to be deprived of the services,of men of pre-eminent talents, mere I be cause the malignity of faction has endeavoured to blacken their names with imputations whieh have been refuted as often as the opportunity of refutation has been given : much less is every passage in the pri vate life of every candidate for office to be submitted to an inquisitorial scrutiny. But no Minister ought to expect the people to place confidence in men whom he does not himself esteem. Above all things, we should regret to see a Conservative Minister following the example of the Whigs, in making exceptionable ap pointments to posts of distinction about the Court and Household of the Sovereign. But we are entitled to as sume that the offices of state will be filled by suitable persons. We pass, therefore, from such considerations, to the more momentous question of the course of policy which the new Cabinet will follow. Sir Robert Peel, in that passage of his Tamworth speech to which we have more than once had occasion to refer, described the Con servative party as being, on the one hand, " not dis posed to resist such changes as the altered circum stances of society may require ;" and, on the other, " determined to maintain on their ancient foundations the institutions of the country in church and state." A neglect to discriminate between questions of ex pediency and questions of principle was one of the weaknesses of the old Tory party, of which the Con servatives have now happily disencumbered themselves. This line ought to be clearly drawn, for the sake both of the character of statesmen and of the public interest. Upon a question of expediency, what is unwise, and therefore wrong, at one time, may be wise, and therefore right, at another ; and a sagacious politician will be more consistent in changing his course according to cir cumstances, than in persevering doggedly in one in flexible line of action. Such variations of policy cannot be disgraceful to any man. The only effect of con founding them with matters of principle would be to place statesmen in a false, and ultimately untenable, Pr Asition. Upon questions of principle, what is right once is right always, and change is inconsistency, and inconsistency dishonour. When Sir Robert Peel stated that the Conservatives were "not disposed to resist such changes as the altered circumstances of society might require," he pledged the Conservative party, or himself as its leader, to allow considerations of ex pediency their full weight in all practical questions, and to follow no rule, except that of common sense and an enlightened and disinterested regard for the public interest, in adjusting the machinery of our laws and in stitutions to the functions which they may from time to time be required to fulfil. This, then, will he the Con servative principle. in the variable matter of politics,— constant improvement, development of useful tendencies, retrenchment of inconsistencies or impediments to good, accommdation to the progress of society, submission to the reasonable expectation of the people. By this rule they will act in questions of trade and commerce ; in financial reforms and legal reforms ; in poliee and sana tory regulations ; in the secondary parts of questions, such as the Poor-law and the laws relating to the Parlia mentary franchise, and indeed in the practical details of every question. They will never compromise their free dom of judgment upon such subjects by laying down the course which expediency may dictate as fit to be pur sued at one moment, as if it were an immutable law, to be followed in every possible event. CHRONICLE.—Among the delinquencies of the Whigs, for which they will be severely overhauled when they shall come to give an account of their stewardship, surely the most unpardonable in a Churchman's eyes will ever be considered the extermination of two Arch bishops and eight suffragans from the roll of the Irish Church. The Quarterly Review may, in mincing phrase, prate about " the enormous folly of the Reform Bill ;" but here is a proof of its enormous iniquity ; and to whom are the thanks of the Christian world due for so flagitious an inroad upon the true faith of the Beres fords ? By the mass, to Lord Stanley. We shudder to record it. His " prentice hand" it was that knocked off the heads of two metropolitans, and rendered the divine right of translation almost an impossible thing. Doubtless he has, at least within these three weeks, repented in sackcloth and ashes, of having dealt such a heavy blow and sad disCouragement to the Christian world ; but of what avail are his tears if they cannot make a Bishop of Ferns ? Who cares for his repentance while nepotism no longer flou rishes upon the Rock of Cashel ? Small comfort are the Noble Lord's afterthoughts to the Murrays, o!Sullivans, and Elringtons, when they see three or four Nonagena rians ready at this moment to soar aloft to heaven, whose bishoprics no other man can take. There is Dromore doomed to be no more; Kilmore, like Macbeth, fated to perish without a successor ; Kildare to merge in Dublin; and Clogher—honoured name—to be swallowed up in Armagh. Alas, the glory of the Church has departed, and the younger sons' portion, so affectingly bewailed by 1)r. Boyton, is, together with his own honest expectations, in- fed inStanley's Bill. But there is worse Than this. The Tiishops that are left are overworked, and soon it will be a difficult matter to find any divine so reckless of his own ease and enjoyment as to accept a mitre ; whilst already it has been found that an archbishop's functions are too much for any poor sinner's shoulders. The following pathetic paragraph appears in a Church and State Jour nal. We need not bespeak the condolence of our readers For the illustrious sufferers : " The triennial visitation now imposed imon the only two remaining archbishops of the Established Church must bear very hard upon those dignitaries, viz., his Grace the Lord Primate, and the Archbishop of Dublin ; the whole kingdom being divided between them." Can anything be harder than this—to go once in three years through half the cathedral towns of the limd, and to consume six good wholesome forenoons in holding as many visitations during that period ! 'Tis " a load would sink a navy." We are not surprised that his Grace of Armagh has found it necessary to go to the Continent, after the fatigues of the London season, in order to recruit his strength a little, before he enters upon so onerous an undertaking. But we trust he will be able to go through it with the spirit of a martyr. POST.