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MORNING SUN. EW ANIMAL MAGNETISM. Imtnetliately, in 3 vols. post Bvo., R• M E A TALE OF . MESMERISM, &c. By ISABE4LA F. ROMER: ‘lO -- Tilif . :l, Bentley; New Burlington-street: 13,•Gteat Marlbormigh.street. ! WORK, EDITED BY BOZ. THE PIC NIC PAPERS. BY VARIOUS HANDS. Edited by CHARLES DICKENS, Esq. (BOZ). This Work, the publication of which has been unavoidably delayed, on account of the Plates, by Crinkshank, Phiz, &c., will certainly appear in a few days; and those who desire to obtain early copies are requested to send their orders imme diately to their respective booksellers. Henry Colburn,Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street , 1 R. .. • • 'ROYAL 'SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE • - • AND - MR: WILLIS TONES. Last appearamee but One Mr: Graham, and the last three nights of Miss Romery•Mr. Wilson, Mr. Leffler, and the Opera Company. - - THIS EVF-NING, AUGUST 4, Will be acted Shakspere's Tragedy of • MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. Graham ; Hecate, Mr. _Leffler ; Singing Witchef, Miss Rom. r, Mrs. Serle, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Stoker, Mr. Roberts, and a powerful Choruf, conducted by Mr. G. Stansbury. After which, THE MOUNTAIN SYLPH. Donald, Mr. Wilson ; Hela, Mr. Ltfiter ; iEolia, Miss Ro !met. ; Jessie, Mrs. Serle. To conclude with, , SYLVESTER DAGGERWOOD. Sylvester DaggerwOod, Mr. Buckingham. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Last week of " Susan Hopley !" in consequence of the unpa ralleled novelty and attraction which will be produced toge • ther on Monday next. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 4. The splendidly successful Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, of SUSAN HOPLEY ! OR, THE TRIALS AND VICISSI- TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL! William Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville ; and Susan Hopley y Miss Vincent, the accepted Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, WOMAN'S LOVE ! OR, KATE WYNSLEY, THE ' COTTAGE GIRL. Wilford Clitheroe, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Hugh Wynsley, Mr: James; Hollyhock, Mr. Gardner; Scaresbrook, Mr. Seaman'; Kate Wynsley, Miss Vincent. • To conclude with, BLACK EYED SUSAN. William, Mr. E. F. Saville . ; Gnatbrain, Mr. Gardner ; Jacob Twig, Mr. Paul ; Doggrass, Mr. James ; Susan, Mrs. W. West. Boxes, 25.—Pit, h.—Gallery, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. To morrow, Susan Hopley, Woman's Love, and Black Eyed Susan. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. The WIZARD of the NORTH, the great Mysteriarchist of the Nineteenth Century, is nightly performing his ambi dextrous prestidigitations and extraordinary dexterological feats, calling into action all his wonderful powers of cabalistic phe— nomena and visible delusion, which he has performed for Se venty Nights, before One Hundred and Five Thousand of the Elite of the Metropolis, and still continues to attract hundreds nightly. The HARMONIOUS YOUTHS have made a decided hit —their '° merrie peals" are nightly encored. This extraordi nary musical phenomena-is allowed by the thousands who last week heard their " sense-enslaving" harmony, to be a wonder and a treat to the - musical world. They will appear every evening between the parts of the Wizard's performances, and perform a variety of popular airs and glees. Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Second. Price at Half.past 'Pane o'clock. Boxes, is. 6d. • Pit, Is. Places for the Boxes may be taken from 11Ir. Swinburn, at the Box-oflice, between Eleven and Four. Parties are respectfully informed, that as the Dress Circle is nightly crowded, an early application is requisite. N.B. Private Boxes, containing six persons, IL ss. Doors open at Half-past Seven ; the Wizard appears at Eight o'clock precisely. Half-price at Half-past Nine. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW PUBLISHING, PRICE ONLY SIXPENCE. TO COMESPONDENTS. W. H. is informed that the six weeks' averages which govern the duty on corn are regularly published in The Sun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. • Ildurning...... 4 minutes after 3. Evening minutes after 3. The public is of opinion that it has not done what is right, and the public of the next generation will not obey its laws. Wre treat the laws of former Parliaments in the same manner. It is one' of the remarkable cir cumstances of modern times that every inquiry into any particular branch of law, whether the criminal, the civil, or the ecclesiastical, whether made by individuals like Mr. BENTHAM ox Sir SAMUEL 'Rom'LIN, or made by Commit teei'of Parliament 'or Commissions of Inquiry, have one and all ended in the conclusion—not sparing the .Clinrch, Which was investigated by Sir R. PEEL'S Commission—that the law or in stitution inquired into was erroneous or defec tive, and required revision. That Conclusion, general as to • our own laws, few or none of which are considered to be based on justice, is rendered still more striking and general by a si milar conclusion having been adopted in other countries. During some ages blind and besotted reverence of ancient institutions was the .creed of politicians; of our own age it is a remarkable cir ctithstance that they have all been exposed to a .clOse scrutiny,' and upon that scrutiny they have one and all been condemned. Those who ex pect to maintain bad laws in spite of that gene ral . principle, must suppose that they can turn back the . course of society. _ _ .Such,a - general fact should make our Leg6la tors adopt as a principle of conduct that the rubbish of ancient and worn-out laws should be gradually cleared away. The reverse is the con duct 'of the Tories. They profess a determina tion to preserve them all. They call themselves Conservatives, signifying hoarders and guardians of law-rubbish; and_ they avow a determination to maintain laws that are manifest violations of all the principles of political society. Now we must solemnly warn the Tories that they cannot continue to do. this without placing in jeopardy the whole fabric of political society. A majority, however numerous it may be, cannot carry them safely to the end of such a career. The united declaratiOn of all the Parliaments that ever ex isted cannot make wrong right, or make men reverence evil ; and the proposed attempt of Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Tories to uphold mono poly will end, if he be successful in Parliament, in speedily overthrowing the authority of Par liament itself.' Why the Tory Journals delayed so long as August 2d, to notice a dinner given by Sir JAMES GRAHAM to the electors of Dorchester as long ago as July 22d, we can not tell, but we presume they were ashamed of the renegade. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S empty piece of twaddle was published with express baste, but not a single reporter from either Times or Post was sent to report what Sir JAMES said; and our Contempo raries were indebted for his meagre speech to a provincial journal. They hardly treat their third hero fairly, by wholly consigning him to a pro vincial paper, and not publishing his oration for ten days. We regard Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S spe'e_ch as worth very little notice. He pointed out that the Ministers had been defeated in some manu facturing as well as in agricultural districts, and that their scheme of a fixed duty on corn had not been favourably received. The Right Hon. Baronet also defended the Corn-laws against his own former and bitter attack on all such laws, and, knowing the weak powers of his own argu ment, he was successful against himself. The Tory and monopolist GRAHAM defeated the Whig and free-trade GRAHAM, he being no ex ception to the general rule, that when men are young they are ingenuous, and prefer truth to interest, and that as they advance in life they get corrupted by the world, and prefer interest to truth. There is only one passage of his speech that we think worthy of remark. The,Right Hon. Baronet said " that more was expected from human legislation than it could accomplish," " if it was expected by human laws to provide for Providential calamities." He also said, that "to pretend to make a country altogether indepen , dent of the evils arising from an insufficient supply, was the pretence of quacks and empirics." " He would have man look with humility on all the efforts of legislative wisdom, and look up for reliance on him who is the giver of all good." Such is the language ascribed to Sir JAMES GRAHAM; what is his conduct and the conduct of his colleagues They insist by their laws on providing against Providential calamities, and the pre text of the Corn-laws is, that it secures the people in the long run against them, by bestowing on the people a greater supply of food than Provi dence would bestow, if Sir JAMES GRAHAM were not to interfere with its dispensations by that kind of legislation which proceeds from quacks and empirics. They pretend, also, to lessen the evils of one country being dependent on an other, though that is the result of the wisdom of Providence, which he tells us to rely on, and is opposed to his separating, anti-social, anti human legislation, which he' t ‘n the same breath tells us is no better than foolishness. It is a pity that Sir JAMES can no more be consistent in pronouncing two consecutive sentences, than in discussing a subject at two periods of his life. In one sentence he tells us to rely on Provi dence, and in the next he vaunts to the skies the miserable drivelling of the landlords, which aims at perverting the order of nature and the mutual dependence of nations. According to report, Lord FRANCIS EGERTON has proposed to raise a troop of Yeomanry, ready to meet some expected resistance to the laws. The gentry and the Tory Journals pretend to be apprehensive of danger to the upper classes of society, and they take precautions and make laws to ensure their own safety. In the mean time, however, they perpetrate on the lower classes the very evils they pretend to dread. They exterminate the people. Population, under favourable circumstances, naturally doubles it self every twenty-five years. Our community is placed under most favourable circumstances. It is the complaint of the Tories that "our produc ing power is too great." To our trade the whole world, except as our own laws limit and restrain it, is invitingly open. Our vast Colonies, to reach which costs no more - than to move a New England family to the Far West, are as great a re source of unbroken and virgin soil for our people, as States. iS Possessed by the inhabitants of the United We surpass them, it is supposed, in agricultural and manufacturing skill, and there fore are we naturally placed under more favour able circumstances than the United States, which double their population every twenty-three years. In our circumstances every short-coming of the natural increase m of u p st o r their eff ect , p b u e la se ti t o d n o , w th n e t g o e u rm n j l a a l v sw social b prosperity,which have fo and very oft u e os n tf have for their object, to keep down the number of the people. For example, the rough inde pendence of the poor Catholics in Ireland, has long been a subject of bitter complaint, and ex ertions have been made by the landlords, as in dividuals, and in Parliament, to prevent their in crease. The landlords seem to have succeeded. • instead of doublinn• i n o The population, years, the natural rate, or even increasing 16 per cent., as they did in the 10 years previous to 1831, have only increased, according to an account published in yesterday's Chronicle, • at the rate of 5 per cent. ears. during the last ten yea . In the county of Car low the population has decreased. We_ know, then, by the result, that a process is at work by which the people are prematurely cut off and prevented from multiplying as fast as they ought, and as fast as they would, were industry left en tirely free. If we could suppose that the check which the increase of population has received, were accom panied with an improvement in the condition of individuals, it might be endurable; but we believe it to be a general law that as population declines the condition of individuals becomes worse. The inhabitants of the manufacturing districts are rapidly falling into the most disheartening poverty, and though they have not increased so fast as at former periods, their condition has been much deteriorated. We lately laid before our readers the census of Paisley, from which it appeared that the people of that town are worse lodged in 1841 than they . Were in 1831. Of the manufacturing districts in general, the Rev. Baptist NOEL says— " It is shocking to look down into the cellars, which are tenanted by destitute thousands, in the poorer parts of Liverpool and Manchester. The town missionaries in these two towns, who, living entirely among the poor, probably know more of their circumstances than almost any other persons, not excepting even clergymen, assured me last year that the distress which they witnessed in visiting among the people was wide-spread, and intense beyond description. How could it be otherwise ? I saw some mills closed, others were working half-time, and in the store-rooms of several I saw immense piles of goods heaped up to the very ceilings for which the manufac turers could flint no profitable sale." Thus misery is the check to the progress of population, and the census, which tells us that we are becoming stationary as to numbers, also tells us that the condition of the people is becom ing worse and worse. They are exterminated by misery. They are even now the prey to those very calamities which the upper classes pretend to dread. In the meantime the landlords, the guilty authors of more human misery than ever was inflicted in our times by the most savage despot, are everywhere employed in improving their estates, enlarging their parks, and building fine houses. The people decay and starve ; but game is abundant. • 'We learn with pleasure that the Conference of Clergymen about to be held respecting the ge neral and increasing distress caused by the Corn laws, promises well, and that the prospects of an efficient movement are brightening every day. In another part of The Sun will be found an ex cellent address on the subject to the Clergy of Scotland. Let them consider it well. This re spectable body are properly the guardians of the poor in that country, they communicate with the heritors in times of distress, and we would recom mend them also to communicate with other classes less interested in making bread dear. The present is a fit opportunity ; the county elections in Scot land have proved that the farmers, most of them having long leases, trusted not for remu neration to monopolies, which bring ruin on the many, and cannot be said to benefit even the few. We charitably believe that a mistaken idea of their own interests cannot have any in fluence on the humane and pious clergy of the north, and that they will not lend their sanction to this grievous tax for the sake of keeping up the fiars. The readers of The Sun will find in another column a petition addressed to the QUEEN by a number of merchants, manufacturers, and traders of the City of London, invoking her MAJESTY'S most gracious attention to the measures which the welfare of the State requires her MAJESTY to sub mit for the adoption of the new Parliament. The petitioners, like a vast number of their fel low-subjects, participate in that growing infide lity respecting the honesty of public men, which the conduct of past Governments for the last quarter of a century has so mischievously engen dered; and they approach their SOVEREIGN as the only remaining sheet-anchor of the nation. The late Parliament disappointed their reasonable expectations; the constitution of the new Hoitse of Commons fills them with despondency. They see in public af fairs, without the interposition of the scep tre, a rushing from bad to worse. The late House of Commons lost the confidence of the country; the present cannot lose that which it never had, though it may increase the evil odour in which it stands be fore the country. With all deference for the opinions of the petitioners, we think they attempt to throw too heavy a burthen upon the shoulders of Royalty. The QUEEN has performed her part nobly, and if the people have not done theirs it is too much to expect that her MAJESTY will do it for them. The people may distrust public men as much as they please, but while they are true to, and have proper confidence in, themselves, it matters very little whether the leaders of Parliamentary factions be rogue or honest men. Our admiration of the pa triotic conduct of the QUEEN, in taking part with the people against the monopolists, is unbounded ; nevertheless we look for no tri umph which