—Some of the beaten Whig-Radical party ap pear even now to labour under the hallucination that they have exhibited considerable virtue as politicians, and have done great things for the country. This is most preposterous. Perhaps they will lay claim by and by to honesty of principle and consistency of action. When people lose their senses, whether from defeat or any other cause, there is no limit to the extravagance of which they may be guilty. At the present moment they complain that we Conservatives give them no credit for their " great and glorious victories over ancient preju dices and false principles of legislation." It is very true that we do not give them credit for any such thing, but the reason is that we are not aware of any such " great and glorious victories." We might suspect ourselves of want of observation or forgetfulness in respect of these illus trious deeds, were it not that we find ourselves by no means alone in our unconsciousness of their existence. Indeed, from all the inquiries we have made it results that no set of persons in this nation, save the obstinate placeholders themselves, and the Parliamentary minority which still adheres to them, has any notion that the Whig-Radicals have done what they lay claim to. They alone are conscious of their own merits and achieve ments, which is rather an inconvenient thing in a nation where so much depends upon public opinion. It is net the Conservative party merely which refuses to give them credit for " glorious victories," but the Parliament also. The House of Commons which was in their favour gradually acquired a distaste for their management, and finally reprimanded them. Then they persuaded them selves that the people were still charmed with them, and they appealed to the people. But it turned out that the people at large liked them even less than the House of Commons, and had no objection to tell them so by acts the most unequivocal. Does it never occur to the Whig- Radicals that, if they really have achieved these " glo rious victories," it is the very strangest thing that ever happened in political history that no one except them selves seems to be thankful for these victories, or even to be in the slightest degree aware of them ? They would do well to take some means of informing the public when and where they performed those meritorious deeds to which they refer. If they were known they might, perhaps, form some excuse for that which now seems inexcusable, namely, the adherence of these Whig- Radicals to office in spite of the direct condemnation which they have received from the House of Commons, and subsequently from the electors of that House, to whom they appealed. ADVERTISER—Of all rebellions, says Lord Bacon, the rebellion of the belly is the worst. Sir Robert Peel, we doubt not, is already prepared to set his seal to the truth of the position of the great philosopher. We pro mise him that before two months have elapsed his ex perience of its truth will be considerably increased. Differences of opinion may have on various occasions threatened a schism among the Tory party while brows ing (if, indeed, they could be said to have been browsing at all) on the barren common of the Opposition benches; but dissensions which had no other ground than this could always, with an ordinary measure of tact, be speedily healed. Vastly different is the case when the substantialities of office are about to be distributed. The eagerly-expectant candidate and clamourer for place, who conceives—and what needy Tory, from Lord Lynd hurst down to Mr. Peter Borthwick, does not conceive?— that he has a preferable claim, a pre-eminent right to a share of whatever good things may be goi ng , and yet is un successun- successfulin his suit —may possess a mar v e llous facility at forgiving any apostacy from Tory principles on the part of the Right Hon. Baronet ; but to spurn the sup plicant of place from his door, or even civilly to refuse to assist him, he will find to be a very different matter. The sin of conceding Catholic emancipation, fearful as was its magnitude, is nevertheless a pardonable sin ; the crime of repealing the Test and Corporation Acts, though a crime of the deepest die, may not only be, but has b een forgiven ; but the guilt of lending a deaf ear to the ear nest entreaties of supplicants for place, is pre c i se ly, i n Tory ethics, the unpardonable sin. What, th en , can th e proximate Premier do in this extreme emergency? He who could satisfactorily solve the problem , might well be regard ed as a man of transcendant Wisdom, Sir Robert him se lf mus t be painfully puzzled on this point. The very m agn it u d e of his majority only adds to the number, and aggrava t es the nature of his perplexities. Had the majority been but half a dozen or a dozen, the unfortunate gentleman would have found himself in a far better position than he actually is with his vaunted majority of ninety ; for as in that case the number of mendicant petitioners for place would have been considerably less, there would have been'a corresponding decrease in the disappoint ment. While, therefore, others of the Tory faction are ignorantly giving vent to their unrestrainable exultation at the extent of the majority of the Premier elect, we are Plig SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY', JULY - 27, 1841. seriously mistaken if the very magnitude of that ma:,ority be not felt by himself to be one of the most embarraSs ing circumstances connected with his present perplexing and painful position. HERALD.—Of all British Ministers, he who presides over the Foreign Department is the least uncontrolled, and is, except on rare and momentous occasions, practi cally irresponsible. During the past ten years, the people of these kingdoms and their Representatives have been so exclusively devoted to altering and changing, and piecing . and mending their domestic institutions--to war ring with each other on grounds to a great extent imagi nary, that no event beyond our own shores, however dangerous, no encroachments on the rights of Europe, however open, could arrest public attention, or bring the nation to a perception of its material interests. During this decade of national perversity Lord Palmerston in the Foreign-office of Downing-street was in reality as despotic as the Autocrat himself. The pages of " Ilan sard's Debates" of the reformed House of Commons on subjects of foreign policy would not form a moderate sized pamphlet ; and on no occasion when that dis tasteful subject has been .discussed —Spanish politics only excepted--has Lord Palmerston fairly met the sub ject. If papers were.winted, or explanations asked for, his Lordship interposed the public interests ;" if some determined Member of the Opposition or retired diplo matist did get a House to listen to his e xposition of some grievous injury or national insult, his Lordship turned to the Treasury benches, and scattering forth insinua tions—ambiguas voces—of factious motives, as a signal for Ministerial cheers, proceeded to avoid—his Lord ship is a complet e mas t er o f t h e ar t of " avoidance " the question really b e f ore th e L eg islature by a series of vague generalities, su c h as "peace," "civi lisation, •`liberty," " increasing comm erce," " interest of na tions," and hosts of genera l p r opositions embodied in other similar abstract t erms , a ll introduced for the pur pose of carrying away men's minds from the examina tion of any tangible thing connected with their country's safety or-interest. MONEY MARK tilt and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS' OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—A correspondent, who writes under the sig nature of " Fair nlay" seems to have taken quite a wrong view of our remarks on the minor Stock-etchange, founded by the " shut out," as if the difference between them and the members of the " House" were merely that between large and small dealers ; or, 6 use his own illustration, between wholesale and retail. Now, the ob jection to the inferior class of stock jobbing is not to the quantity sold, but to the species of security Which forms the commodity of the market. The smallest quantity of Consols, for instance, can be purchased on the Stock exehange, to suit the convenience of the " retail dea l er" (if that expression may be used) ; but certain stocks have become so much disgraced, that the committee of the Stock-exchange have altogether refused to quote them. These are, however, sought after by certain petty specu lators, who are distinguished from the members of the house by their total disregard for the worth of the secu rities they deal in, or th dishonesty which may have given rise to them. The comparison should properly be between the respectable grocer and the dealer in da maged tea, and not between the traders in large and small quantities. ADVERTISER.—The letters received to-day from Germany add very little to what has already transpired respecting the failure of the Vienna bankers ; but some of the advices befor e us state that it had been discovered that there was a deficit in the firm of Guy Muller of one million of florins as far back as 1839. This had given rise to expressions of indignation among a few of the wealthy depositors with the firm, and most of the noble families and annuitants were reducing the balances they held at their different bankers, from a feeling of appre hension engendered by their stoppage. The Empress Dowager, it appears, will be a loser to some extent. The readiest way of accounting for the unfortunate money crisis in Vienna, is said to be the political occurrences of 1840 and the July treaty, and the enormous depreciation in the value of the Austrian State securities and shares that has been going on ever since, under the fear of a war, and which, from that period to the 15th instant, is estimated to have been not less than thirty-one millions of florins. This, therefore, was so much capital taken out of circulation in the brief space of twelve months, and it may be some time before a reprise occurs to any thing like such an extent. . _ HERALD.—Accounts from Graham's Town to the 13th May have been received. Great exertions were making by the inhabitants for the general prosperity of th 3 colony ; the necessity for the means of quick com munication with Cape Town, was not only acknowledged, but plans were in progress for accomplishing so desira ble an end. The loss of the unfortunate steamer, the. Hope, was an additional incentive to exertion, and upon the proposal for purchasing another being made public, 6,0001. were sascribed in two days. It was considered that one would not be sufficient, but that two at least would be required, and that scarcely twelve months would elapse when the town of Albany would be brought within four days of the Cape, and less than two months from England. The capabilities of the country would, by the immigration of labourers (the want of whom was severely felt) be fully developed, and and another rich colony be added to the empire. POST.—The altered state of the weather, which has at length become all that the most anxious farmer could desire for the ripening of his crops, has of course pro duced a sensible depression at the Corn Exchange. No positive decline was admitted to-day, the rates of this day week being again demanded, though in few in stances, if any, submitted to. But, if the weather should only be equally propitious for 7 , 14,. few weeks' to tonne, it cannot happen but that the quotations must go down ra pidly. Such a movement will be promoted in a very great degree by the knowledge possessed by the public of the fact that importations upon rather a large scale are sure to take place. SUN.—The Funds were buoyant to-day, and slightly im proved in value, on account of the more genial tempera ture and the cessation of rain. For the present transfer Consols were quoted 894 to 90, and for the August set tlement 90 to 90*. Exchequer Bills were 17s. to 19s. premium, and India Bonds 6s. to 9s. premium. The Market closedfirmly. Bank Stock was not higher than 170 to 171 ; the Reduced Three-and-a-Halfper Cents. touched 991- and 991 ; the New Three-and-Half per Cents. 981 to 99 ; and the Three per Cent. Reduced 90* to 90g. In the Foreign Market, the transactions were very limited to-day. The Stock of Portugal was dull at 30C to 301 for the New Five per Cents., and at 18 * t o 18 4 for the Three pe r Cents. Colombian Bonds were marked 20 to 20*, and Cuba 71. Belgian Old Bonds realized 101+ to 1011 ; French Five per Cents. 114 f. 75c., and the Three per Cents. 76f. 25c. Dutch Five per Cents. were 1011 to 102. Spanish Active Bonds were much the same, viz. 20A- to 201. The Railway Shares were not brisk, but they brought good prices. The Great Western were 21 to 20i ; the New 7 to 91 ; the Fifths 41 to 5 ; the York and North Midland New 11 ; an d the Grand Junction 103 prem. ; Brighton were 6+, and Cheltenham and Great Western 40 discount. London and Westminster Bank ; Shares were 2+ to 21 ; and Provincial of Ireland 16s. prem. I DON'T LIKE TO SEE—A dirty shirt covered with a clean dickey ; a wor ki ng man , w h o has two hats, wearing the best every day ; the windows patched with paper, rags, or turf ; a sweep or baker passing through the crowd ; a woman's boot-lace dangling loose ; orange peels thrown on the footpath ; an orphan girl tempted to walk the streets for the purpose of prostitution ; good meat thrown to the dogs ; a workhouse funeral nearly without attendants ; a rich man's funeral blocking up the streets ; a woman beating her child because it had nearly got run over ; a country overseer putting out a poor woman by the shoulders ; two men fighting a pitched battle on Sunday afternoon, with a large attendance of men and women ; a Methodist parson, with stentorian lungs, holding forth to three indivi duals ; a man, after breaking a square of glass in a window, running away to escape detection ;• a child cry ing for hours together in a cradle ; a poor lad or girl, at five o'clock( in a winter's morning, going to the fac tory much out of health ; a man stuffed with rich food until his legs are obliged to be tied up ; a bed-room comb left full of hair ; a servant waiting at the table with dirty hands ; a woman slipping in at the back door of a public house, with a little jug, at tea time ; a justice fining persons for getting drunk, who frequently gets "fresh" himself ; a beggar exhibiting his wounds and deformation on the road side; an old man of seventy and a young girl of seventeen going to church to get married ; a drunken coachman driving his horses at full gallop down a narrow street ; clothes lying to be moth eaten, while there are so many backs without covering ; a coach-horse with bleeding shoulders ; a dog in a poor man's house, who gets relief from the parish; children's shoes unbottomed, and stockings out at the heel ; an umbrella on a windy day with two broken bones ; a shop with dirty windows; the baliffs carrying; the bed and chair of a poor widow to the obelisk, to se ll f ur rent ; a poor ragged wife seeking her husband at t we l ve on Saturday night ; a man exceedingly drunk and noisy at a temperance meeting ; atee-totaller comi ng ou t o f a " Tom and Jerry" wiping his mouth.—Educational Ma- yazine. FATAL OCCURRENCE.-011 Wednesday, Da vid Steel, a collier, belonging to Whitletts, lost his life at the Fulshaw pit, in that neighbourhood, under the follow ing circumstances :—A man of the name of John M'Cul loch, ploughman to Mr. Gordon, Newton Lodge, was at the pit with a cart for coals, and happening to have been followed by a dog belonging to the farm, he ex pressed himself to some of the men employed at the pit-head as desirous of getting rid of the animal. The reply was that he might speedily do so by throwing it down the shaft. This thoughtless advice was adopted by M'Culloch, who immediately seized the dog and pitched him into the pit. Unfortunately four persons— the oversman, with a young lad who had got his hand injured, and Steel and his little boy, who assisted him at work—were in the act of ascending at the mo ment. in one of the buckets. Whey were within a few fathoms of the top—the shaft being in all about fifty three—when the dog in its descent struck Steel somewhere on the shoulder or back of the neck, by which he was instantly precipitated, head foremost, to the bottom, the whole party narrowly es caping a similar fate. The unfortunate man was killed on the spot, his body being greatly mangled by the fall. The dog, strange to say, fell into the buck e t, an d was brought up unscathed. On learning what had been the result of his thoughtless conduct, M'Culloch was very much grieved The case has been investigated by the Fiscal, who has admitted him to bail. Steel has left a wife and family.