the people do not mainly contri bute to achieve. At this moment they stand greatly in need of help, but it is because they shamefully neglected to help themselves. If they persist in looking to the QUEEN for the amelioration of the evils that press upon them, let them meet by thousands, and, by the adoption of countless addresses, strengthen the hands of our Most Gracious Sovereign. The petition of the citizens of London will serve as a model for many others. The ordinary mails have brought us the French Journals of Sunday, the leading contents of which an Express from Paris enabled us to anticipate in the Afternoon Edition of Monday's Sun. We have also received Ma drid letters and Papers of the 25th of July, from whence we learn that the re ported appointment of Count FLAuna yr, as French Ambassador to the Court of Spain, is by no means in accordance with the wishes of the Spanish Government. The intrigues of France in the Peninsula begin to occasion the Regent serious uneasiness. The Journal de Lot et Garonne of the 25th of July contains the following paragraphs :—" After having given an account of the criminal attempts, the pretext for which was the several re-assessments prescribed by the laws, we are happy to be able to speak in due terms of commendation of the good sense and spirit of order which characterise the inhabitants of our department. In fact, such complete tranquillity prevails, that one would hardly imagine that the officers of the direct taxes had already verified above half of the communes. They have visited 178 of them containing 43,513 houses, and no where, not even in the most remote parts of the country, have the proprietors or the tenants had any reason to doubt the probity with which the agents have executed the task assigned to them. The spirit which excites people to contempt of the laws, would be unable here to obtain credit among the people for the audacious falsehood, that the officers rummage the wardrobe in order to count the linen to tax it. This is a falsehood as palpable as that a tax was to be levied on body shirts, &c. The inhabitants of the towns and communes which have not yet been visited, may judge of the nature of these visits by the regularity of those which have already taken place. The re-assessment has already taken place in 130 communes of the departments of the Tarn ; it has served to prove that in 12 several communes alone there were 348 houses which had not yet been taxed.—Le Moniteur. 4 :;r 4 •0 , 4 r " _ ~,i.,1010:46;irt 4. VP • , = ' Ott ‘,ttit. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4,18 Th The S'peetator of last Saturday contained an article entitled " Legal Anti-Corn-law Agita * tion," stating that it was doubted whether Par . liament had the power to impose taxes for any . other purpose than that of raising a revenue for the State ; and the tax on grain being a tax to enrich the corporate body of the landed interest, the Parliament in imposing it seems to have ex ceeded its powers for a purpose bordering on high treason. . There has been some talk, it was added, of freighting a vessel with grain from the Baltie, - 'and. endeavouring to land the cargo without paying the duty, in order that the question as to whether the duty on imported grain is a constitutional tax, may be argued be fore the Courts of Westminster. We do not re fer to the train of argument or to the suggestion as a novelty, for both have previously appeared in The Sun, but to state what is going on in men's minds that the Tories shall have no excuse, by pleading ignorance, for the mischief their political quackery will bring on society. Our argument, indeed, was not that the tax is unconstitutional, for the Constitution is to be gathered from practice, and it has been the prac tice, beyond legal memory, to levy such taxes ; nor even that it is beyond the power of Parlia ment—for Parliament has done the iniquitous act—but that it is a violation of the funda mental principle of society, namely, that alle giance is only due for protection ; that the pro tection of property is the principal duty of the State ; and that the Corn-tax is a violation by that pow er, which is constituted to prevent all such violations, of the right of property in every per son who pays the Bread -tax. The suggestion which has appeared in The Sun on the subject, • was not to appeal to Westminster-hall, for Westminster -hall is bound to obey and interpret the statute law, and knows nothing of a Con stitution opposed to that, but to run the cargo , - and appeal to the people, the source and foun tain of all human law. They, and not the Judges, who ar e expressly . forbidd en t o try or question the decisions of Parliament, must de cide whether the law which taxes the whole of the consumers of bread, in order to enrich the owners of rent, be a l aw which ought to be obeyed. We refer, however, to this subject to leave th e Tories without any excuse for bringing the ques tion of the duty of allegiance and the question of obedience to the law into discussion and doubt, by obstinately maintaining a law which, on prin ciples of common justice and of political society, is untenable. Such discussions, growing out of ' the Corn-laws, have found vent in pamphlets, and have now reached the cautious Spectator, which tells us that it has heard such opinions, and such , a train of argument, more or less dis tinctly enunciated from different quarters. Peo ple begin, therefore, very generally, driven by the obstinate adherence of Parliament to a bare faced scheme of plunder by law, to examine the . power, rights, and duties of Parliament itself. For society such an investigation can have none but beneficial effects. The more accurately the powers and duties of Parliament are de fined, the more general becomes the conviction, if correct and true, that the bounds.to its bene ficial exercise of power arc very narrow, the • better must it be for' the community. But we nre induced to think that such a course of inves . tigation will be perilous to Parliament, because the practical exercise ofits functions by no means accords with any recognized theory of govern ment. We cannot suppose that the last Parliament was more deficient in legislative capacity than its predecessors of fifty, or a hundred, or five hun dred years ago; but the criticism continually directed against its acts and character must satisfy every man that its laws—if they should last so long. —must be very mischievous a hundred years hence.We do not reverence its decisions, and how can we expect that our successors, who will have much more knowledge than we have, should do otherwise than overturn and laugh them to scorn? THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, I°4l. (FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, 'Auc. 1, 1841.—We are absolutely without po litical news of importance in this capital, and are for the time being in a state of calm, which, however, like every thing else, as long as the present state of things con tinue in Government matters, cannot be of long duration. News has been anxiously looked for from Toulouse and the south of France, where it was expected (perhaps hoped) by the Government that the bold and unconstitu tional measures, not only of disbanding the National Guard, but also of dissolving the Municipality, would provoke some of the more ardent spirits to rise in rebellion, and give the new corps of chasseurs an occasion for tinging their bayonet-sabres with Republican blood, ; but the object of the King has not yet been effected. In general the fetes of July has gone off with the usual indiffe rence throught France. At Havre it has been remarked as a strong sign of the times that not a single National Guard appeared in uniform on the day of the principal ceremonies, the 29th. The review of the civic corps took place in Paris, and indeed it is very doubtful whether Louis Philippe will ever dare again to face the ranks of his " dear comrades" of the the three glorious days of liberty and equality. The Court all go to Eu on Wed nesday next, and the Parisians will contrive to sip their coffee as usual, notwithstanding such a " lamented absence." A good deal of attention is turned here, in the manu facturing world, to the rumoured Customs Union be tween France and Belgium. Independently of the French iron-masters and coal-owners being averse to the project, it is more than probable, that the great Powers of Europe will try to hinder any attempt to open a way for a future