—Ayr Observer. SPLIT VOTES.—This practice, so much in vogue at the late election for North Northumberland, re minds us of the fantastic fashion which prevailed in Scot land during the thirteenth century, of clothing one-half of the figure in one colour, and the other half in another, and where this was not done, of having one stocking red or blue, and the other green or yellow, so that the man had the appearance of having stepped into one-half of his neighbour's breeches or hose. Equally absurd is the conduct of these political Merry Andrews.—Kelso , Chronicle. BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR T HE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. PLYMOUTH, JULY 24.—The extensive preparations ne cessary for holding this (the eleventh) meeting of the British Association are now nearly complete, judging from what have been already made known. A visit to the town upon this occasion cannot fail to interest the curious or scientific inquirer. Plymouth and Devonport have for some years solicited a visit from the Associa tion, and it was decided at the last meeting at Glasgow, in opposition to the solicitations from Manchester, Hull, and other places, that the request of the former towns should be agreed. Independent of the extensive local resources of the towns in their naval, military, and ord nance establishments, which, by the permission of the Commissioners of the Admiralty and other authorities, have been thrown open for the inspection of members during the week of meeting, the large and valuable min ing and manufacturing stores in the neighbouring vi cinities of the place of meeting, in Devonshire and Corn- wall, afford vast opportunities for gratification. All these advantages have been liberally offered to members. Hitherto the expenses attendant upon providing ac commodations for the meetings in the various towns has begin enormous, whilst many of the fetes have given them the charactei of a raree show, scarcely consistent with the dignity of science. At Liverpool and New castle the sums expended were more than 3,000/. each, whilst last year, at Glasgow, the sum of 3,400/. was charged " for entertaining the British Association," of which no less than 8141. was for rent and fitting up the theatre for dinner, &c. The whole of the expenses at this meeting are under 6001.; nearly the whole of which has been subscribed for ; and as the prices of lodgings have not advanced, as on other occasions, on the antici pated influx of visitors, the cost to each member will not exceed that of an incidental visit to the town. The local officers appointed for the town, and under whose autho rity the arrangements are being made, are, Vice Presi dents, the Earl of Morley. the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe, Lord Eliot, Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., and Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. ; Treasurer, Harvey Woolcombe, Esq., Plymouth Institution ; and Secretaries, W. Snow Harris, Esq., F.It.S., Col. Hamilton Smith, F.R.S., R. Were Fox, Esq., F. 1t..5., and Richard Taylor, Esq., jun., F.G.S. The first general meeting will be held on Thursday next, when the meetings of the diffe ren t sec ti ons will commence. The General Committee holds its first meet ing on Wednesday, at one o'clock, at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth, when the officers for the various sections will be appointed. The sections will assemble for the read ing and discussion of reports, and other communications, oil Thursday, at eleven o'clock ; and afterwards, at the same hour, daily during the week of the meeting, ex cepting Wednesday, 4th of August. The general model room will be opened every day at the Naval Accountant's Office, in Ker-street. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have, at the suggestion of Admiral 'Warren, permitted an exhibition of models, relative to naval science, &c., in her Majesty's Dockyard at Devonport, and members, on producing their tickets, will be admitted to the model room, and allowed to in spect the various constructions and operations in the Dockyard, the subjects of which will be explained by the master shipwright. Captain Taylor, RN., com manding her Majesty's ship San Josef, 112 guns; in Ha moaze, will also have an exhibition of models relative to naval science, on board the ship, which may be inspected by members. The evening meetings will also form a pro minent part of the days' proceedings, and will all take place at the Town-hall, Devonport, being the most suit able building in the two towns. The first general meet ing will be held on Thursday evening, the 29th instant, when Professor Whewell, the President, will take the chair and deliver an address. On Friday and Tuesday a soiree and promenade will be held at the same place, at the former of which Mr. Chatfield, of her Majesty's Dock-yard, will explain the constructing and launching of ships, and at the latter there will be an exhibition o e f electro-magnetic and other clocks. On Wednesday, the 4th of August, the concluding general meeting will be held, when .the proceedings of the general committee, and the proceeds of the several grants of money sanc tioned by it' having been explained, the Association will adjourn till the next year, at such other destination as may have been resolved upon. To add to the interest of the occasion, the launch of her Majesty's ship Hindostan, of 80 guns, which has been deferred to the period of meeting, will take place on Monday 2d August, at five, P.M., preparatory to which she will be lifted by wedges, to which operation mem bers will be admitted. At least three hundred tickets of admission have been provided for members who desire to see the launch, on board her Majesty's ships San Josef and the Caledonia ; and on the same evening, her Ma jesty's ship Caledonia, in Hamoaze, opposite Mount Wise, will, by permission of the Lords of the Admiralty, be illuminated with port-fires. IMPORTANT TRIAL AT PER- PIGNAN. The trial of Picola, the contrabandist, and Rose, his wife, for breach of trust and robbery, by the non-deli- very of 50,000 f., which Cabrera, the Spanish, Carlist Ge neral, entrusted to them, to be conveyed into France, and delivered to his sisters, Mme. Polo and Mme. Arnaud, came on before the Correctional Tribunal of Perpignan, on the Bth instant, in pursuance of an adjournment from May last, as our readers will recollect, in consequence of the non-appearance of Cabrera and several members of the Carlist jzinta nf - Berga, who had been summoned as witnesses in behalf of the prisoners. Picola is about forty years of age, born in French Cerdagna, but of Spanish parentage. His countenance expressed all the animation and acuteness of the mountaineer; his language was good, and at times forcible. Rose, his wife, whOse maiden name was Terrades, was born in France, of French pa rents, and was married to Picola twenty years ago. She has been very handsome, but her beauties are faded from time and care. The Court was crowded, as in May, in expectation of seeing Cabrera and the members of the Junta, but neither of them appeared. The agitated state of Catalonia had deterred the Government from granting him and the other notable Carlists permission to come so near the frontier. The trial occupied the Bth, 9th, and 10th, and, at its close, the Judges took time till the 15th - to deliberate upon their judgment. Several facts, previously unknown to the public, were elicited. The money entrusted by Cabrera to Picola, and by him transferred to his wife, to carry with the ladies into France, amounted to 50,000 f., in three bags, two contain ing 20,000 f. each, and the third 10,000 f. in gold. There were also confided to Picola several chests of plate, some trunks, and other baggage, containing clothes and papers, which it appears he retained in Spain, promising to con vey them at a future day to I3ourges, whither the ladies were bound. The parties were escorted to the French frontier by Carlist troops, and this becoming known to the authorities at Osseja, on their arrival the travellers were taken before the Commissary of Police, where it was found, on search, that they then had in their pos session all the money abovementioned. From Osseja the ladies were sent into the interior, leaving the money in the hands of Rose Picola, lest it should be taken from them. From the evidence given in Court, this money had been left by Cabrera's mother to her daughters. As to the plate it had belonged to Queen Christina, and was captured by Cabrera while on its way to France under an escort. Picola had brought it into this country, where it was seized, but the Government had ordered it to be given up to Cabrera, who has, it is said, presented it to Don Carlos, to whom it will ultimately be sent, that Prince having• accepted the offer. Disputes arose at Court as to the quantity of the plate. Picola, in his examir.ation, admitted no more than twelve dozen covers ; but the witnesses for the prosecution affirmed that there were forty, or at the least thirty dozen. A chest was pro duced, and was found to have compartments for only seventy-two forks and table-spoons, twelve tea-spoons, and two dessert-spoons. Picola asserted that large sums were due to him from the army, and that he had a lien upon the property in question for the amount. This was contradicted by a person who had been a clerk in the employ of the Junta of Berga, and who declared that all Picola's demands had been settled and paid. On the other side, two gendarmes deposed that General Cabrera, when under their keeping at Cabanese, near Montlouis, complained of his having been robbed by Picola, of 50,000 E, but at the same time admitted that he owed Picola between 10,000 f. and 12,000 f. for sup plies. It was lastly proved, on the part of the prosecu tion, that Picola, since his return in France, had paid debts to the amount of between 6,000 f. and 7,000 E, and had also entered into commercial speculations to a con siderable extent. The judgment of the Tribunal pro flounced Ticola guilty of breach of confidence, in con verting to his own use 10,000 f. intrusted to him by Cabrera, at Berga, and also in not delivering the chest of plate ; also declared his wife guilty of the same offence with regard to the 50,000 f. intrusted to her, condemned them both to two years' imprisonment and a fine of 25f., to pay 50,000 f. to Cabrera, and 2,500 f. as the value of the plate which had been abstracted from the chest, and to Polo y Munos 60f., the value of a cloak which belonged to him, and was in one of the trunks ; ordered them jointly to pay all the costs of the prosecution, and limited the period of their imprisonment, in case of non-payment of the above sums, to ten years. NEWSVENDERS' BENEVOLENT AND PRO VIDENT INSTITUTION.—The Committee of this laudable society have made arrangements for an aquatic trip on Wednesday next. The Royal Sovereign steamer is en gaged for the occasion, and every arrangement that can conduce to the comfort and accommodation of those who may patronize the excursion, has been made, not with a niggardly or parsimonious hand, but in a spirit of perfect old English hospitality. James Harmer, E sq ., the patron of the Institution, has granted permission for the company to land and spend the day on the beautiful grounds attached to his mansion at Greenhithe, and a cowmodipus m k q uee has been erected in the Park, to shelter the visitors from the fervour of a summer's sun. In this tent a cold collation will be served, and those who feel disposed may devote their time to the shrine of Terp sichore, an excellent band having been provided for that purpose. Herr Von Joel, the sifleur, and a celebrated comic singer will be present. In fact, the Committee have not omitted any thing calculated to enhance the pleasures of the day, and we heartily hope the 'weather may prove propitious. ORIGIN OF THE MALT AND BEER TAXES. The following memoranda may not be uninteresting to many of our readers :—Ale-houses were established in this country as early as 721, and are ment i oned in the laws of Ina, King of Wessex. Public-houses were first licensed in 1621, authority being granted for that pur pose to Sir Giles Montpessan and Sir Francis Michel, for their own e molument. In 1553, the number of taverns in London was limited to forty. The malt tax was esta blished in 1697, increased in 1760, and new modelled in 1766. An excise duty on beer and ale was first legally imposed in 1660. Di e d, at Crieff, on the 15th inst., Flora Macdo nald, in her 100th year. She was a native of Kintail, in Ross-shire, but has resided in Crieff district for nearly the last half century. She possessed not a word of the English language, and her Gaelic was almost obsolete-- t those even of her own country not well understanding her MURDER AT EXETER. EXETER, JULY 26.—The body of a young gentleman named Bennett, was on Saturday last taken out of the river Exe, close to the City. fie was missing during the day, and from its being known that he had been in the neighbourhood of the spot where he was found, a search was immediately instituted, and at half-past five the body was taken up. His watch and money were gone, and from the appearance of his head he evidently had re ceived some tremendous blows. The bridge of the nose was broken, both eyes were blackened, the forehead was bruised above the right eye, and the lips were bruised and cut by being pressed against the teeth with violence. A Coroner's Inquest was fixed for this day, but the Coroner has decided on holding the inquiry with closed doors, as very important evidence is expected to come out. A man is now in custody who, it is rumoured, committed the offence ; and a woman of ill fame is said to have confessed having seen the murder committed. FATAL AFFRAY BETWEEN TWO PRIVATES OF THE SCOTCH FUSILIER GUARDS. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held before Messrs Gell and Higgs, Coroner and Deputy Coroner for Westminster, at the Feathers, Grosvenor-place, on the body of Alexander Bremner, aged twenty-one, a private in the second battalion of the Scotch Fusilier Guards. Mr. Thomas Richardson, assistant-surgeon to the regi ment, said that he saw deceased about ten o'clock on the morning of the 17th inst. at the regimental hospital, Grosvenor-place, to which he was brought from the St. George's barracks, Charing-cross. Deceased was then insensible and vomiting, and exhibited symptoms of having recently received very serious injury to the head. Witness attended him to the 22d, when hedied. Since death wit ness had examined the holy internally, and discovered a transverse fracture of the left temporal bone, about three inches in length, apparently by a fall against some sharp body. That injury was certainly the cause of deceased's death. By Mr. G ell—l conversed with deceased before his death. He told me he had no recollection of having fallen down, and made no charge against any person. Edward Jones, a private in the same battalion with de ceased, said, about nine o'clock on the morning of Sa turday, the 17th instant, I was in the barrack-room of St. George's barracks. Deceased and about nineteen other privates and a corporal were at the time in the room. Deceased said he had lost his clothes-brush, and asked every one in the room if he had got it. No one answered. He particularly asked private James Blis sett whether he had got it, who said " No," and shortly afterwards left the room. In Blisset's absence deceased found his brush in the former's havresack, and then strewed all the other things that were in it on the floor. When Blissett returned and saw his things scat tered on the floor, and, having been told that it was de ceased who had so scattered them, he began quarrelling, and said, "I will do something for you," on which deceased replied, " Two can play at that game." Bissett appeared to be in a great rage, and sat down on his bed for four or fivo minutes. The corporal then left the room, and the moment he did Bissett got up, and walked silently across the room towards deceased, who had one foot (the boot of which he was cleaning) on a bench, and, seizing him by the throat with the right hand, and placing the other on deceased's loins, he threw him down, and fell upon him. Deceased fell back wards over the fender, and his head struck strongly against the hearthstone. By the Jury—The fall rendered deceased insensible. He became black in the face. Bissett seeing what he had done became deadly pale, and the per spiration flowed down his face profusely. He seemed frightened at and sorry for what he had done, and tried to lift deceased up. Ido not think he meant to injure deceased, but merely to throw him down. They were usually on good terms. As speedily as possible deceased was conveyed to the regimental hospital. Verdict, after corroboratory evidence having been adduced, " Acci dental death," the Jury requesting that their censure might be conveyed to Bissett for what they considered his cowardly conduct towards a defenceless fellow-soidier. JURISDICTION OF CORONERS. Yesterday evening a jury assembled at the Marlbo rough head public-house, in Fox's-lane, Shadwell, to hold an inquest before Mr. Baker, on the body of Ben jamin Harbour, a farmer's labourer, aged twenty-four years. The deceased was one of the three unfortunate persons who lost their lives at Westminster-bridge by the capsizing of a boat which came athwart one of the piers with seven persons it, three of whom were drowned. The body of the deceased was picked up at Shadwell Dock-stairs on Saturday afternoon. That of his wife, to whom he was married the day before the accident, and who perished with him, was found near Waterloo bridge on Saturday morning, and the body of the third sufferer was recovered on the same morning, on Horsleydown. Is it not a little remarkable that the bodies were found in the jurisdiction of three different coroners, and within a few hours of each other? An in quest was held upon the body of Bridget Sheehan, found off Horsleydown, on Saturday evening, before Mr. Payne, the coroner for London and Southwark, and was adjourned for further evidence. Mr. Baker, coroner for Middlesex, no , soonerz ameinto tne room last evening, where the parties were arisembled, than he was informed of the above facts, and said he should decline proceeding with the inquest on B6njamin Harbour, whose death occurred out of his jurisdiction. The case was one of considerable impor tance, and as the question of a deodand upon the boat, which was alleged to be unsafe, was likely to arise, if he was to proceed with the inquiry and the Jury were to return a verdict implicating any party, or levy a deo dand upon the boat, the inquisition might be quashed and all the proceedings rendered nugatory. Under these circumstances he should direct the beadle to convey the body to the district in which the parties died. The friends of the deceased pressed Mr. Baker to swear in the Jury and go on with the inquiry, and said they had an objection to the body being conveyed from place to place, which was exceedingly distressing to the relatives. Mr. BAKER said, in the present state of the law he could not help it. The case, as far as he was concerned, was corani non judice. He then discharged the gentlemen summoned from further attendance and retired. The body, which was n a very decomposed state, was removed to St. John's Church, Waterloo-road. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—The large ship Mer sey, from Barbadoes, with a cargo of sugar, cotton, &c., was hauled into the London Dock on Sunday afternoon. When at the Nore on Saturday a dreadful accident hap on board the Mersey. A seaman named John Robinson was desired to go aloft to the fore-yard and furl the top sail, and whib thus engaged he lost his hold of the ropes, .and fell on ilk deck of the ship, a distance of more than 70 feet. The poor fellow was taken up in a dying state, but lingered in the greatest agony until the vessel reached London, on Sunday afternoon. The body was yesterday removed on board the Mersey to the house of an undertaker in Shadwell, to await an inquest. ALARMING ACCIDENT.—An occurrence took place at a watering place in Miltown Malbay, county Clare, a few days ago, which would have been attended with melancholy consequences to one of the gentler sex, but for the intrepid conduct of a young gentleman, whose name we cheerfully record. The circumstances were theie ;.—A Miss White, of Dublin, a lady of great personal charms and mental acquirements, was bath ing in Miltown Malbay, and having gone out of her depth, - . she suddenly disappeared. The female ser vant who accompanied her became terribly alarmed, and screamed most lustily for assistance. Mr. Michael Cuffe, the ) ouug gentleman alluded to, hap pened to be passing near the place at the time ; and, hearing the signal of di s tress, instantly repaired to the spot, and without waiting to relieve himself of his clothes, he leaped into the water and " buffeting the bil lows to her rescue," caught her by the arm and brought her manfully to shore. The poor creature was perfectly insensible ; but on being conveyed home, and aid af forded her, we rejoice to say she recovered rapidly. The parents of the lady expressed their gratitude to Mr. Cuffe ; and the lady herself, in suitable terms, likewise acknowledged the heroic conduct of her preserver.— , Dublin *miter. DEATH FROM FURIOUS DRlVlNG.