political union of the two countries in question ; and we observe that the German official papers give more room than usual to their Paris corres pondence on this subject and to arguments against it. The King of the Belgians is said to be personally anxious for it ; but of this we are inclined to doubt. The Money Market of Paris has not been so much affected by the failures at Vienna as was expected ; but it is rumoured that the Rothschilds have to pull out ra ther largely, in order to keep up the balance of their power—financial power that is to say—in the various markets of Europe. Ilumann's loan is decidedly post poned. The two railroads to Vereaillee (the St. Cloud and the Mendon lines) are to be made one and the same • undertaking ; not before it was time, for though the lines have taken well, the. Companies (on account of the heavy preliminary expenses) have for some time been cutting each other's throats. The last advices from Algeria bring fresh accounts of the discovery of peculations on a large scale in the Com missariat Department of the French army. The fact has been notorious for years ; but nobody expected that General Bugeaud—himself not exempt from animadver sion for his admiration for Abd-el-Kader's Boudjoux and the vicinal roads of his own department=would ever dare to throw stones at his neighbour's windows, his own house being of a very vitreous construction. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. There was a tolerably' steady market to-day for the public securities, in the absence of any important operations. As to the Chancery sales which have been effected within the last day or two, these are but in the ordinary course, and would take place under any circum stances, that is to say, whether the market were favour able or unfavourable, when ordered by the Accountant- General. From what we can understand, there are far ther amounts hanging upon the market ready to be brought forward for wealthy Corporations. Consols for money realised 891 to 89L and closed at 89a; and for the account at 89f, to 1 4 , the latest bargains being at 894 to &chequer )Bills were 14 to 16 premium; and India Bonds 6s. to Bs. preminin, being for the latter a slight improvement. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were steady at 981 to 8, the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 988 to 998, and, the Three per Cent. An nuities at 898 to 90*. East India Stock was at 247 to 248. There was scarcely , any demand for the Foreign Stocks, and prices generally ruled the same. Active Spanish Bonds were :191 to 20, French Three per Cents. 761. 75c. to 77c. ; Colombian Stock was 19i-, Mexican 25*, and Belgian 101 1 1. Dutch T wo-and-a- Half per Cents. were 52, and the Five per Cents. 102 i. Railway Shares were supported, but rather dull. Great Western New Shares were at 8, the Fifths at 5 ; the Birmingham Quarters at 18, the Thirds at 22, and the South Western at 13* premium ; Manchester and Leeds New Shares were 10, and Bristol and Exeter 28 discount. London and Westminster Bank Shares were 2 a to 21 ; and General Steam Navigation 10 premium. There was no marked alteration in the Foreign Ex changes thio afternoon, and the rates current on 'Change were about these :—Paris 25f. 60c. to 62ic. ; Amster dam, 12 31 to 4; Antwerp, 12 34,- ; Frankfort, 1491 to ; Hamburgh, 13 9 to 94- ; and, Trieste, .9 55 to 57. The following are the official returns of the exports of bullion from the port of London for the week ending Thursday last : Silver coin to Hamburgh 64,000 oz. B. W. Indies Rotterdam Belgium Bars to Hamburgh (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 2.—A mode rate business has been done in the Cotton Market to-day, the sales amounting to 3,000 bales at steady prices. Ex porters have taken 200 bales ; the remainder are to the trade. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 2.—There is considerable improvement reported in the Share Market as to extended business, but the rates for all descriptions of Railway Stock remain at former quotations. Glas gow, Paisley, and Greenock, 261 ; Do. New Shares, 31; Grand Junction, 200 ; Great Western, 84 ; London and Birmingham, 32/. Shares, 531 ; Do. New Do., 241 r ; Midland Counties' New Shares, 21. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG 2.—Our mar ket has exhibited rather more firmness to-day. Man chester and Birmingham, 21 4 to 22 ; London and Bir mingham, 160, 161 ; Manchester and Leeds, 50 ; London and South Western, 53 to 531; Stafford and Rugby, 21. 13s. 9d. By the arrival of her Majesty's Packet Crane with a mail from the West Indies, Papers have been received from Trinidad to the 22d; Demerara, 23d; Barbadoes, 26th June; and Jamaica 2d July. Their contents are very uninteresting. At Barbadoes they continued to suffer from drought, which had become truly alarming. The occasional showers that had fallen have given no impulse to vegeta tion, ponds dry, and everything looking scorching suns and blinding dust. The planters prospects are indeed gloomy, and all must expect to suffer, and very se verely too. The English Stock opened flat this morning, with but little business doing. Consols are 801 for Money, and 89a a for Account ; Bank Stock, 169 170 ; India Stock, 247 8 ; Three per Cents. Reduced 89j- 90 ; Three-and a-Half Reduced, 98i 99 ; Exchequer Bills, 14 16 pre mium ; and India Bonds 6 9. Spanish Active Stock 194 Passive, 4 ; Defer red, 9i ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 29:f 30, Ditto Threes, ln 181. DEMERARA, JUNE 23.—The extensive failure of a great produce, shipping, and bill-drawing house in this town is generally felt: Many young men who have been struggling upwards with persevering and praiseworthy industry have thus received a blow they will suffer under for some time ; others may not be able to bear up against it. Indeed, it has produced a sensation that we have seldom witnessed before in this colony. There is but little news in the City at present, and to-morrow being the fourth of the month, when a large mass of commercial paper falls due, some anxiety is na turally felt to ascertain how the payments will be met. There have been fewer failures within the last fortnight, and hence it is to be hoped most par ties will be enabled to honour their drafts, especially as the discour:t market has not become materially tighter. It must be acknowledged at the same time that a good deal of trouble is experienced ill obtaining accommoda tion upon what is denominated second-class paper. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bulk Stock ............ ... India Stock 245 3 per Cent Red. 9O Ditto Bonds 89g Ditto Old An nu iti es - 3i 3 P Pe Cent Cent r etCons ° Red s .. - 96i .Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 16 p m N L ! Ditto 500/ l6 p m I Ditto Small l6 p m Jan. 1860 ... 12 15-16 Bank Sto c k f or A cc t... Oct --India Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. — Consols for Acct B9 N ;n : 53 A 1 tij n i pe n 85 re u r i t Cent 9 Cent ies t o expire FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent—Portuguese, . 5 per cent. Belgusn, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.... — Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent__ Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent l9i Ditto, 1824. ...... ... ..... 197 .Ditto, Deferred .. 9i Danish, 3 per cent. — , French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. -,-- _ tExchange .. —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 25i 'French, 3 per cent. 77L 75c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. (Dutch, 2i per cent. ... Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. 'Ditto, 5 per . cent 102 b SHARES Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) . . ... .. 32 Great Western Railway (65 paid) — Ditto Fifth (4 paid) 9i Ditto New Shares (50 paid sBi _ . . . _ _ ... . . London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 15} London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) Ditto Thirds (32 paid) London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... Ditto New Shares (30 paid) COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 7 Gibraltar . . Ditto, at sight Rotterdam... 2 U l'2 7 Genoa , 25 85 Antwerp l2 6% Milan . Hamburgh M. B. 13 12 Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 50 Palermo, per oz 118% Ditto, 3 months 25 75 Lisbon Marseilles ........ ... . 25 80 Oporto 52% Bourdeaux 25 80 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 150% Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37% Buenos Ayres ...... Berlin.... ... ............ 7 New York, 21 days sight 46% Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 955 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto 9 58 PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz. Madrid _ _ _ Cadiz Bilboa Barcelona Seville ...... 36 Silver in Bars 0 b Oi COCKNEYCALITIES OF " THE SUN."—An amusing letter appeared in the Times of yesterday, under this heading, addressed to that paper from a Corres pondent at and we candidly confess that we have not seen any true statement in the Times, with this exception, for the last three months. The writer of the letter, who styles himself "An Observer (and an Ad mirer too) of ' Times' and Seasons," justly complains that we confounded grouse-shooting with pheasant shooting, and that the Ist of September was erroneously put down for the Ist of October. Possibly the para gragh in question was written by a Cockney ; at all exents it was not written by one who had shot muir fowls in Scotland, or been at a battue in the parks of the Dukes of Rutland and Beaufort, But could not this ob servant Correspondent be impartial, and point out the blunders of the Times about the shooting of people in Ireland ? He evidently is a good aristocrat, and thinks pheasant-shooting a matter of the first importance. ROXBURGHSHIRE ELECTION. -- Great indeed must have been the disappointment experienced by the Tories during the polling days at Hawick on account of no riot having occurred. Gentle reader, only conceive what a mortification it must have been, after conveying to Hawick about thirty pairs of hand cuffs ! and an ample, supply of chains ! ! notwith standing the provocation given to the people by the ruffianly conduct of an infuriated soldiery not a single pair of them were required !! ! So ashamed were they of the transactions, that the whole of these or naments (certainly more befitting those who sent them, than those for whom they were sent, were huddled into a sack to prevent observation, and reconveyed, as if by stealth, back to Jedburgh by the mail cart. Does this throw no additional light upon the conduct of certain officials upon that memorable occasion ?—Kelso Chronicle. MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE IN AMERICA.---A letter from Philadelphia, dated July 8, says :—" I am informed by a person, just from the foot of Arch-street, on the Schuylkill, that a person fishing there this morn ing caught his hook in the dress of a woman, and in drawing it to the shore was horror struck to find it to be a young and lovely girl, not over nineteen, fast tied to the arm of a young genteelly dressed man ! They had resolved to die united by a silken handkerchief, probably because they could not live in the silken bonds of matri mony. On searching their persons no marks of violence were discovered, nor was any one present able to iden tify them, but in the pocket of each was found a loaded pistol. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Opwton. " fl ho runs. may read." PORMIGINT. Sir Robert Peel's quack oration at Tamworth is the leading topic of discussion in the French Journals of Sunday. The National contrasts its utter want of dignity, its puny. jokes, _and its silly affectation of re serve, with the statesmanlike address of Lord John Russell to the electors of London. What the National regards as most * remarkable about the speech is, that it was spoken, not Jo the electors, but at the Queen and the Court. The flummery about the marital virtues of Prince Albert was Sir Joseph Surface all over. It will take a great deal of lip-slavering to make his Royal Highness forget that Peel abridged his proposed in come to the amount of twenty thousand a year. The Emperor of Morocco has sent his compliments to Queen Donna , Maria, with a request to be favoured with thirty-three thousand dollars, in lieu of certain pre sents made to his Imperial predecessors by the Sovereigns of Portugal. The Cabinet of Lisbon has agreed to lodge and feed his messenger, Taleb Aberdeselen Aberode, and to remit to the Treasury of Fez one fourth of the sum demanded. With our extensive knowledge of Portugal's inveterate habits of non-payment, we must pronounce this offer really munificent. The King of the French and the Carlists are in triguing about providing a husband for the infant Queen of Spain. Louis Philippe has a son whom he is willing to devote to the service of her Most Catholic Majesty, whilst it appears that Don Carlos has two, either of whom would feel no repugnance at dividing the cares of royalty with her Majesty. If the Spanish Government wish to put an end to a state of things which may eventually en danger the Constitution, it will provide a husband for the Queen totally unconnected by blood with the Bourbon family, either in France, Spain, or Italy. The Queen of Portugal is more of a natural philo sopher than the Deputies of her kingdom. In a late address relative to the earthquake at Terceira, these " wise men of Gotham," by way of consoling her Ma jesty, observed :—" Let not your Majesty regard an event happening so early in your reign as a bad augury of the future ;" to which the Queen rebukingly replied, " the phenomena resulting from the invariable laws of nature cannot be considered as an augury of future events." The grave dignitaries of the kingdom must have looked rather silly on receiving such a correction from the lips of so young a woman as Donna Maria da Gloria. There is some probability that Hamburgh and the Hanse Towns will shortly join the German Customs' Union. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Chronicle, reverting to Sir R. Peel's last Tamworth speech, and his "concession of the need of some further institutional Reform," declares that this concession is hinted at " for a sinister purpose, that of obtaining an undue preponderance upon the electoral re gister ;" and adds, " what a Janus-headed quack it is ! He is hoaxing both parties, the one with his founda tions,' and the other with his renovations.' " The Right Hon. Baronet is indeed halting just now between two bundles of hay, doubtful which to nibble at. Now be is tempted by the Ultras —now, by the more moderate section .of the faction. His recent speeches show his perplexity. He dare not decide boldly and promptly like a man, but must stand flirting and coquetting alter nately—like Macheath in the Beggars' Opera—with both classes of the Tories. And this is the man, and this the sort of policy that is to rescue the country from its pre sent state of extreme suffering and despondency ! We have reached an alarming crisis, yet the Minister who is to rule our destinies has not yet made up his mind how to act. We ask him for his remedy; and he puts us off with a vague promise or a mysterious shake of the head. Like Morrison, the Hygeist, he tell us we must have faith in his.pills ; but when we call upon 'him to produce his pills, as our case is desperate, he frankly tells us , that they are not yet made up ! The profuse bribery practised at the late clections has so shocked the Times, that it is specially anxious to see an immediate and effectual stop put to the system, and implores the " Conservative Administration," to re gard this as one of their first and most important duties. The object of such advice is evident. Having attained a majority by dint of gross corruption, the Tories are now naturally desirous to disguise their delin quencies beneath the convenient mask of political purity. Electioneering corruption being no longer cf immediate use to them, they are now all for electioneering incorruptibility. They are horrified to-day, at what but yesterday they practised with the most hardened indifference There is a sad s'ant of tact in all this cant and hypocrisy. A man should never kick down the ladder by which he mounted the wall, for in case of being suddenly and unexpectedly compelled to descend again, he can only do so at the risk of a broken neck. The Herald has several lengthy articles on the sub ject of the blunders committed by Lord Palmerston as Foreign Minister, in all of which our Contemporary shows himself well versed in the " Much-ado-about-Nothing" style of reasoning. The Post commences its first and principal article in these significant terms :—" There are no worse ene mies of this country, in point of fact, whatever they may be in intention, than they who in the present state of affairs lead the