—Yester day the adjourned inquiry relative to the death of Mr. John Ray Bartlett, an extensive builder, residing in Grove-road, Brixton, was resumed before Wm. Carter, Esti. , the coroner for Surrey, at the Antelope Tavern, Lower-road, Brixton. It appeared that Mr. Bartlett and Mr. Rudd, also a builder, living in Holland-street, Clap ham-road, proceeded in the latter's chaise -cart on the evening of Monday week, along the Dover-road, and while driving at the Ate of only five or six miles an hour, an omnibus opposite the Sessions House at Newington came galloping up, and ran against their chaise-cart, which was upset. Mr. Bartlett was found lying under the wheels, and Mr. Rudd was quite insen sible from the injuries he had suff ere d . Mr. Evans, the surgeon, of Stones'end, applied all proper remedies, but Mr. Bartlett died of inflammation of the brain, the con sequence of the injuries, on Friday week last. On Mon day last it was hoped some of the passengers would be i n d uce d to come forward, but such was not the case. Last night no additional clue had been obtained either as V) owner or driver of the omnibus. The Jury returned a verdict of " -Manslaughter, against some person or per sons unknown." MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.- - Yesterday morning about nine o'clock a fatal accident happened on the premises of Mr. Read, a builder, fat resid ing in Lower Belgrave-place, Pimlico. In the w f l o ia r r n th a e the back of Mr. Read's residence arc saw-mills purposF of cutting marble blocks into slabs. On truck beneath the engine that works the mill marble propped, the one against the other, ten Jar'? 'about ten slabs, that had been recently sawn, eachfour and five feet by five, and each weighing between four °stood the time of the cwt. Mr. Charles Read, son of the t about nineteen, was, with others at slabs, when the accident, engaged in removing proprietor, aged d as a fulcrum to keep outer slab, which apparently their tops rest others, so that they fell against and pressing him against the others standing, fell ouateie,ahredis,,allio,osening all the ing against Mr. Read's throat, . ed bleeding fragments. Mr. Read was then nose, and ears, and the wall, until by their own wteiii t d t i h s e e y t i ga bro g ke , into large profusely from the throat, 1 by though d at his hour after the accident. I geons, he expired attended father's residence in about an the neighbouring: sur geons, An inquest will be held this evening. STRIKE OF BRICKLAYERS AND LABOURERS AT THE MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY STATION. —The bricklayers on these their w . ork l s, who receive five shillings p er da y wages, and abourers, who receive three shillings per day, struck work on Monday morning last, in consequence of a refusal to pay an ad vance of wages to three shillings and sixpence, demanded by the labourers. We understand that many of the latter are going about soliciting charity, with gross mis representations of this matter ; but the above is a true statement of the case.—Manchester Herald. FALMOUTH PACKETS.—Captain Foote, R.N., Devonport, is appointed to succeed Captain Plumridge, as Superintendent of the Packets at Falmouth. EVENING SUN. • GAMEKEEPERS' DOGS Having offered remarks at some length r6sp,ectlng gamekeepers and their duties, it only remains to'notice their dogs; and I do so from the somewhat reniarkable fact, that I never yet met with one of these men who had in his possession either a good pointer or setter, his own property. Nondescript useful brutes they detpo 2 , - seas, often bred between the lurcher and the shepherd's dog; and one keeper, with whom I s h ot l ast year , as surd me that during one season in Hertfordshire, about ten years back, he killed upwards of seventeen hundred partridges to a wire-haired terrier! The reason that strikes me for their not being possessed of good pointers or setters is, that sporting being a business wit hem, they do not give that time and attention which is it • ssary to insure anything like perfection; their punishments are too frequent, and too severe; they cannot wait for the young blossom to unfold itslf, and a cbg that cannot take a licking that would kill a tom-cat, is sure to be spoiled; only violent resolute brutes can stand their drilling, nine times out of ten the worst animal a man can have in his kennel. A fine-tempered dog—like a fine tempered horse, always the best—has no business in the kennel of a gamekeeper. Now we who treat upon sporting subjects are liable to be accused of egotism by those who read our doings, but are not of the craft ; but if they would consider that information such as we offer is chiefly to be gleaned from personal experience, and that after-dinner tales para phrased by sportsmen cannot always be retailed to ad vantage, they might perhaps pardon the inducement of wishing to produce facts, and to establish ourselves as " men of credit "if not " renown." Therefore that I did this, and that I witnessed such an event, must not be too closely criticised where sporting subjects are the theme. This is the preface to the story of a dog which I had from the hands of a gamekeeper. The sporting season was approaching, and I was dogless. Inquiry brought me intelligence that a butcher had a pointer looking dog tied up as a yard dog—it had just been given to him by Lord A.'s keeper. To the shambles my steps were quickly bent, and there, chained to a pig-stye in dirt and filth, was certainly as fine an animal as the most fastidious could wish to possess, full-sized, beauti fully formed, colour dark liver. The butcher did not want him ; the butcher was already tired of him : he hid tried him to drive sheep with ; the dog sulked, he would not even take a sow •by the ear ; so, after a little chaffering, " 'Well," he said, • he dare say he was not worth much, or he should not have had him at that time o' year, so if •I would give his Missus a couple of brace of birds, and a hare in the season, I might have him." Off dropped the butcher's degrading fetters, and my pocket handkerchief supplied their place, and in an hour afterwards lie was lying upon a hearth-rug. In two days we were as thick as thieves, and on the third day we took a walk. As soon as lie came into a field, off he went at a capital pace, hunted his ground in the best possible style . ; but ere we could find any birds a tremendous storm came on, and so finished our first trial. The next day was Sunday, and the next the first of the shooting season. The interme diate time was past in conjecturing what was the g ran d offence. Here was a dog docile, handsome, a fine goer, very clever looking, and obedient: all this I had wade out; but we shall see. Never going out early to shoot partridges, it was ten o'clock •on the Ist. of September 18— when Cairo and partner entered the home ten acres, a wheat stubble; therm. 68. Off he went at score, and the little breeze that there was he soon 'took ad vantage of, and, before he had galloped two minutes, there he stood, as my man observed, almost as handsome as a statute, and there stood his master, if not quite so handsome as John's statute, nearly as still, just to see what next. What could be expected but that, as soon as his patience was exhausted, bang he would go in, and then chase the birds out of the county. Two or three minutes elapsed—a long time under the circum stances; but there stood Cairo: it was a pounding match, and the master turned first. The distance between us.at the time I speak of was about 120 yards. •i-ow make ready and advance—all in state quo till the distance was diminished to about one-half, when down went Cairo's stern, about he wheeled, and fairly ran away froni his point, as if stones were thrown at him, till he thought himself safe, and then lie turned about and looked on: the birds rose, and downcame one mortally wounded, but with a good 'deal of flap left in him like a' stived cc - ck. I took no notice, but walked straight past the bird in a direction to place it exactly in the brie between myself and Cairo, and kept on my way whistling and calling him. At length, taking courage, on he came to „ . the bird, which he took up, adVAnced a - few paces, drop ped it, looked at me, still walking And whistling, and again picked up the bird, and brought to within about ten yards, and then threw himself -down on his back, looking, I conjectured, for his accustomed licking. Be fore the day was spent, encouragement and kindness had done its. work, and before the first week of the season was out, he was decidedly the best dog I was-ever master of, and brought a cheque for his exchange for such a sum as -I should never give, and in all probability never shall receive for anot,her, On inquiry of the game k ee p er , who was a Yorishiraman, all 1 could get- out of him was, that ” the doog was just a fule like, and he could make nought out o' him." Ile was indeed past his un derstanding.