people to place their hopes upon great extension of manufacturing and commercial business." We look upon this remark as a sort of feeler, intended to prepare the country for the disappointment it will inevi tably experience in hoping for any practical be. nefit from a Tory Administration. We are not, it seems, to expect an extension of trade and commere. We are to be content with things as they are—with Toryism as it ever was, and ever will be. If we demand a remedy for our present distresses, we are to be ranked among " the worst enemies of the country." The Whigs pro mised us free trade ; but from the Tories we are warned —by one of their own molt influential organs—to expect nothing. This is encouraging, and will reconcile John Bull more fully thaw ever to the inestimable blessings of a Peel Government. The Morning Advertiser considers that the position of Sir Robert Peel, whether as regards his friends or foes, is by no means to be envied, for that " his bed will not be one of roses." Hew can it possibly be a soft, snug couch, stuffed, as it will infallibly be, with such sharp and stiff thorns, as Stanley, Graham, Sibthorp, and other such Impracticables or Ineapables ? As the bed, however, will be of his own choosing, it is fit that he should pay the penalty of his choice. The Cheltenham Journal proposes conquest as a sovereign panacea for all the evils of Ireland. " asks our Contemporary, " what would, in reality, be jus tice to Ireland ? What, the greatest blessing that could be conferred on her ? The answer to these questions is prompt, and comprised in a single word—conquest ! Few are the nations, if any, that are the worse for having been conquered." If this be so, Ireland ought now to be enjoying a most unparalelled state of prosperity, for England has been playing the part of conqueror towards her for full six hundred years ! If our Contemporary were to fight a battle with a rival neighbour and get worsted in the encounter, his notion of the advantages of " being conquered," would, we suspect, undergo very considerable modification, MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. The deliveries of Tea for consumption last week fell off not less than 100,0001bs. This is for London alone, and may in some measure be accounted for by the absence of so many persons from town. —At the cotton sales both at Havre and Hamburgh, veryilittle has been done, and the holders seem inclined to, sell at some reduction. The price of grain at Antwerp had risen considerably in the course of last week. LAW AND POLICE. On Friday, at Maidstone, an indictment, at the in stance of a man of the name of Edwards, in the pay of the Custom House, against Mary Martin and two men for a riot and common assault. The disturbance had arisen from some information given by Edwards, which led to the forfeiture of a vessel belonging to Mrs. Martin's husband, by which he lost property to the amount of 1,0001. The lady of course was sadly annoyed at this, and on meeting the informer one day she seizedhim by the nose with one hand and beat him violently with the other. The two male defendants who among many others at tacked him afterwards, were convicted and sentenced to two months' hard labour. The lady, who was also con victed, entered into her own recognizance to appear when called up for judgment. A baker of the name of Bullivant, residing in Broad-street, Lambeth, was fined 51. on Monday for as-. saulting William Halifax, a letter-carrier. The com plainant swore positively that when he demanded 2d. for a letter addressed to the defendant, the latter refused to pay it, and struck him several violent blows. The defen dant positively declared that he did not strike the plain tiff at all, and paid the money. At Queen-square on Monday, Mustapha Ali, a Greek, was charged with uttering a draft on Cox and Greenwood, upon a false representation that it would be paid by Colonel L. Stanhope. The prisoner, who is about thirty years of age, was saved, when a boy, in Greece, by Lord Byron, during a general massacre by the Turks. At Chester, on. Saturday, two men who had been convicted of robbery, and sentenced to transportation for fourteen years, were placed again at the bar, and in formed by Mr. Justice Erskine that he should recal the sentence, as there appeared considerable doubt as to the first count of the indictment. They were then sentenced to transportation for seven years on a minor count of the indictment. Two good-looking country girls from Yarmouth were brought before Sir Juhn Cowan, at Guildhall, on Monday, charged with absconding from their parents. The mother, it appeared, had pursued them to town and traced them to a house in Shire-lane in time to save them from ruin. They had been inveigled into the house by some loose woman they met in the street. COUILT-rasnxoNa.BLEs. A paragraph has been going the round of the papers, stating the confinement of the Marquis of Lans downe at Leige through illness. The report is stated, on authority, to be entirely without foundation. ELECTIONEERING. At the public dinner given at Dublin on Saturday, in honor of the return of Messrs. Wyse and Barron, Mr. O'Connell was present, and still harped on the assessor : speaking of the return made by this person, Mr. O'Connell said—" Such a thing never happened in England ; the return there is made by the Sheriff, Mayor, or High Bailiff, and not an Assessor. It comes before the English with this sin gularity, that for five hundred years they have been re turning Members of Parliament, and that no as sessor has ever attempted to return Members there." Mr. O'Connell subsequently explained his intended proceedings in the affair thus :—" I want three things to be done—first, to declare Wyse and Barron to be the sitting Members ; next to declare the return to be frivolous and vexatious ; and thirdly, to call upon the Attorney-General to prosecute for the conspiracy by which this has been brought about, and then we will take care not to lay the venue in the city of Waterford." MISCELLANEOUS. The Rev. Baptist Noel, as quoted by the Morning Chronicle, says, speaking of the effect of certain bene volent intentions, it would be very similar to that men tioned by Mr. Carlyle, "as made in grim earnes in a pamphlet bought by him in a Chartist shop, " that all the children of working people after the third be disposed of by painless extinction." Of course every body will be taught by tha single phrase that the work is a Chartist production. Who is the author we know not ; but, looking at the efforts now made by the Tories to extermi nate the people, it ought to have been bought in a Tory shop. The doctrines are entirely Tory, ex cept the painless part, for the Tories do not spare the pain when they extinguish life. To imply that the work of 3.l.tactrs, noticed many months ago in The Sun, is a Chartist production, is a specimen of the pri vilege so often used by the virtuous of calling " mad dog" when they happen to dislike any doctrines or their professors. It implies a gross and scandalous calumny on the Chartists. On Monday the Midsummer election of the Printers Pension Society took place at the London Tavern. Mr. Smith, of the firm of Marchant, Singer, and Smith, was in the chair, and at four o'clock announced John Harris and Thomas Byford as the successful candidates. The present number of pensioners on the funds of the institution is eighteen males and twenty-seven females, who receive twelve guineas and eight guineas per annum respectively. The funded capital of the charity is now nearly 1,8001., and the annual subscriptions are much increasing. As the Rand western window of St. George's Chapel, Windsor,,is considered in a- very dangerous state, the Dean and Canons have resolved that the massive stone-work shall be taken down, mid the window entirely rebuilt, the valuable stained-glass of course being carefully preserved.' The vacation at Maynooth College this sum er extends to two months, for want of sufficient fundrio support the students. RUMOURS OP THE DAY. The Marquis of Londonderry will be the Tory Ambassador at Paris, where he 'may teach the Parisians the art of boxing, and other elegant accomplish ments, as he had the reputation of having heretofore taught the Viennise. Of course Lord Lyndhurst cannot have the same appointment, and the rumour that the Learned Lord is to be sent into exile to please Lord Stanley is contradicted. On the contrary, whatever may be thought of the Learned Lord by his very pure friends, he will be Lord Chancellor. Peel, therefore, overrides and overules Stanley and the Ultras. His man is to be Lord Chancellor. It is now said that there is to be no contest for the Speakership. We do not believe it. The Tories would be disgraced in the eyes of the world, and in their own eyes, if they consented to re-elect Mr. Shaw Lefevre. Such a plan might appear gracious when they supposed their majority would not be above 20, and the issue doubt ful; but with a majority of 80, it would be scandalous in them as a party to re-elect Mr. Shaw Lefevre. Is there no Tory equal to him ? A decided check has been given to progressive in crease in the population of Ireland, and the average in crease throughout the country between 1831 and 1841, will turn out to be only about 5 per cent. This is attri buted to the new system of throwing many small farms into one, and turning out the poor people, many of whom die from want and disease. If we are to believe two correspondents of the Irish Ecclesiastical Journal, the members of the Presby terian Church. of Scotland are little better than Turks and Pagans, and the Presbyterian body cannot be acknowledged as a Church till the High Churchmen are prepared to admit the same of the Mabometans and the worshippers of the Lama. Dr. Chalmers, on learning that he was thus treated as a heathen and a barbarian , after what had been said, too, by a proud Bishop in the House of Lords, resolved to disown the " sister Church," as he sees she is fast verging towards Popery. It is said that a Sheriff of a certain Irish county carried Orangeism to such an extent in the discharge of his office at the late election, that he wrapped the return round with orange and blue ribbons, and duly sealed it with a seal bearing the inscription, " The Pope in Hell, and the Devil pelting priests at him." It is said that Lord and Lady Howick have ar ranged to spend the long period of two years on the con tinent. His Lordship's health, it is understood, is un satisfactory. Six Manchester men were fined last week Is. each and costs, before the Magistrates, for mowing hay on Sunday. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning in the Slopes and Little Park. The Duchess of Bedford arrived at the Castle, and has succeeded the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, as the Lady in Waiting on the Queen. Major Keppel has succeeded Sir Frederick Stovin, as the Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. Viscount Melbourne, Hon. W. Cowper, and the Lady Olivia Taylour arrived to-day at the Castle. In the afternoon her Majesty rode out in a pony phaeton, the Prince driving. . _ - The Hon. Harriet Pitt find the Hon. Sarah Mary Ca vendish followed in another phaeton. and Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Wylde, and the Hon. Major Keppel at tended on horseback. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal has been taken her usual airing. Lady Caroline Barrington and Mr. George A. Anson, will have the honour of joining the Royal Circle at the Castle at dinner in the evening. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the Panormas of Damascus and Acre yesterday, and was pleased to express his approbation of the paintings. The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin cesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, took an airing yesterday in a carriage. Viscount Melbourne, accompanied by the Hon. Wil liam Cowper, left town yesterday afternoon on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Mr. York had an interview with the Marquis of Nor manby yesterday at the Home-office. The Chairman of the Excise had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer y es t er d a y, a t his offi cial residence in Downing -street.. Viscount Melbourne will give a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers on the 13th instant. Despatches from Sir Charles Metcalf, Governor of Jamaica, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Lord and Lady Hamilton Chichester have arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, from Melton. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. DEPARTURES. Lady Elizabeth Fielding and the Hon. Henry Fox Talbot, from Sackville-street, for Laycock Abbey, Wiltshire; Mr. Charles C. and Lady Catherine Cavendish, from Latimers, for Goodwood Park; the Hon. Mrs. Brand, from the seat of Lord Daere, the Roo, Hertfordshire, for Goodwood; Mr. R o b er t Stainer Holford, from the Marquis of Northampton's mangon at Hyde-park corner, for Westonbirt House, Tetbury, Glouces tershire ; Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Shawe, from Berkeley-street, for Devonshire; Mr. Lyne tephens, from Portman -square, on a tour ; Commodore Sir Charles Napier, K. C.B. and M.P., from the Gloucester Hotel, for his seat, Merchistoun Hall, near Horndean ; C. Houston, Esq., and Mrs. Houston, from Marshall Thompson's Hotel, for the Continent ; John Cobb, Esq., and Mrs. Cobb, from ditto. ARRIVALS. The two Spanish Princes (the Dukes of Seville and of Cadiz) and suite, at Hathaw and Sele, in G rosvenor-square, from Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire ; Lord Eliot, in Dover street, from Cornwall; Sir Robert and Lady Stopford, and the Misses Stopford, at the Burlington Hotel ; Cooper, Esq., and Mrs. Cooper, at Marshall Thompson's Hotel ; Elton, Esq., and Mrs. Elton, af ditto. Upwards of two hundred ministers of religion have engaged to attend the Conference at Manchester, on the 17th.of August, on the subject of the Corn-laws. . HER. MAJESTY'S VISIT 1.0 UXBRIDGE. FATAL AFFRAY—A MAN KiLLED. On Saturday last the town of Uxbridge •=was scene great animation and rejoicing, in consequence of it s having become known that her Majesty mid Mince Albert would pass through the town on thei r return from Earl Cowper's seat to Windsor Castle. The line of road was decorated with flags, banners, and triumpl he i a l arches. Both sides of the road were crowded fora considerable distance with gay and festive crowds to Witness passage of the royal cortege which, shortly' afta Wei o'clock, entered the High-street, Uxbridge, and passe' along amid the acclamations of the assembage. Throughout her Majesty's proess through the toll and neighbourhood no accident occurred, b u t, We regr et to state that about two hours after her Majesty pass e ' through Uxbridge, on her return from r anShange r in the Windsor, a fatal affray took place at the Bell Inn, an a e t on town of Uxbridge, between John Hobbs , t ° the staff of the West Middlesex Militia , and it Nor'! named Thomas Tollerson, in consequence of 'the latter making some reflections on the Queen, the result of which was his death at an earl hour on Sunday m orning. for- Information of the occurrenc e was on Slii" t Y r . warded to Mr. Wakley, the coroner, who issued his w a rant for holding an inquest. 'ln the course of LP worn ing Hobbs was taken into custody. Yesterday he was brought up for examination W.V.° Messrs. T. Dagnall and C. Newdigate, the ' sitting gistrates, at.the King's Arms Inn, Uxbridge. , t hat George Groves, hostler at the Bull Inn, deposed on the afternoon of Saturday last he was in the kitene:s of the above inn. John Hobbs (the prisoner), Tillerson (the deceased), James Ruddock,. and i otte e r r t were also there. The prisoner and the deceasen ',,d laughing and joking with each other. • The dec e n'., then said something to the prisoner about her 3lak sa s id which witness could not recollect, and the prisoner tt something in answer, which witness has also fort I'll when the deceased said; "if you tell me that aga in '_ a de • give you a smack of the chops." The prisoner when answer, "So she did" (meaning her 3lajestY), roun d the deceased got up out of his chair and went . tieg the table to the prisoner, who was at that time sitting The prisoner then rose from his Chair, down, and struck the prisoner on the face oril' han t he Thom deceased with his clenched fist on the mouth, and knocked the him down upon the stone floor. The deceased laY, °„ minutes, a - floor in a senseless state for about two The e Keene, the landlord, came andpicked him 11 P" .ree l ceased was then placed on a chair, when blood I' p was his nose and left ear, after which the - deceasars washed with brandy. lie n the Mr. Dagnall—The prisoner, after he "7„ s chen the deceased first, resented himself inAliS chai r ' s t a id h e the deceased had been picked up, the prisea e fj , when was sorry for what lie laid done. The dsFe e f e hlow ° A I/ he came to himself, saisr " How came PhYliker bs" the lip ?" when witness told' him that the.l ol ; 1 0 it , and struck hit him, on which deceased said, %Oh, ne' lr . 