—Old Sporting Magazine for July. THE FOREST OF PEACOCKS. An officer of the 30th Bengal Native Infantry writes thus---'on the 6th of April we arrived at Chatteer, and entered upon the skirts of the great Moburbunge, better known as the Forest of Peacocks. The jungle hereabout runs excessively heavy, and the hills, which are chiefly composed of laterite, a species of compact iron: sand stone, are rugged in the extreme, and are studded up to their very summits with teak and saul trees. We encamped at about seven o'clock, A.M., upon a small grass plain, situated between two lofty heights, embedded in forest, having pitched ourtents contiguous to an old disused water tank, which was completely choked with the lotus (Indian water lily). Here I had the misfortune to lose my favourite pointer, Dash, whom I had brought out with me from Wark worth, who, in the act of slaking his thirst after a long and hot morning's march, was carried off by an alliga tor. Although the heat of the sun was excessive, never theless myself and two brother officers ventured, after a, slender breakfast, to take the field, and equipped with three, double-barrelled guns, suitable ammunition. and a few village coolies as our guides, entered the Forest of Pea cocks at the foot of the nearest hill. A death-like silence seemed to pervade these deep rocky and solitary glens. Not a leaf. was seen to move, nor a sound uttered to awaken the ear, save, ever and anon, the harsh scream a the peacock, or the sonorous grunt of some half frantic elk, as the latter lay encouched in his lair, impatient of the annoyance of the myriads of musquitoes which worry these animals during the day almost to madness. In descending a defile we perceived, on a small green patch, about eighty yards from us, four wolves greedily picking the skeleton carcase of a deer, or other animal, which had, no doubt, fallen a victim to the predatory appetite of some marauding leopard or tiger. On reaching the terminus of a slope we came upon a spacious valley, in which were feeding some hundreds of peafowl. We contrived to get within sixty yards of them before they attempted to retire into the bamboo thickets, which were profusely distributed throughout this retired spot ; and as they gracefully paraded, in the act of with drawing themselves from view into the jungle, their rich luxuriant plumage, played upon by the sun's beams, ap peared like so many moving bodies profusely studded with precious gems of the most surpassing brilliancy. The work of slaughter now began. Every thicket fur.- nished six or more birds for our marks, and, with three . double-barrel guns , c h a rged w ith N o . 2 s h o t ; y ou may imagine that the havoc among them which followed was terrible. We succeeded in bringing down twenty seven of these noble birds, and might have considerably exceeded that number had it not been that the subduing influence of the sun prompted us, aeainst our will, to seek the shad' el overt of the forest, and to make . u • best way back to the encamping ground. We crossed ev.:ral mullahs, on the muddy banks of which were visibly im pressed the telltale footsteps of various tigers, leopards,and other like wild an d ferocious animals, which, during which s is a some t e unexplored x t p h l e o r largestd wilderness the still ho urs of night, were in the habit of repairing r to these h aunts to quench their burning thirst. This forest parts of I n di a ta k e t h e i r r i se , a nd inhabited only b e most ferocious be a sts that are indigenous to that ei riversern ess i as n t theo the interior,,south-western it the exten sive tract of country. RESEMBLANCE OF LORDS AND SAVAGES. —There is often, in fact, no material difference between • the enjoyments of the highest ranks and those of the rudest stages of society. If the life of many young Eng lish noblemen and an Iroquois in the forest, r an Ara b in the desert are comp a red, it will be found that their real sources of happiness are nearly the same. The treasures of science, the refinements of taste, the luxuries of wealth, are i n man y cases disregarded or forgotten, and the exci tation of life depends on the destruction of wild animals or the management of impetuous steeds. This is a fact which is a matter of daily observation ; and it furnishes a most instructive lesson as to the proportion established by n ature between the active and speculative part of mankind. The great majority in every class of society are incapable of receiving happiness from any rifoi g i ---‘be but from physical excitation ; and every other i scrarce species. The toth e eexistence and human improvement which is founded on and .1- an for position will necessarily fail. Nor is it N c h' 4 t , n le t r su p ~,,,, reason that nature has established this disproportion exertion w were e ; tween the studious and active part of th great mass of undertakings essential tahhed,wueulflaerses the of greater iikin p d, art de e pe f depend on and d p hysi calfello w-c reatures disposed oyme n t ts o t t h h a a t t sp l e a c te ie u s d of i l t, abo th u e r, race would speedily enj gratified with the perish, and the speculations of science Population. disappear wit the individuals who formed h of t he m.—Allison's Principles Peel will take office to uphold mischief—to prop up monopoly—to perpetuate sta • rvation. The people have become discontented , they have become wild for social changes ; they want freedom—freedom for their industry and for • their religion—freedom 'in the exercise of the electoral franchise. Peel office to put a stop ton all this. He is to try and dam the current of national But . bre a k u p progress. may it not down all his feeble b • . barriers, and overwhelm him among safety-valve - the ruins ? H e may s i t d own upon the of the social engi • ne, and whistle to the boiling cau ldron beneath him ; b u t t h e b o iler may burst and blo hi nt and hia and his party t o pi eces . P ee l knows all this, an d h e Tories trembles. But th e s t a k e played for by the To • is a desperate one ; and he must onwards. " Needs must when Devils drii-e."—Leeds Times. ALMOST A SHOWER OF EGGS.—It is stated in a Baltimore paper that a citizen recently caught in his hat, without breaking, a large egg which had de scended from a flock of wild geese, which were passing over at the time. This was probably the same flock which was seen some time since, and flew so low that as man might shake a stick at them.-11fechanic. According to the book of Japhet, recently , published, Naomah, the daughter of Enoch, was SSO years old when she was married to Noah. This is an example that should give courage to the old maids of the present day. WS. tiK arket, of [mice hoe Stock Edifl isley, —The 1 and 165.; as of cc of state arse e in' 11 a n ice o't oced , ham; 91 p 1.7,17, ter 811 30t 11 30 3 " 030' .0 00 ruia , 11l It