'Card it will soon be well." Decease& then bega n t s v ir, 56 ' and was soon afterwards carried home in 5 ch a ir, sobe r ' b H le e ed w i . n a g s a a t bl h e is t m o o s u ta th nd and w e h a e r n . I D: e ec g e o a t se i d lo w ni a : ed n V sa i d ta be ess , helped deceased to undress and to put him. t 0 shoP. fore witness left deceased asked him to shut ni!..a''rectit By Mr. Newdigate—Whilst the prisoner ,4 "r Th e in the kitchen, he assisted to recover the decea se ed 10 5 prisoner was quite sober, and said if the d ece° seriously injured, he would pay the doctor's hi l d e pos° Mr. William Rayner, surgeon, of Uxbridge, be we§ that on Saturday afternoon, about five o'el c ' e 'd 'a t il un sent for to attend the deceased, whom he fo pe . kitchen at the Bell Inn, sitting in a chair. Sev eril pe sons were round him, bathing his face with braohtlYoea vies ceased's face was considerably swollen, an ti u t i of h is issuing from his left ear. Deceased comP lai°o mouth being injured. of t ile By Mr. Dagnall—Witness had a bad orial 0 The n e case the first moment he saw the deceased. death' morning (Sunday), witness heard of the dec eased The injury which the deceased had received iv° the cause of his death. James Ruddock, Cooper, of Uxbridge , de The de' he was present at the time of the occurrence• quit' ceased was a little in liquor, but the prisoner an ti sober. The deceased was talking about his w°r ot P a l also about the Queen, and said the Queen di d' P atel to the same respect to Uxbridge as Uxbridge lie d 1 00 her, but witness could not remember what t!awitoess were. They all appeared in good humour in " ,11 .,, heard the deceased say "if you tell me tha t %tie prig' give a slap of the head," or something like it. t anu soner did repeat the words when the deceased g ° the Pr'' struck the prisoner on the face, and immed soner struck the deceased as hard as he cou ld °,, tte ben. knocked him down on the stone floor of the the s }loot Deceased bled a great deal. Deceased was f il lve d froa t a minute or so, and when picked up blood " e „co , his mouth, nose, and left ear. Mr. Rayner, th ane. pr then sent for, and deceased was talte nb i. ceased asked for his hat before he was remov e ' :, I , e Sid George Warwick, shoemaker, of 'Uxbridg e ' g" lar testimony. ne of The evidence having been concluded, was ° - The Bench said the case, in their opinion, c ola dutY rsi nt iatl sa manslaughter, and it was, therefore, their the col mit him for trial at the next Session s of Criminal Cou • s trst es ' During th rt. e hearing of the case before the Magi old Mr. Wahley arrived, and at twelve o'clock enie,,, his a jury at the Bell Inn, for the purpose of holu" inquest. '- , th 6t The evidence generally was to the same die' given before the Magistrates, The CORONER then addressed the Jury at 00 1 1 , 1 ; ing able length, during which he remarked on Hobbs I:Co' been prevented by the Magistrates from attending tlj;liter roner's Court, and committed by them for mans diet before the Jury on the inquest cou ld return s ° bit° At the conclusion of the Coroner's address, th e , was cleared of strangers, when c lie 4 . The Jury returned a verdict that the deceased ` ti ~j from a mortal fracture of his skull, accidentally I,auv.',. by the head of the deceased, Thomas come. into violent contact with the stone flooring of c ' min kitchen." • n application tor After the delivery of the verdict an made to the Bunch to admit Hobbs to bail, to win c .' i oces acceeded, and he was liberated on his own recogni toe for 1001. and two sureties of 50/. each, to appear t° his trial. I som Captain W. Brew and Sergeant Major Willieraetio both of the West Middlesex Militia Staff, Wer e hissti Tollerson, a mumemmimmilminompmeari..... -v4.4 1Z CO ' TO THE QUEEN'S MOST LENT MAJESTY. 00 5, The PETITION of ME RCHA NTS, MANVCACZteetift TRADERS, and Others, agreed to at a pu blic held at the King's Arms Tavern, Philip-la ne ' rpe g street, in the Cit of London, at y July 31, 1841. er 3 Most Humbly She w eth,—Thour petition DO grateful to your Majesty for having dissolved the lost Parliament—a Parliament which had not onlY, to the confidence of the country, but which,,priNlle..r in:, • ,';. sitting, endeavoured, under the plea of , subvert the liberties of the people, and, ais ° ' fere with the just prerogative of your Ith i j estf ce, te " treated the petitions of the people with indiffel K t) ; sometimes with scorn, and wasted its dol e :n - 11 1 i g th squabbles for unworthy objects, thereby li f character of this kingdom amongst the liat'°- of t ",. 0 world ; but, as the present electors of Members House of Commons (or a great majority. 0 , - ,.0r r e j actuated by selfish and • interested motives, j r - et „ tioners are fearful that those persons who ar e t as Members of the new Parliament will disaPP-;1101 Majesty's hopes, and frustrate your Majesti sl " ns ten tions. leag ie That your petitioners are of opinion, that , sou iteiY the right of voting for Members of Parliame nt .1 ' s o la l/, withheld from those who produce all the wea i ll'olers will the nation continue as it is--with splendid on th b e the one hand, and starving, industrious labouret:e boi other, and that, too, in the midst of an aban dan- or P e h ti ; of the necessaries and luxuries of life _; and b i t n ite - i by ,fi t )re % - tioners see no remedy for this state of things , aid and assistance of your Majesty ; they, t h i . E n, pray that your Majesty, on opening the new F e ; r oo -I'3 of will be graciously pleased to direct the att en h t : - ....- t Members to the wants and wishes of the peoP'"the By taking into their serious consideration o re a• tions sent to the late Parliament, and retrti , n o real grievances. h a I PO By revising the taxes, so that industry s- - 1 more than its fair share. ~•sde sad By removing all unjust restrictions on " commerce. ne ed, By making the contractors of foreign loan s, call gotiators of foreign bonds, and, what a re i , v idell° s " foreign securities," responsible for the o d sect or and interest on the said loans, b o nds, an will ties, and thereby protect the ignoran t fr° , ll tion nu swindled out of their property, and th e 11— of its w eaalt st h. a • 10° By fixing tamp o n a ll probates, Inc . 0 01, property of all sorts, whether real or Pel. t r ah e t d hereditary y e pe o lrle r erd f o r gm e a e. ot veey, and t eby tent) c 'og nt akl jl wi • By depriving all bank ers an d o thers from in of fe i y • : to be issued b the executive And that they will adopt measures fort hhe diate relief of th e di stresse d, by repealing hie o re Thatthustresy.poaussr on n etitioners beg most respectfully law Amendment Act. country, your Majesty, that it is with great reluctance that to, t ribe/ love of a y s o l u v r ei M i as aje b s y ty a ; desire but, b f e o i r n g y o a u e r tn..c t i t e i s t ti i . • ' : happiness and long life ; and knowing bow O cu th e i for your Majesty to obtain honest Ministerso'. be' thought it their bounden duty thus to address P e dopli lieving, i that should your Majesty condescend to be vith their prayer, your Majesty's reign will n° t l a j pg' great and glorious, but the people contented gnu And your Majesty's petitioners will ever Signed on behalf of the ni ee` ..,:o• . JOHN FOREMAN, Chao ow ity The Assistant Barristership o f the ei,iloo• of Limerick is vacant by the death of M r. Malachi ATTEMPTED SUICIDE FOR FEAR , °./, „oat° isnmENT.—On Saturday afternoon a poor 11.'1-0. named Jane Murphy, living in Love-court, Pe t° don lane, Whitechapel, was brought in a cab to the M iu ll in ea Hospital, labouring under the effects of det er attempt at self-destruction. It appeared thlooo, had been quarrelling with some of he l l „. 01 0 trywomen, when she was informed that hastuoroolife to a summons was out against her , an d she would effee come before the Magistrate , which had such an t able upon her, that she went up stairs , and thrust hile thi n knife two inches into one side of her throat. wrapped a pillow round her neck, and told the ld for r the next room to pay a shilling she owed, and to se he a the priest directly, instead of w hich they fetched policeman. No hopes are entertained o Jher ill ivor She got her living by washing for several ews coat-lane. MORN! Sid NI